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Mary Flower dives into more blues in the key of E by teaching a movable chord.
Taught by Mary Flower in Fingerstyle Blues seriesLength: 4:30Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
Wow there is so much to that lesson!!!! Great stuff. Hard, but I'll keep rewinding until I get it!!!!:)
Realy enjoying this series Mary. Simple embelishments add a lot to solos.
its all these little things. that keep me coming back, thank you
Mazza is great... love her lessons!
Bass players not showing up? Is that why they call it a "Walking Bass"? Great little variation. Thanks again Mary!
The blues is a distinctly American style of music. Many popular genres such as jazz, rock, and country music draw upon basic blues concepts. Consequently, it is advantageous for any guitarist to study the blues.
Lesson 1
In this lesson, Mary Flower introduces herself and her playing style. She also discusses essential blues listening.Length: 11:14 Difficulty: 0.5 FREE
Lesson 2
In this lesson, Mary Flower talks about playing the blues in drop D tuning. She teaches two amazing song examples to get you started.Length: 21:50 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 3
In this lesson, Mary plays in the key of A major in drop D tuning.Length: 8:36 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 4
In this lesson, Mary Flower talks about the eight bar blues. She demonstrates it in a couple different keys.Length: 14:29 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 5
Mary Flower shows several songs that demonstrate the 8 bar blues.Length: 11:40 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 6
Mary Flower demonstrates two classic songs that feature an 8 bar blues structure. The songs are "How Long" and "Statesboro Blues."Length: 14:36 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 7
Mary Flower discusses various blues guitar techniques that can give your guitar a wonderful piano sound.Length: 13:41 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 8
Mary uses the songs "CC Rider" and "When I Lost My Baby" as examples in her discussion of the 12 bar blues.Length: 16:31 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 9
In this lesson, you will learn a blues duet that you can play with someone else. Or, you can record yourself playing one part and play the second part over it.Length: 16:53 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 10
Mary is back with another lesson filled with tips on playing the blues in the key of E.Length: 6:07 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 11
Mary talks about the song "Midnight Hour Blues" and gives some great tips on how to play this beautiful tune.Length: 9:36 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 12
Mary Flower dives into more blues in the key of E by teaching a movable chord.Length: 4:30 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 13
Mary talks a little bit about arranging songs and uses the song "John Henry" as an example.Length: 9:00 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 14
Mary teaches and discusses the history behind Mississippi John Hurt's song "Spike Driver Blues."Length: 15:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 15
Mary talks about diminished chords and looks at various different shapes. You will learn the song "Walking Across the Country" as an example.Length: 16:35 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 16
Mary teaches the classic song "Rag Time" by Rev. Gary Davis in this fun Blues lesson.Length: 23:16 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 17
Mary teaches a song called "Mississippi Blues" by Willie Brown.Length: 32:03 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 18
Mary Flower teaches the fun and catchy song "Saturday Night Rub" by Big Bill Broonzy.Length: 25:52 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 19
Mary talks about the key of F in this fantastic lesson.Length: 8:20 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 20
Mary teaches the song "South Carolina Rag" by Willie Walker.Length: 12:35 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 21
Mary Flower talks about the advantages of open D tuning.Length: 12:44 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 22
Mary Flower shares her interpretation of a classic blues slide tune called "Boogie Woogie Dance."Length: 16:44 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 23
Mary Flower shares some thoughts on the bass notes found within the song "Alabama Bound" in this lesson.Length: 6:31 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 24
Mary Flower talks about improvising a blues in A.Length: 13:05 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 25
Mary Flower teaches her rendition of "Sugar Babe," a Mance Lipscomb tune.Length: 9:49 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 26
Mary Flower teaches her rendition of "Michigan Water," a Jelly Roll Morton tune.Length: 13:18 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 27
Mary Flower teaches her rendition of "Bye Bye Baby Blues" by Little Hat Jones.Length: 12:47 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 28
Mary Flower shares her rendition of the spiritual song "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" in this lesson.Length: 10:33 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 29
Mary Flower shares an original song called "River of Joy."Length: 16:43 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 30
Mary Flower shares a song played in open D tuning that features alternating bass and syncopation.Length: 12:34 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 31
Mary Flower teaches her rendition of "M & O Blues," a Willie Brown song.Length: 15:44 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 32
Mary Flower teaches her rendition of the song "Colored Aristocracy."Length: 13:00 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 33
Mary Flower shares her modern rendition of "Turkey in the Straw."Length: 10:24 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 34
Mary Flower shares her rendition of the catchy blues tune "Trouble in Mind."Length: 8:22 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 35
Mary Flower demonstrates Carl Martin's arrangement of the song "Crow Jane."Length: 15:52 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 36
Mary Flower teaches her rendition of the song "Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" by Elizabeth Cotten.Length: 11:02 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
About Mary Flower
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Working in both the intricately syncopated Piedmont fingerpicking style and her own deeply bluesy lap-slide guitar, Mary has earned rave reviews from critics and audiences alike for her springwater-clear vocals and mastery of multiple guitar styles as well as her own compositions. Though she can create prewar blues and ragtime with the best of them, Mary draws on traditional, contemporary and original material to create something new: a sound uniquely her own that remains true to the timeless power of the blues.
Flower's elegant, funky and inventive playing on vintage guitars makes her one of a mere handful of women guitarists admired for their instrumental prowess. In 2000 and 2003 respectively, Mary placed in the top three at the National Fingerpicking Championship. Her career as an internationally known performer and teacher has spanned more than three decades.
A recent transplant to the Northwest, Mary cut her teeth on the Colorado music scene where she played with the likes of Katy Moffatt, Pat Donohue, the Mother Folkers and more. Mary took a detour in the 80s to raise a family, all the time woodshedding and performing locally.
Mary's CD Bywater Dance, recorded pre-Katrina in New Orleans for Yellow Dog Records, has garnered widespread acclaim. An award-winning player with seven solo cds and 5 instructional DVDs to her credit, Flower is in demand for festivals, concerts and guitar workshops on both sides of the Atlantic.
"Unassuming blues heroine Mary Flower proves one again that she's one of the nation's premier fingerstyle blues guitarists-- her technique is exceptional throughout, and in the end, serves the highest purpose, the music--unfailingly sweet, hot and sassy--every track on this album has something about it that will give you the shivers... This is one of the most satisfying albums of the year."
- All Music Guide to Blues
"Her crisp, fluid fingerpicking sounds deceptively effortless, with flawlessly executed syncopation, the hallmark of a bouncing, upbeat Piedmont style. From casual listeners to devoted blues fans, Flower's music is accessible to everyone"
- Blues Review
"With her immaculate guitar playing and warm contralto, Mary Flower finds the sweet spot between modern and rootsy in twelve tunes bred of back porches, parlors, street corners, juke joints and country churches...one of the best blues based singer songwriters working today."
