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First Glimpse Of Apple’s New MagSafe Charger & Case Ahead Of iPhone 12 Release
By Thanussha Priyah, 19 Oct 2020
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Apple has recently revealed the new lineup of its iPhone 12 series, and announced that the device will not come with a power adaptor nor EarPods to reduce its environmental impact, though the accessories will now be much cheaper when purchased separately.
The company has also launched the new MagSafe charger and cases for the new edition.
Though the smartphones have yet to be released, the first look of the charger and cases have already emerged on social media.
Filip Chudzinski, developer of Apple Watch band app Bandbreite, has shared a series of photos of the MagSafe charger, as well as a deep navy silicone case for iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro.
Chudzinski also posted a photo showing the MagSafe charger being larger in size compared to the Apple Watch charger.
The new gadget utilizes magnets to charge the iPhone 12, and it appears to be made out of matte silver aluminum. Take a look at the photos below.
In case you're wondering about the size of the MagSafe charger. A photo with an Apple Watch charger for reference. Magnets everywhere! pic.twitter.com/Mt52skIafp— Filip Chudzinski (@choreographics) October 17, 2020
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Advanced Engine Management Using On-Board Gasoline Partial Oxidation Reforming for Meeting Super-ULEV (SULEV) Emissions Standards 1999-01-2927
This paper first reports on the benchmarking of a gasoline- fueled vehicle currently for sale in California that is certified to ULEV standards. Emissions data from this vehicle indicate the improvements necessary over current technology to meet SULEV tailpipe standards. Tests with this vehicle also show emissions levels with current technology under off-cycle conditions representative of real-world use.
We then present Delphi's strategy of on-board partial oxidation (POx) reforming with gasoline-fueled, spark-ignition engines. On-board reforming provides a source of hydrogen fuel. Tests were run with bottled gas simulating the output of a POx reformer. Results show that an advanced Engine Management System with a small on-board reformer can provide very low tailpipe emissions both under cold start and warmed-up conditions using relatively small amounts of POx gas. The data cover both normal US Federal Test Procedure (FTP) conditions as well as more extreme, off-cycle operation. Our study shows that POx reforming is an attractive candidate technology for meeting SULEV tailpipe emissions levels.
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More football for East Coast Demerara after successful Village Cup
Organiser of the 592 Beer Inter-Village Football tournament, Eon ‘Father Moey’ Havercome, has pleaded for more football to be played on the East Coast Demerara after seeing the success of the recently concluded tournament.
In response, the Beer’s Brand Manager Seweon McGarrell, accepted the challenge and pledged further support.
The initial aim of Monday’s proceedings at ANSA McAL Trading Headquarters at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, was to award outstanding performers for their efforts in the tournament, which concluded on January 1.
Buxton/Friendship emerged winners after a tense final with Golden Grove.
Given the success and the passion showed by both players and fans from the East Coast, Havercome pleaded that this become a regular occurrence for the communities.
“All I want for us is to see football continue to play on the East Coast. This is where we are calling on the relevant authorities to make it happen. Football is an important tool on the East Coast. Football keeps the youths off the streets and away from idleness. This is where we have to use this tournament on the East Coast and make football a priority.”
He also clarified that the timing of the tournament was not aimed at competing with the national year-end Super16 tournament, organised by the Guyana Football Federation.
McGarrell answered the call and stated they will be in support of a next edition. “I can confidently say that given the positive feedback we have been getting and competitive spirit of the team, we decided we will do this annually and I expect you guys to come back even better.”
Buxton/Friendship copped G$500,000 for the win, while Golden Grove took home G$200,000. Third place went to Beterverwagting, who edged Paradise 2-1.
Due to the outcome, BV pocketed G$150,000 and a trophy, while Paradise walked away with G$100 000 and the corresponding trophy. The other teams to participate were Brush Dam, Annandale, Plaisance, Melanie, Mahaica, Victoria and Ann’s Grove.

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Stories and information challenging the use of coerced lock-ups in psychiatric institutions.
- MindFreedom member Walter Vetsch has chronicled his ordeals as a college student in the 1960s who was tortured by psychiatrists for seven years after the university psychiatrist said he was “schizophrenic” and ordered his commitment.
- USDOJ INVESTIGATION, PATTON STATE HOSPITAL
- A USDOJ investigation report on PATTON STATE HOSPITAL. was issued in May of 2006. If you think that the death in Georgia was unconscionable, just read for yourself the findings of the USDOJ.


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Who can resist thick, creamy decadent cheesecake? Try this low-fat version in the single serving size.
This healthy apple crisp recipe is sweet and simple to prepare but uses very little added sugar.
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HOUMA – The City of Houma will be hosting a parade on Saturday, June 29.
The events will begin at 11 a.m. with a memorial service at the Veterans Memorial Park on Highway 311. The Patriotic Parade will begin at 1 p.m. at Stadium Drive and continue down Main Street before turning down Barrow Street.
The grounds at the Houma- Terrebonne Civic Center located at 346 Civic Center Blvd. will open at 3 p.m.
The event will feature music, fireworks, food, fun for kids, a pageant, a two-mile dash, a fly-over, a bike race and parachutists.
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The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber)
All ten of Roger Zelzany's classic Amber fantasy novels in one book! Join Corwin, Merlin and the others in wild adventures in the lands of Amber, Earth, and the Courts of Chaos, where the powers of Amber and Chaos constantly battle for supremacy through intrigue and adventure. Revisit Amber, the land of mystery, adventure and romance. Amber, the one true world. All other worlds, including our Earth, are merely Shadows.
Author: Roger Zelazny
Edition: (Edition: 1st Avon Eos Printing: Dec. 1999)
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Release Date: 2010-03-30

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The Russian 1S91 SURN is a mobile radar station which was part of a Soviet mobile surface-to-air missile system designed to protect targets against low to medium level air attacks. Being part of a complete defense battery system the 1S91 SURN, NATO code name “Straight Flush”, was mounted on similar tracked vehicles much like the Soviet SA-6 air defense system, 2K12 “Kub” NATO code name “Gainful”.
The 1S91 was equipped with two radars. A 1S11 target acquisition & distribution radar and a 1S31 continuous wave illuminator, in addition to an identification friend or foe system (IFF) and an optical sight. The acquisition range for the SURN was reported to be 50 KM for a Phantom II sized target. While being in service with both Syrian and Egyptian forces as early as 1973 during the Yom Kippur war, the 1S91 KURN remained in service till date in some countries with recent deployment in both Syria and Yemen.
Trumpeter‘s 1/35 1S91 KURN consists of 16 light grey plastic sprues, a slide molded lower hull & chassis, 1 PE fret, and a decal sheet. The kit features crisp details as can be seen on the new tooled lower hull, the intricate details on the radar system, and finely molded lower hull railings. The faithfully reproduced 1S11 & 1s32 radars can be built in either the deployed or stored position with the central cylinder hidden inside the chassis. The included link & length tracks consist of long straight lengths with the addition of several individual track links for an easier assembly. The PE fret contains parts for the various parts and screens visible on the vehicle’s intake ducts.


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Director of the Russian research anti-plague Institute “Microbe” Vladimir Kutyrev called the timing of the return of the majority of Russian regions to a normal life. He told about it at meeting on sanitary-epidemiological situation in Russia, which is held by the President of the country Vladimir Putin. Streaming in Youtube is channel “Russia 24”.
“By early June, the majority of subjects of the Russian Federation, must reach the third phase (…), that is, be ready to come to a fairly complete restoration of the entire infrastructure and economy,” he said.
In recent days in Russia revealed 8894 new cases of coronavirus in the regions 84, died 150 people, recovered 7144 patient.
Only on may 22, in Russia recorded 326 448 cases of infection in 85 regions, died 3249 patients, recovered — 99 825.
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Christmas time is the worst for my cat Desi.... she had to claim this spot before we did any thing......
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The conservative Islamic kingdom bans alcohol and detains domestic critics, and only recently allowed couples to share a room without proving they’re married – provided they’re foreign visitors. But for those who are curious and willing to put up with a shortage of good hotels outside the main cities, it offers ancient ruins that rival Jordan’s and a rich and varied culture that defies stereotypes. Here are the 11 Most Adventurous Things to Do in Saudi Arabia.
1. Edge of The World
One of the most spectacular views and amazing places to visit in Saudi-Arabia can be experienced from the Edge of the World which is part of the 800km long Jebel Tuwaiq Escarpment. When looking to the horizon from the edge it appears as if the plains continue endlessly.

