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CRYSTAL AND CHRISTOPHER'S WEDDINGMarch, 2008 in Guelph
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Church of Our Lady Immaculate28 Norfolk St
Guelph, ON N1H, CA
Francophone Community Center647 Franklin Blvd
Cambridge, ON N1R, CA
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Cambridge, ON N3C, CA
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"Wings of Paradise is a butterfly conservatory located in between Guelph and Cambridge. Admission is : Adults.......................$8.50.....plus taxes.........$9.86 Senior (65+)............$8.00......plus taxes........$9.28 Youth (13 to 17).....$8.00......plus taxes.........$9.28 Children (3 to 12)....$4.50.....plus taxes.........$5.22 Toddlers (2 and under)..........................free Worth checking out. Could easily be seen between the ceremony and dinner/reception."


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In my above post, I mention the difficulty in testing your distributor/Hall sensor. When in reality, it's not that hard to do if all you need to know is the product of the device. Which is, your spark. (Keep in mind you must know that your coil and ECU are in good working condition and that the wiring is correct).
This is where an Iginition Spark Tester tool comes in hand.
To use this, remove all plugs and remove the fuel pump fuse. Put the tool on plug wire #1, ground the tool and test away. You should get about 25,000 volts during cranking.
You can also verify the appropriate timing by using a timing light. The easiest way to get a good idea of the rough timing during cranking is to point the light at the CRANK PULLEY. Paint a white mark on the TDC mark, obviously. It should spark about 10 degrees before the TDC mark on the pulley reaches the diameter of the intermediate shaft pulley (which is about a half an inch away).
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The Government said it was considering increasing the speed limit on motorways to 80mph. Then we had the tragic, fatal pile-up on the M5.
Now it is being mooted that an MOT test will only be necessary on some cars every two years. May I ask where we are heading at 80mph in a vehicle that is clearly less-safe?
John Pinkerton
Milton Keynes
Malcolm Everett's letter (11 November) highlights a solution to the blight of roads clogged by HGVs. I live in Salisbury and frequently use the A36 which seems overrun by HGVs. The A36 runs alongside the railway all the way from Southampton to Bristol.
Salisbury, an old medieval town, is blocked by, and bashed by, HGVs everyday. Yet there is a huge area of unused ground next to the station that would make an ideal freight depot for supplies to be delivered from the railway by small (electric?) trucks to retailers in the town.
The solution for a big road problem is right under our noses provided by our Victorian forebears.
Bill Richards
Junction 25 was hopelessly (cheaply?) designed from the outset. This is my opinion based on frequent use.
To join the motorway going north involves a steep slip road making it difficult for lorries to get up to speed. At the motorway level the slip road is rather short because there is a bridge over a river.
The junction takes an inordinate amount of heavy traffic with a fair proportion of overseas lorries. In addition to the lorries coming up from Cornwall there is a massive traffic also coming from the East (London and channel port connections). Most of these roads are single-lane A roads and lines of five or six lorries nose to tail are common and doing more than 40mph. Recently the problems with this junction have been exacerbated by the building of a huge Park & Ride at the village of Henlade, which actually abuts the junction. Who would design a southbound motorway slip road immediately into a little 30mph village?
Dr EV Evans (engineer)
Your correspondents (10 November) are correct to say that vehicle design is always a compromise, and that drivers don't have to drive up to speed limits – but the key point is that we don't place enough emphasis on driver skills and judgement.
Until we have regular retesting, plus qualification and testing based on particular skills (night driving, motorway driving, adverse weather etc), crashes will be frequent. The daily death toll of around 10 per day is never reported, and remains inexcusable. To describe crashes as "accidents" misses the point – there's rarely anything accidental about them. If drivers drove appropriately, most crashes would not occur.
Compare driver testing with flying – for the roads, all we do is require that candidates meet a basic level of knowledge and skills in one set of controlled urban conditions, then let them loose forever on any type of road in any conditions. If flying licences were awarded in a similar manner, none of use would dare set foot inside an airliner.
A driving licence should be seen as a valuable asset that has to be worked for, and not a right.
Mark Ogilvie
Horncastle, Lincolnshire
Heavy-handed police threaten democratic rights
How disheartening it was to see protesters herded through London's streets on Wednesday like cattle (report, 10 November).
Political protest is one of the cornerstones of a healthy democratic culture. Whatever one thinks of the accompanying violence, last year's student demonstrations expressed a passionate engagement with the political life of this country.
On Wednesday, any passion was squeezed out of a protest that was surrounded on all sides by riot police and forced to halt every 10 metres. The Metropolitan Police will consider these tactics a success, given that no splinter groups broke away from the route of the march and Millbank Tower, unlike last year, remained intact.
What a pity, however, if the safety of Conservative party headquarters comes at the expense of a culture of active engagement in politics. The disproportionate policing on show this week runs the risk of damaging more than a protest ever could.
James Everest
London NW6
During the 9 November student protest, groups of plain-clothes police were removing protesters from the streets using painful restraints. In one video on YouTube, a policeman lashes out more than once at a man filming a student protester being led away down an alley while being painfully restrained. The cameraman is then refused access to this alley.
What I find sinister is that these policemen are plain-clothed for the same reason Syrian policemen are plain-clothed: insidiously to suppress protest. How much longer can our Prime Minister criticise such methods in Syria while they are currently being replicated on the streets of London?
Paul Tyler
Canvey Island, Essex
Financial world lacks leaders
Hamish McRae wonders why "no one listens to economists any more" (Opinion, 9 November). I can offer a few suggestions.
First, with regard to the current financial chaos, economists offer a wide spectrum of views, ranging between two contradictory extremes. If expert economists cannot agree on the best course of action, what chance has the average person?
Second, very few economists were apparently aware of the massive inherent risks in our debt-based economies until the balloon went up in 2008. If they had raised the alarm much earlier, we might not now be in such a horrendous mess. To compound this, neither were they apparently aware of these risks being multiplied by the use of increasingly complex and opaque financial instruments. As a result, although unsafe debt was spiralling, it became virtually impossible to quantify it or to see who was holding it.
Thus, it could be argued that the economics profession has badly let down wider society. It is possible that, in becoming too closely involved with the intricacies of their subject, they failed to take notice of the fundamentals.
Keith O'Neill
Ethical gold makes a difference
In Errors and Omissions (5 November), Guy Keleny asks "What on earth is ethically sourced gold leaf?" He is, of course, referring to the extremely special weathervane which was placed on the top of Chichester Cathedral's 277ft spire last week ("The cock of the walk", 3 November). The gold covering the weathervane was responsibly sourced from the Sotrami mine in Peru – one of the first mines in the world to be certified to Fairtrade standards. The Sotrami mine is part of a new – and revolutionary – programme of Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold, the world's first independent ethical certification system for gold launched by the Fairtrade Foundation on Valentine's Day earlier this year.
