Meet Melania Deasy, the 2013 Gallery Idol! | Paper Crafts Connection

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We?d like to give a special welcome today to Melania Deasy, winner of the Paper Crafts 2013 Gallery Idol Contest! Here are a few questions I asked her so we all could get to know her a little better!

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What is your full name?

My name is Melania Deasy Setiawati Widjaja. Melania is my baptist name and all my friends call me Deasy.

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Where did you grow up? Where do you currently live?

I have been living in Surabaya city ever since I was born; it?s the second biggest city in Indonesia.

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Do you work outside the home? If so, what do you do?

Yes, I work as a photographer. At first I worked as wedding photographer. That?s when I met my husband who was also a photographer at that time. After we had a son, I turned into a baby, kids, and family photographer because I love kids and I can?t go far away from my 4-and-a-half year old son.

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Tell us something about you that most people wouldn?t guess/don?t know.

People wouldn?t guess that I have two personalities. My friends see me as a happy and smiling person, but I used to love to listen to alternative rock and be a rebel.

It also affects me in designs and drawing. I love cute and adorable styles but I also love cool, clever, and simple styles too.

The other thing is that I love taking photos of fashion?beautiful clothes and beautiful people?but I?m not fashionable at all. I spend most of my money on crafting!

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What hobbies do you have besides paper crafting?

I really like drawing. I tried to make this hobby into a job by opening Deasy Designs digital stamp last year.

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What/who inspired you to start paper crafting, and when did you begin?

I start paper crafting in 2011. I see many beautiful and amazing cards on the internet, and I think it?s challenging, and I?m falling in love with it now.

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What made you try out for this season of Gallery Idol?

Before the Idol began, I rarely made cards because I was too busy making digital stamps. One day I read my Paper Crafts magazine, and I saw many amazing cards. I realized I missed making cards! My sweet friend, Emily Leiphart sent me an email and encouraged me to join Gallery Idol. I had tried Gallery Idol for two years, and I thought ?Why shouldn?t I try again this year?? We should never give up our dreams, right? So I submitted 3 cards for Gallery Idol.

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What round of Gallery Idol did you find the most challenging?

I think the most challenging was the final round, when the challenge was to make four color-coordinated cards in four different styles! Very challenging. I thought the one that invented the challenge must be very clever!!

I was so confused at that time, maybe because my English is not good enough, but my Gallery Idol friends are so kind, especially Jocelyn Olson, one of the TOP 5. She was so kind in explaining the final challenge round patiently.

Right after the announcement of the last challenge, I went to my local scrap store to buy some supplies, but I still didn?t know what I was gonna make. I just bought the things I like. At home I chose the colors, and the supplies that I bought happened to fit nicely with the cards in my imagination?especially the colors.

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What did you enjoy most about the Gallery Idol experience?

I live far away from United States, but I can share my cards with many people in the world. I think it?s very amazing. Arts have no limits and boundaries; I have met and gotten to know many amazing designers in other countries.

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What was your reaction when you heard that you were the grand prize winner?

I was surprised and felt so happy that I started doing a happy dance! I?m so grateful for the support of my family and my card-making friends. They are always supportive and full of encouragement. When Paper Crafts announced it and my friends told me, they were so happy and proud that I started crying. I couldn?t help it. I was so happy and felt blessed beyond any words. That was one of the most beautiful moments in my life.

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How will you spend your year as Paper Crafts? reigning Gallery Idol winner?

I will definitely be sparing more time to submit more cards for publication and do the design for my digital stamps line also. Recently I found new joy in submitting; it?s very challenging and fun indeed! This has been an amazing adventure to me. Thank you so much Paper Crafts!

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And there you have it. Check out Deasy?s blog to get to know her even more! We are happy to have such a sweet and humble winner to reign as Gallery Idol this year! We look forward to seeing more of her and her projects in the future.

Thanks for checking in!

Source: http://www.papercraftsconnection.com/blog/2013/07/meet-melania-deasy-the-2013-gallery-idol/

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San Jose Taps Microsoft To Boost Customer Service

Local governments are increasingly turning to the cloud -- and Microsoft is actively vying for the business. In its latest win, the City of San Jose is betting big on Redmond's software as it commits to delivering better customer service.

The city chose Microsoft Office 365, Windows Azure and StorSimple -- reportedly over Google Apps -- to boost the productivity of its more than 5,000 employees. The city also expects the software bundle to help it reduce operational costs to more than 984,000 residents in the capital of Silicon Valley.

