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This blog is closed. 27 September , 2007Posted by eugene in Uncategorized.
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After much thought, I have decided to close this blog and concentrate on my business at Green Future Solutions and AsiaIsGreen. Do continue to check out news on the environment and learn what you can do for the environment at www.AsiaIsGreen.com. Thanks.
The first aim of education 20 August , 2007Posted by eugene in 1 Respect Life & Renew Bond.
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Singapore's education system has improved over the years with the commitment from the government. One aspect that needs more emphasis is the respect for life.
After watching Prime Minister Lee's National Day Rally speech, what stuck in my mind was not the increase in CPF interest rates, nor was it the Home Improvement Programme or Punggol 21-plus. The image that lingered in my mind was the part when PM Lee got emotional and was trying hard not to drop tears when speaking about education. More precisely, he was recalling an email by MP Seng Han Thong on Mayflower Primary School, their can-do and never-say-die spirit, the students who performed confidently on stage, and their proud parents and grandparents.
His voice was wavering but he said it with his heart, "Whichever school you go to, whatever home background you come from, we will help you develop your talents to the fullest." To some Singaporeans, this might be insignificant or forgettable but to someone who has benefited from the education system, this promise from a leader is welcoming and reassuring. A leader who strongly believes in the power of education is a good leader.
With the commitment from the government, our education system will enable more young people to develop their talents. I must admit that the education system is not perfect but has improved over the years. Besides the emphasis on developing talents, there is something important that I think should be highlighted in our education system. It is based on what Norman Cousin said: "The first aim of education should not be to prepare young people for careers, but to enable them to develop a respect for life."
Although the education system is focused on developing talents for young people to advance in their careers, more time should be spent on helping them develop a respect for life. Developing respect means recognising and remembering that all living things, including humans, nature and its biodiversity, have a right to live on this planet and a purpose in life. We should treat all living things as part of us and do no harm to them. Let us not forget that humans are only one species out of millions of species that live on this Earth. And understand that we all share this planet and respect for each other is the only way for survival. Without that respect for life, a person with talents will not hesitate to harm fellow humans or other biodiversity. A person who strongly believes in the respect for life is a good person.
Support Local 9 August , 2007Posted by eugene in 5 Support Local Initiatives & Groups, 6 Use Rights as Citizens & Consumers.
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Most people are not aware of the environmental products and services available in Singapore. Sometimes when we advise people to go green, their reply was that it is hard to go green locally given the limited resources or products and services. I'm creating an online green resource guide to showcase information on green products and services. This would help more people to understand the green choices available in Singapore, and to buy and support local companies and products. SUPPORT LOCAL!
To sidetrack abit, just watched Royston Tan's 881 yesterday. Really enjoyed the film, great acting by the Papaya Sisters and the music is excellent. Thinking of getting the film soundtrack… Must watch local films. SUPPORT LOCAL!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE! And in 881 spirit, SINGAPORE HUAT AH!
Updates 27 July , 2007Posted by eugene in Uncategorized.
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I have not been blogging regularly as I'm planning to start my own business soon. More details later. Also realised that some comments are captured by the system as spam and deleted without my consent. I have not seen comments posted by readers since May as they are deleted as spam. So please forgive me for not responding to some of your comments. The system is so effective in classifying comments as spam that it reminds me of a Chinese saying: Ning ke sa chuo, bu ke fang guo.
Read Jul 07 27 July , 2007Posted by eugene in 2 Improve Awareness & Knowledge.
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Some books that I read this month:
This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers
After Live Earth, Give Up Hope 7 July , 2007Posted by eugene in 6 Use Rights as Citizens & Consumers.
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My letter below was published in Today on 6 Jul 07. There were some changes made to the content by the editor.
Live Earth, which will be held tomorrow across seven continents, is the brainchild of Al Gore, an environmental activist and former United States Vice-President, and will involve performers, who aim to spread awareness of climate change.
As the world waits for this monumental 24-hour event, I wonder what will happen after Live Earth ends. Will more people be concerned about climate change and start taking action?
If there is only one message to remember after watching Live Earth, it is this: Give up hope.
Give up hope that everything will turn out fine. Give up hope that Al Gore, Madonna or Linkin Park will save the world from climate change.
Give up hope that governments will do something for us.
Give up hope that the person beside you will do something.
Give up hope that some new technology will save us.
Give up hope – because when hope dies, that's when action begins.
When we give up hope that somebody or something will save us, we have no choice but to take matters into our own hands.
We have to do it ourselves and everyone can and must do something. It is not science, technology or governments that are creating this climate change problem but every one of us. Stop pointing the finger at others and take action now.
One, we can learn more about climate change and read up on related local and global issues. What are the problems and what needs to be done?
Two, minimise your daily energy usage and wastage. Switch off lights and computers when they are not in use. Use more efficient lighting and appliances.
Three, spread the message and influence others. We can educate family members, friends, classmates or colleagues on climate change. We can influence the groups to which we belong, whether it is a school, company or social group, to reduce its carbon footprint.
Four, support local environmental initiatives and groups that tackle climate change. We can participate in government initiatives and campaigns, or support the local environmental non-governmental organisations. We can join their activities or volunteer our time.
Five, use our rights as citizens and consumers. As citizens, we can participate in formulating government policies regarding climate change through dialogues, feedback or the media. As consumers, we can buy products with smaller carbon footprints or support companies that actively lower their carbon emissions.
Remember that after watching Live Earth: Give up hope. Because when hope dies, action begins.
Investing in environmental companies (continued) 29 June , 2007Posted by eugene in 6 Use Rights as Citizens & Consumers.
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More info about the zero certs:
- The zero certs launched by ABN AMRO are actually call warrants without any leverage.
- ABN AMRO do not charge management fees for the zero certs but the dividends paid by the companies in the index goes to them, that's how they make money.
- When the index reaches its maturity date after 3 years, the cash balance is settled and returned to the investor.
- Details on the companies in the Climate Change & Environment Index are shown in the attached file.
Read Jun 07 29 June , 2007Posted by eugene in 2 Improve Awareness & Knowledge.
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Some books that I read this month:
The Natural Heritage of Singapore by Hugh T.W. Tan, L.M. Chou, Darren C.J. Yeo and Peter K.L. Ng
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli
Sustainable Living for Dummies by Michael Grosvenor
Schroders Global Climate Change Fund 20 June , 2007Posted by eugene in 6 Use Rights as Citizens & Consumers.
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Schroders is launching the Schroders Global Climate Change Fund in the UK. The Fund invests in companies involved in the mitigation or adaptation of climate change. Not sure whether this fund will be available to local investors. There will be a seminar on investing in climate change and the fund on 17 Jul (6.30-8pm) at Aviva@Cecil. Register at the dollarDEX website.
Investing in environmental companies 15 June , 2007Posted by eugene in 6 Use Rights as Citizens & Consumers.
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ABN Amro launched ten Zero Strike Participation Certificates last week, including ten emerging markets and two themed zero certs. One of the themed zero certs is the ABN AMRO Climate Change & Environment Price Return Index. The index tracks 30 environmental companies in the following sectors: Ethanol; Hydroelectric Power; Other Alternative Fuels; Platinum and Palladium Mining; Solar Power; Water; Waste Management; and Wind Power. Some companies in the index include big players such as Veolia Environment, Waste Management Inc, Vestas Wind Systems, Suntech Power, Allied Waste Industries, etc.
The environment themed zero cert gives local investors another investment choice besides investing in stocks of individual environmental companies or energy related unit trusts. My understanding of the new zero certs is limited. The zero certs are actually call warants that expire on a certain date and can be traded like stocks. The environment index zero certs expires on 28 Mar 2010. For more info, ABN AMRO will be holding a free seminar on the zero certs on 28 Jun at the SGX Centre. To register, check out ABN AMRO's website.
There is no guarantee that environmental companies will do well but climate change and the environment will continue to be a hot issue over the next few years. More countries and companies will take action to improve their environmental performance and clean up their act. And this means business for environmental companies who help to clean up the land, water, air, and provide clean energy.