- Acoustic Guitar Magazine
"Mary is one of those rare artists who manages to create a tincture of the aged authentic with the freshly original."
- Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine
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I want to rip a few CD's and encode the tracks into oggs.
Which cd ripping programs are the best? I don't care about speed - only quality and error detection/correction matters. I heard about cdparanoia, but it seems not to maintained for years...
most programs depend on the same libraries, so they use the same software to encode, decode, ... Cdparanoia is such a library, but it also has a terminal-frontend which is maybe included witht he lirbary. Cdparanoia is quite good I believe since it tries to correct mistakes that yoru cdrom, ... makes (not completely sure what it corrects).
For gnome I think that "goobox" is a a good ripper. I have to say I couldn't rip to flac (or ogg) <ith goobox, but maybe that wasn't a general problem or it maybe has been solved. In kde you can use "k3b" or just use the audio-ioslave (use konqueror to read the cd). With the lkast option you can browse the audio-cd like a file-system.
The difference between apllications are mostly the front-end stuff (gui, ...), different defaults, ...
hopes this helps you some,
I use abcde
If you didn't know ...
flac is a lossless codec (this means that evrything off the original sound is preserved and compressed)
ogg is a lossy codec like mp3, aac I believe, ... which means it throws away using some model I think so to create smaller files.
Kdemultimedia has one, KAudioCreator. Works very well and is perfect if you use kde.
I don't care about speed - only quality and error detection/correction matters. I heard about cdparanoia, but it seems not to maintained for years...
most of them use cdparanoia as a backend anyway...
grip, for instance, uses cdparanoia by default and can be extended with things like cdda2wav
Yeah, I just use grip because I'm lazy.
Read it. Love it. Live it. Or die.
I'll add to the list of people recommending Grip.
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ripperX is also simple, but looks like crap
ripperx rocks imo, just click click done. Sure it might not look the prettiest but it is very simple and well laid out for ease of use.
i use cd2ogg - nice little bash script.
Thanks for your replies.
A few weeks ago I ripped some cds with grip (using cdda2wav). I enabled parallel ripping and encoding.
I asked this question because I can hear some obvious artifacts: skips, exchanged left and rigth channel for a while. I want to do the ripping again, but I wonder what is the cause of the pour quality:
- my drive is a 2 years old cd burner
- linux sheduler bugs in 2.6.10 (I also listened to music while ripping and there were 2-3 skips!)
- bugs in cdda2wav.
I think I'm going to try something using cdparanoia, but I'm concerned that it was last updated in 2001.
One more thing: does anybody know a script which would just encode and tag the files? I want to extract cd a few times with both cdda2wav & cdparanoia and compare the results. Perhaps cd2ogg could be modified?
I'm not sure, but in the old days, when I used RipIt, it ripped raw tracks somewhere to tmp and, AFAIR, didn't rip it again if those files were still in tmp. So I guess that's the way just to encode and tag files.
But, anyway, mere lame/ogg/musepack/flac/whatever encoder direct usage should be enough. You don't need tags to compare quality, do you? :-)
I just need a simple thing which looks up cddb and tags all the files in current directory - without ripping/encoding. I checked abcde, and it seems it can do that
abcde -o ogg
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Retired city planner and former mayor joining with neighbors to battle the planned store
Neighbors, the former mayor and a retired city planner are combating Wal-Mart's plan for a store on the edge of downtown, arguing the proposal would violate city rules.
The store would replace a blighted strip mall at 2260 Ringling Blvd. that is currently home to an Ace Hardware, a party supply store and a lot of empty storefronts.
Wal-Mart has proposed demolishing the mall and replacing it with a similar-sized supercenter. Both the city and Wal-Mart say that plan meets zoning and neighborhood compatibility requirements.
But former city planner Mike Taylor, who has rewritten Sarasota zoning code for the past 20 years, says they are wrong.
"I don't have any axe to grind one way or the other, I just know what the code says," he said.
Wal-Mart must either tear down the nearly 100,000 square-foot strip mall and put a 15,000 square-foot building in its place, or it can keep 25 percent of the current building then demolish the other 75 percent and build it back to the same size of the original structure, he said.
The Alta Vista Neighborhood Association will ask city commissioners Monday to hold another hearing on the plan, where they can discuss their concerns about zoning and whether the store is compatible with the neighborhood.
"This is not really some holy grail crusade against Walmart," former mayor Kelly Kirschner said, adding that it is about a failure to comply with the rules and an oversight by a "decimated" city planning staff.
If the commissioners do not agree to the hearing they will pursue the matter in court, he said.
Tim Litchet, director of Neighborhood and Development Services for Sarasota, said the zoning issues that the community raised are not new. Courtney Mendez, the planner handling the project, addressed them at the November planning board meeting where board members voted 3-2 to approve the project.
"We are very comfortable with our initial staff report and our initial positive staff recommendations," Litchet said.
Susan Chapman was one of the Planning Board members who voted against the proposal, noting that the area requires small-scale development and a Walmart store is anything but that.
"I just thought the criteria were very clear and it didn't meet that criteria," Chapman said. She declined to comment further, because the issue could come before the Planning Board again.
At the November meeting, both Wal-Mart and Mendez argued that because the proposed Walmart would be about the same size as the strip mall, zoning requirements in the area that call for small-scale commercial offices are moot.
The codes are intended to prohibit big-box stores next to a neighborhood of single-family homes, Taylor said.
Architect Jerry Sparkman, who works near the site of the proposed Walmart, said this project turns its back on the community rather than promoting a more walkable city.
The Walmart would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week and have trucks making deliveries at all hours.
"The size, the scale, the flow of traffic is all changing for the worse," Taylor said.
Kirschner said he and others spent hours talking with Wal-Mart designers and planners about ways to remedy the situation. In the end, the store did not want to spend the money or time to make the changes, he said.
"Can this be done different? Of course it can be done different. This is their cookie-cutter box they put in," Taylor said.
But the city's summary of Wal-Mart's plan notes the store made an effort to add awnings, color variations, columns and windows to improve its design.
And at the Planning Board meeting, Mendez said the store would have buffers to make it fit better with the neighborhood, including landscaping and a stormwater pond.
Wal-Mart spent a lot of time working with the community to develop its site plan and responded to concerns by moving the store close to Ringling Boulevard and making it more pedestrian-friendly, company spokesman William Wertz said in an email.
He also said the store will bring 250 jobs and revitalize the old shopping area.


