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Update, 12 September 2012: CNET UK originally published this review with a score of one and a half stars because of extremely poor software stability on the handset we were sent by Sony. We've since received a second device, which doesn't suffer from those major functionality flaws, so we've updated our review and increased the score to reflect the improved performance of this more stable phone.
Sony's Xperia Tipo is the latest dinky smart phone from the Japanese tech giant, this time aimed squarely at those of you with small hands gripped tightly around tiny purses.
It lays claim to being a hassle-free, easy-to-use bargain. But does it live up to that admirable goal?
You can bag the Tipo on pay as you go for £90 or pocket it free on two-year pay-monthly contracts starting at £7.50 a month.
Should I buy the Sony Xperia Tipo?
I was unable to recommend buying the Tipo in my original review because it was so buggy. Happily, the second unit CNET UK was sent by Sony does not appear to suffer from the major bugs that afflicted the first.
The Tipo will appeal to people on a budget who want to grab a more up-to-date version of Android than can be found on the majority of budget 'droids. It's not a powerhouse by any means but it should please a master with modest mobile needs.
There's no getting away from how tiny the Tipo is though, so it's not an ideal phone if you have large hands or sausage-sized fingers. Its small, low-res screen isn't a great place to do lots of web surfing or to watch your favourite TV shows. And its relatively low-powered engine means this is a phone only suited to basic snacking on mobile versions of websites and playing with lightweight apps.
The Tipo isn't amazing as a telephone either, with multiple callers reporting they had trouble hearing me, so if you want a mobile to do a lot of nattering, look elsewhere.
Android 4.0 and apps
As mentioned above, the Tipo is powered by Android 4.0 ICS. That's no longer the latest version of Google's operating system -- that honour goes to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. But it's very up to date for a phone with such a low price tag.
You're not given all the features of ICS though. Notably, you don't get to unlock the handset through facial recognition since the Tipo doesn't have a front-facing camera. And given the phone is skinned with a layer of Sony's software, you miss out on the Tron-esque look and feel -- one of the most noticeable changes ushered in with ICS.
All of this means the difference between bagging a Gingerbread 'droid and the Tipo, with its nipped and tucked ICS, isn't as great as you might think. What you do get is to flick notifications out of the tray when you've had enough of them, and if you hold down the home button it will bring up a stack of scrollable thumbnails showing your recent apps.
The Tipo also gets ICS's neat data menu -- where you can set a usage limit to alert you how much of your 3G tariff you're gobbling up.
Sony's custom Android interface is tailored to fit the Tipo's tiny screen. It gives you the usual multiple home screens to fill with apps and widgets though. But since the display is so small, the scope for info-packed widgets is limited.
Elsewhere, the Tipo comes pre-loaded with Sony services such as its PlayNow store, where you can download apps, music, games, wallpapers and so on -- much like Google's Play store (also pre-loaded but not always working). For even more media choice, you get Sony's Music Unlimited service and -- confusingly -- two galleries: Sony's Xperia Gallery and a standard Android gallery.
Quite why Sony thinks it's useful to have two ways to view photos on the Tipo is beyond me -- especially as the phone then prompts you to tell it which way you want to view photos (until you select a default viewer). Hassle free? Not exactly.
The 3.2-inch screen is another big low point, with a meagre resolution and a distinctly unresponsive feel.
Resolution is 320x480 pixels, which equates to a mere 180 pixels per inch. It's not the worst resolution I've encountered. For example, it's easier on the eye than even cheaper 'droids such as the LG Optimus L3 or the Samsung Galaxy Y. But it's low enough to make looking at it for longer than a few moments more of a chore than a delight.
Still, with a screen this size, you were never going to be doing rich web browsing or watching full-length films. This pane's size is tailored to texting, a spot of app-based social networking and lightweight gaming.
Arguably, even more annoying than the low pixel count is the unresponsive feel of the Tipo's pane. I found I needed to press quite hard to get it to register my taps and swipes. Apply even relatively light pressure to the pane and you'll have to watch your finger marks fade off the surface of the TFT panel where they've just been imprinted.
Apply less pressure and you might stop the pane flexing into the surface of the screen -- thus avoiding finger marks. But with lighter presses, I found myself having to tap away many times before the phone would fire up the app I was trying to open. Again: hassle free? Not a bit of it.
Power and performance
Don't expect Herculean feats from the tiny Tipo. It's driven by a single-core 800MHz processor, so this is not a phone for blasting through graphically demanding games. Not that it would be worth trying to do so on this tiny low-res screen.
It's not all bad though. The Tipo can offer okay performance for basic stuff like texts, checking Facebook, playing a few simple games and snacking on mobile websites. It can even feel pretty nippy for such a tiddler, letting you swoop through menus and browse mobile websites without lashings of frustrating lag. It's certainly slicker than another budget ICS blower -- HTC's awfully sluggish Desire C, which only packs a 600MHz chip.
If you mostly just want to play basic games like Angry Birds, check mobile websites and keep up with your Facebook buddies then the Tipo has your back.
In graphics and CPU benchmarks, the Tipo was a barrel scraper -- scoring only 1,527 on Quadrant's test and 2,766 on Antutu's benchmark.
