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Data about road and traffic conditions can come from radio stations' helicopters, the Department of Transportation's roadside sensors, or even, these days, updates from ordinary people with cell phones. But all of these approaches have limitations: Helicopters are costly to deploy and can observe only so many roads at once, and it could take a while for the effects of congestion to spread far enough that a road sensor will detect them.
MIT's CarTel project is investigating how cars themselves could be used as ubiquitous, highly reliable mobile sensors. At the Association for Computing Machinery's sixth annual Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing on Sept. 16, members of the CarTel team presented a new algorithm that would optimize the dissemination of data through a network of cars with wireless connections. Researchers at Ford are already testing the new algorithm for possible inclusion in future versions of Sync, the in-car communications and entertainment system developed by Ford and Microsoft.
For the last four years, CarTel, which is led by computer-science professor Hari Balakrishnan and associate professor Sam Madden, has been collecting data about the driving patterns of Boston-area taxicabs equipped with GPS receivers. On the basis of those data, the CarTel researchers have been developing algorithms for the collection and dissemination of information about the roadways. Once the algorithms have been evaluated and refined, the CarTel researchers plan to test them in an additional, real-world experiment involving networked vehicles. The new algorithm is among those that the group expects to test.
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Calvin Newport, a postdoc in Balakrishnan's group, who developed the new algorithm together with Alejandro Cornejo, a grad student in Nancy Lynch's Theory of Distributed Systems Group, says that previous work on diffusing information through networks of cars tended to assume that, over time, the network would always provide a sequence of connections that could relay data from any one car to any other. The problem is that the CarTel experiment suggests that that isn't the case. On the other hand, it also demonstrates that two cars that do come within wireless-transmission range of each other will frequently remain near each other for long stretches of time — repeatedly hitting the same lights on the same stretch of road, for instance.
A good information-dissemination algorithm should thus ensure that two cars passing each other in opposite directions, with only a fleeting wireless connection, will exchange high-priority data — say, that a tractor trailer has jackknifed across three lanes of traffic on the nearby interstate. On the other hand, it should also ensure that two cars stuck at a light together, with plenty of time on their hands, exchange lower-priority data as well — like the location of a particularly nasty pothole.
Newport and Cornejo determined that the best way to meet both requirements was to take advantage of a sequence of numbers known as the binary carry sequence. Technically, each number in the binary carry sequence is the exponent of the highest power of two that will evenly divide the corresponding integer (where "evenly divide" means without a remainder). The integer 1, for instance, can be evenly divided by two to the zero power, or 1, while 2 can be evenly divided by two to the first power, or 2. But three can't be evenly divided by either 2 or 4, so it, like 1, is divisible only by two to the zero power. The first three digits of the sequence are thus 0, 1, 0. The next nine, as it happens, are 2, 0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2.
All due respect
The crucial feature of the series is that the smaller the number, the more frequently it occurs; but over long enough spans of time, higher numbers will occur at least once. If the smallness of a number represents its priority — jackknifed trucks are 0, bad potholes are, say, 8 — then using the binary carry sequence to order data transmissions will ensure that high-priority data is broadcast more frequently, but not to the exclusion of low-priority data. Newport and Cornejo were able to mathematically prove that using the binary carry sequence optimizes the diffusion of information throughout the network.
T. J. Giuli, the technical expert on mobile computing at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering who's testing Newport and Cornejo's algorithm, says that disseminating data through networks of cars will be particularly useful in urban areas. The alternative, he explains, would be to download traffic data over the cellular network, as anyone with an iPhone might do today. "If more people are associated with the same cell base station, you kind of have to split the bandwidth among more and more people, so your effective bandwidth decreases," Giuli says. With a network of wirelessly connected vehicles, on the other hand, "as the density of mobile-networking consumers increases, the bandwidth also increases." At the same time, however, Giuli says that networked vehicles could also help propagate traffic information in rural areas where cell towers — and, for that matter, hovering helicopters and DOT sensors — are sparse.
Cynthia Shollenberger
September 28, 2010
This is based upon the current structure of established roadways. If somebody really wanted to go directly to a destination, but had to take an alternate route, would this system be able to pick up that information? Would public transportation be better designed by this system in the long run? Wouldn't that make more sense when finding solutions to minimize air pollution?


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Mike Wolfe has partnered with the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2016 to promote their Places to Save campaign. We have started an Instagram campaign that runs April through August where we are encouraging people to take photos in front of places that matter to them in their community that are forgotten, dilapidated or in danger of being torn down. Post your photos on Instagram for our #placestosave campaign for a chance to get Mike Wolfe to visit your place at the end of the campaign. Winner will be chosen at the end of August!
Instructions for participating in the #placestosave Instagram campaign to help raise money and awareness for the places in our communities:
1. Buy your This Place Matters shirt HERE. A portion of the sales from the shirts goes to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and their work in preserving these places all around.
2. Think of a place that matters to you (a school, the home you grew up in, a church, that old gorgeous house you drive by all the time)
3. Put on your This Place Matters shirt and take a picture in front of the place. (a selfie, have someone else take it, or if you can't get there simply make a sign with the name of the place and hold it up.)
4. Upload your photo to Instagram saying why it matters to you or your community.
5. Use hashtag #placestosave and tag @mikewolfeamericanpicker @ontwolanes @savingplaces
This will create an incredible online gallery of the places that are in danger. We will share some of the images on our social media and at the end of the campaign in AUGUST we will choose a winner. The winning location gets a personal visit from Mike! So make it count!
It will raise awareness and proceeds from the shirts to to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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The Olympic committee's $1.8 billion budget includes medals made from recycled circuit boards and a sustainable skating ring.
Ambitious Chinese electric car maker BYD could be a surprise entrant in the U.S. market as soon as the end of this year.
Are pure, plug-in electric cars the way of the future? Automakers at the Detroit auto show have different opinions.
CEO Elon Musk is confident Americans will buy electric vehicles and thinks Tesla is setting an example.
A new approach has drivers paying based on how far they drive each month.
We took Chevrolet's pre-production Volt for a spin and found a peppy, very quiet, and driveable car.
When the ball drops at the stroke of midnight, less energy will be used thanks to LED bulbs.
In places like the Mojave Desert, some fight to preserve the landscape and prevent the installation of solar panels.
CEO Fred Smith says the cost of taxing emissions will get passed on to customers, and that a lower corporate tax rate will create jobs.


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Imagine for a moment that you can neither see nor hear, that you careen through life as an animal trapped in a silent, black maze.Omnipotent beings collude against your wild frustration until only your savagery can wear them down enough to earn you meager bribes and scraps of their exasperated affection. Such is the life of six-year-old Helen Keller.
In Compass Rose Studio Theater's The Miracle Worker, Annalie Ellis' portrayal of pain and confusion is heartbreaking. I was carried away by this diminutive tween who broke her blank stare only once in two hours.
Helen and her teacher Annie Sullivan, Colleen Marie Arnold in this production, connect on a cerebral level with little window dressing.
To Helen's parents (Chris Briante and Rebecca Dreyfuss) the possibility of her having a normal life is impossible. Long-suffering Kate (Dreyfuss), the second wife, has a way with her authoritarian husband who has already alienated his adult son James (Jonathan Ezra Rubin). This family dynamic surpasses mere crisis. It stews in controversy due to Rubin's veiled insolence. The strength of this household is clearly Viney (Murjani Sowell), the even-tempered cook, maid and sitter. Rounding out the cast are Helen's young playmates Prissy (Rachel Dylan Opert) and Martha (Kennedy Smith), Tim Wolf as the doctor and Annie's teacher Anagnos, and Will Fritz as the voice of Annie's dead brother Jimmy.
For a story heavy with tragic possibility, this one offers a surprising amount of humor. Opening night's full house had rousing applause for the troupe, despite some muffed lines. The soundtrack is lifted from Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor's classically infused Appalachian Waltz album, which is terrific, but some background birds and crickets could have spiced up the monotony of Annie's soliloquies. The set and furnishings are minimal, but with an impressive pump whose inexhaustible supply of water fascinated all present.
