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By Megan Murray
Despite being mostly underwater, Pennsylvania boasts some of the most beautiful fall scenery on the planet. It is hard not to be inspired for fall make-up and fashion when the world around you decides to don its best look. I said hard, not impossible.
A lot of Fall 2011 beauty and fashion looks are abso-freaking-loutley puzzling. I almost feel like my intelligence is being insulted.
Let's take for example this picture from Harpers Bazaar.
Oh no ladies, this isn't a starlet doing the walk of shame from Charlie Sheen's hotel room. This isn't a picture of someone wandering all Shawn of the Dead into the WalMart for flu medicine. This is fall hair from the Alexander Wang Show. Which Bazaar claims is an " insouci ant bun that is perfect for a night downtown."
1.) Insouciant is a word I had to look up. The word insouciant means nonchalant. The word insouciant could also mean " up own rear-end."
2.) Downtown….Kabul?
The next fall trend comes from Allure Magazine.
Pat McGrath, an amazing make-up artist, shows Allure readers how to create " Spider Lashes." Spider lashes are supposed to be THE hot look for the season. Basically, you put on a metric ton of mascara and your lashes clump together. No, you read that right…CLUMP.
After mascara companies spend MILLIONS on mascara wands and formulations that will prevent clumping, someone decided to revisit Heritage USA and the halcyon days of Tammy Faye Baker.
While I love the feminine blouses and platform boots that are all over the stores, the one look that perplexes me is the Gordon Gartrail approved Graphic Sweater.
Last season we saw the return of Denise Huxtable with the slouchy boyfriend jeans and the jump suits. Apparently, we just can't let go of Reagan-era nostalgia. This season we bring back Dr. Huxtable's sweater.
I guess the bright side in all of this is that you can achieve these looks with a complete lack of planning and a trip to the thrift store. Let's hope spring brings us a return of sweatpants, flip-flops, and mascara smeared down your face. I am sure I will be the trendiest girl on the block.


text: Once those guns start to wear it's very hard to get theim servicable again without replacing every single feed-related part. Start by taking the barreled action to an auto shop and dunking it their parts washer for a while. After a good soak, blow the action dry with compressed air. Place a drop (1) of oil on each pivot pin and then try it again. Accumulation of gunk and improper oilings (my dad was a big on on adding more oil to an already gummy works) can cause a lot of failures to feed/eject. Good luck. ~Andrew

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Managing Sales Reps & Distributors for Manufacturers
LEDAZA INC. Marketing & Sales for Small Business
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Are your Sales Reps & Distribution Channels
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- Hire the best sales talent both direct and indirect
- Identify distributors with best-fit for your industry and business culture
- Motivate your sales force
- Set realistic sales goals and measure results
- Create cost-effective training sessions
- Develop an "opportunity review" and use it to manage sales
- Communicate with sales reps and distributors for maximum productivity
- Manage-in or manage-out when performance is a challenge
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LEDAZA Inc. Conference Facility
445 Broad Hollow Rd
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EDT)
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As a small business expert, Zev has focused his energy and expertise on helping small business owners develop and execute strategies that strengthen revenue, profit and competitive market advantage. His areas of specialty include marketing, sales planning, execution, sales reps management and all aspects of web and social media marketing.
Zev spent his corporate career working for small, entrepreneurial companies. He is highly experienced in marketing, sales and business development. His background covers High Tech, IT, medical device, retail and service industries.
He has hired, trained, and developed direct and indirect sales reps. His accomplishments include achieving 14% growth for a medical device manufacturer and distributor in 2011; setting up an international sales office; and taking a device manufacturer from $3MM to $14MM, leading to an acquisition at $21MM. Zev was instrumental in receiving nationally recognized awards for companies he managed including: Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Inc. 500|5000 and Top 100 Most Influential Companies.
Zev Asch holds a B.A in Psychology and an MBA in Marketing. He lives on Long Island, with his wife Lisa, who has devoted her career to children with special needs. Zev is an avid movie fan, and loves jazz music and fitness. He is a seasoned international travel and a certified FIFA Soccer Referee.


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Football managers either go grey or go bald. But, really, is it any wonder?
Fulham's Martin Jol, of the bald eagle style, brought Steve Sidwell back into the side after a three-match ban for being sent off for a wild tackle in his last game; and was just a few yards away as the former Arsenal man launched himself into another one on Mikel Arteta to receive a second red card in 12 minutes of football.
Coming so early, the dismissal inevitably distorted the course of the game, although Arsène Wenger would have gained a few more grey follicles as his team took until just before half-time before scoring, and then incomprehensibly sat back during the second half. In the end they were hanging on; Olivier Giroud was sent off, albeit harshly; and if Sian Massey had not spotted that Stanislav Manolev was offside they would have conceded an equaliser and remained behind Chelsea in fourth place, having played two games more.
As it is, they go back into third, two ahead of the west London side and five in front of Tottenham, who also have two games in hand, starting this afternoon. But Giroud will miss three crucial matches against Manchester United, Queens Park Rangers and Wigan unless the decision by the FA Cup final referee, Andre Marriner, to dismiss him for a tackle on Manolev in the last minute is overturned.
Once Per Mertesacker headed in following a free-kick, the danger for Arsenal was always that control would lapse into casualness, and so it proved. Fulham's determination, typified by Urby Emanuelson, the Dutch international on loan from Milan, kept them in the game and forced Wenger to throw on Jack Wilshere and Lukas Podolski from the substitutes' bench. Anxious visiting supporters packing the Putney End were reduced to chanting "attack, attack, attack", but their team still did not manage a shot on target during the whole of the second period.
"It was tight because we couldn't score the second goal," Wenger said. "Our first half was quite good but in the second I put it down to psychological reasons. You are a bit under pressure when you play 11 against ten, you risk a second yellow card. The final ten minutes were really nervy. But in the end we had fantastic spirt and it's still a very important win for us."
Wenger had protested about what he perceived as Everton's heavy handed tactics in the draw at the Emirates last Tuesday and, not surprisingly, he felt Sidwell's tackle deserved a red card.
Jol, once a fearsome tackler himself, could only offer the justification for Sidwell's challenge that: "It was not intentional. I was annoyed with him and it spoilt the game a bit but if you're consistent it was a red card." He was right to add: "I think we deserved to get something out of the game."
Once again a London derby – the previous one was at home to local rivals Queens Park Rangers – was no excuse for the player's lack of discipline. His foot was high and caught Arteta a painful blow as they went for a 50-50 ball close to the technical areas, leaving Sidwell with that long walk to the Cottage dressing rooms in the far corner of the pitch.
Bryan Ruiz dropped deeper than his starting position, leaving Dimitar Barbatov to forage alone, yet the four real chances from then on were equally divided between the teams. Twice before half-time, Wojciech Szczesny had to make sprawling low saves at the expense of a corner. First, the excellent Emanuelson sent Berbatov through to shoot, and then the Dutchman won the ball back from a careless Nacho Monreal and tested the goalkeeper in the same place.
For Arsenal Giroud was unlucky to strike the far post after receiving from Santi Cazorla at a time when the visitors were finding it hard to break through. But just as Fulham thought they might survive until half-time, Theo Walcott floated in a free-kick instead of driving the ball at goal and Laurent Koscielny won the first header, nodding across goal for Mertesacker to put in. As against Chelsea in midweek, when John Terry scored with two headers, Fulham's marking was poor.
They tightened up in the second half, holding an unambitious Arsenal comfortably and breaking out threateningly from time to time. In the 70th minute Manolev, the right-back, played two neat combinations and forced Szczesny to turn his cross-shot over the bar, and seven minutes later, the goalkeeper could only push out Kieran Richardson's free-kick, but the assistant referee rightly ruled that Manolev had strayed offside before knocking in the rebound.
