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RFM12 programming

October 7, 2010 12 comments

I know that I wouldn’t rediscover a wheel here, but there are many problems with these modules. Generally, problems arises from lacks in documentations.

Here is short tutorial, describing basics of SPI transmittion & RFM12 module behavior.

    SPI transmition

SPI comes from Serial Peripheral Interface. In hardware appears as 4 main lines :
SDO – data coming out from host (microcontroller) to module
SDI – data coming in from module into host
SCK – data clock, timing the transfer
and more or less optional :
SS – chip select, indicates that transmittion is going to occur on the lines

The definition here is host-centric, but any will do when you remember to connect host’s SDO to module’s SDI and host’s SDI to module’s SDO.
In interface IDLE state – when you don’t want to transmit anything – SS should be LOGIC HIGH. When you want to start the transmittion pull SS down to logic LOW, and keep it low during the transmittion.

There are two different kind of SPI operation – Master and Slave mode, assuming host-centric (the clock generation is provided by host) interface. Connecting RFM12 we will consider only Master mode – that is, the microcontroller is providing SCK signal and is responsible for helding SS line at appropriate level, short – master is controlling the transmittion.

Writing is started by pulling SS low. SCK should be low when inactive. Rising edge on SCK is defining moment when module is “reading” its SDI line (the host’s SDO line). Simultaneously, module is sending data through its SDO (host’s SDI line) !!! This is the most important thing, considering SPI interface.
Of course, during the host writing data, module is sending previously requested data, or default register defined in hardware as a feature (eg. RFM12 is sending its STATUS register).

Example 1. Writing data to RFM12 module :
should be executed as follows :
1) pull down SS to select RFM12 module
2) pump out bits of data (x8209) through hosts’ SDO line, clocking the SCK simultaneously (high indicates data ready at SDO)
3) pull up SS to deselect RFM12 module

In the example above, we’re discarding the information RFM12 is sending back during SCK clocking.

Example 2. Reading STATUS register of RFM12 :

status = WriteCMD(0x0000);

this code should be performed as follows :
1) pull down SS
2) pull down host’s SDO (we’re sendind all zeroes)
3) clock 16 times the SCK, listening host’s SDI before SCK is going high. This is feature of RFM12 module – it is sending its STATUS register MSB bit (FFIT) before first SCK pulse!
4) pull up SS to indicate end of transmittion

Accumulating SDI bits in a variable, we will obtain RFM12 status register value after 16 clocks on SCK line.

int cnt = 16;
int result = 0;
while (cnt--)
result = result | SDI;
result = result << 1;
SCK = 1;
SCK = 0;

Example 3. Reading from FIFO register of RFM12

 unsigned char data = WriteCMD(0xB000);

That code should be executed in this way :
1) SS low
2) clocking out the command 0xB000 (16 bits), simultaneously accumulating SDI into result variable
RFM12 will accept the 0xB0 command during the first 8 clocks (Read FIFO command) and will spit out the FIFO register during the last 8 clocks, so the FIFO contents will be held into lower byte of result variable.
3) variable ‘data’ will be filled with only 8 lower bits of ‘result’.
4) SS high

RFM12 SPI Interface
There is nothing strange here, except 16-bit mode of interface. It means that each transfer is 16 bit wide, consists of 16 clock changes on SCK line.

RFM12 vs RFM12B
RFM12 is 5V tolerant device – it can be powered with +5V and accepts +5V as HIGH level on SPI lines.
RFM12B is 3.3V device ONLY !!! That means, you should provide +3.3V as power to RFM12B module, and you should translate (if necessary) levels at SPI interface to 3V3 level on the side of RFM12B.

RFM12 Interface
RFM12 Interface consists of 4 SPI lines (SDI,SDO,SCK,SS) and optional connections (eg. nIRQ, nRES, etc).
OPTIMAL way is to connect SPI & nIRQ line.
nIRQ is an Interrupt ReQuest line, informing host (microcontroller (MCU)), about an event occured in the RFM12 module.
It is strongly recomended to connect this line to your MCU, especially to some kind of External Interrupt pin (INT0, INT1, and so on…).

nRES is a hardware RESET signal. It can be connected to provide HW reset ability. To reset RFM12 module, you should held nRES LOW for about 5ms, and then release it HIGH and waits for about 50ms.

nIRQ is logic HIGH, when there is no event to respond (module is calm and quiet). RFM12 is pulling nIRQ LOW, when it wants to say something, eg. the data is received and ready at FIFO register to be read, the module is ready to transmit next byte…

Power-Up condition
After applying power to your circuit, RFM12 will assert nIRQ line LOW because of POR (Power-On-Reset) interrupt. You should read status register (WriteCMD(0x0000)) of RFM12 to CLEAR this condition. After reading STATUS, RFM12 will release nIRQ HIGH -> idle state.
In readed status, you will find POR bit set (0x4000). That indicates your SPI connections is running smooth, and RFM12 is working correctly.

RFM12 Initial configuration
According to many sources in the Internet, esp. RFM12 Datasheet, RF12 Datasheet, RF12 Programming Guide, the first thing you’d do with the RFM12 is sending initial configuration setup. It would sets the internal RFM12′ registers to desired values, eg. frequency of operation, speed of transmittion, modulation deviation, etc…

Consider this code :

    WriteCMD(0x80D8); //EL,EF,433band,12.0pF
    WriteCMD(0x8201); // Sleep
    WriteCMD(0xC611); // Speed of transmittion = 19200 bauds
    WriteCMD(0x9460); // frequency

This commands should be sent to RFM12 after applying power to the device. For detailed information about each command I’ll send you to datasheet. After all, the first 4 commands are the most important.

After this step, your RFM12 is at SLEEP state (it is not receving nor transmitting anything), and is awaiting your further commands.

RFM12 – Transmitting data
RFM12 data transmition is all about FIFO and STATUS register.
FIFO holds data to be sent when your RFM12 is in TX mode, and holds data received in RX mode.

BEFORE entering TX mode, RFM12 should be at IDLE (0x8209) or SLEEP (0x8201) mode. nIRQ line should be high – there can not be any unhandled IRQ left.

RFM12 is designed to provide interrupting transmittion, it means, TX mode should be entered only when you want to transmit data, and over immediately after the transmittion completes.
RX mode can be switched ON all the time.

RFM12 is designed to send packet of data, consisting of :
1) PREAMBLE (one or more 0xAA or 0x55 bytes)
2) SYNC WORD ( default 0x2DD4 )
3) user packet data…

Preamble is required to synchronize the other RFM12 receiver circuit clock with the transmitting signal, the longer the better, but usually 2 bytes of 0xAA (alternating 1010101….) is sufficient.
Sync word is required to indicate start of transmittion. Data sent AFTER SYNC WORD would be pumped into FIFO register.

Transmittion should be performed with these steps :
1) Assume the RFM12 is IDLE (you should provide in your code simple state machine, describing current mode of RFM12)
2) Fill the FIFO with 2 bytes of PREAMBLE ( 0xB8AA, 0xB8AA )
3) Enter TX mode ( 0x8239 )
4) Watch nIRQ line while it is HIGH (when it falls low, that would indicate FIFO is ready to accept next byte)
5) Send next byte of transmittion ( sync word 0xB82D, 0xB8D4, then your own data … 0xB800 | data )
6) go to 4) while there is something to send
7) Leave TX mode by entering IDLE (0x8209) or RX (0x82D9) ….

RFM12 – Reception of data
Reception starts when you command the RFM12 to enter RX mode (0x82D9). After or before that command you should clear FIFO ( subsequent 0xCA83, 0xCA81).

Receiving should be performed like this :
1) Enter RX mode (0x82D9)
2) Waits for nIRQ LOW -> it means that RFM12 received preamble , syncword and 1st byte of transmitted user data. FIFO would now contain 1st byte of our data.
3) Read FIFO (0xB000) and store lower byte of result as in your RX buffer.
The Read FIFO command would restore HIGH on nIRQ.
4) Go to 2) while you want to receive more data
5) Clear FIFO

The packet transmitted over the aether should looks like :
0xAA, 0xAA, 0x2D, 0xD4, data_len, chksum, data[0], data[1] …. data[n]
so : preamble, syncword, data length to be received, checksum of data, subsequent data bytes.
That would ease the reception, and allow to control correctness of received data.

I hope that this short brief would help you in your fun with RFM12.

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Fighting with RFM12 modules…

September 27, 2010 3 comments

Yeah,… because it is really fight…
These modules are cheap, tiny but very painful pain-in-the-ass things.
Datasheets are full of errors, misleads… Provided code samples have errors, they simply don’t work. (it is proven across the Net).

