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More than 150 million hectares of the earth's surface are planted with rice. Most of the rice fields are found in eastern and southern Asia, with lesser areas in Africa and the Americas. In the "rice societies" of Asia, where rice is widely grown and consumed, rice is not a singular object. It is simultaneously an important food crop, forming a large component of the daily food supply for millions of people, which is often considered a superior food even when alternative staple crops are available; a cultural symbol, associated with origin myths, folk tales, religious ceremonies, and cultural celebrations; and a source of income for farmers, millers, and traders. Together, these characteristics make rice an important public good that concerns policy makers, politicians, and publics. In various places, rice is even a means of artistic expression, for example, in Japan, where farmers exploit differences in the colors of rice foliage to create huge images in their fields, and in India, where rice grains are used to make mosaic-like artworks called rangoli. Last but not least, rice is an object of study for scientists, generating knowledge about rice as an organism, a crop, a grain, or a bulk commodity and prompting technical interventions to change the growth characteristics and nutritional composition of rice, cultivation techniques, processing methods, and distribution channels. Over the last hundred years, science and technology have affected rice in all its dimensions, thereby playing a pivotal role in the shaping of rice-growing and rice-consuming societies (Barker et al. 1985; Bray 1986).
The articles in this issue explore the interactions between rice, scientists, technologies, and societies from various different perspectives. By focusing on a single crop in settings as different as scientific laboratories and research stations, farmers' fields, markets, and the homes of rice consumers, the articles shed light on the diverse ways in which scientific research and technology development are played out in a variety of social, institutional, and technical contexts, the multiple meanings of rice in these contrasting settings, and especially the ways in which these distinct arenas are connected or fail to connect.
The Materiality of Rice
The articles share a focus on the materiality of rice, which manifests differently in different settings. For example, in a molecular biology laboratory rice might mean a solution containing crushed leaf material that is made meaningful through processing and transcription using various instruments. In a field experiment, different parts of the plant or crop—the roots, the leaves, the panicles, the grain, and so on—may become salient at different times during the growing season, depending also on the influence of other organisms, water, fertilizer, and the weather, as well as various actors, agencies, or institutions, such as fertilizer companies, extension services, or markets. In the home, the storage characteristics, texture, aroma, or stomach-filling qualities will be prominent. The authors' shared focus on materiality brings the entity rice itself into a sharp focus and makes it possible to see connections and highlight contrasts between the different settings where it interacts with human beings and other actors. The collection of articles thus underlines the value and importance of taking materiality seriously as a focus of study for the social sciences and humanities, which have typically taken a more interpretive approach, and not only for the natural sciences.
The goal of our joint effort is to explore possible links between the insights of science and technology studies (STS) and anthropology, which often come together in the field of international development studies. Two scholars whose work has inspired us to connect these fields are Francesca Bray (1986) and Paul Richards (1986), whose seminal work on rice cultivation and rice societies has drawn upon both anthropological insights into material culture and sociological insights into science and technique. Before introducing the articles in this collection, we highlight some of the insights that stimulated us to use the concept of materiality as a thematic focus for this issue.
Materiality and STS
The point of departure in STS is that science and technology (or "technoscience") constitute forms of practice that are not intrinsically different from any other social practice, although their particular institutional and material shapes and forms are distinctive. Material artifacts have a prominent place in the scientific and technological practices studied by STS. All kinds of material objects are dealt with by technoscience—large and small; solid, liquid, and gaseous; living and inanimate; singular and composite. Some of these objects are the focus of great attention by technoscientists, for example, a collection of biological samples or the instruments in a laboratory. Other objects play key roles in science and technology without attracting much attention in their own right, such as the notebooks in which data is recorded or the computer networks through which data is transmitted. The importance of material objects in the social worlds of science and technology has stimulated the development of a number of original concepts and theoretical positions by STS scholars, in an effort to accommodate the simultaneously social and material nature of technoscientific practice. For example, actor network theory, developed in the 1980s by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour (1981) and John Law (1986), rejects any fundamental distinction between human and nonhuman actors. This position is epitomized in the notion of the "actant," defined as "whatever acts or shifts action." Other STS scholars have stressed the combined social, biological, and technical construction of human bodies, captured by Donna Haraway (1990) in the concept of the cyborg, or the agency of other forms of nonhuman or not-yet-fully-human creatures, conceptualized by Sheila Jasanoff (2005) as "liminal agents."
Other STS scholars who have paid close attention to materiality have explored the capacity of objects or technological artifacts to mediate between different practices or social worlds. The concept of the "boundary object," as developed by Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer (1989), denotes an interaction whereby two or more different communities of practice can be connected through the shared use of the same object, even as each community may also use the object in a different way. Material objects may also become a source or target of conflict or contestation between groups, as in the case of transgenic crop technologies (Schurman and Munro 2010). The STS literature contains many examples of the individual or collective appropriation and reshaping of technical artifacts or other objects, thus expressing the opposing views of different social actors or, very often, exposing the distinctions between the designers and users of technologies (Akrich 1992; Mackay and Gillespie 1992; Oudshoorn and Pinch 2003). Nonetheless, where many STS studies have thus emphasized the malleability and interpretive flexibility of objects, other scholars have, at the same time, pointed to the obduracy and momentum of objects, especially the integration or embedding of systems of infrastructural technologies (Hughes 1987; Hommels 2005).
Anthropology and STS
STS insights into the materiality of objects and technological artifacts cut across geographical and temporal scales (Misa 2009). Nevertheless, STS scholarship has in the past been preoccupied with U.S. and European contexts, while development studies scholarship has rarely paid explicit attention to the nature of technoscience, despite the fact that so many development interventions are highly technocratic. Anthropologists, on the other hand, have a long-standing interest in material culture. By focusing on materiality in relation to rice in the Asian rice societies, the articles in this collection attempt to bring together these intellectual fields. The articles not only reflect the various ways in which STS has grappled with materiality but also demonstrate the relevance of STS insights to development studies as a field and to geographical and institutional settings outside the United States and Europe.
STS notions of materiality and its sociological roles are in certain respects similar to, and sometimes incorporate, anthropological accounts of the role of material culture in human activity. Where STS generally focuses on fields in which scientists and engineers are dominant social actors, however, anthropology is, at least in principle, indifferent to the types of human activity or social interaction to be investigated. Material culture studies is the major branch of anthropology that gives a central place to artifacts, that is, to materiality. Material culture studies has thus explored a wide variety of recursive relationships between persons and things. Anthropology's long tradition of interrogating material objects as important sources of information about human activity and thought has given rise to numerous theoretical propositions. The Handbook of Material Culture lists ten major conceptualizations of materiality, including material objects made and used by individuals or collectives and the relation between human individuals and things, their minds and bodies, their cultures and societies, and their histories (Tilley et al. 2006: 4). Technologies and objects emerging from scientific practices are also implicated in these conceptions of materiality. Material culture studies recognizes the importance of science and technology in changing material objects as such, as causes of change in social and material orders, and as forces shaping the activities and dynamics within material cultures (e.g., Appadurai 1988).
When comparing the concepts and insights developed in material culture studies with those arising from STS treatments of materiality—in a far from systematic way—we observe various similarities and overlaps. These similarities make clear that exchange between the two fields is viable and worth pursuing. It should be noted, to begin with, that the theoretical concepts developed within STS are not exclusively relevant to high-technology settings such as laboratories or suspension bridges but may include banal, everyday objects such as hotel key fobs or door closers (Latour 1992). Given the central focus on science and society interactions in STS, both everyday objects and "lay knowledge" are familiar concepts for STS scholars.
