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Parry wins Doral with 176-yard shot
6-iron for eagle defeats Verplank in playoff at
Ford Championship
6½.
“I’m not actually a car man. I’m a boat man,” he said. “I guess I better turn into a car man.”
Winning for a second time, Parry said, validates his career.
“I won’t say anyone could win once, but to win twice, it means that you’re able to play on tour,” he said.
Parry almost quit playing on tour in 2002 because he was tired of the long flights to and from Australia. Coincidentally, his week started with jet-lag troubles. He woke up less than 15 minutes before his opening round tee time Thursday because he slept through the alarm clock.
“I didn’t think there was any chance in the world I would be sitting here,” he said.
Divots: Parry was one of just 14 players who made par or better on No. 18 in each of the four rounds. ... Goosen has shot par or better in his last 29 rounds on the PGA Tour. ... Parry’s playoff victory was his first on the PGA Tour. His career record in playoffs is 4-3, including three losses in the Australian Masters and one in the Australian Open. ... Parry is the ninth winner this year over 30. Only Tiger Woods, who won the Match Play Championship, is under 30.
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Choose or Loose
Subject: Reporters Are Idiots, Experts Say
Re: " Press Box: This Is Your Newspaper on Vacation"
From: Felix Salmon
Date: Tue Aug 22 8:09 a.m. PT
Jack Shafer is dead-on about the New York Times lack of evidence for cocaine's white-collar resurgence. But he misses the best (worst) bit about the Times article—this classic sentence: "It is too hard to binge because cocaine cannot be bought on street corners 24 hours a day, seven days a week, experts say." The final two words are just the icing on the cake.
Subject: That "Vote Auction" Was Just a Coffee, I Swear!
Re: " Net Election: Buy This Vote!"
From: Glen Tomkins
Date: Wed Aug 23 1:29 p.m. PT
A Fray poster writes: "Selling my vote may be illegal, or so the Supreme Court says, but if someone wants to lobby me, I'm having a dinner party at $10,000 per plate."
This begs the question: Would it pass legal muster if the voter offered to sell merely his attention to some politician's free speech, rather than his vote itself? This is the theory by which campaign contributions are not held to be bribery—there is supposedly no quid pro quo that the politician will change his vote to favor the contributor, thus the contributor is given nothing but access and a hearing in exchange for the money. Why can't a voter make the same claim? "Of course I didn't vote for Smith simply because his campaign credited my account for $50. That money merely convinced me to scroll through Smith's informative Web site, where I found arguments so compelling I could not but vote for him. That auction I held to get to the figure of $50? Well, my time is limited, and I can't waste it scrolling through everyone's Web sites. My time is certainly worth more than the $10 the Vegetarian Party offered me."
Subject: Gore—Watergate Baby in More Ways Than One
Re: " Chatterbox: The Gores, the Bushes, and Watergate"
From: J. E. Britt
Date: Wed Aug 23 9:33 a.m. PT
Interesting historical trivia. However, it's unlikely Gore intended anything so subtle in his acceptance address as a reference to a rather obscure aspect of the Watergate scandal. It is in fact unlikely that Gore would ever do anything to initiate a discussion of any subject having to do with campaign-finance improprieties.
It is more likely that Gore was trying to do what almost all Democrats do when they speak about the disappointments of the 1960s—blame them on Richard Nixon. That Democrats had an iron grip on all branches of the federal government for almost the whole decade, were almost entirely responsible for miring America in Vietnam, and dominated not only the civil rights movement but also the Southern resistance to it, are all facts modern Democrats would have great difficulty weaving into partisan campaign speeches. Hence Gore's Watergate reference, which made political sense but sounds so odd historically. Not just because Watergate happened well after the 1960s ended but also because the backlash against the Republicans from 1974 on was of great assistance to the political careers of many Democrats, including Al Gore.
Subject: If I Could Be Like Rich
Re: " Moneybox: The Survivor Consultant's Last Laugh"
From: Robin Myers
Date: Thu Aug 24 1:48 p.m. PT
The moral of the story? If we could see our lives in 13 episodes, like Survivor, and were asked at the end what we would've done differently, would any of us say, "I'd be more like Rich!" Or if we are a Richard, would we really look at it and feel proud, and proclaim, "I have no regrets." Even though I know there are guys like Rich out there, winning the rat race, I refuse to join that game. Rather, I want to get ahead honestly, but I want to undermine the Riches of this world at every opportunity I get, by exposing them, by being honest, by working harder, working smarter, and by being truly compassionate. I don't have the benefit of being able to watch on a TV show how my choices will pan out, but I hope to God that at the end of my life I don't look back and wish I had been just like Rich.
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Sc!. Thanks for your help. >>> Scott Doty said: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:39:49PM -0700, Glen Gunsalus wrote: > > I would like to save streaming audio from one of the "local" FM stations t >o > > file so I can listen to it when I'm actually in the house. > > > > I thought this would be a perfect chore for "chron" or "at" using perhaps >a > > command line realplayer, but 1) can't seem to redirect to a file, 2) can't > > > find correct command line to grab what I want from KQED stream. > > > > I'm currently running RH 7.3. > > > > Any pointers gratefully accepted and acknowledged. > > > > Cheers, Glen > > Hi Glen, > > Realplayer won't give you any love in this endeavor. The command-line tool > "mplayer" will do exactly what you ask, however: > > > > Mplayer is a veritable swiss army knife of media encoding, transcoding, and > playback. Indeed, it is the tool that allowed me to make the final break > with Windows, as mplayer plays Microsoft streams (though I don't think it > understands DRM (yet?)). > > Anyway, the command in question would look something like: > > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile try.mp3 > > This would write a file "try.mp3" from the stream on the shoutcast server > "example.com". > > Caveats: > > My version of mplayer knows how to handle rtsp:, but that may have come alon >g >/ > > ...so it may be a bit of an adventure getting that going. I've appended > my "Do_Config" for mplayer, some options which you may want to add to your > ./configure statement... > > I should also mention that I've had trouble capturing some Realmedia > streams, notably air america's stream -- your mileage may vary. (I'd be > happy to test if you would give me the URL in question...) > > -Scott > p.s. my "Do_Config" script to configure mplayer: > #!/bin/sh > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/MPlayer-1.0pre4 \ > --enable-largefiles \ > --enable-live --enable-qtx --enable-win32 \ > --with-win32libdir=/opt/win32codecs \ > --enable-debug > > This sets the installation prefix to /opt/MPlayer-1.0pre4, enables large > file (+2GB) support, enables LIVE.COM library support (library already > installed), enables quicktime (Windows codecs from mplayerhq.hu installed in > /opt/win32codecs), enables Windows codes (/opt/win32codecs), and turns on > verbose debugging messages during compile, as well as compiling with > debugging symbols. If you specify --enable-qtx, you must specify > --enable-win32. > > Good luck! Let me know if you need a hand... > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk at nblug.org > >
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Charter Schools’ Latest Innovation: Keeping Teachers Happy
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As charter schools have proliferated New Orleans and the country, many schools, including Success Prep, have largely relied on young, inexperienced teachers who tend to leave the classroom sooner than their peers at traditional public schools—an approach to hiring sometimes described as “churn and burn.” Charter supporters like Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp have even insisted that strong schools with an emphasis on good training can survive the constant loss of teachers.
But as the charter school movement comes of age, school leaders are realizing that stability and consistency matter, and that good teachers aren’t widgets that can easily be replaced. As a result, schools are offering new perks designed to build sustainable staffs, like retirement plans, on-site childcare, and nutrition advice. They face an uphill battle, however, in countering the deeply ingrained perception that many charter jobs are high-velocity detours for young people on the way to something else. In part, they’re hoping to rebrand charter-school teaching as a viable long-term career option with the job security we associate with traditional public schools—at least up to a point.
While these changes can’t match the pensions, union protections, and tenure provisions teachers have at many traditional schools, they mark a significant shift for charters. Long-term teacher retention wasn’t a priority at Success Prep when the school opened in 2009, part of a radical reconstruction of the city’s long-troubled school system after Hurricane Katrina that involved opening dozens of new charter schools. The plan was to “constantly replace teachers with new teachers,” says Gangopadhyay, 35, while focusing on providing the staff with strong curricular professional development. Most of the founding teachers had just a couple years of experience in the classroom. (Although three had more than 10 years of experience teaching.) The average age was 29. First-year teachers at Success Prep make $44,295.
Because of the demanding nature of the job, departures were expected. Most teachers, Gangopadhyay then believed, had “a shelf life” at his school.
Throughout the charter sector, that’s largely been true. At the end of the 2008-2009 school year, almost a quarter of charter school teachers left their schools or the profession, compared to 15.5 percent in traditional public schools, according to a survey by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The transiency can be attributed to a few main causes: At urban charters like Success, which frequently serve mostly low-income, underprepared students of color, teachers are expected to work considerably longer hours than is typical—sometimes as much as 80 or 90 hours a week. Such charters, often referred to as “no excuses” schools, rely heavily on programs like Teach for America, which import young teachers for two-year commitments. And charter school teachers are far less likely to belong to unions, and have less job security as a result. While charter school leaders don’t necessarily plan on high turnover, it might be “a necessary byproduct” of an intense, results-driven approach, says Andy Rotherham, a co-founder of Bellwether Education, a nonprofit consulting organization that works with charter schools.
At Success Prep, teacher attrition has worsened over the years. In 2012 the school lost just three out of 24 teachers, but the following year, six more departed. As a result, all but one of the eighth-grade teachers were new last fall. The instability led to student misbehavior and classroom management problems early on in the school year according to John Gonzalez, a first-year eighth-grade math teacher. Students didn’t have relationships with most of their teachers, which made enforcing strict rules—already tough to sell to the young teens—even more difficult.
Gangopadhyay admits that Success Prep hired more new teachers than the school’s teacher-coaching staff could handle this year. Success Prep has struggled, he said, to train so many novice teachers while also recruiting virtually year-round to fill next year’s expected vacancies. Ten teachers—more than 20 percent of the school’s teaching staff—are leaving at the end of this school year, some for graduate school or to make more space in their lives for family commitments. Gangopadhyay now realizes something has to change.
Charter school leaders across the country are facing similar moments of reckoning. At YES Prep, a network of 13 charter schools in Houston, leaders began rethinking teacher sustainability at the beginning of this school year. The average classroom teacher at YES Prep stays for about 2 ½ years.
Superintendent Mark DiBella pored through student test-score data, and found that more experienced, stable teachers were producing noticeably better student results. He quickly assembled a committee of teachers to devise recommendations for getting more teachers to commit to at least five years in the classroom..
At the country’s biggest chain of charter schools, the Knowledge Is Power Program (or KIPP), officials believe teachers will stay if their principals stay, too. Until two years ago, only half of the network’s principals remained in their position after four years.
KIPP, which encompasses 162 schools, redesigned its principal-training program four years ago to emphasize sustainability: It now teaches principals to share leadership responsibilities with other staff and to exhort teachers to take time for rest. Last year, principal retention beyond four years jumped to 82 percent, according to Steve Mancini, the network’s director of public affairs.*
Annual teacher retention has also gone up, though less dramatically, from 68 percent in 2012 to 70 percent last school year. The goal is 80 percent.
Schools in the KIPP network have made a variety of changes aimed at making the job more sustainable, particularly for teachers who have children of their own. Nearly a third of KIPP teachers now have access to on-site day cares, a rarity across the sector. Some KIPP schools have shortened their school days and eliminated mandatory Saturday sessions. KIPP schools are also piloting a Common Core–aligned math and reading curriculum this year, partly so teachers won’t have to spend so much time devising their own.
At Success Prep, which is not part of a bigger network, Gangopadhyay relies on the school’s most senior teachers and staff—there are only eight who’ve worked at the school longer than four years —for feedback on how to keep staff. In the last year, he’s made a lot of changes aimed at shoring up teacher retention.
Gangopadhyay knows teachers won’t stay unless they feel valued. So he spent a February afternoon encouraging some of the school’s instructional coaches to emphasize teachers’ strengths before laying out the areas that need improvement.
“Unless you can constantly replace super-talented people with even better people, the best way to go is to keep people,” Gangopadhyay says. “And the way you keep people is to let them know they’re doing a great job.”
This type of feedback, even when it’s critical, is especially crucial for new teachers as they tumble through the challenges of their first year in the classroom, says Gonzalez, of Success Prep. “If I am teaching five years from now, I’d hope it’d be here,” he says.
Success Prep administrators have also made more tangible changes to keep their strongest teachers. Next year, teachers who take on added responsibilities (like coaching a sports team or leading a grade-level team) could receive pay bumps. Performing well on the state’s teacher-evaluation system, which is based in part on student test scores, will also result in a raise.
Gangopadhyay hired teaching assistants from programs like the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and Avodah, a Jewish service corps, in kindergarten through fourth grade to alleviate teachers’ workload. The assistants help prepare materials or cover class when, for example, a grade-level chair needs to observe a colleague.
The school has also put a premium on teacher health. It altered the school calendar to give teachers one day off each semester, called “doctor days,” so teachers can catch up on medical and other appointments. Health insurance offerings have expanded to include optional cancer screenings, physical rehabilitation, and mental health services.
Gangopadhyay says the absence of a traditional public pension program and lower salaries in New Orleans make attracting veteran teachers tough; the hiring pool is often limited to less experienced educators, he says. So the school created a new 401(k) matched retirement savings plan to help fill that gap.
National data suggests that efforts to boost charter school teacher retention may be starting to pay off. By the 2012-13 school year, the most recent data available, turnover at charter schools had decreased to 18.4 percent. (The data is only collected every four years, and the recession probably also affected teachers’ decisions.)
At schools like Success, which hire mostly New Orleans transplants, some teachers worry the changes might be too little too late. Many educators will tire of the grind, seek career advancement elsewhere, or want more flexible schedules to start families—no matter how good the benefits are.
Jeremy Guyton, 24, a third-year dance teacher originally from California, is leaving Success Prep at the end of this school year to run a youth dance program that will offer him greater flexibility in both his professional and personal life. Success Prep’s heavy focus on standards and testing has stifled what Guyton calls a core foundation of dance education: creativity. The new benefits are important, he says, but regular turnover of teachers makes it “easy to feel like I can just be replaced.”
Gangopadhyay knows he can’t rely solely on “doctor days” and 401(k)s. So this year he’s focused his recruitment efforts on hiring experienced teachers who have already demonstrated a long-term commitment to the profession. He’s hired eight teachers for next year so far: Two currently teach in other New Orleans schools, four are coming from out of state, and two are teaching assistants already working at Success Prep. Most of them have more years of experience than the teachers they’re replacing.
Noeleen Hay, a 15-year teaching veteran and one of two founding teachers at Success Prep who remain at the school, hopes teachers who stay past the five-year mark will become the norm, like they are in so many traditional public schools. “These are the highest-needs children in the country and they need longevity,” she says.
This story was produced by The Teacher Project, an education reporting initiative at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism dedicated to covering teachers.
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The Crescent Hotel San Francisco has announced the addition of meeting packages suited to meet the needs of business travelers and local companies looking for a venue near Union Square.
Tiger Oak Publications’ Meetings + Events Media Group has announced that it is launching California Meetings + Events magazine.
The Ocean Course at Half Moon Bay Golf Links has been named to “America’s Top 50 Courses for Women” by Golf Digest for the second consecutive year.
The newly released California Road Trips 2011 features the theme of "Wine and Food Getaways" and focuses on traveling around the state by car.
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Cohabitation Linked to Unstable Families
Special Report - August 17, 2011
Children today are more likely to spend time in a cohabiting household and to suffer a myriad of negative lifetime effects as a result, than they are to experience the divorce of their parents, according to a new report released Wednesday by a team of family scholars from some of the nation’s leading educational institutions. The report, “Why Marriage Matters: 30 Conclusions from the Social Sciences (Third Edition),” is the long-awaited comprehensive summary of the latest research pointing to the importance of marriage to child wellbeing. Co-sponsored by the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and by the National Marriage Project (NMP) at the University of Virginia, the report is written by a team of 18 scholars chaired by W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the NMP.
The report’s major finding is that cohabitation, which it notes has increased 14-fold since 1970, has replaced divorce as the main contributor to the rising rates of family instability in the United States. In fact, by the age of 12, more children today will spend time in a cohabiting family than will experience the divorce of their parents (see figure 2 from report). While a decrease in parental divorce is certainly a good thing, the increasing rates of cohabitation, particularly for children, is not, because, as the report points out, “cohabitation is not the functional equivalent of marriage.”
“In a striking turn of events, the divorce rate for married couples with children has returned almost to the levels we saw before the divorce revolution kicked in during the 1970s. Nevertheless, family instability is on the rise for American children as a whole,” explains Professor Wilcox in a press release. “This seems in part to be because more couples are having children in cohabiting unions, which are very unstable. This report also indicates that children in cohabiting households are more likely to suffer from a range of emotional and social problemsdrug use, depression, and dropping out of high schoolcompared to children in intact, married families.”
Among the key findings in report regarding cohabitation:
The report describes the “rise in cohabiting households” as “the largely unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children’s lives in today’s families.” It details the latest research on cohabitation, which shows that compared to children raised in intact, married families, children in cohabiting families “do significantly worse” on several social, educational and psychological outcomes; and that children in cohabiting households are also significantly more likely to suffer from physical, emotional and sexual abuse than children in either intact married families or single parent families (see figure 3 from report);
Finally, the report includes the following three conclusions that echo the previous findings from the 2002 and 2005 editions of “Why Marriage Matters”:
“This important report shows why the North Carolina statutes against cohabitation are needed,” said Alysse ElHage, associate director of research for the North Carolina Family Policy Council. “The State is correct in recognizing and supporting marriage as the only domestic union that should be recognized. An intact family unit with a married mother and a father is the best place to raise children, and we are pleased that North Carolina law supports this reality.”
Related resources:
Census Report Examines Cohabitation - November 9, 2010
Marriage Beats Cohabitation - March 5, 2010
Most Children Live With Parents - July 27, 2010
Characteristics of Cohabiting Adults Studied - July 16, 2009
Report Analyzes Cohabitation Effects - June 23, 2008
How Cohabitation Undermines Marriage and the Family - Findings - June 2005
Copyright © 2012. North Carolina Family Policy Council. All rights reserved.
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Jitterbit Empowers Every Company to Become a Digital Business and Join the –Now Economy–Picture Gallery, Software Wednesday, 15. July 2015
ALAMEDA, CA — (Marketwired) — 07/15/15 — , the leading provider of fast, agile integration solutions for the modern enterprise, today unveiled its new digital connectivity platform that empowers companies to win in the by orchestrating connected digital processes for employees, customers and partners. The new Harmony Live! API Platform allows any company to become a digital business that can react in real-time and provide seamless customer experiences across cloud, mobile, social and the Internet of Things.
In today–s “Now Economy,” employees, partners and customers expect information to be available at their fingertips at a moment–s notice: any device, anywhere, anytime. Instant access is no longer nice to have: “Now” is the new standard for business, and digital connectivity is the key to success. This new disruption presents an enormous opportunity for companies that make digital connectivity a priority and promises dire consequences for those that do not. Fifty-two percent of Fortune 500 companies have disappeared since 2000 after failing to go digital.
To compete in the “Now Economy,” every company must transform into a connected digital business. Companies across all industries, including those that traditionally sell physical products, must think like a software company and reimagine their products and services as digital experiences augmented by the physical world.
“The fact is that digital business will disrupt all industries, and business executives, CIOs and technology providers will need to think differently to help their businesses avoid disruption,” Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst Jorge Lopez wrote in . “This is a new world that makes the prior ones obsolete while creating massive opportunities for those who can visualize the opportunity… The reality will be that the billions of things, humans and businesses that are connected together will require sophisticated engineering, integration and orchestration to fulfill the promise of a future of people, business and things.”
Becoming a digital business starts from the inside. Organizations must establish digital processes that connect the growing collection of best-of-breed technologies that employees use to be productive, collaborative and help drive the business forward. To better serve partners and customers, internal teams must be able to access key data about products, services and users from anywhere on any device. And systems of engagement such as storefronts, mobile apps and social media must be tied in real-time to the company–s back-office systems.
For example, Mophie, the number one mobile battery manufacturer in the world, relies on real-time digital connectivity to tie together its logistics, shipping and customer service across multiple internal apps and partner systems.
“Connecting all of our digital assets with Jitterbit has enabled Mophie to centralize and automate critical business processes, improve our response and delivery times and utilize APIs to scale our business as we grow internationally,” said Charles Mercadel, IT director at Mophie.
Becoming a digital business also means looking outward to orchestrate connected digital interactions that augment the customer and partner experience. Digital businesses make it possible to interact and transact wherever their customers are, and have the ability to gain insights into the experiences their customers have with both digital and physical products.
“Every manufacturing company is looking for new ways to digitize their business,” said Brian Roepke, ?director of PLM and PDM at Autodesk. “With digital supply chains, crowdsourced design and omni-channel marketplaces, manufacturers are connecting their people, processes and technology to compete in today–s digital world. Harmony Live! allows us to deliver a new level of real-time connectivity with the Autodesk PLM Cloud Platform.”
Jitterbit believes that every company regardless of size, industry or technical resources has the right to become a digital business. Harmony Live! builds on Jitterbit–s cannot afford to rely on teams of developers for digital connectivity. Furthermore, the “Now Economy” makes the old ways of doing business obsolete, creating a massive opportunity for those who can visualize their place in this new digital world. Business leaders who understand the “Now Economy” will play a key role in helping their organizations win in this new era. visit or start a free 30-day trial at . , and solutions, visit . To join the conversation, follow on Twitter.
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University of Southern California, 2001 - $18,000The Virtual Visit project started in the fall of 2000 at the University of Southern California Department of Biomedical Engineering with the support of the Alfred Mann Institute and the USC School of Gerontology. Its goal was to increase communication between the elderly and their families by providing a simple and robust videoconferencing system. The device uses typical consumer electronic items found in most homes to enable videoconferencing without requiring any computer literacy. It uses a high speed Internet and phone connection and a regular television display.
