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Keep this goal in mind as you read on: solid income and growth with minimal risk and no catastrophic losses. Just tuck it in the back of your head.
Subscriber Brian A. wrote sharing a common concern:
"I subscribe to your newsletter for the purpose of diversifying my portfolio as well as taking more responsibility for my investment future. … I look at the soaring S&P and Dow and wonder if both are appreciating from strong fundamentals, or from the Fed's easy money policy. … I listen to my broker who spouts out information of a resurgence of manufacturing coming back to US soil and (says) equities are the place to be for the near future. The other side spouts banks are insolvent, businesses are closing, (and) if it wasn't for the Fed propping things up we would be in a recession. Some say we are in a recession. I would like to see you devote an article on the subject of the 'don't worry be happy' crowd verses the 'doom and gloom' crowd."
Well, Brian, ask and ye shall receive. My recommendation, as always, is to look at the data, decide for yourself which camp you fall in—if either—and invest accordingly.
Folks who think things are turning around generally point to statistics published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). These numbers—the unemployment and inflation rates and the Consumer Price Index in particular—are used by the Federal Reserve to make or change policy. Those decisions affect the economy and the stock market.
If you swallow these numbers, you can point to a trend line going up. You may not think "happy days are here again," but you could make a case that we are headed in the right direction.
In contrast, the "gloom and doom" crowd point to data from statisticians like John Williams at Shadow Government Statistics, who make a good case against the accuracy of official government data. Williams' alternatives to the CPI, official inflation rate, and unemployment rate paint a much different picture.
Unemployment offers an easy example. When a person stops looking for work, the CBO no longer considers him unemployed. I guess that means if everyone just stopped looking, the unemployment problem would be solved.
Many in the gloom-and-doom crowd distrust the government and believe its statistics are produced for the benefit of politicians.
The gap between these two camps is wide. We recently published a special report called Bond Basics, offering safe ways to find yield in the current economy. Shortly after releasing our report, I attended a workshop with one of the top bond experts at a major brokerage firm. As I listened to his excellent presentation, I realized we agreed on many points: interest rates seem to be going up, the value of laddering and diversification, etc. We also agreed that investors (not traders) should buy bonds for one purpose: safe retirement income.
This speaker, however, recommended that baby boomers and retirees buying individual bonds only buy investment-grade bonds and ladder them over an eight-year period. Each year some would mature, and retirees would then replace them with other eight-year bonds. In a rising-rate environment, retirees would eventually catch up he claimed. This expert mentioned inflation only once, remarking that it is "under control" and should remain low.
I went to the company's website and discovered that five-year AAA bonds were paying 1.92%, and ten-year bonds were paying 3.41%.
Then I went to Shadow Government Statistics. The official inflation rate as indicated by the CPI is hovering around 1.8%. However, using the same method used for calculating the CPI in 1990 (the government has changed the formula many times), the current rate comes to approximately 5.5%.
Now, it only makes sense to invest in long-term, high-quality bonds if you truly believe the government's CPI statistics. If, however, you that suspect inflation isn't quite so under control—even if you don't believe it's 5.5%—why would you invest in an eight-year bond that's virtually certain to lose to inflation?
The same logic applies to unemployment numbers. The official number is around 6.7% and coming down. Alternative calculations show a double-digit unemployment rate that is rising. Should you invest heavily in stocks now? It depends again on whom you believe.
How should this affect your approach? If you hold the majority of your nest egg in cash or low-yield investments, you are losing ground to inflation. On the other hand, going all in the market if you are uncertain that the economy is improving could be equally disastrous.
A word of caution: do not let fear of getting it wrong immobilize you! It can be a very costly mistake. Keep learning and researching until you find investments you are comfortable with.
Let's look at the best- and worst-case scenarios with long-term bonds. If you follow the advice of a bond salesman, you'll buy long-term corporate bonds. Ten-year, AAA-rated bonds currently yield around 3.41%. Assuming the bond trader is correct and inflation is not an issue, the best you could earn is 3.41%. Is that enough to get excited about when you factor in taxes and the risk of inflation?
In a recent article, I shared an example of a hypothetical investor who bought a $100,000, five-year, 6% CD on January 1, 1977. If he'd been in the 25% tax bracket, his account balance after interest would have been $124,600 at the end of five years. That's a 25.9% reduction in buying power because of high inflation during that five-year period.
In that light, 3.41% does not look quite so appealing. Yes, inflation was particularly high during the Carter era, so apply a bit of common sense to the example. Nevertheless, what has caused inflation in the past? In general terms, governments spending money they don't have and printing money to make up the difference. Argentina is a timely example of this folly.
These concerns are why our research team and I paired up to produce Bond Basics. We think there are better risk and reward opportunities than long-term bonds available in today's market.
Investing in stocks is a different story. We cannot keep up with inflation and provide enough income to supplement retirement needs with bonds alone (unless you have a huge portfolio and are willing to buy higher-risk bonds). That's why our team picks stocks with surgical precision. We run them through our Five-Point Balancing Test, recommend strict position limits, diversify across many sectors, and use appropriate stop losses.
Our premium publication is named Miller's Money Forever for good reason. We want to help you grow your nest egg in the safest possible manner under any market conditions. Neither the happy days nor the doomsday crowd can predict the future, so we prepare for all possibilities.
You've likely heard the refrain, "Inflation or deflation? Yes." It's a favorite of our friend John Mauldin. With that, baby boomers and retirees are forced to become kitchen-table economists and to sift through statistics that may or may not be accurate.
I haven't been shy about my opinion: I don't think the economy is improving, so retirees need to risk more than they would like in the market. That's why our Bulletproof Income strategy prepares for all market possibilities as safely as possible.
Whom should you believe? Well, is the person speaking trying to sell you something? Stockbrokers trying to garner your business tend to be optimistic about the economy. If someone is trying to sell gold or foreign currency investments, they are likely to cite a history of rising inflation and explain how their product can protect you. It doesn't mean either is wrong. And yes, the same point applies to the humble authors of investment newsletters.
At Miller's Money we share the reasoning behind every recommendation we make. We want our subscribers to know as much as we do about every pick—pros and cons. If you agree with our reasoning, act on our advice. If not, or if you have additional questions, ask us or sit tight for another pick. Never invest in something you don't understand or are uncomfortable with no matter who recommends it.
The bottom line is you have to read, learn, do your own research, and make your own judgments. Listen to all sides of any argument, and then do what you think is best.
What could be more important to baby boomers and retirees than protecting their money? Take the time necessary to teach yourself. In time you will become more comfortable trusting your own judgment. If you were savvy enough to make money, you are savvy enough to learn how to invest and protect it. Give yourself credit where it's due.


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Cités Unies France (CUF), "French United local governments" is a federation of French local and regional governments involved in international relations and, in particular, in decentralized co-operation. Its members become automatically members of the world organisation United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), based in Barcelona.
Cités Unies France was created in 1975; its president is M. Ries, Mayor of Strasbourg.
Cités Unies France aims at promoting local democracy, peace, international solidarity, and a strong and genuine participation of the population in local affairs. It also firmly believes cities and other levels of local and regional government can only win by exchanging on challenges that face them all over the world.
Cités Unies France is:
a network of 3 000 French local governments engaged in international cooperation with their counterparts worldwide;
more than 30 years of experience in facilitating the engagement of French elected local officials and their staff in international cooperation to share expertise and experience with their peers in public matters;
a branch of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), a world-wide organization of local authorities, promoting democratic local self-government;
an advocate of city diplomacy;
several partnership agreements with local government associations abroad ;
a platform of "country-groups" dedicated to a number of focus countries offering a unique opportunity for local governments to develop, together with their partners abroad, programs that tackle complex local challenges;
a team of 20 people in day-to-day working relations with international and national bodies dealing with issues that are of interest for local governments;
a website (www.cites-unies-france.org) visited more than 200.000 times a year.
Since 1992, French legislation has authorized all local authorities to sign agreements with foreign counterparts, provided that they do not conflict with French national commitments (treaties, in particular).
A substantial and growing number of local and regional authorities are involved in this new mode of action: thousands of partnerships exist with over one hundred countries throughout the world. Within the field of international co-operation, Cités Unies France provides information and advice, organises working groups on specific issues, and co-ordinates more than twenty "country-groups", bringing together French local governments in order to facilitate exchange of information and experiences, and foster a closer co-operation between its members. These "country-groups" contribute to a better understanding of the cultural, social, economic, and political environment of their foreign counterparts and are chaired by a local elected official.
CUF maintains a close working relation with French national authorities - it has a three-year agreement with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, French NGOs, several institutions in the field of international co-operation, and the European Commission.

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text: Established in 1991 by founder Stephen Banham, Letterbox undertakes typographic projects. Whilst many of these are commissioned by clients, taking the form of identity systems, signage systems, book design and font customization, others are initiated by the studio and are more research-led such as publications, forums, lectures and exhibitions. These can be viewed at Letterbox.