Within the anthropological literature, too, notions of materiality and technology come together. One of the foundational books of material culture studies is Marcel Mauss's The Gift(1990), which analyzes how social relationships may be created and sustained by the exchange of objects. Much less known is Mauss's work on technology (or technique), recently collected in an English-language volume by Nathan Schlanger (Mauss 2006). Mauss considered the human body itself as the basic and fundamental form of technology, and all other forms of technology and tool use as extensions of human capacity. Authors following Mauss's lead have emphasized the importance of skills, as embodied in individuals, and the combination and complementarity of individual skills in labor gangs, "task groups," or other forms of teamwork (Sigaut 1994; Jansen and Vellema 2011). This anthropological focus on technology as human technique or skilled activity creates an opening for symmetrical analysis of the material interactions involved in very different sociotechnical settings, for example, rice cultivation in an isolated rural area and the activities of molecular biologists using expensive instruments to tinker with the genetics of rice in the laboratory (Richards et al. 2009).
The anthropological perspective on technology initiated by Mauss has also proved helpful in understanding the movement of objects between different contexts. Underlying this movement, expressed in the notion of a boundary object, is some level of shared meaning. As explored in the work of Tim Dant, creating such shared meaning is not an abstract perceptual act but involves bodily activity. Observing car mechanics at work, Dant noticed that manuals provided them with only limited information. Much of their understanding of what the problem was and how to solve it emerged from touch and sensation. These bodily movements or gestures are essential for understanding and effectively using objects (Dant 2007). Likewise, the movement of objects between different arenas requires bodily activity on both sides. The pictures in Japanese rice fields, or any other works of art, require a great deal of skilled work by an artist and his or her assistants to convey the intended message or emotion. As the work passes into the hands of the viewer, he or she also has bodily work to do, including finding one or more vantage points from which to view the work and consider it from different angles and distances (Dant 1991). The kind of bodily activity and the amount of skill this requires are specific to the object and its context.
Materiality in Research, Knowledge, and Practice
The reflections discussed here return in the articles collected in this issue, both directly and indirectly. In all of the articles, the interaction between rice and human agents is central. In some cases, intractable characteristics of rice and rice cultivation oblige human actors (scientists, development workers, farmers, and others) to make adjustments to or curtail their plans, as in the different cases described in the articles by Kuei-Mei Lo and Hsin-Hsing Chen, Sally Brooks, and Dominic Glover. On the other hand, human agents are shown imposing their will on rice to varying degrees, treating it in remarkably different ways in different settings in order to achieve particular goals, as pointed out, for example, by Brooks and Glover. Moreover, rice is seen to play the role of a boundary object linking different social worlds, exemplified in the studies presented by Brooks and by Chris Shepherd and Andrew McWilliam. Embodied skill is highlighted in all four of the articles, as human actors try to find ways of growing, harvesting and processing, marketing, and consuming rice to achieve particular ends. In the process, the simple category "rice" is repeatedly opened up to reveal its diverse and complex materiality. Across a range of different practices and contexts, the authors develop different perspectives and apply different concepts to analyze the interaction between rice and human agents.
Kuei-Mei Lo and Hsin-Hsing Chen explore the embeddedness of Taiwan's rice cultivation system, using the concept of technological momentum that was first introduced by Thomas Hughes (1987). Lo and Chen's article examines the attempt by a range of actors to develop a space for organic rice production in Taiwan. Organic farming was proposed as a radical transformation of the Green Revolution rice farming system that was established in Taiwan, fostered by Western powers, during the Cold War. Lo and Chen's analysis exposes the difficulties involved in the attempt to reorient a system that was established around the supply of agricultural chemicals and fertilizer-responsive rice varieties. The effort to develop a space for organic rice farming required the cooperation of numerous actors and some key technological changes. These included a switch to alternative rice varieties that were more suitable for organic farming methods, but aspiring organic farmers also had to grapple with a tightly integrated infrastructure of information, machinery, and other agricultural inputs that were attuned to the existing system. In Taiwan, farmers and various material objects are connected by cooperatives or dependent on local commercial suppliers, through which they can access farm machinery, planting material, other inputs, and services. These relationships also connected the aspiring organic farmers to social and information networks that were sometimes skeptical about or hostile to organic farming methods. Moreover, though individual farmers may choose to stop using inorganic chemicals, in an industrialized nation such as Taiwan residues from neighboring farms or regions can easily enter rice fields along with irrigation water. As Lo and Chen show, the complexity and intractability of these relationships placed heavy demands on collective action involving a variety of stakeholders who, in spite of their organizational capabilities, failed to bring about substantial change in the conventional rice farming system.
Sally Brooks takes us to the lion's den of the Green Revolution, the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. The researchers who occupy a central place in Brooks's article hoped and strove to get a number of material and social actors to cooperate in the creation of a new type of rice that would improve the health of iron-deficient rice consumers. In the course of their research, scientists identified a rice strain that seemed to have a high iron content in its grains. Later, the identity of this "high-iron rice" came into question; the trait seemed to be inconsistent, and the original readings proved difficult to repeat. Had there been a measurement error? Or was it the case that the high-iron trait depended on environmental interactions rather than the genetics of the rice variety alone? Brooks's account of the project shows how different scientific disciplines gave rise to competing theories about how iron could be made to accumulate in the endosperm of rice, and thus differences of view concerning the mechanisms and tools to focus on. The researchers also realized that the achievement of a high-iron rice was only the first part of the puzzle. The iron had to be made to transfer successfully from the rice grain to the human body. This demanded a completely different research environment, which involved a community of nuns, special milling and cooking procedures, and blood samples. As a consequence of the many challenges faced within the research program, relatively little effort was made to connect the research to the outside world, except in order to build relationships with financial donors. In the process, the high ambitions of the research program were scaled down to a "proof of concept." As Brooks points out, proof of concept represented a boundary term that allowed for effective interaction between program managers and donors. However, this move also weakened the connections between the scientists and the rice farmers and consumers in developing countries who were supposed to be beneficiaries of the research program.
Establishing an effective connection between research outcomes and rice farmers is also central to the article by Chris Shepherd and Andrew McWilliam. They discuss two projects in East Timor, both of which aimed to convince farmers of the benefits of adopting an improved rice variety. While their article explores the relative value of different anthropological perspectives, the authors make explicit use of actor network theory in analyzing two projects that created and reshaped actor networks in very different ways. The projects' relationships with farmers were mediated by the improved rice varieties but also involved various other material objects. Indeed, in one project, the absence of material proved as important as its presence: farmers were promised benefits in the form of money and two-wheeled hand-tractors, alongside the new rice variety, but few tractors were distributed and little money was paid out. Extension workers hardly showed up either, compounding the project's failure to gain the farmers' trust and confidence. Shepherd and McWilliam's second case study was apparently more successful. In this project, extension workers visited farm sites more frequently and over a longer period, and focused on a wider range of rice cultivation activities. The authors show that the project relied less on outside expertise, did not seek to create new groups, offered no inducements, and used less of the farmers' land for crop field trials. Much more emphasis was placed on enabling the farmers to observe and evaluate the performance of the new rice variety for themselves, through careful demarcation of trial plots within the farmers' fields and carefully orchestrated yield measurements conducted on site. Shepherd and McWilliam's analysis of these two projects reveals the amount of work involved in successfully transferring improved rice varieties from agricultural research institutes into farmers' fields and working practices. Shepherd and McWilliam argue that the designers of both projects implicitly assumed that the new rice varieties would be embedded into farmers' cultivation systems once the project interventions came to an end; follow-up studies will be required in order to see how actor networks are actually reconfigured when extension support is withdrawn.