If you’re interested in this kind of fun, you should look at Strobotics blog

I’ll try to post some of my code samples, when I win the battle…

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His Favour Is All The Difference You Need

giving all glory to the One who gave it all

It’s true. His favour raises you up to places where the natural cannot take you.

Today, Zhengkai and I attended the press conference organised by the Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) 2009 at the National Museum of Singapore. So this post is as much a public relations plug (heh) as a testimony as well. ZK’s short film, DISTANCE (一支针 ，一条线) was nominated as one of nine finalists (out of more than NINETY submissions) for the Singapore Short Film Competition as part of the SIFF2009.

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DISTANCE in the festival programme!

the second last one

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Because I was credited by ZK as the producer for the film, which really was me transporting equipment, buying lunch and fetching kopi, I was extended the invitation to attend the press conference as well (this is called, as I’ve told others, being more than a conqueror), along with other familiar faces and names like Jack Neo, Royston Tan, Kelvin Tong.. now isn’t that undeserved favour!

trying to remain calm during photo-taking

all the local nominees up for the awardsZK is top row, first from left

Kelvin Tong (first row, third from left), Uncle Jack (FR, fifth from left), Royston (top row, centre)

So what else can it be but His free favours? I remember writing this in September last year, after finishing the two gruelling days of shooting. Whatever I felt, ZK went through many times more, having to direct, act, watching every take on the monitor to ensure he had enough good takes to move onto the next scene. Today, as I observed how the people in the industry, even Royston Tan himself, coming up to ZK and congratulating him, I couldn’t help feeling overwhelmingly happy and proud of this precious brother in Christ.

And God is so sweet to allow me the privilege to be there as well, grabbing front-row seats to ZK’s testimony unfolding before my very eyes.

When I re-read the post back in September (which I titled “The Appearance of Favour” for no particular reason then, but seems particularly apt now, in hindsight), I couldn’t help but be awed at the words Abba drew from me, almost five months ago:

“It’s been a privilege to have been part of his shoot. Don’t we all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves? ‘Despise not the day of small beginnings’, as I was brought to remembrance today. Some people will see it as pure hard work and unappreciated labour, sweat and toil exchanged for nothing; but for myself I say that I see the mark of greatness, the very seed of promise planted and destined to bear much fruit.

I wish I could write more, but as I watched the various takes on the monitor, I was left wordless at what I saw. So much potential. So much said with no lines spoken. And only You can bring that potential to manifest in its entirety. Let it be so, Dad.

This is my earnest prayer for my friend, brother and Your beloved.”

All I can say is, yes, His favour is all the difference you need for good success. It’s not our natural skills, talent, networking, schmoozing or whatever exists in the natural that guarantees our position or recognition. Instead, it is His favour and His qarah that will propel you to stand before kings, precisely because it is undeserved and unearned. Our flesh was never meant to accomplish anything noteworthy and that is why we have been given that perfect work at the cross that has ensured good days and days of heaven for us on earth.

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Life Above The Sun

It’s been a curious week. Until today I never really saw how oppressed I was, with all manner of sly attacks and accusations directed towards me. Sneaky little stabs in the darkness when the silence grew too loud. Whispered lies that hung like heavy grey clouds over my head.

But You sent Darlene with ‘This Is Our God’ resounding within the auditorium walls, bringing back to memory the sense of the momentous and the lifechanging as I stood within the Acer Arena in Sydney. Partaking of Your broken body and shed blood with a desperate cry for You on my lips. And then the shafts of light streaking through the cloud with the Word by Pastor Prince, before banishing it completely.

As I was telling Yosh, it is strangely exciting because this level of attack means that there’s something awesome You’ve already been preparing ahead of me.

And this is what life above the sun is about. Your unfair goodness and undeserved favour marking all my days.

Choosing To See

Jonwwy posted this on his blog, which is an excellent and opportune reminder to me. Thanks bro.

Seasons change and shift. Yesterday was a typical hot and humid Singapore evening with the heat setting everybody’s teeth on edge; a grim reminder that the cool of the monsoon season may very well be over completely. No more chilly nights huddling under the covers. No gales messing up your hair when you sit alone at your secret spot by the sea. And yet, this afternoon, in the heat of day, clouds blanket the entire sky and the air is filled with calm breezes.

“And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 (emphasis mine)

Paul said it didn’t matter if he knew nothing, because he chose to fixate upon Jesus’ finished work. That was all he needed. Because everything else in his ministry flowed from that knowledge. So it doesn’t matter if you’ve read clever books or quirky television shows or follow the top fashion blogs religiously or can critically analyse arthouse films or write like Murakami or take really beautiful photos or have a high-flying job and position. They have no real benefit in the face of beholding the finished work of Calvary.

It doesn’t even matter if you don’t know the correct verses to speak into your situation. Just bring Jesus and Him crucified into it. He will enable, empower, teach, guide and most of all, love.

Why complicate things when the truth is staring right at you in the face?

Do not worry. Do not fret. I am here. I have for you a hope and a future. You are my son. Which father does not delight in giving his child good things? Do not be afraid. I am.

This is my father’s voice as he speaks to me.

She replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.” Ruth 3:18

“Sit still. And see my salvation.”


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Moses' fifth speech, Part 22, False witnesses

Feb 13, 2013

The importance of the law of witnesses applies also to situations where someone bears a false witness. The Ninth Commandment says, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” When we see how the double witness establishes all things in the earth, including the knowledge of God’s will, this command is quite serious. It goes far beyond the act of telling a few lies to one’s neighbor.

Deuteronomy 19:16-21 says,

16 If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing, 17 then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days. 18 And the judges shall investigate thoroughly; and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely, 19 then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. 20 And the rest will hear and be afraid; and will never again do such an evil thing among you. 21 Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

If a man falsely accuses his neighbor of premeditated murder, the judgment is that he should receive the punishment that was meant for his neighbor. In such a case, he could receive the death penalty, “life for life,” unless his victim forgave him. If he falsely accuses his neighbor of stealing 100 dollars, then he must pay his victim double restitution, or 200 dollars.

As always, the judgment of the law is in direct proportion to the crime itself, and the victim has the right to forgive or collect whatever penalty is due.

Isaiah applies this law in a prophetic manner, saying to Israel in Isaiah 43:10-12,

10 “You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and My servant whom I have chosen, in order that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me, there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me… 12 It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, and there was no strange god among you; so you are My witnesses,” declares the Lord.

In other words, Israel was to bear witness that there is no other god before Him, even as the First Commandment states. This is ironic, of course, because Israel was usually full of false gods, and for this reason, they were cast out of the land. But Isaiah speaks first of the remnant of grace within Israel (Romans 11:7), who did indeed keep the First Commandment; and secondly he speaks of a future time when Isaiah 45:25 will be fulfilled, saying,

25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel will be justified and will glory.

Of course, Isaiah does not limit this salvation to Israel as a nation, for he wrote a few verses earlier,

22 Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. 23 I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness and will not turn back, that to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.

The Apostle Paul comments further on Isaiah’s teaching in Romans 9-11, showing not only that “all Israel will be saved” (11:26), but with them will come “the fulness of the nations” (11:25). In other words, all mankind at some point in time will bow their knees to Jesus Christ and confess their allegiance to Him. Paul changes the wording slightly in Philippians 2:11, telling us that they will “confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.”

To be a true witness of God, one must not have any other gods before Him. That is the primary focus of Isaiah’s prophecy. At the present time, only the remnant of grace have attained this promise, as Paul says, but the promise will be far greater in the end. God in His wisdom has fashioned a plan by which His purpose for the earth will be fulfilled.

Meanwhile, however, the big question of history is this: Who is the Christ? Who is the chosen Heir of the world? Who is the anointed King of creation? There are many contenders for the throne, and each has witnesses. Which witnesses are true, and which are bearing false witness?

The number 34 is the number of Identification in Scripture. For this reason, the 34th psalm speaks of this conflict in identifying the Messiah who was to come. Keep in mind, however, that Psalm 35 is the 34th psalm, because Psalm 9 and 10 are two halves of the same psalm. (See the Septuagint, where the psalm numbers are correct.) I explained this in my book, The Genesis Book of Psalms, which also includes my book on The Biblical Meaning of Numbers from One to Forty.

In Psalm 35 (i.e., the 34th psalm), we see David identified as God’s yahid, “darling” (KJV), which is the Hebrew equivalent of the New Testament word monogenes, “only-begotten” (son). It is the messianic title of the Son of God, applied first to Isaac (Genesis 22:2) later to David (Psalm 35:17), and finally to Jesus Himself (John 1:18).

