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|At some point during surgical residency, most interns get a sense of who they are as doctors and the kinds of surgeons they are going to become. If you ask them, they'll tell you they are going to be general surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons. Distinctions which do more than describe their area of expertise, they help define who they are, because outside the operating room, not only do most surgeons have no idea who they are, they're afraid to find out.
What I Am is the fourth episode of the third season and the 40th overall episode of Grey's Anatomy.
Short SummaryEdit
Dr. Mark Sloan joins the staff as the new head of Plastic surgery and instantly rubs up against everyone. Addison is distracted and her medical judgment compromised by Mark's arrival, and similarly, Derek is also distracted, but clears Burke for surgery. Izzie meets with Denny's father, who is also named Denny and who reveals a bombshell for Izzie. Meredith's policy on dating two men is getting to her, and the interns and Bailey suspect she's pregnant. However, it turns out to be appendicitis. Meredith is put on morphine for the pain, and hilarity ensues, but not for everyone around her.
Full SummaryEdit
As the interns arrive at work while the attendings and residents are operating, Meredith's voice over talks about how their chosen specialties also describe people. Meredith appears not to feel well.
Burke cuts a chicken in half and asks Cristina to time him. She has been doing that and reminds him it's not about time. It's about accuracy, and his stitches are perfect. As she pours herself some coffee, she tells him he's ready. He shouldn't doubt himself. Shepherd will clear him. As she's on her way out, Burke's hand shows a tremor. He wants to tell her, but then decides against it.
In the locker room, Alex brings up that Callie told him that George threw her out. However, he gets it since Callie is hot and thereby not right for George.
George chases after Callie and admits that she was right. He should have told her how he felt, but he's not good at talking about feelings. Callie knows he has no problem talking to Meredith or Izzie. Bailey, who's in no mood, then passes for rounds. George quickly tells Callie that he misses her and joins Bailey.
Cristina also joins them and Alex points out she's late. Meredith stays behind a bit and she tells Cristina she's not feeling well because the stress of dating two guys is getting to her.
George presents the case of Shawn Sullivan, who has had minimally-invasive bypass surgery. Shawn would love to go home and go back to work. His wife assures him they can't can him since he's the best salesman. Bailey tells him to put the oxygen mask back on, and she also wants his word on no fried food, no alcohol, and no cigarettes. He gives her his word, so Bailey tells Mrs. Sullivan to go fill out the paperwork to take her husband home.
Addison joins Alex in a patient room, where he informs her that the baby's still at minus three station. Addison asks how they progress. Alex says they monitor the baby and if the descent stops entirely during active labor, they perform a C-section. The woman objects since she wants a natural birth, saying she won't miss out on that experience because it's more convenient for them.
As they exit Shawn's room, Bailey notices that Meredith's not feeling well. Derek comes over and asks Meredith if she wants to assist him to clip an aneurysm. Addison comes over to ask Bailey something, and then everyone sees Mark shaking hands with Richard and a board member in a conference room. Meredith then throws up, drawing everyone's attention to her, until George suddenly screams to prevent Shawn from lighting his cigarette. However, the warning comes too late and Shawn's face is engulfed in flames. The doctors rush in and Bailey calls a code red.
Mark is checking on Shawn. Bailey says he's out. He has a small hematoma in the occipital region. Mark tells her to take Shawn to the burn unit and to get a CT.
Derek is worried over Meredith, who tells him he has other stuff to do. He asks Cristina to look after Meredith and walks up to Richard to confront him. Cristina, George, and Meredith observe all the unfolding drama. Richard walks off with Derek following him up the stairs. Addison walks up to Mark and questions him about being here. He claims he needed a change, so he sold the practice. Meanwhile, Derek tells Richard that Mark is a cheat and a liar. Richard points out he's a great surgeon and he'll generate twice the revenue that neurosurgery does. Derek reminds him of what Mark and Addison did, but Richard says people make mistakes. Meredith then throws up again and Cristina loudly wonders if she's pregnant. Derek then comes down the stairs and walks up to Meredith, but Bailey tells him he's done enough already. As Cristina takes Meredith away, Mrs. Sullivan comes over to ask Bailey when she can take Shawn home now that the paperwork is filled out.
Cristina is examining Meredith. If she's pregnant, it would have to be Derek's. Upon hearing she hasn't had sex with the vet yet, she urges Meredith to get out of that relationship. Bailey comes in and says a pregnancy is officially ruled out. They'll have to run more tests. Meredith asks for morphine.
Addison asks Alex to check the fetal monitor every 30 minutes. Alex wonders what the point is since they both know they'll have to cut eventually, so why not get it over with? Addison says the patient doesn't want it. Alex then requests she cut him loose so he can actually learn something on a surgical case. Addison knows where he wants to go and says that Mark has nothing to teach him. He only cares about himself, like Alex. Alex says everybody looks out for themselves, or they should. Addison tells him to get out of her face.
Derek is examining Burke's arm while going on and on about how Mark shouldn't be teaching their interns. Burke tries to talk about the tremor, but he won't listen. Derek says his arm has a great range of motion so Burke can clear him for surgery. Just as Derek asks if he's been experiencing problems, Cristina comes in and says no. Derek's glad to hear that. He asks about Meredith. Cristina says she's not pregnant.
Izzie's at Joe's to meet somebody she hasn't met before. As she's talking to Joe, an older man comes in. Izzie turns around and greets him. He's Denny's father, Denny Duquette, Sr.
Denny tells Izzie that she's not really his son's type. He'd go for dark-haired smart girls. Obviously, she's smart, too, since she's a doctor. Izzie says she's not anymore. Denny talked to Dr. Webber, who referred him to Izzie for the full story. He'd like to hear that.
Alex finds Mark in the burn unit. Shawn is very concerned about his face. Mark says he's going to remove the burned tissue and apply a dressing of live cells. Shawn's wife says his face is very important for his job. Mark says he'll do everything he can. He asks Alex for a neuro consult. Alex asks if there's anything else he can do. Mark asks him to get a double bone dry cappuccino.
Cristina's charting as she's sitting with a high Meredith. Meredith says that if she died today, people would remember her as the slutty intern who dated two doctors because she couldn't make a choice. Bailey comes in and lists all her symptoms. It's appendicitis. She tells George to prep Meredith for surgery. He's scrubbing in. Meredith recalls the last time he scrubbed in on an appendectomy and almost killed the guy, but Bailey refuses to let George bow out.
George runs into Callie in the stairwell. She heard about Meredith. She tells George she was thinking about a late supper at the Archfield. He wonders how she can afford to stay there. She says she has some secrets and she might show him a couple if he shows up tonight.
Bailey goes to ask Mark about Shawn, but he doesn't recognize her from this morning and dismisses her.
