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Microsoft and Nokia share multimedia duties in the Nokia Lumia 820. The phone offers the standard Windows Phone 8 music services, comprised of a slick media player for your own tunes, a store front where you can buy digital music for around £8 an album, and the Xbox Music streaming service. This is a bit like Spotify, letting you stream a catalogue of millions of tracks for £9 a month, or £90 for a year.
Nokia Music, a separate app, adds in Nokia's own music store, which again sells albums for around the £8 mark, and a wide array of Nokia Mixes. These are free-to-stream playlists – you pick the genre, decade or style and Nokia Music chooses the tracks. Streaming quality is fairly low and it's no replacement for a full music streaming service, but it's a welcome addition when not every music app is available for Windows Phone 8 yet.
We imagine most music fans will want to load their own tunes onto the Nokia Lumia 820, though. Windows Phone 8 makes this easy, letting you plug in the phone to a computer and transfer files without needing specific software. Alternatively, you can plug in a microSD card full of tunes or videos – the Lumia 820 supports cards up to 64GB.
Format support for both music and video is a bit limited, though. Lossless FLAC files aren't supported, and neither is popular video format MKV. There are a few third-party media players out there that can fill these gaps, but there are far fewer than on Android or iOS – and it's a shame to ditch the smooth native media player.
The Nokia Lumia 820 has two cameras, an 8-megapixel rear sensor and a surprisingly basic VGA user-facing camera. Most Android phones at the price offer at least 1-megapixel sensors – although for just a low-spec camera, this video chat-geared sensor is surprisingly good.
The handset's main 8-megapixel sensor is a disappointment after the unusual, and unusually good Lumia 920, though. The Nokia Lumia 820 is capable of capturing sharp, fairly colourful images, but we found that both its white balance and focusing were a little unreliable at times.
The latter may be in part down to the lack of optical image stabilisation, which does feature in the Lumia 920, matched with the Nokia Lumia 820 trying to shoot a little faster than it necessarily should do. The missing stabilisation is even more noticeable when shooting video, although the Nokia Lumia 820's camcorder mode does extend all the way up to 1080p. The dual-LED flash is more powerful than most too.
Its camera app at first appears simplistic, with basic image controls and no fun effects like Panorama or HDR in its settings menu. The truth is the opposite, though.
The Nokia Lumia 820 uses modular plug-ins called Lenses. These provide extra modes such as Panorama, and far more bizarre oddities besides. For example, the pre-installed Bing Vision is a QR code and barcode scanner. It's not just about photographic delights. Additional Lenses are available to download within the app.
Although recent years have seen Nokia's phone cred plummet from former great heights, it has continued to provide solidly-built phones with decent call quality. The Nokia Lumia 820 offers a good, loud earpiece speaker with full-bodied sound. There are dual microphones too, to let the phone remove ambient noise from the signal.
Battery life is not quite as robust, though. The Nokia Lumia 820 uses a 1650mAh battery, which is respectable but not stellar when many larger Android phones circle around the 2000mAh mark. It'll last for a day and change between charges, but anyone who lives their life through their smartphone will still need to charge once a day.
On pre-pay, the Nokia Lumia 820 will cost you £330-350, or you can get the handset for free on a contract of around £25 and up for the 3G edition, or £35 for the 4G version. This is not a cheap phone, although it does offer a top-end experience.
The problem is that so do the lower-cost Windows Phone 8 devices, such as the Nokia Lumia 620 and HTC 8S. Top-end phones of 2013 tend to differentiate themselves with stellar cameras and screens – the Lumia 820 has a decent camera, but a fairly poor screen by today's standards. We'd advise to wait for the inevitable price drop before opting for this phone.
The Nokia Lumia 820 is a solid phone, but doesn't have any of the stand-out features of the fantastic value Nokia Lumia 620, or the Nokia Lumia 920, with its excellent camera. Its screen is also a disappointment, suffering from the oversaturated colours OLED screens are prone to, while falling way behind the back in resolution terms. Performance is excellent, but it's not the complete package we now expect at this upper-mid-range price.
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DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR, DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE. The first 820 i had broke in my pocket (cracked screen), even though it was in a case with a screen protector. I eventually got a replacement from carphone warehouse after shouting and screaming for three hours in-store.
The second handset is plauged by bugs. Sometimes it won't charge through USB for no apparent reason. The data connectivity often won't work without turning the phone off and on first. Sometimes the music player volume will zump to zero and won't turn back up until you turn it off and on. Some photos iv taken have a solid line of purple pixels across them, the list goes on...
Iv tried endlessly to tackle this with Nokia and they've done absolutely nothing. They do not know the meaning of the words "customer service", do some forum searches and you'll see what i mean.
Iv used Nokia for 15 years but when this contract runs out im never dealing with them again. Take my advice and save yourself from a ton of frustration, and being stuck with a shoddy handset for two years.
I don't know if Gaz Martin is in the pay roll of some other manufacturer, but all I can say is he is subject to his own opinion.
It is a great phone and a smart option for your money's worth. Just use the phone in a store for any period of time and make your own mind up. Do not let some random guy troll your mind.
Im just sharing my experience.
Okay so am I. It's sad that you've had such a bad one. Nokia has always been outstanding with customer service in my experience.
I have just returned this handset having upgraded my contract. It's a shame as I don't believe the issue is with the hardware, but it's Windows Phone 8 itself. The issues I encountered included poor battery life, difficulty setting up exchange but the biggest disappointment was the management of external storage.
It seems that it is near impossible to save anything to an SD card apart when using non-native applications. The fact that you can't even download an mp3 via the browser is ridiculous in itself. There is no native UK podcast support, so when using a third party app it will down files to the internal memory rather than your SD card. In addition, the Nokia apps do the same, including Nokia Maps and Music. With only 8GB of storage you will fill it up pretty quickly, I don't know how offline playlists work in Spotify but I can only assume the same issue applies.
