So you've finally decided you're going to start an online business and after doing a little research you see an article or watch a video that shares the foundational mantra "The money's in the list".
Imagine: you've literally just started on this adventure and already you've figured out a major part of the puzzle. This calls for a celebration but, being the captain of productivity that you clearly are, you decide to dive a little deeper take a look at what this whole listbuilding thing will take to pull off.
As it turns out there are a number of things you need to do well in order to build and profit from an email list and if you're not careful it could end up costing you quite the pretty penny to pull everything together.. or does it?
LeadPages currently starts at $37/month although if you pay for the entire year up front you can cut that down to $25/month. So to get the discount you'd need to plop down $300 ?
I've never used any of these services but, from what I've seen, the reviews seem to be pretty good. They appear to provide an excellent service on tools that are easy to use and if you have the budget they may well be worth the investment.
In fact many big marketers will host their sales pages on one of these services because they're already set up to handle large surges in traffic usually associated with a product launch and it can be very useful to have a dedicated support team standing by to make sure your sites stays up and live when potential customers swarm it.
If your budget is tight, these premium services may be out of your reach. This is especially true if you're just starting out and don't even understand what you need much less how to use it. fear not. There are MUCH cheaper options which I'll share as you read on.
Services like LeadPages and ClickFunnels eliminate the need to use hosting for your landing pages and sales pages but neither service is really designed to be used for blogging. This means that if you want to have your own blog or website you'll still need to set up a separate website which will of course need to be hosted somewhere.
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The solution will then be to upgrade your cheap hosting to a premium service that they offer at a much higher price. Noticing a trend here?
In order to collect email addresses on your new lead capture page you'll need an autoresponder service. This will provide a little bit of code to drop into your lead capture page so that when a visitor fills in the form and hits submit, their information is stored and they're taken to the page you promised or an email is sent with the information requested. Or both.
I've used all four of these and they all work well but there are some quirks you need to be aware of.
First of all they all have monthly fees that increase with the number of subscribers. This may seem fair since those of who email our lists regularly are using server resources each time we send emails out. However, if your list is small and you only email occasionally, your paying monthly to have this data stored. Not a good use of your hard earned funds.
Mailchimp does offer a very generous free account but of course once you hit the free subscriber limit you'll need to start paying monthly.
The other, much bigger problem is the lack of control over YOUR asset. The list you built is yours. You worked hard to build it and you may have paid a lot of money in traffic costs to get visitors to your lead capture page. In spite of this autoresponder companies can decide at any moment that they don't like your business practices and suspend your account. B the way this means you'll lose access to the email database you built.
When I was first starting out I had this happen to me. I reached out to the support team and they told me I had violated some term of service. I apologetically responded and offered to remove the offending email or make whatever change was necessary to get back into compliance with their terms but they simply gave me the cold shoulder.
Not being one to just let this go I pressed a little further and it turns out they didn't like that I sent an email offering a product for sale with an affiliate link pointing straight to a sales page so they kicked me out and I lost my list. The list I built was small but it was mine and they wouldn't let me have it. Does that seem right to you?
Thankfully after much trial and error I'm happy to say that I've found a simple, reliable and much cheaper way to get this al set up and the next few paragraphs lay it out for you below.
I build all of my websites using the free WordPress platform mainly because it's what I'm familiar with and there's an absolute ton of support and supporting products that make it super easy to use.
As great as WordPress is, it isn't really designed to create lead capture pages and sales pages. To do this you'll need to buy a page builder. Again the options abound and I've tried many of them but my favorite by an extremely high margin is a tool called Thrive Architect.
I've been using it from it first came out and was called Thrive Content Builder and I couldn't be happier. I'm no web designer but with this plugin I'm still able to whip up professional looking lead capture pages in a few minutes using the built in templates that it comes with.
The tutorials are excellent and instead of being stuck with a monthly fee you make a one time purchase and the page builder is yours for life with lifetime updates. So when they totally revamped the plugin and changed it's name to Thrive Architect it didn't cost me a dime to get the upgrade. Can I get an "Amen!"?
I'm starting with website hosting because it kills two birds with one stone. First of all the Interserver Hosting site speed is excellent and an account with unlimited websites is only $5/month. When your traffic needs increase you can switch over to their VPS hosting which starts at a whopping $6/month.
This is the cheapest option I've seen that doesn't require you to pay for a year of hosting in advance just to get a good price. I can attest to the quality of service here since I've been a happy customer for a while now.
This is definitely worth checking out (or moving to). The support staff is amazing, the service is excellent and the price is great. This one's a no-brainer people.
I know what you're thinking "Marketing automation? That wasn't on the list".
Yes and no. Mautic is what I use as my email autoresponder and it's way more powerful that services like Aweber and GetResponse since it has the ability to add tags and do a bunch of cool things that those other tools simply weren't designed to do.
Here's the kicker though. It's included in the Softaculous installer which comes with Interserver so there's no additional cost. I don't really want to say it's free because the software has to be hosted on a server, which you'd need to pay for, but since you're going to need a server to host your landing pages anyway it kinda is.
The installation is a little bit "techie" but with some patience you can get it done. I used the instructions in the video below to set it up on my server.
I currently send and receive my emails with the interserver hosting service but once my list gets bigger I will need to add an SMTP service like Amazon SES or SparkPost. I haven't tried this yet but Amazon SES is a pay as you go service so you don't pay anything if you don't use it. Sparkpost starts you out with an even more generous free account than Mailchimp and then moves up to $0.75/100 emails sent. Sounds great to me.
Once I take that plunge I'll be sure to add another blog post here to explain how it's done and how it's working out for me.
So what do you think? Did you have some options you'd like to share. Be sure to let me know in the comments below.