This certification enables businesses, from designers and retailers to fabricators and distributors, to offer their customers the guarantee of a gold product which has been responsibly mined.
Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold provides a lifeline for thousands of impoverished and exploited miners in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
If every jeweller, and indeed every customer, were to insist on only gold sourced in this way then thousands of small-scale miners, and their communities, would be guaranteed a fair price for gold and a better and more stable future.
Stuart Barber
The Fairtrade Foundation
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The myth about Greek politics
Daniel Howden provides an excellent analysis (10 November) of the current political impasse in Greece.
But intra-party bickering has long been integral to the Greek political scene, since the rival, tribal city states of ancient Greece evolved into villages replete with political rivalries, bigotry and insecurity. In the 1980s at least, whole villages would vote for PASOK, or New Democracy. All villagers were expected to toe the line. The ancient practice of ostracism was practiced on recalcitrants.
When I served in the Australian foreign service in Athens as an economic analyst, from 1983-86, it was clear that the economy was fragile. There were no significant manufacturing industries. Agricultural output had long been in decline. Tourism and repatriated funds were at the core, and by the mid-1980s were declining in volume and value. Inflated public services, political patronage and ultra-nationalism were key features and the basis of political dogma.
A senior Greek politician with whom I spoke in 1985 told me: "The problem with we Greeks is that we pride ourselves on having invented democracy when basically we are all anarchists at heart." Never a truer word.
Richard John
Brixham, Devon
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Property law is the proper law
I am bemused by the fuss over the Jones/Kernott decision regarding their respective shares in a house (report, 10 November). Surely cohabitation is less relevant here than property law, where their joint legal ownership gave each of them certain rights but not an automatic 50/50 split of the value. If there was no agreement then a judge would use the principles of beneficial interest – considering who had paid in what for the purchase, mortgage and improvements – to decide their financial stake in the property.
What does appear to have been perverse, based on the information reported, was the earlier ruling awarding equal shares.
Shane Malhotra
Maidstone, Kent
End this violence against women
I will gladly support Tanja Haque and Cafod's 16 days of action against sexual violence, such as rape used as a weapon of war, in any way I can. Provided that is, that the Vatican first renounces its presumed right to further torture victims of such violence by denying them abortions, and forcing them to carry to term the offspring of their abusers, whether they like it or not. As Ms Haque says: "We cannot let this violence continue with impunity".
Steve Hill
The taxman had his say
Your story "Taxman stopped short" (11 November) is completely inaccurate. Dave Hartnett did not abandon his speech at the Tax Journal Conference this week. He remained at the podium and completed his address in spite of an interruption by protesters.
Stephen Hardwick
Director, Communications and Corporate Affairs, HM Revenue & Customs, London SW1
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We apologise for any distress or confusion caused by our article on 11 November regarding 14 paintings by L.S. Lowry to be sold from the collection of the late Lord Forte, which incorrectly carried a picture of Sir Rocco Forte (b.1945), rather than his father, the late Lord Charles Forte (1908 – 2007).
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Why do I track this screen? I find PEG an effective ratio for identifying growth stocks at a reasonable value. In addition, a recent history of earnings increases could, in theory, help identify companies with the ability to continue to surprise.
Backtesting this screen with a rebalance period of every four weeks and a maximum position size of 10% (in instances when fewer than 10 companies qualify) has produced solid five-, three- and one-year returns (see December's list for a backtest). A quick visual inspection shows this screen has done well as a high-beta play, outperforming in positive market environments and struggling in down markets. Also, a four-week rebalance period can lead to high turnover and transaction costs.
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Bearcats Announce Inaugural Open House
May 15, 2012
CINCINNATI - The University of Cincinnati football team is excited to announce the inaugural Open House event for all fans, donors, season ticket holders and friends.
Fans are encouraged to join head coach Butch Jones, Director of Athletics Whit Babcock, football student-athletes, and members of the department's External Relations Team on Tuesday, June 5, from 6-8 p.m. at the Richard E. Lindner Center for an inside look at Bearcats Football and information on 2012 ticket opportunities.
As the Department continues to grow its base of season ticket holders, current season ticket holders are encouraged to bring individuals who could be NEW 2012 Bearcat season ticket holders. The Bearcats Football program also extends this invitation to any former season ticket holders who may have relinquished their seats in recent years.
All prospective new season ticket holders will have the opportunity to personally select their seats for all seven home games in historic Nippert Stadium for the 2012 campaign.
The evening's festivities will include a question and answer session with Jones and Babcock, guided tours of the facilities, and the ability for fans to walk out of Nippert Stadium as the proud new owner of 2012 football season tickets.
To RSVP for the event, fans can click HERE or call 1-877-55- UCATS.
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Kingsmen Through to SCIAC Finals
CLU defeats Chapman 5-0, Redlands 7-2
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- The No. 5 Cal Lutheran men's tennis team is one win away from claiming its first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) title in school history. The Kingsmen cruised through the first two rounds of the SCIAC Championships Friday, sweeping Chapman 5-0 before defeating No. 12 Redlands 7-2 and earning a berth in Saturday's championship against the winner of Pomona-Pitzer and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.
The Kingsmen made quick work of their seventh seeded opponents in Chapman to start the day. Cal Lutheran opened the match by taking all three doubles matches. Nicholas Ballou and Ray Worley defeated Troy Akin and Brett Buford while Alex Nichols and Connor Treacy took down Kyle Coates and Chris Williams 8-3. Cal Lutheran picked up its third point with Marcelo Sousa and Thomas Millet combining to defeat Zach Resnick and Nick Mulfur 8-2.
The success carried over into the singles portion of the match with Ballou and Worley easily defeating their opponents and securing the win. Ballou deated Akin 6-0, 6-3 and Worley gave CLU the clinching fifth point with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Coates. As those matches ended, Cal Lutheran was leading in the four other matches.
In the semifinal against the nationally ranked Bulldogs, Cal Lutheran ripped off three straight doubles wins for three crucial points. Ballou and Worley are a win away from winning their second straight doubles championship after defeating Patrick Lipscomb and Gram Leahy 8-3. The No. 3 doubles pairing of Sousa and Millet captured their second win of the day with an 8-5 victory over Teddy Jones and Max Licona. Treacy and Nichols followed that with a big 9-8 (7-3) victory over Connor Hyde and Nick Cummings to give CLU the momentum headed into singles.
