text: Paris - Luxembourg rider Andy Schleck is delaying his return to competition after a respiratory infection, his RadioShack team announced on Friday. Schleck, who was due to ride in the Tour du Haut Var-Matin in the south of France this weekend, will not now take part. "Schleck feels healthy again after his infection of the respiratory tract, which forced him to abandon last weeks's Tour Mediterraneen, but team management, together with the medical staff of the team, decided to not take any risk," the team announced. "We were happy to see Andy doing well in training the last few days," explained team manager Luca Guercilena. "There is however a big difference between training and race situations. "We want to prevent a relapse because of the race. Andy's main goals are situated later in the season. It's better that we are cautious now instead of taking steps backward." Schleck will continue his training build-up in Mallorca and is now expected to resume competition in Italy in the Grand Premio Citt di Camaiore on February 28.


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Despite failing in its goal to defeat President Barack Obama and the Senate Democratic majority, the Republicans' anti-tax Tea Party wing is rising to leadership positions in policy and activist groups that have guided the party's direction for years.
South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, who helped insurgent candidates oust incumbent Republicans in primaries, announced Thursday that he will lead the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, a group that has served as an incubator for the party's policy and legislative ideas for decades.
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Last week, former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey confirmed his resignation as chairman of FreedomWorks, telling Mother Jones Magazine that the Tea Party activist group was moving in an "unproductive" direction. FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe, who now fills Armey's void, will maintain its direction, the group's spokeswoman said.
The turnover at two of the party's most influential aligned organizations comes just months after the Cato Institute, another Washington-based organization, settled a legal battle aimed at preventing it from being taken over by David and Charles Koch, industrial billionaires who helped finance an expansion of the Tea Party movement through Americans for Prosperity.
"What you've got is a great movement with great ideas that's now becoming a true force," said Brent Bozell, president of For America, a nonprofit that advocates for Christian values. He praised the pick of DeMint to head Heritage as "a master stroke. It's just the kind of move that will rejuvenate conservatism."
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's loss last month has prompted soul searching within the party, and Tea Party leaders are seizing the opportunity to show their strength and shift power in their direction.
"When you don't even mention the words 'Tea Party' at the Republican National Convention, you get the results you saw with the Romney campaign," said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, a national network of activists.
Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and presidential candidate this year, said it's a "profound" time for Republicans, describing DeMint's new role as "a very positive thing."
DeMint said in an interview on CNN that he plans to use Heritage, a 40-year-old institution, to shape and sell policies that reflect the small-government, anti-tax wing of the party.
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"The Heritage Foundation is the premier think-tank research organization - the premier idea group for the conservative movement," he said. "This will give me the opportunity to help take our case to the American people and to translate our policies into real ideas."
Matt Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, said DeMint's hiring "is recognition by Heritage that the energy is not with the Republican establishment." The choice "shows they are moving more toward the Tea Party than the mainstream."
Cato has always had "a fair amount of sympathy" for the Tea Party, Calabria said, because their philosophies of smaller government and stronger individual rights are closely aligned.
Still, Cato faced a leadership challenge of its own this year, as the Kochs sought great control over the group they provided seed money to found. A settlement in June ousted the group's CEO, Ed Crane, and replaced him with John Allison, the former chief executive officer of BB&T Corp.
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Crane said in a statement in March that Charles Koch had been trying to "transform Cato from an independent, nonpartisan research organization into a political entity that might better support his partisan agenda."
The settlement prevents that from happening, both sides said.
DeMint, 61, who reported a maximum net worth of $65,000 on his 2010 Senate financial disclosure forms, replaces longtime Heritage President Edwin Feulner, who received more than $1 million in compensation last year, the group's tax forms show.
Heritage raised $65.7 million last year, a decline from the $74 million it raised in 2010, the tax documents show. As a nonprofit, it doesn't disclose its donors' identities.
In addition, the foundation ran a $7.9 million deficit last year and a $2.1 million deficit in 2010, the tax documents show. DeMint is a prodigious fundraiser; his Senate Conservatives Fund super-political action committee raised more than $13.7 million for the 2012 elections. He used the money in part to make donations to Tea Party candidates.
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'Conservative Kingmaker'
DeMint is a "conservative kingmaker" who helped elect Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, Texas Senator-elect Ted Cruz, and Arizona Senator-elect Jeff Flake, Erick Erickson wrote in a post Thursday on Red State, a conservative website.
"Without Jim DeMint we would still have a conservative movement that is part and parcel the Republican Party in name, word, and deed," Erickson said. "DeMint showed the Republican Party can be challenged from within and that conservatism can be distinctly voiced from within the party moving it right, not moving with it."
The departures of Feulner, a founding trustee of Heritage in 1973, and Armey, who helped start FreedomWorks in 2004 -- both in their 70s -- signal a generational turnover, said Colin Hanna, president of Let Freedom Ring, a political group that has worked with the Tea Party, "and that's a good thing. We have a very deep bench."
Armey Contract
The circumstances surrounding Armey's departure from FreedomWorks are unclear. The Associated Press obtained what it said was a confidential contract showing an agreement that Armey receive $8 million in $400,000 annual installments from FreedomWorks board member Richard Stephenson, founder of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
The contract was dated Sept. 24, and the AP said Armey agreed to stay on until after the election. His resignation e- mail, obtained and posted online by Mother Jones, shows he wants FreedomWorks to strip his name from its website and all other documents.
Armey couldn't be reached for comment. Kibbe didn't return e-mails or calls requesting comment.
"FreedomWorks' direction has been, and always will be, to build a winning constituency of grassroots activists who stand for the principles of individual liberty and constitutionally- limited government," FreedomWorks' spokeswoman Jackie Bodnar said in an e-mail. "We had an incredibly successful year building our community in 2012, we are heading full steam ahead into 2013 to advance those principles."
Donor Surprise
Armey's decision came as a surprise to some FreedomWorks donors.
"I'm in the dark as to what's happening at FreedomWorks and was surprised to see the announcement," Wyoming investor Foster Friess said in an e-mail to Bloomberg News. "I don't know why Armey and Kibbe came to loggerheads."
Freiss gave $100,000 this year to FreedomWorks' super- political action committee, part of at least $20 million it spent on the 2012 federal elections.
Michael Darland, a retired technology entrepreneur who lives in Bellevue, Washington, said Armey's departure won't dissuade him from giving to FreedomWorks. He said he learned about Armey's departure from the news, just as Friess did. Kibbe sent him an e-mail this week inviting him to call with questions.
"I didn't become interested in them because of Matt Kibbe or Dick Armey or anyone else. I liked what they stood for, and what they still stand for," Darland said in an interview. "I have every reason to believe they still share my ideals of limited government and less taxes."

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Burgers Off the Beaten Path: Poppa Burger
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There is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene in Brewster McCloud -- the movie set in Houston that wasn't Reality Bites or Terms of Endearment -- in which you can spot a multicolored billboard on the side of Main Street for Poppa Burger. The building on the other side of the street is the M&M Building, which now houses the University of Houston-Downtown. Bet you didn't recognize it above, did you?
