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I found an interesting curry and rice.
You use milk to make this curry.
It has a nice creamy taste and spicy flavor.
Very addictive!!!
It reminds me of the stew I had in Amman, Jordan :)
I used to live there for 6 years.
Unfortunately, I didn't learn Arabic at that time, so I cannot speak it…
Hokkaido White Curry
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 30min
Number of servings: 5
((White Curry))
1 box = 100g (3.5oz.) House Hokkaido White Curry Sauce Mix *we call it "curry roux"
200g (7.0oz.) meat *chicken or pork
1&1/2 medium (300g=10.6oz.) onions
1 medium (150g=5.3oz.) potatoes
1/2 medium (100g=3.5oz.) carrot
1 tbsp. cooking oil or butter
500ml water
200ml milk
((Turmeric Rice))
1 package turmeric powder *comes in the box
3 cups uncooked Japanese rice
((White Curry))
1. Cut meat of your choice into bite-size pieces. Cut the onions into bite-size pieces. Cut the potatoes and the carrot into bite-size pieces.
2. Heat the cooking oil in a large stew pot. Add onions, carrots, potatoes, and meat, and stir-fry them until slightly coated with oil.
3. Add 500ml water, bring to a boil, remove the foam, and turn the heat down to low and cook for about 15 minutes.
4.Turn off the heat, break up the curry roux into the pot, and mix well until completely melted. *make sure you stop the heat when you add the curry roux, otherwise it won't blend well.
5. Then put on the heat and simmer for about 5 minutes until it thickens.
6. Add 200ml milk, then simmer for another 5 minutes to finish.
((Turmeric Rice))
1. Wash the rice with cold water. Put in the rice cooker pot, then add water to the appropriate level indicated in the pot.
2. Add the turmeric powder, mix well, and start cooking.
3. Serve curry on a hot bed of turmeric rice.
*for best results, don't use a lid while cooking.
*curry and rice is best eaten on the day it's made but if you have any leftover, store it in the fridge and finish it on the next day, but it is not recommended.
*if you have leftover curry roux, wrap in a plastic wrap and store it in the fridge and use within a week.
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- SusieTron FiveThousand said...
Do you know what brand name I should look for? I live in California and would love to try white curry.
- July 24, 2013 at 7:29 AM
hi susie,
the brand name is "House". i hope you can find it, or ask a salesperson at a japanese grocery store. they might import it someday. i remember i requested them to get the things i couldn't get :)
- July 24, 2013 at 10:35 AM
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The case involves two women, identified only by their initials, who had a child together. One donated an egg that was fertilized and implanted in the other, who gave birth in 2004.
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The Balvenie DoubleWood is on our ABC price list for $51.99. Fortunately, I live on the AL/FL line. I can get it in Pensacola (easy drive) at a privately owned store operated by friendly folks (unlike some state store employees I've come across lately) for $39.99. What are prices like in Chicago?
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WINNER: Global Hawk Block 30. The budget requires the Air Force to maintain the operational capability of each aircraft. In addition, $10 million was provided to conduct a study on the potential adaptation of U-2 sensors to the Global Hawk Block 30 airframe for flight test and demonstration.
LOSER: Distributed Common Ground System-Army. $267 million was requested for the program, which processes and disseminates intelligence data, and received only $111 million--a reduction of about $156 million. Thats down more than 60 percent.
WINNER: The Air Forces MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft. The DoD requested about $272 million for the armed vehicle and received about $349 million. The service will use the money to buy eight more MQ-9s.
LOSER: Joint Battle Command-Platform. JBC-P will be the principal command and control system for the Army and Marine Corps, and is the follow-on program of record to Blue Force Tracker. The Army requested about $103 million but received only about $70 million, a 32 percent reduction.
WINNER: High Performance Computing Modernization Program. This program is charged with modernizing and delivering the Defense Departmentss high-performance computing capabilities for science and technology, as well as and test and evaluation needs. The DoD operates five supercomputing resource centers. The military requested about $181 million for the program and received about $221 million, a healthy increase of about 19 percent.
WINNER: Common Data Link. The budget supports increased competition for common data link (CDL) devices, which are needed for securely conveying intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information in the field. The goal is to eliminate reliance on proprietary solutions for CDL.
WINNER: STEM Education and STARBASE. The budget includes $25 million for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and does not change the STARBASE program, which exposes youth to the technological environments and positive role models found on military bases and installations, according to the STARBASE webssite.


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Comcast Arena manager leaves Everett for Tacoma
Kim Bedier, general manager of the Comcast Arena at Everett, has accepted the role of public assembly facilities director for the City of Tacoma beginning Nov. 14. Her last day in Everett is Nov. 9.
"It was just one of those career opportunities," Bedier said of her new job.
Philadelphia-based Global Spectrum manages the events center in Everett. Comcast Arena includes a skating rink, conference center and 10,000-seat arena, which was a city-led redevelopment project.
Bedier helped open the $71.5 million facility, then called the Everett Events Center, in October 2003.