It's a real shame as even my old e71 could run applications from the SD card and 3rd party applications could be set to use an SD card. I really don't know what handset to upgrade to now, as I don't trust WP8 on a Lumia 920. In addition it seems the 920 suffers from battery life issues and tends to run hot. It's a shame as I would prefer to upgrade to a Nokia if possible.
In line with the remarks of many other users/victims below.
The phone is not able to meet even the minimal most expectation. The main difficulty the phone I have has is to establish basic 3G connection, It is able to do so for about an hour a day (in total), Bluetooth is not able to sync once unpaired, 802.11 connection just vanishes for no reason. The difficulties in my view are software and not hardware, but the fact that no QC is able to identify the problem prior to the phone being offered to unsuspecting clients is insulting. On the evidence up to now, I don't think Nokia will be in business for long.
The handset is really good, build quality is perfect, and nokia applications are great, the only drawback is unfortunately win 8 mobile, I really, really wish Nokia used android instead of win system, I think quality-wise these phones are matching apple, but system is crap, amount o apps is less than poor and is not really growing :-( at all. I've always been fan of nokia but now I realy feel disappointed, think will come back to E52 as works much better than 820, and will last 8 days on one charge ;-)
i agree with you. nokia rocks!! unlike the 'Made in China' like samsung or any other manufacturer. hardy, user friendly and CLASSY.!! I've dropped my C7 from a rocktop when i was hiking and it still works perfectly. i drop it once or twice everyday. I love nokia!! the thing is this model has no gorilla glass. would it be an issue???
dear gaz martin u don't know how to use the windows phone............ hahahahahahah
I've had this phone for about 2 months now. Overall I like it but I do have a few issues.
1. Connectivity with my computer - I take a lot of pictures and videos that I want to share with friends. I haven't got the patience to upload them singly to Facebook or wherever and email struggles to send large amounts of pictures. It's not a simple case of plugging the phone in to the computer you have to download an app which is only available if you have windows 7 or 8 on your pc/laptop. I have XP on one computer and windows 7 on my laptop which won't let me update facebook or send an email (therefore meaning I can't share my pictures/videos etc)
2. Size - It's just slightly too big to type with one hand but it's liveable
3. The case is a little smooth so I keep dropping it!! Thankfully the screen seems to be holding out but the case is starting to crack!
4. The case is ridiculous to get off! Even the guy in the Vodafone store I went to to swap contacts from my old phone couldn't get it off!!
5. Memory - Weirdly, my old phone seemed to cope reasonably well but I am constantly getting messages telling me that I have run out of memory!!
6. The Nokia Music App is unpredictable. It used to work fine but now won't always work. I've looked online and a few others have the same problems. Their solutions worked at first but alas no longer.
There's probably a couple of other things that I've forgotten (Probably not that big a deal then!!) and a lot of this probably seems like a lot of personal preference but it's stuff I wish I'd known before signing up for a 2 year contract.
As I said, overall I like it but perhaps wouldn't have got a windows phone had I known about the connectivity issues with the computer.
I do also have same experience. Are you saying that there is relation between Windows Phone and Screen and build quality of Nokia phones.
I am impressed with Windows Phone OS but Nokia build quality is worst.
gaz, at least get it replaced from Nokia; but for me I had to pay a lot for getting screen replaced from Nokia Care. Very much satisfied with Nokia smart phones quality.
Even I face the problem of data connection. First I thought it might be the service provided problem but now confirm about it. Music player problem also persist.
Dual code does not work upto the mark.. Even I keep on fighting with the bugs. But camera is appreciated and battery and rigidity is also appreciated. Maps are good. But details of area are less. Many imp places are missing on the map.
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Comp-Tac makes the MTAC for the USP .45c: Comp-Tac : Products
The MTAC is, IMHO, a great holster. Very comfortable.
Let me know if this interests you. It is a Mitch Rosen WKM Slimline IWB for the H&K USPc. I ordered it for my USP 40c and when it finally arrived (~8-9 months later), I had decided not to CCW that particular gun. So it has only been worn for a few hours around the house and then packed away as an expensive experiment.
Here's the Mitch Rosen webpage listing this holster and others.
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And here's links to pictures of my holster, both sides, and with and without the firearm (NOTE: The thread showing in the pictures is from a scrap of carpet I used to prop up the holster for the pictures). The pictures are big, so I'll just post the links here instead of the live picture.
Double whoops I guess!
ETA: Make that triple Whoops! Didn't catch that it was not the USP Compact and .45, not .40 that we were talking about.
I'm going to go wash my glasses now! :redface:
My main carry is currently an H&K USPc .45. I carry it in an MTAC.
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I just purchased this gun HK 45C. I have not been able to find a holster for this one. They are both very similar guns... in fact, when I DROS'd it we field stripped them. The slides and magazines were interchangeable. The shape of the slides are a bit different. The USP is squared off whereas the 45C is more rounded. I'm sure it will fit in the holster I currently use for my USP but I am a bit concerned about retention.


