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SQ compared to Zune 30gb & Sansa e280?
OK, I'm thinking about buying the Zen 16gb. I own an Iriver H320, the Zune and the Sansa. Using the same headphones, "for me" the Iriver sounds the best, the Zune second. So where does the Zen fit in on sound quality? Does it have a decent custom equalizer?
(I know - the Zune does not have a custom EQ setting).
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The zen has equalizer.. I would think sound quality is a very subjective thing. Different people may have different listening preferences. From the reviewers I have read on the zen, most have pretty good feedback on the sound quality to be rich & clear.
Thanks for replying.
For those of you who own a Zen, I've read in this form a couple posts where people thought the Bass Boost function was not that great. It made the bass sound "muddy". Is this true? In general how is the bass on the Zen? My Sansa E280 - not much bass, no punch. My Iriver H320 very tight, lots of punch and controllable.
Thanks - R
If you have grown accustomed to your iRiver, then the Zen is going to be a serious sonic letdown, as both its 'sound signature' and output volume are marginal at best.
About the only DAP units that will meet/exceed your expectations will be the Sony WM-Series, iRiver Clix2 or the (ubiquitous) Cowon D2.
BTW, Yes, you've heard correctly, the bass boost on the Zen is useless.
I've noticed the bass boost can become 'muddy' for different songs, but for everything else, it's a very welcoming addition that produces great sound (coupled with my EP-630's). =P
Regarding the sound output
OK, you bring up a good point about sound output. A decent pair of ear buds can help out if a player lacks the output. I've got a pair of Sony MDR EX71s which I consider just average in sound quality (at least better than the buds that came boxed with my other players). For comparison to achieve the same listening volume on my 3 players I set the volume to:
Sansa e280: 55% (Volume setting is "Normal")
45% (Volume setting is "High)
Zune: 9 (scale of 1 - 20)
iRiver 13 (scale 1 - 40)
The iRiver has more output. And the Sony buds actually sound better.
My question for you Zen owners is: What ear buds are you using/recommend? What are your volume settings? Are they over 50%? (I know that is a subjective question - some of us like it loud).
Thanks - Robert.
I'm using EP-630's (mentioned in my previous post) and I have the volume at around 11 - 13 (max. is 25) - that's when I'm on the bus (which is particularly loud as we all know + people talking which is quite loud at times). I have smart volume on as well so the volume of the sound is somewhat lowered. But then again, I don't prefer my music to be loud.
Zen with EP630's = Outstanding!
I've heard the Zune (brother) and I prefer my Zen. The EQ works pretty good if you want to take the time to adjust it. I agree with DaHarder on the Bass Boost feature though.
...Oh, and I usually don't ever go above 15 for volume. It gets too loud for me.
Interesting about what you said on the EP-630s. I just purchased a pair. For the $33, the sound quality is a dramatic improvement over my Sony MDR-EX71s. My Sandisk E280 sound is much better. The highs are clearer and I can now hear some decent bass. The sound quality on my iRiver H320 is fantastic.
On the other hand as you mentioned my Zune 30GB did not sound that good with the EP-630s.
I believe it is the combination of headphone and MP3 player that hits that "sweet spot" we are looking for in how we want our music to sound.
I'm guessing the EP-630s paired with the Zen is a good combination. Makes sense since they are both Creative products.
For me, personally, my creative zen 16 gb sounds the best with it's Equalizer turned off.
With firmware 1.21.01, i usually use volume level 10 for both audio and video (and the player's volume goes up to 25).
I've never owned an iRiver player, from what I understand the player has surround sound if I'm not mistaken. The Creative Zen definitely doesn't have surround sound, but this humble player has something good to offer when it comes to audio output : clarity
Surround sound for stereo output player? I'm glad Zen doesn't have such options.
No bass boost and a few tweaks to the eq = great sound actually. Over used the eq at first but now - this thing ROCKS!!!
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Zen has great audio quality. I dont know it compares to Cowon's, but for me that just sound really good enough. Equaliser off, no bass boost, and you've got good-sounding music!
I can't say the D2 had bad sound and if I did I'd be lying. There are many who SWEAR by it. I just personally prefer the Zen - cowon was too fickle with the firmware too keep me satisfied and I'd still have my D2 8gb if there weren't so many DAMN issues. Look at the forums and see what I mean and then look at the Zen. If you haven't had the "wsod" then I see all the little annoyances as not so muck as a prob + pretty good sound (I'm not saying the issue w/the sd card integration is little either) but I've never had a prob yet and I'm hoping for a long time with none!!! As for the bass boost - yeah,..... its not the greatest. Some songs sound FABULOUS and some sound like your listening under water. With it off and my eq (finally) set "just right" this thing (Zen) sounds pretty damn good. I'm so picky I sometimes change my mind as the wind blows but this is a pretty solid portable - if you get a good 1 from the start.
As for the iriver players coming out - they are showing up as a BIG disappointment across the board - and I WAS looking forward to seeing what all the hub-bub was about. Now,.. their older models (provided you can acquire 1) ARE supposed to ROCK!!! IRIVER - WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!?
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I also have my eye on a D2. I'm reading alot of positive on the SQ. But as you say watch out for the firmware. The other thing is that the UI on the D2 is not as intuitive/easy to use as the Zen or Zune, Sansa e280, iPod etc. The SQ on my iRiver H320 is greate but the UI is a pain. I'm still fumbling with it after 4 years.
If you have an iRiver H320 I do whole heartedly suggest that you go with the D2 over the Zen as the sq is really not the same and you prob will be disappointed with it. The H320 ( I've read from forums and reviews) sounds fantastic. The Zen - even though I sold my D2 and went with it - is not in the same class as the D2. I have it for the total features it has and the fact that, for me at least, it has been - for the most part - pretty trouble free. I sometimes get a wee bit annoyed when I listen to my sony S618 and then listen to the Zen later that day. The sound is just not as full and satisfying as the sony (or as good as the D2 was for that matter).
Try out the D2 and see if the firmware bugs have been solved and if not, just wait it out. It will prob come with 2.51 - if you DO NOT upgrade you will end up having none of the difficulties I've had. When the next update comes out then it should be time to update the D2. But by all means, give it a try and see what stellar sound it has. No other player will ever sound the same to you again!!! And ,....... thats a GOOD thing.
Also, not to omit this little fact - I personally like the sound of the new Sony's better than any player on the market - including the Zen AND the D2. The D2 is the king of features and is the best for any operating system and most audio formats. But , the Sony's REALLY kick some serious BOOTAY!!!!
