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This weekend's UFC 167's main event features a marquee match-up in Johny Hendricks vs. current UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre. Johny is being described as the only real challenger left with the potential to beat GSP. What do you think his chances are? I would recommend asking yourself the following three questions before you make the call.
Do you believe the hype about Johny Hendricks?
I do. Johny is a finisher more often than not. Maybe he didn't finish Condit, but he was looking for it and fought around the onslaught of the "Natural Born Killer". Johny puts periods on the end of sentences. It goes like this usually: Big. Left. Hand. If he lands that good night GSP and Hendricks is the new champ. Oh, and he happens to be a phenomenal wrestler by the way in case you missed the 1000 articles on it since he joined the UFC.
How much does GSP himself believe the hype?
If you are the UFC Welterweight champion you have seen the destructive force of Johny Hendricks and his left hand. Amir Sadollah, Charlie Brenneman, TJ Waldburger, Jon Fitch, and Martin Kampmann have all fallen to the power of Hendricks. He is a beast and I don't care who you are watching film of him smashing people is going to affect your outlook on the potential outcomes of the fight. GSP may say he isn't concerned, but I bet you he really is. I would be.
Will this go the distance?
If it does I believe the decision will go to GSP and here's why. GSP is the bigger fighter and arguably the stronger of the two in terms of natural strength. Johny is going to be throwing around a bigger fighter and if you have grappled with less or equally skilled guys who weight more than you – well, you know the deal. You get worn out because technique is great, but when someone else has the answer and you are covered by a human blanket who won't budge it's a long night. Johny needs to finish early or he doesn't stand a chance against GSP's cardio.
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Last point is highly questionable. Hendricks is a life long farm boy and wrestler, he cuts 40 lbs to make welterweight while GSP cuts about half of that. Hendricks is the bigger fighter, that's where his KO power comes from.
WTF.. Hendricks is bigger and stronger.
GSP wins by submission
GSP picks him apart and make him look like amateur hamburger.
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You know when your dog proudly deposits a chewed-up vole in your sneaker thinking he's giving you a gift, when in reality the sight of it makes you scream, flap your hands around and suppress your gag reflex? On a related note, Hugh Hefner is now bragging about how he pushed for, and got, full nudity in Lindsay Lohan's Playboy photos. "I think it was essentially mama and the folks around her that kept pushing for less nudity," Hef told E! News. "And I said, 'We're doing a nude pictorial here. We're going to do it in a very classy way and we're going to do it in a way in which it will not be forgotten.'" Um, a situation in which Dina Lohan gives her daughter excellent life advice? You better believe we'll never forget it.
While the Playboy founder acknowledges that he was the brains behind the Marilyn Monroe-inspired shoot ("The pictorial and the concept…came from me," he says), Hef also reveals that he had second thoughts about the photos given Lohan's tumultuous personal life. "It really came as a surprise to me," He admits. "I kind of had mixed emotions about it initially. . . I wasn't quite sure where she was at in her life, obviously. It depends on whether it's Tuesday or Thursday." Looks like it was a Tuesday! Or a Thursday? Whichever day makes it less less awful for Hugh Hefner to suggest you take your pants off.


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Penn State's Instructional Technology Services has adopted a 1,000-seat, university-wide Doceri Desktop education site license for use by its faculty. The Doceri software suite from SP Controls provides mobile, remote control of classroom podium computers as well as sophisticated whiteboard annotation and screencasting via an iPad.
After a successful pilot program that began last summer, Doceri Desktop is currently installed in 314 classrooms across 12 Penn State campuses, and is offered as a supported service to all Information Technology Services (ITS) managed classroom computers. Other campuses not managed through ITS may opt to purchase licenses at a discounted rate through the ITS purchasing department.
More than 40 instructors from a diverse range of instructional fields including chemistry, mathematics, engineering, English, theatre, nursing, and criminal justice took part in the Doceri pilot. Instructors are using the Doceri software suite in the classroom to access and remotely control presentations and other class materials on the podium computer. Many also use the Doceri iPad app to create flipped classroom screencast videos for inversed classroom instruction.
"We were looking for an affordable means by which instructors could access programs and annotate their presentations from a mobile device that worked with our existing network infrastructure," said Brian Young, instructional designer for Penn State ITS. "After evaluating a half a dozen options, Doceri was the only whiteboard annotation and remote desktop control software that gave us the confidence to pursue university-wide deployment."
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You never know where you'll meet friends, but with thousands of people available and free food around, it's likely you could make at least a new contact or two.
Such was the case for East Tennessee State University student Malashia Solomon, a freshman majoring in psychology with a pre-med path, as she wandered through the ETSU Pride Week Community Showcase event in the Borchuck Plaza in front of Sherrod Library Wednesday.