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hello all i have a 93 ford aerostar van when i got it it had a bad vibration when you hit the brakes so i put new rotors and brakes on and it didnt help so took the rotors back got more still didnt help took it and had the front end checked and all they said was that i needed new wheel bearings and had a rotor that needed turned so i got the new rotors turned and put new wheel bearings in and put new calipers on too and guess what it still vibration when you hit the vrakes and only when you hit the brakes so can anyone think of anything else it could be any help would be appreciated thanks
Do you know if it's coming from the front or the rear brakes? Front brakes will usually cause the steering wheel to shake, rear brake vibration feels more like it's coming up through the car. That's usualy the first step, isolate whether it's coming from the front or rear brakes. Sometimes if the rear drums are bad enough you can feel it by applying the e-brake lightly to bring the car to a stop in a parking lot. But that trick isn't fullproof.
well i have tried the e brake thing many times with nothing accomplished sometimes the steering wheel will shake a litle but not all the time and not much when it does i put new tires on the front too thinkin that might be it but nope havent checked the rear brakes yet but i will but it just seems likes its in the front but i will try anything so thanks for the help i really appreciate it
One more mention for ya. While you're checking things jack up the front and make sure there's no play in your inner or outer tie rods, ball joints, etc.
already checked all that too i even took it to sears to have them check it all too but thanks for the help
have someone follow you from behind and watch your wheels as you stop and if they see one wiggle that will narrow things down. actually all they have to do is stand on the side of the road and watch you, (twice) :p
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ok ill try that too thanks for the help
Bullheimer, has a good idea, with watching the wheels when you stop. I was going to suggest you use a micrometer to check the thickness all the way around the disc. It should be the same. In addition I would use a radial run out gauge, on the outside of the disc. This will tell you if the wheel is wobbleing. This may be a smaller amount than your eye can detect. Also there is a chance that the spindle may have been damaged with the old bearings, and putting on new bearings would not have helped that situation. Brake pads may not have been ground flat at the factory. I have seen them bad right out of the box. In short, if you are sure your front end parts are tight, and the wheel bearings are adjusted properly, that would only leave the rotor, spindle, and brake pads that could be causing the problem. Being new doesn't automatically mean they are good.
If you don't have the micrometer and run out gauge, you can probably rent those items. If all else fails, you may have to take it to a brake specialist, tell them the whole story before you bring the van in, and see if they can find the problem.
Let us know what you find out.
i already took it to sears and they checked everything im sure they didnt check the spindle but they checked everything else i bet cause the sears store here checks everything and good too cause they want to get your money lol but anyway i may have to take it elsewhere or rent those tools cause this thing is driving me nuts and i have noticed that the steering wheel does vibrate more than i have thought i guess i was just use to it doing that but payed extra atention to it and it does vibrate but anyway i really thank you guys for the help and ill let you know what i find out
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The government's £100m transition fund for charities facing statutory funding cuts closed for applications at the end of last week. Its desire to get this money out of the door quickly is laudable. Many charities are facing major threats to their services and need the money as soon as possible. However, the 21 January deadline was premature and many charities that could have benefited have lost out.
The purpose of the fund is to help "civil society organisations that deliver public services become stronger, more agile and adjust to the new spending environment". The money can only be used for making change: a complicated process which may involve mergers, partnerships, redundancies and developing entirely new ways of delivering services.
This type of planning takes time: you can't dash a plan off the top of your head, as existing funders and potential allies in the sector will need to feed into the process. So it is ironic that this fund, designed to help with the drawn-out transition process, then boxes them into a tight deadline.
Many charities have told us that local authorities will only let them know about funding decisions in February or March, making such business planning well nigh impossible. "For the next few months, we expect to be opening post from funders telling us they are cutting back," one charity told us. "We get more news each day, but we won't have a complete picture for months." One Oxfordshire charity says that the county council is not releasing news on what's being cut or by how much until February, and so has made the entire county ineligible.
Many charities like these, which would have liked to apply for transition funding, have found themselves without the evidence to do so. Wouldn't it have been better if the application process had been a rolling one, perhaps open till June, allowing charities that know where they stand to apply now and get rapid funding, and giving a fair crack at the pot to those that find out later?
The deadline is not the only problem with the fund. Many charities have had difficulty with the criteria. One says that having been encouraged to diversify its income, it now finds it no longer meets the requirement that 60% of its revenue is statutory. A small charity complains that the £50,000 income floor has made it ineligible for funding, despite it providing a vital local service.
The fund needs to set parameters somewhere, of course. But, according to our calculations, charity income will be slashed by £3bn every year, so £100m is not going to go far. Will this timing race hinder the fund's effectiveness, and will charities with good plans find they arrived too late to the party?
Charities fortunate enough to have funders that have declared their intentions will be better placed to use the fund than those waiting on decisions. Charities that have planned well will also benefit, unless they planned too well and fell foul of the 60% statutory funding requirement. It is a shame that a fund intended to help charities adapt has excluded many that would have benefited. Meanwhile, charities without access to resources to make the necessary changes may not survive in 2011/12.
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You just get it done.
In 2004, APM Terminals, a division of the Denmark-based A.P. Moeller-Maersk Group, announced it would build the nation's largest shipping-container terminal at its facility in Portsmouth, Va., doubling the port's capacity. Its deadline: mid-2007.
Under normal circumstances, meeting such an aggressive deadline would be unthinkable. But the stage had been set for the Virginia DOT(VDOT) to shave at least a year off typical project-delivery time, enabling it to provide the necessary infrastructure before the expanded facility's opening day.
In 2001, the state had passed legislation allowing public agencies to use design-build as a project-delivery method and, two years later, VDOT created an Innovative Project Delivery Division. At any given time, the 16-employee division is exploring a half-dozen opportunities. (By contrast, the agency handles up to 400 design-bid-build projects a year.)
Theoretically, design-build speeds project completion because construction can begin before the design has been completed. While this may sound like a recipe for disaster, proponents say this approach forces the designer/engineer and builder to work as a team to fulfill a contract they've both agreed to. Change orders are minimized because the team is responsible for both design and construction.
Rather than two separate contracts, design-build awards projects under a single lump-sum contract covering both design and construction. As a result, owners know the total cost of a project much sooner than in design-bid-build.
