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Over the past ten days, we've had the privilege of using the HTC Sensation 4G. Now that the phone is officially available at T-Mobile stores across the nation, we're sharing our thoughts on the phone to give you a closer look at the handset's hardware and software.
The design of the HTC Sensation 4G is truly unique. The exterior body is comprised of a removable contoured aluminum and plastic shell that wraps around the back and sides with a curved glass screen on the front. The 4.3-inch qHD display (960 x 540 pixels) is covered in Gorilla Glass, but also features raised edges to reduce contact when the handset is placed face-down. Below the screen are the standard four capacitive buttons, while the Sensation's front-facing VGA camera is located above the screen to the right of the speaker grill.
The volume rocker and microUSB port are located on the left side of the phone. The right side has been left completely bare. The top of the phone features the power button and 3.5mm headphone. Flipping the phone over reveals the 8 megapixel camera (capable of recording 1080p HD video) and dual-LED flash in the top left corner and the speaker phone directly to the right. Removing the shell reveals the battery (1520 mAh), microSD card (8 GB included) and the SIM card.
The remaining handset features include a Qualcomm 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 768 MB RAM, 4 GB internal storage (1 GB user accessible), GPS, Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n all crammed inside a phone measuring 126.1mm x 65.4mm x 11.3mm and weighing only 148 grams.
Anyone who owns or has used the HTC EVO 4G or the HTC Inspire 4G will find that the Sensation 4G feels a lot smaller. The reason for this is the 16:9 aspect ratio of the 4.3-inch qHD display. This has allowed HTC to reduce the width of the HTC Sensation 4G by nearly 2.5mm compared to their older handsets with 4.3-inch displays.
Some of you may have heard about the HTC Sensation's "death grip" issues over the past few weeks. I have experienced them myself, but it's certainly not an issue users should worry about. The HTC Sensation 4G loses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signal strength when the two plastic panels on the back of the phone are touched by a single hand. The issue is quite easy to replicate. But in the ten days I've used the phone, I've only experienced the issue twice during regular use.
The HTC Sensation 4G is the first phone to be released in North America with HTC Sense 3.0 running on Android 2.3.3. HTC Sense has been around for nearly two years, but the 3.0 iteration of HTC's custom software has been packed with more eye candy than most people can handle.
At first glance, HTC Sense 3.0 looks nearly identical to the previous version. That all changes once you start interacting with the UI. The first change users will notice is the new unlock screen. Users are able to customize the unlock screen to display the weather, stock, pictures and Twitter and Facebook updates (through Friend Stream), but we found the most useful feature to be its direct application launching capability. Simply select four of your most used apps to display at the bottom of the unlock screen and drag the icon into the unlock circle to immediately launch the app. The concept sounds extremely simple, but it saves valuable seconds if you're the type of person who checks email and Twitter a few hundred times a day.
Once you get past the lock screen, many of the widgets on the home screen may look the same, but HTC has added 3D layering on everything. Swipe from panel to panel and you'll notice the flip clock has hinges on the side that hold it together or that the album art of the music widget is actually floating over the glass panel that's behind it. The home screen still features seven panels, but now you can scroll through them in an endless loop or simply flick your finger to the left or right and watch them all rotate in a 3D caracole.
For years, HTC has been flaunting their weather animations. (I have to admit I've always been a huge fan of them). With HTC Sense 3.0, they've gone back to the drawing board to create more stunning animation and a more robust application. The new weather application give users more details about the upcoming forecast with projected hourly temperatures, humidity and rain.
We could spend another hour or so going over all the small UI improvements in HTC Sense 3.0, but my suggestion would be to spend some quality time with the phone and see them for yourself.
While the new lock screen and 3D graphics of HTC Sense 3.0 are exciting, it's the 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor that really makes the HTC Sensation 4G a great phone. Benchmark numbers for the Sensation 4G typically come in at 10-15% lower than phones with NVIDIA's 1 GHz dual-core Tegra 2 chip. But we need to take into consideration the extra strain the qHD display adds to the equation, since most benchmarks test 3D rendering on native handset resolution.
That being said, the majority of my time with the Sensation was spent playing 3D games and watching HD video. Games like Gun Bros, Gorilla Bob, Pocket Legends, Dungeon Defenders and Nova HD played flawlessly.
One advantage the dual-core Qualcomm processor has over the NVIDIA Tegra 2 is its ability to selectively throttle or even completely turn off one of the cores. This feature plays a huge roll in power management, since one of the cores is typically turned off when you perform menial tasks like checking Twitter or email. The HTC Sensation 4G's battery life was actually quite surprising. A typical day for me includes constantly checking email and Twitter, 15-30 minutes of web browsing, two hours of music (usually Pandora) and about an hour of gaming. My G2 typically craps out after 10-11 hours, but under the same usage scenario the HTC Sensation has been averaging right around 14 hours.
Anyone who's used an HTC phone running Sense in the past 6 months is probably pretty familiar with the Sensation's customized camera app. Users have the ability to tweak image exposure, saturation and ISO, or even choose between a handful of filters before taking their shots. But since the HTC Sensation 4G is equipped with a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, it has two new features not found on any other HTC handset.
Have you ever pulled out your Android phone to snap a picture, but by time the shutter releases you're left with an image that wasn't exactly what you wanted? The new Instant Capture feature on the HTC Sensation shoots to fix that problem. Instant Capture allows your phone to capture the image you wanted as soon as you press the shutter button on your screen. The problem is, Instant Capture doesn't always work exactly as you want it to.
If you find yourself in a well lit area, the HTC Sensation captures your image in about one fifth of a second. Certainly impressive! But things aren't so instant when you want to snap a shot in a low-light situation. The amount of time it takes for the Sensation to capture the image is directly affected by how dark your surroundings are. The slowest shutter response we've experienced was right around half a second. (Still a lot faster than most Android phones currently on the market).
If you truly want to take advantage of the Instant Capture feature on the HTC Sensation, you'll need to change the way you typically capture your pictures. Tapping the screen to select what you want in focus before pressing the shutter button dramatically decreases the shutter lag, essentially giving you an Instant Capture experience.
The Sensation is also the first HTC phone capable of capturing HD video in 1080p. Media lovers will certainly appreciate the added resolution, but unless you're planning to watch all your videos on a 40 inch TV, we'd recommend you set the Sensation to record in 720p. While the 1080p video looks great, things get pretty jumpy when you pan around–an issue that's not present when recording at lower resolutions.
The camera on the HTC Sensation 4G is still not good enough to replace your point and shoot, but it does rank high among camera phones currently on the market. Check out the gallery of photos and the videos below for some samples directly from the Sensation camera.
