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I have sent a pm, as well. Rotton has said he will pull something a little smaller for my wife. Adonian, you should send a pm to let him know you need one too.
I have sent a pm, as well. Rotton has said he will pull something a little smaller for my wife. Adonian, you should send a pm to let him know you need one too.
Got my PM replied, so I'll save up for the next run (hopefully size B) I know it'll be a lot of work for Rotton to get a smaller set, so I am patient and will wait
Ok, so who else got a reply...and didn't? I didn't
Ok Replied! Even If I didn't get a pm from everyone, whoever has posted interest will be contacted in the near future. Thanks.
thank you sir
See LadySythe, Rotton's got your back. Anyway, same price Rotton? $45+ S/H?
You da' man Rotton, let us know when your ready so you can put me on your list, I am DEFFINATELY in if the price is under $75 shipped.
That he does lol I'm figuring, considering the date the original going price was originally posted, there is a good chance he may tack on another $10, but who cares It's worth it!!
Hey LadySythe, I just noticed your colors, I wanted to make my wifes colors like yours, since mine are Black Purple and Silver. Darn, now I gotta modify my idea for the misses
Lookin forward to gettin some of this Fem Armour from Rotton, I'll be well on my way to gettin her RavBralor sorted. I'll keep a look out for updates. Nice work!
I need a set for my girl .
links to both my costumes.
Tickets. You need to jump on them asap before the end of February of you want the 4 day passes. I'm ready to go, just need my plane tickets...and get my costumes complete. HENCE my post here looking for femme armor haha back on topic without starting a new paragraph!
gotta work 6 days in a row, next pay day (after tomorrow) is Jan 23, should be able to get tix then, I'll let ya know.
Now I'm gonna search your posts for your intro.
Time to get the wife her own armor and I think this would be the start of a great set.
Rotton, any news if you can make a few more sets? Slightly smaller cup size too, wifey needs a set of armor B size if you can.
Ok a little update to avoid answering multiple pm's. I am not done yet, but got some good progress on the new sculpt. It's looking good! It would work for the B or C cup requests, good size and shape. The price might go up a little like LadyScythe said, but not much. It takes some time to get this to look and eventually pull right, so thanks for the patience. I still plan on completing it with in the month, so don't worry!
Awesome news, thanks for the update!! My wife can't wait!
Thanks for the good news Rotton
Thanks for the update Rotton
I'm still in for a set of the original size 'DD' for my other half when ever your ready Rotton
When you start the run I would like a set of the larger armour please.
Any idea on the price of shipping to the UK yet?
Thanx for the info and update, Rotton. I still want a set of the smaller build. Just let me know final price, and I will send it. Again, thank you.


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Just a few questions about the brood frame for the trap out hive body:
1) How cold is to cold to take the frame from a productive hive?
2) How long do I have to get the frame into the trap out box with nurse bees?
3) How long should I leave it in the trap out box when the bees start to fade out toward the end of this process?
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Donna Michelle (Purdue):The signature Purdue bar—Harry's Chocolate Shop. It's been around for a long time and has the most class of any bar on campus.
Romana Lee (Penn State):Either Bill Pickle's Tap Room or Bar Bleu, a sports bar that serves great chili. They're the two best spots in town to get great drink specials and celebrate a win!
Bailey Kay (Michigan State): Harper's Restaurant and Brewpub. The owners brew their own beer, and the bar has a bunch of huge big-screen TVs for sporting events.
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Bailey Kay (Michigan State): During football season I wake up at 7 a.m., bump loud music to get the party started and tailgate on the MSU tennis courts.
Rachel Rockefeller (Iowa): It doesn't get much better than when the football team is introduced to AC/DC's "Back in Black."
Donna Michelle (Purdue):Breakfast Club! I get up really early and go out to the bars, which are open equally early. They're packed with students and offer all kinds of great drink specials.
How do you taunt the other Big 10 teams?
Sasha Camille (Indiana):We hold huge heads behind the basket to throw them off whenever they take a shot.
Bailey Kay (Michigan State):We don't need to taunt them; we just beat them.
Romana Lee (Penn State): We come up with all kinds of things [to taunt archrival Ohio State]. But I love the T-shirts that read "Buck the Fuckeyes."
What's the craziest thing you've witnessed on Campus after a big win?
Sasha Camille (Indiana): After we beat Kentucky, everyone rushed the court. I was outside of Assembly Hall, where things got even crazier. People were jumping on cars and going insane. YouTube it!
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I installed a new queen to a over-wintered package and I see the queen every time time I open the hive. THe box is full of bees but no eggs or larva or capped brood. What is happening?
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I installed a new queen to a over-wintered package and I see the queen every time time I open the hive. THe box is full of bees but no eggs or larva or capped brood. What is happening?
How long has she been installed?
a couple weeks now
That should be plenty of time for her to be laying. I would call whoever you got her from and ask if they might replace her.
I called her, and she doesn't have them. They were from Australia. What should I do?
See if you can get another one locally. If you find one locally pinch the old one, wait at least 24 hours and then put the new one in. Let them release her though or they might not accept her.
I'll try to do that, but is it because the queens are virgins or for another reason
Who knows, maybe they got a good deal on virgin queens from Australia. She's defective so replace her soon with an American one this time. John
That's something you'll never know for sure. I would ask her for a refund then also. A queen is no god if she doesn't lay eggs. Everyone has different experiences but personally, I like to buy local queens if I can. The stock is hardy to my area and if something goes wrong, I can get there quickly for a replacement if its available.
Some of the bigger guys do more businees with some of the Australian stock but I am guessing if you are buying a couple hundred queens and one is bad, they aren't as likely to "go under." If you only have a few hives, you need to get things immediately or you are done.
Alright, Thanks, I'll join these boxes with my good hives for now and then spilt back when I have queens available.
I'm not so sure i would go in panic mode.what breed is she,what are your tempatures outside,how did u release her.i've seen queens take up to 14 days to start laying good,and unless u direct released u don't know how long she's actually been out,also if she didn't get bred good,are there any drones up your way,she's obviously been excepted and as long as the bees have food they likely survive,surely someone should have queens available before long,besides it might save some work of combining and splitting,also was there any brood from the previous queen.not sure i understand u say an overwintered PACKAGE.