The point is that Psalm 35 is a messianic psalm with its theme of identifying the only-begotten son, who is the anointed one and the early type of Jesus Christ. David spoke of his own experience, while looking back to Joseph, but also looked to the future by prophesying of Christ. In the course of this psalm, we read in verses 11-16,

11 Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I do not know. 12 They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul… 15 … They slandered me without ceasing. 16 Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed at me with their teeth.

This psalm is part of the Genesis book (Psalms 1-41), and it correlates specifically with Joseph’s recognition and identification as the anointed one in Genesis 44-45. Both Joseph and David were types of Christ in different ways, so David’s experience was similar to that of Joseph. Hence, David wrote in verse 7,

7 For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

David’s enemies “dug a pit” for his soul, even as Joseph’s brothers “threw him into the pit” in Genesis 37:24. Joseph’s brothers did not believe his prophetic dreams in which he was chosen to rule. Likewise, many in David’s day refused to accept him as God’s anointed king, preferring one of Saul’s sons or, more importantly, preferring Absalom. And so, this psalm also prophesied of what would happen to Jesus a thousand years later, when he was falsely accused by malicious witnesses who brought about His rejection. We read of this in Matthew 26:59 and 60,

59 Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, in order that they might put Him to death; 60 and they did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward.

Those false witnesses were attempting to please the Council which had already refused to bear witness to Jesus’ right to the throne of David. The deeper problem, of course, was that they were not acting as true witnesses of the sovereignty of God, for they had already violated the First Commandment in their hearts. They had usurped the throne for themselves and did not want to give up power to Jesus. They considered Jesus to be their competition, rather than their King.

And so the chief priests called as many false witnesses as they could, but even then they were unable to find any credible witnesses against Jesus. Jesus remained silent until the high priest adjured Him to speak (Matthew 26:63), at which time Jesus bore witness to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Then they condemned Him as a blasphemer, assuming that His witness was not true.

As we saw earlier, Isaiah said that Israel would be God’s witness that He was the only God. This witness centered around the First Commandment. If anyone—even today—considers himself to be one of God’s witnesses, let him or her bear witness that Jesus Christ is King of the nations and that He is the rightful Heir of all things. Let all of God’s true witnesses work toward the establishment of His Kingdom and reject any view that removes Christ from government, education, or public life in general.

Anyone who bears witness to a secular America (or any other country), and labors to keep Christ from His rightful place, is not a true witness, but a false witness, for he has rejected Jesus Christ in the same manner as they did in Matthew 26. It is not right to accept Christ on a personal level while rejecting Him in other areas of life.

This brings us to another important application of this law against bearing false witness.

If we claim to be Christians, yet do not show forth the character of Christ, we are false witnesses of Christ. The world would have been converted to Christ centuries ago if Christ’s “witnesses” had manifested the character of Christ in their lives. But virtually all Christians, myself included, have fallen short in our witness. The Great Commission commanded us to bear witness of Christ. Luke 24:46-49 says,

46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day; 47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Jesus said that the disciples were His witnesses, but He also said to wait until they received the “power from on high” promised in Isaiah 32:15. Apart from the Holy Spirit, it would not be possible to be God’s witnesses. Perhaps those few disciples would be able to testify, “I saw this,” or “I heard Jesus say that,” but in the long term, all witnesses must be filled with the Holy Spirit to be a true witness. This is especially true for later generations, for these would need a genuine experience with the Spirit of Christ in order to have a real testimony of what He has said and done.

I believe that the main reason why the Church has failed to bring righteousness into the earth is because they did not comprehend the Holy Spirit’s purpose in daily life. Paul saw this problem developing even in his life time, for he prophesied of “difficult times” ahead in 2 Timothy 3. In verse 5 he writes of those “holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power.”

In other words, many would arise in the Church who held to religious forms of worship, but who would deny the power of the Spirit that actually makes Christianity real in our lives. As the Church lost the power of the Spirit, they replaced the Sword of the Spirit with the physical sword. The result was that the Great Commission turned into a crusade of conquest and coercion, which created church members but did little or nothing to change lives or give people a knowledge of Christ. People were forced to have a relationship with the Church, but had no direct relationship to Christ Himself.

The Great Commission was designed to turn ordinary people into witnesses of what Christ had done in their own lives. But when men’s personal experience with the Holy Spirit waned, men began to bear witness of the Church. Yet in calling themselves Christians, they unknowingly bore false witness against Jesus Christ, for their lives did not bear witness to the character of Christ.

I know of no one who fully bears witness to the character and work of Christ at this time, but we should all be in the Holy Spirit’s training center to learn and grow into full spiritual maturity. We may not become true and faithful witnesses in the ultimate sense until we receive the fullness of the Spirit at the feast of Tabernacles, but this should not prevent us from moving toward that goal even today.

As we grow in Christ, we become better witnesses and are able to keep the Ninth Commandment in greater ways.

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There are at least two groups using this name: 1) All That Jazz was originally a temporary group commissioned by Studio Ghibli to create jazz-style covers of soundtracks from Japan’s Studio Ghibli animated films. They went on to make covers of popular Japanese music and anime theme songs. Much of All That Jazz’s music is purely instrumental, but COSMIC HOME's Yuriko Kuwahara (桑原由里子, クワハラユリコ) and Naomi Hattori (服部直美) provide vocals on many tracks. Only Kuwahara sings on the Studio Ghibli covers, while their other cover albums feature both Hattori and Kuwahara. 2)A Swedish new wave/post punk band active from 1981 - 1991. Members: Peter Lööf (vocals & guitar), Patrik Willard (bass), Per Birger Ejnelind (guitar), Pontus Wärmhed (drums), Niklas Hellberg (keyboards), Marie Lindbäck (vocals) Major Influences: Joy Division, The Cure, Bauhaus All That Jazz was formed in Karlstad, Sweden in 1981 by Peter, Patrik, and Per, who had all been members of punk bands previously. Their first single Banner of Love was released in January 1983 on Wire Records. The band was signed by major label Virgin Records and released a self-titled album produced by top British new wave producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley in 1987. Before their second album, Color Blind, was released in 1990, band members Patrik and Marie both left the band. The band continued to suffer from internal strife, the tours for Color Blind were cancelled, and All That Jazz disbanded. Read more on User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.


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Marking Weather, Forgetting Time

Lately, as a new approach to weekends, I’ve struck a deal with my kids. On one weekend day, they get to choose an activity. It’s usually something that requires money and coordination, like going to Chuck E. Cheese’s, or seeing Lego Batman at the Cineplex, or visiting the children’s museum—the kind of boisterous activity that you would only do if you are a child or supervising a child, the kind of experience designed to make children beg.

On the other weekend day, I make them walk with me. We’ve got at least a half dozen nearby trails that lead to the water. In the past, I’ve had a hard time motivating them for this, but lately, because it’s routine and because I’ve set it up as an exchange (your day, my day) they seem to roll with it.

And every week, once we arrive at the beach, I am struck by the same exact thing: They LOVE it here. They run around in search of sticks. They lift big rocks and watch the crabs flee. They descend into this kind of flow state where they can throw rocks into the water, one after another after another, and they don’t get bored. They are focused and happy. No one bickers.

If given the choice between a walk and Chuck E. Cheese’s, I’m pretty sure they would choose Chuck E. Cheese’s 98 out of 100 times, and yet they seem to have more fun on the walk. I think about how, just as Chuck E. Cheese’s is designed to appeal to all of their joy-seeking impulses, the beach was designed to appeal to all of their senses. Like, we could go to the children’s museum—we could pay $35 so that they can launch wooden boats in a water table—but Nature has already nailed it. There’s the soft sand, the logs to climb on and roll, the encroaching tide, and unexpected guests.

Last week, our Saturday brought us to a marina that sells soft serve ice cream for $2, a place where people launch boats and let their dogs run wild. Once we’d been playing for a half an hour, three friendly dogs stormed the beach. They were all different breeds, but all were black and white. One of them barked insistently at Smoke until he threw a wet stick over and over. Another one leapt in the air every time Stump threw a rock and this made Stump laugh uncontrollably.

When my kids grow up, wherever they land, I want them to know they grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I want them to feel it in their bones, to remember seasons of rain and breaks of sun, and the way Puget Sound spreads its fingers and holds the land. I want it to be a childhood of mossy trees and glassy inlets, a childhood spent throwing rocks in water, forgetting time.