Fulham remain in with a chance of a third successive finish in the top 10, and even if that proves difficult, it seemed harsh on Jol to be asked afterwards if they were safe from relegation. They can continue to play carefree football for the next month, which many will envy them.
Fulham (4-4-1-1): Schwarzer; Manolev, Senderos, Hangeland, Richardson; Emanuelson (Frei, 87), Enoh, Sidwell, Kacaniklic (Petric, 85); Ruiz; Berbatov.
Arsenal(4-2-3-1): Szczesny; Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal; Arteta, Ramsey; Walcott (Wilshere, 71), Rosicky (Podolski, 71), Cazorla (Vermaelen, 90); Giroud.
Referee: Andre Marriner.
Man of the match: Emanuelson (Fulham)
Match rating: 7/10
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A few weeks ago, a bunch of Xbox Windows Phone games (mostly Nokia collection titles) went on sale at once. Nokia, who seems to have organized the sale, also announced that several more games would be discounted in early December.
Those titles (and a few more) are now on sale. We've got Contre Jour, Flight Control Rocket, Spy Mouse, Storm in a Teacup, Vampire Rush, and Zuma's Revenge are all on sale for 99 cents. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which regularly sells for $4.99, has been marked down to $2.99. All seven games come from Electronic Arts and/or its subsidiaries Chillingo and PopCap.
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Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
Tree Pittsburgh was founded in 2006, growing out of citizen concern for the health and well being of Pittsburgh's trees. The organization, however, has its roots in the long-felt need for a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit urban forestry organization among members of the City of Pittsburgh's Shade Tree Commission. Tree Pittsburgh's mission is to enhance the City's vitality by restoring and protecting the urban forest through community maintenance, planting, education and advocacy. The organization's vision is to be a leader in creating a healthy, attractive and safe urban forest by inspiring and engaging citizens to maintain, plant and protect trees.
Unfortunately, Pittsburgh, along with many other cities in our country, has experienced a substantial drop in the number of trees along its streets due to a variety of causes, including construction, pollution, disease, and neglect. A consortium of Carnegie Mellon University graduate departments conducted a study of Pittsburgh's urban forest in 1995. Painting a bleak picture of life in the streets for the city's trees, the report identified the following conditions:
- Pittsburgh's urban forest is clearly in decline.
- The Forestry Division of the Pittsburgh Department of Public Works removes four trees for each one planted.
- An estimated 20 percent of trees that are planted in city rights of way do not survive five years.
- Pittsburgh's Forestry Division is critically understaffed, for the most part able to engage only in crisis management. In the 1970s, over thirty people were employed in the Forestry Division; there are now a total of twelve people, including two clerical staff.
Three key recommendations were made in the CMU report:
1. Establish a Pittsburgh Shade Tree Commission.
2. Improve the maintenance of young trees.
3. Conduct a comprehensive inventory of Pittsburgh's street trees.
In response to the report's first recommendation the Pittsburgh Shade Tree Commission (PSTC) was established by city ordinance in 1998 to "preserve and maintain as many trees as possible in the city."
Initially, PSTC limited its work to neighborhood-wide tree plantings and community educational projects. Since its inception, PSTC has planted a total of 450 trees in neighborhood-planting projects conducted in Lawrenceville, Uptown, Southside, Carrick and Friendship.
In response to the second recommendation of the CMU study, PSTC recruited nearly 200 volunteer Tree Tenders from neighborhoods where planting projects occurred and trained them to care for the newly planted trees. The PSTC also helped community groups organize tree care work events and maintained a small tool bank for use by volunteers.


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8.3 Autoregressive models
In a multiple regression model, we forecast the variable of interest using a linear combination of predictors. In an autoregression model, we forecast the variable of interest using a linear combination of past values of the variable. The term autoregression indicates that it is a regression of the variable against itself.
Thus an autoregressive model of order $p$ can be written as
$$y_{t} = c + \phi_{1}y_{t-1} + \phi_{2}y_{t-2} + \dots + \phi_{p}y_{t-p} + e_{t},$$
where $c$ is a constant and $e_t$ is white noise. This is like a multiple regression but with lagged values of $y_t$ as predictors. We refer to this as an AR($p$) model.
Autoregressive models are remarkably flexible at handling a wide range of different time series patterns. The two series in Figure 8.5 show series from an AR(1) model and an AR(2) model. Changing the parameters $\phi_1,\dots,\phi_p$ results in different time series patterns. The variance of the error term $e_t$ will only change the scale of the series, not the patterns.
For an AR(1) model:
- When $\phi_1=0$, $y_t$ is equivalent to white noise.
- When $\phi_1=1$ and $c=0$, $y_t$ is equivalent to a random walk.
- When $\phi_1=1$ and $c\ne0$, $y_t$ is equivalent to a random walk with drift
- When $\phi_1<0$, $y_t$ tends to oscillate between positive and negative values.
We normally restrict autoregressive models to stationary data, and then some constraints on the values of the parameters are required.
- For an AR(1) model: $-1 < \phi_1 < 1$.
- For an AR(2) model: $-1 < \phi_2 < 1$, $\phi_1+\phi_2 < 1$, $\phi_2-\phi_1 < 1$.
When $p\ge3$ the restrictions are much more complicated. R takes care of these restrictions when estimating a model.


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I know I'm not the only one that spends the summer dealing with a shiny face. My post on using Milk of Magnesia as a mattifying primer is very popular this time of year. I love it, it really does work. However, there are a lot of people that are very reluctant to put something under their makeup that usually is helping them... well, be more "regular".
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Feb. 9, 2013
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The UAB women's basketball team returns to Bartow Arena on Sunday to face East Carolina in the annual Play 4Kay game. Tip time is set for 2 p.m. CT.
Fans are encouraged to wear pink to Sunday's game as the UAB department of athletics tries to raise awareness of breast cancer as part of the Kay Yow Initiative.
To help promote the Play 4Kay campaign, the UAB marketing department will be handing out free pink shakers to the first 1,000 people who attend the game.
The first 500 fans who come through the gate will receive a free pink t-shirt, while the first 250 will receive a UAB women's basketball commemorative cup. Those who receive the free cup can get $1.50 off a soft drink at the UAB concession stands.
Game Information
UAB (13-8, 4-4 C-USA) vs. East Carolina (16-5, 6-2 C-USA)
Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 – Bartow Arena – 2 p.m. CT
Follow the Blazers
TV: All Access (UABsports.com)
Live Stats: GameTracker (UABsports.com)
Twitter: @UAB_WBB or @UABAthletics
Series Information
East Carolina leads, 13-9
>> UAB won two defensive battles last season between the two teams. The Blazers won a low-scoring 44-39 game on the road, before picking up a 58-47 victory at Bartow Arena on Feb. 9, 2012.
Scouting East Carolina
>> East Carolina has won five-straight on the year, including its last two contests away from Greenville, N.C.
>> The Pirates have four players scoring in double figures, including Whitney Edwards' team-high 11.7 points per contest.
Sunday's Headlines
2013 Play 4Kay Game
>> In support of breast cancer awareness, UAB athletics is hosting the annual Play 4Kay game on Sunday at Bartow Arena. The event, which is named after legendary North Carolina State head coach Kay Yow who lost her fight with breast cancer in 2009, is scheduled each season to raise awareness of the disease.
Blazers On Three-Game Skid
>> UAB enters Sunday's game having lost three-straight and four of its last five games on the season. The Blazers started Conference USA action with a 3-0 record before the current skid.
