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USDA, Dairy Industry End Dairy-Weight Loss Advertisements
You've seen the advertisements. Trim celebrities like Elizabeth Hurley and Beyoncé tell you that eating three servings of dairy a day will help you lose weight. Thousands of Americans were duped into thinking that dairy product consumption is associated with weight loss because of this slick advertising campaign, which has cost the dairy industry more than $200 million. But now, in response to a petition filed by PCRM with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2005, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and two national dairy organizations have agreed to halt this advertising campaign because existing research does not support the weight-loss claims.
The petition charged that advertising campaigns linking dairy product consumption to weight loss were false and misleading. These campaigns included the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board's "Milk your diet. Lose weight!" and the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board's "3-a-Day. Burn More Fat, Lose Weight" promotions. The claims are based on three studies by Michael Zemel, Ph.D., a researcher funded by the National Dairy Council and yogurt manufacturers. Critics say that Zemel's studies were small, poorly controlled, and reported with only minimal details; they have also yielded inconsistent results.
Out of 27 randomized, controlled research trials investigating the effects of dairy products on body weight, only three—all conducted by Dr. Zemel—showed a link between dairy consumption and weight loss. Research conducted by PCRM's senior nutrition scientist, Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D., and published in Obesity Research in 2005 pointed out that none of his studies report the degree to which participants actually reduced their caloric intakes, the most likely cause of any weight loss.
In response to PCRM's presentation of these facts in the petition, the FTC's Division of Advertising Practices met with USDA staff and representatives of the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board and the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, who agreed to discontinue all advertising and other marketing activities involving weight-loss claims pending further research into the issue. The decision also applies to affiliated entities, including Dairy Management Inc.
"I think people will start to recognize that the dairy industry, which used to have a mom-and-pop image, is a huge commercial entity that will exaggerate to sell its products," PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D., told the Associated Press. The news of this consumer victory was covered by many major media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, and The Chicago Tribune.
There are other good reasons to avoid milk. A new study in the International Journal of Cancer found that as consumption of dairy products or overall dietary calcium intake increased, risk for prostate cancer increased. In a survey of 29,133 men, those who consumed the most dietary calcium (greater than 2,000 mg per day) had a 63 percent greater risk, compared with those getting less than 1,000 mg per day.


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STINKING CREEK (Kent County). Stinking Creek, also known as Little Stinking Creek, rises a mile south of Harmony in southeast Kent County, four miles north of the Fisher county line (at 33°01' N, 100°34' W). The stream travels northeast for sixteen miles to its mouth on the Salt Fork of the Brazos River, three miles southwest of Peacock in west central Stonewall County (at 33°10' N, 100°27' W). The surrounding moderately steep slopes are surfaced by silt loams that support grasses and mesquite.
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You need any kind of yarn you would like,a crochet hook,and a pair of scissors.
You will chain 13 chain stitches.
You will skip to the 5th chain from the hook and do a double crochet in that chain.
You will skip a chain and do a double crochet in that chain and you will keep skipping a chain and doing a double crochet in a chain until you reach t...
You will turn your work around and double crochet in each of the open spaces until you reach the end of that row and chain three at the end of that ro...
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You will keep going until you make it as long as you need it.
You will slip knot the pieces together so the sides connect.
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By LEE ADAMS
The No. 20 Mississippi State Bulldogs open their season on the road, but for fifth year senior Wade Bonner it's a homecoming.
Bonner grew up about an hour outside of Memphis, Tenn., and attended Fayette Ware High School in Somerville.
While at Fayette Ware, Bonner was successful on both sides of the ball as he played running back, wide receiver and defensive back.
During his senior year, he made 63 tackles and had nine interceptions so when he got to MSU he was put on defense but he was happy wherever he ended up..Â
"In high school I always played multiple positions so I was ready to play whatever when I got here," said Bonner.Â
After redshirting his true freshman year, Bonner came out in the 2008 season on offense. During his 2008 campaign, Bonner played in every game and carried the ball seven times for 12 yards, but it was on special teams where he shined, returning six kickoffs for 106 yards.
When head coach Dan Mullen arrived, Bonner once again switch sides of the ball.
"When coach Mullen got here, I asked him what did he want me to play and he said safety," said Bonner. "I'm a team guy so whatever position the team needs me, I'm going to do."
Over the past two season under Mullen, Bonner has played in in all 23 games and has started four of those, most recent the 31-23 win over Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl last season where he had four tackles. Also, Bonner recorded five tackles in the Bulldog's Gator Bowl win.
During his time at State, Bonner has played in 35 games which is helping him prepare for the upcoming season.
"I'm getting more comfortable playing and reading offenses," said Bonner.Â
The southwest Tennessee native will have friends and family there on Thursday night, but Bonner doesn't feel any extra pressure
"I know I'm going to have a lot of fans there, but I'm just going to go out there do what the coaches tell me to do and just play the game," said Bonner.
Bonner admits to being a Memphis fan growing up but thinks the feel of defeating his childhood team will "feel pretty good."
The safety is a member of the Bulldog's strong defensive back field with fellow safeties Charles Mitchell and Nickoe Whitley, but he will also be spending time on special teams.
"Special teams is a big key to winning the game," said Bonner. "I'm on most of the special teams this year and I think special teams is basically going to win the game."
Bonner is described by his teammates as a "hard worker" and his hard work over the last few years has caught the eye of one of team captains, Mitchell.
"Wade stepped up a lot last year and started some games at the end of the season," said Mitchell. "He's just like me. He's a leader, very energized, a playmaker and he's probably one of the toughest guys on the team."
State's goal is high in 2011 and Bonner and his teammates are grindin' for their fans.
"We're looking for a big season and we are doing it for the state of Mississippi," said Bonner. "We have the whole state on our backs so we trying to win it all. We know it's a big task but we are up to it."
Bonner's homecoming will kickoff at 7:10 p.m. Thursday night.


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Jordyn Wieber, Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross: Team poised for historic run
LONDON - While many in the gymnastics world believe the women's team the United States will take to London for the 2012 Olympics is the best since the gold-medal squad of 1996, one of the sport's most recognizable and successful coaches goes a step farther.
He says this team is better.
"I think this is the strongest team," Bela Karolyi said earlier this month, after the five gymnasts who will represent the U.S. were selected at the Olympic Trials in San Jose, Calif. "On the '96 team, there were ups and downs. This is the most even team. The truth is going to come out at the Olympic Games. We are going to be at the top."
And for those who don't know: Karolyi's list of champions includes Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton and Kerri Strug.
He knows something special when he sees it.
So does his wife, Marta, the U.S. National Team Coordinator who, despite making no bold predictions, was noticeably excited about the team's makeup -- its strength and depth -- and its potential to challenge the Russians and Chinese for Olympic gold.
