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Impressive design, but lacks cooling capacity
Mostly known for its cases, NZXT has a formula for its closed-loop liquid coolers: make them bigger. When most everyone else was producing 120mm or 240mm radiators, NZXT introduced its 140mm and 280mm CLCs. That allowed NZXT's units to be quieter than its competitors. But like any first-generation product, it wasn't perfect. The company responded with the X6—which we reviewed last month and awarded a 9 Kick Ass—and now the X41, which is getting the full MC treatment this issue.
Arguably the least sexy part of any PC build or component is the cooling fan. Sure, some are flashier than others with colorful and/or specially curved blades, LEDs, and variable speeds, but it's not something most people get excited about.
We were ready to write Zalman off for good. Its much-beloved 9000-series copper heatsinks (culminating in the CNPS9900, which received a Kick Ass award in March 2009) were blown away by the advent of skyscraper-style coolers like the Thermalright Ultra-120. Zalman's attempt at a skyscraper-style cooler, the CNPS 10X, was a bust, aesthetically and thermally. But now, Zalman's returned to what it knows best: circular copper arrays surrounding a central fan. The CNPS9900 Max looks like a darker version of the CNPS9900.
YOU'RE FORGIVEN if you've never heard of Phanteks. After all, the company only makes one heatsink, though it comes in four colors, and it's only been out since last fall. The Phanteks PH-TC14PE consists of a nickel-plated copper heatsink and five thick heat pipes, rising through two sets of anodized aluminum cooling fins in orange, blue, red, or plain ol' aluminum.
THE CNPS12X MIGHT be Zalman's most eye-catching cooler, with two arrays of black-nickel-coated cooling fins and three 12cm fans to push air through them. And it is massive. It's 6.1 inches tall, 5.25 deep, and more than 6 inches wide, and weighs two pounds, four ounces. It's so big it overhangs the inner four RAM slots on our Asus P9X79 Deluxe test motherboard, requiring the use of RAM without tall heat spreaders.
ANOTHER ALL-IN-ONE liquid-cooling loop! Hooray! Corsair's H100 is its fifth liquid cooler; after two with Asetek, the company has put out three with CoolIT. The H60 is your standard 120mm radiator-with-single-fan, the H80 is the double-thick double-fan version, and the H100, the first Corsair liquid-cooler to support LGA2011, is its first cooler with a 240mm radiator.
Remember the active noise-cancelling fans Noctua promised to have on display at the Computex exhibition last week? Well, said cooling technology was indeed available, along with new information about pricing and release info for the products. So does Rotosub's ANC technology actually quiet things down as much as promised? Noctua's posted a video of the noise-cancelling fan in action so that you can judge for yourself.
If your hot and heavy Diablo 3 sessions lead to sweaty palms and finger slippage, worry not: help is on the way courtesy of Thermaltake. Today, the company's Tt ESports division announced the Black Element Cyclone Edition mouse, which is an enhanced version of the basic Black Element mouse, complete with a detachable 6,000 RPM fan attached to cool down your overheated digits. No, really!
With all the attention focused on the pixel-pumping prowess of the brand-spankin' new video cards being released by AMD and Nvidia these days, an important part of the equation may be getting glossed over: keeping the hardware running cool. Deep down in our inbox, barely visible through the flood of GTX 670-related press releases, we noticed a nugget of information that may be able to help hardcore system builders with their heating problems. Today, Fractal Design announced a new six-fan controller, the Adjust 108.
Installing Thermalright's beefy IFX-14 CPU cooler is incredibly complex. Assembling the troublesome amalgam of parts, pieces, screws, and brackets made us long for the snap-lock mechanism of standard Intel coolers. That said, the IFX-14 delivers massive cooling when it's up and running. But there's a caveat: It doesn't include any fans. Thus, its performance depends on the type of fan you attach to one or two sides of the device. Our benchmarks are based on the use of two generic 12cm fans we pulled from a box in the Lab.
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May 28, 2010 -- Short bursts of vigorous exercise -- the kind that makes you really break a sweat and increases your heart rate -- may help buffer the devastating effects that stress can have on cellular aging, a new study finds.
Brief bouts of vigorous physical activity reduced one of the key signs of cellular aging: telomere shortening. Telomeres are tiny strips of genetic material that look like tails on the ends of our cells. Telomere shortening is a known indicator of aging in cells. The study appears in the May 26 online issue of PLoS ONE.
