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VIA Launches ARMOS-800 Embedded PC
Subject: Systems | January 16, 2013 - 12:30 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: VIA, pico-itx, embedded system, cortex a8, arm
VIA has launched a new small form factor PC for embedded applications and powered by ARM hardware. The ARMOS-800 is ruggedized and low power. It features a fanless design with an aluminum chassis that can operate between -40 and 80 degrees Celsius.
Internal hardware includes a pico-ITX motherboard, and Freescale ARM Cortex A8 processor clocked at 800MHz. It also has two integrated GPUs capable of dual display outputs. Other specifications include 1GB DDR3 SDRAM, 4GB eMMC internal storage, and a microSD card slot.
IO options on the ARMOS-800 include a COM port, DIO port, CAN port, and three audio jacks (line in, line out, and mic in). Rear IO includes one VGA, one HDMI, one Ethernet jack (10/100), three USB 2.0 ports, and an optional VNT9271 Wi-Fi card attached via an internal USB header.
The ARMOS-800 PC uses an average of 3.14W during normal operation. It can officially support Android 2.3 or Embedded Linux 2.6. The PC measures 15 x 4.6 x 10.8 centimeters. The ARMOS-800 is available now. You can find more information on the VIA product page.
RT Jailbreak Tool Allows Third Party Desktop Apps To Run On Windows RT
Subject: General Tech | January 15, 2013 - 09:55 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: windows rt, microsoft, arm
One of the downsides to Microsoft's ARM-powered Windows RT operating system is the lack of desktop applications. While Windows RT devices to retain the traditional Windows desktop, only Microsoft applications that come pre-packaged with Windows are allowed to run. Instead, Microsoft wants users to stick to Modern UI applications and the Windows Store to get new apps. (Granted, the ARM hardware powering these devices necessitates porting x86 desktop applications in order to run in the first place, but Windows RT locks out even recompiled apps).
Enthusiasts are working on changing that, however. A XDA Developers forum member known as Netham45 recently released a tool that allows users to run unsigned desktop applications on Windows RT. The new RT Jailbreak tool is a batch file that automates a hack discovered by another hacker known as clrokr.
The hack is currently only temporary, and needs to be redone after every computer restart. It does, however, allow Windows RT to run unsigned code on the desktop. After downloading the batch file, you run the runExploit.bat and follow the prompts. After it completes, you users can run recompiled desktop apps such as PuTTY, 7-zip, TightVNC, DOSBox, Quake 2, and more.
While it is not a permaent solution, it is a step in the right direction, and makes ARM-powered Windows RT devices a lot more interesting and useful to power users. For more information on the RT Jailbreak hack, and to grab the batch file to unlock your WinRT tablet, check out this forum thread on the XDA Developers website.
CES 2013: Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800 SoCs
Subject: Mobile | January 11, 2013 - 09:05 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: SoC, qualcomm 800, qualcomm 600, qualcomm, krait, ces 2013, CES, arm, adreno 330, adreno 320
Qualcomm introduced two new high end mobile processors at CES earlier this week. Known as the Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800, the new SoCs take the company's Krait CPU cores to the next level. Both of the new chips are based on a 28nm HPm manufacturing process and feature faster (and more efficienct) CPU and GPU portions.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 is SoC with four Krait 300 CPU cores clocked at 1.9GHz along with an Adreno 320 GPU, and 4G LTE modem. The Snapdragon 600 also supports LPDDR3 RAM. The Adreno 320 GPU features suport fro OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenCL, and Renderscript Compute technologies. According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 600 is 40% faster than the Snapdragon S4 Pro processor used in devices like the Google Nexus 4 smartphone. Also, the Adreno 320 GPU is up to 3-times faster than the previous-generation A225.
The Snapdragon 600 SoC is inteded for smartphones, and we should start to see the new processor shipping with new devices by Q2 2013.
Meanwhile, the Snapdragon 800 processor takes performance up yet another notch over the company's existing chips. The new SoC includes four Krait 400 CPU cores clocked at 2.3GHz, an Adreno 330 GPU, support for 2x32-bit LPDDR3 at 800MHz (12.8Gbps), and a 4G LTE modem. The chip also features two image signal processors (ISP) that can handle up to four cameras and 55MP (total) resolution. Devices with the Snapdragon 800 processor will be able to record 1080p30 video as well as encode and decode stored videos with up to 4K resolutions. As far as wireless, the Snapdragon 800 includes a 4G LTE modem and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The upcoming SoC can handle 4K video output and HD audio in the form of DTS-HD, Dolby Digital+, and 7.1 Surround Sound.
The Adreno 330 GPU in the Snapdragon 800 chip also supports OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenCL, and Rednderscript Computer technologies. It can output 4K video and reportedly offers up to twice the compute performance versus the Adreno 320 GPU in the Snapdragon 600 processor.
According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 800 processor as a whole is up to 75% faster than the Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC. Qualcomm is aiming this processor at "premium" high end devices including Smart TVs, tablets, consumer electronics devices (ie: blu ray players with apps), and smartphones. Qualcomm expects to see devices powered by the new SoC become available sometime around the middle of 2013 (1H'13).
The new chips appear to offer up some noticeable performance and efficiency improvements over the current generation of Snapdragon processors. The Snapdragon 800 in particular is an impressive-sounding design. I am interested to see how it stacks up against competing chips such as NVIDIA's Tegra 4, Samsung's next-gen Exynos lineup, and whatever chip Apple has up its sleeve for the next iPad/iPhone refresh. This year is shaping up to be an exciting year for ARM-based SoCs!
If you are interested in the new silicon, Qualcomm has teased a few more details on its blog.
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NVIDIA to rip the ARMs off of Surface?
Subject: General Tech | January 10, 2013 - 03:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: microsoft, surface, winRT, tegra 4, nvidia, arm
NVIDIA's new Shield gaming device might have distracted your attention from another new product they demonstrated which could be even more important to their success, a fully functional WinRT tablet. The tablet is powered by a Tegra 4 chip and apparently runs smoothly even on this OS which was theoretically designed for ARM hardware. DigiTimes feels that this is a sign that NVIDIA, who have had a long if somewhat troubled relationship with Microsoft, could become a chip supplier for new Surface devices and tablets. Hopefully in the near future we will get to see a head to head review of two devices powered by different chips so that we can see which provides the best experience.
"Nvidia unveiled a pilot tablet based on its new Tegra 4 processor and Microsoft's Windows RT operating system at CES 2013, and since the device is already operating smoothly, Nvidia will have a chance of becoming the CPU supplier for next-generation Surface tablets or Windows RT-based tablets from other IT players, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Eric Lin."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Potty-mouthed Watson supercomputer needed filth filter @ The Register
- Java Zero-Day Vulnerability Rolled Into Exploit Packs @ Slashdot
- GlobalFoundries plunks $2bn into New York fab @ The Register
- RIM plans six BlackBerry 10 handsets for 2013 @ The Register
- Canonical Shakes Up Mobile with Ubuntu for Phones @ Linux.com
- Unsigned code running on Windows RT @ Hack a Day
- The weird and wonderful from 2013's Las Vegas technology show @ The Inquirer
- Richland, Kaveri, Kabini & Temash; AMD's 2013 APU Lineup Examined @ Hardware Canucks
- CES 2013 Day 1 Coverage @ Legit Reviews
- CES digest, part 3: Intel, Silverstone, Thermaltake, Diamond, and Xi3 @ The Tech Report
- Nvidia's CES 2013 Press Conference Replay @ NGOHQ
- TechwareLabs CES 2013 News and Event Coverage with Videos
- CES 2013 Coverage Day 1 @ OCC
- CES 2013 Coverage Day 2 @ OCC
CES 2013: Samsung Teases Eight Core Exynos Octa SoC
Subject: Mobile | January 10, 2013 - 06:29 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: SoC, Samsung, exynos octa, exynos, ces 2013, CES, big.little, arm
Samsung talked up a new ARM SoC during CES that will become the new high-end part of its Exynos 5 lineup. The Samsung Exynos 5 Octa is, as the name suggests, an eight core processor. It is built on a 28nm manufacturing process and employs ARM's big.LITTLE architecture.