"For a long time, this team has been in my mind," Marta Karolyi said of a squad that will be led by a pair of 16-year-old sensations, reigning world all-around champion Jordyn Wieber and Trials all-around winner Gabby Douglas. "I've got a very good feel about this team. It's very young but also very aggressive. We're definitely going for a place on the podium."
As usual.
Since switching to a more centralized developmental system in 2001, the American women have enjoyed a tremendous run on the international stage:
-- From 2000 to 2011, they have won 60 Olympic and World Championship medals, with the U.S. holding the distinction of being the only nation to win a team medal in every world and Olympic competition during that span.
-- They won team medals in six of the last seven Olympics: gold in 1996; silver in 1984, 2004 and 2008; and bronze in 1992 and 2000.
-- They won five medals at each of the past three world championships, including the team and all-around gold in 2011.
And the U.S. women's team is coming off a silver-medal showing at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where the Americans also won seven individual medals, including Nastia Liukin's all-around gold.
"It's a testament to the entire sport in this country coming together -- clubs and coaches and athletes putting personal agendas aside and working to create a system that produces the best teams we can," said Steve Penny, president and CEO of USA Gymnastics.
"After 2000, we took a hard look at where we were and at what we needed to do to be competitive at the highest levels on a consistent basis," he explained. "In '96, we were Olympic champions. In '99, we were sixth in the world. Something needed to be done. Somebody had to be accountable. So we worked with the Karolyis to create a system by which we could identify the best athletes across America, get them into our program and, while allowing them to remain at home and train with their local coaches, bring them together a few times a year to work with the national staff at a centralized location.
"This is the result."
Joining Wieber (DeWitt, Mich.) and Douglas (Virginia Beach, Va.) as Olympians are McKayla Maroney (Long Beach, Calif.), Aly Raisman (Needham, Mass.) and Kyla Ross (Aliso Viejo, Calif.)
"Every year, we get so much stronger," Wieber said. "We did so well at worlds, but I think this team is even stronger than that. We have the potential to win the gold medal in London. I'm excited."
Though still toiling in the shadows of their more successful women's counterparts, the U.S. men are excited, too -- because what they might lack in talent, they make up for in teamwork and camaraderie.
In fact, all 15 of the Olympic candidates agreed as a team to wear the same USA uniforms when competing at the Trials.
"People can look at gymnastics and say, 'That's not a team sport,' but you spend six hours a day in training camp with the same guys, working and sweating, offering criticism and support ... You become a team," said USA Gymnastics chairman Peter Vidmar, all-around silver medalist and leader of the 1984 U.S. team that won Olympic gold in Los Angeles. "And I don't see anything that exceeds the camaraderie of this group."
Danell Leyva (Miami), winner of the all-around titles at both the U.S. nationals in June and the Olympic Trials, is the current world champion on the parallel bars and, along with John Orozco (Bronx, N.Y.), is expected to contend for an all-around medal in London.
Getting to the podium as a team, however -- also on the squad are Jonathan Horton (Houston), Sam Mikulak (Newport Coast, Calif.) and Jake Dalton (Reno, Nev.) -- is the goal that matters most. The American men took bronze in Beijing and again at the World Championships last year, and they believe they've got a shot at Olympic gold for the first time since 1984.
"It's an amazing team," U.S. National Team Coordinator Kevin Mazeika said. "We knew all along it
was going to be difficult to select the team because of our depth. It wasn't easy, but I think we have selected a team that is going to London and vie for a gold medal."
Same as the American women.
"We've had a sense of accomplishment over the years," Penny said. "Now we know we're doing the it the right way."
(Ray McNulty, sports columnist for Scripps Treasure Coast (Fla.) Newspapers, is a member of a team of Scripps journalists covering the London Games. Contact him at ray.mcnulty(at)scripps.com.)(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service)


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Pride Group was born as a passion. Not as just another business group that conducts business and goes about things in a general way. It was and is the result of the far sightedness of the late Mr. N K Agarwal. The first furnishing store was furnished in the heart of Mumbai's commercial centre – Churchgate. Established in 1971, Pride is the country's leading retailer and distributor of world-class soft furnishings. We bring to India fine products that have graced luxurious interiors around the world.
Being surrounded by such vibrancy, one thing was certain – providing personalized service. This was a motto that is inculcated right from the top and Mr. Agarwal especially took this up.
As a result of this business grew and seven years later, Mr. Agarwal decided to strengthen his position in the business and decided to target Nariman Point. He opened his second shop, called "Anokhee" in the Embassy Centre. He got an agency for Modi Carpets and along with furnishings; this line of business grew briskly too. At a time when most of the others concentrated on providing mere on-the-counter offerings, Pride offered the option of selecting furnishings and matching floor coverings.
Our people are our most valuable assets. We have over 150 high-caliber managers and executives who bring in their expertise and knowledge on interiors and design. Additionally, our network of stockists and dealers spans all across India.
This differentiation allowed them to be firmly entrenched in the marketplace. However, Mr. Agarwal's entrepreneurial instincts did not allow him to rest on his laurels. In conjunction with demand that was increasing by the day, he opened his new store at Hughes road. This new "Pride" catered to old families at Malabar, Cumballa Hill and Carmichael Road, along with the ones on Bhulabhai Desai and Pedder Road.
His legacy is carried out by his sons Arun and Alok and they with their unbridled enthusiasm saw a huge opportunity in the suburban part of Mumbai. They have a state-of-the-art store in Bandra.
Our list of clients reads like the who's who of the corporate world.
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Some travelers are addicted to luxury. They will only stay in the finest, most extravagant hotels that money can buy. If you are one of these travelers, you will be happy to know that many hotels and resorts are more than happy to cater to your lavish desires. There are certain cities in particular that contain many lavish hotels. These cities will give you a large selection of places suitable for your high-end tastes.
Paris, France
Paris, France is home to a number of extravagantly luxurious hotels. The great majority of these hotels are very classic, paying homage to the city's historic past. For Example, Le Meurice, near the Louvre on the Rue de Rivoli, is one of the finest hotels in the world. The palace that is Le Meurice is a haven for celebrities and socialites. The suites offer bathrooms designed completely of marble, with historically inspired room decor. It is rated five stars. Another example of Parisian extravagance is the Ritz. The Ritz in Paris coined luxury and glamour in the hotel world. Located just steps from the Champs Elysees, you will be sure to find everything you expect in this gorgeous hotel. After all, it is the Ritz.
