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Donnell is an overnight success a decade in the making. He made a splash in the DC comedy clubs going from a heckler in the audience to HBO's Def Comedy Jam in a period of six months. You've seen him as 'Ashy Larry' on Comedy Central's award winning and critically celebrated Chappelle's Show, where he joined Dave Chappelle as both as a writer and performer. He will also be featured in Queen Latifah's new movie Percentage. His 1-Hour Stand-Up "Ashy to Classy" premiered on Comedy Central in October of 2010.
He was a co-host on both Power 105's (NY's #1 Hip Hop and R&B radio station) morning show "Egypt and Ashy in the Morning" and "The Big Tigger Morning Show" on WPGC in Washington DC, and he enjoyed weekly guest appearances on New York's Hot 97 Morning Show. He was a regular on E!'s "Chelsea Lately", starred in Comedy Central's "Reality Bites Back," and was the resident "Funny Guy" on the Ricki Lake Show. In 2007, Donnell co-created and starred in Heavy.com's hit web series "From Ashy to Classy", which was picked up for a second round of episodes. His movie of the same name
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As an actor Donnell has also appeared in the Law & Order series, Special Victims Unit (SVU) and Criminal Intent (CI) as well as NBC's Third Watch, the Emmy-Award winning HBO Mini-Series: The Corner and as Day-Day Price on HBO's Emmy-Award winning series "The Wire." On the big screen he could be seen in the blockbuster Spider-Man II.
His rise to stardom may not have been "overnight", but the journey itself has kept him edgy and relevant. Comedy's heavy hitters have noticed his talent with Neal Brennan, co- executive producer and co-head writer of Chappelle's Show exclaiming "whenever we put Donnell in the game he's going to hit a home run." Jamie Foxx says, "That guy is a beast!" Wayne Brady commented that Donnell provides "amazing work on the show" and Dave Chappelle feels that "Donnell brings so much to the table...this very funny guy makes it look natural and easy."
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The Social Security trustees' latest annual report showed some deterioration in the program's long-term finances since their 2011 report, which in turn was a bit more pessimistic than 2010's. But, as our new analysis of the 2012 report explains, the overall picture has remained consistent for over two decades: Social Security faces a long-term shortfall, not an immediate crisis. There's no evidence for suggestions that future trustees' reports will be even more pessimistic.
The trustees' projections since 1990 of when the Social Security trust funds will run out have fluctuated in a window between 2029 and 2043 (see table). It's important to remember that, even if lawmakers take no steps to shore up the program -- which would be a serious mistake -- Social Security could still pay three-fourths of its scheduled benefits after the trust funds are exhausted, using its annual payroll tax revenue.
The estimated funding shortfall over the next 75 years has also fluctuated over the years, averaging 2 percent of taxable payroll in the 1993-2012 trustees' reports -- though as explained below, the figures aren't strictly comparable because they span different periods. (Taxable payroll is the total amount of wages and salaries and self-employment income that is subject to the payroll tax.)
This year the estimated shortfall rose from 2.22 percent to 2.67 percent of taxable payroll. That revision is bigger than usual but not unprecedented, as the table shows.
More importantly, there's no particular pattern of the trustees making ever-more pessimistic projections. Each one-year shift in the 75-year period used to measure the long-term shortfall automatically moves Social Security further into the red by a small amount, since the shortfall is concentrated in the later decades of that period; it's not fair to count that as a revision in the program's long-term outlook. (This table shows how the shift in the "valuation period" and other factors affect the shortfall.) And revisions due to legislation -- like the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which is expected to improve the outlook for Social Security -- are of course purposeful.
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Authors argue that today's desktop systems poorly engage the hands of users, and reveal a left-hand bias. Arguments are supported by examples and theory - by juxtaposing the affordances of keyboard/mouse technology with theories of bimanual skill. Scrolling is cited as a task in particularly bad repair. A design improvement is suggested. Anthropologists have completed analyses of a recently discovered artifact, dated to the year 2000. The artifact, apparently, is an early form of computing apparatus, probably operated on a desk with input through a keyboard and pointing device. They conclude that inhabitants from this era were predominantly left-handed.


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Heading into the section meet each year, the goal of the Roseville Area High School girls track and field team is to put as many athletes as possible in position to qualify for the state meet.
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Both the baseball and softball teams from Roseville Area High School saw their seasons come to an end last week at the hands of teams from the same school.
The Roseville Area High School baseball team avoided elimination on Monday with a victory over a higher-seeded team. The Raiders are faced with the same scenario on Thursday.
The St. Anthony Village High School baseball team suffered its first loss of the post-season on Wednesday and is back in action on Thursday. The Huskies host St. Paul Como Park at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday in a Section 4AA elimination game.
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In a two-way radio communications system wherein subscriber units are provided with multiple features from the software running on a server, a user interface of the subscriber unit permits the subscriber unit user to change the control state of the server software depending on different types of actuations of the user interface. In the preferred embodiment, one, two or more "clicks" on a momentary input switch, as well as pushing and holding and releasing the input switch can be used to select or de-select between multiple services and applications provided to the subscriber unit by the server software.
