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Brakes: Rear caliper's, single-piston, floating, Brake pad wear indicator, Front caliper's, single-piston, floating, Rear disc vented, 300x20mm, Front disc vented, 312x24mm
Entertainment & Communication: CD player, Bluetooth connectivity, Bluetooth audio streaming, Bluetooth voice control for audio/mobile phone, BMW Radio Professional, MP3 compatible, Bluetooth pairing of multiple devices, USB audio interface, AUX-IN connectivity, BMW Navigation System Business, iDrive Controller,display, hard-drive for maps, electronic manual, 5-speaker system
Exterior: BMW Individual roof rails, hi-gloss shadow line, BMW individual high-gloss shadow line exterior trim, Dual chrome exhaust tailpipes, left, matt chrome
Interior: Cup holders x2, Push button engine Start/Stop, Steering column, height adjustable, Steering wheel, multi-function, Cruise Control with braking function, A/C with solar sensor, M leather trim steering wheel, A/C automatic, A/C with auto air recirculation (AAR), A/C with fogging sensor, Door sill finishers with 'BMW Sport' designation, High-gloss black interior trim, BMW Personal Profile (personalisation of important controls), Steering wheel leather wrapped with red stitching, A/C with active carbon microfilter, Rear cargo area lashing eyes x4, Storage compartments in all doors, Gear shift with leather trim & red stitching, A/C with separate controls for driver & passenger, Instrument cluster with circular speedometer, rev counter, fuel gauge, fuel consumption and on board computer
Lightning: Front fog lights, Courtesy door lighting, Halogen headlights, High mounted rear stop light, DRL (daytime running lights), Rear fog lights, Rain sensor, controls automatic headlight activation, Footwell lighting, front, Centre stack storage compartment illumination, Ambient interior lighting, orange & white, Automatic interior lighting, activated by door handle, crash sensor & remote control, Interior lighting over interior mirror & rear center
Package: Storage Package with 12V sockets in luggage compartment, front & rear consoles, sliding front armrest with storage, rear armrest, nets on seat backs, storage net & straps in luggage compartment
Engine Specifications
- Engine Name: BMW x1 (N20B20) 2.0t
- Engine Description: BMW TwinPower Turbo technology with one twin-scroll turbocharger, high precision direct injection, VALVETRONIC fully variable valve control & double VANOS fully variable camshaft control
- Power: 135 Kw @ 5000 Min RPM, 6250 Max RPM
- Torgue: 270 Nm @ 1250 Min RPM, 4500 Max RPM
- Aspiration: Twinturbo
- Valve Train: Fully variable valve control (Valvetronic)
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DSC Dynamic Stability Control
DTC Dynamic Traction Control
ABS Anti-lock Braking System
Front seatbelt load limiters
Side impact door protection
Front seat passenger airbag with occupancy detector
Dynamic braking lights, flashing & hazard indicator under extreme braking
Head restraints for all seats
Safety Body Shell, with deformation zones front & rear, absorbs impacts up to 15km/h
Seatbelts with pyrotechnic pretensioners
Side impact airbags, front
PDC Park Distance Control, rear
Airbags, driver & front passenger
Side curtain airbags, front & rear
Seatbelts, 3-point lap & sash, all seats
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Step from the soft sands of the pristine beach into the clear warm waters of the Andaman Sea and relax knowing
that Mai Khaolak Resort & Spa has everything you and your family need for an unforgettable holiday of a lifetime.
This stylish new resort by the sea is located in Khao Lak, one of the most natural and unspoilt beauty spots of Southern Thailand and offers genuine warm hospitality that will instantly make you feel at home.
The ultra modern hotel has striking cool grey and bright turquoise décor with spacious rooms and private villas designed for maximum comfort, complemented by five-star facilities for all ages making it the ultimate family retreat.
Deluxe Room (55 sqm)The 55 sqm Deluxe Suites are thoughtfully designed to incorporate a separate living area which can be converted into a sleeping zone ideal for children. The family suite has two televisions, a dressing area, bathroom with rain shower and a large balcony overlooking the pool offering spectacular sea views from the upper floors.
Deluxe Pool Access (55 sqm)The huge swimming pool winds around the resort buildings providing direct pool access to all ground floor suites. The super comfortable rooms are 55sqm including a king-size bed and lounge area with a king sofa bed. Perfect for families, the stylish rooms have a luxury bathroom with rain head shower.
Mai Villa Garden View (90 sqm)The oval shaped garden view villas are private and spacious and feature a wooden deck with a kid's bathtub at the front where children can splash around and rinse off. The 90sqm villa has full width windows offering a constant reminder of the paradise surroundings as guests relax in the lavish interiors with custom made curvaceous fittings and furnishings.
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and step to stunning views of the azure blue Andaman Sea. The 152 sq.m.
villas are oval shaped with cleverly designed interiors incorporating curves in all areas.
The private pool has a spacious pool deck with sun loungers to relax and work on a tan.
With handy extras like a beach bag and sun hat, this chic villa is ideal for beach lovers.
The Mangrove
This contemporary dining venue is the largest restaurant at the resort where guests can enjoy a buffet breakfast, al a carte lunch and themed buffet dinner. The all day diner is bright and airy with modern décor and high ceilings maximising the gorgeous views across the resort. With a special kid's corner at every buffet, the whole family are well catered for at The Mangrove.
The Meal
Designed for quick meals and snacks, The Meal has a casual atmosphere and serves simple dishes that are prepared in minutes. Favourite international and Thai light dishes are available as well as fresh coffee, cakes and ice creams.
