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Can I keep my unlimited plan if I get an iPhone 5?
Only if bought outright
yeah, from what ive heard, you can only keep it if you pay full price for the phone
Well you actually can see thats what im doing. ill explain i have Verizon Wireless by the way. This can be done two ways. One you use your upgrade to go in by the iphone 5 select the new data plan and go home call up verizon after you activate it, and ask to transfer your old phone back onto your number with the iphone on it. you have 14 days with verizon to switch back to your old plan after changes are made and that being buying the new iphone 5 and takeing it off your account right after purchase. then after you put your old phone back onto your bill you will tell them to put your unlimited data back onto it and hence you have you unlimited data now!
Ok so i hope everyone is still following , so now that you have your new iphone taken off your number and your old phone put on it what you have todo is now call back verizon one more time and switch your iphone( Which is now not considered a new phone phone, aka its considered as a phone that can just be added to your line and no changes will be made to you contract length or data plan ) back onto your number with the unlimited data plan. Now you can do this a different way by using someone elses upgrade on your plan and transferring the phone over to your number after purchase and hence keeping unlimited data. I am a ex verizon employee that's why i know this and want to explain to every one how "to stick it to the man"
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Midway through my meal at Wexler's, I joked with the server that I wanted to start a new drinking game: every time he said the words "smoke, smoky or smoked" I was going to drink. Had I done so, however, my one touch-too-sweet but ice-cold mint julep would hardly have been enough to sustain me through the course of the meal. Because this restaurant so staunchly resists categorization, I'm going to go ahead and call it a smoke restaurant, with elements of Southern and Texas-style barbecue, along with a hefty dash of—you won't believe it, I know—farm-fresh California.
In other words, forget notions of giant slabs of brisket and piles of hot links, but expect nearly everything—from a raw salmon appetizer to the cherry tomatoes surrounding the molasses-glazed black cod—to have a kiss of smoke, and don't be surprised if you encounter the occasional hush puppy, dish of macaroni-and-cheese or vinegar-spiked hot sauce surrounding chef Charlie Kleinman's cheeky Lone Star take on Scotch Eggs, that British pub stalwart. His are soft-boiled eggs, surrounded by a paste made from the "burnt ends" that are byproducts of his short-rib entree, then rolled in breadcrumbs before taking a dip in the deep-fryer. The aforementioned hot sauce is the perfect foil for the rich eggs, served two to an order.
I think I may be missing the point, but I do almost wish that in the barbecue-bereft town that is San Francisco, Wexler's was more of a barbecue restaurant. When Kleinman came out of the kitchen and described his recent brisket tasting tour of Texas (which he describes in detail here), I was left wishing that his version of the ultimate was on the menu—and so be it if instead of slices of Wonder bread, his was served Brentwood corn, sauteed Padron peppers and a salad of Little Gems. None of this is to say that the food isn't good—I knawed a pork chop clear down to the bone, it was so tasty—but just that it doesn't break as much ground here in SF as it could, and should. However, as a side note, I may have badgered Kleinman into adding a grilled pimiento cheese sandwich to the lunch menu. Should that become a reality, I will be certain to let you all know.

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A Miami jury has found that global accounting network BDO International B.V. is not liable in a lawsuit brought by a Portuguese bank over faulty audits.
The six-person jury's decision Thursday means that Brussels-based BDO International will not have to pay up to $170 million in losses suffered by Banco Espirito Santo. The audits were performed by U.S. member firm BDO Seidman LLP.
The jury rejected the bank's argument that BDO International managed and controlled BDO Seidman and bears responsibility for the audits. BDO International insisted its member firms are independent
A 2007 jury verdict found BDO Seidman liable for the $170 million bank losses plus $351 million in punitive damages. Now BDO International is off the hook.
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MIAMI (AP) – Global accounting network BDO International B.V. exerted tight control over its 110 member firms, including U.S.-based BDO Seidman when it performed defective audits that cost a Portuguese bank millions of dollars, the bank's attorney told jurors Thursday.
If the jury agrees with Banco Espirito Santo attorney Steven Thomas, the Brussels-based accounting network would be held liable along with BDO Seidman for some $170 million in bank losses from audits that failed to detect massive fraud at a separate financial firm in which the bank invested.
In closing arguments in the three-week trial of the bank's lawsuit, Thomas said evidence backing up the link included BDO International contracts, audit manuals its member firms are required to use, worldwide training programs and control of such things as how the design of the BDO brand, he said.
"They had the right to decide if BDO Seidman even exists as BDO," Thomas told jurors. "They admitted this right of control, right in their annual report. They want the strong brand because that's how they make money."
The attorney for BDO International was scheduled to give his closing argument later Thursday, to be followed by jury deliberations. BDO International, the world's fifth-largest accounting network, has insisted member firms operate independently and that it does only administrative work.
A trial in 2007 resulted in a $521 million verdict against BDO Seidman, which claimed such a large verdict would bankrupt the company. BDO International was excluded from that first trial, but an appeals court ruled that a jury should decide if BDO Seidman was an agent of the international entity or operated independently.
BDO International won a key legal battle earlier this week when Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John Schlesinger ruled it could not be held liable for $351 million in punitive damages as part of that earlier verdict. That leaves the accounting network facing only Banco Espirito Santo's $170 million in losses from the faulty audits.
The audits involved a now-defunct Miami company called E.S. Bankest, which was financed by the Portuguese bank. The company was in a business called "factoring," in which it purchased the accounts receivable of various companies for less than they are worth and then resold them at a higher amount. The factoring firm keeps the difference as profit.
E.S. Bankest was exposed as a huge fraud, with several of its executives sent to federal prison and the company shut down by regulators in 2003. Banco Espirito Santo's lawsuit blamed BDO Seidman auditors for negligently failing to find evidence of the fraud in several audits.


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The Case Against Lambda Tuning
It's Not the Best Solution for Loop Control. Here's Why
Given the huge installed base of PID controllers, it was logical to expect that some model-based proponents would develop tuning methods that could make a PID appear to emulate a model-based controller in a closed loop. This approach seems to have been encouraged by the false assumption that load disturbances enter the loop directly at the controlled variable with no dynamics in their path, as described by Chia and Lefkowitz in "Robust PID Tuning Using IMC Technology," InTech, Oct., Nov. 1992.
