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The Sources of Ibn Taymiyya's Ideas Part 3 of 3
"Exalted is Allah above having an attribute which occupies space — this is anthropomorphism itself! Nor is Allah divisible and in need of parts with which to do something. Does not His order and His fashioning act upon the fire? How then would He need the help of any part of Himself, or apply Himself to the fire with one of His attributes, while He is the one Who says to it: "Be coolness and peace" (21:69)? What idiotic belief is this, and how far remote it is from the Fashioner of the dominions and the firmaments! Allah gave them the lie in His book when He said: "If these had been gods, they would never have gone down to it" (21:99): how then can they think that the Creator goes down to it? Exalted is Allah above the ignorant pretenses of the mujassima!"14
These, then, are the sources of Ibn Taymiyya's stand on ascribing a body and a direction to the Creator. As we have seen these sources have little to do with the established position of Imam Ahmad on these questions. On the contrary, we know with certainty that Imam Ahmad irrevocably condemned the slightest ascription of a body to Allah, whether or not the speaker added: "but not like other bodies." In Manaqib Ahmad, al-Bayhaqi relates that he said:
"A person commits an act of disbelief (kufr) if he says Allah is a body, even if he says: Allah is a body but not like other bodies." He continues: "The expressions are taken from language and from Islam, and linguists applied "body" to a thing that has length, width, thickness, form, structure and components. The expression has not been handed down in Shari`a. Therefore, it is invalid and cannot be used."15
Given that the correct followers of the madhhab of Imam Ahmad in the fourth and fifth centuries stand firmly on the side of Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama`a, we should not be astonished that they would reject the proponents of likening Allah to creation (tashbih) both then and later. Indeed, such views were contained and prevented from being disseminated far and wide until Ibn Taymiyya threw the full weight of his learning and skill behind them. In repayment for his efforts he was duly arrested more than once in his career.
1 `Abd Allah ibn Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Kitab al-sunna (Cairo: al-Matba`a al-Salafiya, 1349/1930).
2 al-Khallal, al-Sunna p. 215-216.
3 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Bada'i` al-fawa'id (Misr: al-Matba`a al-Muniriya, 1900?) 4:39-40.
4 Abu Hayyan, Tafsir al-nahr al-madd 1:254 (Ayat al-kursi).
5 See the introduction to Ibn Jarir al-Tabari's Kitab ikhtilaf al-fuqaha' (The differences among jurists), ed. Frederik Kern, Egypt 1902.
6 Quoted in Saqqa op. cit.
7 Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzayma, Kitab al-tawhid wa-ithbat sifat al-rabb allati wasafa biha nafsahu... (Cairo: idarat al-tiba`a al-muniriyya, 1354/1935).
8 Bayhaqi, al-Asma' wa al-sifat, ed. Kawthari, p. 267.
9 Razi, al-Tafsir al-kabir 14:27 (#151).
10 Kawthari, Maqalat, p. 355.
11 Abu Dawud, Sunan, Kitab al-Sunna, ch. 19, last hadith.
12 Kawthari, Maqalat, p. 361.
13 One of the great early authorities of the Hanbali school.
14 Ibn al-Jawzi, Daf` shubah al-tashbih p. 172-174.
15 al-Bayhaqi, Manaqib Ahmad. Unpublished manuscript.
Reproduced with permission from Shaykh M. Hisham Kabbani's The Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations (Kazi, 1996) p. 90-95.
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Methods and devices for creating and transferring custom emoticons allow a user to adopt an arbitrary image as an emoticon, which can then be represented by a character sequence in real-time communication. In one implementation, custom emoticons can be included in a message and transmitted to a receiver in the message. In another implementation, character sequences representing the custom emoticons can be transmitted in the message instead of the custom emoticons in order to preserve performance of text messaging. At the receiving end, the character sequences are replaced by their corresponding custom emoticons, which can be retrieved locally if they have been previously received, or can be retrieved from the sender in a separate communication from the text message if they have not been previously received.
1. A method comprising:
selecting, by a user via a user-input device of a sender, a still image that includes a single array grid of pixels, wherein the still image is not part of an existing character set stored on the sender;
transforming, by a pixel array generator of the sender, the selected still image into a custom graphical emoticon;
obtaining a character sequence from the user via the user-input device of the sender, the character sequence including alphanumeric characters;
assigning, by a processor configured with executable instructions, the character sequence to the custom graphical emoticon, the character sequence representing the custom graphical emoticon, wherein the character sequence acts as a placeholder for the custom graphical emoticon;
obtaining a message from the user via the user-input device of the sender, the message including textual content with the emoticon-placeholding character sequence embedded therein;
transmitting the message from the sender to a destination via a message-transmission modality of transmission, the transmitted message including the textual content with the emoticon-placeholding character sequence embedded therein; and
separately from the transmitting of the message, sending the custom graphical emoticon to the destination via a different modality of transmission than the message-transmission modality of transmission.
2. The method as recited in
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receiving a request from the destination for the custom graphical emoticon; and
in response to the request, performing the sending of the custom graphical emoticon to the destination.
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parsing the character sequence into an identifier and a location of the custom graphical emoticon in an emoticon object store in the sender; and
storing the identifier and the location in a header of the message that includes the textual content with the emoticon-placeholding character sequence embedded therein.
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14. A custom emoticon engine having at least a physical component in a computing device, the custom emoticon engine comprising:
an image selector configured to create a custom graphical emoticon from a still image, wherein the custom graphical emoticon is representable as a single array grid of pixels;
a custom emoticon object store configured to store the custom graphical emoticon;
a character sequence assignor configured to associate a sequence of characters with the custom graphical emoticon, the sequence of characters being input by a user via a user-input device; and
a transmitter configured to send the character sequence embedded in a text message to a destination, wherein the array grid of pixels replaces the character sequence within the text message at the destination as both of the text message and the array grid of pixels are displayed on a screen.
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21. A computing device storage media containing instructions that are executable by a computer to perform actions comprising:
creating a custom graphical emoticon by selecting an image associated with the custom graphical emoticon by a sender;
representing the image as a single array grid of pixels for the custom graphical emoticon;
assigning a character sequence to the custom graphical emoticon, wherein the character sequence is assignable by the sender; and
transmitting a text message by the sender along with the character sequence to a destination to allow for reconstruction of the custom graphical emoticon at the destination, wherein the custom graphical emoticon is substituted within the text message for the character sequence within the text message, and both the text message and the custom graphical emoticon are to be received in the same dialog.
22. The computing device storage media as recited in
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transmit the character sequence in a real-time first communication; and
transmit data representing the custom graphical emoticon in a second communication, wherein the data is used to reconstruct the custom graphical emoticon in place of the character sequence in the real-time first communication.
25. The computing device storage media as recited in
parse the character sequence into an identifier and a location of the custom graphical emoticon; and
store the identifier and the location in a header of the message that includes the character sequence.