The core student E-Team reevaluated the design, conducted feasibility analyses, determined funding strategies, found strategic partners, evaluated intellectual property protection, conducted a market analysis, and constructed a functional prototype.
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Fashion Trends for Men’s Urban Wear is Changing
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Many people did not like those baggy pants wherein boxers were showing off because pants were so oversized, they looked as if they are about to fall off anytime. However, as they got used to it, those critics soon learned to appreciate that fashion trend for men. For quite some time, baggy pants dominated men’s urban wear. Now, we are back nike mercurial 11 to slim and skinny silhouettes that are the exact opposite of the oversized or baggy look. Men’s modern nike latest soccer boots fashion is now looking all the more tailored and flatout skinny with the extreme skater look. Guys in tightfitting skinny jeans could reminisce and relive London’s Liverpool looks.
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The 2012 NCISAA Official Girls Basketball Top Five is out for this week and the big news is that Providence Day School, with their mighty win over Greensboro Day School in the Bengal Den, is back to the top spot in the rankings. Greensboro Day, who has defeated #3 Rabun Gap School, moves to the second spot. In the 2A, Carolina Day School continues their run as the top team with Trinity Christian holding down #1 in the 1A classification. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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How to Prepare For a Walking Trip
A holiday is a break from the things that we regularly do and are meant to refresh individuals. Vacations are incomplete without friends, family or tours. Climbing mountains, hills, rocks or treading long distances are some of the favorite things that people do during their holidays. In this article, we will discuss how to get ready for your next hiking trip.. Also, avoid clothes made cotton are not a good choice since they absorb sweat and take a long time to dry. Clothes that quickly absorb moisture and dry fast are the best types to consider for your hiking trip. Clothes with dark shades dry faster than lighter shades and are more likely to attract bugs.
A fundamental item in your hiking wardrobe is your footwear. The more comfortable they are, the happier you will be during your journey. They should not be too heavy to carry around because that will tire you out and they should fit you well to let you maneuver terrain easily. Boots that are unsuitable are likely to cause you injury while walking.
Shaping Up For a Hike
When trekking, a person’s mental and physical ability is usually put to the test by various aspects. That said, respective preparations will be necessary before launching a walking holiday. Individuals must be ready and willing to deal with the highs and lows faced during a walk. Your ability to deal with uncertainties in a hike without being discouraged and rattled will be tested and how you overcome things will significantly impact the success of your journey.
Start your physical training with short distance treks a couple of weeks before your vacation. Begin with short distances like 1-3 kilometers and keep building up until when you can comfortably handle about 10 kilometers. After reaching the 10km mark, enhance your training with a loaded bag pack on your back as you wait to commence your journey.
Your Destination
When selecting your destination, always put into consideration your health and experience. These two aspects will determine how much distance you can cover and the type of terrain and altitudes you can explore on a hike comfortably. While hiking, it is important to have a tour guide’s assistance if availed because they are usually familiar with routes. If your tour will not be conducted by an expert, always follow pre-set tracks because they have already been tested. In circumstances where a new route is explored, make sure that you have a map and can interpret it correctly to ensure staying on the right track.
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During my vacation in Italy I have written as small MarkDown to PDF converter that we use for our letters and invoices here at Nelmio. For this purpose I have used FOP, Apache’s open source implementation of XSL-FO. I consider XSL-FO to be the easiest method to programmatically generate PDFs while remaining in total control of the produced result. Plus: it always gives me the opportunity to play with one of my fetish languages: XSLT.
While fiddling around my stylesheets I came across an XSLT element which I had never used before, the
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The building industry and architecture is going through a transformation. The sharing of data in an interoperable format enables collaboration across multiple teams. This
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1:00 - 1:05 TAP Knowledge Community Updates
1:05 - 1:10 BIG BIM and BIG Data
1:10 - 1:25 Introduction and Owner’s Perspective
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1:35 - 1:45 Engineering, Energy Analysis and Cost Estimating
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Technology doesn't stand still
By: Robert Half
A friend of mine, who is with a successful, mid-sized accounting
firm, recently enrolled in an intensive computer course at his local community
college. I asked him, "Why?" After all, my friend is a partner in the
firm, and he spends almost no time doing actual accounting spreadsheet
work any longer.
"I want to keep up," he replied. "Our clients and many of
my colleagues are heavy into computers these days, and I want to speak
their language, know what they're talking about. Besides, I'm having fun.
I was impressed with his thinking, even more with his zest
for learning. It would be easy for him to sit back, help manage the firm,
and let his more junior colleagues deal with the bits and bytes of accounting.
But that would represent a failure to move forward.
As a new accountant just entering the field, you are at
an advantage in that unlike your predecessors, you've grown up with computers.
They're almost second nature. The key is to make sure that you keep pace
with emerging technologies in order to better serve your firm and your
clients. Technology doesn't stand still; however, those accountants who
fail to keep abreast of the latest accounting and finance tools might
well find their careers at a standstill.
A word of caution, should you become the computer "whiz"
in your company or department. During your careers, you'll find yourself
interacting with people, including clients, who are not part of the PC
revolution and don't wish to be. In these instances, it will be to your
benefit to translate complex computer terms and applications in simple,
understandable language, even when the questions you're asked might seem
silly to you.
One of our company's business divisions went out and asked
information technology professionals to name the "strangest requests they'd
ever heard of or received from clients or end users." Here are just a
few of the responses:
"My computer's cup holder is broken." (referring to the
CD-Rom drive)
"These figures need to add up to something different than
what they add up to. Please make them do so."
"Can I get just the U.S. portion of the World Wide Web?"
"Can a diskette get a virus if you drop it on the floor?"
"Enclosed, per your request, is a copy of my disk so that
you can determine the problem." (The user sent a photocopy of the disk
to the IT specialist.)
"Can you help me set up my car so I can use my laptop while
I drive?"
"Can I use my computer to order pizza?"
"How come when I pressed the 'help' button (the F1 key)
earlier, you didn't stop by?"
Learn as much as possible about how computers can enhance
your accounting work and careers. At the same time, be understanding of
those who don't share your knowledge and skills.
As my friend so admirably exemplifies, learning should be
lifetime endeavor. Those who stand the best chance of climbing the proverbial
ladder of success will be on a never-ending quest for new knowledge and
skills. These are the accountants who, besides keeping abreast of developments
in their profession, will hone their speaking and writing skills in order
to more effectively present their good ideas to people who can act upon
them. They'll expand their understanding of the larger world to better
put their professional responsibilities in perspective. Because they are
fortunate enough to be working in the computer age, they'll put in the
time and effort to learn how to use this immensely powerful accounting
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The Real McCoys 1957
The Real McCoys: The Real McCoys revolves around the lives of a mountain family who originally hailed from fictional Smokey Corners, West Virginia. The McCoys moved to California and became dirt farmers. The family consisted of Grandpa Amos McCoy (Walter Brennan); his grandson Luke (Richard Crenna), Lukes new bride Kate (Kathleen Nolan), Lukes teenage sister Hassie (Lydia Reed), and his 11-year-old brother, Little Luke (Michael Winkelman).
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According to Engadget, LG has decide to renamed its popular LG Optimus LTE smartphone to LG Optimus True HD LTE. Basically, the device has already launched in US market as LG Spectrum 4G and LG Nitro HD and in the Japan and South Lorea market as LG Optimus LTE. However, no word on pricing or release date for Optimus True HD LTE but we believed if the device has same features and specifications with the old name.
As it’s new name, the 4.65 inch screen on the smartphone uses True HD IPS display that utilizes an RGB stripe structure, offer 329 PPI (pixels per inch), 500 Nits and support high resolutions display at 1280 x 720 resolution. The display offer HD 720p video playback, great sharpness, image clarity and increases visual experience for web browsing, streaming video or playing games than common smartphone on the market. You can also connect the smartphone or stream media wirelessly to your HDTV, thanks to HDMI port and SmartShare.
LG Optimus True HD LTE smartphone powered by Qualcomm MDM9200/APQ8060 dual core processor which has clocking speed at 1.5GHZ, paired with 1GB RAM and running on Android™ 2.3 (Gingerbread) as the operating system offer ultra fast performance and deliver more than enough power to ensure smoother, more responsive and efficiently operation. For storage, it’s packed with 10GB (Internal 2GB, Micro SD 8GB) internal storage with support Micro SD card slot for expandable storage capacity up to 32GB, so you can store more video files, musi files or applications.
In term of size, the Optimus True HD LTE measures 133.9 x 67.9 x 10.48 with weighs at 135 g and ships with a 1830 mAh Lithium Ion battery which offers up to 180 minutes of talk time or up to 252 hours of Standby Time. It’s thicker than Samsung Galaxy Nexus i9250 which has same display size but only measures in 135.5 x 67.94 x 8.94 mm. On the front, the 1.3MP Fixed Focus front facing camera allows users to make video calling with friends or family, while on the back you’ll find 8MP Auto Focus camera with LED Flash offer good quality for capture photos and support record full 1080p video.
The rest of features are Android Webkit Browser, USB 2.0 port, bluetooth 3.0, Gps with A-gps support, support fast 4G LTE network and WiFi 802.11 b/g/n for fast internet connections with support Wi-Fi Direct™, so you can lsend and share files to other gadgets without wires or a router. Like other Android smartphone, new LG Optimus True HD LTE smartphone also has full suite of Google Mobile Applications, such as GMail, GTalk, picassa, YouTube and acces in Google Play.
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The diversity of energy sources and the multiplicity of ways and methods used to generate it in any country, reflects the maturity of the energy sector of that country and its consistent keep up with the rest of the world, especially the developed and industrialized countries.
States and multinational/international companies are competing on having the world’s energy sources, and the possibility of finding alternative secondary sources in order to ensure continuity at the head of the world map.
After when the world almost consumed most of the oil and natural gas reserves, and after the quantity of those reserves became known and owned by certain countries or companies, the eyes of the world shifted towards alternative sources to ensure filling the forthcoming vacuum that would be succeeded by oil or gas.
That is why the world begins now investing in alternative energy projects, you may hear Wheat energy projects and at other times the solar energy projects, as well as nuclear energy, hydropower projects, coal energy and finally wind power.
Every one of these methods or sources is characterized by its own unique characteristics, Some are inexpensive, some are available in great abundance, some of them are friendly to the environment, and it preserves the environmental life and the growth of forests and insures the wellbeing of the Ozone, and as I said earlier in the beginning that the diversity of these sources is a sign that indicates the energy sector of a country is moving in the right direction, and the usage of these resources and methods together in a combination may bring solutions and cover the needs of the growing public and private sectors.
Let’s go back a bit to our beloved country – Somaliland – and the possibility of implementation of these large energy projects, and if it can be practically applied and on the ground in Somaliland, unfortunately and because of lack of progress in our energy sector, and also the lack of technical and scientific progress, our small economic potential, as well as the nature of the geology of our country, most of these methods and sources are unrealistic to implement in our country and put it into an actual implementation, for example, we haven’t yet reached the scientific level that allows us to extract energy from wheat, or build nuclear reactors, and also because of the nature of the geography of our country and the lack of rivers and water streams, the generation of electricity using water energy is impossible and unreasonable.
The closest sources that through it we can diversify and operate our energy sector in a functioning and stable curve, also would benefit us as substitutes or secondary sources, and we can afford it in terms of our capacity and economic potential are solar and wind power.
And what should be mentioned here, and for it he deserves much praise as matter of encouragement is the tremendous efforts exerted by His Excellency the Minister Eng. Hussein Abdi Dualeh Minister of Energy and Mining, who founded an Energy Directorate, and helped bring the solar energy method to the country especially to Burao, Togdheer region and Adna Aden Hospital, Hargeisa also his latest efforts in bringing wind energy to the country while currently he is in Milan, Italy specifically for this purpose and I ask God to help him in his journey, and actually it makes us optimistic about the future, and have a much confidence in his Excellency, who still works miracles and scores successes one after one in all aspects, and never neglected one aspect, and for that he became a subject of pride and hope for all.
Now I’ll specifically mention here the wind energy, its general benefits and methods used and I will give a general simplified explanation of its mechanism to generate electricity, so that everyone can accommodate it easily.
We live in a country in which God made many goods and wealth, our country is unique in its own way, but we are blinded by our human needs, greed, competition and we are chained by ignorance and hate for each other, back to my topic the wind speed, according to global statistics, the average speed rates recorded in Somaliland reach up to 7-9 meters per hour making it windy, this is an area has not yet been exploited, I won’t say not discovered because there were several wind power projects carried out before the Second birth of the Republic of Somaliland – before 1991- but most of them are damaged or became inoperable, so this is one of the most available and favourable areas to generate electricity that can compete with the electricity generated from diesel or diesel generators, this high, medium speed of the winds makes this method important and vital to serve the people and cover their needs, and also its cheap and competitive prices, the high price of diesel power which now reaches $1/kWh would help in promoting it, and also to provide a substitute for diesel power and the possibility of lifting pressure from one side to another as a result of having options, also the easy way of its implementing as well as its cheap equipment and minimum required maintenance over the years.
The process of generating electricity from wind is a complex process and with various multiple devices and different methodology, but to understand it generally it goes like this ” the kinetic energy of the wind blows on the angled blades which in return move the rotor and changes the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical energy, the rotor spins and drives the generator which converts mechanical energy into electrical energy and stores it in a substation which transmits electricity through cables into the homes and different facilities”.
This achievement, just thinking of it is an achievement in itself, is the product and work of well organized and aimed ministry, the Ministry of Energy and Minerals.
Mustafe Osman Adam
International University of Africa
Pure and Applied Science
Department of Geology
Khartoum, Sudan
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Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut at the Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008
JEFFREY HAYDEN SHURDUT presents
Pianos are instruments not furniture"
Live public performance and interview on Neighborhood Public Radio as part of The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008 March 8, 2008 3pm 91.9 FM
Shurdut descends from his perch on East 74th Street in search of a local piano to pounce and claw in his vigorous pro-active public amble, Pianos are instruments not furniture."
HEY MADISON AVE., PIANOS ARE INSTRUMENTS- NOT FURNITURE."
--Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut
I grew up in a society where music was considered an after school activity; a recreational babysitter.
25 years later I decided to walk the streets of New York City to find a place to give sound away. With it's task force of 8 million, New York still conducts business on false advertising the American dream; selling music and art as part of our culture, then cutting out those same programs in its public schools.
Pay the $20 entrance fee to the museum and see works by Vincent Van Gogh who died with little more than his beard. Stop making museums rich. Artists are starving. In an apathetic society, the American class system is a culture of piano furniture status symbols. Our image of the piano is the context in which we place it.
I always carry a recorder and small camera with me. And since the rich music scene of New York had been sold out for higher rents, there were now fewer places than ever to perform what the city still shamefully sells to the world as it's crowning cultural achievement. So, I started walking into music stores to perform for whomever would listen, and documented my results.
The first things to be cut in any city school system are its music and arts programs. And as such, it seemed to me that music and art are really mostly for those who could afford it. In fact, our most primitive acts of communication were sounds, and musics, which ultimately became the backbone of community, and religion. From lullaby's at night, to songs of prayer and marching bands throughout our lives, nothing is more important to our early survival than the sound of our own mother.
I continued my walks through the streets of New York to see how people would react to one of the strongest words in our language - FREE. Most importantly, the search is as much a part of music as it is a study in sociology. It's about how people receive. It's about the conditions placed on acts of giving, and the expectation of trade or exchange placed on such acts that connect, nurture, and become integral parts to our psychological survival, mental, and spiritual health. What better place to bring it than to the land of the free / home of the brave, right to the belly and the brains of the beast and the MADISON AVENUE ADVERTISING CULTURE" - FREE ---To see whether our nature leans toward a more superficial sense of freedom, or toward the understanding that our concept of free can only be petitioned through interdependence and responsibility.
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eowave quadrantid swarm - experimental touch synthesizer
eowave is raising funds for eowave quadrantid swarm - experimental touch synthesizer on Kickstarter! The Quadrantid Swarm encourages you to explore sound design and music with a direct and inspiring set of synthesis and sequencing tools
eowave tells us that the Quadrantid Swarm, (previewed earlier this year), now has a Kickstarter campaign. They say that it is a desktop touch synthesizer aimed at sound designers and musicians who are looking for an expressive tool to explore rich and unusual soundscapes with a direct intuitive approach.
A spokesperson told us, "Past research and development at eowave has contributed to a range of successful products aimed at musicians and performers - including sensor interfaces, MIDI devices, modular synthesizers and more. This has been honed and distilled in the Quadrantid Swarm. It is an instrument that has been designed openly - to be used with MIDI, alongside your modular synthesizer/CV sequencer or to be explored as a standalone drone/sequencer/generative synthesizer."
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- An article published in the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' (AAPS) online journal, AAPS PharmSci,, describes how novel human genes can be found on the Internet, and what type of information can be gleaned from public data before the first laboratory experiment is done.
The paper contains interactive figures that illustrate how gene sequences are found and spliced together -- a benefit of an online-only journal.
The authors use the intestinal peptide transporter, proteins embedded in cell membranes that translocate substances such as drugs across the membrane, as an example of how gene sequence data can be found on the Internet. The authors explain that antibiotics have proven highly effective in treating infectious diseases. Whereas some antibiotics need to be injected, many can be taken orally. To be absorbed into the body, the main oral antibiotics with peptide-like structure need to be absorbed from the intestines through transporter proteins. The intestinal peptide transporter is encoded by a known gene, termed hPepT1, but it is currently unknown whether there are more human genes with similar functions, assisting in drug absorption and distribution to infected sites in the body. With the sequencing of the human genome nearing completion, the authors explain that most if not all related probable peptide transporter genes can now be found from sequence data publicly available on the Internet. Such data mining is the key to recent advances publicized by genomics companies.
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Contact: Debbie Werfel
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American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
13-Jun-2000
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There's so much that shocks us, confuses us, annoys us, offends us, angers us, bothers us, warms our heart, inspires us, makes us proud, enlivens us, and makes us smile. On any given day, we go out into the world and encounter so much. We react to it. We are affected by it. We are part of it. We affect it. It reacts to us.
Whatever we meet in the world, we meet in ourselves. Everything that we recognize, that we fear, that we understand, that we get, we do so because it is in us, it is a reflection of something in us, of something we bring wholeheartedly, something we fear in ourselves and have repressed, or of something we don't completely understand. We then behave accordingly. We act in reaction to our perception, and this has an effect on what we receive in return.
As we head out today, let's be aware that we have an effect in and on the world. Let's meet the best of ourselves out there. Let's expect it. Let's receive it. Let's give it. Today is a good day to recognize our one and only nature and know that we meet ourselves everyday in every circumstance, situation and interaction we have with another.
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7/12/2010 2:00 AM EST
At the end of May Swebus launched its Airport Transfer service running new direct buses between Arlanda airport and Stockholm’s Cityterminalen with a journey time of 35 minutes. Since the launch, passenger numbers have exceeded expectations and Swebus has therefore decided to increase the number of buses on the route.
“We’re delighted to see more passengers than we had expected choosing to travel on our new Airport Transfer service to Arlanda,” says Swebus press officer Ingvar Ryggesjö. “We’re now adding more departures where we’ve noticed high customer demand.”
Swebus is adding a total of 36 new departures a week between Cityterminalen in Stockholm and Arlanda. These new direct connections will run in the middle of the day on weekdays and in the early afternoons on Sundays. The new timetable can be downloaded here.
Facts about Swebus Airport Transfer between Stockholm City and Arlanda Swebus Airport Transfer between Stockholm City and Arlanda runs every 15 minutes at peak times of the day on weekdays, in other words between 06.30 and 08.00 in the morning and between 12.00 and 18.00 in the afternoon. At other times and at weekends, buses depart once or twice an hour. The journey time is 35 minutes and buses connect with Swebus’ other scheduled routes at Cityterminalen..
For further information, please contact: Ingvar Ryggesjö, Swebus press officer, Phone: +46 (0)70-187 11 33, e-mail: Swebus press office: +46 (0)701-87 12 00
About SwebusSwebus is the largest inter-regional bus operator in Sweden and runs express bus routes, airport bus services with Airport Transfer and private hire coaches. The company has over two million passengers a year on 10,000 departures a week. Swebus runs buses to about 150 destinations from Mora and Oslo in the north to Skåne and Copenhagen in the south. Swebus also works with other bus companies on routes to Norrland and Europe. All Swebus’ express bus routes have gained the Good Environmental Choice ecolabel and there is free internet access on board. Swebus is part of Nobina AB, the Nordic leader in public bus transport. Read more and buy your ticket at.
About Swebus Swebus is the largest inter-regional bus operator in Sweden and runs express bus routes, airport bus services with Flygturen and private hire coaches. The company has over two million passengers a year on 10...
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First Friday’s at the Museum Café
Friday, 01/03/2013, 12:00 pm – 02:00 pm
Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale
One East Las Olas Blvd,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
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Music and Lunch on the Plaza
Join us for our First Friday’s on the Plaza and enjoy our daily special and live entertainment. Don’t miss out of the fun.
For more information contact the Museum Café at 954-262-0255 [email protected]
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Netflix battles Apple by eliminating online-watching limits
UPDATE: Netflix made its official announcement on Monday morning.
In an attempt to counteract whatever announcements Apple will make at Macworld this week, Netflix has decided to let subscribers stream unlimited movies and TV shows, with almost every basic plan, the Associated Press is reporting. … Read more
More details about the super-secret Netflix set-top box are revealed … Read more
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WeChat keeps you connected across platforms
WeChat is a social app that gathers all of your sharing and communication tools in one place, including video calls, text messages, and images. To fully experience the app, you'll need to get your friends to use it too, but it's a great way to connect with your friends across all platforms.
To get started with WeChat, you'll need to create a user ID and password, which requires you to enter your phone number and a four-digit code that is sent to you via text message. The app will need access to your Address Book, which is … Read more
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Single Story Ranch home on almost 2.5 acres. 3 bedroom 2 bath home with over 2,092 sq. feet of living. Tile floors throughout with vinyl kitchen floor. Built in hutch in dining room. Stone fireplace in family room which is wood burning. Nice size bedrooms, master is very spacious. Swimming pool and spa completely fenced in. Covered patio with slab. Metal workshop in back 30 x 50 that includes bathroom, swamp cooler electricity and phone line. Solar on top of the workshop that is paid for. Used to heat the pool. Nice size laundry room with access to garage. Bring your animals, horse's OK.