In practice, load variables are very much like manipulated variables, being flow rates or properties of flowing streams, like temperature and composition, and often are driven by the output of another controller. Their dynamics are similar and, in fact, usually identical to those of the manipulated variable, consisting of dead time and dominant lag. For example, in a liquid-level loop, inflow could be manipulated to balance against the outflow as load, or vice-versa.
Lambda Tuning
In recent years, this practice of emulating model-based response using PID controllers has been simplified with the introduction of "lambda" (λ) tuning, wherein λ represents the closed-loop time constant of the loop's response to setpoint changes. Proponents suggest values for λ ranging from one to three times the dominant process lag. With λ = 1, setpoint response would be essentially the same as stepping the controller output in manual; higher values will only make it slower. When controlling flow, whose response time may be 5 seconds or thereabouts, this approach is reasonable.
But there are lambda-tuning rules for PI liquid-level controllers which make no sense at all. Liquid-level controllers are in practice never required to respond to setpoint changes, and interestingly, require no integral action to do so if required. A level controller's output must match the load in the steady state, therefore, its output will be the same after a setpoint change as before. Then ∆m in Equation 1 is zero and, therefore, IE is also zero, resulting in an equal-area overshoot. A proportional controller can drive level to a new setpoint without overshoot, but with integral action, setpoint overshoot is unavoidable. Consequently, lambda tuning of a PI controller on an integrating process cannot achieve its intended result of exponential setpoint response.
Lambda-tuning rules for an integrating process such as liquid level are given by Blevins, McMillan, Wojsznis and Brown in Advanced Control Unleashed, ISA (2003), p. 220:
where closed-loop time constant λ can be as high as 3t1. These rules give a clue to the weakness of lambda tuning: the controller settings vary directly with λ, which is chosen arbitrarily, usually as a multiple of the dominant process time constant τ1. By contrast, the minimum-IAE rules vary controller settings with dead time, which is the limiting factor in the controllability of a process.
Performance Comparison
Compare the integrated error for the two methods by solving Equation 1 for each set of rules. For lambda tuning, IE/∆m = λ2/τ1, whereas for minimum-IAE tuning, IE/∆m = 4.2τd2/τ1. To achieve equivalent performance, λ would have to be set to 2td, which for lag-dominant processes is always a fraction of τ1. If λ is, in fact, set there, then both tuning rules arrive at essentially the same results. So the real problem with lambda tuning is that λ is linked arbitrarily to the process time constant, rather than fixed at twice its dead time.
Applying the value of one time constant to lambda results in a proportional band of twice the optimum and an integral time also twice the optimum. Load responses are simulated in Figure 2 for an integrating process whose time constant is five dead times.
With the proportional band and integral time both doubled under lambda tuning, IE is now four times the optimum, and peak deviation is higher by a factor of 1.58 and takes more than twice as long to be reached. Since IE increases with λ2, investigating higher values is pointless.
Self-Regulating Processes
Lambda-tuning rules for self-regulating processes are given by Blevins, et. al., as:
where Kp is the steady-state process gain. IE/∆m then comes out to be Kpλ. Again, observe the arbitrary setting of the proportional band as a function of λ, which could be anywhere from 1τ1 to 3τ1. By comparison, the minimum-IAE settings for a lag-dominant process are similar to those given in Equation 2, except that the coefficient for the integral time reduces from 4 to 3.4 to 2.9 as the τd/τ1 ratio increases from 0 to 0.1 to 0.2. This covers the bulk of fluid processes such as heat exchangers, columns and stirred tanks.
Consider a self-regulating process where τd/τ1 = 0.2. Minimum-IAE tuning gives Popt = 105Kptd/τ1 and Iopt = 2.9τd, with a resulting IE/∆m = 3.05Kptd2. To approach this result with lambda tuning, λ would have to be reduced to 0.12τ1, or 0.6τd. However, Equation 4 does not allow an integral time less than τ1, so minimum-IAE results cannot be approached. Figure 3 compares the load response for the case where λ= τ1
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I haven't posted on feminism before but I am really bothered with what is going on in the country that I live in and will most probably be living in for a long time/forever. It is an Eastern European country and apparently (according to dh who is from here) there are many more women than men in the population. This has the effect that women are pretty much competing with one another to find a 'mate'. This means that they put a lot of effort into the way they look, dress in a 'sexy' way and according to him generally put up with being treated badly by men as they are just grateful to be with one.
I find this really disturbing and it is very sad to think that so many of these men are not been brought up to respect women more. He also says that the reason many women are not very friendly to me is because in their eyes I have stolen one of their men! I tell him he is just being conceited but he says sadly this is the reality of how things are here. I asked him why he isn't more angry with the way that women are being treated and he said he is but there is really nothing you can do to change it. He says he was attracted to me because I saw him as an equal and didn't effectively try to make myself into doormat for him. We have 2 small dds, I don't want them to see this as normal. I know I can try to show them through my relationship with dh how it should be (well as best we can) but is there anything more I can do?
Also I know I can't change a whole culture but is this kind of behaviour inevitable when you have an imbalance of men/women? Another thing that worries me is that apparently domestic violence is very common and is not at all taken seriously by the police. Apparently normally the only way that this violence comes to an end is by one of the couple killing the other. There really needs to be more support in place for women, but I don't have clue how or if I could try to set something up.
I read something similar about some American Universities where there is an imbalance and more female students than male. There was the complaint that competition for intelligent" male partners meant that some girls felt they had to go further sooner in the relationship to keep the guys interested. I will see if I can find the link but this works in reverse as well, At college as it was a technology based college with a small business unit there were 12 guys for each of us. I can't remember a night out where I had to buy a drink simply because every guy was out to impress and when I did try there would always be one or two who would happily stop me.
So yes I guess it would be true depending on where in the world you are. Certainly seeing reports from China that guys are outnumbering women and there are now a lot of older singletons.
there were some reports recently that the rape problem in India is due to there being more men than women.
Strange isn't it that when women outnumber men they turn into barbie dolls to attract a husband, but when men outnumber women they turn into rapists.
In China, where the imbalance is the other way round, there is kidnap and forced marriage.
I doubt there is such an extreme imbalance in Europe though. And it is possible that DH is describing his own views on relations between the sexes, not a population-wide one.
But yes, in any culture, you will find women who see men as a "prize" and this may reflect a societal imbalance in earning power and expected gender roles.
