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- 07-02-2012, 05:45 PM Thread Author #1
Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
Thorsten Heins isn't currently registered at Android Central but wanted me to try to get some feedback that he can hopefully use to turn RIM around and allow it to become dominant in the mobile world again.
Anyone have any ideas....
1) The keyboard is extremely awesome for people that need a physical keyboard.
2) You'll look smarter to others when they see you have a Blackberry and people will assume you are uber intelligent...
Anyone got any other ideas either serious or in jest? -
You have the hots for failed Canadian businesses.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Android Central Forums - 07-19-2012, 02:07 PM #3
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
You could just wait and see what BB10 has to offer before making such parody threads.
Rich C. (PKcable)
Visitor from CrackBerry.com! - 10-07-2012, 04:00 PM #4
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
BlackBerry still has the best security in the business. And I've never used a device with a better keyboard. BlackBerry used to have more advantages but they were asleep at the wheel for too long and the competition caught up and passed them by. I'm a 10-year crackberry addict in recovery with an iPhone. I'm still not passionate about my iPhone like I was with all my BlackBerrys, but as a Mac user I decided to give the iPhone a try. My issues with BlackBerry were the relatively small screen and lack of access to subfolders on BIS.
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
Security, BBM, and Email. That's about it.
Thanked by 2: - 10-17-2012, 12:20 PM #6
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
I'm rocking an 8520 and I like it. Would I change to android? Hell yeah. Would I rather have another phone? Yes. But hey,. I know that when I get a new phone I will miss this one.
BlackBerrys are good, and if I'm happy with BB5 than with BB7 I would be more than happy. And before you start judging other phones and companies, maybe, just maybe try those phones out. BB10 is going to be very good. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. Stop making fun of other devices without even trying them, and BB10 hasn't even come out and you are already making fun of it, but if someone says that BB10 is great, your opinion instantly changes? "Close your eyes, cover your ears, LISTEN" - got it? - 11-12-2012, 10:54 AM #9
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Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
Blackberry was the first to make smartphones,Blackberry 10 os is all touchy feely,Blackberry builds a phone, not a browser/mp3/space rocket app controller launching station; that also makes calls sometimes,so to sum up blackberry is obviously better than IOS or Anroid.
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
I tell you what if you could install a Linux distro on a blackberry I'd even consider the question however considering if I had the bb source code I could edit/modify and yes even compile it on my ANDROID PHONE
Yes BB makes a good PHONE but it based entirely on java and that is a good thing but what's so sad about that is RIM fell behind....
Hmmm RIM could catch up maybe if they made a developers phone and targeted Java developers custom ide compiler spitting out
.jars left and right also .apks and .ipa's then and maybe then you could even start to compare BB to android
And as far as apple goes I might as well staple my nuts to the table and hold a s�ance asking the dead ghost of Steve jobs if could get a payment plan on my next software update.....no matter how badass the device is it doesn't count if I can't use it the way I want
Apple isn't open source friendly
they can go to hell:thumbdown:
Sent from my SPH-M820 using Android Central ForumsHe who stands on toilet is high on pot - 12-01-2012, 06:08 PM #12
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
Moreover blackberry contains lot of useful features for business people to enhance their business.
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I have used all three platforms - blackberry, iOS and Android and I agree with the first point about the keyboard and email integration and this is one of the reasons why people are still with blackberry. Hopefully we will see some major improvement with BB10. Also, I don't think we can really compare blackberry with iOS and Android and even more, can't really say blackberry has fell behind because they have been more or less pushed and tossed aside from the 'smartphone wars.' Blackberry were doing fine until Apple and Samsung started being greedy.
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
Welcome to business firstly. That's like saying Mac would have been fine in its early days if it wasn't for microsoft.
I don't want my texts emails and all that in one app I like my separation.
Bb10 may be an improvement over its old stuff but I doubt it will regain its luster.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2 - 01-06-2013, 08:11 PM #17
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I like the traditional classy look to a BB, were it almost seams as a luxury good... but with smart phones they lagged behind because its difficult to drag that onto a plain glass screen... now PRADA tried it on LG and it looks like... you all know what i am thinking.. If BB can find a way to do it classy like their keyboards they will be on a real winner.
� Tom Fairclough �
� Credo faber est quisque fortunae suae �
� I believe every man is the artisan of his own fortune �
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
BB isn't a smartphone imo. Its a smart feature phone compared to iOS or Android
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Community Rules & Guidelines - Mobile Nations Forums - 01-06-2013, 09:46 PM #22
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
Mmm.. I had a Blackberry once. The only thing I really liked about it was the speed and precision with which I could type on the physical keyboard. I still miss that from time to time, though the touch keyboards on my Lumia 920 and Nexus 7 are both excellent and compared with the Blackberry, I can type on them with about 90% the speed and 70% the accuracy (or vice versa).
The mail client was pretty robust from what I remember. BBM was useless to me because almost no one else I knew had a Blackberry. The only other thing that made a real impression on me was their app store, Blackberry World or whatever.. Not for anything positive though, but because of how atrociously bad most of the apps were. Many were absurdly priced compared to any other device and most of them were underwhelming at best and buggy and crash-prone or riddled with permissions issues. I found all of the developers I tried to contact for support really wanted nothing tho do with me and seemed to regret ever making a Blackberry app in the first place.
It was a great idea initially, but I get the sense that by the time I got there, about three years ago. I was stepping among the ruins of a crumbling, but once proud empire.
I know Blackberry fans are pretty passionate about the brand, though I'm sure their ranks must have dwindled by now. I'm curious to see if they can still save the Blackberry with BB10. From what I've seen it looks pretty impressive. Windows Phone is my phone OS of choice though (and Android for tablets) but I'll be paying attention to them this year. If nothing else, I think the competition will benefit all of us because it will ensure that no one rests on their laurels too much, especially Microsoft, who has the most to lose from a Blackberry resurgence. - 01-06-2013, 09:50 PM #23
Re: Reasons why Blackberry is Better than IOS or Android?
Eh, I'd say the early Nokia Communicator phones in the mid 1990s were the first real smartphones. Simon was never really a mainstream product that sold in any meaningful numbers. I had a Palm 180g and I remember that being pretty extraordinary back in 2002... It had a browser and the 180g model I had had a graffiti writing area rather than a keyboard, so it was truly a touch screen smartphone.


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- A/h
- Alarm
- Amplitude (Vibration)
- Analog or Analogue
- Antimagnetic watches
- Antireflection, Antireflective
- Automat, Automatic
- Automaton
Vibrations of the balance per hour. Two vibrations make the well-known tick-tock sound of the mechanical watch, known as one oscillation.
Watch fitted with a ringing mechanism that is automatically released at the required time.
Amplitude (Vibration)
Angle of oscillation for the balance.
Analog or Analogue
A watch displaying time indications by means of hands.
Antimagnetic watches
Watches designed to be especially resistant to magnetic fields. Non-magnetic nickel alloys are used for the balance springs and a soft iron core may surround the movement.
Antireflection, Antireflective
Superficial glass treatment assuring the dispersion of reflected light. Better results are obtained if both sides are treated, but in order to avoid scratches on the upper layer, the treatment of the inner surface is preferred.
Automat, Automatic
Synonym for a watch with automatic winding. The movement of your wrist makes the rotor (oscillating weight) turn, thereby winding the mainspring of the watch movement.
