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HELP! copying puppeteer keyframes from one genesis to another?
Hi guys! Thank god the forum is back up.. I need help!
I have animated my genesis using pupeteer and need to copy its animation to another genesis.. but cant work out how to do this?
If I start off simple and just record genesis 1 moving his arm, so just two keyframes. How do I copy those keyframes and paste the animation to another gensis to start his animation when genesis 1 has finished?
Do I use animate2? The timeline?
Or do I save an animation preset? If so.. how?
Thanks a lot!!!
Worked it out! Do the keyframes in puppeteer and record, then in animate2 copy the animate block it created and paste in onto another genesis layer.
* I just tried to do this and realised that it doesnt create an aniblock automatically, I somehow did that when playing about.. will edit..
3DAGE Posts: 3,274
HI Dazsamm
Once you create animation (keyframes on the timeline) you can save that as a Pose pre-set (animated poses) or, as an animation file EG: BVH / FBX / Collada
If you want to save different parts of the figure animation, you'd need to create/record those parts, then save them, making sure you only save the animation for the parts of the figure you've animated. EG: arms only..
You should also be able to save the Puppeteer poses you've created as a "Puppeteer pre-set", then you can load another figure and use the same Puppeteer pre-set to create another animation.If I start off simple and just record genesis 1 moving his arm, so just two key-frames.
in this case you've created two poses, which you can save as Pose pre-sets ,... then you can apply those at any point in the time-line to create a key-frame,.. (note) this will often create keys for all parts of the figure (complete figure pose) Unless you specify that only parts of the figure pose are recorded.
Hope it helps :)
Thanks 3DAGE, Im just trying to work out how I did it yesterday, was so simple. I used puppeteer to record, then copied the anibloc to another genesis on animate2 and then dragged that anibloc down the timeline so his animation started after genesis 1. Cant work out how I did it!
..to make things more annoying I just did it again and when I tried to repeat it wouldnt work! I created a new anibloc before I recorded the animation in puppeteer, then copy and pasted that to the other genesis and it worked great. Tried to repeat and no joy >:-(
I tested saving a puppeteer preset and see that it just saves the poses created in edit mode but doesnt save the recorded animation.
I have seen an Exp Exporter tutorial but cannot find much help or documentation. Cant even see what it is.
And saving the animation as a bvh.. I cannot see.
DAZ documentation/help is so frustrating!
Okay, I figured it out, buts it seems to be pretty tempermental, and so simple:
1. in animate2 add empty block
2. double click that block so keys are showing (not sure if necessary)
3. in puppeteer, pose and record
4. in animate2 press play to see it animate
5. move anibloc along animate2 timeline to check its animation only plays where you move it to
6. right click copy that anibloc
7. right click paste onto the genesis 2 layer beneath in animate2
8. move this anibloc where you want its animation to begin
9. press play
Voila! And why the hell didnt it work first time? Ridiculously easy. Why is this not somewhere referenced? Okay I need to eat :vampire:
In the meantime, can someone tell me how to export this animation so I can bring it in as a preset to another file? That would be great.
Hi guys, I just followed my own steps and it works except.. for some reason the genesis has moved from his seated position and curving his back at an odd angle. I tested this on another genesis and it happened to this one and then the first one rotated again in his seat.
Whats happening?
3DAGE Posts: 3,274
HI 3dsamm :)
In animation, when you make a key-frame, then add another key-frame, the program tries to calculate how the figure should move between these two key-frames (this is called "Tweening") creating the in-between frames.
If there's a lot of time / space between key-frames, then you can get exaggerated results.
the best way to deal with that, is to create another (Middle) key-frame, between the two main key-frames you have.
then you can adjust that middle frame to correct the movement
Normally in animation you would work by creating a main Key frame at every 10th, or 5th frame in the time-line.
Hope it helps :)
thanks 3dage :)Post edited by 3dsamm on


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Aasif Mandvi is no Google honcho, but he does play one in the new Vince Vaughn-Owen Wilson comedy "The Internship," opening this week. In doing so, the 47-year-old actor and "Daily Show" correspondent got a first-hand look at the unique culture of the search engine giant, which allowed the production to spend two days filming at its campus in Mountain View, Calif.
On a recent phone call from his home in New York City, Mandvi shared what it was like going inside the Googleplex. (This interview has been edited and condensed.)
Have you ever worked as an intern?
I only interned briefly at a law firm once, and I was terrible. I think I lasted a day. There was a class-action suit, and they asked me to read a 400-page document on valves, and I wanted to blow my brains out, so I left. That was my only experience as an intern.
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Tell us about your character, Chetty. He's kind of a lovable taskmaster.
I think part of that is because ultimately with Google involved in this film, it almost feels like all the characters ultimately have to be lovable. In a normal movie, I think Chetty would probably get a pie in the face or a bucket of paint would fall on his head and he'd get his comeuppance or something. But in this movie he turns out to be a nice guy in the end because it's Google and everybody at the end of the day is nice and friendly.
How true to life is the film's portrayal of Google culture?
I had never heard of this term "Googliness" before, and I thought they made it up for the film, but actually it's true. The people at Google really do refer to this idea of Googliness. It's this sort of weird confluence of corporation and religion.
How involved was Google in the film?
They were very much hands-on in terms of allowing access to their facility. Because otherwise [the movie] would have had to make up some fake [name], like Boogle or something. It wouldn't have worked. The idea that Google actually let them use all of the real Google stuff, and the facility, and use their logo and use the sort of language of Google was very important, I think.
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What was it like shooting at the Google campus?
It's a little bit like working in a large playground. Just like in the movie, at Google there actually is free food everywhere. You can eat constantly. Wherever you go, there is free food — under your desk, whatever you're doing.
You've got this giant cafeteria, and there's all kinds of food from all different parts of the world. But the two places that were the most packed were the counter where they were serving Indian food and the counter where they were serving Asian food — all Indians on one side and all Asians on the other side. And there's like five white guys eating pizza in the corner. Basically it was like, this is the world of technology.
In the past you've joked about playing your share of cab drivers, doctors and terrorists. How did playing a Google employee compare?
It's just a reflection of what the world is. The fact that Chetty is Indian I think is a reflection of what is happening in the world. India is one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. Like I said, even when I went to the cafeteria, most of the people working at Google were Indian and Chinese. So I would just say, you know, if you're white, be careful. The world is changing.
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Pizza man, 65, beaten and robbedBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 04. 2013 10:44PM
MANCHESTER - Artemios Dongas loved delivering pizzas in his retirement. Not anymore.
Thursday night, he was asked by Santoro's Pizza of Manchester to help out on what was a busy time. He took a $50 pizza order to 270 Lake Ave. shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday. The men at the door snatched the pizza away, sucker punched him in the face and kicked him after he fell to the ground.
The 65-year-old retired owner of a successful cleaning company suffered five broken ribs and a large cut below his nose. While he was relieved that tests at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon turned up no bleeding on his brain, he said he couldn't sit down Friday night because it hurt too much to stand back up.
Neither attacker spoke to Dongas during the assault, he said.
