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In a consumer society, it's easy to believe that sex is just for the young, the taut, the liposucked, and the wrinkle-free (ageing male rock stars excepted).
Hard enough, then, to feel sexy if you're on the saggy side of 40, but what if you have paraplegia, or curvature of the spine, or have had no legs since birth?
Photographer Belinda Mason-Lovering has always taken it for granted that people - whatever shape, size, age or agility - have the right to be considered sexual beings. Five years ago in Sydney, at a state government conference on sexuality and disability, she discovered otherwise.
Mason-Lovering was moved to hear UK activist, author and psychotherapist Dominic Davies speak passionately about the prejudices and misconceptions that people with disabilities faced in their desire for sexual expression.
She sought Davies out after his talk, and asked him: "If I could capture all the passion and emotion that you feel in a single image, what would that image be?"
Mason-Lovering's question was the catalyst for a lengthy email and phone discussion that resulted in the image United We Sit. She photographed Davies, who has a spinal condition called scoliosis, in an intimate embrace with his lover Lee.
Davies's back faces the viewer, yet people often do not notice the curvature in his spine - it is the sensuality they perceive first. "I didn't want to put a wheelchair in the image," says Mason-Lovering.
"(People with disabilities) are sick of being labelled and tagged with something, so . . . I wanted to focus on the beauty and the intimacy of their relationship."
So began a collaboration that resulted in a series of 40 photographs of people with disabilities and their lovers, friends and families. Entitled Intimate Encounters, the series has been shown in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and London and is touring Australia till the end of 2006.
Mason-Lovering was conscious of reflecting the individuality of her subjects, who range from people with diabetes, cerebral palsy and vision impairment, to Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress disorders and sex workers whose clients include people with disabilities.
Her subjects are often the image's co-creators, such as Melbourne academic Dr George Taleporos, who wanted to be photographed with one of his reality-TV heroes, former Big Brother contestant Gordon Sloan.
"I had a major obsession with Gordon," says Taleporos, who has spinal muscular atrophy. "I thought he had this most amazing physical presence and he would look awesome next to me. I approached him and he agreed to do it. He is very much into social change issues."
Entitled Friend or Foe, the digitally-enhanced photograph is set in a rubbish dump, and features a buff-naked Sloan standing in a Mr-Universe-style pose, simultaneously holding Taleporos aloft and stepping on him.
Taleporos wrote the photo's accompanying text: "Is my body the antithesis of the masculine ideal? How do we treat the trash in our visual landscape? Do we toss it in the dump, or do we use our greater strength to lift it into the sun and the blue sky above?
"These are the questions that I wanted my image to pose. I knew that I was successful when it pained me to look at it. It was never my intention to create a 'pretty image' . . . Gordon looks great and I look like shit . . . Excellent!"
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The One Direction member initially asked the photographers to leave him alone but they continued to harass him.
Harry Styles has won a court order that will earn him some peace. The One Direction member came victorious at British High Court in London after applying for protection against unidentified paparazzi who employed the method of pretending to be fans to get his photos.
Styles had tried to ask the photographers to voluntarily leave him alone but when the attempt failed, he turned to the court. "This is not a privacy injunction," the pop star's counsel David Sherborne told the court. "Mr. Styles is not trying to prevent fans approaching him in the street and taking photos. He remains happy to do that, as he always has."
The attorney said further, "Rather, it is the method or tactics which have been used by a certain type of photographer." By terms of injunction, the paparazzi are not allowed to chase Styles by car or motorcycle, put him under surveillance, loiter within 50 meters of his home, or take any pictures under those circumstances.
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The Head Coach acknowledged that Worcester have to return to the form they produced when they pushed Leicester Tigers all the way in the last league game at Sixways.
And he has been boosted by the news Scotland international prop Euan Murray is back with the Warriors following his RBS 6 Nations exploits and is ready to be pitched straight into battle.
"The defeat at Bath last Saturday hurt everybody, but the players have got together and realised they need to respond in the right manner," he said.
"If anything the result at The Rec has made training more intense, the players work even harder and the attitude absolutely spot on. To every player's credit, they have come in this week galvanised, determined and together.
"We were disappointed with the Bath game as our accuracy wasn't there on the day," he added.
"The final result was hard to take, but we cannot dwell on it and, ultimately, we have got to make our own luck. We've approached this week with that attitude - to make things happen and be clinical.
"We were missing some big players at The Rec, although those that came in did exceptionally well. However, Euan Murray is back from Scotland duty and in contention so that is a boost for us."
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After nights of relentless pounding by rockets and a rising death toll, the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers has been tentatively welcomed by civilians on both sides.
But it appears the truce was not a pleasing outcome to a group of battle-hungry Israeli soldiers which wanted to carry on the fighting and invade the Gaza Strip.
To spell out their frustration, 16 Israeli Defence Force soldiers arranged their uniformed bodies on the ground, to spell out the Hebrew words for Bibi Loser in an angry reference to Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu.
The photo has now gone viral causing the IDF to investigate - a spokesperson said it frowned upon soldiers expressing political opinions while in uniform.
While there have been calls for the soldiers in the photo to be court-martialled, others have agreed with their frustration after IDF were instructed to prepare for battle and then told to stand down, reported the Times of Israel.
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Sprint U.S. Grand Prix Comes to the Eagle Superpipe
The Sprint U.S. Grand Prix Snowboarding and Freeskiing Halfpipe competitions come to Park City Mountain Resort next week - where the Eagle Superpipe is ready and waiting for some of the world's best halfpipe athletes. Louie Vito, Gretchen Bleiler, Simon Dumont, Jen Hudak and Alex Schlopy are just some of the big names scheduled to compete in next week's events.
Qualifying points for the snowboarding and freeskiing halfpipe Olympic events in Sochi, Russia next year are on the line, so expect big-time style to be shown. Best of all, all the events are free and spectator-friendly!
The Paul Mitchell Progression Session Big Air competition is also on the program for Wednesday, January 30 and will surely be a fan favorite. After the Big Air, make your way to Park City's Historic Main Street for a free concert headlined by Cold War Kids, followed immediately by a fireworks show.
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The Cincinnati Reds entered Tuesday night's game at home against the San Francisco Giants one win away from their first playoff victory since 1995, and they didn't get it done. The Giants were fighting for their season, and came through with a 2-1 extra inning victory in game three of the National League Division Series. The Reds lead the series 2-1.
The Reds squandered a 16-strikeout performance by their pitching staff and the offense was flat as an untimely error proved all the edge San Francisco needed.
In the top of the 10th inning, the Giants got back-to-back singles from Buster Posey and Hunter Pence. Reds reliever Jonathan Broxton struck out the next two batters before a passed ball moved runners to second and third. Joaquin Arias then faced a 1-2 count and hit a routine hopper to third base that was bobbled by former Gold Glover Scott Rolen, allowing Posey to score and give the Giants a 2-1 lead. Rolen was charged with an error on the play.
With 5-2 and 9-o victories over the Giants to open the series, the Reds won their first playoff games since '95, but the franchise is still seeking its first playoff series win since sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1995 NLDS.