In the study, 63 healthy older women were divided into an inactive group and an active group, based on their exercise levels over a three-day period. Many of the women were highly stressed caregivers for spouses or parents with dementia. The women in the inactive group who reported high stress levels had shorter telomeres; the active women in the high-stress group did not have shorter telomeres.
Put another way: the women who engaged in brief vigorous physical activity -- at least 40 minutes over the three-day study period -- and were stressed had longer telomeres than their inactive, stressed-out counterparts. The authors conclude that 13 minutes or more of vigorous exercise daily appears to be the critical amount correlated with longer telomeres.
"Physical activity is so good for you and stress is bad for you, but the new study shows the stress-buffering effects of physical activity in those who are chronically stressed," says study author Eli Puterman, PhD, a health psychologist at the University of California at San Francisco.
"People know stress is bad for the heart and makes you look tired and haggard and makes us more vulnerable to infections," Puterman says. "And there is so much accumulating evidence that links stress to health, so to show that there is something we can do when we are stressed that can delay or buffer the impact is exciting."
As far as a stress-busting exercise prescription goes, Puterman says that the CDC recommendation of 75 minutes of vigorous activity or 150 minutes of moderate activity, plus weight-bearing exercise every week for adults, will suffice.
"That is a great prescription in my mind," he says.
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Vanellope fanart from Wreck-It Ralph.She is really cute,love her.but this drawing still doesn't catch her mischievous side.
she never gets to cute!
So cute!
Wow she's so realistic!
*whistle* Love the look. realistically amazing. I love it!
I really love the realistic touch you gave her!!
Very cute.
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138 by ~munhani Simple image, but perfectly timed and full of tenderness and charm. ( Suggested by StamatisGR and Featured by myraincheck )
Pretty Shot!
çok sevmştim bunu, DA da sevmiş.. tebrik ederimmm
I love it !
Nice work with the falling line.
Very cute, but I hope that she dosen't break her ankle.
Great composition and timing of this one.
That's a very good picture. It's taken perfectly.
Congrats on the DD!
This is so amazing. Very interesting and good composition.
Great capture on the motion of the rope.
Очень светлая, искренняя и живая фотография! Эта девочка - Ангел парящий над этой уставшей Землей!... Хочется вернуться в детство! Спасибо!
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ahh so sweet
Wonderful color spread.
In a way I see WINGS and not really a jump rope.
Same thing, I suppose.
In a way I see WINGS and not really a jump rope.
Same thing, I suppose.
niece capture
Congratulations on your well deserved DD!
Your wonderful shot has been among my favorites for some time now.
Your wonderful shot has been among my favorites for some time now.
Congratulation on the DD, very well deserved
Congratulations on the DD!
Nice Shot ^^
taken in Morocco ?
taken in Morocco ?
This photo is surely eyecatching: the lines, the colours, the moment captured make it very unique. Awesome shot, and congratulations on the DD!
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nice picture!!
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Have a nice day!
Congratulation to the well deserved DD!
Great timing! Congrats!
Magic moment!
şahane olmuş!
very sweet!
Lovely shot.
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Retirees are increasingly moving to Central and South America to retire and take advantage of economies where the dollar retains some strength.
"While precise figures aren't available, a compilation of data and anecdotal evidence suggests that aging Americans aren't only interested in buffing their tans or improving their golf swing, but are actively seeking out lower living costs in places where the much-debilitated dollar still reigns."
"'It's very limited in the States what you can choose from but in retirement havens all around the world you can stretch your dollar three times more,' said Kelly Campbell, a certified financial planner and owner of Campbell Wealth Management. 'It can be more affordable to retire abroad than in the States.'"
"That remains true even as economic concerns batter U.S. markets. Housing prices might have fallen more than 30% in once hot markets on the East and West coasts but they're still exponentially higher than prices in the developing world, said planning experts."
I think the percentage of people retiring abroad is up but they are outnumbered by Americans staying in the U.S.. Higher earnings in the U.S. and dramatically lower cost-of-living expenses abroad are an attractive alternative to me.
