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Emotiva is an A/V brand well-known to all of us who are dollar-concious (and in this economy, that's a lot of people, including me). As such, we search out products that look good, sound good, are well-built, and don't have our Mastercard® refuse the charge because it is over our limit. That doesn't mean we expect everything, such as 1/2″ thick brass face plates and fully balanced outputs. We just want a good value. Something that gives a little more than we might otherwise expect for the price.
That's Emotiva.
- Design: Solid-State Stereo Preamplifier
- Inputs: 5 Pairs RCA Unbalanced, Tape Monitor, HT
- Maximum Power Output: 9 Volts RMS
- MFR: 5 Hz – 80 kHz, ± 0.05 dB
- Input Impedance: 47 kOhms
- Dimensions: 3.75″ H x 17″ W x 14″ D
- Weight: 14 Pounds
- Emotiva
We have reviewed several of their products, which includes speakers as well as electronics.
The subject of the current review is their new USP-1 Stereo Preamplifier.
The Design
The front panel is very simple. Each function has its own button. Inputs include CD, Phono, Tuner, Aux 1, and Aux 2. You can also select Mono, the Tape Monitor, HT Bypass (lets you bypass the USP 1 and send the signal to your SSP instead), and Mute. The volume control is a rotary dial that operates a potentiometer.
Besides the standard full-range outputs, this preamp offers a split output where you can adjust the low-pass frequency for one (which goes to your subwoofer) and the high-pass frequency for the other (which goes to your main power amplifier). This allows you to essentially bi-amplify, and with the low frequencies removed from the high-passed output, your power amplifier will run more efficiantly, not having to waste power on low frequencies that your speakers cannot reproduce. And, they toss in a phono stage that has both MC and MM settings. This may mark the beginning of phono stages being a standard part of stereo preamplifiers, rather than having to purchase an outboard phono stage. Long live LP's! Oh, there's a headphone jack too.
You can see on the rear panel photo above that the full-range output jacks are situated next to the split-output jacks, and that the low-pass (for the subwoofer) offers both an RCA unbalanced as well as an XLR balanced output. The low-pass output combines both channels and comes from an op-amp, while the high-pass output is the main preamplifier output stage with a filter.
For the phono stage, there is a switch for using either an MC or an MM cartridge. MC cartridges have low output (often less than 1 millivolt), so the basic difference between the MM and MC circuits is an additional gain stage for the MC circuit. The MM input has an impedance of 47 kOhms, which is standard, while the MC input's impedance is 240 ohms. One advantage of outboard phono stages is that they have settings to vary the load impedance, which is for the purpose of matching the optimum load impedance for a specific cartridge.
The remote control is small, but has all the necessary controls, such as power on/off, input selection, and volume control.
The AC receptacle is two-pronged (not grounded). You have to power-on with a toggle on the rear panel, which puts the unit into standby, and you then turn the unit on for use by pressing the Standby/Power button on the front panel.
In Use
I tested the USP-1 with a Marantz SA-7S1 SACD player, VPI HR-X turntable with Sumiko Blackbird MC cartridge, McIntosh MC-1201 power amplifiers, and Carver Amazing Mark IV ribbon speakers. Cables were Legenburg.
Frankly, I was amazed at the performace of this < $400 preamplifier. There was plenty of output to drive my power amplifiers as loud as I wanted, and the sound was always clean, without midrange congestion, or being overly sibilant.
Some might wonder if anyone would pair an inexpensive preamp with power monoblocks that cost $8,000 each, but if you have spent that money on the power amps, and $7,000 for the SACD player, mucho dinero on the cables . . . .
Ah, well then, $399 to finish off the system starts to sound pretty good, doesn't it? If the product performs beautifully, why not save some money?
I think we are all at a stage now where we are walking on a fence. On one side is our ego, our pride, that feeling of "mine cost more than yours" sort of thing. On the other side are products sprouting up everywhere that are engineered here and built over there, for about as much money as you might be carrying in your wallet right now (OK, if you are on vacation somewhere).
I enjoyed many of my favorite SACDs (I often play CDs from my media PC, but not this time).
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) provides almost continual tests for transient demands, as the plucking of a guitar string has such transients at the beginning of the "twang". With its 9 volt swing, the USP-1 gave me everything that was on the recording. I use MC-1201's with their 1,200 watt rms output for a reason. Transients can often cause a 50 watt average suddenly to go to hundreds of watts. The meter needles on the Mc's were really moving around.
The Manhattan Transfer has been around awhile, and you might be labeled a "geezer" if you listen to their recordings, and I'm a geezer, so I listen to them. What I find missing in modern rock music is a melody that you can hum when the track is finished. This is a great SACD, and the USP-1 gave me what I wanted: MUSIC! Never harsh, never too much sibilance, never strained.
Baroque music represents my favorite period of classical music. I use it for background listening when I am reading the newspaper or magazines in the evening. Ironically, it is because most Baroque music doesn't leave you with a melody playing in your head that I like it. There is no distraction from my reading. I really enjoyed the clarity of the period instruments on this disc played through the USP-1.
One of the reasons I like Telarc discs is that they don't compress the music. That's another complaint I have about modern rock recordings. They are so compressed, there are no dynamics. The loudness is the same throughout the disc, and it is always loud. Anyway, Telarc doesn't do that, and it would certainly ruin classical recordings if they did. This orchestral set has the full symphony playing at all levels of dynamics, and the USP-1 was up to the task. The fact that it will output (a.k.a., "swing") 9 volts is important, because you might be using 0.5 volt on average, but along come those darn transients, and "boom", you need the ability to raise that output voltage significantly for a very short time. The USP-1 can do.
I fired up my VPI HR-X turntable with its Blackbird cartridge, set the switch on the USP-1 to MC, put on some John Coltrane, and sat back. I think having the phono stage inside the chassis with the main preamp helps with the noise situation, because with an outboard phono stage, you have an extra set of RCA cables coming from the phono stage output to the preamp. I basically liked what I heard here, but I prefer my outboard Manley Steelhead because I can fine tune the loading impedance which does change the sound a bit.
On the Bench
OK guys, here is where you are going to be amazed.
All distortion measurements were made within an 80 kHz bandwidth, both channels driven, 100 kOhms load, except where noted. For graphs 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8, the left channel is the yellow line and the right channel is the red line. I set the volume control to maximum and adjusted the input signal level to obtain specific output voltages.
At 1 kHz, the second and third harmonics were visible, but nothing beyond that. Distortion was a very low 0.002%.
With a combination input of 19 kHz and 20 kHz sine waves, the 1 kHz B-A was more than 100 dB below the fundamentals, and there were some harmonics in the out-of-band (beyond the audible band) region.
IMD was also very, very low.
THD+N vs. Frequency is shown below, both for 100 kOhm loads and 600 ohm loads. Notice that even with the torture of a 600 ohm load (for a typical power amp, the load would be 10 kOhms up to 100 kOhms), distortion did not go above 0.02% all the way out to 50 kHz. Within the audible band and a 100 kOhm load, distortion stayed below 0.005%. The slight upward trend, starting at about 2 kHz, gives the sound a slight snap to it. In fact, with a high-end preamplifier, this line might be flat, and some consumers don't like that, saying that the sound is "dry". In any case, this is good performance for any preamplifier, let alone one that costs $399.