The showcase ran from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and was sponsored by the ETSU National Alumni Association and Johnson City/Jonesborough/Washington County Chamber of Commerce.
Dozens of businesses set up to offer food, useful items and make it known to students they exist and can provide services if needed.
"I think it's awesome because I've actually made a lot of friends just standing in line for all the free stuff," Solomon said. "And at the same time it helps you figure out what's around here because, honestly, I'm from Middle Tennessee and I don't know anything about this place and this is helping me figure out where chiropractors and grocery stores and stuff like that, which I'll need, are."
Check out a gallery of photos from the event at the end of this article.
This was the 13th Community Showcase at ETSU said Gary Mabrey, Chamber president and CEO, adding there were about 45 businesses in the plaza in front of the ETSU library ranging from banks to grocery stores.
Mabrey said around 4,000 students, staff and faculty probably walked through the plaza Wednesday.
"It's one way the business community says thank you, back the Bucs, Go Bucs and have a good day," Mabrey said. "That's what it's all about."
Students who came upon the event were quickly loaded down with grocery items like bread, bagels, fruit and snacks and business giveaways like cups, pens, bags and brochures.
Food was also being cooked. Hotdogs, chips, a cookie and a drink were available from several vendors who showed up to provide students a free meal. Cotton candy was also seen throughout the event.
Bradley Denton, a freshman from Spring Hill who is studying to be a radiation therapist, said he certainly feels welcome at ETSU between the showcase and other university activities held throughout this first week of class.
"You come around and they just give you all this stuff and they make you feel like you're at home again," he said.
Solomon and Denton were both enjoying their experiences at ETSU so far even though school had been in session less then a week by Wednesday morning.
"I think it's very beautiful down here and I think it's a pretty lively place," Solomon said. "The environment just seems welcoming, the wether's nice and the classes seem to be challenging but at the same time very engaging."


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Notifications to computer users are provided via indicators such as lights. The indicators are controlled according to rules, to convey computer-related state information to users in a consistent manner. Locations of visible indicators are chosen to facilitate easy viewing. The rules dictate colors and/or illumination pattern components that together provide users with important computer-related information. For example, colors are assigned to types of information, and illumination patterns generally to behavior-related information. Colors may be combined in various illumination patterns. In one implementation, many or all of the visible indicators may be grouped together on a single control panel from rapid viewing. Alternatively, the visible indicators may be grouped by function or other logical arrangement, such as on the keyboard and/or frame of a monitor. Alternative light sources that illuminate the system (e.g., the monitor bezel) to convey state information, instead of or in addition to individual indicators, are also described.
1. In a computer system, a subsystem comprising:
a plurality of different indicators that each corresponds to a different item of a computer system and that each convey different information about a state of the computer system and the corresponding computer system item, wherein each one of the plurality of different indicators is individually associated with and includes a plurality of colors; and
control logic that selects, for each of the plurality of different indicators, an appropriate one or more of the colors that are included with each indicator, as well as an illumination pattern for illuminating the appropriate one or more selected colors for each indicator and in such a way as to convey information about the state of the computer system and the corresponding item of the computer system.
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selecting, for each of the plurality of different indicators, an appropriate one or more of the colors that are included with each indicator, as well as an illumination pattern that is selected from a plurality of different illumination patterns for illuminating the appropriate one or more selected colors based on received state information about the computer system and the corresponding item of the computing system; and
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The present invention is related to the following copending U.S. Patent Applications filed concurrently herewith, assigned to the assignee of the present invention, and hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties:
"Method and System for Auxiliary Display of Information for a Computing Device,"U.S. Pat. No. 7,221,331, filed May 5, 2003 and issued May 22, 2007;
"Real-Time Communications Architecture and Methods for use with a Personal Computer System," Ser. No. 10/429,905, filed May 5, 2003;
"Record Button on a Computer System," Ser. No. 10/429,904, filed May 5, 2003;
"Method and System for Standby Auxiliary Processing Of Information for a Computing Device," U.S. Pat. No. 7,240,228, filed May 5, 2003 issued Jul. 3, 2007;
"System and Method for Activating a Computer System;" Ser. No. 10/430,369, filed May 5, 2003;
"Computer System with Do Not Disturb System and Method," Ser. No. 10/429,903, filed May 5, 2003;
"Computer Camera System and Method for Reducing Parallax," Ser. No. 10/429,943, filed May 5, 2003; and
"Control and Communications Panel for a Computer System," Ser. No. 10/429,933, filed May 5, 2003.
The invention relates generally to computer systems and communicating information to computer system users.