1. A portable wireless subscriber unit operable in a communications system including a server for providing a plurality of predetermined services to the wireless subscriber unit, the wireless subscriber unit comprising:
a display for displaying a menu listing the predetermined services;
a first user input interface for selecting from the menu one of the predetermined services;
means, responsive to the first user input interface, for transmitting a first message to the server by way of a radio link to cause a server application program to begin providing the selected one of the predetermined services to the wireless subscriber unit;
a second user input interface comprising a single input device for generating an electrically detectable input signal from user actuation of the single input device;
means, coupled to the second user input interface, for detecting predetermined types of user actuations of the single input device based on the electrically detectable input signal, the predetermined types of user actuations comprising a single click, a double click and a push-and-hold;
means for generating a second message identifying one of the predetermined types of user actuations corresponding to the user actuation of the single input device;
means, coupled and responsive to the generating means, for transmitting the second message to the server by way of the radio link, the second message for causing the server application program to execute one or more state changes during provisioning of the selected one of the predetermined services to the wireless subscriber unit.
2. The wireless subscriber unit of
3. The wireless subscriber unit of
4. A wireless communication system, comprising:
a two-way radio network allowing wireless communication between a server and a wireless subscriber unit;
the wireless subscriber unit wireless, including:
a memory,
an input switch for generating a output signal in response to user actuation of the input switch,
a processor, operatively coupled to the input switch and memory, and
a client application stored in the memory and executable by the processor,
the client application including
program mean for detecting predetermined types of user actuations of the input switch based on the output signal, the predetermined types of user actuations comprising a single click, a double click and a push-and-hold, and
program means for generating a message identifying one of the predetermined types of user actuations detected in response to the user actuation of the single input device, and
a radio transceiver, operatively coupled to the processor, for transmitting the message to the server; and
the server including;
a plurality of server application programs for providing a plurality of predetermined services to the wireless subscriber unit, and
a communications control program for selectively sending a barge-in signal or an event signal indicating the detected type of user actuation to at least one of the server application programs in response to receiving the message.
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6. The system of
Portable communication devices such as cellular telephones, pagers and two-way radios are now able to provide a plethora of services and applications in addition to the basic communication function that they were nominally intended to have. For instance, cellular telephones, the original purpose and function of which was to make telephone calls, now provide wireless access to web pages on the Internet. Third party service providers allow e-mail messages to be received by and read using a cell phone. Pagers, which originally provided only the ability to be summoned, now can provide services that include continuous stock market quotes, professional sports games data as well as the ability to generate a response to a paging message.
The services and applications that have been added to the now-ubiquitous wireless communications devices mandate increasingly more capable, yet easier-to-use human-to-device interfaces by which the ever-increasing feature sets are made more easily accessible to the user.
There is provided a user interface method and apparatus that is single input device that provides multiple input function selection. By toggling a momentary input device once, twice, three times or more, or simply holding the input device "down" or closed, different services and applications are accessed by a user via a communications device. The selected functionality is provided to the device by a server or base station to which the subscriber device is loosely coupled by way of a two-way radio link.
Subscriber units 106 for use with the communication system 100 include devices that allow data or audio or video to be wirelessly communicated. Subscriber unit 106 would include devices such as cellular telephones, pagers, two-way radios or a personal digital assistant (PDA) equipped with wireless communication capability by which information 110 (data, voice or video) can be presented (i.e., shown, viewed or played) on a user interface 108 such as a liquid crystal display commonly found on PDAs, pagers and cellular telephones but also including a cathode ray tube, or a speaker including one embedded in the subscriber unit or as part of an external headset or speakerphone
As is now commonly known, the wireless communication system 100 such as that depicted in
A radio transmitter 202 and a radio receiver 204, the structure and operation of which are known to those skilled in the art, enables the subscriber unit 106 to wirelessly communicate with the base station 102 by way of one-way or two-way radio frequency signals. By way of the communications capability of the base station (also referred to or known as a "server") 102, the communication system 100 (which includes the base station/server 102 and subscriber unit 106) can be operatively coupled to other communication systems such as the public switched telephone network (PSTN). In the case of a cellular telephone, two-way radio or two-way pager, both a transmitter and receiver are required to send and receive signals to and from the base station/server 102.
The receiver 204 and transmitter 202 are operatively coupled and responsive to a control processor 206, embodied as a microprocessor, microcontroller, field programmable gate array, digital signal processor with software (not shown) or functionally equivalent combinational and sequential logic devices. The processor (or processor complex comprised of several processors) 206, executes a computer program stored in the associated memory 208 and operates on data stored in memory 208 which can include both random access memory and read only memory as those skilled in the art will recognize. The functionality of the subscriber unit 106 is provided by the processor 206, its software and associated hardware components depicted in the figures.