The difficulties involved in connecting rice research to rice farming are also explored in the article by Dominic Glover. The article discusses the origins of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an alternative and controversial method of rice cultivation, which was developed in Madagascar during the 1970s and 1980s and has since spread internationally. Glover shows that SRI was strongly shaped by the circumstances in which it was developed, in a setting characterized by constrained institutional and socioeconomic conditions and the relative isolation of a poor developing country that was largely disconnected from the international agricultural research system. Under these limitations the originator of SRI, Father Henri de Laulanié, fell back on an inductive type of scientific research that entailed close observation of rice plants and how they grew in Madagascar, as well as intimate engagement with the physical and technical capacities of poor and marginal Malagasy rice farmers. SRI was thus deeply embedded in its material and institutional context, in the absence of strong connections to the leading international centers of rice research. Given the circumstances of its development, Glover shows that it is hardly surprising that de Laulanié's rice cultivation methods differed from those recommended by established international agricultural research institutions, or that they sparked a negative reaction from scientists associated with those organizations. Some rice scientists dismissed SRI as a compilation of unremarkable good agronomic practices with some practices of dubious merit that, as a package, could not contribute to the scientific quest to advance the frontier of rice agriculture. Like the article by Brooks, Glover's article thus highlights the competition that exists between alternative strategies for the scientific improvement of rice production, those that focus on genetic improvement of rice plants and those that aim to improve cultivation methods in farmers' fields.
The articles in this issue shed light on the degree of variety that exists in the ways that different scientific and production strategies interact with the materiality of rice and rice technologies in different sociotechnical and geographical contexts. Together, the articles indicate the fruitfulness of linking concepts and approaches drawn from STS and anthropology, applied to the kinds of projects, programs, and problems typically addressed by scholars working in development studies. The authors' common focus on Asia's major food crop demonstrates the utility of exploring a material object and its associated sociotechnical systems, as a way to understand and explain the differences that social contexts, strategic goals, and institutional methods and strategies make to the conduct of agricultural research, development, and extension.


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A breakout board for the FUSB302, a USB-PD PHY for BMC communication used in USB-C connectorsDesigned by Reclaimer Labs in United States of America
Want to play around with the new USB Type-C connector? You'll need a chip to manage the CC pins. This board allows you to use I2C and an interrupt line to perform all necessary USB-C functions. At ...Read More…
Want to play around with the new USB Type-C connector? You'll need a chip to manage the CC pins. This board allows you to use I2C and an interrupt line to perform all necessary USB-C functions. At the heart of this board is the ON Semi (formerly Fairchild) FUSB302, a Type-C port controller and BMC PHY. You can use this chip to do any and all of the following:
All design files are available on GitHub and are open source. Schematics, layout, gerbers, and example code is available under an MIT-style license. Click here for the board design files. Click here for the FUSB302's manufacturer's page for a datasheet or to request sample code.
For more information on USB-C, please read my overview starting with Part 1 here. I am in the process of porting code from the Chromium OS to C++ for use in embedded systems. I have a Type-C Port Manager library for the FUSB302 specifically, and worked with a colleague to produce another library for USB Power Delivery, which uses it. The current status of the code is that it working well enough to support being a Power Sink, and runs on Arduino.
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whenever i have a party, i find that people end up congregating in the family room. it is one of the smallest rooms in the house, but i think it turned out to be a pretty cozy and hip little space.
i've teased you with some previews along the way, but here it finally is!
this is what i started with:
those of you who have been following our progress here in fog city know that the house interior was covered from head to toe in the most hideous yellow paint. in these photos, from the open house, it almost looks... nice! i assure you, though, it was terrifying. especially all of the inexplicable wall stains created by 4 college-aged boys with no supervision. *la dee da* putting those pictures right out of my head...
we had the floors stripped down to the originals (YAY) and then we painted, painted, painted and painted some more. the door to the downstairs bath got a coat or two of chalkboard paint as a part of my project doorway.
it has become one of my favorite things in the house because it is covered in love letters from family and friends.
i also painted the cast iron hearth and corbel on the fireplace in high-gloss black for more contrast.
and then it was time for the fun stuff!
i anchored the room with my sofa - it's HUGE and comfy and far too expensive to throw away. the lines are curvy and victorian, but the fabric is modern and neutral so it works. i also kept my antique mahogany coffee table, heat stains and all. it's been with me forever and i love the color - especially in this room because it picks up the darker hues in our floors.
then i trotted off to ikea to buy out the store - picking up the trollsta sideboard to use as a tv stand and a great b/w rug, the stockholm rand.
and then to pier one for a couple of great oversize faux bamboo chairs. the room, with the addition of the chairs is very full but, because it's such a small space, i decided to embrace it and to try to make it feel as homey and intimate as possible.
the topper is this fantastic chandelier i robbed from lamps plus (originally $1350 and i got it for $186!). most folks think it's original to the house (which was built in the late 1800s) - it just seems to fit. and it is GORGEOUS at night.
and assorted tchotchkes i have collected at all of the fun antiques markets up north. (i'm sure you've guessed by now that i am of the "more is more" school of thought when it comes to decorating.)
vintage kit cat clock with rhinestones
add some colorful (and SHINY) pillows and voilà! CLICK ON THE PHOTO FOR A CLOSE-UP.
please excuse the puzzle effect here - it's my bargain substitute for a wide-angle lens.
now i've just got to get some art up behind the sofa and we'll be all done (for now)!
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Age Limit for Federal Food Assistance Program is Increasing Food Insecurity
Irma Arteaga, assistant professor in the Truman School of Public Affairs, says that the cutoff age of five for WIC benefits increases household food insecurity.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – One in five American households with children does not have adequate access to food. To combat food insecurity, the U.S. relies on a variety of food and nutritional programs, including the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). This program is designed specifically for pregnant women, mothers and children from birth to age five. New research from the University of Missouri has identified a problem associated with the requirement that when children turn five, they are no longer eligible to receive food assistance, thus leading to increased food insecurity for the family. The researchers say policy makers should consider extending WIC eligibility until children enter school, rather than setting an age limit.
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The New York Public Library has just launched their new digital image archive. So far, it includes over 275,000 images from illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, postcards, cigarette boxes, and more. Hopefully more libraries will be following suit.
There are some pretty awesome old photos and posters in there. If you go to browse, keep the next couple hours open!


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Almost as long as I've been a writer, I've been a teacher. When I was in high school I tutored children in Suzuki piano, and I've been teaching in one form or another ever since.
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I love creating and facilitating original workshops and courses in creative writing. The first full-length course I taught was called "Into the Sea: Taking Your Poetry Deeper" (2009). I followed it up with a course on how to develop and revise a poetry manuscript ("Chrysalis", 2010). As well as those courses (and a poetry course I taught at UPEI's Seniors College) I have taught a number of half-day workshops on topics like getting started with poetry, the process of revision, poetry and movement, point of view in fiction, and using dreams as a source for writing. I also created Thursday Evening Writing Practice and The Fiction Study Series, which I facilitated from my office in downtown Charlottetown in the summer and fall of 2012. I've also done one-on-one mentoring with writers on their manuscripts, one of which went on to win the PEI Book award.
I recently finished my B.Ed. at Queen's University in the Artist in Community Education track, which is specially tailored for artist educators. As part of the program I had the chance to facilitate a poetry workshop, a mandala-making class, and to co-facilitate a session working with movement and sound. The program has provided many exciting opportunities to work with children creatively and has stimulated new ideas about teaching and learning for me.
To hear my conversation with Matt Rainnie on CBC's Mainstreet about the workshop "Muses of The Night: Dreams and Writing" click here.