The THD+N vs. Output curves show that the USP-1 delivered 10 volts rms into a 100 kOhm load at clipping (1% THD+N). It output 9 volts at 0.003% distortion. Using a 600 ohm load, the output was 3.4 volts at 0.002% distortion, before rising to clip at 3.8 volts.
The measured frequency response was 10 Hz – 100 kHz, – 2 dB. The interesting thing here was that with a 600 ohm load, the frequency response at the extreme high end was slightly better. First time I have seen this happen.
I measured the distortion and noise in the phono stage by inputting a 1 kHz sine wave at 1 mv for the MC test and 4 mv for the MM test. The results are shown below. You can see that the noise level dropped considerably with the MM setting. That is because there is no extra gain stage in that circuit. MC cartridges have very low output, except for a few noteworthy exceptions like the Sumiko line, and when you try to amplify 1 mv all the way up to 20 volts (50 watts into an 8 ohm speaker), noise is a huge factor. In fact, here, the larger THD+N value for the MC setting is actually due to it simply having more noise, rather than more distortion than the MM setting. In any case, there were no noticeable harmonic peaks.
I also measured the frequency response in the split outputs, setting the control dials all the way counter-clockwise. You can see that the rolloff was complementary between the high-pass output and the low-pass output, which is where one would set it for use with a subwoofer. The output of the low-pass is lower than the high-pass output because the high-pass output goes to a power amplifier input, while the low-pass output goes to the input stage of a subwoofer amplifier, which is a preamplifier. I would have liked to see about 1 volt output from the low-pass output though. Having such a low output means you won't have much room to work with on the subwoofer volume control.
The Emotiva USP-1 stereo preamplifier is a delightful surprise. It performs far beyond its cost, and this is testament to the design skills of Emotiva's engineers. I also consider this a major step forward in the image that "Made in China" has. Even if the US economy were not in trouble, Emotive would sell a boatload of these preamps, and I suspect that, things being the way they are, maybe two boatloads.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
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The problem: How to ensure the atomicity of the update?
sqlite provides the mechanism Begin/Commit/Rollback to ensure atomicity for a database connection.
However, in the context above, Begin/Commit will apply independently to each connection: to the global database and to each annual database, and the atomicity of the set of databases will not be ensured.
A solution (with the help of Ulrich Telle):
The solution consists of attaching each of the annual databases (with a distinct alias) through the connection of the global database, and use the Savepoint/ReleaseSavepoint/Rollback mechanism. There is no direct connection (Open) for the annual databases. The global connection is used for all the updates, including updates of the annual databases. Rollback will roll back all transactions, including those of annual databases already released. Detach the annual databases when through.
sqlite (version 3.16.2) sets a default limit of 10 on the number of databases which can be attached (# define SQLITE_MAX_ATTACHED 10 in sqlite.c). A limit can be defined in the application with wxSetLimit(), and must not be bigger than the value defined in sqlite (up to 125). If the limit in sqlite is modified, sqlite must be recompiled.
To access Table1 in the global base use the usual syntax: "UPDATE Table1 SET dataElement1='value1', dataElement2='value2'".
To access Table1 in annual base attached as 'alias1' use alias1.Table1: "UPDATE alias1.Table1 SET dataElement1='value1', dataElement2='value2'".
the programming skeleton which follows was written for clarity, not executablity. Use your own taste & methods when coding.
Code: Select all
#include "wxsqlite3.h"
wxSQLite3Database* global;
global = new wxSQLite3Database();
globalDB->SetLimit(WXSQLITE_LIMIT_ATTACHED, numberOfAnnualBasesFiles); // numberOfAnnualBasesFiles <= SQLITE_MAX_ATTACHED.
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfAnnualBasesFiles; i++)
{ // give a distinct alias to each attachment. Note the quotes
global->ExecuteUpdate("ATTACH DATABASE 'annualbaseFile[i]' AS 'wxString::Format("Alias%d",i)'");
Savepoint("GlobalSavepoint"); // the savepoint name has no significance
global->ExcuteUpdate("UPDATE Table1 SET dataElement1='value1'"); // update the global database
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfAnnualBasesFiles; i++)
{ // each Savepoint needs a distinct name. Here, 'name' is identical to the alias of the base (but does not have to)
wxString name = wxString::Format("Alias%d",i); // same as in Attach above
global->ExecuteUpdate("UPDATE name.TableX SET dataElement1='value1'") // update TableX of annual base
global->ExecuteUpdate("UPDATE name.TableY SET dataElement1='value1'") // update TableY of annual base
ReleaseSavepoint("GlobalSavepoint"); // name used in Savepoint()
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfAnnualBasesFiles; i++)
{ // Detach the databases, with the aliases used to attach earlier
global->ExecuteUpdate("DETACH DATABASE 'wxString::Format("Alias%d",i)'");


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Can You Avoid the Stench of Bad Grades by Studying with Pleasant Smells? — Health Check
Hey students, want higher test scores? Try studying with a little potpourri or the scent of fresh-baked cookies. Scientists have discovered that our ability to learn actually decreases when the information is paired with a nasty smell.


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Story highlights
- Certain thoughts and actions may signal a relationship crisis
- Cost-benefit analysis can create emotional separation
- New life commitments can push away your spouse
All marriages have problems: He gives you silent treatment instead of talking when he's upset; you pay more attention to the kids' school art projects than to the details of his day; neither of you can agree on the fate of Peggy after leaving Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce on Mad Men. This, you tell yourself, is just what happens after so many years together, right? Or...not right? Because, sure, you're not fighting, and nobody's having an affair. But at the same time, what if dangerous issues are brewing? How can you are you supposed to know?
William Doherty, PhD, the Director of the University of Minnesota's Couples On the Brink project helps more than 60 exceptionally troubled couples a year. In his 35 years of doing this kind of work, he's noticed a handful of almost imperceptible signs when two people are just beginning to splinter apart. He tells us what to look for—when it comes in your own thoughts and actions—that may signal a crisis to come.
1) You're Doing a Lot of Cost-Benefit Analyses
Perhaps this is you. While walking home from work, you have a little conversation with yourself: "I make dinner every night, plus, I said sorry when he freaked about organic toothpaste—even though I love organic toothpaste and it's not too expensive. In fact, now that I think about it, I'm usually the first apologize...and the first to stay home with the kids at night. I work so hard. And what am I getting in return? A hug before bed? The occasional bunch of flowers?"
What you're doing here is a cost-benefit analysis. Corporations do this all the time. A company that makes, say, skinny jeans, compares the energy, money and time all of its departments put into producing them with the energy, money and time it gets out of selling them, to figure out if it should keep manufacturing pants—in a style that horrifies short, round women all over the world—or just stop.
People also use this technique to make decisions. "At the beginning of the relationship," says Doherty, "this kind of accounting is natural and appropriate [for couples] deciding whether or not to commit." But if you've already joined your life with someone else, you may not realize that by engaging in this kind of emotional inventory, you're already seeing yourself as separate from your spouse. Your time, energy and resources are not his time, energy and resources. You're one business, and he's another, instead of the two of you being united for the profit of all.
