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Smith: I think of it as one of those moments of collective civic consciousness when everyone just thought, "It would be funny as hell if the Hickoids won." Austin was different then, slackful and funky. The people who actually played country music were pretty hot about it. At the awards show Jukebox threw out a roll of firecrackers, and Davy shouted, "Kill Willie Nelson!" as we accepted our award.
HP: Where did the "poke fun at country by playing it like punk" idea come from?
Smith: I was 19 when we started, and my exposure to country music was via forced viewing of Hee Haw as a child and through a guy I roughnecked with one summer. He was the boss, and the boss only listened to the Top 10 country pop station. People like Juice Newton and Kenny Rogers were starting to come out. I'm not a real quick study, but three months was enough to make me hate it. It was a reaction against the sorry state country was falling into.
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Smith: We lived off girls, had shitty jobs and might have done a little black-marketeering. It was a chicken or egg situation -- did being in the band allow us to engage in immoral and illegal behavior or did engaging in immoral and illegal behavior allow us to be in a band? But we didn't grapple with such heavy questions, we just got by and enjoyed the immoral and illegal behavior.
HP: Most memorable gig?
Smith : The Sun Club in Tempe with the Loco Gringos. We had the immediate impression they did not dig us and were probably going to stiff us. Pepe of the Gringos "disappeared" before the show but arrived in time to play their opening set, good enough. We got up to do our set, and a couple of songs into it Pepe comes up on stage and spreads out some newspaper, unhooks his overalls and proceeds to take a runny-assed, alcoholic crap on the stage. He was squatting right beside me on stage and looked up at me like "I know I'm a bad dog, but you still love me, right?" There were six cop cars there in five minutes.
HP: Any of those Blues Brothers experiences when cultures clashed? That booked-in-front-of-the-wrong-crowd stuff?
Smith : A show in Odessa. We went to play a jam night at some oil-field bar. We played, and the audience did little to conceal their disdain. Jukebox, our original guitarist and an Odessa native, didn't seem to get it. I insisted we quit, but he grabbed the mike and said, "The Hickoids are gonna take a little break and will be back." During the break, his guitar fell over and one of the tuning pegs broke. He got back on the mike demanding to know "who broke his guitar," and about 30 rednecks raised their hands and said, "I did." I literally had to throw Jukebox's guitar case out the side door to get him to leave. We were going to get killed.
HP: Any important gigs, opening for someone huge, etc.?
Smith : That sort of situation was always anticlimatic and usually disastrous. A prime example was opening for the Butthole Surfers at the Variety Arts Center in L.A. The show sold out, but we only made $200. So we went back to Texacala Jones's house and had a party, drinking and singing and stomping on the floor all night after our "big gig." Nobody knew that the upstairs neighbor was an L.A. deputy sheriff. About eleven that morning, I heard the cops kick in the front door. After throwing stale beer on everybody and insulting everyone, they told us to get up, which we did, except for Wade, our drummer, who was under a sleeping bag. Wade emerges from underneath the bag wearing one of Texacala's antique lace dresses, a real nice, petite red one. Guns drawn, the cops went on to explain, "You think you have rights. That's bullshit. This is L.A., and we own L.A." and some other quasi-fascist rhetoric I can't remember. And then they just left.
HP: What is the worst thing anyone ever said to you guys?
Smith : Place your hands on the vehicle.
HP: Overall impression of the Hickoids' career?
Smith : Always the bridesmaids, never the brides.
The Hickoids perform Saturday, January 27, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Drive, 713-521-0521.


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What's that?
Serious quedos to Alan Simpson: why don't we get that kind of thinking in ministerial level politicians?
Is this what it is going to be like? When simple possession of a proscribed document will be enough to see you clapped in irons and whisked down to the local police station? About two weeks ago (May 16), Nottingham University campus was agog as police arrived to interview former student Hicham Yezza. After some ten years' study …
Serious quedos to Alan Simpson: why don't we get that kind of thinking in ministerial level politicians?
Claiming it is an abuse of the Anti-Terrorism laws doesn't make sense... Yes, the Police may have made a 'dreadful cock-up' with the original arrest - but as stated they are no longer pursuing that matter. Would people rather the Police had ignored the report and not investigated it at all?
All that has happened here is a immigrant has been found to be 'less than truthful' in their application to stay and is being - and quite rightly so - deported. If only the Home Office acted this quickly with all failed immigration applications!