After my Masters in English at The University of British Columbia, I took Vancouver Community College's excellent training program to learn how to be a good English as a Second Language teacher, and I've followed that profession (with breaks involving forays into retail and administrative work) for more than 10 years in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, and Moncton in business settings, private schools, and universities. While working at Study Abroad Canada in Charlottetown, I helped develop their distance education TESL course and taught some in-class components to teachers too. I thoroughly enjoyed teaching Intermediate and Introductory English at The University of Moncton in the winter and fall semesters of 2013. During the summers, I have a blast as an instructor at UPEI's high energy EXPLORE program. My B.Ed. has been an exciting adventure in building my teaching knowledge and expanding into the field of working with children.
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Part Cash, part backwoods honkie, Corb Lund's ode to sour mash delivers a foot stomping melody that even the most adverse country music listener may find hard to ignore.
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The "Rescue Me" story continues in a brand new way. Dennis Leary's top-rated firehouse drama debuts a made-for-the-web series.
McCain Girl Hulks Out
One year after Obama Girl swept the nation with her political assets, she's up against a lean, green, barelypolitical fighting machine.
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A prequel to Robin Cook's upcoming book, "Foreign Body" is the story of lust, life and a dash of international conspiracy.
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Kodi Eden Builds
How to download and install Eden Builds for Kodi Krypton. Eden has a unique design, and there are 3 different choices available.
Before we startPwrDown highly recommends you use a VPN when using Kodi. IPVanish is one of the only top tier VPNs and it's tailored specifically for Kodi users. It works on almost all devices including the Amazon Fire Stick. As stated on their site, using IPVanish will:
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- Allow access to blocked add-ons & content from other countries.
Eden Builds Overview
There are 3 different Eden Builds available for Kodi. These are Eden Ultimate, Eden Silver and Eden Red. All 3 builds are for Kodi Krypton. The build that has been showcased in this bulb is Eden Ultimate (the most popular). Eden uses Aeon Nox as it's skin, however it's been heavily customized to give it that 80's retro feeling.
Eden Kodi Build is big in size, having categories and add-ons for Apps, comedy, favorites, kids, Live TV, Movies, Power, Sports, System, TV Shows, UHD Movies and Weather. Some of the add-ons used in this Kodi Build are Elysium, Covenant, BOB, and WolfPack.
This guide is for Kodi Krypton, and the steps below are listed for the Estuary skin. If you have any problems with this build, feel free to leave a comment below and we'll reply. Also, this build is not supported by the Kodi developers, so please don't head to the Kodi forums for support.
How to install Eden Builds on Kodi Krypton
If a message pops up saying Unknown Sources needs to be enabled, check our short guide here. Ares Wizard repository not working? Find some working Ares Repo links.
- Open System (top centre cog icon) > File Manager > Add Source.
- In the top box, input http://repo.ares-project.com/magic
- In the bottom box, input "Ares" and press OK to finish adding the source.
- Kodi home screen > add-ons > add-on browser (top left icon).
- Choose install from ZIP File and choose "Ares".
- Install the ZIP File in there (repository.aresproject).
- Give it a few seconds/minutes to install.
- Install from Repository > Ares Project > Program add-ons > Ares Wizard > Install
- Open Ares Wizard, found under program add-ons on the home screen
- Choose Builds in the top left > Eden > Choose your build > Install
- Wait for it to download. Allow Kodi to force close. Done!
Ares Wizard and pins
As this build is from the Ares Wizard in Kodi, you will be asked for a pin. When the message pops up, hit the "Get Pin" button. A web browser will open, giving you a 4 digit pin. Go back into Kodi, and press "Enter Pin" in the Ares Wizard. Enter the pin you received to get access to the build. You can scan the QR code or enter the given URL on your mobile too.


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Samsung has just announced a new powerful piece of security software that will protect its new range of Tizen-based Smart TVs. Set to be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas later this week, the new triple-layered protocol will aim to keep your intelligent new TV safe while connected to the web.
Those three layers of protection include a password-protected Smart Zone (which creates a secure space for the core components of telly to operate within), a level of encryption that protects the device from nasty viruses and malware and an extra layer of security built directly into the Smart TVs bespoke operating system.
"Protecting consumers' personal information is of the utmost importance to Samsung, both in terms of the company's values and what's needed for the continued growth and success of the IoT ecosystem," comments Hyun Suk Kim, President of Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. "GAIA is a security solution that will give Samsung customers security and peace of mind now and in the future."
Alongside this new GAIA security, Samsung has also designed this new wave of Smart TVs to be IoT (Internet of Things) integrated. The firm hopes these new tellys, with GAIA to protect them, will become the central hub of your intelligent home network via Smart Hub. Thanks to a single remote and an updated UI, Smart Hub will offer you the ability to control everything from Blu-ray players to game consoles, all from one centralised screen and remove the need for multiple remotes and confused searches down the sofa.
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I finished my Nubees blocks for September using my across the square block tutorial. It is really fun to see a block come together using different fabric styles. I got to cut into my fly a kite fabric bundle for this one. It was so appropriate for many of the color selections. I was in Hive 2:
For Seahorsequilts - she wanted red, yellow and orange.
This is mostly fly a kite fabrics with some terrain and I am not sure where the large flower fabric is from.
For lynnmariewood. She wanted red, orange, yellow and green. Again with fly a kit fabrics.
This one is for sunshine_sally. She wanted green, brown and blue. Again I used fly a kite and a bit of flea market fancy.
And last but not least this one is for StampQnjlr our hive mamma. She wanted red, white and blue. I used some red dots and boxes (can't remember from where) and the really cool airplane fabric is vintage. The middle is made of Kona white and a cream mirage fabric but it is reading yellow with my camera.
Bonus block for K over at Crafternoon Delight :) She is still using blue, orange and yellow. I forgot to photograph it so she sent me a pic.
If you use my block tutorial I hope you will show me. I'd love to see it!


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Spring-Summer 2014 menswear collection by Louis Vuitton
Jones is style director of Vuitton's Men's Studio for 2 years, working under the artistic direction of Marc Jacobs.
The designer is a travel fanatic and the inspiration for this collection, was his trip to the USA in January this year. In his 41 apparels, Kim Jones tried to represent this 41 archetypes: preppy, broker, frat boy, gas jockey, scout, hippie, greaser, trust fund baby, and so on.
Jones opened his show with some of the snazziest checked suits seen so far this season. As usual, everything was luxed up like only Vuitton can - bush jackets tie-dyed by hand at a remote atelier in Japan, varsity jackets in kimono silks; blousons in matte crocodile skin that carry six-figure price tags.
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I'm no graffiti artist, but isn't there some commonly understood rule that says your tag is supposed to be anonymous — partly for intrigue, partly so you don't get caught? Verizon's crappy buzz marketing campaign (on more than 130 sidewalks in downtown DC) doesn't even make for interesting grafiti art — it's just a boring, uncreative ad in a nontraditional location. Which only makes looking at it that much worse for those of us living and working in O.N.C. If you're going to invade our public space, at least do it well, like some of those funny "Life Takes Visa" posters. Which is why I couldn't be happier to see that D.C. is standing up for itself (and for us) by fining Verizon.After all, we don't want to look silly in front of our out-of-town guests. Mary Myers, a spokeswoman for the District Department of Public Works:
"We take this kind of thing pretty seriously. Litter, graffiti, posters . . . anything that defaces, clutters or dirties the city and makes it less welcoming and less hospitable is really anathema."
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Spring is upon up! It's finally starting to warm up here in Michigan (Depending on the hour you choose to go outside!) And I have a new outlook on life!
