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heavy metal,
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Icewind Dale trilogy,
Game of Thrones,
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Venture Brothers,
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Battlestar Galactica
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My Interests
Interests:Computers, computer gaming, board gaming, writing, motorcross, role-playing, reading
Where I work:First Data Corporation, System Administrator
What I like to do:Gaming, reading, motorcross, watch movies
My Tastes:Cook-ays (I have no idea what to put here ... tastes?)
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The Wolves of Fenris
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Well, not until the price comes down and there are more things that interest me about it. I'm not hating it - just not as excited about it as the Wii, in which I plan on buying two.
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But we still found ourselves gawping with shock - along with a few thousand other onlookers - as it unveiled what can only be described as an insanely styled special edition. As a designer friend who works for an American car brand put it: "It looks like a transformer that has got stuck mid-way through transformation."
There's not much we can tell you in the way of performance or the interior layout that you don't already know, because it's based on the existing Aventador supercar. Which means it's got a V12 engine, about 600 horsepower and an interior that was actually designed by a team from Volkswagen and includes some Audi switchgear, which means it works properly. Not that Lamborghini was willing to show us the interior on this showcar, you understand.
It didn't need to, because you could stare at the exterior for many hours and still find yourself in a state of shock (and possibly awe). There's carbon everywhere, something on the rear deck that we think we last saw on Concorde, and wheels so complex that we weren't entirely sure how they were made. Or whether they were round.
You'll love, or loathe, the Italian tri-colour stripe that kinks around the door opening - and on the showcar didn't quite match up with the panel gaps - and we think the Italian design team possibly borrowed the front lamps off an Audi Le Mans car they found lying around the back of the design studio.
Perhaps most surprisingly, it isn't actually a concept. It's built on an Aventador as it's essentially a body kit, and Lamborghini is going to build three of them, which it plans to sell for a staggering €4.2 million (£33.7m). The only justification for which, considering the regular Aventador costs less than €300,000, is exclusivity.
All in all, we left bewildered and not sure what to think. Except perhaps that, while we might not immediately love the Veneno, we're kind of glad it exists and that it signals Lamborghini - renowned as the craziest supercar marker of all - has no plan to give up that title just yet.
Oh, and that it's still hell-bent on upstaging its rivals in the most childish ways it can think of. Still, we wonder just where they'll find three buyers prepared to stump up the sort of money that typically buys you a small county, on a car. Let us know if you're thinking of joining the queue.
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Twisting My Quotes
I was hoping to share some post-SXSW thoughts but I couldn't help commenting on a Village Voice article where my quotes were twisted around unfairly by a writer who should have known better.
March 19, 2007
Dear Editor,
When writer Tricia Romano sent out an open appeal on a music mailing list for help with an article she was doing, I thought that I'd respond not only as a friend since she had helped me out before but also because I respected her work. It turns out that she was digging around for negative comments about Ultragrrrl without revealing the real gist of her article where she was looking to prop up her subject. There's nothing criminal with it per se but this is still a dubious practice.
I gave her an initial response and then when she replied "Ok are you willing to say this on record?" and I said that I wasn't. I soon gave her a printable response that I asked that she use instead and would be of more use. She decided to use the initial response without reviewing it with me. Again, not illegal but again dubious. This is actually what I said for my second response:
"The one thing she's definitely good at is self-promotion: people in the industry know who she is but that's because she makes such a spectacle of herself. Not that it's a rarity in the music biz but for a writer, it's pretty crass unless you're as good as say Hunter Thompson, which she isn't. As such, I lobbied to keep her off a music conference media panel because I didn't think she'd have anything constructive to add and would just pat herself on the back the whole time."
After my responses, she replied as such:
"Jason thanks although I don't think I can use this. She's not a writer/never claimed to be even with the two paragraph blurb in spin."
This is to say "she's written a column for a national magazine but you can't call her a writer!" Again, very dubious.
To top it off, in her e-mail, you'll note that she didn't think my comments were worth using. She obviously changed her mind and decided to use them in the article though I only learned of this once the article was published. In the past, even when I've written a letter to the Voice, I've been fact-checked but not at all in this case. That was unfortunate since there's information in the initial quote she used from me which I couldn't verify about a panel which is why I modified it out of second quote I gave to her- as far as I know, she never verified the information herself. That's extremely dubious.
Romano has written excellent articles for the Voice about NY nightlife but in this case, she side-stepped good journalism practices in a desperate effort to get her story across. To say that I'm disappointed with her is an understatement. This kind of questionable work is worthy of our disgraced attorney general, not a long-time columnist of a noted national publication.
Jason Gross
Manhattan, New York
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― Billy Dods, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― Rob M, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― Tom, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― the pinefox, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
I also like 'I Am The Cosmos',the posthumous Chris Bell alb.
― Andrew L, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― Sterling Clover, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― JM, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― fritz, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― g, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― Helen Fordsdale, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― Mole Man, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
I heard Big Star before I heard either the Posies or Replacements or
even the Fannies (a brother who had exceedingly bad taste most of the
time finally got something right when he got "#1 Record" / "Radio
city" in '91), and I've converted my fellow bandmate (a Fannies /
Replacements / Smithereens fan) into a BS fan, his trying to convert
me on the 'Mats and Smithereens has never worked in my direction for
some reason. But we're totally agreed on the Posies and the Fannies
though. Odd. I just can't get my head around the 'Mats at all, I've
tried loads of times with different LPs of theirs, but still
nothing. Mind, Paul Westerburg's last solo LP was rather good!
― Rob M, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― Tom, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― dave q, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
Bandwagonesque was all fine & good, but a bit slow (even when going
fast) and surprisingly bland as a whole. Pleasant in certain
situations, though. This is the only album I can confidently speak
on, so feel free to ignore my pronouncements.