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Iraqis "Returning Home"
The NY Times had a story the other day on Iraqis returning to their homes…
By all accounts, Iraqi families who fled their homes in the past two years are returning to Baghdad.
The description of the scope of the return, however, appears to have been massaged by politics. Returnees have essentially become a currency of progress.
As a result, the tally included Iraqi employees of The New York Times who had visited relatives in Syria but were not among the roughly two million Iraqis who have fled the country.
The figures apparently also included three people suspected of being insurgents arrested Saturday near Baquba in Diyala Province. The police described them as local residents who had fled temporarily to Syria, then returned.
Some Iraqi lawmakers said that overly broad figures were being used intentionally.
“They are using this number because they want to show that Maliki is succeeding,” said Salim Abdullah, a lawmaker and member of the largest Sunni bloc, known as the Accordance Front, referring to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. “But this does not make the number correct. I think dozens of Iraqis return home daily, but not 1,600.”
A half-dozen owners of Iraqi travel agencies and drivers who regularly travel to Syria agreed that the numbers misrepresented reality.
They said that the flow of returnees peaked last month, with more than 50 families arriving daily from Syria at Baghdad’s main drop-off point. Since Nov. 1, they said, the numbers have declined, and on Sunday morning, during a period when several buses used to appear, only one came.
A United Nations survey released last week, of 110 Iraqi families leaving Syria, also seemed to dispute the contentions of officials in Iraq that people are returning primarily because they feel safer.
The survey found that 46 percent were leaving because they could not afford to stay; 25 percent said they fell victim to a stricter Syrian visa policy; and only 14 percent said they were returning because they had heard about improved security.
Underscoring a widely held sense of hesitation, many of those who come back to Iraq do not return to their homes. Clambering off the bus on Sunday, a woman who gave her name as Um Dima, mother of Dima, said that friends were still warning her not to go back to her house in Dora, a violent neighborhood in south Baghdad. So for now, she said, she will move in with her parents in southern Iraq.
Raad al-Kihani, a prominent Shiite tribal leader in Baghdad and supporter of the prime minister, said that most people returning were still restricted by the fear of sectarian violence. “There are no Shiite families moving back to Sunni neighborhoods and no Sunnis moving back to Shiite neighborhoods,” he said.
The Iraqi government is using incentives and aggressive public relations to try to bring more people home. Iraqi officials plan to pay for buses to transport Iraqis from Syria. Prominent government figures recently visited Saab al-Bor, a largely abandoned town near Baghdad, to emphasize that families should feel safe enough to return.
The Displacement Ministry offers 1 million Iraqi dinar, about $800, to internally displaced families who can prove they have returned home with a letter from the police and their neighborhood council. But the movement has been limited. As of Thursday, 4,358 internally displaced families, about 25,000 people, had returned to their homes in Baghdad, the ministry’s registry of payments to returnees said.
Furthermore, people are still leaving their homes — 28,017 were internally displaced in October, according to the latest United Nations figures. In all, the United Nations estimates that 2.4 million Iraqis are still internally displaced, with many occupying someone else’s home.
Something is seriously wrong when people deported from Syria are pointed to as a sign that Iraq is becoming more peaceful.

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
First Hyper Acute Stroke Unit opens at The Royal London (UK)
"Barts and The London's acute stroke service has been formally accredited to provide regional stroke thombolysis and to go live as a Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) from April 2010 - the first trust in London to achieve full accreditation, following an external evaluation of the service in late January 2010. The accreditation of the HASU at The Royal London Hospital follows a London-wide review of stroke services last year, in which the Trust's stroke service was selected to be one of eight HASUs across the capital. The Trust's stroke service offers significantly lower than average mortality rates - 12% compared with 20% nationally - along with lower rates of long-term disability requiring institutionalisation for people who have suffered a stroke - 3% compared with 11% nationally. As well as The Royal London, hyper-acute stroke centres will be located at Northwick Park Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, University College Hospital, St George's Hospital, King's College Hospital, The Princess Royal University Hospital and Queen's Hospital"

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Raise your standards
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From my session with Fumi, I learned how to distinguish the difference between an anxious response and a reasonable response to disrespect. Fumi was very direct, and got right to the heart of the issue quickly. Since our session I have rekindled things with my ex-partner. Our new relationship is much stronger than the last.
I took your feedback, to heart about establishing boundaries and standards, and not defaulting to just assuming my needs are less valid.
I offer 1:1 coaching for women in a number of areas: . To date, I have coaching hundreds of women ages 18 through early 40s. Below are some of ways you can expect to benefit from working with me:
Discover your life vision and purpose
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My session with Fumi was more than I could have expected. She was so insightful and she gave me several activities to do on my own after our session. Since then, completing those journaling activities has opened my eyes to a lot about myself. I’ve done a ton of internal work but her coaching helped me uncover some things that I didn’t realize needed attention. I not only have more explicit boundaries, but I feel more comfortable sticking to them. I already notice the change in my dating life, particularly being less anxious about losing men. Having a more solid foundation in who I am and what I want has given me the confidence to know that I’m not asking for too much and there’s a man out there who will provide it. Coaching with Fumi is exactly what I needed to start this next chapter.
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During each session, I will expose you to more productive ways of thinking. Following each session, I will provide at least one or two custom journal prompts tailored to your needs. This allows you to practice implementing new thought patterns between sessions, in order to achieve growth and improvement that will last a lifetime.
I guide you as you begin to implement the tools we’ve covered in coaching in your life and relationships. I provide routines, and lifestyle changes to support a healthy mindset. I teach you how to continually refine what you’ve learned using thought experiments that reveal the power of your mind.
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Can I do coaching instead of therapy?
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Each session is completed via Zoom. If you have not purchased a package, your session may be carried out without video.
How many sessions do I need?
Everyone who has worked with me has gotten significant results! Most of my clients who see the most significant long-term changes have worked with me for a minimum of 4 sessions.
Are there refunds?
Barring extenuating circumstances, there are no refunds. Each session has a ten minute grace period. Failure to show up without advance notice will result in forfeiture of your session, without a refund.

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Apple is currently working on its next generation of iPhones, iPhone 12 lineup. There are several iPhone 12 leaks as we have seen in the past, but recently, Apple A14 benchmark scores have surfaced online this is the same processor which Apple is going to use in its next-gen iPhones. The benchmark score shows a significant jump from the previous year’s chipset. When it comes to chipsets, Apple has always nailed it, and iPhones and iPads have some of the best mobile chipsets. At the moment, Android chipsets have barely touched the speeds of Apple’s old A13’s speeds, and after Apple A14 launch in the upcoming iPhone 12, They will be thrown back to where they were.
Apple A14 Benchmark Scores
From the A14 benchmark scores, iPhone 12 will have a rock-solid performance, and these scores show a solid increase in performance year-over-year. This time around, TSMC Apple’s chipset manufacturers are opting to go with a 5 nm processor. This benchmark also shows that Apple’s A14 is crossing a 3GHz mark which is phenomenal. Although the 3GHz ARM processor has been promoted since the 20 nm node, it has been examined. The frequency of the factory-made mobile phone SoC has never outperformed 3GHz. The Apple A14 may become the first ARM mobile processor to exceed 3GHz officially. Which is a big deal.
This is a comparison of Apple’s A14 with the A12x for iPad Pro. Just to clear that out, A12x has eight cores for the iPad Pro, and it gives 1110 for single-core and 4568 for multi-core. Whereas, the A14’s benchmark show 1658 for single-core and 4612 for multi-core. If we compare it with the last-gen chipset, then the single-core and multi-core of A13 are 1329 and 3468 points respectively. The single-core performance of the A14 has increased by 25%, and the multi-core performance has increased by 33%. This shows that there is a fantastic gain in the overall performance, and this new score will help the upcoming iPhone 12 to handle multi-tasking easily and also make navigation even smoother.


