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Reptile Roundup: Lizard Webinar for Kids
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Little Naturalist: Slimy Snails
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Heindl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Bill Heindl Sr. (1922–1979), Canadian ice hockey player
 Bill Heindl Jr. (1946–1992), Canadian ice hockey player
 Elmer Heindl (1910–2006), U.S. Army chaplain
 Sebastian Heindl (born 1997), German organist

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Q: How can I edit font metadata in the UDS (Universal Directory Service)? I've renamed this to reflect what I've learned. The details below track the issue.
ORIGINAL POST:
I'm trying to install a set of OpenType Helvetica fonts. The font installation is failing because the "Thin" fonts are described in the font properties as "Light", triggering a "this font is already installed on your system" error.

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*When I open either font in KFontView, the font name is "Helvetica, Light".

*When I click on File Properties and go to the "Information" tag, the "Font.Weight" is "Light" for both fonts.

*When I open up the fonts in FontForge, the Thin font says "Thin" and the Light font says "Light".

*When I save the thin font as an sfd file from FontForge and open it in Kate, the string "Light" can't be found.

*When I open up the thin font binary (oft) in Kate the string "Light" can't be found.

I'm pretty sure I want to change the font.weight property of the Thin files to be "Thin" so that a) I can install them and b) their metadata will be correct. But for the life of me I can't figure out where the font properties on the properties dialog are even stored; much less how to change them.
The only potential solution I've come up with so far (and I haven't tried it) is to install the Thin fonts, go into the font-config database to correct the names, and then install the Light fonts. Aside from being a PITA and presumably losing my changes if I have to reinstall the fonts, this just seems like a Bad Idea.
I'm happy to provide more information as requested.
REVISION (27 JAN 2010)
Additional information:

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*This is strictly a Qt or KDE issue. Moving the fonts into /usr/local/share/fonts and then calling "fc-cache" installs the fonts just fine. These fonts still don't appear in the KDE Font Installer, however.

*Looking (lightly) at the source code, the font metadata that is messing up KDE is possibly stored in the UDS. There are too many generic terms for Google to be much help; so I'm not sure if the UDS is owned by the filesystem (ext3), the Qt toolkit, or (not likely) by KDE.

*KMail treats fonts like MS Office on Windows. It hides all but the font family from the user and expects to find just bold, italic, and bold italic styles. It's not much use for testing this issue.

*OpenOffice is better in that it shows the font families in the toolbar but shows all the styles in the text properties dialog. Unfortunately this code appears to be buggy; changing the style to anything other than the basic bold and italic didn't work.

*Scribus treats fonts properly. After running fc-cache Scribus worked perfectly.

A: It sounds very much like an error in Qt/KDE and should certainly report it:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
https://bugs.kde.org/
Otherwise, nothing you try is going to help if the Qt font indexer has a problem with this font. Make sure to include details and steps to reproduce.

A: For anyone having a similar issue—I had it with Candara Light, which KDE kept insisting was Candara Regular—open the font in FontForge and make sure that the font's OS/2 Weight Class has the correct setting. (Detailed instructions are below.)
Note that internally, i.e. in the font file, this setting is a pure number. This would explain why the OP couldn't find the string 'Light' anywhere in the file itself: what appears in the actual file is the number '300', not the string 'Light'.
More on Weight Class
That Weight Class is a number is documented e.g. here (look for usWeightClass). In principle it can be any integer between 1 and 999, but FontForge restricts it to be a multiple of 100. According to both FontForge and the linked document, the correspondences between these numbers and verbal descriptors ('Light', 'Regular', and so on) are as follows:
100 Thin
200 Extra-Light
300 Light
400 Regular
500 Medium
600 Semi-Bold
700 Bold
800 Extra-Bold
900 Black

(The linked document also includes 950 Extra Black.)
It seems that the verbal descriptor is added by FontForge for user convenience.
The following fact is an additional confirmation that this setting is internally a pure number: if the same font is opened in a different font manager, what is shown is just the number, without the verbal descriptor. For example, open the same font in the Typograph font manager. (I'm running this under wine; Typograph is a commercial product, but you can download it and use certain features—like the ones I'm about to describe—even without buying it.) Right-click on the font, select Properties, select the tab called Metric, and look under 'Windows metric data'. There will be an entry called 'WeightClass'. This will be a pure number, the same number as the number that appears in FontForge under OS/2 Weight Class.
How to change theOS/2 Weight Class in FontForge
Open the font in FontForge. In FontForge's menu bar, select Element, then Font Info… In the window that opens, on the left, select OS/2. In the main area, make sure the Misc. tab is selected, and look at the Weight Class field. Change it as necessary, press OK at the bottom of the window, and then generate (not save, generate) the font anew. (In other words, in FontForge's menu bar, select File, and then Generate Fonts…)
In my case, Weight Class was originally set to 400 Regular. But then I changed it to 300 Light, and this fixed the problem for me.

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How to Market Yourself Online Who Do You Want To Be? YR Media Non-profit English 2014 Identity Exploration and Formation Content Production, Context, Digital Economy, Privacy and Reputation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rTniGM-VzY Video
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Are you are new to LightScribe labeling?
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Enterprise Series - Part 1 "Who does what in Estes Park"
The Trail-Gazette is producing a series of articles over the course of several weeks describing the duties of the various governmental entities in Estes Park. We intend for this is be a help to readers in determining which organizations are responsible for different aspects of our local government.
The Town of Estes Park has a variety of duties and responsibilities to make sure that the residents of Estes Park are safe and maintain their quality of life, but there are limits to what they can and can not do.
The Town has a number of different departments, all with their own responsibilities, powers and restrictions. Estes Park citizens decide who gets elected to the Town Board of Trustees, which in turn sets the citizens priorities for the Town. Those priorities are then implemented by the Town Administrator, Frank Lancaster.
"The Board actually hires only three positions: the Town Administrator, the Town Attorney and the Municipal Judge," Lancaster said. "I hire all the department heads and they hire their staff."
Lancaster's contract must be approved every two years, and is up for renewal in 2018. He said that to be successful, he has to have good people working for him and he tries to implement Board policy as effectively and efficiently as possible.
"I work with department heads and allocate resources, the Board sets citizen priorities and I work on implementation of those priorities," Lancaster said.
The Estes Park Police Department, run by Police Chief Wes Kufeld, is one of the departments that Lancaster oversees. They make sure citizens are safe and keep track of all law enforcement records as well as perform restorative justice.
The jurisdiction of the EPPD is only within Town limits though. Lancaster said if there is an emergency, and if time is a factor they will respond in the unincorporated Valley; but if time is not a factor, those who live outside of Town limits will likely be waiting on a Larimer County Sheriff's Officer, as they have jurisdiction.
There is also the Finance Department, with Director Duane Hudson. Lancaster said that they do all the utility billing and internal finance procedures for the Town. They also perform all payroll duties as well.
The Community Development Director is Randy Hunt, and they are tasked with working and planning with developers on land use. They differ from the EPPD, as the development code extends throughout the Estes Valley and does not stop at Town limits.
There is, however, an exception to that, according to Lancaster. The Community Development Department does building inspections on properties that are only within Town limits. If the property is in the unincorporated Estes Valley, owners must get a building inspection through Larimer County.
Another big part of the Town is the Public Works Department, headed by Greg Muhonen. They are tasked with engineering work and all Town roads and projects. They also maintain all Town buildings and structures as well. Public Works also works to repair and maintain streets, but only streets within municipal boundaries, and they don't have control over state highways, like U.S. 36, U.S. 34 or Highway 7. This includes both Elkhorn and Moraine Avenues.
"We do get a lot of complaints about Highway 7, but it is not our road, so we can't go filling pot holes on other people's properties," Lancaster said.
There is also a Parks Department, but that shouldn't be confused with the Estes Valley Parks and Recreation District. The Parks Department takes care of Town parks, like Bond or Performance Park, as well as Town landscaping and flowers. They do not take care of any of the golf courses or anywhere around Lake Estes.
The Utilities Department provides the electrical and water supply to most of the Estes Valley, all the way down to Glen Haven and Allenspark. Lancaster said the water reaches a few less customers but both water and electrical service homes well outside the Town limits.
The Estes Valley Museum is also run by the Town, as part of Cultural Services, which is overseen by Assistant Town Administrator Travis Machalek. There is also the Community Services Department, with hosts some events, like Elk Fest, and partners on other events and then just rents space for more events. This includes all the fairgrounds at Stanley Park, the Events Center and other structures on that property. Lancaster said the Visitor's Center is also run by the Town.
There is also an Administrative Services Office, which the Town Clerk falls under. They handle elections, business licensing and the Human Resources Department is run out of there. In Lancaster's office, he coordinates things with Public Information Officer Kate Rusch.
The Town of Estes Park has a variety of departments that work to serve the citizens, keep them informed and to keep them safe.