Homer Bailey started for Cincinnati, going seven inning and giving up just one hit and one run. Bailey hit Gregor Blanco with a pitch in the third inning, and followed that by walking Brandon Crawford. Giants' starter Ryan Vogelsong then sacrifice bunted, moving Blanco to third. Blanco would score on a sac fly by Angel Pagan to tie the game. Other than that inning Bailey, who this season became the first Cincinnati Red since 1988 to throw a no hitter, was superb before being removed for pinch hitter Todd Frazier, who failed to reach base.
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The Group of 20 will likely agree on specific targets for slashing their deficits and addressing the staggering debt loads they accumulated to fend off economic collapse, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Saturday.
Europe's top official made the comment in a briefing with reporters ahead of the summit on Sunday, where fiscal consolidation will be the central economic topic. Such an agreement would help paper over sharp differences that were highlighted in recent days as officials from the world's advanced economies emphasized the difficulties associated with putting themselves on a more sound fiscal footing without scuttling the global recovery.
In fact, Mr. Barroso said that benchmarks proposed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week in a letter to his G20 counterparts have been agreed to among top officials from most countries.
"The minimum deficit goal will probably be accepted," Mr. Barroso said, referring to Mr. Harper's call for G20 nations to cut their budget shortfalls in half by 2013.
The need to attack debt loads in several of the biggest economies without stifling the global rebound is a "balancing act" for the G20, Mr. Harper said Saturday while speaking to business leaders, acknowledging that the debate over how quickly and aggressively to cut stimulus spending has produced economic "tensions."
Mr. Barroso echoed comments from Mr. Harper and other leaders as they sought to put a united face on one of the more contentious issues on the table this weekend, contentious mainly because of the different speeds at which the various G20 economies are healing, and differences in their fiscal health.
"We are all aiming at the same goal - economic growth," Mr. Barroso said.
That may be true, but the gulf on the issue appeared to widen in recent days as countries such as Germany and Britain suggested that they might push for stricter targets than what Mr. Harper proposed, while U.S. President Barack Obama has warned that certain economies in the group are still too fragile to withstand severe budget cuts.
Brazil expressed concern Saturday that some European countries are cutting too fast, putting the global recovery at risk and potentially harming developing nations should it cause another downturn.
I'm pleased that there does seem to be a growing understanding and acceptance of the necessity - particularly in the midterm - to have credible plans to tackle the growth of deficits and debt and the sovereign risk that that entails. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
"The emerging countries should not carry the burden for the recovery alone," said Brazilian finance minister Guido Mantega, who is representing his country in place of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who opted to stay home and deal with the government's response to flash floods.
"This is a joint project. The burden should be borne by us all."
Mr. Mantega said Mr. Harper's proposal to place debt as a share of gross domestic product on a downward path by 2016 is "quite reasonable," but may be hard to meet for some G20 members.
Mr. Harper, meanwhile, stressed that on the broad strokes at least, all nations are on the same page.
"I'm pleased that there does seem to be a growing understanding and acceptance of the necessity - particularly in the midterm - to have credible plans to tackle the growth of deficits and debt and the sovereign risk that that entails,'' Mr. Harper said, echoing French President Nicholas Sarkozy and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who both tried to downplay talk of divisions within the G20 on deficit reduction during separate conversations with reporters.
Speaking at a press conference after his arrival in Toronto Saturday, Mr. Geithner said talk of disagreements over how best to secure the recovery were exaggerated. G20 countries have "more in common than in difference," Mr. Geithner said, adding that the U.S.'s deficit-reduction plan over the next few years is actually more aggressive than Germany's.
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Welcome to this site, which draws together a wealth of materials developed for the regional conference "Child Care System Reform – Commitment, Partnership, Action", which took place 24-26 November 2009 in Chisinau, Moldova. For three days, more than 120 delegates, including official senior delegations from the governments of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, participants from the NGO-sector, World Bank, EU, SIDA, USAID, DFID etc. and independent experts from CEE/CIS shared their best experiences and knowledge, discussed remaining challenges in the ongoing reforms, and jointly agreed on a few priority steps, with timelines, to take reforms at country level one step forward.
The conference represented a paradigm shift in the approach to child care system reform. Today, CEE/CIS is a vibrant region and the countries that participated in this conference are nothing less. Realizing that a "de-institutionalization agenda" is not enough, every country has started undertaking comprehensive reforms in social protection systems and child care services to better respond to new family vulnerabilities. The conference built on this experience but also outlined some of the emerging reform areas, which will have to be core pillars of the next phase of reforms.
Diversifying social services and transforming, scaling down and closing residential care institutions is the priority of the reform which was discussed in several of the sessions of the conference. The focus has to be placed on strengthening the family, and overcoming the vulnerability of families which has been increasing during the transition years. The economic crisis that started to unfold in 2008 is not making this task any easier. The conference took up the challenge of accelerating the reform, and scaling up support to families, as part of countries' responses to the economic crisis.
A big shift in the approach to the reform was reflected in the sessions that articulated the importance of strengthening the reform within ongoing decentralization efforts; and that discussed new ways of financing services as part of the overall reform strategy to reallocate budgetary resources for a better balance of community based services, as compared to residential care. New approaches to create cost estimates for services, and forecasting needs for services in the new system to inform budget discussions were discussed both in breakout sessions and in plenary. Through these sessions, we are hoping that countries have gained new knowledge and inspiration to address upfront what are some of the most common stumbling blocks among reforming countries in CEE/CIS.
The conference also stressed the importance of strengthening statutory functions of gatekeeping, of accelerating the creation of- and expanding the availability of family based substitute care services for children without parental care, and the overall importance of moving from scattered pilot reform projects, to a nationally planned, monitored and managed reform process. In this context, "the importance of strengthening the social dialogue and in using existing residential care services as a resource, rather than a threat to reform cannot be underestimated" stressed Dr. Vesna Bosnjak, UNICEF's international expert on child care reform in CEE/CIS.
While the Government of Moldova hosted this meeting and UNICEF provided the technical support to its organization, it would not have been possible without the financial support of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), and the success would not have been guaranteed without the technical inputs of many organizations, individuals and experts who took part of in the preparatory process and the conference itself.
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Пленарное заседание 7 - ЗАКРЫТИЕ
Plenary 1 - Opening of the conference
Plenary 2 - Mitigating the effects of the economic crisis on the most vulnerable
Plenary 3 - Progress and lessons learned in reforming CC services
Breakout Session 1 - CC reform: Diversifying services
Breakout Session 2 - CC Reform: Regulating the use of services
Breakout Session 3 - CC Reform: Financing of services
Plenary 4 - Diversifying services to better respond to needs
Plenary 5 - Decentralization in the context of CC reform
Plenary 6 - Costing, forecasting needs and budgeting services
Пленарное заседание 1 - Открытие
Пленарное заседание 2 - Снижение влияния экономического кризиса
Пленарное заседание 3 – Достижения и уроки реформирования
Пленарное заседание 4 - Диверсификация услуг
Пленарное заседание 5 - Децентрализация
Пленарное заседание 6 – Стоимость, прогнозирование и бюджет
Секция 1 – Диверсификация услуг
Секция 2 – Регулирование услуг
Секция 3 – Финансирование услуг
Cross-regional resources
Regional Analysis: progress of CC System Reform
Budgeting CC System Reform
Development of Alternative Services in Bulgaria
Planning for Deinstitutionalization
Georgia Child Welfare Assessment 2009
Moldova Child Welfare Assessment 2009
Report - Costing residential care institutions and community-based services in Armenia
Country profiles
Plenary 2 - Mitigating the effect of economic crisis
Plenary 3 - Progress and lessons learned
Breakout 1 - Diversifying services
Breakout 2 - Regulating the use of services
Breakout 3 - Financing of services
Plenary 4 - Diversifying Services
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By Connor Wolanski, Army Flier Contributing WriterJuly 26, 2012
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (July 26, 2012) -- Those suffering from diabetes will find a wealth of valuable information and opportunities for medical care at the second annual Diabetic Exposition Aug. 3 from 8 a.m. to noon at Lyster Army Health Clinic.
