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As with most affordable 3D displays, be they TVs or monitors, the AOC d2757Ph uses passive 3D. Just in case you're not aware of the differences between active and passive 3D, let's go over them quickly.
Active 3D uses powered shutter glasses which require a wireless sensor, making them expensive and meaning they'll need occasional charging (or even worse, replacement batteries).
Passive 3D glasses are like the ones you get in most cinemas; they only cost a few quid per pair and are far lighter, making them more comfortable to wear. They also aren't affected by fluorescent lighting, which causes flicker in an active system, and they don't dim the picture as much.
On the downside passive glasses don't maintain the 3D effect very well when you move out of the sweet zone, whereas active 3D lets you view from pretty much any angle. Current passive systems also 'cut the vertical resolution in half', giving you a 'scan line' effect when sitting close (LG is altering this on its latest passive 3D televisions by using advanced interlacing).
Basically, active 3D gives you better quality, but passive is more affordable and more comfortable.
Anyway, let's get down to the three-dimensional nitty gritty on the d2757Ph. AOC kindly includes two pairs of 3D glasses, one regular set and one clip-on for those who already wear glasses.
The first is pretty comfy and seems reasonably well-constructed, while the second is genuinely nice, with a padded metal clip system that also lets you flip them up without detaching – much like those fancy clip-on shades you can find in pharmacies and opticians. These are a great value-add as they tend to cost at least £10 online.
As long as you respect passive 3D's limits, the d2757Ph provides a great 3D viewing experience for compatible movies, games and pictures. Even the 2D to 3D conversion usually works quite well; though there's the occasional element that it gets wrong (as with any 3D upconverting system), it can give a genuinely enhanced feeling of depth given the right content. Conversion aside, you will need a system – whether it's a 3D Blu-ray player, PC or Xbox/PS3 console – that can output 3D to get the 'real thing'.
By pricing the d2757Ph at around £250, AOC has provided one of the most affordable ways to get into quality 3D – and by that I mean 3D on a high-quality IPS panel, rather than the cheap 3D TN-based small televisions and monitors with their atrocious viewing angles. When you consider that even 27-inch, Full HD IPS displays without 3D, such as the Dell S2740L, can cost more, the d2757Ph represents excellent value.
If, on the other hand, 3D doesn't rock your boat and you don't need extras like the d2757Ph's 'double' stand or audio output, you can get 27-inch IPS monitors for as little as £220. Still, for the extra £30 we'd definitely go for the full monty.
Until recently, if you wanted 3D on a monitor you had to put up with a TN panel and the poor viewing angles and average colour accuracy that entailed. However, with the IPS-based, passive 3D AOC d2757Ph, you can arguably have the best of both worlds for an affordable price. While its resolution is 'only' 1080p and its build quality isn't stellar, the d2757Ph sports a stylish design, innovative double stand, connections galore and, more importantly, a great visual experience in 2D or 3D. It provides everything you need to get started on gaming or movies in that extra dimension, and even includes a pair of 3D clip-on glasses for spectacle wearers.
when are we going to start seeing monitors with higher res than 1080p as they are not very common. The increase in res on tabs and phones in the last year or 2 is great but has not filtered up to desktop screens
True, unfortunately they're still a little thin on the ground. Part of the reason the resolution revolution is not happening as quickly on the desktop is because you generally sit further away from your monitor than you would from a phone/tablet screen.
Still, ever more high-res panels are appearing in the monitor market (Panasonic even has a 20in 4K panel), and I'm guessing that when 4K TVs go mainstream, monitors will follow.
I am using AOC 23 inch 3d led monitor which works like a charm .
the 3D is very Clear and Smooth and the Screen is beautiful.AOC has Done the Best Job and its the Best Product in the Market.Style is also very Good.Active 3d Gogles r very costly and only works with the compatible tvs.whereas polarised passive glass will work with LG and AOC both.
I have this AOC d2757ph and I am getting a res of 2560 x 1440 with the AMD R7 360 2GB GPU and HDMI cable. 1440p WQHD even though the max res is 1080p for this monitor I am pushing almost twice as many pixels out of mine.
I want to purchase, but not available online, please help
not available, where to purchase..
