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I have been writing this post in my head long before Blair was born. It usually turns into a major rant inside my head (or out loud when I am discussing this topic with the husband) but I am going to rein myself in and remain calm.
Becoming a mother is the most beautiful, terrifying, exhausting and humbling experience I have ever gone through. While a lot of moms out there did have encouraging things to say to me, a very large amount also harped on the negative, dismissed concerns and overall made parenthood sound like the worst thing that could possibly happen to you. The thing is most of the time I am sure this is not how they were trying to come off. Unfortunately many people feel the need to "pop the bubble" you're living in.
My pregnancy was not easy. The last ten weeks the right side of my body had completely given up. I had to use the walls in our apartment (Thank goodness we live in such a small place!) just to get to the bathroom or the couch. I once got stuck on the ground for over two hours waiting for Garren to get home because I could not put ANY weight on my leg. I couldn't crawl, or stand up. It was actually pretty scary. Trying to sleep was a disaster because just turning over in bed would send searing pain down my leg and through my pelvic region. Plus my restless leg syndrome was at an all time high. I would spend 3-5 hours at night sitting on my yoga ball crying and trying to relieve the pain. I will admit I complained a little bit (ok a lot) about the lack of sleep I was getting and instantly got laughed at with such comments like, "You think you can't sleep now, just wait until the baby comes! Then you will really never sleep again", or "Enjoy the sleep you are getting now, there will be even less when baby comes".
Here's the thing, most women are well aware of the fact that babies are a 24/7 job. We don't necessarily need you to tell us that. Also it confuses me how all women suddenly forget the pain and general uncomfortable state of pregnancy once they had their baby. I am six months (tomorrow!) postpartum and still have nightmares of those sleepless and painful nights. In fact I slept about 100 times better when my daughter was a newborn than I did pregnant. Cuddling a sweet baby whom you love more than life is always preferred over searing pain.
So next time one of you friends or relatives complains of sleepless pregnant nights tell them how sorry you are or better yet, tell them it will be worth it! Tell them all the pain will be worth that precious baby, instead of diminishing their pain and telling them they know nothing of sleepless nights.
(Ok maybe this is already turning into a rant. Oops)
The other thing that tended to bug the husband and I was whenever we would tell people what we had done the weekend before they would automatically respond with "Go out now while you can! No more date nights when baby comes". I personally just don't understand why we constantly tell people all of the things you wont be able to do once you become a parent. What about all the things you can do? Having a child brings such simple joy to your life. Garren and I can sit and watch Blair take in the world around her for hours at a time and never get bored of it. We have not let having a baby keep us from doing fun things. In fact we love bringing her with us! It just adds more love to our memories. Tell mommies to be the things you love about being a parent! Yes all moms will have worries so answer their questions honestly, but don't forget to tell them for every sleepless night comes countless smiles, for every dirty diaper comes the wonder of seeing your child sit up by him/herself for the first time!
Finally with parenting comes a lot of decisions to be made. Where will baby sleep, bottle or breast, cry it out or tear free ect. What works for you may not work for other families and that's ok! Share your advice when asked, and rejoice with moms when they find something that works for them! A mom choosing to breastfeed is not in any way threatening your decision to bottle feed and just because a mom did the cry it out method of sleep training does not mean you are less of a mom because you didn't.
I plead with all moms to support and love each other. Bring back love and optimism to motherhood and embrace diversity!

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- Actor, Los Angeles Times Beststelling Author, Buddhist Pastor
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Literary Encounter: Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill came around Skylight to talk about her new book Veronica. We sat around and chit-chatted. She told me a horrifying story of wanting an HIV test back in 1985. (I've been dedicated to the fight against HIV for a good fifteen years now, so I'm interested in these things.) And she said that the doctor discouraged her from taking an HIV test because women rarely get it. Well, now that countless women have died from HIV, I bet that doctor is eating his words!
I know that Ms. Gaitskill is a cultural phenomenon and all, but I took to her because she was wearing orange, one of my favorite colors. Not everyone can wear orange, but Ms. Gaitskill pulled it off flawlessly. She had an orange bag, a sweater with orange stripes, champagne colored jeans with orange hues. I told her that orange is the preferred color of the insane. She responded: "I started wearing orange when I became MORE sane. Besides, the insane are right about some things."
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Literary Distraction: Friendster
So, during those times in my writing life, when the writing is pure hell, I distract myself. One of the ways I do this is is by sending messages, making friends, checking out bios on Friendster. Yes, Friendster! I bet if the internet existed at the time of Charles Dickens, he would be on Friendster, too. It's a great way of keeping in contact with buds and meeting new ones. It's terrrific for a writer who yearns for company, yet wants to be alone. If you're on friendster, look me up and send me a "smile."
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Monday, October 24, 2005
Literary Reading
Over the weekend, I did a reading at Michael Kearn's Space in Silverlake. It was a blast. I hadn't done a reading in quite some time, so spitting my words out was a welcomed experience. The writing has been slow (sh*t), so doing this reading made me feel like a writer of some kind.
I must confess that I thought the highlight of the evening wasn't me, but when Sister Buffy (pictured), of the performance troupe the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, did a little talk on Evangelist Sister Aimee Semple Mcpherson. Trust me when I say it was a hoot!
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
Literary Substitute
The Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany is currently taking place. Frankfurt attracts publishers, agents, writers from all over the world. The book deals and the martinis must be flying.
I don't have the resources to galavant to Germany. So, in honor of the book fair, I commit to watching Liza Minneli in Cabaret.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Literary Skids
Whatever creative progress I'd been feeling toward my third novel has come to a crashing, ear-splitting halt. I hadn't looked at that mess of a book for days. I can't even look in the direction of my computer! I've had it! This novel writing thing is a pain in the ubot. (You can guess the English translation.)
With that said, I'll try to write tomorrow.
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Monday, October 17, 2005
Literary Memories: Monty's Birthday
Today is Montgomery Clift's birthday. I credit him for inspiring my first novel. I hope he is happy wherever he is.
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Friday, October 14, 2005
Literary Winner: Nobel goes to Pinter!
Okay, every year people place bets on who'll win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Feathers get ruffled, usually when it's some "unknown master". This year, playwright Harold Pinter won. I'm elated, considering that I'd studied theatre waaaaay before I got into writing novels. Pinter is certainly not unknown. I'm sure drama geeks are giving standing ovations the world over.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Literary Prize: Booker Award
Britain's Man Booker prize was recently announced. Congrats are in order to John Banville for his novel "The Sea." There is always some controversy that comes with such prizes. Below is a link about a Booker judge and why he chose "The Sea."
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Monday, October 10, 2005
Literary Encounter: Susan Straight
With my new novel, comes a new author photo. I asked author Susan Straight--one of the coolest people you'd ever want to meet--what she thought of author photos. She replied, "People told me don't smile, you'll look sexy. Or Smile, you'll look friendly. I wondered, What does any of this have to do with my book?"
Indeed, I know readers want to know what the author looks like, but shouldn't the writing itself be the ultimate attraction? Has writing gone the way of the music industry? It's not enough to just have a great voice, you have to be photogenic and be willing to dance.