If you're wondering about its music credentials, the Tipo can pump out reasonably loud noise considering how tiddly it is. I didn't hear any distortion at the top of the range.
Sony has added its xLoud tech to the phone, which apparently enhances the loudness of the rear speaker. I couldn't hear a massive difference but it sounded slightly louder with xLoud on.
Call quality is average to poor, with voices sounding muffled and a background hum in evidence. On more than one test call, the person I was speaking to had trouble hearing me for portions of the chat.
Battery life is not something you'll need to worry about. Sony's marketing bumpf claims the Tipo's long-life battery can last a whopping 24 hours' use on a single charge. That sounds unbelievably long -- considering the official usage stats are a little more modest: up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 3 hours of video playback or up to 30 hours of music listening. Standby time is pegged at up to 470 hours.
I found battery performance to be pretty good. If you're an average phone user you should easily get a day's use out of the Tipo before needing to charge it.
Design and build
The Tipo is incredibly small -- certainly by today's phablet standards. The display measures a mere 3.2 inches on the diagonal, so if you have big hands or fat fingers, typing on the Tipo will inevitably result in it living up to its typo-sounding name.
Of course, on the other hand, small-handed folk won't have trouble grappling with this phone. It's palm sized and can be tucked away into all but the tiniest of pockets.
The back of the phone has a tactile, soft, round-edged matte coating that feels slightly rubberised, making it pleasingly pebble-like to hold. It's also very lightweight (99.4g) and fairly thin (13mm), considering its small footprint.
The Tipo's next most distinguishing feature is a sloping, recessed chin that sits beneath the touchscreen. This doesn't do anything apart from rope off a VIP area for the Xperia logo to sit on but it breaks up the basic slab shape slightly.
Build quality feels average for a predominantly plastic blower. Apply some pressure to the removable back and it will flex, creak and pull open at the sides so this is definitely not a rock-solid slab.
Sony is offering the Tipo in a choice of two bright colours -- red or blue -- along with two less inspiring choices -- black or white.
As well as three touch-keys on the front of the phone, used to navigate around the OS -- back, home and menu -- there's a power key on top, which I found a little hard to press because it's very low lying, and a volume rocker on the side.
Ports wise, you get a micro-USB port on the side for charging the phone and ferrying media back and forth, and a 3.5mm headphone jack up top. Crack off the back and remove the battery and you can get to the SIM and microSD card slots.
Internal storage space stretches to 2.5GB but you can expand this by sticking your own SD card in the phone.
Around the back of the Tipo is a 3.2-megapixel camera. The first thing to note is there's no flash, so abandon all thoughts of papping your buddies after dark. The second thing to note is there's a fixed focus -- expect lots of your shots to be blurry.
Even in daylight, shots from the Tipo look blotchy, noisy and slightly surreal, with brighter colours bleeding out and more muted tones appearing scrubbed of their detail. If you're after a lens that can capture crisp images, this isn't it. The best you can hope for from the Tipo is some really poor quality Facebook snaps.
Likewise, don't expect anything better than YouTube quality clips if you're shooting a video on this phone.
The Sony Xperia Tipo delivers Ice Cream Sandwich to Android lovers on a tight budget. It's not super-fast but for basic tasks it can feel nippy enough -- which is more than you can say for the other ICS 'droid at this price, HTC's Desire C.
The Tipo won't stand up to demanding use -- having a pretty tiddly engine and a cramped, low-res screen -- but if your mobile needs are as modest as your budget, you shouldn't have too many complaints. I did have some issues with poor telephone reception though, so if you want to do a lot of chinwagging, I'd look elsewhere.
It's also worth mentioning that spending £100 can bag you a 1GHz chip and a clear, roomy 4-inch screen these days -- in the form of Huawei's excellent Ascend G300 -- so be aware you're paying over the odds to put ICS and Sony's brand name in your back pocket.
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ALBANY The Albany Police department is looking for two suspects in connection with a predawn armed robbery of two people.
APD reports that the robbery occurred at 5:30 a.m. The victims were walking south on Easman Drive near its intersection with South Street when the suspects jumped out and held them at gun point with a shotgun, APD says.
The robbers took the female victim's purse and fled on foot. Responding officers canvassed the area and were unable to locate the suspects.
Police are asking for people to look out for the suspects. They are both African-American males wearing dark clothing. One is 5 feet 4 inches tall. The second, armed with a shotgun, is 5 feet 8 and was wearing a scarf over his face.
LuLu 1 year, 7 months ago
I bet they've never been to Africa. I bet they can't even find it on a map. "African"-Americans my butt.
ontario1966 1 year, 7 months ago
When I see a White-Ameican commit a crime, that's when I get shocked? Here in Albany Ga. The Good Life City?
ontario1966 1 year, 7 months ago
I just don't get it? If your white than your white? If your Asian than you are Asian? If your Cuban than your Cuban? But if your black? Than your African-American? With all these problems and if they are from Africa? Than the Government needs to start Deporting!!!
RedEric 1 year, 7 months ago
That option would have been available to almost all freed slaves if Booth had not shot Lincoln. Lincoln wanted to"Restore a captured people to their homeland".
