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Filter Design
Filters are signal-processing circuits used to modify the frequency spectrum of an electrical signal. They may be used to amplify, attenuate, or reject a certain range of frequencies of their input signals. Filters are pervasive in integrated circuits because of their vast number of applic...
Circuit Sage Tools
Sallen-Key Mathcad filters routine:
Extensive Mathcad routine for designing integrated Sallen-Key filters
Mathcad routine for Butterworth filters:
Mathcad routine for LC Butterworth filters
Mathcad routine for elliptic filters:
Mathcad routine for LC elliptic filters
Mathcad routine for Chebyshev filters:
Mathcad routine for LC Chebyshev filters
2nd Order Low-Q Active Filter Design:
This tool calculates the required resistor and capacitor values for a second order low-Q active filter.
Single Pole Active Filter Design:
This tool calculates the required resistor and capacitor values for a single pole active filter.
Online Tools
Neil Barnes' Filter:
Intuitive filter program for Windows, can process a .WAV file. Windows-95-looking interface
$1500 tool can design almost any filter
FilterCAD (FREE):
Linear Technology's filter design tool
Waveguide filter design tool
Free, Light, and Full versions available
Waveguide coupled-cavity filters
Time- and frequency-domain plots, S-parameters, Monte Carlo, etc. Student edition FREE
Bandpass filter design and analysis program based on the helical resonator
Butterworth filter routine in BASIC:
BASIC code implements different Butterworth filter responses
BASIC filter routines:
Tom Couthbert's BASIC routines for filter design
DrawFilt MATLAB toolbox (FREE):
Schematic capture filter software for MATLAB
Dr. James Kang's list of MATLAB and Mathcad routines:
Over 100 Mathcad and MATLAB routines, many filter-related, both analog and digital
Professor Bernhard Boser's (UC-Berkeley) Mathcad routines for filter design:
Ten Mathcad routines for designing various filter types
Professor Robert Harger's Mathcad book:
Professor Harger's Mathcad book has a lot of information on digital filter design and DSP
MATLAB routines collection for filter design:
Over 100 MATLAB programs related to analog and digital filter design
Butterworth bandpass filter calculator:
Calculates passive LC filter values from center frequency and bandwidth
LC passive filter designer:
Generates LC components based on response type, cutoff frequency, and I/O impedance
Bandpass filter tool:
Computes LC component values based on center frequency, load impedance, and Q-factor
Guided Wave Technologies:
GWT's waveguide filter tool, select one of 3 waveguide filter types
2nd order system Frequency response tool:
Drag poles/zeros with your mouse and watch as the frequency response changes
Tony Fisher:
Design Butterworth or Chebyshev LC filters, many input options, very nice
Uwe Beis online filter tool:
Design low- and high- pass filters, outputs a SPICE netlist
Toshio Iwata:
Digital and analog filter tools collection, very nice
TI's FilterPro:
Design almost any type of active filter
Transmission line and LC-filter synthesis, need to email them to get a copy
PCFILT and S/FILSYN:
PCFILT has a free demo which works only at 833 MHz
Sun OS tool plots frequency response and pole/zero locations
Filter synthesizer and analyzer, demo available
DOS-looking software plus author's book, may not work in Windows XP
Synthesizes Chebyshev filters
RF design tool includes filter synthesis among other things
Professor Bogdan Wilamowski's analog filter synthesizer
Synthesizes passive ladder prototypes for analog and digital filter design
$70, runs Monte Carlo simulations and over temperature
Free if you only need low- or high-pass filters. Outputs a SPICE netlist
Switched-capacitor filter design tool
AADE Filter Design (FREE):
Free tool simulates many filter types over time and frequency, includes statitical analysis
AKtivFilter Tools:
AktivFilter is a software for the design of active filters tuned on the opamp type. Personal, Professional and a free Demo Edition are available.
Toshio Iwata:
Design and simulate digital filters and DSP systems
WinFilter (FREE):
Windows software to design IIR and FIR digital filters, outputs VHDL code and .GIF files of responses
FIR and IIR design tool, $69, demo available
Cool digital filter demo in Java:
Turn on your speakers and hear outputs of many waveforms passed through many different filter types
IIR filter explorer:
Move poles and zeros on the complex plane and watch how the frequency response changes
FIR tool, $10 for student version
IIR filter tool:
U. of Texas - Austin Java tool plots magnitude, phase, and step response of IIR filters
QEDesign from Momentum Data Systems:
IIR/FIR filter tool available at 3 price levels
Introduction to digital filtering using Mathematica:
Learning digital filters fundamentals in Mathematica
Online Articles
Sallen-Key Butterworth 5th order LPF design:
Design and implementation of a 10-kHz, 5th order active filter
LPF tutorial:
Design of a low sensitivity Sallen Key LPF
Ian Purdie LC filter tutorial:
Scroll down to Section 5
TI"s analysis of the Sallen-Key arquitecture:
Analysis and lab data of low- and high-pass Sallen Key filters
TI's Filters for data transmission:
Analysis of what happens when digital signals are filtered
TI Active Low-Pass Filter Design:
Butterworth, Chebyshev, Bessel, Sallen-Key, and MFB active filter design
U. of San Diego's overview of microwave filters:
Goes over distributed and lumped implementations of microwave filters
Queens University's wiki page on microwave filters:
Discusses prototyping and going from lumped to distributed implementations
ARRL RF Filters page:
Links to ARRL articles and a picture of commonly used RF filter topologies
National's Introduction to filters:
Goes over active, passive, and switched-capacitor filter types
National's Designing high-speed active filters:
Discusses low- and high-pass Sallen Key filters, how to select an op-amp and other practical matters
National's Low sensitivity LPF design:
How to design a Sallen-Key LPF insensitive to comp. variation
National's Low sensitivity HPF design:
How to design a Sallen-Key HPF insensitive to comp. variation, how to compensate for parasitic op-amp cap.
National's Pre-distortion for Sallen Key filters:
Shows how to compensate for an op-amp's finite BW by modifying nominal component values
National's BPF design with low sensitivity:
How to design a Sallen-Key BPF insensitive to comp. variation
Swarthmore's switched-capacitor filters page:
Introduction of SC filters and how to implement one using a National Semiconductor IC
Maxim's filter app notes and primers page:
Primers on con-time and SC filters as well as application notes using Maxim's Ics
Frequency Devices' filter design page:
Analog and digtal filter design performance metrics described, topology overviews
Professor Gordon Roberts' published papers on filt:
Log-domain filtering and switch-capacitor filters
Julius Smith's Introduction to Digital Filters:
Very nice, includes some MATLAB routines
gm-C BPF paper from U. of Oulu-Finland:
6th order elliptic gm-C BPF for biomedical applications, 18 uA from 3.0V supply
Agilent's eeosf filter software page :
Filter design examples with Agilent's sofware
Maxim Analog Filter Design Demystified:
Analog filter fundamentals and design procedure for active Butterworth and Chebyshev filters
Bessel crossover design for pro audio applications:
How to design Bessel filter crossovers and comparison with Butterworth and LR crossovers
Linkwitz-Riley Crossovers: A Primer:
Fundamentals of Linkwitz-Riley crossovers for pro audio applications
Bessel filter response:
Bessel filters' responses and comparisons with Butterworth and Chebyshev types
Group delay paper from Applied Radio Labs:
Group delay and how it affects RF filter performance
UC-Berkeley filter lectures:
A few lectures on integrated filter design
RF/Microwave Filters lecture notes:
LC and microstrip line microwave filters. Nice.
RF Filtering Phd thesis:
Bandpass filter integrated in 0.25-um CMOS
Sensitivity Analysis of Analog Filters presentation from TI:
How to efficiently design an analog filter taking into account the sensitivities of the filter's response to component variations.
gm-C filters presentation from Texas A&M:
Very good presentation on OTA's for gm-C filters from 0.1-Hz to 2.0-GHz
Simulating switched capacitor filters using SpectreRF :
Simulating switched-capacitor filters in Spectre using periodic steady-state, AC, noise analysis
Integrated RF Interference Suppresion Filter paper from UC San Diego:
2.1 GHz RF-interference-suppression filter using on-chip metal capacitors and bondwires in 0.18 micron CMOS
22-GHz integrated filter using selectively-etched inductors: paper from National Taiwan University:
22-GHz BPF implemented in 0.18-micron CMOS using inductors enhanced by selectively etching the silicon from underneath them using standard CMOS processing techniques.
Shrinking Microwave Filters: paper from U. of Waterloo:
Introduces low-loss adaptive pre-distortion technique, demonstrates by implementing filters in C (4 GHz) and Ku (12 GHz) bands
Mixed-signal approach to tune the BW of analog LPF's paper from UC - Davis:
Uses an ADC and a digital filter as part of a tuning loop to fine-tune the BW of 2nd and 4th order LPF's.
Digital FIR crossovers for loudspeakers:
Method for linear phase FIR crossovers presented, with examples
Comb filters introduction:
Primer on comb filters
IIR filter design:
From BORES Introduction to DSP
Classic paper on FFT windows:
Discusses various types and metrics to compare to each other
FFT on LabView:
Comprehensive overview of FFT-based signal analysis in LabView
LabView windows:
Characteristics of various FFT windows available in LabView
Window choices for high dynamic range FFT processing:
Fundamental trade-offs involved in selecting a window type
Analog versus digital signal processing:
Digital versus analog filters
Dr. Fred DePiero's class notes:
Notes from various signal processing courses at Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo
Digital filter lecture notes and videos from Boise State:
Mixed-signal course notes and videos includes 5 or 6 lectures on digital filters
Interpolation filters presentation:
Presentation with implementation examples in MATLAB. Scroll down, presentation no. 9. Associated MATLAB file also available
Digital filter lectures from Stanford course:
Click on lectures on left frame
FIR's for receiver equalization paper from UT-Dallas:
Presents issues introduced at high frequencies by noisy channels and crosstalk, discusses methods to overcome
How to send Cadence output to MATLAB for post-processing:
If you have a small data set (a few hundred points) then use the "printvs" button in the Cadence calculator. For thousands of points you'd better use ocean (unless you are in the mood to wait a loooong time for your text file)
Search over 1 million articles
Filtering in the Time and Frequency Domains by H. Blinchikoff and A. Zverev:
Re-print of a 1976 book considered a classic by many
Generalized Filter Design by Computer Optimization:
CAD techniques for RF/microwave filter optimization
Filter Design for Signal Processing using MATLAB and Mathematica by Miroslav D Lutovac, et al:
Detailed list of contents on Amazon website
Passive, Active, and Digital Filters by Wai-Kai Chen:
Compilation of both analog and digtal filters
Mathematics for Circuits and Filters by Wai-Kai Chen:
from back cover: "...stresses the fundamental theory behind professional applications, making an excellent, flexible resource that enables easy access to the information needed to deal with circuits and filters..."
The Circuits and Filters Handbook by Wai-Kai Chen:
Compilation of articles by many authors, almost 3000 pages.
Electronic Filter Analysis and Synthesis by Michael Ellis:
1994 book, from description: "...helps you save time and effort in writing CAD and analysis programs for electronic filters, and provides explicit details on how to synthesize lowpass, bandpass, bandstop, and highpass realizations for passive, active, digital and switched capacitors...."
Modern Filter Design: Active Rc and Switched Capacitor by Mohammed Shuaib Ghausi:
Re-print of 1981 book. From description: "...the authors discuss the design of continuous-time, second order active sections (biquads), various measures of sensitivity, and the basic properties and classification of continuous-time and sampled data systems, together with filter transfer functions and approximations..."
Active Filter Cookbook by Don Lancaster:
From description: "...It gives you everything you need to know to build active lowpass, bandpass, and highpass filters...."
Fundamentals of Adaptive Filtering by A. Sayed:
Very highly regarded
Design and Analysis of Analog Filters by Larry D. Paarmann:
Analog filter design with an eye on system/signal processing issues, MATLAB disc with example included. From description: "...A valuable relationship between analog filter theory and analysis and modern digital signal processing is made by the application of MATLAB to both the design and analysis of analog filters..."
High Frequency CMOS Continuous-Time Filters by S. Pavan and Y. Tsividis:
from description: "...addresses the theoretical and practical problems encountered in the design of robust, programmable continuous-time filters with very high bandwidths, implemented in low-cost digital CMOS technologies.A high performance programmable filter architecture, called `constant-capacitance scaling', is discussed in detail..."
HF Filter Design and Computer Simulation by Randall W. Rhea:
from: "...'HF Filter Design and Computer Simulation' is a complete design guide for printed and L-C filters for RF and microwave applications..."
Design of Analog Filters by R. Schaumann and M. E. Van Valkenberg:
from description: "...Topics covered include fundamental concepts; opamps; first- and second-order filters; second-order filters with arbitrary transmission zeros; filters with maximally flat magnitude, with equal ripple (Chebyshev) magnitude, and with inverse Chebyshev and Cauer response functions; frequency transformation; cascade designs; delay filters and delay equalization; sensitivity; LC ladder filters; ladder simulations by element replacement and by operational simulation; transconductance-C filters; and switched-capacitor filters...."
Analog Filters by K. L. Su:
from description: "...covers four major fundamental types of analog filters - passive, op amp-RC, switched-capacitor, and operational transconductance amplifier-capacitor (OTA-C)..."
Analog and Digital Filter Design by S. Winder:
from description: "...does not start from a position of mathematical complexity. It is written to show readers how to design effective and working electronic filters. The background information and equations from the first edition have been moved into an appendix to allow easier flow of the text while still providing the information for those who are interested..."
Besser Associates' RF and Microwave Filter Design with EM Simulation:
4 day course on microwave filters, $1700
Adaptive Filtering Primer with MATLAB by A. Poularikas and Z. Ramadan:
Many MATLAB files included with book
Microwave Filters, Impedance-Matching Networks, and Coupling Structures by G. Matthaei, et al:
Comprehensive and highly regarded reference
Handbook of Filter Synthesis by A. Zverev:
1967 classic re-print. From description: "...originally published in 1967 is the classic reference for continuous time filter design...."
Microwave Filters for Communication Systems: Fundamentals, Design and Applications by R. Cameron, etal:
Comprehensive book written by 3 IEEE fellows
Tables for Active Filter Design by M. Biey:
From 1985. Based on Multiple Critical Pole Equal Ripple (MCPER) approximating functions.