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The New York Times called it "a completely original combination of science and passion." This is a fascinating exploration of the underground world and one of its most amazing denizens. The earthworm may be small, spineless, and blind, but its role in the ecosystem is profound. It tills the soil, destroys microscopic organisms that cause plant disease, breaks down toxins, and turns the ground into rich compost, creating the most fertile areas on earth. In her witty and offbeat style, Amy Stewart shows just how much depends on the humble worm.
Download Common Core-aligned lesson plans for The Earth Moved here.
Ready to get started with worm composting? Here's the bin Amy recommends.
"A completely original combination of science and passion."
"Stewart awakens the idea that worms are not only partners but teachers, instilling a regard for the least considered and most important part of our green world."
"Stewart ... has a keen eye for the delightfully nuanced behavior of the earthworm."
"Oh, the endless virtues of worms! It took no more than 24 pages of this entertaining and informative book to persuade me that my porch needs a worm bin, too."
"Combining the intellectual curiosity of a scholar with the insights of a hands-in-the-dirt gardener, Stewart gives all the relevant facts and supplements them with interviews with specialists. Her ease in gliding from worms to plants to humans will remind readers of John McPhee's essays on canoes, oranges, the geology of America."
"Carson's legacy is proof that science books matter, that good prose can change the world. On its own scale, Stewart's book paddles along in Carson's wake. Read her book and you'll start to see how the rhododendron bed in front of your house is a kind of Mars for frontier science."
"Amy Stewart's new book about earthworms offers a fascinating journey into an underground world where blind, deaf, spineless creatures have a profound impact on our ecosystem."
"A witty and engrossing book"
"Delightful...funny and charming and always thought-provoking...Stewart could turn anyone into an earthworm lover."
"Stewart writes clearly, and sometimes poetically. Her fondness for Darwin is unbridled and her enthusiasm for worms approaches adoration."
"A nifty piece of natural history. Earthworms of the world can stand a little taller."
"You know a book is good when you actually welcome one of those howling days of wind and sleet that makes going out next to impossible."
"Stewart's fascination with her subject is infectious, her writing as simple and sleek as the earthworm itself."
'A tender, funny and profound book... that will bring more depth to your own backyard diggings."
"Amy Stewart is fascinated by earthworms, and she is such a fine writer that you will quickly find that you are fascinated, too."
"A philosophical and practical book."-Washington Post"Stewart, a lover and owner of earthworms, has taken up the great subject and dealt with it clearly, the good and the bad, in all its complexity. This is a very fine book."
"Amy Stewart understands that a good book can be about a subject as commonplace as the ground beneath our feet-if the author has the passion to share it. She knows an enticing title will draw readers to the bait, and a pleasant, idiosyncratic style will keep them hooked. She delivers those elements enchantingly in The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms."
"213 pages on worms may not be enough."
"Stewart writes in a charming, meditative but scientifically grounded style that is informed by her personal relationship with the worms in her compost bin. In her telling, worms become metaphors-for the English working class, for the process of scientific rumination, for the redemption of death and decay by life and fertility-and serve as a touchstone for exploring the ecological view of things."
Book translations into French, Japanese, and Korean; UK edition published by Frances Lincoln.


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Tent support to be elected in a relatively flat area. Entrances should back vent. Ground should be relatively dry. If thin lawn is the best. If the ground is a slight slope. Exports should be selected in downhill. This makes it easy drainage trench.


Well, the winter season has started! Sort of…. There's still not much snow, but as of recently we've been starting to get hit by a few storms, leaving up to a foot of snow on the ground. Isaac and Jadyn had the chance to ride the first Gondola up the mountain at Keystone a few weeks ago, thanks to our friends the Tyler's, who invited them. I've been boarding for 5 days so far, and it's been great. I'm starting to lay out my plans for the season, such as planning my competitions, what tricks to learn this year, how I'm going to (hopefully) podium at some competitions, and how much I want to push myself.
Even though not many runs are open, Copper Mountain still has a small park open, which I've been riding at a ton. Although we've only been boarding for a little less than a week, it seems like we just picked up where we left off last season in terms of skill, and Isaac and I have both learned many new tricks on the rails that Copper has available in their park.
Right now, I'm looking at the past 3 seasons of snowboarding as preparation for this one. This, at least I'm hoping so, will be my "big year" in terms of competition and learning. Our first season (The 13/14 season), was when we learned how to get down the mountain, carve, get comfortable with a bit of speed, and hit a few small boxes and jumps. Our second season (14/15), our first on Team Summit, helped jump-start our snowboarding. We learned how to ride switch, spin off of some small jumps, hit bigger jumps and started to slide rails, overall getting more comfortable in the park. We got an intro to competing, with Jadyn winning multiple competitions, and ultimately qualifying for the 2015 USASA Championships in boardercross, and placing 7th. As for Isaac and I, while we didn't get the results that Jadyn achieved, we did start competing with a few boardercross races towards the end of the year (I didn't place well, as I didn't really know what I was doing :P).
Now, last season was a big season for us, setting us up for this year. We learned how to spin 180's, 360's, and even one or two 540's off bigger jumps. It was a big competition season, where I competed in 7 boardercross races at Ski Cooper and Crested Butte, taking better placings, learning how to race, how to maintain speed around turns, how to generate more speed, how to pass competitors, and how to fight off competitors trying to pass. My final boardercross competition, at Crested Butte, went relatively well, as I barely missed qualifying for the finals, but won the consolation final, taking 5th place overall. Because of that final race, I ended up qualifying for the 2016 USASA National Championships in boardercross, where I took 42nd out of 74. To end off the season, I even landed my first backflip!
Before I finish off this entry into my ever-expanding collection of blog posts about various parts of my life, I wanted to outline my goals for this season, so I can look at them throughout.
And that's it (for now, at least)! If you want to see videos of Isaac, Jadyn and me snowboarding, check out my snowboarding YouTube Channel, which I plan to start posting on more (last season I just put videos of our boardercross races on there, not really using it for anything). Visit it here, or search for GabeShreds on YouTube.
Nothing like putting yourself out there with your goals! Love it.
You can see the progression from those many days on the mountain. We are in the thick of it all in the most competitive region in the country. Well done, Gabe.
Anyone who knows you can see your determination, competitiveness and drive. It all adds up to results and loads of fun. Let's see if you can cross off each of these items as the season progresses.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. But once you learn the basics, snowboarding's a lot more enjoyable.