Since the center's opening, it has become home to the Everett Silvertips hockey team and Washington Stealth lacrosse team. Under Bedier's watch, the center has drawn musical acts like Justin Bieber, ZZ Top, The Cure and B.B. King.
The center also has hosted events like Skate America and the Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championship. Events like those "really put Everett on the map," Bedier said. And that's what community leaders had in mind when they decided to build it — to give people a reason to get off I-5 and come to Everett, she said.
As for the future of Comcast Arena, Bedier said she's leaving it in good hands — a team of arena workers who are "passionate" about the center. The arena has a pretty strong calendar of events coming up, she said.
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Bedier's position has been advertised within Global Spectrum but has not been posted externally.
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Pinging around trading desks last week was a report from Birinyi Research on the Golden Cross. Given where prices are (and the days dropping off the MA from 200 days ago) the S&P Composite is likely to see the Golden Cross soon
Here's the excerpt:
"There were 26 instances in the past 50 years when the S&P 500's short-term average crossed above the long-term gauge, according to Birinyi. The index rose 81 percent of the time with an average increase of 6.6 percent in the next six months, the data show.
Stocks posted bigger returns when the S&P 500's 50-day rose above a falling 200-day, Birinyi data show. The index jumped an average 10 percent over the next six months, according to the study."
There were two unfortunate problems errors in that piece: First, there were two mistakes for two specific years (1/26/72 and 9/15/94). That is based on Ron Griess' work, using data from The Chart Store.
Second, they used an odd time period — 1960 to present. Data exists back to 1930s, so why not use it? The usual answer is data mining, and as we see below, that very much applies here. The post 1960 data is far more bullish than the earlier data — so why use it?
Overall, the Golden Cross does have a positive bias — its just not nearly as Bullish as that Birinyi report suggests. (File that in the blue recycle bin)
The following two tables and 17 charts (from The Chart Store) show the history of such events for the S&P Composite from 1930 to the present, including ALL 47 crosses where the 50 day moving average is rising and moves above the 200 day moving average. Not how the data after 1960 is much more bullish.
(I am surprised this came from Birinyi Research — I have never known them to data mine previously)
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Based on 50 day crossing a falling 200 day Moving Average
Based on 50 day crossing a rising 200 day Moving Average
All tables courtesy of The Chart Store
All >
Chart examples of nearly all of these are after the jump
Worry About Important Things — Not The Death Cross (August 16th, 2011)
See also:
All Star Charts: Pay No Attention To This Golden Cross (January 30, 2012)
A few interesting charts showing Golden Cross
All Charts courtesy of The Chart Store
Category: Markets, Technical Analysis
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Anna Lovett, MD
Born in Texas and raised in Mississippi, Virginia is a new adventure and change of pace since it is the furthest north I have ever lived. Having the privilege to come to UVA to complete my Family Medicine Residency is an honor. When I was looking for a residency program, I wanted a high quality program that was constantly striving for excellence and offered both rural and international medicine exposure in an environment where family medicine was well established and respected. UVA Family Medicine Residency offered all those qualities and more, which I have come to value: an emphasis on evidence-based medicine, a well-rounded, challenging curriculum, and a supportive environment. In addition, Charlottesville is a wonderful place to live, offering outdoor adventures, diverse opportunities, and yet small enough to feel more like home for those of us who are not big city folks. You can be outside the city limits in a matter of minutes with mountain vistas and a beautiful landscape, which is refreshing after a long, hard day.
Reflecting on how I found myself in Charlottesville, VA, for residency, I completed my undergrad degree in Religion at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, followed by post baccalaureate coursework at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, during my two years off before I attended medical school at the University of Mississippi in Jackson, Mississippi. I have had many wonderful opportunities to learn and grow as an individual and as a doctor with excellent mentors and friends along the way; coming to UVA for Family Medicine Residency has continued that tradition.
Even with the demands of medicine and residency, my faith and family have been and continue to be very important to me. I grew up in a Christian home and have also appreciated the many church families I have been a part of over the years. I am still searching for the right church here in Charlottesville and have been warmly welcomed at each church I have visited. One of my deepest passions is missions, at home and abroad. I have had the privilege of being part of several gifted mission teams that have taken me to 4 different continents over the past 10 years. I also had the joy and sorrow of discovering the huge need for medical care in inner-city Jackson, MS, through serving at Mission First's medical clinic as I prepared for medical school. My desire is to ultimately serve the poor and underserved through a mission clinic somewhere in the United States or abroad when I finish residency here at UVA. We'll see where God takes me on the next adventure.
Although my family and I may be miles apart, we have remained close and take every opportunity to stay in touch and visit one another. My Mom resides back in Mississippi and makes frequent trips to surprise me and my brother wherever we are. I have one brother who has lived a remarkable life and recently graduated from law school with a focus in environmental law and a masters in environmental management. We celebrated his marriage to my wonderful, also incredibly gifted, sister-in-law following his graduation from law school. We take turns visiting one another, and it is always fun to share Charlottesville with my family when they visit.
Lastly, I tend to giggle...a lot...so if you visit the UVA Family Medicine Residency Program and hear giggling, it might just be me. God decided to give me the gift of giggles. In our residency program, we share both laughter and tears amidst the expected frustration, exhaustion, and heartache, that comes with residency. At the end of the day, we truly love caring for our patients of all ages, all walks of life, and from all around the world.