Oprah.Com: 5 life-changing revelations anybody can have
2. You're Conducting an Imaginary Marriage
Just to clarify, an imaginary marriage is not an imaginary affair, complete with dreams of secret rendezvous in obscure motels. It's a more subtle and, at times, harder-to-recognize fantasy, says Doherty. What to look for? You sitting at your desk, watching Jeremy from production post yet another blissful photo of his wife and himself on Facebook—this time of their trip to Napa for her birthday. A thought crosses your mind: "Jeremy is so much more considerate than my husband."
Pretty soon, you make the leap to thinking things like: "If I were married to Jeremy, I'd never spend another of holiday at home watching parades on TV." In your reveries, you tell yourself you'd go to Paris with him. You'd come home at night to him in the kitchen making veal cordon bleu. The two of you would never argue about the cost of non-generic toilet paper or give each other lectures on how many squares you're allowed to use. Because, in this relationship, you don't have to deal with all those pesky details that challenge real-life marriage and that probably also caused you to invent Jeremy, the ideal hubby, with whom no man, not even your good, adorable, non-cordon-bleu-making husband can compare.
You've lost interest in you husband taking you to Paris or posting photos of you on Facebook. You're not ready to leave him in reality, but in the vast and unchecked world of your mind, you're looking for Mr. Anybody Else.
Oprah.Com: How to communicate with your husband
3. You're building a second home
In a lot of marriages, there comes a time when you realize, "Hey, my husband isn't meeting all my needs. And I just have accept that and start taking care of myself." This can be a healthy decision. Let's say you love all things literary, and he doesn't. So you join a book group, and maybe make some friends on Good Reads or Shelfari. Metaphorically speaking, you've built yourself a little room in your life and filled it with not just with books but friends who love books. You have all kinds of wonderful conversations there.
Where things get dicey, says Doherty, is when you commit to more and more groups. As you get busier and busier, you build a room for each different activity, then fill that room with new intimates — now, you've built a gardening room and a PTA room, as well as a room for your weekly office drinks date. In fact, you have a whole house for your emotional life, and that doesn't include a room for your spouse.
One way to tell the difference between nurturing your own interests and moving out of your marriage, says Doherty, is to examine how you talk about your activities. If you're saying, "I've got to get my opera fix," on the way to the opera guild, then you're talking about your love of opera. But if you're saying, "I've got to do what I want," then you're looking for something much larger and more perilous for your relationship.
Oprah.Com: How to raise the men we'd want to marry
4. You're keeping coffee dates secret
After you've built the second home, there's a often tendency to hide what happens there. Let's say you and your friend—not your crush, not your secret love or your secret passion—from book club have coffee one afternoon. Over coffee, you two talk about the memoir Wild. You bring up your own mother's death. She brings up her own experimentation with drugs. The two of you share some pretty heavy intimacies. When you come home, your spouse asks what you did today. "I worked," you say. "And then I picked up the dry cleaning and called that guy about the car."
The problem is not that you shared an intimacy with somebody else, says Doherty, "but that you edited the event out of the conversation." In other words, you're hiding a meaningful exchange from the person you supposedly most trust—and you didn't give that person the opportunity to have that meaningful exchange with you. Another way to think about it? You took an emotional risk with someone, but you didn't (or couldn't or wouldn't) take the lesser risk of telling your spouse about it.
In all these situations, says Doherty, whether you recognize it or not, you're beginning to start a new life—as yourself, the individual, and not yourself, the part of a couple. At times, you may be convinced you're just giving yourself some space or giving your spouse some time to himself. But all that space and time can quickly turn into emotional light years. Thankfully, this distance can also lead to some clarity on whether or not you want to return back to where the two of you started—over thousands of revolutions of the planet that mark the rest of your experiences on earth.


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Which Canadian Singer Is More Famous Than Justin Bieber? You'll Never Guess!
If someone asked you who the most famous Canadian is, you'd probably shout "Justin Bieber" automatically, involuntarily and instantly.
Well, the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aka MIT, employed scientific means in their research to find out exactly who is the most famous citizen from our neighbor to the north and guess what? It's not Da Biebs, but it is a pop star.
According to the study, which quantifies fame via history and collection of data through Wikipedia entries in multiple languaes through an interactive website dubbed "Pantheon," it's...drumroll, please... Avril Lavigne.
No, seriously. We were surprised, too.
The singer was followed on the list by actor and funnyman Jim Carrey.
The Biebs cruised into the No. 3 slot. That's a paltry position for him, since he is used to being No. 1 all the time! We won't lull you into a nap with details of what factored into the findings. If you want to further explore this research, go here.
Below is the list yielded by the site and the research.
Pantheon's 10 Famous Canadians
1. Avril Lavigne
2. Jim Carrey
3. Justin Bieber
4. Celine Dion
5. Pamela Anderson
6. Leonard Cohen
7. Michael J. Fox
8. Bryan Adams
9. Frank Gehry
10. Nelly Furtado


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RTC NBA Draft Profiles: Cole AldrichPosted by nvr1983 on June 21st, 2010
Over the course of the next month until the NBA Draft on June 24, RTC will be rolling out comprehensive profiles of the 30-35 collegians we feel have the best chance to hear their names called by David Stern in the first round that night. There won't be any particular order to the list, but you can scroll back through all the finished profiles by clicking here.
Player Name: Cole Aldrich
School: Kansas
Height/Weight: 6'10", 236 lbs
NBA Position: Center
Projected Draft Position: Mid- to Late Lottery
Overview: We have discussed our reservations about Aldrich before namely that although he was productive he never dominated games the way we would have liked him to do during his time at Kansas. We usually say that you should look beyond the numbers, but in Aldrich's case we think the numbers tell you a lot about his game. As a sophomore Aldrich averaged 14.9 PPG (on 59.8% FG), 11.1 RPG, and 2.7 BPG, but as a junior averaged 11.3 PPG (on 56.2% FG), 9.8 RPG, and 3.5 BPG. Some might argue that is due to more limited touches, but his 40-minute numbers are down across the board except for his BPG. What is even more concerning is the drop in his free throw shooting–down from an extremely solid 79% as a sophomore to a more mediocre 68% last year. Having said that as his BPG and efficiency numbers indicate Aldrich is a player who can contribute even if he will never dominate a game (didn't have a single game where he scored 20 points or more last year).
Will Translate to the NBA: A solid role player. I haven't really seen any site/pundit claim that Aldrich will morph into a superstar even at the start of last season when some considered him a top 5 pick. Now with one more year of playing time allowing scouts and opposing coaches to dissect his game more thoroughly he is no longer a potential top 5 pick, but more where you would expect someone who with his limited upside. Before the Kansas fans pile on to the comment section let's be clear on one thing: Aldrich could become a good NBA player. We just don't think he has a legitimate chance of becoming someone you can build your franchise around (or even a national title contender as Jayhawk fans are all too aware after the Northern Iowa game). Aldrich is the type of guy who could average 10 PPG, 8 RPG, and 2 BPG in the right situation, but we can't see him doing much more than that.


