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Friday, June 15, 2012

Seger, Lightfoot among Songwriter Hall inductees

Lifetime Achievement Award inductee Bette Midler accepts her award at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Thursday June 14, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision)

Singer Stevie Nicks performs at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Thursday June 14, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision)

Singer Stevie Nicks, left, introduces Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Bette Midler at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Thursday June 14, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision)

Inductee Bob Seger performs at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Thursday June 14, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stevie Nicks prefers writing a song over meeting a handsome prince. Ne-Yo claimed songwriting saved his life. And Bob Seger said writing a song is the hardest, yet most rewarding thing that he does.

Converging opinions thrived at the 43rd annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in New York where Seger, along with Canadian folk rocker Gordon Lightfoot, "Gambler" songwriter Don Schlitz, "and Jim Steinman of "Bat Out of Hell" fame became the latest members of the prestigious club. The writers of the long-running musical, "The Fantastick's" were also inducted.

Seger opened the show with a spirited version of his 1973 classic, "Turn the Page." He was then inducted by Valerie Simpson who performed "We've Got Tonight" in his honor.

On the red carpet before the performance, Simpson said that steamy track has a very special power.

"It's one of the sexiest songs I know, it put more people in bed than I can imagine," Simpson said.

Ne-Yo was honored with this year's Hal David Starlight Award. It's given to young artists that are making a significant impact with their original music.

"To have a person who that has written a song that I look up to or that I grew up listening to tell me that I am good at it to. That means the world to me," Ne-Yo said of Hal David, a frequent songwriting partner to Burt Bacharach."

Then he explained how writing songs saved him.

"I was a pretty riled up little kid, and if not for my mom giving me the pad and the pen and telling me to take my emotions and put them there, then there was no telling then I might I have been sticking you up or something," Ne-Yo joked.

After being inducted by Swizz Beatz, Ne-Yo told the crowd of nearly 900 that he didn't prepare a speech because he still didn't believe he was standing there.

While Nicks was not inducted, she did honor Bette Midler with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, and even performed "The Rose,' the song made famous by Midler in the 1979 movie of the same name.

"People ask what is your favorite thing to do in a night? Be in a fantastic studio with a great poem and a piano and a little tape recorder. That is my idea of a great time," Nicks said.

Lightfoot known for such hits as "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," and "Sundown" performed his haunting 1970 ode to his failed marriage, "If You Could Read My Mind."

On the red carpet he explained his motivation: "My life had been a bit of a rollercoaster. I think at that time I was going through the lower dip and sort of climbing up again."

Over the years, artists from Barbara Streisand to Johnny Cash covered the song.

One of the evening's funniest moments came from Jim Steinman, who wrote songs for Meat Loaf on his first two "Bat Out of Hell" albums. After Loaf and Constantine Maroulis performed an abridged version of the nearly 10-minute title track, Steinman noted: "They shortened the song so much I felt like I was watching an episode of "Glee."

The Songwriters Hall of Fame was created in 1969 by a group of established songwriters, including the legendary Jonny Mercer. The organization's mission is to shine a spotlight on the accomplishments of songwriters.

Online: www.songhall.org

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John Carucci covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow him at http://www.twitter.com/jcarucci-ap

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Hurd's cousin arrested in alleged drug conspiracy

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updated 7:34 p.m. ET June 9, 2012

DALLAS (AP) - A cousin of Sam Hurd is charged in an alleged drug conspiracy connected to the former NFL wide receiver.

Jesse Tyrone Chavful is accused of trying to buy large amounts of cocaine and marijuana. The 46-year-old San Antonio man was arrested this past week in San Antonio.

According to a court document released Friday, a confidential informant told authorities that Chavful at times had said he was making purchases for Hurd.

Hurd's drug conspiracy trial has been delayed until August. The 26-year-old is a former Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys player. Hurd has pleaded not guilty.

A date for Chavful's probable cause and detention hearings has not been set. Online federal court documents did not yet list an attorney for Chavful on Saturday.

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Texas inmate loses civil rights 'vampire' suit

Published: Friday, June 8, 2012 at 7:28 a.m.