The Summer of Less / More

Lately I’ve been dreaming about Colorado. C1Two summers ago Kellie and I packed her truck and took the boys to live on an 800-acre ranch for the summer. We did this for no logical reason, except that we had an opportunity and we seized it. It was a hard summer. Though the mornings were often beautiful and sunny, by afternoon the clouds rolled in and they often brought lightning and hail. Smoke, who was four at the time, complained of being bored and homesick. Stump, who couldn’t even crawl yet, wasn’t much of a diversion for him. Meanwhile I struggled to keep up with a workload of teaching online and editing while our internet was spotty and Kellie was busy building a barn.

But of course those challenges aren’t what I’ve been remembering. I’ve been remembering how every night, just after dark, my family fell asleep in one room and I sat among them, writing in the dark, listening to their breathing. I remember the garden snakes who warmed themselves on the same rocks every day, and the chickens who refused to stay inside the fence. More than anything, I remember the massive herds of elk who moved through the land every day on a schedule.

In Olympia, where we live full-time, it’s not hard to find nature. Sometimes deer walk down our neighborhood roads. It’s a ten-minute drive to the forest. I can walk the kids down to the beach and sometimes see seals swimming in the water. But visiting the beach is not the same as living in wilderness. Here in town, I can’t recreate the feeling of waking up in the mountains and walking to the outhouse through wet grass to take my morning pee, or the feeling of watching the evening slowly gather around you as the elk descend from the hills, munch grass and bugle at each other, and then disappear in time for the first stars to appear. C2I keep thinking about how this would be a good year to return to Colorado, because Stump is old enough now to play with Smoke and I can imagine them chasing each other with sticks and scrambling up the gravel road. But that adventure isn’t in the cards this year. We will not be dropping everything, packing the truck, and living in the wilderness—at least not for three uninterrupted months.

Since I can’t have Colorado, I’ve been asking myself how I can strip away my life this summer, to make room in my cells for some growth, to reclaim the balance that I lose every year over the course of nine months of teaching and working and parenting. I want my life to be quieter, with space to notice the changing sky, the ants, the birds, my own two children. And so, I’m working to identify the things that clutter my life, to reduce them in hope of making room for what feeds me.

Less internet / more real life

This might mean going to bed at the same time as my kids, lying in bed awake to take in the dark, or letting Smoke stay up late so that we can read together. It might mean keeping my Macbook closed for most of the day, unplugging my modem, and keeping my smart phone out of sight.

Less digital / more analog

Recently a friend shared this: How to Replace an Instagram with a Sketchbook. The idea is that we consider drawing our lives for a change instead of constantly snapping photos. I want to. And while I’m at it, I want to spend more time reading books and stories and essays that are printed on actual paper.

Less packaging / more slow food

No to microwaved lunches and single-serving yogurt containers. Yes to canning all of the fruits. Yes to this post by the Zero-Waste Chef: 5 Zero-Waste Baby Steps

Less driving / more walking, running, and biking

The goal is for the car to get lonely. The goal is for a tank of gas to last a couple of weeks at least.

Less stuff / more room Maybe I’ll finally get around to recycling my old computers. Maybe I’ll even read The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

What will you be doing less / more of this summer?

Spring is right here.

flowerdeathLast week it rained and rained and rained. In the pauses between the rains, the robins sang. That was the first sign that spring had come.

This week the weather alternated between cold and warm, sunny and gray. Each morning before seven I looked out my window to see a brightening streak of blue cutting through the dark sky.

I remember now what it means to leave for a walk at five in the evening and not have to brace myself for darkness or outfit myself with reflective gear and flashing lights. I remember what it means to watch the sky change as I walk instead of tightening my hood in defense of pelting rain.

I remember now that nourishment isn’t just about eating stuff that tastes good, but also eating foods that offer nutrients, things that are green, orange, and red—things that crunch.

I remember now that what it means to move through my day with a small fire inside of me, to experience the day as a landscape to explore rather than a checklist to complete.

This morning the sky cleared and I brought my sons on a hike to the water’s edge. Along the trail, Smoke entertained me with theories about how trees had fallen (thieves with chainsaws), and Stump stopped at every puddle and called it the beach. For nearly an hour, no one whined. The forest cleared, and we arrived at the beach in time to witness a surprise: dozens of sailboats gliding across the bay.

boatsI was surprised to realize that, for the moment, I was doing the exact thing I wanted to be doing, meaning I didn’t wish I was in Hawaii instead, or writing instead, or watching TV, or sitting in a hot tub. I just wanted to be there, on the beach, watching the sailboats while Smoke collected rocks and Stump hit water with a stick.

Beach2Of course in the moment of noticing that I was content where I was, I realized how often the opposite is true, how easy it is to long for elsewhere.

I think of my family members in New England and imagine the snow piled up past their windowsills. I imagine them trapped inside winter, tiny little shoots of green sleeping under snow banks.

I don’t envy my New England friends, but I want to be there on the day that winter begins to melt, that first day you step outside and can actually hear the water dripping, can sense that the snow has begun its return back to the source.

Come Monday morning, in my dark cave of an office, I’ll be feeling like those sleeping greens, craving elsewhere, wishing for light.


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In the Philippines, the Good Samaritan Kinder School on the outskirts of Bacolod provides education, a nutrition program and health clinic for impoverished children, many of whom live in squatter settlements. The Good Sams also support a local orphanage, run a program of prison visits and recently opened a new outreach centre for women. In Kiribati, the Good Sams’ work includes providing an early education centre for children of Abaokoro and neighbouring villages and working with communities dealing with the destructive and damaging impacts of climate change.

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Mapping the Grid

The Esri Story Maps team has released a comprehensive guide to the American power grid. An Atlas of Electricity explores where the USA gets its electricity from and how it distributes this power across the country.

At the heart of An Atlas of Electricity is an interactive map plotting the location and size of the grid's power plants and transmission cables. This map allows you to explore the location and capacity of the country's electricity producing power plants and how they connect to the national grid.

As well as mapping the physical infrastructure of the electricity grid this story map examines the primary energy sources used to generate electricity in the USA. It maps the size and capacity of coal-fired power plants, natural gas power plants and petroleum power plants. Alongside these fossil-fuel sources of power An Atlas of Electricity plots the size and capacity of the U.S.'s nuclear power plants, hydroelectric power plants and solar & wind power plants.
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‘Self-regarding’ entrepreneurs

I see that Luke Johnson is to launch a Centre for Entrepreneurship, partly to combat the perception of entrepreneurs as ‘greedy, self-regarding and dim-witted’. I think a quick look at those who manage very large firms that they don’t own will quickly reassure us all that if entrepreneurs are greedy then they are not alone; and if they genuinely are dim-witted then not even Mr Johnson’s prestigious new organisation will be able to rescue them. However, self-regarding, now that rings true.

I went a couple of weeks ago to a breakfast meeting at which a panel discussed ‘High Performance Culture’. Three of the panel were soi-disant ‘entrepreneurs’ and I think that it’s fair to say that none of them would have recognised a high performance culture if it had walked up to them, smacked them in the face and said “Hello, I’m a high performance culture’. However, two of them (including the chap who advised that the best route to a high performance culture was to have an average workforce age of 26 and drink lots of beer) were made to look like Peter Drucker by the third.

This chap – whom you won’t be surprised to hear has recently been appointed to advise the civil service – could not have been more up himself without actually turning inside out. His first pronouncement was that he had identified through experience the best number of directors for a company and that it was less than two. Remarkably enough, it was downhill from there. His prescription for the achievement of the desired high performance culture was greeted with incredulity even by an audience still somewhat taken aback by the ‘drink more beer’ message of the previous speaker. The secret, according to our hero, was that he had given a smartphone to all his staff, had a custom app written and employed a videographer to follow him around. Thus whenever he had some wisdom, exhortation or instruction to pass on it was beamed straight to every employee and the fact that they had – or hadn’t – watched it, was known centrally.

Now at first, as I watched the audience shaking their heads and rolling their eyes, I assumed that the ‘entrepreneur’ was the only person in the room who hadn’t read Orwell’s 1984. However, on subsequent reflection, it seems more likely that he has read it, but didn’t realise it was a satire. Perhaps they are dim-witted after all. Still, as someone once said, “Ignorance is Strength”.

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WrestleMania last night was such a blast

I cannot believe that I attended WrestleMania! What an amazing show. I had planned out the entire trip for months and it finally came. And knowing that I had all day, there was no rush to try to get to the Stadium. But wow, it was so awesome to be there. The setup looked amazing and the atmosphere was electric.

