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If you or someone you know has a child with a mental illness, behavioral problem or unexplained neurological issue, you must watch these videos. They vividly illustrate how gluten and celiac disease can cause neurological illnesses and how removing gluten and casein from the diet can improve or cure the child.
Eamon Murphy started exhibiting mental aberrations and problems eating at three months of age. By the time he was three, his parents were frantically trying to understand what had caused his developmental delay in walking and talking, and now his trances, seizure-like episodes and regression. After a determined effort by his mother and a series of extraordinarily lucky events, he was finally diagnosed with celiac disease…and FULLY RECOVERED.
Watch these videos NOW and then forward this message to everyone you know with a child with a similar mental illness and their healthcare providers…because it is unacceptable that any child should be unnecessarily consigned to a life of suffering and diminished potential when a simple change in diet may cure them.
Eamon is totally normal now. If he had not been diagnosed, it is easy to see how he could have become incapacitated within a few years as his body and mind became sicker and sicker. Eventually, he may have been labeled autistic or schizophrenic. He may just have been called odd and slow.
Was it a miracle that Eamon recovered? No. It was a miracle that Eamon was diagnosed…
Here are some facts:
Autism affects 1 in 150 children. Medical experts recommend behavioral management and specialized speech, physical and occupational therapies (costing an estimated $70,000 per year per child), medications, community support and parental training.
Medical experts recommend AGAINST dietary intervention, yet the gluten-free/casein-free diet that helped Eamon has been demonstrated in thousands of cases to improve or resolve symptoms.
Celiac disease is still considered a rare gastrointestinal disorder that affects children by the majority of health professionals. In reality, celiac disease affects 1 in 100 people of any age, classifying it an epidemic by NIH standards. More people have celiac disease than Type 1 diabetes, breast cancer or autism. Diagnosis of celiac disease is estimated to take up to 11 years from first presentation of symptoms. Only 5% of people with celiac disease are estimated to be diagnosed.
Gastrointestinal problems occur in about 20% of people with celiac disease whereas neurological problems have been seen in as high as 51% at time of diagnosis.
The treatment for celiac disease is removing gluten from the diet and correcting nutrient deficiencies and any complications that have developed.
Unless you have symptoms that doctors expect to see – chronic diarrhea, failure to thrive, abdominal bloating and pain, and anemia – your likelihood of being diagnosed is extremely low.
For a complete list of symptoms related to celiac disease including dozens of neurological issues and problems in childhood, visit Gluten Free Works.
An excellent resource that outlines over 300 signs and symptoms and explains the relationship between celiac disease and the nutrient deficiencies that cause them is the book Recognizing Celiac Disease, by Cleo Libonati, RN, BSN. Recognizing Celiac Disease was endorsed by Dr. Peter Green, the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University who diagnosed Eamon Murphy.


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"Full-bodied on the palate with a powerful tannic structure and a well integrated touch of oak, the Chateau Andrea proves why Cabernet Sauvignon is the perfect fit for California`s vineyards."
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Veteran's Day Program highlights chemical weapons testing during The Cold War
It was a packed house this morning at the Adorni Center with people from every branch of service, all in attendance for the same reason. It was the Annual Veteran's Day Program put on by the Rotary Club of Southwest Eureka.
"This is the biggest crowd I think we've ever had," Master of Ceremonies John Moore said.
This year's keynote speaker was Jack Alderson. He was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy who served during The Cold War.
"Jack is a member of our Rotary Club," Moore said. "We were familiar with Jack's story and it was important at this point for people to hear some of the things that we've done in the past."
Alderson addressed the crowd of roughly 500 about chemical weapons testing during The Cold War. It's a topic that's been classified until just recently.
"It's nice to finally be able to talk about it," Alderson said. "It was a hell of an adventure."
The tests were known as Project 112/SHAD, which exposed around 6,000 service members, without their knowledge, to harmful chemical and biological weapons from 1962 to 1974. It wasn't until 2002 that the Department Of Defense revealed what had been done. Alderson commanded some of the ships used in the project's experiment and now he's dealing with medical issues. Alderson has been diagnosed with malignant Melanoma, several types of skin cancers and prostate cancer.
"What I really hope more than anything else, if our country ever decides to do this kind of testing again that they follow the rules," Alderson said.
His speech brought the crowd to a standing ovation.
"I hope, maybe above all— a refresher in their minds that the sacrifices the men and woman perform who serve in the armed forces," Moore said.


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Assembling advisers to help with a sale? Start early, and…Comments Email Print
Without a team of specialized and trusted professionals, business owners are left vulnerable to situations that could otherwise be avoided. In one such example, a regional small business owner was in the final stages of a sale. Agreements were signed. At the 11th hour, one of the buyers failed to deliver the funds and wasn't in the position he presented at the start of the transaction. This could have been avoided with the hire of a corporate investigator.
When it comes time to sell your business, you will want to consider utilizing professionals such as a certified public accountant, corporate attorney, financial adviser, life insurance consultant, property and casualty insurance adviser and corporate investigative service unit.
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With the upcoming reveal of the 2015 Ford Mustang fast approaching, the Detroit automaker has decided to rev up the excitement with a blast from the past.
This concept Mustang I was revealed to the world in 1962 at Watkins Glenn -- two years before the production Mustang took the world by storm.
It featured a radically different design with few similarities to the one that hit dealer lots. It had large vents in front of the rear wheels, an angular nose, and a rear-mounted Taunus V4 engine.
Wish you could have seen this on the road? Well, the good news is it's located close by at The Henry Ford.
Below are recently revealed, rarely seen pictures from Ford's archives. There's also a video that shows the car in action.
So what do you think? Ford even asked when the pictures were first released if any of the style elements should be in the new Mustang iteration. Tell us what you think in the comments!
And if you have a classic ride why not share it with us? Take a picture and use the hashtag #CruiseTheD on Instagram or Twitter. Your picture will end up on our Cruise The D app!
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BASED ON AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE BATH ROYAL LITERARY and SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION, QUEEN SQUARE, Bath, NOVEMBER 2nd-18th 2011 Exhibition website: http://david-lewis-baker-images.smugmug.com/
de David Lewis-Baker
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This collection of urban photographic works is linked to an exhibition of my work held at the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution in November 2011. It is part of the wider 'Bath Art Affair' an annual exhibition by over 30 private and public galleries in Bath who belong to the joint Bath Galleries Group. (Website http://www.bathgalleriesgroup.com/ ) the exhibition of 40 works is included here along with many more. The exhibition website is here: http://david-lewis-baker-images.smugmug.com/
I have been photographing the street life and buildings of world cities for the past 30 years, often on my travels around the globe to academic conferences and as a fine artist I bring to bear an instinctive eye for detail and sense of theatricality, grandeur and place. Many pieces are in the great traditions of urban and street photography, sometimes seeking to deal with iconic sights in a novel manner, or recording tiny moments in time as people hurry by or relax. In the process I focus on those elements of cities and their street life that are often ignored. Amongst other things the works displayed reflect my belief that Bath, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, small though it is, bears comparison with the other world cities examined here, many with more obvious roots in modernism and dynamic change. This is achieved by placing images of iconic buildings and scenes of the life of the city of Bath amongst comparable images from the other 'world cities' including London, New York, Chicago, Delhi, Mumbai, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Bologna, Cincinnati, and Manchester
The long tradition of urban street photography, to which my work pays due homage, includes urban landscapes as well as street life. Seminal figures in this tradition include Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Robert Doisneau, William Klein, Bruce Gilden, Garry Winogrand, Andre Kertesz, Lee Friedlander, Bill Brandt, and Diane Arbus. All have had an influence upon me, whether I am aware of it or not. But I also bring my own originality to each piece including a certain sense of irony and surrealism. Cartier-Bresson famously, and correctly, remarked that the urban photographer requires: 'A velvet hand, and a hawk's eye.' While another urban photographer, Elliott Eriwt, pointed out that photography: 'has little to do with the things that you see and everything to do with the way you see them.' Finally, since reality is subjective and illusive, like all the fine arts, fine art photography is, in my view, a way of telling truths through fictions.