C-USA's Top Defenses Collide
>> East Carolina and UAB are two of five teams in the C-USA who hold opponents to less than 60 points per outing. The Pirates eclipsed the Blazers for the top spot in the scoring defense category this past week, holding opponents to 54.2 ppg. UAB is No. 2 in scoring defense with opponents scoring just 55.3 points per contest.
UAB Looking For Success At Home
>> The Blazers come into Sunday's contest with just one win at home during the Conference USA season. UAB defeated Houston, 54-46, on Jan. 13, but has since dropped contests to Memphis (63-55) and Southern Miss (54-51) at Bartow Arena.
UAB Notes
UAB, SMU Go To Three Overtimes
>> The Blazers went toe-to-toe with league-leader SMU on Thursday, battling through a three-overtime thriller. The Mustangs' Keena Mays hit the game-winning shot with just over one second remaining in the third extra period to seal the win for her team. It was the first triple overtime game for UAB since 2006, when the Blazers ousted East Carolina.
UAB's Amber Jones and Ashley Grimes each had career nights in the loss to SMU. Jones scored a career-high 26 points, while Grimes added a career-best 24.
Blazers Overcome Poor Shooting
>> UAB had its best offensive game of the season against SMU on Thursday. The Blazers scored a season-high 92 points and hit 34-for-71 (47.9 percent) in the loss. UAB's previous high point total was 80 against UNCG on Dec. 30.
UAB Leans On Defense
>> Statistically, UAB is one of the top defensive teams in Conference USA. The Blazers rank second in scoring defense (55.3 ppg), field-goal pct. defense (.350), 3-point field goal percentage defense (.266) and steals (12.6 spg).
Under 70 The Norm
>> SMU became first opponent to hit the 70-point mark against the Blazers. Previously, SEC foe Vanderbilt tallied the highest-point total against the Blazers this season with 69 on Nov. 15.
Low On Turnovers
>> With UAB's six turnovers committed against UTEP, the Blazers now account for the top three fewest turnover games in Conference USA history. UAB committed a league record low five against Tulsa on Feb. 12, 2009 before six miscues against Chattanooga on Nov. 11, 2011. The Blazers are currently second in the C-USA in turnover margin with a +5.6 advantage.
Leading In Losses
>> The Blazers have held sizable leads in four of their seven losses this season. UAB had a nine-point advantage at George Mason (Dec. 2) and a 13-point lead against Morehead State (Dec. 18). The Blazers held a seven-point cushion on three different occasions in the loss to Chattanooga (Jan. 2) and were ahead of Memphis at the half, 32-26, on Jan. 24.
The Blazers were ahead by as much as five against SMU on Thursday, before eventually falling behind by as many as 11.
Chapman Approaching 1,000
>> Junior Karisma Chapman now has 904 points in her UAB career and needs just 96 to reach 1,000. She would be the 26th player in Blazer history to net 1,000 points.
Grimes The Difference Maker
>> Junior Ashley Grimes has drawn 16 starts on the year, scoring in double figures in 12 of those games. Her 14.9 ppg in C-USA play is second to Amber Jones' 15.1 ppg.
Jones No. 10 In Games Played
>> Amber Jones has moved into the top-10 in UAB history in games played as she has seen action in 116 contests throughout her career. Teammate Khalilah Watson is right behind Jones, having played 115 games in her UAB career.


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Period: a horizontal row of elements on the periodic table.
Group: elements in the same vertical column of the periodic table; also called a family.
Diatomic Molecule: consists of two atoms, such as O2
The students will be able to…
How do scientists identify and sort materials?
1 – 84 minute class period
W = The students will know where they are headed in the lesson through the use of a daily agenda on the board. The unit big ideas will be posted so that students know why they are doing the activities of the day.
H = The students' interest will be hooked immediately at the beginning of the lesson through the hands-on sorting activity that each individual must complete. The lesson will hold the interest of the students by discussing aliens in the lab lesson.
E = Students will be provided real experiences of giving rationale for their sorting of items at the beginning of the lesson. Students will be equipped with notes that will help them place elements on the alien periodic table. They will experience a similar decision-making process to that of real scientists when categorizing elements.
R = Students will revisit and revise their categorizing theories at the beginning of the lesson through discussion. Students will get to work together to rethink element choices that may not match the criteria of the group in which they were placed. Students will reflect on the experiences of the lesson at the end through whole group discussion.
E = Students will express their understandings of the lesson through their answers to the question at the end of the lab and through discussion/reflection at the end of the activity.
T = The instruction will be tailored to different learners by providing experiences that accommodate different multiple intelligences, such as: tactile, kinesthetic, audio, visual, and naturalist.
O = The learning experience is organized so that students proceed from concrete individual sorting activities, to group discussion and reflection, to whole group note-taking and discussion, to group demonstration of knowledge, and finally to reflection.
Independent Activity
(5-7 minutes)
Students will enter the classroom and a box of random objects will be placed at each table. The box will include: checkers (both black and red), marbles, colored paper circles, various game tokens, and beads. (Any of these materials can be substituted out for other materials. The assortment of materials will not change the activity.) Students will be asked to individually reflect in their science notebook on the following questions:
Pair Share
(15 minutes)
Students will be asked to rejoin their tablemates (groups of 4) and each person at the table should discuss their answers to the independent activity above. Students should identify other students who rationalized their groups similarly and differently. Students should also discuss how they might do the activity differently if they were working as a group. The groups will share answers in a brief class discussion.
Whole Class, Mini Lesson
(25 minutes)
Students will review the text reading from the previous lesson on element groups and periods. Students will put the following notes into their science notebooks.
The Carbon Family (Group 14):
The Nitrogen Family (Group 15):
The Oxygen Family (Group 16):
The Halogen Family (Group 17):
The Noble Gases (Group 18):
Independent Activity, Small Group Activity
(30 minutes)
Students will work in table groups (of four students) to use their notes and knowledge of the periodic table of elements to complete the lab titled "The Alien Periodic Table." They will complete the lab by following the steps below.
Whole Class Discussion, Reflection
(5-7 minutes)
Students will correct their chart by comparing it to the Promethean Board answer key.
Using the "random reporter" technique, the teacher will discuss the activity, any problems placing elements, and the questions at the end of the activity with the class group as a whole.
Students will engage in formative assessments in the following ways:
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Sliding Window Won't Align
I have a horizontal sliding window that will not shut correctly. The bottom will shut and be flush with the frame, and the bottom latch will lock. However, the top latch is less than a quarter inch from being aligned with the lock to function appropriately. I have taken the window in and out multiple times, cleaned the tracking and the frame...I cannot find the problem.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I need this fixed for a home inspection!!
Thanks and I'm glad to be a newbie to the forum.
Check it for level and plumb, may need shimming.
Got a picture so we can see what your seeing?
I agree with Joe. Sounds like something may be out of square... Was this recently installed?...or was this fine and this problem just popped up?
Vinyl sliders have a snap-in track in the sill, and if that is not seated properly it could make the sashes not line up.
Pic would be great.
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I have attached pictures..hopefully they help. They are the best pictures I could get with the sun beating in...
I have checked the entire frame and it all comes out level...
Ok so what about plumb?
How are you checking it?
Going to need a long level on that one.
Also check it then rotate the level 180 deg. to see if it's the level that's off.
Should be exactly the same on both sides.
It is very obvious from the pic that something is out of whack. Look particularly at the interface of how the side of the sash lines up with the side jamb of the frame. With the direction that it is showing, my guess is that your sill is sagging in the middle. It is fairly common with lower grade vinyl if it is not properly supported across the sill when installed. You'll need to get some shims under the sill at the meeting rail (the center), and it will go right back into place. The catch is, you may need to pull off some trim or whatever exterior cladding you have in order to do so.
