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Osinski Leads Wire-To Wire, Wins Rayovac FLW Series Southeastern Division Opener On Lake Okeechobee
Val Osinski of Pompano Beach, Florida, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 25 pounds, 4 ounces Saturday to win the Rayovac FLW Series Southeastern Division event on Lake Okeechobee presented by Power-Pole. For his victory, Osinski earned $40,000.
CLEWISTON, Fla. – Val Osinski of Pompano Beach, Florida, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 25 pounds, 4 ounces Saturday to win the Rayovac FLW Series Southeastern Division event on Lake Okeechobee presented by Power-Pole with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 70 pounds, 8 ounces. For his victory, Osinski earned $40,000.
"This feels fantastic," said Osinski, who earned the first Rayovac FLW Series victory of his career. "So much time and effort went into this tournament. I made a few adjustments every day and the key for me was my patience flipping. I was not worried about catching a lot of fish; I was looking for big fish."
The strategy paid off for Osinski, as he managed to bring five-bass stringers weighing more than 25 pounds to the stage in two of the three days of competition. He fished transition areas near spawning flats in the south end of Okeechobee targeting isolated patches of heavy cover flipping a Gambler Why Not and a Gambler Burner Craw. Osinski estimated that he caught around 47 bass throughout the three-day tournament.
"I fished two colors throughout the week – Junebug Shadow Blue and Gold Rush. I used the Blue in the dirtier water," Osinski said. "The first two days the bass would hit the bait as I was pulling it out of the mat. They were very aggressive strikes.
"Today was a challenge," Osinski said. "The wind was blowing from the south but switched to blowing out of the north. I had to switch to a White Lightning-colored Gambler EZ Swimmer to fill out my limit. I went back to flipping in the afternoon and was able to boat my biggest bass – weighing 9 pounds, 10 ounces – around noon."
When not fishing tournaments, Osinski has a full-time job as owner and CEO of Gambler Lures, famous for their popular baits that dominate on Florida fisheries. Osinski is excited about the remainder of the Rayovac Southeastern division events and believes he has a good shot to qualify for the Rayovac FLW Series Championship.
"I like Guntersville a lot," Osinski went on to say. "I cashed a decent check there last year and it sets up well for me. Lake Seminole can be hit or miss for me, but it's a grass lake which I am very comfortable on. I feel good about the rest of this season."
The top 10 pros on Lake Okeechobee were:
1st: Val Osinski, Pompano Beach, Fla., 15 bass, 70-8, $40,000
2nd: Brandon Medlock, Lake Placid, Fla., 15 bass, 58-4, $15,500
3rd: Joe Holland, Jefferson, Maine, 15 bass, 50-8, $12,000
4th: Mark Daniels Jr., Tuskegee, Ala., 15 bass, 48-11, $10,000
5th: Trevor Fitzgerald, Belleview, Fla., 15 bass, 45-8, $9,000
6th: Brandon McMillan, Clewiston, Fla., 15 bass, 45-5, $8,000
7th: Tyler Suddarth, Valdosta, Ga., 15 bass, 44-5, $7,000
8th: Hensley Powell, Whitwell, Tenn., 15 bass, 43-9, $6,000
9th: Scott Martin, Clewiston, Fla., 15 bass, 43-7, $5,000
10th: Tim Frederick, Leesburg, Fla., 14 bass, 37-2, $4,000
Ryan Bowman of Seneca, South Carolina, caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the pro division Thursday – a largemouth weighing 9 pounds, 5 ounces that earned him the day's Big Bass award of $300.
Local angler Moses Wilson of Clewiston, Fla., won the co-angler division and a Ranger Z117C with an Evinrude or Mercury outboard motor, with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 38 pounds, 2 ounces.
The top 10 co-anglers on Lake Okeechobee were:
1st: Moses Wilson, Clewiston, Fla., 15 bass, 38-2, Ranger Z117C with a 90-horsepower outboard
2nd: Tim Fox, Meridan, Miss., 14 bass, 34-10, $5,000
3rd: Daniel Beebe, Niota, Tenn., 12 bass, 33-15, $4,000
4th: Ken Crumpler, Marianna, Fla., 15 bass, 32-14, $3,500
5th: Johnny Nguyen, Tucson, Ariz., 13 bass, 32-1, $3,000
6th: Blaine Bucy, Weirton, W.Va., 15 bass, 30-13, $2,500
7th: Douglas Conklin, Saint Cloud, Fla., 14 bass, 29-12, $2,000
8th: Cody Pinchin, Middleburg, Fla., 14 bass, 29-11, $1,750
9th: Dennis Sprayberry, Lehigh Acres, Fla., 12 bass, 26-11, $1,500
10th: Richard Predmore, Bainbridge, Ga., 10 bass, 24-11, $1,250
Steven Schoffstall of Chelsea, Alabama, caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the co-angler division Friday – a 9-pound, 13-ounce bass – that earned him the day's Big Bass award of $200.
The Rayovac FLW Series consists of five divisions – Central, Northern, Southeast, Texas and Western. Each division consists of three tournaments and competitors will be vying for valuable points in each division that could earn them the opportunity to fish in the no-entry-fee Rayovac FLW Series Championship. The 2015 Rayovac FLW Series Championship is being held Oct. 29-31 on the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky.
The Rayovac FLW Series on Lake Okeechobee was hosted by Roland & Mary Ann Martin's Marina & Resort and the Hendry County Tourism Development Council. It was the first of three Southeastern Division tournaments of 2015. The next Rayovac FLW Series tournament will be a Western Division event, held Feb. 5-7, on Lake Havasu in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. For a complete schedule, visit FLWFishing.com.
For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow FLW on Facebook at Facebook.com/FLWFishing and on Twitter at Twitter.com/FLWFishing.
FLW is the industry's premier tournament-fishing organization, providing anglers of all skill levels the opportunity to compete for millions in prize money nationwide in 2015 over the course of 240 tournaments across five tournament circuits, four of which provide an avenue to the sport's richest payday and most coveted championship trophy – the Forrest Wood Cup. FLW tournament fishing can be seen on the Emmy-nominated "FLW" television show and is broadcast to more than 564 million households worldwide, making it the most widely distributed weekly outdoors-sports television show in the world. For more information about FLW visit FLWFishing.com and look for FLW on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
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Following the teachings on Ram, we begin with a reclined twist series to release our spine and a hip opener. When we come to seated we do the foot series to prepare for lotus position and then some more hip openers in lunge pose. When we come to standing we do some variations in warrior two and dancer pose to prepare for bow pose. Then we come down to our bellies to practice bow pose. A seated twist will release your spine and round out our hatha yoga practice.