David Lewis-Baker, Lower Camden, Bath, September 2011
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- Categoría Arte y fotografía
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
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- Fecha de publicación sep. 12, 2011
- Etiquetas City, Cities, International, BRLSI, Monotone, Cityscapes, Urban, Photography, Art, Exhibition, Bath
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A retired professor from Warwick University, David Lewis-Baker is a writer, photographer and new media artist living and working in Bath. His artworks are in private collections around the globe and he is currently Co-convener of exhibitions at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and undertakes official photography for Bath Abbey.
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Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Lifeby Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/2/2013 1:47 AM EST
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sri_tech - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkWow. That's nice improvement with FW update.
8.3 hours battery life for Web browsing is very good for a core i5 tablet with FULL HD display in my opinion.
Also 7.7 hours of Video playback is not bad either. Reply
ddriver - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkI think this review is lamish to say the least without at least throwing a few performance figures to determine any potential "side effects" which may be the actual cause of the extra battery life. I won't be surprised to see downclocking at play, and a bit of manipulation and customer deception - MS launches the surface 2 at higher clocks to be benchmarked and claim performance figures and later issues a frequency lowering firmware to present better battery life figures without updating the performance figures and keeping the higher ones. Reply
aruisdante - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkThese benchmarks are a fixed workload. Downclocking the CPU would actually significantly WORSEN battery life because the CPU would never return to an idle state.
In addition, with the way modern CPU's do dynamic range of performance via Turbo, there is no need for a 'review special' frequency. The CPU is always capable of selecting the most efficient clockspeed for the workload at hand. Haswell can literally adjust it's frequency from 600MHz to it's fully rated speed in 100MHz increments, and does so during real world workloads. The reason you still see games like benchmark boosting in Cell phones is because they typically only have two or three power states (off, low, high), not 20-30. Reply
teiglin - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkNeither of your points is accurate. First, the highest turbo state isn't necessarily the most power-efficient--this is easily demonstrated by the fact that ULV i7s usually get worse battery life in fixed-workload tests than i5s despite the better binning (see Anand's MBA tests from earlier this year, for example). While it's not true that lower clocks increase efficiency, the higher voltage needed at higher frequencies does not always justify itself from a total power perspective. There's probably a sweet spot that depends both on workload and voltage bin of the particular CPU.
You also don't seen to understand how smartphone DVFS works. Some ARM SoCs have less-granular frequency stepping than 100MHz, but not all--I've seen as few as four-ish from 300MHz-1.2GHz in OMAP4, while the APQ8064T in my One has about 13 steps from 386MHz-1.7GHz. The reason benchmark boosting is effective is that the SoC frequency is controlled by software, so the stepping is incredibly slow. The algorithms that control the SoC frequency usually poll the workload every 10-100ms, meaning tens or even hundreds of millions of cycles can pass at a lower frequency before the software will ramp up frequency to respond to an increase (or decrease) in workload. By contrast, Intel CPUs handle this stepping in hardware, meaning that it's much faster--though I don't know the numbers offhand. Reply
aruisdante - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkI never said max speed was most power efficient. I said there is no point in doing a 'benchmark special' speed because you can just make that the max turbo bin and use it when appropriate. So there isn't any 'gaming' of the system going on. This is the whole reason Anand runs varying workloads for the more in depth battery life reviews; one for a 'light' workload, one for a 'heavy' workload, and one for a 'maximum' workload.
The whole point of pushing dynamic range for power states in CPU's is so that you don't have to make the tradeoff between high performance and great battery life Reply
stacey94 - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkMy Nexus 4 has about 12 steps between 384 MHz and 1512 MHz and dynamically hotplugs cores depending on load as well.
I've heard that Apple's chips don't even have "steps." Instead they dynamically calculate the best frequency and set it.
I'm sure mobile governors are better than notebook ones as well, since power consumption is a much bigger concern. Reply
Egg - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkBrian and Anand have repeatedly complained about the relative performance of smartphone software DVFS compared to Intel and AMD's implementations. Reply
B3an - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkMS really should have had this firmware on release, even if it meant delaying SP2 for a short while. Now all the reviews for SP2 are out with less battery life and probably lower scores/recommendations because of it. Stupid. Reply
Cogman - Monday, November 04, 2013 - linkWell, it was a marvel firmware problem. My guess is that MS put the screws on them to get it fixed ASAP, but, unfortunately there is no way in the software/hardware world to know how long it will take for some issue to be fixed. They probably expected that it would take several months to be fix, but happily, it only took 1. Reply
blackjok - Monday, November 04, 2013 - linkARM SoCs seem always perform better on video playback tests - maybe their video decoder/player block are good at offloading the CPU block, so CPU cores can tgo deeper sleep. When started searching other Intel machines to verify my theory, I surprisingly found no other reviews of intel-based stuff showing video playback scores -- not with MBA, not with VAIO, not with other recent articles unless I missed. Surface Pro 1 & 2 are the only ones Anand borthered to run those tests.
He must love the Surfaces, or hate them, very much :-) Reply
mkozakewich - Tuesday, November 05, 2013 - linkThe biggest gripe I have with basically every Surface Pro review is that they don't bother comparing it with other ultrabooks. That's its category, frankly.
Weird halfway-between devices like this should be compared to both categories for a real look at it, because that's what they're intended for, so at least we've got these mobile comparisons. It's really important to know if a device like this is worse at everything, or competitive in one category while falling short in another.
Another fact worth pointing out is that a Surface Pro 2 with Battery Cover should get about 14.28 hours in their web browsing test. Reply
eallan - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkThat's a great improvement for being out a couple weeks. Reply
nerd1 - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkNow the surface 2 pro became a quite practical device. I've found sony and dell's offering are not quite good (just as expensive, has worse build and worse pen) so maybe I'll end up getting surface 2 pro. Reply
erikiksaz - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkI wonder when they pushed the update. I feel like I've been getting about eight hours on my SP2 since I've gotten it. Reply
althaz - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkAs a rule, generally real-life battery is better than tested battery - at least that's been my experience. It's more important to be consistent and fairly accurate than constantly improve to get a more accurate test and have no consistency. Reply
fronkhead - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkSame here, I remember downloading the firmware update on the day after launch (Wednesday) Reply
teiglin - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkI'd love to see the desktop battery life test results on Surface Pro. I think for most people, the desktop usage model is more realistic than the tablet one. Not to mention it's awkward reading the battery efficiency chart without surface in a surface article. :P Reply
AngryNil - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkThis is interesting. That battery life seems good to me, so just looking forward to a slimmed down chassis in SP3. Reply
GTRagnarok - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkWhatever it is Sony's doing, everyone else needs to copy them. Reply
Klimax - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkI suspect they got all drivers in order. (Like support for Timer coalescing and such.) Also chose right chips for it. Reply
Silma - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkDon't the Sony benchmarks show that battery life is to a large extent more dependent on the hardware than the O.S? What makes the Sony so much better? Much better batteries & a much power efficient screen? Reply
Klimax - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkDrivers and components. Most of OEMs don't put such emphasis on it and thus we see such disparity. Reply
Silma - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkAnyways kudos to the Surface team this is a big win for SP2 users.
Even if battery benchmarks only go so far.