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FIT Radio Workout Music
500,000 - 1,000,000 downloads
- Endless, seamless, upbeat music
- Mixed by real DJs
- Huge variety of genres and tracks
- No ads (except occasionally for the Premium version)
- Drains battery life
Unlimited high intensity streaming radio designed to fuel your workout with beats
There might be no better way to completely burn out your beloved music collection than by subjecting it to play on repeat in the gym. Save that ABBA Gold album for when you're ready to party, and download Social Study Media LLC's free Fit Radio app instead.
Select your workout music of choice by genre, like Top 40, Hip-Hop, and Electro House. Alternatively, browse by station according to planned activity, like Cardio Workout, 10k Run, Latin Zumba, and even Meat Head for heavy lifters. Actual DJs mix the playlists, meaning the blending is seamless and the beats steady enough to carry you through your reps.
Save your favorite tracks, stations, and DJs to your Fit Radio account for easy access later; you can also share the hottest mixes on whatever social media you choose. Or, if you're like me, try out a new collection every time you hit the treadmill - the extensive index is nearly impossible to deplete, even for the most diehard gym rats.
The only ads you'll hear on Fit Radio are for its Premium service, which allows access to even more music. These short interludes are fairly unobtrusive, though, since the driving beat continues in the background.
The one negative you might encounter with the app is its ability to quickly drain your battery, especially if you're using it in tandem with another fitness app like Run Keeper. Make sure you charge up accordingly.
Social Study Media LLC's Fit Radio app is a fantastic addition to anyone's workout paraphernalia.
FIT Radio is a web and mobile application that streams DJ-engineered music of all genres designed to AMP YOUR WORKOUT! Download the app and let our DJs do the work for you. FIT Radio provides nonstop, on demand, professional mixed music right to your fingertips. Just Push Play and Go!
Pumping nonstop and original mixes of Top 40, Hip Hop, Rock, House, Indie, Dub Step (and more), FIT Radio is a must for the gym, for the car, and for the party!
With the FIT Radio app, you get:
•Custom mixes made and powered by the hottest DJs in the country
•Nonstop and highly energized music aimed to get you going and keep you moving
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•Professional compositions with steady BPM and seamless transitions between songs
•An easy-to-use and fun music app that you can control based on your likes and preferences
•The opportunity to share your favorite mixes and DJs with friends using social networking sites
Due to FIT Radio’s professionally produced mixes, high quality sound, musical variety, and simple usability, FIT Radio was nominated as one of the Top 7 Music Apps in World by readers and voters of Mashable for 2011. Download the free app now to see why so many others claim that FIT Radio is the best way to enjoy music on your Android. FIT Radio is the perfect way to end the search for high-energy music once and for all. Don’t be the last Party Rocker on your block to download the app; after all, everyone is doing it!
FIT Radio: AMP YOUR WORKOUT...and your lifestyle!
“Mashable!” says, “FIT Radio’s mission is a Pandora for gym rats…”
"P90x's Beachbody.com, Chalene Johnson" calls it a “Game changer!”
I love using FIT Radio with my other favorite workout apps: “Nike”, “Women’s Health”, “Men’s Health”, and “MapMyRun”
This workout music app provides the best “free workout music” for my workout no matter what I’m doing: walking, jogging, biking, running, weight training, cardio, muscle building, abs, weight loss routines, recreational activities, cross training, “CrossFit”, Body Building, etc.
FIT Radio plays all my favorite music, like: top 40, hip hop, rock, house, indie, dubstep, alternative rock, country, “party”, electronic dance music (edm), electro house, trance, indie dance, house, hard rock, classic rock, indie rock, 80s, 90s, lounge, etc. I choose it over “mix cloud”, “sound cloud”, “Pandora”, “spotify”, “sky.fm”, “internet radio”, “Mix.dj”, “mixmeister”, “scratch”, “rdio”, “mog”, “iheart radio”, “last.fm”, “shazam”, “slacker”, and all the other “streaming music apps”.
Now with Lock Screen Controls, Headphone Controls, Stability Improvements and More!
If you've had any issues with the app previously, give it another shot.
If you have any problems please email support at fitradio.com and we'll be happy to help you!
Enjoy the new app!
(To use the lock screen controls you must have a lock screen that supports it. There are several available for download in the play store)
Great music, it's an essential app but been crashing way too much these days, needs a total modification to improve speed
Keeps me pumping!
FitRadio gives a huge variety of musical genres and unique mixes. The quality of the music when combined with the transitions between songs and mixes offers something Pandora or anything else could not. Definitely worth the download.
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Regional Seed Company Spotlight: Mayberry Seed Co.
Mayberry Seed Co. has been serving growers in southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois for 47 years. We caught up with Matt Mayberry to learn more about what makes their operation unique.
How did Mayberry Seed Co. get its start?
My father, Larry Mayberry, started Mayberry Seed in 1971. In the late 1990s, he discovered AgVenture and talked with the general manager. He liked the AgVenture model and he understood that you have to dedicate yourself to the brand. My father signed up on the spot, turning Mayberry Seed Co. into an AgVenture Regional Seed Company (RSC) in 2000.
Growing up I helped out on the farm and in the business by loading out product and making deliveries. I spent 5 years after college working for Farm Credit Services as a loan officer. It was a good experience, but I was ready to come back home to the family business where I’ve now been for 10 years. It’s gone fast. We’ve seen a lot of changes, but it’s exciting and great to be a part of it.
What makes your Regional Seed Company different?
We love the freedom of working with AgVenture. We make all the decisions as far as what products to offer. We’re not just selling what someone else tells us to sell. We put our production plan together based on decisions specifically suited for our region. And we focus on seed quality, which is above and beyond any of the competition.
We’re also really pleased with the seed treatments we’re utilizing. It’s great with a complete mix of fungicides, insecticides and biologicals that help us get good stand establishment.
We stand behind our growers from start to finish, all year long, unlike seed companies that just sell you a bag of seed and leave.
Growers like having us there year-round and being a sounding board for them. This goes along with our customer service, which
to me, is hands-down above and beyond anybody else. That’s what we specialize in, and our response time is immediate.
What are you focusing on with growers this season?
Whatever the market’s demanding, you want to cater to it. We have four new corn hybrids and several new competitive soybean products this year that we’re very excited about. We’ll be working with our growers on their cropping plans this winter and selecting the right hybrids for their fields.
What do you like most about being part of AgVenture?
I’ve been around the AgVenture network since my father joined, so I’ve gotten to know a lot of the owners across the country. It’s been really exciting to get to know everyone, and it’s a family network where we can talk to each other and share ideas. Even though we’re independent, we like to have feedback on what everyone else is doing. At the end of the day, we serve our growers better because of the AgVenture network support.
"Our mission as a seed company is to provide growers in our local area with superior performing genetics, combined with the highest quality of seed and above-and-beyond customer service."
Mayberry Seed Co.