The other possibility is that there is something in the window track that is raising the sash up in the corner.
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Even though you may not think of Asus as a big player in the notebook market, it's worth remembering that this huge Taiwanese company actually manufacturers notebooks for some of the big brands that you will be very familiar with. With that kind of know how behind it, it comes as no surprise that Asus can create notebooks that give the likes of Sony and Apple a run for their money, and the U1F that I'm typing on right now is a prime example.
There are a lot of thin and light notebooks around these days, but the U1F is an ultra-portable in every sense of the word. Weighing in at a feather light 1kg, it's one of the lightest notebooks I've ever reviewed, with only the iconic Sony VAIO X505 coming in lighter at 822g. Of course the X505 didn't even have an integrated Ethernet port, let alone integrated wireless. Since you can't actually buy the X505 anymore, it's probably the VAIO TX3XP that the U1F is going up against. But even the super-svelte TX3XP weighs 250g more than this Asus, but then it also has an integrated DVD writer. The U1F is also slightly smaller than the TX3XP at 276 x 190 x 24mm (WxDxH) compared to 272.4 x 195 x 28mm.
Asus has foregone having an integrated optical drive in the U1F, instead opting for ultimate portability. In that respect the U1F feels very similar to the Samsung Q30 that I reviewed a couple of years ago, although the Q30 was also missing a PC Card slot, whereas the U1F has an ExpressCard slot. The importance of a PC Card or ExpressCard slot is that it means the user can insert a 3G data card, and have Internet access almost anywhere. The lack of an optical drive isn't a major issue for me, since I rarely use one when I'm out and about, although the fact that the Sony TX series manages to squeeze one in without compromising size and weight is impressive.
One area where the U1F does have Sony's TX3XP beaten is the choice of CPU - the TX3XP utilises a single core chip, while the U1F is equipped with a dual core Intel U2400 running at 1.06GHz. With 1GB of system memory supporting the ultra low voltage CPU, the U1F isn't going to be a power house when it comes to performance. Now, usually I'm not that bothered by raw performance in an ultra-portable notebook, but considering that the U1F is running Windows Vista, it does feel slightly sluggish. My advice would be to specify 2GB of RAM at the point of purchase, as this should make all the difference.
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Anil Tahiliani had heard all the trash talk about Microsoft : It's too big and slow; it doesn't know the meaning of innovation; it's going to get eaten alive by Google and Apple .
Apple boss Steve Jobs, who made a sport of bashing Microsoft, summed it up best in his posthumously released biography: "They've become mostly irrelevant."
But as Mr. Tahiliani pored over Microsoft's financials last fall, the portfolio manager with McLean & Partners Wealth Management in Calgary came to a different conclusion.
Pessimism dogging the software giant had gotten so extreme that the stock was a screaming bargain, he thought. So, in November, he bought shares – a move that turned out to be prescient.
"It was an out-of-favour stock," he said. "But there was a lot of fundamentally positive stuff."
Judging by the 20-per-cent rebound in the shares since then, investor sentiment toward Microsoft may finally be changing for the better.
Anticipation of the Windows 8 launch later this year for PCs and mobile devices is one reason. Another is that the new Windows-based smartphones, produced in an alliance with Nokia, are drawing praise from reviewers accustomed to slagging Microsoft products.
What's more, strong growth from Microsoft's other divisions including servers and tools, business (which produces Microsoft Office, among other products) and entertainment (XBox) are contributing to a sense that the company may be turning the corner.
That point was driven home by fiscal second-quarter results released on Jan. 19. Even as Windows sales slipped 6 per cent, partly reflecting component shortages caused by flooding in Thailand, overall revenue climbed 5 per cent to $20.9-billion (U.S.) and profit of $6.62-billion, or 78 cents a share, came in slightly ahead of estimates.
For dividend investors, in particular, Microsoft has a lot of pluses. It produced more than $26-billion in free cash flow in the past 12 months, and it's sitting on about $51.7-billion, or more than $6 a share, of cash and short-term investments – more than enough to fund share buybacks and dividends.
While the yield of 2.7 per cent won't make you rich overnight, Microsoft has steadily raised its dividend since shelling out its first payment in 2003. That includes a hefty 25-per-cent bump in September. It also paid a sizable special dividend of $3 a share in fiscal 2005. Given the company's dividend growth record, ample cash reserves and consistent profitability, those dividend hikes will almost certainly continue well into the future. If anything, investors would like to see the company accelerate the pace of dividend increases.
As for valuation, even after the stock's 20-per-cent run the shares aren't expensive for a company of Microsoft's stature, particularly given the growth kickers of Windows 8 and the Nokia partnership. The shares trade at a multiple of 10.8 times estimated fiscal 2012 earnings, but if you subtract the $6 in cash on the balance sheet from the stock price, the P/E falls to about 8.6.
That said, analysts don't see a huge upside in the stock price over the next 12 months, perhaps because the benefits of Windows 8 will take longer than that to fully materialize. According to Bloomberg, the average price target is $31.37 – about 7 per cent higher than Tuesday's close. Of the 41 analysts who follow the company, 26 call Microsoft a "buy", 14 a "hold" and one a "sell."
Is Microsoft a slam dunk? No. In the fast-changing technology market, companies can be in favour one minute and in the doghouse the next. Just ask a Research in Motion shareholder. But given the breadth of Microsoft's products and services, its dominance in certain markets and its prodigious cash flow, it's a conservative choice for investors who want exposure to the technology sector and the virtual certainty of growing dividends.
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Two Republican lawmakers are questioning how Beyoncé and Jay-Z circumvented a policy that restricts Americans from travelling to Cuba.
According to CNN, the American musicians were seen celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary in Havana last week.
Americans are barred from visiting Cuba unless it is for educational reasons.
Florida Republicans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart wrote a letter to the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control saying that press reports described the couple's trip as tourism.
The lawmakers said they represent people who have been personally harmed by Castro's regime, including "the families of murdered innocents."
"The restrictions on tourism travel are … meant to prevent U.S. dollars from supporting a murderous regime that opposes U.S. security interests … and which ruthlessly suppresses the most basic liberties of speech, assembly, and belief," they wrote.
"We support the Cuban people by refusing to sustain their jailers."