I'm typing this post on a brand-new Surface 2 & did super intensive things such as import more than 2gb of outlook files & index them, replicate GBs of Skydiver files, setup apps & download & install all windows updates. Play a few HD movies and listen to Xbox music (btw sound is so shockingly loud for such a small device that I'm heavily lowering it, granted in a silent environment). The battery gauge shows 50%, fingers crossed! Reply
sorten - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkThose are very impressive gains in battery life. I can't wait for the SP3 running on Broadwell. For now I have bought the Dell Venue Pro 8. Reply
davepermen - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkif only they had that fix prior to all the reviewers.. but good news anyways. Reply
dhenke - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkWhere can I download this firmware update? I did a windows update check and it didn't find anything. And I did a Google search and nothing came up. Reply
frostyfiredude - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkYou may already have it, I believe it came out the 23rd if memory serves. Idle battery life estimates went from 10 to 13 hours overnight I found, which makes sense looking at the changes seen above. Reply
ananduser - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkIt would have been nice if you had tested the Pro as an ultrabook as well(performance wise and battery wise - light/medium/heavy), since practically being one, and not just as a tablet.
I am curious...do an active digitizer and a capacitive multitouch capability add to the power draw of the device even when NOT in use ? I always thought that a resistive touchscreen is passive while a capacitive one has an added idle power draw. What say you Anand ? Reply
Death666Angel - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkThere is nothing resistive about the touch screens used in the Surface Pro 2 or any current tablet/smartphone in the last ~3 years. It has a capacitive touch screen and an active digitizer screen for the pen. Both have to poll all the time unless you shut them off. Reply
ananduser - Sunday, November 03, 2013 - linkI mentioned the resistive tech as a comparison point. I know the Surface is capacitive. So, that polling indeed has a power draw. But is it significant ? Reply
mtalinm - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkI did my own battery test using a more realistic scenario for a Surface Pro user. Not just playing video or browsing the web -- you can do that with a regular tablet -- but doing Microsoft Office continuously with a little web browsing and music mixed in.
I did the test a few days after I bought the SP2 and saw seven hours, almost exactly.
I don't know when this update arrived, but I will say that the battery life seems even better than when I first got it! I used to carry a charger around with my SP1, but I don't even bother anymore.
SP2 has all-day battery life as far as I'm concerned. Reply
MarcSP - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkIs not really weird that Surface Pro 2 is getting better battery in web browsing than Surface 2? Isn't that anomaly worth some investigation or a short article to explain how can it be? Or is it normal? Reply
bountygiver - Monday, November 04, 2013 - linkMaybe ARM CPUs are not that power efficient when it comes to running a desktop-standard web browser. Reply
Krysto - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkAre you sure Microsoft isn't cheating you in benchmarks somehow, Anand? Reply
PNN - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkHow do you cheat on battery life? Reply
skiboysteve - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkDo you test video using a desktop player or the video metro app? The video metro app uses a different pipeline and could have significantly different characteristics.
it also might be worth drag-to-top closing everything but the video app (including the desktop) Reply
hrrmph - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkIt's great to see that MS is improving the product, but they dramatically limited its appeal by leaving telephony radios off of it (especially 4G data).
I finally have some statistics on the #1 most wanted feature that users want in a mini-tablet:
- SD card reader - 26% of users with 9042 votes
- Phone functionality - 17% of users with 5912 votes
The poll was posted by Asus.
I doubt that the numbers would be much different for a full sized tablet.
Those two features are very much under-represented in the market offerings that exist today for phones, tablets, convertibles, and notebooks. Reply
Imaginer - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkLimiting appeal by leaving built in cellular modems that are solely sourced to a provider?
Let me plug in my own via USB (yes, they do exist - except not much of a hoopla because most tablet form factors forego an actual USB port and requisite driver options) and have that as an option instead. That way, I can change modems depending on the situation and have a lower cost device that potentially does not need to be bound by a contract upon device purchase. Reply
hrrmph - Sunday, November 03, 2013 - link"... built in cellular modems that are solely sourced to a provider?"
No. Telephony radios that are compatible with Micro-SIM card slots are the standard. Unlocked is largely the global standard (except for the USA - why we cannot break that addiction I just don't know).
The best way to avoid trouble (read: onerous restrictions) is avoid buying any device from your telecom.
USB plug-in modem sticks: I've tried them on laptops. Workable, but awkward by comparison to a Micro-SIM slot. There is the physical breakage risk issue and the dodgy drivers that always seem to trash some other basic functionality (like proper shutdown of the machine it's plugged into).
Much better to have an OEM validated solution.
Again, I'm glad to see MS in the game and improving the product. More battery life is always important.
But, Apple isn't the real competition. Sammy is. The sooner that MS realizes that, then the sooner they will know what to do to fully compete (as in fully equip the devices, especially the flagships).
Tablets weren't just a revolution in down-sizing our computing devices. They were a revolution in how far we will carry them and how often we will open them up and use them in places we would rarely open up and use a laptop.
Mobile devices were meant to be able to be slung around, tossed on dashboards, flipped open and used at the smallest of whims... and keep ticking. That means full functionality. That means autonomy.
Cutting your flagship product off from having its own data connection doesn't seem wise at all. Battery life - no matter how good - isn't going to help solve that problem. But, adding telephony radios will. Reply
Imaginer - Sunday, November 03, 2013 - link"Mobile devices were meant to be able to be slung around, tossed on dashboards, flipped open and used at the smallest of whims... and keep ticking. That means full functionality. That means autonomy."
By that definition, my Surface Pro 2 already can do this. There isn't a need for constant internet, and if I did had cellular service with a SIM card accepting modem, data plans will be exuberantly expensive.
And it is another device to add into the cost of an offered model - which Microsoft needs to add another configuration model that may change the costs overall for manufacturing and design. Another SKU to market, make, and support. They already have four with the Pro 2. Fitting in and redesigning the board within the turnaround time of the first Surface Pro 1 to now would delay the Pro 2 even further (from electronics validation to FCC regulatory validation)
I take this current compromise. When in a city or town, I can find a Wifi spot. If I am out in a remote wilderness area, I rarely am able to get cellular coverage anyways, making a built in cellular modem worthless. Many people tether their phone as a Wifi hotspot, making another modem in a tablet or laptop even more pointless. Reply
toraji - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkLumia 2520 😏 Reply
hrrmph - Sunday, November 03, 2013 - link"Lumia 2520"
Wow. I wasn't aware that Nokia was ready to throw so many rules out the window all at once... in a very, very good way. Nokia is still slightly short of Samsung, but the 2520 could be getting close enough to give the Note series a bit of a haircut.
Honors: S800 / 1080P Display / 4G-Data / Unlocked / Micro-SIM Slot / GPS / BT 4.0 / Micro-SD?HC Slot (max 32GB expandable storage card) / USB 3.0
Missing in Action: 8" Version / 1600P Display / 1080P-60fps Video Recording / HD-Audio / Native Voice Telephony / SMS Messaging / Dual-SIMs / WiFi-AC / Micro-SDXC Slot (for 64GB expandable storage card) / Tool-Less Removable Back Cover / User Removable Battery / FLAC Lossless Audio File Support / Variety of Small Apps
Purely Irritating: Nokia is still referring to storage as 'memory.' Can we let that notion go already? It's local storage.
Still very, very good. I could see how this would fit the needs of many people, but it seems like it will be fairly dependent on the cloud due to the maximum of 64GB storage being marginal for a flagship device (it has 32GB internal NAND storage and 32GB Micro-SD?HC expandable internal storage slot).
The Apple Air 128GB would provide more internal storage, albeit at $1000.