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An indoor marathon
524 laps of the Royal Albert Hall
The Olympic event I'm looking forward to most is the marathon - the women's one takes place this Sunday (5th August), the men's a week later. Having hobbled one myself, in over twice the world record time of 2 hours 3 minutes 38 seconds, I'm constantly amazed at the effort it takes to run that fast for that long. The other reason I love the marathon so much is it reminds me of one of my favourite bits of bizarre London history - the indoor marathon staged at the Royal Albert Hall in 1909 ...
The event had its roots in another Olympic marathon, the London one of 1908. That race is famous for the Italian runner Dorando Pietri crossing the line first, but only after being helped when he collapsed near the end. Not that surprising in view of the fact that he gargled with wine as he ran; water wasn't seen as helpful in those days, so competitors were offered champagne, brandy and Oxo (the latter being the Games' sponsor). Nevertheless the fact he was helped over the line led to his disqualification, the gold medal going to American Johnny Hayes.
All of which is pretty well known. What's not so famous is that because the London crowd took Pietri to their hearts, they were keen to see him run another marathon. After a rematch with Hayes in America that autumn, which Pietri won by 75 yards, the Italian returned to London in December 1909 to tackle the 26.2 mile distance yet again. The London organisers took inspiration from the very unusual factor about that American marathon - it had been indoors. The two runners ran 260 laps of New York's Madison Square Garden. Only in America, as they always say. Except this time they'd be wrong - the London race was 524 laps of the Royal Albert Hall.
Hard to imagine this was what dear old Victoria had had in mind when she commissioned the hall as a tribute to her beloved husband, but no matter. Pietri's opponent now was the Brit (indeed the Londoner) C.W. Gardiner. At first Gardiner's manager Bob Hunter objected to the idea of running indoors, suggesting the circuit at Chelsea's ground Stamford Bridge instead. But Pietri's manager (his brother Ulpiano) said the Italian wouldn't run outdoors between October and April. So the home of the Proms it was. A 90 yard track was laid out in the arena and covered in coconut matting. The two runners ran clockwise, 19 laps to the mile, starting at 8.15pm.
2000 spectators turned up, though the organisers were savvy enough to realise that if all the punters had to look at was two blokes chasing each other around a circle for two and a three-quarter hours (the record has tumbled since then), boredom might ensue. So they laid on a military band and an Italian tenor to 'make the time pass more pleasantly'. (Presumably one musical influence from each country to ensure impartiality.)
If monotony could have been a problem for the audience, surely the danger for the two athletes was dizziness? 524 laps, all in the same direction? But, the Hall's archivist Elizabeth Harper assures me, that's what they did. No anti-clockwise nonsense for them. Pietri's downfall, it turned out, wasn't nausea but his shoes - he was wearing new ones, and they gave him, to use a very un-Italian phrase, some right jip. He changed them after 15 miles, but it was no good - blisters got the better of him, and he had to retire on lap 482. This left the field clear for Gardiner to finish his 524 laps and take the £100 prize. Pietri had to make do with half that.
What a wonderfully mad bit of British sporting history. Couldn't we have incorporated it into this year's Olympic marathon route? Nip down Piccadilly and past Harrods, into the Albert Hall, dozen or so laps, then back to the Mall for the finish. Come on LOCOG - where's your sense of occasion?


