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The label is distributed by Surfdog. The 12 song set will be Clapton's 21st album in a nearly 50 year career. The announcement was made on the Surfdog website, which very simply said "Surfdog is thrilled to announce the signing of a deal with Eric Clapton for his forthcoming album." Like many older artists, Clapton has left the major labels for smaller, more 'artist friendly' terrain.
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We have custom hardware running 3.2 Angstrom on a SAM9G45 processor. Everything works fine. Recently we designed similar hardware that uses the SAM9G25 processor. We found the 2.6 kernel works fine on the SAM9G25, but we needed to port the 3.2 kernel to the platform to take advatage of some wireless drivers. We completed the port, but we have just discovered the time of day clock is not reliable. It runs fine for about 20 minutes - then the time (reported by "date") will jump ahead a few hours or days. The 2.6 kernel still works fine, so we think it's something we did not port correctly. We have looked over everything, but no luck so far. I'm not sure where to look next.
Final Answer: Atmel supplies a patch for the 2.6 kernel, to the file tcb_clksrc.c. We missed that in our port to the 3.2 kernel. Thanks for the insight!


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Journalist and author Christopher Hitchens on Ron Paul's foreign policy in an interview on March 2, 2010. Thomas Jefferson's "Empire of liberty": http://en.w...
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I am deaf. I need text.
Hitchens is correct in his condemnation of religion, but he is clearly wrong in his analysis of RP. He made a grossly erronious statement is saying that BO is not provoking war (my words to paraphrase). Ask the peoples of Pakistan if there has not been the killing (actually murder since we have not declared war on Pakistan) of hundreds if not thousands of innocent men/women/babies from our Predator strikes.
I'm afraid politically that Hitchens is a neo-con in that since. And, apparently, he does not believe that 911 was an "inside job" as I and many others believe. Let's trade with any nation including Cuba, N. Korea, Iran. My gosh, we trade with the USSR in the midst of the so-called "cold war".
I'll try to provide text later William. But Hitchens is right on money. Ron Paul is morally bankrupt and his defeatist ideology is a threat for all of us. This lunatic Ron Paul would even allow the Islamic Republic to acquire nuclear weapons. The great Christopher Hitchens' once again speaking with clarity and conviction as he has time and time again in standing on the right side of history.
And people who believe 9/11 was an inside job demonstrate a lot by that very failed stance. It speaks volumes about those particular ideologues which base their beliefs on zero factual evidence. It boggles my mind how such people can be atheist when atheists are supposed to be rationalists.
I think that your definition of "morally bankrupt" needs a tremendous amount of explanation. To say Paul or Hitchens could be morally bankrupt would mean either one had no core ethical principles. I doubt you mean what you said or else please provide evidence of RP's moral vaccuum. I believe siding oneself with the Constitution displays a definite propensity to one being moral...its a document that describes a set of principles in a moral social setting where the individual is paramount.
"lunatic"...looks like we all would have learned as atheits to avoid such broad stroking that makes one look both silly and uneducated. Any country has the right to develop nuclear capacities either for good or bad or defensive purposes. If having nuclear weapons is evil...then we are the worst at it.
"great"....Hitchens is very erudite, but I would not classify him or anyone else as "the great". "..any people who believe 911"...I totally am convinced by the evidence and by a key statement Cheney had made that the event was scripted and carried out by many individuals especially in the case of the small initial hole on the face of the Pentagon and the lack of wing impact points on the wall before the collapse..
Yes, it should speak volumes. Your demeaning tone adds nothing to the debate and 'speaks volumes' about opening one's mouth and inserting ones foot. "zero" evidence? Even members of the 911 commission stated that, in effect, it was destined to come to one conclusion before it began.
It boggles my mind how an atheist can pose to be so rational and yet allow emotionalism of their atheist 'faith' to oppose true rationality. Emotional dogmatism seems to always trump reason and rationality whether one calls oneself and atheist or not.
Sorry, I don't understand your comment at all . What 'stance' are you evoking from your first paragraph.
Are you saying there was no complicity from people on the ground in America as four separate war games were taking place pretending to defend against attacks. All while four jet airliners were pick pocketed out of the control of the Federal Aviation Industry and deposited in places like the 94 floor of the building which housed 4 billion in gold ingots which was 'never found'. I guess the terrorists also took that when nobody was looking.
Every I beam from the site was taken a few blocks to the river where they were then shipped to Italy to be melted down. Why Italy when there are Steel forges all over America.
You are on here as a regular , I'm not , but when I visit and see a comment about those who "believe 9/11 was an inside job" without a clear statement. Calling their ideologues baseless, demonstrates you have a cheque in your pocket to give me for the bridge I 'm going to sell you.
Sorry if I got it all wrong.. I couldn't understand anything in the video. I can only comment on your confusing post.
What failed stance are you talking about?
Bill...can't see a 'thread' here so I assume this is a rebuttal from someone else. I totally agree with you and your logic. It is not baseless to discuss events that make NO sense. Where are the bodies or parts of bodies and the fuselage/engines in Pennsylvania? Did the plane wreckage bury itself underground never to be seen? How does the initial 'hole' in the wall of the Pentagon (before the surrounding area caved in) accomodate a huge plane and yet no wing indentations in the wall of the Pentaton and no wing parts laying on the ground outside the building. It's oh so obvious except to those here and elsewhere who refuse to utilize the gray matter in their frontal lobes.
