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I'll probably never live to see permanent off-world colonization. But this isn't the first time I thought of what a great name that would be for the spaceport lounge.
Comic #2: I'm going to remember that one next time my niece visits, and ask if she heard of that prank in school.
There is an old computer adventure game called that, based on such a bar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Bar
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Circuit court eFiling
The circuit court eFiling system allows attorneys and parties to electronically file new cases and documents for civil, family and small claims cases in the Wisconsin circuit courts.
Log in to the circuit court eFiling website
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View an online presentation of the circuit court eFiling system
Counties and case types enabled for eFiling
Each county circuit court makes an individual decision about when to offer eFiling, based on factors such as staffing and equipment resources. Eventually electronic filing will be available for all case types in all counties.
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* eFiling is not currently available for garnishments, TROs and injunctions |
Each county circuit court makes an individual decision about when to offer eFiling, based on factors such as staffing and equipment resources. Eventually electronic filing will be available for all case types in all counties.
Use of the circuit court system is voluntary for attorneys and self-represented litigants; those who choose not to participate may continue to use paper. Electronically filed documents can be viewed only by the attorneys or parties to the case and will not be available on the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) website. Electronic signatures will be provided for attorneys, self-represented parties and court officials.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has created Wis. Stats. § 801.17 authorizing electronic filing, effective July 1, 2008. The court has also created Supreme Court Rule §70.42, authorizing the use of electronic signatures by court officials.
View the electronic filing rule
View the court official electronic signature rule
View the report of the eFiling committee
About the technology
The technology for this project is similar to electronic filing systems used by the federal courts and other state courts. Documents are filed through a secure website and integrated into the existing case management system. Electronic filing is expected to provide quicker filing and service, reduced reliance on paper files, reduced data entry and improved accuracy.
Contact information
For more information regarding the circuit court eFiling system, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Mar 26 2014
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Vitor Correia Silva, Sonae; Adam Holtby, OVUM; David Hayward, CA Technologies
Businesses today have high expectations that IT Operations will assure reliability of a continuous stream of new services that drive new business models, new internal processes and new customer interaction as sources of revenue. To cope with the demands, IT Operations must optimize process and staff productivity. This challenge requires IT operations teams to transform into functions that work proactively to help the business achieve its strategic objectives.
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For many IT Operations Teams, by the time you're alerted to application performance issues, your end-users have already been impacted. And in many cases, the only performance analysis you can do is live at the very same time that the incident is happening! Even worse, sometimes you just have to wait until the incident happens again to try and really understand the cause of the problem.
With such limited performance data available to you, it's only a matter of time before the blame game and finger pointing starts between groups – "It's probably the Server"… "I reckon it's the Network"… "I bet it's the Application" Sound familiar??!!
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With many organisations forced to operate in a dispersed APAC model; with multiple points of presence across the region; each underpinned by IT infrastructure and data centers, this invariably forces levels of inefficiency, costly overheads and unpredictability in system availability and performance.
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Feb 5 2014
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Webinar 2 builds upon the information presented in the Webinar 1: SaaS Versus On-Premise…What Are My Options? In Webinar 2, we take a deeper dive into the decision making process that leads to the right model for your enterprise systems or utility services.
Some of the issues that need analysis when making a cloud/no-cloud decision include analysis of the costs, understanding the use cases, looking at security and governance, and the value of time-to-market and agility. The idea is to weigh the positives and the negatives, understand the core metrics, and then make a decision based upon the best available information.
We'll explore how to understand the deployment realities when considering an on-premises versus SaaS solution. We'll suggest a decision model and step-by-step process to define the core metrics for the decision, and provide some helpful experiences from the trenches from those who have made these critical calls in the last several years.
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•Step 1: Comparing Costs
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38 mins
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Michael Sydor, CA Technologies
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• How to monitor a single application in as little as 2 hours a month
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SaaS Versus On-Premise…What Are My Options?