With computer systems, alerts in the form of prompts, dialogs and the like often appear on the display to tell the user something specific, such as a warning or reminder. Typically this is accompanied by some audio data to draw the user's attention to the alert. Some alerts fade away, while others require that the user specifically dismiss them to ensure that the alert was not missed while the user was away.
People can also receive information in other ways, often without consciously recognizing that they are doing so. This is particularly true when nothing unusual is occurring; the data is subconsciously noted, mentally processed as normal, and then effectively discarded, or at least not brought to conscious attention. However, when something unusual is occurring, such as a light illuminated in one color when normally it is lit another color, or a blink or flash of a light when normally the light is steady, the unusual data that is being conveyed will gather attention. Over time, users become trained to intuitively recognize the meaning of such information when is important to them, or occurs frequently enough that the information is not really unusual, just different.
Except for specific alerts (or the absence of them), computer users receive very little useful information about what is actually going on in the computer system. Some of the scarce information that users do receive is whether the various external components of a computer system are receiving power, typically as indicated by an LED on each component. Keyboards typically have indicators for the NumLock and Caps Lock states, (and for Scroll Lock), and disk drives tend to have an LED and/or make an audible sound when being accessed so that the user knows that any delay is normal I/O delay. A few other basic indicators might be provided, such as a battery charge level indicator on a laptop, a media player LED that lights when in use, and so on. These indicators may provide some useful information to the user, but it is very limited.
Moreover, not only are there few external indicators for users, each providing very limited information, but there is no general consistency on what a given indicator means. For example, one component may use green for powered-up and amber to indicate receiving power but in some rest state, while another component may use amber whether powered up or sleeping, and not lit at all when switched off. Further, the indicators are located on each given component, scattered around the computer system, e.g., the power light is typically on the main housing, the media player light is on the drive, and/or the main housing, often making it hard for users to see without consciously making an effort to look for it, such as on a floor-standing personal computer.
What is needed is a method and system in the form of indicators that provide useful information to computer users for many types of state information, in a manner that is consistent as to their general meanings in the context of each indicator's component or device and with one another to a general extent. It also would be beneficial if the indicators were positioned so as to be easily visible without specifically looking for them, at locations that are logical and allow the state information to be subconsciously observed.
Briefly, the present invention provides indicators such as lights (e.g., LEDs) that provide notifications to computer users while following generally consistent rules, to provide users with a consistent computing experience with respect to computer-related state information. The locations of visible indicators may be varied to an extent between implementations, but are generally in sensible locations and/or grouped in some manner so as to facilitate observance.
For visible indicators, the rules are based on colors and/or illumination patterns (e.g., based on frequency and/or duty cycle) that provide a user with important computer-related information, which the user will intuitively learn the meaning of over time, at least for those indicators that are important to that particular user. Other visible information (e.g., acceleration or deceleration of pulse frequencies, bright versus dim intensities and so forth) are also feasible criteria for conveying information to a user. Audible indicators may be similarly varied to provide more granular information than simply on or off, e.g., in tone, timbre, volume, and/or patterns, as can tactile information, e.g., pressure, vibration frequency, vibration patterns and so forth.
In one implementation, colors are assigned to types of information, e.g., blue for informational-related data such as notifications and calls, green for activity-related information such as power or operational behavior (e.g., a drive accessing data), amber for holding or non-urgent warning type data, red for attention and important notifications, and white for life state data. These colors may be combined in various illumination patterns, e.g., a red blink over a steady amber light on the same LED may indicate two things to a user.
Illumination patterns also provide meaning to a user, such as steady for persistent type data, fast blinking for new information or changes in one direction (e.g., starting up), and slow blinking for changes in the opposite direction (e.g., shutting down). Other patterns include winking (e.g., occasionally repeating double flashes) for invitation-related data, and/or a flash (e.g., occasionally repeating one-shot flashes) for reminders and the like. The patterns can have other meanings that make sense in the context of what the respective indicator is indicating, e.g., a white flash can mean a device is in a resting state.
In addition to colors and rules, the locations for the lights may be defined to be in easily viewable and/or sensible locations with respect to their purpose. In one implementation, many or all of the visible indicators may be grouped together on a single control panel for rapid viewing. In another implementation, the visible indicators may be grouped by function, e.g., for buttons on the keyboard, the lights may be next to the buttons, while for general purpose indictors such as system power state and notifications that may not have buttons, or at least not buttons that are regularly pressed, the indicators may be located at a more visible location, such as on the frame of a monitor.
Other advantages will become apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the drawings, in which:
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The invention is operational with numerous other general purpose or special purpose computing system environments or configurations. Examples of well known computing systems, environments, and/or configurations that may be suitable for use with the invention include, but are not limited to: personal computers, server computers, hand-held or laptop devices, tablet devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, set top boxes, programmable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, distributed computing environments that include any of the above systems or devices, and the like.