Figures, placed on the dial or case of watches, provided with parts of the body or other elements moving at the same time as the sonnerie (s) strikes. The moving parts are linked, through an aperture on the dial or caseback, with the sonnerie hammers (s) striking a gong.
Balance spring
The hairspring or balance spring expands and contracts with the oscillation of the balance wheel forming together the oscillating system. The balance spring of a watch consists of a thin, flat wire often made of Nivarox
Balance wheel
Part of the escapement of a mechanical watch. Oscillating device which divides the time into equal sections. This serves the same function as does a pendulum in a clock.
The barrel contains the wound-up mainspring, hooked to it at its outer end and which stores the energy, assuring a power reserve of 36 to 45 hours for the watch. The mainspring is wound up manually by means of the crown (handwinding watch) or through the movement of the oscillating weight (Rotor) in an automatic watch. There may be more than one barrel for longer power reserve.
Chamfering of edges of levers, bridges and other elements of a movement by 45 degrees; a treatment typically found in high-grade movements.
Top ring for the crystal and/or decorative ring on the upper side of the watch case.
A metal band attached to the case. It is called integral if there is no apparent discontinuity between case and bracelet and the profile of attachments is similar to the first link.
Brass plate fixed on the main plate by two or more pins and screws. The wheels and staffs turn between the bridge and main plate
- Cabochon
- Calendar, ANNUAL
- Calendar, FULL
- Calendar, PERPETUAL
- Calibre
- Carat
- Carriage or Tourbillon Carriage
- Case
- Centre Second Hand
- Champlevé
- Chronograph
- Chronometer
- Cloisonné
- Clous de Paris
- Cock
- Colimaçonnage
- Column Wheel
- Complication
- Corrector
- Côtes Circulaires
- Côtes de Genève
- Counter
- Crown
Any kind of precious stone such as sapphire, ruby or emerald, uncut and only polished, generally of a half-spherical shape, mainly used as an ornament of the winding crown (s) or certain elements of the case.
Calendar, ANNUAL
An intermediate complication between a simple calendar and a perpetual calendar. This feature displays all the months with 30 or 31 days correctly, but needs a manual correction at the end of February. Generally date, day of the week and month, or only day and month are displayed on the dial.
Calendar, FULL
Displaying date, day of the week and month on the dial, but needing a manual correction at the end of a month with less than 31 days. It is often combined with the moonphases.
Calendar, PERPETUAL
This is the most complex of the calendar horology complications as it indicates the date, day, month and leap year and does not need manual corrections until the year 2100 when the leap year will be ignored.
Description for a watch movement according to construction, size and factory origin.
1 Carat = 1/24 fine gold of a gold alloy. An 18 carat gold alloy contains 18/24 fine gold = 75% fine gold content.
Carriage or Tourbillon Carriage
Rotating frame of a tourbillon device carrying the balance and escapement(s). This structural element is essential for a perfect balance of the whole system and its stability, in spite of its reduced weight. As today's tourbillon carriages make one rotation per minute, errors of rate in the vertical position are eliminated. This solution was originally designed to compensate for the wearing-position of pocket watches but has now become desirable for its aesthetics and technical sophistication in wristwatches.
Container housing and protecting the movement (s), usually made up of three parts: middle, bezel, and back.
Centre Second Hand
see Sweep second hand.
Hand-made treatment of the dial or case surface. The pattern is obtained by hollowing a metal sheet with a graver and subsequently filling the hollows with enamel.
A watch that includes a built-in stopwatch function, i.e. a timer that can be started and stopped to time an event. There are many variations of the chronograph.
A high-precision watch. According to the Swiss law, a manufacture may put the word "chronometer" on a model only after each individual piece has passed a series of tests and obtained a running bulletin and a chronometer certificate by an acknowledged Swiss control authority, such as the COSC.
A kind of enamel work mainly used for the decoration of dials in which the outlines of the drawing are formed by thin metal wires. The colored enamel fills the hollows formed in this way. After oven firing, the surface is smoothed until the gold threads appear again.
Clous de Paris
Decoration of metal parts characterized by numerous small pyramids.
see Bridge.
see Snailing.
Column Wheel
Part of chronograph movements, governing the functions of various levers and parts of the chronograph operation, in the shape of a small-toothed steel cylinder. It is controlled by pushers through levers that hold and release it. It is a very precise and usually preferred type of chronograph operation.
Additional function with respect to the manual-winding basic movement for the display of hours, minutes and seconds. Today, certain features, such as automatic winding or date, are taken for granted, although they should be defined as complications. The main complications are moonphase (s), power reserve (s), GMT (s), and full calendar (s). Further functions are performed by the so-called great complications, such as split-second (s) chronograph, perpetual calendar (s), tourbillon (s) and minute repeater (s).
Pusher (s) positioned on the case side that is normally actuated by a special tool for the quick setting of different indications, such as date, GMT (s), full or perpetual calendar (s).
Abbreviation of "Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres," the most important Swiss institution responsible for the functioning and precision tests of movements of chronometers (s). Tests are performed on each individual watch at different temperatures and in different positions before a functioning bulletin and a chronometer certificate are issued, for which a maximum gap of -4/+6 seconds per day is tolerated. Testing is performed on the movement only not the cased watch.
Côtes Circulaires
Decoration of rotors and bridges of movements, whose pattern consists of a series of concentric ribs.
Côtes de Genève
Decoration applied mainly to high-quality movements, appearing as a series of parallel ribs, effected by repeated application of a cutter leaving thin stripes.
Additional hand on a chronograph (s), indicating the time elapsed since the beginning of the measuring. On modern watches the second counter is placed at the center, while minute and hour counters have off-center hands in special zones (s), also called subdials.
Button to wind up and set the watch to time.It is linked to the movement through the winding stem (s) passing through a hole in the case. For waterproofing purposes, simple gaskets are used in water-resistant watches, whilst diving watches adopt screwing systems (screw-down crowns).
Daily Rate
Term used to denote the time deviation from a reference source after 24 hours. Differences may relate to the quality of the watch movement, the wearer's activities and other environmental factors.
Date Display
Display of date on the dial of a watch. In mechanical watches discs or bars are used for this purpose, which are connected to the movement by means of transmission wheels.
Face of a watch, on which time and further functions are displayed by markers (s), hands (s), discs or through windows (s). Normally it is made of a brass,sometimes silver or gold.
Depending on the type of movement used, the daily rate may vary between -5 to +20 seconds.
Digital watch
A watch displaying time indications by means of numbers rather than hands. There may be a mix of both analogue and digital displays on the same watch dial. Usually refers to quartz watches
Divers' Watches
Specially constructed wrist watch for deep sea diving. Divers watches are fitted with screw-in crowns, and they are guaranteed to withstand underwater pressures of 20 ATM (200 m).
Ebauche, Movement Blank
Incomplete watch movement in principle without mainspring and balance. The movement blanks are assembled, refined and completed with the missing parts.
Undrilled jewel, placed on the balance jewel with the tip of the balance-staff pivot resting against its flat surface, to reduce pivot friction. Sometimes used also for pallet staffs and escape wheels.
see Guilloché.
Equation of Time
Indication of the difference, expressed in minutes, between conventional mean time and real solar time. This difference varies from -16 to +16 seconds between one day and the other.
Mechanism built in between the gear train and balance wheel. The escapement transfers the power from the gear train in regular and even time sequences to the balance, the oscillating system.