― David Raposa, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
'Britpop' = term with huge ever growing scope creep
― Nick, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (14 years ago) Permalink
― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:35 (12 years ago) Permalink
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:52 (12 years ago) Permalink
The Stax org was in such disarray in the early '70s that it's a wonder the records even got out there as much as they did. I've read that each of the first two albums only got into the marketplace in ridiculously small quantities...4000/5000 is a number I've seen.
I don't know if they "define" any era. A post above maintains that to define era, their records would've have to been bought by somebody. So I guess they were one of the first true indie/critic's bands...the reviews were mostly glowing. In retrospect they do seem to define the period much better than any number of more popular acts, though. I see nothing wrong with revisionist nostalgia myself.
For a long time I loved them without reservation, then went thru a period during which I'd just heard them too much. For a lot of us they were like the Beatles, the absolute gold standard of pop records. Now I just accept them as a great pop band, period, and wish people would quit gushing about them so much, or maintaining that they weren't really all that good. As a live band they seem to have sucked; but I can't think of any better-conceived record than "Radio City." Such style. And they seem to define not an era but a state of mind, one epitomized by the Eggleston "red ceiling" photo that graced the original "RC" LP...bad dreams and vibes in an oversexed room, distilled into melancholy, perhaps? With a few good times vaguely recalled? Maybe that's the '70s, I don't know.
Interesting to see what the new Big Star album will be like...
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:12 (12 years ago) Permalink
of course, Chilton & company could scrape a chalkboard with rusty chisels and this guy would say it's the best thing ever.
(I think I listen to Third the most, too)
― Will (will), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 22:25 (12 years ago) Permalink
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 22:38 (12 years ago) Permalink
I wonder how committed Chilton is to the whole idea of Big Star these days. Probably not very. I didn't think much of "Hot Thing."
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:22 (12 years ago) Permalink
― de, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:24 (12 years ago) Permalink
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:26 (12 years ago) Permalink
― de, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:38 (12 years ago) Permalink
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:50 (12 years ago) Permalink
guys seriously I love "Ballad of El Goodo" so much
I want to be in a band that covers this
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 01:41 (9 years ago) Permalink
don't make me say a bunch of shit about it, just fire back re: yes this would be a pretty good thing to do, be in a band that covers this
― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 01:42 (9 years ago) Permalink
― ghost rider, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 01:45 (9 years ago) Permalink
I purchased the Blitzen Trapper song 'Summer Town' just because the vocal hook reminded me of BS' 'Thirteen.'
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 01:46 (9 years ago) Permalink
iiiiijjjjj where do you live?
Ya know, Evan Dando covered "El Goodo".
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 01:50 (9 years ago) Permalink
'Thirteen'>>'El Goodo'
― Drooone, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 01:51 (9 years ago) Permalink
fucking love them. i honestly feel sad for anyone who who passes them by.
― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 01:51 (9 years ago) Permalink
drooone otm but it doesn't even matter
― ghost rider, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 01:55 (9 years ago) Permalink
overrated Grandpappy Indie (VU notwithstanding); not worthless, but nor are Wishbone Ash, for goodness sake
-- mark s, Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:00 PM (5 years ago)
― gershy, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 05:18 (9 years ago) Permalink
overrated Grandpappy Indie (VU notwithstanding); not worthless, but nor are Wishbone Ash, for goodness sake
-- mark s, Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link
― strgn, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― strgn, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:25 (8 years ago) Permalink
uh x-post
― strgn, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:29 (8 years ago) Permalink
and 'mod lang' is what needs to get cover treatment
― strgn, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:30 (8 years ago) Permalink
"Mod Lang" is quite easy to play, so a cover would be cool.
― whisperineddhurt, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 15:30 (8 years ago) Permalink
and somehow, strangely, Big Star lives on.
wish i could go ... is this one of them Don't Look Back things? Are they playing Radio City in its entirety?
i'll also take this opportunity to say that Alex Chilton probably has one of the top 5 singing voices in rock and roll history. Serious.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 15:41 (8 years ago) Permalink
Actually, listening to Radio City and Third, Alex Chilton kind of reminds me of a vanilla Barrett Strong Rude from Lethem's "Forttress of Solitude." Moments on Third definitely sound fucked up enough to come from three-week coke binges.
That being said "Blue Moon" and "Stroke it Noel" totally PWNs! The former is better than "Thirteen" (which, sadly, contains no oboes).
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:44 (8 years ago) Permalink
sweet jesus this band is good. they seem to have such a unique and effortless ear for hook and melody. such a pleasure to listen to.
and on another note, 'i'm in love with a girl' appeared on a shuffle the other day. i was feeling a little absent-minded and it took me about 30 seconds to recall who it was without checking. such a sweet, simple song and yet it feels about 20 years ahead of its time.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:44 (8 years ago) Permalink
(and i always hated the bonus tracks at the end of the ryko cd. should have put them on another cd. but i'm kinda anti-bonus tracks at the end of a cd...)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 14:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
have had the line records 2cd with all three albums since i was a teen. this is my third/sister-lovers:
1 Kizza Me2 You Can't Have Me3 Jesus Christ4 Downs5 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On6 Thank You Friends7 O, Dana8 Femme Fatale9 Stroke It, Noel10 Holocaust11 Nightime12 Kanga Roo13 For You14 Take Care15 Blue Moon16 Dream Lover17 Big Black Car
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
see, that looks crazy to me! but i accept it.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
separating Nighttime from Take Care & Blue Moon is a Sister Lovers I would not want to hear
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
that's a Third I would start at track 7 every time. though I don't get ending with "Big Black Car", why not put it after "Femme Fatale" and go into "Holocaust", moving "Stroke It, Noel" after "Kanga Roo" ? But maybe I'm just reimagining the Ryko version, my version.