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1. Category prices. You must choose a price category from one of four price categories. This does not ensure an identical price in all channels, since the channels have the right to determine the final price of an product, depending on the territory and currency of a sale. The categories are indicative of the range of price you desire for each album individually.
The price categories (in the platform) are:
Budget: equivalent to an economic or the most affordable price.
Mid: equivalent to a standard or common prince in each channel.
Full: equivalent to a higher or more expensive than the standard price.
Premium: equivalent to the more expensive price.
2. Release dates. Depending on the date indicated in this section, the album will be published in the channels sooner or later. If the album is distributed previously to the release date, it will not be made public until the date indicated before the distribution. If the album is distributed after the release date, it will be directly published within the 2 to 10 work days, from its distribution.
3. License. You can choose between two main types of license, these are: Copyright or Creative Commons.
Copyright ensure a full protection of all intellectual rights for each rights' owner or holder, while Creative Commons has several types of licenses for different types of interests. For more information, go to: http://creativecommons.org/).
For publication of an album, it's required to indicate:
(C) The Copyright owner or holder, who is generally the author of the work.
(P) The sound recording owner or Publishing right's holder, who is generally the producer or record label.
In the case of groups or bands where rights are shared, the group or band name can be indicated in both cases mentioned above.
4. Territories. If you do not have publishing rights for all territories, or it is not of your interest the publication in all territories, you may indicate the desired territories in the "License" section in the platform.
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Q: Could this simple circuit charge li-ions in parallel? My goal is to design a circuit that can reliably charge 3.7V li-ion batteries in parallel for extreme high current applications (think over 100 amps).  Normally, I would just buy a cheap li-ion balance board, but I can't find one that can handle the currents in any sort of compact form.
So I designed this fairly simple charging circuit:

Since each cell caps out at 4.2V, I could just supply them all 4.2V limited to 500mA charging current. Once each battery reaches 4.2V, it stops drawing current.  This would ensure that each battery gets to 4.2V without overcharging, right?
I've never seen a battery charger designed this way, so I'm assuming it has some sort of fundamental problem.  Is there any reason why this wouldn't work?

A: Lithium batteries are dangerous.  If you look at the application circuits on the datasheets for Li charge controllers (Linear Technology, Maxim, etc.), their complexity is a direct indication of this.  Incorrect charging current can cause the batteries to burst, burst into flame, or both.
There is nothing to assure that the charging current is distributed evenly among the cells.  If your idea is that as each cell reaches 4.2 V, it stops drawing current so the 500 mA is available to the other cells, know that lithium chemistry does not behave that way
The charge scheme you describe is common for lead-acid chargers, with a very simple transition from main to float or trickle charging.  Note that those chargers usually do not have a temperature sensor strapped to the side of the battery, whereas in Li systems this is very common.  I recently rebuilt a Dustbuster-style hand vacuum.  Five Li cells in two groups, 2 and 3 batteries.  Each group has its own thermistor, and battery management is handled by a PIC microcontroller.

A: This circuit would be fairly safe for Lithium-Ion as long as the 500mA source is lower than the maximum charge current allowed of any single battery, which is usually 1C.
Although the charge speed would be very slow.
Also, it's not good for Li-battery to remain charged at full capacity, this reduces their lifetime.
Lithium-Polymer would be more tricky, make sure of what chemistry you use.

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The rare japanese Mikan mandarin orange is back
Rare mikan (mandarin oranges or tangerines) that were on the brink of extinction are once again showing up in markets in the Higashi Kishu region in Mie Prefecture, a major citrus growing area.
Mikan growers and sellers are attracted to native mikan brands as a way to differentiate themselves amid an increasing threat of further liberalization of the orange market, as Japan and the United States may start negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement. Japanese farmers fear the agreement could result in an influx of oranges from the United States that are more cost-competitive. "The number of mikan that a person can eat in a day is limited. If more oranges are imported from the United States, consumption of Japan-grown mikan will drop," said an official of an agricultural cooperative in Mihama, Mie Prefecture, which touts itself as "a town that produces mikan all year long." Japan has been conducting selective breeding of citrus fruits to make them seedless and sweet. However, such new breeds of mikan and oranges often face fierce price competition with similar varieties of imported fruit.
After Japan's orange market was liberalized as a result of trade talks with the U.S. in 1988, imported oranges were sold at half the price of domestic citrus fruit, forcing many Japanese growers to give up farming or change to different crops. Then came the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal, in which Japan agreed to eliminate tariffs imposed on citrus fruit, ranging between 16 and 32 percent depending on the season, over six to eight years, while allowing itself to impose high tariffs in the winter season — when consumption is high — if imports abruptly increase.
However, the U.S. recently announced that it will quit the TPP framework and negotiate a bilateral trade pact with Japan, which may bring even tougher demands.
Faced with the danger of a further decline in mikan farmers, the citrus industry in the Higashi Kishu region is focusing on producing unique citrus varieties to differentiate their products from imports.
Shizen Juku, a fruit shop based in Kumano, Mie, began selling bottles of mikan juice in March produced using Yatsushiro, a mikan variety the size of a pingpong ball that was grown largely on the Kii Peninsula during the Meiji Era.
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Колоду из 52 карт тасуют и раскладывают на 18 вееров: 17 по 3 карты плюс ещё одна отдельно лежащая карта.

Цель пасьянса состоит в собирании карт по масти в восходящем порядке на базовые карты — тузы, которые по мере выхода из расклада перемещаются в базовый ряд.

Разрешается перекладывать карты с одного веера на другой по масти в нисходящем порядке (например, десятку червей можно положить только на червонного валета).

Израсходованные вееры не возобновляются.

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Пасьянс сошёлся, если на тузах подобраны масти в восходящем порядке до королей.

