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Update June 2012: As many have noted in the comments, TP-Link sadly decided not to release the TL-WR703N in Europe / America. The TL-WR702N looks identical and is available internationally, but it will not work (it only has 2MB flash)! The closest alternative is the MR3020. This has the same internal hardware as the TL-WR703N, but its case is a little bigger (7.4cm x 6.7cm).
Unless you've been living under the geek equivalent of a rock for the past six months you'll have heard of the Raspberry Pi project. The embedded device they are building will offer incredible power for the $25 it is projected to cost when launched in November 2011. A slightly higher specification 'Model B' (with more memory and a 10/100Mbps Ethernet interface) will cost around $10 more.
Unless you've been living under the geek equivalent of a rock for the past six months you'll have heard of the Raspberry Pi project. The embedded device they are building will offer incredible power for the $25 it is projected to cost when launched in November 2011. A slightly higher specification 'Model B' (with more memory and a 10/100Mbps Ethernet interface) will cost around $10 more.
The prospect of having a well specified device the size of a credit card, consuming minimal power, that can run Linux is tempting many (including your author).
Patience is a
virtue waste of time
But what if you can't wait? There are plenty of options available today that can run Linux:
- Intel Atom based devices: Intel's low power CPUs dominate the netbook market, but have failed to dent the mobile/embedded space. You can find plenty of Atom-based mini-ITX (17cm square) boards and enclosures out there, and there will be plenty of options to use big disks, add more RAM, and so on. All of this comes at a price - not only financially, but also in power consumption and physical footprint.
- PC Engines Alix: A little known Swiss manufacturer, PC Engines has been producing high quality x86 boards for many years now. The Alix series utilise the AMD Geode CPUs. These are starting to look a little long in the tooth now, and the price is relatively high (around $100 for the board alone, without enclosure, power supply, etc).
- Linksys WRT54GL: No list of embedded devices that can be hacked to run Linux would be complete without a reference to the WRT54GL. Sadly this device is looking very dated now - it only has a 200MHz Broadcom CPU and it peaks at around 30Mbps WAN throughput.
- Modern routers: The Linksys WRT160NL, Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, Netgear WNDR3700, TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND (and others) all utilise Atheros chipsets and are supported by OpenWrt (an embedded Linux distribution discussed below). Whilst these are all great devices, they don't have the low cost and small physical size that gives them the 'wow factor' of the Raspberry Pi.
- Ubiquiti NanoStation: This tiny little device is the only one mentioned that I've not experimented with myself. Whilst its footprint and OpenWrt support are appealing, its 180MHz CPU and relatively high cost ($79) leaves me wanting more.
All of these are either far more than $35 (I'm assuming we all want network connectivity), physically too large, have too little grunt, or a combination of the aforementioned.
So is that it then? Should we pack up our things and just wait until November/December for a tiny, lower power device that can run Linux? Not just yet.
And in the red corner...
TP-LINK is a Chinese consumer networking equipment manufacturer that many of us in Europe and America would not have heard of a year ago. Today they boast of being the largest broadband CPE manufacturer in the world (by market share), but this isn't why we're interested in them.
In early September 2011 TP-LINK launched a new device in China snappily dubbed the TL-WR703N. This device is designed to be a portable 3G WiFi router; plug in a USB 3G dongle and the device will broadcast the Internet connection via Ethernet and WiFi. But again, we're Linux enthusiasts, we're not fussed about what the devices was intended to be used for.
Let's take a look the specifications:
- Atheros 400MHz MIPS CPU
- 4MB flash
- 10/100Mbps Ethernet interface
- 802.11b/g/n wireless interface with one internal antenna
- USB 2.0 port
- Micro-USB power socket, approximately 1W power draw
- 5.7cm x 5.7cm x 1.8cm dimensions
There's no video output of any form (nor would you expect there to be on a 3G router!), so this is not going to be playing Quake 3 any time soon. That said, this is perfect hardware for a headless Linux box. And you needn't buy an extra case, wireless card, Ethernet module, power supply, etc - they're all included.
And the cost? It's not available outside of China yet, but you can order it from volumerates.com or some Alibaba sellers for about $23 (US) including delivery. I'm told it will start being sold in the US and Europe over the next few weeks.
Show me some pictures!
And now for a brief visual interlude from all this text:
|The box has a very Apple-esque feel and the device is clearly aimed as a competitor for the Airport Express
|In the box: Some manuals, a USB to micro-USB cable, a Chinese USB to wall plug adapter, and the device itself
|The size of the RJ45 port provides a sense of scale. Also pictured: micro-USB power, reset button and power LED.
|The device uses the Atheros AR9331 SoC
OpenWrt: An embedded Linux distribution
OpenWrt, for those that are not aware, bills itself as "a Linux distribution for embedded devices". It's entirely free, entirely open source and actively maintained. It's aimed primarily at users wishing to reflash their wireless routers with something far more powerful than the manufacturer's firmware. Such devices typically have very limited flash storage, RAM and processing power, so OpenWrt needs to be very frugal with its resource usage. Hundreds of common Linux applications are available via their packaging system, and if what you want is not available then the tools are provided for you to build it yourself.
But OpenWrt will not run on every wireless router. A list of supported devices is published here. But when you consider how many router models are out there, the number of supported devices is quite limited.
TP-LINK has a very positive reputation inside the OpenWrt community due to their almost exclusive use of Atheros chipsets (which have strong open source support). So when I first saw this device I knew there was a very strong chance that OpenWrt could run on it. Less than a week after donating my TL-WR703N to the project, the OpenWrt developers had incorporated full support for it. Success!