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
Starting Third with anything other than "Stroke it, Noel" is like starting Sgt. Pepper with "Sgt. Pepper (reprise)."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
sez the guy who doesn't want "Waiting for the Man" as the 2nd track of VU & Nico! (i kid, i kid)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
I love that there's no agreed upon order.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
xp haha, I know
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 17:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
― campreverb, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:51 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what if there was, like, some recording technology where you could, like, program an album to play in any order you wanted? and you could effortlessly skip back and forth among the songs?
i daren't dream...
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
there's something akin to that in live performances but the performers always get irrationally angry when you tell them which song comes up next in their set
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
in my version of "third" i've retained the pvc track order but i swapped the first and second verses of "o, dana."
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
no one has a CD player anymore, amateurist, it's all cassettes and vinyls
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
You can still do shuffle/programming with vinyl. Since vinyl purists like to talk about how fun it is to get up and turn over the record, it stands to reason that getting up every 3-4 minutes to put the needle on a different song would be even more fun.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 3:16 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually, i'm an all-flexidisc household these days
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
flexis have that thin, brittle sound we all love.did anyone get that 3rd "test pressing" that came out on RSD a few years ago? http://www.discogs.com/Big-Star-Third-Test-Pressing-Edition/release/3234763collector scum bait or actually worth hearing?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
*shivers* The new pressing was cut from the original assembly reel, on the same lathe at the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis and by the very same engineers who cut it the first time, Larry Nix and John Fry. Pressed on high quality vinyl at RTI, this is the definitive version of this album.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Thee Correct track sequence, hallelujah!
― dow, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
prix archival reissue is coming out on vinyl. tommy hoehn + alex + chris.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2015 22:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
there was a japanese cd, but this new vinyl has extra stuff...
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2015 22:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
i have some enormous (and incredible) many-disc Big Star 'n' friends boot that has almost all that prix stuff (along with many other side projects, post-BS bands, solo Alex and Chris, etc. etc.). nice to see some of this get official release.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 23 October 2015 00:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
So what do the Prix trax sound like, are they good? I think of Tiven as a producer and sometime-songwriter, not a performer.
― dow, Friday, 23 October 2015 00:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
it sounds like tommy hoehn basically. which is a good thing. click the youtube link above.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 October 2015 02:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
chris bell played a big part in those sessions. producing and playing. so if you are a bell fan, you need that stuff.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 October 2015 02:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'm a hoehn fan. and a van duren fan.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 October 2015 02:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
and a hot dogs fan...
― scott seward, Friday, 23 October 2015 02:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yep, Chilton and Prix trax on Ork box do sound fine. New uniform for Ardent Studio staff:
― dow, Saturday, 13 February 2016 00:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
If that's gone, it's a pair of feet sporting custom Converses w Big Star logo on the hi-toppermost
― dow, Saturday, 13 February 2016 00:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
you know Alex Chilton would have just loved that
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 13 February 2016 16:25 (5 months ago) Permalink
Those $70 Shoes...
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 February 2016 17:40 (5 months ago) Permalink
Those Pretty Wrongs feat. Jody Stephens of Big Star announces debut LP
STREAM: "Ordinary" -Pitchfork / SoundCloudhttps://soundcloud.com/those-pretty-wrongs/01-ordinary
Those Pretty Wrongs are Jody Stephens and Luther Russell, two old friends and veterans of the music scene in different ways.
Jody-as many people in rock and roll (and beyond) know-was the drummer for the legendary band Big Star. He went on to help run the equally legendary studio Ardent in Memphis and play with the endearing troop Golden Smog. Luther Russell was the leader of seminal roots-rock band The Freewheelers and went on to make several acclaimed solo records, as well as produce many important artists over the years. Together they have forged a sound that is brand new for both, yet begets a strangely familiar feeling...
It was the documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me that brought Jody and Luther together creatively, when Jody asked Luther to join him for some promotional performances. A chemistry was immediately noticed. They began writing songs and performing them whenever possible, soon taking their name from the opening line of Shakespeare Sonnet 41, which they slipped into one of their first collaborations, "Fool Of Myself". A relationship was soon struck up with underground SoCal label (and two-man revolution) Burger Records when the first track they cut in Memphis, "Lucky Guy", was sent to Sean and Lee, who jumped at the chance to release it as a 7", along with the aforementioned "Fool Of Myself" for the flip side. There was an outpouring of support for the new music, which gave Jody and Luther the confidence to move forward. Regarding how this all came together, Jody declares: "In a word...serendipity. So many of the events that brought Luther and me together were just by chance and born out of the Big Star world. I actually thought we might write three or four songs together for an EP but we just kept writing beyond that. 'Another window opened up and through it' we became Those Pretty Wrongs."
Those Pretty Wrongs was tracked entirely to 2" tape at Ardent in Memphis, using much of the old Big Star gear, including Jody's original kit from Radio City and Third and Chris Bell's acoustic and electric guitars from #1 Record. The album was mixed by Luther Russell and Jason Hiller at Hiller's Electrosound Studios in Los Angeles, CA. Crucially, Jody is way out in front on this release-really for the first time ever-taking all lead vocals and co-writing all of the songs with Luther. The songs range from the elegiac "Lucky Guy"-which some have described as the boy from "Thirteen" all grown up-to the marimba-laced, circus-like "The Cube". Soaring, heart-felt ballads like "Start Again" and "The Heart" mingle with songs with an almost Merseybeat-like combination of simplicity and complexity, such as "I'm For Love" and "Never Goodbye"-a number on which they went for a "busking in the train-station" quality with brushes on the snare and cascading 12-string acoustic guitar. As with all the songs, airy, light harmonies abound, making for a bittersweet sound all their own. Besides tunes with these more self-evident touchstones, there is the baroque rocker "Thrown Away", mod-like jangler "Mystery Trip" and a moment of cinematic grandeur on the exotic, piano-driven "Empty City".