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Joel McHale: Chevy Chase Wanted to 'Fight Him,' Protested Pierce's Racism By Using N-word
So we all know by now that Chevy Chase is leaving Community after its fourth season. His stint as moist-wipes magnate and 12-year community college student Pierce Hawthorne has been marked by some pretty intense behind the scenes drama. First, he got into a voicemail war with series creator Dan Harmon. Then he went around calling the show a "mediocre sitcom." Tensions obviously were not alleviated when NBC fired Dan Harmon last May. In October, he dropped the N-word while, oddly enough, protesting his character's racism. Finally, after shooting had wrapped on Season 4 in November, it was announced he would be leaving the show for good.
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Now series star Joel McHale has opened up to Howard Stern about the behind the scenes battles with Chase. He says that every time he'd try to address Chase's concerns about the show, the actor would want to "fight him." The erstwhile Jeff Winger also claims that Chase said Richard Pryor told him it was okay to say the N-word. Looks like somebody should be outfitted with a white ivory toupée.
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10-10-10 Great American Ballpark
I came into today needing just six baseballs to break the single season record of 543 baseballs snagging in one season. After a dismal performance at my last game on September 29th, I was determined to bounce back.
Amy and I arrived at Cincinnati around 3PM, in plenty of time before the 5:07 gate time.
We parked a ways a way and made the walk along the Ohio River, but had fun goofing around on the way to the stadium:
Amy was along to keep me company and take pictures to document today's possibly record setting game.
Coming into the game, I needed six balls to break the all time single season record of 543 set by Zack Hample in 2008.
We killed some time before the gates opened by walking around Great American Ballpark, including wandering around the team store.
Here we are outside of the main gates:
I was able to secure a ticket through my Baker's Dozen Partial season ticket plan. Since I only had one seat in the plan, we went to Cincinnati hoping to buy an extra ticket for Amy. Since the game was sold out, we had to turn to scalpers. The cheapest ticket available was $250, and Amy refused to let me pay that. She insisted on sitting outside Great American Ballpark while I went in and did my thing. I reluctantly agreed and rushed inside when the gates opened.
Upon entering the stadium, the Reds were warming up.
Including Aroldis Chapman, the 105 mph throwing rookie.
I tried to get one of them to toss me a ball but failed. And since BP was getting underway, I darted out to the left field seats to get to work.
There, I caught ball #1 on the fly off the bat of catcher Corky Miller here:
I was to chase down my second ball soon after as it rattled around a seat in the same general area.
I used the Cleveland stick to prod a ball on the batter's eye close enough to reach for ball #3.
And returned to left field to snag a Jonny Gomes home run here:
That was the last ball I got during the Reds portion, and the seats were really starting to fill up when the Phillies came to bat.
After getting shut out by the first group, I headed over to right center field in hopes of snagging a Shane Victorino, Ryan Howard or Chase Utley home run ball to tie the single season record. It happened, and I happened to be video taping when it did. The ball hit behind me and ricocheted down towards me, and I was able to smother it just as several other fans reached for it. Here's the video evidence! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTdHPeEtoug
So, at the very least, I would finish the 2010 season tied for the single season record.
In the meantime, I didn't get anything else from that group, and my hope rested on the final group of bench players. Since they were mostly right handed, I headed back to left field.
That's when this guy:
I don't know who:
Launched a deep fly ball. It was going over my head, so I started running up the stairs in the open aisle. I was able to make the catch as I headed up the stairs in a reaching back hand fashion. It was a great catch, and it set the single season record at 544 balls in a single season!
After making the catch, I asked a nearby fan to take a photo for me with the ball.
I left after batting practice to meet Amy, I didn't want her to be alone for too long. I showed her the record setting ball:
She was really happy for me:
Re-enactment of the catch of 544:
It was getting late, so I bid farewell to Great American Ballpark,
and the 2010 season, as this was my final game.
Today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 6 balls (5 hit, 1 device)
Season: 544 balls (261 hit, 131 thrown, 75 device, 77 found)
Games: 88 games
Average: 6.18 balls per game
2010 Game Balls: 6
Career: 1,122 balls
Attendance: 44,599


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Since I first posted these pancakes, almost 7 years ago, over 900,000 people have visited my web page to get this recipe .... it is just THAT tasty!!
3/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons white vinegar (see note)
1 cup all purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar (I used 3)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine the milk and vinegar in a small bowl for 10 minutes to "sour". This is an important step and it is called "soured milk" which is much different that sour milk. I guarantee you will NOT taste the vinegar in the final product. Set aside.
Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl. In a smaller bowl, whisk the soured milk, egg, vanilla and melted butter together. Pour into the dry ingredients and whisk until most of the lumps are gone, but DO NOT OVER BEAT!!
The batter will be thick, don't add any more liquid. LET THE BATTER SIT UNDISTURBED FOR TEN MINUTES!!
NOTE: This recipe only feeds about 3 or 4 people, but doubles or even triples nicely.
NOTE: Don't skip the soured milk part of this recipe, you will not taste the vinegar in the pancakes. The vinegar super-activates the baking soda.
NOTE: You can substitute BUTTERMILK for the milk+vinegar in this recipe, but I have had the best luck (fluffiest pancakes) using the milk and vinegar.
NOTE: A few people have written to me and said that their pancakes weren't quite as fluffy or tall as mine. I suspect they are stirring the batter just before cooking the pancakes.
Stirring or pouring the batter essentially deflates the air bubbles in the batter. Personally, I use a half cup measuring cup and GENTLY dip out batter and put it on the griddle and I always get super fluffy pancakes.


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Greenwich teen remembered as fierce Darien athlete
Emily Fedorko was the kind of gymnast any coach would want on his team.
She was strong-willed, competitive and excelled at the sport, said John Schwartz, the Darien YMCA gymnastics director.
The 16-year-old girl was killed in a tubing accident off Greenwich Wednesday afternoon.
"It's devastating to our gym," Schwartz said.
Emily was a member of the Darien YMCA house team, which she joined in September 2010, after leaving the U.S. Academy of Gymnastics with several other gymnasts. She was 12 when she entered the Y's gym," Schwartz said.
Emily stopped competing in 2011, but rejoined the team to train for the Greenwich High School gymnastics squad. Her younger sister is also a Darien gymnast and the two were fiercely competitive and shared a tight bond, Schwartz said.
"These guys were incredibly close," Schwartz said. "At the same time, they were incredibly competitive, not just against other athletes but against each other."
Schwartz, who learned of Emily's death around 5 p.m. Wednesday, said he never had seen athletes as competitive as Emily and her sister.
"She was a really sweet kid," Schwartz said. "She was strong-willed and I can't say enough good things about her. She was beautiful and incredibly smart."
Emily, who would be have been a junior at Greenwich High School this year, was an honor student.
Schwartz said Emily had "a lot of friends, a lot of really close friends."