Варианты правил
 Разрешается перекладывать карты между веерами не только по одной, но и сериями, упорядоченными по масти в нисходящем порядке.
 Тузы в начале игры выбирают из колоды и выкладывают на базы. Остальные 48 карт раскладывают на 16 вееров.
 Вариант с колодой в 36 карт: выкладываются 12 вееров по 3 карты. На базовые тузы складываются карты, начиная с шестёрки.
 Вариант с двумя колодами называется «Дом в лесу» (). В этом случае 104 карты раскладываются на 35 вееров: 34 по 3 карты и один в 2 карты. Базовыми картами являются восемь тузов, на которые складываются карты от двойки до короля.
 Также существует вариант с двумя колодами, «Дом на холме», в котором базовыми картами являются четыре туза и четыре короля разных мастей. На тузы складываются карты в восходящем порядке до королей, а на короли — в нисходящем порядке до тузов.
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Barbara « Willy » Mendes, née le , est une artiste et auteure de bande dessinée américaine. Elle est surtout connue pour ses travaux en collaboration avec Trina Robbins dans It Ain't Me, Babe et All Girl Thrills, qui l'ont rendue influente car elle fait partie des rares artistes féminines de la première heure dans le mouvement des . Elle accède à la notoriété sous le pseudonyme « Willy » mais, par la suite, elle reprend son véritable nom.

Biographie

Jeunesse et formation
Barbara Mendes naît le  1948. Elle suit les cours au lycée  à New York puis intègre l'Université de Californie à Riverside.

Carrière
Mendes déploie ses activités sur deux fronts : tout en participant aux comics alternatifs, elle expose des œuvres dans des galeries d'art aux États-Unis. Le judaïsme et le féminisme constituent des thèmes récurrents dans ses travaux.

Participations aux comix
À la fin des années 1960, après avoir obtenu son diplôme à l'université, Mendes commence sa carrière artistique dans les comics underground. Elle s'associe à Trina Robbins et Nancy Kalish pour Gothic Blimp Works, supplément de bande dessinée du périodique alternatif East Village Other. Mendes et Robbins poursuivent leur collaboration et, en 1970, elles publient It Ain't Me, Babe (comics), entièrement réalisé par des femmes. En solo, Mendes publie en 1971 Illuminations, dans un style psychédélique. Puis elle prend ses distances avec les comics pour s'adonner à la peinture sous son nom véritable. Elle estime que ses .

Carrière de peintre
Mendes réalise une peinture murale dans une synagogue à Los Angeles et cette expérience la rapproche de ses racines. Elle étudie la Torah et pratique activement le judaïsme, qui devient le moteur de sa vie et de ses créations artistiques. Elle ouvre sa propre galerie d'art à Los Angeles et peint des récits sur les thèmes de la Genèse, de l'Exode et du Lévitique. Elle élabore un style personnel pour ces « peintures épiques » en employant des couleurs vives dans des narrations visuelles pour restituer des histoires et des messages tirés de la Bible.

Publications

Comics
 , dans  #1 (Last Gasp, )
 , dans It Ain't Me, Babe (comics) (Last Gasp, )
  in Insect Fear #2 (Print Mint, )
  dans  #3 (Print Mint, )
 Plusieurs histoires dans All Girl Thrills #1 (Print Mint, 1971)
  dans Yellow Dog (comics) #23 (Print Mint, )
 , dans The Someday Funnies (Abrams, 2011) — réimpression d'un récit datant des années 1970

Participations
 It Ain't Me, Babe (comics) (Last Gasp, July 1970)
 Illuminations (1971)

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie

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Naissance en janvier 1948
Auteur de bande dessinée underground
Auteur américain de bande dessinée
Peintre américain du XXe siècle


In my Android app, there is a question like "Which of the following foods did you eat today?" (not the actual question), with a fixed list of foods (e.g. "Apples, Banana, Pizza, Burgers") from which the user can select all that apply.
Store them together in one field as delimited text. This breaks if the user changes his language setting, so it's not really an option for my app.
Use a Bitmask to convert the selection to an integer and store that in the database. Keeps the DB schema nice and simple, and makes use of android's native ability to select the right string according to the set language, but makes it practically impossible to query for a specific answer. SQL queries are simple but additional data-mangling in the app is needed.
Do a proper normalization. Bloats the database, since there has to be an answers-table for every supported language, but queries for specific answers are possible. SQL queries are more complex but reduces the need for data-mangling in the app itself.
Is there a solution I haven't thought of that's probably better?
Is there some sort of best practice or guideline regarding this sort of problem in android development?
It looks like the implementation would 'bloat' the database by creating per-language tables or additional fields per-language. This is a 'red flag' for you to look out for in the future: when adding support for another language requires table creation and having to update queries etc. then that your design is storing DATA (the language/translation target) in the database DESIGN (the table structure) when the two clearly should not mix.
Foods (LanguageId, FoodId, Name) where only a combination of LanguageId and FoodId is unique.
Selections (UserId, FoodId, Timestamp) to log who chose what and when.
That's it, you're done with minimal fuss. Processing is easy as the FoodId is per food rather than per-translation and if the user changes their language then nothing is locale specific.
Depending on your application design you could go a step further by folding the Foods table up into a wider L18N context... Something worth exploring in a multilingual application. But obviously that depends on what your real application is.