"Ensuring the productivity of employees is critical when state and local governments are constantly being asked to do more with less," said Michael Donlan, vice president of state and local government at Microsoft. Donlan touted the collaboration , productivity, security and privacy benefits of the company's solutions.

Secured Cloud Productivity

Vijay Sammeta, San Jose's chief information officer, is convinced the combination of Microsoft Office 365, Windows Azure and StorSimple supports both the city's long-term technology strategy and the immediate needs of its employees and residents.

"We turned to Office 365 for secured cloud productivity, which in turn will help us lower our total cost of ownership and support a more mobile and connected workforce of the future," Sammeta said. "The combination of Windows Azure and StorSimple will enable us to streamline storage infrastructure support, which enables our people to make the shift from basic backend operations to citizen engagement and service delivery."

With the Microsoft products and services, Sammeta said San Jose employees will have "constant and consistent" access to documents, email and information through the cloud. And that, he said, will let employees do their jobs in a secured environment regardless of their locations while simultaneously offering the ability to collaborate in real-time with other employees.

End-to-End Cloud Solution

"Instead of purchasing different products for various business needs that may or may not integrate with one another, Office 365 provides us with a complete solution that works both for today's needs and offers flexibility for addressing tomorrow's," Sammeta said. "By making this investment in technology, our staff will have up-to-date, enterprise -class cloud productivity tools, allowing us to catch up several product generations at once."

Sammeta said it comes down to the question of how to focus and leverage the talent of the city: Does it work on activities that don't help provide value directly to residents, or can it concentrate on where it can achieve real impact? As he sees it, the cloud gives the city an opportunity to transform its IT business model so it doesn't have to deal with servers and storage.

"If you're going to have a cloud strategy, you need to take a holistic look at your workloads," Sammeta said. "We know we are only starting to scratch the surface of the benefits to come, which likely will be more than just cost savings for IT. I'm looking forward to opening the door to greater collaboration and removing technology obstacles to our ability to innovate."

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88% What Maisie Knew

All Critics (73) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (9)

The film is touching, filled with taste and care, but not enough to avoid being coy and sentimental.

On the surface, this indie does sound like standard-issue material, but its dynamics are far more complex than its simple exterior.

What Maisie Knew gives the audience a ground-eye view of its mesmerizing title character, a plucky, charismatic New Yorker who navigates downtown bars and building lobbies with the street savvy of a pro.

The result is a film that deeply engages us on multiple levels. Not only do we wonder what Maisie knows and how she knows it, we want to get this seedling to a place where she won't have to be transplanted every day.

It's a study of human nature, not at its worst, but at its most typically pathetic, and it goes to show that the more things don't change, the more they stay lousy.

Intimate, unnerving and entirely addictive.

This is a film that deals in subtle details, and its value lies in the way the filmmakers draw out small moments of surprise or truth from the familiar scenario.

It's far from the first story of a child dealing with the consequences of parental break-up -- but it may be one of the best.

The worthwhile subject matter becomes trivialized.

A wonderful modernized re-telling of the 1897 Henry James short story.

It's an intimate, well-acted and nuanced film that provides a fresh angle on an all-too-familiar struggle.

Onata Aprile is never showy and always authentic, a rare find in a child actor. In fact, she is one of the most self-possessed actors I've seen of any age.

A movie that's much easier to admire than to actually enjoy, no matter how well done or acted.

Onata Aprile's short career should blossom as people react to her subtle performance here.

Despite the big-name adults around her, it's the unknown Onata Aprile who is the star of this movie.

Gazing on Maisie, you want to know what she knows. That you can't is at once your dilemma and your opportunity, what adults must engage in order to be adults.

Despite a sensitive, mature performance from Onata Aprile as Maisie, the girl remains withdrawn and opaque throughout. In telling this sad story from her perspective, it never quite plugs in to what Maisie felt.

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Obama tours prison where Nelson Mandela toiled

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ? President Barack Obama is touring South Africa's Robben Island, where former South African President Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in a tiny cell as a political prisoner.

Obama, his wife and two daughters are viewing the lime quarry where Mandela toiled during captivity. It's also where the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader developed the lung problems ailing him today.

The Obamas' tour guide is 83-year-old politician Ahmed Kathrada (AH-med kahth-RAH-dah), who was also held captive at the prison. He's telling the Obamas the prisoners were forced to work every day.

