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Sports bars in Bali
Sports bars in Bali
There are an ever increasing number of sports bars in Bali where people can go and watch Australian football like AFL and NRL along with the various car and horse races that are televised.
Do you have some favourite sports bars in Bali you would like to tell others about, or a Bali sports bar that is listed here or should be listed here? Leave your comment and suggestion at the bottom of this page.
Many restaurants have a TV on which they will show European football but I have not included this kind of place here. What I mean by sports bars is places that present themselves as bars where people go primarily to watch sport.
For sports bars in Seminyak and Petitenget click on Sports bars in Seminyak
See also Where to play pool in Bali for the best places in Bali to play pool.
Click on the name of the restaurant/bar in red to go their review page on this site.
Sports bars in Umalas
The James Cook in Umalas is the reincarnation of Legian sports bar Captain Cook, has sport from the Australia Plus network and also streaming via internet. They show AFL, NRL and other popular sports, including, for Aussie and English tragics, cricket!
The Plumbers Arms is not really a sports bar like the others as it just has one TV showing mostly English and European football and rugby. They do not seem to like AFL as I have never seen it on there (mind you, I usually go there after AFL games have finished so I may be wrong) so forget about AFL football in Bali here.
Sports bars in Legian
Wayan and Friends is mostly a restaurant that shows sport from the Australia Plus network which basically means just AFL.
Romeo's on Jalan Legian is a busy place with a big screen where you can watch mostly AFL on the Australia Plus network, plus some other games streamed via the internet.
Legends in the Padma area of Legian is a big Aussie sports bar and grill that serves a predominantly Aussie crowd, with sports from the Australia Plus network with other games and sport streamed off the internet.
Y Bar (pictured above) is a big Aussie sports bar where you can watch all of the Aussie football, races and Eurosport. Pretty roudy and a pretty good place to watch a game.
Sports bars in Kuta
Kuta Bamboo bar and grill is much more a restaurant with a few TVs around where they show sport from the Australia Plus network but with 5-6 TVs they qualify.
B Couple bar and grill is a big Kuta style (meaning it is huge, more of a pavillion than an intimate bar) bar and grill on Jalan Kartika Plaza, that has lots of TVs and show pretty much all sport all the time. As it is big and pavillion like, one thinks it is cheap, but I found this to be a very expensive bar. Buying your kids a watermelon juice will set you back 50k!
It is a bit hard to hear anything here though, as many TVs suspended from the ceiling just compete with each other.
Opposite B Couple is Stadium Cafe bar and restaurant which has lots of TVs and uninspiring food, while just down the road is the Railway bar and restaurant which has lots of TVs and sells overpriced seafood grills and Chinese food.
Surprisingly Bintang beer in this Aussie dominated area is amongst the most expensive in Bali, similarly priced to beer at Bali nightclubs. Double what the smaller venues charge and way more than in the more upmarket areas of Seminyak where you would expect to pay more.
Beware of the 21% tax and service charge they collect at these last three Kuta sports bars – it does add up.
There are many more sports bars in Kuta which I have not been to – if you are in Kuta they are easy to find.
Sports bars in Benoa/Tanjing and Nusa Dua
Meads Beach is a classy restaurant in Benoa that has a pool table and shows football from the Australia Plus network on two TVs.
The Peninsula is a big restaurant attached to a large resort and has lots of TVs and a pool table that shows Eurosports and AFL football from the Australia Plus network
Sports bars in Sanur
Sanur has a few sports bars although not nearly as many as Seminyak or Kuta, with The Onion by far the best in my opinion, the most family friendly one, with Arena more an old style pub.
The Onion bar and restaurant closed in 2018 and had 11 screens showing up to 8 sports, and has three large size, quality pool tables. As of June 2015 they will also get a quality dart board and will have Bali dart competitions as well as Bali pool competitions.
Arena is an old style pub with quality, old-style pub meals which also has a pool table and shows lots of AFL and NRL.
Barb's Sport is a smaller convivial bar in Sanur showing sport from all over.
On and On is more of a pool bar but they do show AFL and NRL on TV, and this is a bit grungy, more a guy's hang-out joint. Not a place to take the missus and kids.
Sanur sports bar Jimmy's is a fairly basic sports bar with 2-3 TVs which is a bit grungy but seems to have a regular clientele.
Sanur restaurant The Shining Jewel does not market itself as a sports bar but nevertheless has 3-4 TVs tuned to the various games.
Sanur sports bar Stadium Cafe is a big place with a few smaller TVs and a pool table.
Sanur sports bar Ayucious Trophy is a big restaurant bar with many TVs, a great spot to watch a big game like a grand final as the bar area massive.
Sports bars in Kerobokan, Echo Beach and Canggu
Satu Lagi sports bar shows sport pretty much all of the time and is a pretty comfortable place, with a pool out the back where the kids can hang out, or you can refresh after a particularly torrid game! The food here is quite good also, standard Western and Indonesian fare.
The Echo Beach Sports Bar is not far from the beach and is a real 'local' type bar, with 3 TVs and a pool table. Not a big place but one where you will make friends watching a game.
Kerobokan sports bar and grill Scratch looks to be a quality place to eat and watch a game. In 2017 it became sports bar and grill.
Sports bars in Uluwatu, Padang Padang
Uluwatu restaurant Mamo is a pretty good place to watch a game between surfs. Reasonable food, just two TVs but popular when I visited on NRL final day.
Sports bars in Lovina
Bintang Bali sports bar in Lovina overrated itself somewhat, as it has just the one TV. However, there are not so many options in Lovina for sports lovers, and this is opposite the beach.
By Mark O'Brien, April 2015, updated March 2018
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I don't see the Galaxy or Lucky Day in Dhyana Pura, Or the 2 in Jl Oberoi or the 3 (at least) in Jl Petitenget, including The Deck, probably the biggest. ED response You will see those under Seminyak sports bars at the top of that article – also the Deck has been closed for over half a year now. Cheers mark
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YouTube, which operates as one of Google's subsidiaries, is under increased scrutiny after a New York Times report earlier this month highlighted the role it played in the recent presidential election in Brazil.
Among concerns the paper highlighted is YouTube's installation of a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can track user behavior to suggest additional videos to watch.
The goal arguably is not much different from the way newspapers -- including The Times -- offer links to other stories to keep users on a site so they see more ads. In the case of YouTube, the concern is that instead of instructional videos on guitars, for example, YouTube directed users to what the paper dubbed "paranoid far-right rants." in support of fringe political candidate Jair Bolsonaro. YouTube visitors who intended to view amateur guitar teacher Nando Moura's lessons instead saw his politically themed videos.
