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The golf gear manufacturer will make a donation to Prostate Cancer UK for every sale of its new range of balls, recruiting some of the game's famous names to raise awareness of the most common cancer in men.

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17 Feb 2017

Top golf pros – including Miguel Jimenez and Peter Hanson – have given their support to a new partnership that will put the issue of prostate cancer in front of thousands of men every time they tee off.

Srixon Sports Europe today announced it will donate £1.50 to Prostate Cancer UK from the sale of every dozen of its next-generation Z-STAR and Z-STAR XV golf balls, with a special 15-ball pack to include balls branded up with our iconic ‘Man of Men’ logo.

"It was only when I picked up one of the charity’s pocket guides at an event that it really hit home," said Leslie Hepsworth, UK & Ireland President at Srixon, whose unusual company name is a conflation of Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI), X meaning ‘dreams’ in Japanese, and On for ‘going forward’.

Next time you finish a five-hour round, think about the five men that would have died of prostate cancer

"The information I was reading stopped me in my tracks: one-in-eight men in the UK will be affected by this disease and we currently lose one man an hour to prostate cancer. Next time you finish a five-hour round, think about the five men that would have died of prostate cancer."

Srixon have recruited a roll call of their star golfers to join them in pushing the message about prostate cancer, including Hideki Matsuyama, Graeme McDowell, Shane Lowry and Soren Kjeldsen.

"We want this partnership to be a massive success," said Leslie. "A winning product and a life-saving message seems like a great combination to me."

Srixon's golf pros get behind the cause...

Miguel Jimenez (pictured above)
"Golfers are so fit now a days. They are athletes. I’ve been lucky in my life with my health: 28 years on the road and I’ve never had a serious disease or illness. But I exercise. It’s important to be healthy and go to the doctor if you think you have a problem."

Peter Hanson

Peter Hanson
"I’m very proud to be part of this campaign. Prostate cancer is a big thing around the world. The numbers are a lot higher than I thought. It pretty much affects everyone one of us."

Russell Knox

Russell Knox
"It’s an incredible partnership with Prostate Cancer UK. It’s sad the numbers are so high, but hopefully soon we can develop something to stop this happening."

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Regional Directors from across the United States took to Nashville March 18-22nd to discuss exciting developments for 2019 and beyond. Improving programs, generating new ideas, and ordering new gear was among the many task items taken care of. Ask your Regional Director about their time in Nashville!

Seattle - Stuart Michie
Portland - Jake Green
South Bay - Mike Livingston
San Jose - Adam Arella
Orange County - Ryan Axford
Providence - Frank Luca
Ann Arbor - Jonathen Kronberg
President - Arthur Jackson
DC - Henry Mulzac III

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Hunter Vincent is a resident physician at University of California Davis and at College Medical Center in Long Beach, CA. He graduated from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York. He received a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Biology from the University of California: Davis, where he also competed as a Division I soccer player. Hunter has extensive experience as a clinical exercise and nutrition consultant for several human performance labs and clinical obesity facilities. He has actively pursued clinical research opportunities through his work as a research assistant for the UC Davis intercollegiate performance lab, research mentorship under Dr. Matthew Budoff at LA Biomed: UCLA, Clinical Research Chair for the Touro COM Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Club, and as Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator for Dr. Steven Sampson at the Orthohealing Center. Throughout medical school, Hunter has been a contributing author to The Orthohealing Center and The Orthobiologic Institute medical blogs, composing articles ranging from common orthopedic and sports medicine topics to cutting edge advancements in Platelet Rich Plasma and Orthobiologic therapy. Hunter hopes to complete his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and continue to advance Orthobiologic therapy.


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Where there is hierarchy there is violence (part two)

…Which means there are casualties. They are victims, if you’re feeling sympathetic and outraged. They are losers, if you’re not. Chris Leavitt, my protagonist from Crystal From The Hills, is not much of a victim, but he is much of a loser. And I write that with love. In a way, I prefer losers to victims, though they are in some respects the same. Losers lack the hubris of victims, mostly because they haven’t the fortitude to call themselves victims. So Chris Leavitt is a traumatized individual; a casualty and a loser, not a victim: he is privileged, free for the most part but wary of his onlookers–his shadows, both real and not. Ironically, he pays more attention to the less than real shadows, which render him paranoid yet oblivious to what’s right beneath his nose. He is innocent in so far as he is uncalculated, uncensored and anarchic. Whether too impulsive enough or just lacking in political savvy, he is unequipped for any tight, hierarchically-driven order.

There are hierarchies all around: some are tacit structures, governed by race, class, gender, philosophy, religion–prejudices of various kinds. This is not original, but then neither is the hand-wringing that surrounds public controversies. It’s not nice to judge people for being different, people say on camera. But they do. Of course they do. It’s the correct thing to aim for the center (“the center holds” our President tells us), but all around us (and him), splitting, the thoughtless, triage-like division of life into “good” and “bad”, right and wrong, is occurring, and meanwhile, we are all shepherded into cliques, nurturing our prejudices and providing succor within echo chambers. I was once clique-bound at Thunder Road, the workplace that employed me for fifteen years, and which I depict in another book, Working Through Rehab: An Inside Look at Adolescent Drug Treatment. Contrary to my younger observations, Thunder Road is just another typical hierarchical system governed by shadows who determine who fits and who doesn’t; whose turn it is to be in charge, and whose turn it is to go…what works and what doesn’t. Leaders use corporate tools for the most part: manuals, handouts, HR policies, lawyers and spreadsheets, to create order. Meanwhile, the world they govern is an inchoate mass driven by an oral tradition, and the unconscious.

My turn on the rollercoaster lasted longer than most, though it was never my goal to merely have my turn. It was my pretension to do more, and now I have, only from the outside looking in. The point of my book is that taking a turn is not enough. Being politic, fitting in and censoring dissent may suit a hierarchical system, but it is psychological death to the conscious individual, the growing professional. I could avoid hierarchies, mess with hierarchies, dissent and maneuver only so much until shadows converged and told me that if I was to continue avoiding the trappings of leadership and compliance, then it was my time to leave. Cohesion: it means togetherness, which is good, sort of. But coherence, which is like music, is superior. I remember being told once by someone in charge that if I was to really take a turn being in charge, then I’d have to assert just that, regardless of what is right. The decisions were mine, I was told: ultimately, what I said prevailed, not because I was right, but rather because I was in charge. Reluctant leadership. I nodded compliantly but remained slippery, thinking this a dangerous, undemocratic idea, this thing about being right because it was necessary to be so. The problem with equating rightness with being in charge is that being in charge doesn’t last.

One of my favorite passages of literature reminds me that the exiled exist in numbers, are neither contained nor containable, even if they’re not in charge. Even if they’re not right. This is John Self from Martin Amis’ Money:

“I hate people with degrees, O-levels, eleven-pluses, Iowa tests, shorthand diplomas…and you hate me, don’t you. Yes you do. Because I’m the new kind, the kind who has money but can never use it for anything but ugliness, to which I say: you never let us in, not really. You might have thought you let us in, but you never did. You just gave us some money.”

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From the moment I met you I knew you were a crook A stealer of souls A thief of dreams You pilfer at will And plunder with no care Claiming you are filling their minds Broadening perspectives And the lonely lap it up And the scared believe the […]

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The night sky is too beautiful The waves of the ocean are too stirring The breezes too mesmerizing Let’s not pretend Let’s not laugh while digging the knife in Let’s not talk niceties Let’s not try to on a ridiculous bravado Why don’t you find your moral compass […]


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Everybody loves a cup of JAVA. February 16, 2009

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[JJ.JPG]As a Java-Junkie* who has been programming in Java for more than 3 years now in different areas including web-based & database applications, client/server applications, data mining, text mining, multi-threading, wireless simulations and others, I believe I’ve been exposed to the glory of programming in this language more than I should’ve.