Opener "Ordinary" is really the statement of purpose for the duo. Regarding the song, Luther says: "For me, the song has a message that is very timely in today's age where everyone has to be 'special' and 'different'. It says its okay to be ordinary. That's a beautiful sentiment that Jody came up with...that the space between us all, that connection, is what is extraordinary." With it's shimmering, ascending/descending acoustics and sky-high clusters of harmonies, "Ordinary" was nearly the title-track to the LP, but they opted to self-title it, because it felt like the beginning of something. Through the words on this record Jody opens up about his life, which has been well-documented, but not in this very intimate way. Adds Stephens: "For me the lyrics are a walk through day-to-day emotions and experiences."
Luther lives in Los Angeles and Jody in Memphis, so the commitment had to be strong to persevere in composing these songs and cutting them until they were completely satisfied. Those Pretty Wrongs will be released in May in a unique partnering between the classic Ardent label and the burgeoning Burger Records. No one could be happier than Jody and Luther, who feel that this keeps a family-like feeling to the release. "Why stop now", remarks Luther. "We've wanted to keep this thing sounding and feeling personal from the start because it's extremely personal for both of us." Thus they've tailored every aspect of the project themselves: from producing, writing and playing much of the instrumentation to the design itself (Luther hand-draws the artwork). Those Pretty Wrongs is like a homespun arabesque with a pattern of many lyrical, melodic and harmonic lines to discover. Just like the handmade collage inside the LP, the record is akin to a series of snapshots: of lives present and past, and fleeting moments of simple joy and reflection.
"Those Pretty Wrongs is so much more than the two of us", states Jody affectionately. "We were jump-started by friends who produced the Big Star documentary. Friends have helped book and play with us live and in the studio...not to mention providing the studios. Friends also provided accommodations and encouragement by coming out to hear the music. They have cared. We are grateful for them and hope to make more." TOUR DATES:
Mar-21 - Melbourne, Australia - Melbourne Recital Centre *Mar-22 - Sydney, Australia - The Factory *Mar-23 - Sydney, Australia - Petersham Bowling ClubMar-24 - Melbourne, Australia - The GasometerMar-26 - Tallarook, Australia - Boogie Festival
― dow, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 21:06 (5 months ago) Permalink
Ardent Studios: 50 years of Music History at The Grammy Museum in L.A.
discussion, performance??Mot seeing specifics re participants yet yet, but can sign up for fbook updates, follow their twitter feed etc.:http://www.axs.com/events/312478/ardent-studios-50-years-of-music-history-tickets?ref=edp_twpost
― dow, Thursday, 21 July 2016 18:12 (2 days ago) Permalink


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Hunger Strike: Medical reports of comrades Antonis Stamboulos, Anastasios Theofilou, Nikos Maziotis and Dimitris Koufodinas (Greece)
March 26th, 2015
I, the undersigned doctor, today on 03/25/2015, visited in turn:
Antonis Stamboulos (32 years) in Larissa prison, Anastasios Theofilou (32 years) and Nikos Maziotis (44 years) detainees in the prison of Domokos and wing E1 prison Domokos (Type 'C) respectively, and Dimitris Koufodinas (57 years) and Kostas Gournas (34 years) hospitalized in secure-hospital Lamia, hunger strikers from 03.02.2015 until today.
All mentioned hunger strikers are on the 24th hunger strike day in a critical condition with now visible symptoms that they are at risk of destabilization of their bodies that may threaten their health and even their very lives.
All strikers have lost 13% -15% of their initial body weight, report feeling weakness, dyspnea, and fatigue on minimal exertion. Exhibiting hypotension, hypoglycemia, hyperuricemia, ketonuria, electrolyte abnormalities and mild mucosal pallor.
Considering the clinical picture, the results of laboratory tests and the particular problems of each, (from their personal history) I point out the seriousness of their situation, and I urge the competent institutions to take responsibility of their part immediately, to avoid any negative development .
The doctor
Pantelia Vergopoulou
Tags: 17 November, Anastasios Theofilou, Antonis Stamboulos, Dimitris Koufodinas, Greece, Hunger Strike, Kostas Gournas, Nikos Maziotis, Revolutionary Struggle
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| By Fred Langa
The sleep-state modes programmed into today's PCs are rigidly defined, but the common names of these modes vary wildly from vendor to vendor.
With no standardized language, it can be difficult to know exactly what it means when your PC goes into standby mode. But here's help.
PC still seems active when 'standing by'
Reader Bob Hall's PC is supposed to be snoozing, but he still sees activity and wants to know what's going on in there.
- "I noticed that even though my computer was in standby mode, the hard drive light was blinking, indicating activity. What's going on? Am I being a bit paranoid about what might be happening? "
Most PCs today support several distinct power modes or sleep states, generally defined by the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification, an engineering document you'll find on an ACPI info page. If you'd prefer a plain-English explanation, check out my Langa Letter article, "To Sleep, Perchance to Hibernate." Virtually all PCs sold today are ACPI-compliant.
ACPI defines six states ranging from S0 (sleep zero) — the PC is fully on — through S5 — it's completely off. Between those extremes, the various sleep states specify which components in the computer are receiving power and how much.
Although the technical specs of each sleep state are firmly defined, PC vendors often disagree on the labeling they use for sleep modes. Some use nondescriptive names, such as my laptop's Zzz function keys (evocative of snoring, I guess). Others may refer to reduced-power states as sleep, standby, or suspend, with no further clarification.
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NEW YORK — The daughter of a man pushed in front of a subway train and photographed a split-second before his death said Wednesday after a suspect was arrested that it "would have been great" if someone had helped her father up but "what's done is done."