"Basically, Lyster has about 500 to 600 diabetic patients enrolled to us, so we really want to showcase what Lyster has to offer to diabetic patients," said Kathy Holer, case manager at the clinic. "We can take care of them from medication to eye exams to nutrition -- showcasing that is what the exposition's all about."
Diabetes is a chronic disease in which a person has high blood sugar because their body either is not producing or not processing enough insulin, according to the American Journal of Medicine. It can have both genetic and environmental causes, and if left untreated can result in loss of weight, blurred vision, and severe gastric and abdominal complications.
"[To have] 600 diabetics in this small of an area, that's a lot," said Debra Crosby, co-chair of the diabetic exposition. "We have diabetics who don't have the education they need about how to control their diabetes -- we were seeing that from this side, so we're trying to get more involved in teaching them what they need to know to control their diabetes."
Holer added that the diabetic exposition will also offer a variety of classes on living healthily with diabetes, with sessions scheduled on everything from dental health to physical therapy, dieting and eye care.
"The classes will be from 9-11 a.m. -- that gives [patients] an hour before and after to interact with providers who will be there," said Holer. "We're encouraging people to stay the whole time and get the widest range of information that they can."


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The ban was introduced in 1996 to combat the spread of BSE - the human form of mad cow disease.
Live animals, beef and beef products should be able to be exported in about six weeks.
Welsh Countryside Minister Carwyn Jones said Welsh beef would be in demand when exports resume.
'High quality'
Welcoming the decision by EU veterinary experts to lift the export ban, which has been in place since 1996, Mr Jones added: "This is very positive news for the British beef industry which, with devolved and central government, has worked hard to control and eradicate the BSE epidemic.
"Welsh farmers produce high quality beef which will be in demand across Europe once the ban is lifted."
The EU has approved a proposal to allow the UK to export cattle born on or after 1 August 1996, and beef and beef products derived from cattle slaughtered after 15 June 2005.
The resolution will go to the European Commission for ratification, but exports should be able to resume by the end of April or early May.
The ban was introduced after millions of cattle had to be destroyed in the UK in the 1990s due to BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), otherwise known as mad cow disease.
BSE has been linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a disease that causes paralysis and death in humans. The annual number of BSE cases in the UK peaked at 37,000 in 1992, but has fallen to just over 150 last year.
'New dawn'
Gwyn Howells, of industry body Meat Promotion Wales, said: "What this means is a new dawn, new opportunity, new markets hopefully in continental Europe and with a bearing on the price the farmers receive."
Dai Davies, president of NFU Cymru, added: "It will make a tremendous difference - it will put a bottom in the market.
"There is demand for our beef in Europe because our beef is regarded as some of the best in the world.
"A lot of people have gone out of business, but it's never too late and it's a chance for us to get back into profitable farming."


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$20,000 schools' Environmental Curriculum Awards open
20 March, 2014
$20,000 schools' Environmental Curriculum Awards open
An annual $20,000 fund which helps fund and recognise Northland schools' environmental education initiatives is up for grabs again.
Last year a record 23 Northland schools received funding from the Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECA) for 25 schoolground projects involving everything from disappearing native frogs to re-emerging kiwi.
Council Environmental Education Officer Susan Botting says the council had recently sent fliers to 150 Northland schools alerting them to the 2014 awards, with would-be recipients given until 4pm Tuesday 13 May to make their application.
Ms Botting says to secure award funding, schools need to clearly highlight how their project/s contribute to the sustainable use of Northland's environment, a key regional council goal.
"Each school can apply for a maximum $2000 in Environmental Curriculum Awards' funding, which must be spent on school-based environmental education projects within school grounds.''
Ms Botting says while the 13 May deadline is still some time off, schools are being urged to file their applications sooner rather than later.
"This helps us avoid a last minute rush that can slow application processing times."
She says since its inception in 1995, more than 15,000 Northland students have been involved in ECA-supported projects. Even after almost 20 years the council continued to be surprised and pleased by the imagination behind – and scope of – the environmental education projects involved.
Application forms can be downloaded from the council's website: www.nrc.govt.nz/eca (The website also includes details of previous award winners and their projects.)


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Liberals may sack brawling recruits
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More than 100 NSW Liberals who joined the party on the night of a wild factional brawl at Punchbowl are expected to have their memberships revoked in a pre-election crackdown on internal ructions.
The party's state executive has also vetoed the formation of new branches and put off internal elections until after the federal poll because of the melee, when a dozen police were called to the Croatian Club last month.
"These sorts of things are just unacceptable and we don't put up with them," said the Liberal Party's state director, Scott Morrison. "There is also the election coming up, and it's my view and state president Chris McDiven's view that all attention must be focused on that."
It is understood a motion to overturn all new memberships accepted that night and to refund membership fees will be put to a meeting of the state executive next month. Initial investigations suggested the new members were substantially responsible for the trouble.
Because the meeting was not completed, the new Young Liberals branch was not formed, so the new members have only general party membership, without the right to vote, rather than full branch membership.
However, some in the party believe the action may fuel factional tensions; the bulk of the new members were moderates, and their removal could leave the right-wing with an advantage in forming a new branch after the federal election.
The brawl erupted after the hard right-wing president of the NSW Young Liberals, Alex Hawke, gained permission from the state executive to set up a branch in Bankstown.
The move was widely interpreted as an attempt to unseat the moderate upper house Liberal John Ryan as control of the branch would influence the make-up of the party's upper house ticket.
Learning of the plan, moderates, led by a former Liberal minister, Michael Photios, tried to outnumber their factional rivals on the night.
The day after the brawl, the Opposition Leader, John Brogden, said he would write to Ms McDiven asking her to change the constitution to "ensure we have none of these sorts of activities ever happening again".
Mr Morrison said yesterday that the party was looking to change the rules to require new branch members to be processed at head office before a new branch was formed. The idea had the support of the state executive and was being considered by a constitutional committee.
"All details of people [could be] verified and checked before the night," Mr Morrison said. "It removes any opportunity for things to get out of hand."
Mr Hawke said yesterday that he was unaware of the plan to rescind party memberships but did not support it and thought it was unlikely to succeed.
"I'd be in favour of accepting them," he said.
"People came along to join the Liberal Party... It's a very disturbing thing if any side starts saying, 'No, you can't join', just because they don't like you."


