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Wipe down all kitchen counter tops, and clean the kitchen and dining room floors regularly to pick up food crumbs and debris that attract tiny ants. Keep fruit in the refrigerator, and ensure that all jars and food containers left out are tightly sealed and wiped clean. Keep the lid on your garbage closed and tightly secured.
Repair any leaking pipes, and check under your sinks for excess moisture. Use a dehumidifier if your home is especially damp, as ants are attracted to moisture and standing water.
Check the outside of your home for access points that the ants may be using to enter. Seal off any cracks and crevices using silicone caulk. Trim down any bushes or trees near your home's exterior.
Place pesticide baits inside walls, in enclosed crawlspaces or under heavy appliances in areas of your home that you notice ants. Never place baits in open areas that can be reached by children and pets or near food that can become contaminated.


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Rugged, Compact, High Definition Touchscreen Display
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Display Characteristics
- Ultra-small, lightweight and 2.4-inch thick dimensions
- Ultra-rugged 17.3-inch diagonal screen
- 16:9 aspect ratio with 1920 x 1080 native resolution
- Full daylight viewable screen of 800 nits (typ.)
- 16.7 million display colors and greater than 150˚ viewing angle
- Color gamut 50% (min.) NTSC; Contrast 500:1 (min.); Luminance range 20:1 (min.)
- Optional Night Vision Imaging System (NVIS) compatible to MIL-STD-3009
- Optional ultra-rugged "boot-kick" glass for a virtually unbreakable screen
- Anti-glare (AG) and anti-reflective (AR) coatings for crisp display in any light
- Optional polarizer and water rejection coatings
Touch Screen and I/O
- Resistive touchscreen with glove and/or stylus operation with EMI shielding
- Optional multi-point projected capacitive, multi-point resistive or infrared touch
- Optional stylus, attached via cable
- Inputs are: one DVI-D, VGA, DisplayPort and HD-SDI (BNC connector), selected via bezel key
- Output is: one uncompressed, long-reach HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M) for loopback (programmable)
- One 100 Mbits/s Ethernet and USB 2.0 port for touchscreen and remote viewing operation
- Five standard bezel buttons with optional customizable buttons (eight buttons optional)
- VESA (standard) or nearly-flush panel mount options with available stylus holder
- I/O connectors available in either MIL-circular or commercial interfaces
SWaP-E (Size, Weight and Power – Efficiency)
- MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-1275D, MIL-S-901D, DO-160D, MIL-STD-461F, up to IP66 compliant
- Operates over -20°C to +70°C (no heater) or over -40°C to +70°C (with optional heater)
- Ultra-low SWaP at 17.37" x 14.47" x 2.24", @ 14.5lbs. and as low as 6W (blackout mode) or 25W (nom.)
- Power input: 24 – 28VDC
- Available in ruggedization levels R1-R5
General Description
Additionally, the D17 is offered with several screen options in 16:9 format, with or without touchscreen and bezel keys. The standard touch screen is resistive, which is the most common type of touchscreen for rugged environments due to its reliability and ability to work with gloves. However, D17 can be optionally equipped with multi-touch projected capacitive, resistive or infrared touchscreen panels, depending on the intended application environment.
The display for D17 screen is protected with the most robust glass available in the market, which can withstand a direct "boot kick" without damaging the display or the touch screen. The D17 supports High Definition (HD) at 1920 x 1080 resolution and is sunlight readable with 800 nits (cd/m2, typ.) of brightness. RuggedView™ also supports optional display coatings to maximize the screen readability and clarity in wet, bright or multi light source environments: anti-reflective (AR), anti-glare (AG), polarizer and water-rejection coatings. The display also optionally supports NVIS MIL-STD-3009, which reduces eye strain in applications where night vision glasses are used. The RuggedView™ D17 may also optionally be purchased with less robust glass to meet specific requirements and price points.
The I/O subsystem for the RuggedView™ is designed to support a wide array of standard functions. The standard video inputs are one VGA (1024 x 768), DVI-D (1920 x 1080p), DisplayPort (1920 x 1080p) and HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M). D17 also can output (for loopback) one channel of HD-SDI with a simple button press. For remote control and touchscreen operation, RuggedView™ is equipped with one USB 2.0 and one 100 Mbits/s Ethernet port. D17 can take MIL-STD-1275 input power with a nominal voltage of 28VDC for operation in "dirty" vehicle power.
The bezel comes with five standard buttons, but is also customizable. The five bezel buttons are for Power, Video Input Source selection, NVIS and Brightness up/down controls. Custom bezel buttons can be configured to surround the display or have custom logic functions. An eight button bezel is optional.
D17 can be VESA-, surface- or flush-mounted ("panel mount"), and I/O connectors can emerge from the bottom or side (optional), depending upon the mount. Available connectors come in military-style circular ("38999") or commercial configuration.
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Women's College Cup tickets on sale
Championship to be held in Kennesaw, Ga., on Dec. 2 and 4
INDIANAPOLIS -- Tickets for the 2011 NCAA Women's College Cup, to be played Dec. 2 and 4 at the KSU Soccer Stadium in Kennesaw, Ga., are now on sale.
The KSU Soccer Stadium, which was completed in the Spring of 2010, is the largest women's-only soccer facility in the world with a capacity of 8,300. Reserved all session tickets for both semifinals and the championship game are $55, while general admission tickets are $45, and tickets bought in groups of at least 15 are priced at $35. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.ncaa.com/tickets.
"We are honored and very excited that the NCAA has awarded us the opportunity to host the 2011 Women's College Cup," said KSU director of athletics Vaughn Williams. "This will be a historic event, the first ever national championship hosted by Kennesaw State, for not only the University, but for the city of Kennesaw, Cobb County and the Atlantic Sun Conference. We look forward to creating a memorable experience for the participants, visitors and supporters of women's soccer on the national stage."


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Pranaa offers various yoga styles that help you develop a practice, specific to your individual needs and capabilities. The yoga styles taught here emphasize linking breath and movement and offer individualized approaches respecting the needs of each person. The focus is on the inner experience and particular healing benefits of each posture rather than on achieving a particular external form. We can help you take your practice to new depths in your life.
Yoga Flow
Enjoy a gently paced vinyasa class focusing on alignment, technique and pranayama to build balance, core strength & flexibility.
Hatha Yoga
Hatha yoga utilizes the practice of asanas (postures) and pranayama (conscious breathing) to enhance health and vitality and to bring about balance in one's life. Through the practice of asanas and pranayama, along with inner focus, you begin to experience a freedom that may permeate all aspects of your lives. All Hatha yoga classes emphasize correct posture and alignment and build strength, flexibility and concentration. Many of our teachers study and practice different styles of yoga including Kripalu, Scaravelli, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Integral Yoga Therapy and more. Some teachers teach the traditions in their pure form; others draw from their training in a combination of the traditions, which is simply referred to as "Hatha style", "multi-style" or "eclectic".
Empower Flow
This all-levels class is a unique practice that links stress reducing breath; energizing slow flowing movement; dynamic power building postures and mindfulness work in one amazing experience. Often referred to as meditation in motion, this class is designed to cultivate strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, focus and serenity. Packed with modification options, this class accessible to most ages and bodies. If you are ready to be inspired and transformed from the inside out, this experience is for you!
Happy Hour Yoga
Come sample Kundalini yoga, Yin yoga, Iyengar yoga, power yoga, restorative yoga, hatha yoga and vinyasa yoga. This class will leave you light and open to possibilities.
Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa is a dynamic, vigorous and flowing blend of poses. It is the synchronization of breath with movement, and in Vinyasa classes postures are linked together in a continuous and challenging flow. The many benefits of this style include strength, detoxification, mental and physical balance, flexibility, and stamina. Every class will be a different sequencing of asanas, but you can be sure it will be challenging, sweat-inducing and include a little bit of laughter.
Learn to coordinate movement with breath through Viniyoga. A deeply relaxing yet challenging form of practice, your class will include sustained slow breathing and postures paced to your breath. This form of practice trains your ability to focus, strengthens and retrains your body, and gives you the discipline to reach your goals. Your certified Viniyoga teacher has been trained to adapt poses and breathing techniques to best suit the needs and interest of the class. Experience a truly transformative style of Yoga custom-made for you!