Installing OpenWrt on the TL-WR703N
Installing OpenWrt on the TL-WR703N is very straightforward. To summarise the steps involved:
- Connect a network cable between your PC and the TL-WR703N, and set a static IP on your PC of 192.168.1.2 (subnet mask: 255.255.255.0)
- Head to the TP-Link admin interface on http://192.168.1.1. Login with user "admin" and password "admin"
- Find the Router Upgrade link on the left-hand menu (or go directly to http://192.168.1.1/userRpm/SoftwareUpgradeRpm.htm)
- Upload the latest OpenWrt snapshot for the TL-WR703N
- Wait 4-5 minutes for the firmware to upload and the device to reboot. The blue LED will be lit solid when it's finished.
- You should be able to telnet to the device on 192.168.1.1 and receive an OpenWrt prompt (no password required)
If you want a web interface on the device then you should:
- Set a password on the device (use the "passwd" command). Note: once you've done this you will need to SSH to the device, telnet will be disabled.
- Configure /etc/config/network with an IP address, gateway and DNS servers that allow the device to access the Internet. Either reboot the device or run "/etc/init.d/network restart" to apply the settings.
- Run "opkg update" and "opkg install luci" to install the web interface.
Living with the TL-WR703N
So what can you do with this tiny $23 Linux device? If you've read this far then you've probably got some ideas already (I'd love to hear them), but here's a few thoughts:
- The USB port needn't be used for a 3G dongle (the original intended purpose). For example: Plug in a USB hard disk, install Samba, and you've got yourself a tiny little NAS.
- It's easy to forget the device has a WiFi interface. You could run a tiny wireless access point / bridge, or a wireless network scanner, or IDS, or ...
- The fact that it can be powered by micro-USB means you can power it from nearly anything that has a USB (host) port. Your existing router perhaps? Your monitor? An in-car USB power adaptor?
- Mobile phone battery packs (which typically have micro-USB connectors, now that they are the standard) could be used to power the device for portable use.
- The CPU and Ethernet interface are surprisingly powerful - if you configure it properly you can easily saturate the 100Mbps interface (I've tested this with iperf both in TCP and UDP modes).
Just as importantly, here are some key limitations (these apply to many OpenWrt-based devices of course):
- You're not going to have much luck running large application suites on this device. For example, a full Apache / PHP / MySQL stack is not going to be viable (due to RAM and storage limitations).
- The wireless antenna is a strip mounted on the PCB, so don't expect wonderful coverage.
- Don't keep writing to the root file system (a flash overlay): repeated writes will wear out the flash chip. Use /tmp if you can live with temporary storage, or attach additional storage via USB. This applies to most OpenWrt supported devices.
The TL-WR703N running OpenWrt is a formidable embedded device. It has a solid feature set, a tiny form factor and a low price tag. What's not to like?
I've written this post in the hope of sharing my enthusiasm for this device. Almost everyone I've shown the device to has been staggered by its form factor and every person has a different idea for how to use it. I think it has the potential to become an extremely popular device and I'm really looking forward to seeing what people do with them.
Further reading
- The TL-WR703N wiki page on OpenWrt.org. If you have additional insights/comments that might be useful to others, then please register and contribute to the wiki!
- The OpenWrt forums are a good place to start for questions or issues. Be sure to search the forums and wiki before posting.
- If you're a Chinese user, right.com.cn has a dedicated OpenWrt section and has a lot of recent threads on the TL-WR703N.
- Further photos at a higher resolution are available in my Picasa album.


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After waxing off Riverside Mexican Chris Arreola in a 6th round TKO to capture the prestigious WBC heavyweight championship, 35-year old Bermane Stiverne says he didn't know what he was feeling.
"I first of all want to thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ, but I can't explaine how or what I am feeling right now," said the Haitian born, Las Vegas based champion.
Stiverne gave Don King another heavyweight champion and thrust the legendary promoter back into the bright lights of the sport of boxing.
The first fight was in the history of the USC campus arena at the school which owns the 'Fight On' moniker.
It took about six minutes for the rematch to heat up, but it was clear after the first round that it was not going to last the scheduled 12 rounds.
After an uneventful opening round, Stiverne took the best Chris Arreola had to offer without going down, and then in the six round, Stiverne heated up the stiff jab and caught then a looming game changing over hand right that sent the Arreola sprawling to the canvas.
A game Arreola wobbled to his feet, but it was just a matter of time before the nightmare became a reality for him. Stiverne pounced and delivered the closing shots.
Now, with the heavyweight champ in tow, one who lives in America and is Black from Haiti, King can now begin flex his muscles again and his champ can ignite that for him.
While many of the local boxing fans came to the USC Galen center to watch the WBC Heavyweight Championship showdown, the unblemished rising star on the card was Amir Iman at 140 pounds.
Iman, fighting out of Florida and by way of Albany New York, improved to 12-0, with an impressive veteran like unanimous decision over rugged Cuban Olympian Yordnis Ugas.
Promoted by legendary icon Don King, Iman was precision accurate, rifling jabs and busting Yordis up with rocket right hands with regularly.
The 23-year old is the most polished young fighter that King has had since International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Felix Trinidad.
The bout was his first outside of four rounds (an 8 round attraction), but chances are he will be a terror at 140 and potential champion at 147 down the road.
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2011-09-05 Privacy, Security 79 Comments
So, people from within Iran have hacked the Dutch company DigiNotar, allowing them to issue fake certificates so they could listen in on Iranian dissidents and other organisation within Iran. This is a very simplified version of the story, since it's all quite complicated and I honestly don't even understand all of it. In any case, DigiNotar detected the intrusion July 19, but didn't really do anything with it until it all blew up in their face this past week. Now, the Dutch government has taken over operational management of DigiNotar... But as a Dutch citizen, that doesn't really fill me with confidence, because, well - whenever the Dutch government does anything even remotely related to IT technology, they mess it up. And mess it up bad.