Dongas said he has delivered pizzas for the last 15 years as a way to pick up extra cash and "for fun." The men - he described them as two black men - stole his cash, his driver's license and his sense of sanctity, he said.
"No more," Dongas said when asked if he would deliver pizzas again. "I am afraid to do that anymore."
Dongas' driver's license was returned Friday by a woman his family didn't recognize, he said. They refused to open the door for her and, when a reporter visited their home Friday evening, the family demanded to see identification before unlocking the door.
"We just don't feel safe," said his daughter, Sophia Khawlane. "My dad's been not just physically traumatized but emotionally as well."
"We won't ever open the door again," Dongas said. "We are afraid."
Khawlane said the family always had felt safe in Manchester since moving her 34 years ago.
"We never had any problems," she said.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.
"It's sickening," Khawlane said of the robbery. "The bottom line is we hope they catch these two criminals."
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MONTREAL — Going into this convention, the grand strategic objective of the Liberal party, it was commonly supposed, was to peel off disaffected centre-right voters from the governing Conservatives. Populist rhetoric to the contrary, the Liberals would reassure these voters with the promise of more of the same on the economy, but with a more appealing face, literally and figuratively.
The immediate task of the convention was to build out from Justin Trudeau's personal rapport with the public, addressing doubts about his substance and abilities by surrounding him with meaty ideas on policy and a team of star candidates to implement them.
A couple of days into the event, it would appear the strategy, if that is what it was, is in some disarray. Justin Trudeau's over-egged attempt, in his opening-night speech, to blame the Quebec "values" charter on the state of the economy; a raft of meddlesome, expensive or just plain silly policy resolutions; and the determination of one particular star candidate, Andrew Leslie, to walk onto the nearest Tory landmine have all combined to leave an impression that is anything but reassuring.
This is not a "new" or "reinvented" Liberal party; it is not even the centrist party of recent memory. From the evidence of the convention, it is an almost parodically left-wing party, and even if, as expected, the leader ignores most of the members' handiwork in drafting the platform, what has been coming out of his own mouth is not hugely dissimilar: a difference more of degree than direction.
Trudeau's economic thinking has been emerging in stages. Some of it has been encouraging — the openness to foreign investment in the oilpatch, for example. But more of it has been of the windy "struggling middle class" variety, a policy-light and almost entirely fact-free account of recent economic developments.
Thursday night, once again reaching for a profundity that often eludes him, the Liberal leader attempted to yoke his standard economic message — the middle class that "hasn't had a pay raise in 30 years" — to the more traditional Liberal theme of "unity through diversity." Having spoken forcefully, even movingly, against the Parti Quebecois' divisive and xenophobic charter, he had rather less success in blaming its popular appeal on the allegedly depressed state of the economy.
There are two problems with this. One, it's simply not true that the middle class is in such dire circumstances as Trudeau claims. Real wages are at record levels; family incomes have been rising for the better part of two decades; average net worth, for all the talk of household debt levels, is also at an all-time high. And two, there's no evidence to suggest that Quebecers' support for the values charter has anything to do with the economy, as opposed to the longstanding cultural insecurities of its francophone majority.
Still, it provides Trudeau with an additional argument for what is shaping up to be a remarkably expansionist agenda — not only as a matter of "growth," but as a national unity strategy. Talking of national strategies: if the Liberal leader is short of ideas for spending vast amounts of public funds, the party has plenty more. Dozens, in fact.
A small sample of the resolutions before the convention (almost all of those proposed to date have passed) would include: a National Transportation Strategy, a National Energy Strategy, a National Grid Strategy, a National Manufacturing Strategy, several National Strategies for Childhood Development, a National Framework for Mental Health, a National Action Plan on Disability, a National Water Policy, a National Pharmacare Program, a National Youth Jobs Strategy, a Science-based Innovation Strategy and a Transformative Canadian Infrastructure Investment Plan. This last was undersigned by the Liberal caucus, which means Trudeau, and leaves no doubt that it would entail a great deal of additional public borrowing: One per cent of GDP, or $20 billion a year.
There's more where that came from. The Liberals would reverse the Tories' modest cuts to employment insurance and old age security. They'd expand the Canada Pension Plan. They'd build a high-speed rail line from Quebec City to Windsor. They'd add a Department of Climate Change, a Secretary of State for Water, a "government institution for peace." There's a call for a "thorium policy," a "moratorium on neonicotinoids," a cap on credit card interest rates, and gender quotas on corporate boards — although in fairness I should report that a proposal that campaigning politicians should receive EI payments was defeated, as was a quite insane plan to tax companies more heavily the fewer people they employed.
Last, there is the problem of Leslie. In his speech to the convention, the former general appeared to be getting out from under the shadow cast by his claiming of a $72,000 moving cost. If the earlier part of the speech was almost embarrassingly servile in its praise of the leader, the latter half, in which he blasted the government for its calamitous procurement record ("the worst in the last 50 years") and its treatment of veterans, was potentially quite effective: not only was he reaching out to a core Conservative constituency, but tearing great holes in their claims to managerial competence in the bargain.
But then he got too clever, coyly revealing that he had been courted to run for the Conservatives, among "several" other parties, before deciding on the Liberals. At first it seemed to call into question why they were now shelling his reputation, until it emerged, via a well-timed email from Tory HQ, that in fact he had approached them: a claim he was given several chances to deny at a fairly shambolic press conference, and did not.
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"I had once asked [trainer] John Veitch why so many trainers overestimated the ability of their horses. 'It clouds your judgment, the hype and excitement of being able to say you ran a horse in the Derby,' he said. 'Every year about half the horses shouldn't be there. There's no sense destroying a useful horse by running him before he's ready. You've got to have seasoning. It's not like a boxer who's fought nothing but pugs but who doesn't know what it is to fight a real man.
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Haifa reveals REAL divorce date
Lebanese songstress extraordinaire, Haifa Wehbe, has been battling with the fallout of her divorce ever since she announced the split publicly, on November 7. The superstar has been plagued with rumors of the Muslim Brotherhood's involvement and a date for divorce set two months before she officially announced it.
But the sexy star has put false reports to rest this week. Speaking to Arabic magazine, Laha, Haifa said the real date of hers and ex-hubby, Ahmad Abu Hashima's divorce, was only two days before she told fans.
Haifa told reporters: "Me and Ahmad may have announced our divorce on the previously stated date, but we had in reality gotten and finalized the divorce on November 5, meaning two days before and not two months as was rumored."
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Ormond Beach is one of many cities across the nation faced with skyrocketing pension costs, a legacy of promises made by elected officials many years ago.
ORMOND BEACH — Firefighter paramedic Joe Dupree represents the new reality for government workers who get pensions, an increasing financial burden for Ormond Beach and cities and states across the nation.
Dupree worries whether he'll have enough money to live on – or whether there will be any at all — when he retires from the city's fire department.
At his current salary, he stands to receive close to $45,000 in annual pension benefits when he retires.
"I'm going to have to (keep working), unless I hit the lottery," said the 35-year-old firefighter.
For some longtime employees, retirement from the city might be called a lottery of sorts. They represent the old reality, before pension plans started to overwhelm budgets.