With increased immigration (illegal and legal) and somewhat declining births to native-born Americans, we have the prospect of older Americans taking their money and running while the country faces a wave of younger workers. There's an irony involved when one of the reasons we wink at illegal immigration is to prop up the failing Social Security system but some recipients are leaving the country with their assets. Since I have relatives living in a cheaper, less developed country, I too, might take my money and retire abroad. That's several years off though.
"Concentrating its research in communities in Panama and Mexico, the Migration Policy Institute found that a large portion of those who moved there cited affordable health costs as chief among the reasons that pushed them to look outside the United States."
That's telling. Presumably, health care there is no doubt less sophisticated as well so people don't need state-of-the-art health in exchange for cheaper health care.


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Now, if you're a/c unit is less than ten years old but not working up to par, you may simply need to replace the filter - not the whole system. The filter is not only meant to keep the air clean, it is also meant to keep the inside of your unit clean. A dirty or broken filter will significantly reduce the effectiveness of your air conditioner and it will lessen the lifespan of the equipment inside your unit.
Together, these problems will cost you a bundle in energy bills or parts replacements that you don't need to pay. If you clean or replace your filter, the a/c unit will not need to waste energy trying to blow air through clogged equipment, which means that your rooms will reach the desired temperature faster. Check out Greeniacs.com for a detailed guide on how to easily and responsibly clean or replace your filter. In the end, you'll find that checking now to make sure that everything inside your unit is clean and working well will save you time and money.


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Good hostel, nice staff, I can recommend Wombats.
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Nice hostel with good value for money, cheerful staff and a location very close to the train stop to the airport. Some minor repairs (e.g. restrooms on the ground floor) would be nice to have.
Hostel Prague TynPrague, Czech Republic
The hostel has a good location providing accomodation really close to the Main Square. As improvement it would be nice to have more showers (also with locks on the doors in the cases where it is missing!!). Sandwiches for the breakfast are OK, but 1 sandwich + lot of cereals is not enough in all cases. The hostel staff is friendly and there are lockers in every room.
PLUS BerlinBerlin, Germany
Nice hostel in East Berlin, not far away from some party places. Nice hostel atmosphere and a lot of facilities available. Location is fine, just you need to pay a little attention to find "Warschauer Platz" instead of "Warschauer Strasse".
St Christopher's Shepherds BushLondon, England
St Christopher's Shepherds Bush is a perfect choice for young travellers. The atmoshere is really good, the staff is helpful and the prices are affordable. If you want to have fun, visit the bar on the ground floor, nevertheless, if you prefer more sleeping, it is also possible. I can definitely recommend this hostel!
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This print is one of my 'Birds of a Feather' illustration series of a wire-tailed swallow lying in the winter snow:
Let me fly
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Let me fly
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Daily DeviationGiven 2011-06-05
Let Me Fly by ~yeevon has a fragile spirit and a gorgeous composition. A really captivating image that will warm your heart. ( Suggested by AlyOh and Featured by Atramina )
OMG. it's so beautiful
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Beautiful, I love this style of art; such an interesting concept.
This is beautiful and the detailing is amazing. I really like the color palette too. Well done :thumbs up:
reminds me Thumberlina)
very nice!! XD
beautiful *__*
Aww.. Lovely. It reminds me of Thumbelina.
I like it very much
I like it very much
Beautiful work!! Absolutely delicate and elegant
It makes me think of Thumbelina.
this makes me feel warm inside
Very beautiful~ I love the concept, too. I wonder if the girl is small, or if the bird is large. Probably the former judging by the giant flowers, but I digress...
Absolutely lovely.
Either thats one large bird or one small person
it's beautiful
Beautiful piece and impressive gallery!
Cute and fragile and somewhat sad, very beautiful. Keep makin sweet thinkgs like it, you are fantastic
This is legit.
Hi Yeevon!!! congratulations on your DD!!! your art is awesome! ^^
This reminds me of a part in Thumbelina.
Such a beautiful picture
ooo this piece looks really interesting.
Reminds me of thumbelina. beautiful
Oh, this is so pretty! I love the colors and the lines
This piece also reminds me of Thumbelina, when she finds and cares for the sparrow.
This piece also reminds me of Thumbelina, when she finds and cares for the sparrow.
this very much looks like a scene from thumbelina x
This is so pretty! She is lovely. I love the composition and colors. What's her name? Great job.
What have you done to help someone today?
What have you done to help someone today?
how dramatic.... I love it!
This is amazing work.
