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MR. ANDREW SEMMEL: We're very fortunate to have Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins here today. She is the Coordinator for Threat Reduction programs in the Department of State. It's a new senior position in the State Department, so she is the first incumbent in this position that was created in the Obama administration and by Secretary Clinton.
We'll try a new format for these presentations today. Ambassador Jenkins and I will have an interaction, back-and-forth and some Q&As, and I'll ask some questions and she'll respond as she sees fit. And perhaps I'll have some follow-up questions to those too.
Following that, we'll open up the questions to the audience. And in addition to the questions that you might ask up here, since this is being live-streamed, I can field questions from those observing from afar who want to send in some questions to my. My email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. So we may get some questions that I can get on the web from the Internet as we go to open up questions on the floor.
By way of just a very, very general statement at the outset, cooperative threat reduction program really began when the Cold War ended. And there was a situation in the states of the former Soviet Union, which collapsed at that point in time, that led to deep concerns about the vulnerability of weapons of mass destruction, the materials associated with the technology of the weapons as well as the expertise that was behind much of the Soviet programs of weapons of mass destruction. The initial response by the United States came in the form for the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program that was conceived in 1991 and came into being in fiscal year 1992. That was called the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991.
The program, interestingly, was conceived after delegates from the former Soviet Union came to the United States and informed the administration, the congress and others of the risk and the dangers of unsecured and poorly inventoried weapons of mass destruction programs in the former Soviet Union. This raised all kinds of alarm bells and there was an effort to respond to that. It was very difficult. The Soviet Union, after all, had been our principle adversary for more than half a century.
And I can tell you it was a rough start. The going wasn't very easy at the outset. It was a time in which the American people were looking for a peace dividend. They didn't want to get involved. The initial thought about how to deal with these unsecured weapons of mass destruction was initially thought of as foreign assistance. And you know how foreign assistance is very low on the totem pole of priorities, until it was re-conceptualized as defense by other means by those who were working on this program, and then we got a turnaround on that.
So the Nunn-Lugar program stated in 1992 with about $400 million in the defense department. This was not new money, but it was money that the defense department already being allocated and appropriated. So there were no new funds appropriated, but the defense department could use $400 million for the cooperative threat program.
The focus at that time was dubbed "loose nukes," a term that's used (without license ?). And the urgent need was to secure vulnerable nuclear weapons, disable and destroy some of them, nuclear and chemical weapons, and to bring them back as necessary for safe storage in Russia, and then to establish safeguards against further proliferation of these weapons. The overall goal of the Nunn-Lugar program was, and still remains, to prevent weapons of mass destruction, materials and technology associated with those weapons, as well as the expertise necessary to develop and use them, from getting into the hands of non-state actors, terrorists, criminal elements, other opportunists, as well as rogue states.
It's based on the underlying logic that reducing the threat and keeping dangerous weapons away from these rogue elements, non-states actors and states, is simply too big and complex for one state to handle. The challenges are too great to handle. And the task, to be successful, had to involve collaboration and cooperation. Hence the term, cooperative threat reduction.
Since the 1990s the CTR has evolved. And just to mention some very generic things, it has evolved and grown geographically. Originally the Nunn-Lugar program focused on Russia and then Ukraine, and has grown over time to include a number and diversity of countries participating both as donors and as recipient countries. Donors offer their capital and expertise and recipient countries allow others to come in to deal with loose nukes and attendant problems.
The program has grown in the amount of funding dedicated to CTR from about the $400 million that I mentioned earlier to more than $1 billion per annum. And it's grown in the number and diversity of the programs created over time to secure and prevent the spread of nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological weapons. The CTR has also grown from what was originally a dire emergency to a more structured program. The focus was originally on DOD, the Department of Defense, but now obviously the Department of State, the Department of Energy are deeply involved as principal managers of the various CTR programs.
But it interestingly involves also other federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, even Homeland Security. But it also involves international governmental organizations. The IAEA is a part of this, the UN Security Council 1540. And it also involves non-governmental organizations. The NTI, for example, plays a role in this, as well as the private section.
So the program has grown from its original inception back in the early 1990s with its focus on Russia, to a much more global effort. And we'll get into some of that during our Q&A. So with that, unless you'd like to say a few words?
AMB. BONNIE JENKINS: No, I think you pretty much – thank you for that – I think you pretty much outlined a lot of what I would have obviously said at the beginning, which is how CTR has grown and has expanded in the years since this started in 1992 from being a program run by DOD, with DOE and State Department, to one that has a lot more agencies, to one that has a lot more regions of focus. The type of threat that we had faced in 1992 is not the same type of threats we face today, which are much more global and which therefore require activities and programs that can address the types of threats we have today. So you have different programs, different agencies, different international organizations involved, different regions of focus and a different emphasis in the types of work that we do.
There are a lot of things that I do at State Department – it has really focused a lot of my attention on some of these new activities, trying to coordinate them, and also trying to do a lot internationally in trying to gain interest in the type of activities that we're doing in the United States, but also the kind of things we're doing with our allies and partners through a number of initiatives. And I'm focusing a lot on Africa and trying to increase the type of programs that we do in that region and other regions as we reach out the CTR, which has changed so much since 1992. That pretty much outlines a lot of what I focus a lot of my attention on, the new CTR, the evolution of CTR.
MR. SEMMEL: Okay, what I'm going to do is start this first part of the program and we'll go back and forth on some Q&As and then we'll open it up to the floor. Let me start out with some very general questions to sort of provide the frame within which you may want to follow-up with some questions. To some extent, we've already provided a brief description or overview of the CTR program as it's now configured. And where do you believe it should be going and moving into the future? As you pointed out, 1991-1992 is not the same as 2011. Times have changed. The program has changed with it. So could you give us kind of an overview umbrella?
AMB. JENKINS: I guess I'd just say generally speaking that the umbrella CTR now is pretty much a wide umbrella, a much wider umbrella. DOD, as you mentioned, focused a lot of its original attention on Russia, the former Soviet Union, because of 1992 and the events that followed in securing materials in Russia and the former Soviet Union. But now, for example, the DOD is much more engaged in biological, biosecurity, biosafety issues, surveillance issues outside Russia, the former Soviet Union.
You have DOE, the Department of Energy, involved in a number of countries, over 90 countries that they're engaged in, working on radiological security, nuclear security, nuclear materials security issues, border security issues. You have the Department of State, which is also reaching out to areas in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa. So the umbrella CTR now is a lot more expansive, as we were saying earlier, with agencies to some degree doing a lot of what they did before but also doing a lot of new things.