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By Jeff Caplan, NBA.com
VIDEO: Jamal Crawford has made a strong case for Sixth Man of the Year
There came a point this season where Jamal Crawford was starting so many games as an injury fill-in that it seemed impossible he'd be eligible to make another run at the Kia Sixth Man of the Year award.
He won it in 2010 with Atlanta and he thought he should have won it last season with the Clippers. Instead J.R. Smith of the New York Knicks — remember him? — took the prize. This season, the Clippers wouldn't be in control of the Western Conference's No. 3 seed and in line to nab the No. 2 seed with a bit of help (an Oklahoma City loss) before tonight's season finale at Portland (10:30 p.m., ET, ESPN).
Whether Crawford was coming off the bench, where he's averaged 17.2 ppg and 3.1 apg, or putting up 20.6 ppg and 3.3 apg in 23 games as a starter in place with either J.J. Redick or Chris Paul or both out, Crawford's playmaking and shot-making have been invaluable. The lone blemish on his resume is the left calf injury that kept him out of all but eight games since the end of February.
Two games before the calf injury occurred on Feb. 26, Crawford scored 36 points in 40 minutes as a starter to help the Clippers win at Oklahoma City. It was his 11th game of 25 points or more and fourth of 30 points or more. Since, he's made it five with 31 points in 35 minutes off the bench on March 26 at New Orleans.
"I don't want to toot my own horn," Crawford told NBA.com after that Thunder game. "I think I've been a professional, honestly. Starting, coming off the bench, being ready at all times, I pride myself on that."
Crawford certainly faces stiff competition. Candidates include San Antonio's resurgent Manu Ginobili, Chicago's rugged Taj Gibson, Phoenix's Markieff Morris, the Los Angeles Lakers' Nick Young, Oklahoma City's Reggie Jackson and even Dallas' Vince Carter.
Yet none electrify a game and their team with scoring outbursts quite the way Crawford can. Boasting one of the game's great handles, the 14th-year guard can still live up to his nickname and Twitter handle, @JCrossover, defying foes with tremendous moves off the bounce to get to the rim. He splashes 3-pointers with a rainbow release from virtually any distance, connecting on the 3-ball at a 36.2 percent clip.
His 18.4 scoring average, significantly higher than any of the other candidates, would rank as the third-highest by a Sixth Man of the Year Award winner in the last 20 years behind only Jason Terry (19.6 in 2009 with Dallas) and Ginobili (19.5 in 2008). Crawford would become the oldest player to win the award and he'd join Kevin McHale, Ricky Pierce and Detlef Schrempf as two-time winners.
"Growing up, it wasn't like I wanted to be a sixth man," Crawford recently told Ramona Shelbourne of ESPN Los Angeles. "It only happened because I got to this point where I just wanted to win more than anything. When you bring one of your top scorers, your top players off the bench, it really gives your team balance."
The contenders
Manu Ginobili, Spurs — A year ago it seemed the Argentine might have come to the end of his rope after a glorious NBA and international run. He looked slow and out of sorts, particularly in the NBA Finals. But he came back to the Spurs, 36 years of age, and put together an inspiring bounce-back season, averaging 12.4 ppg, 4.3 apg and 3.0 mpg in 22.8 mpg.
Taj Gibson, Bulls — There should be an award for the entire Bulls team, maybe the Perseverance Award or something. Gibson continues to get better and often pushed Carlos Boozer off the floor in the fourth quarter. His larger role pushed his minutes per game up by five and he responded with 13.1 ppg, a five-point increase from last season, and 6.8 rpg, up 1.5.
Markieff Morris, Suns — Also a Most Improved Player of the Year candidate, averaging career-highs by a wide margin with 13.8 ppg and 6.0 rpg. He's transformed himself into a dangerous mid-range shooter, making 48.6 percent of his shots, up from 40.7 percent last season and 39.9 percent as a rookie. Morris was vital to the Suns' 47 wins with one game to go.
Reggie Jackson, Thunder — He got his training on the fly during the 2013 postseason. Since then, he's provided the Thunder with stability and scoring off the bench as well as in the starting lineup during Russell Westbrook's absences. Jackson is averaging 13.1 ppg, fourth on the Thunder, 4.2 apg and 3.9 rpg in 28.5 mpg. He averaged 5.3 ppg and 14.2 mpg last season.
Vince Carter, Mavericks — Carter has kept himself in tip-top physical condition and, at 39.5 percent, has transformed himself into a dangerous 3-pointer shooter. No player in the league has come off the bench and dropped more than Carter's 145. He's played in all but one game this season, averaging 12.0 ppg, 3.5 rpg and 2.7 apg in 24.3 mpg.
Nick Young, Lakers — Swaggy P had his swaggy moments, like celebrating a 3-pointer that didn't drop, but the L.A.-born sixth man was mostly money for the injury-riddled Lakers. He led the team in scoring with a career-high 17.9 ppg while hitting 38.6 percent of his 3-point attempts, his highest percentage since 2010-11.


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Monday, September 28, 2009
And My Niche Is..... It's a Tie???
dum de dum de dum
No, 2H Unholy!
No, Blood!
Damnit! :)
Theorycrafting aside, these two specs performed very well, and had definite advantages over DC spam - which, although fun, didn't quite provide the dps of the former two, and frost, which underperformed and I personally didn't enjoy.
So, which is it for Hinenuitepo in 3.2.2?
If I had to choose, this would be a very tough call. You've seen the pros and cons. You've seen the report cards. I think for now I'd probably choose.... Blood. As long as I have a boomkin to at least provide the debuff for casters on the boss. While it lags behind unholy on aoe, it can still do reasonably well on add fights as I demonstrated on Onyxia. It does outstanding dps on timer-sensitive fights, and the burst is on a shorter timer than unholy (1.5 min for dancing rune weapon vs 3 min for gargoyle).
Blood it is for me, then. What you take from this series is up to you.
But why choose?
I had a talk with my raid leader, and we came to an agreement. If needed, I can still tank. I can still easily head to ebon hold for a respec, and get summoned back, old style. We're so used to the luxury of one-button respecs, that we forget the old way is still pretty easy, especially for DKs. My raid leader said that my dps is too valuable in most situations to lose, and most of the time we'll have the tanks. So, I can respec for tanking if needed, but for now I plan to have TWO dps specs!!!!
My primary niche is a dps DK - a death goddess raining destruction on those that oppose the light of the Alliance, so to best fulfill that role, I bring you: two dps specs, yes, For The Win. :)
Just for example, on T9 content:
1. Northrend Beasts. Mostly single target, lots of burst needed. Blood.
2. Jaraxxus. Tank and spank. 1-2 adds that can be tanked on boss. Blood.
3. Faction Champs. Blood burst is nice, but ghoul can harass a healer, wandering plague doesn't affect cc, and bone shield provides extra survivability. Unholy.