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My son, age 8, 2nd grade, reads 24 WPM (words per minute) after 3 months of Wilson Reading intervention. He is diagnosed with dyslexia. However, he is also qualified as highly gifted. His Processing Speed is 4-5 standard deviations apart from the other areas of IQ (Verbal Comprehension
Perceptual Reasoning, Working Memory) on the WISC IV. A low fluency rate is a HUGE red flag for a reading and/or processing disability. Also, even with a slow rate, a child can have good to excellent comprehension, and isn't that what reading is really all about? Comprehension. It is good to know about the fluency issues though b/c accommodations are critical to support a slow reader.
Questions About Fluency Instruction
The following are answers to frequent questions teachers have about fluency instruction.
How do I find my students' fluency score?
Do a one-minute reading assessment. Total words read (minus) errors made = words correct per minute.
- Select a 100 word passage from a grade-level text.
- Have individual students read each passage aloud for exactly one minute.
- Count the total number of words the student read for each passage.
- Count the number of errors the student made on each passage.
- Subtract the number of errors read per minute from the total number of words read per minute. The result is the average number of words correct per minute (WCPM).
- Repeat the procedure several times during the year. Graphing students' WCPM throughout the year easily captures their reading growth.
How many words per minute should my students be reading?
The following are the number of words students should be able to read correctly at the end of each year:
- 1st grade: 60
- 2nd grade: 90
- 3rd grade: 115
What should I do about silent, independent reading in the classroom?
Reading fluency growth is greatest when students are working directly with you. Therefore, you should use most of your allocated reading instruction time for direct teaching of reading skills and strategies. Although silent, independent reading may be a way to increase fluency and reading achievement, it should not be used in place of direct instruction in reading.
Direct instruction is especially important for readers who are struggling. Readers who have not yet attained fluency are not likely to make effective and efficient use of silent, independent reading time. For these students, independent reading takes time away from needed reading instruction.
When should fluency instruction begin?
Fluency instruction is useful when students are not automatic at recognizing the words in the texts. How can you tell when students are not automatic? There is a strong indication that a student needs fluency instruction:
- if you ask the student to read orally from a text that he or she has not practiced; and the student makes more than ten percent word recognition errors;
- if the student cannot read orally with expression; or
- if the student's comprehension is poor for the text that she or he reads orally.
Is increasing word recognition skills sufficient for developing fluency?
Isolated word recognition is a necessary but not sufficient condition for fluent reading. Throughout much of the twentieth century, it was widely assumed that fluency was the result of word recognition proficiency. Instruction, therefore, focused primarily on the development of word recognition. In recent years, however, research has shown that fluency is a separate component of reading that can be developed through instruction.
Having students review and rehearse word lists (for example, by using flash cards) may improve their ability to recognize the words in isolation, but this ability may not transfer to words presented in actual texts. Developing reading fluency in texts must be developed systematically.
Should I assess fluency? If so, how?
You should formally and informally assess fluency regularly to ensure that your students are making appropriate progress. The most informal assessment is simply listening to students read aloud and making a judgment about their progress in fluency. You should, however, also include more formal measures of fluency.
Probably the easiest way to formally assess fluency is to take timed samples of students' reading and to compare their performance (number of words read correctly per minute) with published oral reading fluency norms or standards.
Monitoring your students' progress in reading fluency will help you determine the effectiveness of your instruction and set instructional goals. Also, seeing their fluency growth reflected in the graphs you keep can motivate students.
Adapted from: Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, 2001, a publication of The Partnership for Reading.
My son, age 8, 2nd grade, reads 24 WPM (words per minute) after 3 months of Wilson Reading intervention. He is diagnosed with dyslexia. However, he is also qualified as highly gifted. His Processing Speed is 4-5 standard deviations apart from the other areas of IQ (Verbal Comprehension
I agree that WPM can be un-useful, my son will stop and look at the pictures in the middle of reading. Not because he can't read but because he understands the words he is reading and wants to stop and analyze the picture...but the timer would show that he has a very low WPM.
My daughter is 4 and reading 160 words per minute. I believe our use of your baby can read made all the difference highly recommend to new parents but you must not watch tv uniti they are older
I think they should do away with the wpm reading, NOT all kids are the same and read at different speeds, No one seems to understand this concept...
MY 1st grader was readng 167 wpm last year. She will be tested for GATE this school year. Parents can achieve this with early education. Starting at home
How many words should 6-7 graders be reading?
My first grader read 122 wpm, but my step son in fourth can only read 76 wpm. is my first grader exceptional or my fourth grader not so much?
My first grader was at about the same level as yours when she was in first grade. I think your fourth grader needs some serious coaching to get him up to grade level.
what is the ideal numbr of correct words per minute for english language learners ( in 8th grade)?
excellent notification and very good ideas for the teachers of different level grade.I am teacher and i got the ideas where to improve the students fluency in reading


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The big news of the day is that Rupert Murdoch wants to buy Time Warner, which would mean way more consolidation in book publishing. And tons of layoffs in the media world. But also, I've been wondering all day... could we see Batman meet Hugh Jackman's Wolverine?
Top image: ex-m on Deviant Art.
Intellectual property lawyers, please feel free to weigh in on this. I'm just thinking that if the main barrier to superhero team-ups is rights being tied up with different companies, then a merger would effectively mean the same company owns the rights to all the DC Comics and X-Men characters. And it would be somewhat ironic, if the Justice League could meet the X-Men before the Avengers manage to.
What do you think? Is this remotely plausible? (Bearing in mind that an X-Men/Justice League crossover movie would probably make squillions of dollars, so there's a big incentive to do this, if the characters are all under one roof. And Fox already made two Alien/Predator movies.)