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|Just starting to snow
|Last plane in before the big stuff hits
|Pow pow
|Where to put the car?
|Classic winter storm grimace
|Best time to play is when the snow is coming down the hardest
I rode the shoulders of a blizzard back to Minnesota from Colorado on Friday. If I was not the last plane in before the airport shut down I was pretty close. I grabbed a cab and told the driver where I was headed in Uptown. He sort of gave me a blank look and I realized right then and there that this was going to be an interesting ride. Omar was new to the state, new to the business and was certainly new to what challenges a real MN snow storm can create on the roads. I found myself not only navigating for him but also teaching him winter driving 101. Instead of the usual tactic of driving way to fast like most new drivers in snow, he drove way to slow. Like 10-15 MPH on the crosstown. His hands were clenched in a death grip on the wheel and he constantly looked up at me in the mirror with eyes the size of pizza pies. When we finally arrived home I tipped him extra knowing it was going to be a long slow night for him. The weekend was a constant dance with snow removal. I have been through plenty of big snow events, but a big snow event in the city is another thing altogether. There is nowhere to move, nowhere to put all that snow, people band together, it is actually really hard, but fun too. I was having trouble gauging if it was truly as big a storm as I thought it was. I mean on the mountain I know what a good storm is, I am tuned to those parameters. However in the city I had little to gauge from. Then I saw on the news that the Metro Dome had collapsed and I realized we had just lived through a good storm.


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Hardware Specifications
Ahead of the release of Windows 8 and the onslaught of Windows 8-based tablets that will hit the market next month, Intel is taking the cover off the processor that many of these new devices will be powered by, the Intel Atom Z2760 previously known by the codename of Clover Trail. Intel is claiming that the Atom Z2760 is the beginning of a completely new Atom direction, now a complete SoC (system-on-a-chip) design that lowers power requirements, extends battery life and allows Intel's x86 architecture to find its way into smaller and more portable devices.
At it's heart, Clover Trail is based on the same Saltwell CPU core design that was found in the Medfield processor powering a handful of smartphones over in Europe. That means the Atom lineup remains an in-order architecture with a dual-issue command structure - nothing incredibly revolutionary there.
Unlike Medfield though, the Atom Z2760 is a dual-core design that still enables HyperThreading for four-threaded operating system integration. The cores will run at 1.8 GHz and it includes 1MB of L2 cache divided between the two cores evenly. Memory is connected through a dual-channel 32-bit bus to low power DDR2 memory running at 800 MHz and capacities up to 2GB.
Continue reading our information on Intel's Clover Trail Atom Z2760 SoC!!
Prepare to be shocked ... ARM has negative things to say about Intel Inside phones
Subject: General Tech | September 7, 2012 - 02:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: arm, Intel, atom, atom z2460, ARM Army
It is hard to believe that competing tech companies might make comments about their competitors that could be construed as negative but it has happened today as ARM calls Intel power hungry. From what DigiTimes could gather, a VP at ARM suggested that the Atom architecture consumes more power in total than ARM processors, though he stayed away from any comment about processing power per watt. This could well be because handset makers describe the Z2460 as more powerful than the ARM and only slightly less power efficient, something the ARM Army would rather was not mentioned. In the coming months consumers will get a chance to compare this for themselves as Windows 8 phones running on both Intel and ARM hardware will become available for direct comparison.
"While Intel has been making efforts to tap the handset processor market, the company still has a long way to go to catch up with ARM in terms of power consumption, according to Noel Hurley, vice president for Marketing & Strategy, Processor Division, ARM."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Putting 300 watts of LEDs on an RC plane @ Hack a Day
- Ballmer predicts 400 MILLION Win 8 Surface and Lumia fumblers @ The Register
- AVG kicks out new touchy-feely UI to grab smartphone-fondlers @ The Register
ASUS kills the Eee PC and shrinks the Atom market
Subject: General Tech | September 4, 2012 - 02:43 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: asus, acer, Intel, atom, eee pc
2012 has been a very tough year to be a manufacture of mobile products and not too easy on the designers either. We started off with the Ultraboook form factor, specifically the challenge to make parts which could allow the ultrathin design to be functional in the real world while still aiming for that $1000 price point. The prices of SSDs have come down and the processors have also marginally dropped in price but the materials required to make a sturdy chassis of exceptional thinness have not.
Then Microsoft decided to make things interesting with their Surface tablet, which is a wonderful platform to show off Windows 8 on but not the best way to maintain a relationship with mobile manufacturers. Regardless of the price that Microsoft chooses to release the Surface at, each Surface sale represents a lost sale for another mobile manufacturer. Acer, for one has had no problems voicing their complaints about a software company muscling into hardware territory.