Early in the play, Keller tells Annie that no one expects her to perform miracles, even for $25 a month. Yet she does. For just $5 more, you can see the miracle four student actors achieve with the seasoned guidance of pros. That's what Compass Rose is all about: creating theater for the next generation. This show doesn't disappoint.
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson. Director: Lucinda Merry-Browne. Set and props: JoAnn Gidos and Sophie George. Costumes: Meghan O'Beirne. Lights: Paul Webster. Sound: Sarah Wade.
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Boil the sour cream in a large saucepan. Sieve in half of the flour and stir it well to make a non-lumpy porridge. Bring it quickly to the boil again so that butter is separated out from the porridge. Scoop off the fat using a ladle and set it aside for use later on. Sieve in the remaining flour and add the salt. When the porridge has been brought carefully to the boil again and contains no lumps, it is ready to be served. Serve in deep plates, pour a bit of fat on top and sprinkle with butter and cinnamon. It is customary to serve sour-cream porridge with cured meats and a squash made from red berries.


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Boston beat Boston College this afternoon 10-0. Curt Schilling pitched four innings (35 pitches), striking out three and allowing one hit and no walks:
If I thought about how I felt last year in my best start and ranked it, today was in a different stratosphere from a physical standpoint as far as how I felt compared to any time, at any point last year. The two big things that come out of this game today for me that I wanted from an approach standpoint were how I felt and my velocity. I thought when I wanted to cut loose it was every bit the same way I used to cut loose in spring training in my first couple of starts.Schilling's health and ability to pitch this year is obviously one of the spring's biggest, and most important, questions. His comments are music to my ears (which isn't always the case).
Alex Gonzalez has withdrawn from the World Baseball Classic. ... Jonathan Papelbon has only a dime-sized bruise near his left ankle. "I should probably be able to run tomorrow." ... After his shoulder went numb after a swing last night, Dustin Pedroia went for an MRI.
Today's lineups:
Boston College Northeastern
Willie Harris, CF Coco Crisp, CF
Mark Loretta, 2B Tony Graffanino, 2B
Trot Nixon, RF JT Snow, 1B
Mike Lowell, 3B Dustan Mohr, RF
Kevin Youkilis, 1B David Murphy, LF
Josh Bard, C Josh Pressley, DH
Louis Jiminez, DH John Flaherty, C
Brandon Moss, LF Enrique Wilson, 3B
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Emma Roberts was angelic in white during her appearance at PaleyFest for American Horror Story: Coven.
The 23-year-old actress joined fiancé Evan Peters and their fellow costars Sarah Paulson, Gabourey Sidibe and Angela Bassett, among others, to represent the show's third season, Coven, at the event in Hollywood.
Evan Peters and Emma Roberts at #PaleyFest #AHS pic.twitter.com/wh4ZdHlSTS— Paley Center (@paleycenter) March 29, 2014
Peters told People magazine that the opportunity to work alongside Roberts on Coven was "really amazing."
"You're at set and you're in a city that you don't really know that well," Peters said of the season's New Orleans location. "It's nice to have your best friend there to go to dinner with and check the city."
"On set if you're having a bad day or whatever, you can go to somebody and talk to her and she's right there," the actor continued. "You don't have to wait until you're done working, so it was nice."
The big news of the evening was actor Michael Chiklis' announcement that he will join the American Horror Story cast for its fourth season, Freak Show. The announcement also confirmed that Roberts and Peters will make a return for the fourth season.
"We're going to freak you out and scare you! Every person on this stage is coming back!" Chiklis exclaimed. Roberts and Peters, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Sarah Paulson, Gabourey Sidibe, Francis Conroy, Jamie Brewer and Denis O'Hare were all on stage at the time of the announcement.
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Archive for February 25th, 2010
What Tory Reforms Did To The NHS
Readers with a longer memory than most will remember the changes instigated by the Tories into the NHS.
The BBC highlights the consequence of internal market reforms, vulgar statistics and a management more concerned with pounds and pence, rather than patients:
"The trust had been climbing the NHS ratings ladder during the period in question and was even given elite foundation trust status. "
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Independent Inquiry site.
"The evidence gathered by the Inquiry shows clearly that for many patients the most basic elements of care were neglected. Calls for help to use the bathroom were ignored and patients were left lying in soiled sheeting and sitting on commodes for hours, often feeling ashamed and afraid. Patients were left unwashed, at times for up to a month. Food and drinks were left out of the reach of patients and many were forced to rely on family members for help with feeding. Staff failed to make basic observations and pain relief was provided late or in some cases not at all. Patients were too often discharged before it was appropriate, only to have to be re-admitted shortly afterwards. The standards of hygiene were at times awful, with families forced to remove used bandages and dressings from public areas and clean toilets themselves for fear of catching infections. "
However, I suspect that those useless feckers in New Labour won't learn anything from this, and will re-hash more Tory drivel rather than do away with those awful internal markets and the poverty of thought that drives this type of thinking.
Update 1: The Guardian reports:
"About half of the patients and relatives who gave evidence to the inquiry singled out difficulty in obtaining food and drink as a major concern. Some patients never received food at mealtimes; some who did found that it was placed too far away for them to reach it and so was removed, untouched.
Intake of food and water, both vital to recovery, was not encouraged. "Frequently the explanation appears to have been a lack of staff but sometimes staff were present but lacked a sufficiently caring attitude," the report said.
Breaches of patients' privacy and dignity included patients left inadequately dressed in full view of passersby; patients moved and handled in unsympathetic and unskilled ways, causing pain and distress; and rudeness or hostility.
"However difficult the circumstances, there is no excuse for staff to treat patients in the manner described by some witnesses," Francis concluded.
Staff were equally critical about the hospital's management, and described bosses who bred "an atmosphere of fear of adverse repercussions", stressed NHS targets were the top priority and were secretive when things went wrong.
The trust's board, which was meant to hold managers to account and ensure high clinical standards were maintained, were aware of the weaknesses but failed to ensure improvements were made, the report says."
Update 2: The Press Association coverage:
"The inquiry concluded that the trust's board – which exacerbated its problems by cutting staff to save £10 million in 2006/7 – was "disconnected" from what was actually happening in the hospital.
Mr Francis said "the scale of failure" was greater than has been revealed to date. While he concluded that Stafford Hospital should not be closed, he recommended that Health Secretary Andy Burnham review whether to remove Mid-Staffordshire's status as a foundation trust – a supposed marker of excellence in the NHS."
Update 3: Over at the Torygraph:
"No one on the board at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has faced censure and all of them were either paid off, walked into another job or allowed to remain in post. The man who ran the hospital trust received a large pay-off despite his part in the scandal.
Martin Yeates, the former chief executive, left the trust "by mutual agreement" with a pay-off of £400,000 and a pension worth £1.27 million, it has been alleged."
Update 4: The Guardian again on the tick box culture:
"The BMA chairman, Hamish Meldrum, said the inquiry pinpointed a "culture of fear" in some hospitals that prevented clinical staff from reporting lapses in standards of care.
He added: "The fact that Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust was more focused on meeting government targets, achieving foundation status and saving money, demonstrates very clearly what happens when financial pressures and a tick-box culture are more important than delivering high-quality patient care. I call on the government and all hospital managers to learn the lessons from Staffordshire and to put patients first.""
Update 5: Few case histories and medical understatement:
"When her son left her that night he remembered that she looked bright and well.
The following day she seemed unable to use her arms. The next day she became extremely confused. There was gauze on the back of her head, and a bandage. After the family demanded an explanation, the ward sister said that their mother had fallen during the night. They had found her nightdress in the bedside cabinet and when they got home discovered it was "saturated in blood".
The following night Mr Bunn received another call to tell him his mother had suffered a further fall, and he was asked to come to the hospital. "My mother was lying… full stretch out on the tiled floor," he said. "Some effort had been made to remove the blood. It was smeared all over the floor. You could not see a hair on her head. It was completely swathed in bandages. There was a lady doctor holding my mother's head in her hands."