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Smarting Up The Power Grid
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Sugandh Singh
Former Correspondent, Entrepreneur India Magazine
April 30, 2017 5 min read
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Technological advancements are truly converging the world into one, connected planet where resources can be managed rationally. Just like with power. Say, on Sunday mornings, most households operate their washing machine all in the same hour, increasing the demand of power on the grid. If the grid can suggest the appliance to operate after noon, when the demand is low and even the power is cheap, it will become efficient and cost effective for the whole ecosystem. Electronics becoming smart is almost set to revamp the power sector.
The 'Internet of Things' (IoT) devices will soon be able to communicate with the smart grid on deciding the most optimal time to use energy. This connected system will give consumers, metrics on their usage, even helping them manage it well.
'POWER' PLAY
There will be $4.8 trillion in aggregate IoT investment between 2016 and 2021 as per a market report, but the advancements to make real sense in India, the power grid needs to become much more reliable. The grid needs to monitor in near real time, the demand in power and find the resources to supply it. This can be done by a smart grid that is connected, informed, automated and empowered by smart meters with the ability to communicate and manage IoT devices in the house. Thus, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is a precursor to grid modernization in India which will require heavy investments and has become a bone of contention for power utilities, most of whom are reeling under heavy debt and 'Aggregate Technical and Commercial' losses of over 30 per cent.
It is estimated that the deployment of smart meters alone in the whole of Europe and UK will require Euro 63 billion. The government in India has also set up 14 pilot smart grid projects with an outlay of 980 crore to test the cost-benefit analysis. As India aims to reach 100 percent rural electrification by 2018, grid modernization may be a very cost-intensive affair.
Reacting to the contention, Suhas Dhapare, Head- Performance and Efficiency, Tata Power, opines, "A utility has to anyhow keep spending on maintenance of the systems at regular intervals. The cost of modernization will be absorbed by the utilities over a period of time. It will also result into greater efficiency and considerable cost-saving for power distributors that will offset the cost of modernization." While the cost of modernization and AMI will be ultimately borne by the consumer, it may reflect into increased cost of power in India.
Addressing the apprehension, R.K. Verma, Chairman, Central Electricity Authority (CEA) says, "Prices of power to consumer will not increase. It is a one-time investment for utilities and the cost of production for smart meters will come down." While currently a smart meter may cost anything between 10,000-16,000 in India, A.K. Verma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India expects, "Somebody has to innovate and bring down the cost below Rs. 1000 per unit."
The start-up ecosystem in India is budding with great creativity. Yashraj Khaitan, Founder and CEO, Gram Power, a start-up in the field of providing end to end smart grids solutions in India tells, "Big companies are providing AMI solutions at rates that are not viable. An electric smart meter at that cost is useless in rural areas."
Gram Power has designed a smart meter at an affordable cost apart from many other components and controllers of a smart grid. Highlighting the business opportunities for companies in smart grids sector, Hitesh Chaniyara, Director (Power and Utilities), PwC informs, "Government has directed utilities to install smart meters for consumers consuming more than 200 unit per month by Dec 2019 and for all consumers by 2027. India is projected to invest $44.9 billion in smart metering, distribution automation, battery storage and other smart grid market segments over the next decade."
While big companies can be fiercest of competitors, another start-up in the smart grids sector which was incubated at IIM Ahmedabad believes to rather partner them than fight. Harit Soni, Co-founder, Ecolibrium Energy, says, "Big companies like Cisco and Schneider have an international experience which is very different from the on-ground reality in India.
With insight into Indian scenario, we partnered with big companies like Honeywell to provide large enterprise energy data analytics services which can help their clients to reduce power costs and manage their energy better." He adds, "The competition by start-ups in this space is limited. This is because compared to starting an e-commerce website, a start-up in the power business needs to have a domain expertise and technical ability that are the entry barriers for them."
TOWARDS CONVERGENCE
Large scale disruption has been happening in the power sector through integration of renewables, rooftops, decentralized generation and improved technologies in battery storage. "We will have no choice but to move to smart grids," says P.K. Pujari, Secretary, Ministry of Power. From technology to infrastructure, the whole ecosystem is progressing towards integration. However, utilities may face myriad problems while moving to smart grid.
Expressing the concerns of power distribution companies, Ajoy Rajani, Senior Executive Vice President, Reliance Infrastructure brings to the point, "From the utility perspective, we need an expanded ecosystem of smart meter vendors, Data plus analytics is actually useful information. There is an entire ecosystem of entities that should do data analytics beyond just billing. I think we have barely scratched the surface. Also, utilities and the market can benefit from more system integrators who will work with multiple meter vendors."
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I'm launching a summer of environmental sensor work, and I want to make sure I'm not reinventing a wheel. Given that I don't have any close collaborators at this point who are deep into sensor design and development, I'm asking the cloud for feedback and critique.
The fundamental sensing questions involve water: temperature, salinity, and depth.
There's multiple locations that we might want to investigate, and we might have different sensing desires at different locations; for example, in Casco Bay, we might not want salinity, but we absolutely need depth and temperature, while in the salt marshes of the Morse Mountain Conservation Area, we need salinity, because we're tracking the influx of tides.
We're also sensitive to cost: we'd like to have more, rather than fewer, sensors. This means that $50 enclosures are not OK. A $5 enclosure, if possible, would be lovely. Commercial-off-the-shelf salinity and temperature sensors can run anywhere from $1000 - $2500, but they're not reusable… so, strictly speaking, our budget targets are rediculously high. But, if we want to have broad sensor coverage, or engage in community-engaged environmental sensing projects, we need to get down into the tens-not-hundreds-of-dollars range for our platform.
This suggests, ultimately, the scale. We'd like to be working in the many 10s of sensor range. To scale to hundreds of sensors, we'll have to think about both the design of our electronics being amenable to automated fabrication, as well as having enclosures produced rather than to hand-made.
Our sensors should last at least 6 months without intervention. This suggests we're deploying after thaw and before freeze.
In our first target, we'd rather like real-time-ish data. However, the "ish" part means that our sensor will be underwater, and only come up once every two days. Therefore, we need local storage, and we need to squirt over the radio when we're brought to the surface. In an ideal world, we detect an extended shake (as we're pulled up from the floor of the bay), and use that as our "wake event" to indicate that we should begin firing up the radio and looking for a base station.
We think we can use a COTS WiFi to cellular bridge module on the boat. Once the sensor is up, it will be above-surface for ample time (tens of minutes) to find the base station and send its current datastore.
We expect to be recording temperature and pressure on a roughly 10-minute cycle. This is a small amount of data; we can leverage either flash/FRAM technologies for storage, or we can use something bigger (uSD), which would allow us to have a filesystem interface (but with a much larger power consumption when we wake up the uSD card to write our data). However, it would be easier to recover the data at the end of a season if we discover that we had radio issues at any point (or multiple points) during the season if it is stored on a removable medium.
We are intentionally designing our sensor electronics against our enclosure design. That is, the enclosure choices are driving design choices in the electronics.
We are envisioning our enclosure design to be based on 2" PVC. It is easily obtained, easy to assemble, easy to machine/manipulate, and easy to make waterproof. In a perfect world, we'd design against 1.5" or 1" PVC, but for our first show, we'll start with something "large enough" to be sloppy in our electronic design, but still have sensors "small enough" to be manageable.
CPU. The main board has a 328P. The 328P will run at 3.3V/8MHz, reducing part count and power consumption.
Bus Header. A 2x5 pin header will provide stackability, and through that header we will run VBATT, VREG, GND, I2C, and TWI/SPI.
