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Anyone who follows police accountability issues knows that the police are authorized to – and indeed often do – lie in the performance of their duties.
Ostensibly, this is to trick the suspected criminal into divulging something that will help officers build their case, but it’s always interesting when this prevarication is turned inward.
We don’t know what’s causing Maryland police lie to each other today.
But it’s spawned an online and very public “blue on blue” [__petition for justice__](https://www.change.org/p/bring-police-k9-chip-home-to-his-family?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=401109&alert_id=fVuQwjeDum_lbpCZZinYqddUktpqIzkLExlqdw9fvBI82W8%2Fn6DJxc%3D) for a retired officer.
Officer Gil Fones of the Montgomery County Police Department has handled K9 officers for two decades during his 27 years of service.
Chip, the officer’s most recent partner – a Belgian Malinois – was recently taken from him abruptly and without explanation.
Originally, department leadership had informed Fones that Chip was being retired, but that the officer would have the option to adopt him, consistent with how they’d handled such occurrences in the past.
Then, after they’d taken the dog and kept him in a kennel for several weeks, they quickly changed their story, saying that they were going to euthanize Chip or move him to an undisclosed location.
The reason they gave was that Chip had bitten his handler during a recertification exercise in April 2015.
Montgomery County publishes numerous photos of their K9 officers with their partner cops, and of their officers efforts towards the canine community onto their [__official Facebook page__](https://www.facebook.com/mcpnews/).
Clearly, their department shows concern for canine life, but it’s unclear why they’re suddenly separating Chip the K9 service dog from the person and his family with whom he’d bonded.
Chip worked with Officer Fones for over four years. In addition to working with the dog while on patrol, the Fones family looked at Chip as a member of their household.
The sudden departure of one of the family pets has left Gil, his wife, and their children reeling, and the changing narrative from his superiors has caused several retired officers to start a [__petition__](https://www.change.org/p/bring-police-k9-chip-home-to-his-family?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=401109&alert_id=fVuQwjeDum_lbpCZZinYqddUktpqIzkLExlqdw9fvBI82W8%2Fn6DJxc%3D) and a [__Facebook page__](https://www.facebook.com/K9-Chip-126559601028991/timeline/) demanding answers.
We frequently see references to the “thin blue line,” the idea that police officers are willing to go to great ends to protect their own, even in cases where misconduct has been alleged.
Why then does Montgomery County police chief Thomas Manger refuse to provide information about what actually happened to Chip, or where he’s currently located?
The [__publicly provided reason__](http://i.imgur.com/MlsqsmG.jpg) is that Chip was retired “due to his behavior,” but Manger won’t say exactly what that means.
Hiding behind the excuse of “personnel issues” holds less weight when one is talking about an animal.
In typical cop fashion, the Manger has also claimed that the published information doesn’t tell the entire story.
While this may or may not be true, his response is dubious given that we’ve seen instances where the same excuse is used in the face of overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing.
It’s also suspect that “safety” was the reason given for forcibly removing Chip from his home.
The Montgomery County Police Department has since [tried to walk back](http://i.imgur.com/Ag2QpEc.jpg) the chief’s written statement, telling you that something is amiss.
In fact, they’re falling over themselves trying to come up with believable excuses for a community seeking answers.
If Chip was so dangerous, why did they allow him to continue to work for 5 weeks, and more importantly go home each night to stay with the Fones family?
Something about this story doesn’t add up.
More importantly, K9 officers are in fact service animals whose true service is rendered to the public.
No mere pet, these K9 officers deserve special treatment, not trips through the Police PR Spin Machine, then separation from their families in retirement.
Chief Manger can be reached at 240-773-5005.


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4-2-12 Time Machine
Phonolog Reports – New Releases
Week of April 3, 1972
Caught my eye:
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Mardi Gras (Fantasy 9404)
FLASH (Capitol ST-11040) (LP/CD)
LOU REED – Lou Reed (RCA LSP-4701)
SUTHERLAND BROTHERS BAND (Island / Capitol SW-9315) (LP)
DON IMUS – 1,200 Hamburgers To Go (RCA LSP-4699) (LP)
End of the line for the CCR franchise? Ex-Yes man Peter Banks comes back with a Flash – great album, and I love the “Small Beginnings” single. Ex-V.U. front-man Lou Reed gets a deal with RCA. Wow, the Sutherland Brothers Band – before Quiver! Must’ve heard it on the radio – but I definitely ended up with all the RCA Don Imus albums.
Also of interest:
ESCALATOR OVER THE HILL (JCOA EOTH) triple LP
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Hot Wax Greatest Hits (Hot Wax 710) (CD)
RASPBERRIES (Capitol ST-11036)
Z.Z. TOP – Rio Grande Mud (London XPS-612)
Avant-jazz makes the Phonolog new release sheet, with Don Cherry, Carla Bley etc. R&B hits from Hot Wax. Power pop from The Raspberries’ debut. Music from Texas with Z.Z. Top.
DON GIBSON / SUE THOMPSON – Did You Ever Think b/w Love’s Garden (Hickory 1629)
T. REX – Telegram Sam b/w Cadillac (Reprise 12078)
WAYNE NEWTON – Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast (Chelsea 78-0100)
LINDISFARNE – Fog On The Tyne b/w Meet Me On The Corner (Elektra 45778)
FLEETWOOD MAC – Green Manalishi b/w Oh Well (Reprise 1079)
PAUL SIMON – Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Columbia 4-45585)
Near the end of the line with the original numbering series for Hickory Records. Big hit for T. Rex. Wayne Newton’s last visit to the chart? Yet another single for Newcastle’s Lindisfarne – a good one! There must’ve been a demand for this Fleetwood Mac single, as these songs are a few years old, even in 1972! Nice A-side from Paul Simon – after the break-up of Simon & Garfunkel, it seemed like Paul Simon could do no wrong, for a while there.

