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BERLIN — After serving with the town for nearly a decade, Berlin Police Department (BPD) K-9 Titus has officially and his replacement, Luke, is now on the streets.
At 9 years old, Titus, has spent his entire career with Berlin. He began training at only a few months old with future handler BPD Senior Officer Chris Bireley. While he's made the transition to handling Luke, Bireley admitted that Titus was unique for him.
"He was my first dog," he said.
Bireley and Titus trained together at Shallow Creek Kennels in Pennsylvania for three months before Titus came on as a BPD K-9. According to Bireley, the training was intense and comprehensive.
"Before we left, we had to pass a certification," he said.
With Luke, Bireley didn't need to go through that same process. Because he was an experienced handler already, BPD was able to purchase Luke pre-trained. While this increased the price, with Luke costing about $11,750 to Titus' $2,500, Bireley pointed out that Berlin was able to avoid paying for the expensive qualification training. Additionally, Luke was able to hit the streets immediately, allowing Titus, who began to cut back on duties in January, to finally leave the BPD entirely.
While Berlin currently only has Luke as an active K-9, Bireley stressed that the dog is an incredibly important tool for law enforcement. Besides searching for narcotics, which Bireley explained makes up about half of a K-9's duty, Luke is also able to go out on patrol, track fugitives or missing persons.
"They could track a lost child," said Bireley.
Given the role K-9's play, Mayor Gee Williams said that he and the rest of the council would be interested in learning more about the program, with the possibility of adding more dogs to BPD in the future if there was a need.
"We as a Mayor and Council don't have much experience with that and we'd be glad to learn ourselves," he said.
Titus has now become the newest civilian member of Bireley's family.


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Last year, the number of cars stole in the UK sky-rocketed, leaving motorists more and more worried about their vehicles.
The Office for National Statistics, claims that during 2017, 89,000 motors were nicked by thieves, which is up by 56% from the year before making it the worst year for car thefts since 2012.
Experts are pinning the rise on crooks using keyless entry systems to break into a car.
Figures from security experts Tracker found around two-thirds of stolen vehicles were the result of the cars being "electronically compromised", the Mirror reports.
How keyless thefts work
As the name suggests, keyless thefts are those targeting cars that don't need a key in the ignition to get started.
While this change in technology has certainly made things convenient for drivers - you can simply get in and start the car up without having to take your key out of your pocket - it's also provided an opportunity for crooks.
These thefts rely on a trick called a relay attack which is shockingly simple to carry out.
The crooks just need to get their hands on a relay amplifier and a relay transmitter. They then use these to essentially boost the signal from your key, tricking your car into thinking the key fob is next to the vehicle, allowing the thieves to get in and make off with your motor.
These thefts are often carried out from outside your home too, as it's a pretty safe bet that your keys will be inside the house. The crooks simply lurk around outside, trying to get a hit on the signal from your key.
A recent study by Tracker suggested that the vast majority of motorists with keyless vehicles are at risk of this crime, in part because of where they leave their car keys overnight - sticking them in the hallway for example or on a keyhook downstairs, areas which are relatively accessible for thieves roaming outside the property with an amplifier.
Andy Barrs, head of police liaison at Tracker, said: "We're seeing more and more of these relay attacks taking place across the country. It's clear from our survey that many people are unintentionally leaving themselves vulnerable to these kinds of attack, by putting their keys in easy reach of relay devices."
Steps you can take to beat the thieves
There are a host of steps motorists can take to protect their motor from wily crooks looking to exploit these scams.
When it comes to home security, parking your vehicle in a garage where possible will certainly help - if they can't access the vehicle, the thieves certainly can't steal it.
If you don't have access to a garage, then additional security around the location of your parking spot and your house will help, whether that's CCTV or a motion sensor light, as it will put them off trying their luck.
Adopting old fashioned physical protection will also help. These could include a steering lock, which might set you back about £30 from Argos or a driveway parking post, which is available for around £60 from Barriers Direct .
Where do you keep your key fob?
It's also really important to think about where you keep those key fobs. While the relay devices used by car thieves can receive signals through walls, doors and windows, they can't handle metal.
So put your fob inside something metallic and you should be OK. This could mean a metal tin or even a microwave, according to Tracker.
Just try to remember to take the fob out before using it.
You can also pick up wallets in which to keep your fob which block the signal and so keep the thieves at bay.
Halfords says that sales of its £10 RFID wallet have rocketed by 400% in the past few weeks.
David Howells, car security expert at the retailer, said: "In-car security systems can only do so much to prevent a car being stolen. It seems that many anti-theft systems can be easily bypassed and using a simple device like an RFID wallet can prevent your fob being hacked."

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Police Chief Howard Jordan said One L. Goh is in custody after he surrendered about an hour after the shooting at Oikos University, which also wounded three. Jordan said police have recovered the weapon they believe he used during the rampage.
"It's going to take us a few days to put the pieces together," Jordan said. "We do not have a motive."
Jordan said there were about 35 people in or near the building when gunfire broke out Monday morning. Of the seven fatalities, five died at the scene and another two at the hospital. Three wounded victims are in stable condition, he said.
"This unprecedented tragedy was shocking and senseless," Jordan said.
Soon after the shooting, heavily armed officers swarmed the school in a large industrial park near the Oakland airport and, for at least an hour, believed the gunman could still be inside.
Art Richards said he was driving by the university on his way to pick up a friend when he spotted a woman hiding in the bushes and pulled over. When he approached her, she said, "I'm shot" and showed him her arm.
"She had a piece of her arm hanging out," Richards said, noting that she was wounded near the elbow.
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help with adding color to 4c cullet
I know it's opening a big can of worms so if anyone can point me in the right direction I am willing to do the research and I would appreciate the help. I am a new student and I am just trying to get something different than black and cobalt blue. I have seen a red attempted but it came out green. I saw a sample that was melted a couple years ago and it was real livery and brown but no surprise there. I have seen a bucket marked green but we only have 2 colors that we melt. Our current method is to mix the colorants and cullet in a 5 gallon bucket then charge into a small 4 pot gas fired furnace. I don't think there is a squeeze or anything like that but I guess we could if we had to. I asked a few advanced students why we only had a few colors and they answered something like if there were other colors the guy that built the furnace would have known about it. I mean I know we can't do any expensive melts but there has to be something else and I would like to get some numbers together so I know how much not to exceed when adding stuff so it will still fit the base and all that. I know it's a big question and it's been covered before so I would be happy with a nudge in the right direction. I am willing to experiment but I know there are more than 2 colors we can melt. It'd be fun trying anyway. They might not be red, yellow, or orange but I'd be happy with puke green and purple. I own Weyl's "colored glasses" but it's a little above my head still. I can feel the eyes rolling now but I won't know where to start my research if I don't ask. sorry for the dumb question.
Kevin Bethea
It's not a dumb question Kevin. I don't have the time right this minute to go into detail but you can get some more colors than you are currently getting. Before you get anything from me though you need to do something first. Go get the clear furnace nice and hot and ladle a lot of the clear into very cold water allowing the glass to enter the water as a fine stream. If the water warms up, get more cold water. You are going to need a fine frit to do the things I will suggest. Make a bunch of it. Bug lumpy chunks of cullet make for hard coloring.