The State Department, for example, is still focusing a lot on scientist engagement work, working with individuals, working with the human factor, still doing that globally. But you also have new agencies – the CTR umbrella is even wider because of that reason because you have CDC engaged now, USDA, as you said on animal health issues. So if you define the structure of CTR you will see some similarities in the sense that some agencies are doing some similar things but in different regions.
You will find some departments doing different things than they've done before in the last few years since 1992. And also under that structure and umbrella, you'll see new agencies more engaged because they're doing biosecurity, engagement. And so you need not only their expertise, but you also need the fact that some of these agencies-departments have been engaged in some of the regions that we want to go into, for example, Africa, Latin America. They've been there for a number of years. So we need their expertise and knowledge in those regions. So the structure is a lot wider in terms of what's happened.
MR. SEMMEL: What is CTR? It seems to me when you talk about how much funding is provided for this program, what do you include and what do you exclude? Virtually all of our programs dealing with nonproliferation could conceivably be subsumed under the rubric of what is the cooperative threat reduction program. If you get into some of the innovations that were created during the Bush administration, for example, the Proliferation Security Initiative, a global initiative, a representative example from the Bush administration.
Is that part of the CTR? I mean, is there a demarking line in what you can include, what you can't include? And I know in the various discussions that probably take place in the G-8, where you also represent the United States on these issues, on nonproliferation and global partnership, that there's some effort to try to identify the amount of funding that the United States contributes on an annual basis. But all that is dependent on what you include as part of cooperative threat reduction and what is not. It's hard for me to get my arms around exactly where the parameters are in this program.
AMB. JENKINS: Thank you. That's a very good question because what I've been looking at is how do you define CTR today. Because you do look at things like the Global Initiative and the Proliferation Security Initiative and ask are those included? Some would say no it's not, those are a special type of programs that are not really the traditional type of CTR programs. So I think a lot of it will depend on who you ask.
Currently, for example, in the G-8 partnership we're not counting things that are done under PSI, for example, but we probably will in the future. But right now the CTR programs are the traditional programs with new programs like export controls. We see a lot more of that: the biosecurity, bio-engagement program. All of the programs are permissive in which we work, if a country requests or a country asks – you know, they ask for assistance or we promote assistance in a permissive environment.
And there are certain categories of activities that I would say the G-8 (funds ?), which is one way of measuring what CTR, to a certain degree, have not been counted. So we haven't been counting Global Initiative activities. We haven't been counting Proliferation Security Initiative activities.
But we will be counting, for example, activities under UN Security Council Resolution 1540. And we will be counting bio-engagement type of activities, disease surveillance activities. So I guess the best definition would be that right now we don't – look at that as one way of measuring the G-8 partnership – we don't count those. But I think that as we look at this issue there have been some internal discussions about how we define CTR. We've actually come up with a new definition, which I didn't bring with me, but it's a lot more expansive in how it defines what CTR is so that it can encompass things like GI and PSI.
MR. SEMMEL: The reason I asked that question is there is a kind of an evolving architecture for nonproliferation: nuclear, chemical, bio that exists. It's an architecture, I think, that was not designed from a blueprint early on that this is the way we deal with these problems. But it's an architecture in which there's units built into that over time in reaction to events: the collapse of the Soviet Union for example, or 9/11 and other things. So it's an architecture that is not particularly pretty, necessarily, if you want to think of it as a structure. But it's a sort of tacking on of different types of initiatives to deal with problems usually in a reactive mode over time in the U.S. and other countries.
It's interesting to try to reconstruct how all those programs were put together, some of which are under the rubric of CTR and some of which are not. You've read the description of the program today on the Hudson Institute web site. There are a number of questions that are posed and I'm just going to sort of use them at the outset also to ask a number of broad questions.
And one of the questions that was there is the CTR has been up and running for almost two decades now, starting in the early 1990s, and the question that we are interested in is how can the CTR program continue to be effective in the 21st century? We earlier noted that times are not the same, times have changed, issues have arisen, there's different players out there, different concerns and this has evolved over time. So how can the CTR, after these changes, continue to be effective? I think we all tend to agree that it has been effective, although we might disagree on how much so. Does the CTR have the staying power? Will it be staying with us and be reasonably effective in dealing with the larger issue of keeping dangerous items, dangerous weapons, dangerous materials out of the hands of dangerous people?
AMB. JENKINS: I think the fact that the threats have not gone away, and in fact that they've become more complex and more global, in itself is a driving force for continued work on CTR. Because the desire to deal with these concerns and threats, and the fact that they have become more complex, in itself is a driving force for continued work in the future. I seriously doubt anyone would feel any more secure by not having these programs as the threats themselves continue to evolve.
I think that by continuing to be innovative in the way in which we address these threats is important. I think that ensuring that we have all the players at the table, who have a stake in this, is very important. I think continuing to reach out to our international partners to get them engaged is important.
Very often I hear colleagues from the G-8 (global partnership ?) and elsewhere who are interested in new types – of doing different types of programs, whether it's biosecurity in different parts of the world they have not been engaged in to date – there's an interest in continuing to do these kinds of things. So I think we need to continue that momentum, in addition to try to continue funding, to keep doing this work. So there is an interest to continue to address these threats.
Having things like the Nuclear Security Summit, for example, also helps because it gives such high level attention to some of these issues; on nuclear materials, for example, securing those materials. Continuing to have those things is important. Having a national strategy on biosecurity, for example, that the U.S. released in 2009 is also important to provide the momentum that we need.
You know, to continue to push UN Security Council Resolution 1540, getting an extension on that, is also important. So these are ways in which you can continue the momentum, not only having these activities continue and continue to address the threat and being innovative, but also to continue to bring in partners from donor countries. Also, to continue to engage other countries who are not involved in these efforts who we want to become involved, who we want to become partners, and help them understand why it's important to become involved and how these efforts can really help them and promote some of their security issues.
So I think (our efforts ?) will continue. The threats aren't going anywhere. If anything, like I said, they're becoming more complex.
MR. SEMMEL: Is it possible for the United States to persuade Russia, for example, a long-term recipient of these programs, to partner with the United States and with others for that matter, given their experience in the various CTR programs really from the inception, is it possible that we can get Russia, for example, to not only be a recipient but also be a partner in terms of lending its expertise, perhaps some of its resources, to achieve the same kinds of progress that we're talking about outside of the former Soviet Union or in other states of the former Soviet Union? Is it possible that Russia can play that kind of role?
