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Nokia has been working hard to promote it's flagship Windows Phone lineup. Their latest move may be good news for Nokia, but may signal trouble for the Windows Phone platform as a whole.
Nokia announced that they have procured deals with some app makers that will guarantee that some apps will be available exclusively for the Lumia lineup "for a limited time".
These deals are with major app projects including ESPN, Groupon, and the official PGA tour app. The exclusivity deals range from six months to one year. In exchange, Nokia is offering cash considerations as well as development work to help bring the apps to Windows Phone 7.
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Nokia's work is bringing some premier applications to the platform, which will certainly reflect in increased sales of the Microsoft mobile operating system. Nokia, so far, has been Microsoft's greatest ally in designing and releasing Windows phones, so they are happy with the additional support in getting developers on board.
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This is a different type of fragmentation than what Android faces right now, and likely less detrimental to the platform. But by acquiring exclusive access to apps, even for a limited time, will leave some consumers with a limited Windows Phone experience. When two friends go over the great apps available for their phones, and one cannot download ESPN's mobile app because his phone isn't a Lumia, that user leaves with a bad taste in his mouth.
Just because this is a minor issue of fragmentation does not mean that Windows Phone users may not be facing a larger issue. There are reports that Windows 8 will cut off earlier versions of the mobile operating system, including any phone that currently runs Windows Phone 7. This has not been confirmed, but may be of concern when it does happen.
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In preperation for the exhibition Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave at the Legion of Honor, artist Isabelle de Borchgrave created five new works inspired by paintings in the European paintings collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Selected by de Borchgrave during a summer 2010 visit to the Legion of Honor, the paintings include Anthony van Dyck's Marie Claire de Croy, Duchess d'Havre and Child (1634), Massimo Stanzione's Woman in Neapolitan Costume (ca. 1635), Konstantin Makovsky's The Russian Bride's Attire (1889), and Jacob-Ferdinand Voet's late 17th-century Anna Caffarelli Minuttiba.
All five of de Borchgrave's life-sized interpretations are on view in the last gallery of the exhibition. After taking in Pulp Fashion on the Legion's lower level, head upstairs to find three of the four paintings. (The portrait of Anna Caffarelli Minuttiba is not on public view, as it's currently being worked on in our conservation studio.)
Marie Claire de Croy and Child, 2010
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641), Marie Claire de Croy, Duchess d'Havre and Child, 1634.
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n omore widescreen (Score:5, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:25AM (#43348271)
WTF is up with everything being "Wide" (meaning vertically challenged) screen?
Tall screens, essentially square (Score:5, Interesting)I agree. I want the highest possible screen. Wide screens appear to be catering to movies, games, and the dishonesty of diagonal measurements (a wide screen gets a greater diagonal measurement than a square screen with the same number of pixels). Documents are best viewed with vertical space.
Re:Tall screens, essentially square (Score:4, Interesting)by hoboroadie (1726896) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:44AM (#43348503)
If you want (or need) a fast scan rate, it appears that that is a limitation in desktop monitors as well. It seem as though the market is catering to folks who'd rather watch some Netflix than get back to work.
That's probably because with desktop PCs the average home user could now have three or four computers in the household for the family members, and since big TVs with that aspect ratio and resolution, the control boards may well be identical in big and small units, and the biggest monitors are also often the smallest TVs.
Compared to a business user, where the average user has one computer at work to use.
My wife at her work had her second monitor rotated to Portrait mode, and it's great for displaying d
My wife at her work had her second monitor rotated to Portrait mode, and it's great for displaying docs, she gets a full page at at time. I had done that to my computer at home, but the video driver did funny things to motion video, so I ended up giving up on that experiment.
That's what I have for my setup at work. Luckily I have a wall instead of a cubicle, so I could drill through the monitor base and secure it.
My biggest problem was closing the lid before ejecting the laptop caused problems with screen resolution with no rhyme or reason, sometimes at home, sometimes when I got back to work the next day. Ejecting before closing the lid seems to have solved the problem. But no amount of tinkering with the stupid Windows 7 features would fix it.
Having to roll my own desktop bac
I have two monitors at work, one large widescreen (from the model number on the front, it's 23") and a normal 4:3 monitor, rotated to vertical.
I haven't had any problems with graphic drivers or wallpapers, KDE handles it nicely. The viewing angle could be better, although the screen's stand rotates the screen itself isn't really designed for sideways viewing.
My wallpaper for the vertical screen is some 16th and 17th century scans from botany and zoology books, which I found on Wikipedia.
Re:Tall screens, essentially square (Score:4, Insightful)by Miamicanes (730264) on Thursday April 04, 2013 @09:44AM (#43356811)
RGBG Pentile displays generally suck at low resolutions, but IMHO would probably be a reasonable way to get 2560x1600 16:10 resolution on a 12-14" display. At that point, the pixel density is so high, the display's physical resolution almost ceases to matter, and you can just scale your fonts as you please & treat it as a virtual 1280x800 display with zero artifacts if you like, even with a terrible scaling algorithm.
IMHO, 13.3" widescreen is the golden size for a laptop... wide enough for a full keyboard, but small enough to be usable on a plane.
Speaking of the keyboard... put the cursor keys on a T island at the lower right, with delete to the immediate right (but separated by some open space) of Backspace, make 'insert' Fn+Delete (let's be honest... does anyone actually use Insert for anything besides accidental annoyance), then fill the remaining space between Delete and the cursor keys with home, end, pgUp, and pgDn (pgUp and PgDn slightly above the cursor keys, home and end separated from both delete and PgUp/PgDn by open space. Give it two Trackpoint sticks -- one between GHB, one aligned vertically with GHB below the spacebar... both independent (one for mouse movement, one for vertical scrolling and panning). Finally, build the keyboard with low-profile keycaps above Cherry mechanical switches that are sculpted to account for the laptop's rear being angled up by tilt-out feet. I remember a few laptops from the late 80s that had mechanical-switch keyboards, and most of them actually feel better than the crap keyboards that ship with most DESKTOP PCs today.