Reminds me of the album cover of "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" by Neko Case.
Reminds me of the album cover of "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" by Neko Case.
DEAD BIRD!!! AND IT IS HUMONGOUS! DIS THIS BIRD IS DEAD... *poke poke * This bird is definitely dead... says the lady in the picture
so beautifully evocative beautifully concieved & coloured!
It reminds me of Thumbellina for some reason...
Very pretty though!
Very pretty though!
great work really , very imagntive .. keep up the gd work
Aww, it makes me want to go back to childhood, when I opened my fairy-tales books and stared at all those magic and melancholic drawings because I couldn't read yet... you really have an enchanting style *u*
and it's also on etsyyyyy *uuu*
and it's also on etsyyyyy *uuu*
This drawing reminds me a story of my childhood, with a faerie-girl kidnapped by a mole in his burrow. The mole also kept captive a wounded swallow, and the faerie-girl helped the swallow to cure and they finally escaped from the mole's hole and they travelled to the land of Fairies. Lovely drawing
This is so beautiful!And I love the details.
Lovely style.
cool !
i love this! also, it reminds me of thumbelina! this is awesome, great job!
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Dr. Sean Irwin, PhD. GPRC Faculty of Science
�The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.� This talk will give an overview of the three theories that constitute the basis of intelligent design.
Dr. Sean Irwin has a Ph.D. From the University of Calgary in Microbiology and Infectious Disease. Dr. Irwin has taught university transfer courses in Biology at Grande Prairie Regional College for the past thirteen years. He currently teaches courses in genetics, microbiology, anatomy and physiology.
Everyone is welcome to attend this free public lecture presented by the GPRC Speakers Series, on Thursday, March 08 at 7:30 pm in room D208.


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PowerMizzou.com: J.T. Tiller said he was ready to re-commit to Mike Davis. Did you get the sense Davis encouraged him to go elsewhere or what was the situation?Justin Young: I'm not sure I got the feeling either way. In the end, I think it was just a matter of Tiller wanting to play for the guy that he originally committed to. Mike Anderson's style of play fits Tiller much better than Davis's style of play. PM: You've seen Tiller play a number of times. In simple terms, what are his strengths and weaknesses? JY: Tiller's strength is his motor and his do-whatever-it-takes attitude. He has a couple of state championships under his belt and he played a big part in that. Oftentimes he had the challenge of guarding the team's best player and generally lived up to the challenge. That is his best attribute. He'll really defend. There aren't a lot of high schoolers that do anymore. Tiller does and does it well. PM: Anderson has made mention that he'll have to recruit a different level of player at MU than he did at UAB. What makes Tiller a candidate to play at this level? JY: Tiller will find his niche as a defender at the high-major level. Offensively, he will probably take a while to get acclimated to the Big 12 but Tiller is no stranger to playing with high-level players. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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Loving the plant stakes and the succulent planter!
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Those are great! I have long dreamed of having a garden…wouldn't have a clue where to start, but someday, it will happen. Love the garden stakes. Those are beautiful. And the felt garden is so much fun! Thanks for sharing them.
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Shauna, so far gardening has been pretty easy. I'm sure you could do it!
Love the garden stakes!
You can grow things in Arizona? j/k (although impressed!)
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Thanks for including us here in your garden inspired edition!!
As you said to Shauna, gardening can be pretty easy.
Give it a try no matter where you are.
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North from Rise of Guardians
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This is beautiful.
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Wait- WHERE'S RUDOLPH? *le gasp* I didn't see him in the movie, either.
I have no words...Did you used pencil or watercolors? Is gorgerous.
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Acquerello e dell'acrilico in certi punti (tipo i fiocchi di neve) per dare un maggiore senso di tridimensionalità. Grazie mille per il tuo interesse ed apprezzamento *stritola in un abbraccio tipo North*
I hope you know that this is awesome.
This is really gorgeous! It's so much like the classical Russian fairytale images. North even reminds me a bit of depictions of the ancient Russian winter god Chernebog.
Oh Yes! I read, recently, an old illustrated book of Russian fairytale. It was very beautiful and full of inspiration!
Epic Reindeer!!!!!!!!!!!!
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love this one too, I'm really liking your lined works, and it almost seems like there's a different style of shading going on or something that I really love too. Never can go wrong with bunnies!