Worley got the first win of the singles portion of the match with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Hyde and then Ballou got the clinching fifth point with a 6-1, 7-5 win against Lipscomb. Treacy later scored a win over Taylor Hunt 6-4, 6-4 while Millet rounded out CLU's winners for the match with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-2) victory over John Brewer.
Awaiting the Kingsmen in the championships is either Pomona-Pitzer, who CLU beat 5-4 earlier this season, or seven-time defending champion Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.
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Thinking about thinking
Simplicity is very much about making thoughtful decisions and having a path that our lives will follow. This means we need to consciously think about our lives and what we plan on doing.
I have a few places where I think about things. For example, when I'm ironing I think about Frugal Village ; when I'm in bed I think about what I did that day and what I'll do tomorrow and when I'm sitting on the front verandah I think about my life in general.
Where do you think about your important things?
I do some of my best thinking in the shower. It's one of the few places that I can be alone in my home. If I'm near a lake or a river I also tend to think about my life and work things out in my mind.06-17-2004, 07:06 PM #3
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Your a smart thinking lady Miss Bethany. Unfortunately I think of too many things in the middle of the night. I try to tell myself to think about it during the light of day to no avail & I lose sleep.. I do a lot of my thinking other than that as I'm doing dishes or when I'm shopping.(One thing usually starts me thinking of another and ...watch out) I do have my quiet moment's LOL.Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements06-17-2004, 07:18 PM #4
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I do a lot of my thinking out on the back porch, riding in the car, and while I'm crocheting. Gardening brings me memories, hopes, and dreams.
At bedtime, I am out like a light. I read a few pages of a book and I crash.06-17-2004, 10:09 PM #5
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Most of my thinking is done while walking, quilting or just before I go to sleep.06-17-2004, 10:48 PM #6
The only place I can think is in bed. If the family thinks I am going to sleep they don't talk to me. lol, otherwise its always someone chatting away and i can't think straight.06-18-2004, 12:56 PM #7
I think alot in bed. For myself, too, it's one of the rare times I have quiet time....02-22-2006, 10:26 PM #8
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For me, it's the shower. I always think about all the things I need to get done for the day.02-22-2006, 10:35 PM #9
For me it's in a long soak in the tub or on my daily walk. Those are great times to sort through things in my head.02-23-2006, 10:37 AM #10
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In the shower, in bed, or while doing menial tasks that don't require much attention, works for me. I do a lot of thinking while sorting the clothes.02-23-2006, 11:34 AM #11
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I walk by the river each day and do my thinking there mostly.02-23-2006, 08:24 PM #12
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In bed, unfortunately. I have a tough time turning my brain down so I can sleep. I also love to sit and stare at a fire and think. In fact, I predict that will be part of my weekend.02-26-2006, 12:21 PM #13
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I have a long commute so I take that time to be quiet and thoughtful. Another favorite time is very early morning before anyone else is up.
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Susannah studied yoga as a child and grew up within the Yogic tradition. Her teaching style is her own, incorporating influences from the many styles and traditions of yoga. She is inspired by the one to one approach of the Viniyoga System. Each student is treated as an individual, encouraged to work at their own level and take responsibility for their own well-being. Susannah is a fully qualified British Wheel of Yoga teacher.


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By Phil Cadden
Michu has handed Swansea a pre-Capital One Cup quarter-final boost by pledging his future to the Welsh club.
The Spanish sensation has been a revelation since his £2.2million move from Rayo Vallecano last summer and has been linked with Liverpool and La Liga high-fliers Atletico Madrid.
Last week, Swansea manager Michael Laudrup attempted to ward off potential interest by valuing goal-scoring midfielder Michu at £30m.
But Premier League top-scorer Michu, with 13 goals in all competitions, has given boss Michael Laudrup a timely lift ahead of Wednesday night's last-eight tie with Middlesbrough.
Michu, 26, said: "Right now I'm happy - playing almost every minute, very happy.
"It is always nice that you get talked about with teams like Atletico Madrid, one of the largest in Spain, but now I am very happy in Swansea.
"By now to have 13 goals is great, but above all I am enjoying what I am doing in Swansea."
Laudrup's men aim to bounce back quickly from the 4-3 league home defeat to Norwich last weekend against Tony Mowbray's Championship promotion contenders.
Despite that loss, Michu continued to enhance his growing reputation with a second-half brace and the Spaniard has set his sights on closing in on a first Wembley appearance.
Michu added: "Why can we not be there at the end? Hopefully, it would be nice to be at Wembley. But you have to battle as nobody gives you anything."
Swansea are in the middle of their centenary season, but have not won a major trophy in that time.
Laudrup said: "To play for a trophy is fantastic for the fans and the players. If we win we will be in a competition of four teams and to have the opportunity will be very special."
Swansea are without defender Ashley Williams through suspension, while keeper Michel Vorm and midfielder Pablo Hernandez are not ready to return from injuries.
But midfielder Leon Britton is set to be passed fit following a knee problem, with Garry Monk and Kyle Bartley ready to start at centre-back.
Friendly fire: Boro keeper is pals with Swans striker
By Simon Bird
Middlesbrough keeper Jason Steele won't risk winding up Danny Graham on Wednesday night - as the last time he tried it, his former team-mate promptly scored past him.
England Under-21 international Steele and Swansea striker Graham grew up together at Middlesbrough but are now set to do battle for the prize of a Capital One Cup semi-final berth.
Wednesday's tie at the Liberty Stadium is Boro's 12th in a row away from home, but Steele is convinced Tony Mowbray's men can see off the Premier League outfit, having already beaten top-flight Sunderland in the competition this season.
Steele said: "It's a big occasion for the players. It is one of my biggest games for Boro and hopefully we can reward the fans and get to Wembley.
"I know Danny pretty well and I'll be doing everything to keep him out. He got one against me at Watford a couple of seasons ago.
"I told him he wouldn't put one past me before the match and he did so I won't be making the same mistake again. I'll see him and wish him luck but I don't want him to be that lucky.
"We keep in touch. He is a top striker. He went down the leagues a bit when he left here for Carlisle, but he has shown he is a great finisher. He has proved himself at every club he has been at. He is one of those strikers you don't want to play against because he seems to score every week.
"We played together in the reserves and I got on well with him. He is a prolific scorer and although this season he hasn't played as much as he would have liked scoring goals is what he does best and he will be desperate to score against us.
"He is a proper pest in the box as he is all heart, constantly running around and he will be giving it even more against his old team."
Boro have reached the quarter-finals with wins over Bury, Gillingham and Preston as well as Sunderland, despite not once playing at the Riverside.
Steele explained: "All our games in this competition have been away from home this season so that has given us a lot of confidence that we can travel to anywhere and get a result.
