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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Samsung Galaxy Golden is an Android clamshell with old looks but new specs
Phone Arena writes, A new clamshell flip phone is apparently coming from Samsung; this seems to be a completely different model than the Samsung Hennessy (SCH-W789) that we told you about on Friday. Where that model will allegedly have 3.5 inch dual screens, the SHV-400EK, known as the Samsung Galaxy Golden, will have 3.75 inch dual-screens. The phone will have a numerical dial pad with triple tap letter entry...
Robert Mugabe wins (again). Opponent cries fraud
Robert Mugabe was declared winner of Zimbabwe's election with 61 percent of the vote. His main rival Morgan Tsvangirai said the results were a "monumental fraud."
Zimbabweans wait to cast their vote in presidential and parliamentary elections in Harare, last Wednesday. President Robert Mugabe was declared the winner Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. His party has denied allegations of vote-rigging.
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EnlargeAfrica's oldest leader Robert Mugabe was declared winner of Zimbabwe's disputed election on Saturday, while his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed the result as a fraud and said he would challenge it in court and in regional forums.
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Mugabe, 89, who has ruled the former British colony in southern Africa since its independence in 1980, was formally proclaimed re-elected for a five-year term barely an hour after Tsvangirai announced his planned legal challenge.
"We are going to go to court, we are going to go to the AU (African Union), we are going to go to the SADC (Southern African Development Community)," Tsvangirai angrily told a news conference in Harare. He rejected the result as "fraudulent".
While African observers have already broadly approved Wednesday's peaceful vote, independent domestic monitors have described it as deeply flawed by registration problems that may have disenfranchised up to a million people.
Western observers were kept out by Harare.
In its strongest criticism so far of the poll, the European Union said on Saturday it was concerned about alleged irregularities and a lack of transparency in the election.
The EU's verdict on the fairness of the vote will be crucial to deciding whether it continues to ease sanctions on the southern African country. These were originally imposed because of previous accusations of vote-rigging and abuses of power made against Mugabe and his followers.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, which the official results show won a more than two-thirds majority in parliament, has rejected the latest allegations of massive vote-rigging and intimidation made against it by Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Zimbabwe's Election Commission announced Mugabe had soundly beaten Tsvangirai in the presidential contest with just over 61 percent of the votes, against nearly 34 percent for Tsvangirai.
"Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, of ZANU-PF party, is therefore declared duly elected President of the Republic of Zimbabwe with effect of today," commission head Rita Makarau told a news conference, drawing cheers from ZANU-PF supporters.
Tsvangirai, who had been serving as Prime Minister in a fractious unity government under Mugabe, said his party would present evidence in court to back its charges that the July 31 vote was a "monumental fraud" engineered by ZANU-PF.
"I thought this election was going to resolve this political crisis. It has not. It has failed. It has plunged the country back to where it was," Tsvangirai said.
He has called on the African Union and SADC to investigate the vote, calling it "null and void" and "not credible".
But he faces an uphill struggle to convince the regional bodies, as their observers have already publicly endorsed the election as free and peaceful, while acknowledging minor problems.
Adding to the controversy surrounding the election, one member of Zimbabwe's nine-member Electoral Commission, Mkhululi Nyathi, has resigned since the vote, citing doubts about the integrity of the results.
Tsvangirai's MDC said on Friday it could take to the streets to challenge ZANU-PF's claim of a landslide victory, made less than 24 hours after the polls had closed on Wednesday. (Additional reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa in Harare and Xola Potelwa in Johannesburg; Writing by Cris Chinaka and Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Xola Potelwa and Pascal Fletcher)
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Navigating the NY Architect's Licensing route has given me an ...
OP, think of this in terms of years instead of credits.? When I have a question about what states want, I look at this:
http://www.ncarb.org/Getting-an-Initial-License/Registration-Board-Requirements/Initial-Registration-Requirements.aspx
For being an architectural entity, their spacing is piss poor and this is hard to read.? Scroll down to questions 5, 6, and 7.? It indicates 5 years of experience for a B.A./B.S. in architecture and it indicates 12 years with a high school education.? So, you're in a blend zone.? Then look at this, which is also linked above:
http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/arch/archlic.htm
Scroll down to Education Requirements.? It looks like if you get your degree classified as Category G, you need 10 years of experience.? If you get your degree classified as Category H, you need 8 years of experience.? I'm sure they've had applicants from Parsons, so the State Board will readily be able to tell you.
And secondly, those going into an M.Arch 1 from an unrelated field do not have as much developed graphic sense the B.Arch's who spend most of their first two years in foundation studios that allow them to explore methods of representation. Im sorry, but even if you had a class for one semester as an M.Arch1 in graphic representation, how the hell are you supposed to hit the ground running if you dont have a background in architecture?? And by methods of represetation, I dont mean studying CAD and Rhino...
Bulgar, while I disagree on your overall stance, I do agree with you on this, and experts weigh in on this much the same way.? I call it the "tea bag steeping" syndrome.? The 5 year B.Arch. can spend the first year and second year developing their graphic sense and then concentrate on design quality more heavily from years 3 through 5.? The M.Arch. 1, over 3.5 years, has 1 or 2 terms in which to accomplish that.? Some students don't do a good job of doing that.? However, if they are able to merge into the mindset somewhere in the 2nd year, they'll be fine.? Students coming from any background involving visual creativity make the transition to competence in graphics quite well.? Even those from other fields can make the leap.? However, your stance on 4+2 is absurd.? In Canada, it is the only model.? In the U.S., if you want to commute from home, and you live in Buffalo, Albuquerque, or Oakland/Berkeley, it looks like you'll be doing a 4+2 and probably have more money in your pocket at the end, and more varied experiences, than someone doing a B.Arch.? Pencil it out.