Cristina runs into Burke and congratulates him. He thinks Shepherd shouldn't have cleared him. Cristina asks why, but he won't tell her more.
Addison's checking on Rebecca. They don't have more time since the baby's heart rate is slowing down with each contraction and they need to be careful for late decels. Rebecca asks if he's having late decels yet. Rebecca wants Addison to stop scaring her into an operation she doesn't want. She refuses to be weak. Addison says her birth plan is just a plan. Rebecca screams at Addison to get out. Addison does so.
Outside, Bailey asks Addison since when she gets out. Addison says she's not herself today. Bailey says she never figured Mark Sloan to be her type. Addison says she can't have Mark here. She can't function with him around. Bailey advises her to keep her knees closed in his present and to remember that no man defines who she is.
Derek's checking on Meredith, who brings up she's dating many men. There's him, and Finn. Derek says he doesn't see any vets around. Finn then tells him to turn around. He enters the room with flowers. Meredith says it helps that she's on drugs right now.
Derek gets paged, but he says he can stay. As the tension between him and Finn rises, George comes in to prep Meredith. She says now all her boys are here and that they are all good kissers. Finn didn't know about George. Meredith says it was more a disastrously uncomfortable sexual experience. Bailey then appears and tells Finn and Derek to go. Both Derek and Finn tell Meredith they'll be there when she wakes up. Bailey closes the door behind them.
Cristina finds Burke down in the morgue, about to practice on a cadaver. She again tells him that his hand is fine. He snaps at her. She asks if he's mad at her. He tells her not to worry about it. She refuses to leave, so he asks her to time him.
Izzie talks to Denny about the transplant. Denny doesn't care about the medicine. He wants to know how Izzie went from being his son's doctor to his son's fiancée mere hours before he died.
Derek is checking on Shawn. He recommends a night of observation, but Mark wonders if that is really necessary since the risk of infection is greater if they wait. Derek wants to prioritize life-threatening issues over cosmetics. They start arguing until Shawn's wife interrupts. She says Shawn was trying to keep his word to Bailey and figured he could have one last cigarette before going home. He now knows he was wrong, but a salesman is who he is. They need Mark to fix his face.
Mark and Derek distance themselves. Mark asks how he justifies him and Meredith if what he and Addison did is so unforgivable. Mark tells Derek that they're the same.
Addison passes Meredith's room and Meredith calls her in. Addison checks her chart and she's relieved to see that Meredith's not pregnant. Meredith says she's trying to decide between two men. She asks how Addison knew that Derek was the one. She knows Addison owes her nothing. Addison says she didn't know Derek was the one. She just knew Derek would never hurt her on purpose. Meredith says he hurt her when he chose Addison. Addison says she should have stepped aside and been a better person. Addison says she doesn't hate Meredith, but they're only talking like this because she knows Meredith won't remember a word once the drugs wear off.
A nurse shows Alex the fetal monitor images. The baby's having late decels.
Derek catches Addison as she exits Meredith's room. She tells him not to hurt Meredith again. Alex comes over and shows Addison the paper. It may now be too late for a C-section for both the baby and the mother. Addison says they're doing a crash C right away.
Rebecca is in severe pain. Addison tells her that they need to get the baby out right now. It's no longer a conversation. Addison's not about to lose either one of them.
Izzie tells Denny that Denny was her patient for months. Denny asks how she's planning on paying back her debt now that she's quit her job. He thinks she wanted Denny to pay it for her. Izzie is offended and questions where he was when Denny needed him. She worked 80-hour weeks and yet she was always there for him. Denny Sr. may not get her, but she also doesn't get how he abandoned his dying son. Denny asks if that's what his son told her. He says that's not the truth.
Burke needs to stretch his hand, but the tremor shows up. He can't hold his hand still long enough to attach the graft. Cristina is shocked as she thought his hand was fine. He yells it's not. She wanted him to be fine. She wants him to be Preston Burke. His hands are who he is. Cristina says she could hold the vessel so he can attach the graft. They pull it off. She says nobody has to know.
Richard catches up with Derek and brings up the Mark situation again. Derek understands he did what he thought was best for the hospital. Derek asks Richard why he left Meredith's mother. Richard says he could've gone away with Ellis, but he would have so much guilt that he never would have made Ellis happy, not like she deserved. He loved her enough to walk away.
George is wheeling Meredith to the OR. She asks him to keep her draped on the table since enough people have seen her naked already. She sees Mark and calls him over with his nickname. He asks how his favorite dirty mistress is doing. She says she's an adulterous whore now.
Rebecca admires her newborn son and thanks Addison, who's finishing up. Alex leaves the OR.
Bailey has taken out the appendix. She allows George to take over where he went wrong last time.
Alex enters Mark's OR and says he got pulled into an emergency C-section. Since he also has no coffee, Mark says maybe he can scrub in next time, if OB can spare him.
Derek finds Finn waiting in Meredith's room. Finn says Meredith told him that Derek fishes. They have that in common. Finn says his deceased wife hated it. Derek didn't know that he had a wife. Derek tells Finn he's a good guy and leaves.
Denny's talking to Izzie about how they went from doctor to doctor, all with a different opinion. He and his wife didn't handle the situation very well. One day, they came home to a note from Denny saying he didn't want them to have to watch him die. So he left. They thought he was dead all this time. Izzie is emotional and swears she didn't know. She says she paid off her debt from med school. She understands he's trying to protect his son. When she met Denny, she was going to be a surgeon. She had everything she needed. She misses him. Denny then gives her an envelope from his son.
Callie enters the locker room and asks if he's ready to go. He apologizes, but he has to go home because there's something with Izzie. Callie says it's always Izzie or Meredith, but never her. She asks if he even knows if she's his girlfriend or someone he messes around with. Either way, he doesn't have to figure it out because she's done.
Bailey joins Mark as he updates Shawn and his wife. He warns them that his face may never be exactly as it was. There will be scarring. Shawn and his wife are disappointed. Mark doesn't know what to say, but Bailey jumps in. She tells Shawn he has an incredible wife and half a dozen of car salesmen waiting in the lobby. His face may be different, but they all know it's not about what you look like or your success. It's about having people in your life who love you and whom you love. That's all that matters.
Derek joins Finn and Meredith in her room. Finn leaves to get ice chips. Meredith asks Derek how badly she embarrassed herself. He sits down on the bed and tells her she deserves to be with somebody who makes her happy and who won't hurt her. Finn is the better guy. Derek is walking away. He gets up and leaves.
George is sitting with Izzie. She tells him Denny left his parents a message the night he died. She couldn't listen to it alone. George takes her hand.