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When it comes to high-end Android phones, it's really hard to select a clear winner. The HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile is certainly one of the most exciting and powerful phones to hit the U.S. market in quite some time. The dual-core Snapdragon processor has enough muscle to satisfy most of your gaming needs, and the handset's camera is one of the best we've ever seen. Combine those two features with the Sensation 4.3-inch qHD display, and you've got yourself an amazing piece of technology that should keep you happy for years (or until you decide you simply have to have a quad-core powered phone). T-Mobile customers looking for an upgrade should definitely consider the HTC Sensation 4G as their number one choice for their next purchase.
At Android and Me, we've never really given our phone reviews a point ranking. But if someone put a gun to my head and demanded a number, I'd probably give the HTC Sensation 4G an 8.5 out of 10. It's a great phone, just not sensational.


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text: > I won't comment on positioning other than to say that they occupy an > interesting price performance niche. "interesting" in the fortune-cookie sense? I think so. gigabit is so cheap that it's barely worth building cards for it; switches are also extremely commoditized. OTOH it's not impossible to "add value" to commodity parts (Cisco adds PHB-comfort, for instance.) > Infiniband is dropping rapidly in > price, and is getting more attractive over time. As recent as 6 months > ago, it added about $2k/node ($1kUS/HCA + $1kUS/port) to the cost of a > cluster. More recently the cost per port appears to be quickly moving > towards 400 $US, and the HCA's are dropping so that you can add only > $1kUS to the price per node for your cluster. I claim that IB is so drastically faster than GBE-based RDMA that this is not a useful comparison. > > but it's very unclear where their natural niche is. > > Not sure I agree with this. If there were no value in TCP offload, then > why would Intel announce (recently) that they want to include this > technology in their future chipsets? mainly the PHB factor, but also Intel is looking to distinguish itself, and also to use up all those extra transistors. but ask the hardcore linux network-stack folk what they thing of TOE, I dare you ;) Intel used to go on an on about IB in the chipset too, no? > Basically the argument that I make > here is that I think there is a natural place for them, but it is on the > motherboards. Much in the same way you have an Graphics Processing > Offload Engine in desktop systems, though in the case of motherboards, > they found value in supplying the high performance interface rather than > the offload engines. it's a good argument. but it's based on a sort of chip-level competitive advantage. is there enough work in doing TCP that it's worth bothering with a TOE? bear in mind that a TOE is inherently a coprocessor running its own firmware, probably a small RTOS, etc. what do you do when there's a bug in your TOE? how about a DOS in your TOE's firmware? note also that GPU's have a huge amount of leverage to apply: current high-end ones are >30 GB/s onboard, with many, many parallel ALU's. since graphics is inherently very data-parallel, this approach works, and is not crippling to design. I just don't see where RDMA can get enough leverage to make a difference. > I personally think that the offload engine concept is a very good one. > I like this model. With PCI-e (and possibly HTX), I think it has some > very interesting possibilities. I think there's a place for a very simple state-machine kind of smart nic. the idea would be to set up a table of actions for the nic to take, based on various fields in the incoming packet. for instance, tell it that when it receives a syn for a particular host/port/seq, it can send the packet at a particular memory location. or if it receives a particular host/port/seq that it can send a particular packet (which might be an ack). you can easily imagine that this could handle the socket handshake, even RDMA-type things. but it's certainly not TOE in the normal sense, and it wouldn't require a coprocessor+firmware+rtos > >>if you want high bandwidth, you don't want gigabit. > > Agreed. Out of sheer curiousity, what codes are more bandwidth bound > than latency bound over the high performance fabrics? Most of the codes > we play with are latency bound. I have users who do cosmology who seem to like shipping around pretty big chunks of data (cached data from neighbors on the grid). I have another user who is quite memory-intensive: ships around large chunks of his very, very large matrices. > I think a CBA is worth doing (and we may do this). If it gives a 5% > boost for a 2% increase in cluster cost, is that worth it? If it gives does it actually give a 5% boost? also, are your nodes quite cheap? > a 30% boost for a 2% increase in cost, is that worth it? What I have the impression Ammasso cards are in the $200 range, but this is purely an impression. as such, they'd represent 10% or so of a fairly "normal" low-end cluster node. the main problem is that low-end cluster nodes tend to run serial jobs which have essentially no dependence on the network. most other users (here at least) are significantly more net-intensive, and want 2 us latency and 1 GB/s. I guess I'm suggesting the RDMA niche depends on an odd category of parallel-but-not-very applications. I find that once people get that first hit of parallel, they usually want more, and that rapidly turns them into IB/Myri/Quadrics junkies... regards, mark hahn.


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Hercules Segers (Dutch, Haarlem 1589/90 - between 1633 and 1638 The Hague [?])
The Enclosed Valley (Der Talkessel), ca. 1615-30
Etching printed in black on buff cloth with washes in brown, grey, blue-grey, and blue-green
4 1/4 x 7 5/8 in. (10.9 x 19.3 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund and Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund, 1958
Hercules Segers, perhaps the most experimental printmaker of the seventeenth century, regarded each impression of a print as an individual work of art. He achieved radically varied effects through the use of colored inks and washes, and often printed on dyed paper or fabric to emphasize specific aspects of the image.
Mountain landscapes like The Enclosed Valley comprise the core of Segers's oeuvre of fifty-four etchings.1 Desolate valleys and plateaus, surrounded by barren, rocky mountains and precipitous cliffs, are seen from a high vantage point; the few trees, buildings, and isolated figures are dwarfed by the scale of this forbidding and inhospitable landscape. Segers was inspired in his mountain views not by any actual travels, but by the works of earlier artists.2 The most significant precursors for his landscapes were probably the alpine scenes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (disseminated in prints published by Hieronymous Cock), and the wilder, more irregular rock formations in the mountain landscapes of Joos de Momper the Younger. Segers also looked to the works of Jacob Pynas (ca. 1585-1650?) for individual motifs and compositional formats.
Even more remarkable than Segers's haunting mountain scenery is his unprecedented experimentation with and manipulation of printmaking techniques. He frequently printed his etchings on prepared (hand-colored) paper or cloth, to enrich the color and texture of the impression. Many of his etchings are printed in colored inks; he also selectively painted individual sheets with watercolor washes to vary the effect of each impression, casting different parts of the composition into darkness or light in each permutation. Each impression is individual and unique, a conscious attempt by the artist to blur the traditional boundaries between painting, drawing, and printmaking. The Enclosed Valley has survived in more impressions (twenty-one, plus one counterproof) than any other etching by Segers, and is known in four states.3 Viewed as a whole, these impressions show the range of different moods and atmospheres Segers could cull from a single plate. The Oberlin impression is from the first state, before the areas of drypoint added in the second state. Like the seven other impressions of this state, it was printed on cloth: in this instance, a fine-textured fabric (linen?) primed in white, then toned or dyed light tan or buff. Watercolor was applied in zones, ranging from brown in the foreground areas to blue-green in the distance, similar to the schematic formulae for affecting aerial perspective employed in paintings by contemporary and earlier artists such as Joos de Momper.Several of the areas shadowed with applied color in the Oberlin impression (i.e., the right foreground) are reworked with drypoint in the second state; thus, as Haverkamp Begemann has noted, this impression "can to some extent be considered to represent a preparatory step towards the second state."4
M. E. Wieseman
One of the most innovative Dutch printmakers and landscapists of the seventeenth century, Hercules Segers5 studied briefly with the painter Gillis van Coninxloo (1544-1607) in Amsterdam before that artist's death in 1606. He joined the Haarlem guild of St. Luke in about 1612, but returned to Amsterdam two years later. The exact date of Segers's death is not known: he is mentioned as an art dealer in The Hague in 1633, but a document of 1638 describes his wife as a widow. Segers's landscape paintings are rare; he is best known for his powerfully evocative and technically innovative landscape etchings. His works had a profound influence on Rembrandt, Philips Koninck, and a number of other artists, and inspired a close imitator, the etcher Johannes Ruisscher (ca. 1625-after 1675).