A user interface 210 enables information to be obtained from and input to the subscriber unit 106. Examples of equivalent "user interfaces" for the subscriber unit 106 include a speaker and a liquid crystal display screen 108 for output as well as input devices such as push buttons, rocker buttons, a keypad, keyboard (not shown), touch-sensitive stylus-activated LCD screens and microphones. The user interface 210 in a subscriber unit enables the subscriber unit 106 "user" to use information and functionality provided by the server 102, such as the ability to send and receive telephone calls as well as view data or other information sent from the server 102. The user interacts with a service or application by listening to output audio from the speaker or reading text and graphics on the display and then controlling the flow of the service or application by entering information in response to the audible or visual prompts and information.
Inasmuch as the functionality of the subscriber unit 106 is provided through the server 102 and its software, in order to remotely control the functionality provided to the subscriber unit 106 by the server 102, the subscriber unit 106 needs to be able to communicate to the server 102, a subscriber unit user's desire to change the functionality of the subscriber unit that is provided to it, courtesy of the server 102.
Inasmuch as the server 102 provides different functionality by having different or multiple levels of control, signaling the subscriber unit's 106 request to change a feature or function requires an unambiguous signal from the subscriber unit 106 to the server that the subscriber unit user requires or desires a server functionality change. In order to keep a simplified user interface on the subscriber unit, i.e. simple and easy to operate controls, and yet keep the number of keys, switches and other input devices to a minimum, it is preferable to use a multi-function input user interface device or switch 212 on or connected to the subscriber unit 106 to signal functionality changes to the server. The input switch 212 signals a user's wish to change server 102 functionality by having the processor within the subscriber unit monitor the state of the input switch and objectively determine whether the switch has been operated once, twice, three or more times, or has been held closed. As such, software within the subscriber unit functions to recognize different types of actuations of the multi-function user interface input device 212 and, translate those different types of actuations into signals that can be transmitted to the server where the server software is designed to change the server functionality according to the user's perceived request. Hereinafter, the single actuation of the switch within a predetermined time period is referred to as a "single click." A double actuation within a predetermined time period is considered to be a "double click." A "push and hold" is considered to be a determination that a subscriber unit 106 user is holding the button down for transmission and a "release", subsequent to a "push and hold", signals the end of the transmission started by the "push and hold". Other devices that are considered to be equivalent to a momentary push button switch would include touch-sensitive screens, optical sensors, or other devices that can sense or indicate momentary electrical conditions (short circuits, resistances, capacitances or inductances).
The inventive concept is a user interface method and apparatus (preferably a momentary push-button switch) the particular different activations of which can be used to enable state changes in multiple-state control programs, depending upon the current state of the control program and the manner in which the input device is activated. In the preferred embodiment, software in the server 102 and in the subscriber unit 106 cooperate to enable a momentary push-button switch on the subscriber unit 106 to wake a suspended program; abort an executing program and launch a different program or immediately enable radio transmission.
Prior art computer mouse pointing devices commonly used on personal computers and the so-called stylus used with touch pads on PDAs do offer mechanisms for limited input control, i.e. selecting a particular one functionality, however, these prior art input devices and methodologies are not used to directly change the execution of an application program, i.e., abort an application program or to perform some other function, such as interrupting whatever the subscriber unit 106 might be doing and begin operating as a radio, without the use of additional user interface mechanisms, such as dialog boxes or selection lists.
By implementing a control program within the server 102 to be responsive to signals from the subscriber unit, that are indicative of different state changes of an input device within the subscriber unit 106, the control program operation within the server 102 can be directed (or changed) according to the state changes of the single input device in the subscriber unit 106.
In the preferred embodiment, the single input device is a momentary push-button input switch 212 on the subscriber unit 106. This switch 212 can be polled by the subscriber unit CPU (central processing unit) 206 or electrically coupled to a processor 206 interrupt request line (not shown) in order to have the CPU 206 monitor the state of the switch. The processor-detected operations of the input switch 212 are evaluated by the processor 206 software and determined by the processor 206 software to be either "single clicks", "double-clicks", "push-and-hold" or "release" actuations. A predetermined indicator message for each different actuation of the input switch 212 is transmitted from the subscriber unit 106 to the server 102 via a radio signal to cause the operation of one or more services or application control programs within the server 102 to change operation or state.
The server 102 hosts a collection of different applications programs and services. In many instances, the words application and service are used herein interchangeably. Examples of applications include, but are not limited to: email, weather reporting, stock monitoring and trading, voice dialing, chat and web browsing. Examples of services include, but are not limited to: telephone directory lookup (white and yellow pages), Internet search engines, geographic location technology, communication protocols, speech recognition and text-to-speech conversion.
In general, services provide pieces of information to an application, which combines two or more pieces of information together in order to satisfy a larger request or goal. In the preferred embodiment, the applications and services are: a Main Menu of the applications and services available in the system, Voice Dialing, Horoscope, a Chat Application and a Chat Service.
The following is a list of typical steps the subscriber unit 106 user will go through in using the communication system shown and described herein:
Upon activation of the subscriber unit's 106 client software, the server 102 is in the Main Menu 302 program, which is considered to be the server functionality select state. That is, the various functions and capabilities are selectable from the Main Menu 302 program.