The Sunset
Just metres away from the beach, The Sunset restaurant has poolside seating and a rooftop terrace with cabanas and comfy sofas to enjoy a refreshing drink, snack or meal. Serving breakfast for villa guests, lunch and dinner, The Sunset is the perfect spot to enjoy the beautiful tropical surroundings.
Beach Club
Feast on fresh local barbecued seafood and sip on delicious cocktails as the waves gently lap ashore at the open air Beach Club. The natural surroundings and fresh sea breeze perfectly compliment the tasty seafood cuisine.
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The sprawling resort has a wide range of five-star facilities including two delightful swimming pools,
three restaurants, two bars plus the Mind Spa, Sweat fitness centre and Sanook kid's club.
Children have plenty to do with a playground, pool and numerous fun beach activities to enjoy.
Guests staying in a private villa will be escorted by golf buggy to a separate check-in area which has an adjoining library and Internet room. Facilities also include the Mai Meeting Room, a modern well equipped space available for corporate meetings and special events.


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We headed out on Hwy 61 down to Red Wing where we had a break and a look round historical Main St and down to the levee of the Mississippi. From there we carried on and followed the river down to Winona where we caught a bit of heavy rain but managed to overtake it for long enough to see the town from the Garvin Heights overlook. We got back on the road just as the rain caught up but managed to out run it again until we passed through La Crescent and stopped to cook dinner by a lovely view point overlooking a wildlife & fish refuge on the upper Mississippi River. After dinner we carried on and over the border into Iowa and then crossed a bridge into Wisconsin arriving at the Cabelas store car park that we planned to overnight in. Once we'd checked that it was ok to park in, we settled in, watched a Hotel Babylon and got off to bed at a reasonable 11pm.


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By Gene Phelps/NEMS Daily Journal
NEW SITE – It wasn't quite the matchup New Site was expecting.
The Lady Royals, ranked No. 2 in the Daily Journal's Northeast Mississippi Top 10, anticipated a much tougher test from 15-win Hamilton. Instead, the defending state champions rolled to a 76-36 victory Tuesday in Division 1-2A action.
Hamilton coach Sue Verner expected a lot better showing from her Lady Lions, too.
"This was a division game, one that counted," she said. "I thought we'd give a better effort than that.
"We played some good teams, but none as all-around as New Site."
New Site (16-4, 2-0) used solid ball movement on offense and a zone press defense – one that forced 17 first-half turnovers – to build a commanding 39-10 halftime lead against Hamilton (15-3, 1-1)
"I've got some big kids we can put on top," New Site coach Byron Sparks said. "We can give teams problems (with the press).
"Offensively, we've been working a lot in practice on swinging the ball from side to side. We want to work to get the ball inside."
Pharr side
Christin Pharr, a 5-foot-9 forward, scored 12 of her game-high 24 points in the first half to pace New Site.
"Pharr works hard and has a nose for rebounds," Sparks said. "She's very physical in the post."
Sparks sat his starters a majority of the third quarter, before bringing them back in at the start of the fourth. The reserves exited the third quarter with the Lady Royals holding a 56-25 lead.
Grace Elliott, a post player who has missed a majority of the season recovering from a head injury she received in summer softball, came off the bench to score 12 points for New Site. Shelby Stricklen, an inside starter, added 10 points.
Alainey Hughes scored 10 to lead Hamilton.
A Daily Journal 2012 All-Area selection, senior guard Christy Clark, scored just seven points. She averages 16 for the Lady Royals.
"I can put so many out there who can score. Christy's fine with that," Sparks said. "We want to have balance and not have to depend on one player to score."
Next up for New Site is the Prentiss County Tournament, which begins today at Jumpertown. New Site plays its first game on Friday.


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For the first time in the eight-decade-long history of the MIAA
Commissioner's Cup (All-Sports) standings, there is a tie for first
place. Hope and Calvin each accumulated 202 points in the compilation.
The MIAA Commissioner's Cup award is based on the cumulative
performance of each member school in the league's 18 sports for men
and women.
The Commissioner's Cup (MIAA All-Sports Award) has been presented
since 1934-35. The standings have been based on men's and women's
sports standings since 1981-82. The closest finish before this tie
occurred in 1999-2000 when Calvin edged Hope 178-176. Hope won the
Commissioner's Cup the next seven years (2000-01 thru 2006-07).
This year's "race" came down to the final MIAA athletic of the school
year. By winnning its final baseball game, Calvin clinched the MIAA
championship and garnered enough all-sports points to cause the tie.
Hope topped Calvin in the Men's All-Sports standings by seven points (97-90) while Calvin led the Women's All-Sports standings by a similar seven points (112-105).


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Here is the 10th and final part of my "Restoration Series" of this, our 1959 British Daimler Ferret Scout Car. The military vehicles are the "centre" of our family Military Collection. This is the Mk2/3 variant.
In this "last post" for the Ferret Restoration I want to show a little of the post restoration "goings-on" and "outings" the Ferret has had. Keith intends to continue showing and exhibiting it throughout 2013 and hopefully beyond. The Ferret will also continue to be used in aid of different "Veterans" endeavours, educational and rememberance activities.
For those of you who have followed all of my posts in this "series" I thank you all for your interest, support and comments. We would like to point out that the actual work on the Ferret has been more time consuming than these brief Collectors Weekly Posts would lead most to believe. But the hard work is now behind us, it was enjoyable, as it always is. This sort of restoration is to be highly recommended to anyone thinking of doing something like this. It doesn't have to be something as large as the Ferret...start with something a little smaller...the rewards will be the same sense of achievment and satisfaction in the end!
