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Ground-breaking held for $300m One West Palm, city's biggest project
Tony Doris
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WEST PALM BEACH — Developer Jeff Greene and local dignitaries Wednesday celebrated the groundbreaking of his $300 million One West Palm, a two-tower project promising Class A offices, hotel suites and residences in downtown West Palm Beach, the city's largest project in years.
The ceremony, at the dusty site of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant at 550 Quadrille Blvd., was symbolic, as foundation work began five months ago, after a delay of nearly three years. The Palm Beach billionaire said he expects to hold a topping-off celebration for the 30-story, 426-foot-tall luxury towers in a year.
"I finally got the guts to build this," Greene said, adding that he would use his money rather than construction loans to complete the project. The offices, to be the first built downtown in 10 years, are "about creating more opportunity for others in West Palm Beach," Greene told the gathering, where he, his wife Mei Tze Greene, his mother Barbara and three sons, Malcolm, 9, Brandon, 7 and Cameron, 5, hoisted symbolic shovelfuls of dirt.
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"You can only imagine what this is going to do for our city," Mayor Keith James said of the long-awaited project, which won city approvals in January 2016. It will help West Palm compete with regional neighbors in business attraction and will address dire needs for top-tier office space downtown and for jobs for residents of adjacent neighborhoods, James said.
Greene drew heat from city officials for not starting the project sooner.
He said Wednesday he delayed it partly to make sure it could be profitable and partly because the city was altering its zoning in a way that would allow Related Cos. to build a competing 25-story office tower in on Flagler Drive, with superior waterfront views. That zoning change was defeated, then revived several months later, but now faces a court challenge, all allowing Greene to get a jump on Related's project, if that one goes forward.
One West Palm and his other much-anticipated project, a residential development planned on 19 acres he owns next to Currie Park, benefit each other, he said. Growth elsewhere in the city's downtown and North End and in Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter will all feed the success of One West Palm, he said.
Owning still other apartments in and near downtown has helped him gauge the market, he said, and using big-name architects and interior designers will attract commercial and residential customers from the Northeast and elsewhere he said. The piled glass blocks look of One West Palm was designed by the well-known Miami firm, Arquitectonica and California-based Rockwell Interiors will design the interiors. For his Currie Park project, Greene hired the Swiss firm, Herzog de Meuron, architects of Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympic stadium, Peréz Art Museum Miami and other landmarks.
It's easy for other people to be impatient or second-guess his intent to develop rather than land-bank his properties, he said. But especially since he planned to invest his personal wealth in the project, "I wanted to have a pretty good idea I wouldn't lose money," he said. He concluded that in the worst case it would be hard to lose money on the project and in the best case, it would be very successful.
First to rise will the be the luxury residential tower, which will probably consist of 327 condominiums, he said. While that's underway, the second tower will start, with 200 hotel suites on its lower floors and 209,000 square feet of Class A offices above.
The project includes 14,400 square feet of meeting space with 40-foot ceilings. Other amenities will include a gym, indoor pools and the county's first indoor tennis courts, a spa, shops, movie screen and restaurants.
"Live, work, play, do it all, and that's pretty much what West Palm Beach is all about," Greene said.
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World of Wonder's Fenton Bailey
Kristin Brzoznowski 22 days ago	Interviews, Top Stories
Fenton Bailey, co-founder of World of Wonder Productions, talks to TV Real about the company's mission of telling authentic stories of people who "live their lives out loud."
Documenting the search for the next drag superstar, RuPaul's Drag Race recently wrapped its 11th season in the U.S. The show, which began airing in 2009 on Logo TV and moved over to VH1 in season nine, has become something of a phenomenon. Its contestants have gone on to achieve various levels of pop culture stardom, and there are legions of fans the world over hosting viewing parties, engaging on social media and gathering for RuPaul's DragCon, billed as the first convention celebrating drag, queer culture and self-expression. World of Wonder Productions is behind Drag Race, among a slew of other unscripted successes.
TV REAL: After more than two decades producing, what's the unique positioning you've tried to establish for World of Wonder in this vast marketplace?
BAILEY: We've only really ever done things that personally interest us. Randy [Barbato, fellow World of Wonder co-founder] and I often talk about the very first time that we saw RuPaul on the streets of Atlanta wheat pasting posters of himself. Ru always recognized that stardom was his trajectory, and it was a question of waiting for the world to catch up. We've followed our hearts.
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Randy and I were at film school a long time ago, and we would sneak out of our film editing class and go to The Pyramid Club, which is a hole-in-the-wall [nightclub] in New York's East Village. We saw some of the most amazing acts on that little stage. Randy and I always felt that drag is true artistry on so many levels: it's performance, singing, lip-syncing, hair, makeup, fashion, moves, and also, it's this great celebration and parody of all the insanity of popular culture. It's this multifaceted art form. Drag has been around a long, long time, but we always felt drag was something that deserved a larger stage or a broader platform.
It's like Ru says: You're born naked and the rest is drag. It's true! Whether you're gay or straight, a drag queen or not, everything you put on is playing with a sense of identity.
TV REAL: How have you seen the factual genre evolve—from where it was when WOW first started producing to what's popular today?
BAILEY: Whether it gets called documentary or reality—I quite like the word "unscripted" because that explains its appeal as well—audiences love something that feels real. There's nothing wrong with scripted, but I think viewers like the feel of something that hasn't been created by a writer or willed into existence by a creative force. It's just people as they are and as they find themselves. This is a genre that has literally exploded, in many different ways, across all aspects of culture over the last 20 or 25 years. There are certain landmarks, whether it's O.J. Simpson on the freeway chase or the Rodney King police beating, those were all in different ways landmarks of this ability for people to see [things as they are]. It goes hand in hand with technology too; we're able to film things so much more easily than we were able to. You can almost do anything now at the touch of a button! One of the great things about that is all of these opportunities for telling stories in a different way. That's all unscripted is, telling stories in a different way. It's a golden age of documentaries and unscripted series.
TV REAL: Let's talk about the success of Drag Race. What do you think took this show from a niche proposition to a global phenomenon?
BAILEY: I don't know what it was that made it happen. To Randy and I, it always felt like this art form of drag was potentially mainstream and does have appeal to a broad audience. It took many years to find a home for the show. We were knocking on a lot of doors for a long time. Something I've noticed more recently, as I spend more time going overseas and talking to production executives in other countries, is that they will say, We've never heard of the show, but our kids love it! In many cases, people's kids have turned them on to the show. It speaks to the fact that drag does appeal to kids; kids don't bring to it the generational baggage and prejudices that perhaps, unfortunately, people have grown up with. Drag is nothing new. Societally it was seen as some outer limit, beyond the pale, ultra avant-garde thing. That's not what the nature of drag is. It's this creative form of expression that hasn't been recognized. I think to kids, drag queens are like Disney princesses.
It's all about the queens! Ru wanting to do this show is such a generous thing on his part, to give this platform to everyone else and share it with the world.
TV REAL: Looking at the current production and development slates, what are the types of stories you're trying to tell as a company?
BAILEY: Randy and I are always moved and inspired by people who live their lives out loud, people who don't edit themselves, who don't try to fit in with everybody else. That's always inspired us. Drag queens tick that box for sure. We are drawn to stories about people who, in some respects, are under-revealed—even if they may seem overexposed. When we made our film about Monica Lewinsky, she had been the subject of headlines and national interest, but we felt that she had been fundamentally misunderstood. In Monica in Black and White, you get to see that she's a human being with feelings, in her full dimensionality. I often think that the tide of public opinion is unfair to people, and we want to tell stories that try to correct that or tell a different story.
It's about telling the truth. We're in such an age of all-out lying about everything, especially in politics. We're up to our necks in lies! It gets us excited to tell the truth about people and things.
TV REAL: What led to the creation of the SVOD WOW Presents Plus, and in what other ways are you growing the direct-to-consumer business?
BAILEY: Ru often talks about "finding your tribe." World of Wonder really is a tribe, a family. Everyone who enjoys Drag Race may also enjoy other things that we create, that don't necessarily fit what cable or network TV is looking for. There is a tribe of people out there who get something out of it, and that's where WOW Presents Plus came along. Thankfully, technology has reached a point where we could do this. It's $3.99 per month, which is less than the price of a latte, and you get all this content! It's a way for people who enjoy Drag Race and the programs we make to enjoy them all in one place. There's a sense of membership, of an extended family or a club.
That was the same sense of thinking behind creating RuPaul's DragCon. Meeting the audience at the event is inspiring. People talk in TV about the 18-to-34 sweet spot or the LGBTQ+ audience. That's not who is at RuPaul's DragCon. Yes, there are gay people there; yes, there are young people there. But what you see is multigenerational; you see kids with their families and teenagers with their parents. They aren't defined by Nielsen ratings; they are curious people who want to go and have fun.
TV REAL: World of Wonder's social channels have skyrocketed in engagement. What's driving this? What's the strategy with social?
BAILEY: As much as we'd like to take credit and appear to be strategically brilliant, it's really all because of the queens! They don't just sing and dance, do hair and makeup—they have really been pioneers in social media, in terms of finding their audience, connecting with their audience and building their audience. When you add up all the queens who have been on Drag Race, and add up all their followers on Instagram, you end up with a huge social footprint. It's unique in the sense that I don't think other celebrities have necessarily curated their following quite so intensely (aside from maybe the Kardashians). We are following the lead of the queens. For artists and storytellers today, part of their job is to find and engage their audience. You can't just create something and then sit back and wait for the world to discover it.
The internet has been a godsend to isolated young gay people because they've been able to find their peers, find role models, find relationships, friendships and contacts. Whereas before you were just alone on a farm in the middle of nowhere! It's impossible to emphasize the extent and profundity of that shift.
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About Kristin Brzoznowski
Kristin Brzoznowski is the executive editor of World Screen. She can be reached at kbrzoznowski@worldscreen.com.
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#ifndef _SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_H_
#define _SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_H_