Mr Bunn recalled saying, "Oh Mum, what have they done to you…" to which the doctor replied coldly: "I have got a mother too." The son later remarked: "There was no compassion in that woman whatsoever."
His mother was sent for a scan. She had a huge bleed on one side of her brain and her brain was swollen. The doctors told the family it was impossible to operate, and that if she regained consciousness then she would not be the same.
Mr Bunn then learnt that his mother had suffered a further previous fall that he had not been made aware of, and a doctor said to him: "We have let you down." "
Update 6: Over in Wales the BBC reports:
"The seven new health boards which run the NHS in Wales are set to go more than £43m over budget, according to research by BBC Wales.
Six are forecasting a deficit for the end of their first financial year, with all under pressure to make savings.
When they were set up in October 2009, Health Minister Edwina Hart said that they "must live within their means".
The boards control all hospitals and community services, GP and dentist funding.
The new boards were created by integrating the 22 old boards – set up in 2003 based on council boundaries – with seven NHS trusts which were then running hospitals.
The new boards are responsible for deciding which treatments and services are available and they also have responsibility for ensuring hospitals meet targets on waiting times.
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1 Betsi Cadwaladr LHB – Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham, Anglesey and Gwynedd – break even
2 Hywel Dda LHB – Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire – £12m
3 Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University LHB – Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend – £3.9m
4 Powys Teaching LHB Powys county – £7.6m
5 Cwm Taf LHB – Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil – £4.8m
6 Cardiff and Vale LHB – Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan – £5.5m
7 Aneurin Bevan LHB – Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen – £10m
Research by BBC Wales into the latest combined financial position shows the seven boards have a running deficit of around £67m, which they forecast being able to bring down to £43m. "


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Debugging Perl 6 Grammars
Debugging Perl 6 Grammars
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Perl 6 grammars are a powerful way to parse text, and extract structure from it. They take what you already know about regexes and object orientation and bring it together powerfully. It's great, but...what happens when your grammar won't match something you think it should?
In this talk, I'll present a grammar with some subtle bugs, and show you how they can be hunted down.
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Roger Clemens: A Cardboard God Comes Into Focus
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By Saul Wisnia, Red Sox Correspondent (Read his blog 'Fenway Reflections' here): Follow @SaulWizz
I took the photo in Cooperstown, after driving from Boston to baseball's Mayberry with three buddies for my first look at the game's red-bricked shrine. When we entered the Hall of Fame Plaque Gallery, just off the museum's lobby, I instinctively knew which of the immortals I wanted to visit first. Walking through the years to the 1966 induction class, I found him on the wall right alongside Casey Stengel:
The picture stands today as the symbol of an era — and innocence — lost. In it, Roger Clemens and Ted Williams share confident, youthful smiles. Williams is, quite literally, a bronzed God, staring out at the photographer in his tanned, All-American glory. Clemens, wearing a fresh, clean Red Sox uniform, also has the look of a man who knows exactly what he wants out of life.
Williams yearned to be the world's greatest hitter; Clemens the top pitcher. At the time of the picture, in 1988, both had reached their goal.
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Reaching into my pocket, I grabbed the '87 Topps Roger Clemens card I had taken on my journey. Quickly placing it atop the upper-right corner of Ted's plaque, I whipped out my camera, took a single shot, and then pulled the card down before I could be caught and thrown out for legend-tampering.
There was no digital screen on my little Kodak to tell me whether I had muffed the picture, but I wasn't going to take a chance at a second one. I just hoped for the best and went on my way.
Clemens was coming off back-to-back Cy Young seasons for the Red Sox, and appeared poised to become the Tom Seaver of his generation. Williams was the real John Wayne, the last man to hit .400 and a war hero whose #9 I always looked for first in the right-field corner upon entering Fenway Park. Both had iconic nicknames that suited them and stuck; Ted was "The Kid" and the "Splendid Splinter," Clemens the "Rocket."
I had only seen Williams hit live in an Old-Timer's Game, but I had been watching Clemens up close since his rookie year. He was 25, I was 20, and I looked forward to many more Rocket sightings in my Fenway future. As an aspiring sportswriter, I even had visions of seeing some of them from the press box. Then, when Clemens made the Hall of Fame, I'd show him the old picture I'd taken way back when and we'd share a laugh. Maybe I'd have him sign it for my kid.
Things didn't turn out quite as expected. By 1996 Clemens had amassed a list of achievements for the Red Sox that had him comfortably headed for his own Cooperstown plaque, but had slumped in recent years.
He still had the gas and skill to strike out 20 (with no walks) at Tiger Stadium that September, however, and few weeks later I saw him pitch another strong game at home against the Yankees. Rumors were he would be ditching the Sox as a Free Agent that winter, and I joined in a long-standing ovation when he left the game and tipped his cap.
We knew it might be the last time he pitched for the Red Sox, and it was — Clemens heading to Toronto to prove Sox GM Dan Duquette he was not past his prime at 34. He accomplished the task with back-to-back Cy Young, Triple Crown seasons, and when the first whispers of steroids started I tried to shut them out. Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire could be juicers, sure, but the Rocket? He had always seemed like the real deal, a throwback to another era.
Later, when I traded in my sportswriter's cap for a writing job at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, I learned Clemens had even made a ritual of jogging over to the Institute's pediatric Jimmy Fund Clinic in uniform to visit sick kids. It was something that would have made Ted Williams — the king of Jimmy Fund heroes — happy as all hell.
How could Clemens risk a chance to join the Splendid Splinter among Boston's greatest ALL-Time icons?
They still never proved anything in court, of course, but Clemens now sits right alongside Bonds as the poster boys for the steroid era. The fact the Rocket denied any juicing doesn't seem to make a difference; the damning testimony of his former trainer in the perjury trial brought against Clemens has made him guilty in the court of public opinion — and the minds of many Hall of Fame voters.
The man whose 354 wins and record seven Cy Young Awards places him statistically in the pantheon of Seaver, Walter Johnson, and the other greatest pitchers in baseball history received just 36.2 percent of the vote in his first crack at Cooperstown. Although 75 percent is needed for admission, the general consensus is that Clemens will eventually make it. Still, he'll forever be tainted by the evidence and the era.
Certainly I've come around to accepting his probable guilt, tempered only by the likelihood that he first started juicing after he left Boston — meaning those games I saw him pitch from '84 to '96 were the result of nasty stuff and not needles.
As for the picture, I did flub it after all. In my frenzy to capture the moment it had turned out blurry and a bit over-exposed. You could still tell who Clemens and Williams were, you could still see their smiles, but everything was out of focus. I didn't realize when I opened the envelope from CVS and saw the fuzzy photo just how prophetic it would be.
Wednesday, after the Hall of Fame voting became public, I went looking for it in a shoe box of old high school and college-era pictures. I found a bunch from my second Cooperstown visit, but none from the first — including the Williams-Clemens shot. It was just as well.
By now, everything was in clear view.
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Regular readers may recall my article on BugLabs BUGbase and selected modules which were available at that time. The BUG continues to evolve. Earlier this month, the latest R1.4 build was released, allowing BUG builders to interact with the new BUGsound module among other features.
With the release of the 1.4 build based on the Poky Linux distribution, along with version 22.214.171.124 of the BUG SDK and Eclipse-based Dragonfly development environment, the BugLabs folks are still in the modular system programming game in a serious way. Even with critics like me questioning the longevity and viability of the platform in the face of other more functional Java-based mobile platforms like Google's Android, there's just something about the tinkering aspect the BUG's ala carte modular selection coupled with the dedicated, enthusiastic hobbyist community surrounding the BUG that makes it thrive.
