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The BMW M3 is an automotive "thing." When you think of a fast family car, the M3 pops up way more readily than the Audi RS4 or Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG.
The BMW M3 has been one of the world's most desirable cars for over 25 years. We take a look at its origin and its most extreme version to date.
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iTunes 9.2 has arrived, ready to mate with the iPhone 4, while Apple has also unveiled MobileMe app that will wipe your phone
Latest update to the music software includes new features in Apple's latest iPhone and iPod Touch software, like folders and PDF syncing.
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Saints Row 2
Bugger me, finally a game with a protagonist that can actually verbalise his feelings towards something. In fact Saints Row 2 even goes so far as to let you pick the voice your character has, so naturally I went for the good ol' Cockney lad. Although it has to be said THQ didn't really think this through, it just seems a little bit wierd having a Cockney crimelord in America surrounded by proper gangstas brov! He just sticks out of the crowd like Wally at a nudist camp. The voices are good though, with all the gangs having very distinct voice sets and the guest appearance of Michael Dorn (if you don't know who that is, then I suggest you look it up or we may have to take this outside).
Right I'm not going to beat around the bush, I'm just going to come out and say it. Saints Row 2 is like GTA, in so much as eating Chocolate Ice cream is like eating a bowl of mud - they may look similar but only one will leave you actually feeling happy. Saints Row 2 is roughly x900500065 better than GTA 4, which is a boring grey vomit pile of a sandbox game. THQ remembered that gaming is supposed to something that people do to unwind after a hard day of bunking off work, and there's nothing fun about having to pick up your cousin and go bowling 5 times a day. There is something fun however, in grab a defenceless old lady and hauling her off the top of the nearest skyscraper, or taking off all your clothes and running around the city trying to avoid the angry boots of those you offend.
The storyline of the game revolves around the same character as Saints Row 2 (conveniently nameless, encase you pick a girl this time) some years after the explosion that was supposed to kill him. At this point you may be thinking "oh god, looks like this has a case of the Bioshock 2's" but no this time the story actually gets better. Put simply, you have to kill your way back to the top of the city that you once controlled - which is now run by evil corporations and new gangs. Although, before you can do the missions you have to complete little mini games that earn you respect - some of these can be laborious but most are good laugh, such as the mini game that allows you to fire shit at public property. The story is much simpler than GTA 4's and there's no alternate ending, but it's a good length and damned sight more fun and colourful.
The option of co-op play is present and it could be fun, if people weren't such assholes. I was playing with some kid for Finland or something, and he just turned around a blow me up and then he did it again and again and again. For no reason, I then booted the little fucker. If you played co-op missions with a mate then it could be more fun but until I try it it won't gain any marks from me.
Although I completed the game ages ago, I've put off finishing the review because of my petty nature - you see I did a load of missions for one of the DLC's and then it crashed and I lost it all, since then I haven't played it. For this I'm only giving it 8/10. But it's a fantastic game and you'll have hours of fun.
The sequel to the quiet but amazing FPS Metro has just been announced. If you're a graphics whore, listen, you NEED to get this.
Metro 2033 is one of my favourites, such a great game - can't wait for the sequel =D
Saints Row the Third
Xbox 360
Oh sweet jumping Jesus I was literally bouncing in my chair with excitement when I put Saints Row the Third on because of my absolute love of the previous installments. The second was much bigger and better than the first but could the third game possibly take it even further?
* Dead Space 3 gets clearer - After shadey and secretive details were leaked last week, the rumours of co-operative gameplay gets confirmed. The 'drop-in, drop-out' multiplayer style will take the place of the old competitive style with a new character alongside Isaac called John Carver. The graphic novel teaser that appeared earlier on this blog and is now plastered on the internet reveals this new characters beginning to the newly frozen over Dead Space universe.
* Deja Vu for racing fans - It seems there has now been so many Need For Speed titled that Electronic Arts are having to repeat titles as Most Wanted takes another turn onto our screens. Produced by Criterion, of the Burnout series, it's been described as an open-world driving experience with a specific focus on multiplayer, the goal to become the 'most wanted' amongst your friends.
* Fifa 13 seeks to take over - As well as the new verbal link ups with Kinect, Fifa 13 has had it's connectivity boosted to that with smartphones and tablets, no doubt thanks to the SmartGlass. This will allow players to carry over experience away from their gaming dungeons, as well launching a new app with in-game auctions for 'Ultimate Teams' and career tracking. Old XP from the '12 edition will carry over so players can purchase new items from the Fifa catalogue.
* Greatness gets a release date - 'Crysis 3' has been announced for a February release next year following gameplay footage of the fantastical title. Consumed by vegetation, the footage shows a ruined New York City which actively highlighted the sheer power of the new CryEngine 3 developed for the game. CLICK ME.
* UFC comes to the EA side - Leaving previous developers THQ, the Ultimate Fighting Championship title has announced a multi-year deal with EA by the UFC president Dana White.
* SimCity meets Social Networking - The newest title 'SimCity Social' has been announced for Facebook, sheer joy for someone like me who savagely enjoyed both 'SimCity' and 'Sims Social'. Described by Lucy Bradshaw of Maxis as the 'best city-building experience you'll find', the game is due for release in a few weeks and will feature multiplayer for the first time in the games history.
Xbox 360
Get ready to polish your guns and unfurl the Stars and Stripes, it's time for another game about the United States getting invaded and having to fight for freedom once again. This time it's not from those dastardly Russians, oh no this time around it's up to North Korea to provide the mob of faceless troops for the Americans to gun down on mass. I swear they're just trying to piss off every nation with nuclear weapons now.


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The repackaged album titled "EMERGENCY" will consist of 6 songs:
- Emergency
- Run & Gun
- Beautiful
- Don't Go (from the XOXO album)
- 365 (from the XOXO album)
- Peter Pan (from the XOXO album)
- What is Love, part.2
The album will be officially released on the 26th of July 2013
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yixing - "afraid" by jj lin (x)
(he was casted into sm because of this song)
You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles.
Wild & Mild; Kim Jongdae
살아도 꿈인 것처럼 Dr Jin's OST — Kim Jaejoong


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Campbellsville Independent Schools recently announced its academic achievers for April. A boy and a girl from each school are named.
Those recognized include:
Campbellsville Elementary School
Maddox Lawler is a second-grade student at CES. He is the son of Andrea and Luke Lawler. His favorite teacher is Debbie Baugh and math is his favorite subject. He enjoys playing soccer. His future plan is to become an architect and design buildings.
Taylor County Elementary School recently named its Good Deed winners for the week of April 11.
They are Isles Duncan, Samuel Hatcher, Gwyndolyn Denham, Steven Nannery and William Balsan.
Taylor County High School recently named its Students of the Week for the week of April 28.
They are freshman Lanie Hall, sophomore Matthew Salee, junior Emily Porter and senior Katelyn Carter.
Taylor County High School seniors are hosting art exhibits in the community, through May 22.