I have poor knowledge of .NET technologies, especially C#. I read PHP for dummies some time ago and got the basics (at the time), but never applied or practiced any. Among OOP languages I’ve only programmed in C++ and Java. I’ve done small projects back in college in Lisp and Prolog, written some Perl & shell scripts, and worked on some TCL scripts for NS-2 simulations. NOTHING appealed to me more than has Java. No language ever made more sense. (given a static compiler of course, I hate coding without static compiling & shortcuts.. Gets on my nerves). My friends mock my passion for Java, and I don’t blame them. I do sound extraordinary excited when I’m discussing something Java-related (they should see me teaching it to my students when I was a Java TA in college**), and I do look extraordinary attached when I’m on my laptop coding some Java program.. It just makes sense. (I was one step away from asking a technical Java consultant in Gitex conference for his autograph..).

I do get into debates from time to time with junkies of other languages; PHP, if we’re discussing web development, or C++, if it’s OOP languages in general or ACM problems solving in particular. Oh, not to mention the PL/SQL – Java discussions since Oracle is moving from Forms – PL/SQL to ADF – J2EE based applications.

Anyways, I believe I must admit, the fact that I’m familiar with Java and feel confident coding it is really what makes me favor it over other languages. I dislike what I don’t know, and I cannot judge what I don’t know! I’m not a fan of PHP but simply because I haven’t explored it or familiarized myself with it, yet. My poor knowledge or practice of other languages contributes in my favoring of Java over the rest. Except for C++ maybe, I think if I were a C++ guru I’d still hate it.. (yeah, you heard me.. you and your pathetic pointers, and your strcat.. Who names a functionstrcat anyways? Who calls a function a function in the first place? Too classical, yuck).

Anyways -is it just me or do I keep anywaysing all the time?-, I liked this quote about preferring one language to another when developing a project:

How do you decide between C#, Java, PHP, and Python? The only real difference is which one you know better. If you have a serious Java guru on your team who has build several large systems successfully with Java, you’re going to be a hell of a lot more successful with Java than with C#, not because Java is a better language (it’s not, but the differences are too minor to matter) but because he knows it better.   — Joel Spolsky, 2006

So true!!

*I’m a Java-Junkie in all its possible interpretations: the coffee, and the language.

Java Tutorial (2) – Put Your Comment! March 6, 2007

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Assalam Alaykom,

So, The End of the Java Tutorial series ;) I think today’s was a lot better, considering that the students’ faces looked more satisfied this time ;) I decided to change the Approach this time. In the first section I used to explain a certain point then apply it on Eclipse by writing a code that illustrates this point and then executing it.

I got complaints after the First tutorial about two things.. First some students said that I type too fast and they cant keep up, and the ones sitting in the back said they cant see the text clearly, they couldnt follow up as well. So this time I decided to explain the rest of the topics in the Manual I prepared on the BOARD instead. And believe it or not, the old style worked a lot better!

Anyway, I dont think I have the right to judge myself or evaluate my first tutorial ;) I’ll email the students and ask them to put their comments here so I can look back at them 5 years from now and laugh so hard.

So waiting for your comments here….be honest, be fair ;)\

Edit: This post had 11 comments from my students, on Blogspot — lost them all.  Sniff.

Java Tutorial (1) March 5, 2007

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Assalam Alaykom,

[Java.jpg]This is Engineer N. speaking ;p lol. Well lets see. First of all Alhamdulellah things went smoothly to a reasonable extent. I had worries regarding the laboratory we’re going to use and the Data show availability, but both issues were solved. The number of students registered had increased by the actual time of the tutorial to 50 students, almost half of them at 12.30pm and the other at 5pm.

@ 12.30pm
I turned on the data show, turned off the lights and took a deep breath.
The lab was full, about 75% girls and 25% guys. I usually think that the girls are pretty much talkative, more than guys, but in this lab the guys proved they can be talkative as well. I distributed the manual I had prepared for them and asked everybody to be quiet so we can start. (actually I sort of clapped my hands and said “shshshsh” LOOL).

They all paid attention -thankfully-, and so the class started. I went through the basics of Java installation, Java I/Os, class String, Random Numbers, and some other topics I cant remember.
The guys were the ones asking Questions all the way. To tell you the truth having a student ask you a question about something they dont understand feels kind of good. The feeling that OK, there’s someone listening to what I’m saying out there! lol. I wasnt annoyed as I thought I would be. Maybe sometimes when I felt like the Qs are just being asked to waste time..but Watever.

One time this guy asked me to explain a certain point again so I did, then I offered -out of my generosity- to explain the preceding point, He said ma ma3naah..(No you took too much time in explaining that one) lol.. CONFUSION.

Anyway Tomorrow is my next and final episode in the Tutorial. I will ask them afterwards to post their comments here if they didnt mind ;)

To all professors, TAs, any teachers out there, God bless you. didnt know teaching can be such a burden ;)

Java Tutorial Night March 3, 2007

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Assalam Alaykom,
I know I’m making this sound like a big deal, but yeah its kind of new for me ;) Tomorrow insh’Allah if things go smoothly I’ll be giving a tutorial about “Java for Beginners”, with the ACM Society. Just the basic concepts. Up to this point about 35 students have registered to take the tutorial, I’ll be dividing them into two sections. It feels important saying such stuff ;p

Anyway, I pray that it turns out for the best, for everyone Insha’Allah ;)
I’ve prepared a manual for the students; I think I know many of them but not very well. I hope they dont ask me embarrassing Questions or dont understand what I’m saying and give me blank faces all the way. hehehehe..Watever!

Engineer N :p


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U.K. Parliament Approves Brexit Amendment On Replacing Irish Backstop

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British lawmakers instructed Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday to demand that Brussels replace the Irish border arrangement known as the “backstop,” in a last-ditch attempt to renegotiate an exit treaty that the European Union says it will not change.

The amendment put forward by influential Conservative lawmaker Graham Brady, passed by 317 votes to 301. It is intended to strengthen May’s hand when she returns to Brussels to try to renegotiate something the EU again ruled out within minutes of the vote.

With two months left until Britain is due by law to leave the EU, investors and allies have urged the British government to clinch a deal to allow an orderly exit from the club it joined in 1973.

“Tonight, a majority of honourable members have said they would support a deal with changes to the backstop,” May said, only two weeks after her divorce deal was crushed in the biggest parliamentary defeat in modern British history.

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Graphene is an emerging material for generating polymer nanocomposites. Its heat conducting properties are greater than any other material, yet so dense not even helium can pass through its honeycomb lattice. The inclusion of small amounts of graphene to polymer matrices has the possibility of significantly improving their electrical, barrier and mechanical properties. Since the Nobel prize for Physics was awarded in 2010 for the isolation of graphene there has been an explosion in graphene research and the discovery of new applications. This book discusses the current state-of-the-art in graphene nanocomposites with expertise drawn from across the globe. Insights into the functionalisation of graphene are presented, in the context of various polymer systems, along with appropriate methodologies to be adopted. Grasping this view from several active researchers in the field gives the editor the opportunity to look where future trends are heading. This is an important handbook for anyone wishing to get a comprehensive view of the field and bring established methodologies into their laboratory and will benefit post-graduate students and established researchers alike.

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Available in a 30 day or 106 Day Supply!

This is how it works … the superior science of Fresh & Feminine features a combination of strategic vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and protein sources. This chemistry supports metabolic fat burning that targets specific areas of the body to reduce fat content, most notably in the neck and brisket area. As a result, the cattle have a fresher, more attractive physique. This helps to offset the results seen from aggressive, high energy show cattle diets.