The BUG's kernel and root filesystem have been completely revamped since my previous article. The new system based on Poky delivers not only a much more comprehensive set of Linux command-line utilities and broader Linux module support, but even more sophisticated Linux-compiled applications including full versions of Perl (v5.8), Python (v2.5.2) and Ruby (v1.8.6). Additional programs such as MySQL and even Gnome-based window applications can be installed via the apt-like ipk package installer. And for those using the BUGdisplay module, the new Gnome-based desktop shell with its simple application selector makes using that module much more useful.
In addition to this significant operating system upgrade, Bug Labs has released two more modules: the BUGvonHippel and BUGsound.
The BUGvonHippel module, named after MIT professor Dr. Eric von Hippel (author of the book Democratizing Innovation), exemplifies the open platform nature of the BUGbase by providing an open interface for students, hobbyists and embedded systems engineers to extend the BUGbase with their own electronic designs. This breakout board module includes a female USB 2.0 port that can be used to interface the BUG with keyboards, mice, storage devices and anything else that is USB-based.
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the BUGvonHippel is the ability to plug in a USB-to-Ethernet adapter and finally connect to the BUG to a direct network connection rather than having to rely on the clunky direct USB-Ethernet bridge interface that required the BUG to be tethered to a network-connected computer for the BUG to perform anything really interesting. Following the instructions that Bug Labs' John Connolly shared with me, I was able to load a Pegasus Ethernet module into the Poky kernel, connect a TRENDnet USB to Ethernet adapter to the connected BUGvonHippel module, set a static IP in the /etc/network/interfaces configuration file, bring up the Ethernet interface and untether for a standalone bug experience.
This not only made the BUG instantly more useful from free-standing computing platform, but also made BUG development via the updated Dragonfly SDK vastly easier. In fact, I could connect to, interrogate and develop BUG applications from several of my networked computers with Eclipse configured with Dragonfly -- very cool!
Taking it to the next level, I then successfully installed the latest stable release of the Django framework (recall that Poky is loaded with a complete install of Python 2.5.2), copied over a couple simple Django web applications (with SQLite-based data stores) that I wrote and they executed flawlessly. While I had hoped that I could control various aspects of the BUG's hardware and attached modules, that unfortunately at this time is not possible. These suspicions were confirmed by my email conversations with John, who wrote:
As it stands now, there is no Dragonfly SDK support for anything but Java. Ambitious users may be able to use our existing libraries (with some work and rewrites, which I'd be happy to support) to make it possible to control the module/Base hardware from outside of Java, but it is not supported out of the box. If you're curious, we're looking at porting JNA (Java Native Access) to Sun's PhoneME vm/classpath, or using existing support with another Java VM/classpath implementation. In essence, this would make it much easier for users to use our native libraries to control their BUG from other languages. Python, Ruby, and I'm sure Perl all have tools for using prebuilt C libraries natively. As of 1.4, the C/C++ shared libraries are crammed up with Java-centric glue, because we used JNI.
In the meantime, I have several ideas on how to circumvent this boundary, though not in a not elegant manner. Essentially, write a small Java application that polls the intended BUGmodule for whatever values/data it collected, dump this at set intervals to a file, then read that file at set intervals from my Python script(s)/Django app for further manipulation and/or browser display. Not the ideal but certainly possible until the Bug Labs development team or a contributor provides some form of direct access.
Of course, while the BUGvonHippel module supplies the ever versatile USB port, it also exposes the BUG to custom electronic interfaces via its two rows of direct female wire connections to the module's circuit board, consisting of power, DAC, ADC, GP I/O, Ground, I2C, I2S and Serial connections. This open configuration could potentially expose the BUG to countless custom electronics projects and device interface configurations for learning labs, hobbyist and prototype projects. Bug Labs also has a video interview with Dr. von Hippel talking about the BUG board named after him, discussing why the BUGvonHippel board is such an an insightful, open design.
BUGsound The BUGsound audio module contains a 20-mm speaker and omindirectional microphone with built-in hardware stereo codecs and input, output, headphone and microphone standard 3.5mm jacks along the side of the module. Additional technical details about this module can be found on the Bug Labs website.
I had big hopes for this module with the thought of being able to transform the BUG into an MP3 player and, with its newly capable free-standing network capability courtesy of the BUGvonHippel module, a networked media player. Unfortunately at this time, this module's (and quite honestly, most of the BUG modules) documentation is extremely sparse. Bug Labs currently relies on its concept/prototype applications on its Community Applications site (directly accessible within the Dragonfly perspective in the Eclipse IDE) such as this AudioEventTester application to demonstrate this and other modules as well as document the module's function calls via the raw source code provided in these projects. While uber-techies will be able to tease out the essentials from these minimal efforts, formal, comprehensive documentation for the entire BUG line is a requirement before the BUG can be comfortably incorporated into a broader developer community. Certainly the online support and community forums are helpful, but nothing beats solid, up-to-date and exhaustive as possible documentation for deep hardware and software exploration. Like the BUGvonHippel, Bug Labs has a brief video about the BUGsound module that does little more than reiterate the module's features but, like the BUGvonHippel video, does not actually show the module executing these features.
Where's the WiFi?
As of this writing, there has yet to be a WiFi-based BUG module released. However, according to Bug Lab's Mehrshad Mansouri in this BUG Community forum thread, "We're working on a wi-fi enabled BUGbase and we plan to release it within the next few months, and we will be shipping the BUGwifi module within the next few weeks."
More On the BUG
I enjoyed this piece on the BUG on Dr. Dobb's. I'm a BUG enthusiast, but (as you can tell from my email address) also a part-time consultant for Bug Labs. I go by finsprings on the forums and bugnet.
With regard to the Java-only APIs on the BUG I wanted to see if you were aware of the RESTful APIs that are currently available for the BUG modules. These are still a bit limited, and I think they're all read-only for now, but there's no reason they can't become more fully-fledged (I think John was looking at supporting writes for the von Hippel for example).
Depending on what data you need access to, and how frequently, they could be a workable solution for incorporating data into your Django web apps. They're also pretty quickly extendable in the BUG modules' Java code, so if there's something blatantly missing it could hopefully be added in relatively short order.
If you point your browser to http://bugip/service it will give you a list of the services you can access, which will depend on the modules you have installed; each service has a Service XML tag with a name attribute. Then you can query the particular service using http://bugip/service/servicename and get the data back, typically in XML form. For example, BUGlocate will give you lat/lon position data back, BUGmotion will give you back accelerometer readings or the last time motion was detected, BUGcam will take a picture and return you the jpeg, and so on.
Here's a few examples from my BUG: http://pastebin.com/m5aef9b1c so you can see what I mean.
I'm a Python fan, and I know some of the folks in the BL office are too, so if you get any cool stuff going with Django or plain ol' command-line Python on the BUG it would be great if you would share, in #buglabs on freenode or some other way :-)
Also, regarding BUGsound, here is a video of a BUG app that I wrote that uses the accelerometer in the BUGmotion to select which audio samples to mix together to output via BUGsound. It gets pretty annoying pretty quickly (the guys who were at CES were cursing me :-)) but it does at least show BUGsound doing something; and hey, there's cowbell! If you try Phunky, be aware that it takes a long time to start up; that's because it has to cache all 9 samples up-front, and because they're all 44.1kHz stereo they're a little on the large size even for as short a duration as they have.
Dave (finsprings) Findlay
BUG Release 1.4 and SDK 22.214.171.124, released the middle of March, made huge strides of improvement and bring more functionality for the BUGlocate and VonHippel modules compared to the version I wrote about last year. The most important addition is formal support for the BUGsound module via its new audio API. While I struggled to get anything more than a simple demo working with the BUGsound module, it has great potential, just like the rest of the BUG modules. I hope to follow up with the Bug Labs folks in another six months or so from now to see how this rapidly evolving platform continues to innovate, especially with the expectation that the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth hardware will be integrated into future models of the BUGbase, making the BUG platform an innovation engine for students, educators, hobbyists, tinkerers and embedded software systems engineers.


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About the only time where Just Cause 2's vehicle physics work against you is when it has the chance to create an even BETTER awesome car crash, such as street vehicles going off road, or anything trying to get a grip on icy surfaces. God, I lose it when that sportscar goes off the sand dune. Just lose it.