"We beat Sunderland and Preston away from home and that has given us a lot of extra belief. Sunderland was 1-0, but we were pretty comfortable there when no-one gave us much of a chance.
"We beat them deservedly, so we have shown we can win away from home against Premier League clubs.
"Swansea play brilliant football. You watch them on TV and think you would love to play like that every week.
"We were on the team coach the other day and watched Swansea beat Arsenal 2-0 and we all thought, 'Oh God, here we go!'
"But then they got beat at home against Norwich at the weekend and you think we might have half a chance.
"We have got to get into their faces and do the ugly side of the game, but if we do that, we have got a chance."


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Stock Picks: M&T Bank, Nike, Seagate Technology
M&T Bank: Standard & Poor's equity analyst Erik Oja maintained a buy rating on shares of M&T Bank (MTB) on Sept. 21. He raised a price target on the shares to $100, from $95.
M&T may give up a majority stake to Banco Santander through a merger with the Spanish lender's U.S. unit while retaining some elements of control, according to people with knowledge of the matter cited in a Sept. 21 Bloomberg News report.
The banks are in informal talks with the U.S. Federal Reserve to gauge how such a deal would be received, and they expect to hear back within two weeks, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are private. Many of the terms, including the timing as to when Santander would get the majority stake, have yet to be worked out, the people said.
An agreement would allow Santander to put its Sovereign Bank unit, which had pretax losses for the past three years, under the management of M&T Chief Executive Officer Robert Wilmers, 76, and his team, the people said. Buffalo-based M&T, which counts Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A) among its biggest shareholders, steered through the financial crisis without posting a loss.
M&T has a market value of more than $10 billion. Together, M&T and Sovereign—which are about the same size—would become the ninth-largest U.S. savings institution by deposits.
"Given our view of the growth limitations of the regional banking industry due to weak loan growth, we see this deal, if it happens, as a positive, due to the potential for cost-cutting," said Oja in a posting on the S&P MarketScope service.
The analyst said the raised price target was a multiple of 15.5 times his unchanged 2011 earnings per share (EPS) estimate of $6.47, equivalent to the company's peers.
Nike: UBS Securities equity analyst Michael Binetti maintained a neutral rating on shares of Nike (NKE) on Sept. 21. He raised a price target on the shares to $82, from $77.
In a note, Binetti said he believes "global trends have been solid" for the footwear maker, and that the fall and holiday outlook is "slightly better than we expected." He said his industry sources suggest to him that inventories remain lean amid strong demand, which "should be positive" for Nike's gross margins in the first quarter of fiscal 2011 (ending May).
The analyst raised his first-quarter EPS estimate to $1.07, from $1.02.
"While NKE's stock has outpaced peers recently and valuation is above the [five-year average,] we would view any pullback as an opportunity to get more constructive on the stock based on our improving fall/holiday outlook," he said.
Seagate Technology: Capstone Investments equity analyst Shebly Seyrafi maintained a hold rating on shares of hard-disk drive maker Seagate Technology (STX) on Sept. 21. He lowered a price target on the shares to $12.00, from $12.50.
In a note, Seyrafi said the lower price target reflected a weak market for hard-disk drives in terms of pricing and unit sales. He noted that since Apple (AAPL) started selling its iPad tablet computer on April 3, "there was a more noticeable slowdown in consumer PC sales".
Seyrafi lowered EPS estimates for fiscal 2011 (ending June) to $1.79, from $1.86, and for fiscal 2012 to $1.84, from $1.94.


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For those of you who want to know why he asked. It is because he knows there are still holes in the network, and every time he complains to IT they go over his head and complain and nothing gets fixed. He wants me to try and get in the system and write up a report that he can show, so things do get fixed.
I also have the added benefit of using him as a reference, which for a student starting college with nothing on my resume, is pretty good.
And I do want to use this as an opportunity to learn, as this will me my area of study, and my career path.


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06.21.2017 A.I. laser targeting
06.01.2017 Diagram of Lake Stratification on Mars
03.21.2017 Break in Raised Tread on Curiosity Wheel
02.27.2017 Swirling Dust in Gale Crater, Mars, Sol 1613
02.27.2017 Dust Devil Passes Near Martian Sand Dune
02.27.2017 Sand Moving Under Curiosity, One Day to Next
12.13.2016 Now and Long Ago at Gale Crater, Mars
12.13.2016 Where's Boron? Mars Rover Detects It
10.03.2016 Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Murray Buttes'
10.03.2016 Butte 'M9a' in 'Murray Buttes' on Mars
09.19.2016 Ribbon Cutting
09.09.2016 Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 5)
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01.27.2016 Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune
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12.17.2015 Full-Circle View Near 'Marias Pass' on Mars
Accurate pointing by CuriosityNASA's Curiosity Mars rover targeted the laser of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument with remarkable accuracy for assessing the composition of the wall of a drilled hole and tailings that resulted from the drilling. This graphic diagrams the pointing and shows the resulting pits created by the laser shots.
On the 180th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 6, 2013), the rover performed a "mini drill test," followed on Sol 182 (Feb. 8, 2013) by the actual drilling to collect a sample from the interior of the rock. Both holes in the target rock "John Klein" are visible in the image at upper left, taken on Sol 182 by the rover's Navigation Camera (Navcam). Both the Navcam and the ChemCam are at the top of the Curiosity's remote-sensing mast.
Each drilled hole is about 0.63 inch (1.6 centimeters) wide, and they are located about 8 feet (about 2.5 meters) away from the top of the mast. So small, so far away...
On Sol 227 (March 26, 2013), ChemCam fired its laser 150 times (5 bursts of 30 shots, each burst at a different target point) on the drill tailings between the two holes and 300 times (10 bursts of 30 shots) in the drill hole itself. The same day, ChemCam's remote micro-imager (RMI) captured images of the laser pits: small craters in the loose tailing (center photo from RMI), and tiny scrapes on the hard surface of the hole walls (photo at right from RMI). Composition spectra from the ChemCam laser inspection are under investigation.
Fig. 1 is a composite of RMI images of the drilled hole. The photo on the right of the main image is a brightened version of the center portion of Fig. 1.
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Brad Paisley, 'South Park': Singer Plays Himself in New Episode
It may not be Brad Paisley's first appearance on "South Park," but tonight (April 25) the singer-songwriter and comedy enthusiast will make an appearance on the long-running show as himself, or at least a cartoon of himself. In October, Brad was invited to the "South Park" studio for a tour, which led to him voicing a few background characters for the episode they were working on.
"I am a big 'South Park' fan," Brad told The Boot. "I identify with people who have no fear in making fun of everything, so I've seen almost every episode. I think they're brilliant."