text: I think are all very valuable features except for the "Uninstall" entry in the contextual menu. I believe the menu should be as uncluttered as possible. Having the uninstall option on each program's K menu directory or having a link to the program uninstaller below the program categories should be enough. example: ________________ |K-Menu | |________________| |Internet | |Graphics | |Office | |Games | |________________| |Remove programs | |________________| I believe this is the best option... Renato Flórido -----Mensagem original----- De: pbi-dev-bounces at lists.pcbsd.org [mailto:pbi-dev-bounces at lists.pcbsd.org] Em nome de Kris Moore Enviada: quarta-feira, 4 de Abril de 2007 21:11 Para: pbi-dev at lists.pcbsd.org Assunto: [PC-BSD Pbi-dev] New PBI Features Fellas, No doubt many of you have now seen the new PBI Creator 3.1 version, and the new -extract feature thats available in it. This will let you easily fix PBIs, or even upgrade them to a newer version of the PBI format, even if you didn't keep your original PBI directory. As matter a fact, upgrading a PBI to a new version, would be as simple as this: # ./<pbi> -extract # PBC -create <pbcfile> I'm working hard at the moment on ISO creation, and once thats finished, I want to add a bit more to the PBI creator still. Here's a list of things Charles brought to my attention. Do these sound good to you guys? http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=69 http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=88 http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=107 http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=121 http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=295 http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=336 http://bugs.pcbsd.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=424 One other thing I want to add, is improving the scripting support within PBI's. For example, instead of you only having ${1} and ${2} for the program directory, and username respectively, I was thinking about adding other variables as well. Maybe some things like this: USERNAME="kris" # Username of the person doing the install PROGDIR="/Programs/MyApp" # Where the program is going to be installed INSTALLMODE="GUI" # If the installer is running in TEXT or GUI GUIPID="<num>" # The PID of the PBI installer, useful for kdialog Those are the initial variables I'm thinking of at the moment. If I get even more ambitious, I may even be able to allow the PBI creator to define their own "customized" wizard page, where you can have text, and any checkboxes / questions you may need for your program, and then the values of the user responses get passed back into your PBI.SetupScript.sh. I'll have to give it some thought, to come up with a API for allowing that, but before I do, would that seem to be of value to you guys? -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com _______________________________________________ Pbi-dev mailing list Pbi-dev at lists.pcbsd.org http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/pbi-dev


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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Happy Anniversary!
Along the right sidebar, you'll see the addition of Lisa Lickel, Janalyn Voigt, and Michael J. Scott, authors all and all chock full of wonderful advice and tips.
Lisa was one of the editors for Give the Lady a Ride, Linda's novel that debuted in 2011. She has a sharp eye for what works and what doesn't and carries that into her own writing. A multi-pubbed author of both fiction and nonfiction, she'll touch your heart and tease your brain.
Janalyn has a magical voice in her writing. She knows how to elevate prose to its highest level while keeping a sharp story running smoothly. Her trio of fantasy novels just sold to Harbourlight, and it won't be long before we see the first in the series, DawnSinger, advertised in our Amazon widget in the right sidebar.
Michael writes seat-edge international thrillers that leave you panting from the wild ride. His Jonathan Munroe series just sold to Ellechor and is guaranteed to please. With his Dragon's Eye Circle series, he shows his talent in the realm of fantasy also. Michael's books always promise adventure.
With these three talented authors and our regular group of Lynnette, Johne, John, and Linda, AuthorCulture will continue to become a center for discovering writing tips and techniques, interviews, reviews, and publishing news--and whatever else hits our creative fancies.
Will miss K.M. (Katie) Weiland who was, among other things, Queen of the Calendar, but she passed her sceptor to Lynnette who'll keep us all in line. John will be quiet for a while as real life tramples across his writing career. Once things settle for him, we can expect him to return, full of the wit and wisdom we've come to expect from him.
Lynnette, Johne, and Linda hope you join us in welcoming our new members and saying farewell to a loved one, and all of us here at AuthorCulture hope we prove ourselves worthy of the loyalty our wonderful readers have gifted to us over the past three years.
Our fourth year will be an inspiring adventure, and we're grateful to have you along for the ride!
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How come I didn't know about this place!? Apparently, I've been in a rabbit hole or something. Congrats on 3 years, and looking forward to lots of good stuff here!ReplyDeleteReplies
Wow, Joanne, I thought you were already a follower! You've picked a great time to join us. I think it's going to be a great year!Delete
Change is a many splendored thing! Looking forward to another great year.ReplyDelete
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It's been a great three years! I look forward to great three more! Welcome to all the noobs! ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
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I discovered you guys only recently - didn't know you'd been around THREE years! Ah, all the posts I've missed but now no more!ReplyDelete
Congrats for the good work and now with all the great people on board, I'm looking forward to plenty more!Replies
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Congratulations, Author Culture! Looking forward to many more years of great posts! Welcome to the new contributors, and prayers for Katie and her new endeavors.ReplyDeleteReplies
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2012 Toyota Camry Reviews and Owner Comments
2012 Toyota Camry owners review and rate their 2012 Toyota Camry.
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2012 Toyota Camry (3 Reviews)
Purchased in late 2011 has few problems. The car has been acting up lately like won't start loss acceleration and A/C smells like mildew. Took in this week to shop because engine makes a loud noise at 30 mph mechanic did some coils but nothing showed also experience transmission problems the car will get stuck into 3rd gear I am taking in to a specialist about this problem. I bought this car because had a 1991 Corolla that was a darn good car but now Toyota quality has falling down in last couple years this is first and last Toyota will ever buy. I'm switching to Honda.
This is a great car. Currently have 31,000 miles on vehicle. Great gas millage, average on Hwy. 30 plus mpg. The front lower fiberglass piece below the grill on the front is easily damaged if you strike any type of road debris. Have had 2 repairs. Not cheap!!!! That's my experience with a 2012 Toyota Camry. Hope it helps in your decision making.
The car seems to be made with cheap plastics on the inside. even the chrome part scratches very easily...Lord only knows how long the engine will last. will it last as long as the older model camry. i don't know. lets wait and see.


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Shorebirds' Yastrzemski has triple the fun
Orioles prospect races for two three-baggers, plates career-high six
By Sam Dykstra / MiLB.com | June 1, 2014 8:09 PM ET
Fairly or not, Mike Yastrzemski's life on the baseball diamond is always going to be compared with that of his grandfather, Hall of Fame outfielder and 1967 Triple Crown winner Carl Yastrzemski. That usually doesn't end well for Mike, so here's a stat a little more favorable to the 23-year-old outfielder.
Through 52 games this season with Class A Delmarva, Yastrzemski leads the South Atlantic League with eight triples. That ties his grandfather's Minor League high (1960 with Double-A Minneapolis) and sits one shy of his Major League best with the Red Sox (nine, 1964).
"Absolutely, I'll remind him of that," the younger Yastrzemski said. "Any edge I can get on him, I'll certainly take it."
Batting from the top of the Shorebirds lineup, the Orioles prospect took the Sally League lead Sunday when he tripled twice, doubled once and drove in a career-high six runs in Delmarva's 11-2 win over Lakewood at FirstEnergy Park.