Jakob Fox's and Dustin Campbell's work is showing at Taylor County Bank on Broadway.
Work by Tyler Rushing and Marshall Steele is on display at Forcht Bank on Broadway.
Dalton Bennett's work is on display at Taylor County Public Library.
Work by Megan Mullican and Dakota Morgan is at Taylor County Bank in Green River Plaza.
Taylor County High School student Christa Thomas recently won Best of Show awards in the two- and three-dimensional categories at the school's annual art competition.
Taylor County High School student Emily Swafford recently placed second in the Kentucky General Federation of Women's Clubs state art competition.
Emilee Kathleen O'Brien, the daughter of Hugh and Mechonda O'Brien of Elizabethtown and the granddaughter of Lloyd and Charlotte Henderson, formerly of Campbellsville, graduated from Campbellsville University on May 2. She graduated as valedictorian and summa cum laude.
She received a Bachelor's of Science degree in mathematics with a minor in physics.
While at CU, O'Brien served as a presidential ambassador. She received the mathematics and physics academic awards and this year's Honors Program Award.
Stephen B. Humphress, general counsel for the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, was a featured conference speaker at the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association's 21st annual Legal Symposium on Alcohol Beverage Law and Regulation on March 10-12 in Alexandria, Va.
Humphress is the son of Campbellsville residents Donald and Charlotte Humphress. He graduated from Campbellsville High School in 1985.
Linda Waggener
Campbellsville University
Campbellsville University celebrated Earth Day recently at Turner Log Cabin Park, where students, faculty and staff were joined by students from Campbellsville Independent Schools for traditional planting of trees and flowers.
CU President Dr. Michael V. Carter said, "As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's grace."
Joan C. McKinney
Campbellsville University has begun an online chapel experience for students.
Developed in partnership with Learning House, CU's online chapel is the first of its kind in the online educational world, Dr. Shane Garrison, assistant professor of educational ministries and director of theology online at CU, said.
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Translator Huang taking over (Xiumin, you need subtittles…or Luhan!)
Dear exo fans. You must learn from this picture. Be a mature fans
So Xiumin 시우민 was trending on naver today.
Why ?
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DAMN. The trend of the trend.
The passiveness of this sentence makes me laugh every time I see it.
There goes Godzilla, destroying the city.
*breaks down ur door* vixx won *smashes all ur shit* vixx won *shoves laptop in ur face* vixx won


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Sawatdy helps Project Backpack | Letters | Nov. 13
On behalf of Sawatdy Thai Cuisine and Helpline House's Project Backpack, we wish to thank the patrons who dined at Sawatdy's on Monday nights in July and August. 10 percent of the Monday night sales for those two months was donated to Helpline to assist students in getting ready to go back to school.
The generosity of Sawatdy's and those enjoying their delicious dinners made a major contribution toward Project Backpack's ability to help students with the supplies needed to start school this fall and with education-related expenses throughout the coming year.
We deeply appreciate the support of Quyen and the staff of Sawatdy Thai Cuisine
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Tutuki Splash2 Reviews
Obviously Mikey couldn't avoid me forever. He did sit by me on the coach on the way to Port Aventura "Mikey, about last night-"
"Look, I don't wanna talk about it. I shouldn't have kissed you. I'm sorry."
"No, no, it's just that…" I took a deep breath, trying to organise the words in my brain "I can't explain it Mikey. I've wanted you to kiss me for a long time but I just… I'm not very good around boys Mikey."
Mikey was silent and I sighed. Had I blown it with him? Then he asked "So do you wanna hang out again tonight?"
I smiled "Yeah, I'd love to."
Mikey smiled back at me. He has a really cute smile.
"So what should we go on first?" Raven asked.
I was hanging out with Raven, Ray, Astrid, Penina and Frank "Let's go on the rapids!" Frank suggested.
I'd never been on the rapids before but they sounded safer than any of the other rides so I followed them "Hollie, don't worry about it, you'll think their fun." Penina promised me.
So we went into the cowboy section of the theme park and joined the queue "Oh my god I need a picture of me in my first ever queue for a ride." I cried and pulled my camera out of my bag. I took several pictures of all of us until we got to the front of the queue.
"Hey Hozzie, do you wanna sit by me?" Raven asked "You don't look so good."
"I'll be fine and yeah sure, I'll sit by you."
The small circular boats only contained six people which was perfect for us. It was weird because you had to step onto a moving platform and wait for the people in to get out before you got in. Of course this made me panic and start crying "Quick, get in, get in!"
I sat by Raven, Ray sat by Astrid and Penina sat next to Frank "I think I might freak out when this leaves the platform." The boat left the platform "Oh my god, we're moving!" I squealed as we started spinning round "I don't like being backwards, I can't see where I'm going!"
"Hozzie, calm down!" Raven giggled.
"I'm not exactly calmed up…" I replied "Oh my god, a tunnel!" Suddenly water splashed over all six of us "No! My Hunger Games book is in my bag! It'll be ruined!"
"Why the fuck did you bring your hunger games book?"
"Well last year all I did was wait for people to get off rides so I packed it in case I had to do it again!" I squeaked as more water splashed into the boat.
"It's over, don't worry now…" Astrid told us as she saw the ramp that brought us to the end.
We all giggled then shrieked as the water guns turned on and we got wet "Well at least it's really hot so we'll dry sooner."
It took a long time for us to get to the top of the ramp and then we were on the moving platform again.
An hour later we'd eaten lunch and walked round the park a bit but hadn't gone on anything since "Can we go on that ride that everyone else went on last year?" I asked "I would've gone on with them but nobody asked me too so I just stayed there."
"You mean tutuki splash?" Penina asked. I nodded "Yeah sure we can go on that."
We went to the African section and joined a long queue for tutuki splash. It was heaps longer than the one for the rapids. While we were in the queue I showed Ray and Raven my present for Tyler (a small baby onesie with a baby cookie monster saying nom nom while he ate a cookie).
Soon we were at the front of the queue and we had to form six small separate queues to make up the sections of the ride "What, does this mean we're at the front?" I asked as I stood in between Ray and Penina "I don't wanna be at the front! I can handle being in the middle of this but not at the front!"
"Hozzie, stop freaking out, we're about to get on." Penina told me.
So we got into a large boat type thing and the guy put the safety belt down and we moved on "I wish I hadn't gone on…" I whispered "I'm freaking out!"
"Hozzie, it's gonna be fine…" Ray re-assured me.
I looked up "Wait, there's a dip right here! Nobody told me there was gonna be a- AHHHHHH!" I screamed as we went down a ramp that was about a quarter of the size of the big one we'd seen on the way in.
"It's the bump on the way down the big one that I'm not looking forward to." Ray told me.
I didn't really hear him, I was kind of panicking an awful lot "Dude, I'm freaking out…" I hissed "Oh my god, I wanna get off, I'm freaking out…" We started going up a big hill that would lead to the big fall "Guys, I need to get off."