However, I think the more likely competition is the Samsung Note 10.1 (2014), which will also allow 128GB (64GB + 64GB). It's not quite perfection, but it plugs more holes in the lineup of features and capabilities than the 2520 or Air.
As far as software goes, for many people this fight could come down to Android versus Office (yes, I'm aware that's an OS fighting an office suite, but that's where the chips fall).
For me, if Samsung and Nokia deliver at around the same time, I'll be buying the Samsung. I wouldn't be able to pass up the tried and true higher capacity Micro-SDXC expandable storage, 1600P display, 60-fps video recording, FLAC Lossless Audio File Support, WiFi-AC, and more apps.
But, I wouldn't be heartbroken with the Nokia either. Reply
hrrmph - Sunday, November 03, 2013 - linkMeant the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE (2014). Reply
bountygiver - Monday, November 04, 2013 - linkI think you can play flac in windows RT with MediaMonkey, that app supports ARM CPU and it is playing flac without problems for me. Reply
hrrmph - Thursday, November 07, 2013 - linkI think you are right. I imagine that there are other media players that can do it too.
But, WMP on PCs can't do it unless you download third party codecs. In my opinion, those codecs aren't as well validated and as stable as native codecs.
Blackberry devices on OS10, and Samsung devices on Android, have FLAC codecs baked in so that the default media players automatically recognize and play FLACs.
WindowsPhone devices are particularly crippled in this regard since there are no third party FLAC codecs and only one (crummy) third party media player that supports FLAC.
I'm not expecting that RT will be much better.
I think Windows has some more work to do on the ecosystem. They act a little too much like Apple on these types of issues and try to force you into using only their proprietary (Microsoft) file formats.
It would be better if Microsoft gave you a choice between using their file formats or open file formats.
I've read that the same problem exists for mkv (high quality) video file formats.
So this isn't an isolated case, but rather is a symptom of Microsoft's stubbornness in trying to push its proprietary formats. Reply
dotMorten - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkSo are you saying that if you disable touch and pen, you can increase battery even more? If could be an interesting test to make Reply
Imaginer - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkThen, might as well reevaluate your reasons for using the Surface Pro and Pro 2, because the battery-less pressure pen and multi-touch is what makes the device as versatile and standout alongside both desktop and touch environments working together - consolidating devices and reducing that number.
The battery life is a great improvement in the Pro 2 for what it does already that the Pro 1 is able. Nice to know that it is a bit better. My Pro 2 did an extensive update Wednesday. Reply
marc1000 - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkI'm again impressed at the battery life of Shield. I know it's not a tablet, the screen is small and the format is different from all else. But Nvidia achieved some pretty high perf/battery numbers! Reply
chuck232 - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkNot sure if the Web Browsing tablet scenario is at all comparable to the Light Normalized PC one, but:
8.33 hours = 499.8 minutes
Surface Pro 2 battery capacity = 42Wh
Normalized: 499.8/42 = 11.9min/Wh
Seems pretty close to the MBA 13. Reply
OneOfTheseDays - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - link8 hours is pretty much all day battery life as far as most people are concerned.
Once you cross that 8-10 hr threshold, it sort of reaches a point of diminishing returns for people as most will charge their devices overnight. Also, the fact that the SP2 can recharge fully in 2 hours flat makes this all even better.
The SP2 is truly one of the most versatile devices ever built. Reply
meacupla - Saturday, November 02, 2013 - linkSo... Intel takes 3 steps forward and then all non-intel parts take 2 steps backwards? Reply
kyuu - Monday, November 04, 2013 - linkThe very first sentence of the article reads thusly:
"Shortly after general availability of the Surface Pro 2, Microsoft pushed out a firmware update that allowed the Marvell WiFi solution to drive down to even lower power states."
So this has nothing to do with optimizing for Intel silicon. Reply
firstname.lastname@example.com - Monday, November 04, 2013 - linki wonder if the same update apply to surface Pro 1 ...
perhaps just a driver download away? Reply
bountygiver - Monday, November 04, 2013 - linkIf SP1 need this fix, the best we'll be able to squeeze less than 30 minutes from it. But it is better than nothing right? Reply
email@example.com - Saturday, November 09, 2013 - linkRight. Anything is better than nothing... fingers Crossed. Reply
SpartanJet - Monday, November 04, 2013 - linkThat is a pretty impressive gain from a firmware patch. I'm really torn I want a Windows tablet, but I'm just not sure which to get. I love both the Surface 2 and pro, I also like those bay trails running full Windows 8.1 as well. My only consern with the Pro is how well it will do in full tablet mode most of the time I am thinking the Surface 2 might be better. I wish the Surface 2 had nVidia Streaming tech to play some Civ5 from my Home PC. Reply
yuchai - Tuesday, November 05, 2013 - linkAm interested in the SP2 256GB version but seems that it is OOS everywhere? There wasn't even an expected date on the MS store website. Anyone have news on availability? Reply
Dungeon Shredder - Tuesday, November 05, 2013 - linkcan get one on ebay for 1600-1700 256 version
yeah i'm not gonna do that guess i'll have to wait till after christmas to maybe get one Reply
Dungeon Shredder - Tuesday, November 05, 2013 - linklooks like the second pre-order is now sold out Reply
MrPetya19 - Sunday, November 17, 2013 - linkThe video playback test was made with full brightness? Reply
BobBrewster - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkMicrosoft Just Doesn't Get It!
It is a mistake to by Microsoft Product these days. Let me share my story.
Recently I made the decision to update my technology, and after lots of research came to the conclusion that the best thing for my needs was to buy a Surface Pro 2. The thought was I could buy a system that would act like a tablet (a large and heavy one, but still a tablet), laptop, and desktop computer depending on my varied needs. I thought I could use the docking station (with my wireless keyboard and large monitor) when at home to use full applications (like Office, Adobe ect.), attach type cover 2 when I needed laptop functions, and use the tablet to surf on the couch or read articles leisurely on the web. I could even use the tablet to watch movies on a plane or when working out. Sounded like a real good solution to me. Frankly I didn't mind the fact it cost significantly more than other products as long as it could take care of all of my needs.
As an aside, I have a long history of using Microsoft products all the way back to DOS. I have invested many hours becoming an expert at PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and have lived through the many iterations of Windows. In fact I have been a long term shareholder of Microsoft and thought they may have found their way back. The Surface Pro 2 would help them use the legacy advantages they have established over a long period of time. In short I was rooting for Microsoft.
Now to my experience. I ordered a Surface Pro 2, Type Cover 2, Office 365, Docking Station, and VGA Adopter (for use when giving presentations on the road). Spent a good deal of time researching just what I needed. 8 gigs of Ram, 256 gigs on the hard drive, and a bonus of 200 gigs of storage on Microsoft's cloud. Hell, if I got a Windows phone everything would sync without me having to do much of anything. I could access all my files wherever I was and on whatever device I was using. Finally someone gets it! It cost me almost $2000 for this outfit, but it would be worth it if it worked as advertised. I would be able to use my legacy knowledge, all my files, and it would tie me in to Microsoft for a long time to come.
