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The 29th of July, 1998, fell on a Wednesday. Day 210 of 1998. Decade: 1990s.
21 years, 6 months and 0 days have passed since the 29th of July, 1998.
Events that occurred on the 29th of July, 1998:
The Parent Trap (1998) is released.
Songs that were on top of the music singles charts in the USA and the United Kingdom on the 29th of July, 1998:
United States: The Boy Is Mine - Brandy & Monica
United Kingdom: Viva Forever - Spice Girls
The movie "Mask of Zorro" was at the top of the box office on this date.
Trending news stories and fads that were prevalent throughout this time period. These are news stories and events that would have been in the media on the 29th of July, 1998.
Late 1990s Fashion
Popular clothing items included pleather pants, high-waisted miniskirts and halter tops. Metallic clothing became more common. Cargo pants and other military-inspired clothing also started to become more popular. Preppy looks became widespread amongst young men, as brands such as Old Navy and Abercrombie & Fitch became more and more favoured. The rave scene also inspired the comeback of more colours.
"Shakespeare in Love" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998.
American model and television host Jenny McCarthy is listed as FHM's sexiest model in 1998.
Movies released in 1998 included Armageddon, Saving Private Ryan, Godzilla, There's Something About Mary, A Bug's Life, Deep Impact, Mulan, Dr. Dolittle, Shakespeare in Love, Lethal Weapon 4, Blade, American History X and The Waterboy.
Bill Clinton & Ken Starr
US President Bill Clinton and Ken Starr, the lawyer who published the Starr Report, are both named as the Time Person of the Year in 1998.
Popular music artists in 1998 included Usher, Céline Dion, K-Ci & JoJo, Next, Shania Twain, Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey, Brandy, Monica, Sarah McLachlan, Jennifer Paige, Aerosmith, 98 Degrees, Deborah Cox, Britney Spears and All Saints.
Celine Dion - "My Heart Will Go On"
"My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion would go on to win a Grammy for 1998's Record of the Year.
Lewinsky Scandal
In January of 1998, news of the Lewinsky Scandal began to break. Bill Clinton, who was the US President at the time, was accused of engaging in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a White House intern. In August of 1998, Clinton admits that he had an improper physical relationship with the intern.
Celebrities and historical figures that were born on the 29th of July:
29th of July, 1883: Benito Mussolini: Italian dictator.
29th of July, 1972: Wil Wheaton: Actor.
29th of July, 1990: Joey Essex: Television personality.
Age: Anyone born on the 29th of July, 1998, will be 21 years of age.
Notable events that occurred around the 29th of July, 1998:
1st of July, 1998: The movie Armageddon (1998) is released in cinemas.
2nd of July, 1998: J. K. Rowling publishes her second novel in the Harry Potter series: "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
7th of July, 1998: The All Saints release their single Never Ever.
10th of July, 1998: Small Soldiers (1998) is released in movie theaters.
12th of July, 1998: France win the World Cup after defeating Brazil 3-0.
17th of July, 1998: The movie There's Something About Mary (1998) is released.
19th of July, 1998: Alice Deejay releases the single "Better Off Alone"
24th of July, 1998: The movie Saving Private Ryan (1998) is released.
27th of July, 1998: Stardust release the song "Music Sounds Better with You".
28th of July, 1998: Irish crime: 18-year-old Deirdre Jacob goes missing in Newbridge, Co. Kildare.
3rd of August, 1998: Irish boy band group Boyzone release their single "No Matter What".
15th of August, 1998: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland. 29 people are killed.
17th of August, 1998: US President Bill Clinton admits that he had an "improper physical relationship" with Monica Lewinsky.
18th of August, 1998: Aerosmith release the song "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
21st of August, 1998: Blade (1998) is released.
21st of August, 1998: The game "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six" is released.
28th of August, 1998: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) is released.
Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on the 29th of July, 1998, will have the star sign Leo.
Zodiac Element: Fire.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 1998 was the year of the Tiger (Yang Fire).
Native American Zodiac: The 29th of July, 1998 falls under the Salmon.
Birthstone: Anyone born during the month of July will have the birthstone Ruby.
Weather information for the 29th of July, 1998:
Dublin, Ireland: It was 17.9 degrees Celsius. It was a very wet day. It was a windy day. It was a mostly sunny day.
New York, USA: Temperature: 73.3 degrees Fahrenheit. 22.94 degrees Celsius. Rain fell. Precipitation: 1.27cm.
London, England: Temperature: 17.39 degrees Celsius. Rain fell. Precipitation: 1.02cm.
Bill Clinton was the President of the United States on the 29th of July, 1998.
A baby that was born on the 29th of July, 1998 was probably conceived around the 19th of October, 1997. (Rough Estimate).
The due date for a baby that was conceived on the 29th of July, 1998 is the 8th of May, 1999. (Rough Estimate).
29th of July
Events that have occurred on the 29th of July:
29th of July, 1966: Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident in New York.
29th of July, 1973: Formula One racing driver Roger Williamson dies in an accident.
29th of July, 1976: The Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, carries out his first murder.
29th of July, 1981: Prince Charles and Lady Diana are married in London, England.
29th of July, 2015: The Windows 10 operating system is released.
29th of July, 1954: J. R. R. Tolkien publishes "The Fellowship of the Ring."
29th of July, 1983: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) is released in cinemas.
29th of July, 1988: The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) is released in movie theaters.
29th of July, 1994: The Mask (1994) is released in cinemas.
29th of July, 2008: Rap artist T.I. releases his single "Whatever You Like".
29th of July, 2016: The video game Batman: Return to Arkham is released on the PS4 and XBO.
29th of July, 2019: Love Island: Amber Gill and Greg O'Shea are crowned as winners.
Sex and the City - A group of friends "explore" Manhattan's dating scene.
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place - TV show about two graduate students called Berg and Pete.
CatDog - Animated show about conjoined siblings - a cat and a dog.
Dawson's Creek - American teen drama.
Ally McBeal - TV show about an attorney called Ally McBeal. Starring Calista Flockhart.
Recess - Cartoon series about a group of six fourth-graders.
Stargate SG-1 - A military team of scientists and soldiers travel to different planets in the universe.
Oz - TV series about a prison called Oswald State Correctional Facility.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.
King of the Hill - Animated series about a family living in Texas.
StarCraft - RTS game.
1080° Snowboarding - Snowboard racing game.
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins - Stealth game that was released on the PlayStation.
Resident Evil 2 - The second game in the series. Starring Leon and Claire as they traverse the Zombie-filled streets of Raccoon City.
Grand Theft Auto - The first installment in the Grand Theft Auto series. Published by BMG Interactive.
Fallout - Open world role-playing game.
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - Platform video game that was published for the PlayStation.
GoldenEye 007 - A first person shooter game that was set in the James Bond universe. Released on the Nintendo 64.
Enter your date of birth below to find out how old you were on the 29th of July, 1998.
Looking for some nostalgia? Here are some Youtube videos relating to the 29th of July, 1998. Please note that videos are automatically selected by Youtube and that results may vary! Click on the "Load Next Video" button to view the next video in the search playlist. In many cases, you'll find episodes of old TV shows, documentaries, music videos and soap dramas.
Here are some fun statistics about the 29th of July, 1998.
678,589,200 seconds have passed since the 29th of July, 1998.
Since the 29th of July, 1998, earth has travelled approximately 350,152,027,200 miles through space.
What does the 29th of July, 1998 mean to you? Were you born on this date? Did you finish school? Was this the date that you were married?
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Winning Wednesday: Win passes to Elitch Gardens!
Located in the heart of Denver and celebrating 128 years of fun, Elitch Gardens is Colorado's only world-class combination theme and water park. From thrilling roller coasters to pint-sized adventures in KiddieLand, a splashin' water park and tons of special events, there's thrills for all. The park is open April through October. Visit ElitchGardens.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
What's fun, new or fabulous at Elitch Gardens this summer?
2018 is full of awesome entertainment! Our summer concert series lineup is complete with eight huge acts including performances by country music star Chris Lane, American pop boy band Why Don't We, Hispanic super band Banda El Recodo, Christian crossover sensation Switchfoot and so much more! Guests can catch one of our six Dive-In movies shown in the water park on Friday nights from June 29 through August 3. Debuting in the Trocadero Theather on Memorial Day Weekend we have a new show production called Smoke and Mirrors. Plus, all your favorite coasters and slides Elitch Gardens has something for everyone this season.
For the best price tickets are available online at ElitchGardens.com for $39.99. The best deal for family fun is 2018 Season Pass for only $69.99 and includes free parking, free tickets for friends, free concerts, free movies and much more!
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Collins Aerospace has announced several new products and partnerships at this year's Passenger Terminal Expo, taking place at London's ExCeL on March 26, 27 and 28.
The company has unveiled its SelfPass biometric facial scanning solution that is said to be the world's first truly end-to-end single enrollment biometric system that allows passengers to register their biometric details once and then use the solution every time they travel.
The company has announced that SelfPass is now in use by JetBlue at New York's JFK International Airport in cooperation with US Customs Border and Protection and will also be trialled at Bristol Airport in the UK and Dublin Airport in Ireland.
At Bristol, the new trial will biometrically enable multiple touchpoints, including check-in, self-service bag drop, security, boarding gates and airport lounges, and passengers will be able to enroll via their mobile or the website.
Collins Aerospace has also launched its SelfDrop R-Series self-service bag drop at Passenger Terminal Expo, with live demonstrations being held on stand 6030 throughout the three-day event.
SelfDrop is fully modular and will replace existing check-in desks. The fully enclosed system includes security features such as intrusion detection and a physical door to prevent unauthorised objects, and includes weighscales, linerless tags and payment facilities for excess luggage payments.