The thing is, I want this game to take itself seriously while all this crap is happening. Oh, sure, this would be hilarious if it was all set to a Dukes of Hazzard banjo accompaniment. But, like giggling in study hall, it's even funnier when you beach a cigarette boat, parachute onto the dock and karate kick a bad guy and try to keep a straight face throughout.
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Bugatti: The Marriage of Art and Design
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By Mark Yost
The Wall Street Journal
Oxnard, Calif.
There have been many exhibits on Bugatti, but none quite like the one now at the Mullin Automotive Museum. "The Art of Bugatti" looks not only at the gorgeous cars that defined the Art Deco movement's marriage of art and design, but at the Bugatti family itself—Italians whose story often gets lost in the glare of the headlights of their fabulous French creations.
"If you think about it, there has been no other family like them in the past 500 years—with multiple generations that have had such influence on art and design," said Peter Mullin, an insurance billionaire and collector who has a soft spot for the Art Deco period and its pieces. You could debate that, but what's not disputable is the depth and breadth of this exhibit, which features 27 Bugatti automobiles, the single-largest collection of the luxurious marques ever displayed (many of them from Mr. Mullin's private collection), and a thorough history of the family told through paintings, sculptures, furniture, manuscripts, design sketches and other heirlooms, some on display to the public for the first time.
The tone of the exhibit, officially curated by Brittanie Kinch but very much a labor of love for Mr. Mullin, is set early when visitors enter a circular gallery—one curved wall featuring short biographies of the Bugattis; the other, a timeline of the cars. Visitors learn that automotive patriarch Carlo (1856-1940), the son of architect and sculptor Giovanni, was as well known for his silverware and furniture—his Art Nouveau Snail Room furniture suite wowed crowds at the 1902 Turin Exposition of Decorative Art—as for his automobiles. His son Rembrandt (1884-1916) hewed to the art world, while Ettore (1881-1947) would take the car company to what many consider its pinnacle of artistry.
To reflect the exhibit's theme that the family's artistry spread well beyond the garage, works such as Rembrandt Bugatti's 1908 sculpture "American Bison," cast in bronze at Paris's Hébrard Foundry, are intermingled with four cars, including a 1929 Bugatti Type 46 coupé. A short film in the exhibit further connects these dots, noting the similarity between the sleek lines of Rembrandt's 1914 bronze sculpture "Stalking Panther" and those of the 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, considered one of the greatest creations of Jean Bugatti (1909-1939), son of Ettore, and a car that Mr. Mullin bought for an estimated $35 million in 2010.
Also on display throughout the museum—which has devoted all of its nearly 47,000 square feet of display space to the Bugattis—is a rare Carlo Bugatti banjo, circa 1898; a Carlo Bugatti oil-on-canvas portrait of his wife, Thérèse; and a 1927 Ettore Bugatti wooden horse-drawn carriage.
An interactive kiosk in the second major gallery—Bugatti Power—compares and contrasts the engine that Ettore built for the luxurious Type 41 "Royale" (more than 12,000cc, producing 300 horsepower at 1,800rpm) and the engine that his eldest son, Jean, built for the sportier Type 50 (a little less than 5,000cc that produced 225 horsepower at 4,000rpm). It notes that if there was any rivalry among the talented Bugattis, it was between those two men. "He took creative and financial risks that gave even his famously idealistic father pause," the kiosk says of Jean, who was killed when he was just 30, testing a Type 57 racer that had just won Le Mans.
The Type 41 (1926-33) was one of the most expensive cars ever built because of its size, engineering and materials used. It cost more than 650,000 francs, or six times the average price of a Rolls-Royce. Ettore had planned to build 25 Type 41s, but made only six (and sold only three) because even Europe's aristocracy, crimped by the Great Depression, found them too expensive. Jean's Type 57, a panel here tells us, was in direct response to the decline of the luxury market in the 1930s. From 1934 to 1939, 660 Type 57s were produced in three versions: standard, the sportier 57S, and the 57SC that Mr. Mullin acquired in 2010. The Type 57, with its sleek lines, oversize fenders and bulbous cockpit, we're told, "cemented Jean's position in the high pantheon of automotive artists and made him a worthy contemporary of 20th-century modernists like Picasso and Chagall."
Many of these cars were made at the Alsatian estate that Carlo Bugatti bought in 1909. True to the Art Nouveau movement, even the hinges on the factory doors in Molsheim, France, where Bugattis are still made today by its parent company Volkswagen, VOW3.XE +0.41% were custom-made and fabricated on site.
While all of this family background is news to many, the true stars of this exhibit are the cars. In addition to the models previously mentioned, all of which are on display here, the pièce de résistance is the Type 64 that Jean was working on when he was killed. Mr. Mullin has put his considerable resources into completing the unfinished masterwork, built to what many believe would have been Jean's wishes and based upon a handful of drawings Jean made of the prototype. Mr. Mullin's version includes a hybrid aluminum body that's impossible to weld because of its metallic properties and instead is riveted like an airplane. In displaying the car, Mr. Mullin chose to suspend the body a few feet above the chassis, because "what's underneath is as beautiful as the exterior," he said.
Next to the completed car is a beautiful mahogany buck, a new wooden silhouette like the ones that auto makers used to build so they could hand-shape the individual body pieces and hang them. "Auto makers, of course, don't do that anymore," Mr. Mullin said. "It's a lost art. So I thought it was important."
It is important, as is most everything shown in this exhibit—one of the best ever put together showcasing the marriage of art and the automobile.
Mr. Yost is a writer in Houston.


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After Robert Griffin III was hit in the johnce literally and figuratively on Monday Night Football, there was some stupid "controversy" involving his father's presence in the locker room. It was actually pretty crazy. Get this: his dad was in the locker room.
Miraculously, the earth continued rotating on its axis and humanity endured, but it was not a "good look for Robert." Can't be having unusual goings on after a loss, best to keep it like the seven other times. Otherwise people will ask questions. Issues will be made.
Articles will be written. It's important to note, though that there's nothing wrong with Robert Griffin, Jr.'s presence in the Washington locker room. It's noted in every article. The problem is...is that it's weird? I guess? Plus, they lost so it's...something worse? There is no question that it is an issue that will need to be addressed.
There's nothing wrong with RG2 being in the locker room or in the media session. If he's there after a win, I'd wager that no one notices or says anything about it. Or at least that no one cares.
But the Redskins didn't win. They lost in pretty embarrassing fashion at home during a prime time game. And it was clear that Griffin struggled throughout the game.
Take a struggling team, a major market, a coach under fire, a high-profile quarterback and you've already got enough blood in the water for the media and fans.
Add in a "football dad" hanging out by the locker room and it could be a long couple weeks for Griffin and the Redskins.
Occasionally celebrities find their way in. Teams have allowed certain children into locker rooms at times, but they often are whisked away after a short spell. There are probably other exceptions, though it's hardly common.
But to Snider's other point, this was no ordinary week. The white-hot glare on the team right now is impossible to miss, and the sight of an outsider hanging around the locker room after a brutal loss might have upset a few players.
Then again, it might not have. A few players have been critical of RG3, but there seems to be strong support otherwise in the locker room. This story probably doesn't get told if the Redskins win Monday night, or if they were 8-3 instead of 3-8. And there's no question that anything out of the ordinary surrounding Griffin right now is going to be blown up more than almost any other player right now.
Everything that goes on with Griffin will be dissected and rehashed more than most players in the NFL. It was like that when things went well for him last year; it was like that in the offseason when he rehabbed and it's like that when he's playing the way he is this season — and the team is playing just as poorly. So: When his father enters the locker room shortly after the media and is in there for a while, chatting with his son at his locker, it's noteworthy. I haven't seen other parents ever do that (sometimes you see players' kids, like DeAngelo Hall's. But not parents). There are signs about no visitors in the locker room. I don't know if it's a big deal or not. I do know it's different. I do know it was not a good week for it to happen from appearance sake.