Jan 23 2014
44 mins
David Linthicum, Proven Technology Executive, Cloud Computing Visionary, CTO & CEO, Author, Speaker, and Consultant
The growth of cloud computing is due largely to the growth of software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS consumption model, in many cases, provides more agility and cost efficiencies than traditional methods of consuming software. While SaaS is indeed a consideration, there are instances where it's just not a fit. Recognizing when to go SaaS and when to stay on-premise is a problem that enterprises will wrestle with now and into the future, as cloud computing continues to gather momentum.
The truth is that the SaaS model is not always a good fit, and neither are traditional approaches to software deployment and operations. You have to consider many options, requirements, and technologies to understand what's right for your specific needs.
In this Webinar, we'll take the mystery out of how to select SaaS-delivered solutions or traditional on-premise approaches. We'll explore the requirements to consider, and the types of technologies available.
Topic covered, include:
•Defining the options, including SaaS and on-premise
•Understanding the technology options
•Understanding the cost advantages
•Understanding fit-for-purpose
•Charting a path to the right decision
Are you throwing millions of dollars out the window on un-needed hardware?
Dec 18 2013
58 mins
Jeremy Rossbach & John Ashby, CA Technologies
Today's IT organizations are under tremendous pressure to deliver exceptional service quality while squeezing every penny out of flat or declining budgets. Long gone are the days of purchasing additional server horsepower as an insurance policy to support peaks in workload. Today, IT has to be able to extract the most out of their existing infrastructure while ensuring that the business load can be supported reliably and with solid performance levels. Join us to learn how the CA Capacity Management solution makes it easy to evaluate the current state of capacity utilization and achieve optimization and efficiency across high-volume physical, virtual, and cloud environments. This can be achieved while simultaneously helping organizations to reduce CapEx (capital expenditures) and OpEx (operating expenditures) associated with hardware, software, power, and cooling. In addition, the solution enables IT organizations to predict the impact of workload increases, architectural changes, or new application deployments while right-sizing the resources needed to meet business demands.
Fact or Fiction: Traditional APM is Enough To Keep Pace with Growing Complexity
Dec 12 2013
39 mins
Featured Guest J.P. Garbani, Forrester Research, Inc & Jason Meserve, CA Technologies
Your applications aren't getting any easier and the systems they run on aren't getting less complicated. Growing businesses mean growing IT infrastructures and increasing complexity. To ensure business service reliability and an excellent customer experience, your application performance management tools must be able to keep pace with the changes, growth and complexity. Is traditional APM – using thresholds and baselines to alert for possible failure – enough or is more needed? In this Webcast, featured guest J.P. Garbani, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., examines what is driving complexity, why it's making ensuring business service performance more difficult and what is required to keep pace now and into the future.
Streamlining IT Operations To Preserve Business Revenue
Dec 11 2013
36 mins
Brad Morse, DigitalGlobe & Dan Birck, CA Technologies
Join us for a discussion with Brad Morse of Digital Globe who will present how they are solving the complex problems of IT operations through the use of proactive monitoring and automation. Learn how CA Nimsoft Monitor helps DigitalGlobe avoid system outages and proactively identify problems to help them preserve their revenue stream, reduce costs and risk to their business of providing sophisticated satellite imaging.
Framework for Transforming IT Customer Experience
Dec 6 2013
43 mins
Tony Davis, CA Technologies
Today's business climate demands improved customer experience and nearly every customer experience is fueled by technology in some way.
In some cases, customers' perceptions of your company may be formed based solely on their interactions with IT systems, so IT success is critical to winning customer experience.
During this webcast, we'll discuss the framework, best practices and methodologies that can help IT transform from simply assuring component availability to assuring successful customer interactions.
A Practical Guide for IT Transformation to Next-Gen Service Operations Centers
Dec 5 2013
44 mins
Chuck Jimerson and David Hayward, CA Technologies
Based on "lessons learned in the field," here's a practical guide for transforming IT operations from a silo'd, technology alarm-driven organization to a more proactive business service-oriented organization.
You'll leave this session with a field-proven outline of a best-practice strategy for deploying application and infrastructure monitoring with more scope and depth -- and how to combine that data to visualize services end-to-end and manage their quality better.
In addition to giving you monitoring advice, this Practical Guide shows you how to establish better processes and communication across your IT operations teams and levels of engineering support.