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Office 365 and Yammer integration: What's coming
Microsoft is providing more dates and details about how it is integrating its Yammer enterprise social-networking technology with Office 365. two would be integrated from an e-mail, IM, and video-conferencing perspective.
Here's what we know now about the updated Yammer integration road map:
- The ability to replace the SharePoint/Office 365 newsfeed with Yammer is coming this summer. According to Microsoft, some customers have been unsure as to whether they should use Yammer or SharePoint for their news feed. As of today, Microsoft's answer is "go Yammer" if possible, whether using Office 365 and/or SharePoint Online in the cloud or SharePoint on-premises.
- Microsoft will provide guidance on how to replace the SharePoint newsfeed with the Yammer newsfeed in SharePoint Server on-premises this summer.
- Single sign-on is coming this fall as part of an Office 365 update.
- The user experiences of Office 365 and Yammer start to converge this fall. (A fairly blurry mock-up of what this means is embedded in this post above.) This is also when the new Yammer experience will add "rich document capabilities" and integration of the Office Web Apps' editing/coediting of Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents
As of 2014, Microsoft is going to be updating Office 365 with "new social enhancements" every 90 days. Office 365 already is on a quarterly (or more frequent) update schedule. These social enhancements will include integration between social and collaboration/e-mail/IM/voice/video and line-of-business apps
And for those wondering when and whether any Yammer components will ever be hosted on Windows Azure, the answer is "nothing to share today."
This story originally appeared at ZDNet's Between the Lines under the headline "Microsoft Office 365 and Yammer integration: An update on what's coming when."
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Canon violates journalistic ethics...twice
Canon, who makes fantastic cameras, uses the NFL to force professional photographers to choose between ethical behavior and no paycheck. Time to call them offside. what's the beef?:
Inspired. By Canon.(Credit: Canon)
Ouch!
But that story was already told, its consequences predicted. What makes this report news is the following image, copied from a print ad in Newsweek magazine last week:
Falsified. By Canon.(Credit: Canon)
Do you see that these are almost the same pictures? Except that the lens hoods in the online photo have been "enhanced" in the print ad. Here's a better picture showing real lens shades in use:
Lens shades don't have lenses!(Credit: Canon).
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Our Best Barbecue Side DishesFrom potato salad to hush puppies, prepare these delicious dishes.
Slowly spreading rhizomes send up arching stems clothed in broadly oval leaves arranged in nearly horizontal planes. Where leaves join stems, pairs or clusters of small, bell-shaped greenish white flowers appear in spring, hanging beneath the stems on threadlike stalks. Small blue-black berries may follow flowers. Leaves and stems turn bright yellow in fall before plant dies to the ground. Attractive for form and flowers in woodland garden; good with astilbe, ferns, hellebore, hosta, wild ginger (Asarum). Grow in loose, woodsy soil. Can remain in place for years; to increase your plantings, dig rhizomes from clump edges in early spring, and replant. Good in containers. For false Solomon's Seal, see Smilacina.
solomon's seal
polygonatum biflorum
- Zones US, MS, LS, CS; USDA 6-9.
- Native to eastern North America.
- To 13 feet tall, 2 feet wide, with bright green leaves to 4 inches long and flowers usually in pairs or threes.
- A form sometimes sold as Polygonatum commutatum or Polygonatum canaliculatum is much more vigorous, growing 37 feet tall, 34 feet wide.
- It has leaves to 7 inches long and flowers in groups of two to ten.
dwarf solomon's seal
polygonatum falcatum 'Wedding Bells
- US, MS, LS, CS; USDA 6-9.
- From Korea.
- Arching stems to 2 feet tall clothed in dangling white flowers tipped with green.
polygonatum humile
- Native to eastern Europe, western Asia.
- Dwarf species to just 46 inches tall, spreading to 20 inches wide.
- Erect, upright stems carry dark green, 1- to 3 inches-long leaves.
- In spring, diminutive white flowers are produced singly or in pairs along the length of the stems.
- Tom Thumb grows only 6 inches high.
fragrant solomon's seal
polygonatum odoratum
- Native to Europe, Asia.
- To 13 feet tall, 2 feet wide, with bright green, 4- to 6in.
- leaves.
- Flowers are fragrant, usually borne in pairs but sometimes borne singly.
- Drought tolerant; does well in dry shade.
- The leaves of 'Byakko' are marked with white near the red stems.
- Double Stuff has red stems and wide white margins on the leaves.
- Fireworks has leaves splashed and striped with white.
- Polygonatum o.
- pluriflorum 'Variegatum' has white-edged leaves; its stems are dark red until fully mature.
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15 sexy printers (yes, printers)
When you think of printers, you don't usually think sexy tech gadget. Well, here are 15 models that might help change your mind about that.
HP's Envy 100 at its introduction late last year.(Credit: bloginfor.com)
Let's face it, the printer category just isn't sexy.
In fact, some might argue that it's downright boring. After all, these are mostly utilitarian pieces of tech equipment that print documents and images to paper--or in the case of multifunction units, scan, fax, and copy--and hopefully do it well for not too much money per page. On top of that, most people have figured out that like the shaving industry, the money is in razor blades (ink), not the razor (printer), so manufacturers tend to make their printers as cost-effective as possible because they have to sell you them relatively inexpensively.
Gradually, however, that's changing, and companies are giving more thought to the design of their printers as they also add new features, including built-in LCD displays and Web connectivity.
With that in mind, here's a look at 15 models that are design standouts. You may not agree with our choices--or we may have missed a few--so feel free to add any picks to the comments section, and we may very well include them in a future update.
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These Aluminium Roof Ladders compact and easily transportable with a closed length of 2.9m yet when extended can cover all roofs up to 6.6m in length.
Manufactured from light rectangular aluminium alloy with broad oval rungs at a 30 degree slope to allow a comfortable, safe foothold.
Underneath the stiles are aluminium bearers covered in rubber to ensure maximum depth in the interest of safety.
All roof ladders are fitted with a strong curved ridge hook and rubber tyred wheels. Available in a variety of sizes.
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November 28, 2005 11:32 AM PST
Samsung unveils largest flexible LCD
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The flexible screens rely on a low-temperature manufacturing process for transistors, developed by Samsung, that does not melt or distort the plastic substrate.
Several different technologies are vying to become a standard for the flexible and low-energy screens that will be found in a range of consumer devices. Philips and start-up E Ink are promoting a display in which black-and-white microcapsules embedded in a screen flip to create words. Unlike an LCD, E Ink's displays do not require a backlight and are therefore more energy-efficient. Sony has adopted the screens for an electronic book.
Other companies, meanwhile, tout organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which also consume less energy than LCDs.
Samsung is pouring money into OLEDs and has included the technology in some of its cell phones and in prototype TVs. OLED, though, remains a relatively new technology, and questions about brightness, durability and functionality remain.
By contrast, the properties of LCDs are well-known.
The flexible LCD panel was developed under a three-year program funded by Samsung and the Korean Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.
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felt a need to bend the screen...
projecting movies, slideshows, etc. Now imagine this technology
where that screen is actual screen and not something that's
projected onto. A large screen like this could be rolled up out of
the way, out of sight until it's needed. All of the circuitry could be
contained within the compartment that the screen comes out of.
(Too bad we're stuck with Bozos like Gore who laud that they helped to create the internet.)
On a more serious note, its the intelligent funding of research that has credible commercial applications that will drive our economies.
To the point of the other poster. No, you wouldn't "flex" an old TV, but you may want to have a video device that you could roll up in to a scroll.
Imagine a GPS Map that you could pull out of your pack and unscroll it which will show you your current position ..... you get the idea. Or a smaller screen for portable video phones ...
I'm sure that there's a real potential for some DARPA funds for that project ...
But for me, it's interesting because I'm a hiker. If it could, say, mix the qualities of GPS and Google Earth, and provide myself with a transparent, bendable screen that I could carry in my backpack, and unfurl and frame against real landscape to get my bearings... yes, that would be excellent. *rubbing hands together*
Nicely done, Samsung.
With a roll up screen you could realistically carry a screen that is in a 4 foot long tube with a self contained set of "feet" for to have it stand up when it is unrolled. If it displays a true 1080p HDTV format then you have the equivalent of a 98 inch (diagonal) screen.
Thus in order to do a very nice presentation all you need to take is this monitor/screen rolled up and a laptop.
Quite true, this kind of resolution and size are several years off, but something of this nature IS coming eventually.
While eliminating the projector might not seem like much to many people, for those road warriors who are going to do presentations at sites without nice A/V setups this could be a gift from the gods.
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Electronics maker Vizio is making some noise ahead of the din of next week's 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show: The company has confirmed that it is entering the PC market, with two all-in-one desktops and three laptops that have a focus on delivering entertainment.
The two all-in-one desktops (computers with all components built into the monitor's case) will come with either a 24- or 27-inch screen. One laptop will have a 15.6- inch screen, and two ultra-thin versions come with either a 15.6-inch or 14- inch screen. (We expect this type of laptop, referred to by many as ultrabooks based on a spec from Intel, will be a major trend at this year's show.) All the new Vizio machines will deliver audio and video to the company's TVs and speakers.
Vizio CTO Matt McRae told Bloomberg that the computers will go on sale by June at a “a price that just doesn’t seem possible.” We're sure he means prices will be very low.
The company made a similar stir at last year's CES, when it introduced its first cell phone and tablet.
Vizio 27” All-in-One PC
CES: Vizio Aims Low-Price Wrecking Ball at PCs [Bloomberg]
—Carol Mangis
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The first week of August saw a huge transformation on site… from torn earth to a neatly prepared excavation. The full footprint of the hut was opened up, and excavated materials were stored around the perimeter. All the large rocks were separated into piles. Many are only movable by machine. They will be used creatively for retaining. The sandy till was stockpiled, ready for backfill. The organic topsoil was carefully set aside and tarped. It will be used to top-dress the area at the end.
The piles of rocks on the uphill side of the site are regularly explored by the local marmots.
Photo by Reid Madiuk
A 1000lb tamper was flown into the site. Trevor MacDonald employed it over the entire excavated footprint, leaving a clean compacted surface.
Reid Madiuk photo
Our architect, Don Stuart, visited the site on Aug 2 to better understand the revised positioning of the hut. Rotating the hut slightly southwards avoided most of the bedrock, but some still protrudes into the hut basement. It may be drilled and split.
Photo by Don Stuart
Matt Allard and Owen Perley from Bennett Land Surveying visited the site to layout the new position of the hut and then formwork began in earnest. The team accomplished a lot in just a few days. Then Ivan Chu, our geotechnical engineer from JECTH Consultants, arrived to do a sub-grade inspection. He gave final recommendations to Robert Malczyk and Shawn Kennedy, our structural engineers at Equilibrium Consulting.
Photo by Reid Madiuk
So what’s next? The forms will be finished this week and the first concrete pour for the footings will happen on August 16. It should be an amazing day with two helicopters flying in rotation! Afterwards, the surveyors will return to layout the walls on the footings. Then it’s on to forming the walls, using large Styrofoam blocks, called insulated concrete forms (ICF).
We still need lots of volunteers to help on site, preferably with experience in carpentry, placing rebar, pouring concrete, waterproofing walls, laying drainage. General labourers and carpenter’s helpers are very welcome too. If you have a few days available, consider coming up. See the volunteer schedule and sign-up.
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Prestigious luxury brands of fashion world have used their style and creativity to go into the field of habitat, this is the case with Fendi Casa and Kenzo Maison presenting their new proposals in the next edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, to be held from 17 to 22 April 2012.
Fendi Casa exhibited Galileo, a table with a special structure in stainless steel crafted into ring underneath. Like a sculpture, this structure stands out beneath the precious ebony top.
Modern comfort and style for the sofa Premiere, with a charming design, available in different versions and in corner modules. The sofa’s seats are deep and highly comfortable, engulfed by a massive armrest that highlights the design, master fully manufactured to produce a pattern of stitches and “ fugues” that enrich al l the profiles. The pillows on the backrest are soft, foldable and fastened by leather laces and saddle stitches. Chromed base profiles.
For the outdoor, Fendi Casa is proposing the sofa Lara. The structure is enveloping, the seat soft and comfortable. The armrest is rounded, embellished by a profile in shiny steel. This line is perfectly suited for classic or contemporary settings.
Likewise, also for outdoor, Fendi Casa presented Capri. A formal style for this line designed exclusively with absolute aesthetic rigour, the line is perfectly suited for modern houses and high-end applications, uniting the warmth of teak with the modernity of steel . On display are principally the geometric shapes of the structure made up of squares and lines.
The French brand Kenzo, which decided several years ago to associate its own style and name to the world of Design has chosen to illustrate its new collection in a framework where furniture and accessories acquire centrality, becoming absolute protagonists.
KENZO Maison takes its hints and inspirations from various cultures both for the shapes and materials, putting together suggestions and approaches from the most varied origins.
Club House Italia is the company that manufactures and distributes the Fendi Casa and Kenzo Maison products under license.
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The Orton-Gillingham approach is a unique language training system that was designed by Dr. Samuel Orton and Anna Gillingham. Dr. Orton, a neuropsychiatrist and pathologist, was a pioneer in focusing attention on reading failure and related language processing difficulties.).
The visual pathway is the most important pathway involved with the acquisition of written language skills; however, when discussing visual processing ability, the actual process of seeing is not the issue. Acquisition of a visual image in the “mind’s eye” is believed to be determined by the level of functioning of the angular gyrus, an area in the left hemisphere, the hemisphere that serves as the language center of the human brain for ninety percent of the human population. The angular gyrus sits on the junction of the temporal lobe
Figure 1. The Angular Gyrus
and the parietal lobe. It is located directly behind Wernicke’s area, the language center of the brain that is responsible for processing sound into understandable words. The level of functioning of the angular gyrus directly impacts the recognition and recall of words. Those students who have a high level of angular gyrus activity have good visual memory. Those who have low levels of angular gyrus activity struggle with reading, spelling, and composition. These students have poor visual imagery and pronounced word recognition difficulty. Those toward the lower end of the spectrum, approximately fifteen to twenty percent of the world’s population, can be described as dyslexic with a specific visual processing difficulty.
Visual imagery and word recognition ability have no direct correlation to a student’s intelligence. Cultural icons such as Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein had visual imagery and word recognition skills toward the lowest end of the spectrum. In fact, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein were both dyslexics.
As visual processing ability referred to word recognition and recall of words after the image has been received by the eyes, auditory processing ability refers to what happens to impulses of sound in the brain after the ears have received them. You will recall that sound is processed into understandable words in an area of the temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere called Wernicke’s area. The level of functioning of Wernicke’s area directly impacts the auditory recognition and recall of words. Those students who have a high level of activity in Wernicke’s area have good auditory processing ability. Those who have low levels of activity in this region struggle with the verbal skills associated with spoken words and ideas. These students have difficulty remembering what was said (following oral directions), are highly susceptible to distracting noises, and find it extremely difficult to master foreign languages. As with visual imagery and word recognition and recall, auditory processing ability is independent of intelligence. Further, longitudinal research demonstrates that six out of ten people with visual processing difficulties also have auditory processing deficits.
Figure 2. Wernicke’s area
Tactile-kinesthetic ability refers to motor movements, and there are two classes: tactile or fine motor (speech production, handwriting, typing) and kinesthetic or gross motor (running, athletics). Motor memory is a very powerful tool. Physical activities such as riding a bicycle remain in active memory, once the skill has been acquired, despite the time lapse that occurs between rides. Therefore, the movements of the hand while writing and of the speech organs and vocal tract during phoneme or word production provide a crucial pathway of the learning process. The area of the language brain that controls the vocal tract is called Broca’s Area.
Broca’s area is located on the inferior frontal gyrus in the frontal lobe. It is the speech center of the language brain as it directs the muscles of the jaw, tongue, and throat to form the sounds that make up words.
Figure 3. Broca’s Area
The Orton-Gillingham approach incorporates all three neurological pathways (visual, auditory, and tactile-kinesthetic) in the remediation of language skills or in primary language instruction. While many linguists believe that children are born already equipped with an innate blueprint or template for spoken language, written language is a human construct. In the evolution of writing, we have designated symbols to represent the sounds of spoken language. We have, in essence, created our own code. In order for students to properly master the components of our language, breaking the code proves to be a monumental yet crucial task. Few students naturally make the association between letters and sounds. These associations have to be carefully taught and drilled until automaticity is developed as students move from symbol to sound and sound to symbol.
Dr. Walter E. Dunson, Jr. is the founder and executive director of The English Code Language Training System, an educational services company that provides language remediation and other services to dyslexics and other students with language acquisition difficulties. As an educational consultant,.
Dr. Dunson can be reached at his website
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Costume Designers Guild Award Winners: Anna Karenina, Downton Abbey, and More!Feb 20, 2013 @ 1:15 pm‘s Jacqueline Durran said while accepting the award for Excellence in Period Film. Click through to see close-up shots of all the winning designs, plus details from the designers and their casts on what makes each look so special.
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The Obama Record: The president's defense strategy creates a hollow force and worsens our readiness crisis. Big cuts mean weakening the military's ability to fulfill its constitutional duty to provide for the common defense..
Those are many examples of how Barack Obama has exhibited a hostility to military preparedness even greater than that of Jimmy Carter, who left successor Ronald Reagan with a legacy of ships that couldn't sail and planes the couldn't fly for lack of parts and crew. ...
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Las Vegas Insider
Everyone loves a bit of trivia so if you want to appear like a Las Vegas insider, here are some quirky factoids you should know.
Bed Head
It would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas has a “black book,” a list of people who are banned from setting foot in any casino in the city.
Never Refuse to Reuse
Water structures in Las Vegas, like fountains and man-made lakes, use something called grey-water, which is recycled water from sinks, bathtubs and showers.
A Head Above The Rest
The Luxor Las Vegas’ Sphinx, a re-creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza, is 101 feet high and larger than the original.
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The shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is over 60,000 pounds per day, higher than the rest of the nation combined.
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US think-tank: islands affected by global warming should wait for trickle-down moneyJeremy Hance
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Poor island nations threatened by rising seas should wait for money through trickle-down economics, according to the founder of the US-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. The free-market think tank believes that curbing greenhouse gas emissionss to combat climate change will be too costly to the US and global economies.
"If the focus in this century is on wealth creation, then the islands will be much better prepared for the risks if they materialize," Fred Smith, founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the AP.
Low-lying islands nations say they are already feeling the effects of rising sea levels that have been going up approximately 3 mm every year since 1993. Estimates range widely for sea level rise by the end of the century, but recent studies predict somewhere between 0.18 and 2 meters. Some island nations are looking at purchasing land abroad to move if their home is submerged.
Mohamed Nasheed, the President of Maldives, the lowest lying islands in the world, has stated that complacency at the Conference on Climate Change inCopenhagen would mean a "global suicide pact". Recently Nasheed held a cabinet meeting at the bottom of the sea to bring world attention to the plight facing island nations. If sea levels rise by one meter, the Maldives will be underwater.
Currently the Copenhagen conference is discussing a fund to help developing nations adapt to climate change impacts such as rising seas, drought, melting glaciers, and extreme weather.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute made other news this week by threatening to sue the Obama Administration over Monday's ruling by the EPA that labeled carbon an endangerment. The ruling gives the EPA regulatory power over emissions. Lisa Jackson, the head of the EPA, received a standing ovation at the Copenhagen conference today for the ruling.
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During the commissioning of the Single Gyro Mode, scientific observations
will be performed to demonstrate the performance of the mode. The X-ray
sources have been chosen from those remaining to be observed from the approved
observation list, and so after verification analysis in the Science Data
Center (SDC) we are expecting to distribute their data to the relevant
principle investigators.
We confirm that the single gyro software should be ready by the mid
of July and the gyroless version at the beginning of October. As expected,
the simulations of these modes demonstrate that the characteristics of
the mission will remain very similar to those up to now.
For the period prior to the arrival of the single gyro mode we are working
on a plan of scientific activity which foresees at least the following:
1 ) Gamma Ray Burst monitoring with the monitor (GRBM) in the phoswich
detector system.
2 ) Operation of the wide field cameras (WFC) at least in the part
of the orbit in sunlight where there is no danger that they could point
towards the Sun or at Sco X-1 while observing.
With this plan we should at least be able to obtain the X-ray spectra
of coincident bursts (seen simultaneously by the GRBM and WFC). If there
are very strong known X-Ray sources in the WFC field of view the direction
of the burst may be calculable. Also known x-ray source monitoring may
be possible.
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The Details
For Users
- Plasma Desktop Widgets
- GNOME Applications
- E17
KWin brings openGL in most virtual machines and per-monitor support for color management. Also introduced are better printer management with a new and smarter printer wizard and a reworked update manager Apper (0.8) which shows and describes untrusted packages and automatically downloads packages in preparation for review. See this great introduction to Plasma Desktop on openSUSE 12.3.
GNOME 3.6 includes smarter notifications including a redesigned Message Tray, the activities overview and the Nautilus file manager received an improved layout and a new Lock Screen which provides an attractive view when the device is locked, plus handy functionality like media controls. See the great GNOME3 in 30 seconds videos on youtube.
Other desktop improvements include an updated XFCE which brings a tabbed Thunar file manager with improved bookmark handling and extensive performance improvements and a quake-style drop-down mode in xfce4-terminal (0.6.0) which keeps a running terminal around that can be quickly accessed through a keyboard shortcut. New in openSUSE 12.3 is awesome, a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast and extensible and primarily targeted at power users and developers. Enlightenment 17, also known simply as E, is a stacking window manager for the X Window System which can be used alone or in conjunction with a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE.
For Admins
- Testing a self build OS in Studio
- PostgreSQL
- GNOME Boxes
Virtualbox 4.2 brings support for limiting network IO bandwidth, improved 3D performance and better network device support. The KVM and Qemu updates to 1.3.0 vastly improved the USB stack with mass storage device and USB3 support as well as MSI/MSI-X support for the XHCI controller..