General References
Collins, Leo C. Hercules Seghers. Chicago, 1953.
Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. Hercules Seghers. Amsterdam and The Hague, 1968.
Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings. Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973.
Rowlands, John. Hercules Segers. New York, 1979.
Collection Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780)6
Collection August III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony (1696-1763); acquired for him by Karl Heinrich von Heineken between 1746 and 1756
Collection Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden (Lugt 1647)
Collection Frits Lugt (acquired by exchange, 29 December 1923; inv. no. I1445; sold March 1940)
Private collection (Ochsenbein), New York (by May 1940)
Acquired through Richard Zinser, New York, in 1958
The Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, 1956-57. Prints 1400-1800: A Loan Exhibition from Museums and Private Collections. November - March (also shown at The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago). Cat. no. 155.
Kenwood, London County Council, 1962. An American University Collection: Works of Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio. 3 May - 30 October. Cat. no. 63.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1962-63. Color in Prints: Catalogue of an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present. 11 October - 6 January. Cat. no. 26.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1980-81. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. 28 October - 4 January (also shown at The Saint Louis Art Museum). Cat. no. 32.
Springer, Jaro. Die Radierungen des Herkules Seghers. Berlin, 1910-12, no. 12e.
Trautschold, E. In Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, eds., Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antieke bis zur Gegenwart. Vol. 30. Leipzig, 1936, p. 447.
Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert. Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings. Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973, pp. 23, 56, 71, cat. no. 13If.
Ackley, Clifford S. "Books in Review: Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings by Egbert Haverkamp Begemann." The Print Collector's Newsletter 5, no. 4 (Sept.-Oct. 1974), pp. 93, 94 n. 3.
Stechow, Wolfgang. "Varieties of Landscape." Apollo 103, no. 168 (February 1976), p. 114, fig. 6.
Ackley, Clifford S. In Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1980, pp. 59-60.
Boon, K. G., ed. Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Vol. 26. Amsterdam, 1982, p. 192.
Catalogues (mentioning print but not this impression)
Frenzel, J. G. A. "Hercules Zegers, Zeitgenosse Paul Potter's, Maler und Kupferstecher und Erfinder der Kunst...." Kunst-Blatt 10 (1829-30), no. 5.
Nagler, G. K. Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon.... Vol. 22. Munich, 1852, p. 240, no. 5.
LeBlanc, Charles. Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes.... Vol. 4. Paris, 1890, p. 261, no. 5.
Technical Data
The primary support is a thin, lightweight linen fabric, sized with gelatin and primed with a thin layer of white lead. The top edge of the fabric is adhered to a sheet of paper trimmed to the same size as the print; side and bottom edges are hinged to this support. The image is printed in black ink, with thin watercolor washes applied in shades of blue and brown. At the top right recto, the mark of the Dresden print room (Lugt 1647) has been touched out with paint. The impression is clipped within the printed surface on all sides (almost certainly by the artist himself), and a borderline added at the left, top, and right sides.7
1. Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings (Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973), nos. 3-24; K. G. Boon, ed., Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, vol. 26 (Amsterdam, 1982), nos. 3-24. A total of 183 impressions are known from the artist's fifty-four plates.
2. On the artist's sources, see Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings (Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973), pp. 31-33.
3.Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings (Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973), pp. 71-73; see also K. G. Boon, ed., Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, vol. 26 (Amsterdam, 1982), pp. 191-94; and Clifford S. Ackley, in Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt (exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1980-81), pp. 59-60.
4. Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings (Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973), p. 71.
5.Although the artist's name is sometimes now spelled "Seghers," on paintings and documents the artist consistently signed his name without an "h"; see Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings (Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973), p. 17 n. 1.
6. K.G. Boon ("Introduction," in Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings [Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973], p. 4) has suggested that the prints by Segers in Houbraken's collection may originally have belonged to the artist and theoretician Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678), who included the earliest biography of Segers in his treatise, Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst (Rotterdam, 1678).
7. On Segers's clipping and cropping of his own etchings, see Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings (Amsterdam and The Hague, 1973), p. 47.


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UPDATE: This contest is closed. Please view the end of the article to see who won!
We're back for week 3 of Editor's Choice powered by NVIDIA Tegra, this time with a design-inspired prize pack curated by our resident illustrator extraordinaire, Angie. Up for grabs this week is a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, a Logitech Tablet Keyboard, a Logitech Tablet Mouse, an Alupen Touch Stylus and a Built neoprene messenger bag to haul it all around in.
Packing so many handy tools in a compact pack is perfect for the modern designer. Just ask Angie. She doesn't want to give this prize pack away. And I don't blame her. The Logitech Tablet Keyboard is one of my favorite accessories I've played with in a long time. Add in the mouse and stylus, and you've got quite the mobile art workstation.
How to win
In keeping with our theme of creative contests, this week we're doing a t-shirt concept contest. To enter to win, all you've gotta do is submit an idea for a bitchin' Android tee. You can draw it yourself, you can craft a terribly janky Photoshop, you can scrawl it out in MSpaint, hell, you can even just leave us a written description. Even if you don't have an artistic bone in your body, take your best shot and share it as a comment on this post.
Here's the best part: our favorite concept (as selected by the Android and Me staff) will be made into an actual tee. The winning concept is going to be passed to super-illustrator-turned-zombie Ray Frenden for the official And Me treatment. Then, at some point in the near future, we'll debut it in a line of actual tees (which the winner will get for free, of course).
The Small Print
Since this contest deals with submitting ideas and/or art, we thought we'd toss in a short disclaimer to say that all submissions remain the property of the original artist. We aren't here to permanently gobble up your creativity, we're just looking for a winning concept by an artist who will give us one-time rights to use the concept on a t-shirt in exchange for the amazing prize pack. Deal? Good.