Escapement Wheel
The escapement wheel and the lever build the escapement. It is the last train wheel.
ETA SA, leading manufacturer in Switzerland for movements. ETA movements are used for many renowned Swiss watch brands.
Fine Time Adjustment
Regulating lever to adjust the daily time accurately. The majority of Swiss watches are fitted with a regulating lever for particularly precise time adjustment.
Engraving on the dial or case of a watch, covered with an enamel layer.
Said of surfaces worked with thin parallel grooves, mostly on dials or case bezels.
Feature combined with chronograph (s) functions, that allows a new measurement starting from zero (and interrupting a measuring already under way) by pressing down a single pusher, i.e. without stopping, zeroing and restarting the whole mechanism. Originally, this function was developed to meet the needs of air forces. Hinged and jointed element, normally of the same material as the one used for the case. It allows easy fastening of the bracelet on the wrist. Often provided with a snap-in locking device, sometimes with an additional clip or push-piece.
Fold-over Clasp
Hinged and jointed element, normally of the same material as the one used for the case. It allows easy fastening of the bracelet on the wrist. Often provided with a snap-in locking device, sometimes with an additional clip or push-piece.
Frequency, s. Vibration
Generally defined as the number of cycles per time unit; in horology it is the number of oscillations of a balance every two seconds or of its vibrations per second. For practical purposes, frequency is expressed in vibrations per hour (vph).
The majority of water resistant watches are equipped with gaskets in the case back, the crystal and the crown.
The system of wheels and pinions which, from the barrel B, transmits the driving power to the escape wheel E, Z1 centre-wheel, Z3 third wheel, Z5 fourth wheel. E escape wheel. All these wheels are riveted to their respective pinions, Z2, Z4, Z6.
Geneva Seal
see Poinçon de Genève.
Bronze and beryllium alloy used for high-quality balances (s). This alloy assures high elasticity and hardness values; it is non-magnetic, rustproof and has a very reduced coefficient of expansion, which makes the balance very stable and assures high accuracy of the movement.
Abbreviation for Greenwich Mean Time. As a feature of watches, it means that two or more time zones are displayed. In this case, the second time may be read from a hand making a full rotation in a 24-hour ring (thereby also indicating whether it is a.m. or p.m. in that zone).
Gold Plating
Electro deposited layer of gold, the thickness of which is given in microns.
Harmonic flattened bell in a steel alloy, generally positioned along the circumference of the movement and struck by hammers (s) to indicate time by sounds. Size and thickness determine the resulting note and tone. In watches provided with minute-repeaters (s), there are often two gongs and the hammers strike one note to indicate hours, both notes together to indicate quarters and the other note for the remaining minutes. In more complex models, equipped also with en-passant sonnerie (s) devices, there may be up to four gongs producing different notes and playing even simple melodies (such as the chime of London's Big Ben).
Decoration of dials, rotors or case parts consisting of patterns made by hand or engine-turned. By the thin pattern of the resulting engravings—consisting of crossing or interlaced lines—it is possible to realize even complex drawings. Dials and rotors decorated in this way are generally in gold or in solid silver.
- Hammer
- Hand
- Handwinder, Hand winding
- Heart-Piece
- Helium Valve
- Hertz Heinrich
- Hexalite
- High Frequency Movement
- Hublonium
- Hublotista
Steel or brass element used in movements provided with a repeater or alarm sonnerie (s). It strikes a gong (s) or bell (s).
Indicator for the analogue visualization of hours, minutes and seconds as well as other functions. Normally made of brass (rhodium-plated, gilded or treated otherwise), but also steel or gold. Hands are available in different shapes and take part in the aesthetic result of the whole watch.
Handwinder, Hand winding
A watch whose mainspring is wound up daily by means of the winding crown.
Heart-shaped cam (s) generally used to realign the hands of chronograph counters.
Helium Valve
Valve inserted in the case of some professional diving watches to discharge the helium contained in the air mixture inhaled by divers.
Hertz Heinrich
German physicist (1857-1894). The word Hertz is now used as physical measurement for the frequencies (numbers of vibrations), indicated as oscillation per second.
An artificial glass made of a plastic resin.
High Frequency Movement
Watches which make a minimum of 28'800 vibrations.
New kind of alloy developed exclusively by Hublot that will be launched in 2008.
A hublot fan.
Trade mark of a Swiss shockabsorber (see Shock-absorber).
Instantaneous Date
Instantaneous date means that the date changes instantaneously at midnight.
Precious stone used in movements as a bearing surface. Generally speaking, the steel pivots (s) of wheels in movements turn inside synthetic jewels (mostly rubies) lubricated with a drop of oil. The jewel's hardness reduces wear to a minimum even over long periods of time (50 to 100 years). The quality of watches is determined mainly by the shape and finishing of jewels rather than by their number (the most refined jewels have rounded holes and walls to greatly reduce the contact between pivot and stone).
Jewelled Lever Escapement
Lever with pallet of synthetic ruby.
Jumping Hour
Feature concerning the digital display of time in a window. The indication changes almost instantaneously at every hour.
Knurling Tool
This tool is used in the production of bezels.
Ancient French measuring unit maintained in horology to indicate the diameter of a movement (s). A line (expressed by the symbol ""') equals 2.255mm. Lines are not divided into decimals; therefore, to indicate measures inferior to the unit, fractions are used (e.g. movements of 13'''3/4 or 10'''1/2).
To reduce friction caused by the running of wheels and other parts. There are points to be lubricated with specific low-density oils such as the pivots (s) turning inside jewels (s), the sliding areas between levers, and the spring inside the barrel (requiring a special grease), as well as numerous other parts of a movement.
Double extension of the case middle (s) by which a strap or bracelet is attached. Normally, straps and bracelets are attached with removable spring bars.
Said of materials applied on markers (s) and/or hands (s), emitting the luminous energy previously absorbed as electromagnetic light rays. Tritium is no longer used and was replaced by other substances having the same emitting powers, but with virtually zero radioactivity, such as Super-LumiNova and Lumibrite.
- Made in Switzerland
- Mainspring
- Manual
- Marine Chronometer
- Markers
- Mechanical Watches
- Micrometer Screw
- Micron
- Mineral Crystal
- Minute Repeater
- Module
- Moonphase
- Movement
Made in Switzerland
Produced and assembled in Switzerland.
Flat coiled spring that powers all mechanical watches. This and the barrel make up the driving element of a movement . It stores and transmits the power force needed for its functioning.
A mechanical movement (v) in which winding is performed by hand. The motion transmitted from the user's fingers to the crown is forwarded to the movement through the winding stem (s), from this to the barrel (s) through a series of gears (s) and finally to the mainspring (s).
Marine Chronometer
Highly accurate mechanical or electronic timekeeper enclosed in a box (hence the term box chronometer), used for determining the longitude on board ship. Marine chronometers with mechanical movements are mounted on gimbals so that they remain in the horizontal position necessary for their precision.
Elements printed or applied on the dial, sometimes luminous, used as reference points for the hands to indicate hours and fifteen- or five-minute intervals.
Mechanical Watches
Watch that stores the running power by means of a mainspring. The mainspring is either wound up manually in a handwinding watch or in an automatic watch by the swinging weight (Rotor) through the movement of the arm.
Micrometer Screw
Element positioned on the regulator, allowing to shift it by minimal and perfectly gauged ranges so as to obtain accurate regulations of the movement.
1/1000 mm or 0.00l millimetre used for instance to measure the thickness of gold plating.
