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Greyhawk's directors have built, trained and led market-leading teams in both global advisory firms and leading risk consultancies. They offer over 30 years of international experience for the benefit of Greyhawk clients.
Steven Haynes has over twenty years of intelligence experience. Between 1997 and 2005, he worked at Control Risks Group, where he was head of intelligence for Africa and the Middle East. Between 2005 and co-founding Greyhawk in 2012, he was Director of Corporate Intelligence at KPMG. He co-wrote the firm's Global Corporate Intelligence methodology and trained KPMG Forensic teams worldwide.
He has provided political risk, due diligence and investigation services to three of the top five international oil companies and eight of the top ten global investment banks. His experience includes supporting the largest foreign direct investments into Nigeria and South Africa respectively. He has worked "on the ground" in many emerging and frontier markets, including Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, India, Nigeria, Kenya, Angola, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.
Between 1988 and 1997, he was a journalist, latterly with the Sunday Times, where he worked on the paper's Insight investigations team.
Since co-founding Greyhawk in 2012, Edward has been the lead investigator in over 60 cross-border disputes and enforcement actions including in the context of investor-state arbitration, civil fraud and contentious insolvency. Recent cases include acting for a state to identify over $100m of assets stolen by a corrupt official; identifying enforcement options for an investor with an ICSID award against a sovereign state; and acting for creditors pursuing the personal assets of company directors following a $200m fraud. The majority of this work is international and often involves an offshore element. He has also assisted in-house counsel to investigate allegations of corruption and fraud made by whistleblowers.
Edward also acts for investors in a range of non-contentious situations. This includes regular integrity due diligence assignments for debt funds acquiring commercial NPL portfolios across Europe and for three development finance institutions evaluating investments in higher-risk markets.
Prior to co-founding Greyhawk in 2012, Edward worked in the Forensics department at PwC in London and Hong Kong where he led the intelligence workstream on one of the largest banking frauds to be tried in the English courts. Before that he spent four years at KPMG, where he helped to establish its corporate intelligence function and supported a range of cross-border fraud and corruption investigations. He was also responsible for coordinating due diligence globally for one of Europe's largest sovereign wealth funds. Between 2000 and 2006, he worked for a leading international investigations firm where he managed integrity due diligence for banking, energy and private equity clients. He has worked extensively in west Africa, Asia and the CIS.
Marc Leppard is a senior ethics and compliance professional with 25 years' experience of cross-border investigations and business integrity matters. He became an advisor to Greyhawk in 2019.
Between 2014 and 2016 Marc was Global Head of Business Integrity at BP Plc. During this time he built and led BP's group-wide investigation programme covering 75,000 employees in over 70 jurisdictions. He managed sensitive investigations in many countries including China, India, Russia, Azerbaijan, Angola and Brazil.
Previously Marc led the Ethics and Compliance function for BP's downstream and trading businesses for eight years. He was responsible for many group-wide programmes, including BP's "whistle-blower" programme, managing bribery and corruption risk in respect of agents, anti-money laundering and sanctions controls. He developed compliance programmes for the oil trading business and led the implementation of appropriate compliance policies following a trading manipulation case brought by the US Department of Justice.
Prior to BP, Marc was head of compliance at Credit Lyonnais Rouse and ING Derivatives. He speaks regularly at conferences on investigations and ethics matters.
Artur joined Greyhawk in 2016. His work includes in-depth due diligence of the background and probity of Spanish debt and equity issuers on behalf of investment banks and supporting debt funds investing in Spain's distressed real estate market. His asset tracing work has covered multiple European and Latin American jurisdictions.
Artur holds a Master of Science degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BA in History (First Class) from University College London. He speaks Spanish and Catalan.
Gabriel joined Greyhawk in 2016. He has developed Greyhawk's use of coding, webscraping and other technologies for use in both fraud and asset tracing investigations. In a notable recent case Gabriel used social media forensic tools to demonstrate that attacks on a client company by an online NGO were in reality a disinformation campaign funded by a commercial rival.
Gabriel speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He studied European Politics and Spanish at University College London.
Alison joined Greyhawk in 2017 and specialises in the Middle East and North Africa. She has contributed to a wide range of integrity due diligence and market entry assignments in the region. Alison has also led asset tracing and evidence gathering investigations in the context of large, cross-border disputes.
Alison graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class degree in European and Middle Eastern Languages. She speaks Arabic and French.
Freddie joined Greyhawk in 2019 having previously worked for a leading corporate intelligence firm for three years. During this time, he led multiple due diligence assignments on behalf of financial services and corporate clients.
Freddie has also worked extensively in the context of cross-border disputes. He has led several asset tracing and intelligence gathering assignments, particularly in Europe and Africa.
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Cream horns are quite simple to make with one basic item..... a set of cream horn molds. I ordered two sets with some of my birthday money. One sheet of puff pastry makes 12 cream horns, and two sets meant I could bake a dozen at once.
Butter or grease each of the molds. Roll out the thawed sheet of puff pastry a bit and cut into twelve strips. Wrap a strip around each of the molds starting at the small end.
Place these back into the freezer. When frozen, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Prepare an egg wash and brush each unbaked cream horn. (I forgot this step.) You can also sprinkle a bit of sugar on top.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until puffed and brown. Allow to cool completely on the mold. When cool, remove molds and fill with whatever you like. The puff pastry itself is not sweet so these would work with savory fillings if you omitted the sprinkle of sugar prior to baking. I filled mine with sweetened whipped cream.
I want to try making my own puff pastry in the future. The frozen puff pastry is easy to work with and convenient. These would make impressive appetizers or desserts but are really simple to create!

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22 Jun The Little Eastern
The Little Eastern
389 Magill Road. St Morris SA 5068
08 8431 9061
Breakfast and lunch 6 days
The Little Eastern is a Middle Eastern cafe specialising in manoushi which are little Lebanese style folded pizzas. They also have traditional breakfast items on the menu if you prefer classic breakfast food.
The venue is decked out in timber with brown butchers paper and crayons on the tables. Perfect for keeping the kids occupied or the artistic customer.
The bright yellow coffee machine, coffee cups and assorted furnishings gave the place such an inviting and happy vibe.
The coffee here is not for the faint hearted. I have heard that people in the Middle East love their coffee strong and it definitely was true.
My weak mocha was strong, full bodied, full of flavour and really packed a punch despite asking for weak. I needed to add sugar to be able to drink it. The milk was nicely steamed with a creamy layer of froth on top.
They had a variety of superfood smoothies on the menu and bottled juices in the fridge but I prefer traditional freshly squeezed juice combinations so I didn't order a cold drink on this occasion.
Baked eggs. Eggs baked in a capsicum salsa and Turkish sausage served with organic sourdough bread. I also got some labne on the side. My eggs were a little overcooked on top but soft underneath. I really would've liked them more runny. The capsicum salsa and Turkish sausage were rich and spicy and the tangy labne complimented the dish nicely.
The had a cabinet full of house made cakes and biscuits so I ordered a lemon and coconut friand. My friand was heated up in the microwave which made it a little bit dry and chewy which was a bit disappointing.
The Little Eastern is such a bright and charming cafe. If you love strong full bodied and full flavoured coffee this place is definitely for you.
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Steel Extension Tables For Models 3875 & 3875X2
List Price: $184.00
Stabilize your work by adding total 32-inches of extra support to your drum sander. Sturdy steel brackets hold the 1-1/2-inch diameter ball bearing rollers. Brackets bolt securely to the frame and move up and down with the conveyor belt.
The set includes infeed and out feed brackets, 4 ball bearing rollers and mounting hardware. Easy installation no drills required.
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You have met with a potential client, who informs you that all the employees and officers of his company are bonded. For this reason, he is requesting that under these conditions that you not look at his company's system of internal control so his company may reduce the cost of an audit.
Prepare a letter to the potential client explaining the following:
- Why you can or cannot honor his request.
- The reasoning for your decision.
- The potential ramifications of your decision.
- Based on your choice of action, what the perceived corporate governance of the company would be to the public.
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ELG Carbon Fibre has announced plans to increase the capacity of its UK facility to meet increasing demand from large volume, commercial applications that require product supply on a significant scale.