/**
 * @file
 *
 * @brief This file contains the structures, constants, and prototypes
 *        associated with the remote node context in the silicon.  It
 *        exists to model and manage the remote node context in the silicon.
 */

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif // __cplusplus

#include <dev/isci/scil/sci_types.h>
#include <dev/isci/scil/sci_base_state.h>
#include <dev/isci/scil/sci_base_state_machine.h>
#include <dev/isci/scil/sci_base_state_machine_logger.h>

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

/**
 * This constant represents an invalid remote device id, it is used to program
 * the STPDARNI register so the driver knows when it has received a SIGNATURE
 * FIS from the SCU.
 */
#define SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_INVALID_INDEX    0x0FFF

#define SCU_HARDWARE_SUSPENSION  (0)
#define SCI_SOFTWARE_SUSPENSION  (1)

struct SCIC_SDS_REQUEST;
struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_DEVICE;
struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT;

typedef void (*SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_CALLBACK)(void *);

typedef SCI_STATUS (*SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_OPERATION)(
   struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT    * this_rnc,
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_CALLBACK   the_callback,
   void                                   * callback_parameter
);

typedef SCI_STATUS (*SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_SUSPEND_OPERATION)(
   struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT    * this_rnc,
   U32                                      suspension_type,
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_CALLBACK   the_callback,
   void                                   * callback_parameter
);

typedef SCI_STATUS (* SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_IO_REQUEST)(
   struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT * this_rnc,
   struct SCIC_SDS_REQUEST             * the_request
);

typedef SCI_STATUS (*SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_EVENT_HANDLER)(
   struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT * this_rnc,
   U32                                   event_code
);

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

typedef struct _SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_HANDLERS
{
   /**
    * This handle is invoked to stop the RNC.  The callback is invoked when after
    * the hardware notification that the RNC has been invalidated.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_OPERATION destruct_handler;

   /**
    * This handler is invoked when there is a request to suspend  the RNC.  The
    * callback is invoked after the hardware notification that the remote node is
    * suspended.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_SUSPEND_OPERATION suspend_handler;

   /**
    * This handler is invoked when there is a request to resume the RNC.  The
    * callback is invoked when after the RNC has reached the ready state.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_OPERATION resume_handler;

   /**
    * This handler is invoked when there is a request to start an io request
    * operation.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_IO_REQUEST start_io_handler;

   /**
    * This handler is invoked when there is a request to start a task request
    * operation.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_IO_REQUEST start_task_handler;

   /**
    * This handler is invoked where there is an RNC event that must be processed.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_EVENT_HANDLER event_handler;

} SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_HANDLERS;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

/**
 * @enum
 *
 * This is the enumeration of the remote node context states.
 */
typedef enum _SCIS_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_STATES
{
   /**
    * This state is the initial state for a remote node context.  On a resume
    * request the remote node context will transition to the posting state.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_INITIAL_STATE,

   /**
    * This is a transition state that posts the RNi to the hardware. Once the RNC
    * is posted the remote node context will be made ready.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_POSTING_STATE,

   /**
    * This is a transition state that will post an RNC invalidate to the
    * hardware.  Once the invalidate is complete the remote node context will
    * transition to the posting state.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_INVALIDATING_STATE,

   /**
    * This is a transition state that will post an RNC resume to the hardare.
    * Once the event notification of resume complete is received the remote node
    * context will transition to the ready state.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_RESUMING_STATE,

   /**
    * This is the state that the remote node context must be in to accept io
    * request operations.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_READY_STATE,

   /**
    * This is the state that the remote node context transitions to when it gets
    * a TX suspend notification from the hardware.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_TX_SUSPENDED_STATE,

   /**
    * This is the state that the remote node context transitions to when it gets
    * a TX RX suspend notification from the hardware.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_TX_RX_SUSPENDED_STATE,

   /**
    * This state is a wait state for the remote node context that waits for a
    * suspend notification from the hardware.  This state is entered when either
    * there is a request to supend the remote node context or when there is a TC
    * completion where the remote node will be suspended by the hardware.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_AWAIT_SUSPENSION_STATE,

   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_MAX_STATES

} SCIS_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_STATES;

/**
 * @enum
 *
 * This enumeration is used to define the end destination state for the remote
 * node context.
 */
enum SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_DESTINATION_STATE
{
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_DESTINATION_STATE_UNSPECIFIED,
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_DESTINATION_STATE_READY,
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_DESTINATION_STATE_FINAL
};

/**
 * @struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT
 *
 * @brief  This structure contains the data associated with the remote
 *         node context object.  The remote node context (RNC) object models
 *         the remote device information necessary to manage the
 *         silicon RNC.
 */
typedef struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT
{
   /**
    * This contains the information used to maintain the loggers for the base
    * state machine.
    */
   SCI_BASE_OBJECT_T parent;

   /**
    * This pointer simply points to the remote device object containing
    * this RNC.
    *
    * @todo Consider making the device pointer the associated object of the
    *       the parent object.
    */
   struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_DEVICE * device;

   /**
    * This field indicates the remote node index (RNI) associated with
    * this RNC.
    */
   U16 remote_node_index;

   /**
    * This field is the recored suspension code or the reason for the remote node
    * context suspension.
    */
   U32 suspension_code;

   /**
    * This field is TRUE if the remote node context is resuming from its current
    * state.  This can cause an automatic resume on receiving a suspension
    * notification.
    */
   enum SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_DESTINATION_STATE destination_state;

   /**
    * This field contains the callback function that the user requested to be
    * called when the requested state transition is complete.
    */
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_CALLBACK user_callback;

   /**
    * This field contains the parameter that is called when the user requested
    * state transition is completed.
    */
   void * user_cookie;

   /**
    * This field contains the data for the object's state machine.
    */
   SCI_BASE_STATE_MACHINE_T state_machine;

   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_HANDLERS * state_handlers;

   #ifdef SCI_LOGGING
   /**
    * This field conatins the ready substate machine logger.  The logger will
    * emit a message each time the ready substate machine changes state.
    */
   SCI_BASE_STATE_MACHINE_LOGGER_T state_machine_logger;
   #endif

} SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_T;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

extern SCI_BASE_STATE_T
   scic_sds_remote_node_context_state_table[
      SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_MAX_STATES];

extern SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_HANDLERS
   scic_sds_remote_node_context_state_handler_table[
      SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_MAX_STATES];

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

void scic_sds_remote_node_context_construct(
   struct SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_DEVICE  * device,
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_T * rnc,
   U16                              remote_node_index
);

void scic_sds_remote_node_context_construct_buffer(
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_T * rnc
);

BOOL scic_sds_remote_node_context_is_initialized(
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_T * rnc
);

BOOL scic_sds_remote_node_context_is_ready(
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_T * this_rnc
);

#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_set_remote_node_index(rnc, rni) \
   ((rnc)->remote_node_index = (rni))

#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_get_remote_node_index(rcn) \
   ((rnc)->remote_node_index)

#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_event_handler(rnc, event_code) \
   ((rnc)->state_handlers->event_handler(rnc, event_code))

#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_resume(rnc, callback, parameter) \
   ((rnc)->state_handlers->resume_handler(rnc, callback, parameter))

#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_suspend(rnc, suspend_type, callback, parameter) \
    ((rnc)->state_handlers->suspend_handler(rnc, suspend_type, callback, parameter))

#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_destruct(rnc, callback, parameter) \
    ((rnc)->state_handlers->destruct_handler(rnc, callback, parameter))

#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_start_io(rnc, request) \
   ((rnc)->state_handlers->start_io_handler(rnc, request))

#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_start_task(rnc, task) \
   ((rnc)->state_handlers->start_task_handler(rnc, task))

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

#ifdef SCI_LOGGING
void scic_sds_remote_node_context_initialize_state_logging(
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_T *this_rnc
);

void scic_sds_remote_node_context_deinitialize_state_logging(
   SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_T *this_rnc
);
#else // SCI_LOGGING
#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_initialize_state_logging(x)
#define scic_sds_remote_node_context_deinitialize_state_logging(x)
#endif // SCI_LOGGING

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif // __cplusplus

#endif // _SCIC_SDS_REMOTE_NODE_CONTEXT_H_

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Andrew Brons : You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Posted on June 9, 2009 by @ndy
Andrew Brons: the genteel face of neo-fascism, Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, June 8, 2009: "British National party MEP and former National Front chairman who started political life in group set up in honour of Hitler."
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It was on Hitler's birthday, deliberately chosen, that the National Socialist Movement was formed in Britain in the 1960s. It was the first political organisation of the far right that Andrew Brons, the newly-elected British National party MEP for Yorkshire and Humberside, was to join – but not the last.
The group that he signed up to as a teenager had been founded in honour of Hitler by the British fascist leader, the late Colin Jordan. No mention of this early political involvement features on the BNP's website celebrating Brons's victory. Instead, Brons is portrayed just as a "veteran British Nationalist"…
Sonia Gable of Searchlight said that his past made him a strange choice for a BNP seeking to create a "respectable" image for itself.
"Everyone in the BNP is trying to look respectable and Brons is an odd choice because he was in the NF at its most racist," she said.
She added that she thought Brons had been chosen as a candidate because Nick Griffin, the chairman of the BNP, believed that he would have strong links with far-right organisations in Europe.
The BNP denies being an anti-semitic organisation, and when asked about Brons's involvement with the NSM and the NF and his calls for compulsory repatriation, a spokesman for the party said: "That was nearly 30 years ago, times have moved on … You print what you want."
…Arnold Leese, a former vet, an anti-Semite, and admirer of Hitler, had been a founder member of the Imperial Fascist League in 1928. Released from prison in 1944 on grounds of ill-health, Leese became the [principal] star in the 1940s British fascist firmament, attracting to him all the leading national socialist players of the 1950s and 1960s, including Cambridge graduate and schoolteacher Colin Jordan. When Leese and his wife died, the house [Arnold Leese House, 46–48 Princedale Road, Holland Park] was left to Jordan who turned it into the base for his "White Defense League", the instigators of much of the racial confrontation in Notting Hill in the late-1950s. In 1960, the WDL merged with the National Labour Party to form the Hitlerite British National Party and then the National Socialist Movement, founded by Jordan and John Tyndall on what would have been Hitler's 73rd birthday, 20 April 1962.
The paranoid wackos of this seedy West London tenement had one thing in common — the conviction that Jews, freemasons, homosexuals, gypsies, Jesuits, anarchists and Communist Party members were all agents of subversion under the control of a ruthless global elite directing world events to their advantage…
~ Stuart Christie, Granny Made Me an Anarchist, AK Press, 2008, p.104. The book is given a very short, positive review by Bill Ayers (!) here. Ayers is a former leader of The Weathermen / Weather Underground, and the author of Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist, Beacon Press, 2009.
Bonus Jordan!
"Hmmm… knickers!"
Veteran British neo-Nazi Colin Jordan (June, 1923–April 9, 2009) is dead.
Jordan established the 'National Socialist Movement' and 'World Union of National Socialists' in the UK in 1962. He struck gold in 1963 when he married wealthy heiress Françoise Dior. In addition to being a nutzi, Jordan will most likely be remembered for his rather spectacular fall from grace.
Jordan reorganized the National Socialist Movement itself in 1968 as the British Movement, but by 1974 he has been forced to step down in favor of Michael McLaughlin. The split was far less than amicable. It was Jordan, however, who provided McLaughlin with the sword with which to do in the movement's founder, and Jordan further obliged his enemies by taking a running start and skewering himself in a manner guaranteed to bring maximum public humiliation. It seems that, for reasons best known only to him, Jordan was arrested on charges of simple shoplifting. Worse, Jordan's booty was comprised of lingerie — to wit, pairs of women's panties. Why the financially secure Jordan would resort to this method of shopping was a mystery to the British Movement, but soon the internal correspondence of many of the faithful had brought to Jordan the nickname of "Knickers Stealer", and the McLaughlin faction of the British Movement had a field day with the news. The label stuck, dogging Jordan's ill-fated campaigns in the 1970s to seize back control of the British Movement and, indeed, to reenter the British National Socialist scene that had, in truth, long since left him behind.
~ Jeffrey Kaplan, Encyclopedia of white power: a sourcebook on the radical racist right, Rowman Altamira, 2000, p.147.
Bonus Nazi!
Springfield Nazis get punked by the Jewish Community Relations Bureau, Nadia Pflaum, June 3, 2009 | FBI informant and nutzi shock jock Hal Turner finally run out of useful infos and got himself arrest: Controversial blogger and host accused of making threats: Recent posting told readers to 'take up arms', Mark Mueller, New Jersey Star Ledger, June 5, 2009 & Dear Hal Turner, I Just Turned Your Emails Over to the Police, Maimonides, Daily Kos, June 4, 2009 | Austrian town strives to keep alive memory of Nazi victims, AFP, June 6, 2009 | Over the border, A German State Gains Ground Against Neo-Nazi Crime, Stefan Berg and Markus Deggerich, Der Spiegel, June 6, 2009.
Bonus Weather Report!
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Jamie R says:
Man, everyone forgets about the Jesuits. I grow tired with Jews taking all the credit, as a Catholic I'd like to see more Jesuit action in world conspiracy theory. Everyone always points the finger at the Covetous Jew but how about the Soldiers of Christ/Footsoldiers of the Pope? Word! I should throw up emoticon gang signs like this is an MTV forum.
Lumpen says:
To focus on the (slightly) better news:
Sweden has 20 seats, but until the Lisbon treaty passes only 18 with voting rights. This means that the Pirate Party will have 2 seats.
Yarr. In Germany the Pirate Party got 1% of the vote.
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I was recommended to post a topic by Paul in the Aardvark Travel Forum.
I have just finished a site on airport parking at Belfast International Airport and am looking to monetise the site.
I was going to try and do this through Holiday Extras but does anyone have any other ideas/ advice/ experience in doing this sort of thing.
If you mean you've only finished it and uploaded to hosting, that is really too early to talk about monetising.
First of all, you should get a stable (ideally - increasing) number of visitors and maybe contributors, as I don't know how is your site built. And that is a matter of at least couple of months. Then you should carefully choose your ad provider. We use Google AdSense, but people nowadays don't really bother themselves clicking on ads. Try to search for comparatively new and well-paying ad operator. I stumbled upon this http://www.infolinks.com/Home.html, but we haven't checked it out yet. The percentage of visitors who click the ads is somewhat similar, so the more you attract, the more clicks you get in the absolute value.
Travel tips - a blog we've just started!
Thanks for the advice. We've tried google adsense before but we weren't too impressed with results so we are trying affiliate schemes. The website is built with wordpress.
Have you ever been involved in the airport parking business or work with companies like holiday extras?
No, I haven't. We provide free vacation rentals listings.
Maybe you could give me a link to it?
OK, I believe I will definitely see it in your signature then.
By the way, i think you should disable the comment form, because it really provides an impression of a blog, and you will eventually end up moderating spammy comments.
That is good. But what is the benefit of using the parking website?
My sig has been removed because I posted a lot of fluff trying to score extra links.