Case studies will illustrate IT organizations' road to higher IT maturity and their return on investments in new tools and processes.
Ensuring Mission and Business Critical Application Performance
Dec 5 2013
64 mins
Andreas Gloege, VP, SAP; Mike Sydor, Sr. Architect, CA Technologies; Mike Yamaguchi, Sr. Ent Architect, Harley Davidson
Learn from Harley Davidson and other industry experts how SAP® Extended Diagnostics by CA and CA APM can help you proactively monitor your SAP and non-SAP environments while enhancing the overall end-user experience and system uptime. Find out how you can perform centralized, proactive monitoring, as well as faster root-cause analysis across your entire enterprise, including SAP Business Suite, SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects software, and SAP Mobile Platform, as well as those non-SAP applications tied to your overall business processes. Speakers will include Andreas Gloege, Vice President, SAP, Mike Sydor, Sr. Architect, CA Technologies and Mike Yamaguchi, Sr. Entrerprise Architect, Harley Davidson.
The first fifty attendees of the session will receive a complimentary copy of Mike Sydor's book, "APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management."
Business Service Reliability–Changing the Way IT Delivers Value to the Business
Nov 20 2013
62 mins
BBVA Compass, BCBS South Carolina, Regions Bank, Blackhawk Network & CA Technologies
IT organizations have traditionally focused on maintaining the availability of their technology components, measuring success by internal uptime metrics rather than the overall reliability of their business services and the related customer interactions. But today's IT environments are complex. A simple web transaction might involve a chain of dozens or even hundreds of different systems and one break in the chain can cause a failure that translates to a painful experience for your customers.
In today's rapidly changing business climate of empowered consumers, commoditized products, and intense competition, painful customer experiences can mean rapid and pervasive damage to your brand. Thriving in this climate means shifting focus to providing exceptional customer experience, recognizing the critical role that IT plays in making a successful customer interaction happen.
Join these panelists as they discuss their journey to develop a new approach to how IT provides essential business services. You'll learn about the challenges associated with developing a vision and strategy for improving reliability and putting the supporting structure and process in place, as well as the benefits of consistently delivering service reliability to support strategic business initiatives.
EMA Presents A New Vision for High Velocity Application Delivery
Nov 6 2013
49 mins
Julie Craig, EMA and Melissa Sargeant, CA Technologies
Your business is dependent on the speed with which IT can transform ideas into action across the entire application delivery chain. This is the driving reason why Agile development and Continuous Delivery of business software have become such hot topics. In this webcast, Julie Craig, Research Director, Application Management, Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. illustrates key concepts to support an Agile business and the foundational role enterprise management tools play in automation. It approaches these topics from a lifecycle perspective, encompassing modern DevOps products and practices.
What Smart Businesses Know About DevOps – and What YOU Should be Doing Now!
Oct 31 2013
57 mins
Andi Mann and Shridhar Mittal, CA Technologies - Noel Heredia, Accenture
DevOps has arrived. A recent global survey shows that your peers are already improving their competitiveness and growing revenue by embracing DevOps. Are you being left behind?
If you can say 'yes' to one of these questions, you won't want to miss this interactive panel discussion:
•Still trying to figure out if DevOps is the right approach?
•Do you even know where to start?
•Would you like to get even more out of your DevOps implementation?
Find out what your peers are doing right (and wrong!) and what you should be doing about DevOps from our panel of experts from CA Technologies and Accenture.
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The ever-increasing complexity of the technology landscape, coupled with stagnant or decreasing budgets, has many organizations looking for ways to manage complexity, improve cycle times and reduce service delivery costs.
To close the gap between flat budgets and the growing demand for IT operations to support new business services, IT departments are starting to move from a technology-centric to a service-centric model to think and act more holistically about how they relate to the business.
This resource center offers information and real world examples of how organizations can transform IT to simplify and optimize service quality and reduce delivery costs to ultimately drive innovation and growth for the business.
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October 2 & 3, 2010 – West Liberty, IA – Southeast Iowa Hamfest / Iowa Convention.