AMB. JENKINS: It definitely is possible, I think it's also important that they do. I know that in past years since the Global Partnership began they have been funding some of their – some of the work that has been going on there in terms of the destruction of submarines and chemical weapons. But I think it's also important, as you said, to take advantage of the experience that is in Russia to help them become more of a donor country and not a recipient, even though we try to get away from the term donor-recipient as much as possible.
But essentially yes, we would like them to do a lot more. And I have heard, I have one of my Russian colleagues in the audience who may want to say something later, but I have heard mumblings about the several times some of my Russian colleagues have expressed an interest in maybe doing some of that and getting engaged and being a donor in some of the kind of activities that we're doing outside Russia, the former Soviet Union. So that's something that I know the U.S. is very interested in. I know that some of the departments and agencies within the U.S. are interested in it and would be very much happy if they would use some of their expertise to help other regions to address some of the concerns that we have on these issues.
MR. SEMMEL: Have we actually made any attempt for them to do that?
AMB. JENKINS: We have. I mean, I have made efforts in some of my visits actually to talk with them about that and discuss this issue with them. So it's something that's on the table that we're talking about.
There's some other issues that we want to resolve. I think the G-8 Global Partnership will be a mechanism, a good mechanism, to have this kind of discussion with them. We're trying to resolve some other issues with the Global Partnership right now, but I think that that's something that definitely we can talk with them, particularly in that kind of a forum.
MR. SEMMEL: Another question I wanted to ask, again that's on the description of the event we're having today, is what are some key lessons learned from the past nearly decade of the CTR program, the Nunn-Lugar program, the CTR program? There should obviously be a learning component to them so that we make those adaptations to future programs based upon what we've experienced over the 17 or 18 years of those programs. What are some key lessons that sort of jump out at you?
AMB. JENKINS: I guess a couple of things. One would be engagement and the importance of continued engagement with countries. These programs won't work unless you are working with individuals on a regular basis and willing to put the time and energy in, to travel, to meet with individuals, to keep it going when there's problems, to work through them to the degree that you're able to, and that it's really a long-term thing for long-term sustainability. I think that's very important.
Right now we have started a lot of very, very good work in Russia, in the former Soviet Union. And the issue now is how do we make sure that that work is sustained, particularly as the U.S. and other countries decide to start working in other parts of the world? You want to make sure that the work that you have done already continues there and is sustainable. And that shows the importance of engaging individuals in regions of the world. As we go into other regions, not only do we go in there with ideas and ways in which to do things, but to help them develop the capacities so that the work that we're doing can be sustained in the future so that we don't feel that we have to be there forever. So as we go and improve security at facilities and help with surveillance issues, and then know that there's a culture there that will pick that up and do that in the future and own that issue and buy into that issue so that it will be (sustained ?).
MR. SEMMEL: What are some of the key problems, some of the key obstacles that we're confronting with the continuation of the CTR program, not just in Russia but generally speaking? What are some of the key obstacles and problems that we have encountered? I know you have to get the cooperation, obviously, of the host government.
Somebody just asked before we started this program if we're still in touch with Libyan scientists engaged in redirecting the program in Libya? Well it's pretty difficult to do it under the present circumstances. So there are some real problems of entry and access and things like that. But could you just maybe talk very generally about some problems and challenges that we're now facing as we go forward?
AMB. JENKINS: Well I guess the most obvious would be the funding issue. You have to have the funding to do this work. So that's obviously one very important issue. The other one is, as you said, the political issues. You don't know when something may crop up to slow things down. You may be in the process of really of really developing a program, you're focused on it, you're working on it, and then a political situation as you're set to go into different regions (causes ?) a different perception of threat and different security issues. And their priority of security issues may not mesh with the same ones that we have.
So it's not so much a problem as much as something we have to learn to work with. When you work with them (you learn ?) trafficking is also important in our respect too in terms of nuclear material or securing radiological material to securing borders in general, to make sure that people who transit illicit material can't – (inaudible) – also the same ones that you want to secure so that you can prevent human trafficking. So it's learning how to adjust to different threat perceptions, different security concerns, different levels of security concerns, which is different from what I think we had in the past.
And capacity is a big one. It's the fact that these are all great programs but if a country doesn't have the capacity to do the programs they're not going to want to be doing them, which is logical.
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is now the third of these romance with fangs flicks I've had to sit through, and all I can really say is: "If you liked the first two...?"
Whether you're on Team Edward or Team Jacob, there's plenty of "who will she pick" titillation in this third installment. I, personally, am on Team Leave Me Alone and Don't Bother Me with This Super-Hyped Drivel.
Bella (Kristen Stewart) has still got a burning passion for her vampire boy-toy Edward (Robert Pattinson), but now must face up to the smoldering feelings she has for werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner).
While in nearby Seattle, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) is building a vampire army comprised of derelicts and street urchins to serve as her minions in her never ending (sure seems that way in the theater) quest to get back at Edward for killing her significant other. Victoria hopes to accomplish this by killing Bella so Edward can feel her pain (Victoria must've voted for Clinton back in the 90's).
The real pain is sitting through this thrice tedious turkey of a film in a series that tries to combine established Gothic archetypes (i.e., vampires and werewolves) with paperback romance novel cheeziness. Of course my favorite line in the whole film was when Edward asked Bella in regards to a bare-chested Jacob: "Doesn't he own a shirt?"
I will say that the fight scenes are somewhat better this time around (though there aren't enough of them) as vampires from the Cullen Clan join forces with the tribal werewolves that Jacob runs with to defeat Victoria's blood thirsty army and save Bella.
Just who Bella is saving herself for is in doubt till the end: Jacob/Edward, Edward/Jacob, Fur/Fangs, Fangs/Fur, Shirts/Skins, Skins/Shirts? And, for my money, still isn't completely resolved when we cut to black.
Now, you have to remember the acting here is to captivate giggly teen girls so you really can't fault Pattinson for playing Edward like your local funeral home director, or Stewart's Bella for making conflicted look more like bewildered, and once again Taylor Lautner is easily out acted by his own abs!
Look, just because to me this whole series has been one long popcorn break, doesn't mean that camp followers of the novels and the other two films won't go ga-ga over this one too, but I kept checking my watch feeling as drained of life as one of the vampire's bloodless victims!


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Microsoft announced the date and time Tuesday for its 2014 E3 press conference. While we don't know the exact contents yet, the company is telegraphing that it learned from the mistakes it made last year with the "Xbox: Game On" conference title alone.
The Xbox One E3 press conference will take place on Monday, June 9 at 12:30 p.m. EST / 9:30 a.m. PST. "During the briefing, you'll be treated to everything from in-depth looks at previously announced games to trailers for our unannounced games coming in 2014 and beyond," the company wrote on its Xbox Wire site.
