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2020 health resolutions – drink plenty of water should be one point best
Every year, losing weight, leading a healthy life, and getting fit are some of the top-most New Year's resolutions. However, by mid-January, many people abandon those overly-ambitious New Year's resolutions that they set for themselves. But as you welcome the beginning of a new decade, you must change this. This year, make healthy resolutions that you can keep for life. Here are a few resolutions that will help you make big changes with small steps:
1) Drink plenty of water: Losing weight is one resolution that competes for the top slot. Guzzling plenty of water is the best way to keep yourself hydrated, curb the urge to snack, and keep your gut healthy. Besides, glowing skin and improved metabolism, drinking sufficient water can do wonders for you. Drinking water while gyming, running and aerobics can help enhance your performance. Though the importance of drinking plenty of water cannot be emphasized enough, it is equally important that you drink clean and pure water.
'Install RO water purifier at home
Drinking clean water is vital to your health. Drinking water directly from the tap or from plastic cans is not a very good idea as it contains a lot of contaminants and chemicals that cause a lot of health problems. While the tap water is teeming with bacteria and other microorganisms, small amounts of bisphenol (BPA) are found in canned water. The best way to ensure that you will have a good supply of clean and pure water in your home is to install a water purifier. A quick online search will give you a water purifier for home with the price. Kutchina water purifiers come with different stages of water filtration. The advanced technologies used in Kutchina water purifiers effectively remove chemicals, microorganisms that may be present in the water. To check out RO water purifier price, visit https://www.kutchina.com/product-category/water-purifiers/.
2) Try to sit less: By now all of you must have heard that the sitting is the new smoking. Spending too much time at your desk or in front of the TV puts you at risk of being overweight, developing cardiovascular diseases and many other health problems. While quitting your job is definitely not the answer, you can make simple tweaks at work so that you are active at work. Taking the stairs instead of the lift, standing up while you read emails or reports, organizing walk meetings and walking around when you're on the phone are a few small commitments that will help you keep your promise to yourself.
3) Cut back on junk food: Cooking your meals at home can help you prepare diet-friendly meals at home. This will help you cut the flab and, at the same, help you save money. When you prepare meals at home you have control over the quality of ingredients used. A home-cooked meal is devoid of greasy oil, artificial sugars, and color enhancers. When we bear nutrition in mind, home-cooked food is simple, light and way much better than food from outside.
4) Get more sleep: A good night's is something you often take for granted. Just like a healthy diet and regular exercise, a good night's is crucial for your health. Having proper sleep regularly can help you in not just making your brain sharper, but also in boosting your mood.
Pick one or two resolutions and incorporate them into your daily behavior. Have realistic expectations from yourself. If you fall behind midway, don't sweat. Pick them up again no matter what date of the year it is.


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But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.
John 1:12
In the beginning, God created the universe and made everything that is in it. He made the earth; the plants; the animals. Finally, He made man in His own image. Man was created a tripartite being – with a spirit, a soul, and a body. He was given attributes and characteristics that reflected his Creator God – a mind to think – a will to choose and a range of beautiful emotions to feel.
When Adam was formed He was unique among the vast array of created. He was distinct from all other living things – singularly made in God's own likeness. God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals'.
Everything that God made for man to richly enjoy was good – oh, so very, very good, but Adam's sin caused the creation to be cursed and man lost His regal position. Adam's sin caused God to set in motion His eternal plan and purpose for humanity. God intended to redeem man of his sins and restore him to his rulership position, but God intended to do much more for man – to provide him with so very much more.
God purposed His own Son would shed His innocent blood to pay the tremendous price for the sin of the entire human race – as God's perfect Law required. God's plan was not simply to restore man to his original position – where sins could be forgiven and a right standing between God and man could be restored. God did not plan to restore all that Adam lost when he rebelled against his Creator. His plan was to elevate man to a position of far greater eminence than ever before.
A new creation and new federal Head was to be the new order of redeemed humanity. New, born-again creatures in Christ – that were to become partakers of the divine life. A heavenly people with a heavenly inheritance – a heavenly king and heavenly home.
This was not to be the norm for the entire human race for every man was endowed with a mind to think, a will to choose, and a range of God-given emotions to feel. The new heavenly order was not to be imposed on all humanity but given as a free and everlasting gift of grace to all who received God's chosen, anointed federal-Head - for as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become… children of God – even to those who believe in His name. John 1:12
BUT NOTE…. the promised life of grace upon grace is a free gift to all who receive Christ Jesus, but He must be received. He must be accepted for He is the minister of God's grace. He is God's unspeakable gift of grace. He is the alpha and omega of peace. For as many as received CHRIST; the Messiah of Israel – Son of God and Son of Man; the giver of Life and Light of the world – the Author and Finisher of our faith…. to as many as received HIM, to them was given the power to become sons of God – even to them that BELIEVE in His name – and trust in His finished work.
To receive Him as a good man of God or a religious leader is insufficient. To acknowledge Him as a great prophet or wise teacher is of no consequence, To revere Him as a moral man or an interesting historical figure is inadequate. Jesus must be received as the Redeemer of the world – the perfect Sacrifice: to THEM and them ALONE He gave the power to become Sons of God – even to them that BELIEVE on His Name.
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text: The Community Learning Guide to Courses contains a programme of courses including how and when to enrol, and deadline dates. This has been drawn together by the Council's Community Learning and Development service along with ActiveLife, local schools, Community Associations and Community Centres. All courses are offered subject to demand and in line with any restrictions in place at that time. When courses fill quickly we will try to arrange additional classes, although this is not always possible. The message is – it pays to enrol early!


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Govt Issues Norms To Protect Bonafide Commercial Decisions Of Bankers
These guidelines will help quell apprehension that bankers could be hauled up for their bonafide commercial decision to go wrong. It will also help bankers to take credit decisions faster and help support the economy.
To protect the people taking bonafide business decisions, the finance ministry has issued a uniform staff accountability framework for NPA accounts up to Rs 50 crore. These guidelines shall be implemented with effect from April 1, 2022, for accounts turning non-performing assets (NPAs) beginning the next financial year.
The Department of Financial Services (DFS), under the finance ministry, "vide its order dated October 29 advised broad guidelines to be adopted by all public sector banks (PSBs) on 'Staff Accountability Framework for NPA Accounts up to Rs 50 crore' (Other than Fraud Cases)", the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) said in a statement. Banks have been advised to revise their staff accountability policies based on these broad guidelines and frame the procedures with approval of the respective boards, it said.
The IBA, being a key stakeholder of the framework, was involved in the process right from the beginning. These guidelines will help quell apprehension that bankers could be hauled up for their bonafide commercial decision to go wrong. It will also help bankers to take credit decisions faster and help support the economy.
Stressing that the new guidelines will surely boost the morale of the PSBs employees immensely, it said banks will have to complete staff accountability exercise within six months from the date of classification of the account as NPA. Further, it said that depending on the business size of the banks, threshold limits have been advised for scrutiny of the accountability by the chief vigilance officer (CVO).
Past track record of the officials in appraisal or sanction/ monitoring will also be given due weightage, it added. "At present, different banks are following different procedures for conducting staff accountability exercise. Also, staff accountability exercise is being carried out in respect of all accounts which turn into NPA. "This approach not only adversely affects staff morale but also puts a huge strain on the bank's resources," it said.
While punitive action needs to be taken against the officers having malafide intent/involvement, it is essential to ensure that bonafide mistakes are dealt with compassion, IBA said. It added that there is a need to protect the people taking bonafide business decisions in this competitive environment.
Moreover, IBA said that at a time when the country is in need of an economic boost, slow credit delivery to industries due to the fear of implication is a matter of concern and needs urgent address. Banks with the approval of their board may decide on threshold of Rs 10 lakh or Rs 20 lakh depending on their business size for the need of examining the aspect of staff accountability, it said.


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Gram used to be a misspelled unit of weight. Nowadays, it is associated with one of the most successful initial coin offerings (ICOs) in history and is poised to become one of the most significant decentralized projects of the modern age.[bctt tweet="By the end of 2019, the aggregate value of Grams, tokens used on TON platform, might reach $30 billion." username="beincrypto"] According to the report released by HASH Crypto Investment Bank (HASH CIB), the price of Gram may experience a tenfold growth while its market capitalization may surpass XRP and Ethereum (ETH), combined. The investment company based its estimations on the target value of a Gram token at $5.90 by the end of 2019. This price target is specified in the note to the project investors. https://twitter.com/tginfoRU/status/1093148184791142402 Meanwhile, HASH CIB emphasizes that it used its proprietary estimation technique, which is based on a combination of the current and discounted added value for future periods. Thus, the resulting value cannot be considered as a target or fair value of the project.