It's funny that no one ever wonders why where there is a shortage of men, no-one ever wonders why women don't do the obvious thing and just
become lesbians
oh bugger this phone. it didn't recognise the word lesbians either
Lesbianism doesn't float everyone's boat Basil - not even feminists'
I don't know grimble - I think I read that after WW1 there was a huge increase in lesbian relationships, as there were so few men available. Don't have any references for it, so could possibly have dreamt it!
Fighting over scarce resources is a pretty human instinct - it's not really surprising that women do it as well as men. Are you bringing your dds up in the country exhausted? I think your best defence is exactly as you stated - the modelling of an equal/respectful/loving relationship - but add on if you can frequent trips home and a healthy dose of education. Good luck.
True Grimble but sex with men doesn't actually float many women's boats either - witness the number of women who aren't having very good sex.
We're socialised to expect to be heterosexual and therefore automatically rule out the option of lesbianism. But if we were socialised to expect to be lesbian or either lesbian, straight or bi, then I wonder how many women would realise they aren't actually obliged to compete for men?
I've no axe to grind on this, I've always been straight myself, just wondering why the obvious solution is thought to be so out there and unthinkable. I suspect that it has more to do with the extremely strong societal expectation of heterosexuality (which then gets internalised) than with innate "natural" inclination.
Not everyone feels the need to be a mother but it is part of our make up. Nature has made it so that in general terms we need a man to become a mother. Not sure it is a society issue as much as an evolution issue but the drives to reproduce that have come from millions of years of evolution you would expect PiV to be the most natural urge of all. Yes there are acts of homosexuality in animals, but the urge to reproduce is strong in a lot of us.
So we compete, now we are looking for most intelligent rather than physical attributes hence the issues in universities as I certainly wouldn't want to be with someone who wasn't at least my intellectual equal. Is the need for intelligence a societal issue or does it reflect the change in the survival issues for the human species?
That Beeb story is chilling. Latvia appears to be having a gender-biased public health disaster but let's report it as an episode of Sex and the City and make it all about not being able to find a date. WTF!
"we need a man to become a mother."
But we don't need to live with a man, have a heteronormative monogomous domestic arrangement with him. Also I wonder how much PIV sex we do have a natural urge to have? In order to reproduce, we don't actually need that much of it.
"we need a man to become a mother", then he can tell all the other men what it's bloody well like--oh wait, that isn't quite it.
Probably most people here hate sociobiology, but it might well be true that back when life was very uncertain, the best chance to have surviving offspring was if women and men formed a partnership and raised children together--or if the man didn't do much, at least he might provide some benefits. Obviously the women who went off and formed an all-female tribe weren't going to be having many offspring! So did the descendants of the people who were willing to have heterosexual relationships inherit the same willingness?
We don't need much sex to produce kids, but maybe its value is that if a man knows he can get it, he'll hang around and just possibly do something useful in between sessions. Chimpanzees don't mate all the time, and they don't form lasting couples either. But apparently pygmy chimpanzees do have lots of sex and they use it to make social bonds. None of this is very certain, but maybe it's good for a discussion in the pub over the third or fourth round.
Well sorry for assuming that children have two stable parents in a loving relationship is a good end game. I enjoy PiV and the orgasms are more intense that way than others. We fought so that we could enjoy our sex lives and now it seems that what feminism fought for previously is wrong in certain quarters.
It's not a bad end game, Sausage, it's just not the only option available. We've been socialised to believe it's the best end game, but it's not, it's just the one that benefits men as a group best.
It's nice that you enjoy PiV and you find the orgasms more intense, but most research shows that most women don't orgasm via PiV but by other methods.
I just don't know what you mean that feminism tells you that something you practice sexually is wrong, it isn't feminism that defines sex as a penis and a vagina, feminism is much more open about what sex is.
Sausageeggbacon that's a bit fiery for no reason I can see.
Get to China, more men than women!
Yes and do you know why that is? Because they are killing women.
Two million missing women and girls
When men outnumber women, women's lives lose even more value.
Not necessarily killing women, although infanticide does (rarely) still happen I believe, but certainly sex-selective abortion as well as differential nutrition and healthcare for sons and for daughters.
It's changing, though, slowly, which can only be a good thing - although it does make me mad when idiotic scholars arguing that women becoming a "scarce resource" as in China makes them more "valuable" and thus treated better. Instead we see trafficking of women (within and across national borders) and kidnappings/forced marriage.
Re. lesbianism - I think there was an increase in gay male relationships after WWI too? Not because of the war, just because it's around then that people started slowly becoming slightly more accepting/aware of it.
Just wanted to add some data from personal experience:
I visited Belarus about five years ago - Eastern European nation, one of the last European dictatorships. Nice country. I was visiting a girl I met online and had hit it off with (I know what you're all thinking, but no - she wasn't after my passport and I wasn't after an easy hookup, though things did progress in a positive fashion).
We'd had a lot of discussions about cultural differences before I visited and she had mentioned the high level of competition for men, the reason being that most young men between 18 and 21 were doing their national service in the army. I asked her how this manifested itself and she told me (disparagingly) about obsequious, overly childlike behaviour and the 'uniform'.
When I visited I saw it for myself. Almost all the young women (and I mean a good 99%) wore the following:
Black miniskirt (VERY mini)
Tights (often fishnet)
Black leather boots (often knee high)
Leather/Denim jacket.
I didn't get much opportunity to explore whether the servile attitude thing was true - the people I was hanging out with were very much the local equivalent of a punk/,metal subculture (pro-western, progressive egalitarian, dressed office casual ) but they all had jokes about the mainstream culture and it's hyper masculinity/feminity dynamic.
It's fascinating seeing how different cultures, even relatively similar ones, approach gender relations.
askbasil it is the only end game - no other set of pairs other than man/woman can survive on their own
'I know what you're thinking'.
Um ... I mean this nicely, but that's quite rude, you know. No, I wasn't thinking that, thanks. Not being a massive wanker.
Sorry, that was entirely meant to be lighthearted. It's the automatic reaction with 90% of the people I meet when I say I travelled to meet an Eastern European woman I met online, so I tend to try and stay ahead of the joke.
I'll take my levity and unwelcome presence elsewhere.
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To hear J.J. Cale tell it, a lot of work goes into making his music sound like no work went into it at all. Well, throughout his long career, he's certainly succeeded. When you listen to Cale, you envision someone sitting on a back porch or on a bar's lonely stage, singing some songs while someone just happened to have a tape recorder on hand. It's smooth and more than a little dusty; the very essence of relaxed rock 'n' roll.