What chance do you all think Ron Paul, at 75, has of becoming the next president ? For that matter, even getting the nomination. ?
Being an isolationist and non-interventionist are two separate, different policies and views in my opinion.
I agree Ben. I want us to trade with every nation. Better goods and services cross borders than armies. How is that being isolationist? Answer: It's not.
With age comes wisdom...with most people. Ron Paul's age should not be an issue.


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This is the final update for the 2009/10 regular season looking at which teams have been hit hardest by injuries by trying to place a value on the games missed by players due to injury/illness.
(The corresponding analysis as at the end of February 2010 can be viewed HERE.)
The concept again - multiply each game missed by a player by his 2009/10 cap charge, then take the aggregate of these figures for each team and divide by 82. This indicator of value lost to a team by injury/illness is called CHIP (Cap Hit of Injured Players).
Yes, I'm still doing the extra bit ...
Again, for a different indicator of player "value", I've also illustrated a similar metric based on TOI/G alongside the CHIP numbers.
While acknowledging cap charge is a less than perfect measure of player, with a number of limitations and inconsistencies, I'm not totally sold on TOI/G as being any better overall (I'm guessing Mike Mottau isn't a significantly more important player to the Devils than Zach Parise) - it does provide a decent comparison and the results do vary from the CHIP rankings somewhat.
A quick summary of the alternative metric:
- TOI/G replaces cap charge as the measure of value in the calculation
- For goalies, TOI/G has been worked out as Total Minutes Played / Games Dressed For - i.e. a goalie playing every minute of 75% of the games, zero in the rest, would end up with a TOI/G of 45 minutes (or close to it, once you factor in OT and so on)
- This arguably overstates the worth of starting goalies somewhat, but it's simple and you could equally argue that a workhorse goalie is the hardest position to replace, so it's fair for them to have a much higher TOI/G figure
- Where a player hasn't played all year (e.g. Mike Van Ryn) or where a player fairly clearly has a reduced TOI/G figure due to getting injured in their only game or one of very few games (Kurt Sauer), I've used TOI/G from last season (or further back if necessary)
- For each player, multiply games missed by TOI/G to get (for a more palatable name) Cumulative Minutes of Injured Player (CMIP)
- Take the aggregate of CMIP for the team and divide by games played by the team to arrive at AMIP (Average Minutes of Injured Players) - it feels more understandable expressing this metric as an average per game (whereas CHIP is a running total)
The table below shows:
- Total CHIP for each team over the 2009/10 regular season
- The player who has contributed most to the team's CHIP figure
- The number of players with a CHIP contribution of over $250,000 (think of it as being equivalent to a $1m player missing 20 games or a $4m player missing five games)
- Movement in CHIP ranking since 28 February
- AMIP for each team over the same period (e.g. an AMIP of 40:00 could be seen as the team missing two 20-minute per game players for every game this season)
10 second analysis...
Rather predictably, the Oilers manage to hold on to their big lead and easily claim the much-coveted title of The Most Injured Team in the NHL 2009/10.
Interestingly, despite a clearly horrendous run of injuries this year, neither the Oilers' total man-games lost nor CHIP figure would have ranked #1 last year (see HERE for the 2008/09 rankings).
Also, while the aggregate CHIP figure league-wide was just shy of $200m, this is still $25m lower than the corresponding figure for 2008/09 - perhaps unexpected given all the conjecture earlier in the season about an injury epidemic and the effect of the Olympic break.
At the other end, largely thanks to a late injury to Ryan Malone, the Rangers clinch an unprecedented (OK, only two years of compiling this doesn't give much opportunity for precedent...) second consecutive 30th place finish. Something the esteemed GM of the team has seemingly been straining to achieve in the real NHL standings for the last 10 years, without success. Not for want of trying.
Again, there doesn't appear to be much more than a weak correlation between the extent of injuries and a team's position in the standings - the three healthiest teams all missed the playoffs, for example. (The dubious sanity of the GMs in question has not been allowed for here.)
The next lists are the top 30 individual CHIP and CMIP contributions:
P-M Bouchard's virtually season-long concussion results in his leading of the CHIP table. Ricky DP's "flu" - yes, that's "flu" - not quite emerging soon enough to trouble the podium. There's always next year, eh Rick? And the next 12...
I suspect next year's figures will no longer be distorted by the impact of Mike Rathje's unretired corpse. This may or may not be due to Paul Holmgren re-signing him to be the Flyers' next saviour in goal.
Finally, another update of the crude injury-by-location analysis. Again, I've just used the descriptions found in the player profiles on tsn.ca, so the figures will encompass all the inaccuracies and vagueness within them. It should give a broad indication, if nothing else, though.