Former fire Capt. Stephen Bowdre, for example, was bought out by the city 10 years ago. The Ormond Beach resident had 25 years of service with the fire department, worked 56 hours a week and climbed his way to the rank of captain.
When the city approached him about taking early retirement, it was an offer he couldn't refuse. This year, the 57-year-old will collect more than $76,000 in pension benefits despite only having a base salary of $59,288 when he retired.
"I wasn't going to say no," he said. "I guess I was in the right place at the right time."
Should he live to be 70, Bowdre will have collected an estimated $1.7 million during his retirement.
"I got lucky," he said.
Ormond Beach is one of many cities in Volusia County and across the nation faced with skyrocketing pension costs, a legacy of promises made by elected officials many years ago.
Leaders believe they must find a way to reform the system before it gets out of control and have already started making staff and other cuts. The city's employees, meanwhile, claim any changes made are unnecessary and will wind up being more costly for taxpayers.
Bowdre and others retired from their local government jobs with generous benefits in a time when cities offered pay raises and other rewards.
"People sold their souls to get elected," said Mayor Ed Kelley, who lost an election in the late 1990s to an opponent backed by the city's firefighter union.
After Kelley's defeat in 1997, three commissioners gave firefighters an 18.9 percent raise, an average of $6,020 annually per firefighter.
"When money was making money it wasn't a problem," said Jeff Boyle, a former city commissioner who voted for the pay increase. "We had a bad system and didn't know it."
About a decade later, the economy tanked.
Pension trust funds lost money and tax revenue plummeted, leaving many cities struggling to pay benefits guaranteed to their employees; others – mainly in California — couldn't and have since declared bankruptcy.
This year, Ormond Beach's top 20 pension recipients are due a combined $1.2 million, according to city data.
Bowdre is third-highest on the list. Longtime firefighter Bill Heric, who suffered a heart attack near the end of his career and received pension disability payments, is second. He receives $90,562 in pension annually. Jay Cuddy, former police division chief, collects $94,217 annually as the highest pension recipient. Attempts to contact Heric and Cuddy were unsuccessful.
If all 20 top pension recipients live for another 15 years, they will have collected $18.7 million. That amounts to an average of $60,000 per person each year.
The average firefighter retiree receives $38,748 in annual retirement benefits; $33,264 for a police officer.
"It is simply unsustainable," Kelley said.
It's unlikely employees such as Dupree will ever reach those old inflated numbers, although their pension checks would seem generous to some.
But even as cities have tried to cut back, the funding gap has widened over the past decade.
In 2000, the city had $4.69 million in unfunded liabilities, which is defined as the future projected benefits owed to members compared to the city's net assets.
Today, the city of Ormond Beach is on the hook for $40 million in unfunded liabilities, representing the projected amount of what the city will pay out in pension for all employees currently retired or on payroll over the next 30 years.
Florida State University's LeRoy Collins Institute, a pension think tank, recently released a report that found the problem has been several years in the making.
"Money is going to have to come from somewhere," said David Matkin, lead researcher for the LeRoy Collins Institute.
"In the end, it's the taxpayers who are going to be responsible," he said.
Ormond Beach has three pension funds, one for its police employees, one for fire and another for general government employees.
Most public sector pensions differ from a typical 401(k) plan or a defined contribution plan, in which employees are at the mercy of the economy.
Local governments, though, have traditionally elected to operate a defined benefit plan, where entities pledge a certain amount of money to employees from retirement until death. With that system in place, law enforcement and firefighters take lower salaries to get sweeter deals when they retire.
Pension is determined by the number of years worked multiplied by a set number agreed upon during union contract negotiations. In Bowdre's case, he retired with 25 years of service multiplied by a buyout factor of four, meaning he retired with 100 percent of his salary plus any overtime hours accumulated.
The problem reached a breaking point during the recession.
When stocks plummeted, pension funds lost anticipated interest earnings and the taxable value of properties in cities fell off a cliff, said Olivia Mitchell, executive director of the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
In Ormond Beach, the total gross taxable value of property has dropped by $1.33 billion since 2007. And in Ormond as in other cities, any staff cutbacks to trim the budget mean fewer employees contributing to the pension plans.
Also, the number of retirees compared to active participants in pensions is increasing, according to the report by the LeRoy Collins Institute. In 2010, the amount of money paid by cities to retirees was more than the amount contributed for benefits earned that year.
"It was a perfect storm," Mitchell said.
Since the recession, it has taken time for cities to recover.
In 2000, Ormond Beach's pension funds were nearly fully funded, according to data provided by the city's finance office. Today, those pension plans are all less than 80 percent funded, which lately has been considered a benchmark for identifying plans that are in trouble, Matkin said.
"They're probably not amongst the very worst," he said. "But they're certainly on the low end."
Ormond Beach is not alone.
According to 2011 figures from the state Department of Management Services, Port Orange had nearly $46 million in unfunded liabilities in its three pension funds and has a far worse funding ratio than Ormond in some of its funds – less than 50 percent.
Deltona and Daytona Beach had $4.7 million and $56 million in unfunded liabilities, respectively. Those cities' funds, though, are about at the 70 percent funding mark.
In 2000, Ormond Beach contributed a little more than $500,000 into its three pension funds.
This year's budget calls for the city to contribute about $5.3 million in pension money — a 960 percent increase — which will account for nearly a quarter of all personnel costs and will consume more than half of what the city is expected to collect in property taxes.
The city, however, is hoping to cut down on costs, said Ormond Beach's finance director, Kelly McGuire. Officials were able to negotiate a deal with the city's police force that will decrease pension costs by at least $60,000 and maybe more in the coming years. Negotiations are also ongoing with the city's firefighters and general employee workforce, she said.
The state has tied the hands of city officials, said McGuire.
In 1999, the Legislature passed a law regulating the use of insurance premium taxes collected by municipalities and then used for pension payments.
In order to receive those taxes from the state, the city had to enhance benefits to its employees, McGuire said.
"There's a point when you have to say enough is enough," she said.
Recently, a new interpretation of the law by Gov. Rick Scott's office could allow cities to use those funds without having to raise benefits.
While the city of Ormond Beach hasn't come up with a concrete way to deal with the issue, its workers say the system is fine as it is.
"The money is always going to be there," said Ormond Beach police Sgt. James Crimins, who sits on the police department's pension board.
He and other union representatives argue police and fire employees contribute a large chunk of their salaries to the pension funds — 9 percent and 8.4 percent, respectively.
"It's not like we haven't been paying into the system," said firefighter Joseph King, who represents the city's fire union.
Both police and fire employees say they made considerable concessions with the city.
Firefighters haven't had a raise in six years while the police union this year made several compromises, including limiting the annual overtime that can be included for pension purposes and eliminating the state's deferred retirement option for new hires.
"We understand there's a burden and we understand there has been a downturn in the market," Crimins said. "But there needs to be compromise on both sides."
There is no easy way out from under enormous pension debts, especially for elected officials because of political pressures and short terms in office. Additionally, there is no tried and true way to fix the problem, said Mitchell of the Wharton School.