"Hozzie, it's a bit late for that." Penina told me "Let's sing a song to calm you down…"
"I'm too scared to sing a fucking song!" I shrieked, holding on tighter to the safety bar as we made it to the top.
"Let's put our hands in the air as we go down!" Raven laughed, letting go of the bar and throwing her arms in the air.
"No fucking way!" I yelled then screamed at the top of my lungs as we plummeted down the ride. I nearly threw up when we went over the bump halfway down then we hit the bottom. We stopped screaming. Then a huge wave appeared that went high above our heads "Oh shit…" Penina hissed before the wave crashed down on top of us.
"We got the most wet because we were at the front." Ray grumbled.
I laughed "That was awesome!" I cried "Let's do it again!"


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Will Rogers Cocktail Toasts A Man Who "Never Met A Man He Dident [sic] Like"
The Will Rogers cocktail is a namesake drink with gin, vermouth, orange juice and curacao. Once voted America's most popular actor, the Will Rogers drink recipe had already been published in the 1930 Savoy cocktail book before his tragic 1935 death in an airplane crash at the age of 55.
In addition to acting in 48 silent films and 21 movies with sound, the cowboy philosopher started in show business performing twirling rope tricks along with a pony act in Texas Jack's Wild West Circus. This led to extended stints in Vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies where he introduced satire into the mix and Will Rogers transformed himself from the "Ropin' Fool" to the "Talkin' Fool".
"Our Constitution Protects Aliens, Drunks, and U. S. Senators." ~ Will Rogers
While the "end of my rope" is where Will Rogers would say he drinks up early success, political cocktails and talkies propelled him to worldwide fame. His humorous anecdotes and commentary on politics, news of the day and matters of the heart onstage turned into books and a syndicated column for the New York Times and frequent postings in other major newspapers and magazines like the Saturday Evening Post.
"Prohibition Is Better Than No Liquor At All." ~ Will Rogers
"Now it is not so terribly serious, this Prohibition … We are trying to settle something here that has been going on since way back in Bible times … Right in the start of Genesis, the ninth chapter and twentieth verse, it says, 'And Noah became a husbandman and planted a vineyard.'
The minute he became a husband he started in raising the ingredients that goes with married life. So you can trace all drink to marriage, see. What we got to prohibit is marriage." ~ Will Rogers - In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century.
He was a beloved cowboy turned humorist, actor, and writer whose popularity earned him membership in a small club of famous people who have drinks named for themselves. Some even have the same last name as listed below.
Will Rogers Cocktail Drink:
- 1 oz Orange Juice
- 1 oz French Vermouth
- 2 oz Plymouth Gin
- 4 Dashes Curacao
Measure ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
"Always Drink Upstream From The Herd." ~ Will Rogers
Will Is One Of Three Rogers To Have A Signature Drink:
- Ginger Rogers cocktail - contains gin, ginger syrup and ginger ale with a splash of lime juice and muddled mint.
- Roy Rogers mocktail - adds a little grenadine to cola with a maraschino cherry garnish.
Cowboy Themed Home Bars With Will Rogers Cocktails On The Drinks Menu:
- Bar Stool Seats Saddled - with leather rigging, stirrups and strap holders.
- Standing Room Only Saloon - has no bar stools.


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As of Wednesday, December 21, 2011
© Copyright 2014 Gwinnett Daily Post
CHICAGO — As I look back on 2011, I'd say the most memorable headlines concerning Hispanics fell under the "made us look bad" category. As in, I saw a negative news story attached to someone with a Latino surname and thought "Why, oh why, did the perpetrator have to be 'one of us'?"After five years of increasingly coarse anti-Hispanic and anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric -- which has resulted in the highest percentage of Latinos targeted for hate crimes and has subjected even U.S.-born Hispanics to immigration detentions -- there is a special kind of disappointment and dread of hostile reaction when bad news is associated with Latinos.
For instance, there was that awful moment when the identity of the competitive shopper who pepper-sprayed fellow Black Friday customers at a Walmart was described by Los Angeles police as a "Hispanic woman, 32 to 38 years of age, 5-foot-3," and so on.
And, what Latino didn't grimace when it came out that the guy charged with firing an assault rifle at the White House in November, and is believed to have wanted to assassinate the president, was U.S.-born Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez of Idaho Falls, Idaho?
Double grimace a few days later when Jose Pimentel, an American citizen of Dominican heritage who had converted to Islam and got mixed up with al-Qaida, was arrested under the suspicion of plotting to commit a terrorist attack in New York.
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, known to some as the first serious Hispanic presidential candidate after his relatively short campaign ended in early 2008, is said to be under federal investigation for two separate incidents -- one in which $250,000 from campaign funds was allegedly used to pay off a woman who had threatened to file a sexual-harassment complaint and another involving corrupt state investments.
And these are just the most recent examples of Latinos who deserve to be stood in the town square and have rotten tomatoes flung at them for shaming the rest of us. The rest of 2011 had plenty of standouts. Who can forget the backlash all Hispanics experienced after a predominantly Latino crowd booed the men's U.S. soccer team when they played Mexico's squad at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., last summer?
There is a familiar, unpleasant, pit-of-the-stomach feeling that gnaws at Hispanics when "one of ours" does something stupid. It reinforces a certain public sentiment -- stronger is some circles than in others -- that Latinos are underachieving, violence-prone foreigners who don't love America as much as others' ancestors did when they immigrated here. Legally, some would add.
Many Hispanics will be angry at me that I've even brought up these bad apples instead of focusing on success stories. But pretending that these transgressors don't exist won't make them go away, and committing to spotlighting only the heroes would be equally unbalanced and unbeneficial to the public perception of Latinos.
Obviously, countless Hispanics overcame barriers to become professionals, showed courage under fire, healed the sick, comforted the poor, and otherwise made the world a better place this year. But the seemingly never-ending stream of negative stories involving Latinos -- crime, illegal immigration, lagging educational achievement and poverty -- will always eclipse good news because humans' insatiable love of conflict and villains tends to center around race, ethnicity and gender.
The bright side is that for every Latino who does something idiotic to reinforce someone's deeply ingrained biases against Hispanics, there will always be other exemplars of good character or stratospheric achievement to counter the stereotypes.
Daniel Hernandez, the intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords whose fearless and quick thinking after Jared Loughner's shooting rampage in Arizona in January played a huge part in saving the congresswoman's life, springs to mind.
The reality is that universal truths always win in the end. Once people get used to seeing masses of Latinos in roles across the wide breadth of society -- in everything from middle-class jobs to positions of legislative power and mainstream celebrity -- we will be no more threatening or valuable than anyone else in this country.
In a decade or so America will take stock of itself and realize that Hispanics are neither exclusively good nor evil. Like people from every age group, religion, political ideology, and sports-team fan base, there is a perplexing mix of wonderful, horrible and everything in between.
Esther J. Cepeda is a nationally syndicated columnist. Email her at email@example.com.