Re-Charge with Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga is extremely beneficial for anyone who wants to relax and get rid of stored negative stress in the body and mind. Because Kundalini Yoga is for the busy householder who needs to manage job, family, life with personal development and self-care, it is designed to be powerful and efficient. Kundalini Yoga combines postures (asanas), movement, sound current (mantra), breath (pranayam) and meditation into powerful sets called kriyas. We all need tools of knowledge that help us to heal and stay healthy – Kundalini Yoga offers a great set of postures, breathing techniques and meditations for your everyday health and energy. In addition to increasing physical flexibility, strength and stability, Kundalini Yoga promotes the health of the nervous system, the glandular & endocrine system, and the cardiovascular system. You will gain greater stability, calm and harmony along with numerous other health benefits when practicing on a regular basis.
No particular level of physical fitness is necessary, everyone can do Kundalini Yoga. Since you can only be where you are in any given moment, you start wherever you're at and build from there.
Iyengar Yoga
Refine your poses at an intermediate/advanced level to go deeper into your practice. This class will help develop alignment within the asanas. Prevent injuries while building strength, endurance & flexibility to move you past where you are and what you already know. Challenge your mind/body to develop your inner intelligence. Inversions, backbends are enhanced along with the other standing and seated poses.
Private Yoga Session
An opportunity to work one-on-one to develop a yoga practice, to further enhance your yoga training or to explore an area of physical limitation. If you would like to be guided through a sequence privately, this is an ideal program. Call the studio to learn more about your private session.


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OLO Report on MCPS High Schools
The Montgomery County Council today received the Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) report on "Performance of Montgomery County Public Schools' High Schools—A FY2014 Update." The report describes changes in the demographics and performance of the school system's 25 comprehensive high schools.
The report updates OLO's 2009 high school consortia report that found that neither the Northeast nor the Downcounty Consortium had enhanced racial or economic integration. Blake, Paint Branch and Springbrook high schools comprise the Northeast Consortium and Montgomery Blair, Einstein, Kennedy, Northwood and Wheaton high schools comprise the Downcounty Consortium. The original report, however, found that the achievement gap on some measures of student performance may have narrowed at the start of each consortium.
This current report takes a wider view than the original to consider demographic and performance changes among 11 consortia and consortia-like high schools (the Northeast and Downcounty Consortia high schools plus Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill and Seneca Valley high schools) compared to MCPS' 14 other high schools. In effect, this report compares MCPS' high-poverty high schools to its low-poverty high schools.
Overall, OLO found an increase in the stratification of MCPS high schools by income, race and ethnicity. A majority of the school system's low-income, black and Latino students attend high-poverty high schools while a majority of MCPS' non-poor, white and Asian students attend low-poverty high schools. And since 2010, the share of black and Latino students attending high-poverty high schools has increased while the share of white, Asian, and non-poor students attending low-poverty high schools has increased.
OLO also finds that an achievement gap between high- and low-poverty high schools exists. Overall, students attending consortia and consortia-like high schools are less likely to graduate on time, to maintain academic eligibility for extra-curricular activities, to complete Algebra 2 by Grade 11 and to earn Advanced Placement (AP) and SAT or ACT scores that demonstrate college and career readiness than students attending MCPS' low-poverty high schools. These students are also twice as likely to drop out of high school or receive an out-of-school suspension compared to students in low-poverty high schools.
Additionally, student subgroups attending consortia and consortia-like high schools also are less likely than their subgroup peers attending low-poverty high schools to meet college and career readiness benchmarks and more likely to experience at-risk outcomes. For example, low-income students in consortia and consortia-like high schools are only 58 percent as likely as their peers in low-poverty high schools to score 1,650 or above on the SAT or 24 or above on the ACT.
OLO also found that the achievement gap between high- and low-poverty MCPS high schools had widened among a majority of performance measures reviewed (AP performance, SAT/ACT performance, academic eligibility and out-of-school suspensions) and had narrowed or stayed the same for the remainder of measures (Algebra 2 by grade 11, graduation and dropout).
With MCPS' high-poverty high schools utilizing similar approaches to advance student achievement, OLO found that MCPS' approach has not worked as intended. Based on the findings of the report, OLO recommends that the Council discuss with MCPS leadership its goals for improving student integration to narrow the achievement gap between low- and high-poverty high schools. OLO also recommends that the County Council discuss with MCPS the alignment between these goals and its operating budget.
The Council's Education Committee will schedule a worksession on the OLO report for June/July 2014.
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If you've been exploring this site, you have probably noticed that some of the links have been redirected over to a new website.
If you have been thinking about signing up for the Projector Survival Kit don't panic! You will be redirected to my new website where you can sign up for the Human Design Kit. The Human Design Kit contains everything you would've received in the Projector Survival Kit plus more!
Today I sent out an email to those people who are already following me. Thought you might also want to know what the heck is happening. Here is an excerpt from the email that went out today….
Over at humandesignprojector.com, I have been sharing my wild Projector ride into and out of a brief but illuminating career in real estate. The experience left me with a confidence and drive that I didn't have before. And now I've returned to my passions of Human Design and healing in full force.
It feels so good to be home!
It feels so good to focus exclusively on serving with my passions!
This newfound confidence has inspired me to reach deep within my heart and take some risks. Maybe it's a new wave of planetary consciousness that has strengthened my resolve and put the wind beneath my wings. Regardless of the cause, the result is a small but powerful shift in direction, whose outcome is not yet fully known.
Here's what I know so far…
It's time to bring all of my followers together, regardless of energy type.
So by 11:00 pm tonight, Wednesday May 17th, the Human Design Projector email list will merge with the folks on the sandyfreschi.com list.
Don't worry. You will still have access to the Projector website for another year, and I will continue to post Projector-centric material there from time to time. There will also be special places and programs for Projectors on the new website.
Here's what will change…
- You will receive newsletters and periodic updates from sandyfreschi.com. Projector news and updates will be included in the newsletter. From time to time you may receive an email that is exclusively for Projectors.
- You will continue to get invitations to group gatherings and classes. Some of them will be exclusively for Projectors and some will be for all design types.
I completely understand if this is not your cup of tea. There are no hard feelings if you choose to unsubscribe before or after the move. You can do that by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this or any other email.
And if you happen to get an unwanted email from sandyfreschi.com when you thought you had unsubscribed, please understand that it was not done on purpose. Please don't send hate mail if this happens! Just quietly unsubscribe again and you will be free of us for good.
There are a couple of things I want to tell you about before we move! …
I want you to be the first to know about two exciting new things that have just happened.
- My regular set pricing on Human Design consultations is suspended for the next 6 weeks! Instead, you are invited to experiment with me as we try on a temporary sliding fee scale. If you would like to get one to one assistance, but have been struggling to come up with the money, this is the time to get involved.
- Go to this article if you want to understand why I am doing this.
- Karen Curry Parker, Author of "Understanding Human Design", wants to do a customized webinar just for us!
- She has created a new cutting edge program to heal and shift the consciousness on the planet called Quantum Alignment. As she introduces her multi-faceted approach, which has at its forefront Human Design, she is keenly interested in reaching out to people like us who are here to guide the change that is happening on the planet.
- If you decide to stay with us (here in email cyberspace), you will have a chance to offer your input on what you would like Karen to explore with us. And of course, you will be invited to attend and participate.
I hope you will continue to be part of our community as we expand to include some of the other design types that we are here to play with. If not, it has been a sincere pleasure to serve you.
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A native of Boerne, Lynn graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&M University and earned her law degree with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1982. She practiced in San Antonio for one year before moving to Victoria where she has been practicing since 1983.
Lynn is very active in the community having served as past president of the Victoria Bach Festival Association and the Board of Directors of the YMCA of the Golden Crescent. She has served on the boards of the Palmer Drug Abuse Program, Coastal Bend Legal Services and Victoria Preservation, Inc. She is also a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Victoria County Bar Association, and the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists. Lynn is married to John Griffin, Jr., also a partner in the firm, and they have three daughters.
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Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath.