Mark catches up with Addison and asks if they can talk. She thought she made it clear she didn't want him here. If he insists on staying, he should know they are nothing but co-workers. She then walks up to Alex and announces that he's officially off her service. But she thinks he's going to miss her.
Izzie picks up the phone and starts listening to the message. He tells his parents about his new heart and that Izzie has agreed to marry him. He apologizes for being out of touch.
Cristina comes home to Burke cooking dinner.
Denny's message says he knows they're angry with him, but he hopes they can forgive him. He says you sometimes have to do the wrong thing.
Mark sits down at the bar next to Callie, who recognizes him and introduces herself. They've both had a bad day. He asks her what exactly she's heard about him. She replies mostly things that include the words dirty and bad. He guesses there's no starting over. He asks if he can buy her a drink. She grabs her stuff and tells him only if he can have it delivered to her hotel room since she's off to bed. She turns around and asks if he's coming.
Denny says you sometimes have to make a big mistake in order to figure out how to make things right.
Finn asks Meredith when visiting hours start. She tells him he shouldn't do that. He understands she's chosen Derek. She apologizes. He asks why. She tells him he's a great guy and maybe even the better guy. But he's the one, even though she wishes he wasn't. Finn says he's going to hurt her again, and when that happens, he won't be there. He tells her to take care of herself and leaves.
Denny says mistakes are painful, but they are the only way to find out who you really are. He knows who he is now and what he wants. He has a new heart and the love of his life. He asks his parents to get on the next plane and meet his girl. Everything's going to be different now.
As Izzie's listening to the message, George has opened the envelope. There's a check for 8.7 million dollars in there for Izzie.
Main CastEdit
- Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey
- Sandra Oh as Dr. Cristina Yang
- Katherine Heigl as Dr. Izzie Stevens
- Justin Chambers as Dr. Alex Karev
- T.R. Knight as Dr. George O'Malley
- Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
- James Pickens, Jr. as Dr. Richard Webber
- Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd
- Sara Ramírez as Dr. Callie Torres
- Eric Dane as Dr. Mark Sloan
- Isaiah Washington as Dr. Preston Burke
- Patrick Dempsey as Dr. Derek Shepherd
Special Guest StarsEdit
Guest StarsEdit
- Stephanie Faracy as Mrs. Sullivan
- Tina Holmes as Rebecca Bloom
- Alan Blumenfeld as Shawn Sullivan
- Steven W. Bailey as Joe
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Denny Duquette (voice)
Medical NotesEdit
Bailey's PatientEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Doctors:
- Miranda Bailey (surgical resident)
- Treatment:
- Surgery
Bailey was seen operating on a patient.
Callie's PatientEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Doctors:
- Callie Torres (orthopedic surgery resident)
- Treatment:
- Surgery
Callie was seen operating on a patient.
Derek's PatientEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Doctors:
- Derek Shepherd (neurosurgeon)
- Treatment:
- Surgery
Derek was seen operating on a patient.
Preston BurkeEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Brachial plexus injury
- Tremor
- Doctors:
- Derek Shepherd (neurosurgeon)
- Treatment:
- Physical therapy
Burke was progressing well in his physical therapy, but also had a tremor in his hand. Derek, not knowing about the tremor, cleared him to go back to work.
Shawn SullivanEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Facial burns
- Hematoma
- Doctors:
- Derek Shepherd (neurosurgeon)
- Mark Sloan (plastic surgeon)
- Miranda Bailey (surgical resident)
- George O'Malley (surgical intern)
- Treatment:
- Surgery
Shawn, 62, was two days post-op on minimally invasive heart surgery. He was all set to be discharged, but before that could happen, he smoked a cigarette and ignited his oxygen supply, causing burns to his face and a small hematoma to his occipital region. Mark made a plan to treat the burns, but first called for a neuro consult. Derek recommended a day of observation before proceeding with burn treatment. Despite this recommendation, Mark operated immediately, removing the dead tissue and applying live cells. The hope was that they would take in a few weeks, but he was advised that his face wouldn't be the same as it was before.
Rebecca BloomEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Pregnancy
- Doctors:
- Addison Montgomery-Shepherd (OB/GYN)
- Alex Karev (surgical intern)
- Treatment:
- C-section delivery
Rebecca was at 8 cm dilation, but her baby was only at minus 3 station. Because she had a "natural birth plan," she refused a c-section. Later, the baby started having late decels and she was forced to have a c-section.
Derek's Other PatientEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Aneurysm
- Doctors:
- Derek Shepherd (neurosurgeon)
- Treatment:
- Surgery
Derek invited Meredith to scrub in on an aneurysm clipping with him.
Meredith GreyEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Appendicitis
- Doctors:
- Miranda Bailey (surgical resident)
- Cristina Yang (surgical intern)
- George O'Malley (surgical intern)
- Treatment:
- Appendectomy
Meredith threw up at work, causing her and others to suspect that she was pregnant. However, when the test showed she wasn't, they diagnosed appendicitis and she was taken in for an appendectomy, which went well.
|"If Looks Could Kill"
|Camera Obscura
|"Standing In the Way of Control"
|The Gossip
|"Back in Time"
|Au Revoir Simone
|Kate Havnevik
|TV on the Radio
|"Fall for Nothing"
|Mindy Smith
Notes and TriviaEdit
- This episode's title originated from the song What I Am, originally sung by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians.
- This episode scored 22.88 million viewers.
- This episode marks the final appearance of Finn Dandridge.
- The check to Izzie at the end of the episode reveals Denny's full name as Dennison.
Episode StillsEdit
- Cristina: Holy crap, are you pregnant?!
- (everyone stops and stares and Meredith)
- Addison: Oh great, an adulteress love child.
- Derek: Goes along with an adulteress sociopath. (walking by her) Meredith!
- Cristina: So, who's the father?
- Meredith: I'm not pregnant.
- Cristina: I didn't know I was pregnant when I was pregnant either. But the abdominal pain, fever and the nonstop vomiting?
- Meredith: I'm not pregnant.
- Cristina: You don't know who the father is, do you?
- Meredith: It would have to be Derek's, there's no way it could be Finn's.
- Cristina: You haven't had sex with the vet yet? You gotta get out of that relationship immediately.
- Meredith: I can't be pregnant, can I?
- Cristina: With a McBaby!
- Meredith: Was I this mean to you when you were pregnant?
- Meredith: (to George) When I'm on the table, keep me draped. Too many people have seen me naked already. I'd like to keep whatever dignity I have left. (sees Mark) It's McSteamy. McSteamy! Yoo hoo!
- Mark: McSteamy? That's what you're calling me now?
- Meredith: Yes, but I don't think you are supposed to know.
- Mark: How's my favorite dirty mistress?
- Meredith: Haven't you heard? Now I'm an adulterous whore!