Last year's E3 press conference was widely seen as a massive fumble for Microsoft as a combination of multiple issues appeared to batter the Xbox One going into its launch. The planned always-on DRM for the console was battered by the press and gaming public and then Xbox President Don Mattrick and others did not appear to have their messaging thought out when it came time to answer questions from the press. In fact, their response was largely perceived as either confusing or arrogant at the time.
Things were made worse for Microsoft when Sony followed with an E3 press conference that was celebrated simply for keeping the status quo when it came to DRM and allowing owners to freely share their disk-based games. The nail was driven home though when Sony revealed a more powerful machine at a $100 cheaper price than the Xbox One.
Microsoft quickly reversed its stance for always-on DRM for the Xbox One but the damage was done at that point. Recent sales figures for the PS4 and Xbox One show that the focus on price and games is paying for Sony in the short term. The PS4 has built a healthy lead of approximately three million consoles worldwide.
Meanwhile, Mattrick left the company as part of a re-organization shake-up and Microsoft Games Studio head Phil Spencer is now running the show for Xbox. The mantra at Microsoft is now games, games, games as evidenced by Spencer's Twitter account.
"Halo", "Sunset Overdrive" and "Quantum Break" should all play major roles during Microsoft's E3 press conference as Spencer says that the focus will be on hardcore games with a mix of sequels and all new IPs. He also stated that "we have opportunities with IP we own that we've neglected."
That's a sign that we could see reboots of older Rare titles like we saw with "Killer Instinct" but there's also the strong likelihood we will see at least a teaser for a new "Gears of War", which was purchased by Microsoft from Epic Games earlier this year. "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" will likely make an appearance as well since that franchise has been a staple of Xbox E3 press conferences. Microsoft is going to have to fit in some significant love for the indie game scene during its press conference too though.
While the focus on games for the Xbox One over media capabilities is definitely something needed for E3, Microsoft is still going to have to deal with the elephant sitting in the room. Right now, its console is not as powerful as the PS4, it costs $100 more and it is available in fewer markets.
The last bit will be addressed this September when Microsoft begins releasing Xbox One to more markets. However, the power disparity will likely never be addressed unless some "magic sauce" is found with the upcoming implementation of DX12. That leaves the price as the only major factor left that can be addressed by Microsoft but, in an industry where hardware is sold at a loss or razor thin margins, can the Xbox team afford to take a loss a year into the console's launch?
Microsoft has made all that right signals that it is trying to make gamers happy since the departure of Mattrick and the new leadership of Spencer. This year's E3 should be exciting for no other reason than it should reflect the vision of the new Xbox leadership team. The only question is can they successfully make gamers forget the mistakes of last E3 and give them a reason to purchase an Xbox One?


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Using JOE Text Editor I feel rather annoyed having to change the Word Wrap settings everytime I edit a document. I am sure there must be a way to define a set of defaults for the whole system once and for all. How can I do this?
joe looks for its configuration in two places:
There are also variants of these files references when the editor is invokved as jpico, jmacs, etc.
Either edit the global file or copy it to the proper place in your home directory and make sure that you have a line reading "-wordwrap" (presuming you want to enable it) starting in the first column.
You can also override the global settings on a per-file extension basis.
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|A glance into organizational culture, ethical workplace climate, and employee engagement levels in a health organization unit
|Paul Young
|University of Prince Edward Island
|Wendy Carroll
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|Master of Business Administration
|Place published
|Charlottetown, P.E.I.
|Employee engagement has become an important measure of employee performance and it has been linked to higher overall firm performance outcomes. Studies have shown that employee engagement may be impacted by both organizational culture and ethical workplace climate. For example, organizational culture is deep rooted and depending on the cultural dimensions most highly emphasized within a company, may have positive or negative impacts on employee performance indicators such as employee engagement. Whereas culture is deep rooted and does not easily change, climate is more fluid and can ebb and flow with different instances on-going within the organization. In addition, researchers have come to understand that workplace climate can be impacted relating to ethical issues and a measure of ethical workplace climate (EWC) has emerged to measure perceptions of employees relating to EWC. However, most studies only look at culture or climate, but not the two together, or specifically with employee engagement. This study examines employee perceptions of culture, ethical workplace climate, and employee engagement in a case study with employees in health care. The study findings show that the positive culture type and climate type identified can be associated with positive levels of employee engagement. Specifically, employees perceived a clan culture type to have an overall positive impact employee engagement. Findings about employee perceived climate type indicate that employees perceive a social climate type is associated with a positive link to higher employee engagement levels. In addition, employee perceived engagement within the department measured moderately positive, consistent with its relationship with the perceived dominant and subordinate culture and climate type influences.
|In presenting this signature project report in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Prince Edward Island, the author has agreed that the Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island, may make this signature project freely available for inspection and gives permission to add an electronic version of the signature project to the Digital Repository at the University of Prince Edward Island. Moreover the author further agrees that permission for extensive copying of this signature project report for scholarly purposes may be granted by the professor or professors who supervised the author's project work, or, in their absence, by the Dean of the School of Business. It is understood that any copying or publication or use of this signature project report or parts thereof for financial gain shall not be allowed without the author's written permission. It is also understood that due recognition shall be given to the author and to the University of Prince Edward Island in any scholarly use which may be made of any material in the author's report.
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TC TO G. H. LEWES ; 3 November 1855; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18551103-TC-GHL-01; CL 30: 101-103
Chelsea, 3 Novr, 1855—
Dear Lewes,
I am sorry to hear you still complain of health; bad health is a very miserable adjunct to one's burden, tho' not an uncommon one to poor wretches of this craft! Festina lentè [make haste, slowly],1 don't work too much (which proves always too little by and by): that is the one way of procuring some abatement, if abolition of the misery is not possible.
I trace your clean finger in The Leader weekly as heretofore;2 one of the few writing fingers of this epoch which are not dog's paws, or cloven hoofs of mere human swine. Pah!—
Furthermore I got the Goethe the other night,3 almost at the same time with your Note. Every night since, in my reading hours, I am dashing athwart it in every direction; truanting; for I yet wait a time to read the work with such deliberation as I well see it deserves. My conviction is, we have here got an excellent Biography,—altogether transcendently so, as Biographies are done in this country. Candid, well-informed, clear, free-flowing, it will certainly throw a large flood of light over Goethe's Life, and over many German things which multitudes in England have been curious about, to little purpose, for a long while. It ought to have a large circulation, if one can predict or anticipate in regard to such matters. On the whole, I say Euge [well done], and that heartily,—tho' dissenting here and there. I ought also to be thankful, and am, for the fine manful words you have seen good to say about my poor self:4 good words go about too, as well as evil;—and all words go to nothing except they be the copies of things:
Ach Gott ja, most dumb indeed;—and we read with pain, in M. Thiers and the like,6 femme alors celèbre, homme alors [a woman once celebrated, a man once]7 &c
I returned from my wanderings, which never went very wide, some three or four weeks ago; and am here in my Garret again, up to the chin in Brandenburg marine-stores; uncertain whether I shall not sink dead, and be buried under them, one day; but struggling to hope not.