While the M&M Building has undergone some drastic changes in its 83-year history, the 50-year-old Poppa Burger looks remarkably the same as it always has, if the old black-and-white photos hanging near the ordering window are anything to judge by. The burger stand is located just a few blocks north of UHD on Main Street, now in the shadow of the light-rail overpass that's nearly completed after years of construction.
This has not deterred Poppa Burger's loyal patrons, who turn out like clockwork at lunch and dinner every day. The main reason it has remained successful for this long isn't necessarily its food, though. It's the fact that Poppa Burger is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Even on holidays. Even on Christmas.
Poppa Burger will always be there for you.
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Not only can Poppa Burger be counted on to feed you at any hour of the day or night, it will also feed you just about anything you can think of. The menu is a nimbly woven tapestry of American and Tex-Mex favorites, all of which are ordered with equal frequency in what is now a heavily Hispanic neighborhood.
You can get hamburgers, french fries and chicken strips, but you can also get breakfast tacos, tacos suaves (decidedly Americanized soft tacos with lettuce and tomatoes) and tortas. You can get orange juice and milk here, and a piece of buttered toast (or a buttered and toasted bolillo) for dessert. Frito pies, burritos, salads, nachos, apple turnovers, ice cream cones -- you name it.
You can also get a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos topped with nacho cheese. It is this disgustingly delicious creation that is truly Poppa Burger's claim to fame (and likely its most popular menu item between the hours of 1 and 3 a.m.).
"Listen to me and understand," I warned my boyfriend between bites. "This is important. The next time I get drunk, you are going to have to physically restrain me from coming here and ordering ten bags of these." One is all you need in a lifetime, really -- although the same could be said for Frito pies, which are far worse for you. Maybe in two generations' time, the Flaming Hot cheese bag will be the new Frito pie and I'll be yelling at kids' robots to get off my artificial lawn.
The burgers themselves at Poppa Burger are sort of a foregone conclusion. They're the classic Texas roadside style you'd expect to find at a restaurant that once had carhops, but with the very Northside addition of pickled jalapeños. (Everyone orders their burgers with jalapeños here.) They're good and gooey and I imagine taste even better late at night.
Day or night, though, Poppa Burger affords the diners under its broad awning one of the most pleasant skyline views of downtown. From the camp-green picnic tables, through the frame of the light rail's concrete bridge, you can see a portion of a skyline that didn't even exist when Brewster McCloud was filmed up the street. It would be another year after filming wrapped that our first real skyscraper -- One Shell Plaza -- was built in 1971.
And throughout it all, Poppa Burger has been there. For you.
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The Argentina international was forced to leave the field during his side's win over Fulham on Saturday but will return in time to face Stoke in the FA Cup this weekend
The Argentine limped off an hour into his side's 2-0 win over Fulham at the weekend after coming off second best from a crunching tackle.
However, the defender has now confirmed that he will be available for the upcoming meeting with the Potters.
"I took a kick on the top of my foot which caused me a lot of pain afterwards and that's the reason it was better that I came off," he told the club's official website.
"Thankfully, the scan showed there was no serious damage. I should be fine for Saturday but it will be a couple of days before it is 100% again.
"I did some bike work on Monday morning and on Tuesday I will try some running so I'm sure I will be available for the game against Stoke."
The former Espanyol right-back received a rapturous ovation as he left the field injured, and thanked the club's fans for their support.
"It was a brilliant ovation as I came off from a fantastic set of fans," he said.
"I'd like to thank them for that and say that it means so much that people recognise and appreciate that you're giving 100% for the club and that's what I will always do for City."


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Moon phase (also called Lunar phase) is a visible shape of the moon, as seen by observer in the sky.
When the Moon is growing (waxing), the shape is concave from the left side, and when is shrinking (wanning) - from the right side. If the language allows, children are often taught to associate the shape with the similar letter, frequently adding imaginary vertical dash. For instance, in Lithuanian, the words are Dyla (shrinking) and Pilnėja (growing). We are lucky to have the impressive views of the comparatively very large satellite for the planet of our size.
The dark side of the Moon is also sometimes visible, as it is illuminated by the glow of the Earth. The shadow of the Earth has no influence on the regular Lunar phases. This shadow only touches the Moon during lunar eclipses that are infrequent events.
Lunar phase is important in astrology. It also has been subject of serious scientific studies, suspecting that it may influence the success, but the researchers found no scientific evidence[2]
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Auntie touts e-babysitting ... and no £15,000 in-app purchase shocks
Turn on, tune in, drop off as the kids entertain themselves on a slab
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The BBC's kiddie TV wing, CBeebies, has turned out a "free" collection of mobile games for parents happy to let Captain Barnacles and the Alphablocks rear their children.
The games, bundled into the CBeebies Playtime app for Android and iOS, come from the broadcast side of the corporation so are funded from the television licence, but include games based around the Octonauts, Alphablocks, Tree Fu Tom and Something Special, and cope with the idea of multiple children sharing one device, too.
The inclusion of Something Special is interesting as Justin Fletcher (star of that show, and, it seems, most of the UK's kiddie TV) has his own iOS apps that sell for a couple of quid a time. But the BBC owns Something Special so it's touting a colouring game of its own, carrying the show's brand.
The BBC, affectionately known as Auntie in the UK, has long offered a handful of news and sport apps – and the always exciting Antiques Roadshow guess-the-value game, providing new ways to access existing content, but the Playtime app is more akin to the Flash content littered around the BBC's website.
The corporation is playing up the fact that CBeebies Playtime has no in-app purchasing (to stop young ones quietly racking up extortionate bills) and is free to download. It's funded by the telly tax, making it ideal for handing over to one's offspring with confidence assuming one has space for the 150MB download.
It's already in iTunes and Google Play; at the time of writing it hadn't turned up in the Amazon store but the BBC say it will be on those shelves later today. Windows Phone and BlackBerry users will just have to play with their children in the traditional manner. ®


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The Federal Communications Commission recently adopted rules that will enable the growth of Medical Body Area Networks, low-power wideband networks that transmit a variety of patient data recorded through patient-worn sensors to a hub device. The rulemaking anticipates a "license by rule" structure by which users will not have to apply for and receive individual licenses, leading to greater and more immediate adoption of new and innovative Medical Body Area Network applications.
On May 24, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules that will enable the growth of low-power wideband networks, called Medical Body Area Networks (MBANs), that transmit a variety of patient data recorded through patient-worn sensors to a hub device. The rulemaking was the culmination of proceedings that commenced in June 2009, whereby the FCC sought comment on allocating spectrum access and establishing service and rules for the operation of MBANs.
The rulemaking anticipates a "license by rule" structure by which users will not have to apply for and receive individual licenses, leading to greater and more immediate adoption of new and innovative MBAN applications. The FCC order positions the United States as the first in the world to allocate spectrum for wireless MBANs.