January we started all our New Years resolutions, by February we may have stuck to them, but by the time March rolls around, we may or may not have forgotten what we set out to do at the beginning of the year! The cold months may have you feeling worn out, unmotivated and uninspired. (I know, I feel it too!)
But the thought of Spring? Warm weather, pretty flowers, (rain), sunshine, (rain), bright colors (more rain) … You get the idea! It's time to hear the birds singing as we get into the spring cleaning mood!
That's why for today's pattern I am revealing the crochet reusable Swiffer cleaning pad! (What a mouthful!)
I saw this idea while browsing through my Pinterest and wanted to come up with a pattern of my own!
I bought one of these Swiffers when I first moved into my apartment. I quickly ran out of the wet wipes they gave you. And I haven't used it since. And I thought, what a waste! I bought this stupid thing and now I have to keep spending money to use it! Plus, the wipes dry out so fast, they are basically a one-use type thing. I could go spend more money on a Swiffer wet-jet but, why would I do that? I have crochet!
If you would like to support me and purchase the ad-free PDF downloadable version of the pattern, I have it available on my Etsy!
If not, that's okay too! Just keep reading! 🙂
Want the YouTube video tutorial? Check it out below!
- Cotton yarn (Any color)
- Size G crochet hook
- Darning needle
- Scissors
Stitches to know (W/ abbreviations)
- Double crochet – (Dc)
- Single Crochet – (Sc)
- Slip Stitch – (Sl St)
- FLO – (front loop only)
- Stitch(es) – (St/ sts)
- Chain – (Ch)
- Sk – (Skip)
- F/O – (Finish off)
-Chain 21, sk 1st st DC in FLO down the line (20 sts)
-Turn, ch 3, (Sk st w/ ch 3) Dc down the line (FLO)
-Repeat for 19 more rows (20 rows in total)
-Ch 21, sk 1st st, DC down the line (20 sts)
-Turn, ch 3, (Sk st w/ ch 3) Dc down the line
-Repeat for 5 more rows (6 rows in total)
-Repeat last 3 steps to make another for the other side
-Dry fit on your Swiffer to make sure it fits and sew the sides on! (Shown below)
Now you can just stretch it on to your Swiffer and you have a reusable pad!
Again, if you're interested in supporting me and purchasing the ad-free PDF version, (So you can take the pattern wherever you go!) here is the listing over on my Etsy! Special thanks to anyone who buys it! 🙂


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They thought that the toys would be better off with me so that Sophia and Olivia could play with them, rather than sitting unused at their home.
Some of the toys I have let the girls play with, while other toys and dolls are just for looking at and not for playing.
I remember growing up that there were even some of my toys and dolls that I considered to be "hands off." The only thing, for example, that I did with my Madame Alexander doll was comb her hair and set her gently on the bed or shelf.
I also remember playing with the Sunshine Family.
I don't know what happened to the set we had when I was growing up.
The Sunshine Family originally came with Steve (dad), Steffie (mom) and Baby Sweets. Grandma and Grandpa Sunshine were also sold separately from the "main" family.
If the Sunshine Family dolls were around these days, they'd probably being doing the same things plus homeschooling their children and running their own home business. They were dolls that I could identify with back then (since my parents were eco-friendly, recycled, and started a natural foods co-op even before it was the "in" thing to do)...and still could these days if I were a child.
I think Sophia and Olivia would have enjoyed the Sunshine Family dolls when they were younger. The same interests that the doll family had reflect ones that we still believe in and do today.
So, although a lot of things change throughout the years with toys and dolls, some things do stand the test of time and are engaging and appealing even for children these days.


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There's not much that can compare with plucking off a juicy peach from your own fruit tree. From spring's sweet cherries to fall's crisp apples, fresh fruit is one of nature's most delicious products -- plus it's super-versatile, adding a refreshing sweetness to everything from glazes and chutneys for winter roasts to spring salads, smoothies, and dessert.
Whether you want to add a fruit tree to your at-home garden for an annual harvest of peaches, cherries, apples, pears, or citrus -- or whether you just like the look of these flowery, budding plants -- here's everything you need to get started, from how much space you'll need to which trees do best in which climates.
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This is the place to submit your photo of your computer station. Extra kudos for those who have FG up on the screen!
hi everyone:), how are you today?
i hope you are doing great..;)
I just took a shot for my desk and i would like to share it with you..
the location of this picture is: Saudi Arabia> Dhahran City> King Fhad University of Petroleum and Minerals> the university's campus> my room there.:-6
I just wanted to share the view out of the window behind my computer monitor.
When I am looking up..searching for words to type....I see this mockingbird making a nest right in front of me.
I boxed the bird and nest in the pic.
my lap top is there honest
here's mine, relatively tidy.
lol, good thing you can't see the desk behind it though, thats where all the crap is.:wah:
I just picked up this used computer desk. It was alot older than I expected - probably 12-15 years old - but a good scrubbing, sanding, and a nice new coat of polyurethane, and voila! We decided to remove the hutch on the right because it blocked too much window.
My old station
A quick snapshot!
This is where Pinky lives:
LOL! But this is where the magic happens. The antique colossus that my moniter is on is NOT the computer we use! LOL! It's just a prop for the moniter. Our computer is a dell.
Here's where I spend a lot of my time, complete with the Forum Garden "new post" page:
As you can see i dont have a desk,
so i generally watch telly while i'm on my laptop.
ps..that's while i'm using it not sitting on it (thanks Bez!)
This is where it all goes down, the mindless babble, mental breakdowns, pie fighting, all of it.
This is my little corner of the cyper-world at home. Cramped...but cozy. :-6
I swear it's buried here somewhere........
Show a screen shot. Show your Wallpaper.
Lovemama asked me to host her pic and post it here.... doesn't this room look really cozy?
Following the trend of this forum, here's a quick picture of my office. Nothing fancy, mind you...
If you look to the left of the large computer, you'll see my daily evil inspiration: Darth Vader. If you look to the right, you'll see my Kissi stone sculpture. The wall scroll next to the large...
I know it looks clean in this pic... but we had just moved in :D
Now picture it with lazy cats looking out the window, plants, papers..etc
I spend waaaaay too much time on the computer...