Lets look at some of the parades, exhibitions and military vehicle shows the Ferret has attended, gaining accolades wherever it goes!
The Photograph's above:
Photo .1: The Ferret in the Weymouth (Dorset UK) Veterans Parade. The military vehicle behind is the "Saladin" Armoured Car from the National Tank Museum at Bovington. The crew of the Saladin insisted that the Ferret went in front of them, because they thought the quality of restoration was of such a high order! An accolade indeed from such as they!
Photo .2: Keith (Owner/Operator) poses in the turret with the Bren Light Machine Gun which is part of the Ferret's Complete Equipment Schedule (CES). We have garnered all, every single bit of the equipment that the Ferret should have been issued with when on service (But very often wasn't because of budget constraints)
Photo .3: These Military Vehicle Shows are quite an occurence in the summer months in England. TOP: The Ferret gained accolades from all who saw it at the "TankFest" Military Show held by the National Tank Museum at Bovington (Lulworth, UK.)
BOTTOM: The Ferret won "Best Post War Vehicle" award at the "Cockpit Day" exhibition and gathering organised by the Bournemouth Aviation Museum (Dorset. UK)
Photo .4: An Action shot at the "Overlord" Military Vehicle Show organised by SOE in Portsmouth (Hampshire, UK) home port of the Royal Navy. The next is the glass and marble award from the Aviation Museum. Then we have The Ferret posed alongside a USA Military Bell Helicopter that I think would have been contemporary with the Ferret at the time it entered service with the British Army. Lastly we have the owner doing what he does best!
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Four different ways of measuring fees paid to private criminal conflict counsel suggest those attorneys are massively underpaid when they take on state cases.
A study completed by the Office of the State Courts Administrator at the behest of the Legislature shows that those conflict counsel are typically paid a fraction of what most attorneys would charge private clients for similar work. It also found that in certain types of complex cases, attorneys routinely petition the courts to exceed the flat fees specified in state law.
At least one prominent lawmaker, Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, agrees with those conclusions and says it's time for the Legislature to increase those fees, which have not been raised for more than 30 years.
The study was done as part of the Legislature's attempt to control rising expenditures for conflict counsel. As part of that effort, lawmakers last year established a new registry for private conflict attorneys. Unlike the older private last year established a new registry for private conflict attorneys. Unlike the older private registry, attorneys signing up for the new one must agree they will not petition the court for payment beyond the flat fee, regardless of how much time and effort the case takes.
(In practice, the Justice Administrative Commission, which oversees the payments to private attorneys, has not included the no-petition stricture in its contracts because of contradictory case law.)
Another part of the Legislature's approved budget specified that it would not pay more than $3 million in the 2012-13 budget for private conflict counsel and after that amount, any additional payments would be taken from the operating budget of the state's trial courts. According to the OSCA report, the $3 million mark was hit on January 7, with almost another six months to go in the fiscal year.
"The rates under the current schedule are clearly inadequate. It's one of my priorities this session to address that issue and increase the amounts for those cases," Negron said.
He's already had discussions with Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Orange Park, who chairs the Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Subcommittee, about increasing the conflict fees.
"We're crunching the numbers and determining the best way to move forward. I think you'll see a significant increase in that area," Negron said. "It's an important constitutional requirement in that a citizen of Florida charged with a crime has a zealous defense."
Negron's counterpart in the House, Rep. Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland, said the payment rates would be looked at.
"This is an important issue, but a complex one," McKeel said. "I intend to evaluate it further as we progress in our budget development process."
Last year's changes to the conflict fees have prompted a spate of lawsuits (see story in the December 15 Bar News), claiming that judges have a conflict in handling excess fee petitions because the money could come out of their budgets and that the restrictions impair the effective assistance of counsel.
One fact noted in the study is that, except for fees in death penalty cases, the state has not raised the statutory minimum fees in criminal conflict cases since 1981. And since 2007, those fees — again, except in death penalty cases — have actually been set below those statutory minimums.
"I knew it was bad; I didn't know the depths of how bad it was until I read that entire study," said Derek Byrd, president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
"They haven't raised the rates except in the capital case since 1981, and they believe the rates in 1981 were set relatively low."
Byrd said the low fees raise constitutional questions about effective assistance of counsel, because lawyers may not be able to afford to give clients the attention they deserve for the payment by the state.
"It's not any fault of the defendant that he gets conflicted out of the public defender's office and gets conflicted out of the regional conflict counsel and winds up with an appointed counsel," he said. "There's no way that lawyer has any incentive to do any work. What they're doing is they're not, in my opinion, giving someone their constitutional right to counsel."
Byrd isn't alone in that sentiment. OSCA surveyed criminal defense attorneys on what they normally charge, as part of its study on the state's fees.
According to one survey participant: "I won't work for those fees. It is less than my overhead costs, and I have a low overhead practice. I have been a member of The Florida Bar for close to 40 years…. I would sooner represent the client pro bono or go fishing."
Another observed: "The capped fees create a situation where the attorney would need such a great volume [of] cases, that he/she could not provide effective assistance to his/her client. Alternately, if he/she were to maintain a small volume of cases, in order to provide effective assistance, the attorney would net far less than minimum wage, after dividing the capped fee by the number of hours necessary to provide a real or even a minimal level of effective representation as required by the Constitution."