On Wednesday, Emily and another teenager were speeding on a tube atop the waters of Captains Harbor, a mile or two from Greenwich Point, when they fell off sometime between 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., police said. The girl driving the boat pulling them, also 16, turned to pick them up, and the boat collided with the two girls in the water, police said.
Emily was severely injured by the boat's propeller. Her companion, 15, suffered a serious injury to her lower leg and was transported to Stamford Hospital. Her injury was not life threatening.
"It's scary when you have young kids out on the water," Schwartz said. "We can always look back and say we should have done this and could have done that but this accident was just a freak accident. It could happen to anybody."
There were two other teenage girls on the boat at the time, including the driver.
"It's a tragic sequence of events," said Greenwich Police Lt. Kraig Gray. "The girls were out having a good time."
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Current Status: The United States currently has no mandatory data retention law. However, if providers of electronic communications or remote computing services store electronic communications or communications records, the government may obtain access to the stored data under the Stored Communications Act (SCA), enacted as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in 1986. The SCA also establishes mandatory data preservation, under which providers must preserve stored data for up to 180 days on government request.
Precisely how government officials may compel providers to grant access to such data depends on several variables, including the type of service the company is providing the user, the type of data, and in the case of stored communications content, the length of time the data has been in storage. The SCA also allows providers to voluntarily disclose such data to the government in emergencies where delay in disclosure involves danger of death or serious physical injury to a person. In general, compelled access to communications content requires a court order. By contrast, compelled access to data such as user/subscriber name, address, telephone number, and records of phone calls and communications requires an administrative subpoena, which is not issued by a court.
Two bills introduced in the Congress in 2009 would have required all Internet providers and operators of WiFi access points to keep records on Internet users for at least two years to assist police investigations, but neither bill became law. Some legislators and law enforcement officials continue to argue, however, that mandatory data retention is necessary to investigate online child pornography and other Internet crimes. In January 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing that again raised questions about whether Congress should pass legislation that would force ISPs and telecom providers to log Internet user traffic data. In May 2011, the "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011" (H.R. 1981), which would require retention of such traffic data, was introduced in the House of Representatives.
Promoted as a way to crack down on child pornography, H.R. 1981 uses the potential abuse of children as a pretext to order Internet companies to spy on users, and force ISPs to retain data about innocent Internet subscribers in the hopes that it might one day be useful to law enforcement. Under H.R. 1981, ISPs would have to maintain "temporarily assigned network addresses" to enable the identification of a subscriber. At a minimum, this refers to the IP addresses assigned by ISPs, including the Internet services associated with mobile phones. It could also potentially include mobile phone numbers or other forms of cell phone identification, such as the three major mobile device identifiers: IMEI, IMSI, TMSI. These IDs for mobile devices are unique identifiers that mobile phone companies use to track handsets and the accounts associated with them.
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Frequency dependence of dispersive phonon images
K. Jakata‡; A.G. Every
School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa
ABSTRACT]]> In the past, lattice dynamics models have been used in interpreting dispersive phonon focusing patterns of crystals. They have had mixed success in accounting for observed images and, moreover, different models applied to the same crystal tend to differ significantly in their predictions. In this paper we interpret observed phonon focusing images of two cubic crystals, germanium and silicon, through an extension of continuum elasticity theory that takes into account the first deviation from linearity of the phonon dispersion relation. This is done by incorporating fourth-order spatial derivatives of the displacement field in the wave equation. The coefficients of the higher-order derivatives are determined by fitting to phonon dispersion relations for the acoustic branches measured by neutron scattering in the [100], [111] and [110] symmetry directions. With this model we simulate phonon images of Si and Ge projected onto the (100), (110) and (111) observation planes. These are able to account well for the observed phonon images.
At liquid helium temperatures, acoustic phonons in non-metallic crystals acquire macroscopic mean free paths, and can be observed with heat pulse techniques to travel ballistically through a sample, rather than diffusively as in heat conduction. Phonon imaging is a technique for studying the pronounced directionality of ballistic phonon flux in crystals (see Fig. 1). In this technique a highly focused pulsed laser or an electron beam is used to excite non-equilibrium phonons at a small spot on the surface of a crystal immersed in a liquid helium bath at a temperature of about 2 K.1 The ballistic phonon flux emanating from this heated spot is detected on the opposite face of the crystal with a bolometric or frequency-selective tunnel junction detector. Small detector sizes are required, 1030 µm2, for good angular resolution of the ballistic phonon flux.1
Raster scanning the phonon source with the detector at a fixed position (the converse is less convenient) results in a two-dimensional 'phonon image' representing the spatial anisotropy of the heat flux in the crystal. Phonon images reveal pronounced anisotropy of the phonon flux, mainly due to an effect called phonon focusing, which is the central theme of this paper. A number of calculated and experimental phonon images for germanium and silicon are shown later in the paper. All of the measured images have been reproduced with permission from the authors. Brighter regions in these images correspond to higher phonon intensity, with the very intense sharp lines being caustics where the phonon flux is mathematically infinite.]]> The detected signal in phonon imaging consists of a number of pulses corresponding to the arrival of phonons belonging to the fast transverse (FT), slow transverse (ST) and longitudinal (L) acoustic branches. The labels in the phonon image in Fig. 5(b) refer to structures due to the FT and ST modes of phonon propagation. The longitudinal mode is not included in our phonon imaging calculations for reasons explained in a later section.
The wave equation and effects of dispersion]]> The propagation of long wavelength phonons in a crystal is well accounted for by continuum elasticity theory. Assuming homogeneity of the elastic constant tensor, Cijlm, and density ρ, the wave equation for the displacement field ui in a general anisotropic solid is
Equation (1) admits harmonic plane wave solutions of the form ui = Uiexp[i(k·r ωt), where k is the wave vector and ω the angular frequency, subject to
ρω2Ui = CijlmkjkmU1.
This is usually written in the form known as Christoffel's equation,
Γil = Cijlmnjnm / ρ,
is the Christoffel matrix and ni are the direction cosines of k, i.e. n = k/k, and δil is the Kronecker delta. This is a set of three equations for the components of the unit polarization vector Ui. The eigenvalues of Equation (2), ν2, are the squares of the phase velocities of the three modes of polarization of the acoustic waves. The slowness or inverse phase velocity vector is defined as s = k/ω = n/ν with direction along k. A radial plot of the locus of the slowness vectors gives the slowness surface. This surface has the shape of the constant frequency surface in k-space. A cross section of the three sheets of slowness surface in the (010) plane for Si is shown in Fig. 2(a). Except for the longitudinal sheet, which is entirely convex, three-dimensional slowness sheets have regions of convex, concave and saddle curvature. The lines separating these regions are parabolic lines where the Gaussian curvature is zero. A three-dimensional plot of the ST sheet of the slowness surface of Si is shown in Fig. 2(b). Shaded regions are of saddle curvature and unshaded regions are of convex or concave curvature.