Because YouTube is a powerhouse that now has more regular viewers than all but one TV channel in Brazil, the paper suggested that this activity contributed to the political success of now President Bolsonaro.
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The role the media has played in the U.S. political process has long been controversial. In the 18th and 19th centuries, newspapers were more politically charged than they are today, in part because publishers didn't have access to wire service copy and access to more distant news. The news deemed fit to print was what the publishers were able to craft -- and often times it was filled with biased opinions.
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Two notable exceptions are Harry Truman, who had support from only 15 percent of American newspapers in 1948, and John Kerry, who had an edge over George W. Bush in 2004 endorsements.
Since 1996, according to newspaper industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher, almost 70 percent of newspapers have refrained from endorsing a presidential candidate. More importantly, the papers with the largest circulation -- USA Today and The Wall Street Journal -- currently do not endorse candidates. WSJ even went so far as to make a point of it in 1972, by declaring that it wasn't in the business of telling people how to vote.
However, some large and prestigious papers, such as The Washington Post, do continue the tradition of endorsing candidates. Some right-wing pundits and media watchers have suggested that because The Post routinely favors Democrats over Republicans -- as does The New York Times -- that it creates a perception of bias in all its reporting.
Where the issue becomes more complicated is in terms of radio and television broadcasters, which are barred from making direct endorsements of political candidates.
In fact, the equal time rules specify that U.S. radio and TV broadcast stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to opposing political candidates who request it. The FCC implemented the rule so that broadcast stations could not manipulate the outcome of elections by presenting one point of view and excluding the other.
The election process and media operations have gotten far more confusing in the Internet era, especially since the 2008 election when Pew Research reported that nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of Internet users went online to get news and information about the campaign.
2008 was also dubbed the "Facebook Election," due to the influence the social network had on younger tech-savvy American voters. Exit polls revealed that Barack Obama won nearly 70 percent of the vote among Americans under the age of 25.
Donald Trump successfully used a digital ad campaign on Facebook in 2016, micro-targeting more than 50,000 ad variations each day to voters.
Twitter was how then-candidate Trump talked to people, but Facebook became the tool that was used to win the election, suggested Trump's digital director Brad Parascale in an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes.
New media increasingly has been providing candidates with a way to reach a wider audience than newspapers or even TV.
"YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Google are as influential on political outcomes as any other medium or information channel," explained Greg Sterling, vice president of strategy and insights at the Local Search Association.
Further, "the 2016 U.S. presidential election and subsequent elections around the world have shown the degree to which they can be manipulated and even 'weaponized' by bad actors," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Video is becoming a big problem today," observed social media consultant Lon Safko.
"Using Facebook to distribute fake-news video is a big problem as well," he told TechNewsWorld. "Russia created a huge scare fake news campaign to intimidate the Ukraine a few years ago that was very effective."
The question then becomes whether Facebook, YouTube and other Internet companies have been trying to become the "puppet masters" to create a "new media world order" or it this is just business as usual -- and the evidence suggests it is simply the latter.
"YouTube's primary objectives are audience engagement and ad revenue, which the algorithm is designed to maximize," noted Sterling.
"However, and despite YouTube's recent efforts, it does seem to be amplifying certain extreme positions and may have influenced the recent Brazilian election, though it's hard to know whether it was a 'but for' cause in that case," he said.
Should YouTube be held to the standards of radio and TV, and not allowed to become a broadcast channel for any political message?
"YouTube and other technology companies -- i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit -- that operate services that distribute media messages should be held to the same code of conduct that media companies are," argued Josh Crandall, principal analyst at NetPop Research.
"YouTube and others are not simply providing technology -- they are curating and filtering what is seen and to whom," he told TechNewsWorld.
"The problem is accountability. Nearly all accountability has been removed from posting fake, slanderous, incriminating, and otherwise fake news on social platforms," noted Safko.
"The platforms don't want to be accountable and censor, and they aren't holding their members accountable either," he suggested. "If media companies aren't held accountable, nefarious actors will continue to abuse their ability to inflame tensions through these platforms."
What the recent reporting about the "power" of social media and YouTube doesn't take into account are the other political factors. In 2008 the economy was headed down, there was fatigue from eight years of the GOP-controlled White House -- and by many accounts, Obama simply ran the better campaign.
Similar observations apply to 2016. Hillary Clinton failed to visit key states in the Midwest, and Trump carried key counties in Michigan and Pennsylvania that hadn't voted Republican since Ronald Reagan's victory in 1984. Trump struck a chord with voters who may not even have been on Facebook.
So how much impact did YouTube really have on Brazil's election?
"The idea recently floated by The New York Times that YouTube had a systemic impact on the Brazilian elections last week is tantamount to trading in the same conspiracy theories they've opposed for the last three years," said James R. Bailey, professor of leadership at the George Washington University School of Business.
"YouTube's algorithms aren't inherently politically disposed," he told TechNewsWorld.
The recommended videos typically are related to ones a viewer already has watched. It is true that viewers who clicked to see Nando Moura's guitar lessons did hear his political rants, but was that enough to sway an election?
In Brazil, all citizens over 16 years of age can vote, but it is mandatory for those between 18 and 70 years of age to vote, and those who do not must pay a fine. Unlike in the United States, the election in Brazil employs a two-round system, which means far more candidates vie for the top office.
Also, just over a month before the first-round of voting, then-candidate Bolsonaro was the victim of a knife attack. While he recovered, he may have received some "sympathy votes."
However, the state of the nation's economy and fatigue with outgoing President Michel Temer, who took office after the impeachment of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff, certainly played a factor in the 2018 election outcome.
"That Brazilians might be tuned into right-wing politics right now is no surprise given how poorly their left-wing governments have delivered over the last few decades," suggested Bailey.
Another consideration is that YouTube didn't stop any left-wing candidates from utilizing the platform in Brazil's election, just as Clinton chose not to embrace Facebook in the 2016 presidential election in the United States.
"YouTube is not a news outlet -- it's a compiler, plain and simple," said Bailey.
"They don't have investigative reporters or opinion pieces; they promote what we post, period," he added. "Breitbart has an ideological agenda. So does CNN, Fox and the NYT."
Here is where the line becomes murky. YouTube is just a video-sharing service, and it doesn't make the content it produces. If it did, the rules would be different -- but even that is changing.
"In the United States, the FCC had a law that made it mandatory to verify every news story from multiple sources," said Safko.