Las Vegas, Nevada
In Las Vegas you will find unparalleled amounts of extravagant luxury, for a price much lower than most other cities. From the Bellagio to the Venetian, there are literally hundreds of extravagant hotels throughout Las Vegas. People travel to Las Vegas for two reasons: affordable luxury and gambling. One reason it costs less to stay in an extravagant Vegas hotel is because there are so many of them. With so many luxury hotels, the hotels have had to lower their prices in order to compete with each other to draw in a large enough customer base. When you visit Vegas, be ready to see reconstructed views of every part of the world, ranging from New York to Paris, and from Venice to Ancient Egypt. In addition, Vegas hotels offer many fantasy options, such as Treasure Island's pirate-themed resort. For those with less eccentric tastes, Vegas also offers many more traditional luxury resorts, such as the Palms Resort and Casino or the Trump Las Vegas.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai is one of the richest cities in the Middle East. As such, it offers a variety of many amazing hotels. Atlantis The Palm Hotel in Dubai offers a standard of accommodations only matched by the original Atlantis resort in the Bahamas. It is located near the Dubai Creek Golf Club and the Dubai International Marine Club. The Jumeirah Beach Hotel combines amazing architecture with a beautiful waterfront location. The Jumeirah offers over thirty-six thousand square meters of private beach to its guests, overlooking the scenic Arabian Gulf. The hotel itself is architecturally inspired by an ocean wave. Dubai is truly an amazing city, where desert meets sea. It is also one of the most welcoming cities in the Middle East to foreigners, as much of its economy consists of international oil transactions.
Traveling Extravagantly
These are only a few of the various extravagant locales that exist around the world. Every major city has something to please travelers who look for luxury. Cities like Orlando, Hong Kong, New York, Madrid, and many others are also great choices for a lavish traveler. However, if you truly want the best of the best, Paris, Las Vegas, and Dubai are for you. No where else will you find such a stunning collection of amazing hotels and resorts.


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US hiring slows sharply with just 115K jobs added
WASHINGTON U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in April for the second straight month, evidence of an economy still growing only sluggishly. The unemployment rate dipped, but only because more people gave up looking for work.
The Labor Department said Friday that the economy added just 115,000 jobs in April. That's below March's upwardly revised 154,000 jobs and far fewer than the pace earlier this year.
The unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent last month from 8.2 percent in March. It has fallen a full percentage point since August to a three-year low. But last month's decline was not due to job growth. The government only counts people as unemployed if they are actively looking for work.
In April, the percentage of adults working or looking for work fell to the lowest level in more than 30 years. Many have become discouraged about their prospects. More than 5 million Americans have been unemployed for six months or longer, an astonishingly high number almost three years into a recovery.
Stock futures dipped after the report was released.
Employers added an average of 252,000 jobs per month from December through February, a burst of hiring that raised hopes the economy would accelerate. But job gains have averaged only 135,000 in the two months since then. That's below last year's pace of 164,000 per month.
Weak job gains pose a threat to President Barack Obama's reelection. He is likely to face voters this fall with the highest unemployment rate of any president since World War II.
Some economists attribute the weak gains partly to mild winter, which led some companies to accelerate hiring in January and February. That may have weakened hiring in March and April.
"Over the next couple of months we would expect the monthly gains to settle back into a 150,000 to 200,000 range," Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, wrote in a note to clients.
But others are concerned that this reflects a genuine slowdown.
"One month can be weather related, two months of weaker than expected job growth is dangerously close to a trend," Dan Greenhaus, an analyst at BTIG, an institutional brokerage firm.
The slowdown could heighten fears that high gas prices and sluggish income growth are weighing on the broader economy.
Economists noted that the job gains are consistent with the 2.2 percent annual growth in the first three months of the year. Faster growth will be needed to accelerate hiring.
The economy must create at least 125,000 jobs a month just to keep pace with population growth. It generally takes twice that number on a consistent basis to rapidly lower the unemployment rate.
Average hourly wages rose a penny in April, to $23.38. They have increased 1.8 percent over the past year, trailing the rate of inflation.
Manufacturers, retailers, and hotels and restaurants all added workers. So did professional services such as engineering and information technology. Shipping and warehousing firms, construction companies, and governments cut jobs.
Hiring in February and March was revised up to show additional job gains of 53,000.


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A slain Manhattan yuppie (Patrick Swayze) reaches out to his lover (Demi Moore), with a medium (Whoopi Goldberg) as his middlewoman.
There have been plenty of reboots and sequels at the cineplex recently, but movies aren't the only place that nostalgia is taking over. The stage musical adaptation of the '90s supernatural romance classic Ghost opened this summer in London's West End, and it is set to open on Broadway in April 2012.
More than 275,000 have already seen the the musical that features original music by Dave Stewart and Glenn Ballard, as well as the Righteous Brothers' classic, "Unchained Melody." The director from the London production, Matthew Warchus, is expected to direct the play on Broadway well.
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The Administration for Community Living oversees a number of programs that support older adults, persons with disabilities, and family caregivers.
Administration on Aging (AoA) programs, funded under the Older Americans Act, provide assistance to older persons and their caregivers, as well as critical support services, that help older adults remain independent and involved in their communities.
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Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD) supports approaches that shape attitudes, raise expectations, change outdated or broken systems, and empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to pursue the lives they imagine for themselves. AIDD provides financial and leadership support to specific types of organizations in every state and territory in the United States. These organizations help individuals with developmental disabilities of all ages and their families obtain the support they need to achieve all aspects of a life envisioned and defined by the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000.
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The Center for Disability and Aging Policy advises and supports the ACL Administrator and Principal Deputy Administrator in developing effective Federal policies and programs to address the needs of individuals with disabilities and the aging of the nation's population. The Center supports, plans, coordinates and oversees the implementation of policies, programs and special initiatives designed to overcome barriers that prevent older Americans and persons with disabilities from fully participating and contributing in an inclusive community life.
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From modest beginnings in 2009 with nine exhibiting artists, Grasslands Gallery now displays the diverse work of 19 artists and artisans who produce oil, acrylic and watercolour paintings, gold and silver jewelry, photography, clay murals, hand-dyed textiles, polymer jewelry, artist notebooks and decorative pillow covers that celebrate southwest Saskatchewan and Grasslands National Park.
James R. Page is a wilderness photographer and writer who has recently relocated from Victoria BC to Val Marie. His remarkable images capture luminous reflected light and the poignant expressions of wild animals and birds as few photographers can.
Elizabeth Kirschenman was born on her grandparents' original homestead west of Richmound, and now lives with her husband on a ranch along the Saskatchewan and Alberta border. Her detailed paintings of closely observed coulees and their unique vegetation will bring memories of the hills back to all who get to know them.
Long-time contributors to life in the village of Val Marie, Mette and Robert Ducan are well known as operators of the Convent Country Inn. Less well known is their love for transforming semi-precious and unusual stones into hand-made sterling silver and gold jewelry. Robert creates one-of-a-kind hand-polished stone belt buckles, and Mette suspends gems in asymmetric and hand-knotted wire settings.