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I recall a discussion about the design of an instruction set architecture where someone was saying an instruction was required to test and set a bit or word as an atomic operation if it was desired to support multiple processors. Is this really true? Is this a function that can't be emulated with other operations including the disabling of interrupts?
AFAIK as long as you surround your "test and set" with an interrupt disable and an interrupt enable then you're OK. At least, you're OK unless you have a processor that treats interrupts really strangely.
Dekker's algorithm (circa 1962) can be used to implement a mutex without test-and-set, or even masking interrupts, and really only requires sequential consistency (and if that's a issue for your hardware, it should have appropriate memory barriers to force that).
A limitation is that Dekker's only works with two threads/processors.
Several related algorithms exist, and generalizations of some of those (for example, Peterson's) can handle more than two threads.
And once you have a mutex, you can implement everything else.
OTOH, proper atomic instructions are a huge boon (even if only in LL/SC form), so they're provided by everyone who's serious about multiprocessor support.
Interesting. I'm not sure it's limited to two threads per processor rather than just two threads. Even if they are on separate processors it's the same problem and the same limit, no?
The situation I am looking at resolving is a technique where rather than using a pipeline of length N to allow N-fold improvements in speed (other than when the pipeline has to be flushed) it can be used to get N-fold improvements in clock speed, but treating the CPU as N processors. They are time-sliced if you will. It also relieves a lot of the complexity of detecting problems and contingencies in the pipeline streamlining it that much more. But...
When someone was proposing this design some time back another poster was insistent the design required an instruction level mutex, if I am using the term right. I don't recall the details of what he wrote, but I've always wondered how important this is.
One of the things that can further streamline a processor is to make all instructions single cycle, truly single cycle. So a read-modify-write instruction may be hard to implement depending on the memory used. But in the context of the above multi-processor design, if the RMW instruction takes multiple clock cycles, it would not be truly uninterrupted since the other N-1 processors would all get a clock (and an instruction) between the multiple clocks of the RWM instruction.
I need to bat this around in my head a bit more I think.
It's two threads, on one processor or two. Many discussion of Dekker's don't really consider software threads (as we know them today), as it predates common support for that in OSs. Call it two competitors for the lock.
This is one of the oldest, if not the very oldest, multi-threading technique for processors, dating back to the PPUs on the CDC-6600 (circa 1965). The PPUs were 10 time-sliced "threads" on the I/O processor.
As soon as you have memory or FP, not all instructions are single cycle any more. But as described below, LL/SC is the standard way of avoiding having a RMW instruction.
It is important to understand how much synchronization you need between the threads. If the individual tasks are very independent, and need little or no synchronization with tasks running on other threads, then you need only weak support for such in the hardware (and your code would probably run well on a GPU).
Load-linked/store-conditional. That's what most RISCs use to implement atomic operations. Basically the load-linked establishes that you want to atomically update a location (as well as loading the existing value there), the store-conditional attempts to update that value (it's a store), but if something else had hit that location*, the SC will fail, and you have to retry the update. In that sense it's similar to a compare-and-swap, rather than a true atomic update like test-and-set.
The desire to avoid multi-cycle instructions is the prime driver for LL/SC, as it lets the operation be split into individual simple operations. So let's say you wanted to atomically add R2 to a memory location, you'd code something like:
The success flag is typically returned in a register. Alpha, for example returned it in the register operand of the SC (STL_C or STQ_C) so a simple BEQ (to test if the returned value was zero) was all that was needed to trigger the retry.
*FSVO "location" - usually the granularity is on something like a cache line or larger. There are often other restrictions as well - no interrupts or exceptions between the LL and SC, a maximum number of instructions between the pair, no other LL, loads or stores in general, branches, etc. The exact details varied considerably. Commonly this is described as having a flag set by the LL, and various conditions can cause the flag to be cleared before the SC executes - and if that flag is clear the SC fails.
I don't know what you mean when you use abbreviations that aren't clear. Is FP floating point? There is nothing inherent in floating point that makes it multiple cycles in a custom processor design.
There certainly is no reason for memory to be multiple cycle. I think you are picturing various implementations where memory is slow compared to the CPU. That's not a given.
How dependent the tasks are will vary with the problem being solved. I'm just looking at how best to utilize the facility available in FPGAs. The guy who was talking about the time slicing was looking into that when he was told about the need for a mutex.
I need to think how that could be implemented. One way would be to have an extra bit per memory location. Another would be to make the memory interface "smart" where it tracks the location you read as part of this function and handles the logic of monitoring other writes to it. That could be pretty simple really as long as it is one location per processor.
Would an instruction that reads a location while also writing to it do the job? If you are trying to lock a resource by setting a location to a 1 say, you set the 1 but also read it. If it comes back already a 1 you know it was already locked. There doesn't need to be the same difficulty of setting it to a 0 if you hold the lock.
Doing a read and a write at the same time in most FPGAs is not so hard. The block memory in an FPGA has simultaneous read/write functionality. In fact it looks like a large addressable register set requiring a clock edge to do the read. By using the opposite edge of the clock to clock the memory (as the rest of the CPU) the write and read can happen at the same time with the read result coming out a half clock before it has to be written to its destination. win-win.
While you can imagine some FP formats that you might reasonably implement in a single cycle, they'd be pretty far out of the mainstream. The width, normalization, and rounding requirements make all but the simplest FP operations implausible to implement in what's usually made the time for a single cycle. OTOH you *could* slow down the rest of your processor so that you can accomplish the implemented FP operations in a single cycle. While trivial, why would you accept a three fold reduction in clock rate for the integer part of your core just so you could have single cycle FP instructions?
No, but such a situation is sufficiently uncommon that you'd really want to spec it up front. Most cores these days don't even have single cycle L1 caches.
The granularity can be pretty coarse. Commonly a cache-line or bigger. But you don't want to add a bit per memory word. With a cache, you'd keep track of any changes of ownership of the cache line. With direct memory, you can just track the memory area (perhaps make it blocks of 64B for simplicity) in each "thread", and then just watch all other writes from other threads/time-slices for matching addresses.
No, that's not enough in typical multi-processor implementations - if two cores/threads/whatever hit the same location, you can only return
0 to one of them, or both might think they acquires the lock. What you've described *is* a TAS, but not an atomic one.
OTOH, since you have only a single core, and you appear to be proposing that your TAS *will* be atomic (since it's going to execute in a single clock, and presumably not interleave with any other TAS in another timeslice), you're good to go.
Of course, there are alternatives. If you need only moderate locking for your one time-sliced CPU, you can implement a single global lock, and then just stall (prevent them from doing anything in their timeslice) any threads trying to acquire that lock if it's not available, or just spin. IOW this is a simplified form of TAS, and you'd us it to implement bigger atomic updates. You could also have several global flags ("lock0..lock15"), so you could have separate, non-conflicting, things happening on different locks without contention.
IOW, (with a single global flag), you might end up with something like:
retry_lock: try_global_lock_bit ;acquire global lock, set carry if success jnc retry_lock ;just a spin lock ...update shared item(s)... release_global_lock
The try_global_lock and release_global_lock would be the two instructions you'd implement.
Even on FPGAs, where the hard memory blocks are absurdly fast in comparison to logic (as compared to most of the real world), you're likely to see memory access to be multiple clocks unless your CPU logic is really slow.
There are many, many ways to implement synchronisation between threads, processors, whatever. In theory, they are mostly equivalent in that any one can be used to implement the others. In practice, there can be a lot of differences in the overheads in the hardware implementation, and the speed in practice.
Typical implementations are "compare-and-swap" instructions (x86 uses these) and load-linked/store-conditional (common on RISC systems where instructions either load /or/ store, not both. And of course, on single processor systems there is always the "disable all interrupts" method.
But if you can use dedicated hardware, there are many other methods. The XMOS devices have hardware support for pipelines and message passing. On a dual-core PPC device I used, there is a hardware block of semaphores. Each semaphore is a pair of 16-bit ID, 16-bit value that you can only access as a 32-bit read or write. You can write to it if the current ID is 0, or if the ID you are writing matches that of the semaphore. There is plenty of scope for variation based on that theme.
I received my first XMOS board from Digi-Key a couple of days ago, and I'm looking forward to using it for some simple experiments. I /feel/ that many low-level things will be much simpler and with fewer potential nasties lurking in the undergrowth. (I felt the same with the Transputer, for obvious reasons, but never had a suitable problem at that time)
With your experience, did you find any undocumented gotchas and any pleasant or unpleasant surprises?
Before saying anything else, I would first note that my work with XMOS systems was about four years ago, when they first started getting popular. I believe many things that bugged me most have been improved since then, both in the hardware and software, but some may remain.
I think the devices themselves are a really neat idea. You have very fast execution, very efficient hardware multi-threading, very predictable timings, and a variety of inter-thread and inter-process communication methods.
Their "XC" programming language was also a neat idea, based on C with additional primitives to support the hardware features and multi-threading stuff, and an attempt to make some aspects of C safer (real arrays, control of when you can access variables, etc.).
However, IMHO the whole thing suffered from a number of serious flaws that limit the possibilities for the chips. Sure, they would work well in some circumstances - but I was left with the feeling that "if only they had done /this/, the devices would be so much better and could be used for so many more purposes". It is a little unfair to concentrate on the shortcomings rather than the innovations and features, but that is how I felt when using them. And again, I know that at least some issues here have been greatly improved since I last used them.
A obvious flaw with the chips is lack of memory. The basic device with one cpu and 8 threads had 64K ram that was for program memory and run-time data. There was no flash - you had to use an external SPI flash which used valuable pins (messing up the use of blocks of 8, 16 or
32 pins), and used up a thread if you wanted to be able to access the flash at run-time. And while you could implement an Ethernet MAC or a
480 Mbps USB 2.0 interface on the chip, there was nowhere near enough ram for buffering or to do anything useful with the interface. Adding external memory was ridiculously expensive in terms of pins, threads, and run-time inefficiency.
The hardware threading is great, and provides a really easy model for all sorts of things. To make a UART transmitter, you have a thread that waits for data coming in on a pipe. To transmit a bit, you set a pin, wait for a bit time (using hardware timers), then move on to the next bit. The code is simple and elegant. A UART receiver is not much harder. There is lots of example code in this style.
Then you realise that to implement a UART, you have used a quarter of the chip's resources. Your elegant flashing light is another thread, as is your PWM output. Suddenly you find you are using a 500 MIPS chip to do the work of a $0.50 microcontroller, and you only have a thread or two left for the actual application.
And you end up trying to run FreeRTOS on one of your threads, or make your own scheduler to multiplex several PWM channels in one thread. Much of the elegance quickly disappears for real-world applications.
Then there is the software. The XC language lets you write code that starts tasks in parallel, automatically allocates channels for communication, lets you declare timers and wait on them. That's all great in theory - but it quickly gets confusing when you try to figure out the details of when you can pass these around, when they get allocated and deallocated, or when you can have a thread create new threads. XC carefully tracks threads and data accesses, spotting and blocking all sorts of possible race conditions. If a variable is written by one thread, then it can't be accessed from another. You can work with arrays safely, but you can't take addresses. Data gets passed between threads using communication channels that are safe from race conditions and nicely synchronised.