Ignorance is Bliss? 4 June , 2007Posted by eugene in 2 Improve Awareness & Knowledge.
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Can anyone be unaware of environmental problems in this digital age? Are we really ignorant or do we feign ignorance when we do not take action to change? Or maybe the truth is we don't want to change?
We take no action because we don't know _____.
Now we know _____ but we don't have time to do _____.
Now we have time but there are other things more important.
Now we completed the other things but it is too late to do _____.
We take no action because _____ is now gone.
Copyright Bill Watterson
Read May 07 23 May , 2007Posted by eugene in 2 Improve Awareness & Knowledge.
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Some books that I read this month:
The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton
The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson
Climate Change: A Guide For The Perplexed 18 May , 2007Posted by eugene in 2 Improve Awareness & Knowledge.
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The latest issue of New Scientist has a special report on climate change. The report answers questions on 26 common myths and misconceptions, to help people who are confused about global warming and climate change. Worth checking it out. Ignorance is no longer bliss in this digital age.
Global Warming: Four Possible Scenarios 15 May , 2007Posted by eugene in 6 Use Rights as Citizens & Consumers.
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My letter was published today in The Straits Times Forum in response to Warren Fernandez's article. The content is adapted from my earlier post.
I REFER to the article, 'Why I am not a climate change sceptic' by Warren Fernandez (ST, May 12).
For sceptics, is it possible to not believe in global warming but still take action? What if we do not presume that global warming is happening? Can we look at different scenarios and choose what to do?
Let us imagine four simple scenarios.
Scenario One is called 'Happily Ever After', where there is no global warming and no early action taken. The sceptics were right. No money was spent to implement useless plans to tackle climate change. Everyone lived happily ever after.
Scenario Two is called 'Pat On The Back', where there is global warming and early action was taken. Global warming is happening but with less impact because we took preventive actions. Money was spent but it turned out to be a good investment. We gave ourselves a pat on the back for doing what was necessary and right.
Scenario Three is called 'No Regrets' where there is no global warming and early action was taken. The scientists were wrong and money was wasted. Sceptics lambasted that the money could have been used instead to help developing countries.
But the scientists retorted that the sceptics were right with hindsight. The money spent was not wasted, it was used to make buildings and transport energy-efficient; develop alternative energy and reduce reliance on oil; and conserve trees and natural habitats.
We are not short of money, we are short of political will power and foresight. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that stabilising greenhouse gases at 535 to 590 parts per million will reduce the global economy in 2050 by 1.3 per cent. In 2005, global advertising expenditure alone was 1.3 per cent of world GDP and is sufficient to help developing countries meet United Nations millennium development goals.
Scenario Four is called 'Reap And Sow', where there is global warming and no action was taken. We see the impact of climate change, and now everyone believes. But it is too late. We reap what we sow.
Which scenario will happen?
If we take action, we either have no regrets or can pat ourselves on the back in the future. Nothing much to lose and everything to gain.
If we do not take action, we either live happily ever after or reap what we sow. Everything to gain or everything to lose.
What is your choice?
Voluntary Packaging Agreement 14 May , 2007Posted by eugene in 6 Use Rights as Citizens & Consumers.
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An article was published in the Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao regarding the Voluntary Packaging Agreement. More than 10 food and beverage manufacturers will sign the Voluntary Packaging Agreement next month. They will promise to reduce the material used for their product packaging.
Mr Ong Seng Eng, Director of the Resource Conservation Department, National Environment Agency (NEA), said that to effectively reduce packaging waste, we cannot just depend on public education about the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), we must also work closely with those involved with the source of the packaging waste – the manufacturers, importers and retailers.
The amount of packaging waste such as paper cartons, boxes, plastic and glass bottles, drink cartons and cans, adds up to 35% of the total household waste. NEA together with the Packaging Council of Singapore (PCS) and the Singapore Environment Council formed a working committee last year to address this packaging waste problem.
The Chairman of PCS said that they are partnering with their counterparts in Japan, Australia and New Zealand to learn from their experiences in making packaging more environmentally friendly. He also revealed that manufacturers are worried about consumers' acceptability of products with environmentally friendly packaging, and the cost of redesigning the new packaging. However, manufacturers acknowledge that consumers are more concerned about the environment,and improving their packaging becomes inevitable.
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The real culprit of global warming? Human activities 5 May , 2007Posted by eugene in 6 Use Rights as Citizens & Consumers.
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My letter was published today in the Straits Times Online Forum. Thanks to the ST editor for keeping the content intact and not trimming down such a long letter.
I REFER to the article, 'Who or what is the real culprit?' (ST, May 1), by Dr Andy Ho.
Dr Ho discussed three main points to debunk man-made global warming. One, there is no scientific consensus. Two, there is contradictory evidence and other causes. Three, it is caused by the sun. He is entitled to his views but I will offer my views to explain why I disagree with him.
In my opinion, there are two ways in which people reach consensus on global warming – after looking at the evidence or after hearing what other people say.
To show that there is no consensus, Dr Ho quotes three scientists – Richard Lindzen, John Christy and Paul Reiter. Through their quotes in the press and the documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle, Dr Ho suggests that there is no consensus among scientists and even within the IPCC.
On the other hand, I can show scientific consensus by listing national science academies that agree with man-made global warming and they include: National Academy of Sciences (United States of America); Science Council of Japan; Russian Academy of Sciences; Australian Academy of Sciences; Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts; Brazilian Academy of Sciences; Royal Society of Canada; Caribbean Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences; French Academy of Sciences; German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina; Indian National Science Academy; Indonesian Academy of Sciences; Royal Irish Academy; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy); Academy of Sciences Malaysia; Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; and Royal Society (UK).
Incidentally, the documentary has received complaints of being misleading and one-sided. In addition, a professor of physical oceanography at MIT who gave comments in the documentary is considering legal action against the producers after saying his comments were taken out of context to mislead people that man-made global warming is not real. He believes that 'climate change is real, a major threat and almost surely has a major human-induced component'.
So who is right? People have different views on issues, therefore, consensus should not be based on who is saying what but should be based on scientific evidence. This brings me to Dr Ho's second point.
The evidence that Dr Ho presented says that temperature rise precedes carbon rise by 800 years. Carbon dioxide is not causing global warming and the culprit could likely be water vapour, methane or nitrous oxide. His point is that carbon dioxide is not causing higher temperatures, therefore humans are not the cause of global warming.
What causes global warming? To answer that, we need to first understand the concept of radiative forcing and that carbon dioxide is not the only cause of global warming.
According to the IPCC report, radiative forcing is 'a measure of the influence that a factor has in altering the balance of incoming and outgoing energy in the Earth's atmosphere system and is an index of the importance of the factor as a potential climate change mechanism. Positive forcing tends to warm the surface while negative forcing tends to cool it'.
Different radiative forcing sources include carbon dioxide, mehane, nitrous oxide, ozone, surface albedo, aerosols and solar irradiance. Warming or cooling periods in the past are affected by the contribution from each forcing source, and is decided by the forcings that dominate or is amplified. Carbon dioxide is the dominant contribution to positive radiative forcing in recent times due to emissions from human activities, which is why it contributes mainly to global warming.
The idea that temperature rise precedes carbon rise is not new and can be found in several published papers. In a paper published in Science magazine by Caillon et al (2003), it was stated that 'the 800-year time lag is short in comparison with the total duration of the temperature and CO2 increases (~5,000 years)'.
It takes about 5,000 years for glacial-interglacial warming to happen and if the first 800 years of temperature rise is not caused by carbon rise, we cannot conclude that the remaining 4,200 years is not caused by carbon rise.
The first 800 years of warming could be due to one or more of the other radiative forces besides carbon dioxide, and then amplified by the radiative forcing due to carbon dioxide for the other 4,200 years. Therefore, the 800-year lag cannot conclude that carbon dioxide is not causing global warming.
Dr Ho suggested that the global warming culprit could be other gases because methane is 27 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and water vapour and nitrous oxide are each 380 times more powerful.