26. The computing device storage media as recited in
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28. A method for facilitating communication using custom emoticons, the method comprising:
creating, by a pixel array generator, an emoticon pixel set by a sender by selecting a single set of pixels, which is a custom emoticon;
storing the emoticon pixel set in a custom emoticon object store of the sender;
transferring the emoticon pixel set to a destination from the custom emoticon object store of the sender, wherein the transferring comprises establishing a real-time peer-to-peer link between the sender and the destination to retrieve the emoticon pixel set from the custom emoticon object store of the sender;
sending instructions to the destination on how to retrieve the emoticon pixel set;
mapping the character sequence to the emoticon pixel set using a keyboard device;
parsing the character sequence into an object name for the pixel emoticon set, wherein the object name includes both an identifier and a location of the pixel emoticon set;
storing the identifier and the location in a header of a text message; and
transmitting, to the destination, the text message by a sender, the text message including the character sequence, which was mapped to the pixel emoticon set, the destination being configured to identify and locate the transferred emoticon pixel set at the destination using the identifier and the location transmitted in the header of the text message, wherein both the text message and the emoticon pixel set are displayed on a screen of the destination, the emoticon pixel set being substituted at the destination within the text message for the character sequence mapped to the emoticon pixel set within the text message, the emoticon pixel set being transferred from the sender to the destination separately from the transmission of the text message from the sender to the destination.
29. A method for facilitating communication using custom emoticons, the method comprising:
receiving a communication by a message receiver, wherein the communication comprises:
a text message, the text message including a custom-emoticon-mapped character sequence, which is mapped to a custom emoticon pixel set, which is defined as a set of pixels residing outside the communication; and
a header storing at least one of an identifier and a location of the custom emoticon pixel set, the identifier and the location comprising at least part of an object name for the custom emoticon pixel set;
determining whether the custom emoticon pixel set is stored in a local storage medium of the message receiver, wherein the determining utilizes the identifier and the location;
in response to the determining, retrieving the custom emoticon pixel set from the local storage medium of the message receiver;
otherwise, retrieving the custom emoticon pixel set from a storage medium associated with the sender of the communication or with a server, in which the communication did not originate; and
displaying the text message in a screen, the custom emoticon pixel set being displayed in the text message instead of and in place of the custom-emoticon-mapped character sequence in the text message.
The subject matter relates generally to instant messaging and more specifically to custom emoticons.
Emoticons have acquired immense popularity and hence importance in new email, chatroom, instant messaging, and even operating system applications. The variety of available emoticons has increased tremendously, from a few types of "happy faces" to a multitude of elaborate and colorful animations. In many cases, an increase in the number of available emoticons has been a selling feature for new releases of communications products. However, there are now so many emoticons available that some applications may be reaching a limit on the number of pre-established ("pre-packaged") emoticons that can be included with or managed by an application. There is an exhaustion point for trying to provide a pre-packaged emoticon for every human emotion. Still, users clamor for more emoticons, and especially for more nuanced emoticons that capture the subtleties of human emotions and situations.
With the increase in the number and "sophistication" of emoticons, some problems are inevitable. Many chatroom and instant messaging products, in which emoticons find perfect application in describing the users' real-time emotions, rely on limited bandwidth or the transmission of short communications ("messages") that contain relatively little data. In other words, many chatroom and instant messaging applications achieve their agility and speed by streamlining data bulk into "lean" messages that typically have a limited data size, such as 1-2 kilobytes or approximately 400 alphanumeric characters plus headers. Adding one or more complex emoticons—a graphic that may require an inordinate amount of data space compared with text—to one of these lean messages can be detrimental to the performance of the chatroom or instant messaging application. Still, an emoticon picture is often worth a thousand words of text, so techniques are needed for producing an even greater variety of emoticons and for being able to send them without increasing the data size of lean messages.
Methods and devices for creating and transferring custom emoticons allow a user to adopt an arbitrary image as an emoticon, which can then be represented by a character sequence in real-time communication. In one implementation, custom emoticons can be included in a message and transmitted to a receiver in the message. In another implementation, character sequences representing the custom emoticons can be transmitted in the message instead of the custom emoticons in order to preserve performance of text messaging. At the receiving end, the character sequences are replaced by their corresponding custom emoticons, which can be retrieved locally if they have been previously received, or can be retrieved from the sender in a separate communication from the text message if they have not been previously received.
The subject matter described herein includes methods and devices for creating custom emoticons from images not previously associated with emoticons. Further, when custom emoticons are added to a text message, some implementations of the subject matter transmit the custom emoticons to a receiver of the message without degrading the textual performance of instant messaging applications, chatroom exchanges, and toasts-the notifications that appear when buddies log on.
Keyboard keystrokes or textual alphanumeric "character sequences" are assigned as placeholders for custom emoticons within a real-time message. A custom emoticon or its associated placeholder character sequence can be entered in an appropriate location of a real-time message during composition of the message. Custom emoticons present in the message are typically converted to their corresponding character sequences before transmitting the message in order to preserve the performance of text messaging. The character sequences map to their associated custom emoticons. Upon receiving a real-time message that includes an assigned character sequence, the character sequence can be mapped back to a corresponding custom emoticon, which can then be displayed in the received message in place of the character sequence. Thus, custom emoticons do not necessarily have to be sent within the text message itself. This allows text messaging to remain lean and fast, while the subject matter provides ways for reconstructing custom emoticons into the message at the receiving end.
Instead of selecting from a necessarily limited host of pre-packaged emoticons, users can create their own emoticons by adapting many sorts of image files to be custom emoticons. In one implementation, image files of various types and sizes are each standardized into a pixel array of uniform dimensions to be used as emoticons.
Many real-time messaging applications aim to minimize data for transmission. An instant message or chatroom communique that contains very streamlined data is referred to herein as a "lean" message. To include one or more custom emoticons in a lean message would degrade the performance of many instant messaging or chatroom applications. Thus, the subject matter also includes exemplary techniques for sending a lean message to a receiver wherein one or more custom emoticons appear in the lean message at the receiver's end.
"Real-time" as used herein means that participants can converse back and forth via text, image, or sound without unreasonable delay while they are online. Thus, real-time technically means "near real-time" as there is always some degree of hysteresis or delay in online communication.
Reference in this specification to "one implementation" or "an implementation" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the implementation is included in at least one implementation of the subject matter. The appearances of the phrase "in one implementation" in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same implementation.
Exemplary System
A user can create a custom emoticon by downloading and/or editing an image, or by using a photography or drawing application to create an image for the custom emoticon from scratch. Once a user has adopted an arbitrary image 210 to be a custom emoticon, an exemplary CEE 206 allows the user to send a text message 212 that contains only text and yet have one or more custom emoticons 210 appear at appropriate places in the display of the text message 212′.
Exemplary Engine
An exemplary CEE 206 includes a user interface 302 that may include a "define custom emoticons" module 304 and a "create text message" module 306. The exemplary CEE 206 also includes an image selector 308, a custom emoticons object store 310, and a transmitter 312, all communicatively coupled as illustrated. The image selector 308 may also include a pixel array generator 314. Further, an exemplary CEE 206 may include a character sequence assignor 316 and a message receiver 318 that includes a character sequence parser 320. Finally, an exemplary CEE 206 may include a text editor 322, either discretely as illustrated or integrated with the user interface 302, and a message transmitter 324 that may include a header engine 326. Control logic (not shown) may direct operation of the various components listed above and associations between the components.