The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up." Nonetheless, in the eight months since the attacks, this is the most sweeping and detailed discussion by key players of what might have been done differently.
"We're portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots," said one Obama administration official who was part of the Benghazi response. "It's actually closer to us being idiots."
- Where is the Benghazi cover-up Republicans promised?
- GOP wants more Benghazi docs after White House release
- Full coverage: U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi
The Obama administration's chief critics on Benghazi, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., remain skeptical. They see a pattern, even a conspiracy, to deflect attention from the idea that four Americans had been killed by al Qaeda-linked attackers, on the president's watch. "There is no conclusion a reasonable person could reach other than that for a couple of weeks after the attack, [the Obama administration was] trying to push a narrative that was politically beneficial to the president's re-election," Graham told CBS News.
The list of mea culpas by Obama administration officials involved in the Benghazi response and aftermath include: standing down the counterterrorism Foreign Emergency Support Team, failing to convene the Counterterrorism Security Group, failing to release the disputed Benghazi "talking points" when Congress asked for them, and using the word "spontaneous" while avoiding the word "terrorism."
The emergency response: "I wish we'd sent FEST"
The Foreign Emergency Support Team known as "FEST" is described as "the US Government's only interagency, on-call, short-notice team poised to respond to terrorist incidents worldwide." It even boasts hostage-negotiating expertise. With U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens reported missing shortly after the Benghazi attacks began, Washington officials were operating under a possible hostage scenario at the outset. Yet deployment of the counterterrorism experts on the FEST was ruled out from the start. That decision became a source of great internal dissent and the cause of puzzlement to some outsiders.
Thursday, an administration official who was part of the Benghazi response told CBS News: "I wish we'd sent it."
The official said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deputy, Patrick Kennedy, quickly dispensed with the idea. A senior State Department official Thursday told CBS News, "Under Secretary Kennedy is not in the decision chain on FEST deployment" but would not directly confirm whether Kennedy or somebody else dismissed the FEST.
Whoever made the decision, it came amid sharp disagreement over the FEST's true capabilities. Kennedy and others at the State Department view the team as one that primarily restores communications at besieged embassies. However, the FEST's own mission statement describes a seasoned team of counterterrorism professionals who can respond "quickly and effectively to terrorist attacks... providing the fastest assistance possible" including "hostage negotiating expertise" and "time-sensitive information and intelligence." In fact, FEST leader Mark Thompson says Benghazi was precisely the sort of crisis to which his team is trained to respond.
While it was the State Department that's said to have taken FEST off the table, the team is directed by the White House National Security Council. Those officials expressed the same limited view of FEST's capabilities when CBS News asked on Nov. 1, 2012, why FEST hadn't deployed. The officials argued that FEST teams were "used in the past to re-establish infrastructure, communications, etc. after a devastating attack...That wasn't the need here."
As soon as word of the Benghazi attack reached Washington, FEST members "instinctively started packing," said an official involved in the response. "They were told they were not deploying by Patrick Kennedy's front office... In hindsight... I probably would've pushed the button."
It's unclear what assistance FEST might have provided on site in the hours and days after the Benghazi attacks. In the end, Obama administration officials argue that its quick deployment would not have saved lives because, while the U.S.-based team might have made it to Tripoli, Libya, before the attacks ended, they most certainly wouldn't have made it to Benghazi in time.
Still, nobody knew at the outset how long the crisis was going to last. And officials familiar with FEST say it could have helped pave the way for the FBI to get into Benghazi much faster than the three weeks it ultimately took. Said one source, "I don't see a downside to sending FEST...if for no other reason than so no one could ask why we didn't."
The Counterterrorism Security Group: Not convened
Under presidential directive, an interagency task force called the Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) is to be convened when emergency terrorist events are suspected. According to a public military document, it's part of a plan to "synchronize the efforts of all the government agencies that have a role to play in the Global War on Terrorism." But on Sept. 11, 2012, the Obama administration did not convene this body of terrorism expert advisers.
One official associated with the State Department now acknowledges that the CSG would probably have advised decision makers that FEST "was not just backup generator and radios." Said the official: "the CSG could have made the argument, they were upset that they weren't heard." Another former Defense Department official says he finds no merit to using the CSG. "I'd like to hear them say what they could have done."
Last October, National Security Council (NSC) Spokesman Tommy Vietor told CBS News that the CSG wasn't needed because consultations were quickly underway at the highest levels. He indicated that, under the Obama administration, the function of the CSG has become a "lower level group" that "does different tasks" than under the Bush administration. "From the moment [President Obama] was briefed on the Benghazi attack, the response effort was handled by the most senior national security officials in government. Members of the CSG were of course involved in these meetings and discussions to support their bosses," said Vietor.
However, absent the CSG's collective advice, there's evidence that some high-level decision makers were unaware of all available resources. In October, on a phone call that included then-Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough (now White House Chief of Staff), Vietor initially told CBS News: "I don't know what [FEST] is... it sounds antiquated."
In-extremis Force: On a training mission
In an unfortunate turn of events, on Sept. 11, a special U.S. military force based in Europe, designed specifically for quick reaction to unforeseen emergencies, was off on a training mission in Croatia. By the time the so-called Commander's In-extremis Force was diverted to an airfield at Sigonella, Italy, an hour's flight from Benghazi, the attacks were over.
"They didn't get there in time to have an impact, which is unfortunate," said a Defense Department source who was involved in the Benghazi response.
Another administration source says, with the benefit of hindsight, everyone wishes U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), the combatant command responsible for Libya on Sept. 11, had its own In-extremis Force.
That's already been accomplished. In what turns out to be a stroke of terrible timing, AFRICOM was just a few weeks away from getting an In-extremis Force when the Benghazi attacks happened. The Force was in the U.S. finishing training on Sept. 11 and is now in place.


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For a taste of New York City's Broadway and the daily hustle and bustle of L.A., travelers to the Midwest look to the Branson Strip in Branson, Missouri. On the Branson Strip visitors will find everything from hotels and restaurants, to shops and theaters. On Branson Strip there's a live performance to match most anyone's interests and hobbies. From the Acrobats of China, Hot Seat - Interactive Comedy Game Show, and Kirby VanBurch Theatre (where Kirby VanBurch, the Prince of Magic performs), to the Andy Williams Moon River Theater, Grand Country Music Hall, and Happy Trails Theater (where you can enjoy western music and cowboy tunes). The Branson Strip is also home to performances like "BROADWAY! The Star-Spangled Celebration" and the "Elvis Experience," which serves as a musical tribute to the king himself.Around the Branson Strip area, travelers will also find interesting and unusual attractions such as Ripley's "Believe It or Not" museum and Titanic: the World's Largest Museum Attraction, a two-story museum that's shaped just like the famous ocean liner. For a more leisurely, but still involved activity, you can also visit many of the mini-golf courses, Like Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf, that dot the area surround the Branson Strip.
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Then after that Michael and I went inside the hotel and went to the check in counter. After we got our room numbers and went in separate rooms. Since I was in a separate room I didn't know what Michael was doing. I checked the time and it was 4:36 PM. We decided that we would go shopping for video games. We bought tons of new video games like Gran Turismo, and Black Ops. We played the video games for a long time. So then we ate dinner and now we are going to sleep.
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Dear Querist for citation or case laws you have to contact a lawyer personally or you can search the same through google, nadeemqureshi1.wordpress.com, judis.nic.in
Dear Sir, My sister is married in 2007. She has filed dowry case against her in laws. And in later in 2009 she also field 406 for demanding her stridhan from her in laws. She has enclosed a complete list of article (which she received before the marriage, at the time of marriage and after the marriage) with her complaint in court with all proof of bills. But we did not prepare any list at the time of her marriage. Is it necessary to prepare the list of item at the time of marriage, how can we made this list if some of the item are given to her before marriage and after marriage on different occasion. Is there any decision of any Hble' high court or Hble' Supreme Court in this regard. Ashok Mishra
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In your case, if you have the receipts of the articles, then it would be a proof that those articles were handed over to the in-laws. Also please note, that as per Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 the list is mandatory. But, also in its absence the valid bills/receipts are required to claim the articles. Estimate of the articles will not be taken as proof for claiming articles under section 406 IPC. In the meantime would try to find some relevant judgments for you. thanks.