More like this story
- CEPEDA: Still at odds over immigration ( December 1, 2012 )
- CEPEDA: A false story about Latinos ( February 25, 2012 )
- CEPEDA: Why DREAM is still a nightmare ( May 2, 2012 )
- CEPEDA: Gingrich's tightrope walk ( November 30, 2011 )
- ESTHER CEPEDA: A Latino identity crisis ( January 18, 2012 )


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where the fuck do you think you are going? That cock is still hard, get back here and finish fucking me!


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05 7 / 2012
What are you forgetting?
How many projects are you working on right now? 5? 10? Whatever system you use to manage your work, it's likely filling up. We're all busy.
Projects and tasks often come to you from external sources: bug reports, partners, a favor for a friend. As your todo list starts to fill up, it's easy to start seeing yourself as a piece of machinery built to work this list down to the bone.
By always working to reduce todos and never adding them, you don't get time to think about the work that you're uniquely positioned to recognize needs (or will need) to get done.
Try sitting down once a week to consider what you're forgetting:
* Is a project close to launch forgetting about QA?
* Is test coverage company-wide slipping?
* Has it been too long since you caught up with a close friend?
* What will your team work on next month?
Getting work done is great, but make time to check your blind spots.
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31 1 / 2012
You've been recruiting, doing outreach, interviewing, interviewing more, giving the sell, grabbing drinks, giving the hard sell. Finally, you've got them. They've agreed to join your startup. Now begins the ever-important task of taking a talented outsider and migrating them to a productive member of the team — onboarding.
There are a few variables in onboarding that can determine how long it will take them to become productive and comfortable.
• Did you know them previously?
• Did some or all of your coworkers know them previously?
• Do they know the tools you use? (the language, the source control)
• Are they new to your business?
If the answer to most of these is yes, onboarding may only take a week or two, otherwise you can expect several weeks and maybe months, depending on the position and job requirements.
Below are a few key points that have helped me get new engineering team members up to speed. They may not be perfectly applicable to your company, but I think it's a good general outline
Make them feel welcome
Starting a new job is a very stressful time (duh), so it's important to make them feel as welcome from the moment they enter. All new employees at foursquare are greeted at their desk with a welcome package containing a foursquare hoodie, pins, dodgeball (of course), and other goodies.
Once they get settled, do a little meet and greet, and finish some administrivia, they start the important day 1 task: running the build, and making a commit (not all employees do this, but it's a good goal). The commit can be a small bug fix, or as simple as adding their name to the about page. That way within a few hours of arriving, they're a contributor. Their name is in Git, we're already better with them on board.
This point will manifest itself in many different ways. For us it generally means going to lunch with the team, grabbing coffee with @dens, and getting a few drinks. For you it may mean pair programming, or a team offsite. The details and scale don't matter, what matters is making sure you're helping build a fun and comfortable atmosphere.
Have a Plan
At the end of day 1 (or sometimes earlier), I like to share a document with them that shows the plan, starting today and ending in a few weeks with them fully up to speed and ready to jump into any project. The system I've been in favor of is roughly a 3 week plan:
Week 1: A handful of small bug fixes.
Things that you haven't gotten around to and take only a few lines to fix. Preferably scattered throughout the code base, to help them gain familiarity with the layout and structure. Not a lot of deliverables, but enough to feel progress.
Week 2: Big bugs and small features.
Bugs that are things you may not know how to fix off the top of your head and may take a full day to figure out. At the same time, start on a small project, something that will take roughly 2-3 days. It's a good turning point when you start working on features instead of just fixing bugs, more progress.
Week 3: Start on a big feature.
This is the final step where they start working with the code they'll be with for a while. Hopefully it's something well defined, but even if it isn't, it's a great time to get involved in planning meetings, working with the people in other parts of the company, and gaining independence.
At the end of the week is a good time to sit down, review all of the work that's been done and assess where things stand. At this point they're likely ready to move forward full speed, and you're ready to start the recruiting process again!
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22 1 / 2012
Interactive Historical NYC Maps
The NYPL maps division has done an amazing job digitizing historical maps and atlases (of varying degrees of completion). They provide exports of buildings, districts, POIs, transport and hydrography in ESRI Shapefile, WMS, KML, CSV, GeoRSS. They also provide a url where they host tiles themselves.
This makes it trivial to add these atlases as a layer on any map, I made a demo including 1857, 1916, and 1924 maps that you can play with here (try toggling to layers).
If you're into this type of thing, consider contributing to their map rectification project
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08 1 / 2012
Did You Mean?
I took some time this weekend to hack together a simple suggestion engine called 'Did You Mean?'.
Check out the demo
It creates a BK-Tree of words you provide, and compares those words to a query using Levenshtein Distance (edit distance). It's basic, but useful for small dictionaries of words when you want to let the user know they've likely made a typo.
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07 1 / 2012
Reading Harder
Over the last few years my reading retention has slowly regressed. I find myself re-reading emails, unable to finish long form articles, and generally skimming anything I set my eyes on. It feels like my brain has taken the way I read twitter and applied it to all text.
So this year I'm focusing on reading harder (term borrowed from @hotdogsladies). More books, more articles, and more focus. I'm paring down the number of people I follow, filtering out email I know I won't read, and giving text the time and attention required for retention.
20 5 / 2011
Test Accounts
It's always a good idea to give your test accounts the first name: <script>alert('you lose')</script>
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13 4 / 2011
Array length caching
Remember to cache your array lengths when iterating over big arrays (30-50% optimization with my tests in Chrome 12 and Firefox 4)
for(var i = 0, l = bigArray.length; i < l; i++) { }
// do something
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10 4 / 2011
HTML5 Goodies
The W3C has a great page hosting HTML5 logo resources. Grab a badge for your site, a shirt, or some free stickers and help fight the good fight.
10 4 / 2011
Shady Characters
Shady Characters is a stunningly detailed series of articles profiling uncommon punctuation. The first three part series went through the dramatic history of the Pilcrow touching on religon, politics and everything in between.
This week: the Interrobang!?
10 4 / 2011
Back to tumblr
After giving wordpress a fair shot, I've decided to come back to tumblr. Not sure if i'll be porting my old posts over, though currently feeling unlikely.
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Two girls were sent to the hospital Monday after an ATV wreck.
Authorities say they were riding off road when they lost control near Eldora Road in Bulloch County.
LifeStar flew one of the girls to Memorial Health in Savannah.
There is no word yet on their conditions.
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Name: Miss Fluffers
Age: 1
School: Kimberly's Apartment
Hometown: The Pet Shelter
Major: String Theory
Favorite Drink: Milk
If I'm trying to get with you, what should I do?
What should I avoid doing?
What's better, twine or yarn?
Are you single?
What's your most embarassing college moment?
(Miss Fluffers begins grooming herself.)
(Miss Fluffers, having now lost all interest in her interview, starts chasing a ray of light. It is adorable.)
More pictures of Miss Fluffers after the jump!