Obama has been paying tribute to Mandela throughout his weeklong trip to three African countries. Obama will give a major speech later Sunday at the University of Cape Town. The White House says the speech will be infused with memories of Mandela.

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Hong Kong lets Snowden leave, with Cuba among possible destinations

By James Pomfret

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency, charged by the United States with espionage, was allowed to leave Hong Kong on Sunday, his final destination as yet unknown, because a U.S. extradition request did not comply with the law, the Hong Kong government said.

Edward Snowden left for Moscow on Sunday and his final destination may be Cuba, Ecuador, Iceland or Venezuela, according to various reports. The move is bound to infuriate Washington, wherever he ends up.

"It's a shocker," said Simon Young, a law professor with Hong Kong University. "I thought he was going to stay and fight it out. The U.S. government will be irate."

Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a source at the Aeroflot airline as saying there was a ticket in Snowden's name for a Moscow-Cuba flight. Itar-Tass news agency cited a source as saying Snowden would fly from Havana to Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.

The South China Morning Post said his final destination might be Ecuador or Iceland.

A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was unaware of Snowden's whereabouts or travel plans.

The WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website said it helped Snowden find "political asylum in a democratic country". It did not elaborate, other than to say Snowden was "currently over Russian airspace" with WikiLeaks legal advisers.

The White House had no comment on the WikiLeaks posting.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said last week he would not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London even if Sweden stopped pursuing sexual assault claims against him because he feared arrest on the orders of the United States.

U.S. authorities have charged Snowden with theft of U.S. government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorized person, with the latter two charges falling under the U.S. Espionage Act.

The United States had asked Hong Kong, a special administrative region (SAR) of China, to send him home.

"The U.S. government earlier on made a request to the HKSAR government for the issue of a provisional warrant of arrest against Mr Snowden," the Hong Kong government said in a statement.

"Since the documents provided by the U.S. government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law, the HKSAR government has requested the U.S. government to provide additional information ... As the HKSAR government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong."

It did not say what further information it needed.

CHINA SAYS U.S. "BIGGEST VILLAIN"

Hong Kong, a former British colony, reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 and although it retains an independent legal system, and its own extradition laws, Beijing has control over Hong Kong's foreign affairs. Some observers see Beijing's hand in Snowden's sudden departure.

Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said earlier this month that Russia would consider granting Snowden asylum if he were to ask for it and pro-Kremlin lawmakers supported the idea, but there has been no indication he has done so.

Iceland refused on Friday to say whether it would grant asylum to Snowden, a former employee of contractor Booz Allen Hamilton who worked at an NSA facility in Hawaii.

The South China Morning Post earlier quoted Snowden offering new details about the United States' spy activities, including accusations of U.S. hacking of Chinese mobile telephone companies and targeting China's Tsinghua University.

Documents previously leaked by Snowden revealed that the NSA has access to vast amounts of internet data such as emails, chat rooms and video from large companies, including Facebook and Google, under a government program known as Prism.

The Hong Kong government statement said it had written to the United States "requesting clarification" of earlier reports about the hacking of computer systems in Hong Kong by U.S. government agencies.

"The HKSAR Government will continue to follow up on the matter, so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong," it said.

China's Xinhua news agency, referring to Snowden's accusations about the hacking of Chinese targets, said they were "clearly troubling signs".

It added: "They demonstrate that the United States, which has long been trying to play innocent as a victim of cyber attacks, has turned out to be the biggest villain in our age."

(Additional reporting by Fayen Wong in Shanghai; Nishant Kumar in Hong Kong; Alexei Anishchuk and Steve Gutterman in Moscow, and Tabassum Zakaria in Washington; Writing by Nick Macfie; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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Woman off a cliff video: Infidelity has a price

Woman off a cliff: A married woman throws her husband's "other woman" off a small cliff, a ravine really, in a jealous rage. And the whole incident is captured on video.

By David Clark Scott,?Staff writer / June 22, 2013

In 1697, William Congreve wrote a poem that included the phrase: "Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd"

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Over the centuries, that line has been paraphrased and popularized into the saying: "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned."

Now there's a video on the Internet that vividly illustrates the proverbial wisdom.

Captured on a closed circuit security camera is a rendezvous in Arequipa, Peru, between Renzo Zanabria, a married man and Sandra Bruna Morales, his lover. But the tryst is suddenly cut short by the arrival of Zanabria's wife, Lissette Lupo Mamani.

Zanabria's wife grabs Ms. Morales by the hair drags her to the edge of a ravine and pushes her off.