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Really lovely piece! I love your color palettes, how do you go about color selection?
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SOEHNLE 66171 "Attraction" Digital Kitchen Scale
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Perfect For Recipes! If you're having a tough time getting consistent recipes, you should try weighing out each ingredient with this Soehnle kitchen scale. When ya weigh what you're putting into your mixes, you have a better chance of your recipes coming out the same each time. And the best part is...no more measuring cups! Just weigh your ingredient, set the scale back to zero, and weigh the next! This sleek kitchen scale can handle up to eleven pounds of ingredients.
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Social media steps onto the pitcher's mound
You've probably heard about the new pitcher in town—known broadly as Social Media. Social Media's average pitching success rate is quickly building and, in some cases, exceeding that of its competitors—telephone and even e-mail. The audience, known as the Reporters, who were once some of Social Media's biggest critics, are now starting (slowly but surely) to switch seats and cheer for Social Media.
In fact, according to a recent survey, 85 percent of journalists find media pitches and story ideas they receive from public relations professionals very or somewhat useful.
But, it's all about strategy. Twitter and Facebook can be extremely effective for pitching stories to members of the media, but like in sports, you have to show up for practice and take the time you need to build relationships with fellow teammates and fans.
A perfect social media pitch can be tough to craft—but, without doubt, it can score you a home run story. Here are some great tips for pitching media on Twitter—and these rules carry over to Facebook, too. Although pitching for the two networks is different, the basic rules are the same:
- Develop and strengthen your online brand first. Take time to build an online presence and interact with fans and followers before going out for the pitch. No reporter is going to trust a brand that doesn't seem to have credibility.
- Foster relationships with reporters. What is the likelihood that you are going to respond to a message (especially via social media) from someone you don't know—or even have just interacted with once or twice? Highly unlikely. Take time to friend and follow reporters on social media. Introduce yourself and your brand. Engage with them. Then, when you send them a pitch, they're much less likely to hit "delete"—or worse "unfriend" or "unfollow."
- Stay on topic. This goes back to the PR basics: Don't pitch off-topic. Just because a reporter works in news and likes to accept social media pitches doesn't mean that they want to be pitched news about recipes when they work in fashion. Seems like a "duh" – but you'd be surprised what happens if you don't do your research first.
- Be personal. When e-mailing a pitch, you don't publicly include the e-mail address of every reporter, coworker, friend and family member on the message (if you do, we have a whole different set of issues). Same goes for social media. Don't post a pitch on a reporter's Facebook wall for his or her entire network to see, and, similarly, don't tweet it to them—instead, send a private message, known on Twitter as a DM (direct message).
Now, to say that all reporters are fans of social media when it comes to pitching would be a lie. Some reporters claim they don't have time to use social media or are so overwhelmed by everything they receive via the networks that they simply can't keep track of what's what. Here are some other criticisms.
It all goes back to the basics: Know who you're pitching and how they play the game. Be strategic. Get to the point (you may only have 140 characters). Unfortunately, there is no "three strikes rule" in media pitching.
Facebook Pages: What and Why
We all know what Facebook is—it's that one social network started by that young guy who apparently stole the idea from these other guys and now he's rich and the site receives more visits per day than Google—which makes the Big G want to indulge in retail therapy and gobble up some more websites so it's No. 1 again.
It's a vicious cycle.
What we might not all know about Facebook, or not fully understand, is that it is an enormously important marketing tool. These days, if a company doesn't have a website, it often should probably have a back-up plan because it might not last long. If a company has a website but not a Facebook page, it just might have missed the memo that the year is now 2011. That may sound harsh, but it's a fact that cannot be ignored—especially when developing PR and marketing strategies.
So, what's a Facebook page? According to Facebook, is a public profie. Pages give a voice to any public figure or organization to join the conversation with Facebook users.
Anyone who has a personal Facebook profile knows that connections made on the site are known as "friends," and friends' updates show up on the home "Newsfeed." However, no one can become friends with a Facebook page—instead, they "like" a page. Once they do, a page's updates show up in that user's newsfeed and they are added to the page's list of "likers."
Are you friends with businesses and organizations? Maybe, but not for much longer. Facebook is not allowing anyone who is not a living person (or animal, judging from the numerous cats and dogs I am friends with) to have a profile—here's a full explanation as to why a company needs a page over a profile.