here are a few pics
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text: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Post-Mastectomy Physical Therapy 'Widely Improves' Quality of Life Postoperative physical therapy that begins as early as 2 days after surgery significantly improves joint mobility and "widely improves the quality of life" for women who underwent mastectomies, according to a new study. Researchers found that women who received physical therapy regained normal glenohumeral function 1 year after surgery and reported less pain, while an untreated control group continued to report limitations. Italian researchers focused on women scheduled for Madden's modified radical mastectomy or segmental mastectomy with axillary dissection, dividing a group of 70 women into 2 groups: 1 that received postoperative physical therapy and 1 that did not. Women in the treatment group began physical therapy on the second postoperative day and participated in 40-minute rehabilitation sessions 5 times a week for the duration of the drainage, followed by 20 hour-long sessions after the drainage was removed. Researchers observed "considerable" improvements in flexion as early as the fifth postoperative day for the treatment group over the control group, and noted continued progress at 1-month, 6-month, and 1-year evaluations. According to the study's authors, the treated group "regained normal function at 1 year after rehabilitation treatment while [the control group] was unable to do so for flexion, abduction, and internal rotation movements." Additionally, the researchers write that physical therapy resulted in "statistically significant differences" in pain perception for the treatment group and even contributed to higher quality-of-life reports from the women who participated in rehabilitation. "Treating and reducing postoperative symptoms, especially pain and functional limitation, helped the patients to have a fast and complete physical and … psychosocial recovery ensuring a significant improvement in terms of quality of life," the report states. The study is e-published ahead of print at the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. The role of the physical therapist (PT) in pre- and postoperative care of women with breast cancer is featured in a Move Forward Radio podcast and is addressed in the Prospective Surveillance Model for breast cancer treatment developed in 2012 by a multidisciplinary group that included APTA members. Comments I totally agree with this and have seen it in our clinic as well. We must keep moving ladies!!! Posted by Nancy Johnson on 2/19/2014 1:50 PM As a 2 time breast CA survivor (mastectomies both times) and an experienced ortho PT, I can't agree more! If I had not known how to self mobilize my own tissue and range my shoulder, I know I wouldn't have had the smooth recovery that I had. Posted by Mary Prechel on 2/21/2014 5:01 PM A whole article discussing findings in a research study... Yet don't even tell us which study they are referring to? Can we actually read the study? A hint on the name of the study would go a long way... Posted by Tino on 12/10/2014 6:09 PM I have muscle spasms on my right side where they took the lymphnodes and breast. If I bend or do anything where I need to pick something up or use my arm wash my back or back of my leg I get this really bad painful spasm, what can I go for this? Posted by Debbie on 3/12/2015 6:27 PM After receiving some inadequate "OT" at home after a simple mastectomy, I asked my surgeon for a prescription of PT. The therapist is just starting with me and I expect to be fully recovered and less sore than without PT. Aside from a page of exercises the surgeon did not discuss PT. Why not make patients comfortable as soon as possible after surgery? It is time to educate the community about the importance of PT Posted by Judyb on 5/26/2015 10:11 PM Do you have additional guidance for those who had axillary dissection done at same time? My surgeon has not encouraged and I have asked twice for a PT referral. I am an athlete and have been doing some things I found online. Also I feel a cord inside that make me wonder if I have the beginnings of axillary web syndrome. Any suggestions you have would be a huge help!! Thank you. Posted by Jan Robbins on 7/20/2015 3:24 PM I told my recon doc that I'd sort of made up a few range-of-motion exercises and he told me to stop -- that I wasn't ready yet, and that PT would come later. Funny thing is that not one person told me there'd be any PT at all. It's been close to 4 weeks now! I fee like an outsider in my own post-operative care. Posted by B on 10/30/2016 5:59 PM Keep in mind that a therapy may not be "inadequate ". This is a highly specialized area so patients need to find therapists -PT or OT- that specialize in this area. Either discipline can address it but the individual therapist should be referred to a practice that specializes in this area Posted by Karen Pulaski on 1/13/2017 7:14 AM I ask my surgeon after a double mastectomy if I needed PT and he said no. I ask if there was anything I could do at home to regain range of motion and he was still evasive. I didn't get any kind of brochures or fact sheets that could help me. Now I'm seeing online that it is good for you. What's up with these surgeons not wanting to deal with this? I feel as though I could have benefited from PT. My arm pits get extremely hot to the touch on a daily bases. I told my surgeon about this as well and he did not feel concerned at all and did not offer an explanation! I had my surgery three months ago. Posted by Polly Schneider on 5/3/2017 7:58 AM Polly, sorry to hear that you are experiencing this. If you'd like to find out more about the role physical therapy could play in your recovery, check out a Move Forward radio podcast on physical therapy and breast cancer at http://www.moveforwardpt.com/Radio/Detail/breast-cancer-lymphedema-role-of-physical-therapy . If you decide that you'd like to pursue physical therapy, you can use our "Find a PT" online search feature to locate a nearby PT who specializes in your area of needed treatment. That's at http://aptaapps.apta.org/findapt/default.aspx . All the best to you. Posted by APTA Staff on 5/4/2017 7:00 AM I had my full mastectomy done back in Dec of 17, with full reconstruction. had $ liftnobes removed from my right side. Im right handed.. doc put me on special limitation with lifting and moving my arm and shoulder. I asked about pt and he told me no. Now when you can only lift 10lbs for 7 mths don't you think pt is needed b4 you are put back to work at full force. I work in a factory which weight limits are 50lbs.. I have a lot of pain in my chest muscle and under my arm.. Any suggestions... Posted by Nina on 5/22/2018 2:46 PM I had simple mastectomy and 4 lymhnodes removal, When I asked my surgeon if I can exercise , she told me after 6 weeks post op, never recommended PT. I insisted my primary medical doctor to give me referral to PT. It really help me a lot, I am now about 95% improved on my RUE ROM and strengthening my shoulder.. Posted by Purita on 8/10/2018 12:40 AM


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Stay and Work at Home with a Forex Trading Business OpportunityBy Gergios Vergakis - on June 19, 2016
A forex trading business opportunity based at home has some unique advantages over a corporate work environment. First and foremost is the degree of freedom that independent traders have. They are allowed to change their methods and tactics on the spot, right away, without delays. Institutional traders have to stick to schedules and to achieving certain goals. In forex trading, limitations on your freedom to make decisions are not good. In fact, there should be no limitations in how you think and operate. Because good forex trading boils down to problem solving. A serious forex trading business opportunity is one which makes enough money. So as to justify the time and energy devoted to trading the various currency pairs. Powerful currency trading strategies are the ones who offer you an edge, and somehow make you better than the average trader. Very often, the home based trader-entrepreneur trades through a small to medium size forex account. They cannot afford too many losing trades and too much complacency. And yet, if you simply follow the crowd through the trading actions that technical analysis signals suggest, you are bound t to fail. Especially signals that are very easy to figure out on the charts. Signals such as flags and moving averages, can be completely wrong from time to time. And the trades at stake may be easily worth $200 – $300, even in a small account. So a simple mistake here will instantly cost you $200 – $300 in a day! The home based forex trader, is wise and bold enough to figure out that convenient and easy technical signals will fail, more often than not. And so, they will figure out ways to gain that edge, by evaluating those signals through some leading indicators. Home based entrepreneurs are clever people, original thinkers, and risk takers. But their familiarity with risk allows them to eventually spot risk at a safe distance, and avoid it altogether. Moreover, it's the necessity to keep their accounts intact. Institutional traders can afford to lose more and more, and if they continue to lose money they will simply be fired. Independent traders cannot afford to have such losses. So their necessity to win allows them to push the limits of their creativity. Until their trading becomes a real home based business.
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If the trader is very successful, then they might look at their strategy as more than just a forex trading business opportunity. And just like all successful start ups which eventually become huge companies, their idea may solidify. It may become less of a personal affair, and turn into low frequency, large size forex trading. As profitable trading grows, from small scale into larger scale, one wants to reduce day trading forex live, and trade more on the overnight forex market. And at much larger size. This is the philosophy upon which many home based small businesses finally grow into larger ones. They follow the path of less risk and greater wisdom. In the case of the confident independent forex trader, they can simply expand their profitable trading into trading other people's accounts. These are usually rich people with huge forex trading accounts, seeking to make very low annual returns. Perhaps as low as 8%, on $1million or more. Which the wise, proven home based trader can easily do with only few trades.
The forex trading business opportunity is possible to reach, today. And there's no one size fits all kind of solution. Each trader has to think in a unique way, specifically tailored to their needs. If you happen to be trading with less than $5,000. Then you have to limit risks, make use of leverage and smaller size trading. Today's CFD forex brokers minimum deposit requirements are relaxed and much more affordable. The only thing the independent trader needs to worry about is risk control. Which is a whole field of research, and little understood even by winning traders. The home based trader is simply looking for ways to do more with less. And even $5,000 can go very far in today's markets. What if you learn forex basics very well, had moderate goals, and low risk strategy. What if you only wanted to make $50 per trade, but were willing to commit $300 in hedging risk, and in recovering even a $20 loss. The trick in using a small account, is to stick to higher frequency trading, and smaller take profit goals. Traders who think otherwise, and believe that a $5,000 will be doubled or tripled in 2 months. Through huge directional trades. These traders are only fooling themselves. Every forex broker knows that such traders fail, whereas their high frequency clients do much better. And they are the only ones, among small account clients, who become profitable. The small high frequency trader is much more objective. They can afford to be wrong and still make money trading.