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21st century individuals, Human business owners, Human Tenth Doctor companions,
Children of Time
Human astronomers
Humans who have been inside the Doctor's TARDIS
Human biological fathers
The Silver Cloak
British Army soldiers
Wilfred Mott
Main aliases:
Paratroop One
Sylvia Noble
Grandchildren:
Spouse:
Eileen Mott
In-laws:
Geoff Noble
First seen in:
Voyage of the Damned
Main actor:
Memorable moment
Wilfred Mott was the husband of Eileen Mott, the father of Sylvia Noble and the maternal grandfather of Donna Noble. He was also a one-time travelling companion of the Tenth Doctor, and the final companion with whom the Doctor travelled in that incarnation. Unlike many of the people of Earth, Wilfred was willing to believe aliens would come in peace one day, and that humanity would eventually travel out to the stars and mingle with them. A witness to several alien invasions of Earth in 2009, he was instrumental in stopping the Time Lords' return from within the time-lock which had sealed them in the Last Great Time War. In that effort, he trapped himself in a chamber about to be flooded with lethal radiation. His rescue was the proximate cause of the Doctor's regeneration into his eleventh incarnation.
20th century Edit
Military service Edit
Donna Noble said Wilf had enlisted to fight in World War II while underage. (AUDIO: The Nemonite Invasion)
In 1948, Wilf was a private in the 6th Airborne Division of the British Army, stationed in the British Mandate of Palestine at its end. According to a mysterious Time Lady, Wilf had served in the military without once taking a life, a fact Wilf defended, feeling proud not to have killed anyone. (TV: The End of Time)
Family life Edit
Wilf said that his time with his wife was the most wonderful years he had. The time with her flew by. He never shouted at Sylvia during her childhood. (PROSE: In the Blood)
21st century Edit
In the 2006 elections, after the death of the British Prime Minister at the hands of the Slitheen, (TV: Aliens of London) Wilfred claimed to have voted for Harriet Jones; his daughter disputed this. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
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Wilfred meets the Tenth Doctor and Astrid Peth. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
On Christmas Eve 2007, Wilfred was laid up with Spanish flu, unable to attend his granddaughter's wedding. (TV: The Runaway Bride, The Sontaran Stratagem) He manned his newspaper stand in London on Christmas Eve 2008, where he met the Tenth Doctor for the first time. Earth was aware of alien life and the threat they posed. Given the Sycorax (TV: The Christmas Invasion) and the Racnoss, (TV: The Runaway Bride) Londoners believed aliens might attack on Christmas (again). Wilf told the Doctor and Astrid he was the only person in London apart from Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace; everyone else had fled to the countryside. He was furious when the Titanic hurtled over London, yelling for the aliens not to dare ruin the one Christmas in the last two years to not have an invasion. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
Sometime before this, his wife, Eileen Mott, died. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)
An amateur astronomer, he pitched a tent behind his daughter's house in Chiswick and spent most of his nights on top a hill with a telescope looking for aliens among the stars. In 2009, Donna waved to him from the Doctor's TARDIS while flying away. Seeing the Doctor again through his telescope, Wilf felt happy for his granddaughter for being able to travel the universe, yelling and cheering as the TARDIS took off. (TV: Partners in Crime)
Donna visited her mother and him after she had returned to Earth. She told Wilf, but not her mother about the Doctor, for fear she would react badly. She told him about ATMOS and what they were doing. When the Doctor turned up with a UNIT soldier, Wilfred realised the Doctor was the same man he had met at Christmas. He opened the family car to investigate an ATMOS device and was trapped inside when it was triggered. He began to suffocate (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem) but was freed by his daughter Sylvia Noble. The next day he told Donna he would keep her secret and not tell her mother. (TV: The Poison Sky)
At some point, Wilfred discovered a new star, which was named after him. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)
Wilf and his daughter square off against the Daleks. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
When the Earth was moved into the Medusa Cascade, he and Sylvia tried to fight the Daleks. Wilf fired a paintball at a Dalek's eyestalk, hoping to blind it, but it dissolved the paint. As it was about to exterminate him, Rose Tyler teleported to the scene and killed the Dalek. Sylvia and Wilf took her to their home. A message came from a Sub-Wave Network. They couldn't respond, as Sylvia thought webcams were "naughty" and didn't let her father have one. He watched as Martha Jones and her mother, Torchwood Three and Sarah Jane Smith spoke with Harriet Jones. (TV: The Stolen Earth) After the Earth was returned to its proper place, they celebrated. When the Doctor brought Donna back to them without any memory of her adventures with him, Wilf was distraught at the thought of her returning to her previous life. He promised to look up at the sky every night and remember the Doctor on Donna's behalf. (TV: Journey's End)
The End of Time Edit
Wilfred's surprised to see the Woman on television instead of the Queen. (TV: The End of Time)
As Christmas 2009 approached, Wilf, along with everyone else on Earth, began having nightmares involving the laughing face of the Master. Seeking refuge in a church, he was approached by a mysterious woman, who told him the church had been a convent in the 1300s, had been attacked by a demon from the sky and saved by a "sainted physician"; then she vanished. The next day, Wilf organised a "Silver Cloak" of old age pensioners. He quickly found the Doctor and in a café learned of his prophesied death. On Christmas morning, Wilf was watching the Queen's speech when it was interrupted by the mysterious woman, whom only he could see. She told Wilf he would have to take up arms, that the Doctor could still be saved and that Wilf must not tell the Doctor anything of what she had said. Wilf took his old service revolver, met the Doctor outside the Noble house and joined him in tracking down the Master.
The Doctor and Wilfred resolve to stop the Master. (TV: The End of Time)
They arrived too late to stop the Master turning every human on Earth into a duplicate of himself, but Wilf was protected from the effect behind a radiation shield. He escaped with the Doctor to a spaceship. During this time, Wilf and the Doctor felt they would both be proud to have been related to each other. After another encounter with the woman, he gave the Doctor his gun and urged him to kill the Master. The Doctor initially refused, but on learning the Time Lords were behind everything, he took the gun.
In the fight that followed, Earth shot missiles at the ship. Wilf manned one of the guns and had the aliens land so he could join the Doctor. He freed someone trapped in the radiation booth, but as a result was himself trapped. After he witnessed the Doctor and the Master defeat Rassilon and the Time Lords, Wilf then knocked on the booth door to be let out, fulfilling the prophecy, "He will knock four times."
Due to the nuclear bolt still being active, the radiation would flood the booth and kill him, but not harm anyone else. To save him, the Doctor would have to sacrifice himself. Wilf was willing to die instead because he had "had his time", but the Doctor saved him and absorbed a fatal dose of radiation, which caused him to start to regenerate. He took Wilf home and promised to see him one more time before he changed.
At Donna's second wedding, Wilf met the Doctor again, just like he had promised. The Doctor gave Wilf and Sylvia a winning lottery ticket he had purchased with money borrowed from Geoff Noble before leaving. Wilf and Sylvia gave Donna the ticket and Wilf tearfully saluted the Doctor as he took off. (TV: The End of Time)
At some point, Wilf was taken to the Black Archive by UNIT to have his record as a companion of the Doctor taken. His memories of the visit were subsequently erased and he was sent on his way. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
Alternative timeline Edit
The Doctor lets Wilfred die. (COMIC: Four Doctors)
In an alternative timeline created by a continuity bomb, the Doctor allowed Wilfred to die in the radiation chamber instead of saving him from death, viewing himself as the more useful of the two to the universe. This led to the Doctor becoming a tyrant that ruled the cosmos with an iron fist until his death. (COMIC: Four Doctors)
Parallel world Edit
On Christmas Day 2008 in a parallel world, Wilfred was in the English countryside on holiday with his daughter and granddaughter, courtesy of Donna's winning raffle ticket. He and his family were spared the nuclear destruction of London caused by the Titanic crashing into Buckingham Palace, but the lingering radiation forced their evacuation to Leeds, where they had to share a house with other families. Wilfred adjusted to this life, joining in the shanty singing in the kitchen. He was upset when all non-English residents were forcibly deported to "labour camps", noting this had happened before in his life.
Wilfred set up his telescope behind the house at Leeds; it was there that he and Donna first noticed the darkness spreading over the night sky, eating up the stars. It was this sight that finally convinced Donna to find Rose Tyler and go with her. (TV: Turn Left)
Wilfred had a positive attitude. Even in a crisis, he turned to good war-time spirit. He was a strong patriot, loyal to Queen Elizabeth and his beloved England. He also had a good relationship with his granddaughter Donna Noble and encouraged her companionship with the Doctor, even keeping it a secret from his daughter, Sylvia, for a time. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
Wilfred also proved a loyal companion to the Doctor, from searching him out when prompted to by the mysterious woman, to giving the Doctor his gun and prompting him to kill the Master, as well as serving as a gunner when the ship they were on was under attack. He convinced the Vinvocci to take him back to help the Doctor. He also showed a willingness for self-sacrifice by saving someone trapped in a radiation booth and being willing to die there so the Doctor could live, saying he was an old man who had had his time. (TV: The End of Time)
When the Doctor brought Donna back with her memories erased, Wilfred was devastated as he felt she had grown into a better person after her travels with the Doctor and even tried to get him to talk to her, remarking that he needed her when the Doctor admitted he had done wrong whilst travelling alone. However, he didn't share his daughter's hard feelings against him for wiping her memories, and promised to look up at the sky every night on Donna's behalf. (TV: Journey's End, The End of Time)
He developed a paternal relationship with the Doctor, trying to comfort him when he began to cry during their conversation and wanted him to be happy and to have someone to make him laugh. He was also willing to give up his life to let the Doctor live. This relationship was picked up by others, with the Master sarcastically referring to Wilfred as the Doctor's father. Wilfred admitted he would be proud to have the Doctor for a "son" and the Doctor said he'd be honoured if Wilfred was his "dad". (TV: The End of Time)
Skills Edit