How did someone with a name like that rise through the ranks to get to be Supt?
This state of fear and oppression is going to become known as Blair's legacy.
Political expediency and political correctness over coming common sense. Again the police have shown us why they are losing (have lost?) the respect of "middle England". They have acted in a high handed, arrogant manner and are now trying to deflect attention away from their mistakes.
Not AC because we HAVE to stand up and be counted.
I don't believe that this bloke is really "New Labour"! That is the first and only anti-Stasi/Stalinist/Bi-Brother statement I've ever heard from New Labour - it is obvious that he'll never make the cabinet and that he'll brought back in line by the Whips.
It was nice while it lasted...
"This was all part of legitimate study: the document itself was on the Politics Faculty reading list."
So the author of the reading list itself should also be in for a session at the ministry of love?
In all seriousness, I hope this incident is exposed for the shambles that it is. And shurely, to promote some understanding in the hope of *ever* being able to resolve why we have this particular branch of terrorism in the first place: Perhaps academics should be able to study any documents and literature in order to learn. As we know too well in the IT world, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particular to the opposition, whoever they might be.
An icon with a big question mark in it would be useful because I'm just left wondering 'why'?
I believe there is a similar penalty for 'possessing items likely to be of use to a terrorist'.
Such as maybe 'shoes', or maybe a bag?
The 'emergency' is no doubt the impending embarrassment of the Home Secretary if this guy gets to argue his case in court.
"Under s.58 of the Terrorism Act 2000, a person commits an offence if they "possesses a document or record containing information"… "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"."
Seems a bit broad? A train timetable could conceivably count..
without riling them further with illicit downloading of their secret dox
How wide is the interpretation of a document "likely to be useful"? If a terrorist wants to drive a van-bomb into a government building, will having the manual for the van be helpful? will the highway code book be helpful? will any "how to drive" books be helpful?
Seems to me they meant to aim this at "jolly roger" type books, used by radicals, but will apply it to anyone they see fit.
The Bush/Blair/Brown GWOT has been such a resounding success, hasn't it?
Eastern bloc secret police used to use this technique to suppress dissent not by force but by the fear of being reported by anyone in earshot or eyesight.
Mine's the one with the passport in it.
Why would an intelligent man like Hicham Yezza not know how dangerous downloading / posessing a terrorist training manual could be, regardless of whose academic reading list it might be on?
Particulary so for someone currently seeking permanent UK residency.
How stupid can you get?
I think al-Qaeda can have a small party tonight, for another victory over the western world, the UK in particular.
Section 58 of the Stalin's era USSR penal code was the infamous section under which people were sent to Gulag to rot and die. Treason, subversion and crime against the state.
Similarly, there were books on the so called prohibited list during Brezhnev's time which would have gotten you out of the university onto the all-time job blacklist and sometimes even into forced resettlement. At the same time these books were on the reading lists for some of the ideology and history majors. However, lending them to someone else would have resulted (and has resulted on many occasions) in the same story as in this case.
History indeed repeats itself. Up to the exact number
Welcome to the Union of British Soviet Republics and its most prominent educational institution, the Stalin's Nottingham University.
Me coat. The one with "My great granddad was shot by Stalin, I do not want to be shot by his brown incarnation" slogan on the back.
When the University installed a web cache and firewall that made everyone go via the cache, we all though it was just so the computer centre staff didn't have to find their own porn. Looks like we were wrong.
NuLabour's fascist police force in action! Common sense is now a truly foreign concept in UK law.
...so we made her confess, then burned her at the stake. Feedback is that people accept that this is the sort of operation that is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of communities.
Only asking because with being an engineer (degree), computer tech (masters), martial arts (something to do) and interested in millitary history and training (family professions) I'm sure half the books I have will be on it...
I wonder when I'll be getting the knock...
AC as well, yeah...
PS. Yes, I agree this is sickening and that something should be done but now I have just shown intent to protest... whoops...
The Jolly Roger Cook Book Disk? I've not seen a copy for years but when I was at school pre email it was certainly passed around on 3.5" floppies, I had a copy, although all I ever did was read it and wonder how people had found out that baked banana skins had such an effect on people, or the frog backs, or the copper pipe or the telephone hacks etc etc, would this now be covered? should I make sure all my old floppy disks are destroyed?? Should I be posting anonymously?
Let's see:
"possesses a document or record containing information"… "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".