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This article presents the reasons for Kodak's failure and what every entrepreneur can learn from it.
1889 — George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak company and introduced the first Kodak camera; a few years later the Kodak camera becomes wildly successful.
1935 — The company introduced Kodachrome, the first successful colour materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography.
1962 — Kodak sales surpassed $1 billion.
1963 — The Kodak Instamatic cameras and cartridge loading films made the process easy for amateurs. The company sold 50 million Instamatic cameras in their first seven years.
1966 — Sales surpassed $2 billion.
1972 — Kodak's worldwide sales passed $3 billion.
1975 — Steve Sasson, an engineer at Kodak invented the digital camera.
1981 — Sales top $10 billion.
Late 1980s — The rise of the digital photography with analog cameras sales decreasing and digital camera sales increasing.
1984 — Customers switched from Kodak to Fuji because the Japanese colour film was 20% cheaper than Kodak's.
1991–2011- Kodak released various digital products, but sales kept falling.
2012 — Kodak filed for bankruptcy.
In the 1980s, the photography industry was beginning to shift towards the digital. With Kodak inventing the digital camera, one would think that turning to digital would be the next logical thing for Kodak. The company jumped on the digital trend bandwagon — although it was a late adopter — while still selling analog cameras and film. Kodak developed a new business direction — printers. The company focused on the printing industry building expensive printers and inexpensive ink while its competitors were making money from selling expensive ink.
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In English this week we are planning and writing our own fantasy stories based on 'The Tunnel' by Anthony Browne. The tunnel will take a character to a fantasy setting, where they will encounter a problem of some sort. In our endings, the problem will need to be resolved and the character will somehow manage to get back home again! As you can see, we will be thinking carefully about including a clear beginning, middle and end, whilst remembering to include our descriptive techniques we have been practising over the last few weeks.
In maths we will be using our knowledge of place value to partition numbers and get to grips with the meaning of digit within a number. We will then be using this knowledge to add numbers together, either using partitioning to break numbers down into manageable chunks, or using the column addition method.


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We are working on an application to program Spartan-6 FPGA. We use the slave SelectMAP configuration interface to x16-bit data bus and Non-Continuous data loading of a bitstream(.bit) with swapped bytes.
The way we do the configuration is not exactly as in Xilinx examples (UG380). In the examples the data[15-0] is driven from CPLD, we drive it from the CPU by doing a write Access to the FPGA address space (using CPU CSn1). In the examples the CSn and RDWR signals are driven through CPLD/GPIO and we use the CSn and Write signals of the CPU access during its write access.
We are configuring the FPGA in a Non-Continuous data loading which is a combination of the both ways of Non-Continuous data loading presented in the UG380.
The only possible problem that we have ability to detect is the configuration abort which occurs if RDWR signal is rising while CSn is asserted, if abort occurs then the Busy signal is asserted in the middle of an access. We saw that the BUSY signal is rising only after CSn is negated.
Does that mean that it is OK (not ABORT)?
We succeeded to move the rise of CCLK into the CPU Write Access (data is latched to the FPGA on rising of CCLK).
After finishing writing the FPGA data we write additional 100 write accesses with data=0xFFFF in order to enable the assertion of the Done pin but the Done was not asserted.
Could you please recommend us the way how to debug the configuration process.
This would be a good place to start for deubugging information.
The ABORT will trigger when ever RDWR toggled before CS and at that point the input bus becomes and output and the abort status word is shifted out. You should be able to see this on a scope.
You can also run a Verify in iMPACT after programing was attempted. Then run a Verify on a blank device and compare the number of differences. If the number of differences is the same the part is still empty. You can also loook at the Status Register in iMPACT after trying to program the device, there is an AR about what the different bits in the status register mean. Typically GHIGH needs to be 1 to signify that data has been loaded into the device.
S-6 also has an issue where CS can not be deasserted when the sync word is shifted in, so make sure this is not occuring.