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Well the first day of school for me this year is in two weeks, and frankly I'm a bit disappointed in how little I've done this summer. I would have liked to explore my home state a bit more, but I think I'll blame my online class for keeping me busy (which I got an A in, by the way). I have done some great things though.
My mom has been dragging me on driving trips throughout my county so I can get driving hours in. I like to see the farmlands around where I live, and we play the game "what are they growing?". The answers range from corn to cows. We've stopped at some parks too, like little hidden beaches and trails. One place we stopped at was like a boat graveyard. There were sunken ships everywhere from World War I.
Some other quintessential mid-Atlantic things I've done include eating crabs and kayaking. Crabs has to be my favorite thing about summer. I've been working on my technique to open them and get all the good stuff out. Kayaking also has a special place in my heart during the summer. Although I've only kayaked once this summer, last summer I kayaked almost every weekend. When I did it this summer, I wasn't as used to the constant paddling and woke up the next morning with pain in my shoulders and elbows.
Speaking of boating, I had loads of fun on the St. Lawrence river in New York in June. I visited Boldt Castle, an unfinished mansion on one of the thousand islands. The next week I visited Ottawa, the capital of Canada. We celebrated Canada Day, which is their independence day. It was a sea of red and white. We tried to eat traditional Canadian things, like beavertail and poutine. We also visited their parliament building and lots of interesting museums.
When I look back I guess I have done more than the average lazy teenager.


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Im super tired today, as our working with the deadline of the ebook, and other deadlines kept us awake during the early hours. Tonight, no more work, just time to snuggle up in bed, watching a nice movie. Im into this one, The horse boy. It's a documentary about a more or less desperate family with an autistic boy, doing everything they can to help him improve. They are horseback riding through Mongolia to meet with a Schaman there. Totally fascinating!!! Watch it, it's an order! I've loved the vast lands of Mongolia since my early teenage years, don't really know why but there is something with the landscape there and the close bonds the nomads have with their horses. To live there, the way they do must be the ultimate freedom I think. But this tale about a very special and talented boy, is very moving. The love the parents give him, it's just amazing.
"I would love to tell you about a guy, he's a friend of mine and very shy. When ever he went for a walk, it was as if the world stood still and like nobody talked. He'd wander about looking at things, amazed by the way they looked and got him to think. That the world is a funky place, if only you open your eyes to the ever beaming love~rays". /Karolina
Today arrived a package in my mailbox that I've anxiously been waiting for! Two raw chocolate products that I wanted to test before I decide wether or not to sell it in my upcoming raw webshop, and best of all: my Camu camu!! I've read the best info about camu camu that you really should read. OMG. What a super food. Im amazed of how I could miss to incorporate it into my daily super food smoothies after 4 years into this smoothie-habit.
And the verdict for the chocolate... The raw Conscious chocolate with maca, vanilla and blue-green algea had such a nice texture, chewy and soft. J liked this best. The Rawr chocolate with mint, were my favorite, but then again I love mint! It was a bit firmer to chew on.
And now.. it's time for some nice raspberry tea and just relaaaax.. Talk to you soon!


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Day 2 of my San Francisco Pizza Bonanza begins with Pizzeria Delfina in the Mission District.
(all photos by Adam Lindsley unless otherwise noted)
The place was packed when my dining companion Christa and I arrived around 1:00 in the afternoon. In attendance at the bar was actor Tom McGowan; if you don't know the name, then you must surely know his face:
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Anyway, on with the food.
Ordered two pies here. First up, naturally, was the Margherita ($12.50), the litmus test for any high-end pizzeria. And Pizzeria Delfina's was awesome.
Delfina uses a gas oven, but somehow they manage to char their crusts better than any gas oven I've ever seen. The perfect thinness at the center of the pie becomes supremely puffy on the outer rim, with big tasty black blisters popping up everywhere. You'd swear this pie was cooked in a wood oven, but miraculously, it wasn't. Go figure.
(photo by Christa Engelskirch)
I loved the sauce on this pizza. It has a slight sweetness to it, more so than a tomato's natural sweetness, and I enjoyed that. It also feels light, and pairs well with the airy crust. The smooth, soft mozzarella (which, incidentally, the also sell in 4-ounce quantities for eight bucks) was easy to bite into and clearly of a high quality; it had a nice high-fat-content-milk flavor to it.
One of the day's specials was the Purgatorio ($15), which swapped out the Margherita's tomato sauce for one with a light spiciness to it, and added several large shavings of pecorino-romano and two farm eggs cracked over the pie halfway through its time in the oven. The flavor of the runny yellow yolks dominated the flavor palate of this pizza, and made for an interesting combination with the mild spice of the sauce; it almost tasted like huevos rancheros. I enjoyed the pie, but I couldn't eat it every day (as opposed to the Delfina Margherita, which I could eat every day).
Special note must also be made of the service here. As in Pizzaiolo over in
Apart from the bill (which was pricier than I thought it would be), I really enjoyed my Pizzeria Delfina experience, particularly their Margherita. I also got to meet two fellow pizza fanatics by the names of Jason and Alicia from
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One of the biggest difficulties with putting out any new Christmas music – let alone an 'alternative' compilation – is that one of the season's chief joys is that of doing, eating and hearing exactly the same things every year. We draw comfort from familiarity at Christmas: Scrooge will learn generosity; the Snowman will have melted by morning; Feathers will end up rammed into a milk bottle – exactly the same as last year, and the year before that, and the year before that.
It's always a thankless task to be forward thinking with material which is so backward looking, and so a project like new compilation album Christmas Rules has its work cut out for itself to strike the balance between unique enough to justify its own existence, yet traditional enough to embrace and enjoy.