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This lesson plan teaches how to select the landing site for a planetary surface investigation, using the 5E learning cycle. Students will be able to determine a landing site for their Mars rover; work with their team to summarize information and... (View More) identify important details in non-fiction writing; research Gale Crater through an online interactive module; use Google Earth Mars to learn about Mars surface features; gather and analyze data to conduct a scientific experiment; collect and record data in a science notebook to draw logical and scientific conclusions; define and identify the role of controls and variables in teams' scientific or technical questions; and differentiate between weather and climate. The lesson plan has a number of appendices, including standards alignment. This is Lesson 8 of the elementary school version of the 6 week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
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Unit three of the "Carbon Connections: The Carbon Cycle and the Science of Climate" curriculum examines the role of carbon and the carbon cycle in future climate. Students discover how scientists determine Earth's average temperature and the role of... (View More) climate models in understanding the size of some forcings on temperature. Students are challenged to reduce their electrical energy usage and to critically evaluate claims about carbon and climate. The unit contains five lessons entitled: Your Temperature Connections, Testing Forcings, Future Forcings, It Starts at Home, and Climate Claims. Each of the five lessons includes focus questions, hands-on activities, virtual field trips, and interactive models. (View Less)
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Learners work in teams to determine a landing site for their Mars Rover that best relates to their scientific question. They use technology skills to research Gale Crater through an online interactive module and learn about features of Mars through... (View More) use of Google Earth Mars. The lesson uses the 5E instructional model and includes: TEKS (Texas Standards alignment), Essential Question, Science Notebook, Vocabulary Definitions for Students, Vocabulary Definitions for Teachers, three Vocabulary Cards, and a Mini-Lesson. This is lesson 8 of the Mars Rover Celebration Unit, a six week long curriculum. (View Less)
This activity's storyline is built around the real-life case study of Dr. Walt Meier, a Sea Ice Scientist from Boulder, Colorado. In the fictional story, the students of Churchill become concerned about wildlife in their region because polar bears... (View More) have become a nuisance in the town. According to the local elders, the sea ice patterns have changed. The students turn to Dr. Meier for his expertise in sea ice analysis. Dr. Meier then instructs the students in the use of ImageJ and guides them through the research process. This chapter is part of the Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET). Each EET chapter provides teachers and/or students with direct practice for using scientific tools to analyze Earth science data. Students should begin on the Case Study page. (View Less)
Using weather data from both satellite and ground-based observations, this lesson challenges students to select a site location for a hypothetical mountain retreat. Students must determine and then justify a building site after gathering, graphing... (View More) and analyzing two sources of data on altitude, atmospheric pressure, temperature and relative humidity. To conclude the lesson, students defend their choice in a formal site recommendation letter to the "retreat developers." This lesson uses student- and citizen science-friendly microsets of authentic NASA Earth system science data from the MY NASA DATA project. It also includes related links, extensions, an online glossary, and data analysis tools. (View Less)
Navigational tools and methods of early voyagers provide the background and contrast to the satellite images and models used today. Students complete mapping activities based on historical data from Columbus and Blith. Students will also use a... (View More) computer model of ocean currents to investigate the movement of objects drifting on the ocean surface. Note that this is lesson one of five on the Ocean Motion website. Each lesson investigates ocean surface circulation using satellite and model data and can be done independently. See Related URL's for links to the Ocean Motion Website which provide science background information, data resources, teacher material, student guides and a lesson matrix. (View Less)
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Student teams explore atmospheric aerosols, dust, and fires and their impact on the Earth's albedo using NASA Earth Observations (NEO) website. This is an extension activity in the student learning activity guide accompanying the GLOBE Earth System... (View More) Poster, Exploring Connections in Year 2007. A series of six learning activities and associated assessment activities are included. (View Less)
In this activity, student teams explore connections between parts of the Earth system, by examining a time series of environmental data maps. Each team examines a single variable displayed on a global data map, and identify the unit of measure, the... (View More) range of values, and patterns they observe in the data. Variables include: insolation, surface temperature, precipitation, cloud fraction, aerosols, biopshere. This is one of six interrelated learning activities associated with the GLOBE Earth System Poster, "Exploring Connections in Year 2007," and includes a series of assessment and extension activities. GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide, hands-on, K-12 school-based science education program. (View Less)
In this activity, student teams conduct a quantitative exploration of the connections between parts of the Earth system, through examination of a time series of environmental data maps. By investigating the connections between environmental data,... (View More) they see how Earth processes interact on varying time and spatial scales.This is one of six interrelated learning activities in the student activity guide associated with the GLOBE Earth System Poster, "Exploring Connections in Year 2007." A series of assessment and extension activities are included. (View Less)
In this learning activity, students compare changes in insolation with changes in surface temperature in the polar regions using scientific visualizations of global data sets. Links to readings related to the shrinking ice cap and albedo are... (View More) included. This is part 1 of a four-part activity on polar science. Extension activities examining air and sea surface temperature in relation to changing Earth albedo are included. This activity is one of several learning activities connected with the 2007 GLOBE Earth system poster. (View Less)


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Canada's new finance minister pledges tax cut in debut speech
OTTAWA, April 7 (Reuters) - Canada's new finance minister, Joe Oliver, promised on Monday to cut taxes for families once the budget is balanced, giving no details and sticking to the Conservative government's longstanding script in his first major speech in the new role.
Oliver, previously the government's energy minister and pitch man for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, was appointed as finance minister on March 19. He replaces Jim Flaherty, who served for eight years under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Speaking to a business audience in Toronto, Oliver repeated his predecessor's main message: low taxes and fiscal conservatism are here to stay.
"Once the budget is balanced our priority will be to provide tax relief for hardworking Canadian families," Oliver said in the prepared text of the speech.
"That is what we committed to in the last election, that is what we have delivered, and that is what we are going to continue to do," he said.
He warned detractors not to "expect a big stimulus program."
The federal budget is on track to reach a surplus in time for an October 2015 election. In the 2011 election campaign, Harper promised a big tax break for couples with children, saying they would be allowed to split their income for tax purposes.
But that idea has since been thrown into doubt. Just before stepping down, Flaherty questioned whether the measure would benefit society overall, suggesting a split in the Conservative ranks. There were also media reports that Harper was having second thoughts as well.
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Argument Matching
Overloaded functions are selected for the best match of function declarations in the current scope to the arguments supplied in the function call. If a suitable function is found, that function is called. "Suitable" in this context means one of the following:
An exact match was found.
A trivial conversion was performed.
An integral promotion was performed.
A standard conversion to the desired argument type exists.
A user-defined conversion (either conversion operator or constructor) to the desired argument type exists.
Arguments represented by an ellipsis were found.
The compiler creates a set of candidate functions for each argument. Candidate functions are functions in which the actual argument in that position can be converted to the type of the formal argument.
A set of "best matching functions" is built for each argument, and the selected function is the intersection of all the sets. If the intersection contains more than one function, the overloading is ambiguous and generates an error. The function that is eventually selected is always a better match than every other function in the group for at least one argument. If this is not the case (if there is no clear winner), the function call generates an error.
Consider the following declarations (the functions are marked Variant 1, Variant 2, and Variant 3, for identification in the following discussion):
Fraction &Add( Fraction &f, long l ); // Variant 1 Fraction &Add( long l, Fraction &f ); // Variant 2 Fraction &Add( Fraction &f, Fraction &f ); // Variant 3 Fraction F1, F2;
Consider the following statement:
F1 = Add( F2, 23 );
The preceding statement builds two sets:
Set 1: Candidate Functions That Have First Argument of Type Fraction
Set 2: Candidate Functions Whose Second Argument Can Be Converted to Type int
Variant 1
Variant 1 (int can be converted to long using a standard conversion)
Variant 3
Functions in Set 2 are functions for which there are implicit conversions from actual parameter type to formal parameter type, and among such functions there is a function for which the "cost" of converting the actual parameter type to its formal parameter type is the smallest.
The intersection of these two sets is Variant 1. An example of an ambiguous function call is:
F1 = Add( 3, 6 );
The preceding function call builds the following sets:
Set 1: Candidate Functions That Have First Argument of Type int
Set 2: Candidate Functions That Have Second Argument of Type int
Variant 2 (int can be converted to long using a standard conversion)
Variant 1 (int can be converted to long using a standard conversion)
Note that the intersection between these two sets is empty. Therefore, the compiler generates an error message.
For argument matching, a function with n default arguments is treated as n+1 separate functions, each with a different number of arguments.
The ellipsis (...) acts as a wildcard; it matches any actual argument. This can lead to many ambiguous sets, if you do not design your overloaded function sets with extreme care.
Ambiguity of overloaded functions cannot be determined until a function call is encountered. At that point, the sets are built for each argument in the function call, and you can determine whether an unambiguous overload exists. This means that ambiguities can remain in your code until they are evoked by a particular function call.