Hmm, the 7/7 bombers attacked central London and needed to plan where to hit. Best way to sort that would be with an A-Z... OMG!!
...phew! Just saved myself by burning my A-Z - wouldn't want to get caught with a document useful to a terrorist!
This police state is part of the EU, is it? I want my country out of that conspiracy. Now. Before this becomes something *we* have to do too...
...but to think that things will get better under a Tory gov is like... Errr, like... Come on...
Oh crap, I can't even think of a bad enough example!
how long before the act of reading anything 'not approved' gets you disappeared?
"Is that a manga comic I see hidden down the back of the sofa sir? come with me" or "why were you looking at [insert suitable subject line here - nooklear - muslim - whatever] on the interwebs? come with me..."
Soon they'll be deporting nth generation muslims to 'friendly' torture zones (conveniently revoking citizenship in the process).
Better get my copy of the sun and Mien Kampf (Nu Labour manifesto) in.
fire, 'cos it's book burning time.
He's not New Labour, he's Old Labour. A proper, old-school, hard-left socialist who campaigned against the removal of Clause IV before Blair won the '97 election.
As far as I'm concerned he's the Red Menace, however he's got principle, integrity and a big pair of brass balls (he's the only Labour MP to be reprimanded by the chief whip, for saying that New Labour's idea of democracy would have been familiar to General Franco.) Unfortunately he's had enough and will be stepping down at the next election. Parliament will be even worse without him.
At least you know where you stand with proper socialists like him; not like the intellectual featherweights, pampered ponces and cynical marketeers of the New Labour cabinet.
And what of all those other souls with a research copy of an al-Qaeda Training Manual downloaded to their disks for inquisitive reading? I notice that its Counterpart/Opposite Mirror, the PNAC, has been "suspended" ....
Is suspended the same as hanged, as was there too much incriminating evidence naming names with Leading Roles in the Project for the New American Century ..... a sort of Fourth Reich Fantasy Dreamt up by Rodeo Clowns who aint No Cowboys, No Which Way.
"This was all part of legitimate study: the document itself was on the Politics Faculty reading list. Unfortunately, the document in question also happened to be an al-Qaeda Training Manual."
I have two questions about this.
1. What is this kind of document doing on the reading list in the first place.
2. Assuming that it is require/recommened reading for a politics faculty, why the hell were the police called in the first place?
Say i put the book 1984 on a reading list at my factulty, does this mean everytime sometime some reads it, I can ask the police to throw them in clinky? Is this the faculties way of keeping training costs down? Send em all to the pleasure of HRH Eliz! No student/teachers means lower operating costs... it's a stroke of genius!
As to what happened after that... well, this is the kinda shit we have to expect thanks to tony/gordon. I'm sure Tony used to get a hardon read anything by Orwell or Huxley.
Paris for PM.... no...srly!
That's all very tragic / interesting, but the best bit is when you try to download the manual yourself, which of course you now want to do.
Google 'al-Qaeda Training Manual' and the first result that comes up is www.usdoj.gov/ag/manualpart1_1.pdf
Yes, that's a file on the website of the US Department of Justice. They're thoughtfully got hold of a copy, scanned it in, used OCR on it an put it on the website for the world to share. Thanks Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey!
>Why would an intelligent man like Hicham Yezza not know how dangerous >downloading / posessing a terrorist training manual could be, regardless of >whose academic reading list it might be on?
>Particulary so for someone currently seeking permanent UK residency.
>How stupid can you get?
Yes, how stupid can you get for downloading university-approved reading material on a university network as a university staff member in order to help a university student? For the university to turn around and say this was a Wrong Thing is the stupid part (I doubt the people investigating him knew about the poli-sci connection at the time, mind)
Perhaps he thought he was in some kind of free country, where people aren't judged by paranoia?
"Why would an intelligent man like Hicham Yezza not know how dangerous downloading / posessing a terrorist training manual could be, regardless of whose academic reading list it might be on?"
Shouldn't you be asking why he should feel it dangerous for a university employee to aid a student in obtaining a book that was required for his course? You're basically saying, "If he's that smart, why didn't he realise that we live in a racist police state?"
"How stupid can you get?"
Stupid enough to think that this is acceptable, apparently.
If he had been named John Smith, this never would have been reported to the police.