The group velocity or ray vector of a phonon in an elastically anisotropic medium is given by the gradient of ω(k),]]>
Equation (3) implies that rays are normal to their constant frequency or slowness surface, as depicted in Fig. 2(b) by the arrows. The collection of these rays defines the ray surface. The ray surface has a complicated shape with folds corresponding to parabolic lines on the slowness surface as shown in Fig. 3, which depicts a (100) cross section of the transverse sheets of the ray surface of Si. The cusps in this figure arise from the sectioning of the folds in the ray surface.
The wave vectors near parabolic lines have nearly the same rays, which cluster strongly at the folds, and these map onto lines of infinite phonon intensity in the phonon image, the caustics.2 The acoustic surfaces of Si and Ge are similar in shape but differ in size by about a factor of 2.
Dispersive phonon imaging
In order to accommodate the effects of the first onset of spatial dispersion within continuum elasticity theory for centrosymmetric crystals such as Ge and Si, the wave equation is modified to include fourth-order spatial derivatives of the displacement field (see DiVincenzo3),
The coefficients of the first term on the right, cijlm, are the conventional non-dispersive elastic constants, while the coefficients of the higher-order term, fijlmnk, are the dispersive elastic constants.
Assuming a plane wave solution to Equation (4) of the form ui = Uiexp[i(k·r ωt)], we obtain the linear equations for the polarization vector Ui,
]]> and associated secular equation
which represents the dispersion relation Ω(k, ω) = 0.
For crystals of cubic symmetry, the elastic tensor cijlm has three independent components, which in the Voigt notation are C11, C12 and C44. The f tensor has six independent components called f1, f2, f3, f4, f5 and f6.3
Writing Equation (5) in the form ρω2Ui = DijUj, the components of the dynamical matrix are given by3
Using Equations (7) and (8), one can derive expressions relating the wave vector and the frequency along the symmetry directions of a centrosymmetric cubic crystal, which we fit to published neutron scattering data to obtain the values of the Cαβ and the fi terms. For the longitudinal and two degenerate transverse modes in the [100] direction, these expressions are
]]> Along the [111] direction, the expressions for the L and the two degenerate T modes are
and finally, the dispersion relations for the [110] direction, where the transverse modes are not degenerate, are
In fitting these dispersion relations to neutron scattering data for these symmetry directions, we are confronted with two over-determined problems. One is for the non-dispersive elastic constants for which there are seven equations for the three parameters, derived from the initial slopes of the measured dispersion relations of the acoustic branches. The other is for the six dispersive elastic constants for which there are again seven equations, derived from the initial curvatures of the measured dispersion relations. We have obtained the values of the parameters from optimized fitting to neutron scattering data for frequency ω, versus reduced wave vector k up to 0.4 (in units of 2π/α, where α is the lattice parameter of the crystal). For germanium, data were obtained from Nilsson and Nelin.4 Data for silicon along the [100] and [111] directions and for the longitudinal and one of the transverse acoustic modes in the [110] directions was obtained from Dolling.5 For the remaining transverse acoustic mode in silicon, data were extracted from Nilsson and Nelin.6 The value of the parameter fits are listed in Table 1.
The fit of the calculated dispersion curves to neutron scattering data for germanium is shown in Fig. 4. The data points represent neutron scattering data extracted from ref. 4. Generalized continuum elasticity theory fits well the experimental dispersion relation data up to about k = 0.4 but not much beyond that. This is because the extension of continuum theory involves a truncated Taylor series expansion of the real microscopic lattice dynamics and must eventually fail.3,7,8 This model is therefore limited to the first bending over of the dispersion curves. It does not apply to phonons near the Brillouin zone boundary, which do not in any case have a significant effect in phonon imaging because of their small group velocities and high scattering probabilities. Similar quality fits to Fig. 4 have been obtained for neutron scattering data on Si.]]>
Dispersive phonon images of Ge and Si
A program has been developed to calculate dispersive phonon images of cubic crystals in accordance with the following procedure: A random distribution of wave vectors in three-dimensional k-space up to |k| = 0.3 is generated. For each wave vector, the roots of the cubic equation in ρω2, Equation (6), are calculated. The ray vectors are then calculated from (3) and for each ray we find its point of intersection with the chosen imaging plane. The imaging plane is divided into 500 by 500 bins and the numbers of rays falling into each of the bins are collected in a matrix. This matrix is then plotted as a grey-scale image with high phonon intensity, i.e. high count, represented by bright areas whereas dark regions represent low phonon intensity. Using this program, we can simulate phonon images for a chosen range of frequencies, or wave vectors and also velocity-gated images.
Figure 5(a) shows a phonon image of germanium in the (110) observation plane with the [110] direction at the centre of the image, that was measured with a bolometric detector by Dietsche et al.9 and shows little effect of dispersion. Figure 5(b) was calculated for the same geometry and by selecting phonons with frequencies ranging from 0.0 THz to 0.3 THz and using the parameters from Table 1 for Ge. The phonon focusing structures labelled ST and FT are due to slow transverse and fast transverse phonons, respectively. The variation in intensity in these phonon images is mainly due to phonon focusing, which is the clustering of phonon rays due to the non-spherical shape of the slowness surface. This focusing of phonon trajectories becomes infinite where the curvature of the slowness surface is zero, and this is the origin of the sharp line caustics in the images.
The longitudinal sheet of the slowness surface is separated from the ST and FT slowness sheets and is entirely convex, without any parabolic lines. The corresponding wave surface of the L mode does not have any folds and is also entirely convex, which means that it does not produce any caustics in the phonon image.10 For this reason the longitudinal mode is rarely included in phonon imaging observations or calculations and is disregarded in this paper.
Figure 6(a) shows an experimental image of Ge for the same geometry obtained with a tunnel junction detector sensitive to frequencies above 0.7 THz. There are changes in the focusing pattern due to phonon dispersion. The diamond-shaped structures centred on the 〈100〉 directions near top and bottom centre have become rounded. The curved horizontal and vertical caustics due to fast transverse caustics have become more widely separated. The threefold symmetric ST structure around the 〈111〉 directions is absent from the measured image at this frequency. A calculated phonon image of Ge for the 0.71.0 THz frequency range in the (110) plane is shown in Fig. 6(b). The distance between the FT caustics in the calculated image has increased in conformity with the experimental image. Compared with the non-dispersive phonon image in Fig. 5(b), the outer diamond has become rounded and the inner structure has become much smaller at the higher frequencies. Another image was calculated for frequencies around 0.85 THz and selecting phonons with wave vector k up to 0.15 [Fig. 6(c)]. This wave vector selection results in the exclusion of phonons with smaller wavelengths, which are more susceptible to scattering, and this has the greatest effect on phonons near the slow 〈111〉 directions. This may explain the absence of the ST phonon focusing structures around the 〈111〉 directions in the measured image.