Oh, and build a real powered USB hub into the power supply. Not just for 5v power, but a real USB hub. And make an optional second display with the same panel that latches onto the rear of the laptop's own display for storage and transportation. On a plane? latched on & stowed. Anywhere else? Unlatch, fold out the legs, pull out the USB cord, and plug it into a port on the power supply to enjoy a second display. Maybe even make a third super-deluxe model that has a second panel hinged with the main panel, so that if you're on a plane you could unlatch the external (now third) display, put it somewhre safe, then tilt up the second screen so you have a pair of 2560x1600 screens. The third display would protect the second when clamped onto it for travel.
My work maintains several high end graphics workstations, a few of which have sets of four monitors linked together as a single screen (on a mounting frame to keep them in place) - the down side to this is that large windows are interrupted by the monitor's edges between screens. For really tall stuff, xrandr can be used to rotate the screen though, so you can work productively on multiple monitors, and use tall (document-shaped!) windows without putting up with the bars in the middle. For quite a while,
Movies in 16:9 aspect are also best seen on a screen that is 16:10 or higher. You would want the seek-bar to appear below the movie , not on top of the movie, covering it.
Re:Tall screens, essentially square (Score:4, Interesting)
I agree. I want the highest possible screen.
I expect this problem will self-correct in a few years... a lot of people seem to be adopting Apple's new "tallscreen" video standard for home video recording.
Re:Tall screens, essentially square (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:n omore widescreen (Score:4, Insightful)by Martin Blank (154261) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:58AM (#43348651) Homepage Journal
I have no problem with widescreen if there's a decent resolution. It makes putting two pages of document up (or two documents up) easier. I'm pretty satisfied with battery life, speed, and so on, but the screen resolutions seem stuck. I'm hoping that we'll see a good step up from 1920 resolutions this year when the Haswell notebooks arrive.
I have no problem with widescreen if there's a decent resolution.
Yes, but there isn't. Monitors have less vertical pixels today than five years ago.
Re:n omore widescreen (Score:4, Interesting)And the same width as measured in cm or inches, but many people call these screens wide instead of short.
The problem with high resolution displays is that they use a lot of power. The retina MacBooks have 96Wh batteries to get good life and so are very heavy. For comparison similar laptops have around 45Wh batttery packs for a similar run time.
For now I'd rather have a 1600x900 screen. Less power so the laptop is much lighter, and a higher effective resolution compared to a "retina" display running at 200% zoom. Give it a few years until higher resolution and lower power consumption is available and I'll take
no more widescreen, unless more vertical pixels (Score:5, Insightful)We need at least 1200 vertical pixels, this was readily available 10 years ago, but now is hard to find. We really should be getting much more, rather than much less, so we can read portrait mode documents, etc.
Better screens in general (Score:2, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward
Both in terms of glare reduction/brightness and decent resolution. As far as I know, a laptop is stuck with the screen it comes with and there are no easy workarounds that are intended to be portable.
The screen in particular because much of the other stuff on the poll is ridiculously easy to fix or workaround, even on existing hardware. This is because you can get spare batteries (or just use the adapter) and exernalize file storage, and things like half-decent wireless computer mice are ridiculously cheap.
Maybe not daylight readable... (Score:5, Insightful)by StoneyMahoney (1488261) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:28AM (#43348295)
...but certainly NOT mirror-reflective. Matte screen with higher brightness please!
Thanks! All of the Mac books are mirror-equipped... and I thought nobody really minds... (or maybe people don't stare at the screen for hours, like us...)
I still don't get the mirror display thing - are they cheaper or something? I don't believe that anyone would actually decide that "yes! the one where what you see is a) your face and, distant-second, b) whatever you're trying to work on, is the way to go!"
Am I missing something? The only matte displays I can find anymore are Lenovo T-series and a few specific Dells. It's just weird.
Display Resolution (Score:4, Insightful)1366x768 is not usable for any kind of serious work.
Agreed. I have an external panel permanently plugged in. Yes, it's a 16:10, but there again it is set vertically so I get 900x1440 (hey, I'm cheap) hence have something I can use for document editing... it was either that or fall back to ol' reliable Fujitsu tablet at 768x1024, but that's only a 500 Celeron with 256MB RAM and Windows ME...
Re:Display Resolution (Score:4, Informative)Obligatory reading [google.com]
Turn your laptop sideways and rotate the screen via the video driver controls.
...and learn to touch-type with one hand on a sideways keyboard... OK.
Or you could, you know, get a keyboard tray and external keyboard and mouse. That at least would work at your desk and not cost a lot of money.
Re:Display Resolution (Score:4, Insightful)
... at that point, what's the purpose in having a laptop?
Turn your laptop sideways and rotate the screen via the video driver controls.
Tried that. Doesn't work.
Most content-based programs are not designed for less than 1024 pixels of horizontal resolution, so you're condemned to do a lot of horizontal scrolling. Or making all your content tiny.
Even worse, most laptop screens are TFT displays built to be seen from a slightly downward angle. If you look at it any other way, there will be color shifts. In particular, if you look at it sideways, then each eye will see a different color and your visual cortex gets to have fun seeing different t
1366x768 is not usable for any kind of serious work
I agree. Usually, to code, I reduce the resolution to ~1152x768 to please my eyes...
Re:Display Resolution (Score:5, Informative)
I agree. Usually, to code, I reduce the resolution to ~1152x768 to please my eyes...
This is a joke, right? You realize that Windows has had DPI scaling functions for years? (And even if you're using an OS without DPI scaling, you'll get much better results by increasing the font size in your code editor rather than running the panel out of spec.)
I really must be in the minority on this, but I've never had a problem with lower pixel density. As long as the pixels are small enough to assemble into a legible font at the size I can comfortably read, I'm happy.
by characterZer0 (138196) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:33AM (#43348361)
Use only hardware with functional open source drivers.