The abuse is that the authorities tend to press ahead with at least charging / deporting someone after every failed anti-terrorism arrest or incident just to try to claim teh operation was a success and to show us how many terrorist attacks they have "saved" us from
Remember the Muslim guy "accidentally shot" in his own house because the police were raiding to find large amounts of chemical weaponry material?
Remember that there was absolutely no evidence of any terrorist activity / leanings / sympathy at all? Remember also that shortly afterwards they arrested the shot guy on suspicion of possession of child pornography? (as an aside, back in my youth the catch-all was assaulting a police officer now it is possession of child pornography).
Remember also that no-one has been charged over the child porn allegations? Anyone else think that was just an excuse for Inspector Knacker to claim a "moral" victory and tell us that not only are the anti-terrorism squad saving us from terrorists and Brazilian plumbers but also from evil child pornographers too.
That is the abuse. No real fault of the authorities for investigating an alleged crime (actually it is their duty) but serious bad karma for deporting someone who has been here 10+ years and appears to be at least as upstanding and valuable member of society as you or I just in order to massage the figures.
Bad government, Bad.
Would you not find it a more than a little annoying to be subjected to 6 days of questioning, all your personal belongings rifled through by complete strangers and all your friends and family questioned. This sort of treatment traumatises people and can in the worse case only serve to radicalise them.
As for the 'Less than Truthful' this could be anything from spelling his name wrong on one page to neglecting to say he worked for Bin Laden as an IED manufacturer.
No the arrest in itself prompted the "not entirely thruthful" to actually be appended after the fact...
Anyway stop this planet and let me off... I'm fed up with power being with those who are politicians or those who have power...
Politicians should be answerable to the one true unifier... the people that vote them in and to which they SERVE... yes... politicians serve the common man/woman/alien... NOT as they seem to belive themselves...
Reading a document can do no harm, it is almost certain that the lawyers, police and Jacqui Smith, the soon to be ex home office minister, herself have read it. If reading the document was a crime then why are they not in prison?
Again, they've created a crime, like the scheming lawyers they are, to bypass the 'beyond reasonable doubt' test.
Did he commit a terrorist act beyond reasonable doubt? No.
Was he preparing to commit a terrorist act beyond reasonable doubt? Again nope, and as proof the police did not try to prosecute for that.
Was he even suspected of thinking about planning to prepare to commit a terrorist act beyond reasonable doubt? Nope, he was deported on the immigration act.
"we become the architects of our own totalitarianism"
We? Blair and 'Blair Babes' like Jacqui Smith created this situation, we need to unseat the last of the Blair sh*ts and then reverse his work.
I should be able to hold a sign saying "Scientology is a cult" I should be able to read any information whether it's about bomb making, or evolution, I should not have to protest under cover of 'Anonymous Cowards'.
There is something dreadfully wrong with this country, and we seem to have gotten so far off course that it is no longer safe to voice your oppinion about correcting it.
Regardless of the issues regarding the chap's migration status, there seems to be a more sinister issue buried here.. There are a number of laws that seem to be designed not to deal with dangerous situations, but rather to deal with undesireable individuals. Regardless if you have done anything 'wrong' (in the moral/destructive sense) there seems to be laws designed to allow the powers that be to 'get' you on one thing or another.
Anonymous, for the same reason that we should now probably only buy books using cash.
The education section in yesterday's Independent had a lovely letter from Nottingham's great and good saying how friendly and crime-free it was...
this covers probably about 10% of the stuff in book shops. Surely the sensible approach now is to not take any chances and burn all the books. They only turn people into spectacle wearing dangerous intellectuals anyway.
Nobody seems to have picked up where the manual was downloaded from - a US Military server where it is made available free to all. If even our super-paranoid allies in TWAT think it's safe for download then what's the fuss?
I haven't downloaded it, of course I don't want a free holiday in Guantanamo. I'm also deleting my Simpsons videos, after all when Homer strangles Bart it's a cartoon image of child abuse.
That's the question.
If they have genuinely found that he's lied on his application, then I suppose it's right that he be deported. But what exactly have they found?
The university of course appears to be run by a complete bunch of morons, but once they'd reported it the police were at least obliged to investigate.
our public were armed, they couldn't get away with this bu11sh1t. governments and even the police should be afraid of the public, not the other way around. your rights arn't worth the paper they are written on unless you can fight for them.
cuz pirates carry weapons................always
The US DOJ website *is* where the student downloaded his copy from. IIRC it was the given location for the manual in the reading list.
Just makes it scarier IMHO. And I'm trying hard not to think that this is for the purposes of entrapment.