And then you realise that to actually make the thing work, you would need far more channels than there are on the device, and they would need to be far faster - all you really wanted was for two threads to share a circular buffer, and you know in your application code when it is safe to use it. But you can't do that in XC - the language and the tools won't let you. So you have to write that code in C, with calls back and forth with the XC code that handles the multi-threading stuff.
And then you realise that from within the C, you need to access some hardware resources like timers, that can't be expressed properly in C, and you can't get back to the XC code at the time. So you end up with inline assembly.
Then there are the libraries and examples. These were written in such a wide variety of styles that it was impossible to figure out what was going on. A typical example project would involve a USB interface and, for example, SPDIF channels for an USB audio interface. The Eclipse-based IDE was fine, but the example did not come as a project - it came as a collection of interdependent projects. Some bits referred to files in different projects. Some bits merely required other projects to be compiled. Some bits of the code in one project would use assembly for hardware resources, others would use XC, others would use C intrinsic functions, and others would use a sort of XML file that defines the setup for your chip resources. If you change values in one file in one project (say, the USB vendor ID), you have to figure out which sub-projects need to be manually forced to re-build in order for it to take effect consistently throughout the project. Some parts use a fairly obvious configuration file - a header with defines that let you control things like IDs, number of channels, pins, etc. Except they don't - only /some/ of the sub-projects read and use the configuration file, other parts are hard-coded or use values from elsewhere. It was a complete mess.
Now, I know that newer XMOS devices have more resources, built-in flash, proper hardware peripherals for the devices that are most demanding or popular, and so on. And I can only hope that the language and tools have been improved to the point where inline assembly is not required, and that the examples and libraries have matured to the point that the libraries are usable as-is, and the examples show practical ways to develop code.
I really hope XMOS does well here - it is so good to see a company that thinks in a very different way and brings in these new ideas. So if your experience with modern XMOS devices and tools is good, I would love to hear about it.
Thanks for a speedy, comprehensive response. I'll re-read and digest it properly later.
My initial gut feel is that many of your points were valid and probably are still valid - because they /ought/ to still be valid.
The issues that most interest me relate to where you found it necessary to step outside the toolchain. Part of me thinks (hopes, really) that it is merely because your problem wasn't well suited to the devices strengths (esp. guaranteed timing), and/or were too big, and/or importing existing code/thinking lead to friction, and/or the tools were immature.
I expect I'll end up agreeing with many of your observations, but I'll have fun finding that out :)
I know that at least some of my points are no longer an issue, or at least not as much of an issue - XMOS have devices with flash, USB hardware, etc. At least some of the toolchain issues should be fixable. And the mess of the examples and libraries is certainly fixable - at least, if one disregards the time and effort it would involve!
The existing code was mainly XMOS's own examples, libraries and reference designs...
I do agree that much of their USB stuff was poorly suited to the devices and too big for them, and that probably made things worse - but it was XMOS's own code. With newer devices with hardware USB peripherals, I expect fewer such issues.
I will go along with your hope - expectation, even - that the tools have matured and improved over time.
Yes, those are precisely the aspects that interest me. I'm particularly interested in easy-to-implement hard realtime systems.
As far as I am concerned, caches and interrupts make it difficult to guarantee hard realtime performance, and C's explicit avoidance of multiprocessor biasses C away from "easy-to-implement".
Yes, I know about libraries and modern compilers that may or may not compile your code in the way you expect!
I'd far rather build on a solid foundation than have to employ (language) lawyers to sort out the mess ;)
Besides, I want to use Occam++ :)
Yes, those did strike me as limitations to the extent I'm skeptical about networking connectivity. But maybe an XMOS device plus an ESP8266 would be worth considering for some purposes.
Yes. However I don't care about wasting some resources if it makes the design easier/faster, so long as it isn't too expensive in terms of power and money.
Needing to run a separate RTOS would be a code smell. That's where the CSP+multicore approach /ought/ to be sufficient. For practicality, I exclude peripheral libraries and networking code from that statement.
That's the kind of thing I'm interested in exploring.
That's the kind of thing I'm interested in exploring.
At which point many advantages would have been lost.
Irritating, but not fundamental, and as you point out, they could be fixed with application of time and money.
I think we are largely in violent agreement.
StartKIT to echo anything it receives on the USB line, with a second task flipping uppercase to lowercase. That should give me a feel for a low-end resource usage.
Then I'd like to make a reciprocal frequency counter to see how far I can push individual threads and their SERDES-like IO primitives.
And I'll probably do some bitbashing to create analogue outputs that draw pretty XY pictures on an analogue scope.
The XMOS devices have a lot more control over timing than you get on a normal processor (especially a superscaler one with caches). The development tools include a lot of timing analysis stuff too.
XC is still based on C !
It is a /long/ time since I used Occam (except for shaving away unlikely explanations). It was fun, as long as you were careful with the spacing in your source code.
XMOS programming is more inspired by Hoare's CSP than Occam. They should probably implement Go for the devices.
There are XMOS devices with Ethernet hardware, I believe - that seems the best idea.
The chip has 8 hardware threads (per core). If you want more than 8 threads, you either have a bigger and more expensive chip, or you have to do something in software.
Yes. Hopefully, newer versions of the tools make this sort of hack unnecessary.
You'll have fun, anyway - unless you get issues with dependency messes from sub-projects under Eclipse. If that happens, I recommend re-arranging things so that you have one project with multiple directories - it will save you a lot of hair-pulling.
There is nothing implausible about single cycle floating point. It is all a matter of context and application. Not every design has to scream with the highest possible clock rate at the expense of pipeline complications. Don't impose an architecture until you know the requirements.
Again, assuming an architecture and requirements. This conversation is not about designing the next generation of ARM CPU.
Why don't I want to add a bit per memory location? If that bit happens to be free, I'd be silly to let it go to waste.
You are ignoring that the instruction also writes a 1 to the location. So two processors *can't* both read a zero. Why is it not atomic? The write and read happen on the same clock cycle. Much like Dekker's algorithm it sets the flag to exclude other processors as a priority. Then it can at leisure check if the flag was already set or if it "captured" the flag.
Again, an abbreviation I don't know. What's a TAS?
Not sure what you are assuming here. There is one "core", but it is time shared N ways giving N functional processors. Each one operates on a different clock cycle however, so any single instruction which takes one clock cycle is truly atomic and the other processors can't interfere.
Stalling the other processors is a bad idea. The primary apps for my designs are hard real-time and if one processor is dealing with something that needs 100% of its attention at that moment and it is stalled because another processor wants to lock some resource... not good.
Limiting the stall to processors that are accessing the same location in memory would be very messy in terms of logic.
The multiple channel approach was suggested by the previous designer and was shot down by the antagonist. I don't recall any of the detail though. If there is a resource that needs to be shared, it requires a mutex. I'm not sure how to get around that.
Isn't try_global_lock what my read/write (essentially a swap) instruction does? A one is written to the memory location no matter what. The previous value is returned. The previous value tells you if you acquired it or not (return of one means it was already locked, return of zero means you locked it). To perform the release you just write a zero, but only if you have the lock.
Not sure what you are referring to here. FGPA memory is *very* fast, almost as fast as registers. Likely you are thinking of external memory, in particular DRAM.
Yes, but hopefully with little need to use the important areas that keep language lawyers employed.
If the "awkward bits" still /have/ to be used, then Opportunities Will Have Been Missed.
Indeed. I've toyed with Python and don't dislike its ethos, but semantically significant spaces make me shudder. For a start, how does and editor's copy-and-paste work reliably. The consider refactoring browsers.
I still remember makefiles, where tabs were invisibly different to spaces.
Oh, . I've always regarded Occam (and now XC) as an instantiation of CSP in a language rather than a library. To that extent I haven't needed to distinguish.
The hardware seems the least of the problem; the software stack is more of an issue.
Yes. But I haven't thought through the ramifications of that, yet. In particular, I haven't developed my set of design patterns.
There's too much unreasoned prejudice against cut-n-paste, and too much in favour of common code bases. Sometimes cut-and-paste is optimum, e.g. when developing several PCBs over several years, the best way of ensuring you can regenerate a design is to copy all library components into project-specific libraries.
I don't mind code duplication if it means that I can find what needs to be modified, and then modify it in the knowledge that I haven't affected other parts of a system. I've seen companies get that dreadfully wrong, with the result that mods took 6 months to get to a customer.
It would be making architecture assumptions to require single-cycle memory - saying that memory may be multiple cycle is the general case.
(You might /want/ to make architecture assumptions here - I gave some other suggestions of specific hardware for locking in another post. The solutions discussed here are for general memory.)
Normally, one does not have a bit free per memory location.
LL/SC solutions usually have only a single tracker tracker per cpu, or even just a single tracker per shared memory bus. The granularity might be for a machine word, or for a cache line. The expectation is that these sequences will be so short that it is very rare for a conflict to occur, so it is fine to have just one tracker. You set the tracker when reading from the memory to get the old value, then use a conditional store that will only do the write if nothing else has touched that same location since your load. It gives you a "test and set" type operation, but split into RISC-friendly separate load and store operations.
Normally, you cannot read and write a memory location at the same time. It would only be possible with specialised hardware, or with a bus locking mechanism (which can be the basis of your synchronisation primitive). In a normal memory bus, you have a read operation then a write operation. If you don't have bus locking of some sort, then cpu 1 could read 0, then cpu 2 could read 0, then cpu 1 would write 1, then cpu 2 would write 1.
"test and set". It reads the old value in a memory location, sets the memory to 1, and returns the old value - all as an atomic operation. Atomicity is key here - and normal memories are not atomic.
(If you are thinking of using an FPGA here, it is often possible to implement a memory block where you /do/ read the old value on the same clock cycle as writing the new one, making a TAS operation simple to implement.)
If this is going to be efficient, it is unlikely that the core supports reading and writing within the same instruction - LL/SC is usually a better choice.
We are having two different conversations here. I am designing a CPU, you are talking about the theory of CPU design.
As I have said before, I am designing a CPU in an FPGA. I have FPGA features available to me that are different than what is available to chip designers. I do not have the same constraints as chip designers.
I was asking what is required in an instruction set to support multi-processors and I think the answer is that the memory swap instruction would do the job efficiently.
I am not sure a bit per reservation unit will work in a multiprocessor environment (it certainly will on your single core design, obviously).
Both the reserved address (range, typically) and the reserving processor will need to know who reserved what. But this is just a "gut feeling", I did not think seriously about it.
Test And Set, a classic 68k RMW opcoode. Read a byte (just byte size allowed), adjust the Z flag (Z IIRC...) to the state of bit 7 (MSB), then write the byte back with bit 7 set. While doing this the processor provides some means (holds AS asserted on the 68k IIRC) such that the access to the address can not be granted to another processor for the entire duration of the TAS opcode.
Looks like in your case a simple bset (again 68k lingo, bit test and set, but on two separate memory accesses, potentially interruptible by another bus master - not by a processor interrupt, it is a single instruction) will do what you need.