If the subscriber unit 106 user performs a single click of the input device 212 while the server control program is executing the Main Menu of Applications 302, the Main Menu service routine of the server 102 sends (from
As can be seen in
If while the Main Menu of Applications 302 is running, the subscriber unit 106 user selects and launches an application or service from the Main Menu, 305A or 305B by way of an input voice command, icon selection, keystroke input or other input to the subscriber unit 106, the server 102 terminates or suspends any existing application or service and moves to (i.e., begins or resumes executing) a different Application or Service 304 (for example, applications that enable Voice Dialing or a Horoscope application or any other service or functionality that can be programmed into the server) or Chat Application 306. The Application or Service state 304 is considered to be a server application or service execution state wherein various capabilities, functions or services are provided to the subscriber 106. In the case where the user has "selected" to run or use an application or service other than Chat, i.e., the server necessarily changes execution of an Application program or Service 304, whereby a single click results in a notification to the first application or service that causes the application or service to respond (from
A double click actuation 309 while in Application or Service 304 causes the application or service 304 to exit (terminate or suspend) and program control returns to the Main Menu service (from
A push and hold or release actuation 310 while in Application or Service 304 causes the application or service (from
In the case where the user selected (shown as selection line 305B) the Chat Application 306 from the Main Menu 302, the server control program execution changes to the Chat Application 306, which is a functionality whereby two or more users can participate in a group discussion. Similar to the Internet on-line chat rooms or instant messaging wherein the server's responses to a single click, double click, push and hold, or release actuation at the subscriber unit 106 are the same as the other applications and services as described above. The aforementioned difference between the chat application 306 and other applications 304 is that the Chat Application 306 allows the user to enter or resume a chat session 308. If the user chooses to enter or resume a chat session through interaction with the Chat Application menu, then the server control program execution changes to the Chat Service 308.
While in the Chat Service 308, a single click actuation causes (from
Enabling the server 102 functionality to transition from one state to another using a single input device at the subscriber is accomplished by having software within the server 102 and software within the subscriber unit or units 106 cooperate in monitoring the state transitions of the input device 212 on the subscriber unit 106.
When the server 102 communications control program is in an "idle" state (step 402), it waits for inputs or direction from external devices such as commands or messages indicating the actuation of one or more input buttons or switches on one or more subscriber units 106. Upon the actuation of one or other of the input devices (switch 212 on a subscriber unit 106, or perhaps an equal-functioned key on a keyboard or keypad), the subscriber unit 106 CPU 206 will format a message or signal (the particular structure or organization of which is a design choice), which is modulated on to a RF carrier in the transmitter 202 for broadcast to and reception, demodulation and detection by the server 102 and its associated radio equipment (not shown). Inasmuch as the subscriber 106 and the server 102 must communicate using agreed upon protocols, the message or signal sent by the subscriber unit 106 in response to an input switch 212 closure must generate a message that is understood as such by the server 102.
When the received button indication message from the subscriber 106 is received at the server in step 404, the server communications control program first checks if the button or switch actuation was a single click 406 or a double click in step 408. In the preferred embodiment, a "single click" message and a "double click" message from the subscriber unit 106 are separately recognizable messages. (The subscriber unit 106 determines whether the input device was operated as a single click, double click or push and hold or release. A message uniquely identifying the switch actuation is sent, unambiguously identifying the switch 212 actuation.) In other words, a "double click" message is preferably not the temporal concatenation of two, "single click" messages although such an alternate embodiment is certainly contemplated as an equivalent to two different messages.
If the received button actuation message 404 was determined to be a "single click" (or single actuation) in step 406, program control proceeds to step 410 whereat step the server communications control program determines if it is sending either displayed data or voice information to the subscriber unit 106. (Those skilled in the art will recognize that in a communications system 100, wherein several different subscriber units 106 can be serviced by a single server 102, that the incoming switch 212 closure messages also include data that identifies a particular subscriber unit 106 from which a switch closure message was sent. A subscriber unit 106 identifier can include a cellular telephone mobile and/or electronic identifier number, a radio serial number or other data that identifies the subscriber unit 106 to the server 102 in order to enable the individual subscriber units to have personalized data services provided to them.)
In step 412, upon the determination that data or voice was being sent to the subscriber unit 106, the server 102 communications control program aborts the data or voice transmission to the subscriber unit 106 and notifies the server application or service software in step 414 that a single click closure was received from the particular subscriber unit 106. The receipt of the single input device closure in step 414 will cause a server 102 application or service control program that is sending display data or voice information to the subscriber unit 106 to stop generating display data or audio information for the subscriber unit 106. The act of inputting while output is occurring is commonly referred to as barge-in. Terminating the output of the visual or audible information upon the start of input is commonly accepted practice in the industry. After notifying an application or service that a single click was received, the server 102 communications control program returns to the idle state 402.