The Muscatine Amateur Radio Club and the Washington Area Amateur Radio Club will present the 26th Annual Southeast Iowa Hamfest and ARRL Iowa Convention on Saturday and Sunday, October 2nd & 3rd, at the Muscatine County Fairgrounds in West Liberty, Iowa.
The Annual Wiener Roast will be held Saturday, October 2nd, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm with a meal price of $4 for adults and $2 for children 12 & under. Food and drink will be prepared by the West Liberty Boy Scouts and all proceeds will benefit the troop. Several ARRL VIPs will be in attendance for an informal meet and greet. Expected to attend are: Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, the Assistant Manager of the ARRL Membership Volunteer Programs Department; Cliff Ahrens, K0CA, the ARRL Midwest Division Director; and Rod Blocksome, K0DAS, the ARRL Midwest Division Vice-Director. A modest station will be set up for demonstration to those interested in learning more about amateur radio.
The hamfest on Sunday, October 3rd, from 7:00am to 1:00pm, features indoor and outdoor flea market, commercial vendors, license testing, food and drink. Several seminars are planned on a variety of topics: ARRL Logbook of the World, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, SKYWARN and the American Radio Relay League. There will be testing for all Amateur Radio license classes and DXCC/VUCC/WAS QSL card checking. All tickets are $5. Children age 14 and under are admitted free. Gates open at 7:00am. There will be hourly drawings for door prizes, including a cash grand prize drawing.
Indoor flea market table space is available for $8 per table. A "Tailgating" flea market space is free with paid admission and available on a first come, first serve basis. Electricity will be available for a fee. Vendor setup will commence on Saturday, October 2nd, from 3:00pm to 11:00pm, as well as Sunday, October 3rd beginning at 5:00am. Overnight camping will also be available for a fee.
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26th Annual Southeast Iowa Hamfest / 2010 ARRL Iowa Convention Schedule
Sat. Oct 2
3:00pm - Hall & grounds open for Vendor / Flea Market set Up
6:00pm - Weiner Roast / Meet & Greet with special guests:
Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, Assistant Manager of the ARRL Membership Volunteer Programs Department
Cliff Ahrens, K0CA, ARRL Midwest Division Director
Rod Blocksome, K0DAS, ARRL Midwest Division Vice-Director
11:00pm - Hall lock down
Sun. Oct 3.
5:00am - Hall & grounds open for Vendor / Flea Market set Up
7:00am - Gates open for general public
8:00am - ARES Seminar with Dan Miller, AC0OF, ARRL Iowa Section Emergency Coordinator
8:00am - Door Prize Drawing
9:00am - ARRL Logbook of the World Seminar with Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, Assistant Manager of the ARRL Membership Volunteer Programs Department
9:00am - Door Prize Drawing
9:30am - FCC License Exams begin (No testing after 11:30am)
9:30am - ARRL DXCC / WAS / VUCC QSL Card Checking begins (ends at 11:30am)
10:00am - ARRL Seminar with Cliff Ahrens, K0CA, Midwest Director
10:00am - Door Prize Drawing
11:00am - SKYWARN Seminar with Donna Dubberke, KC5MDO, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service
11:00am - Door Prize Drawing
12:00pm - ARRL Logbook of the World Seminar with Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, Assistant Manager of the ARRL Membership Volunteer Programs Department
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I've been vegan before for a few years, but had to stop for awhile when I was getting seriously into bike racing and distance triathlon. If any of you vegan/gluten free endurance athletes out there have any tips and tricks, I'm always looking for some new recipes!
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There's lots of Vegan celebs these days, too. Everyone is trying to expand their understanding of animal rights + health. Athletes go vegan because our diet is generally low fat, high carb, with lots of vitamins/minerals/fiber. When eating this way, we start to look and feel lean like a runner, cyclist, dancer, etc.
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Yes, stone-agers. But friendly stone-agers.
An Arab man in Saudi Arabia is accused of offending Islam and its Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him) in remarks on his Twitter page, the second man to be charged with apostasy in the Gulf Kingdom.
Hundreds of Twitter users joined hands in demanding the arrest of Mohammed Salama on apostasy charges as was the case of Hamza Kashgari who is in jail for offending the Prophet (PBUH) in comments on his Twitter page.