You should consult your case with your lawyer. If he is the opinion that it is possible to make the list at this stage of the case having regard to the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case then accordingly you may make the list. Let your lawyer find out the relevant court decisions in this regard.
The maintenance of lists of gifts is crucial for the effective implementation of the law. Further, this list provides the basis for a woman to retrieve items given to her at the time of the marriage since there are no penalties provided for the failure to maintain lists of gifts exchanged in connection with the marriage the lists are hardly maintained by parties . delhi High court has held that wherein lists are not prepared and rules framed under act not followed adverse inference should be drawn . In the matter of Smt. Neera Singh Vs The State (Govt. of NCT of DELHI) CRL.M.C.7262/2006 dated 23.02.2007 and Others Justice Dhingra of Delhi High Court has observed that: "The police should simultaneously register a case under Dowry Prohibition Act (in short, the Act) against the parents of the complainant as well, who married their daughter despite demand of dowry. Section 3 of the Act prohibits giving and taking of dowry. If a woman of grown up age and well educated gets married to a person despite dowry demand, she and her family becomes accomplice in the crime under Dowry Prohibition Act." Now-a-days, it has become a tendency to make vague and omnibus allegations against every member of the family of the husband, involving everybody under Section 498A and 406 of the IPC by making one or the other allegations. Now-a-days, exorbitant claims are made about the amount spent on marriage and other ceremonies and on dowry and gifts. In some cases claim is made of spending crores of rupees on dowry without disclosing the source of income and how funds flowed. I consider time has come that courts should insist upon disclosing source of such funds and verification of income from tax returns and police should insist upon the compliance of the Rules under Dowry Prohibition Act and should not entertain any complaint, if the rules have not been complied with. Rule 2 of the Dowry Prohibition (Maintenance of List of Presents to the Bride and Bridegroom) Rules, 1985 reads as under:2. RULES IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHICH LISTS OF PRESENTS ARE TO BE MAINTAINED.-(1) The list of presents which are given at the time of the marriage to the bride shall be maintained by the bride. (2)The list of presents which are given at the time of the marriage to the bridegroom shall be maintained by the bridegroom. (3)Every list of presents referred to in Sub-rule(1) or Sub-rule(2)- (a) shall be prepared at the time of the marriage or as soon as possible after the marriage; (b) shall be in writing; (c) shall contain:- (i) a brief descripttion of each present; (ii) the approximate value of the present; (iii) the name of the person who has given the present; and (iv) where the person giving the present is related to the bride or bridegroom, a descripttion of such relationship. (d) Shall be signed by both the bride and bridegroom. The Metropolitan Magistrates should take cognizance of the offence under the Act in respect of the offence of giving dowry whenever allegations are made that dowry was given as a consideration of marriage, after demand. Courts should also insist upon compliance with the rules framed under the Act and if rules are not complied with, an adverse inference should be drawn. If huge cash amounts are alleged to be given at the time of marriage which are not accounted anywhere, such cash transactions should be brought to the notice of the Income Tax Department by the Court so that source of income is verified and the person is brought to law. It is only because the Courts are not insisting upon compliance with the relevant provisions of law while entertaining such complaints and action is taken merely on the statement of the complainant, without any verification that a large number of false complaints are pouring in.


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Fallen Fates
Thor is dead.
You didn't even know that Thor was real. Now, your divine parent has tapped you to investigate what looks like a suicide. Is this the first shot of ragnarok or is this something else? How can ragnarok occur if Thor is dead? Who will slay Jormungand? Why are the fates so silent?
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Mission Impossible: Mission Complete!
Lesson 3 of 11
Objective: SWBAT represent the flights of two military aircraft visually (diagrams) and algebraically (expressions and equations). SWBAT collaborate and solve problems effectively.
Big Idea: A review of distance, rate and time and systems of equations - "Mission success criteria: When do the aircrafts depart?"
As promised in the previous lesson, this class opens by giving the students the opportunity to clean up any lose ends of their work before they share out their results. Although the "presentations" will be relatively informal, it is important that the students have the opportunity to organize and wrap up their thoughts, focusing on their approach to the problem. To meet each groups needs, I provide them with a giant sticky note (these are a GREAT purchase for your classroom – poster sized sticky notes that the kids LOVE to share results on). On this sticky note, I encourage the kids to illustrate their method of approach to the problem. Did they start with a diagram? Where did they turn to find any variables that they did not know? What mathematics did they implement? Is there anything innovative about their approach?
If this is your first time using the giant sticky notes, or similar, encourage the kids to focus on highlighting the flow of their problem, NOT on fancy decorations and coloring. I provide my students with only one color marker and time the activity to make sure that they focus on conveying their ideas instead of decorating and constructing a fancy poster – there is occasionally a time for that but it is NOT the focus of this activity (you may need to explain this to a few of your students – you know who they are!).
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After concluding the small group share out, I bring the class back together to discuss what they noticed. I encourage you to merely facilitate the discussion, rather than lecture to the students. Drawing out of them the following questions can be a great starting point:
1) What did you notice about the solutions presented? About what was the range in values?
2) Did any group in particular appear to excel at the problem solving process? What elements made them successful?
3) Where there any unique approaches that stood apart in your group? What made them unique?
Once the students have started down these rabbit trails, allow them to run with it and discuss! I feel free to engage students by asking them their opinions in a non-threatening way. This can be done though saying "Tommy, I saw you involved in a discussion with your group. What did you notice?"
Be sure to write key points from the activity down so that you can reference them in later lessons. I also like to wrap up the discussion by asking the students what 21st century skills were needed in working on the problem. This is a great way to get the students to buy into the authenticity of the task, even though everyone knows that it is fictional.
Homework: As a possible homework assignment, I challenge the students to see if they can model the Mission Impossible problem (Entry Document #1) as a system on grid paper using the information that they came up with. In my previous experience, relatively few students elected to try this approach. This assignment will help stretch the students to ask, why? Can you solve the problem this way? What are the pro's and con's? Where is the solution located? Do we obtain the same answer as before? These are excellent ways to teach A.REI.11. The students should recognize that the two equations are linear and be able to solve them graphically (MP5). The problem can indeed be solved this way as a function of time because the students have the distances (a point) and the rates (the slope). I do not assign this every single year, and only when time allows for it at the end of class. It takes a little explaining the following day, but is a worthwhile review of linear equations from Algebra I.


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The best way I've found to transfer is to use ftp with a script file. Now with Cyberfusion being implemented, I unfortunately have to abandon this simple methd for secure file transfers. The thing that really gets me though, is this company policy being enforced, evenb though everything is interbal and behind a firewall. And Cyberfusion iis a pain in the neck to setup...and it seems the "Service" company doesn't have a good handle on it...and they have to set up the profiles. In any case, create a script file like:
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<UserID><Password>quote site filetype=seq CYlinders Primary=50 Secondary=100 lrecl=5000 recfm=FBput W:\data\HRSecDB2\Data\<pc_filename> 'SMF.DSN.'quit
Then create abatch file so it can be executed from a command prompt, xp_cmdshell...whatever and redirect the output to a log file so you can confirm the transmission. When I do this from SQL Server, I load the log file table and interogate the transmission and then take appropriate action.
ftp -s:W:\data\HRSecDB2\ftp_HRSecDB2.ftp > W:\data\HRSecDB2\ftp_HRSecDB2.log
There now I have a place I can find this stuff in case my laptop fries again...I hope graz has backups
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The Order of Saint Benedict
Monastic Scriptoria
by Fr. Landelin Robling OSB
Writing was considered the equivalent of manual labor. "It was the occupation of writing, and not what was written, that was valued." 16 Early library lists of books copied testify to the contrary, and it might be added that in general what was transcribed was highly treasured; hence, the almost endless multiplication of the Holy Scriptures, and its adornment with the richest illuminations.