Let's be clear, while most of the English language media reporting on this as a "woman tossed off a cliff " - which sounds more dramatic ? the Spanish news reports used the word "barranco," which means ravine. That seems like a more accurate description of the scene. Of course, the reports say the ravine was about 20 feet deep, so this wasn't like getting tossed into a ditch, either.?

Ms. Morales survives the tumble into the ravine - apparently without serious injury - gets up and leaves, all the while Zanbria's wife is gesturing and shouting at her in anger. Zanabria, wisely, slinks away and out of view of the camera.

Ms. Morales probably didn't expect that getting caught sleeping with a married man would get her tossed into a ravine. And she certainly didn't expect that anyone with access to the Internet would have a front row seat to the incident.

But based on the comments being left on various sites, the sentiment among most women is that if you play with fire, you can expect to get burned. There hasn't been much consternation over vigilante justice or much compassion shown for the woman tossed in the ravine. Some have suggested the wife should have tossed her husband into the ravine too.

Given that all the world saw the incident, and the obvious enthusiasm in the Spanish language media for the story, Zanabria apparently didn't think he had much to lose by taking his plea for forgiveness public as well.

Americas Noticias shows Zanabria holding a microphone and talking into a news camera with this statement, which reads in part:

"I beg you, on my knees?? ... i don't care what others think, my only concern is you and my children, who I need because without you I am nothing. I ask you, please, to forgive me. I have made mistakes, but I miss you."

So far, no reports on how his scorned wife received the request for forgiveness. But one suspects that the "other woman" may have learned a lesson.

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Snowden arrives in Moscow

By James Pomfret and Lidia Kelly

HONG KONG/MOSCOW (Reuters) - An aircraft believed to be carrying Edward Snowden landed in Moscow on Sunday after Hong Kong let the former U.S. security contractor leave the territory, despite Washington's efforts to extradite him to face espionage charges.

The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Snowden was heading for a "democratic nation" which it did not name, although a source at the Russian airline Aeroflot said he would fly on within 24 hours to Cuba and then planned to go to Venezuela.

Moscow airport officials said the flight from Hong Kong had landed but could not immediately confirm Snowden was on board. However, a source at Aeroflot said he had booked a seat on the service.

Snowden, who worked for the National Security Agency, had been hiding in Hong Kong since leaking details about U.S. surveillance activities to news media.

A spokesman for the government of Hong Kong, a former British colony which returned to China in 1997, said it had let Snowden depart because a U.S. request to have him arrested did not comply with the law.

The United States wanted him to be extradited to face trial and is likely to be furious about his departure. In Washington, a Justice Department official said it would seek cooperation with countries Snowden may try to go to.

"It's a shocker," said Simon Young, a law professor with Hong Kong University. "I thought he was going to stay and fight it out. The U.S. government will be irate."

A source at Aeroflot said Snowden would fly from Moscow to Cuba on Monday and then planned to go on to Venezuela. The South China Morning Post earlier said his final destination might be Ecuador or Iceland.

The WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website said it helped Snowden find "political asylum in a democratic country".

It added in an update on Twitter that he was accompanied by diplomats and legal advisers and was travelling via a safe route for the purposes of seeking asylum.

"The WikiLeaks legal team and I are interested in preserving Mr Snowden's rights and protecting him as a person," former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, legal director of WikiLeaks and lawyer for the group's founder Julian Assange, said in a statement.

"What is being done to Mr Snowden and to Mr Julian Assange - for making or facilitating disclosures in the public interest - is an assault against the people."

Assange has taken sanctuary in the Ecuadorean embassy in London and said last week he would not leave even if Sweden stopped pursuing sexual assault claims against him because he feared arrest on the orders of the United States.

U.S. authorities have charged Snowden with theft of U.S. government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorized person, with the latter two charges falling under the U.S. Espionage Act.

The United States had asked Hong Kong, a special administrative region (SAR) of China, to send Snowden home.

"The U.S. government earlier on made a request to the HKSAR government for the issue of a provisional warrant of arrest against Mr Snowden," the Hong Kong government said in a statement.

"Since the documents provided by the U.S. government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law, the HKSAR government has requested the U.S. government to provide additional information ... As the HKSAR government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong."

It did not say what further information it needed.

The White House had no comment.

CHINA SAYS U.S. "BIGGEST VILLAIN"

Although Hong Kong retains an independent legal system, and its own extradition laws, Beijing has control over its foreign affairs. Some observers see Beijing's hand in Snowden's sudden departure.