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The middle of the 1990s was a rather turbulent time, particularly for the Scandinavian scene where a looming rivalry between the emerging black metal scene and the prominent Swedish death metal scene was about. It might be an overt platitude to say that this time period was musically standing somewhere between the past and the future since that is the textbook definition of the present, but with regards to the somewhat obscure Swedish outfit Crown Of Thorns (now known as The Crown), it is a testimony of a band standing between the evolving melodic character of albums such as Death's contemporary work "Symbolic" and At The Gates' "Slaughter Of The Soul", and the older scenes of both Florida and Sweden. But whereas their somewhat better known sophomore effort "Eternal Death" can be somewhat linked to the Gothenburg sound, their first full length "The Burning" is a much further away from any such comparisons.
For the casual listener who might have encountered early death/thrash albums from the latter half of the 80s, be it German or American, this album has an all too familiar character to it. Recognizable samples of occult oriented episodes chime in either at the beginning or end of a few key songs that pulverize the ears like a ton of tempered steel, refined with a guitar sound that is remarkably similar to the Metallica-on-steroids sound of Chuck Schuldiner's signature sound. There's a bit more of a chaotic aesthetic than Death's largely orthodox thrash influences, featuring the occasional blast beat and shimmering tremolo melody that carries occasional commonalities with Immortal's "Battles In The North" oddly enough, though in a more precise manner. In fact, there would be a stronger case for comparing this outfit to a number of thrash infused 2nd wave black outfits than the Gothenburg scene that they seem to occasionally be lumped in with.
Song for song, this album carries its greatest strength in its brevity, avoiding epic song lengths and pummeling the listener with short bursts of systematic aggression. Between the thrashing nastiness of "Soulicide Demon-Might" and "Forever Heaven Gone", and the almost as fast yet melodically infused "Neverending Dream" and "The Lord Of The Rings", an intricate duality of manic rage and fatalistic depression emerges like a dragon's wings beneath a flaming sky. The latter of the 4 songs referenced is a bit of a lyrical curiosity alongside what is mostly a dark poetic endeavor more in line with Morbid Angel than Tolkien, though musically it is yet another furious beast with guttural barks aplenty, as if the story is being told by a berserk Uruk-Hai. Johan Lindstrand's vocals, in much the same sense as the music surrounding it, is in more of a classic death metal form, bearing more similarity to John Tardy and Karl Willetts' deep throated growls than the somewhat higher pitched, quasi-blackened tendencies that began to chime in on subsequent releases.
There's a good deal of amazing things going on within the confines of this album, to the point where a comparison to "Spiritual Healing" and "War Master" in terms of its quality wouldn't be out of line, though it is a bit more modern sounding and occasionally consonant in its implicit harmonic tendencies. It is definitely something that can easily sate the appetite of most traditional death metal fans for something heavy and forbidding, though a subtle hint of melancholy darkness chimes in from time to time that could also snag some who were sympathetic to the earliest releases associated with the melodeath style. It is an album that is transitional in nature, though in a less overt fashion than that of "Eternal Death", but it isn't completely out of character for an older school death metal band, depending on one's opinion of the legitimacy of Schuldiner's transitional work from "Human" to "Symbolic" in comparison to older works. But above all else, this is a powerful album that realizes a fairly unique niche within the mid 90s era of death metal, an era where much of what passes for its various sub-genres were born.
Sweden had one of the most impressive metal scenes in the early 1990's that was brought in full-circle by several significant artists including At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity, and In Flames. The spectacle was alive and blooming with a strong emphasis on melodic death metal as youthful bands began sprouting up with their new ideas and concepts, but like any scene, there were groups that went unnoticed and were overshadowed by other outfits. Though some bands were denied their rightful awareness, The Crown managed to be screwed over the most due to the lack of attention they received and the band's supreme talent.
The Crown (known as Crown Of Thorns before a lawsuit) was like most Swedish bands at this time, but they were also quite different; the band's antithetic take on Gothenburg was made perfectly clear with their 1995 debut LP, "The Burning." The Crown's style of melodic death metal takes a zesty spark of heaviness and adds it to a circulating breeze of melody, which makes "The Burning" satisfying to all the senses.
Due to the overwhelming melodic structure, I think "The Burning" can be considered a Gothenburg album as it has several similar qualities to many releases that spring from the Swedish-born genre. The riffing follows the melodies and harmonies found in most Gothenburg bands with the addition of various technical solos. A lot of the songs focus around melodic tendencies with harmonic riffs that bands like Dark Tranquillity and At The Gates traditionally used. Johan Lindstrand's dark vocals contribute a gigantic amount of energy and power to this record as he dishes out growl after growl with excessive might. Johan's barks sound original and clear, which is a key asset that most death metal frontmen lack.
Brutality wasn't factored into many Gothenburg albums at this time, but "The Burning" proved otherwise as The Crown unleashed a frantic show of melody with a crushing fist of heaviness. Guitarists Marko Tervonen and Marcus Sunesson play unusually fast and change riffs at accelerated paces with a variety of pleasing guitar work. The way Tervonen and Sunesson play is much heavier than several other Gothenburg bands as they exercise speed along with their meldoic influences; the result is an unpredictable guitar show with some of the darkest melodic death metal around. Drummer Janne Saarenpää frequently uses blastbeats and fills rather than easy drum patterns, which is another seed that remained dormant in many melodic death outfits during the early 1990's.
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4" cylinder hone is good
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Sturdy with hard, medium grit stones.
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I bought this hone when rebuilding a old Audi 80 3A 2.0 block. I needed to removed some rust on the cylinder walls and remove some scoring.I've never used a hone before so I have nothing to reference. The first thing I noticed is there are no instructions. Even a little 3 step instruction on the back would have helped. I looked it up online to check the best way to use it. You Tube has some videos too.I used a drill and it worked well. It removed the scoring and rust with ease. The construction is so so, but I over looked that because of the price and how infrequent I will be using it.Over all it worked ok and did what it was suppose to do.
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Used it to clean up minor scratches and deglaze a cr125 jug with a iron sleeve. It worked great and i'm very happy with it.
worked well, stones wear quickly.
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Worked well, but the stones go away very quickly. this shouldnt pose too much of a problem, as the stones connect in a fairly standardized manner. Any parts joint that sells/rents hones will likely carry replacements that either connect up right out of the package, or will do so with very little alteration. This is a fairly good entry level tool for the light hobbyist, if you overlook the lack of replacement consumables from Harbor Freight. So I guess I'd recommend it to a friend, just not real enthusiastically. I'd definately put a slight asterisk In front of the recommendation.