Yastrzemski led off the game with a double, then his triples came in back-to-back bases-loaded plate appearances. His first three-run three-bagger gave Delmarva a 4-2 advantage with two outs in the sixth, and his second with one out in the seventh highlighted a seven-run frame that put the game away for the visiting side. The left-handed slugger wasn't really looking to duplicate his first feat in the second plate appearance.
"Honestly I just wanted to put the ball in play, and hopefully, we'd get a run or two in," said Yastrzemski. "But I got a pitch that was a little bit up and was able to get it pretty good. I'll certainly take it."
The six RBIs for the Orioles' 2013 14th-rounder out of Vanderbilt bested his previous high of three matched three times this season. Despite playing 39 of his 52 games this as Delmarva's leadoff man, Yastrzemski leads the squad and ranks eighth in the Sally League with 34 RBIs. He also leads the team and sits second in the circuit with 42 runs scored.
"It's always great to help produce runs instead of scoring them," he said. "A lot of the credit for that goes to the guys ahead of me. Justin [Viele] did a good job of working a walk ahead of me in the sixth, and that helped me bring in another there."
As for his eight triples on the season, which rank second among all Minor League hitters, Sunday's pair were Yastrzemski's first away from Delmarva's Perdue Stadium this season. While the word "triple" often invokes the idea of speed, the Massachusetts native admitted park factors have just as much to do with his production.
"Most of it is just hitting to the right part of the park," he said. "We play at a huge field at home, so when you hit it just right, you just have to put your head down and run as fast as you can. But it felt good to get a few away today. It gives me at least a little confidence that my legs still have some juice in them."
Yastrzemski owns a .301/.371/.524 slash line with six homers, 12 doubles and nine steals in 52 games during his first full season in the O's system. His early numbers are certainly impressive, but he says he still turns to his legendary grandfather, who remains a roving hitting instructor for the Red Sox, for plenty for advice as he begins his climb through the Minors.
"I actually talk to him a lot, mostly when I'm struggling," he said. "He does a great job of helping me and talking me through my approach, how I'm feeling at the plate, even from so far away."
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On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 01:23:33 -0500, "Chris Buechler" <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
>Just because you have a 500 wt power supply doesn't mean it's using
>500 watts. I'm no power supply guru, so it may use more than a
>smaller power supply would, but I don't think there would be much if
>any difference in actual power consumption. I have one box with a 500
>wt power supply that actually draws 275 wt under normal operation, and
>another that draws 175 wt under normal operation (these are boxes with
>numerous drives, power draw if they were firewall boxes would be much
>less even on a 500 wt supply).
For well designed switching power supplies the efficiency curve will be fairly
flat over a range exceeding the upper half of the output power range with only a
small dip if any at maximum rated power.
>Every self-respecting geek should have a Kill-a-watt meter (google it,
>they're available all over and they're cheap) to measure power
>consumption. I have a couple, they're great for UPS size planning and
>gathering power consumption info, for cost or other reasons.
This is especially true considering how inexpensive they have become. I still
rely on my clamp on ammeter which given the poor power factor of most computer
power supplies is really only good for comparative purposes.


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From: christina m hursh <>
Subject: bio: J.M. Swartzel, Montgomery co.
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:44:59 -0500
"The History of Montgomery County, Ohio."; by W. H. Beers & Co., pub
page 291
J. M. SWARTZEL, farmer, P. O. Carlisle Station, was born in German
Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, September 19, 1822. On the 2d of May,
1853, he was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Replogle, born May 10,
This union was blessed with the following children: John, Emma, Charles,
Mary, William, Frank, Edward, Oliver, Andrew, Peter and one who died in
infancy. Mr. Swartzel is a son of John C. and Elizabeth (Crist)
natives of the State of Maryland, whence they emigrated in 1804. The
died in 1850, and the mother in 1870. The paternal grandfather of our
subject was Matthias Swartzel, and that of his wife was Henry Crist.
Replogle is the daughter of Daniel F. and Mary (Lewis) Replogle, now
residents of Defiance County, Ohio. Mr. Swartzel resides on his farm of
hundred and two acres of land located about two miles northwest of
Station, Warren County.
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Toshiba Satellite U845W Ultrabook Review: Going Wide at 21:9by Dustin Sklavos on 10/16/2012 12:01 AM EST
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Subyman - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkIt would have been nice to include a shot of what the desktop looks like on that screen. I've never seen Windows in 21:9. Looks like an interesting design, but I like my vertical space. Reply
prime2515103 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI agree. Or at least something on the screen. It's as though they never turned it on. Reply
inperfectdarkness - Saturday, October 27, 2012 - linkthat aspect ratio is distusting. i feel like i'm trying to fit in yoda's house just looking at the thing while it's OFF. for the love of god, can we please just go back to 16:10 permanently? Reply
brvoigt - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkLooks more like 7:3 to me. Reply
KineticHummus - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkthey use 21:9 because its easier to relate to the industry standard 16:9. Yes 7:3 is technically more correct, but 21:9 is easier to compare. Reply
ExarKun333 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkWhat's next? 4:3 is now 12:9? Good grief... Reply
lowlymarine - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkThis is hardly new and unique. When was the last time you saw 15:9 referred to as 5:3, or to use the most common example, how often do you see 16:10 given as 8:5?
4:3 is the exception rather than the rule, honestly. Reply
iMacmatician - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkOkay, this is the first time I've heard of 15:9…. Reply
bwhalen - Thursday, October 18, 2012 - linkMath class moment approaching here. If you divide 21:9 by 3 you get 7:3.
To echo others comments, a screen grab while power was being applied would be good. Reply
PhoenixEnigma - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkThis seems like the perfect compact machine to have a dedicated number pad, which would have been a major plus in my books. Just look at all the extra space beside the keyboard - why not make use of it? Reply
Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI'd rather have a proper "editing block" (i.e. Home, End, PgUp, PhDn etc.) Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linksame here. Reply
Samus - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkI know, amazingly the only real flaw with this thing is the typical Toshiba keyboard layout. Other than that, $700 for this type of machine is reasonable if you can adjust to the location of the keys (I can't, if it isn't a Thinkpad editing block I can't do it) Reply
noblemo - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI had the same thought initially. According to PCMag the space is used for "sweet sounding" Harman/Kardon speakers. Reply
Poopship - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI've always wanted a super wide screen laptop with a tn panel at a stupid low resolution. I also hate it when my videos fill up the whole screen because black bars are awesome. It would be perfect for movies released in 2.37, i'll just pop in a blura-- oh. Reply
MobiusStrip - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkWouldn't matter. Blu-Ray doesn't support 7:3. You'd still wind up with 16:9 material with black borders, or you'd have to zoom in and lose resolution. Reply
Rick83 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkSince the display is neither 1920 pixels in width, nor 720 pixels in height, you will always be using non-native resolutions.
The advantage with the wider aspect ratio, is that you can crop some of the 1080 vertical pixels (i.e. those in the letter box) and scale the result to 1792 pixels of width (or just crop the borders, if you prefer using the native resolution, and don't mind losing 64 pixels left and right (and about 30 top and bottom)
I hope that we get decently sized wide desktop screens soon.