domain: entertainment


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A study was conducted to determine the AMEn contents of fat by-products from the soybean oil industry for broiler chickens. A total of 390 slow-feathering Cobb × Cobb 500 male broilers were randomly distributed into 13 treatments having 6 replicates of 5 birds each. Birds were fed a common starter diet from placement to day 21. Experimental corn-soy diets were composed of four fat sources, added at 3 increasing levels each, and were fed from days 21 to 28.
The oil sources utilized in this experiment were: acidulated soybean soapstock (ASS), glycerol (GLY), lecithin (LEC), and a mixture (MIX) containing 85% ASS, 10% GLY and 5% LEC. The treatments were four by-products (ASS, GLY, LEC, or MIX), three inclusion levels and one basal diet. Each of the four oil by-product sources was included in the diets at 2%, 4%, or 6%. Birds were submitted to 94, 96, 98, and 100% of ad libitum feed intake; therefore, the differences in AMEn consumption were only due to the added by-product. Total excreta were collected twice daily for 72 h to determine apparent metabolizable energy contents starting at day 25. The AMEn intake was regressed against feed intake and the slope was used to estimate AMEn values for each fat source. The study generated the following AMEn for the four soybean oil by-products that can be used in poultry feed formulation.

domain: food


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Help Lahaina families who lost everything
Maui’s response to the devastating Lahaina brushfire on Aug. 24 has been incredible and inspiring.
Maui firefighters and rescue personnel earned our most heartfelt thanks and admiration for battling the fire (one of the most difficult in Maui Fire Department’s history), rushing people to safety and protecting structures – particularly Lahainaluna High School, the soul of our isolated community.
These heroes will be honored on the field at Sue D. Cooley Stadium before the Lahainaluna varsity football game on Saturday (see page 6).
Tragically, more than 15 West Side families lost their homes. The wind-whipped inferno spread so fast that residents had to flee for their lives – with no time to grab anything.
As news of the evacuations and damage spread on social media, volunteers immediately showed up to shelters – including hotel ballrooms – to help, and donations began flooding into Lahaina.
Nearly a week later, under the theme “Lahaina Strong,” residents and businesses are still stepping up to help victims of Hurricane Lane and the fire.
Two key sites to visit on Facebook are the Lahaina Strong Fundraiser by Jordan Ruidas of Lahaina, which is raising money for the affected families; and the Lahaina Strong-Waiola Resource Hub launched by volunteers who have been collecting donations for the families out of historic Waiola Church on Wainee Street in Lahaina.
As of press time late last week, people donated $137,926 to the Lahaina Strong Fundraiser.
Ruidas explained, “While all of us prepared for Hurricane Lane to hit, NO ONE was prepared for a fire… Over 15 families are now without a home. Most didn’t even have time to grab a bag. All they have are the clothes on their backs.”
I am starting this fundraiser to help these families in this time of need!”
Volunteers at Waiola Church are in awe at the Maui community’s generosity and support.
They posted, “As Lahaina always does, in the face of adversity, we came together and started helping each other out in whatever ways we could. Things happened really fast, and no one skipped a beat in jumping in to make the magic we have witnessed these past few days happen.”
There are many opportunities to continue to help your neighbors. Let’s keep working with a spirit of aloha that is Lahaina Strong.

domain: news


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AN ANTISOCIAL behaviour hotline has been set up to help stamp out crime in the Cheddar area. People who spot offences ranging from vandalism
AN ANTISOCIAL behaviour hotline has been set up to help stamp out crime in the Cheddar area.People who spot offences ranging from vandalism and under-age drinking to graffiti and dog fouling can call the hotline 24 hours a day to report incidents.Sedgemoor District Council officers will pick up the phone and decide whether the problem needs to be dealt with by the police, the fire service or the authority's own departments.The new phone number, 0800 585 360, is available to people living in Sedgemoor's towns and villages like Cheddar, Axbridge and Wedmore.The officers will be aided by a network of CCTV cameras in towns and villages which will help them to identify where the problem is and what sort of service is needed to solve it.The number will be available from 11am on Tuesday and the lines will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. People should still call 999 in an emergency.The news has been welcomed by Cheddar's Local Action Team, whose members recently spent a day clearing up litter and removing offensive graffiti in the village.The members say the new hot line number will help them continue the fight against antisocial behaviour which they say is tarnishing the appearance of the village.Team member Mary Buxton said: "If you see something which you believe should be reported to keep our village a safe place, please use the number."Hopefully, the police will be able to issue on-the-spot fines if they see any dogs fouling and the owners not clearing the mess."A Sedgemoor spokesman said: "Every report is also added to the antisocial behaviour database which helps to tackle crime and fear of crime by mapping hot spots. "Agencies can then direct resources into areas which are identified as having a specific problem.