Digging Deeper into the NumbersAccording to TON's Whitepaper, the total supply of Gram tokens issued during several ICO rounds will amount to five billion tokens with the ICO price set to increase progressively at each round. Investors will get 44 percent of the issuance, 4 percent will go to developers, while 52 oercent of tokens will be held in reserve. According to the HASH CIB report, the project sold 2.89 billion Grams and raised $1.7 billion — so one token cost about $0.38 during the first round and $1.38 during the second round. Extrapolating the results to the total issuance, the experts calculated that the total capitalization of the project amounts to about $2.94 billion. The target price of $5.9 means a tenfold increase by the end of the year.
The Final StagePavel Durov's Blockchain-Platform Telegram Open Network (TON) is nearing completion. Telegram investors received a notification that the platform's testnet launch is scheduled for the end of March. Initially, the testnet was supposed to go live in autumn 2018 but the release date shifted to January. However, the developers apparently encountered some unforeseen difficulties that forced them to delay the launch once again. Currently, Telegram is actively negotiating listing possibilities with large Asian cryptocurrency exchanges, including Huobi, Binance, and OKEx. Additionally, the project is considering partnership deals with various e-commerce and retail businesses.
What is TON?TON is envisaged as a multi-blockchain Proof-of-Stake system built on smart contracts technology and designed to host a new generation of decentralized applications and digital assets. Based on the TON Blockchain, a scalable and flexible architecture, it will include a master chain and up to 292 accompanying blockchains that will provide multiple services from micropayments to data storage. The developers claim they had to build the vast majority of protocols from scratch to create an innovative and decentralized data communication method. According to Alexey Blagirev, the head of the R3 and Codra development project in CIS countries, TON has the potential to become a platform with its own Internet. Do you believe that TON's developer team will launch the testnet in March? Would you like to participate in it? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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PA Gearing Up For Automated Medical Marijuana Grows
Pennsylvania is barreling towards a high tech medical cannabis industry, driven by automation, aeroponics and a lot of start-up capital.
Passed in April 2016, the law instituting the state's medical marijuana program puts growing a new industry from scratch on a tight timeline. The first dispensaries are slated to sell prescription cannabinoid oils, sprays and creams by early 2018, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
To make that happen, the state fielded hundreds of applications from private companies, offering to grow, distill, package and sell the controlled substance to patients with one of 17 qualifying medical conditions. In June, the Department issued permits for 12 grower/processors and 27 dispensaries, divvied up across six geographical regions. Locally, that means two grower/producers in Berks County, and 10 dispensaries: three in Philadelphia, two in Montgomery County, and one each in Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Lancaster Counties.
Competition for these slots was fierce, and many of those not chosen are calling the process unnecessarily opaque, and possibly even slanted, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.
NewsWorks spoke with John Pohlhaus, CEO of one of the two grower/processers to receive a permit in the Philadlephia region, Franklin Labs, LLC, about the rapid generation of these businesses.
[This transcript has been condensed and edited for clarity.]
Q: Are there ways you can compare and contrast the roll out Pennsylvania to what it looked like in New Jersey? New Jersey legalized medical marijuana in 2010, when fewer states had done so.
A: I think the roll out in Pennsylvania is going to be markedly different than New Jersey. Because in Pennsylvania, the entire process was really created with grassroots, and mothers advocating for their children....They appealed directly to bipartisan senators and congressmen at the state.
That, in combination with bipartisan support and a governor that supported it created a robust medical program. And I think the rollout is going to be much larger and much more successful than New Jersey was, because you had a governor that was opposed to the rollout.
[In Pennsylvania,] we have a much larger scale because we're starting with 12 grows [sites for growing] across the state, and there are 17 qualifying conditions, which is more liberal than New Jersey started with. So the patient population should be much larger, as long as the program to educate doctors and get them to participate is successful in Pennsylvania. The most important thing is to create a patient population through education and advocacy.
Q: I've heard of some reticence among doctors' groups to participate in prescribing because there hasn't been enough research on the effectiveness of medical marijuana. I know the state released a survey to 193 doctors and about 74 percent of respondents said they would be willing to prescribe.
A: That's pretty good.
Q: But I don't know how representative that is.
A: In terms of a rollout, we also are going after really a pharmaceutical model. So that the process of manufacturing will have enough data acquisition and repeatability that the production of like industrial, pharmaceutical-grade cannabis is a combination of the best parts of science and data acquisition to show that you can replicate the strains. So that scientists or doctors in the future can see that you'll be able to meet an FDA model.
Eventually, there's only two ways this could go. It could go all recreational, it could go combination medical-recreational, or the government could wipe it all out.
We really believe there will be two tiers, there's a medical part and there's a recreational part. And the medical cannabis really has to meet a future FDA model. Because as soon as it's used in hospitals and it gets off Class 1 status [a federal designation for illegal drugs], someone's going to have to regulate it on a national scale. So that's where you have more of a medical-pharmaceutical manufacturing approach.
Q: A lot of growers compare making medical marijuana to a highly controlled, pharmaceutical process, rather than agriculture, let's say. Can you walk me through how the plant becomes medicine at your facilities?
A: We're designing the facility to have half be traditional hydroponics ..and the other half being aeroponics [where plants are grown in a combination of air and water], which requires no soil. We're also exploring different light technologies.
Aeroponics can give you more yield and more turns per year, so it's a boost that way. The only drawback is [making sure] that your pumps don't get clogged and you don't lose power.
The nutrients are all computer controlled, the timing and all that stuff. It's really more computer controlled equipment, rather than having soil, and hand-watering and pruning carefully.
You get more crops, you can turn 'em faster, there's a lot less labor involved. You don't have to pull heavy pots. It's really industrial agriculture with a pharmaceutical data acquisition to it. That's where the industry is going on the medical side.
Once you have the crops and you can yield your actual flower within the warehouse, then we have to process it with a CO2 super-extraction machine, with a liquid which is concentrated, and then from there we make ancillary products, like tinctures, have automatic vape filling machines to make vape [cartridges].
That process is also digitized, automated and sensored so you know exactly the inputs you put in to get the output you did, temperature, pressure, etc. That oil can then be diluted and put into different products.
You can control the amount of CBD [cannabidoil, a non-psychoactive compound associated with therapeutic uses for marijuana] and THC [tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component in marijuana] with the strain of plant you create, or you can do it in the lab. So there's two methods to do that.
Q: Let's talk about money for a little bit, there was a pretty large payment that each applicant had to make to put their hat in the ring for one of these grower/processor permits. There's a $10,000 fee, and then a [refundable] $200,000 permit fee which you guys won't be getting back because you got a permit...and you need proof of $2 million in capital to get this off the ground. As a company, how are you balancing that investment against the revenues you project to make annually once this is up and running? How much do you project to make annually?
A: That really is determined by how many physicians get in the program and what the market is. Every market is slow to start. As long as there aren't any other obstructions based on what's going on at the time, at the federal level or state level, but I think we have very good chance to be profitable not in the first year, but you know in subsequent years, definitely.
Q: Right. You must have done some projections to get that capital in the first place.
A: I don't feel comfortable giving forecasts of sales and stuff, it's too unknown.
Q: I understand businesses tend not to do that, although people have attached some dollar figures to what the permits themselves are worth. Some have said the industry annually is set to produce $175 million annually. Does that ballpark sound accurate to you?
A: I think Pennsylvania is definitely a $100 million industry annually, or more. I don't know what the value of a permit is, without having an operation up and running, it's hard to value something that's theoretical.
Q: There have been some accusations flying, that the presence of John Hanger, a former high level state employee, on your board may have helped you beat out others in getting a growing and processing permit. Can you respond to that accusation?
A: I don't think it helps. He's a great member of the team, and clearly we lost the dispensary application. The applications were based on history and diversity and capital, in terms of you had to meet a certain capital requirement. I think there was a bit of luck in this, because the state had to review things that it had never done before.
John Pohlhaus, CEO of Franklin Labs, LLC. Franklin's parent company has cannabis operations in Colorado and New Jersey, and recently received permits to operate in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The state did not grant any of its three affiliated dispensaries permits in this round.