VSU 1 year, 7 months ago
How do they know they are African American? They could be from Jamaica or Dominican Republic.
FlunkyMonkey 1 year, 7 months ago
What color is an African American? There are white Africans, there are olive skinned Africans there are the beautiful mahogany colored Africans...so, what color is an African American?
cfcarroll64 1 year, 7 months ago
Dark brown, sometime olive skin with a wide nose and thick lips, isn't it about time we native americans, (indians) start putting on our war paint and take this country back.
Citizen_A 1 year, 7 months ago
I wander what they call black people in England? African-English...African-Brit? I bet they don't call them anything different than the other citizens...which is the way it should be.
FlunkyMonkey 1 year, 7 months ago
Following the logic of this article looking for two African American males...I just had a thought. The State of Georgia was founded as an alternative to English debtors prisons. My ancestors came as a result of this alternative. Therefore, if black people are African-Americans, and since my family was sent here to relieve over-crowding in English prisons that make me....GASP...a DEBTOR-AMERICAN!!
darnette0101 1 year, 7 months ago
All these negative comments on this story, but only 2 comments where the guy and his son tried to blow up something? What is wrong here people? Now if a black person started making negative comments on the other story first, there would be heck to pay. Get a clue!! We are all foreigners. That is unless you are of Native American descent!!
TRUTH101 1 year, 7 months ago
SERIOUSLY?!?!?! The term African- American is the debate of this article!!!! SMH African-American is not the only term used to describe a race of people......
Black or African American: those having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. American Indian or Alaska Native, also called Native Americans: those having origins in any of the original peoples of North, Central and South America, and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. Asian, also called Asian American: those having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the South Asia; frequently specified as Chinese American, Korean American, Indian American, Filipino American, Vietnamese American, Japanese American, etc. Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islander: those having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands; see also Pacific Islander American.
But hey dont want you guys to feel left out.....White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an informal term, often derogatory or disparaging, for a closed group of high-status Americans mostly of English Protestant ancestry
LuLu 1 year, 7 months ago
"African-American is not the only term used to describe a race of people......"
We know. And it's stupid. Anyone who lives legally within the borders of the USA is American. Period. Why can't people just call themselves American? Everyone wants to be so equal, yet they insist on setting themselves apart.
TRUTH101 1 year, 7 months ago
Because the only people who are truly "American" are the Native Americans......
VietVet1 1 year, 7 months ago
So they were waiting for someone to walk by at 5:30 in the morning? Umm "only in Albany"
tocar 1 year, 7 months ago
With the descriptions given, we should be able to identify them quickly. LOL.
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This was how the myth of Black criminality started, for the record. After the abolition of slavery, a lot of states made laws targeting Black people specifically, and then put them on chain gangs to get free labor from them.
Oh, and the US is still disproportionately incarcerating Black people and private prisons are making huge amounts off them.
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Walmart: Stop Profiting from Forced Labor in Louisiana
You're a fool if you think this happens in just Louisiana….add California, Alabama, Florida, Texas, etc…anywhere where there is agricultural cultivation…jyeah
Ana Rosa Diaz is a 40-year-old mother of four from Municipio Hidalgo, Mexico. Ana came to Louisiana as a guestworker to peel crawfish for a Walmart supplier called C.J.'s Seafood.
While Walmart has profited from Ana's work, Ana's employer has subjected her and her fellow guestworkers to forced labor. They have been forced to work up to 24-hour shifts with no overtime pay. Supervisors have threatened to beat them with shovels to make them work faster.
Workers live in trailers across from the boss's house, and are under constant surveillance. The supervisors enter their trailers without warning, and threaten firing if workers leave after 9 p.m.
And when Ana and her fellow workers tried to stand up to the boss, he threatened violence against their families in Mexico.
"He said, 'As a friend I can be very good, but you don't want to know me as an enemy. I have contacts with good people and bad people, and I know where all your families live. I can find you no matter where you hide,'" Ana said. "We were terrified."
"We want to work," Ana said. "We need to support our families. We just want to be treated like human beings."
The workers joined the National Guestworker Alliance and decided to go on strike. The boss refused to take back his threats against their families, so now they're taking their demands to Walmart.
Walmart's Standards for Suppliers forbid forced labor on the Walmart supply chain. But Walmart is profiting from forced labor in Louisiana. And now it's attempting a cover-up without having even spoken with the whistle-blowers who are on strike.
Walmart needs to show its suppliers that it won't tolerate forced labor. We're demanding that Walmart:
- Cancel its contract with C.J.'s Seafood to show that it won't profit from forced labor in Louisiana.
- Sit down with the striking workers immediately as a first step toward a real investigation — rather than a cover-up.
- Sign the NGA's Guestworker Dignity Standards to prevent forced labor and guarantee civil and labor rights for guestworkers across the Walmart supply chain.
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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night explained a legal memo that advised the Bush Administration that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were torture and therefore illegal.
Wired reporter Spencer Ackerman obtained the memo, written by State Department counselor Philip Zelikow, through a Freedom on Information Act request.