domain: sociology


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How do political jokes differ between totalitarian, post-totalitarian
and authoritarian regimes?
The political joke, a weapon which the Spanish people have used with merriment and well-aimed irony, blossoms again. All Spain is overflowing with an endless stream of stories against the regime and its men.
Grandizo Munis, ‘Franco’s Dilemma (February 1941)’1
Do the kinds of political joke that get circulated in a polity depend on the structure
of the regime? Is it plausible to regard political jokes as to some extent a function of the
political regime type? This paper looks at three regime types and attempts to characterise
the differing compositions of political jokes in each of them. The typology of regimes used
is that of Linz and Stepan’s Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation2 and the
jokes are categorised according to a state/regime/ideology distinction. After establishing the
parameters of the enquiry, I proceed by explaining the reasoning behind the central
hypothesis, elaborating the role of ideology in each regime type and setting out theoretical
models which serve to justify the assumptions upon which the hypothesis rests. I then
1 Grandizo Munis, ‘Franco’s Dilemma (February 1941)’, trans. Bernard Ross, Fourth International, Vol.2, No.3 (Whole No.10), March 1941, pp.69-71, available at: <http://www.marxists.org/archive/munis/1941/02/franco.htm>, retrieved: 1st Jan 2006
2 Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)

domain: library


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Prior to making transactions, like Cardano withdrawal, Google Authentication must be activated on your CEX.io account.
These steps are very helpful in making your Cardano withdrawal from CEX.io.
Access the CEX.io website by clicking this link. Log in using your registered email address and password or via your social media account.
After logging in, you’d automatically see the “Withdraw” button in blue.
To withdraw Cardano from your CEX.io account, select your Cardano and enter your desired amount at the right side of the screen. Next, enter the recipient’s address and make sure you are supplying the correct one to avoid losing your funds. Check the agreement box and click on “Withdraw” to proceed.
To process Fiat money withdrawal, you need to select your currency first on the right side of the screen and type in your desired amount. Next, choose your method of processing withdrawal. If you opt to process it through a new payment card, you have to option to add a new card and then proceed to process your withdrawal. Follow the steps and supply the information required by the system depending on the method you’ve selected.
BitForex is one of the world’s leading exchange platforms that offers crypto-to-crypto transactions.
Below are the steps to guide you in depositing funds to your account:
Go to https://www.bitforex.com/ and log into your account.
Go to “My Assets” and click “Deposit.”
Select the currency you want to transfer funds to from the “Please choose a Token” drop-down box.
Next, copy the deposit address and paste it into your wallet. Always make sure to copy the correct address for completed transactions cannot be undone.
Check your deposit history at the bottom of the page.
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domain: finance


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Instant Pot achieves the best cooking results with a set of smart cooking programs. The programs are stored in and executed by an advanced micro-processor chip inside the Instant Pot control panel. The programs have been chosen after extensive testing in our lab with various food contents.
The smart cooking programs control the cooking process with four parameters: heating intensity, temperature, pressure and duration.
- Heating intensity refers to the amount of heat generated by the heating element. The main reason to control heating intensity is to manage the temperature at the bottom of the cooking pot, primarily to avoid burning food content on the base. For instance, heating is slower and more gradual in the “Soup” function whereas it is fast and more powerful in the “Steam” setting (knowing there’s no food in contact to the cooking pot base). This control process sometimes means that the inner pressure takes longer to reach than with a conventional pressure cooker, however it is designed to protect the food and prevent burning. Heating intensity control is also used for soaking cycles such as in the Multigrain function. Instant Pot Lux 6l has a heating element with 1000W power rating. The heat output of the heating element is controlled by switching the power on and off for varying durations.
- Temperature is the cooking temperature in the cooking pot throughout the cooking process. The peak working temperature of Instant Pot is 115°C~118°C or 239°F~244°F. However, the smart cooking programs don’t always maintain at the peak temperature. In the “Multigrain” program, to soften the grains, the food content is heated to 60oC for warm soaking for 50 minutes before cooking starts.
- Pressure: when the liquid content in the cooking pot reaches the natural boiling point, which varies depending on the altitude of your location, steam builds up in the cooking pot and pressure is generated. The thermodynamics of gas indicate that, in ideal cases, the product of the pressure and volume of a gas is directly proportional to the temperature. Since the volume in the cooking pot is a constant, we can consider the pressure being linearly related to the temperature of the gas, and to large extent (with delaying effect) to the temperature of the liquid content. The working pressure of Instant Pot is 10.15~11.6 psi (pound-force per square inch).
- Cooking duration is the time the food content being cooked. The cooking duration depends on the volume of the food content. For example, to cook 2 cups of rice, it takes about 14 minutes (8 minute pressure cooking time). More than 2 cups, it takes about 28 minutes (10 minute pressure cooking time). Additional pressure cooking time ensures rice being cooked evenly in volume. The default timing has been tested in our lab which works well in most cases. However, in situations when food needs to be well-done or less-cooked, the cooking duration can be adjusted with the “Adjust” button.
The smart cooking programs can be better understood with the visual temperature/pressure charts in relation to cooking time. The following are the temperature/pressure charts of “Bean/Chili”, “Meat/Stew”, “Porridge/Congee”, “Soup”, and “Multigrain” cooking programs.
From left to right, top row: Bean/Chilli Function, Meat/Stew Function, Porridge/Congee Function
Bottom row: Soup Function, Multigrain Function