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Hi Hayley
I tried barefoot water skiing in the summer and I wasn't quite able to get up, but I was close! I was doing it off a boom hanging from a water ski boat so training wheels style. I know I need more upper body strength and I think being able to pull up my own body weight would help but I don't know how to progress to pull ups and chin ups. I currently cannot do them and I worry about hurting myself in the process of trying.
Have any suggestions?
Thanks :)
Barefoot water skiing...brave girl!! And you are right -- an improvement in your upper body strength will definitely help you progress in your ability to barefoot ski; push ups and pull ups are two of my favourite exercises to build upper body strength as well as tone your arms, back, chest and abs. Click here for a refresher on how to work up to doing a push up and follow these guidelines below to help you work towards completing a pull-up with ease.
Just like push ups, women have a tough time doing a pull-up (or chin up) for two reasons: we are genetically weaker in our upper bodies than our male counterparts and we carry a lot more weight in our hips and legs, making it even harder for our arms to pull our bodies up. So, step number one is improving our power to weight ratio, meaning you need to improve your upper body strength and power and decrease your body's total weight. When you are at the gym, focus on strengthening your shoulders, arms, chest, core and all of the muscles in your back.
Push-ups are great but try seated rows, bent over rows, lat pull downs and back extensions on a stability ball. Stick to 10-12 repetitions and work up to 3-5 sets making sure you fatigue by the last repetition. You also need to work on keeping your weight down so diet and cardiovascular fitness are also very important in your ability to complete a set of pull-ups.
There are three ways I progress my clients to pull-ups. The first is using one of my favourite tools: the TRX. This piece of equipment allows you to strengthen your body as if you were doing pull-ups yet you can adjust how much of your own body weight you are lifting by adjusting where you position your feet. The farther away from the handles you position your feet the more load you will place onto your upper body.
I also like to use pull-up bands which are strong rubber bands that you wrap around the pull-up bar and then position under your feet which aid you in lifting your body up. They come in many different resistances so as you become stronger you can progress to using bands with less resistance. Even if you already are capable of doing a pull-up or two, these bands are great to help you do sets of 10 or more.
Eccentric pull-ups are another great way to improve your upper body strength.
There are two types of muscular contractions: concentric (which is when your muscle contracts to lift something like a dumbbell in a bicep curl) and eccentric (which is the muscle resisting a load such as when your arm lowers a dumbbell in a bicep curl). In an eccentric pull-up start how you would normally end a pull up and slowly lower yourself down in a count of three to five seconds. You can either have a partner help you get up to your starting position or you can place a box underneath the pull-up bar which you can step up on to reach your starting position. Start with one set of 10 eccentric pull ups and work up to three sets, taking a short rest in between each set.
A winter focusing on these exercises will guarantee you a successful barefoot water ski next season.
Attached - Luke Wilson running with his dog last week.


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A Football Centennial
July 28th, 2009 | by Malamalama Contributor | Published in Features, July 2009, Multimedia | 5 Comments
Two years after the College of Hawaiʻi was founded, players took to the football field for the first time, defeating McKinley High School 6–5 before 2,500 fans at Oʻahu College (now Punahou School) in 1909. For the next seven seasons, the "Fighting Deans" played high school, club and military teams.
Since then, the opponents and fields of battle have changed as dramatically as the uniforms, and the team's fortunes have ebbed and flowed under the influence of war, economics and public support.
The Mānoa athletics department invites the public to help celebrate the football centennial this fall. It will be the focus of this year's Murphy's Pigskin Pigout, scheduled Aug. 20, as well as a celebration event to be scheduled. Watch the UH athletics website for information.
Mālamalama offers this condensed history, adapted from the Warrior Football Media Guide.
Intercollegiate play
Raymond Elliot coached the University of Hawaiʻi's first intercollegiate game against the University of Nevada (Reno) in 1920, a 14–0 Christmas Day loss at Moʻiliʻili Field.
The next year brought Otto "Proc" Klum and the beginning of the "golden age of UH Football." As head coach and athletics director until 1939, the "Mānoa Fox" compiled an 84–51–7 record. Highlights included UH's first victory over a collegiate opponent, the 25–6 1922 Christmas Day triumph over Pomona College at Punahou's Alexander Field and the team's first "road" trip—via ocean liner—to play Pomona at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in 1923.
In the final game of that season, a rainbow appeared over the gridiron late in the game against Oregon State. The Deans scored shortly thereafter and held on to win, 7–0 and reporters started calling UH teams the "Rainbows."
Whenever a rainbow appeared from the Mānoa mist over the UH campus, it was said, Hawaiʻi could not lose.
Under Klum's guidance, Hawaiʻi produced the "Wonder Teams," which went undefeated in 1924 and 1925, outscoring their opponents, 606–29 in 18 games. The Rainbows defeated Colorado, Colorado State and finally Washington State—the only team to score more than six points against UH—20–11 on New Year's Day, 1926. (The 2009 Warriors play the Cougars Sept. 12 in Seattle.)
Among the Wonder Team stars were the famed "Four Horsemen of Mānoa," Bill "Doggie" Wise, Johnny Morse, Eddie Fernandez and Theodore "Pump" Searle.
The Grass Shack and a world war
In 1926, newly built Honolulu Stadium, a 24,000-seat facility in Moʻiliʻili became the Rainbow's homefield. In a 101–0 score win over Healani that season, halfback Fernandez had one of the best single-game performances in UH history, scoring six times on runs, punts and an interception.
Four years later, UH played its first night game at the stadium, defeating the Honolulu Athletic Club 28–0 before 9,500 fans.
A member of UH's undefeated 1934 team, 5-foot-5, 140-pound back Thomas Kaulukukui of Hilo helped lead the Rainbows to a 14–0 shutout of California in the New Year's Day Classic (later renamed the Poi Bowl).
The next year, Kaulukukui was nicknamed the "Grass Shack" by legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice and became UH's first All-American. His 103-yard kickoff return during a 19–6 loss to UCLA at the Los Angeles Coliseum remains a record.
On the morning after the Rainbows defeated Willamette in front of a sold-out Honolulu Stadium crowd of 24,000, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Football was on hold through the 1945 season.
UH returned to the gridiron in 1946 and entered the NCAA under head coach Kaulukukui. Hawaiʻi finished the season 8–2, culminating in a 19–16 victory over Utah in the Pineapple Bowl.
The team began to travel by air, making the journey to the West Coast in an unheard-of nine hours. To cut down on costs, teams stayed on the U.S. mainland for at least two weeks at a time.
Following the 1949 season, Harry "Clown" Kahuanui became the first UH player to be invited to the East-West Shrine Game and was named an honorable mention All-American by United Press International.
Kaulukukui coached until 1951, accumulating a record of 34–18–3. He was chosen as a charter member of the National Football Hall of Fame Association.
Ups and downs
Maui native Hank Vasconcellos coached the Rainbows through nine seasons and some of the program's highest and lowest moments.
1954 ended with a humbling 50–0 loss to Orange Bowl-bound Nebraska in front of a crowd of 20,000 fans at Honolulu Stadium. In the rematch the next season, the 40-point underdog Rainbows defeated the Cornhuskers (and 95-degree heat and 26 mile-per-hour winds) before a crowd of 23,000 at Nebraska Stadium.
Six years later, the UH Board of Athletic Control, made up of faculty, student and alumni members, voted to abolish the football program due to lack of finances.
Football returned to intercollegiate competition in 1962 at the urging of new Athletics Director Young Suk Ko. The program went through five coaches that decade, including former player Jim Asato and offensive guru Clark Shaughnessy, who led Stanford to a Rose Bowl victory. Phil Sarboe coached UH's first all-collegiate seaon in 1966, and then bolted for northern California. His top assistant, Don King coached a 6-4 season, and then quit.
Success and turmoil
In six years as head coach, Dave Holmes guided his teams to a 46–17–1 record. He still ranks as the all-time leader in UH winning percentage (.718). He coached Hawaiʻi to a 10–7 road victory over 50-point Pac-8 favorite Washington in 1973 and a No. 5 ranking in the Division II poll. But following that season, Holmes resigned due to team turmoil.
Former player and assistant coach Larry Price became head coach for the next three years. During his tenure, UH became an NCAA Division I member, changed its nickname to the Rainbow Warriors, introduced the Hula-T formation and on Sept. 13, 1975, christened the newly-built 50,000-seat Aloha Stadium (losing to Texas A&I, 43–9, before 32,247 fans).
Dick Tomey, a UCLA assistant was hired to replace Price in 1977. During his 10-year tenure, he guided Hawaiʻi into the Western Athletic Conference, drastically upgrading the schedule by playing the likes of Nebraska, Oklahoma, USC, Iowa and Michigan.
Highlights including a heart-breaking 13–12 loss to Brigham Young, which went on the win the national championship, in 1984, and selection of defensive end Al Noga as UH's first Associated Press first team All-American 1986.
Wags and triple options
After Tomey left UH for Arizona, assistant Bob Wagner took over. His spread offense or "triple option," which featured two slotbacks and one fullback, frequently placed UH among the top rushing teams in the country.
The Rainbow Warriors shocked the Iowa Hawkeyes, 27–24, behind running back Heikoti Fakava's three touchdowns in 1988. After just two seasons, Wagner was named WAC Coach of the Year; led the Rainbow Warriors to their first major bowl game, the Jeep Eagle Aloha Bowl; and became the first UH coach to head an all-star team in the Hula Bowl.
In 1992, behind quarterback Michael Carter, Hawaiʻi posted its first bowl game victory, defeat of Illinois 27–17 in the Thrifty Car Rental Holiday Bowl. UH finished the season ranked No. 20. Three-time All-American kicker Jason Elam was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the third round.
During Wagner's nine seasons as head coach, Hawaiʻi defeated nationally ranked rival Brigham Young three times and Carter became one of a handful of NCAA Division I quarterbacks to rush and pass for 1,000 yards in the same season.
Disappointment and hope
Wagner was fired following consecutive losing seasons, replaced by former San Francisco 49ers assistant coach Fred vonAppen in 1996. During his three seasons, the Rainbow Warriors posted a 5–31 record and suffered their first 0-12 campaign.
June Jones restored pride, bringing his explosive run-and-shoot offense from the NFL. His 9–4 record in 1999 was the best by a first-year UH head coach. The Warriors finished the season as WAC co-champions and defeated Oregon State, 23–17, in the Jeep Oahu Bowl.
In 2001 the Warriors handed Brigham Young a 72–45 defeat on national TV and finished 9–3, but was snubbed for a bowl game. Wide receiver Ashley Lelie became the school's first first-round draftee, selected by the Denver Broncos.
Jones led the Warriors to bowl games over the next three seasons and the school's first top-25 ranking since 1993. Quarterback Timmy Chang became the NCAA all-time passing leader with 17,072 yards in 2004, and Colt Brennan set 19 NCAA records and won the Sammy Baugh Trophy as the nation's top quarterback in 2006.
The 2007 team went undefeated for a 12–0 regular season, captured the program's first outright WAC championship and fell to third-ranked Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Heisman contender Brennan was drafted in the sixth round by the Washington Redskins.
Jones departed for Southern Methodist University and was replaced by defensive coordinator Greg McMackin, who guided the 2008 Warriors to 7–6 regular season (against perhaps the most difficult schedule in school history) and 49–21 loss to Notre Dame in the Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl.
The Warriors open the 2009 season Sept. 4 against Central Arkansas. See the schedule at the athletics website.
Tags: athletics, centennial, football, July09 issue, UH Manoa