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Unified Model of Performance

Army Researchers Know Exactly How Much Caffeine You Need For Maximum Performance

The Army gets all the cool toys.

In this case, they have the perfect scientific and mathematical formula to calculate exactly when and how much caffeine (or Punch’d Gummies) to take for maximum performance enhancement.

Just use this algorithm and off you go!

The algorithm:

Here’s the full publication: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325420766_Caffeine_dosing_strategies_to_optimize_alertness_during_sleep_loss

Jaques Reifman calls this the Unified Model of Performance algorithm. UMP for short.

Easy, right? Looks like we’re gonna need an app for this. Interested App Devs contact: John @ PunchdEnergy.

Configuring this algorithm for your specific personal requirement and sleep/wake schedule will do two things for you. 1) Create a timing plan for caffeine use; and 2) Indicate an exact caffeine dosage. Following this strategy will boost your performance by up to 64% and by getting the timing correct you can reduce your regular caffeine consumption by 65%.

In addition, Punch’d Energy offers several benefits to help implement this strategy, A) Exact measurable dosages by gummie; B) Fast absorption by dissolving in the mouth; and C) being Ready To Eat at any time.

We like the Military tie-in for Punch’d, because we qualified for their BE FIT program. Punch’d comes along at the perfect time as a healthy and fit alternative to other energy products on the market that either have too many artificial ingredients or too much sugar or sugar substitutes. Here’s more info on the Be Fit program:  https://www.shopmyexchange.com/be-fit

Personalizing Your Power is something we set out to do when we created Punch’d. If you can’t figure out the algorithm yourself, and you have somewhat of a “normal" circadian rhythm and “normal” homeostatic process (“normal” metabolization of caffeine) then here’s what we would recommend:

  • Take Punch’d between the hours of 9am –Noon
  • And then again between the hours of 2pm – 5pm

If you’re working more than normal, or playing late at night, pop Punch’d as necessary. If you’re getting up earlier than most, pop Punch’d earlier in the morning. The key is not to disrupt your normal body rhythm.

Typical Punch’d usage is 2-3 packs of Punch’d/day based on a 2-3 cup of coffee/day regimen. Could be one-or-the-other or a combination of both, Punch’d & Coffee.

Our math is easier to understand than the algorithm, try a half pack and see if you feel the smooth focused power of Punch’d, if not pop the rest of the pack. Continue popping Punch’d every hour for as long as you need the boost. It’s up to you, results are unlimited.

We also promise not to give you coffee breath or stain your shirt.

Give it a try, we think your peak performance can be even higher than 64%. Punch’d helps you Be All You Can Be. Remember that Army slogan?

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Thanks for the discovery article Wanda Thibodeaux !  @WandaThibodeaux

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Electronics giant LG is set to unveil a new smart TV powered by webOS. The big debut will happen at January’s Consumer Electrics Show in Las Vegas. Currently, LG has a line of smart TVs powered by Google TV. The new line will use webOS, which was acquired from HP earlier this year. (WebOS was originally the property of the late Palm, which was bought by HP a few years ago.) Don’t be surprised if the webOS shows up on other LG products, including smartphones.

The original Palm webOS showed some promise when it was debuted, but it was a little late to the party.

The upcoming LG television is expected to have a 2.2GHz dual-core processor with 1.5GB of RAM. We anticipate it will have apps as well, but it will no doubt take time for developers to get on board with a new OS.

LG has been mum on the TV’s details. The South Korean company is also set to release a 105-inch curved-screen television at CES.

The LG webOS television debut will underscore the failure of Google TV. The later device just didn’t catch on with consumers. Watch for other manufactures to jump into the ‘web TV’ arena in 2014 – including Apple. The tech giant have reportedly been working on an iTV for several years. Steve Jobs, the late Apple CEO and visionary, reportedly said he had ‘cracked’ the code for a viable television.

The Consumer Electrics Show begins on January 7. Expect some exciting new gizmos to be leaked in the coming week.


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PER|FORMER is a eurorack sequencer module designed for both live performance and work in the studio. It is based on the concept of step sequencing and can generate a wide variety of rhythms, melodies and modulation signals. While offering a vast amount of programming options, strong focus is put on having performance critical features available as directly as possible. External MIDI controllers can be used for live recording and to control many parameters of the sequencing engine. Alternatively you can directly connect a Novation Launchpad™ to control many aspects of the sequencer. A highly configurable clock system allows the module to act both as a master clock or sync to many other modules or external gear. In the studio, the module can act as a precise MIDI to CV converter. And best of all, if you should ever get bored with music, you can play some asteroids on it too!

PER|FORMER was developed as a free time project and is currently not a commercial product. However, the design files are freely available and the software is open source, allowing experienced DIY enthusiasts to build their own.

  • 8 track sequencer
  • 16 sequences per track
  • 64 steps per sequence
  • Multiple track and sequence modes
  • Note and modulation sequencing
  • Snapshot system
  • Sequence generators
  • Routing system for CV inputs and external MIDI controllers
  • Novation Launchpad™ support
  • Generate MIDI output from multiple sequences
  • Flexible clock system

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  • Large and bright 256×64 pixel OLED display
  • Encoder with push button
  • 32 buttons with bi-color LEDs
  • 5 function buttons with labels on display

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  • 8 CV outputs (-5V to 5V)
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  • USB Host for MIDI over USB
  • microSD Card Slot

  • Width: 34 HP
  • Depth: 25mm
  • Power: 100mA @ +12V, 15mA @ -12V (not including USB host power)

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Pahrump Valley Winery starting $1M expansion

A Pahrump business is undertaking a major expansion as part of a business expansion valued at more than $1 million.

Pahrump Valley Winery at 3810 East Winery Road began construction on its 7,000-square-foot expansion project at its site north of Nevada Highway 160 and Homestead Road.

Owners Bill and Gretchen Loken on Wednesday announced the expansion project, expected to cost just over $1 million, on Wednesday. The winery is looking to push for roughly five times what it produces currently.

“With the new building, we’ll be able to do about 50,000 cases,” Loken said.

Construction crews went directly to work after a morning celebration that drew dignitaries such as Nevada Assemblyman James Oscarson, R-Pahrump, and local media. The addition adds onto the existing 1,800-square-foot production facility. The addition will house production, storage and bottling operations.

Work on the facility is expected to be completed at the end of 2017.

Loken pointed to new laws that passed during Nevada’s 2015 legislative session, specifically Assembly Bill 4, which allowed for all counties in Nevada to open winery operations. Laws prior to that only allowed for growing operations to be in counties with less than 100,000 people.

“What it’s done is it’s created the demand,” Loken said. “With that demand, then we need production facilities.”

The legislation has spurred the expansion of vineyards around the state and it could also increase traffic to Pahrump.

Oscarson said growth at the winery “will certainly expand tourism to the community, those people all spend dollars.”

“They spend the night,” he said. “There’s cottages next door, there’s hotels, there are all these things.”

Contact reporter Jeffrey Meehan at jmeehan@pvtimes.com. On Twitter: @pvtimes

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Nevada town embraces environmental group who bought ranch

The Nature Conservancy closed on its latest acquisition Wednesday: a working, 900-acre cattle ranch at the headwaters of the Amargosa River that could one day become a living laboratory for the coexistence of conservation and commerce.

Apple Maps error rerouting US 95 drivers to Kyle Canyon Road

Apple Maps is telling drivers a portion of U.S. Highway 95 northwest of Las Vegas is closed because to construction, even though the highway is open.

Nevada Governor-elect Steve Sisolak gets married

Nevada Gov.-elect Steve Sisolak married Kathy Ong on Friday at a Las Vegas church, according to a statement.