Also, since this isn't carrier specific-hardware, this contest is open to all entrants, international or not. As long as you've got a clever idea, you've got a shot at this Tab.
Good luck and happy conceptualizing!
We'll leave entries open through the weekend, closing submissions on Sunday night at 11:59 PM CST. We'll try to pick a winner and make the announcement as soon after the deadline as possible.
As always, if you'd like to see more contests here, show some love to @NVIDIATegra over on Twitter.
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Editor's Note: If you notice your post not showing up, don't re-post! For those with multiple links, we have to go in and mark them "Not Spam," which is a manual process. If you don't see it the next day, then repost! Thanks!
UPDATE: We have our winner! Congratulations to John and his idea to create a design out of a sea of Androids. He submitted the below image to give us an idea of the composition:
It was very hard to choose one out of all the of the many submissions we received, but we are all happy with the idea of a shirt that will highlight the idea of an Android community. Check out the gallery below to see the submissions that made it farthest in the judging process (Submitted by BRAAAIN, Jean M, Patricia Simoes, inhuman5000, Edward Pei, Michael C., Juan Raza, mimogear, Sean M, Keith Pinson, Yellow Ducati, Sylvain, and erikiksaz (in no particular order). Two others, AnthonyA and cristhian banales were also final contenders, but did not submit a mockup):
Honorable Mentions
We're very excited to see how this is going to turn out after the talented Mr. Ray Frenden gets his hands on it. Keep a lookout on the site for updates on when this will be available for purchase. Please keep in mind that it will require quite a bit of time to finalize a design, and get everything taken care of with the printer, so it could be a few months. Thanks so much for everyone who participated! It was a lot of fun looking through your ideas.


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Harang eager for fresh start
San Diego Padres starter Aaron Harang is ready to move past
three injury-filled seasons and return to being a power
A San Diego native who also pitched at San Diego State, Harang
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In 2008, Harang spent 32 days on the disabled list with a
strained right forearm. Harang then missed 42 games in the 2009
season after having surgery to remove his appendix and he was
limited to 22 appearances during the 2010 season because of a lower
back strain.
Padres manager Bud Black said Harang was in good shape when he
reported to spring training on Sunday.
"He's had a very good offseason as far as training," Black
said. "He's been extremely motivated to get back to a level of
performance that he was accustomed to for a number of years there
in Cincinnati. I think it's a good fit."


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Who's buying the notion that Barack Obama is a fiscal conservative who's engineered the slowest spending growth since Calvin Coolidge? Not the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, who gave the argument three Pinocchios in a fact-check yesterday, and not the Associated Press, either. In a fact-check of their own this morning, the AP's Andrew Taylor reports that Obama's "rosy claim" has a lot of problems — with Obama being first and foremost among them:
There's also the question of how to treat the 2009 fiscal year, which actually began Oct. 1, 2008, almost four months before Obama took office. Typically, the remaining eight months get counted as part of the prior president's spending since the incoming president usually doesn't change it much until the following October. The MarketWatch analysis assigned 2009 to former President George W. Bush, though it gave Obama responsibility that year for a $140 million chunk of the 2009 stimulus bill.
But Obama's role in 2009 spending was much bigger than that. For starters, he signed nine spending bills funding every Cabinet agency except Defense, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security. While the numbers don't jibe exactly, Obama bears the chief responsibility for an 11 percent, $59 billion increase in non-defense spending in 2009. Then there's a 9 percent, $109 billion increase in combined defense and non-defense appropriated outlays in 2010, a year for which Obama is wholly responsible.
So what's the real picture? Spending sharply increased under Obama, and the rate only slowed down due to the influence of a Republican-controlled House:
If one assumes that TARP and the takeover of Fannie and Freddie by the government as one-time budgetary anomalies and remove them from calculations — an approach taken by Holtz-Eakin — you get the following picture:
—A 9.7 percent increase in 2009, much of which is attributable to Obama.
—A 7.8 percent increase in 2010, followed by slower spending growth over 2011-13. Much of the slower growth reflects the influence of Republicans retaking control of the House and their budget and debt deal last summer with Obama. All told, government spending now appears to be growing at an annual rate of roughly 3 percent over the 2010-2013 period, rather than the 0.4 percent claimed by Obama and the MarketWatch analysis.
The argument was always absurd on its face. The last fully Republican budget was FY2007, which came in at $2.77 trillion. The last Bush/Democrat budget was FY2008, which was $2.982 trillion. The FY2009 budget, which Obama signed into law and which was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress, was $3.517 trillion with a $1.4 trillion deficit. That's a year-on-year increase of nearly 18%, and those numbers come straight from the White House website. If you prefer the figures in percentage of GDP, as Kessler noted yesterday, we went from 20.8% of GDP in FY2008 to 25.2% in FY2009, which is an increase of 22% year on year.
Nor does it get any better. Using FY2008 as the baseline comparison, FY2010's budget was $3.456 trillion, an increase of 15.88% over the last Bush/Democrat budget. FY2011's $3.603 trillion budget was a 20.8% increase, and FY2012's projected $3.795 trillion (the White House projection, mind you) is an increase of 27.26% over the last Bush budget — in just four budget years. An argument that this is a demonstration of fiscal discipline would have to come straight out of the pages of George Orwell's 1984.


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With one exception, local media have shown little interest in this acronym laced, Chesapeake Bay "environmental" story. TMDLs, WIPs. Ho-Hum. Complicated. Who cares?
The information is beginning infiltrate into politicians' craniums via multiple public meetings where the Cassandras stand up and sing. Government staff get the import of pending events, but until voters shriek and wail, no action will be seen from elected leaders.
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Claude Kester Sink Sr., 84, of Lexington, passed away Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at his home, surrounded by his family after an illness of six weeks.
Claude Kester Sink Sr., 84, of Lexington, passed away Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at his home, surrounded by his family after an illness of six weeks.
His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel by Pastor Harold Harper. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home and other times at the home.
Mr. Sink was born Dec. 23, 1928, in Davidson County to Clem W. Sink and Edna Myers Sink. He was founder of Sink's Garage and Sink Farm Equipment. He was a former lay leader of Shiloh United Methodist Church. He attended Psalm 91 for more than 25 years, until the Lord led him to attend church with his family at True Light Baptist Church where he was a member. He still considered the members of Psalm 91 and Pastor Max to be a part of his Christian family. He was a member of the Lexington Memorial 473 Masonic Lodge and Lexington Shrine Club and was chairman of the nominating committee for EnergyUnited. He was preceded in death by brothers Alvin, Lacy, Earl, Luther Voyd and Henry Sink Sr. and sisters Blanche and Mildred Lanning.