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* Running existing example codes from this [https://github.com/beagleboard/am335x_pru_package repository]
* Running existing example codes from this [https://github.com/beagleboard/am335x_pru_package repository]
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Proposal for Implement a REPL interpreter for PRU
Student: Vedant Paranjape
Mentors: Kumar Abhishek, Pratim Ugale, Andrew Henderson
Code: [N/A]
Wiki: https://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/2020Proposal/VedantParanjape2
GSoC: [N/A]
This project is selected for GSoC 2020
Completed all the requirements listed on the ideas page. the code for the cross-compilation task can be found here submitted through the pull request #138.
About you
IRC: vedant16
Github: https://github.com/vedantparanjape/
School: Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
Country: India
Primary language : English, Hindi, Marathi
Typical work hours : 10AM - 7PM Indian Standard Time
Previous GSoC participation: I find embedded pretty interesting, given I have experience with ESP32, I think I will be able to excel in this project. This is the first time i am participating in GSoC
About your project
Project name: Implement a REPL interpreter for PRU
- The PRU is a dual core micro-controller system present on the AM335x SoC which powers the BeagleBone. It is meant to be used for high speed jitter free IO control. Being independent from the linux scheduler and having direct access to the IO pins of the BeagleBone Bhilack, the PRU is ideal for offloading IO intensive tasks.
- Programming the PRU is a uphill task for a beginner, since it involves several steps, writing the firmware for the PRU, writing a loader program. This can be a easy task for a experienced developer, but it keeps many creative developers away. So, I propose to implement a REPL based control of the PRU, hiding all the low level things behind the REPL and providing a clean interface to uses PRU.
- This can be achieved by implementing a language on top of the PRU Assembly. It will directly compile down to PRU assembly. This could also be solved by implementing a bytecode engine on the PRU, but this will result in waste of already limited resources on PRU. With this approach, both PRU cores can be run independent of each other.
- Implement a language for PRU which compiles down to PRU Assembly.
- Solve issues on am335x_pru_package github.
- Update PRUSpeak to work with the latest kernel.
Implementation Details
- Implement a language for PRU which compiles down to PRU Assembly.
- Language Name: SimpPRU
- Statically typed language
- TAB or 4 spaces for indentation
- Primitive data types
- `int`
- `bool`
- Binary operators
- `/` divide
- `*` multiply
- `+` plus
- `-` minus
- Unary operators
- `&` unary and
- `|` unary or
- `~` unary not
- logical operator
- `and` logical and
- `or` logical or
- `not` logical not
operator precedence, as arranged
- Arithmetic operations
- `int` and `float` can be operated together, `int` will be promoted to float
- `bool` cannot be operated with anything other than `bool`
- `bool` only supports unary operators
- Variable assignment
- `<data_type> <identifier> := <value>`
- int value := 34
- if elif else loop
if <condition_to_be_evaluated>: <do something> elif <condition_to_be_evaluated>: <do something> else: <do something>
- for loop
for <identifier>, <condition>, <action to loop completion>: <do something>
- functions
<return type> <function name> ( variable name, ...): <do something>
int add(int a, int b): return a + b
- Each functions must always return something, since void data type is not included
- Register Access
bool read_register(register_name, bit_to_be_read) bool write_register(register_name, bit_to_be_written, bool value_to_be_written)
- Implementing utility functions like GPO/GPI control, delay, setting Pin out and automatically setting pinmux.
- Solve issues on am335x_pru_package github
|May 4
|Proposal accepted or rejected
|June 1
|Pre-work complete
|Coding officially begins!
|June 8
|Milestone #1
|June 15
|Milestone #2
|June 22
|Milestone #3
|June 29 - July 3 18:00 UTC
|Milestone #4 (Phase 1 evaluations)
|July 10
|Milestone #5
|July 17
|Milestone #6
|July 24
|Milestone #7
|July 27 - July 31 18:00 UTC
|Milestone #8 (Phase 2 evaluations)
|August 3
|Milestone #9
|August 10
|Milestone #10
|August 17
|Milestone #11
|Completion YouTube video
|August 24 - August 31 18:00 UTC
|Final week
|Students submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation
|August 31 - September 7 18:00 UTC
|End of Session
|Mentors submit final student evaluations
Experience and approach
I have decent experience in C++, C and Python. I have done several projects involving embedded systems like ESP32, I well-versed with freeRTOS. I recently did a project on ESP32, in which I used ESP to control and plot PID loop running on the embedded device, plotting the values on a python GUI. Other than that I have developed firmware for a 3 DOF arm based on a ESP32 custom board. I did a internship with a embedded deviced startup, where I built:
- Built TCP network stack for embedded IoT Devices
- Implemented Synchronous TCP server using Boost.Asio(C++) and Boost.Thread(C++)
- Implemented a tool to calculate round trip time(RTT) of tcp packets
I actively contribute to open source and do a lot of mini projects throughout the year, you can find my several more interesting projects at my github page
I believe that if I get stuck on my project and my mentor isn't around, I will use the resources that are available to me. Some of those information portals are listed below.
- https://git.ti.com/pru-software-support-package
- https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/PRU_Training:_Hands-on_Labs PRU Guide
- https://markayoder.github.io/PRUCookbook/ Mark Yoder's cookbook is a excellent guide
- Derek Molly's beagle bone guide provides all the information needed for getting up and running with my beagle.
- The technical reference manuals provided by TI on am3358 and am5729 are the best source
- Processor SDK Linux Software Guide is a good reference material
- Currently interfacing with the PRU requires a lot of makefile manipulation, kernel drivers and stuff. There's no working around that for more advanced applications but if you can get something simple up and running quickly with a REPL, that'd be great.
- -Abhishek Kumar