"That law was abolished and influenced by one large presidential contributor, and that seems to be the beginning of the end of truthful, balanced, verified and accountable reporting," he added.
"Social and video platforms should not be responsible for policing the content," Safko said, "but there has to be accountability. With YouTube, Facebook, and the Internet in general, there are no consequences."
Whether it is about elections or just politics in general, the question is whether YouTube and social media should be allowed to function as soapboxes across the spectrum, including for extremists. Is it good for democracy in general to give a voice to the extreme political fringes? Where should the line be drawn?
YouTube has made efforts to rein in the more extreme content -- the videos that openly call for violence or otherwise could be viewed as "dangerous speech," but is it time for greater regulation of what is posted?
"Once positioned as tools of social good, social media and YouTube now often have a negative impact on politics and culture by giving fringe characters legitimacy and potentially massive reach," said Local Search Association's Sterling.
"There's much more effort they can and need to deploy against extremism," he added.
However, at least in the present, "there really is no way to formally regulate YouTube," observed Bailey.
"Surely some court cases will come along that require them to trim up a bit here and there," he said, "but like so many Internet providers, they're not arbiters -- they're a platform."
YouTube itself can't be held accountable for what the users post. That said, "a site that intentionally and purposefully spews hate can and should be held liable under current legal strictures," maintained Bailey.
"YouTube should self-regulate before Congress is goaded into acting," he suggested.
"At the end of the day, the First Amendment endorses free speech, but YouTube doesn't have to allow anyone's speech on their site," Bailey noted. "They can reject posts via almost instantaneous filtering, and table them for review before deciding to post or not. Oddly enough, they have rights too -- and it's about time they exercised these."


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Flooding expected in Texas
What you need to know about Tropical Depression Imelda
Tropical Depression Imelda dumped heavy rain over southeastern Texas on Wednesday.
The storm formed over the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday afternoon and made landfall near Freeport, the National Hurricane Center said. It is expected to keep doing so for a couple of days as it moves inland.
Here's what we know about the storm:
- Heavy rain: The storm could shower the Houston area with the most rainfall from a single storm since Hurricane Harvey.
- Possible flooding: A flash flood watch covering more than 7 million people, including Houston and Galveston, is in effect and is likely to be extended through Thursday.
- Activities canceled: Several schools and universities in the Houston and Galveston area announced they will cancel activities Wednesday. Among them were the Galveston Independent School District, Houston Independent School District and Texas A&M University at Galveston.
- Another storm brewing: Tropical Depression 10 is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to become Tropical Storm Jerry by Wednesday. The storm could become a hurricane by the end of the week as it passes near or just north of the Lesser Antilles, CNN Meteorologist Taylor Ward said.
There are 5 other named storms churning around the globe
Imelda is one of six named storms currently brewing around the globe.
A hurricane and a tropical storm are churning in the Atlantic ocean and three tropical storms have formed in the Pacific ocean.
These are the storms we're watching:
- Hurricane Humberto is a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic Ocean. It's forecast to pass close to Bermuda tonight.
- Tropical Storm Jerry is 855 miles east of the Leeward Islands. The storm is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday night.
- Tropical Storm Lorena is about 100 miles from Manzanillo, Mexico. It's expected to become a hurricane as it travels northwest, up the Mexican coast.
- Tropical Storm Mario, which is further off the coast of Mexico, is also expected to strengthen into a Hurricane.
- Tropical Storm Kiko is in the Pacific Ocean, more than 1,100 miles from Baja, California.
Parts of southeastern Texas are under a flash flood warning
The National Weather Service in League City, Texas, issued a flash flood warning for south central Galveston County and southeastern Brazoria County in southeastern Texas.
The service said the area has already gotten 5 to 10 inches of rain in the past day, and more rain is expected to come soon.
"Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly," the service said in an advisory.
Heavy rains cause flooding in Galveston
Parts of Galveston, Texas, have begun to flood from Tropical Depression Imelda.
The storm is dumping rain over southeastern Texas and is expected to keep doing so for a couple of days as it moves inland.
KTRK's Courtney Fischer shot this video in the Strand district downtown, which was starting to flood from the heavy rains.
Imelda could dump 20 to 25 inches of rain on Texas
Imelda could produce 20 to 25 inches of rain as it makes it way through eastern Texas, the National Weather Service predicts in its latest storm advisory.
Imelda is currently moving slowly north toward the Houston and Galveston areas of the state. Heavy rain and significant flash flooding is forecast over eastern Texas during the next couple days.
Houston area creeks "near bankfull," official says
Water levels are elevated in Harris County creeks following about 9 inches of rain overnight, according to Jeff Lindner, director of Flood Operations for the county.
Officials at the Harris County Flood Control District are "keeping a close eye on" Cleared Creek, Turkey Creek and Armand Bayou.
"A break in rain this morning will alleviate," the flooding but more rain is expected this afternoon and into tomorrow, Linder said.
More context: The term "bankfull" refers to when the water level of a stream, river or lake is at the top of its banks and any further rise would result in water moving into the flood plain, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Rescue teams have moved into southeast Texas ahead of Imelda
Rescue teams in southeast Texas are getting ready for Imelda, which is forecast to bring flooding to the area even after weakening to a tropical depression.
Red flag warnings have gone up along the coast of Galveston, Texas. And the federal search and rescue team Texas A&M Task Force 1 has moved into the city in preparation for possible rescues, according to CNN affiliate KTRK.
"Our forte is water rescue, both flood rescue and swift water rescue," Palmer Buck, with Task Force 1, told the station. "I have crews from Fort Worth fire, as well as Longview fire that will be stationed here overnight."
A National Guard team is also expected to arrive today.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Humberto is heading toward Bermuda
As Tropical Depression Imelda drenches the Houston area, Bermuda is dealing with Hurricane Humberto.
The Category 3 storm is expected to pass dangerously close to the island territory tonight. A hurricane warning has been issued by the Bermuda Weather Service.
Here's a look at the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center:
These Houston and Galveston schools are closed today
Several schools in the Houston-Galveston canceled classes and activities Wednesday due to Tropical Depression Imelda.
The Galveston Independent School District canceled classes Wednesday.
"The combination of pre-dawn rain and high tide indicate a probable safety issue for students and staff. Safe travel to and from Galveston ISD is a primary concern," the school district said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Houston Independent School District canceled after-school activities and sporting events due to inclement weather.
The Harris County Department of Education announced that all HCDE Adult Education classes for Wednesday night have been canceled. Texas A&M University at Galveston also canceled Wednesday classes.