Iceland refused on Friday to say whether it would grant asylum to Snowden, a former employee of contractor Booz Allen Hamilton who worked at an NSA facility in Hawaii.

Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said earlier this month that Russia would consider granting Snowden asylum if he were to ask for it and pro-Kremlin lawmakers supported the idea, but there has been no indication he has done so.

The South China Morning Post earlier quoted Snowden offering new details about the United States' spy activities, including accusations of U.S. hacking of Chinese mobile telephone companies and targeting China's Tsinghua University.

Documents previously leaked by Snowden revealed that the NSA has access to vast amounts of internet data such as emails, chat rooms and video from large companies, including Facebook and Google, under a government program known as Prism.

China's Xinhua news agency, referring to Snowden's accusations about the hacking of Chinese targets, said they were "clearly troubling signs".

It added: "They demonstrate that the United States, which has long been trying to play innocent as a victim of cyber attacks, has turned out to be the biggest villain in our age."

Venezuela, Cuba and Ecuador are all members of the ALBA bloc, an alliance of leftist governments in Latin America who pride themselves on their "anti-imperialist" credentials.

(Additional reporting by Fayen Wong in Shanghai, Nishant Kumar in Hong Kong and Andrew Cawthorne in Caracas; Alexei Anishchuk and Steve Gutterman in Moscow, and Tabassum Zakaria in Washington; Writing by Nick Macfie; Editing by Anna Willard and David Stamp)

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Scientists create world's tiniest drops of liquid in biggest atom smasher

Scientists think they've created the smallest drops of liquid ever ? the size of only three to five protons.

The droplets were made inside the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, where particles are sped up to near light speed and then smashed together. When researchers collided protons with lead nuclei, they were surprised to find that the result was teeny,?tiny droplets of liquid.

These liquid drops are minuscule, measuring about one-100,000th the size of a hydrogen atom or one-100,000,000th the size of a typical virus. [Dazzling Droplets: Photos Reveal Mini Worlds]

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The researchers consider the droplets liquid because they flow more like a liquid than like any other state of matter.

"With this discovery, we seem to be seeing the very origin of collective behavior," Vanderbilt University physicist Julia Velkovska said in a statement. "Regardless of the material that we are using, collisions have to be violent enough to produce about 50 subatomic particles before we begin to see collective, flowlike behavior," added Velkovska, who is a co-convener of the heavy-ion program of the Compact Muon Solenoid, the?LHC detector?where the droplets were made.

In fact, the droplets appear to be tiny bits of one of the hottest liquids known, called?quark-gluon plasma. This plasma, essentially a?soup of quarks and gluons?(the subatomic ingredients of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei), has been made at LHC and other particle accelerators before.

When quark-gluon plasma was first discovered in the early 2000s?inside the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, physicists initially thought it would behave as a gas does. Instead, they found it had liquid properties. Scientists think this plasma represents the state of the whole universe just moments after it was born in the Big Bang, when the universe was extremely hot and dense.

The first artificial quark-gluon plasma was produced by smashing two gold nuclei together, and was later re-created with collisions of two lead nuclei. The CMS researchers wanted to test whether quark-gluon plasma could also be made by colliding a lead nucleus with a proton, which is 208 times less massive than lead; they expected these impacts would not be energetic enough to produce the plasma.

"The proton-lead collisions are something like shooting a bullet through an apple, while lead-lead collisions are more like smashing two apples together: A lot more energy is released in the latter," Velkovska said.

The results of the experiment were unexpected. In about 5 percent of collisions ? those that were most violent ? enough energy was released around the "bullet hole" where the proton smashed through the lead that some of the protons and neutrons there melted. This material seemed to form droplets of liquid about one-tenth the size of the quark-gluon plasma batches created by lead-lead and gold-gold impacts.

Quark-gluon plasma is still a mysterious form of matter, and the scientists can't be absolutely sure yet that what they saw were liquid droplets. Further tests should help differentiate between that interpretation and other possible explanations of the results, the researchers said.

Velkovska and her colleagues detailed their findings in a paper submitted to the journal Physics Letters B.

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incoming fax not working elastix 2.4 - Elastix Forums :: Open Source ...

Thank You for your help. Since 1.3 did work very well I did wanted to go thru the pain. I changed to 2.4 because I needed to see what was new and practice going thru the suffering. 2.0 is working great and it has over 60 trunks and over 100 etx. It is too much work to upgrade it.