After the loss—Washington's third in a row—Griffin Jr. came into the locker room when it was opened to reporters and had a lengthy discussion with his son at his locker stall. He also accompanied Griffin III to his post game news conference and returned to the locker room afterward to continue the conversation.
Griffin Jr.'s presence was noteworthy because of how rare it is for a family member to enter the locker room after a game.
There's a lot to digest in those little snippets but I'll save you some work and tell you what's not there for digesting: a reason why it's weird or worth noting at all other than it is, apparently, inherently so. At least one speculated that teammates might not have liked it. I guess everyone was too busy noting how weird it was to see a player's parent in the locker room to ask any of them. There are also signs saying "no visitors," notable exceptions being made for celebrities and DeAngelo Hall's kids only.
When you have to explain why something is noteworthy, though it might not be as noteworthy as you think, it is tailor-made for the bullshit "distractions" racket so many traffic in. As with most distractions foisted on a team or player, it has been addressed. Robert Griffin, Jr. was checking on his son because he thought he was injured.
"He showed up, I was shocked that he was there, but he meant no harm," Griffin said. "Anybody out there that's going after my dad needs to back up. That is my father. I will protect my family and he served 21 years in the military. I know that's not an excuse for anything that he does, but he's not overstepping his bounds. So I hope that people will respect that and back off.
"He asked me if I was OK and I said, 'Yeah, I'm all right.' And me and him just talked and that's it."
RGIII got his ass kicked Monday night and is coming back from a torn ACL. It was a serious injury he incurred playing while already injured because either he or his coach (or more likely both) has his priorities all out of whack when it comes to his health. All of that is probably rattling around in the back of his father's mind and could explain why he wanted to check on his son's health. Hell, Mike Shanahan has since said that jobs are on the line because at 3-8, Washington stinks. Maybe Robert Griffin, Jr. just wants to hear from his son's own mouth that he's OK before jeopardizing the rest of his career for a shit team.
Good news is, next time RGII goes inside the locker room it won't be as unusual, so maybe someone can ask him what he's doing there.
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With one final, fitting blast of 96-degree heat on Tuesday, the summer of 2010 went down in the National Weather Service's record books as the hottest ever in New York City.
Hotter than the previous high of 77.3 degrees set in 1966, when more than 1,100 deaths were attributed to heat that repeatedly exceeded 100 degrees. Hotter than 2006, when a heat wave set off a blackout in northern Queens that left more than 100,000 residents without power for days.
But in this record-breaking season defined by the Weather Service as June through August there was no cataclysm, no singular event that was likely to define a three-month period when the temperature averaged 77.8 degrees. Instead, the summer of 2010 might be more properly measured in more subtle ways.
For Sal Medina, a newsstand operator from the Bronx, it could be measured by the number of frozen water bottles that he slipped into his pants this week to stay cool (three).
For John Natuzzi, it could be all the ice cubes used during the first day of the United States Open tennis tournament on Monday (80,000 pounds).
For lifeguards, it could be the number of total visitors to the city's beaches (17.2 million).
For executives at Consolidated Edison, it would surely be the number of 90-degree days the utility struggled through without any widespread disruptions of its power network (34).
Tally it all up and the sum of the last three months is a rarely interrupted stretch of hot days that forced New Yorkers to keep cool in ways both traditional and creative.
Mr. Medina, 56, who lives in Pelham Bay, could barely stand to be inside his metal-jacketed newsstand at Clinton and Delancey Streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. To cool off, he devised a system using frozen pint-sized bottles of Poland Spring water.
He would tuck three inside the waistband of his pants. A fourth he would sling in a plastic bag whose handles he would knot just under his chin, holding the icy cylinder against the back of his neck.
Even with that gear, Mr. Medina said he had quit early a few days this summer, heading home at 3 p.m. on the hottest days, instead of the usual 6. The heat, he said, "affects your whole nervous system, makes you grouchy; it makes you so you can't stand your customers."
At Natuzzi Brothers Ice Company in Queens, the phones ring nonstop once the temperature hits 90, Mr. Natuzzi said. This summer, he said, his company has been supplying dry ice to ice-cream stores to keep their products frozen, a request he said he rarely got last summer.
The shortage of orders during the cool early months of last summer led to significant losses, Mr. Natuzzi said, but this summer has been a different story. The company, whose warehouse holds 40 tons of ice, sold out its supply during the heat wave that started on the July 4 weekend. It has been running its delivery trucks up to 15 hours a day since then.
"It's been quite a ride this summer," Mr. Natuzzi said.
Exhausted as he is, it is not quite over. His company supplies ice to the food-service operations at the United States Open, which runs for two weeks. On the first day, the Open used about 20,000 pounds more than usual, he said. "I'll look back and say that this is one summer I'll never forget," Mr. Natuzzi said.
At Con Edison, the summer of 2010 will be memorable for what did and did not happen. In the past three months, the utility's customers drew more power off its grid than during any previous three-month period, according to data compiled by the company. But through successive heat waves, the electric distribution system held up, with only occasional localized disruptions.
"For two days we suffered," said Theo Trilivas, 65, a retired plumber who lost power in his home in Astoria, Queens, in July. "No power. No cooking. No A.C. No lights. Nothing. We had to throw out everything in the freezer."
The growing demand for power from residential customers has been one of the bigger surprises to Con Ed officials this summer. Of the company's 36 distribution networks, 14 all in residential areas exceeded the forecast for peak demand, said John F. Miksad, a senior vice president who oversees the company's electric operations. Reflecting the weak state of the economy, power usage by commercial customers declined this summer, he said.
The increased use of air-conditioning has been one constant of life in the metropolitan region. According to Con Ed's estimates, 6.6 million air-conditioners are in use in its service area, and that number is rising by at least 170,000 a year.
Sam Sharma and his wife tried placing buckets of ice cubes on window sills and in front of fans in their apartment on the second floor of a house in Woodside, Queens. But eventually they broke down and did what so many other New Yorkers have done: they bought an air-conditioner.
"We have it in the living room and only run it when it is extreme heat, and then only for a few hours," said Mr. Sharma, an immigrant from Nepal who works as a parking lot attendant. "Maybe we used it 10 days this whole summer. It's expensive."
In search of relief, some people actually sought out the city. On Monday, Sharon Fredman, 38, a Web consultant from Tenafly, N.J., had run out of suburban options to entertain her daughter, Margot, 8, and keep her cool at the same time. So she drove in for the day to let Margot splash around in a sprinkler in Tompkins Square Park. "When it's 90 degrees," Ms. Fredman said, "it's equally hot everywhere."
When New Yorkers sought to escape the heat indoors, they flocked to the beaches, particularly Coney Island. According to the city's parks department, total attendance at Coney Island's beach slightly exceeded 12.8 million people, more than triple the total from 2009.
"There were tremendous increases at all the beaches," said Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner. "The beaches were our natural air-conditioners."
Many of those beachgoers were repeat visitors, like Stephen Fybish, who said he went to Coney Island or neighboring Brighton Beach to swim in the ocean 11 times this summer. He said that he found the sand to be crowded some days but that he always had ample room to swim.
A weather historian who has kept detailed records on temperatures in the city for many years, Mr. Fybish was already looking ahead to September and calculating what sort of weather it would take to extend the hottest-ever distinction. By his reckoning, the average temperature for the month has to be higher than 71 degrees for New York to have its hottest June-through-September period on record.


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I am always amazed as I read God's Word how the level of understanding during one season of life becomes enlarged by the Holy Spirit in another season. Suddenly new revelation lights the path more clearly.
During recent stressful events in my life, the Lord reminded me about Philippians 4:6. As I reread this passage the Holy Spirit gave me a new understanding and stabilized my heart with His peace.