Mineral Crystal
Mineral, mostly flat watch crystals. Mineral crystals are hardened after polishing and therefore less sensitive to scratches than plexi crystals.
Minute Repeater
see Repeater.
Self-contained mechanism, independent of the basic caliber (s), added to the movement (s) to make an additional function available: chronograph (s.), power reserve (s.), GMT (s), perpetual or full calendar (s).
A function available in many watches, usually combined with calendar-related features. The moonphase disc advances one tooth every 24 hours. Normally, this wheel has 59 teeth and assures an almost perfect synchronization with the lunation period, i.e. 29.53 days (in fact, the disc shows the moonphases twice during a single revolution). However, the difference of 0.03 days, i.e. 44 minutes each month, implies the need for a manual adjustment every two and a half years to recover one day lost with respect to the real state of moonphase. In some rare case, the transmission ratio between the gears controlling the moonphase are calculated with extreme accuracy so as to require manual correction only once in 100 years.
The entire mechanism of a watch. Movements are divided into two great families: quartz and mechanical; the latter are available with manual (s) or automatic (s) winding devices.
Trade name (from the producer's name) of a steel alloy, resisting magnetization, used for modern self-compensating balance springs (s). The quality level of this material is indicated by the numeral following the name in decreasing value from 1 to 5.
Official Certificate
see Chronometer
- Pallet
- Pillar-Plate or Main Plate
- Pinion
- Pivot
- Plate (Bottom Plate)
- Plated
- Plexiglas, Plexi Crystal
- Poinçon de Genève
- Pointer Calendar
- Power Reserve
- Pulsimeter Chronograph
- Push Pin
- Pusher, Push-Piece or Push-Button
Part of the lever escapement, shaped like a ship's anchor (see Escapement). Device of the escapement (s) transmitting part of the motive force to the balance (s.), in order to maintain the amplitude of oscillations unchanged by freeing a tooth of the escape wheel at one time.
Pillar-Plate or Main Plate
Supporting element of bridges (s) and other parts of a movement (s).
Combines with a wheel and an arbor (s) to form a gear (s). A pinion has fewer teeth than a wheel and transmits motive force to a wheel. Pinion teeth (normally 6 to 14) are highly polished to reduce friction to a minimum.
End of an arbor (s) turning on a jewel (s) support. As their shape and size can influence friction, the pivots of the balance-staff are particularly thin and, hence, fragile, so they are protected by a shockproof (s) system.
Plate (Bottom Plate)
The plate supports the bridges and the various parts of the movement. The movement plate and the bridges build the frame of the movement.
Said of a metal treated by a galvanizing procedure in order to apply a slight layer of gold or another precious metal (silver, chromium, rhodium or palladium). In a watch the base is likely to be brass or steel.
Plexiglas, Plexi Crystal
Watch crystal made of acrylic crystal. This material can be processed and polished easily. The advantage for the owner of the watch is the comparatively high resistance to shocks but scratch resistance is low.
Poinçon de Genève
Distinction assigned by the Canton of Geneva to movements produced by watchmaker firms of the Region and complying with all the standards of high horology with respect to craftsmanship, small-scale production, working quality, accurate assembly and setting. The Geneva Seal is engraved on at least one bridge and shows the Canton's symbol, i.e. a two-field shield with an eagle and a key respectively in each field.
Pointer Calendar
English expression for a calendar watch with a hand that points to the date as opposed to a calendar watch where the date appears in a window.
Power Reserve
Duration (in hours) of the residual functioning autonomy of a movement after it has reached the winding peak. The duration value is displayed by an instantaneous indicator: analog (hand on a sector) or digital (through a window). The related mechanism is made up of a series of gears linking the winding barrel and hand. Recently, specific modules were introduced which may be combined with the most popular movements.
Pulsimeter Chronograph
The pulsimeter scale shows, at a glance, the number of pulse beats per minute. The observer releases the chronograph hand when starting to count the beats and stops at the 30th, the 20th or the 15th beat according to the basis of calibration indicated on the dial.
Push Pin
Small metallic spring pin fixed between the horns of the case to hold the watch strap.
Pusher, Push-Piece or Push-Button
Mechanical element mounted on a case (s) for the control of specific functions. Generally, pushers are used in chronographs (s), but also with other functions.
An abbreviation which stands for Physical Vapour Deposition. The PVD technology used for watches and bracelets is one of the most up-to-date and non-polluting coating systems. Its quality can be compared to 10 micron gold plating. The PVD finish is highly scratchproof and long lasting. The authentic gilt colour tone is obtained by applying a 23 carat gold layer.
Quartz Watches
Watches with analogue or digital display, whose movement is regulated by a by high-frequency vibrationsinduced in a quartz crystal. The quartz watch requires an electrical power source from a battery, solar cell or generator similar to a mechanical rotor. The display may be analogue, digital or mixed. There are also a few combination mechanical/quartz watches.
Quick Change Corrector (Date)
Mechanism for the direct setting of the date, to avoid turning the hands over 24 hours.
With fine regulating the watchmaker adjusts a watch to run as accurately as possible (see Fine Time Adjustment).
Regulating Unit
Made up by balance (s) and balance spring (s), governing the division of time within the mechanical movement, assuring its regular running and accuracy. As the balance works like a pendulum, the balance spring's function consists of its elastic return and starting of a new oscillation. This combined action determines the frequency, i.e. the number of vibrations per hour, and affects the rotation speed of the different wheels. In fact the balance, by its oscillations, at every vibration (through the action of the pallets), frees a tooth of the escape wheel (s Escapement). From this, motion is transmitted to the fourth wheel, which makes a revolution in one minute, to the third and then the center wheel, the latter making a full rotation in one hour. However, everything is determined by the correct time interval of the oscillations of the balance.
Regulating the functioning of a movement by lengthening and shortening the active section of the balance spring (s). It is positioned on the balance-bridge and encompasses the balance spring with its two pins near its fixing point on the bridge itself. By shifting the index, the pins also are moved and, by consequence, the portion of the balance spring capable of bringing the balance back is lengthened or shortened by its elastic force. The shorter it is, the more reactive it tends to be and the more rapidly it brings the balance back and makes the movement run faster. The contrary happens when the active portion of the balance spring is lengthened. Given today's high frequencies of functioning, even slight index shifts entail daily variations of minutes. Recently, even more refined index-regulation systems were adopted (from eccentric (s) to micrometer screws (s)) to limit error margins to very few seconds per day.
"Watch that strikes the hours by means of a mechanism operated by a push-piece or bolt. There are various types of repeaters. Quarter-repeater : sounding a low note for the hours and a ""ding-dong"" for each of the quarters; Five-minute repeater: striking the hours, quarters and five-minute periods after the quarter; Minute-repeater: striking the hours, quarters and minutes; Grande sonnerie (grand strike): striking the hours and quarters automatically and repeating when a push-piece is pressed down; Chiming repeater: in which the quarters are struck on three or four gongs of different pitch. The mechanism of the striking work is among the most complex complications."
Said of a hand (s.) that, instead of making a revolution of 360 before starting a new measurement, moves on an arc scale (generally of 90 to 180) and at the end of its trip comes back instantaneously. Normally, retrograde hands are used to indicate date, day or month in perpetual calendars, but there are also cases of retrograde hours, minutes or seconds. Unlike the case of the classical indication over 360, the retrograde system requires a special mechanism to be inserted into the basic movement.
