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As a team everyone works closely together to ensure that you receive the best possible service. With all of our engineers fully qualified in their chosen field, each member of the team prides themselves on their professionalism, reliability, knowledge, friendly and respectable approach to each and every job that we undertake.
In addition to this all of our engineers are CRB registered to give you complete piece of mind.
David is the founder and managing director of Datel Electrical Ltd, having started the business in 2002. David has considerable experience in the electrical industry and is dynamic and forward thinking. He has carefully recruited a team of like-minded professionals to compliment his skills. David plays squash and loves travelling in his VW camper.
Joe joined the company at the end of 2012 and has come from an operations management background in the steel industry.
Joe manages the office and looks after the day to day operations of the business. He has recently driven across America and is a keen banjo player.
Jon Sword
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Outside of work, Jon loves playing football and is a passionate Newcastle United fan.
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Other than David, Peter has been with the company the longest. Peter has a wealth of experience in electrical contracting and is particularly skilled in commercial and industrial systems.
Peter's customer service skills are second to none and is often requested personally to carry out work. Pete also has a VW camper.
Dean Angell
Dean is an experienced electrical engineer and has worked for a variety of companies all around the country. He is particularly skilled at domestic electrical wiring and is very popular with all of our customers.
Dean is a very accomplished darts player and has won a considerable number of trophies.
Tsvetan Dzharov
Sam is the most recent member of the team to qualify as an electrician and has learnt a lot since joining Datel. He likes radio controlled drones and loves his car!
He also makes the coffees in the morning without being asked!
Jordon Veale
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Jordon is the newest member of the Datel team and has settled in very well. Outside of work, Jordon is also a keen motocross rider and competes at weekends.
He has still to learn how to make a decent cup of coffee from Sam…


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These Are the 50 Best Places in America for Starting a Business
Posted on January 11, 2019 by Martha Schmitt
By: Michelle Cheng
Whether you're an entrepreneur plotting to launch a startup or a CEO strategizing where to put another office, knowing where the next hot city is would be a game changer. Should you expand to Raleigh? Would you attract better talent in Austin or Atlanta? With the new Surge Cities Index, Inc. and innovation policy company Startup Genome crunched the data to score and rank the top 50 metro areas in the U.S. on seven key indicators–from early-stage funding metrics to job creation. Finally, here's the smartest way to answer the age-old question: Where should you go next?
No. 45 – DETROIT
With the highest density of engineers in the country, Detroit is reinventing itself by leading the next mobility boom.
Autonomous-car hardware. Sensors. Lidar. Chances are, if there's something that has to do with mobility, a startup in Detroit has touched it. Motor City is knee-deep into its transportation reinvention: May Mobility, a spinout from the University of Michigan, builds autonomous shuttles and operates a route in downtown Detroit. Roush Industries built 150 of the self-driving cars for Waymo. Last year, PlanetM Landing Zone launched to connect mobility startups like Lyft and Mapbox with Detroit's traditional automotive industry. And accelerator Techstars Mobility, founded in 2014, has deployed $67.4 million in venture funding, with two exits under its belt, including the sale of ridesharing startup SPLT to Bosch this year. With Michigan's having the highest density of engineers in the country–and the highest concentration of those employed in Detroit's Wayne County–it's no wonder the majority of VC money getting poured into the city ends up in mobility and IT.
–Michelle Cheng
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Michigan's Growing Startup Culture and Venture Capital Activity on the Rise
By Audrey LaForest
All businesses had to start somewhere. For some entrepreneurs, those first ideas were last-minute light bulbs that went off in their heads and came to life on bar napkins, the backs of hands or in a dream. No matter how the idea came to fruition, it more than likely required investments for those businesses to sprout from risky ideas to established companies.
In Michigan, venture capital activity is on the rise, creating an important opportunity for investors and startups, especially in areas of automotive IT and next-generation mobility. In the third quarter of 2016, the state saw $118.8 million invested in 18 deals, ranking Michigan 17th nationally, according to an October report by the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook, a venture capital database.
Nationally, the number of venture capital firms has decreased by 14 percent, according to the Michigan Venture Capital Association's 2016 annual report. In Michigan, that number has grown by 257 percent over the last 15 years.
"A significant part of Michigan's growth has been due to the amount of investment venture capitalists can attract from outside the state," said Maureen Miller Brosnan, executive director of the Michigan Venture Capital Association.
Every dollar invested in a startup by a Michigan venture capital firm, Brosnan said, attracts an additional $4.31 of investment from outside the state.
DRIVING INVESTMENTS
"There's a real possibility that startups and venture capital can be a really key industry in Michigan. It's consistently growing right now, and it's attracting some world-class talent," said Ted Serbinski, managing director of Techstars Mobility, a Detroit-based startup accelerator program focused on next-generation mobility technologies.
Techstars has invested in 22 companies since it was launched here in 2015. Among its investments is ride-share startup SPLT, which relocated from New York City to Detroit last year and is providing a sustainable solution to congested weekday commutes by offering companies a way for their employees to share the ride to work; and Lunar, another startup that relocated from NYC to Detroit that is offering a new kind of smartphone with no monthly bills.
At Fontinalis Partners, a Detroit-based venture capital firm founded in 2009, co-founder and partner Chris Thomas said Michigan's combination of people, intelligence and history are three factors impacting the state's steady growth in venture capital and startups.
"We have a strong venture capital community. We have a strong and growing entrepreneurial community, and we have fantastic people," Thomas said. "We have some of the best engineers in the world. We have some of the best workers in the world, and we have this amazing opportunity to give them the chance through funding from companies like ours to go out and develop and achieve their dreams."
Fontinalis, which is strictly focused on investing in companies that provide solutions for next-generation mobility, has funded big names like Lyft and continues to see opportunity in Detroit's automotive and mobility ecosystems. The firm also has investments in Karamba Security, a startup that is protecting connected cars from cyberattacks.
"We have something very special to offer here because — for better or for worse — Detroit is the largest transportation technology cluster in the world … larger than Silicon Valley," Thomas said.
FUELING JOB GROWTH
As venture capital investments continue to grow, startups are becoming the state's most promising job creators.
"Startup companies and the venture capitalists that invest in them to fuel their growth bring increased employment of highly educated workers, utilize service providers like attorneys and accountants, and lease office space to support operations," said Tony Grover, managing director at RPM Ventures, a seed and early-stage venture firm founded in 2000 with offices in Ann Arbor and Silicon Valley.
The company has invested in startups like Automatic, a company that is connecting cars on the road to the internet via an app and plug-in car adapter that can diagnose "check engine" codes, give driving feedback and track mileage.
Startups may begin as small, high-risk endeavors, but "their goal is to build industry-defining businesses," Grover added.
"Companies like Intel, Apple, Amazon and Facebook all started with a dream of a founder that was then backed by venture capital investment to lead an industry," he said. "Each of these companies now employs tens of thousands of employees, providing direct and indirect economic benefits to the cities and states in which they reside."
Audrey LaForest is a metro Detroit freelance writer.
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More tales from Portland's addressing history
February 9, 2021 By Doug in Neighborhood History Tags: Annexation, Ramona, Readdressing, Woodstock	7 Comments
We've been focused lately on a property in Southeast Portland's Woodstock neighborhood, which has provided some fresh perspectives on aspects of Portland history we haven't bumped into directly while working in the central eastside. Things like the dynamics of annexation, lots of different privately-owned infrastructure, and multiple waves of readdressing.
AH readers already know all about the major readdressing initiative in the early 1930s that literally re-made the Portland map. The Great Renumbering clarified things for most Portlanders (particularly postal employees), but not everyone was thrilled. One feature of the readdressing ordinance required all north-south streets be numbered, not named. That's how we lost Glenn, Marguerite, Vernon and others, though the names can still be seen set into many curbs.
We've always been impressed with the residents of NE Vernon Avenue who continued to use the name of their street for more than a decade after the city changed it officially to NE 14th Place. Many living on that six-block stretch between Prescott and Killingsworth didn't want to lose their local identity and continued to tell the world they lived on NE Vernon well into the 1940s. Place names are important, after all.
But we digress. Out in Woodstock, some of their streets have known three different names:
The one that came with the plat, and in Woodstock they all had names out of Sir Walter Scott's romance fiction set in 17th Century Oxfordshire (Waverly, Kenilworth, Ivanhoe, Everard, Wildrake);
Those that came after Woodstock's annexation in 1909, which randomly replaced some of the Oxfordshire repertoire and turned all the east-west streets to numbers (yes, you read that right…we'll come back to this with a map in a moment);
And then the ones that came along as a result of the wider readdressing wave of the early 1930s.
We were delving into a property on today's SE Ramona, which started out as High Street on the 1889 plat, became 58th Avenue Southeast by 1915, and then became the Ramona we know in 1932.
Today, most Portlanders take their numbered north-south streets for granted and can quickly orient themselves to the Willamette knowing that on NE 24th Avenue they are 24 blocks east of the river (plus or minus).
But by 1915, all of southeast Portland's east-west streets south of Division were assigned numbers as names and called "avenues," counting south from Ankeny (north-south roads were called "streets"). Also of note, most of the east-west streets north of Division stuck with their names because they had an established named counterpart on the west side of the river.
So today's SE Ramona was Fifty-eighth Avenue Southeast (that was the nomenclature, with the ordinal direction written out at the end of the phrase).
Here, have a look at the 1915 Pittmon's Guide map to Portland. We've detailed a chunk of Southeast that illustrates this east-west avenue phenomenon.
1915 Pittmon's Guide to Portland, detail showing SE Portland from Powell Valley Road to Duke. Click to enlarge.
Just when folks were getting used to the New York-style of numbered streets and avenues, the Great Renumbering came along and put an end to all of that. Readdressing took place through several city ordinances passed over time in the early 1930s, each one cleaning up a few details missed from the last one.
Here's a story from the Oregon Journal in 1932: take note there were 66 changes to be made in southeast Portland, but Alameda and Beaumont had some clean up to do as well. It's an interesting idea that addressing systems could be in vogue or out of vogue.
From the Daily Oregon Journal, December 11, 1932.
That's a little piece of Portland's addressing history we didn't know before our deep dive in the southeast: east-west avenues with the directional at the end of the address once gridded that part of town.
We'll save other insights for future posts:
How before annexation a myriad of privately-owned water systems were elbowing each other for business and access to Bull Run water (Woodstock was on a private well for many years).
Same for Portland's streetcar system, which really wasn't a single system but a collection of competing fiefdoms for many years until consolidation began in 1904.
And annexation, those neighborhood politics were as polarized as possible: some public meetings devolved into shouting matches, the rhetoric related to taxes and the role of government. In Woodstock, even after the November 1908 61-percent victory for annexation, the anti-annexers challenged the vote all the way to the Oregon Supreme Court where it was affirmed and Woodstock became part of Portland on July 1, 1909.
2-13-2021 Post Script: We've posted a link to the full 1915 Pittmon map, which is now on our Maps page. Embedded in that map is a statement that highlights the challenges presented by the pre-1930s address system. This official map advice relates to getting around in North Portland:
Extreme care must be exercised in this district as the streets having E. and W. prefixes are more nearly north and south. While streets having "N" and "S" prefixes are more nearly east and west.
Nearly funny if it wasn't absolutely true.
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JimW says:
Nice piece but I would dispute your claim that the Streetcar system was unified. Just like the private water and sewage systems, streetcar lines were often constructed by Developers with little thought how they would work with the broader system or be maintained.
Oh, to be clear Jim, they were far from unified.
The folks in Woodstock put out bids and hired a company from Massachusetts that had never been to Portland to build and run their line. Developers all across the eastside did indeed pay to build their own lines because they knew access meant sales, including the Broadway Streetcar line that served Irvington and Alameda. At one point in Portland there were too many different companies to count. Here's a nice reference that paints that picture. "System" doesn't mean unified.
The sewer wars were another example of public interest vs. private infrastructure. Here's a piece that takes a close look at Alameda's sewer system (and its attempt to have a free ride on the trunk sewer that other developers paid to build).
Things we take for granted today were big-time bones of contention back in the day.
I live on SE Ramona in a house that was built in 1890. I knew of it being 58th st before Ramona from Sanborn maps but now I'm super intrigued by it being High ST before that. Can't wait to see what treasures await in the online newspaper database with another address to search. I've been trying to find pictures of the house before it was lifted for a basement and remodeled in the late 40's. I want to restore the front to its original glory. Thanks for putting this together!
It's kind of a shame they didn't follow the NW's lead and use the alphabet for those SE streets, or at least keep some of the more romantic names, sigh. Pardee ,Duke, Harold, Rural, and most of the others are not that inspiring. At least Nehalem was a nod to native nomenclature, I guess.
And ONE Alameda would have been just fine.
Loved this article, which was posted to NextDoor. Going to try to find a direct source for it so I can delve in. My house is on SE Mitchell. I know it was built in 1908 or possibly 1909, and I know from curb stamps that the names of streets have changed at least once, but this – this gives me lots of clues to start digging! Thanks. 🙂
What do the hash marks on the sides of some of the blocks in the 1915 map indicate? Trees?
Hi Igor. Thanks for dropping by. This is a very good question, which is not addressed on the map legend (I've posted the entire map which you can view in high resolution and download from my Maps page here.
I don't think it indicates trees. My hunch is that it has something to do with either the surface of the street, or with the presence of un-built lots on the indicated blocks.
I've had a look at many other Pittmon maps, including ones from this era, in search of a legend explanation but no luck. Will keep mulling this question, and welcome insights from others who might know.