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King of the streets and master of cinema, NY-born, Paris-based William Klein is still going strong…
Taken from the January issue of Dazed & Confused:
I was born in the last house on Fifth Avenue, on 109th Street and Fifth Avenue. It was kind of a middle-class semi-dump. All we had was the radio. We had no record player and of course no television.
My grandfather came from Hungary and he had a clothing store. My father inherited it, invested the money in the stock market and lost it all in 1929. Then we had to move and I ended up on 108th street and Amsterdam Avenue, which was even more of a dump. My mum didn't work but she helped my father. He became an insurance salesman, like Willy Loman in the play. He was a guy trying to make a few bucks who thought America was the greatest place on earth and that he was gonna make it someday – but he never did.
I went to school like everybody else. The thing was, in my family – you know, a lower-middle-class rich family – you'd have to get good marks and get into a high school where you could do the four years of high school in two and a half, especially if it was part of City College. City College was free, but it was hard to get in. It was really nothing like the American vision of college – no campus, no girls – it was just somewhere to get an education. I got a degree in sociology, but I wanted to be an artist.
I was drafted, but by the time I got into the army the war was over. I had wanted to get drafted to go to Europe – just any way to get out of my family, out of New York. My idea was to go to Paris and be part of the lost generation. I started to look around to see where I would study painting, and at that time there were just a few places you could go, like Beaux-Arts, and there was Fernand Léger, who had a studio where he accepted students, and I went there. I mean, there was really not that much choice, but Léger's was a big deal.
"When I showed the photos to some editors I got to know through Liberman, everybody backed out: 'This is not New York – these photos are shit. We can't publish a book that shows New York so anti-American and grungy'"
He was a big name, but not fashionable. The fashionable painters were Picasso and Matisse and Paul Klee, but Léger – who more or less revolutionised French painting – was a communist, and his idea was to do murals. He said, 'All you 20-year-old geniuses, you should get into outdoor murals like me.' That was his credo, and that's what we followed.
I dug Paris – I thought it was so much better than New York. I got discharged but there was a deal where if you found a girl to marry, the government would pay for her trip to New York and give her a visa. Since I was in Paris from 18 to about 22, that's what I did. So I went back to New York to see the family and to show off my French wife. That stay in New York confirmed that Paris was 100 times better.
After the war, Paris became a second-rate city as far as art was concerned. So when I had the opportunity to exhibit in Italy, I jumped at it. I made a wall out of six interchangeable panels on rails that could – like toy trains – roll through the room, cut the space in two or make a mural on the wall. I painted these panels and a magazine called Domus published them. Alexander Liberman saw the show and said, 'How would you like to work for Vogue?' I said, 'Doing what?' and he said, 'I don't know, you could be an art director or something. You could do photographs or do what I'm doing – put on a suit during the week and go down to the office and paint and sculpt.'
He gave me a contract right off the bat. I didn't make much but it was enough to live on, and there was also the possibility of having my work financed. He asked me what I wanted to do and I said, 'I'd like to go back to New York and do a photographic journal on the way I see New York after having lived in Paris.' I didn't know much about taking photographs, actually. When I was a kid, I always felt the Big Apple didn't have any bite, but once I had a camera I could say what I wanted about New York, about America. But when I showed the photos to some editors I got to know through Liberman, everybody backed out: 'This is not New York – these photos are shit. We can't publish a book that shows New York so anti-American and grungy.'
There was a pocketbook of travel, Petite Planète. The guy who was running it was Chris Marker. He said, 'I really dig these photos. You want to do a book, we'll do it. And if they don't do the book, I slam the door.' Because this publishing house was square – they had never published photographic books. They made their money publishing Catholic, boy-scout songs. This was the first book they ever put out and it was 100 per cent thanks to Marker, who was actually a patron of the arts. He helped a lot of people get started, and I was one of them. The book won a prize called the Prix Nadar.
"I said, 'Okay, I'll come to Rome.' Then I discovered that Fellini was a bullshit artist and he had about eight assistants and he didn't need me"
Zazie dans le métro (1960) was directed by Louis Malle, who was very inventive and had his life all over the place. He saw my book and thought I could be a photographic consultant for the film. Everybody looked at me like, 'Where'd this schmuck come from?' I discovered quickly that there's only one person who decides anything on a film: the director. I was a big fan – a groupie, even – of Fellini. In those days, you could call up somebody in a hotel and say, 'I'd like to speak to Fellini,' and they would say, 'One moment, please.' So I went to see him and said, 'I have this book.' He said, 'I really dig it. Why don't you come to Rome and be my assistant? If I'm sick, you shoot.' I was still a kid, about 24, 25, and I said, 'Okay, I'll come to Rome.' Then I discovered that Fellini was a bullshit artist and he had about eight assistants and he didn't need me.
I figured that if I was going to do a film, it couldn't be on any old subject. I thought the fashion world was a subject you could really go to town on. Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966) was a very sarcastic, ironic film. I never really got along with the fashion people – I thought fashion was bullshit. I also thought the people doing it were second-rate.
I wanted to do a film on boxing, on how a championship fight could polarise the whole country. I contacted a producer and took a plane down to Miami, where a fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston was going to take place. There was one empty seat and nobody wanted to sit next to this guy. It was Malcolm X. Everybody knew Malcolm X because he was on the cover of Life magazine, saying: 'We're going to eliminate all these white devils.' He was the bogeyman, and I was fascinated. So I asked if the seat was free. We spent two and a half hours talking and he was intrigued by me, a Jewish filmmaker and photographer, getting involved with Black Muslims and living in Paris. So he spread the word with Cassius Clay's camp that I was okay.
You know about the fight between Clay and Liston? When he won he announced he was changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali. I consider him not only the sports hero of the century, but the American of the century. It's an amazing story. But there you are."
December 20-March 12, William Klein Retrospective, FOAM, Amsterdam


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This week at the State House
The House is set to meet Thursday at 10 a.m., while the Senate does not have a session scheduled this week. Committees of conference have begun to be established and as of Friday afternoon, many had scheduled meeting times either today, tomorrow or Wednesday. Committees must finalize their work by Thursday, and the legislature must vote by the following Thursday. You can see the full list of committees of conference here.
You can find the complete House and Senate calendars below:
Join us for a celebration of passage of SB 6
When Gov. Sununu signed SB 6 into law, our members won a huge, hard-fought victory. This bill, which will add 77 new positions at DCYF, was the result of years of work and dedicated advocacy by our child protection members. We want to celebrate that.
All members are invited to join us for a celebration of the passage of SB 6 at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25 at the SEA/SEIU Local 1984 office.
The event will include a short program, light dinner and, of course, some cake. If you're able to be here, we ask that you RSVP by Friday, June 21, so that we can arrange for food. You can RSVP using this form.
We hope you'll be able to join us on the 25th.
Updates on other bills we're following
Brief updates on the remaining legislation we're tracking:
Pension COLA: Our state pension COLA bill, HB 616, has been approved by the House and Senate and is working its way through the process. The governor has said he'll sign the bill.
Clinicians bill: Our bill to establish a commission to study the business environment for mental health providers in New Hampshire, SB 115, was approved by the House, and on Thursday the Senate concurred with the House-amended version. The bill will now move through the process on to the governor. He can sign the bill, veto it, or allow it to become law without his signature.
Union notification: The bill that provides some important union workplace protections, SB 148, was approved by the House, and on Thursday, the Senate concurred with the House-amended version. The bill will now move through the process on to the governor. He can sign the bill, veto it, or allow it to become law without his signature.
Minimum wage: The House previously approved an amended version of the Senate's minimum wage bill, SB 10, and on Thursday, the Senate asked for a committee of conference. The House agreed, and one has been scheduled for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. SEA/SEIU Local 1984 took part in a press conference in support of SB 10 on Wednesday – you can read more here.


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Southern players and organizations are constantly making their mark in the world of tennis. Here's a list of recent awards, achievements and news in July 2016.
Tennys Sandgren won two USTA Pro Circuit events, reigning at the Lewis and Clark Pro Tennis Clasic in Godfrey, Illinios, and then winning the Edwardsville Futures tournament in the same state.
The native of Gallatin, Tennessee defeated No. 2 Facundo Mena 6-0, 6-4 at the Andy Simpson Tennis Complex in Godfrey. Sandgren was the top seed.