The short-term primary benefits of MBANs are as follows:
MBANs are initially conceptualized to be small low-powered sensors located on the body to capture clinical information, such as temperature and respiratory function, which are then channeled to a hub in close proximity to the patient with data further transferred to a server. Although the FCC posits that much of the early activity of MBANs will be on an inpatient basis—monitoring electrocardiogram readings, neonatal monitoring systems, and blood pressure and blood glucose systems—in the near future, MBANs could be leveraged to facilitate remote monitoring and over time migrate to the home. Remote monitoring could be a relatively low-cost way to enhance early detection of medical needs, such as rising blood pressure, and to maintain a real-time, holistic picture of a patient who has co-morbidities. Remote monitoring may also decrease office and hospital visits, which will benefit infirm, aged and chronically ill patients.
The import of the FCC rule is best understood against the backdrop of a number of health care initiatives designed to improve the quality of care while controlling the costs. Institutional providers are under increasing pressure to divine ways to manage patients' care better and more affordably. For example, the Affordable Care Act penalizes hospitals for certain types of readmissions. Accountable care organizations and other risk-sharing structures can only succeed economically if the cost of the tools to improve quality does not exceed the saved costs from healthier patients. The adoption by providers and health plans of MBANs and additional wireless medical technology plays directly into the government-sponsored—as well as commercially evolving—outcomes and cost-containment strategies of many key stakeholders in the health care ecosystem. Additionally, the larger mobile health industry, consisting of mobile applications, cloud-based data management, wireless medical technology products and many more solutions, is intended to revolutionize diagnosis, treatment and delivery of health care in the United States by making care better and more affordable.
Despite a current lack of federal reimbursement for deployment of MBANs, the enhanced outcomes quality and economic efficiencies of wireless medical devices will inevitably result in greater adoption. Home health agencies, nursing homes, assisted living facilitates and other long-term care providers may also find that providing care through MBANs will open additional lines of business to cope with the burgeoning senior citizen community as baby boomers age. Careful consideration, however, must be given to the legal ramifications of the adoption of this technology, including but not limited to HIPAA and state privacy regimes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's evolving risk-based approach to determining when software and other digital systems constitute "medical devices," practice of medicine concerns, and data ownership and future use.
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l Introduction
GMSK modulation as a result of the power spectrum with very good features, better BER performance, to meet the mobile communication environment adjacent channel interference on the stringent requirements, so as a GSM, ETS HiperLANl and GPRS standards, such as modulation system.
GMSK modulation technique currently there are mainly two methods to achieve a dedicated use GMSK ASIC chip to complete the typical products such as CMX909 with the FX589 or FX019 to achieve MC2833 or GMSK modulation. This method is characterized by simple, controlled rate of base-band signal, but the modulation carrier frequency is fixed, there is no scalability. Another method is to use software-defined radio thinking of using the method of quadrature modulation in the FPGA and dsp platforms. Which also includes the realization of the two means is the direct decomposition of a single pulse in response to points of the Gaussian filter is divided into transient and steady-state part of the information through the accumulation phase to achieve; another track the use of frequency synthesis, through the sampling Gaussian filter to the basic track of the rectangular impulse response as a look-up table into the ROM, and then through the FM modulator to achieve. This thinking of the realization of the use of software radio GMSK modulation method has the advantage of variable modulation parameters, but due to a software design involves the Gaussian low-pass filter, phase integral and trigonometric calculations, so difficult to change the modulation parameters to achieve complexity. In summary, this paper presents a FPGA-based CMX589A and GMSK modulator design. Compared with the traditional method with a simple, easily controllable modulation parameters and software features such as easy to cut, suitable for CDPD, and other non-central station communication system and has important practical significance.
2 System hardware design
System hardware includes three parts: the expansion of single-chip controller and its peripheral keyboard and liquid crystal display module, Gaussian filter module, as well as the FPGA modulator module, system hardware structure as shown in Figure 1.
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System as follows: After the power system, FPGA completed initialization, LCD interface prompts the user to input control information, the system output at the same time fixed-frequency sinusoidal carrier, indicating that the normal work of system; users by controlling the menu prompt, enter the control information from the keyboard (for example, base-band signal symbol rate, the system parameters of Gaussian filter, BT values and carrier frequency modulator, etc.); control information through the main controller module sent to the Gaussian filtering and modulation module; FPGA modulator module According to receive the A / D converter input signal frequency range of the value of the control word in order to complete the base-band modulation signals.
2.1 Gaussian filter module design
Gaussian filter modules CMX589A produced CML ASIC has wide receiver speed base-band signal. In this design, to provide two CMX589A external crystal frequency, 25.576 MHz, respectively, and 8.192 MHz, through the jumper control. CMX589A control of the P2 and mcu pin connected to control the mouth of the filter parameters, which ClkDivA, ClkDivB with an external clock with the common decision of the baseband Gaussian filter symbol rate, set up as shown in table 1. BT-pin control of the system bandwidth Gaussian filter, when set to "l", the system BT value of O. 5; when set to "O" when, BT value of O. 3. Gaussian filter to the working process: First of all, according to the needs of different systems to set the base-band filter-symbol rate and bandwidth BT value, and then need to Tx Data pin access code modulation element of the base-band signal, at the same time to the Tx Enable high home through TxOut be able to receive the Gaussian base-band signal filtering.
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2.2 modulation index for the O. 5 Design of FM Transmitter
FM transmitter by the FPGA with A / D, D / A to achieve. Cyclone series FPGA selection EPlC6Q240C8, it is a mixture of SRAM manufacturing low-voltage chip FPGA. A / D using TI produced 8-bit ADC TLC5510, D / A DAC 10 is used THS5651A, to complete the high-speed data conversion. FM transmitter for the system clock 20 MHz, at the same time made available to the D / A THS565lA as the conversion clock. A / D conversion clock from the FPGA to provide, after the system clock frequency to the A / D converter 1 MHz clock work. At the same time, the adoption of SCM P3 I 2 b of the frequency control digital and 1 b of the "Enable" control bit with the FPGA connected to the modulator to control the center frequency of four kinds, namely, 20 kHz, 200 kHz, 2 MHz and 20 MHz Center frequency setting as shown in table 2. When the carrier center frequency is set to 20 MHz, the system clock through the FPGA to achieve the internal PLL frequency.
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2.3 single-chip controller design
AT89C51 single-chip controller, expanding outside the LCD, 4 * 4 matrix keyboard, and interface with the MCU connected to P0 and P1, P2 I SCM Gaussian filter and connected to the control line, P3 mouth and FPGA connected to the control of the center frequency transmitter.
Keyboard and LCD display module to deal with: the realization of human-computer interface using the keyboard, the keyboard scan module to shake, batter, and the signal processing function keys. Users need to adjust system parameters, and through a combination of LCD monitors to display the current parameters of modulated signals in order to make the system more operational.
Function of parameter setting module: This module is responsible for processing keyboard input data, in accordance with user instructions to select the appropriate system parameters (such as base-band signal of the symbol rate, FM modulator center frequency, etc.). Table 3 in the Gaussian filter module for the 8.192 MHz clock, the single-chip control system parameter setting filters.
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3 system software design
System software consists mainly of two parts: single-chip control module and the FPGA to achieve modulation index for the O. 5 FM modulator module. System software flow chart shown in Figure 2.