The OSCA study noted that private attorneys are hired when public defenders and regional conflict counsels have a conflict of interest — typically in multi-defendant cases with three or more defendants. Fees for those attorneys were set in 1981 in F.S. §27.5304(5) (originally §925.036), and are $1,000 for misdemeanors and for representing juveniles at trial; $2,500 for noncapital, nonlife felonies; $3,000 for life felonies; and $2,000 for appeals. Capital cases were initially set at $3,500, but that amount was raised to $15,000 in 2007. The law also specified that the Legislature could set lower fees in annual budgets, which it has done since 2007.
In the current budget, the maximum fee is $400 for a misdemeanor, $2,500 for a life felony, $1,500 for a felony appeal, $1,500 for first degree felonies, $1,000 for second degree felonies, and $750 for third degree felonies. Fees for representing juveniles range between $300 and $700.
Those fees have not changed since set in 2007. That's the year the Legislature created the Offices of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel to handle initial conflicts from public defenders and which limited private counsel to cases in which both the public defender and regional counsel have a conflict.
As part of the report, OSCA surveyed private attorneys and found almost none charge private clients as little as provided under the state statutes. Surveys were sent to almost 3,000 lawyers and more than 350 responded.
One example: The state pays private criminal conflict attorneys a flat $2,000 for a felony that is punishable by life in prison, and $2,500 if the felony carries an automatic life sentence. A survey of private lawyers didn't find any who charge that little for their private clients — or even twice that much.
Indeed, the survey found only 3 percent of those surveyed would handle that case for a flat fee of $5,001 to $7,500. Fully 84 percent would charge more than $10,000 for such cases.
It was almost the same for misdemeanor, second and third degree felony cases, appeals, juvenile, and death penalty cases, according to the survey.
On misdemeanors, none indicated they charge less than $500 (the state pays $400), and only 2.4 percent said they would charge less than $1,000 while almost 40 percent said they would charge $2,000 to $3,000. In juvenile cases (where the state pays $300 to $700), only 3.7 percent said they would charge between $500 and $1,000 and 70 percent said they would charge more than $2,000. For felony appeals, where the state pays $1,500, a few respondents said they would charge $1,500 to $3,000, while 70 percent said they would charge more than $6,000, and around 20 percent said they would charge $4,501 to $6,000.
The report noted that the Florida Supreme Court has held that the fees can be exceeded when justified. In Makemson v. Martin County, ), the court found "that the statutory maximum fees, as inflexibly imposed in cases involving unusual or extraordinary circumstances, interfere with the defendant's Sixth Amendment right 'to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.' The statute, as applied to many of today's cases, provides for only token compensation. The availability of effective counsel is therefore called into question in those cases when it is needed most."
The report also included findings from the Florida Innocence Commission, which examined the causes of wrongful convictions and concluded, "that the current funding process for private court-appointed counsel . . . invites ineffective assistance of counsel and wrongful convictions."
One attorney testified to the commission he spent 272 hours on a case and his state-paid fee amounted to $14 per hour.
In assessing the adequacy of the flat fees, OSCA's study looked at three other factors besides its survey of private attorneys: the rate of inflation since 1981; the rise in median attorney income since 1981; and the number and types of cases when conflict attorneys apply to the courts for higher fees.
Using inflation, fees would have risen about two and a half times since 1981, the study noted, while median attorney pay has more than tripled during the same period. On claims for higher fees, OSCA noted it had studied that issue in 2010-11 and found "that excess fees were awarded primarily in cases involving capital cases; first and second degree murder, life felony, RICO cases, multiple defendants and charges, and complex legal and factual issues." OSCA found that there were few requests for higher fees in juvenile delinquency cases.
In the first five months of the 2012-13 budget, the study found excess fees in capital cases totaled nearly $1.3 million: $478,097 for RICO cases and $819,099 for all other cases.
Susan Dawson, a senior attorney with OSCA who worked on the report, said now that the $3 million legislative appropriation has been exhausted, the Trial Court Budget Commission is working on a plan where further excess fees will come from the circuits in which those fees are generated.
The report concluded with a chart of how fees "could" be increased for cases that now experience the most claims for higher fees. That was based on the median of amounts that were awarded over the flat fee, with the highest 25 percent of those awards removed and the resulting fee cut by another 25 percent.
Under that calculation, fees for capital murder cases would go from $15,000 to $25,000, and cases for first degree murder without a death penalty would go from $2,500 to $9,000. Fees for life felonies would double from $2,500 to $5,000, and in RICO life felony cases, they would go from $2,500 to $9,000. Capital appeals would go from $2,000 to $4,000, capital sexual battery from $2,000 to $4,000, and first degree felony RICO cases from $1,500 to $5,000.
"This methodology produces very conservative proposed fees based on the actual data and recognizes that judges will continue to determine the appropriateness of attorney payments in excess of these fees," the report said.
Dawson said those examples are not intended as a hard-and-fast recommendation.
"It's more of a suggestion to the Legislature as sort of a starting point to work with," she said.
"The report seems to illustrate there is justification for much higher fees, but given the budgetary circumstances, this is for illustrative purposes, and the Legislature could go from there."
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Cancer strikes at any age. In California, it kills more children from birth to age 14 than any other disease. Among adults, it occurs more frequently with advancing age.
Over 1,342,000 Californians who are alive today have a history of cancer. Most of these prevalent cases (persons who were ever diagnosed with cancer) can be considered cured, while others still have evidence of cancer. The term, "cured," usually means that a patient has no evidence of disease and has the same life expectancy as a person who has never had cancer.
In 2013, about 144,800 Californians will be diagnosed with cancer. (This estimate does not include non-melanoma skin cancer and carcinoma in situ for sites other than bladder.) This is equivalent to more than 16 new cases every hour of every day.