The state patrol said Lowell Miller was not wearing a seat belt; the other two were belted in.
The patrol said Servantes was eastbound on Highway 22 about a mile east of Toppenish near Larue Road when she crossed the centerline and struck the Scion head-on.
Munder said that the crash occurred on a fairly busy stretch of Highway 22 just east of Toppenish.
The collision closed the roadway for about five hours, the Washington Department of Transportation said.


NEW DELHI: If you are planning to buy a flat, now should wait till May 1, when the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act (RERA) comes into force. The new law is going to reshape the entite real estate sector with the transparency and accountability it brings. The RERA will benefit the buyers in a huge way.
1. The RERA makes it mandatory for a state to establish a State Real Estate Regulatory Authority. This government body could be approached for redressal of grievances against any builder.
2. Every ongoing and under-construction project is supposed to come under the regulator's ambit. Registration is mandatory for all commercial and residential real estate projects where the land is over 500 sq m or includes eight apartments. Failure to do so will attract a penalty which may be up to 10% of the project cost, and a repeat offence could land the developer in jail.
3. The developer will have to place 70% of the money collected from a buyer in a separate account to meet the construction cost of the project. This will put a check on the general practice by a majority of developers to divert the buyer's money to start a new project, instead of finishing the one for which money was collected. This will ensure that construction is completed on time.
4. Buyers of apartments which are typically offered for sale before the launch of the project often get ensnared. But not any more. Under the Act, every such phase will be considered a standalone real estate project, and the promoter will have to obtain registration under this Act for each phase separately.
5. The RERA makes it mandatory for developers to post all information on issues such as project plan, layout, government approvals, land title status, sub contractors to the project, schedule for completion with the State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) and then in effect pass this information on to the consumers.
6. The current practice of selling on the basis of ambiguous super built-up area for a real estate project will come to a stop as this law makes it illegal. Carpet area has been clearly defined in the law.
7. Currently, if a project is delayed, then the developer does not suffer in any way. Now, the law ensures that any delay in project completion will make the developer liable to pay the same interest as the EMI being paid by the consumer to the bank back to the consumer.
8. The maximum jail term for a developer who violates the order of the appellate tribunal of the RERA is three years with or without a fine.
9. The buyer can contact the developer in writing within one year of taking possession to demand after sales service if any deficiency in the project is noticed.
10. The developer cannot make any changes to the plan that had been sold without the written consent of the buyer. This puts paid to a common and unpopular practice by developers to increase the cost of projects.


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President and his cabinet pay tribute to late Imam Khomeini
President Hassan Rouhani and members of his cabinet paid tribute to the Founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Imam Khomeini, at his mausoleum Saturday morning.
Sat 23 - August 2014 - 08:36
During the ceremony, Imam's grandson Hassan Khomeini received the President and the cabinet members.
President Rouhani and the cabinet members also paid tribute to the late Imamˈs wife and son.
The spiritual visit to the holy shrine took place on the first day of the Government Week, which is observed in Iran each year in commemoration of former President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and late Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, who were assassinated in a terrorist attack on August 30, 1981.
The deadly attack was carried out by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) some two months after Iranian Chief Justice Mohammad Beheshti was assassinated along with 72 state officials and lawmakers in another MKO bombing in Tehran.
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China's largest pig and poultry producer, Wens Foodstuff Group, recorded a loss for the first quarter of 2019.
National Junior Swine Association's secretary, Adrian Austin, says turning her focus to FFA in high school was a pivotal decision in her life, opening the doors to greater involvement in the pork industry.
These four tips will help you prepare for and manage lean times in pork production profits.


I've been told by a number of people that I should encode or obfuscate the source code for Tasks Pro™. I'd like to believe that I don't need to – that people will be honest, etc. but I'm not sure that's realiztic.
I read a bunch of forum posts and reviews.
Basically, I'm trying to do everything I can to make it possible to install Tasks Pro™ even if you aren't familiar with PHP and MySQL. Requiring my customer to configure and add a loader (or worse, edit the php.ini file) doesn't jive with what I've been trying to accomplish. Also, it would make it harder for me to allow people that buy Tasks Pro™ to customize their installation, which is something I'd like to allow.
Has anyone else had experience with this sort of thing? I'm interested in hearing how your decision panned out.
If you are a potential customer, how would this affect your decision to purchase?
Well, I'm a potential customer, and I don't think that an extra step or two would scare me off from your product. If one can install PHP & MySQL, I'd expect that the install of an encoder shouldn't be a dealbreaker.
Looking forward to seeing the finished product, Alex.
Thanks Rob, I appreciate the feedback.
Yeah, I can't see where it'd be a dealbreaker for me, either. As long as you have pretty decent HOWTO's in there–or pointers to some on the Web if they exist–things should be peachy.
There probably should be some notice about this sometime in the purchase process, though.
speaking of the pro version, do you have an estimated release date and price point?
Let's just say it's coming along well.
If I didn't run my own server, this would be a deal breaker. I do run my own server and already run PHPA, and if you decided to go with a non-Ioncube route I wouldn't use Tasks Pro.
I'v installed tasks and was successfull without beeing an expert with website installation and all. But, you're losing me in this conversation you're having here which mean that if you go that route, it will need solid documentation. Because you're talking russian for me.
Also, in your documentation, you need to separate the simple user documentation from the administrator docs. The actual Tasks documentation is too technical for many users.
I agree, that is why I've spent the last week and a half writing up documentation for Tasks Pro. I'm probably half done right now and hating every minute of it.
Just for completeness. There is another exellent encoder.
It´s open source and also includes an PHP accelerator.
That is actually running on this server, but it is definitely out due to level of difficulty of the install.
Unfortunately, many is not all.
Did you ever find a decent solution for this Alex? I've been looking for something along these lines as well.
I'm using a solution that isn't publicly available right now.
Initially I was using PHP Code Lock, but I had compatibility problems and couldn't get the "version 2" to work at all.
Alex, I was also in the same dilemma a few days ago. The hard fact that I found was that almost, if not all, encryption methods could be cracked.
thay can decode virtually all of the encoded systems out there. I will check out POBS, however, which looks like it would be very difficult, if not impossible to decode in a reasonable amount of time.
I have tested a couple of these Obfuscators and License Managers, and I would like to point out that some of them have Function and Variable renaming. Renaming is only done if you set the option when obfuscating – as by default some are turned Off for your conveniece.
How is it your convenience? Well, when an error occurs, you can get the function name and variable name if needed from the output message and *Understand it*.
I turn this *Renaming* ON, so that if a developer Reverse Engineers it, it will make his life hell. I have read of some other obfuscators for JAVA, where the application keeps a list of function names and variable names on the master encoder's machine to be able to decode error messages with ease – a great idea, and not sure if any PHP Ob's do this or not.
Please – Correct me if I am wrong.
The Semantic Designs PHP obfuscator renames variables, constants, functins, and class names. A cross-reference is produced so that an obfuscated name can be easily mapped back to the original one.
This will make Chris happy.
Now your Tasks Software.. tried a free version .. now bought the full version..
I am a provider of PHPshadow, which is not listed above. I'd like to add a caveat to Ira Baxtor's comment that a good solution requires no change on the server. Well, let me assure you that irreversible code is only possible through an additional compiled extension on the server, or a JIT module. Anything that claims "No changes required on server" is producing code that can be reverse engineered.