Rose Gold
Alloy of gold, copper and silver. The rose gold tone is due to the copper content.
Rotating Top Ring
Rotating bezel on the top ring of a watch case, serving in most instances to record additional data.
In automatic-winding mechanical movements the rotor is the part that, by its complete or partial revolutions and the movements of human arm, allows winding of the mainspring (s). (see Swinging or Oscillating Weight).
Synthetically produced precious stone, used in the watch movement as pallet stones and bearings (jewel holes) to reduce friction and wear.
- Sapphire Crystal
- Scale
- Screw Back
- Screw-in Crown
- Second Time-Zone Indicator
- Self-winding
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- Slide
- Small Second
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- Split-Second Chronograph
- Stainless Steel
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- Super Luminova
- Sweep Second Hand
- Swinging Or Oscillating Weight (Rotor)
Sapphire Crystal
Watch crystal made of artificial sapphire. A sapphire crystal is highly scratch resistant due to its extreme hardness.
Graduation on a measuring instrument, showing the divisions of a whole of values, especially on a dial, bezel. The scales mostly used in horology are related to the following measuring devices: tachometer (s.) (indicating the average speed), telemeter (s.) (indicating the distance of a simultaneously luminous and acoustic source, e.g. a cannon-shot or a thunder and related lightning), pulsometer (to calculate the total number of heartbeats per minute by counting only a certain quantity of them). For all of these scales, measuring starts at the beginning of the event concerned and stops at its end; the reading refers directly to the chronograph second hand, without requiring further calculations..
Screw Back
Case back with thread so that it can be screwed on to the watch case.
Screw-in Crown
Special crown which is screwed in for better security and used mainly for divers' and sports watches.
Second Time-Zone Indicator
see GMT and World Time.
see Automatic
Setting Mechanism
By pulling out the crown the time and date can be set. The core of this complex mechanism is the cannon pinion, fitted with a special kind of coupling-clutch. This enables the watch to be set independently from the gear-train.
Shockproof, Shock-Resistant / Absorber
Watches provided with shock-absorber systems (e.g. Incabloc) help prevent damage from shocks to the balance pivots. Thanks to a retaining spring system, it assures an elastic play of both jewels, thus absorbing the movements of the balance-staff pivots when the watch receives strong shocks. The return to the previous position is due to the return effect of the spring. If such a system is lacking, the shock forces exert an impact on the balance-staff pivots, often causing bending or even breakage.
Skeleton, Skeletonized
Watches whose bridges and pillar-plates are cut out in a decorative manner, thus revealing all the parts of the movement.
Part of a mechanism moving with friction on a slide-bar or guide.
Small Second
Second display not from the centre, but by a hand in a subsidiary small dial. This type of second implies a different construction of the movement.
Decoration with a spiral pattern, mainly used on the barrel wheel or on big-sized full wheels.
Sonnerie (En Passant)
Function consisting of an acoustic sound, obtained by a striking work made up of two hammers (s) striking gongs (s) at set hours, quarter- and half-hours. Some devices can emit a chime (with three or even four hammers and gongs). By a slide (s) or an additional pusher (s) it is possible to exclude the sonnerie device and to select a so-called grande sonnerie.
Split-Second Chronograph
Chronographs with split-second mechanisms are particularly useful for timing simultaneous phenomena which begin at the same time, but end at different times, such as sporting events in which several competitors are taking part. In chronographs of this type, an additional hand is superimposed on the chronograph hand. Pressure on the pusher starts both hands, which remain superimposed as long as the split-second mechanism is not blocked. This is achieved when the split-second hand is stopped while the chronograph hand continues to move. After recording, the same pusher is pressed a second time, releasing the split-second hand, which instantly joins the still-moving chronograph hand, synchronizing with it, and is thus ready for another recording. Pressure on the return pusher brings the hands back to zero simultaneously, provided the split-second hand is not blocked. Pressure on the split pusher releases the split-second hand, which instantly joins the chronograph hand if the split-second hand happens to be blocked.
Stainless Steel
Steel which does not get rusty and is not affected by corrosion. It is extremely resilient.
Striking Work
see Sonnerie and Repeater.
see Zone.
Super Luminova
see Luminescent.
Sweep Second Hand
"A second hand mounted on the centre of the main dial usually ""sweeping"" the entire circumference of the dial each minute"
Swinging Or Oscillating Weight (Rotor)
The natural movement of the arm makes the oscillating weight swing round, thus winding up the mainspring of the automatic watch.
Tachometer (Tachymeter)
Function measuring the speed at which the wearer runs over a given distance. The tachometer scale is calibrated to show the speed of a moving object, such as a vehicle, over a known distance. The standard length on which the calibration is based is always shown on the dial, e.g. 1,000, 200 or 100 meters, or in some cases one mile. As the moving vehicle, for instance, passes the starting-point of the measured course whose length corresponds to that used as the basis of calibration, the observer releases the chronograph hand and stops it as the vehicle passes the finishing point. The figure indicated by the hand on the tachometer scale represents the speed in kilometers or miles per hour.
By means of the telemeter scale, it is possible to measure the distance of a phenomenon that is both visible and audible. The chronograph hand is released at the instant the phenomenon is seen; it is stopped when the sound is heard, and its position on the scale shows, at a glance, the distance in kilometers or miles separating the phenomenon from the observer. Calibration is based upon the speed at which sound travels through the air, viz. approximately 340 meters or 1,115 feet per second. During a thunderstorm, the time that has elapsed between the flash of lightning and the sound of the thunder is registered on the chronograph scale as distance from the storm.
Particular shape of a watchcase, imitating the profile of a barrel, i.e. with straight, shorter, horizontal sides and curved, longer, vertical sides.
Device invented in 1801 by A. L. Breguet. This function equalizes position errors due to changing positions of a watch and related effects of gravity. Balance, balance spring and escapement are housed inside a carriage (s), also called a cage, rotating by one revolution per minute, thus compensating for all the possible errors over 360. Although this device is not absolutely necessary for accuracy purposes today, it is still appreciated as a complication of high-quality watches.
Isotope of hydrogen, slightly radio-active, is used to activate the luminous dots on the dial. The emitted radiation is so low that there is no health risk.
Movement of a pendulum or other oscillating bodies, limited by two consecutive extreme positions. In an alternate (pendulum or balance) movement, a vibration is a half of an oscillation (s). The number of hourly vibrations corresponds to the frequency of a watch movement, determined by the mass and diameter of a balance (s) and the elastic force of the balance spring. The number of vibrations per hour (vph) determines the breaking up of time (the "steps" of a second hand). For instance, 18,000 vph equals a vibration duration of 1/5 second; in the same way 21,600 vph = 1/6 second; 28,800 vph = 1/8 second; 36,000 vph = 1/10 second. Until the 1950s, wristwatches worked mostly at a frequency of 18,000 vph; later, higher frequencies were adopted to produce a lower percentage of irregularities to the rate. Today, the most common frequency adopted is 28,800 vph, which assures a good precision standard and less lubrication problems than extremely high frequencies, such as 36,000 vph.
Water Resistance
Watch case, crown, buttons (push-pieces) and crystal are water resistant and dustproof up to the underwater pressure or depth mentioned by the manufacturer (3 atmospheres, corresponding to a conventional depth of 30 meters; 5 atmospheres, corresponding to a conventional depth of 50 meters). The water resistance should be checked yearly.