- Figures include (and are arguably distorted by) some players on long-term IR, such as Mike Rathje. They do exclude a few minor-leaguers who are or had been on the NHL club's IR since pre-season
- There are undoubtedly a few inaccuracies and inconsistencies in there - I did the best I could with the information out there. Some corrections are picked up month-to-month too
- The cap figure doesn't really correlate very well to the "worth" of a player in some cases, e.g. where rookie bonuses are included this year, where players are seeing out an old (underpaid or rookie) contract or where players are horrendously overpaid
- Also, for any player who was acquired on re-entry waivers (e.g. Sean Avery, Randy Jones), the cap hit will only reflect that for their current team, i.e. 50% of the player's full cap hit (shared between his current and old teams)
- I've once again stuck a full team-by-team listing of games missed and CHIP/CMIP numbers by each player on the web HERE
- Injury/games/TOI info courtesy of tsn.ca and nhl.com - man-games lost info more than likely does not exactly match up with the "official" figures released by individual teams
- Cap info courtesy of hockeybuzz.com and capgeek.com


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You're gonna [E] need somebody on your [E] bond child
You're gonna [A] need somebody on your [E] bond
When it's late 'round midnight and [A] old man death comes slippin
into the room
You're gonna [E] need some[B]body on your [E] bond (A,A#,B turn)
You take Mary and Martha standin up in the hillside
Mary explainin' to Martha, "darlin look at the river deep
and the water wide."
Here comes ole Moses, faithful Moses carryin' big ole stones
up the hill
Tellin everybody their gonna need somebody on their bond
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mouthharp) first and add another instrument (guitar or horns)
to accompany instrument #1 during second lead
Whoa, you tak Maivus Staples and ole Corn Cheevers(?) they got the
good side on their bond
Oh I been listen to the music people ever since the day I was born
My momma raised me in a room across from the church by the tree and that
sweet gospel music oh how it used to comfort me
Tellin everybody they're gonna need somebody on their bond
Repeat first verse (1st two lines quietly then build to end by
repeating last line of verse (end with B, A, E)
song appears on many of Taj's recordings as it one of his signature
tunes; he plays it at many different tempos so find one that works for
I've borrowed a bit from the archives and wanted to give a little
something back.
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Wallpapers have come a long way in interior design, from the eighties overload of the romantic florals and stripes, to the stunning designs we now see! As designers, we adore the fact that they can add drama, texture and a sense of luxury to your space!
This week we will look at another inspired kitchen remodel. This kitchen underwent a dramatic makeover, bringing lightness and brightness to the space and making it current! By Design Interiors' designer, Erika Barczak, and builder, Keechi Creek Builders, won the GHBA's Prism Award for best kitchen remodel under $50K!
Your grandparents may have owned a piece, or maybe your parents? You may own pieces or have friends that do. So what is the enduring appeal of mid-century modern furniture?
As designers, we are often asked where we get our inspiration from. The short answer is everywhere! In the next blog series, we are going to focus on the design inspiration that we absorb from nature and the possibilities as you can see, are endless!
Last week we looked at geometric designs covering walls, upholstered furniture and floor rugs, this week we will focus on accessories and case goods! As you will see, geometry is literally everywhere in interior design, and that is a good thing!
Geometry is used in interior design more than you can imagine, from space planning to proportions to pattern play and of course to the shapes themselves! Skilled interior designers have the innate ability to find the 'golden ratio' with design and proportion and to make an aesthetically pleasing space based on geometric explanations.
Last week we blogged about how important is it to keep current in the interior design industry. This week we are going to feature another one of our favorite furniture lines that have been blowing us away with their stunning designs, Bernhardt Furniture!
How important is it to keep current in this industry? So, so very important! We are not talking fads or trends that will come and go in a year or two but keeping up with the times in general.
Inspired by the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we want to continue our blog on Global Glamour and the influences on interior design from around the world!Global and tribal elements, appear in motifs, colors and patterns, inspired by the American Southwest, Mexico, South America, Southeast Asia and India.
Every Tuesday morning we look forward to our vendor breakfast meetings! These meetings provide us with an inside look at the very latest and greatest products including fabrics, furniture, tile, rugs, accessories, and the list goes on! We also focus on keeping our training as up to date as possible, as there are always new innovations and new designs in the field of interior design!
In this week's blog we will continue our tour of this sophisticated and chic modern new build home in Houston, TX! This spectacular home was designed by one of our amazing designers, Ashton Morgan, and built by Flair Builders! In this blog, we will focus on the dazzling master suite, the bathrooms and the living areas.
We are excited to continue our series, "Spotlight on Design", with all new projects so you can see what our talented designers have been up to! This month we will focus on a stunning and sophisticated new build in Houston, TX, designed by Ashton Morgan! Since the home was a new build, Ashton was able to be involved in every aspect of the design process from the ground up!
For the third and final blog on flirty florals, we will take a look at all things floral in accessories, faux floral arrangements and lighting! These smaller pieces can add a fresh, flirty and feminine element to the room!
This week we will look at ways to incorporate floral design onto walls! A wonderful way to bring life into a room with a big impact is to use a wallcovering! If you want to create a stunning focal point in a space, a wall mural may be the perfect solution!
Flirty floral patterns have been blooming everywhere in interiors including; wallcoverings, fabrics, window treatments, rugs, accessories and even lighting! From large scale prints to old school vintage inspired botanicals, these florals have been reinterpreted to look updated and fresh and they can be incorporated in a variety of interior styles from classic to contemporary!
As designers, we love to put a little something unexpected into a room! It may be one of the first things you notice when you walk in but more often than not, it is a little more subtle, like a surprise waiting to be discovered!