What concerns me here is that this guy is being deported without any regard to due process. Why is it not necessary for him to be tried in open court? This is frighteningly close to him being "disappeared".
Richard "the Shoe-Bomber" Reid aside, that's the point. A John Smith is far less likely to be a fundamentalist islamic terrorist. If for the sake of political correctness one should discount these inconvenient truths we'd have Special Branch and the Security Services running around tracking everybody. Unfair? Undoubtably, realistic approach to policing? Certainly.
........is one of those words that has been hijacked by the Nickless's of this world to justify anything and everything whilst hinting that there is some form of analytical process going on in the background. A bit like "public consultation" where they keep changing the question till they get an answer they want.
Premier Inn rooms became totally non smoking recently due to customer "feedback". When I asked, as a 50 night a year smoking punter, for details of this "feedback" I was completely ignored. Now I stay in independent hotels as all the big chains have gone the same route, probably inspired by insurance armtwisting.
Isn't it great?
...any faith remaining in the integrity of the Immigration services. I could say that the investigation into Yezza's immigration status was righteuous, though the circumstances in which they began were deeply *un*righteous: sometimes mistaken action by the police leads to fortuitous discovery of wrongdoing, like stopping someone on suspicion of driving uninsured (when they have personal insurance for the car that doesn't show up on databases) and discovering contraband.
But that trust has been so deeply eroded that the base assumption has to be that the technicality normally wouldn't result in deportation and in this case has been manufactured to attempt a rescue in the PR around the cases.
Gordon Brown can rename the police to become 'firemen' and they can meet me in the carpark where I have collected a nice pile of books. Better throw the PC on there as well, cos I could use it to access reading material. See you all in our blooming utopian society.
In the U.S., when we're talking about terrorists, the expression "they hate us for our freedom" is often brought up.
Then why do they hate the U.K.?


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*We all take 'em, and you only need to click on FaceBook to see just how popular taking
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successful work out, and we want to share it with the world.
Look at me! I feel gorgeous…
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suicidal due to his selfie addiction.
Danny Bowman says he became so obsessed with trying to take the "right" selfie that he ended up
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disorder, which has "an extremely high suicide rate."
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can be to teens and adults alike. Experts say that while gadgets and social media cause addiction
and other dangers, people are in extreme denial about the level of threat these types of
communications pose, especially to impressionable teens.
Bowman's parents recall his obsession with taking selfies; the amount of time he spent in his
room taking them, his dramatic weight loss, and finally, the suicide attempt. And experts in
psychology as well as medical doctors say this problem is far more widespread than is
generally understood.
Most likely, the news that selfies might possibly cause a variety of troubling mental health
issues is not going to be met with much acceptance by a society obsessed with the self-reflective
nature of electronic gadgets. Some experts and physicians feel that society is collectively engaged
in deep denial about how dangerous it is to interact with screens without setting limits on how much
time is spent doing so.
Doctor Rutledge points out that while selfies raise the risk of narcissism, it may only be because
there is not yet a widespread, well-established context for their use. She says that taking selfies
may indeed be normal and natural, but because society has not yet collectively been able to
contextualize the place selfies are supposed to hold, they have been labeled as being narcissistic
and therefore can cause feelings of narcissism in those who take them.
However, it has been proven by multiple studies that interacting with other types of social media
is definitively linked to narcissism, depression, low self esteem, addiction and a host of other
negative effect. For example, Facebook use has been linked to depression while Twitter use
has been linked to low self esteem and narcissism. If selfies, specifically, are proven in the
future to cause these negative mental health issues, it would most likely come as no surprise to
experts in the fields of psychology and medicine.
Is it possible that taking selfies causes mental illness, addiction, narcissism and suicide?
Many psychologists say yes, and warn parents to pay close attention to what kids are doing online
to avoid any future cases like what happened to Bowman. Thankfully, due to the diligence of his
parents, he is alive today, but had his parents not gotten him help for his addiction to selfies, he
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44 Radio Spectrum Management
Radio Spectrum Management is of ever increasing importance for Telecommunications Companies, Public Authorities as well as for Defence Forces. It is necessary for the planning, implementation and operation phases of various types of technologies: point-to-point/multipoint links, broadband wireless access, cellular systems, radar, navigation systems as well as television and sound broadcasting networks, both analogue and digital. The hierarchical process of military spectrum management has extensive needs for long-term strategic as well as short-term tactical frequency management.