English term for water resistant watches.
Circular element, mostly toothed, combines with an arbor and a pinion (s) to make up a gear (s). Wheels are normally made of brass, while arbors and pinions are made of steel. The wheels between barrel (s) and escapement (s) make up the train (s).
Winding Stem
Element transmitting motion from the crown (s) to the gears governing manual winding and setting.
Winding System
Shaft on which the crown is fixed at the outer end. The winding system is the connection between the crown outside the case and watch movement.
Aperture in the dial, that allows reading the underlying indication, mainly the date, but also indications concerning a second zone's time or jumping hour.
World Time
Additional feature of watches provided with a GMT (s) function, displaying the 24 time zones on the dial or bezel, each zone referenced by a city name, providing instantaneous reading of the time of any country.

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The math behind random drops and rolls {WoW}
Apr 7th 2009 11:14AM The chance to roll in a certain _sequence_, e.g., (1,2,3,4) in that (and only that) order, is only 1/(100^4).
Counterpoint: Yes, we should track raiding progression {WoW}
Dec 8th 2008 3:33AM Well said. Thanks a lot.
Smudo and Thomas D star in two new German WoW ads {WoW}
Dec 3rd 2008 12:45PM This was apparently first shown on TV last Monday at prime time during the latest "Simpsons" episodes, and suddenly you could read in like every chat channel "lol, Fanta4 WoW commercial".
Wrath or rise of the Which King? {WoW}
Nov 3rd 2008 4:07AM "The game, which was based on the the movie trilogy directed by Peter Jackson"
OH MY GOD! Please tell me that you weren't serious!
Some statistics to be removed from achievement tracking {WoW}
Oct 28th 2008 4:54AM Is it only me or were these stats faulty anyways? I have tons of "stats" that are just wrong, for example I seem to have completed two Northrend 5-man dungeons already.
Around Azeroth: A bit of paradise {WoW}
Oct 4th 2008 4:44AM Oh, and it is not like this hasn't been mentioned before (also posted by Elizabeth):
Around Azeroth: A bit of paradise {WoW}
Oct 4th 2008 4:38AM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_(Media)
"A spoiler is a summary or description of a narrative (or part of a narrative) that relates plot elements not revealed early in the narrative itself."
Any screenshot, particularly those from unexpected landmarks, is a spoiler of the WotLk's content (the "narrative" being the exploration of Northrend, which is a big part of the extension's content).
Around Azeroth: A bit of paradise {WoW}
Oct 3rd 2008 1:46PM Thanks for posting spoilers on the frontpage of WoWInsider AGAIN!
This site becomes more and more obnoxious.
The Light and How to Swing It: For the love of all that's Holy {WoW}
Sep 16th 2008 5:56AM @Zach
Holy Palas are still the mana class that exponentially benefits from mana gains, like mana pots, the 25% regen, or the regen provided by shadow priests, hunters etc. IMHO you can't compare a healer class to a Tank or Meelee-DPS class, whose gear is now totally tailored to +STR and Avoidance or crit and who lost all of their Int on their gear in the latest overhaul and whose playstyle shouldn't depend on mana as much as a healer's. Holy Palas have gotten great love in WoTLk, and raising your +crit by 8% through talents is incredible powerful in combination with the mana regain mechanics provided by other players. In particular, because it _IS_ RNG based (more likely, you can stack +crit to raise your benefit) in spite of a flat amount as, e.g., the freecast talent in the Priest's holy tree.
As for Divine Plea (DP) cutting down healing for a short duration, learn to use it wisely, e.g. when you have to move anyways, which happens a lot, both in PvP and PvE. In case it's a more static, healing intense fight ala Brutallus, you can schedule the use of trinkets to the duration of the DP debuff, or even better combine it with Divine Illumination on every third minute, and just spam HL. Remember the 40% crit? Divine Illumination returns 60% of the spell's base mana BEFORE the 50% reduction. Oh, and it's not like you are the only healer in a raid setup, just let your team know you will provide less HPS for a short duration. This is part of the game.
"Flash of Light crits for 3k. Boss hits tank for 5-6k." Again, you are not the only healer in a raid setup, and in 5mans tanks still have 15-20k health, which allows for a simple spell rotation, for example combined with (Holy Shock'ed) Instant Casts Holy Lights.
"Except that the spell cycle requires a target switch that isn't required of the other specs. It necessitates making a macro, which, at the very base of it, shouldn't be necessary." It is not necessary, as you said. Changing targets is part of the game, e.g. for CC, for tanking, or even for other healing classes (Innervate, Shadowfiend, ...)
"WTB reading comprehension. I said those talents were fine, they just don't work together with the tree." It's not the lack of reading comprehension, if someone disagrees with your post. I think they fit perfectly well in the Holy tree, easy to pick for a PvPing healer. Do you expect me to pick talents in one of the two meelee trees to reduce the duration of Curse of Tongues?
"I called out Sacred Cleansing, which increases resistance. It should reduce duration." True, but the rest of the post is QQ that the Paladin class doesn't deserve.
The Light and How to Swing It: For the love of all that's Holy {WoW}
Sep 16th 2008 4:09AM This article is wrong on so many levels:
- http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=sxA0gMzhVuMxRtZVf0xbh You gain 13% Holy crit through talents alone, not to mention the increased critchance due to the increased Intellect talent. Oh, make that 19% increased critchance on Holy Light thanks to additional 6%. Heck, with like Naxx gear you'll be sitting at 40% Holy Light critchance. Combine this with 25% TOTAL mana regen once per minute, and you'll never run out of mana.
- http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=53601 - yeah, like 75-80% (50% this, 13% talents, and 20% through gear ) crit chance on FoL won't let you heal your tank. FoL crits at 3000 at level 70, scale this to level 80 gear and let Priests go QQ.
- If you can't handle the target switch, use a "/cast [target=focus] Judgement of your Choice" macro and focus the Bossmob.
- The Increased Curse/Disease/Fear Talents are gold for PvP. 50% decreased duration for Curse of Tongues etc.


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The interim government's press service recommended that the press cover events in the south, by referring only to official sources and speaking "exclusively in a neutral tone" while on the air.
The recommendation came after a June 17 incident in which a newscaster cried on air while describing the refugees' suffering, Central Television Channel employees said.
The government also asked media not to broadcast images of destruction, victims, blood, corpses, wounded and not to call the conflict "interethnic". The government urged media outlets to broadcast uplifting cinema and "neutral content such as Soviet-period films in Russian" calling for peace instead.
Interim government head Roza Otunbayeva, visiting Osh, asked journalists not to criticise the government for inaction. Otunbayeva arrived in the city square by helicopter after inspecting the city from above. Otunbayeva visited hospitals, giving them nine ambulances and speaking with the patients. She promised to rebuild Osh and to help the area's victims. She also promised local families that the government would investigate the disappearance of their relatives.
Otunbayeva characterised the events in Osh and Dzhalal-Abad as terror and a humanitarian catastrophe and once again blamed Bakiyev's family. She contested the Health Ministry's report that the conflict had claimed 192 victims, and said that the number was closer to 2,000 since many were immediately buried before sundown.
A Bishkek state commission concluded that Bakiyev's family is responsible for clashes in Mayevka. The village's victims received KGS 50,000-100,000 in compensation.
The situation in Osh and Dzhalal-Abad has greatly improved, correspondents report.