Surviving are his wife of 65 years, Verlie Mae Sidden Sink of the home; son Claude "C.J." Sink Jr. (Gina) of Lexington; daughters Alma Smith and Reta Smith (Junie), all of Lexington; grandchildren Chrissy Tribley (Tom), Angie Hutchins (Barry), Karrie Sink (Mark), Bobby Smith (Heather), Julie Smith (T.J.), Amy Gentry (Cliff), Jason Smith and girlfriend Lauren, Meredith and Jacob Sink; great-grandchildren Sierra and Monica Hutchins, Noah Tribley, Sarah, Josh and Lauryn Sink, Morrigan Hivley-Smith and Mason Smith; sisters Nellie Phillips, Joan Phillips (Cliff) and Mary Alice Berrier (Ellis), all of Lexington; and many other special friends and family.
Memorials may be directed to True Light Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1825, Lexington, NC 27293 or Hospice of Davidson County, 200 Hospice Way, Lexington, NC 27292.
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We were able to stop at a bunch of the little towns along the way, full of all kinds of cool little shops filled with stuff you really don't need, but want just the same. Interstate is a great camping spot right on the banks of the St.Croix. There are tons of cool hiking trails that clearly show you what the place was like eons ago when the glaciers started to melt and 200 foot cliffs along the river on either side as you paddle along in your kayak. Awesome! Another cool thing about the St. Croix is all the free shoreline camping spots along the way. Just paddle in, set up camp and stay the night.
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Savage Streets (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus catches up with a cult 1984 movie that he'd never seen before....
Brenda's (Linda Blair) gang of girls are hot shit but when they pull a prank on local gang The Scars and take a joy ride in their car, Scar leader Jake (Robert Dryer) ain't best pleased.
While hustling some money out of a kid in school, the Scars spot Brenda's deaf sister Heather (Linnea Quigley) entering the school gym. With Brenda delayed in meeting up with her sister (she's gets into a fight in the girls showers) the Scars terrorize and gang rape Heather, fleeing the scene and leaving Brenda's young sister in a coma.
Brenda is desperate to find out who did this to her sister and with the police and school doing nothing to help, Brenda's revenge is unleashed when she discovers fellow student Vince (Johnny Venocur) was involved with the attack and his friends The Scars were behind it all. Time to grab a crossbow and some bear traps and bash some heads.
I had not only never seen Savage Streets but I'm ashamed to admit I'd never even heard of it. My knowledge of Linda Blair outside of the Exorcist movies, Repossessed and a stint on the S Club 7 show is limited, so to find out she played this vigilante high school chick in a cult 80s flick was a real eye opener.
Now I don't know whether it was the musical choice of 'Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way' over the opening credits (a song full of feel good memories for me as it's on the awesome Transformers: The Movie soundtrack) or if the nostalgic visuals of 80s filmmaking struck a nerve but I pretty much warmed to Savage Streets immediately. So called, 'Cult' movies are always hit and miss because sometimes if you missed them the first time around, like I did here, you can miss the appeal but Savage Streets was a blast.
The best way I can sum it up after one viewing is, it's a bit like Grease, without the songs and if Kenickie was a psychopath and Rizzo put on a black jumpsuit and took nasty revenge on the T-Birds. The school setting here has that 80s feel down perfectly. The super cool kids who can seemingly get away with anything, the rivalries between the cool girls and the cheerleaders, the powerless teachers, the conversations about "when am I ever gonna get out of this place?" etc, except Savage Streets does all those things other 80s high school movies only hinted that.
Savage Streets is violent, incredibly so in places. Savage Streets has proper swearing and, shock horror, from girls, Savage Streets has nudity coming out of its ears and puts the odd 80s boob flash to shame and Savage Streets has a genuine threat and not just some douchey older kid, who might just punch you in the face for looking at his girl. In fact Jake, the main bad guy here is a prime example of a solid fact in cinema, no other decade did villains quite as effectively as the 80s.
The baddies in that era are proper mental, proper unpredictable, and make the description "unstable" seem long passed. 90's bad guys always had 'a reason' for their badness—80s bad guys didn't need reasons they were just mental. 00s were always misunderstood—80s bad guys didn't care if you understood them, they'd kill you while you thought about it. 80s bad guys are nastier than the rest and what makes them even better is that they usually come loaded with amazing dialogue to sweeten the deal and Fargo (Sal Landi), Jake's right hand man throws lines out here like the best of them. He over abusive tone and his descriptions of what he's going to do to his victims should not have put a smile on my face because most of the time they really nasty, but he combination of his 80s fashion (including a slick bandana around his head), his curly hair and his "I'm the best" body language I couldn't help thinking this character was the sort of bad guy you just love to hate.
Anyway, you've probably guessed by now, I had a nostalgic blast with Savage Streets. The extreme nature of it really made this movie shine. I wouldn't say it was all that shocking by today's standards, though it has to be said some of its oddities made it seem very brutal (especially some of the things the gang does in the rape scene and Jake throwing Bredna's friend off the bridge is genuinely shocking) but the relativity simple story of a bunch of school kids terrorized by a bunch of leather jacketed baddies and then one of the school girls stepping up to take revenge actually had a feel good vibe about it and considering this was the first time I'd ever seen the movie it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling that movies from my youth usually invoke. So, despite taking me twenty seven years to actually see it, Savage Streets is a real highlight from the 80s, who knew?
I think I've been spoilt with quality over the last few years. With modern movies glowing with perfection in HD and old classics remastered, cleaned up and upgraded onto the Blu-ray format, I'd almost forgotten movies could look like Savage Streets. It was like going back in time and putting a rental video in my top loader or something. The transfer here is dirty. It's full of grain and artefacts, has that hazy softness and with the neon pink and blue lighting and of course those fashions does nothing to hide the age of the movie.
There's little to no real sharpness, colours are muted most of the time and close ups lack detail. Some of the external shots, especially of the exterior of the school looks like those old Disney nature documentaries from the 60's. There's also a weird, albeit faint grid around the edges of the frame, which you'll only really notice if you go looking for it but it is there. That said all of this makes Savage Streets feel right. As you all know there's been a mini-resurgence of trying to capture the feeling of these old movies with most of the stuff that came out of Grindhouse, but there's nothing like the genuine article and despite all its flaws I don't think Savage Streets would really benefit from a full clean up. The transfer here feels right and besides a few of the more offensive defects being sorted out, there's not a lot else a full restoration would improve.
I want to write off the audio track with the same warm nostalgic feeling that the video gave me but there's no denying that this Dolby Digital 2.0 track is a bit of a mess. Throughout the dialogue is clear enough as are the awesome 80s soundtrack choices that inform us how the characters are feeling in the montages (got to love that stuff) but beyond that everything's a bit sketchy.
For starters some scenes that reach the upper octaves can sound uncomfortable. The girls screaming as they steal The Scar's car is screechy and a little overbearing but it's when some of the dialogue comes with a crackle that you notice how old and uncared for this track is. At first I thought it was an echo as I first noticed it in the school gym scenes but really the dialogue here begins to sound like an old LP. There's crackles and hiss and keeping the LP comparison alive, there's even a sense the needle is being lifted off of the vinyl at the close of some scenes which is just plain iffy.