- Denny: Dad, mom...It's me. I'm calling from Seattle Grace Hospital where the - the beautiful, talented and incredibly stubborn Dr. Isobel Stevens has, she's just given me a brand new heart and promised to marry me. I know we've had our differences and I'm sorry we've been out of touch. Believe it or not I was - I was trying to make everything better. I know you're angry and I hope you'll forgive me. It turns out, sometimes you have to do the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are. I know who I am now. I know what I want. I've got the love of my life, a new heart and I want you guys to get on the next plane out here and meet my girl. Everything's gonna be different now, I promise. From here on out, nothings ever going to be the same. I love you, bye.
See AlsoEdit
A complete overview of this episode's crew can be found here.
The Grey Matter blog post on this episode can be found here.
|Grey's Anatomy Season 3
|"Time Has Come Today"
|"Don't Stand So Close to Me"
|"My Favorite Mistake"
|"I Am a Tree"
|"Six Days, Part 1"
|"Time After Time"
|"Sometimes a Fantasy"
|"Six Days, Part 2"
|"What I Am"
|"Great Expectations"
|"The Other Side of This Life, Part 1"
|"Oh, the Guilt"
|"Wishin' and Hopin'"
|"The Other Side of This Life, Part 2"
|"Let the Angels Commit"
|"Walk on Water"
|"Testing 1-2-3"
|"Where the Boys Are"
|"Drowning on Dry Land"
|"Didn't We Almost Have It All?"
|"Staring at the Sun"
|"Some Kind of Miracle"
|"From a Whisper to a Scream"
|"Scars and Souvenirs"
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The Role of Neural Plasticity in Tinnitus
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There is evidence from many studies that plastic changes in the central nervous system are involved in causing many forms of tinnitus.
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Expression of neural plasticity may cause symptoms of sensory system disorders by changing neural processing and rerouting of information.
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Rerouting of information through activation of neural plasticity may explain the occurrence of affective symptoms (mood disorders), phantom sensations, improved perceptual capabilities, or atypical sensory experiences such as phantom sensations, tinnitus, and neuropathic pain.
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Changes in the processing of information may cause hyperacusis and distortion of sounds in connection with some forms of tinnitus.
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There is evidence that the nonclassical auditory pathways in adults may be activated through expression of neural plasticity, causing cross-modal interaction in some individuals with tinnitus.
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In the whole of the UK, there are more than 6,000 people on the list, including more than 180 children.
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Digital technologies in the retail environment are a hot topic. The added value is evident to the retail companies – Artificial Intelligence, algorithms and their binary cousins all contribute to a better understanding of the customer and to making them precisely tailored offers. But what's the plus for the customer? For them, these technologies above all need to add convenience and match the specific circumstances of their lives. All this is revealed in the new study entitled 'Future Retail' carried out by ECC Cologne and the Otto Group.
Amongst all the shopping-relevant technological offers, the most loved are those that make the shopping process as easy as possible for consumers, from the order right through to delivery – 'convenience' is the magic word here. The smartphone as the consumer's constant companion is their prime means of access to digital services throughout the customer journey. Specifically, this means that for customers to adopt a technology, it needs to save them time and / or money, be flexible and usable independent of their location, be entertaining, enable communication – and raise the aforementioned level of convenience.
"The results show that as retailers we cannot afford to sit back. We need to rise to new challenges constantly, which bring with them repeated changes in purchasing behaviour as well as new expectations from our customers. If we intend to remain successful for the long term we need to listen harder than ever before, and become a problem-solver", affirms Dr Marcus Ackermann, Otto Group.
A particular focus is on two main consumer target groups that display partly very different user behaviour. While the 'innovators' are eager for new technologies and drive the broad-based adoption of new e-commerce solutions, the 'laggard' consumer group is far more reserved towards new technologies. The major challenge for online retailers in the immediate future will almost certainly be delivering the right offers in the complex area between these two poles. In this effort, handling customer data transparently and fairly can serve as a common framework. After all, 59 percent of all survey respondees trusted German companies to handle their personal data correctly – a clear trust advantage versus US and Chinese providers, for instance.
'Artificial Intelligence (AI)', 'algorithms' and 'bots' are just a few of the numerous terms that crop up in the context of digital services. However, nowhere near all consumers know what each of these really imply. While around 88 per cent of respondees stated they knew what 'AI' is, just 33 and 16 percent respectively had a rough grasp of 'Augmented Reality' or 'Voice Commerce'. That's not all: many consumers' own beliefs differed widely from reality regarding these topics.
"Besides the technological added value itself, it is essential to communicate comprehensibly on the new digital services – because transparent communication, also concerning data release, helps to break down barriers to consumer use", believes Dr Eva Stüber, Member of the Executive Board, IFH Cologne.
The study also reveals that consumers are frequently unaware of precisely which data they are releasing when they use certain digital services. In fact, with the actual use of many digital services, consumers' prevalent belief that they do not release data is not justified. 63 percent of respondees believed they had never released data on any personal contacts – however, 95 percent of them regularly use WhatsApp. As a further example, around half of those surveyed believed they had never yet released data on their own purchasing behaviour, although 74 percent of them regularly used credit cards and 90 percent regularly shopped online. These results indicate that the majority of consumers are unaware of which data they actually release when they use digital services
The study 'Future Retail' carried out by ECC Cologne and the Otto Group examines the digitalisation of society, digital technologies, and in particular the handling of data and data release. Further, it analyses under which conditions digital offers gain long-term acceptance with consumers. For these purposes, in January 2019 two focus groups were formed and five in-depth interviews with respondees aged from 18 to 49 were held at two locations in Germany; in March 2019 2,000 Internet users aged from 18 to 69 were surveyed.
A copy of the study can be ordered from the IFH Cologne online shop: www.ifhshop.de/handel-mit-der-zukunft (in german language).
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Founded in Germany in 1949, today the Otto Group is a globally active retail and services group with around 52,560 employees in 30 major company groups and does business in over 30 countries in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Its business activities are grouped into three segments: Multichannel Retail, Financial Services, and Service. In Multichannel Retail the Group's investment focus is on the Platform (OTTO), Brands (Bonprix, Crate and Barrel, Witt Group) and Retailers (About you, Mytoys Group) business areas. In Service the focus company is Hermes Europe, and in Financial Services the EOS Group. In the Start-up area the Group focuses on OGDS, Project A and Eventures. In the 2018/19 financial year (to 28 February), the Otto Group generated revenues of 13.4 billion euros. With online revenues of approximately 7.7 billion euros, the Otto Group is one of the world's largest online retailers. The Group's particular strength is its broad market presence with differentiated product and service offers to diverse customer target groups in almost all of the world's relevant economic regions. Numerous strategic partnerships and joint ventures provide the Otto Group with excellent opportunities to transfer know-how and leverage areas of synergy potential. Group companies demonstrate a high degree of corporate responsibility and willingness to collaborate with one another; at the same time this guarantees flexibility, customer proximity and optimum target-group appeal in their respective national markets.