ELG's existing UK facility currently houses highly specialised reclamation and conversion equipment that supports the manufacture of recycled carbon fibre products to be reintroduced into the supply chain.
ELG is upgrading its pyrolysis furnace to increase output capacity beyond the current 1,000 tonnes of carbon fibre per year.
This upgrade will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2018, after which ELG estimates it will be able to deliver 1,700 tonnes of carbon fibre products to its customers from the Coseley plant each year.
Carbiso MB Pellets
Investments are focussed on increasing the capacity to commercialise the company's CARBISO MB product line which is produced through the conversion of high grade, chopped fibres into a pellet form and tailored to applications that would traditionally have used chopped virgin carbon fibre.
"We are very focused on investments that offer customers a viable, high volume alternative to costly virgin carbon fibre," said Frazer Barnes, Managing Director ELG Carbon.
"Recycling carbon fibres and converting them into consistent, affordable products is now a reality and we can deliver products in the significant quantities required at the speed the industry demands."
ELG will be exhibiting at JEC World in Paris from the 6th- 8th March in Hall 5, Booth F12.


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Nick Turner with his wife Brandy and two kids Jake and Hadley, joined KFB in the fall of 2011.
They proudly serve in many others ways such as music, sunday school teaching and financials.
Alison Bussey and her family (Jeff-husband, Brandon and conner -sons) are long time members and dedicated supporters
of KFBC and its mission.
They love being part of such a loving and caring church family.
Olwen righton has been a part of the community and kimberley baptist church for many years. Her dedication and love
have helped shape the loving family it is now.
Donna hoglund has also been a strong part of KFB for many years. The support and dedication her and her entire family have
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Saturday,14:00 - 14:30 at Matsuri
Saturday,17:15 - 18:00 at Tate
Saturday,18:30 - 19:00 at Reiwa
Sunday,11:00 - 11:30 at Matsuri
Sunday,13:15 - 13:45 at Reiwa
Sunday,16:30 - 17:15 at Tate
Komainu Lyon is a Yosakoi troupe, the fourth French troupe to be created after Paris, Nantes and Bordeaux. Created in 2018, it now has more than 30 active dancers and participates in numerous fairs and events throughout France and abroad, and this year at Japan Impact! In addition to performances on both stages of the convention, you can also learn about this dance and take with you a bit of this festive atmosphere!
Yosakoi is a dance created in the 1950s in the prefecture of Kōchi, Shikoku in order to revitalize the region economically. The first festival entirely dedicated to yosakoi was created and it became the main tourist attraction of the prefecture. Every year, hundreds of troops parade through its long streets or on stages set up for the occasion.
If you want to discover more details about their universe, go to their Facebook: @Komainulyon
They will offer you a long initiation on Saturday from 17:15 to 18:00 in the Tate room.
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text: The Grade 8's were tasked to imagine themselves as explorers researching the African landscape for the very first time. Upon return they needed to present their findings about a particular tribe or community that they encountered. What better way to learn and experience such diverse cultures? Their presentations were outstanding and I was blown away by their enthusiasm and thorough research! Have a look at some of the photographs below.


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Eskom's chief nuclear officer, Dave Nicholls, told delegates at the Nuclear Power Africa conference that there are no secrets, and corruption in the nuclear deal is unlikely. He reaffirmed the utility's position that nuclear is not just the most viable option on the table for South Africa's future energy needs, but it is also affordable.
Nicholls participated in a panel discussion on the country's nuclear positioning where he said that there has been no procurement process on nuclear.
In 2014 South Africa signed intergovernmental agreements with among others Russia and China as part of the multi-billion rand nuclear-built plans. Yet recently the Western Cape High Court found these agreements lacked transparency prompting the government to go back to the drawing board for a new and more transparent process. The government's nuclear plans earlier also hit hurdles over costs and corruption claims.
Responding to questions on corruption claims with the nuclear deal, he said corruption on the nuclear deal could be quite challenging in the sense that it is a state-to-state deal, whereas if you have multiple deals with small contracts you tend to get lots of opportunities for corruption. Nicholls said that the deal will likely be Eskom contracting with overseas state organisations with a government to government loan system – which will minimise opportunities for corruption.
Nicholls also referred to the claims that the uranium market is the ideal place for corruption in the nuclear deal, and noted that uranium is not the big money spender in this deal. He referred to the coal contracts and said it can be argued in the Eskom coal fire power stations that the big money driver is the cost of coal. He said with the nuclear deal, the cost of uranium is the lesser cost driver.
Reaffirming nuclear as the most viable option, Nicholls dismissed other energy alternatives among which gas, hydro and solar as insufficient. Other energy and economic experts also differed on nuclear being the best option for South Africa. Energy expert Andrew Kenny reminded delegates renewable energy can be more expensive and it is not always reliable. Another panelist Sean Muller from the University of Johannesburg, raised concerns over South Africa possibly locking itself into a very non-competitive market in terms of fuel and technical support as opposed to renewable where there are a lot of players in that market.
Contact Khulu Phasiwe, Eskom, Tel 011 800-3304, firstname.lastname@example.com
The post Power utility indicates corruption unlikely in nuclear deal appeared first on EE Publishers.
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Director of Music: Mrs. Mila Collier
Music plays a very important part in the worship of St. Mary's Church. We are affiliated to The Royal School of Church Music.
The main Sunday commitment is the Parish Eucharist at 10am using Common Worship Order 1, and Evensong (Book of Common Prayer) at 6.30pm. In addition there are two Baptism services each month, usually attracting large congregations. Two hymn books are currently in use: 'Hymns Old & New' and 'Ancient & Modern New Standard'. CCL and Calamus copyright Licences permit the occasional use of other material. The annual service of Lessons & Carols, music during Lent, Holy Week and Easter, Remembrance Sunday and Advent are examples of other opportunities for significant musical input.
The Organ:
It is 2 manual, built by Lewis & Co. of Brixton, London, erected in 1879. It is regularly maintained by Hele & Co. of Saltash. The pedal board and swell organ have electronic action and the Great Organ has tracker action.
The Choir:
There is a robed choir that is numerically strong – up to 20 members (SATB) The strongest element of the choir's repertoire is traditional, largely 19th century church music. They are a committed group and sing both at the Parish Eucharist and Evensong each Sunday. They practice on Friday evenings.
There are on average 24-30 weddings a year and about 60 church funerals.
This is a large church, with great potential. The congregation includes some instrumentalists who play occasionally during services. The parish staff would like to encourage this, especially when the Parish Eucharist is an All- age occasion (second Sunday). The inclusion of younger people in the musical life of the church is another area for development and potential growth.
We have eight bells, tenor weight 25.5 cwt and we ring for Sunday Evensong 5.45pm-6.25pm. Practice night is Monday 7.30-9.00pm (not Bank Holidays) and we welcome any visiting ringers to join in at these times. Anyone interested in learning the art of Bellringing is welcome on a Monday. Tower groups wishing to visit should contact the Tower Captain via the team office 01752 348525
The Restoration of the Bells of St Mary's:
There is a comprehensive report on the bell restoration carried out during 2014/15 in the February edition of the Church Magazine.
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St Marys' offers the opportunity for players of all instruments and abilities to take part in the all age service each month.


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New opening: Blacklock launch third chophouse in former Victorian warehouse
PUBLISHED: 16:27 17 October 2018 | UPDATED: 16:35 17 October 2018
Booking a table for Sunday lunch at Blacklock in Soho is about as easy as landing tickets for Glastonbury.
Such is the chophouse's reputation for damn fine meat that diners can face a two-month waiting list to get in, but all that has changed with the opening of a new restaurant – the group's third – on Rivington Street.
Blacklock heads east after the roaring success of its Soho and City hangouts, setting up shop inside the Victorian warehouse formerly home to Rivington Grill.
Here you'll find a 95-cover restaurant that promises high quality meats sourced from Cornwall and cooked over charcoal. In a departure from the traditional Blacklock set-up, this Shoreditch venue is above ground (the other two are basement locations) and features its own dedicated bar space.