The track simply has very little in the way of depth and it always feels separate from the visuals somehow. Yeah, there is a certain amount of expecting all of the issues here considering this is a small cult 80s movie and it's not Back to the Future or E.T. but even so the issues here are not only apparent but make their presence known a lot.
The first of three commentaries comes from director Danny Steinman and is moderated by Michael Felsher (the producer of the DVD). This is more of an interview than a commentary track and while they do talk about specifics it's quite a slow burning affair.
The second commentary features producer John Strong and actors Robert Dryer and Johnny Venocur and they're joined by moderator David Decouteu and is far more upbeat. The group are a lively bunch with lots of stories about the shoot and feels more like what you'd expect from an ensemble cast reuniting for chat about their movie.
The third commentary track has cinematographer Stephen Posey with actors Robert Dryer and Sal Landi, joined by Mark Hoight and is a nice middle ground between the other tracks. It has bursts of all the participants sharing their tales but it's got a lot of dead air and really after the previous tracks this all begins to get a little repetitive. That said between the three tracks there's not really a stone unturned with the history of Savage Streets and fans should eat these up.
'Confessions of a Teenage Vigilante' (17:02) is an interview with Linda Blair and goes into the troubled production, the changes to the film and Blair's best bits. This sort of makes up for her not featuring on the commentary tracks but feels a little like it's skimming the surface on her real feelings on some of the elements of the movie somehow.
'Heather Speaks' (10:45) is an interview with Linnea Quigley. Of course this features shooting the rape scene and Quigley's other experiences on set.
After the commentary track, the 'John Strong Interview' (14:04) is repeating most of the information but his accounts of the struggling production and his input is still a fun watch.
The 'Johnny Venecor Interview' (14:15) is 50 percent good and 50 percent annoying due to Venecor's attempts to keep everything funny. It's hard to tell how much is thrown in for effect but he covers quite a bit none the less. Lastly the 'Robert Dyer Interview' (05:54) is short and pretty to the point but it's still good to see what the bad guy is like when he's not in character and older.
Wrapping up there's the trailer (03:21) which is pure 80s brilliance.
Savage Streets was a mystery to me but now I've seen it I totally get why it's deemed a cult classic. It dug up a nostalgic buzz in me that I think I'd lost over the years (mainly due to the fact that I own all of the 80s movies I loved as a kid and forgot what it was like to see a 'new' 80s flick). The disc is lacking in both video and audio department but a certain amount of that can be written off as in many ways it aids the experience of the movie and the extras should more than make up for it, for the fans at least. Savage Streets was totally new to me but I have to say I really enjoyed its excessive, 80s awesomeness and it proves that filmmakers can attempt to remake or recapture that era's goofy glory but there's nothing quite like the genuine article.
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I loved the opening with 'Nothing's Gonna Stand In Our Way' for the same reasons, although it was the original John Farnham version not the Spectre General/Kick Axe cover. I got the soundtrack to this film the other day actually. Oh, and Linda Blair's rack - nice.
I want to dig out my TF:TM soundtrack now
I want to dig out my TF:TM soundtrack now
Wilson Bros Reviewer Join Date: August 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,183
We have the soundtrack album to Savage Streets on vinyl - it's seriously cool.
If the transfer on this release is close to the one that was out in the US a fews years back, then it's the best that this film has ever looked. Previous releases, especially the one released on VHS in the UK, looked ridiculously dark and grainy, some would say almost impossible to watch.
Savage Streets still contains what is arguably Linnea Quigley's finest performance - and she doesn't say a word...
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If the transfer on this release is close to the one that was out in the US a fews years back, then it's the best that this film has ever looked. Previous releases, especially the one released on VHS in the UK, looked ridiculously dark and grainy, some would say almost impossible to watch.
Savage Streets still contains what is arguably Linnea Quigley's finest performance - and she doesn't say a word...
Kevin & Nick W
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I want to see this movie- haven't heard of it until this review
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Cool review! I haven't seen this film since I saw a pirate copy back sometime in the 80's, will have to get a legit copy now for some rack reminiscing! Used to love 'Scream Queen' Linnea Quigley
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Disc Details
Release Date: 20th June 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Commentaries, Interviews, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Danny Steinmann
Cast: Linda Blair, Linnea Quigley, John Vernon, Sal Landi, Robert Dryer
Genre: Drama and Thriller
Length: 92 minutes
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Talk about a parent's worst nightmare: a South Dakota mom was awakened by her dogs barking early Sunday morning, in response to an intruder in her home. Perhaps even more alarming than the presence of the stranger was just what this trespasser was doing.
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The alleged intruder, 24-year-old Rebecca Silva, was not stashing prized valuables into a duffle bag, nor was she dressed in an all black ski mask when the surprised mother spotted her. The pajama-clad culprit had snuck into the Brookings, SD home in an attempt to breastfeed, yes breastfeed, the mother's two-month-old daughter reports the UK's Daily Mail.
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Thankfully, the child's mother succeeded in safely getting her daughter away from Silva until the police arrived. The mother claims to have never met Silva, and the incident seems to have been a result of alcohol intoxication on Silva's part, who was arrested and charged with unlawful occupancy, a misdemeanor offense.
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Tirkkonen, a senior from Hollola, Finland, was named to the first team as a forward. Tirkkonen played in all 17 matches, scoring a team-high nine goals with two assists. He was named the 2012 Conference Carolinas Player of the Year and made first team all-conference. He was second in the league in goals, third in points and second in game-winning goals with five.
Tirkkonen is a business administration major at Coker. He is the son of Jari and Merja Tirkkonen.
Prendes, a junior from Brampton, Ontario, made the second team as a defender. He played in 14 matches, starting 13, and was a Conference Carolinas first team all-conference selection. Prendes scored two goals on the season including a game-winner against Limestone on Oct. 27 that secured Coker's second-straight Conference Carolinas regular-season championship.