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[JUNE 2003.]
yes, still waiting for godot my truck
Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, a conservative group, said Mr. Bush had been "one of the biggest-spending presidents we've had in 20 years." But, he added, "he has cut taxes, so politically that has protected him."
"A month ago, he passed this huge tax cut that I think is terrific—I mean, I'm thrilled by that—and now this month he's passing this preposterous prescription drug benefit, and I'm furious at him," Mr. Moore said. "But I can't get too angry with him because he passed this tax cut. That's the way this administration works."
That's right; it's fine for him to spend money when he's already taken steps to ensure that the government doesn't have that money! Do you people not think? A mollusc trained with basic stimulus-response conditioning could do better.
The people at Budget Trucks claim that there is no moving truck to be had for love or money in the entire great state of Arizona. This is notwithstanding that I reserved my truck over a month ago. "WHAT IS THIS," I asked them, "MOTHERFUCKING BELARUS? PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE THE REASON CAPITALISM WILL FAIL." They are curt, harassed, overworked, pitiable, like the low-level Court functionaires in The Trial.
So I call U-Haul and U-Haul says "Sure, we can get you a truck. Let's see if we can get you a truck today." That was three days ago. When I call their regional distribution center I have to listen to a three-minute recording of a perky man trying to sell me additional services about five or six times, then I get transferred to a phone that rings for between three and four minutes before one of the coprophages at the distribution center extracts her head from her colon in order to answer the phone, and she says "Sorry, we're experiencing a twenty-four hour delay," and I say, "THEN EXPLAIN THE GODDAMN 72-HOUR PERIOD DURING WHICH NO TRUCK HAS APPEARED! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE TERRORISTS ARE WINNING?" and then I hang up the phone and urinate on the phone to further express my displeasure.
Then I call Penske and Penske says "Of course we can get you a truck; that will be three thousand dollars, please," and I say "WHY NOT RAPE MY GRANDPARENTS WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, YOU MERCENARY PLUTOCRATS? I BET ALL OF YOU AT THE OFFICE WEAR TOP HATS DYED WITH THE BLOOD OF THE DOWNTRODDEN," and then I rip the phone from the wall and strap all my possessions to my rippling muscular back and run off into the sunset, just to show them.
no one at home
why not walk around in your underwear
why not walk
1. Clifton Park, Schenectady NY (1978-81). Don't remember much. A line of trees. A room with red carpeting. Holding my father's tennis racket, imitating him practicing forehands and backhands in the kitchen.
2. Moondance Street, Tucson AZ (1981). We lived in this townhome for a few months while looking for a house. My sister was only a few months old. There are home movies: screen doors leading out to a backyard filled with dust.
3. Stonehouse Place, Tucson AZ (1981-87). The longest stretch of time I have ever lived anywhere. My mother claims it's her favorite house out of all she's lived in, and it was certainly a beautiful place to grow up; stucco, Mexican tile, surrounded by desert and screened from the road by a long driveway whose steep angle I loved, except when I had to ride my bike down it. Occasionally we drive by and marvel at how tall the trees in the backyard have grown since my father planted them.
4. Hills Road, Cambridge, England (1987-88). We rented this from an anal English couple who inventoried everything in the house, down to the plastic spoons. One door was locked, but you could see through the old-style keyhole that it led to a spare bedroom. Everything within was shrouded in sheets. We started calling it "the ghost room" after a spectral young lady visited my father in his dreams.
5. Placita de Arnoldo, Tucson AZ (1988-91). Technically I lived here until 1996, but after my parents divorced and my mother moved out it stopped being my primary residence. My dad left only last year; I think all those rooms without a family to inhabit them had started to feel like a mausoleum. It was another beautiful house in its time. The closet doors were full-length mirrors that, when I woke in the morning, reflected a view of the mountains to my bed.
6. Skyline Village (I), Tucson AZ (1991-92). This was a bad year in many ways, because of the divorce, and because nobody is happy in the eighth grade. My mother did what she could, and my father sat through all the Star Trek movies with me, but still.
7. Villa Sin Vacas, Tucson AZ (1992-93). A ritzy housing development right up against the mountains, which also happened to contain apartments. The security guard at the gate was named "Taco." This is where I went walking alone at night, and encountered javelinas.
8. Wine Plum Drive, Tucson AZ (1993-96). I think this was supposed to be "Plum Wine," but the developers fucked it up when they registered with the city, and then it couldn't be changed. Ditto with Squirrel Trail Drive, which accidentally became Squirrel Tail Drive. My last year there Nik brewed bottles of mead and gave them as gifts to everyone, and then they started exploding. One fellow lost his video camera and most of his Playboys. I buried my bottle out behind the fence and then forgot about it; it may still be there.
9. Brittania [sic] Court (I), Reno NV (1996). Another bad registration with the city. Summer before college. Worked a lot. Nervous as hell.
10. Adelfa House, Stanford CA (1996-97). Met half of my close college friends. Played apple baseball in the hall. Took rafting trips on the lake at night.
11. Campbell Avenue, Tucson AZ (1997). Easily the weirdest summer of my life. During the day I slept on the floor at Nik's girlfriend's house. During the night we attempted to make a horror movie, but it was a terrible movie, and the futility of it made me listen to sad music at 3 in the morning and leave cigarette burns in the bathtub. Later I discovered that I almost got Nik's girlfriend kicked out of her apartment.
12. Twain House, Stanford CA (1997-98). Met the other half of my college friends, including lots of women. Took a lot of creative writing courses. Started a novel (bad, unfinished) and a band (loud).
13. Bitch Creek, Mountain View CA (1998). This was actually called "Birch Creek," but when I went to get a cashier's check for the deposit they typed it wrong, and henceforth it was Bitch Creek to us. That's about how the summer went. I was working at IBM and logging more hours asleep than awake and taking long nocturnal drives to places like Santa Cruz, because I was still in love with Lauren and you know what that makes people do.
14. Taxi House, Stanford CA (1998-99). The blue hair that kept fading to green. The intensive James Joyce study. The club we played in San Francisco. Ate a lot of pie.
15. Ralston Park, Reno NV (1999). Commuted daily to Carson City, where somehow I was helping the city government conduct a salary and benefits review of its employees. A seventeen-year-old girl in the office had a crush on me, which she expressed principally by telling me I was gay. This also happens to be the apartment where we made the gay pirate penguin movie.
16. Terra House, Stanford CA (1999-2000). A co-op, meaning a) I got to clean toilets and feel proletariat, and b) when my parents came to visit they exclaimed, "What a filthy place!"
17. Broderick Street, San Francisco CA (2000). Slept on our bass player's couch. Wrote the first draft (very bad) of the Central America/math novel. In the evenings Jen taught me how to cook.
18. Gilbert Street, Iowa City IA (2000-01). A studio that sort of looked like a motel from the outside. This is what happens when you rent apartments in Iowa sight unseen. I remember the snow and the rain, and the brief period of mental collapse that coincided with a massive insect infestation all over my front door. I had to buy a can of Raid and visit a holocaust upon the Anxiety Bugs, and the experience was so terrible that shortly afterward I resolved never purposely to kill an insect again.
19. Dubuque Street, Iowa City IA (2001-02). Here and here and here, for example. A little flat in a beautiful old colonial house with an octogenarian landlord, a block from the Workshop building. I miss it. The walls were thin and Aimee always worried that I could hear her in the bathroom, but no; the pipes obscured any personal noises. Apparently she could hear me playing the guitar.
20. Brittania [sic] Court (II), Reno NV (2002). A stopover before going to Tucson. I can't even remember what I did here. Mostly I was going on family trips to Italy or whatever.
21. Skyline Village (II), Tucson AZ (2002-03). I guess that with all this moving, it was inevitable that I would hit the same complex twice. It hasn't been bad here, just very very weird—a little like being seventeen again, a little like being fifty. It's a very nice apartment; I think the problem is with me. I no longer belong in this city.
22. Madison Street, Portland OR (2003-?). Wish me luck.
commelina benghalensis
This will be my twenty-first move in twenty-four years. I swear to God, it's like being an Army brat. The madness must stop.
—They sinned against the light, Mr Deasy said gravely. And you can see the darkness in their eyes. And that is why they are wanderers on the earth to this day.
red touch yellow, kill a fellow
Bizarre dream in which I had been bitten by a coral snake (Micruroides euryxanthus). I hate this unsettled state of disassembling my life, or at any rate its material components. Moving is fine once you actually are moving, once you're on the open road towing your chattels behind you; you feel the sense of exploration, discovery, newness. But the preparation is murder.
The defensive farts of coral snakes.
The goodbyes have begun. Friday night I went up to Phoenix to see the Marlowe family, which of late has grown larger with the addition of a) Emma, and b) a tiny black kitten they found under a creosote bush. It had been abandoned on the roadside and was living off crickets, starving to death. Three days of regular meals had improved its condition considerably and I was very tempted to take it with me, but since I am already in a committed relationship with another cat I relinquished any claim after receiving an assurance that it would not be taken to the Humane Society unless it had hantavirus or something.
Steve has a lot of hair these days.
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Herren und Damen, darf ich mein neu CD-Regal vorstellen:
It will never be mistaken for something bought in a store, like this enormously expensive shelf someone directed me to. Among other deficiencies, it lists slightly to port. But it will hold 780 discs, and I'm hoping it looks homemade as in "charming," not "shoddy."
bide your time, helots
The CD is on its way back from the mastering lab, and meanwhile I am building a new CD shelf, for nowhere on this earth can I find a shelf that accommodates my special needs. Soon my takeover of the West Coast will be complete.
ein plan (auf deutsch) für die wohnung in portland
something for the rag and bone man
Anxious about the move, of course; but not in the pathological sense, and this is no small blessing. ¡Yo amo mi Lexapro!
I came back to Tucson a year ago because I had a dream about the place; and for the first few months the city remained in accordance with the dream. The smell of dust, the birdcalls, the way the wrinkles in the mountains catch the light in the afternoon—I had carried these things within me, in a buried stratum of childhood. And then, of course, after a few months they became familiar and were forgotten; and in their absence I began to remember my awful fifteenth and sixteenth and seventeenth years. I remebered that, for the most part, I was never happy here.
Other than two family members and one friend, I am leaving behind almost nothing. No job, no university, no attachment to any institution. No community of any sort. Since returning from Reno I've been holed up recording, reading, starting to pack; and only now is Tucson regaining a bit of that dream aura that it had when I arrived. I think I understand why; in my dream of Tucson there were never any people. It was all about dust and sun and sky. If I could live by land alone, I would stay; but it turns out I'm not ready to become a hermit.
herzliche glückwunsch
Ich lerne Deutsch. Nun kann ich nicht viele Wörter sagen. Ich finde memorylifter.com sehr gut, sehr interessant. Mein Buch heißt "Deutsch: Na Klar!" NA KLAR!
I have been bad; I have been remiss; and unlike some, I cannot even claim a takeover by a diabolical frog as an excuse. All right, kids, here is CONTENT.
The record is finished and has been mailed to a nice fellow in San Diego who is going to master it. About a week ago the 12-track broke. I had put new strings on my guitar and didn't clip the ends—what rock star has time to be orderly? While recording I leaned forward and (I think this is what happened; I wasn't really looking) one of the loose wire ends slipped inside the 12-track, sliding through the crack along one of its buttons, and penetrated deep within its innards. Something must have shorted out, as the 12-track turned off and then turned on again. I thought all was well and kept recording until that evening, when I discovered that hitting "record" and then hitting "stop" caused the operating system to crash and give a hexadecimal error code and revert to this alarming command-line interface that I did not know the 12-track possessed and which the average user was certainly never meant to see. Fortunately it was still able to play, and almost all of the instruments were recorded, so I mixed down the backing tracks and spent a few days at Nik's house recording the vocals on his computer while he was off learning German. His mother spent the days cleaning the house and apparently could hear me through the door, since on the third or fourth day she asked me why I was recording.
"It's sort of a hobby," I said.
"Do you just like to hear yourself singing the songs you love?" she asked.
"Oh, no. These are songs I wrote."
"Oh," she said, taken aback. "I actually liked a couple of them."
"I liked what they were saying."
So, when Billboard magazine wants testimonials, I now have one. I do intend to do something with this web deal shortly. My burgeoning enterprise to take myself seriously as an commercially viable artist has compelled me to register paulkerschen.com, and a lot of the non-blog content will probably move over there. In the meantime I will try to be more regular about posting things here that someone will find interesting, even if (as is often the case) that someone is just Mom.
No one cares about the classics any more. Nowadays, who would shout "sic semper tyrannis" after assassinating a president? It would have to be a grad student. And a week later, USA Today would report that "officials from the Department of Homeland Security have yet to release their analysis of the gibberish reportedly shouted by the assassin immediately after the shot was fired. Rumors continue that it is some kind of diabolical Arab code."
This sort of takes you over. I did make it to the store last night, but before that I was just eating peanut butter with a spoon. I woke up in the middle of the night with something abrading my leg, and discovered guitar strings in the bed. I rolled over and fell back asleep rather than do anything about it. This morning I straightened my sheets and a tuner fell out.
I am back from Portland. I found my dream apartment, or some close approximation; a generously proportioned one-bedroom with refinished hardwoods, about three blocks from Powell's on Hawthorne. In three weeks I move.
What till then?
For the moment, I'm clearing away detritus. This is what moving is about; you sort through the contents of your life, keep what pleases you, discard what doesn't. I'm starting from scratch here.
—acquire Shure SM57 mike, Boss overdrive pedal
—acoustic guitar on 2-3 songs
—electric guitars, keyboards, and vocals on all 14 songs
—take photographs, assemble cover art in Adobe Illustrator
—email inquires about mastering and pressing (probably after the move)
—build new CD rack, or follow engineer dad's clever suggestion to expand current rack's capacity
—build website for aunt, from whom compensation has already been received in form of beautiful new Guild acoustic guitar ("Ruby")
—email bids for other websites (after move)
—tell Iowa, the credit card people, the post office, Working Assets, the bank, student loan sharks that I'm moving
—cancel phone, broadband
—arrange for phone, broadband in Portland
—pack, sort through what to take/leave in Tucson/donate/throw out, take crap to Goodwill
—defrost the fridge, all that rot
—confirm moving truck appointment
—new monitor (alas, no flatscreen, but it was free)
—usable knife set
—small funky tables, rugs (acquire after move)
—pipe dreams, or at any rate dreams deferred: functional desktop w/ DVD drive and CD writer, scanner, better stereo amplifier, better record player, better AM/FM receiver, bicycle.