We love this handy reference guide of different home design styles and we thought we would share it with you all! For architectural aficionados, design lovers or house hunters, it you will teach you how to identify homes based on their façade, design style, windows, roof, and siding. History buffs will appreciate learning the countries of origin and how house styles adapted depending on the socioeconomic factors of the era!
In this week's blog we will continue our tour of the elegant, traditional home in Tomball, TX, designed by one of our fabulous designers, Erika Barczak! This week we will focus on the living areas of the home and the magnificent master suite. In her own words, Erika will describe the design process.
We are excited to bring back our series, "Spot Light on Design", with all new projects so you can see what our talented designers have been up to! First up is an exquisite, traditional home in Tomball TX, designed by Erika Barczak! This week we will focus on the kitchen and dining areas of the home.
Last week we took a look at some amazing writing desks and possible placements in the home. This week we will peruse different styles of desks that would suit a variety of tastes and styles from modern to girly to industrial and everything in between!
It seemed that everywhere we turned in April at High Point Furniture Market, we saw writing desks! These desks were placed not only in a study, but in all other areas of the home as well! We saw some placed behind sofas, next to beds (doubling as a night stand) and of course, in home offices!
In the third and final part of our series on "the man cave with a designer twist", we are going to explore some ways to incorporate manly art, accessories and rugs into a room!
This week we are going to continue to explore the world of masculine designs! Furniture, accessories and art that any man or woman can appreciate and that elevate the "man cave" to a new designer level! In this blog, we will take a look at some handsome case goods and tables that have a masculine feel but with high end designer touches and quality anyone can appreciate.
In the next few blogs we will explore the world of masculine designs! Furniture, accessories and art that any man or woman can appreciate and that elevate the "man cave" to a new designer level!
Trying to take in the hundreds of showrooms at High Point Market can be exhilarating and invigorating but overwhelming at the same time! Tours are offered to highlight some of the smaller showrooms or suites with designers or artist that possess exceptional talent or truly unique products! While on a tour with Celebrity Interior Designer, Bobby Berk, we were introduced to an exciting and up and coming furniture and textile designer!
Back in the day, the "plastic furniture cover phenomenon" was all the rage, some families encasing entire formal living rooms in the stuff! Well, thankfully modern day fabrics have come along to save us all, none more impressive than Crypton!
It is amazing to see how far Sunbrella fabrics have come since their introduction to the market in 1961. Over ten years ago Sunbrella branched out from their outdoor "canvas look" to the beautiful world of luxury interior and exterior fabrics and they have been impressing us ever since!
As designers we often see our clients come full circle with their emotions during a project. During the initial planning phase they are excited, hopeful and optimistic for the upcoming changes to their home.
In the last of our metallic series, we will be sharing some fantastic mirrors, wall art and accessories that will give your room the perfect touch of excitement and shine!
Accessories, mirrors and lighting have always come in different metals but we continue to be delighted at all the new, creative eye catching designs! These smaller pieces can be combined with any types of materials including metals in other tones.
In our last blog we focused on the idea of mixing different metals into interiors, this week we will show you some alluring individual pieces that you can incorporate into your space! Each of these furniture pieces will add character to a space whether through shine, intricate patterned designs or the perfect compliment to another material!
If you have been hesitant about mixing metals in the same room, fear not! The beauty of mixing metals is the added visual interest, enhanced character and the ability to blend warm and cool tones in any space! It fact, it is quite freeing and opens up endless design possibilities!
Bar carts have been making a "mad" comeback in interior design, inspired in part by the new vintage aesthetic seen lately on popular television shows! Bar carts are a fantastic and fun way to entertain and can compliment your style whether it is sophisticated and glamorous or hip and quirky!
Whether you are first time parents planning a nursery, redoing a nursery into a big kid's room or navigating the tween/teen years, interior designers can expertly and beautifully guide you through all of it!
As designers, we love the chance to design children's rooms as it gives us a chance to unleash our creativity in unique ways! There is no fear of using bold colors, vibrant graphics and whimsical accessories! The bonus is getting to work with an enthusiastic, little collaborator on the project!
While the use of crystals in lighting is nothing new, we were amazed at how creative lighting designers have become with the sparkle and shimmer! In some showrooms, it looked like it was raining opulence!
Inspiration can come from many sources but nature has long been a go to for Interior Designers. We see freeform lines in furniture, accessories and lighting that may have been sparked by an organic element! Organic shapes have the ability to draw you in since they are so unique.
Lamps can provide the ambient lighting that we all love, but as designers, we think lamps can do so much more! They can add texture, pattern, whimsy, sparkle or an organic element into the space! They can be like a sculptural piece of art, because when you think about it, most of the day they go unlit, so why not incorporate them into the design!We will explore some fabulous lamps in the upcoming weeks!
This week we will continue to look at neutrals in a whole new way! Great design can elicit a variety of feelings. The exciting thing about neutrals is that you can create different moods depending on the warmth or coolness of the "colorless colors" you bring into a room!
Neutrals are making a comeback as people are taking a break from bold, bright colors. Beige has been given a bad rap as boring and safe but we can show you how to revamp colorless design in fresh, new ways! We can create stunning looks with neutrals by layering materials, playing with textures and adding shapes to a space!