46 MIMO and Beamforming for 4G Wireless with Applications to LTE and WiMax
Even as Fourth Generation (4G) cellular service is being deployed, the wireless community is busy designing next technological advances in wireless cellular systems. 3G technologies based on TDMA/CDMA are not capable of handling the wideband signals required to reach the 4G target data rates. Two technologies working in tandem play a major role in 4G implementations. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has already proved successful in providing high speed communication over wireless LANs. OFDM greatly facilitates handling wideband signals, but, by itself, it cannot deliver the data rates targeted by 4G. Multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) is seen as the key technology to complement OFDM to support high data rates in wireless systems. MIMO schemes enable a variety of functions including multi-stream transmission for high spectrum efficiency, improved link quality through diversity mechanisms, and adaptation of radiation patterns for signal gain and interference mitigation through adaptive beamforming.
48 3GPP LTE Advanced and 5G
The standardisation of 3GPP Long Term Evolution has been completed in 2009 and numerous networks are in commercial operation around the globe. Still wireless broadband internet access, providing IP based services to mobile users, continues to grow rapidly worldwide. Therefore 3GPP has been working on further enhancements of the LTE air interface in 3GPP Release 10 and beyond. This new standard is called LTE Advance and fulfills all requirements as set by the ITU-R for 4G. It has been acknowledged by the industry that LTE Advanced will be the dominating 4G Technology globally. LTE Advanced promises to deliver peak data rates beyond a Gbps in up- and downlink by aggregation of multiple carriers up to 100 MHz. For new fragmented spectrum it increases flexibility, while keeping backward compatibility to LTE networks and terminals. By means of carrier aggregation LTE Advance can operate in bandwidths up to 100 MHz in contiguous or non-contiguous frequency allocations.
59 OFDM and MIMO Wireless Technologies with Applications to WiMax and UMTS LTE
The expansion of information services in the last decade has affected the way we live and work. Alongside the Internet, we have witnessed a phenomenal growth in wireless technologies. Third Generation (3G) cellular service is widely available, Fourth Generation (4G) technology is rapidly being deployed. Metropolitan area networks supported by IEEE 802.16 /WiMax have appeared in some parts of the world. Several releases of 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) have been finalized and others are being specified. Increasingly, the driving force behind future growth in the telecommunications industries is seen to be broadband wireless access to the Internet and wireless data connectivity to mobile users. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), which are increasingly seen as the physical layer technologies capable of supporting the ever-increasing appetite for capacity and data rates, are the topic of this course.
79 Future wireless networks: 5G/6G technology
It is anticipated that future wireless networks will incorporate, among the others, the following three paradigms: 1) Serve very dense population of users (Internet of Things and People) 2) Operate with very low/zero user exposure and low energy consumption 3) Operate under joint multi-operator spectra management. For efficient control and systematic design of these networks necessary modifications of the general complex networks theory tools are required.
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Picture of LG Lucid 2 leaks wearing Verizon colors
0. phoneArena 06 Mar 2013, 17:17 posted on
The other day, we passed along the speculation that the LG Optimus F5 would be coming to Verizon where it would be branded as the LG Lucid 2 and today, a leaked photograph shows the device wearing the Verizon brand; the phone is expected to be affordable and come to the market as soon as next month powered by Android 4.1.2...
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1. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5670; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
lol, Project Now. xD
2. mityblumpkin (Posts: 14; Member since: 06 Mar 2013)
hope they fixed the battery life
7. mityblumpkin (Posts: 14; Member since: 06 Mar 2013)
did my comment get branded?
5. TheLolGuy (Posts: 483; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
That's Verizon for ya.
I would be weary about Verizon wanting to drop subsidized phones. They'll probably still keep a store to sell unsubsidized full-cost phones with their branding still on them. Psh!
4. smallworld (Posts: 451; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
Ugliest phone of 2013.
6. bojan (Posts: 188; Member since: 06 Oct 2012)
super ugly phone Damn LG
8. InspectorGadget80 (Posts: 6975; Member since: 26 Mar 2011)
Man looks like Verizon getting all the ugly phones lately
9. 9thWonderful (Posts: 232; Member since: 24 Jan 2013)
All LG phones should be gathered together in a heap & put of their misery by fire...