Ms. Straight manages to have a sense of humor above all else. When I asked her if I should smile in my picture, she suggested that I try "the smoldering stare."
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Friday, October 07, 2005
Literary Encounter: Rick Moody
I've been curious about how music affects other writers. Rick Moody came into Skylight Books to read from his latest novel "The Diviners." Mr. Moody said he "thinks about music all the time" and he'll "listen to anything." The only type of music he doesn't like is "smooth jazz." I asked him if he were a musical instrument what would he be and why. He said he would be a tambora because it has beuatiful overtones. He said, "It's not flashy, but a bedrock on which other things are made."
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Thursday, October 06, 2005
Literary Music: KD Lang
Like many others, I turn to music for respite, entertainment, inspiration. Last year, KD Lang's CD "Hymns of the 49th Parallel" carried me through a difficult time. Those songs of longing, yearning--themes I often explore--helped me deal with my father's death and rewrite my forthcoming novel "Talking to the Moon."
I saw her at the Hollywood Bowl and she won me over for life. She was funny, personable, and, most importantly, entertaining. I ran to buy other stuff by her like her album "Drag." What a voice.
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Literary Death: August Wilson
Playwright August Wilson (pictured) recently passed. What remarkable contributions he made to the world of Letters. As I rise into my middle years, I hope to write some good stuff. I don't know how many books I have in me. At this time, I'm thinking maybe four, maybe five? I hope I have enough time on this earth to get all those stories out of me.
Here's a link about Mr. Wilson's passing:
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Sunday, October 02, 2005
Literary Panels
I just left the West Hollywood Book Fair where I sat on my fourth--and last-- literary panel of the year. I forget how many people are hungry to hear how to write and how to get published.
I used to be that person who voraciously read through the LA Times and LA Weekly looking for announcements for "How To" panels: How to write better fiction; how to get published; how to promote your work. Now, I'm sitting on the other side of the table.
I do hope I say and do something useful when I "panelize." The best part of the day is running into people I haven't seen in awhile or meeting earnest young writers hoping to be the next best thing.
I used to be that person who voraciously read through the LA Times and LA Weekly looking for announcements for "How To" panels: How to write better fiction; how to get published; how to promote your work. Now, I'm sitting on the other side of the table.
I do hope I say and do something useful when I "panelize." The best part of the day is running into people I haven't seen in awhile or meeting earnest young writers hoping to be the next best thing.
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December 6, 2017 report
Study offers new clues about why some parents are against vaccinating their kids
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found a possible new explanation of some parents' reluctance to have their children vaccinated. In their paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the group describes their study, what they found and why they believe they may have discovered a new way to change the minds of parents who are reluctant to have their children vaccinated.
Vaccinating children has been in the news the past few years as some parents have become concerned about possible side effects. Some parents have believe that vaccines may cause autism. Such claims have been taken seriously by health scientists, and studies have been conducted to find out if they may be true. To date, no evidence has found the claims to be true, but there still exists a group of people who are reluctant or refuse to have their children vaccinated. In this new effort, the researchers have taken a new look at the problem to better understand their reasons in the hope that a new approach might be developed to overcome their concerns.
To learn more, the researchers sent out surveys to 1000 adults who had at least one child aged 12 or younger. The parents were asked to rate themselves on six basic moral values: fairness, authority, loyalty, harm, purity and liberty. The values were taken from Moral Foundations Theory, which cultural and social psychologists have developed to chart moral values across common cultures. Each of the parents was also asked questions to learn more about their attitudes towards vaccinating children.
In studying the survey results, the researchers found that 73 percent of the parents who responded had few concerns about vaccinations, while approximately 11 percent scored as hesitant and 16 percent as highly hesitant. But the team also found something else, those parents with a medium amount of hesitancy were much more likely to highly value purity as a moral value. And those parents with a high degree of hesitancy were much more likely to rate both purity and liberty as highly valued moral values—they were also less likely to rate authority as a high moral value.
The researchers suggest their results indicate that efforts to change the minds of concerned parents by health workers might work better if they phrased their message in ways that took relevant moral values into consideration.
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Clusters of unvaccinated children are particularly susceptible to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease1,2. Existing messaging interventions demonstrate short-term success, but some may backfire and worsen vaccine hesitancy3. Values-based messages appeal to core morality, which influences the attitudes individuals then have on topics like vaccination4,5,6,7. We must understand how underlying morals, not just attitudes, differ by hesitancy type to develop interventions that work with individual values. Here, we show in two correlational studies that harm and fairness foundations are not significantly associated with vaccine hesitancy, but purity and liberty foundations are. We found that medium-hesitancy parents were twice as likely as low-hesitancy parents to highly emphasize purity (adjusted odds ratio: 2.08; 95% confidence interval: 1.27–3.40). High-hesitancy respondents were twice as likely to strongly emphasize purity (adjusted odds ratio: 2.15; 95% confidence interval: 1.39–3.31) and liberty (adjusted odds ratio: 2.19; 95% confidence interval: 1.50–3.21). Our results demonstrate that endorsement of harm and fairness—ideas often emphasized in traditional vaccine-focused messages—are not predictive of vaccine hesitancy. This, combined with significant associations of purity and liberty with hesitancy, indicates a need for inclusion of broader themes in vaccine discussions. These findings have the potential for application to other health decisions and communications as well.
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How Leasing Affects Capital Structure
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The AGA Research Awards Panel selected Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, and his colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, as the 2013 AGA-Elsevier Gut Microbiome Pilot Research Award recipient. Dr. Chan will receive $25,000 of funding, commencing in July 2013, to test the overarching hypothesis that long-term dietary factors are associated with specific microbes and genes associated with colorectal cancer.
"The gut microbiome offers myriad possibilities to GI basic and translational researchers, clinicians, and patients," said Nicholas F. LaRusso, MD, AGAF, chair of the AGA Research Foundation. "This award highlights the AGA's commitment to furthering research in this area. We congratulate Dr. Chan and his group on winning this award and we look forward to seeing the new data he uncovers through his novel research project."
Dr. Chan's pilot program will aim to associate dietary factors and environmental characteristics with the gut microbiome on a population scale. Dr. Chan and his research team will apply cutting-edge microbial profiling methods on fecal samples collected from individuals in the community to examine the impact of red meat intake on gut microbes and their byproducts, which in turn may influence biological pathways associated with colorectal cancer and other digestive diseases. The researchers anticipate that the results of this pilot study will lead to several additional follow-up studies that will form the basis of more substantial grant applications.
This award aligns with the AGA Governing Board's mission to make the gut microbiome an important priority for gastroenterology and the organization. In March 2013, the AGA announced the creation of the AGA Center for Gut Microbiome Research and Education whose mission is "to advance research and education on the gut microbiome in human health and disease." Digestive Disease Week® 2013 also places an increased emphasis on the potential of gut microbiome research through numerous invited speaker sessions and oral research abstracts and more than 130 related poster presentations. To learn more about the AGA Center for Gut Microbiome Research and Education, visit www.gastro.org/research/aga-center-for-gut-microbiome-research-and-education.