In tonight's episode, the entertainer is introduced in the first scene, which has him singing the national anthem before the Denver Nuggets basketball game. Later, he comes back for a duet with one of the show's iconic main characters, Cartman.
Brad was all a Twitter with excitement Tuesday (April 24), posting several pictures and comments regarding the experience. "Spent the day Sunday @SouthPark. You all might want to watch this Wednesday. So seriously," he posted with the picture above. That was followed by, "Signing my new 8×10 Headshot @southpark …if I may say, I make a handsome cartoon. Well, you be the judge of that."
Catch Brad on "South Park" tonight (April 25) at 10:00 PM ET on Comedy Central.


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Picture this: your father opens a box addressed from his favorite son (you — maybe a stretch, just go with it) and pulls out a tie. He's a simple man, doesn't want anything fancy, but a tie? For Father's Day? That's awfully cliché. Don't worry, he doesn't have a tie like this.
Your mom compliments the gesture with something similar to, "Oh that's niiiiiice!" And the day goes on as usual.
Your true sonmanship will shine later though. Maybe he's putting it away, maybe he's putting it on for the first time, whenever it is that he flips it over for the first time — that's when it happens. The son to father, man to man moment Father's Day is all about.
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Re: Date Formatting
> When using the DateListPlot function, Mathematica does recognize this date format as a date, as long as you put each data point into the formula individually, and put quotations around them, e.g.:
> DataListPlot[{1,2},{"Mar-28-2008", "Apr-03-2009"}] works as a function, BUT if you set {"Mar-28-2008", "Apr-03-2009"}=dates, and use DataListPlot[{1,2},{dates}], it doesn't work.
> Anyone have ideas on how to reformat the dates so it works? It appears that there's some sort of disconnect when the dates are entered into a series.
Hello bigchap,
there are a couple of mistakes. Your assignment '{"Mar-28-2008", "Apr-03-2009"}=dates' is wrong - should be: name = value.
Then, DataListPlot[{1,2},{dates}] doesn't work, because (a) the name of the function is to be "DateListPlot" and (b) you put 'dates' in between curly brackets.


text: I just purchased a new 64gb iPod touch device. Had an iPhone prior and don't recall having these issues... For some reason when I try to sync HD TV Shows purchsed from the itunes store, I get an error message indicating that the format is not compatible with ipod device. It was my understanding that HD TV shows are automatically linked to their SD version for easy iPod integration, so that 2 titles of the same show are not displayed in the library (which gets kind of messy). I've managed a way around this by manualy draging the SD version of my TV shows (which are automatically downloaded with all HD purchases) into my libarary. Now there are two titles of each TV show displaying in my library which is kind of anyoying, even though the HD versions have the little "HD-SD" symbol next to it. Shoudn't the SD-HD versions sync with iPod devices? Thx.


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An aromatic combination of Peruvian and Filipino fare wafted through the large kitchen at St. Matthew's Cathedral Church on Friday evening as Carlos Ecos frantically prepared plate after plate of Causa Peruana — a celebratory dish of Peru's independence.
Peru is one of two countries debuting at the Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival this year, along with Honduras.
"I decided to do something to get engaged with the community and to do something for our culture which is the most important thing," Ecos said while his quick hands placed the spicy chicken-and-pea mixture into a yellow potato dumpling and sprinkled herbs on top.
Ecos, who moved to Brandon from Peru just four months ago, is one of only two people behind Peru's inaugural year at the festival. Both are on double duty, cooking and putting on a musical performance.
The Global Village generally serves as a venue for organizations to dip their toes into the festival's waters, to learn, experiment and fundraise, in hopes of hosting a stand-alone pavilion in the future.
While Brandon's Peruvian population is relatively small, Ecos isn't deterred from that goal.
"I would like to start one," he said, "of course, but it's important to me to have more Peruvians here in Brandon.
"People are going to get interested and want to volunteer and maybe next year, that will be the goal."
While Ecos floated across his side of the church kitchen, the other side was taken over by Filipino volunteers — the other half of the Global Village, which is organized by Westman Immigrant Services.
Filipinos have hosted their own pavilion in the past, but a lack of volunteers made it difficult to pull off this year as many are based in Neepawa and other areas outside Brandon, according to Naty Delbridge, chairwoman of the Westman Filipino Community.
"It's a commitment from them," Delbridge said as a group of costumed children ran up the church stairs in preparation for an on-stage performance.
Delbridge said she has expects the Philippines to once again have a stand-alone pavilion in the future.
This year also marks the first year for the Hondurian pavilion and based on the crowds on Friday night, organizers will be eager to make it a festival staple.
More than 150 people lined out the doors of the Trinity United Church all the way down to a banquet room that only holds about 60.
Organizers said they were expecting the pavilion to be a success, but not a crowd like the one they saw on Friday.
While this year includes some new additions to the multicultural weekend, the ever-popular Irish pavilion was nearly at its 450-person capacity in a Royal Oak Inn & Suites salon.
Around 8 p.m., there was no sign of a line, however, for the Irish party — which draws crowds with its celtic music, Emerald Isle fare and of course Guinness and whiskey. The night was still very young.
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United States holidays + Art
Florence Griswold's house and garden, now a museum, has barely changed since the turn of the 20th century when artists escaped here to paint outside, says the director of a new film on American impressionism
Closed for three years, the redesigned museum has reopened with a giant blue cockerel on the roof terrace and a spectacular showcase of 60s American art discovered by Virginia Dwan
The Tippet Rise Art Center on an 11,500-acre working ranch near Yellowstone, Montana, has just opened to the public. It celebrates land and architecture, as well as music during its classical concert season
Seven Magic Mountains by the Swiss artist has just gone on display in the desert near Las Vegas
A trans-American rail journey, picking up musicians en route, forms the basis for an engaging sound and light show
Paige Smith's Urban Geode street-art project brings a hint of the magical to derelict corners of Los Angeles, and – with a network of fans worldwide – her crystalline forms are spreading
From crime-chasing news hound to art-world darling, the cult photographer's unmistakeable images capture all the drama of life in the Big Apple.