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Faith Steps for Adults
FAITH Steps
- Are specific "thoughts, words, and deeds" intended to connect your faith with your everyday life.
- Are based on the principle that we have "to do different in order to get different."
- Are what turn goals into reality.
- Are things you feel God is calling you to do AND are things you want to do.
- Are things YOU feel are achievable in the next week.
- Are things YOU feel confident you will be able to achieve. On a scale of 1-10, your confidence of success should be a 7 or higher. If your confidence is lower than that, choose a different FAITH Step.
- Are action-specific, for example "I will spend 10 minutes a day in quiet meditation" as opposed to "I will be more relaxed this week."
- Answer these questions as you set your FAITH Steps:
How much? Quantify if possible.
When? Set or schedule a time when you intend to do this.
How often? Every day? A certain number of times/week?
- FAITH steps need to be shared out loud with others to maximize your success in doing them.
FAITH Steps Are:
Focused. The step will be narrowly focused. "I will walk for 30 minutes three days this week" vs. "I need to start getting some exercise."
Action-oriented. I will do something that is observable and measureable; I will not just think about doing something.
Inspired. I feel that God wants me to take this step and I feel inspired by God to do it.
Time-specific. I will do it at this time, or within this time framework.
Heartfelt and honest. I will only commit to a FAITH Step that in my heart I honestly am ready to take, as opposed to something I think I "should" do or I know others want me to do.


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Cloth diapering your little one from an early age often makes it easy to cloth diaper at night. Many infants don't sleep through the night early on, so it's easy to just change your little one's diaper before a mid-night feeding. Once they get a little older and start sleeping through the night, it an be a bit of a challenge to cloth diaper at night. If you use bumGenius 4.0 or other pocket style cloth diapers, the first solution is to add extra inserts into the pocket to increase the absorbency of your cloth diaper. A good first step
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Just the other day I was thinking back on my cloth diapering journey of almost 4 years continuously and simultaneously diapering two babies. I thought to myself: what part of reusing diapers has made the most difference in my day-to-day life? The answer might surprise you. It's actually cloth wipes! My washing routine for cloth diapers has changed slightly over the years by moving houses and going from top-loading machine to high efficiency front-loader. My preferences in cloth diapers has changed too — at first I was a hook-and-loop girl, and now I'm definitely a fan of snaps. But I
Are you expecting? Are your cloth diapers still functional, but look a bit ragged? Maybe you added a few more diapers to your stash at our recent $1 Diaper Sale and they need some TLC. Don't worry, we offer bumGenius Refresher Kits to help you get a little extra life out of your cloth diaper investment. If you or someone you know has some basic sewing skills, you can replace the elastic and hook & loop tabs on one of your beloved bumGenius cloth diapers for just $1. Each bumGenius Refresher Kitincludes three new pieces of elastic (one back elastic
Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow earlier this month, so as the legend says, we should expect an early spring. I'm not sure about you, but I'm definitely ready for spring. However, for many of us, spring means lots of rainy days, which can be a bit challenging when drying your cloth diapers. If you read the packages of your bumGenius, Flip and Econobum cloth diapers, you'll see that we recommend "line drying" most of your diapers. Not only is line drying environmentally friendly, it also puts less wear on your cloth diapers than a trip through the dryer. But you
I'm one of those moms who looks forward with great anticipation to the time that my babies start to turn from dazed infant to interactive baby. One of those signs of increased involvement is starting solid foods. Whether you start with purees or do baby led weaning, solid foods are going to affect your cloth diaper routine. But like the small changes that make your baby's personality shine more brightly with age, the change to solids from liquids is a positive and exciting one. My son eating sweet potatoes, and applying them to his head Surprise: poop smells more stinky
I'm a few months into this mom-of-two gig, and I feel like I'm starting to know what I'm doing. (Well, as much as any of us know what we're doing.) I went into this knowing I'd cloth diaper Luke from the start, and would continue to cloth diaper Vicki until she's potty trained. I seriously underestimated the amount of diaper laundry I would have. When Vicki was a newborn, we rented 24 newborn diapers because we weren't sure if we would stick with cloth diapering. This time around, we purchased our newborn diapers so we would have them for future