Some 3840x1600 32" displays would be awesome. I'd be willing to plop down about $2.5-3k for such a display, if it can do localized contrast and brightness control, 10/12 bit color and decent grays, as well as be well calibrated. S-PVA or S-IPS with multiple high-frequency PWM ccfl backlights, or Adobe-RGB color LEDs.
And bloody USB (or displayport, thunderbolt) remote control! It's been done ten years ago, the cost is negligible, but not having to reach across the desk to use some god forsaken OSD to manage the screen is so worth it. Especially if the screen were to support advanced features. Reply
rarson - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkAspect ratio and resolution are two different things. You all are confused. Reply
kmieciu - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkperfect for some retro side-scrolling platform games Reply
Stuka87 - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkDude, I was thinking the same thing! You could see like half the level! Reply
kevith - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkNo thanks. Reply
Belard - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkThis is SOOOO Amiga 2000/4000 and Commodore 64. Reply
Exodite - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkTo be fair though, the Amiga at least ran much better aspect ratios. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkWould have had me on board if:
* No TN panel. IPS, anything IPS, even E-IPS or even VA would be better.
* Double the 768 vertical resolution as it is painful regardless of how wide a panel is.
* Decent Graphics (Refuse to use Intel graphics after the last several decades of poor IGP's with even worse drivers which are still crap today.) or went with AMD's trinity.
* Better network connectivity.
As for peoples qualms about the wider aspect, to me it's fantastic but I also game in eyefinity so I'm used to having extra wide screens.
Unfortunately, companies like Toshiba would never bother reading the comments here at Anandtech to see what people want, instead we get the same let-downs from all manufacturers. :( Reply
AssBall - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI'm sure Toshiba does care about your comments. Considering 0.01% of their customers read Anandtech, and 1% of those feel the same way you do. It's definitely folks like you who who want a $3500 dollar laptop who drive their billion dollar worldwide mobile computing roadmap. Reply
Belard - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkAm I missing something here? I really don't see much of a reason for this odd-ball shaped screen, already 16:9 (standard) screens SUCK! 16:10 is better.
A more usable resolution in 1920x1080, easily possible on todays 13~14" displays.
You can STILL work on documents side by side WHILE having some height to work with and not get that tunnel vision feeling. Reply
tomeklutel - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkWidescreen laptops just doesn't make sense. When we spend most of our time working with spreadsheets, text documents, and web browsers, we want a higher resolution with a longer page. Widescreen laptops are actually lower resolution and cheaper to manufacture, so largest companies were convincing that 16:10, then 16:9 is the best format for your eyes. Lot of business people and heavy users still prefer 4:3 screen. Join our community to show your demand for bringing back 4:3 screens to people - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-43-Lapto... Reply
Paulman - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkBut if you make it WIDE-screen ENOUGH, then all of a sudden you can fit two windows side by side as you work or you can have one big window and still enough screen real estate on the side to have your IM window open, or some video going on the side, or CPU monitor stuff, etc.
It may not be the most common use scenario, but for some people they might really get a lot out of it. It sounds pretty interesting and kind of attractive to me (I just tried using two windows side by side on my 16:9 HDTV I use as my main monitor and it works pretty well. I'm typing this comment on the right while a Starcraft 2 live video stream with chat box is going on on the left).
The real killer use-case for this would be when you need to write or edit a document while doing research on the Internet, or working with some crazy-wide Excel spreadsheet, etc. Those kinds of people would be REALLY interested in this kind of ultrabook. Reply
knedle - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI think that there is one big difference between your scenerio and this netbook.
You have HDTV monitor, and this notebook has low resolution monitor, which in fact makes many other things difficult. For example web browsing. Websites aren't wide, they are long in terms of height and imagine how much scrolling it's gonna to be on 768 pixels high monitor. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkAndrew Cunningham reviewed the U845W for Ars Technica last month. The problem is that most websites (and applications) really want to be at least 1024 wide so it didn't work out that well. H was interested in trying the same thing at 2100x900; which would be wide enough to make side by side generally workable and have a halfway decent vertical resolution as well.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/putting-the... Reply
processinfo - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkCome on, now you can have all your icons pined to taskbar. They also removed a need for horizontal scrollbar. Maybe 45:9 would be even better (or 5:1 if you like).
Kidding aside I agree this is horrible idea. Get us back 19:10 or 4:3 laptops!!
Kind of reminds me a joke about bus that was 30ft wide and only couple of feet long because everybody wanted to sit next to driver. Reply
MobiusStrip - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkIt's time to move out of the '90s. Thunderbolt should be a standard item at this point. Reply
Streetwind - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkThere's one thing I am missing in this review, and that is a look at how the form factor affects portability.
Ultrabooks are meant to be just that: ultraportable. They are meant to weigh little, fit in every pocket (figuratively), and easy to hold and handle, with one hand if necessary.
How does this form factor rest on the lap? Does it feel heavier, or more unwieldly in size, when compared to the regular 16:9 model? Does it fit into bags and backpacks just the same? What's the general feel of it in a day to day usage and carrying scenario?
I suppose it's a nice thing that this model has so much space to dedicate to cooling, but really: that space doesn't come out of nowhere. This thing is very large for an ultrabook, so the handling should be examined. Reply
Calista - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkThe FW11E I'm using as a HTPC is 16" with a 16:9 aspect screen is roughly 1 cm wider than the U845W and it's very clumsy to bring along the few times I for one reason or another have to have it with me. And so I have to assume the U845W will be fairly clumsy as well even if it's both much thinner and lighter.
The development we have had for the last few years saddens me. I guess 16:10 is workable, but from a portability and ergonomic point of view the old 4:3 format makes much more sense with one exception and that's among 12" laptops since they are small enough as is.
Obviously depending on what you do but I find a vertical resolution of 1600 (as in 30" at 2560x1600 or 20" at 1200x1600) to be the sweet spot even if 1050 is workable on a laptop. But 768 is a far cry from 1050 and even more so from 1600. Reply
Avendit - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI had a toshiba libretto L1 (http://tinyurl.com/ck4f9yo) that got me through a lot of uni and a few coding jobs. 1200 x 600 wasn't ideal, but you could swap height for width with little effort. Tool bars on the side or floating, work full screen, autohide etc.
The wide res really worked for coding - you could get long lines of code all on the screen, and the PPI of 1200 on a 10" screen was stunning. System was reasonably powerful for its day too (played quake!), just wish I'd been able to get a later version with onboard NIC.
Superwide can work, you just need to be willing to change your work habits a little. What worries me is the size of this - I don't think I would put up with such an odd screen res without some other compelling feature tho - at the time the L1 was a ~1kg laptop that appeared to sacrafice very little for its size, the screen was a resulting oddity that you learned to live with and like to some extent. At 2kg there are probably other alternatives that I'd want to try in person first.
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jabber - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - link...is because someone typed the wrong horizontal resolution number into a screen order and they ended up with 30000 non standard screens.
As mentioned, though you get a machine with a odd feature as its main USP and the review doesn't even showcase it so we can see what the fuss is about.
You know some of us do care about other factors than pretty pointless benchmark graphs.