Normally, VDOT awards contracts to the lowest qualified bidder. With this project, however, the Innovative Project Delivery Division's request for proposal was based on a combination of a technical score (representing 30% of the criteria for selection) in addition to price (70% of the criteria for selection). From three proposals submitted, VDOT selected Tidewater Skanska Inc. of Virginia Beach, Va., as the design-build contractor, which retained Vanasse Hangen Brustlin of Watertown, Mass., as designer/engineer.
Once VDOT provided guidelines, the design-build team was free to resolve issues like drainage details and other geometric constraints without approval. The agency did, however, sign off at key milestones.
For example, the team was not allowed to continue until VDOT reviewed the right of way plan and final construction documents. The team submitted an update along with its monthly invoice that included a statement from its quality manager confirming that all construction met standards. To further ensure quality, VDOT conducted independent inspections.
"The very aggressive schedule couldn't have been met without everyone working together to make it happen," says VDOT project manager Bud Morgan, PE.
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Actual completion date: Nov. 10, 2006
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[MLS 2014 COUNTDOWN] The Seattle Sounders used their No. 1 selection in the allocation ranking order to select Guatemalan international Marco Pappa in what is effectively a straight swap for the player they gave up to obtain the selection from Chivas USA, Argentine Mauro Rosales.
Pappa played parts of five seasons with the Chicago Fire before being transferred to Heerenveen in August 2012. He had no goals in 12 matches for Heerenveen in the 2012-13
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Since we never have time to get on Catster anymore just thought I'd update. Hudson is still doing well. He is getting older, but he is still really healthy for his FIV and living outdoors. He just turned 12 this week. Hopefully he will live another 12. Levi and Sparkle are also doing good. They are happy, healthy, and young.
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But for many organizations, the bottom line is that the expense and complexity of running multiple data centers have become a big challenge, resulting in a big push toward data center consolidation. In fact, IT professionals in the TechTarget network of technology sites said data center consolidation was their No. 1 initiative for 2015; 40% of the 1,311 respondents to the 2015 Purchasing Intentions Survey said their organizations plan to implement data center consolidation this year.
Take, for example, the efforts put in motion by the U.S. federal government. Two dozen federal agencies are participating in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, with a goal to reduce the federal government's peak total of more than 3,100 data centers by 40% by the end of 2015. One of the economic aims of this data center consolidation project is to trim IT spending among these agencies by $3 billion.
Many issues make data center consolidation both attractive and attainable. For instance, 42% of respondents to the TechTarget Purchasing Intentions Survey indicated that they plan to update their data center infrastructure in 2015. Other areas that are part of the move to a more agile, scalable and affordable data center environment include the widespread adoption of virtualized infrastructure and cloud computing. IT organizations continue to make investments in cloud computing a strategic part of their data center initiatives; 41% of those respondents said they will increase spending on cloud services, while 25% said they intend to create a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Finally, 22% said they expect to upgrade to the newest version of the industry's most popular virtualization hypervisor, vSphere, while another 15% said they expect to adopt converged infrastructure solutions.
Converged infrastructure, in particular, holds great appeal and hope for IT organizations looking to transform their data centers both through consolidation and by creating more resilient, scalable and manageable infrastructure in their primary/sole data center.
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At the same time, by moving to a more virtualized infrastructure and adopting cloud computing in any of its multiple architectural approaches—public, private or hybrid—organizations are creating a more agile IT framework. Instead of having to buy, install and run more physical servers, storage or network infrastructure in their expanding number of data centers, IT departments can quickly and affordably spin up virtual infrastructure—and then take it down just as quickly, should conditions mandate.
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Speaking of Single-Tasking . . .
Last night we watched an episode of Frontline called "Digital Nation" It gave me more incentive to disconnect periodically and make sure I engage my brain in some longer-term activities. I feel an even greater responsibility to model this for my children. It's a long video (speaking of long-term engagement of the brain) but even if you only watch part of it, I think it's poignant.
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The kids have their winter break next week, and I plan to go internet - free! Let's see if I can do it . . .ReplyDelete
You can do it, Lena! As writers I think it's a tough call b/c to a certain extent it's good to be connected and networking, but sometimes we overdo it. At least, I do. I've found it much easier to manage my internet time without the pull of Facebook. But it takes discipline and sometimes I don't have that. Love the profile pic with your sassy new do!ReplyDelete
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Developmental workshops to unlock full student potential at Southern African universities
Stellenbosch University, the Southern African Association for Counselling and Development in Higher Education (SAACDHE) and Golden Key International Honours Society have joined forces in a groundbreaking project for the development of workshops to optimise student potential at higher education institutions in Southern Africa.
The project started with basic pre-planning and a written proposal in 2008. Golden Key South Africa bought into the concept and a few of the newly developed workshops will be piloted during the first six months of 2010. The whole package will then be officially handed over to all participating centres and units at the September 2010 SAACDHE conference in the Western Cape. The eight to ten completed workshops will, thereafter, be continuously monitored and researched, as part of an objective and formal PhD study, to determine students' and staff's impressions and experiences of the workshops and the impact thereof up to October 2012.
According to Prof Charl Cilliers, Director: Centre for Student Counselling and Development at Stellenbosch University, it takes more than academic knowledge and qualifications to achieve success in the working world. A recent (2008) study undertaken by Higher Education South Africa (HESA) re-affirms that skilful practices such as communication, problem solving, critical thinking and ability to learn from experiences far outweigh mere subject expertise or formal qualifications.
"This innovative and exciting five-year project will involve the empowerment and improvement of student counselling, career and development centres and units at all participating universities in order to meet the identified challenges. Invitations and arrangement details will be sent to all the centres and units within the next few weeks," says Prof Cilliers, the driving force behind the development of the workshops. He will be supported by a team of professionals.
Based on the findings, serious consideration will be given to the possibility of re-introducing the project over the next five years locally and potentially even internationally. Prof Cilliers invited other organisations that would like to be involved in the project or would like to contribute financially to contact him at Stellenbosch University.