According to the IPCC report, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide in 2005 is 379ppm, methane is 1.774ppm, and nitrous oxide is 0.319ppm. Carbon dioxide still exerts greater radiative forcing than methane and nitrous oxide because it is in higher concentrations.
The IPCC includes water vapour in its climate models, although not as a radiative forcing but as a feedback. Although water vapour makes up the bulk of greenhouse gases, it is considered as a feedback because it has conflicting feedbacks on the greenhouse effect, and it also does not stay in the atmosphere for a long time.
Water vapour has a positive feedback by acting as a greenhouse gas and causing warming but it also has a negative feedback when it becomes clouds and reflecting solar radiation, thus causing cooling.
The third point by Dr Ho is that global warming is caused by the sun. He is partly right, global warming is caused by the sun and the associated water vapour and clouds, but they are not the dominant culprit.
The Earth is warmed by the sun and has an effect on climate. According to the IPCC report, 'changes in solar irradiance since 1750 are estimated to cause a radiative forcing of +0.12 W/m2', compared to total net anthropogenic radiative forcing of +1.6 W/m2.
Human activities still play a bigger role than the sun. In addition, a review paper in Nature by Foukal et al (2006) concluded that 'brightening of the sun is unlikely to have had a significant influence on global warming since the 17th century'.
The existing evidence and explanations available are sufficient to convince me that recent global warming is caused by human activities.
I hope that Dr Ho and other readers will not accept everything I say but to look at the scientific evidence and explanations, and then make up their mind on whether recent global warming is man-made and what actions to take.


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Definition of putsch in English:
A violent attempt to overthrow a government; a coup.
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- Not a few thought that the Herut might mount a putsch.
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text: A common thread running through Giorgio Battistelli's operas links them to the masterpieces of Italian cinema: from Teorema (1992) to Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1999), both inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini, to his most recent work, Divorzio all'italiana, based on the film by Pietro Germi. Yet another example is Prova d'orchestra (1995), six musical scenes from the fin de siècle on a text by Battistelli himself and loosely based on the film by Federico Fellini. A new production of this opera in Italian will be performed at the Staatstheater in Nuremberg in a co-production with the Stadttheater Bern. The first performance is on 14th March 2009 and additional performances will follow on 16, 19, 27 March, 7, 15 April and lastly 3 and 7 May.


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SHEPHERDSTOWN - Music, food, social time - all are things that make up a typical college party. When Young Life landed at Shepherd University, it took all those elements and subtracted a common factor - alcohol - and added in a spiritual message.
"It's a party, but everyone is sober," said Travis Metz, volunteer leader for Young Life at Shepherd. "It's a guilt-free social atmosphere that's really low pressure."
The Young Life program welcomes everyone, no matter their walk of life or religious background, to come and be themselves during the weekly meetings, and Metz said the group has changed his college experience.
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Young Life and YoungLives of Jefferson County held a combined fundraising banquet in Shepherdstown on Tuesday.
"We attract people from every social circle who want to come and have a good time," Metz said. "I wouldn't have nearly the amount of friends that I have now, but more importantly, I wouldn't have the good, kind friends that I have now."
Young Life is an umbrella program that came to Jefferson County three years ago, and includes programs such as YoungLives, a club for young, single mothers.
Michelle Price, area director of the county's Young Lives program, said the long-range vision of Young Life is to reach students from middle school, follow them through high school and then into college.
"Our heart is to reach every kid, not only the young moms," Price said, adding there is often confusion between the two names.
Young Life as a ministry provides a way to introduce adolescents to the Christian faith and continue to help them in their various walks of life, said area director Joel Heslop.
"We go to the schools and we get a chance to meet (students) where they are, it doesn't matter their walk of life," Heslop said.
Currently, Young Life has a program at Jefferson High School in addition to Shepherd University, and Young Lives reaches young mothers from all the county's high schools.
Price said that between the two ministries, they have a budget shortfall of $1,500 monthly.
Tuesday, the two held a combined fundraiser at Covenant Church in Shepherdstown.
Last year, both Young Life and Young Lives held individual fundraisers, which resulted in approximately $10,000 per event. Price said she had her hopes high this event would bring in the necessary funding for the program to continue to grow.
"This is a chance for everyone to hear where we have been and where we are going," Price said. "It's a free event, we just ask for donations."
The evening included dinner, raffles and an opportunity for students, like Metz, to share about how the program has impacted their lives.
For a long-range plan, Price said both she and Heslop would like to see the middle school program, which is called Wild Life, take off. For the young mothers' group, Price said she hopes to be able to hold the club meetings once or twice a week.
"We want to reach every middle and high school, and be able to know that there's not anyone slipping through our fingers," Price said.
- Staff writer Michelle Horst can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 138, or www.twitter.com/mhorstJN.


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While President Obama promotes renewable energy and members of Congress argue about energy policy, a renewable energy disaster is unfolding in Europe. Driven by a desire to halt climate change, Europe has created a high-cost energy system where everyone loses. U.S. policy leaders should learn from the debacle occurring overseas.


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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition Review: The Most Flexible Android Tablet Experience
Can Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 take on the iPad Air?
Samsung's Galaxy Note brand generates a lot of buzz these days, with consumers being much less sceptical about the stylus-equipped devices than when the original Galaxy Note phablet first emerged back in September 2011. However, certainly the most popular devices in the range have so far been the phablets: the Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy Note 3.
The larger tablets, which extrapolate the same concept to a bigger form factor, have generated some interest, but have seen nowhere near the surge in popularity as the phone devices. In part, that can probably be attributed to the continuing popularity of the iPad in the tablet space, and in the case of Android devices which have eaten away at Apple's dominant position, it's generally been more affordable options such as the Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire range which have stolen the show.
What am I building up to with all of this? Well quite simply that I think the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 is a much more refined iteration of the Note tablet concept than its immediate predecessor and therefore more worthy of attention, even in the face of competition from Apple's renewed iPad Air.
Design and build
One of the main reasons for that is because it follows a similar line to the iPad Air. As with Apple's revamp, the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 is thinner, lighter and better balanced. Its overall proportions are smaller and much more manageable than the first-gen 10.1-inch Galaxy Note, yet the display size has remained the same. Likewise, the bezel around the display has also narrowed for an even sleeker appearance, but just like its American rival, Samsung has been careful not to shear off too much of the surround so as to make it difficult to grip.
And difficult to grip it 'ain't, because as well as the sensible shrinkage the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 also closely adheres to its contemporary phablet stable-mate's design, with the Galaxy Note 3's grippy faux leather textured, soft-touch plastic back panel. It also has the same ridged texture to the silver surround, which adds further to the grip.
These grippy qualities and the overall smaller design means that the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 is virtually as easy to operate as the Galaxy Note 8.0, if not more so, and you should have no problems holding the slate in one hand while wielding the S-Pen in the other, like a true notebook.
Like other recent members of Samsung's Galaxy family, the Galaxy Note 2014 10.1 is an attractively designed device with nice smooth lines, flattering proportions and a good balance between the bodywork and silver accents.
The subject of the skeumorphic faux leather notebook style design may be a divisive one, however.
I am not particularly fond of it, but for me it is preferable to the old glossy plastic we used to see on every Samsung model. I can appreciate some may love it and others may loathe it. As mobile devices go though, it certainly makes things comfy to hold.
All that remains to say is that the Galaxy Note 10.2 2014 Edition exhibits Samsung's usual high-end build quality – it's robustly made with no creaking anywhere on the bodywork.
As well as once again performing the magic trick of shrinking a device while leaving its screen at a large size, Samsung has also improved the quality of the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014's display.
It appears, for all intents and purposes, that Samsung has lifted the same displays it used inside Google's Nexus 10 for the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014. The Note 10.1 2014 has excellent brightness, colour saturation and contrast, as well as good viewing angles and reasonable usability in sunlight. It packs the same incredibly clear 2560x1600 pixel resolution at 300 pixels-per-inch (ppi) as the Nexus 10.