text: Three men who terrorized the Farmington community during a crime spree last Halloween are headed to prison.It's not usually the type of crime that happens around Farmington or anywhere else in Maine, but last Halloween, 28-year-old Kevin Crandall, 27-year-old Marcus Thompson, and 20-year-old Michael Kidd went on a crime spree that shocked and angered folks in the Farmington community. Thursday, they answered for those crimes. Judge Mikayla Murphy sentenced Crandall, the ring leader of the trio, to 20 years in prison (25 years with all but 20 suspended, plus an additional 8 years suspended sentence and 4 years probation). Thompson and Kidd will each spend the next 15 years behind bars (20 years with all but 15 suspended and 4 years probation). They're also ordered to pay $6390 in restitution. According to prosecutor James Andrews, Crandall, Thompson, and Kidd burglarized three Farmington homes last Halloween. At the last stop, the home of a 65-year-old man and his 63-year-old wife whom we will not identify, their burglary spree escalated into something far worse.Andrews said the three men knocked on the door. Thinking it was trick-or-treaters, the older couple opened the door to find Crandall, Thompson, and Kidd wearing ski masks. Crandall, armed with a stolen handgun, forced his way into the house. The men went all through the house stealing cash, jewelry, oxycodone, and two pistols. Once all three men were armed, Thompson and Kidd kidnapped the 65-year-old man and made him drive to several ATM machines in and around Farmington, withdrawing cash until he had reached his daily limit. Meanwhile, Crandall held the man's 63-year-old wife at gunpoint. "I didn't know if I'd ever see him alive again," the woman told the judge in court today. Before finally leaving the home, Crandall told the couple they would return and kill them if they called the police. In all, the three men stole nearly $3000 in cash, along with the oxycodone, jewelry, and guns.The man and his wife got emotional when they told the judge, and the men who terrorized them that night, that they should spend a long time behind bars. "I'm concerned about when they get out. I'll be in my 80's," the woman said, before turning to the three defendants. "What am I supposed to do? Are you going to come after me?"Her husband, a Vietnam veteran who has already undergone years of Post Traumatic Stress treatment, also told the judge not to go easy on the defendants. "I believe that these people have chosen a career path that puts them apart from society. I think they should spend more time with people who have chosen the same career path."Next, Prosecutor James Andrews laid out all the aggravating factors he thought warranted a harsh sentence. "First and perhaps most importantly, we have the use of a firearm. That's not a firearm that's kept under clothing. It's not a firearm that's pointed at the ground. It's a firearm that's openly displayed and directly pointed at the victims, along with explicit threats of death," Andrews said.Andrews scoffed at the notion that only minor criminal offenses equaled mitigating circumstances, pointing out most people never have any run-ins with the law. "The state would be very happy to oblige them if they would commit incremental crime," Andrews said. "This is not an incremental crime. If they want to go out and commit a barn burglary or a camp burglary, the state would be happy to oblige them with an incremental sentence."Then it was the defendants' turn. Their attorneys asked the judge for leniency, arguing that the defendants suffered from substance abuse and that none of them had been convicted of any serious crimes, although they all had previous convictions on their records. All three defendants addressed the judge and the victims, each making their case for a lenient sentence. "I believe my lawyer is asking you to sentence me to 8 years unsuspended and the state is asking for 20. 8 years is a long time, but 20 years seems like forever," Kidd told the judge. "If I serve 8 years I still can be a father to my son. I cannot do that if I serve 20 years."The judge hopes these sentences, 2o years for Crandall and 15 years each for Kidd and Thompson, send a message that crimes like these will not be tolerated.


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Danielle And The Devil, oil on canvas board, 8″x10″. Sold.
It occurred to me the other day that I've never really painted a Halloween themed piece. How crazy is that? Especially when you consider that I take Halloween pretty darn seriously – we're talking full out Halloween decorated house. I'm trying to keep it classy though and collect vintage Halloween pieces- the old die-cut witches and cats and such- but there are rubber bats and maybe a glowing jack-o-lantern head. Yes, I don't have kids which makes it particularly weird, I know. I've even started making certain Halloween themed meals- like 'Goulish Goulash' and on occasion Finnegan wears devil horns or something which he seems to like with exception of the the wizard costume which he pouted in (not a Harry Potter fan I suspect).
Over breakfast this morning John announced that he felt that people should be allowed to take their dogs trick-or-treating. We do have an annual Halloween Dog Parade in town, but I don't think the dogs get to actually trick-or-treat. Needless to say, John and I aren't the only weirdos around. I think I may have mentioned it before but Stratford is kind of like Stars Hollow (Gilmore Girls) blended with Twin Peaks. It keeps things interesting.


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In the past 15 years, everything about the process of recording and distributing music has changed. The major labels have toppled from their pedestals, and with them have fallen their high temples—recording studios. 21st Century recordings take place in bedrooms, basements, rehearsal spaces, and out on the road. And for the first time, professional-level recording tools are affordable and available to everybody. So, whether you're a passionate hobbyist writing your first song, or a trained musician cutting and mixing an album, you can capture all the glory of your musical genius in real time; there are just a few things you'll need to make it happen.
Your Ultrabook will be the mainstay of your portable studio, the device that makes it all happen. When choosing one of these computers, remember that processor speed and memory capacity are major concerns when recording and mixing music. You'll want either an Intel® Core™ i5 or i7 processor and at least 6GB of RAM. This will allow you to carry out the more intensive processes of audio production smoothly, such as multitrack recording, multitrack editing, and massive numbers of native plug-in instantiations. Simply stated, buy the best processor/memory combo that your budget will allow. You will not regret it, especially once your three-chord song has morphed into an epic production with a full band and a soft-synth orchestra.
If you plan to leave your house with your Ultrabook, a solid-state drive is a less volatile habitat for all your precious data. If you plan to record live shows on tour with your Ultrabook, it's a necessity. While SSDs offer much faster read/write speeds than conventional hard drives, a greater value to traveling musicians and recording engineers is their hardiness. Even though your computer may end up in a cushy hotel room with you after the gig, it will inevitably get knocked around among the other gear along the journey.
The downside to SSDs is that they don't currently offer as much storage space as hard disk drives do. With digital audio taking up at least 5.1 MB/minute per mono track (44.1k Hz/16-bit)—more like 16.5 MB/minute at professional-level resolutions—you might need more space than your internal SSD can provide. It is always recommended that you record to a drive that's separate from your boot disk. An external hard drive will handle the task of cataloging audio, while your internal drive helps provide resources to run the process. Be sure to choose an Ultrabook with multiple USB ports, ideally at least one USB 3.0 port, and a compatible external drive, such as the HGST 1TB Touro Mobile MX3.
Your next USB port will be used to connect an audio interface. While there are dozens of these devices available, the new Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 is exceptionally suited to Ultrabooks. It provides everything you'll need on a single USB port. It features 4 Focusrite mic preamps on XLR/TRS combo jacks with selectable Phantom power, 2 of which can also be switched to Hi-Z instrument inputs. It also features 4 line inputs, stereo monitor outputs, 2 independent headphone mixes, MIDI in/out, SPDIF in/out, and an 8-channel ADAT Lightpipe input. The 18i8 can record at resolutions up to 96 kHz/24-bit and provides input monitoring at extremely low latency rates. Additionally, Focusrite includes a software bundle with Ableton Live Lite and a plug-in suite to get you started.