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Why peat is most damaging fuel in terms of global warming, even worse than coal
Peat was responsible for 3.4 million tonnes of emissions in Ireland during 2016
Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 01:01 Updated: Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 07:51
Kevin O'Sullivan Enviornment & Science Editor
The fate of peat burning power stations in the Midlands, however, will largely depend on the extent to which the EPA will permit "co-firing of peat with biomass" in coming years. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / THE IRISH TIMES
Peat is the most damaging fuel in terms of global warming; even worse than coal.
It has a lower calorific value than coal (generating less energy per tonne when it is burned) and yet it produces higher CO2 emissions per unit, so it is the least climate-efficient way to produce electricity or heat in Ireland bar none.
As a consequence, the writing has been on the wall for peat production – including the once, much-loved peat briquette – and peat-burning power plants for some years; all because of climate change.
In a scenario where overall Irish greenhouse gas emissions are locked into a rising curve, especially those associated with heat, transport and agriculture, it became impossible to justify use of peat on environmental and sustainability grounds.
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As a consequence, Bord na Móna committed to getting out of peat by 2030. Its announcement this week "is acknowledging that climate change is our biggest challenge globally" and commits to closing bogs by 2025.
Peat was responsible for 3.4 million tonnes of emissions in Ireland during 2016, of which 75 per cent was for electricity and 25 per cent in residential heating (which is about 9 per cent of carbon emissions from total fossil fuel use (including coal, oil, gas and peat). Phasing out that heat component will make a big difference to Ireland's emissions.
The peat issue was so glaring, the Government's independent Climate Change Advisory Council repeatedly said Bord na Móna should get out of peat a lot sooner than envisaged, though it underlined the need for "a just transition" for workers and communities affected. Its chairman Prof John FitzGerald has gone further, hitting out at the perverse decision to continue subsidising peat-fired electricity generation stations until 2030 – consumers pay for this through the public service obligation (PSO), a levy added to their electricity bill.
Peat is partially decomposed plant material; essentially coal in the making. It forms when plant material is deposited in an oxygen-poor environment, generally one that is saturated with water such as a bog. Its destruction releases vast amounts of carbon, particularly methane, into the atmosphere.
Burning, draining, and degrading peat bogs emits significant amounts of CO2 .
In contrast, bogs – and restored wetlands – have the potential to fulfil a major role in capturing and storing carbon.
The fate of peat burning power stations in the Midlands, however, will largely depend on the extent to which the EPA will permit "co-firing of peat with biomass" in coming years.
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New consumer goods and guarantees directive puts onus on advertisers
Written Osborne Clarke	on 06 Nov 2000
Although under existing UK law, advertisements will only in exceptional circumstances classify as a contractual offer, their content can still affect the responsibilities of the retailer to the consumer.
Topic: Consumer Protection
New development: Council Directive 99/44/EC covering aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees.
Although under existing UK law, advertisements will only in exceptional circumstances classify as a contractual offer, their content can still affect the responsibilities of the retailer to the consumer. For instance, any statement an advertisement makes about a product could have the status of either a term of a subsequent sale contract or a representation which, if false could provide the consumer with remedies under the Misrepresentation Act.
What will change: At the core of this new Directive, is a statutory minimum 2 year guarantee that goods sold will be in conformity with the sales contract, wherever in the EU they are sold. The guarantee is to be enforceable against the retailer, not the manufacturer and what is said about the product in advertising, either by the retailer or the manufacturer, will be taken into account in assessing the quality and performance which the consumer may reasonably expect the product to have. In this way the onus will be placed even more squarely on the advertiser than before, to ensure that all claims made for the product in marketing material are accurate.
Timetable: All EU states are due to implement the Directive by 1 January 2002
What happens next: The UK Government will publish a consultation paper, with or without some suggested Regulations, within the next few months.
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Live Review: Of Montreal, La Luz; Cold War Kids, Crystal Antlers, Toro Y Moi tonight…
Category: Blog,Reviews — Tags: Kevin Barnes, La Luz, Of Montreal — @ 2:17 pm November 4, 2013
Of Montreal at The Waiting Room, Nov. 2, 2013.
by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com
While last Saturday night's Of Montreal concert was the usual spectacle that one expects from these colorful Athenians, it was only a medium-sized spectacle, especially compared to the last time they came through town and played at The Slowdown.
Your first thought might be that they pulled back because The Waiting Room has a smaller stage than The Slowdown's cavernous maw, but you'd be wrong because I've been told the two stages are about the same size, and that TWR might actually be a tad larger. No, the real reason could have had something to do with the style of the band's latest album, which is less of a party and more of a psychedelic head trip.
To help build that trippy buzz, Of Montreal's eye-blazing projector-powered graphics got an extra punch of wow — pure acid-flashback dazzle combined with strange 8 mm-style film effects.
Theatrics did abound. Three "extras" made stage appearances in a variety of costumes, most resembling blobs or giant wadded up pieces of paper. When they weren't stumbling around in bulky costumes, the extras slipped into place in white body stockings, unfolding umbrellas that reflected targeted projected graphics (see the eye-popping skull above).
And then there was the music. Of Montreal played their mega-hit "Wrath Pinned to the Mist and Other Games," (a.k.a., the Outlook Steakhouse commercial jingle from a few years ago) in the middle of the set, surrounding it with new glammy material from Lousy with Sylvianbriar, their latest Polyvinyl release. If someone ever decides to make a David Bowie biopic, Kevin Barnes would be the shoe-in to play the Thin White Duke — his voice (at times) was a photo-realistic replica of Bowie's, complete with the obvious, recognizable inflections we've come to know and love.
Beyond the Bowie comparisons, Barnes has a mammoth voice that keeps going and going, and is the clear centerpiece of the entire performance. Good thing, too, because while Of Montreal's music often has a thumpin' beat, it lacks a strong central melody. The reason "Wrath Pinned…" was a hit is because it's one of the few songs they've written that invites you to sing along. The rest of Of Montreal's melodies are two-dimensional gymnastics — dense, complex and sparkly — but forgettable. It's the reason Of Montreal never broke through the way Arcade Fire has, though the two bands do very similar things (and one might argue, Of Montreal does it better).
But who cares when you see Barnes coming out after a costume change dressed as a 12-foot tall singing psychedelic ghost?
La Luz at The Waiting Room, Nov. 2, 2013.
Opener La Luz was a fun exercise in genre rock, described to me by one listener as Middle Eastern-infused surf rock. To me they played traditional garage rock with a sinister undertone. Great stuff, in small doses.
The big shows keep rolling on tonight:
Cold War Kids play tonight at The Slowdown with Crystal Antlers, whose latest, Nothing Is Real, is brash and loud and worth getting to the club early for. $20 9 p.m.
Meanwhile, over at The Waiting Room, chillwave superstar Toro Y Moi headlines with Classixx, a DJ duo who have remixed everyone from Phoenix to Yacht to Holy Ghost to Ladyhawke. $17, 9 p.m.
Why does it have to be Monday?
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Meeting Coverage > ACC
Low-Risk TAVR in Spotlight at ACC
— Prevention guidelines, Apple Watch also on parade in New Orleans
by Crystal Phend, Senior Associate Editor, MedPage Today March 14, 2019
NEW ORLEANS -- The future of aortic valve procedures will be decided here at the American College of Cardiology meeting with presentation of the PARTNER 3 and CoreValve trials in low-surgical risk patients.
The two large-scale trials pitting transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices against surgery in patients at no more than a 3% to 4% predicted risk of 30-day surgical mortality are widely expected to lead to regulatory approval for TAVR to expand into this much larger population.
In high- or intermediate-risk patients, "the previous studies have already demonstrated for us that the transcatheter replacement of the aortic valve is an alternative to surgical approaches, and not surprisingly many patients prefer a nonsurgical strategy when it is a reasonable strategy," said conference vice-chair Pamela Morris, MD, speaking at a press briefing before the meeting.
So for low-risk patients, "these trials are potentially practice changing," said Morris, of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
The vast majority of aortic valve replacement candidates are at low surgical risk, noted conference chair Andrew Kates, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. However, he cautioned on the briefing call that there will be more to the story: "The challenge will be to see the durability of catheter valve replacement in the population over the long term."
Nor did the studies address mechanical valves, which for many younger patients may still be an important consideration, Kates noted.
Another headliner for the ACC meeting will be comprehensive primary prevention guidelines, slated for release on Sunday afternoon.
These joint recommendations from the ACC and American Heart Association "will update and consolidate previous prevention guidelines," Morris said. "This would include the 2013 cardiovascular risk assessment guideline, the 2013 lifestyle guideline, [the] 2013 overweight and obesity guideline, and then include information from the 2017 hypertension and the 2018 cholesterol guidelines, particularly where they relate to primary prevention." Other facets include recommendations on diet, exercise, and alcohol use, she added.
Among the key late-breaking clinical trials on the docket is the Apple Heart Study, which looks at the Apple Watch's optical sensors in screening for arrhythmias. The findings are to be presented Saturday morning.
"What's going to be important to see is if the study does show that wearable devices are helpful in predicting atrial fibrillation," said Kates. "We get approached on a regular basis by patients using these devices for our feedback as to whether or not they are helpful."
However, Morris noted that the outcomes, as listed on clinicaltrials.gov, still don't get at hard clinical outcomes such as stroke or cardiovascular mortality. Self-reported contact with a health provider and accuracy compared with ECG monitoring are secondary endpoints.
For patients with diagnosed atrial fibrillation, the AUGUSTUS trial will attempt to nail down the best combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulant agents after a recent coronary event. "It will impact clinical practice," predicted Morris.
Along with AUGUSTUS on Sunday's program are subanalyses from the COAPT trial, which just gained the MitraClip device an indication in secondary (functional) mitral regurgitation. Echocardiographic and quality of life findings are slated for presentation.
"If it doesn't improve quality of life, then I think it may give us some equipoise in how much we utilize that as a technology moving forward," Kates said.
Then on Monday -- just days after the first pivotal trial of novel oral LDL-lowering drug bempedoic acid was published -- the companion trial, CLEAR Wisdom, will be presented. Topline results already released showed safety and modest efficacy, but the details will be fleshed out.
"Due to the expense of the PCSK9 inhibitors, there is a gap in affordable oral agents that can help to further lower LDL in high-risk patients," Morris noted.