The invention may be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, and so forth, which perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The invention may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in local and/or remote computer storage media including memory storage devices.
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The computer 110 typically includes a variety of computer-readable media. Computer-readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by the computer 110 and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, and removable and non-removable media. By way of example, and not limitation, computer-readable media may comprise computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can accessed by the computer 110. Communication media typically embodies computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media. Combinations of the any of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.
The system memory 130 includes computer storage media in the form of volatile and/or nonvolatile memory such as read only memory (ROM) 131 and random access memory (RAM) 132. A basic input/output system 133 (BIOS), containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within computer 110, such as during start-up, is typically stored in ROM 131. RAM 132 typically contains data and/or program modules that are immediately accessible to and/or presently being operated on by processing unit 120. By way of example, and not limitation,
The computer 110 may also include other removable/non-removable, volatile/nonvolatile computer storage media. By way of example only,
The drives and their associated computer storage media, discussed above and illustrated in
The computer 110 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 180. The remote computer 180 may be a personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the computer 110, although only a memory storage device 181 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 110 is connected to the LAN 171 through a network interface or adapter 170. When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 110 typically includes a modem 172 or other means for establishing communications over the WAN 173, such as the Internet. The modem 172, which may be internal or external, may be connected to the system bus 121 via the user input interface 160 or other appropriate mechanism. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 110, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. By way of example, and not limitation,
Notification Lights, Locations and Rules
The present invention is generally directed towards providing state information related to a computer system to users. Note that the invention will primarily be described with indicators in the form of visible lights, however anything capable of being sensed may be used as an indicator, e.g., audio or tactile output. The state may include conventional information such as power state, however other information not traditionally thought of as related to a computer, such as state information related to telephone calls may be provided. As such, the computer may be generally arranged as a central communications point for multiple communications-related mechanisms and programs. Further, as will be understood, the various communication channels, controls, indicators and scenarios described herein are only examples, and there are many others to which the present invention will apply.
Turning to
Also represented in
In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, as generally represented in
In general, the security-related information and the power state of the system are not something that are frequently changed, and thus visibility rather than easy access to their corresponding controls may be emphasized, hence the location on the monitor 191 instead of on the keyboard 162, for example. As will be understood, however, on a given implementation these indicators and any accompanying controls may be located virtually anywhere that is practical. Further, it should be noted that the indicators are shown as being near a corresponding control, but may be located elsewhere, or even incorporated into the control, e.g., the LED may be inside a button.
Examples of notification-related controls 400 include controls for accessing email, voicemail, calendar and system-related notifications and state (such as general health of the system). Other notification controls not shown that are equivalent include controls related to instant messaging and the like. Note that telephone-call related controls are somewhat related to notifications, but in these examples are provided in their own group or groups.
As generally represented in
Routing controls may place the entire computer system into a do not disturb mode with respect to received communications, including telephone calls, instant messages, emails and other alerts, as described in related United States patent application entitled "Computer System with Do Not Disturb System and Method." Communications may also be forwarded. In keeping with the present invention, state indicators can convey these states to the user, along with other communications-related state data, such as a call holding. Further, as described below, the state indication may be the general illumination of the computer system (or at least the monitor) as a whole, rather than only indicated via a single LED.
The various controls and indicators may be grouped logically and positioned in various locations, such as near their related device, for ease of use, or for visibility. Alternatively, at least some of the controls and indicators may be grouped on a communications panel, such as the communications panel 918 of
The operating system 134 controls the indicators 1040 as described below above via indicator display logic (rules) 1052 to convey rich information to the user. Note that the indicators need not be LEDs or other visible display mechanisms such as the auxiliary display, but may include any type of mechanism that outputs information that is capable of being sensed by a user, including visual, audible and tactile output. Each of the indicators may be related to one of the controls, and thus each indicator may be incorporated into or positioned proximate its corresponding control. Other indicators unrelated to any controls may be included in the control and communications panel 1018. Note that the computer system need not be fully operational for (at least some of) the controls of the control and communications panel and/or the indicators to work in accordance with the present invention. Indeed, some or all of the controls may still work when the computer is powered down, at least to a default extent or to an extent configured by a user. Thus, a secondary processor or the like may control the indicator output when the operating system is not available. To handle the controls and communications in such a powered-down mode, the control handling logic may be loaded into executable non-volatile memory, operated with a secondary processor, and so forth, so that communication works as long as some power is available, even though the disk, main processor, main display, network card and/or other parts of the system are powered down. The BIOS or the like may handle power-up indicator operation.