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U People Episode 4 opens up with Hanifah and Olive relaxing after a long day as they talk about complicated lesbian positions and the first time Olive brought Hanifah home to the family for Thanksgiving.
Earlier that day, Olive, Hanifah and Gloria hit the streets looking for U people stories and stumbled into Henrietta Hudson. Henrietta Hudson is one of the oldest lesbian bars in NYC. There they chatted with Itty Bitty, the absolutely adorable bartender, and couldn't resist the golden pole in the corner that called their names.
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The cadre of central banking colleagues were thrilled to hear about the changes this caterpillar known as Keynesian would go through. They watched every day, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. One day it happened, a small hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle to come out [for those who are not following, thing bubble bust at this point]. At first the academic was excited, but soon he became quite concerned. "Keynesian" was struggling so very hard to get out! It looked like it couldn't break free for its chrysalis! It looked desperate! It looked like it was making no progress whatsoever! As a matter of fact, to many academics, it looked as if it may actually fail.
The academic was so concerned he decided to help. He ran to his lab and pulled out (with assistant from his colleagues in the Treasury) an alphabet soup tools (see 10 Ways to say No, the Banks Have Not Paid Back Their Bailout and Buried Deep Within The Files That The Federal Reserve Released On Thier MBS Purchase Program, We Found TARP 2.0!!! More Taxpayer Money To The Banks!) to cut the cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly emerged! As a matter of fact, it emerged 100% quicker than any other butterfly that has been observed. As the butterfly came out the academic was shocked at the result. "Keynesian" had a swollen body and small, shriveled, non-functional wings. The academic continued to watch the butterfly, theorizing and expecting that, at any moment, the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen body. He just knew that in time the body would shrink and the butterfly's wings would expand.
Well, guess what? Neither hypothetical actually occurred! "Keynesian" the hobbled butterfly, spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly on its own…
As the academic tried to figure out what had gone wrong, Reggie Middleton suggested he consult with the owners of a healthy adroit butterfly named "Austrian". That butterfly's caretakers, with the assistance of Reggie, explained that the butterfly was SUPPOSED to struggle. In fact, the butterfly's struggle to push its way through the tiny opening of the cocoon pushes the fluid out of its body and into its wings. Without the struggle, the butterfly was doomed to never, ever fly. The academic's good intentions severely, and most likely permanently, damaged the butterfly called "Keynesian".
Remember, in the Circle of Economic Life, struggling is an important part of any growth experience. In fact, it is the struggle that causes you to develop your ability to fly.
As excerpted from Do Black Swans Really Matter? Not As Much as the Circle of Life, The Circle Purposely Disrupted By Multiple Central Banks Worldwide!!!, Bernanke et. al. have snipped the chrysalis of the US markets and economy one too many times. He has interrupted the circle of life...
I have always been of the contention that the 2008 market crash was cut short by the global machinations of a cadre of central bankers intent on somehow rewriting the rules of economics, investment physics and global finance. They became the buyers of last resort, then consequently the buyers of only resort while at the same time flooding the world with liquidity and guarantees. These central bankers and the countries they allegedly strive to serve took on the debt and nigh worthless assets of the private sector who threw prudence through the window during the "Peak" phase of the circle of economic life, and engaged in rampant speculation. Click to enlarge to print quality…
The result of this "Great Global Macro Experiment" is a market crash that never completed. BoomBustBlog subscribers should reference The Inevitability of Another Bank Crisis while non-subscribers should see Is Another Banking Crisis Inevitable? as well as The True Cause Of The 2008 Market Crash Looks Like Its About To Rear Its Ugly Head Again, With A Vengeance. All four corners of the globe are currently "hobbling along on one leg", under the pretense of a "global recovery".
A snapshot of the housing picture as of now, before the release of the latest Case Shiller numbers
The latest shadow inventory calculations are now available to subscribers online. Here are a few observations that we have made regarding the March data. The last quarter of 2010 and portions of the first quarter of 2011 have seen a significant drop in foreclosure activity due to allegations and blatant discoveries of fraudulent practices in the mortgage industry.
- A Glimpse of the Wikileaks' Smoking Gun Emails Show Bank of America Falsifying Loan Information Monday, March 14th, 2011
- Re: B of A – With Banks Being Forced To Admit The Inevitable Truth, How Long Will It Be Before Fundamentals Rule The Day Again? Friday, January 21st, 2011
- JP Morgan Purposely Downplayed Litigation Risk That Spiked 5,000% Last Year & Is Still Severely Under Reserved By Over $4 Billion!!! Shareholder Lawyers Should Be Scrambling Now Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
This near cessation of foreclosure activity has materially dropped the shadow inventory numbers, but has done so in a way that is quite misleading. Those foreclosures either will happen and become REOs or distressed property sales that are currently averaging a discount of ~25% to conventional retail sales (thus further pressuring sales prices), or will result in the properties being put directly on the market at steep discount (again, further pressuring sale prices). Basically, the foreclosure backlog is simply accumulating in the background and will print a very sharp spike upwards one way or another once the foreclosure and fraud issues of the banks are sorted out – even if they are sorted out to the detriment of the banks. Despite this reprieve in foreclosures, the ratio of shadow inventory to home sales is not decreasing. This is a double negative, for shadow inventory is decreasing (albeit for very artificial and temporary reasons). The reason for the lack of movement in this very key figure is that housing sales are actually declining both on a seasonally adjusted and non-adjusted basis – and if these figures were to be adjusted for "true" inflation, would look much worse. This leaves the ratio of delinquent and foreclosure activity to sales relatively static. One can surmise what happens when the foreclosure backlog that was caused by the bank's myriad legal issues clear up.
The most valuable chart in the study just released to subscribers, Shadow Inventory Update -- March 2011 shows how quickly one can expect the shadow inventory to be consumed by the sale of homes. To make a long story short, we still have quite a ways to go before we reach the pre-bubble levels, and that is without taking into consideration the foreclosure moratoriums. Keep in mind that these numbers do not include the pent up shadow inventory that is being hidden by the foreclosure crisis. That additional inventory on top of a slowing housing sales metric can easily tack one to 4 years onto the inventory numbers.
As you can see, the credit (delinquency measures) metrics are actually moderating slightly over the last few quarters, but have increased over the last two. This is a negative sign considering all of the efforts that have been made by the government and the banks to reduce that figure. The foreclosure inventory, although lulled somewhat, is still slightly on the rise. This lull is synthetic and temporary, a by-product of congressional pressure and legal issues pressing the banks to undergo voluntary and involuntary moratoriums on foreclosure activity. The consequent movement to be expected as these moratoriums are lifted, the banks work out their legal issues, and the properties move one way or the other will cause a very dramatic spike in the shadow inventory numbers. This spike will occur on top of slowing housing sales, dramatically reduced housing prices metrics and potentially deteriorating credit metrics (if the most recent trend continues). If that is not enough good news for you, the Goldilocks scenario of the perfect interest rate environment for real estate needs to (and probably will in the near to medium term) come to an end. See The True Cause Of The 2008 Market Crash Looks Like It's About To Rear Its Ugly Head Again, With A Vengeance Friday, March 11th, 2011. Our calculations available ot subscribers show a very bleak outlook for housing. It is not as if there is no precedence for such. Take a look at the Japanese situation, and this is not taking into consideration the recent issues of the earthquake, tsunami and radiation poisoning and nuclear meltdown. Few things are as detrimental to property values as radiation poisoning!