ISP. A six-pad (pogo-compatible) connection for the AVR ISP.
USB-Serial. A six-pin (90˚ male) header for USB to serial.
Note: The header might rather be breadboard compatible, instead of a 2x5? For example, a 1x5 row on the "top" and "bottom" of the board? Each side would want… VBATT, VREG, GND… and then control lines. On one side, SPI, on the other, I2C? Or, duplicate everything on both sides?
Clock. A DS3231M. This has a lower part count than the non-M variant; specifically, it does not require a crystal.
Backup Battery. A CR2032 Battery.
Because the 3231 is already an I2C device, we know that, when plugged in, we can tell it to go into its deep sleep mode from the main board.
It can run off the VREG line in the bus header.
Note: How does the DS3231 wake the controller? We might have to pass a "clock wakeup" GPIO line through the header?
Because we want to be able to turn off any analog sensors connected to the stack, we drop a 328 onto this layer. It is configured to listen to the command layer, so that a sensor developer simply plugs in this layer, can issue a "AnalogSensors.wakeUp()," do a reading via "AnalogSensors.read(1)," and then tell the sensors to go back to sleep ("AnalogSensors.goToSleep()"). The 328P can source up to 40mA of current per pin, which for our sensors is more than enough (we're in the 10-20mA range per sensor), so we should be able to source the current for the sensor directly from the processor.
Although code must be developed for this layer, it is primarily implementing an I2C "API" that the command layer will use. Once stabilized, we should never have to modify the analog sensor layer's firmware, and instead can safely flash it to the board and leave it for the rest of time. If we need configurability (eg. wakeup time on a sensor, etc.), then we can expand, over time, the complexity of the firmware so we have defaults as well as reconfigurability built into the API.
Any sensing application that does not need analog sensors can, then, omit this layer of the stack.
The SparkFun OpenLog is a nice device, but pricy. Also, it stores data over serial; we need an I2C-based device to fit our stack. Ideally, we modify the OpenLog firmware, so that we can have a storage layer where we can wake up, store some data, and put the whole layer to sleep. Because the 328P is power miserly in deep sleep, we can use it (again) as an "API interface" for a common storage protocol for all storage layers.
By placing a 328P on this layer, we eliminate a great deal of code from the command layer. The command layer says "Storage.storeNext([array…])" or similar, and the driver handles squirting everything over I2C to the storage layer. If we develop the API reasonably, then the command layer can be ignorant of whether we are storing to a uSD or to a flash chip or FRAM. In short, we should be able to store sequential sensor readings easily, without worrying the developer about the particular medium they are storing to.
These abstractions will, ultimately, be limiting. But, they will be flexible abstractions. We can always improve the API running on the storage layers. For example, should a developer be able to issue a single command to "Storage.storeNextWithTimestamp([array…])", or should the programmer be responsible for first getting a timestamp, combining it into a structure for storage, and then sending that to the storage layer? While not yet designed/decided, it is nice to know that these abstractions can be built, and the ultimate goal (of being able to quickly, reliably, program low-power environmental sensors) can be achieved.
Note: The voltage regulator should be one that has an ENABLE line. This way, the 328P can be used to enable/disable power to the uSD card.
We can go one of two ways on this board: it can have a listener and an ESP8266, or it can have just an ESP8266. The ESP8266 will drop into a reasonably low-power mode, but it is not as miserly as the 328P. As a result, we may want the intermediary, where the "wakeUp()" command will first wake the 328P, and it will then power up the ESP826.
If we must, we can use an ESP8266-01 module (with the six-pin header), or we can use a 12-E/F (and surface mount it). In other words, we could design this layer incrementally… one where we can prototype with a component we can plug in, and then evolve the design to one that we solder directly onto the board. There may be some question of using an external antenna… which would need to be inside the enclosure, but it could be done regardless.
Note: When we want to send data, how do we do it? Does the radio retreive everything since last send? Does the storage layer have "get everything since last transmission" API call? Or, does the controller have to shuffle everything from the storage, to the radio, and keep track of these things? In short, how smart is the stack? It would be nice to be able to say "Radio.transmitNewData()", and it would handle talking to the storage layer (we would hand it an I2C address at setup), get the data, and send it. This suggests the storage layer has "Storage.getNewData()", and it knows which datapoints are considered "new," because it maintains an internal pointer that is updated everytime this is invoked. (We should also be able to "getNewDataPointer()" and similar.) Ideally, though, we can either squirt data directly at the radio from the controller, or the controller can hand off the issues of getting all of the data and sending it, so that the control code looks simple, and the complexity is implemented (once, and correctly) in the interface to all Radio and Storage layers.
Using the above board as examples, we also imagine boards that might have flash or FRAM for storage, boards where we connect I2C-based sensors, a power distribution board (where we have a voltage regulator and battery connections), and… so far, that might be it.
For this project, it allows students to cut their teeth on circuit design one wafer at a time. Instead of trying to design a single board with everything on it, we design multiple boards that each do just one thing. This makes gives students the opportunity to design or revise wafers in (conceptual) isolation, as well as provide an ongoing source of projects. If we decide to scale down to 1.5" or 1" PVC, then we have a whole redesign process… but, can do it piecewise.
The stackable/wafer approach is also nice from a programming perspective; any board that has a local listener will be written to receive I2C messages, and do things in response. This makes the state machines for each wafer simpler to write: sleep, wake, process message, go back to sleep.
The individual wafers have no intelligence in the context of the overall sensor, which means we can develop and test each wafer's API, have confidence in that wafer, and then integrate it into the sandwich stack. "Unit testing" of individual wafers is a huge win for this kind of application.
The controller is also interacting over a common protocol, and we can create small OO wrappers, so that we have a common API across all objects. Every board, for example, should have a "goToSleep()" method. We then develop the driver code so that where there are differences, we simply don't care. That is, we call "Clock.goToSleep()" to put the DS3231 to sleep, even if that is actually a different set of I2C commands than if we put a storage layer to sleep; in either case, we invoke the "goToSleep()" method.
It is also designed for the enclosure. This is a problem with many COTS boards: they are designed as hobbyist boards that are breadboardable, but they are not designed for low power/extended battery usage, and they are not designed for a particular enclosure system. Here, we settle on PVC, and design against the constraints of a cylindrical enclosure.
We can reuse code from similar projects (Rocketscream's low-power library, the OpenLog firmware may serve as a starting point for our storage layer), and we stay in the Arduino ecosystem with the lowest-power chip in that ecosystem.
It would be nice to be able to buy Adafruit Feathers, design against the Feather "standard," and be done. However, Feathers are not designed for low power usage. So, we could pick the standard, but we would be in a position of designing all new boards.
That said… Feathers are open source. Therefore, we could take (say) the 328P board, rip off anything we don't want, and then use it.
But, we would need to 3D print a harness that held the Feathers at an angle to fit in the board, or run them along the central axis… and, then, we would have limited-or-no stackability. This eliminates the benefits of the Feather as a formfactor.
Quiic (from Sparkfun) has no way to control power on each board. There's no form-factor standard. There's no clear way to mount them in a given enclosure. If we use PVC, we will end up with a mess of boards wired to each-other, which feels… messy. It lacks support for SPI, which may (for some sensors) be critical to our applications. There is no provision for GPIO signaling if we absolutely need it.
Grove has similar drawbacks to Quiic, but lacks the commitment to a single protocol.
We have to design everything.
We have to develop the API, and write all of the code.
We aren't starting with a CircuitPython-compatible CPU. It would be really nice to design with the SAMD21 or SAMD51, but… with limited experience, and unknown library support, this could lead us into a space where we're doing more embedded software engineering with students new to embedded design than we like. We can always transition over time; because we are designing against an I2C API, we can (for example) replace the controller board with a CircuitPython-ready CPU, and program it in Python, and still have the same abstractions.