When a fax call in it ring twice and goes to busy signal.

I am using ZAP Trunk compatibility with DAHDI and directing the DID to the each FXO port.

My dahdi-channels.conf is: (I am using Loopstart since the lines do not work with KS)

signalling=fxs_ls
callerid=asreceived
group=0
context=from-zaptel
channel => 1
callerid=
group=
context=default

;;; line="2 WCTDM/4/1 FXSKS"
signalling=fxs_ls
callerid=asreceived
group=1
context=from-zaptel
channel => 2
callerid=
group=
context=default

;;; line="3 WCTDM/4/2 FXSKS"
signalling=fxs_ls
callerid=asreceived
group=2
context=from-zaptel
channel => 3
callerid=
group=
context=default

1. I had already eliminated the echo cancelatation.

2. my system.conf is:
# Span 1: WCTDM/4 "Wildcard TDM400P REV I Board 5" (MASTER)
fxsls=1
echocanceller=none,1
fxsls=2
echocanceller=none,2
fxsls=3
echocanceller=none,3
# channel 4, WCTDM/4/3, no module.

# Global data

loadzone = us
defaultzone = us
echocanceller=none,4

3. And my dahdi.conf

# options wctdm24xxp latency=6

loadzone = us
defaultzone = us

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Blog Curry | June Social Media Training Classes for Small Business ...

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Cast AR hands-on with Jeri Ellsworth at Maker Faire 2013 (update: video interview)

When Valve's first hardware hire, Jeri Ellsworth, tweeted back in February that she was fired from the company, we were disappointed but also intrigued by what she meant by "time for new exciting projects." Well we finally saw what she's been up to here at at Maker Faire 2013. It's called Cast AR, and it's a pair of 3D augmented-reality glasses that she and former Valve programmer Rick Johnson were working on at Valve before they left.

The model we saw is still in the early prototype stages, but the concepts are already in place. Perched atop a pair of active shutter glasses are a couple of miniature LCD projectors, which bounce images from a connected computer onto a special reflective surface at a 120Hz refresh rate. A camera module sits on the eyewear's bridge and monitors an array of infrared LEDs embedded in the reflective surface. This allows for quick and accurate head tracking. Join us after the break for our impressions and our video interview with Jeri Ellsworth.

Gallery: Cast AR hands-on at Maker Faire 2013

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Ferguson heads into retirement seeking 1 more win

Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson, center, lifts the premier league trophy after his last home game in charge of the club, their English Premier League soccer match against Swansea City, at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson, center, lifts the premier league trophy after his last home game in charge of the club, their English Premier League soccer match against Swansea City, at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson speaks to the crowd after his last home game in charge of the club, their English Premier League soccer match against Swansea City, at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Manchester United's manager Alex Ferguson arrives for the team's Player of the Year Awards dinner at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Wednesday May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

CARRINGTON, England (AP) ? Alex Ferguson is looking forward to a retired life of luxury vacations, watching thoroughbreds, enjoying good wines and perhaps studying languages.

Before that, though, there's one final challenge to overcome ? beating West Bromwich Albion on Sunday in his 1,500th and last game as Manchester United manager.

"One thousand five hundred matches ? it's quite incredible," Ferguson said Friday, shaking his head at his own longevity.

The end of the road in Ferguson's 39-year coaching career comes at The Hawthorns, an unassuming stadium in central England.

He has already had one emotional farewell ? at Old Trafford on Sunday after a 2-1 win over Swansea that marked his final home match as United manager. On that occasion, there was a guard of honor, a five-minute speech to fans and relentless waving of red flags by United supporters who can't quite believe their manager of nearly 27 years is stepping aside. There's also been United's trophy parade through the streets of Manchester on Monday, when tens of thousands of people came out in force for one more glimpse of the legendary man and his Premier League title-winners.

This weekend's match promises to be another tear-jerker, although all Ferguson wants is a win. It's typical of him.

"Every team wants to win their last home game ? that's a fact of life," said Ferguson, who was named the Premier League's manager of the year on Friday. "And also I want to win this one more than last week's even."

His coaching life began in 1974, with unheralded East Stirlingshire in the Scottish lower leagues. Ferguson remembers having "eight players and no goalkeeper." Now he has six goalkeepers and around 100 players to oversee.

"It's a different life," Ferguson acknowledged. "Change is inevitable ? you have to manage that.