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By Gail Whitaker, DM,
On February 14, 2013, Dr. Ingo Böbel spoke as part of the CTU Distinguished Lecturer Series. A published author and scholar, Dr. Böbel has had a profound impact on industrial organization research and shared his insight into the economic theory of creating shared value, also known as CSV.
Here are a few of the key takeaways from his lecture:
Creating Shared Value is not a new concept.Although interest in CSV is a growing topic in many business conversations today, the idea of creating shared value can be traced back to early economic writings that started with Adam Smith in 1776. Smith had a particular interest in explaining how wealth is created and published his theories in a book Böbel highly recommends students read, The Wealth of Nations.
Sustainable wealth is created when business focus on improving profitability and society.Too often, businesses prosper at the expense of society. There is a tremendous gap between the success of business and the success of the communities the business serves. Businesses must expand their purpose to not only include profitability, but social value. Economist Milton Friedman writes about this in his doctrine published in the New York Times, The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.
Creating shared value tackles the business equation and the social equation – simultaneously.Businesses have attempted to address social issues through philanthropic initiatives dubbed "corporate social responsibility," or CSR. While it's a step in the right direction, CSR is a risk management approach that arose in reaction to negative press. Think back to the Exxon oil spill or accusations that Nike employed child labor. CSV, on the other hand, is a proactive economic approach where businesses make radical changes – in development, in distribution, in pricing, etc. – to create a new business ecosystem that better serves society.
Böbel provided a wealth of knowledge and insight into the idea of CSV. You can listen to the full webinar with accompanying slide deck here.
To learn more about Ingo Böbel and read more on creating shared value visit:
• Böbel's personal website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter


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Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be producing future versions of its indie development toolset XNA.
Reports emerged yesterday that the software maker was planning to end upkeep of its XNA Game Studio, and now a spokesperson has confirmed as much to Polygon.
A former Microsoft employee shared an email that had been sent to game developers, which explained that Microsoft would no longer be maintaining the XNA toolset. That same email appeared to suggest that DirectX, the widely used API for games and video, would be phased out.
However, a Microsoft spokesperson said that there are no plans to discontinue the DirectX for its Windows and Xbox platforms.
"Microsoft is actively investing in DirectX as the unified graphics foundation for all of our platforms, including Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone," the spokesperson said.
"DirectX is evolving and will continue to evolve. We have absolutely no intention of stopping innovation with DirectX."
Referring to XNA, he added: "XNA Game Studio remains a supported toolset for developing games for Xbox 360, Windows and Windows Phone. Many developers have found financial success creating Xbox Live Indie Games using XNA. However, there are no plans for future versions of the XNA product."


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The first memory that springs to mind when I think of Tim Wakefield is of him weeping in the Yankee Stadium clubhouse late in the night of October 16, 2003. I remember how Trot Nixon stood over him, trying to comfort him, but he was inconsolable.
It may seem inappropriate to think first of such a sad moment, but it sums up who Tim Wakefield is, and is to us. Wake wept because he was afraid he'd take a place in Red Sox history alongside Bill Buckner -- not responsible for the team's loss, but the last face associated with it, as Aaron Boone's homer sailed off into the night.
Whether it was that sense of history, or that sensitivity to the feelings of fans, Tim Wakefield has been such a rarity in the modern world of sports as to be unheard of. The phrase "coach on the field" is often used to describe athletes with an uncanny knowledge and instinct for their game; Wakefield has been, instead, a kind of fan on the field. He has stepped up to carry the mantle of his connection to our collective history, even when, as on that night nearly ten years ago, it was unbearably heavy.
The next thing I think of when I think of Tim Wakefield is this:
As Mike Timlin pointed out, for Wakefield to take himself out of the picture at a moment of glory -- to sacrifice himself for the team, as he always seemed to do -- is a tremendous act of unselfishness. Rare indeed is the modern athlete who contributes to his team's victory by graciously stepping aside.
There's so much history that goes with Wakefield that I know I'm glossing over some major moments just by narrowing things down to a top 3, but I have to go with my gut, and my gut fast-forwards, at this point, to a memory and a night I witnessed in person, rather than through the TV: Wake's 200th win.
Seven times before, he'd tried and failed to earn the milestone W. Time and time again, he'd been let down by the bats or a member of the bullpen, but this time, the bats exploded, plating 18 runs to put an emphatic stamp on his ultimate win.
Fenway Park was pandemonium as we all waited for Wake to emerge to take his curtain call. When he did come into view, he made sure to salute every part of the ballpark. When he made his remarks, he made sure to mention how happy he was to have earned this milestone win at home, in front of the Fenway fans.
Rare is the pitcher who earns 200 wins; so rare among Red Sox pitchers that it puts Wake third on the all-time list, behind two guys you may have heard of named Cy Young and Roger Clemens. But even among such rarified company, Wake is his own exotic species -- no commanding fireballer he, but a yeoman worker, his accomplishment that much richer and sweeter for all its struggles.
"Rare." That word keeps coming back.
To be an athlete who spends 17 seasons with one team, and then retires as a member of that team, is a rarity today. To be a knuckleballer is and always has been a rarity. To be all of these things and an amazing person besides? Rarity upon rarity. Even while he's been playing, these last few years, we've known: we shall not see his like again.
Thank you, Tim Wakefield, for what you have meant to Red Sox fans. Thank you for your heart, your skill, your dedication and devotion, for all these years. It won't be the same team without you.


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Web Developer Representation in W3C · An A List Apart Article
This is an excellent initiative by the Dutch Fronteers group to have professional web developers represented in W3C working groups. In this particular case, they're funding Rachel for the CSS working group. This sets a great precedent—I really hope the W3C goes for it!


text: Police in the Czech Republic have arrested a Russian hacker suspected of targeting the U.S. for cyber crime.Czech police, working in collaboration with the FBI, arrested the Russian man at a hotel in central Prague. He is currently in custody and now faces possible extradition to the U.S., depending on what the local courts decide, according to a statement\u00a0from the Czech police.The arrest comes as the U.S. has blamed\u00a0Russian government for hacking U.S. officials and political groups in an effort to influence this year's upcoming election. However, a U.S. law enforcement official said the Russian hacker wasn't involved with the breach of the Democratic National Committee reported earlier this year.On Wednesday, the FBI would only confirm that the unnamed man had been arrested. "Due to the ongoing investigation, no additional details can be provided at this time," the agency said in an email.The Czech police said that the Russian citizen had been found traveling in a luxury car with his girlfriend. Upon his arrest, the man offered no resistance, but immediately collapsed and was later hospitalized. Czech police have released video of his arrest, and his name is reportedly Yevgeniy N, according to the Associated Press.\u00a0Although the suspect may face extradition to the U.S., the Russian government reportedly is insisting that the man be returned to his home country."We are in contact with his attorney," said Russian embassy spokesman Andrey Kolmakov, according to the country's state-run news agency Tass.\u00a0"Russia repudiates Washington\u2019s policy of imposing its extraterritorial jurisdiction on all countries."Russian and Eastern European cyber criminals are seen as possible culprits behind the data breaches involving LinkedIn\u00a0and Yahoo, according to security experts. Those breaches stole details from hundreds of millions of user accounts, including hashed passwords, but the full scale of the intrusions have only recently come to light.