I'd Go With Lighter Weight (Score:5, Interesting)by The Phantom Mensch (52436) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:33AM (#43348365)
After using a Samsung Chromebook for my casual evening browsing habits for a few months I find myself loving the light weight. A 3 pound laptop is something I can keep in my lap all evening comfortably, without wishing I had a desk to throw the thing on to give my legs a break.
No Windows OS (Score:5, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:36AM (#43348387)
The #1 most important thing I consider when purchasing a laptop is that it doesn't come bundled with Windows. Luckily these days there are numerous options to purchase from vendors that bundle Linux, if you aren't interested in a Mac. But when I hear "typical" I think Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. While these vendors sometimes have non-Windows offerings available, it would be nice if this extended to their entire product line. Personally, I would and have paid more for laptops that come without OS.
What do I really want? (Score:5, Interesting)
Faster boot times. Sure, with SSD I can boot to the Win7 desktop in about 30 seconds, but now that I'm used to that, it's an eternity (My nexus 10 takes over a minute, though...)
Instant on without being pre booted.
Partly facetious, partly serious.
Second that. And why only speed up booting? Why I should wait for (tens of) minutes while compiling my project or running unit tests? Everything should be instant!
Moe: The deep fryer's here! I got it used from the Army. You can flash-fry a buffalo in 40 seconds.
Homer: Forty seconds?! But I want it now!
It is funny. On my Air wake up from sleep time is almost more than cold boot time. What I would like is more storage, but of course SSD is still expensive, and die in time.
Basic modern laptops should come with... (Score:5, Informative)by Tastecicles (1153671) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:39AM (#43348437)
touch screens! I mean, come on! If I want a touch screen these days I am either stuck with something with 64GB user storage (I mean, that's a TINY portion of my music collection, and fuck all room for other such niceties as being able to stretch my mixing arms!) or I'm paying double the odds on other specifications (500GB hard drive and 6GB RAM is fine for most things, as is a 15" short screen). I can't help but feel just a little bit ripped off.
Re:Basic modern laptops should come with... (Score:5, Insightful)What are you talking about? Is this a post from 2007? Have you been to best buy or staples recently? Every manufacturer has a touch screen laptop (well, almost, Apple hasn't "invented" it yet.). Not only that, you can even get desktops that have touch screens.
Upgradabilty (Score:5, Insightful)by AliasMrAlias (1445453) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:41AM (#43348469)
Not soldering everything together would get my vote. The option to include a discrete graphics card or better processor at some point after purchase would be very welcome. I have a desktop I keep up to date and use a broken down second hand dell for any work that requires mobility (meetings, class etc) because I see no point in investing in a piece of kit I can't improve later on.
I maintain a stack of Dell Latitudes and Inspirons for precisely that reason - for the most part, their components are completely interchangeable. The lowest spec machines find homes on my walls as digital picture frames (currently 4 Pentium IIs), the high spec gear (we're only talking 2.0, 1.8, 1.6 and 1.2 P4's) gets various uses from clustering to field work.
Better Off-the-shelf Heat Dissipation (Score:4, Interesting)by peon_a-z,A-Z,0-9$_+! (2743031) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:41AM (#43348479)While I may not be 'sweating' through the tough parts of whatever content I'm consuming or creating, my lap sure is.
They 'FIX' the one thing that ALWAYS sucks in a laptop, the slow-ass laptop drives that manufacturers use to save cash.
Battery! Battery! Battery! (Score:5, Informative)By far the biggest bottleneck is battery life not just for laptops but for civilization in general. My Lenovo X230 is fast, light, has decent resolution and is perfect for my job. The biggest problem is battery life, I'm good for 4-5 hours but this number drops every time I go through a discharge/recharge cycle and eventually end up with 20 minutes of battery life. Industry is focused on developing lower-power hardware to extend battery life but we really need a revolution in battery power storage and re-usability.
Most cap at 8 or 16g. Way too little for graphic intensive applications.
If you're using software in which 16 GB of RAM is way too little, perhaps you should focus more on desktop computers instead. You're trying to use a butter knife to cut a steak.
Agreed. I've got 12GB of RAM in my laptop, and I've never hit the swapfile, even though I use some very intensive programs.
A stylish wearable using 'cloud' functionality for processsing and storage, with haptic and voice input, and visual / voice output with beyond retina image quality that is projected into both eyes in a maskable area while using optical comparison to detect the ability of my eye to see it (avoiding bifocals, etc..) and projecting what Is actually in front of me based on eye position so I don't fall on my butt.
I'd make them cheaper
Graphics performance anyone? (Score:2, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward
It is really hard for me to find a decent laptop because it is so rare that they come with a GPU worth using. My current laptop is using hybrid crossfire between an AMD A8 with a 6620G a dedicated 6750M. I got it about a year ago and I can't find anything comparable on the market today. HP doesn't make them anymore, nor anything like them. It is even getting harder and harder to find a laptop with an APU or worth while dedicated card.
Maybe put a handle or some other ergonomic feature so that it's possible to hold the laptop in one hand while typing with the other.
None of the above (Score:5, Interesting)
Maybe not everyone has the same experience, but I like my current laptop (2009 MacBook Pro) just fine. As a computer service manager, the two things I'd LIKE to see are improved resistance to accidental liquid damage, and better service access. Neither is likely to happen; in the last few years I've no improvement in the former and a dramatic decrease in the latter. Current models are essentially unrepairable.
I like mine just fine, too, although it is a SchtinkPad W520 . . . 32GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD.
Of course, the best thing I like about it . . . somebody else paid for it! An ancient Roman was asked:
"Which wine do your prefer to drink?"
"Wine, that another has paid for."
Just replace wine with laptop. Oh, and drink with use.
Display resolution (Score:5, Insightful)
This applies everywhere, to desktop monitors as well.
I'm typing this on a 1920x1080 laptop screen (17") with another 22" monitor of the same resolution plugged in. These are considered "high-end" for a laptop, and "mainstream" for a monitor.