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WAHEY! OF THE DAY
Tag: biffy clyro
Aug212013August 21, 2013August 21, 2013NoCommentby dan
The Day The Whole World Went Away
Nine Inch Nails, The Scala, 20/8/2013: Review
You don't really need me to tell you how good this gig was – you know the story. Nine Inch Nails are an incredible live band. They possess a frontman capable of delving deep into his unconscious to deliver some of the most intense performances known to man. They boast an enormous back catalogue covering everything from metal, industrial, goth, disco, to glam, pop. dance and everything in between and they're back after a six year hiatus with an album that promises a spectacular return to form, playing a TINY venue as a Reading and Leeds warm-up. Needless to say, tickets sold out in minutes and people were practically selling their mother to get in. All of that is patently obvious.
BUT what I didn't see coming was an epic light show that wouldn't look out of place in an arena, a brutal cover of David Bowie's (NIN-esque) 'I Believe In Americans', a surprisingly talkative Trent Reznor, a brutal moshpit for Terrible Lie, and (however many times you've seen it before, it never ceases to surprise) the sight of grown men crying to the dark balladry of Hurt that gets you every single time. Epic.
Of course, this was just a warm-up for the madness to come this weekend at Reading and Leeds Festival. Their previous performance, in 2007, was so captivating that frankly, The Smashing Pumpkins were blown off stage, and I certainly don't envy Biffy Clyro this weekend. Unfortunately I'll have to miss this, as I'm heading to Suede at Kenwood House on Friday, but I'm heading up to Leeds on Saturday and looking forward to checking out Frank Turner, Deaf Havana, Bring Me The Horizon, Twin Atlantic, Chase and Status and Eminem (in that order!).
(Re NIN, Cleverly I turned up 20 minutes before showtime which meant I was literally right at the back with no chance of moving, so the above pic is sadly the best I could do!)
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Jun172013June 17, 2013June 17, 2013NoCommentby dan
A NEW TRANSMISSION'S CALLING
Posted in radio
I am delighted to announce that I am joining Kerrang! Radio to present the weekly rock chart.
The show starts this Saturday 22nd June at 10am and will feature tracks from Biffy Clyro, Lower Than Atlantis, Paramore and my favourite metal track of the year so far, this absolute banger…
You can listen to Kerrang! Radio on DAB, freeview TV channel 717, online at kerrangradio.co.uk or with our free mobile apps.
Nice one,
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2016: My Top Ten Albums
Interview: Wakrat – their new record & life on the road
Norma Jean recall being the last band to play London's Barfly
10 of the most unforgettable Reading and Leeds Festival moments
Video: Joey Jordison and Frédéric Leclercq talk Sinsaenum
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Andrew and Donna's family journal featuring "near twin" daughters (Gwen & Maddy) born 36 days apart and adopted from China 12 months apart.
Maddy said Daddy was more than 30 but not 100.
Maddy made Daddy this pretty birthday drawing. Then we headed to San Francisco for the day.
Daddy demonstrates the super hero pose.
This is a cool photo Daddy took of the Jewish contemporary museum and St Patrick's church, reflected in an adjacent window (Mommy did a little bit of post processing, perspective correction, cropping, etc).
Daddy took this photo looking over the shoulder of the statue. Maddy's expression is priceless!
We call this photo "Dancing in Bear/Bare Feet"
This heart (also in Yerba Buena Gardens) is really pretty. We wanted Gwen and Maddy to pose sweetly and this is what happened. Can't you just feel the love? This was one of many clues that our girls still can't really function without naps (they slept all the way home).
Minor skirmishes aside, this was a really fun day! For Dinner, we all went out to Krung Thai (Michael met us there). None of the girls in our family like Thai food but it's a favorite of the guys so it makes the Birthday Dinner list every year. No worries though - rice is always good! Happy Birthday, Daddy! We sure do love you!
This is a Flickr badge showing public photos and videos from Donna & Andrew. Make your own badge here.