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CA divests Ingres database
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Computer Associates has announced plans to divest itself of a majority stake of its Ingres open-source database unit. Private equity firm Garnett & Helfrich Capital is financing the deal which will see it become the majority shareholder in Ingres Corp. CA will retain a minority stake in the new business and a seat on its board. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Ingres Corp. will make a living selling consulting services to organisations that use Ingres database software, adopting a similar model for databases as Red Hat has applied in the world of operating systems. "We want to be the Red Hat of the database world," said Terry Garnett, managing director of Garnett & Helfrich Capital and interim chief exec of Ingres, told Reuters. According to CA, Ingres has more than 5,000 customers around the world. Even so the technology is far less widely deployed than MySQL, an open-source database alternative.
CA said the Ingres divestiture will allow it to focus on its core markets, including enterprise system and security management. It said the spin-off of Ingres will result in the move of 150 CA workers over to the new firm, Ingres Corp, but will have no material effect on CA's earnings.
Ingres began as an early relational database management system at the University of California, Berkeley 30 years ago. CA acquired the Ingres technology in 1994 as part of its purchase of the ASK Group. Last year, CA released the Ingres database to the open source community. ®


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Occasionally, it may be desirable to convert a PDF file to the MOBI for EPUB format for use on an iPad (or even an iPhone) with, say, the Kindle Reader or iBooks. Here's how to do the conversion on a Mac and load the document onto your iPad or iPhone.
First, why might one want to do that conversion? The reason is that, in general, PDF documents don't allow you to modify the font size. If you want to make the text larger on an iPad, for easier reading, you can pinch-zoom, but that often results in the edges of the document sliding off the display. Here's a partial screen shot of the PDF user manual for MacJournal 6 from an iPad. The full page is shown.
Section of PDF displayed on iPad
If we expand it for easier viewing, we lose content on the edges.
Text is readable, but content is lost.
One way to solve this problem is to convert the PDF document to EPUB for reading in Apple's iBooks app or to the MOBI format for use with the Kindle app. (For notes on eBook terminology, see "Everything About eBooks & eReaders, Pt 2: eBook Types")
There are several ways to do the conversion on a Mac, then transfer to your iPad, but I'll just focus on one technique that I like and is easy to follow. It may be helpful to have the PDF file in a handy place, say your Mac's Desktop. You'll need:
- A Mac
- iTunes 10 or 11
- Calibre eBook reader for OS X by Kovid Goyal, currently at version 0.9.18. It's free.
- iBooks app on iPad (optional)
- Kindle app on iPad (optional)
For simplicity, I'm going to focus on the iPad in this How-to.
1. Load PDF file into Calibre. After you launch Calibre, it looks like this. Notice the "Add books" icon at the top left.
After you've navigated to the PDF file and loaded it, the file will appear in the library list in the center as shown above.
2. Convert to EPUB or MOBI format. Select the document, then right click it. You'll see some contextual options that look like this:
Right click the document to bring up this menu.
After you select "Convert Individually, a conversion page will appear.
Conversion page. Options are on the left. Take defauts for starters.
At the top right is a popup button where you'll select the destination format. In this case, I'm showing MOBI. There are lots of conversion options on the left side, but for now, for the sake of the demo, we can go with all the defaults. At the bottom right, click "OK."
For a simple one page PDF, the conversion will go quickly, but if you have a complex, many page PDF manual or book, the conversion will take several minutes even on a fast Mac. And there are limits to what Calibre can do with the defaults, so large, complex PDFs may have conversion issues. When the conversion is done, the job count at the bottom right will drop to zero.
3. Navigate to Converted File. Calibre stores each document in /Users/YourAccountName/Documents/Calibre Library. Navigate to the folder containing your original PDF, and you'll find the companion converted file. Mine looked like this.
Note the path at the top. Converted file is highlighted.
4. Transfer to iPad. You might think about emailing the converted document to the iPad, then opening it in the app of your choice. That will work for small documents. However, some of these documents, manuals and books can be quite large, much too large to email. So here's how to transfer large files.
5. Transfer MOBI file to iPad. Connect your iPad to your Mac, and select it in the device list in the left of iTunes. Select the "apps" tab and scroll down until you see the File Sharing section as shown below.
In iTunes, apps tab, scroll down to File Sharing.
The apps listed in the left column can transfer files between your iPad and the Mac. Click on Kindle, then click on the button "Add..." at the bottom and navigate to the converted MOBI file. It will appear in the list on the right, in this case, "Kindle Documents." Then go back to your iPad in the Device list and click the Sync button on the bottom right for your iPad.
When the sync is done, launch your Kindle app on the iPad and be sure to select the "Device" tab at the bottom. You should see your converted document along with your other Kindle items in the "All Items" page.
Voila! The MOBI file is in Kindle app.
6. Transfer EPUB file to iPad. This procedure is slightly different.
In iTunes, in the sidebar on the left, under "Library," select "Books." You'll see a grid or list of your books in iBooks.
Your iTunes Book Library. (iTunes 10 shown.)
- Drag your converted EPUB file onto the grid.
- Go back to the iPad under "Devices" in the sidebar, and Sync.
- Launch iBooks, and you should see your converted EPUB in your iBooks library.
This is the PDF of my manual, but the EPUB will look similar.
Wrap Up
There are probably several different ways to accomplish this kind of task, but I picked on that I like and is easy to demo. If you like other tools and methods, you're welcome to share in the comments below.


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In a new study, physicists look at the conditions necessary for the formation of carbon and oxygen to form carbon-based life in the universe.
Life as we know it is based upon the elements of carbon and oxygen. Now a team of physicists, including one from North Carolina State University, is looking at the conditions necessary to the formation of those two elements in the universe. They've found that when it comes to supporting life, the universe leaves very little margin for error.
Both carbon and oxygen are produced when helium burns inside of giant red stars. Carbon-12, an essential element we're all made of, can only form when three alpha particles, or helium-4 nuclei, combine in a very specific way. The key to formation is an excited state of carbon-12 known as the Hoyle state, and it has a very specific energy – measured at 379 keV (or 379,000 electron volts) above the energy of three alpha particles. Oxygen is produced by the combination of another alpha particle and carbon.
NC State physicist Dean Lee and German colleagues Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Timo Laehde, and Ulf-G. Meissner had previously confirmed the existence and structure of the Hoyle state with a numerical lattice that allowed the researchers to simulate how protons and neutrons interact. These protons and neutrons are made up of elementary particles called quarks. The light quark mass is one of the fundamental parameters of nature, and this mass affects particles' energies.
In new lattice calculations done at the Juelich Supercomputer Center the physicists found that just a slight variation in the light quark mass will change the energy of the Hoyle state, and this in turn would affect the production of carbon and oxygen in such a way that life as we know it wouldn't exist.
"The Hoyle state of carbon is key," Lee says. "If the Hoyle state energy was at 479 keV or more above the three alpha particles, then the amount of carbon produced would be too low for carbon-based life.
"The same holds true for oxygen," he adds. "If the Hoyle state energy were instead within 279 keV of the three alphas, then there would be plenty of carbon. But the stars would burn their helium into carbon much earlier in their life cycle. As a consequence, the stars would not be hot enough to produce sufficient oxygen for life. In our lattice simulations, we find that more than a 2 or 3 percent change in the light quark mass would lead to problems with the abundance of either carbon or oxygen in the universe."
The researchers' findings appear in Physical Review Letters.
Reference: "Viability of Carbon-Based Life as a Function of the Light Quark Mass" by Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Timo A. Lähde, Dean Lee and Ulf-G. Meißner, 13 March 2013, Physical Review Letters.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.112502
The work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren and Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung in Germany; European Union HadronPhysics3 Project and the European Research Council.