Needless to say, visuals are superb and it's an ideal slate for watching feature films or TV shows, playing games and web browsing, as well as being well suited to all the creative stuff the S-Pen and its suite of apps allows.
Processor and performance
Now this is a tricky one. As with some previous Samsung devices, there are in fact multiple variants based on different processors. Previously this wasn't too much of an issue because certain processor models of, for example, the Galaxy S4, were region specific. With the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, however, that's not the case and you can get both processor variants in the UK with different connectivity options bundled-in.
The 4G/3G-enabled model uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 quad-core chip clocked at 2.3GHz with an Adreno 330 graphics processor in tow (GPU).
Meanwhile the Wi-Fi only variant is based on Samsung's own Exynos 5 Octa 'eight-core' (basically twin quad-core) chip, which uses ARM's big.LITTLE architecture to operate both a 1.9GHz Cortex-A15 quad-core unit and a 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 quad-core chip alongside each other.
Both variants use 3GB of RAM. But, crucially, the model I had access to for this review was the Exynos 5 Wi-Fi only variant.
This runs well. Very well, in fact, and is virtually as good as rival Android devices running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 quad-core chip.
But I did notice the occasional snag in performance which I should note I did not find running on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
Why is that important? Well it's important because the Galaxy Note 3 uses exactly the same Snapdragon 800 setup as the Snapdragon-equipped Note 10.1 2014 Edition, meaning the performance should be more-or-less like-for-like, though I'll admit I'm not able to prove this at present.
It's tempting to suggest that this potential boost in performance between variants could be more important than the ability to use a 4G/3G signal, although that's certainly a nice extra.
Performance isn't bad, I don't want to portray the idea that the Note 10.1 2014 Exynos model is constantly jerking and juddering. But performance blips are definitely there and it's in contrast to the Qualcomm 800-packing Note 3, which I described as having "flawless" performance when I reviewed it, and that's something I still stand by.
Gaming, for example, was on the whole quite smooth. Playing the DC fighting game "Injustice: Gods Among Us" worked fine for the most part, but with flashier effects I did notice the framerate dipping below that hallowed 30fps, sometimes even lower than 25fps which produced some visible chugginess if only for a moment. The back panel also has a tendency to get quite warm with prolonged use.
Onto the benchmarks.
Vellamo's chip test placed the Note 10.1 2014 towards the top of its charts with a score of 1257, just below the Note 3, although interestingly this is higher than my own Note 3 Vellamo score from back when I reviewed it where it chalked up 1180 – I can only assume a subsequent software update has given the Note 3 a bit of a boost in Vellamo's rankings since then.
AnTuTu similarly places the Note 3 ahead of its larger counterpart, the Note 10.1 2014 ranked with a score of 31149 – faster than the Galaxy S4, but slower than the Galaxy Note 3's 32837 score.
Hardware, connectivity, storage and web
The Note 10.1 2014 is available with 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of onboard storage (although we've yet to see the 64GB variant listed anywhere in the UK), each with microSD support for up to 64GB cards. It also packs microUSB connectivity for charging and data transfer, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct and Hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and an Infrared blaster.
As usual on Samsung devices, the connectivity hardware seems to be of very high quality- it doesn't have any issues with dropping connections to Wi-Fi networks and speeds are great where a good connection can be found.
Web speeds don't seem too bad in actual use, although I've certainly seen faster. Interestingly Vellamo's HTML 5 test clocked the Note 10.1 2014 with a higher score at 2803 than the Snapdragon 800-based Note 3 on its own rankings. My own Vellamo score for the Note 3 was 2512, so not a huge difference.
Meanwhile, Sunspider in Chrome chalked a speed of 1001.4 milliseconds (ms), which I'd say sits fairly comfortably with the real world use I experienced and was a wee bit slower than the Note 3's 931.1ms – no longer the fastest device on the market amidst a crop of 700ms or lower handsets from KYM's recent reviews, but still plenty zippy nonetheless.
I'm going to cheat a little bit here and refer you to the very same section from KYM's Galaxy Note 3 review, for the simple reason the software setup on the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 is exactly the same.
Check it out here, then come back.
Finished? OK, now my conclusions from that review on the Note 3's software still apply here. Samsung's stylus-based TouchWiz setup offers a multitasking experience unlike anything else in the mobile space and closer to a traditional desktop than any other tablet I've ever seen.
It also remains the undisputed king of stylus functionality – nothing else comes close, particularly the pen sensitivity and handwriting recognition capabilities.
These features surely have some key advantages for certain users from a productivity and creativity perspective, both in work and at home. Whether you're note taking, list-making, sketching, scrapbooking or brainstorming, you've got a good set of tools here.
The features also make excellent use of the expansive screen real estate whether you're watching a feature film in full screen, or checking out YouTube vids while browsing and chatting in split-screen mode.
In other words, it translates very well to the larger tablet format and, arguably, makes it more worthwhile overall than any other Android tablet to date – it actually has a decent, useful party trick over the iPad.
Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition Now Has Stock KitKat 4.4.2
Samsung has begun rolling out a stock build if Android 4.4 KitKat for the Wi-Fi only edition of the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.
The SM-P600 model tablet is being upgraded to firmware build P600XXUCND3, and as well as some minor bugfixes it adds the stock Android interface. The rollout is starting in Spain as an update over-the-air (OTA) and via the Samsung Kies software.
Other regions are expected to follow in the coming weeks, but if you really want it right now you can manually flash the update to your tablet using Odin software.
Know Your Mobile will have a guide posted shortly on how to do this, so stay tuned.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition comes with an 8,220mAh battery pack built-in, more than twice the size of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3's battery setup for a display that is a bit less than twice the size of that handset's. I say this because displays are by far the biggest battery drain.
It's perhaps unsurprising then with this doubling-up that battery performance is more-or-less comparable to the smaller Galaxy Note 3's impressive lifespan.
In our Django Test - running the whole of Django Unchained (2.45 hours) with full brightness and connected to Wi-Fi - the tablet went from 100% charge down to 53%. That's not quite as good as the Galaxy Note 3's 64% result, but it's not far off and that massive 300ppi display probably does put a strain on things for that 11% difference.
In normal use you can expect the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 to last a couple of days, although intensive gaming or streaming will knock this down to likely needing a daily charge. Based on the Django Test I'd estimate you can get about six hours of continuous media playback on a single charge, though turning on the auto-brightness and switching off other non-vital power drains in the settings menu could extend this slightly.
The only real issue here is that being a large tablet the back panel is non-removable, which in turn means that unlike the Galaxy Note 3, the Note 10.1 2014's battery is also non-removable and means you can't perform hot-swaps or replace the battery when it starts to age.
For the most part the Galaxy Note 10.2 2014 is exactly what I expected it to be, and this is a good thing. The Galaxy Note 3's impressive functionality translates very well to the larger tablet concept and adds some diverse use scenarios other 10-inch slates can't match. Again, that's multitasking and stylus input, to be clear.
It also does very well at your typical tablet tasks such as multimedia consumption, browsing and gaming – the display is fantastic for this. It packs plenty of storage both inside and out, and has good connectivity options, both typical features of Samsung premium models. Battery life is decent too.
And it is what I expected in terms of design improvements. The stylus functionality is improved, the chassis is thinner, nicely balanced and generally more stylish – thumbs up all round.
But there's one key way in which the Note 10.1 2014 is not what I expected, at least the Exynos version used for this review. Yup, you guessed it, performance.
To repeat, the performance isn't bad, per se, it's just not as good as I'd expected having tried the Note 3, with which the Note 10.1 2014 shares so much both in terms of hardware and software.
But, I appreciate this is noticeable to me specifically because I have used that device – it may not be a big concern for anyone else.
However, if you're a performance fanatic, or have a Note 3, and you do want the "flawless" performance seen on the Note 3 but on a bigger scale, then you really need to look for (and pay a bit more for, sadly) the 4G-enabled, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800-based Note 10.1 2014 variant.