Blacklock's bar – which has room for 30 seated guests – includes drinks conjured up by NYC cocktail bar Slowly Shirley, with wines and beers to boot. Cocktails start from £5 and with Yorkshire puddings, Welsh rarebit nuggets and lamb scratchings on offer, the bar food menu is a cut above your standard pub nibbles.
Founder Gordon Ker, who was a lawyer before he opened his first Blacklock venue in 2015, said: "We're really excited to bring Blacklock to Shoreditch in such an iconic east London spot.
"The building is a former warehouse that is full of character and right up our street so we jumped at the chance.
"We've wanted to focus on the bar and food that goes well after a few drinks for a while, but have never had the space. With Shoreditch it felt like the right time."
The latest high-profile opening for east London launched last Monday (October 8), with the menu featuring the usual chops and sides – as well as cheesecake for pudding. You can choose between beef, lamb and pork for Sunday lunch or go all in with all three for £20.
If you are keen to check out what all the fuss is about and like the idea of a free round of drinks to get you started, diners can get just that if they book before November and quote #BlacklockForLifeNotJustSoftLaunch.
Blacklock Shoreditch is now open at 30 Rivington Street, EC2A 3DZ. Click here for more details.
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Maynard James Keenan Says No New Tool Album This Summer
By: Scott T. Sterling
Tool fans still have some waiting to do.
Singer Maynard James Keenan has let it be known that the band's long-awaited new album will not be released this summer.
Keenan made the point very clear in response to a fan claiming on Twitter that Tool was set to make a full-length comeback this summer—citing recent revelations from various band members.
Keenan replied flatly to the fan's post, saying the album is not coming out this summer.
It's easy to understand the fan's confidence. Tool guitarist Adam Jones shared that the music was "done," while Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello revealed that he'd heard those instrumentals, calling them "epic and brutal."
The exchange followed another fan's remarks about new Tool and A Perfect Circle releases allegedly coming soon. Keenan replied that only new APC was on the way.
So if there's a consolation prize here for Tool's legion of fans, it's that there is indeed still a new A Perfect Circle album on the way.
See Maynard's post below.
Not. Coming out this summer. Not.— Maynard J Keenan (@mjkeenan) January 24, 2018


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Happy birthday to ayinhara, kimbyann, and scarlettgirl.
And there's a drabble! This isn't exactly a birthday fic, just me being self-indulgent. I read tinpanalley's beautiful little Riley/Willow drabble "Not Available", set out to write something along the same lines as a possible birthday fic for one of the above, but it didn't quite turn out that way. 100 words. May contain character bashing.
As You Should Have Been
Riley and Sam waved goodbye as the helicopter approached.
"Riley, one last thing," Willow called, beckoning him towards her.
Riley walked over to the witch. "What is it, Willow?"
"This." Willow took a shovel from behind her back and delivered a mighty two-handed swing to Riley's temple. He toppled to the ground, his brains oozing from his shattered skull.
Sam rushed to her husband and gazed in horror at his corpse. "Why, Willow?" she gasped.
"It's his own fault," Willow shrugged. "What part of 'if you hurt her I will beat you to death with a shovel' didn't he understand?"


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The Orient Golf & Countrys
The Orient Golf & Countrys is a 27 hole parkland course which is easy to walk with a flat terrain. The course was designed from architect T.K. Pen and has nice features and nice holes to enjoy. This is a course for different level of golf.
- City Zhuhai
- State/Province Zhuhai
- Country China
- Allowed Players 1-4 players
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The Orient Golf & Countrys is not yet in our pool of Golf Courses for orders.
For this reason unfortunately you can't book it at the moment.
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- Joined the bunker industry in 2012.
- Education: Bachelor's degree. Diploma in Economics and Management from the State University of Management Moscow
- Worldwide trader with focus on Russian speaking market
- Motto: Always do your best
- Mobil : +4530214846
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The title track of his follow up LP to Juicy Fruit (even though the labels say this is from the LP Prime Time – perhaps a pre-release title for the album), this track is considerably more downtempo, but has the same crisp electronic drums, and nice light synth melodies piano lines floating over the spare, snapped bass. In our minds, this was easily as strong a cut, and though it did well, it never seemed to break like "Juicy Fruit", which we still hear in "old school" mixes today. The tracks on the flip are just different mixes of the a-side. © 1996-2020, Dusty Groove, Inc.
If something is noteworthy, we try to note it in the comments — especially if it is an oddity that is the only wrong thing about the record. This might include, but isn't limited to, warped records, tracks that skip, cover damage or wear as noted above, or strictly cosmetic flaws.


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PalmMute started in 2014 as a alias to work with youtubers and make instrumentals for covers but after multiple hits on youtube with multiple
hundreds of thousands of views it has grown in a full blown anime and gaming vibed project that has resulted in a videogame remix album '8 Bits of Music' in early 2015.
Now having a new album in the works that is projected for late 2016 he is armed with new tunes the world has not seen yet. Inspired by video games and anime soundtracks alongside with massive influence from friends who regularly gig in japan it is sure to be something you have never experienced before. From savage dubstep to spaced out DnB it's sure to get you moving!
Check out PalmMute:
Amazon / Aniway Room
Saturday 16:30 - 17:30
'The usual rules apply. Our event room's capacity will be limited to a certain amount of people, so please show up early! Once the room is deemed full by our security staff we will not allow any more people in, unless others decide to leave.
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Being Celiac, gluten is my kryptonite. For me, even a breadcrumb is poisonous. Being born and raised in the empire of pasta and pizza, i.e. Italy, has forced me to learn how to balance my diet without sacrificing the pleasures and flavor of food.
Yes, following a gluten-free diet can benefit most people, but basic rules exist that should be followed in order to avoid compromising a healthy habit.
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How can you measure your business's success? Well, it depends on how you define success!
In this episode of Marketing Revelations, Megan and Kristen discuss different ways your business can measure success and some things you should think about as you're planning your content for the year.
Click play on the video below to watch this podcast episode:
Here are some important questions to consider as you think about measuring your business's success:
- Have you set goals?
- Do you know what your goals are?
- What is the most important thing to your business at this moment in time?
- Do you know what you're measuring?
- What metrics should you analyze?
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College of Engineering
EECS Instructional & Electronics Support Groups
July 15, 2002
EECS Instructional Computing - Review and Plans
Spring 2002
Recent Improvements
Current Initiatives
Budget Priorities
Notable Events
Recent Improvements
1) 125 Cory: new EE Mixed Signal Systems Lab for CS150
Generous grants from National Semiconductor Foundation and Intel provided
construction, benches, lighting, networking, A/V and 67 computers. This
lab has over 3400 square feet and is used for senior level design courses
dealing with embedded systems, digital design, and mixed signal (EECS150,
Details: http://iesg.eecs.berkeley.edu/rooms/renovations/Mixed-signal-lab
2) 218 Cory: new lab for EE143
6 new probe stations were designed by ESG staff and build by the ERL
Machine Shop. New furniture and clean room facilities are installed.
3) 119 Cory: new computing lab for CS152
Instruction purchased 16 high-end DELL Precision 340s ($30,000) for 119
Cory and purchased additional RAM for 12 existing PCs in 117 Cory
($6,000). All 28 of these systems now have 1-GB of RAM, which was
required for new CS152 software (Xilinx).
4) 111 Cory: Multimedia Lab
Instruction purchased 6 new Mac G4s ($15,000), a slide scanner, 2 photo
printers ($2,500) and Abobe software ($2,200) for image editing and
animation classes (CS39A, CS39J, CS184). We purchased additional RAM
for 8 existing PCs in 111 Cory ($5,000). All 14 of these systems now
have at least 1-GB of RAM.
5) UNIX disk quotas raised to 40MB
Intel donated a new DELL PowerEdge 2550 with 240GB of disk space and a UPS.
We deployed that as the "mamba" file server for UNIX home directories.
This allowed us to increase the disk quotas of UNIX accounts from 20MB per
user (or less) to 40MB in January 2002.
The former "mamba" (a DELL Poweredge 2300) has been re-deployed as an
administrative server for student IMAP accounts, WEB-based account
databases and 'grading' utilities.