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worked well for the money
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works very well for the price i used it to bore 3 cast block kholer engines to .010 over and for the final cross hatch it worked well producing a smooth concentric bore with a very nice cross hatch however i was dissapointed with how bad it wobbled best used with a hand drill due to this hobble
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stones were gone on 4th cylinder, soft stones, very fine cross hatch.
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Worst tool I've ever used.
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When using a hone, you are supposed to Keep it rotating when you remove it to make the correct cross hatch pattern. The stones are supposed to make contact with the cylinder wall all the way out. The holders are supposed to be spring loaded to insure that it works that way. Not this one, the stones flip as you are coming out. The one I bought also had one arm that was shorter than the others. Upon removing it from the first cylinder, the shorter arm came out first leaving the other longer arms still rotating inside the cylinder, which caused the tool to twist sideways and put a gouge in my cylinder wall. It also twisted my arm, which caused me to drop my drill with the hone still attached. It landed on my iPhone and destroyed it. Trying to save a little money ended up costing me so much more. I have had numerous tool failures when buying from Harbor Freight. I won't shop here ever again.
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Isaiah Washington Movies and Career Information
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Isaiah Washington IV (born August 3, 1963) is an American actor. A veteran of several Spike Lee films, Washington is best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Washington was born in Houston, Texas, where his parents were residents in the Houston Heights community. His parents moved to Missouri City, Texas around 1980, where he was one of the first graduates from Willowridge High School, Houston, in 1981. Washington revealed in an interview with Star Jones that his father, after whom he was named, was murdered when he was 13 years old. Washington went on to serve in the United States Air Force and attended Howard University. Washington married Jenisa Marie Washington on February 14, 1999. The couple have three children (Isaiah V, Tyme, and Iman). In 2005, Washington originated the role of gifted cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. His portrayal earned him two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was paired onscreen with Sandra Oh, who plays intern Dr. Cristina Yang. Washington had originally auditioned for the role of Dr. Derek
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Millennium Pharmacy Systems
Millennium upgraded from VMware vSphere to vSphere with Operations Management to overcome growing economic pressures to drive down costs and inefficient management of IT infrastructure. The team deployed vSphere with Operations Management within a day and soon discovered that every VM was oversized.
"It was almost jaw dropping in terms of the memory and resources we would get back by using vSphere with Operations Management."
Minara Resources
VMware virtualization has enabled Minara Resources to ensure its employees can access a high-quality desktop environment at the Murrin mine or at other locations.
"Our users are now able to access the same desktop regardless of whether they are at our office in Perth, at our nickel mine at Murrin Murrin, or anywhere else in Australia or overseas."
Mirae Asset Life Insurance
Access Anywhere: VMware VDI Improves Desktop Manageability. Mirae Asset Life Insurance Inc., one of major life insurance companies in KR, replaced traditional desktops with virtual desktop environment.
MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts is one of the many independent research labs within MIT. During VMworld 2014, Michail Blatsas, who runs the group that takes care of computing infrastructure for the lab, talked about how they're exploring the use of cloud and hybrid cloud and seeing the benefits of VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery.
"A solution like the vCloud Air allows us to look at a real disaster scenario, where something really catastrophic happens at the campus, and we use it to keep certain critical databases, including all the access tools around them, in a farther-away location."
MIT Media Lab
VMware Webcast Series: Cloud Based Disaster Recovery in Action
No business likes to be vulnerable to downtime or loss of data. However, the complexity and expense of traditional disaster recovery solutions force many businesses to make tradeoffs, and operate with only a limited or no disaster recovery plans. VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery introduces native cloud-based disaster recovery capabilities for VMware vSphere virtual environments. Join us for this webcast and learn how recovery-as-a-service solution is helping businesses protect their environment by using the cloud. Customers featured in this webcast include: MIT Media Lab, National Physicians Services (NPS) and Plainview.
Customer Panel:
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"VMware vCloud Air is easy to use and requires minimal maintenance."
Montgomery County
Montgomery County Deploys Desktop Virtualization and Mobility to Better Serve Its Citizens
Montgomery County needed to respond to mobile and remote access demands from various employee constituencies—from field health workers to judges and sheriffs. It needed an environment where employees could access all their desktops, applications, and online services remotely and securely, from any device on any platform, with single sign-on. It found just that with VMware Horizon, a desktop and application virtualization solution, and AirWatch by VMware, an enterprise mobility management platform to ease desktop and device management for Montgomery County's IT while boosting employee productivity, protecting sensitive citizen data and cutting costs.
"I never needed to sell this technology to anyone—it sells itself. Users never notice the system is virtual. We have no complaints about speed or performance."
MVS Consulting
MVS consulting is an IT consulting company and their goals were to improve business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities. They needed a reliable solution to back up critical data while providing flexibility and granularity. They were also interested in reducing storage costs by using enterprise-class deduplication technology at a low price point. While using VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced solutions, they found that the VMware integration and storage efficiency were important advantages over other solutions. These capabilities led to overall cost savings and ease of use. They found that vSphere Data Protection Advanced was a good solution to help them meet line of business needs in an agile manner.
"It improved our agility to meet line of business needs and it is easy to deploy."
National Informatics Centre
VMware helps the Indian government revolutionize service delivery to citizens
National Informatics Centre (NIC) is the premier ICT organization of the Indian Government. It works closely with central & state government departments, agencies, and district administration to deliver e-governance services. The organization has undertaken the largest-ever deployment in the Indian government to establish a VMware-powered private cloud. This enabled NIC to reduce the time required to provision ICT resources for government projects from six months to a few days, further lowering costs by consolidating its technology infrastructure & enabling government departments to focus on innovation rather than administration.
"The six months required to procure, commission, and install hardware is a thing of the past. Departments simply send us an online request and the infrastructure they need is available in a day or two from the National Cloud."
NAV, the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration, experienced that increased user demands and heavy traffic surpassed their system's capacity. By implementing cloud and virtualization solutions from VMware, NAV developed a dedicated cloud environment that would support increasing demands, offer easier administration and better security.
«We haven't found any other product that is as good for surveillance of our virtual environment as VMware vCenter Operations Manager»
Navicure a leading Internet-based medical claims clearinghouse that helps physician practices increase profitability through improved claims reimbursement and staff productivity. Discover how they plan on using vCloud Suite and vCenter Operations Management Suite to manage their virtual environment.
"vCenter Operations Manager will allow us to drill down into symptoms that we're seeing and be able to identify the root problem"
Healthcare claims company Navicure is gaining better control and optimization across its IT infrastructure thanks to a comprehensive monitoring and operational management approach built on VMware.