Integrated in IFH Cologne, ECC Cologne is the first point of contact for trends and developments in the world of digital retail. Retailers, producers and service providers benefit from ECC Cologne's unique market and customer insights as well as bespoke market research and strategic consultancy. Through the ECC Club (www.ecc-club.de) ECC Cologne offers a unique content and networking platform for e-commerce decision-makers. ECC Cologne stands for Content. Commerce. ONE Community.
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SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. – Senior captain Kirsten Kilburn scored the game-winning tally in the 77th minute to lift the Mount Holyoke College field hockey team to a 3-2 overtime victory against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action on Saturday afternoon.
With the win, the #17 Lyons improve to 13-2 overall and 6-1 in conference play. MHC now owns sole possession of second-place in the NEWMAC standings with one conference game remaining. The Engineers suffered just their third loss of the season and now stand at 10-3 overall and 5-2 in the NEWMAC. MIT is third in the conference standings, also having one NEWMAC game remaining.
Locked in a 2-all tie at the end of regulation, Mount Holyoke came out charging in the overtime session, peppering the Engineers with 10 shots. Shortly after a shot saved at the goalie's feet by first year Sophie Perekslis (Sheffield, Mass./Berkshire School), the Lyons saw Kilburn (North Branford, Conn./North Branford) blast the ball from the top of the arc. Her shot careened into traffic and was deflected in for the game-winner.
The goal for Kilburn, coupled with her earlier goal to open the contest, moved her even closer to the all-time goal scoring record. She now has 60 in her career, just seven shy of the record held by Shara Robertson '12.
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The second half saw Wagner push in the go-ahead for MHC in the 40th minute as she carried the ball into the zone and dribbled past the reach around goalie Evie Kyritsis (Mountain Lakes, N.J./Mountain Lakes).
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For the Lyons, who held a 24-14 edge in shots, sophomore Liz DiCesare (Westford, Mass./Bishop Guertin) made six saves to improve to 13-2 on the season. On the MIT end, Kyritsis shouldered the loss for the Engineers and moves to 4-1 overall after a seven save effort in the second half. Junior Paige Kennedy (Eastchester, N.Y./School of the Holy Child) started for MIT and made five saves in the opening 35.
Prior to the game, the Lyons recognized the seniors from MIT, including Mackey, Elizabeth Dethy (Morristown, N.J./Philips Exeter) and Sarah Fay (South Hadley, Mass./The Williston Northampton School). MHC also honored and recognized their own senior class, including Kilburn, Chrissy Boyles (Harvard, Mass./Acton Boxborough), Sarah Watkins (Pisgah Forest, N.C./Carolina Day), Laura Murphy (Los Altos, Calif./Los Altos), Kayla Parker (Manchester, Maine/Maranacoock Community), Christine Ianni (Greenville, Del./Tower Hill) and Allison Slysz (Hatfield, Mass./Smith Academy).
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Konstantin Vyalov, 1932Let's consolidate the victory of socialism in the USSR! Let's technically reconstruct the country's economy!
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Having played and written tunes for years, I found my comfort zone as a co singer, occasionally fronting and playing lead and rhythm guitar. So, this up close and personal approach is a unique challenge, especially without a band to help make a fort from which to operate. This foray into the venerated "singer songwriter" genre is only possible though the relentless support of my wife and lyricist, Penny Cork, who helps bring my need to make music something more, something unique, something to say. These songs are hers as much as mine and show our view of life and how it feels.
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Exactly two years ago to the day new headlines were screaming out words to the effect, for example: China facing full-blown banking crisis, world's top financial watchdog warns. China is sinking ever deeper into debt, and risks a major banking crisis. via /r/economy
"China has failed to curb excesses in its credit system and faces mounting risks of a full-blown banking crisis, according to early warning indicators released by the world's top financial watchdog.
A key gauge of credit vulnerability is now three times over the danger threshold and has continued to deteriorate, despite pledges by Chinese premier Li Keqiang to wean the economy off debt-driven growth before it is too late.
The Bank for International Settlements warned in its quarterly report that China's "credit to GDP gap" has reached 30.1, the highest to date and in a different league altogether from any other major country tracked by the institution.
It is also significantly higher than the…" etc. That was September 2016!
Fast-forward to September 2019 and … https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/2181593/look-us-not-china-2019-financial-crisis-heres-why
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Building a custom GH60 keyboard
I have always been a big fan of mechanical keyboards: the feel is completely different and much more satisfying than what you get from typical membrane keyboards. Since 2011, I've had at home a Filco Majestouch 2 that I bought at the Keyboard Company. Particularly, a tenkeyless (no numpad) tactile version with Cherry MX Brown switches. Still as good as new after all these years!
So far, I only had one for home, and at work I was using the (admittedly quite good) keyboard of my Thinkpad X1 laptop. While it's decent, it wasn't quite as nice as a mech keyboard. I could have bought a pre-made one, but that would have been no fun :-). Instead, I teamed up with Peter Lewis (a fellow Lecturer at Aston) to build our own.
Layouts and PCBs
Building your own keyboard is obviously more expensive than buying a pre-made one, and you do need to solder the switches yourself. For that reason, DIY keyboards tend to use smaller layouts to reduce the number of parts. The most popular layout is the 60% one, where you have the core QWERTY island and nothing else: no arrow keys, no Home island, no keypad and no Fn keys. To cover for the reduced set of keys, 60% keyboards operate in "layers": a specific keystroke can make all other keys take a different role. For instance, one of my keys changes the right block of Control/Shift/Win/Menu keys into the arrow keys. There are other slightly different layouts, such as 65% (which keeps the arrow keys) and MINILA (which has a similar size but keeps the arrow keys by reducing the size of the right Shift) – it's just harder to find parts for these.
For our build, Peter chose this PCB, which was sold as a KC60 SE but to the effects of firmware works like a bog standard GH60:
It is actually a pretty nice PCB, with good quality pads and plating on the pins. It is rather flexible as well: you can choose whether to split your backspace, left shift, or right shift areas, and you could also have keys of various widths in the bottom row (you could go for a wider spacebar with narrower right alt, or different widths for the Control/Win/Alt keys as well.
Switches, so many switches
Having chosen the PCB, the next decision is what sort of switch we would solder on it. Choosing your switch is very complicated: there are entire wikis dedicated to the differences between various types of switches. However, for the most part the most common type of switch nowadays are the "Cherry MX compatible" ones. They are easy to deal with, reasonably inexpensive (unlike those expensive capacitive Topre switches), and most commercially available keycap sets are made for them.