Bush told NBC's Matt Lauer in 2010 that he authorized the use of enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding because his "lawyer said it was legal, said it did not fall within the Anti-Torture Act." But Zelikow's memo warned the Bush Administration in 2006 that the interrogation techniques used on terror suspects by the CIA were "a felony war crime."
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shot by his own neighborhood watch. being black in america….. i'm going to say this again because i think it needs to be said. THIS is the family President Obama needs to be reaching out to. FUCK sandra fluke and her feelings of being called names while PoC have been called way worse for way longer on the SAME program and she was silent as all the shit. This young intelligent (not that THAT even fuckin matters) black boy was shot and killed by his own neighborhood watch because he was black and obviously black people are too dangerous to live in an affluent white neighborhood. and for all the white people SILENT about this issue because they dont care or havent even bothered to look into how their white privilege literally KILLS us can suck all the AIDs dicks in the world. and yes thats vulgar and yes its coming from a place of hate and YES YOU DESERVE IT.
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[The young black males are] shuttled into prisons, branded as criminals and felons, and then when they're released, they're relegated to a permanent second-class status, stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement — like the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, the right to be free of legal discrimination and employment, and access to education and public benefits. Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once you've been branded a felon.
In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. (via nprfreshair)
and america is the prison capital of the world. the world. more people in prison than china, cuba, south america. with the most people of color imprisoned you would think that people of color commit the most crimes? nope.OR that they are caught more frequently. on the contrary, PoC are just tried more frequently. now aint that some racist shit. white people are literally exempt from the same legal system that rapes you and never lets you forget it. and of course they are… they created the legal system. it only makes sense who would be exempt from it.
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In the opinion piece that Dr. Carlsson-Paige referred to, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the N.E.A., and Wendy Kopp, founder of T.F.A., urged the importance of evaluating and improving teacher training programs across the country. Yet in her e-mail to Mr. Van Roekel, Dr. Carlsson-Paige said she finds this message somewhat disingenuous on the part of T.F.A. "I am very familiar with TFA and believe that its short-term, minimal training of teachers undermines teacher quality and harms children who too often get an inadequate education with its teachers," the e-mail states.
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Marriage seems to be a hot topic these days — perhaps because of all the politicians who can't keep their penises in their pants.
Or maybe that's just a coincidence. Regardless, there's a new book out called Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, by Lori Gottlieb. The gist of the book is that women need to be smarter about picking a husband. Rather than reject guys for no real reason, or thinking passion is enough of reason to go out with someone, women should consider what qualities are most important in a husband. In other words: Lower your expectations, gals.
There was also an article in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal about the secrets of happy couples who've been married 40-plus years. Then today there was an op-ed piece in Wall Street Journal titled, "Did I Get Married Too Young?" All this discussion of marriage reminds me of something Julie Christie's character says in the movie "Away From Her." She's riding in the car with her husband of 44 years on the way to an assisted living place for people with Alzheimer's and thinking about their life together. In recalling a string of affairs her husband had decades earlier when he was a professor — a lapse he apparently made amends for in the ensuing decades — she says,
"I think people are too demanding. They want to be in love every single day. What a liability."
A liability indeed, one that has a lot to do with why marriage has become such a problem for the younger generation. Modern women want too much — and expect too much — from marriage.
What women need to do is listen to their grandmothers. One wife from the article about people who've been married for eons gave this advice: "You have to love your spouse more than life itself." Another husband said he quit the Air Force early in their marriage because it bothered his wife to have him gone so much. And yet another husband — Ozzy Osborne of all people — said, "You don't throw in the towel at the first sign of trouble."
All good advice; but, sadly, this is not the attitude taken by today's young couples — women in particular. Modern women have been taught to put themselves first; they rarely advocate making major life decisions for the sake of their partner; and they often throw in the towel at the first sign of trouble. Indeed, most divorces today are initiated by women — a stark contrast to several generations ago.
So what's the answer? In "Did I Get Married Too Young?" David Lapp, 22 and newly married, suggests an entirely new way of viewing matrimony. Rather than considering marriage "the end of adventure and beginning of monotony" — as my generation has (I'm 41) — what if we begin to view it as,
"learning to live with and love another person? We may be startled to find that the greatest adventure lies not in knowing oneself as much as in knowing and committing to another person."
What a concept. And it only took a 22 year-old to point it out.
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So my last day of work in London was on April 17th; and then my vacation began. On the 19th I flew to Edinburgh and spent one night there. My flight was at 7 in the morning, but to ensure I made it to the airport on time I left my flat at 4 as only night buses were available and they are slower.
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You really packed a lot into one day…gorgeous photos…
There is a lot more that I saw than what I'm showing here. But, as my guide book has said, the main attraction in Edinburgh is the castle and Arthur's Seat (although I also slipped 'Landform' in here).
In London I spent a lot of time in galleries and museums, but in Edniburgh, since I was only there for a day I neglected to go into those.
Thank you Janis :)
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A very different perspective to a city, thank you I really enjoyed it!
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I have to go there someday. A wonderful calendar with so many beautiful images. xo
Thank you so much Lori, it was very beautiful.