I know it's a holiday, but quick… did you grab that wet bag out of the trunk of the car when you came home last night? If not, go run and grab it before you get distracted. It's so easy to get distracted and lose track of a diaper or two, or even worse, your whole stash. It's sad, but we often hear stories of a cloth diapering parent's worst nightmare… losing part or all of their cloth diaper stash due to mold, mildew or worse. Mold will look like little black dots scattered in the fibers of your cloth
One of the benefits of cloth diapering is that many parents discover they have less diaper rash once they switch to cloth. But sometimes life happens, be it a virus, food sensitivity, an unfortunate poopy diaper that stays on too long or another issue that can leave baby with a diaper rash. We get quite a few calls about how to safely use a diaper cream with your favorite bumGenius, Flip and Econobum products. When using any cream or lotion product, we recommend using a fabric barrier to protect your cloth diapers. Creams and lotion are designed to coat your
Now that spring has sprung (for most of us), it's time to get outside and really enjoy the warmer weather. Unfortunately, spring often brings rain along with the warmer weather. And at least in my backyard, rain = mud. Some people don't like letting their kids play in the mud- and it can be a little overwhelming, it terms of mess. But there are things we can do to make clean up easier on ourselves. For my older kids, who are (somewhat) less inclined to really roll in the mud, I usually just let them go as long as they
Ahh, spring cleaning. The time of year when you find all those little nooks and crannies in your home that have been ignored all winter long and give them a good cleaning. It's also a great time to do the same for your cloth diapers. Did you know there are some hidden areas of your cloth diapers that may need a little extra TLC every so often? Cloth diapers are generally worn every other day and washed 3-4 times a week, depending on the size of your stash. If you have hook and loop closures, this allows opportunities for


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Two people are hurt after police say a bomb went off at their Port Alberni home.
The woman had found a package in their driveway this morning and brought it inside — where it detonated.
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Alex Rodriguez's cousin pleads guilty in U.S. baseball doping scandal
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MIAMI (Reuters) - A cousin of Alex Rodriguez pleaded guilty in Miami federal court on Friday to conspiring to distribute performance-enhancing drugs, after playing a prominent role in linking the New York Yankees slugger to baseball's doping scandal.
Yuri Sucart, 52, was arrested in August, along with the owner of a Florida anti-aging clinic that supplied testosterone-filled syringes and other performance-enhancing drugs to some of Major League Baseball's leading stars.
Under his plea deal, prosecutors agreed to seek eight months prison time for Sucart, said his attorney, Edward O'Donnell. His sentencing is scheduled for June 4.
Rodriguez, one of baseball's best-paid players, gave Sucart nearly $1 million in 2013, according to court records, after Sucart threatened to expose himself as the player's "steroid mule."
After being suspended for the entire 2014 season over the doping scandal, Rodriguez returned to the field for the Yankees for spring training in Tampa, Florida.
Sucart pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute human growth hormone, punishable by a maximum of five years in prison.
"You actively recruited the players, who you told could get help getting bigger and recovering from injuries faster," said Judge Cecilia Altonaga during the hearing.
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Amid a firestorm of protest, a dozen high-risk sex offenders were moved to Marin County on Thursday and are free to come and go from housing on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison, where they will stay in officers' quarters.
The parolees, shifted to Marin by the state, could be the first of a stream of sex violators headed for the county under a new state program. The first 12 state prison parolees from Solano, Alameda and Sonoma counties and San Francisco were moved to officers' quarters at San Quentin about 8 p.m. Thursday. Another four were said to be with relatives.
"I'm greatly disturbed that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation decided to round up sex offenders from around the Bay Area and dump them in Marin," said Assemblyman Joe Nation, D-San Rafael, at a news conference at the Marin County Jail.
"It's outrageous."
The move was the first time since 1987 - when notorious kidnapper and rapist Lawrence Singleton stayed in a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin - that paroled sex offenders have taken up residence at the prison.
Elaine Jennings, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the men were forced Thursday to leave two motels in Vallejo, where they had been staying after being released separately from state prison over the past few weeks. The motel terminated its contract with the state to house the men, she said.