In 2013, about 55,485 people will die of the disease – about 152 people each day. Of every four deaths in California, one is from cancer. Cancer is the second leading cause of death, accounting for 24% of all deaths in 2009.
In the early 1900s, few cancer patients had any hope of long-term survival. In the 1930s, less than one in five was alive five years after treatment, in the 1940s it was one in four, and in the 1960s it was one in three. Today, more than three out of five cancer patients will be alive five years after diagnosis and treatment.
Almost 99,919 Californians who get cancer this year will be alive five years after diagnosis. When normal life expectancy is taken into consideration (factors such as dying of heart disease, accidents, and diseases of old age), a "relative" five-year survival rate of 69% is seen for all cancers combined. The relative survival rate is commonly used to measure progress in the early detection and treatment of cancer and estimates the proportion of potentially curable cancer patients.
Cancers caused by tobacco and heavy use of alcohol can be prevented. It is estimated that over 16,397 lives will be lost to cancer in California because of tobacco use. About 1,700 cancer deaths were related to excessive alcohol use, frequently in combination with tobacco use.
Early diagnosis saves lives by identifying cancers when they are most curable. Five-year relative survival rates for common cancers such as breast, prostate, colon and rectum, cervix, and melanoma of the skin, are 93% to 100% if they are discovered before having spread beyond the organ where the cancer began. Following American Cancer Society cancer detection guidelines and encouraging others to do so can save your life and the lives of people you love.
Cancer rates for the U.S. are estimated by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program. The SEER Program registers cancer patients in geographic areas covering about 26% of the U.S. population, including all of California.
In 2005-2009, the overall cancer incidence rate in California was lower compared to the nation excluding California. California cancer incidence rates for Asian/Pacific Islanders, African Americans, and non-Hispanic whites were between two and three percent lower than the nation. Hispanics in California had nearly five percent lower incidence rate than other Hispanics in the nation. Some of the differences in rates may reflect difference in classifying the race/ethnicity of cancer cases between California and SEER.
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
Cut Abrams some slack, he's busy ruining Star Trek, doesn't have time to ruin Star Wars as well.
Jon Favreau could be a good choice - I love his work on the Iron Man movies, but Cowboys and Aliens was too serious though I have faith that Arndt will do well with the script. Trevorrow would be interesting as well, though I haven't seen Safety Not Guaranteed. I'm glad that Abrams, Tarantino, and Zack Snyder have all said no, since I don't want them anyway.
I've been wanting to see that Safety Not Guaranteed movie, it looks really different. That seems like the kind of director Lucas would pursue for something like this. Someone who does things a little bit differently. Remember David Lynch was once considered for Return of the Jedi, so maybe this is our guy?
Michael Bay!
Uwe Boll! Joel Schumacher! Jar Jar Binks!
Sad how the most believable one on there is CGI. Naw, I kid, Schumacher actually isn't a terrible director, he was just too ready to be a studio hack.Uwe Boll! Joel Schumacher! Jar Jar Binks!
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
It's either going to be Trevorrow, Favreau, or Joe Johnston.
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By Tiernan Ray
Last week I sat down with Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Saeid Moshkelani, a vice president overseeing what AMD calls its "semi-custom" chip business, the division that produced the parts for Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox One and Sony's (SNE) PlayStation 4.
We met in the vast former office of that inimitable, colorful Silicon Valley pioneer, AMD founder Jerry Sanders. With its massive round conference table, oak desk, and a bathroom bigger than most Manhattan apartments, it is like meeting in the Oval Office.
Papermaster, who is 53 and joined in 2011 after stints with Cisco Systems (CSCO), IBM (IBM) and Apple (AAPL), emphasized the point that AMD is no longer a company tripping over itself just to get product out the door.
"If we were having this discussion a couple years ago, I would have been telling you back then that it was all pointing to the future, because this has been a cyclical company with stumbles on some key products," Papermaster observed.
"It's exciting now because we are on those execution tracks, the confidence inside the company is back that we have the building blocks we need."
"You'll see us create disruption in the industry," Papermaster said of the company's various lines of server and mobile chips that include both the x86 architecture, of which it along with Intel (INTC) are the only providers, as well as chips based on ARM Holdings (ARMH) technology.
"x86 is a huge installed base for us that we can play to, and we've added to our tool chest with ARM."
The company is "hard at work" on a new "core" design — a computer chip's CPU – called "K12," which will be the brains of its ARM-based chips.
Papermaster declined to go into detail about K12, saying simply that it is a "state of the art of CPU design for those tasks such that you need extensive power management wherever you go — even in a server, not just on the laptop, so there are excellent synergies there for us."
AMD will be offering K12-based chips in 2016; in 2014 and 2015, it will make do with its implementation of ARM's "A57" core.
Other areas where Papermaster was enthusiastic was for two-in-one, or hybrid, personal computing devices, the same market that Intel has so far pursued to little effect.
When I pointed out that the market has been skeptical of these hybrid devices, Papermaster replied that it is about "how you put it all together," meaning both a laptop and a tablet device, and it is an "opportunity to partner to create special experiences and great products."
He imagines devices that leverage AMD's GPU, or graphical processing unit, expertise to provide a visually much richer experience on both sides of the PC-tablet divide.
Through AMD's expertise in both CPU and GPU, "we have engineered that for shared memory between the two."
"The cores can draw from memory in a seamless fashion, whereas normally you have to program memory access for each."
That topic lead Papermaster next to talk about server computers.