Once more, Well-done, and thanks; and let me see you soon.
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A "Cloudy" Look for 2013 - Executive Viewpoint 2013 Prediction: Sonian
The definition of "cloud" will become clear. The years 2010 through 2012 started the "cloud computing" conversation, but there is quite a bit of "cloudiness" - pun intended - about what the cloud really means.
1. Commodity-priced public clouds like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace compete for mindshare with hybrid and private cloud wares from Citrix, VMWare and others. Each camp uses the same terms interchangeably, which confuses the IT decision maker. The truth is - most businesses will use a combination of public and private cloud services. This is because there are some use-cases where the public cloud is simply the best value per IT budget dollar. And there are other examples where a unique requirement calls for a private cloud solution.
Throughout 2013 the public cloud providers will do a better job to differentiate their offerings from private cloud vendors. Public cloud vendors will showcase economics and security postures that will be very appealing to mid-size businesses. As more medium-sized organizations find cloud success, even enterprises will start to investigate their cloud options.
2. Enterprise IT will embrace cloud computing with a minimum of three production or research and development projects using a public cloud. The past five years of physical server migration to server room virtualization pave the way for the next big wave, which is to use "cloud" for some IT workloads. Many businesses have identified a few projects where testing public cloud is budgeted and planned for 2013. Applications that consume large quantities of storage or have dynamic (elastic) compute needs are the first ideal candidates.
However, many IT decision makers do understand we are at the beginning of a decade long migration, and there will be a lot of experimentation before massive wholesale cloud adoption is mainstream in the Global 2000.
3. The "Virtuous Cycle of Cloud Computing" will become obvious. Cloud computing represents new thinking on the "economies of scale" factoring into very large infrastructure purchasing dynamics. For example, as more customers use cloud compute and storage, the cloud vendors in essence, make larger purchases. Buying more lowers their costs, which in turn, allows the cloud vendors to drop prices. Lower prices encourages more customers to buy into the cloud, and the cycle repeats itself.
The IT industry has never before witnessed the positive effect of large bulk purchases, shared across hundreds of thousands of IT consumers. This will commoditize services for a very large buying audience. The closest allegory might be when government sponsors research (examples: the Internet, NASA) and then the private sector continues the innovation after the research phase.


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College Hockey:Joe Zarbo picks up the hat trick in Clarkson's win over Harvard
BOSTON — In Friday night's battle at the Bright Hockey Center, visiting Clarkson brought a band, a crowd and a pair of Zarbos.
Harvard came empty-handed and fared accordingly.
Sophomore wing Joe Zarbo earned his first career hat trick and added an assist, brother Matt had a helper and seniors Andrew Himelson and Adam Pawlick also lit the lamp for the Golden Knights (5-12-6, 4-5-2 ECAC) in the 5-1 win. Rookie goalie Greg Lewis made 30 saves for his fifth career win.
The Crimson (5-12-1, 3-10-0) went 0-for-6 on the power play, with freshman sensation Jimmy Vesey scoring their lone goal early in the opening period. Junior Raphael Girard stopped 34 shots in defeat.
Vesey opened the scoring early, burying a Colin Blackwell rebound for his eighth of the year. The Crimson dominated play early, outshooting the Knights 9-2 over the game's opening seven minutes, but Clarkson stormed back with 18 of the period's final 23 shots and led 20-14 in that category at the first intermission.
"I thought we played pretty well from the drop of the puck," Clarkson coach Casey Jones mused. "They had a bounce early on and we had a couple good saves after that from Greg Lewis and then we settled in. We played pretty hard tonight and that definitely led us into the second period."
A high-energy second period nearly went in the books with no effect on the result and it would have were it not for a nine-second stretch late in the frame. With 2:19 on the clock, Himelson ripped a wobbly cannonball through a maze of legs and into the back of the net to draw the game even. Before the celebration was over, it seemed, the Knights had scored another as Zarbo beat Girard under the arm.
The two goals were the second-fastest in Clarkson history, behind Tommy Meeker's two-goal, five-second feat in 1955.
The visitors extended the lead less than two minutes into the third on another screened salvo. Zarbo tallied this one as well, firing from the left-wing point and eluding Girard to the glove side.
The Grand Island, N.Y., native extended his team-high goal total to 10 with his first hat trick since junior hockey.
"I got it from my 'D' on the far side,: Zarbo recalled. "I used a Harvard defenseman as a screen – shot it through his legs – and it went in far side."
Harvard earned three straight power plays following the goal, but failed to capitalize on the advantage for the fifth straight game. Pawlick put the Crimson to bed in the game's 54th minute, poking the puck past Girard from within a mess of bodies and Zarbo hit the trifecta on a late empty-netter.
"I thought we were in control of the game in the third period, but then taking three penalties definitely gave them the opportunity to get back in the game, unfortunately," said Jones. "But we did a good job with the penalty kill, we blocked some good shots and we're getting better at that – that's been a bone of contention around here for some time."
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The 76ers and Kings reportedly have interest in signing restricted free agent Dion Waiters this offseason.
The Jazz will reportedly pursue Luol Deng during free agency.
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The Hawks are considering making a run at free agent Dwight Howard, according to Marc Stein of ESPN.
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Frank Kaminsky (chest) will undergo a minor procedure to repair a small pocket of air in his chest wall.
The Grizzlies have declined Lance Stephenson's $9.4 million team option.
The Hornets are looking to re-sign Marvin Williams, sources told ESPN's Chris Broussard.