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Are you admonishing one another?
When we're admonishing one another the right way, it shows love.
To admonish someone, in love, means you want to help them avoid something that can harm them or take them somewhere they shouldn't go. Another dictionary definition says it can mean to "advise or urge earnestly". Like when you tell a drunk friend he's not gonna drive home. You admonish him or her to hand over the keys. And if you truly love your friend, you admonish him or her to never get drunk again.
Have you ever admonished someone? Or have you ever been admonished? I've been on both sides of it. And it was actually good from both perspectives. It's an opportunity to grow. And isn't every looking for and opportunity to grow and expand these days?
Christians should have no problem admonishing one another.
And the more like Jesus we are, the less admonishing needs to be done. It's a pretty simple formula. Be like the One who made you. Love Him, and you're probably gonna love your neighbor. And loving your neighbor means some things are not OK.
That's all I'm gonna say about it right now because I like to keep simple things simple. I hope you'll take it in the spirit it's given and get out there and start admonishing one another. Only when needed. Sound good?
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Crew-2 by SpaceX
Photos from the Crew 2 launch
The Tesla Model X carrying Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur passing the Vehicle Assembly Building as the #Crew2 crew travels to LC-39A.(Photo credit: Michael Seeley / National Geographic)
At 5:49 am (EDT) Friday, the Crew-2 mission successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and historic LC-39a seen here in a 30-second exposure captured from 5 km west of the pad. The mission sent astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Aki Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet to orbit on their way to the International Space Station.
Captured with a sound-activated camera left overnight at Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A, this is a close-up of the Crew-2 SpaceX Falcon9 rocket. The "9" refers to the 9 Merlin rocket engines, which generate 1.7 million pounds of thrust, more than enough to carry astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Aki Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet to orbit on their way to the International Space Station. The Friday 5:49 am (EDT) launch was the first time a previously-flown Falcon 9 booster was used for a crewed mission, and the Crew Dragon capsule has flown previously as well.
Photo credit Michael Seeley / National Geographic
Rocket Rorschach test: What do you see in the (amazing) plume from the #SpaceX #Crew2 launch? This was the view of the 2nd stage, illuminated by the rising Sun, 6-mins after launch; one of the coolest launches I've seen.
At 5:49 am (EDT) Friday, the Crew-2 mission successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and historic LC-39a seen here in a 326-second exposure captured from 5 km west of the pad. The mission sent astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Aki Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet to orbit on their way to the International Space Station. As the Crew Dragon flew east, the down-range streak glowed bluish-white from sunlight catching the second stage rocket plume. Photo credit: Michael Seeley / National Geographic
Captured with a sound-activated camera left overnight at Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A, this is a close-up of the Crew-2 SpaceX Falcon9 rocket. The "9" refers to the 9 Merlin rocket engines, which generate 1.7 million pounds of thrust, more than enough to carry astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Aki Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet to orbit on their way to the International Space Station. The Friday 5:49 am (EDT) launch was the first time a previously-flown Falcon 9 booster was used for a crewed mission, and the Crew Dragon capsule has flown previously as well.
Exploding head = me, watching the downrange plume from the #SpaceX #Crew2 second stage. This was the view roughly 7-mins after the #Falcon9 left the pad. This was a seriously pretty launch.
With the recently emptied LC-39a in the foreground, this frame from the #SpaceX launch at T+7 mins shows two downrange streaks: 1. The 2nd stage pushing the #CrewDragon to orbit 2. The #falcon9 1st stage, returning for re-use This launch=🤯🤯🤯; unlike any I've seen.