Australian Marc Polman was Sangren's victim in the Edwardsville final by a score of 7-6, 1-6, 6-2.
July 11, 2016 – USTA Foundation, the national charitable organization of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), today announced that for the third consecutive year it has partnered with longtime US Open sponsor Chase to award 10 National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) chapters with a $10,000 grant each.
A's and Aces, of New Orleans, was a recipient.
This donated money will go toward year-round tennis and education programming that engages kids in the A.C.E. curriculum (Academic Creative Engagement).
On July 15, Chase will also help each NJTL grant recipient host a #ReturnTheServe Fun Day to celebrate each chapter's programming and its impact on youth.
Each event will include a variety of tennis-related activities for the youth participants of the NJTL programs, along with their families. In addition, the events will include a check presentation to the NJTL chapter leaders by a local Chase representative.
"The USTA Foundation is proud to once again partner with Chase to award 10 of our very-deserving NJTL chapters with these generous grants," said Dan Faber, Executive Director, USTA Foundation. "We commend Chase for giving back to thousands of NJTL participants through the #ReturnTheServe Fun Day that will surely bring a lasting impact to the lives of many."
"Access to physical activity and education can have a critical impact on the health and overall wellbeing of children, particularly those in underserved communities," said Barbara Paddock, Managing Director for Sports and Entertainment at JPMorgan Chase. "As a sponsor of the US Open for 35 years, we're proud of the USTA Foundation's work to strengthen communities, and we're proud to help build on the impact the NJTL programs have on the hundreds or thousands of youth involved across the country"
Southern's 14s Intersectional team finishes fourth
Southern's 14s Intersectional team lost to USTA Northern California and ended the tournament in fourth place. The matches were played at the University of Auburn Yarbrough Tennis Center in mid-July.


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Elise's New 'Toy'
Author: Matt Davis
THE waiting is over! After months of rumour and speculation, Lotus has finally pulled the wraps from its new Toyota-engined Elise - and Auto Express is the first British magazine to get behind the wheel.
Powered by the Celica's 190bhp 1.8-litre VVIL-i unit, the car will appear at the Geneva Motor Show in March, before going on sale in the UK next summer Designed as a flagship for the Elise line-up, it will sell alongside the Rover K Series-engined version and is expected to cost L30,000.
For the moment, Lotus is concentrating on getting this more powerful, more luxurious newcomer ready for the company's push into the US market. However, this version is likely to have an equally big impact here, so we had to try it out - and brought along a current Elise for comparison.
Expectation is high as we head out on to Lotus's private test track. We've been huge fans of the Elise ever since it was launched in 1998. In our opinion, each evolution of the car has improved the design and driving appeal - so can the latest machine maintain this reputation? In short, absolutely But the new Elise is a very different sort of car to its Rover-engined brother Although it's more powerful, the Toyota unit adds weight, as do the twin airbags, antilock brakes and six-speed gearbox.
In fact, the newcomer is 90kg heavier Lotus says this won't matter, as it's targeting a different breed of driver To prove this, climate control and a Blaupunkt stereo feature, while the floor has been carpeted and there's a start button to the left of the steering wheel. The instruments are all different, too, reading bright white in the day and streetlight amber by night, instead of cobalt blue. Fuel capacity is up, and there's a half leather interior and remote locking.
Fortunately, all this doesn't seem t have slowed the Elise's pace much. Dashing round the test track at Lotus's Hethel HQ in Norflok, it feels responsive and lively. Under hard acceleration, the VVTL-i is extremely exciting. Thanks to Its hi-tech variable cam technology and 8,500rpm red line, it's more versatile than the lower-revving Rover engine. It's also smoother at idle and cruising speed.
Another welcome change is the six speed gearbox. However, the additional kerbweight is noticeable, particularly under braking. The suspension is far softer, too, although Lotus says the Elise we drove was a US-spec model tuned for uneven roads. When the UK car is finalised, the double wishbone set-up is expected to have been revised.
Ultimately, the new Elise represents another significant step forward for the British company. We look forward to trying one on the open road.
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The Baltic Sea Anomaly; A Crashed UFO or Natural Rock Formation?
In the annals of unexplained mysteries, the Baltic Sea Anomaly is one of the more bizarre deep-sea finds of the past decade. The discovery occurred in 2011 when a deep sea exploration team called Ocean-X, came across an unusual formation 300 ft. below the surface, off the coast of Sweden.
Upon further inspection, divers and surface crew reported malfunctions in their electrical equipment whenever they came within 200m of the object, which appeared to be shaped, oddly enough, like the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.
Peter Lindberg and Dennis Åsberg came across the giant 180 ft. diameter mass on June 19, 2011, while trolling the Baltic and observing sonar imaging along the seafloor. They quickly picked up on the anomaly due to its circular shape and distinctively straight protrusions. Adding to the mystery was what appeared to be an extensive trail – what some speculated could be evidence that a crash landing may have taken place.
The Baltic Sea Anomaly Documentary
Shortly after their discovery, Lindberg and Åsberg set out to create a documentary that chronicled their attempts to dive down and study the anomaly.
The two parlayed their clout from a previous exploration, in which they recovered a cache of vintage champagne from a 1907 shipwreck that sold for record prices at a Christie's auction. This allowed them to embark on the bold endeavor of investigating the Baltic anomaly, which they hoped was either an extraterrestrial spaceship or a secret Nazi structure from WWII.
Looking at sonar imaging, the anomaly showed interesting characteristics that seemed to distinguish it from a natural rock formation. The explorers pointed to what appeared to be a staircase and a rounded hole encircled by a square frame as what they believed were distinctively artificial features.
The crew returned to the surface with samples of the object that were later tested by Volker Brüchert, an associate professor of geology at Stockholm University.
"I was surprised, when I researched the material I found a great black stone that could be a volcanic rock," Brüchert said. "My hypothesis is that this object, this structure was formed during the Ice Age many thousands of years ago."
But despite his analysis, Brüchert said it was possible that the samples they collected may be covering up something beneath the surface – something artificial – and the Ocean X team believed that was the case. They wanted to go back down and capture definitive proof, though acquiring the funding would prove difficult.
And Brüchert's assessment didn't necessarily help with publicity, as news outlets that originally claimed the find was an extraterrestrial craft, picked up on the fact that their collected samples were simply gneiss and granite.
Headlines began to appear, which quickly shifted the narrative and labeled the anomaly "debunked." This frustrated Lindberg and Åsberg who, still to this day, haven't been able to finance another trip down to determine whether it's definitively natural or artificial.
A WWII Remnant of the Nazis
Less than five percent of the planet's oceans and seas have been explored, and though the Baltic is almost entirely landlocked, it is a massive body of water located in what was a hotly contested area during WWII.
At that time, the Baltic Sea created a natural boundary between the Allied Soviet Union, neutral Scandinavia, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich. Needless to say, it was an epicenter of naval activity, primarily in the battle to control the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
In the struggle for control over this key real estate, countless mines were planted, and naval warfare waged to protect key shipping routes, especially for the Germans who relied on a supply of iron ore imported from Sweden. During this time, it is believed the Germans constructed underwater structures to scramble communications signals and possibly disrupt enemy mines.
Could this explain why the Ocean-X team's electrical equipment failed within 200 meters of the anomaly?
The Germans also allegedly ran a clandestine program, which attempted to create flying saucers – leading some to posit the possibility that this be a crash site of one of the elusive Nazi Foo Fighters.
These potential explanations are more practical than an extraterrestrial space craft, though they're just as intriguing.
But according to Russian publication PravdaReport.com the Baltic has had UFO sightings in the past, notably during an instance in 2008, in which a silver disc was witnessed hovering around the Russian province of Kaliningrad. There are a dearth of reports to corroborate this claim.
Baltic Sea Anomaly Update
Lindberg and Åsberg haven't posted any updates to the Ocean X page in a few years, however a YouTube video from 2012 appears to show another trek down to the anomaly in a submarine rover.
Unfortunately, the video doesn't provide much in the way of answers or even anything visually distinctive, as there's a lot of sand and dust kicked up, which obfuscates the view. However, there is a momentary glimpse of one of the anomaly's walls, showing a rock face that appears too smooth and well-shaped to be a natural feature – though this is an observation from a layman's perspective.