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Once they started dating, Karen bought a gold cross with the word "Yes" engraved on it, and kept it with her until he proposed, according to the New York Times. They married in June 1985 and have three adult children: Michael, Charlotte, and Audrey. Michael is a Marine Corps officer, Charlotte is a recent college grad and a filmmaker, and Audrey is still in college and, interestingly enough, considers herself socially liberal, according to ABC News.
Karen and Mike are still very religious, and they often attend services at Indianapolis' College Park Church, an evangelical megachurch, the Times reports.
3. She started a small business selling towel charms. In 2015, Karen founded "That's My Towel!" Charm, a company Fortune magazine said makes metal charms you attach to a beach towel so you know which one is yours. Since Mike became the Republican vice presidential nominee, the towel charm business has been put on hold, according to the Huffington Post. The website is currently inactive, but some stealthy Twitter users posted images of the $6.25 charms before they disappeared.
4. She founded a charitable foundation that combines her interest in children and art. As first lady of Indiana, Karen continued to find inspiration in her passion for children, education, and the arts. She worked to develop an art career, taking a watercolor class shortly after having her first child. Her mother-in-law and sister each commissioned her for watercolored paintings of their houses, according to the IndyStar. At her peak, Karen did 35 paintings in a year, selling many of them at local art fairs.
She formed the Indiana First Lady's Charitable Foundation in 2013 to promote individuals and organizations that encourage children, families, and the arts, the IndyStar reports. The foundation offers grants and scholarships to these individuals and organizations, and the foundation first benefited Riley's Art Therapy Initiative, an art therapy program for hospitalized children.
5. She's a trained pilot. Karen comes from a family of pilots. "I was born on an Air Force base," Karen said on Afternoons With Amos, a radio show. "My dad worked for United Airlines. I kind of grew up around planes. My godfather had his own plane, and when I was a teenager, I got to fly with him and it just kind of got in my blood."
Although her license is not current, her son Michael has the flying gene. "My son, though, has taken me out because he's a pilot now, he's actually an instructor," she said in the interview.
6. She is very influential and is one of Mike's most trusted advisors. As Indiana's first lady, Karen has focused on children and the arts, but she is also a key advisor to Mike. "She's the best part of my life," Mike told the IndyStar. "Everything we do in public life, we do together. I can't imagine it any other way."
According to CNN, Karen's influence is clear in the Pence administration's work in Indiana, most notably in the expansion of Medicaid and conservative education reforms. She is described by an unnamed Pence insider as an "integral role in shaping policy." Even Mike referred to her as "the highest ranking official in the state of Indiana" while introducing her at a recent speech.
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A business may engage in thousands of transactions during a year. Can you imagine preparing a transaction analysis, like we did in the previous unit, for all of those transactions? It would take a lot of time and the spreadsheet would be large! There has to be a better way to classify and summarize the data in these transactions to create useful information. We will learn the first part of the accounting cycle:
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Let's review what we have learned. An account is a part of the accounting system used to classify and summarize the increases, decreases, and balances of each asset, liability, stockholders' equity item, dividend, revenue, and expense. Firms set up accounts for each different business element, such as cash, accounts receivable, and accounts payable. Every business has a Cash account in its accounting system because knowledge of the amount of cash on hand is useful information.Accountants may differ on the account title (or name) they give the same item. For example, one accountant might name an account Notes Payable and another might call it Loans Payable. Both account titles refer to the amounts borrowed by the company. The account title should be logical to help the accountant group similar transactions into the same account. Once you give an account a title, you must use that same title throughout the accounting records.
Individual accounts are in order within the ledger. Each account typically has an identification number and a title to help locate accounts when recording data. For example, a company might number asset accounts, 100-199; liability accounts, 200-299; equity accounts, 300-399; revenue accounts, 400-499; and expense accounts, 500-599. We use this numbering system in this text. The uniform chart of accounts used in the first 11 chapters appears in a separate file at the end of the text. You should print that file and keep it handy for working certain problems and exercises. Companies may use other numbering systems. For instance, sometimes a company numbers its accounts in sequence starting with 1, 2, and so on. The important idea is that companies use some numbering system.
A trial balance is a listing of all accounts (in this order: asset, liability, equity, revenue, expense) with the ending account balance. It is called a trial balance because the information on the form must balance. We will illustrate this later in the chapter.Steps in recording business transactions Source documents, such as bills received from suppliers for goods or services received, bills sent to customers for goods sold or services performed, and cash register tapes provide the evidence that a business transaction occurred. After recognizing a business event as a business transaction, we analyze it to determine its increase or decrease effects on the assets, liabilities, equity, dividends, revenues, or expenses of the business. Then we translate these increase or decrease effects into debits and credits.