In step 410, if there is no data or voice information being transmitted to the subscriber, server 102, in step 414 the single click event detection is sent to the application or service control program whereupon the server communications control program returns to its idle state in step 402. The net effect of the detection of a single input device actuation, if no data or voice or being sent, is a wake-up, i.e., the application or service was idle at the detection of the single click actuation and needs to interact with the user via the subscriber unit 106.
Returning to step 406, if a single click message from the subscriber unit 106 was not detected, the server communications control program determines in step 408 if the input message from the subscriber 106 was a "double click" message upon which at step 416, the server communications control program transfers that indication or detection to an application or service program that can be running at the time.
If the input device actuation message from the subscriber 106 was not a single click message as determined in step 406, nor was it a double actuation as detected in step 408, the server communications control program in step 418 assumes and determines that the subscriber unit 106 is in a so-called "push and hold state" during which input speech is recorded and transmitted to the chat service 308 running at the server 102. The "push and hold state" is relayed to the server communications control program to notify the chat service of the impending transmission of the collected speech. The chat service 308 receives the "push and hold" indication and awaits the collected speech or the button release indication from the subscriber unit 106.
Upon release of the input button in step 420, the input button release state at 422 is transferred to any running application whereupon the server 102 communications control program returns to the idle state 402.
From an idle state 502 a switch closure is detected by the subscriber unit 106 CPU 206 by way of a poll or perhaps a software or hardware interrupt to the CPU 206 indicating that the input device 212 has been activated (closed or opened) in step 504. (Any switch state detection routine executed by the CPU 206 would of course need to "debounce" the switch 212 closure, however, such implementation details are well-within the scope of knowledge of those skilled in the art and omitted here for simplicity.)
A timer is started in step 506 after detecting a switch closure (after debouncing) which continues to run until either the button release event occurs or the timer expires as shown in step 508. The amount of time that must expire in steps 506 and 508 is a design choice and should be chosen using human engineering considerations. The time during which the switch 212 must be closed so as to indicate a single click is somewhat subjective.
If the button release event is detected before the timer has expired, as shown in step 510, a second timer is started in step 512 to determine whether a subsequent button event occurs within the time period established (or set) in step 512. Like the time required of a "single click" the speed at which a user must actuate an input device so as to be considered a "double click" is a design choice. If the timer value set in step 512 expires before the second button event is detected in step 514, in step 516 the expiration of the timer value set in step 512 is considered to be indicative that the input device closure was a so-called "single click event" in step 518. The timer of 512 is reset to zero in step 520 with the subscriber unit 106 control program to detect button state returning to the idle state 502.
From the idle state 502, when an input button event is detected in step 504 and the timer is started in step 506, if the timer of step 506 expires before receipt of the button release event in step 508, such an event means that the button 212 has been held closed (or open in the case of a normally closed switch) and the server control program depicted in
If the input device actuation in step 504 is detected and the timer is started, if the timer value of step 506 is not expired prior to the detection of the button release and if at step 516 a determination is made that the second button actuation occurred before the expiration of the second timer of step 512, a determination is made in step 516 that there can be a second input device actuation whereupon the input start timer is reset in step 528. If the timer value in step 528 is detected in step 530 and the timer value has not expired as determined by step 532 the control program determines that the input device was actuated twice or doubly clicked in step 534.
Any application running in the server is notified (by the server's receipt and detection of the appropriate message from the subscriber unit 106) that the subscriber unit 106 user has doubly clicked the input device, the input timer is reset to zero and program control returns to the idle state.
If after the input timer is reset in step 528 and that timer expires prior to the detection of a button release event, the user's actuation of the input device is considered to be a single actuation consisting of a single click followed by a push and hold. In step 536 a message indication for the single click is sent to the server followed by a message indication for the push and hold in step 522. While the preferred embodiment is to send two separate messages, those skilled in the art can appreciate that the messages can be combined into one message. In addition, an application receiving the single click and push and hold indications can interpret these in any manner appropriate for that application or service. For example, a single click and push and hold combination can be a signal to activate a voice memo or recording service.
In a communication system 100 having multi-function subscriber units, the functionality of which is provided by a multi-state control program of a server 102 for the system, a single, two-state (i.e. open or closed) input device can control the operation or entry of a multi-level control program if the predetermined sequential operations of that input device are agreed upon by the server 102 and the subscriber unit 106 to identify the different features that are to be accessed.
If a menu or list of available applications or services from the server is being presented to the user, the button events or input device events have no effect on the display in that the same menu or list is presented along with a prompt or audicon. If on the other hand the server is executing a software application or service, a single actuation of the input device will return program flow or program control to the application or service menu. The single actuation therefore provides the subscriber unit user with an ability to wakeup the application or service or barge-in in order to terminate output and input information or a request.
If the server is running an application or service and the input device of the subscriber unit is actuated twice or doubly, the current application or service is terminated and the subscriber unit is provided with a main menu from which various other applications or services are made available for selection.