12.3 moves from MySQL to MariaDB as default. MariaDB was first shipped with 11.3 back in 2010 and over the years proved itself. Native JSON support was added to PostgresSQL (9.2), it provides an efficient mechanism for creating and storing documents for web APIs. Range Types allow developers to create better calendaring, scientific, and financial applications.
12.3 is the first release of openSUSE to feature complete packages for OpenStack, the leading open source cloud computing platform. We now ship all the tools needed to setup and communicate with a cloud on your system or via an API remotely. On top of that, packages for Grizzly (next release of OpenStack due in April) are already being worked on and will be available for 12.3.
For Developers
- Anjuta
- QtCreator in action
- KDevelop
Anjuta (3.6) with git integration improvements. QtCreator (2.6) with ‘Kits’ offering settings for which device type to develop for. KDevelop (4.4) introduces a new welcome screen which helps you to get started with a project in an intuitive way. New in 12.3 is the Fossil Distributed Version Control System, which offers a number of unique features like distributed wiki, bugzilla and blog functionality; autosync mode to reduce pointless forking and merging; and a build-in web interface.
Mono 3 supports the new async C# 5.0. Though Python 2.7.3 remains the default, Python 3.3.0 is now available, bringing a wide range of changes. Python-qt4 supports Qt 5 now. The KDE Development Platform introduces a more comprehensive SDK for Plasma and GTK 3.6 add support for cross-fading and transitions, CSS animations and blur shadows.
KIWI (5.04.37) with support for creation of images for arm based boards, for the apt-get/dpkg package manager and btrfs seed live ISO images. The Open Build Service command line client OSC now supports creating and releasing maintenance updates for openSUSE.
Under the hood
- Booting Linux 3.7
- LibreOffice in action
- YaST configuring your system
Kernel
Linux 3.7 offers a wide range of improvements, varying from bugfixes to performance enhancements and the usual steady stream of new hardware support. A few highlights:
- Raid 10 support for the device mapper
- Aggressive SATA device sleep for SSD and HD power saving and (opportunistic) suspend in the kernel and system tools.
- btrfs snapshot diffs, disable copy-on-write on a per-file base and snapper 0.1.1 for snaspshots by users and LVM thin-provisioned snapshots
- Performance profiling with perf trace
- Higher TCP performance (Fast Open/Early Retransmit/Small Queues) and more resistance to the dreaded ‘buffer bloat’
- SMBv2 protocol support as well as stable NFS 4.1
- Improved security with support for signed kernel modules, stronger sandboxing for sshd and more
- faster and more stable Nouveau NVidia driver, supporting newer hardware
System Tools
- support for Bluetooth audio sources and virtual surround sound in PulseAudio 3
- Rewritten zypp PackageKit backend for improved integration with the cross-distro PackageKit and the graphical apper software update and installation tool
- This release also brings proper UEFI support for x86_64 hardware and experimental support for Secure Boot enabled hardware. Read this blog for more information and find out how to use it in the wiki.
The KDE and GNOME live images are now designed to be written to, booted and installed from a USB disk rather than a CD; consequently, they are now about a GB large each. They are now also more feature rich and include:
- the entire LibreOffice 3.6 stack
- GIMP!
- the openJDK java environment
- delectable set of system recovery and backup tools, including:
- gparted, the user friendly and powerful disk partition manager
- grsync, a GUI for rsync and a very useful backup tool
- GNU dd_rescue and photorec, data recovery tools
12.3 now ships an XFCE based Live CD designed to provide a lightweight and effective environment and powerful applications for recovering lost data, backing up existing data, editing disk partitions and accessing the help channels of openSUSE. Among others, it provides the following applications:
- gparted and YaST’s disk partition manager for creating and modifying partitions
- Subset of YaST modules to help with system recovery: bootloader manager, network device management
- GNU dd_rescue and photorec for recovering lost or corrupt data
- grsync, an rsync GUI, useful for backups
- lftp: a feature rich ftp client
- a lightweight web-browser (Midori), Xchat for irc chat, and a pdf reader to read pdf manuals
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„6 months of open collaboration by our international Free Software community has once again resulted in a awesome product. It is great to see openSUSE again bring a stable but not outdated product to its users.”
– said Michael Miller, VP of SUSE
Support and life cycle
As usual, this release will continue to receive bugfixes and security updates for at least 2 release cycles + 2 months. Currently, openSUSE 13.1 is scheduled in about eight months.
For an even more detailed feature guide visit opensuse.org/12.3.
Go, get it!
Downloads of openSUSE 12.3 can be found at software.opensuse.org/123
Users currently running openSUSE 12.2 can upgrade to openSUSE 12.3 via the instructions at this link. Users who have a properly set-up Tumbleweed setup will automatically migrate to the new release without any additional effort!
Check out ARM images at the ARM wiki. Experimental ARM64 images are already available, stable 12.3 based images are there and will receive full maintenance alongside 12.3.
Thanks!
12.3 hope that 12.3 is the best openSUSE release yet, and that it will help to encourage the use of Linux everywhere! We hope that you all have a lot of fun while you’re using it,
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Hi, I’ve been using SuSE/openSUSE (in dual boot with Windows) since 2002. Until this 12.3 release the releases I’d liked best were the early 10.x, 11.x and 12.1. I’d had problems installing 12.2 in particular on a large partitioned RAID 5 drive shared with Windows and lots of problems with WiFi making 12.2 virually unusable. I kind of pinned my openSUSE hopes on 12.3…
And, wow, I installed 12.3 last night and you guys HAVE REALLY OUTDONE YOURSELVES! This release is slick, classy and smooth! No installation problems (granted I did just import my working mount points from 12.2) and the problems I’d been having with WiFi dropping off and having to be continually restarted appear to be resolved. Great, great work guys! Congrats on the new baby and THANK YOU!
Hello!
I hope it is just me, but I am afraid that dual booting with Windows lead to OpenSuSE WiFi conncection problems. Not from the first day, but in a week or 2 from the use of Windows..
At least this is what seems to happen to me, I had to start W a while a go and bang, no more WiFI in OpenSuSe… I reinstaled OpenSuse..all ok till I had to resart W again.. and again in a week or 2 no more Wifi… I reReinstaled OpenSuse…and now I am afraid to restart Win…
Does Anybody know anything about this?
Hi E17?
I haven’t experienced this with 12.3. I have had a few connectivity problems when trying to go through Network Manager so I stopped fiddling with that as my installation is on a desktop anyway; wifi in 12.3 using YasT2 has been rock soid so far in dual boot with Win7 (unlike my experience with 12.2). For what you describe to happen, Windows would have to be changing settings in your wifi hardware. Very strange. Sorry I can’t help more, but in any case this isn’t a support forum. It’s a slap on the back forum :)
When I put 12.2 on my laptop, the wifi worked. And then with use, slowly over a few weeks, the wifi became worse and worse, to the point now where it is totally worthless. I do not think that W is doing anything to it. I do not have W, but it does it to itself, all by itself.
12.3 live, I can not get network manager to work at all. Tried it on a working machine with 12.1 and in 12.3 live, it has no connectivity at all, and I mean wired connectivity. Tried it several times, no idea why.
I critized the 12.1 12.2 and maybe some other release for some really annoying Bugs. I used Suse sinde version 7.0 and since around the 9.x i felt a downwarding trend.
But i have to admit that 12.3 is a real fine piece of Software!
Finally i can use OpenSuse again ;)
I just wish that there’s a proper individual E17 release though, I mean c’mon I know that you guys love KDE that much but really?
I finished upgrading two major servers from 12.1 to 12.3 via zypper dup. The upgrade worked flawlessly. I had only some minor issues thereafter which I would like to share with you:
* Previously I has rsystem and syslog-ng installed (using the former one). With 12.3 I am unable to uninstall syslog-ng.
* Samba did not start the first time. I had to have all table files regenerated.
* vsftp required the options seccomp_sandbox=NO to work correctly.
* Tomcat is now version 7 rather than 6. I had to upgrade Jira for it to work with V7.
* Setting the run-level via yast2 does not work in all cases. I reverted to doing it manually.
* Emacs gives a strange warning message (Error retrieving accessibility bus address …) which does not impair its functionality.
* Apache2 did not start Perl support as the file mod_perl-startup.pl was missing (maybe this is due because of upgrading from 12.1). Uninstalling the apache packages and re-installing them solved the problem.
In addition I find it curious that 12.3 ships with 3.7 Kernel, wich is (according to) marked “End of Life”.
As a system administrator, I would love to have a longer life-span of the releases. Having to upgrade every 18 months is tedious (especially with all the testing that goes with it). Why not have the X.1 release supported until release X+1.1 comes out and have the releases X.2/3/4 supported until the next release, i.e. X.3/X.4/X+1.1 (plus 2 months).
Dear all! I would like to be able to install both Gnome and K.D.E desktop on my machine and then choose which desktop I want to use. This facility was there in SUSE professional 9.1, 9.3 10.1 etc. Since open SUSE 11.3(I have that at present) users are forced to choose the desktop, Gnome of K.D.E. Which is undesirable to me. Can this not be corrected.
Thanks and regards
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oops – 12.3 doesn’t play well with ACPI on certain systems (constant reboots during install phase, must disable ACPI in GRUB2 to get workstation to boot even after install has completed) nor does it care too much for nVidia 8400 GS hardware; stuck at 640×480. Proprietary nVidia driver freezes system when udev loads.
While 12.3 is fine on my AMD-based laptop – I am forced to fall back to 12.2 on my media center.
Долой windows, да здравствует openSUSE!
Никогда не думал, что это скажу, но это правла.
Ja toze tak dumal. Liubov prixodit i uxodit, a zrat xocetsa kazdyj den. :) Ja uze vot 10 let ebus bezplatno :)
My first installation of SUSE12.3 was OK, gnome, and xWindows were running flowlessly… when I tried to acces the BIOS, something happened to the system, and suddenly xwindows would not run any more.!!!!
I have tried to reinstall, but nothing…
I don’t know what happened to the systemmm!!!!
I am hating for having tried to access BIOS…!!!
Dear all! How to download md5checksum for open SUSE12.3 DVD ISO file from the download site so as to compare with the down loaded 12.3 DVD ISO file on my computer?
With regards to all
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Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format 743
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Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Interesting)
This is probably no different than older people who prefer the sound of a phonograph over modern high quality digital recorded mediums like the CD. Warmness of sound on phonographs may be the equivilent to the mp3 sizzle that he talks about. People are used to hearing music over lower quality mediums like FM radio, streaming internet connections and real player. Its good that he is doing this research though because its time dependent and you won't be able to do it later.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:4, Insightful)
that is an odd statement at best.
Most people like what they are used to and don't like what they aren't used to. Saying that can't tell what they like from what they are used to shows an in-depth lack of understanding of other individuals.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
He could have phrased it better: People don't know why they like what they like, particularly they can't tell if they like something because they're used to it or because it has other likable qualities.
This is an important realization for requirements engineering: Don't ask people what they want. To want is to have an anticipation of liking. As people can't tell if they like something because they're used to it, they will often tell you they want something but later don't like what they wanted because, since it's new, they're not familiar with it. So either you give them something familiar with small tweaks or you have to use another way to find what people "really" want.
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Kinda like food...if you grow up eating spam or fast food all your life, a fine meal at a high end restaurant might now be what you think is any good.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
No it doesn't make any sense.
Why would people prefer the distorted sound produced my MP3-128??? As I just said - it's distorted. I grew-up listening to AM and FM, but I certainly don't prefer either - too noisy. I prefer the uncompressed FLAC or CD because it's as close to live as one can get.
I can only conclude the college students are nuts to prefer the "buzz" of digital artifacts. I can tolerate digital artifacts, but I definitely do Not like them. Screw MP3-128 and give me MP3-320 or a CD, since both are superior.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Interesting)
MP3-320 may be better than MP3-128, but it's generally overkill. Most people's impression of the quality of 128kbps MP3s comes from the era where most MP3s weren't encoded with VBR. VBR makes a massive difference in quality per unit size. I've seen three or four blind comparisons between VBR mp3s at different bitrates, as well as conducted one of my own. The results, in general, are that about half of people can tell the difference between 128kbps and 160kbps or 192kbps, and beyond that, there's generally little to no ability to accurately tell the difference, even among self-described audiophiles.
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I find that VBR often makes dumb decisions - namely not providing enough bits to certain "difficult" passages so I can hear artifacts. I'd rather just use CBR at the maximum 320, since storage media is now dirt cheap, and we're no longer limited to squeezing everything on a tiny 1 gig drive.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
MP3-320 may be better than MP3-128, but it's generally overkill. Most people's impression of the quality of 128kbps MP3s comes from the era where most MP3s weren't encoded with VBR.
I don't think that even fixed bitrate 128 mbps is inherently quite as bad as people used to claim. I understand where it got this reputation, because I've listened to downloaded 128 mbps MP3s (*) which are quite clearly compressed with artifacting, etc. and demonstrate why some people used it as the benchmark for convenience-over-quality music.
Yet I encoded stuff for myself at 128mbps fixed-rate around the same time, and it sounds miles better. It's still not hifi, but the difference in quality is noticable.
Why? Good question. It's possible that the crappy downloaded MP3s had been re-encoded, but it's more likely that they were simply done using a low-quality encoder. I used notlame, which was supposedly one of the better ones. IIRC a few years back, the quality of encoders *did* vary quite a bit. Nowadays I'm guessing that the ones in use are much better and much closer in performance- not to mention that higher bitrates and use of VBR make any differences less obvious.
Back to the point; you won't get hifi at 128mbps, but neither should you damn it completely by the quality of a mislabelled MP3 you downloaded from Napster in 1999.
(*) Downloaded via, erm... "non-favoured" channels circa 2001 when most people still used fixed-rate 128mbps.
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That's quite true. The simplest mp3 encoder implementation -- a route taken by many -- was just to throw away the weakest DCT signals. But there are two big improvements you can do on that: 1) throw away the weakest DCT signals weighted by average human sensitivity, and to combine remaining signals that are close together. There's no use keeping a spike at 2031Hz and 2032Hz; nobody's going to be able to tell the difference, so you might as well just combine them.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why would people prefer the distorted sound produced my MP3-128??? As I just said - it's distorted.
The same reason people prefer the "colorized" (ie distorted) sound of a tube amp, or the "compressed and limited" audio of a radio announcer.
"Sounding good" has nothing to do with the faithful reproduction of the source material. It is a perception.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Interesting)
The comparison only seems fair. Vacuum tubes distort sound in a way that can be easily understood as favorable - harsh frequencies are softened, etc. The idea that the sound has been "improved" by tube distortion can be perceived, but also explained in technical terms.
I have a hard time understanding how MP3 distortion can be seen as favorable. With MP3 compression, the "distortion" is artifacts and interference. The flabby, washy, sizzle effect. Yuck. I find it to be especially *bad* on extreme high frequencies like cymbal crashes and horns.
I have noticed that MP3 (file) compression can sometimes have a similar effect to dynamic range compression, which recording studios over-use to make all of the levels as loud as possible. The desired effect is that the song is louder coming over the radio, but trained ears also notice that there is no variation in the dynamic range. Trained or not, ears get fatigued listening to music that is over-compressed (dynamic compression, not file compression).
I think it could certainly be possible that students simply perceive the MP3 song as louder.
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Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
It doesn't hurt that the SM57 can be had for under $100 and is nearly indestructible. There is no fragile cage over the element (that's what the SM58 is for), and though the reproduction is colored, it is generally adequate onstage. They also Just Work, every time. I have personally switched to using a Sennheiser MD-421U for these jobs, but they cost at least three times as much and aren't nearly as bulletproof (mostly because of the stupid clip design).
Don't rule out plain old cheapness and ubiquity when it comes to gear choices.
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Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Interesting)
I grew up through the phonograph era to CDs and now various digital formats.
Remember any of the phonograph expiriments in the 70s? Piling on pennies until the stylus pressure was the better part of a quarter-pound, and skilled listeners unable to hear the difference? The Bose demonstrations pointing out the human ear's sensitivity to distortion that varies with frequency? Actually, AT&T might have more information on this, since they wanted to send only what was needed to be intelligible. But I digress.
I always preferred the 'West Coast' sound, even on LPs. The JBL L100 speakers delivered this sound the best, IMHO, and the more accurate the amp the better. Headroom was my god. But I sacrificed the tube amps for solid-state very early. Warm response = less high-end. While I transcribed LPs onto reel-to-reel, I used Revox decks and usually ran them at 15ips, spewing tape but I saved my LPs. It wasn't about money. I was into heavy metal before it was called that. I also developed a taste for Mahler, but that's another story. And I was a bass freak, not to the exclusion of high frequency response. Tape hiss destroyed it, no matter what flavor or Dolby processing or companding I tried. I wanted it all, defined as everything but mids....
CDs were welcomed by me, first 'cause they didn't wear like LPs, and of course the s/n won me over. No more tapes! I loved the wide response, the cleaner highs, the impossible lows. Platter rumble limits your bass response. At this point I was listening to stuff through 30" EV drivers and eithber Phase Linear or Crown amps, 3-5KW of them(This suited disco). Some of the stuff I fell in love with would be in the 12-18Hz range, impossible with phonographs unless I built a room just for that purpose. I bought CDs instead. Of course, portability won me over too, though there was one big problem with portable CD players - the headphones were generally terrible. My Koss Pro-4AAs fit the bill. And I would never hear that car coming. Instant death, oblivious to all but the music. I survived, of course.
But the headphones I migrated to were all pitiful. Not sealing the ear canal meant no bass response - can't get much out of a
.7" open air driver. Think the free air resonance must have been around 300Hz. So CD players were half a loaf.
MP3s offered the future or massive amounts of music in packages even more resilient than portable CD players. Nice! Of course, most of them I first heard on my computer, and the speakers on that were weak, so I upgraded as much as I dared, then plugged it into the stereo. Ick! Tinny, sibilant, bass like mud. I was distraught. this was not an advance.
I learned, of course, about bitrates, and now I listen to nothing below 256kb/s, and usually 320kb/s. I use a lot more space, but it is worth it to me. A while ago I had a revelation - 128kb/s sounded like FM radio, which is usually not that good after the station gets finished limiting/shaping/twisting the audio for their own purposes. I realized shortly thereafter that FM radio is mostly driven by computerized stations now. They use MP3s. FM radio *is* 128kb/s. Sadly, it is ruined, probably forever.
So kids today prefer the sizzle of 128K MP3s? I'm learning to turn down those classic albums I remember, and hear all sorts of amazing stuff going on that would be lost in the din ordinarily. My apologies to all those artists whose work I so diminished for so long.
Of course, popular music today for teens is so electronic that encoding a higher bitrate wouldn't make the same difference as it would for say Mahler, or Glass, or even Pink Floyd. Drum machines aren't the same as animal hides. I doubt I could hear enough difference myself. Kids' ears already ruined by in-ear drivers and iPods with enough power to deafen you (thanks, Steve) are probably already hearing-impaired at 16, if not earlier.
I modify my music a lot, but not having the sound to modify is the real crime of 128kb/s MP3s. It's why I prefer
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Informative)
I am continually fascinated by the number of "pedals" and "effects" that electronic guitar players apply to the output of their instrument. Why would people prefer that distorted sound?
There are different levels of distortion. There are different kinds. The ability to detect distortion is a skill, in many cases, and in many cases 'distortion' is part of the desired sound. (Why do trombone players stuff a cone in the bell of their instrument, it's DISTORTION!?)
I prefer the uncompressed FLAC or CD because it's as close to live as one can get.
When I first read that, I assumed you meant the "made smaller" meaning of compressed, since you were talking about MP3's and a major factor in MP3 production is the "make smaller" compression. I was going to point out that very few CDs come without the "remove level excursions" kind of compression, and that this compression is hardly as close to live as you can get.
Even so, many CDs don't come out without multi-track mastering and postprocessing to include reverb and flanging and all kinds of other "effects" being added to the sound. None of those effects are what you would hear live, and some of them are digital attempts at making a studio recording sound more like live.
I can only conclude the college students are nuts to prefer the "buzz" of digital artifacts. I can tolerate digital artifacts, but I definitely do Not like them.
Many people don't hear them (either because they aren't trained to hear them or are using less-than-gold equipment like ear-buds). They don't spend hours listening to live music in sonically pure environments so they could learn what a pure sound is. (Hearing a guitar amplified to 120dB is NOT hearing a pure sound, it's hearing your eardrums, and every loose object in the room, rattle.) What they hear on the MP3 is what they learn to expect, and if the sound is "odd" then it's a distraction.
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"I am continually fascinated by the number of "pedals" and "effects" that electronic guitar players apply to the output of their instrument. Why would people prefer that distorted sound?"
Just so we're clear here, those pedals and effects create a new sound. It isn't distorted in the way you seem to mean it. Yes, it distorts the 'original' string sound, but since it's an electric guitar, the pickups already 'distorted' that. 'Rendered' is a better concept.
And the pedals and effects render a new, intention
Think "simplified" not "distorted". (Score:3, Interesting)
I can hear the difference in several songs between compressed digitized formats and the CD I have of them at home. Some I like better, others not so much. (Although in my case, it's ogg, not mp3).
For example, The Cars' "Just What I Needed" sounds "cleaner", and I hear musical details in the right-hand guitar track I'd missed before, probably because the fuzz in the electric guitar tracks is simplified, and the stereo separation of the two guitar tracks is exaggerated. So it's probably a less accurate
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Not just that they prefer Coke, but that it actually tastes better. Clearly the taste doesn't change, but how people perceive taste is dependent on other factors than the actual taste.
Even more interesting: Play people the "bottle opening, followed by fizzing of soda" sound that's used in the Coke ads, and a lot of people will insist the soda tastes better - e
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Interesting)
I find his works rather interesting. I used to do a classical show on a college radio station, and we'd always play something at the end that bent people's minds a little. Quite often, it was a Glass number. The idea was that if people didn't experience different styles of... I guess I'd call it neoclassical music... then they would never grow to appreciate it.