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When he and his wife, Anne, opened South Hills Market and Café three years ago, he served breakfasts and lunches and offered take-out dinner items in the market case. Less than a year later, Arbaugh expanded the hours through dinnertime and added entrees of elegantly composed dishes. In September, the restaurant was granted a liquor license, so he built a small bar with full bar service.
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"Even in this rough economy, we've been pretty lucky," he said. "We've seen some tough times, but the community has been really supportive."
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- Place butter into a medium-size saut� pan over low heat.
- When the butter melts, add the garlic, parsley, hot pepper flakes, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add the eggs and stir slowly over low heat until the mixture starts to form small curds. Be careful not to overcook.
- Gently fold in the tomatoes and cook until set; add salt and pepper.
- Arrange and divide the egg mixture onto the 4 slices of toasted bread.
- Top each with basil leaves and sprinkle with cheese.
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$$$: Complete Vintage Star Wars Toy Sets
That's a long picture, isn't it? Almost as long as an elephant's trunk, but not quite. You know, I heard if you took this picture, copied 5,000 of them, and then laid them end to end it would circle Uranus. Haha, how do you fit that thing on the john? I kid. But not really.
Anyway, if you want a complete Star Wars figure set (loose) from the original three movies (+ Power of the Force), now you can. Brian's Toys is selling two different sets, one with an AFA grading of 80 ($4,000) and one with 85 ($5,000). You can also get the sets minus Power of the Force for $2,700 and $3,500, respectively. Or, if you offer me enough I'll sell you the set I foolishly gave to my little cousin. "I said I want the toys back! Listen kid, just gimme the figures and I won't tell you you were adopted". *child crying, Geekologie Writer collecting toys* Worked like a charm! Also, I think I screwed him up pretty bad. Do I hear $30?
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Thanks to Chuey "The Rock 'n' Roll" Midget, for being small enough to fit in an overhead compartment when we're on tour.
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This may look like the character selection screen from the LEGO Star Wars game, but it's not. It's a man's visual database of all his Star Wars figurines. As you can see he has several. Over 600, including doubles. I like his little database, you can view it anyway you want... / Continue →
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Broncos add Peyton, but AFC West still up for grabs
The Denver Broncos added Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning seems to be healthy. A healthy Peyton Manning is probably the greatest NFL quarterback of the past two decades, and one of the greatest of all time. Peyton Manning is a much more proficient passer than what the Denver Broncos had at quarterback in 2011. The Denver Broncos won the AFC West in 2011. Peyton Manning makes the Denver Broncos better. Therefore, the Denver Broncos win the AFC West again in 2012. Right? Well, not so fast.
The Denver Broncos weren't as good as their record made them seem last year. They won three games in the regular season in overtime and won only one game by more than 7 points (and that game was tied in the fourth quarter). Meanwhile, they were blown out three times. On the whole, they were outscored by 81 points over the course of the season. Most teams that are outscored by that much tend to win about 5.8 games, not 8, and when they do win 8 tend to decline the next season. Peyton Manning could improve the Broncos' chances by three wins, but that means we should expect them to finish 9-7 instead of 6-10, not 11-5 instead of 8-8. That 9-7 mark would still be an improvement on 2011, but it's far from a lock to win the AFC West.
The Kansas City Chiefs finished in last in the AFC West in 2011, but that only meant they finished 7-9, a mere one win behind the Broncos. Like Denver, they were fortunate to finish with that record. They were outscored by even more points, and most teams with their point different finish around 4-12. Like the Broncos, though, there's good reason to think they'll be better, maybe even much better in 2012. Quarterback Matt Cassel finished the season injured reserve, and attempted barely more than half the team's passes last season. Tight end Tony Moeaki, a key complement to Dwayne Bowe, returns after missing the entire season.
More importantly, running back Jamaal Charles is back after tearing his ACL after only 12 carries in 2011. The league's most productive running back in 2010, his absence meant the Chiefs' running back with the most carries was instead Thomas Jones, who was one of the league's least productive runners. Even if Charles doesn't have all of the explosiveness that made him so valuable, fewer carries to Jones is still addition by subtraction. Peyton Hillis, who was still moderately effective even if overall not as productive as in 2010, will soak up even more carries. That should led Cassel return to the game manager role he played in 2010 when the Chiefs surprisingly won the AFC West. There's reason for improvement on defense as well, with the return from an ACL injury by safety Eric Berry, a top-ten pick who splashed explosive playmaking ability and athleticism as a rookie in 2010, and the acquisition of first-round pick Dontari Poe, who might finally be the answer at nose tackle the Chiefs have been searching for since they switched to the 3-4 defense. The Chiefs still aren't a top echelon team in the AFC, but they could win double-digit games and should battle the Broncos for the top of the division.
The Chargers are the great enigma of the division. Like the Broncos, they finished 8-8 last year, and were the only team in the division with a positive point differential. I expounded in team in great detail for Football Outsiders Almanac 2012, and you can get a sample of my deeper thoughts on the team here. That slight underachievement was characteristic of the Norv Turner era, and the Chargers are on the whole not as deep or as talented as they were four years ago. They'll be hoping running back Ryan Mathews can stay healthy for a full season after his breakout second season, and will be counting on rookie Melvin Ingram to improve the pass rush and help cover up for a secondary that was too often leaky last year. If everything goes right, the Chargers could go 12-4 and win the division by a couple games. More likely, they'll lose a few games they shouldn't and hover around .500.