Other artists represented include Maria Enns, Emily Gillies, Judy Gunter, Stephanie Kaduck, Sally Knelsen, Catherine Macaulay, Cora Macaulay, Laureen Marchand, Mike McIntosh, Wendy Parsons, Lousie Perrin, Elaine Robitaille, Laurel Rossnagel, Marsha Schuld and Colleen Watson.
Beginning Nov. 18 and continuing until Dec. 11, Grasslands Gallery will open on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from noon until 4 p.m. or by appointment at 298-7782.


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The History of Self Storage
The Human Genome Project hasn't yet identified a human pack-rat gene, but there's plenty of anecdotal evidence out there to suggest we're hard-wired to hang onto our possessions. Maybe it evolved as a way to survive scarcity. Maybe we were just fascinated by bright, shiny objects. Whatever the reason, the desire to acquire and store our excess valuables is as old as the human race. From the Dead Sea Scrolls stashed away for millennia inside clay jars to the Great Pyramids at Giza and the first Chinese emperor's buried terracotta army, humans have found ways to store the things they treasure.
Of course, it isn't practical to bury your winter clothing in the backyard every spring. And few of us have the resources needed to construct a pyramid. Fortunately, there's a more practical, affordable solution: self storage, also known as mini storage.
First Came Moving & Storage...
The first commercially viable storage company in the United States is thought to have been founded in 1889, in Sioux City, Iowa by Martin and John Bekins, the sons of Dutch immigrants. A third brother, Teake, joined the prospering concern and was sent off to Omaha, Neb. to open another branch. Six years later, Martin decided to expand to California, the site of recent oil discoveries and the terminus of the new transcontinental railway. "The area was also experiencing rapid population growth which meant huge opportunities for entrepreneurs in the moving and storage business."In 1900, Daniel, the youngest Bekins boy, opened a company in Chicago, and three years later took 15 horses and six moving vans to Seattle, where he opened the Pacific Northwest's first furniture storage facility. Eventually, these various ventures became what is today known as Bekins Moving & Storage Company, one of many local and national businesses that would move Americans' possessions to new locations or temporary storage facilities.
Then Came Self Storage
Over the ensuing decades, Americans became more mobile, thanks to the availability of automobiles and, ultimately, the development of the Interstate Highway system in the 1950s. Rental truck and trailer companies like U-Haul enabled enterprising citizens to eliminate the moving company middle-man and do it themselves. The birth of the self storage industry was the next logical development.
In his article for Slate, Tom Vanderbilt claims, "The first self-storage facilities originated in Texas in the late 1960s... They were little more than prefab tin garages, usually situated on the industrial periphery of cities and suburbs, and built on former infill sites or among drive-in theaters and other occupiers of low-cost real estate."
By the early 70s, Vanderbilt writes, the first of what would become the big national self storage companies arrived on the scene. He speculates that the growth of the self storage industry was fueled by a corresponding growth in American affluence and the consumerism that went with it.
Bigger homes were another result of the affluence. While new homes grew from an average of 1,500 square feet in 1970 to 2,392 square feet in 2010, according to National Association of Homebuilders data, they couldn't keep up with homeowners' demands for off-site self storage. Add to that the country's millions of people living in older homes with limited closet and storage space and all those apartment dwellers, and it's easy to see why the self storage industry began to boom.
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According to the Self Storage Association's Industry Fact Sheet, "At the end of 1984 there were 6,601 facilities with 289.7 million square feet of rentable space." By the end of 2010, that had grown to 46,500 U.S. self storage facilities with 2.24 billion square feet! The industry's rapid expansion slowed somewhat due to the prolonged recession. Between 2010 and 2011, just 450 new self storage facilities came online. But demand remained high and by August of 2012, The Economist reported there were more than 50,000 self storage facilities in the U.S. used by one in every 10 American families.
As their numbers have increased, self storage facilities have become more upscale, too. Vanderbilt reports in Slate of climate-controlled self storage spaces with architecture and amenities that rival custom homes. Some offer wine cellars, luxurious landscaping and water features. Others provide berths for RVs and boats for people whose homeowner associations prohibit them from parking those vehicles in their own driveways.
There's every reason to believe that a number of social and economic factors will continue to drive our need for self storage units. Divorce rates remain high and as households split up, one or both spouses will need a place to store possessions while seeking new housing. Aging baby boomers are downsizing to smaller homes, but putting prized possessions in storage for their heirs. Americans are on the move again, looking for new employment opportunities in other cities and states, and storing their things until they get settled in. And, as ever, it's just our human nature to buy more stuff than we have room for.
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"Company History", Bekins Moving & Storage Co. website http://www.bekinsmovingandstorage.com/about/company-history.html
"Self storage in America", Tom Vanderbilt, Slate reporter http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2005/07/selfstorage_nation.single.html
"The New American Home in 2015", National Association of Home Builders Economic Group Report, Dec. 2010.
"Self Storage Association 2012 (Mid-Year) Self Storage Industry Fact Sheet" http://www.selfstorage.org/ssa/content/navigationmenu/aboutssa/factsheet/default.htm
"The Economics of Self-Storage", Economist http://www.economist.com/node/21560602


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As myriad analysts have trumpeted without letup over the last 10 days, with the resounding defeat of politicized moral fundamentalism and supply-side economics in the Democratic election victory, America has entered a new electoral era, one in which social inclusion is the watchword. Voters had no difficulty distinguishing between economic and social issues, and President Obama and a variety of Senate and House members who advocated equal legitimacy for minority and young voters won a stunning victory that will change America's political landscape.
As was the winning majority in this election, the future electorate will be characterized by increasing percentages of black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, young and women voters. It is estimated that minorities will make up an additional 2 percent of the electorate in each of the next several presidential elections. Almost a quarter of the American electorate is now composed of single women -- separated, divorced, widowed and never married, as noted by historian Gary Gerstle of Vanderbilt University; they voted overwhelmingly for Obama. The president lost the white vote by 18 percent and still won the election.
It is estimated that by 2042, white people will be a minority in the United States. The data from this election demonstrates that the dramatic outcome is a reflection of the larger demographic and social shift occurring in the United States. White male dominance is a thing of the past.
The new generation coming of age in America sees no reason to be alarmed about this. Raised in a context of multicultural and increasing gender equality, young people take mixed-heritage social integration for granted. It is only when various groups -- women, gays, immigrants, the poor -- are singled out by political ideologues that identity becomes an issue, and in this election, those groups spoke back, very loudly and very clearly: It's over. When the bloodletting is over in the Republican Party, the challenge will be to find a message that offers something besides constraint, dismissal and ridicule to those callously rejected by the old conservative construction of America.
In some ways, Alaska is the forefront of this new America. Since the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Natives have become largely integrated into Alaska's social, economic and political fabric. Or perhaps it might be better to say that the immigrant population has stopped treating Alaska Native people as aliens in their own land. At the same time, the number of languages spoken by Anchorage school students in their homes hovers around 100. To walk the halls in West High School is to experience a multi-ethnic wonderland where difference can no longer make a difference because everyone is different. Multiculturalism is simply taken for granted and respected.