"You either need more money or need to cut benefits," she said. "The question is how to do it in a way that is politically feasible or economically sensible."
One approach cities have taken is to raise the retirement age.
The city of Port Orange had been in a legal battle with firefighters to raise the retirement age before a ruling in its favor by the 1st District Court of Appeal. Before the ruling, firefighters were able to retire after 20 years of service.
That was changed to 55 with 10 years of service or 52 with 25 years of service. Comparatively, Ormond Beach's retirement eligibility requirements are age 60 or 55 with 10 years, or 20 years of service without an age requirement. General employees are eligible to retire when their age and years of service equal 85.
Matkin said any economic benefit, though, from raising the retirement age isn't seen for quite a while.
"It will be 20 years before you see any effect," he said.
The more traditional approach for cities is to opt for a defined contribution system or a combination, Matkin said.
But that will likely face the most backlash.
"That's going to make employees upset," he said. "Politically, they're not going to go kindly toward that."
Indeed, Crimins said the city would be hard-pressed to find well-qualified police officers who would want to work for lesser benefits.
"You gotta ask yourself what kind of officers you're going to get if you do that," he said. Crimins added college-educated officers would mostly steer clear of the city.
Kelley, who was elected mayor on a platform of pension reform, said he doesn't know what the best solution is to fixing the problem but the commission needs to come to a consensus and soon.
"I'm open to suggestions," he said. "We can't keep kicking the can down the road."
Matkin said it's better for cities to take care of the pension problem now rather than later.
He said as the pension gap grows larger, cities like Ormond Beach could be forced to raise taxes or cut certain services.
"The problem is not going to go away," he said. "Somewhere in the future, people will have to deal with it. And it's not an ethical proposition to push the costs that we create onto future generations."
Weak investment returns, staff cutbacks and the 2008 recession have all contributed to a funding gap with Ormond Beach's three pension funds. Here is a breakdown of how much the city owed in 2000 and in 2011 to employees and retirees for a 30-year period:
General Employee
2000: $2,988,587
2011: $15,132,399
2000: $1,339,835
2011: $12,336,302
2000: $363,973
2011: $12,187,977
SOURCE: City of Ormond Beach Department of Finance


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Jadav hopes to save his home from washing away by planting a forest
It's 1979, a teenage Jadav Payeng digs a small hole into the earth on Mājuli Island in Northern India. It's an action that he will repeat millions of times over the next 39 years, although he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he just wants to save his home, one tree at a time.
That monsoon season, he'd seen hundreds of snakes and other creatures wash ashore in the flooding, all dying of exposure. His heart broke.
"The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I didn't want this to happen to all the animals and people who live on the island," he says.
The animals were left exposed in the harsh sun because erosion had scrubbed sandbars around the island of all vegetation. The same erosion meant that every time the Brahmaputra river flooded, more and more of Mājuli Island was being washed away. It's something that had impacted Jadav before - as a child, his village had been washed away by the river.
In fact, by the time Jadav got started on his mission, Mājuli had already lost nearly three-quarters of its land mass. He knew that if he didn't do something to protect it, home to over 150 000 people, it could soon be a distant memory.
Leaving school, he set up camp on a desolate sand bar and got to work planting trees. His insight came from a nearby government forestation project, where he learned the correct techniques for sowing the seeds and tending the plants, and the various species that would thrive in the harsh environment of sand, silt and flooding.
He was on his own.
Although he asked the government for help and tried to engage the local villagers, no one would assist.
Initially, Jadav started small, planting around 20 bamboo saplings on a sandbar. On their own, those saplings would have made little difference. They were, however, the foundations of an investment that would one day pay massive dividends.
Rain, wind, or monsoon, Jadav travels to his forest every day to plant
Jadav's fight to save his island home has represented a huge long-term commitment for one man alone with very limited resources, especially in the face of incredibly harsh conditions.
Every single day he has found a way to care for the forest: buying and planting more seeds and saplings, hauling fertiliser, introducing insects and tending to the young trees.
During summer, temperatures climb into the high 30s with humidity measured at more than 90%. Monsoon season, meanwhile, has become more threatening over the years, bringing with it more than 1000mm of rainfall in a month. This only makes the mighty Brahmaputra river flow faster, increasing erosion rates and wreaking even more havoc on the environment.
Meanwhile, Majuli's poor soil, covered by silt and sand and lacking a healthy ecosystem, has made for exceptionally inhospitable ground.
To buy the seeds and saplings, Jadav has relied on selling milk from his family's herd of cattle and buffalo. This has meant significant sacrifices for Jadav and his family, since these are the same resources they depend on for their daily survival.
Even in more recent years, when he had to move away from Mājuli to be closer to schools for his children, Jadav has continued planting.
He now wakes at 3am, cycles for an hour, rows a boat for five kilometres, and then cycles for 30 more minutes to reach his forest.
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Planned in the right way, travelling can be about so much more than just crossing places off your bucket list. There is lots to learn when visiting other countries. Open yourself up to new experiences – stay in a local home stay, volunteer with a community charity, get to know the people and the culture of each new place you visit – and you'll find that you return home, not only with lots of great memories but a lot of new skills too.
Sure, you might learn about Cambodia's history, the culture of Japan and the geography of South America. But it's the life skills you learn which can prove important in the long run.
Here are some of the things you can hope to learn on your travels:
Confident Communication
Travelling, particularly if you're going solo, is a great challenge for your communication skills. Besides the trials of communicating in a foreign language, you will be forced to strike up conversations with near strangers on a daily basis if you are to enjoy any social contact. Finding new friends and building relationships, however fleeting, requires charisma, good body language and confidence. These are skills that will prove equally useful back at home. It can help you face that college interview,
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How to Cope in a Crisis
Anyone who has travelled extensively has come across their fair share of tricky situations. Getting your bag robbed in a city centre street, finding that the train you were hoping to catch doesn't leave until next week or struggling to find accommodation during a fiesta are all problems you may have to overcome. Facing these trials, working through them and deciding on the best course of action helps you to develop your organisational skills in tough and new situations.
A New Language
Immersing yourself in a culture is a great way to learn a foreign language. Pushing yourself to communicate in that language every day and hearing it used in real life situations all around you can be much more useful to your language abilities than studying in a classroom. Even if learning a language isn't the main purpose of your trip, it can make your travels far easier and interesting as you organise transport and accommodation from place to place and engage with the locals in their native language.
How to Prioritise
When you're travelling you need to determine what is essential and what you can do without. You can't carry everything in that one backpack, nor can you always afford to choose the most comfortable mode of transport or accommodation. You will make difficult decisions on a daily basis and learn to prioritise what is most important. Being able to manage your time and your resources in this way is a key skill for education, work and your day to day life.
Different Ways of Life
Sitting at home in the familiar surroundings you grew up in, your perspective on life is unlikely to be challenged all that often. Travelling, you get to see how people around the world choose (or are compelled) to live their lives. You see where their priorities lie – how they view work, family, education, the environment – and how this compares to your experiences at home. Understanding that there isn't just one way to do things opens your mind to a whole host of possibilities. Your ability to question, analyse and innovate will be greatly enhanced .