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A Palo Alto middle school special-education student whose complaints of bullying and harassment led to a federal civil-rights investigation and a scathing reprimand of the school district received approval last week from the district for placement in a residential facility.
According to the student's family, Superintendent Kevin Skelly personally approved the placement in a meeting Wednesday, Feb. 13, the day after a school board meeting in which he and board members apologized for mishandling the case and heard other parents relate emotional stories about bullying and a lack of response by the district.
Skelly and the district have been on the defensive since the revelation two weeks ago that the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) had conducted a months-long investigation in the fall of 2011 and that Skelly had failed to inform the board of the investigation's conclusions or the settlement agreement he signed on behalf of the district last December. (Read the Feb. 8 article: Feds: School district violated student's civil rights)
Documents show that the investigation was completed and conclusions known to district administrators last April, and then eight months passed before a final settlement was reached with the government. During that period, according to the family, the district repeatedly refused to consider moving the child to a specialized alternative school in spite of a doctor's assessment that returning to the middle school would harm the student.
School board members learned about the Office for Civil Rights conclusions in the case and its criticisms of the school district's handling of the case only after the Weekly article was published.
Formal OCR investigations leading to resolution agreements are quite unusual, according to data provided by the Department of Education. Nationwide, during the last four years, of more than 1,500 complaints of disability discrimination by school districts only 21 cases, including the bullying case in Palo Alto, were the subject of investigations and resolution agreements. The others either were deemed unfounded or were resolved prior to a full investigation through an agreement worked out between OCR and the district.
When apologizing to the board at its Feb. 12 meeting, Skelly said he had been "embarrassed" by the findings in the report. He pledged to share such news in the future.
But the next day, after an inquiry from board member Melissa Baten Caswell, Skelly acknowledged there was a second case investigated by the Office for Civil Rights for which he signed a settlement agreement on Sept. 28, 2012.
Skelly then emailed the entire board informing them of the second case and of the settlement agreement.
"I sincerely apologize that, once again, some of you have been taken by surprise by press inquiries involving another OCR case," Skelly wrote.
"My only explanation for why this, and the other OCR resolution agreement on the bully case, were not shared with you immediately is that entering into these is something new for me and my direct reports. We have not had complaint cases go this far in my prior six years at PAUSD -- thus, did not see the significance of the resolution agreement being signed since it was part of a lengthy process we continued to be embroiled in," Skelly told the board.
Skelly told the Weekly Wednesday that a discussion of the matter would be on the board of education's public agenda next Tuesday night, Feb. 26. A closed session for Skelly's mid-year performance evaluation is also on the agenda.
The second case involves a sixth-grader who suffers from environmental allergies that make him extremely sensitive to mold, detergents and certain chemicals prevalent in inexpensive cabinets and furniture. According to documents and emails provided to the Weekly by the family, the problem had been successfully managed at the boy's elementary school by the principal and teachers working with the family and changing the physical environment, including changing cleaning practices, eliminating the use of cleaning detergents and replacing old carpeting.
But the transition to middle school was problematic. Documents show the boy's parents made repeated efforts to plan ahead with school officials to prepare for the transition from elementary to middle school, where the problem would be more challenging due to the movement of students among several different classrooms and the library.
The school agreed to have custodians switch to soap and water for cleaning and conducted tests for mold, but it was not willing to replace carpets or undertake additional environmental tests the family and their doctor requested.
Out of frustration, the family asked for a 504 plan, the formal process by which disabilities are accommodated in public schools. The request was denied, and the parents filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights in early August.
The OCR found flaws in the district's handling of the case, concluding the district hadn't conducted a proper evaluation and that its 504 procedures were not in compliance with federal regulations.
The district entered into a settlement agreement on Sept. 28, signed by Skelly, in which it committed to reconsidering the student's case, conducting a proper 504 evaluation process, revising its 504 procedures and submitting them to OCR for review and approval, and carrying out training of principals and other administrators.
Unlike the bullying case, in which the district declined an opportunity to enter into an agreement that would have avoided an investigation, in this case the district opted for a quick resolution.
According to documents provided by the family, in October the district said its new assessment was "inconclusive" as to whether the child qualified for a 504 accommodation or not but granted the child a 504 anyway. The district continues to resist making needed accommodations, which could be done at minimal expense or burden, the family alleges.
Meanwhile, Skelly Thursday released a copy of an Oct. 21, 2011, "Educational Services Weekly" memo by Associate Superintendent Charles Young, which included a paragraph informing the school board that OCR investigators looking into a bullying complaint had been on a middle school campus the previous day. It said interviews had been conducted with 35 students, four teachers, two administrators and one counselor. And he reported that district and union attorneys "felt like it shed only a positive light on the school and our support of students."
The district also released a copy of an email dated April 9, 2012, from Young to the school board marked "confidential" stating that OCR had concluded its investigation into the bullying case and that the district's attorney was "working with the OCR regarding the corrective actions, which are quite lengthy."
The email provided no details of the government's findings, and there was no discussion in public session.
"The District addressed the complaint, but the OCR requested the opportunity to meet with students and staff to investigate the claim, which occurred on Oct. 20, 2011," Young wrote to board members.
"We received the OCR's results over spring break. As a result of the student's disability, we are responsible for correction action related to discrimination and creating a hostile learning environment."
"Part of the plan will include an IEP (Individualized Education Program) team meeting to discuss the findings, the development of a plan for training staff and notifying parents. Once the corrective actions are finalized, I will share them with you so you are aware of the areas we will be addressing," Young's email said.
"I will update you with more information as it becomes available. The staff at (the middle school) will be disappointed as they felt they did a great deal of good work to ameliorate the concerns outlined in the parent's initial complaint."
No updates, at least in public, were provided after the April 9 email. Next Tuesday's board meeting will be the first time the board will discuss the Office for Civil Rights investigation and its findings, except for hearing Skelly's apology at its meeting last week.
Related materials:
Feds: School district violated student's civil rights (Feb. 8, 2013)
Office for Civil Rights report (Dec. 26, 2012)
School district resolution agreement (Dec. 14, 2012)
District submits responses in bullying case (Feb. 22, 2013)


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Focused mainly on Tunisia and Egypt, this research included creating a unique database of information collected from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The research also included creating maps of important Egyptian political Websites, examining political conversations in the Tunisian blogosphere, analyzing more than 3 million Tweets based on key-words used, and tracking which countries thousands of individuals Tweeted from during the revolutions. The result is that for the first time we have evidence confirming social media's critical role in the Arab Spring.
The contributors include Philip Howard, Muzammil Hussain, Will Mari, and Marwa Mazaid at the University of Washington, Deen Freelon at American University, and Aiden Duffy at Amazon Web Services.


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We recently reported that a Mr. Mike Kasper set the new world record with his high score on an original Donkey Kong Jr. arcade cabinet. Now, all thanks to the recent official Wii U Virtual Console going live, Wii U owners can save their quarters and work on their Donkey Kong Jr. high scores right from the comfort of their own homes in the NES version of the game. But before you invest your time seeking the glory that comes with setting a world record, you may want to consider what you're getting yourself into.
As is par for the course with many of the older arcade-turned-NES titles, the gameplay in Donkey Kong Jr. focuses on working your way upward while collecting items for bonus points. In an odd role reversal that sets Mario up as a villain and Donkey Kong himself as more of a sympathetic character who has been captured by the moustachioed plumber, you take on the role of DK's son, the eponymous Donkey Kong Jr. Beginning at the bottom of the stage, your goal here is simply to work your way up and save your father who is being held captive at the top of the screen. The gameplay can easily be compared to its predecessor Donkey Kong or Ice Climber, another NES launch title.
With only four playable stages, repetition is the name of the game. The first three stages follow the basic "work your way up" formula to a T, while the fourth has you climbing ropes in order to push keys upwards to release the locked up Donkey Kong. After finishing all four stages, the game then begins to repeat itself, starting back at stage one and progressively getting more difficult. There is also a game "B" available to play, but this mode features the exact same stages, albeit slightly more challenging versions of them. Unless you really enjoy the four stages that this game has to offer, there's a good chance that you're going to become tired of this one sooner rather than later. And for those players who want to bore a friend, there is also a multiplayer version of both game modes available. Multiplayer is exactly the same as the single player game, but as soon as one player loses a life, then they must pass their controller off to their patient comrade.
Donkey Kong Jr. retains the simple controls of similar arcade titles, with movement linked to the left stick or D-Pad while the A button is used to jump. Like any other Wii U Virtual Console game, the GamePad's touch screen can be used to access the VC menu as well as display an off-television version of the game you're playing. Beyond the second screen, nothing has been changed in this rerelease.
Though the gameplay and controls may be simplistic, Donkey Kong Jr. is plagued with collision detection issues similar to those that make Ice Climber such a chore. Very often you will find yourself meticulously timing and aiming a jump just to fall through the edge of a platform or get knocked down by an enemy a couple of pixels away. Beyond the issues regarding collision, there are also several other slight bugs that will cause you to become stuck in place, resulting in an unavoidable reset of the game. Couple these issues with an already wavering difficulty curve and you've got a nearly perfect storm of unmanageable inconsistency in gameplay.
Like many of the NES launch titles, Donkey Kong Jr. is an 8-bit outing whose age is starting to show. Repetitive gameplay, frustrating collision detection and game breaking bugs all work towards the detriment of this one, resulting in a game that, while charming, tends to be a bit too rough around the edges. Fans of the arcade and NES originals might get a kick out of this one as a Wii U VC launch title, but younger players lacking nostalgia for the golden age of gaming will find more flaws than can be ignored. Real life achievement hunters like the formidable Mr. Kasper may want to set their sights on a game with a little more substance.


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I've been waiting for this moment for a long time and, at last, it's here: Tom Lowe has released his stunning documentary TimeScapes, a silent portrait of our planet captured with exquisite 4K cinematography.
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It's available in iTunes up to 1080p and also from his site at 1440p. That's 2560 x 1440 pixels, the first 1440p film ever sold, which looks breathtakingly perfect in my 2560 x 1440-pixel iMac display.
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I love that sharing family secrets is the first thing on here -- I'm past my teenage years, but my parents are still rolling out amazing stories that I've never heard.
Having grown up in a rural area, I can definitely second "visit the city" too. In high school, I remember being entranced by even chain shops like Bath & Body Works, because they didn't have anything like that near where I lived.