Then call up standard Ceramics in Pittsburg and order manganese dioxide, cuprous oxide ( red copper), nickel oxide,,ferrous oxide and about fifty grams of silver nitrate. The silver won't come from Standard and that will be a good start. Get about ten pounds of each, maybe 20 of the manganese. It at least is cheap. You will need to also get some black tin somewhere but Standard won't have it. Seattle Pottery might. I don't want to sell more of my stock.
Then report back and I will begin to lead you down the yellow brick road. to C-4 happiness.
wow. Thanks Pete. I'll report back when I get the stuff together. I need to see what we have already too and I might find the tin or something. I am going up there now to assist someone for a while so I should have time to have him show me what we have. That's awesome. I appreciate it. I knew it was going to be a time consuming question so I was scared to ask it but when they said there weren't any colors I just laughed because I have read enough to know better.
Kevin Bethea
(getting pencil and paper ready... a cullet coloring class online!)
Thanks Pete!
Copper blue.....
Gabbert will make a nice turquoise blue when mixed with the copper oxide. We used to mix a very small quantity with about 100 pounds of freshly washed cullet - right in the paper drum. You just roll it around on the ground for awhile to mix - the little bit of moisture from the washing process makes the powder stick to the cullet. Let it sit for a day and then charge as usual. It would probably mix easier if you fritted the glass first as Pete suggest - but I have had good results by just mixing it with the cullet as is. I was using a top fired gas melter.
The revolution will not be televised.
I like to fine frit it because it allows better penetration of the cullet. You already have one strike against you since the glass is already formed as opposed to batch where you can really penetrate the structure. Cullets are frequently in an oxidizing state which limits you in coloring but persistence will yield some good stuff, not as good as batch and you can't make opaques but you can do a lot. Further cullets are normally not the most expensive glasses to make in the world, 4C being a good example and the lack of heavier alkaline fluxes limits tonal colors I find attractive but I would point out that all of Josh Simpsons work is done in 4C including the basic color. Peet Robison was making a copper ruby using fine frit at one point.We spent a good bit of the color class making a gold ruby batch that would be compatible with Josh's clear. I won't go as far as I go in the color class, it just isn't possible but I think we can improve your pallet some. Just make sure you get the crucibles from me.
I have a little time right now since I'm cooling my heels babysitting the gallery:
I am going to think in seven pound quantities heres since most of my old cullet formulas were based on a Tamax crucible that held... 7 lbs.
Most colors do pretty well in the one tenth of one percent amount there certainly are exception If I wanted to make a turquoise blue in cullet I would add about 25 grams of red copper to the frit. I think you could go up to 32 grams with no expansion shift at all. Fire in a neutral atmosphere.
The same would apply to Nickel oxide. It will make a purpley brown glass depending on the alkaline flux. I would bet that the 4c is cheap and the flux is soda so expect the brown tones. Again 32 grams.
Iron glasses. Ick... Some people like them. Add 20 grams red iron to the frit. it's coke bottle green. Try variants with a bit of cobalt or copper or both.
Try one gram cobalt and 30 grams copper. that should yield a periwinkel. You can mess with this combo endlessly.
Three grams cobalt is a dark blue for the absolutely uninitiated. Go to thirty grams and you will have a threading color as well as a trashed pot. Being in the crucible biz, I think that's just great.
Try 4 grams silver nitrate and 20 grams black tin and ten grams red iron. Reduce this stuff heavily. Beautiful opal swirls
try 20 grams copper oxide, 20 grams of black tin and reduce while melting. IF YOU ARE LUCKY this will make a red glass. I don't know enough about c4 to know for sure.
Chrome... it's hard to get potassium dichromate these days. No one wants to ship it. If you can get it, grind it finely and add 30 grams to the 7 lbs of cullet. Think 7 up bottles. Add cobalt or copper to change the blue tones. You can do some very nice and some very ugly things with this stuff. Aviod chrome oxide. It's very hard to melt. It's also carcinogenic. Think rat poison. That's it's claim to fame.
Neodymium oxide. It takes a lot. About 50 grams in seven pounds for a color that is violet in ultra violet light and ice blue in fluorescent light. This is not a casing glass.
Manganese dioxide add about 65 grams of this to the 7 lbs of cullet and see what it does. If it's too light, add more- maybe another 20 grams. It will kick into a strong purple. Tends to be messed up by high sodium base glasses and is gorgeous in potash glasses. You could add silver to this stuff too.
In general, ty to add the colorants to a slightly damp frit and shake it or whatever to get the cullet coated. Try to avoid dumping the chemicals onto the top of the cullet. This tends to sink to the bottom when the melt gets going.
For now, that should do it. You can't make opaque glasses with cullet. Forget cryolite and phosphates. Also don't add selenium to cullet or zinc. They won't work This however should keep you off the streets and amazing your friends for a while.
I would not use Manganese with cullet. I don't think you will ever get a strong color no matter how much you use. I consider cullet "reduced" in the sense that there is very little O2 left in it. Manganese needs O2 to be purple. This was the reason using cullet for copper reds works fine if you don't mind the swirls.
Josh Simpson gets all of his purple color from manganese in 4C so I am quite sure it works fine. I did some work on that color for him in January so I know what's in the cullet additive. It has lots and lots of manganese and I melted it in the 4C. Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
My experience was with the SP87 cullet. I don't know what the difference would be but obviously there must be something. What %/ wt. was used?
about 2%. Sp doesn't take manganese well at all, you're right. Also the slightest amount of selenium and it goes beer bottle brown.`
That's amazing! I use 2% MnO2 for a deep purple in sp87 BATCH but in cullet it doesn't do much at all. I just assumed the O2 in the batch kept the Mn oxidized. Was there any other possible introduction of Oxygen such as nitrates in the melt?
no. I can't talk about the additives too much since it isn't my intellectual property but I'm comfortable describing the manganese.
Good work Kevin! Always question what you're being told are the limits.
A bit of potassium dichromate in with the manganese will do wonders for keeping the manganese in the state where it shows color. All my notes and books are packed up at the moment, so I can't supply a number, but I think Scholes lists a percentage for this addition in the color chapter if someone has their copy handy and can check.
If you want all your chemicals in one place at reasonable prices then check out:
They don't care what they ship.
They just added an annoying flash page as an entry. I hate that.
Pottery supply places will have a lot of these chemicals at higher prices. Davens Ceramics in Georgia is good and the prices not too bad.
There really is a huge range of blues and greens available by just changing the ratios of copper and cobalt. Some nice turquoise in there.
Different amounts of cobalt added to the manganese can give you a bit of a range in your purples too.
There's always sugar to get enough reduction for copper red, assuming getting the black tin is a problem.
A bit of copper in with cobalt gets you some different blues.
I sometimes don't get by here often as I used to, so, if you have questions or whatever I'm at swdeco at hotmail dot com.
Last edited by Dave Bross; 03-05-2006 at 09:31 AM.
Manganese is really easy to "blow out" as a color in even mild reduction. In cullet that isn't hard to do. In batch it's much easier to retain the material. Even so, something in the 4C helps retain the oxidizing condition.