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Firefighter killed in Oregon is identified as crews battle blazes
By Teresa Carson
PORTLAND, Ore. - (Reuters) - A firefighter killed while battling a central Oregon wildfire has been identified as John Hammack of Madras, Oregon, officials said on Friday, as crews aided briefly by cooler, wetter weather grappled with blazes that have blackened more than 200 square miles (520 square km) of the Pacific Northwest.
Hammack died and another firefighter was injured when the top of a tree they were removing from the fire area outside the town of Sisters on Thursday broke off and crashed down on Hammack, who was 58, the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
Other officials said Hammack was 60.
The surviving firefighter, Norman Crawford, was treated at a hospital for shoulder injuries and has been released, according to local reports. Both men, contract tree fellers, were part of a firefighting team.
"This is a tough loss for Oregon," said Governor John Kitzhaber, who is set to visit a fire area in the southern part of the West Coast state on Saturday.
The current fire season has been particularly deadly in the U.S. West. Nineteen Arizona firefighters died in June after they became trapped by a wind-whipped inferno, and two people perished after being caught in a blaze in Colorado.
Thousands of firefighters fought to snuff out or at least contain blazes that had burned more than 40,000 acres of timber and range land across Oregon on Friday, 5,000 acres more than on Thursday, said Carol Connolly, a spokeswoman for the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center.
Nighttime and early morning lightning strikes sparked dozens of new fires, Connelly said, adding that emergency crews were helped by cooler temperatures and higher humidity, a streak likely to end next week with hotter weather and possibly more lightning-bearing storms.
In neighboring Washington state, more than 2,100 firefighters were making steady progress against a pair of blazes that have scorched more than 107,000 acres east of the Cascade Range.
About 45 structures remained at high risk from the so-called Colockum Tarps fire burning south of Wenatchee, said Mary Ellen Fitzgerald, a U.S. Forest Service official and a spokeswoman for firefighting efforts.
That fire, which has burned more than 80,000 acres in less than a week, has claimed three houses and five other buildings, including three outhouses. It was 30 percent contained as of Friday morning as firefighters were aided by light rain and fortuitous winds pushing smoke away from the containment line, Fitzgerald said.
Farther south, the so-called Mile Marker 28 fire, which has blackened 27,000 acres close to the Oregon border, is 75 percent contained, with residents of 69 homes forced to flee allowed to return as of Wednesday.
(Additional reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in Olympia, Washington; Writing by Jane Sutton and Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Steve Orlosky)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/firefighter-killed-oregon-identified-crews-battle-blazes-021914295.html
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Friday, August 2, 2013
Sony's First Quarter Savior: The Smartphone
After a few tough years, Sony, a company once synonymous with innovative consumer electronics, appears to be on the rebound. The apparent engine of its turnaround? The smartphone.
Reporting earnings for its fiscal first quarter ended in June, Sony posted a modest profit of $35 million, an impressive recovery from the ugly loss it posted for the same period a year earlier. And it attributed that turnaround to two things: A favorable shift in foreign exchange rates and brisk smartphone sales.
Evidently, the Xperia A, which Sony touts as the most popular smartphone in Japan, and its counterpart, the Xperia Z, have met with some reasonable success, driving what the company describes as a ?significant increase in unit sales? of its Android smartphone portfolio. Sony sold 9.6 million smartphones during the quarter, a big improvement over the 7.4 million it sold a year ago.
Those spiking sales, and the rising average device selling price associated with them, helped Sony?s mobile division post a profit of $60 million. That?s a far better showing than the $28.1 million loss the company turned in for the year-ago period, and a trend that its leadership hopes will continue.
?In smartphones we had turnaround this quarter,? Sony CFO Masaru Kato said during a conference call with analysts. ?We made money. And because we focused on high-end models, the average price was higher. And we?ll maintain that status going forward.?
A wise strategy for Sony, which has been struggling to return its electronics business to profitability amid a prolonged decline in sales of video and still cameras, PCs and LCD TVs.
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20130802/sonys-first-quarter-savior-the-smartphone/
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Make Your Wedding Bands Special
The most famous ring in the world might just be a prop from a movie. There is no denying the popularity of the Lord of the Rings movies and books. What all of it boils down to is a story about a ring that everyone wants and no one knows what to do with. Taking away the power of the ring and just examine it as a piece of fine jewelry, I think it is a perfect example of what you can do when it comes to wedding bands.
I'm not suggesting you etch in some elfish lettering that is only visible once you drop it in a fire place. What I am suggesting is that you make sure that the rings you are going to exchange are different than what everyone else has and unique to the two of you. It is a perfect little thing that you can do to make them that much more special.
Some people will have their wedding date engraved on them, or the names. That is certainly a great idea, but it doesn't have to be that traditional. You could put in the place where you first met. Maybe there is a quote from a movie that you both like and say to each other as your own inside joke. You could have that engraved. Even better would be to put the first half of the quote in one ring and the second half in the other. Professional jewelers are so talented with what they can do you could even have a drawing etched in of something that means a lot to both of you.
Some people are going to say "Why bother?" The only time anyone is going to look at them (besides you two) is the day they are exchanged and when you are in a bar and someone is thinking about asking you out. They're not even going to come off your fingers. Why spend money on something that no one is ever going to see. It's a valid question and the only answer I really have is because it is a romantic thing to do. If you were to think about all of the things that go on during a wedding and the process leading up to it, you would find a few of them that are hardly practical, and yet we continue to do them. When you select your wedding bands, take a moment to think how you can really make them your own. You would be surprised how affordable it will be.
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