In order to port CHDK, you need a copy (dump) of the original firmware from the model you are trying to port. This page explains various methods of obtaining a dump.
For most cameras the Canon Basic Dumper script is easiest and should be all you really need. The other methods mostly of historical interest.
Once you have a dump, see Adding support for a new camera.
Canon Basic script
See Canon Basic/Scripts/Dumper. This is the recommended method, which has been used for most cameras since it was discovered in 2010.
NOTE: This method will not work on recent (since 2009 or so) camera without modifications.
CardTricks is a graphical utility which includes udumper and a gui to prepare the card.
You could also use UDumper without cardtricks. See Udumper and some related forum threads:
The method is to make/adapt the WIF loader. The base for developing it is an original firmware updater to similar camera models. As this loader has the functions to work with files, this way allow to save a dump of original firmware to SD-card. The main problem of using this method is that you have to pass all initialization stages of original firmware in order to be able to write to flash card. Used with: A620, A630, A640, A710, S2IS, S3IS.
NOTE: The method described here is a lot of work and no longer necessary - use the Canon Basic Dumper. It has been left here for historical interest and out of respect for the effort of those who created it in the first place.
- The firmware for the following models was obtained using this method
- A610, A700, A540, G7, SD630, A570IS, SD300, SD450, SD500, A560, SD870, SD1000, SD1200IS, S5IS, A720, G11.
This method is based on the 'blinking' of the original firmware through a led of the camera. You have to make a receiver (photodiode or phototransistor), the software to write a dump, decoder and a tiny firmware which outputs camera's firmware through the led. The receiver can be connected to serial port (you need to emulate the UART in the camera in this case) or a microphone input.
- Note: Many people have had trouble trying to obtain a photo-diode or photo-transistor for this task. Do you have an old ball-driven mouse in a junk-box? Each X and Y axis is read by the rotation of a notched wheel passing through the light-path between IR LED (transmitter) and a photo-diode detector. The optical device you need is easily salvaged from that. Caution: Many of the mouse photodiodes are ONLY sensetive for infrared light. These photodiodes can not be used for firmware dumping, because they can not "see" the LED light from the camera.
Using soundcard input
I used the microphone input. All necessary files (with sources) you can get here.
The scheme I used:
/ \ | | \ / +-----------+ +===+ | | |----\ | |-------+ ----*------------| | |===| ----*---------------| | | | | |----/ | |----------------+ | | phototransistor +=======+ BPW96C or equivalent | | 3.5mm plug to mic-in of soundcard
The transmitting protocol:
- Header (3600 bytes) - "0123456789" sequence for visual control of data.
- Blocks - 4096 blocks of 1K data.
- Address (4 bytes) - address of the current block.
- Data (1024 bytes) - piece of firmware.
- CRC16 x 2 (4 bytes) - CRC16 of block (repeated twice).
- Spacing between bytes
- Spacing between bits
- Wide pulse - logical "1"
- Narrow pulse - logical "0"
The usage flow:
- Connect the receiver to the microphone input of sound card.
- Run a recording application (I used Adobe Audition) with the following parameters: 96KHz (it's adjustable), 8 bit, mono.
- Direct 'blinking' led at the receiver (BPW96C).
- Start the recording. Start transmition of the 'blinking' firmware.
- Wait for process to be finished (1-7 hours depends on speed chosen). The camera will be switched off at the end.
- Save the data to the PCM-file (8-bit unsigned raw data, not WAV!).
- Process the file by 'adc.exe <filename>'. You will get 'dump' file.
- Run 'dec.exe'. You will get 'dump.dat' file. This file is the firmware.
It may be required to do some adjustments depended on camera/led/receiver used. The main idea is to get 'readable' signal as shown on the picture above.
Here the values for certain speeds and leds for A610:
A610 - AF beam, FAST (9230 bod) [96KHz] -------------------------- fw: #define DELAY_SYNC 45 #define DELAY_SPACE 50 #define DELAY0 1 #define DELAY1 25 decode: #define LEVEL_THRES_HI 0xA0 #define LEVEL_THRES_LO 0x80 #define LEN_SYNC 5 #define LEN_SPACE 1 #define LEN_0 1 #define LEN_1 6 A610 - AF beam, SLOW (2500 bod ) [96KHz] ------------------------- fw: #define DELAY_SYNC 400 #define DELAY_SPACE 100 #define DELAY0 100 #define DELAY1 200 decode: #define LEVEL_THRES_HI 0xA0 #define LEVEL_THRES_LO 0x80 #define LEN_SYNC 40 #define LEN_SPACE 5 #define LEN_0 12 #define LEN_1 24 A610 - BLUE_led (1600 bod) [11KHz] ------------------------- fw: #define DELAY_SYNC 400 #define DELAY_SPACE 175 #define DELAY0 150 #define DELAY1 350 decode: #define LEVEL_THRES_HI 0x90 #define LEVEL_THRES_LO 0x70 #define LEN_SYNC 7 #define LEN_SPACE 1 #define LEN_0 1 #define LEN_1 4
Serial port download solution
You can download (blink) the firmware using your computer's serial port instead of sound card as input device. You may need a photodiode connected to serial port according to the following schematic:
The photodiode used is a generic one. You may need to test the distance to the camera's AF LED which fits you better, mine worked properly at about 20cm (8 inches) away, YMMV. (side info: you can hardly see the LED blinking because it is very fast, but it is still perfectly readable by the photodiode, so do not worry). The resistance in the circuit shown above has got 10 kOhm. Depending on the photodiode the resistance should also have 200 Ohm for best use.
The first version contains these two parts:
- Camera: PS1.fir and PS2.fir which are the camera's blinkers for Canon Powershot G7. This has been split in two for easer repetition of downloading in case of failure (it takes around 40 minutes each to download for G7). I guess you can use your camera's own blinker here instead.
- PS: load.exe which is the serial receiver program for Windows. The syntax is
load <serial port #> <dump filename>
The second version contains these two parts:
- Camera: Source code main.c which have to build for your camera. See details in Readme.txt.
- PC: Compiled Java program Load.class. See details in Readme.txt.
Alternatively to load.exe / Load.class you can use realterm for both monitoring the serial port and capturing the file at the same time. Make sure you configure it like this:
- Display tab: Hex + Ascii, set "Scrollback" for 2000 lines or so, increase the rows count too.
- Port tab: 9600 8N1 (transmission speed 9600 bits per second, 8 bits, No-parity, 1-stop pulse at the end of byte), set your serial port number and don't forget to click on "Change".
- Capture tab: the filename you want to dump to, untick "Direct Capture" if you want to watch it going.
- Pins tab: Make sure to "Clear" DTR(4) (Clear Data Terminal Ready-signal used if "hardware hand shacking" is used during transmission).
While capturing you can see the file grow and the speed rate in the status line at the bottom. It should be a figure around 800 CPS (characters per second).
The real action:
- Connect the photoreceiver to the computer's serial port.
- Properly align AF led and the receiver photodiode.
- Start load.exe. in a command prompt. You have 10 seconds to start blinker or it will timeout. Alternatively: Press on "start overwriting" to start capture in realterm, there is no timeout here.
- Start the blinker "firmware" in the camera following the usual firmware update procedure. You should see the AF light turn on and load.exe writing data to terminal...
C:\> load com1 firmware1.fir Received1kbytes. Received2kbytes. ... Received2048kbytes.
load.exe will timeout after 10 seconds at blink's end. For realterm you'll need to manually stop capturing when the AF led comes off. Once done, reload your camera's battery. For G7 you may need to repeat the above procedure using PS2.fir to get the firmware's second part. Open the downloaded firmware files in a HEX Editor and cut off the lead in information (.....xx xx xx begin) and the load out (end.). Now you have two files with all the necessary data in it. To join two files just do 'copy firmware1.fir + firmware2.fir Firmware.bin' and you have single firmware file in your hands.
- An detailed description of the SX200 blinking process with the used hardware and software is here: Blinking the firmware to the RS232 interface.
The wired solution: You can also go hardcore and open the camera and look for the LED connections (you will not need the phototransistor) to get a more reliable connection. If you are brave enough you can find the instructions here.
ROM start addresses
Known ROM start addresses are:
|0xFF000000||Used by some cameras starting in 2011|
|0xFF810000||Most 2010 and earlier S-, SD-, G- and some A- series|
|0xFFC00000||Mostly older A- series|