Today we heard from DigiTimes that ASUS is dropping their Eee PC line, along with Intel's Atom processor and Acer is dropping netbooks altogether. While part of the problem with the Intel's Atom is that it has always had a hard time providing users with the computing experience they desire, dropping the entire form factor implies more problems that simply performance. Manufacturers could build netbooks with AMD's Trinity or even NVIDIA's Tegra depending on the agreements in place with Intel, however the two top tier mobile manufactures have straight out dropped the form factor, with only MSI staying in the market. While the netbook may have only been of use to a certain younger crowd with limited money and expectations there were certain Eee PC models designed for the desktop which made decent low powered internet access machines which are also going the way of the dinosaur which may be missed a little by a larger audience.
The effective death of the netbook will have an effect on manufacturers like Pegatron and some sections of Intel, the real question is whether the end user will even notice or if they were already only considering a 13" laptop or Ultrabook.
"Intel may be forced to adjust its roadmap for PC-use Atom processors as the top-2 netbook vendors – Asustek Computer and Acer – both plan to stop manufacturing related products, according to sources from notebook players.
Asustek is already set to halt its Eee PC product line and officially phase out from the IT industry after completely digesting any remaining inventory. As for Acer, so far, the company has not yet made any plans to open new netbook projects, indicating that the vendor may also plan to step out of the market."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Hackers create bogus Microsoft Services Agreement email to exploit users @ The Inquirer
- The TR Podcast 118: CPUs inside the second, and steamrolling the Forcepad
- Here we go again: Critical flaw found in just-patched Java @ The Register
- AMD Taiwan general manager Andy Tseng resigns @ DigiTimes
- TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless N Nano Router @ Rbmods
- TP-LINK N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router (TL-WNDR4300) Review @ Madshrimps
- Cisco Linksys E4200 Maximum Performance Dual-Band N Router Review @ NikKTech
- Pimp My Rig Competition with PowerColor (Devil 13 HD7990 Prize) @ HardwareHeaven
- SSD Giveaway Week 1 - OCZ Vertex 4 512GB @ SSD Review
- Win A QNAP TS-219P II NAS Server @ eTeknix
Can a 12-Core ARM Cluster hit critical mass?
Subject: Processors | June 26, 2012 - 05:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: arm, cortex-a9, e-350, i7-3770k, z530, Ivy Bridge, atom, Zacate
Taking a half dozen PandaBoard ESes from Texas Instruments that have a 1.2GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor onboard, Phoronix built a 12-core ARM machine to test out against AMD's E-350 APU as well as Intel's Atom Z530 and a Core i7 3770K. Before you you make the assumption that the ARM's will be totally outclassed by any of these processors, Phoronix is testing performance per Watt and the ARM system uses a total of 31W when fully stressed and idles below 20W, which gives ARM a big lead on power consumption.
Phoronix tested out these four systems and the results were rather surprising as it seems Intel's Ivy Bridge is a serious threat to ARM. Not only did it provide more total processing power, its performance per Watt tended to beat ARM and more importantly to many, it is cheaper to build an i7-3770K system than it is to set up a 12-core ARM server. The next generation of ARM chips have some serious competition.
"Last week I shared my plans to build a low-cost, 12-core, 30-watt ARMv7 cluster running Ubuntu Linux. The ARM cluster that is built around the PandaBoard ES development boards is now online and producing results... Quite surprising results actually for a low-power Cortex-A9 compute cluster. Results include performance-per-Watt comparisons to Intel Atom and Ivy Bridge processors along with AMD's Fusion APU."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD FX-8120 Black Edition CPU Review (with Asus M5A99X EVO) @ Kitguru
- Intel Core i7-3720QM: Mobile Ivy Bridge @ Techspot
- Sandy Bridge for servers: Intel Xeon E5-2600 review @ Hardware.Info
- Desktop CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Workstation & Server CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Mobile CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
Introduction, Design, User Interface
In August of 2011 I reviewed the Acer AC700-1099, one of two Chromebooks available in the North American market. The review was almost entirely negative. The hardware wasn't great and the operating system was a bit of a mess–capable of only the most basic tasks.
Since then, the small surge of hype that surrounded the Chrome OS release has receded. You could be mistaken for thinking Google has abandoned it, but they haven't. In typical Google fashion it has been slowly, quietly improved. Performance tweaks have allegedly improved web browsing, a proper file manager has been added and Google has just launched Google Drive, its cloud storage service.
Such enhancements could address a lot of the concerns I had with the Acer rendition. Do they? That's what we're here to find out. Let's start with the basics - what's inside?
The hardware inside the Samsung Series 5 is nearly identical to what was inside the Acer AC700-1099 that we reviewed late last year. We're talking an Atom processor that must rely on its own IGP, two gigabytes of RAM and a tiny–but quick–16GB solid state drive.
While the equipment is the same, the pricing has changed. When we reviewed the Acer Chromebook it was $349.99. That has been slashed to $279.99. The Series 5, which used to be priced at $429, is now sold for just $299.
Let's see if improved software and a lower price can turn Chromebooks into winners.
Dell leaks specs for Latitude 10, Windows 8 and Intel Clover Trail powered tablet
Subject: Processors, Mobile | May 29, 2012 - 11:33 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: z2670, windows 8, dell, clover trail, atom
In a leaked slide posted by Neowin.net, details of Dell's upcoming Latitude 10 tablet are coming to light, including hardware specifications like the Intel Atom Z2670 "Clover Trail" SoC.