Turning to a general explanation of the rules for controlling indicators,
To this end, the behavior of the light including the color, intensity, brightness, any associations to sounds and lighting effects may be controlled and configurable through software and or the user preferences. For example, the light may be color component (e.g., RGB) based allowing the system to perform according to different user profiles, applications, and preferences. The behavior of the light including pulsing, blinking rate and frequency and intensity may also be controlled and/or configured programmatically. Other sensory information such as audio and tactile data may indicate different state events as well, and these may be configurable. However, in keeping with the present invention, whatever scheme is used should be generally consistent with respect to the types of data being conveyed, e.g., activity-related data would typically use the same primary indication (such as the same color) regardless of which component a given indicator was representing.
As represented in the example scheme of
As represented in
As shown in
Thus, each indicator has an associated context, each color indicates a type of operation relative to that context, and each illumination pattern indicates further information. These colors may be combined in various illumination patterns. For example, consider a call holding (amber flash,
In the example of
As set forth in
Audible indicators may be similarly varied to provide more granular information, e.g., in tone, timbre, volume, and/or patterns, as can tactile information, e.g., pressure, vibration frequency, vibration patterns and so forth.
Before the first email notification is received, the system is in state 1302 without any notifications to read. When a first email notification assigned a normal priority is received, the email notification indicator flashes blue three times (or some other number as in
Each email notification may be read by bringing the email application program to the foreground on the monitor of the computer system and reading the email message that generated the notification. If the email application is not executing on the computer system, then the email application is first launched. This may be done in the traditional way via software interaction, or there may be a control button associated with the notification indicator which may be pressed to launch and/or bring the application program or system component to the foreground. In another exemplary embodiment, a key associated with the application program or system component on the keyboard 130 of the computer system 20 alternatively may be pressed.
In sum, the present invention thus provides a method and system for communicating various states or conditions of the computer system and/or its systems/subsystems to the user and/or other people within viewing range. Indicators embedded in a computer or computer peripheral products (including a control panel) convey the state information.
It should be noted that other types of lighting are feasible and may be alternatively implemented. By way of example, as represented in
This same alternative light source (or sources) can be used (as an alternative or in addition to an LED indicator) to communicate alternative states of computer system use or activity including the do not disturb mode. In this condition, the light emanating from the base may works together with a do not disturb control button to indicate a shift in the way the computer is being used. For example, the user engages a do not disturb control to shift the state of the computer into a mode in which incoming notifications are selectively filtered and handled, (e.g., the do not disturb state may automatically directs incoming voice calls to a voice mail inbox, instant messages are answered in a way that informs the caller that the user is unavailable for IM discussions, email may auto-reply with a message indicating unavailability), as described in related United States patent application entitled "Computer System with Do Not Disturb System and Method. When so configured, selecting a not disturb mode causes the light emanating from the base to indicate to the user and other people around the user that the computer is now in a different use state.
A system alert can also be given by this alternative light source (and/or by an LED indicator), in which the light that is emanating works with the computer system to indicate activity. For example, the light source may notify users of various kinds of alerts, such as the printer being out of paper or jammed, when a connection is interrupted, when software updates are available, and/or other user specified alerts.
System health is another indication that may be given by this alternative light source such as to notify the users of the general health of the computer system, e.g., whether the computer system is functioning at it optimum. The light or indicator may give the user a more general awareness of the performance of the computer system, e.g., whether the memory is full, the processor is slowing down, a virus or bug in the hardware or software is compromising performance, the hard disk needs defragmenting, whether the user has enabled or disabled macros, whether the system is working at its optimum performance capability.
As can be seen from the foregoing detailed description, there is provided a set of indicators that provide useful information to computer users for many types of state information, in a manner that is consistent as to their general meanings in the context of each indicator's component or device and with one another. The indicators are positioned to convey information at locations that are logical and allow the state information to be subconsciously observed. The method and system of the present invention thus provide significant advantages and benefits needed in contemporary computing and communications.
While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative constructions, certain illustrated embodiments thereof are shown in the drawings and have been described above in detail. It should be understood, however, that there is no intention to limit the invention to the specific forms disclosed, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, alternative constructions, and equivalents falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Had a great day painting down at Monetery Bay, mostly unhindered by the wind. What excited me most about this scene was the colour and then the atmospheric perspective evident in the distant buildings.
An extra treat was the seals playing in the water, not to mention the buskers and the 100 or so other painters painting there at the end of the Plein Air Convention. Good times!


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In this instructable I have made 3 bridal veils. Two were partially made from plastic packaging that came from a set of bowls. The other one was made from a beaded candle ring. I wanted to use some old things to give people ideas of how they might include sentimental items from mom's and grandmother's in their bridal veils, such as old pearls and a doily. I made one veil ankle length.