Like all else that was done in the monastery, the copying of books had ordinarily only two motives in the system: to provide materials actually needed in the routines of the community, and to serve as busywork for hands and minds otherwise idle. In the first case, the aim was production: in the latter, merely treadmill activity. 17
What monk does not know that his labor has much more meaning than mere drudgery for the sake of a pastime or necessity's demands for another day? The monk has a deeper understanding and a more spiritual motivation for work. "The purpose of labor is the sanctification of the soul. It humbles pride, purifies the heart and, united with prayer, prepares the mind for the thought of the divine to whose service it is vowed."18 Writing as an occupation of the monk was a means towards one end: the sanctification of the whole monk, soul and body.
Montalembert draws his reader's attention to the fact that the rule of St. Ferreol, written in the sixth century, regards transcription as the equivalent of manual labor since it charges that the monk "who does not turn up the earth with the plow ought to write the parchment with his fingers."19 The earliest extant commentaries on the Rule of St. Benedict even imply the labor of transcription as the common occupation. Thus Schroll observes that Paul Warnefrid's and Hildemar's "several brief allusions to the generality of the monks being engaged in writing implies that it was a common occupation, but further information on the subject is lacking in our commentaries."20 A contemporary of St. Benedict, Cassiodorus, delights in this noble task, although it is strenuous and fatiguing:
I admit that among those of your tasks which require physical effort that of the scribe, if he writes correctly, appeals most to me; and it appeals, perhaps not without reason, for by reading the Divine Scripture he wholesomely instructs his own mind and by copying the precepts of the Lord he spreads them far and wide. Happy his design, praiseworthy his zeal, to preach with the hand alone, to unleash tongues with the fingers, to give salvation silently to mortals, And to fight against the illicit temptations of the devil with pen and ink. Every work of the Lord written by the scribe is a wound inflicted on Satan21 (Institutes, I, xxx).
Great as his influence was on literature and its preservation through the scriptorium's transmission to posterity, "Cassiodorus must not, however, be considered the first man to have introduced into monasteries either the copying of manuscripts or the study of the Scriptures;"22 But "it remained for Cassiodorus to make of the monastery a theological school and a scriptorium for the multiplication of copies of Scriptures, of the Fathers of the Church and the commentators, and of the great secular writers of antiquity."23
16 Thompson, op. cit., p. 31
17 de Roover, op. cit., p. 592
18 Schroll, OSB., Sister M. Alfred, Benedictine Monasticism, N.Y.: Columbia U. Press, 1941, p. 86.
19 Monks of the West, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, vol. 6, p. 81.
20 Op. cit., p 125, quoting Paul, p. 377, 397; and Hildemar, p. 458, 484.
21 Quoted by Jones, L.W., An Introduction to Divine and Human Readings, N.Y.: Columbia U. Press, 1946, p. 133.
22 Ibid., p. 25.
23 Ibid., p. 26.
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Have you ever tried to seriously test all your highly sophisticated resilience accomplishments in cloud setups? Our DevOps invest a lot to achieve things like auto-scaling, failover and zero downtime deployments. Infrastructure is coded with e.g. CloudFormation templates, Chef cookbooks or Dockerfiles and it is monitored with complex metrics that are included in notification and action chains to provide SLAs for our customers. But all this is worthless if you never test it and proof that the concepts and setups are working. It turns out that testing cloud infrastructure isn't that easy like application testing because you have to manipulate technical infrastructure components that are normally out of your scope and abstracted away. Luckily Netflix provide their toolchain to tackle some of these challenges.
###The Simian Army
As written on their wiki the Simian Army consists of services (Monkeys) in the cloud for generating various kinds of failures, detecting abnormal conditions, and testing the ability to survive them. From the collection of different monkeys the Chaos Monkey is the most useful for us in the moment. It supports AWS and VSphere as IaaS backends and brings some very helpful types of chaos into the infrastructure. BTW even reading the source is a big fun due to the creative naming of stuff. Just to note one of my favorites the boolean property isBurnMoneyEnabled to take care how far your monkey should disturb the peace.
###Chaos Monkey
Please read the well written Quick-Start-Guide to get the monkey up and running. Some of the strategies really can cause trouble to a lot of existing off-the-shelf applications. You can mix up your cocktail of gifts in the chaos.properties file.
simianarmy.chaos.shutdowninstance.enabled = true
simianarmy.chaos.blockallnetworktraffic.enabled = true
simianarmy.chaos.burncpu.enabled = false
simianarmy.chaos.killprocesses.enabled = false
simianarmy.chaos.nullroute.enabled = false
simianarmy.chaos.failapi.enabled = false
simianarmy.chaos.faildns.enabled = true
simianarmy.chaos.faildynamodb.enabled = false
simianarmy.chaos.fails3.enabled = false
simianarmy.chaos.networkcorruption.enabled = true
simianarmy.chaos.networklatency.enabled = true
simianarmy.chaos.networkloss.enabled = true
As you can see here we like to use all the network problems that can appear. We use this mixture for one of our customer that needs applications syncing data via unreliable satellite connections. In fact their cruise liners data-centers are moving targets rolling around the globe.
The Chaos Monkey communicates via provided APIs to the IaaS and if needed via ssh to your server to doing it actions. Of course these are logged so that you can correlate created monkey chaos with your infrastructure logs and metrics.
If you coming into the recommended state to have a working cloud infrastructure with resilience features enabled the Simian Army is a very good starting point to test your setup and even to get an idea of the complexity of possible failure scenarios. Our recommendation is to take your first steps with these tools in a sandboxed playground because you probably will not survive the first shot. Good Luck!


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WHAT THEY'LL SHOW: Expenses charged by each mutual funds included among a plan's investment options, along with fees charged to administer the plan.
WHAT THEY WON'T SHOW: Employers aren't required to provide a single-number summary of how much an investor is paying overall. And don't expect comparisons with average fees at other plans or some other benchmark.


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Leonardo DiCaprio - BAFTAs 2014 Red Carpet
Leonardo DiCaprio suits up while arriving at the 2014 British Academy Film Awards held at The Royal Opera House on Sunday (February 16) in London, England.
The 39-year-old actor was joined on the red carpet by his The Wolf of Wall Street director Martin Scorsese.
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Leo is nominated for Leading Actor for his role on The Wolf of Wall Street, going up against Christian Bale, Bruce Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Tom Hanks.
Martin is also being nominated for Best Director for his work on the film.
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The U.S. dollar has fallen so much that it has now become an international problem, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told journalists from Reuters. According to Medvedev, the United States has to solve the problems of its currency, but other countries should strive to make the international financial system multicurrency. That would allow the risks associated with the fall in the exchange rate of a single currency to be avoided.
The Russian president earlier expressed his opinion about the financial crisis that has engulfed the developed countries and served as one of the causes of the fall of the dollar. Medvedev stated at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg that the U.S. itself is largely responsible for the crisis, since the real abilities of the country do not correspond with the position it occupies in the international financial system.
In the interview, Medvedev answered a series of questions on the Russian economy. In particular, he repeated that the conflict between the shareholders of TNK-BP should be decided on the legal arena without the participation of the state. In addition, the Russian president noted that the state will gradually take measures to reduce its participation in the economy and continue the policy of privatization of a number of assets.


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The company formerly known as Virgin Megastores has released strong Christmas trading figures.
During its first Christmas trading the zavvi entertainment group experienced a 10.8% increase in sales on the previous year for the 4-week trading period ending 05 January.
This sales increase do not include online sales, where there was more than 70% online sales growth.
This meant an overall margin growth of 2%.
"When you consider the downbeat assessment of the high street from certain quarters, our trading performance over Christmas is very encouraging", said zavvi MD Simon Douglas.
"Although the team has a rich history in entertainment retail, there's no getting away from the fact that zavvi is the newest kid on the block as far as customers are concerned so to perform as well as we have during such an important trading period has to be taken as a huge positive", he continued.
In the sales breakdown, Games sales grew by 62.7% on a like-for-like basis during Christmas despite the short supply of this year's must-have gifts, the Nintendo Wii and DS.
DVD sales grew 6.4% like-for-like on the back of a strong growth during Christmas 2006. However, in its statement, zavvi added: "continuing price deflation on chart and new release offset significant growth experience on range and box sets".
However, it added that the growth demonstrated by Blu-ray and HD, where zavvi's market share peaked at 15.8pc, is positive for the future.