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Home Arts & Entertainment Musical the perfect tonic for Abba lovers
Musical the perfect tonic for Abba lovers
Dancing queens . . . South Canterbury Drama League Mama Mia cast members (from left) Jane Bowen as Tanya, Mhairi Adam as Donna and Molly Callanan as Rose rehearse their moves for the upcoming show. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Timaru is preparing for an Abba revival.
' It will be a great show ' The South Canterbury Drama League's production of Mama Mia will be staged at the Theatre Royal from July 22 to July 30, with cast members in full rehearsal mode.
Director Catherine May Smith said preparations for the production were well under way.
''We have been practising for about four months,'' Smith said.
''Everything is going well. It will be a great show.''
Mama Mia is Smith's South Canterbury Drama League production in the director's seat — though she is becoming well-known in the region for her work in the drama scene.
''I'm a director and writer by trade.
''I saw the ad looking for a director for the show and I applied as Mama Mia was a show on my bucket list.''
The nostalgia surrounding the show had been an influencing factor for applying, she said.
''A lot of my writing is about nostalgia and I really like stories about strong women.
''Everybody knows and loves Abba songs.''
Smith said the show's cast was a combination of new performers, as well as familiar faces and it was proving to be a quality production.
''It's great for everyone involved.''
The story follows Donna, a hotelier in the Greek islands, who is preparing for her daughter's wedding with the help of two old friends.
However, her daughter has a plan, having secretly invited three men from her mother's past in the hope of meeting her real father so he can escort her down the aisle on her big day.
The show features a range of Abba songs along the way.
The South Canterbury show will feature an array of lighting and costumes, as well as an LED pixalated screen for the backdrop.
Smith said it was exciting working with the screen, which was cutting edge technology and a first for the league.
For the first time, theatregoers would be able to have drinks in their seats, instead of at allocated times throughout the show as was the tradition.
''It will be a great night out.'' – Mama Mia will run at the Theatre Royal from July 22 to July 30. Tickets are available at www.iticket.co.nz or by phoning 0508 iTICKET.jordan SneakersNike
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Split rail fences and cannons were important barriers and tools during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
The following information is designed to answer the most common questions regarding what is permitted during your visit to the battlefield. This list is not inclusive of every law and regulation. If you have questions, please contact a Park Ranger or call us at our park headquarters: (336) 288-1776.
The purpose of the following laws and regulations is to ensure the historic integrity of the park; to honor those men who fought and died on this battlefield as well as to ensure preservation of the park resources for the enjoyment and enrichment of present and future generations.
As of February 22, 2010, a new federal law allows people who can legally possess firearms under applicable federal, state, and local laws, to legally possess firearms in this park. It is the responsibility of visitors to understand and comply with all applicable state, local, and federal firearms laws before entering this park. As a starting point, please visit the State of North Carolina's website to learn about firearm regulations and laws. Federal law also prohibits firearms in certain facilities in this park; those places are marked with signs at all public entrances.
There are no picnic tables available on the battlefield. Picnicking is allowed ONLY in areas directly adjacent to the seven automobile stops along the battlefield tour road. Picnicking is limited to small groups and for a short duration (1 hour or less). Tables, chairs, grills and other devices are not permitted.
Ball playing, sunbathing, kite flying, frisbee throwing, and similar recreational activities on the battlefield are not permitted.
The possession or use of metal detectors, electronic detection equipment and ground penetrating devices is strictly prohibited. If you plan to visit a National Park, it is best to leave this type of equipment at home.
All archeological and historic resources of National Parks and Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, including Revolutionary War artifacts, are protected by Federal Law. There are severe penalties for any attempt or effort to possess, disturb, remove, excavate (dig), or destroy archeological, cultural, historic, or prehistoric resources (artifacts).
All pets in the park must be under physical restraint or confinement at all times. A leash of no more than 6 feet is required. Pets cannot be left unattended.
Pet owners are required to dispose of pet excrement. The park has stationed seven pet excrement bag dispensers and trash receptacles on the Tour Road to help visitors adhere to this regulation. See the Pets webpage for more details.
The use of roller skates, skateboards, or similar devices is prohibited throughout Guilford Courthouse National Military Park.
Bicycle riding is permitted on the battlefield tour road RIGHT side ONLY. Bicycles must abide by all motor vehicle traffic laws. All cyclists must ride in the same direction as motor vehicles on the one-way tour road. The speed limit is 20 mph. Cyclists should use extreme caution around pedestrians and motor vehicles. Bicycles are not allowed on the foot trails leading into the interior of the park. These are pedestrian trails only.
The park Visitor Center and Visitor Center parking lot as well as the battlefield tour road are closed to motor vehicle traffic at 5:00 p.m. All vehicles must be removed from these areas by the 5:00 closing time. The parking lot at the corner of Old Battleground and New Garden Roads will remain open for visitor parking until sunset. Pedestrians and bicycles are allowed to access the interior (inside park gates) until sunset as well.
Special Use Permits at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park require a $50.00 application fee. Management Fees may also be required if the permitted event requires additional park staffing to maintain a safe, clean environment and allow for uninterrupted visitor access. Management fees will be determined on a case by case basis prior to issuance of a permit. Please visit the Permits & Reservations page to obtain the proper Special Use Permit Applications and forms.
An accessible PDF of the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Compendium will be available in February 2018. This Compendium establishes park specific rules, regulations, and restrictions. Call (336) 288-1776 with any questions you may have.
Visit the U.S. Government Publishing Office's website to view rules and regulations that apply to your visit to a National Park.


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Anyone Catching stripes that ain't on the bottom?
Does anyone fish rivers or spots on the ocean front in Eastern Conn.? I started working at Electric Boat 5 months. I live and Newport so I'm wondering if anyone knows any general locations that hold fish Near my job? If someone fishes the area and wants to inbox me with a couple tips it would be greatly appreciated. I do not know a soul in the area so it's virtually impossible for me to spot burn since I fish solo.
Kings Park.... If a loud mouth ask me where I caught my fish, that's where I tell them.
Snap a picture and then she's back in the drink.
Hahahaha! Much bigger. Same offering though.
Hahahaha! Much bigger!!! Same offering though.
I am wearing the fish out right now. Got my first keeper on sunrise @ a RI Beach yesterday.
Once the water warms a little more try along the sakonnet river. Fall River to little Compton. Keep an eye out for pogies.
Bucktails, Sp Minnows, Super Strikes, Sluggos and loaded Redfins. That's a good start.
The Biomass is not doing well, I won't be keeping more than 1 or 2 fish. All the rec boat guys and commercial fisherman are just dredging them up. Anybody that keeps every fish every time they got out, better not be asking where all the fish went in a couple years. Nice fish by the way. Can't wait for the catch and release show I'll be putting on in RI.
I love #20 fireline. No problems with wind knots or break offs. It fails at the same test as 40lb pp.
What lb test braid do you use?
I use #55 samurai on my VS200. If you are fishing rocky structure, I wouldn't fish less than #30, unless it's fireline. #20 fireline test out significantly higher than 20lbs.