Just kidding


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Three questions:
1. Is Builder Mac compatible?
2. Is there a way to develop and polish a site off line, on my computer, and then upload it onto the Web when it is finished? If so, how do I do this?
3. I have an existing business site that is straight HTML, no flash, no Java. I've read something about being able to import any site into Builder/Wordpress. Is this possible? And how would I do this?
Can Builder develop sites offline, and can I import a HTML site?
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Posted 31 March 2011 - 02:29 PM
- See http://ithemes.com/forum/index.php?/topic/12916-linux-os-required/. It is possible to install and run WordPress with Builder on Mac using MAMP.
- Yes. Develop the site locally on MAMP and BackupBuddy to transfer. I do the same all the time, although I use XAMPP (on Windows)
- Not possible as far as I know. The site has to be re-created by laying out modules, adding widgets and CSS styling.
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Baohua Jia, Victoria AU
|Patent application number
|NON-LINEAR MATERIALS AND RELATED DEVICES - A non-linear optical device comprising a non-linear element made of a plasmonic material with a periodic structure having a period smaller than the wavelength of a non-linear process intrinsic to the plasmonic material. The plasmonic material is implemented as a gold film which is structured with a periodic array of asymmetric split ring slits. The metamaterial framework of the plasmonic material itself is used as the source of a strong and fast non-linearity. The cubic non-linear response is resonantly enhanced through the effect of the metamaterial structuring by more than two orders of magnitude and its sign and magnitude can be controlled by varying the metamaterial pattern.
Baohua Jia, Mont Albert North AU
|Patent application number
|THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL - A thin-film solar cell product, including:
|WAFER-BASED SOLAR CELL - A solar cell product including:
Chang-Hui Jia, Keelung TW
|Patent application number
|ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector is disclosed and includes a body and a cover. The body has a first through hole and an area for conducting and accommodating solder between the first through hole and the edges of the body. The cover is movably disposed on the body. The color of the cover is lighter than that of the body. The cover has a second through hole and an area for accommodating pins between the second through hole and the edges of the cover. The second through hole corresponds to the first through hole. The second through hole has a first rim, a second rim, a third rim, and a fourth rim. The third rim and the fourth rim are parallel to a movement direction of the cover. When the cover is at an open state on the body, the area for accommodating pins and the area for conducting and accommodating solder are disengaged, the projection of the first rim and the second rim of the second through hole vertically on the body does not lie in the first through hole. It solves the problem of making mistakes in inspection.
Chunjiang Jia, Manchester GB
|Patent application number
|CRYOGENIC POWER CONTROL - An apparatus
Feng Jia, Freiburg DE
|Patent application number
|Design of MRI gradient coil - A method for designing an electromagnetic gradient coil for magnetic resonance imaging systems. The method includes the steps of: choosing a set of objectives L
Guocheng Jia, Kowloon HK
|Patent application number
|Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Alkynes and Organic Azides - A convenient process for the regioselective synthesis of 1,5-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles and 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles from organic azides and alkynes employs catalytic ruthenium.
Haijun Jia, Ibaraki JP
|Patent application number
|THIN-FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE - A high-efficiency triple-junction thin-film photovoltaic device in which the haze ratio is high and the short-circuit current values obtained from each of the photovoltaic layers are equalized. A thin-film photovoltaic device comprises a transparent electrode layer and three silicon-based photovoltaic layers stacked in sequence on a substrate. The transparent electrode layer has at least one opening formed by an etching treatment that exposes the surface of the substrate, and the haze ratio of the transparent electrode layer relative to light of a broad wavelength region is at least 60%.
Haiyan Jia, London GB
|Patent application number
|Arginine Derivatives with NP-I Antagonistic Activity - The present invention is a compound of formula (I) or formula (II) which are suitable as NP-1 antagonists.
|ARGININE DERIVATIVES WITH NP-I ANTAGONISTIC ACTIVITY - The present invention is a compound of formula (I) or formula (II) which are suitable as NP-1 antagonists.
|NP-1 Antagonists and Their Therapeutic Use - Compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: W is arylene, heteroarylene or formula (a) each L is independently alkylene, alkenylene, alkynylene, a direct bond, arylene, cycloalkylene, alkylene-arylene, alkylene-C═O or —C═O; each X is independently an N-containing heteroarylene, N-containing cycloalkylene or NR; Y is N-containing heteroaryl, N-containing cycloalkyl, NR
|Arginine Derivatives with NP-I Antagonistic Activity - The present invention is a compound of formula (I) or formula (II) which are suitable as NP-1 antagonists.
Hong-Peng Jia, Villeurbanne Cedex FR
|Patent application number
|CARBOCATALYSTS FOR CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - The disclosure relates to catalytically active carbocatalysts, e.g., a graphene oxide or graphite oxide catalyst suitable for use in a variety of chemical transformations. In one embodiment, it relates to a method of catalyzing a chemical reaction of an organic molecule by reacting the organic molecule in the presence of a sufficient amount of graphene oxide or graphite oxide for a time and at a temperature sufficient to allow catalysis of a chemical reaction. According to other embodiments, the reaction may be an oxidation reaction, a hydration reaction, a dehydrogenation reaction, a condensation reaction, or a polymerization reaction. Some reactions may include auto-tandem reactions. The disclosure further provides reaction mixtures containing an organic molecule and graphene oxide or graphite oxide in an amount sufficient to catalyze a reaction of the organic molecule.
Jiabin Jia, Leeds GB
|Patent application number
|ELECTRICAL TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND METHOD AND CURRENT DRIVER - Electrical tomography apparatus comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and current driving means for driving an electrical current between the first electrode and the second electrode through a medium, wherein the current driving means comprises: a first transformer having a first winding and a second winding, the second winding having a first terminal and a second terminal; and means for generating an alternating current through the first winding so as to generate an alternating voltage between said first terminal and said second terminal. The apparatus further comprises connecting means arranged to connect the first terminal to the first electrode and the second terminal to the second electrode. Generation of the alternating current in the first winding results in generation of an alternating voltage between the first and second electrodes. In certain embodiments, a current sensing transformer provides an indication of current driven through the medium.