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This 5 CMTE/LCAT CE credit self-paced online course provides insight into how composition may be used in a clinical setting to improve patient outcomes, and allows participants space to reflect on how they might integrate music composition into their own practices.
This course will provide you with an understanding of the goal-directed use of musical elements incorporated in instrumental compositions for music therapy. Sections include a brief video introduction, relevant readings from the music therapy literature, written musical examples and analyses, and a video excerpt with explanatory material.
Throughout the course you'll be asked to submit your reflection on each course section which will be entered on the linked google doc. To complete the course, there is a final post-test writing assignment.
The Instructor will evaluate your work using Pass/Fail as follows: "Pass" will require that the participant demonstrates comprehension of the material through well-written reflections and post-test. If the participant has difficulty completing the assignments, AP may follow up to offer help and ensure completion.


Today's 43 miles was blighted by 3 "police on scene" car wrecks. The first one included 3 cars, a truck, and three fatalities. Horrible. I thought the race might get shut down, but they directed us right through the middle of the carnage. It put our lives and adventures into perspective.
The course was long, flat, sunny, and very dangerous. One or two more have abandoned today for both physical and mental reasons. It's never easy finding the right words to say to folks who are devastated by quitting. A big preoccupation is tomorrow's monster 54 mile stage, which most of us are silently dreading.
I just had my medical measurements taken. Unfortunately, I've gained a lot of weight (5kgs, or 11lbs). This happened to me in Germany too. I have to work with the doctors to quickly figure out how to reduce my "water weight". Extra salt & bananas haven't been doing the trick.
OK, on to dinner. It'll be Jenny Craig for me soon at this rate!
Normally, I would venture to say you can afford an extra few pounds, but if I liken it to what I felt like when I was pregnant even an extra one or two felt bad.
Hang in there. I'll start sending "lose water weight vibes".
Sorry to hear about the weight - and the carnage. But keep thinking positively... you are going to complete this race!
Sounds like you got to see way more than you needed to. Glad to hear you made it through safely. Good luck tomorrow!
Glad you were one of the ones running through, not being carted off. Hope the water weight sorts itself out and your feet start to feel better. At least you've reached the double digits & you're still going. I know you'll make the finish.
I don't know how up to date on global news you are, but the word on the street is to avoid close proximity to pigs for the rest of the journey.
I just finished class yesterday, I'll be home in Austin next week. Maybe I'll fly out to see you in Norway. I've always wanted to see Norway in the summer.
Hey Russ. We've been reading your blogs every day. It's taken me this long to respond because I'm a tech idiot. I spoke to Claire tonight and I think she's told me how to respond so it goes through. We're proud of you. We're going to have dinner with Claire tomorrow at Matt's El Rancho and we'll dip a chip in the hot sauce in your honor. I hear that tomorrow's run is over 50 miles. That will make up for the days when we read that you run under 40miles and we think that you are just a pansy.
Hi Russell,more power to you.
I have been keeping reading your blog.You do do a great job.
Hi Russ! Just got caught up on your adventures.
I'm glad you've found a friend to run with. You are an incredible inspiration and we are all cheering you on.
Take care of yourself and those blisters. Eat some salami and cheese for me - yum. Oh, and have some gelato too!
Russell -- I'm insanely proud to call you friend. Sending you good thoughts to you today on the long run -- I know you're going to do great.


Water to apartments at the Oceana Complex has been switched back on after four days.
DUBAI // The water cut at a luxury development on the Palm Jumeirah that left residents bathing in the sea and swimming pool has ended after four days.
Some tenants at the seven-building Oceana complex had been frequenting nearby malls to use their toilet facilities. Others sparingly apportioned drinking water to cook and clean.
Today, they woke up to fully running taps.
"I had a good shower this morning," said Markus Mueller, a 39-year-old resident from Germany who had resorted to morning dips at Oceana's private beach. "I feel fresh."
As a precaution though, before leaving for work, he filled a bucket with shower water and set aside some water bottles.
"I'm prepared for the weekend," he said.
During the cut, the property manager of Oceana, Asteco, had distributed a few bottles of drinking water and offered a half-price rate of Dh250 for select hotels, excluding taxes.
A spokesperson for Asteco said she was not aware of plans to offer additional compensation.
The maintenance team had shut Oceana's main water pipe on Sunday to fix one leak. As they worked, additional pipes burst.
While fixing those, they took the opportunity to make other improvements to the system such as adding valves. The changes are meant to reduce the likelihood of future breakages and, if one occurs, allow workers to isolate the problem to separate buildings rather than the entire complex.
"It was unfortunate that it took longer than initially expected. But at least the issues have been sorted and the system upgraded," said the Asteco spokesperson.
"It is very unlikely" that the pipes will break again, she said. "All of the right steps have been taken."
The facility management firm responsible for repairing the pipes, Khidmah, began working for Oceana at the start of this month.