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MIAMI — In its new role as a warmup to the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl became a series of wind sprints.
Long gains were the rule and hard hitting was the exception as the AFC beat the NFC 41-34 on Sunday night.
Light showers fell for much of the game, stirring memories of a rainy Super Bowl in Miami three years ago. But uniforms remained mostly spotless, with more pushing and shoving than tackling.
"It's different. It was like 7 on 7," NFC linebacker Brian Orakpo said. "Everybody came out here trying not to get hurt and give the fans a good show"
Matt Schaub of the Houston Texans threw for 189 yards and two AFC scores, and was chosen the most valuable player.
"It's a game you watch growing up as a kid and wonder if you could ever be in," Schaub said. "To actually be a part of it is incredible."
Aaron Rodgers also threw two touchdown passes, and NFC teammate DeSean Jackson had two scoring catches.
From the standpoint of ticket sales, this year's new venue and slot on the league calendar was a success. The crowd of 70,697 was the largest for a Pro Bowl since 1959 in Los Angeles.
Spectators included Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and other Pro Bowl players from the Super Bowl teams. Manning and the Indianapolis Colts will face Brees and the New Orleans Saints on the same field next Sunday in the biggest game of the season.
The NFL sought to transform the Pro Bowl into a bigger game by playing it before the Super Bowl for the first time. In a one-year experiment, the league also moved the game from Honolulu, its home since 1980.
The stadium was half empty by the third quarter, perhaps partly because of the rain and temperatures in the 60s. It was sunny and 82 in Honolulu at game time.
Did the weather dampen the players' enthusiasm for Miami?
"It's beautiful. It's paradise," NFC receiver Steve Smith said. "Too bad it's not Hawaii."
Eager to host more big events, the Dolphins have proposed adding a roof that would cover fans as part of stadium improvements that could cost $250 million or more. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says the upgrades are needed if South Florida is to remain competitive in bidding for future Super Bowls.
Nearly 40 percent of the players originally selected for the game didn't play. One of the AFC replacements, David Garrard, threw for 183 yards, including a 48-yard touchdown to Vincent Jackson.
"It's so awesome," Garrard said. "One of my goals coming into the game was to just be relevant and show all the people who said, 'What is he doing in there? The Pro Bowl has dropped off a few pegs,' that I do belong."
Vincent Jackson made seven catches for 122 yards. Chad Ochocinco had a 40-yard reception but didn't do any kicking after practicing placements and punts for the AFC during the week.
"That's OK. It was fun anyway," Ochocinco said.
DeSean Jackson scored on a 7-yard pass from Rodgers and a 58-yard pass from Donovan McNabb, his regular quarterback with the Eagles.
"I'm just out here having a great time," Jackson said. "And at the same time I'm trying to put out a little effort."
There were plenty of other big plays. Joshua Cribbs caught a punt at the goal line and returned it 65 yards. A penalty negated LaMarr Woodley's 64-interception return for a touchdown.
"I slowed up to get a little camera time," Woodley said.
The AFC totaled 517 yards and the NFC 470. Both teams threw for more than 400 yards.
Redskins linebacker London Fletcher, a 12-year veteran playing in his first Pro Bowl, found the AFC's offensive approach exhausting.
"They came out with a bunch of screens and had us running around," Fletcher said.
But there were no complaints from Fletcher's teammate on defense, first-time Pro Bowler Justin Smith of the 49ers.
"The pace is nice," Smith said. "You don't have to worry about working too hard."
The game will return to Honolulu in 2011 and 2012, but the league hasn't decided whether to hold those games before or after the Super Bowl. The Pro Bowl site for 2013 and beyond hasn't been determined.
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I just finished reading Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy, and thought I'd share a few of his bits of wisdom with you. (I read the first edition, not the revised edition pictured here.)
Rule: One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.
Rule: You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities.
The Law of Force Efficiency says that, "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing."


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CNN's Lemon Bullies Conservative Guest On-Air, Who Lashes Out Afterward
CNN anchors have been turning to advocacy. Don Lemon didn't show a hint of journalistic integrity on Sunday's Newsroom as he ripped into conservative guest Will Cain and lectured him on the offensiveness of Mitt Romney's "gift" remarks, joining liberal journalist LZ Granderson in the leftist ambush.
"This is an astounding interview," Cain remarked, realizing he was outnumbered by two liberals. "I'm a little taken aback by the chorus of surprise. I really am. From both of you guys." Cain lashed out on Twitter after the ambush.
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After Romney said the Obama campaign did well handing out gifts to its base and turning them out to vote, Lemon called that "drinking the haterade" and "the height of insulting." And after Cain said Romney's analysis wasn't inaccurate, both Lemon and Granderson were flabbergasted.
"I just cannot believe you said what he [Romney] said was accurate," Lemon snapped at Cain. "What he said was the height of insulting. It was so insulting and so condescending." Lemon even cast Cain as a denier of facts.
"And it makes sense to -- it's just like the numbers and the polls all made sense if you're doing some fuzzy math. It doesn't make sense, Will. I'm sorry. Thank you," Lemon lectured him.
When Cain attacked President Obama for pandering to his base, Lemon defended President Obama's strategy of "tailoring their message for one group or another" and noted that "Governing means governing all of the people."
"No, that's an amazing contradiction you just said within two sentences of yourself, Don," Cain shot back. "If you're governing for everyone, then why would you craft policies that only apply to some people?" He didn't get much of a chance to say more than that.
Granderson offered his own half-baked political analysis. "No, all I'm saying is that Maine is filled with white people and he [Romney] didn't even win Maine, dude. Maine is filled with white people. He didn't win Maine."
"This is eye-opening. For everyone," an astounded Cain said at the end.
A transcript of the segment, which aired on November 18 on CNN Newsroom at 6:24 p.m. EST:
WILL CAIN: I've said this this week, Don. When you look at Mitt Romney's comments, first of all, I think you can easily say it's not very sportsmanlike. You just lost and now you're saying all the reasons that you lost when really it's just –
DON LEMON: We call it hatin' – drinking the haterade. That's what it is.
CAIN: Right, right. However, though, I say this as well, that what Mitt Romney had to say was also not inaccurate. It wasn't politically advantageous, but the Democratic Party has been crafting policies –
LEMON: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
LZ GRANDERSON: Did you just say it wasn't inaccurate, Will?
LEMON: It wasn't inaccurate? What are you talking about?
GRANDERSON: Did you just say it wasn't inaccurate?
CAIN: First of all, I think you guys' two reactions is outstanding. I mean, it's just amazing. Yes, I was saying that --
GRANDERSON: I think your lack of reaction is amazing.
CAIN: All right. I'm a little taken aback by the chorus of surprise. I really am. From both of you guys. Yes, his statement is accurate. The Democratic Party has been crafting policies that are tailor-made for various constituencies, whether or not that is, breaks you up by gender, age, ethnicity. Absolutely those policies have been crafted to win over votes and appeal to every demographic. Now here's –
LEMON: Isn't that the point of an election, Will? I see where you're going with this, but that's the point of an election.
CAIN: No.
LEMON: That is a winning strategy. If the Republicans had done it on their side, that would be a winning strategy.
CAIN: Great. That's an awesome political analysis. But I'm talking about governance here and what's a better way to govern. If you want to win elections, it's absolutely wonderful to pander to every single group you can hope to get votes from.
LEMON: Hold on, hold on. Hold on. L.Z, I will let you handle this.
GRANDERSON: You know what, Will?
LEMON: I think – but the thing is, Will, is that governing –
CAIN: This is an astounding interview.
LEMON: Hold on, let me finish, Will. Let me finish. Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
CAIN: Excuse me, wouldn't that mean --
LEMON: And so – if someone is tailoring their message for one group or another, that's what they should be doing. That's what a leader of the free world should be doing.
CAIN: No, that's an amazing contradiction you just said within two sentences of yourself, Don. If you're governing for everyone, then why would you craft policies that only apply to some people?
LEMON: I didn't – someone was talking in my ear. I didn't hear the end of that. Hold on, Will. Say the end of your sentence again.
CAIN: If you're governing for everyone, why would you craft policies that only apply to some people?
LEMON: I don't think that's what I – that's not what you said. You said what he said was correct.
GRANDERSON: Will, here's the situation.
CAIN: You're right. I did say that. I think you need to rationalize these two things. I'm not inconsistent here.
GRANDERSON: Listen, Will --
CAIN: I'm listening, L.Z.
GRANDERSON: – President Obama is not handing out gifts, all right? He's being a President. Now, the only thing I found really consistent with this is that Romney has been essentially hating on half the country for almost two years. I didn't necessarily find his comments out of line with everything else he has talked about. We've been characterizing them as gaffes. I've been trying to say this is who he really is. He really believes half the country is a bunch of moochers.
Now, I think what's really interesting is that, if you strip away all the areas, the urban areas that's predominantly minority, right? He still lost a whole bunch of white people, too. The man is refusing to take personal responsibility, which is the height of irony when you think about what he went around and talked about with 47 percent of the people not being personally responsible for their own lives.
Here he lost an election, mostly because of the fact that he was a bad option. The GOP knows he was a bad option. That's why they fought him so hard during the primary, because he was a bad choice. But they ended up with him. They reluctantly had to get behind him. And what you're seeing now are the chickens coming home to roost. That's all that you're seeing.
CAIN: All right. I know you've got to run. I know you've got to run.
LEMON: Listen, we've got to go.
CAIN: I know you do. There's so many things to respond to here --
LEMON: Will, I love you Will. I just cannot believe you said what he said was accurate.
GRANDERSON: I can, because he's cut from the same cloth, man.
LEMON: What he said was the height of insulting. It was so insulting and so condescending.
CAIN: Let me make a suggestion.
LEMON: And to say – hold on. And to say that – it's just insulting to a whole bunch of people. I can't believe that you would even think that way.
CAIN: Okay. So let me make a suggestion, since you guys happen to know me and it kind of -- since you know me and you happen to know the kind of statements I make, let me explain them. I know you've got to run on to the next thing, but I can assure you, that what I said is highly logical and makes sense.
LEMON: It makes – it's highly logical and makes sense to you.
LEMON: And it makes sense to -- it's just like the numbers and the polls all made sense if you're doing some fuzzy math. It doesn't make sense, Will. I'm sorry. Thank you.
CAIN: Oh now you're lumping me in with people that didn't believe the polls.
LEMON: It does not make sense. And it's insulting. Tough love. Thank you, guys.
GRANDERSON: No, all I'm saying is that Maine is filled with white people and he didn't even win Maine, dude. Maine is filled with white people. He didn't win Maine.
CAIN: This is eye-opening. For everyone.
-- Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center