Peet, If you were using the color base batch, there would be no antimony. The clear batch definitely has some but is not as loaded as some clear batch. Antmony acts as an oxygen scavenger in cooling so it can counteract manganese. Manganese acts as its own fining agent since it releases some oxygen on heating and absorbs on cooling.
The results with manganese in cullet can depend on how depleted the oxygen is from melting. Quick well controlled melts might give cullet with better results than long overheated melts.
I think that if you are making cullet to use particularly for making color that there is no reason to go through an entire melt cycle. Get some of it melted, scoop it into water for making good frit. Then finish charging and make a good clear melt.
I just want it hot so it frits well.
My experience with Manganese is that it is fugative and needs to be worked as soon as it fines. The hotter you get it the faster it burns out. It tends to sink to the bottom of the pot. It is phototropic, that is, it will deepen in color somewhat when the piece is placed in the sun. Those are notes from the dim dark past. Use the carbonate or dioxide and you get great purple foam and you can make Lava glass.
It would make sense to add Potassium Dichromate as that would add oxygen to the melt. Cobalt carb would help also. My point was Manganese alone in cullet would be very difficult to make a dark purple since it needs oxygen.
Yeah, I am not looking for the secret to anybody's color combo and I am not going to go into color production or anything like that. I'd just be happy to have more than 2 colors and I'd like to learn a little bit while I am at it. I looked in one of the mixing buckets while I was up there for 14 hours today and they aren't even going for the little chunks of cullet so I will make sure I pile up on the fritted cullet. Our directions are to add one spoon of cobalt to the bucket but everybody adds 2 spoon fulls and then lies to our teacher about what they are doing. I can't count the number of times people have asked where the spoon is. We have scales so I won't ask how many spoon fulls I need. There's only one person that mixes black and I haven't found out what he uses yet. He graduated but came back due to Hurricane Katrina but I haven't seen him to be able to ask him. I will keep notes and samples so hopefully I can get the results I am looking for eventually but there's not much that I could pull out of the pot that wouldn't make me happy. I know I am limited with the cullet but that's what I have access to for a while. I had a good idea while looking around the ceramics studio and decided to look for the pottery chemicals and found manganese dioxide and FeOxide black. It's the same instructor for both studios and he lets us do just about anything we want so I should be good there. I'll get what I don't have and I'll check out Dave's source too. I guess since I am back in school I feel like I should question things and this is something I have read about and followed on here but I had no way to try it. It has interested me for a while. Clean pots are probably necessary too so I need to buy a few small ones. I know there are lions, tigers, and bears along the yellow brick road but if it were easy it wouldn't be fun. Besides, it sure beats regular homework. I think you gave me enough to get started with listing what oxides give different colors for 7 pound batches. I don't know how many pounds they fit in the mixing buckets but 7 pounds sounds like a good place to start. Thanks Pete. I made my first encalmo bowl today and a teapot and the rest of the time I was just assisting one of the advanced students with different things but he doesn't know about the color stuff. It's kind of sad to me that not much is going on in the studio right now really but all I can do is just work to make it better. I wrote down what was written on the boxes that the stuff is stored in so I am going to list it in case what I need isn't really what I have. I probably have enough to get me in over my head in a hurry but I am willing to experiment and mix to see what I get. If nothing else I'll share my misery and we can all get a good laugh when things go horribly wrong. thanks for the help.
Kevin Bethea
here's what I found that we had in the store room. I wrote down what was on the boxes it is all stored in. I know most of this is just for glazes and won't be used. We have stuff to melt batch too from what I found but I figured I woud list everything.:
red iron oxide
mang diox granular
mang diox 200 mesh
chrome oxide
FeOxide Black
CoOx cobalt oxide
NiCO2 nickel carbonate
FeCh Iron Chromate
CuCO3 copper carbonate
SnOx Tin Oxide
dr. Rutile
lt. Rutile
Illmenite gran.
Crocus Martis
Yellow Ochre
English China Clay
volcanic ash
soda ash
Tit Diox
bone ash
you can use :
Crocus Martis ( spanish red iron)
Soda ash
red iron oxide
mang dioxide 200 mesh
cobalt oxide
nickel carb
iron chromate ( makes green)
chrome oxide ( hard to melt)
black iron
copper carb
tin oxide only if its black and probably is white.( stannous vs stannic oxide)
the rest is either clay stuff or won't go into cullet. wet the frit very slightly with a spray bottle and add chemicals/ You are but the latest generation to try this. Have fun.
Thanks again. My teacher hasn't been blowing glass very long and he was a student of a professor that recently retired that had built the furnace a long time ago. He was a 70's type guy for sure so I imagine he knew about more than 2 colors but somehow that all got lost. His name is Ralph Harvey but I missed him by a few years. I know he has notes somewhere so that's my first question for him when I meet him. My teacher now has a background in metal working so we sometimes learn the cave man approach to glassblowing. No offense to cave people. It's funny to watch his demos sometimes. I have a lot to learn so I can learn a little of the good from everyone. Last night we were making compotes(sp? big goblet shapes), triple cup reverse axis vases with lip trails and matching handles, and various other bit work stuff. Taking some of the flashes made me nervous but I had fun and I got my workout for the day. Our studio used to be full all night long years ago but those guys have left and it's just me every night. If somebody does show up they are going to stay longer than they planned. I made sure I learned how to shut down first thing so I could be up there as long as I wanted. I get so excited I forget to eat so I can imagine most of you guys remember those days. I leave my phone number up there so if I am not there people can call me and I meet them up there to help out. I think I average about 60 hours a week on top of class time and I'd like to be there more but I have 2 other studio courses. Periwinkle sounds like a good color to start with but like I said, anything would make me happy. We have a sandblaster so things can be "fixed" so to speak. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Soon I will ask questions and eventually get to where I need to just take a color class so I have to keep hoping that you keep teaching it and that I can afford it when you do. After that I might be able to get something out of Weyl's book that I bought a while back. Basic guidelines are a great start for me. I heard Dave reference Scholes but is that a book or just research that's still accessible somehow? I doubt I'll understand it right now but I wouldn't mind buying another book. I know Dave has tried all kinds of melts so maybe one day I'll have enough notes to share. I guess I could make things that don't match the base at all as long as I don't case over it so I doubt anything will go to waste but it will be a while before I try opals and all the fun stuff I have read about in Dave's testing. For now, I am a happy glassblower so thanks everybody. I'll try the turquoise Brian mentioned I'm sure and we even got Peet in on this one. And no, I don't mind the swirls one bit. You should have seen the "successful" melt of red I saw. I saw 10 shades of brown I had never seen before and I wouldn't call it red if you asked me to name that color. When I want pretty red that will polish perfectly I'll buy Pete's. Same goes for the black since I have heard that stuff it just awesome. Thanks Pete and everybody. I'll be amazing my friends before I know it.
Kevin Bethea
"Scholes" is referring to the author of a book called Modern Glass Practice.
There are a couple of copies for sale currently on abebooks .com for around $30-40
I think it's out of print at the moment
This was a most helpful read when I was first trying to get my mind around how to do color. Simple and straigtforward.
When you get to learning batching you'll be glad to have this book too. It walks you through the math in a very straightforward manner.
Sounds like you're in a good position for some late night color experiments.