Rewind sheds at least a little light on the work that went into producing Cale's unassuming roster of albums. Culled from tapes that had been in the possession of Audie Ashworth, Cale's producer for many years, Rewind's songs stem from Cale's tenure at Shelter and Mercury Records. They're pretty much what you'd expect in terms of J.J. Cale songs: easygoing, patient, and straightforward.
What's surprising about Rewind, considering that Cale usually sticks to his own compositions, are the covers of other artists' songs. Cale's usually the recipient of such honors, his songs having been tackled by the likes of Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, the Band, and Captain Beefheart. In this case, though, the idea of Cale recording covers is a bit of a red herring. Cale doesn't go for deconstruction or radical reworking; the songs he picks are pretty close to his style to begin with, so he doesn't tinker with them much. In the case of Clapton's "Golden Ring", it's only fair since Clapton sold a lot of records by doing very little to Cale songs like "Cocaine" and "After Midnight". In the case of Waylon Jennings' "Waymore's Blues" and Leon Russell's "My Cricket", Cale plays it straight, (although his version of "My Cricket" has, surprisingly, glossier production and loses the cricket sound effects). He also tries to play it straight with Randy Newman's "Rollin'", keeping the signature piano melody; however, Newman's vocals and Ragtime/turn-of-the-century Germany style are pretty hard to replicate, so Cale's version, by necessity, differs a little.
As for Cale's own songs, most of which he said simply didn't fit on the albums he was recording at the time, there are some good tracks here. It would have been a shame for them to remain unreleased even if nothing runs the risk of making you re-evaluate Cale in any way. "Seven Day Woman" and "Ooh La La", (both showcasing the songwriting and background vocals of Christine Lakeland), are definite highlights, while "My Baby and Me" is a solid pedal steel-accented tearjerker. In some cases, these songs feel like demos, but the playing is first rate, with top Nashville session players and more well-known folks like Richard Thompson, Spooner Oldham, and Jim Keltner sitting in.
In the end, Rewind is, like nearly all of Cale's work, a pleasant listen. Like Mark Knopfler, (who counts Cale as an influence), you know what you're going to get: warm tone and a relaxed mood. Three or four of Rewind's songs may rank with Cale's top tier work, while some of the others, such as the covers, count as curiosities.
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Tori Spelling celebrates her 41st birthday with her children.
The former Beverly Hills, 90210 star took to her website on her 41st birthday to keep her followers updated on her celebrations. Despite her well-documented marital troubles with cheating husband Dean McDermott, Tori managed to get the day off to a good start.
"Today happens to be a very special day in the McDermott household. It's my 41st birthday," she wrote. "I was woken up this morning by my beautiful babes, holding my fave kind of donut with a candle in the middle. They asked me to make a wish… which I did right away."
The blog lead with a photograph of Tori and two of her four children, who were holding the candlelit donut. Tori made no reference to her husband Dean or his whereabouts on her special day but thanked her followers for their well wishes during a difficult time in her life.
"I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of my amazing ediTORIal readers who have supported me, inspired me and who have made this website an incredible online family," she said.
Tori's marriage problems with the 47-year-old actor are currently being documented on their reality series, True Tori. In the episodes, the couple try to deal with Dean's infidelity after he cheated on his wife in December of last year while filming in Toronto, Canada.
The actress has previously explained why she chose to have a camera crew follow her during such a traumatic time.
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SUBSTITUTE Thomas Perkins scored twice for visitors Deans Youth to send Knutsford A out of the Altrincham and District Amateur Football League's Challenge Trophy on Saturday.
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Secrets on reporting and storytelling from some of the best in the business.
How does Susan Orlean find her profile subjects? How does Malcolm Gladwell get his sources to speak with him? How does Sarah Stillman bring the characters in her stories to life? Thanks to the Longform podcast, we listened in on conversations with writers for The New Yorker as they spilled their secrets for outstanding reporting and storytelling.
1. Elizabeth Wurtzel
"It's really hard to be a writer. You have to be born with incredible amounts of talent. Then you have to work hard. Then you have to be able to handle tons of rejection and not mind it and just keep pushing away at it. You have to show up at people's doors. You can't just email and text message people. You have to bang their doors down. You have to be interesting. You have to be fucking phenomenal to get a book published and then sell the book. When people think their writing career is not working out, it's not working out because it's so damn hard. It's not harder now than it was 20 years ago. It's just as hard. It was always hard."
2. Evan Ratliff
Via atavist.com
"I don't think it's feasible to work a full-time job and be able to do this type of reporting. You set aside two hours on Monday and make a bunch of calls. You get one person, and they start calling you back over the next couple of days, and you're doing other things. So it really requires dedicated time. To me, that's one of the dilemmas of longform magazine writing. It's really done best by staff writers and freelancers who dedicate all of their time to it. It's a job that you have to be doing all the time. Then the question of getting paid enough to compensate for that time is the one that everyone deals with in some way or another."
3. Jonathan Shainin
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"I find it really stimulating to have to interrogate the assumptions that you have as an editor about what's interesting, what's not interesting, what's a good story, what's a bad story, what's the story that's been done a million times already. I feel like when you get out of a place that is your place — which, for me and you, is America or New York — you have to kind of think through some things in a fresh way. And I think that can be really productive."
4. Ann Friedman
Stephanie Gonot
"When you become a freelancer after being an editor for a long time, you talk to [editors] the way you wanted to be talked to when you were an editor. You get on the phone, and I have a long list of things I'm interested in that are pretty broad. And I just start talking about what I'm interested in. I can hear when they perk up about something. And then I'm like, 'Oh, and here's the way I could do that for you!' And sometimes it results in an assignment that's short, sometimes it results in an assignment that's long."
5. Susan Orlean
Kelly Davidson
"A lot of the stories that I get most excited about come to me through serendipity. I think to find good stories, one [tip] is to keep an incredibly open mind and open eyes. Every day, everywhere you are. As a matter of a kind of mental practice, I am looking and listening. And I feel like I'm always primed for something to present itself and for my response to be, 'Wow, that's a great story!'"