As a user interface, a single momentary push-button switch can be used to effectively provide multiple levels of control if the control software within the communication system can detect one, two or more actuations. In the preferred embodiment, a single actuation of a momentary push-button switch can cause one functionality of a subscriber unit 106 to be changed to another. Actuating the input device twice, in close succession causes the subscriber unit 106 to assume yet another functionality. Similarly, altering the embodiments of the invention can contemplate actuating the input device multiple times in close succession indicating that other levels of functionality to be accessed. By pressing and holding the input device, the cellular telephone, two-way radio or other communications device can yet enter another mode of operation.
While the various modes described herein are those of the preferred embodiments, the scope of the invention is reflected in the appended claims hereto.
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|Ground beef
|1 1⁄4 Pound
|4 , finely chopped
|Green ginger
|1 1⁄2 Inch, peeled and grated
|3 Tablespoon
|Soy sauce
|1 Tablespoon
|3 , lightly beaten
|Vegetable oil
|2 Cup (32 tbs) (For Deep Frying)
Combine the beef, spring onions (scallions), ginger, flour, soy sauce, eggs and monosodium glutamate to taste in a large bowl.
Using the palm of your hands, gently shape the mixture into small balls, about 2 1/2 cm./1 in.in diameter.
Fill a large deep-frying pan about one-third full with vegetable oil and heat it until it is very hot.
Carefully lower the meatballs, a few at a time, into the hot oil and fry until they are golden brown.
Using a slotted spoon, remove the meatballs from the pan and drain on kitchen towels.
Keep hot while you fry the remaining meatballs in the same way.
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I am doing some sort of benchmark for sqlite android. If I were to pre-load total of 120k before executing, will most device have enough memory? While the queries are executing, there are also other threads that are going on so memory might be the problem. How can I make use of the onLowMemory() method? There doesn't seem to be much examples on using that method. Thanks for any advice.
Making use of the method is as easy as overriding it in your Activity.
However, read the documentation carefully:
I'm not sure (and the docs don't define) if "background process" includes
So, when this method is called (if it is ever called) the System has already killed everything it could (with lower priorities than your Activity) and now asks you to release any unnecessary resources in memory.
So, If you want to react on low memory, this might be too late already.
As for the general question if most Android devices would run out of memory, I don't know. The problem is, that devices vary a lot.
I also find it hard to imagine any real live situation, in which you would need to pre-load (or stack) 120k queries before executing. You could easily stack 200 and commit those, than stack another 200 and so on.
I'm not sure why you need to benchmark this, but please don't execute 120k queries for default entries in your applications database.
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Radius International
The location of the Radius International Hotel in Bukit Bintang is excellent, you are surrounded by restaurants and shopping centers and it is only a 15 minute walk to Chinatown, Suria KLCC and the Petronas Towers.
We booked a Premier Executive King room for 5 nights and have no complaints regarding the room except for the filthy shower curtain that was full of mould. Everything else in the room seemed clean and was in good working order including the wifi.
However we were up on one of the high floors and have to say we were both shocked when the lift opened to pick up people on lowers floors and you could see the filthy ripped corridor carpets. Definitely not a good look.
No one helps you with your luggage on arrival and the reception staff are very sour, they really must hate their jobs, there is no smile or welcome. They do not seem interested at all even when we questioned why we did not have access to the Club Lounge when it was supposed to be included with our booking for the Premier Executive King room.
Noise was not a problem, room service was nice with reasonable prices and breakfast was adequate.
The only person that was any help at all and always had a smile was the Concierge. So I have very mixed feelings about the Radius International and am not sure if we would bother staying there again.
Good experiance
My sister and I loved this hotel for many reasons the stuff was the friendless stuff ever very polite, helpful and smiling all the time esp., the concierge Jamil
Breakfast was amazing lots of diversity that suits everyone they can even prepare whatever you asked for;) it's like having a breakfast at 5 star restaurant
Location is great close to the shopping malls and very live at night also very safe
The room was overlooking the swimming pool which is nice; it was big with everything in it! There is a kettle with free tea and coffee but the bathroom is not that good and the bed is small and not comfy but overall it's a great room
The hotel organize city tour and other sightseeing, and there's a taxi stand outside the hotel
I was worried before I go due to the bad reviews but I found the opposite! so from now on I am not going to believe everything I read online and I will definitely stay at this hotel again
Unique Quality: Staff , breakfast
Center of Shopping
The hotel had an excellent location. It was an easy walk to BB Plaza, which is a mecca for relatively cheap goods for shopping and eating of all sorts. It's very near fast food joints, restos at the mall, and there are a lot of hawkers (for the adventurous) for open air street food dining. Getting to and from the hotel was a breeze. For more upscale shopping and eating, the higher end malls are a couple of blocks down the street where one can stroll around.
The hotel had the basic amenities, although one night light wasn't working. There was also a minor incident when the power wouldn't turn on, but the hotel was able to fix a faulty connectivity so it didn't cause too much of a bother. Cable TV is not offered.
Unique Quality: The 12th floor had a pretty good view of the surrounding location.