"vCenter Operations Manager is key to understanding your infrastructure. If you don't have it today, you're going to be very reactive to some of your pains and the troubles you're dealing with. It allows you to project where you're growing and where you need to put your money into resources, whether that's more storage, compute resources, or network resources."
Nederlands Herseninstituut
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience(NIN) offers students stable and flexible workstations with Horizon (with View)
Desktop virtualization based on Horizon (with View) offers students who are working temporarily at the institution a stable and flexible workstation. They have access to complete functionality for data analysis, research and producing reports. At the same time the environment can easily be managed centrally using an image, so that installation and updates are rolled out centrally. Automatic replication of servers using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) also o¬ffers the institution easy and reliable contingency fallback. In the case of disaster, research can quickly be resumed from different locations.
"We now offer students 40 complete workstations they may freely use. Managing them has been set up centrally based on one image. So we can implement changes and updates quickly, and remotely"
Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (Netherlands Maritime Museum)
National Maritime Museum reduces log-in times and energy consumption with VMware
The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam holds the most important collection of historic maritime documents in the world. Its historic premises are also often rented for large-scale events. The Museum wanted to reduce its employees' log-in times dramatically. In addition, they needed a solution that could specifically support the live streaming of large video files. Finally, the National Maritime Museum wanted to save energy, in order to comply with its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) guidelines. VMware Horizon and UEM were the solution to these problems.
"Two departments depend substantially on multimedia. Now these staff can work easily with heavy applications, wherever they are and whatever device they are using. Everything also runs a lot faster."
Neos Ventures GmbH
IT solutions provider helps boost system performance and security for travel industry leader with vShield implementation .
"VMware's vShield technology provides an excellent solution to the new security challenges faced by organisations, particularly as they make the move to the cloud. The successful implementation of vShield within our customer, a leading global travel industry player, has also provided us with a best practice case study for our business automation cloud strategy proposition."
NetApp delivers secure, seamless virtualized desktops and applications for nearly 10,000 users in 12 days using VMware Horizon
NetApp® wanted to improve its security within the engineering environment with secure virtual desktops to enhance employee productivity and provide access to resources from anywhere. The company needed centralized desktop management to quickly deliver a robust desktop environment to employees and enable employee workflow simplification. Leveraging VMware Horizon®, NetApp successfully deployed virtualized environments globally to nearly 10,000 users in 12 days. Users have secure access to internal resources within a familiar desktop experience across devices and NetApp corporate offices.
"We've been able to increase productivity by enabling engineers to start and stop work whenever they need to. Engineers don't have to be chained to their desks in order to get work done securely. Whether building code on a work laptop or reading internal wikis on a phone, employees can access a secure environment from all devices without a diminished experience."
Nevro Corporation
This video montage, which aired during Bill Fathers keynote session at VMworld 2014, features customers using vCloud Air. SAIC, Iatric Systems and Perforce Software discusses how VMware vCloud Air is changing the way they do business and how they have benefited.
"The ability to have vCloud Air be a transparent extension of our VMware environment allows us to prototype new applications internally and then deploy them to vCloud Air within a push of a button."
Nevro Corporation
VMware customers discuss how vCloud Air is changing the way they do business by providing them with flexibility which enables them with new innovations.
A video featuring vCloud Air customers as they discuss how VMware changes the way they do business. Customers featured include: Perforce Software, Legacy Reserves, Custom Windows System, Cloud Business, Carisbrooke Shipping, Bluefin Solutions, Iatric and Nevro Corp.
Nexinto discusses its role as a premium vCAN partner, and how it uses VMware solutions to enable customers to keep their business operations running at all times.
"For Nexinto customers, it's key that the business is always on, as every minute the customer is not available, they are losing a lot of money. So the vCAN program is providing us with the opportunity to cover such challenges without investing in fixed platforms, and gives us the capability of an excellent OPEX model."
"We offer our own financial services, but are also offering our own platform-as-a-service. So having vSAN looking at NSX and getting the automation portal together is helping us to bring up [our platform] in different locations, so even when customers out of the blue tell us they want our platform in a PCI environment, we use all the bits and pieces coming from the product to actually give them an environment that is fully controlled and still monitored by us."
Node Africa
Node Africa leads Africa to be a 'Cloud First' continent – deploying a greenfield data centre infrastructure in six weeks
"The amount of money we have saved on networking equipment as a result of using NSX as the basis of our network has been amazing. We saved $10,000 on just our initial network infrastructure investment, that's big for a green fields start-up."
North Carolina State University
There is no substitute for experience when it comes to operating powerful machines. As part of Naval ROTC training at NC State University, midshipmen learn how to drive any vessel in the U.S. Navy fleet. NC State University Libraries deployed VMware Horizon View to securely deliver a virtual environment with the 3D graphics required for ROTC training. Authorized users can securely access the entire simulated training environment in software from a multipurpose creativity studio. Yet 3D virtualization isn't just for training, NC State University students, faculty, and staff in other disciplines can also use virtual desktops to access critical 3D design software such as SolidWorks and AutoCAD.
"Naval ROTC is using Hunt Library resources for a simulation program that gives us the flexibility to build different scenarios, different classes of ships, train the students, and then tear that training down in an instant and move the resources over to something else. That flexibility is exactly what universities need in the future."


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Sean Landers is best known for his layered text paintings, which typically advertise his artistic triumphs and failures in tragicomic fashion. In his current installation, "Set of Twelve," at Friedrich Petzel, Landers reconfigures a series of videos he made in 1990 that feature obsessive monologues spoken rather than painted. Appearing in his empty studio, speaking directly into the camera, Landers satirizes the solipsistic formula of 1970s video art as he tests the limits of his logorrhea.
In the NY Times, Karen Rosenberg writes that Landers is a writer at heart, so the video camera sometimes seems like an unwelcome intermediary. "He makes faces, swigs wine from the bottle and ambles across the rooftop of his studio, but mostly he sits and talks (and talks and talks). More than anything, the installation reminds you how much of a '1990s artist' Mr. Landers is; in the current art world his professed ambivalence about fame and fortune seems as dated as his grunge hairstyle. But you could also say that his unchecked ramblings anticipated the pathological narcissism of the blogosphere. " Hmm...let me check my stats and update my new "Daily Progress" Twitter feed while I consider whether I'm pathologically narcissistic. Aren't all artists overtly, unapologetically self-absorbed?
"Sean Landers: Set of Twelve," Friedrich Petzel, in conjunction with Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY. Through Nov. 15.