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Wipro’s chairman alone accounts for a big share of the $10 billion a year that India’s wealthy commit for social causes.
At a closed-door event of global leadership organisation YPO in Mumbai with Wipro’s first family late last year, the interviewer asked Azim Premji how he would like to be remembered in the long run — as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of liberalised India or as a leading philanthropist?
Not batting an eyelid, Premji said, as the latter. Just months on, the softspoken billionaire set a benchmark when he announced a bequest to his foundation that boosted his total commitment to philanthropy to $21 billion.
At the Premji Foundation, chief executive Anurag Behar has his work cut out — increase fieldwork and double workforce to more than 3,000; set up a university (its second) in a Hindi-speaking state, most likely Madhya Pradesh; identify more NGOs to give grants; get “good people” to work in places such as Barmer (Rajasthan), Raigad (Chhattisgarh) or Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand).
Contrary to perception, money is the least of Behar’s worries after running the foundation for over a decade. “We have enough.” His challenge is execution. For instance, by good people, “I don’t mean just a good psychology teacher, but someone with an intention of serving in education,” he says.
His hands are full, with lots to spend. But India needs more innovative ideas to solve problems at scale, talent that is sensitive to needs of the underprivileged, a check on charities eyeing tax breaks rather than making a meaningful change, improved execution and support for less-talked-of causes.
Wipro’s chairman alone accounts for a big share of the $10 billion a year that India’s wealthy commit for social causes, and along with government’s commitment of $20 billion a year, it’s about $30 billion to help the needy.
Compared to the Rockefellers, Mellons and Gates, the well-heeled in India mostly look at philanthropy as a tax-planning initiative. The Birlas, Bajajs, Tatas, Wadias and Godrejs have always believed in giving back a part of their bottomline to the society at large, earmarking profits for philanthropy. Today, the flag-bearers of that pledge are the Nadars of HCL, Srinivasan of TVS or the Piramals, Mahindras and Mukesh Ambani.
Conscious individuals — Amit Chandra of Bain Capital, Shailesh Haribhakti, chairman of L&T Finance — or first generation entrepreneurs like GM Rao or Yusuff Ali MA are driving philanthropy equally.
The Agastya Foundation, the world’s largest science education NGO, started by former Citibank honcho Ramji Raghavan, would not have been possible without ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, its largest contributor.
Cumulative wealth of India’s population may reach $25 trillion by 2027. The number of ultra high networth individuals (UHNIs) —more than Rs 25 crore assets — is expected to scale from 60,000 in 2011 to 3,30,000 by 2022, says Kotak Wealth Management.
But the “glass is only half full,” says Anant Bhagwati, director, Dasra, which works in areas of urban sanitation, governance and improving lives of adolescents. A March 2019 India Philanthropy Report from consultancy Bain & Company highlighted that India needs $60 billion a year if it has to meet the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). These ambitious targets include zero poverty, zero hunger, peace, justice, strong institutions and reduced inequalities.
Take out Premji’s charity, and the shortfall for philanthropic activities will be higher than $30 billion a year. Of course, innovation to build scale and managerial capacity in many philanthropic ventures are limited.
“We are seeing a big shift to giving, with new wealth of global scale being created in India,” feels Venu Srinivasan, chairman, TVS Motor. “The main challenge, though, is human resources. Money is always available for good ideas. No good cause went bust for lack of money. But many have yielded poor returns due to lack of leadership, strategy and implementation.”
WHERE ARE THE PREMJIS?
“We need more Premjis,” says Hemen–dra Kothari, chairman, DSP Group. While many promoters/individuals are coming forward, the “speed to give needs to increase,” he adds. Social sector funding has increased steadily at 11% during 2014-18 — private funding at 15% a year and public funding at 10%, says the Bain & Company report.
“Private funding is punching way below its full potential. Indian ultrarich and corporations need to step up further to meaningfully cover a part of the SDG shortfall,” adds Arpan Sheth, partner, Bain & Company.
Wealthy families in India —excepting the likes of Premji, Nandan Nilekani, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw or Nadar — put aside less than 0.2% of their wealth for philanthropy, compared to at least 2% by their US counterparts. “I believe Rs 20,000 crore of private investment in social change is too small to matter. Even if this increases 100%, it will continue to be small, given the size and scale of problems,” says Vineet Nayar, HCL Tech honchoturned-philanthropist and chairman of Sampark Foundation.
Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, chief executive, Plan International, says, “Growing generosity is welcome, but we must have more philanthropists.” This global charity doubled its India spend to Rs 1,000 crore in 2016. Most of its money comes from 500-odd firms including Nike, Ericsson, Accenture, Axis Bank and Coca-Cola India.
“Premji is transforming the landscape of philanthropy in India. While we don’t currently work together, we are looking closely now at potential areas of common interest,” she says in a reply ET queries from London.
But there’s good news. Amit Chandra, managing director, Bain Capital, points to an initiative, livingmypromise.org, where 21 ‘non-billionaires’ signed up to donate at least half of their wealth. “Every week, someone is joining. We hope this number will in due course swell to thousands of Indians, building a broad-based giving movement of the middle class.”
Anyone with net worth of Rs 1 crore and above can be part of this. Chandra and his wife, who support Agastya Foundation among other NGOs, have committed to give most of their wealth “to charity at the end of our lives.”
Billionaire entrepreneur Mazumdar-Shaw is helping form Indian Philan–thropy Initiative, an informal association of high networth individuals.
MISSING CAUSES & SCALE
However, while capital could increase, much of the effort remains concentrated in very few areas. Healthcare and education are the two most funded causes in India but several causes don’t get as much attention, such as access to justice, building sustainable cities or climate change.
Most start with sponsoring a school in their backyard, but are unable to scale even that. “Philanthropy is becoming more inclusive — more people are giving both time and wealth. Yet, the problem is bigger than I had ever imagined,” adds Nayar. “Just like the IT industry came up with scale models for developing software, we need to develop scale models to solve social problems that impact millions.”
Sampark is in pursuit of educational equality in rural areas. “We have reached 7 million children in 76,000 schools. Doing social good is not good enough. Solving problems at scale is what matters most,” adds Nayar.
Albrectsen argues that philanthropists have more sustainable impact as they take a long-term view of development, untroubled by (annual) CSR mandates or short-term grant cycles. But smaller causes still lack attention. For instance, philanthropy for gender equality is growing but the overall proportion remains small — less than 16% — and an even smaller part of these funds goes to empower girls.
Farhan Pettiwala, executive director, Akhand Jyoti Hospital, points out that there’s no handbook for aspiring philanthropists. “People have to evolve their own models.”
Mazumdar-Shaw, for one, has. She funds research and initiatives on themes such as manual scavenging, rural education or sanitation, saying, “The absorption capacity of NGOs is poor. They have no managerial capacity. We want to give to someone who is professional.”
On the other hand, the Piramal Foundation believes in the trusteeship approach in the areas of primary healthcare and nutrition, education and access to clean drinking water. “If we have to assist in tackling complex social issues, the ability to operate at scale is crucial. We need large investments in innovation, technology, data analytics to deliver better outcomes,” adds Ajay Piramal, group chairman.
Anand Mahindra, group chairman, explains how “the approach towards philanthropy is rapidly evolving from unidimensional giving to a holistic strategic approach in creating positive social change. If you want sustainable transformation, this approach is better than just writing a cheque.”
Pettiwala points out how not everybody is able to devote time. Besides, “some believed philanthropy was a golden parachute for the successful retiree of CEO jobs in India Inc. Thankfully, things are looking better now and there are people exploring full time careers in philanthropy.”
As things stand, a small minority genuinely empathises with the needs of the have-nots. Data shows that contribution of those few — both in money and time — falls woefully short of requirements. As Niraj Bajaj, director, Bajaj Group, says, “In India, ownership of shares and voting rights cannot be separated, which is why promoters have limitations in giving. Promoters get worried about losing control by becoming takeover targets.” He does, though, see improvement.
Most industrial houses, and now individuals, do charity as part of social consciousness. Yet one has to “distinguish between genuine cases and dubious purposes that masquerade as charity,” says Hitesh Gajaria, head of tax, KPMG India. Some may even channel money via charitable sources.
Also, a lot more needs to be done to make it easy to give. Genuine charitable institutions are burdened with lot of compliance — under the Income Tax Act, Foreign Contribution Regulation Act and so on.
In the UK and the US, there’s no annual audit. It’s usually once in three years. In India, philanthropists have to approach the charity commissioner for every little change. Samir Kanabar, tax partner, EY India, says, “Any change to the charter document has to be approved by the charity commissioner, which can take three to six months. There are compliance requirements but if you are a legitimate charity, it’s not challenging.”
There will always be exceptions, and perhaps the ecosystem of giving will improve as more people learn what’s right and what’s wrong. Dasra’s Bhagwati sums it up: “When the elephant moves, it moves well. That’s better than aspiring to be a cheetah.”