"With the passage of new residency requirements and all the community concerns, we've had a lot of difficulty finding where to put them," Jennings said. "Our options are becoming severely limited - public safety is our primary concern."
The abrupt move shifting sex offenders from across the state to Marin County triggered heated protests. Nation said the prison is a five-minute walk from Larkspur Landing Shopping Center and a residential neighborhood.
"I live a mile and a half to two miles from the prison myself, and I have twin 17-year-old daughters," he said. "You know I will be telling them to take more precautions."
Nation said he is petitioning staff at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office to change the arrangement - possibly moving the 12 men to another facility. None of the men are on medication for sexual disturbances or have been chemically castrated, he said.
"They (corrections officials) believe it's just temporary," he said. "I will do everything in my power to make sure it's as temporary as can be."
Marin County Sheriff Bob Doyle said the high-risk sex offenders will receive ankle bracelets today with GPS tracking devices and will be on a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
"I think it's very unfair to saddle one community with one class of prisoner - especially when they're not from Marin County," Doyle said. "They'll be able to come and go wherever they want in the community - it's unfair to public safety, law enforcement and the citizens of Marin County."
He said state officials told him the men would be taken to a parole office in Vallejo every day, where two of them would go to jobs and the rest participate in a treatment program.
"The Department of Corrections is in a very difficult situation. Sexual predators aren't wanted anywhere," Doyle said at the news conference. "But they're supposed to go back to the community where they committed the crime."
He said if no one provided them with housing "they would just be homeless, walking around."
Larkspur Mayor Larry Chu said he was deeply concerned - especially because prison officials told him more sex offenders would be sent to San Quentin on a weekly basis for an "indeterminate time." The extension of the program could not be confirmed Thursday.
"There's a high concentration of high-risk individuals that would be dumped into our communities," Chu said. "They're free to come and go, as long as they stay within parameters of parole - there's a curfew, but there's nothing to stop them from walking off the grounds during the day."
Jennings said the men are not classified as violent sexual predators as was former "Lincoln Avenue rapist" Patrick Ghilloti, released in 2004 from Atascadero state mental hospital amid a flood of community outrage. Violent sexual predator Cary Verse was also released from the state hospital that year and was banished from a series of Bay Area motels - including the Fireside Inn in Mill Valley - after community protests.
Although the parolees relocated to Marin are not considered sexually violent predators with a mental disease diagnosis, some have committed offenses against children, Jennings added. That makes them eligible for enforcement under Assembly Bill 113, which became effective in January.
AB 113 prohibits any high-risk sex offenders or parolees who committed crimes against children from living within a half-mile of a school or other child's gathering place, she added. Of the 12 men, eight are from Solano, two from Sonoma, one from Alameda and one from San Francisco.
"This is definitely temporary," Jennings said. "We've got to work with the community to find out what options are available, but this is the safest short-term solution we have while we work for a permanent placement."
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The release of this latest report from Bellwether Education Partners is fortuitously timed as school districts large and small across the Buckeye State reach the end of another school year beset by transportation problems. Authors Phillip Burgoyne-Allen and Jennifer O'Neal Schiess dissect those challenges from a national perspective and argue convincingly that the difficulties in providing effective and efficient service are the result of archaic structure, bureaucratic inertia, and siloed responsibilities. It is less a question of money, as some would argue, than a lack of wherewithal to change how that money is spent.
The topic is complicated, but the report flows well and allows for exploring the many layers from federal to state to local. The authors begin by describing the main models of student transportation: district-operated, contractor-operated, public transit, and various combinations of the three. While all of these models are decades old, the district-centered model still predominates as school systems own and operate two-thirds of all school buses on the road today. Various state funding models are also described. Some are geared to maintain the district-operated status quo, others are more student and family-centric and agnostic on form, and still others incentivize...
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A recent Cincinnati Enquirer editorial by contributor Sarah Stitzlein sharply criticized Ohio's current private-school scholarship programs and savaged Senate Bill 85, which would expand them. The recently introduced bill would open choice opportunities to working-class families by offering them partial tuition scholarships (aka vouchers) while continuing to offer full scholarships for pupils from low-income families.
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how do i publish my user portal to the internet is there any other ports that i should be opening for my local and remote users to get to my portal webpage?