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When I get up to speed with Django however I am sure it will become my preferred choice over Drupal.-bscott
One thing i will add that was touched on by other posters.In my (albeit limited) experience, it is a mistake to compare the features of product A (out of the box) to product B (with lots of community-built extensions/addons).The more addons/extensions you use, the harder it is to maintain, and in general the more likely you are to have problems and strange interactions, and trouble upgrading.That's not to say you shouldn't use extensions/addons, but it is to say that you should prefer a system whose CORE is closest to your needs, and that relying on a large number of extensions to get the functionality you want is never as simple as it seems.-mouser (January 29, 2011, 07:04 PM)
Wordpress is a "CMS" in the same sense that SMF (the system this forum uses) is a "CMS". It manages "content", yes. But it's not what most people think of when they think of "CMS". It's not a general-purpose system that's actually *made for* making average, non-blog websites. Wordpress was made for and is still best for *blog* sites. If you have no intention of doing blog-style content, or if blog-style content is not the *core* of your site, then Wordpress is in my opinion not the best solution. You'll be working against the system and/or with lots of hacks and addons to get it to do normal stuff that works out of the box with other more generalized CMS platforms. That being said other CMS systems don't give you blog functionality that is as nice and complete and easy to use, in most cases. So again if blog-type content (not even necessarily a real "blog" per se, but sequentially posted blog-roll style content/articles) is your goal, then Wordpress may still be best. For all else, set it aside.- Oshyan-JavaJones (January 29, 2011, 03:29 PM)
That's because people start small or blog-oriented sites with Wordpress because it's easy to use and then later want to do more with it but don't want to leave their familiarity with WP behind. So the demand for addons that make WP more like a full-blown CMS is high. That doesn't make WP a good CMS to start a *new* site with by any means though. I see that this may be a direction WP wants to go in the future, but I think it would take some very significant work to do it well. Part of the magic of WP's simplicity and ease of use is in its focus on a smaller set of features. If WP could do everything Joomla could do, well, it would be more complicated. If they do go down the road of trying to turn it into a more general CMS, I think they might be better served doing it as a new core and adapting the original WP to be an addon or integrated with it, but keep the UI approach and usability model. Maybe make a "Site Press" with "Word Press" component.- Oshyan-JavaJones (January 30, 2011, 04:58 PM)
^ What was it in the interpretation of GPL that killed Joomla/WordPress for you? Just wondering, since I'm looking to upgrade my site also.-wraith808 (January 30, 2011, 10:51 PM)
^ What was it in the interpretation of GPL that killed Joomla/WordPress for you? Just wondering, since I'm looking to upgrade my site also.-wraith808 (January 30, 2011, 10:51 PM)They have an overwhelming compulsion to be assholes: http://www.simplemachines.../index.php?topic=184557.0I just don't see why they need to exclude all non-GPL (compatible) software like that. It does nothing to preserve "freedom". -Renegade (January 30, 2011, 11:05 PM)
As a result of this change of direction, only GPL-licensed software can legally be distributed and used inside the Joomla! software. While we regret and are saddened by this development, we respect Joomla!'s position on their software license.
People that don't like the terms of the GPL should feel free to go out and purchase whatever software they feel would suit their needs better, and conveniently disregard the fact that the EULAs on such products place even greater restrictions on the user than GPL ever would.
Haven't found a better framework yet though (pylons looks interesting but a bit chaotic).
Addendum: (minor point) Just because somebody does something you don't agree with (or understand) doesn't automatically make them an "asshole." And characterizing them as such doesn't add anything to either the tone, or the caliber, of the discussion. (Just my tuppence.)-40hz (January 31, 2011, 12:09 AM)
One sentence summary: PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.
This is a WordPress call:wp_head();
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:...snip...These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program.
On the basis of that version of WordPress, and considering those themes as if they had been added to WordPress by a third party, it is our opinion that the themes presented, and any that are substantially similar, contain elements that are derivative works of the WordPress software as well as elements that are potentially separate works. Specifically, the CSS files and material contained in the images directory of the "default" theme are works separate from the WordPress code. On the other hand, the PHP and HTML code that is intermingled with and operated on by PHP the code derives from the WordPress code.In the WordPress themes, CSS files and images exist purely as data to be served by a web server. WordPress itself ignores these files[1]. The CSS and image files are simply read by the server as data and delivered verbatim to the user, avoiding the WordPress instance altogether. The CSS and images could easily be used with a range of HTML documents and read and displayed by a variety of software having no relation to WordPress. As such, these files are separate works from the WordPress code itself.
In Joomla bridges, the bridged software exists purely as data to be served by a web server. Joomla itself ignores these files. The bridged software files are simply processed by the server as data and delivered to the user, avoiding the Joomla instance altogether. The bridged software could easily be used and read and displayed by a variety of software having no relation to Joomla. As such, these files are separate works from the Joomla code itself.
If the bridge is GPL doesn't that then mean that SMF has to be GPL to work with the bridge?... - Oshyan-JavaJones (January 31, 2011, 06:08 PM)
The part "This is a WordPress call:" is GPL as well because it's part of a derivative work. Ooops. This entire post is. Ooops. This entire thread is. Ooops. This entire forum is. Ooops. This entire site is. Ooops. The entire Internet is. Ooops. The entire world is. Ooops... Since I read it, and that knowledge is a part of my being, and I'm now GPL'd myself~! My wife is gonna HATE that~!
It's not that anything must change license, just that the license must be GPL to be distributed legally. -JavaJones (January 31, 2011, 08:05 PM)
Here's the thing though, as Jfusion proves, it depends on *how* something is written and how it interfaces GPL to non-GPL. It *can* be done legitimately, as Jfusion again shows. I think the key is in how separate it is. For example a Joomla-integrated system that presented a Joomla plugin UI would be using Joomla deeply enough to require being GPL itself. If it then integrates with a non-GPL system, it would simply need to do so in a way that did not A: use that system's API or B: use any proprietary elements of that system besides data. In other words direct data access would be acceptable, i.e. Jfusion directly reading and writing to SMF's SQL database info. I'm not actually sure that's how it works, but that's my understanding of what would be legal.-JavaJones (January 31, 2011, 08:05 PM)
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The rift between longtime Pantera bandmates Phil Anselmo and Vinnie Paul has been well documented, but that hasn't kept Anselmo from offering olive branches to open communication in the media over the years.
The former Pantera frontman once again opened up about his onetime band and their disintegrated relationships in Revolver magazine's latest issue, which recently hit newsstands.
"I feel bad for Vince," explained Anselmo in the interview (excerpted by Blabbermouth). "People should pity the guy. I wasn't there when Dimebag [Darrell] was murdered, but he sure as f— was. That's his flesh and blood, murdered right in front of him. It's a shame that Vince never reached out to [bassist] Rex [Brown] and I. I think the healing process would have been beneficial to him, instead of his knee-jerk reaction to fear and his therapy through tit bars and whiskey."
The vocalist added that while he will admit his role through a fair share of mistakes that led to the downfall of Pantera, he wasn't alone. "One guy can't break up a band," says Anselmo. "You have to understand, it goes all four ways when a band breaks up. Yes, I made mistakes. Yes, there was a lack of communication on both sides and some of it is my fault — a lot of it is my fault."
Anselmo also insists that he would have repaired his relationship with Dimebag had the guitar legend not been slain. "We would have made amends. I would like to think he would be proud of me for pulling myself out of the muck, the abyss," says the frontman. "I just choose to remember the positive things. He was almost like the perfect counterpoint to me. We may have clashed to a certain extent, but we would always find a happy medium. It was a vital relationship that I miss greatiy."