Boy was I wrong! When everything was delivered I was excited about spending the time to get everything set up just right. I started moving my files to "SkyDrive", started to configure Windows 8.1 just like I wanted and it seemed like I finally found what I was looking for. I was ok with the fact that the Windows App store was a little light on usable applications and was sure they would catch up with Apple, Google, and Amazon in the near future. First issue was that my Surface would not fit flush in to the Docking Station. The Video prong on the right side of the Docking Station would not fit into the Surface Pro 2. Thus the 5 power tines just above it would not line up and it would not be able charge. I immediately called Microsoft support and explained the issue to the technician (Kaleb with a "K"). After I spent all kinds of time defending the fact I was not an idiot and was fully capable of placing the Surface correctly in to the Docking Station, he said he wasn't sure if it was a defective Surface, or a defective Docking Station. He told me he would set up an appointment at the closest Microsoft store and assured me he would get me up and running ASAP. He kept me on the telephone while he made an appointment for me the next day at the store at 11 am. I did tell him I had been to the store previously when researching and had not found them particularly helpful. The store was Washington Square Mall in Beaverton Oregon, right in the backyard of Microsoft. In my previous visit they told me all their products were "sold out" and that in fact the Docking Station was not even released yet. Funny thing was that when I researched the Docking Stations, they were all over the internet and I ended up purchasing one at "Best Buy" online.
Kaleb assured me I would be taken care of and not to worry because he had spoken to them on the phone and had everything set up. Gave me the case number to reference ( the whole nine yards). I showed up at the store 10 minutes early and saw the 4 reps working there standing around with only one customer there. I stood there for a few minutes before one of them finally came over to me and asked me if I needed help. I explained why I was here and told him I had an appointment at 11 as referenced by Kaleb's call to them. The rep immediately told me there were no technicians there and I should come back at another time. I told him I had an appointment and referenced Kaleb's call and case number. He told me I must be mistaken and that he (Kaleb) probably made the appointment at the Pioneer Square store in downtown Portland. I responded that I was sure he made it at the Washington Square store. I told him that my Surface Pro 2 did not fit in to the Docking Station. He told me that the Docking Station was not released yet and he could not help me. Funny thing is that I had the Docking Station with me. In addition the VGA Adopter only works with the Surface RT and does not work with the Surface Pro 2. He told me there was nothing he could do to help me.
Walking back through the mall I passed by the Apple Store and saw it filled with engaged customers and service reps. They all seem to be pretty happy.
I have sent my Surface Pro 2, Docking Station, Type 2 cover, Office 365 , and the VGA Adopter all back. I can't invest any more time in a platform and company that doesn't care about its customers. Great companies start with their "customers" and work backwards. It doesn't matter what your strategy is, if you don't take care of and listen to your customers, you are bound to fail. I am sure my experience is not unique.
I will be selling my shares and am sure Microsoft is going to become irrelevant in the future! Reply
danul - Friday, January 17, 2014 - linkI can only sympathise with BobBrewster (comment 8th January). I am an Australian so for us it is much harder to access any service from Microsoft. I bought a Surface Pro 2 in December 2013 . Overall I am quite happy with it and use it both as a tablet and laptop , for work and pleasure. However I cannot believe that after they stuffed up with the December firmware (which I dully installed and then my surface started to start by itself at night and drain the battery not to mention the fan noise which initially made me think that I have a water pipe broken in the house) Microsoft does not have the decency to explain what happened, suggest some interim solutions and tell us when are they going to fix the problem!!! Their robotic answer that they work on the issue is just a sign of our ultra politically correct times if a big company like this can treat their customers like total idiots and morons. Personally I changed the settings so there is no sleep mode now and when I push the button the surface goes to shutdown. It restart reasonably quickly so no big loss. However I also notice that the Type cover stops responding by itself from time to time , as well as the home touch button at the bottom of the screen. I also had two iPads before and I must admit that despite hating Apple for all their restrictions (no USB, no memory slot etc), it was always a breeze to use their devices. Reply


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ASUS' $149 MemoPad HD 7: Quad-Core Cortex A7, 1280x800 IPS Displayby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013 3:22 AM EST
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leecbaker - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkIs this Android? Estimated battery life? Article is kind of uncharacteristically weak on details... Reply
teiglin - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkYou can see it's Android by looking at the screenshots. Though I do agree that some of these last posts would probably have looked better in the context of a liveblog or similar overarching coverage of ASUS's Computex press event. Although it arguably feels like pageview-padding, I don't mind seeing things split out like this for clarity's sake. Reply
Pirks - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkstupid asus fucks can't even provide for microsd card slot in this thing, fuck asus, surface ftw! Reply
Rockmandash12 - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkIt has a micro sd card. Reply
Chaser - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkFTW if they give them away. Reply
hamsteyr - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkInteresting. Any idea on the processor manufacturer?
The only one I know that makes A7 Quads is MediaTek or AllWinner, but it almost seems unlikely for Asus to pick up these processors. Reply
Alien959 - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkWhy, I know Acer uses them, but anyway quad core mediaTek is nothing special performance wise being quad core http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Amoi-N828-Smar... but for the price is more the enough. Reply
teiglin - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkI do sometimes wonder who decides to make this sort of thing quad-core. Is it a problem where they are just filling space with relatively small A7 cores because of i/o, or just marketing (four cores are obviously better than two, amirite guys!!!)? I mean, nobody buying a $150 tablet does so because they expect high-end performance. Since the vast majority of tasks--especially mobile tasks--don't benefit from the extra cores, I find it hard to believe that it would be worth any increase in die area to add more cpu cores, even if "quadcore" makes it sound faster and maybe increases your linpack score. Reply
aryonoco - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkWhat are you basing this on? Have you done some actual modelling?
Cause I have real world tests and simulations test results right in front of me, and I can tell you that at least when it comes to Android, due to multi-threaded nature of the OS, due to the fact that each app runs as a different user... and most importantly due to the way Davlvik JIT works (hint: it's very SMP optimized) quad-core does actually make a difference.
And this is Cortex A7 we are talking about. Single-threaded performance is really slow. If you have a many cheap Chinese smartphone and tablets which use these MTK chips, if you look at their last gen products which used dual-core A7 and then compare them with recent products (say Jiayu G3 with MTK 6577 processor vs. Jiayu G4 with MTK 6589 processors) you can see how much of difference those extra 2 cores make. Reply
Azurael - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - linkNot sure I agree... There may be some cases outside of the utterly artificial 'usual' Android benchmarks, but 99% of the time, disabling 2 cores on my (now sadly deceased) One X [Tegra 3], Nexus 7 [Tegra 3] and Nexus 4 [S4 Pro] makes no difference to actually using the devices other than the extended battery life. Even in games.
In fact, my partner's Nexus 10 (also running AOKP PUB) is the fastest ARM-based Android device I've used, despite the somewhat overstretched GPU and the fact that it gets thrashed in benchmarks by the Nexus 4... I'd conclude that a more complex or higher clocked dual core is a much better bet for Android right now. Reply
aryonoco - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkQuadcore A7 screams MTK 6589 to me.
Why do you think Asus can't pick one of these processors? Sony just announced their low-end C3 smartphone running the same MTK chipset.
At these price points, every dollar matters. Besides these are nearly reference ARM implementations, nothing wrong with them... Reply
ET - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkIt's good to see a high profile company producing a tablet at this price point with this kind of spec. Now I'm somewhat sorry I bought an Onda V712. Reply
FlyBri - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkHow is it that this low end $149 model has Bluetooth 4.0 but their new top of the line Transformer Pad Infinity they also just announced only has Bluetooth 3.0? Makes absolutely no sense to me. Would love an explanation if there is one, because I'm completely dumbfounded. Reply
SymphonyX7 - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkThey current top-of-the-line MediaTek SOCs have embedded Bluetooth 4.0 in them. I have a MediaTek MTK6589-equipped phone. The quad-core Cortex A7 and low-clocked SGX 544MP graphics is plenty fast paired with a 720p screen and it gets around 13K on AnTuTu v3.3 (3D graphics score in AnTuTu around 3.5K). Reply
sarbartha - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkWhich company's A7 quad core is this tab using? Reply
SydneyBlue120d - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkWhat is the GPU inside? Reply
guidryp - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkWe need a report button for trolls. Reply
ssiu - Monday, June 03, 2013 - linkHow does Cortex A7 compare to Cortex A9 in general (performance and battery life)?