Pleases i am struggling to get my spice-works help-desk up and running
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You have to open the ports for http/https only.
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Sep 26, 2011 at 7:37 UTC
In addition to the excellent information bytesnake provided you, you may want to consider changing the default ports of SW from 9675 (http) and 9676 (https) to the standard http ports of 80 and 443 respectively. This way your users only need to worry about helpdesk.yourcompany.com, and not need to worry about the port numbers. To do this, you need to ensure that IIS server is not installed on the same server as SW. You will need to setup port forwarding on your firewall to the open ports on your SW server.
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Olympics: India finish 55th on the medals tally
India won 2 silver and 4 bronze medals but could have easily made the top-40 nations had it managed one gold.
London: The coveted gold medal eluded India at the London Games but thanks to its best-ever haul of six medals, the country finished 55th in the medals tally at the Olympic Games that concluded here on Sunday.
India, who stood 50th in the Beijing Games medal tally with one gold and two bronze, could have easily made the top-40 nations had it managed one yellow metal this time also.
Grappler Sushil Kumar and shooter Vijay Kumar fetched silver medals while five-time world champion MC Mary Kom, ace shuttler Saina Nehwal, shooter Gagan Narang and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt bagged bronze medals.
The medals tally of the 30th Olympic Games was headed by the United States, who finished with a total of 104 medals (46 gold, 29 silver and 29 bronze), followed by China with a total of 87 medals (38-27-22) and Britain with 65 medals (29-17-19).
Four years ago, shooter Abhinav Bindra had won the gold, while Sushil and boxer Vijender Singh had clinched the bronze medal in Beijing.


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It is hard to separate the wheat from the chaff
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If you or someone you know is about to undergo laparoscopic surgery in order to lose weight, a new medical device is set to revolutionize how the surgery is done.
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The advent of laparoscopic surgery was different than other surgeries in that it allowed a surgeon to make multiple smaller incisions than the historically large ones that were required for certain types of surgical procedures. The advantage for patients was less downtime and smaller incisions which were easier to take care of and were less noticeable. The SPIDER® Surgical Systemworks by providing surgeons the ability to work with multiple instrument channels without having to make a large, or even multiple incisions. Instead, doctors can simply make a small incision. Tiny and flexible tools and instruments are inserted into two different channels, the right and left, that allow the surgeon with dexterity to carry out various tasks, even at one time, throughout surgery.
"The biggest problem we had with single incision surgery before the advent of the SPIDER Surgical System, was that the space was very limited, that is, you had to have the instruments going into a small surgical site at three or four different directions in order to more effectively triangulate the area to be operated," explains Dr. Shyam Dahiya, a bariatric surgeon in Los Angeles, California and the nation's leading expert in the use of the SPIDER Surgical System. "The SPIDER Surgical System takes the three or four instruments and condenses them down into a single rod that enters the surgical site through a small, usually hidden incision in the belly button. Once the System is inside the patient, the 'branches' of the instrument are deployed and the procedure is performed. It allows us the best depth-perception possible when performing these various procedures."
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Dr. Dahiya is amongst the three most experienced surgeons in the United Stated with the SPIDER Surgical System, and his patients are exceptionally pleased with the results. Fabiola Guzman (27) had a friend who underwent a bariatric procedure using the traditional form of laparoscopic surgery. "She was really jealous that I had to have only one incision near my belly button that's not even noticeable. In addition, the recovery time I went through was far less than my friend went through. I was up and walking around within an hour."
This new treatment for patients is called the STARR Treatment which stands for Surgical Tiny Access and Rapid Recovery. This move to fewer incisions will grow according to Dr. Dahiya. "I definitely see the role of the SPIDER Surgical System expanding over the next decade" he explains.
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E*Trade Super Bowl Commercial
By Kickntrue on 2/2/09
Did anyone notice the E*Trade Super Bowl ad last night featuring a TaylorMade R9 visor? Pretty clever on TaylorMade's part to get an ad within an ad. I wonder how much they paid for the privilege? By the way- I held the new TaylorMade R9 driver last week (as well as their new Burner irons which look AWESOME) and you can expect to hear more on that front soon.