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Is there a way at all on getting my username so i can log into the game i havent played for a long time, I have emailed customer support and its been 5 days since! i have had a reply and their still looking for my account? Strange, i have my password just cant remember my login for the game


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The definition of the target population needs to be given in the report. This definition should include the geographical area (country, region, town, etc.) covered by the target population as well as the age group and gender. It is also important to specify the exclusion of any population subgroups, such as certain ethnic groups, non-citizens or those who do not speak some major languages of the country. (See Example 2.1.1.)
EXAMPLE 2.1.1 Target population of Finnish risk factor survey in 1992. Level 1 information.
A random sample of the adult population (25-64 years of age) was studied in three areas of Finland In 1992:
Population size
The total population of age group 25-64 in these three areas was 340 000.
Survey organizer
Survey was organized and conducted by National Public Health Institute, Helsinki.
The Level 2 reporting should describe in more detail the representativeness of the results. Response rates help to see if the proportion of the sample that participated to the survey is high enough to give reliable representation of the target population. (See Example 2.1.2.)
EXAMPLE 2.1.2 Target population in Finnish risk factor survey in 1992. Additional, Level 2 information.
Response rates
The over all response rate in 35-64 years old men and women was 80 %. It was 81 % in Kuopio Province, 77 % in North Karelia and 82 % in Turku/Loimaa.
The Level 3 should report the details that may be relevant for thorough investigation of the results. To facilitate this, information on population distribution and response rates by smaller area, age group and gender is useful. If the data are reported by socio-economic status, also information about socio-economic distribution of population are needed. (See Example 2.1.3.)
EXAMPLE 2.1.3 Target population in Finnish risk factor survey in 1992. Detailed, Level 3 information.
Population size
The population distribution in 1992 by area, age group and gender was:
|Kuopio province
|North Karelia
Response rates
Response rate (%) is a number of persons participating to the survey divided by eligible sample size. The response rates by area, age group and gender in 1992 were:
|Kuopio province
|North Karelia
* Age standardized to the Word population by 10-year age groups with weights 12, 11 and 8 (1).
For Level 1 no other information than the sample size is needed. (See Example 2.1.4.)
EXAMPLE 2.1.4 Sampling in Finnish risk factor survey in 1992. Level 1 information.
Sample size
The total eligible sample size was 5 917.
For Level 2, additional to Level 1 information, basic information about the sampling frame should be provided. (See Example 2.1.5.)
EXAMPLE 2.1.5 Sampling in Finnish risk factor survey in 1992. Additional, Level 2 information.
Sampling frame
The sampling frame was the national population register (http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/prc.htm) which includes all the residents of the country and which is updated continuously.
Level 3 should report the detailed sampling information. Additionally to previous levels, the sampling method should be described. (See Example 2.1.6.)
EXAMPLE 2.1.6 Sampling in Finnish risk factor survey in 1992. Detailed, Level 3 information.
Sample size
The eligibility of the person to the sample was defined at the time of survey. The individual selected to the original sample was eligible if he/she still lived in the survey area and was alive during the time of survey examination.
The eligible sample size by area, age group and gender were:
|Kuopio province
|North Karelia
Sampling methods
In each area, simple random sampling, stratified by sex and 10-year age group, was used. No population groups were excluded from the sample.
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Flood warning issued for small streams and Yadkin River
Published: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 8:34 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 8:34 a.m.
The National Weather Service in Raleigh has issued a flood warning for small streams in west central Davidson County until 6:15 p.m. The weather service also issued a flood warning for the Yadkin River at Yadkin College until Sunday afternoon or until the warning is cancelled.
At noon, the Yadkin River remained near bankfull, and minor flooding continues on roads and in low-lying areas immediately adjacent to the river. Locations threatened with flooding include areas immediately adjacent to the river around Enon, Hampton Roads, Tyro and Donnaha.
The N.C. Department of Transportation reported that Hampton Road at Muddy Creek was closed due to flooding.
At 2:45 a.m. Friday the stage for the Yadkin River was 16.7 feet. Flood stage is 18.0 feet. Minor flooding is forecast.
The river is forecast to rise above flood stage by early Friday morning and continue to rise to near 24.7 feet by Saturday morning. The river will fall below flood stage by early Sunday morning.
At 25.0 feet, flooding closes Sowers Road near Linwood west of Interstate 85. Flooding also threatens the pumping station at Davidson Water.
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This master's degree program in International Relations will deepen your knowledge of the theory and development of international events and biblical principles that you can apply to your career. Graduate better equipped to assess and recommend policy in a variegated field. This program provides an excellent opportunity for poly sci undergraduates who wish to gain a more in-depth understanding of political science in graduate school.
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YOU report that motorists in Malton and Norton are being "asked to switch off their engines whenever possible in a bid to improve air quality".
Leaving aside that the idea of repeatedly switching the engine on and off in traffic queues is anathema to most motorists (except in motorway seize-ups), I can see no element of "asking" in the sign that reads "Switch off your engine when stationary" – not even a "please".
Surely a word or two about air quality of petrol consumption would help? I realise the safety concerns – distracting drivers at the wheel – but hardly relevant when they're already stuck in a traffic jam, and those concerns don't seem to prevent the barber at Butcher Corner advertising his opening times in window posters, or Yorkshire Tea Rooms promoting their menus with street signs.
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|Linux / Unix Command: more
|Command Library
NAMEmore - file perusal filter for crt viewing
SYNOPSISmore [-dlfpcsu ] [-num ] [+/ pattern] [+ linenum] [file ... ]
DESCRIPTIONMore is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. This version is especially primitve. Users should realize that less(1) provides more(1) emulation and extensive enhancements.
OPTIONSCommand line options are described below. Options are also taken from the environment variable MORE (make sure to precede them with a dash (``-'')) but command line options will override them.
- -num
- This option specifies an integer which is the screen size (in lines).
- -d
- more will prompt the user with the message "[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]" and will display "[Press 'h' for instructions.]" instead of ringing the bell when an illegal key is pressed.
- -l
- more usually treats ^L (form feed) as a special character, and will pause after any line that contains a form feed. The -l option will prevent this behavior.
- -f
- Causes more to count logical, rather than screen lines (i.e., long lines are not folded).
- -p
- Do not scroll. Instead, clear the whole screen and then display the text.
- -c
- Do not scroll. Instead, paint each screen from the top, clearing the remainder of each line as it is displayed.
- -s
- Squeeze multiple blank lines into one.
- -u
- Suppress underlining.
- +/
- The +/ option specifies a string that will be searched for before each file is displayed.
- +num
- Start at line number num
COMMANDSInteractive commands for more are based on vi(1). Some commands may be preceded by a decimal number, called k in the descriptions below. In the following descriptions, ^X means control-X.
- h or ?
- Help: display a summary of these commands. If you forget all the other commands, remember this one.