As controlled by an automatic process or by a user through a "define custom emoticons" dialogue generated by a module (304) of the user interface 302, an image selector 308 captures an image and converts the image to an emoticon. In one implementation, images of various sizes and formats, such as the joint photographic experts group (JPEG) format, the tagged image file format (TIFF) format, the graphics interchange format (GIF) format, the bitmap (BMP) format, the portable network graphics (PNG) format, etc., can be selected and converted into custom emoticons by a pixel array generator 314, which converts each image into a pixel array of pre-determined dimensions, such as 19�19 pixels. An image may be normalized in other ways to fit a pre-determined pixel array grid. For example, if the pre-determined pixel array for making a custom emoticon is a 19�19 pixel grid, then the aspect ratio of an image that does not fill the grid can be maintained by adding background filler to the sides of the image to make up the 19�19 pixel grid.
In one implementation, an exemplary CEE 206 also includes advanced image editing features to change visual characteristics of an adopted image so that the image is more suitable for use as a custom emoticon. For example, an advanced image editor may allow a user to select the lightness and darkness, contrast, sharpness, color, etc. of an image. These utilities may be especially useful when reducing the size of a large image into a pixel array dimensioned for a modestly sized custom emoticon.
Each new custom emoticon can be saved in a custom emoticons object store 310 together with associated information, such as a character sequence for mapping from a text message to the emoticon and optionally, a nickname. In one implementation, a nickname serves as the mapping character sequence, so that a custom emoticon is substituted for the nickname each time the nickname appears in a received text message. In other implementations, a unique character sequence assigned to a custom emoticon maps to the custom emoticon and a nickname is associated with the custom emoticon as well, so that the nickname or common name may be used in a text message without calling for insertion of a custom emoticon.
The character sequence assignor 316 may utilize a "define custom emoticons" dialogue (304) or an automatic process to associate a unique "character sequence" with each custom emoticon. A character sequence usually consists of alphanumeric characters (or other characters or codes that can be represented in a text message) that can be typed or inserted by the same text editor 322 that is creating a text message. Although keystrokes imply a keyboard, other conventional means of creating a text message can also be used to form a character sequence of characters or codes to map to a custom emoticon.
In one implementation, character sequences are limited to a short sequence of characters, such as seven. The character sequence "dog" can result in a custom emoticon of a dog appearing each time "dog" is used in a message, so other characters may be added to common names to set mappable character sequences apart from text that does not map to a custom emoticon. Hence a character sequence may use brackets, such as [dog] or an introductory character, such as @dog.
When a character sequence has been assigned to a custom emoticon by a character sequence assignor 316, the custom emoticon or its assigned character sequence may by used in an online real-time message. If the custom emoticon itself is embedded in a text message during composition of the message, then the custom emoticon is typically converted to its assigned character sequence before transmission to a message receiver. In some implementations, this allows an exemplary CEE 206 to maintain the speed and other performance characteristics of text messaging if custom emoticons occupy enough data space to degrade performance when transmitted along with a corresponding text message. Thus, a message transmitter 324 may be employed to send the character sequence to a destination, i.e., within a communication such as an instant message. Each time the character sequence associated with a custom emoticon is used in a text message, a custom emoticon associated with the character sequence will be substituted for the character sequence at the destination, e.g., the receiving client 204.
When a user creates a text message, for example using a "create text message" dialogue (306) associated with a user interface 302 and/or a text editor 322, the text message may contain one or more of the character sequences that map to custom emoticons. In one implementation, a message transmitter 324 or other component of an exemplary CEE 206 may pass the text message to a character sequence parser 320 to find character sequences within the text message that map to custom emoticons. The character sequences may be used in various ways, depending on the implementation.
In one implementation, a character sequence assigned to a custom emoticon may be made mappable to the custom emoticon by parsing the character sequence into an object name that includes both a location of the associated custom emoticon and a hash and/or a globally unique identifier (GUID). The location can be used by a message recipient to retrieve the associated custom emoticon from the sender and the hash and/or GUID can be used both on sending and receiving ends for local storage. Retrieval of custom emoticons pointed to by associated character sequences in a real-time message will be discussed in greater detail in relation to
In another implementation, the custom character sequences themselves may be placed in a header of an outgoing text message by a header engine 326, to be read by a receiving client 204 in order to request custom emoticons from the sending client 202. In yet another implementation, instead of or in addition to placing the custom emoticon information in a header of the outgoing text message, the character sequence parser 320 may inform the custom emoticons object store 310 to immediately begin sending the custom emoticons corresponding to the exemplary character sequences found in the text message to the recipient by another communications pathway. In all three of the implementations just described, however, the text message is sent by a message transmitter 324 using one modality of transmission, such as an instant messaging application, and the custom emoticons are sent by a separate modality, such as a transmitter 312 using an object store and/or an object transport mechanism, in order to spare an increase in the data size of the text messages sent by the message transmitter 324.
It should be noted that an exemplary CEE 206 can be implemented in software, firmware, hardware, or a combination of software, firmware, hardware, etc. The illustrated exemplary CEE 206 is only one example of software, firmware, and/or hardware that can perform the subject matter.
In one implementation, when a user receives a communication, such as a chatroom communication or an instant message, the message buffer 402 holds the message for display. In one implementation, the message is displayed immediately whether custom emoticons are available to be posted within the message or not. If they are not ready, then the original character sequences that map to the custom emoticons may be displayed, or a blank image may be displayed into which a custom emoticon is inserted when it has been retrieved. In another implementation, a message is not displayed at all until relevant custom emoticons are ready to be substituted into the message, but since the time interval for retrieving custom emoticons is usually unnoticeable, this "delay" in "real-time" communication may also be unnoticeable.
In some implementations, a received message may have one or more headers to be parsed by the header parser 404 that indicate the presence of one or more custom emoticons in a message. A header can also indicate a location for retrieving custom emoticons, and in some implementation, can even indicate the position of custom emoticons to be inserted within the received message.
In one implementation, the message receiver 318 uses an object name provided by the header parser 404 for each custom emoticon to be retrieved and then inserted in a received message. That is, a character sequence parser 320 on the sender's computing device may have already parsed a mappable character sequence (representing a custom emoticon data object) into an object name, including a location identifier and a hash value, and placed the object name in a header of the message sent to the receiving client 204. The object name allows retrieval of the custom emoticon from a location specified by the location identifier for storage in a local cache using the hash value as a storage address. An implementation of the message receiver 318 (and an exemplary CEE 206) may use object store and object transport mechanisms and technologies as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/611,599 by Miller et al., entitled "Instant Messaging Object Store" and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/611,575 by Miller et al., entitled "Transport System for Instant Messaging," which are incorporated herein by reference for all they disclose and teach.
In other implementations, instead of or in addition to using the object store and transport technologies mentioned above, the message receiver 318 uses a character sequence parser 320 of an exemplary CEE 206 on the receiving client's computing device to obtain character sequences from the message in order to map to custom emoticons. In some implementations, the mappable character sequences may be collected in a header of the message, but in still other implementations the character sequence parser 320 performs in-string functions or otherwise searches the message for mappable character sequences.