A freelance photographer for the New York Post was waiting for a train Monday afternoon when he said he saw a man approach 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han at a Times Square area station, get into an altercation with him and push him into the train's path.
Naeem Davis, 30, was arraigned Wednesday night on a second-degree murder charge and ordered held without bail. He is due back in court on Dec. 11. Information on his lawyer was not immediately available.
Davis, who police said was homeless, had been taken into custody for questioning Tuesday after security video showed a man fitting the suspect's description working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center. Police said Davis made statements implicating himself in Han's death.
He has several prior arrests in New York and Pennsylvania on mostly minor charges including drug possession.
Han's only child, 20-year-old Ashley, said at a news conference Wednesday that her father was always willing to help someone. But when asked about why no one helped him up, she said: "What's done is done."
"The thought of someone helping him up in a matter of seconds would have been great," she said.
Ashley stood with her mother, Serim Han, inside their Presbyterian church in Queens. The family came to the U.S. from Korea about 25 years ago. They said Han was unemployed and had been looking for work. Their pastor said the family was so upset by a front-page photo of Han in the Post that they had to stay with him for comfort.
"I just wish I had one last chance to tell my dad how much I love him," Ashley Han said.
The Post photo in Tuesday's edition showed Ki-Suck Han with his head turned toward the train, his arms reaching up but unable to climb off the tracks in time.
The photographer, R. Umar Abbasi, told NBC's "Today" show Wednesday that he was trying to alert the motorman to what was going on by flashing his camera.
He said he was shocked that people nearer to the victim didn't try to help in the 22 seconds before the train struck.
"It took me a second to figure out what was happening ... I saw the lights in the distance. My mind was to alert the train," Abbasi said.
"The people who were standing close to him ... they could have moved and grabbed him and pulled him up. No one made an effort," he added.
In a written account Abbasi gave the Post, he said a crowd took videos and snapped photos on their cellphones after Han was pulled, limp, onto the platform. He said he shoved them back as a doctor and another man tried to resuscitate the victim, but Han died in front of them.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Han, "if I understand it, tried to break up a fight or something and paid for it with his life."
The suspect's last known address was in a working-class neighborhood in Queens. The only neighbor who even vaguely remembered Davis was Charles Dawes, 80, who stays with his son two doors down.
Davis "came and went, came and went, and he always looked serious," Dawes said. "But I haven't seen him for three or four months."
Subway pushes are feared but fairly unusual. Among the more high-profile cases was the January 1999 death of Kendra Webdale, who was shoved to her death by a former mental patient.
Straphangers on Wednesday said that they were shocked by Han's death but that it's always a silent fear for many of the more than 5.2 million commuters who ride the subway on an average weekday.
"Stuff like that you don't really think about every day. You know it could happen. So when it does happen it's scary but then what it all comes down to is you have to protect yourself," said Aliyah Syphrett, 23, who sat on a bench as she waited at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.
Diana Henry, 79, a Long Island resident, was waiting for a train at 34th Street. She stood as far from the platform as possible — about a dozen feet back, leaning against the wall.
"I'm always careful, but I'm even more careful after what happened," she said. "I stand back because there are so many crazies in this city that you never know."
Associated Press writers Verena Dobnik, Karen Matthews and Tom Hays contributed to this story.
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|Feb 17, 2004
|Filing date
|Dec 7, 1999
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|Dec 7, 1999
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|Richard Thomas Flanagan
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|Richard Thomas Flanagan
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|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (5), Classifications (8), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to modems and, more particularly, to a modem implementation that can maintain an acceptable analog line signal during an underrun condition.
Voice-band modems are typically implemented in software, with the software executing on a digital signal processor (DSP), a microprocessor, or a combination of the two. The modem itself is usually viewed as two distinct functional pieces—the controller and the data-pump. The controller performs functions including link-layer protocols, data compression, and provides the Data Communications Equipment (DCE) interface functions. The data-pump performs the modulation/demodulation function, translating binary information into a signal suitable for transmission over the General Switched Telephone Network (GSTN) and back again. Shown in FIG. 1 is a typical modem data-pump system diagram.
The hardware that interfaces the data-pump to the GSTN is often referred to as an Analog Front End (AFE) 100. The AFE 100 includes a coder/decoder (codec) 101, which provides analog-to-digital conversion and digital-to-analog signal conversion, and other hardware associated with transmitting and receiving an analog signal on the GSTN. The AFE often includes a buffer 102, a small temporary storage for received data samples and for data samples to be transmitted. When the buffer needs to be serviced, the AFE can signal data-pump unit 103, usually by generating an interrupt. The data-pump unit will respond and provide samples to be transmitted over line 104, accept samples to process that were received over line 104, or both.
The requirement to service the interrupt on time is referred to as a hard real-time requirement. This means that an unacceptable result will occur if the time schedule is not kept. This is due to the fact that, if the line signal is disrupted, the modems' receiver can fail. This may be true even for relatively short disruptions in the line signal. The processing done in a modem's receiver, such as adaptive equalization, timing recovery, and carrier recovery, can be upset by disruptions in the line signal. Also, modems often transmit data in a framed format and, if the frame alignment is disrupted, the data may not be received correctly.
The buffer size requirements for the AFE 100 involve a design tradeoff. Large buffers allow the interrupt latency requirement to be relaxed, giving the data-pump more time to respond to the service request, but delay is introduced in the system. Transmission delays are undesirable for some forms of data such as data associated with multimedia applications that transmit voice. Small buffers provide short delays but require interrupts to be serviced promptly or the modem's transmitter will underrun (run out of samples to transmit) and/or the modem's receiver will overrun (have too many samples to save in local buffer storage) and the local or remote modems' receivers may fail.