- Display next k lines of text. Defaults to current screen size.
- z
- Display next k lines of text. Defaults to current screen size. Argument becomes new default.
- Display next k lines of text. Defaults to 1. Argument becomes new default.
- d or ^D
- Scroll k lines. Default is current scroll size, initially 11. Argument becomes new default.
- q or Q or INTERRUPT
- Exit.
- s
- Skip forward k lines of text. Defaults to 1.
- f
- Skip forward k screenfuls of text. Defaults to 1.
- b or ^B
- Skip backwards k screenfuls of text. Defaults to 1. Only works with files, not pipes.
- Go to place where previous search started.
- =
- Display current line number.
- / pattern
- Search for kth occurrence of regular expression. Defaults to 1.
- n
- Search for kth occurrence of last r.e. Defaults to 1.
- !<cmd> or :!<cmd>
- Execute <cmd> in a subshell
- v
- Start up an editor at current line. The editor is taken from the environment variable VISUAL if defined, or EDITOR if VISUAL is not defined, or defaults to "vi" if neither VISUAL nor EDITOR is defined.
- Redraw screen
- :n
- Go to kth next file. Defaults to 1.
- :p
- Go to kth previous file. Defaults to 1.
- :f
- Display current file name and line number
- .
- Repeat previous command
SEE ALSOvi(1) less(1)
Important: Use the man command (% man) to see how a command is used on your particular computer.


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The tools include genetic scissors - called restriction enzymes, a genetic joining enzyme called ligase, as well as the use of DNA probes to show up and mark different sequences of DNA.
We then look at genetic techniques - how to make lots of copies of DNA using the polymerase chain reaction; how to sort DNA fragments according to size in electrophoreses; then how to take this further and make it usable using the Southern Blot.
Finally we look at some of the tricks that can be done using these tools and techniques - such as DNA profiling and fingerprinting; how to sequence DNA - from a molecule to a letter code we can interpret; and finally we look at how cloning genes and the use of recombinant DNA technology allows us to mix the DNA of different species together.
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College Hockey:Megna forgoes final season at Nebraska-Omaha after signing with Ducks
Defenseman Jaycob Megna has signed with the Anaheim Ducks and will skip his final season at Nebraska-Omaha.
Megna had four goals and 22 points in 105 games with the Mavericks.
He was a seventh-round pick of the Ducks in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.
Megna was an all-academic selection in the WCHA in 2013 and in the NCHC in 2014.
His brother Jayson left Nebraska-Omaha after one season in 2012.
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Rock. Solid. Beautiful manual SLR manufactured by East German VEB Pentacon (Dresden). Prakticas in general are well-designed and built to last. This is the 3rd generation of Praktica's LTL series, and was in turn superceded by the sought-after MTL5, 50 and 5b, which have some electronic capabilities. It's a very professional-looking SLR with super fit and finish and simple match needle meter readout. The lightseals are a combination of hard foam and string, so I didn't have to go through my usual black foam torture (yet).
The multi-coated six element auto Pentacon lens stops from 1.8 to 16 in half stops. It is a very nice lens with fairly small glass for its speed, and operates smoothly. Near focus is about twelve inches (!), like the Meyer Oreston on my Super TL. On further research it looks like Hugo Meyer & Co. optics plant in Goerlitz became the VEB Feinoptisches Werk and so the Pentacon 1.8/50 is likely an updated version of the Oreston. The Pentacon has an A-M switch for Auto or Manual operation, which I overlooked at first. The housing is modern plastic rather than the Oreston's metal housing, so it's lighter weight. I did notice that the grease that makes it operate so smoothly had melted a bit onto one of the lens elements (I thought it was fungus at first). This can happen if you leave your camera in a hot car, etc. Followup: I wasn't inclined to think it was a manufacturing defect until I got reports that other people were having the same problem, or worse. So I think quality control with the Pentacon 1.8/50 is suspect. With that in mind, even though it's not multi-coated I can say now that overall I prefer the Oreston to the Pentacon 1.8.
In my opinion, this camera's best feature is the super-strong shutter. (By contrast, the worst feature of the cloth-shuttered Super TL) It's a vertical focal plane metal blade shutter that sounds as strong as if the camera were new instead of over 20 years old. Similar to (based on, methinks) the Copal Metal Square. Uncalibrated but by sight and sound appear fairly accurate. At the end of the wind stroke the mechanism locks into place in a most authoritative (authoritarian? *snicker*) manner. It's hard to describe without doing it for yourself but let's say it feels like a mechanism that knows exactly what it's supposed to do and does it. With feeling.
I was lucky to get this one with the smooth vinyl (I've heard it called sharkskin) usually found on the MTL5 and later, I usually see the MTL3 with a rather industrial-looking raised-grid grip (tres bloc, no?). I assume it's a late model MTL3. The smooth leatherette gives it a very sleek, refined look worthy of the solid professional-quality camera it is. It takes awesome pictures. The trick is to avoid camera shake as the shutter mechanism is so powerful.
Like the Super TL (and presumably other Praktica models) it has what I think is an innovative film loading system: the wind spool has two spring-loaded bars on it that clamp down on the film as it turns, somewhat like the guard bar on a rollercoaster. All you do is line up the sprockets, wind on, and close the back. No threading at all! Very nice.
Oh, and the pentaprism has modern split-circle plus ground glass grid focusing. I almost failed to mention it because it's what I expect to see, even though my Yashica SLRs and even my K1000 lack that feature.
When I got it in the mail from England (no box, are you kidding me!?) it was clear that the camera, though working, had survived some sort of impact. The lens mount frontispiece was loose, the frame counter inoperative, and the little rectangular frame inside the viewfinder had slipped down, partially obscuring the scene. I first tackled the lens mount. I looked inside with the lens off and could see that it was held in place with screws but I couldn't tell where they were. I figured out that they were under the plastic insert ring that serves as a bumper for the lens, and pried that out with some dental picks. Under it are four screws, three of which were loose and one had actually fallen out inside and needed to be reinserted. The ring has a single aligning pin, indicated by a flat spot with a dot, and is just held in place by push pressure. Good as new.
After getting inside I can't say I recommend taking off the top cap without a very good reason -- the hot shoe mount includes a floating clip that is very tricky to get aligned properly upon re-assembly. That's not the real bugaboo, though, the alignment of the concentric spring-loaded parts in the shutter speed knob is a real trick. Have someone film the disassembly or pay real close attention. Once the cap was off, though, it was simple to remove the pentaprism and CAREFULLY dust the glass surfaces, and realign the little window frame above the ground glass. The frame counter was simply stuck, partially removing it and replacing it freed it up. The mechanism was all intact and working. I did find - get this - a loose fairly strong-looking spring with no obvious place to put it. It was sitting free next to an identical spring which had an obvious home and was living there, but I saw no place for the other one. I took it out and verified that all the camera's mechanisms do work, so I can't say what it was. A spare for the camera repairman? Who knows!