Every High Point Market we visit one of our favorite showrooms, Century Furniture, and always leave feeling so excited about their new product! In this video, Tim Hall explains the Century Cornerstone program which has so many fantastic options! With a fabulous selection of fabrics at our studio, we can help you design the custom sofa of your dreams!
We had a great 2015 at By Design Interiors and we look forward to making your dreams come true in 2016! We wanted to thank all of our clients and vendors and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a blessed 2016!
If you live in the south, you have waited for this weather all year long; temperatures in the 70's, no mosquitos and a chance to enjoy the outdoors without having to be immersed in water! Outdoor living areas have become more popular than ever as manufacturers are designing more durable products and designers are space planning beautiful designs for the outdoors from the very beginning of the home building process.


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With you life is an adventure.
Life as a carbon-based life form; a journey of building on success and learning from mistakes.
With you life is an adventure.
Asia pace is chaotic and in circle. People should learn to chill out like Austrian, enjoy the weather and the view.
Alphen aan den Rijn means "town by the river".
Photography is capturing a feeling of that moment.
We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.
We lived different lives for different reasons.
Every child need fairystories. Today she was told that it's rain because the clouds are feeling sad.
Some people I met admired my journey, my word of wisdom is to do what you enjoy it's about timing, not persistence.
When you're not home on weekdays because of work, it helps to marry someone who has creativity to find her own interests and self dependent.
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February 4, 2014, 4:49 am
Life hack: Spray your snow shovel
Here's a way to speed up your snow shoveling. Before tackling the snow blanketing the sidewalk and driveway, get a can of nonstick cooking oil, like Pam, or a spray lubricant like WD-40 or TriFlow.
Liberally spray both sides of your snow shovel's plastic or metal blade. Outside, the snow will slide off.
If the snow is wet and heavy, skip the spray and find a can of car wax or furniture polish paste. Apply that liberally to both sides of the shovel, and rub in the wax or paste until the blade gleams. Let the snow try to stick to THAT.
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DU struggling at the top
DU's postseason stats sheet explains its 2-2 playoff record, including the two unenthusiastic wins over WCHA last-place Michigan Tech. Rhett Rakhshani, who leads the team with 50 points, has just two points (one goal) in four playoff games. He has a minus-1 rating. Linemate and fellow senior Tyler Ruegsegger has just one point, an assist, and is even. The final member of that line, sophomore Joe Colborne, has two points (one goal) in the four playoff games, and is minus-1.
Sophomore defenseman and power-play quarterback Patrick Wiercioch has just one point (assist) in the playoffs.
DU's top postseason scorers are junior center Jesse Martin (three goals, five points, plus-1), junior wing Kyle Ostrow (goal, four points, even), freshman center Drew Shore (four assists, minus-2) and freshman defenseman Matt Donovan (three points, plus-2).
Bottom line: Rakhshani, Ruegsegger, Colborne and Wiercioch have to get 'er going, eh?
Here's the postseason stats:
Martin 3-2=5 +1
K. Ostrow 1-3=4 E
Shore 0-4=4 -2
Donovan 1 -2=3 +2
Lee 2-0=2 -2
Gifford 1-1=2 +1
Rakhshani 1-1=2 -1
Colborne 1 -1=2 -1
Knowlton 1-1=2 -2
Maiani 0-2=2 +3
Dewhurst 1-0=1 +1
Ruegsegger 0-1=1 E
Phillips 0-1=1 +1
Wiercioch 0-1=1 E
Everyone else scoreless


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The unofficial fan site with full bio, photos and the latest news
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There's a lot of "world's this" and "world's that" chatter coming out of the mouth of Chinese company Huawei over at MWC 2012.
If it isn't busy foaming at the mouth, telling all and sundry that it has the "world's first quad-core tablet", it means that it has continued its rant into the realms of "world's highest screen resolution" for the same device: the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD.
And with it's new flagship phone, the Huawei Ascend D quad, the world's best boast comes our way because of its apparent speed. Huawei claims that it is "the world's fastest smartphone".
We certainly won't argue that it's bloomin' quick, although our 10 minutes with the device over in Barcelona at the big mobile expo is obviously not enough time to give you a comprehensive opinion. What we can say is it smashed through the tasks we set it like a rabid gorilla would the contents of a china shop.
That speed comes by way of Huawei's own K3V2 processor, clocked at 1.2/1.5GHz.
And it looks quite nice too. While not quite as skinny as the Huawei Ascend P1 S that we saw at CES ("world's slimmest") it's not exactly a chunky-monkey either as it measures 8.9mm thin.
It has a sharp-looking 4.5-inch 1280 x 720 pixel resolution display, with a 32-bit true colour graphic processor. It delivers a pixel density of 330ppi and looks every bit as impressive as that sounds.
OS-wise, it's Android Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3) and there is an 8-megapixel BSI rear-facing camera, a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera and it can shoot 1080p Full HD video.
The Ascend D quad will be available in China, Australia, Europe, Asia-Pacific, North and South America, and the Middle East in Q2 2012. Expect a full review around then.


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By the time World War II began on September 1, 1939, Germany had purged itself of its Jewish professors, scientists, and scholars. Some of these academics, deprived of their livelihoods by the Nazis, found refuge in the United States. But in this new world, they faced an uncertain future.