I know if I take the time to share this new insight it will be better defined within me. This definitely isn't the whole picture about prayer by any means. It is a simple but important lesson I learned in the life school of prayer. But first, I have to backtrack. Years ago, I looked at prayer as an itemized check list. I relied on a list of prayer concerns, and prayed through those lists faithfully. Prayer was stylistic and the approach to God was ritualistic. I grew up learning about the ACTS way to pray. This formula encouraged a diversity of purpose when praying to God, making sure that focus wasn't just on petitioning or supplication, but also covering all the other areas as well. Indeed, we do need to include worship, confession, thanksgiving and petition in prayers on a regular basis. This is the formula:
- A = adoration
- C= confession
- T= thanksgiving
- S= supplication
Over time, as my needs became greater and formulas failed to work, I was pressed to seek the Lord more diligently through prayer. He encouraged me to speak to Him with spontaneity and honesty. I learned to run to Him as soon as I realized I'd chosen the wrong way, seeking His forgiveness and mercy; I began depending on Him when I had a need; He helped me appreciate being still before Him as I enjoyed His presence; the encounters with Him led me to rejoice with praise, and to worship Him for who He is and what He does. He showed me how to reach past myself with intercessory prayer for His Kingdom, His glory and for others. New lessons about learning to hear Him are ever enlightening my heart. Yet, I was still missing an important concept about effectual prayer.
Each new difficulty in life presents opportunity for growth in the knowledge of our Father's heart and in talking with Him in prayer. The recent situations I faced were no exception. As He led me to Philippians 4:6 several months ago, two words from that verse realigned my prayers over the issues I was facing. Actually it was only one word, the word "with".
Effective praying is not just telling God our needs and then remembering to be thankful. Giving thanks and petitioning are entwined in a single focus on God. Petition and thanksgiving come together as need meets assurance. Petitions are made… with thanksgiving, as the heart seeks comfort from a faithful, loving Father. Jesus set the example as He often expressed thanksgiving in His own prayers to the Father.
Giving thanks, while seeking God's help through petitions, is an act of worship. If I am asking my Father for something with a heart of thanksgiving, I am acknowledging that He will hear my prayers, will do what is best for me and will always respond with a loving redemptive plan. If my petitions are not joined with thanksgiving, I am not allowing my heart to expect the best from God. The "if's , maybe's, could you's, and sure am hoping's" become more evident in petitions that don't flow with thanksgiving. To be thankful while petitioning is also an act of faith and trust in the goodness of God. Doubt and disbelief are eliminated when thanksgiving and petitions are offered together.
There are dark times when petitioning is done with anguish and tears, and it just doesn't feel like a time to be thankful. You can't even pretend to be thankful. I have experienced those times. It took the power of the Holy Spirit working in me to muster a simple "thank you Father for your goodness, even in this stressful situation" when recent unforeseen events encroached upon my life. On a deeper level I've heard and read testimonies of Christians who have lost loved ones or suffered unbearable hardship and pain, but were able to lift thanksgiving/worship in anticipation of God's goodness, comfort and blessings… yet to be revealed. Despite those painful times, the Holy Spirit is able to lift our hearts with thanksgiving. The key is faith in God's goodness and, asking to be thankful, as we realize in times of desperation we sometimes aren't able to offer thanksgiving. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, thanksgiving begins to rise from our hearts and our focus is lifted up to our Faithful Father.
It pleases the Lord for us to come to Him with confidence in His love. I will never fully understand why the Lord does what He does or how He answers my prayers. But I can always be assured His love will be the motive behind His every plan and action.
Ephesians 5:20 Amplified Bible (AMP) 20 At all times and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 New International Version (NIV) 18 give thanks in all circumstances;for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 American Standard Version (ASV)16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
Colossians 1:11-12 Amplified Bible (AMP)11 [We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy,12 Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God's holy people) in the Light.
Connecting, with love


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The box art for 3DS game Nintendogs + Cats looks similar to the box art for Nintendogs. Make that looked.
According to Japanese website Famicom Plaza, Nintendo said that the change was made to differentiate the two games. Some gamers might have trouble discerning which version is the DS one and which one is the 3DS one. All three versions of Nintendo + Cats now have new box art.
New, horrible looking box art. In an effort to differentiate something, Nintendo has made the game's box art look worse.
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Music has always been one of the pillars of Macross—along with love triangles and space wars. But only now, 30 years after the airing of the original Macross, is it getting its first stage musical: Macross: the Musiculture. While such performances are somewhat common (like Persona 4's own stage adaptation), this musical is actually an entirely new story in the continuity of the Macross universe.
The musical is set three years after Macross Frontier on Macross 29 (Two-Nine), a pacifist fleet on the verge of economic collapse. As part of an economic recovery program, the government is holding a Miss Macross talent competition. At the same time, a new political movement advocating the return to a strong military has been capitalizing on the economic crisis and gaining popularity—especially among young Zentradi.
The situation begins to come to a head when two teens, Ash and Sakura, meet Vigo, one of the young leaders of the political dissidents.
To get a brief look at what the musical is like, check out the video above.
Macross: the Musiculture opened in Tokyo this past Wednesday and will run through October 10.


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The Geomag Color range has been completely updated: colours, box design and number of pieces have all changed. The colourful base platforms make the structures more stable. Imagine what you want and Geomag Color will do the rest.
With Geomagworld fun is guaranteed. Imagination, intelligence, magnetism and gravity are only some of the invisible forces that make our play experience fun and educational.
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You have all seen our black front door, so I looked for another and I found this one. It's the entrance to a miniature shop which I made after a trip to Cape Cod in the 1990's. We saw lots of craft and folk art shops and I decided to make one of my own when I came home. Inside it looks like this:
I took this one by holding my camera in through the front window. That's a quilt I sewed and you can just see the corner of another, rolled up to the left.
Today I also have..
..pastel (our Easter pinata)
and girly (my necklaces in Ikea jewellery drawers)


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he Zapata Ranch is home to working bison and cattle operations that are managed separately on different areas of the ranch. The bison herd is maintained as a "conservation species," roaming freely in a 50,000 acre pasture much as they did for millennia before being hunted to near extinction in the nineteenth century.
The cattle operation consists of a small third party cow-calf grazing business and a herd of Ranchlands' yearlings that graze on the Zapata when weather and forage conditions permit. A sustainable livestock business is dependent on healthy land, and so we strive to manage the land in a way that mimics the natural grazing patterns that have existed for thousands of years in high desert grasslands.
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No, this is not an amazing giant door knocker but actually a disability grip bar! I wish I had taken a picture of the whole door because that would have given a better sense of how amazing this looked.
Great light fixture
At Scout For The Home I really admired the curvy shape and narrow depth of these bedside tables. Isn't the finish nice too?
These paintings are by a local artist who uses coffee to create her works.
Edison style bulbs paired with an iron and wood chandelier.
In my last post w/the picture of the amazing periwinkle nunnery doors, I mentioned Sherry of Design Indulgence gave me a heads up about Redefined in West Midtown, which is perfect as it's right on the way to the airport. The finish and look of this black screen is very classic.
Like many bookstores that feature "picks" from their staff, Redefined does the same with home decor. This great wood piece was a favorite of Tracy's.
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Doug Noce grew up worshipping stuff that went zoom in a different way. With his father working at NACA/NASA during the Space Race, instead of toy cars he had airplanes and rockets, with youthful hero worship for men like Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and the rest of the Mercury 7 crew. The sounds of jet turbines and not open headers stoked his imagination, at least until 2007.
Setting the way back machine for the midst of the Carter Era, we find a young Doug Noce, recently graduated from Virginia Tech and married, looking for a new car after some prodding from his wife. Specifically, she wanted a yellow Camaro. Luckily, Casey Chevrolet in Newport News, Virginia, had two Code 51Bright Yellow Camaros sitting on the lot. One was 350 equipped with black interior, the other 305 with tan upholstery.
Tired of roasting his cheeks on scorching hot black vinyl, the tan interior car ended up going home as the Noce's new car. This was September 1, 1979. (Author's note: To make our veteran readers cringe, this was a scant four months after yours truly was born. Yikes!). For the next 28 years, the Camaro would be Doug's daily driver, racking up 265,000 miles and the 2-bbl 305 with its 145 ponies never missing a beat.