Moving on to Oakland, the Raiders, the other team I covered in FOA2012, could convince themselves, reasonably, they could win the division. Darren McFadden is a great fit for new old offensive coordinator Greg Knapp's zone-blocking scheme. Carson Palmer's arm strength seems to be restored to its 2008 pre-injury levels. There's an intriguing and potentially quite good group of wide receivers. The defense can't be much worse now that Chuck Bresnahan and his seemingly senseless schemes are no longer around. Key pass-rusher defensive end Matt Shaughnessy returns from missing most of the season. More realistically, the Raiders are poised to be the league's most competitive last-place team. McFadden has never played a full season in his NFL career, and his primary backup, Mike Goodson, is a veteran whose team didn't let him have a single carry last year. The return of Shaughnessy merely offsets the loss of Kamerion Wimbley. They cut their best corner last year, Stanford Routt, and look poised to start Ron Bartell and Shawntae Spencer, both veterans who weren't starters last year. New general manager Reggie McKenzie is more firmly grounded in the modern NFL than the recent Raiders heritage, but this is still a team that lacks depth and promising young players after being without their first-, second-, and third-round picks in this year's draft. Another 8-8 season would be great, but it's not likely, and the playoff drought likely reaches ten years.
Then again, it's the AFC West, and you never know. The NFL's most tightly-packed division in 2011 looks like it could be the same once again in 2012.
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Buzz Out Loud 972: New Zune in June?
According to the Office 10 Twitter account, Zune lovers will be happy in June. If that wasn't weird enough, they also warn you not to buy an iPhone or Palm Pre, which is probably standing orders at Microsoft. Also Natali carries knives in her sports bra quite often. Or so we have come to understand.
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The pressure for people to lose weight is timeless, but the methods people use to do it vary from decade to decade and from the reasonable to the ridiculous. Here are three of my favorite methods for weight-loss from the decade that gave us Twiggy, sauna suits, and amphetamine fetishism.
The sleep cure
This is a favorite of mine because it plays a minor part of the plot of one of my favorite novels, Valley of the Dolls. The idea behind the treatment is that you're given drugs to sedate you into a deep sleep that lasts a week, during which time you're given enough food to sustain you but not enough to cause you to gain weight. At the end of the week you're meant to awake refreshed and a little bit lighter. In Valley of the Dolls, Jennifer North undergoes the sleep cure and loses 12 pounds over the course of 8 days.
The Trim Twist
Do you like dancing? Do you want to lose weight? You might think you can simply combine your love of dance with your desire to shed a few pounds but you'd be wrong! This is the 1960s and you have to wear a cute outfit, do your hair, and use a special piece of exercise equipment to do the twist. Trust us, you need this 10″x9″ piece of pastel styrene or you won't get anything done.
Diet food
This is a bit of a cheat because diet food isn't limited to the 1960s, but the decade did have an influx of specially marketed diet food that I find quite interesting. For example, sacharine, an artificial sweetener discovered in the 1800s, began showing up in everything during this time, particularly diet soft drinks. The forerunner of the SlimFast shake, known as the Metrecal Diet Shake, also hit the market in the early 1960s and in Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique she notes that "[women] ate a chalk called Metrecal, instead of food, to shrink to the size of thin young models." Sounds delicious.


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This hotel, totally redesigned in spring 2007, is 6 miles from Dulles Airport, 7 miles from historic downtown Leesburg, and 22 miles from Washington DC.
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This Hyatt Place hotel provides self-service check-in, a coffee and wine bar, a kiosk to order menu items, and a complimentary hot breakfast.
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This Hyatt Place has dropped the traditional lobby and front desk in favor of a contemporary open area called the Gallery, with a check-in kiosk and the expertise of a host, who is available to help with check-in, guest tours, and even food preparation, 24 hours a day. The Gallery area houses the Bakery Café, which includes a coffee and wine bar and a 24-hour touch-screen kiosk for ordering freshly prepared hot and cold items; guests pay by swiping either room key or credit card. A self-help case of baked goods, salads, sandwiches, and drinks is also available 24 hours. A complimentary hot breakfast with Starbucks coffee is served each morning. Among complimentary amenities are use of the TV room with its 27-inch flat-panel screen and seating for 4, use of a computer with high-speed Internet access and a printer, all in the Gallery area, as well as hotel-wide wireless Internet access. In addition to a seasonal outdoor pool and 24-hour fitness center, this property also offers complimentary parking and complimentary airport and area shuttles (5-mile radius).This is a smoke-free property.
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- Total number of rooms - 134
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Service animals exempt from fees/restrictions
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Will someone please tell Obama this!!!
No, he´s Mussolini. Watch the chin up during speeches.
Ditto what #1 said. And the MSM as well.
"He's not just a king — he's Santa Claus, too.Except that Santa spends his own money.The president spends yours."Would make a good billboard
Duh. What are we going to do about it?