Why the need for developmental workshops at tertiary institutions?
Research has shown that students need more than technical and professional skills to face the new challenges of work and life, says Prof Cilliers.
He emphasises that contemporary market needs have, for instance, forced countries like India to introduce 'finishing schools' in the form of one-year courses in interpersonal skills for new graduate engineers. But, market needs are not the only indicators of this need, as social factors, such as the growing gap between rich and poor, conflict, crime and a growing realisation that we need to do more to prevent corruption and ethical failures, also require that universities come up with new and innovative plans for the optimisation of student potential.
Travis Gale, founder of Apple Tree Catalyst Agency, a company that facilitates people, families, communities, teams and organisations towards new possibilities, and a key role-player in the project, says tertiary institutions therefore need to be pro-active in their methods of developing students for tomorrow's economy.
Student counselling and career services at tertiary institutions
Student counselling and career services at tertiary institutions have three essential roles (documented by SAACDHE in 2000). One role involves supporting and enhancing wellness and healthy holistic growth and development of students.
A recent (2008) national benchmarking survey by the Centre for Student Counselling and Development at Stellenbosch University showed that a vast majority (93%) of counselling centres in South Africa offer developmental workshops. However, the majority indicated that they experienced budget constraints (80%) and a shortage of staff (67%).
Given the above realities and the fact that these centres and units are experiencing a rise in the severity of student problems, the focus is shifting to crisis interventions, to the possible detriment of developmental programmes. These centres and units urgently need to be empowered to improve this component of their core functioning.
Why Golden Key as sponsoring agent?
Golden Key International Honours Society is the world's largest academic honours society and recognises and encourages academic excellence among the top 15% of university students. Membership of the Society is by invitation only and is solely based on academic performance. Currently more than 360 universities across the world are Golden Key Chapters.
Besides academic recognition at an international level, Golden Key offers access to financial assistance in the form of scholarships and awards, networking opportunities, both nationally and internationally, education-focussed community service events and career development.
Golden Key's mission is to enable members to realise their potential by connecting individual achievement with service and lifelong opportunity. Therefore the Society has decided to take hands with an initiative towards optimising student potential at universities.
"This project will act as an awareness tool influencing the mindset of students and preparing them to bridge the gap between student life and the workplace," says Ms Charlene Gunter, Director: Golden Key South Africa. "The initiative will enable all higher education institutions to stimulate a healthy student culture, by understanding the impacts of life and the importance of education. Personal and professional development of students over a diverse spectrum will guarantee high performers."
- For further information, please contact Prof Cilliers, Centre for Student Counselling and Development, Stellenbosch University, at tel 021 808 4971, cell 082 803 3050 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or Ms Charlene Gunter, Golden Key South Africa, at tel 012 807 7117 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com .
- For more information on Golden Key International Honour Society, please visit www.goldenkey.org or www.goldenkey.org.za or contact the South African office at 012 807 7117.
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When I spoke at Swarthmore College recently, I was startled by one question: Is it immoral for students to seek banking jobs? The corollary question, with Mitt Romney's business career under attack even by staunch Republicans, is this: Is it unethical to make millions in private equity? My answer to both questions: no.


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A simple fix for the microphone wind noise issue
I've heard quite a few people complain about how much the built in microphone in upper trim 2012's sucks. I can attest to this; at freeway speeds you have to scream at it to get it to understand anything you're saying. It's also virtually impossible to make a phone call as whoever you call thinks you're driving through a tornado.
I've devised a very simple (read, inexpensive) solution to this problem. It involves shoving sound deadening material in the space above the microphone to reduce the amount of ambient noise it picks up.
Video of how to do this is here
It worked wonders for me; now I don't have to burst my lungs in order for it to play a little Stevie Ray Vaughn[woot].
You may wish to use more material than I did in the video; I added more after the first test run and it helped quite a bit.
I have Dynamat left over from my last stereo build. Now I have a use for it! Have you heard of anyone replacing the microphone? Looks like it would be simple to do.
My main issue is not the voice commands but using the hands free over bluetooth. There is some serious background noise according to the people on the other end of the call. I'm thinking there has to be a better mic that would work with it. I'm going to do some research.
EDIT: Perhaps even a small directional mic?
That's the plan. I'll let you know how the dynamat goes. I can also check and see how the titanium differs from the other versions as it has a sunroof and other controls up there.
I don't anyone is saying the mic sucks on upper trim levels? I think people are saying that using sync at highway speeds is not as clear than lower speeds or not using it completely for all trim levels that have sync.
Mine sounds fine, no yelling needed at even highway speeds, however it sounds better with phone to face.
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By Abigail A. Lorden, Editor-in-Chief | April 08, 2011
You have to have a bit of thick skin to work in technology at Caesars Entertainment Corp., but such is the case in any situation where you intentionally seek out unfiltered feedback from the general public. The technologists at Caesars Entertainment not only develop IT applications, they're also intimately involved in an interactive process for collecting and assessing live feedback from guests on new technology projects. It's an approach that allows the team to tweak prototypes on-the-fly, and ultimately develop technology solutions that are more successful, and of greater use to guests.
"It's very much been the case that it's hard to ask a customer what they want or what technologies they might like, or even have them envision future technology," says Katrina Lane, senior vice president and chief technology officer for Caesars Entertainment (
). "It's not very realistic," and it leads to assumptions based on hypothetical scenarios. Instead of asking guests to evaluate what-ifs, Caesars builds feedback mechanisms directly into various stages of the user experience "to make sure that a project is constantly getting that flow," says Lane.
The resort gaming company began its voyage into the mind of the guest about two-to-three years ago and within the last 12 months has strengthened the effort. They've since applied this strategy to everything from piloting a new online reservations and booking engine, to testing out an iPhone app, to prototyping and eventually installing interactive digital signage.