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Tony Dow, best known for his role in Leave It to Beaver, has been diagnosed with cancer.
The beloved actor, who played Wally Cleaver on the iconic sitcom, and his wife Lauren shared the heartbreaking news Thursday, TMZ reported.
The couple said they were grateful for fans’ prayers in advance, but didn’t reveal what type of cancer Dow is battling.
News of the ailing actor’s health problems broke in August last year when he was briefly hospitalized with pneumonia.
His concerned wife shared on Facebook that he was forced to wait 24 hours for a hospital bed due to the surge in Delta variant COVID-19 cases in California at the time.
Despite having a “violent cough” that “was causing pain all over his head,” Dow was in good spirits, with no fever, just using plenty of IV fluids, Lauren said at the time.
The Hollywood-born actor landed the role of Wally through an open audition and had almost no acting experience. After six years on the smash sitcom, he secured guest roles on My Three Sons, Dr. Kildare, Lassie and The Greatest Show on Earth before landing a recurring role on Mr. Novak.”
Unlike many doomed child stars, Dow was exploring new avenues of professional life, such as sculpting, as his career faltered, according to his website.
He took a break from the entertainment industry to serve in the National Guard from 1965 to 1968 and attended journalism school in the ’70s, according to his IMDb bio.
Dow later returned to the small screen in the ’70s with guest appearances on Adam-12, The Mod Squad, and Love American Style, and continued working on Knight Rider, Square Pegs in the ’80s. and “Murder, She Wrote” to name a few.
From 1983 to 1989 he reprized his iconic role as Wally opposite Jerry Mathers in The New Leave It to Beaver.
Dow transitioned to directing in the ’90s, stepping behind the camera to direct episodes of Coach, Babylon 5, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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Tessa Mouzourakis is an upcoming Canadian country-pop artist. Her EP was released in February on iTunes, and was recently released on Noisetrade for free download. It has a smooth blend of country, folk and pop, as well as some excellent guitar in the background. Some of the songs on her EP, however, can sound a bit too similar.
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The Pancreas and Nutrition: Your Diet during Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
This is the third in a three-part Q&A series on nutrition.
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Question: What are some of the issues unique to patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation?
Answer: Cancer treatments can damage healthy cells as well as the cancer cells. This damage can cause side effects that may make eating difficult: appetite loss, weight loss, changes in taste or smell, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, gas, sore throat or difficulty swallowing, and pain. Not every patient experiences every eating problem; it will vary depending on the person and the treatment, and some patients do not have any problems.
Q.: What is the most important thing for patients to be aware of in terms of their diet? Why? How does that differ from patients not undergoing treatment?
A.: The key to eating when undergoing treatment is to keep up your strength during the process. This can be challenging if you experience symptoms that prevent adequate nutrition. The priority should be on choosing the right foods to manage the symptoms so to improve nutrition status and prevent weight loss. Often we encourage being more liberal with food choices for this time period. For example, if the patient was following a heart healthy diet prior to treatment, it would be best to include any food that is appealing at the moment, even if the food choice is higher in fat.
Q.: How effective is following specific dietary guidelines in helping relieve symptoms?
A.: It is very helpful. A registered dietitian can work with patients to give tips and strategies to manage these eating problems.
Q.: What specifically should they eat? Avoid?
A.: This depends on what symptoms the patient is experiencing. In general, though, the primary focus is to get the most out of the foods the patient is eating and to have foods available at all times.
- Focus on calories and protein. Choose nutrient-rich foods like, nuts, meats, and eggs over vegetables and broth-based soups.
- Eat when you have the biggest appetite. Some patient’s appetites decrease as the day progresses. So if your appetite is largest in the morning, take advantage and eat a bigger breakfast!
- Keep your kitchen filled with foods that are appealing so they are easily accessible.
- Make favorite meals ahead of time and freeze so they are ready to eat.
- Ask your friends and family to help with shopping and cooking during treatment.
- Ask your medical team about oral supplements if you are experiencing a decreased appetite.