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The AGA Research Foundation, formerly known as the Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition, is the cornerstone of AGA's effort to expand digestive disease research funding. Since 1984, the AGA, through its foundations, has provided more than $40 million in research grants to more than 700 scientists. The AGA Research Foundation serves as a bridge to the future of research in gastroenterology and hepatology by providing critical funding to advance the careers of young researchers between the end of training and the establishment of credentials that earn National Institutes of Health grants. Learn more about the AGA Research Foundation or make a contribution at www.gastro.org/foundation.
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DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. Jointly sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), DDW takes place May 18 – 21, 2013, at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL. The meeting showcases more than 5,000 abstracts and hundreds of lectures on the latest advances in GI research, medicine and technology. For more information, visit www.ddw.org.


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Central Fla. mom, daughter reunited after 4 year abduction
Dad abducts daughter, authorities find them in Mexico
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Volusia County deputies in Central Florida said a mother and daughter were reunited after a parental kidnapping four years ago.
Deputies said Jodie Borchert had legal custody of her daughter in 2009 when her daughter was 8 years old.
Deputies said during a regular weekend visitation with her father, Aaron Cox, the daughter went missing, along with Cox.
Borchert filed a missing persons report with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office in August 2009.
Deputies immediately issued an arrest warrant for Cox, charging him with interference with child custody.
For nearly four years there were no viable leads, but investigators said they never gave up hope that the child would one day be found.
Deputies were able to find out through a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that the girl, who is now 12 years old, and Cox were spotted in Mexico.
As deputies worked with national and international agencies, they were able to find Cox and the girl in the remote mountains of Hidalgo, Mexico.
Authorities were able to arrest Cox and learned he had been living under assumed names with no known ties to Mexico.
Borchert and her daughter were reunited Saturday morning in Miami and authorities are working to extradite Cox back to Central Florida.
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Yesterday, I was finally able to speak with my sister and father in Haiti for the first time since the quake.
Their perspective is probably one that you are not accustomed to with regard to Haiti. They don't live in poverty but they're not part of the "Haitian elite" either. I would consider them well-off, even by American standards, but they are still exposed to the same hardships as ALL Haitians are — hardships that are the result of existing under a completely dysfunctional government and lack of support from external nations.
I spoke a bit with my dad, but his English isn't very good so I mostly found out about their present situation from my sister, who is 19, in med school and speaks near-perfect english. Here's a report from their perspectives and mine:
The Quakes:
My sister said the aftershocks are still occurring at a regular rate, which you can also see on the USGS website. For those living in poverty with houses made from weak materials, each tremor brings new waves of destruction. It's easy to read earthquake precaution guides and conclude that it's best to not remain inside an unstable structure. But what you must consider is that Haiti is consistently, excruciatingly hot.
The average temperature in January is only about four degrees (F) lower than the average temperature in June, and it rains MUCH less. When I was there this past June, I got violently sick from sun exposure, and days later experienced the most painful dehydration — and I HAD access to resources. I just neglected to realize what the problem was and didn't drink enough water. To not be able to take shelter from the sun for fear of being crushed to death, or be able to go anywhere else to find it will be a lethal combination for those on the brink. Haitians are now at a much greater risk of dehydration in addition to having far less access to water, let alone water that is clean or chemically treated.
With regards to my family, my dad is an architectural engineer and they are not afraid of the house collapsing. But they have been camping out on the ground floor in order to quickly exit when they feel tremors, just in case.
As far as food goes, with something like 80% of Haitians living below the poverty level, tons of Haitians were starving before the quake. In addition to any deaths caused by the quakes themselves, I suspect we will now see a long tail of deaths from starvation and dehydration brought on by these new conditions that will make it even harder to get food to those most in need. Relief in the form of food is desperately needed, and not just for the next week while the whole world is watching, either. Haiti will need a consistent influx of food donated by external sources for months to come just to maintain their previous equilibrium.
Lots of food is generated and circulated by the lower class, who sell products along roads and in the central marketplace of Port-au-Prince. There are grocery stores in Haiti too, which is where my family typically shops. But according to my sister, since the quake the grocery stores are closed. With no electricity there is no refrigeration. Furthermore, nobody knows when the importation of food products from abroad, and the manufacturing and harvesting of food products domestically will resume, so it makes sense for the stores to want to preserve their stock. It's not just grocery stores either. According to my sister, it's almost ALL businesses.
"It's like the whole country is closed."
It's not a purely resource-based decision though. In times of crisis, self-preservation comes into play. It is the biological imperative in every living creature to continue to live, despite the odds. In Haiti, those in desperation will do whatever it takes to survive, and it spurs violence as people attempt to take what they need from those who have it. This was already the situation before the earthquake, Now, it's going to be exacerbated one-thousand-fold.
Because things are so dangerous, people who have resources are not venturing into the chaos on the streets, rendering most businesses inoperable.
Communication and electricity:
My sister said that there is only one phone service working in the country, Voila, which they fortunately has. From what I remember, customers use Voila phone services on a pay-as-you-go basis for sending text messages and calling overseas. Credit for these tasks comes in the form of cards that are purchased with currency on the street via company vendors. Presumably, if the vendors cannot be located or run out of cards, customers will be unable to communicate over seas.
Another factor is the battery life of phones. The electricity grid is completely knocked out in Haiti. Since this is such a common occurrence there, many homes, businesses and other facilities are built equipped with gas generators that power inverters that provide electricity directly to appliances through whatever circuitry is set up. However, the gas that powers the generators, and essentially everything under these circumstances, is EXTREMELY scarce now. According to my sister, gas vendors have hiked the prices WAY up to rates that only the wealthiest could possibly afford. Earlier today, I saw a tweet that diesel fuel was selling for $25/gallon on the black market. Other gas vendors are simply not selling right now, likely in anticipation for even greater demand to come.
Also, no gas and no electricity means no way to charge laptops and no way to power routers >> No Internet Communication. Richard Morse, who runs le Hotel Olofson, where several American reporters are now staying, complained earlier via Twitter that he needs stronger generators and faster Internet. It is a tough problem. To power the routers to provide computing power that is maybe half of what Americans are accustomed to working with means dishing out a lot of money on gas — money that is becoming less and less meaningful as goods become scarce.
At my family's home, they have run out of gas. I asked my sister how she would charge her phone when her battery died and she said they still have some power in the inverters. They don't use them at all during the day and only run them long enough to charge their phones and other appliances at night. When the inverters run out of juice though, they will be without a way to communicate with the outside world, and with me, unless they can find gasoline.
When I spoke with my family today, they said that they were able to find a source of food today and bought enough to last them for a while. My sister seemed calm and was telling me to relax, which is only an indicator of her strength and the trying situations she is accustomed to dealing with. "Don't worry sis, we don't have to panic yet."