In subsequent reports there have been claims that rock sample tests turned up limonite and goethite – metals one geologist claims could not be found occurring naturally in an underwater rock formation at the bottom of the Baltic.
Others studying the inconsistencies and strange features of the anomaly have compared it to the Yonaguni monument off the coast of Japan. Located just 25 meters below the coast of Yonaguni Jima Island, these ancient ruins present another point of contention among archeologists who argue over its provenance.
Could these structures have any relation or are they simply uncanny natural formations? Unless Lindberg and Åsberg find a sponsor to fund their exploration, we may never know.
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After Decades of Dismissal, NASA Finally Studying UFOs
On the heels of the first public UFO hearing on Capitol Hill in more than 50 years, NASA has just announced it will form its own independent team to study UFOs, or UAPs as the government now calls them.
Writing in a release, NASA says it will study, "[O]bservations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective"
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA'S associate administrator for science added, "We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That's the very definition of what science is. That's what we do."


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MacKenzie Capital, LLC is pleased to announce they secured refinance proceeds for 10 assets with seven separate loans from two different lenders. The assets included nearly 100,000 sf of office/retail/flex space, a 54-slip marina, 32 multifamily units, and 553 self-storage units. The assets are in diverse submarkets such as southern Pennsylvania, the Eastern Shore, and…Read More


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Laboratory Equipment points the way for the next big breakthrough in thinking machines:
Many quantum algorithms require that particles' spins be "entangled," meaning that they're all dependent on each other. The more entanglement a physical system offers, the greater its computational power. Until now, theoreticians have demonstrated the possibility of high entanglement only in a very complex spin chain, which would be difficult to realize experimentally. In simpler systems, the degree of entanglement appeared to be capped: beyond a certain point, adding more particles to the chain didn't seem to increase the entanglement.
This month, however, in the journal Physical Review Letters, a group of researchers at MIT, IBM, Masaryk Univ. in the Czech Republic, the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Northeastern Univ. proved that even in simple spin chains, the degree of entanglement scales with the length of the chain. The research thus offers strong evidence that relatively simple quantum systems could offer considerable computational resources.
In other words, it's possible to get sophisticated results from a simple starting point… something beyond the yes/no of conventional circuit switches.
But in the new paper, MIT professor of mathematics Peter Shor, his former student Ramis Movassagh, who is now an instructor at Northeastern, and their colleagues showed that unbounded entanglement is possible in chains of particles with only three spin states — up, down and none. Systems of such particles should, in principle, be much easier to build than those whose particles have more spin states.
If two particles are entangled, then performing a measurement on one tells you something about the other. For instance, if you measure the spin of an electron orbiting a helium atom, and its spin is up, the spin of the other electron in the same orbit must be down, and vice versa. For a chain of particles to be useful for quantum computing, all of their spins need to be entangled. If, at some point, adding more particles to the chain ceases to increase entanglement, then it also ceases to increase computational capacity.
To show that entanglement increases without bound in chains of three-spin particles, the researchers proved that any such chain with a net energy of zero could be converted into any other through a small number of energy-preserving substitutions. The proof is kind of like one of those puzzles where you have to convert one word into another of the same length, changing only one letter at a time.


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The team at AnyVisa are very helpful, and understanding, and will do their best to answer questions and provide support. But always be aware that the various Embassies that they work with are not, and also reserve the right to make rule changes, and charges as necessary. So before spending any money, do as much homework as possible directly with the consulate or Embassy that you will be asking for a Visa from, so you can avoid any last minute headaches. Also AnyVisa offers many rush options, but again you can't count on the Embassy to meet those needs, so try and always give yourself as much time as possible, so that you aren't worried about issues. Safe travels!
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Sometimes when we are on the road, we just have to trust our hunches. Trusting hunches can work out well, or it can be all wrong. Mineral de Pozos or San Pedro de las Pozos turned out to be a good hunch. We needed a place that was temperate and calm in contrast to the past 4 weeks in the city. This sweet, little, old pueblo turned out to be just that. Plus an interesting twist of mining history and and growing artist community.
We used iOverlander to find a place to park. Posada Valerio was a great choice, as it felt like parking in a friends back yard. It is located just past this leaning, adobe wall and behind this old, iron gate Once inside the yard, we pulled up under a shade tree and settled in for a few nights. We walked into to town for ice cream and enjoyed looking at the old, crumbling adobe walls lining the narrow streets. And we peered through boarded up doors and windows into abandoned buildings. The courtyards and interiors reflected the era long-gone from this town. This town has been abandoned by it residents twice and had two different names. It is now a quiet, attractive little town with cobblestone streets and an interesting history. On these streets the horse was as common as the stray dogs, cars and trucks.
Just outside of town lies an extensive, abandoned mining community. We rode our bikes up the dusty, dirt roads to explore these unique ruins. The walls still stand to tell the tales of a rich and profitable mining industry. The local museum explained that much of the material and money from the mines left the country and went to Europe. The production was fast-paced and efficient. But as suddenly as the mines started, they were abandoned.
While drilling for a new mine shaft, they broke through an underground river and ALL of the mines in the area were flooded. Without equipment to remove the water, the mining operations ceased immediately and the elaborate structures became mere ghosts on the foothills of the city.
We rode our bikes down the dusty roads to town just as storm clouds gathered on the horizon.
Back in town we enjoyed dog walks, ice cream walks, breakfast walks…. you get the idea. On one of our walks we found an abandoned playground and let the dogs have some fun. I captured these cute videos of them chasing after Mike. (yes, this was several weeks ago)
We saw beautiful, red birds near our back door at the posada where we were camped. And the folks that owned it were wonderful. The main features of this community: mining, artists and high-desert terrain reminded us of being in Clarkdale and Jerome. Mineral de Pozos, a gem in the hills of Mexico!


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Exchange 2016 consists of two roles, Mailbox server role and Edge Transport server role. Before you install new Exchange 2016 in your organization there are many prerequisites that you need to prepare and go through. In this post, I will show prerequisites of installing Exchange 2016.
Prerequisites of installing Exchange 2016
There is a nice hardware requirement calculator which is an Excel sheet provided by Microsoft. You can download and use it too. Hardware prerequisites of installing Exchange 2016 Mailbox and Edge Transport server: –
- Memory: – The minimum memory required is 8GB for Mailbox server and 4GB for Edge transport server. The recommended memory you need to have for per Mailbox server instance is based on number of mailboxes and databases that are running on the server. For example, if you have 200 mailboxes in one mailbox database in single Mailbox server then the server needs to have {min memory + {number of mailboxes * 5MB RAM)} which will be {8 GB + (200 * 5MB)} = (8GB + 1000MB) = 9GB. When you increase the number of database, you also need to increase the memory. For every 10 additional mailboxes add 2 GB of memory. For example, if you are going to have 15 mailbox database in single Mailbox server then the minimum memory required will be 8 + 2 = 10GB RAM.
- Storage: – For installation of Exchange 2016 mailbox server role, you need at least 30GB on drive where you install Exchange. Exchange 2016 installation requires .NET Framework 4.5.2 or higher. The storage capacity for Mailbox server can depend upon mailbox quotas, database whitespace and recoverable items folder. In Exchange database, whitespace is the free space in the mailbox database. When you delete a mailbox or an item inside a mailbox, the size of the database won't decrease but will still have free space called whitespace. Most of the time, 15MB/mailbox can be database whitespace per mailbox. When you create a new mailbox database, you need to provide storage locations for mailbox database and logs. Mailbox database is where the mailboxes will be stored and in the logs folder transaction logs will be stored. It is best practice to store mailbox database and transaction logs in same volume with DAG high availability. So if you have 200 mailbox and you want to limit the quota size to 2GB per mailbox then the required storage will be {(no. of mailboxes * quota) + ( no. of mailboxes * whitespace)} = {(200 * 2GB) + (200*15MB)} = (400GB + 3000MB ) which is 403GB. So you would go for 512GB HDD minimum storage.
- CPU: – Exchange 2016 requires 64-bit architecture processor. It can be Intel or AMD. For more processing speed, look out for more CPU cores and CPU cache.
Operating system requirements for installing Exchange 2016 are: –
- Installation of Exchange 2016 Mailbox server role or Transport server role is supported in Windows Server 2012 or later. It is not supported in Server 2008. The installation is supported on Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter and Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard or Datacenter.
- Exchange 2016 management tools can be installed on Windows 8, Windows 10, Server 2012 or Server 2012 R2.