The fact that the sun was out for most of the show was tough. I was in section 214 and the sun was on me for five hours. I had my binoculars and my sunglasses, cap so I was OK. Still, it was tough on me.

But to be part of something so amazing was juts indescribable. Visually, it was great. The matches were fun and the storyline as great.

Take a look at the above video. Ronda Rousey! The Rock! I am still speechless. The entrances were still amazing, like the Rusev and Triple H one. Man, Sting was there! Undertaker was there!

The ending was the highlight. My goodness. I predicted it but I still think that they actually pulled it off was something all in itself. Congratulations, Seth!

I would write more but the experience cannot be contained into words.

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DIY earbud wrap

lately, I often using my earbud, then I came up with a tangled cable. No one love a tangled problem, so I try to find a earbud wrapper to buy in internet. But I came up with so many great & unique DIY, so I was interested to try. My first try is not so succeed, I used a simcard and cut it using scissor, since I don’t really like it, I trash it and not taking any photo.
My second try was using a rubber key chain.

I removed the ring and making a small hole using a scissor on each tire. And the result is not so bad. I can clip up each cable end on each tire so it can be locked. Goodbye tangled cable 😀

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      Hi guys,

      I'm developing on Drupal now a days and find it annoying that gvim cannot
      detect that the .module are PHP files. So I added a few lines of code to
      my filetype.vim to paliate. I would imagine some other vi lovers will run
      in this one too. We could also support the .install files I guess. Also
      that I do not have much of a problem with.

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46 statements by IPCC experts against the IPCC

46 statements by IPCC experts against the IPCC

  1. Dr Robert Balling: “The IPCC notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.” This did not appear in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.
  2. Dr Lucka Bogataj: “Rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide don’t cause global temperatures to rise…. temperature changed first and some 700 years later a change in aerial content of carbon dioxide followed.”
  3. Dr John Christy: “Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.”
  4. Dr Rosa Compagnucci: “Humans have only contributed a few tenths of a degree to warming on Earth. Solar activity is a key driver of climate.”
  5. Dr Richard Courtney: “The empirical evidence strongly indicates that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is wrong.”
  6. Dr Judith Curry: “I’m not going to just spout off and endorse the IPCC because I don’t have confidence in the process.”
  7. Dr Robert Davis: “Global temperatures have not been changing as state of the art climate models predicted they would. Not a single mention of satellite temperature observations appears in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.”
  8. Dr Willem de Lange: “In 1996 the IPCC listed me as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernible human influence on climate. I didn’t. There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that runaway catastrophic climate change is due to human activities.”
  9. Dr Chris de Freitas: “Government decision-makers should have heard by now that the basis for the long-standing claim that carbon dioxide is a major driver of global climate is being questioned; along with it the hitherto assumed need for costly measures to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. If they have not heard, it is because of the din of global warming hysteria that relies on the logical fallacy of ‘argument from ignorance’ and predictions of computer models.”
  10. Dr Oliver Frauenfeld: “Much more progress is necessary regarding our current understanding of climate and our abilities to model it.”
  11. Dr Peter Dietze: “Using a flawed eddy diffusion model, the IPCC has grossly underestimated the future oceanic carbon dioxide uptake.”
  12. Dr John Everett: “It is time for a reality check. The oceans and coastal zones have been far warmer and colder than is projected in the present scenarios of climate change. I have reviewed the IPCC and more recent scientific literature and believe that there is not a problem with increased acidification, even up to the unlikely levels in the most-used IPCC scenarios.”
  13. Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen: “The IPCC refused to consider the sun’s effect on the Earth’s climate as a topic worthy of investigation. The IPCC conceived its task only as investigating potential human causes of climate change.”
  14. Dr Lee Gerhard: “I never fully accepted or denied the anthropogenic global warming concept until the furore started after NASA’s James Hansen’s wild claims in the late 1980s. I went to the [scientific] literature to study the basis of the claim, starting with first principles. My studies then led me to believe that the claims were false.”
  15. Dr Indur Goklany: “Climate change is unlikely to be the world’s most important environmental problem of the 21st century. There is no signal in the mortality data to indicate increases in the overall frequencies or severities of extreme weather events, despite large increases in the population at risk.”
  16. Dr Vincent Gray: “The [IPCC] climate change statement is an orchestrated litany of lies.”
  17. Dr Mike Hulme: “Claims such as ‘2500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous … The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was only a few dozen.”
  18. Dr Kiminori Itoh: “There are many factors which cause climate change. Considering only greenhouse gases is nonsense and harmful.”
  19. Dr Yuri Izrael: “There is no proven link between human activity and global warming. I think the panic over global warming is totally unjustified. There is no serious threat to the climate.”
  20. Dr Steven Japar: “Temperature measurements show that the climate model-predicted mid-troposphere hot zone is non-existent. This is more than sufficient to invalidate global climate models and projections made with them.”
  21. Dr Georg Kaser: “This number [of receding glaciers reported by the IPCC] is not just a little bit wrong, it is far out by any order of magnitude … It is so wrong that it is not even worth discussing.”
  22. Dr Aynsley Kellow: “I’m not holding my breath for criticism to be taken on board, which underscores a fault in the whole peer review process for the IPCC: there is no chance of a chapter [of the IPCC report] ever being rejected for publication, no matter how flawed it might be.”
  23. Dr Madhav Khandekar: “I have carefully analysed adverse impacts of climate change as projected by the IPCC and have discounted these claims as exaggerated and lacking any supporting evidence.”
  24. Dr Hans Labohm: “The alarmist passages in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers have been skewed through an elaborate and sophisticated process of spin-doctoring.”
  25. Dr Andrew Lacis: “There is no scientific merit to be found in the Executive Summary. The presentation sounds like something put together by Greenpeace activists and their legal department.”
  26. Dr Chris Landsea: “I cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.”
  27. Dr Richard Lindzen: “The IPCC process is driven by politics rather than science. It uses summaries to misrepresent what scientists say and exploits public ignorance.”
  28. Dr Harry Lins: “Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now. The case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated.”
  29. Dr Philip Lloyd: “I am doing a detailed assessment of the IPCC reports and the Summaries for Policy Makers, identifying the way in which the Summaries have distorted the science. I have found examples of a summary saying precisely the opposite of what the scientists said.”
  30. Dr Martin Manning: “Some government delegates influencing the IPCC Summary for Policymakers misrepresent or contradict the lead authors.”
  31. Dr Stephen McIntyre: “The many references in the popular media to a ‘consensus of thousands of scientists’ are both a great exaggeration and also misleading.”
  32. Dr Patrick Michaels: “The rates of warming, on multiple time scales, have now invalidated the suite of IPCC climate models. No, the science is not settled.”
  33. Dr Nils-Axel Morner: “If you go around the globe, you find no sea level rise anywhere.”
  34. Dr Johannes Oerlemans: “The IPCC has become too political. Many scientists have not been able to resist the siren call of fame, research funding and meetings in exotic places that awaits them if they are willing to compromise scientific principles and integrity in support of the man-made global-warming doctrine.”
  35. Dr Roger Pielke: “All of my comments were ignored without even a rebuttal. At that point, I concluded that the IPCC Reports were actually intended to be advocacy documents designed to produce particular policy actions, but not a true and honest assessment of the understanding of the climate system.”
  36. Dr Paul Reiter: “As far as the science being ‘settled,’ I think that is an obscenity. The fact is the science is being distorted by people who are not scientists.”
  37. Dr Murray Salby: “I have an involuntary gag reflex whenever someone says the science is settled. Anyone who thinks the science is settled on this topic is in fantasia.”
  38. Dr Tom Segalstad: “The IPCC global warming model is not supported by the scientific data.”
  39. Dr Fred Singer: “Isn’t it remarkable that the Policymakers Summary of the IPCC report avoids mentioning the satellite data altogether, or even the existence of satellites — probably because the data show a slight cooling over the last 18 years, in direct contradiction of the calculations from climate models?”
  40. Dr Hajo Smit: “There is clear cut solar-climate coupling and a very strong natural variability of climate on all historical time scales. Currently I hardly believe anymore that there is any relevant relationship between human CO2 emissions and climate change.”
  41. Dr Richard Tol: “The IPCC attracted more people with political rather than academic motives. In AR4, green activists held key positions in the IPCC and they succeeded in excluding or neutralising opposite voices.”
  42. Dr Tom Tripp: “There is so much of a natural variability in weather it makes it difficult to come to a scientifically valid conclusion that global warming is man made.”
  43. Dr Gerd-Rainer Weber: “Most of the extremist views about climate change have little or no scientific basis.”
  44. Dr David Wojick: “The public is not well served by this constant drumbeat of alarms fed by computer models manipulated by advocates.”
  45. Dr Miklos Zagoni: “I am positively convinced that the anthropogenic global warming theory is wrong.”
  46. Dr Eduardo Zorita: “Editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations, even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed.”