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Goods says:
Personally, I enjoyed the other one with his 'friend' in the high chair singing 'Broken Wings' by Mister Mister. But yes, Taylor Made gets props with the visor... way to vertically advertise.
ToddRobb says:
Good for Taylor Made. Although when I saw it I thought they ruined the campaign by bringing the kid into the real world. I thought it was cool that he was a baby that was able to trade stocks. They realized their mistake and brought him back to baby world with his singing friend.
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kidputter says:
Follow the link and check out the out takes. They are even better than this.
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This was the most hilarious commercial I have ever seen. I even laughed harder the second time I saw it. Freaking genious.
Holly Groeschel says:
This commercial (and all the others with the baby) IS Awesome!!! I want a visor like that, yet can't seem to find one ~ sighs ~
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new taylormade r9 driver for 2010
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You have to applaud the ECB for embracing flexibility in their new approach to hours of play, which at last acknowledges that the object of the exercise is to get in as much cricket as possible, and preferably in neat, two-hour chunks, mimicking Test matches.
However, spectators are going to be awfully confused at times. And goodness knows what the caterers make of it...
Yesterday, after a slight delay in mopping up a wet outfield, play began at 11.15am and lunch was set for 1.15pm. Today, with more rain about, play was supposed to start at 11.30am (in the event, it did not begin until 12.30pm after a heavy shower) and lunch was scheduled for 1.30pm. Visions come to mind of kitchen staff rushing into the players' dining room bearing trays of hot food only to find nobody there...
There may have been a few rumbling stomachs on the field, too, although Somerset will have tucked in with the greater gusto after a decent fightback this morning.
The overcast conditions helped the ball swing and no one took better advantage than Mark Turner, the 24-year-old former England under-19 pace bowler in his second season with Somerset after finding chances with his home county, Durham.
In a lively six-over spell at the Stretford End, Turner broke Lancashire's opening partnership at 66 by dismissing Iain Sutcliffe with a ball that swung in late, then claimed an important second lbw to remove Mal Loye for four. He almost bagged another big scalp when an edge from Stuart Law, then on two, fell just short of Marcus Trescothick at second slip.
When Brad Hodge then followed a ball from Charl Willoughby, the left-armer, to be caught behind in the next over, Lancashire had slipped from 66-0 to 85-3. Paul Horton, with a half-century containing 10 boundaries, had guided them to 103-3 when the folk in the Old Trafford kitchens were finally required.
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Some notes and observations from down on the farm. AAA Louisville Bats The Reds have made a recent rash of minor league player signings. They've inked RHP Carlos Marmol, RHP Jair Jurrjens, LHP Matt Maloney, RHP Adam Russell, C Lou Marson, and 1B Shelley Duncan. Recent departures are LHP Jeff Francis, C Max Ramirez, and … Continue reading
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Games Played on 05/16/2012 Minor League Player of the Day: Dayton Dragons starter Stalin Gerson threw 5 shutout innings for the second consecutive appearance. He walked one and struck out two. AAA Rochester 4 – Louisville 1 Chad Reineke (1-3, 4.12 ERA) gave up 4 runs, 3 earned, in a 5-inning start. He walked a … Continue reading
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As expected, the Reds picked up Brandon Phillips' $12 million option for 2012. Don't be surprised if they work out an extension soon, a la Bronson Arroyo last off-season. On the other side of the coin, Cincinnati declined the 2012 option on closer Francisco Cordero. CoCo was often great (and sometimes less than great) during … Continue reading
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No official word from the Reds, but LHP Matt Maloney has tweeted that he is now a member of the Twins organization. I always liked Maloney; he seemed like a good guy who worked hard. I don't know what his ceiling is as a pitcher, but the Nation wishes him the best in Minnesota. Hope … Continue reading
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Let's recap today's titanic struggle…. FINAL Milwaukee 8 Cincinnati 1 W: Greinke (15-6) L: Maloney (0-3) BOX SCORE NOT-SO-RANDOM THOUGHTS –The Reds were playing decent baseball and the Brewers were scuffling before Milwaukee came to town. Three games later, and…ugh. –Cincinnati has to win eight of their last nine to finish with a winning record. … Continue reading
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CALGARY, CANADA - OCTOBER 31: Darren Helm #43 of the Detroit Red Wings goes over the boards for a line change during their game against the Calgary Flames on October 31, 2009 at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Red Wings defeated the Flames 3-1. (Photo by Dale MacMillan/Getty Images)
Detroit Red Wings forward Darren Helm appeared to have suffered a scary injury during Game One against the Nashville Predators in tonight's game. As the video below shows, Helm ran into Preds winger Alexander Radulov along the boards. Radulov's skates came up in the air and appeared to make contact with Helm's wrist. Almost immediately, Helm felt something that more than likely was blood. Obviously spooked, he skated straight to the bench shaking off his other glove to start applying pressure. No official word on what happened, but we will update you when possible.