Nevada gaming win up from surge in baccarat winnings for November

The win advanced to $967 million compared with $909 million in the same month last year, when the impact of the Oct. 1 shooting was being felt, the state’s Gaming Control Board said Wednesday.

Sgt. Downing welcomed home to Tonopah

Friends, colleagues and others cheered, clapped, while some had tears in their eyes, as Nye County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Duane Downing stepped through an entrance into a meeting space inside the Tonopah Convention Center this month. Downing returned home after spending nearly seven months recovering from critical injuries he’d sustained in the line of duty.

Red Rock visitors see little effect from government shutdown

The usual happenings in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area carried on Saturday despite a partial government shutdown now expected to drag into Christmas.

Nevada man ID’d in fatal Highway 160 crash

A man who died Thursday in a two-car crash in the south Las Vegas Valley was identified Friday by the Clark County coroner’s office.

Pahrump aglow with Christmas spirit

Some area residents in Pahrump are displaying their Christmas cheer with bright and colorful light assortments and some special characters.

New robotics competition season gets underway in Pahrump

Several youth from Pahrump and other areas in Southern Nevada met for the first meet-play event of the 2018 season of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge program—where children, ages 12-18, learn how to design, build and program robots, among other things. The program also includes a competition between teams across Nevada, which could lead to local youth entering a world championship.

NDOT seeking public comment on I-11

The Nevada Department of Transportation is looking to gain public input for the northern portion of the future path of Interstate 11.


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If they are the ORIGINAL CREDITOR, and I would assume that you are, then you don't have reasons, original creditors are not bound by the Fair debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The only exception to this is if you live in a state where the state versions of the LAW, apply to the original creditors, such as california and texas. Therefore, check your state statutes. If the laws of your state apply to original creditors, you MAY have some recourse. The disclosure of Non-Public Information (NPI) is governed by a large number of local, state, and federal. In the absence of a definition of "confidential information", no one can give a clear answer. I would suggest the research of state and federal laws that govern all of the information that was disclosed to determine if the law was broken. Some laws do not allow citizens to bring an action against the party, so you may have to report to a governmental agency in order for anything to come of it. Most of the statutes have provisions that allow for bona fide errors, and given your description, that seems to fit this pattern.

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Short answer: Yes.

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How to get the right integration code

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  1. Create your interactive campaign
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What’s the Right Down Swing Sequence?

Once You Start Your Downswing Wrong, You’re Toast!

Golfers work on so many different aspects of their golf swing in swing plane, grip, hip turn, while ignoring the fact that if you start your downswing in the wrong “sequence”, all the other work you’ve done is lost.

So many golfers are under the impression that the first move on the down swing is a transfer of weight or shifting to the front foot.  Not true.  I attended a clinic Chi Chi Rodriguez was giving and a person from the audience asked, “Chi Chi, when do you transfer your weight on the downswing?”  Chi Chi said, “there is no transfer of weight on the downswing,” and the crowd made an ooohhh sound like on a missed putt at a tournament.

I was so relieved to hear it from someone else.  Chi chi said he turns on the downswing, not shift.  You might say that Chi Chi is an old timer like me and things have changed with the new long hitting youngsters of today’s tour.  Well here’s a link to a video on Justin Thomas showing he has 93% of his pressure on his back foot at impact!  Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXMLjljbWMo

The only thing that has changed is the golf clubs, the balls and the younger players of today are much better athletes than in earlier years.  Bigger, stronger and faster club head speeds, period.

If you get the sequence of the downswing in proper order, than you can produce the maximum amount of golf club head speed for your capability.  On tee shots, having a longer and lighter driver will help.  After you max out on equipment fitting, you have to head for the gym for more club head speed.

For most senior golfers I suggest faster forearms.  A lighter grip and a good rotating of the forearms through impact.  A word of caution, starting with a weight shift to the front foot FIRST on the downswing will prohibit the forearms from rotating properly, add loft to the golf and consequentially cost you distance.

The feeling I get on the downswing, (remember as they say on tour “what you feel may bot be real”) is that I am pulling the butt of the golf club straight down to the ground not at the ball and the left cheek of my fanny is headed for my back foot.

Check out this video which explains exactly what I’m talking about….

Is Your Practice Swing Better Than Your Real Swing?

How many times have you heard, “you have a beautiful practice swing.”  We have all known someone that makes a wonderful relaxed practice swing only to look like a wild man when they actually go to hit the golf ball.

The example I have for you is not so drastic an example just mentioned but they’re out there.  I’ve taken a practice swing video and a real shot video and put them on top of each other so you could see if there were differences in the positions.  Yes there were differences and the differences would effect any ones ball flight and consistency.

I think the big difference is that in your practice swing you’re not focused on hitting the ball a specific distance.  You’re not as tempted to surge or pull with your body to accelerate the golf club.  The push, surge or transfer of weight to your front foot will cause your golf club path to get steeper on your down swing.  The push to your front foot will also make it more difficult to square the golf club up at impact because you have less room or time to operate in.

Confused?  I think the video will help.

How to increase distance with your driver without increasing club head speed.

I’ve got an interesting video for you that shows hard numbers to support what I’ve been telling our students for quite some time. Don’t hit down, hit up on the ball? The launch angle needs to be much higher than many club fitting experts claim and again here’s proof below.

Our subject picked up about 50 yards just by changing his tilt and path through the golf ball. He went from a launch angle of about 8 degrees to 20 degrees. He didn’t change drivers either so so much for buying a new driver thinking that you will pick up a ton of distance. An extra 4 or 5 yards maybe?

If you’re not sure if your swing path is what it should be get out your cell phone and video your golf swing from front and down the line and email it to bobbylopez@quickfixgolf.com

Would Like More Lag In Your Golf Down Swing

Many golfers search for lag in the their down swing.

Lag is NOT essential for great golf.  As you will see in the video Rocco Mediate as very little lag in his downswing and yet he plays fantastic golf.  He also smokes really good Cigars.  Rocky Patel Decades.  Don’t say anything but he might be getting some real Cubans from Jimenez but don’t say anything please.

golf-lagLag is actually called “angular acceleration.”  The greater the angle the faster one must move to keep up.  This is found in marching a column left or right.  Maybe you’ve seen ice skaters spinning in a circle and the last skater has to hustle to catch up to the circle of skaters.

How about a race track for runners where you see staggered starting points because the outside runner would be covering a longer circumference unless you move them forward.

In order to produce lag in the golf swing one must have a separation of the arms FROM the body on the down swing.  Because the arms are as if they were on the outside lane of the track above, they must have a head start because they have more real estate to cover.  Yes yes I know about the connected theory.  It works for some folks like Rocco.

Your chest and upper body have such a short distance to reach the finish line which is impact with the ball, that the arms need a considerable head start with the longer golf clubs like the driver and not as much with the short irons.

Watch this video of a very kind student Ed Schneck that allowed me to use his excellent example of lag in his down swing that he was not even trying to produce.

Creating Club Head Speed In Your Golf Swing

Create More Club Head Speed In Your Golf Swing

I receive tons of comments on creating lag or angular acceleration in the golf swing.  Golfers perceive that they can create additional club head speed in their golf swing and they might be right, but not always.  Either way, I am writing this entry to explain how to create more club head speed in your golf swing and create additional lag in your down swing.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I produced a video below that explains everything as well as provide two drills that will help you create more club head speed in your golf swing.  The secret, if there is one, is the shoulders or shoulder tilt at impact which is created by giving the arms a head start on the down swing.  I like the way Nicklaus describes it. Not an exact quote but close. Nicklaus said, I feel like I need to get the golf club to the ball before the buttons in my shirt get there.