4. Twins. Especially if tanked together, heart strike hits both. Blood.
5. Anub. normal: Blood. heroic: Unholy for the four adds.
6. Onyxia. Whelps - need I say more? Unholy.
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Hey there! Thanks for your comment re: my DK gearing guide - you're right, it needs a quick update. I'll keep your comment on ice and let you know once it has, so we can discuss getting you the updated one at that time :)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2009 at 1:33 AM
It's nice to see another DK blog(aside from Mr Dwarven DK of course) - compensating for the rampant deathtardism one regularly seems to witness in game ;) Also I've just rolled my first proper DK (gasp!) so my ears are pricked for tips and insights :)ReplyDelete
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I'm planning an article on leveling a DK alt soon as my DK alt (lol) nears 80. Look for it soon!
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Design and Analysis of a Wetting Lens for the Pinhole Cameras of a Two Phase Flow SystemA. K. Reddy[1], T. Satyanarayana[1]
[1]Lakireddy Balireddy Autonomous College of Engineering, Mylavaram, A.P., India
The present work reports the fabrication process of micro lens for pinhole cameras, modeled using COMSOL Multiphysics®, by satisfying the wetting properties. Wetting is a change in contact angle between the liquid and solid surface area. The wetting properties are clearly understood in terms of forces. The two immiscible fluids were taken for the formation of fluid-fluid and wall-fluid interfaces to obtain boundary conditions and contact angle for the lenses, respectively. When a voltage (force) is applied over the lenses, the contact angle alters and hence the focal length of the lenses varies accordingly; this is called the electro-wetting effect. The wetting lenses with different conducting fluids for the same insulating fluid have been designed and analyzed for their focal lengths of different input potentials.


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1964: Karen M. Krueger served in Malaysia: Sarawak; and Jamaica 52 in Sibu, Sarikei, Kuching; and Kingston beginning in 1964
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Karen M. Krueger can be contacted at afterhotmailayahoodcom
Country of Service: Malaysia: Sarawak; and Jamaica 52
Training Group: Malaysia VII and Jamaica 52
Cities you served in: Sibu, Sarikei, Kuching; and Kingston
Arrival Year: 1964 and 1989
Departure Year: 1966 and 1991
Work Description: Ed. Admin. and Medical Social Work
Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description:
Sarawak: Dept. of Education in PEMS Program requiring rural boat travel and urban bus travel; purpose to train teachers on the job in inter-relating skills and how to treat the young student; Dept. of Medical Social Services at UHWI in Kingston: helped to train BA and MSW Social Workers in Admint. and Discharge Planning for Special Pop.'s. and community follow-up; some long term counselling.
Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
Life after Peace Corps Malaysia: Sarawak was very interesting but not able to come to some kind of resolution on personnal relationships still outstanding; life after Kingston has gotten rough because I think I am somehow caught up in anti-Peace Corps tide that is sweeping through some places. This tide perhaps has nothing to do with my job assignment at UHWI.
Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
Peace Corps will always be the indelible experience as long as we remain a supportive allumni association, just look what has happend in Russia and how the PCV's have been trashed! Also, as I have adopted much of the "miserable Third World" value system too, life is very rough around the edges. By this I mean, I try to live the honest, but poor lifestyle and because it has been forced on me by circumstance I am going to use it as a spiritual merit.
Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:
Roni Quinn - Sarawak (Miri)
Gayle Rodich - Jamaica (May Pen)
Nancy West - Jamaica (Montego Bay)
Originally posted: January 15, 2006
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Bing Adds 5X More Facebook Content To Social Sidebar
The big news in search this week was the announcement of Facebook's Graph Search. But today, Microsoft is making enhancements to its own "social search" capability. Specifically, Bing is adding more content to its Social Sidebar feature.
In a way, this is a reintroduction of Social Sidebar following the news of Facebook's Graph Search.
People will now be able to see considerably more Facebook data surface in Social Sidebar. This will include Facebook status updates, comments and shared links in addition to the Facebook content already present (i.e., Likes, photos, etc.). Microsoft said that people will now be able to see/search "around five times more content from their Facebook friends than before."
There's social content from other sources (Klout, Quora, Foursquare Tips, Google+), beyond Facebook, in Social Sidebar as well. But Facebook is probably the most important single source. After users link their Facebook accounts to Bing (sign in with Facebook), they automatically see status updates, images and so on that are relevant to the query entered into Bing.
It's not clear how much usage Social Sidebar is getting or whether people see it as a differentiator vs. Google. Microsoft has continued to refine and enhance the feature, adding new content sources and capabilities. That suggests Microsoft still sees it as a worthwhile initiative and we can probably infer that there's at least some traction there.
It will be interesting to see how the roll out of Facebook Graph Search impacts social search on Bing and whether there's some "synergy" and increased usage, or whether Facebook search makes people less interested in social search on Bing. My guess is that social search on Facebook will be helpful to Bing and Social Sidebar usage.
The video below provides a brief overview of the enhancements to Social Sidebar. The official Bing blog post has some additional detail as well.
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Mulholland Drive is a 2001 film by director David Lynch. It tells the story of Betty, a fledgling actress from Deep River, Ontario, and Rita, a girl with amnesia resulting from a freak car accident and their journey together.
- Written and directed by David Lynch
A Love Story In The City Of Dreams
- What are you doing? We don't stop here.
- Silencio. No hay banda.
- What are you doing? We don't stop here.
Adam Kesher[edit]
- What picture? What are you talking about?
- This is the girl.
- Bondar: [at Club Silencio] No hay banda! There is no band. Il n'est pas de orquestra! This is all a tape-recording. No hay banda! And yet, we hear a band. If we want to hear a clarinette, listen. … It's all a tape. It is an illusion.
- Cowboy: I want you to go back to work tomorrow. You were recasting the lead actress anyway. Audition many girls for the part. When you see the girl that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, "this is the girl". The rest of the cast can stay, that's up to you. But that lead girl is not up to you. Now, you will see me one more time if you do good. You will see me two more times if you do bad. Good night.
- Cowboy: Hey, pretty girl, time to wake up.
- Blue-Haired Lady: Silencio …
- Dan: I just wanted to come here.
- Herb: To Winkie's?
- Dan: This Winkie's.
- Herb: Okay, why this Winkie's?
- Dan: It's kind of embarrassing.
- Herb: Go ahead.
- Dan: I had a dream about this place.
- Herb: Oh, boy.
- Dan: See what I mean?
- Herb: Okay, so you had a dream about this place. Tell me.
- Dan: Well, it's the second one I've had, but they're both the same. They start out that I'm in here, but it's not day or night. It's kind of half-night, you know? But it looks just like this, except for the light. And I'm scared like I can't tell you. Of all people, you're standing right over there, by that counter. You're in both dreams and you're scared. I get even more frightened when I see how afraid you are, and then I realize what it is. There's a man … in back of this place. He's the one who's doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. … I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream. … That's it.
- Herb: So, you came to see if he's out there.
- Dan: To get rid of this god-awful feeling.
- Herb: Right, then.
- Cowboy: A man's attitude … a man's attitude goes some ways, the way his life will be. Is that something you might agree with?
- Adam Kesher: Sure.
- Cowboy: Now, did you answer because that's what you thought I wanted to hear, or did you think about what I said and answer 'cause you truly believe that to be right?
- Adam Kesher: I agree with what you said, truly.
- Cowboy: What'd I say?
- Adam Kesher: … That a man's attitude determines to a large extent how his life will be.