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bufhwm on large systems
By clive on Jan 04, 2008
I was asked yesterday to look at a busy system with high system time. Its Solaris 9 on a big config 25K. This output was the top of the lockstat -C -s 50 output.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Count indv cuml rcnt spin Lock Hottest Caller 132614 59% 59% 1.00 199 blist_lock[8] bio_recycle+0x224 spin ------ Time Distribution ------ count Stack 1 | 186 bio_recycle+0x224 2 | 2335 bio_getfreeblk+0x4 4 | 4247 getblk_common+0x2bc 8 |@ 7190 bread_common+0x80 16 |@@ 11570 bmap_read+0x20c 32 |@@@@ 18285 ufs_directio_read+0x2e 64 |@@@@@ 25634 rdip+0x198 128 |@@@@@@ 28613 ufs_read+0x17c 256 |@@@@@ 22918 pread+0x28c 512 |@@ 9707 1024 | 1761 2048 | 157 4096 | 11
A bit of Solaris code reading lead me from the stack above to question the value of bufhwm. I checked it out again on docs.sun.com to really understand what this value does. Its the high water mark in K of the size of allocated buffers used for UFS indirect blocks, directories and other bits of metadata.
I went back to check some basic assumptions(always a good plan) and did an Explorer review. The following line is set in /etc/system :
set bufhwm=8000
I have no idea why it was set to 8000 on this system. I have seen it set many times on many systems and have not paid much attention on this and other systems. 8000 is proposed in many places as a reasonable value. I must admit I have never needed to suggest this value is tuned and my unconcious just assumed that it was just a good idea because common wisdom said so and never made a comment when other people tuned it.
By default this value would be 2% of memory. So this system had > 200Gb which would default to around 4GB. I expect 4gb would waste some memory, but then its a high water mark. 8mb is far too small on this size of server give that the buffer cache is used to store indirect blocks, directories, etc from a set of filesystems near 2 TB!
We can observe if buffer recycling is causing an issue using the following
echo "bfreelist$ buf" | mdb -k echo "v::print -t struct var" | mdb -k kstat -p -n biostats
and sar -b might also give some insight.
So the morals to repeat to myself include
- Turn off your unconcious mind when examining /etc/system. Don't assume any /etc/system setting is valid
- Never carry /etc/system tunables forward
- Put a comment in /etc/system if you set a value based on a attribute like memory size with has a potential to change citing the assumption.
Various customers who I have visited over the years comments in the form in /etc/system
# email@example.com 4/1/2008 # bufhwm value of 8000 assumes a memory size of 4gb and 600GB of UFS filesystem. revisit if size changes # Check with kstat -p -n biostats before changing set bufhwm=8000
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:24 pm
Post subject: Got our results today!
Well we went to the doctors today to see what our results were, my blood came back fine I ovulated, everything else they checked was normal only problem was my blood sugar was slightly raised but I've just gotta go back in and do a fasting blood test when I spoke to my mum though she said the blood sugar they had quoted was within the normal range considering I'd just had breakfast! And she should know she's a nurse and married to my father who has been diabetic since he was 4! So on my part everything is fine,
My OH results were also fine he has a normal range of sperm 39.4 I think she said, his mobility was borderline normal and there was a normal range of healthy looking ones (it was all a bit confusing!) but basically we're both producing the right things!
Anyway she said that we are both completely fertile and there is no reason why we haven't conceived yet, but I would have thought that there would be more tests she said that I don't need to be referred for anything else and that it might just take us a bit longer to conceive.
I feel so flat on one hand yes I am relieved that we are both fertile but then why haven't we got pregnant yet? How long do we have to wait for this to happen?
So basically I want to ask is our doctor right is there no more tests for us?
Also how can we maximise our chances of getting pregnant, we've both quit smoking, and drinking, I'm losing weight and eating better. We're trying to BD regularly through the month and obviously we step it up to every day during my fertile period and I'm taking folic acid what else can we do? Is there any positions that make things more likely to help us conceive!
Sorry so many questions but this has thrown up so many for us, we were prepared for there being a problem with one of us and then we would just have to accept we wouldn't be able to have children and find a way to get over that and get on with our lives now it feels like we're still stuck in limbo
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You should be referred to a gynae for an ultrasound to check your womb/ovaries etc. my sister had bloods and told fine ovulating no issues but her scan showed PCOS. She was told that bloods alone are not adequate when looking at things like PCOS because its a syndrome which can present itself differently in each woman.
If your scan came back normal then the next step would be to check your tubes.
I would definitely request more tests. BD every couple of days is your best bet in the meantime!
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:50 pm
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Our initial tests at the doctors didnt throw up any problems but we got referred to the fertility clinic at our local hospital (we'd been trying 18 months at this point). We got quizzed about our lifestyles etc.. they then referred my o/h for a more detailed sperm analysis and offered me a lap and dye test to check my tubes to see whether my tubes were open (which they werent). Im surprised you havent been referred tbh as if its been over a year of trying then you fall into a bracket of 'unexplained infertility' which they sometimes offer clomid for etc..
As for what you can do, are you absolutely sure when you ovulate ? I invested in cheap ovululation tests from ebay which pinpointed things exactly for me. Also do you get fertile cervical mucus? It resembles egg whites bit gross but the sperm can swim easily in it during your fertile period. You can do things to increase it like drink more water. Position wise its boring but missionary and try having an orgasm after your o/h has ejaculated as this can kind of draw in the sperm to where it needs to be, also my o/h propped my bum and hips up with a pillow after so I was tilted for a while lol not overly sexy but needs must. I never got up after doing the deed either I just went to sleep.
Ttc since December 2007!
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Pretty sure they should at least be doing some sort of tubal patency test(HSG or Hycosy) depending how long you have been trying.
Ultrasound is not done in general on the NHS unless it is indicated.
This is the map of medicine for infertility:
There's no timescale on anything though. I can't remember, how long is it you've been trying this time? xx
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:45 pm
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That's what I thought at the very least they should have referred me to get my tubes checked I would have thought anyway!
We've been trying for just over 2 years we've been talking this evening we're going to spend the next three months throwing everything at it so to speak and then have a bit of a break for a few months get Xmas out the way etc and then go back to the doctor and demand a referral to gynae I guess like I said just feel really flat with it all but we're going to research ways of pushing the chances up and keep our fingers crossed
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:37 am
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Yeah I'd definitely ask about an HSG, maybe your GP is one of the many who presume that if you already have a child you can't have blocked tubes of course that's not true and it's one of the leading causes of secondary infertility.
On paper from the test results me and my OH are both fertile but my only tube is blocked and we could probably try for ever and still not get a BFP
You can have a HSG done privately if you want to, it costs from about 260 to 400 ish depending on your area (the south is more expensive for private treatments) but you get your report there and then so at least you'd know, the NHS should do it though as it's counted as an investigation which even women with children are entitled to, to be honest I'd go back and ask for the referral now, as it can take months for appointments to come through so it could well be after Christmas anyway and if you've been trying for 2 full years with nothing happening then you've certainly waited long enough .
As far as sperm go zinc and selenium are the top two to take and high dose vit C (1000mg)as its a great anti oxidant and helps combat any damage to sperm cells, Vit E, B12 and co enzyme Q10, also essential fatty acids such as omega 3 which you can get from fish oil capsules (also good for lowering your risk of diabetes),some of these might be in a multi vit but some won't as they'd bulk it out to much, or they'd be there but at a lower dose, all of these are also good for eggs which are also just a single cell, because sperm and eggs are just single cells they can be damaged quite easily so anything that helps protect and strengthen them will increase your chances and egg quality is just as important of not more so than sperm quality as you only get one each month Good luck xx
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Hi again,
Just read your post about throwing everything you've got at it for a few months so thought I'd mention that I had my Hycosy done privately. They did an ultrasound at the same time and looked at my ovaries/womb etc. as well as injecting the liquid into my tubes to check they were clear so very thorough and said at the beginning that if they opulent get an answer with the Hycosy would have done an HSG there and then so I would definitely go away with some answers. I reckon that if you had the same done that would cover all bases on the testing front. It cost us £360 which is a lot but I really couldn't handle the stress of waiting for the NHS appointment and going through the hit and miss appointment booking system they had and it also meant I could name the date I wanted before ovulating so I didn't have to miss out on trying that month. All in all I'd recommend it, they gave me a full report and a DVD of all the scan pictures to take away so I have them available for any next steps we decide to take - I was also told that having the tube test done actually increases your chances of BFP for a few months as it can clear out any mucus in your tubes so I've got all my fingers crossed for the next few months! Otherwise it's private IVF that would be the next step for us as cant get it funded as we already have a child.