Prosafe, an operator of offshore accommodating units known as flotels, has been awarded a contract by Japan's Modec for the provision of a semi-submersible accommodation vessel.
Prosafe said on Tuesday that the contract was awarded by Modec's subsidiary, Modec Serviços de Petróleo do Brasil.
The contract is for the provision of the Safe Concordia semi-submersible accommodation vessel to support specific Modec FPSO operations in Brazil.
According to the company, the firm duration of the contract begins in September 2018 and will last for 200 days with a 15-day option.
Prosafe added that the contract value, although left undisclosed, included mobilization and demobilization.
Jesper Kragh Andresen, Prosafe CEO, said: "Prosafe is very pleased with this contract, as it marks the re-entrance of Safe Concordia in Brazilian waters.
It is worth noting that the Safe Concordia was in lay up since the third quarter 2017 following contract completion with Petrobras.
The Safe Concordia is a dynamically positioned (DP2) semi-submersible accommodation rig with beds for 461 persons built at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore and delivered in March 2005.
Posted on July 17, 2018 with tags Brazil, Modec, Prosafe, Safe Concordia.
Offshore accommodation specialist Prosafe has won a contract for one of its flotels in Norway.
Prosafe has won a court case against Westcon related to cost overruns for the conversion of the Safe Scandinavia unit.


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Microscopic mix strengthens magnet
By Eric Smalley, Technology Research News
Work on the nanoscale doesn't have to produce microscopic devices in order to come up with big results.
Researchers from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology have caused 4-nanometer metal particles to combine in a way that increases the strength of magnets used in tiny, though not necessarily microscopic, electronic devices. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter, or the length of 40 hydrogen atoms.
Permanent magnets are a key element of electric motors, generators, loudspeakers, magnetic separators and magnetic levitation systems, and electric motors are particularly important in small-scale applications. Using stronger permanent magnets could reduce the size of these motors considerably, said Shouheng Sun, a materials scientist at IBM Research.
The researchers' approach melds nanoparticles made from a pair of iron-platinum compounds into a composite magnet that is potentially 50 percent stronger than non-composite iron-platinum compounds, said Sun. The increase in the available energy of the material means the magnet can carry out more work than a similar-size non-composite magnet.
The key to the composite's strength is that the two compounds have different magnetic properties: one is a hard-phase magnet and the other is a soft-phase magnet. Hard-phase magnets hold their own, but aren't very strong: they resist being demagnetized or reoriented by an external magnetic field but tend to have weak magnetic fields. Soft-phase magnets are just the opposite. They tend to have strong magnetic fields but those fields can be easily demagnetized or reoriented by relatively small external magnetic fields.
Coupling hard- and soft-phase materials so their magnetic orientations line up produces an exchange-spring magnet, said Sun. This combination of magnetic resilience and strength harbors more useful available energy, he said.
The researchers made the material by mixing iron-platinum nanoparticles and iron oxide nanoparticles in liquid, causing the nanoparticles to combine by evaporating the liquid, then heating the nanoparticles to 650 degrees Celsius. The heat converted the iron oxide to iron, which mixed with some of the platinum to produce a pair of iron-platinum compounds with different amounts of iron, and different magnetic properties. One material was hard-phase and the other soft-phase. The heat also sintered, or partially blended, the two compounds into an exchange-spring magnet.
This self-assembly process, which causes microscopic bits of material to automatically line up particle by particle, is key when the particles involved are so small. It's hard to make nanoscale composite materials using conventional approaches, said Sun. "With self-assembly, we can start with nano-sized components and engineer them into useful nanostructures," he said.
Exchange-spring magnets are an important new class of permanent magnets, said Caroline Ross, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This type of magnet has a very high energy product, which makes it ideal for applications like small motors where you need a strong magnet with a minimum volume, she said.
The researchers have shown that nanoparticle synthesis can produce very good exchange-spring magnets, "at least on the small-scale available in the experiment," said Ross. "The key to making these commercially useful is to be able to produce the material in large enough quantities," she said.
The researchers' next step is to control the material's easy-axis orientation, said Sun. A material's easy axis is the direction along which its magnetic field prefers to line up. Controlling the orientation of the easy axis would increase the energy product and thus the strength of the magnet several times, he said.
The nanocomposite self-assembly method could be used to make practical devices within five years, said Sun.
The researchers also plan to use the self-assembly technique to make other kinds of nanocomposite materials for use in data storage and microwave devices, said Sun.
Sun's research colleagues were Hao Zeng of IBM Research and Louisiana Tech University, Jing Li of Louisiana Tech, and J. P. Liu and Zhong Wang of Georgia Institute of Technology. They published the research in the November 28, 2002 issue of Nature. The research was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and IBM.
Timeline: <5 years
Funding: Government, Corporate
TRN Categories: Materials Science and Engineering
Related Elements: Technical paper, "Exchange-Coupled Nanocomposite Magnets by Nanoparticle Self-assembly," Nature, November 28, 2002
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Laser pulses could speed memory


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**docker-datafeeder**, is my containers 101 project for *me*.

### Warning & Note
-v mounts volumes within the container.

So THIS IS NOT PORTABLE!!

kittens will die, I know :-(

#### To run

To launch the contanier:

	CONTAINER_ID=$(docker run -d -i -t -e USERNAME=william -e SERVERNAME=bigserver99 -e CUSTOMERLIBRARY=customerx -e SLEEPTIME=6 -e INTERFACES='a/gb/iucs/iups/gn2g/gn3g/gnsumo/gnsumo2g/gnsumo3g/gp/gpsumo/gtpv2/ltesumo/mme/volte/' -v /home/assure/feeder:/feeder:rw johnzan/feeder:0.25)

#### To view the logs

To view the logs from the running contanier:

	docker logs -f $CONTAINER_ID

####  More info on this blog post
http://johnzanchetta.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/pratical-application-of-docker-and-ruby/

### Build instructions

Copy the entire contents to your sever to ~/docker (/home/username/docker)

  docker build -t johnzan/feeder:0.25 .

Note: version number should be 1 more than the CURRENT version ('docker images' will return a list of the images on the system) and don't forget the dot at the end of the command.


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Q: Ernst Mach vs. Einstein In the Ernst Mach wikipedia page, Einstein seems to be influenced by Ernst Mach. But it says

In 1930, [Einstein] stated that "it is justified to consider Mach as the precursor of the general theory of relativity",[23] though Mach, before his death, would apparently reject Einstein's theory.[24] Einstein was aware that his theories did not fulfill all Mach's principles, and no subsequent theory has either, despite considerable effort.

Why did Mach reject Einstein's theory?

A: We don't even know for sure that Mach did reject relativity. Footnote 24 in the WP article says:

The preface of the posthumously published Principles of Physical Optics explicitly rejects Einstein's relativistic views but it has been argued that the text is inauthentic; see Gereon Wolters, Mach and Einstein, or Clearing Troubled Waters in the History of Science. "Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics". Birkhäuser, Boston, 2012. 39-57.

Wolters has written several papers on this topic, which you can find in the references of this article. I don't know if any of them are available without a paywall. Einstein first met his hero Mach in 1909, when Mach was 71. IIRC, the story is that there was difficulty communicating, Mach was out of touch with current research, and Mach didn't really seem to understand what Einstein was trying to say to him.