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Reggaeton Nation
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances & Rivera, Raquel Z.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 report : puerto rico Reggaeton Nation El	perreo, reggaeton's signature dance, was described by one politician as a "triggering factor for criminal acts." By...
...Although it was initially produced by and for the island's urban poor, by the mid-1990s, reggaeton's explicit sexual lyrics and commentary on the violence of everyday life had caught the ears of a wary midFrances Negrón-Muntaner is the author of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (NYU Press, 2004...
...With increased sales beyond Puerto Rico, a formerly resistant global music industry finally recognized reggaeton's "artistic" merits when the upstart duo Calle 13— composed of two middle-class, light-skinned, college-educated men, Residente and Visitante—nabbed three Latin Grammys during the 2006 ceremony...
...Two years after "Gasolina" greased the way, reggaeton albums were going gold, platinum, and even double-platinum, ranking among the top sales successes of the Latin music industry...
...She helped us commercialize the genre...
...The song that pumped up the world and brought reggaeton's global appeal home was Daddy Yankee's aptly titled "Gasolina" (2004), an ode to what women want from an unabashedly male perspective...
...4 Originally dubbed "underground," among other names, reggaeton is a stew of rap en español and reggae en español, cooked to perfection in the barrios and caseríos (housing projects) of Puerto Rico.5 Drawing on U.S...
...hip-hop and Jamaican reggae, Spanish-language rap and reggae developed parallel to each other throughout the 1980s in both Puerto Rico and Panama...
...In the end, reggaeton's story is a productive point of entry into Puerto Rico's changing sense of itself: While still a poor colony of the United States, with more than half of its population living in the continental United States, and widespread discontent at how the country is going, Puerto Rico is playing the national game better than ever—on the global stage...
...In a nutshell: commercial success—achieved, however, in the most unexpected of ways...
...Reggaeton is, as so many of its artists have clearly seen, no more law-abiding or corrupt than the island's ruling elites...
...How did a Spanish-language musical phenomenon originating in a poor colonial possession of the United States make it so big that even its former enemies must now pretend to like it...
...It would not be an exaggeration to say that condemning reggaeton has ginal to notorious, boosting its appeal as the new idiom of rebellion for many of the island's youth...
...Only a year before, the same senator had led public hearings aimed at regulating reggaeton's lyrics and the dance moves that accompany it, known as el perreo, or "doggy-style dance," in which dancers grind against each other to the Jamaican-derived dembow rhythm that serves as reggaeton's backbone.1 Using her reputation as a champion of women's rights, González chastised reggaeton for its "dirty lyrics and videos full of erotic movements where girls dance virtually naked," and for promoting perreo, which she called a "triggering factor for criminal acts...
...By early 2007, when no one complained after Mexican pop singer Paulina Rubio told the media that her reggaeton single was a tribute to Puerto Rico, since "it is clear that reggae-ton belongs to you," writer Juan Antonio Ramos declared the war against reggaeton officially over...
...For instance, many of the dramatic censorship acts undertaken against reggaeton were partly a response to widespread rumors that its recordings were financed by narco-trafficking...
...Raquel Z. Rivera is the author of New York Ricans From the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave Macmillon, 2003) and editor, with Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Wayne Marshall, of Reading Reggaeton (Duke University Press, forthcoming...
...If Puerto Ricans and other Latin Americans have celebrated Spain as the "motherland," reggaeton redirects the gaze toward Africa's diasporas...
...But with Daddy Yankee's global success, Tego's populism, and Calle 13's "alternative" sound and tirades against state power, reggae-ton now has all the necessary qualifications to become a national music that is presentable beyond the island's borders...
...R eggaeton's global rep arguably forced Puerto Rican elites to accept it as a valu able cultural export that brings attention and prestige to the island...
...Many people tried to stop us," recalled Daddy Yankee, reggaeton's biggest star, in an interview...
...hip-hop music and culture.19 In this regard, reggaeton may at times imagine the nation as a contained space, but this notion of the local is composed of globalized cultures...
...This is evident in the proliferation of labels like DJ Nelson's Flow Music, Daddy Yankee's El Cartel Records, and Wisín and Yandel's WY Records, which have allowed performers to maintain a much greater degree of control over their products and earnings than salsa musicians ever enjoyed...
...Reggaeton calls attention to the centrality of black culture and the migration of people and ideas in (and out of) Puerto Rico, not as exotic additions but as constitutive elements...
...If Calderón was the reggaeton champion of an Afro-Caribbean work-ing-class aesthetic, Calle 13 fused a wide range of music styles with unusually surreal lyrics for the genre...
...The intent may have been to crush reggaeton, but the result was quite the opposite...
...8 Faced with an unprecedented and seemingly uncontrollable crime wave, the state also paid close attention to reggaeton...
...but also Europe (particularly Spain and Italy), Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Japan, and Australia...
...In contrast to rap	en	español	and salsa	romántica, reggaeton spoke directly to the social conditions prevalent in Puerto Rico, like outrageous unemployment rates, failing schools, and government corruption...
...attention was the musically, poetically, and politically sophisticated 2003 debut album of Tego Calderón...
...Before the media paid attention and the state seized on reggaeton as a convenient symbol of the country's social woes, the genre was largely a contained class phenomenon...
...6 Running contrary to middle-class values, reggaeton has been attacked as immoral, as well as artistically deficient, a threat to the social order, apolitical, misogynist, a watered-become a sacrilege...
...The point was dramatically driven home last year, For starters, reggaeton calls attention to the centrality of black culture and the migration of peoples and ideas in (and out of) Puerto Rico, not as exotic additions but as constitutive elements...
...While reggaeton exploded across Puerto Rico, the media, religious organizations, and cultural gatekeepers coalesced to contain and regulate it, producing a chain of events with unanticipated consequences...
...She teaches Latino and Caribbean literatures and cultures at Columbia University...
...T he popularity of reggaeton at home was vital to the genre's new status as a national music...
...I t is a great irony that the road to reggaeton glory was paved with the best inten tions of the genre's very detractors...
...While the island is poorer than all the states in the union, by using an independent production model inspired by U.S...
...As a pioneer, I think I can talk about that, about how the government tried to stop us, about how people from other social extractions . . . looked down on young people from the barrios, underestimating and seeing us as outcasts...
...recording industry desperately looking for the next big thing to sell on the urban youth market...
...If much of Puerto Rican high culture is invested in distancing Puerto Rico from the United States, reggaeton brings Puerto Rican culture closer to the U.S...
...Although Calle 13, like other reggaeton performers, typically comment on sexuality, gender relations, and the racism and violence of barrio life, Residente has fashioned himself as the nation's digestive system, transforming the garbage of desire, politics, and violence into a usable language to criticize the status quo.17 "It bores me to talk about the system," he raps Angelo fAlcón NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 report: puerto rico in "Tributo a la policía," a recent song protesting the shooting of an unarmed civilian by a police officer...
...Five or seven years ago, such a statement would have been interpreted not only as an unfortunate mistake, but as a monumental insult to the dignity of the Puerto Rican people," Ramos wrote...
...the Bambinos), the senator, sporting tasteful makeup and a sweet, matronly smile, was lightly swinging her hips and tilting her head from side to side to a raucous reggaeton beat...
...Hip-hop labels developed Latino imprints and signed the top talent...
...Flanked by reggae-ton stars Hector and Tito (a.k.a...
...cArolInA cAycedo NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS report: puerto rico dle class that responded to the new sound with its own brand of hostility...
...mainstream than ever by becoming a part of the "hip-hop nation...
...The entry of Calle 13 into the reggaeton pantheon also represented a significant change in other ways...
...10 Though Ramos is overstating the point that reggaeton has no enemies—as recently as August, a local TV personality promised to explore how reggaeton is "fueling the country's current wave of criminality"—he calls attention to the genre's trajectory from a feared and marginalized genre rising out of Puerto Rico's poorest neighborhoods to the island's primary musical export.11 How could such a dramatic change happen so quickly...
...Although the avowed objective of state censorship was to stop the music, the result was radio-friendly lyrics that now reached and appealed not only to barrio kids but also to middle-class youth...
...Yet as im portant, if not more, was its validation by international music markets, including not only the United States venturA mendozA NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS report: puerto rico Reggaeton stresses the island-diaspora connection, integrating into the long-standing history of Puerto Ricans in hip-hop...
...Velda González gave us the best promotion, because she sparked the whole world's curiosity...
...His populist lyrics—which reminded many of salsa's El Sonero Mayor, Ismael Rivera—together with his innovative musical fusions, use of world-renowned musicians in live shows, and charismatic yet humble demeanor appealed to the old-school salsa lovers and the intellectual left.15 Fusing an experimental reggae-ton style strongly rooted in the working-class Caribbean aesthetics of classic salsa with a strong dose of hip-hop, Calderón's innovation strategically reached back in time to working-class, Afro-diasporic musical roots...
...Seemingly coming out of nowhere, the song and its phenomenal success attracted the attention of a sluggish U.S...
...hip-hop and based in the grassroots, reggaeton artists are not only global stars but also local entrepreneurs...
...Equally revealing, the political economy of reggaeton exposes the blurriness of elite and other spheres of power...