Travelling can expose you to new ideas and provide valuable learning experiences, how you choose to apply that learning is up to you. Whether you learn a new language, find new ways to approach life, or simply be a more confident individual, the skills you gained throughout your travelling adventures will be there to help you for the rest of your life.
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Window time is a simple process. Sales professionals are on planes, trains and automobiles all the time. They're pretty busy. It's rare to get their fingers to ever hit a keyboard and contribute to the company blog. But what salespeople can do better than anyone else in the world is talk.
Window time maximizes their down time such as commutes to work, sitting on the tarmac of an airplane, sitting on the train from New York to Philadelphia, etc. They have this downtime, but they're still unwilling to write. But if you have a placed call from your marketing team, where they call them and they say, "We want to do an article on X. Talk about what you're hearing from your customers," it's much easier to get them involved in the content process.
So the marketing person just lets the salesperson speak. That way, the salesperson can write a 500-word blog in minutes.
This process captures all the intellectual property that's stored upstairs in the sales professionals minds. There's dozens and dozens of these blogs just waiting to be written! And salespeople legitimately want their voices to be heard, they love to see their name in writing on the company's blog site. But they usually aren't willing to do the hard lifting. Window time maximizes all of these opportunities so everybody wins.
Here is a step-by-step process we use to complete Window time.
This can be done via Google Calendars, or using whatever internal time management systems your company uses. Before you schedule time with X person, ensure:
Don't be late. Treat window time as any other meeting. Ensure both parties are at ease before starting the recording.
There are many different kinds of software you can use to record your window time conversations, a few of which I've listed below.
This is the app I personally use to record calls. It's reliable, relatively easy-to use and inexpensive. All you have to do is call someone on your phone through the app, and "merge" the call. Afterwards, your recording will be available as an mp3 file.
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If you don't have the budget for either of the above, a free workaround for recording video and/or audio is the combination of Google Hangouts and QuickTime. Simply type "QuickTime" player into the search bar on your computer, and under the "File" tab, and you can do various combinations of recordings.
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If you have the luxury of meeting in person, you can use any kind of recorder. Another, very easy option is the built in recording software on your mobile devices. On iPhone this is called "Voice Memos."
After you've recorded the call and everything has gone smoothly, it's time to transcribe. As a former journalist, I don't mind transcribing conversations — in fact, I actually enjoy it. But anyone who's ever transcribed before knows it can be a tricky process. Pay careful attention to natural pauses, punctuation, and rephrasing grammar.
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Once you've picked a title, your marketing team will select a photo that best matches the theme of the blog. Make sure you're signed up for a stock photo service such as Shutterstock or iStock. If not, you'll have to take your own photos. (If you can't afford photo licensing maybe you should rethink your blogging strategy).
Marketing and the social team will now publish your blog with the salesperson's name, and promote it through your company's email database and social channels.
To get the most visibility, the rest of your company should be leveraging employee advocacy and sharing your blog within their networks as well. Marketing — don't forget to mention any companies or personalities in the post, as this could also increase your post's chances of going viral.
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Amphibios 9 is a swampy, green planet, and the home planet of the Amphibiosans. The surface consists mainly of swamps and dangerous rainforests, and it is inhabited by wildlife such as "poisonous froads," snakes, and large predatory insects. The planet also has one asteriod-like moon. Amphibiosans traditionally give birth to their young at their family/clan's birthing grounds in a ceremony led by The Grand Midwife.
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Schumer aims to continue fiscal wins
Giddy about the string of fiscal policy victories Democrats have scored this month, Sen. Chuck Schumer wants to keep the wins coming.
The next task ahead: forcing Republicans to accept new revenue as part of a deal to help replace billions of dollars in spending cuts slated to take effect in the coming months.
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If the debate is limited to sequestration alone, he thinks another victory will be hard to come by. That's why he's started hinting in recent days that Democrats might be better served by using a complicated procedural process to link sequestration to the GOP's ultimate prize: tax reform.
But the process he's talking about — reconciliation — causes headaches for even the most die-hard budget wonks.
If the idea is to work, there has to be buy-in from the leaders of committees with oversight of tax and budget policy — not to mention the House, where Republicans have very different ideas.
And no one is rushing — yet — to embrace it.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus will only say he wants to "try to find the process that works best."
When asked about the prospect of using reconciliation, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray was noncommittal.
"I'll be talking to the chairman of the Finance Committee and members of our Budget Committee in making that determination," Murray told POLITICO.
It's a task fraught with policy and political hurdles. But it comes as Democrats savor a victory on the debt ceiling.
"The Republicans are in full-on retreat on fiscal policy," Schumer quipped Wednesday as the GOP-controlled House passed a bill to suspend the debt ceiling until May without forcing spending cuts.
The thinking on reconciliation, according to a Schumer aide, is in response to Republicans leaders' recent assertions that new revenue is off the table in future fiscal policy debates since Congress agreed to raise rates on top earners earlier this month as part of the fiscal cliff deal.
The process, the aide said, would take several steps. First, the Senate could approve a budget resolution that sets up a reconciliation process, which eliminates the threat of filibuster, later in the year, with instructions for Congress to overhaul the Tax Code to generate a certain amount of revenue.
The House would also have to adopt a budget resolution setting up the process. The Republican-controlled chamber would almost certainly pass a measure calling on Congress to pass a revenue-neutral tax reform — meaning the federal government wouldn't collect any more revenue than it does today.
The Schumer aide said that Democrats could then use the conference committee that would be charged with marrying the House and Senate budget resolutions to insist on revenue. When a reconciliation bill is actually enacted, at least some of the revenue would be used to prevent the sequester from going into effect.


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Losing a laptop is no fun; not only do you have to get a replacement, all of the files that were on the original are lost. Additionally, depending on the way in which the files were lost, they could potentially in the hands of someone else.
Now, imagine that kind of situation, but with the added headache of it being a work laptop. And then, just to make matters worse, factor in that said lost laptop contains the personal information of more than 10,000 employees at your company, and you have the exact scenario facing one particularly unlucky NASA employee.
The laptop was apparently stolen from the car of an unnamed NASA employee parked at the agency's Washington, D.C. headquarters on October 31 this year, according to a report released yesterday by the organization's Office of Inspector General. The report, written by the Inspector General Paul K. Martin himself, explains that the laptop "contained hundreds of files and e-mails with the Social Security Numbers and other forms of personally identifiable information (PII) for more than 10,000 current and former NASA employees and contractors," adding that "although the laptop was password protected, neither the laptop itself nor the individual files were encrypted."
The report also claims the laptop's owner is at least in part to blame for any potential security breach that could occur as a result of the theft, pointing out that "NASA has a variety of options available to help prevent unauthorized access to data stored on its laptop computers," and that "password protecting a computer using the machine's operating system is the least effective way to prevent unauthorized access given the relative ease by which hackers can bypass a computer's logon/password screen and gain full access to stored data." As a result of this theft, NASA actually changed its security protocols, making it forbidden to remove all non-encrypted laptops from NASA facilities.