A simple bridal veil is fairly easy to make and it does not take very long. A glue gun works magic and if there is any sewing to be done, you can hand sew it and still get good results.
Step 1: CANDLE RING BRIDAL VEIL and supply list.
This is the most simple version of the three veils that I made. It took me about an hour to put it together after I decided what to do with it. Very simple.
You will need:
Candle ring 6 inch or the size that fits your head.
Glue gun and low temp glue sticks.
Tulle the length you want and add 6 inches to have some extra to straighten the ends.
Needle and matching thread.
Step 2: CANDLE RING BRIDAL VEIL INSTRUCTIONS.
For the candle ring veil you will need to decide where to place the comb on the base and how long you want your tulle. Add a few inches to that number to get your cutting length.
Glue the comb onto the base.
Cut the tulle the length you need.
Gather one end of the tulle with a thread and needle to fit half of the candle ring around.
Using low temperature setting on the glue gun, glue the gathered tulle around the base of the candle ring on the inside of the ring,
Beginning at the middle of one side and go half way around to the other side ( matching the sides.) You want the sides to match so glue carefully. Tulle is somewhat fragile.
You are finished! Pretty simple huh?


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Abacus is a Latin word that has its origins in the Greek words abax or abakon (meaning "table" or "tablet") which in turn, possibly originated from the Semitic word abq, meaning "sand" 1.
Why does the abacus exist?
It is difficult to imagine counting without numbers, but there was a time when written numbers did not exist. The earliest counting device was the human hand and its fingers, the feet and toes. Then, as even larger quantities (larger than ten human-fingers and toes could represent) were counted, various natural items like pebbles and twigs were used to help keep count.
Merchants who traded goods not only needed a way to count goods they bought and sold, but also to calculate the cost of those goods. Until numbers were invented, counting devices were used to make everyday calculations. The abacus is one of many counting devices invented to help count large numbers.
The difference between a counting board and an abacus
It is important to distinguish the early abacuses (or abaci) known as counting boards from the modern abaci. The counting board is a piece of wood, stone or metal with carved grooves or painted lines between which beads, pebbles or metal discs were moved. The abacus is a device, usually of wood (plastic, in recent times), having a frame that holds rods with freely-sliding beads mounted on them.
Both the abacus and the counting board are mechanical aids used for counting; they are not calculators in the sense we use the word today. The person operating the abacus performs calculations in their head and uses the abacus as a physical aid to keep track of the sums, the carrys, etc.
What did the first counting board look like?
The earliest counting boards are forever lost because of the perishable materials used in their construction. However, educated guesses can be made about their construction, based on early writings of Plutarch (a priest at the Oracle at Delphi) and others.
In outdoor markets of those times, the simplest counting board involved drawing lines in the sand with ones fingers or with a stylus, and placing pebbles between those lines as place-holders representing numbers (the spaces between 2 lines would represent the units 10s, 100s, etc.) Affluent citizens could afford small wooden tables having raised borders that were filled with sand (usually coloured blue or green). A benefit of these counting boards on tables, was that they could be moved without disturbing the calculation— the table could be picked up and carried indoors.
With the need for portable devices, wooden boards with grooves carved into the surface were then created and wooden markers (small discs) were used as place-holders. The wooden boards then gave way to even more more durable materials like marble and metal (bronze) used with stone or metal markers.
In this video, Steve Stephenson explains how to use a counting board like the Salamis Tablet.
The Salamis Tablet
The oldest surviving counting board is the Salamis tablet (originally thought to be a gaming board), used by the Babylonians circa 300 B.C., discovered in 1846 on the island of Salamis.
It is a slab of white marble measuring 149cm in length, 75cm in width and 4.5cm thick, on which are 5 groups of markings. In the center of the tablet are a set of 5 horizontal parallel lines divided equally by a perpendicular vertical line, capped with a semi-circle at the intersection of the bottom-most horizontal line and the vertical line.
Below these lines is a wide space with a horizontal crack dividing it. Below this crack is another group of eleven parallel lines, again divided into two sections by a line perpendicular to them but with the semi-circle at the top of the intersection; the third, sixth and ninth of these lines are marked with a cross where they intersect with the vertical line.
Three sets of Greek symbols (numbers from the acrophonic system) are arranged along the left, right and bottom edges of the tablet2.
Evolution: The Abacus Through the Ages
The evolution of the abacus can be divided into three ages: Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. The time-line below traces the developing abacus from its beginnings circa 500 B.C., to the present.
Ancient Times
During Greek and Roman times, counting boards, like the Roman hand-abacus, that survive are constructed from stone and metal (as a point of reference, the Roman empire fell circa 500 A.D.).