In this regard, Christmas Rules gets off to a shaky start with a self-consciously 2012 take on 'Sleigh Ride' from Fun, and a similarly post-modern airing of 'Wonderful Christmastime' by The Shins. It's not without logic to approach fatally overplayed songs with the intention of bringing something new and current to the table but sadly, when dealing with a body of music wholly reliant on a sense of warm nostalgia, contemporary touchstones don't really push the right buttons. 'Sleigh Ride' just isn't meant to have flourishes of electronic rhythm going off like laser beams under an indie-chart vocal take, nor is 'Wonderful Christmastime' much embellished by the swagger of a fuzzy bass stomp marching through its final verse. Admirable as it may be to try and inject new life into the well-worn classics – it's almost impossible to achieve to any level of satisfaction.
Thankfully, you can count on Rufus Wainwright and Sharon Van Etten, singing duet on 'Baby It's Cold Outside', to add a sultry and sensual nostalgia to proceedings, marking the compilation's abandonment of lacing time honoured seasonal songs with present-day trends and production techniques. Two voices around a piano is of course deliciously Christmassy, and the songs on here which sound the most naturalistic and live are the most alluring; loose, organic arrangements playing the old timers with a vitality they wouldn't normally warrant but – fuck it! – it's Christmas. It's hard not to get a swell of goodwill from the upward swing of simple rhymes like "he'll make December the one you'll remember" when played with such a sense of lust for the season.
But, at the risk of sounding like I'm contradicting an earlier claim, the best cuts on here are those which manage to combine the cosy, intimate feel of Christmas arrangements and performances with songs which haven't actually been played to death. A particularly strong one-two comes in the form of the darling rendition of criminally underplayed 'That's What I Want For Christmas' from Holly Golighty, and a vibrant, jazz interpretation of 'May Ev'ry Day Be Christmas' by Irma Thomas. Perfectly channelling the treasured hallmarks of traditional Christmas music in an aural sense, these artists are well showcased by offering up songs which still have a few berries left on the mistletoe. By evoking the glowing Christmas mood without resorting to the same old songs, these numbers evoke nostalgia without the irritation.
Any Christmas release is going to come up against a glass ceiling sooner or later as it tries to negotiate the push and pull between various, unavoidable drawbacks. Do the same old thing, and it's criticised for being done before. Do something new, and it's criticised for failing to be Christmassy. It's amazing, then, that Christmas Rules manages to be as successful as it is – negotiating these contradictory demands of Christmas music very gracefully for the most part, by marrying the sounds we love with the songs we're least sick of. Sadly, it occasionally gets this equation exactly backwards, and at an hour long it's a little overstuffed and could use a few trimmings, but Christmas Rules ultimately emerges as a pleasant evocation of nostalgia, delivered by artists who find both the melancholy and the joy of the season in a collection of spirited performances.
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For the purposes of lens testing, I need to photograph a flat target so that the film plane and the target are strictly parallel. I have found that for critical MTF measurements, even small deviations affect the results.
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Football Facilities Funding
There are a number of funding opportunities for football clubs to access for the planning and development of facilities to meet the changing needs of players, officials and volunteers.
Community Facilities Fund (CFF)
The WAFC Community Facilities Fund (CFF) aims to supplement efforts at a strategic level to ensure football has access to quality facilities to support the future growth of the game. It is the intention of the WAFC that the CFF acts as 'seed' funding to attract additional funds to football facilities.
Program Priority
The WAFC Community Facilities Fund is available to all WAFL clubs, District and Regional Football Development Councils, and incorporated junior and senior community football clubs. Funding priority will be given to:
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Examples of Successful Projects
- Funding assistance to develop relevant supporting documentation for submission to the Department of Sport and Recreation's Community Sporting and Recreation Facilities Fund (CSRFF) program;
- Contribution to the development of a Master Plan for local, district or regional open space including associated facilities;
- Contribution to the development of a lighting plan and the installation of sports lighting to the relevant Australian Standard; and
- Contribution to the refurbishment and/or redevelopment of club facilities.
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The AFL Goal Post Grant is managed by the WAFC on behalf of the AFL, and is available to primary and secondary schools with an AFL Ambassador, for the installation of permanent goal posts on school ovals.
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7 comments:
- Anonymous said...
who are the perfomers?
who are Harmony Sinfonia?
- 7 November 2010 at 13:48
- Rolls eyes said...
You're using the Internet, presumably you can read. Why not read the flyer and try the web address at the bottom.
- 7 November 2010 at 14:23
- Anonymous said...
Here is what the website says:
"Formed in 2009, Harmony Sinfonia is a vibrant symphony orchestra performing three concerts a year and promoting classical music to audiences within the borough of Lewisham and its neighbouring boroughs. Offering a performance platform for both local amateur players of a high standard and music students from local universities, Harmony Sinfonia also strives to promote contemporary orchestral music by local composers and will feature some of these works in future performances. Harmony Sinfonia aims to work with local music services to provide performance opportunities to school pupils of an advanced standard, following on from the very successful outreach programme held Spring 2010, assisted by the Lewisham Mayor's Fund.
Our leader is Simon Hewitt Jones, the lead violinist of FIFTH QUADRANT, a researcher at the Royal Academy of Music, and co-founder of music technology company CONSONART."
- 7 November 2010 at 19:04
- welcome to 2010 said...
"who are the perfomers? who are Harmony Sinfonia?"
... says "anonymous"
- 7 November 2010 at 20:03
- mintness said...
Damn it, I'd love to but it clashes with our Junior Eurovision party. (I'm entirely serious.) Hope they get a great turnout though.
- 7 November 2010 at 21:43
- Anonymous said...
Ask them to do the music for the party.
- 7 November 2010 at 22:33
- Anonymous said...
would be good to have Harmony Sinfonia as part of Brockley Max Festival next year...