6. Patrick Radden Keefe
"Here's the tricky thing, is that [writers] are all reading the same publications. They're all on Twitter with each other. So you get this kind of strange echo chamber thing. … I get the American Bar Association Journal because I'm a member of the bar. And The American Lawyer. Sometimes it will be a thing where I read about something in another context, and I find out the one definitive, big piece is written in The American Lawyer. Any kind of local papers or specialists' periodicals, anything you can do to break out of that somewhat insular information universe we're all in — that seems limitless but is actually pretty cloistered — I think is probably a good idea. Finding that thing that's just totally off the radar would probably be a huge advantage."
7. Sarah Stillman
Alan Chin
"I started pitching this story and found that no one was interested. I spent months just sending out emails. The thing that stayed with me most is that I went to an editor at a magazine that basically told me verbatim, 'If you can repitch this and tell me, in the Hollywood version of this story, who would Julia Roberts play, then I would consider it.' That was definitely the low moment of my journalistic career. I realized that people need a character to care about. And without that, you're just not going to get very far in a longform piece. You had to have actual human beings that people can invest in. People don't really care about issues so much as they care about the stories and the characters that bring those issues to life."
8. Gay Talese
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"My aspiration was to be a good short story writer. That means a scene setter. That means a dialogue writer. That means sometimes an interior monologue writer where you get to know what the person's thinking — because you ask them, 'What are you thinking?' You're not corrupting the short story because you're not making it up. You're a journalist. The story form, that's the art."
9. Jonah Weiner
Via jonahweiner.com
"In the piece that I filed now at the Times Magazine, there's just a little scene where I've got my subject interacting with someone else. That's another thing that I just know I love, when you have your subject talking to someone who isn't you. I know that's a good thing because, as a reader, there's just something texturally that happens there where even if the exchange is very tiny, something changes in the course of your experience as a reader where the subject isn't talking to the writer, they're talking to someone else. The air in the room changes."
10. David Samuels
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"I like to do two things when I write. I like to solve problems for myself: Why do I feel this way? Why am I drawn to this story? I like to give readers a sense of process. How did I get from place to place, and why am I making the connections that I am? To give them a sense of what scenes and incidents mean. To have a sense of them being necessary parts of a journey that I want the reader to share. The other thing is that I try to structure those journeys in a way that gets into the reader's head. You want to rewire their brain so that by the end, they feel like they've discovered something. It's not a heroic story in which I find the hidden diamond of the prison or something like that. It's a process that educates the reader in a way of seeing and makes them feel smart and gives them tools and shows them how to ask questions."
11. David Grann
Via davidgrann.com
"I'm not writing about myself. I'm writing about characters making discoveries in time and making realizations. … When the ground shifts, the ground shifts because that's the way it happened. Watching people witness history and make sense of history as they live it is so much more interesting than coming in and playing omniscient god. … It's actually trying to get closer to reality, which is damn murky and filled with blind spots and wrong turns and people doing their best at the moment with limited information."
12. Rachel Aviv
Via rachelaviv.com
"The first assignment I was given was by my editor [at The Believer], and it was to write about books with fat heroes. I had nothing really invested in that subject. So that was my first long piece. And I think I did become aware that that's not necessarily what I wanted to do, where you're juggling 20 novels; that was a little bit more academic. I think I just kept realizing that I had control over what I was writing about. It seemed like such a miracle to even come up with something that constituted a story that, whether it was about electronics or traffic or whatever, I would just go for it. But I started to realize that it made more sense to write things that I would actually want to read about."
13. Malcolm Gladwell
"If I write about you, I do not want you ever to regret having talked to me. In cases where I think the person will regret having talked to me, I usually don't do the story or don't use the person's interview or don't use the parts that they'll regret having said. Part of that is just my personality. Partly because there's a very limited amount of negative stuff you can put in a book or an article before you turn most of your audience away. I think negative stuff is interesting the first time; you'll never reread a negative article. You'll reread a positive one. And I think a lot of the reason my books have a long shelf life is because they are optimistic. And optimism permits that kind of longevity."
14. Nicholas Schmidle
Via newamerica.net
"I developed [that tenacity] at The New Yorker, knowing that the expectation from editors is that you haven't quit until you've exhausted every option and the story is out and in print. So I think that, with that sort of pinging around in the back of my head and having not been at the magazine very long, I just figured that I would knock on every possible door."
15. David Kushner
Via davidkushner.com
"I am a big narrative nonfiction geek. I've always been so fascinated by that and read everything by Hunter Thompson and everything by Tom Wolfe. I would see patterns in what they did. With Hunter, he wrote a lot about politics, he wrote a lot about sports. Most writers have a couple of areas. I didn't really think about it so much at the time, but what I began to realize is it just makes sense: You get more immersed in a world, you get to know people, you get to know the language of that world. You do all that heavy lifting, which is rough. It's rough to land on a different planet and learn the language and have people talk to you. So once you do it, when there's more in that world to explore, it just makes total sense to go back to it when there's another story."
16. George Saunders
Basso Cannarsa
"As you get older, you get more confident that if something's true to you, there is a way to represent it entertainingly. If it happens to a person, it can't possibly be non-art. So in the story 'The Tenth of December,' there's a moment where, because of the structure, the character's thoughts turn towards his wife. And I just turned my thoughts towards my wife, you know? What came out was probably the truest thing I've ever written about our relationship, for sure. And it wasn't sappy; it was actually pretty good prose. I wasn't trying to make it anything other than what it was; I was trying to make it true as quickly as I could. So that was a big moment for me. Even the really positive things that you feel, that you've always roped off as being too sappy, if you say them urgently enough — of course, why not?"
17. Emily Nussbaum
Via newyorker.com
"When you write criticism, you have to be able to say things are bad as well as that things are good. To establish your values, and to actually be in the conversation. It's a way of taking the art form seriously. … TV is condescended to. TV has been put down and treated as junk. That's not true of TV anymore. And so TV deserves to have the kind of criticism that expects it to be great. It's, to me, a really engaging and satisfying cause no matter whether I'm praising or criticizing."
18. Keith Gessen
I came from a disputatious, Russian tradition. We [at n+1] all came from these traditions where arguments were a good thing. And especially arguments about literature. What are you going to argue about if not the most important thing in the world — which is literature?