Responding to too many ugly, racist-inspired incidents over recent years, Anchorage Mayor Rick Mystrom in the 1990s led in founding Bridge Builders, an organization dedicated to establishing a "community of friends" among racial and ethnic groups in Anchorage. Headed by Malcolm Roberts, Bridge Builders created a new sense of dignity and legitimacy for many, many people. By the same token, Healing Racism, inspired by the Alaska Humanities Forum, works to help individuals learn how to cross racial and ethnic divides.
But as former legislative aide and 2004 Lisa Murkowski supporter Moira Sullivan wrote recently in these pages, many in the Alaska Republican Party are behind this curve. Young people are nearly universally opposed to restrictions on gay marriage, on legal abortion and other forms of religious moralizing, she wrote. While distinct from manifestations of racial prejudice, such restrictions nonetheless signal a fundamental lack of respect for difference; they make no sense to the new generation.
Over the last several decades, economic issues have been dominant in Alaska elections. That's because our narrow, isolated and highly dependent economy makes us unusually vulnerable to fear-mongering by oil industry publicists and lobbyists, a vulnerability the industry takes full advantage of. Thus, estimates of long-term stability in Alaska oil production, albeit far less than at the peak of production, get lost in the roar of catastrophic predictions.
But social issues are important to Alaskans and attempts to impose behavioral mandates are likely to fail, as Govs. Hickel, Murkowski and Palin discovered to their chagrin. In the new America, such attempts can only be labeled reactionary.
Steve Haycox is professor emeritus of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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Reading Your Way to Another World
Reading to Learn: Visualization
Caroline Hiskey
I. Rationale: Comprehension is the final step in becoming a good reader. Good readers have mastered decoding and can read with speed and fluency. They have learned to read, and are moving into the process of reading to learn. To facilitate comprehension, it is important to equip students with comprehension strategies such as summarization, visualization, story grammar, question generation, and question-answer relationships. This lesson focuses on visualization. Visualization takes readers to another world by connecting them to the characters, setting, and the plot more thoroughly. The activities are designed to help students learn to visualize and see stories in their heads as they read.
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· Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit (class set)
· Sheets of white paper
· Crayons/Colored Pencils
· Assessment Checklist
III. Procedures:
1. Introduction – Say: Today, we are going to practice using our minds to take us into the world of the book we are reading. We can do this with visualization. Who can tell me what visualization means? That's right, it means that while we read a story, we picture what is happening in our minds. When we do this, it helps us understand what is going on in the story, and helps us really see the characters and settings where the action takes place. Now that we are reading books without pictures on every page, we can use visualization to create pictures in our minds.
2. Say: First, I will do an example with you. As I say this sentence, I am going to visualize the scene and draw it on the board while you draw it on your paper. "A girl walked through a beautiful green meadow, picking flowers in the bright spring sunshine." What did you draw? How did you know to draw this, even though you might not have been to a meadow before?
3. Booktalk - Say: Today we are going to begin reading Tuck Everlasting. Winnie is an adventurous girl who is not content to sit in her yard all summer. One day, she hears music coming from the woods across the street and decides to investigate. When she gets thirsty and starts to drink from a spring, a boy pops out and tells her not to! Will she listen? This little spring leads to all sorts of adventures.
4. Vocabulary – Before we start reading, I want to go over a few difficult vocabulary words that you may see while reading: forlorn, peculiar, and ordeal.
i. First, I will explain forlorn. Forlorn means pitiful or sorrowful.
ii. The example from the book is, " Winnie watched as Will's face turned forlorn."
iii. Who is forlorn, a cheerleader or a person at a funeral?
iv. Finish this sentence: I was forlorn because ________.
v. Next, we will go over peculiar. Peculiar means odd or out of the ordinary.
vi. The example from the book is, "The peculiar frog stared at Winnie for a moment, then hopped across the road."
vii. Which is peculiar, a teacher or a clown?
viii. Finish this sentence: The movie was peculiar because ________.
ix. Now, I will explain ordeal. Ordeal means a severely difficult experience.
x. The example from the book is, ""Winnie, you must have gone through a terrible ordeal!""
xi. Which is an ordeal, a chore or a videogame?
xii. Finish this sentence: School was an ordeal today because _____.
5. Modeling – Say: I want you all to close your eyes and listen carefully while I model how to visualize while reading. I am going to read a section out of our book and draw pictures on the board of what I am seeing in my mind. (Read the first page to the class) Now open your eyes. This is what I was imagining while I read the first page.
6. Practice – Say: Now it's your turn. I am going to finish reading aloud the first chapter of Tuck Everlasting. While I am reading, I want you to follow along and picture the world of the book in your head. When I finish, I want everyone to draw pictures of what they saw in their head while I was reading. Then we can share our pictures to see if we imagined the same world.
7. While reading, stop and point out especially descriptive sentences or passages and tell students what you personally are picturing at the moment.
8. Say: You all did a great job visualizing the story world both in your head and on paper. Now that you have had some practice, I want you to read the second chapter silently and then draw another picture of what happened in that chapter. Write a short description under your picture so we know which scene you are illustrating.
9. Assessment: I will check the students' comprehension by looking at their drawings and sentences. I will use the following chart:
Student's illustration accurately reflects a passage from the chapter.
Student is able to explain their drawing and the part of the story it represents.
Student's description demonstrates a clear understanding between the statement and the illustration that pertains to a passage from the chapter.
Student includes characters from the chapter in his/her illustration.
1. Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck everlasting. New York: Farrar, Stravs, Giroux, 1975.
2. Russell, Jennifer. "Mind Reading." http://auburn.edu/~jmr0017/Reading%20to%20Learn.html
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The story of the recent purge of a minor official in China, who became infamous after a sex video in which he was involved surfaced online, has shed light on the usually secret machinations of minor Party officials and shady developers, and shows how corrupt cadres are punished when the political winds shift.
Lei Zhengfu, former Party secretary of the Beibei District of Chongqing, a municipality in the southwest, was by all accounts a bit player in Chinese politics. He was sacked on Nov. 23 after a sexually explicit video with him in it emerged online.
The move appears to be part of a house-cleaning operation by the new Party boss in town, ridding the city of some of the remnants of the era when Bo Xilai and his deputy Wang Lijun effectively ran Chongqing through a combination of heavy-handed neo-Maoist propaganda and brute force. Bo Xilai is a former member of the Politburo who is now in custody, and whose wife was sentenced to prison earlier this year for the murder of a Briton.
Incriminating Videos
The video featuring Lei Zhengfu was published on Nov. 20—the day that new Chongqing Party Secretary Sun Zhengcai assumed office. Lei became infamous overnight on the Chinese Internet. He was soon put under shuanggui, a Soviet-era form of detention and interrogation reserved for Party members who "violate discipline."