A trained soldier, Wilfred survived the Second World War without killing anyone. Being proud of his service, he wore a Parachute Regiment pin on his signature red hat. He still kept his service revolver as a memento, which he later gave to the Doctor to use against the Master. He also proved to be a proficient gunner when he shot down some of the missiles that the Master had fired at the Vinvocci's spaceship. (TV: The End of Time) He momentarily blinded a Dalek with a well-placed paintball shot to its small eye stalk, although the Dalek recovered its vision almost instantly. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
Unlike so many others who had spent years searching, Wilfred and the small gang of pensioners whom he commanded found the Doctor within only a few hours of his arrival, much to the Doctor's bewilderment. (TV: The End of Time)
When Voyage of the Damned was filmed, Wilfred was intended neither as a recurring character nor as Donna's grandfather. He was meant solely to be a newsstand worker named Stan. The character was made Sylvia Noble's father after the death of Howard Attfield, who was originally to have reprised his Runaway Bride role. Several scenes with Geoffrey Noble had already been filmed before Attfield's death, and these were rewritten and reshot to incorporate Wilfred as Donna's grandfather. Russell T Davies changed the character's name from Stan to Wilfred as he didn't feel Stan was a suitable name for a recurring character.
Wilfred Mott and Donna Noble were the first companions introduced to be related to each other. Wilfred was introduced in Voyage of the Damned, while Donna was introduced in Doomsday, predating the introduction of River Song in Silence in the Library and River's parents Amy Pond and Rory Williams in The Eleventh Hour.
David Tennant would later name his son (born in May 2013) Wilfred.
Before playing Wilfred, Bernard Cribbins played companion Tom Campbell in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D..
Wilfred Mott at the Doctor Who Legacy wiki
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Companions of the Tenth Doctor
Original to television
Rose Tyler • Mickey Smith • Donna Noble • Martha Jones
Single-adventure
K9 MKIII • Astrid Peth • Jenny • Lady Christina de Souza • Cassie Rice • Jimmy Stalkingwolf • Wilfred Mott
Multi-adventure
Sarah Jane Smith • Jack Harkness
Narratively ambiguous
Jackie Tyler • River Song • Rosita • Jackson Lake • Adelaide Brooke
Original to prose
Alsa • Nikki Jupiter • Rok Ma • June • Koral • Jon Bowman • Jake and Vienna Carstairs • Wallace Fitch • Emily Parr • Kate Maguire • Mai Kondo • Christina de Souza 2.0
Original to comics
Majenta Pryce • Maxwell Edison • Heather McCrimmon • Wolfie Ryter • Matthew Finnegan • Emily Winter • Gabby Gonzalez • Rose • K9 • Cindy Wu
Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Grayla
Original to audio
Sugar MacAuley
Multi-adventures reference the rare instance when a companion is shown or stated to have multiple adventures with the Doctor but only appears in a single story.
If a medium is not mentioned, then this incarnation did not have companions who were original to that medium; it does not mean that this Doctor failed to appear in that medium.
Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor • Donna Noble (Doctor-Donna) • Rose Tyler • Jack Harkness • Martha Jones • Mickey Smith • Jackie Tyler • Sarah Jane Smith • K9 Mark IV • Harriet Jones • Gwen Cooper • Ianto Jones • Luke Smith • Mr Smith • Francine Jones • Wilfred Mott • Sylvia Noble
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What's a polargraph?
Polargraph? Polarshield? PolargraphSD? Huh?
A Polargraph is what I decided to call this drawing machine that I made, but it also describes the output. The machine is a simple device, that draws picture using a normal pen, some motors and some string. It is only just good enough to get the job done, and in keeping with this technical brevity, I'm going to spare you more explanations about how it works: The pictures tell the story better.
Polargraph / slow drawing show preview from Sandy Noble on Vimeo.
It's called a polargraph because when I was making it, I thought of it as using a dual-polar coordinates system internally, rather than the regular cartesian system we (and computer systems) tend to use.
In fact, it doesn't use a polar system at all, it's actually a kind of double-triangulation coordinate system. The angle of each cord is controlled by the length of both cords, rather than by specifying angle and distance as in with a true polar coordinate. The name "Polargraph" remains as an evocative term, but it isn't accurate.
The mechanism is not wholly original: I have mainly taken inspiration from Hektor the spraycan robot, but in researching my machine came across prior art in the form of the AS200 drawbot and Harvey Moon's drawing machine. And draftsmen will recognise this as a primitive, gravity assisted pen plotter. An awesome one.
The application that drives it from the computer is written in Processing. It decodes a bitmap and creates a map of the file using a polar coordinates system, recording pixel position, size and brightness. The hardware requests each pixel in turn, and renders it on the page using it's own shading and movement algorithms. You can also use it for plain plotter-type drawings, because it reads drawings in as SVG vector art files. It's not the most accurate plotter in the world, but it was good enough for Wes Nijssen to draw out a giant papercraft polarbear with.
The whole system is fairly technologically agnostic, I have written an instructable that shows how to put one together based on an Arduino microcontroller and an Adafruit Motorshield, along with a couple of stepper motors.
Polarshield? PolargraphSD?
Well, I'm glad you asked! A PolargraphSD is the drawing machine I use myself, and am selling in batches. It is based on an Arduino MEGA2560 board, with a custom designed and fabricated add-on board (called a Polarshield) that combines a pair of high current, microstepping motor drivers for reduced noise and increased smoothness, and a combination of an SD card reader and touchscreen LCD that means this machine can be used untethered from a computer. The vastly increased memory means that new features, such as the norwegian pixel style, circular pixel and vector sprites are possible, and I've still got plans for lots more things to do with it.
The big sell.
You can buy full assembled, tested machines (just add a pen, paper and a surface to draw on), or parts-only "vitamin" kits that contain just the unusual parts. I sell these things at the Polargraph Shop. I'm not making my fortune off you guys, but I do take it seriously. I really enjoy this project, and I think it's a beautifully simple concept and design, it's slow, but rewarding.
Polargraph is a particular brand of drawing machine. It is often used in a generic way to describe any of these kinds of machine, and I take that as a compliment to the ubiquity of the project, but it shouldn't really be used except when referring to this Polargraph project.
It is not a generic name for a drawbot, and the term was not in use before this project began. Well, you know, except to refer to polar graphs.
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Jimmy B on February 29, 2012 at 11:04 am said:
Hey there Sandy…Andy?
Polargraph guy.
I'm building myself a kritzler/polargraph thing, and as far as hardware goes, I actually went with the arduino/pololu route, rather than an adafruit controller…would you know if your software would still work? Or would it just be a matter of changing the output pins in the arduino software? Or…would this require a whole work around of both the arduino software, and the polargraphcontroller program?
I'm kinda new to the whole thing, and the drawing machines are relatively easy to start out with. Thanks for the help!
sandy on February 29, 2012 at 1:02 pm said:
Hi Jimmy, the firmware needs a little tweak to use it, but helpfully, this has already been done by lanthan: http://www.polargraph.co.uk/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=21 has a link to his modified code. It's actually not _quite_ as simple as just changing the output pins, because the adafruit shield has it's own library, and that needs snipping out. But it's almost that simple, and it works fine because the motors are all well wrapped up in the AccelStepper library. I've just got some pololus so I'm working on this too myself! Please let us know in the forums if your mission is successful! I think the next version of the kits will be Arduino Mega+A4988 based, so I'm keen to figure out any issues, electrical ones too.
Ji?í Pech on January 3, 2013 at 11:19 am said:
Mega+A4988 sounds good to me, because with that I can build Polargraph from almost exactly the same hardware as Prusa Reprap i3 (which uses Mega 2560 and 4x A4988).
I can also use NEMA17 motors, print the rest and basically have two machines for the price of one. That's what I call the open hardware domination! 🙂
Anyway, what about Pen up / Pen down? Would you like to implement it using another motor (servo)?
sandy on January 4, 2013 at 12:04 am said:
The polarshield is based (originally) on a RAMPS board, so there'd be only very trivial changes required to use RAMPS to drive a polargraph machine. Change a couple of pin assignments. You wouldn't get the LCD easily, but the SD card would work.
Pen up/down should be easy enough too if you can find a PWM-capable pin that is spare on RAMPS. You _could_ implement a lift using a stepper rather than the servo, wouldn't be difficult at all (code wise) but would require four wires and a heavier motor attached to the gondola. It isn't something I'm interested in chasing myself.
I'm getting tired of waiting for the i3 to mainstream, I'm debating about whether I can justify a mendel90 to replace my little huxley…
Sydney P. on May 31, 2012 at 9:50 pm said:
g3k on November 21, 2012 at 2:59 pm said:
Has anyone attempted using a rapberry pi rather than an arduino? Would the motorshield still work and would powering the motors be an issue?
sandy on November 22, 2012 at 7:03 pm said:
The motorshield categorically cannot work with a raspberry pi, but this wonderful project (http://jonathanjamieson.com/projects/electronics/drawing-machine/) has the heavyweight processing done on a rasppi, and that drives a simplified arduino driver circuit – that's the best way to do it that I've seen.
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Nick on October 13, 2013 at 7:43 pm said:
This is a great project! Is there any way i could get one of these running with easydrivers https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10267 instead of the Adafruit shield?
sandy on October 13, 2013 at 8:39 pm said:
Thanks! The code uses the Accelstepper library to drive the motors, and that's nice because accelstepper can talk to the adafruit shield (using the AFMotor library), or pretty much any other driver. So any driver that takes step and direction pulses will work ok. It's all in the motor declaration.
If you have a MEGA, then it'll be easier because the polargraph_server_polarshield already uses step+direction directly with the drivers on the polarshield, and the Easydrivers interface in exactly the same way as those.
If you want to adapt the standard polargraph_server_a1 to run on the uno, then you'll need to change the motor declarations so they don't use the AFMotor any more. Give it a shot, and if you have any problems, drop me a line, or post a message on the forum!
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Q: Push Notification Performance Issue [UWP] I have a problem with Push Notification configuration at my UWP project. Actually, the issue is performance. That piece of code (below) registering my app for push notifications makes it much slower at opening.
Some test results (splash screen loading time becuase I use OnStartAsync/Template10)
Code Used => Desktop : 15 seconds, Mobile : 16
Code Not Used => Desktop : 3 seconds, Mobile : 6
StoreServicesEngagementManager engagementManager =
 StoreServicesEngagementManager.GetDefault();
await engagementManager.RegisterNotificationChannelAsync();