The goal of these types of pilots, says Chris Chang, the company's VP of innovation and IT strategy, is "to gather data on how customers are reacting to something before, during and after a pilot…and then come through the process with a better product, more quickly than what would have been otherwise possible." They've also come through the process with some memorable guest feedback, such as the time one guest evaluated a prototype and commented, "This is kind of nice but you really should have a designer look at it."
"Thick skin, a must," laughs John Pestka, the company's director of Internet operations, who played a central role in one the company's most successful experiences with interactive customer feedback: rolling out its new reservations system.
Feedback in action
When Caesars re-launched a beta version of its central reservations system, they built a field for collecting feedback directly into the customer interface. That feedback was read by the project team every morning. "We were getting dozens of pieces of feedback a day, and because we were in a multi-week release cycle, we were able to fix it based on that feedback," recalls Lane.
But they took the process even further with their unique approach to usability labs. Most companies rolling out new tech will do a usability lab; they'll put their new technology in front of 15-20 customers per day, over the course of several days, and let them use it. A market researcher is usually observing the customer and collecting feedback from customers on their experiences.
What Caesars did differently was to bring its developers into the labs, too, to observe customers and make changes to the system on-the-fly based on customer input. By having developers observe the lab, "we can see what's working and what's not," says Pestka. "If we see a customer is struggling with something…we can start tweaking things within the prototype." The next tester tries out the tweaked version, and the process continues until, over the course of two to three days, many of the kinks are worked out.
"Instead of ending the week with a series of questions, we ended the week with a series of answers," says Lane.
This process helped Caesars solve a problem cropping up with a critical booking tool in the new system: calendars. "We know for a fact that our calendars are our best performing tools in getting customers to book," says Pestka. But in the new interface, customers couldn't find them. The company performed functional prototyping, and tried out a toolbar interface. Toolbars are common in most every software program, including the Microsoft Office suite, so it seemed like a smart way to make calendars available to customers. "One of our engineers built a toolbar, put it in front of the customer and we thought it was going to be a home run," says Pestka. "Nobody saw it," even after they had the moderator give hints. "We tried moving it, tried using icons versus words. I don't think it even made it through an entire day," he says. The final nail in the coffin came when one tester, after having the toolbar pointed out to them, said, "I don't think I'd use it even if I knew it was there." Eventually, they came up with the concept of a bulleted list, which though it doesn't sound very exciting, is clear and simple. Exactly what the customer needs.
This philosophy of interactive customer feedback isn't limited to cyberspace. Caesars used a similar approach to test its iPhone app. "We went on the casino floor and recruited customers to use the app," says Chang. It was the IT team, and not a group of professional researchers, who observed the applications in use. This allowed the developers to assess in real time what was feasible and what wasn't. The team took copious notes during the observations, and then interviewed users to get their feedback. "It was quite critical that this was us, and not a professional research team," says Chang. "The feedback is unfiltered and you get a visceral reaction. You can work in a lab on an application all you want, but it's not until the actual reaction from the customer that you can see the impact it might have."
Similarly, when the company deployed interactive digital signage at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas last year, the IT team performed a number of onsite evaluations. "We did some prototyping and got feedback in advance, but then we also had both us and our partners standing around the signs getting customer feedback," says Chang. They performed a number of intercepts to get direct feedback and that input was used to tweak the system.
Quality meets quantity
With all of this qualitative research, Lane stresses that there is absolutely a role for qualitative analysis and professional research, including when you perform usability labs. "But with these innovation projects, our team knows exactly what works and what doesn't with the app that you're trying to show, which allows us to show an app that's not quite polished," and therefore get input during the development phase. Plus, the IT team is inquisitive: "We don't ask once and think we've got it; we ask and try, ask and try, ask and try," she says. This type of research is then always combined with quantitative data analysis.
What's more, Caesars take a collaborative approach to its research and development. Corporate technology and Internet teams work closely with the properties and individual operators. "Technology, while pervasive, is still complex," says Lane.
From this process, the team has learned some vital lessons: for example, that personalization isn't the right choice in all scenarios for all customers. "On the Web, there are clearly areas that we try to personalize," says Lane. "When we know they're coming, we suggest dining options. But within the core booking process, as we researched, we found it was more important to let them find and pick the tools they want to use." In the case of the booking calendar, the team learned that you simply don't need to personalize it. "Just make it simple for someone to find the tools they need to make a reservation," agrees Pestka.
Lane believes that this interactive approach, with the technologists invested in the feedback process, is critical to Caesars' ability to create and deploy customer experiences. "It's been an invaluable way for us to get better products to market faster."
The process has also been gratifying for the entire team. "We do a lot of quantitative data and analytical research. The richness that we've derived from augmenting that with customer feedback has allowed us to go from making assumptions to really understanding," explains Chang.
"Yes, you have to have pretty darn think skin," says Lane, "but it's amazing how much better things can become, and you have some real high-five moments."
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With the 2009 U-21 European Championships to be held in Sweden, McDonald's filed a complaint to UEFA, asking that Max close its restaurant outlet in the Boras Arena during tournament matches.
Max offered to close for a few hours on each game day but refused to completely shut down its operations. McDonald's turned down the compromise. At this point, UEFA stepped in and threatened to strip Boras, a city in the Vastergotland province of western Sweden, of its hosting privileges.