Largely, there are three types of Cherry MX switches: the "clicky" ones (Blue, Green) make a distinct noise along with a slight tactile bump when they activate, the "tactile" ones (Brown) only have the bump and not the noise, and the "linear" ones do not have either (Red, Black). Typically, clicky ones are recommended for typing, linear ones are for gaming, and tactile ones are a hybrid that can cover both. My Filco had Brown switches, and while they were comfortable and silent (to me), the lack of a "click" meant that I tended to "bottom out" quite a bit (bash the key down all the way to the plate, making much more noise than needed). Peter's Filco had Cherry MX Blues, and I liked the click quite a bit, so I decided to go for a "clicky" board this time.
There are choices to make even within Cherry MX-compatible clicky switches, however. In addition to the genuine Cherry MX switches, you can find compatible switches from other manufacturers such as Zealio or Gateron. Sometimes they are cheaper, sometimes they feel different. In addition, within the clicky family, you can find multiple versions with different activation heights, stiffness and springiness. For that reason, Peter ordered a nifty switch tester kit from Massdrop which included both Gateron and Cherry switches. We tried them a bit, and we found that the Gateron ones were slightly easier to activate while also springier than the Cherry ones. We decided to go with the Gateron clicky ones, with Gateron Blues for most keys, and Gateron Green (a slightly stiffer version) for the spacebar, as we would be pressing that one with our thumbs.
Keycaps – materials, profiles, printing styles/methods
Right, so we have the PCB and we have decided on the switches – now we need to choose the keycaps. Once more, these come in a huge variety, depending on the material (ABS plastic, PBT plastic, wooden/metal/ceramic/resin artisan ones), the profile (cyllindrical, spherical and variants thereof), the style of printing (top/front/blank), and the method used for the printing (dye sublimation, laser engraving, stamping, doubleshot).
Generally, artisan keycaps made in "exotic" (not plastic) materials are far too expensive to populate an entire keyboard with, so that was out of the picture. In general, I knew that ABS was stronger, while PBT tends to be cheaper as it is easier to work with. For the profile, my Filco had Cherry-style cyllindrical and contoured keycaps (keys are slightly different depending on the row) – I wanted to try a more retro style with spherical keycaps this time and see how they compared against my Cherry-profiled keys.. There's an entire thread dedicated to discussing spherical keycap profiles here.
As for the style of printing, I always loved how the Filco "Ninja" sets looked. However, it can be quite hard to find keys in that style unless you have them custom made by sellers such as MAX. My original keycap set for my brown Filco was blank: while this makes you look like a Jedi with your crazy touch typing skills, it was a pain for entering some of my passwords with random symbols :-). I didn't mind going for a regular top print this time, but after checking some of the (crazy expensive) Massdrop keycap sets, I decided I'd like to have letters printed on the center of the keys rather than on the top left as it seems to be the norm these days.
For the printing method, stamping is generally for very cheap keyboards only. Laser engraving is quite resilient while also being reasonably cheap, but not as flexible as dye sublimation (which I'll be getting two spacebars on soon) or doubleshot (which looks really crisp, as it's literally a second layer of differently colored plastic). I didn't mind the exact printing method too much as long as it wasn't stamping.
Peter and I checked quite a few different sets on Massdrop – my favourite so far was the GMK Laser, a cyberpunk-inspired one with doubleshot ABS keycaps. Another very nice looking keycap set was the Oblivion one. The main problem with obtaining keycap sets over Massdrop is that you have a very small window to do so, and the GMK Lasers weren't even out yet. We had to buy an alternative keycap set to pass the time while our ideal set came up. We also had to keep an eye out for whether we wanted to have an ISO layout (with an L-shaped enter and one more key), an ANSI one (with a straight enter, and easier to find keycap sets for), or some sort of hybrid. Furthermore, very old (pre-ANSI/ISO standards) keyboards had an odd "bigass enter" key that combined both ANSI and ISO Enters – we might want to try that as well.
Peter wanted to go for a "navy" aesthetic, with a wooden case and yellow-on-blue colors, while I wanted to try something more "neon"-styled with white-on-blue. We finally settled on these DSA-profiled PBT laser engraved sets from KBDFans, which had enough keycaps to allow us to experiment with ISO, ANSI and hybrid layouts.
Stabilisers and case
We have the PCBs, we have the switches, and we have the keycaps. Almost there! But wait, we still have more choices.
First of all, we need to decide whether the switches are going straight to the PCB, or on top of a plate (here's another thread on that). In short – using a plate gives you a sturdier keyboard but makes replacing switches harder (or impossible, depending on the plate). In my case, I was used to the sturdiness of my Filco and I wanted to keep it that way.
By the way, your switches will also slightly vary depending on whether you want a plate or not. PCB-mounted switches are "5 pin" (3 plastic pegs and 2 metal pins), while plate-mounted switches are "3 pin" (1 plastic peg and 2 metal pins). You can simply snip off the extra plastic pegs in a 5 pin to make it a 3 pin, if necessary.
Additionally, if you do go for a plate, you have to be careful to pick one that will allow for your desired layout. Thankfully, quite a few plates are "universal" and are flexible enough to accommodate both ISO and ANSI layouts. Peter and I went for this one from KBDFans. During our experimentation with various layouts, it looked like this:
One negative thing about this plate is that it wouldn't really allow us to use the LED pins in the GH60 board, but we weren't big on LEDs anyway :-).
The next bit of shopping was the stabilisers. These are needed for the largest horizontal keys (the Enter, Shift and Space ones) and are a consistent source of headaches if you pick the wrong ones. As usual, there are many types. Apparently, people aren't quite fond of Cherry-style stabilisers (which are reported to be "mushy"), but those were the type of stabilisers we needed for our keycaps. We didn't see the point in paying the premium for the "genuine" Cherry ones, so we chose the generic Cherry-style ones instead. These are PCB mounted ones, so you must install them on the keyboard before you fit the plate with the switches.
I feel I was luckier with the stabilisers than Peter was: for some reason, his felt much mushier than mine. I hope he has fixed these issues by now: it might be that he didn't insert the keycaps fully into the stems, and that a small air cushion might be left which makes them so mushy.
I only had to pick the case, and then I could go soldering this. For my neon aesthetic, I decided on an electric blue anodised aluminum case (again from KBDFans) with an additional weight. It was rather expensive, but it has a really nice heft to it (over 600g with the weight included) and the finish is excellent.
This was largely as you'd expect, with some caveats:
- We test fitted the switches and keycaps on the plate, trying various layouts. We found that the PCB would not be able to accommodate the bigass enter key, so we had to discard that option.