An emoticon retriever 406 receives an emoticon identifier, such as an object name, from a header parser 404 or a mappable character sequence from either the character sequence parser 320 or the header parser 404, and uses the object name or the character sequence to map to and retrieve a custom emoticon. In one implementation, the custom emoticon is transferred as a PNG file. In one implementation, the emoticon retriever 406 first activates a local cache retriever 410, for example using the above-mentioned hash component of an object name. The custom emoticon being retrieved may have previously been retrieved from the message sender and may now reside in a local cache, such as a temporary Internet files cache used by a web browser. If the custom emoticon resides locally, the custom emoticon can be immediately loaded and/or retrieved as an image file. In one implementation a local cache retriever 410 of an exemplary CEE 206 uses a globally unique identifier (GUID) when checking to see if the relevant image file resides on a local computing device in a cache. If not, the emoticon retriever 406 parses an object name or a character sequence to determine an IP address of the originating computing device.
If the custom emoticon cannot be found in a local cache, then a point-to-point (P2P) retriever 412 may try to establish a P2P connection with the message sender. A P2P connection allows quick transfer of relatively large amounts of data, so this type of connection is preferred by an emoticon retriever 406 when a custom emoticon does not reside locally. The P2P retriever 412 tries to establish a direct connection by transmission control protocol (TCP) or user datagram protocol (UDP) between the receiver's computing device and the sender's computing device. If the connection is successful, then a port is opened and the custom emoticon is retrieved across the wire. A custom emoticon file may then be saved locally and then loaded repeatedly.
However, if a P2P connection cannot be established because of a firewall or a network address translation (NAT) table, then a server retriever 414 may establish a default connection through a server connection, since both the sender and receiver are connected to at least a server that administers the real-time communication session, e.g., a server in the Internet "cloud" that allows back and forth messaging. This latter type of connection, however, may be slower than a P2P connection. A typical server pipe is limited in the number of messages it can send per minute, and the data size of the messages. Thus the server retriever 414 may transfer custom emoticon data in smaller pieces, because of limitations placed on the pipe by the server. Custom emoticons received in pieces from the sender's custom emoticons object store 310 via a server are assembled at the receiver'end and can be loaded as a file by the message receiver 318.
Once the message receiver 318 is in possession of a custom emoticon associated with a character sequence, a substitution module 408 replaces the character sequences (e.g., textual) in the message with their corresponding custom emoticons.
It should be noted that the illustrated message receiver 318 of
Exemplary User Interface Elements
In one implementation, elements of a list of custom emoticons 500 can be shown in a tooltip that appears on a display when the user hovers a pointing device over a user interface element. For example, a tooltip can appear to remind the user of available custom emoticons and/or corresponding character sequences. In the same or another implementation, a tootip appears when the user points to a particular custom emoticon in order to remind of the character sequence and nickname assigned to that custom emoticon. In the same or yet another implementation, a list of custom emoticons 500 appears as a pop-down or unfolding menu that includes a dynamic list of a limited number of the custom emoticons created in a system and/or their corresponding character sequences. For example, the menu may dynamically show ten custom emoticons and when a new custom emoticon is added to the system, a pre-existing custom emoticon drops from the list (but is not necessarily deleted from the custom emoticons object store 310).
With respect to one feature of the subject matter, many types and sizes of images can be converted for use as a custom emoticon. An image selector 308 of an exemplary CEE 206 may load an image file, such as a JPEG file 502, a TIFF file 504, a GIF file 506, a BMP file 508, a PNG file 510, etc., and convert the image to a custom emoticon (e.g., 512, 514, 516, 518, 520). In one implementation, the conversion is accomplished by representing each image as a pixel array of predetermined size: "x" pixels 522 by "y" pixels 524, e.g., 19�19 pixels. The image may be padded (e.g., 526 and 528) out to the size of the predetermined pixel array to maintain an image aspect ratio. Each new custom emoticon can be saved in a custom emoticons object store 310 together with its associated information, i.e., a mappable character sequence and a nickname.
When a user writes a real-time text message, a custom emoticon's character sequence, such as @FDAN, can be inserted along with the other text of the message. A device and/or an application, such as an exemplary CEE 206, in response to receiving a text message including the character sequence @FDAN can map to the custom emoticon associated with @FDAN and insert the custom emoticon in place of @FDAN.
Exemplary Methods
At block 702, an image is converted into a pixel array suitable for use as an emoticon, for example by an image selector 308 that includes a pixel array generator 314. Uniformity of size can be imparted to images selected to be custom emoticons by representing each custom emoticon by the same size pixel grid.
At block 704, a character sequence is assigned to the pixel array, for example, by a character sequence assignor 316 of an exemplary CEE 206 soliciting the characters of the sequence from a user. The character sequence can typically be entered in the same manner as the text of a real-time communication that contains the character sequence and not only marks the place in the communication where an associated custom emoticon should be inserted but also becomes a pointer for retrieving the custom emoticon from a sender or local cache.
At block 706, the character sequence is sent within a real-time communication. A text message being used for the real-time communication may have one or more of the character sequences entered with the rest of the text of the message. In one implementation, each character sequence is also turned into an object name that can be parsed into a location identity of an associated custom emoticon and/or into a hash that can be used as an address for finding the custom emoticon locally.
At block 708, the pixel array is sent by an exemplary CEE 206 in a second communication that is separate from the first communication to replace the character sequence in the real-time first communication with a custom emoticon.
At block 802, online real-time communication is received, e.g., by a message receiver 318 of an exemplary CEE 206, that includes a character sequence mappable to a pixel array, that is, a custom emoticon, residing outside of or external to the communication. In other words, the real-time communication is devoid of custom emoticons as emoticon graphics occupy too much data space for the real-time communication.
At block 804, the pixel array (i.e., the custom emoticon) is retrieved using the character sequence, for example, using an emoticon retriever 406 of an exemplary CEE 206. Directly or indirectly, the character sequence points to a local or remote location of the custom emoticon. In one implementation, the character sequence is parsed on the sender's side into an object name, which is then stored in a header of a real-time message. The object name has a first aspect that can be used to determine whether the custom emoticon being retrieved already exists in a local cache on the receiver's side. The object name also has a second aspect that can be used to retrieve the custom emoticon from an IP address of the sender, if necessary.
In one implementation an application or device practicing the exemplary method 800 attempts to find the custom emoticon on a local cache on the receiver's side, then if the custom emoticon is not available locally tries to establish a P2P connection with the sender, and if this fails, then tries to obtain the custom emoticon through the control of an intervening server.
At block 806, the character sequence mappable to the custom emoticon is replaced in the received real-time communication with the retrieved custom emoticon, for example, by a substitution module 408 of an exemplary CEE 206. In one implementation, the position for inserting and/or substituting the custom emoticon in a real-time message may have been stored in a message header by the sender. In one implementation, a blank placeholder graphic is displayed if the retrieval of a custom emoticon is delayed, while in another implementation the character sequence associated with a custom emoticon is displayed if the retrieval of a custom emoticon is delayed.
Exemplary Computing Device
Exemplary computing device 900 typically includes a variety of computing device-readable media. Computing device-readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by computing device 900 and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. By way of example, and not limitation, computing device-readable media may comprise computing device storage media and communication media. Computing device storage media include volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computing device-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data. Computing device 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 be accessed by computing device 900. Communication media typically embodies computing device-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 any of the above should also be included within the scope of computing device readable media.