Other school closures for Wednesday are in effect for....
- College of the Mainland
- Galveston College
- All Houston Community College campuses
- The Texas City Independent School District


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A radar chart is a graphical method of displaying multivariate data in the form of a two-dimensional chart of three or more quantitative variables represented on axes starting from the same point. The relative position and angle of the axes is typically uninformative. (from wikipedia)
It's useful for visualize multi parameters in drug discovery.
For example, visualize compound profile, Lipinsky rule, ADMET profile etc….
Yesterday, I found new library to make radar chart in R language named ggradar.
You know, ggradar is library based on ggplot2. It sounds nice! I used ggradar.
I wrote simple example using iris dataset.
I used dpylr for data preparation. ( dplyr is cool library !!!! )
library(ggradar); library(scales); suppressMessages( library(dplyr) ); irisdata <- iris %>% group_by( Species ) %>% mutate_each(funs(rescale)) %>% summarise( mean(Sepal.Length), mean(Sepal.Width), mean( Petal.Length ), mean( Petal.Width ) ) ggradar( irisdata )
ggradar can set many option, font color, size and line size etc.
But now legend text size can not change. The issue is submitted github.
Ggradar is early project, but useful and attractive library for me.


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24 April, 2018, 4:07 pm
CONSTRUCTION of the multimillion dollar Damodar City Labasa should start in the next three to four weeks.
Damodar Group CEO, Div Damodar confirmed the construction of the $40million (m) venture would be in three phases.
The first phase to be completed within a year and worth $15m would include a supermarket, 24 retail shops and two food and beverage outlets.
The second phase, which should begin months after the first phase would include three cinemas with a total seating capacity of 650, an event lounge with conference facilities, food court, two department stores and 18 retail stores.
The third phase will have a hotel with 40 rooms capacity, convention center, fine dine restaurants and an executive bar and lounge facility.
When completed, Damodar City Labasa would be bigger than Damodar City Suva sitting on an eight acre property with car parking space of up to 300 cars.
Mr Damodar confirmed they have secured tenants for the first phase of the project.
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|Port of registry:
|Vancouver (from 1977)
|Saint John Shipbuilding, Saint John, New Brunswick[1]
|Yard number:
|in active service, as of 2012[update]
|General characteristics [2]
|Fishing boat
|22.13 m (72 ft 7 in)
|6.77 m (22 ft 3 in)
|3.05 m (10 ft 0 in)
|1 × 798 bhp (595 kW) diesel engine
|10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Marc Guylaine was a Canadian herring seiner built in 1969, along with its two sister ships, the Lady Dorianne and Lady Audette. After its two sister ships both mysteriously sank in the Acadian peninsula, drowning nine men, and the only two other ships built to the same specifications met identical fates, the Marc Guylaine became the subject of great fear that it would meet a similar end.
The government eventually agreed to purchase the "cursed" ship from its captain, and subsequently renamed it and moved it out of Atlantic Canada, selling it to a fishing corporation on the Pacific Coast where it remains in service today as the Freeport.
In 1969, Saint John Shipbuilding built three identical 126-tonne fishing trawlers named the Lady Audette II, the Marc Guylaine II and the Lady Dorianne II.[3] The original engineering records for the Dorianne and Audette were obtained by the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston for their records-collection.[4]
The Marc Guylaine was sold to Gélas Haché, and the Lady Audette was sold to A. Chaisson.[5]
On November 23, 1970, the Lady Dorianne departed from Havre-Aubert en route to Shippagan following a storm. It was alternatively reported as having five or six men aboard, including the captain Sylvio Noël, when it disappeared off the coast of Miscou Island. Everybody aboard was presumed killed, although the ship and bodies were never found.[6] In December, the Ministry of Transportation was urged to not give up its search for the ship, since the previous sinkings of two identical ships were still unexplained and it was hoped that the wreckage might provide a clue to its fate.[7] It was never found, although searches turned up an uninflated life raft from the ship.[8]
On April 23, 1971 the Lady Audette radioed the trawler Apollo III, addressing its captain Roméo Michon: "Roméo, come quickly to us, we are sinking."[9] The Lady Audette is believed to have inexplicably sunk near the Rochers aux Oiseaux off Magdalen Islands, and could not be found. Three men drowned but, unlike the sinking of her sister ship, there were also four or five survivors.[7][8][10] Two years later, the wreckage was discovered.[11]
In May 1971, an anxious Acadian fishing population demanded a public hearing into the safety of the Marc Guylaine, and 400 people met at the Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël community centre where an "action group" was commissioned to study the issue. Ultimately the last of the sister ships was found to be unseaworthy.[12]
Federal official Bernard M. Deschênes was appointed as Commission Counsel to study both the Audette and Dorianne sinkings.[13] In 1973, the Canadian Coast Guard released its report entitled In the Matter of a Formal Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Loss of the M.F.V. "Lady Dorianne II" and the M.F.V. "Lady Audette II" in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Nov. 23, 1970 and Apr. 22, 1971 Resp.[14]
Haché, the captain of the Marc Guylaine, subsequently found he could not hire any local fishermen to man his ship, and petitioned the provincial Ministry of Fisheries to offset his financial losses incurred. The resulting battle took a year to wind its way through bureaucracy, as civil servants ruled that the Marc Guylaine was perfectly seaworthy. In May 1972, at the urging of the local population to consider Haché an "innocent victim", the Ministry agreed to purchase the boat from him.[15]
Rather than scrap the ship, the ministry simply renamed the vessel to Jean Marc IV and re-sold it within the year. It was renamed the F/V Freeport in 1974, and registered in Vancouver on the Pacific coast three years later.[3][8][11][2]
In 1992, it was one of two Pacific vessels to cooperate with the Simon Fraser University research study "Decision Dynamics at Sea: An Application of Foraging Theory to the Study of Fishing Effort".[16]
In 2005, it was cited by Sitka, Alaska authorities for failing to have an Automatic Identification System aboard.[17]
It remains in use today, registered through 2009, by the Kanata Fishing Company in Prince Rupert, British Columbia.[2][18]
In media
|Écoutez mes amis / Entendez-vous le vent
Qui hurle dans la nuit / Que c'en est énervant
Écoutez mes amis / Ce chalutier qui crie
Et la mer qui ricane / C'est le Lady Dorianne
|— Calixte Duguay[19]
For several years, the legend of the "cursed" ships became a regular report in the media.[11][20] In 1973, Stompin' Tom Connors wrote The Curse of the Marc Guylain, referring to the three sister ships as "three floating coffins on the sea".[21] Calixte Duguay, a French Acadian songwriter and performer also wrote the song "La Complainte du Lady Dorianne" on the same subject.[22]
The Lady Dorianne was also the subject of a song entitled The Tempest in 2005.[23]
In 2008, Lighthouse Productions contracted filmmaker Paul-Émile d'Entremont to film a documentary seeking the wreckage of the Lady Dorianne, which was theorised to be sitting 240 feet beneath sea level, as the only known shipwreck in the area. The film is scheduled for completion in late 2009.[8]
- ^ a b c Colton, Tim (2011). "Saint John Shipbuilding". shipbuildinghistory.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ a b c "FREEPORT (O.N. 330514)". Transport Canada Vessel Registration Query System. 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ a b Miramar Ship Index, Lady Audette II, Marc Guylaine II, Lady Dorianne II
- ^ Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston Archived 2008-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ World Ship Society, "Marine News", 1970. p. 260
- ^ Important Dates in the Islands de La Madeleine
- ^ a b Bourque, Claude. L'Evangeline, Sea Tragedy[permanent dead link], April 26, 1971
- ^ a b c d Mousseau, Sylvie. Paul Emile d'Entremont to follow in the footsteps of Lady Dorianne[permanent dead link], July 14, 2008
- ^ Rapport du capitaine Michon à la compagnie d'assurances.