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Illumina will acquire Solexa in a stock-for-stock merger in a total equity consideration of approximately $600 million. The companies report that together they represent the only firm with genome-scale technology for genotyping, gene expression, and sequencing. "This transaction adds next-generation sequencing to our core technologies, allowing us to integrate the essential applications in modern genetic analysis," remarks Jay Flatley, president and CEO of Illumina.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Northern Illinois tennis players Dor Amir and Frederic Cadieux doubled their honors this spring as the duo was named to the Mid-American Conference's All-Academic squad, following their All-MAC honors at season's end. It is the first such award for both players and Northern Illinois' first honor since 2010, when three-time selection Javier Bernabe earned his last award. Amir, a sophomore from Tel Aviv, Israel, carries a 3.431 cumulative grade point average in business. This spring, Amir finished with a 19-5 record and completed the 2012-13 school year with a 26-10 mark. He sported an 8-2 record at No. 1 while also finishing 6-1 and 5-2 at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. Amir is a two-time first team All-MAC and All-Academic honoree. He was also an all-tournament selection this season after finishing 4-0 in singles and doubles. Cadieux, also a sophomore business major, has a 3.778 GPA and raised it with his 3.8 average last fall. On the court the Verdun, Quebec, Canada native sported a 26-6 record in 2012-13 with a 21-4 clip in the spring. Impressively, he finished 10-1 at No. 2, losing his only match in the MAC Championship final, and was 11-3 at No. 3. Already Cadieux sports a 51-10 record in his two seasons with the Huskies. He earned his first career All-MAC honor this season, collecting second team honors this year. Northern Illinois finished 16-9 in 2013 and advanced the Mid-American Conference Championship as it defeated No. 1 seed Ball State, 4-2, in the semifinal. The Huskies dropped a close final match to Western Michigan that would have secured an NCAA Tournament automatic berth, 4-3. NIU won the MAC regular season championship in 2012. Nominees must have a minimum 3.20 cumulative grade point average to be eligible for the team Follow the Huskies on Twitter @NIUathletics and on Facebook at "NIU Huskies". Complete list of honorees below. 2013 Men's Tennis Academic All-MAC Team *&Dalton Albertin, Ball State, Senior, Sports Administration, 3.74 GPA, Indianapolis, Ind. Ray Leonard, Ball State, Sophomore, Business/Sports Administration, 3.49 GPA, Bloomington, Ind. #Dor Amir, Northern Illinois, Sophomore, Business, 3.43 GPA, Tel Aviv, Israel Frederic Cadieux, Northern Illinois, Sophomore, Business, 3.77 GPA, Verdun, Quebec *Nadin Indre, Western Michigan, Junior, Computer Information Systems, 3.85 GPA, Satu Mare, Romania *Ross VanderPloeg, Western Michigan, Senior, Interdisciplinary Health Services, 3.59 GPA, Holland, Mich. *2012 Academic All-MAC Team #2012 Academic All-MAC Honorable Mention &2011 Academic All-MAC Team


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GREENVILLE, N.C. - East Carolina University will observe a moment of remembrance and eternally honor the 1970 Marshall University football team with a plaque unveiling ceremony Saturday morning at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium prior to the Conference USA contest between to the two programs later that afternoon.
The ceremony will honor the 75 men and women who lost their lives on November 14, 1970 in what is still considered as the most catastrophic airplane accident in the history of American athletics. The jet plane carrying the Marshall team, coaching staff, administrators, fans and crew was returning to Huntington after the Thundering Herd and Pirates had played earlier in the day at Ficklen Stadium in Greenville.
East Carolina University Chancellor Dr. Steve Ballard and Marshall President Dr. Stephen Kopp will be the featured speakers prior to the unveiling of a memorial plaque which will be on display at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
The general public is invited to attend the ceremony which will begin at 10:45 a.m. outside the visiting team entrance gate adjacent to West Berkely Drive across from Elmhurst Elementary School. All stadium gates will open at 11:00 a.m. with kickoff scheduled for 1:00 p.m.


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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz received Commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM) Gen. James Mattis and his accompanying delegation in Riyadh today. During the audience, Gen. Mattis conveyed the greetings of U.S. President Barack Obama, which were reciprocated by the King. The meeting included Defense Minister Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz; Riyadh Governor Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz; Prince Faisal bin Mohammed bin Saud Al-Kabeer; Chief of General Intelligence Prince Meqrin bin Abdulaziz; Jazan Governor Prince Mohammed bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz; Commander of the National Guard Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz; Adviser to the King Prince Mansour bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz; and a number of other officials.
The U.S. delegation also held a separate meeting with Prince Salman, during which the Minister of Defense decorated Gen. Mattis with the King Abdulaziz Medal of Excellent Rank in recognition of his outstanding efforts in strengthening the ties of friendship and joint cooperation between the Kingdom and the U.S. That audience was attended by Chief of the General Staff Gen. Hussein Al-Qabil; Director General of the Office of the Minister of Defense Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Al-Bunyan; and U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom James Smith.


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Using SSIS Data Flow Task to transfer records from table in 1 SQL Server database to an IDENTICAL table in another SQL Server (2012) and getting "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'FLG_APVN_KEY_0'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.FLG_APVN'. The duplicate key value is ("ARIZ0010 ).". In the Source table (FLG_APVN), there are two records with the following Primary Key values: "ARIZ0010 and ARIZ0010 Obviously similar but definitely distinct. The quotation mark at the beginning of the first PK Value seems to be getting dropped off by SSIS in the insert causing a primary key violation. I need both records in the destination table with their primary keys intact. How do I do this? (SQL Server 2012, SSIS from Visual Studio 2012).
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College Hockey:McCoshen goal breaks deadlock as Boston College overcomes Massachusetts-Lowell for Frozen Four spot
WORCESTER, Mass. — This was the Hockey East prize fight that never was.
It's often hard to live up to the expectations of an instant classic before the puck is even dropped, but Boston College and Massachusetts-Lowell certainly delivered on Sunday.
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Defenseman Ian McCoshen broke a 3-3 tie in the third period for the Eagles, who advanced out of a Worcester regional for the fourth straight time.
"[Lowell] battled and competed so hard, they pushed us to the very zenith of our effort," Eagles coach Jerry York said.
Thatcher Demko (29 saves) outdueled Connor Hellebuyck (25 saves), making not only more saves but perhaps the more difficult ones of the night. That included a heart-stopping combination save just past the game's midway point, denying both Michael Colantone and Scott Wilson in quick succession with his outstretched right pad.
The 60 minutes were chippy, heated, acrimonious — and relentlessly entertaining. But for most of the game, Lowell was playing catch-up, and only held the lead briefly in the third period before a quick BC response.
"We had to chase the game twice and tie it up," River Hawks coach Norm Bazin said. "I was hoping to play with a lead for a while, and make him earn it … [but] I didn't think it was a dealbreaker when they scored after we did."
As one would expect, jabs were traded early on. From the opening faceoff, each stoppage of play brought an extra chirp, a little jab, a sly bump or two.