A few dozen refugee scholars unexpectedly found positions in historically black colleges in the American South. There, as recent escapees from persecution in Nazi Germany, they came face to face with the absurdities of a rigidly segregated Jim Crow society. In their new positions, they met, taught, and interacted with students who had grown up in, and struggled with, this racist environment.
The exhibit draws the obvious parallels between the German anti-Jewish laws and the social, legal and political segregation and disenfranchisement of African-Americans in the United States. The exhibit highlights some of the refugee-scholars' early acts of civil disobedience (before it was even called "civil disobedience") in solidarity with their students.


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The late Bill Call, a colorful Texas journalist-friend of mine, once said emergency management agencies were a solution looking for a problem. The words "solution" followed by "problem" bear special meaning to me, after months of form letters and sullen, vaguely threatening phone calls I have endured from the ironically titled Department of Workforce Solutions.
Some relevant background: I have been convicted (a very serious word indeed) of unemployment fraud, for underreporting part-time employment. The underreported amount was ... one dollar. I have been appealing, unsuccessfully, for six months.
I swear that I am not a crook, just incredibly incompetent with paperwork involving numbers.
Like millions of other Americans, I lost my job. Not because the Republican Party destroyed the economy. No, I was actually fired for insubordination. I like to think that I was disobeying an unjust boss, which makes me a patriot. My mom prefers to say I was fired for writing, which makes me an artist.
The benevolent state of New Mexico agreed with my mom, and awarded me unemployment. It turns out you need a reason to fire someone. Things were looking back up. Maybe I wouldn't starve after all.
I am pretty sure I would have gotten a warmer reception if I were to walk naked and flailing into a 7-11 and ask to use the phone.
About two months later, I took a part-time job. I like to work. Truth be told, I would have made $10 more per week suckling the government teat and writing bad poetry.
But the gig was a welcome relief. Dealing with the folks at Workforce Solutions was proving to be quite a drag. I am pretty sure I would have gotten a warmer reception if I were to walk naked and flailing into a 7-11 and ask to use the phone.
There was a problem: I made $250 a week. Gross. About $220 a week after taxes. I claimed what I now know is called "net pay," the amount of money you actually have to spend on food and used paperbacks.
I was supposed to claim $250, which, it turns out, is $1 above the weekly limit for income.
I claimed the wrong number. Anyone who knew me when I was crying over first-grade math or crying over basic algebra would not doubt my sincerity when I say that math is not my forte.
Eventually I left the part-time job to embark on a series of personal tragedies too hilarious to list here. Let's just say that it was like Knocked Up re-imagined by an Italian neorealist director.
What I've learned: I would sooner sleep under a bridge than go on unemployment again.
Because I left my part-time gig to seek full-time work in another city, I no longer qualified for unemployment. After 18 more months of watching 18 hours of MSNBC a day with my stepfather, I landed a job. Happy ending, right?
Well, guess what? Soon the mail started coming. Form letters from Workforce Solutions. Two words caught my eye: "fraud" and "investigation."
Once I recovered from feeling pretty deeply offended, I wrote a letter proclaiming my innocence. There had to be a mistake. I am compulsively honest. It's like a goddamn disease.
No luck. Guilty. Pay us $2,257. You have 30 days—or we suppose you can appeal.
I appealed. I got a chance to speak with a real live judge. I told my side: the lost job, moving home, making a mistake because I was under a lot of pressure, finding a new job, the fear that getting my check docked would wipe me out and make me lose said new job. I told the judge that I was a reporter, that my word was all I had, that being called a liar and a cheat was, well, horrifying to me.
Maybe I was a little frantic. But I was polite and respectful.
I thought I had been given an advantage by the investigator from Workforce Solutions—the "prosecution," if you will. She was rude, insolent even. At one point she said huffily, as if I were not present and she were clairvoyant, "He knows what he did." The judge had to have heard this and would save me.
I was denied. Then my appeal of that denial was denied. So I gave up. I submitted. Like Chief Joseph finally concluded, I would fight no more forever. I called the number to arrange payment.
No one replied. For two weeks.
I called again. This time, a gentleman manning the phones said I had to pay $249 a month or Workforce Solutions would take me to court. I said I can't pay that much. He said I had to pay $249 a month or they would take me to court. I said fine, and that I hoped he and his coworkers were having a chuckle. He said this was no laughing matter, Sir, and assured me that no one was having a chuckle. Not a big sarcasm guy, but he has a bright future in collections.
What I've learned: I would sooner sleep under a bridge than go on unemployment again.
I think of all those people who have lost their jobs in this economy—not because they have a problem with authority figures—and who may also have other folks dependent upon them for the basics. Are they also treated like shiftless scumbags if they take a wrong turn in the complex maze of Workforce Solutions?


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Moon Girl Meet iPhone
As information publishers, It is very tempting to ONLY consider books or magazine articles for out products, blogs, articles, etc. Of course, I've been preaching for years about the power of Public Domain images for creating products, and quite honestly, every one of you should have your own Zazzle.com or CafePress.com store to sell "original" creations based on Public Domain content. Here is one of mine: Generation 7. There are a LOT of other products you can create using images and photos…but that isn't what THIS post is about. It's about something else…characters from the Public Domain.