- Cowboy: So since you agree, you must be a person who does not care about the good life.
- Adam Kesher: How's that?
- Cowboy: Well, stop for a little second and think about it. Can you do that for me?
- Adam Kesher: [laughs] Okay, I'm thinking.
- Cowboy: No, you're not thinking. You're too busy being a smart-aleck to be thinking. Now, I want you to think and stop being a smart-aleck. Can you try that for me?
- Betty: [after kissing Rita] Have you ever done this before?
- Rita: I don't know. Have you?
- Betty: What are you doing? We don't stop here.
- Driver: A surprise.
- [Diane is about to give the hitman his money]
- Hitman: Now, once you hand that over to me, it's a done deal. Are you sure you want this?
- Diane: More than anything in this world.
External links[edit]
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Date and location for south central Kansas checkpoint not revealed.
Drivers may be surprised at an upcoming driver's license checkpoint in south central Kansas in early December when officers not only ask to see their driver's license but also want to know if they hunters and if they are transporting harvested game.
A joint venture between the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism and local law enforcement will result in not only checking for proper licenses but also providing KDWPT with valuable information about wildlife populations and other important data, said Ron Kaufman, KDWPT director of information services.
The checkpoint will last about three hours and are not expected to cause major delays for drivers unless they are found to be in violation of the law.
Additional checkpoints will be held during the fall and winter hunting seasons.
The checkpoint will initially look like a regular driver's license checkpoint but once local law enforcement has gathered their information, they will enquire about hunting.
If a driver is either a hunter and-or transporting harvested game they will be directed to another line where KDWPT law enforcement officers will check for valid licenses and legally taken game, Kaufman said.
If any violations are found at either station, appropriate action will be taken.
Besides checking licenses and harvested game, KDWPT law enforcement officers will also be asking about populations, health and location.
Hunting is ramping up this time of year and many hunters are out and traveling to hunting destinations.
The KDWPT resources are limited and that restricts the number of people they can put in the field. With all the hunting across the state, it gives KDWPT a way to collect valuable wildlife data.
"It just gives us a better way to manage the wildlife populations," Kaufman said.
This is the first time checkpoints have been advertised so extensively. It gives the checkpoints a higher profile and hopefully helps increase the number of hunters in compliance with licenses and permits, Kaufman said.
With the checkpoint coming in December it will give KDWPT offices better data. The first weekend of hunting season was very windy and hunters had very little success. Since then the department has gotten mixed results with population numbers really down.
While the wildlife data is valuable, determining if hunters are violating license regulations is also a vital part of the checkpoint.
If a violation is found, the KDWPT officers will issue a citation. Then it will be up to the county attorney to determine what fines, if any, will have to be paid.
The money from the fines all goes to the county. It does not go to KDWPT.
The numbers of some upland game birds have been dropping because of drought conditions. The checkpoint will help KDWPT get a better idea the status of bird populations.
While populations are down, the drought will eventually break and upland game birds are expected to rebound when the rains return.


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Clarkson University MBA Students: Bassmaster Tournament Had $1.03M to $3.38M Economic Impact on St. Lawrence County
A group of six Clarkson University MBA students has released its data on how a recent national fishing tournament on the St. Lawrence River affected the St. Lawrence County economy.
The students reported to the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce and the St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators that visitors to August's Bassmaster Elite Series tournament in Waddington, N.Y., likely spent $1.03 million to $3.38 million -- 96 percent of that from U.S. visitors and 4 percent from Canadian guests.
"Those of us on the ground planning and executing this Bassmaster event needed to know whether all the time and all the investment would pay off," said Patricia McKeown, executive director of the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce, who arranged for the students to perform the study. "As a result of the Clarkson team's work, we learned that the return to St. Lawrence County was more than 15 times the investment. Those are great numbers!"
A record-setting 34,100 people descended upon the village of Waddington from August 8 to 11, 2013, to cheer on anglers competing in the tournament and attend a free family festival orchestrated by the county chamber.
The students' study estimated that of the $1.03 million to $3.38 million in expenditures by visitors to the tournament about 25.04 percent was spent on non-fishing-related shopping, 24.31 percent on accommodations, 23.02 percent on food and beverages, 17.01 percent on fishing gear, and 11 percent on gas station expenses.
The MBA students reported that the most visitors (11,996) attended on Day 3 of the event (Saturday), with 9,435 on Sunday, 9,030 on Friday and 3,639 on Thursday.
St. Lawrence County officials who helped plan the event wanted to go beyond anecdotal information on how such tournaments spur investment in local hotels, restaurants and stores. So McKeown turned to Clarkson.
"We love to work with Clarkson on these business projects," she said. "The students are eager to have a genuine hands-on experience that is real and true. They always do a terrific job, especially this time!"
The Clarkson student team conducted surveys with 253 visitors to the tournament, who were accompanied by 668 friends and family, providing data for the statistical sampling to determine spending by the 34,100 total visitors. Of these visitors the students calculated that the Americans spent $41.58 each, while the Canadians spent $58.40 each.
The "baseline" economic impact of $1.03 million is a conservative figure that assumes that visitors spent only 70 percent of the calculated expenditures at the tournament and that the economic impact factor (a "multiplier effect," in which a dollar spent by an individual is spent by another individual, etc. etc.) was only 1.0.
The $3.38 million economic impact assumes that visitors spent 140 percent of the calculated expenditures and that the economic impact factor was 1.6 -- that is each dollar was re-spent multiple times.
Udaybhaskar Munjuluri and Shashikant J. Ingale of India, Anh Tu A. Tran of Vietnam, Wan-Chun Duan of Taiwan, and Xiaotong Liu and Cheng Chen of China made up the team of Clarkson MBA students.
"This team of international students arrived in the U.S.A. just a week before the Bassmaster Elite event," said McKeown. "Despite being new, they grabbed hold of this project and ran with it, even though they had no clue where Waddington was!"
The team of MBA students completed the study with guidance from School of Business Associate Dean of Graduate Programs Boris Jukic and support from School of Business Dean Dayle M. Smith.
The team was also guided by School of Business Director of Graduate Enrollment & Student Affairs Patricia M. Perrier and Associate Director of Graduate Enrollment & Student Affairs Christopher J. Wszalek.
Smith said that the partnership between the county chamber and Clarkson was a win-win for both the community and the students.
"This opportunity enabled our students to learn more about the community and American culture, and gave them a chance to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply new skills to real-world challenges," said Smith. "It also strengthened the relationship between the University and our community, where our students learn outside the classroom and the community, in turn, gains knowledge from our students."
Full survey results are available upon request from the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Clarkson University international MBA students Xiaotong Liu, left, and Wan Chun Duan, center, talk with vendor Bernie Knowlton, right, while conducting an economic impact survey at the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament in Waddington, N.Y.
[A photograph for media use is available at http://clarkson.edu/news/photos/bassmba.jpg.]


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Watch These Animals Playing With Tennis Balls — Daily Distraction
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Tennis balls are great. They're soft, colorful, and they bounce nice and high. Apparently they also taste good.
Not that we've ever tried one, of course. Just looking at the looks on these animals' faces, we'll take their word for it.