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HOUSTON (AP) ? A federal appeals court has rejected as frivolous a civil rights lawsuit from a Texas prisoner who argued he was being barred from practicing religious beliefs related to vampires.

Inmate Courtney Royal two years ago sued about a dozen Texas prison administrators and officials at the Hughes Unit where he's serving a life sentence for numerous offenses, including aggravated assault, robbery and escape.

Royal's nine-page single-space typewritten lawsuit, rejected Thursday by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said he wanted to practice "West African spiritualism and 18th Century Catholicism" marked by prayer to Africans reincarnated by blood. He argued it was no different from "unproven" Christian beliefs.

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Electrical Engineer,Electrician - The role of control systems

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Control systems are an important part in contemporary everyday life. They are everywhere and work behind the scenes. Interaction of the system with its users is limited to the occasional adjustment via the control panel. Control systems are generally maintained by electrical engineers.

A control system is a device or a collection of devices that manage, direct, regulate or command the behavior of a system or other devices. Control systems are available in two classes: logic or sequential controls and feedback or linear controls. These two can have many combinations and variations. Fuzzy logic can also be considered as a control system and it combines logic with the utility benefit of linear control.

The term "control system" generally generates a picture of manual control that permits an operator to open and close a hydraulic press. This may include logic and cannot be shifted if safety guards are not present. The automatic sequential control system could initiate a series of mechanical actuators in the correct sequence to perform a task. In linear feedback systems, a control loop, that include sensors, control algorithms and actuators are arranged in such a way that tries to regulate a variable at a reference or set point value. Example of such activity is the fuel supply increase to a furnace when the temperature drops. It can loosely mimic automation like functionalities.

Logic control systems designed for commercial and industrial machinery were usually installed at mains voltage. This use interconnected relays that were designed using ladder logic. Nowadays, similar systems are constructed with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) or microcontrollers. Notation of ladder logic is still in use as a programming idiom for PLCs.

Logic controllers answer to light sensors, switches and pressure switches among many others. It can cause the machinery to start and stop a number of operations. They are used to sequence mechanical operations in a large number of applications. Control systems of this kind are used in washing machines, elevators and other similar systems that undergo interrelated stop-go operations. The boon of logic systems is that they can be designed easily and is capable of handling very complex operations. Boolean logic may be used in designing logic systems.

On-off control in control system can be best explained by the workings of a thermostat. It is a simple negative-feedback control. As soon as the temperature falls below a set point, the heater gets switched on. Another example is a pressure switch on an air compressor. As the pressure drops below the threshold, the pump gets powered. Refrigerators contain similar mechanisms- but operate in reverse. A refrigerator still provides negative feedback to correct errors.

Fuzzy logic is beyond the scope of a standard electrical engineer. An electrician should never attempt to repair systems of this kind. It emulates the easy design of logic controllers and tries to control continuously varying systems. A measurement in a fuzzy logic system can be partly true. It means if yes is one and no is zero, a fuzzy measurement can be between zero and one.

Terrence White is the author of this article. He is an electrical engineer and repairs logic controllers. Terrence loves to spelunking and boring people to sleep with his non-existent exploits.

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Friday, June 8, 2012

Survey: 1 in 3 Facebook users getting bored

"Facebook fatigue" is leading diehard social networkers to grow tired

Are you just not as drawn to the?social network comings and goings of your friends and family as you once were? If so, you're not alone: According to a?new poll by Reuters and research firm Ipsos, roughly one-third of?Facebook users are feeling pretty "meh" about the social network?these days, and the sentiment seems to be growing.

The survey focused more on the potential monetization of Facebook than current user habits, but the data was telling in several ways. According to the poll of over 1,000 Americans, 80% of Facebook users have never purchased a product or service because of what they saw on the site, meaning that whatever advertising techniques companies are currently employing to grab your cash simply isn't working.

Unsurprisingly, the survey found that users between the ages of 18 and 34 were the most active, while just 29% of people over 55 considered themselves regular users. Unfortunately, people who spend a great deal of time on the network are often victims of what the researchers call "Facebook fatigue," leading them to spend less and less time checking in with friends and browsing the profiles of their peers. What do you think? Have your Facebook habits changed? Let us know in the comments.

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