The system memory 930 includes computing device storage media in the form of volatile and/or nonvolatile memory such as read only memory (ROM) 931 and random access memory (RAM) 932. A basic input/output system 933 (BIOS), containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within computing device 900, such as during start-up, is typically stored in ROM 931. RAM 932 typically contains data and/or program modules that are immediately accessible to and/or presently being operated on by processing unit 920. By way of example, and not limitation,
The exemplary computing device 900 may also include other removable/non-removable, volatile/nonvolatile computing device storage media. By way of example only,
The drives and their associated computing device storage media discussed above and illustrated in
The exemplary computing device 900 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computing devices, such as a remote computing device 980. The remote computing device 980 may be a personal computing device, 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 computing device 900, although only a memory storage device 981 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the exemplary computing device 900 is connected to the LAN 971 through a network interface or adapter 970. When used in a WAN networking environment, the exemplary computing device 900 typically includes a modem 972 or other means for establishing communications over the WAN 973, such as the Internet. The modem 972, which may be internal or external, may be connected to the system bus 921 via the user input interface 960, or other appropriate mechanism. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the exemplary computing device 900, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. By way of example, and not limitation,
The subject matter described above can be implemented in hardware, in software, or in firmware, or in any combination of hardware, software, and firmware. In certain implementations, the subject matter may be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computing device or communications device. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The subject matter can also be practiced in distributed communications environments where tasks are performed over wireless communication by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a wireless network, program modules may be located in both local and remote communications device storage media including memory storage devices.
The foregoing discussion describes exemplary custom emoticons, methods of creating and transferring emoticons, and an exemplary emoticon engine. Although the subject matter has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims.
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IBPS has the capability of assessing human capital for a gamut of attributes. Since its establishment, the Institute's services have extended beyond the banking industry, sectors like Insurance, State and Central Government Departments, Public Sector Units, Private Corporate and Academic Institutions.
The Graphs shown below are representation of Candidates Registered as well as Tested in the last decade for all exams taken together.
Over the years, IBPS has enhanced its infrastructure, network and expertise to contemporary requirements and have upgraded its modus operandi to handle Recruitments and Promotion exams at mass level at any centre across the country. To date, the volume of candidates assessed stands unparalleled.
Given Below is the comparative analysis for Recruitment and Promotion exam in the last five years.
The graphical representation of the projects undertaken for promotion and placement activities during the last five years is given below:
Prior to launch of Common Written Exams (CWEs) all nationalized banks were doing their own recruitment exams individually. As a result most of the candidates taking these exams were almost same and were required to appear again and again for same positions in various banks.
Therefor we were asked to conduct a Common Written Exam for all the banks jointly. IBPS conducted first CWE in 2011-12.
Now these exams are conducted every year for three different cadres namely Clerical, Officers and Specialist Officers.
Figures given below are for reflecting total numbers of candidates registered and tested for different cadres in last two years i.e. 2012-13 and 2013-14.
Success of CWE for PSBs prompted RRBs also to organise a Common Examination for themselves. Therefor a common exam for RRBs was introduced in 2012-13.
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AirWatch's new secure, containerized Inbox module wraps iPad and iPhone email in the company's secure MDM embrace.
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P.J. Crowley has found a new job.
The former State Department spokesman is headed to Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law, where he accepted a one-year appointment to the Omar Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership, according to an Associated Press report.
The position is a joint post with Dickinson College and the U.S. Army War College, located in Carlisle, Pa. His appointment at the law school will begin on August 1.
Crowley resigned from the State Department last month after criticizing the treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been charged by the Army with handing government documents over to WikiLeaks.
According to media reports, Manning was kept in solitary confinement and was forced to sleep naked. Crowley called the treatment of Manning "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid."
After Crowley's comments, reporters asked President Obama about Manning's treament. Obama said the Pentagon assured him that the conditions of Manning's confinement were appropriate.
Manning has since been moved from a detention center in Quantico, Va., to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Defense Department officials said that Manning will be given recreation time and would be able to interact with other inmates.


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"LLOWES, a parish in the hundred of PAINSCASTLE, county of RADNOR, SOUTH WALES, 2 1/2 miles (W.) from Hay, containing 372 inhabitants. This parish, which is only of moderate extent, is pleasantly situated on the river Wye, by which it is bounded on the south. ............. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Llanddewi Vach annexed, in the archdeaconry of Brecknock, and diocese of St. David's, rated in the king's books at £ 8, 10., and in the patronage of the Archdeacon of Brecknock, to whom the tithes of the parish are appropriated. The church, dedicated to St. Meilig, is an ancient structure,...........Mrs. Susannah Howarth, in 1704, bequeathed a small rent-charge, the produce of which is annually distributed in bread among the poor of the parish. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor is £ 161. 1................( A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Samuel Lewis, 1833)
A Note on Painscastle and the Hemit of Llowes Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 2 1932 Welsh Journals Online
Davies, D Stedman Wechelen, the Hermit of Llowes Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 2 1932 Welsh Journals Online
Gill, M A V. Scheduled ancient monument R100 (SO 192417): the cross-slab in St Meilig's church, Llowes. Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 71 (2001), 19-55
Gill, Margaret A V. St Meilig's cross : in Llowes Church? Hereford : Margaret A. V. Gill, 1997. 16p. Originally published as a series of four articles in The Messenger (the monthly magazine for the parishes of the Wye Valley Group).
Powell, A D The Powell Family of Llowes and Clyro in Radnorshire; and and Brilley in Herefordshire, 1581-1800 Radnorshire Society Transactions, vol. 9 1939 Welsh Journals Online
Powell, A D Trailly and Travely; the house in Llowes Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 40 1970 Welsh Journals Online
Powell, A D Some further notes on the Powell family, formerly of The Travely in Llowes Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 23 1953 Welsh Journals Online
Powell, A D An 18th century change in Powell ownership of Traveley Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 53 1983 Welsh Journals Online
Powell, A D Coel Hen to Rhys Gryg Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 55 1985 Welsh Journals Online
Quiney, A P The Old Vicarage, Llowes, Powys Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 52 1982 Welsh Journals Online
Victorian Powys for schools - Census figures for Llowes parish 1841-1901
Church of St Meilig, Llowes on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site
Llowes Parish; Statistics; Area 3319 acres; Population 172 males, 187 females, total 359
Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts for this parish is given on the Powys Archives page Radnorshire parish registers
As a guide only, the principal extant parochial church records for this parish span the dates shown below (as detailed in Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 2000) but exact current holdings should be confirmed with the individual Archives;
Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;
Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348. Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county
View maps covering the area of this parish and places within its boundaries
Howes around 1840 & 1900 - on the Victorian Powys site
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Check out the latest internship postings from FSG.
Yesterday we looked at InterAction, a non-profit organization that brings other non-profits together to work towards common goals in international relief and development. Today we're going to look at another non-profit that helps other non-profits. It's called FSG, and they're a "consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research" with offices in Boston, MA; Geneva, Switzerland; Mumbai, India; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. They were founded in 2000, and they are constantly working "to develop more effective solutions to the world's most challenging societal issues." They approach problems with four key ideas: Catalytic Philanthropy, Collective Impact, Shared Value, and Strategic Evaluation.