6) 4 new UNIX cpu servers
Intel donated 2 new 1550 Pentium servers, and we purchased a second 1-GHz
cpu for each. These are deployed as the UNIX servers "pentagon" and
"rhombus", used mainly by CS186 for Postgres and by CS162 and CS169 for
mySQL and programming in C++ and Java.
We purchased 2 new Sun Enterprise 420R servers ($40,000). These 2
servers (star.cs and nova.cs) are deployed as both SunRay servers for 271
and 273 Soda as well as general UNIX login servers. They have reduced
the overload on our 2 E5000s (quasar.cs and pulsar.cs), which are being
used mainly by EE141 for a CAD application, CS162 for the autograder and
by CS classes doing programming in C++, Java and SCM.
7) 349 Davis: new UNIX lab for CS3
We installed 34 new SunRays ($17,000) in January 2002. We will install a
newer SUN server ($12,000) and an LCD projector ($7,000) in June 2002.
8) 310 Davis: improved UNIX lab for CS61A
Instruction funded new SunRays and a SUN server, new network and security
features, new floor tiles and a paint job in 2001 (about $80,000).
9) Pioneering use of wireless devices by CS classes
Profs Landay and Joseph obtained 50 IBM Thinkpad 570E and 30 HP Omnibook
500 wireless laptops for CS169. Prof Canny obtained Clio wireless
handheld computers for CS160. Instructional staff supports these devices.
Some details are in /share/b/pub/laptops.help.
Current Initiatives
1) Provide computing resources for more students without more lab space
Instructional lab space will not increase, but we must accomodate more
users because of increasing enrollments and the additional support of
CS3 (400+ students) starting in January 2002.
Analysis of Instructional space usage and needs:
One way to ease the space crunch is to make it easier for students to
work from home, dorm rooms and wireless laptops. Some initiatives:
- SUN Java CD (http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/notices.html#instcd)
- EECS software CD ( http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/notices.html#instcd)
- IS&T "Connecting@Berkeley" CD (http://cab.berkeley.edu)
- downloadable software (http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~instcd)
- provide "ssh" for free, for MS Windows, UNIX and MacOS
- support for wireless laptops (AirBears) near the labs
- increase UNIX server capacity for remote logins
- implement Win2K Terminal Server capacity for remote logins
2) Support wireless laptops in Instructional labs
Instruction is working with the campus and departmental network groups
on plans to deploy AirBears (campus-wide wireless net) in the vicinity
of our labs (http://airbears.berkeley.edu/). This access would be for
all students (CS160 and CS169 have a special EECS-only service).
3) Decrease Printing Delays and Costs
Despite the promise of the paperless office, we are printing more that
ever ($50K/yr in 2001, up from about $31K in 1998). We have 26 24-ppm
printers in our labs and replace at least 3 of them each year. Still,
printing delays caused by high usage and technical failures are common.
The best solution for now is to have redundant printers, so that if one
is down another can be found nearby.
- 24x7 printing service, requiring only daily spot checks by the staff
- short print queues (maximum wait of 2 minutes for a print job)
- purchase 8 new printers per year ($32K)
- reduce budget allocation back to $35K (about 10% of our budget)
- impose printer quotas on students to curb inappropriate use
- install WEB-based utility for users to check status, clear queues, etc
- charge printer lab fees to the students to recover toner and paper
costs (subject to approval, starting Jan 2003)
- use budget allocation ($35K) just to buy and repair printers
We have considered outsourcing the printer maintenance, but the real cost
is in consumables (toner and paper).
4) Increase Disk Quotas
We currently provide 40MB of disk space for a UNIX account, which is the
only permanent account given to an EECS or CS major. During a semester,
students often get additional, temporary 'class' accounts on UNIX (40MB)
or Win2K (60MB). There is also "/home/tmp" surge space that they can
use on UNIX for up to one semester. But it is awkward to share files
amongst all these disk areas, and only 40MB is permanent.
Disk quotas have increased gradually in the last 2 years but students
still need more. The last ABET report recommended that we provide
100MB per student (EECS and CS majors) for their on-line 'portfolios'.
Within 1 year, we would like to provide 100MB for UNIX accounts.
- In June 2002, we will add 240GB and a 2-tape 1.8TB library ($25K)
to our UNIX file server so we can double the UNIX quota to 80MB.
- In FY 2002-2003, we will add 2 more tape drives and more disk space.
Budget Priorities
These are notable items because of the cost or current relevance.
1) 35 PCs for 277 Soda, 199 Cory ($43K)
Needed to replace 6-yr old PIIs, used by CS162 and other classes for
database applications and programming in C++, Java and SCM. We will
continue to run UNIX in 277 Soda but need PCs so we have the option
of running Win2K later if needed.
2) 1-GB of RAM for each Win2K PC in 125 Cory ($50K)
Needed to allow EECS150 to run Xilinx and other required software.
3) 2 2-processor SPARC servers & 50 SunRays for 199 Cory, 275 Soda ($44K)
Needed to replace 6-yr old Alphas in Cory and 6-yr old PIIs in Soda,
for EE and CS CAD and programming classes.
4) 2 2-processor SPARC servers for 310/349 Davis ($24K)
New servers in Davis will free up a 4-processor SUN E450. That will be
re-deployed as a cpu server for large database and 'autograder' uses.
5) 8 73-GB UltraSCSI disks & 1 30-tape Exabyte Mammoth library ($25K)
Add to UNIX file server so we can raise user disk quotas to 80-MB.
6) 4 Pentium servers for UNIX application servers ($22K).
7) 4 Pentium servers for Win2K application Terminal Servers ($22K)
8) 2 LCD projectors ($12K)
One for CS3 (Prof Clancy) in 349 Davis, one for portable use in labs.
9) 8 wireless ethernet hubs for AirBears ($10K)
10) Unavoidable infrastructure assessments:
Instructional contribution to Soda A/C Bypass ($2K)
Instructional contribution to EECS per-port network fee ($60K/yr?)
Instructional contribution to IS&T per-port network fee (???)
Notable Events
Jun 11 - Instructional home dirs and email service were often down in
the last week for maintenance
Home dirs were down Fri June 7, Sat June 8 and several hours on
Monday June 11 for maintenance. This was to complete these
improvements: installed a larger capacity tape jukebox, replaced
8 36-GB disks with 8 73-GB disks, upgraded the operating system.
The result is a doubling of total disk capacity for home directories
(from 250-GB to 500-GB). We recently raised user disk quotas to
40-MB each, and we needed the extra space to accomodate that growth.
cory.eecs and this WEB server were down Fri/Sat/Sun for maintenance.
This was during an effort to install additional processors and RAM,
from 1 250-MHz CPU and 512-MB to 3 250-MHz CPUs and 1.5-GB RAM. This
work will continue this week. The WEB server is running, but logins
to cory.eecs are blocked.
May 08 - Recent Mamba crashes
May 8: (20 minutes) Mamba.cs froze up at about 6:30am and was
revived at 6:50am. Same loss of network connection as on Apr 28.
May 3: (10 minutes) Mamba.cs froze up at about 3:20pm, was
rebooted and was back in service at 3:30pm. There were some disk
I/O error messages but the file checks showed nothing wrong after
the reboot. We will watch Mamba closely, including over the
April 29-30: (33 hours) Please see
Explanation of the April 30 Mamba crash for a report about this one.
April 28: (8 hours) Mamba.cs, the Instructional UNIX home directory
server, became unavailable sometime Sunday morning and was revived
at 10:30am. The computer was OK except that it's network connection
seems to have gone to sleep.
Side effects of the downtime could include errors from
- email requiring .forward file or home dir access on Pasteur
- grading or autograder cronjobs (Mamba couldn't each Pasteur)
See below for a description of the symptoms you get on our computers
when the home directory server is down.
May 02 - Explanation of the April 30 Mamba crash and your LOST+FOUND directory
The Event
Mamba.cs, the Instructional UNIX home directory server, crashed at
9:50am April 29 and was unavailable until 4pm on April 30. However,
some users could not login until 9pm.
The CS186 instructor directory (WEB site, etc) was restored by 11pm.
Email service on pasteur.eecs was restarted at about 11pm.
We thank our student and faculty users, who were extremely patient and
supportive despite the huge loss of service at this critical time in
the semester.