Stossell is a libertarian fool. Beck is now going down that path
REALLY---if he acts like a King and is treated like a King (by Democrats and the Press at the very least) he is a KING!
Looking at the photo of President Obama on Lucianne´s home page this morning, he looks more like Charlotte Greenwood than anybody.
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious."Marcus Tullius CiceroObama isn´t the first...as you can see he´s just the last to do and say these things.And humans being what they are fall for it every time.
Only quibble , the indispensable Washington , himself, insisted on being called, Mr President.. His character determined so many things we take for granted., our birthright we failed to protect from this "foreign "pharaoh. .
Obama is not the king, but he, the media and 51% of the voters think he is.
No, not a king. But perhaps a queen.
He is not king -- he is Caesar.
A king IS the law. Think anybody will enforce the laws obama has broken?A king does as he wishes...seven million dollar Hawaiian vacation, fly to Vegas to give a speech and fly back same day. Hear any complaints?A king speaks and makes law. Executive orders, anyone?He may be president, but he is living as a king.
Reminds me of a high-school yearbook.Yearbooks often have a section of "most handsome" followed by "thinks he is."Zippy is not King. But he thinks he is.And that is a problem for the rest of us.he rules by executive order.he spends our money freely to campaign.he ignores the law about foreign contributions.he acts like George III.Time for a new Declaration!


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Scarlet Nicole Chadrow and Mark James Burger, both of Louisville, Ky., are announcing their engagement and upcoming marriage.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Neal Chadrow of Highland Park, N.J. and Sherry and Tim January of Lewisville, Ohio. She is the granddaughter of Kathryn Bowen of Lewisville, Ohio.
She is a 2004 graduate of Warren High School and a 2010 graduate of The Ohio State University, School of Allied Medicine. She is employed as a Perfusionist at University of Strasburg, Louisville, Ky.
The prospective bridegroom is the son of Rick and Kathy Burger of Beavercreek, Ohio.
He is a 2005 graduate of Beavercreek High School and a 2009 graduate of The Ohio State University School of Allied Medicine. He is employed as a Perfusionist at University of Strasbourg, Louisville, Ky.
The wedding is being planned for May 12, 2012, in Beavercreek, Ohio.


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NEW YORK NURSE: December 2009
by Erin Silk
When you sit down to talk with new NYSNA president Karen Ballard, it's evident that she is a champion of change.
"Nursing is about change. I can't think of another profession that accommodates change quite like nursing," she said. And she's not talking about advances in science, but rather the twists and turns in one's own life that the profession seems to embrace.
"As a nurse you can move from one specialty to another, secure in the knowledge that the field is always ready to move with you," Ballard said. This belief has led to her varied career as a staff nurse, supervisor, educator, NYSNA staff member, and consultant.
Recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Ballard described it as "a wonderful and humbling experience, just to be nominated by my sponsors." Academy Fellows include the nation's most influential nurses. Being selected as a "FAAN" is a recognition of a lifetime of contributions to the profession.
And Ballard has contributed. From the 1972 "March on the Hill" in Albany, to witnessing the signing of the Nurse Practice Act, to her work as chair of the nurses' workgroup for Health Care Without Harm, she has labored for more than four decades to evolve the practice of nursing.
Ballard began her career by specializing in psychiatric nursing. A strong supporter of educational advancement for nurses, she earned a master's degree at a time when it was generally believed to be of little value.
"I was 24 years old, with a master's and they didn't know what to do with me," she says, referring to her superiors and colleagues at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Ballard took it upon herself to make a place for herself. She lobbied for the creation of the position of clinical nurse specialist in pediatric mental health and became one of eight nurses chosen for the inaugural program at the hospital.
Realizing early on that she wanted to work with children, Ballard found her passion in pediatric-mental health nursing. "How children dealt with pain, both physically and mentally, became very important to me," she said.
When asked if it takes a special person to handle the stress, and sometimes sadness, of working with children, she admits she gets this question a lot. "I like to say that I look for what I call an 'inner quiet' that tells me I can have the worst day imaginable on a peds floor and still remain in control of myself and the situation," she said.
Ballard also has an extensive history with NYSNA. Always an active member, she came on staff at NYSNA in the 1980s as an associate director of the Nursing Practice & Services Program, planning to stay for five years. She became director of the program in 1987 and continued staff leader until her retirement in 2005. That same year, she received the NYSNA Honorary Recognition Award.
Ballard says it was difficult at first to transition from clinical practice. She realized quickly, however, that through NYSNA, "New York's nurses and citizens became my patients." Her need to serve others was satisfied by leading initiatives such as getting the state to recognize the value of nursing through the use of nursing intensity weights in its reimbursement methodology.
A self-professed "organizational junkie," Ballard built strong partnerships with staff at the state departments of Health and Education. She twice helped rewrite the state's nursing home and hospital codes and has been known to recite sections from memory. She worked to establish the NurseResponse emergency registry and pushed for changes in education requirements for hospitalized children.
A champion of healthcare reform for the past decade, Ballard has served on the steering committee of Rekindling Reform, a grassroots organization working to achieve quality, affordable health care in New York State.