A: Ernst Mach died in 1916.
I don't remember any historian of science mentioning Ernst Mach commenting on GR, making it unlikely that Mach ever commented on Einstein's GR ideas
On the history of Mach's principle:
Historians of science describe that what is now known as 'Mach's principle' was first introduced by Einstein.
My main source is John Norton. In particular the article: Mach's principle before Einstein
Historians of science emphasize that Ernst Mach adhered to an extremely austere philosophy of physics. Just how austere can be seen from Mach's position on the question whether matter consists of atoms. Mach was among the last of physicists to acknowledge that the existance of atoms had been proved beyond doubt. That is: Ernst Mach argued for an extremely high burden of proof. Mach argued: if you cannot prove it it is speculation and not part of science.
In his book on mechanics Mach criticized Newton's notion of absolute space. Speaking more generally Mach argued: since we have no means to investigate whether the inertia we observe locally is due to distant matter (the fixed stars), this is a speculative thought, and hence not part of science.
As we know, Einstein did the very thing that Ernst Mach condemned: Einstein made it into a principle: Einstein's Mach's principle.
While Einstein's Mach's principle was a strong source of inspiration during the development of GR, it was later abandoned. Historians of science describe that within five years or so after completing GR Einstein abandoned Einstein's Mach's principle. This is manifested by the fact that Einstein ceased mentioning Einstein's Mach's principle. In the first years after completing GR, when writing an article about GR, Einstein still asserted that in GR Einstein's Mach's principle was fully realized. Over time Einstein stopped making that assertion.
Explicit confirmation of Einstein abandoning Einstein's Mach's principle is found in correspondence between Einstein and F. Pirani (letter, 2 february 1954) "Von dem Mach'schen Prinzip [...] sollte mann nach meiner meinung überhaupt nicht mehr sprechen." ("In my opinion we should no longer talk about Mach's principle at all." )

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Swinging into the new season is the gorgeous vintage 50s Korrina shower proof swing trench coat by Collectif! A wonderful coat to keep the rain off you, Korrina features a double breasted front with rounded retro buttons and a full skirt that's pleated at the back so your skirts and petticoats will stay nice and fluffy! This fancy trench coat also has a waist tie to cinch in the waist and side pockets to keep your valuables safe and your hands warm. As an added addition this coat is even shower proof so light rain should be no problem for Korrina! Ooze 50s and 40s Hollywood glamour wherever you walk with this perfect Korrina shower proof swing trench coat!
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Just submit the form below to send Fruit Seed Spelt Scones By Julie Ward to a friend.
I make a vegan version of these scones and they work really well too. Just substituted Soya margarine for the butter, Soya milk for the dairy milk and Agave Syrup (Light) for the honey.
2.Add the spelt flour to the bowl. Sieve in the baking powder and cinnamon.
3.Rub the butter into the flour mix.
4.Add the dried fruit and seeds to the crumb mixture.
5.Mix the milk, vanilla and honey together in a bowl.
6.Add the wet mix to the dry crumb and bring together.
7.Sprinkle some oats onto the work surface. Turn out the dough on to it and kneed lightly. The mix feels quite dense but this is normal.
8.Gently roll out to about 1 inch height. Cut with a scone cutter, I use a larger one, approx. 8cm diameter.
9.Bake for around 20-25 minutes, remove and cool on a wire rack.
10.Leave to cool for a bit as they can be crumbly if cut while still hot.
11.These scones freeze well. I pack in small amounts of 2 or 3, take out at night and have fresh for the morning.


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HDTV data multiplexing, Part 1
All source formats are transmitted using the same nominal 1.485Gb/s serial bit rate. The capacity for carrying ancillary data varies from format to format.
MICHAEL ROBIN
All source formats are transmitted using the same nominal 1.485Gb/s serial bit rate.
The capacity for carrying ancillary data varies from format to format.
February's column described the manner in which various versions of the 1920×1080 HDTV format are organized in order to achieve a common image format (CIF). This month's article describes the manner in which various HDTV formats, including the exclusively North American 1280×720, are organized to achieve a common serial bit rate, as described on the most recent version of the ever changing SMPTE Standard 292M, Bit-Serial Digital Interface for High Definition Television Systems. I would tentatively call this approach the common serial bit rate (CSBR).
Table 1 details the essential source format parameters. They are identified as A through M and are referenced to four SMPTE standards as follows:
SMPTE 260M: The legacy HDTV format with 1125 lines per total frame, 1035 active lines per frame 2:1 interlaced with a 30Hz or 30/1.001Hz (NTSC friendly) frame rate
SMPTE 259M: A European HDTV format with 1250 lines per total frame, 1080 active lines per frame 2:1 interlaced with a 25Hz frame rate
SMPTE 274M: A (ever expanding) family of formats with 1125 lines per total frame, 1080 active lines
SMPTE 296M: A uniquely North American HDTV format with 750 lines per total frame, 720 active lines per frame progressively scanned with a 60Hz or 60/1.001Hz (NTSC friendly) frame rate
As shown in Table 1, all formats are transmitted using the same nominal 1.485Gb/s serial bit rate. This is obtained by adjusting the number of total lines per frame and words per total line while maintaining the appropriate number of total active lines per frame and words per active line. All nominal frame rate formats (A, C, D, F, G, I, J, L) are operating at a bit-serial data rate of 1.485Gb/s. Formats with an NTSC friendly frame rate (B, E, H, K, M) operate at 1.4835Gb/s (1.485/N). The divisor N has a value of 1.001. The difference between the two data rates is unimportant. This article focuses on the D format, which is typical of other formats.
The D format source data consist of two bit-parallel datastreams operating in tandem:
A bit-parallel Y datastream with a resolution of 10 bits per sample and a data rate of 74.25Mwords/sec; and
A bit-parallel time-division-multiplexed Cb/Cr datastream with a resolution of 10 bits per sample and a data rate of 74.25Mwords/sec.Each of the two datastreams carries the following data in the horizontal blanking interval:
Its own set of four-word end of active video (EAV) and start of active video (SAV) timing reference signals (TRS) for a total of eight words. In a manner similar to that used with the SDTV format, as described in SMPTE 259M, each TRS comprises three synchronizing words (3FF, 000, 000) and a fourth XYZ word. The XYZ word of each of the two datastreams carries the F, V, H information as well as the P0, P1, P2 and P3 protection bits.
Two words of line data (LN0 and LN1) with line number information in a binary code
Two words of cyclic redundancy codes (CRC). Two separate CRCs are calculated for the luminance data (YCR0 and YCR1) and color difference (CCR0 and CCR1)
Figure 1 shows details of the horizontal blanking interval for the luminance (Y) channel. Note that the capacity for carrying ancillary data varies from format to format.
Figure 2 shows a conceptual block diagram of an HDTV serializer. The serializer performs several functions:
Each of the two bit-parallel datastreams is fed to a co-processor that inserts line number and CRC data. An additional co-processor may be used to insert ancillary data.
The formatted bit-parallel datastreams feed a multiplexer. The two 74.25Mwords/sec bit-parallel datastreams Y and Cb/Cr are multiplexed word by word into a single 148.5Mwords/sec 10-bit parallel datastream in the order Cb, Y, Cr, Y, Cb, Y, Cr, Y and so on as shown in Figure 3. In this drawing the first row shows details of the horizontal blanking interval of the Y datastream. The second row shows details of the multiplexed Cb/Cr datastream. The structure of the multiplexed Y, Cb, Cr datastream is shown in the bottom row.
The output of the multiplexer feeds a parallel-to-serial converter whose output is an nonreturn to zero (NRZ) coded bit-serial datastream with a 1.485Gb/s bit rate.
The NRZ bit-serial signal feeds a scrambler that randomizes long sequences of zeros and ones.
The scrambled NRZ datastream feeds an NRZ-to-NRZI converter, which converts long runs of ones to transitions, thus further helping the clock recovery process in the receiver.
The digital representation of analog video signals results in a specific number of samples per total line and a smaller number of samples per active line. The difference between the total line duration and the active line duration is an analog television legacy related to the necessity of formatting and transmitting an analog horizontal as well as vertical synchronization signal to ensure a correctly timed reproduction of the picture. Component digital television replaces the analog synchronizing signals with TRS. The EAV and SAV TRS have a duration of four words each or a total of eight words ensuring proper synchronization of the digital video signals. This leaves a considerable quantity of unused words in the horizontal and vertical blanking intervals for other uses such as the transport of ancillary data.
Source format D has a total line duration of 2200 samples, of which 1920 are active. This leaves 2200 - 1920 = 280 unused samples in each of the two datastreams (Y and Cb/Cr). As shown in Figure 3, the combined EAV, line number data (LN0 and LN1), error detection codes and SAV data amount to 12 words, leaving 268 Y words (numbered YA0 to YA267) and 268 Cb/Cr words (numbered CA0 to CA267) available for carrying horizontal ancillary data (HANC).
The vertical blanking duration is 45 lines for each of the two basic datastreams. Each active data line has a duration of 1920 Y data words (numbered YD0 to YD1919) and 1920 multiplexed Cb/Cr words (numbered CBD0 to CBD959 and CBR0 to CBR959), which can be used to transmit vertical ancillary data (VANC).
In a future article we will describe the manner in which ancillary data are multiplexed into an HDTV datastream.
Michael Robin, former engineer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's engineering headquarters, is an independent broadcast consultant in Montreal, Canada. He is the co-author of Digital Television Fundamentals, published by McGraw-Hill.
This article is a continuation of our March HDTV data multiplexing article. It will deal with audio data multiplexing in the horizontal ancillary data
Transition to Digital: Understanding multiplexing
Since the beginning of telecommunications in the early 20th century, telcom carriers and broadcasters have striven to transmit as much information as possible while conserving the limited bandwidth of the media they use — that is, to maximize throughput. They have succeeded in this effort by developing various techniques that can be grouped under the term "multiplexing."
Audio multiplexing
The most important use of the ancillary data space is for the insertion of audio signals accompanying the video signal
The 1.485Gb/s HDTV SDI interface
SMPTE Standard 292 M, Bit-Serial Digital Interface for High Definition Television Systems, describes the manner in which various HDTV formats, including the exclusively North American 1280x720, are organized to achieve a common serial bit-rate.
Combining multiple audio channels into a single stream is called multiplexing. It's complex and requires careful planning. However, there are many solutions available, which the author reviews
HDTV data multiplexing
As we move further into the world of digital television, the spinmeisters are hard at work playing up HDTV as a major drawing card for terrestrial broadcasters,
Digital interfaces
Advances in technology have made it cost-effective to use bit-serial distribution of SDTV and HDTV video signals. All of the digital data bits, synchronization information and ancillary data (including several channels of digital audio), can be distributed inside a teleproduction plant through a single coaxial cable.
The 1280×720/60 HDTV format
There is no ITU counterpart of this standard because at present, ITU does not consider it as an HDTV format.