As a designer of luxury retail premises, Simon Mitchell was astonished to find what looked like an upmarket boutique by a desert highway in Texas
Jane Golden, founder of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, picks her favourite contributions to the city's huge street art project, a celebration of the whole community
Photographer Toby Amies takes us on a road trip from Houston to Austin looking at the art of the Lone Star State
Santa Fe has lots to offer those interested in art and architecture: from classical opera to classic neon signs. Here are the top sights as picked by local journalist and 'culture nut' Enrique Limón
Road trips USA: Pacific coast Seattle's Native American art reconnects with Salish tribes' traditions
Totem poles are well-loved and familiar in Seattle, but they are not indigenous to the Pacific Northwest. More recent public artworks have drawn on more local Salish tribal traditions, says Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
With comic-book stores, indie cinema, live gigs, theatre, cutting-edge galleries – and great coffee of course – Portland punches way above its weight for a city of its size, say culture bloggers Aaron Rayburn and Ben Vickery
Miami is alive with street art, galleries and private collections. Jordan Melnick gives a local's eye view of its cultural highlights
Away from the beaches and skyscrapers, Miami's Wynwood district is one of most creative in America. And, says Jamie Thomson, it has bars and cafes to match
Ansel Adams' (1902-1984) spectacular images capturing America's great wildernesses have made him one of the most influential photographers of all time. A new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London offers a rare chance to see his work exhibited on a large scale in the UK
After visiting the bars, eating the tacos and enjoying the nightlife, you may be ready to take in some art and soak up some Texan history at the city's impressive array of galleries and museums, writes Kimberley Jones
If the bright lights and gambling begin to get to you, why not take a road trip out to this museum located in the desert
Art in Vegas? Yes: contemporary, fine and public, in buildings that can often be as daring as the artworks, writes Kristen Peterson
New York graffiti artist Meres One shows us a slice of the city rarely seen by visitors – 5Pointz in Queens, the largest street art exhibit space in the world
The Los Angeles suburb of Watts is notorious for the 1965 riots – and for one of the world's great public art works, says Carolyn Lyons
Don't let the grittiness of The Wire put you off, Becky Barnicoat finds the US east coast city has a thriving DIY arts scene and some great dive bars
Teri Grenert reports on how America's biggest-ever biennial of modern art is helping to restore tourism to New Orleans


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Greetings from Los Angeles!
I'm tired of giving my money to the oil companies. They are singlehandedly endangering the human race, they've been lying to us for years, filling our government with their puppets, and polluting our world so they they can enrich themselves. I want to vote against them with my dollars.
I've always been a big tesla fan, and have been eagerly awaiting the Model 3, for which I've put down a $1000 deposit and have a good spot in the reservation line.
But as the release date approaches, I have a few questions in my mind.
One is the tax credits - will they still be available?
Another is tesla build quality. I've heard a lot of horror stories.
I'm also not crazy about the M3's interior. No driver instrument cluster? That giant computer monitor? I want a high tech car, but I don't see why that means I have to have a giant screen in my face when I drive.
Also I think they tesla supercharger network will be overwhelmed by the coming wave of teslas, meaning those long distance trips you imagine won't be possible in reality.
I've also never bought a new car. I prefer to let someone else take the depreciation and buy it when its 2-3 years used. I'm unsure what the depreciation on the M3s will be, and I'm wondering if I'd be smarter waiting a couple years and then grabbing a used one.
So my alternate options are a used 2014-15 volt or a used BMW i3.
Both of these have depreciated rapidly and are much more affordable for me. In fact I could get one of each for the price of a new tesla M3.
I test drove the i3 and loved it, as well as the interior design. I hated the exterior at first, but I've come to kind of like it.
As for the volt, I like the old gen1 design much more than the new design, which is far more bland to me. Gen2 Looks like a an old person car or rental fleet car to me.
I haven't test driven one yet, but I'm not expecting it to be as fun as the i3, but I know it would be much more useful, without the i3's long distance limitations, and still allow me to commute to work without using any gas.
The other consideration is my fiance HATES the way the i3 looks. Doesn't care for the volt either, but doesn't think it's as bad as the i3. Obviously she'd rather be escorted around in a new tesla. Women and their competitive consumerism
So I'm just here to learn more and help me make my decision by the time the Tesla M3 comes out.


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Estate agents can be costly, and you could save a bundle by cutting them out of the equation when you sell your house. Here is how to make a sale without the help of estate agent.
Get a valuation
First you will need to arrive at an appropriate valuation for your house - how much you would reasonably like it to sell for.
It is possible to get an idea of your home's worth by researching the price of homes in your area using sites such as Zoopla and Rightmove.
Estate agents also often provide obligation-free valuations, so it is worth contacting a couple in your local area to see if they will be happy to value your home without any commitment.
Get an Energy Performance Certificate
You need to get an Energy Performance Certificate before you put your property on the market, so it is worth getting this done before you start advertising your home.
You will need to get a registered energy assessor to compile this for you - search for one on the EPC register website.
Advertise your property
Photograph your house yourself - borrow a decent camera from a friend if you do not have one. Write the property description too, as you know your home better than anyone else.
You can advertise your property without an estate agent as long as you are prepared to put some time and effort in.
Several sites allow you to list your house for free such as Property Sell and House Ladder, meaning you can expose your property to a huge web audience.
Sites that charge a fee can advertise large photos of your house and even put a For Sale board outside in your front garden.
You can of course also advertise your home in your local paper for a small fee, and many supermarkets allow you to put up For Sale notices for free.
Arrange viewings
You can arrange viewings for interested buyers yourself, meaning you can speak to them and agree on a time that is convenient to you before they come to see your house.
It is worth taking the time to make your house as visually appealing and clean as possible before you start showing round potential buyers.
You will also have to be comfortable talking to potential buyers about all the different aspects of your house and why you are moving. It is also a good idea to have someone else in the house with you for security.
Negotiate a price
Before entering into negotiations with a buyer, make sure you have decided on the lowest price you will drop to.
Do not drop below this, however tempted you might be to get the sale over with. If you have refused a low offer, you can always reconsider it if no other buyers come your way.
When you have secured a buyer, you can bring in a solicitor who will be able to help complete the sale.


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TheNewOriginals wrote:why is she riding a horse naked?
It's Lady Madonna as Lady Godiva. The story of Lady Godiva is a folklore story about a woman who road naked on horseback through an English town. She (and the other town folk) were upset about a tax that was levied by her husband. The story says that he told her he would repeal the taxes if she road through the town naked. (Or something to that effect.)
Most people probably know Lady Godiva as the silhouetted woman on a box of Godiva Chocolates.
girlhobbit wrote:this is by far the best duck one.
Re: Lots of Hugs!
I totally dig it. GMV.
Re: If all your friends...
Ovulating? My Goodness!, this is amazing. This better make it to the fog. Pleaseeeeeeeee!
Re: Her Motherly Nature
My bad....I guess there are still fogged entries in the hotness. (Not mine. ) But, I hadn't seen any for a long time, thought maybe they'd been removed. I know that was a request by quite a few people.
Only real complaint is that the text looks kinda small...people might not get it until they're really close.