Mobile device : Microsoft Lumia 950
App. target version : Build 15063
Microsoft Services Store SDK 10.1705.16 version
I want to know how people use this SDK and get performance? Thanks!

A: I have tested your code and reproduced your issue within windows Template10. The problem is that it will take time for the RegisterNotificationChannelAsync method to make network request. It depends on the network environment how long it takes.
It will block the main thread, if you call the RegisterNotificationChannelAsync in the OnStartAsync method directly. So, you need to spend a long time waiting for the app to start.
You could use the async method to pack the code that you have mentioned.
private async void RegisterEngagementNotification()
{
    StoreServicesEngagementManager engagementManager = StoreServicesEngagementManager.GetDefault();
    await engagementManager.RegisterNotificationChannelAsync();
}

This method will be called in a subthread. And the app will start directly.
public override async Task OnStartAsync(StartKind startKind, IActivatedEventArgs args)
{
    RegisterEngagementNotification();
    await NavigationService.NavigateAsync(typeof(Views.MainPage));
}

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I'm about to describe an insanely effective way to implement a self-hosting dynamic programming language. Effective in the sense that it brings the language self-hosting in matter of weeks or days.
The outline of this compilation strategy is described in the Cheney on the M.T.A. -paper. The method to convert the program into continuation passing style has been explained by Matt Might. At the first try I didn't understood this explanation though, so I believe it deserves my attempt at explanation.
This compilation strategy is suitable for a lexically scoped programming language that passes function call arguments by value, and may have complex control flow constructs such as greenlets, bactracking or exceptions.
Once compiled to C, all constructs are allocated in the stack. Once the stack starts to fill up the GC is invoked to copy the live objects into heap and flush the stack.
In short, the function is called with the expression, accompanied by a continuation or a function which produces a call when you give it a valid cps parameter. The functions lift and retrieve are used to control what kind of construct is built. This way, the code never needs to create superfluous continuations that'd have to be pruned out of the code.
To make the compiling easy, the CPS must not contain cycles. It can be made sure by binding loop bodies into variables, so the body doesn't introduce a cycle. The first step is to define a SHADOW -set for every function.
are produced by the function.
If you've been doing some booking during the CPS pass, you already have the shadow set and you don't need to compute it yourself.
and calls connected to this lambda.
variable in the SHADOW set of this lambda.
Now you have everything you need to construct the equivalent set of C -functions. From here on you don't need to do anything else but give every lambda a name, plot them into a C-template. Then dump each function's header and the function itself into a .c -file, accompanied by the header file.
This technique doesn't depend on C. There is practically no need to compiling into C. Once the upscope has been computed into every lambda, you can convert them into blocks that I described under the outline -subtitle. That might be your intermediate form, reserving a way for various ahead-of-time or just-in-time -optimizations. The SSA -forms are said to be equivalent to a subset of CPS -forms.
The C compiling step is useful for bootstrapping the language. It's simple and leaves tons of pathways open. You won't end up coding up anything that'd force your new language into a fixed path. When you need to get your next dynamic programming language up and alive, this is just the perfect way to do it.