LOST+FOUND directories
A number of files and home directories were not restored to their
proper names and locations. When we couldn't determine where the
files should go, we put them a directory called LOST+FOUND in your
UNIX home directory. Please see the LOST+FOUND/README file for an
explanation of how you can read these files, and ask us for help
(firstname.lastname@example.com) if needed.
What is "Mamba"?
Mamba is the file server for all EECS Instructional home directories.
It is a DELL 2550 (Pentium cpu) running Solaris X86 v 2.8, installed
in our machine room in 287 Soda. It has this additional hardware:
Adaptec SCSI-II controller on motherboard (for internal drives)
Adaptec differential SCSI PCI controller (for tape library)
AMI/LSI MegaRAID 3-channel SCSI controller (for RAID disk arrays)
DELL 220S external RAID disk cabinet with 8 36-GB LVD SCSI disks
It has been operating well and without major flaws since we installed
it in August 2001. We have maintained current patches, driver updates
and firmware revision levels on the operating system and hardware.
What caused this disaster?
This may be of interest just to show what sys admins are doing when
you can't find them, if for nothing else.
1. The Mamba server froze up at 9:50am; even the console was dead.
I (kevinm) was logged in at the console at the time using the X
Windows server there. In hindsight, it may have crashed once
before under the same conditions (local XWindows user at the
console), but we rarely do that and there is no known bug or
patch for such a condition. (Could be a Solaris or a graphics
card firmware bug?)
2. I had to turn Mamba and it's disk enclosure off and on again.
Ideally (as in the past), the computer would have rebooted, run
file checks and been back in service within about 10 minutes.
But in this case, it took us 33 hrs to get the file systems back
on line.
3. When Mamba started to reboot, 2 of the 8 disks in the external
RAID cabinet went into "FAILED" mode (red lights, audible alarms).
We are running RAID 5, which can recover itself from one failed
disk but not from 2. But I have seen this condition before, in
which the RAID controller itself is confused and the disks are
not really broken, so I reset them to "ONLINE" and let the reboot
4. Mamba came up on-line, but access to the filesystems was generating
many error messages to the console. So we shut it down and started
to run the UNIX file check ('fsck') command on the filesystems.
That command displayed many warnings and error messages indicating
that it was finding files and directories that it could not name or
locate properly. Fortunately, it did retain the owners and dates
of those files. In the end, these are the things that we later
moved to your LOST+FOUND directories.
5. But on Monday morning, we thought this was not good enough, so we
moved the 8 disks to another computer for further analysis and
replaced them on Mamba with 8 new, larger (73-GB each) disks that
we had recently bought. These larger disks were to be installed
in Mamba in June so we can raise everyone's disk quotas.
6. For the rest of Monday, we worked in parallel, trying to repair
the filesystems on the original disks and also trying to create
new file systems on the new disks and start full restores to them
from tape.
7. The new disks would not 'newfs' and 'fsck' cleanly, so we did not
trust the filesystems we were creating on them. So we replaced
the RAID controller with our spare, installed the latest firmware
in it and tried again. We were able to create filesystems (by
adding the '-o -b32' argument to 'fsck'), and we started restores.
Then we found that the full restores crashed the system after some
time. This happened several times, even on a restore process that
had run for hours and, we thought, would finish cleanly in the
middle of the night (Monday).
8. So the new disks are somehow incompatible with Mamba (Could be a
Solaris or a RAID controller firmware bug? Or a conflict between
the SCSI controllers for the RAID array and for the tape library?)
We did not want to take the time to debug that while students were
waiting. We'll work on that in June.
9. In the meantime, we were also running a RAID consistency check on
the original disks, on the former "Mamba", which we have retained
as backup hardware. On Tuesday morning, it was clear that we
should return those disks to the active file server and use them.
So we ran the original 'fsck' commands (as in paragraph 4 above)
and let them finish this time. /home/aa and /home/cc displayed
the most warnings and ended up with the most LOST+FOUND files,
but the great majority of each filesystem was intact. The rest
of the day on Tuesday was spent running the filesystem checks,
distributing the LOST+FOUND files to their owners and checking that
the grading cronjobs and email services would resume correctly.
I believe that the consistency check that we ran on Monday did
reduce the number of LOST+FOUND files that we would have had if
we had just let the 'fsck' commands finish on Monday morning.
The home directories were mostly available again by 4pm Tuesday.
(May 2) We are continuing to run full restores, to another system,
of the home directories as they were at 3am on April 29. We can
recover files and directories for users from that.
What can we do to prevent it in the future?
Immediately, we are moving the tape functionality to another system
(and we have disabled XWindows on the Mamba console!). Once the
semester is over, we will debug the problems on Mamba.
We are reviewing several alternatives (and their costs) that would
give us redundancy and more security against server downtime, such
1) Fully redundant RAID 1 mirroring attached to 2 fail-over servers.
2) #1, using single-vendor solution with full service contract so
there are no driver or firmware inconsistencies and failed hard-
ware is replaced immediately.
3) Duplicate the active disks hourly to backup disks on a second
server, dump the backup disks daily to tapes on a third server.
Kevin Mullally
Manager, EECS Instructional Support Group
378 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley, (510) 643-6141
May 02 - Logins were blocked to cory.eecs and DECs in 199 Cory for a day
The user licenses expired on cory.eecs and the DEC Alphas in 199 Cory
on May 1 and were renewed at 10am on May 2. During that time, users
saw the error message
Too many users logged on already.
Try again later.
In the meantime, users could login to other computers such as pulsar.cs
and the UNIX workstations on the second floor of Soda Hall.
Jun 02 - Pop on pasteur was discontinued on May 31th
(Apr 23) We will be ending pop support on mail server as soon as the
semester comes to a close. We currently offer and will be pushing
for the use of imap ssl. See /share/b/pub/email.help for more information.
Jun 12 - Instructional and other servers in Soda (*.cs) are down during
air conditioning work today
(Changed from June 11)
The department has scheduled a shutdown of air conditioning and
compute server room cooling in Soda Hall on Wednesday, June 12th
from 8am to 4pm.
It is paossible that all EECS Instructional computing services in
Soda, Cory and Davis Halls will be unavailable during that time.
This is to install a cooling tower bypass system that will keep
the computer server rooms cool in the event of a general air
conditioning failure in Soda Hall. A/C failures have caused
several computing outages in EECS in the past year.
Mar 9 - All Instructional computing resources are available again (4:30pm)
At about 5pm on Thu Mar 7 there was a campus-wide power outage.
See http://www.berkeley.edu for information about that.
These services were down between 5pm on Mar 7 and about 4pm on Mar 9:
- EECS Instructional UNIX computers and labs
- Class and student WEB pages on http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu
- Email via pasteur.eecs.berkeley.edu. Incoming email is queued on
the sending computers so it should be delivered within a day.
Windows 2000 users in Cory Hall were able to login on Friday, but
they could not access computers outside of the building, including
several departmental servers (\\winsww, \\print, etc).
Power was restored to Cory Hall by 8am on Fri Mar 8.
Power was restored to Soda Hall at 6:20pm on Fri Mar 8.
Service was restored to EECS networks and departmental servers by noon
on Mar 9. Service was restored to Instructional UNIX servers and labs
(including Davis Hall) by 4:30pm on Mar 9.
Feb 11 - Soda and Cory network was down from about 11am until 11:20am
An unscheduled network change caused Soda and Cory Hall networks to
be cut off, which also prevented logins on dv310.cs and in 310 and 349
Feb 11 - dv310.cs was down from noon until 1pm
Feb 10 - dv310.cs was down from 6pm until 6:50pm
The dv310.cs server was down for about an hour on Sunday evening and
again on Monday. It is the server for the SunRays in 310 Davis and
349 Davis, so those systems were unusable while dv310.cs was down.
We have removed 512 MB of new memory that we added last week, which
seems to be faulty.
While dv310.cs was down, students logging in over the network (using
'ssh') could choose another server, including
pulsar.cs quasar.cs star.cs nova.cs
Feb 06 - Mamba.cs was down from 1am until 3pm
Mamba.cs, the Instructional UNIX home directory server, was down
from 1am to 3pm today due to an intermittent interrupt conflict
between the new 1-GB interface, the SCSI RAID controller and the
SCSI tape controller that are in mamba.cs. We reassigned some
interrupts and updated a device driver for one of those cards.