Zhu Ruifeng, moderator of People's Supervision Network, the website that published the video, told the New York-based NTD Television that he got the tape from police inside the Chongqing Public Security Bureau. He said he received six videos, and that the officials involved in them are all at the director or deputy director level. Four of them are still in office.
Lei had been caught in a classic ploy of entrapment, regularly used by Chinese communist officials and their associates against one another: according to journalist Ji Xuguang, a businessman had presented his 18-year-old mistress for Lei's pleasure in a Chongqing hotel, as a bribe for favorable regulatory decisions. The young female involved in the encounter secretly recorded it.
Before he was secretary of Beibei District, Lei was the Party chief in Dianjiang County, also in Chonqging. He saw to it that all construction projects in the county were overseen and approved by his brother, Lei Zhengkui. Some builders didn't like this, among them the boss of the young woman who was offered to Lei.
This boss, one of the largest local builders, in 2006 trained up a number of good-looking young women to sexually bribe officials, while also secretly videotaping the episodes. He figured that after the bribe, the videos could be used for blackmail.
When business began drying up for the builder in 2009, according to Apple Daily, he brought out the video and threatened Lei with it.
But rather than be pushed around, Lei struck back: he turned himself over to Bo Xilai, the Party chief of Chongqing and effectively "The Don" of the city. Bo appointed his deputy Wang Lijun to look into the matter.
Wang set up an investigative team, of sorts, that concluded that the builder who tried to blackmail Lei was guilty. The builder was locked in prison for one year and his female companion was placed under criminal detention for a month. For kissing Bo's ring, Lei not only was not punished but also promoted. Other officials ensnared in compromising acts with young women by the builder also continued in their positions.
Zhu, the website moderator, told Oriental Morning Post that Lei accumulated vast sums of money through helping his relatives take over projects. But "Compared with money, [he] likes beautiful women more," Zhu said. Those that wanted a project greenlighted continued to send him women.
Some Chinese netizens questioned why Lei was not punished by Bo Xilai three years ago, but many were not surprised.
Stolen Spoils
During Bo and Wang's reign over Chongqing a vast campaign called Smashing the Black was conducted: criminals and businessmen were labeled as belonging to the Mafia and had their assets seized. Thousands were arrested and dozens executed in the campaign. It is impossible to know, but estimates indicate that 100 billion yuan ($16 billion) may have been confiscated, the majority of it failing to enter the Treasury.
After the political destruction of Bo and Wang there have been clamors to have some of the cases re-examined, as well as a wish to punish some officials who were loyal to Bo Xilai, of whom Lei Zhengfu was one.
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Handsome Harry Gant
Started by bbowser, Nov 04 2012 09:58 AM
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Posted 04 November 2012 - 09:58 AM
I haven't posted anything for awhile so I dug around and found this, Harry's BGN car. One of my all time favorite drivers.
Posted 04 November 2012 - 10:14 AM
Nice job Bruce
Posted 04 November 2012 - 01:11 PM
awesome job!
Posted 04 November 2012 - 01:56 PM
Don't see a lot of these Buicks built and this one looks real nice - well done.
Posted 04 November 2012 - 02:06 PM
Nice job dude. Loved Harry Gant back in the Skoal days.
Posted 05 November 2012 - 03:01 AM
What a great build, and a very worthy subject too! I always liked ol' Harry, all the way back to the LMS days.
Posted 05 November 2012 - 03:49 AM
Great build Bruce .......... your amazingly clean building style really shows with this car ............. beautiful seldom seen car
Posted 05 November 2012 - 12:40 PM
Thanks for the kind words. It's an old build and the decals have yellowed pretty badly. How do you keep this from happening? This car hasn't been exposed to sunlight and has been in a box for several years. I've noticed that several of my older builds have this problem, I wonder if it's due to the use of a lot of setting solution to get the decals to lay down over curves?
Posted 11 November 2012 - 02:28 AM
sweet work bruce.very nice


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The 42nd annual Lancer Chokecherry Festival features a full schedule of activities for the October 5 to 7 celebration.
Events begin on Oct. 5 with a celebration kickoff featuring a free BBQ lunch sponsored by Innovation Credit Union from noon to 1 p.m. Day one wraps up with a Texas Hold-em Tournament, with registration starting at 6:30 p.m., cards starting at 7:30 p.m. (for info on the tournament contact 689-2993 or 689-2925).
Oct. 6 is the busiest day of the festival, with events running from 8 a.m. to past midnight.
A registration table will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission will be charged for the pancake breakfast served from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Community Hall. Souvenirs, jams, jellies and syrup are available at the Lancer Hall between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. The Lancer 4-H Club will host a show from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the ball diamonds. A craft sale runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. upstairs at the Lancer United Church. A Food Fair will operate from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Community Hall. The parade begins at 1:30 p.m., and visitors can also view a blacksmithing demonstration on the north side of the Community Hall during the afternoon. A kids carnival will be hosted in the Lancer United Church basement from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The popular horseshoe tournament begins with registration at 2:30 p.m., with the tractor pull also scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. The Lancer Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and will open the following day by request. The busy day wraps up with a dance featuring the band So Hard Done By from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Community Hall.
The final day of events on Oct. 7 begins with an interfaith church service at 11 a.m. from the Lancer Community Hall. A potluck lunch will be hosted at the Community Hall immediately following the service. Registration for the trap shoot will be taken between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., and more information about this event is available by phoning 689-2993.
Festival 2012 is a tribute to Ralph Bradford and is also a celebration of Canada's 145th year.
An evening of classic country music wraps up the Festival, with a quartet of performers scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. show at the Community Hall. The concert headliner is Frank Michell, with performances also scheduled from Myshel Pajuaar, Mark Penner and Glenna Switzer. Michell has performed extensively across Western Canada, playing the bands such as Country Cousins, Coast-Line and Plainsmen, and he has opened for Prairie Oyster and Gary Fjellgaard. Pajuaar, a former winner of the Living Sky Idol, has continued earning recognition for her performing, teaming up with bandmates in The Midnight Roses to win The 2012 Next Big Thing country talent competition. Both Penner and Switzer and singers/songwriters who are active members of the Southwest Country Music Association, having performed extensively across the region.
Additional information about any of the Chokecherry Festival events is available by contacting Eileen Hartman at 689-2908 or the Lancer Village office at 689-2925.


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Freeze 24/7 claims to produce a 50%-90% reduction in the visible appearance of fine lines and wrinkles on your face only minutes after application. It's a steep claim considering the active ingredients in this cream contain neither antioxidants or peptides.