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Developer: Blackeye Software
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System Requirements: Windows XP
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One of our favourite photos, and certainly the photo we get the most comments about, is the image above. It captures everything that Their Beautiful Game is about – a boy with his ball, home made goals on a makeshift pitch, the white wall behind splattered with marks. The photo was taken as we were on our way to running an afternoon coaching session with Nimobi FC – a girl's football club in a slum district of Accra, Ghana in 2012. As we walked through the backstreets we came across the boy who was playing with a ball that was missing panels, others loosely re-stitched to hold it together, the leather completely worn and scuffed. We watched as he played with the ball, dribbling past imaginary defenders before shooting into the small goals made with a mixture of wood and concrete piping. Sometimes he scored, sometimes he missed, but for all intents and purposes as far as he was concerned, he could've been playing at the Nou Camp, Wembley or the Maracana. After we'd finished our coaching session, we walked back the way we'd come and even though it was early evening, the boy was still there, the dribbling still happening, the goal still standing, the ball still somehow miraculously functioning. We had a few balls of our own, so we asked him if he would like one. It was one of many magical moments that we've had at Their Beautiful Game as the boy told us that he'd never had a "real ball" before. As a street child, he slept behind the wall in the photo, which is a derelict building with no roof that backs out onto wasteland. He talked us through how he'd built the goals – where he'd found the materials, how he repairs them and keeps his pitch free of as much debris as possible. He then asked if he could have his photo taken and have us show it to him. He stood proudly in front of his goals. Ball at his feet. He saw the image on the screen of the digital camera (the first time he'd had his picture taken), but we were never able to get a photograph back to him. Hopefully he's still using the ball, and scoring the kind of goals that dreams are made of.
Supporter Of The Month: May 2017.
Supporter of the Month for May 2017 goes to Sydney Grammar Prep School who collected 100 pairs of boots and $350 to donate to Their Beautiful Game! Great work by the Year 4, 5 and 6 students and their teacher Steve Lupton! The boots collected and money raised will go to supporting a range football projects across the developing world.
The Australian Sports Foundation (ASF) support a range of organisations that provide resources, sporting facilities and opportunities nationwide, from a grass roots level to elite sports men and women.The ASF recently published its 2016 / 17 research into the reasons behind donations to not for profit sporting causes – providing insights about key donor motivations, and needs and expectations related to sports giving. As part of our work, Their Beautiful Game keeps up to date with the latest reports and trends in the not for profit sector, ensuring we apply the findings to our own practices to make our giving effective and efficient for both those who donate and those we support. As far as possible, we aim to ensure that the process of donation is a rewarding one, and meets the points outlined below.
1) Sport is good for our health, wellbeing and the community. Sport is known to provide psychological benefits such as bringing positivity and calmness into people's lives, building self-esteem, confidence, and goal setting. Sport also provides a range of useful life skills such as developing discipline, building mutual respect, and encouraging teamwork.
2) Giving to sporting causes is like a boomerang. It returns powerful psychological rewards to donors. Giving comes from the heart. Donor motivations are mostly subconscious and emotional, deeply rooted in the inner self, i.e. their early life experiences, personal beliefs, values, goals, desires, hopes and needs. While donors give to help make a difference, like a returning boomerang, they receive a range of psychological rewards such as feeling good when they give, personal satisfaction, sense of belonging to their club, improved health and wellbeing, and leaving a legacy.
3) Giving to sport affects people's emotional well being. The psychological benefits of giving include the good feeling derived when people "do the right thing", the pleasurable feeling of moral satisfaction, the desire to view oneself as compassionate and kind and attaining an emotionally positive experience, also known as the "warmglow effect" or "helper's high". Indeed, giving to sport can lead to positive emotions such as warmth and happiness, while refusing to do so can lead to negative emotions, such as guilt. Beyond short-term emotional perks, giving has several long-term benefits as well. People like to think of themselves as kind and giving. Thus, giving to sport doesn't just help the causes being supported, it also helps the givers by making them happier, improving their self-esteem, their selfidentity, and helping them feel more connected to their club and the rest of the world. Giving to sport can have positive effects on donors' overall well-being.
4) Giving to sport is very personal and tightly linked to dedication and commitment to the sport. Donors like to be present in their giving experience by being personally connected with the cause and beneficiary. A key contributor to that is delivering an enjoyable experience, including consideration of what the donor cares about the most, getting them involved in co-creating the fundraising project, and keeping them updated on project progress and outcomes.
5) Satisfaction with the donation experience drives donors' willingness to give again. For donors, the way they are engaged throughout the donation process and their satisfaction with the overall donation experience drives their loyalty or willingness to give again. As a result of giving, donors could experience a range of psychological rewards. Hence, engaging with them after they have given is important as this reassures them that the club still cares about them and values their support. Donors also like to feel greater sense of belonging, increased social connection, and appreciation.
It's always nice to work with new football organisations and their players and see the social impact that donations can make. Recently, Their Beautiful Game sent a range of equipment over to the Shree Pokra Secondary School in Manegau, Nepal, for the first time, ensuring their footballers have the things they need to play! Pictured is 11 year old Bihma with his new kit, ball and trainers. We look forward to supporting the young footballers of Shree Pokra over the coming months!
It was great to get our work under way on the sub continent this week as our first arrival of football equipment – boots, balls and training gear – arrived in Nagpur, India. Their Beautiful Game has partnered up with Slum Soccer – a nationwide charity football organisation based in India which connects isolated or vulnerable young people living in poverty, helping them to develop life skills such as team work, resilience and leadership. Slum Soccer's training centres provide safe places free of discrimination, positive role models and and space to enjoy playing football. We look forward to continuing to support Slum Soccer and their social impact projects in the near future!
Matildas and W-League Midfielder Amy Harrison donates her shooting boots!
Matildas and W-League sensation Amy Harrison donated her boots to Their Beautiful Game recently. Amy, who was named Westfield W-League Young Player of the Year in 2014 / 15, took time out of her training schedule to pass on her shooting boots to a player in need! Thanks Amy!
Their Beautiful Game ventured down new paths this week with our first round of donations to The Big Issue Street Soccer Program in Sydney. Each Monday afternoon, The Big Issue runs football clinics and matches for the homeless across Sydney – providing a safe, fun environment to play football, a space to socialise and meet friends…and get fit at the same time! Their Beautiful Game will be donating to the Street Soccer Program over the course of 2017 – providing indoor soccer trainers, balls and kit. A great addition to our social impact projects!
Supporter Of The Month: February 2017.
February's Supporter Of The Month is Rick Woodward – Province Real Estate Agent and Northbridge FC Captain. Rick contacted Their Beautiful Game with an idea to hold a BBQ to help raise funds and awareness in the local North Shore community here in Sydney. Rick organised volunteers, catering and publicised the event on our behalf which was a great success! Donations came in by the car load and will soon be on their way to those that can put boots, balls and team strips to good use very soon! Thanks Rick for your time and generosity!
Supporter Of The Month: January 2017.
Many thanks must go to Theo Adamou who recently contacted Their Beautiful Game to offer his support. Theo, who lives in Holland, raises money for a charity of his own choosing each year by creating and selling a CD. Previously, he has raised money for Orange Sky Laundry and WEAVE, and in December 2016 reached out to us to say that he'd like to support our football projects across the globe. Over $2500 has been raised! Thanks for your thoughtfulness, time and generosity in this initiative Theo!
Great work from 11 year old Scarlett and the team @wegiveaboot in Melbourne who collected 20 pairs of boots to donate to Their Beautiful Game. These boots will be on their way very soon to a football club who can put them to good use!