Sometime this month Samsung is launching a *phone* with that resolution. In a 5" screen. It's commonplace for tablets, enough that the higher-end ones go even higher. And yet laptop manufacturers can't seem to make a 15" screen above 1366x768, judging by most of them.
I remember having a 1024x768 screen back in 1997. Do you seriously mean to tell me we haven't been able to improve monitors beside making them thinner and adding more pixels to the sides?
* I am of the opinion that 16:10 is a superior resolution to 16:9. It works fine for editing, both full-screen and two side-by-side apps. It works fine for gaming. It plays 16:9 movies with minimal fuss. And it even works fairly well in portrait mode, though not as well as 3:4. If it weren't for the fact that it's usually 50% more expensive for a 10% increase in size, I'd use them exclusively.
Are you concerned about seeing jaggies, or do you want more space for your windows?
I realize with the really high pixel densities, you basically have to double the size of everything, but you get more readable fonts and a generally nicer look (also, less jaggies in games and whatnot). But I also want to be able to fit more stuff onto the screen at one time.
Jaggies, bragging rights, and the the magic word "1080p" is why cell phones have been getting more resolution lately
But given the strange popularity of "full frame" modes in real operating systems, I'm not sure that "real estate" is of concern to OS developers.
I'd start with removing all those dumb Windows and Intel stickers.
I'd buy a mac.
Yes, because an unremovable glowing Apple logo is better than a bunch of stickers that can be easily removed with some goo-gone.
Volume control (Score:5, Interesting)by jones_supa (887896) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:01PM (#43350083)Create some better method to control the volume than by bashing Fn+Fx. Old laptops were so nice to have the analogue volume wheel. Maybe create something similar in digital by putting a "mouse scroll wheel" to the side of the laptop?
....or at least a non-cramped keyboard for someone with larger hands than a child.
Standard upgradeable form factor parts (Score:3, Interesting)by who_stole_my_kidneys (1956012) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:06PM (#43350123)Id like to see a standard motherboard that can be swapped when a new version comes out, upgrade-able CPU's, upgrade-able GPU's, upgrade-able memory, upgrade-able power supplies, upgrade-able batteries and so on. If i can have a PC case that can accommodate all this why cant there be a laptop that can do the same?
Laptop OEMs have been fighting this kind of thing for years because it eats into their bottom line. Apple seems to be the worst offender: Their "Retina" MacBook Pros offer locked multipliers, no mini-pcie bays, a proprietary flash storage interface and non-upgradable memory. Unfortunately, it's "in" to be like Apple and other OEMs are starting to follow suit.
by slashmydots (2189826) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:17PM (#43350225)Make it a desktop with a handle on top and a case for the LCD, lol. Until then, I probably won't be real happy. I hate the battery life, hate the weight, hate the fragility, hate the difficulty to clean it and difficulty to upgrade, hate the lack of SSDs in low end models, hate the screen visiblity outdoors, hate the low quality webcam, hate the mic facing directly into the speakers, hate the keyboards, absolutely hate with a passion the touchpad, hate the half speed DVD drive, hate the slower than desktop chip speed, hate the insufficient cooling on almost all models, and hate the fact that all new ones come with Windows 8.
I'd like to be able to use my tablet/phone/e-reader/whatever as external displays. I'd like to be able to whip out a small device like a cell phone, do some browsing, and then decide-- hey, I need a screen and keyboard to continue my work-- and switch terminals. I'd like to be able think of your devices as constituent parts of your my own network, and not as discrete computers.
It really depends on your use case. Since the question was what I would change, my answer is nothing at all. I've probably had more than 20 "portables" over the years ranging from a suitcase-sized NEC with a gas plasma display to a Toshiba smaller than modern-day tablets. But the Apple Air (13") I have right now is completely perfect for what I want it for. Weighs almost nothing, has a wonderful display, the 128GB SSD is lots as I store most of my data in the cloud, battery life is pretty much all day l
Better cooling!
This would positively impact overall reliability and lifespan.
I have had too many laptops die a premature death because of cooling issues. I would really like to see this change.
Because aside from RAM and hard drive, there are none. Imagine if you could buy one battery or A/C adapter that was compatible with every laptop manufactured over the past three years? Imagine if you could replace a broken screen with another one for less than $100.00? Imagine if you could upgrade the processor, or swap out the motherboard for one that had a better/faster GPU? To be honest, I'm surprised nobody else has suggested this yet.
I bought my current laptop because it shipped with Ubuntu. I actually run Lubuntu (which I can't brag about enough), but it virtually guaranteed that I wouldn't have video compatibility issues. My last laptop (from the same manufacturer) had an ATI card that I could never get to perform well (with at least three different distros).
IIRC most Intel-based laptops are compatible -- the 4+ laptops I've tried on various distros have all done fine, though KDE 4 reports they're unable to blur the background on transparent windows/decorations. (To be fair, the ATI Radeon HD 4225 netbook I used for a while didn't give me trouble, either.)
You might also give your system a try under non-Ubuntu distros like SimplyMepis (my favorite), OpenSUSE, or Fedora. I've heard of a lot of people that ran into hardware compatibility issues under Ubuntu-base
I understand the convenience of a Laptop and at it's core it is very functional, but in my vision of the world, a laptop is an extension of the paradigm of tethering people.
Before you bitch at me for this, read me out. This thought line is from a work perspective. When companies started sending people home with pagers and putting people on-call 24/7, they were being paid extra for going above and beyond. But companies saw a way to sell extra hours to the work force through "convenience".
Pager: You can just call the number (sometimes work) if you receive a page and help resolve an issue with a quick discussion rather than drive into work and get overtime pay.
Cell Phone: Can page you and you can be anywhere when you call the number back, or can be called directly, again quick discussion rather than drive into work and get overtime pay.
Laptops: Once you have a reason to, you can quickly connect with work and fix an issue and not have to drive into work and get overtime pay, and you can conveniently work from home if you need to for an emergency.
Smart Phones: You can work and talk at the same time and improve the amount feedback, oh and it's small so you can take it with you where ever you go.