There has been mixed response about this product in Freeze 24/7 reviews around the web. It contains none of the active ingredients other top rated wrinkle creams do, how ever it also claims to be more of an immediate result type of cream (like Athena 7 Minute Face Lift) where by your wrinkles and fine lines are acted on almost immediately, rather then combating the causes of aging behind the scenes.
Using Freeze 24/7
Freeze 24/7 has a full lineup of products including other anti aging serums and creams. On a popular beauty store online the application instructions suggest after IceCrystals Anti-Aging Prep and Polish and before IceCream Double Scoop (both Freeze 24/7 products).
The application instructions are simple. They suggest using a less is more approach by taking a very small amount of the cream in your fingers and thinning it out between your fingers before application. Wait two minutes, and then do the same thing again. I've read on various websites that Freeze 24.7 Anti wrinkle cream can actually be applied three times continuously.
Based on the research I did around the web for Freeze 24/7 Anti wrinkle cream I'd say that it's a mixed response from women. Those who have seen results love it, although others feel that it doesn't deliver on it's claims. My personal opinion is the price of this wrinkle cream pushes peoples expectations beyond a reasonable level. The produce we've rated as the best anti wrinkle cream is a similar price point but doesn't just offer instant results, it is also a long term solution to aging.
My Verdict on Freeze 24/7 Wrinkle Cream
The concept behind Freeze 24/7 is solid, it temporarily freezes the muscles in your face. This is why you only get 24 hours of results from each application. Although it's a better alternative to Botox, it is pricey. Even though the price is steep a little goes a long way and if you follow the application instructions, and use it sparingly and possibly not every day you should get a month or two out of each supply.
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April 15, 2007 3:55 PM PDT
Companies want scrutiny of Google-DoubleClick deal
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Although the companies have yet to file any formal objections with regulators in the U.S. or Europe, they are beginning to publicly voice their concerns, according to a source close to one of the companies.
If the deal goes through, Google would account for 80 percent of the ads served on the Internet, the source said.
Google announced its plans to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion on Friday. Microsoft had also been in the running to acquire DoubleClick.
In a statement on Sunday, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith called for regulators to give the deal a hard look.
"This proposed acquisition raises serious competition and privacy concerns in that it gives the Google-DoubleClick combination unprecedented control in the delivery of online advertising and access to a huge amount of consumer information by tracking what customers do online," Smith said. "We think this merger deserves close scrutiny from regulatory authorities to ensure a competitive online-advertising market."
Google could not immediately be reached for comment Sunday. A Yahoo representative declined to comment.
Google plans to buy DoubleClick from San Francisco-based private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman, which acquired DoubleClick two years ago for $1.1 billion, and JMI Equity. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development at Google, said he is confident that antitrust regulators will approve the agreement.
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- They're Just Jealous
- that they didn't get to them first..
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- Shows Competitor's Weaknesses
- If Google/DoubleClick account for 80% of the worlds ads, then Microsoft and Yahoo should be embarassed.
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- More power to them.
- I tend to agree. This is not a market where one company actually holds monopoly power (not like, say, on desktop operating systems and office software) and both MS and Yahoo had several years head start on Google but they've lost out. Mind you, doubleclick was already huge -- I wonder how much of that 80% already belongs to Google as opposed to doubleclick. Either way, if Google won the bid then more power to them. Even with 80% they won't have a monopoly because anyone anywhere is free to serve up their own ads and to provide that service to others the way all four of the companies mentioned here already do.
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- Hilarious...
- If Microsoft had won the bidding the Tinfoil Hat Brigade would be out in force screaming about monopoly and threats to competition. But since it's Google, people cheer about it as if they were GOOG shareholders.
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- The usual double standard
- The posts in this thread reveal the usual double standard about MS: when Microsoft has 80% of whatever market, it is a monopoly that should be stopped; when Google does the same in the online world, it is OK, because they are *very nice people*.
No guys, they are *the same kind of people*: people in the business of making money! Go get a clue...
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Who Do You Think Blair Should Choose in the Gossip Girl Season 5 Finale: Chuck or Dan? The Results Are In!
Tonight's the night we find out just how much of Blair's heart beats for Brooklyn. Is her current relationship with Dan the best thing for the Upper East Side's Queen B? Or is she just delaying the inevitable: her forever after with Chuck Bass?
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Blair picking Dan!
Despite Blair's long, complicated, heart-wrenching history with Chuck — who's shown an obvious growth in his love for B — many GGers are rooting for the seemingly balanced 'ship that is Blair and Dan!
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SpecificationsNotebook: Asus N53SV-SX387V (N53 Series)
Processor: Intel Core i5 2410M
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
Display: 15.6 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 2.9kg
Price: 900 euro
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A versatile machine that handles gaming, multimedia and productivity tasks equally well, the Asus N53SV offers excellent value and decent build quality. Its looks err on the serious side a bit more than is strictly necessary, but its design remains cohesive resulting in a good-looking laptop. The screen's nothing special, but the rest of what's on show makes this mid-range laptop a highly attractive buy.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/21/2011
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 70% features: 80% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 80%
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M:
Mid-range graphics card based on the GT 435M chip (GF108) with higher clock rates and DDR3 support.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Dual-core processor based on the Sandy Bridge architecture with an integrated graphics card and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. The CPU is clocked at 2.3 GHz (Turbo Boost 2.6-2.9 GHz) and the GPU at 650 (1200 MHz Turbo).
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15.6": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays. However nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.9 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
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Nintendo and Sony Feeling iPhone Heat?
We have covered the iPhone and gaming from top to bottom here at TiPb. The iPhone still has a lot of catching up to do in terms of the quality of the games and you can also toss in the lack of physical controls as a huge negative. All that aside, for the most part we've felt that if Apple plays their cards correctly, they could be a major player in the handheld gaming wars alongside the likes of Nintendo and Sony.
Maybe you've agreed with us, maybe you haven't. If you've disagreed with our opinions and views that's fine and dandy but maybe, just maybe, you will listen to Trip Hawkins. Who's Trip Hawkins you ask? He started a little gaming company called Electronic Arts.
"The iPhone is by far our most effective platform. We make as much money with these games on one device as we do putting a game on 100 different cell phone platforms. Between the iPod touch and the iPhone, I think the platform is freaking out Sony and Nintendo."
That is a pretty strong statement. It may be a great thing as more and more developers will take the iPhone as a serious contender and produce more and higher quality games, or it may prove to be one of the biggest pitfalls. It may encourage more developers to throw quality and innovation out the window and simply pump out below-average games just to make that quick profit. Up until this point we've seen a combination of some high quality games and some pure garbage. In the end, it's about the almighty dollar and we get that. Hopefully game developers come up with ways to push the platform to the next level.
So where do you see this going in the long run for the iPhone as a gaming platform? Lets hear your thoughts!
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Nintendo and Sony Feeling iPhone Heat?