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The Latest on opening day (all times EDT):
Astros shortstop Carlos Correa is not in the lineup for Houston against the Tampa Bay Rays because of neck stiffness.
Correa said before the game that the injury is "nothing major" and that he hopes to be ready to play sometime before the end of the four-game, season-opening series that runs through Sunday at Tropicana Field.
Correa hit .239 with 15 homers and 65 RBIs in 110 games last season.
Aledmys Diaz is replacing him at shortstop and batting eighth in the opener.
— Fred Goodall reporting from St. Petersburg
Welcome to the Mets, Robinson Cano.
Making quite an introduction to his new team, Cano homered in his debut at-bat, taking Washington Nationals starter Max Scherzer deep to center field on a 1-1 changeup in the first inning.
The two-out shot made it 1-0 for the visiting Mets.
Scherzer, a three-time Cy Young Award winner, struck out the other three batters he faced in the opening inning of 2019 — including Pete Alonso, the first baseman making his major league debut.
Cano joined the Mets in a blockbuster trade with the Seattle Mariners that also brought closer Edwin Diaz to New York.
— Howard Fendrich reporting in Washington.
On a day when baseball teams look with hope toward the future, the Yankees and Orioles are putting some focus on the past.
The Yankees announced Thursday that they will wear a black armband on the left sleeve of their jerseys this season to honor former pitching coach and left-hander Mel Stottlemyre, who died in January at the age of 77.
The Orioles, meanwhile, are wearing commemorative patches with Frank Robinson's No. 20 this season. The Hall of Famer died in February at 83 years old.
— Jake Seiner, reporting from New York.
Milwaukee Brewers reliever Corey Knebel says he will decide on the next course of action for his ailing right arm on Friday.
Knebel is sidelined with a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. He could have season-ending Tommy John surgery or try to rehab the injury.
Knebel says he is going to see team physician Dr. William Raasch on Thursday and "go from there."
Losing Knebel for the year could be a big blow for Milwaukee, which leaned on its bullpen in its run to the NL Championship Series last October.
Knebel had 16 saves and a 3.58 ERA last season, plus a sparkling 0.90 ERA in nine playoff appearances. He was an All-Star in 2017 with 39 saves and a 1.78 ERA in 76 innings.
— Jay Cohen reporting from Milwaukee.
Post-Bryce life officially begins for the Washington Nationals.
He's no longer in the outfield. He's no longer in the heart of the lineup. He's no longer in the clubhouse.
Until this opening day, Bryce Harper was a key component for the Nationals for seven years, making six All-Star teams, winning 2012 NL Rookie of the Year and 2015 NL MVP honors.
Now he's with the Philadelphia Phillies, leaving as a free agent for a $330 million contract.
So on Thursday, it was 21-year-old rookie Victor Robles starting in center field against the New York Mets, not Harper. And 20-year-old Juan Soto, last year's runner-up for NL Rookie of the Year, batting cleanup. And veteran utilityman Howie Kendrick's No. 47 uniform hanging at the locker that had been home to Harper's familiar No. 34.
Kendrick, as it happens, was not at Nationals Park, either, though. He's starting the season on the injured list.
— Howard Fendrich reporting from Washington.
Bryce Harper will bat third and play right field when he makes his Philadelphia Phillies debut.
Harper signed a $330 million, 13-year contract with the Phillies and the 2015 NL MVP has stirred anticipation in town for opening day not felt in years. The ballpark parking lots started to fill up hours before first pitch and plenty of fans were in Harper gear. Harper has the sport's top-selling jersey, ending a two-year reign for Aaron Judge's No. 99.
Harper isn't the only star in the Phillies opening day lineup against the NL East champion Atlanta Braves. The Phillies have nine All-Stars, two MVPs, one Cy Young Award winner and one Rookie of the Year award winner on the roster. The average age of the 25-man roster is 28.5.