The U.S. Pat. No. 5,721,830, issued to H. C. Yeh et al on Feb. 24, 1999, describes a modem using a typical buffered system in which a first buffer is being read out, a sample at a time, while a second buffer is being loaded. When the first buffer is empty, samples are transferred from the second buffer to the first buffer. If no new samples are in the second buffer, then the old samples present in the second buffer are transferred to the first buffer and used to generate a line signal.
Repeating old samples is a typical failure mode for systems that do not service the AFE on time. If the sample buffer has not been updated with new samples, then old samples present in the buffer are used by default. The line signal is necessarily distorted by the discontinuity when switching from valid samples to old samples used as a maintenance signal and back again. So the Yeh patent does not fundamentally change the existing art where previously transmitted samples are retransmitted.
Therefore, there is a continuing need in modem design to reduce the undesirable effects at the receiving modem caused by an underrun condition at the transmitting modem.
My invention is directed to a data apparatus (e.g., a modem) which continues to generate an analog line signal acceptable to a remote data apparatus' receiver when data apparatus software is late in responding to the hardware used to generate the analog line signal.
In accordance with the invention, the data apparatus uses symbols, rather than samples, which are transferred from a data-pump unit to an AFE unit to generate the analog line signal. The AFE implements the conversion from symbols to samples that constitute the signal for transmission, such as implementing the convolution described above.
When the data-pump is late in providing a new set of symbols, the AFE unit uses previous symbols, randomized versions of previous symbols, or some other local source of acceptable symbols to generate a transmit line signal, thus providing an acceptable line signal for the remote-end modem. For many modems this line signal is indistinguishable from a line signal where the underrun did not occur as the pulses, defined by the pulse shaping filter, are not distorted.
While data errors still occur due to transmitting incorrect symbols, data errors are a normal occurrence for a physical-layer data apparatus and a link-layer protocol will detect and retransmit the erred data. The invention avoids transmitting a degraded line signal that can create a failure at the physical-layer. This failure can cause data transmission outages due to the remote data apparatus entering into a rate change, initiating a retrain operation, or terminating the data transmission session, all of which are undesirable.
More specifically, a data apparatus comprises (1) a data-pump unit for converting binary data into data symbols for transmission at a predetermined symbol rate; and (2) an analog unit including (a) a buffer for storing transmit data symbols, (b) a transmitter unit for accessing the stored data symbols from the buffer unit and converting them to a sample signal at a predefined sample rate, (c) a codec for converting the sample signal to an analog line signal for transmission over an analog facility, and (d) an optional underrun data symbol generator to provide data symbols when the buffer unit is empty.
In the drawing,
FIG. 1 shows an illustrative block diagram of a prior art modem data-pump apparatus;
FIG. 2 shows a simplified diagram of my split-architecture modem data-pump apparatus;
FIG. 3 shows, in accordance with the present invention, a more detailed block diagram of the Analog Front-End (AFE) unit of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 shows a circuit diagram of a transmitter unit which illustratively generates Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) symbols in FIG. 3; and
FIG. 5 shows a well known QAM signal constellation.
In the following description, each item or block of each figure has a reference designation associated therewith, the first number of which refers to the figure in which that item is first described (e.g., 101 is first described in FIG. 1).
In accordance with the present invention, my data apparatus (e.g., voice-band modem, DSL modem, etc.) substantially eliminates the undesirable effects at the receiving data apparatus caused by an underrun condition at the transmitting data apparatus. The invention enables the transmitting data apparatus to continue to generate an analog line signal acceptable to a remote data apparatus receiver when the data transmitter apparatus software fails to service the AFE in time.
The invention is applicable to a broad class of modems that use a form of Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) [see, for example the book "Digital Communication", Second Edition, Edward A. Lee and David G. Messerschmitt, chapter 6]. This class includes modems that use QAM, such as ITU recommendations V.90, V.34, V.32 bis/V.32, and V.22 bis/V.22, and Discrete Multitone (DMT) systems and Carrierless Amplitude-modulation Phase-modulation (CAP) systems such as those used in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) applications.
In PAM systems, data is converted from a binary form into symbols by a coder. The symbols are from an alphabet defined by the modem designer. Coders can be relatively simple (such as in On/Off Keying, or OOK) or complex, such as in trellis coded systems or multicarrier systems.
Using basic baseband PAM as an example, symbols Am output from the coder and are converted into a discrete line signal Sk by convolving the symbols with a transmit pulse-shaping filter g(k) of length 2x−1, where k is a sample time index, m is a symbol time index, and 1/T is the symbol rate, as shown in Equation 1 below.
In practical systems the line signal Sk is a sequence of overlapping pulses whose shape is determined by g(k) and whose amplitude is determined by the symbol sequence Am.
One failure mode in the current art when an underrun occurs is to repeat the last set of samples, Sk, in the transmit buffer. Such a technique is the subject matter of the previously referenced U.S. Pat. No. 5,721,830. There are several shortcomings to this failure mode.
A key shortcoming is that the line signal is necessarily distorted in practical systems where line signal Sk is constructed of overlapping pulses. Since these pulses span multiple symbol periods, even a short sequence of the line signal contains information from multiple symbols. Instantaneously switching to a maintenance signal will necessarily distort the information content of the symbols by truncating a number of pulses when the maintenance signal is started and when it is discontinued.
With reference to FIG. 2, there is shown a block diagram of an illustrative split-architecture data-pump system 200 in accordance with the present invention. Such a split-architecture data pump system is similar to my pending patent application entitled "Split-Architecture Modem," Ser. No. 09/136,257, which was filed on Aug. 19, 1998 and which is incorporated by reference herein.
At data-pump system 200, data is received from and is transmitted to a controller (not shown) over facility 201. The controller performs the link-layer protocols, data compression, and user interface functions for the data apparatus. The data-pump system 200 includes a Host-Side Data-Pump (HSDP) unit 202 and an Analog Front-End (AFE). The Controller (not shown) and HSDP 202 are essentially performed in software using a general-purpose processor (GPP). The AFE 203 functions are essentially performed in software by a digital signal processor (DSP) and by hardware. The particular operations of the GPP and DSP are described in my previously referenced application.