Fricking stone-agers.
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Yes, stone-agers. But friendly stone-agers.
Kind of ironic how certain countries are looking forward to delivering democracy to random totalitarian states yet are leaving alone an absolute theocratic monarchy like Saudi Arabia.Yes, stone-agers. But friendly stone-agers.
These guys really need some laser- and INS-guided democracy, but... Nobody will do it.
How lovely... No wonder I'm not booking holidays there... My opinions would make me a dead man walking.[*******#333333]Hundreds of Twitter users joined hands in demanding the arrest of Mohammed Salama on apostasy charges as was the case of Hamza Kashgari who is in jail for offending the Prophet (PBUH) in comments on his Twitter page.[/COLOR]
And where did he say anything offensive ? I don't get it.
Saudi Arabia is the worst kind of hellhole and main source of organised terrorism in the world. It´s just.......... they are so ****ing rich and sell us all their oil, so the rich people in SA can go on spending their time with hookers and camel-races while the ordinary people get stoned to death for just saying the truth.....
That's why I don't have a twitter account.
Those [*******#333333]Hundreds of Twitter users should try to make their governments not to deal with KSA. This will help.[/COLOR]
You are 100% and I wish more of my fellow Americans woke up about it. After 9/11 we should have bombed and occupied KSA, including Mecca. We should have imposed an anti-Wahhabization similar to the efforts in post-war Germany and Japan. That is how we would have changed the ME and made the best effort to eliminate terrorism (by hitting them at home and in their pocket). Instead we're focusing on pointless distractions like Afghanistan, Iraq, or Iran.
I'll recite that to everyone who tries to get fresh with me over Islam-criticism.Sheikh Saleh bin Fowzan Al Fowzan, a member of the 7-man supreme committee of scholars in Saudi Arabia, said it has been established in Islam that anyone who insults God or the Prophet should be killed.
Why do I feel entitled? I'm yet to hear any Muslim official no matter from what country raise their voice and at least call for mercy.
Who are those people? Do they get elected? What is this, the Catholic church? Would you like an Indonesian, a Malaysian, Turk, Morrocan...Which Muslim official would you like to step forward to comment on this? Would you like a Shia or a Sunni to comment? Maliki? Hanbali? Hanafi maybe?
Do you get asked to comment on EVERY thing a German does around the world? I'll even limit it to German, and won't ask for a comment on actions of EVERY Christian around the world.
SA lives in the 18th century. Why do other Muslims in the world have to appologize for that?
Your words sound hollow. Catholic clergymen who never ever touched a child had to face questions and criticism of the public over the Churches abuse scandal, and rightfully so for they do represent their religion.
Even in non-Islamic countries the place is littered with figures who take it to themselves to represent Islam - scholars and functionaries, clerics and activists. Recently the head of Germany's Central Council of Muslims demanded from the media to stop focusing on radicals like the killer of Toulouse and write more nice things about Islam. How does he get to utter such stupidity?
It is not our task to tell moderate Muslims from radical ones - it is the task of the moderate Muslims to distinguish themselves from their radical fellows. If they truly wish to participate in an open and liberal society, they must voice their point of view. They must voice their opposition against this death sentence. If they do refuse, than they cannot ask to be spared from criticism or even equation with radicals.
My Catholic church comment had nothing to do with the *** scandals. It was meant as a hierarchical comparison. There is no top-down hierarchy in Islam, as there is in the Catholic church for example.
Why do they have to voice their views? Why do they have to come out and appologize, condemn or whatever, every time something happens? What does the dude in Germany have to do with SA? He is representing people in Germany, not in SA.
Again I ask you, if a Catholic in Chile does something bad, does the Archbishop of Munich (?) HAVE to come out and condemn that? Does the Pope? If an Episcopalian does something bad, who appologizes for him/her? Just Episcopalians, or every Christan in the world?
No, they don't have to say a damn thing about this case. It has nothing to do with them. It's a matter for SA and their medieval ways. Has nothing to do with the guy in Istanbul or Berlin or NYC going about his day. Calling people radicals until they prove in a satisfactory fashion that they are are not, is so very productive. Of course, the bar for that proof will keep rising.