By 2005, Doug had been inspired by an article in our sister magazine Car Craft, where a similar '79 Camaro had been freshened up with LS power and a host of other goodies. Two years later, with enough cash saved and help from his good friend Doug Carter, Doug (Noce) pulled the car into the garage and began tearing it apart for a refit. This was June of 2007.
Two years later, after blowing the roof off his build budget twice, the '79 was ready for its return to the street. The smog-era 305 was yanked, and a GM Performance Parts Ramjet 350 dropped between the front framerails. With more than double the 305's horsepower and torque, it definitely added some extra kick to the F-body.
The original TH350 trans was retired too with an ATI built 700-R4 taking its place along with a Denny's Driveshaft custom 3.5-inch aluminum driveshaft. The original 8.5-inch 10-bolt was also freshened up with Moser internals, a Tru-Trac posi unit, and 3.73 gears, all put together by Doug Carter.
For the suspension, Global West tubular A-arms were bolted to the stock spindles, and QA1 adjustable coilover shocks were tasked with cushioning the ride. A 1-5/16 diameter Global West sway bar helps keep things steady, and Stainless Steel Brakes 11.25-inch rotors and aluminum calipers provide extra stopping power.
In the rear, Global West leaf springs and KYB shocks keep the 10-bolt under control, along with a Global West one-inch sway bar and SSBC discs replacing the factory drums. Other details of the build include solid aluminum body mounts, Global West subframe connectors, and for added detail the original front subframe was blasted clean then powdercoated for extra durability.
Inside, Bill and John Mongesku at Tim's Custom Upholstery handled modernizing the Disco-era interior. The beige trimmings were replaced with gray vinyl and carpet. The factory door panels were recovered to match, along with the factory front buckets and rear seats. To spruce up his readouts, Doug went with a Covan's Classic Dash panel insert stuffed with Auto Meter carbon-fiber gauges. A B&M shifter tells the 700-R4 what to do, and a Momo "tuner" steering wheel sends inputs to the front wheels. Corbeau three-point harnesses keep the front passengers secure, and a Kenwood Excelon head unit blasts songs through JL Audio speakers to drown out the Ramjet 350's bark.
Outside, the car was resprayed by Matt Schon in the original code 51 Bright Yellow hue, and Matt finished it off by airbrushing on the car's new graphics.
Ironically, it was September 1, 2009, when Doug was able to drive the car in its new form for the first time. Thirty years to the day from when he first drove the Camaro off the Casey Chevrolet lot. Along the way he made lots of friends, those mentioned earlier, along with Craig Jones and Buddy Watley who donated their time and advice to the rebuild, and Doug's daughter Ashley, who encouraged him to start the project and see it through to the end.


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Game 2
The Baltimore Blast faced the Missouri Comets tonight for the MISL championship. After falling in game one to the Comets on Friday the Blast were able to bounce back with a 19-4 victory and forced a 15 minute mini game for the MISL championship.
The first quarter was a low scoring start to the game. Marco Mangione got the Blast on the board first with a goal at 13:30off an assist from Lucas Roque. With 4:15 left in the quarter Mike Deasel was able to score off an assist from Adauto Neto.
Adauto Neto started off the second quarter with a 3-point goal at 12:12 off an assist from Lucio Gonzaga. Max Ferdinand found the back of the net off an assist from Mike Lookingland at the 8:25 mark followed by Lookinland assisting Tony Donatelli with 5:05 remaining in the quarter. The Blast went into the half leading 11-0.
The Blast continued to dominate in the second half. Lucio Gonzaga scored at 12:39 for the teams 6th goal of the night. Mike Lookingland recorded his 3rd assist of the night on the goal. At 9:11 Adauto Neto extended the Blast lead to 15 by scoring his second goal of the night off an assist from Lucio Gonzaga. With 2:54 left in the quarter Leo Gibson got the Comets first goal of the night assisted by Ramone Palmer.
The Blast began the fourth quarter with a great ball by J.T Noone that Neto was able to net with a diving header for his third goal of the night. Missouri's Brian Harris scored at 6:57 in the quarter off an assist from Max Touluote. After a Missouri blue card Max Ferdinand was able to take advantage with a power play with a goal off an assist from Tony Donatelli. At the final buzzer, the Blast had won 19-4.
Scoring Summary Game 2:
Blast 4 7 4 4 19
Comets 0 0 2 2 4
Game 3: Final
After winning game 2 of the MISL semifinal series the Blast forced a 15- minute mini game against the Comets. Missouri pushed past the Blast 6-4 and went home with the MISL Championship Title.
After a huge defensive stand by the Blast defense and a goal saving block by Pat Healey to start the quarter, Max Ferdinand gave the Blast a lead at 6:32 with a goal off an assist from Marco Mangione. With 5:36 on the clock the Comets answered as Lucas Rodriguez scored off a Stefan St. Louis assist to tie it at 2. After scoring a hat trick in game two Neto wasn't done for the night yet; at 2:49 he gave the Blast the lead while Tony Donatelli recorded the assist. The Comets tied it up at 1:34 off a Stefan St. Louis goal with an assist from Lucas Rodriguez. With 0:54 seconds remaining, the Comets' Brian Harris, who won the 2013-14 Championship series MVP, the game winning goal off an assist from Leo Gibson. At the final buzzer the Blast had lost 6-4.
Offensively, Adauto Neto led the way recording a hat trick in game two and added a goal in game 3. Neto had 9 points on the night. Mike Lookingland had 3 assists in the game 2 win while six different Blast players were able to record goals. Goalkeeper William Vanzela recorded 7 saves in game two and 1 in game three.


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We thank caregiver Jeela Tamrakar for writing this two-part piece to honor Anthony, her patient who has ALS and uses Tobii Dynavox devices for access and communication. Jeela hopes that those who read Anthony's story will consider the good quality of life they, their loved ones and friends can enjoy through technology. (To read Part 1, click here!)
By Jeela Tamrakar
Tony was diagnosed with ALS at a time when he had set out for big achievements, but nothing pulled him back. With a loving family, a great team of business associates and a team of nurses he affectionately calls "Tony's Angels," the disease didn't stand a chance of coming between him and success.
As with his work, Tobii Dynavox technology is a very big part of Tony's personal life. He can continue to raise his children like before, offering guidance and providing financial support.
The technology is vital to his daily care. "I effectively communicate my needs to my caregivers and summon help at any time. It makes me feel safe in any environment," Tony says.
Outgoing and fun-loving, Tony blends eye-tracking into his favorite activities. A huge Star Wars fan, he turns on his computer to watch movies. He also controls his TV with the PCEye devices. Tony likes having a way to communicate at a Texas Rangers baseball game, casino or movie theater as well as the practicality of the technology for doctor appointments and ALS support group meetings. He even prints out the shipping label when an item he lists on eBay is sold. The only thing left for us to do is pack it up and bring it to the post office. Tony can monitor his bank accounts, make purchases online and watch videos on his home security cameras.
"I effectively communicate my needs to my caregivers and summon help at any time. It makes me feel safe in any environment."
Tony, Tobii Dynavox technology user
Lindsey has worked with Tony for almost two years. Without the technology, I don't think she would know him as well as she does. "Tony is a very smart and driven man," she said. "He doesn't let the disease hold him back from his goals. I admire his passion to be his best."
Since 2013, I have been working with ALS patients and technology has evolved tremendously. I have witnessed the lives of people with and without it. Trust me, the difference in the quality of life and care is vast. Though I wish I had known more about this technology sooner, I hope this story encourages other patients to use it and caregivers to encourage patients to use it.
Tony embraces the technology gracefully and with pride. I asked what he would say to inspire others to be open to it. "It would allow you to live a life where you can make a contribution," he said. "It would give you a voice so you can participate. It would give you independence. And you could live to enjoy life. I do."
"Tony's active use of the technology allows me to be a better caregiver."
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