I went for an HHKB-like layout, with Control in the place of the Caps Lock key and two keys where the backspace would typically be. However, I decided to split the left shift as well to gain an extra key (I'd decide what to do with it later).
I was thinking of swapping the Tab and Backspace keys: as Tab moves the caret to the right, logically you'd think that it'd make sense for it to be on the right side of the keyboard. Some fumbling with muscle memory later, I decided not to do it.
Likewise, I was tempted to put 0 to the left of the 1 in the top row, as it is done for some Hungarian layouts and as another "makes sense" idea. After some experimentation and reading this thread on Stack Overflow, I scrapped the idea as well. Interestingly, you want the 0 to be away from 1 so you may quickly type 10 and other similar numbers, by using your left hand for the first number and your right hand for the 0. If the 1 and the 0 were next to each other, you wouldn't be able to type that so quickly.
- Once we were happy with the layout, we removed the keycaps, installed the stabilisers on the PCBs and put the plate with all the switches on top of it.The stabilisers required a bit of fumbling, but in general you are simply supposed to insert the side with the wire through the larger holes first, then snap the side with the smaller holes until it sits flush on the PCB. You do have to be careful that the wire snaps into the retention tabs on both sides, or you will have a very shaky key.
- Next, it was time for the soldering. We used my Aoyue 968A+ soldering station, keeping the tip at 350C and using the built-in fume extractor. As recommended by Dave in the EEVBlog, we used thin leaded solder (0.5mm diameter, I believe) for good control of the amount of solder, plus a chiselled tip for better heat transfer. Not much to say here: place the tip on both the pad and the pin, add solder so the pin will melt, and make sure you get a nice fillet on the joint!
- We did have to desolder and move around a few switches after we were done, as they had moved around a bit with all the fitting and trying out things. Luckily, we did have a solder pump and some solder wick around, and the plate didn't give us any trouble in replacing those switches.
At this point, you'd think that we would simply screw the soldered board on the case and call it a day, but no: it turns out that our version of the GH60 has two rather silly DIP switches (probably to control the split backspace and something else) where you'd expect to have a reset button. The only way for us to reset the board to install our custom firmware with our desired layouts was to bridge two pads on the back of the keyboard!
Time to fix this, then.
Firmware: TMK or QMK? Which device?
Right, so we did have a working keyboard – we just had to tweak it so it'd fit our desired usage scenarios. One of the main advantages of these DIY keyboards is that they use a full-fledged microcontoller inside, so you can install your custom firmware to make the keyboard work exactly as you like.
GH60-based boards use Atmel microcontrollers, so at the very least you'll need to have the TKG toolkit installed in your system. It will allow you to flash those .hex firmware files to your keyboard.
Your next step is to either use a web-based .hex generator, or compile it on your own. Some of the most popular websites are the TMK Keymap Generator, the TMK Firmware Builder, or the QMK Firmware Builder. I am not a big fan of using third-party generators: I'd rather compile the firmware on my own from properly version-controlled sources.
To do that, you'll need to set up a GCC cross-compiler for Atmel chips and its C standard library. It sounds scary, but in Linux it's just a matter of installing a few packages (gcc-avr and avr-libc). Then, you'll clone the sources of the TMK or QMK firmwares. In general, TMK supports the most keyboards, while QMK has some nice extra features and better design for the keyboards it does support. Crucially, QMK allows you to reset the keyboard to its bootloader from a key combination, so unless I wanted to unscrew and screw again the PCB for every little change, I needed this one.
Before we could go into that, first we had to figure out exactly what was the right firmware for our PCB. The seller said it was a GH60 KC60 SE board – no idea if it'd work with GH60 firmware, KC60 firmware, or if it was entirely custom. We flashed quite a few different versions – using the TMK KC60 firmware would make one of the columns in the keyboard stop responding. The firmware for the Satan edition of the GH60 board would result in a completely unresponsive keyboard. Other firmware would not allow us to use the split backspace or split left shift.
After quite a bit of experimentation, we found that the QMK GH60 firmware was the way to go. Time to customize this – we only need to figure out exactly how to…
Tweaking the QMK GH60 keymap
I created my own fork of the QMK firmware, and set out to work on my keymap file.
The QMK firmware is structured quite well: if you simply want to create a keymap, you need to go into "keyboards/your_board/keymaps" and create your own directory in there with your "keymap.c" file inside. Normally it's a good idea to start from an existing keymap, and I based mine on the default keymap. Once I am done with my next version, I can issue "make gh60-bluezio" and then flash the resulting "gh60-bluezio.hex" file into my keyboard with the TKG "reflash-dfu.sh" tool. Rinse and repeat until I get exactly the behaviour I want.
In the TMK/QMK firmwares, key presses are processed by a stack of "layers". A key press is processed from the topmost layer: you look up its code into a table and do what it says, which may be a standard keycode (e.g. "A"), or an action (e.g. "reset to bootloader", "invoke custom C function" or "activate layer X"). There are special keycodes for "do nothing" (key is disabled) or "transparent" (continue looking from the next layer in the stack). Generally you have a default layer that stays at the bottom of the stack, and then you add layers for navigational keys or alternative layouts (e.g. Dvorak or Colemak).
This is how it looks for mine at the moment:
const uint16_t PROGMEM keymaps[][MATRIX_ROWS][MATRIX_COLS] = { /* 0: qwerty */ KEYMAP( KC_ESC,KC_1,KC_2,KC_3,KC_4,KC_5,KC_6,KC_7,KC_8,KC_9,KC_0,KC_MINS,KC_EQL,KC_BSLS,\ KC_TAB,KC_Q,KC_W,KC_E,KC_R,KC_T,KC_Y,KC_U,KC_I,KC_O,KC_P,KC_LBRC,KC_RBRC,KC_BSPC,\ OSM(MOD_LCTL),KC_A,KC_S,KC_D,KC_F,KC_G,KC_H,KC_J,KC_K,KC_L,KC_SCLN,KC_QUOT,KC_NO,KC_ENT, \ OSM(MOD_LSFT),F(1),KC_Z,KC_X,KC_C,KC_V,KC_B,KC_N,KC_M,KC_COMM,KC_DOT,KC_SLSH,KC_NO,OSM(MOD_RSFT), \ F(0),KC_LGUI,KC_LALT, KC_SPC, KC_GRV,KC_RALT,KC_RGUI,KC_APP,OSM(MOD_RCTL)), /* 1: fn */ KEYMAP( KC_ESC,KC_F1,KC_F2,KC_F3,KC_F4,KC_F5,KC_F6,KC_F7,KC_F8,KC_F9,KC_F10,KC_F11,KC_F12,KC_TRNS,\ KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_UP,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,RESET,\ KC_TRNS,KC_LEFT,KC_DOWN,KC_RGHT,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,\ KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,\ KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS, KC_TRNS, KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS), /* 2: arrows */ KEYMAP( KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,\ KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,\ KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,\ KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_UP,\ KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS, KC_TRNS, KC_TRNS,KC_TRNS,KC_LEFT,KC_DOWN,KC_RGHT), };
As you can see, the first layer (which is the default one) defines most of the keys. It uses the KEYMAP C macro (defined in "gh60.h" a few directories above) which allows you to map all the possible keys in the keyboard. More importantly, it can handle both split left shift and backspace – the other KEYMAP_ISO, KEYMAP_ANSI and KEYMAP_HHKB macros are too limited in that regard. The only non-obvious detail is that the right part of the split backspace is defined not where you'd expect it to be, but instead next to the KC_SPC keycode in the bottom row.