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FSG serves all kinds of clients including Private Foundations, Corporations, Community Foundations, School Systems, Non-profits, and Governmental Organizations. They've worked with names like Union of Concerned Scientists, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Nestlé, and United States Agency for International Development. You can see the full list of clients here. They offer these clients a range of services including Strategy, Implementation, Rsearch, Evaluation, Organizational Change, and Coalition Building. I know it can be hard to grasp what consulting firms actually do, but FSG does a nice job of spotlighting successful projects on their clients page. They even have a video of 2011 client project highlights. If the work looks interesting to you, check out FSG's Careers page. While it says they won't have any more Consulting Internships in 2012, they may have some for next year. They also had an unpaid Communications and Social Media Internship post on Idealist in March. The posting is still active, though that may be a mistake. At they very least, it's an indicator that FSG also offers non-consulting internships (unpaid).
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ZombiCon is the largest gathering of Zombies (and those who love them) in the State of Florida, and possibly the WORLD! ZombiCon has been dubbed by Fort Myers city officials as "a bona fide phenomenon". In just 6 years, this zombie-themed music and art fest has grown into what many say is the single largest gathering of party-goers Downtown Fort Myers has ever seen. Ever!
It began humbly in 2007 when about 350 artists, performers and zombie lovers gathered on The Patio de Leon in Downtown Fort Myers for a celebration of art and zombie culture. Drawing inspiration from George Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD, which was filmed in the area, participants dressed as their own version of "The Living Dead" and limped through the historic streets of The River District. You don't just come to the event…you ARE the event.
Today, participants can attend theatrical workshops, have professional horror make-up applied, dance to live music, enjoy a variety of unique performances, and of course, compete for the Best Zombie Costume! The Zombie virus is spreading at an alarming rate! In just 6 years, ZOMBICON has grown to over 20,000 attendants, with an attempt to break the World Record for "Largest Zombie Gathering".


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Pomona College Recognized for Low Debt Among Recent Grads
Graduates of the Pomona College Class of 2011 are among those with the lowest average student loan debt, according to a report this week by the Oakland-based Institute for College Access and Success. Their annual Report on Student Debt [pdf] lists Pomona College among the 20 colleges whose students graduate with the least amount of student loan debt.
Pomona has long met the full financial aid need of every accepted student. In 2008, the College implemented a policy of meeting full financial aid need with scholarships and a small amount of work study funds.
A Los Angeles Times story focused on California schools and CBS Money Watch included lists of both the "low-debt" colleges, "high-debt" private nonprofit colleges and "high-debt" public colleges and universities.


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2012 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award Winners Announced
The 2012 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Awards™ were presented at the 37th Annual Hearing Conservation Conference on February 24, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The 2012 recipients for Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention in the Manufacturing Sector are:
Colgate-Palmolive (CP) the first company to receive a Safe-in-Sound Award™ at a company level, is a global company with 35,000 employees in over 200 countries. CP manufactures dental care, personal care, home care and pet nutrition products. Their accomplishments are achieved by applying internal expertise to establish synergistic partnerships across diverse departments and organizational levels to solve problems.
Colgate-Palmolive was recognized for interventions such as: company-wide adoption of the NIOSH recommended 85-dBA threshold-limit value for 8-hour noise exposures; application of the 3-dB exchange rate for noise exposure assessments; adoption of inclusive criteria in their hearing loss prevention program; completion of multiple noise-control studies throughout each business unit to identify all noise sources affecting worker exposure; development and implementation of many pilot-program noise control measures; documentation of cost and noise reduction results; dissemination of an internal CP handbook on noise control; development of online, on-demand webcast training in noise control engineering available in six languages; establishment of checklists for sustaining low-noise levels; and the adoption of buy-quiet and design-quiet policies – even to the point of assisting equipment manufacturers in developing quieter machinery.
3M, Hutchinson, MN (Hutchinson, MN). 3M has 180 plant locations worldwide which produce over 50,000 products. The Hutchinson Plant is the largest of 28 3M manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and manufactures a range of pressure sensitive adhesive tapes, micro abrasives, and coated and uncoated plastic films.
The plant serves 26 of the 35 3M divisions with final products or intermediaries that are further processed for Aerospace, Automotive, Electrical, Personal Care, Communication Markets, and Renewable Energy. The hearing conservation program at 3M Hutchinson was recognized for its all-inclusive and strongly integrated approach to worker hearing health including statistically driven noise exposure assessments, implementation of a Buy-Quiet program, and noise control for existing equipment. In addition, it was recognized for comprehensive implementation of hearing protection fit-testing of all plant personnel, availability of both general and specialty hearing protection devices for off-the-job noise exposures (e.g. hunting and target shooting), high quality audiometric testing with professional supervision and evidence of strong support from corporate management, plant management and individual workers.
This 3M program was tailored for individualized training and development of a culture of personal responsibility to maintain noise controls, identify noise hazards and properly fit and utilize hearing protectors throughout the facility.
The 2012 recipient for Innovation in Hearing Loss Prevention in the Construction Sector is:
Bechtel National Inc., BSII, Waste Treatment & Immobilization Plant Project (Richland, WA). (Richland, WA). The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) is the world's largest radioactive waste treatment plant. It is being designed, constructed, and commissioned by Bechtel National, Inc.
The construction site spans 65 acres and includes four major nuclear facilities. Bechtel Waste Treatment & Immobilization Plant Project was recognized for the comprehensive integration of their hearing loss prevention program components, for their innovative strategies to address industry specific challenges in the areas of noise monitoring, risk evaluation and risk communication, for adopting the NIOSH-recommended exposure limit of 85 dB with the 3 dB exchange rate, for promoting the active involvement of the workforce in their efforts, and for encouraging the adoption of their strategies by other Bechtel sites.


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If Silicon Valley were to adopt an official color, it would be green. The technology sector has carefully cultivated an image of corporate responsibility that emphasizes eco-conscious initiatives, energy-efficient products, and state-of-the-art work environments. From efforts to promote electronics recycling to investments in smart electrical grids, high-tech stalwarts praise themselves for fostering an innovation-based economy. Cisco CEO John Chambers agitated for environmentalism in a 2008 speech, declaring: "Every corporation has a responsibility to help address climate change and to minimize the impact of its operations on the environment." And a nine-page "code of conduct" created by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition—which seeks to ban child labor and reduce dangerous emissions—is widely followed by makers of computers, televisions, and other electronics.
But in truth, the tech sector hardly differs from any other. In recent years, giants in this field have found themselves on the defensive over reports of child labor, unsafe working conditions at overseas factories, and the use of natural resources from Congo that fund civil war. A Greenpeace report last week said that Silicon Valley icons like Apple, Facebook, and HP are heavily reliant on greenhouse-gas-emitting coal.
These companies and others have largely avoided scrutiny from Washington because nearly all of their manufacturing is overseas in countries with weak regulation—far from the watchful eye of U.S. enforcement, consumer advocates, and labor groups. But as information continues to leak about the companies' operating practices, the tech sector's image of corporate responsibility could unravel.