This 10.1-in Windows 8 based tablet will include a 1366x768 display with a capacitive multi-touch screen and an optional stylus accessory. Weighing in at just over 1.5 pounds, the Latitude 10 is just slightly heavier than the latest generation of iPad (1.46 pounds).
Intel's upcoming Atom processor, the Z2670, will be at the core of the design and will be based on the "Clover Trail" design, a slightly faster and updated version of "Medfield" we have seen implemented on mobile phones early in 2012. With dual-cores capable of HyperThreading, and the ability to enter into "Burst Mode" which offers "quick bursts of extra performance when called upon", the Atom Z2670 should be capable of presenting a reasonable Windows 8 experience.
Other specifications include 2 GB of DDR2-800 lower power memory, up to a 128 GB SSD, 2 and 4 cell swappable batteries and front plus rear facing cameras.
With Computex 2012 right around the corner in Taipei, Taiwan, we expect to see quite a few more tablets and hybrid machines based on Windows 8 including Intel Atom-powered devices as well as ARM-based devices running Windows 8 RT.
Introduction, Design
If the netbook was a shooting star, the nettop was an asteroid that never quite entered our atmosphere. Instead it flew silently by, noted by NASA, written about in a handful of articles, and now forgotten.
That doesn't mean it has ceased to exist, however. It's still out there, floating in space - and it occasionally swings back around for an encore. So we have the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180.
Of course, simply advertising a small computer as - well, a small computer - isn't particularly sexy. The Q180 is instead being sold not just as general-purpose laptop but also as a media center (with optional Blu-Ray, not found on our review unit). There's no doubting the demand for this, but so far, attempts to make PC-based media center computers have not done well - even Boxee, with its custom Linux-based operating system, was fussy. Can the Q180 succeed where others have stumbled? Let's start with the specs.
It's been awhile since we tested anything Atom. Since our last look at this line of processors, Intel has updated to the code-name Cedertrail processors, allowing for higher clock speeds. The 2.13 GHz dual-core Atom D2700 looks quite robust in print. But this still the same old architecture, so per-clock performance doesn't come close to Intel's Pentium and Core processors.
Also included in AMD's Radeon HD 6450A, a version of the HD 6450 built for small systems that don't have room for a typical PCIe graphics card. This makes up for the fact that all Atom processors are still using hopelessly outdated Intel Media Accelerator graphics, which is entirely unsuitable for HD video.
Introduction, Low-Power Computing Was Never Enjoyable
It was nearly five years ago that ASUS announced the first Eee PC model at Computex. That October the first production version of what would to be called a netbook, the ASUS Eee PC 4G, was released. The press latched on to the little Eee PC, making it the new darling of the computer industry. It was small, it was inexpensive, and it was unlike anything on the market.
Even so, the original Eee PC was a bit of a dead end. It used an Intel Celeron processor that was not suited for the application. It consumed too much power and took up a significant portion of the netbook's production cost. If Intel's Celeron had remained the only option for netbooks they probably would not have made the leap from press darling to mainstream consumer device.
It turned out that Intel (perhaps unintentionally) had the solution – Atom. Originally built with hopes that it might power "mobile Internet devices" it proved to be the netbook's savior. It allowed vendors to squeeze out cheap netbooks with Windows and a proper hard drive.
At the time, Atom and the netbook seemed promising. Sales were great – consumers loved the cute, pint-sized, affordable computers. In 2009 netbook sales jumped by over 160% quarter-over-quarter while laptops staggered along with single-digit growth. The buzz quickly jumped to other products, spawning nettops, media centers and low-power all-in-one-PCs. There seemed to be nothing an Atom powered computer could not do.
Fast forward. Earlier this year, PC World ran an article asking if netbooks are dead. U.S. sales peaked in the first quarter of 2010 and have been nose-diving since then, and while some interest remains in the other markets, only central Europe and Latin America have held steady. It appears the star that burned brightest has indeed burned the quickest.
But why?
Continue reading our editorial on the problems with low power x86 processors...
Intel Announces Q1 2012 Earnings: Not a Record, but Close
Subject: Editorial | April 23, 2012 - 05:12 PM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: trinity, Q1, Ivy Bridge, Intel, earnings, atom, arm, amd, 2012
Guess what? Intel made money. A lot of money. This is not surprising. The results were not record breaking, but they did beat expectations. Intel had a gross revenue of $12.9 billion for the quarter, with a net income of $2.7 billion. Gross margins decreased (slightly) to 64%, but the reasons for this are pretty logical as we discover down below. Compared to Q4 2011, results are still significantly down, but this is again expected due to seasonal downturns. In Q4 they had $13.9 billion in gross revenue and $3.4 billion in net income with a gross margin of 64.5%.