How do you create a page? It's not hard, but it can be tricky the first time around. To help you out, here is a step-by-step guide to creating and promoting Facebook pages. And, for some added inspiration, take a peek at some of the best page strategies of 2010 and the pages that use them.
Just beware: This whole process could change next week. Facebook has a way of doing that. Stay tuned.
Handling bad, ugly, no-good, very bad comments
Social media has opened up countless doors for businesses and organizations to connect with consumers, build brand support and recognition and share relevant content. But, naturally, along with those opportunities comes risk—in many cases, the risk of negative feedback for the world to see.
In most cases negative social media posts are instantly visible—one bad Facebook comment often sparks a flurry of equally not-so-nice comments. Or, there may be that one person who just feels it is necessary to write vulgar words on a Facebook post for thousands of other people to see. Both of these examples are a very real fear and have caused many to shy away from using social media at all.
Knowing how to handle the ugly with the good is key for social media success—just think of it as a social media crisis plan. As PR people, we know these can be just about as important as the building fire escape plan.
There are different ways to handle the various types of negative comments that crop up. The good news? Much of the feedback is often similar and correspondingly requires similar responses.
Here are some tips on how to deal with haters and bad language on Facebook. (Note: These tips are written for media newsrooms but certainly can be applied to others)
Here is an example of one of the most common scenarios (tailored especially for CMA):
An agricultural membership organization posts a link about how the products its members produce are safe and high-quality food choices for American consumers.
A hater steps in and leaves a comment ranting about how that is completely untrue and, given past events, that food product is clearly unsafe and will cause consumers to get sick—even die!!
(Who are haters? They bash the organization visibly on Facebook walls, Twitter posts and blog comments. Anywhere they can get. There is little anyone can do to change what they think, they have their minds made up and are going to take whatever opportunity they can to get a bad word in.)
So, what should the correct response be to that comment?
- A. Delete it immediately upon seeing it.
- B. Respond.
- C. Leave it and hope no one sees it.
Answer: B. Respond. Did you hear that? RESPOND.
Don't get into an argument with the hater. Instead, post facts backing up why the product in question is safe and what its producers are doing to ensure it is safe. Be honest. Provide links to legitimate facts and research proving this point. Also, importantly, be careful to stay positive and professional in your response; otherwise you'll just add fuel to the fire.
Why not delete it? As was mentioned above, social media is instant. Other users will see the comment and might already have by the time it is deleted, and it is not good to look like the organization is hiding anything or censoring its messages.
Don't just leave it. Nothing ever comes from just hoping bad things magically go away. That's when the fire can really get started. Like when handling any crisis, quick response is vital. Clear up any misconceptions as soon as possible so they don't blow up and hatch even more. (See: How Not to Handle a Social Media PR Nightmare (Thanks Chipotle))
Silver lining to negative feedback: It can actually be a great discussion-starter and a way to clear up myths that other users just have not voiced yet. Also, it can help an organization identify where it needs to improve.
More resources:
5 Tips for Dealing with Complaints on Twitter
Battling Bad Press in the Social Media Arena


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A treat I don't feel bad about giving
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I give these nutriberries to our timid cockatiel who, I kid you not, is afraid some treat sticks (the ones that hang from the top of the cage swing when the bird tries to eat, which scares him). Here's all that treat stick goodness, plus, depending on the formula, some dried fruits and/or vegetables in a nonthreatening form. He loves them. Some of them smell so good, I've been tempted to take a bite. And nutriberries seem more like recognizable bird food than some treats so I don't feel like they are junk food that I should feel guilty about feeding the bird. He's far more likely to eat dried fruit when it's concealed in a nutriberry than by itself. Getting this cockatiel to eat any fruits or vegetables is a challenge.
Pros: Bird loves them, he has to work a little to get his treat because of shape
Cons: occasionally bird drops whole nutriberry on bottom of cage
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Our cockatiel loved these treats. They're easy to feed, though he sometimes preferred to have them broken apart as they are rather large. Overall, a pleasant smelling treat that sometimes encouraged the bird to eat his regular rations when a Nutri-Berry was crumbled on top.
Pros: Easy and convenient to feed
Cons: May require breaking apart to entice bird to eat them
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They love this stuff, they always eat this stuff first before the seeds. It consists of everything that they love (smell wise). I recommend this to all bird lovers!