The National Labor Committee, a nonprofit human-rights group, concluded last year that two Chinese factories assembling products for Microsoft, HP, Whirlpool, and GE operate like minimum-security prisons. And the Foxconn manufacturing plant in Shenzhen—which makes computers and other electronics for Apple, Dell, HP, and others—saw at least 10 suicides last year. The facility is operated by a Taiwanese-based conglomerate and is notorious for long workdays, low wages, and repetitive jobs, according to labor activists. Apple, meanwhile, drew headlines in 2010 over allegations of child labor at several Asian facilities in its supply chain.
"The ability of these companies to know and understand their supply chains seems to be lacking," lamented Trina Tocco, deputy director of the nonprofit International Labor Rights Forum. Like many industries, the tech sector applies a double standard to its foreign operations, she said, noting that the industry's code of conduct is not always followed, because it is voluntary.
Greenpeace is shining a spotlight on the tech industry's reliance on coal to operate massive computer-server farms that store Internet content. "Technologies of the 21st century are still largely powered by the dirty-coal power of the past," concludes the group, which cited Apple, Facebook, IBM, HP, and Twitter as the worst offenders. It also praised Google, IBM, and Yahoo for reducing their overall carbon footprints and for being transparent about their energy consumption.
Another area where high-tech companies have a mixed record involves the use of "conflict minerals"—tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold—from war-ravaged Congo for electronic devices. Militia groups that reap millions of dollars in profits from the minerals spend the money to perpetuate a war that has killed more than 5.4 million people since 1996, according to Raise Hope for Congo. An affiliated monitoring group cites RIM (maker of the BlackBerry), Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba as among the companies that have taken little or no action to adopt conflict-free practices. Other tech companies, including Dell, HP, IBM, and Microsoft, have been more responsive.
The drive to hold domestic tech companies accountable for their sins abroad reprises a 1990s fight in the fabric industry. Then, watchdog groups pointed to sweatshop conditions at Asian factories that produced products for Nike, the Gap, and other major retailers. Public pressure curbed many of the abuses, including child labor and dangerous work conditions, but it didn't eliminate them. Coming off those victories, labor advocates have taken the fight to a new generation of American companies desperate to lower expenses and stay competitive.
Yet tech companies are businesses before they're global citizens. "The pressures of running a business, where Wall Street is looking at how you're cutting costs—rather than what you're doing for the world—certainly sets up a situation where it is easy to look at the bottom line first," said David Hamilton, director of global-warming and energy programs at the Sierra Club.
Nevertheless, it's impossible to generalize about the industry because some companies—such as Google—have made significant investments in clean fuel, or have taken many small steps to reduce energy consumption. "If airlines or automobiles were to show the level of improvement that we have [in energy efficiency], we would be living in a Jetson world," said Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council. "Can we do more? Yes. Are we doing more? Yes." He also insisted that tech companies have been responsive to concerns about labor practices and noted that Congress enacted legislation last year requiring more transparency about the source of minerals.
The deep-pocketed corporations that Garfield represents are lobbying Washington for lots of regulatory goodies, including a tax holiday on revenue earned overseas, an increase in the number of highly skilled workers permitted entry into the U.S., and an extension of a federal tax credit that reduces corporate research costs. If monitoring groups keep drawing attention to the industry's failures on environmental and labor issues, those sorts of favors could be much harder to win.
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Alright, I had a glass of wine and it's about time I went back to revisit my personal life somewhat.
To put it shortly, I'm feeling great this Valentines Day. This is the first year in five years that I'm not feeling funny, heartbroken (and even crying, aahh, I remember those times) and am optimistic about the future.
Time heals all as does working on yourself and success in your endeavors. It seems like the patterns that my horoscopes have been predicting for me are coming true and I'm so excited.
On the dating front, I'm dating several women, albeit casually. None of them have really hit that special spot for me (yet) but I do wish to get married in the next two years.
I did send a few special women a Valentines ecard, like the image above which I custom designed, including to my ex. She and I email very rarely and I was reflecting earlier this month about what could have been if I didn't leave her alone at the end of July 2010.
We would have probably gotten married, but it's questionable if she would have been healed enough from her own breakup. She's currently not happy in her marriage as she literally latched on her (now) husband after I left and now, in true post-rebound fashion, that she's better and her normal self again, she's finding that she not compatible with this guy – she choose the wrong guy – and cracks in their marriage are appearing.
I don't want to seem mean, but I am somewhat glad it it's not me.
Sometimes I look at my life, the adventures that I have and will have and I know it would take a really special women who is equally as intelligent, free spirited and adventurous to keep up with me, especially now as I'm almost literally restarting my life (career, etc…).
Like most Vancouver men, I do find the women here to be too reserved, I'm told the women in Toronto are much more eager to date and meet me while time and time again I see women in Vancouver sabotage themselves and then blame the men for sucking.
At this point I'm thinking that I should hear out and meet more women, those were fun times and now that I'm at a different, more mature place in my life, I wonder who I will meet now?
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Arnošt Lustig Award goes to bishop Václav Malý
The Prague bishop Václav Malý is the first laureate of the Arnošt Lustig Award established in honour of the writer by the Czech-Israeli Chamber of Commerce.
The fifteen-member commitee selected Malý out of ten leading Czech personalities, extolling his human qualities and values. The prize will be awarded each year mirroring the values embodied by Lustig. The nominees must be Czech residents and active in the Czech Republic. The winner of the award should epitomize such traits as courage, humanness and justice.


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2008 EQCA-Supported Legislation
Each year, many pieces of legislation that positively affect LGBT Californians and allies are introduced in the California Legislature. EQCA supports these bills in an effort to build a better California.
A number of anti-LGBT measures are introduced in the California Legislature each year. EQCA opposes these bills because of the negative impact they will have on the LGBT community and our families.
Successes in 2008
Total pieces of pro-LGBT legislation passed: 5
Despite one of the worst budget stalemates in California history and Governor Schwarzenegger more bills than any governor in over 40 years, three pieces of legislation sponsored by EQCA were enacted including bills that ensure the protection of LGBT seniors and foster youth, and strengthen current non-discrimination laws.
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Drugs possible motive in Stockdale killing
By Ana Ley : November 20, 2012 : Updated: November 20, 2012 10:59am
Authorities believe drugs were the motive behind the slaying of a San Antonio man in Stockdale last week.
Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said county employees discovered the body of Dakotah Reynolds, 22, about 1:15 p.m. on Nov. 13 in the northeaste corner of the Quail Run Golf Club near Longhorn Road. Deputies the next day arrested Kyle McKay, 18, and charged him with murder in connection with Reynolds' shooting death.
"We suspect it had something to do with drugs," Tackitt said, "but we have no proof at this time."
Records show both men have a criminal history. Reynolds had been arrested in November 2008 for theft and again in January 2009 for aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony. He pleaded guilty to the more serious charge.
McKay pleaded no contest to a marijuana possession charge from October 2011 and received deferred adjudication.
Tackitt said Reynolds' body appeared to have been at the location no more than about 30 minutes, because hog hunters had not seen it as they passed through the area shortly before he was found.