The left shoulder, if you’re right handed, has to lift up and back on the down swing.  The critical error most golfers make is they shift their weight forward.  Some claim they’ve read that you must transfer your weight before impact or you must start your down swing with your hips.  I’m not saying that some golfers might not benefit from those suggestions however the video will prove that in reality the left shoulder is moving upward while the lower should is moving towards the ground and that only after the impact position does the golf club’s centrifugal force pull you to your front foot.

There are exceptions such as trap shots, knock downs etc.

Take a look at the video and then feel free to email me a video of yourself absolutely FREE without obligation or badgering of you doing the drills and/or your golf swing after trying out the drills.  Just go to https://quickfixgolf.com/golf-lessons/free-golf-lesson-online/ for directions on how to send your video free.  The drills to help you with your swing are below the video.

For the drills just click on the links below.

1) The 2 o’clock drill https://vimeo.com/user3046193/review/85726349/db79b882a5
2) The turn and tilt drill https://vimeo.com/user3046193/review/85658164/5b79ed393a3) Turn and tilt with a swing trainer https://youtu.be/DJIKysvM4Qk
4) Another tilt drill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVrfxZBX__U

Dustin Johnson using a 10.5 degree driver?

Dustin Johnson using a 10.5 degree driver?

Alright macho man, Bloomberg television showed a short clip on the making of Dustin Johnson’s driver and it shows that he was building a 10.5 degree lofted driver.  I bet you thought that all these long hitters were using low lofted drivers, like 7.5 or 8.5.  You must take into consideration that Dustin has a very closed position at the top of his back swing.  The closed position actually reduces the loft on the golf club.  So, his 10.5 plays like an 8.5.

To reach what is “effective loft” you must add the loft on the golf club itself, the angle of attack of your swing path and the club face angle at impact.  That is why I insist that it is not necessarily the brand of golf club or the fitting system, it is the ability of the fitter to understand and recognize the idiosyncrasies of the golfer’s swing and how the golf club fits into the golfer’s swing pattern.

Here’s a great interview with Butch Harmon on Dustin Johnson, (his student) that is well worth watching.  Butch also supports a teaching philosophy that is very, very, very close to what we do here at Quick Fix Golf.  Personalized instruction allowing you to use your personal assets and tendencies.
Any questions?  bobbylopez@www.quickfixgolf.com

You Want More Club Head Speed? Watch This!

You Want More Club Head Speed?

When you service as many students as I do, you occasionally get that special standout that comes along.  Without fanfare, Sri Ghanta quietly shows up at the Patterson range almost everyday and displays a work ethic that is lacking throughout our society today, in my estimation. (Of course he gets the large range card so it saves him money)
Besides being a great student of the game, Sri is also quite a gentleman.
From a golf swing standpoint, he has worked on the range for a year and a half, never seeing the golf course itself.  I had the honor of playing with him on his first round, as did a few of our other student/members, and we can all attest to the fact that Sri made a par on his first hole, the par 5 1st at Pendleton!  On his third round he made his first birdie on number 6 with the flag in the back on the upper tier.  Pendleton’s most difficult hole!
On the simulator at last nights workshop at Patterson Golf Park Sri was clocking over 117 miles per hour club head speed.  Below is a video analysis of Sri’s golf swing, demonstrating to you the angular acceleration Sri creates, using Sergio Garcia as a comparison.  I hope you learn something from it. My sincere congratulations to Sri, and keep up the good work.
You want more angular acceleration in your swing?  Stay behind the golf ball and pull straight down with the arms first.  For a video on how to get more angular acceleration in your golf swing just email me and I’ll send the video free. bobbylopez@www.quickfixgolf.com

How Far Do The Pros Hit The Ball?

How Far Do The Pros Hit The Ball?

With today’s technology, we can measure exactly how far the ball is traveling and how it’s traveling.  How it travels has a lot to do with how far it travels.   Launch monitors are becoming very popular today because of the ability to measure spin rates and more.  My personal opinion, only opinion mind you, based on years of experience is that the best data on this chart is actually the “Smash Factor.”  The data you can get from something as inexpensive as a piece of face tape on the front of your golf club face, which makes a mark where you’re hitting the golf ball, will do just about the same thing.

If you fit a golf club that you hit more times than not right in the center of the golf club face, more often than any other configuration, that’s YOUR golf cub period!  Get the ball right in the center of the club face and you’ll play your best golf.

I have links to the Tour Average Charts I mentioned earlier below.  I have the Mens Tour and the LPGA Tour.  The data in these chart include:

Club Head Speed – How fast the golf club is traveling
Attack Angle – The angle of approach to the ball.  The longer hitters have an upward angle of about three degrees.  The Tour average is one point three negative.
Ball Speed – How fast the ball comes off the face of the golf club.  1.5 times faster than club head speed is excellent.  Example 100 mph club speed – 150 mph ball speed.
Smash Factor – Overall performance at impact and center hit.
Launch Angle – Angle ball travels after impact
Spin Rate – The number of revolutions in flight
Apex – Overall flight angle
Landing Angle – The angle of approach to the ground
Carry – How far it went in the air.

With all this data, you can see how the modern day touring professional dials in all the advantages available.  Now it’s up to his swing and controlling his/her emotions.

To see the chart on the Men’s PGA Tour Click Here

For the Ladies LPGA Tour click here.

Any questions or comments bobbylopez@bobbylopezgolf.com

Is There A Way To Add Distance Over the Winter?

Is There A Way To Add Distance Over the Winter?

Now’s the time! Just about all sports today are no long seasonal. The off season is an opportunity to make adjustments on your swing as well as improvements in your strength and flexibility. Of course you most likely are playing golf for fun. You could be on of those Virginia golfers that competes in a few of the fine amateur tournaments in the area. Either way, now’s the time!

At you new indoor location SCOR, we have Jason Elkin, who s a certified Titleist TPI golf fitness instructor. You can find out more about the TPI program by going here. All the exercises are golf specific. You can choose your level of improvement and go over with Jason exactly what your goals are. I can set you up with a complete evaluation with Jason once I take a look at your swing. I will show Jason the video of your swing so he and I can evaluate your current situation. Then Jason will get together with you and do a complete evaluation and show you exactly what you need to do to improve for 2011.

I am beginning the program myself and will keep you informed as to my improvement. I’m adding the new creation of my friend PGA Pro Jerry Donahue. It’s called the Speed Flex Pro. It is a weighted stick which is fitted to your current specific swing speed and will enhance your club head speed properly in as little as 30 days.

You may have heard of the Speed Stick Veejay Singh used to pump on TV. Well I stayed away from that one because it was to long. The over length caused one to swing flatter than you normally would which I think is detrimental to your swing.

The Speed Flex pro is sized to your common driver length.

Whether you choose a swing aid like the Speed Flex Pro or you join an exercise program that is golf specific now’s the time to get started. You will be very happy you did once you get to March. Just imagine the look on your Buddie’s faces when you drive it past them!

In case you’re interested in the Speed Flex Pro just send me an email and I’ll explain it to you. I sell it for $10 less than the manufacturer, (they are $89, I’m $79) and I’ll help you pick out the one you want with no shipping for Richmond locals.

Keep Your Knees Flexed To Swing Down and Out.

Keep Your Knees Flexed To Swing Down and Out.

There’s a golf web site out there called Hit Down Damn it! Funny title but they don’t give you the whole story. Bottom line is you need to compress the golf ball against the ground.