And any guesses on how this compare to Tegra 3 in Nexus 7 in particular? (Guess it is hard to tell without knowing this A7's frequency and what is the GPU ...) Reply
chrnochime - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkYou need to STFU. Reply
chrnochime - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - linkthat was for Pirks. Damn commenting system. Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkThat could have been a nice tablet if ASUS had not insisted in including cameras. Specifically the rear lens looks quiet protruding, thus destroying any reasonable chance of putting this table flat on its back. Reply


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Can you tell me what are the Criteria of a Quality Article?
Very simply:
Another perspective, a quality article generates links, reducing the need to SEO the life out of your site.
If the objective is sales, the quality article moves the sales process. And you should be able to test the contribution to sales.
Every article has quality, it's the level that varies.
For me a high quality article gives me the information I need in a concise fashion (without the babbling that battye mentioned). It's structured well so the material is presented in a logical sequence and the different subtopics within are easy to locate.
I suppose quality means different things to different people though. Like DCrux says, if the goal is sales an article has high quality if it meets that goal and generates those sales.
my criteria:
A great article makes the reader sorry that it has ended.
You win or lose in the way you write your title. After you won in the title war, maintain the momentum in the first two paragraphs.
My idea of a good article:
Good title: It should be enticing, and it should let the reader know what to expect. Bonus if it uses strong keywords that people do searches for every day.
Interesting: If it's boring and doesn't hold your reader's attention, he's going to hit the back button.
Easy to read: Basic language that anyone can understand.
Informative: The article has the information your reader was looking for. It solves a problem or answers a question.
Concise: Most people on the web do a lot of skimming as opposed to careful reading. They're usually turned off by gigantic chunks of text, which does not encourage skimming. Rambling kills readability, too.
SEO friendly: This is more of a search engine thing than a people thing, which is why it comes last. Slipping in a few strong keywords can help it get found. Overdoing it makes your article an unreadable mess and could get you slapped around by Google.
I paid money for the answer to this very question once.
Interesting enough it was exactly what my 5th grade teacher taught me.
Title - Straight to the point, so the reader knows what to expect.
1st paragraph - outline your article, share the points you are going review in the article, and state why these points are important.
2nd paragraph - review point one
3rd paragraph - review point two
4th paragraph - review point three
5th paragraph - restate the points of your article and reiterate why those points were important.
Well.......a quality article should be relevant to the subject or title, descriptive, easy to understand and it may contain not less than 500 words.Articcle should be informative and interstting to its users. Having a summary in the start will be better so that a use can understand what is in the article all about.
Article should also includes a little bio about the author.
These points are really important, and oft-overlooked.
Normal writing conventions suggest you should have 5-6 or more sentences per paragraph. In writing online, I find that I often write 2-3 sentence paragraphs.
Sentences should also be short and to the point. Avoid complex sentence structure and excessive commas. Dashes are your friend - they help emphasize points and break longer sentences up into smaller bits.
Title, content, zest, own thought are desirable...Simple style...design...
Depends on if your looking for SEO or more for quality. You don't have to necessarily sacrifice SEO though for good quality, its just that it means you have to slightly change some things to make it more seo friendly.
I think all of you have listed some of the important facts. Besides, I would like to add on to this thread, you should also consider to properly insert your keywords in your articles so that it could rank higher in the search engine as well....
May success with you...
A Quality article should comprise of the following:
Valuable informationNo grammatical errors- try to use short and simple sentences. Check for run on sentences.Should have small paragraphsShould a catchy title that indicates the substance of the articleAt the end, put a conclusion.
Hope that helps. If you need more information, please free to drop me a PM.:)
The article's purpose determines the criteria for high quality. It's impossible to list criteria in a comprehensive manner that would work across the spectrum. There are a few general guidelines though.
(1) Be concise.
Your articles are read for entertainment or educational purposes. It's difficult to entertain when rambling or to inform with words without substance. This rule should be occassionally broken, though. Your reader might have emotional ties to the subject so dissent could hit them forcefully. Think of dissentful points like punches in the boxing ring: sometimes it helps to slow the pace. Be wordy when necessary, otherwise be concise.
(2) Be grammatically correct.
The purpose of rule (1) is to compact your information but compactness is not the primary goal. The length of your article doesn't matter if there are grammatical errors. Grammatical errors make you stop and reread the sentence, which should be considered as a form of redundancy that should be eliminated.
(3) Use the shortest word that covers your meaning.
If the same meaning can be expressed with a long word and a short word, use the short one. When choosing between a long word and a short one, always be careful to not confuse their meaning. Do not use may when you mean might. Can is about capability; may, permissibility; and might, probability. Again, use the shortest words that cover your meaning.
(4) Be cautious of arbitrary rules.
The number of sentences per paragraph should be determined by the subject. When I skim an article to determine if it's really worth my time to read, or to refresh my memory, I tend to look at the first and last sentence of each paragraph to get the gist of the article. Arbitrary paragraph breaks make skimming more difficult. Use as many sentences per paragraph as necessary to introduce the subject, make relevant points, and to present a conclusion.
Also, be cautious of arbitrary rules about the length of a sentence. The most important thing about sentences is not their length but their complexity. Arbitrary sentence breaks to make all of them short leads to monotony. Long sentences allow information to rapidly flow into the reader's mind. Short sentences pop. Like firecrackers, a pop alone will startle and awe but a predictable series of them are bland and monotonous. If a sentence is complex and difficult to understand, or is wordy, then you should rewrite but do not concern yourself with the length of the sentence if it covers a single point and is easy to understand.
Article Writing is not that much typical I say---
The thing should be kept in mind is that UR Grammar, u should be to the point....means if writing to a topic then be on that topic dont move to anywhere....
for eg. I have seen some examples ..like an article on women....means todays women.the article started from women and after 5-6 line it moved to politics and ends in the history of that country....
so be to the point.....grammaticaly correct.
I hope there are lots of point but these things to be kept in mind....
Kennick, thank you for this excellent post. We don't see nearly enough about copywriting.
I would like to ask a question more related to a "store". Let's say I'm trying to sell widgets .. and considering perhaps 9 items on a page with a "more information" or "detailed description" link that goes to an individual page. Is 9 too many? Or should there be one dominant widget and smaller displays beside or below?
And how long can the description be before shoppers get overloaded?
I know this is as much about marketing as "writing".
I agree with kennick. The quality of the writing can't be overestimated. You don't need to be an English Lit major, but if people like reading your voice, they'll come back.
I've found [Poynter's 50 Writing Tools to be a great guide to improving my writing skills. I'd recommend that anybody that blogs also pick up a copy of Zinsser's excellent [URL="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWriting-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonfiction%2Fdp%2F0060891548%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1204182117%26sr%3D8-2&tag=weilosuni-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">test<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=weilosuni-20&l=ur2&o=1"]"On Writing Well"](http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/fifty-50-tools-which-can-help-you-in-writing.html), which is a classic, and rightly so.
Most articles are way too eloquent. If want to read a novel, I will pick up War and Peace. Give it to me in 100 words or less. Use links to explain keywords or elements. If I don't understand it, I can educate myself on the specifics.
Too many statistics cloud the story. It can also make it look like you are cherry picking your facts. And make sure your facts are backed up by good sources. Just because you can link to somebody's two page website doesn't mean it is worthy of inclusion.
Bullets. Concise statements. No need to build a table, just show me the food.
Humor. Even a touch of it shows a sense of balance. On how you are unbalanced.