Intel Medfield powered cellphone appears ... in the Orient
Subject: General Tech, Mobile | April 19, 2012 - 11:50 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: atom, Medfield
The new Atom processor, named Medfield, has appeared in a market far, far away. The chip powering Lava's Xolo X900 runs at 1.6GHz and supports hyperthreading, the graphics core is clocked at 400MHz which Intel believes should be enough to allow it to output 1080p video via its HDMI plug. The power efficiency of the new architecture has yet to be tested but the claim by the manufacturer is eight hours of talk time and five hours of 3G web browsing. There are no available benchmarks yet but you can get an idea of the overall capabilities of this phone at The Inquirer.
"Intel and Indian handset maker Lava announced their intention to ship an Atom smartphone at Mobile World Congress in January. However Lenovo's K800 received all the attention, so Lava's Xolo X900 slipped under the radar to become the first shipping smartphone to feature Intel's Medfield Atom processor."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Intel to launch next-generation Xeon processor by the end of 2Q12 @ DigiTimes
- 5th Ave Frogger Uses Real Cars, Spares Frogs @ MAKE:Blog
- Powerline Network Adapter Shootout @ Legit Reviews
- Noctua Joint Contest @ NikKTech
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A barrel is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops. In video games, it is used in many ways to fill up a level or even be used in one. They also may explode. Use caution when around barrels.
A mode of transportation that requires the pedaling of the user and no gas. Always has two wheels unless otherwise dismembered.
A bomb is an explosive device.
A bridge is something that quickens your journey by allowing you to go over an obstacle, like a river or gorge, instead of making you go through it. It is made of a variety of materials like wood or steel.
Crates sometimes contain things!
Lightweight motorcycle that's made for all terrain driving
An explosive is any weapon or device designed to cause an explosion, whether it be a frag grenade, TNT, or a nuclear bomb.
A garment made for covering the hand.
It's green and grows in the ground. This page is for games that use grass in some notable way, not for all video games that merely have grass in them.
Whether it's worn for protection or style, helmets appear in various game genres.
Wood from trees that is cut and prepared for use as building material.
Two-wheeled motor vehicle
Wet soil. Mud usually appears as a simple aesthetic in video games but when implemented in gameplay it usually works in a way that slows characters down.
Pants (a.k.a. trousers) are a type of clothing for your legs.
A pinball is a small and almost always metallic sphere used in pinball games. The player hits the pinball around with flippers for the ball to hit or roll over things for points or even to complete pinball quests.
Mechanical bats covered in rubber, used to rebound a pinball back into play. A necessary ingredient in a precursor to the video game. Occasionally seen outside the realm of pinball games.
A tube or hollow cylinder for the conveyance of fluid, gas, and sometimes other materials.
A long slender object used to hold up flags or signs. Frequently used in platforming games.
A wire that transfers electricity.
Sometimes you'll encounter big-ass ramps, often in racing games.
Rocks are the hard objects found randomly scattered across the ground all over the Earth's surface. They're not good for much more than smashing stuff or being made into other things. Handily crushes Scissors but cannot defeat the mighty Paper.
A cloth garment for the upper body.
Halloween miscellaneous item for the Soldier in Team Fortress 2. Added in the Very Scary Halloween Special update.
A round generally rubber object used to support and transport motor vehicles. Also used as throwing objects in certain fighting games.
A tree is a perennial woody plant. Trees are often used in games as a natural wall, providing a barrier as well as cover. Many games also use them to make their environments looks more natural and attractive.
A type of sign that indicates hazards. Warning Signs are often found around potentially dangerous places, and may communicate via language and/or ideograph.
Even though water in games tends to bring about death, we all still hold it near and dear to us. After all, the human body is comprised mostly of it.
One of the most important inventions in the history of mankind, wheels are used in an infinite number of applications, being one of the most recognizable the use in vehicles.
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April 20, 2005
The "Pose" Running Style
by Brian Mackenzie, senior athletics coach (UKA 4) with UK Athletics, the United Kingdom's National Governing body for Track and Field Athletics.
Pose running was invented by Nicholas Romanov, a Russian scientist. He proposes one universal technique for all runners, regardless of speed or distance. A 100 metre sprinter runs with the same underlying technique as a 10km long-distance runner. The technique is designed to prevent undue strain on the joints and requires a great deal of muscular endurance and resilience.
Basic Principles
The distinguishing characteristic of pose running is that the athlete lands on the midfoot, with the supporting joints flexed at impact, and then uses the hamstring muscles to withdraw the foot from the ground, relying on gravity to propel the runner forward. This style is in clear contrast to the heel-strike method that most runners deploy and which is advocated by some health care professionals.
In pose running, the key is to maximise your effort in removing your support foot from the ground; good training is essential to ensure that you don't over-stride or create excessive vertical oscillation. The runner should fall forwards, changing support from one leg to the other by pulling the foot from the ground, allowing minimum effort and producing minimum braking to this body movement. The idea is to maximise the use of gravity to pull the runner forward.