Jiaya Jia, Hong Kong HK
|Patent application number
Jie Jia, Seoul KR
|Patent application number
|Method of Redundant Picture Coding Using Polyphase Downsampling and the Codes Using the Method - Provided are a method for redundant slice coding by polyphase down-sampling (PD) and a codec using the method. An encoder for redundant slice coding by PD includes a PD coding unit rearranging a residual block that is a difference between a current block and a prediction block into four sections by performing PD on the residual block, a quantization transform unit transforming and quantizing at least one of the sections of the residual block, and a reference block generation unit generating a reference block based on a value obtained by performing inverse transform and inverse quantization, and then inverse PD on the at least one transformed and quantized section by the quantization transform unit.
|COLOR VIDEO SCALABILITY ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF - Provided are a color video scalability encoding and decoding method and a device thereof. The color video scalability encoding method includes encoding a chrominance image block of an enhancement layer by using lower layer information. In the encoding a chrominance image block, a color coded block pattern value is generated according to a pattern of quantization coefficients of a residual chrominance Image block chrominance image block generated using the lower layer information.
|SCALABLE VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD USING SWITCHING PICTURES AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A conventional new video coding technology can provide a bitstream switching picture by encoding the bitstream switching picture into an I picture. However, an encoding efficiency is greatly reduced. As such, the new video coding technology does not provide an efficient bitstream switching function. Also, other advantages provided by a switching picture technology such as a random access, error durability, and a bitstream splicing are not provided. Provided is an apparatus for encoding a video bitstream including a base layer bitstream and an enhancement layer bitstream by encoding an enhancement layer picture of the enhancement layer bitstream, which is reproduced immediately after a base layer picture of the base layer bitstream is reproduced, into a non-switching pictures by interlayer prediction using a reference image generated by decoding a pre-encoded base layer picture or by motion prediction using another reference image generated by decoding a pre-encoded enhancement layer picture, and into a switching picture, which is decoded into the same image as the non-switching picture, by an interlayer prediction using the non-switching picture and a reference image generated by decoding a pre-encoded base layer picture, while the base layer picture is being reproduced.
|VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Video encoding and its corresponding decoding are disclosed. The video encoding incorporates: a predictor for predicting a pixel value of each pixel in a current block of the video to generate a predicted pixel value; a subtractor for calculating a difference between an original pixel value of the pixel in the current block and the predicted pixel value of the pixel in the current block to generate a residual signal; a transformer for transforming the residual signal into frequency coefficients; a quantizer for quantizing the transformed frequency coefficients; and an encoder for encoding the quantized frequency coefficients by using one of different variable length coding tables.
|INTERPOLATION METHOD AND PREDICTION METHOD USING SAME - The present invention relates to a method of performing interpolation for prediction between screens by using a pixel sample of a current picture and a pixel sample of a reference picture, and a prediction method using same. The interpolation method according to the present invention includes: calculating movement information for generating a prediction block; and generating a partial pixel sample on the basis of an integer sample set including integer pixel samples to which an interpolation filter is applied. Here, the integer sample set includes at least one current integer sample used to generate a partial pixel sample among restored integer pixel samples of a current picture, and the partial pixel sample corresponds to the offset positions of a partial pixel unit from a predetermined reference pixel sample among integer pixel samples.
Patent applications by Jie Jia, Seoul KR
Jingdong Jia, Singapore SG
|Patent application number
|WAFER SIDE EDGE CLEANING APPARATUS - A wafer side edge cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning device including a fixing element and a wafer brush disposed beneath the fixing element. The wafer brush is in the shape of a frustum. The frustum has a tapered surface contacting with a side edge of a wafer. The top surface of the frustum is larger than the bottom surface of the frustum. When cleaning the side edge of the wafer, the wafer and the wafer brush are rotated in different directions and a cleaning solution flows out from the fixing element rinses and washes the side edge brush.
Qian-Wen Jia, Taipei TW
|Patent application number
|FACIAL TRACKING METHOD - A facial tracking method for detecting and tracking at least one face image in a region during a time period. The facial tracking method includes a step of performing an image acquiring operation, a step of performing a facial detecting operation to detect whether there is any face image in the entire of a current photo image, and at least one step of performing a facial tracking operation. For performing the facial tracking operation, plural tracking frames are located around a face image of the current photo image, and a similarity between the face image of the current photo image and the image included in each tracking frame in order to judge whether the face image exists in the next photo image. By the facial tracking method of the present invention, the time period of tracking face images is largely reduced.
Qing Wei Jia, Singapore SG
|Patent application number
|LOW FREQUENCY BOOSTER FOR RV/SHOCK/FRICTON DISTURBANCE REJECTION - A system for removing low frequency disturbance signals from a control system output. The system includes a controller, a mixer, a feedback loop, and a low pass filter. The controller generates a control signal. The mixer is connected to the controller and receives the control signal from the controller. The feedback loop connects an output of said mixer to an input of the mixer. A low pass filter in the feedback loop allows low frequency disturbance signals in the control signal output from the mixer to pass through the feedback loop and to be added to the control signal by said mixer for handling by the controller.
|SYSTEM FOR WRITE FAULT PROTECTION IN A HARD DISK DRIVE - This invention relates to a system and method performed by a controller in a hard disc drive to generate a write fault signal. The system performs in the following manner. The system begins by receiving a sample of a position error signal. The system then generates a control signal from the position error signal. A sample of the control signal is then captured by the system. The system then determines a parameter to test from the captured sample of the control signal. The absolute value of the parameter is then calculated and compared to a threshold value. The system then generates a write fault error signal in response to a determination that the absolute value of the parameter is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROBUST ATTENUATION OF MECHANICAL RESONANCES USING A MULTI-RATE LOW PASS FILTER - A system for a providing a multi-rate digital low pass filter that attenuates high frequency resonances in a control signal. The filter described by a transfer function having a phase-advanced factor (or an approximation of phase-advanced factor) and a low pass filtering function; either cancels or avoids an unstable pole in the phase advanced factor at z=−1.
Ren-Nien Jia, Hsinchu City TW
|Patent application number
|Electrical Apparatus For Vehicles - An electrical apparatus is provided. The electrical apparatus includes a first rotation device; a second rotation device co-axially disposed with the first rotation device for electromagnetically matching with each other; and a brake device connected to the second rotation device to constrain the second rotation device from a rotation.
Weijia Jia, Hong Kong HK
|Patent application number
|MOBILE INTERNET SERVICE SYSTEM FOR LONG DISTANCE TRAINS - Embodiments described herein generally relate to providing communication services to client devices in a transport system. In some examples, methods of providing communication services to client devices in a transport system are described. The methods can include exchanging, among a multiple number of routers provided in a transport system, status information of each of the multiple number of routers. The methods can also include receiving, at a given router included in the multiple number of routers, a communication addressed to a remote server accessible through a first network. The communication may be received from a client device connected to the given router through a second network different than the first network. The methods can also include, based on the status information, routing the communication to the remote server through at least the given router and the first network.
Weijia Jia, New Territories HK
|Patent application number
|SILENCE-BASED ADAPTIVE REAL-TIME VOICE AND VIDEO TRANSMISSION METHODS AND SYSTEM - A client for silence-based adaptive real-time voice and video (SAVV) transmission methods and systems, detects the activity of a voice stream of conversational speech and aggressively transmits the corresponding video frames if silence in the sending or receiving voice stream has been detected, and adaptively generates and transmits key frames of the video stream according to characteristics of the conversational speech. In one aspect, a coordination management module generates video frames, segmentation and transmission strategies according to feedback from a voice encoder of the SAVV client and the user's instructions. In another aspect, the coordination management module generates video frames, segmentation and transmission strategies according to feedback from a voice decoder of the SAVV client and the user's instructions. In one example, the coordination management module adaptively generates a key video frame when silence is detected in the receiving voice stream.