A report in 2015 by the New York Times accidentally reveals the truth, however. (RELATED: Trump's 'Zero Tolerance' Immigration Policy Isn't New – Obama Did the Same Thing).
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The Art of Food
In the August 2017 issue of Cornwall Life magazine you can find an intriguing article on the art of food.
Chef Valerie Fabbretti and creative Sara Baistrocchi have been inspired by the art of John Dyer and his famous painting held at the Falmouth Art Gallery called 'Gateway to Cornwall'.
The art dinner live experience is being developed by this creative team and the article in Cornwall Life explores John Dyer's vibrant painting through the use of food and in particular a summer fruits tart.
"John Dyer has a natural inclination to simplicity and his works are all genuine and pure glimpses of a positive and colourful reality. At the same time he approaches every subject with great ingenuity and brio, creating elaborated and multiform pieces. His style is quite naïve, fresh and vibrant."
Valerie has taken these aspects of John Dyer's work and used it to inspire his latest culinary art dinner creation.
"To match these aspects of John Dyer's work and in particular the elements in the selected piece, Gateway to Cornwall, we have chosen a Summer Fruits Tart. There are many reasons for it. The first one is related to the variety and richness of colours in both, the tart and the painting. It is a connection that, although seems evident, it's in fact not so obvious. The palette selections are actually quite different and the diversity of chromatic choices is clearly visible. In both we can find a great variety of colours though, all very lively and vibrant. This helps convey a radiant sense of movement, even more highlighted in the picture by the fireworks, the shape of the palm trees and the flowers, all things that contribute to create a sparkling and dynamic image."
"From a flavour point of view, the blueberries, strawberries and kiwi, although mainly sweet, have all a sour hint that is balanced in the Summer Fruits Tart by the luscious homemade custard and by the smooth sweetness of the banana slices and grapes. Texturewise the Tart is a complex and multifaceted combination of consistencies: there is the delicate but firm texture of the fruits, blended with the creaminess of the custard, all nestling over a crunchy but crumbly and friable shortbread base. This bottom layer is characterised, from a flavour point of view, by the smooth and buttery fragrance of the biscuit. It is a composite combination of textures and flavours, multi-layered and interesting, that makes the palate smile."
John Dyer says this about his work.
"Imagine if all the colour, if all the shapes, if all the emotion, if all the fun, if all the joy and if all the love you feel could be captured for a moment to remember for all time. This is the power of a painting. This is the power of a painting that captures what a place feels like." John Dyer
Sara adds "This is exactly what a recipe does too, transposing the concept to a different sensory level: it is a combination of joy, enthusiasm and optimism for life translated into flavours."
If you would like to experience The Art Dinner live, adding the sense of hearing to it too, you can look out for the next Art Dinner night on the Falmouth Art Gallery website www.falmouthartgallery.com
Explore John Dyer's work further at https://www.johndyergallery.com/
For the full article please see Cornwall Life magazine.
John Dyer is supporting animal charity 'Born Free' with two limited edition prints donated to their online auction to raise funds for orangutans. Founded in 1984, the charity works tirelessly to ensure that all wild animals, whether living in captivity or in the wild, are treated with compassion and respect. Funds raised from the auction will go to support the Orangutan Foundation and the vital work with orangutans in Borneo.
Wedding anniversaries are celebrated with a range of gifts linked to a series of categories. In the UK and the USA these vary slightly and wherever you look for lists you will find differences in the exact materials that are associated with the particular number of years being celebrated, but in most cases we think that art fits the bill.
Artist Joanne Short has been working with Visit Somerset to inject a dash of art to their latest publicity. Something to look forward to later in the year, once travel restrictions are hopefully eased a little as Coronavirus is taken under control, are the wonders of the Somerset landscape and many attractions.