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Congratulations to Mr Mazza, Mrs Hill, and all student performers who won first place in the Grade 7-9 category in the CBC Music Class contest on December 15th. Our school receives $5000 in recording equipment and was the top entry among the 500 schools who entered this year. The link is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhV2n3rRDh0
Congratulations also go to Campus View Elementary who won in the elementary category!


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Defining CLOCA's role
Conservation authorities calling on province to clarify mandate, roles and responsibilities
By Joel Wittnebel/The Oshawa Express
With the legislation that governs how they operate under review, Ontario's conservation authorities are calling on the province to ensure proper roles, mandates and responsibilities are put in place to allow them to address growing and ongoing environmental concerns in the future.
Initiated in November 2014, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) began looking into a review of the Conservation Authorities Act for areas of improvement. Based on review of more than 2,700 comments from stakeholders on a working paper posted online in July 2015, the province released an updated version of their plans in May 2016.
According to Chris Darling, the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority's executive director, they have a bit more work to do.
Working with Conservation Ontario, Darling says CLOCA was a part of a recent submission to the province asking for further clarification on the future role of conservations authorities.
"There seems to be somewhat of a misunderstanding of conservation authorities' mandate and roles and responsibilities," he says.
"The goal of that (submission) is simply, to again, clarify the mandate."
That clarity is a single theme in a five-part submission to the province, which also includes requests for a better relationship between conservation authorities and provincial ministries. Historically, conservation authorities mainly dealt with MNRF, but in recent years have began dealing with Municipal Affairs and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.
"A lot of what we do, a lot of our programs and services support some of the goals and objectives of those other ministries," Darling says.
"I think they're suggesting that there is a need for an enhanced relationship with the province and I think they recognize the value that conservation authorities provide."
The submission also calls for a funding model that is more sustainable.
Having stronger legislation may only be words in a document, but Darling says having a clearer mandate provides CLOCA the room to work and deal with the challenges that will be coming in the future as our climate continues to change.
"The ongoing environmental challenges that we see within our community and our watershed, I think this reinforces the need to look at conservation authorities and make sure that we have an effective legislative framework to be able to respond to these up and coming environmental challenges," he says.
Conservation authorities have until Sept. 9 to submit comments to the province.


text: Finckel and Han to Conclude String Theory's 10th Season Share Tweet Email LinkedIn 04/16/19 Top News University Wide All Inclusive Professors String Theory, in partnership with Lee University and the Hunter Museum of American Art, will conclude its 10th anniversary season with a concert featuring cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, along with pianist Gloria Chien. The concert will take place on Tuesday, April 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hunter Museum of American Art. String Theory was founded in 2009 by Chien with the mission of exposing new audiences to chamber music, invigorating the local classical music scene, and cultivating a future generation of music lovers.The upcoming concert will include Mendelssohn's Cello Sonata No. 2 in D and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. As a cello and piano duo, Finckel and Han have received Musical America's Musicians of the Year Award, one of the highest honors granted by the music industry. Over the past year, the duo has performed in prestigious venues and concert series throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, Asia, and Europe. Additionally, Finckel and Han collaborated with violinist Philip Setzer to perform the complete cycle of Beethoven's piano trios and completed the filming of a two-part television feature set to air on PBS stations soon. David Finckel and Wu HanFinckel and Han are the founders and artistic directors of Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley currently in its 16th season. Finckel and Han are currently in their third term as artistic directors of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. They also serve as artistic co-directors of Chamber Music Today, a festival held annually in Seoul, South Korea. Demonstrating their passion for furthering the careers of young artists, Finckel and Han have participated in a variety of music education initiatives. For a number of years, the duo taught with the late Isaac Stern at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center. At the Aspen Music Festival, Finckel and Han started a chamber music studio. In collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the duo created Chamber Music Encounters. Finckel and Han also direct the LG Chamber Music School, which works with dozens of musicians in Korea each year. Finckel also works as professor of cello at The Juilliard School and serves as artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University. Chien, selected by the Boston Globe as one of its Superior Pianists of the year, "… who appears to excel in everything," made her orchestral debut at age 16 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Recently, she has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Kissingen Sommer Festival, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. Chien frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is a prize winner of the World Piano Competition, Harvard Musical Association Award, and the San Antonio International Piano Competition. Gloria ChienChien currently serves as the director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, the co-artistic director of the Lake Champlain Music Festival, and the co-artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest. She is an artist-in-residence at Lee University, as well as a Steinway Artist.For more information on String Theory or to purchase tickets, call (423) 414-2525 or visit String Theory at the Hunter.


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David Hogg Relaunches Advertiser Boycott Against Laura Ingraham
June 20, 2018 in News by RBN Staff
Source: Breitbart | Awr Hawkins
Gun control activist David Hogg renewed efforts to get advertisers to boycott Fox News' Laura Ingraham by tweeting a list of advertisers that include Cabela's and John Deere.
UPDATE—Fox News sent this statement to Breitbart News: "Laura Ingraham's very personal, on-the-ground commitment to the plight of impoverished and abandoned children—specifically in Guatemala— speaks for itself. So too does her strong belief in a commonsense, legal immigration system, which will continue to be a focus of her show. FOX News will never tolerate or give in to attempts to silence diverse viewpoints by agenda-driven intimidation efforts."
CBNBC reports Hogg originally sought a boycott of Ingraham in late March after he felt slighted by her during his gun control campaign. His boycott efforts revolved around comments she made regarding the list of colleges that refused to accept him.
Now he is pointing to comments Ingraham made in support of President Trump's commitment to enforcing existing immigration law. This support includes Ingraham describing detention centers for children illegally crossing the border as "summer camps."
Deadline reports that Hogg tweeted Ingraham, saying, "So … we meet again. Who are your biggest advertisers now?"
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If we get these advertisers pulled maybe @Ingraham will have to become a camp counselor and learn how wrong she is.
1. @BeachesResorts & @SandalsResorts
3. @CarfaxReports
4. @AceHardware
5. IAC (Angie's List, Home Advisor, Match)
6. @Cabelas
7. @JohnDeere
Ingraham responded to previous criticisms of her support for Trump's border law enforcement by asking, "Why don't the do-gooders who complain about separating minors from migrant criminals volunteer to sponsor one of them—or an entire family unit—and be responsible for their upbringing and care until adulthood?"
On April 16, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Hogg's first boycott of Ingraham resulted in a 20 percent jump in viewership for her show, The Ingraham Angle.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.


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Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that is often chronic. It causes breathing to stop and start during sleep. The symptoms of the disorder involve snoring, feeling tired during the day, and waking up short of breath at night. Sleep apnea keeps the brain and body from getting adequate oxygen, leading to high blood pressure, stroke, heart failure, diabetes, depression, and poor concentration.
Sleep apnea, however, is highly treatable with personalized oral appliances. These are worn in the mouth during sleep to keep the tongue from collapsing and blocking the airway. This helps the patient get maximal oxygen intake. The custom-made appliance is made to fit the patient's mouth. It acts to reposition the lower jaw, tongue, soft palate, and uvula, which in turn helps stabilize the tongue and tone its muscles.