See below for a description of the symptoms you get on our
computers when the home directory server is down.
Feb 01 - Mamba.cs was down intermittently on Friday afternoon
Mamba.cs, the Instructional UNIX home directory server, was down
at times on Friday afternoon while we attempted to enable a faster
(1-GB) internet connection to the server. This would have replaced
the current (and typical) 100-MB connection. We'll try again when
we have determined why it failed, and we'll try not to do it when
you are logged in!
See below for a description of the symptoms you get on our
computers when the home directory server is down.
Jan 26 - Network was down Saturday night until about 11:30pm
The network connection to and betweeen .eecs.berkeley.edu and
.cs.berkeley.edu computers was down for several hours on Sat
Jan 26. The connection was restored at about 11:30pm.
Jan 16 - Downtime: mamba.cs, 5pm-6pm
Mamba.cs will be down from 5pm-6pm today for installation of a new
disk and a fiber network interface. Mamba.cs is our UNIX home
directory server.
We will also delay incomimg email to pasteur.eecs during that time.
See below for a description of the symptoms you'll get on our
computers when the email and home directory server is down.
Jan 10 - Downtime: MS Windows connections to mamba.cs
The "samba" server was reinstalled on Mamba on Jan 10.
From Jan 8-10 you could not connect to your UNIX home
directory on Mamba from an MS Windows computer.
Jan 07 - Downtime: this server was down on Jan 8
Jan 07 - Scheduled server downtime
Our full dump schedule slipped a bit, and these UNIX servers will
be down for dumps on Tue Jan 8:
server: approx. down time affects these:
------------ ------------------ ----------------------------------
cory.eecs 9am-2pm http://inst.eecs server; HSPICE
po.eecs 9am-2pm passwd changes, /home/tmp
torus.cs 1pm-6pm /home/tmp2; /share/b
------------ ------------------ ----------------------------------
Users were able to login to other servers, including quasar.cs.
When cory.eecs was down, users were unable to read WEB pages
from http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu.
From noon-4pm on Jan 7, the Instructional home directory server
(mamba.cs.berkeley.edu) was down for system maintenance (we migrated
the files to a faster machine).
Symptoms when email and home directories are missing include:
- "home directory is /" error message when logging in
- session hangs up if you try to 'ssh' into an Instructional computer
- unable to read WEB pages from the http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu
- lots of annoying "NFS timeout" error messages on your screen
- new email deliveries will be delayed on pasteur.eecs
We disable email receipt and relaying through pasteur.eecs when the
home directory server (mamba.cs.berkeley.edu) is down. No mail is
lost. Computers that send mail queue messages that are not accepted
by a remote server, and they resend the messages periodically until
they are received.
Jan 03 - UNIX logins will fail because of server maintenance, Jan3-7
Instructional servers will be down for dumping and maintenance.
UNIX logins will fail when some of these servers are down:
server: approx. down time affects these:
------------ ---------------------------- -----------------------------------
quasar, star Wed 1/02 9am-6pm 271 Soda; MMI (ee141)
pulsar, nova Wed 1/02 9pm-6pm 273 Soda
torus.cs Wed 1/02 9am-6pm /home/tmp2; /share/b
SCOTLAND Wed 1/02 9am-6pm IIS server; NT class accounts
pasteur.eecs Thu 1/03 9am-6pm Instructional email server
mingus.eecs Thu 1/03 9am-6pm Cadence, CAD WEB site
mamba.cs Thu 1/03 & Fri 1/04 9am-6pm UNIX home directories*
saidar.eecs Thu 1/03 & Fri 1/04 9am-6pm /share/b, UNIX home directories*
FILESERVICE Thu 1/03 & Fri 1/04 9am-6pm NT home directories
po.eecs Mon 1/07 9am-6pm passwd changes, /home/tmp
cory.eecs Mon 1/07 9am-6pm www-inst.eecs HTTP server; HSPICE
dv310.cs Mon 1/07 9pm-6pm 310 Davis
C119Z Mon 1/07 9am-6pm NT WORKVIEW (cs152); ee290t
------------ ---------------------------- -----------------------------------
* Type 'quota' to determine which
file server has your home directory.
Jan 2002 - EECS Instructional CD and SUN Java CD are now available
Conditions of use:
* student is
- an EE or CS major
- OR is enrolled in an EE or CS class
- OR is authorized for cardkey access to an EECS Instructional lab
* student uses software for EECS coursework, not for commercial gain
* only one of each CD per student please. NOT FOR RESALE.
Instructional CD:
The "EECS Instructional Software CD" version 1.0 is now available from
387 Soda and the CS SelfPaced Center. This CD contains a collection
of public domain software used in EE and CS couses. It is provided
free by EECS Instruction for students to use on their home computers.
(It replaces the floppy diskette that was available at 387 Soda.)
Students in EECS classes can also download the Instructional CD software
from a new WEB site, prepared by EECS Instruction (thanks, brg!).
There is an image of the entire site that you can download and burn
onto a CD, or you can download individual software packages. See
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~instcd for details.
Software included (for MS Windows, Linux and/or MacOS):
---------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Adobe Acrobat Reader Apple Macintosh Programmers' Workshop
SCM, DrScheme, MacGambit Ghostscript
Emacs Java Development Kit (download only)
MacGzip Stuffit Expander for Macintosh
MIPS development tools Cygwin for Windows
Netscape Microsoft Windows Installer
Perl, MacPerl, ActivePerl eXceed (download only), MacX
STk Info-ZIP for Windows
SPIM Tera Term SSH
---------------------------- ---------------------------------------
SUN Java CD: (4 CDs)
The "SUN Java Jumpstart CD" set is also available from 387 Soda and the
CS SelfPaced Center. This CD contains a collection of Java programming
utilities. SUN Microsystems has donated these CDs to EECS for students
to use on their home computers.
Software included (for MS Windows, Solaris SPARC & X86, Linux):
JavaTM Development Kit Family:
JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.3
JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.2.2 [Downloads]
JavaTM 1.1.8 - Documentation
Other JavaTM Products and APIs:
JavaTM Access Bridge 1.0
SDK, JRE, JavaBeans, Java Media, APIs, Jini, Jiro, code samples
For additional information, please contact us:
Kevin Mullally, ISG Manager | Ferenc Kovac, ESG Manager
EECS Instructional Support Group | EECS Electronics Support Group
378 Cory Hall, (510) 643-6141 | 380 Cory Hall, (510) 642-6952
firstname.lastname@example.com | firstname.lastname@example.com
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/ | http://iesg.eecs.berkeley.edu/
UNIX, Win2K computers and software | Win2K computers, software and
in drop-in labs; email and UNIX | equipment in electronics labs,
accounts; UNIX login servers; | AV services.
class and student home pages. |
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How about tablet PCs that respond to your gesture in much the same manner as Microsoft's Kinect on the Xbox 360? We might see that reality soon, as a result of some new acquisitions made by Qualcomm. The chipmaker has requisitioned several gesture recognition technologies made by GestureTek and hopes to integrate them in the Snapdragon chipsets that are being developed. Everything is still in its fledgling state, which means its too early to predict when the Snapdragon chipsets will make gesture control a reality in tablet PCs.
Steve Mollenkopf, executive vice president and group president, Qualcomm, stated, "Our acquisition of key technology and assets from GestureTek will strengthen Qualcomm's smartphone product portfolio and enable device manufacturers to launch products with new and compelling user experience."
So with integrated chip support now set to be a reality for gesture based input recognition technology as a means to control devices, it will no doubt open up a new realm for devices such as tablet PCs in the days to come.
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Can anything possibly surpass a midsummer night at the Santa Fe Opera? How about being simultaneously transported to tropical shores on waves of dreamy melody?
Bizet's first stage success is set in ancient times on the shores of Ceylon, where Zurga, ruler of the pearl fishers, is reunited with his long-lost comrade Nadir. Their friendship duet, which recounts a mutual passion for the heavenly Leïla, is the epitome of bromance in music.
Both men renounced her to save their friendship, but her unexpected return soon traps them again in the snares of love, and now they must make a choice.