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on by martinn--2008Pros Excellent isolation
Cons Lack of sound definition and light on bass
Summary The best thing about these phones is the isolation (I believe they say 32 db). This is both coming and going - it keeps the headphone sound in and the outside sound out. This is great, for example, in our small studio when recording exposed vocals.
But the sound reproduction itself is only good. Bass is suprisingly weak; mids and highs lack clarity. Sony's MDR-7506 is our reference point for $100 headphones. The Sony's don't have any bass either (and don't give nearly the isolation). But the 7506's are noticibly crisper on mids and highs - a much more plesant listen if you don't need the isolation. -
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on by gumbyracerPros Comfortable ear cups, great isolation, proper cord length for office, excellent all-around sound for all types of music
Cons No headband tension adjustment
Summary I work in an R&D office adjacent to an automotive/fabrication shop. These HD 280 Pros isolate the air impact sounds wonderfully. Largely listening to trance/techno/house, I found these to be accurate, clear, and responsive to all frequencies. The sound is linear at all but the highest levels. I sampled the Eagles and Norah Jones to get a feel for the fidelity and was impressed at the audible nuances that I was missing. The design is basic but well-built. The headband is comfortable, albeit an adjustable tensioner would be nice. Faux leather ear cups are supple and my big ears don't hit the inner linings whatsoever. Coiled cord length is great for PC or MP3 player use. The screw-on adapter is a nice finishing touch on an excellent pair of closed ear headphones.
"Worth every penny if you want to really enjoy your new MP3 player!"
on by iflyskyhighPros Rich sound, very comfortable, lightweight
Cons Lots of plastic! Break-in period.
Summary Please please listen to people when they say give them 24 hours or so of high volume break in before you judge them. I just plugged them into my Zen Touch and let it play at full blast for about 24 hours. I put them on every so often to listen and I could hear a huge difference in the sound as the 24 hours progressed. Give them time, you'll be amazed at the diference! I have a big head and they fit very well, since there seems to be some question about this. Sound is unreal! I have listened to them on my laptop with movies as well as my Zen Touch and iRiver 790 (both highly recomended MP3 players buy the way). Just like everyone else says, you here things in your music and movies that you were never aware were even there. Well worth every penny. X10.com has them for $84 right now with free shipping. Best deal I could find. They are of course a little big, but hey what do you expect? They are full size headphones...duh! They are not going to be as portable as earbuds or smaller headphones. They do fold up quite nice, but are still not going to fit in your pocket. They seem to be made out of a lot of plastic, which may be a downside, that remains to be seen over time. I prefer things to be solid, but obviously that adds weight. I highly recomend these headphones
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on by maliklund87Pros Very detailed sound
Cons A bit low on bass
Summary These are some great headphones! The sound is just amazing. At first it seems like the bass is too low, but after a while you learn to hear the way these cans reproduce the bass and then they just rock! I love the extremely tight bass they have. But they ain't the most pretty headphones I've seen. In fact they are pretty ugly and you look kind a stupid with them on, but on the other hand they sit very nice. You can wear them for hours! Buy these headphones for the sound, not for the looks.
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on by ScironTheBanditPros extremely clear highs, good bass response, near silent at full volume
Cons Even the claimed 6N pressure on your head can feel a bit tight at times
Summary Ok, if you're a music lover, but don't feel like spending a fortune, these are the headphones for you. The highs and mids are extremely clear and crisp. I find the bass response to be just right, though some may find it to be lacking slightly. Again, it is needs-dependent. For a good comparison of the lows to highs, I recommend listening to Jesse Cook's album "Gravity" all the way through.
The noise-cancelling ability is second to none, for the price. I can turn the headphones almost all the way up (which is extremely loud, by the way) without anyone else either hearing or complaining about my music being audible to them. I was considering the Sennheiser HD-555's as well, but I decided I needed the better bass response instead of the open-air design. I tested both, listening to different types of audio (music, movie, radio), and found the HD 280 Pros to be much more suited to my needs.