19. Ariel Levy
Via hamilton.edu
"'Thanksgiving in Mongolia' is an essay I wrote about the biggest experience of my life, I would say. A year ago, last Thanksgiving, when I was five months pregnant, I went to Mongolia to report a story. There's no correlation with flying and miscarriage or birth. However, when I got to Mongolia, I went into labor in my hotel, and I had this baby who died. And it was the most intense experience of my life. And I wrote about it because that is what I do. That's what I've done since I was a little kid. So that's it. And then I published it. If you're not going to write about that, what the hell are you doing? Are you a writer? Birth is a lot of women's reality. And I don't understand why you wouldn't write about that if you're a writer and you're a feminist and that was your reality."
***Grace Bello is a lifestyle and culture reporter based in New York. She has been published in The Atlantic, NBCNews.com, the New York Daily News, Tablet, Time Out New York, The Awl, The Hairpin, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @grace_land.
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Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis
Montana PBS's new documentary, "Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis," looks beyond the controversies surrounding Medical Marijuana programs and instead, investigates the science. The hour-long program reveals how the plant's chemical compounds act on the brain and the body to potentially treat a myriad of difficult conditions and diseases. Personal stories of relief from pain, nausea and epileptic seizures frame a scientific discussion of both the therapeutic potential and the very real side effects of cannabis as a medicine. The documentary details the government restrictions and financial difficulties of doing research on the plant, but it also highlights the legitimate work being done by scientists across the nation, including one South Carolina researcher who is uncovering its potential to treat auto-immune diseases and certain types of cancer. Interviews include Dr. Igor Grant, Director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at UC San Diego and Kansas Physician Dr. Eric Voth, longtime medical marijuana critic and Drug Policy Advisor to Presidents Reagan, Bush senior, Clinton and Bush Junior.


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Improving teacher quality, granting schools greater autonomy and resourcing education equitably have been highlighted as some of the unifying traits of the world's top-performing school systems.
The latest Program for International Student Assessment tests, released on Tuesday evening and considered a yardstick for assessing the industrialised world's education systems, show Australia's high school students are being increasingly outperformed in maths, reading and science.
While East Asian countries and regions dominated many of the top rankings, countries on the ascent include Poland, Brazil and Ireland.
Poland especially has been praised as a rising star this week, having climbed the ladder in all three subject areas, overtaking Germany, Britain and Australia.
The OECD attributes the success to deep structural changes starting in the late 1990s, giving more responsibility to local authorities, introducing centralised exams and offering incentives for high-achieving students to enter the teaching profession.
Increasing teacher salaries and strengthening teacher training have also been at the centre of reforms in Brazil, where the lowest-achieving students have improved by the equivalent of more than 18 months of schooling in a decade.
Sue Thomson, the director of educational monitoring and research at the Australian Council for Educational Research, said factors that seemed to influence success in a high-performing country such as Singapore included ''teacher quality, picking up students with problems early on and giving more time for teachers to be mentoring other teachers''.
The NSW government has put teacher quality and school autonomy at the centre of its reforms, this week announcing the state's top-performing classroom teachers will be able to earn a six-figure salary from 2016.
The Grattan Institute's director of school education, Ben Jensen, said NSW was leading the country in having a comprehensive approach to education reform.
In terms of addressing equity, which successful countries do well, Dr Jensen said the focus was often not just on resources but how they could get their best teachers into the most disadvantaged schools.
''The notion of teachers teaching across a number of schools and focusing the very best teachers in the most disadvantaged schools happens only to a very little degree across Australia,'' he said.
Researcher Jennifer Buckingham from the Centre for Independent Studies said it was difficult to draw conclusions about Australia's performance in terms of rankings alone, given the number of countries participating in PISA had doubled and many economies at the top, such as Shanghai, were cities or states. ''So to report that China is doing well in PISA is simply wrong. There are two cities in China that are doing well,'' she said.
Education Minister Christopher Pyne said the Coalition planned to focus on ''teacher quality, engagement with parents, autonomy and curriculum'', factors he said were more important than education funding.


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Tired of telling your kids to clean their rooms, do their chores or go to bed – over and over again? A new study shows that children are more likely to follow instructions if they're put on a piece of paper.
British researchers found if you want your kids to do what they are told, then write rules down. Kids who can read, and as young as four, are more likely to respond to instructions that are written down rather than if they are spoken.
The technique seems to work even if the written advice is read aloud to the children, demonstrating that the act of putting pen to paper seems to increase the importance of the task in the eyes of the child.
The study also showed that when children learn to read, they see written word as an authoritative source of information.


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Dear Friends,
I have a block with the same structure (sub module) repeating many times. I have done manual placement & routing for one slice
and saved a design.
Now I need to instantiate and use a hand made slice many times (just like instantiating in layout editor)
Any ideas how I can do that?
Thanks in Advance,
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Hi Kari,
Thank You. Yes, that's one of the ways. Actually I'm doing the design in block level, so I would skip splitting one
block to many LEFs. Is there any other way? I've read there's partitioning and master/clone technique, but I haven't figured
out how to do master/clone. I would appreciate if you can walk me through some steps
Thank You,
In reply to Aram Shahinyan:
BTW, another issue here is that Encounter does not accept verilog netlists that have same cell instantiated more than once and asks to uniquify netlist with uniquifyNetlist utility. After that procedure extra modules are being generated (module_name_SPC1, module_name_SPC2, etc..) and unique cells are getting instantiated. Please let me know if explanation is not clear.
My point is in this case names for the same module become different, and how master/clone can be recognized?
Hi Kari,
2 issues when not using unique netlist
Issue 1 Optimization is limited with non unique netlist
**WARN: (ENCECO-560): Netlist is not unique. Cell "array_col_slice" is a multi-instantiated cell. Uniquify your netlist to avoid the problem.**WARN: (ENCECO-560): Netlist is not unique. Cell "mux_out" is a multi-instantiated cell. Uniquify your netlist to avoid the problem.**WARN: (ENCOPT-3213): Netlist is not uniquified -- Some optimization is limited!
Issue 2 Clock tree synthesis does not work with non unique netlist
<clockDesign CMD> specifyClockTree -file Clock.ctstchChecking spec file integrity...**WARN: (ENCECO-560): Netlist is not unique. Cell "array_col_slice" is a multi-instantiated cell. Uniquify your netlist to avoid the problem.**WARN: (ENCECO-560): Netlist is not unique. Cell "mux_out" is a multi-instantiated cell. Uniquify your netlist to avoid the problem.Module WPREDecoderPerPort is multiply-instantiated in WDecoderPerPort and another module.**ERROR: (ENCCK-404): Your netlist is not unique. CTS requires a unique netlist before it can run clock tree synthesis. Please load a unique netlist into EDI before you run CTS.