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3.1 single-chip software design
The main control module including the expansion of the matrix keyboard, LCD liquid crystal display, parameter control modulator.
Single-chip system controller as follows:
Single-chip initialization, LCD display the Start menu, including the "Gaussian filter parameter setting" and "FM modulator parameters," the two options;
Entered the "Gaussian filter parameter settings" sub-menu, including "system bandwidth settings" and "base-band symbol rate set", respectively, can set up two kinds of different filter bandwidth and eight kinds of base-band symbol rate, single-chip under the system settings in the P2 port output control information;
Enter "modulator parameters" sub-menu to set the "center of carrier frequency modulation", you can set four different carrier center frequency, and P3 single-chip FPGA I control the center of the modulation carrier frequency.
3.2 System modulator
FM modulator using DDS thinking to achieve in the FPGA platform. DDS (Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer, Direct Digital Synthesis) is a new type of frequency synthesizer technology, have a high frequency resolution can be achieved fast frequency switching. DDS system is mainly by the system clock source, phase accumulator, sine look-up tables, D / A converters and low-pass filter composed of compensation, the system structure shown in figure 3. DDS phase accumulator which is the core of the system, which by the N-bit adder and the composition of N-bit phase registers. Each to a reference clock pulse, N-bit adder will be accumulated frequency control word and the phase output devices add to the sum of the results to the phase of the input register. Register on the one hand, the output phase of the phase data back to the input of the adder so that the adder in the role of the clock pulse to continue with the sum of frequency control word, on the other hand, the output of the phase data will also form as a waveform storage enter the address. Waveform storage table to enter the address phase information into a waveform data mapping, and finally, after DAC and low-pass filter the analog signal received.
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The design uses a 20 MHz external crystal oscillator as a clock source, the system using the phase accumulator 40, so the frequency of word 40 is taken, so the frequency resolution of the system shown in the following style:
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FM modulator to the frequency of the completion of the conversion rate is the key to system design. For example, setting the rate of base-band signal to 8 kHz, the center carrier frequency of 200 kHz (fword = "10995116277"), in order to achieve a 0.5 modulation index for the FM modulator, FM modulator frequency deviation of 4 kHz. FPGA in accordance with 8-bit A / D converter input signal amplitude value of the word select the appropriate frequency to control the frequency of the output signal of the completion of the FM function. The center carrier frequency of the corresponding A / D converter center amplitude a in = "10000 0000"; when the A / D converter input to OV (that is, a in = "0000 0000"), the corresponding output frequency modulated signals for 198 kHz (fword = "10885165114"); when the A / D converter for full-scale input 2 V (ain = "1111 1111"), the modulator output frequency of 202 kHz (fword = "11105067440"). The frequency from 198 kHz to 202 kHz is divided into 255, etc., to convert the frequency of the corresponding frequency of 40 words, then A / D converter 256 of the 256 frequency and amplitude of the word-one correspondence. In each system clock cycle, frequency control word 40 and the phase accumulator value into the sum of the results of the phase accumulator. As the selection of the ROM look-up table for the 10-bit address lines, so check the high phase accumulator 10 as sine look-up table address. Cyclone sine look-up table to use to complete the internal look-up table ROM module design for the 10-bit word length, and the selected DAC to match the median of the data.
System, the magnitude of the input signal conversion and frequency of the core code is as follows:
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Which, f_mid for the center frequency modulation signal, fm_frerom for A / D input signal amplitude value and frequency offset of the mapping relations between the system to receive signals in accordance with the magnitude of the value of the corresponding change in the frequency offset modulation signal modulation in order to complete the function.
4 System software simulation and testing
4.1 Software Simulation
The use of eda tools for the design of Quartus Ⅱ 6. O modulator software programming completed by compiler software simulation environment shown in Figure 4, in which the system clk clock oscillator, addr40 for the phase accumulator, a_in for A / D converter 8-bit output signal, fword for word frequency, fout output wave form of the modulation signal amplitude value.
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4.2 System Testing and Analysis
System testing through spectrum analyzer IFR2399A to complete hardware test. Figure 5 in the same hardware platform to achieve MSK modulation spectrum map, Figure 6 that the frequency spectrum GMSK modulation. Compare the two plans can be found, as a result of adding a Gaussian filter, GMSK spectrum more compact band attenuation also faster than MSK. At the same time by the test results can be seen as the carrier frequency 200 kHz, main lobe width and attenuation conditions in line with the theoretical results of the analysis.
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5 Conclusion
In this paper, the realization of a FPGA-based CMX589A and GMSK modulator. System uses a master-slave structure, MCUby GMSK modulator for the control of system parameters, CMX589A module base-band signal the completion of Gaussian filtering, FM modulator using direct digital frequency synthesis (DDS) in the FPGA hardware platform, the system maximum output frequency of 25 MHz. At the same time, the system has a very wide base-band signal data and modem control features such as flexible parameters, and the orthogonal modulation scheme to overcome the strict orthogonal carrier defects difficult. Test results show that the transfer has been a constant signal envelope, spectrum to meet the design requirements for CDPD, and other non-central station communication systems.


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NFL draft: Mayock has a plan for Allen Bradford
April 20th, 2011, 2:36 pm by Michael Lev, staff writerNFL Network analyst Mike Mayock provided his thoughts on some of USC's prospects in the upcoming NFL draft, including a fascinating take on Allen Bradford. Here are the highlights:
** This year's elite offensive tackles aren't as good as last year's group, which included Trent Williams and Russell Okung. But, Mayock said, USC's Tyron Smith "can be as good or better than any of them. His upside is phenomenal." Like many others, Mayock predicts Smith will go to the Dallas Cowboys with the ninth pick.
** Mayock projects defensive tackle Jurrell Casey as a mid-second-round selection. Casey is strictly a one-gap "3-technique," meaning he fits only in 4-3 fronts. "He reminds me a little bit of Mike Patterson," Mayock said, echoing Pete Carroll's long-held sentiment. "I think he's a starting defensive tackle in the NFL."
** Mayock "really likes" cornerback Shareece Wright. He's just not sure how much NFL teams do because of medical concerns. "The issue with Shareece is not how he plays but the injuries," Mayock said. "What percentage of teams will give him a clean bill of health?"
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I never watched Kotter.
I did. ;-)
Since you're posting I would guess that your heart check was successful. :-)
Spoil her! We spoiled Jack.
BBS (Be back soon)
My dinner tonight = "Rice Krispie Treat Cereal" and banana!
He made his own and his is much better.
I have a sling shot and marbles and my aim is true!
Hiya, Moose!
I'm off to bed now, as it's been a week without pain meds (my own fault)
Hopefully, tomorrow, if the sun shines and the Barometric Lows pass us by, I will be in much better shape!
Sleep well and look after yourself, 'Face.
Not entirely coincidentally I learned that a Japanese truck driver yelling "Bakayaro!" at you does not translate to "Welcome to my country."
Thanks, Moose! Ta!
I had an orange. I'm bushed and not cooking.
They look tres dangereuse!
Your first foreign swear word? *toothy grin*
Just got back and see you got it to work.