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Air Force Times – by Rick Maze
A stopgap spending bill unveiled Monday to keep the government operating through Sept. 30 would not undo sequestration, but it would give the Defense Department flexibility in how to make $46 billion in reductions.
The House version of the so-called continuing resolution, needed to keep the government operating beyond March 27, represents a bit of pragmatism as lawmakers come to realize they cannot reach a compromise on deficit reduction and spending priorities if they face one crisis deadline after another.
It also represents acceptance of the $86 billion in across-the-board cuts known as sequestration, ordered March 1 by President Obama, as a likely down payment on what further spending cuts ultimately are made.
The bill, HR 933, still requires the $46 billion sequestration cut this year, but it gives DoD more leeway to move money from account to account. It is scheduled to pass the House of Representatives this week; the Senate is working on its own version of the bill that could make additional adjustments in non-defense programs, which would require lawmakers to reach a compromise to avoid a government shutdown when the current continuing resolution expires in late March.
Agreement on a funding bill for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1 does not mean lawmakers are done fighting, just that they're preparing for their next and larger battle over the 2014 budget, which the Obama administration expects to send to Congress on March 24.
Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., the House Appropriations Committee chairman, said the bill he has introduced "will avoid a government shutdown on March 27, prioritize DoD and veterans programs, and allow the Pentagon some leeway to do its best with the funding it has."
"It is clear that this nation is facing some very hard choices, and it is up to Congress to pay the way for our financial future," Rogers said in a statement. "But right now, we must act quickly and try to make the most of a difficult situation."
The bill includes $518.1 billion in the base defense budget, roughly equal to the fiscal 2012 budget, plus $87.2 billion for overseas contingencies. The total is subject to the $46 billion sequestration cut.
Along with routine funding and improved transfer authority, the bill prepared by Rogers includes a final end to funding for the stop-loss allowance created by Congress to compensate service members whose military service was involuntarily extended so they could serve in Iraq or Afghanistan, and a prohibition against DoD charging any enrollment fee for Medicare-eligible retirees in the Tricare for Life program.
Pentagon health care officials have proposed a new $100 annual enrollment fee for Tricare for Life, but Congress has balked at the idea.


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We've heard many attacks on public employees this year, even though, like most Arizonans, they've struggled with rising workloads and stagnant pay levels. Still, the Goldwater Institute claims public unions covering employees like teachers, police and firefighters are costing state and local governing entities $550 million above market compensation.
Given the way their calculation was derived, they should be far more circumspect before critiquing the Grand Canyon Institute's finding that public employees are undercompensated by 6 percent.
For the Grand Canyon Institute, we ran a thorough analysis of Arizona public employee compensation relative to private compensation, and find that when you do your best to compare workers with the same experience, education levels, gender, ethnicity and size of employer, that on an hourly basis public employees in Arizona receive 6 percent less in hourly compensation than their private sector counterparts, with state employees fairing worst at a
10.4 percent deficit and local government workers falling short by 3.4 percent. This includes pay and benefits such as health insurance and retirement fund disbursements.
Unlike the Goldwater analysis, our data set includes a random sample of 10,000 demographically detailed Arizona workers in both the public and private sector. The Goldwater Institute relied on statewide averages, so Arizona was but one point among all the states. In addition, Goldwater inexplicably failed to control sufficiently for other factors that economists routinely use, namely experience and education, as public sector workers have higher levels of education and somewhat more experience than those in the private sector.
When we added more appropriate controls to Goldwater's model, we found rather bizarre results, where more education meant less pay or more experience meant less pay. We expect this result is due to using statewide aggregates rather than individual workers, combined with the unique combination of specialty occupations like police officers, who typically only require a high school degree and are frequently also members of unions and have no fair private sector comparison. Bottom line, aggregate data with Arizona as one data point doesn't give you reliable estimates.
We also object to the Goldwater Institute's Nick Dranias' criticisms of our model. Dranias says we do not include paid leave. He's mistaken. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey includes all pay received, including vacation, sick time, and holiday pay for our 10,000 randomly selected full-time workers.
Dranias also criticizes our controlling for employer size. This is part of our apples to apples comparison. Would you expect the director of marketing for the Goldwater Institute to be paid the same as the director of marketing at US Airways? We don't, so we include a variable for how large the employer is. So, our public-private differential is independent of employer size influences.
Finally, Dranias suggests that controlling for high school, associate, bachelor's, master's, professional and doctorate degrees is not good enough, even though the Goldwater Institute analysis didn't bother to do so. Dranias argues some degrees, like engineering, have a higher payoff than a degree like education. We're not aware of any dataset that economists routinely use that includes specific degrees earned, yet despite that limitation, these datasets work remarkably well in showing payoffs to education across large numbers of individuals.
Unions may well exert upward pressure on wages, but in Arizona, Goldwater and others are exaggerating that impact. In Arizona, public sector employees choose whether or not to belong to their unions; membership is not required. The state also has left collective bargaining as an option, not a mandate for employers. Local jurisdictions may voluntarily meet with union representatives as good human resource policy, but are not required to do so.
Arizona does face real fiscal challenges in the years ahead, but blaming hard working public employees, whether unionized or not, for those challenges is misplaced.
— Jeffrey Keefe and Dave Wells are Grand Canyon Institute fellows who wrote the report, "Are Arizona Public Sector Workers Overcompensated?" Keefe is an associate professor of labor and employment relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, and Dave Wells is a senior lecturer with a doctorate in political economy and public policy at Arizona State University.


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New York and New Jersey were not prepared for Superstorm Sandy. That's costing them tens of billions of dollars for homes and roads, sewer treatment and power plants -- on a seashore that will never be the same. As the waters rise and storms get larger, are California's coastal communities ready for the inevitable? What's being done in Newport Beach and Ventura? What's not being done in Malibu? Also, LA Unified has lost its bid Race-to-the-Top dollars from Washington, but Green Dot charters are still in the running. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, what if the US goes over the "Fiscal Cliff?"
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Call it the battle of the sexes: When it comes to shedding unwanted weight, men have a distinct edge. True, men are genetically wired to possess more calorie-burning muscle mass and less body fat than women, and women have more fat cells than men, a genetic adaptation designed to prepare their bodies for childbirth. But experts say that guys also approach dieting with a different mentality than women—a mindset we can adopt and use to our advantage. Read on to discover how to lose weight like a man.
RELATED: Are Men Healthier Than Women?
Men are less likely to be emotional eaters. Women have a fundamentally complex relationship with our bodies, and so our relationship with food is equally complex. We look at a burger and think, "That's bad," or "I shouldn't eat that" or "I'm so stressed—I need a treat." Men look at a burger and think, "Oh yum, a burger."
"Women's hormonal makeup is far more complex than men's, and hormones can have a huge impact on emotion and food," says weight loss coach Jonny Bowden, a board-certified nutritionist with a master's degree in psychology and the author of nine bestselling books on health, healing, food and longevity.
Women tend to give credence to the expression "eating one's feelings." Crappy day at work? Irked with the BF? Time to bust out the Ben & Jerry's. Men, though, are less likely to turn to food for emotional comfort. They often find other, more productive ways to cope with emotions that don't involve rifling through the pantry.
Men are better stress managers. "High stress hormones can have a drastic effect on weight," Bowden says. "Stress management is key to any diet program." Women, who tend to occupy caretaking roles more frequently then men, are more susceptible to high-stress levels. "I would guess that there is a greater tendency for female caretakers to neglect their own needs, even more so than men," says Bowden. Between kids and work and household chores, women try to do it all. But make a point of carving out a few minutes of "me" time every day. Take a walk, relax in a hot bath, read a book—allow yourself to just tune out and recharge, even if it's just for 10 minutes.
Guys fuel up on real food. Ladies, it's time to put away the rice cakes and low-calorie salad dressing. To lose weight like a man, harness the power of protein to build lean muscle and ward off hunger. Men don't attempt to satisfy their cravings with cardboard-tasting diet foods; instead, they fuel up on hunger-squashing, protein-rich food. "Eat like a cowboy," Bowden says. "Eat real foods like whole eggs and wild salmon and grass-fed beef, and eat all of the vegetables you can scarf down. This style of eating will guarantee weight loss."
Men train dirty. Scan any gym room and you will immediately spot a trend: While women are doggedly slaving away on the elliptical or treadmill, men flock to the weight room in droves. If you are constantly glued to the cardio machine, you miss out on the fat-scorching, muscle-building benefits of weight lifting. "Building muscle mass stokes your metabolism and burns fat," Bowden notes. "Aerobics is not the best way to lose weight. It never has been." So the next time you hit the gym, take a cue from men and saddle up to the weight rack.
Men diet less frequently—but more effectively—than women. Be honest: How many times have you psyched yourself up to try the latest diet fad, only to jump ship after a matter of days? Many of us have been dieting on-and-off for our entire lives, creating an endless cycle of frustration and disenchantment. It becomes somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy: Because we are so accustomed to dieting and seeing unsatisfactory results, we might embark on a new diet plan half-heartedly, expecting it to fail.
Men, for whom dieting is often a one-time affair, are more likely to approach their new diet pragmatically, with a definite goal in mind. "Men kind of grit their teeth and tackle their diet like they're going to defeat it," Bowden says. To lose weight like a man, formulate a plan of attack and dive right in. Commit to your diet plan 100 percent and don't let small setbacks deter you from your goals.
Men aren't diet perfectionists. Women, more so than men, adopt a dangerous "all or nothing" mindset when it comes to their diet. If a woman experiences a diet slip-up and, say, eats a cookie, she is more likely to think, "Well, I already blew it," and use that as license to binge. Men are more likely to applaud their small weight loss triumphs, even if progress is slow-going, whereas women might throw in the towel early because they aren't seeing the drastic results they're expecting.
At the end of the day, losing weight is a challenge, for both of the sexes. "There is a tug of war going on, whether you're a man or a woman," Bowden notes. "It's an uphill battle, and you have to use whatever resources you can to get through the journey."