HSDP 202 encodes the binary data from facility 201 into symbols that are sent to AFE 203. It also converts symbols received from AFE 203 into binary data for transmission to the controller via facility 201. The AFE 203 illustratively includes an AFE-Side Data-Pump (ASDP) unit 204 and a line codec unit 205. AFE 203 provides an interrupt signal to HSDP 202 when it needs servicing, typically when it needs symbols to transmit to the analog facility 207, or both. Under normal operation, when the interrupt is received, HSDP 202 sends and receives symbols to ASDP 204. ASDP 204 filters the symbols with a pulse-shaping filter to generate transmit samples to send over path 206 to codec 205. In accordance with my invention, ASDP 204 optionally contains circuitry to generate symbols acceptable to the remote modem.
The codec 205 receives the data samples from ASDP 204 over path 206 and converts them into an analog signal over facility 207. Codec 205 also receives signals over facility 207 that are sampled and quantized to form received samples that are sent to ASDP 204 over path 206. ASDP 204 receives these samples and converts them into a symbols which it stores in its receive buffer. When HSDP 202 responds to the interrupt, it writes symbols to the transmit buffer and reads symbols from the receive buffer of ASDP 204.
According to my invention, when HSDP 202 is late in providing a new set of symbols to AFE 203, AFE 203 can use previous symbols Am, randomized versions of these previous symbols, or some other source of acceptable symbols, to generate the transmit analog line signal.
Typically it is advantageous that the symbols appear random, their average power be the same as during normal operation, and they should be from the set of valid transmit symbols. Note that these requirements apply for relatively long sequences of symbols, and that relatively short sequences of symbols may vary from these requirements.
If needed, as when the modem uses a framed data format, AFE 203 can inform the HSDP 202 that an underrun or overrun occurred and how many symbols were retransmitted or deleted, respectively, until the AFE 203 was serviced. HSDP 202 can then adjust its transmit and/or receive symbol stream to account for any skew in frame alignment and continue operation.
Thus, while not transmitting the correct symbols will cause data errors to occur, such data errors are a normal occurrence and will be detected by a link-layer protocol. The link-layer protocol in the controller section of the data receiving apparatus will treat these errors as common transmission errors due to imperfect operation of the physical-layer modem and request retransmission of the erred data. Thus, my invention avoids causing a line signal disruption on facility 207, which can create data transmission outages due to the data receiving apparatus failing, entering into a rate change, or initiating a retrain procedure, all of which are undesirable.
Another way of describing the value in my invention is that is removes a hard real-time requirement for receiving samples and replaces it with a soft real-time requirement for receiving symbols. This allows looser tolerances on the interrupt latency of HSDP 202 for servicing AFE 203 or, equivalently, allows AFE buffer size to span a shorter period of time for the same interrupt latency tolerances. This allows the data-pump system 200 to be better optimized for both low delay and robustness.
With reference to FIG. 3, there is shown a diagram of AFE 203 of FIG. 2 including a block diagram of ASDP 204. ASDP 204 is shown to include a Buffer unit (BU) 301, a Symbol Transmitter unit 302, a Symbol Receiver unit 303, and an optional Underrun Symbol unit 304. The Underrun Symbol unit 304, illustratively, includes Symbol Randomizer 305 and Symbol Generator 306.
The Buffer unit 301 stores data symbols to be received from and stores data symbols to be transmitted to HSDP 202. The Transmitter unit 302 filters the received symbols at a predefined sample rate and modulates the samples at an appropriate frequency and sends the modulated samples to Codec 205 for transmission over analog facility 207.
FIG. 4 shows an illustrative QAM circuit diagram of Transmitter unit 302. As previously noted, the complex transmit symbols 401 are typically obtained from Buffer unit 301. The real 402 and imaginary 403 components of the symbols are filtered at the sample rate 1/Ts by the Pulse-Shaping Filters 404 and 405, respectively. The resulting real and imaginary signal are each modulated by quadrature carriers at frequency ωc in Modulators 406 and 407, respectively, combined by Combiner 408, and the resulting samples sent to Codec 205 for transmission over analog facility 207.
Returning to FIG. 3, analog signals received over facility 207 are converted to samples in codec 205. Samples from Codec 205 are sent to Receiver unit 303 for demodulation and the demodulated symbols are stored in Buffer unit 301 for delivery to Host-Side data-pump 202.
During an underrun condition transmit symbol unit 302 can continue to input symbols from Buffer 301. Typically a fixed number of symbols would be accepted at one time and transmitted where the number of symbols is the same as the number of symbols transferred to the buffer in response to an interrupt requesting symbols to transmit. This arrangement will suffice if the time interval of the underrun is relatively short.
Optionally, more elaborate methods of creating a sequence of valid symbols to transmit can be employed if the underrun condition can be relatively long. In that case repeating a symbol sequence multiple times can have undesirable properties not indicative of a typical line signal due to the periodicity, as a typical line signal should be indicative of random data. It may also have an average power significantly different from the normal line signal. The symbol sequence used during the underrun can be made pseudo-random and with the correct average power to avoid this problem of repeating a relatively small set of symbols. Several methods are shown in Optional Data Symbol Generator 304.
In one embodiment, Symbol Randomizer 305 is connected to the Buffer unit 301. The randomizer inputs valid symbols and, using a pseudo-random algorithm, generates new valid symbols.
An example for would be to have Randomizer 305 read symbols from Buffer unit 301 in a pseudo-random order and then send the symbols to Transmitter unit 302. By reordering the symbols in this manner, the data symbols generated by Symbol Generator 306 will appear random and will not exhibit an undesirable periodicity in the frequency spectrum of the transmitted analog signal. The power of the symbols would be unaltered.