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DREAM 17: Joachim Hansen vs Mitsuhiro Ishida
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Hansen wins by SD:
Round 1
Samio Kimura will be officiating this bout. Ishida darts in and targets Hansen's legs. Hansen tentatively fires back with his right jab. Ishida lands a knee-buckling left straight, but doesn't capitalize to finish. He closes in with more punches and lands in the clinch. He attempts to throw Hansen over his shoulder, but Hansen takes his back instead. Calmly and cooly, Ishida shucks Hansen over his shoulders and takes top in guard. Hansen throws right hooks from bottom to Ishida's ear. Hansen shrimps, likely looking for a sweep. Ishida places himself firmly back in his guard, preventing this however. Hansen goes for the rubber guard and gets his shin briefly under Ishida's chin, but Ishida frees himself. Kimura breaks them up.
Hansen misses a huge knee, but in the ensuing scramble as Ishida tries to escape, he gives up his back in the rear waistlock. Hansen picks Ishida up and suplexes him. Hansen then goes for the armbar and Ishida barely escapes. Hansen drops a few punches to Ishida's dome before then going for the triangle. Ishida squirms free and Hansen looks again for the triangle while punching Ishida's face from bottom. Ishida resituates himself in guard and lets off a nice salvo of punches and hammer fists. Hansen gets to his feet but gives up his back in the waist-lock. Ishida lands knees to the back of Hansen's legs before trying a suplex of his own. Hansen spins around and pancakes in response, preventing this.
Ishida drops for a single leg from behind and Hansen counters with an armbar attempt. Hansen can't get his outside leg over Ishida's face however. They disengage and get back to striking. Hansen misses a monster hook-uppercut. Ishida drives for a single and puts Hansen down against the ropes. They're repositioned by Kimura with one minute left on the clock. Ishida improves to half guard momentarily, but Hansen pulls him back into full guard and puts a few punches on the side of his head. Hansen stands up with Ishida stuck on his back in the rear wait-lock just before the bell.
Round 2
Both men trade head kicks. Hansen pushes forward with jabs, trying to close the distance for a brain splattering left straight. Ishida whips Hansen to the mat with a nice single rather than continuing to engage him in the standup. Ishida throws short punches at Hansen's head, but they're all blocked. Hansen stands up, giving up his back. Hansen breaks Ishida's grip, spins around and looks to be trying for a guillotine. Ishida pushes him into the corner and Kimura breaks them up.
Hansen gives chase to Ishida as he circles the ring, but when he lunges with punches, Ishida ducks under for the takedown. Hansen is put on his posterior momentarily, and again, he gives up his back as he gets to his feet. Kimura breaks them up again.
Ishida retreats again, forcing Hansen to chase and over commit on killshot punches. Again, Ishida ducks under and takes Hansen down against the ropes. Kimura repositions them in the final thirty seconds to the center of the ring. Hansen punches from bottom while Ishida punches from above. Hansen tries again for the rubber guard and transitions to the omoplata, but can't finish it before the bell.
Official scores:Judge Masanori Ohashi and Akira Shoji see it for Hansen, while judge Hikaru Adachi sees it for Ishida.
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Feb. 15, 2014
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LOS ANGELES—It was a day of battles for the Western Kentucky University softball team (5-3-1), as the team came back to force extra innings and take a 9-8 win over UC Davis (3-7) before falling 5-0 to No. 12/13 UCLA (8-0) in day two of the Stacy Winsberg Memorial Tournament.
The tournament concludes Sunday, as WKU will face Robert Morris at 11 a.m. CT. The Lady Toppers and Colonials met Friday with WKU taking a 7-2 win after posting 11 hits in the contest. Live stats are available for the game while updates can be found on Twitter via @WKU_GameDay.
GAME ONE--WKU 9, UC Davis 8 (8 inn.)
Down by two runs heading into its final inning, WKU came back to knot it up and force extras before a freshman Andie Martin walk-off hit brought in the winning run for WKU to defeat UC Davis 9-8.
The teams ended the game with even stats, as WKU had 10 hits to the Aggies' 11. Senior Olivia Watkins had her second-straight 4-for-4 effort at the plate to go with two runs and two RBI.
Senior Emily Rousseau came in as relief to grab the win. The Louisiana native pitched 5.1 innings and gave up five hits and one earned run while fanning one batter. Freshman Hannah Miniard started the game, going 2.0 in the circle with three hits and four runs to her line as well as a pair of strikeouts.
WKU took to the scoreboard first, notching a 2-0 lead after one inning of play. With Cruce on third and Watkins on second, a sacrifice fly from Thomas brought in Cruce before a RBI double by Mattox added the frame's final run.
Two hit by pitches allowed UC Davis runners with one out in the second inning. A single then followed to cut WKU's lead before a two-RBI single to center put the Aggies ahead 3-2. WKU responded to pull ahead 4-3 after sophomore Brooke Holloway put up a solo shot to center and Watkins had a RBI single.
Down 6-4 after UC Davis had a three-run third inning, junior Jacqueline McGill hit a two-RBI double to tie in the seventh before UC Davis added another pair of runs in the top eighth. With two outs in the bottom frame, an Aggie fielding error allowed freshman Marley Harmon to score before a Watkins single brought in junior Shawna Sadler. Cruce stood at second when Martin's hit to right center allowed Cruce to round the corner and score the winning run.
GAME TWO--No. 12/13 UCLA 5, WKU 0
Facing its first ranked opponent of the season, WKU had to make a quick turnaround after its dramatic win, but fell to host team No. 12/13 UCLA 5-0.
Rousseau (3-3) went all six innings in the circle, having nine hits against her and all runs earned. She walked two while striking out one. UCLA's Ally Carda (4-0) took the win after going the distance with three hits to her and six strikeouts.
UCLA jumped ahead early, tabbing a 1-0 lead in the first after a RBI double from Delaney Spaulding. Four hits in the second inning by the Bruins brought the score to 4-0. Carda had a two-RBI single while Spaulding added another RBI double to her name.
The home team went up 5-0 after three with a two-out double by Hall. Rousseau and the defense would go on to hold the Bruins to just two more hits for the rest of the game.