Each of these devices over time have become more and more invasive on the personal / private time away from work. Work has tethered you and you are their lap-dog all in the name of convenience.
Then when people used the convenience to benefit themselves, companies generally say, oh no, you are abusing the convenience.....
So I detest the Laptops because I see it as a long line of convenience tools that just tether you more.
When the end of the work day comes, I put the laptop away secured at work and walk away. My time away from work is my time away from technology and I try to enjoy the rest of the world.
Yes, I can always turn off the phone, or close the laptop, but there is nothing better than hearing, "we couldn't reach you" for true freedom.
Based on my above ramblings, I might be in need of a vacation .
Current hardware is amazing, but we've become so inured to bad software (chose any definition of "bad" you like, slow, bloated, buggy, insecure, incompatible, leaky...except perhaps "ugly" which we're doing Ok on) that so far no one else has even mentioned it. Until we start addressing that, better hardware will just lower the bar on the next round of software.


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I really only want a SF tbh.
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I want Muhammad, I think he has all the tools to fit perfectly in with this team, he's the swing man we have been looking for, he might not be the tallest SF but like Davis he still has a couple more years that he could possibly grow!!
In a couple years from now, if everything turns out well, I just can't see us paying a nice portion of money for Ryno, AR (if develops), EG, AD, and possibly Muhammed
Where's the love for Poythress? Or Le'Bryan Nash?
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"I don't know if people know I dislocated my pinkie finger. And [Tyreke] told me, 'You wanna go home or you wanna be here?' I want to be here. And he said, 'All right, then go tape it up and let's play. Let's go. We not stoppin' at no stores. Straight gas. That's what we do, just keep going.'"
Also, another SF to keep an eye on, Adonis Thomas. He might stay another year to work on his offensive game some.
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First off I was saying why I think people aren't talking about him. I have done no scouting and didn't claim to have , so my apologies if it came across like that. I meant as eman guessed that he's a tweener.
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Many of the members of the Roseanne cast recently reunited at the TV Land Awards. Their sitcom was honored with the Innovator Award and Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, Michael Fishman, Martin Mull, Johnny Galecki, Alicia Goranson, and Sarah Chalke appeared on-stage to accept the honor.
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WILLIAMSON - As the investigation into the origin of a weekend fire that destroyed several businesses and apartments and left Pike Street in Williamson in ruins continues, the State Fire Marshal has released the name of the victim who lost his life in the blaze.
The body of Robert Mitchell Smith, 48, who lived in one of the apartments that was destroyed, has been sent to the State Medical Examiner's Office for positive identification and autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.
Four other residents of the apartments were taken to Williamson Memorial Hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the fire. One of those individuals, Gilford Muncy, was transferred to the burn unit of Cabell-Huntington Hospital, where he remains in serious condition with third-degree burns.
According to Williamson Fire Chief Jerry Mounts, preliminary reports from the state fire marshal assigned to the case points toward the fire starting in Muncy's apartment, but the definite origin has yet to be determined.
Meanwhile, on Monday morning at approximately 8:30 a.m., Mingo County 911 received a report of a fire at 551 Maple Walk in Williamson. Upon arrival, firefighters found a furnace fire on the ground floor of the two-family dwelling.
The rental property, owned by Sam Kapourales, was occupied by Tiffany Cline and her child. The child had spent the night with family and was not home at the time of the fire. Matthew Messarian, who lives across Maple Walk from Cline, said he was outside when the woman came running out of the house, frantic because her home was on fire. Messerian said Cline attempted to go back in to collect personal belongings but he prevented her from doing so.
"She did grab a couple of things that were directly inside the doorway, including her purse, but I held her and didn't let her go in again," said Messarian. "There's no belongings that are worth risking your life over."
Mounts said the fire itself was contained to the room in which it began, but added that the entire structure suffered smoke damage.
"We have prepared for different fire scenarios here on Maple Walk," the fire chief said. "Due to the fact that you cannot access the majority of these homes by vehicle, you have to use a sidewalk. We developed three different plans for access, depending on where the fire is located."
"This plan was well rehearsed and played out perfectly with no problems," Mounts said.
The department responded with two engine companies and eight firefighters.
A Monday morning blaze also was reported at a home at Hardy, Ky. but no details had been released from the Belfry Volunteer Fire Department at presstime.


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Robbie Deans named a 26-man squad for the Wallabies' end-of-year tour to Europe, which has nine World Cup players missing.
Fullback Kurtley Beale (hamstring), wing Drew Mitchell (hamstring), centre Pat McCabe (shoulder), flyhalf Quade Cooper (knee), No 8 Wycliff Palu (hamstring), flanker Rocky Elsom (hamstring), lock Dan Vickerman (shoulder) and prop Sekope Kepu (eye) are all ruled out due to injury after the recent tournament in New Zealand. Scrumhalf Luke Burgess misses out on selection because of his move to France.
This sees three uncapped players called up in Reds backs Ben Tapuai and Ben Lucas, and Waratahs loose forward Dave Dennis. Western Force front rower Pek Cowan also returns to the Wallabies squad after missing the World Cup.
The Wallabies face the Barbarians at Twickenham on 26 November and Wales in Cardiff on 3 December.
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Dr. Chocolate: UW Bothell professor has a sweet Ph.D.
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In her office at the UW Bothell campus, instructor Kristy Leissle, who holds a Ph.D. in chocolate, prepares to share a very fine piece of hot chocolate, made by Aaron Bathel of Intrigue Chocolate. Leissle says it just might be the best.
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Kristy Leissle, aka Dr. Chocolate, holds a chocolate bowl filled with 100 percent cocoa from Bill Fredericks' Chocolate Man store in Lake Forest Park.
From cocoa fields in Ghana to posh factories in Britain, she spent seven years researching the chocolate trade to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
That's right, seven years immersed in the economic and anthropological impact of chocolate, and what everybody wants to know from Kristy Leissle is:
"What's your favorite candy bar?"
Hmmm, that's a tough question.