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Members Of The Republican Study Committee Do Twitter Q&A, Ignore Every Single Question About Fixing Copyright
from the what-are-they-afraid-of? dept
Whoever was tweeting for the Republican Study Committee itself did respond, blandly, to two questions -- first by repeating the silly claim that the paper was pulled because it did not reflect all viewpoints, and then later arguing that it had to do with the fact that copyright was not a left or right issue. But, leaving aside the dodging by the RSC on key questions related to the study, it's somewhat stunning that no Representative would respond to a single question about copyright in over four hours of taking questions.
It makes you wonder: why is Congress so afraid to debate our broken copyright system? Who, exactly, are they afraid of?
As discussed, and contrary to the RSC's later claims, Khanna's paper lays out a very compelling case for why conservatives should be leading the way to fixing copyright. It seems like a quite reasonable subject for the members of the RSC to be willing to comment on, but outside of Darrell Issa's brief tweet in support of the paper, it appears that the over 130 members of the RSC won't even discuss one of the more pressing issues that many of their constituents are concerned about.


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Well, generally I like the Nexus, but I can't somehow agree with all conclusions Tom made, but that's it, everyone of us thinks of different usage pattern for his/her device, so that's perfectly OK.
Visiting the Metallica gig, I saw one guy holding iPAD over his head, filming one song. Well, it looked funny. But still - the lack of rear camera, is just a stupid ommission. I have 2x Canon DSLR, yet I don't carry them with me, so I welcome my HTC Sensation phone has a camera too. Now why to miss it on a tablet? That, in my eyes, is completly stupid ommission. Look at Galaxy Tab 7.7 - does the rear camera ruin design or usability for you? I think not.
One other thing - why does it miss on GSM/3G? Once again - e.g. my mom has her eyes impact by diabetes. I was thinking to get her some tablet. Now how much more would it cost Google to add GSM/3G module? Once again - for few bucks they limit the usage. Galaxy Tab 7.7 has that module.
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Hi everyone has you could see from my last post my laptop is down with a bad mother board so Im stuck with using my parents home computer. This computer is a dell running windows xp with a 2 GHz processor with 512 MB of ram, which a just upgraded. I've already gone into the system properties and adjusted the performance for the best possible. I have also gone into the administrative tools and disabled all the services that are not need, and cleaned up the rest with msconfig. So I only have the minimum running with zonealarm security suite running for protection. Even with all of this done it still takes to long for a simple folder to open up or to open a small application. So my question, is there any thing I can do to speed up this computer that I haven't already done and/or could it be possible that something is wrong with the hardware of this computer making it run slower.
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YEPES, Rodrigo Uprimny. Judicialization of politics in Colombia: cases, merits and risks.Translated byBarney Whiteoak. Sur [online]. 2007, vol.3Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1806-6445.
In Colombia, the judicialization of politics has assumed greater proportions than in many other Third World countries where judicial prominence has become mainstream. What can have prompted the development of this phenomenon? What is its impact on the democratization of Colombian society? What are the democratic merits and the risks of judicialization? Besides attempting to provide answers to these questions, I also propose to analyze the Colombian case, through illustrative examples and a theoretical discussion on the evolution of the phenomenon.
Keywords : Judicialization of politics; Democracy; Rule of law; Judicial prominence; Constitutional justice; Independent Judiciary.


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Self sufficiency doesn't necessarily mean quitting your job, selling your worldly belongings, getting off the grid, and disconnecting from the rest of the world.
It certainly CAN mean that...but it doesn't HAVE to.
That level of independence simply isn't practical for most of us.
Aside from housing and transportation, food is the single most expensive necessity that most families have to deal with. A recent USDA study indicates that the average monthly grocery cost for a family of four is somewhere between $500 and $700. This is far more than the cost of utilities like electricity and water.
Learning and implementing self sufficient food skills can impact a families expenses far more and far quicker than just about anything else a family can do.
Installing solar or wind power generation units or buying a brand new green vehicle, for example can certainly reduce your dependence on outside sources, but the expense of doing so is extreme and the pay back is many years at best.
By comparison, supplies for growing collecting and preserving your own food is far less expensive, and the payback is much quicker (almost immediate in some cases).
That's not to say that these high tech, high dollar items don't have an important role in today's society, it's simply that it may not be practical or realistic for the average family struggling to make ends meet. Technology will catch up and pricing will come down someday, but as of today, it's extremely difficult.
Self reliance can be achieved in more realistic ways, and only to the degree that you are comfortable with.
-buying fresh locally grown produce in bulk.
-canning and freezing fresh foods for use all year.
-growing your own vegetable garden.
-planting your own fruit trees and berry plants.
-raising your own poultry and small livestock for eggs and meat.
-making you own wine, beer, cheese, sauerkraut, pickles and other things.
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The more of these skills you learn for yourself, the more self sufficient you become. You have the chance to become the master of your own destiny, as you and your family become less dependent on others.
My Grandpa used to put it in simpler terms. He used to tell me...
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There's no magic in becoming more self sufficient, although it can seem pretty magical when you start enjoying the "fruits" of your own efforts! People practice these types of skills every day, all over the world.
Your grandparents or great-grandparents probably practiced many of them during the Great Depression, just to "get by". Mine certainly did. If they could do it back then, you can do it now. All you need is motivation, knowledge and resources.
My family passed their skills & knowledge on to me. It is my goal to pass it on further to as many people as possible. Sadly, it seems many of these skills are becoming lost as the older generations leave us.
This website will give you the basic information that you need to increase YOUR level of self sufficiency. You supply the motivation and desire. I'll help you with the knowledge.


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4 large eggs
1 cup milk, at room temperature
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 12 cubes
1 cup strawberry jam
1 cup mascarpone, at room temperature
2 tablespoons sugar
3/4 cup chocolate-hazelnut spread, such as Nutella
For the crepes: Combine the eggs, milk, flour, cocoa powder, sugar and salt in a blender or bowl. Blend or whisk by hand until the mixture forms a smooth batter.
Preheat a 10-inch nonstick crepe pan or skillet over medium-low heat. Melt 1 cube of butter in the pan. Add 1/4 cup of batter and quickly tilt the pan to form an even coating of batter on the bottom of the pan. Cook until set, about 1 minute. Using a heat-resistant spatula, carefully loosen the sides and gently flip the crepe over. Cook for 1 minute. Repeat with the remaining batter and butter.
For the filling: Mix the jam, mascarpone, and sugar in a small bowl until smooth.
Spread each crepe with 3 tablespoons of the jam mixture leaving a 1/2-inch border. Fold the two opposite ends of each crepe inward and roll into a tube shape. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Arrange the crepes on a platter.
Heat the chocolate-hazelnut spread over low heat in a small saucepan, stirring constantly, until warm. Spoon over the crepes and serve.
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