WKU left five on base during the game, including sophomore Bethany Oglesby who came in as a pinch hitter during the seventh to reach on a Bruin miscue.
For more information on WKU softball, visit WKUSports.com or follow the team on Twitter via @WKUSoftball.
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Well, this is an interesting question, and I'm not sure just yet where this response is going to go, so we'll just get started. First of all, I guess I would say that there are NO kinds of larvae that anyone should routinely expect to find in beds. About the only bugs that would visit a bed for some purpose in their lifestyles would be bed bugs and other nighttime blood feeders, like mosquitoes or kissing bugs. Mosquito larvae, of course, are restricted to water and the bed bugs and kissing bugs do not have "larvae" as their early stages, but instead have "nymphs". Either of these could crawl to the bed from some nearby hiding place to feed on a sleeping person, and over the past couple of years I have been sent images of kissing bug nymphs found in bedrooms that clearly had recently fed on someone.
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On the face of it they have a case. We paid an average of 63.1p for our 41% stake in Lloyds (or Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling paid that on our behalf.) That means we are currently sitting a £7 billion loss on our original £20 billion investment although we did collect a £2.5 billion fee from Lloyds when it got out of an expensive Government guarantee scheme.
Lloyds' headline loss looks pretty scary but some of the underlying numbers are considerably better, with signs that things are starting to move in the right direction.
Antonio Horta-Osorio has only been in charge for five months. He would not be human if he had not ensured his first set of results looked pretty dire because much of that can be blamed on his predecessors.
What was reassuring from this morning's press conference is that Horta-Osorio is on his way to turning Lloyds back into what it was before the disastrous HBOS merger. That is a huge, dull, risk averse, UK-centred bank.
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So this version of Tetris is quite good, I take it? (not that Tetris is a hard game to mess up)
After seeing the video in the eshop I'm now very interested! That's just great as its another game I don't need to be playing and already have 6 this year alone I haven't beaten yet!!
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You will be pleased to observe that the purpose of this post is not really to discuss my freakish feet…
… it is more to demonstrate my continuing inability to concentrate, by exhibiting some astounding levels of incompetence. You thought scorching yesterday's potatoes was bad enough? Read on!
is the pile of demo socks for the Magic Socks course. They are in differing stages of development, to demonstrate different aspects of socks construction as we come to them.
Note the camera shake. Did I mention astounding levels of incompetence? Yes, I did.
There are four pairs of top-down socks in progress, and one pair of toe-ups – this last pair are being knit two at a time and are for demo-ing at the final session.
Since the latest edition of Sockupied came out, I have been pondering Cat Bordhi's Sweet Tomato Heel. I believe it may offer the solution to my high-instep problem. I plan to incorporate the heel into the two-at-a-time socks.
As I finalised my demo socks last night it ocurred to me that tomorrow is in fact the better time to show the heel option.
Fast forward.
is the nude BFL sock yarn that I got from World of Wool last year.
I dyed one skein in our shared indigo vat last summer. I elected to use it for one more sock sample. As I was going to go toe-up, I split the skein into two.
I set my swift up on my scales and zeroed them. Then I added the skein. It weighed 103 grams. I watched the scales carefully as I wound the yarn off until I had 51 grams remaining on the swift.
is the result. One 49 gram ball and one 54 gram ball.
What? How did that happen?
Note the camera shake – a double dose of incompetence this time.
So, I am starting with the smaller ball. No doubt it will turn out in the end that I actually picked up the larger of the two, but only time will reveal if I really am that incompetent…
The sock pattern is from Cat's eBook: Cat's Sweet Tomato Heel Socks – and I am making the Victorian Birdcage Socks.
I cast on for the toe, following Cat's directions. I've done Judy's Magic Cast-on before. Cat's version for an enclosed toe is simple, fast and effective. I shall use it again. The toe shaping is a round one. Only time will tell if it will suit my freakish feet any better than the standard wedge. I doubt it. All the same, it pays to extend one's repertoire…
Off I went, concentrating hard and knitting like fury: "got to get a move on if these are to be at the heel by tomorrow… got to get a move on…"
At the same time, I was extolling, via Skype, the virtues of the cast-on to Gill. That and simultaneously cooking lunch, of course.
The toe was up to 68 stitches when I realised that all the way back at Round 10, I should have switched to knitting two rows plain between increase rows.
I tinked it back, checked the oven, and set off again… "got to get a move on if these are to be at the heel by tomorrow… got to get a move on…"
I looked up from my work, checked the pattern and noted that at Round 18: "Repeat (k7, kfb, k7, kfb, k8) twice — 52 sts" EEP! I'd just gone ahead doing the increases straight until the end.
Stupid, stupid, STUPID!
I tinked back to the beginning of Round 18, and I set off once more "got to get a move on if these are to be at the heel by tomorrow… got to get a move on…"
Thankfully, it did not take long to realise that I had actually been correct before. Another reading showed:
Round 18: Size 2: Repeat (k7, kfb, k7, kfb, k8) twice — 52 sts.
Skip to "Foot." All other sizes: Repeat (k7, kfb) 6 times — 54 sts.
Tink, tink, tinketty tink…
All in all, that toe took hours longer than it should have, and all because I failed to sit and read the pattern properly before starting – instead of careering off believing that I knew what to do.
The toe is now knitted correctly but is far too short for my foot. I am knitting several plain rows before commencing the pattern as I do not like ribbing over my toes.
Wish me luck – the chances of getting into the heel by 1pm tomorrow are now looking slim. I shall do my best to concentrate. Unfortunately the pattern is not very clearly written and as we know, my wits are not about me this week.
On the bright side – I do like the sock yarn very much indeed. It knits to a nice fabric on 2.5mm needles and is soft and cushy.