While Samsung is not ready to share all the detailed under-the-hood details, the Exynos 5 Octa has four Cortex A15 cores clocked at 1.8GHz paired with four Cortex A7 cores clocked at 1.2GHz. With big.LITTLE, the SoC has both high performance, high powr cores and lower power cores. The configuration is invisible to the end user, and the chip will use the Cortex A15 cores when in 3D applications or other CPU load intensive applications. Then, while the phone is idle or simply running background applications (notifications, checking email, updating twitter and facebook feeds, ect), the SoC will power down the Cortex A15 cores and use the lower power-drawing A7 cores. Ideally, this will give users a "best of both worlds" situation and a balance of performance and battery life.
Samsung claims that the Exynos 5 Octa offers up to twice the 3D performance of other existing current-generation SoCs. However, we do not yet have details on the GPU improvements (if any) over Samsung's other Exynos 5 chips much less benchmark-able products running this chip yet so it is difficult to say whether that statement is true or not. Also, Samsung claims as much as a 70% improvement in power savings over its dual core Exynos 5 processor, which is certainly a bold claim.
According to Engadget, Samsung plans to reveal all the nitty-gritty details on the eight-core Exynos 5 Octa SoC at the International Solid State Circuits Conference on February 19, 2013. It should give NVIDIA's "4+1" core Tegra 4 a run for its money, at lest on the CPU front (and maybe 3D graphics as well, but it's hard to say at this point).
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CES 2013: NVIDIA Officially Releases Tegra 4 SoC
Subject: General Tech | January 7, 2013 - 03:01 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tegra 4, SoC, nvidia, cortex a15, ces 2013, CES, arm
Details about NVIDIA's latest system on a chip (SoC) for mobile devices leaked last month. On Sunday, NVIDIA officially released its Tegra 4 chip, and talked up more details on the new silicon.
Interestingly, the leaked information from the slide held true over the weekend when NVIDIA officially unveiled it during a press conference. The new chip is manufactured on a 28nm, low power, high-k metal gate process. It features four ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores running at up to 1.9GHz, one (additional) low power Cortex-A15 companion core, a NVIDIA GeForce GPU with 72 cores (not unified shader design unfortunately). In addition, the Tegra 4 SoC includes the company's i500 programmable soft modem, and a number of fixed function hardware used for audio and image processing.
According to Anandtech, the majority of GPU cores in the Tegra 4 are 20-bit pixel shaders though exact specifications on the GPU are still unknown. Further, the i500 modem currectly supports LTE UE Category 3 on the WCDMA band with an LTE 4 modem expected in the future.
Image Credit: ArsTechnica attended the NVIDIA press conference.
Tegra 4 will support dual channel LP-DDR3 memory, USB 3.0, and a technology that NVIDIA is calling its Computational Photography Architecture that allegedly will allow real-time HDR imagery with still and video shoots.
According to NVIDIA, Tegra 4 will be noticeably faster than its predecessors and the competing SoCs from Apple and Qualcomm et al. When compared to the Nexus 10 (Samsung Exynos 5 SoC) and the stock Android web browser, the Tegra 4 device (Chrome browser) opened pages in 27 seconds versus the Nexus 10's 50 second benchmark time. Users will have to wait for retail devices with Tegra 4 hardware for independent benchmarks, however. Thanks to the higher top-end clockspeed and beefier GPU, you can expect Tegra 4 to be faster than Tegra 3, but until reviewers get their hands on Tegra 4-powered devices it is difficult to say just how much faster it is.
Speaking of hardware, the Tegra 4 chip will most likely be used in tablets (and not smartphones). Here's hoping we see some prototype Tegra 4 devices or product announcements later this week at CES.
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Intel versus ARM; the hunting cry of a krayt dragon
Subject: Systems | January 4, 2013 - 07:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: arm, Intel, krayt, atom, qualcomm, cortex a15, tegra 3
AnandTech managed to get their hands on an Samsung designed ARM Cortex A15 processor powered tablet, which they compared to several competitors such as Intel's Atom, Qualcomm's Krait and NVIDIA's Tegra 3. The test names may seem unfamiliar with Sunspider, Kraken and RIABench providing performance comparisons though the power consumption tests will be familiar to all. Read on to see how the next generation of chips from the main contenders for your mobile device spending compare.
"The previous article focused on an admittedly not too interesting comparison: Intel's Atom Z2760 (Clover Trail) versus NVIDIA's Tegra 3. After much pleading, Intel returned with two more tablets: a Dell XPS 10 using Qualcomm's APQ8060A SoC (dual-core 28nm Krait) and a Nexus 10 using Samsung's Exynos 5 Dual (dual-core 32nm Cortex A15). What was a walk in the park for Atom all of the sudden became much more challenging. Both of these SoCs are built on very modern, low power manufacturing processes and Intel no longer has a performance advantage compared to Exynos 5."
Here are some more Systems articles from around the web:
- iBUYPOWER Chimera 4SE Desktop Gaming PC @ Tweaktown
- Improving the PC as a gaming platform: the hardware @ The Tech Report
- Cyberpower Gaming Battalion 502 Windows 8 PC Review (FX 4170 / Radeon 7770) @ Kitguru
- HP Envy 23-d060qd TouchSmart Review @ TechReviewSource
- E3iO Snack Series SK02 Desktop PC Review @ Ninjalane
- Antec ISK110 VESA Mini-ITX Desktop @ techPowerUp
Podcast #231 - Intel NUC, AMD 8000M GPUs, Building a Hackintosh and more!
Subject: General Tech | December 20, 2012 - 03:16 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, virtu, VIA, tegra 4, Samsung, radeon, podcast, nvidia, nvelo, nuc, lucid, Intel, hackintosh, gigabyte, Dataplex, arm, amd, 8000m
PC Perspective Podcast #231 - 12/20/2012
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- 0:19:00 HP Z1 Workstation All in One
- 0:25:00 Building a Hackintosh Computer - A Guide
- 0:32:35 This Podcast is brought to you by MSI!
News items of interest:
- 0:33:30 Cutting the Cord Complete!
- 0:36:10 VIA ARM-based SoCs in upcoming ASUS tablet
- 0:42:00 Lucid MVP 2.0 will be sold direct
- 0:44:50 Samsung acquires NVELO SSD Caching Software
- 0:49:00 AMD announces mobility 8000M series of GPUs
- 0:54:15 Some NVIDIA Tegra 4 Details
- 0:58:55 NEC Unveils Super Thin Ultrabook
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NVIDIA Tegra 4 Details Revealed By Leaked Slide
Subject: Processors, Mobile | December 19, 2012 - 03:26 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: wayne, tegra 4, SoC, nvidia, cortex a15, arm
Earlier this year, NVIDIA showed off a roadmap for its Tegra line of mobile system on a chip (SoC) processors. Namely, the next generation Tegra 4 mobile chip is codenamed Wayne and will be the successor to the Tegra 3.
Tegra 4 will use a 28nm manufacturing process and feature improvements to the CPU, GPU, and IO components. Thanks to a leaked slide that appeared on Chip Hell, we now have more details on Tegra 4.
The 28nm Tegra 4 SoC will keep the same 4+1 CPU design* as the Tegra 3, but it will use ARM Cortex A15 CPU cores instead of the Cortex A9 cores used in the current generation chips. NVIDIA is also improving the GPU portion, and Tegra 4 will reportedly feature a 72 core GPU based on a new architecture. Unfortunately, we do not have specifics on how that GPU is set up architecturally, but the leaked slide indicates that the GPU will be as much as 6x faster than NVIDIA's own Tegra 3. It will allegedly be fast enough to power displays with resolutions from 1080p @ 120Hz to 4K (refresh rate unknown). Don't expect to drive games at native 4K resolution, however it should run a tablet OS fine. Interestingly, NVIDIA has included hardware to hardware accelerate VP8 and H.264 video at up to 2560x1440 resolutions.
Additionally, Tegra 4 will feature support for dual channel DDR3L memory, USB 3.0 and hardware accelerated secuity options including HDCP, Secure Boot, and DRM which may make Tegra 4 an attractive option for Windows RT tablets.