A comparison between a low-frequency experimental image obtained with a silicon crystal and a continuum model calculation is shown in Fig. 7. These images are for the (100) observation plane of the crystal with the [100] direction at the centre of the image. The measured phonon image in Fig. 7(a) was obtained with the use of a tunnel junction detector with an onset frequency of 0.44 THz.9 A frequency range of 0.440.54 THz was used in the calculation of the phonon image in Fig. 7(b). There is qualitatively good agreement between the experimental image and the calculated image. The inner box structure in the calculated image is just about the same size as the one in the experimental image. The blurring in the experimental image has been attributed to the scattering of phonons.11
Figure 8 shows phonon images for Si for the same geometry as in Fig. 7, but for higher frequencies. Figure 8(a) is an image measured by Tamura et al.11 using a tunnel junction detector with an onset frequency of 0.7 THz. The effects of dispersion at these frequencies are less than for Ge, because the Si vibrational spectrum is scaled up by about a factor of 2 compared with that of Ge. Nevertheless, there are noticeable changes to the image above 0.7 THz. The outer box structure is slightly more rounded and the inner box slightly smaller. These effects are reproduced in Fig. 8(b), which is a calculated image for the frequency range 0.7 < f < 0.9 THz. Going to the much higher frequency range 1.9 < f < 2.0 THz, shown in Fig. 8(c), there are pronounced changes to the calculated image.
The changes in the phonon focusing patterns of Ge and Si predicted on the basis of modified continuum elasticity theory using data from neutron scattering dispersion relations agree well with experimental observation.
J. P. Wolfe is thanked for his interest in this work, and for permission to reproduce some of his measured phonon images. This work has been supported by the National Research Foundation.
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Received 26 May. Accepted 17 August 2008.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and wash the car. Few things are more satisfying than spraying your car with the hose and wasting 500,000 gallons of fresh water in the process. LET'S GO!
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS – 8:00PM Tonight (NBC) NBC's newest comedy not only shares the exact same title as the new Justin Timberlake/Mila Kunis film, it shares the exact same premise as well, with a boy and a girl hopping into bed together but staying "just friends." It will shock you to learn that THIS SITUATION IS NOT TENABLE. And why didn't they retitle the thing? Do they think so little of it that they couldn't be bothered to give the show a title of its own, like "Strictly Casual," or "Hey! We're Bumpin' Uglies!"? You get the pilot tonight and then one bonus episode afterward, so savor the flavor, because this show probably won't stick around for very long. For you see, I want to watch this show, but without all the pesky romantic attachments to it. ANTICIPATION: WATCH WITH BENEFITS!
WHO IS SIMON MILLER? – 8:00PM Saturday (NBC) It's a good old fashioned TV movie, this one about a geologist who goes missing. Turns out he's led a secret double life the whole time. Ready for this? He was a geologist AND a paleontologist. Slippery bastard! ANTICIPATION: INTRIGUE!
HILLBILLY HANDFISHIN' – 10:00PM Sunday (Animal Planet) It's the long-awaited premiere of this docuseries about a group of Oklahoma fishermen who catch catfish with their BARE HANDS. No rods. No reels. That's for city folk. Out here, you done catch them with your hand or your teeth, or you ain't no fisherman. ANTICIPATION: NO WONDER IT LASTS AN HOUR!
INTO THE UNIVERSE WITH STEPHEN HAWKING – 9:30PM Sunday (Discovery) The Discovery family of networks is getting all deep with you Sunday night, featuring a special across three networks debating Stephen Hawking theories on God (he doesn't believe in Him), then this 90-minute special featuring Hawking himself that explores the origins of the universe and how it does or doesn't tie to the idea of divinity. Best to smoke something strong beforehand. ANTICIPATION: HEATED!
TY'S GREAT BRITISH ADVENTURE – 8:00PM Sunday (ABC) Presumably as payback for sending America Jamie Oliver, ABC sends "Extreme Makeover" nutjob Ty Pennington over to England to help rebuild a community pool and confuse and frighten poor British townsfolk with his terrifying enthusiasm. Why is he yelling? What's he doing with that hammer? BLIMEY! ANTICIPATION: CULTURE CLASH!
Weekend Watch List: Other Friends With Benefits
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and wash the car. Few things are more satisfying than spraying your car with the hose and wasting 500,000 gallons of fresh water in the process. LET'S GO!


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September 18, 2012
Tips for Visiting Biltmore Estate – Part 2
Posted by: TOM WATSON
Part 2 of our Tips for Visiting the Biltmore Estate covers touring the Biltmore House and Antler Hill Village and Winery.
Touring the House
Leave plenty of time to tour the house. A self-guided tour can 2-3 hours, depending on your interest level.
- To the right of the main entrance to the house is the building that originally housed the stables. There you will find an outdoor courtyard with food vendors, the Stable Shops and the Stable Cafe, a full service restaurant. You will also find the only public restrooms there.
- Be prepared to consume all food and beverages before entering the Biltmore House. These items cannot be taken inside.
- There are countless photo opportunities outside of the house, but photography is not allowed inside.
- We recommend purchasing the optional self-guided audio tour. The history of each room and "back stories" are fascinating and well done. The equipment can be rented at the Guest Services desk immediately to the right as you enter the foyer.
- There are additional guided tours available. The Behind the Scenes Tour is a favorite because it gives you a closer look at the design and construction of Biltmore House by going into areas not on the regular house visit. You will also enjoy the stunning views and photo opportunities from the rooftop and balconies.
Touring Antler Hill Village and Winery
Antler Hill Village and Winery is located five miles from the Biltmore House. To visit, you will have to drive your car there. The shuttle busses do not provide transportation from the Biltmore House to Antler Hill Village.
As you drive to Antler Hill Village you might want to stop to enjoy the most dramatic view of Biltmore House. When you pass Bass Pond, look for the Lagoon on your left. There is a narrow unpaved road at the far end that crosses a small bridge and takes you around the lagoon for a stunning view of the back of the Biltmore House.
- History buffs will not want to miss The Biltmore Legacy building located in Antler Hill Village. The exhibits change periodically. Currently, the exhibit is The Vanderbilts at Home and Abroad. This exhibit gives you a fascinating look at the lives of George, Edith and Cornelia Vanderbilt. See rare objects from the Vanderbilts' personal collection. Entry to the exhibition is included in estate admission.