"There have been big changes in this club in terms of number of staff, sports science, modern technology has come into it. When I started as a manager there were no agents, media was different then, too. ... The changes are all there, integrated over a long period. But I don't think I've changed much."

Things are set to change in Ferguson's life, however. No more getting up in the early hours and being the first person into Carrington, United's vast and impressive training complex in west Manchester. No more picking teams, coaching world-class players, doing draining media duties.

But that doesn't mean he'll be enjoying regular 10-hour sleep-ins, as he did after the parade on Monday.

"It's the first time in my life that I've had 10 hours' sleep ? (wife) Cathy kept making sounds round about me," Ferguson said. "I think she was just checking to see if I was alive."

Ferguson's new life will likely see him having a closer involvement in his second passion of horse racing and spending more time with his family and on holiday, particularly to his favorite destinations of New York and the south of France. He's then scheduled to have hip surgery in July.

"I'm driven to take on some challenges and some other things right away," he said. "I've got a league managers meeting on Monday, I'm going to Newmarket (for horse racing) on Tuesday and Wednesday ... I'm going on holiday on June 4, it's the (English) Derby on June 1, I'm going on holiday for a month.

"Then I'm having the operation, then I've got the recuperation, then the season starts. So we're all right."

Ferguson, who will become a director at United once he steps aside for new manager David Moyes, made his decision to quit coaching last Christmas, after the death of his wife's sister. He said Friday he has no regrets, not even when he felt dejected following United's exit at the hands of Real Madrid in the Champions League in March, when winger Nani was controversially sent off with United ahead on aggregate in the two-legged match.

That denied Ferguson the chance of a third title in the Champions League, a competition in which he has always acknowledged United has underperformed for a club of its stature.

"I made my mind up long ago and that was it ... you can't be successful without disappointments, I think disappointments are good for you," Ferguson said. "It's a challenge to you and for your players' character to recover and I think we've been doing that over the years."

Ferguson was given a standing ovation at his final news conference Friday. He received a cake with a hairdryer made of icing on top, in reference to the so-called "hairdryer treatment" he dished out to players at halftime of matches.

That's just one of the many things Ferguson will be remembered for.

"The memories are all there, 26 years at Manchester United is fantastic," Ferguson said. "The day I came here was a privilege and the day I've left will be an honor. I'm lucky to have been here that long."

Associated Press

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Obama shifts focus to jobs, eases building permit process

By Mark Felsenthal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will seek to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening to swamp his agenda to the economic issues by announcing he will make it easier to get federal building projects off the ground.

The president travels to Baltimore, where he is due to say that he has signed a presidential memorandum streamlining the review and permitting of federal infrastructure projects.

In making the announcement while posing in front of heavy dredging equipment at a factory, Obama will have a chance to remind the public that he wants to spend $50 billion on repairing the nation's aging roads, bridges and ports. Later, he will visit an elementary school where he will stump for his goal of providing universal pre-schooling for the nation's children, which he views as a vital stepping stone to a better-educated, better-trained U.S. work force.

The president hopes his focus on jobs and education will change the subject from a trio of storms that have beleaguered his administration in recent days and that some believe could overrun his second term agenda.

In the past week, he has been forced to go on the defensive about his administration's handling of the attack on the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny, and the Justice Department's seizure of phone logs of reporters and editors of the Associated Press in connection with an investigation of leaks of classified information.

After responding tentatively at first, the president took more active steps beginning Wednesday with the ouster of the acting IRS commissioner and announcement of support for legislation making it easier for reporters to protect their sources. He has called the IRS' actions inexcusable and pledged to find out who was responsible and hold them accountable.

On Thursday, the president and his staff stepped up efforts to get ahead of critics. The chief executive called for stepped up spending on embassy security, while saying he had no apologies about efforts to protect classified material. He and his surrogates belittled the furor over Benghazi as nothing more than a politically motivated campaign orchestrated by congressional Republicans to discredit him.

Obama's trip to Baltimore to talk about his agenda is a good idea and a productive change of scene for him, said Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist who specialized in damage control for the Clinton White House.

"It gets you out of the bunker," Lehane said.

Shining a light on issues of jobs and growth also lets Obama note positive economic developments such as improving housing and labor markets and a fast-declining budget deficit - pocketbook issues that may have more resonance with the public than inside-the-Beltway political battles.

Still, congressional Republicans will seek to keep the focus on what they say are unanswered questions about all three controversies. IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, who was pushed out on Wednesday, testifies before the House tax-writing committee on Friday.