The leaked slide has revealed several interesting details on Tegra 4, but it has also raised some questions on the nitty-gritty details. Also, there is no mention of the dual core variant of Tegra 4 – codenamed Grey – that is said to include an integrated Icera 4G LTE cellular modem. Here's hoping more details surface at CES next month!
* NVIDIA's name for a CPU that features four ARM CPU cores and one lower power ARM companion core.
Intel Might Become a Foundry -- For ARM? If Apple Goes x86
Subject: General Tech, Processors, Mobile | December 4, 2012 - 07:28 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, arm, apple
Hopefully I did not make your head hurt too much with that title.
Intel announced early in the year the opening of their fabrication labs to certain other developers, none of which competing with anything Intel does. We joked about how this is the end of the world as we know it although we feel fine. As it turns out, the world might end December 2012: RBC rumors that Intel might fulfill orders of ARM processors taking away that responsibility from Samsung.
Of course, there will always be a catch. It is possible that Intel will allow Apple to manufacture their ARM-based processors at Intel if Apple switches their tablets to x86-based products. No-one said the apocalypse must be an irrational event.
When pigs fly? Challenge accepted.
If this rumor comes to fruition - and that is a mighty large if - we finally know that a line of apathy exists within Intel. Intel fabricating an architecture that they directly compete with is a big deal, ignore their motive.
Intel has allegedly made a compromise, definitively this time. We debated fairly heavily whether Intel made a compromise when they allowed FBGAs to be manufactured at their facilities. This time there is no question about whether Intel will make a concession to better its company as a whole.
I have no doubt that Intel desires to stomp competing platforms but we should all doubt that Intel would never step into some middle ground. After all, Intel is not even suffering at this point by any measure. Imagine if the situation actually begins to look dire.
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- Why does Mrs. Compson stick to her notions of Southern gentility and morality?
- How greatly do Mrs. Compson's ideas of human nature differ from her husband's?
- Is Quentin influenced by his mother's opinion of Caddy? How?
- For Dilsey, the doctrines of Christianity provide the principles by which she lives. What are the sources of other characters' principles?
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Although Mrs. Compson is one of the most ineffectual characters in the novel, her ideas of morality and sexuality shape the novel more than any other characters' ideas.
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What: 216 homes in 26-storey Tower 1; 235 homes in Tower 2 for a total of 451 homes
Where: 581 Clarke Rd., Coquitlam
Residence sizes and prices: 1-bed — 3-bed, 549 sq. ft — 1,716 sq. ft (for penthouse suites); 1-bed from $258,900; 2-bed from $339,900
Builder and developer: Bosa Properties; NSDA Architects
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Drama in the dining room, calm in the kitchen and a little adventure in the bedroom. In the display suite at Uptown, designer Cheryl Broadhead finds a balance between universal appeal and her own artistry.
Bosa Properties, the developer of the Coquitlam project, expects to see among its homebuyers a 50-50 split of downsizers from the community and young professionals moving from Vancouver in search of affordability.
Broadhead, a co-principal of BYU Design, says that while knowing in advance who may be interested in the suites helps a great deal, she and co-principal designer Ada Bonini are careful not to peg one demographic into a certain style.
"We have actually found over the last few years that downsizers aren't necessarily looking for traditional design," she says. "We kept the design contemporary, but not too edgy or cold."
In the kitchen, they used a more traditional material of marble because it works beautifully in both conservative and contemporary looks.
"Marble is a traditional material that moves easily between contemporary spaces and traditional ones, so for those with a more transitional taste, it has that level of comfort and luxury."
When she crafted the look of the dining room, Broadhead considered the clean uniformity of the kitchen food prep area, and envisioned the space as a good photographer would — as the perfect neutral backdrop to a dramatic scene in front. The result shows such artistry.
Directly next to a wood-grain integrated kitchen stands a bright white dining table and chairs. The splash of white is a scene stealer.
"(We went with the white in the dining room) to contrast with the kitchen and the flooring," she explains.
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In the master bedroom, Broadhead made another unconventional move when she installed an upholstered wall covering made up of square panels. On top of the panels she laid a series of framed prints. The wall alone would have worked to create its own drama, but placing framed prints on top of square panels makes a dramatic impact, without looking too busy.
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SEEKING PEACE: A Sandy Hook Elementary student flashed the peace sign from a school bus in Newtown, Conn., Thursday. Classes resumed for Sandy Hook students at a different building Thursday in the wake of the December shooting rampage that killed 20 classmates and six staffers. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
A WINTER WEDDING: Fatme Ulanova had a moment of peace at her wedding Thursday to Djamal Sirakov in the village of Ribnovo, in southwestern Bulgaria. The villagers—Bulgarian-speaking Muslims, sometimes referred to as 'Pomaks' or 'people who have suffered'—only marry in winter. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)
ICE FOR ART'S SAKE: An artist from Beijing competed in a snow sculpting contest in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province in northeastern China. Fifteen teams took part in the championship Thursday; a team from Harbin University won. (Wang Song/Xinhua/Zuma Press)
STRONG: A boy helped other fishermen pull in their nets Thursday on the shores of the river Ubangi in Bangui, Central African Republic. President François Bozizé is struggling to fend off a rebel advance on his control of the country. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press)
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Colorado Senator Ken Salazar calls for an independent investigation of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. Although a bill that was introduced by democrats to the U.S. Senate this week was voted down, Salazar is continuing the push. The independent investigation democrats are calling for would be similar to the 9/11 commission. The Colorado Senator says President Bush must show courage and leadership by backing the idea. In a meeting at his Denver office Sunday Salazar says an independent commission would investigate what went wrong in the response from local, state, and federal governments and to determine how to avoid similar problems in the future. While the democratic measure was rejected, Salazar says the formula of the 9/11 commission is the best approach for answers adding that it should not be a political issue. With a potential cost of $250–Billion dollars to rebuild the gulf coast, Salazar is also asking the President to avoid the possibility for corruption by supporting an idea for a Chief Financial Officer to oversee the dispursment of the funds.
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Heart Attacks Worse for People Who Can't Pay
Cost: A Deadly Barrier to Health Care
Ill Uninsured in 'Death Spiral'
The Krumholz study showed that health insurance doesn't guarantee proper health care. But when you suffer a health shock, it's a lot better than no health insurance, finds Jack Hadley, PhD, an economist at the nonprofit Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
Hadley analyzed data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys. The surveys consist of in-person interviews with a national sample of nonelderly Americans, spaced four or five months apart. Nearly 16,000 U.S. residents answered questions about unintentional injuries and nearly 8,000 provided information on the onset of chronic illnesses.
Injuries included any kind of athletic or nonathletic accident -- a sprained ankle, for example, or injuries from a car crash. Chronic illnesses were new diagnoses of chronic conditions -- heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, and so on.
After one of these "health shocks," compared with people with health insurance, people without health insurance were:
- 53% less likely to get medical care after an accident and 55% less likely to get medical care after a newly diagnosed chronic condition.
- 2.6 times less likely to get recommended follow-up care after an accident and 65% less likely to get recommended follow-up care after diagnosis of a new chronic condition.
- 29% less likely to get prescription medicines.
An average 3.5 months after a health shock, those without insurance were 14% more likely to say they were much worse off after an injury and 26% more likely to say they were much worse off after diagnosis of a chronic illness.
Seven months after a health shock, uninsured people were still more likely to report much worse health.
"The uninsured are significantly less likely to say they are not fully recovered -- and not because they are still in treatment," Hadley said at the news conference. "They have ended their treatment process and still are not recovered."
For those with a chronic illness, this lack of treatment may be the beginning of the end.
"This can lead to a death spiral -- a literal death spiral," Hadley said. "If you are not treated for a chronic illness, your risk of death increases over time."


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fox 1
- Vulpes and three other genera, family Canidae: several species, including the red fox and the arctic fox.
- Eagles, rattlesnakes, deer, pronghorn antelope, foxes, coyotes, and mountain lions roam the area.
- There are 36 species of Canidae, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals and foxes.
- When raccoons, coatis, foxes, coyotes, skunks, or bears bit the models, they left tooth marks in the plasticine.