Don't ever hesitate to check back with us. We all dearly want to see more young'uns become capable of melting color.
You're always welcome to email me if you want. Nice to see someone with your level of motivation.
One question.....
Do you understand how the level of oxygen in the glass is going to affect certain colors? If not we should explain that for you. This is why your attempted red came out green.
I sometimes don't get by here often as I used to, so, if you have questions or whatever I'm at swdeco at hotmail dot com.
Last edited by Dave Bross; 03-05-2006 at 10:05 AM.
Thanks Dave. I remember looking for modern glass practice for a while but I found out it was out of print so I will get it from your source while the getting is good. Simple and straight forward sounds good. I usually read books with pictures so when I got coloured glasses I knew I was in over my head. I am in a great position for late night experiments so I'll set aside some time to try some stuff. We are tough on the pots too. Last week I spent a couple days pulling cobalt off the floor through a small hole in the side of the furnace. There was a cracked pot and people thought it just hadn't been charged so they just kept filling it and refilling it. Yanking the pot out was kind of fun but not something I would want to do all the time. It didn't seem to bother anyone else. what a mess that was.
Thanks for offering the help. I know you have done the research so you'll have all the answers when I am stumped. I understand that it needs oxygen but I am not sure how to add it. I would assume it means turn the gas down so that it's not reducing but if you have time to explain I am all ears because I know I am way off. I have read about valence changes, antimony, and the need for squeezes but I wouldn't dare say I understand any of it. If I had to make a more educated guess I would guess some form of nitrates might add oxygen into the melt itself. The guy that melted the red that turned green got so mad at me for saying it was green but it was coke bottle green with a thin thread of something in the middle that he swears is red. That green looked better than the green that used to get melted when I compared some cane that was saved from both melts that I found last night. I guess that's why no one melts it. White would be a cool color to have but I will start small. Pete made Neodymium oxide sound like a lot of fun too. Another dumb question about the casing part. Does that mean I shouldn't case over it or I shouldn't use it to case over things. Probably neither huh? I'll keep filling up my skecth book will all the info I have gotten so far and I'll let you guys know what happens, good or bad. Maybe it'll bring back bad memories for some of you but it'll be good for a laugh. I might get lucky and get a red one of these days.
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If you can you should track down the old professor Harvey. A couple of graduates from your studio who studied under him are now here in Cincinnati and they have talked about a bunch of colors that were made there. I have also heard that he sometimes still pokes around the studio. If you can not find him I will see what information I can gain from them on formulas or location of information. But also, as everyone has said good note recording and experimentation are excellent teachers. We use 4c here in Cin. but no color furnace currently, I would still be interested in what you discover. Keep us informed and enjoy!
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Are you listening? Kids' ear infections cost health care system nearly $3 billion a year
Dr. Nina Shapiro
Acute otitis media, or ear infection, is the most common ailment among kids of preschool age and younger in the U.S., primarily because these children have immature middle-ear drainage systems, higher exposure to respiratory illnesses and undeveloped immune systems.
And because it's also the most common reason for antibiotic use among all children, the costs associated with acute otitis media (AOM) are under more scrutiny than ever by health care and government administrators, especially given today's political and economic climate, strained health-care resources and cost-containment efforts.
While estimates of the economic impact of AOM have been formulated in the past, a new study by UCLA and Harvard University researchers is the first to use a national population database that gives a direct, head-to-head comparison of expenditures for pediatric patients diagnosed with ear infections and similar patients without ear infections.
The findings show that AOM is associated with significant increases in direct costs incurred by consumers and the health care system. With its high prevalence across the U.S., pediatric AOM accounts for approximately $2.88 billion in added health care expenses annually and is a significant health-care utilization concern.
The research is published in the current edition of the journal The Laryngoscope.
"Although the annual incidence of ear infection may be declining in the U.S., the number of kids affected remains high, and the public health implications of AOM are substantial," said study co-author Dr. Nina Shapiro, director of pediatric otolaryngology at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and a professor of head and neck surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "As our health care system continues to be vigorously discussed around the nation, efforts to control costs and allocate resources appropriately are of prime importance."
For the study, the researchers examined records of pediatric patients under the age of 18 culled from the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a national survey conducted by the Agency for Health Research and Quality which serves a benchmark data-set specifically designed for the assessment of health care costs.
Of the 81.5 million children the researchers sampled, 8.7 million had received care for ear infections. The rates of visits to the doctor's office, refills of prescription medications and health care costs associated with doctor visits were then compared between those with diagnosed ear infections and those without. The rates were adjusted for age, sex, region, race, ethnicity, insurance status and co-morbidities.
The researchers found that children with ear infections had an average of two additional outpatient visits, 0.2 emergency visits and 1.6 prescriptions filled, compared with those without ear infections.
Ear infections were associated with an incremental increase of $314 per child annually for outpatient health care and an average of $17 in additional costs for medications. This resulted in an overall $2.88 billion annual cost for ear infections.
"Although certain immunizations that target infection-causing bacteria may play a role in slightly reducing the overall rate of ear infections, millions of young kids will still have them," Shapiro said. "The take-home message is that the common ear infection is an extremely costly entity with significant financial burdens on the health care system."
Future studies on the health care cost associated with AOM may include analyzing the indirect costs, such as work and school days missed, gasoline costs and parking charges for outpatient visits, the researchers said.
Study co-authors included Dr. Sameer Ahmed of UCLA and Dr. Neil Bhattacharyya of Harvard Medical School.
The study was not funded and the authors have no financial disclosures.


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After a few sprinkles of rain dropped around the Bay Area over the weekend, the region is set to enjoy another dry, warm and mild week of weather, a National Weather Service forecaster said Sunday.
Starting today, daytime temperatures were expected to reach the upper 60s in San Francisco and lower 70s in inland valleys and the South Bay, forecaster Bob Benjamin said.
A stable ridge of high pressure, which has kept Bay Area temperatures high and rainfall low so far this winter, is re-settling over the Eastern Pacific after a small front passed through the region on Saturday, Benjamin said.
Rainfall from the storm did not surpass a few hundredths of an inch at most locations, Benjamin said.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- One of the pirates who held a Saudi oil supertanker off Somalia before releasing it for ransom has told CNN how five in his group drowned when the boat in which they left the ship capsized as they tried to evade rival pirates seeking a cut of the money.
A parachute floats down to the Sirius Star after being dropped by a small aircraft on Friday.
Pirates seized the Sirius on November 15. A $3.5 million ransom payment -- down from the initial demand of $25 million -- was dropped by parachute onto the ship Friday, but the pirates delayed the vessel's release after the drownings.
"Other pirates on the shore wanted a tip from the pirates on the Sirius Star, so they started to fire in the air as our people approached the land," Libaan Jaama told CNN. "When our pirates heard the shots, they thought they would be robbed, so they tried to return to the tanker. In that quick turn the boat capsized."
Jaama said he was mourning his friends, who, along with other pirates on board, took 23 crew members hostage. The Kenya Seafarers Association said the crew -- which included citizens of Croatia, Great Britain, the Philippines, Poland and Saudi Arabia -- was in "good health and high spirits" when the vessel was released Saturday. Read blog on how CNN contacted a pirate
The supertanker, owned by Vela International Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabian-based Saudi Aramco, was the largest ship ever hijacked by pirates. The ship is a VLCC, or "very large crude carrier," and more than three times the tonnage of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the U.S. 5th Fleet said.