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Lakeland travels around the world
April 22, 2015
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On April 14, Lakeland celebrated its 10th annual International Night. The event was hosted by the Global Student Association (GSA). The night was filled with singing and dancing which represented countries from around the world. Both international staff and students were given the opportunity to display... Read more »
Top 4 worst ways to study for finals
Michelle Fromm, Managing Editor
December 5, 2013
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Whether it's a final paper, a presentation, or the dreaded final exam, we all have a lot of preparation to do for finals week. I want to wish you the best of luck as we enter this difficult time, as well as warn you of some common pitfalls. 1. Checking Facebook If you're Facebook friends with... Read more »
Greek Life
Andy Kay, Staff Reporter
October 31, 2013
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Twice a year, near the beginning of every semester, all six Greek organizations host weeklong events and parties in an effort to secure potential new members, also known as "pledges." These weeks are colloquially known as "rush week." At the end of rush week, each Greek organization hands out... Read more »
Film club at Lakeland
Austin Anderson, Staff Reporter
September 30, 2013
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The first film club at Lakeland College has begun this year. The idea came from Lakeland student, Devin Kelly, a sophomore/junior Germen major at Lakeland. He shared the idea with close friend, Collin Parish, a junior history major. They then envisioned a group that was devoted to the students and making... Read more »
Student vs. faculty basketball game
Benjamin Wilks, Staff Reporter
March 28, 2013
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"Age is nothing but a number" is what you usually hear when the old compete against the young. Whether it's the stubbornness of not wanting to be old, or the urge of the young to prove themselves to the elders, the conflict of who is better will always exist. The cycle will continue until time... Read more »
Matt Troyer named Mr. Muskie 2012, winning despite twin sweater situation
Michelle Fromm, Managing Editor
October 14, 2012
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Last week's homecoming activities included the annual "Mr. Muskie" pageant, during which five male contestants competed for the title of Mr. Muskie 2012. The Lakeland College Dance Team organized the event, which took place on Thursday Oct. 4 in Bradley. The team's co-captains, Siera Ramirez... Read more »
Just couldn't wait…to go to Lion King and Mall of America in Minnesota
Heather Hartmann, Staff Reporter
February 1, 2012
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Fifty-two Lakeland students embarked on a two day journey to Minnesota, sponsored by LC-CAB, where they visited the Mall of America and saw the Broadway musical version of The Lion King. At six in the morning on Saturday, Jan. 21, 52 students, three LC-CAB members, and two chaperones boarded the Sunset T... Read more »
Lakeland students have many housing options: Take advantage of the opportunities of on-campus living
Al Fairchild, Staff Reporter
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- Finding photos by keywords, tags, and ratings
- Mapping photos
- Applying Photomerge Exposure in Guided Edit
- Adding adjustment layers to correct a photo's tone and color
- Reducing digital noise in photos
- Creating a photo slideshow with audio and transitions
- Preparing photos for the web
Skill Level Beginner
The panels on the right side of the Quick Fix workspace offer controls that you can use to fix common photo problems like lighting issues, or color issues, or even to sharpen your image. I have opened this image from the 05_03 folder as I showed you how to do in the last movie, starting in the Organizer, selecting the image and then opening it here in the Quick Fix portion of the Editor workspace. The first panel in Quick Fix is the SmartFix panel. This is a kind of one-stop shopping that attempts to correct brightness, contrast, and color in an image.
There are several ways to apply SmartFix. One is simply by clicking the Auto SmartFix button, and sometimes this is all you need to do the image. Let's see what it does in this case. I'm going to click the Auto button, and immediately I see the results here in the document window. These results are really too intense for my taste. So I'm going to undo Auto SmartFix by going up to the top of the interface and clicking the Undo button. By the way, if you've made more than one change, you could always get back to the initial state of the image by coming down to the Reset button here, and clicking.
And as the tool tip says, this will revert the photo to the way it was before any Quick Fix changes. Another way to apply SmartFix is to use these sliders here manually. So if I don't like the Auto result, I'll see how this looks if I click the slider and just drag it slightly. Well that's a little bit better, but I still don't like this result. So I'm going to come up to the two icons at the top of the SmartFix panel, there is a checkmark and a cross. If I don't want to make this change, I'll click the cross. If I do want to make the change, I'll click the checkmark.
Even after I click the checkmark though, I can still step back one step using this Undo button, or multiple steps pressing this Reset button. But at this point, I'm just going to click the X on SmartFix to reject that change. Before I leave the SmartFix panel, I want to show you that it has a little grid icon here. This is something new in Elements 8, and you'll notice that each one of these sliders has a grid icon to the left. I am going to explain what this grid does, when I get down here to the Saturation controls, but I did want to mention that you have the option to use the grid with all of these controls including SmartFix.
Well let's move on to the Lighting controls now. There are three separate Lighting controls. The first of those is Levels, and with Levels, you get only one choice, an Auto button. I'll give it a try and see what it does to this image. In this particular case, Levels is introducing a really strong colorcast, and I don't like that result. What Levels does is looks for the brightest tones in the image, and tries to brighten those, and looks for the darkest tones and tries to darken those, and expands the range of midtones in between.
But Levels can also introduce a colorcast like this. So sometimes this is not the best choice. I'll undo this Levels adjustment by going up to the Undo button and clicking. Instead I'm going to try the next control, which is Contrast, which also has only an Auto button. I'll click Auto Contrast, and I think in this case that does a fairly good job, certainly better than Auto Levels. So I might just go with this and move on to the Color section, but I do want to show you what the next three sliders do in the Lighting panel.
So I'm going to undo this Auto Contrast change, by going up to the Undo button and clicking. Using these three sliders, I can adjust the darkest areas, the shadow areas separately from the brightest areas, the highlight areas. I can adjust the midtones in between separately as well. So I'll start with the Light and Shadow slider dragging it to the right to brighten up the darkest areas of this image. And that alone has a pretty dramatic effect on this particular photo. Let's see what happens if I try to darken the highlights as well.
Now in this particular photo, that doesn't have a lot of effect, but it does bring out some of the cloud detail in the sky. Now I could increase or decrease the midtones in the image. I'm going to try increasing them by dragging the Midtone slider slightly to the right, and if I'm now satisfied with the results of dragging all three of these sliders, I'll go up to the top of the Lighting panel, and I'll click the checkmark. Now the image still doesn't look the way that I'd like it too. I have done something about the tones in the image, but I haven't yet addressed the color.
One of the problems with the color here is that I think it's not intense enough. So I'm going to go to the Color panel and here, I could try to automatically correct the color by clicking this Auto Color button. But in this case Auto Color doesn't work. It's creating these really unnatural looking colors in this image. So I'm going to undo by clicking the Undo button at the top of the screen, and instead, I could try to move the Saturation slider by hand, in order to increase the intensity of color in this image. But this is a case where I think that the grid of thumbnail previews is really going to come in handy, because I really don't have a good sense of what's going to happen when I move the Saturation slider.
So it's hard to choose how far to move it. I am going to click on this grid to the left of the Saturation slider, and here, I can see nine thumbnails, each representing a different level of saturation. I'm not going to click. I'm just going to move my mouse over the first of those thumbnails and notice that moved to the saturation slider to -100, and the image has no color in it at all. I don't recommend this is a way to convert color to black and white, but it's a good example of what decreasing saturation will do.
Well, I obviously want more color than this so I'll move to the next thumbnail, and then the next, and again, I'm not clicking. I'm just moving my mouse over these various thumbnails to try out or get a sense of what these various preset levels of saturation are going to do the image. And notice as I move from thumbnail to thumbnail, that saturation slider is moving to various presets. So here it's at level 25, and here the slider is at level 50, level 75, and so on. Well, this is obviously too much saturation.