I think personally that the Iphone can become a handheld killer, yet the problem is that we're not pushing the boundary hard enough. (For example)I can put most of what I own on a bet that if Blizzard took their great pc games and morphed them onto the Iphone (albeit not to that extent) it would sell millions and at 4-10 bucks a pop, so goes on the killing of DS and PSPs. If you jailbreak an Iphone it automatically adds so much more depth verses the two combined, and seeing how Apple likes to make many generations of their products, I can't help to wait to see the Iphone become the first cellular handheld laptop. -- Rick
With version 3 the possiblity of a controller is almost enevitable... I see the game makers stepping up
I would live to see a mobile version of WOW for the iPhone. It can be done.
All that we need is an external dpad and a couple of buttons . First company to give us a jacket which combines these things will be the time I'll consider the iphone as a serious contender. A physical button is needed for gaming touch screen sucks for games in my opinion and the tilt control ain't really working for me when it comes to driving games.
Dpad please!
iPhone games are getting bigger and better. The big companies are turning out some pretty good games. Handheld gaming isn't the same as console gaming, they need to be able to be picked up and played for short periods most of the time. Most iPhone games are very good at that. There are arcade style games for killing a few minutes or bigger games that could take a few hours to finish. I hope Apple keeps going and beefs up the power some, Nintendo and Sony are probably spinning their heads trying to figure out what they can do.
I have been impressed with the games on the iPhone. And not just all the "driving" games. Real Soccer is proof that a sports game can rock on the iPhone. Bothers in Arms game play is great too. With both of these games you don't "need" a D-Pad IMHO, although it would be nice. Also, with subscription services coming out we should be able to download more levels and team roster updates too.
I'm not a gamer and have zero games on my iPhone. But it seems to me that maybe Apple should consider developing a separate gaming device (that could also run all current App Store games), giving people all of the controls needed. After all, its called the iPhone, not the iGamer, and will always be primarily a communications device leaving it's games limited. Non-gaming people aren't going to want to buy phones with extra game buttons and additional connectors for controllers (unless they can use the already existing phone connector).
Just as long as my iPhone never shows any signs of playing games, I don't care what they do. :)
First off, I love gaming on my iPhone, with that comes battery life issues though. Even though it seems like it's not using too much resources, it eats away the power way too quickly.
Secondly, I do almost agree with one of the posters saying 99% of the games are garbage. While I don't think 99% are, there are more that are just lame. When I say lame I don't mean the game is simple (e.g. puzzle games). I mean that some are just extremely not well thought out yet Apple has let them be sold because it does not go against their rules on software.
Third, I don't think it's too big of a competition for especially DS. Parents are NOT going to buy their kids an iPhone or even iPod touch that easily. On the price range on hardware by itself, I would get the DS over iPhone/iPod, that is a personal preference.
Has iPhone/iPod changed a bit of what we think of gaming? Of course, and I love it. But!! To me, it's a phone first not a gaming device. Besides, a little competition is great for all of us!!!
antonioj: Nope, sorry. I've only found a few games I've played beyond the first day, the vast majority are deleted within an hour of downloading them. There's about 7000 games in the AppStore. If You think MORE THAN 70 (1%) of them are really good, you must be easily pleased! And as for competition to Sony/Nintendo - how many of those 70 games are of handheld console quality, 3? Perhaps none!!!!!!
I don't even know what ds or psp is :p. I was only saying that if people really want more controls, buttons, and connectors, it doesn't matter to me as long as my iPhone isn't ruined with them. It seems there are many people out there (and here) who DO want what you call "more of the same." And to my disappointment and worry, it seems Apple cares about gamers.
Apple should develop a controller extension that connects via the dock connector and third party game apps would support it as the default.


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Merlin's research specialty is experimental condensed matter physics. His areas of expertise include various continuous wave and ultrafast optical techniques and, in particular, spontaneous and impulsive (stimulated) Raman spectroscopy. In the past several years, he has used light scattering to study a wide range of systems such as rare-earth magnetic semiconductors, mixed-valence compounds, transition-metal oxides, A15 superconductors, intercalated graphite and GaAs-AlAs superlattices. His current interests focus on the generation and control of coherent vibrational and electronic fields using ultrafast laser and x-ray pulses, and metamaterials. Merlin and collaborators pioneered experimental work on Fibonacci superlattices, the quantum-confined Pockels effect and squeezed phonons. Other significant contributions include the earliest light-scattering studies of interface phonons, folded acoustic modes and shallow impurities in GaAs/AlAs heterostructures, and the development of the technique of magneto-Raman scattering.
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Optical Probing of Ultrafast Electronic Decay in Bi and Sb with Slow Phonons, (J. J. Li, J. Chen, D. A. Reis, S. Fahy and R. Merlin), Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047401 (2013).
GaP Based terahertz Time-domain Spectrometer Optimized for the 5-8 THz Range, (I. D. Vugmeyster, J. F. Whitaker and R. Merlin), Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 181101 (2012).
Pinholes Meet Fabry-Pérot: Perfect and Imperfect Transmission of Waves Through Small Apertures, (R. Merlin), Phys. Rev. X 2, 031015 (2012).
Nonlinear Phononics as an Ultrafast Route to Lattice Control, (M. Först, C. Manzoni, S. Kaiser, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, R. Merlin and A. Cavalleri), Nature Phys. 7, 854-856 (2011).
Metal Nanoparticle Ensembles: Tunable Laser Pulses Distinguish Monomer from Dimer Vibrations, (P. M. Jais, D. B. Murray, R. Merlin and A. V. Bragas), Nanolett. 111, 3685-3689 (2011).
Near-Field Plates: Metamaterial Surfaces/Arrays for Subwavelength Focusing and Probing, (A. Grbic, R. Merlin, E. M. Thomas and M. F. Imani), Proc. IEEE 99, 1806-1815 (2011).
Maxwell's Fish-Eye Lens and the Mirage of Perfect Imaging, (R. Merlin), J. Opt. 13, 024017 (2011).
Observation of Insulating Nano-Islands in Ferromagnetic GaMnAs, (D. M. Wang, Y. H. Ren, P. W. Jacobs, S. Fahy, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, V. F. Sapega, and R. Merlin), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256401 (2009).
Metamaterials and the Landau-Lifshitz Permeability Argument: Large Permittivity Begets High-Frequency Magnetism, (R. Merlin), Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 106, 1693-1698 (2009).
Probing Unfolded Acoustic Phonons with X Rays, (M. Trigo, Y. M. Sheu, D. A. Arms, J. Chen, S. Ghimire, R. S. Goldman, E. Landahl, R. Merlin, E. Peterson, M. Reason and D. A. Reis), Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025505 (2008).
Radiationless Electromagnetic Interference: Evanescent-Field Lenses and Perfect Focusing, (R. Merlin), Science 317, 927-929 (2007).
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