Xiang-You Jia, Sinjhuang City TW
|Patent application number
|MOTOR DRIVING CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF OUTPUTTING DUAL FREQUENCY GENERATOR (FG) SIGNAL - A motor driving circuit capable of outputting a dual FG signal includes a control unit, a first Hall unit, a second Hall unit and a logic unit. The control unit is electrically connected to the first Hall unit and configured to generate a first FG signal based on a Hall signal sent by the first Hall unit. The second Hall unit is configured to detect the change in magnetic fields to generate a second FG signal to the logic unit. The logic unit is electrically connected to the control unit and the second Hall unit. The logic unit is configured to perform a logic operation based on the received first and second FG signals to convert them into a dual FG signal for an external system. With the control unit, the first Hall unit, the second Hall unit and the logic unit being integrated in the motor driving circuit, the convenience in use can be improved greatly. Furthermore, the working hours and the production cost can be reduced.
|CIRCUIT STRUCTURE CAPABLE OF STRAIGHT/REVERSE CONNECTION OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ELECTRODES OF AN INPUT POWER SOURCE - The present invention provides a circuit structure capable of straight/reverse connection of positive and negative electrodes of an input power source, which includes a load, an input power portion, a protection unit, a first switch unit and a second switch unit. The first switch unit and the second switch unit can respectively select an ON or OFF state based on the electrical polarities of a first electrode end and a second electrode end of the input power portion. By this arrangement, the circuit structure of the present invention can be operated normally no matter whether the positive and negative electrodes of the input power source are straightly or reversely connected.
Xiaoming Jia, Singapore SG
|Patent application number
|DEVICE FOR GENERATING STEAM - A steam generating apparatus (
Xibei Jia, Edinburgh GB
|Patent application number
|Methods and Apparatus for Capturing and Detecting Inconsistencies in Relational Data Using Conditional Functional Dependencies - Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting data inconsistencies. Methods are disclosed for determining whether a set of conditional functional dependencies are consistent; determining a minimal cover of a set of conditional functional dependencies and detecting a violation of one or more conditional functional dependencies in a set of conditional functional dependencies. The conditional functional dependencies comprise one or more constraints that data in a database must satisfy including at least one pattern with data values.
|Methods and Apparatus for Rewriting Regular XPath Queries on XML Views - Methods and apparatus are provided for rewriting view queries into equivalent queries on the source document. According to one aspect of the invention, methods are provided for processing a view query on a database view. The method comprises the steps of translating the view query to a mixed finite state automata representation of a document query on one or more documents underlying the database view; and evaluating the document query on the one or more documents to obtain a result to the view query. The view query may be, for example, a regular XPath query.
Xu Jia, Heidelberg DE
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|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING, PRIORITIZING AND FIXING SECURITY DEFECTS AND COMPLIANCE VIOLATIONS IN SAP.RTM. ABAPtm CODE - A static code analysis (SCA) tool, apparatus and method detects, prioritizes and fixes security defects and compliance violations in SAP® ABAP™ code. The code, meta information and computer system configuration settings are transformed into an interchangeable format, and parsed into an execution model. A rules engine is applied to the execution model to identify security and compliance violations. The rules engine may include information about critical database tables and critical SAP standard functions, and the step of applying the rules engine to the execution model may include the calculation of specific business risks or whether a technical defect has a business-relevant impact. In particular, an asset flow analysis may be used to determine whether critical business data is no longer protected by the computer system. Such critical business data may include credit or debit card numbers, financial data or personal data.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DATA EXTRUSION IN SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - Comprehensive techniques identify data leaks in software applications using Asset Flow Analysis (AFA) to determine whether critical data leaves a system through an exit point such that the data is no longer protected by mechanisms of the system. A novel data extrusion mechanism makes use of a relevant subset of all the possible data paths detected by AFA using a knowledge base of critical business functions and critical database content. The system checks if any code performs read access to critical business data and subsequently transfers this data beyond the control limits of the target system. The knowledge base can be extended by configuring which database content is to be regarded as critical in any given organization. The approach is particularly valuable in protecting systems that manipulate, distribute, or store sensitive information associated with financial, business, or personal data, including SAP® ABAP™ software applications.
Ying Jia, Leicestershire GB
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|ANTI-BACTERIA COMPOSITIONS - The invention relates to anti-bacterial compositions comprising bacteriophage (phage) in sufficiently high concentrations to induce lysis from without in bacteria. Uses of such compositions are disclosed. Phase K and/or P68 are especially preferred.
Yiying Jia, Yongin-Si KR
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|SURFACTANT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROWETTING DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A surfactant includes a hydrophobic functional group, a hydrophilic functional group and a linker disposed between the hydrophobic functional group and the hydrophilic functional group, and the linker is connected to the hydrophobic functional group and the hydrophilic functional group. The linker has a cleavable bond with a bond energy lower than a bond energy of a bond included in the hydrophilic functional group and a bond included in the hydrophobic functional group.
Yunjian Jia, Kodaira JP
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|Apparatus and Method for Peak Suppression in Wireless Communication Systems - A method for suppressing the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) while limiting deterioration in signal characteristics in wireless communication devices utilizing wireless communication methods (OFDM method, MIMO method) for multiplexing and sending multiple signals. A weight calculator unit sets a large weight for transmit signals whose channel quality is poor, relative to the weight of each base component based on the acquired channel quality. A peak detector unit detects the peak from the signal string after unitary conversion, and extracts a distortion component to apply for suppressing the peak. A peak suppression signal generation unit calculates the peak signal from the distortion component and weight of each base component, to add to each base component, and adds the peak suppression signal to each base component prior to unitary transformation.
|WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEIVER AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR RECEIVED SIGNAL - The error correction capability for wireless communication carried out involving propagation path fluctuation in time and frequency selectivity can be improved. A soft decision likelihood value inputted to an error correction decoder is multiplied by a weight determined according to the distance between the data symbol and pilot symbol corresponding to the soft decision likelihood value. Namely, the soft decision bit likelihood value corresponding to the data symbol is weighted according to the distances in time or frequency between the pilot symbol and data symbol. The weight is made smaller when the distance in time or frequency is larger.
|WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENTS WITH FUNCTION OF DETECTING RANDOM ACCESS SIGNAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS WITH FUNCTION OF DETECTING RANDOM ACCESS SIGNAL AND METHOD OF RANDOM ACCESS SIGNAL DETECTION - In a method by which a base station detects a random access signal transmitted by a user equipment to send a transmission request to the base station in uplinks, the base station omits a MF used only to detect the random access signal, or Fourier transform and inverse Fourier transform meeting the random access signal, and uses a Fourier transform unit for data reception to detect the random access signal. Using output of the Fourier transform unit for data reception, which transmits all received signals to frequency region signals, it is judged whether a random access signal is received by a power pattern of bands allocated to the random access signals in one transmission time interval.