The tanker's capture in November sparked fears for its enormous cargo. The Liberian-flagged tanker was carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil worth about $100 million when it was captured.
Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya Seafarers Association said it would have been a "disaster" if the pirates had fired guns aboard the ship, harming the cargo or igniting a fire.
Hijackings off East Africa are a cause of growing international concern, spurring a number of international navies to patrol the pirate-wracked Gulf of Aden.
Pirates attacked nearly 100 vessels and hijacked as many as 40 in the waters off the coast of Somalia in 2008, according to the International Maritime Bureau. See how pirate attacks peaked in 2008 »
The Gulf of Aden links the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. About 20,000 oil tankers, freighters and merchant vessels pass along the crucial shipping route near the largely lawless Somalia each year.
The financial and human costs of piracy are extensive. Ships ranging from luxury yachts to the Saudi supertanker have been held for ransom. At least one major company pulled its ships from the Gulf of Aden region in 2008, meaning cargo bound for Europe had to round the African continent rather than use the Suez Canal.
The pirates are based in Somalia -- a land racked by poverty and conflict -- and say hijacking ships is all about the money and the lifestyle.
"We have the best way of life," Jaama said. "We drive in white SUVs, we enjoy driving them and there is absolutely no difficulty in our life."
Jaama warned the flotilla of coalition warships in the region ready and authorized to strike at Somali pirates to back off.
"Those foreign forces are making a mistake targeting pirates because we only hunt in our waters," he said. "If they come to our borders, we will think of steps to take against them."
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The storied Tevatron particle collider, the most powerful machine of its kind in the U.S. and for many years in the world, will smash its final protons and antiprotons Friday.
The collider, which came online in 1983, accelerates particles to near light speed on a six-kilometer racetrack before steering them into head-on collisions. At those energies, the debris from collisions can contain fleeting particles never before observed by physicists. But the Tevatron has been eclipsed by Europe's larger, more powerful Large Hadron Collider, which finally powered up two years ago after a series of delays.
Tevatron physicists had lobbied for a three-year extension to the collider's operational lifetime, but the Department of Energy (DoE) turned them down in January, citing budgetary constraints.
In its 28 years of operation the Tevatron made countless contributions to particle physics. Its import is most tangibly demonstrated by the 1995 discovery of the top quark, one of the last missing pieces of the Standard Model of particle physics, the reigning framework describing the elementary particles that make up our world. The Tevatron also made significant contributions in the ongoing search for the Higgs boson, a particle hypothesized to lend mass to other particles. Tevatron experiments have not revealed the Higgs itself but have largely ruled out large swaths of theoretical terrain where it might be hiding.
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I really did not want to write about Israel again this week, but the outrageous manipulation of the Democratic Party platform, moves in California to make any criticism of Israel a hate crime, and news that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had dressed down the U.S. ambassador in the presence of a congressman before insisting that the United States has no moral right to judge Israel has made it unavoidable to go "once more into the breach, dear friends."
There is a fundamental issue at stake here. That is, does the United States have a national interest in its dealings with the countries in the Middle East that is fundamentally distinct from the Israeli interests? It is a question for dummies, as the answer is clearly yes. Well, if the answer is yes, why are leading politicians and talking heads insisting that the answer is no? Why are so many prominent Americans prepared to ignore the U.S. national interest in support of a foreign nation that has been the source of numerous armed conflicts, that has spied relentlessly on the U.S., and that is a serious drain on the U.S. Treasury? One might add that Americans have become terrorist targets as a consequence while the sharp decline in the favorable views of the United States around the world is largely attributable to the ties to rogue state Israel, even if the Bushes and Obamas have no doubt done their bit through the policy of unrestricted preemptive warfare that has evolved over the past11 years.
The ability of the Israel lobby and of the government of the state of Israel itself to interfere with the U.S. political process has never been more evident than in the past few weeks. At the Republican convention in Tampa, the following appeared in the party platform:
We affirm our unequivocal commitment to Israel's security and will ensure that it maintains a qualitative edge in military technology over any potential adversaries. We support Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state … the Palestinian people must support leaders who reject terror…. We call on Arab governments throughout the region to help advance that goal. Israel should not be expected to negotiate with entities pledged to her destruction. We call on the new government in Egypt to fully uphold its peace treaty with Israel … elements like Hamas and Hezbollah must be isolated because they do not meet the standards of peace and diplomacy of the international community.
In Charlotte a week later, the text of the Democratic Party platform on Israel initially appeared to reveal a shift in thinking in the White House. Coming on the heels of a "significant" scale down in planned joint military exercises with Israel and Gen. Martin Dempsey's comment in London that "I don't want to be complicit" in an attack on Iran, it seemed to signify that Obama might be interested in recalibrating the relationship with Tel Aviv. Unlike the 2008 platform, the 2012 version omitted a declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, did not rule out that some future peace settlement might find Palestinian refugees resettled in the their former homes in Israel, and did not specifically call for the "isolation" of Hamas.
Rep. Eric Cantor, speaking for the Romney campaign, attacked the Democrats on Tuesday and called on "all friends of Israel to condemn the president's abrupt break with our closest ally in the Middle East." Romney also chimed in: "It is unfortunate that the entire Democratic Party has embraced President Obama's shameful refusal to acknowledge that Jerusalem is Israel's capital. Four years of President Obama's repeated attempts to create distance between the United States and our cherished ally have led the Democratic Party to remove from their platform an unequivocal acknowledgment of a simple reality. As president, I will restore our relationship with Israel and stand shoulder to shoulder with our close ally."
Then AIPAC and its friends in the Democratic Party struck back. On Tuesday night former Florida congressman Robert Wexler spoke in defense of Israel, citing America's "unflinching commitment" to that nation. He told a reporter, "The speech I delivered was not a typical convention speech. It was actually a significantly substantive speech, in terms of foreign policy about a particular country. To my knowledge, it was the first time that a speech of that nature has been made at either a Democratic or Republican convention outlining an administration's policy about Israel."
That Jerusalem is and should be the capital of Israel was re-inserted into the draft on Wednesday, leading to a ridiculous voice vote presided over by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in which the amendment was clearly voted down three times before Villaraigosa announced that it has passed by the necessary two-thirds. It was a procedure somewhat reminiscent of Stalin standing in front of the Supreme Soviet and calling for a vote. Thanks to the intervention, the final plank on Israel in the Democratic platform now includes: "Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel."
And it didn't end there, lest anyone think that the Dems were not sufficiently hewing to the Israeli line. President Obama made it known that he had personally been supportive of the reinstatement of the Jerusalem language. Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz noted that the Democratic platform was "100% strongly pro-Israel," adding how proud she is to be "the first Jewish woman to represent Florida in Congress." She claimed the missing endorsement had been a "technical omission," but her veracity is questionable. A couple of days earlier she had stated that she'd "heard no less than [Israeli] Ambassador Michael Oren say this, that what the Republicans are doing is dangerous for Israel." An angry Oren denied that he had ever said anything such thing.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York also weighed in, calling the affair "a mistake" by platform drafters, "an act of omission, not commission." AIPAC, which had denied any hand in the changing platform, was smug in victory. In a statement on the brouhaha, it affirmed, "We welcome reinstatement to the Democratic platform of the language affirming Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Together, these party platforms reflect strong bipartisan support for the U.S.-Israel relationship."