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This page contains a list of audio recordings and podcasts prepared for marketing the Fedora 11 release.
General interviews
- Jack Aboutboul interviews Jesse Keating, Fedora Release Engineer -- 28:38 -- Ogg Vorbis (13 MB) | MP3 (26 MB)
- Jack Aboutboul interviews Spot Callaway, Fedora Engineering Manager -- 21:46 -- Ogg Vorbis (16MB) | MP3 (20MB)
- Henrik Heigl interviews Christoph Wickert for FUDCON/Linuxtag 2009, in German --10:07 -- Ogg Vorbis (3MB)
- Max Spevack interviews Dimitris Glezos and Diego Búrigo Zacarão, Fedora Localization -- 15:00 -- Ogg Vorbis (11MB)
Fedora Community portal
The Fedora Community, going live June, 2009, is one-stop place to a finger on the pulse of Fedora. In this two-part podcast hosted by Máirín Duffy with Fedora Community creators Luke Macken and John Palmieri, you'll get the inside scoop on what the Community is, where it is going, and what you can do to help!
Part 1: Learn about the mission of Fedora Community, about how to get started, about how package maintainers' lives will be made easier, and about how you can get involved! Runtime: about 17 min.
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Kernel Mode Setting
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FreedomPop launches free 4G service in beta
If you're willing to put down a refundable deposit for a modem, the startup will give you 500MB of free data per month.
A while back, startup FreedomPop declared ambitious plans to give every American the chance to get online for free. The company's beta subscription program is now live.
Via one of two modems -- a Photon mobile hotspot or a Bolt USB dongle -- customers can use up to 500MB of data per month without billing. That's not much, but it could be adequate for email and careful browsing.
The hardware is technically free, according to the company. However, to get your hands on the free data allocation, you need to put down a "fully refundable" deposit of $49 for the USB stick or $89 for the hotspot modem.
Users can up their free data allotment in two ways, one of which is to refer friends in return for an extra 10MB per month per sign-up -- a bonus that lasts as your friends remain active on the network. Alternatively, "special promotional offers" such as surveys or watching ads can also boost a monthly allowance up to a maximum rate of 5GB.
FreedomPop will charge users $10 for each gigabyte they go over their allowance.
The low data limit may not be attractive to many customers, but FreedomPop's COO Steven Sesar says that the firm plans to lift the restriction in the future. The referral system will eventually be joined by "value added services" on social networks, a VoIP service, and potentially a digital-currency scheme where unused megabytes can be given to friends.
In addition to the freemium service, data hogs can sign up for additional features --such as the "Speed Plus" service which grants access to the company's full mobile speeds on its WIMAX network for $3 a month. Two other prepaid plans are available at 2GB's worth of data for $18 a month, and 4GB for $29 a month. For now, you can expect download speeds between 4 and 10Mbps.The beta service is open to everyone in the U.S., but as the company can't offer nationwide yet, there is a limit on the amount of customers it will currently support. FreedomPop is limited to Clearwire's WiMAX coverage for now, but plans to move to the Sprint LTE network next year.
The wireless hotspot and USB are currently available to order on the company's website. The hotspot can connect up to eight devices, whereas the USB can be ran on PCs without additional software. For Apple device users, sleeve modems for the iPod Touch and iPhone 4/4S can be pre-ordered and are due for launch in the coming weeks. Each sleeve is $99 and gives your device wireless capabilities over the restrictions of local Wi-Fi.
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Fifth Third Private Bank Donates More Than $68,000 to National Charities in Honor of Clients
Fifth Third Private Bank Donates More Than $68,000 to National Charities in Honor of Clients
Contributions Made to Selected Organizations as Part of Annual Client Experience Survey
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As part of its annual client experience survey, Fifth Third Private Bank, a division of Fifth Third Bank, donated $68,450 in honor of its clients to six national charities. The donation was made to thank clients for feedback they provided during the survey process. The charities that received donations this year included: the American Cancer Society, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc., the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.
Fifth Third Private Bank clients were invited as part of the online survey to select one of six charities to whom the Private Bank would donate $50 in their honor. Over the past three years, Fifth Third Private Bank has been able to donate more than $200,000 to many worthy charitable organizations as part of this effort.
"We are focused on listening to our clients' feedback to understand how we can continue to address their changing needs through our suite of products and wealth management services," says Phil McHugh, executive vice president and head of Investment Advisors for Fifth Third Bank. "Our annual client survey also provides us a chance to thank our clients by making a donation to the charity that is most meaningful to them."
Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Company has $117 billion in assets and operates 15 affiliates with 1,324 full-service Banking Centers, including 105 Bank Mart® locations open seven days a week inside select grocery stores and 2,401 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina. Fifth Third operates four main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, and Investment Advisors. Fifth Third also has a 39% interest in Vantiv Holding, LLC. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of September 30, 2012, had $300 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $26 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Investor information and press releases can be viewed at www.53.com. Fifth Third's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ® National Global Select Market under the symbol "FITB."
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The Mets are signing somebody! Cue the applause!
I'm clapping, and not just politely, to my mild surprise. I'm all for the Mets securing the services of better players, and I'm fairly certain Curtis Granderson is better than what they had before they got him. Perhaps because I didn't expect the Mets to actually get him — or anybody of note — I wasn't all that enthused when he became The Guy a few days ago, a transformation that seemed rooted in his ordering a celebrated plate of salmon and the sense that with everybody else doing something, why weren't we?
Now that something's been done, what the hell, I'm more or less on board. The more should be obvious, given what Granderson's accomplished in the not altogether distant past. Why the less? Well…he was severely limited by injury last season; he's beyond traditional "prime" age; he's guaranteed maybe one year too many for our comfort; he's changing addresses to dimensions that might not really play to his strengths; and I am plagued by the nagging feeling that if something can go wrong for the Mets, it will go wrong for the Mets.
Those were my concerns before Curtis Granderson said yes to the Mets. With a reported $60 million committed over the next four years, those are still my concerns.
But we did something. We got a better player than anything we had in his neck of the field when 2013 ended and 2014 approached. The economics wouldn't be worth talking about, given that economics have blowed up real good throughout baseball, except these are the Mets and budgetary implications aren't just the stuff of lip service. I'm still in the dark about whether paying Granderson an average of $15 million a year over the next four years will represent an untenable burden in the Land of Wilpon.
I didn't worry about those things when Mike Piazza, Pedro Martinez and Johan Santana were all lavished in riches for what were considered, in their day, luxurious long-term deals. I never complained about their lengths, either, not even when they crossed into albatross territory. Those guys were each signed to do more than merely "something". Piazza (seven years) and Santana (six) were convinced, respectively to stay with and join contenders and, to my mind, did all they could do up front, making their back-end decline the unfortunate cost of doing serious business. Pedro's four years seemed excessive, as they were tendered at one of those rare moments in the sport when sanity had seeped into executive thinking and almost no starters were being signed for more than three years at a time. Pedro was marquee-level Pedro for only his first season-and-a-half, but that's what he had to be when he had to be it most, and his presence and performance made a massive difference in the big Met picture he entered.
Granderson is not the kind of megastar those guys were. The Mets don't point and click on such upscale merchandise anymore. But Curtis — first-name basis OK? — is star enough in this market and, I'll say again, he's an upgrade in the post-Byrd world the Mets had been living in. If Granderson gives us a couple of seasons akin to what Byrd gave us over five months of 2013, and does it from the left side, that will be highly valuable. Of course it won't be as cost-effective as Byrd's output was, but when we're focused on the games, we're rarely calculating price unless someone expensive is exhausting our patience.
Which inevitably brings us back to if something can go wrong it will go wrong or, to use the convenient Met shorthand, Jason Bay. That isn't fair to Granderson, no matter that Baseball-Reference's comps suggest the two outfielders hold very similar statistical profiles. They're different people and different players, even if the circumstances of their arriving as Mets feel of a piece. By December 2009, the Mets didn't really know what they were doing, so they defaulted to doing something. I kind of thought buying Bay would work. It didn't. Now that I'm spooked that grabbing Granderson won't work, maybe it will.
How's that for insightful analysis?
Let's go out on a limb and decide Granderson won't be Piazza 2000 but won't be Bay 2010, either. Let's assume Granderson is simply a pretty decent version of Granderson while he's 33 and 34 in the first two years of contract. Let's assume that's better than running Andrew Brown into the outfield, to name a low-profile survivor of 2013 who started 27 games in left or right. Let's assume that means maybe not as many homers runs as he popped into the infamous short porch slightly to our north but a Byrd-plus figure in the upper 20s. Let's throw in his established glove, his extra-base power and whatever you want to assign to his undisputed good-guy intangibles.
Do all that and pencil in a (presumably) healthy Curtis Granderson for a couple of very fine seasons. What does that do for the Mets in 2014 and 2015?
I don't know.
It's better than seasons that aren't very fine from a player who is less credentialed or capable. But what does it do if these are the blah Mets we expected plus Granderson? It's the same philosophical quandary I encountered a decade ago when the Mets were reported hot and heavy on the trail of Vladimir Guerrero for five minutes. (Except Guerrero was close to his all-world peak and the numbers being thrown around were period-reasonable.) All I could think was "the Mets suck…if they get Guerrero, they'll still suck, but they'll have Guerrero, and he's really good."
The Mets needed more than one guy then — even if he really was The Guy — and they need that now. Otherwise, you're talking about something along the lines of Willie Montañez coming to a dreadful Mets club in 1978, driving in almost 100 runs (which was the be-all and end-all of stats in those days) and the Mets being just a tad less dreadful than they were in 1977. Or, to borrow an example my blogging partner mentioned the other day, albeit I'm sure in a differently intended context, you have Cliff Floyd in 2003 and 2004. Floyd was a good player who had, basically, good Cliff Floyd seasons. He was productive when he played, he was held back by injuries both years and the Mets were, give or take an embarrassing contretemps here and there, as dreadful as they were in 2002. Floyd came around for a Monsta year in 2005, which dovetailed with the additions of Martinez and Beltran and the blossoming of Wright and Reyes. He was 32 and in the third year of his four-year deal. The timing was great as the Mets leapt into legitimate Wild Card contention.
A year later, Floyd was hurt again and struggled. The Mets were much better overall and you didn't really notice, if you were inclined not to want to, that Cliff wasn't truly helping the cause. It wasn't until he came up to pinch-hit in arguably the most dissected ninth inning in New York Mets history, Game Seven's in the 2006 NLCS, that I realized how little I wanted our hobbled heretofore hero up in such a stressful situation.
It always comes back to October 19, 2006, in these parts, doesn't it?
Anyway, the point, I think, is if you're gonna pay as much as the Mets are paying Curtis Granderson, you want to believe there's a high purpose to it. It was fun to watch Montañez drive in runs in '78 and it was swell to see Floyd go on a pre-DL tear in '03, but the team was still lousy. You didn't really think about pound-per-dollar production where either of them was concerned because neither of them had been meaningfully framed as The Guy in the preceding offseason, not to the extent that we were led to believe either of them would make a ginormous difference in our lives.
Granderson, as old this coming Opening Day as Floyd was in 2006, seems to be exactly that at this December juncture, but that's a function of the inflationary marketplace for available talent and probably as unfair as deciding he's Bay after Bay became a synonym for everything going wrong. Problem is that without substantially more help, the Harvey-free 2014 Mets aren't likely to contend. I wouldn't hazard a guess about what lies beyond Opening Day 2015, except that once it gets here, Granderson will be 34. If we're willing to believe in young pitching, speedy recoveries and a lack of prohibitive financial constraints, it's not unreasonable to dream we might really make a run at a playoff spot by 2016 and be honest-to-goodness championship timber by 2017.
At which point Granderson will be 35 and 36 and be owed an average of $15 million annually and still employed by those wonderful folks whose last half-decade has been brought to us by Bernie Madoff.
Is there enough in the till to find enough help to make Granderson more than just an enhanced 2013 Byrd while we're killing time wandering the competitive desert? Does this front office have the skill to parlay finite resources into infinite improvement? Did the plucking of Byrd and LaTroy Hawkins constitute the bulk of their luck for this decade? Is Granderson-Lagares-Young going to be an outfield that inspires absolutely no "what outfield" jibes?
What of the other Young and first base and shortstop and the fourth and fifth starters and who's gonna close and close effectively if Parnell is slow to heal and is d'Arnaud gonna hit and will Murphy remain a Met long enough to make his date as the Mets' designated Santa Claus given that it's a role usually filled by a player who is about to be stuffed in a sack and boosted up the chimney with great care?
We're getting into the details, and the details are potentially fun when you think you're going in the right direction. I hope Curtis Granderson constitutes a one-way sign indicating a clear path to a club that every day in every way keeps getting better and better.
Obtaining a better player should seem like a surefire start toward that goal. With the Mets, though, I never can quite tell.