Yunjian Jia, Yokohama JP
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|Method of Multiuser Mimo Wireless Communication and Device of Multiuser Mimo Wireless Communication - The present invention achieves a communication speed close to a theoretical limitation with suppressing a computing amount and without increasing protocol overhead. In a multiuser MIMO wireless communication method according to the present invention, a receive weight matrix is determined based on a channel matrix, the channel matrix is updated by a product of the receive weight matrix and a channel matrix, a transmitted signal is generated in a ZF-DPC method based on the updated channel matrix and transmitted, and the receive weight matrix is multiplied with a received signal and then subjected to a DPC decoding. A method of determining a receive weight matrix is to take a conjugate transpose matrix of a left singular matrix obtained when subjecting the channel matrix to a singular value decomposition.
|Communication Control Server, Base Station, Terminal and Coordinated Service System and Method - A communication control server of the present invention comprises: a network interface; a memory unit in which a cluster information table and a channel state information table are stored; a channel state information recovery unit acquiring a feedback message of a user equipment within a cluster from a base station via a network interface, wherein the cluster information table holds a joint codebook shared by the base stations within the cluster, wherein the joint codebook holds an identifier for determining channel state information and a distribution of the channel state information, and wherein the feedback message includes an identifier corresponding to the channel state information of the user equipment.
|WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INTEGRATED BASE STATION, AND TERMINAL - A frame time having a certain period of time is divided into: a time period (for inter-base-station time division multiplex communication) in which one of the base stations has a transmission right in the simultaneous transmission and carries out inter-base-station time division multiplex communication so as to avoid interference between the base stations; and a time period (for inter-base-station simultaneous communication) for communication which is simultaneously carried out between the plurality of base stations. Furthermore, the time periods are switched for the communication.
|DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BASE STATIONS DYNAMIC CLUSTERING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION - Disclosed are a communication control device, a communication control method and the system thereof, which provide efficient multi-base station joint services in a mobile communication system using dynamic clustering. Optimal base station clustering is chosen according to the communication state between a terminal and each base station. The communication control device connects with multiple base stations through a network, and clusters the multiple base stations dynamically so that the clustered multiple base stations can provide services for the mobile terminal in union. The communication control device comprises: an interface, connecting with multiple base stations, receiving channel state information related to the mobile terminal from each base station; a memory unit, storing the channel state information of the mobile terminal received from the interface; a control unit, clustering each base station dynamically according to the channel state information of the mobile terminal stored in the memory unit.
|RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A transmitting station having plural antennas includes: a control information calculation unit that calculates control information for use by plural receiving stations according to a multi-user MIMO data transmission scheme; a control information transmission parameter calculation unit that calculates a control information transmission parameter based on spatial channel related information; and a control information transmission signal creation unit that creates a control information transmission signal, using the control information transmission parameter and a pilot signal. A resource element mapping unit maps control information transmission signals onto corresponding resource elements for transmission. On the other hand, the receiving stations each include a control information acquisition unit that acquires plural pieces of control information signaled on the corresponding resource elements, acquire control information destined for each receiving station, and demodulate received signals.
|DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM BASE STATION AND RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed is a distributed antenna system that selects an antenna in accordance with the position of a mobile terminal and reduces the variation in the total number of mobile terminals using each antenna while maintaining adequate communication quality. In the distributed antenna system in which a large number of antennas are distributively disposed, an antenna group including antennas having good communication quality is selected in accordance with the position of a mobile terminal. Further, in accordance with the communication quality and load status of a current antenna group and with the communication quality and load status of a post-change antenna group, which is obtained by changing some antennas in the current antenna group, the post-change antenna group is formed by changing some antennas in the current antenna group with which a mobile terminal using a heavily loaded antenna communicates.
|RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - To secure a constant level or more of radio communication quality for each user equipment performing radio communication with a base station apparatus, and to increase the number of user equipment which the base station apparatus can accommodate under a condition of assuring the radio communication quality. In a radio communication system where there exist a base station apparatus having multiple antennas and user equipment for performing radio communication with a first antenna group including one or more of the antennas, the first antenna group is made configurable for each user equipment individually, and addition/deletion of the antenna to/from the first antenna group is performed based on the communication quality of each user equipment so that the number of antennas within the first antenna group may be minimized within a range satisfying a required value of the communication quality between the base station apparatus ad the user equipment.
|Distributed Antenna System, Allocation of Distributed Antennas, Base Station - In the case where a base station other than of a distributed antenna system provides a time or frequency at which a transmitted power is low, an antenna group configuration unit estimates a communication area of a mobile station using an uplink reference signal that the mobile station transmits, calculates an inter-system interference power for the communication area of each mobile station based on a received power of the out-of-system base station that the each mobile station reports, calculates the inter-system interference power to each of antennas by averaging the inter-system interference powers that the multiple mobile stations report, and decides antennas that form an antenna group according to magnitudes of the calculated inter-system interference powers.
|RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION DEVICE AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A base station broadcasts a message saying that transmittable ranging codes are limited by antenna IDs to limit antennas and the ranging codes to be searched, thereby reducing a processing load of the search. In a cellular radio communication system in which a base station device is connected to plural antennas, and antenna IDs for identifying the antennas are transmitted from the respective antennas, the base station device broadcasts a message saying that a group of ranging codes transmittable by a terminal device is limited by the antenna IDs, the terminal device receives the message, identifies the antenna ID, selects the ranging code from the group of the ranging codes corresponding to the antenna ID, and transmits the selected ranging code.
Patent applications by Yunjian Jia, Yokohama JP
Yunjian Jia, Tokyo JP
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|BASE-STATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - By a base station that is not limited to a cell concept, the system control cost is controlled and an area of high-communication-speed/high-communication-quality is expanded. There are provided fixed-cell support base-station devices
Zih-Chou Jia, Hsin Chuan TW
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|BLADE STRUCTURE FOR HEAT SINK FANS - A fan blade for heat sink fans is provided. The fan blade includes a wheel hub and a plurality of blades which is disposed around the rim of the wheel hub. The surfaces of the blade fans are designed with protruding or recessing inhibiting part. The flow rate on the blade surfaces is made unsteady by the inhibiting part as the airflow is flowing by to form a constant air flow impact and generate a boundary layer on the blades effectively. The effective second order distribution of the pressure rise is formed, and the effective working area of the fan is expanded. The improvement increases the static pressure and lowers the noise.
Zizhou Jia, Sinjhuang City TW
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|FAN SEAT STRUCTURE - A fan seat structure includes a seat and a snap-fitting member. The seat is formed on a top with a supporting face, from where a bearing cup is upward extended; and a portion of the seat corresponding to the bearing cup is formed into a central passage. The snap-fitting member is assembled to the seat at the central passage, and is integrally formed with a hollow tubular section upward extended toward the bearing cup; and a limiting section and a pressure-proof section are integrally provided in the hollow tubular section. With the snap-fitting member, a cooling fan can have simplified structure and be more stably and reliably assembled, ensuring the cooling fan to have enhanced performance and be manufactured at reduced time, labor and cost.


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