"There's too much chocolate in my life for me to pick," said Leissle, a global studies teacher at UW's Bothell campus. "I like whatever chocolate I am eating. Milk, dark, salted, flavored. I'm not overly particular."
She eats chocolate at breakfast, between meals and before bed. No matter where she is.
She ate chocolate at sunset with penguins in Antarctica. "I've eaten chocolate on all seven continents," she said.
She eats chocolate in class. She teaches a course that unwraps the role of chocolate in history, politics, film and advertising.
Not only students look forward to her lectures.
"I've noticed a staff member or two hanging around hoping she's bringing in her tasty treats," said Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, UW Bothell associate vice chancellor for undergraduate learning.
"It's not every day that somebody can study chocolate and get a Ph.D.," he said.
Leissle claims she's the first.
If you Google "Dr. Chocolate," her blog is at the top of the search engine. Then comes Dr. Chocolate's Chocolate Chateau in Minnesota; a bunch of medical doctors espousing the benefits of chocolate; and a party band named Doctor Chocolate in South Wales.
Leissle, 38, cut her teeth on Hershey bars.
"My grandpa used to babysit me when I was little, and he would feed me chocolate to keep me happy," she said.
It was her gateway drug.
"My brother once found me in the basement watching TV and eating Nestle's Quik powder with a spoon."
She still guzzles chocolate syrup from a bottle, "if that's all there is in the house," she said.
That doesn't happen often. She has a "chocolate closet" at her Ballard home, with bins and boxes filled with chocolate, from artisan to fun-sized.
The curly-haired Oxford University graduate moved from New York to Seattle in 2000 with the dream to be Dr. Chocolate someday.
At UW, Leissle won a scholarship to study the global aspects of the cocoa trade. "One full year was research and travel," she said. "I had to examine everything about chocolate."
She finished her doctoral dissertation in 2008 and dedicated it to her grandpa.
"People started calling me Dr. Chocolate, and it sort of stuck," she said.
Outside the classroom, she serves as education director of Seattle's annual Northwest Chocolate Festival.
She spreads the joy of chocolate wherever she goes, even with the person sitting next to her on a plane.
"It's one of the only foods our bodies respond to on many levels. All the things our bodies want, chocolate has," she said. "It gives happiness and pleasure. It makes us feel good."
You don't have to wait until Valentine's Day.
"Every day is a good day to eat chocolate," she said.
Doctor's orders.
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Dr. Chocolate's Top 10
10. As ice cream, on a chocolate brownie, covered with hot fudge and chocolate sprinkles or crunchies.
9. In one of Autumn Martin's boozy milkshakes at Hotcakes Molten Chocolate Cakery in Ballard.
8. A drink of very dark chocolate, melted with heavy cream and sprinkled with sea salt crystals, in one of my nice china teacups.
7. Mixed into cold, whole milk after a long run.
6. With whoever is sitting next to me on an airplane during takeoff.
5. In chunks on whole wheat toast, on top of a layer of peanut butter and drizzled with honey.
4. In handfuls, straight from the collection in my chocolate closet, at my desk while working at home.
3. In Aaron Barthel's Saint Basil truffle from Intrigue Chocolates in Seattle.
2. Melted into my steel-cut oats at breakfast.
1. In my best dreams, where rivers of molten chocolate run all for me.
-- Kristy Leissle,
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As required by House Bill 1, 79th Legislature, Third Called Session, the P-16 Council recommends eight objectives designed to increase student success and decrease the number of students enrolling in developmental course work in institutions of higher education.
This website provides links to data related to labor market, career, and wage information. Tools such as TRACER, OSCAR, and Reality Check are also available.
This updated documents contains answers to frequently asked questions about dual credit courses.
As required by House Bill 1, 79th Legislature, Third Called Session, the P-16 Council provides an annual update regarding implementation of the P-16 College Readiness and Success Strategic Action Plan.
Texas Education Code §61.0761 (House Bill 1, 79th Legislature, Third Called Session) requires the submission of a progress report to members of the executive branch, Legislative Budget Board, and selected members of the Legislature regarding the creation and implementation of the P-16 College Readiness and Success Strategic Action Plan. (This report is no longer available online. Contact 512 463-9682 for a copy.)
A report to the Texas P-16 Council from the Educator Quality Committee on recommendations related to excellence in educator recruitment, preparation, development, and retention.
In 2005, the 79th Texas Legislature passed HB 2808 which required the P-16 Council to review existing school district programs that provide high school students with the opportunity to enroll in dual credit and concurrent enrollment courses. The bill further directed the Council to review the recommended high school program to determine the feasibility of offering an advanced curriculum that would allow a high school student to graduate with at least twelve hours of college-level coursework utilizing dual credit and/or concurrent enrollment courses. (This report is no longer available online. Contact (512) 463-9682 for a copy.)
The Student Futures Project, spearheaded by the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources and Skillpoint Alliance, explores the progress and motivations of Central Texas high school students as they move onto colleges and careers.
Sponsored by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Education Agency, this study has two purposes. One is to carefully evaluate P-16 (Preschool through college) student-centered intervention programs designed to increase college and university participation and success among populations typically underrepresented in Texas higher education. The second is to develop recommendations for model programs to be encouraged in Texas.
The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) project is a six-year federal initiative designed to increase early college awareness and readiness in traditionally underrepresented groups. Texas GEAR UP is divided into two major strands: statewide initiatives that help achieve GEAR UP goals across the state and the STAR Project, an intensive, multifaceted P-16 intervention in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas in coordination with the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Pre-College Outreach Center.
The University of Texas Health Science Center's Children's Learning Institute combines data and studies from the fields of psychology, neuro-development, education and child development to provide proven learning solutions derived from, and supported by, documented research. The Children's Learning Institute hosts Texas School Ready!™, the official site for the Texas School Readiness Certification System, and the Texas State Center for Early Childhood Education (SCECD) and the Texas Early Education Model (TEEM).