Note that no other country friendly to the United States was the subject of a laudatory convention speech. Nor did any other nation receive similar special consideration from the platform writers of either party. Israel stands alone, as if it were the key U.S. relationship in the entire world and, unfortunately, for many politicians who ostensibly represent United States congressional districts, that just might be true. And there is no mercy for those who deviate from the agenda. Ron Paul, who has said that the nation's dysfunctional foreign policy motivated him to run for president, was humiliated by the GOP during his visit to the convention but was given a parting nudge as he went out the door by way of a 15-minute video that very carefully did not mention his views on America's overseas involvements. But even the careful parsing of Paul's career was not enough for those for whom Israel is deeply ingrained in their political psyches. The Republican Platform committee was immediately attacked by the National Jewish Democratic Council for "Paying tribute to this man who disparaged the U.S.-Israel relationship on Iranian television and empathized with Iran's nuclear weapons program — on top of the history of his hate-filled newsletters — is a national disgrace. Romney and the RNC should cancel the tribute and end this dangerous strategic partnership once and for all."
Most of the attention on Israel and the U.S. was understandably centered on the two conventions, but Israel and its allies have clearly been pushing forward on a number of other fronts. On Aug. 28, California HR 35, entitled "Relative to Anti-Semitism," was passed on a voice vote in the Assembly after no debate with 66 out of 80 assembly members signing on. The resolution is ostensibly intended to prevent harassment of Jewish students on campus over their political views. But it cites in its "whereas" portion seeking to make the case for the resolution: "(4) student- and faculty-sponsored boycott, divestment, and sanction campaigns against Israel that are a means of demonizing Israel and seek to harm the Jewish state; (5) actions of student groups that encourage support for terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah and openly advocate terrorism against Israel and the Jewish people; and (6) suppression and disruption of free speech that present Israel's point of view." It unambiguously equates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. Many student and civil liberties groups find the equation a deliberate attempt to stifle free speech. Cecilie Surasky of Jewish Voices for Peace notes, "This resolution wants the University of California system to treat Israel differently from virtually every other country in the world, including the United States, by claiming much criticism of Israeli policies is hate speech."
And it has just been reported that late last month Rep. Mike Rogers, Republican from Michigan, sat in on a meeting in Israel that included Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro. Rogers confirmed that the Israeli PM engaged in a sharp confrontation with Shapiro, saying he was at "wit's end" over the Obama administration's lack of "clarity" on red lines for Iran. Rogers, in a radio interview, basically agreed with the Israeli position, saying that the White House had not "outlined an endgame" and made it clear to the Israelis (or the Iranians) that any proposed military action is actually on the table.
And that was all before Netanyahu denounced Washington publicly during a press conference on Tuesday while on a visit to Bulgaria, saying pointedly, "Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel." The Israeli newspaper Haaretz interpreted the language to be a demand that the United States give Iran an ultimatum that would likely result in war. Haaretz called the prime minister's precise words "an unprecedented verbal attack on the U.S. government."
Why is all of this important? It is important because a serious debate about an asymmetrical bilateral relationship in which Benjamin Netanyahu is now demanding that the United States enter a war in which many Americans will likely die and the U.S. economy will be devastated is not taking place. Instead, our political and chattering class think it is better to go with the flow. Would I describe the politicians and journalists who are along for the ride as Quislings? Probably, but the label is not as important as an understanding of the damage they are inflicting on our country. Congressmen like Mike Rogers should think first of the people who elected him, not Israel. Mitt Romney, who has never served his own country in uniform, appears prepared to go to war at the behest of a not completely rational Benjamin Netanyahu while America's two major political parties, at the national and state levels, are seeking to outdo each other to accommodate Israel at every turn. Perhaps it is time for the American people to begin to recognize that these fifth-column politicos are betraying our country and its vital interests. But maybe it is too late for that. The propaganda mill in favor of Israel and all its works has been grinding for far too long, and too many people appear to be convinced that what is good for Israel is good for the United States.


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MTV appears to be pulling the plug on "Teen Mom 2."
The controversial documentary series, which follows the adult lives of four women who became pregnant in high school, is shutting down production, multiple sources tell The Post.
The decision to end the show follows several months of erratic, headline-grabbing behavior by loose-cannon star Jenelle Evans.
Since Thanksgiving, Evans has become pregnant again, got married, lost her baby and publicly demanded a divorce.
"You f – – king leave out of town and I might be having a miscarriage?! F – – k U, U f – – king piece of sh – t," she tweeted to her husband, Courtland Rogers, last week.
Evans, 21, also shared what appeared to be disturbing, play-by-play updates of her seven-week pregnancy ending.
"And this is the end, I think," she shared with 632,800 followers Friday. "Feel light headed."
Hours later, Evans tweeted that she was with her ex-fiance, Gary Head, at a North Carolina bar.
Insiders say producers are concerned the attention-seeking reality star has become a liability for the show, which tries to characterize itself as a cautionary tale about the hardships of too-young motherhood.
MTV, once unafraid to push the limits of taste and exploitation, appears to be more protective of the image its programs project than in the past.
Last week, Oxygen abruptly scrapped "All My Babies' Mamas" — which documented the relationships between rapper Shawty Lo and the 10 mothers of his 11 children — after charges the show projected a negative stereotype.
"Teen Mom" producers, still reeling from bad press over cast member Amber Portwood, who was jailed last year on drug charges, have been unable to tone down Evans' out-of-control antics.
Since first appearing on MTV, Evans has been arrested seven times on charges including breaking and entering, assault, violation of probation and possession of drugs.
The scandal-plagued star has publicly feuded with her family and other cast members, been forced to give up custody of her 3-year-old son and posed for nude photos which were later leaked on the Internet.
In 2012, Evans was committed to rehab for a second time by her mother, amid tabloid reports of heroin addiction.
"Jenelle is nothing but bad publicity for MTV," says Ashley Majeski, editor of TheAshleysRealityRoundup.com.
"She feeds off the public and the recognition of the fans, and I don't see why they would want to have anything to do with that."
Still, "Teen Mom 2" has remained a ratings bonanza for the former music channel, pulling in more than 3.4 million viewers for its Season 3 premiere last November.
The spinoff of "16 and Pregnant" features newlywed Kailyn Lowry, South Dakota mom Chelsea Houska and recently remarried Leah Messer-Calvert, who is expecting her third child next month.
Some cast members are still awaiting official notice of the cancellation, a source says.
A network rep declined comment.
A fourth and final season of "Teen Mom 2" has already been filmed, and is expected to air sometime this year.
The original "Teen Mom" series concluded its run in October.