But outside of an early set of matching penalties for fisticuffs after the whistle, the ECAC Hockey officiating crew let the fluid pace take over, producing a thrilling, up-and-down contest.
The outcome was in doubt for much of the night, with coaches intently matching lines in an attempt to keep the game tight.
The high quality of play also magnified each mistake.
One such mistake came at 12:57 of the first period, when the River Hawks were slow on a line change that almost immediately became a three-on-one rush, with BC's Johnny Gaudreau centering the puck for Kevin Hayes in front to slam home the opening goal.
But, as would become a theme, the River Hawks were able to respond at the 18:08 mark, taking advantage of the second of three power-play chances with a wrister from Michael Kapla at the point fluttering through a screen set up in front of Demko.
In the second period, the Eagles again stepped into the lead, with Bill Arnold burying the go-ahead goal after a Gaudreau shot was kicked to the back door by Hellebuyck.
However, another Lowell response followed, this time just 70 seconds later when Josh Holmstrom banged in a loose puck that had dribbled to the top of the crease.
Lowell took its first lead of the game just 43 seconds into the third period when Evan Campbell, in an attempt to center the puck, bounced it off the back skate of Scott Savage and through Demko.
But this time it took only 21 seconds for a response, as Patrick Brown outletted to the neutral zone for Ryan Fitzgerald, who then turned on the afterburners and sliced through the gut of the Lowell defense, faking the backhand, then dragging to forehand to stash it behind Hellebuyck, five-hole.
The goal boosted Demko's confidence, in his words, "right through the roof. Especially after a weird bounce a couple of seconds into the third."
He wasn't beaten the rest of the night.
In addition, Boston College kept winning the puck-possession battle, getting more ice time in the attacking zone and plenty of opportunities for its vaunted top line to work its magic.
With the Eagles buzzing at the 11:16 mark, the Lowell defense began to recede closer to the net. Defenseman Teddy Doherty pinched down the right wing, drawing attention, but also allowing his defensive partner, McCoshen, to creep in. Doherty fed the puck across to McCoshen, who ripped the puck past Hellebuyck to give the Eagles the lead for good, 4-3.
"He's always talking, he's one of the louder guys on the team," Doherty said of McCoshen. "When I was walking down [the wing], I was thinking to shoot it, but thankfully he's really loud."
From that moment onward, the River Hawks began to run out of steam — and into stingy backchecking from the Eagles in the neutral zone. But despite a high-intensity effort the night before, Bazin didn't think fatigue became a factor, instead noting the close chances that Lowell couldn't bury.
"You've got to finish your opportunities, but we had a couple of flurries that we didn't finish," Bazin said. "If we plugged away after we scored, it might have been a different outcome."
With the net empty in the final minute, the River Hawks thrust one last push into the BC zone, but backed by the stellar play of Doherty and McCoshen protecting Demko, the Eagles were able to fend off the pressure and hang on for the win.
"They're even better than I thought they would be at this point," York said, beaming about the two freshmen defensemen. "I think they're going to grow into some really good players."
The loss denied Lowell an opportunity for a repeat appearance at the Frozen Four and ends a ride for a senior class that built the team from a bottom-feeder into a two-time Hockey East tournament champion.
"It's pretty special to be part of the group that it was," graduating River Hawks captain Holmstrom said. "There are a lot of strong guys in there."
"The culture of the program is in good shape," Bazin said. "There's a lot of resiliency in that locker room, to bounce back from hard first season for three great years."
Next, Boston College faces Union, the team that knocked the Eagles out in the regional round last year.
Bill Arnold noted that, despite another run to the Frozen Four, his team hasn't forgotten the sting of last year's early exit and how perilous any single-elimination game can be.
"When you lose that game in the NCAA tournament, it drives home the fact that it's one and done," Arnold said. "You don't get any second chances."
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13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Moving from the I-Trigue 3200... Definitely better but room for improvement
Sep 06, 2010
By Max
Edit: Give them a little while and the sound will open up. Add an EQ that ups the midrange and some of the treble and they sound pretty good. One problem though is that you cannot turn the bass completely off... which is more of a disappointment for my housemates across the wall. I'd give them 4.5 stars if I could, because of the bass not turning off and it's annoying to adjust on the back of the subwoofer, and the midranges do leave a little bit to be desired. For desktop speakers though, great.
I had a Creative I-Trigue set up that had lasted me about 5 years, until the subwoofer blew out (don't know whether this was on Creative's end or on my own). I decided I wanted a new system with deeper bass, full range of tonality, and that got a little louder. The bass on this system is certain better, but the sound range may honestly have been better on the $120 I-Trigue system. To compare, the I-Trigue system had two satellite speakers, each of which had 2 1-inch drivers for highs, and two 1.5 drivers on the side for mid-range, and a subwoofer.
- Small footprint satellite speakers
- Volume dial has a good feel to it, headphone jack and aux input very convenient
- Solid bass... it goes fairly deep, definitely enough to shake the room
- The sound has I think gotten better over time, but that could just be entirely subjective
- Bass control is only on the back of the subwoofer... my old system had a separate control for bass on the volume dial, which was real convenient
- Midrange may be lacking a bit as others have mentioned, but highs are solid. You can more or less correct this with an equalizer pretty easily (e.g. iTunes), but I still feel like there is something lacking after transitioning to one-driver satellites.
- Price is a little step. I didn't go to a speaker store to test out speakers, but you may wish to do so if you can
- When very loud, bass is not as warm as you could get from a bigger system, so don't consider them a substitute for a full featured home theater system
As a whole, these speakers sound distinctly better than most 2.1 systems, and I'd recommend them, but I do still believe there is some lack of depth in the midrange. But I don't think you'll be disappointed with this system. The sound quality is still pretty killer.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Prefer my old speakers
Aug 16, 2010
By J Nimmo "James"
I had a Creative Inspire 6600 6.1 speaker system which I've used for about 5 years, (only using two speakers on it) and decided I would treat myself with an upgrade to the Creative T3 speakers.
I've plugged them in side by side to have a listen and really am not that impressed with them.
The subwoofer is more 'boomy' and doesn't give a good representation of bass guitar. The speakers look nicer sure, but my old ones gave a warmer and smoother sound.
When listening at the quietish volumes I usually have, you basically only hear the kick drum and some bass guitar briefly, you have to turn the level of the bass up then the kick drum is too loud and all this time you have to get down on your knees to adjust the bass level as there is no adjustment for that on the remote.
The volume control squeaks sometimes when turning the volume up.