Exchange 2016 supports coexistence with following previous version of Windows Servers: –
- Exchange 2010 – Supported with update rollup 11 for Exchange 2010 SP3 including Edge Transport server.
- Exchange 2013 – Supported with CU10 or later update.
Exchange Server 2016 can be installed on Windows Server virtual machine. The virtual machine can be on Hyper-V or VMware or other virtualization technology validated by Microsoft. Virtual machine snapshots are not supported for Exchange servers so don't take snapshots of virtual machines running Exchange server.
These are some prerequisites of Exchange 2016 server. You can now install Exchange 2016.
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LA JOLLA, CA–Wrongly advised by friends and family to "just be himself," local tax attorney Marc Scanlon, 34, ruined a first date with Rachel Loftus by doing just that, sources close to the never-to-be couple reported Monday.
"Marc was really nervous that Rachel wouldn't like him, and he kept obsessing over his appearance, his hair, what he should wear, and how he should act on the date," said Glenn Carlson, 40, a coworker of Scanlon's at the law firm of Jenkins & Straud. "I told him not to worry, that he should just be his true self and everything would be okay. Turns out, that was bad advice. On a first date, Marc's true self is pretty much exactly what most normal women don't want."
Divorced since 2001, Scanlon met the 29-year-old Loftus through mutual acquaintance Barbara O'Neill. Thinking the two might make a good match–despite not knowing much about Scanlon personally–O'Neill set the pair up on a blind date.
The date was, according to Loftus, one of her worst ever. Sources say the blame lay in Scanlon's ill-advised decision to put pretense aside, revealing his true identity and destroying any chance he might have had with Loftus.
"I'm glad he felt comfortable being himself," said brother Chris Scanlon, 39. "But when you're in full-blown mid-30s-crisis mode with misogynist tendencies and a desperate, neurotic need for approval, maybe 'the real you' is not the best thing to put forward."
According to reports, Scanlon's profound insecurity led him to monopolize the first 45 minutes of conversation, talking about nothing but himself. Worse, his inability to get over his divorce prompted him to meticulously detail every phase of his failed marriage.
"It's totally understandable that he's still feeling hurt and emotionally shaky from the breakup," Loftus said. "But that's the sort of thing you should keep buried deep down inside when you're first letting someone get to know you."
"Sure, in theory, a guy should be able to relax and be himself," Loftus continued. "But when you have such issues about aging that you show up to a date wearing a Billy Joel 'River Of Dreams World Tour' concert T-shirt under your sportjacket, you're putting up a neon sign on your forehead that says, 'Do Not Fuck Me, Ever.' I mean, this guy's a tax lawyer in his 30s. Did he think he was coming across as rockin' or something? Please."
Loftus added that, while there is nothing inherently wrong with a date mentioning that he attended Yale University, bringing it up every 10 minutes is probably not a good idea.
"Yale this, Yale that," Loftus said. "Any way he could work it into the conversation, he would. It was so obvious that he was clinging to his Ivy League pedigree out of insecurity, as a way of making himself look like an intelligent man of substance. It really just made him look like a dick."
Scanlon's inability to self-monitor further turned off Loftus when he disclosed "way, way, way too much" about his opinions on sex and relationships.
"He must have thought the honest approach would make him look like an open, non-uptight kind of guy,'" said waitress Susan Sanders, who served the pair during their excruciating two-hour dinner engagement. "Sexual frankness and maturity are great, but there's such a thing as inappropriate personal revelations. Do you really need to mention on a first date that you're 'totally cool with porn'?"
Those close to Scanlon report that he remains unaware that the date was a disaster, leaving repeated messages on Loftus' voicemail asking when they can "hook up" again.
Carlson predicted, however, that Scanlon's insecurity will soon begin to steadily mount with each passing day his calls are not returned, and that, inevitably, he will launch into an exhaustive self-pity session over Loftus' rejection of him.
"I'm sure Marc's next date, whoever she may be, will hear all about it–if he ever gets another date," Carlson said. "If he does, I'm going to suggest he try being nothing remotely like himself."


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Fruit and Nut Cake Squares
I love discovering new food combinations with ingredients I already know. There are a few Slovak combinations I haven't gotten used to, like French toast with ketchup or tartar sauce, or pasta with cocoa powder or jam.
These cakey squares, though, are perfect. It's not the combination of apricot and walnut, or any fruit and nut mix, that is new, but the way of putting it together. My mother in law makes them, and I made a paleo adaptation, grain and gluten free.
I'm not sure how to describe them to you. The walnuts provide a pleasant nutty bite to the topping, without being crunchy. The apricot butter (or other fruit jam) ups the sweetness. The base is almost pastry like.
I ate a whole pan though. Just warning you.
- Crust
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 Tbsp honey
- 3 Tbsp ghee (butter or coconut oil may be used as well)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1/4 cup water
- Fruit Layer
- 2/3 cups apricot butter or jam (or other thick fruit jam/puree/butter)
- Nut / Seed Topping
- 3 egg whites
- 1/2 cup rapadura
- 1 1/2 cups walnuts (or other nut or seed, preferably soaked and dehydrated)
- Preheat oven to 350F (180C).
- Beat egg yolks until frothy, then add honey and ghee (or other fat).
- Stir baking soda into coconut flour, then stir into wet mixture.
- Add water, mix until combined.
- Grease and flour a 8×8 pan. Scatter the crust mixture throughout the pan by dolloping the mixture with a spoon, then use your hands to spread and press down the dough evenly.
- Spread the apricot butter across the dough.
- Grind walnuts to meal.
- Whip egg whites until stiff.
- Add rapadura and gently mix, then add walnut meal.
- Spread egg white mixture over the jam on the crust, bake for 20 min. or until darkish golden.
- Cool before cutting into squares and enjoy!
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Finding SDS7102 FPGA pins
This is a post in a series about me poking at the insides of my OWON SDS7012 oscilloscope. You might want to start reading at the beginning.
In my last post I used a trick where I configured all unknown GPIO pins as inputs and wrote a device driver to detect if the pins changed. This worked so well that I decided to do the same thing using the FPGA in the scope.
The FPGA in the SDS7102 scope is a Xilinx Spartan 6 XC6SLX9.
It has an integrated memory controller on bank 3 which physically located at the top of the FPGA in the image above. This memory controller is hopefuly connected to the Hynix DDR2 memory just above the FPGA. Bank 2 is on the left side of the FPGA and is probably connected to the SoC via the resistors to the left of the FPGA. Bank 1 is on the bottom and it's possible to see a lot of differential traces heading downwards towards the ADC (which is nos in the picture). Bank 0 is on the right and there is nothing obvious that it is connected to. But that's the whole point of reverse engineering, to find things out, isn't it?
FPGA programming
A FPGA is a piece of programmable logic. Depending on how you look at it, a FPGA is either totally different from programming, it's reconfigurable hardware, or a FPGA just another programming language, albeit very different from most normal programming languages.
It is possible to configure an FPGA at the gate level, defining combinatoric logic with AND, OR, XOR gates, inverters, latches and flip-flops. It's much more common to use a hardware description (HDL) language such as Verilog or VHDL. These languages are often called register-transfer level (RTL) since they use an abstraction of transfers of signals between registers and logical operations on the signals.
I did play around a bit with Verilog a few years ago but have never really come to terms with the language. As a "softie", someone who comes from the software side, Verilog feels very primitive. The Verilog syntax is a bit inspired by C but it's even more low level than C if you can believe that. For example, Verilog doesn't even have anything like a struct. Try to imagine programming C without the ability to collect related variables in a struct, and having to pass each member as a separate argument to a function. It's not uncommon to have Verilog modules with tens or even hundreds of signals as arguments.
You can combine multiple signals into one big bit vector, but it's a bit like having to pack a structure into an integer array by hand so that it can be passed through a C function interface, and then having to unpack it by hand again. Rather painful I'd say.
Systemverilog, an extension of plain Verilog, is supposed to solve all of this, but many vendor tools such as Xilinx ISE (the free tool from Xilinx that works with the Spartan 6 series of FPGAs) do not support Systemverilog. VHDL is more complete, it does have "entity" which are interfaces somewhat similar to C structs. The only problem is that I do not get along with VHDL at all. The syntax seems to be inspired by ADA and, well, I just don't like it.