For those who want something more simple and straightforward, MOTU's MicroBook II USB audio interface is an excellent choice. It offers one of every basic analog-input connection: an XLR microphone input with Phantom power, two1/4" TRS line inputs, a 1/4" Hi-Z electric guitar (or bass) input, and an 1/8" stereo mini line in. Additionally, it's built to be tough and roadworthy— it looks more like a stage DI than an audio interface—and offers resolutions up to 96 kHz/24-bit. It's USB bus powered, so no annoying power adapters are required. And it offers a convenient set of output options: dual 1/4" TRS main outputs, a 1/4" stereo headphone output, an 1/8" stereo mini line out, and an S/PDIF digital output. The included CueMix FX software allows you to add live, real-time compression and EQ to your sound, even if you're just practicing!
The next thing to consider is your software platform, or Digital Audio Workstation (DAW.) Avid's Pro Tools has long dominated this market in major studios… and if you plan to take your session files to and from a variety of recording studios, the latest version of Pro Tools is always a safe bet. However, the rise of DIY production, mixing, and mastering has led to the popularization of alternative DAWs. Programs like Cubase and Ableton Live have developed followings with users who have more specific needs and different specialties than just recording audio. A longtime favorite in the film scoring community, Digital Performer, recently released a compatible Windows 64-bit version. And for those who love to geek out on music synthesis and patch together virtual processors to create custom sounds, there's Propellerhead Reason. Although the debate between users about which DAW platform is "the best" will never end, the trick is to find the DAW that best caters to your style, goals, and natural workflow.
Monitoring is the next concern in creating a portable studio setup. You'll want a good pair of over-ear, closed-back headphones. This particular type of headphone design is well suited for recording because it won't bleed sound out into your recording environment. Anyone who's ever ended up with a metronome click in the background of their best acoustic guitar or vocal take because of open-back headphones will tell you how frustrating a mistake this can be. A solid, entry-level choice would be the Audio-Technica ATH-M50 headphones, which feature neodymium drivers, swivel ear cups, and a gold-plated connector. If you'll be spending hours on end with headphones on, the Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro will provide excellent reference with superior comfort.
Although active studio monitors aren't really "portable," you'll want them at your studio's home base if you plan on having anybody else listen to your tracks. While Genelec tends to be the gold standard for professional recording studios, Dynaudio's DBM50 monitors are a revolutionary desktop solution for those mixing at home. Rising to fame in recent years, the M-Audio BX5 speakers provide an entry-level, yet dependable option for those just beginning to craft mixes.
Finally, we arrive at microphones! This topic could go on for pages, but allow me to suggest that every basic recording setup should have at least 1 large-diaphragm condenser, 1 small-diaphragm condenser, and 1 all-purpose dynamic microphone. Focusing on the idea that these microphones will have to withstand the rigors of mobility, the Shure SM27 is a rugged and versatile large-diaphragm condenser. It features a cardioid polar pattern, a 3-position selectable low cut filter, a switchable 15 dB pad, and handles SPLs up to 137 dB. The SM27 will get the job done well on just about any source instrument, including vocals. The Miktek C5 small-diaphragm condenser is another very versatile and durable microphone for all instrumental sources. Lastly, the dynamic, Shure's SM57 is certainly the world's most popular choice—used on everything from guitar amps to the President's podium at the White House. That being said, the Electro-Voice RE-320 is a standout dynamic microphone with an even broader range of applications.
Congratulations, you now have all the elements of an Ultrabook-based portable recording studio! Now we just need to select a computer. While many models will do the job, my desert island recording Ultrabook would be the Sony VAIO T15 SVT15117CXS 15.5" Ultrabook. The dual-core Ivy Bridge 2.0 GHz Intel Core i7-3537U processor and 8GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM will create a dependable platform for tracking as well as mixing applications. Its 1TB, 5400 rpm hard drive provides plenty of storage for all your media files while the 32GB solid-state drive cache allows for fast data recall. The 15.5" screen with Full HD 1920 x 1080 native resolution is indispensible for audio editing, especially for lengthy vocal or multitrack drum comping.
The display is also a capacitive touchscreen so you'll be able to take advantage of multi-touch gestures in Windows 8 if you so choose. This Ultrabook has a powered USB 3.0 port for connecting your external drive as well as dual USB 2.0 ports for your audio interface. Additionally, the onboard 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet port will allow you to plug directly into a LAN network for those large and important WAV as well as session file uploads. It even has an HDMI port, so you'll be able to connect to a larger display when you require more space. And of course, it also has 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 and comes loaded with Windows 8.
For less intensive recording, a good entry-level option would be the Toshiba Satellite U945-S4390 14" Ultrabook, which features a dual-core Ivy Bridge 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5-3317U processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 500GB, 5400 rpm hard drive with a 32GB solid-state drive cache. The Satellite has both USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports as well as 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and comes loaded with Windows 8 (64-bit). It has a 14" HD Widescreen LED-backlit display with 1366 x 768 native resolution, and an HDMI port for connecting additional monitors.
Now that music is so largely in the hands of musicians, empower yourself! By creating an Ultrabook-based portable studio, you can indulge your talents at composition, songwriting, recording, mixing, and remixing while still having the convenience of mobility. Whether you take it along to record your set at an open mic or hunker down in a local band's rehearsal space to record their album, you can rest assured that your hardware will meet the challenge at every step.
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During an amateur production of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Judge David Putnam died on stage--literally. Sawing away in the orchestra pit, Joan Spencer didn't see a thing, but she knew there had to be a killer behind the scenes. With local detective Fred Lundquist in tow, Joan set out to find out why the good judge's script had been so dramatically rewritten--and by whom. Martin's Press.
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The conspiracy was too widespread and too deep-rooted for Alexander II.
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These acts of the earliest years of the reign of Alexander II.
Another example of the repetition of a royal device is afforded by the seal of Alexander II.
Ever since the bureaucracy deliberately allowed Alexander II.
This was at a time when the new and liberal reign of Alexander II.
It was occasionally the residence of royalty, and Alexander II.
For one hundred and fifty years the rule suffered no exception until Alexander II.
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Last year, Renyel and William Doremus carved out their little piece of oasis amid Eastern Washington's vast and sundrenched arid lands. Despite the recession elsewhere, the young couple built a new house in the sagebrush-studded lee
of Badger Mountain in Richland. They could pose for a Gap ad as the all-American family: clean-cut, involved parents,
smiling children, family baseball games and trips to Disneyland.
Renyel works as a hairdresser and William helps clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Their new abode even sports a cozy home salon where Renyel can receive clients. But lately, Renyel says, those clients have been talking of putting off buying houses they're qualified for, delaying parenthood and looking for new employment. Renyel and William themselves are saving like squirrels.
"I had blood drawn today," Renyel says. "I've noticed my anxiety has gone up; my mind doesn't shut off at night."
Anxiety like Renyel's is rippling through the seemingly bucolic Tri-Cities. It's discussed in marital beds and quietly between
workers in early-morning carpools.
Thousands of workers—3,000 as of December 2010—were hired for projects at the Hanford site when the government
cleanup project received about $1.96 billion of federal stimulus money. Most of that funding has been spent and the rest is set to be used by September. Some Hanford contractors have already announced layoffs of up to 1,600 workers come fall. Coupled with the end of the stimulus are forecasts of a lean federal budget for scheduled cleanup at Hanford and an unsteady future for scientific work at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. Families of Ph.D. scientists and union electricians alike are scrambling to figure out what the next move may be. Many near-retirement workers were hoping for buyouts or early retirement packages, but federal contractors have signaled that regular layoffs at Hanford will be more likely. And if that's true, more freshly trained and young workers will be sent looking for new opportunities beyond the site.