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SolidSnake wrote:So if the Bruins win the cup it will be Thornton's 3rd cup absolutely crazy
mikey287 wrote:meow wrote:Shawn Thorton has only played 4:56. Why even dress him at that point?
Bruins limit their players a lot that they don't trust, it's not really exclusive to Thornton. When he's not playing, Thornton acts an effective cheerleader, even an assistant coach. The oft-cliched/abstract "veteran leadership". Thornton provides that in late stages when he knows his ice time goes down, but he's always ready to go when called upon...
mikey287 wrote:SolidSnake wrote:So if the Bruins win the cup it will be Thornton's 3rd cup absolutely crazy
Has played in more playoff games than HHOFers Jarome Iginla and Martin St. Louis...
mikey287 wrote:Well...who is that guy? It's definitely not Pandolfo, he hasn't played in a playoff game in four years and only dressed for 18 contests this year in the regular season. And it's not Jordan Caron, he hasn't played a second of these playoffs and wasn't trusted last year or the year before...
So who is this guy that the coaches believe can do it? J'know what I'm saying, mon ami?
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Young pilot soars thanks to lessons
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- If Tom Mckenzie had to pick his favorite place in the world, it just might be the sky. "When I was younger, my grandpa took me up in a Cessna just like this and from then on, even though I was a young age, I just felt that I could do it for the rest of my life," said Mckenzie. The "rest of his life" begins this fall. He'll be an aviation student at the University of North Dakota. But first, he wanted to get his pilot's license. "He called up out of the blue; he's had an interest in this," said flight instructor Jeff Melau. Mckenzie had his second lesson at Rhinelander Flying Service. But before he hit the clouds, there's groundwork to do. "Usually we start out with a little paperwork, we check the weather, make sure it looks fine to fly and then we go over to the pre-flight extension," said Mckenzie. Mckenzie soared through the pre-flight check list, and finally, he was in the place he's always wanted to be. "It's amazing. I'm just so happy when I'm up there and it's just such a great feeling. It's so hard to describe because it's just something that I've always wanted, I love," said Mckenzie. This flight includes a little help from instructor Jeff. "This guy is really into flying. I mean obviously he's going to go to school for it but he's just enthused. I think if he had his choice, we'd go right back up in the air right now," said Melau. Over 14 years, Jeff has taught more than 100 students to fly. "And I know when I sit in the airplane for a couple of hours and I don't do anything other than TALK, I know that they're at a proficient level and I know that I can solo them, in the airplane and feel confident that they're gonna be okay," said Melau. Mckenzie still has a ways to go before he's flying solo. But until then- he's content with just being in his favorite place. "It's endless. And you can basically go wherever you want and do whatever you want. Just the possibilities," said Mckenzie. And if you take a glance at the sky—you just might see him.
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Video of new Main Track Layout!Apr 1 2015
Showed up early today to get the first Dunlop marks in on the new layout. The first lap is THE FIRST LAP so enjoy the cases and OJ's. The next clip is about lap 4 or 5 so all the jumps are made including more cases and OJ's! LOL. On Wednesday's the track is combined with the VET but I cut the track because we weren't open yet and I just wanted to create a short video with the new layout. Some more tweaks will be coming before the Trans AM Nationals April 10-12. See you at Milestone! Shot entirely on the new GoPro Hero 4 Black. We liked the edit without music. Hope you enjoy. And no that's not mud that is a perfectly watered track for the first lap of the day and being one hour before open... LOL


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Panasonic Announces Addition of 24P Capability in New Shoulder-Mount AJ-HPX2000
Panasonic announced its AJ-HPX2000 P2 HD shoulder-mount camcorder, available in January 2007, will include 24p frame-rate capability in addition to optional support of the advanced independent frame compression codec, AVC-Intra.
As the first shoulder-mount camcorder in Panasonic's P2 HD series, the multi-format AJ-HPX2000 features a native HD progressive 2/3" 3-CCD system that offers superb recording in 1080i, 720p, 480i, 576i and in a total of 17 high definition and standard definition formats. Designed to support versatile compression rates, the AJ-HPX2000 is switchable between DVCPRO HD/50/25 and DV as well as the new AVC-Intra codec, the industry's most advanced image compression technology. AVC-Intra provides highly-efficient intra-frame 10-bit encoding to offer comparable DVCPRO HD quality at half the bit rate, while doubling recording time per P2 card thereby lowering media storage as well as distribution costs. The AVC-Intra codec will offer two modes: 100 Mbps, the highest recording quality available for a one-piece camcorder (comparable to D-5 HD video quality) and AVC-Intra 50 Mbps for exceptional high image quality at a lower data rate.
The AJ-HPX2000 can hold up to five P2 cards and provides quick, immediate access to video content from all cards simultaneously. The camera offers continuous recording, allowing users to hot swap and replace P2 cards as well as loop record without interrupting the recording. Captured video can be accessed in thumbnail clips on the camera's 3.5-inch color LCD monitor for playback, in-camera editing, and shot marking right in the field. And with quick, easy operation (ready to shoot in two seconds) and a 15-second pre-record function that captures footage occurring immediately before real-time recording begins, the AJ-HPX2000 ensures that professionals are always ready to capture spur-of-the-moment action.
Designed with the functionality to enhance news acquisition and broadcast production, the AJ-HPX2000 combines exceptional, high-quality performance with the benefits of Panasonic's reliable P2 system. The AJ-HPX2000 is a top performer in low and bright light conditions with a 14-bit A/D processor to deliver a high sensitivity of F11 at 2000 lux and a minimum illumination of 0.007 lux (at +74 dB gain). A new advanced digital signal processing (DSP) circuit allows professionals to select gamma curves and make precise color adjustments, while Dynamic Range Stretching automatically adjusts the camera's aperture when shooting scenes with varying degrees of light or when moving from light to dark areas.
The AJ-HPX2000 features high-speed file transfer with a variety of professional input/output options including industry-standard IT interfaces such as IEEE 1394 and USB 2.0 as well as HD/SD-SDI for easy field recording (pool feeds), genlock, SMPTE time code and composite video interfaces. The camcorder supports a variety of optional recording boards compatible with common studio news systems and applications.
Additional key features include full 48-kHz/16-bit 4-channel digital audio and a 4X Digital Zoom that allows HD images to remain in their superb resolution while maintaining brightness.
P2 HD products offer solid-state high definition recording without the mechanical wear and environmental limitations of tape, hard disk, and optical disc based systems. P2 HD ensures the highest reliability, especially in challenging conditions of extreme temperature range, shock, and vibration. P2 HD products provide a significant reduction in maintenance costs, longer useful product life, and immediate access to recorded video (no need to digitize, ingest or create proxy video files) and metadata. P2 HD provides the reliability of solid-state production; the immediate connectivity to existing IT infrastructures; the speed, ease of use and portability of P2 cards; and the interoperability with leading NLE systems.
The AJ-HPX2000 will be available in January 2007 at a suggested list price of $27,000.
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Higher One has revealed a new data analytics tool designed to provide higher education administrators insight into instructional effectiveness and student progress.