This, it said, was partly fuelled by the reduction in price of HD players and the growing install base of PS3.
Music sales were, however, down 11.6% on a like-for-like basis as a result of "a weak release schedule and price deflation effecting chart sales".
zavvi says that this year's outlook for music looks more positive with the likes of Oasis, Madonna, Coldplay, U2, Kasabian and Razorlight scheduled for 2008 releases.
The company's ranges of books, clothing and digital hardware saw a positive 45.2% increase "reflecting an greater focus in these areas".
In 2008, zavvi is planning on opening new stories in Belfast, Camberley, Bristol and Liverpool, as is to rebrand its current shops with new window and in-store displays.
It is also to relaunch its website.
Douglas concluded: "For a business that launched on 14 September with a brand new name, Christmas trading has been excellent".


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Rabbi Benjamin Yudin, spiritual leader of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fairlawn, New Jersey, called in live from Israel to JM in the AM to discuss the Torah portion of Eikev. Shabbat Shalom!
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MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 12, 2013) - CML HealthCare Inc. (TSX:CLC) (the "Company" or "CML"), a leading community-based provider of laboratory and medical imaging services in Ontario and British Columbia, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive Vendor Supply and Capital Equipment Service Agreement (the "Agreement") with Sysmex Canada, Inc. ("Sysmex"), the Canadian subsidiary of Sysmex Corporation, a global leader in clinical laboratory systemization and solutions. Under the Agreement, CML will purchase three Sysmex HST-N™ Total Hematology Automation System lines which will be fully implemented and operational by the second quarter of 2013. The Sysmex automated hematology lines will provide CML with the benefits of enhanced clinical opportunities, increased capacity, and improved operational efficiencies.
"Our decision to acquire Sysmex's automated hematology system is consistent with our stated strategy of focusing on core competencies in laboratory services. Sysmex will allow us to increase our capacity and improve efficiency while reducing our annual operating costs," said Thomas Wellner, President and CEO of CML. "In addition to its world-class technology, Sysmex is an ideal partner in providing a comprehensive set of resources and services including implementation, performance monitoring, and ongoing learning. We are proud to utilize Sysmex's advanced clinical diagnostic tools to establish leading practices at our central laboratory to help us support the delivery of quality, timely, and cost-effective healthcare to Ontarians."
"As a leading manufacturer of hematology analyzers, Sysmex is committed to advancing healthcare. We do this by taking a strong look at our customers' needs from a forward-looking perspective. Our ability to anticipate change, coupled with our long-term stability, enables us to provide hematology solutions that help clinical laboratories such as CML improve their operations in response to market demands," said Carl Rocha, General Manager, Sysmex Canada, Inc. "We trust our reliable automated hematology solutions will enable CML to achieve its goals while withstanding increasing workload demands and testing complexity of an aging population," said Rocha.
Sysmex offers reliable, scalable automation and IT solutions that provide opportunities for broad spectrum hematology laboratories to increase efficiency for laboratories of varying volumes. Sysmex's decision support software for clinical laboratory, Sysmex WAM™, complements this scale of testing by managing and standardizing clinical results across a single testing site, or as an enterprise-wide solution to connect multiple testing sites or sites with multiple systems.
About Sysmex Canada, Inc.
Sysmex Canada, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sysmex America, Inc., is the Canadian headquarters of Sysmex Corporation (Kobe, Japan). Sysmex is a world leader in clinical laboratory systemization and solutions, including clinical diagnostics, automation and information systems. Serving customers for over 40 years, Sysmex focuses on extending the boundaries of diagnostic science while providing the management information tools that make a real difference in clinical and operational results for people worldwide. For more information about Sysmex, please visit www.sysmex.com.
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Johan Schück Makes The Same Observations As Me-Only Later
First, last week he noticed that the U.S. economy may already be in a recession, an observation I made in early December.
Now, he notices that with regards to monetary policy America is more interventionist than Europe, an observation similar to the one I made two year ago how while the micro economic policies of America is better (less interventionist) than Europe's, its monetary policy have been worse (more interventionist/inflationist) than Europe's. Although, they don't practice this consistently, in theory European central banks don't even see it as their job to stabilize the business cycle. Although they again in practice often in fact do try to intervene to prop up the economy they don't do it as much as the Fed do. As Schück puts it:
"In the United States, there is a belief in the possibility of controlling the business cycle, while the experience from Europe is that activism of that kind rarely pays off. That is not consistent with the general belief that Americans want to limit the role of government and the attitude is the opposite among Europeans"(Translated from Swedish by me)


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Creating SUSE Linux Device Drivers
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By Simon Nattrass
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With the open nature of Linux and the ever-growing abundance of new devices, driver development is an excellent string to add to your bow. If you're ready to make that step from user application development to ?kernel hacking? this paper will point you in the right direction.
The content and examples contained within are targeted at a 2.4 kernel. Changes and updates required for the recent 2.6 are the subject of a future paper.
- Kernel Module Introduction
- Compilation
- Configuring the Kernel Source
- helloworld.c
- Device Drivers
- File Operations
- Driver Registration and Removal
- sample_driver.c
- Try it Out! - sample_driver.c
Kernel Module Introduction
Modules are programs which may be loaded and unloaded into and from the kernel dynamically. This is an evolution of the traditional Unix kernel, which required all functionality to be statically bound to the kernel, so support for that newfangled audio card required, you guessed it, a new kernel (well a recompilation).
It is important to note that although the fundamentals of writing kernel modules are not that dissimilar to application development, there are some important distinctions. When developing applications in user space, the kernel provides a buffer of safety ensuring that your code does not mistakenly hog the processor preventing other processes from executing or trample on the memory of another process, etc. Unfortunately this buffer does not extend to kernel space, and thus responsible and thoughtful development is a must.
In user space, libraries and associated functions such as libc for printf(), etc., are abundant. Once in kernel space, these libraries are unavailable and modules may only link against the kernel itself. As such system calls (as opposed to library) calls will be utilized heavily, which in user space are hidden behind common libraries such as libc.
Kernel development puts the developer closer to the metal without some of the graces taken for granted in user space.
The compilation of kernel modules is similar to that of conventional applications with a few caveats.
There are some new symbols which need to be passed to the compiler:
|The kernel header files included are to be part of a kernel module and not a user process.
|We're building a kernel module.
|Ensure that the module and kernel versions are compatible. Modules loaded into an incompatible kernel could cause problems.
Flags to pass to the compiler:
|Modules are expected to be optimized for use with inline functions within the kernel, thus the -O2 flag is used.
|It is advisable to turn on all warnings with the -Wall option.
|A module is not an independent executable but instead will be linked against the kernel at insertion time.
|The include path for the header files from the kernel tree, usually /usr/src/linux
Combining all of the above gives:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -O2 -Wall -I/usr/src/linux/include -o module.o -c module.c
|Configuring the Kernel Source
Before we can start building against the kernel source, and since the source shipped with SUSE represents a multitude of architectures, we need to ensure that the kernel source at /usr/src/linux/ is the same as the running kernel. This can be done in several ways, the most painless being to run make cloneconfig, which expands /prog/config.gz to /usr/src/linux/.config and then runs make oldconfig.
After that, make dep is run to gather the dependencies.
# make cloneconfig # make dep
Let's dive in and write our first kernel module, the ubiquitous HelloWorld! Which we will then dissect.
/* * helloworld.c */ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> int init_module(void) { printk("<1>Hello World!\n"); return 0; } void cleanup_module(void) { printk(KERN_ALERT "Goodbye World...\n"); }
- #include <linux/module.h>
Every module requires this included.
- #include <linux/kernel.h>
This is required for the macro expansion of printk().
- int init_module(void)
Every module requires an entry point. Upon loading, this is the first portion of code to be called. init_module() is expected to return a non zero value if this function fails.
- printk("<1>Hello world 1.\n");
This is the kernel logging mechanism to report information on warnings, errors, etc. Each printk() statement has an associated priority from <0> to <7>, with lower numbers indicating the severity of the message. To aid readability each level has an associated name, defined in kernel.h
- void cleanup_module(void)
As every module requires an entry point, so does it require an exit point. This function is responsible for any housekeeping code prior to the module unloading.