As embarrassed as he (or she) must feel over the theft and lack of security in place on the laptop, the owner of the laptop shouldn't feel as if she (or he) was alone in experiencing this kind of thing. Martin noted that 62 NASA laptops were stolen this year, up from 2011's total of 45. If that figure sounds particularly high to you, it's worth placing it in context; NASA owns or leases "upwards of 60,000 desktop and laptop computers," according to the report, with the agency currently tracking tens of thousands of laptops at any one time.
The theft of the laptop is an expensive one in more than just pride for NASA. Martin writes that, as a result of the theft, the agency contracted a company to provide credit monitoring services for all those who may have been impacted by the theft, with the price tag for those services totaling between $500,000 and $700,000. The moral of this story? Don't leave your laptops in your cars unattended – and just encrypt everything on there, just in case.
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King Tut Exhibit
The Children's Museum in West Hartford has opened a new exhibit, "King Tut: The Boy King." The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $14.75 adults, $13.75 age 2 through 12 and seniors 63 and older; children under age 2 are free. Admission includes non-premium planetarium show. The museum is at 950 Trout Brook Drive. Information: 860-231-2824 and www.thechildrensmuseumct.org.
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Reviewed By Tim T (APPLE RIVER, IL) Reviewed for a 1992 Chevy C/K 1500 —11/24/2015 12:03 AM
I bought this winch for pulling trees for firewood, loading car trailers, and extrication. It works great for all except its really big and not easily transferred from one job to the next. Also, i pulled one really big tree about 70 feet and it almost killed the truck. It needs a lot of battery power to feed this monster. Great winch! Just make sure you have a good spot to mount it.


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Say what you will about oil and hegemony, but the pending invasion of Iraq is more than just a geopolitical act. It's also the manifestation of a cultural attitude. To understand how this war is being packaged and sold, you have to look at the fantasies Americans consume as they graze through the vast terrain of TV, radio, movies and the Internet. In this charged environment, pop culture and politics swirl around each other like strands of DNA. The product of this interplay is the current crisis.
From Colin Powell dissing the French as cowards to Donald Rumsfeld raising his fists at the podium, the Bush Administration bristles with an almost cartoonish macho. It's a little like watching pro wrestling in a global arena. Why is this smackdown style acceptable to many Americans now? Bill Clinton has an explanation. "When people feel uncertain," he said after the Democratic Party's recent electoral rout, "they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right."
This truism seems to resonate with human nature, but other crises have produced a very different response. Faced with the Great Depression, not to mention Pearl Harbor, Americans chose a President who seemed strong and right. It's a measure of how the nation has changed that when we were attacked this time we closed ranks behind a leader whose program leaves many with a sinking feeling. Polls show a similar ambivalence about the war, yet it hasn't led to a revolt against the Administration. Why are people willing to suspend their disbelief in Bush? Why are we drawn to the strong man who is wrong?
The answer lies not in our stars but in our superstars. To understand how America has changed since 9/11, it's necessary to examine the attitudes that dominated movies and music before 9/11. The mindset of manly belligerence was already in place when the planes struck. In the horror that followed, we struggled for a way to respond–and we found it in the icon of neo-macho man.
Not so long ago, you couldn't say "macho man" without thinking of the Village People. Hypermasculinity was so thoroughly discredited that it seemed fit for camp. Now it's back, in earnest. But this revival was no bolt from the blue. The neo-macho hero has a history.
He sprang from the reaction to feminism that began in the 1980s and advanced in the '90s, even as the empowerment of women became a tenet of Democratic politics. As women rose, so did male anxiety, and in this edgy climate a new archetype appeared in pop culture: the sexual avenger. His rage often focused on personal betrayal, but implicit in his tirades was a sense of the world turned upside down.
By 1990 the revolt against feminism was a hip commodity. Shock-jocks like Howard Stern and Don Imus dominated drive-time radio, misogynistic comics like Sam Kinison and Andrew Dice Clay were late-night TV sensations, rock marauders spat variations on Axl Rose's final solution for bitchy women: "Burn the witch." Meanwhile, at the multiplex the sexually cornered male, embodied by Michael Douglas in a series of films from Fatal Attraction (1987) to Disclosure (1994), was the new Dirty Harry.


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VIDEO: Harris Has It
ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — And we're back. Not even five weekdays since Randy Foye roused us on a quiet Monday evening, and the Horry Scale has been awakened by a rim-rattling dunk from Orlando's Tobias Harris.
One thing I'd like to clear up: The Horry Scale does not measure a game-winning shot; the Horry Scale measures several facets of a Game-Winning Buzzer-Beater. So we're talking about not only the shot, but also the play that creates the shot, the situation and the drama, the celebrations…basically, everything surrounding and including the shot. So when I gave Randy Foye a 3 Horry rating, that wasn't only a reflection of his shot, which was admittedly remarkable, as I wrote, but also the play, which was awful. Taj Gibson's lefty layup wasn't the toughest shot, but that inbounds play was terrific. Basically, everything matters.
Before we get too far into this, we should stop and explain why we're here: What is the Horry Scale? For those who are new around these parts, the Horry Scale examines a game-winning buzzer-beater (GWBB) in the categories of difficulty, game situation (was the team tied or behind at the time?), importance (playoff game or garden-variety Kings-Pistons game?) and celebration (is it over the top or too chill? Just the right panache or needs more sauce?). Then we give it an overall grade on a scale of 1-5 Robert Horrys, the patron saint of last-second daggers.
OK, so you understand? For our records, this is the fourteenth GWBB this season, so our record-setting pace continues unabated. for now, let's break this shot down…
It was an undefended dunk, the kind of dunk Tobias Harris has probably converted hundreds or even thousands of times in his life. But I doubt he's ever put one down with literally no time left on the clock. After Kevin Durant missed his jumper that would have put Oklahoma City up 3, Victor Oladipo out-fought Thabo Sefolosha and Reggie Jackson to corral the ball, and by the time Oladipo had it and was heading up court, there were just under 4 seconds remaining. Even though they had a timeout remaining, the Magic played on and took advantage of the numbers. In the next four seconds, Oladipo dribbled the length of the court and got into the paint, where Jeremy Lamb stepped up to cut off his drive. Lamb left Maurice Harkless alone on the baseline, and Oladipo hit him with a bounce pass. Harkless caught the ball with 1.5 seconds remaining, and immediately dished it back to a trailing Tobias Harris, who dunked it home with no time remaining. It was a terrific pass by Harkless, but it was as gutsy as it was fundamentally sound — with such a miniature amount of time left, this game was pretty close to ending with Harris a couple of inches away from a GWBB. But he made it, and the Magic won in thrilling come-from-behind fashion.
The Thunder had an 8-point lead heading into the fourth quarter, but the Magic outscored them 23-14 in the fourth to get the W. There were two things about the situation around this particular play that stuck out to me: 1. Durant shot the ball with about 3 seconds left on the shot clock. I know he was able to get to one of his preferred spots on the court, at the free throw line extended, which is a shot he makes more often than not. But if he'd been able to wait just a second longer, the Magic wouldn't have had the time to grab the board and do what they did. 2. The Thunder had a small lineup in at the time, and when Durant's shot went up, Serge Ibaka was the only member of the Thunder anywhere near the rim in a rebounding position. And the long bounce from the miss then took him out of contention for the rebound.