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Logically speaking, it shouldn't be a huge surprise. But a friend in the industry told us that they've seen H.264 1080P video playing on the iPhone, quite a few times, with no problems at all. Of course, the resolution is absurd overkill for the system's screen, but what's this mean in light of the purported iTunes 8 HD? Potentially a lot.For one, if iTunes 8 indeed goes HD, the iPhone is more than ready to run its content natively—especially considering that iTunes HD clips would probably be the same as Apple TV's (which is just 720P). That means no needing to convert HD clips for the iPhone/iPod touch (or maybe even the next generation of iPod?), which would seem more like Apple's style. And while running videos at a higher resolution than needed isn't ideal for processing or syncing times, who knows, with the right adapters, maybe the iPhone could even put this video on your HDTV. It's tough to tell exactly how Apple would handle iTunes in HD since clips would still presumably have to work on hardware like the iPod Classic and iPod nano—both of which lack the umpf of the iPhone's 620Mhz processor (though, yes, h.264 decoders in all current iPods/the iPhone handle decoding). But if the iPhone handles HD clips, that certainly buys Apple some flexibility.
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Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2701-1 krb5 -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 29 May 2013
- Affected Packages:
- krb5
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 708267.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-2443.
- More information:
It was discovered that the kpasswd service running on UDP port 464 could respond to response packets, creating a packet loop and a denial of service condition.
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For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.1+dfsg-6.
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NASA Langley Research Center Customer Story
NASA's Langley Research Center is the oldest NASA field center providing aeronautical, aeroacoustic, and structural testing and research services for NASA departments.
The Challenge
The NASA Langley Research Center conducts hundreds of tests each year designed to make aircraft and spacecraft safer and more efficient. These tests – which are performed by different teams of engineers, researchers, technicians, managers and customers – are highly collaborative, as teams need to be able to share ideas and view each other's test documentation.
NASA built a homegrown collaborative portal, aeroCOMPASS, which allowed Langley to create individual team sites for sharing and commenting on documents, notes and other research files. But after 10 years of use, the aeroCOMPASS software had become outdated and could no longer meet NASA's strict security guidelines.
With over 800 sites in use, NASA needed to move aeroCOMPASS to a new collaboration and document management environment with a similar look and feel, but using a more secure, modern architecture.
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Alfresco provides NASA users with the collaborative team sites they were accustomed to in aeroCOMPASS, but with additional security and features. A personal dashboard allows users to easily see what new documents, images or videos have been added to their project sites and what individual team members are working on. Within a team site, users can create and share lists of items and activities.
Alfresco's open source software code enabled NASA's IT department to easily customize the platform to meet its unique needs. Because the customized user interface has a familiar look and feel for end users, adoption of the platform has been quick and easy.
Alfresco integrates with NASA's OpenSSO/ OpenAM authentication system and users can leverage single sign-on technology to access the Alfresco aeroCOMPASS sites. Users outside NASA Langley are invited to a team site using the NASA account management system and authentication. This allows NASA Langley to ensure that users have the appropriate security permissions to access sensitive information.
Though Alfresco is not used to manage classified information, NASA does use Alfresco for sensitive, but unclassified (SBU) data. For these sites, managers have the ability to customize specific pages to include a bright yellow banner labeled "SBU." This notifies users that they are viewing sensitive information.
"The ability for administrators to customize at the site level has been very helpful," said Dave Cordner, the chief IT architect with NASA's Langley Research Center. "We have users who are members of literally hundreds of sites and are constantly bouncing around. This customization really pops and reminds them where they are."
The Results
Today, the Alfresco repository stores 2.5 TB of information in its document library and has over 400 users with access to the platform, a 20% growth in user adoption since its initial deployment two years ago.
"We have users coming into the system from all over including researchers, Lockheed Martin engineers, and researchers wanting to build teams," said Cordner. "When they come back to the system, all of their documents and research is there waiting for them."
Another big benefit to using Alfresco is the platform's open source flexibility and licensing model, which relieves administrators of the burden of having to manage individual users. This saves time and ensures that users can access collaborative content whenever they need it.
"We don't have to manage each user, which is great," said Cordner. "And as our activity rate increases, we can easily leverage more users and upgrade our support package."
In the future, the organization hopes to integrate the Alfresco platform with mobile technologies to provide better remote capabilities and access on mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones and Android tablets. NASA's current single sign-on environment and authentication process prevents users from leveraging Alfresco's mobile features.
"Our engineers and researchers come to Alfresco because of the team aspect and the ease of collaboration," said Cordner. "They keep their personal files on their desktop and the team documents in Alfresco, which keeps things simple and allows everyone to be more productive."