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IN THE light of the need for aggressive economic activities to achieve a desired economic growth, where natural resources are increasingly scarce and depleting to feed the industrialization process, the Heart of Borneo (HoB) Initiative is developing resource management tools in enhancing the socio-economic and environmental value of natural resources such as the Bornean forests and ecosystem services.
Amidst global warming and a new economy approach, the vital role of nature has been appreciated and rewarded as a service provider with a limited holding capacity where responsible socio-economic activities are fully dependent on.
The economic excitement tends to result in the unsustainable use of natural resources, which is assessed as the production beyond the optimum limit of nature and excludes the payment to nature's recovery more than the cost of consumption – making unnecessary investments for a limited capacity of resource productivity.
Bringing the agenda of natural resources to the attention of politics, the HoB Initiative is providing a platform for well-coordinated actions between Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia to recognize and act upon the value of natural resources and thus, outlining bold steps to be undertaken collectively to enhance the recognition and appreciation of forest resources and its biodiversity contents.
At the same time, it also addresses the resources' economic challenges for the sustainable management and ensuring of its wise commercial use based on the green economy principle of approach such as investing in natural capital where economic activities should value the natural capital within the designated HoB area; investing in people, where the environmental benefit and cost provides an equitable society; the greening of high impact sectors, where green industries should be eco-friendly and provide better employment prospects; the driving investment and financial flows, where the healthy ecosystem should be driven by the investment and financial flows for a better quality of life for all residents and the improving of governance and measurement, where the progress should incorporate the social and environmental needs to make social well-being and environmental health more valuable and appreciate good practices (Building in a Green Economy for Borneo, 2014).
Green economy in the context of the HoB Initiative considers the cost to business, investors and consumers to be reduced as to increase revenue from biodiversity-based and green industries where crop yield is to be increased and domestic energy consumption lowered.
This will ensure a long term viability of the economic activities emphasising on the innovative productivity without compromising on the need to protect the healthy ecosystem services.
The economic model developed in a green economy that promotes bio-economy values the natural resources by increasing the well-being and social equity while reducing the environmental risk and ecological scarcities, delivering inclusive growth while sustaining the other benefits such as food, water, climate, and soils, securing the stock in the long term and enhancing its revenue without making substantive cost to damaged ecosystems, and delivering development priorities for the societal benefits (socio-economic and environment).
The present designated HoB area is meant to collaboratively protect a continuous corridor of Bornean ecological infrastructures rich in natural resources for multi-levels of investment in new multi-sectoral economic potentials under the green economy approach as to enhance understanding on the economic role of the HoB's ecosystems across the Island of Borneo.
A bio-economy has a better prospect as well as the transboundary ecotourism taking the advantage of a highly diverse continuous biological landscape.
Taking advantage of the HoB area situated within the world's megadiverse hotspot, the proposed bio-economy should encompass the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into food, feed, chemicals, energy and healthcare wellness products (medicinal plants and herbs) along the advancement of innovative and efficient biotechnologies.
Agroforestry-based bio-economy is always dealing with eco-friendly and biodegradable products which are not harmful to the environment.
As forest land sustains more than 50 per cent biodiversity global content, one of the priorities of Brunei's HoB Initiative is to intensify foreign collaborations as its strategic efforts in achieving the commercialisation of biodiversity-based biotechnology in the future, therefore helping to expedite the development of industrial biotechnology in the country.