- 9 November 2010 at 21:51


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Fundamentally, when you store anything on any other storage device, other than your own, you are relying on their equipment and expertise to keep your information safe and secure. The terminology in this area is clouded :-) and I will refer to storing your data in "Cloud" as offsite storage or with an offsite provider.
With some repetition, the factors here are as follows:
- You are relying on the offsite servers and storage devices over which you have no control. The computer servers may not even be owned by the offsite provider. The storage may be in a huge "server farm" somewhere in the world or in someone's basement. If you knew that the place where your information was physically being stored was in an area subject to earthquakes, storms or other natural disasters would you be concerned?
- Once you put your information on the offsite provider (the Cloud) you are at their mercy for service access. Their company could go into bankruptcy, be bought out or simply go out of business at any time. Do you know what happens to your data in those events?
- What if the offsite provider's computers are illegally operated? How do you know that the offsite provider is not using its computers for illegal purposes and your data is at risk because of potential shut downs by government agencies. Do you even know what country your data is being stored in?
- If you are storing any kind of private or sensitive information, are you prepared to have it made public. What if you get into some kind of legal action, can your data be "discovered" by subpoena or other court action?
- What happens to your data if you cannot continue to make the periodic payments?
- What happens to your data stored for "free" on the offsite provider's computers if they decided to charge for the "free" storage such as just happened with Google?
- What if you are in an area, like happened to me this week, where you cannot get reliable Internet service?


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Oakland University doesn't share anti-gay views of Chick-fil-A CEO
Southern fast food chain Chick-fil-A has divided many across the nation for comments its management has made against homosexuality and gay marriage.
The restaurant chain, which is known for fried chicken sandwiches, operates Michigan's only location under contract inside Oakland University's student center food court. The fast food company has recently been accused of donating funds to anti-gay interest groups.
Ted Montgomery, Oakland University's director of media relations, shared the university's official statement regarding the southern restaurant operating a franchise at Oakland and the chain's recent comments.
"Chick-fil-A is a food service tenant at the university and has a contract with Chartwells to provide their food to the campus community," stated Montgomery. "The comments of its CEO are certainly regrettable and do not in any way reflect the views of Oakland University."
Chartwells, an educational food service company which serves K-12 schools and colleges such as Oakland University, is keeping the university up to speed on developments regarding Michigan's only Chick-fil-A location.
Montgomery emphasized the university's position that it does not share the same comments and beliefs made by Chick-fil-A's CEO Dan Cathy.
"Oakland University is committed to inclusion regarding race, color, religion and sexual orientation, and has created significant programs and organizations to foster understanding and acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals," said Montgomery. "We work hard to provide a safe and friendly environment for everyone on campus, regardless of their sexual orientation."
The fast food chain's comments have ignited those on both sides of the gay marriage debate. Supporters of the chain, including former Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, designated Wednesday as "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day." Opponents of the restaurant have established a Facebook page and have designated this Friday as "National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A."
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This lesson will be a very simple Hello World demonstrating the Nasa World Wind Java SDK. I will explain how to get the WWJ SDK going in NetBeans 5.5.1 in this article. Before we get started you need to make sure that you download and unzip the World Wind SDK - Java World Wind SDK.
1. Open Netbeans.
2. Add the WorldWindowGLCanvas to the palette.
Choose Tools->Palette Manager->Swing/AWT Components. Click the Add from JAR button. Browse to the unzipped worldwind sdk directory and choose worldwind.jar, click Next. This will list all the JavaBeans inside the JAR, choose the WorldWindowGLCanvas, click Next. Choose Swing as the Palette Category, click Finish. Click Close on the Palette Manager.
3. Create a new Java Project.
Choose File -> New Project. Choose General - Java Application and Click next. Choose a project name, for the example I chose "HelloWorldWind", uncheck the "Create Main Class" check box, click Finish.Create new Java Project File:Create the Java Project
4. Add the libraries to your project.
Right click on your newly created project from the project explorer frame and choose Properties. Choose libraries from the categories list. With the Compile tab selected, click Add JAR/Folder button. Browse to your unzipped worldwind directory and choose worldwind.jar. Now select the Run tab and add jogl.jar and gluegen-rt.jar. Click OK to close the Project Properties.Add the Libraries File:Add the Libraries
5. Add a JFrame Form to your project.
Right click you project and choose New->JFrame Form. Enter a class name, I chose "HelloWorldWindMain", click finish.Add JFrame File:Add a JFrame
6. Add the WorldWindowGLCanvas to your JFrame.
Simply drag and drop the WorldWindowGLCanvas from the palette onto the JFrame. Here you can resize the WorldWindowGLCanvas, so that it takes up the full JFrame.Add WorldWindGLCanvas File:Add WorldWindowGLCanvas
7. Initialize the WorldwindowGLCanvas class.
Click on the source tab. Add import gov.nasa.worldwind.*; to the source just below the first set of comments. Inside your HelloWorldWindMain() method, just after initComponents(); add the following:
Model m = (Model) WorldWind.createConfigurationComponent(AVKey.MODEL_CLASS_NAME); worldWindowGLCanvas1.setModel(m);
Update:If you are using release 20070817 0 - you will also need to import:
import gov.nasa.worldwind.avlist.AVKey;
8. Add the VM command line options.
The last step is telling our project where to find everything. Right click you project and choose Properties. With the Run category selected enter -Djava.library.path=/path/to/directory in the VM Options text box, click OK. Example: -Djava.library.path=C:\Users\george\Desktop\worldwindAdd VM command line options File:VM command options
9. Run the Project.
Choose Run->Run Main Project, or, hit F6. The first time you run it will ask you to select the main class, choose the HelloWorldWindMain, click OK.Run the project
10. Success!
File:World Wind Example For this and more examples and tutorials, visit my blog - www.georgelantz.com.