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STUNNING PRIVATE GARDEN. A spacious and elegant ground floor apartment in a large detached, secluded character property situated on the west side of Sidmouth. The property benefits from an unusually large garden for a property of this kind with stunning far reaching views. In addition there is a single Garage en bloc & additional parking.
| Private drive that leads to the property with a double fronted front door, with lattice leaded obscure glass panels and a lattice leaded window to the side.
| Tiled floor. Outside light. Opening into:-
| Spacious hallway with fitted storage with sliding shelves to one side, giving huge storage space. Radiator. Doors off to:-
| Original panel door leading to:-
|12' (3.65m) x 16'11" (5.15m) into the large bay. There are five windows which form a pentagonal bay with lattice leaded windows to front aspect. Three panel window with lattice leaded design to the side aspect. Two radiators. Fitted single and mirror fronted double wardrobe. Additional fitted double wardrobe. Fitted chest of drawers. Picture rail. telephone point. Tv point.
| Original panel door leading to:-
|9'5" x 12' (2.87m x 3.66m). Radiator. A window that forms four lattice leaded windows to the front aspect. Fitted three door wardrobe to one wall. Telephone point. Tv point.
| Original panel door leading to:-
| The walls are fully tiled with a white suite comprising; a panelled bath with electric shower over and glass shower screen. Inset sink into a vanity unit with fitted illuminated mirror over. Low level wc. Fitted mirror fronted medicine cabinet. Chrome ladder style radiator towel rail. Shaver point. Glass shelf. Extractor fan. Obscure glass window to the rear aspect.
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Arnie might be getting on a bit, but we didn't think that he was so old that he's starting to have memory troubles! However, when he was being interviewed by a Swedish newspaper, he momentarily forgot about the existence of one of his children!
He told The Aftonbladet "I have four wonderful children...well, actually, I have five." He has four children with ex wife Maria Shriver - Christopher, Patrick, Katherine and Christina. He also fathered a child with housekeeper Mildred Baena, whose son, Joseph, was born five days after his then wife Maria gave birth to Christopher.
He is currently going through a divorce with Maria after 25 years of marriage. "Even if I'm going through a divorce, I have a wonderful relationship with my wife. We don't argue. We talk to each other on the phone all the time and raise children together.
"We are the same responsible parents because we know we need to work together to make it work"
Memory lapses aside, it sounds like Arnie has no plans to slow down:
"I'm happiest when I'm working. The word pension is not in my vocabulary. To me its a waste. My father worked into his 90s," said the star, who is currently promoting his new film, 'The Last Stand'.
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Faced with a nearly 50-billion piece decline in global mail volume over the past three years, rising employee pension costs and increasing competition from private, commercial postal operators, the world's postal agencies are fighting back by diversifying services and leveraging technology, according to a new study from Accenture (NYSE:ACN). Achieving High Performance in the Postal Industry: Accenture Research and Insights 2013 identifies two new trends for the industry: digital mail has not reinvigorated postal agencies as originally expected and private postal operators have become more aggressive, creating greater competition for postal agencies in both the mail and parcel business. Postal agencies in 24 countries and two commercial companies – FedEx and United Parcel Service (UPS) – are included in the study. "Despite a continued tumultuous business climate, some postal organizations are thriving. They are launching new business lines, combining their products with new technology and radically changing their cost structures to be leaner and more agile. As these posts reinvent their business models, they are emerging as very different organizations that are well positioned for future growth," said Brody Buhler, managing director for Accenture's global postal industry practice. The 2013 research was presented at the European Postal Services Conference here. The 16 largest postal agencies included in the research represent nearly 75 percent of the world's mail volume. Since the publication of its first high performing posts report in 2006, Accenture has conducted ongoing, in-depth research of the postal industry. Using the Accenture High Performance Business methodology, Accenture has reviewed and assessed the relative performance of postal organizations. Starting with the postal systems of 16 countries and extending that research to include 24 posts and two commercial companies in 2013, the study gives a comprehensive review of what drives high performance in postal agencies.
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Investors are in love with Internet stocks again, which is something I thought I would never see again following the dot-com collapse of more than a decade ago.
Actually, investors aren't lathered up about all Internet stocks, but rather just a handful that they've pushed into the stratosphere. But unlike the previous generation of Web-based companies — often run by tinfoil-hat-wearing lunatics out of their garages — these are serious companies with workable business models and excellent prospects for growth.
The problem is that their stock prices have advanced too far ahead of their projected earnings. In other words, their stock price-to-earnings ratios are ugly, meaning absurdly high.
Let's start with Yelp Inc., an online guide that helps people find the best places to eat, shop and play. Also, local folks offer reviews, so there's a social component to this company.
Yelp, which currently trades around $63 a share, is up 130 percent since early June and sports a p/e ratio of a head-spinning 269. To put that in perspective, the Standard & Poor's 500 index carries a price-to-earnings ratio of about 15 and is up only 3.3 percent since June.
Yelp, which went public at $15 a share in March 2012, has yet to show a profit, but its revenue is expected to grow an enticing 46 percent next year. Investors are attracted to the stock because that kind of revenue growth is hard to come by.
"In this environment where large multinational corporations have difficulty growing revenue, this company is projecting substantial revenue growth," said Mitch Zacks, senior portfolio manager of Zacks Investment Management.
A second web-based company that caught my eye was Zillow Inc., which you may be familiar with if you've ever searched the Web for housing or rental property. Zillow offers home price estimates, profiles and all kinds of other information to prospective homebuyers and renters.
This stock is up 255 percent this year and 100 percent since June to about $96 a share, giving it a p/e ratio of 176. Zillow came public in July 2011 at $20 a share, and like Yelp it's not profitable yet, but it's enticing to investors because of strong revenue growth that eventually should give way to profits.
Investors, speculators and hedge funds have piled into these stocks basically on the belief the companies will grow into their stock prices. That could happen, but historically buying high-priced stocks is a dangerous game. Even buying stocks with p/e levels in the 20 to 30 range is dicey, and chances of success diminish as the valuations move higher.
"Generally, over long periods stocks with p/e levels above 60 make poor investments," Zacks said.