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Checking Out The Stellar Neighborhood
From: http://www.astrobio.net
by David Tenenbaum
Ancient astronomers logically focused their efforts on the brightest stars, the ones they could see in the night sky. Many modern astronomers, aided by ever-more-sensitive telescopes, have investigated objects that are unimaginably distant and ancient, phenomenally bright and powerful. Fewer astronomers have concerned themselves with dimmer red dwarfs. Although these cool, dim stars dominate our galactic neighborhood, it is only recently that astronomers have begun to look in earnest for them.
Interest in red dwarfs is growing, in large part because scientists have realized that these stars may host planets suitable for life. In December, Todd Henry, a professor of physics and astronomy at Georgia State University, published a study in The Astronomical Journal that identified and described 20 newly discovered star systems within 33 light years of Earth. The systems include three binary and two triple star systems. (The term "star system" is used instead of "stars" to describe new stellar discoveries, because they often turn out, on closer inspection, to be multiple stars.)
Henry, who has spent more than a decade studying nearby stars, says all of the new stars are red dwarfs, much smaller, cooler and dimmer than our own sun. Indeed, most of the stars closest to the sun – and possibly in our galaxy as a whole – are red dwarfs. Given the emerging view that some planets around red dwarfs may be hospitable to life, the discovery is good news for the search for life on other worlds.
To establish the stars' precise locations, Henry and his collaborators studied visible-light images taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Over several years, they measured the change in the apparent position of each target star as Earth's orbital motion caused it to shift back and forth relative to more distant stars. The effect, known as "parallax," is similar to what happens if you hold a finger out in front of your face and close first one eye and then the other. Your finger appears to move back and forth relative to objects in the distance. With these parallax measurements and a bit of 10th-grade trigonometry, Henry and his colleagues were able to calculate the distance to the star.
The new data raise the census of known stars within a radius of 33 light years to 384 objects in 249 systems, Henry says. This near-Earth region includes the bright stars Sirius and Vega, but most local residents are red dwarfs, which astronomers term "M-dwarfs." These small, dim stars have less than half the sun's mass, and produce far less energy. Eventually, Henry expects a total of 500 stars to be found in the near-Earth region.
One of the newly seen star systems is a binary star with an orbital period of several decades. A second system is just 12 light years away, Henry says. "It's right on top of us, but nobody knew it was there." This red dwarf is orbited by a brown dwarf, a sort of super-planet that blurs the distinction between "planet" and "star." The motion of a third red dwarf hints at the existence of an orbital body that is probably a massive planet, smaller than a brown dwarf, with an orbital period of several years. "It may not pan out, we may be reading too much into the data," Henry says, "but it's the number-one priority in my head."
Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the nearby galaxy, and Henry suggests they could make up a significant part of the universe's mass. "We keep finding more stars near the sun," Henry says. If our neighborhood is representative of the galaxy, and the galaxy is representative of the universe, the new local density measurement may lead to a more precise calculation of the universe's overall mass.
More nearby stars also translates into the possibility of more nearby planets, and perhaps life. The possibility of habitable worlds around red dwarfs is still being debated, though. Because red dwarfs have such low heat output, only planets in close orbit would be warm enough to have liquid water on the surface. But close-in planets could be subject to "tidal lock," the same gravitational phenomenon that holds one face of our moon oriented toward Earth. If so, water would boil away on the side of the planet facing the star, and freeze on the opposite side, greatly reducing the likelihood of life.
But the odds of tidal lock "should be called into question," says Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. The idea that close-orbiting planets would be tidally locked came from comparing these imagined planets to our moon, he observes, "but the moon had a very different origin than planets."
The moon presumably formed after a giant impact released a chunk of Earth into a low orbit. Through gravitational "friction," the Moon's orbit gradually expanded, but it remained tidally locked from those early years in low orbit. Planets, on the other hand, emerge after dust coalesces from a whirling disk, Boss says, so they probably are rotating during formation. In our own solar system, the planet Mercury, "which is close enough to sun to be tidally locked, is spinning three times for every two orbital periods," Boss notes.
Numbers alone give planets orbiting red dwarfs a major role in the search for life in the nearby galaxy, because the majority of nearby stars are red dwarfs. "M-dwarfs are all over the place," Boss says. So the new finding is "absolutely good news" for the search for life.
Todd Henry agrees. "In the history of human exploration, you go to the closest places first. I think our future is out there, not in the black holes or distant galaxies. Local is good. In 500 years we may want to go visit these star systems."


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According to the version of the Deluge story contained in the Epic of Gilgamesh (Tablet XI) the Ark is a cube with an edge of 120 cubits. The stark nakedness of this statement should have made clear to the interpreters that it is a matter of a mathematical entity. Like the ziggurat of Entemenaki, it has a base of 1202. square cubits, or one iku. The only one who has called attention to this fact is Alfred Schott in a footnote(114) in which he also observes that the Ark is divided into 7 decks like a ziqqurat and that each level is divided into 9 rooms, which correspond to the formulation of the Smith Tablet by which each side of the iku is composed of 3 segments of 60 cubits so that the entire area is divided into 9 squares. But Schott considered his association of the Ark and ziqqurat as a cube as too daring and ended his statement with a qualification that is obscure to me, but substantially means that what he said must not be understood literally. Two years later(115) he took a more conventional position by trying to interpret the text of Gilgamesh's epic so as to understand that the Ark has the shape of an inverted trunk of a pyramid and hence somehow resembles a ship.
The Ark in the story of the Flood has the shape of a cubic iku because the Flood is tantamount to a destruction and new creation of the world, and the Ark is the principle of measure that creates order out of chaos. For the Mesopotamians the draining of swampy lands by a grid of canals is the creation of the world, and this is the background of the story of the Flood. The ziggurat was a symbol of the typical embankment of land and represented the place of refuge in case of floods.
The division into 7 levels corresponds to the usual division of the earth and of the corresponding concentric vault of heaven into 7 zones from the equator to the pole. But the further division by 9 indicates that the Ark is divided into 63 parts.
The division of the Ark into 7 decks of 9 rooms each may have a connection with number magic. W. H. Roscher has written several studies on the mystical meaning of the coupling of the numbers 7 and 9 in Greece, and Father Franz Xaver Kugler has dealt with a similar symbolism in Mesopotamia. But these numbers may have a metrological explanation which I consider the original one. In metrics a cube is often divided into 64 parts by dividing each edge into 4 parts; this originates the discrepance diesis between the division of a cube into 64 parts and its division into 60 parts according to sexagesimal computation. The discrepancy is reduced to a leimma when the 60 parts brutto are calculated netto and become 62.5. The number 63 may be a compromise between the figure 62.5 indicated by metrics and the figure 64 indicated by geometry. That one aimed at dividing the Ark into 60 parts is suggested by the total volume of 6,000,000 cubic cubits netto.
A cube with an edge of 120 cubits has a volume of 1,728,000 cubic cubits. It is not specified whether these cubits are barley cubits or great cubits, but the calculation of the volume of the Ark by Berossos, discussed below, indicates that they were great cubits. 120 great cubits correspond to 180 barley cubits. In developing the reckoning, I shall calculate by barley cubits, in order to make the presentation simpler for the modern reader who is not used to sexagesimal reckonings. Converting 1,728,000 cubic great cubits into cubic natural barley cubits, the volume is 1803 = 5,832,000 cubic cubits.
The calculation of the Ark begins with the datum of 12,600,000 barley cubits (140 x 300 x 300) for the radius of the Earth = 8,400,000 great cubits = 17,500 US.
These figures mean that the radius is 6,378,750 meters. Even though it is a matter of round figures, they come quite close to absolute exactness, since the most recent modern calculations estimate the equatorial radius as only 350 meters less -- around 6,378,400 meters.
The Ark was intended to represent the northern hemisphere on a scale of 1:90,000. Hence, the calculation started from a sphere with a radius of 140 cubits, since 140 x 90,000 = 12,600,000. A hemisphere with a radius of 140 barley cubits has a volume equal to 1/90,000 of the volume of the Earth. The figure of 140 cubits was chosen because units of 70 were particularly significant in Mesopotamia.
Calculating by the exact value of p, a hemisphere with a radius of 140 cubits has a volume of 5,747,020 cubic cubits = 747,652 cubic meters.
In order to cube this volume in simple terms it was said to be equal to a cube with sides of 180 cubits, which means 5,832,000 cubic cubits = 756,496 cubic meters.
There is a slight excess in this conversion, ca. 1/83. This excess is taken care of by removing 1/63 from the total volume, that is, by removing one of the parallepiped-shaped "rooms" into which the Ark is subdivided:
62/63 x 5,832,000 = 5,739,427 cubic cubits.
In metric terms the volume becomes 746,669.4 cubic meters. If we multiply this figure by 2 x 90,0003 we would obtain a figure for the volume of the Earth of 1,085,727,972,660 cubic kilometers.
Calculating by the exact value of p, a volume of 5,739,427 cubic cubits is that of a hemisphere with a radius of 140.24 cubits. Or we could say that a hemisphere with a radius of 140 cubits has a volume of 5,739,427 cubic cubits, if 4/3 pi is taken as 4.18326. It is possible that in sexagesimal reckoning 4/3 p was computed as 4 11/60 = 4.18333, (assuming p = 3 11/80 = 3.1375). But probably 4/3 p was calculated as 4.2, (assuming p = 3.15; the exact figure is 4.1888). The result would be a volume of 5,762,400 cubic cubits = 747,650 cubic meters.
Let us repeat the procedure just described by removing one more parallelopiped from the cube with sides of 180 cubits which is the Ark. We obtain a volume of 61/63 x 5,832,000 = 5,646,857 cubic cubits. Assuming 4/3 pi = 4.1833, this volume equals the volume of a hemisphere with a radius of 139.3 natural barley cubits. Taking the scale of the Ark into account, this means that the radius of the Earth is 12,537,000 cubits, or 6,346,856 meters.
114. ZA 40 (1931), 15 n.
115. ZA 42 (1933), 140 n. 1.