I think this is just about right level 25. So I'm going to click on that thumbnail, and that sets the saturation. Now if I want to fine tune that, maybe bringing it down to about 23 or so, but I don't want to go so far as zero, which is what's offered by this next thumbnail, I could try to click on the 25 level thumbnail and drag to fine tune somewhere in between those two levels. But to be honest, I find that really hard to control as you can see. So instead of doing that, I'm just going to click on the 25 level thumbnail, and then come up to the slider, and I'm going to drag to the left manually, decreasing the saturation just slightly from that preset represented by that particular thumbnail.
So that's what the thumbnail grid does, and you do have a thumbnail grid not only on saturation, but on these other controls as well, and sometimes that will come in handy for you. I'm going to scroll down a bit to show you that there are a couple of more color related sliders. Here is a Hue slider, which will change the overall hue of the image. I'll click its grid to show you some of the choices. These are all pretty psychedelic, so I'm not going to go there with this image. I'll just leave it at its default, and close that grid. Now I'll accept my color changes by clicking this checkmark, and I'll move down to the Balance area.
There are two sliders here that affect the overall color balance of the image. The first, Temperature, ranges from a cool blue, to a warm orange, with these thumbnails representing other temperature levels in between. I actually like the default here, so I'm going to leave that thumbnail selected. The thumbnail with the orange arrow on it is the default thumbnail, so that if I happened to select another thumbnail, and then I want to get back to the default or the original state of temperature, I'll just click on this thumbnail, the one with the arrow.
I am going to close that grid and give you a look at the Tint grid so you can see that it ranges from green to magenta. The Tint control comes in handy most often when I'm correcting skin tone, because often, skin tone needs just a little bit more magenta. But in this case, I'm going to leave it at its default, and click the grid to close it. After all the adjustments are made, it's time to sharpen the image, and that can be done from the Detail area of Quick Fix. There is an Auto Sharpen button here, I can give that a try, but I really don't like that result.
I can see too much of the noise in the sky. So I'm going to go up to the Undo button and click it, and instead, I can open the grid, I'll scroll down, so you can see the choices there and then I could move my mouse over the various choices and click on the one that I liked. I'm going to go to the second thumbnail. I'll select that one. I could fine tune with the slider but I think things are fine as they are. So I'm going to click the checkmark. At this point, I would come down to the View menu and change View from After Only to Before & After.
In order to see the entire image, I'd go to the Zoom tool, select the Zoom Out button and click in either of these two previews, and both changed together. So now I have a really visual representation of how the image looked without the changes I just made, and how it looks with the changes that I made here in the Quick Fix workspace, quite a dramatic difference in this case. Now at this point, there is something else that I need to do. I need to save the image with these changes. If I were working in the Fix panel of the Organizer, I wouldn't have to save, because changes made there are saved automatically.
But in Quick Fix, I do have to save my changes. So I'll go up to the File menu, I'm going to choose Save As and I'm not going to show you all the detail in the Save As dialog box, yet I'll do that in a later movie. So I'll just leave everything at its defaults and I'll click Save and then I'll click OK. And that doesn't save over the original; it just saves another copy of the image with all the changes that I made here. And finally, when I'm done, there is a close button here. Before I click Close, let me show you what the image would look like in the Organizer if I didn't close it here in the Editor.
I'm going to go to the top of the Editor and click the Organizer button and here you can see in the Organizer, my open image with this red locked belt across it, telling me that this image is in progress in an Editor. So now I'll go back to the Editor, by going up to the Fix tab in the Organizer and choosing Quick Photo Edit. I'll cancel out of that message and I'm back in the Quick Fix workspace of the Editor. So here, I'm going to click Close to close the image, and if I go back to the Organizer by clicking the Organizer button at the top of the Editor, I no longer have that warning that an edit is in progress.
So that's a look at the controls in the Quick Fix workspace of the Editor. As you can see, Quick Fix gives you the best of both worlds. It offers access to powerful editing controls but it also presents them in a simple way that's relatively easy to learn and to use.


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ProductsOctober 26th, 2008 at 01:11 am by Bakers in
(Order online through the FarmMatch button above. If you have problems using it, you can also e-mail or call us.)
This is a listing of everything we make. Not everything is always available and some things are only available through the Farm Exchange buyer's club. For up to date availability and for easy ordering, click on the link above. You can order as a guest, or create an account if you are planning to order more often.
Our products & services include:
Pastured poultry (whole and various cuts available)
Farm Exchange Membership has its privilages!
Custom Meat Processing (chicken, goat, sheep, rabbits).
Farm tours
To place an order, follow this link: FarmMatch. Upon receipt of your order, we will update it with exact weights as we fill it. Specify UPS shipping, delivery, or on farm pick-up.
Naturally raised Chickens
These are the North's tastiest broilers chickens, raised on our pasture and processed in our shop on the farm. They enjoy a diet that is free of antibiotics, growth stimulants, and animal by-products. The feed is GMO free. The fresh green grass they live on through the summer adds sun-based sources of Vitamins A & D and Omega-3's into their diet. We process them in our MDA approved on-farm facility to minimize stress on the birds. All cuts are vacuum packed.
All prices are cost per pound.
Whole Chickens (specify if you want 3-4 lb. or 4-5 lb. birds): $4.50/lb
Fill your freezer: 15 or more birds (specify size): $4.20/lb.
Cornish Hens (2.5-3.0 lb: $4.50/lb
Bone-in breast: $5.99/lb
Dark meat: leg/thighs, thighs: $5.10/lb
Drums: $4.50/lb
Boneless, skinless breast: 10.50/lb
Boneless thighs: $7.98/lb
Wings: $2.40/lb
Ground Chicken: $6.18/lb
Tomato Herb Chicken Sausage This sausage features fresh tomatoes and herbs for a light, flavorful sausage that improves any dish and can stand on its own as a main dish!
Stew package: (back, breast bone, neck-generally 10-20 lb. bag)
Hearts/ Livers: $2.00/lb
Gizzards: $4.00/lb
Feet: $1.50/lb
Bone Broth: $3.00/half gallon, frozen
Stewing Hens(check for availability):
Didn't see a cut you are looking for? Just ask as we can make about anything you might need!
Smoked Chicken
This is a fall treat! Pre-order in August for September/October availability.
Our own tasty smoked chicken, brined in our own recipe and hardwood smoked so it's juicy and tender. A slightly pink color in the fully cooked meat shows that flavorful smoke. When we tried the first one, it looked like a cartoon where all the characters descend on a beautifully roasted brown bird and when they back off nothing is left but a stripped carcass. Whole birds make a great holiday treat. Legs & thighs will feed your hungry eaters a tasty lunch or a healthy, quick snack. Our tasters say:
"This is the best chicken I've ever eaten in my life!" LaVerne Miller
"I just can't stop eating this stuff!" Kyle Baker
"It was fantastic. The flavor went all the way through. Sometimes it's just on top in the skin, but this had flavor all the way to the bone." Joel Clark
"The meat was absolutely succulent." Mandy Clark
Whole chicken:$5.50/lb.
If you have questions, please contact us by e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, or phone: 231-825-0293.
You can order at FarmMatch.com.
BJ's Cowboarding Dairy Cow Herd Share
Real milk is no longer something Grandpa and Grandma drank as kids. Raw ("real") milk is milk the way it was created to be, a complete package deal tailor made for bodies to benefit from. Properly handled milk, harvested in sanitary conditions and properly kept in refrigeration is one of the safest food products, statistically, that farms produce. In Michigan we can not sell you raw milk.
We have teamed up with an organic dairy, BJ's Cowboarding, to enable you to own a share of a cow herd so that you can enjoy the real milk your own cow gives. We serve as contract agents for BJ's Cowboarding, who maintains and cares for the herd. The cows are kept under certified organic rules. The milk is routinely tested to ensure its wholesomeness. It is provided to you by Joe and Brenda (the farmers) just as the cow gave it.