...How down version of hip-hop and reggae, the death sentence of salsa, and a music foreign to Puerto Rico.7 In the exemplary words of the late poet Edwin Reyes, the genre is a "primitive form of musical expression" that transmits "the most elementary forms of emotion" through its "brutalizing and aggressive monotony...
...With Calderón's successful debut, it started to dawn on some of reggaeton's critics that the problem might not be the genre itself, but the underground, amateurish way it had thus far been produced...
...NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 report : puerto rico Reggaeton Nation El	perreo, reggaeton's signature dance, was described by one politician as a "triggering factor for criminal acts...
...From 2002 to 2003 alone, sales increased exponentially, with new reggaeton releases selling between 50,000 and 100,000 units a month, consistently accounting for about a third of the top 10 albums sold in Puerto Rico.14 By entering pop culture respectability, the genre became a vehicle to launch the careers of schooled artists with eclectic musical tastes...
...By Frances negrón-Muntaner and Raquel Z. Rivera I t was a stunning sight...
...Through expedient interventions into mainstream politics with hip-hop tracks like "Querido FBI" (2005), which denounced the killing of the militant independentista leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Calle 13 redefined what a reggaeton vocalist's relationship to Puerto Rico should be...
...When you prohibit something, that's when a kid will most want to know about it...
...Of course, reggaeton's growing sophistication does not mean that everyone in Puerto Rico accepts it...
...Associated with Puerto Rico's poorest and blackest citizens, and their presumed disposition toward indiscriminate sexual depravity and violence, reggaeton was targeted by the island government as a dangerous criminal...
...Reggaeton quickly became the norm at dance parties, discos, and other gatherings...
...But the efforts to censor reggaeton transformed it from marBut slowly throughout 2003, a campaign year, the body politic began to swing the other way...
...In rapper Eddie Dee's pro-rap anthem "Censurarme por ser rapero" (To censor me for being a rapper) for example, he criticizes the moral corruption of the island's elites by referring to the ex-secretary of education, Víctor Fajardo, who was convicted in 2002 of stealing federal funds, and to Edison Misla Aldarondo, a former speaker of the House of Representatives found guilty of extortion, money laundering, and attempted rape of a minor: To censor me for being a rapper Is like censoring a whole people I don't care if you like me or not After all, my high school diploma Was signed by a man who was corrupt...
...A turning point in gaining critical spread drug violence...
...In contrast to the commercialized and sanitized rap en español and salsa romántica that largely replaced the barrio-centric lyrics of salsa's classic period, reggaeton spoke directly to the social conditions prevalent in the country: outrageous unemployment rates of up to 65% in some towns, failing schools, government corruption, and wide NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 report: puerto rico Unsurprisingly, this had a major impact on sales, transforming reggaeton from a cottage industry, in which recordings were homemade and sold from people's cars, to big-time releases by established record labels that sold in department stores...
...Major stars like Daddy Yankee were now not only making millions but also being hired for product endorsements, going on tours, and running clothing lines...
...16 Since reggaeton was here to stay, perhaps the answer was not to demean it but to nationalize it, that is, to nurture artists like Calderón who could be trusted to carry on the nation's officially recognized musical traditions...
...Today the genre represents one of the most impressive stories of Puerto Rican economic and cultural success in the last decades—one that may also be particularly welcome at a time when many people in Puerto Rico have lost confidence in the government and are uncertain if the island will ever recover from its rampant corruption, incompetent leadership, and party factionalism...
...of Puerto Ricans in U.S...
...In becoming the island's most important cultural export since Ricky Martin, reggaeton showcases how social groups written off by the state, educators, and the media have transformed a homegrown product from underground infamy to global popularity...
...If Puerto Ricans on the island pride themselves in being whiter and wealthier than all other Caribbean islanders, reggaeton insists that Puerto Ricans are as much a part of the United States as they are of the Caribbean.18 If island-based Puerto Ricans have looked down on Nuyoricans and the rest of the diaspora as not-quite-Puerto Ricans, the reggaeton generation stresses the island-diaspora connection in order to integrate itself into the long-standing history when the killing of alleged drug dealer José "Coquito" López Rosario was for months top headline news in Puerto Rico, largely because of his ties to both reggaeton artists and elected officials...
...Government officials tried to blame the music for many of the island's problems...
...onstage in 2003 at San Juan's Hiram Bithorn Stadium, five-time senator Velda González—former actress, grandmother of 11, and beloved public figure— was doing the unthinkable...
...Most of us are better people than them No rapper on this island Has been accused of crimes as dirty as Misla's.13 Even more ironic, the state's success in scaring reggae-ton producers into cleaning up their act backfired...
...It became common to see politicians besides Senator González on the campaign trail stiffly dancing reggaeton to show off their hipness and try to appeal to younger voters...
...Tropical" salsa stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami quickly changed their format to accommodate reggaeton and other "hurban" (Hispanic urban) genres...
...Finally we have an important dilemma to fill the huge emotional vacuum that we are left with every four years by electoral victories and plebiscitary failures...
...In capturing the imagination, it also tells us much about what kind of nation Puerto Ricans are imagining and inhabiting in the global era...
...Yet, as is also the case with the government's operations, the lines between legality and illegality are extremely blurry...
...At the same time, reggaeton's success story highlights Puerto Rico's contradictory location in the global economy...
...In earlier years, to belittle reggaeton was to denigrate poor, black, urban youth culture, an easy target...
...Reggaeton's success has been such that it no longer has any enemies...
...Reggaeton's story, then, holds the hope that even under dire conditions, the people of Puerto Rico can find creative ways to make a mark in the global economy...
...The anticipation that reggaeton could do for Latinos what hip-hop had done for African Americans prompted a wave of change throughout the industry...
...It's only logical," Ivy Queen, the genre's lone female star, has said...
...But the reggaeton generation understood the music's crude language, explicit sexuality, and gritty street commentary as no less obscene, violent, or morally suspect than Puerto Rico at large...
...2 Her efforts as reggaeton's "horsewoman of the apocalypse" touched off such a media frenzy around perreo that Puerto Rican writer Ana Lydia Vega humorously noted the irony of transforming a mere dance into a national obsession.3 "To per-rear or not to perrear," Vega wrote with characteristic flair...
...In 1995, the Vice Control Division of the Puerto Rican police, assisted by the National Guard, took the unprecedented action of confiscating tapes and CDs from music stores, maintaining that the music's lyrics were obscene and promoted drug use and violence.9 The island's Department of Education joined in and banned underground music and baggy clothes in an effort to remove the scourge of hip-hop culture from the schools...
...The ability of the island's lower classes to see through upper-class hypocrisy further underscores the greater role of global markets in valuing the nation's culture and how local consumers, audiences, and corporations have largely displaced the traditional local elites in shaping ideas about the nation...
...12 Once reggaeton burst out of the barrio, it became impossible to repress for a second reason: It was "real...
...We have to be grateful for that...
...As journalist Laura Rivera Meléndez commented in a glowing review of a 2003 Calderón concert in Puerto Rico, which included the participation of musical heavyweights Roberto Roena and Tempo Alomar, "Any genre cultivated with musical care and a generous time investment can transcend prejudices and become the voice of various generations and social classes...
...It's almost equivalent to being a bad Puerto Rican...
...did reggaeton become the dominant sound of the "national" soundtrack...
...The system bothers me like an enema/So I give the middle finger to the system/And I spit phlegm on the system...
Vol. 40 • November 2007 • No. 6
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Functional Programming in PHP: Higher-order Functions
What Are Higher-order Functions?
Why Would You Use or Create a Higher-order Function?
Adding code flexibility
Easily expand your code
Imitate features of another language
Examples of Existing Higher-order Functions in PHP
The higher-order dynamic duo: array_map and array_filter
How to Create Your Own Higher-order Functions
A side-by-side comparison with Python and JavaScript
A Quick Word on Lambdas/Anonymous Functions
If you examine several frameworks and large-scale applications, you'll certainly see a higher-order function at some point. Many languages support the idea of higher-order functions, including JavaScript, Java, .NET, Python and even PHP, to name a few.
But what is a higher-order function and why would we want to use one? What advantages does it give us and can we use it to simplify our code? In this article, we'll talk about higher-order functions in PHP specifically, but will show how they've been used in other languages for comparison.
Before we can get into what a higher-order function is, we must first understand that we have to have a language that can support a feature called first-class functions (aka first-order functions). This means that the language treats functions as first-class citizens. In other words, the language treats functions like it does variables. You can store a function in a variable, pass it to other functions as a variable, return them from functions like variables and even store them in data structures like arrays or object properties like you can with variables. Most modern languages these days have this feature by default. All you really need to know is that a function can be passed around and used much like variables are.
For our purposes, we'll be focusing mostly on passing functions as arguments and returning functions as results, and briefly touching on the concept of non-local variables and closures. (You can read more about these concepts in sections 1.1, 1.4 and 1.3 of the Wikipedia article that was linked to in the previous paragraph.)