These appliances mainly come in two different forms: tongue retaining appliance or mandibular repositioning appliance. The tongue retaining appliance uses a suction bulb to keep the tongue forward, keeping it from obstructing the airway during sleep. The mandibular repositioning appliance makes the lower jaw protrude forward during sleep, and this pulls the tongue forward away from the airway.
Oral appliances are a great way to treat sleep apnea. They are comfortable and easy to wear. They are small, making them easy to store and transport; treatment is all from home. They are much more beneficial in treating the disorder than over-the-counter appliances because they are personalized to fit the mouth and needs of each patient.
Oral appliances have been proven to be very valuable in treating sleep apnea, and have helped control the disorder for as many as half of all patients, including those who have severe cases of sleep apnea. While CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) is an alternative to oral appliances as a treatment for sleep apnea, they involve wearing a mask and create noise. Oral appliances are much less invasive and expensive, yet provide effective treatment.


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In 1974, the Rev. Billy James Hargis presided over the marriage of two of his seminary students in Tulsa, Okla. The newlyweds went off on their honeymoon. That's when the bride told the groom she'd partaken in sins of the flesh before they were bound together. The worst of it was that her partner in sin was the very preacher who'd married them.
Her new husband confessed to his new wife that she wasn't alone. He, too, was not a virgin. He, as it turned out, also had slept with the Rev. Hargis.
I used to snicker over that story with friends -- each time embellishing it to make it more delicious. Sort of like (but not quite as naughty as) The Aristocrats. Except, in the case of Billy James Hargis, the joke really wasn't funny. It was true.
Hargis was more than the lead character in a stranger-than-fiction anecdote about the hypocrisy of a moralistic preacher. He was a pioneer of broadcast media demagoguery, who claimed to have written a speech for Sen. Joseph McCarthy and who regularly accused decent people of treason. Because of the false charges he had a penchant for flinging about, Hargis also played a role in a landmark Supreme Court case that ensured, for a relatively brief time, that the broadcast news media be held at least to some standard of fairness.
What does all this have to do with the role of the today's media in environmental issues? A lot.
The emerging environmental challenges we face today -- climate change is only one of them -- will require broader agreement than we've currently managed to attain over the nature of those challenges. As a society, we will have to make sacrifices together. For us to agree that the challenges even exist, we need some common understanding of what constitutes real information.
But our conduits for timely, credible information are crumbling. Instead, the flow of information is being rerouted through various sewer lines, where truth is mixed with a pungent recipe of lies and innuendo.
Demagogues have won wealth and power by amplifying their messages over America's airwaves since Father Charles Coughlin blamed Jewish bankers and communists for the Great Depression. But never before has broadcast hate speech reached as many people as they have today.
One thing that is remarkably consistent about such demagogues is their penchant for self-destruction. Over-developed egos tend to cultivate the hubris that leads outlandish risk taking, such as those that McCarthy took when he failed to pay his income taxes or that Coughlin took when he basically played chicken with the Catholic Church hierarchy over his own authority.
And then there's the rise and fall of Billy James Hargis. The Texarkana, Texas, native claimed he'd dedicate his life to God at age 10, when his mother recovered from a terrible illness. By 17, he'd been ordained in the Disciples of Christ denomination.
His real talent, however, was preaching politics over the radio. Like Glenn Beck today, he had a flair for self-pity and the melodramatic. Once, he floated 100,000 balloons with biblical messages across the Iron Curtain. At his height, according to a Washington Post obituary, Hargis was "a wailing, wheezing, impassioned presence on more than 500 radio stations and 250 television stations."
In a 1964 broadcast, Hargis lambasted Fred J. Cooke, the author of a book that was critical of Barry Goldwater, that year's very conservative Republican candidate for president. Among other things, he claimed Cooke was a communist sympathizer who had lied about Goldwater.
Cooke heard the broadcast and requested an opportunity to respond. At the time, the Federal Communications Commission required radio and TV stations to provide an equal opportunity for opposing sides to present their views on controversial issues. The argument for the Fairness Doctrine went like this: There were limited frequencies on the radio dial and a limited number of licenses to give out that allowed stations to broadcast on those frequencies; so if the broadcasters who were the beneficiaries of those licenses chose to broadcast only one side of a controversial issue, they were required to share the privilege with those who had opposing viewpoints.
But the radio station that broadcast Hargis refused to give Cooke an opportunity to respond. The company argued that the Fairness Doctrine violated its First Amendment rights. Five years later the case made it to the Supreme Court. With an 8-0 vote the justices ruled in favor of Cooke, upholding the Fairness Doctrine as constitutional.
By that time, Hargis had gone on to other adventures. He still had his weekly radio show. And he founded the college in Tulsa, where in another five years, the sex scandal erupted. His empire only fell apart when his personal foibles became public, and even then he had his supporters.
Meanwhile, getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine had become a cause celebre of conservative radio broadcasters. And in 1987, President Reagan's FCC appointees, who brought a new "free market" philosophy to regulation, threw the Fairness Doctrine out.
"News stations" no longer were compelled to be fair or balanced. One year later, an upstart conservative radio talk show host hit the big time. Rush Limbaugh was moved from Sacramento, Calif., to New York City, where ABC began nationally broadcasting his show.
The rest, as they say, is history. Limbaugh spawned his imitators. Rupert Murdoch hired a notorious political ad maker named Roger Ailes to start a news network. And we have devolved to the point that Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Beck may be the three most listened to people in America.
Beck, in particular, strikes me as the inheritor of the broadcast preacher mantle. He frequently ties his political rants in with a kind of millennialist religious sanctimony, then skips over to calling himself an "entertainer" -- a sort of bait-and-switch game that makes it difficult to know on which terms his arguments should be countered. It's appropriate that Beck's worldview apparently has been shaped by a discredited radical Mormon author who was cited as a right-wing activist alongside Hargis in the early 1960s.
Appalled by the propaganda on cable TV and talk radio, some liberals have called for reviving the Fairness Doctrine. That's unlikely to happen. For one thing, the argument for it is weakened by the unlimited choice of media outlets online and via satellite. For another, the now-powerful partisan media is too threatened by the concept of "fairness." And there are other, even more important things to fight about.
The rules will not change quickly. We are instead in a period of trench media warfare, between journalists who uphold principles like fairness, accuracy and the idea that truth can serve to move our society forward, and charlatans who are addicted to the practice of lying and dividing to bring themselves more power and money.
In an article last week about Beck, I wrote that I'm optimistic about the outcome. Partly, that's because truth usually does prevail in the long run. But it's partly because Hargis' spectacular self-destruction serves as beacon for today's demagogues.
Journalist Ken Edelstein writes the Media Mayhem column for the Mother Nature Network. He blogs about media, pop culture and the environment at cultofgreen.com.