Having examined the code, let's compile and insert the resulting module into the kernel.
$ gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -O2 -Wall -I /usr/src/linux/include -o helloworld.o -c helloworld.c
With the module successfully compiled, it can now be inserted into the running kernel with insmod, ignoring any messages relating to tainting the kernel.
# insmod helloworld.o # Warning: loading helloworld.o will taint the kernel: no license
The module insert can be confirmed via checking /proc/modules which describes all the currently loaded modules.
# less /proc/modules | grep helloworld helloworld 320 0 (unused)
As a further confirmation /var/log/messages can be examined for the Hello World!from the printk() function.
# tail /var/log/messages ... July 27 14:38:07 exelon kernel: Hello World! #
Lastly the module is removed from the kernel via the rmmod command, which again may be verified by examining /var/log/messages for the output from the printk() in the cleanup_module() function.
# rmmod helloworld # tail /var/log/messages ... July 27 14:38:07 exelon kernel: Hello World! July 27 14:41:53 exelon kernel: Goodbye World... #
So there we have it, our first (although admittedly limited) kernel module.
|Device Drivers
One particular type of kernel module is the device driver. These typically provide the interface between a hardware device and the kernel. Although it is not necessary that the driver must control a piece of physical hardware, the majority do. Implementing drivers as dynamically loadable modules removes the need for the kernel to be aware of all possible devices, resulting in a leaner kernel with less bloat. As new devices come along, new modules are written which may then be loaded into the existing kernel.
Device drivers fall largely into two classes, block devices and character devices.
- Block devices allow random access, reading data in multiples of a specified block size. Access is buffered.
- Character devices stream data sequentially, with access being unbuffered.
Each driver has an associated major and minor number associated with it. The major number describes a specific device while the minor number describes an instance within this device. The remainder of this document will examine those drivers representing character devices.
|File Operations
Character and block devices are accessed via the file system and as such present a set of related operations as defined by file_operations structure (linux/fs.h). This structure holds a set of pointers to callback functions implemented by each driver, which define the operations supported. The file_operations structure defines every possible operation, although not all need to be implemented by the corresponding entries in the structure set to NULL.
|Change read/write position within a file
|Retrieve data from the device. Failure returns -EINVAL
|Write data to the device. Failure returns -EINVAL
|Used by filesystems to examine directories
|Inquire if a device is readable or writable or in some special state
|Issue device-specific commands or -ENOTTY if command is not supported
|Memory mapping from device address space to user space
|Open the device
|Flush buffered data
|Release data (device close)
|Synchronize memory data state with device, write out dirty data in the buffer.
|Notify the device of a change in its FASYNC flag
|Lock a file (filesystems)
|gather read operation
|Scatter write operations
When assigning elements to the structure there are two possible syntaxes available, the C99 variant and the GNU C variant, the former being more favorable in terms of portability:
C99 syntax struct file_operations fops = { .read = device_read, .write = device_write, .open = device_open, .release = device_release };
GNU C syntax struct file_operations fops = { read: device_read, write: device_write, open: device_open, release: device_release };
|Device Registration and Removal
Character devices are required to register with the kernel, informing the kernel of the supported file operations.
int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name, struct file_operations *fops);
Registration returns a non negative return value on success. Providing zero as the major number provides dynamic major number assignment and the kernel returns the next available value in the range as the return value. The name is only used for something readable to be registered in /proc/devices, and fops describes the file_operations structure the driver implements.
Having registered the device with the kernel, the occasion will arise when the device will require to be removed. To avoid removing a device which may still be in use, with open connections etc... a reference counter to the device is used to monitor the device usage. This counter is controlled via three macros from linux/modules.h:
- MOD_INC_USE_COUNT: Increment the use count.
- MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT: Decrement the use count.
- MOD_IN_USE: Display the use count.
Only when a module has a usage count of zero may it be removed from the kernel.
With the theory under our belt, it's time to advance helloworld.c to a more functional device driver. sample_driver.c represents a fictional device which can read and write data, to and from an internal data store.
/* * sample_driver.c */ #include <linux/module.h> #if defined(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) #define MODVERSIONS #include <linux/modversions.h> #endif #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/wrapper.h> #include <asm/io.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> /* * Function forward definitions for the file_operations structure */ static int sampledriver_open(struct inode *, struct file *); static int sampledriver_release(struct inode *, struct file *); static ssize_t sampledriver_read(struct file *, char *, size_t, loff_t *); static ssize_t sampledriver_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *); /* * Assign the elements to file_operations */ static struct file_operations fops = { .read = sampledriver_read, .write = sampledriver_write, .open = sampledriver_open, .release = sampledriver_release }; /* * Fake data pool for our device */ static char* data_pool; static int data_pool_size = 0; /* * Initialization */ int init_module(void) { struct page *page; // get one free page for the data pool data_pool = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL); if ( data_pool == NULL ) { return -ENOMEM; } page = virt_to_page(data_pool); // reserve the page and fill it with garbage mem_map_reserve(page); memset(data_pool, 0x00, PAGE_SIZE); // register the module with the kernel int major = register_chrdev(0, "sample_driver", &fops); if (major < 0) { printk (KERN_DEBUG "registering driver failed\n"); return major; } printk(KERN_ALERT "kenel assigned major number: %d to sample_driver\n", major); return 0; } // init_module() /* * Cleanup */ void cleanup_module(void) { struct page *page; // unreserve our page used for the data pool and free it page = virt_to_page(data_pool); mem_map_unreserve(page); free_page((unsigned long) data_pool); printk(KERN_ALERT "goodbye World...\n"); } // cleanup_module() /* * Open */ static int sampledriver_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { printk(KERN_ALERT "opening sample_driver\n"); MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; // increment the usage count return 0; } // sampledriver_open() /* * Release */ static int sampledriver_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { printk(KERN_ALERT "releasing sample_driver\n"); MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; // decrement the usage count return 0; } // sampledriver_release() /* * Read * * Read data from internal pool */ static ssize_t sampledriver_read(struct file *file, char *buffer, size_t length, loff_t *offset) { int bytesRead = 0; if (data_pool_size > length) { bytesRead = length; } else { bytesRead = data_pool_size; } // copy the requested data from kernel to user space if ( copy_to_user(buffer, data_pool, bytesRead) ) { // copy failed printk(KERN_ALERT "failed to write to device\n"); return -EFAULT; } data_pool_size -= bytesRead; file->f_pos += bytesRead; printk(KERN_ALERT "read %u bytes from device\n", bytesRead); printk(KERN_ALERT "data pool is now: %u bytes\n", data_pool_size); return bytesRead; } // sampledriver_read() /* * Write * * Write data to internal pool */ static ssize_t sampledriver_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer, size_t length, loff_t *offset) { // copy the requested data from user to kernel space if ( copy_from_user(data_pool, buffer, length) ) { // copy failed printk(KERN_ALERT "failed to write to device\n"); return -EFAULT; } data_pool_size += length; file->f_pos +=length; printk(KERN_ALERT "written %u bytes to device\n", length); printk(KERN_ALERT "data pool is now: %u bytes\n", data_pool_size); return length; } // sampledriver_write() MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Simon Nattrass"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("A sample driver");
That's the code. Now to examine the interesting sections.
During initialization, the code allocates a single page as the data_pool (4K on Intel architectures), and registers the device with the kernel, requesting a dynamic major number assignment. Memory management at the kernel level is beyond the scope of this document, see this page for further information.
The memory grabbed by init_module() is returned when the driver is removed.
The device reads data from kernel to user space via the copy_to_user() function. After having read the data the size of the data_pool it reduced accordingly and the pointer to the next byte to read is moved.
In addition to reading, the device can write data from user to kernel space with the copy_from_user() function. Again the pool size is adjusted, as is the file pointer ready for the next byte to write.
Module Licensing etc.
A device driver is expected to repost selected meta information about itself to the kernel, such as supported license for the module. This prevents the waring relating to ?tainting the kernel? previously observed when loading helloworld.o
|Try it Out! - sample_driver.c
Having compiled the code, the module is loaded into the kernel and verified by examining /var/log/messages.