Not good
Last august I was there for 2 nights and the construction noises go all day from 8-5. The pool under repair. The room needs new decos, the bathroom hardwares need updated, broken tiles. Tiny 17" tv set. Old frig. Safety box didn't work, called the front desk but no one come to fix it. The breakfast was so so. I switched hotel for the last night in KL. Would not recommend.
Unique Quality: The only good thing it has to offer is walking distance to the shopping plazas.
Radius KL - Not good for young children
Hotel staff was friendly but that's about all.
When I called to book a room, I asked specifically for a room with a fridge and kettle as I have a baby with me. They confirmed that there was. However when I reached there, I was given a room with no fridge and a kettle that was spoilt.
Called up the front desk to request to change room, they told me that I needed to top up if I wanted to change room. I insisted that I will not pay more since they promised me in the first place and eventually, they changed my room without any extra charges after waiting for more than hour and several phone calls to chase them.
To my disappointment, the room fridge is not even cold and there is no kettle. Just a thermal flask. Had to go to the lift area to refill hot water. However, thermal flask was leaking. Luckily I had one myself.
Stayed on the 9th floor but was unable to sleep till after 3am as the neighbouring clubs were very noisy. Water also not hot for bathing.
Would not recommend this hotel if you have young children. Good for budget travellers though as their location is good.
Radius KL - Not good for young children
Hotel staff was friendly but that's about all.
When I called to book a room, I asked specifically for a room with a fridge and kettle as I have a baby with me. They confirmed that there was. However when I reached there, I was given a room with no fridge and a kettle that was spoilt.
Called up the front desk to request to change room, they told me that I needed to top up if I want to change room. I insisted that I will not pay more since they promised me in the first place and eventually, they changed my room without any extra charges after waiting for more than hour and several phone calls to chase them.
To my disappointment, the room fridge is not even cold and there is no kettle. Just a thermal flask. Had to go to the lift area to refill hot water. However, thermal flask was leaking. Luckily I had one myself.
Stayed on the 9th floor but was unable to sleep till after 3am as the neighbouring clubs were very noisy. Water also not hot for bathing.
Would not recommend this hotel if you have young children. Good for budget travellers though as their location is good.
Radius Kuala Lumpur sucks big time!
I brought my family (wife + 2 kids) for a trip to KL and the Radius Kuala Lumpur is the worst possible hotel I have ever stayed in!
We asked for two rooms with a connecting door. First they said they didn't have such rooms, but we discovered there were. When we requested to change rooms, they said no go. Bad product knowledge and bad service representation.
What comes next will horrify you. There were bugs crawling about in both our rooms. It's not like the bugs are all over, but if you stay still and look carefully, you'll find one crawling on the wall, two or three in the bathroom, one on the bed (yes its true) and another on the ceiling. I kid you not! Knowing how defensive some hotels can be, I deliberately squashed a bug with one of the glasses in the bathroom, and reported it to the front desk before I left for my sightseeing trip. I hoped housekeeping would at least do something. When I came back, the bug and glass were in its exact location.
It was a good thing we stayed no more than 2 nights there. We took our insect repellent (meant for sightseeing) and pasted it on our pillows as we slept. Did we have a good night's rest? Ask me another!
So dear VTers, you have been warned about Radius KL.
I'll Say 3 and a half stars!
Actually, I end up at the Radius International after my attempt to put up at Melia Hotel was put off.Melia Hotel, situated just a few blocks down from Radius International, but with a lot of amenities, had only Premium rooms to offer.The rate for a Melia Hotel premium room was RM650/night, which I think is equivalent to USD200.Personally, I don't think I needed a Premium room.But anyway, I took the Radius Premium room which cost me RM300/night.I was travelling with my wife and my 7-months old kid.So guess who carried the luggages all the way to Radius International from Melia Hotel...
Radius Hotel is situated just along the heart of Bukit Bintang.My stay there was okay, if not good.No complain though...The toilet was clean.The room was neat, and staff helpful.I got the Premium room on level 17, so the view was pretty nice.I guess if you got the room at the other side, you could be facing the KL Tower.They had non-smoking and smoking room.The lifts were actually quite slow I must say.Breakfast served was good, although I had better at somewhere else before.By the way. tap water is drinkable in the hotel.
I'd recommend Radius International Hotel to those travelling on a budget, but insist on a quality hotel.No problem for those travelling with kids...Hey, I stayed there with my infant child!
Unique Quality: As mentioned, the view would be great if your room is facing the KL Tower.Other great things about Radius International is the Wi-Fi hot-spot which is in every room and around the hotel.I use my mobile phone to get connected to Wi-Fi, to check on my daily e-mails.This would be good for those who travel for business. Actually, I even surf in the bathroom, and the Wi-Fi signal was still strong.
There's also a 7-Eleven just facing the hotel.This is good if you just wanna get something in the middle of the night.And adding to that, there's one guy flipping burgers at night infront of the mentioned 7-Eleven.I've tried his burgers, and I didn't had a bad stomach the morning after...fortunately.He would be around selling burgers from 6pm till 2am in the morning.Now that's good if you're returning from a late night and heading back to the hotel.Anyway, there's a lot of restaurants serving asian cuisine around the hotel, so no worries.