There are two main characteristics that identify a higher-order function. A higher-order function can implement just one or both of the following ideas: a function that takes one or more functions as an input or returns a function as an output. In PHP there's a keyword that's a clear giveaway that a function is higher-order: the keyword callable. While this keyword doesn't have to be present, the keyword makes it easy to identify them. If you see a function or method that has a callable parameter, it means that it takes a function as input. Another easy sign is if you see a function return a function using its return statement. The return statement might be just the name of the function, or could even be an anonymous/in-line function. Below are some examples of each type.
function echoHelloWorld()
echo "Hello World!";
function higherOrderFunction(callable $func)
$func();
higherOrderFunction('echoHelloWorld');
Here are some simple examples of higher-order functions that return a function:
function trimMessage1()
return 'trim';
return function($text)
return trim($text);
$trim1 = trimMessage1();
echo $trim1('  hello world  ');
As you can imagine, you can take in a function and also use that to generate another function that's returned. Pretty neat trick, right? But why would you want to do any of this? It sounds like something that would simply make things more complicated.
There are several reasons you might want to create higher-order functions in your code. Everything from code flexibility, code reuse, code extension or to imitate a code solution you saw in another program. While the reasons are numerous, we'll cover a few of them here.
Higher-order functions add a ton of flexibility. Based on the previous examples, you probably can see a few uses for something like this. You can write a single function that takes in a whole suite of different functions and uses them without having to write code to execute them individually.
Maybe the higher-order function itself doesn't know what type of function it will receive. Who said that the function has to know anything about the function it's taking in? One minute the input function could be an add() function, and in the next it could be a divide() function. In either case it just works.
This functionality also makes it easier to add additional input functions later. Let's say you have add() and divide(), but down the road you need to add a sum() function. You can write the sum() function and pipe it through the higher-order function without ever having to change it. In a later example, we'll demonstrate how we can use this functionality to create our own calc() function.
Another reason you might want to use a higher-order function in PHP is to simulate the behavior of something like a decorator in Python. You "wrap" a function inside another function to modify how that function behaves. For instance, you could write a function that times other functions. You write a higher-order function that takes in a function, starts a timer, calls the function, then ends the timer to see how much time has elapsed.
It's really simple to find examples of higher-order functions in PHP. Look at the PHP documentation and find a function/method that takes a callable input parameter and you've found one. Below are a few examples of commonly used higher-order functions. You might have even used them without ever knowing they were higher-order functions.
$arrayOfNums = [1,2,3,4,5];
$doubledNums = array_map(function($num)
return $num * 2;
, $arrayOfNums);
var_dump($doubledNums);
Let's see how to use another one, this time with a filter function we've defined separately:
function isEven($num)
return ($num % 2) === 0;
$evenNums = array_filter($arrayOfNums, 'isEven');
var_dump($evenNums);
array_filter and array_map are two very popular higher-order functions that you'll find in plenty of code projects. Another one you might use is call_user_func, which takes in a function and a list of arguments and calls on that function. This is essentially a customized higher-order function. Its whole purpose is to call other functions that the user has defined:
function printCustomMessage($message)
echo "$message";
call_user_func('printCustomMessage', 'Called custom message through the use of call_user_func!');
We've shown lots of examples of how higher-order functions work in PHP, and we've already created a few custom ones to demonstrate their various purposes. But let's show off the flexibility a bit more with a new function we'll call calc(). This function will take in two arguments and a function that will operate on those two arguments to give us a result:
function add($a, $b)
return $a + $b;
function subtract($a, $b)
return $a - $b;
function multiply($a, $b)
return $a * $b;
function calc($n1, $n2, $math_func)
return $math_func($n1, $n2);
$addedNums = calc(1, 5, 'add');
$subtractedNums = calc(1, 5, 'subtract');
$multipliedNums = calc(1, 5, 'multiply');
echo "Added numbers: $addedNumsn";
echo "Subtracted numbers: $subtractedNumsn";
echo "Multiplied numbers: $multipliedNumsn";
Notice that our calc() function was written very generically to take in a set of other functions and calls them with parameters $n1 and $n2. In this case, our calculation function doesn't care what the function it takes in does. It just passes along the parameters to the function and returns the result.
But wait a minute: our boss just asked us to add a function to add two strings together in our existing system. But concatenating strings isn't your typical math operation. However, with our setup here, we just need to add in the string concatenation and pipe it through calc():
function addTwoStrings($a, $b)
return $a . " " . $b;
$concatenatedStrings = calc('Hello', 'World!', 'addTwoStrings');
While this example is very contrived, it demonstrates how you might use the concept in bigger projects. Maybe the higher-order function determines how events are handled. Maybe, based on the event triggered, you can route it through a handler function you pass in. The possibilities are endless.
How does this compare to other languages that have higher-order functions? Let's take a simple example decorator in Python and compare it to JavaScript and then compare it to PHP. This way, if you know Python or JS, you can see how it is equivalent.
def say_message(func):
def wrapper():
print('Print before function is called')
func()
print('Print after function is called')
return wrapper
def say_hello_world():
print("Hello World!")
say_hello_world = say_message(say_hello_world)
say_hello_world()
Now let's see how this might be achieved in JavaScript higher-order functions:
function say_message(func)
return function()
console.log("Print before function is called");
func();
console.log("Print after function is called");
function say_hello_world()
console.log("Hello World!");
say_hello = say_message(say_hello_world);
say_hello();
Now lastly, let's compare this with PHP:
function say_message($func)
return function() use ($func)
echo "Print before function is called";
echo "Print after function is called";
$say_hello = say_message('say_hello_world');
$say_hello();
As you can see from the side-by-side comparison, the PHP version is very similar to the JavaScript syntax. But if you know a bit about Python and decorators, you can see how decorators might be translated to one of the other two programming languages.
Many times, when you're working with higher-order functions, you may see the use of inline anonymous functions (aka lambdas). In some of the examples we've seen above, I've used this format. In addition to that, I've also used the more explicit version of defining the function first and then passing it to our higher-order function. This is so that you get used to seeing both versions. More often than not, you'll see the inline lambda version in frameworks that make heavy use of higher-order functions. Don't let this format throw you. They're just creating a simple function, without a name, and using that in place of where you'd have given the stand-alone function name.
In this article, we covered the basic definition of what makes a function a higher-order function. Any function that takes in a function or returns a function (or both) can be considered a higher-order function. We also talked a bit about why you might want to create these types of functions and what their advantages are.
We then showed some examples of existing higher-order functions in PHP, like array_map and array_filter, and then went on to create our own higher-order function called calc(), which took several input functions and operated on a couple of arguments. We then went into a side-by-side comparison, showing how PHP's solution looks compared to a Python decorator and JavaScript implementation.
I hope you learned a bit more about higher-order functions and why you might want to consider them in your next large-scale solution. They can offer many advantages and reduce boiler-plate code that may be redundant.
If you'd like to learn more about functional programming in PHP, you can consult our tutorial.
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Journey guitarist Neal Schon details new solo album Universe
Journey guitarist Neal Schon is sharing the track list for his forthcoming solo album, "Universe."
The 15-song set mixes original tunes written and produced by Journey drummer Narada Michael Walden with covers of songs by The Beatles ("Hey Jude"), Jimi Hendrix ("Voodoo Child", "Third Stone From The Sun"), Stevie Wonder ("I Believe"), Prince ("Purple Rain") and Journey ("Lights").
Schon has been working on "Universe" over the past few years; he released his version of "Purple Rain" as a tribute to Prince on the late musician's birthday in June of 2019.
"Prince, pancakes and Journey guitar riffs at 4 am.... late eighties and I am sitting with Prince on the floor in his apartment at Paisley Park," shared Prince associate Rick Barron at the time. "We've listened to Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabriel and I notice a worn Journey 'Escape' record in his collection. Surprised I turned to him and said 'Never took you for a Journey fan'. He gave me that doe eyed look that always made me uncomfortable and said: 'Neal Schon is one of my favorite guitarists on the planet, he is a genius.'
"I thought it only fitting that Neal would return the respect by playing a fiery, inspired version of 'Purple Rain'. Having worked for Prince for the last few years of his life, Neal's beautiful interpretation makes the loss of the colossal talent of "P" a little less sad. They are each prodigy's that have woven themselves into the fabric of our lives and our lives are richer as a result"
"Universe" marks Schon's first solo release since 2015's "Vortex."
Neal Schon
"Universe"
Release date: TBA
01. Something In The Heart
02. The Eye Of God
03. The Universe
04. Caruso
05. Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix)
06. Third Stone From The Sun (Jimi Hendrix)
07. Purple Rain (Prince)
08. She's For Real
09. What Has Become
10. Lights (Journey)
11. Silent Voyage
12. Chrome Shuffle
13. Be Happy
14. I Believe (Stevie Wonder)
15. Hey Jude (The Beatles)
Journey guitarist Neal Schon to release new solo album
Steve Perry streams new acoustic version of No Erasin'
Steve Perry shares first preview of acoustic Traces album
Neal Schon shares Journey new music update
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package org.keycloak.adapters.elytron;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.security.auth.callback.CallbackHandler;