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There is no constitutional right to practise a profession, says an Ontario court in dismissing a legal challenge by Chinese medicine practitioners.
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A Toronto court has dismissed a constitutional challenge against Ontario’s new law that regulates the traditional Chinese medicine industry.
In a decision released Friday, the Ontario Divisional Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to practise a profession.
“Even if there was such a right, there was no denial here, because by their own choice and for their own reasons, the practitioner applicants have not applied for registration under the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Act,” said the decision.
“Nor was there any evidence about how their own TCM practices have been affected by the coming into force of the (act) and the registration regulation. There is no evidence of deprivation.”
Practitioners James Yuan and Jia Li, along with the Federation of Ontario Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, argued the new law requires fluency in English or French, which discourages many highly qualified practitioners from getting licensed.
“It is clear that (the regulations) do not prohibit the practice of TCM in Chinese or in any other language. Language fluency requirements are also common to all other health professions in Ontario,” the court said. “These are not discriminatory requirements.”
The province passed the TCM act in 2006 and it took effect in April, requiring all practitioners be licensed. The unlicensed are subject to a $25,000 fine for a first offence and a $50,000 fine and/or a two-year jail sentence for a repeat offence.
The new College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario currently has 2,000 licensed members.
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I was having a conversation with a buddy of mine about outdoor ranges one evening and the topic of Aurora Sportsman Club popped up. We got a little off topic and started to discuss training, a digression that happens a lot with me, I can literally turn any conversation towards shooting if given a few minutes to speak. Well, he told me about a school that uses ASC for tactical training and sent me a link, a true sign of friendship, in my opinion.
So I looked into Firearm Defense Specialties and thought I’d take a class, and get to see this range, two birds one stone, and all that. I was happy that it was an all day 8 hour class instead of the half day 4 hour classes I seemed to be finding of late. You get all warmed up and start to learn something new, and times up. So I tried the Beginners Tactical Pistol. It was a warm sunny day, no bugs to speak of and a beautiful 25 yard range full of targets! I had Brian, one of the owners of FDS as my instructor, 7 or so fellow shooters, and we began.
As you would expect, a safety briefing, they run a ‘hot’ range, introductions, and an overview of the days drills. FDS is a laid back type of school, you will be pushed a little, but they want you to have fun while you’re there, and focus on being safe while absorbing the information being taught, a great recipe for learning.
I would describe the type of training as skills and drills, line drills, dynamic movement, positional shooting, barricades and barrels, steel and paper targets, with the T.A.P.S. system strongly used, as well as up to date tactics currently used by our armed forces, and what we should use as civilians. Several of the instructors at FDS are active duty servicemen, and they bring that knowledge right to the range for you.
The current list of instructors are Matt, Brian, Brian, Brandon, and Abe. I will state that they are all either active duty or former military, combined 75 years of military experience, 11 years of LEO experience and have graduated from more than 20 military and civilian training schools at the instructor level.
See a full list on the FDS webpage, it’s impressive to say the least. Now FDS took 2015 off from training due to family commitments, getting married, and becoming parents, however, they will be back spring of 2016 with more courses, and updated or new offerings, I for one, can’t wait.
What do they offer as far as classes, well, I’m glad you asked. The courses are, Tactical Pistol level 1, 2, and Advanced Tactics, Carbine Level 1 and 2, Pistol/Carbine combo classes, Home Defense, Long Range Marksmanship, Illinois Concealed Carry, and private instruction. All are 1 day classes, with the IL CCW class, and the Long Range classes both being 2 days.
I have taken the Tactical Pistol 1 and 2, Carbine/Pistol, and Advanced Tactics classes. I was impressed by how much we got to do in the 8 hours we were there. You are timed and often run head to head with at least one other student, you must pass the timed portion to advance to the next level of your respective class.
The students are a tight knit group, and most have shot with FDS before, and the healthy competition and friendship helps to motivate and guide newer shooters to advance. Brian ran the classes I took, he shoots in rotation with the students to show them proper grip, stance, time, and execution of the drill we are running. I learn more from an instructor that gets out there with us and shows by example. Plus we get to strive to beat his time, and accuracy.
This is a great way to gage your progress. There are times after we have completed the course and have time left over that we start a healthy shooter on shooter competition, just for bragging rights, or an FDS patch. A quick draw, walk back, or accuracy competition have been known to break out and start peoples blood pumping. Very high on the fun factor.
I like that FDS has a graduated system of courses, you can be a beginner and by summers end become a very proficient shooter, and get a IL CCW as well, all in one school. Now for the positives, and negatives. First what I really like, many different courses to choose from, a great price, very skilled instructors, use of the T.A.P.S. system, laid back teaching style, limited class size, one on one instruction, great feedback, use of steel targets, a great range, very friendly fellow students and with that loyal and happy students, rain or shine training, different levels of experience to shoot with and against, you will be pushed in class, an instructor that shoots with you, and a fairly regular course schedule.
What I’d like to see. A certificate of completion upon successfully completing the course, with your time and score, a 2 day 16 hour class option for tactical classes, indoor classes for the colder months, (they have used Article 2 before), moving targets of some sort. But to be honest, that’s about it. I have to say, FDS puts on a great class, and I don’t have much to really complain about.
I was bummed when I found out 2015 was a class free year, but family first, and they are coming up with some great things for next spring. Would I recommend FDS to people, yes, 100%. You’ll have to try them and see for yourself. Last year it was $150 for an 8 hour class, very good deal! Let’s hope it stays around the same for 2016. The class size is limited to how many instructors are there, but class sizes were between 4-7 students. I love the shooter vs. shooter, and T.A.P.S. drills and I always felt safe – never saw any infractions.