- It will join that old fox stole I rescued from a charity shop.
- However, he observed, the old fox was too cunning for them.
- Indians cannot tolerate it if the old foxes keep fighting and hamper Bangalore's growth.
- It has been quite a century for the old fox, after all.
verbo[with object] informal
- But she throws in a slower serve which foxes the French player.
- There are almost humorous situations: when a woman at a medical clinic tries to palm it off to an unsuspecting receptionist, and when an art dealer is foxed by the way his wife has been cheated.
- The 22-year-old student admitted the greens had foxed him, but was delighted with his achievement of reaching the final.
foxlike adjetivo
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- Modern steeds did not follow a relatively smooth transition from the diminutive, foxlike forest browsers that were their earliest ancestors to those impressive, open-plains athletes we know today.
- The foxlike smiles appeared on her advisors' faces again, and they nudged each other.
- The ears were foxlike, the dilated eyes and pointed teeth were common to the family.
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vos and German Fuchs.
An Old English word that is related to German Fuchs. As well as featuring in folklore ( see grapes) it is also a traditional quarry of hunters. Oscar Wilde described 'The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable'. Today the fox is as much an urban animal as a rural one, and its meaning has also shifted significantly. The US sense 'an attractive woman' is first recorded in the early 1960s, but the related adjective foxy was used before the First World War. This is an unusual development, in that fox is strictly masculine, the female being a vixen (Late Middle English). The two words are not as far apart as they might at first seem. Vixen was originally fixen, but in the past, as today, in the West Country an 'f' was often pronounced as a 'v', given vox and vixen and for some reason the West Country form stuck for the female. In the late 16th century vixen came to be a term for a bad-tempered woman (otherwise a shrew) so was not available for the new, sexual, sense. Foxed to describe a book with brownish spots on it dates from the mid 19th century and comes from the colour of the spots matching the reddish-brown of the animal.
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Blonde-haired and blue-eyed, Hope Schroeder could easily pass for a real-life version of Disney's "Cinderella." It's only fitting then that the 17-year-old ice dancer and Stanford resident has an improbable story of triumph over adversity to match that of the fictional princess.
Last month, Hope turned in the best performance of her career at the U.S. Figure Skating 2012 National Solo Dance Championships in Colorado Springs, Colo. She took first in the juvenile solo free dance and pre-gold pattern dance events.
"It felt amazing to finally have hard work pay off," Hope said in a recent interview after finishing a workout at Sharks Ice in San Jose. "It made me grateful for the things that have led me to this point."
Those "things" might be better described as heartbreaking setbacks.
Ice dancing wasn't Hope's first choice. Figure skating was her passion. She started taking lessons at the age of 3, competing at 7 and was nationally ranked by the time she turned 12.
Hope was training to move up a level in 2008 when disaster struck for the first time. One week before a critical regional competition, she suffered a stress fracture in her jump foot. She tried to grit it out by getting a shot to numb the pain and simplifying her program. But she came up short.
After a six-week break, Hope went back to work and once again set her sights on competing in the next national championship. But almost one year to the date of her first injury, she suffered another stress fracture in the same foot. The constant pounding of triple jumps and double axels had taken its toll.
"It felt like a double whammy," she recalled, her eyes momentarily clouding. "What had I done to deserve this?"
Hope opted not to push herself this time around. When she returned to the ice six weeks later, she wondered whether it was time to shelve her dreams of being a competitive figure skater.
Her coach, Sergei Ponomarenko, had other ideas. He urged Hope to give ice dancing a try. A three-time Olympic medalist in the sport, Ponomarenko said he believed she had the right stuff.
"She's a perfectionist," Ponomarenko said in a recent telephone interview. "She tries to fix every little detail. That's why she can achieve these results."
Ponomarenko found a suitable partner for Hope and the two appeared destined for great things in 2010.
"In the blink of an eye," Hope said, "I was catapulted into a whole other world I didn't know existed.
"I finally found something that was conducive to my strengths and abilities."
However, another dispiriting turn of events was lurking around the corner. Not long after Hope enrolled at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, she came down with a mysterious illness. Sapped of energy, she hung up her skates.
"I felt like it was my fault," said Hope, who is now a junior.
'Essentially ... exhaustion'
Hope's mother, Jennifer, pointed to her daughter's schedule as the culprit. Crammed with practice and school work, her days were starting at 5:30 a.m. and not ending until midnight.
"Essentially it was exhaustion," she said.
Seven months would elapse before Hope stepped back on the ice. Once again, her coach played an instrumental role in her return. Hope's Russian partner was long gone, but the sport had evolved to include solo competition.
"I always knew she would come back," Ponomarenko said. "I never had a doubt. She has great character."
Jennifer was less certain. She had never pushed Hope to pursue a skating career and was convinced she was through.
"(Sergei) said, 'Jennifer, just sign her up,'" she recalled.
Hope took things slowly, participating in just two events, but easily won a berth in the 2011 National Solo Dance Championships in Pikes Peak, Colo. Finishing third in the silver solo dance event, she attributed her success to competition that was light because of the newness of solo dance.
Success no fluke
But after top finishes at this year's much more competitive championships, it was clear her early success was no fluke. Fittingly, her solo free dance program paid tribute to her "Cinderella story" by featuring music from the animated motion picture as well as an impressive costume change.
"It was as if the universe handed it to her on a silver platter," Jennifer said about solo dance.
Hope is already pondering her next moves and wants to find a partner to take her skating to the world stage. Although solo dance is rapidly growing in popularity, it isn't an Olympic sport, yet.
"If you're in a sport at a high level that has to cross your mind," Hope said about the possibility of following in Ponomarenko's footsteps. "And you hope that your hard work will take you to the top of whatever sport you're in. But a lot of things would have to happen for that to remotely be a possibility for me."
For now, Hope is enjoying her moment, just like Cinderella at the ball.
"I wouldn't be in ice dance if bad things hadn't happened to my feet. I wouldn't be in solo dance if I still had a partner.
"So, none of this would've happened if it hadn't been for a lot of unfortunate things happening along the way," she said. "Obviously, I can be nothing but grateful for where I am right now."
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The Difference Between Women & Men
When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her
heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled 'All
Men Are Idiots' Then she will get on with her life.
A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the
breakup, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, 'I
just called to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive
you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But, I want you to
know that there's always a chance for us.'
Women mature much faster than men.
Most 17-year old females can function as adults.
Most 17-year old males are still trading
baseball cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class.
This is why high school romances rarely work out.
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women.
Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is
because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male
body is lumpy and hairy and shouldn't be seen by the light of day. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman's body.
Most naked men elicit laughter from women.
A man has five items in his bathroom - a toothbrush,
shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap,
and a towel from the Holiday Inn.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is
437. A man would not be able to identify most of the items.
A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes out
to the store and buys these things.
A man waits till the only items left in his fridge are half a lime and a beer. Then he goes grocery shopping.
He buys everything that looks good.
By the time a man reaches the checkout counter,
his cart is packed tighter than the Clampett's car
on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop
him from going to the 10-items-or- less lane.
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't
looking, men kick cats.
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children.
She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games
and romances and best friends and favorite foods
and secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people
living in the house.
A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants,
empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
Women do laundry every couple of days.
A man will wear every article of clothing he owns,
including his surgical pants that were hip about eight years ago,
before he will do his laundry. When he is finally out of clothes,
he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the Laundromat.
Little girls love to play with toys. Then when they reach the
age of 11 or 12, they lose interest.
Men never grow out of their obsession with toys.
As they get older, their toys simply become more
expensive and silly and impractical. Examples of men's toys:
little miniature TV's. Complicated juicers and blenders.
Graphic equalizers. Small robots that serve cocktails on command. Video games. Anything that blinks, beeps, and requires at
least six 'D' batteries to operate.
When a woman says she'll be ready to go out in five more
minutes, she's using the same meaning of time as when
a man says the football game just has five minutes left.
Neither of them is counting
time outs, commercials, or replays.
Women on a girl's night out talk the whole time.
Men on a boy's night out say about twenty words all night,
most of which are 'Pass the Doritos' or Got anymore beer?'