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A woman goes into Wal-Mart to buy a rod and reel for her grandson's birthday. She doesn't know which one to get so she just grabs one and goes over to the counter. A Wal-Mart associate is standing there wearing dark sunglasses. She says, "Excuse me, sir. Can you tell me anything about this rod and reel?" He says, "Ma'am, I'm completely blind; but if you'll drop it on the counter. I can tell you everything you need to know about it from the sound it makes. She doesn't believe him but drops it on the counter anyway. He says, "That's a six-foot Shakespeare graphite rod with a Zebco 404 reel and 10-LB. Test line. It's a good all around combination; and it's on sale this week for only $20.00. " She says, "It's amazing that you can tell all that just by the sound of it dropping on the counter. I'll take it!" As she opens her purse, her credit card drops on the floor. "Oh, that sounds like a Visa card," he says. She bends down to pick it up and accidentally breaks wind. At first she is really embarrassed, but then realizes there is no way the blind clerk could tell it was she who farted. Being blind, he wouldn't know that she was the only person around. The man rings up the sale and says, "That'll be $34.50 please." The woman is totally confused by this and asks, "Didn't you tell me it was on sale for $20.00? How did you get $34.50?" He replies, "Yes, Ma'am. The rod and reel is $20.00, but the Duck Call is $11.00 and the Catfish Bait is $3.50."


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Why doing a Sainsbury's ad doesn't make me a 'sell out'. The Guardian.
Since the news of my six-week collaboration with Sainsbury's has emerged, I feel I should have gone into hiding in a rather large 13p can of tinned potatoes, refashioned as a tin hat, to avoid the hate mail and expressions of disappointment that are littering my inbox and Twitter feed.
When I wrote my first recipe blog post – a carrot soup fashioned from some of the less photogenic elements of a £1 veg bag – I didn't do it with a media career in mind; I did it because I was blogging about being a single parent.
I stuck to supermarkets for my recipes, not wanting to assume that everyone had access to a market, a friendly fishmonger, or specialised shops to buy spices in bulk. I wanted my recipes to be accessible to as many people as possible, so I tried to use widely available, standardised products.
As the months have passed, I've tailored my fridge with experimentation. I now use free range meat and eggs – that doesn't mean you have to. I found some bargain asparagus for 29p in the reduced chiller the other night, but digging around in reduced bins at 9pm is not a sustainable lifestyle choice for the parent of a young child.
Frankly, I'm astounded by the fuss over my Sainsbury's advert. For six weeks it's me saying on the telly what I've been saying on my blog for two years: "This is where I shop, this is what I do." In the process, I turned down offers to work with other supermarkets and held out for Sainsbury's because it's where I've shopped since I moved to the centre of Southend three years ago.
I hate television. Five minutes on a breakfast sofa with a presenter is just about doable; I stop myself from shaking by sitting on my hands before the cameras roll. Those who know me know that I am painfully introverted, the one with my back to the wall at awards ceremonies, with my hood up while waiting for the tube, a frightened deer in front of a camera lens. So if I was going to do television, I wanted to do it honestly. With no script and no fed-in lines, just me, cooking, chatting, and ignoring the extremely large crew of cameras, lights, sound booms and runners.
And what could be more honest than knocking dinner up out of half a chicken from the supermarket I shop in and have blogged about? It's less an advert and more a one-minute documentary about making your food go further. That's the bit I don't understand. I spent two years pricing my recipes according to the supermarket that I shop in, while name-dropping them innocently, to illustrate what I was doing. Every week I answer the same questions in my Guardian food column: stock cubes are 20p for 10, a 1.5kg bag of carrots is 89p, tinned potatoes are cheaper than fresh ones, yes of course it's a free-range chicken. I avoid that sort of speculative suspicion on my blog, because I include the prices and the supermarket they were bought from, which anyone who has access to the internet can check and find another supermarket with similar products if they wish.
As for the accusations that everybody has a price? Mine is £1,653 for six weeks' work. My actual fee is higher, identical to what the other three bloggers in the campaign are being paid, but I am keeping £1,653 to myself – the equivalent of the living wage for the six weeks that the campaign will run for. The rest is going into the tax pot; to a food project in Africa that I am visiting with Oxfam in January; and to my local food bank and homeless shelter. My friends think I'm bonkers. They tell me I've earned it, to keep it, to squirrel it away – but if I was in it for the money I'd have leapt at the first advertising deal offered to me almost a year ago for an upmarket butter brand, and all the 50 or so since then. I didn't. Am I guilty of selling out? Hardly.
Jack Monroe. Twitter: @MsJackMonroe
First published here on Comment Is Free, The Guardian, 17 December 2013.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
1985 - Kevin Nowlan portfolio in Marvel Fanfare #18
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- Edo BosnarJuly 17, 2013 at 4:32 AM
Hmmm, that's a really petite She-Hulk. In fact, he really seemed to have been obsessed with a very specific female body type. Either that, or the same model sat for each of those images.ReplyDelete
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NEW: Lawyer says he will appeal the sentences given to 5 convicted over the cruise disaster
The sentences for the 5 defendants range from two years and 10 months to 18 months
The trial of co-defendant Capt. Francesco Schettino began this week
32 people died in January 2012 when the cruise liner ran aground and turned on its side
Five people were convicted of multiple manslaughter and causing personal injury Saturday over the deadly wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner off the Italian coast last year – but only two may serve any prison time under the plea bargain accepted by the judge.
The convictions, the first in the case, came after Judge Pietro Molino accepted their plea bargain Saturday morning.
The five were originally co-defendants with the cruise ship's captain, Francesco Schettino. But he is now being tried separately on charges of multiple manslaughter in the wreck and abandoning ship. Court proceedings in his case began this week.
Thirty-two people died when the Costa Concordia, a luxury liner carrying 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members, struck rocks off the Italian island of Giglio on January 13, 2012.
Another 150 people were injured in the evacuation of the ship – 65 of them seriously. The injuries include partial paralysis, amputations and, in one case, blindness.
Under the deal, Roberto Ferrarini, Costa Cruises' emergency manager in Genova, was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison and Manrico Giampedroni, hotel director of the Costa Concordia, was given two years and six months.
Ferrarini spoke on the phone and by radio to Schettino the night of the crash between impact and evacuation, and Giampedroni was in communication with Ferrarini on Schettino's behalf that night.
Schettino's first mate Ciro Ambrosio, who was the officer on the bridge and in command of the ship when it went off course, was handed a sentence of one year and 11 months; third officer Silvia Coronica, who was second in command to Ambrosio at the time, received 18 months; and helmsman Jacob Rusli Bin was sentenced to 20 months.
Those three were also convicted of causing a shipwreck, or maritime disaster.
Audio recordings played to the court showed that helmsman Rusli Bin misunderstood Schettino's directions to turn moments before the ship ran aground.
Lawyer: 'We will appeal'
In Italy, sentences less than two years do not generally have to be served in prison except in some cases of homicide, but not in manslaughter. As a result only Ferrarini and Giampedroni aren't likely to serve any time in prison, although they would first have to exhaust the appeals process.
The prosecutor backed their plea bargain requests and all five are on the prosecution witness list for the trial of Schettino in Grosseto, the Tuscan city nearest the site of the wreck.
Read more: Costa Concordia reveals its darkest secrets
But Pierpaolo Lucchese , who is one of the many lawyers who objected to the plea bargains, told CNN he will appeal the sentences.
"It is unthinkable that these lives and the damage to the island are worth two years or less," he said by phone. "We will appeal this to Italy's highest court."
Schettino also asked Wednesday for a plea bargain in exchange for a sentence of three years and five months in prison, but the request has not yet been decided.
However, the prosecutor adamantly opposes it so there is little chance it will be accepted.
The next hearing in Schettino's case is scheduled for September 23, but the judges could rule officially on his plea bargain sooner.
Night of chaos
Schettino faces three criminal charges: involuntary manslaughter for the 32 deaths, causing a maritime disaster and causing personal injury to 150 people who were badly hurt in the accident.
Read more: What cruise lines don't want you to know
According to passengers' accounts, chaos ensued that night as guests rushed to fill lifeboats and escape the shipwreck. Some crew members helped passengers and then jumped overboard, passengers said. Remaining crew members seemed helpless to handle the melee.
The case against Schettino centers on several questions, including why it took him more than an hour to issue an order to abandon ship and why the captain allegedly left the vessel before all passengers had abandoned it.
Given the complicated nature of the case, his trial could drag on for a year or more. The prosecutor presented the court with a list of 357 witnesses Wednesday.
Running in tandem with the criminal prosecution are numerous civil suits against Schettino, which can be heard at the same time. This means more than 250 civil parties are also represented in court.
Read more: Cruise passengers get bill of rights
Meanwhile, the Costa Concordia lies half-submerged on its side on the shore of Giglio Island, rusting and rotting in the waters off Tuscany's coast.
Nearly 500 workers are involved in an operation led by Titan Salvage to remove the wreck while protecting the marine environment.
Titan and Costa Cruises said earlier this month that they hope to be able to rotate the vessel to a vertical position in September. They will then be able to assess whether it can be refloated and towed away.
1 year on, survivors to mark the disaster
Journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau reported from Rome and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London. Journalist Livia Borghese contributed to this report.