If you have any circuit-building skills, I highly recommend building a pocket amp for these babies. The sound coming out of your portable sound source (iPod, cd-player, etc) will be much clearer and also have better bass response (dedicated capacitors for sudden, unexpected sounds like big bass drum hits).
To conclude, I highly recommend the HD 280 Pros to anyone who is picky about sound quality, but doesn't want to blow a huge wad of cash on getting it. They are worth every penny of the money I paid for them.
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"The first thing he did was point to a picture of Tavon Austin and say, 'You need to get that guy the ball as much as you can,'" the WVU coach remembered Tuesday.
Holgorsen followed orders as much as he followed the irresistible urge to facilitate a player who was the first skill position player drafted. Austin would touch the ball more than 300 times in two seasons with Holgorsen and nearly 12 times per game.
Austin joins a brand new brood now, but not before giving WVU one more piece of history. In addition to all the game, season and career records he set for rushing, receiving or returning punts or kickoffs, he gave the Mountaineers first-round picks in consecutive seasons for the first time ever. The Seattle Seahawks picked defensive end Bruce Irvin at No. 15 last year.
The Rams were just as eager to take Austin, too. Fearful of the New York Jets at No. 9, St. Louis surrendered Nos. 16, 46, 78 and 222 to get to Nos. 8 and 71. Austin said he spoke with Rams Coach Jeff Fisher, who set up plans for Austin to arrive at the team facility today and prepare for his new life.
"He said, 'You're a part of the family now,'" Austin said.
St. Louis plays eight home games a year on artificial turf inside the Edward Jones Dome, which was also home to the "Greatest Show on Turf" in the days of quarterback Kurt Warner, receivers Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt and Az-Zahir Hakim and running back Marshall Faulk, who Austin said was one of his favorite players when he was a kid who figured his future was as a running back.
He's a receiver now and addresses a major need. The Rams lost slot receiver Danny Amendola to free agency after Amendola, who played for Holgorsen at Texas Tech, signed with the New England Patriots. Amendola caught 196 passes for 1,726 yards and seven touchdowns in four seasons with the Rams.
While Austin's spot wasn't a surprise, the plight of Austin's quarterback, Geno Smith, was. Commonly regarded as the best quarterback available, Smith was heavily scrutinized as the draft neared and watched from a backstage area as Florida State's E.J. Manuel went to the Buffalo Bills at No. 16.
"People are missing his drive for the game," Austin said. "They're missing the whole thing about the way he approaches the game. They don't see the emotion he's got for the game. People can say all they want about him, but if you're not really there, if you don't know him as a person, it's hard for you to really judge him.
"At the end of the day, I played with him for four years. I know what type of person he is. I know he's going to give 100 percent every day at practice and then he's going to go off on the side and do all the work he has to do to be ready."
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My colleagues are having a strange problem with some of their gels. They suspect one or more combs are responsible and have tried to clean them to no avail. Does anyone know what might be causing the diffuse regions of fluorescence in these images?
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That is unusual. Probably not from the combs (low retention). Check your UV tray and make sure that an undergrad didn't crack the glass and leave EtBr residue within. Do you only see this pattern when a gel is present? It isn't in all your samples, so it probably isn't in your loading dye. It seems strange...
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we have this sometimes (but then only one cloud) when EtBr was not well mixed in the agarose or there was pipetted something from the "sediment" in the EtBr tube into the gel.
another idea would be that this is smear of small fragments that comes from the lanes above the combs (if there is one, cannot see it as it's too dark)
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The pattern seems to be consistent between gels - To test if it was the combs, set up a gel with no sample and run as per normal - if you see this pattern, then it is likely to be the combs, but if not, then it is something to do with either your sample or the EtBr.
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Bellevue, WA., July 2, 2007—NCsoft® and ArenaNet® announced that Guild Wars: Eye of the NorthTM, the first ever expansion to the subscription-free Guild Wars® franchise of fantasy online role-playing games, will be released to the public on August 31, 2007. The Guild Wars: Eye of the North expansion will be available for an expected price of $39.99 in North America and €34.99 in Europe, as well as through the NCsoft store at PlayNC.com and in the Guild Wars in-game store.