That said, young people's preference for hyped, brittle highs is a bit like most Chinese-manufactured condenser microphones (for precisely the same reason). When you first get one, you love the bright, crisp highs because it is new and sounds exciting, edgy, etc. Then, once you've experienced good-sounding hardware, you fairly quickly realize just how harsh and abrasive that sizzling sound is by comparison and run away screaming. I would say that any kid who likes that sound hasn't been to enough concerts in the real world---probably because they're sold out to the stupid scalpers before they get a chance to buy tickets. Real concerts don't sound like that.
Which brings up my thoughts for solving the scalping problem. Require that all tickets be in the name of a particular person. Print it on the ticket. In order to change it, you have to go to the box office and show a copy of the receipt from an authorized reseller or from the box office. Otherwise, when the name on the ticket doesn't match your photo ID, you don't get in. Scalpers at that point would be unable to buy up large blocks of tickets and resell them at astronomical prices because the tickets would be worthless without the person being able to show a sales receipt from the box office or an authorized reseller. But I digress.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Funny)
As for scalpers, the simple fact is that prices are too low. If you have people willing to pay often ten times the face value of a ticket, why in the name of god are you selling them so cheaply? Sell them at what the market considers a fair price and the scalpers will be out of business.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Funny)
>>>close your ears when assorted fellaters of Beelzebub pollute the airways, lest you get used to their massproduced, RIAA-pocket-lining crap.
Agreed.
Ever since 1750, music has been going downhill. People like Mozart claim to be "making music for the masses" but I just call it noise. Now Bach - there was a man who could compose REAL music, with multiple levels of chords overlapping, it was truly music for the nobility. Anything else is just simplistic twaddle for the uneducated commoners. Bah. Humbug.
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I think that it really just points more to the fact that most people can't tell the difference between what they like and what they are used to.
Wait, that makes no sense. If somebody voices a preference for the "sizzle" of mp3, then isn't precisely because they like it?
Or is there an objective preference function somewhere deep in each of our souls that we need to learn to access?
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Funny)
What Dishevel is trying to say is that you plebs have no right to have an opinion about music unless you hear it, from uncompressed studio masters in 188kHz form, on his $45k audio equipment with gold wires, sound-dampened walls, perfectly tuned speakers, and cleanroom-like air filtering so that the very DUST ITSELF cannot disrupt the purity of the music (make sure to wear your protective suit as you walk into the studio!). Only then will you truly know what you "like", only if you agree with Dishevel.
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oh, wait.
No, no, I've got it. I listen to it in a room full of pure helium, so that everything sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Funny)
Gold is only good if the component will be unplugged and plugged back in a lot, or will spend a lot of time sitting around.
As opposed to components that spend a lot of time jogging.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Interesting)
That's funny...I'm an audio engineer and I have been using both the WAV and MP3 formats for the past ten years. I used to listen to CDs but for the past 8 or so years I have been using Winamp to play MP3 and more recently the iPod.
Nowadays, when I finish a track, the wav doesn't sound right until I encode it to mp3. The mp3 sounds better to me. It's not due to a lack of knowledge of the distinctions between the two...I'm familiar with all the boring technical differences...it's due to ear training. You consistently hear your reference material (other well recorded and or well written songs on an iPod or some other device) in the mp3 format, and so you end up coming to prefer the mp3 format.
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I'm not buying it. I too listen to a lot MP3-128s on my ipod, but I definitely prefer the uncompressed FLAC or CD sound. There are nuances to the music, especially in the high frequencies, that can not be heard on MP3-128 encodings. I prefer more sound, not less.
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Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's one possibility, another is that there's a huge incidence of hearing damage in young people. Mostly from playing music too loud or listening through ill fitting iPod earbuds. Or listening to music that's too loud and through ill fitting earbuds.
A couple years back I tried listening to some of my oldest MP3 files and they sounded terrible, at 128. These days I listen pretty much just using the typical Lame preset. I think that comes out at a bit rate of 192kbps variable and basically identical to the original for most purposes.
The other possibility is that people listen through crap equipment which really can't properly convey the encoding. I know when I moved up to my Shure e2c and Sennheiser HD 477 that suddenly higher compression rate files were unbearable to listen to. I'd guess with really good equipment like Grados that it would be even more pronounced.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Funny)
Also, get off my lawn.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
french press
... is acknowledged as infinitely better
... by those that prefer french press. Those that prefer Sanka clearly do no acknowledge french press as infinitely better.
Your argument is totally circular: You should prefer french press because if you prefer french press then you'll find that you prefer french press.
(not to mention the hints of elitism).
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Fuck that, any european barista knows their shit way better than any of us non euros could wish for. Turkish coffee is easily the worlds best though, preferably right next to Cuban cigars.
Actually, Cuban cigars are crap now. Lack of proper farming techniques have rendered their crops crap. The only reason they still sell is on reputation alone. Dominican cigars are now top of the line, fwiw.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Wine and cigar aficionados have certain standards they use, but it is only within that circle they are true standards. Outside that circle they are irrelevant. Saying one has to be 'educated' to appreciate it is also elitist. I smoke plenty of cigars, and use the ratings as a guide to try new things, not as 'oh
I love high-end tequila and bourbon, but that doesn't stop me from having a shot of Sauza or Wild Turkey sometime. There is something about their bite that I love. Given the choice between Red Breast or Wild Turkey it would be unlikely for me to choose Wild Turkey. But that doesn't mean it doesn't taste good to me.
What I have found is people assign 'fine' standards to items that are expensive, rare, or seem to be liked by a few people. Lobster used to be used as fertilizer because it was deemed 'trash food' and apprentice contracts were written that forbid having to eat it more than a few times a week. Now it's a 'delicacy' to some. As someone who lived in Maine for 20 years, I think it tastes like crap except in a lobster roll with plenty of mayo.
I can enjoy an Oscar Mayer bologna sandwich on white bread with store brand yellow mustard as well as I can a fine steak served with a blue cheese butter. Neither taste is better than the other, they are tastes and I am perfectly capable of finding something good in both of them.
Maybe those that don't like the bologna sandwich just don't have as refined a palate as I do to appreciate the subtle flavors and textures.
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Plus there is not enough information.
An mp3 on a crappy set of iPod earbuds for from a car stereo sounds far better than the same audio source played over a high end amp and high end speakers in a listening room.
it's amazing how a real set of speakers will bring out the "omg that is crap" even in a 192K encoded mp3 file.
Whereas a HD audio recording that is a full 24 bits per channel recorded at 48Khz and a crazy high bitrate sounds no different than a crap mp3 in earbuds but sounds spooky clear in a decent
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:4, Interesting)
Gourmet or some such magazine had an article recently about bourbon. The article's main point is that bourbon quality is counter intuitive. The mass produced stuff is often better than the boutique stuff and the cheap brands compare well to the expensive ones. Their thought is that small batches just can't replicate some of the conditions of mass production that give it good flavor.
On a related note, I had a tequila expert/snob tell me to never ever ever use good tequila in a margarita. A waste of money.
As you said, it's a preference thing that shouldn't be justified by some metric such as price.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Interesting)
That explains the continued success of Coors and Busweiser.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Funny)
It's freedom press, you insensitive, unpatriotic, red clod!
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French press preparation is actually one of the least expensive and least time-consuming brewing methods. Compare the cost of a French press to a pump-driven espresso machine or even quality drip-coffee.
For French press, all you need is the plunger pot itself ($20-30), plus a good blade grinder (~$50). You can use a burr grinder to get somewhat more consistent results, but it's not really necessary at all, especially if your blade grinder has a timer.
Now for espresso, the absolute cheapest cost of entry i
Re:Taste is subjective, Sound waves aren't (Score:5, Insightful)
There is no accuracy in coffee that expensive coffee is closer to than Sanka is.
Who says 'accuracy' is a desirable quality of a musical recording?
Certainly not the musicians who "punched in" re-takes of passages where they were unhappy with their first performance, or the producer who demanded that the singer's performance be processed with autotune, or the engineers who applied reverb, compression, and EQ to each recorded part individually, made volume adjustments to everything during mixdown, and then applied more compression and EQ to the finished product, or the CD duplicator that took the 48kHz/24-bit master DAT and transcoded it down to a 44.1kHz,16-bit master...
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Good point. Actually, our perception that tone quality should be pure is mostly based on western music. In an ethnomusicology class I took, they noted that the African perception of sound quality is different because they put pieces of metal that rattle or clink together when they play, so the sound should have more of a gritty quality to it to sound "correct".
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Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:4, Insightful)
Personally, I have no idea what he's talking about in the first place. Unless it's an abysmally low-quality rip, MP3 sounds just like any other format. No sizzle, nothing.
Play that decent-quality song over a set of high end speakers, then play something in FLAC and you will hear the difference.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
For those that might notice the difference I bet you the marginal benefit of getting to the next level does not out weight the marginal cost so people don't care.
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I couldn't hear the difference for years listening on my computer speakers and earbuds.
Then I bought a decent $70 set of headphones (Grado Labs, in case anyone cares) to listen with at work and my whole mp3 collection sounds like crap.
At least the few CD's I own sound amazing, though
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I believe the value (benefit - cost) an average user would get out of replacing all their digital mp3s with a better format and getting the better speakers will not be greater then the value of staying put because the cost will still be greater then the benefit.
The exception to my rule of course will be the people who do care about the be
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Low quality mp3s sound more like you're listening to music with cotton in your ears.
That is the case for music which has been decimated with a low-pass filter (i.e. the high frequencies are not "passed" through). But there are other artifacts like pre-echo (before a sharp attack like from a cymbal or castanet there is kind of a echo or "smear" added to to the music).
If you dare, check out this page in order to train your ears to be more sensitive to lossy compression artifacts: [ff123.net]
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah.. there's nothing more fun than taking something enjoyable and pointing out all the flaws until you can't stand it anymore. Hey, if you're not busy later, maybe you could come over and criticize my wife too.
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The preference was for a 128Kbps MP3 rip, which is abysmally low quality and sizzles like bacon.
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I used to think that. Then someone gave me a £70 sound card, and I bought spent £300 on an external amplifier and a couple of decent speakers.
Switching between the on-board sound and the decent sound card makes a massive difference, the on-board sound is really flat.
I can tell the difference between a normal (128, 192) MP3 and FLAC. It's even more noticable to compare FLAC with something from YouTube.
People don't all care as much about their music though -- my flatmate was pleased wi
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Personally, I have no idea what he's talking about in the first place. Unless it's an abysmally low-quality rip, MP3 sounds just like any other format. No sizzle, nothing.
Most people don't notice it consciously. That's why MP3s are such a great invention. However, certain sounds, most notably cymbals, sound distinctly different on an MP3.
I first noticed this back in the Napster days when I would accidentally download multiple copies of the same song at different bit rates. I would say the difference between 96 kbit/s to 128 kbit/s is more noticeable than 128 kbit/s to 192 kbit/s. However, a 320 kbit/s file sounds far superior to a 128 kbit/s file. In other words, the
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Could it also be the difference between cheap ear-buds and good quality speakers?
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It is a pity though. This makes music fit into the frequency range that is compressing it. It could kill any music that uses a lot of symbol sounds, as they sound like crap in a highly compressed format.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, that's a whole different ball of wax (bad pun intended).
Records provide analog sound which does sound more more natural and warm if the original recording was also analog (using good equipment). This is an extremely hi fidelity medium.
And 128 mp3's are an extremely lo fidelity medium. I can't stand listening to them because it actually cuts out audible portions of the music that I can hear if listening to the cd or a high quality rip.
I think a part of this equation that is being left out is the volume at which the listeners were playing the music. Also, with some of these kids doing nothing but listening to their ipods 24/7, I'm wondering if their earing isn't temporarily damaged.
I would be curious to see what these kids would think about the different samples if they went a month without listening to any music. They like the hiss because they're not used to hearing anything without it (on crappy headphones none-the-less). I wanna know what happens when they "reboot" their ears. This isn't just a matter of some people prefer sennheiser headphones and some people prefer grado headphones, this is a matter of some people liking how things actually sound vs. some people liking distorted music with hiss laid over it. That's kind of unsettling to me.
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:4, Insightful)
I mean this sincerely and with jealousy: Ignorance really is bliss.
I really don' think that's true (Score:2)
If the older generation actually preferred the sound of records then why did they rapidly adopt CD technology? Records would still be king!
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People are used to hearing music over lower quality mediums like FM radio...
Not to mention that fact that many FM radio stations store their music in compressed formats these days. Also, many syndicated radio shows, and even entire programing for some stations, is produced somewhere else and streamed to local stations over the internet.
Thanks Clear Channel for degrading the quality of our FM radio even more.
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A perfect example is the making of the Beatles Anthology last decade where producer George Martin insisted on remixing the 5.1 soundtrack using a vintage mixing desk of the late 60's period because it was part of "the Beatle sound".
You could argue that a modern/neutral desk would more accurately reveal the source material, but it wouldn't sound the same to the target audience who grew up on the original issues.
A counter-example is the Beatles Let It Be...Naked release,
Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? (Score:5, Insightful)
So the question is why is music this way and, say hi-def video NOT this way?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the reason is that music is not audio. I'd expect if the question was centered around, say more generic audio quality, say listening to recorded conversations, or bird sounds or whatever the higher quality may be preferred, in a manner that's analogous to preferring higher quality video.
In other words it may be the difference between Content and Delivery. Higher quality DELIVERY is almost always preferred, but when aspects of that delivery work their way into the CONTENT then the content preference will win.
No one ever talks about the warm feeling of low-def TV, but you may find lots of folks who prefer hand drawn cartoons vs "higher quality" computer generated cartoons.
In my case regarding music I do know that I have a preference for recordings of live music vs studio recordings. It evokes in me a sense of a shared experience (even though I know this is a fantasy), it's like I'm there in a concert with others. A studio recording, on the other hand seems more like a solo experience. I suppose I'd prefer higher quality live recordings over lower quality ones, but I also suppose I'd prefer lower quality live recordings over higher quality studio recordings.
Cool news but... (Score:5, Funny)
I think the Jonas Brothers already proved this.
Digital Artifacts.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Annoy the hell out of me personally. Both audio and video.
Bring back analog, the real thing.
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The quality won't deteriorate over time like your analog.
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Deaf? (Score:5, Interesting)
this sounds like a peference for high treble... probably related to hearing loss.
Re:Deaf? (Score:5, Funny):
1. DON'T be their friend. Be their PARENT. And sometimes the parent has to be the avatar of the kid's bad karma. Punishment is good when doled out judiciously and without mercy.
2. Take away the iPod. They want to listen to music? They listen over speakers and at a reasonable volume, because they have to live with others.
3. Get rid of your TV set.
4. Read books, and have your kids read books.
5. Teach them how to grow food gardens.
6. Teach them how to play an acoustic instrument.
7. Teach them to be as good as their word and to not lie. Ever. Their word must be their bond and they must be held accountable. No excuses.
That's a start.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
RS
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8. Invest in companies making hearing aids. I foresee the iPod generation needing these as they get older.
9. Forget investing in hearing aid companies, because adults my age who all had Sony Walkmans as children didn't turn out needing hearing aids by age 40.
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I recall something about tubes effecting odd and even harmonics differently and imparting an effect described as "warmer" on the music. Tubes have a non trivial variance in performance so don't get an audiophiles starte
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Screw that. I grew up listening to LPs and the scratches, pops and skips were like murder to the music. That's not 'soul' or 'character', it's shit.
Now, throwing the imperfections of the medium aside, the thing that's been killing music for the last 20 years is over compresssion. Kills the dynamic range, sounds like hell on digital formats, and just plain tires out the ears after a while.
I'm always amused when modern bands record and entire album on analog tape and mixing gear to get a 'vintage' sounds, and then the final mix is compressed to death; makes the whole exercise pointless!
we're doomed (Score:5, Funny)
Dick Cavett said "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." Little did he know that if all people know is crap they actually begin to prefer it.
If all they know is crap... (Score:5, Insightful)
Little did he know that if all people know is crap they actually begin to prefer it.
And that's why 2009 will not be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
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How much benefit do I really gain from switching over my digital collection (and the devices)so I can have a better perceived "Value" of sound?
What is the cost of this? First need to replace all Mp3s with a higher quality format. So this costs time and money. More then likely most people are listening to said music through crappy headphones or speaker systems. What wi
People tend to not prefer quality (Score:5, Informative)
People have really weird internal processes that shape their preferences. Preferring shitty, hissy sounding music is just one of those odd results. I would not equate it with the perceived "warmth" of vinyl when compared to CDs. The warmth is not the snaps and crackles, but a different quality that I can't imagine anyone would think as a loss of quality. Just a change of tone.
The hissy music on the other hand is primarily as a result of poor or excessive compression that reflects a lost of information, not just a change in tone. And it just so happens that like in every other arena of human opinion most people prefer crap.
:)
P.S. I am not an audiophile but I love clear, full range sound when it comes to music. I prefer digital over vinyl because I can't stand all the defects that come with vinyl, even though I grew up with them.
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but a different quality that I can't imagine anyone would think as a loss of quality. Just a change of tone.
It's still a distortion from the original, not easily correctable. Overall, it's still a loss in information, just different than MP3
And it just so happens that like in every other arena of human opinion most people prefer crap.
People tend to prefer what they're used to. Witness building trends down in Florida. You get people building/buying cheap reproductions* of Northeastern style houses down there because that's what they prefer - despite that being a lousy way to build a house in Florida. As would the inverse of building a house suited for Florida in the North.
*IE missing the insulation, amo
Market-driven format (Score:2)
Since people are willing to accept that (young and old), they're just going to adapt to it and enjoy what they have. Hopefully someday we'll see the market push better formats but, for now, I'm not counting on much to improve amongst music players.
(Full disclosure: After getting a 1TB hard drive, I go lossless or I don't
Tubes vs Transistors (Score:4, Insightful)
Every generation has their favorite audio artifacts. Vinyl lovers like the warm sound despite the hiss and pops, im sure back in the day someone thought that wax phonograph cylinders sounded better than those new fangled gramaphone disks. Each generation gets accustomed to the sound they are most familiar with. I remember as a kid arguing with my dad who thought 8-track was much better than casette tapes.
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I remember as a kid arguing with my dad who thought 8-track was much better than casette tapes.
In theory they should have been better - they had double the transport speed, and should have had nearly double the frequency response. In practice, however, they weren't. The reason was that they were illogically fated for cars and their bad acoustics (worse than today's cars) and the labels didn't bother with fidelity.
The thing I hated about eight tracks was they would interrupt a song in the middle of the tape
Similar (Score:4, Funny)
I encountered the same feeling when I walked into a Best Buy the other day. I don't generally go into places like that, so when I did and I saw all of the flat-scren TV's, my GF and I couldn't get over how BAD we thought they all looked. The looked too sharp and too bright. I need another TV but I'm having trouble finding anyone that sells good CRT's any more!
Re:Similar (Score:4, Interesting)
Its best to do your homework online, then when at the store ask the salesperson if you can adjust the settings to something that you find more acceptable. I've never been turned down when I've asked this. It gives you a better representation of the quality (but not a full representation, as the lighting at your house will be different).
Generally, flatscreens are better than CRTs when calibrated properly. I know you couldn't pry my DLP out of my cold, dead hands (though DLPs are not true flatscreens). For true flatscreen, you can't go wrong with a properly calibrated Sharp Aquos.
live music is so much richer (Score:2)
Hisss of the 80's (Score:5, Insightful)
Pops of the 70's phonograph
Hiss of the 80's magnetic tape
Sizzle of the 00's MP3s.
Sounds like we had a perfect format in the optical disc - now we just need audio engineers that don't fuck up the mastering with everything cranked to 11.
Previous Generation Tube Amps (Score:4, Insightful)
Could a similar phenomenon (Score:2)
be behind the preference of some people for LPs over CDs?
Were any of the kids surveyed members of HS bands? (Score:5, Interesting)
No time to RTFA, but were any of the kids polled members of high school bands, or musicians on their own? As a drummer for 25+ years, I know the first thing I noticed about poorly encoded MP3s was how crappy the cymbals sounded. And I knew that primarily on account of knowing exactly how a real, live cymbal really sounds, in person, with the naked ear. Having been in a high school band, I know that the experience changed my own understanding of how all the instruments should really sound, as contrasted starkly against how they sound on many recordings, even pre-MP3 era.
representative sample? (Score:4, Insightful)
Were the to pool the opinions of students of Julliard rather than Stamford he'd likely get a completely different result.
If the young person in question is fond of mass produced music -- as most are I guess -- then the sound quality probably isn't important to them, just as tonal nuances wasn't important to the original musicians. For kids that are musicians themselves, and especially jazz or classical musicians, the sound quality matters a great deal.
Basically this is just a badly designed study, skewed in favor of the modal average.
Audiophile? (Score:4, Interesting)
My brother-in-law is a bit of an audiophile. He's not totally neurotic about it, but he's much more obsessive than me. We're talkin' low-middlish-end B&W speakers (I would've bought a car for that kind of money, personally), DVD players to play CDs, NAD amp, shielded, expensive cabling, and those pointy things that you put under your speakers to poke through the carpeting to get to the hard floor below.
I sat in his "listening environment" at a preselected place (he actually had his speakers placed according to a formula to derive the best location for listening) and listened to a CD he put on. Closed my eyes, and I have to say if I didn't know I was sitting in his apartment, I would've sworn I was sitting in a club, six feet from the singer sitting on the piano serenading me. It was stunning how much difference there was between my Pioneer multi-disc Best Buy special and his equipment. I was blown away.
I think the folks in this study just haven't heard stunningly good music and have no idea that it could/should be better.
The Mind's Ability to Process Sounds (Radio Lab) (Score:4, Insightful)
One of the most interesting segments of the show recounted the near-riot that occurred when Stravinsky debuted his "Rites of Spring" in 1913. The music was so discordant to Parisian audiences, that they reacted -- in some cases violently -- to the oddness of the new music.
Check it out -- the entire show is awesome. Entirely consistent with the professor's findings here.
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My Skullflower anecdote (Score:5, Interesting)
Here's my Skullflower anecdote about MP3s:
Back in the days when I was working for an incarnation of eMusic (several buy-outs ago), I noticed that they had a release from Skullflower in the collection, and I listened to it at work. Skullflower has a pretty seriously noisy sound, but sometimes I like serious noise, and the Skullflower mp3s sounded pretty good to me. That seemed a little funny, because I was pretty sure I'd listened to the CD before down in KZSU's library (I was a DJ at KZSU in those days), and the CD hadn't grabbed me.