Uzbeks and Kyrgyz have begun to trade hostages, said Commandant Timur Shershenaliyev, press secretary Osh Oblast.
Barricades remain on Osh's streets, but the city council has asked residents to remove them.
A number of shops have opened in Dzhalal-Abad. People have come out on the streets and offices have re-opened. Several people have returned home, but many continue to take shelter in border areas.
The Defence Ministry's press services reported finding two fuel tankers rigged with bombs, which sappers then cleared.
The conflict has affected approximately 1m people and displaced nearly 300,000 from their homes, according to the World Health Organisation. Uzbekistan has officially registered 800,000 refugees.
Refugees are receiving humanitarian aid from Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, the European Union and international organisations.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha said the CSTO does not plan to send peacekeeping forces, Interfax reported.
"We are looking into sending specialists to the country who know how to plan and prepare operations to prevent mass riots, identify instigators and locate criminal groups that provoke the exacerbation of (such) situations," Bordyuzha said.


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To believe in Starbucks (SBUX - Get Report) CEO Howard Schultz or not to believe in him? This morning, in what I regarded as one of the more intense interviews I can recall, Schultz introduced his new coffee machine, the Verismo, a latte/espresso machine.
Schultz ducks nothing. Unlike the Trulia (TRLA) CEO we interviewed earlier, Schultz ducked nothing. First he said that despite the Verismo entry, there is no coffee war with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR - Get Report), the maker of the single-serve Keurig machine. Second, he said that he is seeing a bit of a turn in Europe, that there's "a glimpse of optimism." Third, while in quiet period, Howard intimated that the slowdown in sales that he saw in this country at the end of the quarter, one akin to what Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) saw, might indeed be reversing. Now, I know there are plenty of skeptics about the "separate peace" between Green Mountain and Starbucks, with questions being raised by Herb Greenberg, my colleague at CNBC, about how long the peace can last. I think Herb makes great points. Isn't Green Mountain eventually the lunch that must be eaten by Starbucks, instead of a partner? I think we have a "frenemy" situation that will morph into an enemy when and if Starbucks chooses to. Green Mountain does not have the heft to declare its own war, and the pricing of the Verismo, at a discount to the latest high-end machine from Green Mountain, told me that the war might already be on, much to Green Mountain's chagrin. I don't want to own Green Mountain's stock. But I do want to own Starbucks, and let me explain why. Despite lots of instant catcalls of my positive view on Schultz on Twitter at @JimCramer, I know Schultz as the man who made you one fortune when he brought Starbucks public and then, after the business went wayward under the CEO who replaced him, returned and made you a second one. He's been Jobs-like in that way, and I know you don't make that analogy lightly.Select the service that is right for you!
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After listening to several minutes of this existence, my 6-year-old son slowly turned to my wife and said in a solemn voice, "I would have never made it as a Pilgrim."
He is probably right. They didn't have iPads, ice cream or Star Wars in the days of the Pilgrims. In fairness, after hearing the lesson, I am not sure I would have made it either. It makes me thankful for the life we live today.
Isn't that funny? Someone else's hardship leaves us thankful for our blessings. Shouldn't we just be happy for what we have and not be happy for how it could have been worse? Unfortunately, that isn't the way we work. Or at least, it's not the way I work.
I was recently watching the news and saw a crazy story where someone had a plane land on top of their house. All I could think was, "Boy, I am glad I'm not that guy." I was thankful for my house not serving as a runway. At the same time, the guy with the plane parked on top of his house is probably thankful he wasn't killed. I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
My wife started a tradition this time of year several years ago where we do a Thanksgiving tree. This tree is simply pinned on the wall with some artificial leaves. Each day, we write on the leaves something we are thankful for and hang it up. We had a proud moment recently when we asked our daughter what she was thankful for and she answered, "That I can give gifts to my friends."
Wow! How awesome is that? At 4, she already has a spirit of giving and gets joy from that experience.
Inspired by her answer, we asked her what else she was thankful for ... "That I get gifts, too!"
OK. Well, she is 4. And to be honest, don't we all like getting gifts?
This year we put up our Christmas tree shortly after Halloween. I have struggled to wait on putting up the tree until after Thanksgiving. I have fought the good fight and I have lost. Christmas carols fill the air, decorations cover the walls and the lights on the tree cast a warm glow throughout the house ... and we haven't even carved the turkey yet!
But as much as I complain about this premature celebration, those ill feelings can go away in a moment. That night, after the tree was complete, we brought our 5-month-old daughter and placed her in front of the lit tree in all of its Christmas glory and we watched as her eyes grew big and her mouth spread into the biggest smile of the day as she experienced her first bit of Christmas joy in her young life.
Yes, we have much to be thankful for. We have family. We have friends. We have a beautiful community. And yes, I'm done setting up the tree and there is no plane parked on my house ... all a matter of perspective.
(Editor's Note: Matt has a family of six — a beautiful wife, a son, two daughters, the family dogs — Tucker and Boomer — and five chickens. Matt is also thankful for the many readers who have shared their own family experiences with him over the years. His column appears every other Wednesday in the Cleveland Daily Banner.)


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The Surrey Ion Beam Centre in collaboration with the Gray Cancer Institute to build the world's first vertical nanobeam to enable cancer care to be individualised for the patient
The University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre (IBC) in collaboration with the Gray Cancer Institute is working on a Ł1.2M project which is underpinned by a prestigious grant of Ł800k from the Wolfson Foundation. The funding will be used to build the world's first vertical scanning focussed nanobeam which will be used to analyse how radiation affects living cells. Radiation therapy is second only to surgery as a cure for cancer in the UK and so this research has a large potential impact on patient survival and quality of life. The new beam line will also be used to look at the processes which may lead to cancer and the risks associated with low level exposure to radiation (e.g. in structures built on or out of granite).
The new nanobeam at the IBC will be able to provide data about the radiation sensitivity of tumours. Some tumours are known to be normally radiation resistant, but display hyper-sensitivity to very low doses. This means that a very small dose of radiation can have a much larger than expected effect in terms of destroying the tumour. To help clinicians test these theories, data from the IBC will be used to the construct virtual tumours. These virtual tumours can then be used to test the efficacy of different treatment strategies.
The Ion Beam Centre, part of the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey, already houses one of the World's largest and most advanced facilities. In the new nanobeam, the ions will be shot into the target at about one tenth the speed of light (70,000,000 mph). In addition to helping understand the way in which radiation affects living cells, these ions can also be used to map the elemental structure of the sample in three dimensions. This is done by analysing the radiation they give off as they pass through the sample and the way in which some of them bounce back while others pass through. By carrying out all these types of analyses simultaneously a three dimensional elemental picture of the sample is constructed. Until now the IBC has been unable to analyse liquids. This is because of gravity which means that liquid samples have to be held perfectly horizontal while the analysis takes place. With a vertical beam it is therefore possible to directly analyse liquids. As human cells and indeed the entire human body is ~70% water, this means that the IBC will be able to analyse cells and see, for instance, the interaction between chemotherapeutic drugs and radiation.
Research on non liquid samples using the IBC's horizontal beam lines has already answered questions such as: what is the composition of paints in 16th century paintings? What is in the particulate matter that comes out of volcanoes? What are the metal atoms in proteins and how many are there? How do parasitic wasps lay their eggs? And what makes 1920's German bank notes toxic?