Because Verilog is so a primitive, people have built lots of tools to automatically generate Verilog from other languages. A few years ago I found something called MyHDL which uses the Python language to generate Verilog or VHDL which looked very interesting and I've been meaning to try it out ever since.
I like Python, I even ported Python 1.2 to VMS over 20 years ago. Damn, that's scary, am I really getting that old? Anyway, where was I? I like Python and being able to program an FPGA in Python sounds really nice. This seems like a a perfect opportunity to learn MyHDL.
I also found something called Rhea. It is a set of useful libraries for MyHDL and it also contains some very nice build scripts for many different FPGAs.
Lots of new toys to play around with and learn.
Hello World
The FPGA is configured by the SoC using five GPIO pins. Three of those pins on the FPGA can be used as general I/O after the configuration is done. The first thing I wrote was the FPGA version of Hello World, a small piece of MyHDL that just toggles one of those I/O pins every second. I used the STARTUP_SPARTAN6 primitive to activate the internal 50MHz configuration clock in the Spartan 6 which then clocks a counter which toggles the I/O pin every time it wraps around. I built an FPGA image using the Rhea build system and then used my FPGA device driver to configure the FPGA and load the image.
After loading the image I could use the Linux device driver I wrote last time and see that the pin changed. The FPGA was alive at least.
Reading FPGA I/O pins
The next step was to configure all the I/O pins on the FPGA as inputs with a pull up and then write some MyHDL code which used the three free pins from the configuration interface to do something more advanced. One pin was turned into a LOAD signal, when that pin changed from low to high (on the positive edge) it would load the state of all 180 or so input pins into a register. Using a second pin as a CLOCK driven from the SoC and the third pin as a DATA OUTPUT from the FPGA, I could then shift out the data from the FPGA registers to the SoC, one bit at a time. I ran a simulation using MyHDL and looked at the signals using GtkWave to see that my code actually did what is was supposed to.
This way I could in theory do the same kind of tests as I had done with the device driver on the SoC, and see the state of each pin configured as an input on the FPGA. This didn't work as well as for the SoC though, a lot of pins were changing all the time and I didn't quite know where too start looking. It also turned out that the pull ups on the FPGA pins made the system unstable, Linux would often crash shortly after configuring the FPGA with my FPGA image. Removing the pull ups made the system stable again. Strange, I need to think about that.
Counting edges
My next attempt was to add a counter for each pin that would count the number of times the state of the pin had changed from low to high. With a 32 bit register that would be read every second I should be able to count up to 4 billion changes per second. More than enough since a Spartan 6 FPGA is hard to clock much faster than about 400MHz. And since my counters use the internal 50MHz clock to sample the signal it wouldn't be able to count faster than that anyway. I couldn't fit counters for all 180 pins into the FPGA so I had to limit the image to only sample pins on one bank at a time. It sort of worked, some pins would have a count of 0 meaning that they were not changing, one pin changed about 50 times per second but a lot of pins seemed to change as fast as the counter could count and would jump wildly between different values. I wasn't quite sure if my HDL code was working or if the results were just a lot of glitches. The signals had looked OK in simulation, but I wasn't sure if my test cases actually covered all the things that would happen in reality.
I did come up with one trick to verify that the counters would work at low speed. I started counting the number of pulses on the clock signal that was used to shift out data. With 55 counters to read, each 32 bits, I should see 55 * 32 = 1760 edges on the clock line for every time I shift out the contents of the counters. But there were usually a few extra edges, the counter would show 1765 or so. Hmm, that's not quite right.
As a programmer it's easy to think of digital signals as being digital, a signal is always high or low. That is not true. In reality all signals are analog signals. When a signal changes from 0V to 3.3V this takes time; if the signal is sampled just when it is changing it might be at any intermediate voltage in between. This is a well known problem which is called metastability.
The fix is fairly easy though. Add another flip flop which samples the output from the first flip flop. This gives the output from the first flip-flop time to settle and reduces the risk of metastability. It won't eliminate the problem completely, but it will reduce the risk to such levels that in practice it will never happen. With this fix I did see exactly 1760 edges for the counter of the clock signal, but a lot of other counters were still jumping around wildly.
Asynchronous counters
What if the inputs to the pins are changing faster than the 50MHz clock I'm using to sample them? That could really give some strange results, couldn't it? I rewrote my counters one more time so that instead of sampling the signals on the pins the counters would be clocked by the signals on the pins. The Xilinx tools complained about this, it's bad practice to use signals from pins that aren't dedicated clock pins as clocks. I had to read up on how to tell the Xilinx tools "shut up, I know what I'm doing" to let me do that. I don't really know what I'm doing, but well, it did let me synthesize an image that I could load into the FPGA.
Making the counters asynchronous to the internal clock of the FPGA has its own problems. Trying to read a binary counter using a different clock than the counter is clocked risks both metastability or just the risk that the bits in the counter won't update at exactly the same time. A binary counter which is incrementing from 01 to 10 might have finished changing the low bit from 1 to 0 while the high bit is still changing from 0 to 1. To the reader it would appear as if the counter is 00 and has just counted backwards. Which of course happened. This is also a well known issue, clock domain crossing is a generic term describing the issues when working with signals coming from two different clock sources (domains).
There are also known techniques for transferring signals between clock domains. One such technique is a Gray code where a change of +1 or -1 will only see one bit of the value change and thus avoids the issue with binary counters where multiple bits can change at one time. I added a gray encoder to my counters which converted the value into gray code which was then loaded into the shift register and transferred to the SoC where the gray code was decoded. No more counters that count backwards.
I spent the evenings for about one week learning more about MyHDL and optimizing and refining my counters. I wanted to be able to count edges on all pins at the same time but to do that I had to reduce amount of logic needed to do the counting. I found out that I could fit 180 counters into the FPGA if I removed the extra registers used for gray encoding and reduced the counter size to 10 bits. But 10 bits can only count up to 1023 and if the frequency on a pin is 1MHz that means that the counter will wrap around in one millisecond, much faster than I could read the counters from the SoC.
What I finally ended up with was a hybrid counter design where I have 180 counters that are 10 bits wide. Each counter is clocked by the signal from its pin and counts directly in gray code. A counter which counts directly in gray code is not possible to clock as fast as a counter counting in binary, but it uses less FPGA resources (actually, I have to check this, it might not be true).
Since the 10 bit counters can wrap around rather quickly I added a periodic task in the FPGA which loops over each 10 bit gray counter and updates a 32 bit counter in block RAM if the 10 bit counter has wrapped around. With 180 counters counting to 1023 being sampled by a 50MHz clock it should be possible to measure signals with a maximum frequency of 1024 * 50 / 180 = 284MHz on each pin, as long as the gray counters can keep up of course.