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I Just to have the same error "dvd read error 1101" and this is what I did
Reinstall the IOS60Patched and NeoGamma R7
hope it works.
cheers mate!!! ive sorted it out now,it was rubbish discs!!
I'm having the same problem with the DVD Read Error 1101. I'm running cIOS rev 14 and NeoGamma v7. How do I downgrade from rev 14 to rev 10? Just install over it? Or is there a downgrade program that I need to run? Sorry for the "noob" questions. I'm obviously new at this.
Thanks in advance.
ok well i have wiigator neogamma r6 and r7 and i would get read error 1101 on rev 14 i was advised to change to rev 10 and neogamma r6 now whenever i try to get into wad manager or anything they just lock up
I'm a noob to this too, but I just got it to work! Followed all instructions and have Neogamma R7 rev14. Works just fine. My problem was the dvd media. Was trying to use a verbatim dvd+r. Went to my local Wal-Mart and picked up a pack of Memorex (that's all they had) dvd-r 's and tryed again to burn the iso and it worked! Lowest speed my DVD-RW drive will burn at is 4x and that was fine. Apparently you guys are right..it MUST be DVD-R...NOT DVD+R 's that you use. Also installed the cIOScorp 3.4 and now it works right from the disc menu. Was able to delete the HomeBrew channel and the NeoGamma channel. To look at the Wii menu now you'd never know anything's been done to it and you just pop in your backup disc and it works. TOTALLY FREAKIN AWESOME!!! TONS AND TONS of THANKS you guys!
memorex or verbatims are the best
i installed rev 10 now no homebrew apps work, normal games still work but no apps in the homebrew work nothing, i basicly cant do anything to do with homebrew cauld you pls help me? im really stuck. i always get a backscreen. is my wii bircked?
Can anyone help plz?
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obviously it is not a fault of rev10 that nothing works., you must have doen sth
I started wad manager, than installed rev10 by default setting. after i reboot no homebrew worked but ich can open the homebrew channel but no apps in it worked, i get a black screen.
What should i do? Should i update the official 4.2 from nintendo? im on 4.0
can nobody help?
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Architecture is too important to leave to architects.
That's a particularly pertinent maxim in this historic city. If we squander our precious architectural heritage, Charleston won't be Charleston anymore.
Thus, architects aren't the only folks subjecting the proposed design for the Clemson Architecture Center at the corner of Meeting and George streets to intense scrutiny.
So there were many disappointed folks Wednesday when the city's Board of Architectural Review, at a scheduled hearing, postponed consideration on the Clemson building due to the lack of a quorum.
Several board members properly withdrew from the oversight process due to their affiliations with the Clemson architectural program or the center project.
And we architectural novices should properly consider experts' insights in this debate.
For instance, distinguished local architect Dinos Liollio, my old pal and former St. Andrews classmate through 12 years of elementary, junior high and high school, praises the general design that Clemson is pitching.
Liollio, who should have been named Leo instead of Dinos, wrote in a letter to the editor published Friday that while "dialogue" on "details" continues, "There is no question that with the continued evolution of its design, the Paolozzi Center will become a modern masterpiece, in the same context as our U.S. Customhouse and Old Exchange Building are historical masterpieces."
That's an impressive endorsement. Dinos has done quite well in his profession despite going to Auburn instead of Clemson.
Where the Tigers play
Still, the one-sided focus on Charleston obscures the reality that this will be a Clemson building.
So why not consider a design more in line with Clemson's own architectural gems?
This Clemson grad's Final Four of appropriate Clemson Architecture Center models ...
Death Valley: Yes, an 83,000-plus stadium would overwhelm the Meeting-at-George streetscape. But by reducing the capacity to 30,000, we could reduce the number of buildings razed to make room for what could become a future College of Charleston football team's home field. And the deep excavation required to replicate the "valley" effect would uncover fascinating artifacts — including a "Howard's Rock" of sorts to place at the street-level top of the "hill."
Fort Hill: John C. Calhoun, whose statue looms high above the Charleston street that bears his name, is buried in St. Philip's Churchyard. But his home for the last quarter century of his life was this tastefully small mansion (no, that's not an oxymoron) on land that became the core of the Clemson campus. Calhoun's daughter Anna Maria married Thomas Green Clemson, who inherited the property and left it to the state — stipulating that it be used to create the land-grant college.
Tillman Hall: Its distinctive clock tower would buttress Charleston's enchanting array of such striking reminders that time keeps marching on. Just don't reprise the title honor the school bestowed on "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, the driving political force behind Clemson's creation. Even by the ugly standards of his time, Tillman was an especially virulent white supremacist. He also condemned The Citadel as a "dude factory."
And the winner is ...
The Esso Club: Though slightly off campus, this Clemson icon is repeatedly hailed by assorted celebrities, including Brent Musburger. The former gas station/convenience store/bait shop, just across Highway 93 from the school and a short stroll from Lake Hartwell, is now a popular tavern. Though packing students and faculty into such a small building would be too snug a squeeze, the scale could be creatively expanded (split-level additions?) without diluting the original's primitive, functional charm.
Another asset: There are currently no bait shops south of Calhoun Street.
There's also no reason to hastily approve any design that's not right for Charleston — and Clemson.
And of course, we'll need to paint giant orange Tiger paws on the streets leading up to our new local landmark.
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School of Physical Therapy
Texas Woman's University (TWU) invites applications and nominations for Director of the School of Physical Therapy, to be housed at the Dallas or Houston Center. TWU is a publicly funded co-educational institution that is designated as a Doctoral/Research-Intensive University, by the Carnegie Foundation. The main TWU campus is in Denton, with two campuses in Dallas and one campus in Houston.
The School of Physical Therapy: The School is a nationally ranked, accredited program. TWU has been awarding degrees in physical therapy for forty years. Currently, TWU School of Physical Therapy is offering the entry level DPT and Transitional DPT. In addition, the school offers a PhD in Physical Therapy, one of only 5 in the country. The School is seeking a Director who will foster a climate of intellectual vitality and excellence, and support the existing strong faculty in both the Dallas and Houston Centers, in their teaching, scholarship, and service activities. The Director of the School will be housed in Dallas or Houston and will work closely with both the Associate Directors in Dallas and Houston and with the Dean of the College of Health Sciences, in Denton.
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Visiwall is an OLED cladding system that transforms the communicative potential of the architectural facade.
One of the most significant advances in lighting and display applications is the development of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology, which consists of emissive electroluminescent film on a planar substrate. OLEDs are used for both solid state lighting as well as monitors and mobile electronic device screens, and have been developed more recently as illuminating window films in vehicles and buildings.
Precedent: Osram's Orbeos shows OLED panels in architectural facade applications. Image courtesy of Siemens.
Precedent: LG's flexible OLED display for mobile electronics indicates a promising future for low-energy display panels. Photo courtesy of LG.
The Visiwall system incorporates OLED films within a seamless panel system for architectural facade applications. Visiwall has near-borderless joints, making it suitable for tiling images over expansive areas. Moreover, panel sizes may easily be customized for application on existing buildings.
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Visiwall can be used to set a building apart from its context.
Alternatively, Visiwall can help a building blend with its context. Shown above, embedded cameras enable the simulation of a mirror effect.
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