"You've seen Iron Man 3, right?" He asked. "Tony Stark flies around in his suit and the computer does all the work to support him. AMD server chips will be that infrastructure for its client devices.
"My personal strong belief is in convergence, in that what is needed in both cloud and client, is, it's about getting you what you want, the information you need, about the objects around you."
"The kinds of workloads that can use that CPU and GPU together — medical apps and other areas of parallelism, cryptography — that split tasks between CPU and GPU, that will be a big deal for us."
AMD's Moshkelani, age 55, who joined in June of 2012, dwelt closer to the detail of the facts on the ground, perhaps. He entered the room telling me he was thinking hard about "How do I get to $3.5 billion annual revenue in this business unit," meaning the semi-custom chips, which made north of a billion last year and will probably double that this year.
Moshkelani, who spent 13 years at VLSI Technology, before going on to gigs at LSI, C-Cube, Dust Networks, and Trident Microsystems, observed that his business is one of picking the right projects, because there is an opportunity cost in picking the wrong ones.
The difference since he joined AMD, he says, is "night and day," with AMD's staff now more focused on the individual business units.
His team numbers more than 500 people, which gives him an ability to dedicate resources to carefully chosen projects.
"Before, it was an engineering-driven company, a massive amount of engineering, and now it is tied into the business units. If you were to bring embedded chip design into an 8,000 person engineering team, in that prior structure, you would be lost!" he says.
His customers, such as Microsoft and Sony, foot a portion of the bill for his R&D. The result of that is that while there is a lower gross margin for such chips than for standard chips AMD sells, there is a very nice operating margin, he says.
But it is not worth doing a project, even with the customer subsidizing some up-front expense, if it won't be likely to produce a winning product that ships in decent volume.
"Has to be at least $100 million annual revenue for us to go for it," says Moshkelani. That's a minimum, he explains, not a target. In fact, the company has already said it expects to secure two more design wins ranging from $250 million to half a billion in value, "that are already in the pipeline." The $100 million is a "floor," if you will, that any potential deal has to rise above.
In the case of the console chip business, "We pursued Xbox and PS4 unwaveringly," he says. The payoff from proven product cycles with long lifespans was extremely attractive to the semi-custom business.
"It was a natural extension of our IP — game consoles are extremely graphics intensive, and so it was a very good fit."
So what are some other targets? "Cloud gaming is a rich area," says Moshkelani, meaning, the wedding of graphics-rich client devices and the server infrastructure that handles the heavy lifting.
"You will see servers and clients developed as a system — using really powerful graphics," he tells me.
"Sony bought Gai Kai ," he observes, "Microsoft is toying with it — everyone is experimenting with it," he says of cloud gaming.
I point out that in some sense, Nvidia (NVDA) is already there with its own "Shield" gaming system and its "Grid" computing chips.
"Shield hasn't sold," he snaps, smiling. "They have those Shield units all in inventory."
Another area of interest for semi-custom is handheld gaming, believe it or not. "Everyone thinks it is dead, but the [Nintendo] 3DS is still selling."
There are various parts of infrastructure that look interesting, such as networking.
When I point out that Broadcom (BRCM) already has a very strong business selling to that market, he replies, "I'm not saying Broadcom parts are bad, but look how much custom work Cisco [Systems (CSCO)] does in chips every year" for their routers and switches.
Moreover, "Usually, there are very good life cycles and stable margins" for networking, which makes it attractive.
As for wearable technology, the jury is still out.
Ostensibly, it doesn't fit with the graphics-rich focus of the company's heritage, and not every product will be the hit that defrays opportunity costs in the semi-custom business.
"Right now, it is exciting, but it is to a large extent a fad," Moshkelani says of wearables. "They have a watch that rings when your phone rings, but I already can see that on my phone, so why do I want that?"
"Forward the clock, and wearables have a lot of practical applications in healthcare, but they all have sensors, and it's a wireless sensor network that aggregates it and passes it along."
And so, "I see a heck of lot of apps in healthcare and home automation." He observed in passing that Google's (GOOGL) "Google Glass" is an intriguing kind of product because unlike other wearables, it needs potentially a lot of graphics horsepower for its focus on vision and visualizing data.
I ended the discussion with a question about K12. While Moshkelani also was not about to disclose intimate details, he smiled when I mentioned other custom CPU cores, such as Qualcomm's (QCOM) "Krait," which is in the process of being updated by Qualcomm.
Waving his hand as if to dismiss the comparison, Moshkelani said there will be a significant difference in power efficiency and performance to the advantage of K12. When I asked him to specify, he held one hand about a foot above his other hand, leaving a big gap of air to imply something well above what Qualcomm would offer.
Stay tuned, in other words.
AMD shares today are up 10 cents, or 2.6%, at $4.17.


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County's Cancer Death Rate Is 46 Percent Higher Than State Average
MADISON, Wis. - Adams County public health officials are collaborating with the University of Wisconsin's Carbone Cancer Center in a new outreach program aimed at making cancer prevention a top priority in public health.
Researchers said that in Adams County, the cancer death rate is 46 percent higher than the state average.
"And so what does that mean?" said Sarah Grosshuesh, with Adams County Public Health. "Does that mean they're not getting screened? Does that mean that they're finding out late? Does that mean they're not getting adequate treatment?"
Adams County public health officials are trying to answer those questions with the help of UW's Carbone Cancer Center. A new outreach program aims to utilize community awareness strategies in hopes to make cancer prevention a top priority.
"We really want to increase patient empowerment and decision-making," said Rebecca Linskens, with the UW Carbone Cancer Center. "So we want to make sure that they have the knowledge and information necessary to make the right decisions about both preventing cancer and also screening for cancer."