To compress the golf ball better you need to have what tour players call today “shaft lean” which is produced when the hands are in front of the club head at or just before impact. Not only does this position compress the golf ball but it also reduces loft on the golf club so you increase distance. Now, one much overlooked factor is the knees. I see a lot o golfers that “jump”at impact. They lift up thinking they will lift the golf ball up. Jumping sometimes comes from the knees straightening up at impact. The result of jumping is you catch the ball on the up swing and on the bottom part of the club face, (catch it thin).

Try and keep your knees flexed well through impact and swing out between first and second base, (for right handers). Don’t forget to start rotating your forearms well BEFORE you reach impact!

You can try some face impact tape on the front of your club face and if it shows that your impact is on the bottom edge of the golf club you’re probably jumping or flipping your hands at impact. If you don’t have any impact tape just come on out to Patterson and I’ll give you some to test your swing free.

You can find me at www.bobbylopezgolf.com

Here’s a video with a drill on developing shaft lean. By the way…I’ve lost 27 pounds since this video was taken. I’ll tell you how I did it. My wife yelled at me, “STOP EATING YOU FAT BAS____! It worked!


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Is privacy an afterthought in a smart home?

Voice assistants from Google and Amazon are attempting to be a unified interface for consumers to interact with different smart home devices and services, further integrating themselves into every aspect of consumers' daily lives. In the past, these tech giants collected data whenever their voice assistant was used to perform an activity by the consumer, such as turning on a light or locking a door.

According to a recent report by Bloomberg, they are now asking device-makers to send a continuous stream of information from connected devices; irrespective of whether or not the assistant was used to control the device, bypassing user agreements and asking device-makers to share data across companies. As an example, TVs would be required to report the channel that is currently being watched, eliminating the user's privacy over content consumption; or smart locks would be required to notify at all times whether or not the door bolt is engaged, thereby informing the company about the user's occupancy.

Russell, an analyst from Parks Associates Inc., calls device-status reporting "a bit of a Trojan Horse request".

The new recommendation requires consumers to place their trust in these companies, and raises alarming questions around data privacy. Though this information may seem trivial at first, every device at home serves as a map of the consumer's personal life, providing sensitive information such as when the consumer comes home and what time everyone in the household goes to sleep. This gives companies a glimpse into the consumer's preferences, schedule, and adds a literal ear into the consumer's life giving them the ability to profile consumers and use the collected data for various purposes, including marketing.

Users agree to provide information when they ask a smart device to perform an action, but this consent extends only to provide specific companies with specific data and for the specific intended use. Any additional information gathered and shared beyond that requires another level of permission that is currently not requested. Is this a problem better solved with regulations?

Bloomberg quoted an Amazon spokesperson saying that they cannot share details on how the data is going to be used in the future or how long the data is saved.

Not only does this new recommendation raise major privacy concerns, but also public guidelines shared by primary market shareholders don't set limits on what they can do with the information they collect. Having an insight into what consumers do in their private spaces can open doors to much larger issues. Bloomberg quoted an Amazon spokesperson saying that the company doesn’t sell user data and doesn’t use information from device-status reports for advertising, but cannot share details on how the data is going to be used in the future or how long the data is saved. All pointing to the lack of a proven business model, making it a loss-leader to first capture as much market share as possible and decide to monetize later on, a potential reason why the primary market shareholders are investing heavily and subsidizing hardware and services.

While policies are catching-up to the realities of the technology and market, companies must do the right thing, not the easy thing.

As a smart home technology provider, we at Universal Electronics Inc. understand the value of data in providing better and richer experiences. We believe that is how a home can truly be smart. Finding the right balance between rich AI models based on complete user data vs. fair use of data with proper consent for application, should be an industry-wide initiative. We believe the following must start today to ensure that we can deliver on the promise of a smart home:

  • User consent: Performing specific actions and sharing data requires user consent. A smart home device purchase means a consumer buys into a promise, whether stated explicitly or implicitly. They "approve" access to some data for a specific company to deliver a specific function. On anything beyond that, either through software updates, or integrations, companies need an explicit approval on what new data will be used, for what purpose, and by which company in terms that consumers can easily understand.
  • Regulations: The process needs to be regulated by establishing industry-wide standards and protocols to specify the frontiers of data collected and shared.
  • Level playing field: Consumers and companies must have a level playing field to avoid scenarios that result in a monopoly or duopoly; or those that limit chances of innovation, or risk consumer choice in the long run. This is easy to overlook when faced with decisions that are artificially influenced through free or subsidized services today, in hopes of building an unknown business model in the future without any boundaries imposed.

We should regard privacy as a core feature of all voice assistants, rather than being an afterthought.

Smart homes have lasting effects in a consumer's life. For an aging population, a smart home is essential in controlling how we live in our homes as we age with the help of technology. To ensure that a user's data and conversations are not being compromised, we should regard privacy as a core feature of all voice assistants, rather than being an afterthought. While policies are catching-up to the realities of the technology and market, companies must do the right thing, not the easy thing.

The industry is starting to take notice, and hopefully, we are ready to find a lasting solution:

Your Smart Light Can Tell Amazon and Google When You Go to Bed

Google Home and Amazon Alexa are asking smart home device makers for user info

Amazon, Google demand constant data from smart home devices

Your smart light can tell Amazon, Google when you go to bed at night

Your smart light can tell Amazon and Google when you go to bed, as tech giants track you from morning till night

For days when there is no cloud in sight…

For years, we worked towards a future where technology makes lives more convenient. As technology evolved, the way consumers interacted with their surroundings also evolved. We have come a long way from using physical devices such as keyboards as user interfaces, to today using voice as an interface through general assistants. Whether to interact with smart devices, or to gain information, these digital assistants flood the market to cater to our various needs, but don't address today's consumer behaviour.

Voice-based technologies experienced massive growth in the past five years leading to the rise of voice-controlled digital assistants, allowing interactions with devices in a natural way. Digital assistants, in addition to their shortcomings while controlling devices that lack cloud-to-cloud connectivity, have another limitation - their dependence on high-speed, reliable internet connectivity.

24 million in rural USA don’t have access to high-speed internet and  a portion of the population in every state still uses dial-up.

According to a recent report, 3.9 billion people in the world, out of the 7.593 billion lack access to the internet. In rural USA, 24 million don’t have access to high-speed internet and in every single state, a portion of the population doesn’t have access to broadband and still uses a dial-up connection. Actual weather conditions can also paralyze the internet, and lead to frequent outages that cause unreliable network connections.

Scenarios with limited to no network connectivity poses several challenges in the adoption of useful services that could be offered through voice-enabled products, including:

  • Critical commands: Failure to enable use cases that require a critical, dependable service, such as home security use cases, for example - being able to arm the house when there is no internet connectivity.
  • Latency: Technology needs to be a reliable utility with known behavior and trusted response times. Poor latency in executing a capability is unacceptable.
  • Cost: Latency can be avoided by constant streaming and high data rate, but that would result in higher operational costs.

Research suggests that over the past decade, technological developments increased exponentially and computation power shifted from being cloud-intensive to being edge-intensive. The cost of computation reduced, and edge devices are now more powerful, making them capable of doing more intelligent (language) processing on the edge, instead of the cloud. So now, a simple "Good Night" command would not only turn off your TV, but would also arm your house. Imagine being able to control your security system with voice through your digital assistant - at all times, even when network connectivity is not available!

QuickSet SDK, was designed as a smarter edge to begin with, using an offline virtual machine that runs commands and rules locally.

Nevo Butler is built on QuickSet SDK which was designed as a smarter edge to begin with, enabling Nevo Butler deliver the intelligence needed, even when the device is offline. It merges offline voice processing for selected activities with an offline virtual machine running commands and rules locally, to provide reliability and control over privacy. Digital assistants on the market  rely heavily on the cloud for their functionalities, giving companies an opportunity to listen to their consumers, potentially blurring privacy lines.