(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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Itsy Bitsy Spider {fantasy/science fiction interest check}

Hello friends,

I wanted to post this here and see if I have anyone interested before I make a whole role-play and post it to have it die because no one is interested. Please let me know what you guys think and if you would be interested. I am also open for a co-GM and I don't have a completely set plot so suggestions are awesome! I want this to be a collaboration.

Now I got this idea from a story I am in the midst of creating. I have roleplayed with the race I have created here before and similar story lines, but the race is my own.

So this story takes place on a planet called Laquai and this world is inhabited by creatures called the Laxvi. I like to call them spiders.

The Laxvi look like human in their physique but they are far from it. They generally have pale skin, but depending on the region they live in, their skin tone changes. Since they are like spiders, their bodies are covered in markings that resemble the specific web design that they create. They also have something that physically resembles the spider they are similar to. Yes, they are web spinners. They draw the spider silk from the ducts beneath their wrists. They have fangs and can inject poison with them. They feed by wrapping up other spiders or animals in their webs and liquify the insides before drinking it up like our 'normal' spiders here on earth. Oh and males are the ones that get pregnant (still figuring out how this works. Won't do it unless it makes some sort of sense lol) and this is a matriarchal society. Women are stronger than men and their word is pretty much law.

Before I go into too much detail about the Laxvi (I'll save that for the introduction if this manages to pass this interest check) I want to tell you that the Black Widow and the Recluse are the main 'top spiders'. The Black Widows and the Recluse are considered the most aggressive and they fight each other for the right to rule over the lesser spiders so there is always tension between the two. Currently, the Black Widows are the ruling family.

Besides this inborn tension, I was thinking of having human find the planet so we have a myriad of issues that come up with the humans arrival ranging for colonization, to war, to experimentation, or whatever this leads us to. We could add other types of invasion and stuff from other creatures or things of course, but currently, the humans and the fight between Black Widows and Recluses are the main bits of tension I see.

So yeah, you guys interested at all? Please ask me questions or suggest things! I appreciate you reading this :3

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Five step-parenting mantras for those planning to adopt one ...

This article seeks to discuss 5 key step-parents mantras which will be useful for blended families or step-parents. These tips will allow step-parents to gradually form a lasting relationship with their stepchildren and deal with the challenges involved effectively.

The first mantra is to first earn respect rather than aiming at affinity with your step children. Gaining respect is of paramount importance and lays the primary foundation for a loving and supportive blended family environment. Try to gain respect with stepchildren instead of aiming at a great friendship.

The second mantra to remember is that you can never replace a biological parent. Every family is admittedly different, however one thing remains constant. No one can ever replace the status a biological parent has. As such, never try to become the parent for the child may then begin to resent you. This will make it tougher for you to build a loving family environment. As a step-parent, you are now involved in and part of a team which is responsible for the healthy growth of the children in that family. If this means having a strong relationship with only their biological, so be it. You cannot try and impose your presence and status on the stepchild.

The third mantra is to never cross your bounds. As much as it will take you time to get adjusted to stepchildren, the children have a tougher time getting adjusted to a new parent. In many cases, it takes a long time for children to get used to the presence of another parent like figure. Do not impose your authority on your stepchildren where discipline is concerned. Instead, let the biological parent handle the discipline at least initially. If you exert your authority too soon into the relationship, it may very well backfire on you. The children may then begin to despise you and frictions may be caused between you and your new spouse.

The fourth mantra is to bear in mind that it is never all about you. Although you would like to have some importance in the family, it is a very challenging task. Being a step parent is no cake walk and will need lots of adjustments. As such, you will have lots to learn from your new spouse as well as the children he may have. Different children are different in terms of temperament, personality and so on. As such,as difficult it would be for a young children to accept you as a parent, you will need to adjust your actions according to the children. Being a stepchild is no easy task as this means sharing the time, love and attention of a parent with an adult who may look threatening. Always remember this when your stepchild does not give you the respect you feel you deserve or when she fails to put on proper?behavior? The road is tough for the child to navigate and you should help him/her tread that road with you as a support.

Finally, you may want to get the support of support groups who consist of people in the same situation as you. This way, you will have someone to lean on if you find the journey difficult. Additionally, you will also be able to gain valuable tips on how to create a happy blended family.

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Source: http://www.parentingclan.com/five-step-parenting-mantras-for-those-planning-to-adopt-one.html

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