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The secrets of the '94-'97 MX5
OEM Wheels:
Hollow Spoke and Solid Spoke
The Hollow-Spoke shown here are from '94 A-package Miata.
The Solid-Spoke ones are from '94 C-package Miata.
Both Hollow-and Solid-Spoke wheels have the same Toyo T1S 195/55/14 tires mounted.
The weight of the Hollow-Spoke combo was 26 lbs and the weight of the Solid-Spoke combo was 28lbs, on the same bathroom scale. Although the scale is not strictly accurate for absolute numbers, it is accurate enough to show the weight difference between the two.
From the back side: The spokes of Hollow-Spoke and Solid-Spoke wheels have different shape (look at the pics below)
From the outer side: The wheels look the same except the writings between the spokes are different (check the writings info below)
Some people sell the Solid-Spoke (weight around 12lbs) for more money, advertising these as the lighter (weight around 10lbs) Hollow-Spoke version (because both look very similar and both have part of the spokes hollow but can be recognized from each other easy). To know which wheels you are getting - check the back side of the spokes and the writings pattern (on the front side between the spokes) and compare to the info/pics below !
Click on each picture for a bigger version!
Solid-Spoke (left) and Hollow-Spoke (right) side by side
On all side by side pictures:
On the left side - Solid-Spoke wheel
On the right side - Hollow-Spoke wheel
The Hollow-Spoke Wheel
The back side of the spokes of Hollow-Spoke wheel
From the front side the Hollow-Spoke wheel can be recognized from the writings between the spokes.
Starting from the valve stem going clockwise between the spokes:
<the valve stem> - <blank> - 13 - <blank> - 14x6JJ 45 - <blank> - JWL - <the valve stem>
Hollow-Spoke wheel with Toyo T1S 195/55/14 tire on the scale: 26 lbs
The Solid-Spoke Wheel
The back side of the spokes of Solid-Spoke wheel
From the front side the Solid-Spoke wheel can be recognized from the writings between the spokes.
Starting from the valve stem going clockwise between the spokes:
<the valve stem> - 45 - <blank> - JWL - 13 - <blank> - 14x6 JJ - <the valve stem>
Solid-Spoke wheel with Toyo T1S 195/55/14 tire on the scale: 28 lbs
Below is a third kind of wheel which is more rare. These came
stock on a '95 auto-gearbox Miata.
The shape of the back of the spokes resembles the Hollow-Spoke wheels, but is a little bit different - all the holes are smaller, the spoke walls are thicker and the wheels are heavier than the Hollow-Spoke ones.
Lets call them Semi-Hollow-Spoke
These wheels are not chrome stock. The chrome layer in this case has been done by the Mazda dealer.
More images of this wheel:
Lettering - clockwise from the valve stem::
Front: 13, blank, 14X6JJ 46, blank, blank, JWL, valve stem
On the back is ENKEI 3, 14X6JJ 45, AJ31 NA, 93/8 31/2.
Weight: 12.4 lbs
|Back to the Garage
12 June, 2005


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Monastic Sage (Salvia officinalis) is cultivated at the Holy Monastery of Simonopetra in Mount Athos. Its scientific name is derived from the Latin verb "salvare" meaning "to save" or "to heal".
Beneficial properties:
- It is an excellent tonic for general and cordial purposes. It stimulates the nerves, the adrenal glands and the circulatory system.
- It is also an excellent tonic for the nervous system and helps in every form of debility, weakness, neural weakness, terror, vertigo, anxiety and neuralgia, while it has very good antidepressant action.
- It sharpens the mind and stimulates the memory.
- It is beneficial for the liver, the kidneys and the bile.
- It acts against diabetes, rheumatism and gout. It has antibacterial, fungistatic, antiseptic, viroustatic and styptic action.
- It is anticonvulsant and diuretic. It helps treat diarrhea and reduces bowel gases.
- It has a hormonal action since it is the strongest pre-estrogen herb, thus relieving menopause and dysmenorrhea symptoms, especially in perspiration.
- It stimulates and rejuvenates tired and aching muscles. It also relieves cramps.
- As an infusion, it is ideal for the treatment of acne, infections, or wounds and may act against mouth injuries, thrush, gingivitis and pharyngitis. It helps heal infections of the tonsils, the larynx and the pharynx. Sage gargles (with a little of apple cider vinegar added) act against irritation of the mouth and throat. It has mucolytic effects (especially in cases of cough or sinusitis) and it is effective against asthma, while it is ideal against flu or common cold.
- It acts against hair loss and alopecia. It improves the color of dark and grey hair. It stimulates and gives shine to dry and sensitive hair.
- A steam bath with sage and marigold is recommended for deep cleansing and antiseptic action on oily skins.
In cooking: Used in poultry, pasta, legumes and meats as well as for the flavoring of various dishes. Try the Sage Liqueur made in our Monasteries. Use it to make delicious aromatic vinegars.
Precautions - Contraindications: When used in big doses, sage can be anti-perspirant and prevent sweating. It should be avoided by pregnant women or people suffering from hypertension, as well as children due to its excitatory effect. It should also not be taken continuously over two weeks because the essential oil of tujone may have toxic effects.
Precautions - Contraindications: The above information is not medical advice nor substitute advice of another health care professional. They are provided for information only. Do not stop any other medical care recommendations without consulting your doctor.
Net weight: 30 g.


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Box is at it again. Earlier this year the cloud service released an overhauled Box app for iOS, and today it's launching its similarly redesigned Android app. Box also announced an expanded partnership with LG.
Box touts Box for Android 3.0 as one of the biggest updates for the app since it was originally introduced in 2010. The fundamental goal seems to have been to simplify the Box for Android experience, making it easier and faster for users to find and use the data they need.
The document previewer in Box for Android 3.0 includes support for more than 100 file types, including Microsoft Office formats, and allows users to add comments files, search document text, and present PowerPoint decks from within the app. Box also developed a new image gallery that lets you zip through photos without having to wait for the full resolution versions to load.
The redesigned app also makes it easier to find and use apps from its OneCloud ecosystem. When you preview a file, the OneCloud gallery lets you see which apps on your Android device are compatible with that file type. Box has added a couple of apps to the OneCloud directory, as well: Documents to Go, a popular editing suite for Microsoft Office files, and Hall, a business messaging application.
In addition to improving the app itself, Box has enhanced the ability for IT admins to manage the app on Android devices by extending support for MobileIron AppConnect. IT admins can deploy the Box app directly to remote Android devices and manage the app configuration and security using AppConnect policies.
Box also announced an expanded relationship with LG, one of the leading manufacturers of Android smartphones and tablets. Similar to previous promotional offers from Box, any new Box user will receive a free 50GB account for one year when they download and log into Box for Android on any LG G-series device. Existing Box users will receive the upgrade for one year when they log into Box for Android on their G-series device. The offer will be valid through March 31, 2016. After the one-year expiration date, users will be downgraded back down to 10GB accounts.
The new Box for Android 3.0 app is available for download starting today in the Google Play app store.