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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
WW #64 "Happy 13th Birthday"
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Stopping by from Angie's Wordful Wednesday to say hello. I've got a twelve year old son who will be turning 13 in a couple more months. We are all looking forward to it!ReplyDelete
Love the pics, they grow up sooo fast don't they?!
He looks just as happy on both occasions. Happy BD to your son!ReplyDelete
They grow up right under our noses, eh? :o)ReplyDelete
Didn't time just fly by??? My eldest just turned 13 last Saturday!!!ReplyDelete
Happy WW!
And I am sure time flew by very quickly! Great pictures and Happy Birthday to him!ReplyDelete
They grow up so fast don't they?ReplyDelete
*sigh* time flies! I LOVE that you included his first year pics its totally sweet!ReplyDelete
What a great WW Happy 13th Birthday! Happy WWReplyDelete
It goes by quickly doesn't it?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM
my oldest is almost 12. how old does he make u feel? lolReplyDelete
Happy WW and Happy Birthday to your son :)ReplyDelete
His hair is darker, but the face is the same! Hope it's a very happy birthday!ReplyDelete
I have a grandson that age. So how old do you think I feel. We have to stop the growing process.ReplyDelete
awww that is great HAPPY BIRTHDAYReplyDelete
Thirteen is a big one! Happy Birthday to your son!ReplyDelete
Those are great memories!! I hope he has a GREAT birthday:-)ReplyDelete
Great shots! Happy birthday to him :DReplyDelete
they grow way too fast...ReplyDelete
My son turned 15 the first of the month. It goes fast, doesn't it? Happy Birthday to your son!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to your son!! My son turns 8 on Saturday. =DReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Wow, time really does fly. Happy Birthday to your son!ReplyDelete
Great pictures. I am so jealous that your 1 year old smooshed his cake. LOLReplyDelete
happy birthday!!!ReplyDelete
My son is turning 13 soon... a teenager, oh no!
Here's my white water rafting adventure.
Happy WW!
It is fun, and a bit sad, to look back to how far you've come! Congratulations Mom on making it 13 years!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to your son! They grow up way too fast!ReplyDelete
GOsh... how fast they grow!! Happy WW!ReplyDelete
Time goes by way too quick! Great photos! And happy birthday to him!ReplyDelete
I hope he had a great birthday!ReplyDelete
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a handsome young man...ReplyDelete
That cake looks yummy! Hope it is a wonderful birthday celebration for all your family.ReplyDelete
Your son & I share a birthday!ReplyDelete
Sadly, I will not be 13, I left that age a looooooooooooong time ago. LOL
I hope he has a great birthday. He sure has changed, it probably doesn't feel like his first birthday was 12 years ago, it goes by so fast.ReplyDelete
Happy 13th birthday to your son, he must be so excited!ReplyDelete
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13 is a wonderful age. Yeah for your son.ReplyDelete
Visiting from SITS.
Happy birthday to him! :)ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday! He is so handsome.ReplyDelete
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Happy Birthday to your son. :)ReplyDelete
Both parties look fun! Happy B-day!ReplyDelete
He is so handsome! Happy birthday to him. :)ReplyDelete
Mine are here and here.
Happy Birthday to your son. Your little boy is now a big handsome boy.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to your son. Wishing him a great year of good health and happiness.ReplyDelete
Great pics, Happy 13. Ahhh he's a teenager!!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to your son! They sure grow up fast.ReplyDelete
Aww Happy Birthday to him!ReplyDelete


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Philadelphia, PA – Zack Cozart clubbed the go-ahead solo home run in the top of the ninth inning and the Cincinnati Reds edged the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-4, in the second test of a four-game series at Citizens Bank Park.
Facing Jonathan Papelbon (3-5), Cozart was the first man up in the frame and got a first-ball fastball right down the middle and smoked it deep into the seats in left field.
"I have to go out there and execute a better strike," Papelbon admitted.
Cozart's bomb made a winner out of Jonathan Broxton (2-1), who allowed a run on two hits in the eighth. Aroldis Chapman allowed a runner to reach third base in the bottom of the ninth, but closed the door to claim his 30th save of the year.
Todd Frazier clubbed a solo shot, while Drew Stubbs and Ryan Hanigan also knocked in runs for the Reds, who had lost seven consecutive games to the Phillies.
"It's a sign that we don't get down when adversity comes," Frazier said of the victory. "This team has done it all year."
Jimmy Rollins ripped a two-run double, Ryan Howard knocked in a run and Kevin Frandsen had three hits, including an RBI triple for the Phils, who had their three-game winning streak snapped.
Cliff Lee got the start for Philadelphia and wound up with yet another no- decision despite shutting out the Reds through six innings. The potent Cincy bats finally hung three runs on him in the seventh, but the lefty ended his night with nine strikeouts and only one walk.
The Phillies got to Reds starter Homer Bailey for a run in the first inning. Rollins reached to begin the inning thanks to an error by Brandon Phillips and Chase Utley singled two batters later to put runners on the corners. Howard then ripped one off the scoreboard in right to plate Rollins.
Cincinnati finally cracked the scoreboard in the seventh for three runs. Scott Rolen started the inning with a double and Frazier walked. Hanigan singled home Rolen and Cozart plated Frazier with a sacrifice fly. Stubbs then capped the inning with a solid line drive up the middle to score Hanigan.
But, the Phillies fought back to tie the game in the home portion of the inning. Frandsen got on with a one-out single and Erik Kratz ripped a double down the line in left to put runners on second and third before Rollins came up with a clutch two-run double to left field, tying the game at three.
Frazier, a potential Rookie of the Year candidate in the National League, gave the Reds the lead in the eighth after he launched a solo shot into the left field seats, but the Phillies battled back again and tied it in the home eighth.
Domonic Brown started the rally when he poked a two-out single into right and busted it all the way around to score on a triple by Frandsen.
Game Notes
Despite the loss, Philadelphia has topped the Reds in 12 of the teams last 14 meetings ... Tuesday was Hunter Pence bobblehead night at Citizens Bank Park despite Pence being traded to the San Francisco Giants at the trade deadline ... It was Frandsen's first triple since the 2007 season ... Lee is winless in his last 12 starts at home and the Phils offense has given Lee only 57 runs of support while he is in games this season ... Prior to the game, Philadelphia called up pitcher Phillipe Aumont from Triple-A Lehigh Valley and placed pitcher Jeremy Horst on the paternity list.


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In 1956, on an episode of then-popular game show "I've Got a Secret," 96-year-old Samuel J. Seymour tottered out on stage, sat down gingerly beside the program's host, and proceeded to blow the audience's mind. Over ninety years earlier, he had witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Washington D.C.'s Ford Theatre.
It's an incredible thing to watch, and The Atlantic's Rebecca Rosen does a great job of nailing down one of the reasons for why that is.
"The America of Lincoln and the Civil War can feel like distant history," she writes, "but every now and then, through the appearance of what Jason Kottke has called a "human wormhole," we are confronted with the brevity of a century and a half."
It's difficult to say, however, exactly who — or, rather, what — the wormhole is in this scenario. Yes, the term "human wormhole" is, as its very name implies, used to refer to living persons who "bridge distant historical periods", and in that sense Seymour is certainly a wormhole; but there are unique societal and technological wormholes present here as well.
Truth or Consequences, the first game show to air on commercially licensed television, was first broadcast in 1941 (around the same time that television because a mainstream phenomenon), just 15 years prior to the airing of this particular episode of "I've Got a Secret." We don't know when Seymour died, but it's probably safe to say that had television or the game show format come around any later than they did, Seymour would have been dead and this program never would have aired.
And when you get right down to it, aren't wormholes — human or otherwise — really just about compounded coincidence? In order to become a human wormhole, Seymour had to be born in the right era, be physically present at Lincoln's assassination, and live long enough to eventually shuffle his way out in front of a studio audience and a handful of gameshow contestants.
Without that advent of television and the social phenomenon that is the game show, Seymour would never have been a wormhole to as many people as he was when this program first aired. You also wouldn't be watching this video. Granted, the gameshow format and the televised distribution of that format (not to mention the late-date popularization of the internet and digital media) aren't wormholes in and of themselves. But the fact that they could not only be experienced in the 1950s but easily preserved — first on film and later on video, both of which are data formats that are widely used to this day — elevate all of them to a sort of nonhuman wormhole status. In this way, these various technological and social phenomena have become another wormhole in and of themselves, connecting you to the human wormhole that was Samuel J. Seymour, all through your computer (or smart phone, or tablet) screen.
Oh, and just to add another layer to all of this, here's the newspaper article — written by Seymour — that's mentioned in the video.
[Spotted on The Atlantic]


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Drs. Roger Nettune and Kenneth Banasiak want to know: Is dairy a major part of your diet? If not, it should be! A study from the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) has found that regular consumption of dairy products, such as milk, cheese and yogurt, can actually lower your chances of contracting periodontal disease (also known as gum disease). Results of the study also showed that adults who consume at least 55 grams of lactic acid a day are less at risk for gum disease.
Cheese is one of the healthiest snacks for your child's teeth. In addition to providing large amounts of much-needed calcium, cheese also does its part to fight cavities. Cheddar, Swiss, Mozzarella, and Monterey Jack all stimulate the body's salivary glands to clear the mouth of debris and protect them from acids that weaken them, according to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. This means cheese disrupts the development of cavities, especially when eaten as a snack or at the end of a meal. Calcium and phosphorous found in cheese reduce or prevent decreases in the plaque's ph level and work to re-mineralize the enamel of your child's teeth.
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