- ^ Cokinos, Christopher. "Hope is the Thing with Feathers", 2001. pp. 323
- ^ a b c Radio-Canada Atlantique, Journal Télévisé Archived 2004-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, 1973
- ^ Davis, Nanciellen. Ethnicity and Ethnic Group Persistence in an Acadian Village in Maritime Canada (New York, 1985), pp. 194-202
- ^ Deschênes, Bernard M. "Study on Marine Casualty Investigations in Canada", Ministry of Supply and Services, 1984
- ^ Marine Casualty Investigations, In the Matter of a Formal Investigation Into the Circumstances Attending the Loss of the M.F.V. "Lady Dorianne II" and the M.F.V. "Lady Audette II" in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Nov. 23, 1970 and Apr. 22, 1971 Resp., 1973
- ^ Bourque, Claude. L'Evangeline, Le Marc Guylaine enfin vendu[permanent dead link], May 31, 1972
- ^ Gillis, Darren M. Simon Fraser University, doctoral thesis, 1992
- ^ Pacific Urchin Harvesters Association newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 5 Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine, April 1, 2005
- ^ McCague, Fred. B.C. Shipyards Update, November 2007
- ^ Le Bouthillier, Claude. "Le Borgo de L'Ecumeuse", 1998. p. 25
- ^ Radio-Canada Atlantique, Journal Télévisé Archived 2005-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, 1972
- ^ Stompin' Tom Connors and the Hockey Song (album), 1973.
- ^ Calixte Duguay on Retour à Richibouctou (longplaying album), 1978.
- ^ "Ode à l'acadie : Artistes Variés". archambault.ca. 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.[permanent dead link]


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Feeding Practices: Bribing Children to Eat
It's not unusual for parents to use a little bribe to get their child to eat. In fact, bribing children to eat (also known as incentivizing with food rewards like sweets or treats) is fairly commonplace in the parenting realm.
If you take another bite of chicken, you can have dessert.
Time and time again, parents do this in order to get their kids to eat better. They'll do just about anything to make that happen.
Today, the value placed on healthy eating, from clean eating to trendy diets like Paleo or Keto, puts a lot of pressure on parents.
In this article, you'll learn:
- How parents may use food rewards to get their child to eat or try something new
- The research on bribing with food
- Why incentivizing eating with treats and sweets is not a good long term plan
What is Rewarding with Food, Exactly?
Rewarding with food, or bribing children to eat, is also called Instrumental Feeding in the scientific literature on feeding kids.
It is a feeding strategy used by parents to control their child's eating behavior and food intake by using rewards, or incentives, which can be food-based or non-food-based (ie, stickers, praise).
Why Do Parents Use Food Bribes?
Whether you pressure your child to eat healthy food, police his sweets and treats, or –yikes! — force him to eat, the desire to have your child eat healthy is a driving force.
The truth is, you've probably succumbed to bribing your child to eat, whether you like to admit it or not. It's a prevalent feeding practice and it's done without thinking of the long-term consequences.
Bribing kids to eat is effective. In the short-term, anyway.
Typically, when you use a food reward you'll see an immediate result: a child who eats more, tries new food, or eats healthy food.
In kids, the desire for sweets and treats is strong, so these are easy incentives.
Do Food Rewards Have Lasting Effects on Good Eating Habits?
My 15 year-old daughter and I got into the topic of healthy food for kids and getting kids to eat better. We got onto the topic of using food rewards.
I was mentioning the results of a 2010 study published in Appetite, about rewarding preschool children for trying new fruits and vegetables. The results of the study showed that preschoolers ate more fruits and vegetables when presented with a reward, and this carried over to meals without a reward. Six months later the effects were still seen.
I was interested in my daughter's opinion about using rewards to get kids to eat.
I asked, "What do you think about rewarding kids with dessert, stickers or presents for eating vegetables?"
She said, "That doesn't work! When kids get older there's not going to be anyone to bribe them with food, prizes, or stars. So kids will just not care about vegetables, because they won't mean anything to them anymore. Vegetables will still be on the list of things kids don't like (and never did like) anyway."
Interesting point.
According to her, bribing a child to eat is a lot of work with little pay off in the long run.
Other Outcomes of Using Food Rewards to Get Kids to Eat
I looked into the research further to investigate what we can learn about bribing children to eat.
In a 2016 study out of Aston University in the UK, researchers looked at children aged 3 to 5 years and the feeding practices their parents used. The researchers followed up with these children at ages 5 to 7 years.
Their findings: The children were more likely to be emotional eaters at 5 to 7 years if their parents had reported using food as a reward when they were younger.
A 2017 review study in Appetite suggested, based on the evidence we have to date:
"…food-based rewards should not be used in order to make children eat everyday, well-accepted foods."
Using food rewards may decrease the preference for the foods kids already like, and increase their preference for the reward food (which is usually a sweet or treat).
Using small, non-food rewards (ie, stickers) may help children get over the fear of, or resistance to trying a new food. Since tasting a new food is required in the process of helping kids learn to like new foods, non-food rewards can incentivize children to taste them.
One study did show, however, that use of non-food rewards may undermine a child's ability to develop a natural drive and motivation to try new food. So, be careful if you use non-food rewards. If you sense it is back-firing, then adjust your course of action.