Men use restrooms for purely biological reasons.
Women use restrooms as social lounges.
Men in a restroom will never speak a word to each other.
Women who've never met will leave a restroom giggling
together like old friends. And never in the history of the world has a
man excused himself from a restaurant table by saying,
'Hey, Tom, I was just about to go to the bathroom.
Do you want to join me?'
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
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Artist Glen Hansen presents and discusses the more than three dozen drawings and paintings that make up his show opening June 27 in the Library's Guldner Gallery. Subjects range from historic turn-of-the-century structures to the modern TWA Building and the iconic Town Topic Hamburgers.
A teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Hansen early on became fascinated by the details of ornate Victorian houses. Among his works are many focusing on the architecture of Prague, Paris, and Venice.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 100 people including women and children were killed in a "massacre" carried out by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday in Homs, a monitoring group said on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that some of the 106 victims were burned in their homes and others were either shot or stabbed when pro-Assad forces stormed Basatin al-Huwaisa, a district of the central Syrian city. Reuters cannot independently confirm reports due to reporting restrictions. (Reporting by Oliver Holmes; Editing by John Stonestreet)
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Over the past year, we have been covering innovation in the talent acquisition market. As organizations look to become more efficient in the way they identify and attract talent, solution providers are responding in a big way. We are seeing more in terms of employer branding capabilities, sourcing analytics, and social networking integration. In fact, over 70% of organizations use social networking in their recruitment efforts. Video interviewing, online reference calls and search engine optimization have also made a big splash this year by helping to redefine how organizations source and engage top talent. Recruitment is no longer what it used to be.
Given this rapid evolution of talent acquisition technology, where is the market heading? What type of innovation can we expect in the future? At a time when solution providers seem to have thought of everything…what's left? What is the next wave of innovation?
Well, imagine a world where recruiters would use their iPhones to take a picture of a resume, parse the resume and send it off to their talent acquisition system. Sounds pretty unbelievable but Veechi's SocializedHR product does just that and more. It offers one of the most innovative solutions to hit the talent acquisition market this year, targeting those organizations looking to move away from paper based resumes and improve productivity. SocializedHR is taking the concept of "going mobile" in talent acquisition to a whole new level.
What does SocializedHR do?
• ResuReader- This solution eliminates all paper based resumes by allowing recruiters to take a picture of a resume in real-time. The resume is then scanned and parsed (using top of the line parsing technology) and sent off to a talent acquisition system. Recruiters also have the option to take notes on the candidate.
• Talent Acquisition System- SocializedHR includes a basic talent acquisition system for those ResuReader customers that do not currently have a TAS in place. They offer most of the back-end functionality to support the tracking of an applicant and workflow automation.
• Social Identify Reports- This solution provides a social identify report for recruiters to view the LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter activity of each candidate. Each profile is archived with a time and date stamp for easy reference.
As organizations look to revamp their current talent acquisition strategies and technology options, SocializedHR offers a viable solution to help organizations manage resume overload by replacing the paper based resume. Organizations can expect to see more rating capabilities, discrepancy reports with information on LinkedIn, and partnerships from Veechi in the next year. We will be providing more in-depth information in a research bulletin later this month.
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Returning with my mom Helen from a doctor's appointment yesterday in my barely a/c car, she suggested stopping for some frozen yogurt. Summer is upon us! The most convenient spot was Menchie's in West U (we usually go to their location closer to home, on 19th Street in the Heights). How fortuitous to enter and discover that their featured flavor this month is popcorn! I have to say that it's really good, and in reasonable amounts, even healthy. Check it out!
I'm a big advocate of going out to see movies in theaters, and encourage everyone to support two major new multiplexes opening in town. Last week MariAlice Grimes, Alfred Cervantes from the Houston Film Commission and I took a field trip to preview the massive Santikos Palladium AVX (22 screens) in Richmond, the second movie theater opened locally by the San Antonio-based cinema chain. Amidst scurrying workers in hardhats, we had an impressive tour including a chance to literally be moved by the D-BOX seats, check out their Bijou art screens, VIP areas (great idea for a birthday party or special occasion), bowling alley, and more. Greek food, sushi, a wine bar, game arcade — clearly something for everyone. Quite a spectacle, all enveloped in Greek-inspired architecture. Following the trend started by Sundance Cinemas here, all seats are reserved, and wait staff are on call to discreetly deliver your food and drink orders. They opened earlier this week and I look forward to returning to get the full experience and see a film. http://www.santikos.com/locations/theatre.php?house_id=29811
Since we just concluded our 8th annual Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America at the MFAH, I was especially interested to learn about another new multiplex opening in town with a focus on new U.S. releases as well as new Latino and Latin American fare. Thanks to Rick Ferguson from the Houston Film Commission for passing along the announcement:
"Viva Cinema, an independent movie operator, is planning its Grand Opening at the newly-remodeled movie theater in PlazAmericas Mall located at 7500 Bellaire Boulevard. Set for May 31, 2013, the multi-screened theater will show a mix of first-run movies in English with Spanish subtitles as well as films from Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and more in Spanish with English subtitles. The 42,500 square-foot theater includes eight screens with state-of-the-art digital projection and all new digital sound."
It looks to be opening by June 1 — here is their website: http://vivacinema.com/
I'll wrap for now with a plug for the new film Kon-Tiki that's just opened at the Landmark River Oaks 3. This spirited updating of the experiences of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl — who crossed the Pacific Ocean on a raft in 1947 — comes to the screen thanks to the diligence of legendary producer Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, etc etc). I regretted missing the film in its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last fall and am glad to see it playing downstairs on the River Oaks' big screen.


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As a Sophomore (2007):
Redshirted the season... Named to America East Fall Academic Honor Roll.
Before Stony Brook:
Spent one year at St. Peter's College... joined the Seawolves in the Spring of `07.
High School:
A two-year captain at Lindenhurst High School... received all-conference honors his junior and senior years.
Stephen Vincent Damore... born February 12, 1988 in Lindenhurst, N.Y.... son of Steve and Nancy Damore... brother of Melissa majoring in Biology.


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Health & Baby
If Breast Is Best, Why Do Many New Mothers Give Up?
The ideal position, explains McCoy, "is the cradle hold, where they are on the side, level across your chest, with head slightly down ... but making sure the head is not hanging down and tugging at the nipple, and making sure that the head is adequately supported. Many moms initially feel uncomfortable, that they're suffocating the baby in the breast tissue, but the tip of the nose presses against the breast tissue and pushes the little airway open so the baby can continue to breathe."
If nursing hurts, ask a health care provider for help, Garrison says. "There are too many women told it's going to hurt in the early days. If they tough it out, and they never look for ways to correct this ... they think they have to go through this pain. Different tolerances of pain mean some women won't continue. "
"The skin of nipples is tender, and it does need to get a little bit toughened up," McCoy adds. "After mothers get past that, it usually subsides after the first few days. Persistent pain with nursing is unusual ... it could also indicate that the mom or baby has [an] ... infection that could be causing the pain. Because it normally shouldn't hurt, except for that tingly feeling that moms get when their milk lets down. That's very brief, right at the beginning of the feeding.
"Cracked nipples are usually a sign the baby is not latched on properly, or the mother has not been instructed how to care for her nipples -- making sure she cleans them, air-dries her nipples, before she covers back up," McCoy advises. "Using a lanolin cream is also very helpful in healing nipples."
What is mastitis?
Mastitis is a painful inflammation of the milk glands caused by a blockage. "It can happen even in a mom who is nursing well, just because some milk ducts get plugged and bacterial growth occurs," McCoy says.
"The most difficult thing we have to say to moms is that they should continue to nurse the baby," she tells WebMD. "That will help draw the milk out, which will help pull the infection out. If she quits nursing, her breasts will become more engorged, which increases the pain and makes the infection worse."
Symptoms of mastitis, she says, are redness, warmness, and tenderness of a portion of the breast, along with fever. See your doctor if this occurs, she says.


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News 12 at 11 / Monday, March 31, 2014
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- A man trying to burn some ice storm debris starts a bigger blaze than he hoped for. In a matter of minutes 3 acres of land and 3 mobile homes went up in flames.