In this layer, I have split the left shift so the right half will invoke "function 1" by using "F(1)". We'll see what that means later on. The key that used to be LCtrl is now "function 0" as well. As for the Shift and Control keys, you may notice the odd "OSM(MOD_LCTL)" style: these use a QMK feature called "One-Shot Modifiers". Instead of having to hold Shift to enter a capital letter, I can just press it once and it will "stick" until the next key is pressed. Seems quite handy for my Emacs editing.
These "F(x)" keys work from a so-called function table. Here it is:
const uint16_t PROGMEM fn_actions[] = { [0] = ACTION_LAYER_MOMENTARY(1), // to Fn overlay [1] = ACTION_LAYER_TOGGLE(2), // toggle arrow overlay };
It's quite simple: function 0 will enable layer 1 while the key is pressed, while function 1 will toggle layer 2 every time it is pressed. That means I can enter F1 by holding my "Fn" function and pressing 1, and that I can toggle the right block of mod keys between regular Ctrl/AltGr/Win/Menu and arrow keys. More importantly, I can reset the keyboard into its bootloader by using Fn+Backspace.
Several months since we started, Peter and I finally have some really nice keyboards that are exactly to our liking :-). It hasn't been cheap (I'd say this summed up to £150 in total for me) or easy, but it was indeed very fun!
At this moment I'm still 50% with my layout: I still need to decide if this is the best arrangement. I'm finding I still would like to have a Delete key and the Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys, and I'm not sure if I might like the SpaceFn layout a bit better. Thankfully, this is all software now, which is a lot easier to change!
I hope this may be helpful to someone: I'd have appreciated something like this when I started. There is a lot of knowledge out there, but it tends to be rather fragmented.
Happy hacking, folks!


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In South Africa's first democratic election in 1994 the ubiquitous posters of the African National Congress read 'Jobs, jobs, jobs' and 'A Better Life for All'. The latter slogan is trotted out at each succeeding election; the former has never been seen again. The reason is simple: unemployment is now far higher than in 1994 and heading sharply upwards. On the most commonly used measure, the jobless figure has hovered in the 38–40 per cent range for some time; though even that counts people as employed if they have but a single hour's paid work (say, washing and polishing a car) in a week. On any reasonable measure of formal employment, over half the working population is jobless. True, one must also allow for the informal sector of street vegetable and fruit sellers, car guards, hawkers and the like. But very few enter that sector except out of desperation, and it shades easily into a vast underclass of beggars, prostitutes and criminals.
The reasons for this monumental failure are complex. The fact that around a third of the anc's mps and ministers are members of the South African Communist Party, and that most of the rest still rely on vulgar Marxist terminology, hardly increases domestic or foreign investor confidence. The flight of around one fifth of the white population since 1994—nearly a million people—represents a loss not only of perhaps 250,000 professional and entrepreneurial workers, but also of the 5–7 jobs which they are each estimated to have generated. The new government has also liberalized the old apartheid siege economy, which has cost jobs in the defence industries and in the erstwhile highly protected sectors that have failed to cope with Asian competition.
More ominous is the complete failure of post-apartheid education reform. The first Minister of Education, Sibusiso Bengu, blundered by getting rid of many of the best teachers, while his successor, Kader Asmal, compounded this disaster by reducing standards (in order to get a higher pass rate) and introducing a new syllabus incomprehensible to many teachers. On top of this many township schools are racked by violence, abusive and truant teachers, and a collapse of organization and morale. The government throws money at the problem but is scared of standing up to the thuggish teachers' union, which vigorously objects to any attempts at reform. The result is a catastrophe worse than the original introduction of Bantu Education by the apartheid government—indeed, it is quite normal to hear Bantu Education schools being held up as models far better than the present township equivalents. In addition many of the universities are lamentably managed so that there has been a clear decline in higher education too. The result is that the skills gap left by departing white (and Asian) professionals cannot be filled, and that South Africa simply lacks the skills required to maintain and run its sophisticated infrastructure and private sector.
The civil service has become a black hole of low skills, corruption and incompetence, and is now largely beyond government control. For example, Western aid donors elsewhere in the continent discovered that South Africa had become a major donor, thanks to hundreds of unplanned and uncoordinated acts of generosity by visiting South African ministers and parastatal bosses, all wanting to 'wow' their hosts in 'big man' style. Eager to ensure that this aid effort was coordinated with their own, the eu states financed an investigation by the South African Treasury into which ministries and parastatals had given aid. Over two years later it has proved simply impossible to get ministers and bureaucrats to reply to such enquiries. The lower-level administration serving provinces and municipalities is in an even worse state, crippling development initiatives before they start.
Panicked by rising unemployment, the Mbeki government responded by creating Africa's first welfare state. Old-age pensions were equalized up to the apartheid level for whites, and poor households were allowed a modicum of free water and electricity—to which millions added a great deal more both by illegal connections and by a steadfast refusal to pay rates and taxes, thus bankrupting two-thirds of the country's local authorities. To prevent their complete collapse, the Treasury has stepped in and regularly wiped off the bad debt, which is to say that this huge burden is routinely assumed by the national budget. The government has also introduced disability grants, now claimed by many of South Africa's 5.7 million hiv sufferers, and child allowances for those up to the age of 15, which the anc now promises to increase to 18. The result is that 13.5 million South Africans, out of a total 2008 population of 44 million, are now formally benefit recipients, although in practice the money is spread between many more family members. Certainly, the general effect is to make unemployment more bearable. Between 1993 and 2006 the percentage of the unemployed living in households with no connection to the labour market rose from 20 to 38 per cent. In other words, the extension of welfare has seen the consolidation of nearly two-fifths of the population into workless dependency at the base of society.


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The first thing I get with this coffee is the texture – it's creamy. That's backed up by the flavour of single cream, but sitting alongside a clean pear. On the finish it's got a little dark chocolate too, delivering a very elegant cup.
Tasting notes: Single cream, pear, dark chocolate
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