That is not to say those stocks won't move higher in the short run of, say, three to six months, but over five years or longer chances of success are diminished.
But the exorbitant p/e ratios notwithstanding, the issue that Zacks has with both of these companies is that competitors can easily intrude into these sectors.
"Companies with high p/e multiples like this generally have two things in common," he said. "They have strong growth in revenue, and secondly there are barriers to competition. But here there is nothing to prevent someone from duplicating what Zillow and Yelp are doing."
By the way, both of these stocks are heavily shorted, meaning a lot of investors expect their prices to drop.
A third stock that also occupies what I would call this social media cult sector is LinkedIn Corp. Its 238 million members share their professional profiles and knowledge online.
LinkedIn stock has advanced more than 50 percent since June to nearly $250 a share, giving it a p/e ratio of 113. This company went public in May 2011 at $45 a share. Unlike Yelp and Zillow, LinkedIn is highly profitable and has doubled its earnings from 2011 to 2012 and is well on its way to doubling them again this year.
It has more than $1 billion in annual revenue now, which is about 10 times greater than Yelp. Of the three stocks, LinkedIn probably stands the best chance of growing into its steroidal stock price, Zacks said.
"Its network of more than 200 million people is really valuable," Zacks said. "It grows exponentially because every member connects with many other people, and it would be almost impossible for a competitor to create a similar network."
Still, Zacks said he would avoid LinkedIn as a long-term investment.
Observing how people have fallen in love with these stocks, I'm reminded of a famous Woody Allen line that goes something like this: I was nauseous and tingly all over; I was either in love or had smallpox.
Investors in these companies perhaps just have smallpox.


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PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald)—Cambodia exported 342,136 tons of milled rice in the first eight months of 2015, an increase of 46 percent from the 233,859 tons over the same period of last year, according to Chinese News Agency-Xinhua.
Three top buyers of Cambodian rice are China, France and Poland, said the report released by the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export.
From January to August this year, the country had sold 74,949 tons of rice to China, 45,493 tons to France, and 38,370 tons to Poland, it said, adding that types of exported rice include fragrant rice, white long grain, and parboiled long grain.
The Southeast Asian nation produced over 9 million tons of paddy rice per year.
Last year, the country exported nearly 370,000 tons, earning a gross revenue of 247 million U.S. dollars, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
In 2010, Cambodia launched a rice promotion strategy, setting a goal of exporting one million tons of milled rice by the end of 2015, however, Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol said early this year that it was unlikely to achieve the self-imposed target due to a lack of milling capacity and funding.


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For today's review we will be looking at an iPad 2 case from Griffin. The IntelliCase is a folio style designed to be low-profile. It is composed of a hard polycarbonate shell on the back and flexible thermoplastic polyurethane. Griffin designed the IntelliCase to work in either an upright or incline position for viewing the screen or typing on the virtual keyboard.
The Griffin IntelliCase arrives in a white cardboard box. On the front of the package we see images of the case along with a flap on the front of the package which widths up to reveal the IntelliCase within. The back shows additional views of the case inaction along with a list of features.
Opening the package reveals the IntelliCase. The case comes in one color, black and has a very low profile. Looking at the front cover you'll notice three foldable panels similar to the Apple designed Smart Cover. This front cover is made of the flexible thermoplastic polyurethane. On the bottom right corner is an embossed Griffin logo.
Flipping the case onto its back we find the hard polycarbonate shell designed to protect the back of the iPad 2. Surrounding this hard shell are openings for the various inputs on the iPad 2 as well as a slot for folding the front cover onto the back of the case. Another Griffin logo is found over this slot.
Opening up the IntelliCase reveals the iPad 2 cradle which is a shiny black finish with the words Griffin and IntelliCase printed in the center. The front cover attaches to the left side of this cradle via two rubber tabs. The iPad 2 is held in place by four corner clips.
The inside front cover looks exactly the same as the front, there are no pockets or sleeves found here. The inner cover also has built in magnets to help activate the iPad 2 using the Smart Cover feature.
A marriage of protective polycarbonate (to protect the back of your iPad 2) and flexible TPU (to protect your Multi-Touch display).
Fold the flexible cover back to make an upright workstand (great for reading and watching slideshows or videos), or lay it down at just the right incline for touching and tapping and typing. Strategically placed magnets in the cover activate the magnetic sensors of your iPad, to automatically wake when the case is opened, and sleep when it's closed. The micro-textured surface is easy to grip and pampers your iPad, inside and out.
Hard-shell polycarbonate case protects the back of your iPad 2
Flexible TPU cover protects your Multi-Touch display
Cover folds into 2-position (upright or inclined) workstand
Automatically wakes your iPad when you open it, sleeps when you close it
For installation simply snap the iPad 2 into the Griffin IntelliCase. Removal is just as easy, carefully pry one of the corners off the iPad 2 and slide it out.
Since the IntelliCase has a low profile, the iPad 2 resting inside maintains its svelte form factor. The front cover folds onto itself and tucks into the back of the case to allow the IntelliCase to function as an upright or incline stand. The Apple version of the Smart Cover uses magnets to lock the cover into a stand formation which is a much more elegant solution than tucking the cover into the back of the case.
One thing I did notice was when the front cover is flipped over the back of the iPad 2 the magnets would occasionally turn off the screen.
All of the ports and controls on the iPad 2 are easily accessible with the IntelliCase in place. The back of the case protects the metal back of the iPad 2 with openings for the camera on the rear, headphone jack, microphone, power button, mute switch and volume controls.
The Griffin IntelliCase will protect the iPad 2 from superficial harm but don't expect the IntelliCase to replace your OtterBox any time soon.
The Griffin IntelliCase is well-designed utilitarian case. It is by no means the perfect iPad 2 case but it does its job well. Its hard plastic shell will keep the iPad 2 safe from minor to moderate trauma. The Smart Cover capability is nice additional feature as it makes interacting with the iPad 2 "much more magical".
While its style is not very unique it still is a sleek looking iPad 2 case that many would be proud to carry around. It can function as both an upright stand and as an inclined keyboard stand.
Considering buying the cheapest Apple Smart Cover version and a matching case shell would cost more than the $59 retail price tag, the Griffin IntelliCase is a good value.
+Low profile
+Smart Cover enabled
+Functions as work stand
-Not the most unique design
-Magnetic smart cover can be active with the cover flipped over
-Only one color choice
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