Now that's a celebration. With no time on the clock, the Magic players knew they could celebrate, so the bench guys rushed the court. The camera work became shaky, like something out of a movie. Harris received a trio of chest bumps, ending with a thunderous hug from Big Baby Davis. Also, you want to see what disbelief looks like? Check out the Thunder bench…
As I wrote above, and I hope you remember this, IT ISN'T ONLY ABOUT THE SHOT. It's about the entire play, and the accumulated circumstances surrounding the shot. As a dunk, in a vacuum, for an NBA player it wasn't the most difficult shot. But put everything together, including a lottery team playing the best team in the West, and making a shot while down a point to win the game, and it was a pretty epic play for the Magic. I can't give this 5 stars, only because this is a regular season game and I have to be able to still go up from here once we reach the playoffs. So instead, I'm giving this 4 Horrys, the same grade to which I retroactively rated Jeff Green's season-opening shot.
What say you? How many Horrys would you give Tobias Harris's GWBB?


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Hospice of Davidson County recognized area philanthropists and community partners at the agency's 29th annual meeting Thursday at The Conference Center at Davidson County Community College. The agency also unveiled an updated mission, vision and core values to reflect the agency's growth and strategic direction
Hospice of Davidson County recognized area philanthropists and community partners at the agency's 29th annual meeting Thursday at The Conference Center at Davidson County Community College. The agency also unveiled an updated mission, vision and core values to reflect the agency's growth and strategic direction
The board of directors honored supporters Talmadge and Ian Silversides with the 2012 Founders Award recognizing the significant contributions of an individual or individuals who have contributed to the longevity of the nonprofit organization. The Silversides were the first recipient of the award, which was presented at this year's event so that both could be in attendance. Talmadge Silversides has served multiple terms on the Hospice of Davidson County Board of Directors, and she and her husband, Ian, continue to support the agency through significant contributions to support the Hinkle Hospice House and the Bruce Hinkle Emergency Fund, established in 1993 to provide for family needs of those facing terminal illness.
The 2013 Founders Award, which was presented by the agency's president-elect, Debbie Fanary, was presented to Evelyn and Sam Harris. The Harrises have been longtime supporters of Hospice of Davidson County, including donating a portion of the land for The Henry Etta & Bruce Hinkle Hospice House and the Home Care/Administrative buildings, located off of Bryant Road at U.S. Highway 64 East.
Hospice of Davidson County Board President Craig Idol recognized The Homer Shaw Memorial Golf Tournament as the 2013 recipient of the Community Partner Award. This award is presented annually to an organization, business, church or foundation that has made significant contributions to the agency. The Homer Shaw Memorial Golf Tournament was formed more than 28 years ago by David Shaw in memory of his father, Homer Shaw. The event is held in Boone, at his father's favorite golf course every June, and proceeds benefit Hospice of Davidson County annually. David Shaw, his mother, Helen; Cheryl Shaw; and Rick and Laura Leonard accepted the award.
At the annual meeting, Hospice of Davidson County also recognized incoming board members for 2013-14: Misti Boles-Whitman, Julie Huneycutt, Kyle Kepley and Will Tate. The board of directors also presented outgoing board members Robert Green, Sara Messer and Robin Huneycutt with service awards.
Hospice of Davidson County also elected its slate of officers for 2013-14, which include Fanary, president; Rochelle Bobo, vice president; Craig Idol, treasurer and past president; and Ann Ripple, secretary.
Hospice of Davidson County leaders also shared the updated mission, vision and core values with those in attendance. They also can be found on the agency's updated website, www.hospiceofdavidson.org.
The agency's revised mission includes a renewed focus on specialized medical and clinical care. The revamped mission of Hospice of Davidson County is to "offer a specialized team that supports and empowers individuals to make educated choices about end of life care." Additionally, a new vision was developed over the past year to provide strategic direction for growth in the community. The vision of Hospice of Davidson County is "to find hope, comfort and meaning in every moment."
"As we were approaching our 30th anniversary as a hospice provider and fifth year of operations for our inpatient unit, we felt it was an opportune time to both value our past and reassess where we were headed," said chief executive officer Laura Owen. "Our agency has experienced significant growth over the past five years, and our new mission, vision and core values reflect our accomplishments and our commitment to continue providing quality services for our communities. Our new mission, vision and values capture our organizational identity and give voice to our foundational beliefs regarding end of life care."
Core values were also revamped as part of the year-long process, which included participation by staff and the board of directors. "The newly introduced values place emphasis on four key components of the work we do," said Renee Shipko, director of marketing and development for Hospice of Davidson County. The core values are:
"We respect every individual.
"We treat others with compassion.
"We are dedicated to quality.
"We collaborate as a team."
The mission, vision and core values were introduced earlier this month to the entire staff and are supported with a comprehensive campaign featuring community members who have shared their experiences with Hospice of Davidson County.


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The TPS757xx family of 3-A low dropout (LDO) regulators contains four fixed voltage option regulators with integrated power-good (PG) and an adjustable voltage option regulator. These devices are capable of supplying 3 A of output current with a dropout of 150 mV (TPS75733). Therefore, the device is capable of performing a 3.3-V to 2.5-V conversion. Quiescent current is 125 µA at full load and drops down to less than 1 µA when the device is disabled. The TPS757xx is designed to have fast transient response for large load current changes.
Because the PMOS device behaves as a low-value resistor, the dropout voltage is low (typically 150 mV at an output current of 3 A for the TPS75733) and is directly proportional to the output current. Additionally, since the PMOS pass element is a voltage-driven device, the quiescent current is low and independent of output loading (typically 125 &miccro;A over the full range of output current). These two key specifications yield a significant improvement in operating life for battery-powered systems.
The device is enabled when EN is connected to a low-level voltage. This LDO family also features a sleep mode; applying a TTL high signal to EN (enable) shuts down the regulator, reducing the quiescent current to less than 1 µA at TJ = 25°C. The power-good terminal (PG) is an active low, open drain output, which can be used to implement a power-on reset or a low-battery indicator.
The TPS757xx is offered in 1.5-V, 1.8-V, 2.5-V, and 3.3-V fixed-voltage versions and in an adjustable version (programmable over the range of 1.22 V to 5 V). Output voltage tolerance is specified as a maximum of 3% over line, load, and temperature ranges. The TPS757xx family is available in a 5-pin TO-220 (KC) and TO-263 (KTT) packages.


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BELFAST, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Northern Irish police were
pelted by petrol bombs for the first time in almost two weeks on
Friday after more protests at the removal of the British flag
from Belfast City Hall.
Masked youths clashed with police on the streets of east
Belfast on an almost nightly basis for six weeks after local
councillors voted to end a century-old tradition of flying the
flag, enraging some pro-British loyalists.
The worst violence had calmed in recent days and most
demonstrations on Friday passed off without major incident. But
later in the evening, some people hurled stones, bottles and
petrol bombs at police. There were no arrests or injuries, a
police spokesman said.