- Your admission ticket includes a guided tour and tasting at the Biltmore Winery. This is a must for anyone interested in the art and science of winemaking, or just tasting wine.
- Also on display is the Vanderbilts' car, a rare 1913 Stevens-Duryea Model C-Six seven-passenger touring car. This car is the only car in the Biltmore Company's collection that was purchased by George Vanderbilt. It is believed to be one of only 10 models existing today.
Dining on Biltmore Estate
There are five restaurants on the estate: The Stables Cafe, The Bistro, Cedric's Tavern, The Smokehouse and The Dining Room (in The Inn on Biltmore Estate). Biltmore embraces the "farm-to-table" concept. Much of the food served in the restaurants is grown or produced right on the estate. Our favorites are: Stables Café (located next to the house), The Bistro, and Cedric's Tavern (both located in Antler Hill Village). The Bistro is the most upscale of the three. The Stables Cafe is bustling with families during the day. Cedric's Tavern is casual and has outdoor seating in the warm months. For a quick snack while touring the house, the courtyard outside the Stables building has "quick serve" food and beverages, including gourmet pizza, a coffee shop and bakery, and ice cream. There is plenty of seating in the courtyard.
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Terry and Deborah. For some of us, it is our first International Quilt Festival whereas others have been before. Either way, we are excited. Not long now!
You can be certain that all of us will be packing our cameras so that we can record our experience. In case you're wondering, PHOTOGRAPHY IS WELCOME in the Twelve by Twelve area in accordance with the following general photography rules at the International Quilt Festival. If sharing online, please credit and link to Twelve by Twelve www.twelveby12.org:
IQF Quilt Photography Rules
• Photos taken at Festival are for your personal enjoyment and for sharing with family, friends, and fellow guild members who could not attend. Photos are not to be used for any commercial purpose. They are not to be posted on any web site which freely permits images to be used on items that may be purchased, such as T-shirts, mugs, note cards, etc.
• If you post your photos to your personal web site, you must include appropriate credit for each quilt artist and note that the photos were taken at International Quilt Festival. If you post pictures to your account on a "photo-sharing" web site, you MUST also disable any function that would allow viewers to order the images on any goods.
• Do note that some exhibits prohibit photography, and this includes pictures taken with a cell phone camera. Please refer to signage by the exhibit ... Please be responsible in your use of the quilt photographs and help us to protect the rights of the quiltmakers and wearable artists. Photography at Festival is neither a right nor an entitlement—it is a privilege.


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"Should I buy a new printer or fix the old one?" I don't know how many times I've heard this question, but I wish I had a nickel for each time. Of course, if they asked a salesperson, he'd have a ready answer for them... always "yes". But as a technician, I like to analyze the question a little before giving an answer. The standard equation was always that if the repair costs more than half the machine, then replace it. But as printer technology advances, and smaller printers last longer, that standard is changing.
Just to give you an example, a $1,000 laser printer might easily last 150,000 pages before ever breaking down. When it finally does need repairs, a $500 maintenance kit (including labor) is nothing to wince at. It's standard almost. And the $500 will most probably carry you through another 150,000 pages. In a case like that, if you'd replaced that printer, you would have wasted $500.
So once we get down to the dollar for dollar, the modern equation has changed, even though the standard answer from printer dealers hasn't.
Of course, the question of repair cost and printer cost isn't the only thing to consider anymore. You have to consider down time, technological advances, and a whole mess of other things. In the end, you won't get a short, simple answer... but you can make a list of pros and cons taking into account each of the following:
Small Consistent Repairs - If a machine breaks down every other month, it's probably time for an upgrade... even if the repairs are cheap. They aren't supposed to break often. If yours is, then either the parts are getting old and brittle, or the machine itself isn't made for the amount of work you're giving it. An acceptable 'break free' period is four months.
Parts - With smaller machines, parts availability is usually the deciding factor when trying to decide whether to replace or repair. Especially with inkjet printers. As a matter of fact, the odds of being able repair an inkjet machine is very slim, because inkjet parts are usually not manufactured--the machine was designed to be replaceable.
Down Time - Sometimes it's not the end of the world when a machine sits in the corner for a week waiting for parts. Sometimes it is the end of the world. If your business relies on your machine, then you need to consider a few things: 1-Is the machine reliable enough to go for long periods without breaking? 2-Is the machine a popular model, and are there parts readily available when the machine DOES break? 3-do you have anything for 'backup'? If you answered 'no' to any of these questions, you ought to think about buying a good, reliable, POPULAR machine.
Technology - Hey--it changes, and it changes fast. If you're still using something with a parallel port, then it might be time to switch over. Yes, they'll always have things to help you convert from USB to parallel, but there are other software and memory changes that might make it impossible to use old printers. If you're thinking about upgrading your computer systems in the next couple of years, you ought to upgrade your printer as well.
Supplies - It's really hard to let go of an old printer when you have a whole stack of unused toner cartridges. Especially if you can't sell them to recover some of your cost. If the printer is costing too much to repair, then you end up spending a dime to save a nickel. However, some of the 'old reliables' can be used for bulk printer or for back-up printers, so it's not always a total loss.
While these are all good things to consider when paying for a printer repair, sometimes the final decision comes down to a simple budget consideration. The most important question might simply be: Do we have enough money budgeted for a new printer? Your technician can't help you answer that, but his experience can usually help you foresee the price you'll pay if you hold on to your old machine.
Cheap Computer and Laptop Repair Services - Pros and Cons
The cyber-world is full of threats such as viruses, spyware, Trojans, Worms and etc. These can affect your PC and even steal your personal information. These cyber-threats can cause huge dilemmas to your PC. Always have an anti-virus guard installed. Upgrade the program and schedule regular updates. Your software's database should be updated for a full-protection.
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These days, many IT businesses are incorporating laptops & LCD Monitor desktops into their expertise infrastructure. These lovely & handy laptops allow you to do your work at your own ease even when you are not in your work-place. They attach flexibility and anyplace, anytime access to your business. Moreover, these laptop computers are absolutely useful while traveling. You can be in touch with your business associates anytime as the requirement may be. Not only in work-places, these laptops are fast becoming popular among educational institutions & students. An ever increasing number of schools are now endorsing the use of laptop computers. But as the saying goes every coin has 2 sides even here there is another side . If anything goes wrong with their functioning, it is exceedingly difficult to get them repaired quickly and at reasonable rates. And in this age no business would want to suffer for lack of dependable laptop repair service centers. We generally are constantly vexed by the question "How to fix a damaged laptop?", then please proceed & read this article in order to get most solutions to your laptop repair related problems. Where can we find the genuine parts? A good place to start is use Google and search on your part number::
That is in case we are looking for do-it-ourselves instructions about laptop or notebook repair? Here we have disassembly manuals, pictures and videos ordered by manufacturer. Which would include the likes of HP, Dell, Sony, NEC, Acer, Ricoh e.t.c.,
Another good source is to do a search on froogle as well. Failing that we can call the original manufacturer and find out the cost. Which normally is more than the market rates. Frequently experienced problems in any laptops "believe it or not" are caused by USER ERROR!