What next? Anandtech get a laptop in that has the ability to be used underwater yet it never leaves the testbench? Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI wish you were right. With Follywierd producing ever more content at 2.37:1; this is probably a trial balloon for the next step in degrading computer screen usability for anything except consuming their garbage. Reply
Mugur - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkMaybe they should call it "Portable 2.35:1 Movie Player"... :-) Reply
Mugur - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkOh and it has ONLY USB 3.0, which means that most probably you cannot install Windows from a USB stick... It happened to me a few times when I accidentally plug the stick into a USB 3 port on various notebooks. Reply
xTRICKYxx - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkUhh, That shouldn't affect your installation. USB 3.0 is backwards compatible. I've installed Windows 7 on three notebooks using 3.0 ports and it went fine. Reply
Mugur - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkIt happend with several HP ProBook 6560b or EliteBook of the same generation (Sandy Bridge). When the USB needs a driver that's not in Windows, it boots from it but you cannot install afterwards... Reply
processinfo - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linksigh... Reply
robmuld - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - link16:9 is bad enough, how dumb is it to release something even worse? How about somebody pay 5% more and use a 4:3 panel? Now THAT would be listening to your customers Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkThey used to make 4:3 laptop monitors. My co-worker had a 1400 x 1050 laptop on a 15" display on an older Dell laptop. It was very nice, even back when displays for laptops weren't as advanced as they are now. You had a lot of vertical space, without the pixels being too small. Reply
TegiriNenashi - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI assume half of customers would return this thing. Who needs a device capable only displaying embrasure view of the world, and fortified warfare is hopelessly obsolescent. With amazon generous return policy who wold carry the cost of returns, them or manufacturer? Reply
twtech - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI like the idea of this form factor for notebooks because it should allow for bigger keyboard on a smaller device. Unfortunately, it seems that's not what they did with it here. Reply
dcuccia - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkWould see HUGE benefits for this on the plane. I can't even open a 13" 16:9 laptop in a standard economy seat these days. Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkI fly a lot, so get free economy plus seating on United, where I can open up my 17" 1080p laptop without any problems. I had a 17" 1920 x 1200 laptop before that. I tend to do more work at the gate or in a hotel room, versus when I;m on plane. Reply
jihe - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkOne of the more stupid 'innovation' I've seen in PC history. Reply
VTArbyP - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI haven't read all the above comments, apologies if I'm repeating someone.
I would SO prefer a 7x4 screen!! That is: 1792 x 1024. Better yet, I'd like a pivoting 7x4 screen.
Yes, with 2 eyes our field of vision is wider than it is tall, so wide is good for scenic photos and film / video. I can also appreciate having a very wide screen for work that is naturally wide, spreadsheets being the major example of that.
However, with so many of our documents formatted at 17 x 22 (8.5x11 letter size ) or 17 x 28 (8.5x14 legal size) doesn't anyone else want to see a full page at once?! Substitute A4 and B4 sizes for letter and legal sizes if you use them instead. I refused to buy a personal computer until the screen width was 80 columns of characters - the number of characters that fit easily on letter or legal width paper. I am still waiting for displays that show a full size page in both width and height - not even my 1920 x 1200 lcd does that quite properly. Hmm, anyone for an 8x7 (2048x1792) display with me? That would allow for two legal pages side by side with menus and special "bars" above and below. Sheesh! I gotta stop drooling for a screen that will never be. Maybe a strong projector wouldl allow that... One can hope so anyway. 8-) Reply
Alexo - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkWhat about people that want to WORK on the road, not just watch movies. Bring back the vertical space!
I would be ready to pay a premium for a system similar to the old T61 but with more modern components (Ivy Bridge) and better battery life.
The X230 could have been a great solution for me if it could be had with a higher resolution 4:3 (hell, I'll even agree to 16:10) screen. Reply
ATC9001 - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkI know this isn't a perfect IPS panel with 1920x1080 or 1200 or even going 21:9 with 1080 or 1200 in the vertical, but I think it's a HUGE step up from anything with a 1366x768 panel. If you think about the average joe six pack user/laptop in this market segment (500-1000) VERY few come with anything bigger than 1366x768 when 15.6" and below, this laptop has decent enough hardware (yeah optimus would be nice, but if you're not gaming it works) with the extended horizontal workspace. Wide screen is the way of future, with 2 windows open at once you have a much larger work area and the more this goes into the general public the more people will want the higher resolution.
I give toshiba props for trying this radical concept...it's not perfect but it's a step in the right direction IMO. I'd be interested in buying one (granted I'd rip out the 32gb mSATA and throw in a 128 drive) for graduate school...only thing holding me back is i'll probably just splurge on a zenbook (but thats 400+ more). Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkIf they are going to do anything "radical", I'd like to see a 16:10 display instead. It would be radical, since they don't seem to make 16:10 laptops any more (much less 4:3 laptops). Reply
rickon66 - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkThe all new Toshiba Bunker View Mega Scroll Ultra Book, featuring a screen no bigger than the firing slot in a WW1 bunker, amuse yourself with the endless delight of scrolling constantly to see any real web content as you enjoy the vast empty fields of space on each side. 21:9=fail Reply
deamon0 - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - linkI am looking forward to buy a ultrabook sometime this year end. Hence I am eagerly watching out for ultrabook reviews, needless to say the reviews here are informative, reliable and extensive. I love reading it.
We know that in the coming months we will have a many new varieties of ultrabooks, it seems as though the race for the best ultrabook between popular brands has just begun. While it is good that consumers are spoilt for choices and now with the entry of Windows 8 some of them are also looking to multi-task as tablets. Though I'm not too keen on this type ultrabooks, if they can keep up the important features of a good ultrabook then they're most welcome.
Basically I think what consumers want (or at least what I want) from a ultrabook are :
1. Above average Performance
2. Good Display, resolution and battery life.
3. Good design with sufficient number of ports (like inclusion of Ethernet)
4. Lastly a "worth it" price point.
Hoping to find a ultrabook that satisfies above needs the best. Reply
KPOM - Thursday, October 18, 2012 - link"The lower half of the U845W's interior continues the same tasteful aesthetic of the lid."
Apart from the 5 annoying badges on the left and the (hopefully easy to peel) large sticker on the right. I get that Intel requires this for the Ultrabook subsidy, but some manufacturers put them on the bottom or at least make the colors blend into the color of the palmrest. Reply
Iketh - Friday, October 19, 2012 - linkI got excited at the headline, then I stopped reading at the specs...
Why bother with this design if you're gonna provide less than 1920 pixels wide?
And then why bother if you're not going to make use of the extra keyboard space...
Use this form factor if you're providing 2520 pixels wide and a full sized keyboard... then i'll be all over this Reply


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Even though you're still around until July 1st, 2013, I think it's best to break up with you now. We shared so many fun times since 2005.
I'll never forget you, Google Reader.
This is especially apt, since Kerry and I just started watching "Game of Thrones" this weekend. Over at PandoDaily, MG Siegler writes, "Help! I'm being forced to pirate Game of Thrones against my will!", explaining how he can't legally watch the latest season of HBO's new show.