All in all, wish I had saved the money and bought a new monitor or something instead. Maybe if it was 1/2 price or even 3/4 the price I wouldn't be as disappointed, but these are not good value for money on the sound quality side.
24 of 29 found the following review helpful:
Wonderful sound for such a small package
Feb 15, 2010
By Greg Olson
I recently purchased a new computer, and decided it was time to look for some new speakers. My old Harmon Kardon speakers were OK, but there was a couple of things I didn't like about them. First, the power switch was on the subwoofer (under the desk), and I wanted an easier way to power them on/off. I also didn't particularly care for the sound sound produced based on the speaker footprint; they were big, but they didn't sound big.
I went to one of the local computer stores, and spent some time listening to quite a variety of 2.1 speaker sets (don't have the space or interest for the 5+ speaker sets). The creative labs gigaworks speakers really impressed me. The footprint for both the subwoofer and stereo pair was fairly small, but the sound produced was extremely full. I'm amazed at how far the speaker technology has come since I last looked at computer speakers. Here's my subjective list of pros/cons:
* Sound/clarity. I'm not sure how to quantify this, but they do sound wonderful. I would urge anyone considering spending this much money on speakers to actually hear them before buying, as what I think sounds great may not be to your taste. But for me these really satisfy my sound palette.
* Footprint: I don't have a ton of space to work with, and these were fairly compact.
* The volume control. There is a rotary dial volume control that is very easy to use/intuitive. I love digital, but I confess I like the old "analog style" rotary volume control. Place this near your "mouse hand", and it's easy to adjust volume very quickly for any inbound phone calls, etc. And if you turn the volume all the way down, the amp will cut off altogether.
* Headphone/auxiliary jack. This is placed on the rotary dial I mentioned above. Very easy to plug in a set of headphones or other input source as needed.
* Price. It's a lot to spend on a computer speakers, at least for me. But I don't regret it.
* For some reason, I didn't receive a power cord in the box. No big deal, the unit accepts a standard "figure 8" power cord, but the cord really should be there.
* The midrange may be a little soft. Again, this is subjective.
In summary, I urge you to give these a listen if you are in the market for a 2.1 speaker set in this price range. I don't think you will be disappointed.
Thanks for reading.
17 of 20 found the following review helpful:
HUGE design flaw with this product
Apr 23, 2012
By K. Wong
First of all, if you think that my case is an isolated incident, do a quick search online and you'll see that many other people have this problem.
There is nothing wrong with the speakers - pretty nice sound actually. However, after using it for over a year, the contact points in the volume control pod gathers dust and causes a myriad of problems. Contact customer support, and they tell you that they do not have any replacement parts. If you are past the 1 year warranty, all they give you is a 10% off coupon code to buy a new pair of speakers. Honestly, why would I want to buy a new pair when it's just gonna break down after another year?
Many people have written online that they have the same exact problem, so unless you're willing to spend $200+ on a pair of speakers that's not going to work after a year, I would not recommend this product.
16 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Noticeable difference in the quality of the bass!
Feb 09, 2010
By sciolist
These speakers exceeded my expectations! My previous speaker system was a $100 5.1 Cyber Acoustics set, but the subwoofer in this T3 system is much better! I did a side-by-side comparison and the Creative speakers were definitely better.
I was about to purchase the Bose companion 2.1 system, but these were cheaper and newer.
The release date on the Bose was September 24, 2006
The release date on the Creative was February 9, 2009
So I went ahead and bought the Creative speakers because I figured the technology was newer.
I have a pair of Bose on-ear headphones and they are amazing, so I respect the Bose brand. However, I know Bose products are rarely on sale and there is a considerable mark up on their products. So I thought I'd get a better value with the Creative speakers.
The cool thing about the subwoofer is that it has a three driver configuration so the subwoofer looks like it's three sided. They call it SLAM technology, but that's just silly marketing stuff...
The satellite speakers look great and have a very small footprint.
Creative markets this as having audiophile grade drivers. I'm not an expert, but they sound noticeably better than $100 sets.
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The online world is a noisy place. Currently, there are an estimated 450-million English-speaking blogs on the web. No matter which way you look at it, that's a lot of content. Once you remove the copies, the spun articles and the god-forsaken article directories full of fluffed up awfulness, you'll start to get a clearer picture of just how hard it can be to locate the guys you should be following.
Here are 7 of the smartest entrepreneurs online. These are the cream of the crop and all have something to teach you about business as well as life.
Mark Cuban | Blog Maverick
Mark Cuban is a billionaire entrepreneur (is this beginning to sound like his Shark Tank intro?) who is most well known as the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise. Mark made his fortune during the dot-com boom and he's as web savvy as they come.
Mark doesn't post often; sometimes he goes a month or more without a peep. When he does blog though, it's always worth reading. He covers a wide range of topics running the gamut from business, politics, sports, television, life and even – you guessed it – his beloved Dallas Mavericks.
Example post: "The Cure to our Economic Problems"
Seth Godin | Seth's Blog
Seth is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur and one of the smartest "big picture" guys in the world. Seth made his fortune with several small companies before starting one of the first online marketing companies in existence. Godin is probably most well-known for the creation of Squidoo – one of the most trafficked sites on the web – or one of his many books, such as:
- "The Dip"
- "Permission Marketing"
- "Purple Cow"
- "All Marketers are Liars"
As far as blogging goes, Seth's Blog pretty much covers anything having to do with entrepreneurship, as well as marketing, life hacks, and ideas to help differentiate you from the crowd. The posting frequency has been very consistent lately with one or two blog posts most days. Most posts are short idea-type posts to spark your creative juices with others being quite long and informative.
Example post: "How to Downgrade"
Gary Vaynerchuk | Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk
Who doesn't know Gary V? The author of New York Times best seller "Crush It" is probably best known as the founder of (no longer updated) Wine Library TV, a daily video blog covering wine, rants and the New York Jets. Gary is now a high-priced consultant on social media and web marketing as well as a speaker and the author of the follow-up to his smash success, "The Thank You Economy."Gary is a true social media pioneer and was one of the most vocal proponents of building a personal brand via social media outlets.
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Tim Ferris is best known for his game-changing book, "The Four Hour Workweek." Tim is also: the Chinese national kickboxing champion, an MTV break dancer (in Taiwan), a champion ballroom dancer, a speaker of five languages and a 180-pound sumo wrestler. Is it any wonder Newsweek calls him, "The World's Best Guinea Pig?" As amazing as his achievements are, Ferris has some real business sense to go along with it and he's been an entrepreneur, with several companies under his belt, for over a decade.
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Sample post: "Forecasting Revenues Key To Successful Launch"
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