One laptop failure that is usually worth repairing is the hard drive. Laptop hard drives have a higher failure rate than desktop hard drives, assumedly because they get bounced around more. The first step to take when working on any laptop or notebook computer is to remove the battery. Even if the power button is well protected, like under the closed lid of the screen, it doesn't mean that the power might not come on due to a mechanical jolt or a short when we are working on the insides, so the best bet is to just get the battery out of there. In some ways, laptop troubleshooting is easier than PC troubleshooting. The basis is that laptops are so highly integrated that many problems you can fix on a PC require replacing the main board of a laptop, Replacing the battery is often a solution to power related problems (though costly) or you may use reconditioned batteries, but repairing the charging circuitry is beyond the average home user. While operating Technicians generally are able to perform system board level repair on laptops, there are not too many problems which they cannot diagnose. Of course, some systems may require a part or component which has over the time become obsolete and that makes some repairs more difficult and time consuming. Some common problems encountered each day are blank screens, systems that don't power on, or turn on then off, systems that cannot charge batteries, ac adapter sockets which are broken and similar problems. I would first look for a local shop that can fix my laptop. If my laptop is older and the screen has either been broken or damaged or just does not switch on it might better considering to replace the entire laptop. Replacing the L.C.D screen can be the most expensive affair of the laptop. And as a matter of fact Most of the companies like Dell, HP lose millions of dollars in replacing these LCD's or charge it on the insurance cover. Therefore it would be highly advisable to use either 3M Protection filters or Privacy filters for these screens as the surface of these screens are vulnerable to punctures, stains & damages. What these filters do is give an anti-glare coating, protect the surface from getting damaged & give you a privacy feature where-in its only the user who can see the data & not a person sitting next to him, this therefore is an added feature in this fast paced world where information security is so very critical. Also one more thing that we need to always remember is that since laptops help us carry valuable data across different places, companies & countries, we need to protect the unit without compromising on the quality of the laptop case or bag. Laptop cases are no longer simply about getting your laptop from one place to another; you can do that with a plastic grocery bag. With more people than ever daily toting their computers between the office and the home, the laptop case is now expected to mix sturdiness, protection, style-the ratio of those elements is up to you. And since with the laptop you might have to carry battery charger or other required components, its better to have removable mesh accessory pouch, removable CD/DVD sleeve that holds eight discs, a detachable mobile phone case, and a zip-down workstation. There fore in conclusion, I would like to cite that the advent of Laptop has been a blessing for us, now it is up to us as to how we actually maintain it optimally.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly people with a certain type of blind spot were less likely to see pedestrians in time to avoid hitting them in a driving simulator, according to a new study.
"In the UK and parts of Europe, in order to have a license, you need to be tested for central blind spots, but in the U.S. you don't have to," lead author Matthew Bronstad told Reuters Health.
In his simulator test, people with blind spots often could not respond in time to a hazardous situation, said Bronstad, an instructor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Blind spots at the center of the field of vision, or "central field loss," are usually caused by macular degeneration, damage to the retina that occurs with age. About 1.75 million people in the U.S., most over 65 years old, have this kind of vision loss, according to a 2004 study.
For the current test, 11 people with blind spots of various sizes to the left or right of center, where pedestrians and road hazards are likely to appear, drove in a simulator for 90 minutes at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Boston. For comparison, another 11 people without vision loss also took the driving test.
As the drivers travelled at 30 miles per hour (mph) on a city course and 60 mph on a country course, pedestrians appeared about once per minute on each side of the road. Drivers honked the horn to indicate they had seen the pedestrian.
People with blind spots were slower to honk the horn compared to people with normal vision, and were slowest when the pedestrian appeared in their blind spot than elsewhere, according to results published in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Reaction times of people with blind spots ranged from one second - the average time for a normal vision person - to five seconds. In a few cases, the impaired drivers failed to spot the pedestrian at all.
Drivers with blind spots, who could legally drive in most U.S. states but not in the UK or Canada, reacted too late to avoid a collision 29 percent of the time, compared to three percent for those with normal vision.
In the U.S., vision requirements for driving are primarily based on acuity, measured by reading letters from a wall chart. Usually drivers have to score 20/40 or better to be granted a license. Testing does not take into account specific visual impairments.
That doesn't necessarily mean the U.S. needs more regulations - it means doctors should be able to tell their patients where their particular blind spots are and to be especially careful of obstacles, said Bronstad.
"You can have a blind spot in both eyes and still have the acuity to drive," he said. "If you just have a tiny field loss, you're not going to have the same result as someone with 20 percent reduced field of vision."
People with central field vision loss often do not know they have a specific blind spot, or how large it is, before being tested by an optometrist.
"People with age-related macular degeneration tend to limit their own driving," said Bronstad. Eight of the 11 people with blind spots in his study had stopped driving on a daily basis already.
"They're less likely to want to drive on unfamiliar roads, where it's steep, in bad weather, at night - any time it gets a little bit more stressful."
"In general older drivers' physical frailty may decrease the reaction time," Ediriweera Desapriya, who studies the safety of older drivers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, told Reuters Health in an email.
Other factors in aging vision may also play a role in driving ability, including perception of color and brightness, slower light and dark adaptation and slower visual processing in general.
There are ways to combat these problems with technology, such as talking GPS systems and small lenses mounted on driving glasses, called "bioptic telescopes." But many older drivers don't use them, according to a linked editorial by Gordon Legge, head of a lab for low-vision research at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
"For reasons that are not yet clear, few people with macular degeneration actually use bioptic telescopes," wrote Legge.
SOURCE: bit.ly/13IUaoq JAMA Ophthalmology, online January 17, 2013.


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BANGOR, Maine (AP) _ The Maine AFL-CIO is endorsing Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud for governor in the race against Republican Gov. Paul LePage and independent Eliot Cutler.
In the 2nd District race to take the spot being vacated by Michaud, the union is endorsing Democratic state Sen. Troy Jackson, a logger from Allagash. Jackson and state Sen. Emily Cain of Orono are the two leading Democrats in the race.
Three Republicans have declared their candidacies, including former state Sen. Kevin Raye and former state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin.
The Maine AFL-CIO said it represents 30,000 workers from more than 160 local unions. Delegates voted on the endorsements at the organization's biennial convention in Bangor last week.


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