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Commemorative coins > Catalog > Coins > towns
Masarykovo nám. 19, 686 70 Uherské Hradiště
The rich history of the royal town of Uherské Hradiště reaches back to distant past. Long before the place was settled, favorable climatic conditions along with fertile soil had made it predestined for settlement. The archeological finds suggest that the primeval people had been living here since the early stone age. On the crossing of trade routes leading from the North to South and from the West to East, an ingenuous system of island fortifications was constructed in the 8th and 9th centuries. Three originally uninhabited islands in the Morava river were settled. The main one was called St. George Island, after the chapel consecrated to St. George, which was situated there. The settlement area of the time spread over the grounds of today's Uherské Hradiště, Staré Město and Sady, making it undoubtedly one of the centers of the Great Moravian Empire. Relatively small in area, this settlement integrated the administration of power, crafts production as well as the religious and cultural sphere. After the decline of the Great Moravian Empire, the importance of this center diminished for a long time.
During the 13th century, southeastern Moravia became a target of frequent enemy raids. The border crossings, passes and fords were used by the enemy troops to invade and plunder the fertile Moravian land. It was in this time that the strategic importance of the island near a Morava ford grew again. The enemy raiders vexed not only the villagers, but also the monastery in Velehrad. A deed by King Přemysl Otakar II. from October 15, 1257 testifies that the town of Uherské Hradiště was founded on an island owned by the monastery not only to protect the monastery itself, but mainly the borderland. The town's first inhabitants came from near market villages, royal Kunovice and monasterial Veligrad (today's Staré Město). The double settlement determined the town's appearance – two market villages were founded in close proximity to each other, each with its own square – hence the two squares of today's town. The basic ground plan probably reflected the original Slavic settlement. The center of the town shows signs of typical medieval geometrism, while the shape of outer streets was somehow adapted to the neighboring municipal fortification.
The town's history and development through the centuries was a long and complicated one, frequently marked with incessant raids and brawls with the adversaries of the Czech state. For this reason, the town had been gradually fortified by various systems of fortification since its founding. These systems were constantly improved and upgraded. The town reached its high point in the 15th and 16th centuries, when it was granted numerous privileges and liberties. In the course of the following centuries, Hradiště became a target of frequent enemy raids. In the 16th century, it was attacked by Cuman hordes, while in the 17th, it was vexed by military clashes of the Thirty Years' War. The turn of the 17th and 18th centuries saw frequent Turkish raids and the early 18th century saw the suffering of the Prussian Campaign. In the course of its whole history, the town was captured just once – by Prussian army in 1742. Forty years later, it ceased to function as a fortress, however, it did continue to be constrained to the area within the fortifications. The area outside the fortification had been gradually settled only since as late as the 1840's. By this time, the town fulfilled the functions of trade, administration and judicial center of the region. In the second half of the 19th century, nationalist turmoil and struggle for national character spawned many different nation-oriented societies and corporations. In 1884, a new grammar school was founded in Uherské Hradiště, to be the first Czech-language secondary school in Moravian Slovakia. During this period, many important buildings were being built and the town continued to grow.
Even after 1918, the town of Uherské Hradiště remains mainly a center of administration with slow industrial development. The Second World War damaged the town to a large extent. The post-war renewal brought large industry to the town, namely canning and machine engineering. The influx of population caused, along with the annexation of the neighboring villages, a bustling growth and a significant change of the town's appearance.
After 1989, the town became more beautiful than ever, namely its historical center. Most of sights and historical monuments were reconstructed and sensibly adapted to fit the needs of our time.
coinage 496Distance 299 mUherské Hradiště
Uherské Hradiště is located in the southeast of the Czech republic close to the border with Slovakia in the histirical land of Moravia. The region is attractive owing to its landscape and rare species.
coinage 371Distance 3 kmKovozoo
In the Old Town in Hungary Hradiste to the zoo, which you will not find elsewhere in Europe. A unique attraction, which is accessible to anyone, call KOVOZOO. Nontraditional Zoo becomes a favorite destination for families from the Old Town and Uherske Hradiste, but also for people all over Slovakia.
coinage 372Distance 3 kmKovozoo - maják šrotík
coinage 502Distance 6 kmKunovice
The town of Kunovice is situated in south-eastern Moravia, in the south-western part of Zlínský District, about 3km to the south of Uherské Hradiště in the region called Slovácko.
coinage 266Distance 6 kmThe open-air archaeological museum in Modra
The open-air archaeological museum in Modra – Great Moravian settlement of the Morava river middle basin is situated near Uherske Hradistě on the road running from Stare Mesto to Velehrad.
coinage 282Distance 7 kmBaťův kanál - Jan Antonín Baťa
The Bata-Canal is the used waterway important for transport, class 0. Without licence, it is possible to drive small vessels up to the engine output of 20 kW, which are designed only for buoyancy navigation with the maximum speed of 20 km/h.
coinage 263Distance 7 kmBasilica of Ascension of Virgin Mary
One of the most famous pilgrim places in the Czech Republic is closely associated with the Cyril and Method tradition and it was probably the seat of the first Great-Moravian archbishop St. Method.


Pulling in the width and removing the double concave from the Billy, giving you a clean continuous vee that blends in just as the hard rail ends.
This gives you the best of both worlds. Speed from the hard rail and the hold needed on a single fin to drive hard turns up to the top.
It has no trouble driving off the bottom, getting rotation off the top for a smooth roundhouse, pulled back around for another bottom turn,or straight into the pocket for a sweet cover up section or a stylish Cheetah-5!


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TSMC Talks 7nm, 5nm, Yield, And Next-Gen 5G And HPC Packaging
PackagingProcess TechnologiesSEMICON West 2019VLSI 2019 July 28, 2019 David Schor 3
3D packaging13 3nm4 5nm8 6nm2 7nm24 CoWoS3 InFO1 InFO_AiP1 InFO_MS1 InFO_oS1 N53 N5P1 N64 N74 N7P1 SemiConWest2 SoIC1 TSMC14 VLSI 20195 VLSI Symposium8
An update on TSMC current and forthcoming logic process nodes as well as their next-generation advanced packaging technologies.
Following the conclusion of the 2019 VLSI Symposium in Japan, TSMC held a small press briefing. TSMC also delivered a packaging talk during SEMICON West 2019. This article is a summary of both events.
TSMC considers their 7-nanometer node (N7) the most advanced logic technology currently shipping. WikiChip generally agrees with this assertion. At the recent VLSI Symposium TSMC co-authored a paper on their 7-nanometer node which we have recently covered that goes into the design rules details. Other than a handful of key lead customers, most TSMC customers are said to go directly from their N16 to N7. Their N10 node is considered to be a short-lived node, largely intended to serve as yield-learning. When going from N16 to N7, N7 provides 3.3x routed gate density as well as around 35-40% speed improvement or 65% lower power.
TSMC Node Comparison
7nm/10nm Δ
90 nm 66 nm 57 nm 0.86x
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A key highlight of their N7 process is their defect density. TSMC says that learning from their N10 node, N7 D0 reduction ramp was the fastest ever, leveling off to comparable levels as the prior nodes. With the company pushing into HPC, they have started reporting defect densities separately for mobile customers and HPC customers with die sizes of 250 square millimeter dies and larger.
TSMC saw demand for their 7-nanometer node decreased slightly at around 1% quarter-over-quarter for the last half-year. The lion share of the revenue continues to come from their very mature 16-nanometer node. Q2 saw a slight increase in wafer shipment, however, that's expected for a Q2 in general. When compared longer trend, this is actually the lowest volume for Q2 in 3 years. Nonetheless, they believe that N7 will reach 25% of revenue for the full year.
Technology node by revenue share, WikiChip Analysis
TSMC wafer shipment, WikiChip Analysis
TSMC has started rolling out an optimized version of their N7 process called N7 Performance-enhanced version (N7P). This process goes by various other names such as "2nd generation 7 nm" and "7 nm year 2". This process should not be confused with N7+. N7P is an optimized, DUV-based, process which uses the same design rules and is fully IP-compatible with N7. N7P introduces FEOL and MOL optimizations which are said to translate to either 7% performance improvement at iso-power or up to 10% lower power at iso-speed.
N7+
TSMC's N7+ is their first process technology to adopt EUV for a few critical layers. N7+ entered mass production last quarter (Q2). TSMC says they have demonstrated similar yield to N7. Compared to their N7 process, N7+ is said to deliver around 1.2x density improvement. N7+ is said to deliver 10% higher performance at iso-power or, alternatively, up to 15% lower power at iso-performance. On paper, N7+ appears to be marginally better than N7P. Though keep in mind that those improvements can only be obtained through a new physical re-implementation and new EUV masks.
N6 is the EUV equivalent of N7. It is planned to use more EUV layers than N7+. It is both design rule and IP-compatible with N7 and is intended to be the main migration path for most customers. N7 designs may be taped out again on N6 leveraging EUV masks and the fidelity improvements or re-implemented to take advantage of the poly over diffusion edge (PODE) and continuous diffusion (CNOD) standard cell abutment rules which are said to provide an additional 18% density improvement. It's worth highlighting that N6 is unique in that it will actually enter risk production early next year and ramp by the end of the year 2020. This means it will ramp after N5. For that reason, TSMC says that N6 builds on both N7+ and N5 EUV learnings.
TSMC 5-nanometer process is the next 'full node' after N7. N5 entered risk production in Q1 of this year and they expect the process to ramp in the first half of 2020. TSMC has said that a number of tapeouts are already underway. N5 uses EUV extensively on "many layers". TSMC has demonstrated very high yield and has said they are on a similar trajectory, in terms of D0, as their N7 process. N5 is planned as a long-lived node and is expected to ramp, in terms of revenue, faster than N7.
Compared to N7, N5 is said to deliver 1.8x routed logic density. In terms of performance, N5 will have either 15% higher performance at iso-power or 30% lower power at iso-performance. Like N7, N5 will have two flavors – mobile customers and HPC. HPC cells will offer an additional option for up to 25% performance improvement over N7.
Estimated Design Rules For 5 nm
57 nm 48 nm
91.2 MTr/mm² 171.3 MTr/mm²
Ramping early next year, by our estimate TSMC will be a 'full node' ahead of both Intel and Samsung.
As with their 7-nanometer process, TSMC will offer an optimized version of their N5 process called N5 Performance-enhanced version (N5P). This process uses the same design rules and is fully IP-compatible with N5. Through FEOL and MOL optimizations, N5P will offer 7% higher performance over N5 at iso-power or 15% lower power at iso-performance. They are a little vaguer as to N5P timeline but they have hinted at sometimes by the end of 2020 or early 2021.
TSMC has stated that their 3-nanometer process is going well. N3 is expected to be introduced around 2022. While TSMC has previously talked about GAA as a potential successor to FinFET, both TSMC and Intel have been making a case that FinFET, which is currently easier to manufacture, can be extended in performance sufficiently enough for another node. We currently believe that TSMC might be staying with FinFET for their N3 but will move over to GAA in a subsequent node.
WikiChip's Analysis
Regarding N7->N7P: Would AMD get all their Zen 2 Chiplets made on this henceforth, meaning that we can expect to see an improvement in chiplet performance in late Q3 or Q4 in all Zen 2 products? The 3950x has a advertised boost clock of 4.7GHz. They have working 8 core chiplets, but most of them struggle to hit 4.5-4.6GHz even on a single core: Could this be the reason why the 3950x 16core part didn't get released along side the 3900x and 3800x? Could the same be true for Navi and Big Navi, meaning that RX 5800/5900 XT etc. has… Read more »
I don't think AMD has the money and time to start using every type of manufacturing process TSMC will offer today and in the future. AMD will move trait to 5nm when it feels it's necessary.
You're missing this part: "N7P is an optimized, DUV-based, process which uses the same design rules and is fully IP-compatible with N7."
So they don't have to do any redesign. I would even suspect that the coming R9 3900 12core 65W! could be N7P, it would fit with my original timeline of late Q3 or Q4.
-Anon Engineer