The software, Campus Intelligence, is part of Higher One's Campus Labs suite. It allows colleges and universities to pull data from a variety of disparate systems, including student information systems, learning management systems, ERP systems, individual course evaluations, faculty evaluations, student refund data, and other sources. Higher One's software is used in more than 1,250 higher education institutions, according to the company's reckoning. Campus Intelligence debuted at the Educause 2012 conference, taking place this week in Denver, CO.
"Campus Intelligence empowers the campus by bringing numerous data inputs together and analyzing the impact of certain elements of the campus experience," said Eric Reich, senior vice president, Campus Labs at Higher One, in a prepared statement. "Intuitive, powerful dashboards and analytic reporting enable the user to uncover information from demographic, experiential, and institutional data sets to help improve student learning and success. Campus Intelligence is a groundbreaking analytics solution that has low barriers to implementation, so that an institution can gain maximum benefit from the product right away."
Higher One is exhibiting at the Educause 2012 conference in booth 549. Additional details about the new software can be found on Higher One's site.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lipscomb traveled across Nashville to the Vanderbilt Black and Gold, Saturday. Coming off of Spring Break, the Bison and Lady Bison were strong in the meet, picking up several personal-bests and school records.
Tucker Peabody continued his winning ways in the sprints. The sophomore won the 100m outdoor dash with a 10.99s mark, his first 100m dash victory since March 12, 2011 at the Birmingham Southern Invitational.
"Tucker was running in a downpour," said Lipscomb assistant coach Luke Syverson. "He did what he needed to do to win."
Freshman Colin Dempster was runner-up in the 400m dash with a 48.35s mark. Junior Bobby Bassett was seventh at 49.62s.
In the high jump, junior Adam Austin set a personal-best with a 2.01m (6' 7.0") mark, earning him a third-place finish.
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Sophomore O'Neisha Smith finished fourth in the high jump with a 1.70m (5' 7.0") jump.
"Our high jumpers did very well today," Syverson said. "O'Neisha Smith just missed a school record and lifetime personal-best."
Junior Sara Stephens (fifth, 57.17s) and freshman Brenna Thompson (seventh, 57.43s) performed admirably in the women's 400m dash.
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Junior Ashton Fisher won the unsanctioned 2000m steeplechase, with a 6:03.82s mark.
Freshman Kevin Floyd set a personal-best in the pole vault at 4.51m (14' 9.50"), finishing fourth overall.
In Friday night shot put action, freshman April Terry set a school-best with a 12.16m (39' 10.75") toss. She finished 22nd.
Syverson was pleased with the meet, but had some critiques.
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Eight days in to the 2013 offseason, and no new General Managers have been hired.
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Rams Sweep Staten Island with Big Wins
Game 1: Farmingdale State - 5, Staten Island - 0
Game 2: Farmingdale State - 17, Staten Island - 2
Staten Island, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State softball team swept the College of Staten Island on Thursday afternoon, with wins of 5-0 and 17-2, in a non-conference doubleheader. Sophomore pitcher Hope Zino (Bay Shore, N.Y./Bay Shore) and junior pitcher Heather Buckshaw (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) picked up their 10th and 7th wins, respectively, as the Rams improved to 23-9 overall.
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Sophomore Rebecca Richman doubled down the leftfield line and junior shortstop Nicole Farber (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) singled to left for her first RBI of the day to make it 1-0. Sophomore Aubrey Walker (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) doubled to right to score Farber for the 2-0 lead.
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In the seventh, Richman homered for the final run of the game and the Rams would allow a hit in the bottom of the inning but a flyout to center, lineout to second and pop-up to short would secure the 5-0 victory. Zino struck out eight batters and allowed just four hits to improve to 10-4 overall.
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In game two, the Rams run-ruled the Dolphins with a 17-2 victory over five innings of work. Buckshaw allowed seven hits and struck out three with no walks to improve to 7-4 overall this year.
Farmingdale started the game with five runs in both the first and second innings for a 10-0 cushion, highlighted by a two-run homer by freshman third baseman Elizabeth Escobar in the first, and six hits in the second.
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Junior shortstop Nicole Farber (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) went 6-for-6 with two walks and two stolen bases on the day, putting her name in the NCAA record books for consecutive hits for the second time this season.
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Following last week's announcement of the Pebble Time, Pebble's first smartwatch with a color E ink display, the smartwatch pioneer today unveiled the Pebble Time Steel and a new connector for new kind of accessories. On stage at Mobile World Congress, Eric Migicovsky, Pebble CEO, just unveiled this beautifully-designed smartwatch for iPhone and Android, with a ground-breaking battery life of up to 10 days. Launched last summer, the original Pebble Steel brought sophistication and design to smartwatches. Pebble Time Steel follows in these footsteps, combining beautiful, premium design with the powerful new technology of Pebble Time. Similar to Pebble Time, Pebble Time Steel runs the new timeline interface, has a color e-paper display, built-in microphone for quick voice replies and notes, and is water resistant.
While HTC's brand new and today's announced One M9 is a really important release for HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone specialist tried rather an evolution than a revolution of ithe current line of high-end smartphone series. While the specs all read good, the One M9 (formerly known and code-named as "HTC Hima which stands for "Himalaya") comes with Android 5.0.2/Lollipop, the brand new and enhanced HTC Sense 7, the clear focus was again on design (more about it later). Other high-end specs include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 64 bit octa-core CPU where 4 cores running at up to 2 GHz and the other cores run up to 1.5 GHz. It furthermore supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE at 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS/HSPA+/HSUPA at 850/900/1900/2100 MHz (varies by region) and 4G/LTE bands 1,3,5,7,8,20,28 or TDD bands 38,40,41 (also varies by region).
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DIAPENTE is the ancient Greek and medieval name for the interval of a fifth, and originally means 'through five'. The newly
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Learning to think, research, and write about history is useful in a number of careers. Unlike some fields of study, history does not limit students to one job or technology. Foreign service officers, business executives, journalists, lawyers, librarians, archivists, and museum curators have majored in history as undergraduates. History also makes an exciting teaching career. In our society of dramatic change, most people change careers numerous times during their lifetime. Historical imagination and research skills provide students with a variety of options as jobs and technology change.
The problem-solving skills developed from close readings of texts and documents are valuable for any career. The ability to define, research, and interpret a subject are skills needed in education, business, and government. Students learn to weigh the choices of their own profession through historical speculation of "what might have been." Those who learn to understand the clockwork of the past, can use this knowledge in planning for the future.
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What Do You Do With Your History Degree?
Find out what kinds of careers are available to history majors.
"Careers for History Majors" is published by the American Historical Association with ideas and advice for history majors about careers. The AHA guide includes five different categories including historians as educators, historians as researchers, historians as communicators, historians as advocates and historians in businesses and associations.
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information or to be transferred to your child's school, you can also
call the District Receptionist at (253) 298-3000.
Franklin Pierce Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.
Questions and complaints of alleged discrimination should be directed to James Hester, Compliance Coordinator for State and Civil Rights Laws; Wendy Malich, Title IX Officer; or John Sander, 504/ADA Coordinator at 315 129th ST S, Tacoma, WA 98444-5099 or at (253)298-3000.