The road to recovery is a long one for cancer patients. And for those living in rural communities, the path can be even more daunting.
Jean Heitman, of the Town Of Easton, said she learned she had cancer in 1992.
"I discovered a painful lump on my right breast," Heitman said.
Heitman's youngest child was 6 years old when a doctor's diagnosis made it official.
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Treatment involved multiple trips to UW Hospital in Madison, drives that Heitman remembers with dread.
"Because on those drives to Madison, it would take us about an hour and a half to get to the hospital," said Heitman. "It was an awful thing to know what I was going to be receiving on the other end."
As Heitman reflects on life after cancer, she said her hope for those along a similar path is that they never feel like they're traveling those roads alone.
"I want people to see this community as a positive one," said Heitman. "There are a lot of good people here, very good people."
Cancer death rate numbers were compiled using funds from the National Cancer Institute.
UW health officials said cancer disparities were associated with higher than average cancer risk factors, like smoking and obesity, low use of preventative health services and a lower household income.
Adams County officials acknowledged that all these factors are a concern in the county.
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I should be going to bed (3.05 a.m.), but here's a quick update on what I'm up to:
I've now finished the course I was doing this year in Cambridge. I eventually also got sorted out what I'll be doing next - I should be returning to Edinburgh in October, to study for a PhD. I'll be doing research on probabilistic modelling, probably starting off by looking further at the research I did for my MSc.
Earlier this week I was at GUADEC in Dublin, which was good. Lots of interesting talks, and I got to meet lots of new people as well as seeing again some I already knew. Next week I might go up to Linux Expo in Birmingham, though probably just for a day if I do.
I'm also trying to organise travel plans for next month - I'm planning to go to DebCamp/DebConf, and I might try to fit in LinuxTag first. I really need to get flights booked up, but I need to wait to hear back from people about LinuxTag arrangements.
I tried to mention GPE to people appropriately at GUADEC, since a lot of GNOME developers still haven't heard about it. There were also some more directed discussions with various GNOME people. Unfortunately my iPAQ has developed an odd touchscreen problem, so I stopped being able to do demonstrations myself (or to check my mail during the talks using the conference wireless network).
In Cambridge I've been spending a fair amount of time seeing people who are going home soon, while I'm still living in the same city as them. However, I have had time to start making Debian packages for more of GPE. While Debian isn't really suitable for running on current handhelds, packages would be useful for testing and development (and hopefully might attract a few more developers).


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Is it true you cannot link to an article on your own site, even if the content is relevant and helpful? That strikes me as a form of prejudice.
Okay all I wanted to do was link my SQLite Tutorial on the Wikipedia SQLite page so that someone could find some useful information. Careful, that "MY" is a crime.
Apparently, I cannot link it to my own site because it's me doing it - ad hominem
I thought the purpose of Wikipedia was to give out information. I'm okay with someone telling the content isn't relevant. That would certainly be a valid reason for not linking it. But, as I understand it, I'm somehow associated with the SQLite project, therefore, I'm not fit to judge the content?
Anyway, I hope your experiences with Wikipedia are better. I'm not too positive on it. My intend was only to distribute information. Please see for yourself.


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By Tiernan Ray
In a report put out back on June 3rd by Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum cutting his rating on shares of F5 Netoworks (FFIV) to Equal Weight from Overweight, Gelblum wrote that the company's product upgrade cycle is "not as big a driver as prior F5 product cycles had been," citing data from research firm Dell'Oro Group.
It turns out that data was not exactly as it appeared. I spoke today by phone with Dell'Oro analyst Casey Quillan, who tells me he revised his findings about market share for Citrix Systems (CTXS) and F5 and Riverbed Technology (RVBD), with the result being Citrix looks not as strong as it previously had in the area of "virtual appliances." Those are software programs that run on a server computer, inside of what's known as a "hypervisor," which mimic the functions of a traditional piece of hardware equipment sold by networking companies.
Gelblum in his report cited Dell'oro data showing Citrix as the "market leader" in so-called virtual ADCs, or "application delivery controllers," with 50% share of the revenue in the market, versus only 13% share for F5, despite the latter commanding half of all hardware-based ADCs.
However, Quillan explains that the ins and outs of the way vendors report or don't report the individual product lines makes it especially tricky to count sales. As a consequence he had to revise his numbers for Citrix and the rest after he learned that the "VPX" software program from Citrix, which is included within the "NetScaler" product line, was probably about $8 million in revenue in Q1 of this year, far lower than the $18 million he had previously estimated.
That means, Quillan tells me, that Citrix may have had about 16% of total virtual ADC share in Q1, not the 50% that Gelblum cited. Moreover, the revised data suggest F5 had greater share, at about 20%. Riverbed, it turns out, has the largest share of software-based ADC revenue, at 27%, by Quillan's count. Note, however, that with such a small market in absolute dollars, share can shift quite a bit. It is possible that in some quarters, Citrix has had more like 26% share. Overall, market share can be volatile, though it seems Riverbed is leading as of the latest quarter.
Riverbed, Quillan tells me, has been aggressive in going after the virtual version of ADCs, where F5 has always led the market with actual hardware sales. At this point, "RiverBed is doing better" than F5 on the software front for ADCs.
He notes that all vendors are focusing more and more on software, as it has turned out to be where the sales growth lies as hardware appliance revenue growth is slowing.
"With Amazon.com (AMZN) Web Services and the like, there has been a greater need for virtual appliances," Quillan tells me.