News 12 was the first on the scene and talked to one man who tried to put out the fire before help got there.
Crews battled flames as they tried to save what's left of 3 empty mobile homes that caught fire on Emma Lane.
"It was no way we could get back there, it was too hot," Rico Jackson told News 12.
Jackson was just feet away when 3 acres of his North Augusta neighborhood erupted in flames.
"It was actually pretty ugly. It was a lot of fire and a lot of smoke," said Chris Alverson is with the Graniteville Volunteer Fire Department.
He says the fire actually started in a small pit.
"A lot of people are cleaning up storm damage and debris. The best way to do it is burn it, but we need to be selective in the burning process," he told News 12.
Alverson said the man trying to get rid of the leftover limbs did not have a permit, even though South Carolina requires one and the permit is only a phone call away.
"Call that 1-800 number. Let them know that you are burning and they will update you on whether the conditions are good or not good to burn," Alverson told News 12.
Thirty six firefighters from Langley, Graniteville, North Augusta, and Belvedere battled the fire for almost two hours as it tore through three empty mobile homes and two storage units.
"It's a 100 percent contained and all the structures have been gone through," Alverson told News 12.
And for people wondering what to do with leftover storm debris---Alverson has a warning...
"Gorgeous day for golf, but not great for burning trash," he said.
Neighbors say they survived a close call on a sunny day.
"Yeah... real lucky, feel real lucky. Didn't get nobody's home except for the one no one was staying in. That's real good," Jackson said.
If are planning on burning storm debris you've got to follow the law and that means a phone call.
For Georgia call 1-800-652-2876 and South Carolina at 1-800-895-7057


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Translation of housing in Spanish:
- 1 uncountable 1.1 (dwellings)viviendas (feminine plural)(before noun) poor housing conditionsviviendas inadecuadashousing marketmercado (masculine) inmobiliariohousing shortageescasez (feminine) de viviendasExample sentences1.2 (provision of houses) the government's policy on housing
la política del gobierno en cuanto al problema de la viviendathe housing of refugees in these campsel alojamiento de refugiados en estos campamentos
- The first phase of the largest development of homes under the affordable housing scheme in this country sold within the space of two weeks in May in Dublin.
- South Woodham town councillors have again stated their opposition to plans to build affordable housing and retirement flats in the town
- In late 1999, the government announced that it intended to force builders to provide social and affordable housing units within their developments.
- 2 countable 2.1 (cover)caja (feminine) protectoraExample sentences2.2 (hole)
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- Transmitter and receiver are supplied fully enclosed in housings measuring 45 x 55 x 15 mm with connectors for external dipole antennas.
- Electronic engine components are usually enclosed in plastic housings which are formed from molten plastic in injection molding machines.
- Which housings / trims are rated for damp location?
- Clamp a piece of straight edged waste wood in line with one of the groove lines and using the waste wood as guide, saw down to the bottom of the housing.
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Twitter went into meltdown with millions trying to explain the reasons behind Spain's 5-1 defeat to the Netherlands in their opening match of the 2014 World Cup finals.
It was the heaviest defeat suffered by defending world champions at the tournament.
Well, what do you expect when you have much-maligned pop singer Justin Bieber - a figure not known for shying away from adverse publicity - throwing his weight behind you? Bieber is apparently due to take anger management courses.
Hopefully, he wasn't watching the Spanish suffer their most serious beating in years. He would have kicked off. Unlike the Spanish.
NO WONDER SPAIN LOST pic.twitter.com/t7aUl4dl5F
— FunnyPicsDepot (@FunnyPicsDepot) June 13, 2014
First Chicago now Spain the Bieber Curse is ruthless pic.twitter.com/nlZjlvgryQ
— Mike Sheerin (@Mike_Sheerin) June 13, 2014
The curse of Bieber. RT @MailSport: Spain's night just got worse pic.twitter.com/JICWOhtgOU — Mike Martignago (@MikeMartignago) June 14, 2014
On another note...
Casillas, how many goals did you let in today mate? pic.twitter.com/KzbI9nF9zM — 2014 World Cup (@TheWorIdCup14) June 13, 2014
.@GuillemBalague: #NED have given a performance full of authority, tactics, intensity, physical power. We all bow to Van Gaal
— Bleacher Report UK (@br_uk) June 13, 2014
Van Persie was back to his sensational best but what could the reason for such a dramatic improvement be?
Looks like Van Persie has got rid of that illness called Moyes - fever — Jan Aage Fjortoft (@JanAageFjortoft) June 13, 2014
Got Spain in the office sweepstake.... pic.twitter.com/uOBCTyZMJT — Paddy Power (@paddypower) June 13, 2014
The old saying that you've never met a poor bookmaker tends to ring true. Why on earth would you stick £1,000 on Spain? They're good, but surely this is like burning money.
Someone put £1000 on Spain to win tonight... pic.twitter.com/lQOocIqte6
— TweetChelseaFC (@TweetChelseaFC) June 13, 2014
God, not really known for his 'banter', decided to get in on the act.
This is Spain's worst defeat since 1588.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 13, 2014
Meanwhile, here is an amusing one from last night's opening match of the tournament.
EXCLUSIVE: Panini release two new limited edition World Cup stickers. pic.twitter.com/XbXTmIQrxn
— BBC Sporf (@BBCSporf) June 13, 2014
More fun tomorrow night no doubt when England enter the tournament. That tends to be funny. Anyway, one, two...three....'C'mon England!'
Now we're cooking!! #squad #worldcup2014 #team #england shoutout to Luke shaw for the sweet boy pose.… http://t.co/T4fKbvC0kg
— Daniel Sturridge (@D_Sturridge) June 13, 2014
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As co-writer of Usher's "Yeah," the #1 hit of the last decade, Sean 'The Pen" Garrett has conquered the world of songwriting in the time it takes many just to get started. Now, he's setting his sights on making a "Massive Attack" as an artist -- along with a little help from Nicki Minaj. His track record with Beyonce, Fergie, The Pussycat Dolls, and Kelis surely can't hurt...
Justin Kantor: Hey Sean, how ya doin? Sean Garrett: What's up Justin? How are you?
JK: Good! This is for Soulmusic.com, an interview feature and podcast, so I guess I'll start off with what you're doing now. You're in the midst of promoting several hot collaborations that you've got going with Nicki Minaj, with "Massive Attack" and "Get It All." So, can you tell me about how your collaboration with her came about?
SG: It was basically just magic, man. I got a chance to meet Nicki, and I was a huge fan of hers, and she came to the studio actually for us just to meet. I played her a couple of records off my album, and she was listening to them, and there was one record that I wanted her to get on that wasn't on my album yet. It was just a record I was working on and I thought it was kind of hot. So I wanted to see what she thought about it, so she came through and I played her that record and then I played her some of my other records that were actually on my album. She actually heard "Get It All" and went crazy! She was, like, "I really, really like that song!" and I was like, "Really?" and she was like, "Yeah. I was thinking I want to get on that" and I was like, "I was thinking the same thing."
JK: Great minds think alike, right?
SG: Yeah, so she actually got on that record for me and really delivered big for me, and in turn, I started playing her some other records. I played her this one record that I thought could be huge for her, and when I played it for her, her assistant that she be with was like, "Wow!" That record was "Massive Attack." Then I went to another record, and then she was like, "If it's not asking too much, can you go back to that record, the Massive record?" So I went back and played her the record again and she said, "Can you play it for me one more time?" I played it again and she was like, "Wow! That's the direction that I want my album to be."
JK: So, your first instincts were right in that case.
SG: Yeah, pretty much. I was named "The Pen" by Jay-Z and that's pretty much what I do, outside of being an artist. I'm a lot of different people inside this one person, you know what I mean? One day I'm from the Island, like Jamaican, and then one day I'm on some real Pop shit, another day I'm real Urban stuff, and on other days I'm also mainstream "loving you" type of music.
JK: Like a melting pot.
SG: Yeah, and some days I'm on my aggressive side, and "Massive Attack" was one of those records I did from my aggressive perspective that I felt was a female anthem type of record, and I clearly knew that the record wasn't an everyday sound, so I knew that there was going to have to be an artist that had a really big personality.