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NFC reader library porting guide for LPC11u37h(Ver 5.12) - Porting other demos
Based on NFC reader library porting guide for LPC11u37h(Ver 5.12) ,We have a partial ported NFC reader library like below: Now, it is time to port other demos in this project. You may choose any demo, but here NfcrdlibEx2_AdvancedDiscoveryLoop is selected. and similar with before, the first step is creating a new build configuration: then in the project references, choose the LPCopen library for LPC11u37 instead. Change the MCU settings: Change the build settings: Change FreeRTOS portable to cortex M0: Search "PHDRIVER_LPC1769RC663_BOARD" in the source code of "NfcrdlibEx2_AdvancedDiscoveryLoop" project, and you may simply replace it with "PHDRIVER_LPC11U37RC663_BOARD", and there are only two places needs to be fixed. Search "PHDRIVER_LPC1769" in the source code of "NfcrdlibEx2_AdvancedDiscoveryLoop" project, and you may simply replace it with "PHDRIVER_LPC11U37". Most changes are in phApp_Init.c. Also please don't forget to enable optimization for size. Building result: Demo testing result:
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Overview of supported NFC/MCU Combinations
This page contains information about the supported NXP MCU/MPU and NXP NFC product combinations which have ready to use packages. These can be used as a reference. The table below contains link to where you can find the projects as well. MCU ↓ NFC IC → NTAG I²C plus NTAG 5 PN7150 CLRC663 plus family* PN5180 i.MX RT1050 i.MX RT1050 + NTAG I²C plus i.MX RT1050 + CLRC663 plus Video: Using i.MX RT1050 with CLRC663 plus family and the NFC Reader Library | NXP i.MX RT1060 i.MX RT1060 + NTAG I²C plus i.MX RT1060 + PN7150 i.MX 8M Mini i.MX 8M Mini + PN7150 (Andriod) i.MX 8M Mini + PN7150 (linux-yocto) i.MX 7 Dual Sabre i.MX7 Dual Sabre + PN5180 LPC1769 LPC1769 + CLRC663 plus LPC1769 + PN5180 LPC55S69 LPC55S69 + NTAG I²C plus LPC55S69 + NTAG 5 LPC55S69 + PN7150 LPC55S69 + CLRC663 plus LPC55S69 + CLRC663 plus + SE050 (smart lock) LPC11u37h LPC11u37 + PN7150 LPC11u37h + CLRC663 plus LPC11u68 LPC11u68 + PN7150 LPC82X LPC82X + PN7150 LPC845 LPC845 + CLRC663 plus Kinetis K82F K82F + CLRC663 plus K82F + PN5180 Kinetis K64F K64F + PN7150 K64F + CLRC663 plus Kinetis K63 K63 + PN7150 Kinetis K24 K24 + PN7150 KW41Z KW41Z + NTAG I²C plus KW41Z + NTAG 5 KW41Z + PN7150 *CLRC663 plus family: CLRC663 plus, MFRC630 plus, MFRC631 plus, SLRC610 plus For more information on the NFC products, please visit https://www.nxp.com/nfc
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NFC Reader Library Porting to i.MX RT1050
This document provides a step by step guide of how to use the CLRC663 plus with i.MX RT1050. For this purpose, we need to port the NFC Reader Library to i.MX RT1050. There are two zip files attached to this document: 1. "NFCReaderLibrary_IMXRT1050_Porting Guide +DAL_IMXRT1050_BLE-NFC-V2.zip" : This folder is pre-configured for those who want to use BLE-NFC-v2 board with i.MX RT1050. 2. "NFCReaderLibrary_IMXRT1050_Porting Guide +DAL_IMXRT1050_CLEV6630B.zip" : This folder is pre-configured for those who want to use CLEV6630B board with i.MX RT1050. A video describing how to use i.MX RT1050 with CLRC663 Plus Family is available by clicking this link (Using i.MX RT 1050 with CLRC663 plus family |NXP ) as well.
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NFC reader library porting guide for LPC11u37h(Ver 5.12) - Porting NfcrdlibEx1_BasicDiscoveryLoop
The latest NFC reader library supports lpc1769 which is a cortex M3 controller with LPCopen lib supports, so in theory , it should supports other controllers supported by LPCopen, but we have to test this, so we choose , for example, lpc11u37, a cortex M0 based controller for this porting. Platform for this porting: LPC11u37h-Xpresso Rev A: CLRC663 plus based CLEV663B Blueboard 3.0. Please refer to Prepare CLEV663B board for NFC reader library porting for details. They are connected via LPCXpresso ports. Now we may start the porting, the IDE we use in this porting is MCUXpresso 10.1.1 1. Download and import the latest NFC reader library for CLEV6630B, as it supports CLRC663 plus. For how to import the project, please refer to https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN11211.pdf . 2. Download LPCopen for LPC11u37h and import it as well. 3. Now we may choose some demo in the NFC reader library, for example, the NfcrdlibEx1_BasicDiscoveryLoop, and create new build configuration for lpc11u37h. 4.Select the correct MCU 5.Modify build settings Here we find LPC1769RC663 is defined, so we have to find what is related with this definition in the code and change it/them. Fortunately they are not too many. you may find they are just related with board header file including or something like that, so it is not difficult to modify them. 6. Add new header file for the new board definition 7. add the new board definition 8. As we now use LPCopen lib for LPC11u37h instead, so we have to change the including path. As LPC11u37h is cortex M3 based, so we have to setup FreeRTOS for M0 support: and add the source code for building: 9.Change the link libraries and including path 10.Set the correct ref projects to use LPCopen for LPC11u37h. 11. Some changes in LPCopen library: 1)enable semihosting debug 2) add startup source code for the demo, this C file can be reused/imported from the some lpcopen project. 12. After the above steps, we still have to change the source code in DAL: You know , due to different version of LPCopen library, some function definition might be changed, and different LPCXpresso boards has different pin connection to the LPCXpresso ports, so it is recommended checking the board schematics and the examples in lpcopen project , find the proper function calls to implement the source codes in the DAL folder. When you finished , the porting is done. 13. As the final image size is greater than 128K, we have enable optimization for size. 14.Demo test ok. Now , we know lpc11u37 can be supported by the latest NFC reader library, so the porting should also be applied for other Cortex M0 controllers, and it is recommended the controller with large internal flash size, better greater than 128K, but anyway, in this porting, I didn't enable the size optimization for LPCopen library, so there might be possibility to have a smaller size image at last...