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It's Dairy Day at Wisconsin State Fair
UPDATED 7:37 PM CDT Aug 07, 2014Video TranscriptTODAY'S EARN AND LEARN VISIT WAS PART OF CHASE BANK'S PARENT COMPANY'S SPECIAL CAREER DAY. IT'S DAIRY DAY AT THE WISCONSIN STATE FAIR. [INDISCERNIBLE] THE KIDS MILK CHUGGING CONTEST, JUST ONE OF THE SPECIAL EVENTS ON DAIRY DAY. THE WINNER OF THIS ROUND DOWNED A CARTON IN JUST TEN SECONDS. FAIR GOERS ALSO RECEIVED SAMPLES OF ICE CREAM AND MILK. KIDS ALSO GOT THE CHANCE TO COLOR COWS HEADS. HOW FUN IS THAT? AND OF COURSE WHAT DAIRY DAY WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A COW
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I just got home from the first day of our joint private sale with Soak Swimwear (http:soakswimwear.multiply.com). My back aches like hell! I never thought this private sale would be even more tiring than our usual bazaars.
Today was CRAZY! A lot of people came! We were supposed to end at 8pm but due to the amount of people, we had to extend til 9. We're very thankful for the turnout. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOOOOUUUUU! I hope tomorrow's turnout is even better. If you're from Manila, please drop by the 7th floor of The Picasso Boutique Serviced Residences located at 19 L.P. Leviste St., Salcedo Village, Makati. The dress I'm wearing here is one of my many designs for our RTW line, Coexist (http:coexistonline.multiply.com). We only have 1 piece left of this. Stocks are selling fast! Plus, as I've mentioned in my previous post, all our items from previous collections are on SALE. It's our most generous sale ever. Items from our new collection (like this dress) are also on special sale. All these sale prices are only until tomorrow so I hope you can visit us. We're open from 12noon to 8pm (and possibly even later). We're not usually this generous so make sure to take advantage of our private sale, especially now that we're accepting both debit and credit card purchases. See you tomorrow! :)
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Xi3 has revealed the release date for the Piston, the company's modular PC-based gaming console. Unfortunately, a mixture of questionable marketing terminology and lack of crucial system specifications adds up to one thing: Potential customers should arm themselves with the facts before they spend what is arguably a very inflated price for an under-powered machine.
With a launch date slated for Black Friday 2013 (November 29), Xi3 is pushing its Piston promotional campaign full steam ahead. The "grapefruit-sized" PC console was praised for its clever modular design, providing simple upgrade paths down the road for storage, CPU, and graphics options. I won't hide my opinion here: The Piston has a genius design, and its aesthetics rock.
But Xi3′s lack of transparency regarding the hardware inside is borderline deplorable, especially considering the console starts at $999. For example, the promotional page for Xi3′s Piston states that the console ships with a "Radeon 7000-Series GPU," which is nothing short of false advertising. I confirmed with a representative at Xi3 that the Piston ships with AMD Radeon 7600G graphics, which is integrated into AMD's Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). Technically, that's a graphics core, not a "Graphics Processing Unit."
AMD's current generation APUs are spectacular for what they are: A system on a chip with a speedy quad-core processor and embedded Radeon graphics. Unfortunately, the 7600G isn't present in AMD's current generation of APUs, but rather in the last generation of APUs.
Why does this matter? In their marketing copy, Xi3 promises that you will "never lag behind gaming standards" and that the system is capable of "running the most popular games." If it's fair to say that current gaming standards are at least 1080p and 30fps, then this system is going to have difficulty out of the box.
In the press release, Xi3 also uses the following terminology: "384 discrete class graphics cores." This all adds up to some shady practices, and attempts to further enforce the concept of the Piston having "discrete" graphics.
I recently benchmarked the latest APUs — the A8-6600K and A10-6800K — and based on those results I can confidently call some of Xi3′s claims into question. For example, the A8-6800K averaged 26fps on Metro: Last Light, and that was backing down to DirectX 10, turning all graphics to their lowest settings, and running at an outdated 1366×768 resolution. And again, this was with the current generation APU, which carries with it a much improved on-die Radeon HD 8570D graphics core.
Notebook check does have some benchmarks for the Radeon 7660G being used in the Piston, however, and those results are more troubling.
I'll play devil's advocate and acknowledge that since APUs thrive on both dual channel system RAM and higher memory clock speeds, these results could be improved depending on the Piston's specs. Unfortunately, they aren't telling consumers whether or not the console utilizes dual channel memory (it's 8GB of "gaming RAM") or at what clock speed the memory is set to.