The temperature was fairly good and I know she was released in 3 days. The previous queen was a carniolan and there was little brood. I put a new Italian queen inside and there is no brood. Also, there are many drones outside. It was a spilt from last spring. Isn't it too late fro her to mate now??
Personally I would just take a frame of eggs from your other hive and see if it will prompt her to start laying herself. If not in another week, kill the queen and add another frame of eggs and see if your girls will make their own queen.
And I don't think it's ever to late to mate. Queens get hatched even in sept and as long as there are drones to mate with then all should be good. Heck, she might have just got back from a mating trip.
New queens are coming may 5, is that too late.
Some of the early banked queens take two weeks to start laying...
Yes, it is really hard to find local queens in Spring due to our weather. We usually get our queens from Australia or New Zealand.
Michael Bush, it has been 2 weeks now, however I checked the hives a few days ago. I will check the hive asap when I get the time and report back if I see any eggs. Can it be because the Queens were Carnie's before and now Italian.
JUst saw my hives and was very happy. I saw a few areas full of capped brood. I am so excited now. It was the first time I experienced a queen that started laying 2 weeks after installation.
I am glad it worked out. It is always a great feeling to see that things are as they should be.
If you have capped brood she has been laying for more than a week now.


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It's way up there.jpgI was called to do a trapout right after a swarm moved into a commercial building. The bees had an outside entrance, but for some reason were migrating in the building - honing in on the light fixtures in the women's restroom. You can imagine they wanted the situation resolved quickly. I was able to get the trapout cone in place, and a decoy hive. Went like clockwork. The bees were trapped out, and about 400 of them that were in the air all seemed to zoom into the decoy hive. I wish it could have been bigger. I don't know how many bees are in the building.
Now, I realize that there are some of you that say I should have fixed it right to the building so the old queen can smell the brood. However, this is over 1/2 hour from my house, and over 30 feet up. So, it's just not that easy to check on it. My method at this point is to remove the option for that hive to be sustainable in the building, then close up whatever is left. I just need to resolve the issue. Though I'd love to get the genetics, and make a completely clean extraction, urgency is at the top of the list. Most states require a business to have a working bathroom for employees, and I needed to get as many bees out of the building as possible to reduce the numbers that may migrate into the bathroom area.
So, here's my question. If this was a swarm 1weeks ago, and I just blocked off almost all the workers, how long do you think it will be before the rest of them starve out? They barely had time to build any wax, and now the food supply is cut off. I'm thinking I only need to keep it up there 2-3 weeks, but it may be even less?
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Twenty-five years ago, I was making a living sewing costumes, wedding gowns and doing alterations for other people. Deadlines and clients, who didn't want to admit they were the size the pattern said they were, eventually made me grow to hate sewing. One day I closed my (very expensive) machine and didn't open it for so much as a hem over the next twenty-two years.
Then in the fall of last year, I was faced with finding clothing for a 13-year-old clotheshorse daughter, a kindergartner who swore she would only wear dresses, and a 3-year-old who was chosen to be a male model. With three kids, one paycheck, and stockpile of medical bills, I was appalled at how quickly the start of school was approaching.
Passing through my local Wal-Mart, I glanced over at a stack of material they had on a table. Over it all was a sign that said "$2." I began rummaging through the tables, and by the time I left, I had $40 worth of material.
While in shock over the price increases of patterns, I soon found out that Wal-Mart sells name brand patterns for half the cover price. After half an hour of looking through pattern books, I had one dress pattern apiece for my daughters. I also bought a shirt and slacks pattern for each of them. Thanks to the sizing, the shirt for the kindergartner could also be used for my son.
Within a week, I had two dresses, four shirts and two pair of slacks for my eldest child. By the second week, I was cutting multiple layers of material out to save time and had finished eight dresses, five shirts, a pair of slacks and two pair of shorts for the kindergartner. The third week had me back to my old sewing speed and I quickly doubled what I had made. School had been in session for a month and a half before either of my girls wore the same outfit twice.
I still had time for my son's wardrobe and made him a lined vest and black dress slacks, three shirts, two short sets and a pair of much needed pajamas.
Of course, I didn't get all of this for just the $40, but I kept a running total of what I spent on material and notions. In the end, all three of my children had extensive, custom-fitted wardrobes for just over $100!
It wasn't long before I found out sewing by the mothers of school age children is considered a lost art. I was repeatedly asked where I had bought their clothes, and when I told that they were homemade, most people didn't believe me. It was because of this I thought to pass on the ability to make unique, well made clothing to my eldest daughter Vicki.
My first thought was that being a seamstress didn't necessarily qualify me to be a teacher. In the past, I had tried to teach this same child karate and found I didn't have the patience with my own as I did with other peoples' children. I began checking out the local fabric stores and every introductory class I found was eventually cancelled because she would be the only student.
Biting the bullet, I took her down to the dollar-a-yard tables and let her pick out her own material. That evening I gave Vicki her very first sewing lesson. By the next day, she had finished her first shirt. While sporadic, we have continued these lessons and she is now confident enough to cut out, pin and baste a shirt, dress or pair of slacks. She still waits for my final approval before putting a permanent seam into anything. Now, not only has she learned a craft that will allow her to be well dressed no matter what her budget is like in later life, but she has also learned to appreciate the money and time spent on every piece of clothing in her closet.
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Why not? they elected a caffer from Kenya.
o we dont NEED that thing to be anywhere close to be in that chair
we had enough of her lies to start w/ and has a tantrum like ob4ozo does at when the pressure mounts up .....
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Why not? they elected a caffer from Kenya.
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Being a female, and a lesbian, she is close to the trifecta. All she needs now is to be either handicapped, darker toned, or a Muslim. We know that she can achieve at least one or two fairly easily, and the third with a few more Big Macs in her trunk to get that boo-tay out there enough.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
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QWITCHYERDAMBELLYACHIN. I don't know what you're all griping about. I've always been a lezbian at heart myself.
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well after Obama was elected it clear that morals, familay values, honsty dont matter . neither does sorupiton , greed , criminal activity or any thing else .