JK: And it comes across.
SG: I didn't expect everybody to get it at first, because we had the same reaction to "Break Up". When people first heard it, it was like, "I don't know about this one. The beat's a little different" -- but that's what I do. It's the same thing with "Yeah". The record label, when I first did "Yeah" for Usher, this is before anybody heard the record, including Lil Jon and Ludacris, I took it to L.A. Reid and when he first heard it, it was so different from what was going on at the time; for Usher, it was so different that it just took everybody by surprise. That's really been the story of my life. If you look at my catalog, I'm known for records like "London Bridge" for Fergie, or Pussycat Dolls' "Buttons" or Ciara's "Goodies", or Usher's "Yeah", "Blindfold Me" by Kelis, "Bossy" by Kelis or stuff like Beyonce "Ring The Alarm" and just really big records, so what I try to do is swing the pendulum when I do music, and that's what "Massive Attack" is all about, man. For the haters, I purposely knew that everybody wasn't going to get it at first, because it's not meant for everybody to get. It's meant for Nicki Minaj fans to get that record, and then the rest of the world will get it, because you gotta really love Nicki and be a part of what Nicki does. I had to take myself out of that situation. What me and Nicki do share is, we share the same kind of mentality as far as we're very strong-minded, we've got a lot to prove, and we've been through a lot. We share those three things. So we feel like it's a "Massive Attack" on the industry, or on the world, really. We show the world our perspective.
JK: When you mentioned her personality and how it's so distinctive -- and in that circumstance you had a song that she really took a liking to -- is that typically the case, or when you're writing for another artist, so you tailor-make it for that artist, or how does that all come together?
SG: I'm a producer. I write and produce, so what I do is produce records for people. People misunderstand what writing is, writing and producing. It's not just writing down some words, it's producing. That record was written and produced for somebody like her, somebody with a big personality that had a Caribbean background. She's from Trinidad, but somebody that had a big enough personality that had the swagger to be able to carry something like that and wasn't scared. She's that type of artist that's willing to be put on something like that, put that helmet on and wear it and there's very few people like that. Hate it or love it, she's a superstar, period, point blank. She's fearless, she's got her own lane, and people try to compare her to Lil' Kim, but she's not Lil' Kim. I think they're wrong. There may be some similarities, they're both from New York, they both have very strong personalities, they're really high fashion, so with fashion comes taking chances and trying different things, and also pulling from different eras. That was a great era that Lil' Kim came up in, and who wouldn't borrow from Lil' Kim or certain artists like her?
JK: There's always something you can learn from the previous generation of music.
SG: Absolutely, and I love Lil' Kim and will always love Lil' Kim, and I'll always be down for rockin' with her, because you gotta give a woman that's that small, with that much heart, you gotta give your props to someone like that, you feel me?
JK: Once you started taking off with your writing, and especially when you had a lot of breakthroughs with Usher and the other artists that you mentioned, did you find there was a lot of pressure to write in the style of those hits, or even to follow other trends that were going on at the moment?
SG: No, if you follow my career, that never was any of my intentions. I got into the game being different. I got into the game with people saying, "I don't know. That's a little weird." I've always been the leader, and I never wanted to be a follower. That's never been my persona, that's never been my personality, and I realized that about myself. I know I'm a born leader, so I'm not afraid to wear that hat, because that's what God has blessed me to do, and that's to lead, but that doesn't mean I don't listen, that I'm not a team player, because I'm definitely a team player. It's just a fact that when everybody's going right, I'm gonna go left. That's just me. When I write songs and produce songs for people, I'm always trying to give them something special, as you can see a lot of times, on albums that I'm on. Even with "Papers" for Usher, that was such a controversial record, but again it was a #1 record, but I think it was a #1 record because it's kind of like what everybody wanted to say, but didn't have the balls to say. JK: You mentioned that there are sometimes misconceptions about writing and producing. What would you say is the actual difference? Given your nickname of "The Pen," do you actually sit down and write out the music and the words, or is it something where you just go straight into the studio and you start putting together the track, and the song is born out of that. How does it come together?
SG: When you look at great producer teams like Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, you look at great people like Teddy Riley, R. Kelly -- even though R. Kelly is a great songwriter, he's a great producer too. See, what I do is, I know a million producers that do tracks, but the problem is, there's a difference between being able to produce a track and a song; there's this misconception in the industry.
JK: As far as producing the vocals and so forth?
SG: Writing, creating and producing. Producing is producing vocals, knowing to take out certain cymbals, knowing what kind of crash won't work. You have these people who do beats, but they just be beats, but they lack strings, they lack the sensitivity in the music. They have the hard beat for the clubs, but they lack any kind of feeling, a lot of emotion. When you have the lyrics, and you sing it a certain way and go behind that and add strings and chords and do certain drops that make you feel like, "Damn, that's a great club song, but it feels like an emotional sex song." Or, "That's a great club song, but it also works at home when you're by yourself just chilling," that's producing. There's a difference, and a lot of people don't understand that difference. That's why I say I'm not just a songwriter, I'm a producer. Because when you take the record "Papers," for instance, it was done by a great producer by the name of Zaytoven, but there were certain things that we did with that track, and certain ways that I sung on that record and arranged that record that made it have a certain emotion. Zaytoven would clearly tell you, "I don't do a record for an R&B singer", but I took that emotion, that church emotion that he had, and put it into a song and produced it to where it could work in the club. Even though it was a slow song, it felt like it could work at home, it could work on the radio, and it was a mood. It had church chords on it, but we brought a real emotion from that church side, to a realistic side. By saying, "I damn near lost my Mama," everybody could feel it, but it was based in his situation. We went to the root of an urban son and an urban Mama, because he comes from a single parent home, and that's all his Mama knows. All his Mama knows is that she's got two sons: me and my brother. Some people would say, "What does that have to do with the song?" but that's an emotion. Once you said "My Mama", everybody in that urban community could relate. Because they've all been there. JK: They've been in some sort of situation, or at least seen it. SG: Absolutely, and that's what producing is.
JK: You talked about it, being for an R&B singer versus a Hip Hop artist, but I can remember one other record that you were involved with, that definitely had that soulful edge, which was "Through With Love" for Destiny's Child.
SG: Great records like "Is She The Reason" (singing), very emotional. That's a different side, my man.
JK: Tell me about how that comes into play with when you're doing your own recording, because up until now, as far as the recording and performance end, we've mostly seen you in guest appearances on other artists' records. But I know that starting with the tour you did last year with Mario and Trey Songz with 106 & Park, you're working on your own album as you mentioned. Is that same approach relevant for you as an artist, or is it a different scenario for you?
SG: Oh yeah, it's even a little deeper on my album, because the name of my album is called 'Courtesy Of,' and what my album is going to embody is all of the emotional roller coaster scenarios that I had to go through, whether it was love, whether it was the business, whether it was people saying, "You belong in this box and you shouldn't do anything else" after you've given them so much of yourself: the tears, your pain, your emotions, your relationships, and not gotten their love back in return, what I've been able to do is incorporate that into songs that are about love and life, and that's why my record is called 'Courtesy Of,' because my record speaks real life. "Get it All" relates to me when I was 15, 16 years old and in love for the first time. Well, no, it's starting when I was in 6th grade, because the verse is like, (rapping) "She caught my face like a Kodak that couldn't shake the weather. The storm had nothin' on this chick named Heather. Damn, every time I seen her it was just after a breakup, but you know niggas and girls, how they quit and they make up. She told me she was in love with me ever since I was in 6th grade. Miss Hill's class, I'm just thinking (ahh ohh). Mighty funny didn't notice her back then, but now her body banging, got me thinkin' (ahh ohh). I'm just thinkin' I'm too quick to fall. I wanna hit it but I'm still involved." I'm in college, I'm in a relationship with my girlfriend, but I see a girl that I knew back in 6th grade that wasn't so hot to me then, but now she's incredible. She's telling me now that the girl that I'm with ain't good enough to be my girl. That's relatable to everybody's life, whether you're rich, poor, black, white, Chinese, it doesn't matter.
JK: When the tables turn.