Sadly, the smoke and mirrors get worse. The general press release states that Piston supports 4K resolution and "provides users with the ability to run three high-definition displays simultaneously for a fully immersive gaming experience." Again, they're not lying; they're just hoping you get hyped by the combination of words. See, AMD's EyeFinity is going to work out of the box. You can absolutely run 3 displays from an APU. But implying that you can have 3 HD monitors running your game in surround mode with an APU is a ludicrous suggestion.
Frequent readers of this column know I'm a proponent of PC gaming above all else, and I applaud Xi3 for their brilliant design chops. Products like this, if done properly, can serve to propel PC gaming forward. But the misleading marketing of the Piston console demands that someone step forward and call them out.
The Xi3 rep I emailed told me "just be careful what you're assuming about PISTON capabilities and gameplay. It's playing great inside our offices, across all games." Well, there's only so much the Radeon 7660G graphics core is capable of, and broad claims like this are just that — claims. At the very least, potential consumers need to see benchmarks and be given realistic expectations before they drop $1000 on this system. With the Piston, you're paying for solid state storage and an ultra-compact form factor, but don't think for a second that you're paying for decent gaming performance.
[Clarification: The above conversation was conducted via email.]
[SPECS UPDATE: I have official word from AMD that Xi3 is using the AMD-R series line, specifically an R464L. It's a 35W chip very similar in design to the A10-4600M APU. The CPU cores have a base speed of 2.3GHz, and turbo up to 3.2GHz. More importantly, the GPU cores are clocked at 496MHz and turbo up to 685MHz. Crucially, the A10-4600M is two generations old and supports dual channel system memory up to only 1600MHz, although AMD isn't certain of the Piston's exact specifications in that regard. As I mentioned above, faster RAM does have an impact on APUs.]


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WOW! I am always a box of pudding mix away from a dessert and never have it on hand. The ingredients needed for this filling are always in my kitchen. I was in an experimental mood and scaled this recipe way down just so I could "taste" and fiddle around with this recipe. I am very glad I did. This basic vanilla pudding is just as tasty as the popular cook & serve boxed kind. Also, I spooned a small amount into a smaller dish and sprinkled a bit of Hershey's unsweetened cocoa into it. I kept adjusting until I found just the right color and taste, and BINGO: delicious chocolate pudding suitable as is or for a pie. I'm looking forward to adding a variety of different ingredients for a wider range of spectacular desserts! Thanks a lot!!
I changed my rating from a 2 star to a 5 star. At first it is really sweet the cream, but once it is 'aged' in the fridge for at least 2 - 3 days, it really does taste like the cream filling found in the Italian Bakery cakes. I was impressed. Mind you, I only discovered this cause I ended up with too much cream filling that I was using for a cake. Very impressed by discovery.
This recipe is so simple and has so many applications I can't say enough good about it and it's just delicious. I used it the first time in a trifle and it was fantastic but, my family wanted to lick the pudding bowl so now we make it as a simple homemade dessert, would never consider box pudding when this is just as easy and so much better tasting, thank you for sharing.


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Re: Formatting numbers on Plot axis
At 03:27 AM 7/31/2001, Oliver Friedrich wrote: >Hallo, > >I'm plotting a function with the Plot Command. The range is from -200*10^3 >to 200*10^3. That's also exact the way I told it the system. >How can I tell Mathematica not to display 100000 and 200000 on the x-axis >ticks, but rather 200*10^3 or something like 200k . What are the options or >directives to tell Mathematica to format the x-axis numbers in a special >way. >BTW: I'm running version 3.0 > >Thanks a lot > >Oliver Friedrich The Ticks option (a very complicated beast) will do what you want. f[min_, max_] := Table[{x, ToString[Round@x/10^3] <> "k"}, {x, min, max, (max - min)/6}] Plot[x/10^3, {x, -200*10^3, 200*10^3}, Ticks -> {f, Automatic}]


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Well, decided not to ride but just focus on groundwork. I set up some cones in the arena and just made up a course as we went along .... and... he didn't put a hoof wrong :spin: I'm still smiling. Unfortunately, I"m out of town for work next week but Friday is the Canada Day holiday, so a 3 day weekend coming up.
Exactly what I would have (and have in the past) done. There's no hurry and especially with your finger injury! Glad Rusty was a good boy.