The problem is that I'm not an HBO subscriber. Believe me, given the quality of their programming, I would love to be. Unfortunately, it's absolutely impossible to subscribe to HBO unless you also subscribe to cable (and/or satellite television). You cannot give HBO your money directly. They will not accept it. They are fully in bed with the cable companies and are not going to get out of that bed anytime soon, because of what they get paid to perform their unnatural acts in that bed. A lot of money.
My only option to watch this upcoming seasons of "Game of Thrones" legally in 2012 is to get HBO, which means getting a cable subscription. I'm not going to do that. Why would I pay upwards of $100 a month for something I have no interest in? I just want HBO.
One could argue that you could always just wait until 2013, but in the day of instantaneous media consumption and ubiquitous on demand content, why must viewers unnecessarily wait?
James Whittaker writes about leaving Google due to their singular focus on Google+.
Larry Page himself assumed command to right this wrong. Social became state-owned, a corporate mandate called Google+. It was an ominous name invoking the feeling that Google alone wasn't enough. Search had to be social. Android had to be social. You Tube, once joyous in their independence, had to be … well, you get the point. Even worse was that innovation had to be social. Ideas that failed to put Google+ at the center of the universe were a distraction.
Suddenly, 20% meant half-assed. Google Labs was shut down. App Engine fees were raised. APIs that had been free for years were deprecated or provided for a fee. As the trappings of entrepreneurship were dismantled, derisive talk of the "old Google" and its feeble attempts at competing with Facebook surfaced to justify a "new Google" that promised "more wood behind fewer arrows."
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Lately, I've been on this crazy kick in looking for some sort of lifestreaming software or application. Basically, I (and most likely you — if you're reading this and one of my internet friends) create a ridiculous amount of data each day. From my tweets, to my foursquare checkins, to my Instagram photos, to uploading things to Flickr, to blogging, to liking videos on YouTube, and sharing articles on Google Reader.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately for one reason: this would make an incredible diary of my life. I'm not the first to think this (just read the Wikipedia article I linked to — people were thinking about this in the 1990's), but it's something I've found myself becoming obsessed with.
When FriendFeed was announced in 2007, I thought, "this is perfect!" It aggregates data from nearly every web service you can imagine. I happily started plugging things in and letting it archive all my data. It ended up being awesome for a number of reasons.
"Oh, man! What was that thing I tweeted about 2 years ago, about some guy bunting a home run?" Well, Twitter search goes back about 7 days, so that was useless. FriendFeed to the rescue! I could easily search for things I tweeted about (and [website-verb]ed about) from the moment I started importing things.
In August of 2009, Facebook acquired FriendFeed and proceeded to let the site rot. Since then, there's been no easy way to export your data, and their search function eventually broke, making the site useless for searching archived data. To this day, FriendFeed is happily pulling in everything I do on the internet, but sadly, I have no way to search for it.
Earlier this week, I found a brilliant PHP script by Claudio Cicali. It scrapes your FriendFeed profile and saves all your data to a JSON file.
After accumulating over 3 years of data, I ran the script (which took an entire evening) and it scraped something like 300K different things I've done on the internet in the past few years. The resulting JSON file is over 300MB (now I need to work on a way to parse the data and feed it back into a MySQL database). Incredible!
Sadly though, I don't think this is a tenable solution. It's great for fetching all my past data, but who knows how long FriendFeed will remain around. I'd like something more permanent, open-source, and that I can potentially run on my own server.
Locker sounds like it may be what I'm looking for, but it still has a ways to go. Momento on the iPhone sounds exactly like what I need, but you need to manually kick it off (and it won't pull in data too far in the past).
Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this?
GIF is a graphics file format that all of us encounter each day while browsing the internet. One problem? The Atlantic takes a look at the word and wonders why no one seems to know how to pronounce it. Is it "gif" or "jif"? I've always said "jif."
So, which is it: GIF like a present or GIF like the lube?
"It's embarrassing because you don't know if it's Mr. Gick or Mr. Jick," lamented William Labov, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. As Dr. Labov explained, in modern English, no hard and fast rule exists for the 'gi' combination. Some words take the hard sound, others take the soft sound — it depends on the word's specific history. Compare gift and gin, for example — same 'gi' combination, different 'gi' sound.
The Atlantic has really been nailing it lately and is quickly becoming one of my favorite publications.


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The latest drama from Andrey Zvyagintsev, the acclaimed director of The Return (Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner and Golden Globe nominee). Kolia (Alexey Serebryakov) lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya (Elena Liadova) and his son Roma (Sergey Pokhodaev) from a previous marriage. The town's corrupt mayor Vadim Shelevyat (Roman Madianov) is determined to take away his business, his house, as well as his land. First the Mayor tries buying off Kolia, but Kolia unflinchingly fights as hard as he can so as not to lose everything he owns including the beauty that has surrounded him from the day he was born. Facing resistance, the mayor starts being more aggressive...
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With corporations like Jack in the Box getting in on the act, it may be that the underground feel of the food truck scene could lose its hipster edge. Meanwhile, competition among trucks is fast and furious:
NPR's Mandalit del Barco interviews Matt Chernus, co-owner of food truck Grill 'em All:
"It's getting to the point where you've got to wonder if this city can really hold this many trucks. Once you start seeing a copycat of every truck, you're going to see a downward spiral."


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A relief fund to help victims of the South Asian tsunami was set up by the Sri Lankan cricket board today with more than 30,000 people confirmed dead on the Indian Ocean island.
The fund, called Cricket-Aid, will provide emergency relief and shelter to displaced families and orphans in the first phase followed by permanent housing for 200 families in the long-term.
More than 788,000 people have been displaced by the December 26 tsunami in Sri Lanka, the second-hardest hit nation.
"The holocaust of the tsunami has killed past cricketers, upcoming cricketers, officials, friends and supporters of Sri Lanka Cricket," board president Mohan de Silva said at the fund's official launch.
"Cricket has thrived because of its large following and the board unanimously agreed that we should come forward and provide support in this hour of need."
Sri Lanka Cricket has already established relief camps in Matara, Dambulla and Badulla, with another earmarked for the southern town of Galle.
The camps, to be staffed by cricketers and board officials, will provide food, water, medical assistance and shelter for up to 1,000 people at a time.
Four Cricket-Aid villages are also planned for Killinochi and Ampara in the east and Matara and Kalutara, in the south and west of the island.
Each village will include 50 homes, each built at an estimated cost of $US5,000 ($A6,400), plus a community centre, places of religious worship and sports facilities.
The fund will also help finance the education of 1,000 orphaned children up to the age of 18.
Over the next few weeks, Sri Lanka Cricket plans to raise $US2 million ($A2.57 million) through charity cricket events, special merchandise sales and corporate sponsorship.
Members of Sri Lanka's senior team will travel overseas as Cricket-Aid ambassadors to raise awareness of the campaign.
Former captain Sanath Jayasuriya's hometown, the southern fishing hamlet of Matara, was one of the worst-hit areas in Sri Lanka and his mother among the injured.
Sri Lanka's cricket tour of New Zealand was curtailed last week so the players could fly home to injured relatives and help the relief effort while the ICC has organised two fund-raising matches to raise money.
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