But the next time I was on the air, I pulled the Sullflower CD out of the library on impulse, and tried playing a track. It struck me as horribly annoying. Hm, must've picked a bad track. I played around with fading the CD down, fading something else up, and skipping to another Skullflower track. I did that several times, and found them all horribly annoying.
My conclusion: this particular "music" is full of screeching high-frequencies that drive me up the wall, and the mp3 format's compression does a good job of screening them out.
In general I prefer CDs to mp3s, but then, myself I preferred the sound of vinyl to CDs... There's been a trend in the CD era toward a very clean and bright sound that I don't think very much of. Myself, I prefer a sense of "warmth" and "depth", but for that you need some fairly serious speakers, and along with CDs came a fad for minaturization, and people don't listen to music on those major sound systems much any more.
My conclusion: it's impossible to talk about the merits of different sound formats in isolation, because music production practices change as the characteristics of the formats and audio equipment change. If you expect people to be listening on wimpy speakers via a lossy compression format, then you're going to things like lean on the highs to punch through those barriers. And then if someone takes barriers away, you're going to be blasted by the highs.
Grandparents and grandkids think alike (Score:3, Insightful)
Weird how that principle works out again. I always tell people I don't mind mp3s because I remember when AM was the norm, particularly in cars. More than that, 196 kbps and above is better than table top FM and many of the stereos I've listened to in my life. So, no worries.
lack of detail (Score:4, Insightful)
I suspect that when you miss some details things appear better. People tend to look better at a distance before you get detail. Lowered senses probably contribute to "beer goggles" as well, though there are other factors.
Stripping detail does not make art but it may make pop.
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A newly released report from a National Science Foundation (NSF) committee offers some hard-hitting news, with recommendations to cut funding to several iconic telescopes and astronomical facilities as part of an aggressive new path for the agency over the next decade.
The report, titled "Advancing Astronomy in the Coming Decade: Opportunities and Challenges," examines all the projects that fall under the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST), and identifies changes that need to be made over the next 10 years to cope with the increasingly constrained budgetary climate.
"The emphasis of portfolio review is to maintain balance between grants and facilities, recognizing the important role that both play in astronomical research," Daniel Eisenstein, chair of the portfolio review committee and a professor at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., told reporters in a news briefing today (Aug. 17).
The panel concluded that NSF should discontinue funding for the following astronomical facilities:
- 2.1 meter telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona
- Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (WIYN) Observatory in Arizona
- Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia
- Very Long Baseline Array in New Mexico
- McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope in Arizona
"Retaining the above facilities in the face of declining budgets risks significantly greater shortfalls, which would be a far more severe loss to the forward momentum of the field," the committee said in its report.
A difficult balancing act
The recommended cuts will help make way for new, state-of-the-art facilities and midsize projects, and will also ensure that NSF maintains a strong grants program.
"Divestment from these highly successful, long-running facilities will be difficult for all of us in the astronomical community," the report said. "We must, however, consider the science tradeoff between divesting existing facilities and the risk of devastating cuts to individual research grants, mid-scale projects, and new initiatives." [Planetary Science Takes a Hit in 2013 (Infographic)]
The assessments were made based on priorities that were outlined in the National Academy of Sciences' decadal surveys of astronomy and astrophysics (titled "New World, New Horizons," or NWNH) and planetary sciences (titled "Visions and Voyages," or V&V). The surveys, which were released in 2010 and 2011 respectively, represent consensus from the scientific community, and identify specific science goals and objectives for the next decade.
The 17-member NSF panel attempted to reconcile the main objectives from the decadal surveys with what will likely be realistic given the NSF's budget projections.
"Our committee was charged to consider the priorities set by the decadal surveys and to set priorities between those new initiatives and the current programs and facilities, and to do so within the significant budget constraints," Eisenstein said.
Tightening the NSF's belt
The NSF's budget request for the fiscal year 2013 totals $7.37 billion, which would increase the agency's funding by $340 million, or 4.8 percent, from the previous year. Over the next decade, however, all signs point to little budget growth, if any. As such, the panel was tasked with determining how the NSF can best continue to facilitate valuable science within a tighter economic climate.
The panelists made their recommendations based on two budgetary scenarios: a more status quo approach, in which the AST's budget is 65 percent of what was envisioned in the decadal surveys, and a more pessimistic view in which the AST's budget is only 50 percent that.
According to the committee, the Division of Astronomical Sciences 2012 budget is already $45 million short of what was projected for the fiscal year 2012 in the astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey that was released in 2010.
"This presents a considerable challenge in implementing the strong NWNH recommendations for both new facilities and for maintaining the strength of the grants programs," the report said. "AST must find the proper balance between current facilities and new endeavors between large projects and small grants, and between risk and reward. It must continue to invest in the training of a highly skilled and creative workforce."
The Associated Universities Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which operate the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), responded to the report's findings.
"AUI and NRAO recognize and acknowledge the need to retire obsolete facilities to make way for the state-of-the-art," officials said in a statement. ." [Photos: World's Largest Telescope Being Built in Chile]
Some good news, too
Still, it's not all doom and gloom.
The report's findings do not automatically shutter the five identified facilities, said James Ulvestad, director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences.
"The committe is basically advisory," Ulvestad said. "They provide recommendations to the NSF, and we, in our division, then take that report and provide recommendations that pass up through our various chains of command."
The results of these discussions will shape the NSF's budget proposal process. In the meantime, the agency will also look into potential partnerships with universities and other organizations that would enable these facilities to stay open.
"We fully intend to pursue those avenues rigorously before we go down any roads to closure," Ulvestad said.
The committe also identified programs that should be expanded, and new projects that should be seen as priorities over the next decade. For instance, the panel urged NSF to begin construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) as soon as possible. The $465 million LSST is a planned wide-field telescope that will be able to observe the entire available sky ever three nights from Chile.
The committee proposed developing a new program for midscale projects — ones costing between $3 million and $50 million — that address the goals set forth in the decadal surveys.
The report also pledges continued support for other major facilities, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST), the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), and the Arecibo Observatory.
"While the current economic climate poses a severe challenge, we remain optimistic in our belief that the AST portfolio will be a vibrant force for astronomical research in the next decade," the report concluded.
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A CAMPERDOWN man who began using ice after he broke his leg will have his fate decided next month.
Daniel Pill, 27, of Gunner Street, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to three breaches of an intervention order, three charges of criminal damage, possession of ice, possession of cannabis, carrying a controlled weapon, failure to appear in court, theft and recklessly causing injury.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Paul Harris said that in May 2016 an intervention order was put in place preventing Pill from damaging property owned by his mother.
On February 25 police saw Pill at the BP service station in Camperdown and asked him about outstanding warrants. Police searched Pill and found seven grams of cannabis, one point of methamphetamine and a knife. When interviewed by police he made full admissions and said he forgot the drugs were there.
On April 16 Pill was picked up in Warrnambool by his father and became violent and aggressive. He punched his father’s face causing a black eye and his father had to break suddenly because of blurry vision. Pill then pulled his father’s head against the head rest while he was driving.
Pill’s defence counsel said about 18 months ago Pill broke his leg at work and then began using ice. The court heard Pill was using about half a gram of ice a day and he had said there was no excuse for his offending.
The court heard Pill was also facing a breach of a CCO and Magistrate Cynthia Toose adjourned all the matters to June 1.
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Having. However, in up to 50 percent of women, symptoms come back 3 to 12 months after treatment, the researchers said.
The findings raise an interesting question, the researchers said: Would treating a women's sexual partner for BV at the same time she is undergoing treatment reduce the risk of recurrence?
Bacterial vaginosis results from a decrease in "good" vaginal bacteria, known as lactobacilli, and an increase in "bad" bacteria, known as anaerobes, according to the Mayo Clinic. Doctors do not know exactly what causes this imbalance. One possibility is that, in some cases, the condition "spreads" between partners during sex.
Another possibility is that sexual relations may prevent good bacteria from growing back. However, women who are not sexually active can also develop BV, so the condition is not always linked to sexual behavior.
Studies done in the 1980s tested whether treating a woman's partner would prevent a recurrence of the condition, but these studies were flawed and need to be repeated, said Dr. Jane Schwebke, a professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who was not involved in the new study.
Schwebke hopes to conduct a study that would examine this issue. "I really think the timing is right to try to do these studies again," she said.
The new study involved 450 women ages 18 to 50 from Melbourne, Australia who had been diagnosed with BV. Each was randomly assigned to receive treatment, with an antibiotic, a probiotic or a placebo. After six months, 115 women (28 percent) experienced a recurrence of bacterial vaginosis. All the women, regardless of which treatment they received, were equally likely to have the condition recur.
Such recurrence of BV was also linked with inconsistent condom use, but not with frequency of sex. Women were 50 percent less likely to experience a recurrence of symptoms if they used hormonal contraceptives, such as the birth control pill or vaginal ring.
This finding suggests hormonal contraception may have a protective effect against the condition, but further research is needed before the medication would be prescribed solely for BV, Schwebke said.
The new study was published online Dec. 12 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Pass it on: Women treated for bacterial vaginosis may have a recurrence if they have sex with the same partner before and after treatment.
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Lectures held at St Andrew’s are organised by the St Andrew’s Trust for the Study of Religion and Society
This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost, the day the Church remembers the coming of the Spirit. The Gathering is led by Susan Jones and includes Communion. It is also the beginning of the season of Pentecost.
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Not the best news to hear during Sunshine Week, but better than I expected.
Big surprise, federal agencies reportedly are not following the president's direction for a "new era of open government," according to a study dealing with how government follows the federal Freedom of Information act.
The National Security Archive, a private group, on Sunday (the first day of Sunshine Week, an annual obervance by journalists) published a report that indicated:
—Thirty-three of the 90 agencies now have an older unfulfilled request than they did on FOIA policies enacted by President Obama.
Obama had ordered agencies to release any information whose disclosure wasn't prohibited by law or wouldn't cause foreseeable harm, thus rescinding the Bush-era order to stall, withhold and fight any request for public record information.
If there is any "Sunshine" in the study. it was that 20 or the 90 agencies had improved the date of their oldest open request from 2008 by more than one month, and the CIA improved its oldest request by nearly a18 months.
Four agencies — the departments of Justice and Agriculture, the Office of Management and Budget and the Small Business Administration — had.
Yep, the agencies really do believe the public has a right to know what they are doing in the name of freedom ... sure they do?!? And, if you don't believe it, just ask them, but don't expect to get an answer ... it might be "classified."
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By DAVE CHRISTIAN
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NORTH VERNON —
Free throws proved to be the deciding factor as the Jeffersonville Red Devils basketball team fell to Jennings County 46-41 in overtime in North Vernon on Saturday.
Outscored from the line by 17 points, including five key free throws during the overtime, Jeffersonville couldn’t hold off the determined Panthers.
Jeff is 2-2 overall and 0-2 in the Hoosier Hills Conference after consecutive losses. The Panthers are 3-1 with three straight wins.
“We didn’t do our job and they took it to us,” Devil coach Matt Pait said. “Jennings County wanted it more. They played a great game and deserved to win.”
With six seconds left in regulation, Jeff freshman Taylor Sykes hit a jumper in the lane to tie the game at 41 points each.
Aggressive defense from Jeffersonville held Jennings County as time expired, sending the game into overtime.
Jennings County sophomore Baylee Krueger made three of her four shots from the line in overtime and Panther senior Kirsten Biggs added two more free throws as Jennings outscored Jeff 5-0 in overtime.
Jeffersonville struggled with shot selection in overtime, forcing shots and being out-rebounded by the Panthers.
“Heart, toughness, focus … those are the reasons we lost this game. We have to work on being ready to play,” Pait said. “We didn’t lose because of what happened on the floor. We lost because of what’s inside.”
Senior guard Nichole Midgett led the Devils with 12 points. Junior Haley Vogen added 10 points for Jeff.
The Red Devils next host Madison on Friday.
JENNINGS COUNTY 46, JEFFERSONVILLE 41 (OT)
Jeffersonville 8 12 11 10 0—41
Jennings Co. 10 10 9 12 5—46
Jennings County (3-1, 1-0 HHC): Kirsten Biggs 4 11-14 19, Mariah Kinney 0 0-0 0, Emma Campbell 2 1-2 5, Emily Ertel 1 1-2 3, Baylee Krueger 2 4-10 8, Halea Petro 0 0-2 0, Katie Wilson 0 4-6 4, Sydney Kirchner 2 3-4 7. Totals 11 24-40 46.
Jeffersonville (2-2, 0-2 HHC): Nichole Midgett 5 0-0 12, Chelsie Marshall 0 0-0 0, Chelsea Lewis 1 0-1 2, Nycia Ford 0 0-0 0, Emily Gray 2 0-0 4, Taylor Hines 1 0-0 2, Haley Vogen 4 2-6 10, Aurreeshae Hines 2 2-3 6, Taylor Davis 0 0-0 0, Makenzie Johnson 0 0-0 0, Taylor Sykes 1 0-2 2, Hailey Lacy 0 3-4 3. Totals 16 7-16 41.
3-point field goals: Jeffersonville 2 (Midgett 2); Jennings County 0.
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We're looking for a collaborative team leader for our youth services section. We have a creative and enthusiastic staff who enjoy programming.
Our library has always been popular among parents of our youngest patrons and now we are very eager to grow our capacity to better serve children of all ages in our community. We have created a new tween/teen librarian position to further this goal. We're interested in targeting those children who we might not be reaching in our community and in growing some strategic partnerships as we do.
We also will be capacity building across many other service areas: collection development, reader's advisory, reference, use and incorporation of online resources and technology into service delivery, etc.
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Requires a Master’s Degree in Library and/or Information Science. Applicants should demonstrate progressive growth and increased responsibility in their work experience, with five years of Masters-level experience in the advertised service area (youth services) and a minimum of 2 years of supervisory experience over a library staff section. Requires a valid Florida driver license.
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MSNBC's Chuck Todd Baffled by Wall Street's Anti-Obama Sentiment: The President 'Has Not Done' Much to Business
During Morning Joe on Thursday, MSNBC's Chuck Todd appeared baffled by a discussion of negative feelings directed towards Barack Obama from Wall Street. The confused journalist wondered, "Look, at the end of the day, he has not done that much when it comes to business stuff."
Mad Money host Jim Cramer relayed to Todd that Wall Street is upset because, "Most of the people on Wall Street are behind the scenes guys" and the President is demagoging the issue and demonizing them. Todd argued that, regardless of what the President does, "He is getting trapped and hit from both sides, but it isn't just that, this is how sour the American public is."
To understand why Wall Street and the American public might be "sour," one needs to look no further than the cap and trade energy proposal, health care, the financial reform bill, the stimulus, or the nationalization of the automobile and student loan sectors.
Perhaps Todd could listen to what a colleague on CNBC said. Back in February, Maria Bartiromo asserted that "there are a lot of people on Wall Street and in business increasingly that have said to me actually, 'I don’t know that I would vote the same today given the fact that we did not expect he was so much to the left, and we did not expect that there was going to be such a big bite in business.' I mean, that’s a fact."
Recently the media have been expressing incredulity at Barack Obama's falling poll numbers. This includes MSNBC's news anchor Contessa Brewer lamenting that after everything President Obama has done, "What else do people want?" Sounding a similar note, Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Thursday touted, after all of Obama's achievements, "What more could the President have done?"
The transcript of August 12, 2010, segment is available here:
7:25:10
MIKE BARNICLE: One of the financial battle grounds is Wall Street where huge numbers of people normally Republicans voted for, supported financially Barack Obama. Do you sense a lot of buyer’s remorse on Wall Street?
JIM CRAMER: He is so much more hated than Bush! It really is amazing. You can't even mention him. You can't even mention him. This is on Wall Street only.
CHUCK TODD: Why? I don't get it. He hasn't done that much.
CRAMER: Because, if you work at Goldman Sachs your little child says to you, daddy, are you in trouble? When you work at Morgan Stanley you know you're hated. J.P Morgan is going to be getting the GM deal already we hate- people say those rip-off guys at JP Morgan got the deal. Well you know, somebody has to do the deal.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: By the way, GM, let's talk good news for a second.
CRAMER: Thank you.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Great earnings from GM and Ford on the way back and Detroit, rock city. Detroit is coming back.
CRAMER: Awesome.
SCARBOROUGH: Sorry to hijack that, but this is exciting.
CRAMER: Detroit is the most exciting industrial part of this country. These companies are hiring. We happen to have two of the greatest CEOs. It does matter. Ed Whitaker at GM off the charts fabulous was great at ATT. Al Malally, CEO of the year, fighting for jobs with that honor.
SCARBOROUGH: Back to Wall Street. It seems to me the left doesn't like, and Chuck is right- Why do they hate him? The left doesn't think he went far enough.
CRAMER: Well, look, I think what has happened on Wall Street is you are not used to being in the public glare. Most of the people on Wall Street are behind the scenes guys. Suddenly, they are thrust
SCARBOROUGH: Do they think the President is being a demagogue?
CRAMER: Yes. Exactly. I mean all I hear about is Huey Long is and I got guys who don't even know who Huey Long is and they are talking about him.
TODD: Wait a minute. Are you kidding?
CRAMER: No! I'm not kidding you.
TODD: What reality do they live in? I mean. Look, at the end of the day, he has not done that much when it comes to business stuff.
CRAMER: Have you seen the White House.gov, the little video that they did? I am not kidding that was one of the greatest attacks I've seen. Every bank is a casino. It was South Park.
SCARBOROUGH: That was on the White House website?
CRAMER: Yea, if you go and look at this thing what happened in the crisis.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
CRAMER: All it's about it says casino and the American banking system. Casino! You know, not everybody is a jerk!
TODD: But the rhetoric isn't matching the policy. True?
CRAMER: Chuck, well, there is a lot of belief that Bernanke is going to set the policy and he doesn't care about rich/poor. He just cares about hiring people and jobs.
SCARBOROUGH: Chuck, though it may shock you, because I think we are in New York and we cross paths with these guys a lot.
TODD: So, It’s the real people. The real Americans.
SCARBORUGH: No, but I'm saying you know Washington.
TODD: No, I know.
SCARBOROUGH: We hear it day in.
TODD: I know.
SCARBORUGH: And day out.
TODD: I know.
SCARBOROUGH: So, let's talk about the political impact of that. I think it's significant. People in Wall Street have been embarrassed to be associated with Republican Party for a long time.
TODD: Right.
SCARBOROUGH: They think they are anti-intellectual and based in the South and demagogic. Now I have so many people coming up to me on Wall Street with so much money saying I never voted Democratic before. Please, find me a Republican I can write a huge check to.
TODD: Right.
SCARBOROUGH: It seems to me that this is financially a big hit for Democrats who a lot of people across the country don't realize that democrats have owned Wall Street.
TODD: I wouldn't say owned. They have made inroads.
SCARBOROUGH: Barack Obama got more money from Wall Street than anybody else. Again, most people on Wall Street are embarrassed of the national Republican Party.
TODD: Let's remember, Bill Clinton and Bob Rubin opened that door.
CRAMER: True.
TODD: Chuck Schumer, minded as well as anybody we were talking about natural resources. Chuck Schumer minded Wall Street money for the Democratic party and created this way where Barack Obama came in and was able to have success and there's a whole bunch of former Democrats that worked on Wall Street and sort of one thing led to another and they were able to split that money. But what it's really bizarre about this is there not doing a lot of this regulation. There is this fear they are going to do it and the reality is those guys aren't going to do these things that business is worried about. So, you're wondering is it a game of posturing? Is this just a negotiating ploy?
CRAMER: Look. Image does matter. The belief that you're not doing something harmful does matter. You don't want to be named a fat cat. No one wants to be a fat cat in this country. You can't be called a racist and don't want to be called a fat cat. Every single guy on Wall Street is suddenly from New Jersey. Chris Christie could raise $5 hundred million tomorrow to run for president of the United States.
CHUCK TODD: Do you really think a guy who is funded by Wall Street? This is where there is a disconnect. Populace America is mad at Wall Street as they are at Washington.
CRAMER: Do you think they are mad at Christie?
TODD: No. They are just as mad at Wall Street as Washington. You have to be careful. If you end up being the candidate of Wall Street is not going to play well.
SCARBOROUGH: Here is the disconnect I think not only with Wall Street but business. Another thing we hear time and time and time again. Time and time and time again. You talk to somebody that has gone into the White House and talked to these people, they all say the same thing. Nobody there has run a business.
TODD: That is very true. That's a huge problem.
SCARBOROUGH: They don't know whether that is the reality or not on Wall Street and in the business community, they think there is this disconnect that Barack Obama is a professor and he doesn't understand how to create jobs. Mike, would you not agree? And you hear it, Mike, do you not, from left wing Democrats that have never voted for a Republican before.
BARNICLE: Who maxed out to Barack Obama the first six seconds of his campaign.
CRAMER: How much to they hate Summers. Summers is hated as much as he was hated when at Harvard!
BARNICLE: Larry Summers, go back to the faculty lounge. You also here, Joe, from big people in Wall Street what is the most prominent financial crisis currently holding the country back? Probably housing and the mortgage crisis. What you hear from them is they could get the heads of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JP Morgan into the White House and put them in a room and put sandwiches on the table and bring a couple of people from Treasury in and say figure it out how to fix it. They could fix it but the White House won't make that step because they have demonized themselves.
SCARBOROUGH: I will tell you there is one guy in particular that I believe that Barack Obama supposedly used to be close to.
BARNICLE: Bob Wolfe?
SCARBOROUGH: Jamie.
CRAMER: Jamie is getting the gm deal so maybe there is a peace offering.
SCARBOROUGH: If Jamie Diamond, Barack Obama needs to talk to him.
TODD: Jim, the government bailout of the auto industry seemed to work. It seems to be working. You were just raving about GM.
CRAMER: Yes.
TODD: So why isn't that confidence in the government figuring out how to do the GM deal correctly. Why isn't that confidence translate to go the rest of the business community?