And for the sake of all the retired English teachers out there, spell check.


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DESPERATE 911 calls from victims of the Colorado cinema massacre were played to a court as it emerged the suspected gunman had also rigged his apartment with improvised napalm.
In a harrowing four-minute plea Kaylan Bailey, a 13-year-old girl, said two of her cousins were shot and bleeding, and that ''one of them is not breathing''. With screaming in the background she repeatedly said, ''I can't hear you,'' as the operator tried to instruct her on chest compressions.
The cousins were six-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, the youngest person to die in the massacre, and Veronica's mother Ashley Moser, who was shot three times and partially paralysed. Veronica was hit four times.
In all, 41 emergency calls were made by audience members. In the first, Kevin Quinonez, who survived, was drowned out by gunfire. More than 30 shots were heard as the operator tried to establish where the incident was taking place.
James Holmes, 25, is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 during a midnight screening of the Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20 last year. He listened impassively on Tuesday as the calls were played at the Arapahoe County Justice Centre, 16 kilometres away.
FBI bomb technician Garrett Gumbinner then told the court ''improvised napalm'' concocted from Styrofoam cups and petrol had been placed in large jars packed with live ammunition in his apartment. Outside his door he had positioned a stereo in a rubbish bag, timed to play loud music 40 minutes after he left. On top of the bag was a remote control toy car rigged to set off explosives in the flat when someone picked it up.
Steve Beggs, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the suspect had bought 3370 .223 calibre rounds for his AR-15 assault rifle, 2600 for a .40 calibre pistol, and 325 rounds for a shotgun.
Tamara Brady, defending, asked: ''Are there any processes in Colorado to screen out whether a severely mentally ill person is purchasing these items?'' The agent replied: ''No.''
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ST. AUGUSTINE Fla. - As 97-year-old Amanda Stevenson continues to wait in the St. Johns County jail the judge who ordered the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities to find her a place to stay has given the state 10 more days to come up with a plan.
The agency's appeal of Judge Michael Traynor's order was denied two months ago. Back in court Wednesday, officials still had not found a place to house this murder defendant who was ruled not competent to stand trial in the shooting death of her nephew, 53-year-old John Rice.
The agency says it doesn't have the capabilities to deal with her dementia and other medical issues. The agency says its mission is to treat those with mental retardation or autism, and none of the five psychologists who examined Stevenson found she has those illnesses.
"Placing Ms. Stevenson in any one of our facilities, from an agency's perspective would result in potential fines, loss of licensure for those facilities, or loss of funding through the Medicaid waiver because she doesn't qualify administratively for any of those services or functions," said Julie Waldman, who was representing the Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
Because of her age and mental state, the court determine she's not suitable to remain in the jail cell where she has been since her September 2011 arrest.
Stevenson's attorney says his client's suggestion proves that she is out of touch with reality: She wants to live with her a 317-year-old uncle she claims is living in Barbados.
"The legislature failed to define the medical term dementia," said Assistant Public Defender Ray Warren. "Without a legal definition for that term, the question is: Which agency will care for her?"
The judge was clearly displeased that two more months have passed and Stevenson continued to sit in jail.
"I have to believe there are places in this state that care for people in that condition, whether they be privately funded or publicly funded," Traynor said before recessing the hearing. "I'll deal with that after I receive your report."
Traynor said if it's a group home, assisted living facility or something else, he wants to make sure whatever facility is chosen to house Stevenson is secure.
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The £200,000 project is aimed at reducing health inequalities and increasing the activity levels of inactive people.
If the scheme is successful then it could be rolled out across the other borough councils in East Lancashire.
Philip Mousdale, Pendle Council's deputy chief executive, said: "Discussions have recently taken place between representatives of Public Health Lancashire and the East Lancashire Districts and Leisure Trusts on a joint Re:fresh initiative across the area based on a similar initiative which has been operating in Blackburn for several years.
"It would focus on increasing the activity levels of currently inactive people in particular amongst less well off families, the elderly, children and young people, and ethnic minority communities.
"It would bring together and coordinate existing council and Leisure Trust services and other community projects with a single point of registration access via a dedicated website thus enabling monitoring and evaluation of the impact and efficacy of the initiative.
"Using present networks, activities such as health checks, taster sessions, free leisure and recreation sessions and specialist instructor training would be made available to target groups."
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Thread: The right time to upgrade: 2014
This means you start with 1. Then 2. Then 4. 8. 16. 32. It goes up exponentially.
Now slow that growth to about 1.9 times per 2 year. The curve still goes up really fast: 1. 1,9. 3,6. 6,8. 13. 24,7.
There's still a big jump every year, but in about 5 generations the hardware is "only" 24 times as fast as opposed to 32 times. In other words, it's still increasing, but also tapering off.
There's a great plot of this on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law and that shows the correct way of plotting such data: On a logarithmic scale.
Hey, I'll probably have enough cash by then to build a cutting edge machine that will last me for a few years because of new console generation. It's good to know when the new toys that actually matter (for those of us who can't buy a new card every time a new one is out ) will happen, so thanks.
I wonder what kind of computers we will be using by 2020. Only thing I'm sad about having to die is that I won't get to see what technology will bring. I mean, people imagined we would be living on Mars by now ... but nobody could foresee the smartphones.
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According to nvidias 2004 gpu chart the RSX in ps3 was going to be a 2 teraflop gpu (hahahahahaha)
Their graphs are literally completely worthless.
@ op, I wouldn't hold my breath for any real value increases in 2013 - 2014, amd and nvidia are currently choosing not to compete, not performance wise nor price wise
A gtx 580 cost about 120 dollars to produce in 2010 and was selling for 500 at retail, that was a giant 520mm^2 die that had low yields in the factory and had a respectable 384bit memory bus.
Now they are selling the spiritual successor (gk 110, 560mm die, 384 bit bus) for 1000 dollars and marketing their mid range 260mm die 256bit bus cheap as hell to produce product as the 'high end' with matching 500 dollar price tag.
The price/die space has been doubled, there is no value to be had anymore.
Amd have gone and delayed their 8 series cards by an entire year (into late 2013-early 2014) since they are profiting from giant mark ups with their current cards as well.
I expect amd, intel and nvidia to just keep marketing around performance/watt and being green instead of performance/dollar and being fast.
Expect a 10 percent performance tick for intel haswell later this year along with another drop in power consumption (selling low end low power parts instead of scaling up transistor counts for performance) along with another price increase since AMD has nothing to compete with.
Leaked intel roadmaps already show a brandname shift for haswell to calling their (only) unlocked quad core cpu 4670k instead of 4500k, which signifies another price increase (the same thing amd did with their gpus)
As for maxwell,nvidia and amd have both shifted to releasing their midrange (now rebranded low end) cards first at a hefty premium for people eager to benifit from increased performance/watt, and only to start selling the larger midrange die lower yield cards 6 months later at the 500-600 dollar premium price.
Maxwell will be on the 20nm procedé so I expect the exact same thing to happen.
gtx 760 first at 400 dollars in early 2014 with performance similar to gtx 680, then a midrange 780 half a year later at full premium, with the actual high end large die card being released in their new titan brand lineup.
I agree with OP that it's best to wait for the haswell and maxwell releases to upgrade since the current gen is approaching 1.5 years of age without any real price drops in the high end (mid range in reality) , but if you are expecting another big performance boost you are going to be sorely dissapointed.
What you'll get is lower power consumption and being sold smaller cheaper dies at bigger premiums with a higher model number.