Whether you hope to absorb a speck of their magic, or simply enhance the pleasure of a favorite book, a Wisconsin writer trip is waiting for you.
Young Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House in the Big Woods" was a simple cabin. Aldo Leopold's Shack outside Baraboo was a converted chicken coop. Lorine Niedecker's tiny house on Blackhawk Island near the Rock River is no bigger than a mobile home.
It's a laboratory for emotional intimacy and human conflict. You're observing other people and yourself in close quarters all the time. There's nowhere to hide.
Finally, it drives people outside. Nobody wants to stay cooped up in that tiny house all day.
Close observation of the natural world is a quality we often associate with Wisconsin's great writers. But now we can flip the script on them by observing their habitats. Whether you hope to absorb a speck of their magic, or simply enhance the pleasure of a favorite book, there's a Wisconsin writer trip waiting for you.
She was born on Feb. 6, 1867, seven miles north of Pepin in the Chippewa River valley. "Little House in the Big Woods," her only novel set in this state, has an almost timeless quality to its depiction of chores and cozy family life. For example, the story makes almost no allusion to the recently ended Civil War that tore apart the nation.
In contrast to the year depicted in "Little House in the Big Woods," Wilder actually lived in Wisconsin twice: first, from her birth in 1867 until 1869, when her family moved on to the Osage Indian Reserve in Kansas, where they lived about a year — illegally, it turns out. The Ingalls family returned to Wisconsin in 1871, in part because the man who bought their former Wisconsin property couldn't pay for it. In early 1874, they left the state for good, crossing frozen Lake Pepin into Minnesota.
Wisconsin honors this famous daughter through the modest, homey Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, 306 Third St., Pepin, which features several rooms with displays of books, images, clothing, tools and artifacts related to Laura, or inspired by her, or representative of her time. The museum is open from May through October; call (715) 513-6383 or visit lauraingallspepin.com for information and opening date.
In 2019, Pepin's annual Laura Ingalls Wilder Days will take place Sept. 14-15, with crafts, pioneer activities, contests and general Laura-ness. The 2019 special guest will be artist Renée Graef, illustrator of many of the "My First Little House" picture books.
Be sure to visit the Little House Wayside on County Highway CC, about seven miles northwest of Pepin. This replica log cabin stands on the spot where Charles and Caroline Ingalls built their own modest home. It makes a fine photo stop, and walking into the small cabin helps a reader of "Little House in the Big Woods" grasp how cozy the Ingalls family environment was.
In 1935, Aldo Leopold acquired a worn-out farm in Sauk County on the Wisconsin River as a hunting base camp and family getaway. Leopold and his older sons cleared a year's worth of manure out of its old chicken coop and put on a new roof. Over the years, the Leopolds would refer to it simply as the Shack. It became the heart of their family recreation and the co-star of his book "A Sand County Almanac."
In 1936, Leopold and his family planted 2,000 pine trees and many shrubs on the property, the beginning of a restoration project that continued for years, with Leopold and company doggedly planting thousands more trees after many of the first ones died. The Leopolds visited the Shack as often as Aldo's work and the children's school schedules allowed, though they were limited during the World War II years by the need to conserve gas coupons.
The Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, established by his children, manages the Aldo Leopold Shack and Farm, which is open for both guided and self-guided tours when weather permits (the Shack is inaccessible during heavy snow cover). Walking around the Shack on a humid August day, I admired the labor of the Leopolds, planting and replanting thousands of trees here — and wondered how many billions of mosquitoes they fended off.
The Leopold Center, less than a mile from the Shack, is one of the country's greenest buildings, earning a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design honor from the U.S. Green Building Council; it was built from pines that the Leopold family planted in the 1930s and 1940s.
For information about tours and the foundation's work, visit aldoleopold.org.
Reminders of Leopold abound in this state. In 2008, the state of Wisconsin renamed its system of recreational trails, adding up to 1,728 miles, the Aldo Leopold Legacy Trail System. The Aldo Leopold Nature Center in Monona teaches thousands of children each year.
In 1947, Leopold spoke at the dedication of a monument to the extinct passenger pigeon at Wyalusing State Park in Grant County, south of Prairie du Chien. The largest recorded nesting of the birds spread across 850 square miles of west-central Wisconsin in 1871, an estimated 136 million birds. But their nesting habits also made them easy to kill. The last known member of the species died in 1914.
Using available wood, Leopold made simple benches with backrests so he could spend as much time as possible outside. Leopold benches are a common sight today in parks, along trails and in some yards. There's probably one near you.
In the late 1950s, one of the finest poets in the United States worked as a cleaning lady at Fort Atkinson Hospital. When Lorine Niedecker couldn't catch a ride to work, she walked several miles from her home on marshy Blackhawk Island before getting down to scrubbing floors.
Niedecker (1903-'70) spent most of her life in the same patch of Wisconsin. She was not widely known in that pre-Internet era. But a visitor to Fort Atkinson can see many traces of her there today.
In 2018, artist Jeremy Guzzo Pinc finished a new mural across the street, using more words from "Paean to Place," including the bird-loving Niedecker's description of herself as "the solitary plover / a pencil / for a wing-bone". Each word in Pinc's new mural is rendered differently in color, font or style, requiring a viewer to slow down to absorb it all.
soaked her riverside abode. Her tiny home belongs to private owners and isn't open to visitors, but a historical marker notes the spot.
and other materials and has named a room after her. In fact, visitors who walk through the main door of the library are greeted by her words on the wall.
The annual Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival in Fort Atkinson, organized by the nonprofit group The Friends of Lorine Niedecker, honors her with readings by contemporary poets and other speakers. The 2018 festival presented events in June, September and October, including the dedication of Pinc's freshly finished poetry wall. Check lorineniedecker.org for updates about 2019 festival plans.
Carol Ryrie Brink: About 12 miles south of Menomonie, visit the home of Caroline Augusta Woodhouse at Caddie Woodlawn Historical Park. Brink based her Newbery Award winning children's novel about a tomboy growing up in 1860s Wisconsin partly on Woodhouse, her grandmother.
"The 1856 home is so big and beautifully restored that when I first stopped at the park, I mistook it for a present-day home and headed instead to the small shack on the other side of the park," wrote my colleague Chelsey Lewis about her visit there in 2018.
"The Woodhouse home is a large, white clapboard Cape Cod cottage, a style popular on the East Coast, where the Woodhouse family was from," Lewis wrote. "The house, which is unfurnished, was even bigger when Caddie romped around — the Flick family removed a kitchen to use as a hen house."
Admission to the home and park is free. They are open during daylight hours from spring through fall: dunnhistory.org/sitecw.html.
John Muir: The future environmentalist, nature writer and spiritual father of the national park system came to Wisconsin from Scotland at age 11. The Muir family farm in Marquette County is now part of John Muir Memorial County Park between Portage and Montello. That park incorporates a state natural area of uplands and wetlands surrounding Ennis Lake. A parking lot and trailhead for the park can be found on County Highway F about 8 miles south of Montello.
Hamlin Garland: The author of "Main-Travelled Roads" and the Pulitzer Prize winner "A Daughter of the Middle Border" was born in 1860 in a log cabin in West Salem. His success as a writer enabled to buy a house there, where he later spent several months a year. The Hamlin Garland Homestead, 357 Garland St. W., is open daily from 1 to 5 p.m. Memorial Day through Labor Day: westsalemwi.com/west-salem-history.
Jim Higgins is the author of "Wisconsin Literary Luminaries: From Laura Ingalls Wilder to Ayad Akhtar" (The History Press). Portions of this article are adapted from the book.


11. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection ... again.
12. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
18. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid " routing option.
23. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent an a ** from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
29. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my behind everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!
I wont even list the ones I liked best....so many of them....sooo true...hillarious.
so true on the last one!!!! Love this one!!!
Oh that is so me!! ROFL!!!
Have any of you re-watched shows like the muppets and dharma and greg (just noticed that one this week) and seen how underhanded and explicit they are!?!? OMG I so missed those undertones when I was younger!!!
Hahaha - I don't do that - but now that someone has given me the idea I might start.
I love No. 2...only it never happens to me...NEVER!!!
lmao.... pretty much EVERY SINGLE ONE applies to me!!! does this make me a bad person lmao!!!
i really love this... i just roll mine up in a ball lmao!!!


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To give you an idea what the view of the court is like from section 16, here is a Youtube video shot from there during a Celtics/New York Knicks game at the TD Garden.
OK section in the corner of the arena. Section has way too many rows; A thru K and then 1 thru 26. If you sit in the lower rows, you will have a long walk to the concourse area for a beer.
Tickets are way overpriced for this section. You can find tickets on the sidelines for what you would pay to sit here. Over $100 for section 16.


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December is the Season for cranking up the heat until sauna conditions are reached. Yet it's also the time when I seek comfort in watching old favourites or seeking sentimental seasonal flicks. Call it seasonal cinematic disorder.
Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens. Image from The Movie DB
The Man Who Invented Christmas
A new spin on Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Dan Stevens as Dickens. We meet Charles Dickens returning from a successful American tour only to find his recent books are failures, his debts are piling up, his wife is struggling to make a home in their new (expensive) London house while his ne'er-do-well father shows up with hands out hustling for an income by selling his son's autographed letters. Dickens knows he needs a hit and has struck upon an idea inspired by his young Irish housekeeper for a Christmas story. His publishers are skeptical, even wondering who even cares about Christmas, and unsure of being able to print a book in time for the holiday never mind write one. Frustrated, Dickens fronts the money for the illustrations, the printing plates and the elaborate, ornate binding he envisions. Of course this only adds to his stress. We see the story come together as Dickens struggles with writer's block while arguing with the imaginary cast of characters that will be so well known to us in the story that will become A Christmas Carol. Plummer is a perfect Ebenezer Scrooge and a wonderful foil to Dan Stevens as Dickens.
Zinedine Zindane in his natural environment.
Zindane: a 21st Century Portrait
Listed as a documentary, this film should not be confused with anything other than an unique art film that explores the idea of portraiture through movement, audio and a kind of video collage - so yeah, not your average documentary. Seventeen cameras follow French soccer icon Zinedine Zindane during a Real Madrid vs. Villareal match from April 23, 2005. With music from the band Mogwai as the score, it's not a particularly thrilling match but it is a mesmerizing montage of modern sport.
That's Miles Morales as Spider-man. Image from The Movie DB
Dazzling. For the young at heart but definitely not for anyone who isn't up to contemporary cinema's fast paced editing style. There is also a unique style of animation here that merges the graphic vernacular of comics with computer generated effects and a sort of, American Anime. For me a problem of the Marvel live action films is how a character like Spider-man, as computer generated puppet appears to defy the gravity of the real world. In animation however, the squash, stretch and spring of the character comes to life in a stylishly unrealistic way that is very satisfying. The animation sets the characters free to be as exciting on screen as they are on the page. This Spider-man is torn from Marvel's multi-universe interpretation in which many different people in many different variations become Spider-man and Spider-women. In this universe, a confident and daring Spider-man dies while trying to stop his nemesis the Kingpin from using an electron collider to open a parallel universe (see, even science can be set free in an animated world). The consequences of this device are that Spider-people from various alternative universes begin to show up in New York like Gwen Stacey or a Japanese school girl, or a talking pig or a young bi-racial Brooklyn teen named Miles Morales who becomes his own version of Spider-man and discovers new abilities that the previous Peter Parker never had. Miles is tutored and encouraged by our universe's Peter Parker, who has become somewhat of a disappointment to his friends, family and himself. Divorced, broke, out of shape, our Peter Parker seems too far gone to save anyway, including himself but of course you'll have to see the movie to know how that turns out.
Proposed Pipeline
Earlier today a Toronto man proposed a pipeline that would lead directly from his sinuses to the sea. Hydrasense, maker of a popular netty pot, suggested the project could be completed by the spring. Environmentalists have criticized the proposal with a spokesperson from Greenpeace International saying, "We just don't know what kind of damage that amount of mucous could do to the environment and the fragile sea floor." Proponents have suggested that the project could in fact be good for the local ecosystem by creating an artificial reef capable of protecting shoreline species from the threat of rising coastal water levels. Other critics, including the water protection group WaterKeepers have called this thinking unproven and unlikely. "Have you seen how snot mixes with water? It will not form a reef or solid structure of any kind but will just make the water cloudy and gross." said a WaterKeepers representative. The President of the United States has argued for a barrier or wall around the man's nostrils though few believe he could find support for funding. Additionally, the man himself is worried such a barrier would only cause further blockages and lead to a worsening of the sinus pain and headache situation. For now, the man has decided to burrow beneath a lightweight comforter on his home sofa surrounded by a small berm consisting of used facial tissues. "I expect to die here", said the man, noting that he has consulted his lawyer about possible attempted murder charges being brought against the toddler believed to be at the centre of this current outbreak. Such charges are thought by legal experts as unprecedented and absurd. Indigenous groups have also said they would protest and block any type of pipeline construction. This is the eleventh day of the sinus impasse with no end in sight.


Go on an expedition back to the era of Pharaohs in this 5 reel, 20 line video slot game inspired by the old Egyptians. In this latest Smart Range offering, NetEnt introduces the Golden Bet Line – a randomly selected bet line which has a random multiplier ranging from x2 – x5. This feature is active on every spin of the slot and comes at no additional cost to the player. The win possibilities are further increased by some innovations to the standard Wild symbol. Discover the Golden Bet Line of Egyptian Heroes and you can triumph with an ancient treasure!