CRAMER: They don't know how on embrace a win. They go to some little battery company in Michigan that would be defunct if it weren't for their checks but where is Al Malalley? Why aren't they embracing Whitaker? Whitaker says I want the government out of my company.
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Peter Gove is chair of the St. Croix River Association board of directors. SCRA is a St. Croix 360 partner.
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- Dr. Marti Erickson’s inspiring talk on the bond between children and nature at our spring meeting, and the fall gathering at the NW Fur Post’s Festival of the Voyageur;
- the hiring of Monica Zachay as our River Protection Steward (SCRA’s fourth staff member);
- new office space in the St. Croix Falls library;
- Paddle 2012 on the Namekagon;
- SCRA’s growing role in the 13th annual St. Croix Basin Protection Conference;
- growth in giving to The River Fund, and our partnership with the NPS and St. Croix Valley Foundation;
- adoption by your board of directors of the 2013-15 Strategic Plan;
- approval by the EPA of the Lake St. Croix TMDL plan with a goal to reduce by 20% phosphorus entering the river;
- expanded opportunities for volunteers; and,
- in December, the first meeting of our Advisory Council, an impressive group of over 20 individuals — from business, academia, nonprofits & government — whose reputation, experience and advice will be a continuing asset to the Association.!
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Occupy Wall Street demonstrators move through the streets of lower Manhattan near the New York Stock Exchange during a "day of action" in New York, November 17, 2011
Above the Law reports that a small Philadelphia-based law firm is advertising for a contract litigation associate on Craigslist. But they just don’t want anyone:
Preference given to Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, capitalists, believers in the Constitution, champions of free enterprise, and advocates of limited government. Supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, those that protested the War in Iraq, or anyone that thinks America should be more like Europe will not be considered.
(MORE: Occupy Wall Street, Re-energized: A Leaderless Movement Plots a Comeback)
Now, it’s been a while since NewsFeed has trolled through Craigslist hunting for something that pays the bills, but you’ll often find anything from “professional wingman” to “someone that does not want to deal with the billable-hour quota.” And there’s no telling if any post (including this one) is legitimate — it’s a total shot in the dark.
The point is that anyone who applies for the job is pretty much in the 99 percent that the firm so vehemently doesn’t want. But it’s pretty much a moot point — this is also a work-from-home job. The message and backlash against the occupiers is clear, and so is it for the guy who wins the oh-so-coveted spot: better not quit your night job.
PHOTOS: Protests and Camp Shutdowns Continue for OWS Demonstrators
Erica Ho is a contributor at TIME and the editor of Map Happy. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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Gathering of the Classics: An Adventure at Edenvale Aerodrome
August 6, 2011
Today I flew to the “Gathering of the Classics” vintage automobile and aircraft exhibition put on by the Edenvale Classic Aircraft Foundation at the Edenvale Aerodrome, just south of Wasaga Beach in Ontario. My plan was for my passenger and I to meet at Waterloo Region International Airport at 9:00, be off the ground by 9:30, arrive at Edenvale by 10:10, depart at 12:40, and be back in Waterloo by around 13:20. I had the plane booked until 13:30.
The weather forecast for this morning had been all over the map the last few days, but it finally settled down to “crappy all day except between 8:00 and 14:00.” Perfect! We both arrived at the airport by 8:45 in hopes of getting out early and hit our first snag: the Diamond Katana had inoperative fuel pump, generator, and canopy latch indicator lights. The problem went away half way through maintenance trying to diagnose it, and since these lights are not part of the Minimum Equipment List, we were good to go and got off the ground by 9:50.
The flight there was uneventful, and we followed the recommended arrival procedures (for funneling a large number of aircraft into an uncontrolled airport safely and efficiently) to the letter. We parked the plane, got out, and were greeted by my parents, my sister Shawna, my niece Brianna, and Jurgen, my best friend since childhood.
There were a lot of aircraft to look at, and an hour and half (to leave time for the walk-around for the return flight) wasn’t long enough to see them all, but there were a few that I took a really good look at. To me, the most interesting was a Zenair Cricket, an unbelievably small single-seat twin-engine aircraft. The wingspan is only 16′, maximum take-off weight is 420lb, and power is provided by two 15hp single-cylinder engines with 18″ or so propellers.
At about 12:15 I started pre-flighting our plane, and everything looked good. We climbed in, and began the start-up procedure. Guess what. Those indicator lights weren’t working again! Everything else looked good, and those lights aren’t critical, so we finished our checks and taxied to the hold-short point. There’s always one last set of checks before entering the runway, and wouldn’t you know it, the oil pressure gauge was reading zero. The engine was still running and all the temperatures were normal, but one does not (nor is one allowed to) fly with an inoperative oil pressure gauge. Fortunately we could taxi back instead of having to be towed. So down the runway we went, exiting at taxiway D, to be marshaled back into the same parking spot we had before.
Once parked and shut down, out came the cell phone. First call was to the Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre, the FBO I rent the plane from. They suggested a few things to try and then call them back. Nothing resolved the problem, so they decided to fly a mechanic out. It took a couple of hours to figure out what parts to bring, prepare a flight plan, and fly out. Once there, Grant (the mechanic) attached a diagnostic oil pressure gauge to confirm that there actually was oil pressure, and then quickly determined that the problem was the oil pressure sensor. He replaced the sensor and the on-board gauge then worked correctly. Coincidentally, the troublesome indicator lights started working again too.
I sometimes gripe about the annoyances of having to rent a plane, such as lack of availability, minimum hour-per-day charges for long term rentals, and endless paperwork. But today I discovered one of the advantages. Calling out a pilot, a mechanic, and a Cessna 172N to carry them would easily have cost me at least $500 if it had been my own plane. This didn’t cost me anything but time, and I was happy to be able to spend more time with family, friends, and a collection of classic aircraft. Thanks Grant and Carli!
Fortunately, the weather held up much longer than forecast, and the flight back went smoothly. There were some thunderstorm cells about twenty miles south of Waterloo airport when we arrived, so the winds were a little gusty and variable, but the landing went well, and everything in the plane worked the whole way home.
At the end of the day, everything worked out great, for my passenger and me anyway. While my family was waiting to make sure we got away safely, someone backed his vintage Rolls-Royce into my Dad’s new car, taking out the bumper and a headlight and putting a scratch on the hood.
A big thanks to the Edenvale Classic Aircraft Foundation, the Edenvale Aerodrome, and the many volunteers who put on a great day!.
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Thunder: James Harden plays 'old man basketball'
Former Spurs star Sean Elliott says Harden's style is savvy, fundamental basketball. Elliott says: “You have a lot of young players today that are super athletic, and that's what they rely on. They don't necessarily rely on their instincts or their savvy.”
Of all the comparisons the Thunder has drawn to the Spurs, the one that might best fit is one that hasn't gotten much attention.
It's James Harden and Manu Ginobili, the left-handed shooting guards for both teams who will face off Friday night inside Chesapeake Energy Arena.
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“As players, yes, there are some similarities,” said Thunder coach Scott Brooks. “They both are talented players. They both play a winning style of basketball and they seem to make big plays.”
Harden, the Thunder's sixth man who is now in his third season, is averaging 17.1 points on 48.5 percent shooting and 4.1 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.0 steals.
Ginobili, in his third season with the Spurs, is averaging 16 points on 47.1 percent shooting and 4.4 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.6 steals.
“The thing I love about James is his energy off the bench ... that mirrors Manu in '05 and '07 when he was coming off the bench for us, and he was phenomenal,” said Sean Elliot, who won a title with San Antonio in 1999 and now serves as the team's color commentator.
“And with Harden, I don't know where he all of a sudden became a playmaker. I think it was last year during the playoffs. I watched him all of last year and the year before that and I didn't see any shades of what I'm seeing now. The last game we played against him in Oklahoma City, I told my crew, ‘I've never seen this guy play like this, where he's making plays, or he's running the screen and roll, or he's turning the corner, or he's hiding behind that screen and shooting.'”
It's that savvy that makes the two so similar.
“He's got a lot of savvy,” Elliott said of Harden. “He's got a lot of playmaking abilities, and that's something I hadn't seen in his game in the first two years.”
Both also have shown an incredible ability to make something out of nothing.
“They just have a knack for getting inside the defense,” said Brooks. “You think you have them stopped and there's a slight window or opening and they seem to get through it and get to the rim or get fouled. They're both clever players.”
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Pop sensation Britney Spears has transferred her fame into a bottle of sheer rich fragrance. The Britney Spears range of perfumes makes you feel like a superstar.
Here are my favourites from Britney Spears perfumes range:
1. Island Fantasy:
The newest of the perfumes by Britney, Island Fantasy is due to launch this April 2013. It is an extension of her line of sweet fragrances. This perfume has all the goodness of the tropical aromas that give it a fruity and floral feel. The fragrance starts with citruses cocktail, Clementine, mandarin, watermelon and red berries and later transforms into the aromas of violet, jasmine, sugar cane, musk and freesia.. Circus Fantasy:
Launched in the year 2009 in collaboration with Elizabeth Arden, Circus Fantasy is a keeper. This perfume has the intoxicating scents of creamy musk and exotic flowers. A combination of orchid, lotus, blue peony, apricot blossom, raspberry, violet candy and vanilla can be felt.. Curious Britney:
Curious Britney has a very intriguing essence to it, just as the name suggests. The perfume has a base of white flowers that are serenaded with musk and vanilla nuances. A combination of pears, magnolia and lotus along with vanilla, jasmine, tuberose and precious woods can be felt in this perfume.
[Read:Best Vintage Perfumes]
6. Fantasy Britney:
Launched in 2005, Fantasy by Britney was the second fragrance by the Britney Range of perfumes. It is also considered to be a love potion in a magical bottle. Fantasy Britney is a blend of white chocolate, jasmine, golden quince, litchi, kiwi, orrris root, wood and musk.
7. Midnight Fantasy:
Midnight Fantasy has been launched especially for the younger generation of audience. It has a very fresh feel to it and is composed of aromas that include black cherry, plum and framboise. Freesia, iris and night orchid along with musk, amber and vanilla fragrances can be felt right at the heart of the Midnight Fantasy.
8. In Control Curious:
A sexy yet sweet combination of fragrances that truly justifies the name of the perfume. A combination of musk and vanilla can be felt in every spray of this perfume. The fragrance is on the note of night orchid, crème brulee, tonka crystals, black vanilla bean on the base of musk and sandalwood.
[Read:Best Selling Tom Ford Perfumes]
9. Hidden Fantasy:
A fragrance that is completely on a fruity and gourmand note, Hidden Fantasy was launched in the year 2008. This perfume has a combination of aromas which include grapefruit blossom, clove, verbena, sweet orange, Napolitano cake, sambac jasmine, stargazer lily, amber, vanilla bean, jacaranda wood and sandalwood.
10. Radiance:
This is long lasting and enticing fragrance. Radiance is a blend of fragrances of orange blossom, jasmine, iris, tuberose, berries and musk.
So which is your favourite Britney Spears perfume among<<
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What's it like: To be treated for a snake bite
Oklahoma is home to about seven venomous snakes, including rattlesnakes, copperheads and water moccasins.
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Oklahoma is home to about 46 species of snakes, including seven that are venomous to humans.
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Style Guide
Stylish And Trendy Sneakers + Ankara Combinations You Would Love
I remember being in love with sneakers as a teenager. I used to pair it with literally anything – traditional wear included. The good thing about our parents then was the fact that they let us wear anything we were comfortable with, at least most of the time. As I grew older, things changed. Wearing sneakers with dresses or jumpsuit became a faux pas. You are either expected to pair your outfits with ballerina flats, sandals, heels but definitely not sneakers.
In my heart, I knew the right sneakers would turn heads while providing the necessary comfort that was needed but I did not want to be labelled a hipster and so I stuck to the rules that the fashion world made for me. Thankfully millennials have broken that rule and now I wear sneakers with anything and still look good, in fact, the sneaker trend has become bigger, better and more evolved. There is no ‘basic’ combination right now; you either go low or you go banging and of course,as true fashion lover you must go banging!
While the rest of the world is loving the sneakers + anything goes trend, here in Africa our fashionistas and Style Ravens decided to take it up a notch by rocking it with the famous African print known as ‘Ankara‘. As we all know, the Ankara is such a pretty fabric, with its rich pop of colours and glorious patterns it’s little wonder why it’s become so popular.
With Ankara you can sew sexy or breezy pieces that easily give you styling points. But what could bring more flair your way? Pairing some sneakers with an Ankara piece, whether it is a dress, trousers or skirt. Now that’s a sure way to take your style game to the next level.
Check out some inspirations below and join in on the trend!
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CHICAGO — Though Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center is ran by an African-American man and the majority of its employees and patients are Black as well, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a class-action suit for discriminating against Black, female employees.
According to the lawsuit, Black female employees “were subjected to different terms and conditions of employment and segregation in job assignments on the basis of their race and sex.” It is alleged that the mistreatment was done by Asian and Indian males.
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Hi everyone! Shannah, from Just Us Four, here back again to share a recipe with you! I hope you all are enjoying summer as much as I am! We spend as much time as possible outside and try to have a bunch of picnics too. Pasta salad is one of those quintessential summer foods and pops up at pretty much any picnic or BBQ. I wanted to change up the regular pasta salad though and decided to make a gnocchi salad instead.
Gnocchi is a little different than pasta because it potato based. It is so delicious though and cooks extremely fast which makes it great for summer because it won’t heat up your kitchen as much. I have heard it is super easy to make from scratch too but I typically buy it from the store.
What You’ll Need:
– 1 package ready to cook gnocchi {I used tri-color}
– 1 zucchini, chopped into 1 – 1 1/2 inch pieces
– 1 yellow squash, chopped into 1 – 1 1/2 inch pieces
– 1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
– 6 oz thinly sliced prosciutto
– 4 ounces fresh mozzarella, roughly chopped
– 1/2 tsp salt
– 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
– 4 Tbsp white wine vinegar
– 1 1/2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
– 3 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
– 1 tsp finely chopped fresh rosemary
– 1 tsp finely chopped oregano
Let’s Make It:
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil. Place prosciutto on baking sheet and bake in oven for about 10 minutes or until the prosciutto turns crisp. Remove from oven and let cool slightly before crumbling into pieces.
2) Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Cook gnocchi according to package directions. With one minute of cooking time left, add squash to water and finish cooking gnocchi with the squash. Drain and rinse under cold water.
3) In a small bowl, whisk together salt, pepper, white wine vinegar, olive oil, mustard, rosemary and oregano.
4) In a large bowl, combine gnocchi, vegetables, cheese and crumbled prosciutto. Pour dressing on top and toss to coat. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
This gnocchi salad is one of our favorites. The saltiness of the prosciutto is so delicious. If you don’t have it, feel free to substitute bacon. The bacon will add a little bit of smoky flavor that prosciutto doesn’t have.
Enjoy your summer and be sure to come by and visit me over at Just Us Four to get even more recipes for summer!
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I’ve never known what Gnocchi was… except the cat on Curious George 🙂 I also have never had a cold zucchini dish. I’ll have to try it!
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Top Story Podcast 6/15/11:Downtown Sign, State of the City, Online Courses
First hour - The downtown sign says Welcome To Historic Downtown - Please report any vandalism, prostitution, assaults, selling of narcotics. Would that make YOU want to shop downtown?
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Cold Beginnings:Mountains: Mt. Evans (14,264’) and Mt. Spalding (unranked, 13,842’) Route: Started at 10800’ (approx), climbed Evans’ W. Ridge to summit, descended to the flats and climbed Spalding Stats: Elevation Gain - 3700’ (approx) Roundtrip Mileage - 10 miles (approx) Crew - Jamie, Jamie, Prakash NOAA’s last minute scheduling change opened up a small weather window for us on our last Winter Weekend. We were expecting a cold painful outing earlier in the week, but latest tidings got us looking forward to quite a bit of sunshine. I met the Jamies at T. Rex and we drove the ploughed road from Georgetown up to 10,800’ on the Guanella Pass road. The car thermometer measured -3F ambient at the trailhead without factoring in any of those cold banshee farts. Princo had put in some ground work the previous day spending a few hours breaking trail for the first mile of the trail. We geared up and left the car a little after 7:30AM. We waved to a couple skiers and a snowshoer who’d parked a ways off. The TrailThe road was quick with no trail-breaking required. We soon got to the trail. An outline of Princo’s trench remained but it had mostly blown over during the night. However, there was a solid base below from where his snowshoes had packed down the fresh snow from the previous storm. We continued onward re-breaking through 6-9” of blown snow. Breaking Trail At this point we met the skiers and the snowshoer we’d waved to in the dark, and they turned out to be some climbers we knew from before. It was good to run into you guys again Alison, Caroline, Lance. Hope the ski was good. Re-trenchingAt about 8:30AM we reached where the trail split off for Mt. Evans to the left. The trail breaking got a little deeper but still not miserable. Snow cover and trail-breaking were pretty continuous from here all the way to the summit except for a few stretches of exposed talus blocks and packed snow with sastrugi on the flats South of Spalding. Breaking Trail after Trail Splitoff We soon reached the creek and the trail breaking got deeper and more exhausting. We began ascending parallel to the creek keeping to the climber’s left of it to find shallower snow and easier going. The sun was out and we were warming up. Wind was coming in occasionally. We soon reached a slope and started heading towards the hump marking the beginning of Evans’ West Ridge. Snow was relatively shallow on this slope and it was getting breezy. Slope up to the W. Ridge Keeping Parallel to Scott Gomer Creek The Hump We got our first glimpse of the Sawtooth looking tasty in its snow covered splendor. The North East side of Bierstadt just below the summit was loaded and looked like it might avalanche if triggered properly. The Sawtooth Shortly after noon we stashed our snowshoes below a cairn at about 13600’. Here’s the hump marking the beginning of Evans’ West ridge as seen from our snowshoe stash. Hump seen from our Snowshoe Stash Here’s looking back down-slope towards the West at the route we came up. Looking down to the Basin Here are a couple shots of Bierstadt’s snow covered North East Face … (I did not just pollute this trip report with a couple mugshots did I?) Loaded Bierstadt NE Face Bierstadt MugShot Evans' West RidgeA look back at our path on the West Ridge of Evans… some of it could be traveled by boulder hopping, but we found ourselves postholing and trail-breaking quite often between boulders. The W. Ridge of Evans The going was slow and painful and we were aware that the summit was still a ways off. Moving up the W. Ridge Postholes Galore! Clouds started moving in over Bierstadt but there was still plenty of sunlight. An Angry Looking Bierstadt Last 14er Summit for Winter ‘08:There were a few sections prior to the summit where the snow was packed and icy in an unpredictable fashion. We made summit at around 2:30PM. Rather late considering we arrived at 13600’ at 12:30PM. The last 700 feet to the summit had been two hours of boulder hopping and boot packing through often thigh deep snow. The Jamies have an impressive number of summits between them this winter… a number worthy of appreciation given the weather and snow conditions that blanked out much of the early part of the season... Congratulations you two. Summit!! We stayed on the summit for quite a while eating, fooling around and occasionally bursting into song (mostly Seal and Eddie Vedder) while a sweet storm built around us. I carry a veritable feast up the mountains with me these days. I settled in a cozy corner with some bacon, cheese, hot tea, white chocolate, an apple, dry fruits, salted cashews and frozen chunks of Gatorade. We spent 45 minutes on summit and began moving down slowly. The storm was upon us and snow flakes were hitting the ground… a pretty quick change in conditions. Visibility was still great though. Descent Storm in the Basin An attempt on the Sawtooth was starting to look out of the question… Stormclouds Carpet sellers Sell Bierstadt their Wares Spalding and DescentThe postholing continued on our way down but we made decent time back down to our snowshoes. We settled by our snowshoes at 4:45PM for a snack. I hadn’t climbed Spalding before and figured I would go out and climb it, worthless as it may be, while the Jamies proceeded down. I set out from our snowshoe stash at about 5:05PM. Spalding was a rather disinterested looking pile. He was bored stiff and I could literally hear him saying “Aww, go away and let me watch TV” in a rather jaded voice while I broke trail all over his grumpy mug. The prominence was not great… my altimeter quoted around 200-220 feet tops from the low point. I summitted Spalding at 5:35PM. Here’s the summit block, and the West Ridge of Evans from Spalding Spalding: Summit Block Evans W. Ridge as seen from Spalding I scrambled back down and caught up with the Jamies a little below Spalding’s West Ridge. The trip down was rather painful and slow. There were no safe glissade paths to speed up the proceedings and we hobbled back to the trailhead at 7:45PM for a round-trip time of a little over 12 hours. Evans had turned from what we thought would be a casual stroll into a classic last outing for Calendar Winter 2008. I miss winter already and wish we could fast forward to December. If you plan to attempt the Sawtooth before Thursday, the best (and possibly most obvious) tip I can give you is to go over Bierstadt’s West slopes first and then traverse. There are some spots high on the ridge crest coming off Bierstadt’s summit that look wind-loaded and dangerous. There might be a way to cross it discreetly by sticking to rock. Closer inspection could tell… or an opinion from someone who’s been on Bierstadt recently. Images
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In another of the many amazing quotes in that 3,500-word NEWSWEEK interview with Steve Jobs, which appeared in a 1984 special issue of the magazine, the Apple co-founder totally envisions Siri—the virtual personal assistant the company announced earlier this week.
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Here’s how Apple pitches Siri on its site today:
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We’re talking a difference of 27, 28 years here, but Steve finally got his wish. The world finally got its “incredibly powerful helper,” one day before he died.
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State’s bubbling beer business is a reason to celebrate
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National chain JD Wetherspoon has spent £1.2million revamping the old Blu Bambu nightclub, in Albion Place.
The new pub will be named The Cooper Rose, after a Victorian vaccination needle, and have a capacity of nearly 1,000 punters.
The development, which has created 50 jobs, will officially open on Tuesday.
However, some lucky customers – who have received a ticket from Wetherspoons – will be able to give Wearside’s latest watering hole a test run during the daytime today and over the weekend.
The company already runs The Lambton Worm pub, just down the road in Low Row, and The William Jameson, in Fawcett Street.