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A Day of Service: Celebrating MLK Day
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Every third Monday of January, the nation celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth and service of racial and economic equality. This year, the holiday falls on what would have been King's 89th birthday.
MLK Day was first observed in 1986, and, in 1994, Senator and civil rights leader John Lewis of Georgia sponsored the King Holiday and Service Act, making the holiday one to encourage people to volunteer in their communities.
The Corporation for National and Community Service says the holiday : "[…] calls for Americans from all walks of life to work together to provide solutions to our most pressing national problems. The MLK Day of Service empowers individuals, strengthens communities, bridges barriers, creates solutions to social problems, and moves us closer to Dr. King's vision of a 'Beloved Community.'"
The All for Good website has a list of volunteer opportunities.


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Home Health Care Researchers have developed a way to grow human heart tissue
Researchers have developed a way to grow human heart tissue
Researchers have developed a way to grow human heart tissue that can serve as a model for the upper chambers of the heart, known as the atria.
The tissue, derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPCSs), beats, expresses genes, and responds to drugs in a manner similar to a real human atrium.
The model, described November 8 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, may be useful for evaluating disease mechanisms and drugs for atrial fibrillation—the most common type of arrhythmia.
In contrast to standard 2-D culture, the stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes were cultured in a way that they formed 3-D beating heart tissue resembling atrial heart muscle.
Specifically, the cells showed atrial-like gene expression, contractile force, contraction and relaxation kinetics, electrophysiological properties, and pharmacological responses to atrial-selective drugs.
According to the authors, the engineered heart tissue could serve as a model of the human atrium for both mechanistic studies of atrial fibrillation and for preclinical drug screening.
"This is the first time that human atrial heart tissue has been generated in vitro from a principally unlimited source of hiPSCs," says first author Marta Lemme of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
"This could be useful both for academic laboratories and the pharmaceutical industry, because to test potential new drugs, we need to generate an in vitro model of atrial fibrillation.
And the first step in that is to obtain cells that resemble human atrial cardiomyocytes," Lemme says.
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Atrial-like human heart tissue, derived from stem cells and cultured in 3D, as it beats. Credit: Lemme et al. / Stem Cell Reports
Lemme and senior study author Thomas Eschenhagen of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf set out to achieve this goal by generating atrial-like cardiomyocytes from hiPSCs using a vitamin A metabolite called all-trans retinoic acid.
This technique involves genetically reprogramming blood or skin cells taken from human donors to an embryonic stem-cell-like state and then treating these immature cells with all-trans retinoic acid to convert them into atrial-like cardiomyocytes.
"But the novelty of this study is the combination of hiPSC differentiation into atrial cardiomyocytes with a 3-D environment," Lemme says.
"In fact, we showed that the 3-D environment favors the differentiation toward an atrial phenotype compared to standard 2-D culture.
A particular value of our study is the direct comparison of our 3-D engineered heart tissue with native human atrial tissue obtained from patients on a molecular and functional level."
More than 33 million people worldwide suffer from atrial fibrillation, and the prevalence is rising.
Uncoordinated high-frequency contractions in the atria increase the risk for blood clots, stroke, and heart failure. Unfortunately, existing treatments such as antiarrhythmic drugs have limited efficacy and can cause adverse effects.
Moreover, the development of new drugs has been hindered by the difficulty in isolating and maintaining human atrial cardiomyocytes, or heart muscle cells. Animal models have limited predictive power because they do not accurately represent the physiology of human cardiomyocytes.
"These atrial muscle strips represent a great opportunity to model atrial fibrillation in the dish and test drugs," Lemme says.
"Nevertheless, improvements can still be made to reach even higher similarity with the human atrial tissue. For us, the next step is to test various means to induce arrhythmias, study mechanisms of electrical remodeling of atrial fibrillation and test new potential drugs."
More information: Stem Cell Reports, Lemme et al.: "Atrial-like Engineered Heart Tissue: An In Vitro Model of the Human Atrium" https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(18)30431-4 , DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.10.008
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The late Pablo Escobar, former boss of the Medellin drug cartel, left, is shown with his wife, Victoria Henau Vallejos, right, and son while attending a soccer match in this undated file photo in Colombia.
The late Pablo Escobar's brother, Roberto De Jesus Escobar Gaviria, just released the digital currency and he's promising it will offer a faster and lighter alternative to Bitcoin.
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According to their website, Escobar Gaviria's company Escobar Inc. is currently running an initial coin offering (ICO), where users can buy the token at a 96 per cent discount: down to US$2 from US$50.
Global News spoke to Escobar Gaviria about the motivation behind the new cryptocurrency.
"The American government through the CIA tried to infiltrate Escobar Inc. I have published proof that the American government created the bitcoin. Los gringos Americanos (the Americans) will sell all their coins and completely ruin the bitcoin. This is why I created Dietbitcoin, for the people. A better version for the people," Escobar Gaviria said.
Escobar Gaviria's book titled, Pablo Escobar's Dietbitcoin, explains why he joined the cryptocurrency industry. He further explains why he believes that Bitcoin was created by the American government.
According to the Dietbitcoin website, Dietbitcoin has a total supply of 1,000,000 DDX that will be split into three separate sales: 300,000 DDX will be sold at US$50 (currently discounted to UA$2 ), another 300,000 will go for US$100 a coin, and the remaining 400,000 will be priced at US$1,000 during a final ICO round.
When asked if he feels that he and his family have experienced more fame and more people reaching out to them because of the popularity of Netflix's show Narcos, Escobar Gaviria shared his thoughts.
"We were famous before the Reed man who made Netflix was a teenager. Frank Sinatra used to call us for cash almost every week, he was desperate. We did not even know he was famous until we went to a show of his in Las Vegas. I have been famous since I was born. The Escobar family name is the most famous in the world," Escobar Gaviria told Global News.
Escobar Gaviria is currently demanding US$1 billion from Netflix, with claims that the show wasn't authorized to use his brother's likeness and story. He founded Escobar Inc., one year before Narcos premiered and filed for "successor-in-interest-rights" for his brother in the state of California.
"Everyone should listen to these news, go to www.dietbitcoinICO.org and buy as many dietbitcoins as you can afford, the value will be very high as we are identical in numbers to Bitcoin, except we are 4,000 times cheaper right now," says Reitberg.
Escobar Gaviria used to be the accountant responsible for managing over $200 billion in cash revenues for the Medellín cartel which he founded with his brother and he was also at one point the chief of the hitmen. In 1993 Escobar Gaviria was arrested and imprisoned, at which point he was injured in a letter bomb attack that left him half blind and half deaf. Since his release from prison, he has authored several articles, books, patents and is a co-founder of Escobar Inc.


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Q: Memory usage optimization: High JVM memory but low execution and storage memory? I'm running a spark application. After the spark application is finished, when I check the executor section in spark log:

First row is the driver and the second row is the executor. From my understanding, please correct me if I am wrong, the memory on-heap in executor is mainly divided by the 3 parts:

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*Reversed memory: memory reserved for system and is used to store Spark's internal objects, around 300 MB.

*User memory: memory for the user-defined data structures / functions / metadata etc.

*Spark memory: memory share for both storage and execution

If this is correct, I don't understand why even the peak execution and storage memory on-heap of the executor are low, also there is no big user-defined class or UDF in the application, the peak JVM memory on-heap of executor is very high in both spark log and utilization log when I check in Grafana (~6.27 GiB).
Back to my questions:

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*Is my understanding of the memory on-heap correct?

*If my understanding is correct, why the peak JVM memory on-heap is so high?

*How can I do the memory optimization in this case? It seems that both execution and storage memory not high.

Thank you so much for your help.
P.S: I am using Spark 3.2.1 and Delta Lake 1.2.0 on K8S deployed on EC2, 2 instances with 8 core 16 RAM, 1 instance for the driver and 1 instance for the executor. 1 core and 4g memory is used for driver and 5 core and 8g memory is used for executor.

A: I found out that this peak JVM memory on-heap will be varied based on the driver and executor memory configuration, although I still can't find the relationship or why the peak JVM memory on-heap is so high.
In fact the transformation doesn't require such high memory, when you lower the memory resource of the spark application, its peak JVM memory on-heap will be lower too.