Love all the "Pooh" pics too.
Yeh - it means "stupid animal." Japanese has no proper swear words so that's as bad as it gets natively, although the language is flexible enough to import them at need. "You sunnabeech!" never fails to get send us Gaijin off howling with laughter. (It is, as are all foreign-origin words, properly written in Katakana...) ;-)
LOL. I watched the clip 1: min 12 secs.
I never watched Taxi either.
As insults go, that's pretty good without any cussing. ;-)
That cereal is my fav, but for my dinner, RLY?
I had two suggestions lately.
A nail gun, no permit needed LOL
40 foot wasp spray
Not bad ideas?
Thanks very much.
I'm always delighted to come across beautiful examples of wonderful photography.
Yeah, not so much. lol
It's only a little after 7 and I'm looking forward to bed already. My back has been keeping me awake. Darn it!
You get up early and you're a nurse to busy cats! No wonder you're tired and your back is killing ya!
Smudge finally came in. Soaked. She washed and is curled up, sleeping.
Her boys are fine.
Btw, Hubby says the boys are now Congressional Republicans. LOL
LOL. I love it!
The ONE TIME, I don't proof an OLD graphic!
Of course! LOL
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Inflating Your Troubles Away
There is another way. If it's not the actual, secret plan, it will be an overwhelming temptation: Don't pay the money back. So far, even as one piggy bank after another astounds us with its emptiness, there have been only the faintest whispers about the possibility of an actual default by the U.S. government. Somewhat louder whispers can be heard, though, about the gradual default known as inflation. Just three or four years of currency erosion at, say, 10 percent a year would slice the real value of our debt — public and private, U.S. bonds and jumbo mortgages — in half.
Inflating away debts is a time honored tradition, but hasn't its time passed in the developed world? Most domestic debts (adjustable mortgages, credit card rates, etc.) are tied to LIBOR or the prime rate, which generally follow the inflation rate. So if inflation goes up, so do your payments. No help there. As for foreign debt, inflation would weaken the dollar — assuming arguendo that other countries all kept their inflation in check at the same time — but that would cause interest rates to rise in response. A weaker dollar would help exports and reduce domestic consumption, which is good, but higher interest rates on treasury bonds would make our fiscal situation worse, not better. So there's no help there either.
Do I have this right? Or is Kinsley right to be concerned? Isn't inflation hedging too built in to our current economic system to offer the kind of benefit he suggests?


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Contour Issues: High Contrast & Snow
If you've got a Contour helmet cam, or if you've ever watched any of my helmet cam videos, like this or this, you've probably noticed that the camera is particularly inept when it comes to dealing with bright, snowy scenes. Highlight detail tends to wash out, leaving obvious and ugly blank, featureless regions of white. The question is: why?
The answer kind of struck me out of the blue (or white) one day, when it suddenly occurred to me that there is almost certainly no variable aperture in the camera. In other words, the only way the camera can adapt to changing light levels is electronically, by varying the sensitivity of its sensor. If that's the case, how would the engineers design the camera so that it could handle a wide range of brightness levels, from sunlight to dusk to dark? The answer is, they would cheat at the ends of the spectrum.
In bright sunlight, the Contour would (theoretically) be designed to operate as close to clipping as possible, so that at the other end of the spectrum, the darks wouldn't get too noisy. So, everything is fine as long as you're shooting in bright sun under normal conditions—ie, grass, trees, and people in your back yard. But what happens when you shoot snow under full sunlight? Well, in terms of EV, this is actually a full stop or more brighter than an ordinary (non-snowy) scene. And it pushes all the highlight detail right out of the camera's range.
Similarly, shooting any highly reflective material when the sun is at the right angle will result in the same phenomenon: the brightness level exceeds the camera's expected maximum. The good news, if I'm right about this, is that there is a pretty easy fix. Just put a neutral density filter in front of the lens to reduce the light entering the camera when you shoot sunny-snowy or otherwise highly reflective scenes.
And yes, I've found an aftermarket kit that allows you to do exactly this (albeit with a polarizer instead of a true ND filter). Will it save those otherwise burnt highlights on bright snowy days? We'll have to wait until next season, as I made this logical leap a little too late to test it this year. But it sure would be nice to get more usable footage out of the Contour when shooting sunny, snowy scenes, wouldn't it? Stay tuned...
I've noticed the same thing with my GoPro. Washes out in particularly bright light.
Your theory is sound, I'm interested to see how the test will work out.
Thanks so much for figuring this out! I was getting fed up with my Contour blowing out the highlights on sunny snow shots and not being able to do anything about it with the camera settings or post-processing.
I ordered the lens kit and a neutral density and polarizing filter today.
Did you try it with the neutral density filter? I'd rather not have to junk the camera, but I did buy it mainly to record skiing.


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ZFS is an advanced filesystem created by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle) and released for OpenSolaris in November 2005. Features of ZFS include: pooled storage (integrated volume management -- zpool), Copy-on-write, snapshots, data integrity verification and automatic repair (scrubbing), RAID-Z, a maximum 16 Exabyte file size, and a maximum 256 Zettabyte volume size. ZFS is licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).
Described as "The last word in filesystems" ZFS is stable, fast, secure, and future-proof. Being licensed under the GPL incompatible CDDL, it is not possible for ZFS to be distributed along with the Linux Kernel. This requirement, however, does not prevent a native Linux kernel module from being developed and distributed by a third party, as is the case with zfsonlinux.org (ZOL).
ZOL is a project funded by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop a native Linux kernel module for its massive storage requirements and super computers.
Playing with ZFS
The rest of this article cover basic setup and usage of ZFS on physical block devices (HDD and SSD for example). Users wishing to experiment with ZFS on virtual block devices (known in ZFS terms as VDEVs) which can be simple files like ~/zfs0.img ~/zfs1.img ~/zfs2.img etc. with no possibility of real data loss are encouraged to see the Playing_with_ZFS article. Common tasks like building a RAIDZ array, purposefully corrupting data and recovering it, snapshotting datasets, etc. are covered.
The requisite packages are available in the AUR and in an unofficial repo. Details are provided on the ZFS Installation article.
ZFS is considered a "zero administration" filesystem by its creators; therefore, configuring ZFS is very straight forward. Configuration is done primarily with two commands: zfs
and zpool
mkinitramfs hook
Users wishing to use the root filesystem on ZFS need to add the ZFS hook to mkinitcpio.conf. Others may omit this step.
Modify the kernel parameters to include the dataset holding the root filesystem by one of these methods:
- Use
to use the ZFS bootfs (set viazpool set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/arch rpool
) - Set the kernel parameters to
to boot directly from a ZFS dataset.
To see all available options for the ZFS hook:
$ mkinitcpio -H zfs
To use the mkinitcpio hook, user need to add zfs
to the HOOKS
array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
... HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf encrypt zfs filesystems usbinput" ...
It is important to place this after any hooks which are needed to prepare the drive before it is mounted. For example, if the ZFS volume is encrypted, then place encrypt before the zfs hook to unlock it first.