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Advice for the young and young at heart on how to live a satisfying life
From birth, many of us were programmed to accept a regular, mundane, limited, and often boring life. This life often contains just enough 'fun' for the average person to enjoy themselves occasionally- when they are not making money working at a job that they are not passionate about, to pay the ever increasing taxes and bills, just to live comfortably until they pass away. A minority of people have no fun, no joy, and little happiness in their lifetime, and there are others who live for adventure, joy, and excitement, and are in love with the idea of being alive,


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I Had A Psychic Reading Done On My Love Life & Here's How My View On Relationships Changed
I've always found fall to be a good time to experiment with what I want in my relationships. Maybe it's falling victim to "cuffing season" — or maybe it's just because I've come to associate autumn with life changes. But whatever the reason, these chillier months always have me feeling like I need to start trying something new. I studied abroad in London from September through December two years ago. While I was there, I had a psychic reading done in Greenwich Market. The man delved right in, and told me that my next adventure in ~love~ would be with a Virgo who has a quirky personality. I was also supposed to have already met this person, but they weren't a constant in my life.
Last October, I tried making a love potion with a friend of mine, who, quite frankly, perfectly fit the bill that the psychic described. By November, our relationship had changed and wasn't as platonic as I originally thought it was. While it inevitably didn't work out and we just went back to being friends, I could never stop thinking about what the soothsayer had predicted. So, this year I decided to have my tarot cards read once again in hopes that it might change my perspective on dating and relationships.
The Reader
In order to start this process, I needed to find the best person for the job. That ended up being Donna Henes, an intuitive tarot reader, ritual consultant, and author who's more affectionately known as Mama Donna to her clients.
She invited me to her apartment in Brooklyn. When I got to the brownstone-lined street, I found my final destination: a beautiful old converted hospital building that was positively witchy. After I was buzzed in and made my way to the correct floor, I was greeted by a small dog in the hallway that led me exactly to where I needed to be. Mama Donna was waiting by the door, and invited me to sit on her pink floral couch in front of a wicker table. Her pup, Poppy, hopped onto my lap and we began the reading.
The Reading
"Just listen to your gut and stop when you feel the cards are ready." I shuffled the deck a few times, with some cards individually being taken out and placed meticulously somewhere else. When I finished a few moments later, Mama Donna laughed and said, "That was decisive."
She came and sat next to me, before blessing my third eye with an amethyst oil. Afterwards, Mama Donna went on to explain how each suit in the deck corresponds to an element and either the mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual side of us.
The first card, called the Indicator, stood for the part of me that the cards address in this one reading. Mama Donna flipped over the "Man of Cups" which symbolized how I handle emotions superficially without ever truly diving into them and understanding them on a deeper level.
She then turned over another two cards that were meant to be situations I was currently dealing with. They both ended up being cups ("You've got three of the four. I've never seen that!") with one being the Sage and the other being the Child. If I came for a reading that focused on my emotions and relationships, I got way more than I could've expected. The Sage card is about feeling confident about your knowledge and beliefs. "If there's some dry place in your emotional spectrum, water it. Give yourself what you need and don't necessarily expect someone else to do that." She explained the child card, saying that it's meant to tell me to allow myself to acknowledge my emotions and truly let myself feel them, even if they're not always the most pleasant.
She continued to flip cards, and I continued to get more royal and major arcana cards. "The major arcana cards is all of the above. So those are weightier. I can't say they're more important, but they affect more of your being than just one card or another." The card meant to symbolize my "past" was the Sun, which was meant to show I've previously had to learn the lesson that I need to accept love and find happiness in even the darkest of times. Mama Donna then brought the reading back to my current situation cards, telling me that they're the new lessons I need to tackle.
Mama Donna kept analyzing my tarot cards, and flipped one over that shows a perfect diamond on the top half, and broken crystals on the bottom half.
"What it's saying is concentrate on the diamond that you've become so far and the diamond that you aspire to be someday," she said. "These broken thoughts are things that would hold you from doing that."
The "Love Card"
The card meant to symbolize my hopes and my fears turned out to be the "Love" card, which shook me a bit, seeing as how I went on this quest in the hopes that I would learn more about how I can change my perspective on the love in my life. "There's nothing in this reading that would accentuate the fear and lots that would support the love. It's playful, it's feeding yourself, it's artistic, it's listening to the signs and your gut. Everything is supporting the hope. Unless you let these stupid thoughts run wild, you've got it."
My outcome card was another crystals card that told me what I'm looking for at the end of this journey is balance. "You want to have a balanced mind, you want to have balanced emotions."
The Result
Initially following my reading, I felt as if I was surrounded by so much love. It was like I had confirmation that everyone important to me genuinely cares for me as well. I'm not sure I ever fully doubted that, but I tend to overanalyze my interactions with others and do sometimes worry that how I feel isn't actually being reciprocated. It's exactly what the diamond card said. I needed to stop focusing on any self-deprecating thoughts I might have and focus on the positivity that I know surrounds me.
"I thought this reading might make me want to seek out new relationships and focus more on any possible romantic love in my life, but it didn't quite do that."
I've tried to figure out what I truly want for myself and my relationships in the weeks following the reading. I haven't started going out of my way to meet people and form new connections, but I have been focusing more intently on my existing friendships. I also still occasionally worry that my loved ones aren't as invested as I am, but I know from my reading that this concern stems from letting my insecurities and self-doubt take over.
When I started this process, I thought this reading might make me want to seek out new relationships and focus more on any possible romantic love in my life, but it didn't quite do that. Instead, it gave me the perspective that I need to nourish all of the existing love in my life be that with myself, my friends, or my family. This was an eye-opening experience to see how each card was placed into each specific position to build a narrative I could see playing out in my own life, and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested in getting a little perspective.


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m68ec0x0idp, dream, history, project
I bought "BYTE magazine September 1987"; there is a sweet article about 68k & unix.
Today MOTOROLA semiconductor group is sold to Freescale. The so called "company evolution" .... Happened at the end of 2004. When Motorola was running the semiconductors desk, i was provided this IDP board as "68k learner". Since 1999 i have been looking around for the board that i'd like to develop in my lowest priority free time. She eats 2.5A, so at 5V that means 13Watt .... this because she has a lot of fun and troubles
m68k OS
- 1985: Terra Nova Communications: OS design
Created real-time multiuser OS for dialup conferencing. Kernel source published in Dr. Dobb's Journal (1/86). Innovative interface inspired hundreds of similar systems. One of the first tree-structured BBS systems. 68K asm, multitasking kernel, custom memory manager, custom disk I/O manager, custom serial drivers.