import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
import org.keycloak.adapters.AdapterDeploymentContext;
import org.keycloak.adapters.AuthenticatedActionsHandler;
import org.keycloak.adapters.KeycloakDeployment;
import org.keycloak.adapters.NodesRegistrationManagement;
import org.keycloak.adapters.PreAuthActionsHandler;
import org.keycloak.adapters.RefreshableKeycloakSecurityContext;
import org.keycloak.adapters.RequestAuthenticator;
import org.keycloak.adapters.spi.AuthChallenge;
import org.keycloak.adapters.spi.AuthOutcome;
import org.keycloak.adapters.spi.UserSessionManagement;
import org.wildfly.security.http.HttpAuthenticationException;
import org.wildfly.security.http.HttpScope;
import org.wildfly.security.http.HttpServerAuthenticationMechanism;
import org.wildfly.security.http.HttpServerRequest;
import org.wildfly.security.http.Scope;

/**
 * @author Pedro Igor
 */
class KeycloakHttpServerAuthenticationMechanism implements HttpServerAuthenticationMechanism {

    static Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(KeycloakHttpServerAuthenticationMechanismFactory.class);
    static final String NAME = "KEYCLOAK";

    private final Map<String, ?> properties;
    private final CallbackHandler callbackHandler;
    private final AdapterDeploymentContext deploymentContext;

    public KeycloakHttpServerAuthenticationMechanism(Map<String, ?> properties, CallbackHandler callbackHandler, AdapterDeploymentContext deploymentContext) {
        this.properties = properties;
        this.callbackHandler = callbackHandler;
        this.deploymentContext = deploymentContext;
    }

    @Override
    public String getMechanismName() {
        return NAME;
    }

    @Override
    public void evaluateRequest(HttpServerRequest request) throws HttpAuthenticationException {
        LOGGER.debugf("Evaluating request for path [%s]", request.getRequestURI());
        AdapterDeploymentContext deploymentContext = getDeploymentContext(request);

        if (deploymentContext == null) {
            LOGGER.debugf("Ignoring request for path [%s] from mechanism [%s]. No deployment context found.", request.getRequestURI(), getMechanismName());
            request.noAuthenticationInProgress();
            return;
        }

        ElytronHttpFacade httpFacade = new ElytronHttpFacade(request, deploymentContext, callbackHandler);
        KeycloakDeployment deployment = httpFacade.getDeployment();

        if (!deployment.isConfigured()) {
            request.noAuthenticationInProgress();
            return;
        }

        RequestAuthenticator authenticator = createRequestAuthenticator(request, httpFacade, deployment);

        httpFacade.getTokenStore().checkCurrentToken();

        if (preActions(httpFacade, deploymentContext)) {
            LOGGER.debugf("Pre-actions has aborted the evaluation of [%s]", request.getRequestURI());
            httpFacade.authenticationInProgress();
            return;
        }

        AuthOutcome outcome = authenticator.authenticate();

        if (AuthOutcome.AUTHENTICATED.equals(outcome)) {
            if (new AuthenticatedActionsHandler(deployment, httpFacade).handledRequest()) {
                httpFacade.authenticationInProgress();
            } else {
                httpFacade.authenticationComplete();
            }
            return;
        }

        AuthChallenge challenge = authenticator.getChallenge();

        if (challenge != null) {
            httpFacade.noAuthenticationInProgress(challenge);
            return;
        }

        if (AuthOutcome.FAILED.equals(outcome)) {
            httpFacade.getResponse().setStatus(403);
            httpFacade.authenticationFailed();
            return;
        }

        httpFacade.noAuthenticationInProgress();
    }

    private ElytronRequestAuthenticator createRequestAuthenticator(HttpServerRequest request, ElytronHttpFacade httpFacade, KeycloakDeployment deployment) {
        return new ElytronRequestAuthenticator(this.callbackHandler, httpFacade, deployment, getConfidentialPort(request));
    }

    private AdapterDeploymentContext getDeploymentContext(HttpServerRequest request) {
        if (this.deploymentContext == null) {
            return (AdapterDeploymentContext) request.getScope(Scope.APPLICATION).getAttachment(AdapterDeploymentContext.class.getName());
        }

        return this.deploymentContext;
    }

    private boolean preActions(ElytronHttpFacade httpFacade, AdapterDeploymentContext deploymentContext) {
        NodesRegistrationManagement nodesRegistrationManagement = new NodesRegistrationManagement();

        nodesRegistrationManagement.tryRegister(httpFacade.getDeployment());