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Minnesota and Cleveland have agreed in principle to a trade that will send Love to the Cavaliers for Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett and a first-round draft pick, two people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because no official agreement can be reached until Aug. 23, when Wiggins, this year's No. 1 draft pick, becomes eligible to be traded.
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Gal leads: Sandra Gal made six straight birdies on her back nine to take the first-round lead in the Meijer LPGA Classic, and Michelle Wie withdrew because of a wrist injury.
Gal, the 29-year-old German who won her lone LPGA Tour title in 2011, birdied Nos. 3-8 and finished with a par on No. 9 for a 6-under 65 at Blythefield Country Club.
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Second-seeded Roger Federer avoided an upset, beating Marin Cilic 7-6 (5), 6-7 (3), 6-4.
Serena advances: Serena Williams advanced to the Rogers Cup quarterfinals Thursday, waiting out a brief rain delay to beat Czech left-hander Lucie Safarova 7-5, 6-4.
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Pestano dealt: The Los Angeles Angels have acquired right-hander Vinnie Pestano in a trade with the Cleveland Indians.
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The IMA is holding a 10-day workshop on Mathematical Modeling in Industry. The workshop is designed to provide graduate students and qualified advanced undergraduates with first-hand experience in industrial research.
Students will work in teams of up to 6 students under the guidance of a mentor from industry. The mentor will help guide the students in the modeling process, analysis and computational work associated with a real-world industrial problem. A progress report from each team will be scheduled during the period. In addition, each team will be expected to make an oral final presentation and submit a written report at the end of the 10-day period.
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Figure 1. Segmentation of the internal carotid artery (left). Vessel tree with the common, internal and external carotid arteries (right).
Accurate vessel segmentation is required in many clinical applications, such as identifying the degree of stenosis (narrowing) of a vessel to assess if blood flow to an organ is sufficient, quantification of plaque buildup (to determine the risk of stroke, for example), and in detecting aneurisms which pose severe risks if ruptured. Proximity to bone can pose segmentation challenges due to the similar appearance of bone and contrasted vessels in CT (Figure 1 – the internal carotid has to cross the skull base); other challenges are posed by low X-ray dose images, and pathology such as stenosis and calcifications.
Figure 2. Cross section of vessel segmentation from CT data, shown with straightened centerline. A typical segmentation consists of a centerline that tracks the length of the vessel, lumen surface and vessel wall surface. Since for performance reasons most clinical applications use only local vessel models for detection, tracking and segmentation, in the presence of noise the results can become physiologically unrealistic – for example in the figure above, the diameter of the lumen and wall cross-sections vary too rapidly.
Figure 3. Vessel represented as a centerline with periodically sampled cross-sections in the planes orthogonal to the centerline. Note that some planes intersect, which makes this representation problematic. The in-plane cross-sections of the vessel are shown on the right. The goal of this project is to design a method for refining a vessel segmentation based on the following general approach:
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Modern commercial airplanes are assembled out of millions of different parts. While many of these parts are rigid, many of them are not. For example, the hydraulic lines and flexible electrical conduits that supply an airplane's landing gear change their shape as the landing gear goes through its motion (you can see some of these lines in the accompanying photograph). These shapes can be modeled by minimizing the potential energy of the rest state of one of these flexible lines as the ends of the lines are moved by the landing gear. While this problem is amenable to solution through direct optimization of individual finite elements, the method often proves to be slow and unreliable. In this investigation, we will explore the use of variational methods (i.e. the calculus of variations) in an attempt to discover a more elegant and robust approach to modeling these flexible airplane parts.
Any textbook on the calculus of variations. My favorite is The Variational Principles of Mechanics, by Cornelius Lanczos.
Keywords: Geometrical modeling, calculus of variations, boundary value problems
Prerequisites: Calculus of variations, optimization, numerical methods for ODEs and 2-point boundary value problems, Matlab
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Driven by rapid advances in many fields including Biology, Finance and Web Services, applications involving millions or even billions of data items such as documents, user records, reviews, images or videos are not that uncommon. Given a query from a user, fast and accurate retrieval of relevant items from such massive data sets is of critical importance. Each item in a data set is typically represented by a feature vector, possibly in a very high dimensional space. Moreover, such a vector tends to be sparse for many applications. For instance, text documents are encoded as a word frequency vector. Similarly, images and videos are commonly represented as sparse histograms of a large number of visual features. Many techniques have been proposed in the past for fast nearest neighbor search. Most of these can be divided in two paradigms: Specialized data structures (e.g., trees), and hashing (representing each item as a compact code). Tree-based methods scale poorly with dimensionality, typically reducing to worst case linear search. Hashing based methods are popular for large-scale search but learning accurate and fast hashes for high-dimensional sparse data is still an open question.