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  1. Reblogged this on Cornwall Wind Watch and commented:
    Many thanks for this. The climate hoax is so obviously busted. We keep promising to stick on topic of wind turbines in Cornwall. Yet still we read total drivel in support of renewable schemes spouting this CO2/climate change garbage. So best to keep on blogging until everyone’s woken up or FITs are removed. Our favourite: “Solar activity is a key driver of climate.” Really – you think that huge star which forms the centre of our solar system, giving live to all planet might be a driver!?

    Posted by cornwallwindwatch | October 8, 2013, 1:09 pm
  2. Reblogged this on CraigM350.

    Posted by craigm350 | October 8, 2013, 8:42 pm
  3. “But we can’t find a single climate scientist that disagrees with the consensus” says the BBC (which USED to be a credible news organisation)
    (* note not all of the above list are climate scientists, but many are)

    Posted by stewgreen | October 9, 2013, 12:13 am
  4. Some of them you could cross off -not because they’re wrong but because they are known for their views and have been attacked for having a vested interest.
    I lament I have to include Nils Axel Morner in that group. I’ve read a goodly amount of his work on the subject and it seems straight down the sensible road but he may have blotted his copybook by not checking some references.

    I got bored and fell asleep though before I got to the end of the list. Has anyone sent this list to Cameron, Clegg and millipede?

    Posted by Me_Again | October 9, 2013, 4:45 pm
  5. Great list Grumpy…well researched. Perhaps another addition from Ottmar Edenhofer who was co-chair of the IPCC’s Working Group III, and was a lead author of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report released in 2007:

    “But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…..This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore”

    Posted by Climatism | February 7, 2014, 10:53 pm
  6. Reblogged this on CACA.

    Posted by Climatism | February 7, 2014, 10:54 pm
  7. Steve McIntyre doesn’t have a PhD. What he does have is the expertise and experience to meticulously and thoroughly demonstrate that many of the world’s “leading” climate scientists use improper statistical techniques to arrive at predetermined alarmist conclusions.

    Posted by Political Junkie | April 3, 2014, 3:07 pm
  8. By “googling” the exact phrases above you get to the original source – I tried a few, not all.

    However, a link to sources and brief bios would be a useful addition to your good work – you presumably have them already documented.

    Posted by Political Junkie | April 3, 2014, 3:17 pm

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Essential Questions for Math

Posted on November 22, 2011. Filed under: Assessment, Elementary math, Mathematical Proficiency | Tags: , , , |

Essential questions help us to frame our units of study.  They probe the “So What?”  They make us think deeper about what and why we are teaching and learning something.  They should be up and visible in a classroom so that anything we do “sticks to the essential questions.”  Heidi Hayes Jacobs says that they are the “velcro of the unit.”  I find that people struggle coming up with great questions for math.

I recently found this list of 150 questions.  These are just some ideas to get you started.  Some are great and others need more work.  Remember that an essential question is expansive.  It makes you think and wonder and approach the answer in many ways.  You can’t google the answer.  It encourages broad thinking not narrow thinking.  Essential questions keep on pushing the thinking throughout the unit and beyond.

Let’s consider the following two essential questions:

Why is addition important?  How do I use it in my everyday life?

These are great questions because you can explore them with whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Students can investigate the question with family, friends and in the neighborhood stores. They are real questions whose answers can be found in our everyday lives.  They make sense and help us to make sense of math.

Happy Mathing,

Dr. Nicki

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Anxiety & Stress – How Stressed Are You?

Are you looking for a specialist for anxiety and stress in Chicago? If so, you are not alone. A common reality of living in a busy, bustling city like ours is the phenomenon of stress. If you having been feeling the pressures of the daily grind, which is likely compounded by work obligations, family issues or relationship struggles, you have come to the right place.

We often hear the term “Stress” but what does it really mean? Let’s take a look.

What is stress?

Physiologically speaking, stress can be defined as the rate of wear and tear on the human body. Think of stress as a state of suspended anxiety where life events and responsibilities exceed your ability to cope or manage.

Is some stress normal?

To be sure, all of us experience some amount of health. Researchers have suggested that some stress may even be good for you. Yes, you read that right.

According to a published report from the University of California at Berkley, stress (small amount) can act as a barrier against depression. It can also work in a way that keeps you at your optimal alertness. In many ways, we’re wired to deal with a certain amount of stress.

If you live in a big city like Chicago where stress levels are generally high due to traffic, weather conditions, competition for work and so forth, you likely have figured out ways to adapt and cope.

But what if you become overloaded with stress? That leads to our next question.

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Are there different types of stress?

The answer is – yes. There are 3 different types of stress that you may not have known about:

  • Eustress: This is considered a “good stress”. It happens when we are in certain situations that we find motivational or inspiring. If you fall in love – that might be considered a “good” stress.
  • Neustress: This type of stress is neither good or bad (it’s neutral). This term is used to describe sensory stimuli. Example, if you hear about an earthquake on the other side of the world, it would likely peak your senses but not cause anxiety.
  • Distress: This is considered the “bad” stress and is often referred to as simply “Stress”.

If you are dealing with distress, you are likely going to fall into two distinct categories:

Acute Stress

Stress that is fairly intense but short in nature. An example might be cramming for an exam due next week or being pulled over for a speeding ticket. The operative words here are short in nature.

One the stress causing event is over (i.e. the exam, getting a ticket), your stress level will generally subside. These types of stresses are common and normal.

Chronic Stress

This particular form of distress is the one that you want to be careful of. Chronic stress is not as intense as acute stress but is usually long in duration.

For example, financial stress might fall under this category if you are struggling to make enough money to live. If you have the type of job with lots of responsibility for metrics (aka meeting a sales number) or if you manage people, you may experience chronic stress.

According to numerous research reports, including information from the American Institute of Stress, chronic stress is associated with illness because your body/mind are in a constant state of arousal.

What are the physical signs of chronic stress?

There are numerous ways stress can manifest in your body and it is important to keep in mind that not everyone reacts to stress psychologically or physically in the same way.

Here is a partial list of common physical responses to stress that we see within out Chicago clientele. Bear in mind that symptoms of acute stress can mirror other medical problems, which is why it is important to have a physical with your medical doctor to rule out other causes.

  • Muscle soreness (shoulders, neck and back)
  • Gastrointestinal issues like chronic IBS
  • Headaches that come on frequently
  • Problems sleeping (getting to sleep or staying asleep)
  • Frequent blushing/sweating
  • Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
  • Forgetfulness and disorganization
  • Increasingly irritable
  • Constipation, diarrhea or a mixture of both
  • Changes in appetite marked by stress eating or not eating at all.
  • Bouts of depression that come from out of the blue
  • Increased use of substances, such as alcohol or tobacco.
  • Dry mouth, sweaty hands and/or feet
  • Exacerbation of current health problems

Counseling FAQs

What can I do about chronic stress?

Chronic stress is a sign of life imbalance. At some point, something has to “give” in order to bring about homeostasis; a 25-cent term to describe a psychological state of calmness.

My goal as Chicago stress counselor is to help you find homeostasis before something “gives” – meaning your physical or mental health. There are many things you can do to lower your level of stress and create a state of living that is more manageable.

Attending counseling for anxiety can help you achieve this in a number of ways, including stress management.

What is stress counseling/therapy?

At its core, anxiety counseling (aka stress therapy) is a form of counseling that directly targets the issues happening in your life that contribute to high levels of stress.

There are a number of ways that we help you to accomplish living a less stressful life, including:

  • An examination of your “stress triggers” and identification of what’s possible to change in your life.
  • Cognitive behavioral therapies aimed at helping you focus on the here and now through mindfulness based living.
  • The encouragement of physical activity as a pathway to stress reduction.
  • Talk-therapy as a conduit to emotional catharsis. This allows you to “empty” your emotional plate.
  • Mindful exercises, such as homework assignments that encourage meditation, meditation and self-hypnosis.
  • Stress and anxiety management approaches, designed to help you avoid common cognitive distortions.
  • The chance to share some of your life story in a safe, nurturing and non-judgmental environment.

How can I find out more about stress counseling in Chicago?

All you need to do is send me a confidential email using this form or give me a call at 773.704.5300. You can also send me a confidential note via email at using my confidential contact form.