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This winter, 11,000 members of the Ivy League duked it out to be named Ivy League Champion: strategizing, forming alliances, attacking and retreating. But as Yale allied itself with Columbia and attacked Long Island in the popular Yale-based online spin-off of the board game Risk — GoCrossCampus — a similar battle was quietly being waged in the real world.
While GoCrossCampus, or GXC, was enjoying its success, a company called Kirkland North was developing another online, intercollegiate Risk-style game called Turf. One of the founders of Kirkland North, Gabe Smedresman ’06, had launched Old Campus Tree Risk, the predecessor to GoCrossCampus, in 2007.
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But when the New York Times, having observed the success of GXC, profiled the young startup on March 21, they made no mention of Smedresman or his team. Frustrated, Kirkland North contacted the Times for acknowledgement of Smedresman’s work.
“You can’t blame [GoCrossCampus] from a business sense for wanting to rub me out from their history,” Smedresman said. “But I was mostly calling because the reporter hadn’t done his research.”
Then the blogosphere got wind of the story — and spun it into a controversy that both parties says is entirely overblown.
In response, Times reporter Brad Stone, who could not be reached for comment, wrote a post on the New York Times “Bits” technology blog describing Smedresman’s game and acknowledging its role in spawning GXC.
Michael Arrington, a technology blogger on TechCrunch.com, wrote a story in which he said the Kirkland North founders were livid about the New York Times article — a depiction they said was entirely inaccurate.
“The Kirkland North guys are obviously irate over what they see as a blatant rip-off of their idea,” he wrote in his blog post.
Arrington could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Brad Hargreaves ’08, one of the cofounders of GXC, said he later spoke with Kirkland North and realized that TechCrunch had misconstrued Smedresman’s feelings.
The hyped-up controversy, both GXC and Kirkland North founders agree, is simply nonexistent.
“Bloggers on the West Coast love controversy,” Hargreaves said. “They’re in the business of selling page views.”
Andrew Fong, a 2006 Harvard graduate and cofounder of Kirkland North, said the TechCrunch story had taken on a life of its own, misrepresenting the situation as a “bitter feud.” But he said their original purpose in speaking with TechCrunch was simply to make their company known and clarify Smedresman’s role in the creation of games like GXC and Turf.
Hargreaves said he and his GXC cofounders did take their inspiration from Smedresman’s Old Campus Tree Risk. After playing the game themselves and observing its success across Yale’s campus — over 3300 students were involved by the end — Hargreaves said they decided they wanted to use the idea to launch their own company.
But, he said, GXC did not use any of Smedresman’s original code, which he had released to the open-source community, although they did contact Smedresman to join them. Hargreaves said Smedresman was skeptical about the feasibility of turning the game into a company, and the two parted ways amicably.
Smedresman said he declined to join Hargreaves because he did not agree with the direction in which GXC intended to take the game.
He explained that, although he had always believed that the game would make a good foundation for a company, he did not share Hargreave’s vision of the company’s future.
On the other hand, when the Kirkland North founders — then students at Harvard — contacted him, Smedresman said he felt a similarity of vision. He said Kirkland North showed more interest in improving the game, whereas GXC was keeping the game static, and that Kirkland North strives to ensure that the appearance, rules and features of each game reflect its context and location.
“From the start [Kirkland North] was talking about ways to develop it, adapt it, change it, innovate, so I knew we’d get along,” he said.
Fong said the team is looking at different options for the future of Kirkland North — ranging from turning it into a marketing proposition to expanding it into a social networking system. But the immediate goal, he said, is simply to expand and improve the game.
Similarly, Hargreaves said his team is also focusing on expanding GXC.
In fact, GoCrossCampus will soon be launching a game at Google’s Manhattan offices as a team-building exercise, and Matthew Brimer ’09, another cofounder, said they have been contacted by other corporations for similar services.
Although Smedresman now works for Google, he had no comment about his employer’s adoption of GXC.
But can the two companies coexist with such a similar product?
Hargreaves answered with an analogy.
“Right now, [it’s like] you’re walking down a hallway towards each other and you both move right and you both move left but you can’t quite get out of each other’s way,” he said.
But though they are targeting a similar market, Hargreaves said he thinks the two companies will figure out a way to both be successful.
Smedresman offered his explanation by way of another analogy.
“I think of this as our own game,” he said. “We’re on the West Coast; they’re on the East Coast. We’re slowly putting up flags across the map and so are they. But I view it as kind of a friendly competition and I’m excited to see how it’ll turn out.”
Brimer said GoCrossCampus is collaborating with the Freshman Class Council to launch another Yale-wide game by the end of the week, to coincide with the Freshman Olympics.