I cover this in much more detail in my workbook, Try New Food, available here.
Do Food Rewards Impact Kid's Liking of Food?
Rewarding children may get them to eat, or get them to try, but does it get them to like what they eat?
After all, what you choose to eat as you age reflects what you like.
Take, for example, my hubby. He still doesn't like many cooked vegetables, but there are some he will eat. And guess what? The vegetables he eats are the ones that he likes! No more, no less.
Some people will eat vegetables for their health properties (me), but not all people roll that way. In my experience, kids are more like my husband than they are health-conscious adults.
While you may think that rewarding or bribing your child to take another bite of that uber-healthy food is the path to a healthy diet, the reality is it probably doesn't work this way.
What does work for long-term liking is building in frequent exposure to new foods without pressure to eat them.
Keeping Perspective on Kids' Eating
This topic got me thinking about several things. First, rewarding mostly comes from a good place: parents want to build more variety and have their kids eat well.
Because they really want to raise a healthy eater.
Parents hear the message: Increase exposure to vegetables and you'll get your child eating them before you know it. I think the word 'exposure' has been misinterpreted to mean "get them to eat it."
Second, my daughter's perspective reminded me that we disregard how kids might feel and the long term consequences when rewarding with food is used.
Kids may feel good initially (food rewards generally elicit excitement), but their "scooby-sense" may go on high alert. They may perceive bribes as manipulative and look for a way out, or up the treats and sweets ante (Give me more if you want me to eat that!.
What my daughter was getting at is this: If you want kids to eat something, they need to like it. When you like something, you will eat it on your own, without rewards. And liking what you eat helps your satisfaction level after eating it.
Getting Kids to Eat Vegetables
Are you getting your child to eat vegetables using food rewards?
Or are you taking a different route and working for the long term payoff of having your child like vegetables?
There are many routes to getting a child to like vegetables. Patience, understanding that it takes time to like vegetables, repeated and neutral exposures, role modeling, enhancing flavor, and varied preparation methods can get your child on the road to a wide variety of liked vegetables, eventually.
What do you think?
Does bribing your child to eat work for you (and your child) or not?
Share your experiences, I'd love to hear.
Attention is a social reward, btw, in case you did not know this.
We rewarded my kids with attention when they engaged in healthy eating and it worked. We were careful to ignore picky eating to avoid rewarding that with attention.
Next time, try asking Alan Kazdin, the director of the Yale Parenting Center and 2008 President of the American Psychological Assn. His has been helping parents change picky eating for more than 30 years. He uses basically the same method I used with success on my 2 kids. He has written a couple of parenting books that you would do well to read.
See this study which contradicts your daughter's opinion:
…the children who received praise appeared to interpret their choice as internally motivated and therefore continued to select the healthy option even in the absence of reward.
Thanks for your detailed and evidence-backed discussion Jill!
I agree entirely that parents need to realize what they accomplish by using rewards to get more veggies into kids (or other adults!). If short term consumption is the goal, then it works – and probably makes parents feel better! I believe that it is much more important to focus on the long term, and to raise children who will independently choose a diet that is healthy when they are given the freedom to do so.
As you said, kids can "smell a bribe" a mile away, and rewards have the potential to backfire.
I work with young children in school and community settings, to expose them to the beauty and magic of the "rainbow" of vegetables and fruits all around us. I don't focus on "nutrition" in my programs; we just have fun and explore all the colours, tastes and textures of these fabulous foods! I have watched young children happily chow through vegetables that their parents insisted they hated, and have heard feedback that they have continued requesting broccoli and zucchini at home long after our adventures!
I completely agree with you that "liking" veggies is what we're after!
We don't directly reward our daughter for trying new food. We put the new food on her plate, and if she eats all of the other food first and wants more, she has to try the new food. I never make her a separate meal–she eats the same dinner my husband and I eat. I am also learning to eat different vegetables, so it helps for me to say, "You know, I don't think I like brussels sprouts either, but I'm going to try them. We have to try them many times before we really know whether we like them."


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Two winners were selected for the 2019 Senior Prize in Literary Translation.
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I have heard of people using scripts and key mapping to get the upper hand in games, not cheats, just little tools to give them that last little edge over their competitor or the game AI.
This little trick on the other hand seems to be taking tools to a whole new level. US gamer (and car mechanic) David Harr decided to build a machine that would start and re-start Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360) and by doing so would gain him the required 60 points to unlock his next skill level.
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"18 months? Really? Is that all?" – that's what one friend wrote in a catch up email (plus I also find I prefer catch-ups, so I can get used to normal interaction). The fact that it's only been 18 months makes me giddy with delight. It's been tough, easy, tiresome and weary, but I am one happy young woman for it. A lot of folks who are new to Thelema like myself, follow my stuff in order to see one perspective. I also follow podcasts, blogs and learn from friends about their own perspectives on Thelema. All in the goodness of progress, and to gain further knowledge.
I have been using specific jargon, trying to teach myself gematria (considering I grew up part Jewish, it's still not bloody easy…) and using Thelemic greetings on a daily basis. I did notice a few folks writing to me about certain small areas they were stuck on, so here are a few tiny bits I've learnt in order to feel and be a new Thelemite.
First and foremost, try not to be afraid. If you are curious about something, I am pretty sure someone has written something about it, so read it and see. Understand that you are in total control, so if you allow your fears and worries to stop you from progressing, be aware of that and note it down. Remember, it's all progress and you have an awful lot of time to realise the person you are and the Will you must acknowledge. I've learnt a lot about myself, especially emotionally and physically that I didn't pay much attention to, either because I didn't know how or I lived in fear. I'm all better now that in working through those issues.
I was told, by many and via Crowley's words that all you need to do is accept Liber AL vel Legis, and understand it by exercising your Will through Magickal practice and cleansing. It is also super helpful to read and study what you can, and note every tiny detail in a journal. One of my shortest pieces followed through as such:
"22/12/2012 23:42
Force read chapter 8 of 'The Middle Pillar' twice. Just to understand… I'm tired and the syntax is making me even more tired. Did LBRP earlier and feel fine… Still think something is present in this room. 93"
Looking back I can gladly state I felt the negative energies being "boxed up" as it were, since the more I practiced the LBRP the more acute my awareness became. Another petty point is the number 93. A lot of new folks use it without knowing what it means, and I'm speaking from experience. 93 is commonly used as a greeting between Thelemites to signify love and will, here's how:
ε = 5
λ = 30
η = 8
μ = 40
α = 1
Add all the numbers and it equals: 93!