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It'll come as no surprise to anyone who was out and about during the long, hot, holiday weekend that Portland's drinking and nightlife scenes get a little bit more . . . intense during the summer months. That's why local police, bar owners, and organizations aimed at promoting responsible drinking have ramped up their initiatives for summer 2010. With two months left before the temperatures fall — and knowing, of course, that rowdy boozing and underage parties happen regardless of the season — they're testing new programs that they hope will stave off drinking-related tragedies (not to mention tooldom).
The most visible of these programs, one that utilizes mass text-messaging to share information among bar employees and police officers, got attention last month after the Monument Square death of 24-year-old Eric Benson, who was killed after just one punch, thrown by an Old Port partier, caused him to fall and hit his head on the brick pavement. If a patron becomes unruly or belligerent, starts a fight or gets booted from a bar, bouncers and bartenders are encouraged to send out a mass text to keep police and other bars on the alert. The texts include a person's name (if it's known), a physical description, and other relevant information, but the notification does not get entered into the official police log. While it runs the risk of arbitrariness — what one person considers text-worthy, another could perceive as merely sloppy drunk — publicity around the program is "acting as a deterrent," assistant police chief Mike Sauschuck told us. About 50 texts have been sent so far, and both sides think it's "going outstanding," he says. The Maine Civil Liberties Union has expressed some concerns about the police-texting initiative, which they say creates precarious linkages between "untrained bouncers" and police officers. MCLU executive director Shenna Bellows wonders, "Do bars really need a government program to identify people who are too drunk to go into a bar?"
Perhaps text tips will be incorporated into the seller-server training that 21 Reasons — a Portland-based organization that works to combat underage and unhealthy drinking — will offer at the end of the summer. The training, which costs $5, will help establishments comply with a new Portland ordinance allowing the city council to consider whether a bar has certified, trained staff when deciding whether to grant or renew a liquor license. In addition to helping staffers spot fake IDs, the training, led by a former police officer, teaches waitstaff "how to defuse situations," says Jen Hodson, project coordinator at 21 Reasons.
That organization, with the Cumberland County Underage Drinking Enforcement Task Force, is also behind the "Party Patrol Kits" that will be in the patrol cars of every law-enforcement agency in Cumberland County. These kits — which might have come in handy during the Fourth of July party bust in Portsmouth, at which one teen was found unconscious on the lawn, 20 people were arrested, and a bunch of kids were found hiding on a rooftop — contain breathalyzers, cameras, whiteboards, and markers (on which the perpetrator's name and blood-alcohol content can be written), flashlights, and binoculars. "They help build a case against furnishing alcohol to minors," says Jo Morrissey, 21 Reasons project director and chair of the CCUDETF (perhaps saying the acronym could be a new field-sobriety test?).
The Party Patrol Kits were the result of collaboration with police and identification of their (and prosecutors') unmet needs when dealing with underage drinking. Next up for 21 Reasons is a landlord survey to gather information on this question: What tools are needed to reduce irresponsible alcohol use in Portland's rental properties?
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I openly admit that I'm no sports savant or genius, but I am a diehard fan of my Teams.
My concern for these Knicks, Melo or no, is the lack PHYSICALITY at times.
We have Shooters I see that, but Tyson can't be the only guy who is willing to get dirty. I like this Team and there is much Season left, but going forward I hope that Woodson starts to have influence enough where as Grunwald looks to get us some young grinders.
Because every Team that out-physicals us (Grizzlies, Bulls, Pacers, Celts...) seemingly beats our ***.
Again I am no Basketball genius, but love the game and love our Knicks. Can anyone here help me understand the kind of "defense" we run? We seem more oriented to Offense as it now stands...
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This teams starting to underachieve.. Unbelievable! So frustrating! Losing by double digits all ready to bulls at home, and are only playoff team to have losing record over there last 10 as of now, and are simply playing mediocre basketball.. I swear to god, if this team underachieves again, i'm gonna lose it!
I just watched Tyson Chandler miss a Alley Oop dunk, then tried passing one to wideopen Carmelo, and somehow made the worst toss i've ever seen, and then on defense, he didn't put his hands up on a Joakim jumper, which he hit.. I'm sick of Chandler not putting his hands up on jump shots and guys burying em in his face left and right.. Its freaking lazy! He has numbers at the end of games, but he is lazier then his numbers indicate.. I've had not one but 2friends comment on his laziness during seprate games, and they don't even care about the knicks or Chandler..
I noticed this last yr, but of course he somehow won DPOY, which i thought was crazy, and most look at the final numbers and think hes great..
And don't get me wrong, hes very good, but he tends to be lazy or lack concentration more often then i like to see.. Its noticable, thats for sure..
Again, Chandler watches Deng this time shoot a jumper without getting his hands up to at least alter shot, and Deng buries it.. Jesus! Amares all ready got 3fouls..lol Its the first qter mind u..lol What a joke!
God forbid a Melo team plays a full season defensively.. Such a joke!
Another Qter in the books, and almost another 30pt qter for a opponet.. 29 for the freaking Roseless bulls..lol Unreal! Absoulutley unbelievable! Amares got 3TO's, Melo's 1-8 shooting, Kidds been terrible, CHandlers been a non factor..etc This team gives me a headache!
They better learn that they prooved absoulutley zilch with there quick start this season.. No one cares that they started teh yr well.. All anyone cares about is a FULL SEASON, and not just a good start.. No charechter whats so ever!
Knicks getting absoulutley dismantled by bulls again..lol THis is comical! What a team! 36-20..lol Clowns!
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From potential takeover to party plans, Compuware dominated Detroit finance news headlines
Here's a look at the top financial news stories from 2013.
Compuware Corp. dominated the financial news in 2013, with President and CEO Bob Paul testing the validity of the Chinese curse about living in interesting times. His times have been very interesting, indeed.
January began with Compuware (Nasdaq: CPWR) under a $2.3 billion takeover assault launched in December by New York-based Elliott Management Corp., an activist hedge fund with a well-deserved reputation for being a great white shark with blood in the water.
As part of his defensive tactics, Paul told analysts he would take $100 million in costs out of the company while growing the bottom line, but the cost-cutting was at odds with company co-founder and executive chairman Peter Karmanos Jr.