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Having spent three years in the early 1990s occupying properties and protesting in Claremont Road, east London, poet Paul Hawkins maps the run-off, rackets and resistance along the route of the proposed M11 Link Road. Using the voices of Dolly Watson, Old Mick and many others in avant-garde experimental text and lo-fi collage, he explores place, waste and dissent; the stake the Thatcher/Major Tory government was driving into the heart of the UK. From Claremont Road to Cameron via surveillance culture and Occupy: transient-beta memory traces re-surfacing along the A12. This collection is an important reflection on a historic site of resistance, offering us illumination, ideas and inspiration for the future.


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The need to sample complicated many-dimensional probability densities arises in applications ranging from data analysis to computational physics. This typically requires that a suitable importance density be found, which can be difficult. Implicit sampling is a general algorithm for finding effective importance densities; generality is achieved by not requiring that the densities be known explicitly, with samples found by solving an algebraic equation for each sample.
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Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), in which the main rotor shaft is set vertically, have many advantages, including the fact they do not need to be pointed into the wind. Optimizing blade design and structure is highly challenging. We were able to accurately compute optimal VAWT configurations in various environments.
The process of fracture in tires is a complex problem in polymer chemistry, materials science, and mechanics. In order to effectively predict the state of balance for design purposes, one needs a methodology for computing the internal stress state in the tire. At its most elementary level, one needs to solve the nonlinear equations of elasticity and, in more complex cases, those of viscoelastic solids.
The Mathematics Group at LBNL develops new mathematical models, devises new algorithms, explores new applications, exports key technologies, and trains young scientists in support of DOE. We use mathematical tools from a variety of areas in mathematics, physics, statistics, and computer science, including statistical physics, differential geometry, asymptotics, graph theory, partial differential equations, discrete mathematics, and combinatorics. The problems we attack are both technologically interesting and mathematically challenging, and form a set of interrelated computing methodologies and applications in support of the DOE energy mission.
One set of topics focuses on optimizing the manufacture and operation of engineering and industrial processes. Applications include semiconductors, coating rollers, inkjet printing technologies and microfluid effects, foams in manufacturing processes, new metals, granular mixers, coal hoppers, rolling tires, mode-locked lasers, wind turbines, vibrating RF MEMS devices for wireless communications, and dynamic fracture in bulk metallic glasses. Another set of topics focuses on tools for the analysis of energy processes, and includes stochastic methods in environmental science, data analysis for meteorological data, data synthesis for wind energy and large-scale ocean currents, seismic imaging, image processing and analysis for analyzing cellular structures, and complex fluid-membrane solvers for understanding the dynamics behind cellular development in new biofuels. and path planning for determining chemical accessibility in new materials such as zeolite and metal organic frameworks for gas separation sieves in carbon sequestration.
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Over the past 3 decades, Rich Monastersky has reported Earth science stories from all seven continents—including from the South Pole and the top of the Greenland ice cap. His résumé includes more than 1,000 articles in outlets including Science News, where he worked as Earth sciences editor, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, where he was a general science reporter. Since 2008, he has been an editor at Nature, where among other things he conceptualizes, commissions, and edits Earth science features.
Rich has covered the emergence of climate change as a major scientific and political issue, both nationally and internationally. He reported on the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes, which exposed vulnerabilities to earthquake hazards in the United States. And he covered a string of other major geoscience stories, from the launch of the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft to the devastating Fukushima tsunami.
Rich is consistently ahead of the pack in identifying and writing important articles. A 1991 piece on earthquake early warning systems in California put him at least 2 decades ahead of most other reporters. A 1991 feature, reported from Greenland, hints at the crucial climate insights to come from these paleoenvironmental studies. A 1995 article on iron fertilization is among the earliest reporting on geoengineering ideas. A 2006 piece definitively chronicles the political battles over the "hockey stick" graph of rising carbon dioxide levels. And a 2015 feature is a graphic novel, conceived and written with a comic artist as a way to explore climate science and international negotiations in advance of the Paris climate talks as a way to reach new audiences.
Through his mentoring of young reporters, Rich has also been instrumental in shaping the next generation of science journalists to tackle pressing Earth science topics. Many features he has edited have garnered major awards, including "The Rock That Fell to Earth," by Roberta Kwok, winner of AGU's 2010 Walter Sullivan Award for feature writing.
Rich himself is no stranger to honors, having acquired AGU's David Perlman news writing award in 2002 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science's journalism award twice (in 2001 and 2005). The Cowen Award cements this richly deserved legacy.
—Alexandra Witze, Nature, Boulder, Colo.
I am profoundly honored to receive this award and want to thank AGU for its commitment to promoting science journalism. I also thank Alex for nominating me and for writing such a wonderful citation.
It is especially rewarding to be recognized by AGU because I have spent much of my journalism career covering Earth and planetary sciences. I got hooked in 1986 while reporting one of my first stories for Science News magazine about experiments that strung an electrical wire between mountain peaks to investigate electricity inside clouds. Soon after that, I joined researchers rafting through the Grand Canyon, and my path in science journalism has been an amazing adventure ever since. I have been privileged to tag along with researchers as they fly over rivers of lava, drill through the Greenland ice sheet, pilot rovers across the surface of Mars, and land a spacecraft on a distant asteroid. I thank these scientists and countless others for answering all of my questions and for sharing their contagious curiosity about the universe.
I would never have reached this point without the support and guidance of many editors and colleagues along the way. There are too many to name them all, but special thanks go to Joel Greenberg, who gave me my first job in journalism; Patrick Young and Julie Ann Miller during my years at Science News; Jennifer Ruark and Richard Byrne at the Chronicle of Higher Education; and Oliver Morton and Helen Pearson at Nature.
As an editor now, I have the good fortune to work with many immensely talented writers. I would like to thank them for their creativity and dedication, which give me hope that science journalism will grow stronger even as it goes through a period of tremendous change.
It doesn't seem that long ago that I was just getting started in this business. In those early days, I was lucky enough to meet some of the giants of science journalism such as Walter Sullivan, David Perlman, and Bob Cowen, who were welcoming with young reporters. They set a high bar, and I hope to live up to their example.
Bob recently wrote to me that he didn't consider his decades in the business as "work." Rather, he said, "it was a lifetime adventure." I couldn't agree more.
—Richard Monastersky, Nature, Washington, D. C.
Citation: AGU (2018), Richard Monastersky receives 2017 Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO090149. Published on 10 January 2018.