Other than that, I'd say that staying at the Radius International Hotel is quite safe.
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The hotel is not far from monorail ... taxi will be lined in front of the hotel but becareful to ask them using the meter. The room is clean but a little bit old. Room service was not working ( I guess ) because I called for remote control twice and 1 more time in person ... every times he said he would give it to me in 5 mins but no noe showed up at all.
Breakfast is so so LOL
By the way,I booked this hotel via http://www.precisionreservations.com/
Directions: 10 mins walk from "Bukit Bintang'' monorail station
Average Business Hotel
Stayed there for one night in July 2006.
I paid smth like 65 SGD including breakfast using the site www.asiatravel.com
The hotel is ok, the rooms are standard business but lack of Intl news channels.
If you are given a room in the high floors, chance are you will have a very good view of the city.
Breakfast was ok but the hotel was very busy and the dining room was really noisy with all the arab tourist and their big young family.
Unique Quality: Location
Ok price
Directions: Opposit Allson Genesis Hotel.
Close to Bukit Bintang
Radius International Hotel KL (Park Inn Hotel KL)
Radius International Hotel KL also formerly known as Park Inn Hotel KL is just in a cozy corner of ever busy Bukit Bintang. Good location consider its proximity to the "Food Street" Jalan Alor where you can just step out of the hotel to smell BBQ food, fried noodles, Chinese Herbal Pork Stew(Bah kut Teh) waiting for you. Just a few steps down will be the main road, Bukit Bintang where you can slip into various shopping malls or hop onto the "Coca Cola" Monorail to get to other places in KL.
The rooms are pretty fine for the price, I pay about 200rm(excluding taxes) per night for the better grade Premium room facing the city where I can see KLCC shining like 2 jewellery at night. The premium rooms and ensuites are on the top most 3 floors of the hotel, 16,17 and 18 flr. The room is reasonablely spacious with no problem of knocking onto furnitures when walking around for 2 person. Nice clean and comfortable bedding, reasonably clean bath and toilet and no traces of stale ciggie smell around. The security of the hotel is up to the standard with cameras at every corner of the corridor and key card for the room that gives additional assurances. Most of the staff I talk to during the stay are pretty helpful, polite and knowledgeable. The is a moderately sized pool on the fifth floor which can be quite useful for those who wanna take a dip anytime. The restaurant kopitiam also serve decent food althought we only ordered some finger food for take away on both occasion.
Overall, if your budget is about 200RM for per nite stay in KL, do give Radius Hotel a consideration. I am quite please without and bad experience with the hotel during my 2 night stay there.
Near the Shopping District
Park Inn is a few blocks away from Lot 10, a well-known shopping district. From Lot 10, you can take the monorail (Bukit Bintang Station) which only goes around the shopping district.
It's also a block away from hawker stalls which are open until midnight. You can grab a bite in those stalls just like any other local.
Unique Quality: spacious rooms and a swimming pool
Budget Centrally Located Hotel
I stayed in this hotel simply because of its location and cheap as well. Although it doesnt have too many good reviews, it was okay if you're prepared for it. You may see the occasional small cockroach taking a stroll in your room but bathrooms are clean, beds are excellent and room service is good. Rooms need a fresh coat of paint and u carpets are stained here and there and just 10channels on TV. But if you are not spending much time in the hotel, its worth it. Complimentary Breakfast was pretty good although not much variety.
Unique Quality: The view from room, couldnt ask for more with twin towers right in front and the downtown area lit up at night. I could walk to the twin towers and bukit bintang was just a 2min walk up the street.
Directions: Down the street from Sungei Wang.
Radius Hotel
Clean and convenient, seems that receptionist always serve people who never stop coming (is it a favorite hotel?)
The view is great, from my room I can see Bukit Bintang street, I think the other side can see the KL tower.
Unique Quality: There's a swimming pool but I didn't even take a look. The breakfast is standard buffet and serve some local cuisine.
Directions: About 500 m from Bukit Bintang
Kuala Lumpur's Radius International Hotel
Also known as the Radius International.
If location is important to you this is a handy place to stay. Its close to shopping centres, and tourist attractions.
The lobby looks nice, but you have to struggle stairs or a esculator with your luggage to check in or out at the desk. The restaurant is ok and the food was nice.
The deluxe room we had wasn't nice at all. The window can not be opened so the smell of the damp stale, hot room knocked us over each time we opened the door and had us running for the noisy airconditioner all the time. The curtains were old, faded and had stains all over them and there was a squashed insect on the wall when we arrived. The bathroom was basic but appeared clean.
Unique Quality: The only few good things I can describe about our accomodation is the check in was ok, the restaurant was ok, our bed was comfortable and the view from our room was wonderful at night but not in the day.
The location of the hotel was good.
Directions: Near "Golden Triangle"
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