Another example applicable to modulations that employ complex symbols, such as used in QAM and CAP, would be to have randomizer 305 read symbols from Buffer 301 and apply rotation of 90, 180, and 270 degrees, with the rotation selected pseudo-random fashion, and provide these symbols to Symbol Transmitter 302.
FIG. 5 shows a QAM constellation showing 16 complex symbols labeled with decimal integers between 0 and 15. Each symbol is used to represent possible combinations of a group of 4 binary bits. This constellation is used in a variety of industry-standard QAM modems, including ITU Recommendations V.32bis, V.32, and V.22 bis.
A characteristic of this constellation, and virtually all QAM constellations that are used in practical systems, is that the resultant constellation is the same for any number of 90 degree rotations. Thus, to randomize a symbol sequence, some or all of the symbols may be rotated 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees in a pseudo-random fashion. This rotation has the property that it preserves the power level of the individual symbols but randomizes the symbol sequence. By rotating the symbols in this manner, the data symbol sequence generated by Symbol Generator 306 will appear random and will not exhibit an undesirable periodicity in the frequency spectrum of the transmitted analog signal.
In a third embodiment of Symbol Randomizer 305, the symbols received them from Buffer 301 could be translated into new valid symbols using a suitable pseudo-random algorithm operating on the symbol alphabet.
For example, using the QAM constellation in FIG. 5, adding 2N to the real and imaginary components of the constellation for any integer N, then performing a modulo 4 operation on the components, will generate another symbol from the same set of 16 symbols. With a pseudo-random N for each component, the new symbols generated by data symbol generator 304 will appear random and will not exhibit an undesirable periodicity in the frequency spectrum of the transmitted analog signal. The power of the individual symbols could change but the average power of the symbol sequence would be the average power of the symbol set assuming a uniform probability, which is the typically desired case.
In another embodiment a Pseudo-Random Symbol generator 306 could be used as a source of symbols during an underrun condition. Symbol Generator 306 does not receive symbols from Buffer 301, but is initialized with symbols, information, or both, allowing the unit to generate acceptable symbols during an underrun condition. Using FIG. 5 as an example, the generator could select, in a pseudo-random fashion, from the set of numbers {−3, −1, 1, 3} and use those numbers as the real and imaginary components of symbols to provide to Symbol Transmitter 302. The average power of the symbol sequence would be the average power of the symbol set assuming a uniform probability, which is the typically desired case.
In another embodiment, the Symbol Generator 306 may include a Pseudo-Random Symbol generator which stores a set of valid symbols to provide during an underrun condition. These may be sufficient in number so they can be read sequentially and provided to symbol transmitter 302. If the number of symbols is relatively small, the symbols can be randomized as illustrated in the methods detailed above or by using some other method.
Note that modems used in central-site applications, referred to as Remote Access Server (RAS) modems, may have their codec located a considerable physical distance away from the where the rest of the modem is located. This is due to the codec being present where the telephone wire is terminated in network equipment and the modem may be accessed by sending the sampled data, using standard digital transmission equipment, to a location where the modem is located. Modems of this type are said to be digitally connected. The present invention is applicable whether or nor the codec is local to the AFE or is remotely located.
Additionally, since the same underrun condition can also occur in other modems, such as in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modems, my invention applys equally to a DSL modem, or any other data modem that has to interface to an analog line and can subdivide the process of generating a line signal from data into first—an intermediate symbol form and second—to the line signal.
What has been described is merely illustrative of the application of the principles of the present invention. Other arrangements and methods can be implemented by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
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Alabama A&M (FCS): Fayetteville State (D-II) offensive line coach Keith Wagner has joined the staff and will coach the offensive line. Prior to joining the Fayetteville State staff this spring, Wagner spent four seasons coaching the offensive line at North Carolina A&T (FCS).
Wake Forest: Terrell Dallas has joined the staff as a recruiting assistant. Dallas is a former running back at The Citadel.


text: Diana Shipping Inc. (DSX) Q3 2011 Earnings Call November 23, 2011 9:00 AM ET Executives Edward Nebb – IR Advisor Simeon Palios – Chairman and CEO Anastasios Margaronis – President Andreas Michalopoulos – Chief Financial Officer Ioannis Zafirakis – Executive Vice President and Secretary Maria Dede – Chief Accounting Officer. Analysts Michael Webber – Wells Fargo Justin Yagerman – Deutsche Bank Gregory Lewis – Credit Suisse Group Fotis Giannakoulis – Morgan Stanley Sal Vitale – Sterne, Agee Gary Chase – Barclays Capital Michael Pak – Clarkson Capital Lambros Papaeconomou – NYFEX Asset Management Presentation Operator Compare to: Previous Statements by DSX » Diana Shipping CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript » Diana Shipping's CEO Discusses Q1 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript » Diana Shipping CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Greetings. And welcome to the Diana Shipping Incorporated Third Quarter Conference Call and Webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Edward Nebb, IR Advisor for Diana Shipping. Thank you Mr. Nebb, you may begin. Edward Nebb Thank you, Rob. Good morning or good afternoon all. Welcome to the Diana Shipping Incorporated 2011 third quarter conference call. The members of the management team who are with us today include Mr. Simeon Palios, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Anastasios Margaronis, President; Mr. Andreas Michalopoulos, Chief Financial Officer; Mr. Ioannis Zafirakis, Executive Vice President and Secretary; and Ms. Maria Dede, Chief Accounting Officer. Before management begins their remarks, let me briefly summarize the Safe Harbor notice, which you can see in its entirety in today's news release. Certain statements made during this conference call, which are not statements of historical fact are forward looking and are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Prev 0 of 3 Next