The College for All Texans website consolidates information spanning a variety of Texas higher education topics, including test preparation, application, enrollment, career options, and financial aid. (Available in English and Spanish)
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) is a public, nonprofit corporation that administers the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP).
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
Created by the nation's governors and business leaders. Achieve helps states prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work, and citizenship by raising academic standards and achievement in America's schools.
Provides access to research tools, special reports, and resources, including Quality Counts 2006, the NCLB Progress Report, and leadership and salary information.
The Education Trust advances its mission along several fronts, from raising its voice in national and state policy debates to helping teachers improve instruction in their classrooms. Regardless of where it occurs, our work maintains a relentless focus on improving the education of all students, and particularly those students whom the system has traditionally left behind.
ECS is an interstate compact created in 1965 to improve public education by facilitating the exchange of information, ideas and experiences among state policymakers and education leaders. As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization involving key leaders from all levels of the education system, ECS creates unique opportunities to build partnerships, share information and promote the development of policy based on available research and strategies.
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education promotes public policies that enhance Americans' opportunities to pursue and achieve high-quality education and training beyond high school. As an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, the National Center prepares action-oriented analyses of pressing policy issues facing the states and the nation regarding opportunity and achievement in higher education-including two- and four-year, public and private, for-profit and nonprofit institutions.
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This engine is a Packard built Rolls-Royce "Merlin" engine manufactured in the U.S. It is based on the Rolls-Royce Merlin 24. Packard built engines were given a "2" prefix so this is a Merlin 224.
It flew in the famous World War II Avro Lancaster British bomber on missions over Germany in 1943 to 1944. The Mk. I, Mk. III and Mk. X versions of the Lancaster used the Merlin 224.
The Merlin is considered one of the most successful aircraft engines of the World War II. It first entered service in the Fairey "Battle" in March, 1936 and is most closely associated with the Hawker "Hurricane," Supermarine "Spitfire," North American P-51D "Mustang" and de Havilland "Mosquito."
The engine went through continuous development with production ending in 1960 with over 500,000 Rolls-Royce engines built and over 54,000 Packard models.
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A LAKE District boat is to join a thousand-strong fleet sailing in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee procession on the Thames this summer.
One of Windermere's well-worn wooden tourist vessels has been selected by Royal organisers to take part in the event – the largest flotilla in modern times.
More than two million people are expected to watch from the embankments of the Thames as the seven-mile procession steers through London waters.
Cumbria's own aptly-named participant, The Queen of the Lake, owned by Windermere Lake Cruises, is currently being repainted and refurbished for the spectacular, on Sunday, June 3.
The flotilla will be led by Her Majesty the Queen and other members of the Royal family aboard a barge called The Spirit of Chartwell.
It will sail under 14 bridges, alongside groups of narrow boats, historic vessels including World War Two ships from the Dunkirk beaches and replica Tudor ships.
Managing director of Windermere Lake Cruises Nigel Wilkinson said: "We are delighted Cumbria will be represented at such a high-profile, patriotic event which will inevitably strike a cord with the whole country as we celebrate her Majesty the Queen and her 60-year reign together.
"We hope to be able to involve the wider Cumbria community in this project and to give some younger Cumbrians a day out that they will remember for the rest of their lives."
Boat building manager Alex Williamson and operations manager Russell Bowden will lead the team south for the patriotic event.
Windermere skipper Ron Walker will captain the boat on the day itself.
The 15-metre tourist boat, built in 1949, will be hoisted out of the water at Ambleside and driven almost 300 miles by lorry before it is launched on the Thames.
It is a reversal of the ship's initial northern voyage, 60 years ago, when she was transported to Windermere from the Thames-side town of Molsey, where she was built.
It is not the first time the Queen of the Lake has been given a Royal mark of approval. In March 2010 it carried the Prince of Wales when he visited the Lake District.
Next generation of reactors will be built at Sellafield and Heysham, the Government announced today as it pushes ahead with plans for new nuclear power plants.
In the first major announcement on the future of nuclear in the UK since the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the Government outlined the locations deemed suitable for new power stations by 2025, all of which are adjacent to existing nuclear sites.
The eight sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey.
The plans for new nuclear power plants are part of a series of national policy statements on energy which were published today, following a public consultation.
They will be debated and voted on in Parliament, but ministers are hopeful that, with a pro-nuclear majority in the Commons, they will win the argument.
Nuclear power is one of the issues that divided Conservatives and Liberal Democrats when they entered Government together, with the coalition deal allowing a Lib Dem spokesman to speak out against any new nuclear plants, while Lib Dem MPs could abstain on the issue.
Lib Dem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has since given his backing to new reactors, insisting they would not be subsidised by the taxpayer - although MPs have warned that reform of the electricity market could favour nuclear power and amount to a hidden subsidy.
The Government is planning the new suite of reactors to maintain electricity supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions as an old generation of power stations is shut down.
The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question earlier this year after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
Mr Huhne signalled last month that plans for new reactors in the UK were on track after an initial report on Fukushima from nuclear chief inspector Mike Weightman ruled out the need to curtail the operation of nuclear power stations in the UK in light of the situation in Japan.
The energy policy statements aim to provide a framework for making planning decisions so projects do not face "unnecessary hold-ups".
They set out the need for billions of pounds of investment in new energy sources, including 33 gigawatts of renewable power - the equivalent of thousands of offshore wind turbines - to meet the UK's future needs.
Energy minister Charles Hendry said: "Around a quarter of the UK's generating capacity is due to close by the end of this decade. We need to replace this with secure, low carbon, affordable energy.
"This will require over £100 billion worth of investment in electricity generation alone.
"This means twice as much investment in energy infrastructure in this decade as was achieved in the last decade.
"Industry needs as much certainty as possible to make such big investments.
"These plans set out our energy need to help guide the planning process, so that if acceptable proposals come forward in appropriate places, they will not face unnecessary hold-ups."
He said the coalition Government was determined to make the UK attractive to investors to ensure that the country had secure, affordable, low-carbon energy.