Ballard has stated that the watchword for her term as president is "advance." When asked how NYSNA members can help advance the profession and contribute to the association's success, Ballard suggests, "owning your membership."
She explains that, while paying your dues allows the association to keep doing the work, nurses should "make contact" with NYSNA by attending at least one meeting per year, keeping up to date on association business on the website, or volunteering for committees. "This makes membership mean something to you," Ballard says.
Ballard looks forward to sharing her presidency with all members and urges members to contact her with their hopes and concerns for the association.


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When: 15 May
Where. European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
EFCCA will organize an awareness raising event in the European Parliament supported by several MEPs. Read more>>
Worldwide, five million people live with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, conditions known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Help us to raise awareness and join our fight against IBD.
For a brief overview click on the relevant country, for more information follow the link on the left hand navigation bar "World IBD Events"
When: month of May
Where: Israel
CCFI will launch a month long media campaign that promotes awareness for World IBD Day. It will also carry out 4x4 Jeep trips event for children living with IBD. Read more>>
When: 15th and 19th May
Where: Beaumont Hospital Dublin and charity event
Awareness raising event in hospital as well as charity zorbing event launching a "Top Tips" information leaflet around the themes of well being and sport. Read more>>
Where: Buenos Aires , Hippodrome
Press conference with two medical specialists providing information on IBD followed by a patient testimonial explaining what it means to live with IBD in your daily life and a horse-riding class for journalists. Read more>>
When:month of May
Where: all over Australia
This year our program will carry the 'Can't Wait' theme, conveying the key message that the IBD community can't wait, and not just in regards to toilet facilities. Read more>>
When: 15 May
Where: European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
EFCCA will host an awareness raising event in the European Parliament supported by several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Read more>>>
When: 15 May
Where: Breakfast television and other places
Members of the Norwegian patient association's (LMF) youth group will be talking on a highly popular Breakfast television show about IBD. Read more>>>
When: 12-19 May
Where: Lubljana, Maribor and other cities
Communication campaign under the slogan "Currently indisposed - thanks for understanding". Special feature of this communication campaign will be a series of short street theater performances. Read more>>
Latest News
Launch of 2012 grant programme - IBD Research Foundation
18 May 2012
The IBD Research foundation management board recently decided to launch its 2012 grant program on 19 May, World IBD day. We will make available three grants of 5000,- euro each for IBD related research projects.
World IBD Day 2012- Brussel event
Brussels, 15 May 2012
Human purple ribbon - New Zealand
New Zealand, 16 May 2012
Over 100 local members and family, wearing purple t-shirts joined together to form a purple ribbon and then reformed to spell IBD on the grounds of the New Zealand Parliament.
Crohn's and Colitis and Employment: From career aspirations to reality
03 September 2011
New research has found that 68% of people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) feel that they have little or no control over their working conditions and a third receive minimal or no support from their employer.
Australian Population Study
03 September 2011
The number of Australians living with IBD is on the rise.
Angela McAvoy Fellowship Progress Report
03 September 2011
Does cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) improve psychological and/or clinical outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)?
World IBD Day in Brussels 2011
03 September 2011
World IBD Day events in Brussels, including a meeting with European Commissioners, and an unusual street performance outside the parliament building!
World IBD Associations
- Mas Vida- IBD patient organisation
Crohn's and Colitis Australia
- Associação Brasileira de Colite Ulcerativa e Doença de Crohn (ABCD)
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada (CCFC)/La Fondation canadienne des maladies inflammatoires de l'intestin (FCMII)
Europe - European Federation of Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Associations (EFCCA)
- Israel
Israel Foundation of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
- Mikumo
When: 13 May
Where: Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo
The Brazilian Association for Colitis and Crohn Disease (ABCD) is organizing the VII "Walking for Crohn and Colitis" aiming to create public awareness about the importance of an early diagnosis and correct treatment of IBD. Read more>> -
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The 552-306-005 from Broadwave Technologies is a 5W termination that operates from DC to 4 GHz. It is matched to 50 Ohms and has a VSWR that varies from 1.15:1 to... read more
The RF load operates from DC to 3 GHz and a PIM of less than -110 dBc. It is available with N Type male connectors and is matched to 50 ohms with a VSWR of less t... read more
This article explains the design process for a planar microstrip patch array for WLAN frequencies using the circuit and full-wave 3D solvers and optimization tools in CST STUDIO SUITE®. The goal in this case is to design an array with high directivity, low cost and low sidelobes, exhibiting a good impedance matching in the frequency range 5.18 – 5.85 GHz. The same approach can also be used to design other types of array by using a different radiator or array layout.


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Concert industry conference to move from L.A. next year
Nashville will host the concert industryâs premier conference and awards show next year for the first time in the eventâs nearly 25-year history.
The Pollstar Live! conference and the Pollstar Awards are moving to Music City from Los Angeles in February, an executive for the trade magazine and Mayor Karl Dean confirmed this week.
The announcement comes on the heels of the annual Grammy nominations concertâs relocation from Los Angeles to Nashville late last year. City leaders point to the two â and Nashvilleâs strong presence at Februaryâs Grammy awards show â as a demonstration of the cityâs growing position as a power player in the broader music world.