Re: Story Time
Sokowa this is a wonderful entry. A favorite in our household. Love the effects for moonlight. You really have a great talent for the wickedly cute. Great job!
Re: ATTILA THE MOM
gmv, i would totally get this for my mom. i like it with the text, too.
Re: Father Sun, Mother Earth, Baby Moon
Very imaginative! I like it!
mia3mom wrote:heh. nice use of aliens! I love the eyes, and even though I've said things along those lines about my babies (though not about their eyes), I think this is a wonderfully quirky take on those comments. Thanks for making me grin, red!
Thanks for the comment Mia! I'm always happy to provide a chuckle.
thedoc00 wrote:I like the shape of the mouth... I see mouth and not mustache...
but if you were going to resubmit... I'd say throw in just a small splash of tongue in the center... would make it definitely mouth without changing the panicky waffle mouth I love now.
When I look at it I need a second to register it as a mouth. Doubt Derek'll resub (no real need) but if he does the tongue would be a good change. ^_^
asyrith wrote:That reminds me...what is the Pancakes thing all about? I see it around, but I'm not sure what it means...as it what it's filtering.
Cool shirt by the way.
To find out what is being filtered click reply and check in the text box. That'll always work. ^_^
Re: Smokin' Hot Mom (resub)
This is a really neat shirt.
ommers74 wrote:awwwww. Large black and white bear. Eats, shoots and leaves.
I'm reading that book (by Lynne Truss) now. Hilarious.
Re: Zombie Mothers Need Love Too (resub)
personally, quiggly, I think the design is far too large. The text should probably be in a different font style too (kinda looks like Comic Sans in all cap and Joel is not a fan of TNR or Comic Sans in any form)
Turbotuff wrote:looks like Calvin from Calvin and hobbes
I can see what you mean, but I need an image to reference.
Re: Mother Nature
This is an unfortunate rejection. I really liked this design. And I'm not sure what other colors would do it justice. Maybe you can incorporate it into another design sometime. Or maybe after 60 days you can have it printed elsewhere. ^_^
Mother nature is off topic? Hmmm. I shall have to rethink the design I was almost getting around to.
makselarts wrote:I like the Knight..nice touch!
You have a PM. Hopefully it'll be helpful. ^_^
Wow ELS I feel your pain I can't believe Mother Nature is off topic. I must not be feelin this theme and I AM a mother. hmmm
Re: Little Red Motherhood
This rocks.
Re: Queen Bee: The Ultimate Mother
Queen bees are the ultimate mothers provided by nature, sustaining an entire hive and keeping whole societies working. I hope you guys like the complimentary color scheme combined with some spatial tension arising from the volumetric bees on the graphic background. Please comment and let me know how you like it!
Wow! I thought this design was the essence of the topic. Beautiful, too.
Re: Bursting With Love
After I designed this I saw two similar designs posted. If you want eye-catching color, and a bit of feminist pride vote for this one!
Re: 25 ways to say mother
If you were going to use asian characters you should have also used the characters from the other languages and i believe in arabic it waletee
but aside from that good idea
folkkevi wrote:Queen bees are the ultimate mothers provided by nature, sustaining an entire hive and keeping whole societies working. I hope you guys like the complimentary color scheme combined with some spatial tension arising from the volumetric bees on the graphic background. Please comment and let me know how you like it!
Wow, love the colors.
Re: Rhino Mom Loves Baby Rhino
Looks a lot like this shirt I have:
tooner66 wrote:Nobody holds a mug like that. NOBODY.
I hold a mug like that. I guess that makes me a nobody...
ha! sweet and simple, nice work!
love the concept. I'm having a hard time reading the magenta words, they keep going blurry. It might be my laptop screen or my own screwy eye problems, though.
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This is nice. Very simple and elegant.
The FDA requires you to list ingredients for all retail cleaning products:
MOM SPIT® contains:
90% Saliva (from 100% United States registered mothers)
5% Embarrasol-guaranteed to cause shame and humiliation when applied properly
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Congratulations on getting to the fog! It'll provide a rollercoaster ride of emotions.
Thanks so much and tell your daughter I said thank you as well! Shirt.Woot doesn't sell kids sizes do they? I have 3 nephews who I wanted to get shirts for if it prints. It means a lot to get such a nice response from a great artist like you KLS!
Elemental52 wrote:This is a sweet shirt... I would wear it and any guy who wouldn't is just afraid of his sensitive side.... the knight part is what really makes the shirt awesome... It adds that humorous touch thats still cute that many of these "mom" shirts don't have... i applaud your artwork!
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Wow all I have to say is this is possibly the best design I have ever seen on woot, it is by far the most original and thought provoking, basically if woot doesnt pick this Im done with woot, and I will never buy another shirt and I will tell friends and family to never buy anything off woot because I have seen too many ingenious designs get turned down and stupid girly cartoon designs win instead.
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This is the third Derby this exact design has been entered Bryan. You know the rules.
Well, at least Discobiscuits will be happy about this. =p
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We recently looked at the ASUS V550C: a £500 laptop that did very little wrong, but didn't really excel in the price bracket either. Well, we're back looking at the Asus X550CA-XO113H, which retails for £170 less, and could be ideal for the family on a budget or the student wanting to do basic word processing and web browsing. It's got an Intel Celeron processor, 4GB RAM and a 500GB hard disk, which is certainly lower specs than the laptops we've been looking at of late, but can it punch above its weight to be bargain of the year?
Like the V550C, the X550C has plenty of the trappings of an Ultrabook in terms of appearance, although at 15.6-inches, it's fooling nobody really. Still, it's very thin all round and has the stylish minimalism that's in laptop style at the moment. Like the V550C, it's black, rather than chrome, although the texture is completely different - markedly cheaper. Asus describes it as a 'classic spin line finish'. What this actually means is it feels ever so slightly like vinyl, with the circular grooves from the Asus logo in the middle to the outside of the lid.
When you lift the lid, the colour-scheme changes to a metallic silver around the keyboard, although the black remains on the plastic bezel around the screen. The keyboard area is textured with small dimples around the touchpad, but around the keyboard it's mainly smooth, adding light dots just above. It's an eclectic mix of styles that doesn't quite come off in our view. You can definitely tell it's on the cheaper end of the laptop scale, especially as the keys make an off-putting rattling noise when you type at anything approaching speed.
All of the connectivity is down the left hand side of the laptop with a VGA port, two USB slots, an HDMI port, an Ethernet port and a headphone/microphone jack. On the right hand side, there's a DVD drive - impressive considering its low price, and the fact that it's really rather slim. So slim in fact, that the Ethernet port requires the plastic to be pulled down a little to make the cable fit.