Compuware made more headlines in March when it announced an enhanced retirement package for Karmanos, who stepped down on March 31 with a consulting gig that was to pay him $600,000 a year for six years and provide him with a suite in the Compuware Building and two company cars.
Karmanos' departure made cost-cutting easier, but life remained interesting for Paul.
In May, Karmanos' wife, Danialle, went public with a letter she had written to the Compuware board, excoriating it for canceling a post-retirement party that had been planned for her husband.
In September, at a breakfast in his honor hosted by the Old Newsboys' Goodfellows, Karmanos blasted Paul for his handling of the takeover bid: "Current management needs to get their heads out of their asses, all right, and understand they have more responsibility than playing some kind of silly game with some jerk in New York," he was quoted in the Free Press.
Compuware then terminated Karmanos' consulting gig — he had moved out of his newly renovated suite in the Compuware Building months earlier — effective Oct. 1, and Karmanos countered in November by suing his former company.
On Sept. 26, in between Karmanos' blast at Paul and the termination date of his consulting contract, Paul had an interesting but fun day, ringing the opening bell for the Nasdaq stock exchange on the day Compuware's Covisint business unit was spun out as a separate company in a $64 million initial public offering, the first IPO of a Detroit-area tech company since Syntel Inc. went public in 1997.
Other big news financial stories for 2013 included the continued expansion of Troy-based Talmer Bancorp Inc. as it prepares for its IPO early next year; the ongoing investments in startup tech companies by Detroit Venture Partners, one of Dan Gilbert's companies; and the continued growth of Troy-based United Shore Financial Services LLC into a major national mortgage underwriter.
Here are some monthly highlights of the year in review:
The state announced the formation of a new $180 million fund to invest in Michigan companies looking to grow. The fund, Michigan Growth Capital Partners II LP, is co-managed by Farmington Hills-based Beringea LLC, the state's largest venture capital firm, the New York-based Customized Fund Investment Group.
British news organizations reported that the financially stressed Royal Bank of Scotland planned an IPO to sell off up to 25 percent of its Rhode Island-based U.S. subsidiary, RBS Citizens Financial Group Inc., whose 103-branch operation in Michigan operates under the Charter One brand.
That further clouded up a murky picture of Charter One, which had played a game of musical chairs at the top, with three presidents since June 30, when Sandy Pierce left to pursue "other opportunities."
A new seed-stage fund called Detroit Innovate was started to help launch technology companies in Southeast Michigan. The fund, which operates under the umbrella of Invest Detroit, a nonprofit created by the Business Leaders for Michigan, got initial funding of $5 million from the New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan and began raising $10 million more from other state and private foundations.
Warren-based Asset Acceptance Capital Corp., which purchased and collected on charged-off consumer debt, announced it had agreed to be bought by San Diego-based Encore Capital Group in a $200 million deal.
Detroit-based Quicken Loans Inc. bought the right to service about $34 billion in mortgages from Detroit-based Ally Financial Inc. The servicing pool was made up of nondelinquent loans backed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that have higher-than-market interest rates that could benefit from refinancing.
The deal increased Quicken's service footprint to about $124 billion.
Hoping to jump-start its business in Southeast Michigan, Kalamazoo-based Greenleaf Trust named veteran local money manager Sam Valenti III to help launch a business unit in its downtown Birmingham office that would target the investment and other needs of the ultrawealthy, those with a minimum investment amount of $25 million.
Shareholders in both companies approved the $912 million purchase of Flint-based Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc. by Akron-based FirstMerit Corp.
According to the annual report of the Ann Arbor-based Michigan Venture Capital Association, as venture capital investing was shrinking nationwide, it grew in Michigan in 2012, with the state climbing from 25th nationally in dollars invested to 15th, the biggest jump in rankings of any state. The state went from less than $100 million to $242 million.
Former Chrysler Group LLC CEO Tom LaSorda announced he had formed a Birmingham-based investment fund to invest in early-stage tech companies called IncWell LP. His partners and fellow investors included Roger Penske.
Southfield-based Mars Advertising Inc. announced it had founded a venture capital firm, Griffon Ventures, to invest in technologies that serve the shopper marketing niche Mars focuses on, which involves smart-app-based campaigns that target consumers who are already shopping in a particular store.
Court action began in Oakland County in a strange case involving Novi-based Lotus Bancorp Inc. The bank was founded in 2007 by members of the local Indian and east Asian business community to create a bank that would serve the commercial lending needs of Indian and east Asian businesses and business owners. Yet the bank was sued by some of those same customers, who alleged racial discrimination by bank management, including emails that included such derogatory comments as "the only good Indian is a dead Indian."
New York-based Siebert Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: SIEB) announced the appointment of Detroiter Suzanne Shank as acting CEO of the company and its wholly owned subsidiary, the New York-based discount broker/dealer and pioneering institutional investment banking firm of Muriel Siebert & Co. Inc. In 1967, Muriel Siebert became the first woman to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
Troy-based Talmer Bancorp Inc., one of the fastest-growing banks in the Midwest, agreed to buy the remaining assets of the long-troubled Lansing-based Capitol Bancorp Ltd. in a federal bankruptcy proceeding. Talmer bought the Bank of Las Vegas, Indiana Community Bank, Sunrise Bank of Albuquerque and the Ann Arbor-based Michigan Commerce Bank, which has branches in Ann Arbor, Auburn Hills, Brighton, Detroit, Grand Haven, Holland, Kentwood, Portage, Muskegon and Farmington Hills.
Columbus-based Huntington Bank announced it would contribute $25 million to help launch a micro-lending program with the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to spur small-business job growth. The Pure Michigan Micro Lending Initiative hopes to provide $250 million in new statewide lending.
Troy-based Flagstar Bancorp Inc. announced a settlement of $121.5 million with the Federal National Mortgage Association, more commonly known as Fannie Mae, to resolve demands that the bank repurchase defaulted loans that were sold from 2000 to 2008.
Ally Financial completed a private placement of 216,667 shares of stock for about $1.3 billion and made a payment to the U.S. Treasury of $5.9 billion. Ally, formerly known as GMAC Financial Services and owned by General Motors Corp. until 2006, received $17.2 billion from the U.S. in a bailout that began four years ago under the Trouble Asset Relief Program.