GrowNWI is helping youth members of Boys and Girls Clubs of Porter County discover the joys and benefits of growing a garden this season. GrowNWI recently donated cedar raised bed plant boxes, soil, and starter plants and seeds to the Forrest "Dusty" Rhode Portage Club and the Duneland Club. Members will experience first-hand how to grow vegetables and will be responsible for all aspects of growing the gardens: from planting the seeds to harvesting the produce.
According to its website, GrowNWI is a local non-profit organization committed to "fostering and sustaining community gardens and urban agriculture programs that grow produce".
"We are so grateful for GrowNWI for donating all of the supplies and installing the raised beds at our club," said Dawn Bell, unit director of the Forrest "Dusty" Rhode Portage club. "We are all so excited to have the garden at the Portage Club. We will utilize our garden to encourage healthy nutrition and meal preparation which is part of our Boys and Girls Clubs of America Healthy Habits Program. This will also educate members on how to garden and have an active role in the community".
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If you're not yet financially independent, and you have dependants, you'll need to ensure that you have enough life insurance to support them and to repay any debts if you die prematurely.
A policy which pays out a lump sum is usually best to pay off any debts like a mortgage. If you are an employee you might have life insurance provided by your employer, known as 'death in service' benefit. But if you don't have such cover, or it isn't enough for your needs, or you are self-employed you'll need to take out extra life cover.
Most people obtain personal life cover through a personal insurance policy which runs for a set number of years, known as a term policy. Cover can be level, increasing (perhaps by inflation) or decreasing (perhaps to match a reducing repayment mortgage). Premiums can be paid monthly or annually - annual are cheaper - and are paid out of after-tax income.
If you are an employee, you can also arrange life cover through what is known as a relevant life policy (RLP). An RLP is a life insurance policy which is taken out by an employer on the life of an employee instead of, or in addition to, traditional group death in service cover.
The premiums of an RLP are tax deductible as an expense for the employer, and not treated as a taxable benefit in kind for the employee. You could agree with your employer to give up enough of your salary – known as salary sacrifice - to meet the cost of the premiums. Although cover through an RLP is typically 20% higher than a personal life policy, paying the premiums by salary sacrifice means that the net cost of an RLP is much less than a traditional life insurance policy paid out of after-tax income as shown in the following examples.
Note: Assumes tax rates in England.
In the above example, in addition to the cover of the life policy, by sacrificing salary and having the employer pay the premiums on the RLP, a basic rate and higher rate taxpayer ends up nearly £320 and £455 per year respectively better off in net take home pay.
Salary sacrifice to fund an RLP isn't right for everyone, particularly if you are a very low earner, as it might affect your accrual of certain state benefits. But otherwise, if you are employee (which includes being a controlling director) who needs additional lump sum life cover, why not find out if your employer would be prepared to pay for a relevant life policy through salary sacrifice.