In this project, we aim to focus on fast approximate nearest neighbor search in massive databases by converting each item as a binary code. Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is one of the most prominent methods that uses randomized projections to generate simple hash functions. However, LSH usually requires long codes for good performance. The main challenge of this project is how to learn appropriate hash functions that take input data distribution into consideration. This will lead to more compact codes, thus reducing the storage and computational needs significantly. The project will focus on understanding and implementing a few state-of-the-art hashing methods, developing the formulation for learning data-dependent hash functions assuming a known data density, and experimenting with medium to large scale datasets.
Keywords: Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search, Hashing, LSH, Sparse data, High-dimensional hashing
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Project Description: A PC sold in 2010 had billions of transistors with 32 nm gate-length. In a year, that dimension will shrink to 22 nm. Light is essential to fabrication and quality control of such small semiconductor devices. Integrated circuits are manufactured by repeatedly depositing a film of material and etching a pattern in the deposited film. The pattern is formed by a process called photo lithography. An optical image of a photomask is projected on to a silicon wafer on which the integrated circuits will be formed. Presently, 193 nm wavelength deep UV light is used to project the image. Photomasks are inspected for defects by deep UV microscopy, which is subject to the same resolution limit as lithography. Manufacturing next generation integrated circuits and inspecting their photomasks require higher-resolution imaging. The leading candidate for next generation lithography, EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography uses 13.5 nm wavelength. At that wavelength, no material is highly reflective or transparent. The photomask and mirrors of the projector are coated with a multi-layer Bragg reflector to achieve sufficient reflectance. The photomask has a patterned absorber film over the Bragg reflector. The thickness of the absorber and the lateral dimensions of the mask pattern are on the order of four EUV wavelengths. Rapid yet accurate simulation of EUV image formation is essential to optimizing the photomask pattern and interpreting the images of an inspection microscope. This project concerns the key step of image simulation, which is calculating the diffracted near-field of the EUV photomask. References:
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In the next generation electrical grid, or "smart grid", there will be many heterogeneous power generators, power storage devices and power consumers. This will include residential customers who traditionally are only part of the ecosystem as consumers, but will in the foreseeable future increasingly provide renewable energy generation through photovoltaics and wind energy and provide energy storage through plug-in hybrid vehicles. What makes this electrical grid "smart" is the capability to insert a vast number of sensors and actuators into the system. This allows a wide variety of information about all the constituents to be collected and various aspects of the electrical grid to be controlled via advanced electric meters, smart appliances, etc. Information gathered consists of e.g. amount of energy use, planned energy consumption, efficiency and status of equipment, energy generation costs, etc and this information is then used by all constituents to optimize certain objectives. This necessitates communication and information technology to transmit and process this information. The goal of this project is to focus on the optimization of local objectives in a smart grid. In particular, we study various centralized and decentralized optimization algorithms to determine the optimal matching and maintain stability between energy producers, energy storage, and energy consumers all connected in a complex and dynamic network.
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Drought and Rain – Environmentalism 1866
On this subject the Boston Journal makes the following interesting remarks:
It seems to have been ascertained historically, that in countries like France, Italy, Spain, and Palestine, which have been largely cleared of woods, the annual fall of rain is less now than it was formerly. On the other hand, extensive tree planting in Egypt and Scotland have been followed by more rain yearly than was previously known in those sections.
These are certainly curious results if truly reported. They are attributed in part to the attraction of upright masses of trees for the rain clouds and to other influences not well understood. But however this may be, it is clear to the common sense of every observing man, that a country abounding in woods will retain its average fall of rain longer, and turn it to better account, than a country that is bare. In the latter the wind has a clean sweep over the whole surface, drying up and baking the soil, exhausting the springs and water courses. When the snow melts in the spring , or heavy rains fall, there is nothing to detain the water, but rushes off in sudden, destructive freshets, gullying the land and bearing away its richness.