SG: Period. It's going back to writing great songs.
JK: What about vocally? You have a distinctive style in that vein, as well. How would you like to be thought of in terms of your singing style?
SG: Just an incredible talent. I got a record on my album with Drake. That's incredible! I'm singing how most people would want me to sing, or what most people would call "my singing", but again, my personality comes into play. I don't ever like being in a box, so on "Get it All", I'm kind of rap-singing the verse and then I'm singing the B-section, and then I'm really singing the hook. I've got a record with T Pain and Lil Wayne, that's called Courtside, and it's Swag R&B singing. I just want to be looked at as a great talent, not just someone that's a great crooner. Because I can croon. There's records on my album where you can hear me crooning, but that gets boring. I want to give the fans all of me. The fans have been loving my talent in all different ways, like "I'm Through With Love," "T-Shirt," "Is She the Reason," and all that.
JK: On the other side, you did something with Enrique Iglesias with "Do You Know?" and "Away".
SG: Absolutely, that's me crooning on some Pop stuff, and then there's Chris Brown stuff too (singing).
JK: I know what you mean, it's not just the love man stuff; it's not one-dimensional. It seems like Asia has been a big market for you, because you had a collaboration with the Korean singer BoA, "I Did it For Love", which you also appeared on, and that I know was a really big record through Japan and Korea. And actually your first solo album, 'Turbo 919' with "Lay Up Under Me," "Come On In," and "Grippin," was released exclusively over there, so I was curious: Was that a concerted effort to infiltrate that market first, or how did it come about that you ended up establishing a dedicated fanbase there as an artist as well?
SG: What was so beautiful about that situation was that the Asian people who I definitely love and respect, sort of embraced me first. When we were getting my Turbo 919 album together with my stint at Interscope, the Japanese people and the Asian people were so ecstatic about my album. They were the first to go, "We don't want to wait until you decide to release this album in America, we want that album now," so they forced me to release that album first and what happened was, even though that was a great thing, me being a new artist, even me being Sean Garrett The Pen, you still don't have a lot of control as an artist from the standpoint that the label is concerned about album sales. If they have a market saying, "We are willing to step out on this album first," we don't care where else you want to put this album out. We want this album now. They made a decision that it was instant sales for them, so it put me in a compromising situation because I knew that the album would leak to America and you're not getting the full push in America.
JK: It would seem like you're coming out with something old.
SG: Exactly. Those are the politics that you get caught up in when you're doing business. Fortunately, that was a great situation for me, because the Asian market has been incredibly supportive and it has been a blessing because there are only a few American artists who really work in Asia, and I happen to be one that really works well in Asia. Once I got to Japan and was doing a lot of interviews, I even asked the people, "What was it about me that you guys loved so much?" And they were, like, "We've been following you for years because we love the music that you write and produce. We're huge fans of your music, period." It made them really embrace me, and I grew up in Europe, so I've always seen myself as an international artist.
JK: I didn't realize that you grew up there.
SG: Yeah, I grew up in Europe, so the international side of me is very apparent.
JK: What part did you grow up in?
SG: I grew up in Germany and England. I'm from Atlanta.
JK: I knew that, but I didn't know the Europe part. That definitely gave you a different perspective on some things.
SG: Yeah, that's what has given me the opportunity and ability to do so many different types of records, and this is what I don't think a lot of people don't understand about me as an artist. You'll get a world-class album from me, no question. I'm not doing this for the money, I'm doing this for the straight-up, pure love of wanting to share this with the fans. That's it! This is what I really do, day and night.
JK: You collaborate with a lot of people when you're producing and writing, and the two people that come to my mind that you've done a lot with would be Swizz Beatz and Polow Da Don. So what can you tell me about your collaborations with them that makes it special and gives it the edge that it has?
SG: Swizz Beatz is one of my good friends. Not only is he a great creative partner, but he's a very good friend to me. Me and Swizz Beatz connect on a different level. We're both real artists and real artsy people, so we talk about art, our car collection, different sides of the world, and our experiences traveling abroad. I'm so happy for Swizz. He's happy as a person. I'm sure everybody knows his personal life now, but I'm so happy for him, and he's one person that I can definitely call a dear friend. That's why we do such great music together, because we're both maniacs when it comes to music, and we're not afraid to stretch out and be extremely creative. Polow Da Don, on the other hand, is another story, because he is a person that I helped to get poppin' in Atlanta and he had been in a group called Jim Crow as a rapper. And at the time Polow was doing beats and people weren't really feeling his beats because he wasn't doing it like everybody else.
JK: Kind of abstract?
SG: I took a liking to it.
JK: You collaborate with a lot of people, because I imagine being as prolific as you are in songwriting that sometimes the publishing company might hook you up to write with this person or that person. Does that happen much, and is it difficult to adjust to that person when you're writing with people that you haven't met before, or producing with them?
SG: I have the pleasure of coming into the game with the #2 record of the decade, which is "Yeah" -- so it's a little different for me. They don't push me to do what I don't want to do. I kind of have the ability to work with who I want to work with, but I don't turn down those opportunities that they give me either. I love it. I'll collaborate with anybody. Ain't no prejudice in my game, as long as they hot.
JK: Out of everything that you've done, writing and producing-wise, it's not like you could pick one. But is there any one or two things that stand out in your mind as a memorable experience, as far as how it was created and how it came together from beginning to end and seeing it take off?
SG: I would always have to say that the whole dichotomy and the dynamics from the record "Yeah" and how that came about. Because we went through so much to get that record out, and there were so many doubters. That record was #1 in 42 countries and wound up setting up the 20 million albums sold. We sold 1.2 million albums in the first week, and that was strictly on the strength of that song. Then that song, just a couple of months ago was named the #2 song of the decade. The decade! That's 10 years! Crazy, man. JK: The first major record that you wrote on, was it B5: "Dance For You"? SG: No, my first record was by this kid named Latif Williams who was signed to Motown, and is also a songwriter. He's most known for writing that song, a #1 hit for Musiq Soulchild. "Teach Me" I think was the name of it. That was the first release, and then my second release was "Yeah", and my third release was "Goodies" with Ciara.
JK: To close out, what are you most looking forward to in the future of your career?
SG: It's definitely about my album, my new collaborations and creations with people like Nicki Minaj. And me signing my new artist deal/joint venture with -- I'm really not supposed to tell who it is, but I'm getting ready to do a new venture. We're closing it this week, so I'm excited about that.
JK: As far as releasing the album?
SG: We're releasing the album this year. I think it's going to be early fall/late summer.
JK: As far as the joint venture you're talking about, is that who is going to release the album?
SG: Yeah, who is going to release the album. It's going to be big news, man. I'll just give you a hint: two words, Money Money.
JK: That's going to be in conjunction with your production company, The Practice Team?
SG: Yeah, my label, which is called Bet I Penned It Music.
JK: Cool! I'm looking forward to hearing it. That's definitely going to come out here first, right?
SG: Oh yeah, definitely coming out in the States first, and then I plan on coming back with another album at the top of the year.
JK: Okay, so doing quick succession. Right now, just to make people aware: You've got out the record "Licky" that you did with Shontelle. Are there any other songs or projects that you want to mention now for people to be on the lookout for?
SG: Yeah, Rihanna's new album that's coming out, I've got a couple new joints on her album that's coming, and then also the Jamie Foxx project.
JK: This will be the second time you did something with him, right?
SG: Absolutely. I did a #2 hit, "DJ Play a Love Song," with him. I'm also working with Jesse McCartney on his new album. I already did two joints on his new album.
JK: You did "How Do You Sleep" on the last one, right?
SG: Yeah, I did three songs on his last album, actually.
JK: On Departure: Recharged?
SG: Yeah.
JK: Well, good luck with that, man and keep doing what you're doing. It's great.
SG: Thank you so much. I appreciate all the support and respect.
JK: My pleasure. Just keep bringing the good music and I'm sure all good things will come to you.
SG: Thank you so much, buddy.
About the Writer
Justin Kantor is a freelance music journalist with published works in Wax Poetics and the All-Music Guide. A graduate of Berklee College of Music's Business and Management program, he regularly writes liner notes for reissue labels.
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