This flood of change worries shop owners and restaurateurs in the Tri-Cities area of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland. They've been expanding their businesses the past few years. Even late on a weeknight, it can be hard to get a table at Katya's Bistro and Wine Bar in Richland. James Hartley and his wife, Maryna, own and run it. Maryna often scrutinizes the plates coming out of the kitchen and James can usually be seen chatting with regulars over his selections of newfound Washington wines. He says he noticed a bit of an increase in business in 2009, but then in 2010 it really hit. Steaks, seafood and racks of lamb were whirling out of his kitchen. And a $12-a-glass Oregon Pinot Noir has been a top seller.
"We didn't know what it was that caused that, but we were really happy that's been happening," James says.
But the uncertain future has the Hartleys and others uneasy. The recession might yet hit the Tri-Cities, and it won't be a gentle slide—it could be all at once.
"You don't lose that many people in the community and with that much money without some sort of impact," James
He hopes that Tri-Cities leaders work to make Hanford a smaller slice of the economic pie for the region. "You need to bring in others that can stop the job losses that will happen," he says. "I've seen so many big opportunities go away fromthis community."
Big players in the Tri-Cities are trying to build up other industries. But the economic impact of the four-lane river of vehicle headlights headed to the hanford
site early each weekday morning is hard
to ignore.
Gary Petersen is known for his optimism. He's the vice president of Hanford programs for the Tri-City Development
Council and a nonstop cheerleader for this community nestled into a bend of the Columbia river. But even Petersen admits the federal budget upheaval and an end to federal stimulus dollars might bring head-spinning economic change to
the Tri-Cities.
"People here at Hanford are very concerned about the mood in Congress and especially in the house," he notes. "We have to make sure they understand what happens with a cut budget."
Still, leaders in the Tri-Cities are working on new economic lifeboats. The Port of Benton is busy developing the next major
phase of its Vintner's Village in prosser. Just a couple of years old, the grouping of wine facilities is already a magnet for
large buses and vanloads of wine tasters from Seattle. The port is also working to build out its Richland Innovation Center,
which will be a place where Hanford innovations are tested and some developed commercially.
Jan Jackson, director of marketing for the port, is optimistic and says the end of federal stimulus at Hanford is "going to be a bump in the road, but long term, it's going to be growth."
"Nuke tourism" is also booming in the Tri-Cities. kayaks and jet boats ply the Columbia for a glimpse of cocooned reactors, and large buses rove down gravel roads through the once top-secret site. government- led Hanford-site tours are approaching rock-concert status. The 2,500 tickets available for this year's tour dates were snapped up in only eight hours.
A new energy park is also on the way. The federal government has set aside 60 square miles of the Hanford site for industrial
use. This area could be used for research, manufacturing or energy generation. The land is situated at the southern tip of Hanford and was a buff er zone never used for weapons production, so it's uncontaminated. Right now, Hanford and Tri-City Development Council offi cials are trying to land some customers and gather community insight for the project.
Back in the shadow of Badger Mountain, Renyel and William Doremus are looking into online training classes and he is trying to find more stable work before September. Renyel says she's not worried about the money, but she is worried about
her family's stability.
"We have family here. They [my kids] will always have shoes," she says. "I worry about William having to go somewhere else to support our family. I worry about having to be kind of a single parent."
Although she's anxious about her family's future, Renyel says she's lived in the Tri-Cities her entire life. Her father worked at Hanford and supported his family through layoff scares. She, like many here, can't picture roosting anywhere else.
"It's a good place to raise a family," Renyel says. "I love our weather here. We have all the different seasons. It just feels
like home."


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Already a superstar in India, Lisa first came to our attention in the comedy Bollywood/Hollywood and she continues to light up big screens around the world.
Lisa Ray BiographyBorn to a Polish mother and a Bengali father, Lisa Ray grew up in Toronto, Canada. Her first taste of fame, however, came thousands of miles away in her ancestral home of India. It was while visiting relatives that 16-year-old Lisa was discovered by a prominent fashion photographer.
Within months, she was appearing on magazine covers and working as a spokesmodel for various products. Her immediate success was impressive, but Lisa never felt completely at home sashaying down a runway. "I'm not very tall, I don't have the height and somehow I just never gelled with it," she confesses.
Hungering for change, she made the jump to the big screen, starring in the films Kasoor (2001) and Takkari Donga (2002). Lisa then returned to Toronto to film Bollywood/Hollywood (2002). The romantic comedy was a huge crossover success in India and North America, and The Toronto Film Festival honored Lisa with its prestigious "Star of the Future" award.
Since then, Lisa has appeared in the films Arrangement (2004) and Water (2005), and will star in the upcoming Seeking Fear and Quarter Life Crisis.
Lisa is also an avid writer and hopes to become a novelist. To date, she has contributed articles to many publications, including Cosmopolitan magazine and The Indian Express.
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CNSE Professor Dr. Alain Diebold honored as SPIE Fellow at 2013 Advanced Lithography conference
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CNSE Empire Innovation Professor of Nanoscale Science;
Executive Director, Center for Nanoscale Metrology;
Executive Director, NC3;
and SPIE Fellow Dr. Alain Diebold
Cutting-edge research conducted by Dr. Alain Diebold at the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) has led to his being named as a Fellow of SPIE, an international society that is focused on advancing emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, and career and professional growth.
Dr. Diebold is a CNSE Empire Innovation Professor of Nanoscale Science and Executive Director of the Center for Nanoscale Metrology at CNSE. The Fellowship highlights his dedication to advancing optical metrology methods to improve the nanoelectronics fabrication process.
The recognition came on February 25, 2013 during the SPIE 2013 Advanced Lithography conference in San Jose, CA.
"I am grateful to be named as an SPIE Fellow for this important area of research," said Dr. Diebold. "Metrology is used every day in the world-class cleanrooms at the Albany NanoTech Complex, as CNSE's researchers and corporate partners create the next generation of computer chips. For me, the exciting part is being able to help lay the groundwork for these advances by coming to a better understanding of the properties of matter at the nano level."
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"Scientists and the companies making the new materials and structures that are used in the chip fabrication process are seeing changes in properties that they don't understand," explains Dr. Diebold. "Our work aims to provide some answers to many of these challenging questions by finding a more concrete way to understand the true behaviors of materials that are essential for the development of faster, more efficient computer chips."
SPIE has recently published several research papers by Dr. Diebold, where, in collaboration with other researchers, he discussed investigations into novel metrology methods. This includes research into E-beam patterned nanostructures using Mueller Matrix-based Scatterometry, allowing for characterization of nano-scaled structures and control of their critical dimensions. This information can lead to innovative methodologies to improve nanoelectronics manufacturing.
Additionally, Dr. Diebold's research group continues to utilize metrology methods to extend the competitive advantage of current CMOS-based computer chips, while concurrently evaluating materials that could be used in post-CMOS devices. Under the professor's direction, they are also researching the optical properties of materials that exhibit quantum confinement, excitons, and other phenomena in nanoscale materials and structures, in order to push the boundaries of semiconductors as they continue to evolve.
Dr. Diebold also advises CNSE graduate student Gangadhara Raja Muthinti, who received the Best Student Paper award during a ceremony at the SPIE Conference Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XXVII. A panel of judges from academia, industry, and government singled out his paper, "Mueller-based scatterometry measurement of nanoscale structures with anisotropic in-plane optical properties," for technical merit and presentation quality. Muthinti, from Kakinada, India, is currently studying Nanoscale Engineering at CNSE.
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There are several working toolchains for the STM32F4 using the Arduino ide
I'd be interested to know how the wifi module attaches to the F4, I had a feeling its via SDIO ??
emilfr wrote:Nb. It should be kept in mind that SPI1 on the EMW3165 is dedicated to the external SPI flash, so it can't be used for anything else, due to assumtions in the code, if you build the Arduino support on top of WICED.
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