The pose method is centred on the idea that a runner maintains a single pose or position, moving continually forwards in this position. Romanov uses two models to explain the rationale behind pose:
the mechanical model - the centre of gravity, which is around the hip position, should move in a horizontal line, without vertical up and down displacement
the biological model - the rear leg maintains an 'S-like' form, and never straightens
Perhaps the most useful imagery to help with this technique is to imagine a vertical line coming from the runner's head straight down to the ground. The raised front leg should never breach this line, but remain firmly behind it. This focuses the effort firmly on pulling the ankle up vertically under your hip rather than extending forward with your quads and hip flexors. Summary of the Pose Principles
Raise your ankle straight up under your hip, using the hamstrings
Keep your support time short
Your support is always on the balls of your feet
Do not touch the ground with your heels
Avoid shifting weight over your toes: raise your ankle when the weight is on the ball of your foot
Keep your ankle fixed at the same angle
Keep knees bent at all times
Feet remain behind the vertical line going through your knees
Keep stride length short
Keep knees and thighs down, close together, and relaxed
Always focus on pulling the foot from the ground, not on landing
Do not point or land on the toes
Gravity, not muscle action, controls the landing of the legs
Keep shoulder, hip and ankle in vertical alignment
Arm movement is for balance, not for force production
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is lossless MP2 to MPC conversion possible?, goal: reduce bitrate of existing files.
is lossless MP2 to MPC conversion possible?, goal: reduce bitrate of existing files.
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The wiki articles on Musepack say that it's extended from the MP2 codec, e.g. Hydrogenaudio Wiki and Wikipedia
Does anybody know if it's feasible to losslessly convert MP2 files into MPC files?
If yes, does such a program already exist? (similar to mpc2sv8, the Musepack SV7 to SV8 converter)
Motivation: I'm asking this because I have many gigabytes of MP2 files stored on my hard disks. These are captured DVB radio broadcasts in 320kbps 48kHz stereo MPEG-1 Layer II format. I would like to save some storage space here and hope that Musepack with its more efficient lossless coding method can produce smaller files than MP2.
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Saving 20% of the size is not bad at all! This would be the first case of lossless transcoding of a lossy format (since the vorbis bit peeling was never realized after all). Such tool would have a similar functionality as the lovely mp3packer, but for mp2.
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Using Botox for the Treatment of Vaginismus
Botox has become a powerful tool for the treatment and cure of vaginismus. Vaginismus is characterized by extreme fear of any form of vaginal penetration and like any phobia can be disabling because of its severity. The fear of vaginal penetration results in involuntary and uncontrolled spasm of the vaginal muscles and in the more severe cases of vaginismus intercourse is impossible. Almost to a patient the history is the same: "It's like hitting a brick wall" they say. The majority of my patients have had vaginismus for many years, often four to seven years, though some of my patients have been afflicted with vaginismus for over 20 years. As they get beyond childbearing age they no longer have the opportunity to raise a family.
The failure of conservative therapy for vaginismus.
Vaginismus patients are often either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Health care providers, be it a nurse or doctor, are often unfamiliar with vaginismus and therefore even the diagnosis of vaginismus is often delayed for many years. Most of my patients made their own diagnosis by researching the internet. Once the diagnosis of vaginismus is made, most physicians still don't know what to do. They need to make some referral so the first choice is often a psychologist or sex therapist and off the patient goes to what begins the frustration of one to three years of "talk". You CANNOT talk a severe vaginismus patient into a successful outcome. They listen politely and make no progress. Much time, money, effort and emotion is wasted. A resource article about this can be found on my web site by linking to: "Too Much Talk"
After this fails as a treatment for vaginismus, the patient is told to buy dilators, to do Kegel exercises and progressively stretch the vagina by dilating. My vaginismus patients dutifully buy the dilators with renewed hope that they will now be able to get beyond this terrible condition, however the patients with the severe forms of vaginismus often are not able to open the box of dilators, let alone use them. They read books and continue to fail. Once again they feel that they are running out of hope for any type of cure. Time is marching on; mounting pressure is affecting both themselves and their relationships. They begin to feel "less than", ashamed ("women have been doing this for years, why can't I?"), frustrated, and worried that their partner will leave them, or seek greener pastures.
Someone gets the brilliant idea that they should try hypnotherapy. So it's off to yet another therapist; more time, more money and more frustration. Many of my patients have tried hypnotherapy and once again the failure rate is high especially in the more severe forms of vaginismus. I have a number of case histories speaking to the failure of this form of therapy.
There are other treatments that have been tried by my patients: these include physical therapy, anti-depressants and other forms of medication, topical anesthetics, lubricants and sedatives. Some patients resort to binging on alcohol, or overdosing on sedatives and anti-depressants. Some have even gotten pregnant, but still no sex life.
They now return to their GYN with a diagnosis and multiple failed attempts at treatment. The GYN says "Perhaps we should do a hymenectomy" and it's off to the OR for the procedure. They don't know that the hymen is not intact because often vaginismus patients are unable to tolerate an exam by the GYN. A hymenectomy is done, or more often the remnants of the broken hyman are removed, the patient recovers for six weeks and is told she can now have intercourse. Guess what? Not possible. I have a number of patients that have had this procedure for vaginismus and not one success. Back to the drawing board. "Let's do a vestibulectomy" says the GYN. Once again the patient is scheduled for surgery and in pure vaginismus patients without external pain, with pain ONLY on attempted entry; the procedure again fails, as it has in a number of my patients. Vestibulectomy (the removal of the lower cuff of vagina, and reconstruction by advancing the remaining vagina to fill in the surgical defect) has a high rate of failure in pure vaginismus because these patients have generalized spasm of multiple vaginal muscles and these additional areas of spasm are not addressed by simply cutting away the lower portion of the vagina.