Extra Credit
While it looked very nice, in practice the 'sharkskin' vinyl covering was a little too smooth, I actually thought I was going to drop it a few times, there was no grip to the slick covering. So after my success with the FED 5 I thought I'd replace the sharkskin with something worthy of this fine camera while easier to grip. I think it turned out better than the original:
Tips & Tricks
The aperture preview button, which is so close to the shutter release you can rest your index finger on both buttons simultaneously, also activates the TTL meter. It's the next best thing to full-aperture TTL metering.
Should probably mention if you couldn't tell from the picture that the shutter release is on the front of the camera rather than the top. Very ergonomic.
Related Links
- The manual! Thanks doood!
- Dr. Mike Otto has a nice Praktica page with info on just about everything Praktica, including the MTL 3
- Nice page with a history of Pentacon and its ties to Zeiss Ikon et al
- Praktica site with some Links to other sites
- Comprehensive Praktica M42 mount site includes a full model history
- Pentacon is still around


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Verizon Motorola Droid announced, comes on Nov. 6 for $199.99
Motorola and Verizon Wireless have just announced the Motorola Droid, the world's first Android 2.0 smartphone.
As expected, the Moto Droid will be available from Verizon starting November 6. The price? Well, Verizon asks $199.99 for the Droid, with a 2-yr agreement and after a $100 rebate.
Motorola and Verizon present the Droid as being a "no-fuss, high-tech, location-aware, voice-recognizing, over-the-air updating, multi-tasking machine."
Most of the smartphone's features are now confirmed, including the 3.7 inch, 480 x 854 pixels capacitive touchscreen display, EV-DO Rev A connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, D1 video playback, stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, Flash 10 ready HTML browser, 5MP autofocus camera with dual-LED flash, 16GB of storage space, MicroSD card support, and 1400 mAh battery.
Funny excerpt from the press release: with a display having "more than 400,000 pixels total, DROID has more than twice that of the leading competitor" – this competitor is most probably the iPhone.
But now the question is: is Verizon's Droid a better choice than AT&T's iPhone or not?
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Financial planners were put on this earth for one reason, to help people get and keep their financial houses in order. But so many people avoid financial planners. Why exactly is that? Are you one of those people who thinks you're better off on your own? Perhaps. Are you the person who says you don't make enough money, therefore there's no need for you to meet with one? Or maybe you're the person who says "I don't want someone all up in my business." Whatever your reason, you should seriously consider having a conversation with a financial planner because the data doesn't lie! As a society, we are seriously failing at financial planning.
Take a look at this piece that the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors published back in 2012. The findings are quite disturbing. In that piece they reference an organization, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, who conducts an annual consumer financial literacy survey. Take a look at their survey from 2013 and 2014. It should come as no surprise but year after year, the numbers continue to be extremely disappointing. On the flip side, this should encourage any financial planner to continue to reach out to and follow up with their clients, ask those tough questions and challenge their clients to be a better financial stewards.
Financial planning shouldn't be something that we fear, but something we should embrace. If you are someone who doesn't have a plan, you need one. If you're someone who already has a plan, maybe you're overdue for a review. No matter your situation, having a financial game plan will most certainly guarantee you financial independence (however you define it) at some point in your life. And just like that old adage says, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.


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SAT Prep Course offered at Penn State Fayette
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus is offering a 10-week SAT Prep Course for high school students. The course is designed to help students best prepare for an important part of their college admissions process. Jason Broadwater, director of Enrollment and Student Services at Penn State Fayette, says, "Preparing for the SAT really helps prospective college students do their best on such an important entrance criteria for college admissions."
The course includes strategies and techniques for taking the test and a review of verbal and math concepts. Students will also work on how to tackle the essay portion of the test. The 2012 spring SAT test dates are March 10, May 5 and June 2.
Two sessions of the SAT Prep Course are being offered at the Fayette campus:
- Five Thursdays, Feb. 2-March 1, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
- Five Thursdays, March 29-April 26, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The course costs $99 (the textbook is included) and will use The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT. Anyone who has a copy of the text may deduct $20 from the fee. Tuition for individuals repeating the course for the second time is $49. Both sessions of the course will be taught at Penn State Fayette's Corporate Training Center in the Eberly Building.
Registration deadline for the Thursday, Feb 2.-March 1, course is Tuesday, Jan. 31. Registration deadline for the Thursday, March 29-April 26, course is Tuesday, March 27.
For more information or to register, call 724-430-4211 or visit the website at www.fayette.psu.edu/CE.


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SWANTON — Mike Wolever, a former Toledo fire chief, has been hired by the Village of Swanton to run its department in the wake of the resignation of Chief Howard Myers. The village hired Mr. Wolever Monday as a "fire consultant"
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Dirt for park came from McCord Road underpass work.
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What Animal Describes the OM/OW your spouse select
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Saw a similar thread, but changing it to your chance to get back at the OM or OW that your significant other went after! lol
Now our turn to describe them!
The OW definitely reminds me of a barracuda, sneakily swimming below the surface, until she could spy a man, and quickly take a chunk out of him! She probably is going after his ass, cuz she's an ass, lol!
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vulture he stalks his pray till they got nothing left then picks them clean and leaves to find the next
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The best description is one used by a mutual friend.
She left me for a toad.
He looks like one, and is one. Someday I hope she'll see she could have had a lot better. But, work romances... Someday he may leave her for another. Who knows... But, she sold herself short, and I suspect that someday she'll regret it.
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Not real sure what she looks like...um may need some help on this one. She has the ugliest biggest mouth, literally from ear to ear and huge lips. Idk, she is ugly though. I asked him why couldn't he at least honor my legacy with someone pretty?
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A she man.I swear she looks like a dude
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A stick-insect with a thin "douchebag beard" that looks like he's going through chemotherapy, Also, he's also married, so that just adds to his charm. Hell with both of them. They deserve eachother.