Θελημα is Thelema written in Greek; it means Will.
γ = 3
α = 1
π = 80
η = 8
Add all the numbers and it equals: 93!
Αγαπη is Agape written in Greek; it means Love.
Two phrases are apparent, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law," (AL 1:40) and "Love is the law, love under will" (AL 1:57), with a deep understand around the words "love" and "will". The first verse has emphasis on the will of a person, and the second verse follows through with giving love and inspiring will. So when Thelemites greet one another they usually say "93!", or "93s!" to encapsulate this. In letters/emails/texts, whether formal or not, it is known to write 93 at the beginning and the end. For me, I like the formal and informal way of writing:
Body of message.
93, 93/93
93, (or to close friends who are in in the joke, 93 Peaches),
Body of message.
93 is also a visual reminder or symbol to the Thelemite to stay true to his path and be free within discipline; at least that is how I see it.
As mentioned before, I like to follow various authors and speakers on the matter of life as a Thelemite. One such person is located on the blog roll over there ↗ Or ➡… IAO131 (just google that). He has been someone who has not only inspired the way I allow myself to be more open minded, but he was recommended to me by Mr Vamp, and thus I have recommended his website and books to other people. Speech in the Silence and ThelemaNOW! are also great sources for the modern green bean, such as myself. So set out into the world and breathe deep; you are the centre if your universe.
Another useful tip when living life as a Thelemite which I found most useful, flash cards. Bloody write stuff on them and train your mind! They are heaven sent! Whoever invented them needs sainthood. I mean it! In the last 18 months, I would write stuff all over my journals, and it never occurred to me to use damn flash cards until a friend mentioned them. You learn something new everyday!
That's all I can think of as super, super duper basics for now. I'll think of other stuff in future.
93s folks!


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Our VBS "Missions Trip" began this week...
Day 6 of Cousin Camp-
After making Father's Day gifties
with my K-1 class at church...
(The kiddos decorated foam cola can covers
and gave their daddies each a can of pop
with THIS sleeve cover)
...we headed to Dollywood
with one of our favorite families
and had a day of fun!
It was a good day to get caught up on the laundry
and defrost the freezer.
The kiddos wanted to speed up the defrosting process,
so they all grabbed hammers and began
chinking away the ice.
This was SERIOUS fun for
Little Wild Man-
he worked on it until dark
and when he got up the next morning...
More laundry and household chores,
then we headed over to my parents for a
"mini reunion"
with my brother and his new bride.
They live in New Jersey now,
which is about 12 hours north of us,
so it was nice to eat and and spend time with them.
Let the VBS "Missions Trip" begin!
Let me explain-
Our church,
in conjunction with 2 other churches,
is hosting a mini-VBS
at a local inner city park.
On Wednesday,
we held a block party to promote the event.
It was fun,
and it seemed to work,
because on Thursday, we had 50 kiddos
from the community attend the event...
Thursday and Friday:
More VBS!
I am in charge of worship and the
"opening" of each night,
and, so far,
are cruddy sound system is holding up!
What I am REALLY enjoying about this event
are these things:
1. Getting to work with other people from other churches
2. Seeing my kiddos interact with kiddos
whose backgrounds are very different from their own
3. Giving bear hugs to all the cutie-patootie kiddos
who are coming to the event!
I am pretty excited to see
what God has in store
for us and the kiddos as the event
comes to a close on Saturday...
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Group with the University of Northern Colorado went to Cuba, witnessed reactions to Fidel Castro's death
December 16, 2016
Charles Collins was walking around the rooftop of the home he was staying at during his trip to Cuba when he heard from his landlady — Fidel Castro died early in the morning.
Collins, a geography professor at the University of Northern Colorado, had wondered about this moment, Nov. 25, 2016, since his first trip to Cuba six years earlier. Would it be chaos? Would they be safe? Was it now dangerous to be an American?
In 2010, Collins applied for a scientific passport so he could do official research in the country. Cuban geographers advocated for him and helped push the application along. He did all the proper paperwork and waited. One day, he got an email saying he'd been denied the visa without any explanation. So Collins looked into taking groups of students to learn about Cuban culture.
With the help of a colleague, Collins took 14 students from UNC's Emerging Cuba class to the country. Among them were 11 social science teachers from Fort Collins, Boulder and St. Vrain school districts and three UNC employees.
The goal of the trip was to show folks Cuba beyond the textbooks: Most textbooks tell about Cuba in the context of the Cold War and have little information on what it's like in modern day, Collins said. He hopes that by taking other educators to the country and showing them what it's like, they can then go back and teach their students a more modernized view of Cuba.
Seeing the country and the people for himself changed UNC doctoral student Jon Shaw's understanding of Cuba.
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For him, the country came to life. Music almost always floated through the air. People drove classic cars, frozen in time, because that's all they had. They had to learn how to fix those cars without any new parts.
The people there weren't so different from people back home. Shaw saw a group of young girls, about the same age as his 5-year-old daughter. Before he and his wife left for Cuba, Shaw's daughter told him to bring chalk as a gift for the locals. Shaw gave the group of girls the chalk from his daughter. They were so delighted by the simple gift. They drew on the street gently to savor the chalk as long as possible.
"I hope the trip will help me always know there's a bigger world out there," Shaw said.
Unlike most of the folks who went, Shaw is not an educator. His doctoral program is called higher education student affairs leadership. He focused on how Cuba's educational system differs from the U.S.
He was surprised to find out Cuba has a 98 percent literacy rate, he said. He wants to figure out how that works.
"The education system there is arguably more comprehensive (than ours)," Shaw said.
Cuba offers free education, health care and retirement. Most of the country is well educated, and the life expectancy is equivalent to Western countries, Collins said.
Cuba has 100 percent attendance rates at primary schools and secondary schools, Shaw said. If someone lives in the countryside teachers go to their house. The country puts a lot of effort into making sure the population is educated.
But many residents are still poor, even when they are highly educated: Most of their income goes toward food. Maybe they can save up over the course of several months to buy new shoes, or for 30 years to buy a plane ticket to go see a loved one in Florida, Shaw said.
The system is changing, Collins said. Ever since Fidel Castro became too sick to lead, Raul Castro has slowly allowed more capitalist development.
Now it's legal for Cubans to rent out rooms in their homes, like the one the UNC group stayed in, Collins said. It's legal for folks to make some of their own money driving taxis. People can grow food in their own gardens and sell some for a profit. They can even open small restaurants in their homes. People used to get thrown in prison for that, Collins said.