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At the European Central Bank’s press conference, President Mario Draghi stressed that the details of the new TLTRO will be given at a forthcoming meeting and that the ECB is looking into whether banks need more help to cope with negative interest rates.
Eurozone growth has slowed, ECB Draghi said, where he blamed external factors while stressed that domestic factors dampening eurozone growth was starting to fade.
He noted that risks to the eurozone economy “remain to the downside” and that wage pressures have strengthened. Yet, he insisted that the risk of falling into recession remains low.
When asked about the upcoming TLTROs, he responded that it was “too early” to decide their terms.
As for inflation expectations, Draghi suggested that headline inflation may fall in the coming months.
The euro erased its earlier gains, falling from a peak of $1.1287 to hover
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Chick-Fil-a Protest Marks Rise of ‘Eat-In’ Movement
n the 20th century India’s Mahatma Gandhi famously used the hunger strike as political protest. In America today we demonstrate by eating fast food.
Call it an “eat-in,” call it a “buycott”: By whatever name, it’s a tactic that’s growing in popularity. As Wednesday’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day indicates, it’s a form of protest Americans find increasingly easy to swallow.
“This is a convenient way to protest or to make a statement,” said Jean Kinsey, director emeritus at The Food Industry Center at University of Minnesota. And unlike a boycott, “It’s more of a proactive statement. The proactive element might be more attractive to some people.”
Americans have been wearing their political feelings on their napkin increasingly often.
Last month protesters in New York City brought giant cups to the “Million Big Gulp March” to express opposition to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on soda fountain drinks larger than 16 ounces. This week, lawmakers from Iowa and Texas called for “Meat Monday” in response to a USDA promotion of “Meatless Mondays” that the agency has since withdrawn.
But by far the largest such food-related “buycott” was Chick-fil-A’s, sparked by President Dan Cathy’s remarks to a religious publication about his support for the “Biblical definition” of marriage. Gay rights groups called for a boycott, and Cathy’s supporters pledged to bring business to Chick-fil-A en masse.


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