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The following statements by Mikey Weinstein are examples of his anti-Christian bias:
- In a 2006 interview, after the Christian Embassy interviewed Pentagon officials about their evangelical faith, Weinstein said: "We have a virulently dominionist, fundamentalist evangelical Christian element within the Pentagon. They would prefer this to be the 'Pentecostalgon,' not the Pentagon. That's what they would prefer. They're trying to turn the Pentagon into a frickin' faith-based initiative, and that is not what our military is about." He went on to call it "a national security threat every bit as bad as al-Qaida, and these people should be court-martialed." He said he intended to "get as much information as we can, fashion it into a dagger and then stab at the heart of this unconstitutional, wretched, vile darkness at the Pentagon. This unconstitutional darkness, we will stab at it with our dagger until we kill it." ("These People Should be Court-Martialed," Salon.com, December 13, 2006)
- In a 2007 interview, he said: "We are facing an absolute fundamentalist Christianization—a Talibanization—of the U.S. Marine Corps, Army, Navy, and Air Force." ("An Evangelical Coup in America's Military," Tikkun, August 3, 2007)
- In a 2007 Los Angeles Times article, he complained about "freedom packages" sent to troops in Iraq by Operation Straight Up, which contained Bibles. The Pentagon decided not to send them. Weinstein said: "It's time to strip the war on terror of its religious connotations, not add to them." ("Not So Fast, Christian Soldiers," Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2007).
- In a 2007 interview, Weinstein said: "I come to you today, and we're at war. This is not an issue, this is a national security threat." He added: "This is not a small issue, this is essentially the Christian Taliban in our U.S. military." He said: "I refer to it as a contagion." ("An Interview with Mikey Weinstein," Jews in Green, August 24, 2007)
- In another 2007 interview, he called evangelicals the "Protestant Vatican." He called them a "Christian Taliban" and said "the Christian Right is a fascistic organization." He concluded: "Basically what we are facing are Fundamentalist, Dominionist Christians that are preying—P-R-A-Y and P-R-E-Y—on non-Fundamentalist Christians including in many respects other evangelical Christians that are just not fundamentalist Christian, telling them that, 'you may think you were Christian enough for us but you're not. And, as a result, you will burn eternally in the fires of Hell along with the Jews.'"("We're Dealing With a Christian Taliban," Information Clearing House, September 7, 2007)
- In a 2007 interview, Weinstein said: "I'm at war. You're talking to a guy with the gun smoke in his face." He went on to say: "We battle the Christian Taliban." (Tulsa World, October 13, 2007).
- In a 2008 interview, Weinstein called the Department of Defense a "crypto-fascist faith-based initiative." (David Belden, "Backward Christian Soldiers," Rationalist Association, January 7, 2008)
- In a documentary on anti-Semitism, titled Constantine's Sword, Weinstein said: "We don't have a Pentagon. We have a Pentecostal-gon. The Constitution doesn't guide them, but the book of Revelations and the New Testament." ("'Constantine's Sword' Cuts into Anti-Semitism," abcnews.go.com, April 20, 2008)
- In 2008, when Gen. David Petraeus endorsed Chaplain Bill McCoy's book, Under Fire, Weinstein said; "General David Petraeus has, by his own hand, become a quintessential poster child of this fundamentalist Christian religious predation, via his unadulterated and shocking endorsement of a book touting both Christian supremacy and exceptionalism." ("'Under Orders' Under Fire," Christianfighterpilot.com, August 21, 2008).
- In 2010, Weinstein complained that Franklin Graham was invited to speak at the Pentagon for the National Day of Prayer: "Our Pentagon has been turned into a Pentacostalgon, and our department of defense has been turned into an imperious, vicioustic [sic], contagion of unconstitutionalism by people that want to kill us, or have their version of Jesus kill us, if we don't accept their Biblical worldview." ("Military Religious Freedom Foundation Complains About Franklin Graham," Examiner.com, April 23, 2010)
- In 2012, he said: "Civil rights organizations representing ethnic, national, cultural, and religious minorities, organized labor, opponents of fundamentalist (also known as Dominionist) Christian supremacy, and advocates for the continued separation of church and state were subject to vicious attacks by this modern day inquisition." ("Homophobic Chaplain Alliance's Feeble, Failed Attempt to Rape Servicemembers' Civil rights," AlterNet, July 17, 2012)
- In August 2012, Weinstein referred to the head of the Air Force Academy as evangelical- friendly: "I could easily present a literal plethora of thousands of other blatant outrages of fundamentalist Christian religious supremacy within the USAAF." ("Good Riddance to the Air Force's Religious Intolerance Enabler in Chief," Truthout, August 1, 2012).
- Weinstein endorsded the Southern Poverty Law Center's classification of Christian groups as "hate groups." (Ken Klutkowski, "Pentagon Taps Anti-Christian Extremist," Breitbart, April 28, 2013).
- In May 2013, Weinstein was quoted as saying: "As soon as we find a fundamentalist Muslim, atheist, Jewish person or anybody else, we will be happy to fight them—but so far they have been few and far between." (Todd Starnes, "Religious Groups Fear Christian Purge From Military," Christian Post, May 1, 2013)


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Jimmy Bradley Hears It From Future Neighbors
And more from last night's CB2 SLA committee meeting.
Jimmy Bradley was nominated for a Beard Award recently, but that doesn't mean certain neighbors are excited about the Red Cat and Harrison restaurateur's new project in the Elizabeth Street Hotel. Also per Eater's recap of last night's Community Board 2 SLA committee meeting, Dermot Burr of Arlene's Grocery is pursuing the shuttered El Rey del Sol space, a Scottish spot is coming to the former P*ong, and the Hecho en Dumbo team have their eye on the Marion's space. [Eater]


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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Review: Dermablend Quick-Fix (Full Coverage) Concealer! Photos + Before & After.
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I love how much it cover:)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the wonderful review, I might consider purchasing this once i've finished my current bobbi brown!ReplyDelete
wow, i was going to purchase this if i wasn't satisfied with my MUFE full cover concealer. reading that it can be used for anything from blemishes to scars and skin conditions i thought it'd be a miracle! but after reading that you don't think it's good for anything but undereye, i probs wont be :/ReplyDelete
hmm maybe the covercream is better??ReplyDelete
and this is more for touch ups?
Thanks for the review!
The end results look amazing.. I'm lookin for a great undereye concealer.. My bobbi brown one creases me so bad.. I might check this one outReplyDelete
Thanks heaps =)


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Partner Installation of StorageTek Tape Libraries
To become authorized to perform the installation of StorageTek Tape Libraries, partners must be specialized in StorageTek Tape Libraries* and complete the following competency requirement(s) aligned to the Tape Library(s) they chose to support:
* StorageTek SL150 Modular Tape Library Installation certification does NOT require prior StorageTek Tape Libraries Specialization.
New! The StorageTek SL150 Modular Tape Library is available for Channel Self-Support. Criteria is listed on the StorageTek SL150 Modular Tape Library Channel Self-Support page