Conductor Timothy Myers and director Shawna Lucey lead this revival of our stunning 2012 production, which was called "The best of this summer's season," by The Wall Street Journal, "True to the letter and the spirit of the work," by the Chicago Tribune, and "An unqualified success," by the Denver Post.
Experience the power of friendship.
On the Ceylon shore that provides their livelihood and the rhythm of their lives, the pearl fishers meet and choose Zurga as their king. Nadir, once Zurga's best friend, suddenly appears after a year away in the forest. Zurga persuades him to resettle in their village, returning to his former life and their close friendship. They recall their shared past, when they fell in love with the same woman but renounced her to remain loyal to each other. Renewing their former closeness, they vow never again to let their love for a woman threaten it.
News arrives of a boat's landing nearby. It bears a virgin chosen as a priestess to help protect the fishermen from storms and the forces of evil. Veiled and escorted by the high priest Nourabad, she arrives for instruction in her prayerful duties and is warned of the penalty for disobedience: death. She recognizes Nadir, who in turn is struck by her resemblance to Leïla, the woman he and Zurga forswore. As she ascends a promontory to begin her sea vigil, a gust momentarily reveals her face. Now the impassioned Nadir sees she can only be Leïla, and he is powerless to keep his vow to his friend. As she prays to the goddess Shiva, she hears Nadir confess that he has followed her to the island and still dreams of her, and her hymn becomes a passionate song of love.
At their ancient temple, Nourabad, reminds Leïla to remain faithful to her priestly duties. Leïla responds by telling how she protected a fugitive, refusing at knifepoint to reveal him to his pursuers; she continues to wear the pearl necklace he gave her as a reward. But after Nourabad leaves, she thinks of Nadir and cannot sleep. When he enters, she desperately warns him away, saying they will be killed if found together, but soon they surrender to their passion. Nadir leaves, promising to return for her.
Angry villagers discover the fleeing Nadir and demand his death along with that of the veiled, unrecognized Leïla. Zurga reminds them that only their king can determine the lovers' fate. He orders that their lives be spared, surreptitiously urging them to escape the now-hostile village. His mercy turns to rage as Nourabad removes Leïla's veil, revealing Nadir's betrayal. He sentences the lovers to death as they appeal to the god Brahma for protection.
Reflecting on his friendship with Nadir and his own love for Leïla, Zurga regrets his death-sentence and struggles toward a nobler path. Leïla approaches him and attempts to protect Nadir, claiming she followed him to the island. Her devotion arouses Zurga's jealousy, but when Nourabad arrives to remove Leïla, Zurga notices her cherished pearl necklace; as she attempts to entrust it to a villager for her mother's sake, Zurga seizes it.
With emotional chants and dances, the villagers prepare Nadir and Leïla's funeral pyre for their execution at sunrise. Nadir despondently prays that he might somehow save Leïla. She enters, and together they prepare for death. Then, as a glow becomes visible in the distant sky, Zurga warns his subjects that their village is on fire. Blood-lust turns to confusion as villagers run to save their homes.
Alone with Nadir and Leïla, Zurga explains that he set the fire to save them; he had recognized the necklace as the one he gave Leïla after she saved his life, and now he sees she belongs with Nadir. They escape with his blessing, singing of their happiness.
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This can equate to your actual foot length however, depending on your foot width, could mean you might need to size up by 5mm or down by 5mm.
To help you find this size, we provide a printable size guide template to measure the length and the width of your foot with precision. You can download this guide in a PDF file right here:-
In order to use the size guide, make sure it is up to scale once you've printed it. 1 centimetre on the paper must be 1 centimetre long. Once you got this right, place the size guide against a wall and place one of your feet on it. Draw a line on the guide at the end of your longest toe and another one to mark the width of your foot. Ask for help if you can, measures will be more precise.
In order to find out your boot size, just read the MondoPoint value (MP) on your first mark. To read the width, check where your second mark falls. You'll find out if you have a narrow, medium or wide foot.
Now that you know your size and width, you can easily determine what Snowboard boot size or if a Ski boot, then your last (width), will suit you best.
If you are still not sure that you have completed your measurements correctly, we are always on hand to help over the phone by calling us on 0121 423 1160 or 07812 141742


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A Wire Free System
All our devices are wifi connected and thus eliminate LAN cabling or need for a local PC. Attendance/access data are updated to your server within few moments.
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Stellar devices don't need IT experts to install or replace. A new device can be added or an old device can be replaced with just few clicks from a mobile device/PC. Hassle free.
Integrate Easily to Existing System
We provide Web platform and APIs that allow you to seamlessly integrate the devices to your current software with just few clicks.
Low Installation Cost
By designing and optimizing for local need we could lower the price significantly compared to imported products while maintaining high quality.
Provide Superior Customer Care
In case of fault/failure, our system provides immediate notifications. A smooth service to your client is our top priority.
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We stand behind our products. All our devices come with full lifetime warranty (Repair and replacement).
Reduce Maintenance Cost
All our devices can be maintained remotely without sending an expert. New features can be pushed Over the Air (OTA). This can reduce your maintenance cost dramatically.
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Stellar devices can be connected to standard power banks to provide service without interruption during power failure.
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New year, new home, and we do not mean to change your house, but to change its look, and what better start for that than to change the colour of the walls. We assure you that after doing this, your house and its residents will thank you.
Walls of a single color, walls with bichromatic combination, mosaic walls, walls with elaborate designs and, the list can continue, so we better illustrate these ideas, which will be the coming trend in 2018. We hope you will be inspired by the walls in these beautiful living rooms.
In this year that we are about to start, neutral tones like white come with a formidable impetus, to such a degree that there is no problem even if you paint your entire house, inside and outside white, it wouldn't be considered boring, instead it would be described as trendy, minimalist or modern. However, if a pure white is not your thing, consider adding some splashes of colour between neutral tones, as pictured here.
You can create cosy corners in the living room by using two contrasting colours, one light and the other dark. Choose the darker tone for the cosy corner. You can even go for 3 different colours on the walls of the living room as pictured here, if you're feeling more adventurous.
The use of geometric figures that govern the painting on the walls comes with great force in this living room. The way to do is basically to make designs full of precise lines and paint the areas created by the crosses, until forming an upholstery that stands out for its perfection and ingenuity.
Since we mentioned earlier that neutral colors will be more than recurring in 2018, we could not fail to mention a perfect technique that allows you to have more than one tone on your walls. All you have to do is choose one for the contours and another for the main areas.
If you need some tips regarding painting your home's exterior walls, you can refer to our article titled 'paint your home's exterior like a pro.'
Blue, in all its shades, will be a trend throughout the next year, which is less than a month away. For this reason we tell you that your walls will look awesome if you decide to allow celestial blue colours to impregnate its essence. A great tip is to place darker coloured furniture and cover them with warm tones, so that the living room has a balance of cool and warm colours.
Oranges, coffees and yellows are more than welcome in the 2018 colors trends, which means that you can use them to beautify your walls, but just remember to choose autumnal tones, that is, showy but not screeching.
If your living room is quite small, you will need to pay more attention to the colors on the walls. For some tips on what color to paint a small living room, you can refer to our article - 10 fabulous colors to paint the walls of your small living room.
In winter season the wine or cherry tone, as you know it, is highly recurrent and is a formidable contrast to the whiteness characteristic of this time. The good news is that the trend will stay for 2018 and will be a fashionable tone throughout the year.
A trend that is popular now and will be popular next year is the industrial style, which is based on leaving the raw colors of the material exposed, for example leaving concrete walls exposed instead of painting them.
This idea for the color of the walls is very bold because it suggests the mixture of three striking colors. In this design, it is yellow, blue and red, but you can decide which colours you prefer. The delicate thing here is to be playful and colourful, but not to be overwhelming or gaudy.
With well defined designs and identifiable shapes, you can give a lot of life to the walls of your house, because it comes across as an innovation or act of creativity through painting and talent, giving a lot of personality to the walls.
If you are a fan of this tone, your year has arrived, because now you can paint your walls with this color and be fashionable. We suggest an intense tone like pictured here.