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RUSSELL COUNTY, Va. - We told you about the shortage of large Butterball turkeys this year but now we've learned that might be a good thing for local farmers.
We spoke with a turkey farmer in Russell County,Va. who told us customers are asking him for two or three small turkeys instead of just one.
Forty Bourbon Red turkeys roam the Moyer Family Farm, getting ready for their big day on Thursday.
Richard Moyer told us his Thanksgiving turkeys are his biggest all year.
"It's tough for the turkeys to keep gaining weight," he said. "Sometimes they'll even lose weight if it's too cold."
He sells more at Thanksgiving then he does at Christmas for that reason.
The birds are small to begin with, only 6 to 15 pounds. They're smaller than what's in a grocery store. Moyer told News 5 that's good for their business.
"We have some people who come by and they really just want a turkey for two so we have some small ones five to six pounds," he said.
Moyer told us he expects to sell all 40 birds, to customers like David Alexander who aren't cooking for many people.
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The main reason Alexander is thinking of buying a Moyer turkey is because he "wanted a turkey that was fresh, kind of local, and one that was kind of healthy," he said.
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They also come directly from the farm.
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He gets together with his neighbors to do it, he said. He told us as long as you're not processing thousands of turkeys, the poultry doesn't have to be USDA certified.
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Polls Suggest Stephen Harper And Tories May Have Peaked Too Soon
One year after Stephen Harper finally won a majority government, his party is down in the polls and plagued by allegations of scandal, mismanagement and misrepresentation. Did the prime minister hit his peak in May 2011?
There is some indication that he did. The latest survey from Harris-Decima puts his Conservatives at only 30 per cent support, down ten points from the last election and three points behind Thomas Mulcair's New Democrats.
In fact, the Conservatives have tied or trailed the NDP in half the polls conducted since Mulcair's leadership win. In the half that gave the Tories the lead, the margins were small enough to be virtually insignificant.
The Conservative victory in May 2011 marked the zenith for the Tories not only in achievement but also in support. The party took 40 per cent of the vote in that election, a level of support they've seen in only only four polls since, three of which were taken within two months of the election. That's out of approximately 50 polls released in the last 12 months.
The results of the last six provincial elections also point to a lacklustre Conservative brand. Though Saskatchewan was the one hold out, right-of-centre parties took a step backward everywhere else. The New Democrats were re-elected in Manitoba and the Liberals in Prince Edward Island. The PCs under Tim Hudak lost the Ontario election after leading the unpopular Dalton McGuinty by double-digits, while in Newfoundland and Labrador they took a smaller share of the vote than in previous elections.
Alberta's rejection of Wildrose's more right-wing platform also represents a setback for the federal Conservatives. It was an open secret that the Tories in Ottawa were sympathetic to Danielle Smith's brand of conservatism, but Albertans opted for the more centrist Alison Redford - the kind of politician who hails from the old Progressive Conservative wing of the party rather than the Reform faction of Harper's past.
A lack of enthusiasm for the Conservatives registered in a new Nanos surveythat found 31 per cent of Canadians feel the NDP best represents "the views of voters who elected them." Only 21 per cent said the same about the Tories.
But the Conservatives are not quite dead yet - far from it. That same survey found the Conservatives scoring better than the NDP on "making decisions in the long term interests of Canada" and "managing policy priorities in a changing situation."
The party also raised $5.1 million in donations in the first quarter of 2012, more than the total raised by the Liberals ($2.4 million) and the NDP ($2 million) combined.
The Conservatives are still a formidable political machine with plenty of time to turn things around. But with each hit, the cumulative damage, often self-inflicted, takes its toll. Harper could well pull out another victory come 2015, but he may look back on the days of May 2011 as his party's high watermark.
Éric Grenier taps The Pulse of federal and regional politics for Huffington Post Canada readers on most Tuesdays and Fridays. Grenier is the author of ThreeHundredEight.com, covering Canadian politics, polls, and electoral projections.
The Conservative election platform in 2011, "Here for Canada," featured many campaign commitments.One year into Harper's "strong, stable, majority Conservative government," how much has been accomplished? What still remains to be done?With files from CBC(Getty)
The next five slides provide a list of what the Tories have accomplished in their first year.(Getty)
Budget 2011 measures (rolled into the election platform after the original March budget did not pass, and all delivered again in the June budget): - Hiring credit for small business -- offering a short-term break from EI payments for those who increase payrolls. - Extension for: work-sharing program (helping employers avoid layoffs by providing part-time EI benefits); the "targeted initiative for older workers" (programs to help older unemployed workers); temporary accelerated capital cost allowance rate for manufacturing equipment; mineral exploration tax credit; ecoENERGY retrofit program for homes (one more year only.)- Funding for: Canadian youth business foundation; Canada student loans program; 30 new industrial research chairs at Canadian colleges and polytechnics and ten new Canada excellence research chairs for universities; northern adult basic education program in territories; student loan forgiveness for medical professionals willing to work in rural/underserviced regions.- Funding for: all-season road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk (to complete Dempster highway); two new national parks in Labrador and urban Toronto; snowmobile trails; small-craft harbour repairs; plus support for an agricultural trade commissioner and market access secretariat to "expand international markets for farmers;" as well as funding for an "agriculture innovation initiative."- Funding for: Royal Conservatory of Music (to launch a national examination system); Canada periodical (magazines) fund; "youth gang prevention fund" to support projects in high-need communities.- Tax credits: children's arts (up to $500/child in qualified arts/culture programs); family caregiver tax credit ($2,000 for those caring for an infirm family member); volunteer firefighters; plus a top-up for guaranteed income supplement for low-income seniors.- Phase-out of taxpayer subsidies to federal political parties.(CP)
- Government-wide spending review, as reflected in the 2012 budget, implementing over $5 billion in spending and job cuts across all federal departments and agencies, representing some 6.9 per cent of total government spending.- Repeal of legislation forcing mandatory retirement at a specified age for workers in federally-regulated industries (effective Dec. 2012).- Financial assistance (loans) to help immigrants get foreign credentials recognized (pilot announced Feb. 2012).- "One-for-one" rule for business regulations arising from work of "red tape commission," now requiring government to eliminate a regulation for every new regulation implemented (effective April 1).- Successful bidders chosen for shipbuilding procurement strategy (Oct. 2011).- "Single desk" monopoly of Canadian Wheat Board dismantled and farmer-elected board dismissed, enabling an open market for Prairie wheat and barley effective 2012 crop year.- Pooled retirement pension plans implemented (Nov. 2011).- "Helmets to hardhats" program to help military veterans find civillian work after deployments (announced Jan. 2012).