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ReadyMontco (formerly ReadyNotify)
In July 2015, Montgomery County updated its system for sending emergency alerts to residents via call, text and email from ReadyNotify to ReadyMontco. To continue receiving alerts and to gain access to the new system's improved features, subscribers had to update their existing account or open a new one.
The improved ReadyMontco system offers several new options:• Selecting as many or few alerts as desired for emergencies, weather, traffic and more.• Receiving alerts via cell phone, email, text, home landline, work phone or new Mobile Member app.• Selecting alerts for a specific address and other sites of interest.• Specifying particular times during the day when a subscriber would prefer to block weather notifications.
Some of the notification topics available include:• Severe weather warnings, including tornado watches/warnings.• Traffic disruptions, such as major collisions and road closures.• Shelter-in-place and evacuation information.• Significant water main breaks.• Significant law enforcement or fire/rescue incidents impacting the community.
When an incident or emergency occurs, authorized senders will notify subscribers through ReadyMontco. This gives subscribers a direct connection to updates and instructions on where to go, what to do, what not to do, whom to contact and other important information. To learn more or to sign up to receive the alerts, visit www.ReadyMontco.org or call 610-631-6530.
Business Registry
The purpose of Emergency Management is to plan for and coordinate resources within the Township in the event of an emergency. The Emergency Management Team is currently updating contact information for businesses in Cheltenham Township. All business operators should fill out the form (pdf file) and mail it to:
Cheltenham Township Emergency Management8230 Old York RoadElkins Park, PA 19027-1589.
The information will be used only in case of emergency by the Emergency Management team and will be kept confidential. Please notify Emergency Management of any changes in the information by phone 215-887-6200, ext. 510 or email.
Emergency Management team members may contact business operators directly to update the information.
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06:24 24 Jun 19
Always have good coffee here. The staff are also very friendly. The parking can be an issue when Aroma is busy (which they usually are), and there is quite limited seating available.
Henk Vorster
15:55 29 May 19
This is a very funky coffee shop with excellent service. It's central location makes it the ideal place to grab a quick cup of coffee and have an informal meeting with business partners. I make sure all my friends know the location so we agree on coffee and everybody knows where to go, no lengthy explanations
Miriam Behrendt
13:28 22 May 19
I used to be a Barista and have a huge appreciation for coffee in general. Have probably tried every recommended coffee shop in Gauteng and trust Aroma Coffee the most. I mostly use their Ugandan Roast to make my coffee at home and absolutely love it. Can highly recommend this place to coffee lovers.
Tammy Visser
18:25 09 May 19
We had some ice cream there it was a bit pricey but must be the best ice cream in SA you really taste the flavours.
Anru Meyer
14:43 06 May 19
One of the best places to chill and enjoy amazing coffees from hot to cold. More into tea? They have an amazing tea freezo. To die for
JoDan Alberts
06:23 02 May 19
Friendly staff and consistently great coffee. I've also never had any problems with the food.
Petra Cornel Muller
13:00 11 Apr 19
Great and quick service. Even better coffee! Nice vibe as well.
Carola Trummer
08:20 25 Mar 19
A cool and funky place to chill with great milkshakes, food and a beautiful cozy atmosphere. It is a petite restaurant/ coffeehouse and Ice cream parlour which serves breakfast, lunch, a great selection on desserts and even "bunting" dishes. The cappuccinos are great and the selection of milkshakes and ice cream is stunning and very delicious, however a bit pricey. It is a place for everyone, from students via professionals and families. It has an unusual and interesting design and has a second floor to sit in which is originally decorated. Not a place for small children as there's no playground for the kids and parking/ traffic is right at the doorstep of the restaurant. Good place to get your hunger for special ice cream flavours stilled. There are flavours available such as Kinder-chocolate, kinder-joy, some chilli flavoured ice cream and peanut butter. All in all an interesting variety which is a bit expensive. Food looks very inviting served and was very tasty. Loved the chicken mayo baguette with coleslaw salad. Staff is always friendly and polite with a great sense of humour.
Sybilla Hilzinger-Maas
21:16 16 Feb 19
Love the coffee and gelato is delectable. I really enjoy it I really think it is worth a visit. Definitely missing something if you don't try it.
Deàn du Preez
17:09 15 Jan 19
It has a nice atmosphere and the coffee is always nice. Parking is a bit cramped during peak hours, but the area feels safe. The shop is cool even on a warm day. The service is careful and considerate while also being quick on their feet. I was sitting there waiting for someone for about 20 minutes. As soon as I sat down, someone came to help and asked if I was waiting for someone, after which they asked me if I wanted to order something so long. As soon as the other person arrived, they gave us time to greet and helped us immediately. It's a wonderful place to meet.
Margarethie Bredenkamp
13:03 31 Jul 17
Outstanding quality of coffee. Friendly an efficient staff, small menu with excellent food.
Francis Barram
20:24 09 Jul 17
Great coffee. Up there with the best in Pretoria and Joburg. Attentive service and tasty good. I recommend Aromas for those who are coffee snobs.
Julia Kotze
06:03 16 Jun 17
Really good and strong coffee. Food tastes great and their sweet stuff even better! Just an all round nice place to visit for a quick coffee or maybe even a meeting
Charl Ellis
11:53 22 May 17
Best coffee in town. They roast their own beans and prices are very reasonable. Good service. Recommended place for first dates :)
Yenna Pretorius
14:53 23 Mar 17
Aroma is one of our favourite spots! the coffees, ice creams and waffles are genuinely the best I have ever had (including visiting italy) and the service and atmosphere is incredible. The manager personally walks around chatting with everyone and the atmosphere is so divinely relaxed. I would recommend this for take-aways, sit downs, catch ups and especially dates.
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Can it possibly be right that illegal aliens are doing the "jobs Americans won't do," so that their presence is no competition for workers who are citizens?