Our platform delivers the ultimate user experience with conversational interactions through cloud based natural language understanding; while offering reliable, secure and low latency embedded voice capabilities that can be used offline for the most commonly used commands. You don't need to send electrons across the planet to decipher if someone just wants to turn the TV on, you can make a home smarter in-place, and connected when needed!

All fundamental tasks in entertainment control such as - turn on/off TV, turn up/down volume, change the channel, can be executed through local voice commands without ever having to find the remote control, or worrying about the internet being down. According to Nielsen, in USA, adults watch about five hours and four minutes of TV per day i.e 35.5 hours per week. By saving fractions of seconds in each interaction, by using voice to perform basic functions, we can have meaningful effects for the large volume of users that can benefit from this.

Adults in USA watch TV ~35.5 hours per week...we can have meaningful effect on users by saving fractions of seconds in each interaction...

Our approach via Nevo Butler addresses gaps while extending capabilities of existing digital assistants. For example, you can still tell your Google or Alexa to turn on your TV; or in a scenario where they aren't present in the same room, you can talk directly to your service provider to turn your TV on.

As a white label digital assistant, all commands can be customized for very specific use cases, making Nevo Butler your new best friend!

Universal Electronics collaborates with Cirrent to deliver seamless Wi-Fi® set-up for the connected home

Cirrent's technology will be offered on our Smart Home digital assistant platform, Nevo® Butler, to automatically configure Wi-Fi and improve ease of use and security for Wi-Fi connected devices. Cirrent is a leading provider of software that enables product companies to make Wi-Fi products easier to use, more reliable, and more secure. Cirrent’s technology will be offered as a pre-integrated feature on Nevo® Butler to bring enhanced provisioning and network management to our customers.

Wi-Fi onboarding infrastructure service, pre-integrated into Nevo® Butler, extends home automation services, improves product set-up, connectivity and insights.

Nevo Butler is an end-to-end voice-enabled smart home hub with a built-in white label digital assistant that unifies entertainment control and home automation experiences, enabling interoperability across fragmented ecosystems. Nevo Butler platform and kits will be available to operators worldwide to offer voice-enabled entertainment experiences and smart home services to consumers while remaining in control of the customer relationship.

Complete Wi-Fi provisioning and IoT network intelligence solution...

By pre-integrating Cirrent’s technology into Nevo Butler, our customers will get access to Cirrent’s ZipKey® technology for fully automatic provisioning of Wi-Fi networks, radically simplifying the set up for end users.  Operators worldwide will be able to access Cirrent’s IoT Network Intelligence to automatically diagnose any Wi-Fi or network-related issues, taking the guesswork out of Wi-Fi setup and management for customers and operators.

...enables operators to remotely monitor network performance and diagnose performance issues to improve customer experience.

By adding ZipKey and IoT Network Intelligence to Nevo Butler products, we will be enabling operators worldwide to bring the benefits of ZipKey to subscribers, as Nevo Butler products may also act as ZipKey hotspots, allowing end customers to use ZipKey to onboard third party products -- simplifying the onboarding for home entertainment, security, appliances, and IoT products.

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Grandpa Joe sips tea with his granddaughter, telling her of his exploits along the river as a young boy – and particularly of his search for the great river giant. On the way down the river he catches an enormous fish, meets friendly braves from the Chippewa tribe, is captured by pirates with rotten manners, sails over a waterfall, is rescued by mermaids, and is captured again by the same pirates, who are then attacked by the Chippewa intent on saving him. The great river giant himself puts an end to the hullabaloo and they all take tea by the river.

This rollicking, action-packed story plays with the conventions of the tall tale. Every fish the boy catches is larger than he is, the pirates are deliciously repulsive, and the mermaids are mesmerizingly beautiful. Drawson’s illustrations make it clear that the boy who sets off down the river is Grandpa Joe’s younger self, and that the adventures he encounters emerge from a youthful imagination, so we don’t expect realistic portrayals. The final tableau of tea on the lawn – in which past and present, real and imaginary merge – is a lovely depiction of harmonious closure. The river giant sipping tea from a thimble-sized teacup is a fine humorous touch, as is the dry statement: “The pirates behaved as well as could be expected.”

Younger children may find the grotesque Dickensian pirates and the river giant frightening. Nevertheless, older kids will likely notice that at the most tense moments, the boy looks pouty rather than terrified, and will enjoy this imaginative romp.


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Now in the way of Lottery men do also tax themselves in the general, though out of hopes of Advantage in particular: A Lottery therefore is properly a Tax upon unfortunate self-conceited fools; men that have good opinion of their own luckiness, or that have believed some Fortune-teller or Astrologer, who had promised them great success about the time and place of the Lottery, lying Southwest perhaps from the place where the destiny was read.

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I am 30 pages from the end of Inkdeath, which I have spent at least 5 hours today absorbing, and am absolutely sick to my stomach/terrified to read any more, because I have scars from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and I cannot go through this again.

I've already given up hope of them leaving the stupid Inkworld behind forever, but oh my God, all I want is for Mo and Resa and their unborn second child* to make it to the end alive and live happily ever after. Dustfinger and Roxane too if I can swing it, as I have had just about all of him dying that my heart can take, but please, please, parents forever. I WILL SACRIFICE MEGGIE FOR THIS. Sacrificing Meggie seems unlikely, but I am over her, even if she has come to her senses about Farid and seemingly moved on.

*Why yes, I have been skipping about like a giddy loon since that happened. Way to my heart, authoress, way to my heart! Pregnant heroines in dangerous times for always. Another thing I like a great deal about this book is how, other than the simpler writing style, I keep forgetting it's for children because just so MUCH of it is told from the perspective of various adults. That's the one great improvement over Harry Potter, I must say. Instead of eternal frustration that Harry does not run around following Tonks and/or Lupin at every moment, I get all the firsthand fear and worry and love from both spouses, which has caused like 50 spontaneous clapping fits already.

Hence why I would really, really appreciate it if things would wind up in a less tragic way than it did for them.

(on another note, when Mo hints that Dustfinger is almost as familiar with Resa's face as he is and we flash back to her saying she's told Mo everything...can that mean what I think it means? Because. My heart wants this to have happened. [internet says yes. good.] Said heart is apparently working overtime to ship everybody of appropriate ages to stop thinking about the fact that Meggie is 14 at most. I finally threw in the towel and just decided she was 17 if she was a day before it drove me insane.)
Edit: *breathes a huge sigh of relief* THANK YOU, CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND HAPPY ENDINGS. All right then. I'd prefer if we didn't end with Resa in a quasi-nothlit situation, that's unsettling and clearly I'll just have to edit that part out of my memory...but all things considered, I am quite satisfied. And then for an impressive bonus you even kicked Farid out of the picture for a while. Very nice!

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• What's the current draw when the Raspi is at idle (min), and at 100% CPU/GPU (max)?
    (With no peripherals/accessories plugged in)

  • What's the minimum and maximum voltage allowed to run the Raspi stably?

Look at:

It shows that power drainage is variable, depending of the connected devices. Tests never reached 700 mA. Max was 515 mA.