A lesson to be learned: Beware for when a true black swan event occurs...
Further reading:
- Reggie Middleton ON CNBC's Fast Money Discussing Hopium in Real Estate Friday, February 25th, 2011
- In Case You Didn't Get The Memo, The US Is In a Real Estate Depression That Is About To Get Much Worse Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
- Further Proof Of The Worsening Of The Real Estate Depression Thursday, February 24th, 2011
- You've Been Had! You've Been Took! Hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led Astray! Run Amok! This Is What They Do! Monday, February 28th, 2011
- FASB Appears to Have Bent Over For The Final Time & Accuracy In Financial Reporting Dies An Ignominious Death!!! Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
- As JP Morgan & Other Banks Legal Costs Spike, Many Should Ask If It Was Not Obvious Years Ago That This Industry May Become The "New" Tobacco Companies Thursday, January 6th, 2011
- The Latest Case Shiller Index – Housing Continues Freefall In Aggressive Search For Equilibrium Monday, February 7th, 2011
- As Clearly Forecasted On BoomBustBlog, Housing Prices Commence Their Downward Price Movement In Search Of Equilibrium Scraping Depression Levels Tuesday, December 28th, 2010


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An optical switch will route an incoming optical signal from an input to a destination output without converting the light to electrical signal. It has the potential to enable ultra-high capacity optical networks that can deliver large volumes almost at the speed of light. An optical switch can be significantly miniaturized using silicon photonics, which is based on the same technology used to make computers chips. Fast, nanoscale silicon photonic optical switches can also enable emerging applications in computing architectures such as optically interconnected processors and memories.
So far the bulk of the research efforts on silicon photonic switches have been focused on integrating as many devices on a single chip. Instead of putting the whole switch on a single chip, our work proposes, to divide it over multiple chips. Like computers have moved from a single processor to multi-core architectures our switch uses multiple chips to guide the light to the desired output. We demonstrated a proof-of-concept for 8 inputs - 8 outputs switch fabric by assembling multiple photonic chips offering multiplexing functionalities. The proposed switch can guide the light from any input to any output, can scale to a large number of inputs and outputs, it is straightforward to control, and is compatible with the standard silicon chips manufacturing process.
This modular or "divide and conquer" approach for photonic integrated circuits offers the advantage of piece-wise manufacturing, packaging, assembly, and fewer electrical controls. It paves the way to create large scale systems from standard chips, which can be stacked like LEGO blocks to create 2.5 dimensional photonic systems.
More information : D. Nikolova, et. al., "Modular architecture for fully non-blocking silicon photonic switch fabric", Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering 3, 16071 (2017), doi:10.1038/micronano.2016.71
High radix, low latency, energy efficient optical switches are essential to sustain the rapid growth in aggregate bandwidth requirements in data centers and high performance computers. Higher port count switches not only permit to interconnect more hosts directly but they also allow more compact topologies involving less links and switches to interconnect large networks. Starting with detailed device models which I have developed and experimentally verified, I analyzed the scalability of silicon photonic microring based switch fabrics with the widely used Benes topology. I was able to estimate the crosstalk and losses of a single chip switch fabric. This allowed me to determine the achievable port count and bandwidth density for these switch fabrics. The surprising conclusion of this was work was that the on-chip waveguide crossings contribute significantly to the scaling of a two dimensional switch fabric
2D switch fabric from double microring switching elements with Benes topology ; top left inset shows picture from a fabricated device; top right - schematics of the operation of the switching element; right inset - picture of a on-chip waveguide crossing; bottom - miltiple crossings model.
The silicon photonic technology is still young and only recently emerging for commercial systems adoption. Optical interconnects based on silicon photonic devices have the potential to deliver huge amount of bandwidth at low energy and cost. Understanding the capacity limits of these interconnect is of vast importance. In this paper, we present a design and modeling approach for obtaining the maximum achievable aggregate bandwidth in a silicon photonic link with microring modulators and filters. It is based on a uniquely comprehensive modeling platform for efficiently exploring the design space of silicon photonic interconnects, from the physical layer to the link-level analysis. We concentrate our efforts on microring-resonator-based links, as they have the lowest footprint among the current most developed silicon photonic interconnect devices. Furthermore we derived the optimal device parameters. We obtained an upper bound on the maximum aggregate throughput achievable with a microring-based silicon photonic link. This is of paramount importance for link designers, informs device designer for optimal parameters and also can allow comparison with other existing and future devices.
Vision for optically interconnected racks enabled by silicon photonic microring modulators and filters
When hundred thousands of flows are competing for the same switch output, scalable, low complexity scheduling algorithm are needed to ensure low latency and fairness. In wire-line access networks where the infrastructure is shared by relatively low number of users achieving high utilization but at the same time guaranteeing stringent quality of service has led to the use of multiple channels over the same cable/fiber. I proposed the input and output queuing concepts for scheduling a single user transmission simultaneously over multiple channels. I also analyzed and implemented the bonded deficit round robin algorithm which realizes these concept and demonstrated that it can guarantee strict quality of service requirements even when the channels use varying bit rates.
Input queuing where the packets are buffered in common queue and scheduled for transmission owhen a channel becomes free
On-Off Switching with Magnetic Field
The realization of silicon photonic devices is made possible due to the confinement of light in nanometer structures. Another example of tight confinement of the light field are surface plasmons-polaritons which are coupled light-electron plasma waves, propagating at the interface between a dielectric and conducting material. They are extremely sensitive to the dielectric properties of the materials which makes them very interesting also for sensing applications and have given rise to the field of plasmonics. The combination of plasmonics with magneto-optical materials is particularly interesting because it introduces a nanoscale interaction between light felds and magnetisation, hence opening up the possibility of using either one of these fields to control the other. My particular contribution in this area was to derive the influence of magnetization on the light propagation in plasmonic waveguides. I was able to demonstrate how the magnetic field can be used to switch dipole emission on and off and to spatially direct the light out of a plasmonic cavity. This raises the novel possibility of using magnetic fields to control light propagation in nanostructures and using light to sense the magnetic properties in nanoscale domains.
Magnetic switching of the dipole emission in an 80 nm thick cavity of ferromagnetic dielectric surrounded by silver layer.
I am a scientist and an engineer with wide interests in photonics, optical enineering, deep learning and biology.


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See that completely obnoxious title? Well, this PMV Pretty much shares that when it comes to effects! Get your sunglasses on, because your eyes are about to start a 6 round boxing match.
Seriously though, this is really cool. I bet it took forever. And that syncing... everything matches up perfectly.
Find it after the break.


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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL): Samsung Withdraw As Battery Supplier
2 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2012 at 7:39 PM
No surprise that Samsung is cutting it's ties with Apple. These lawsuits are only hurting Apple. Why can't they just make products like everyone else?!?!?! And let consumers buy what they like, end of story. If they're confident in there products then there shouldn't be any worries.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM
With Apple's patent-troll ways as of late, many of which are targetting Samsung, Samsung should have done this a long time ago.ReplyDelete
Infact, withdraw ALL their products from being on offer for Apple, and let Apple look at all the other suppliers out there, almost all of whom are inferior to Samsung in quality and performance.
Let's see how many people keep buying Apple now that the parts are worse, performance is even further behind the competition...All on top of not really changing anything in their devices in the last 2 years (no, offering another screen size, increasing the resolution even further into what the eye can't see anyways and offering more colors in the device choices don't count)