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First Known Use: 14th century
verb ar·gue \ˈär-(ˌ)gyü\
: to give reasons for or against something : to say or write things in order to change someone's opinion about what is true, what should be done, etc.
: to cause (someone) to decide to do or not do something by giving reasons
: to disagree or fight by using angry words
Full Definition of ARGUE
intransitive verb
: to give reasons for or against something : reason <argue for a new policy>
: to contend or disagree in words : dispute <argue about money>
transitive verb
: to give evidence of : indicate <the facts argue his innocence>
: to consider the pros and cons of : discuss <argue an issue>
: to prove or try to prove by giving reasons : maintain <asking for a chance to argue his case>
: to persuade by giving reasons : induce <couldn't argue her out of going>
— ar·gu·er \-gyə-wər, -gyü-ər\ noun
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Examples of ARGUE
- She argued against the proposed law.
- The senator argued in favor of lowering taxes.
- He's always willing to argue for what is right.
- She argued that the proposed law should be defeated.
- He argued that it's far too early to make a decision.
- No one can argue me out of doing this.
- They started arguing about politics.
- She would argue with anyone.
Origin of ARGUE
Middle English, from Anglo-French arguer to reprove, argue & Latin arguere to demonstrate, prove; Anglo-French arguer, from Latin argutare to prate, frequentative of arguere; akin to Hittite arkuwai- to plead, respond
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Girl Scouts presents Awards of Distinction
Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania (GSWPA) will present 11 Awards of Distinction at a luncheon on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Omni William Penn, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh. Reception begins at 11:30 a.m. with luncheon and program to follow at noon.
The Awards of Distinction celebrates eight outstanding women role models and community leaders, two impressive high school students and a corporation that has been a long standing community partner of GSWPA.
Dr. Ellen Roth, Honorary Chair of the event, joined Lisa Shade, public relations manager at GSWPA, to discuss the Awards of Distinction with Comcast Newsmakers' host, Tonia Caruso.
The 2014 honorees in each category are:
- Arts & Education: Marilyn Michalka Egan, PhD, Pittsburgh Opera
- Athletics: Swin Cash, Pittsburgh Native, WNBA Player – Chicago Sky
- Business: Susan Baker Shipley, Huntington Bank
- Community & Non-Profit: Patricia Siger, United Way of Allegheny County
- Entrepreneur & Small Business: Lani Lazzari, Simple Sugars
- Government & Law: Patricia Dodge, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP
- Health Care: Candi Castleberry-Singleton, UPMC Center for Inclusion
- Technology & Communication: Patricia Rote, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
2014 Girl Scout of Distinction:
Laura Sosovika, Sophomore, North Allegheny High School
2014 Girl Scout Humanitarian Award
Veronica Brueggman, Senior, South Park High School
2014 Corporation of Distinction:
Dr. Ellen Roth, president, Getting to the Point Inc., serves as the Honorary Chair.
Honorary Committee Members
- Ritchie Battle
- Tracy Certo, NEXTpittsburgh
- Linda Dickerson, 501( c )(3)2
- Ann Dugan, University of Pittsburgh
- Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, Jewish Healthcare Foundation
- Hilda Pang Fu, Luminari, Inc.
- Sylvia V. Hill-Fields, Eden Hall Foundation
- Elsie Hillman, Elsie H. Hillman Foundation
- Diane P. Holder, UPMC Health Plan
- Margaret P. Joy, McCarthy McDonald Schulberg & Joy
- Anne Lewis, Board Chair, Oxford Development Company
- Catherine Loevner, Catherine and Mark H. Loevner Family Foundation
- Aradhna M. Oliphant, Leadership Pittsburgh Inc.
- Peggy Morrison Outon, Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management
- Valerie McDonald Roberts, Chief Urban Affairs Officer, Mayor's Office
- Jeannette E. South-Paul, MD, UPMC
Event Committee Members
- Dr. Barbara Barnes, UPMC
- Maris Bondi, UPMC Health Plan
- Carla Barricella, Jewish Healthcare Foundation
- Christina Brussalis, The Hill Group
- Phyllis Comer, PA Department of Education Commissioner
- Sylvia Diez, PNC Bank
- Jessica Galardini, JRG Advisors
- Nicole King, EQT
- Jennifer Susco, UBS
Sally Wiggin, host of WTAE Chronicle, will serve as emcee. The event is presented by the Eden Hall Foundation.
Tickets are available at gswpa.org\aod for $75 each or $650 for a table of ten.


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Set of three 19th-century beautiful carved wood oil lamp stands that can now be used for candles. Found in Kerala, Southern India.
A native of Cody, WY, Russell Johnson found his true calling on a trip to Buenos Aires while visiting one of the most inspiring flea markets he'd ever encountered. The multilingual maverick instantly knew what he had to do: In 1997 he launched Russell Johnson Imports with an eclectic line of vintage objects that were an instant hit among designers and the media alike. In this specially curated sale Russell shares an amazing collection of authentic architectural elements, antique furniture, accessories, and art from India and other parts of the world.


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The HJC RPHA-10 Combust Helmet is one of the most unique helmet graphics that you are going to find on the market. This motorcycle helmet has a pearlescent color changing paint that makes design change from purple to blue as you rotate the helmet. The HJC RPHA-10 is one of the higher end offerings from HJC. This motorcycle helmet has Advanced P.I.M. and is one of the most well ventilated helmets on the market. This helmet meets or exceeds both SNELL and D.O.T. standards and comes with many different features like fully removable crown and cheek pads for washing as well as the Rapid Fire II™ quick replacement shield system to allow for quick changes from a tinted shield to a clear one when riding in transition from day to night.
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Johnny Rotten(John Lydon)
musician, singer, songwriter
Born: 1/31/1956
Birthplace: England
Rotten stomped and screamed his way into music history with punk anthems like " God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy in the UK" while performing as the front man for the Sex Pistols, which released Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977) and Filthy Lucre Live (1992). Rotten also played with the band Public Image Ltd.
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