Recreate the ramdisk:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Automatic Start
For ZFS to live by its "zero administration" namesake, the zfs daemon must be loaded at startup. A benefit to this is that it is not necessary to mount the zpool in /etc/fstab
; the zfs daemon imports and mounts one zfs pool automatically. The daemon mounts a zfs pool reading the file /etc/zfs/zpool.cache
Set a pool as to be automatically mounted by the zfs daemon:
# zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache <pool>
Enable the service so it is automatically started at boot time:
# systemctl enable zfs.service
To manually start the daemon:
# systemctl start zfs.service
Create a storage pool
Use # parted --list
to see a list of all available drives. It is not necessary nor recommended to partition the drives before creating the zfs filesystem.
Having identified the list of drives, it is now time to get the id's of the drives to add to the zpool. The zfs on Linux developers recommend using device ids when creating ZFS storage pools of less than 10 devices. To find the id's, simply:
$ ls -lah /dev/disk/by-id/
The ids should look similar to the following:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 12 16:26 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JKRR -> ../../sdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 12 16:26 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JTM1 -> ../../sde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 12 16:26 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KBP8 -> ../../sdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 12 16:26 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KDGY -> ../../sdb
Now, finally, create the ZFS pool:
# zpool create -f -m <mount> <pool> raidz <ids>
- create: subcommand to create the pool.
- -f: Force creating the pool. This is to overcome the "EFI label error". See #does not contain an EFI label.
- -m: The mount point of the pool. If this is not specified, than the pool will be mounted to
- pool: This is the name of the pool.
- raidz: This is the type of virtual device that will be created from the pool of devices. Raidz is a special implementation of raid5. See Jeff Bonwick's Blog -- RAID-Z for more information about raidz.
- ids: The names of the drives or partitions that to include into the pool. Get it from
Here is an example for the full command:
# zpool create -f -m /mnt/data bigdata raidz ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KDGY ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JKRR ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KBP8 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JTM1
In case Advanced Format disks are used which have a native sector size of 4096 bytes instead of 512 bytes, the automated sector size detection algorithm of ZFS might detect 512 bytes because the backwards compatibility with legacy systems. This would result in degraded performance. To make sure a correct sector size is used, the ashift=12
option should be used (See the ZFS on Linux FAQ). The full command would in this case be:
# zpool create -f -o ashift=12 -m /mnt/data bigdata raidz ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KDGY ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JKRR ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KBP8 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JTM1
If the command is successful, there will be no output. Using the $ mount
command will show that the pool is mounted. Using # zpool status
will show that the pool has been created.
# zpool status
pool: bigdata state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM bigdata ONLINE 0 0 0 -0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KDGY-part1 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JKRR-part1 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KBP8-part1 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0JTM1-part1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors
At this point it would be good to reboot the machine to ensure that the ZFS pool is mounted at boot. It is best to deal with all errors before transferring data.
Although many knobs are available on a zfs pool, there are two major ones user can consider:
- atime
- compression
Atime is enabled by default but for most users, it represents superfluous writes to the zpool and it can be disabled using the zfs command:
# zfs set atime=off <pool>
Compression is just that, transparent compression of data. Consult the man page for various options. A recent advancement is the lz4 algorithm which offers excellent compression and performance. Enable it (or any other) using the zfs command:
# zfs set compression=lz4 <pool>
Other options for zfs can be displayed again, using the zfs command:
# sudo zfs get all <pool>
Users can optionally create a dataset under the zpool as opposed to manually creating directories under the zpool. Datasets allow for an increased level of control (quotas for example) in addition to snapshots. To be able to create and mount a dataset, a directory of the same name must not pre-exist in the zpool. To create a dataset, use:
# zfs create <nameofzpool>/<nameofdataset>
It is then possible to apply ZFS specific attributes to the dataset. For example, one could assign a quota limit to a specific directory within a dataset:
# zfs set quota=20G <nameofzpool>/<nameofdataset>/<directory>
To see all the commands available in ZFS, use :
$ man zfs
$ man zpool
ZFS pools should be scrubbed at least once a week. To scrub the pool:
# zpool scrub <pool>
To do automatic scrubbing once a week, set the following line in the root crontab:
# crontab -e
... 30 19 * * 5 zpool scrub <pool> ...
Replace <pool>
with the name of the ZFS pool.
Check zfs pool status
To print a nice table with statistics about the ZFS pool, including and read/write errors, use
# zpool status -v
Destroy a storage pool
ZFS makes it easy to destroy a mounted storage pool, removing all metadata about the ZFS device. This command destroys any data contained in the pool:
# zpool destroy <pool>
And now when checking the status:
# zpool status
no pools available
To find the name of the pool, see #Check zfs pool status.
Export a storage pool
If a storage pool is to be used on another system, it will first need to be exported. It is also necessary to export a pool if it has been imported from the archiso as the hostid is different in the archiso as it is in the booted system. The zpool command will refuse to import any storage pools that have not been exported. It is possible to force the import with the -f
argument, but this is considered bad form.
Any attempts made to import an un-exported storage pool will result in an error stating the storage pool is in use by another system. This error can be produced at boot time abruptly abandoning the system in the busybox console and requiring an archiso to do an emergency repair by either exporting the pool, or adding the zfs_force=1
to the kernel boot parameters (which is not ideal). See #On boot the zfs pool does not mount stating: "pool may be in use from other system"
To export a pool,
# zpool export bigdata
Rename a Zpool
Renaming a zpool that is already created is accomplished in 2 steps:
# zpool export oldname # zpool import oldname newname
Setting a Different Mount Point
The mount point for a given zpool can be moved at will with one command:
# zfs set mountpoint=/foo/bar poolname
Swap volume
ZFS does not allow to use swapfiles, but users can use a ZFS volume (ZVOL) as swap. It is importart to set the ZVOL block size to match the system page size, which can be obtained by the getconf PAGESIZE command (default on x86_64 is 4KiB). Other options useful for keeping the system running well in low-memory situations are keeping it always synced, turning off compression, and not caching the zvol data.
Create a 8GiB zfs volume:
# zfs create -V 8G -b $(getconf PAGESIZE) \ -o compression=off \ -o primarycache=metadata \ -o secondarycache=none \ -o sync=always \ -o com.sun:auto-snapshot=false <pool>/swap
Prepare it as swap partition:
# mkswap -f /dev/zvol/<pool>/swap
To make it permanent, edit /etc/fstab
. ZVOLs support discard, which can potentially help ZFS's block allocator and reduce fragmentation for all other datasets when/if swap is not full.
Add a line to /etc/fstab
/dev/zvol/<pool>/swap none swap discard 0 0
Automatic snapshots
The zfs-auto-snapshot-gitAUR package from AUR provides a shell script to automate the management of snapshots, with each named by date and label (hourly, daily, etc), giving quick and convenient snapshotting of all ZFS datasets. The package also installs cron tasks for quarter-hourly, hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots. Optionally adjust the --keep parameter from the defaults depending on how far back the snapshots are to go (the monthly script by default keeps data for up to a year).