        PreAuthActionsHandler preActions = new PreAuthActionsHandler(new UserSessionManagement() {
            @Override
            public void logoutAll() {
                Collection<String> sessions = httpFacade.getScopeIds(Scope.SESSION);
                logoutHttpSessions(new ArrayList<>(sessions));
            }

            @Override
            public void logoutHttpSessions(List<String> ids) {
                for (String id : ids) {
                    HttpScope session = httpFacade.getScope(Scope.SESSION, id);

                    if (session != null) {
                        session.invalidate();
                    }
                }

            }
        }, deploymentContext, httpFacade);

        return preActions.handleRequest();
    }

    // TODO: obtain confidential port from Elytron
    private int getConfidentialPort(HttpServerRequest request) {
        return 8443;
    }
}

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Q: Javascript, Extract data from JSON I have some Javascript code that parses JSON, and I want to get the "options" and "childProducts" data on o.products and cp.key.  Is there a way for me to do this efficiently without endless string parsing?
var spConfig = new Product.Config(
{"attributes":{
    "451":{
        "id":"451",
        "code":"package_size",
        "label":"Package size",
        "options":[
            {"id":"4",
            "label":"1 lb.",
            "oldPrice":"0",
            "products":["4562"],
            "brewsaver":"1"},
            {"id":"62",
            "label":"1 lb. crushed",
            "oldPrice":"0",
            "products":["4649"],
            "brewsaver":"1"},
            {"id":"14",
            "label":"55 lbs.",
            "oldPrice":"0",
            "products":["704"],
            "brewsaver":null}
            ]
        }
        },
    "template":"$#{price}",
    "basePrice":"1.75",
    "oldPrice":"1.75",
    "productId":"3390",
    "chooseText":"Choose an Option...",
    "taxConfig":        {
        "includeTax":false,
        "showIncludeTax":false,
        "showBothPrices":false,
        "defaultTax":0,
        "currentTax":0,
        "inclTaxTitle":"Incl. Tax"
        },
    "childProducts":
        {
        "704":
            {
            "price":"64.99",
            "finalPrice":"64.99"
            },
        "4562":
            {
            "price":"1.75",
            "finalPrice":"1.75"
            },
        "4649":
            {
            "price":"1.75",
            "finalPrice":"1.75"
            }
        },

A: The part starting with {"attributes" looks like valid JSON, so if you isolate that (remove the var spConfig = new Product.Config( from the beginning and the ); I assume is at the end) you can use json_decode to get a nested set of PHP associative arrays.
Then it's a matter of spinning through those arrays and joining things up, no string parsing required.


The following runners engaged today at Eagle Farm have recently trialled in the South East Queensland area. Below is an alphabetical listing and summary of the trial.
An exclusive agreement between Seven Network and the Brisbane Racing Carnival today announced the nationwide coverage of the Brisbane Racing Carnival's most prestigious racedays on the Channel Seven free-to-air network.
BRC Chief Executive Dave Whimpey has today announced he is stepping down after more than five years in his role.
Noel Pascoe has been gifted an Honorary Membership for his services to the Club and Queensland racing industry. Pascoe was joined by 50 Year Service Members at a special function on the weekend to celebrate the Club's longest serving Members.
Brisbane Racing Club has been awarded the Best Club Diversification Award at the 2019 Keno & Clubs Queensland Awards for Excellence.
Brisbane Racing Club has announced Westfield Chermside as the exclusive fashion partner to the Channel 7 Brisbane Racing Carnival presented by TAB.
The Brisbane Racing Club are delighted to welcome EVA Air as Official Travel Partner for 2019. EVA Air offer flights to and from Brisbane four days per week, links more than 60 major business and tourist destinations in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
The recently opened boutique luxury hotel, Emporium Hotel South Bank, has announced an exclusive new partnership with Queensland's premier race body, Brisbane Racing Club, as its official luxury hotel partner for 2019.
Race 2 at Caulfield on Saturday was 'The Mary Bell', named by the Melbourne Racing Club in honour of a former vice-chairman and long-time committee member.
We received very encouraging news today about the Channel 7 Brisbane Racing Carnival presented by TAB with significant prizemoney boosts and international recognition of our racing.


27 April 2015 - The world's 250 largest consumer products companies generated sales of nearly US $3.1 trillion in fiscal year 2013 (which encompasses fiscal years ended through June 2014), despite economic uncertainty. This resulted in an average company size of US $12.3 billion, according to the 8th annual Global Powers of Consumer Products 2015: Connecting with the connected consumer report issued by Deloitte.
The report provides an outlook on the global economy, a look at merger and acquisition activity in the consumer products industry; and a discussion on the importance of connecting with the connected consumer. Only four of the global Top 250 consumer products companies are from the Africa/Middle East region. Savola, a multinational food group based in Saudi Arabia, is the biggest amongst this group, and the 111th globally. The region's three other companies are headquartered in Turkey.
"The fall in the price of oil is having a considerable impact on the global economy, with increased disinflationary pressures, especially in developed markets such as the U.S., Europe, and Japan. It is boosting consumer purchasing power in oil-consuming nations such as Japan, India, the U.S., and much of Europe, and contributing to faster economic growth than would otherwise be the case," said Dr. Ira Kalish, Deloitte's Chief Global Economist.
The number of deals has picked up every year since flat lining in 2009, with 1,421 total deals completed by consumer products companies in 2013. Based on the numbers to date, 2014 is on track to reach or surpass 2013's deal volume. Unlike deal volume, however, deal values have trended down since 2009—that is until 2013 when the average value rebounded sharply. The decline in deal values through 2012 may be accounted for, at least in part, by bargain hunting opportunities coming out of the global economic slowdown that allowed companies to pick up assets at distressed prices.
While consumers have unprecedented access to product information and online expertise to guide their purchasing decisions, recent research from Deloitte shows that, surprisingly, consumers are talking far less to product or service experts than they are to families, friends, and other consumers. Sixty percent said they either trust family and friends or customer reviews for information on products and service, followed by independent product/service experts (43 percent); store staff/retailer website (16 percent); and product manufacturers (12 percent).
As a whole, 2013-2014 was another challenging year for the global economy. Europe remained in recession during most of 2013, although it began to recover modestly by the end of the year and heading into 2014—but growth remained poor. The U.S. economy grew slowly in 2013 largely due to a tightening of fiscal policy. While the economy strengthened in Japan, supported by improved exports and the government's massive economic stimulus measures, the Chinese economy decelerated in 2013, and similar slow growth continued into 2014. Economic growth also cooled in several Latin American countries as they faced the end of China's commodity boom, weaker domestic demand, social unrest, and other downward pressures. Overall, recovery by many economies around the globe continued to be jagged and weak.