I would have thought that, as a matter of basic economics, it makes little sense to talk about "jobs Xs won't do" (at least so long as X is a large and heterogeneous national group). Rather, there are only jobs Americans (or enough Americans) won't do for a certain amount of money. Raise the amount you're willing to pay, and more people will be willing to take that wage to do the job; at some price, that supply would be enough to satisfy the perceived demand for such workers.
Now perhaps "jobs Americans won't do" is shorthand for "jobs Americans won't do unless the wage is raised to a level at which the jobs wouldn't exist in any case, since they won't be cost-effective." (For instance, if current American citizens just won't pick fruit unless they're paid $20/hour, only currently illegal aliens are willing to pick fruit for less, and fruit picked at $20/hour in America won't be competitive with fruit imported from overseas, then it may be that no jobs in fruit-picking would realistically exist for the current American citizens.)
Yet surely this would be true only for some jobs. If getting certain jobs done without the now-illegal aliens requires raising wages, then in some situations the lack of illegal alien workers would mean the jobs would disappear. But in other situations someone will need the job done, and will just pay more -- to a current American citizen -- to get that job done.
Now it may well be that having more cheap and legal labor would be good for the average current-American-citizen worker, or even the average current-American-citizen low-wage worker. The presence of such labor might mean lower priced products for the current American citizens, and might mean more new jobs in new fields made possible by the economic efficiencies that the low-wage workers bring. It's actually pretty sensible free market economics, though free market economics that might lead to at least some results that some advocates of low-wage workers might not like, and that might be distorted by various aspects of the welfare state.
But in any case this argument is a very different argument, it seems to me, than "illegal immigrants just do the jobs Americans won't do." It's
Illegal immigrants just do the jobs Americans won't do for the same low wages that illegal immigrants will take, and it helps our economy to have the jobs done at those low wages.
Doesn't have quite the same ring, no? Or am I missing something here?
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Re: st: unit-root test
Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: unit-root test
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:42:59 +0100
On #1, -xtunitroot- is an official Stata command added in Stata 11.
Note that, as above, you can find this out even given your version of Stata.
On everything, note that the spelling is "Stata".
On everything else: Others are better able to comment.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, L P <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Dear Muhammad,
> Many thanks for your suggestion. If I can take some more minutes of
> your time, I would like to share what follows:
> 1. as I said I am using STATA 9. For this reason when I typed the
> command . ssc install xtunitroot I got the message
> ssc install: "xtunitroot" not found at SSC, type -findit xtunitroot-
> (To find all packages at SSC that start with x, type -ssc describe x-)
> r(601);
> 2. as suggested in the error message I typed . findit xtunitroot and
> STATA opened a page with the link to four unit-root tests packages,
> which I installed all. Among them, I found the XTFISHER test (which is
> referred to be suitable for unbalanced data). I have tried to run the
> test and it looks like things are working in the right way now. For
> example, I run
> xtfisher Ln_MKTopn_2, lag(1)
> and the result is
> Fisher Test for panel unit root using an augmented Dickey-Fuller test (1 lags)
> Ho: unit root
> chi2(60) = 119.9346
> Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
> My questions:
> 1. what is the right interpretation of this result? I think I have to
> reject the null hyothesis because the p-value is < or = to 0.05.
> Hence, I can conclude that the variable is stationary and its use in
> the specification model is valid. Am I right?
> 2. what should be the right ammount of lags to be considered in the lag option?
> 3. does this test must be run for each single independent variable I
> consider in my model specification?
> 4. shall I run the test for the dependent variable as well?
> Thanks again for your really helpful support.
> 2012/8/22 Muhammad Anees <firstname.lastname@example.com>:
>> Hello,
>> You can find more information on theoritical part from the references
>> given in the helpfile.
>> Moreoever, alternative sources of information is available from:
>> -xtunitroot- Check from Stata's command line if -help xtunitroot-
>> gives you these and if not then install it from -ssc install
>> xtunitroot- or find it using -xtunitroot-.
>> The help file contains more information but there are some points
>> which can be used to answer your questions:
>> 1. You can not use varlist, so it means you have to run the command
>> for varname. It means may be using it for one variable at a time or
>> for each variable seperately.
>> 2. You can not use -xtunitroot- for data with gaps or what we can say
>> some observations on some series are missing. The data should be
>> strongly balanced.
>> 3. Once confirmed, you can use the first difference to overcome the
>> issue of non-stationarity or this can be confirmed that the series are
>> stationary in first difference.
>> I hope more discussion will help us learn more on these issues. Also I
>> hope this helps you somehow.
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:13 PM, L P <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>> I would be grateful if I could receive your help since I am new to
>>> econometrics and STATA.
>>> I am using STATA 9.0 an I am working on a panel data based on
>>> observations for 30 countries (id) and 25 years from 1981 to 2005
>>> (time). The database is unbalanced since it contains gaps in id and
>>> time dimensions. The model specification looks like
>>> Ln Emissions[it] = a + b1 Ln GDP[it] + b2 LnGDP^2[it] + b3 Ln
>>> Trade(lag-1)[id] + ... + e
>>> According to what I read in statalist, I am trying to test the
>>> variables of my model specification for stationarity with
>>> Levin-Lin-Chu test and the use of the followwing STATA commands:
>>> . tsset id year
>>> . levinlin variable name, lag(1)
>>> My questions:
>>> 1. shall I run the test for each single dependent variable? What about
>>> the independent variable?
>>> 2. how can I overtake the problem of the gaps to allow the test for
>>> those variables characterised by gaps in the databse?
>>> Furthermore, if I find a p-value > or = 0.05, I have to accept the
>>> null hypothesis (that is the panels contain unit-roots). With the aim
>>> of overtaking this problem, is it enough to build first differences of
>>> the variable performing in this way?
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