Here's how it works: you will need to purchase a share of the herd. A share is approximately equal to one gallon of milk per week. You can purchase as many shares as you want and as are available. This is a one time purchase. BJ's Cowboarding will care for your share of the herd, making sure the animal(s) are fed, milked, and otherwise kept healthy. For this service there is a monthly room and board fee based on how many shares you own. For example, if you want one gallon of milk per week you will need to purchase one herd share. From that point you can pick up your gallon of milk (the produce of your share of the herd) every week and pay the monthly room and board fee. That's the nutshell version. If you want to know how to make your milk into your favorite milk products, we'd be happy to teach you!
When you contact us, as agents for the farm, to let us know you are interested, we will send you the contracts to review. Once the contracts are signed and you have become the proud owner of part of a dairy cow herd, you can begin nourishing your body with real, creamy milk.
Buy your share of a dairy cow herd and begin enjoying creamy, real milk! Become a Farm Exchange member and make it a "one-stop-shop" for your dairy, meat, eggs, and seasonal produce.
Grass fed Beef
We are working with BJ's Cowboarding to provide you with tasty, low fat, pasture raised beef. The beef are raised on the same organically certified pastures the dairy cows graze. The animals move to new pasture daily to make the most of the natural growing cycles of the grass and alfalfa. Cows were made to eat grass as their diet staple, not grain. The cows stay healthy and happy as they rotate through the fields. They only get the grains that grow in the fields–the natural ones that are a whole food, harvested by the cows themselves.
Currently we have ground beef available in 20# increments, but will be adding more cuts soon. Let us know if you are interested in a whole, half, or quarter.
Available by the quarter, half, or whole in the fall. Reserve yours soon!
Some cuts available.
Steaks: Sirloin
Roasts: Sirloin tip
Mangalitsa Hogs
This is a unique offering. These are Mangalitsa cross pigs and represent the ultimate in high end pork as well as survival food. They have lots of lard and very tasty, red meat. We plant pastures for them, so a share of their feed comes from forages. The lard is lighter and reportedly lower in saturated fats than standard hog fat. Properly rendered, it makes a tasty substitute for butter in many dishes. From a food storage standpoint, we can show you how to preserve the fat and prepare hams and bacons yourself. Available by the half or whole in the fall.
Mangalitsa Hogs are a fat-type hog prized for the premium quality of the specialty sausages and hams (prosciutto) that it can produce. The fat of an acorn finished hog is renowned for its low saturated fat quality and its usefulness as a food dish in itself. Our hogs are raised to maturity on dirt and grass to promote the best in flavor and texture in the meat. They are finished on a small-grain diet, which creates the fat desireable in charcouterie. We will have a small group of premium quality hogs finished on acorns, making them comparable to the Spanish Iberico hogs. Finished hogs weigh between 250 lb. and 300 lb. Carcasses are scalded and scraped and include the head and hooves. Prices are for carcass hanging weight and do not include delivery, please call for a quote.
Reserve your hog for this fall with an e-mail or phone call and a deposit!
Whole or Half: $4.50/lb
Roasting pigs: $4.50/lb
If you have questions, please contact us by e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, or phone: 231-825-0293.
Our hens are fed a wholesome diet that excludes GMO grains, antibiotics and animal byproducts. The hens are out in the pastures in the summer, eating grass and catching bugs as they were meant to do. They receive alfalfa meal during these winter months to keep their eggs full of the goodness of green. You can see this in the orange color of the yolk. Eggs laid by "pastured" hens such as ours have a reputation for being lower in cholesterol and higher in Omega-3 fatty acids. Eggs are good for 100 days under refrigeration, and ours are available to you as fresh as possible so that they are the best quality.
1 dozen: $3.50 Currently available only for Farm Exchange members.
1 dozen: $5.50 (Co-0p with Morganic Farm, Kingsley, MI)
1 dozen duck eggs: $5.50 (Co-0p with Morganic Farm, Kingsley, MI)
Farm Exchange
You don't have to own a farm to have a piece of one! This is an opportunity for you to be part of the farm! By purchasing a share in the farm you gain access to the farm's storehouse. This is where we keep our for sale beef, chicken, pork, eggs, and any other produce. We will also offer complimentary products from other farms so that the storehouse can be as full as possible for you. You will receive an e-mail with member exclusive product updates, sales, and bargains. You can utilize your share in small chunks by stopping by each week, or by placing a larger order that we can have ready for you when you come. You will be the first to know, via the e-mails, about bulk purchasing of beef and pork (buying whole or half animals).
The Farm Exchange is not a store. It is not open to the public. It is members only. We call it an "Exchange" because we are offering to exchange our farm fresh, wholesome food for what you have. We have values posted on or near products. Normal exchange will be for U.S. funds. By arrangement, we can also exchange for goods or services. Please discuss with us if this is of interest to you.
Because this is a private arrangement and it's success depends on the reliability of our members, we do have an application process. We encourage and reward good referrals because we believe you know best who you would trust to have as a fellow shareholder. We also encourage group purchases if you have a friend or two who would also like farm fresh food but live some distance away.
Please e-mail or call if you want to be a part of the farm. We will e-mail the application and arrange a farm visit so you can enjoy your farm fare! You can initiate the application process by following this link (FarmMatch) and ordering a Farm Exhange membership.
If you are interested, please contact us by e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, or phone: 231-825-0293.
Custom meat processing
We are able to process your chickens, turkeys, rabbits, goats, and sheep in our shop. We are MDA licensed and USDA custom exempt inspected. We do vacuum pack larger animals. Poultry and rabbits go in freezer bags but are not vacuum sealed. All packages are labelled with the cut, weight, and date.
We will add you to our schedule when you call. We receive your birds or rabbits on Thursday evening and have them ready for pick-up on Friday evening.
Call to schedule your birds or small animals!
Chickens: $3.50/bird (over 6 lb. dressed is $4.00, over 8 lb. dressed is $4.25)
Cutting and vaccuum packing available on request.
Turkeys: $8.75 up to 20 lb. (add'l $0.25/lb over 20 lb.)
Ducks: boneless skinless breast only: $3.00
Ducks: whole, skinned: $6.00
Rabbits: $5.00 each
Goat and Sheep (fall only): $70.00
Other outlets
Besides direct off the farm, you can acquire our chicken in several other outlets:
Willow Mercantile, Cadillac, Michigan
Port City Organics, Manistee, Michigan
Sawall's Health Food Store, Kalamazoo, Michigan
If eating out, you can support restaurants who buy local farm food:
The Cook's House, Traverse City, Michigan
Martha's Leelanau Table, Sutton's Bay, Michigan
Epicure Catering, Omena, Michigan
Compost with Biochar
Our compost is made from our own chickens' and cows' manure mixed with wood chips and other organic materials. Most of our compost has biochar mixed in so that the char is innoculated and ready to use.
1 yard: $50.00
Our son Joe is the biochar producer, and he is offering it raw (not innoculated). The char needs to be inoculated for a minimum of one week before planting in it. The longer it is in your soil or compost before using, the better inoculated it will be. :
5 gallon reclosable bucket (can cover up to 1050 ft.): $50/bucket
3 gallon bag: $35/bag
1 gallon bag: $12/bag
Biochar is useful for your animals, too! It acts like activated charcoal for your animals, pulling toxins out and buffering their digestive system so that they can function more efficiently. We sometimes use innoculated biochar, which has the added benefit of adding beneficial bacteria to the animal's system. You can read more about it at www.BakersBiochar.com.
Anyone Can Farm
We are happy to grow food for your, but also believe that anyone can grow some food to feed themselves. We offer classes through our Anyone Can Farm program. You can find out more about it at www.AnyoneCanFarm.com. This season we have Pastured Poultry and Hog Harvest classes scheduled. We also offered courses in Biochar and Introduction to Permaculture and Soils. Contact us to sign up for a class! If you don't see what interests you, please let us know as we are planning to add new classes.
If you are interested, please contact us by e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, or phone: 231-825-0293.


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