However, the new bar will be branded as a Lloyds No 1, and have music, DJs and a dance floor.
“It’s a Wetherspoons during the daytime,” said manager Nik Chapman.
“Then from about nine or 10pm we almost turn it into a nightclub.”
The new pub has a bar on each of its two floors, and will specialise in real ales.
The Cooper Rose will be open from 8am every day, until 1am on Wednesdays; 2am on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; 3am Mondays; and 4am Fridays and Saturdays. Children, accompanied by an adult, will be welcome until 9pm throughout the week, with last orders for food at 8pm. As a condition on the licence, both adult and child must order a meal.
The Cooper Rose building used to house Durham Book Centre, before it was turned into Beach nightclub in 2001.
It underwent a million pound refit in 2006 and was re-named Blu Bambu.
In August 2008, the two clubbers made front page news after a shocking mobile phone video appeared, which captured them cavorting naked on stage.
The five-minute film showed hundreds of drunken revellers watching, as the pair stripped off their clothes before simulating sex with each other.
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Fresh Grill Cafe - Really Great!!!!.
Program was really effective. I saw results right away. Food was fresh and delivered promptly everyday.
Menu choices were ample. Very good variety in cuisines of food. Overall a really good experience and will use again in the future.
Thank you for helping me achieve my goal.
I must say that from beginning to end I had a great experience with Fresh Gill Café. The owner took the time to get to know my medical history to better understand what I needed. They worked on the menu with me to come up with the best plan for myself. Every week I picked out the food for the following week. I followed the program and couldn’t believe how much weight I lost (Don’t forget to drink that water ?) . I did this program before my wedding and they help me achieve my goal. I never experienced any problem with the delivery of the food. I leave my house by 6:20am every day and the food was always there waiting for me. I was expecting pretty blad food but was pleasantly surprised as some of the dishes were better than I had at some restaurants!! And you can tell that their food is fresh and not frozen.
Remember these meals are prepared for YOU! You pick out what you eat but you also have to be realistic. This program is designed to help you stay healthy so do not expect a 5 star quality dish (with tons of fat/calories/sodium). You will get the recommended portion (not the family style portion that us American’s have become accustomed to eating) only it will be prepared with the finest ingredients to keep you healthy.
I would definitely recommend this program to anyone who is trying to loose weight or doesn’t have the time to measure and cook healthy.
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so I just wanted to take a minute and give some feedback on my experience with Fresh Meal Program. firstly, as I am not used to having processed, can or out of jar food, I was having issues...this is what you will be getting btw. how about making a fresh salsa or pico de gallo or how about a nice cheese to apply to your tuna melt (that came placed on a wet soggy bread)
Things arrived so soggy day after day and meal after meal, and this could have been remedied by placing things into separate containers, or even wrapping the bread in paper or plastic wrap. I was also hoping for higher quality greens, that were not already brown by 8am. the greens you get are the ones you would get at a truck stop diner. it was terrible, nothing like the image they show on the site. not once did I get nice greens. the meats were every single time dry and tough... I'm afraid to ask where the meat came from. this program im sure can work if you have no taste buds and like airplane food.
the chef puts no thought or creativity into the food, presentation and let alone flavor... my goodness this was absolutely the worst meals I've ever had, even worse than airplane food, and I travel a lot and have some decent meals on a plane. the food is thrown together, and sadly when you open your little containers they look that way. I had to throw out a total of 6 meals, took a taste and tried to really consider it and then could not do it. the portions were also non-sensical. i.e. the strawberry parfait consisted of 5 table spoons of granola and one stawberry.
contrary to the name of your company I really thought I was going to be getting greens that tasted fresh! tasty asparagus even!
this was very much a waste of my money, I really wish this was refundable...so far not one thing has been tasty or presentable to eat and thats really sad. I had belly aches from the food.
I was told from an insider that the good reviews you are seeing were made by someone inside the company. SAD!!!!
please don't do pay for this!
worst money i ever spent.
the communication skills of customer service leave a lot to be desired.
when i placed my order i was told to write on the customer profile form what time i would like to driver to arrive in order to give him a key for secure delivery (give him a key?!) but i felt i had no choice b/c i already paid for the service... well i selected the time and no one arrived!! so much for sleeping that night!
then when i finally got the first cooler it was full of steak, chicken..shrimp. I am a strict vegetarian and I can not tell you how many times i reiterated this on my forms and on the phone with the company.
the next day after lots of wasted time on the phone, vegetarian food arrived. FINALLY! i thought i was in the clear until i got a call saying the driver never got any coolers from me so i would be charged for every day the cooler wasnt returned! seriously?! i find it hard to believe that every night the cooler i left out was stolen, yet the cooler the driver left was untouched? they tried to say my neighbors must have taken it.... i live in a house split into 2 apts... my neighbor is my grandfather... i was infuriated even further b/c after the driver never showed on the first day, i clearly never gave him a key so the coolers were always left on the porch. it all seems like the perfect scam to get money from customers... with all the "stolen coolers" the company makes an extra 100 dollars.
I am so dissapointed in this service and it is run in a very unprofessional manner... no two people have the same answer when you call customer service. and there isnt a care in the world for customer satisfaction. WHAT A CON
For people who really want results, not just food.. There's a difference between Fresh Grill and other meal programs, that is, you get actual results if you stick to it. I've been on it for three months now and have lost 21 pounds, getting the food five days a week. For "health food," it does not taste bad at all. Most people don't know what healthy food taste like because they they've never really had it, which is why they never get results. Customer service is spot on, menu selection each week and they cater to my peanut allergies.
it just doesn't taste good..
To sum up my experience with Fresh Grill Cafe, here are the pros and cons.
Pros:
* Convenient
* Well priced
* Fresh, not frozen
* Calorie controlled
* Friendly customer service
Cons:
* Not much variety
* Limited vegetarian options
* No ingredients listed
* Wasteful packaging (15 plastic containers!)
* Just doesn't taste good
* Not dependable (bad cooking instructions, wrong meals received)
The bottom line for me is taste. It will always be a challenge for a home meal delivery system to offer freshness and tasty food. For now, I'll keep cooking for myself.
Best Meal Program.
I would like to take a minute of your time to commend you on the service and quality of your product.
I started the program on Jan. 24 and in a matter of my first week on I am astonished. You really
Impressed me, the quality and quantity of food is amazing. I really don't have to think of anything
beyond putting my cooler outside my door before I go to bed and Every morning I have my food
for the day. I lost 5lbs in my first week, in which I cant believe because I feel like I ate more food
than I do when eating regular food. Also, I must say, the day of the storm that dumped 18" of snow on
us I did not expect to see my cooler refilled, but once again you pulled through.
I can't wait to see how much more I can loose.
Thanks
Steph M
AMAZING RESULTS!!. I have been doing the fresh mean program for about a month now. I can not express how this program has exceeded my expectations. First off the quality of food is unbeatable!! Everything is so fresh it’s like your eating home cooked food (which is exactly what it is). I have tried jenny craig and weight watchers before and the small frozen portions always left me hungry! I NEVER have this problem with this program. I actually thought I was eating too much. To my surprise in the past month I have lost a total of 21 pounds and three inches on my waist! I have medical problems and can not exercise so I could only imagine how much I would have lost if I had exercised!! I can not tell you how this program has changed my life!! I feel great, my confidence is back and I have a ton of energy. What’s also nice is that it teaches you how you should be eating and what portion size you should be eating. Coupled with the fact that I don’t have to go food shopping, cook or clean up it is a working woman’s dream!! I have and highly recommend this program!
Better of the group. As someone who has tried two other meal programs on separate occasions, I've been pretty happy with my experience so far. My one biggest complaint about meal programs before this has been that they have been frozen, almost like eating a Lean Cuisine all day everyday, but their food is fresh and delivered each morning, which is pretty convenient. The menu is rotated well and they observe by peanut allergies without concern, but what really matters is the price is right. It's worth a shot.
***DO NOT USE***. ***DO NOT USE*** - I did the delivery program with this company for two weeks and I have to warn people because its just not right. To start I was very disappointed in the quality of the food that I got on delivery. Sometimes I would recieve food that just smelled rotten. I would call and complain and they would replace it, but thats hardly the point. After I was talking to a friend of mine that works for the Board of Health in the gym I found that they have been recieving citations for health violations. If you are looking for meal delivery or going to eat around there do yourself a favor and find somewhere else.
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back to travel thailand again . Today we will invite you to meet the one of UNSEEN THAILAND at Samutsongkram Province .
Have you even been Samutsongkram ? Samut songkam is the smallest province in Thailand where locate in the the central area of THAILAND.
Today we have the oppurtunity to travel at Samutsingkram,and one sign take us to face back to watch What’s that ?.Church in the tree ( โบสถปรกโพธิ์ หรือ โบสถในต้นไม้ ), where is it ? we cannot see any church .But why many people disappear in that big tree . Uh… it’s interested .
This is the one of unseen Thailand ” Church in the tree ” .This temple was build since Krung Sri Ayuthaya ( more than 200 years ) .There are long history at this temple that recored in Ayuthaya War .We call this area “Kai Bang Kung ” mean Soldier resident at Bang Kung . One place is important that the old church where the local area has many respect ” Lung Phor Dum ” ( image of Buddha ). A special of this temple that there are many big trees brass this church.You cannot see the structure of this church ,you can see only door and windows .That’s look natural church .Inside this church you will find the important Buddha image that most respect of people .We recommend Don’t miss to visit ” Church in the Trees ” at Samut Song kram .
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😛 Not only Church in The Trees at Samutsongkram,but Samut songkram is famous about delicious Sea Food.Next time we will invite you to tasted the delicious Seafood HERE ! 😉
am looking fwd to the seafood just love thailand
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We never found out whether that supposed rodent in a can of Chef Boyardee was mold or what, but there seems to be little doubt that a U.K. bread-maker accidentally baked a mouse into one of its loafs. Proceed to the photo with caution. [Yahoo]
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That is the question. Is it good to weigh yourself every day, once a week or not at all?
So, my story is that my scale was not working for 2 months (the batteries were flat) and I put on 5 kgs…
Ok, ok, I can’t just blame the scale for that but having a scale and weighing myself every day does help. So, I fixed the scale and got back into my routine.
What I do is print out a calendar month from Outlook and have my goal weight in BIG numbers at the end. Then I weigh myself everyday first thing in the morning, and write it on that specific day. This does help!!!
Confront that scale. Make it become a habit.
Because I love my lists here is a list of other benefits for weighing every day…
★ Makes you accountable
★ Tracks your progress
★ Motivates you
★ Improves self-control
★ Shows what you are doing is working (or not)
★ Makes you in control of managing your weight
If the numbers on the scale stay the same or go up slightly, consciously or unconsciously you tend to be more careful that day about what you eat. You think twice before ordering that cookie with the coffee.
If you are consistent with weighing yourself, it allows you to catch weight gain before it escalates too far.
This could be That One Thing that you change in your life.
What the experts say– make sure you weigh yourself first thing in the morning, before you eat or drink, scale on a flat hard surface, wearing the same clothes (or no clothes!) and use the same scale.
Image from Giphy.com
What is your experience? What works for you? Do you weigh yourself?
Disclaimer: All the information on this blog is published in good faith and is not intended to substitute for professional advice. It is a compilation of my own experiences and research. Any action you take upon the information you find on Super Shazzer, is strictly at your own risk.
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Karin
I weigh myself once a month. If there’s a big jump up or down then I visit my GP.
Other than that I go by feel. If my jeans are a bit tighter, I cut down on sweets and carbs and run or add another sesh to my schedule.
I like the idea of printing it out though. Thanks for the tip!
Super Shazzer
Hi Karin, thanks for the comment. I tried to use how my jeans feel on me but just not enough… you just wear baggier clothes (in denial I know).
The print out works for me and there is that big goal weight at the end which is a motivator. Best wishes.
Sarah Althouse
I do not weigh myself. IN fact, most of my life I’ve been a little what people would consider “underweight.” At one point I did get a scale and tried to get my numbers up but it was just frustrating. Now I eat healthy, but as much as I want and don’t worry about the numbers.
Hemanth
I do weigh myself sometimes and it is a good thing to do.
Amanda
Love your list! I myself do not weigh myself. It makes me a little OCD at times. 🙂 I usually go by the way my clothes fit. This is a great topic and is so different for every woman I think. Thanks for the read!
D @ Be You and Thrive
I used to train and weigh in once a week to track progress. I found that it was helpful, yet also used progress photos once a week (I competed). Because muscle weighs more than fat, the progress photos were more helpful for my goals. Another great option is to be aware of how your clothes are fitting! Great article!
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sonali jain
Loved your post, i don’t weight myself . numbers never gonna matter. 🙂
Dawn
I used to think I didn’t want to know and I would just focus on taking care of myself. And then, I went over 45……….. I’m reminded that my body isn’t the same as it was 20 years ago. I need to weight myself often and do better keeping track of my progress.
Musings of a tired mummy...zzz...
I weigh myself about once a month, weight isn’t an issue for me. My partner weighs himself once a week to check how he is going reaching his goals
Corey | The Nostalgia Diaries
I lost a lot of weight about a year and a half ago and I was weighing myself multiple times a day. It’s taken a while, but I finally have kicked the habit, and now only weigh myself occasionally. It’s better for me this way!
Karen at MomAgain@40
If Zi don’t weig myself, I pick up weight as well! I always hope for the best, but it doesn’t work for me!
Great tips!
Divya
I’ve recently tucked my scale away for a little bit. It’s taking a vacation. I started weight training last month and the numbers on the scale are screwing with my mind. I feel stronger, I feel healthier, but I weigh more.
Brittany Ferrell
This is very interesting! I do not weigh myself. I let the doctor do that whenever I have a checkup. I like to judge myself on how I feel and that seems to work for me. Maybe I need a little alarm that says “Go to the gym! Chasing a toddler does not completely count as a workout!” Haha
Kristin
I understand both sides of the story… those who do better without a scale and those who need it. Personally I need it to keep myself accountable, otherwise I struggle big time!
Angie
Great post! I don’t weigh every day, because I would drive myself crazy, but I do weigh every week! Even when I’m not trying to lose weight I do it, to make sure I’m still maintaining and not starting to gain again!
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Unstoppable.
GQ has a great, greasy, poutine-splattered guide to eating in Brooklyn, complete with Alan Richman's declaration that the Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare is the best restaurant in New York. A while back, Richman professed his budding crush on the resto to Grub Street, saying, "Oh, and look at Brooklyn Fare — that's excellent food and service, yet you're still sitting on stools. I'm not judging by appearance." Other sweethearts include Vinegar Hill House, Cafe Grumpy, Mile End, and more of Brooklyn's
obvious best. [GQ]
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Researchers to Convert Starbucks Coffee Grounds Into Bio-Plastic
August 24, 2012
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Starbucks is funding research in Hong Kong to convert coffee grounds and leftover bakery goods into bioplastics, laundry detergents and other everyday products.
Carol S. K. Lin of the City University of Hong Kong leads the biorefinery research team and presented the work this week at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society.
Just as oil refineries convert petroleum into fuels and ingredients for hundreds of consumer products, biorefineries convert corn, sugar cane and other plant-based material into a range of ingredients for bio-based fuels and other products.
Estimates suggest 1.3 billion tons of uneaten food are dumped in landfills and otherwise wasted around the world every year. In Hong Kong alone, Starbucks produces 5,000 tons of used grounds and waste bakery items every year.
Starbucks project took shape during a meeting last summer between representatives of the nonprofit Climate Group and Lin at her laboratory in Hong Kong. The Climate Group asked if her biorefining technology could be applied to the wastes of one of its members — Starbucks Hong Kong. To help jump-start the research, Starbucks Hong Kong donated a portion of the proceeds from each purchase of its “Care for Our Planet Cookies” gift set.
The food biorefinery process involves blending soaps to medicines.
In addition to providing a sustainable source of succinic acid, the new technology could have numerous environmental benefits. Currently, the majority of food waste is incinerated or disposed of in landfills. By avoiding incineration, fewer pollutants enter the atmosphere, and by avoiding landfills, less methane (a greenhouse gas) is produced, while retaining the inherent value of the bio material. Because succinic acid and its products are made using food waste as a renewable feedstock, they are sustainable alternatives to products made with nonrenewable petroleum..”
Thirty-nine percent of Americans feel guilty about wasting food, according to a survey released earlier this month that asked about “un-green” activities such as not recycling, forgetting to bring reusable bags to the store, and leaving the lights on when leaving a room
@Bart_King is a freelance writer and communications consultant.
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- Conger is back, but what does future hold for him?
- Still slated for Friday, but Weaver not throwing yet
- Worth noting
OAKLAND -- If Sunday's small sample size was any indication, rookie Nick Maronde could become an important second lefty in the Angels' bullpen down the stretch.."
Conger is back, but what does future hold for him?
OAKLAND -- Switch-hitting catcher Hank Conger made his way back to the Angels' roster as part of their September callups on Tuesday, bringing to light what could be a tricky decision.."
Still slated for Friday, but Weaver not throwing yet
OAKLAND -- A couple of days removed from taking a liner to the right shoulder, Jered Weaver's status remains unclear. But it's looking unlikely that he'll be able to pitch against the Tigers this weekend..".
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Category Archives: Malta
48 HOURS IN MALTA
SENGLEA, MALTA
Senglea is the smallest of the Three Cities in the Cottonera. It is situated on a peninsula protruding into the Grand Harbor, facing the charming walled city of Valletta. I had never heard of Senglea, Malta before my visit there last week.
We were on Airbnb looking for places to stay and we ran across this amazing apartment, in a beautiful location, and at a great price. The apartment was beyond our expectations (you can see the apartment HERE) and the neighborhood was perfect.
Come explore the neighborhood with me at Southern Blue Traveler.
VISITING VALLETTA, MALTA
Valletta was built by the knights of St John on a tiny peninsula. It retains it’s 16th century elegance and has been described as on of the most concentrated historic areas in the world. The history alone makes it a place worth visiting but Valletta has so much more to offer. The people are friendly, the food is amazing, the shopping is great, and the scenery is awe inspiring.
You can read about my visit to Valletta at Southern Blue Traveler.
MARSAXLOKK BAY ~ MALTA
The small and picturesque fishing village of Marsaxlokk (pronounced marsa-schlock – meaning Southern Port) is located in the South Eastern part of Malta.
When searching for sites to visit while in Malta, Marsaxlokk came up in every search. I knew the moment I saw photos of the colorful, traditional Maltese fishing boats I had to see it for myself.
I have added a few of the photos below. You can see all of my photos and tips for visiting Marsaxlokk HERE at Southern Blue Traveler.
POPEYE VILLAGE ~ MALTA
I just returned from my European vacation and it was amazing! I visited three countries – Barcelona, Rome,and Malta. I have been to Barcelona and Rome but Malta was a new destination and I was excited to visit this beautiful Mediterranean island.
I am in the process of getting my Malta pictures online. You can see all of my photos of Popeye Village at Southern Blue Traveler.
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Stevie Johnson’s mocking of Plaxico Burress by pretending to shoot himself after the Buffalo Bills wide receiver scored a touchdown Sunday against the New York Jets drew a costly unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Johnson was regretful after the Bills lost, 28-24.
Johnson called his celebration “stupid.”
It was very stupid of me going through that and I feel like I cost our team the win by doing that..
Buffalo coach Chan Gailey said Johnson exercised “bad judgment.”
I don’t think he’s a bad person ,whatsoever. I think he’s a good person. I think he has some bad judgment at critical times. I’ve got to help him get over that. We cannot have that. It hurts our football team.
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Eat's A Date: Richie's Diner @ BF HomesMonday, January 06, 2014
Looking for an all-day-breakfast-diner around the southern part of the metro? It is time to visit Ritchie’s Diner at BF Homes, Paranaque City. They have loads of dishes to choose from their menu. The place is located along Aguirre Avenue. You can easily spot it with its striking yellow interiors and with its American-diner-vibe. Everything looks interesting as such as the chairs, the walls and paintings on the wall. They also have some flat screen tv, you can watch some tv shows or movies (depends on the channel, of course!! hihihi) while waiting for your order.
Check out the painting, the all-star Hollywood artists on the wall. It's Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, (insert name here), Johnny Depp and (insert name here). Sorry, I can't recognize the two actors. Comment their names, if you know it. hihi
Find ME. hehehe
I think this is a pork chop or a breaded chicken. It's my beau's order. I forgot to ask him what's the name of his order. churi.
My order. Beef Tapa with fried rice and 2 eggs. Yummy.
For the food, I can say their beef tapa would be one of the best tapas I have ever tasted. The serving was every generous. You will surely go home with the full stomach. This was not my first time to visit this place just my first time to write a review. Hehehe I ordered different kind of dishes from this diner and they never disappointed me so far. I always go home with a happy and a full tummy.
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Name: Ritchie's Diner
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Anyone interested in an HP 3330 Laser Jet? This thing is in like new condition. It is capable of serving a small office, but I used it only at home. The cartridge is almost new and it includes a second cartridge that is brand new... If you are interested, let me know. I will accept the best reasonable offer above $100.
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SWOSU TKEs Hosting Annual Dodgeball Tournament
As Patches O’Houlihan once said, “If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”
For all Southwestern Oklahoma State University students, area high school students and other adults wanting to test their dodging skills, the SWOSU Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity will host its 3rd annual Dodgeball Tournament on Wednesday, November 9, at 6 p.m. on Center Court in the Wellness Center on the Weatherford campus.
Games are five-on-five with at least two female players on each team. The entry fee is $5 per player and must be paid before the tournament begins. All participants will also have to sign a medical waiver.
Local merchants have donated cash and gifts to be awarded to the winners. Frank ‘N’ Steins will be at the event selling hotdogs, brats and drinks. TKE Theta Class President Lucas Coody said all proceeds from concessions and entry fees will provide the TKE pledge class with monetary assistance on membership dues and provide funds for various philanthropies that TKE offers throughout the year.
Registration forms are in the SWOSU Dean of Students Office, Stafford Center Room 211, or at the Wellness Center front desk.
For more information or to register by email or phone, contact Coody at [email protected] or 580.13.0363.
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