I’ve provided a brief “stress quiz” below to help you better assess your current level of stress. Some people print this off or jot down the results when they make an appointment with a counselor as tool for insight.

You don’t have to be stressed out. There are very concrete things you can do to create greater harmony in your life.


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Parsing CSV files with PHP – SPL-Style

There are some CSV (Comma Separated Values) related string and file functions in PHP. But when it comes to deal with CSV files, there is another gem: SplFileObject (PHP Manual) built-in. The class makes it even more easy to iterate over the rows. A short example:

 * open csv file and iterate over rows

$file = 'data.csv';
try {
	$csv  = new SplFileObject($file, 'r');
} catch (RuntimeException $e ) {
	printf("Error openning csv: %s\n", $e->getMessage());

while(!$csv->eof() && ($row = $csv->fgetcsv()) && $row[0] !== null) {
	// $row is a numelrical keyed array  with
	// a string per each field (zero based).

If your file has a last empty row, the class’s fgetcsv() function returns it as an array containing one element with the NULL value.

The object itself is handy for file related operations and using it prevents you to deal with fopen, close etc. separately. It support streams like it’s common in PHP and you can set options for the CSV format as well (seperator etc.).

By default PHP is compatible with standard CSV files, for example with those exported from the Calc Spreadsheet application of the office suite – both do a worry free working together.

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  1. filosofo says:

    I didn’t realize SplFileObject had CSV-specific methods. That’s very helpful to know, thanks!

    • hakre says:

      I was not aware either. Reading is a bliss, writing is not possible as of now. Works like a charm for quick and easy CSV integration for me so far. I added some links to more ways of use btw.

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Confessions of a Thirty year old Ghostwriter

A lot of the writing community looks down on Ghostwriters. Let’s be honest, we are often regarded as the telemarketers of the literary world. We work for crap pay (if we’re lucky we can get one cent per word), we write the cheesy romances that are available on ebook, and no one really loves us. Our employers have no real respect for us, this is evidenced by the pay, the fact that we can work seventy hours a week for about two hundred dollars, the literary community frowns on us, and nobody really understands that you have to do what you have to do to make ends meet.

Let me share with you some of my experiences in the ghostwriting world. I feel like a whore sometimes, an underpaid whore who doesn’t even get to see people enjoy my work. I hate the fact that people have no respect for me or what I do. I love to write, but I don’t like being told what I’m supposed to write. It’s enough to drive anyone crazy.

My bosses dictate what I write, giving me advice about plot, typically it is some overdone plot device that has been overused and isn’t fun to write about. I write a lot of trashy romances, writing twenty thousand words in a little over a week for these people. They don’t have my name on them, and I’m kind of glad about that, because what I write for these people is crap. It’s crappy and I don’t like it, but the public seems to eat it up, so they keep hiring me, and it almost keeps food on the table.

You see, as an aspiring writer, there aren’t a lot of jobs that you’re qualified for. With other problems going on, two rambunctious girls, a husband with PTSD and fighting with VA, college classes, it’s almost impossible to have a regular job. Caring for the mentally ill is a full time job by itself, so I ghostwrite for slave wages so that others can make money. Before you knock ghostwriters please think about the people actually doing the writing, these people don’t get any respect, they’re mostly college students or single parents just trying to make ends meet and getting screwed over for it.

Let’s be honest however, it isn’t all bad. I have learned quite a few things from this job. I’ve developed the ability to take criticism and use it in the manner that it’s been given instead of taking it personally. I understand changing things that requiring changing. I’m getting better with discipline as well. It’s important to be able to force yourself to write and that’s what I have to do in order for my family to eat. These things have helped me out, they’ve helped my process to improve. To be honest I’ve logged onto where I’ve gotten some stories published and found my books, eager to find out what people are writing about me. I’ve taken the constructive criticism and used the advice to improve my other work. I love the fact that I am able to develop the thick skin required to be an artist. Some people are just insulting for the sake of being insulting, and that’s the truth of things, but occasionally someone actually gives some good advice and I use those tips to improve myself.

I am working on my own story as I get the time, but the work for me moves slowly, because I have bosses that are breathing down my neck, eager for my crap to post online.

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Approach with Complete and Utter Resolve

Excerpt from The Lady of the Rings – Musashi’s Book of Five Rings Strategy Interpreted for Women.

I spoke previously to you about redundancy and the repetition of ideas that Musashi insisted upon. The repetition is to reinforce your new way of thinking and the variation in which it is presented can only aid you in the accomplishment of your goals when you see the same thing from different angles.

Deal with any and all situations by going through them to the core of the matter. If necessary, renew your own desire for accomplishment, especially when you find that things are falling into place too easily. This can be your downfall. You must stay on top of it even though you think you are losing connection to previous thought of ideals. Else, you may be starting to think that you have discovered the key to the universe and will become lax in your endeavor. Don’t worry about losing contact with previous ideas. You will only find that you are ascending to a higher level of your own consciousness and that you will come together with those things that can only enhance your life.

Whenever I approach something, it is with complete and utter resolve. Having made appropriate plans for my new sense of self, I had no difficulty in simply falling on top of the matter and dealing with it as something I was on top of. In the martial arts, this is called the “falling leaves” approach. I am always able to see things with a broader perspective when I observe things from the top. I can only do this when I am sure that I understand the situation to the best of my ability from all angles. When I know what I am doing and know my own reasons for wanting to do so, then it is without trouble that I can permit myself to fall onto a situation that can be better for me in the long run.

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School update October 5, 2007

Filed under: parenting articles,school,the kids — paulabrown @ 9:24 pm

I meant to write about school – so far Reception is going well, all settled in and bar the odd tired tantrum, we’re doing OK. Admittedly child no.1 and 2 are both in bed by 6.45pm so I guess we’re keeping on top of the tiredness. I have even got one of those things they call an ‘evening’ back again though I am spending the extra time finding friends on Facebook (one friend has 127 friends – Toby you know who you are – and yet I only have 28, do people like him more than me or is it not that simple? Does he simply not have children and so he and all his friends fritter the day away on these things…?).

The only thing I’m not coping with is the notes home, currently I’m in the midst of working out which Foods from around the World we’ll be bringing, arranging a shoe box for the Romanian orphanage Christmas appeal and deciding what I can give to the promises auction, putting my name down for paint pot washing, bringing in the baking money, packed lunches, PE kit, junk modelling boxes and pots, school nurse notes, cakes for cake baking day, how-I-get-to-school-survey etc etc.

Lord knows how the full time working mums do it, maybe the point is that I don’t have to do it all? But surely they know my obssessive compulsive tendencies to try to do it all? Suffice it t say that I’ll let you know how I get on…

School uniform – a sustainable parent’s dilemma August 24, 2007

Filed under: environment,parenting articles,school,the kids — paulabrown @ 1:28 pm

So I grabbed a pack of 2 red polo shirts in Asda (my son school just do red polo shirts and blue sweaters with logos as uniform) and when I got home I was shocked to see they were £2 – just £1 each. The claim most supermarkets make that you can get an entire uniform for less than £20 is true then.

Now I’m a bit of an old hippy when it comes to organic, fair trade and the like but I’m also aware, not having the luxury to live in an ivory tower, that trying to keep afloat financially with kids (at whatever level of income) can be hard at the best of times. So what to do?

The clothes my employer Tatty Bumpkin  makes are either made on a fair trade co-op in Sri Lanka or in a very kosher factory in Turkey that we’ve checked out so I feel like a hypocrite buying these clothes knowing full well the state of the factories that make clothes that cheapily. Alas we don’t make organic / fair trade polo shirts.

I then came across Spirit of Nature – an eco-online store that makes organic and bamboo mix polo shirts (check them out) – bamboo is an amazing fibre we use in the Tatty Bumpkin kid’s clothing collection. It’s got a long list of environmental benefits, is UV resistant, feels like silk, dries quickly, regenerates quickly, needs no pesticides, even does the washing up, sends the birthday cards and will cook the tea if you ask it nicely!

So the compromise I’ve gone for are 3 organic / bamboo polo shirts and 2 Asda sports and 2 uniform as back up. Not a great solution but the best I could afford!

Starting school May 27, 2007

Filed under: school,the kids — paulabrown @ 7:19 pm

007_4asm.jpgGabe is now 4 and a half and Jude is 2-and-a-bit. Gabe is at a brilliant preschool and starts school in September. I share childcare with a good friend, well we do a school day with the other one’s children which works brilliantly (most of the time!).

School sounds so daunting, I even find the playground scary and I’m a grown up! Luckily the school doesn’t have glamour mums, they are a all pretty down-to-earth and care about their kids!