I always keep a pulse on what others are doing with Public Domain content and "Moon Girl" caught my attention. It's a new iPhone app comic being written by Tony Trov and John Zito. Here is the cool part…"Moon Girl" is a little known character from the 40's and is the Public Domain, enabling Trov and Zito to revive her as a character. What a great idea and a perfect example of using Public Domain content in new, innovative ways. Now, thanks to an artist known as "The Rahzzah" Moon girls looks a bit different these days…but again, that's the beauty of the Public Domain…you can do whatever you want with it! You can purchase the Moon Girl app HERE or in the iTunes App Store…AND you can read a preview HERE.
Below are examples of the "old" and "new" Moon Girl are below. You might also notice that the delivery method is QUITE different as well!
In my e-book, Easy Money Picture Project, I wrote about the importance of Public Domain characters to product creation and shared a growing list of characters known to be in the Public Domain. I created an excerpt PDF which you can download and enjoy HERE. As you would imagine, EMPP has a LOT of great strategies for using Public Domain images to create products hidden in its 200+ pages. I guess that's why customers LOVE it!
So let me ask you…what ideas can YOU come up with based on characters from the Public Domain? Review the list and share your thoughts in the comments. Thanks!
BTW…Hollywood has figured this one out! With "Sherlock Holmes" out (a character from the Public Domain) and a new "Alice in Wonderland" coming out…not to mention, "Treasure Island" and "The Three Muskateers," the Public Domain is proving to be a goldmine for Hollywood…why not for you as well?


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LU's IT department is a leader in its field
Liberty University's Information Technology Department now operates a testing center for high-tech professionals seeking certifications in products such as Microsoft, Cisco, Apple and Oracle.
The center fills a need in the city and region where high-tech jobs have significantly increased over the last decade.
"Students and the general public can use our testing center to become certified in fields of expertise that will help them reach their career goals," said Jason Rawlings, director of Customer Support in Information Services at Liberty.
The main benefit of the new local testing center will be reduced time and travel, saving the university an estimated $3,000 a year in testing-related expenses. One of the IT Testing Center's first clients was Nelson County High School, whose business teacher, Melissa Williams, brought her class of 10 students to the center to take various Microsoft exams.
"The technology team was very effective. The room was comfortable and quiet, and each of my students felt completely at ease in the testing situation," Williams said. "This was our first experience with the LU Testing Center, and I will definitely be bringing my students back again."
Liberty's IT Department has also made other major advances, as it recently upgraded the Wi-Fi network on campus in order to expand Liberty's wireless networking performance and coverage. The new wireless network is available in Liberty's 123 buildings, covering 2.9 million square feet of facilities.
Liberty's IT Department was also recognized in "Get Set" Magazine, as Connie Allison, director of Liberty's IT Operations, shared insight with high school students about what it is like to work in the technology field.


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First Look: Bryan Voltaggio's Range in Washington, DC
Chef Bryan Voltaggio's next opening in the D.C. metro area is actually in D.C. proper. Located just off the Friendship Heights metro in the Chevy Chase Pavilion, Range is pretty massive: 14,000 square foot with over 300 seats, including a 30-seat bar and 55 counter seats facing open kitchens. There are seven stations: charcuterie, bakery, raw bar, rotisserie, wood fired hearth, dessert and candy, and coffee bar. Each is a great window into how Voltaggio crafts his menus and an opportunity to interact with chefs, and even ask them for shopping advice at the attached gift shop (yeah, there's a gift shop).
Voltaggio is offering inventive seasonal dishes inspired by Mid-Atlantic regional flavors and ingredients. Take the "Everything Bagel" Chicken dish: roast chicken, potato, and mashed potatoes seasoned with garlic, rosemary, and poppy seeds to emulate the flavor of an everything bagel. Or the Kimchi Linguini: linguini flavored like the traditional spicy, pickled cabbage dish, kimchi, with uni, scallops, and nasturtium. Traditional dishes with modern interpretations that fold in flavors from different regions into familiar staples.
There's also a bevy of standard offerings available. The wood-fired hearth turns out nicely charred pizzas. The charcuterie offers a wide selection of fresh, regionally sourced meats ranging from a housemade garlic sausage to Virginia country hams. Voltaggio is all about using the entire animal, so you'll also be seeing some alternative cuts. Or fresh oysters and sushi at the raw bar. Make the rounds and there's little doubt left as to where the double-entendre of breadth and rustic appeal in the name "Range" comes from.
Not forgetting the before and after dinner treats: the elongated, marble bar serves a wide selection of cocktails ranging from variations on classics to more inventive drinks like the "I'll Have a Chocolate Martini," which is not actually a chocolate martini and is made with Cynar and chopped almonds. On the opposite side of the massive space is the candy bar where you'll find a brightly lit glass counter filled with housemade bon bons, truffles, and elaborately dressed peanut brittle.
Range opened last weekend. If you haven't made the trip out to Frederick, Maryland, to see what Bryan Voltaggio's been up to, head to Friendship Heights to check this spot out. With so many different stations, it's kind of like the fanciest cafeteria you could imagine.
See a sampling of dishes from Range in the slideshow.
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A simple questionnaire developed at the University of Oregon and requiring no more than 15 minutes of a parent's time before or after a doctor's appointment is credited with a 224-percent increase in referrals of year-old and 2-year-old children with mild developmental delays in a yearlong study.