The violence has been the most sustained in the
British-ruled province since a 1998 peace deal ended 30 years of
conflict between Catholic Irish nationalists seeking union with
Ireland and Protestant loyalists determined to remain part of
the United Kingdom.
(Writing by Padraic Halpin in Dublin; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)


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Coulee Recollections
A look at the past
Ten Years Ago
A group trying to bring a swimming pool back to the Grand Coulee area recently received gestures of support that could bring them closer to their goal. The town councils of Elmer City and Coulee Dam voted last week to support the forming of a joint parks and recreation district.
People in the Grand Coulee Dam area who do not like driving themselves to Spokane, but still need to go, will soon have a way to get there without paying a cent. The non-profit People for People announced Monday that they will offer round-trip bus service from Coulee Dam to Spokane twice a day. The service begins Feb. 21 and runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Twenty Years Ago
Continuing frigid weather in the Pacific Northwest has pushed power demands to a new record for one local utility and forced the Bonneville Power Administration to limit power to industrial customers.
Elvis Presley may be dead, but don't say that too loudly to some local residents who are not immune to Elvis fever, a condition which caused many of them to line up at area post offices Friday when the new commemorative Elvis stamp went on sale.
Thirty Years Ago
Coulee Dam Police Chief Tom Edwards announced the appointment of James Eley as an officer on the city police force. He replaces Kevin Derick who has been transferred to the coast.
A striking two-piece logo symbolizing 50 years of accomplishments in the Columbia Basin Project has been issued by a committee planning the celebration of the start of construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in 1933.
Winners in the Voice of Democracy Contest this year were Alicia McKissen, Mark Berry, Holly Campbell, Colette Helseth, Laurie Maciajewski, Tiffany Grier, Michelle Long, Kelly Snow, Tamara Depew and Leanne Lambert.
Forty Years Ago
Mrs. Charles Wendt of Coulee Dam and Mrs. Morris Foley of Wilbur gave a musical workshop at the home of Mrs. Duane Childers. Performing were Maria Goodwin, Wendy Weitzel, Bradley McKay, Colleen Redamonti, Traci Simms, Peggy Patterson, Delores Childers, Carolyn Finch, Marylou Sieg, Connie McKay, Wesley Sieg and Karen Carstensens.
Fifty Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Rankin, Grand Coulee, were guests of honor at an open house celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary Dec. 30.
Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Mason served a waffle supper Friday evening after the basketball game.
Floyd E. McCoy, engineman first class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. F.E. McCoy of Grand Coulee, is serving aboard the dock landing ship USS Fort Snelling.
Sixty Years Ago
Henry Evers has announced the engagement of his daughter, Betty to James Hagy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hagy of Electric City.
Playing at Nespelem Tuesday night, the Coulee Dam Beavers lost to the high-flying Savages 58 to 35. Nespelem ran up a 20-5 lead in the first quarter. Leroy Sherwood scored 12 points to lead Coulee Dam while Dorland Palmer paced the Savages with 10.


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"America's Got Talent" ended its summer run last week with the most-watched entertainment programs on television since May, although its popularity dipped this summer.
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Declaring Bill Cosby doesn't deserve a free pass because of his advanced age, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence the comedian to five to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, while the defense argued that he is too old and helpless to do time behind bars.
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Two of the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault decades ago said Sunday they hope he will be sentenced to prison time this week.
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"Blue Boy" is getting a long-awaited makeover, and the public can watch as one of the world's most recognizable paintings gets a little nip here, a nice tuck there and some splashes of fresh paint (blue presumably) just in time for the eternally youthful adolescent to mark his 250th birthday.
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The Black Eyed Peas tackle gun violence at schools and immigration in two new music videos for their song, "Big Love."
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Television's biggest night wasn't that big. The Emmy Awards drew a record-low audience of just over 10.2 million people, down 11 percent from the past two years.
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As Emmy Award nominees nervously wait to hear their name called, or not, there's more on the line at Monday night's ceremony than personal glory.
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Peter Farrelly's crowd-pleasing Deep South road trip movie "Green Book" won the Toronto International Film Festival's audience award on Sunday, putting it on an envious path to the Oscars.
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How to kick butt at the office. How to kick butt as a parent. How to kick butt, so to speak, in your marriage.
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Rihanna's Diamond Ball shined in its fourth year and continued to make a name as one of the industry's white-hot and must-attend parties — all while raising nearly $6 million for charity.
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Rihanna unleashed the wild beast in a lush tropical land that turned to arid desert with women of all shapes, sizes and colors writhing, cackling, frolicking and stalking like animals in lace, fishnet and satin that shined in jewel tones for her second season of Savage x Fenty.
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A video of Harvey Weinstein aired on television Wednesday showing him boldly propositioning a woman who later accused him of rape and repeatedly touching her and stroking her arm and back during what was supposed to have been a business meeting.
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Rap has easily dominated the pop charts and on streaming services in the last few years, and that's reflected at the 2018 American Music Awards.
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Prosecutors declined to file charges Tuesday against Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys after a singer reported last year that she had been raped in 2003.
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The response to Bradley Cooper's romantic saga "A Star Is Born" has been intense. Critics have boasted of crying uncontrollably. Fans outside theaters have swooned for its star, Lady Gaga. Words like "glorious," ''rapturous" and, of course, "gaga" are running rampant.
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The horror movie "The Nun" has topped the domestic box office in its first weekend, scoring a best for the "Conjuring" franchise and another win for Warner Bros.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby's criminal sexual-assault case appears to be headed toward an evidence hearing after a judge denied his latest effort to throw the charges out.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The four former members of iconic Swedish pop group ABBA have made a rare joint appearance for the opening of a Stockholm restaurant inspired by the "Mamma Mia!" musical.
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Diet and the prevention of colon cancer
Last Modified: February 10, 2002
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
What role does diet play in the prevention of colon cancer?
Katrina Claghorn, MS, RD, registered dietitian at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
There has been a great deal of research on the impact of nutrition on colon cancer. Despite all the studies there is still no definitive anti-colon cancer diet. Below is a list of nutritional factors that have been found to have the greatest potential for reducing colon cancer risk.
- A high intake of dietary fat, especially saturated fats mostly found in animal sources, has been shown to increase the incidence of colon cancer. Red meat in particular has been associated with increasing risk. Include more fish, poultry and low fat dairy products in your diet.
- Fiber was long considered an important preventive factor, however recent research has been conflicting. It is still wise to strive for at least 25 grams of fiber a day for general good health.
- High levels of calcium have been associated with decreased polyp formation. While dietary sources of calcium are encouraged, calcium supplements were also found to be beneficial.
- Folic acid acts to prevent damage to DNA, which can trigger the cancer process. While folic acid is found in dark green vegetables and dried beans and legumes, it is now added to enriched breads and cereals.
- Some studies indicate that the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E, as well as the mineral selenium may reduce the incidence of colon cancer. While the benefits of taking supplements of these nutrients are still being debated, adding more fruits and vegetables to your diet is advised.
- Obesity is associated with increased risk of developing colon cancer. Try to maintain a healthy weight.
- Regular exercise has also been found to be protective.