- 18 more First Nations signed on to the First Nations land management regime, opting out of land-related sections of the Indian Act (March 2012).- Quebec sales tax harmonization agreement (signed in Sept. 2011).- Increase health transfers to provinces by six per cent annually until 2017, with the rate tied to economic growth and adjusted for inflation after 2017 (platform pledged to not "cut transfer payments to individuals or to the provinces for essential things like health care, education, and pensions" while working "collaboratively with the provinces and territories to renew the Health Accord and to continue reducing wait times").- Loan guarantee for Lower Churchill River hydro project (memorandum with Newfoundland and Labarador signed in Aug. 2011).- Legislation to make the "gas tax fund" a permanent form of infrastructure funding to municipalities (passed Dec. 2011).- Alberta's elected Senate nominee Betty Unger called to Senate in Jan. 2012 (no other provinces have elected Senate nominees eligible for appointment).(Getty)
- Omnibus crime legislation (C-10), which included new mandatory minimum sentences, stiffer penalties for drug crimes, stiffer penalties for child sex offenders, an end to house arrest/conditional sentences for a range of offences, elimination or delay in eligibility for pardons, stiffer sentences for repeat or violent young offenders, new roles for victims of crime in parole decisions, measures to protect vulnerable foreign workers, new criteria for the transfer of Canadians convicted of crimes abroad, and new measures to seek justice for victims of terrorism (received royal assent March 2012, within the "100 sitting days of Parliament" deadline pledged in the platform).- "Wanted by the CBSA" web site launched, to help find and facilitate deportations of foreign criminals (July 2012, and ongoing).- Employment insurance benefits for parents of murdered or missing children (announced April 13).- Legislation to end the long-gun registry (received royal assent April 5, but implementation stalled, subject to court injunction in Quebec).
- Office of religious freedom created in department of foreign affairs, to monitor and promote religious freedom as part of Canadian foreign policy.- Legislation to reallocate House of Commons seats to "restore fair representation" (C-20 received royal assent Dec. 2011).(CP)
The next six slides provide a list of what the Tories didn't get done during their first year.(Getty)
- Canada-European free trade deal (pledged for 2012).- Canada-India free trade deal (pledged for 2013).- New border agreement with the United States encompassing trade, travel and security regulations (negotiations ongoing).- Copyright Modernization Act (special committee reviewing C-11 reported back to House on March 15).- Maternal and child health initiatives, to be implemented in collaboration with other countries (the "Muskoka Initiative," launched in Nov. 2010 - $82 million for specific Canadian projects announced in Sept. 2011 ).- Post-combat efforts in Afghanistan, focused on "the education and health of children and youth; advancing security, the rule of law, and human rights; promoting regional diplomacy; and delivering humanitarian assistance."(Getty)
- F-35 stealth fighter jet purchase (a new secretariat will now oversee the procurement of replacement fighter jets for the CF-18s, following controversy surrounding the disclosed costs of the F-35 program).- New air expeditionary wing at CFB Bagotville, including 250 new personnel by end of 2011 and 550 stationed there by 2015 (undisclosed number of personnel added last year to "establish core" of new expeditionary wing, minister's office says, and the government is "committed to adding personnel as the operational tempo permits").(AP)
- Long-term plan or program, with municipalities and provinces, for building public infrastructure once the Building Canada plan expires in 2014.- National securities regulator (Supreme Court ruled in December a national regulator would infringe on provincial jurisdiction, but federal efforts to negotiate a deal with the provinces continue).- Income-splitting for families with children under 18 years of age -- allowing couples to share up to $50,000 in income (to be implemented when/if the federal deficit is eliminated).- Children's fitness tax credit to be doubled and made refundable (contingent on eliminating federal deficit).- Adult fitness tax credit (up to $500 of eligible activities, contingent on eliminating federal deficit).- Tax-free savings accounts to see doubling of annual eligible savings, up to $10,000 (contingent on eliminating federal deficit).- Employment insurance benefits for parents of gravely ill children (nothing announced to date).- Relocation for the head office for the Canada economic development agency for Quebec regions "to a centre or centres appropriate to all regions of the province" (it's still in Montreal, and the minister's office says "we are at the stage where we are considering all of the options").- Legislation to implement the Canada-Quebec accord on offshore resources (brief mention in text of 2012 budget).- New national farm and food strategy (no announcement yet).(Alamy)
- Anti-terrorism legislation to reinstate powers like preventative arrest and secret investigative hearings, and make it illegal to leave Canada to participate in terrorist-sponsored training or other activities (S-7 currently before Senate committee).- Legislation to streamline the process for deporting foreign criminals, including the opportunities for appeal (not introduced yet, expected "in a few short months").- Doubling of victim surcharge that convicted criminals must pay (bill C-37 introduced April 24).- Legislation to combat elder abuse by adding it as an aggravating factor in sentencing (bill C-36 introduced March 15).- Legislation to clarify self-defence and property rights/citizen's arrest provisions (bill C-26 concurred at report stage April 24).- Legislation to "give law enforcement and national security agencies up-to-date tools to fight crime in today's high-tech communications environment" (bill C-30 introduced Feb. 14, but stalled after receiving negative feedback). The campaign platform pledged to fulfil this within "100 sitting days of Parliament," which suggests a March deadline, now passed.- Measures to combat drug abuse in prisons (no announcement yet).- End to sentencing discounts for multiple child sex offences and child pornography charges (no announcement yet).- Mandatory jail sentences for those with repeat convictions for contraband tobacco, and a new RCMP anti-contraband force of 50 officers (no announcement yet).- National action plan to combat human trafficking (no announcement yet, but private member's bill C-310 to amend the Criminal Code to strengthen measures against human trafficking passed at third reading in the House April 27 and is now before the Senate).- New law enforcement mandate for Canada's Coast Guard, to allow them to enforce federal laws on oceans and the Great Lakes, including new armed capabilities on board Coast Guard vessels and armed boarding teams (no annoucement yet).- Legislation to allow sentencing courts to order the deportation of convicted criminals upon completion of sentence or parole eligibility, and to remove the requirement of the prisoner's consent for transfer to complete a sentence abroad (no announcement yet).(Alamy)