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Dodgers start Brett Tomko, RHP (1-7, 6.18) vs. Noah Lowry, LHP (9-6, 3.35).
Dodgers: 51-40 (1st place! NL West! 1.0 GA, W3)
Giants: 38-50 (5th place NL West, 11.5 GB, L3)
From Dodgers.com, the scouting report on the starters:
Dodgers: It's a pretty bold move by manager Grady Little handing the ball to Tomko, who is going through probably the worst physical and mental slump of his career. When the season started, Tomko was the fifth starter, but a 1-5 record and a 5.95 ERA in eight starts got him demoted to the bullpen. He's struggled in relief as of late, having been scored upon in his last five appearances.
Giants: The soft-tossing left-hander continues to shine for the Giants, tossing six innings of one-run ball against the Cardinals in his last start. Lowry has allowed just three earned runs in his past three starts and has lowered his ERA to the best it has been since May 27. He has been a much better pitcher at home (2.45) than on the road this season (4.30). Lowry has made two starts against the Dodgers this season, allowing five runs over 13 2/3 innings and posting a 1-1 record. He is 3-1 with a 3.05 ERA in 11 games (nine starts) in his career against the Dodgers.
- Dear Brett: That's a picture of your wife, Julia Schultz (Playmate of the Month, February, 1998). And maybe that's why you're struggling right now. After all, if you get to go home to her, why would you give a Flying F' about what you did at work?
- And yet we at SoSG won't hold your millions in career earnings and centerfold wife against you. That's your job. (Ba-dum-bam! Thank you, good night! Be sure to tip your waitress!) Just look at Joe Beimel: Reviled after last season, he sobered up, got a tat, and now he's lights out. So hit the tattoo parlor, Mr. Schultz!
UPDATE, 11.23a:
From Inside the Dodgers:
Unfortunately, Chin-hui Tsao had to go back on the DL with a shoulder issue, but D.J. Houlton is here today after arriving late last night from Las Vegas.
Hoping Tomko can get back on track and finish off the sweep and 11 in a row in SF.
Furcal, SS
Martin, C
Kent, 2B
Gonzo, LF
Nomar, 3B
Loney, 1B
Kemp, RF
Tomko, P


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CHICAGO, Ill. - A woman accused of sneaking onto a flight to London this month was arrested again on Sunday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, authorities said.
Marilyn Hartman was arrested on charges of misdemeanor criminal trespass and violation of bail bond, Chicago Police said. Now she's back in a Cook Countyjail, just three days after she was released.
The 66-year-old's alleged efforts to repeatedly sneak onto flights earned her the nickname "serial stowaway." Most recently, she succeeded in traveling from Chicago to London without a passport or boarding pass, according to Chicago Police.
On January 14, she made it through O'Hare security and onto a flight bound for Heathrow Airport, Chicago Police said. British Customs officials detained her at Heathrow on January 15. She returned to O'Hare on January 18 and was immediately arrested and charged with one misdemeanor count of trespass and one felony count of theft.
Hartman left jail on Thursday after a judge reduced her bond and dropped an electronic monitoring requirement, CNN affiliate WBBM reported. Hartman's public defender, Parle Roe-Taylor, argued that Cook County did not have the jurisdictional authority to monitor Hartman in neighboring Lake County. According to police, she lives at an address in Grayslake listed as low-income housing for senior citizens.
As a condition of her release, Hartman was ordered to stay away from O'Hare and Chicago Midway Airport and undergo a psychiatric evaluation, CNN affiliate WLS reported.
Then, around 1:25 a.m. Sunday, Chicago Police officers responded to a call at O'Hare of a woman refusing to leave, the department said. Officers searched the airport and found a woman they later identified as Hartman in Terminal 3.
She was ordered to be electronically monitored, based on the new charge of criminal trespass. Her next court date is January 31, according to the Cook County sheriff's office.
Hartman's nickname started catching on after she repeatedly tried to board flights at San Francisco International Airport to Hawaii without a ticket. In 2014, she was sentenced to probation and ordered to stay away from the San Francisco airport.
She made national headlines in August 2014, when she was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for successfully boarding a flight from Mineta San Jose International Airport without a ticket. She pleaded no contest to the charges and was sentenced to probation. The next day she was rearrested at Los Angeles International Airport.
Her streak continued at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. On August 14, Hartman was given a warning for trying to enter a security checkpoint without a ticket. Twelve days later, she was arrested in an airport terminal for criminal trespass. A day after that, Hartman was again seen loitering around a security checkpoint, Phoenix police said.
She was arrested in Florida in 2015. Another arrest followed at O'Hare in 2016 for violating her probation, which forbid her from setting foot on airport property. She was sentenced to six months of house arrest in a mental health facility for violating court orders to stay away from airports, WBBM reported.
Reporters who have followed her arrests said the success of her evasive maneuvers depends on her ability to blend into a crowd as a seemingly harmless, elderly white woman. She employs tactics like ducking under ropes, keeping her head down, piggybacking on small groups, and using other passengers' discarded boarding passes, Joe Eskenazi wrote in The Guardian last week.
Aside from exposing flaws in airport security, Eskenazi said that her case has revealed the justice system's inability to deal with someone like her. In a 2015 profile, Eskenazi described a revolving door of arrests, court appearances, and lenient sentences with no end in sight and no clear rationale for her actions.
"Marilyn Jean Hartman's life is in a holding pattern," he wrote. "She just wants to fly. Period. And she'll try again, and again, and again, until she's grounded. For good."


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Nintendo Wii U launch and pricing disclosed
Two models inbound
Nintendo today officially revealed Wii U release dates, foreign pricing structures and launch titles.
Two variations of the console will be available, with a basic edition set to cost around the £200 mark and a more premium edition roughly £50 more. Nintendo's RRP for the UK is a hazy affair, so the ball is in retailers' court with that one.
The difference between basic and premium is mainly a memory issue. The basic model packs an 8GB flash drive, while the premium ups that to 32GB and throws in a stand for the tablet controller and console.
While the console comes with just the one controller, the price of additional gamepads is likely to top the £100 mark. Then again, being a tablet device, a triple figure sum is hardly surprising and the relatively low cost of the console itself should compensate for those who wish to fully splash out on day one.
Heaps of launch titles have been announced too, with an array of ports from current-gen consoles making up the numbers. These include Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Mass Effect 3, Assassins Creed III, Fifa 13 and our most-recent favourite Darksiders 2.
Meanwhile Ninty talked up its first-party titles, such as Nintendoland, Game & Wario, and the predictable plumber refresh, New Super Mario Bros. U. It also revealed a couple of enticing Wii U exclusives: Bayonetta 2 and The Wonderful 101.
The Nintendo Wii U launches in the UK on November 30. Our friends over the pond will get theirs slightly earlier on November 18, with prices starting at around $300. Mamma Mia.
Undecided? You can read our first impressions with the Wii U here on Reg Hardware. ®


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Pure Red / Yellow / Blue Colour - Aleksandr Rodchenko, 1921, oil on canvas
I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting. These are the primary colours. Every plane is a discrete plane and there will be no more representation.--Aleksandr Rodchenko, 1939, cited in "The Primary Colors for the Second Time: A Paradigm Repetition of the Neo-Avant-Garde", Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, October 37, 1986, p.44.


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- Tunniste
- DOI: 10.2791/97678, ISBN: 978-92-79-39495-9, ISSN: 1831-9424, Other: EUR 26760, Other: OPOCE LF-NA-26760-EN-N, URL: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/111111111/32813, JRC nr: JRC91031
- Julkaisupäivä
- 1. lokakuuta 2014
The Analytical Country Reports analyse and assess in a structured manner the evolution of the national policy research and innovation in the perspective of the wider EU strategy and goals, with a particular focus on the performance of the national research and innovation (R&I) system, their broader policy mix and governance. The 2013 edition of the Country Reports highlight national policy and system developments occurring since late 2012 and assess, through dedicated sections:
-National progress in addressing Research and Innovation system challenges;
-National progress in addressing the 5 ERA priorities;
-The progress at Member State level towards achieving the Innovation Union;
-The status and relevant features of Regional and/or National Research and Innovation Strategies on Smart Specialisation (RIS3);
-As far relevant, country Specific Research and Innovation (R&I) Recommendations.
Detailed annexes in tabular form provide access to country information in a concise and synthetic manner.
The reports were originally produced in December 2013, focusing on policy developments occurring over the preceding twelve months.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters
By Anna Anthropy
This isn't a zine, hell, this isn't even a book about zines. It's a book about the concept of video games as zines. And there are some interesting ideas in here concerning the video game industry in it's current form, how diversification of the type of people who make games would probably improve the industry, and how it's easier than most people think to make video games.
Anthropy brings forward the idea of DIY games that are distributed for free online as an equivalent of zines. They can be made by only one person, made with no commercial intent, and made just because you want to make something. In fact Anthropy says you don't even have to show people the games you make, but that by creating games (even terrible ones) you get a better idea of how games are constructed, and also become more creative yourself (something I definitely think is good!).
I think there's lots of really interesting stuff still to be said about video games, and while reading this book a quote from a video game creator came back to me: "a video game is the most effective way I can express myself." I thought that was really fascinating and shows a side of video games that most people don't realize exists.
Of course, there are also lots of problems with this book. It really stretches to hit two hundred pages, is fairly repetitive in places, and there are a lot of games (and ideas) it just completely ignores. I'm not sure I could really recommend this book, but at the same time I'm not sure of other books that cover similar areas. Are there any?
Mostly though I just wish that I encountered more zines about video games. If you've made one get in touch! I'd love to read it.
(I'd also kind of love to get a zine on a 3.5 inch floppy disk, but I would have no way of actually reading it...)
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