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Case volumes among advisers have remained steady in Q3, despite the political uncertainty, according to the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association’s (IMLA) Mortgage Market Tracker.
The average number of Decisions in Principle (DIPs) that intermediaries dealt with in Q3, stayed stable at 28, from 27 in Q2.
Kate Davies, (pictured), executive director of IMLA, said: “Even with deal or no deal, our Mortgage Market Tracker shows brokers are keeping themselves busy.
“From first-time buyers and those with complex circumstances to remortgagors and landlords, consumers are pressing ahead with their housing plans.
“In many cases, they are continuing to rely on the expertise of intermediaries to help them find the best mortgage for their needs.
“It’s unlikely to be a record year for the mortgage market, but as we approach the end of 2019, we can remain confident that the sector is stable and resilient in the face of wider uncertainty.”
A divide in case volumes between the regions is also clear. In Q3 advisers in the north of the UK reported average DIP volumes of 36 while in the south advisers dealt with 25.
Advisers also maintained the number of conversions from full applications to completions between Q3 2018 (72%) and Q3 2019 (73%).
The overall conversion rate of DIPs to completions has also remained stable year-on-year at 48%.


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Graphic novels have come into their own in the publishing world—and from a critical literacy standpoint, it’s well deserved. Unlike their more traditional text-only counterparts, contemporary graphic novels trend toward diverse voices and stories, and in the past 10 years the market for these stories has skyrocketed. Nearly every traditional publishing house is seeking to add graphic novels to its list. As a result, publishers are seeking a greater variety of stories and voices from talented but lesser-known authors who might not have been picked up otherwise. This trend is good news for educators who care about social justice. A teacher wanting to expose her students to diverse perspectives and narratives could do no better right now than to look toward graphic novels.
Graphic novels are also slowly escaping the stereotype that they are picture books with no value to literacy instruction. Their new status opens avenues for more educators to realize that these texts can be taught using nearly the same approaches as any other book, fiction or non. Even most state and Common Core English Language Arts and literacy standards can be taught via graphic novels. They can be used in nearly every subject and are particularly valuable as counter-texts in social studies and ELA classrooms.
Young adult author Laura Williams McCaffrey teaches graphic novels as texts in her ELA classes at an alternative middle and high school in Vermont and also includes them as part of her curriculum in a masters of fine arts program.
“The discussions contain a lot that we’d consider during discussions of prose,” McCaffrey says. “We examine character development, aspects of plot, theme and real-world relevance. Even the discussions of style and tone relate to style and tone as these are expressed by prose writers.”
Using graphic novels does, however, require a sophisticated set of skills and understanding of a few basic differences between illustrated and all-text narratives. Setting, pacing, and story structure are largely the same, but the units used to tell the story differ. Words can be either dialogue or narration. Images are divided into panels, which are separated by gutters laid out strategically on the page.
McCaffrey also notes several examples of opportunities graphic novels offer to focus on visual literacy. “We might discuss repeated images that become symbols over the course of a story. We might also discuss visual style. What is the difference between the style Gene Luen Yang uses and [that of] Marjane Satrapi or Art Spiegelman? We might discuss stylistic contrasts within a text. In addition, we discuss the relationships between aspects of the story that are relayed through words and aspects relayed through images.”
The narrative of a graphic novel is carried by images instead of words. Readers often have to infer what has happened during the transition from one panel to the next, a cognitive leap referred to as “closure.” Effective use of graphic novels in the classroom helps students analyze how authors juxtapose images to create moments of closure.
Worth a Thousand Words
One of the main difficulties with teaching literacy standards to English language learners and other students who are not reading at grade level is that the texts they can read are generally not complex enough to meet the appropriate standards. But these students can read much more sophisticated graphic novels because the brunt of the storytelling burden lies in the pictures. A high school student, for instance, with no written English proficiency at all can analyze theme, structure, character and point of view in a complex graphic novel like Shaun Tan’s critically acclaimed The Arrival. In fact, the only Common Core ELA-Literacy standard he could not study with that book is standard RL.6.4: “Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text.” The Arrival is wordless. And because there are so many quality international narratives and stories from different cultural perspectives, they are often more directly relevant to the experiences of English language learners.
Because closure requires a high level of reader participation, the emotional impact of graphic novels can be quite high. Particularly if the student is reading about something outside his realm of experience, such as the civil rights movement, closure can generate reader empathy for the characters in the story. This makes graphic novels especially valuable to social justice educators who want to provide their students with windows into multiple identities and experiences. This approach is an extension of contact theory: Research indicates that exposure to diverse voices and experiences can reduce in-group/out-group prejudices, even when the exposure occurs through reading.
As with comic books, graphic novels’ smaller cousins, the dramatic impact of these visual texts lends itself to subject matter related to struggle, conflict, injustice and other highly emotional topics. (See examples like Maus by Art Spiegelman, The Wall by Peter Sis, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.) Depending on the artist’s intent, the story might be depicted literally or veiled as an allegory or a counter-text alternative to more traditional narratives. In any event, social justice content may be both empowering and unsettling for young readers.
“[Graphic novels] contain powerful images, some of which have been used in the past as stereotypes or slurs,” says McCaffrey. “The presence of these images in the stories forces readers to confront them and discuss them. … The stories also include visual representations of protagonists we don’t always see represented as protagonists.”
Reading and teaching graphic novels through a critical literacy lens offers opportunities for students to question the text and make meaning of images and of characters who, as McCaffrey points out, they may not be used to seeing as protagonists. In this way, the genre draws on the history of zines, historically created and distributed through grassroots efforts to inform and empower specific audiences. In some cases zines—and even commercial comic books—have been used to spread subversive images and messages aimed at undermining powerful or unjust entities, as in the case of the classic underground comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, which served as a nonviolence primer for African Americans in the deep South during the 1950s. This text is also a primary source, an artifact of history that played an active role in furthering the civil rights movement.
Another way to extend the learning benefits of teaching graphic novels is to let students create their own. This is the approach that Chris Slakey, an ELA teacher at De Vargas Middle School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, takes through a partnership with the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI). According to Nicole Davis, an education program associate with SFAI, the project started to help students become more aware of the issues that affect their own lives and neighborhoods.
“A large majority of De Vargas kids deal with a lot of everyday racism,” says Davis. “Last year, we had a student who wrote his entire graphic novel about a man who lives in his neighborhood and yells racial slurs at the children when they play outside. When this student shared his project with his peers, a majority said they had their own stories of racism or xenophobia.”
The potential for transformation is not lost on Slakey. Although many of his students are reluctant to talk about their own experiences with injustice, the opportunity to tell their stories through graphic art allows them to change the power dynamics surrounding their negative experiences. “They can … talk about things they’ve been through, but through the creation of these other characters,” says Slakey. “It allows them a shield.”
Watts is a writer and educator based in in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A Modern Classic
In August of 2013, Congressman John Lewis, a lifelong human rights advocate and civil rights activist, released March: Book One, the first volume in a trilogy of graphic novels detailing Lewis’ experiences at the forefront of the civil rights movement. It was a surprise smash hit, debuting at number one on both The New York Times and The Washington Post bestseller lists.
More importantly, however, March has quickly captured the imaginations of thousands of young readers and become a critical resource for educators seeking creative and engaging materials to deliver the history of the civil rights movement into the hands of students.
March: Book One spans Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing encounter with Martin Luther King Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, his arrest at a nonviolent sit-in protesting a segregated lunch counter and builds to a stunning climax on the steps of Nashville City Hall. In its creation, Lewis drew from his memories of Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story and how it helped prepare his own generation to study nonviolence and join the struggle for civil rights.
Lewis intentionally continues this legacy by using graphic art to bear eyewitness to one of our nation’s most historic struggles. His writing is personal, the drawings are vivid and dynamic, and the message powerful and provocative. Says Lewis about his motivation for writing March, “We wanted to make it plain, clear and simple for another generation to understand, not just my story, but a story of a long and ongoing struggle to bring about justice in America.”
The Washington Post declared, “Lewis’ gripping memoir should be stocked in every school and shelved at every library.” It is well on its way. March: Book One has already been taught in over 30 states at the postsecondary level with several schools adopting it as common reading for all students. Teachers at the middle- and high-school levels also report that their students eagerly dive into the visual narrative of March and learn critical literacy skills and civil rights history at a level of depth and sophistication not offered by most traditional textbooks.
As identified by Teaching Tolerance, all nine of the essential areas for civil rights education (events, leaders, groups, history, obstacles, tactics, connections to other movements, current events and civil participation) can be found within the pages of March. The book’s themes—equality, citizenship, agency and collective action—are more than just lessons of history. This vivid rendering of Lewis’ story stimulates both robust learning about the past and critical thinking about current and future events, making March a powerful and urgently relevant title for today’s classrooms.
March: Book One was co-authored by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin and features the art of Nate Powell. A free teacher’s guide is available at the Top Shelf Productions website. Look for the release of March: Book Two this month!


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Since the Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) have been introduced, several single model based EDAs and mixture model based EDAs have been developed. Take Gaussian models as an example, EDAs based on single Gaussian distribution have good performance on solving simple unimodal functions and multimodal functions whose landscape has an obvious trend towards the global optimum. But they have difficulties in solving multimodal functions with irregular landscapes, such as wide basins, flat plateaus and deep valleys. Gaussian mixture model based EDAs have been developed to remedy this disadvantage of single Gaussian based EDAs. A general framework NichingEDA is presented in this paper from a new perspective to boost single model based EDAs' performance. Through adopting a niching method and recombination operators in a population of EDAs, NichingEDA significantly boosts the traditional single model based EDAs' performance by making use of the diversity inside the EDA population on hard problems without estimating a precise distribution. Our experimental studies have shown that NichingEDA is very effective for some hard global optimization problems, although its scalability to high dimensional functions needs improving. Analyses and discussions are presented to explain why NichingEDA performed well/poorly on certain benchmark functions. © 2008 IEEE.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Hey Everybody, It's been a While
I know...I haven't posted in a long time, I am still having some technological issues and I am in the middle of midterms(over tomorrow YAY!!!), but I will soon be on Spring Break. Once I have some more time and a computer, I will be sure to put up a killer post or two and I will add the playlists from my last few radio shows. In the mean time, i encourage you all to dig Clarence Wheeler and the Enforcers. They are a soul jazz combo who recorded two albums for Atlantic Records in the early 70s. The above cover of the Beatles' "Hey Jude," is off of there first release Doin' What We Wanna. The song below, "Right On," is is also off of their first album. It features the vocal stylings of Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney Houston) who was also a featured vocalist with Aretha Franklin around this time. The track is also featured on the wonderful What It Is compilation released last year by Rhino Records. Also, if any of you need some new reading material, you should check out the new issue of Waxpoetics that hit stands yesterday. Among other great articles is a tribute to Oscar Peterson and an article about Eddie Harris. The Cover article is about Grand Master Flash. If that doesn;t excite...WHAT WILL?


High-Speed Mechanical PressesOctober 31, 2023
As seen at FABTECH...Stamtec showcased its new HS2-series high-speed mechanical presses, with an HS2-110-60-31 under power. The press’s eccentric shaft is engineered to be stronger than a traditional crankshaft. It is available either flywheel-driven with its eccentric shaft directly coupled to the flywheel with no reduction gearing for higher speeds, or gear-driven with its eccentric shaft with reduction gearing for more torque at slower speeds. It is equipped with precision, dynamic balancing for vibration reduction. Standard on all HS2 presses are motorized slide adjustment, e-stops, air connectors, and automatic oil cooling. Capacities in 110, 165, and 220 tons. Other press features include a recirculating lubrication system with oil cooling and heating and hydraulic stick-release device.The 110-ton-capacity press provides a 2.52-in. stroke length and 15.98-in. die height, with a 60 by 31-in. bolster area and powered slide adjustment of 3.94 in. Press speed: 175-350 strokes/min.
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Title: Runnymede and Lincoln Fair
Author and Title: John George Edgar. Runnymede and Lincoln Fair: A Story of the Great Charter
First Edition: London: S. O. Beeton, 1866. 1 volume.
Summary: Illustrated by Robert Dudley. Published in March; in May of the same year Ward and Lock issued a reprint.
References: BL; NLS; Princeton; Yale

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