- 1987: "BYTE magazine September 1987, unix system design with m68k"
the m68ec0x0idp board
About the motorola board the motorola board is "IDP68EC0x0" part number
On the board there are the following devices:
- MC68EC000 CPU module 12.5Mhz
- MC68EC060 CPU module 25Mhz
- MC68681 (dual uart)
- MC68230 (PIT port and timer)
- DS7 (display 7 segment)
- 2/8MByte DRAM
i'm working around this devices
- HD44780 (display 2x20 alphanumeric)
- T6969 (display graphics)
- I2C bus adapter PSX pad adapter
- IDE-HD adapter new desin keyboard (developped around apple-newton-kb and dreamcast-jappanese-kb)
on the board i'm running
- ucos/2 (it does not require a MMU, the 68EC000 has not, the 68060 has MMU and FPU)
An image of the board
M68EC0x0 Integrated Development Platform version 3.1 July 1994
the board was made in 1992, and in 2002 costs $950, with a student reduce price i payed half the half: $250 ($90 surface shipping included) .
expanding RAM
Unfortunately the board is equipped with 2Mbyte of DRAM that can be expanded to 8Mbyte with this obsolete DRAM-array 1Mx32 (4Mbytes) for a total of 8Mbyte on board
- MCM54400AZ70 - MCM524256AZ70 package 100 MIL ZIP -
MCM54400AZ70 ZIP pin assignments * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1 = !G 2 = ! CAS 3 = DQ2 4 = DQ3 5 = Vss 6 = DQ0 7 = DQ1 8 = !W 9 = !RAS 10 = A9 11 = A0 12 = A1 13 = A2 14 = A3 15 = Vcc 16 = A4 17 = A5 18 = A6 19 = A7 20 = A8
adding a peripheral: I/O module
The board has 6 x 16Mb addressable IDP buses: if the user wants to make a I/O module, the user should contact Motorola by writing to the address listed in "bus timing"
- bus timing for information on M68EC0x0IDP bus timing, write the following adrress: Motorola High-Performance MPU division ATTN:
IDP Technical Support Mail Stop OE-33 6501 William Cannon Drive West Austin Texas 78735-8598 USA hi
clock sync
mc88915 or mc88916 is required in order to sync the module clock to the master clock
the IDP bus requires a complex protocol, so a fsm machine is required in order to handle it: a cpld is fine for that
dynamic bus sizer
the IDP bus is 32bit, "mc68150" is a "dynamic bus sizer" chip made by Motorola for MC68040/MC68060: it may be a solution when you have a 32bit cpu and 8bit peripherals
our motorola 68xxx dev board has a synch.bus.It can be handled only by a Finite State Machine (FSM) so we first look for a low cost CPLD/FPGA solution. too expensive, too much complicate. So now the project is based on a RAM-tiny-FSM: 4 input, 4 output, 16 states. The RAM is loaded with the bytestream at the boottime by a PIC that copy an I2C_EEPROM into the RAM. The project consists on the compiler (that make the bytestream image to be loaded to the eeprom, from a simil-C source) and the little board. I estimated that this TINY-FSM is able to work with a clock up to 25Mhz using old PC cache (15 ns) If you are interested we can collaborate about this project, about the hardware and about the software developping. Hello Adrian, It is nice to hear from you. I am glad that the 680x0 books I sent you are useful in your project. > i'm planning to develop a ROM/RAM tiny file-system What type of file system is this? Is it based on an existing file system such as MS-DOS, or something completely new? I have an interest in file systems, that is why I ask. FYI, the UCSD Pascal system has a very simple file system that support a fixed number of files (77). The file system is just a very simple array of file entries. Each file entry has a fixed width format similar to: file name (length byte + name characters) file type file creation date file modification date starting block ending block > the shell is ready as beta. > Would you like to try it under windows ? if so it will recompiled for > 80386 as a normal dos program. I would like to try this. Please compile for windows and let me know how to get it. Concerning the 680x0 IDP, try the following internet sites, they may have some information about this board's bus: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/motorola/68k-chips-faq/ http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/cards/m68kfaq.html > a friend of mine went to Santa FE last weeks He should have contacted me, that would be fun. I live in Santa Fe in the north part. I have been here for about 10 years. Ciao >Subject: Re: Apple Lisa and Macintosh schematics >Date: Sun, May 25, 2003, 3:51 PM > HI !!!! luky to see you again ! > the book ? i'm developping a lot with "68000 family reference" > i'm programming a 680x0 emulator to deassembly with simulation path > .... yeh i'd like to hack and grap software secret to improve my > assembler. > I'm using my "68EC000 IDP board" rom with "MON68" monitor debugger > ..... my simultaor simulate the whole board using this rom. > In this way i can speed up download .... (that are reduced to a poor > file copy, because there is no real UART 9600 bps transfer .... just a > superfast 44MB/sec harddisk file copy .... the secret iis that the > memory is a file) > about hardware ? i'm planning to develop my board around a 68030, using > your "68030 reference book" ..... i'm planning just to use only 8bit > data bus ..... just 1 Kb Rom 1 64Kb Ram .... a HD44780 20x4 char > alphanumeric display and a 9600bps UART. > the firmware will be "PERVASIVE" : i mean that i'm planning to develop > a ROM/RAM tiny file-system, a nano kernel working with tasks (no > process or thread) ..... > well i'm learning a lot from your books .... i'm fully reading the SAMS > 68010-68020 primer .... that helps me a lot with the simulator > dettails. > wow that is all for now. > ah, yah i forget: the shell is ready as beta. > Would you like to try it under windows ? if so it will recompiled for > 80386 as a normal dos program. > I shocked myself porting it to my 68EC000 idp board .... and to a real > nintendo GameBoy > (this last one it was done for fun ..... i friend of mine told me that > was impossinble ..... but i did it) > any probelm ? > yes, to be honest a lot .... but the main one is that i have no > documentation about the bus of my "motorola 68EC0x0IDP integrated > development platform" ..... i bought it form Motorola (for $940) and > there is a documentation-book where it is written: > if you need documentation about the "IDP bus timing" please write to > "motorola Austin Texas" > i did as written nobody answared me .... i email motorola digitalDNA > .... the answared that the platform is obsoleted and that in their > server there is no documentation. > They suggest to use an oscilloscope to probe signal's timing from the > IDP bus ..... that is too hard for me for just a reason: i have no > oscilloscope .... and at school we have virtual one (done by LabView > and an acquisition board plugged inside PC) .... no goods for what i > need to do. > why i need this ? because the IDP bus is not standard and it is 25Mhz > syncronous ..... not so easy. > I'd like to plug an hard-disk to improve my file-system from tiny to > large (400MB 1GB) > that is really all since last time ... > and you ? how are you ? > a friend of mine went to SataFE last weeks ..... luky is him !!! > cool sun, cool place and people .... > and you what do you say ? > (p.s. where are you exactly ?) > best regards >>Hi Adrian, >>Have the Motorola 680x0 books been useful to your electrical engineering >>school work in Italia? Does the 68040 CPU chip work? Greetings, I haven't heard anything. I gave them your email address so you might get some mail directly. Also, I posted a request for the info on comp.sys.m68k Take a look: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.sys.m68k&selm=4163811b.0402201732.5b0d397%40posting.google.com So check this web page from time to time to see if someone replies. Good Luck, > hi, >> [*] bus timing > for information on M68EC0x0IDP bus timing, write the > >> following adrress: > >> Motorola > >> High-Performance MPU division > >> ATTN: IDP Technical Support > any news about this ??? > i can't find nothing on newsgroup. > Does your motorola friend have this information ? > or somebody know something about the board ? > best regards Greetings, Yes, I remember, how are you? Motorola is a very big company and the semiconductor division was just a small part. In fact, in the beginning it was set up to supply parts to the rest of the company. But it turned out that they sold most of their parts to other companies, and they made Motorola a lot of money for many years. But in the last several years the semiconductor division has been loosing money, so motorola decided to spin it off as a separate company. Now the must make money or go out of business! -mark- wrote: > hi, > do you remember me ? > i'm the boy you sold the "68060 die photos" > today i