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Radio Waves: New Quantum Receiver, Virus and Distance Learning by Radio, BBC Woofferton Early Days, and Hello Morse
Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio
Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest SWLing Post readers. To that end: Welcome to the SWLing Post's Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio. Enjoy!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Andrea, Kim Andrew Elliott, Dave Porter, and Phillip Novak for the following tips:
New quantum receiver the first to detect entire radio frequency spectrum (Phys.org)
A new quantum sensor can analyze the full spectrum of radio frequency and real-world signals, unleashing new potentials for soldier communications, spectrum awareness and electronic warfare.
Army researchers built the quantum sensor, which can sample the radio-frequency spectrum—from zero frequency up to 20 GHz—and detect AM and FM radio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other communication signals.
The Rydberg sensor uses laser beams to create highly-excited Rydberg atoms directly above a microwave circuit, to boost and hone in on the portion of the spectrum being measured. The Rydberg atoms are sensitive to the circuit's voltage, enabling the device to be used as a sensitive probe for the wide range of signals in the RF spectrum.
"All previous demonstrations of Rydberg atomic sensors have only been able to sense small and specific regions of the RF spectrum, but our sensor now operates continuously over a wide frequency range for the first time," said Dr. Kevin Cox, a researcher at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory. "This is a really important step toward proving that quantum sensors can provide a new, and dominant, set of capabilities for our Soldiers, who are operating in an increasingly complex electro-magnetic battlespace."
The Rydberg spectrum analyzer has the potential to surpass fundamental limitations of traditional electronics in sensitivity, bandwidth and frequency range. Because of this, the lab's Rydberg spectrum analyzer and other quantum sensors have the potential to unlock a new frontier of Army sensors for spectrum awareness, electronic warfare, sensing and communications—part of the Army's modernization strategy.
"Devices that are based on quantum constituents are one of the Army's top priorities to enable technical surprise in the competitive future battlespace," said Army researcher Dr. David Meyer. "Quantum sensors in general, including the one demonstrated here, offer unparalleled sensitivity and accuracy to detect a wide range of mission-critical signals."
The peer-reviewed journal Physical Review Applied published the researchers' findings, Waveguide-coupled Rydberg spectrum analyzer from 0 to 20 GigaHerz, co-authored by Army researchers Drs. David Meyer, Paul Kunz, and Kevin Cox[…]
Virus and distance learning by radio (1937, 1946) (AE5X Blog)
Six to eight decades ago polio was one of the most feared diseases in the US. In 1952 alone, 60,000 children were infected, 3000 died and many more were paralyzed.
The most severe outbreaks were in 1937 and 1946. My father was a victim of the 1946 epidemic, suffering minor paralysis in one leg as a child.
In 1937, many schools around the country closed, as did public pools, movie theaters and parks. But the Chicago public school system took an innovative approach.
During that period, 80% of US households contained a radio. This allowed 325,000 children in grades 3-8 to continue their education at home via radio lessons aired by six Chicago radio stations (WENR, WLS, WIND, WJJD, WCFL, WGN) that donated time for the purpose.
Program schedules for each day were printed in the morning paper. Home with more than one radio & more than one child often set up radios in different rooms so that each child could hear the appropriate grade's lesson.
This continued for one month…until schools reopened in late September of that year.
Curriculum was developed by teachers and monitored over the air by school officials. After each episode, a limited number of teachers were available for phone calls. A large number of the calls were from parents distressed that they could not clearly receive the broadcasts.[Continue reading…]
BBC Woofferton Early Days (Ludlow Heritage News) [PDF]
Very few structures are left in the Ludlow area which can be traced back to the Second World War. However, look five miles south of the town towards the rise of the hills and a tracery of masts can be seen. Go closer, and a large building can be found by the road to Orleton, surrounded now by a flock of satellite dishes, pointing upwards. The dishes are a sign of the recent past, but the large low building was made for the war-time radio station aimed at Germany.
This little history attempts to tell the story of the British Broadcasting Corporation's transmitting station at Woofferton near Ludlow in Shropshire during the first years of its existence. When and why did the BBC appear in the Welsh border landscape with a vast array of masts and wires strung up in the air? The story begins in 1932, when the BBC Empire Service opened from the first station at Daventry in Northamptonshire. Originally, the service, to link the Empire by wireless, was intended to be transmitted on long-wave or low frequency. But, following the discovery by radio amateurs that long distance communication was possible by using high frequency or short waves, the plan was changed. Later in the decade, the BBC expanded the service by also broadcasting in foreign languages. Although Daventry had a distinguished name in the broadcasting world, it was never technically the best place for a short-wave site, being on a hill and close to a growing town.
This article can be found in the Ludlow Heritage News: click here to download the full PDF.
Hello Morse: A collection of AI and Chrome experiments inspired by Morse code on Android Gboard (Google)
Developer Tania Finlayson found her voice through Morse code. Now she's partnering with Google to bring Morse code to Gboard, so others can try it for accessible communication.
Morse code for Gboard includes settings that allow users to customize the keyboard to their unique usage needs. It works in tandem with Android Accessibility features like Switch Access and Point Scan.
This provides access to Gboard's AI driven predictions and suggestions, as well as an entry point to AI-powered products, like the Google Assistant.[…]
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Gmail Tap: email with morse code?
Google has once again featured a radio-related theme–this time (unfortunately!) as an April Fool's joke. This video will explain it all:
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Artist and activist Kiran Gandhi (@madamegandhi), the girl who ran a London marathon on her period without a tampon, the girl who played drums during M.I.A's 2013 tour, and the same girl who has been leading the way for feminist confidence and all around badassery, is trending.
As a graduate of both Georgetown University and Harvard University's School of Business, Kiran has been molding contributions to feminism by being true to herself, sharing theories of modern equality through music, and using her voice to tell her truth about why women are beautiful without social constructs and other patriarchal roles attached to them.
"I love to explain what future is female means. It means to me that we look to the female archetype for alternative forms and styles of leadership.
Right now, we are in a hypermasculine style with Donald Trump setting the example. It's a zero sum game – for one person to win, someone else has to lose. And the world doesn't need to be this way.
To me, future is female means that the world becomes more collaborative and more emotional intelligent literally for our own survival."
Apart from "the future is female" slogan, Kiran attributes a lot of importance to the color yellow. She says it has been very transformative throughout her life as a musician and activist. In Hindi, Kiran's name means "the first ray of sunshine."
"I think yellow represents the feminine energy because the sun is as life-giving as women are. It's also gender neutral. It's like rebranding of femininity."
Since running the London Marathon in 2015, Kiran's activism and bravery have attracted a number of companies to support her mission and raise awareness for women's health and period stigma in developing countries. Period shaming is still a big deal around the world and millions of women still do not have access to the basic hygiene products, like pads and tampons.
Recently, Kiran has partnered and works non-exclusively with a number of different organizations as an ambassador, including MyFlo App, Thinx and Elle Box Co.
"Intersectional feminism means that we as women understand our vast diversity, but we also understand our similarities. It is about identifying core themes that affect all of us and really uniting around them to protect our rights.
One example is menstrual health and hygiene – instead of seeing it as a taboo, we should seek ways to design systems that make it easier for women to be comfortable during our cycles."