Lonnie Wheatley, HAUBSTADT, Ind. (May 3, 2015) – Brady Bacon was ever-so-close to capturing his first World of Outlaws feature win on Sunday night at Tri-State Speedway.
But one or two too many cautions proved to be his undoing, as Paul McMahan raced into the lead on a lap 33 restart and paced the final eight circuits to pick up his second series score of the year in the 40-lapper.
Starting inside the second row, McMahan spent the early rounds chasing Bacon and Rico Abreu.
Bacon, who was looking for his second Haubstadt win in the past three weekends after a recent wingless USAC score, beat Joey Saldana into the lead at the outset and then fought off some early restart challenges from Abreu.
Abreu was nixed from the picture after 13 laps though when he got upside down after a tangle in traffic that moved McMahan into second.
McMahan kept the pressure on the reigning USAC National Sprint Car champion from Broken Arrow, OK, with challenges on each restart.
Following a quick red flag for Shane Stewart after 32 laps, McMahan got the restart he needed and took command when Bacon nearly took out a portion of the turn four wall.
McMahan raced to the win following one final yellow flag with three laps to go, taking the checkered flag ahead of Bacon while Joey Saldana claimed third-place for the second night in a row.
After starting 20th, Donny Schatz snuck through the field and was among the top five by the 27th round. Schatz tried to mix it up with the lead trio but had to settle for fourth with Kraig Kinser rounding out the top five.
Quick Time: The best was saved for last with final qualifier Shane Stewart setting the quick time of 12.037 seconds. The 11-year-old track record of 11.11 seconds set by Sammy Swindell still stands tall.
Heat Winners (starting position in parentheses): Paul McMahan (3), A.J. Bruns (1), Brady Bacon (3), Aaron Reutzel (1).
Heat Moments: Steve Kinser pulled to the pits with problems before the first heat but made it back out when a false start was called on pole starter Christopher Bell, who was docked a row. McMahan went on to take the win while fast qualifier Stewart missed the transfer; Heat two featured some lively sliders between Chili Bowl teammates Brad Loyet and Gary Taylor as MOWA shoe A.J. Bruns picked up the win; Brady Bacon battled past Jamie Veal at the midway point en route to winning heat three; Aaron Reutzel outgunned Paul May at the drop of the green flag and went on to win his first career WoO heat race.
"B" Main Winner (starting position in parentheses): Shane Stewart (1).
"B" Main Moments: The only caution flew after 7 of 12 laps when Kerry Madsen slid to a stop with front end damage after contact with Greg Wilson while dicing for the fourth and final transfer. Madsen opted for a provisional to take part in additional cautions in the "A" Main. Sixth on the restart with five to go, Sammy Swindell battled his way into fourth.
Lap 6 – Kerry Madsen spins in turn one.
Lap 7 Restart – Red flag when several cars get jumbled up in four including Chad Kemenah, Shane Stewart and Parker Price-Miller. David Gravel and Madsen both made quick trips to the work area as only Kemenah was done.
Lap 13 – Second-runner Rico Abreu flips in turn two after tangling with the lapped Madsen. Rico was not pleased.
Lap 27 – Madsen turns it around in turn two.
Lap 28 Restart – Tim Kaeding spins in turn two after working his way from 18th to seventh.
Lap 32 – A quick red flag when Shane Stewart gets into the turn two wall and tips over on his side. A quick tire change had Stewart back in the mix.
Lap 37 – Kyle Hirst is facing the wrong way in turn three while Madsen stops on the frontstretch with left front damage. The night of Madman madness is done.
"A" Main Hard Charger: Donny Schatz worked his way from 20th to fourth and was in the mix over the final circuits. Brad Sweet gained 16 positions as well with a run from 22nd to sixth.
Qualifying: 1. 2-Shane Stewart 12.037, 2. 05-12.046, 3. 11k-Kraig Kinser 12.057, 4. 24-Rico Abreu 12.079, 5. 51-Paul McMahan 12.089, 6. 71m-Joey Saldana 12.101, 7. 99-Brad Bacon 12.130, 8. 10h-Chad Kemenah 12.162, 9. 9p-Parker Price-Miller 12.190, 10. 1st-Gary Taylor 12.210, 11. 7-David Gravel 12.238, 12. 71mx-Paul May 12.250, 13. 67-Christopher Bell 12.307, 14. 2b-A.J. Bruns 12.333, 15. 41-Jamie Veal 12.345, 16. 87-Aaron Reutzel 12.375, 17. 7s-Jason Sides 12.375, 18. 3-Tim Kaeding 12.444, 19. 23-Jimmy Light 12.448, 20. 1s-Logan Schuchart 12.457, 21. 15-Donny Schatz 12.460, 22. 9-Daryn Pittman 12.479, 23. 49-Brad Sweet 12.494, 24. 83-Kyle Hirst 12.500, 25. W20-Greg Wilson 12.501, 26. 6-Bill Rose 12.505, 27. 29-Kerry Madsen 12.550, 28. 01-Sammy Swindell 12.555, 29. 11-Steve Kinser 12.588, 30. 20n-Hunter Schuerenberg 12.597, 31. 4-Danny Smith 12.639, 32. 11n-Randy Hannagan 12.654, 33. 51b-Joe B. Miller 12.749, 34. 4k-Kody Kinser 12.825, 35. 14T-Jimmy Bridgeman 12.836, 36. 1a-Jacob Allen 12.962, 37. 7m-Critter Malone 13.085, 38. 7h-Jojo Helberg 14.670.
Heat One (10 Laps): 1. 51-Paul McMahan, 2. 15-Donny Schatz, 3. 9p-Parker Price-Miller, 4. 67-Christohper Bell, 5. 7s-Jason Sides, 6. 2-Shane Stewart, 7. 7m-Critter Malone, 8. W20-Greg Wilson, 9. 51b-Joe B. Miller, 10. 11-Steve Kinser.
Heat Two (10 Laps): 1. 2b-A.J. Bruns, 2. 71m-Joey Saldana, 3. O5-Brad Loyet, 4. 9-Daryn Pittman, 5. 1st-Gary Taylor, 6. 3-Tim Kaeding, 7. 20n-Hunter Schuerenberg, 8. 6-Bill Rose, 9. 4k-Kody Kinser, 10. 7h-Jojo Helberg.
Heat Three (10 Laps): 1. 99-Brady Bacon, 2. 41-Jamie Veal, 3. 7-David Gravel, 4. 49-Brad Sweet, 5. 11k-Kraig Kinser, 6. 29-Kerry Madsen, 7. 23-Jimmy Light, 8. 4-Danny Smith, 9. 14T-Jimmy Bridgeman.
Heat Four (10 Laps): 1.87-Aaron Reutzel, 2. 71mx-Paul May, 3. 10h-Chad Kemenah, 4. 24-Rico Abreu, 5. 83-Kyle Hirst, 6. 01-Sammy Swindell, 7. 1s-Logan Schuchart, 8. 11n-Randy Hannagan, 9. 1a-Jacob Allen.
"B" Main (12 Laps – 4 Advance): 1. 2-Shane Stewart, 2. 3-Tim Kaeding, 3. 1s-Logan Schuchart, 4. 01-Sammy Swindell, 5. 20n-Hunter Schuerenberg, 6. W20-Greg Wilson, 7. 11-Steve Kinser, 8. 7m-Critter Malone, 9. 4-Danny Smith, 10. 1a-Jacob Allen, 11. 23-Jimmy Light, 12. 11n-Randy Hannagan, 13. 7h-Jojo Helberg, 14. 51b-Joe B. Miller, 15. 14T-Jimmy Bridgeman, 16. 4k-Kody Kinser, 17. 29-Kerry Madsen, 18. 6-Bill Rose.
"A" Main Finish (40 Laps): 1. 51-Paul McMahan (3), 2. 99-Brady Bacon (2), 3. 71m-Joey Saldana (1), 4. 15-Donny Schatz (20), 5. 11k-Kraig Kinser (5), 6. 49-Brad Sweet (22), 7. O5-Brad Loyet (6), 8. 7s-Jason Sides (17), 9. 1st-Gary Taylor (12), 10. 71mx-Paul May (14), 11. 9-Daryn Pittman (21), 12. 87-Aaron Reutzel (7), 13. 01-Sammy Swindell (24), 14. 7-David Gravel (13), 15. 2-Shane Stewart (9), 16. 67-Christopher Bell (15), 17. 2b-A.J. Bruns (8), 18. 83-Kyle Hirst (23), 19. 41-Jamie Veal (16), 20. 29-Kerry Madsen (25), 21. 3-Tim Kaeding (18), 22. 1s-Logan Schuchart (19), 23. 9p-Parker Price-Miller (11), 24. 24-Rico Abreu (4), 25. 10h-Chad Kemenah (10).
Lap leaders: Brady Bacon 1-32, Paul McMahan 33-40.