Everybody has been trying to figure out if virtual appliances are cannibalizing physical appliances, and so far, it looks as if they are complimentary. Nowadays, an IT director might buy two hardware appliances and one virtual appliance where in past they would have bought three physical hardware devices. It's almost like a separate total addressable market.
I have reached out to Gelblum's office for further comment on F5 and the revised numbers, and will update if I receive anything.


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QUARLES & BRADY in Naples, joined by the Florida Gulf Coast University Anthropology Club, hosted the third-grade class from Golden Terrace Elementary School at the Naples Zoo. More than 140 students took part in the program, which provided early exposure to anthropology and zoology. The Anthropology Club delivered 15-to 20-minute presentations at four designated stations throughout the zoo, including hands-on learning for the students. Pictured is Adelle Moro and Ivica Milanoski of the FGCU Anthropology Club explaining the jaw and teeth structure of the different primate species and comparing them to other animals.
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The role of catastrophes in mass extinctions will be explored in a lecture at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in McCosh 50. Vincent Courtillot, a geophysicist at the University of Paris, will present an address titled "Mass Extinctions in the Phanerozoic: A Single Cause and, If Yes, Which?"
Courtillot is the author of "Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinctions" (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which described the two main theories explaining mass extinctions of dinosaurs and other species: asteroid impact and massive volcanic eruptions. In recent years, the impact hypothesis has gained precedence, but Courtillot suggested that cataclysmic volcanic activity could be linked to most of the main mass extinction events in the history of the Earth.
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The article mentions the possibility of communicating to those who created us, which, if done, would be irrefutable proof. For the religious among you, what would you do should it be proved irrefutably that we are indeed inside a simulation?
I already have proof that God exists and the Bible is true. Unfortunately this proof was given only to me. I can tell you my testimony but it is up to you if you believe me or not. But for me I am 100% percent sure that we are not in the matrix.
So if it would be proven that we are inside a simulation then that could be only possible if that experiment would have an error somewhere or if it would be a constructed lie (again with an error somewhere hidden) to mislead people.


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Welcome to the Gatwick Express career and job pages where you will find plenty of information about our recruitment process and the wide variety of jobs and careers.
On 26 July 2015, Gatwick Express and Southern joined Great Northern and Thameslink to operate under one company, Govia Thameslink Railway.
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It is called a 'Used by date'. Water does not go off in rivers and lakes or in our taps so why does it have a used by date? It is because plastic water bottles contain toxins that leach into the water, contaminating it and also affecting the taste. It's that plastic taste you get occasionally. It's actually killing you slowly. What are these toxins? The big one is Bisphenol A (BPA).
There are more and more studies these days on this toxin and it has been proven to cause breast cancer, ADHD, autism and the list continues to grow. To put it bluntly, toxins in plastic consumed during pregnancy is a major issue. Heating kids drinks and food in plastic just adds to the issue.
So it's not healthy for us so how do they get away with it. It is all in the name of convenience. We are too lazy to take our own bottle and refill it. Tonight I saw the most crazy advert on TV. Coca Cola's brand of water here in Australia 'Mount Franklin' is promoting that their water is in bottles that are made of just 30% of the plastic of other brands and that they crush down really easily.
Initially I thought that at least it is less plastic but then I thought about it. They use less plastic which costs them less. Win to Coca Cola. Oh and you can't reuse it as it crushes too easy so you have to buy another bottle. Win to Coca Cola.
Around the world only 30% of plastic is recycled so that means 66.6 billion of these bottles will go into landfill or worse still, into the oceans. The caps on water bottles are still not recyclable so that means 200 billion bottle caps in our world that won't break down, they'll last forever.
So as a boaterr, what can you do? Simple, buy S/S water bottles and refill them. If you want to buy water, buy it in large containers or filter it from the tap at home. S/S bottles may cost a bit but the savings you will make in not buying water will pay for this bottle countless times. It means you create less waste, you save money and the environment will love you for it. Everybody wins.
If you're in a yacht club or corner store, purchase or lease a water vending machine. You can even get flavoured water dispensed. If every shop replaced the fridge they store bottled water in with a water vending machine, they still make money but don't kill the environment. Oh and it would be cheaper for you too.
I don't want to sail on an ocean of plastic and I'm sure you don't want to either. We need to change our habits today. It is the little things that count towards making our oceans safe for the future.
Say no to plastic water bottles.
Reduce, Resuse, Recycle.
Ocean Crusaders was founded by Ian Thomson in June 2010 after setting the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of Australia. He is on a crusade to educate the world of the issues our oceans are facing. An online education program is available for primary school teachers to present to their students or for parents to present to their children. Visit the Ocean Crusaders website for more Click here to view part one of Plastic Oceans.


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But there is still one goal she's missing: a title.
"All I really care about this year is just to get back where we finished last year and hopefully win it this year."
Onalaska has been to the state title game each of the last two years, but come up short.
We had a lot of fun and stuff but it hurts a little bit," Knutson said. "Looking back at it, people always are always like, how did it feel to lose? I want to this year for people to be like, oh, you won, congrats and stuff, so that's what I'm going for this year."
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"I think the way he's coaching us right now is good for the team because we have a lot of potential right now and the way he's coaching, he's going to get us there," Knutson said.
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Playing in NY didn't help Tiki's post NFL career.
I think that actually supports my point. It is not that New York makes stars. It is that the marketplace puts you front and center for greater opportunities. If Tiki had the meltdown in the Kansas City market place he would have already remade himself elsewhere. The same accellerant that can drive up value here can crush it as well.
No one remembers who came in second.
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