- National conservation plan (consultations currently underway at Commons environment committee).- "Social impact bonds" to help raise money for worthwhile community projects (2012 budget said HRDSC was "exploring social finance instruments" for an announcement at a later date).- Funding for a "volunteer-matching" service through Volunteer Canada (2012 budget ends federal funding for the national volunteer community service organization Katimavik).- Defibrillators for every hockey rink in Canada, and training for using them (no announcement yet).- Hunting advisory panel, to consult with environment minister on issues concerning hunting and fishing (no announcement yet).- Review of the Species at Risk Act to ensure landowners receive fair compensation when their property is affected (no announcement yet, however the 2012 budget implementation bill does amend the Species at Risk Act).(CP)
- Legislation to set term limits for senators and provide a framework for Senate elections (C-7 introduced June 2011 but has not progressed further -- and on May 1, Quebec government announced a constitutional challenge of this Senate reform bill).- Legislation to publish the salaries of First Nations chiefs and councillors (C-27 introduced Nov. 2011 but has not progressed further).- Measures to implement Canada's commitment to the "open government initiative" (ongoing).(CP)


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Optical physics provides the antidote to a gardening myth
Anna Lena Phillips
The following question appeared on an exam for Hungarian students in 2006:
In summer, at midday sunshine, it is inadvisable to water in the garden, because the plant leaves burn. Which is the only correct explanation for this?
It would be hard to provide a correct answer—the question itself is incorrect. But it reflects a widely held horticultural belief: that watering plants in the middle of the day causes sunburn. "This is an old environmental optical problem," says Gábor Horváth of the environmental optics laboratory at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. And no one had tried to solve it.
Horváth and his colleagues decided to do so. They describe their results in a paper published online in New Phytologist on January 8. To test what happens when rays of sunlight pass through droplets on leaves, they covered maple (Acer platanoides) leaves with small clear glass beads and exposed them to direct sun. When they scanned the leaves, sunburned spots were clearly visible, their severity increasing with the amount of time the leaves had been exposed.
As is often the case with persistent myths, the idea of plants getting sunburn "made sense." The glass beads supported that. To find whether water would do the same, the researchers placed water drops on maple leaves, which have a smooth, non-water-repellant surface, and ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) leaves, whose smooth surfaces repel water. The sets of leaves were exposed to sun at varying times and left until the drops had evaporated. Scans revealed no visible leaf burn.
Several factors account for this. Water has a smaller refractive index (a measure of the decrease in the speed of a wave when it passes into a new medium) than glass. Water droplets are not perfectly spherical in shape; an ellipsoid shape has less refractive power and, therefore, a longer focal length, than does a sphere. And water drops come into contact with the leaf and cool it as they evaporate.
The team also created a computer simulation of how water drops focus sunlight. Using measurements of drop shape and the elevation angle of the sun, they determined the light-collecting efficiency of the drops. This allowed them to estimate the focal region of a given drop and thus determine whether refracted sunlight would focus on the leaf surface and heat it. As it happens, for water drops resting on a horizontal leaf surface, the focal region falls on the leaf surface only at about 23 degrees solar elevation—in the early morning and late afternoon, when the sun is not intense enough to cause burn.
In a final experiment, they tested whether water drops can cause sunburn on leaves whose surfaces are covered with small hairs. The group used floating fern (Salvinia natans) leaves for this experiment; they placed water drops on the leaves and exposed them to two hours of midday sunlight. Many of these leaves were clearly burned.
"Leaf hairs can hold a water droplet at an appropriate height above the leaf so that the droplet's focal region can fall just onto the leaf surface" and at the same time prevent the drop from providing evaporative cooling, Horváth explains. Fortunately for the floating fern, its leaf hairs are water repellant; it is likely that drops would roll off of the leaf before they could cause much burn.
Still, Horváth advises, it's probably best not to water hairy-leaved plants in the middle of the day—and it's not a bad idea to avoiding watering all plants at noon; doing so can introduce other kinds of physiological stress.
Humans may have something in common with hairy-leaved plants: Water droplets held by the tiny hairs on our skin might focus sunlight to cause sunburn. Horváth hopes someone will investigate. In the meantime, he is happy to have thrown some light on the subject of leaf burn. "Misbeliefs and myths rule the online literature," he says. Raymond Lee, a meteorologist at the United States Naval Academy, agrees: "Atmospheric optical phenomena such as this present many opportunities for confusion and myth-making among generalist readers—and even a surprising number of scientists."
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A horse breed that was created by some really smart old guys who realized they got more money for their littler ponies vs. the bigger ones. In 1978 the American Miniature Horse Association was formed (AMHA) to promote the "breed". Now these horses look like replicas of the larger horses breeds...Very very cool and fun but not good for much but winning ribbons, doing tricks, having babies, crapping all over the yard or pulling little carts. Bet you can't own just one. Suckers who get caught up own lots of them.
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Scott Gomez, a Onetime Rookie Star, Is Again an N.H.L. Prospect
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Birmingham company buys Radisson Kingsley Inn
The Radisson Kingsley Inn in Bloomfield Hills has sold to a Birmingham-based real estate company for an undisclosed price.
The Elia Group purchased the 148,000-square-foot hotel with 150 rooms on Woodward Avenue south of West Long Lake Road on May 1, said Zaid Elia, partner of The Elia Group. It was purchased from Kingsley Ventures LLC, which is registered to John Frasco.
The two-story hotel was built in 1958 and renovated in 1997, according to Washington, D.C.-based real estate information service CoStar Group Inc. It sits on 7.8 acres.
Elia said the company will keep the hotel's Radisson flag and contract with Troy-based Hotel Investment Services Inc. as the new management company.