I reordered the metrics in the source article by mA drainage:

  • 322mA at 5.09V - at login prompt on Arch, idle CPU, nothing plugged but power (1.64 Watt).
  • 322mA ~ 323mA - only power, no IO, (peaks at 350-390mA when CPU solicited).
  • 335mA - only a couple PS2 keyboard & optical mouse plugged together on one USB port with an adapter (+30mA when mouse in use, +7mA when num lock LED on!)
  • 375mA - ethernet only.
  • 377mA - ethernet and composite video (compared to 375mA without video composite).
  • 386mA - Mouse&KB + ethernet and idle CPU.
  • 389mA - Mouse&KB + composite video + ethernet at idle CPU.
  • 394mA - CPU idle, LXDE/X11 on!, composite video, ethernet, PS2 KB&Mouse together on one USB port.
  • 435mA ~ 465mA - ethernet only, CPU stress test with ethernet only with 'stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 4M --timeout 20s'.
  • 440mA (peaks @ 480mA) - Mouse&KB + composite video + ethernet with CPU stress.
  • 475mA ~ 515mA - LXDE/X11 on!, composite video, ethernet, PS2 KB&Mouse together on one USB port, mouse in use + CPU stress, LXDE/X11 on.

Mouse & KB: draw 28mA when idle, to 80mA when mouse in use + 7 to 8mA per keyboard LED when on.

  • Hi there! Although you can leave it as a reference, try and sumarise the information in your link as best you can in your answer. This helps to prevent the information being lost if the link ever changes. Thanks! – Jivings Jul 21 '12 at 13:25

My experimentation with Raspberry Pi:

Testing environment (big version)

Voltage is generated by this device and measured by this meter.

I started Raspberry Pi with Ethernet and HDMI connected, with usual Raspbian "2014-06-20-wheezy-raspbian.zip" on SD-card. Nothing is connected to USB ports.

Usual mode

I started from 5.15V and decreased the voltage gradually, checking how the device is working (using UART to starts things there).

5.15V 0.43A
     Normal mode, everything works
5.15V 0.37A (no eth)
     With Ethernet cable plugged out
5.15V 0.33A (no eth, no HDMI)
     After /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -o
5.15V 0.39A (no HDMI)
     Without HDMI, but with Ethernet
5.15V 0.47A (cat /dev/mmcblk0 > /dev/null)
     Ethernet and HDMI active + reading SD card
5.14V 0.50A (yes > /dev/null)
     Ethernet and HDMI active, loading CPU
5.03V 0.43A
4.86V 0.43A
4.12V 0.44A
4.12V 0.52A (yes > /dev/null)
     Without USB devices, it works more or less stably even at 4.1 volts.
4.11V 0.38A (no eth)
4.00V 0.43A
     The last voltage where Ethernet gets available after booting.
3.97V "Disabling IRQ #32"
     After this messages Ethernet and USB disappears
     and power usages drops. `lsusb` shows only one line.
3.85V 0.20A (no eth)
3.87V 0.25A (no eth; yes > /dev/null)
3.83V 0.20A (no eth)
3.82V 0.17A (no eth, no HDMI)
     I've seen no state where HDMI fails while CPU still works.
3.77V 0.16A (long bootloop)
     It reboots after trying to load USB modules or something.
3.73V 0.17A (short bootloop)
     "Uncompressing Linux..." in a loop

Special mode: bypassing linear regulator

Images of Raspberry Pi with shorted pins and voltage display

  1. Ensure the input voltage is less than 3.5V, not 5V;
  2. Ensure no other input 5V voltage sources are present;
  3. Short conveniently placed 5V pin and 3.3V pins together.

I started with 3.39V and checked what works and what fails as I decrease the voltage:

3.39V 0.45A
    Works like usual, although if you want USB you'll
    need lucky undervolting-friendly devices (or probably a powered hub).
3.39V 0.54A (yes > /dev/null)
3.39V 0.50A (cat /dev/mmcblk0 > /dev/null)
3.25V 0.45A
3.10V 0.45A
3.10V 0.39A (no eth)
2.95V 0.44A
    Probably near the lowest voltage where USB and LAN may still work.
2.85V 0.22A "Disabling IRQ #32"
    LAN goes down.
2.75V 0.22A (no eth)
    Unstable operation.
2.75V 0.31A (no eth; cat /dev/urandom > qqq;)
    Loading CPU: still works...
2.75V 0.18A (short bootloop)
    Writing to SD card (typing "sync" command): reboots and
    even can't load the Linux kernel back.
2.80V 0.2 A (long bootloop)
    Still can't boot, probably rebooting instead of initializing USB.
2.79V 0.22A (no eth)
    Decreasing voltage after the boot has finished.
2.79V 0.18A (no eth; no HDMI)
    HDMI is turned off explicitly by tvservice -o
2.79V 0.29A (no eth; no HDMI; yes > /dev/null)
2.72V 0.18A (no eth; no HDMI)
    Gradually decreased voltage to this after fully booting.
    Short bootloop on attempt to load CPU with "yes > /dev/null".
2.66V 0.16A (lowest voltage to receive "Uncompressing Linux...")
2.64V 0.10A (no messages to UART, but it attempts to start)
2.56V 0.06A (no messages to UART)

Note that protection fuse is also bypassed in this mode, so the risk of rendering the board nonfunctional is higher in this setup.

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    If somebody wants, I may do additional tests (for example involving GPU, h264 or over/underclocking). – Vi. Jul 23 '14 at 17:07
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    This is a great answer, thanks for writing it. It seems that RPi designers were penny wise and pound foolish by using a cheap voltage regulator instead of an LDO (which would allow stable CPU operation down to 3.3V power supply voltage). Half of the PSU-related questions here would never be written then... – Dmitry Grigoryev Mar 3 '17 at 8:55

The model B requires 700 mA at 5 V. That's the maximum for the overall board. The A is 300 mA. USB is +/- 5% so 4.75-5.25 V. Since this includes 2 x USB; the board itself is 500 mA.

While USB can be up to 500 mA, a device must request that; otherwise it gets the default 100 mA.

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  • idk, accurate answer – Alexander Jul 21 '12 at 2:50
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    Because it's variable with usage, not constant at 700mA. 700 takes into account 100 for each USB port, and is a maximum safe value. The answer shows no understanding of electronics and is already common knowledge – Alex L Jul 21 '12 at 11:08

The RPi Performance wiki page has some sample readings:

  • Booting: 120-400mA (that's 0.6-2W)
  • Idling: 320mA without network, 370mA with (that's 1.6-1.85W)
  • 1080p video playback: 750mA (that's 3.75W)

With the exception of 1080p playback, I took the measurements myself with a lab power supply, so I can verify their accuracy. No USB devices (keyboard/mouse) were connected. Neither was HDMI, but I suspect the HDMI output was still running.

Interestingly my PS/2 keyboard (connected via a USB adapter) was rated at 75mA but only increased the power draw by 10mA.

If you don't want to click links, the Raspberry Pi can handle 4.75v to 5.25v.

As for the current draw/power consumption, here are some numbers:

All of these are bare-bone (does not have any peripherals/accessories attached)

*** Fun Fact (Tested on Pi1 B+) ***
Any turned-off Raspberry Pi that's still plugged in: 75 mA

*** Idle ***
Raspberry Pi 2 B:  420mA
Pasberry Ri B+:    230-240mA
Raspberry Pi B:    320-330mA
Raspberry Pi A+:   100-110mA
Raspberry Pi A:    120-140mA
Raspberry Pi Zero: 60-70mA

*** Under Load/Max ***
Raspberry Pi 2 B:  1200mA
Pasberry Ri B+:    330-600mA
Raspberry Pi B:    480-600mA
Raspberry Pi A+:   200-250mA
Raspberry Pi A:    320-400mA
Raspberry Pi Zero: 140 mA

Take note that some of them have a bit of give-or-take.

The model A and B require 300 mA and 700 mA (respectively) maximum for the board on it's own.

The board requires USB power, which is 5v ± 5% - 4.75-5.25 V.

  • The RPi has limited voltage regulation so do not go outside this threshold!
  • Many power supplies advertised for the RPi are actually 5.25v, so that the voltage drop endured during use will balance out with the higher voltage to produce the desired 5v

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