Some Cubans are worried about what might happen to U.S.-Cuban relations when president elect Donald Trump takes office.
As of now, former president Bill Clinton's revision to the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 still stands. Often called the wet foot, dry foot policy, it allows Cubans who flee the country and make it to U.S. soil to pursue residency a year later.
Collins said that means Cubans crossing the U.S.-Mexican border get preferential treatment. Many Cubans are afraid to lose that advantage. However, with tourism budding and Raul Castro slowly easing the government stronghold, perhaps fewer people will want to leave.
Instead of the chaos Collins feared, there was calm throughout the country, Collins said. Everything on TV was about Castro, his life, his death and his role in history.
Public music and alcohol sales were banned for nine days, a stark contrast to the lively energy in the city of Havana before, Shaw said. Before the UNC group left for the airport to return home, they took the 15-minute walk from their hotel to the Plaza de la Revolucion. It had been empty days before but now 100,000 people stood in the plaza to mark Fidel Castro's death.
Collins told the group if they were respectful and didn't draw attention to themselves, it would probably be OK to go down into the plaza and witness the moment.
Older Cubans were reserved and many of them cried, but younger Cubans walked by wearing shorts and bright shirts. They took selfies with Castro's ashes behind them. Times are changing.
Collins hopes the group takes their stories back to share. Even the three guys always dozing off in the back of the classroom perk up when they hear he's actually been to Cuba and knows what it's like, he said.
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I've also lost voice and text service on both of my Bell (via PC Mobility) accounts here in Ottawa. Data is working, though.
Looks like there is a major Bellus outage out East, and maybe some of Eastlink/Rogers (though most reports seem like Rogers is generally working). Culprit is possibly a fibre cut in Montreal.
I've also lost voice and text service on both of my Bell (via PC Mobility) accounts here in Ottawa. Data is working, though.
Eastlink and Rogers unaffected. I have Rogers and didn't have an issue the entire time. Bell/Telus and their sub brands were completely cut off. Service seems to have returned to my office co workers here in St. John's as of 15 mins ago. Pure pandemonium. Banks shut down airport almost shut down. It's surprising how much we rely on cell technology from one provider
Glad to hear Rogers and Eastlink were still up and running, they had an alert for some addresses in NS but all reports seem like they had no issues.
I'm not aware of the ins and outs of the situation here, but Telus is saying it was a fibre cut, and since Bell is their partner out east I'm a little baffled that Bell doesn't have more redundancies in this situation since they are such a vital provider out there.
I agree. Especially since they're the main provider for Atlantic Canada as well in terms of overall market share you'd think they'd have the most redundancy of any provider to avoid situations like this. A single fibre link connecting 4 provinces with a total population of about 2.3 million is pretty sad.
They had 2 separate cuts. One had occurred overnight, the second in the AM.


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This paper addresses a built-in-self-test (BiST) to characterize IP3 linearity of a RF receiver front-end. A two-tone stimulus is generated by a phase-lock loop (PLL) in GHz frequency range. The PLL is designed to keep the frequency difference between the two tones under control and in this way to avoid a possible injection-locking. One of the oscillation frequencies and the difference (beat) frequency can be externally controlled. According to the test requirements the phase noise and nonlinear distortion of the two-tone generator are considered as a merit for the VCO and analog adder design. A highly linear analog adder with output referred IP3 of more than +15 dBm is used to generate the RF stimulus. The two-tone power across 50 Ω receiver input impedance can be more than -25 dBm with very low intermodulation distortion of PIM3 = -75 dBc. The receiver performance is not affected significantly by the test set-up. Simulations for linearity and noise performance of the PLL designed in 65nm CMOS show sufficient potential for on-chip IP3 measurements in the GHz frequency range.
With increased complexity of the contemporary very large integrated circuits the need for onchip test addressing not only the digital but also analog and mixed-signal RF blocks has emerged. The standard production test has become more costly and the instrumentation is pushed to its limits by the leading edge integrated circuit technologies. Also the chip performance for high frequency operation and the area overhead appear a hindrance in terms of the test access points needed for the instrumentation-based test. To overcome these problems, test implemented on a chip can be used by sharing the available resources such as digital signal processing (DSP) and A/D, D/A converters to constitute a built-in-self-test. In this case, the DSP can serve both as a stimuli generator and response analyzer.
Arbitrary test signals can be achieved using DSP. Specifically, the ΣΔ modulation technique implemented in software is useful to encode a single- or two-tone stimulus as a onebit sequence to generate a spectrally pure signal with a high dynamic range. The sequence can be stored in a cyclic memory on a chip and applied to the circuit under test using a buffer and a simple reconstruction filter. In this way ADC dynamic test for harmonic and intermodulation distortion is carried out in a simple setup. The FFT artifacts are avoided by careful frequency planning for low-pass and band-pass ΣΔ encoding technique. A noise shaping based on a combination of low- and band-pass ΣΔ modulation is also useful providing a high dynamic range for measurements at high frequencies that is a new approach. However, a possible asymmetry between rise and fall time due to CMOS process variations in the driving buffer results in nonlinear distortion and increased noise at low frequencies. A simple iterative predistortion technique is used to reduce the low frequency distortion components by making use of an on-chip DC calibrated ADC that is another contribution of the author.
Some tests, however, like the two-tone RF test that targets linearity performance of a radio receiver, require test stimuli based on a dedicated hardware. For the measurement of the thirdor second-intercept point (IP3/IP2) a spectrally clean stimulus is essential. Specifically, the second- or third-order harmonic or intermodulation products of the stimulus generator should be avoided as they can obscure the test measurement. A challenge in this design is the phase noise performance and spurious tones of the oscillators, and also the distortion-free addition of the two tones. The mutual pulling effect can be minimized by layout isolation techniques.
A new two-tone RF generator based on a specialized phase-locked loop (PLL) architecture is presented as a viable solution for IP3/IP2 on-chip test. The PLL provides control over the frequency spacing of two voltage controlled oscillators. For the two-tone stimulus a highly linear analog adder is designed to limit distortion which could obscure the IP3 test. A specialized feedback circuit in the PLL is proposed to overcome interference by the reference spurs. The circuit is designed using 65 nm CMOS process. By using a fine spectral resolution the observed noise floor can be reduced to enable the measurement of second- or third-order intermodulation product tones. This also reflects a tradeoff between the test time and the test performance. While the test time to collect the required number of samples can be of milliseconds the number of samples need not be excessive, since the measurements are carried out at the receiver baseband, where the required sampling frequency is relatively low.