Researchers found that on doctors' observations alone 53 of 78 referrals for special services or additional monitoring would not have been made without the Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) filled out by parents at home or in the office. Thirty-eight children underwent further evaluation and qualified for federally funded early intervention services, and 44 others became eligible for additional monitoring.
The study appeared in the August issue of the journal Pediatrics.
"Seeing the results as a percentage was pretty shocking," said lead author Hollie Hix-Small, who this year earned a doctorate from the Early Intervention Program in the UO College of Education. She now is a UO research associate and an independent early childhood consultant.
The 224-percent jump in referrals occurred despite just a 54 percent return rate of the survey, which was given to 1,428 parents or caregivers, and a 15 percent decrease in patient volume in the newborn to 2-year-old range compared to the control (no ASQ screening) year. Almost certainly, the referral rate would have been higher had more forms been completed, said co-author Dr. Kevin Marks, a pediatrician at the PeaceHealth Medical Group in Eugene.
"The study was about making quality improvements in health-care delivery," Marks said. "We had intuitions that physicians had difficulty identifying children with mild developmental delays, especially in the fine motor, problem-solving and personal-social domains. Physicians focus mostly on milestones involving communication and gross motor skills. The data shows that when physicians suspect a delay, those children are almost always eligible for early intervention services, but, at the same time, we have our limited powers of observation."
Those limits, he added, often result from busy offices, including tight scheduling and heavy patient loads.
The study also indicated that physicians had a greater difficulty identifying delays at 12 months compared to 24 months. "I intuitively thought that physicians took a wait-and-see approach with younger patients with likely delays, but the data suggest that they more often just miss those likely delayed children at the 12-month well-child visit," Marks said. "This finding was noteworthy and needs to be shared with other pediatricians."
The authors noted that an estimated 12 percent to 16 percent of U.S. children have developmental delays or behavioral problems, according to four studies they cited. Research also has shown that early intervention improves a child's long-term academic and behavioral outcomes.
"Many communities are struggling with getting their identification rates up," Hix-Small said. "We think that detection rates by physicians can go up when parents use some kind of a standardized parent-completed tool."
The ASQ -- already recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics for other targeted age groups -- was developed about 20 years ago by a team that included this study's other two co-authors, Jane Squires, director of the UO Early Intervention Program and professor in the department of special education, and Dr. Robert Nickel, professor of pediatrics at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. The ASQ covers different age intervals, from four months to five years. It includes 30 items and five questions on different areas of development.
In this study, 18 pediatricians and two nurse practitioners participated.
"We found that many doctors were simply missing many kids and not because they were taking a 'wait-and-see' approach on possible delays," Marks said. "We, as doctors, are under identifying the number of children who can benefit from intervention. The paradox is that the children with mild delays are the same ones who oftentimes respond well to early intervention. I like to say that the brain is like a piece of hot plastic. You have to work with it and mold it before it solidifies."
Those most likely to benefit from early intervention, he added, are children with mild delays, children from low socioeconomic backgrounds and younger children with early signs of autism.
The UO's Early Intervention Program now is experimenting with a Web-based version of the ASQ to streamline the process so that more parents and/or caregivers will use the form to assist their children's pediatricians, Hix-Small said. On the Web site (http://asq.
Sources: Hollie Hix-Small, UO research associate, 541-346-0680, email@example.com; Dr. Kevin Marks, PeaceHealth Medical Group Pediatrics. Media wanting to arrange an interview with Dr. Marks should contact Andrea Ash, PeaceHealth Media Relations, 541- 686-7110, firstname.lastname@example.com
Links: UO Early Intervention Program (EIP): http://eip.


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BrightstarSolar necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 301 diseños de 60 diseñadores freelance.
Brightstar Solar
Brightstar Solar is a full-service photovoltaic engineering firm, meaning we manage the entire chain of our clients' experience having a solar electricity generating system installed on their building:
marketing -> design/engineering -> financing->installation
We are excited to work in a growing industry where we can create meaningful societal benefit. We believe solar is one way in which we can save the environment, reduce people's operating costs for their home or business, and be truly patriotic by "growing our own" energy.
Target: the people who are responsible for the energy behavior of the house or building they manage. Our market splits into two categories:
-homeowners looking to reduce their electric bills and "go green"
-facility managers and other people responsible for the operations of companies of all sizes who are concerned with managing overhead costs and enhancing their image as a good corporate citizen
We want our logo to portray stability, expertise, and a serious dedication to our technology and the environment. Although solar is still perceived as an emerging technology, we do not want to the logo to paint us as trendy or fly-by-night rookies. A significant amount of our work is in design & engineering, so our logo should look straight, uniform, and professional.
A star (or sun) should be incorporated in the design... but should not be as literal or childlike as "Bright Horizons" (http://brighthorizons.com).
"Brightstar" is one word, so the "S" should not be emphasized.
Stylistically, the logos of many large corporate construction firms and banking/finance firms convey the confidence we want to be our image. In the "Competitor Logos" file we attached, logos which have an air of severity and competence in our opinion are Borrego, alteris, Sunpower, and E2solar. These are our peers.
This logo will be used in multiple formats, including our website, letterhead, business cards, company vehicles, and shirts worn by our crew. Use of color is vital but should translate to b&w.
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