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If we are tracking the results of some process and we get the above, the basic question is why we are going to the time and trouble to measure it? The process is clearly under control, and it results in 83% performance to some standard or target, +/- 5%. What would be the point of measuring it again next week? We already know that it will result in the same 83% +/-5% it always does.
On the other hand, let's say we are tracking the same process with the above results. Clearly out of control – one or more of the basic drivers of the process is in the make-it-up-as-we-go-along mode. With a driver of the process acting rather randomly, the results of the process are pretty random. So we know that it resulted in 68% performance to the standard one week. So what? We can draw no conclusion from that information since it results in 93% the next week. The 68% doesn't mean someone did a bad job any more than the 93% reflects good work on someone's part. Both data points are little more than proof that we have no standard work – no consistent way of getting things done.
The same question yields the same answer: Why bother to measure it? It serves no useful management purpose since the results are random and tell us nothing about the process or the people working in it other than that it is out of control, which we already knew.
Of course there is a point to measuring this process and that is to determine whether it is under control or not, although we don't need to put much effort into making that assessment – a little bit of data every once in a while will tell us that.
And the metric we create based on that occasional bit of data doesn't need to be in the form of some precise number. In fact, it doesn't need to be a number at all. It can be a smiley face indicating the process output is consistent within some reasonable range – some control limit; or a frowning face indicating it is not.
As far as management's reaction to the results of measuring the process results the numerical value someone can assign is largely irrelevant. If the result is a smiley face indicating the process is under control then management should launch an effort to reengineer the process to improve its output performance. On the other hand, if the result is a frowning face telling us the process is out of control, then management's reaction should be a problem solving effort – an effort to find out where the random input is and fix it. The goal is not to improve the process. That can't be done until the process is stabilized. Attempting to improve a process that isn't stable is a colossal waste of time since it won't be performed the same way the next time.
This is the essence of MBO versus MBM. Management by Objectives – basically standing around at the end of the process measuring the results and either giving the manager a carrot or whacking him with a stick is not only ineffective management it is pretty lazy management. Real management is MBM. It is managing the process with the understanding that the business' results are the inevitable product of the business' processes, and that management is all about – and only about – designing, controlling and improving those business processes.


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The Brooklyn Nets will bring back All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving as a half-time player for games outside of New York, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
The unfolding circumstances of Brooklyn's season, including injuries, loss of players due to health and safety protocols and an excessive load of minutes on its superstar players, led the team to this move, sources said.
So far, Irving has been unwilling to comply with New York City mandates and get vaccinated to play home games, but the turbulence of the current NBA season has caused the organization to reconsider its preseason decision to completely quit. go to Irving, sources said.
Nets owner Joe Tsai, general manager Sean Marks, coach Steve Nash and key players fully supported the idea, and Irving has been eager to get back to playing in the team's away games, sources said. Irving can start practicing at the team's facilities.


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Dr. John Kani Calls THE LION KING an African Story
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The Lion King stars black performers from across the diaspora but remains at its heart a specifically African story. Not only does it take place in Sub-Saharan Africa, but iconic songs like "Hakuna Matata" borrow terminology from Swahili. But the themes also resonate in many countries there, as Dr. John Kani so eloquently explained. "I thought to myself, it happens in Africa…. Therefore, it is an African story."
At the Disney press conference celebrating The Lion King, Dr. Kani addressed the added layers of authenticity in the recent reimagining. While playing Rafiki, he added important touches such as speaking Xhosa. But he also brought a fresh perspective to the role, saying, "We are both over 75, so we both lived. We both walked through that forest." As a renowned actor, director and playwright, he strove to find himself in Rafiki – and succeeded. "I'm very grateful to [Jon Favreau], it doesn't look like me. But he is like me, which is fantastic."
Dr. Kani felt that he would not be the only one to feel the deep sense of connection to the characters of The Lion King. "I'm looking forward to our premier in Johannesburg," he added. "Where it will be full of all African people who are looking for something that is about them."
"Everything we see on the play in the screen, we read, we take [seriously]. We take that it speaks to me. And so wonderful to see how the Johannesburg South African audiences will say what does it say to me? What does it make me feel? Why am I celebrating it? Is it humanity? Is it us, is it our dignity? Our future? And is it what we want to tell our children? Because we're only 25 years in our democracy. I went to the American embassy in South Africa and understood you guys were celebrating 243 years of democracy and they ain't got it right yet."
Dr. John Kani Talks Resilience in the Face of Scar
Scar remains a cautionary tale.
The threat of Scar looms large over The Lion King, and he is a tyrant many are familiar with. Aside from his Disney villain fame and chill-inducing song, he also speaks to dictatorships in the real world. Dr. Kani pointed out that even the United States is no stranger to power run amok, but it felt particularly personal to him.
"Watching [The Lion King] last night, I kept praying. 'Please God, not another Scar in Africa,'" the acclaimed playwright admitted. "'We've gone through terrible times. Let other people have Scar. Not us now. It's enough for us'. So that for me was the kind of resonance and relevance [I find] in everything I do."
In that sense, Simba's story represents those of us who witness injustice and must eventually take a stand against it. Hopefully we each have a guide like Rafiki, or Dr. John Kani, when we do. Share your thoughts on The Lion King in the comments below, and check That Hashtag Show for the latest news on your favorite films.
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