One area the laptop saves costs is through its screen - there's no touch controls, which is fine because we don't use them that often in Windows 8 anyway. What's less fine is the general quality it offers: while the brightness is generally okay, the resolution of 1366 x 768 isn't too great which leads to slightly blurry images. Worse, it's really pixelated when viewed up close - it's particularly noticeable on the icons, which are clearly squared off in an obvious mesh style on the screen. The colour accuracy is okay, if a little washed out, but the viewing angles aren't too bad.
To be entirely fair, we shouldn't expect anything more from a £329 laptop, and its perfectly fine for everyday use - it should just be noted that the screen is one of the more obvious areas of cost saving.
The Intel Celeron 1007U is 1.5GHz speed.
Just purchased ASUS X551ca with i3 3217-u processor.1.80ghz . cost £349. Over all i am really pleased with the performance. For the tasks i need it is perfect. downloaded War thunder and plays it very well on medium settings. How ever if i have one big gripe it is the key board. It rattles and flexes, and is like typing on an old type writer. !. So the keyboard was easy to remove and i had a peek. On inspection i decided to put some 3mm rubber padding in certain areas to eliminate rattles. They have support rubbers under neath but not enough. After an hour of trial and error i have a very quite and now solid feel to keyboard. :) So Asus it would not take you much to give them keyboards a quality feel for a few cheep rubber pads under keyboard. Advice give them keyboards a good testing before you buy. On the whole good value for money. 8/10
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to cause a mobile device (e.g. mobile phone, tablet computer) to stop working by updating or installing software on it
a mobile device which no longer works after a software update or installation
'My Verizon Wireless Motorola Droid phone has been replaced ten times under warranty in less than two years. Reasons include an Android update that bricked the phone …'Consumerist 28th May 2013
'I love that phone but one "reset to factory settings" later and my phone is a brick.'web forum post 23rd June 2013
Have you ever had the experience of taking something you own, a pair of curtains, a kettle, a lawnmower, and doing something to it, purportedly to improve its condition, but ending up with something which isn't as good as what you started out with? The washed curtains have shrunk, the de-scaled kettle no longer boils, the serviced lawnmower won't start!
the term is usually used in the context of mobile phones, but it's also possible to brick other devices, such as tablet or desktop computers and even games consoles
In the tech-centred world in which we live, it's inevitable that electronic devices might also be periodically subjected to a bit of an overhaul, but what if our attempts at maintenance or improvement leave them similarly worse for wear? This is the circumstance behind an action now described by the verb brick. And a bricked device is, unfortunately, a useless device.
The transitive verb brick refers to the undesirable action of causing an electronic device to stop working because of something you've done to the software, usually when updating its operating system or adding a new application. Though the term is usually used in the context of mobile phones, it's also possible to brick other devices, such as tablet or desktop computers and even games consoles. Devices are often bricked when there's an interruption to an update procedure, perhaps because of power failure or because the user inadvertently does something which affects it. Such interruptions can partially overwrite or corrupt what is known as firmware, software which is integral to the device and without which it may not properly function.
The verb brick often appears in the passive form, a syntactic realization which abstracts the responsibility away from frustrated device users, e.g. My phone got bricked when I downloaded a system update. A corresponding participle adjective bricked is also quite common, e.g. a bricked phone. The noun homonym brick is used to refer to a device which is accidentally rendered inoperable in this way, especially if it's been damaged beyond repair.
Though the action of bricking is frustrating and quite clearly undesirable, it can sometimes be reversed. Firmware can sometimes be reloaded or other software developed to counteract the effects, a concept described as unbricking. There is unfortunately no catch-all method here – if a device is to be unbricked, it usually requires a bespoke solution.
Interestingly enough, bricking does have a potentially useful application – if a mobile phone is reported stolen, then it can be blocked from use in the wrong hands by being bricked. This is usually achieved by blocking the unique identification code which identifies it as a valid device and allows access to the network.
There's been evidence of informal use of the word brick in this sense since the mid-2000s, the idea being that the device's lack of functionality makes it no more useful than a brick. This usage was possibly inspired by the slightly earlier use of brick to refer to outdated or particularly unfashionable-looking mobile phones, phones that were large, bulky and block-shaped, therefore resembling a 'brick' (I remember them well!).
The word brick, dating back to the early 15th century, has been through various incarnations in its lifetime, swinging between positive and negative connotations in its metaphoric use. On the more positive side, for example, an informal use which dates back to the 1800s and was popular during the forties and fifties is brick in reference to a dependable, helpful person, though this now sounds rather old-fashioned.
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My 2011 Z4 35is is only one year old with 13,000+ no-snow or salted roads miles, and has problems with the headlights. The low beams are too low that it is too dark to drive at faster than 40 mph. Aslo, the headlights do not move right or left when the steering wheel is turned. The mechanics told me that they are going to replace the headlight mechanism. I am waiting for the parts to arrive.
I expected the moving headlight would be a troublesome in later time. There is no front-end accident for this car, so I did not expect this problem came so soon. Well I brame on too many pot holes in the Massachusetts roads. :dunno:
Hi, another owner had a similar problem and found that the rear chassis height measure was incorrectly fitted in manufacture, BUT it was also stated that he could have gone over a speed bum and it bounced the whole assembly, almost into reverse, hence the lights were so low.... if the latter is truly a problem then many many other Z4 car owners could have a real issue...
I had a similar problem with the headlights locking in the down position for a while then after several days would correct itself. Did 4 or 5 times. Turned out it was the SmarTop I had installed. I took it off and no more problems. However the side to side movement still does freeze up occasionally even after took SmarTop off so unsure of correlation there.
The service guys replaced both headlights after waiting for the replacement parts 10 days. Now, the low beam is working correctly, but the headlights still do not move. Don't they check their work after installing the replacements? Really dissapointing their service, I wish I could take it to another dealer!
Finally the headlights problem has been fixed. The low beam problem (beaming too low) was fixed by replacing the defected level sensor. The headlights did not move was corrected by the software. They reprogramed (?) the software yesterday, but the lights moved only to the right, failed to move to the left. They kept my car one more day to resolve the problem. Today they found that the lights are designed to move to the left only 8 degrees while it moves 15 degrees to the right. So, they thought they had not fixed since it appeared to not move to the left. In fact they did fixed it yesterday. I should notice that the lights moves much more to the right than to the left!
Good to hear that they got your lights working correctly.
To be blunt, nowadays the "average" SA knows far less than many customers. Sad, but true.
I had experienced a similar event, i.e., requiring multiple drop off to fix the simple problem - (stuck open thermostat!) at this dealer for my old 323is, many years ago.
I have to agree with you on the poorly qualified SAs.
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