Relevant centres have been established within the organisational structure of the Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources and more importantly, the upcoming Biodiversity Order meant to capitalise and coordinate the R&D activities that will trigger the development of industrial biotechnology in Brunei Darussalam.
The established centres will provide the scientific platform and opportunities for interested private sectors from all sectors to grab commercial opportunities in biotechnology by benefiting the application of bio-based technological advancement that are worth billions of dollars based on the regional market forecasts.
Looking at these vast economic potentials based on biological resources, the HoB Initiative is not only of global environmental importance but a biological depository of the economic resources including trillions dollar-worth forest ecosystems. (Courtesy of Mahmud Yussof, CEO of HoB Centre & Head of Biodiversity Research and Innovation Centre, Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources)


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Claims by Nick Clegg that Lord Rennard will not play a part in election campaigning for the Liberal Democrats were in doubt last night after evidence emerged he has been helping candidates while under investigation for inappropriate conduct.
Lord Rennard is still regarded by many in the party as a guru who masterminded a string of by-election victories and campaigns, and sources have pointed to a list of seats in which he has been helping at a local level and could join the fight next spring. On Facebook in May 2013, while under investigation by the party for a series of allegations by women activists, Lord Rennard wrote that he had been helping activists in Eastbourne in the local elections.
Last week, the former chief executive was readmitted to the party after it dropped all disciplinary investigations against him. But the Deputy Prime Minister, and his ally Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, insisted Lord Rennard would play no part in campaigning for the general election, either in terms of central strategy from the party's headquarters or at a grassroots level.
Yet Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, said on Thursday: "I am sure people will want to use his expertise." Mr Cable's comments appear to be backed up by sources, who told The Independent on Sunday that they expected him to help locally.
The claims will fuel anger among the women who brought allegations against him.
One party source said Lord Rennard had "been seen on the streets with leaflets", and that he done "low-level campaigning for candidates in south London". A second party source said that he has been helping to produce campaign literature in a different part of the country. Another party campaigner noted that while he had heard Lord Rennard had been campaigning "of his own accord" for Liberal Democrat candidates, "he was never left alone with others".
Sources within the Liberal Democrats have also speculated that Lord Rennard has been advising close friends Keith House and Gerald Vernon Jackson, leaders of Eastleigh and Portsmouth councils respectively. Mr Jackson denied that any Portsmouth Liberal Democrats were receiving help from Lord Rennard, saying he had not helped the Portsmouth local organisation "for the last eight or 10 years". Mr House or other members of the Eastleigh Liberal Democrat council group, could not be contacted for comment.
A spokesman for Lord Rennard said last night it was "not true" the peer had been helping out in a formal role, adding: "He may have been asked privately [to help]. Who knows if a friend has rung him up but he has done nothing officially at all." Asked to reconcile the apparent differences between remarks by Mr Alexander and Mr Cable, the spokesman said: "Whoever says anything is speculating because he hasn't spoken to anyone and has not made any decisions."
Yet party members have also noted how Lord Rennard is increasingly interacting with them online on social networks such as Twitter.
Susan Gaszczak, one of the women who made allegations, revealed on Radio 4 that party president Tim Farron had also texted her to say that the peer would not be involved in the 2015 campaign.
All four women who went to Channel 4 with allegations against Lord Rennard have now left the party. Lord Rennard denies all the allegations made against him, and has apologised publicly to the women if he had encroached on their personal space.
The party launched a formal investigation into Lord Rennard's conduct in early 2013 after the allegations were made public. He was suspended in January 2014 but the suspension was lifted last week.
Following the peer's readmission to the party, Mr Alexander said: "Nick Clegg has made clear, and I share this view, that Lord Rennard will not have a role in the election campaign or in drawing up the election manifesto. We have teams in place to do that. In terms of the election campaign, Lord Rennard will not have any role in that at all. "
The decision to readmit Lord Rennard was taken on a party level and Mr Clegg had no personal authority to overrule it, leading to criticism that the Liberal Democrat leadership is powerless. Mr Clegg has also faced criticism for failing to suspend or sack the Bradford East MP David Ward, who earlier this summer sympathised with Hamas for firing rockets into Israel.Reuse content