Guild Wars: Eye of the North will continue the no subscription fee model pioneered by ArenaNet, and will provide new content accessible to players who own both the expansion and any one of the three previously released Guild Wars campaigns (Guild Wars, FactionsTM, or NightfallTM).
The Guild Wars franchise has sold more than 3.5 million units since the release of the original Guild Wars campaign, in 2005, making it one of the most popular online role-playing games of all time.
Guild Wars: Eye of the North follows up on events told in the original Guild Wars campaign, and is set in previously unexplored areas of the continent of Tyria. The expansion contains a host of new features that will appeal directly to veteran Guild Wars players, including 18 large, multi-level dungeons, 150 new skills across all ten Guild Wars professions, ten new Heroes, 40 new armor sets, and more items, weapons, and titles. Additionally, through the innovative Hall of Monuments, Guild Wars: Eye of the North creates a path for players to carry the legacy of their characters into the upcoming Guild Wars 2. The Hall of Monuments will allow players to preserve their accomplishments and titles from Guild Wars, Factions, and Nightfall, which can then be claimed in Guild Wars 2.
"Guild Wars has one of the most committed and loyal player bases I've ever seen, and Guild Wars: Eye of the North is our way of delivering prized content to veteran players and creating a link to the future of Guild Wars," said Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet.
For more information on the Guild Wars franchise, go to: www.GuildWars.com. The award-winning Guild Wars campaigns can be purchased from retailers or downloaded from the PlayNC store at https://secure.plaync.com/cgi-bin/Store.pl.
About ArenaNet ArenaNet, located in Bellevue, Washington, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NCsoft Corporation. ArenaNet has built a state-of-the-art interactive game network and develops premier multiplayer online games for dedicated game players. ArenaNet's titles, Guild Wars, Guild Wars FactionsTM, and Guild Wars NightfallTM are global online roleplaying games that allow gamers to play with anyone, anytime, and anywhere in the world. More information about ArenaNet can be found at www.arena.net.
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When I announced the birth of my second son just hours after his arrival, I thanked my midwives, my doula, and my mom (who had graciously opened up her home for my homebirth). But, I should have also thanked Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the executive producer and director, respectively, of the 2008 documentary The Business of Being Born, as it was only by watching their film that I learned enough about my options for birth to know that I didn't want to give birth again in a hospital, as I had when my first son was born. (Fortunately, I finally got to thank Lake yesterday in this interview.)
As packed as the film was with information on obstetrical and midwifery practices, viewers let Lake and Epstein know that they wanted even more information on topics like doulas and VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean)… Hence the creation of More Business of Being Born, a follow-up four-part DVD series coming this October, to help expectant parents learn more about the world of birthing options available to them.
Plus: Brand-New Q&A with Ricki Lake on Birth, BOBB & Her Legacy
Unlike The Business of Being Born, which was shown in movie theaters across the country, this DVD series will be available through retail, movies on demand, iTunes, etc., and will skip the theaters. Sadly, Lake and Epstein were unable to get funding for this project—so they've launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise a minimum of $100,000 to help finish, market and distribute the films. They've got less than a week until the end of the campaign, on July 14, to raise as much money as they can, to help educate as many expectant and soon-to-be-expectant parents as they can—and the more money they can raise, the more women they can reach. Want to help? Visit their Kickstarter campaign to donate even as little as $1 (but they've got some awesome thank-you gifts for pledges starting at low as $5).
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DVD 1: Down on The Farm: Conversations with Legendary Midwife Ina May Gaskin Epstein and Lake visit with pioneer midwife Ina May Gaskin at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. Includes conversations with actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Christy Turlington Burns.
DVD 2: Special Deliveries: Celebrity Mothers Talk Straight on Birth Celeb moms like Laila Ali, Gisele Bundchen, Cindy Crawford, Alanis Morissette, and Molly Ringwald discuss their birth stories.
DVD 3: Explore Your Choices: Birth Centers, Doulas & C-Sections An examination and explanation of the role of doulas, the advantages of birth centers and the rising rate of c-sections in the U.S. (up to 50% of births in some hospitals) and Brazil (over 99% of births in some private hospitals).
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