The results of all this work is this, a chart with the number of positive edges seen on each pin and the current state of the pin:
5 C5 0 ^ B6 0 ^ A6 0 ^ F7 0 ^ E6 17.3k ^
15 A8 0 ^ C9 0 ^ A9 0 ^ B10 0 v A10 0 ^
20 E7 126.7M v E8 126.7M v E10 0 ^ C10 10.0M v D8 0 v
25 C8 0 ^ C11 0 ^ A11 0 v F9 0 v D9 0 v
30 B12 0 v A12 0 ^ C13 0 v A13 0 ^ F10 0 v
35 E11 0 ^ B14 0 ^ A14 0 v D11 0 v D12 0 ^
40 E13 0 v E12 0 ^ B15 0 v B16 0 ^ F12 0 ^
45 G11 0 v D14 0 ^ D16 0 v F13 0 ^ F14 0 v
50 C15 0 v C16 0 ^ E15 0 v E16 0 ^ F15 0 v
55 F16 0 ^ G14 0 v G16 0 ^ H15 0 ^ H16 0 v
60 G12 0 ^ H11 0 v H13 0 v H14 0 ^ J11 0 v
65 J12 0 ^ J13 0 v K14 0 ^ K12 0 v K11 0 ^
70 J14 0 v J16 0 ^ K15 0 v K16 0 ^ N14 0 ^
75 N16 0 v M15 0 v M16 0 ^ L14 0 ^ L16 0 v
80 P15 0 v P16 0 ^ R15 0 v R16 0 ^ R14 0 v
85 T15 0 ^ T14 0 ^ T13 0 v R12 17.3k ^ T12 0 ^
90 L12 0 v L13 0 ^ M13 0 v M14 0 ^ T11 0 ^
95 M12 1.8M v M11 722.9k v T10 210.2k ^ N12 104.0k v P12 977.8k ^
100 N11 0 ^ P11 210.2k ^ N9 3.4M ^ P9 719.6k v L10 976.7k ^
105 M10 0 ^ R9 13.8M ^ T9 27.3M v M9 545.1k v N8 694.1k v
110 P8 807.9k ^ T8 494.4k ^ P7 133.3M ^ M7 133.3M ^ R7 180.8k ^
115 T7 713.9k v P6 458.5k ^ T6 828.5k v R5 2.0M v T5 0 ^
120 N5 1.1M ^ P5 1.9M v L8 959.5k ^ L7 1.1M v P4 647.2k v
125 T4 1.2M v M6 27.3M v N6 1.6M v T3 1.1M v M4 996.0k v
130 M3 0 ^ M5 2.0M v N4 1.8M v R2 0 v R1 0 v
135 P2 0 v P1 0 v N3 0 v N1 0 v M2 0 v
140 M1 0 v L3 0 v L1 0 v K2 0 v K1 0 v
145 J3 0 v J1 0 v H2 0 v H1 0 v G3 0 v
150 G1 0 v F2 0 v F1 0 v K3 0 v J4 0 v
155 J6 0 v H5 0 v H4 0 v H3 0 v L4 0 v
160 L5 0 v E2 0 v E1 0 v K5 0 v K6 0 v
165 C3 0 v C2 0 v D3 0 v D1 0 v C1 0 v
170 B1 128.4k ^ G6 0 v G5 0 v B2 0 v A2 0 v
175 F4 6.8M ^ F3 0 v E4 971.0k ^ E3 0 v F6 115.4k v
180 F5 1.0M v B3 972.3k ^ A3 0 ^
Whoa. There's a lot of things happening all the time, even with the FPGA doing nothing. There are a few interesting things in there.
Pin C10 at the line starting with 20 is toggling 10 million times per second. With a bit of luck that is the 10MHz reference clock from the crystal oscillator (U98).
Pins E7 and E8 are both toggling at 126MHz. According to the FPGA data sheet, those pins make up a differential pair and are also a global clock input to the FPGA. This ought to be a differential clock signal from some other part of the scope.
Pins M7 and R7 make up another differential clock input on the FPGA and is toggling at 133MHz. Hmm, these signals are in bank 2 together with a lot of other signals that are changing all the time.
Update: I have managed to swap a few pins in the above chart. At least F7 and E6 should change places. Most of the other pins should be correct.
Nasty surprises
Where have I seen 133MHz before? In the output from the Linux kernel when it is reporting the clock frequencies it is using:
CPU: MPLL on 800.000 MHz, cpu 400.000 MHz, mem 133.333 MHz
What!? You must be *beep* kidding me. What the *beep* were the OWON engineers smoking when they thought that this would be a good idea?
They are using the DDR memory bus as the high speed bus between the SoC and the FPGA. They must have programmed the FPGA to simulate a DDR2 memory. Seriously folks. There is a perfectly usable bus on the SoC which is connected to the NAND flash which is designed to be used as an expansion bus. The expansion bus even supports DMA so that a device on the bus can transfer data directly into RAM on the SoC without even involving the CPU. Why on earth would someone do something as silly as use the DDR memory bus as an expansion bus? But apparently they have, and all those pins changing in bank 2 and bank 3 are the pins from the DDR memory bus. That also explains why enabling the pull ups on the FPGA would crash Linux running on the SoC, doing that messes with the DDR signal integrity and corrupts data in memory.
Ungh. This is going to be a lot harder than I expected.
I'm pretty new to HDL and programming FPGAs. I think my HDL skills should be up to writing an interface that works with the expansion bus of the Samsung SoC; it's a fairly slow and simple bus. To work with the DDR bus memory, with tight timing and signals coming in on both edges of the clock (that's what DDR means, dual data rate, data is transferred on both clock cycles) is a lot harder. I feel a bit out of my depth. This is a bit of a showstopper for me.
I think I'll push on with the reverse engineering anyway. I'm doing this for fun and the challenge and it's kind of interesting to see how everything fits together. It should still be possible to get everything else to work and be able to sample a waveform and very slowly transfer it to the SoC using the three pins from the configuration interface. It won't be usable as a proper scope, but it'll still be interesting as a proof of concept.
Or maybe someone else who is more experienced than me at FPGA programming might be able to do something with the DDR memory interface. Nudge, nudge.
We'll see what happens.
Update: This series is continued here.


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Ballasting is one of those tasks you either love or hate on a model railway. It transforms your track work but is a slow laborious messy process that's hard to get right. Ballast spreaders change this and this is my pick of the best model.
With the aid of these small containers, ballasting becomes little more than dragging the plastic box along your track. No more pushing or brushing excess ballast away from the sides to get straight lines and just the right amount of ballast deposited down the middle so you don't end up with odd piles of the grey stuff halfway down the track.
Ballasting Tips
Before you get near applying the ballast to your track, spend some time picking the right material.
The ballast used varied according to the region and time period. Very early railways even used ash. It's also worth checking the size you intend to use. There's quite a variety of sizes available, from large to fine, and although labelled as being for N gauge some brands can be too large.
Personally, I use Woodland Scenics Fine grade which, to my eyes, has the right size granules for N and 009/HOe gauge track.
When using ballast spreaders the trick is to do long runs of track in one go so you run out of track before you run out of ballast — otherwise you'll have to lift the unit off the track with the scatter material still in the hopper where it falls out and goes everywhere. Of course, how much you load up depends on the speed at which you move along the track and I'd recommend having a trial go on a bit of spare track before using it in anger to determine what speed works for you and how much ballast to pour in.
When finished ballasting, gently tap the rails around the layout with a small spoon to get the ballast to settle between the sleepers (a light brush along the top might also be needed) and then it's just a matter of lightly spraying with water/soap mix and applying the glue as described in this ballasting tutorial. I have seen other ballast spreaders that have brushes underneath to do this for you but on the ones I've tried, they don't stay attached 🙁
My pick for the best N gauge ballast spreader
The Proses N gauge BS-N-01 is the best all-around tool for quickly and evenly distributing ballast on N gauge track.
Place the spreader on the track, fill the hopper with your chosen ballast and pull it along the rails. The ballast falls out at the bottom onto the track and either side in a tidy, uniform, manner.
Using it allows long stretches of track to be covered quickly and easily.
The model is made of plastic and comes ready assembled, unlike some others, so can be used straight away. It's also proven robust, having survived moderate usage for 8 months when another model that at first looked seemed better fell apart.
The only negative I have in using this is the already mentioned issue of the remaining ballast falling out when lifted off the track. The answer to this is to judge how much ballast is needed for the run of track and time it so the hopper is empty before you reach the end of the track but it would be so much better if a slider was built-in to seal the unit instead.
This niggle aside, the Proses model is a simple, effective, accessory that produces clean even results much faster than laying ballast than any other technique I've found.
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Families left with bellies full of pasta, hands full of toys and hearts filled with joy.
Carrie Thayer, director of development for the Hope Center, said her colleagues serve around 600 people every night.
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Last month at the excellent Krulwich Wonders blog, Robert Krulwich examined a set of astoundingly-sharp 1842 daguerreotypes of Cincinnati along the Ohio River. According to the University of Rochester, it's "the oldest photograph of an urban area in existence." Zooming way in, one could barely make out what appeared to be two people at the edge of the river, collecting what looked like a bucket of water. Inspired, one of Krulwich's readers did a bit of photo forensics and provided us a much better glimpse of those two folks. He blogged about his findings at Hokumburg Goombah. Krulwich followed up with another post and asks if this is the "first photo of a human being ever?" (No, it actually isn't.) From Hokumburg Goombah:
(Krulwich) thinks this detail shows a short man and a tall man with a bucket between them. I have lightened it up a bit and messed with the contrast a little, and I think the man on the left is standing behind the wooden beam wall (wharf? dock?) with his left leg up on the wall and his left hand resting on his knee, while the man on the right is standing on top of that wall. What do you think?
Remarkable Picture of the Past from NPR (Hokumburg Goombah, thanks Bob Pescovitz!)
"First Photo Of A Human Being?" (Krulwich Wonders)
"Once In a Lifetime River Tour Starts Here! Unfortunately, Everybody's Dead" (Krulwich Wonders)


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