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Living in a Divided City: West-Berlin
From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall divided the city, with its western part completely surrounded by the Wall. The result was a historical oddity, a city with a special political status that resulted in a very unique way of life. The name alone is problematic, at least in German: officially, it was known as Berlin (West); the East Germans, if they referred to it at all, wrote it as Westberlin; whilst in West Germany, they wrote it with a hyphen in German: West-Berlin. As you can see, even the spelling was a political matter. West Berlin consisted of the present-day districts of Tiergarten, Kreuzberg, Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf, Reinickendorf, Spandau Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Neukölln, Schöneberg, Tempelhof and Wedding.
Special Political Status: Life under Division and Occupation
Even if West Berlin's Senate took care of day-to-day business for the partial from 1950, West Berlin retained a special political status until German reunification in 1990 because technically, West Berlin was not a part of any state. Though the city as a whole was initially governed by a Four Power Allied Control Council with a leadership that rotated monthly, the Soviets withdrew from the council as East-West relations deteriorated and began governing their sector independently. The council continued to govern West Berlin, with the same rotating leadership policy, though now only involving France, Great Britain, and the United States. West Berlin was divided into three sectors with the Americans in the south, the French in the north and the British in the west. And the Allies made their presence felt across the city: streets were named, for example, Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle, there were shops and cinemas exclusively for members of the Allied forces (for example at Truman Plaza in Zehlendorf). And in summer, American and French festivals were also celebrated, with typical specialties such as burgers or merguez being served. The special status of the city was also evident by the fact that West Berliners did not carry West German identity cards but instead temporary ID cards with green instead of grey covers. Also, unlike in the Federal Republic, there was no mandatory military service, a fact which made West Berlin a magnet for many conscientious objectors, and no mandatory closing times for bars, which led to a thriving nightlife.
The Wall in the Cityscape
The wall divided the city, cutting across streets and squares. In urban districts such as Kreuzberg, the Wall would run directly on the streets or along rows of houses. The Wall also stood directly behind the Reichstag and then went in an arc around the Brandenburg Gate, which was marooned in the middle of no-man's land. Waterways such as the River Spree were off limits because they also belonged to the territory of the GDR. As a result, several children drowned in Berlin waters because they could not be saved from the western side; later, special emergency phones were installed. Over the years, the West Berlin learned to live with the Wall, painting it with colourful graffiti and accepting it as just a part of everyday life in a divided city.
"Ich bin ein Berliner:" Life with the Allies
After the currency reform of 1948, Soviet troops sealed off West Berlin in a bid to secure economic and thus political control over all of Berlin. The American and British occupiers then began an airlift of food and coal to secure the survival of West Berlin until the end of the blockade. The West Berliners nicknamed the Allied planes the "Rosinenbomber" ("raisin bombers"), since soldiers would drop sweets with very small parachutes to the ground to the delight of Berlin's children. On 26 June 1963, almost two years after the Wall was built, American President John F. Kennedy visited the city and held what was to become one of his most famous speeches in front of the Schöneberg Town Hall, where he proclaimed "Ich bin ein Berliner". For the Berliners who had felt abandoned by the Allies and the German government (as then-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer took days to come to the city after the Wall had been built) these words were a true refreshment. Years later, towards the end of the Cold War, U.S. President Ronald Reagan held a speech at the Brandenburg Gate and famously demanded of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev: "Tear down this wall". By this time, however, the city, many of its inhabitants and their relationship with the Americans had changed. Reagan's visit was greeted with enthusiasm by some, but also by demonstrations and a healthy dose of scepticism.
The islanders don't want to give up their peaceful existence
For many West Berliners after the blockade and then the construction of the Wall thirteen years later, there was an island mentality, as West Berlin was seen as an island in a red sea of communism and the last bastion of Western values. Typical proof of this special brand of local patriotism was found in the song "Der Insulaner verliert die Ruhe nicht" ("The islanders don't want to give up their peaceful existence") on West Berlin radio station RIAS. Part of this defiant persistence was also a conscientious rejection of the offers of the East German government. As a result, during the blockade and later, many refused to make purchases from East Berlin shops. Some people would not even use the S-Bahn, since it was run by the East Berlin government.
Period of Unrest
In the late 60s and 70s, West Berlin was one of the strongholds of the student movement against the rigid structures of post-war society. The Vietnam War led many students to adopt a critical attitude against America which stood in sharp contrast to older West Berliners who tended to see the Allies as friends and protectors. Besides politics, the younger generation questioned the ways of private life and tried new ways. For example, Kommune 1 was founded to try to find new ways of living together. When the Senate wanted to demolish old buildings especially in Kreuzberg to make way for new high-rise buildings and wide boulevards, the houses were occupied to prevent their demolition. There were repeated clashes with the police. Over the years, many of the squatters became owners and began renovating the flats and houses. West Berlin gained notoriety as a drug capital with the 1978 publication of "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" ("We Children from Bahnhof Zoo") by Christiane F. The book, made in 1981 into a film known as "Christiane F." in English, showed the dark side of drug use, crime and prostitution under the glittering surface of the island of West Berlin.
Artists and the art of living
The artistic life flourished in West Berlin. The bourgeois district of Friedenau was well known as the home of authors such as Günter Grass and Uwe Johnson. Theatres such as the Schaubühne put on experimental pieces and created new approaches to stage productions. Many people moved to West Berlin from towns in the West that they found to be too stuffy and cramped and pursued alternative lifestyles that would have been unthinkable elsewhere in West Germany. A typical model of such alternative living was (and is) the ufaFabrik with its many cultural projects in Tempelhof. Juppy, one of its residents, has gained great notoriety well beyond Berlin.
Berlin Originals
It's now gone, but for years even after reunification, well-known German comedian and actor Harald Juhnke could be seen smiling from a now legendary advertising image for a Chinese restaurant. Harald Juhnke was one of the typical West Berlin celebrities in German film and television that shaped the image of the city, although in a very different way from Rio Reiser and David Bowie. These included Edith Hancke, Brigitte Mira, Hans Rosenthal and, of course, Rolf Eden. Then there were those that everyone knew when they saw them, even if they didn't know their names, for example, Tüten-Paula, a homeless woman living on Kurfürstendamm or the activist who would present her theories about peace with catchy slogans to a rather astonished audience.
Heroes: Berlin's music scene
There's hardly anything else for which West Berlin is still well known as its vibrant music scene and subculture because, unlike in West German cities, there was no curfew. People went out all night to Dschungel, Risiko, SO 36, Shizzo, Penny Lane, Anderes Ufer, Frontkino, Ex'n'Pop, Kumpelnest 3000. Youth from suburban Berlin also liked to visit Linientreu, Riverboat, Meadow and Big Eden, that later on mostly attracted tourists. The flamboyant star was David Bowie, who lived on Schöneberger Hauptstraße from 1976 to 1978 and recorded his legendary Heroes album in Berlin's Hansa-Studios. He also worked with Iggy Pop, who lived in the same house, to record the albums The Idiot and Lust for Life. Depeche Mode's album Some Great Reward was recorded at Hansa Studios in 1984.
The most famous district of West Berlin was and still is Kreuzberg, which was often seen as typical of the whole of Berlin. Kreuzberg, directly affected by the course of the Wall and pushed to the edge of eastern edge of West Berlin, was formerly a working class district with many, often ramshackle old buildings. It became a magnet for artists and students looking for alternative lifestyles. In addition, many migrants, mostly from Turkey, moved to Kreuzberg, which soon got the nickname "Little Istanbul".
West Berlin Today
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, not only did East Germany but also the old West Berlin disappear. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the night-life scene shifted to the east, where new clubs emerged with new styles of music. Meanwhile, the renaissance of the newly dubbed City West has begun. With the renovated BIKINI Berlin and Zoo Palast, the Cumberlandhaus and numerous new businesses, Kurfürstendamm is quickly regaining its gloss.
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PHILADELPHIA – Per judicial order, a former employee and seller of Abington Pain Medicine received full financial awards relating to court costs and pre-judgment interest, though not her full amount of requested attorney's fees.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy R. Rice said Oct. 21 plaintiff Robin Gordon was entitled to the full amounts of two of her three requested financial collections from defendants Abington Pain Medicine, Vincent J. Thompson III and Paul Edward Parker Thompson – for both court costs and pre-judgment interest, but only a partial amount of her sought attorney fees.
"I grant in part and deny in part Gordon's request. I award Gordon $2,027.15 in costs, $18,493.15 in pre-judgment interest, and $35,242.00 in attorney fees," Rice said.
"In her complaint, plaintiff sought contract and statutory liquidated damages as well as fees and costs, bringing three claims against defendants based on the promissory note, an employment agreement between the parties, as well as the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collections Law (WPCL)," Rice stated.
"Defendants object to Gordon's request for attorney fees because: (1) The only deposition in this matter lasted less than two hours; (2) Gordon produced no documents; (3) Defendants produced one 12-page set of bank records and a single page of text; and (4) The bench trial took one day," Rice said.
"With respect to the single deposition in the case that lasted less than two hours, Alan Frank billed two hours for preparation and attendance. This is not excessive," Rice said.
"With respect to Gordon's failure to produce any documents, Mr. Jordan Frank billed 1.2 hours responding to defendants' request for production of documents. Because responding to a document request requires both communication with clients and drafting, this is not excessive," Rice added.
"With respect to the limited number of documents defendants produced, I am able to find only three billing entries that include time spent reviewing documents before trial preparation began. Because reviewing documents was only part of the work described in billing entries that total 4.2 hours, this also is not excessive," Rice remarked.
Finally, Rice turned to the objection surrounding the duration of the trial.
"With respect to time spent on the trial itself, it is impossible to identify precisely when trial preparation began. However, from the time counsel began drafting pretrial memoranda until the end of trial, the Frank firm billed 30.6 hours, 11 of which were travel to and attendance at the trial itself. This also is not excessive," Rice said.
"Although Gordon's attorneys spent 1.3 hours drafting a Confession of Judgment, this has not yet been filed and did not contribute to the resolution of this case. Because those 1.3 hours of attorney time billed at $300/hour were not in furtherance of this litigation, I will reduce the lodestar amount of $44,932 by $390, to $44,542," Rice said.
Further, during the trial, Rice said that an attorney from the Frank firm "spent 1.4 hours delivering copies of documents, charging $350/hour for this work", though the documents were ultimately not used at trial.
"There was no reason to use a $350/hour attorney to do work that could have been accomplished by others. I will therefore reduce the lodestar amount by another $490, to $44,052.00," Rice said.
"In order to take into account Gordon's degree of success, I reduce her lodestar further by 20 percent, to $35,242," Rice stated.
Rice ended his analysis by awarding the full amounts of court costs ($2,027.15) and pre-judgment interest ($18,493.15) to Gordon, and a majority of her requested attorney's fees ($35,242.00).
The plaintiff is represented by Alan L. Frank in Jenkintown.
The defendants are represented by Jonathan D. Marx of Kaplun Marx, in Bala Cynwyd.


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Equinox for Everyone! Come any time, leave any time. Take note of the turn of the seasons at a Seacliff State Beach (southeast of Santa Cruz) with your new friends. This beach stays open until 10pm, and 90% of the fun is staying at the beach into the night to watch the fire. Seacliff has lovely, rustic barbecue thingies (not fire rings), semi-covered picnic tables, restrooms, drinkable water, and a wonderful Visitor Center right there.
Directions: From Highway 1 take the State Park Drive exit (NOT Park Ave.) and drive toward the ocean. The park entrance is at the end of State Park Drive.
Parking options: 1. $10 to park closest to the picnic site. The money supports the park's expenses. 2. Park out in the neighborhood above the beach for free. 3. Free parking is also available about 200 yards south at Rio del Mar State Beach, at the end of Rio Del Mar Boulevard, Aptos. Google the driving directions for that.
Picnic Area: Covered picnic tables with raised barbecues are available on a first-come basis. Alcohol is prohibited.
Visitor Center: open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday – Sunday. Exhibits include the natural and cultural history of the area, including Seacliff's cement ship, marine fossil beds, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It also has an aquarium and viewing tank with ocean creatures to see up close. Kids are fascinated with these!
Our first order of business is to snag a spot for the evening's beach event, which features a not-quite-bonfire in a nice avant-garde aerial barbecue. Getting the desired table(s) may require an obscenely early start—like before 6 a.m., depending on how many people in Northern California decide to picnic at the beach that day. Sunrise in Santa Cruz on Saturday, Sept. 23, is at a little before 7:00, by which time all tables and barbecues could be already claimed. We can't let that happen! (On the other hand, maybe all of those 15 million people will sleep late that day.)
Bring a hot beverage if you can; otherwise, we'll make a run to Marianne's Ice Cream & Cafe when they open at 6:30.
What you can bring:
Food to share
Warm clothing (dress in layers)
We're going to be there enjoying each other's company for awhile, so maybe bring a sleeping bag to accommodate a morning nap?
Parking, restrooms, and a water fountain are nearby, and a couple of restaurants are pretty close, too. The world-famous Scarlet Letter flag will fly at the chosen site so your buddies can find us.
(This is a Member Suggested Meetup (MSM). Read ACSJ's MSM policy. )
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