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Q: Inter-Processor Interrupts, X86_64 bit CPU ,2.6.32-73 kernel, Ubuntu 10.04, Usage I'm trying to use in inter-processor interrupts (IPIs) in Ubuntu server 10.04, with kernel and CPU specified above.
I got lots of info from Google regrading working with IPI's in SMP architectures,
and understood that there are API function for using IPI such as:
send_IPI_mask(),
send_IPI_self( ),
send_IPI_all( ) and etc.
My problem is much more basic i cant find anywhere a documentation of how to write a program that uses this functions.
I don't even now if i should import some libs for using it?
or i just need to write this function in some right manner?
I would much appreciate a full code example, even of the most basic program that uses IPI.
Or some reference to best practices in writing code using kernel modules.
Thanks.
Edit:
Probably i got it all wrong..
i would ask the question differently is there a way i can use the functions mentioned above using system calls?
If i can what library is loading ioctl is the best way?
Or is there faster way to interact with those function?

A: All i needed to do is to install linux kernel headers.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
from there on i could use function like :
smp_call_function_single
or
on_each_cpu
P.S
for whom of you who want to use it keep in mind that IPI interrupt handlers have to be vary quick and cant be block.


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"Wonderland" is the debut single of German model Heidi Klum. The song was written for a series of television advertisements for the German retailer Douglas. Proceeds from the single were given to a children's charity in her hometown of Bergisch Gladbach. The single was released on  iTunes Deutschland and a single released on November 17, 2006 in Germany. The single debuted in Germany at #13 position.

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L'opistosòma (composto dalle parole: opisto "che sta dietro" e soma "corpo") è la parte posteriore del corpo dei Chelicerati, costituita, secondo i gruppi, da dodici segmenti o meno (dei quali 10 o 11 sono postgenitali).

Le appendici dell'addome nei chelicerati più primitivi avevano forma di lamina e funzione respiratoria. Alcuni taxa mostrano appendici molto specializzate sull'addome o non ne mostrano affatto.

L'addome in sé, negli artropodi più antichi, era suddiviso in mesosoma o preaddome, parte anteriore composta da sette segmenti, e metasoma o postaddome, parte posteriore composta da cinque segmenti e il telson o l'aculeo. Questa suddivisione ha subìto svariate modifiche nei vari taxa e solo gli scorpioni la presentano pressoché invariata.

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Forget the romance: 'The Science of Kissing' is a bit dry
To celebrate Valentine's Day, Jessica Gelt takes a look in our pages at the book "The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us" by Sheril Kirshenbaum. The conclusion, she finds, is that "despite its exalted status as one of the world's most passionate activities, the kiss has evolved for a single blind purpose: to get you into bed so you can propagate the species."
Gelt continues:
Although the information in part one about the kissing, sniffing and licking practices of our ancestors is interesting, it falls flat compared with part two.
It's when Kirshenbaum slogs through saliva, looking for clues to human attraction in tastes, hormones and smells, that she gets to third base....
When Kirshenbaum embraces the titillating subject matter with an earthy Henry Miller sense of sexual joie de vivre, "The Science of Kissing" shows flashes of greatness, but all too often she veers back into family friendly territory. And sadly, for such wet subject matter, the book reads a bit dry.
Read more about Kirshenbaum's scientific investigation of lip-locking romance in Gelt's review of "The Science of Kissing" here.
-- Carolyn Kellogg