The colour yellow is welcome, and in fact with yellow we close this book of ideas, but not before making it clear that the tone should not be too intense but not too mellow either. With these tips, we hope you will be inspired to give the walls of your living room a fresh coat of paint and colour.
For more ideas pertaining to walls and living rooms, have a look at 10 trendy wall colors for your home.


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The 25 Best Notorious B.I.G. Guest Verses Of All Time
On March 9, 1997, they snatched him away from us. Biggie Smalls: the millionaire, the mansion, the yacht. He deserves every ounce of praise the world heaped on him before and after his passing. Today is sad fuck
Aaron Hall – 'Why You Tryin' To Play Me' [1992]
It's undetermined whether this is Biggie's first officially released vocal recording (Wikipedia says this dropped in 1992). But assuming it is, Wednesday has been Benz day ever since. Stick around until the end – Biggie has two dope verses here.
Mary J. Blige 'Real Love' (Remix) [1993]
Bad Boy yielded musical power in the early 90's like Def Jam did in the early 80's, and they were almost as revolutionary; where Russell and Rick's artists said "fuck the rules," Puff and his roster said "fuck what you think about the rules." Exhibit A: Mary J. Blige and Notorious B.I.G.
Sadat X – 'Come On' [1993]
'Come On' is infamous for being slated to appear on Ready To Die before Puffy told that plan to go get some cheesecake. Claiming that it didn't fit the arch of that album's story, Puffy pulled this fantastic Lord Finesse-produced gem. You should recognize that second Big verse though.
Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard – 'Think Big' (Feat. Lord Tariq) [1994]
Gettin' mad blunted in the 600. Peace to Pudgee, that Rawkus LP was phat.
Da Brat & Jermaine Dupri – 'Da B Side' [1995]
Thank me after you get laid to it. Shouts to that Bad Boys soundtrack. Jermaine hooked Big up every time they got together.
R. Kelly – '(You To Be) Happy' [1995]
Notorious B.I.G. was the best (relationship) rapper ever. Cheers to cross-checking every party I go to for verandas and Amandas.
R.A. The Rugged Man – 'Cunt Renaissance' [1994]
Night Of The Bloody Apes is a classic off one verse from a different rapper. Gotta go, see you groupies at the next show.
Mary J. Blige – 'What's The 411? (Remix)' [1993]
No, not the Grand Puba version. You can hate Puffy all you want, but putting Big on two key Mary J. Blige remixes is top-three greatest executive rap decisions in the history of rap decisions.
Ed Lover & Doctor Dré – 'Who's The Man?' (Feat. King Just) [1994]
Biggie and The 45 King? Class is dismissed. This is history at its finest.
Eddie F – 'Let's Get It On' (Feat. Heavy D, 2Pac & Grand Puba)' [1994]
Yes, Biggie had a hand in many classic posse cuts. Peace to Eddie F for doing his thing with the Boyz, but his crowning achievement was gathering these 'Untouchables.'
Raekwon, KRS-One, Killa Sin, O.C. – 'Stop The Breaks' [1994]
Ron G tapes. Find them. Eat them.
Uncle Luke – 'Bust A Nut' [1996]
This one is my mom's favorite Biggie song by far.
'The Points' (Feat. Big Mike, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Buckshot, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, Ill Al Skratch & Redman) [1995]
We're hitting the posse cuts now, if you haven't noticed. No words necessary. Do you hear this Big verse?
2Pac 'House Of Pain' (Feat. Stretch) [1993]
The fact that all three of these guys are no longer with us is more depressing than anything else about today's date.
Heavy D & The Boyz – 'A Buncha Niggas' (Feat. Guru, 3rd Eye, Busta Rhymes & Ron-O) [1993]
Fat dudes do the best things in hip-hop. There, I said it.
The Lox – 'You'll See' [1996]
Now it gets very serious. Faith Evans, "You Used To Love Me" (Remix). Just shut the fuck up and play this.
Grand Puba – 'All Men Are Dogs' (Nine Dog MC's Mix) (Feat. Bandit, Grand Daddy I.U., Mackwell, Positive K, Snagglepuss, Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard, & Raggedy Man) [1995]
You see this shit? Na, the weed is not that strong. This is a real line-up. Bobbito said that Raggedy Man was one of the illest rapper he ever heard come onto the Stretch & Bob show.
Craig Mack – 'Flava In Ya Ear' (Remix) (Feat. Rampage, LL Cool J & Busta Rhymes) [1994]
Don't be mad – weaker websites are hiring.
Red Hot Lover Tone – '4 My Peeps' (Feat. M.O.P., & Organized Konfusion) [1995]
Another useless MC gets a pat on the back for a classic collaboration.
The LOX – 'Freestyle' [1997]
The Lox and Biggie rap over 'C.R.E.A.M.' Like Max B, where do I go? Cop every 60 Minutes Of Funk mixtape if you like this rap stuff.
Heavy D – 'Jam Session' (Feat. Too Krula) [1994]
'NBA Jam' had this banger on the soundtrack, do remember.
Super Cat – 'Dolly My Baby' (Bad Boy Remix) (Feat. 3rd Eye, Puffy & Mary J. Blige) [1992]
Another crucial beginning point for young Biggie Smalls. 'Bam Bam' never loses, either.
Tracey Lee – 'Keep Your Hands High' [1997]
Yeah, we gave tributes their props, but that's where it stops.
Neneh Cherry – 'Buddy X' (Falcon & Fabian Remix) [1993]
Biggie was stealing songs with sweet sixes back in '93.
'Puff Daddy – 'Young G's' (Feat. Jay-Z) [1996]
I put this here because less people probably know about it than 'Brooklyn's Finest.' If you wanted something objective, dig in the trash can.
Bonus: Shaquille O'Neal – 'Can't Stop The Reign' [1996]
Soulful. Shaq had all the ill rappers on his albums, from Def Squad to Wu-Tang. He was tight with Big, too.


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How going to the Barre can be good for you
by Trace Dye
Pilates founder, Joe Pilates, drew from principles of yoga, Greek and Roman regimens of exercise, and other integral forms of fitness to create the popular practice we know today as pilates. The practice blends six principles to strengthen the body and the mind:
- Concentration
- Centering
- Control
- Breath
- Precision
- Flowing movement
An infusion of dance principles from ballet — along with therapeutic inspirations from yoga — make for a truly unique experience when participating in Barre Pilates classes at Haven on the Lake. Accompanied by an energetic soundtrack, participants in the Barre Pilates classes at Haven will reap the following benefits:
Immense focus is paid to utilizing our core muscles as an anchor in order to build muscle, tone and strengthen.
Our skilled, friendly instructors intersperse each rejuvenating class with knowledge on the importance of alignment. You will become more enlightened to how your body operates, along with the ways that proper alignment can offer greater comfort and overall wellness throughout your everyday life.
A welcoming atmosphere and jubilant movements allows students to revisit the child within. You will notice our instructors — along with fellow students — spend a majority of class time with a smile on their face.
Barre Pilates utilizes mat and barre work, balls and weights to offer a multifaceted experience that will make the hour fly by.
Don't miss out on the opportunity to refresh and rejuvenate with Barre Pilates and other Mind Body classes at Haven. View a complete schedule of classes here.


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PSD: where the moderators consistently cave to crybaby tattletales and it's a lot safer to be openly racist, hateful, and ignorant than to be a little rude to the racist, hateful, and ignorant
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Lol at democrats excited over Harris
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Donald Trump realized how great a candidate Kamala Harris back in 2011 and 2013 and Ivanka gave money in 2014.
I am ok with th pick, would of preferred Warren, but knew a woman of color was the more likable pick.
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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
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But as far as infectious disease hes brilliant and has served past presidents well. Hes not a figurehead, he still gets in the lab and treatment facilities and gets dirty.
The inconsistency is not entirely on him. This disease across the board has been challenging to keep up with and keeps creating variants so were constantly learning new things about it.
I mean we just recently discovered that contracting it may only give you a few weeks of immunity. That drastically changes the measures we take and what kind of vaccine is realistic.
I do wonder what a solution looks like at this point. Its gotten so crazy. Asymptomatic carries and people carrying for a week or two without symptoms really creates some challenging thoughts on tactics compared to a flu or other disease.
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