was shocked: "motorola semiconductors" has > been changed into "Freescale" > and all customers support of old "motorola digital > DNA" has automatically closed. what do you think is happening ? > is motorola in a big money jam ? > i contact the old "motorola digital DNA" to have informations about > "mc68150 dynamic bus sizer chip" freescale answared me ..... > (that it has no data-sheet) > what do you think ? > best regards I need precisely the functionality you are describing to test programs written for the ColdFire 5407 without the actual hardware. The code would only be used to create a tool for my use in testing and debugging my embedded code. My current project is an embedded system for testing proprietary electronic devices. Having an emulator would be invaluable during development and testing. If you could share your code with me I would certainly be willing to forward any support I add for the ColdFire back to you, if you like. If you can't share the actual code, I understand--I just had to ask--this sounds like it would be so helpful. Thanks, Chris -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:00 PM Subject: Re: reverse assembler >Does your C program actually emulate the 68K? Yes, not the whole iset, i have to code it, i have no much time. However the demo i show to my teacher is able to run a "hello world" program that prints to a real HD44780 by re-defining trap 15 to a virtual device (that on the real board is a MC68230) that handles LPT where the display is attached. I planned to emulate 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040, 68060. I don't know how to handle MMU, now. however i'm working around 68000 and i have to test the ALU condition code register: there are no good tests in motorola books, i don't understand some dettails like MUL-U MUL-S condition code affections. >it sounds as if that is what you have--more than a mere disassembler. this because we code a lot of software, and because we did it aim for a lot of goal. The shell, the tini-filesystem and the "reverse-assembler" i don't like "disassembler" term because i mere de-asm is a program that jumps back your binary. My reverse-assembler emulate a binary into a virtual machine showing register contents step by step. I mean that i can obtain a file where you can easily track the register- values during the running. In this case the goal is the need: we have to code and test programs but we have to test them on a real 68000 board, the school's one, and unfortunatly we can't access to it when we want ... we have no much time and we have no money to buy a personal board. So we code an emulator to have the board in our portable PC. The real board is hard to be de-bugged ... because we can't track the memory or stop the CPU to analyze ... we code the emulator to allow this. >In your first post you asked if anyone was intrerested--if this is the case, >I am very interested--I need something like this to help me through my >>current project! what is your project about ??? how can my project help you ? which CPU should it be for ? >Would you consider sharing that code with me? it may be, i have to ask my teacher and my team. I remember you we are using ANSI crude C (borland Turbo C 3.0 for DOS) however the shell is portable to UNIX and we ported it using Gcc and HP-C89. what we really need now is a good 68K compiler. We hack Sierra C 68K, it works well but it is only for 68000, and it need windows. we will try to make a gcc-68K cross compiler for our HP-712 HPUX 11.00 best regards


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Members of two Detroit area congregations were honored Sunday at the Presbyterian Voices for Justice 221st General Assembly (2014) Awards and Education luncheon.
The theme for the event, held at Fort Street Presbyterian Church, was "Hope for Detroit: Economic Justice and Racial Reconciliation." Some 50 people attended the event.
Fort Street and Littlefield Presbyterian Church in Dearborn were presented Promotion of Social Righteousness Awards. Also honored with awards were individuals Gloria Albrecht and Thomas Priest.
"These awards are being presented in recognition of their commitment to and passion for all God's people and their service to the entire church," Presbyterian Voices for Justice Co-moderator Sylvia Thorson-Smith said.
Accepting the award on behalf of Fort Street, which operates the Open Door outreach ministry, was Sharon Mook, pastor.
"There is so much more we can do," Mook said. "We are both humbled and honored to be recognized. We will simply keep doing what we are doing."
In accepting the award for Littlefield, pastor Frances Hayes said that while the church, located in Dearborn, which has a 70 to 80 percent Middle Eastern/Muslim population, faces numerous demographic challenges, she believes that it was "planted there for a mission of justice."
Albrecht is a professor of Ethics at University of Detroit-Mercy and a longtime member of the PC(USA) Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy.
Priest is a retired PC(USA) teaching elder and a former moderator of the Presbytery of Detroit and a member of Detroit Truth and Reconciliation Commission.


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Listening to Chris Hedges in Edmonton was .. well beyond inspiring, it was deeply moving. People around me openly wept at times. I asked him how he keeps going in the face of such inhumanity as he witnesses day after day. He replied, I owe it to them, all those children, all those faces, they are always with me. I who have such privilege can do no less.
by Chris Hedges
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February 25, 2013
I was in the Swiss village of Begnins outside Geneva shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. I spent three days there with Axel von dem Bussche, a former Wehrmacht major, holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for extreme battlefield bravery, three times wounded in World War II, and the last surviving member of the inner circle of German army officers who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
I was reminded of my visit with von dem Bussche, whom I was interviewing for The Dallas Morning News, by the 70th anniversary of the execution of five Munich University students and their philosophy professor who were members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany.
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Chromatic shadow detection and tracking for moving foreground segmentation
Document typeArticle
Defense date2015
Rights accessOpen Access
European Commission's projectCARGO-ANTS - Cargo handling by Automated Next generation Transportation Systems for ports and terminals (EC-FP7-605598)
Advanced segmentation techniques in the surveillance domain deal with shadows to avoid distortions when detecting moving objects. Most approaches for shadow detection are still typically restricted to penumbra shadows and cannot cope well with umbra shadows. Consequently, umbra shadow regions are usually detected as part of moving objects, thus affecting the performance of the final detection. In this paper we address the detection of both penumbra and umbra shadow regions. First, a novel bottom-up approach is presented based on gradient and colour models, which successfully discriminates between chromatic moving cast shadow regions and those regions detected as moving objects. In essence, those regions corresponding to potential shadows are detected based on edge partitioning and colour statistics. Subsequently (i) temporal similarities between textures and (ii) spatial similarities between chrominance angle and brightness distortions are analysed for each potential shadow region for detecting the umbra shadow regions. Our second contribution refines even further the segmentation results: a tracking-based top-down approach increases the performance of our bottom-up chromatic shadow detection algorithm by properly correcting non-detected shadows. To do so, a combination of motion filters in a data association framework exploits the temporal consistency between objects and shadows to increase the shadow detection rate. Experimental results exceed current state-of-the-art in shadow accuracy for multiple well-known surveillance image databases which contain different shadowed materials and illumination conditions.
CitationHuerta, I., Holte, M., Moeslund, T., Gonzàlez, J. Chromatic shadow detection and tracking for moving foreground segmentation. "Image and vision computing", 2015, vol. 41, núm. September, p. 42-53.
Publisher versionhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262885615000712
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