"At this point, we are doing a top-to-bottom review of all of the operations of the hotel and at the same time going through a renovation strategy to see how we can best improve the property for our guests," Elia said.
Beverly Hills-based Chawney Realty Group LLC represented The Elia Group in the sale.
Northern Lakes Seafood moved into the former home of Charley's Crab inside the Met Hotel off Crooks Road near I-75 in Troy last year after nearly two decades at the Radisson Kingsley.
The average occupancy rate at the Radisson Kingsley is around 70 percent and has been at more than 85 percent since May 1, Elia said.
T.J. Elia, president of The Elia Group, was also part of a joint venture last year that that purchased the former Crain Communications Inc. headquarters near the Detroit River at 1400 and 1432 Woodbridge St. and 1370 Franklin St. last summer for $2.5 million, according to CoStar.
Elia said at the time of the sale that ME Enterprise LLC, the JV, plans to spend at least $3 million renovating the buildings, repairing the parking lots and improving landscaping.
Crain Communications, the Detroit-based parent company of Crain's Detroit Business, is now headquartered at 1155 Gratiot Ave.
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1918: With World War I reaching its climax, the first case of Spanish influenza is reported. It quickly spreads, and the resulting worldwide epidemic — the worst in history — ends up killing more people than the war. The death toll worldwide has never been firmly established, but estimates range anywhere from 20 million (most […]
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The CementBloc is leading a fundamental transformation of the healthcare agency model, grounded in the belief that a converged approach that incorporates digital and off-line platforms is the only way to reach a fragmented marketplace.
The strength of our approach lies in the ability to connect the customer with the brand across all phases of the life cycle to build multichannel customer touchpoints. We bring to bear our deep expertise in key areas of Web, mobile, social, and relationship marketing to develop content and affinity-based plans that drive engagement and sales. We have done so through the development of communications that target the unique needs of all core customer segments: healthcare provider, patient, consumer, and payer.
The CementBloc is the second-largest independent healthcare creative agency in the United States as well as the founding partner of Indigenus, an international network of award-winning, independent healthcare agencies.
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Our service offerings include a broad range of brand needs from core strategic brand planning to channel strategy and management, closed-loop platform development, and multichannel creative execution.
Our digital services comprise 3 areas of specialization:
• Web sites
• Microsites
• Tablet PC and iPad details
• Podcasts
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• Games and apps
• Display/Rich Media
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Our dedication to provide quality work that is innovative and customer-centric has led to expansion of our client opportunities as well as industry recognition. This past year several more of our key clients (UCB and Bayer, to name two) embraced the move to digital selling and launched iPad selling programs complete with novel data-sharing applications and comprehensive back-end infrastructure to empower timely program optimization.
We also won a number of creative awards in 2011, many specifically within the interactive arena. Notable among the accolades were 8 separate awards for the Share the Little Things interactive campaign (Celgene), which included Best Interactive Initiative for Consumers (MM+M), Website Excellence (OMMA Awards), and 3 separate Finalist Certificates from The Global Awards. In addition, we are tremendously proud of the recognition we received at the Manny Awards as Agency of the Year Category II.


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This has been the toughest decision for me to make when it comes to preparing to buy our first 4 italian "small cell" honey bee hives with the goal of expanding to 8 hives next year. The gentleman I'm buying the bees from keeps his in 8-frame hives and swears by them. A good friend of mine has 25 hives and he keeps his in 10-frame hives and reduces his honey supers to 9-frames. The difference between the two is one raises bees to sell and my friend raises them mainly for the honey. My main goal is for the bees to pollinate my berries, fruit trees, vegetables and pumpkins and sell any excess honey at our fruit stand.
I've been reading various pros and cons on the subject and most of the contributors are ones that have moved from 10-frame to 8-frame hives. Personally, I'm leaning that way too as the frame box weight is considerably lighter than a fully-loaded 10 frame box and at 60 I'm not getting any younger.
Have any of you run into this dilema and, if so, which way did you choose and are you glad you made that decision?


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Sony has never been afraid
to challenge the conventions of mobile computing. Sometimes this leads it down silly blind alleys, but in the VAIO Z Series its boldness is well-founded. A 13.1in laptop, it weighs just 1.43kg, has enough processing power to go toe-to-toe with any desktop replacement laptop and should last more than a few hours on a single charge. It is, in other words, a genuine mobile workstation.
Unsurprisingly, such delights don't come cheap. Even in its cheapest guise, which dispenses with the integrated optical drive, it'll set you back a cool £1,350. Our particular review spec, however, costs an eye-watering £2,399! This is clearly a massive amount to ask for any kind of machine, but a quick look at the spec list explains this astronomic price.
Kicking things off is the Intel Core i7-620M processor, the two cores of which run at 2.66GHz and share a 4MB Cache. Like all Core i5 and i7 chips it has Intel's Turbo Boost technology, which in this case means it can run at up to a massive 3.33GHz should the need arise. This is the fastest dual-core mobile chip Intel currently has, and it's supported by a whopping 6GB of DDR3 RAM and two 128GB SSDs (total 256GB) configured in RAID 0 for maximum performance.
This isn't the end of the extravagances, though. While the default display is a 13.1in, 1,600 x 900 panel, our model has a 1,920 x 1,080 native resolution screen. Throw in other expensive extras, such as an HSDPA modem to go with the Wireless-N Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, or the fingerprint reader and TPM (Trusted Platform Module) for enhanced security, and the Z Series comes packed with every conceivable feature possible.
There's more, too, as one of the key features of the Z Series is switchable graphics. This means it can cycle between the powerful 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 330M dedicated graphics, and the power-saving Intel integrated chip. This, so reckons Sony, should result in up to 7.5 hours of battery life - something we'll be testing later on.
Unfortunately, like the Alienware M11x we reviewed recently, Sony has yet to implement Nvidia's Optimus graphics switching tech, but its solution is fairly elegant. Instead Sony has created a three-way switch, labelled somewhat laboriously as the "Dynamic Hybrid Graphics System", which has the self-evident options of Speed, Stamina and Auto. Leaving it in auto mode should suffice for most people; it simply switches to the integrated graphics when on battery and vice-versa when plugged-in.
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