The Middle Ages
Wood was the primary material from which counting boards were manufactured; the orientation of the beads switched from vertical to horizontal. As arithmetic (counting using written numbers) gained popularity in the latter part of the Middle Ages, the use of the abacus began to diminish in Europe.
Modern Times
The abacus as we know it today, appeared (was chronicled) circa 1200 A.D. in China; in Chinese, it is called suan-pan. On each rod, this classic Chinese abacus has 2 beads on the upper deck and 5 on the lower deck; such an abacus is also referred to as a 2/5 abacus. The 2/5 style survived unchanged until about 1850 at which time the 1/5 (one bead on the top deck and five beads on the bottom deck) abacus appeared.
Circa 1600 A.D., use and evolution of the Chinese 1/5 abacus was begun by the Japanese via Korea. In Japanese, the abacus is called soroban. The 1/4 abacus, a style preferred and still manufactured in Japan today, appeared circa 1930. The 1/5 models are rare today and 2/5 models are rare outside of China (excepting Chinese communities in North America and elsewhere).
It is thought that early Christians brought the abacus to the East (note that both the suan-pan and the Roman hand-abacus have a vertical orientation). Aspects of Roman culture could have been introduced to China as early as 166 A.D, during the Han Dynasty, as Roman emperor Antoninus Pius' embassies to China spread along the Silk Road.
There have been recent suggestions of a Mesoamerican (the Aztec civilization that existed in present day Mexico) abacus called the Nepohualtzitzin, circa 900-1000 A.D., where the counters were made from kernels of maize threaded through strings mounted on a wooden frame. There is also debate about the Incan Khipu was it a three-dimensional binary calculator or a form of writing? (q.v. Talking Knots of the Incas).The schoty, is a Russian abacus invented in the 17th century and still used today in some parts.
The Abacus Today
The image on the right is a cover of a manual published in 1958 by Lee Kai-chen, the inventor of this "new" abacus designed with 4 decks (it combines two abaci; the top abacus is a small 1/4 soroban and the bottom one is a 2/5 suan-pan).
The author claims that multiplication and division are easier using this modified abacus and includes instructions for determining square roots and cubic roots of numbers.
An interactive Java version of the Lee Abacus is available on David Bagley's site.


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Learning Software Testing with Test Studio
Learning Software Testing with Test Studio
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- Learn to use Test Studio to design and automate tests valued with their functionality and maintainability
- Run manual and automated test suites and view reports on them
- Filled with practical examples, snapshots and Test Studio hints to automate and substitute throwaway tests with long term frameworks
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If you are a beginner or a professional QA who is seeking a fast, clear, and direct to the point start in automated software testing inside Test Studio, this book is for you. You should be familiar with the .NET framework, mainly Visual Studio, C#, and SQL, as the book's examples rely on them. Prior testing knowledge will also be helpful.
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What You Will Learn
- Create functional automated tests using the recorder
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- Insert proper verification, and wait and log steps
- Customize tests in code
- Produce Keyword tests
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- Export, create and run manual tests
- Create and execute test lists
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Test Studio is Telerik's QA solution for automating your manual testing. With Test Studio's standalone edition or Visual Studio plugin, you can rule out the possibility of unreliable test execution and UI recognition, non indicative test results and reports, dispersed test repository, low code coverage, and unaffordable learning curves. With no code, this tool provides an intuitive IDE to effortlessly create maintainable tests. If you are looking for a solution to automate testing for your web, desktop, or mobile application, you can now benefit from Test Studio's rich automation features.
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This book gets you started directly with automation in Test Studio by exploiting its recording powers through series of concrete test cases built around the equipped applications. Each chapter starts with a typical automation problem which is then approached using Test Studio specialized automation features.
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The Rev. Erin Evans will perform a Blessing of the Animals for the first time.
The new part-time pastor at Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Greenock section of Elizabeth Township said she "always wanted to do a blessing of the animals service" but never did. "I decided I would do it this year."
Saturday's event begins at 9 a.m. on the basketball court at the church, 641 Zimmer Hill Drive. During the service, Evans will bless each pet — or pet photo — individually.
The blessing is in commemoration of St. Francis of Assisi.
It is one event Evans has introduced at Peace, where she began her pastorate on May 1 and was installed on Sept. 22.
She attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Va., and the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, but the pastorate is not what the Harrisburg-area native envisioned.
"I was very active in the Lutheran church as a kid and I always thought I would be active in the church in some capacity," she said.
As a freshman, she took a religion class and did very well. Her involvement with campus ministry prompted her pastor to suggest she consider ministry as a career.
"After awhile I started taking what people were saying seriously and started praying about it," Evans said. "I applied to seminary and, when I got there, I knew that's where I wanted to be. I don't think this is a job you choose for yourself. It's a job God calls you into."