# insmod sample_driver.o # tail /var/log/messages Aug 25 14:41:03 exelon kernel: kernel assigned major number: 254 to sample_driver #
With the module loaded, we now create /dev/sample_driver with the major numbers.
# mknod sample_driver c 254 0 #
Write to the device and verify.
# cp foo.txt /dev/sample_driver # tail /var/log/messages opening sample_driver written 3897 bytes to device data pool is now: 3897 releasing sample_driver #
Read from the device and verify.
# cp /dev/sample_driver bar.txt # tail /var/log/messages opening sample_driver read 1024 bytes from device data pool is now: 2873 ... data pool is now: 0 releasing sample_driver #
Hopefully this whirlwind tour of device driver development has whetted the appetite for further research and provided a road map from which to begin. Within the bounds of this paper we have only begun to skim the surface of the subject, which is as interesting as it is involved.
- The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
- Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly
- Write a Linux Hardware Device Driver
- Beginning Linux Programming, 3rd Edition, Wrox Press
- Linux Kernel Development, Developer's Library Press
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By Jeff Price
On the other hand…perhaps, since the beginning of the music business, more artists are earning some money for the first time as opposed to a few earning less.
In the old school model, an artist got signed to a label. The label would agree to pay the artist a negotiated royalty rate on each CD sold; usually around $1.40 to $1.70 per album. The label would then advance the artist band royalties from their "to-be-earned-in-the-future-CD-sales." The artist would take this money (their own royalty money) and use most of it to record the album that the label would own and control.
If the label advanced the artist $100,000, it meant that on the first 71,000 copies of the CD sold, the artist would get no additional royalty payment as the label already gave the artist the money (100,000/1.40=71,000).
In addition to the advance used by the artist to record an album, ultimately controlled by the label, the label would also stipulate that some portion of marketing costs — out-of-house press, video production, tour support, etc. — were also recoupable advances of the band's own "to-be-earned" royalty money.
If a band did not "hit", they never earned back the advance and therefore it did not matter to the artist's bottom line if the label made $7 off an album or $.0003 from a stream — none of this money would ever make it back to the artist. It's the label that got hurt.
If the band did pick up momentum, than a label would pour more money into the project in hopes of getting it to hit. More money pouring in means more money being advanced, means more CDs need to sell in order for the band to recoup. Once again, there is no band royalty flowing back to the artist. As a matter of fact, well over 98% of artists on major labels never recouped and never earned another band royalty aside from the initial advance and marketing spend. For the artist, it almost just did not matter how much the label made off the sale of the music; they simply never recouped back their advance, and they would make their money in other ways (gigs, merch sales, publishing income for the songwriter etc).
If a band became one of the fewer than 2% that became a "hit" (think Lady Gaga, U2, Led Zeppelin, etc), they would recoup and most likely get paid their band royalty unless their contract was up at which point they would demand HUGE royalty advances to "re-up" (i.e. re-sign) with the label. For these elite few that actually do recoup and receive artist royalties, it is quite possible the amount they earn from streams will be less than the amount they would earn from a full $17.98 list price CD sale.
And this system existed for the few elite artists that got signed and were let into the system. The other 99% of artists, tens of millions of artist around the world, never even got a chance to earn anything off the sale of their music… until now.
For the first time in the history of this industry, music stores like Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, Rhpasody, Napster, eMusic, Rdio, the forthcoming Google service and all the other digital music stores have the ability to "stock" ALL music by ALL artists, and they have the desire to do so. And for the first time there is now a way for all artists to have their music available for consumers to find, listen, share, discover, stream and buy.
With access to distribution, for the very first time, hundreds of thousands of artists are now earning money from the sale or stream of their music that in the past would have earned nothing.
Now add to this the fact that today's artist is also often the record label, the songwriter, the performer and the publisher. Each one of these categories also earns money — each distinct from the other — that flows back to the artist/songwriter/performer/label/publisher. Yes, each one of these income streams might be the equivalent of some change found under a couch cushion, but together they start to add up. Now add one more upside: more artists are becoming famous. Once you are famous, there are even more income streams that can be created: merchandise deals, gig income, fan club membership, on-line gig performances (like stageit.com), ad money, sponsorships, stem sales and so on.
I don't see the big icebergs melting, rather I see them floating into new seas with new ways to make money. I also see many more artists making some money, and in some cases, more money than ever possible in the old model.
Most radical shifts bring change, how you view and address this change (glass half empty or half full) has a lot to do with whether you succeed or fail.


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John M Kamens has been arrested after allegedly robbing and raping an Athens, Georgia woman who earlier in the evening he had dropped off home whilst working as an Uber driver.
The man's arrest has once again stoked fears and concerns with respect to an aggravated trend which has seen a series of male Uber drivers continuing to take liberties and assault either physically or sexually female passengers.
Patrick Aiello, moonlighting Uber driver rapes female passenger.
According to a report via onlineathens, Kamens, 40 provided a ride to the 28 year old Uber customer on December 14 only to later return in the evening to burglarize her home and sexually assault her.
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'Evidence indicates the burglary was with the intent to commit the felonious assault.'
'The offender was identified by investigators using information provided by the victim and through investigative follow-up.'
Upon his arrest on Wednesday, our collective hero was charged with aggravated sodomy with force and first-degree burglary.
At the time of his arrest Kamens had no prior convictions on his record and now remains held at Clarke County Jail without bail being set.
The crime has once again raised questions with the legality of ride sourcing company, Uber, along with newcomers Lyft and Sidecar who are finding themselves being challenged by taxi companies, who allege its use of drivers who are not licensed to drive taxicabs is unsafe and illegal.
In their defense, such outlets assert that they perform criminal and driving background checks on potential drivers. Assertions that some openly ridicule, citing instead an often lax policy which has seen outlets like Uber in the past hire convicted sex offenders, identity thieves, burglars, kidnappers.
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Why Hugh Howey Is Wrong. Sort Of.
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Yeah, most writers will fail at this.ReplyDelete
But sorry to say, it's every writer's CHOICE not to keep up a high-volume production schedule. It's not self-publishing's fault. Nobody owes anyone a living, as J.A. Konrath rightly points out.
You had a little success with your first book.
That wasn't luck. If Select doesn't work, you find new ways to get your book out there. You write in a hot genre. That's what I had to do. My horror/thrillers weren't selling so I started writing erotica and romance.
I enjoy writing and it was a fun game to see if I could do it...nobody forced me. I wanted to write full-time and I wanted to make money.
People fail at this because they think that the way they WANT the world to be should make it so. Hey, if I love writing poetry, I should be able to make a living writing my damn poetry, right???? Doesn't the world owe me that???? Oh, yeah, and I should be able to only write one book of poetry a year and still succeed. I mean, why not? Isn't that fair?
Self-publishing is part of an industry. We are at the mercy of what the public wants to buy and read, and then the question is whether we can make money providing it to them.
Hugh Howey points out that self-publishers can do so, just the same way (or better) than traditional authors always have.
That is the point.
He never promised you or any writers success doing whatever you wanted to do.
Amen, gniz. The point Hugh Howey always tries to drive home is, "find joy in the act of writing and publishing your story. Not in becoming a bestseller." Self-publishing is not an automatic ticket to success. There are thousands of writers who had their work published traditionally who watched their book sink into obscurity and felt just as badly, David. If you make turning your selfpub book into a bestseller your goal, that's like buying your first lottery ticket and expecting to win a million right away.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comments. I wasn't trying to say that I expected easy riches or anything like that. What I'm trying to say is that if self-publishing success is as hard, if not HARDER, to achieve than traditional publishing success.ReplyDelete
Or put another way, if you self-publish a book, and you sell a hundred copies or whatever, then is that any different or better than never having published at all? Or is the fact that the book is out there enough?
It's funny that JA Konrath frequently claims those who seek traditional deals have fallen victim to pride - presumably the pride in being validated by the antiquated publishing industry. But isn't that what self-publishers are doing, too? If your book is like the average, and you've sold enough maybe to buy a nice dinner (do the math and see how far below minimum wage you are), then what itch are you scratching other than pride or vanity?
If you are TRULY writing for the love of writing and nothing else, why hit that Publish button at all?