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NFC reader library porting guide for LPC11u37h(Ver 5.12) - Switching the NFC frontend
As NFC reader library 5.12 also supports PN5180, switching the NFC frontend from CLRC663 to PN5180 is quite easy based on previous porting. The porting also includes the hardware settings and software modification. Hardware Setup for porting: a) Remove resistors on PNEV5180B to disconnect the onboard lpc1769 from PN5180, following steps on page 16 of https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN11908.pdf b) Connect LPCXpresso board for LPC11U37 with PNEV5180 as below: Software Modification for porting: 1. Make a copy of Board_Lpc11u37Rc663.h , and change its name to "Board_Lpc11u37Pn5180.h", and import it into the DAL/boards folder. 2.Change the source code in the header file as below: 3. Add two more pins' definition and configuration for BUSY and DWL pins of PN5180, and new configuration for reset pin. and modify the reset logic: 4.Change the IRQ interrupt trigger type to rising edge. 5.Include this header file in BoardSelection.h 6.Add this new configuration in ph_NxpBuild_App.h 7.Add this new configuration in phApp_Init.h 8.Add this new configuration in ph_NxpBuild_Platform.h 9.Add this new configuration in Settings. 10.Building result: Testing result:
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Prepare CLEV663B board for NFC reader library porting
The latest NFC reader library for CLRC663 just supports LPCXpresso1769 and FRDM-K82 boards, so when customers want to porting the library to other host controller, they have to make a custom board at first, or use OM26630FDK and make a little hardware modification by following the steps described in https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/training-reference-material/NFC-READER-K64F.pdf?fsrch=1&sr=3&pageNum=1 to connect the frontend board with host controller board, but today we will discuss an alternative way. The CLEV663B Blueboard is a pure NFC frontend board, and it supports connecting with LPCXpresso board not limited with LPC1769, the main difference with OM26630FDK is the reader IC, which is CLRC663 not CLRC663 plus, but fortunately they are pin to pin compatible, so we may replace it with CLRC663 plus, and use that board for porting purpose. Before: After: please forgive my poor soldering skill... With this new board and LPC1769 Xpresso board, you may run the latest 5.12 NFC reader library, for example, the NfcrdlibEx1_BasicDiscoveryLoop demo. but you might have the following issue: This is due to ver 5.12 use another set of IO pins to connect with the reader IC, modify pin definitions in Board_Lpc1769Rc663.h can fix this issue. The final result is as below: Please note, it is recommended using NFC reader library ver 4.03 to test the hardware including CLEV663B and LPC1769Xpresso before replacing with CLRC663 plus, and you know, CLEV663B Blueboard is just optimized for CLRC663 , so the matching circuit is not the best for CLRC663 plus, it is just good enough to run the demo, so that we may know if the porting is successful, but if you want to have the best performance with CLRC663 plus, you have to redo the antenna tuning, and you may refer to https://community.nxp.com/docs/DOC-335545 for more details on that topic.
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Make the NFC reader library easier to read, by removing folders for the frontend ICs not needed in a project
The NFC reader library is supporting multiple frontends. For a customer this might become a more difficult to use, if only the part for one of the frontend chips is needed. To enhance the readability and usability, you can remove the support for not used reader ICs by simply removing the folders below NxpRdLib/comps/phhalHw/src. For instance: if you only want to use the RC663, you could simply delete the folders Pn5180, Rc523. The result would be a library that only supports RC663. This short screen recording shows the steps to reduce the number of supported Frontends.
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(pomacea) bridgesii
(Reeve, 1856)
Synonym (obsolete): Ampullarius australis
Pomacea bridgesii is known in two varieties in the wild, which could
turn out to be two different species. The rare Pomacea bridgesii bridgesii
subspecies (Reeve, 1856), which is only known from the Rio Grande, Reyes
River at Beni (bridges) and the Pomacea bridgesii diffusa subspecies
(Blume, 1957), which inhabits almost the entire Amazon river system.
Pomacea bridgesii bridgesii is rather large (65mm shell height and more), while Pomacea bridgesii effusa is much smaller, has a much more pronounced spire and a darker shell colour. The bridgesii snails, available in the aquarium trade are Pomacea bridgesii effusa snails and eventually this these snails could turn out to be Pomacea effusa instead of a subspecies from Pomacea bridgesii.
Pomacea bridgesi or Pomacea bridgesii?
In the original description of this Pomacea species, Reeve (Conchologica Iconica, X, plate 3. August 1856) appearantly intented to name the snail as "the ampullaria from Bridges" or "Bridges's ampullaria". Because species are given a Latin name, Bridges was seemingly translated to bridgesius prior to conjugation and thus the name became: "Ampullaria bridgesii".
Shell: The shell of this apple snails
species has about 5 to 6 whorls. The most obvious characteristic of the shell
are the square shoulders (flat at the top of the whorls) and almost 90°
sutures. The shell opening (aperture) is large and oval, the umbilicus is
large and deep.
The size of the shell varies from 40-50 mm wide and 45-65 mm high. The spire is high and sharp, hance the often used name: spike-topped apple snail.
The colour varies from yellow, green to brown, with or without dark spiral bands (a lot of variations exists). Due to cultivated mutations white and blue variations are obtained in recent years. The yellow variation is well known in the aquarium trade as the golden mystery snail. This variation was originally generated in Florida (U.S.A.) and has then spread in the aquarium trade. The white variations are sometimes called the ivory snail in the aquarium world.
colour genes' section (interactive page to learn more about the colour genes
in Pomacea bridgesii.
Interactive 3D-models (Java):
Operculum: The operculum is moderately thick and corneous. The structure
is concentric with the nucleus near the centre of the shell. The colour of the
operculum varies from light to dark brown. The operculum can be retracted in
the aperture (shell opening).
Body: As with the shell, many variations exist: from light yellow (cultivated) to almost black with yellow spots on the mouth.
Shell of a dark wild-form Pomacea bridgesii snail, back view.
Almost white variant of Pomacea bridgesii, also called the ivory snail.
Shell and operculum, young snail.
Note the 90° sutures and flat upper part of the whorls, typical of Pomacea bridgesii.
Shell of Pomacea bridgesii, view of the inside to illustrate the shell construction.
Pomacea bridgesii, yellow (golden) variant.
Note the flat top of the whorls.
Yellow-black apple snail (Pomacea bridgesii). This colour variant lacks the brown colour of the shell, so the yellow base colour shines through.
Blue apple snail (Pomacea bridgesii). The shell is in fact white, but the black body of the snail shines through as blue.
Pomacea bridgesii variant with banded (brown) shell.
Red-yellow variety of Pomacea bridgesii. This colour variant lacks the yellow base colour of the shell, so the purple-reddish bands are left without their yellow pigment, which normally makes the brown.
Pomacea bridgesii, wildtype colours.
Eggs: The pale pink to reddish eggs are deposited above the waterline and are closely attached to each other. Their size varies from 2.20 to 3.5 mm (0.5 to 0.9 inch) diameter. An average egg-clutch contains 200 to 600 eggs.
Young Pomacea brigesii snails.
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Food: Prefers dead and rotting plants and artificial foods like fish
food; doesn't eat healthy plants unless no other food is available. This makes
the Pomacea bridgesii snail a good choice for planted aquaria.
Behaviour: moderately amphibious animal; relatively inactive during the day; can often be found on the bottom where it's searching for food or remains hidden in the mud; most activity during the night.
Distribution: Pomacea bridgesii effusa: Widely distributed throughout the Amazon river system (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru). Pomacea bridgesii bridgesii: rare species only reported at Rio Grande, Reyes River at Beni.
In the 1960s Pomacea bridgesii effusa has been introduced to Hawaii and in the 1980s it has spread to south-east Asia. In the early 1980's Pomacea bridgesii effusa established in Florida, USA.
Common in the aquarium trade, especially the yellow variation.
Similar to: Pomacea bridgesii looks similar to more Pomacea scalaris, to which it's probably close related to. In Pomacea scalaris, the shell shoulder is much more angulated, in such extent that it almost carinated. Pomacea scalaris lives more to the south (Argentina and South Brasil). However Reeve (1856) described Bolivia as habitat of Pomacea scalaris as well.
It could make sense to group Pomacea bridgesii and Pomacea scalaris into one group as T. Pain already did 1960.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License .


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