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An Unmarked Grave-Charles Todd

An Unmarked Grave

Charles Todd

Morrow, Jun 5 2012, $24.99

ISBN: 9780062015723

In 1918 dedicated British nurses are in France to be close to those at the front.  However, the medicos also deal with the pandemic Spanish flu that is devastating everyone.  Flu victims are placed in sheds where Private Wilson finds one corpse too many; he shows Nurse Bess Crawford that Major Vincent Carson died from a broken neck instead of the flu.  However, before Bess can act on what she assumes is a homicide; she catches the flu and is sent home to recover.

By the time she heals, Bess knows Carson’s body is long gone and she soon learns Wilson committed suicide.  Though Bess knows she has little chance to find out what happened to the major who served with her father, Bess investigates anyway focusing on Vincent’s family.

The fourth Bess Crawford WWI mystery (see An Impartial Witness and A Bitter Truth) is a fabulous historical that focuses on trench warfare and its aftermath on the soldier and his family, and the impact of the 1918 pandemic influence that left many dead.  The whodunit is entertaining though Bess’ starting premise seems odd during a time of war and disease.  Still, this is an exciting thriller with much of the sleuthing occurring from the extended fog of war.

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Heal distress — Can spiritual practices help?

healAccording to established research, one in four of us experience some form of mild mental health difficulty each year. Even if you do not suffer – what the medics call – identifiable psychiatric morbidity – nevertheless you still may feel bad; fed up, irritable, worried or distressed. In which case, if you are to be calm, contented and fulfilled, something needs to inwardly change. You may wonder if your spirit needs to heal, then can spiritual practices be of benefit?

Going on a retreat to heal distress

When life gets too stressful then you probably start looking at holiday brochures. If you can afford it getting away to some lovely place for couple of weeks, can be very attractive. A holiday allows us to escape from the responsibilities of home and work. Beautiful and inspiring settings may bring harmony into one’s life. When we get a rest from the ordinary strains of living, we may become emotionally refreshed.

A spiritual retreat may help one reconnect with one’s inner life, one’s hopes and aspirations, values and principles. The religious person may use some of the time to engage in self reflection and prayer with the aim of reconnecting with God.

Practising meditation to heal distress

Meditation is passively observing our experiences simply as mental events without personal attachment to them; trying to focus attention and suspend judgement whilst maintaining objectivity. A huge challenge I believe if you are suffering more than a mild degree of anxiety or depression.

However it is possible with repeated practice to learn to focus  the mind and emotionally distance oneself from random thoughts and feelings. It needs self-discipline to sit down quietly staying focused on one thing at a time: not easy with a mind that is easily distracted by fearful thoughts and is prone to wander off into fantasy.

I would suggest that from a religious perspective, meditation —  say on the words of sacred scripture — brings about calm because it involves transcending self-orientated concerns, opening up an inert life force, and gaining spiritual awareness of the Divine.

Adopting an attitude of mindfulness to heal distress

Those who advocate an attitude of mindfulness in the hum-drum of ordinary situations, claim it can bring about a greater attention to reality. This means being in the moment and getting absorbed in the here and now. For example being aware of one’s surroundings; listening more fully to what others are saying.

With this attitude of mind it is said we become less occupied by mistakes of the past and worries about the future for we see things as they are rather than in terms of our desires and fears.

Being mindful of habitual ways of thinking is central to a well researched form of therapy known as cognitive-behavioural therapy.  Individuals with self-defeating and irrational thoughts, are helped to create and focus instead on constructive realistic ways of thinking. Focusing on how things really are means facing reality instead of fighting the experience of trying to make it something else.

From a religious perspective, being in the moment brings about a consciousness of what is called the eternal now. This is an illuminating perception that transcends time-bound concerns. It flows from a Divine Mind which is both present within and also beyond time and place.

Christians believe in this Holy Spirit of God whose presence many say they feel when sitting in silence to create a space in the heart for Him to find a home in.

They say, when you turn to this source, the Divine can flow more consciously into your  experiences of life and you feel uplifted, creative, illuminated. When the love of self no longer rules your heart, then you  rise above your worries concerning the transient things of the world.

Confessing guilty feelings to heal distress

Many distressed people are able gain self-insights and begin to acknowledge their guilty feelings with a non-judgmental counsellor. This confession would be meaningless without a degree of self-examination. It is all about searching one’s heart to discover any repeated desires that infringe one’s own principles — one’s own conscience of what is right and wrong in human conduct.

Would it not be nice if we could just change our bad feelings simply by better understanding them? Just having clearest self insight? However, according to the spiritual philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg, to heal the understanding with its thoughts and insights, is to heal a person only outwardly. What needs also to change is the inward aspect of the individual — what is felt, wanted and chosen. Therapy for the understanding alone would be like palliative healing, failing to touch the inner malignity.

Psychotherapists talk about resistance by the patient to making personal change because of self-insights that remain only on an intellectual level. Emotional acceptance of what change is needed is more of a wrench than mere acknowledgment because it means real acceptance of the consequences of giving up old ways, old pleasures and old attitudes.

One religious view is that unless we have a change of heart, we can easily retract something that we had only acknowledged in the mind the previous day. We may have recognised where we are going wrong but what is crucially important is an emotional acceptance of a way forward. Religion and psychotherapy are about personal change if they are about anything. The challenge of both is accepting a need to change.

From a modern Christian perspective, repentance is to do with wanting to change from ways of living that are recognised as self-defeating and unworthy.

Just as many alcoholics attending Alcoholics Anonymous may believe that they cannot cure themselves without surrendering to a higher power to help them conquer the demon drink, so religious people believe that it is God who heals the spirit, and it is the gift of healing that can transform the persons life and character through a process known as salvation. For them healing of the spirit takes place through a humble turning to God in prayer.

“Pythagoras said that … if the healing art is most Divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part of it is sickly.” (Apollonius of Tyrana – Greek philosopher)

Copyright 2014 Stephen Russell-Lacy
Author of  Heart, Head & Hands  Swedenborg’s perspective on emotional problems

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  1. Good article! Often we fail to see the significance of a Sabbath in the scurry of our lives. For the Hebrew nation, this “stop-day” was essential and crucial to its identity. For obvious reasons, that you have previously mentioned, there is need in our lives for it as well!

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Hawaii Hula Company is made up of professional Hula dancers, Tahitian dancers, Fire Knife dancers and Hawaiian musicians that are born and raised here in Hawaii. Hawaiian talent that has been trained traditionally in Hawaii. Our Hula dancers understand in detail, every song, and therefore are able to express of the meaning that goes beyond the surface of the Hawaiian song into the Kaona (deeper meaning). Our Hula and Tahitian dancers as well as our Hawaiian musicians know how to convey the story of the songs, the culture of Hawaii and its people, along with the rich history in every performance. All this, done through rich vocal talent and with the graceful movements of Hula dancer hands.

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  • Wear your fragrant flower lei for the rest of your stay.

Hawaii Hula Company offers lei greetings for:
*Anniversary celebrations   *Birthdays   *Graduations   *Grand openings   *Proposals   *Engagement Parties   *Award Ceremonies   *Surprises

We are happy to provide Hula and Tahitian Dancers for any event, anywhere on Maui and Oahu! Add something special to your Wedding, Reception, Birthday celebration, Grand opening, Reunion, Any Event!! We create a show based on your requests and preferences...Our Hula Dancers & Tahitian Dancers create a memorable addition to your show or event. Profesional and experienced, our dancers elevate any special occasion...

Our beautiful Hula dancers arrive in full costume with fresh flowers and leis. Dancers arrive 15-30 minutes before show start time for photo opportunity & check in with client or event coordinator.

We often add special touches by request during the show such as:

  • Starting the performance with a fresh flower lei presentation/congratulations
  • Leis are available for purchase
  • The traditional Hawaiian wedding song (Ke Kali Nei Au)
  • Audience participation ending (the dancers will ask for volunteers and provide a lesson on stage-always good for a few laughs!).
  • Any other special requests you may have...

Traditional Hawaiian music, Contemporary Hawaiian music, Island style music.
Musicians can be hired with or without hula dancers.
We represent a large variety award-winning musical talent. Sound system with DJ/Sound Tech.

  • Singers
  • Guitar players
  • Ukulele players
  • Drummers
  • Upright Bass
  • Bands

Fire Dancers can perform with music or live drums.
10-20 minute performance (depends upon amount of performers).
Polynesian drummers available for accompaniment to Fire Knife dancers and Tahitian dancers.

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