To prevent a dataset from being snapshotted at all, set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false on it. Likewise, set more fine-grained control as well by label, if, for example, no monthlies are to be kept on a snapshot, for example, set com.sun:auto-snapshot:monthly=false.
does not contain an EFI label
The following error will occur when attempting to create a zfs filesystem,
/dev/disk/by-id/<id> does not contain an EFI label but it may contain partition
The way to overcome this is to use -f
with the zfs create command.
No hostid found
An error that occurs at boot with the following lines appearing before initscript output:
ZFS: No hostid found on kernel command line or /etc/hostid.
This warning occurs because the ZFS module does not have access to the spl hosted. There are two solutions, for this. Either place the spl hostid in the kernel parameters in the boot loader. For example, adding spl.spl_hostid=0x00bab10c
The other solution is to make sure that there is a hostid in /etc/hostid
, and then regenerate the initramfs image. Which will copy the hostid into the initramfs image.
# mkinitcpio -p linux
On boot the zfs pool does not mount stating: "pool may be in use from other system"
Unexported pool
If the new installation does not boot because the zpool cannot be imported, chroot into the installation and properly export the zpool. See ZFS#Emergency chroot repair with archzfs.
Once inside the chroot environment, load the ZFS module and force import the zpool,
# zpool import -a -f
now export the pool:
# zpool export <pool>
To see the available pools, use,
# zpool status
It is necessary to export a pool because of the way ZFS uses the hostid to track the system the zpool was created on. The hostid is generated partly based on the network setup. During the installation in the archiso the network configuration could be different generating a different hostid than the one contained in the new installation. Once the zfs filesystem is exported and then re-imported in the new installation, the hostid is reset. See Re: Howto zpool import/export automatically? - msg#00227.
If ZFS complains about "pool may be in use" after every reboot, properly export pool as described above, and then rebuild ramdisk in normally booted system:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Incorrect hostid
Double check that the pool is properly exported. Exporting the zpool clears the hostid marking the ownership. So during the first boot the zpool should mount correctly. If it does not there is some other problem.
Reboot again, if the zfs pool refuses to mount it means the hostid is not yet correctly set in the early boot phase and it confuses zfs. Manually tell zfs the correct number, once the hostid is coherent across the reboots the zpool will mount correctly.
Boot using zfs_force and write down the hostid. This one is just an example.
% hostid 0a0af0f8
Users can always ignore the check adding zfs_force=1
in the kernel parameters, but it is not advisable as a permanent solution.
Tips and tricks
Embed the archzfs packages into an archiso
It is a good idea make an installation media with the needed software included. Otherwise, the latest archiso installation media burned to a CD or a USB key is required.
To embed zfs
in the archiso, from an existing install, download the archiso
# pacman -S archiso
Start the process:
# cp -r /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng /root/media
Edit the packages.x86_64
file adding those lines:
spl-utils spl zfs-utils zfs
Edit the pacman.conf
file adding those lines (TODO, correctly embed keys in the installation media?):
[demz-repo-archiso] SigLevel = Never Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch
Add other packages in packages.both
, packages.i686
, or packages.x86_64
if needed and create the image.
# ./build.sh -v
The image will be in the /root/media/out
More informations about the process can be read in this guide or in the Archiso article.
If installing onto a UEFI system, see Unified Extensible Firmware Interface#Create UEFI bootable USB from ISO for creating UEFI compatible installation media.
Emergency chroot repair with archzfs
Here is how to use the archiso to get into the ZFS filesystem for maintenance.
Boot the latest archiso and bring up the network:
# wifi-menu # ip link set eth0 up
Test the network connection:
# ping google.com
Sync the pacman package database:
# pacman -Syy
(optional) Install a text editor:
# pacman -S vim
Add archzfs archiso repository to pacman.conf
[demz-repo-archiso] SigLevel = Required Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch
Sync the pacman package database:
# pacman -Syy
Install the ZFS package group:
# pacman -S archzfs
Load the ZFS kernel modules:
# modprobe zfs
Import the pool:
# zpool import -a -R /mnt
Mount the boot partitions (if any):
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
Chroot into the ZFS filesystem:
# arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
Check the kernel version:
# pacman -Qi linux # uname -r
uname will show the kernel version of the archiso. If they are different, run depmod (in the chroot) with the correct kernel version of the chroot installation:
# depmod -a 3.6.9-1-ARCH (version gathered from pacman -Qi linux)
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There's been a lot of Grimm news in entertainment lately, and the University of Arizona College of Humanities is contributing a chapter of its own tonight.
In honor of the 200th anniversary of "Children's and Household Tales" - the brothers' first collection, which was published in 1812 - Kate Bernheimer, a UA English professor who specializes in fairy tales, has organized faculty and graduate students to read adaptations of "Red Riding Hood" and other tales in German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and French, among other languages.
Adaptation is a signature of the fairy-tale genre, says Bernheimer, noting that there is "a fever for fairy tales right now."
Recent versions include Amanda Seyfried as a sultry "Red Riding Hood" in 2011, and Kristen Stewart's vengeful heroine in the epic action-adventure "Snow White and the Huntsman" in 2012.
You can catch a monster-hunting descendant of the brothers in NBC's "Grimm," and if you haven't had your fix yet, 2013 brought us "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters," which topped the box office when it opened last month.
All these revivals seem to share, in addition to the Grimm name, the grim aspects. Originally, Bernheimer says, the brothers never intended the tales to be read by children. Their stories included graphic sexual and violent scenes.
"They painstakingly revised the stories," she explains, "as they realized people were reading them to their children."
The sweeter versions most of us came to know were drawn from the seventh version of the brothers' collected tales, she explains.
But the darkness returns in nine languages Thursday, only to be outdone by the German chocolate cake at the dessert reception following.
If you go
• What: Readings of adaptations of "Red Riding Hood" from all over the world. Visuals celebrating the fable include a Disney short from the 1920s and Betty Boop in her little red cape. Dessert reception after.
• When: 6-8 p.m. tonight. Reservations required at 621-0210.
• Where: UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St., at the corner of Vine Avenue.
• Admission: Free. These tales are in their first-edition graphic form - mature audiences, young adults or older, recommended.


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Here's a transcript from Wes Welker's meeting with the media following New England's win over Indianapolis:
On how they look at this game after the second half:
"We got off to kind of a slow start but we picked it up and really got things going and were able to get a good lead. From there we've got to finish a lot better than what we have been the past few weeks. I'm sure it's going to be a huge emphasis by coach, and something that we've got to do. If we don't play four quarters, we're not going to end up in the situation that we want to be in. So we've got to fight on through, and convert on third downs and move the ball down the field, and ultimately score."
On the fact they didn't play man-to-man, and played zone instead:
"I think they had some injury issues with the DB's and things like that and we were able to kind of take advantage of going fast and having them line up in a lot of zone and they were kind of just trying to get lined up more than anything. So we didn't see very much man so it was a matter of us spacing, and Tom finding the open guy and moving the ball down the field that way."