Last week, I stirred up a hornet's nest by bringing up the topic of lockboxes and how I really didn't mind them in general.
Hyperspace Beacon and Tamriel Infinium are our biweekly columns on Star Wars: The Old Republic and The Elder Scrolls Online, respectively. Both are penned by Larry Everett. Today's edition is a mash-up of both.
It's an important topic given that Elder Scrolls Online just released its version of lockboxes in its last update and Star Wars: The Old Republic has run into its share of controversial situations regarding its lockboxes. I'd like to continue that discussion this week.
I mentioned in the article last week and many times in the comments that I have some major caveats to how I think lockboxes should work, and I mentioned that neither ESO or SWTOR actually handles lockboxes well. Both have their good points, but neither does it perfectly.
This week, I'd like to dive into what could make lockboxes simultaneously viable for studio funding and far less frustrating for the customer. If lockboxes are here to stay, why not try to fix them? Let's look at three ways to make lockboxes better — for everyone.
Let me clear up something that seemed more obscure to readers last week than I intended: Axkva Min was not a raid boss when Star Wars Galaxies launched. It took 20 people to kill her, yes, but it was not a challenge. I did mention that getting to her was more challenging, but just navigating Dathomir (the planet she spawned on) was a significant challenge unto itself. And given the way that factions worked in Star Wars Galaxies, players could get to the boss without aggroing anything.
Raid bosses in most MMORPGs take time to create and usually include mechanics that make them more interesting and difficult than a random encounter. Designers will labor hours and days over many aspects of creating a raid boss, and I would not equate those encounters to lockboxes. There is a sense of accomplishment in defeating raid bosses, and although it annoys me that some raid bosses do drop super rare items for one person, I can mentally let that slide because it means that the player did accomplish something other than being the first one there at the server reset or camping a spawn longer than anyone else.
To give another example of a lockbox NPC, we can look at the more recent example of SWTOR (before it had actual lockboxes). The Grand Inquisitor Robes were a highly coveted armor set whose chestpiece alone sold for about 10 million credits when game launched. And did you have to kill some great boss or traverse some high mountain peak to get it? No, you had to sit in one spot killing the same Talz over and over. The drop rate on the robe was so low that it could literally take you days of sitting at the same spawn before you'd actually get one. Because of the extreme amount of time required, it is just as much a waste as spending $40 on a crate of lockboxes. At least with lockboxes, you have a chance to get other items that are worthwhile, too.
Now, let's turn to my three ways to make lockboxes work.
My biggest issue with items in lockboxes is that they rarely have a counterpart accessible through actual gameplay. Some players are time-rich; others are time-poor. I like to view lockboxes as a way for those who are time poor to compensate for not being able to be in the game grinding out items that other players who have time spend can get through gameplay.
The problem is that developers use lockboxes as a way to sell exclusive items. Although I'd argue you can get a similar sense of satisfaction by finding a rare item in a lockbox as you can out of finding one in regular gameplay, I believe that gameplay should come first and should promote the same level of satisfaction if not more.
If developers want to have exclusive items that have to be purchased — I'll concede this because developers in 2016 have to make more money than subscriptions can offer — then make it available as a direct purchase as well. Remember how I said last week that lockboxes are gambling boxes. This is part of embracing that. By putting rare items on the market for direct sale, then players have a rough idea of what the stakes are: I could spend $2 with the chance of getting the item I want, or I could spend $15 and be guaranteed to get it, as an example.
I could say more — and probably will in the comments — but you understand where I'm coming from: make items available in some other fashion than just the cash shop.
I would like to see the figures on how many credits are spent on Cartel Market items on the SWTOR auction house versus how much is spent on other items. In addition to the fact that lockbox items on the trade network are listed for about ten times the going rate of any crafted item, there are far more viable lockbox items than there are items earned in-game. It's absolutely mind-boggling, and to say that lockbox items have taken over the market is understatement.
I'm no economist, but I'm pretty sure the sheer number of items that drop from lockboxes can't be good for the game's economy either. From my perspective, it polarizes the market. For every lockbox, there are items that are simply super rare — that's just the nature of gambling packs. However, this market flood forces down the cost of the more common items and drives up the cost of the rare items.
I haven't even mentioned that launching a brand-new lockbox type every month makes the developer look desperate for money or greedy.
The one thing that Star Wars: The Old Republic got right is that the lockbox items are tradable. It's true that making items bind-on-pickup does help prevent markets from flooding and possibly allowing for better control on the market. But making items tradable does give another avenue for time-rich gamers to earn the gold to buy items from the cash shop.
The other alternative is to make items in lockboxes or maybe the lockboxes themselves available for purchase with in-game money. I don't necessarily believe that it's the best option, but it will prevent the game from being controlled by whales. I'm glad there are whales in games, but one of the core aspects of an MMO for me is that everyone has at least a semblance of monetary equality. That's lost when you give people who throw a lot of money at the game a significant corner on the auction house.
There is a lot more to say about all the angles of the lockbox controversy, and I would like to read your thoughts in the comments. What ways can lockboxes be made better? Where do you draw the line? Thanks in advance for keeping this civil as you all did last week.


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Hillview Adventist Church
Missions at our Church
Individually or in groups, our people serve as volunteers at such places as South Lakes Women's Refuge, Cooranbong Community Services Centre, Medi-Sonship and Kukudu Clinics in the Solomon Islands, Operation Food for Life in Papua New Guinea Church Building programs in Borneo, a hospital in Nepal and orphanages in Africa and Cambodia.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Australia works with people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change through empowering partnerships and responsible action.
Cooranbong Community Services Centre
Service provides EMERGENCY RELIEF (personal assistance is given through providing food, clothing, bedding, household goods, furniture and appliances). The centre facilitates local community interests and organisations by providing a congenial venue in which they may meet. Local clubs and associations, aspects of community health, arts and crafts, social occasions, seminars and work shops. All services are free unless there is a hire fee for the hall.
Kukudu Clinics
The mission trip is the latest expression of a 10-year relationship between Hillview and Kukudu — a connection that inspired the South Pacific Division (SPD) to launch the Adopt-a-Clinic program that now sees local churches in Australia and New Zealand sponsoring 42 rural and remote clinics in the Pacific islands.
Operation Food for Life
Inspired by the example of Jesus, Operation Food for Life seeks to provide physical, emotional and spiritual support, bringing dignity and hope to the poor, the forgotten and the disadvantaged.
Sonship has as its basic philosophy the service of our fellow human beings, particularly in the Solomon Islands, where shipping and boats are the only means of transport.
South Lakes Women's Refuge
This ADRA supported women's refuge provides security and support for women and families escaping domestic violence. More than just a roof over their heads, South Lakes provides the support, training and encouragement for families to regroup and rebuild. http://www.adra.org.au/donate/support-a-project/
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The jump in expenses are most likely causing Google's decline after earnings. But I think the real reason is Google's lack of transparency.
There was impressive top line growth, but how is that broken down? They need to break down display and mobile.
The fact remains, the macro conditions for display and mobile are in-place for Google to benefit. The linked video has Schimdt highlighting the potential.
Technically, GOOG at 548 (AH price) is at the weekly 50 SMA.
To me that is very unrealistic, and the market will be extremely inefficient. Market action is already entering the state of inefficiency with the AH decline.


New Teardrop, New Summer Show Schedule!
L ast summer our 1974, custom built wooden Teardrop breathed its last on route 85 just 20 minutes outside of Cheyenne ( see Sept 25th blog post for all the gory details!). The good news is it prompted us to start the search for a newer, more reliable Teardrop. If you have ever been in the market for a nice used Teardrop, you know you have to jump on it when you see something you like!
A few months ago we were shopping in Fort Collins on a Saturday when I decided to look on Craigslist as we were leaving Costco's parking lot. "Dave, pull the car over and look at this ad for a Little Guy Teardrop" I said. After scanning the ad for details and location, we turned the car around and headed for Aurora CO. I called my cousin Janette who lives there and said, "Can we stay overnight? We're looking at a Teardrop in your neighborhood". Janette graciously agreed and offered us a new toothbrush for our unexpected and unprepared overnight. We looked, we bargained, and with a handshake agreement we were the owners of a 2014 Little Guy 5 wide. We returned to Aurora the next weekend, handed over a wad of cash and picked up our Teardrop.
Our new Teardrop has a TV and stereo system! Uptown!
The last few months we have been improving the galley, the interior and generally putting our own personality into it. Its now ready to hit the road as our home away from home during the summer art show season. We don't have all our show commitments in yet but here is what the 2017 show season looks like so far.
We hope to see new and old customers at our summer shows! If you see the Rawhide Studio Teardrop on the road, give us a toot and a wave!