Before her call as the part-time pastor at Peace, she served full time at a church in New Castle.
Prior to her arrival at the Greenock church, she was planning her May 25 wedding to fellow Lutheran pastor Brian Evans, who at the time was at Faith Lutheran in White Oak; he was installed Sept. 29 as pastor at First Lutheran along Grant Street in Pittsburgh.
For about two years the church had an interim pastor so she said her call was "God's timing. I knew I would be moving from New Castle so I was looking for something in this area. The bishop called and said there was an opening at a little church if I was interested."
While she has some ideas for programs, she wants to take things slow. "My philosophy is to get to know the people and their history," Evans said, noting the congregation has a rich history of more than 150 years.
Citing the success of Vacation Bible School, she said she would like to see more children involved with the church, including a youth group and Sunday School. "I want to have kids actively involved in the worship service so church will be a place they want to go. I want to invite them to help me with the service so they know they are valued here."
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2003 The key to the success of Operation Iraqi Freedom was the outstanding cooperation among all of the services and coalition partners, the top Marine in the command said today.
Speaking from his headquarters in Bahrain, Marine Lt. Gen. Earl Hailston said that force planned and executed the operation as one team. "The rapid advance of Marine forces to Baghdad would never have been possible without the tremendous service support provided by the Army," he said. "In turn, we supplied the Army with Marine close-air support and airlift."
The close cooperation within the U.S. military was matched by the cooperation between the U.S. and British forces. "That our British coalition partners placed the (British) 1st Armored Division under Marine command is continued evidence of our continued special relationship with this long-standing ally," Hailston said.
He said cooperation with the Brits couldn't have been better. "We worked and planned this for months together," he said. "We immediately came together as a team that was able to directly support each other."
In combat, the U.S. Marines and their British counterparts melded together. "One of the very first Marine casualties that we had was medevaced to the Argus, the British hospital ship," he said.
He said the cooperation between the allies was "almost without bumps." He said the small turbulence for forces experienced was caused by communications problems.
The immediate lesson learned from the experience "is that our training and work over the years has certainly paid off." Planners will continue to collect data from the operation, he said, and a more detailed lessons learned report will come out, "but it's proven that we're an effective force to work together and support each other."
There are 72,000 active and reserve component Marines and sailors of the Fleet Marine Forces currently in the region. Hailston is responsible for providing those forces to Central Command, and supplying, equipping and training them. He serves as an adviser to the combatant commander on the use of those forces throughout the theater.
The general will also be responsible for reconstituting the forces and redeploying them. He said he does not know when the Marine forces will leave the area. He did say that those in the region the longest some Marines have been deployed for more than 10 months will be the first to leave.
The Marine Corps deployed a Marine Air-Ground task force for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The forces included four infantry regiments, two artillery regiments, three light- armored reconnaissance battalions, two tank battalions, a force service-support group and three Marine aircraft groups with more than 400 aircraft.
Hailston also established a logistics command to sustain the Marine effort. This was crucial, he said, because of the distances involved. "I'm used to fighting with one leg afloat and one ashore," he said. The Marines attacks took them 500 miles from the shores of the North Arabian Gulf to Tikrit.
About half of the Marine Harrier aircraft launched attacks from their ships in the Gulf. Hailston said Harriers flew 1,000 missions from the decks of coalition ships. The rest launched from Kuwait and captured Iraqi airfields. Even those aircraft that launched from ships often refueled and rearmed at land bases, he said.
As another part of his duties, Hailston commanded the Combined Joint Task Force Consequence Management. This task force was to respond to any employment of weapons of mass destruction by Saddam either prior to or during the execution of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The task force ran constant patrols through Kuwait and "was ready to respond to problems in the event of a WMD attack by Iraq or any terrorist attack," he said.
Hailston hypothesized that the reason Saddam Hussein did not launch attacks using chemical or biological weapons may be due to the effectiveness of the coalition information operations against him. He also said he thought it could be because the coalition forces moved too fast for any orders from the regime to register.
But the success ultimately comes down to the Marines, he said. "They fought this fight with extraordinary courage and commitment. While we were engaged in operation Iraq Freedom, we never backed away from our hunt for terrorists and our global war on terror."


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Small cells are starting to look like Token Ring. Or Beta Max. Or PBB-TE. What do these technologies have in common? They were all technically superior to the solutions that ultimately relegated them to oblivion.
Yankee Group: Clear positioning is the key to 4G success
Hundreds of mobile network operators (MNOs) around the world are currently in planning mode for 4G/LTE. Success with this new technology is not only dependent upon how operators deploy the networks. They must also succeed in how they launch and communicate their offer in the marketplace.