On the fact there was a lot of talk that when Randy Moss left here that his role would become more complicated, and how much Gronkowski helps open things up for him:
"He's a great player, and he does a great job for us, just like everybody out there and understands where he needs to be and making plays in key situations. So he's been a big help for us, especially in the red area with his touchdowns, such a big target, and those things. We just have to keep on striving to be great out there and he's definitely one of those guys that does that. We just have to keep bringing everybody along and moving toward the ultimate goal."
On if Tom's at his best in the no huddle:
"I think at times. It's tough to say. It just depends on how they're playing us and what advantages we can have in doing that and going fast and different things like that. It just depends on what they're doing and kind of being able to dicate the game in that manner. I think Tom's always at his best no matter what we're doing out there."
On if he ever gets concerned with a slow start against a bad team:
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"The Defenders" may be considered a legal drama, but the TCA press tour panel on Wednesday (July 28) has the TV critics laughing.
The new CBS procedural, which will premiere Wednesday, Sept. 22, centers on two dedicated Las Vegas defense attorneys.
Nick Morelli (Jim Belushi) needs to see if he can fix his marriage, while Pete Kaczmarek (Jerry O'Connell) turns to the Vegas strip for his amorous pursuits. Lisa Tyler (Jurnee Smollett) put herself through law school as an exotic dancer, but now wants to get serious as a new young attorney. Sophie (Tanya Fischer) rounds out the workplace as their sassy assistant.
In researching the show, Belushi had watched the documentary that a few of the show's producers had made about public defenders in Las Vegas.
"They're put in the position to defend people they don't like," he says. "They have strong character and a strong sense of duty. But these guys are such characters. They're so bright and have great strategy in the courtroom. It's interesting to me that they're so brilliant but are morons with women."
His co-star O'Connell actually spent one semester in night school studying law, which helped with the show, but he had to stop pursuing that in order to act.
"It was invaluable … it was a lot of work," he observes. "There was more reading than anyone should have to do. It was really difficult, but I made friends for the rest of my life."
Unlike Smollett's character, Fischer says that Sophie is not formerly a stripper, but "I'm sure my cousin is. Yeah."
Belushi, lately of "According to Jim," is in a mood during the session, and cracks jokes constantly. He appears to be obsessed with the show shooting on the CBS Radford lot. Not only does he announce there's a Starbucks on the lot and five sushi restaurants all close by on Ventura Blvd., but apparently Stage 9 is the same stage he worked on for "Jim."
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It's hard to believe that it's been ten years. My brief life in that frozen country was such an amazing and formative period in my life, when I decided what kind of a man that I wanted to become. I've come a long way since then, thank God.
So, here we are being bombarded by cosmic rays, and I can only wonder what tomorrow will bring. Ah well, best not to dwell on it. Tomorrow will bring it's own failures and victories.


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WAUSEON - Randy Ruge considers himself lucky to live within the pristine Oak Openings Region, where his home is surrounded by wetlands, trees, and other natural sights.
But Mr. Ruge, a Swancreek Township trustee, is concerned that the recent removal of language from a proposed countywide natural resource plan could negatively impact endangered species within Fulton County.
"I fear loss of species. I fear loss of green spaces," he said. "I fear loss of many things that attracted us to the area."
Leaders from across Fulton County recently voted 13-1 to approve their first natural resource amendment to an existing county development plan. The amendment, which still must be approved by the county commissioners, is one of the first to be compiled among smaller Ohio communities.
Mr. Ruge credited county leaders with the effort, but he questioned why they agreed to take out two pages of information about rare plant species in the county, namely three types of plants that are considered endangered by the state.
County Commissioner Dean Genter said he wanted to have the information removed because he felt it could serve as a future deterrent for development.
"My feeling is I don't want something on a document that someone can hold against a landowner's individual property," the commissioner said yesterday.
The person who cast the lone vote against the amendment was Clinton Township Trustee Larry Neuenschwander. He said yesterday that his reasons for not supporting the amendment have nothing to do with the endangered species matter.
Steve Brown, planning director for the county,
said he doesn't believe the issue would have an adverse impact on endangered species.
He pointed to a detailed explanation in the amendment about the Oak Openings Region, where the bulk of the rare plants are found.
He added that developers and planners already must abide by environmental regulations when drawing up and approving construction plans.
The amendment is to be used, he said, as more of a guideline for officials, not an actual enforcement tool.
"I really don't think it has that much of an impact itself," he said. "My feeling is that the information is out there. When we do environmental reviews, we have to look at those things."
Developments are not stopped by the presence of endangered species, said Kendra Wecker, the wildlife diversity coordinator for the state's Division of Wildlife. She said wildlife officials, though, do try to avoid damage and minimize impact on the species and their environments when projects are developed.
Mr. Ruge said he intends to raise the issue at Monday night's Swancreek Township trustees meeting. At that time, he said he'll make a motion to send a letter to the commissioners seeking to have the language placed back into the amendment.
Commissioner Jack Graf said yesterday that he planned to review the entire amendment before rendering a decision about it.
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Johannesburg: Apr 5, 2014
South Africa's posting nine expensive wides during their ICC World Twenty20 semi-final clash against India has uncovered the cracks in their 'indisciplined' bowling performance, which was their primary cause of their elimination from the tournament, according to a report.
According to Sport24, South Africa expensively gifted India, which is seeking a prestigious Grand Slam encompassing the latest World Cup, Champions Trophy and T20 global spoils, one and a half extra overs as they bowed out of the ICC World Twenty20 at the semi-final stage in Dhaka on Friday.
The report mentioned that the difference between India and South Africa may well have been an additional over, given that the pre-match favourites conceded only three wides, whereas three times that figure was posted by South Africa's attack.
Former national captain Kepler Wessels joined the general lament over the errant lines and lengths of South African fast bowlers on Friday, saying that the team has 'gone away from the yorker method altogether', which seemed very costly against India.
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I was at the performance in Aberdeen. It was held in a church and there was no actual "stage" as such. The man you're referring to is actually Mike Gibb the writer....he narrated in between songs. That's why he's getting up and sitting down. It was a showcase of some of the Outlander The Musical songs...not an actual stage production.What impresses me is how much Allan and Sue sound live as they did on the CD. They both have amazing voices and they deserve a verra big stage production. Even though they are only at the front of a church, they have such a presence. To see a full production musical of Outlander would be magical. It would have to be Allan and Sue though. I'd fly to see it for sure.
ReplyDeleteDear Tiffany--
I've met Allan in person, and can assure you that his hair is very red indeed, though a dark red. [g] It's shaved pretty close here, though--he said that his hair was purple the night before the launch (having been dyed for a previous role), but that he didn't want to play Jamie as an 18th century punk, so shaved it back to its essential (though very short) red-headedness. If you go look at the earlier blog-post titled "Pictures, You Say...", you'll see a shot of Allan in kilt that makes that evident.
--DianaHa! Okay good. I guess buzz cut IS preferable to 18th century punk. The red is much more evident in those pictures. These things are important. See, I am with a red headed man myself. And I knew from your books that you had to be too because nobody else would notice that those red heads have blonde eyelashes that melt into a dark red at the tips and it's a detail that I see pop up in your books. I get all giddy because I've always loved that little trait! ;)