Vaginismus: It's impact on relationships.
By now many of my patients have spent years seeking therapy for vaginismus, and the severe degrees of vaginismus patients are no further ahead. You can see how time consuming all these treatments are, and most of my patients report years of multiple failed therapies. The condition of vaginismus becomes disabling not only to the woman but also her mate. They both become more and more frustrated, arguments about small things erupt, bickering becomes commonplace and the relationship continues to deteriorate. Sometimes the husband asks for a divorce, but often they remain together as brother and sister or as "roommates" as the husband of one of my patients told me. Sometimes, in the longer cases, they separate for a period of time and get together once again because they love each other and are soul mates.
Even playful non-penetrative sex is a problem for many of my patients. They are unable to relax because they fear that it will lead to attempted intercourse and more frustration. As they distance themselves from sexual involvement my vaginismus patients often become less aware of what "turns them on" resulting in "sexual underdevelopment" for both the woman and the man. It is for this reason that I recommend sex counseling AFTER successful treatment of vaginismus with Botox injections. It is at this time that the woman is able to be receptive to being more comfortable with herself and with her partner.
Why Botox for Vaginismus?
Botox injections for vaginismus have been used since 1997, but these reports have not been widely disseminated and so most physicians, including gynecologists, are unaware of these reports. Botox has the capability of relaxing muscles and also relieving painful conditions with a wide range of uses. It has been used extensively to weaken facial muscles, to control muscular spasm in patients with cerebral palsy and stroke, migraine headaches, excessive sweating and Raynaud's Disease to name just a few of the uses. Botox for vaginismus is not yet FDA approved, and actually most conditions that respond to Botox are not yet approved by the FDA. The process of approval is very time consuming and laborious. It is for this reason that physicians are able to use Botox as an "off label" drug which means that the physician may use the drug if there is a reasonable expectation that the patient will be helped. NOTE: FDA approval was received 8/11/10 to continue my study using Botox injections for vaginismus (IND 109343) and progressive dilation under anesthesia.
Our own approach to treat severe vaginismus patients has developed with time and become more sophisticated since I first used Botox in 2005. The treatment is more than just injecting Botox for vaginismus. It has become a comprehensive program of injecting Botox under anesthesia, progressively dilating the vagina during the same anesthetic, and leaving a dilator in place that the patient wakes up with in the recovery room. The dilator is coated with a topical anesthetic and in addition a series of long acting local anesthesia injections (bupivacaine) are administered so that the patient is numb in the vagina when she wakes up. She is therefore unable to feel the dilator in place. Waking up with a dilator in place is monumental for my patients who have never had any form of penetration. They spend the next three hours in recovery working with the dilators and then sleep with the dilator that is comfortable. They are then seen again each day for the next 1-2 days to continue working with the dilators. All this takes place before the Botox has had a chance to work. Once the Botox becomes effective (2-10 days) the process continues to get easier. We stay in constant contact with our patients to help them advance through the dilators and to help them transition to intercourse. Our success rate is in excess of 90 percent and as of January 2012 no patient has had to return for more Botox injections.
Though many treatment plans fail prior to treatment, of especially the more severe forms of vaginismus, I find that referral back to their therapist(s) AFTERBotox treatment is useful. Once the patient is comfortable using dilators, and has progressed to intercourse, the sex therapist, physical therapist or hypnotherapist can help make the recovery easier. Often relationship issues that have evolved can be improved and additional stretching by a skilled physical therapist will continue to make intercourse easier.
Literature References for the use of Botox to treat vaginismus:
A number of articles have been written about the value of using Botox injections to treat vaginismus. My own experiences were published in the December 2009 issue of Plastic Surgery & Reconstructive Surgery and the 2011 issue of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. You can link onto the following educational resource article "Botox for Vaginismus: References" for more information.
Touching stories of patients treated with Botox for Vaginismus:
Patients are so grateful that they are finally cured that they want to shout out their success to the world. The problem is that most of my patients have maintained "A wall of silence" and not even their families or close friends know about their condition. Several of my patients made the courageous decision to "go public", to help inform their sisters that treatment is possible, that a cure is likely, and that they can have a normal relationship and also give birth to a child vaginally.
Rachel was our "first heroine" and wrote "The Blessing of Botox". In September 2009 she delivered a healthy baby boy named Kaden. She wrote me that she delivered vaginally in 14 minutes!! Most of my "normal" patients take much longer!
Another patient wrote about her own journey, not only flying to us from England, but also her many failed treatments. Her journey is chronicled in "Khadija's Story".
A husband and wife stories also appear on this website as "David's Experience with Vaginismus" and "Rachel's Experience with Vaginismus". These stories are heartwarming and a must read.
More stories can be found on our website VaginismusMD.com


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