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Sebastien Bourdais Wins at Milwaukee
Chad Smith / July 12, 2015
There are now four drivers that have won two races this season in the Verizon IndyCar Series. Sebastien Bourdais joined the others (Juan Montoya, Scott Dixon, Josef Newgarden) today as he dominated the second half of the race at the Milwaukee Mile. It was career win number 34 for the Frenchman, which is 7th on the all-time wins list. Bourdais led a race-high 118 of the 250 laps on Sunday, and no one could take the lead from him in the later stages of the event. After a restart on lap 232, he pulled away to a 2.2366 second victory.
Helio Castroneves turned in a Herculean effort, finishing runner-up after starting last (24th) because his team wasn't in line for inspection and qualifying earlier in the day. The Brazilian driver improved his position by 22 spots, and got himself back into championship contention. Graham Rahal continued his impressive season, and joined Bourdais and Castroneves on the podium. Championship leader Juan Montoya and Pole sitter Josef Newgarden rounded out the top five. Montoya rebounded nicely from a pit speed violation on lap 100, which resulted in a drive through penalty.
Click here to see the Race Results for the ABC Supply Wisconsin 250
For Newgarden, it was another top five finish, but early on it looked as though he was about to win his third race of the season. He led 109 laps, dominated both practice sessions, and captured the Pole just hours before the race. He noted that his car just wasn't as good when it wasn't in clean air. Montoya built his lead in the championship, which is now 54 points over second place Dixon, with Rahal and Castroneves tied for third, 69 points behind. Defending series champion Will Power is in fifth, after another horrible weekend.
On lap 131, Ryan Briscoe lost control of his car coming out of Turn 4. He spun and collected Power, who had nowhere to go. The Team Penske driver finished a disappointing 22nd. It's the second straight DNF for Power, who now must really turn it on if he wants to defend his crown. The Ganassi teammates of Tony Kanaan and Dixon finished sixth and seventh, and Marco Andretti, Simon Pagenaud, and Ed Carpenter rounded out the top ten.
Ryan Hunter-Reay's dismal season continued, as he finished the race in 13th position. The day wasn't any better for two of his Andretti teammates either, as Carlos Munoz came home 15th, and Justin Wilson blew an engine and finished 18th. Rookie Sage Karam qualified well (3rd) but brushed the wall and only completed 183 laps, finishing in 19th place. Briscoe started on the front row but ended up 21st after his spin. There were nine lead changes among six drivers, and three cautions for 36 total laps.
For Bourdais, it was simply a dominating performance, with an incredible car.
"I don't know what to say….What a car, what a car, thank you guys so much….Victory Lane…I'm coming to you" #IndyFest @hydroxycut
— Sébastien Bourdais (@BourdaisOnTrack) July 12, 2015
With just four races remaining on the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series calendar, Montoya is still the man to beat. The next race on the schedule is the Iowa Corn 300 on July 18. NBC Sports Network will provide coverage for the event, which begins at 8 PM ET on Saturday.
Will Power: "I saw Ryan (Briscoe) start to spin there, so I went out wide to try and miss him and he clipped me and I went up into the wall." (On his championship hopes): "There is no question it is going to make it tough, but we will keep focused and go on to the next one. … Yeah, you kind of get frustrated, but you just have to keep moving on. Eventually it will change and we will have one go right for us. Just got to keep focused and move on to the next one."
Juan Montoya: "It was completely my mistake on the pit road speeding penalty. I had my finger on the (pit road speed limiter) button, but it's really bumpy getting onto pit road, so I don't know if I didn't hit it or if I hit it twice. That put us behind a bit. With about 120 laps to go, I told the guys that I think we can make it on one more stop and we did it. It's great. Our Verizon Chevy was really good today. We grew our points lead with only four races to go. The crowd was fantastic. We always want to see the stands full when we race. It was a solid crowd today and that made it more fun behind the wheel."
Helio Castroneves: "I was pushing to the limit, no question (about it.) I knew the Hitachi car would be very good, but the 11 car (Sebastien Bourdais) was very fast. That seemed to be the key here. That was a hell of a job by the guys. We had a little miscue with qualifying, but we never lost faith. We focused on the race. I'm just so proud and honored to be part of this team. "
Stefano Coletti: "It's a shame today with what happened. We had a great car and were having a great run today, so I am sure we could have had a great result. We will work hard for Iowa next weekend and hopefully can get a great result there."
Ryan Briscoe: "It was a big shame. We had an awesome race car, again. I'm really proud of the whole Arrow Electronics team for their hard work, and for giving me a car that I can go out and race hard. It wasn't meant to be today. We had a couple of malfunctions during the pit stops that set us back and we ended up going off strategy and staying on the lead lap, which was huge. With half the race to go, we were still in a fighting position to go for the win today. On the restart, we had a lot of cars behind us on new tires and we just sort of got put in a box there in Turn 3. It felt like I drove into a vacuum and next it felt like the tires were off the ground and I was doing a slow pirouette. It was a real shame. I hate bringing home a busted race car, but we'll fight again next week."
James Jakes: "I don't really know what to say. The whole team worked really hard this weekend and we had a great car. We got caught in lapped traffic a little bit, but we were running sixth, seventh, eighth, and we really could've had a good day. I think anybody could've finished in the top three today. The guys that run up front just have to manage the situation. It's a shame because this isn't our first engine issue, but we'll bounce back strong at the next event. Qualifying was great and we had a quick car. It's a shame we don't get any points, but we'll move on."
Sage Karam: "The marbles are just so bad here. I was trying to make it one more stop to get the fuel mileage the team was asking me to get. We were getting the mileage, but they said don't lose any positions while doing it, too. So I was just racing really hard there with (Gabby) Chaves, and I guess it was just a racing thing. I'm trying to hold my line, he's trying to hold his. I got on the right side of the marbles and, once that happened, the car just wouldn't turn and we had contact with the wall."
Scott Dixon: "We had a tough day with the Cottonelle car. We went off sequence and led for a while, and the race kind of came to us later on with the way the yellows fell. In the end we shuffled back a bit and lost some valuable points, which is tough to swallow with just four races to go. We'll keep fighting, though, and be ready to make up ground in Iowa next weekend."
Tony Kanaan: "I love racing here at The Milwaukee Mile and today's race was a fun one to be a part of. The No. 10 NTT Data Chevrolet was fast and we proved that by running up near the front all day. I think we had a chance to finish higher than sixth, but it just didn't happen for us. A sixth-place finish is OK, but I obviously would've been much happier with a win. It is what it is and now we'll shift our focus to Iowa."
Sebastien Bourdais: "On these ovals, you can go from hero to zero and back to hero again. I guess that's my story. It's so much about momentum when you can feel one with the car, and today the guys gave me an awesome car. It felt pretty good off the truck and I thought, 'This could be a pretty good weekend.' And then we messed up qualifying. Never did I think we could come up through the field and pass everybody. It's just unbelievable. It's what these places do to you. When the car is right, it's so, so special."
Takuma Sato: "It was a long, tough race. The first stint we were struggling so much so after the pit stop, we went a lap down. Tried to get the lap back but it didn't work the way we wanted and we had to really fight hard. At the end of the day, we got back on the lead lap, but there were less than 20 laps to go. With everyone on the same age tires, it was difficult to overtake. It was a tough day."
Graham Rahal: "These Mi-Jack Steak 'n Shake boys did a heck of a job today. We've been working really hard, just putting ourselves in a position to succeed. This team put us in that position today. They got us three spots in the pits and I got a couple more on the restart and it was clear sailing from there. We were looking at a three-stop strategy early on and I think we were the only ones that could do it and then we bailed and I was frustrated at the time, but with the way the yellows worked out it was fine. I was a lot quicker than Helio (Castroneves) at the end, but I just couldn't get around him. This is a good points day for us. I think we are tied for third. It's been a good year for us and this is No. 5 for podiums. We wanted to beat Helio (Castroneves) bad, wanted to pull that gap in points, but it looks like he's tied with us. We'll just keep pushing away. We're proud to fly the flag for Honda. That's our goal, that's our job and we're proud to do it."
Tristan Vautier: "We were decent in the first stint, I mean, everybody was struggling a bit in that first stint. We went a lap down after that first stop and from then on, it was a long day. The car felt good, we struggled a bit in traffic, but by myself, it was really good. Some moments we had some real flashes of speed, but obviously not good enough. It is a shame because everybody worked so hard and we wanted to make up for Fontana. We have Iowa next week, so not a long wait until we can do better."
Ed Carpenter: "Our finish was a good recovery from where we started. It was a long, tough day. We had a decent shot with the way the pit stops cycled through. We were running third on the last restart, but we were the last car in line on old tires. It was really tough in dirty air today. We needed to be better in those conditions, but I think even the best cars struggled in traffic on old tires. At the end of the day, from what happened in qualifying to get a top 10 and finally finish a race, I'll take it as a positive. To have one top five and one top 10 today, with Josef's first pole, all in all it was a good weekend for the entire team."
Simon Pagenaud: "It was a good run. We started 17th. We missed the balance a little bit in qualifying. Milwaukee isn't an easy place to pass. I'm pretty happy. Once again, it was a really good performance, but again, the results don't exactly show the performance. I'm fairly happy. I think we made a good improvement on the setup for the car and the way I want it. Now we are working for next year really and we are starting to scratch the surface. We don't get any testing so it is good we do it during the race. It just takes time to get a team to fully come together. I'm being patient here and we are getting there. The guys were amazing during pit stops today. It is just details to work on. Most of these guys have been with the team for a long time, so I'm pretty happy where we are at. We just need this year to learn and we will come back stronger next year. Congrats to Chevy for winning with my fellow Frenchman Seb (Bourdais). Very happy for him. He is having an incredible season."
Justin Wilson: "The car was working great, balance was fantastic; we were able to cut by people and exit on the inside, get really good runs off the corner. I was really pleased with the No. 25 Honda. We had a couple of things that didn't go our way – had a (tire) gun that failed on the pit stop, so we lost a lap there. A few laps later, something put us out of the race. I'm not sure what it is yet, but we just lost power and picked up a huge vibration. I just clutched it and turned the engine off. It's a tough day; I felt like we were good, we kept passing everyone and moving forward, something would happen and then just kept moving our way back up to the front again, so it's just how it goes."
Carlos Munoz: "Another race that didn't go our way. Before the last yellow we were running good in eighth and then people that had to pit. The yellow helped them, but it didn't help us. We had a bad stop and couldn't make up those positions… another up-and-down race for us."
Marco Andretti: "I don't know what to say; it was a frustrating eighth-place finish. I'm mad that I let (Scott) Dixon by at the end, it was just another twist of the knife. Frustrating day."
Ryan Hunter-Reay: "We had a good race going in the DHL Honda. We tried for strategy and it didn't end up working out – just another day where nothing worked out. We lost three spots during the last stop, so it's certainly frustrating."
Jack Hawksworth: "It was not a very good day. It's never good when you start at the back here anyway because you lose track position easy and more so this year than last year because it was very difficult to pass unless you are much faster than the car ahead. We'd just come in and did our first stop and then we had a problem with our throttle pedal. We tried to fix it and then the issue came back and we had to come in and fix it again. We went back out and tried to stay out of everybody's way and let those guys race. In the end we just did a bit of testing for ourselves, which was interesting but not the day we wanted."
Josef Newgarden: "We just had to do too much work later in the race to try and get by people. I could only get so many spots, but our car was fast. It's been fast all weekend, the Direct Supply guys really put an amazing car together for us. It's just that I needed clean air, probably more so than other guys. To get that was difficult. When we had it in the beginning, I think we were the fastest car in the field, for sure. It was all about track position today, we lost out on that a little bit but it was still a great effort and a great weekend for CFH Racing."
Charlie Kimball: "It was a tough race today at The Milwaukee Mile. I was happy with the No. 83 NovoLog FlexPen for most of the race today – we just couldn't ever get up front. We started the race off really challenging with the handling and it just got better and better throughout the afternoon. I'm happy for my teammates with two of them finishing in the top 10. We'll just shift our focus to Iowa and make sure we're ready to go next weekend."
Gabby Chaves: "Well, another race, moving forward, every time getting some points. I think we had a really strong car today, unfortunately just kind of got out of luck with that last caution. I think with the cars that weren't going to make it on fuel that were ahead of us would have put us into the top seven. That's that, but we did the best we could. We had a good enough car and we raced hard. So we're happy with the job the crew did."
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