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Testing the Polypan F 50 film with my Agfa Selectronic 2 at the "Taha'a island resort"... :)
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Im quite new player from Poland and i want to present something made for my Dark Heresy group.
Wy had always problem with buing new equipment for our characters with all that
Finnaly i've found great work of MalikCarr: http://www.fantasyfl...46&efidt=548787
After bit of brainstorming and tinkering and recieving permmision from autor to print i want to proudly present you the Macharian Almanac ( with projectlog
This was prototype. Basicly its was just about about 250 sheet protectors screwed togheter. On this picture you can also se black hinges added for measuring.
This old binder found in basement was great material for making covers for my book. I just made it more straight and cut desired shapes.
Here you can see it assemblet but still unfinished. Colour of old binder is ugly and just unffitting. So my basement was agin field of reasarch to find something suitable. It was old purple tablecloth.
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It took me a weirdly long time to connect the dots that Kate Mara and Rooney Mara are sisters, despite the fact that they have the same bone structure, complexion, slightly wide-set eyes, perfectly adorable kitten noses and last name (duh). It was dumb, I know—but in my defense, I'd say that they not only downplay their similarities, they wage war against them.
Last night was a good example. At the premiere of Kate's series House of Cards, the sisters looked like they intentionally aimed to underscore their differences through their wardrobe choices. Kate wore a Dolce & Gabbana dress while Rooney choose a Band of Outsiders jumpsuit, but still, it was more than just a pants vs. dress thing.
It was the difference in fabrics (ornate metallic lace vs. simple black silk), footwear (ladylike sandals vs. clunky boots) and even the makeup (smokey eye and nude lip vs. simple eye and bold lip). The Maras really couldn't have looked more different...except, maybe, if one of the girls had worn her hair down. Beyond that, they completely clashed—and looked amazing doing so. I love both outfits and would wear either one of them. Click through below to shop them both.
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I am having problems with my GDO optical sensors. When the sun shines on them at just the right angle my door won't shut. i have to get out of my car and stand in front of them so my shadow covers the sensor - then it closes no problem. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you fix it? Any ideas? |
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Fruit-bearing plants allow robins to spend the coldest months of winter in the coldest of places
By Laura Erickson | Published: 11/1/2003
The first robin of spring! How many of us look forward to that annual milestone, hungry for evidence that spring is really here? And when we hear our first robin in full song, or see it running on quick legs over our front lawn as the snow recedes, we feel an elation as fresh and new, and as old and familiar, as spring itself.
Robins are genuinely migratory. Huge numbers of them travel south to overwinter in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana, and in southern California, Nevada, and Mexico. For several autumns, birders in Duluth, Minnesota (including me), counted birds migrating along the north shore of Lake Superior. During late September and October we often tallied hundreds and even thousands of robins passing by each hour, and on a single day, October 1, 1988, we counted more than 60,000 robins in a five-hour period beginning at dawn. Daily November counts at Cape May, New Jersey, can reach 200,000 or 300,000 robins, and New Jersey Audubon reported in 1999 that "an incredible million and a half birds hit Cape May Nov. 7, mostly robins." Despite such large numbers, a great many robins remain in the northern states and Canada throughout winter, and huge numbers winter in the central states. Range maps for robins show them wintering in every state, including coastal Alaska, and in coastal and southern Canada.
Extremely gregarious, wintering robins sometimes gather in feeding flocks of 100 or 200 birds, and spend the night in roosting flocks that can number in the thousands. Feeding flocks are often noisy and conspicuous, but because the birds aren't where most of us expect to see robins, running on lawns, they sometimes go unrecognized.
It's always worth scanning a winter feeding flock. Not only is it a joy to see so many robins pigging out together, but you will also occasionally spot mockingbirds, waxwings, or Pine Grosbeaks dining with them, the whole group finding security in numbers with all those eyes and ears to detect shrikes and hawks. As food supplies wane in late winter or during very cold spells, robins may fight over food supplies even with their own species, but when food is abundant, these feeding flocks can be surprisingly convivial. Look for them in crab apple, mountain ash, chokecherry, sumac, highbush cranberry, and other plants that hold their fruit in winter. If robins are wintering in your area, you might be able to attract them to feeders for mealworms or fruits. Mike Houle, a resourceful birder in La Crosse, Wisconsin, provided his backyard robins with fruits and mealworms in a dish filled with sphagnum moss, kept warm by a bird bath heater.
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The remarkable increase has made headlines on several occasions. For example, in January 2002 the Chicago Tribune carried a long story about a robin sitting on a nest of eggs in a Lincoln Park evergreen tree still twinkling with Christmas lights as temperatures climbed into the 60s. And even as snow was flying in January and February this past winter, students in such places as Pittsburgh, Kansas; Lexington, Massachusetts; and Charlotte, Vermont, sent reports of robins toJourney North, the free educational website that teaches children about migration (and that I contribute to).
With all these robins wintering so far north, how can we possibly know for sure whether the robin we're rejoicing in is the first robin of spring or the last robin of winter? As days increase in length in late winter, robins grow restless. Males start singing even in areas covered with deep snow. And as singing increases, birds in flocks become ever more restless. As they start heading north, flocks start splitting up. It's when the snow melts and spring rains and increasing temperatures suddenly make earthworms available on lawns that robins make their seasonal dietary switch. The first robin you see running on your lawn, cocking his head and searching out succulent worms — no matter what the weather, no matter what the date — that's the first robin of spring.
Laura Erickson is the author of Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids, which won the 1997 National Outdoor Book Award, and she writes and produces the public radio program "For the Birds." She also writes for the online educational program Learner Online: Journey North, where you can read and submit reports of wintering and migrating robins and track the birds on maps.


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Ken Salazar says feds confident in solar despite Colorado setbacks
Abound Solar has officially gone bankrupt and General Electric PrimeStar is putting on hold a much-anticipated solar panel plant it had planned for Aurora. Both cases are disappointing developments for renewable energy in Colorado -- but Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says these are just minor (and expected) blips for the industry. Big pics below.
Salazar visited the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden on Friday in part to highlight President Obama's commitment to solar and other renewable technologies. And though the visit comes on the heels of bad local news for solar -- tied to intense competition in the global market -- Salazar says folks shouldn't be too concerned.
"Any time you're dealing with an emerging future on energy, you're always going to have successes and you're going to have setbacks," he says. "And President Obama and I remain very confident that we're moving in the right direction." Sam Levin Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Renewable Energy Lab Director Dan Arvizu on a campus tour on Friday.
Salazar spoke with Westword on the campus of NREL -- the national laboratory for the Department of Energy (operated by a company called the Alliance for Sustainable Energy) -- after he toured around the new facilities of the 327-acre site, which is in the process of a large expansion.
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Batman: Arkham City will see players fighting alongside Batman's chemically enhanced, bone-snapping nemesis Bane, Rocksteady has revealed.
The musclebound gas-sucking berserker will join Bats as an AI-controlled ally for a single mission. You can see them, back to back, in the new screenshots we've added below. Evidently Bane's hostility to Bruce Wayne's spine has abated somewhat.
Rocksteady has also announced a new toy, a sort of shotgun taser. With it, you'll fry enemies through their body armour, sabotage turrets and even magnetise objects.
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Baseball fans know that the 2011 championship match-up is between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals, who are tied 1-1 in the seven-game series. The pop star scored the honor after her big sister, Dallas, tweeted that Demi should sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' during the MLB showdown. She relentlessly petitioned to make it happen, and it did!
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