I'm not being negative I'm being realistic, the performance race is over for both companies in the duopolies, pc market is considered to have stalled (which in real people terms means it is fucking huge, but in marketing terms means they have no incentive to try to attract more people with good value, ah the joys of the American take on capitalism)
The consumer has proven to be willing to shell out high premiums for desktop parts since 2010 and since there are no third players in the hdd, cpu and gpu markets who can swoop in for a piece of the pie they don't have to compete and have a price war anymore.
You can quote me on all of this in a year and laugh at me if any of it turns out differently, I would love to be laughed at since that would mean consumers wouldn't get fucked up the ass.
Neither amd or nvidia has any reason to lower prices when they can shift lower volumes at 3-4x the profit margin without having to worry about yields.
Surplusses in production get either castrated : in the form of a crippled memory bus like the gtx 660 ti so it's a no AA-1080p only card (go look it up if you don't know about it) , or 1GB versions of the hd7850
Or cherrypicked as OC editions for an additional premium.
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^ You could be right, but I think that things are going to be shaken up very significantly in the next 2-3 years. I'm sure Intel, amd and nvidia have seen the success of media players and internet connected consoles in the living room and are thinking to themselves "we can do better than this". We'll see.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo University baseball team saw a trifecta of Lions etch their names on the All-Sunshine State Conference Baseball Team when it was released on Wednesday. Former Freshman of the Year winners Ryan Brnovich and Dustin Brown continued their string of appearances on the All-SSC team with respective first and second-team honors in the 35 person team announced by conference Commissioner Jay Jones. Current freshman Chris Newcomb rounded out the list with a second-team honor as well.
Earning the Lions' only All-SSC First-Team bid, Brnovich started and played in all 49 of the Lions' games in 2011 at second base. Flirting with a .400 average during the entire season, he finished hitting .395 in 195 plate appearances, good enough to stand 60th out of 500 ranked players within the NCAA. Leading the Lions' 54th ranked offense; the Boca Raton, Fla. native logged 77 hits and tallied 17 RBI in the leadoff position for SLU. The 2010 SSC Freshman of the Year was speedy on the bases as well, going 23-of-25 in stolen bases as he led the Lions in that category as well. In fact, he led Saint Leo in 11 of the 25 offensive categories in 2011.
Second-team members for the Lions included fellow outfielders Dustin Brown and Chris Newcomb. Brown, who returned to the All-Conference list since his Freshman of the Year honor in 2009, batted .331 and played in 47 games in right field. Registering a team-high 37 RBI the Dade City, Fla. native also led the Lions in triples with five, helping SLU rank fifth in the NCAA in three-baggers.
A Freshman of the Year hopeful, newcomer Chris Newcomb instead found his name with the veterans as one of three outfielders named to the second-team. Another Lion that started all 49 games, the native of Riverview, Fla. batted .327 overall and pounded out 56 hits to go along with 18 RBI. Patrolling centerfield, he was a 97 percent fielder. Forcing pitchers deep into counts, Newcomb led the Lions in walks and also in sacrifices.
Overall, Barry's Dean Green was selected Player of the Year, while his coach, Marc Pavao, was recognized as Coach of the Year. Eckerd's Joey Cuda was voted Pitcher of the Year, and Nova Southeastern's Carlos Asuaje was tabbed Freshman of the Year.
In addition to Brnovich, receiving All-SSC first team honors with Green (1B) and Cuda (SP) were: 3B Mike Snyder (Florida Southern), SS Patrick Donahue (Tampa), OF Andrew Durden (Nova Southeastern), OF Andrew Jones (Tampa), OF Colin Kish (Florida Southern), OF Areo Regoli (Nova Southeastern), C Ryan McChesney (Florida Tech), DH Austin Chubb (Florida Southern), UT Damon Elder (Tampa), SP Jonathan Cornelius (Florida Tech), SP Manny Rodriguez (Barry), SP Corey Witkowski (Barry), and RP Sean Albury (Nova Southeastern).
Aside from Brown, Newcomb and Asuaje, the All-SSC second team members were: 1B Tyler Benzel (Florida Southern), 3B Eric Grabe (Tampa), SS K.C. Clabough (Florida Tech), OF Drew Dwelly (Barry), OF Chris Fox (Florida Tech), OF Wess Hollins (Eckerd), OF Austin Smith (Lynn), C Adam Pendleton (Tampa), UT Daniel Petitbon (Nova Southeastern), SP Brett Hammaker (Barry), SP Gus Schlosser (Florida Southern), SP Randall Thompson (Florida Tech), SP Andrew Virgili (Lynn), and RP Tim Kiley (Tampa).
Nova Southeastern SP Nick Avila and Rollins 3B Kevin Mager received honorable mention.
Voting for the all-conference team was conducted among the league's baseball coaches and sports information directors.
1B - Dean Green (Barry, Sr)
2B - Ryan Brnovich (Saint Leo, So)
3B - Mike Snyder (Florida Southern, Jr)
SS - Patrick Donahue (Tampa, Sr)
OF - Andrew Durden (Nova Southeastern, Sr)
OF - Andrew Jones (Tampa, Jr)
OF - Colin Kish (Florida Southern, So)
OF - Areo Regoli (Nova Southeastern, Jr)
C - Ryan McChesney (Florida Tech, Jr)
DH - Austin Chubb (Florida Southern, Jr)
UT - Damon Elder (Tampa, Jr)
SP - Jonathan Cornelius (Florida Tech, Sr)
SP - Joey Cuda (Eckerd, Jr)
SP - Manny Rodriguez (Barry, Jr)
SP - Corey Witkowski (Barry, Jr)
RP - Sean Albury (Nova Southeastern, Sr)
Player of the Year - Dean Green, Barry
Pitcher of the Year - Joey Cuda, Eckerd
Freshman of the Year - Carlos Asuaje, Nova Southeastern
Coach of the Year - Marc Pavao, Barry
1B - Tyler Benzel (Florida Southern, Sr)
2B - Carlos Asuaje (Nova Southeastern, Fr)
3B - Eric Grabe (Tampa, Jr)
SS - K.C. Clabough (Florida Tech, Jr)
OF - Dustin Brown (Saint Leo, Jr)
OF - Drew Dwelly (Barry, Sr)
OF - Chris Fox (Florida Tech, Sr)
OF - Wess Hollins (Eckerd, Sr)
OF - Chris Newcomb (Saint Leo, Fr)
OF - Austin Smith (Lynn, Jr)
C - Adam Pendleton (Tampa, So)
UT - Daniel Petitbon (Nova Southeastern, Jr)
SP - Brett Hammaker (Barry, Sr)
SP - Gus Schlosser (Florida Southern, Sr)
SP - Randall Thompson (Flrorida Tech, Sr)
SP - Andrew Virgili (Lynn, Jr)
RP - Tim Kiley (Tampa, Jr)
SP - Nick Avila (Nova Southeastern, Sr)
3B - Kevin Mager (Rollins, Jr)


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I know that some folks say smoking on a gas grill isn't "correct," but I am going to try it. I bought a Char-Broil three burner from Lowes ($269). If I turn on the left burner, leave the middle and right burner one off (meat on right burner), and put the woodchip box/can over the heat, is this what I am supposed to do?
I am thinking that I can keep the left burner on enough to keep the temperature at 225? (can't remember the correct temp), but wasn't sure if I could put the meat way on the other side of the grill. It's not that far, but just didn't know if the temperature gauge was accurate for all parts of the grill. It might be crazy. I don't know how long the propane gas will last.
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As Felix Baumgartner struggled to correct his spin at the start of his 128,100 ft descent to earth on Sunday, I couldn't help thinking of the consequences of failure for Red Bull, his sponsor.
Mr Baumgartner's feat was obviously extraordinary and compelling. It was a new frontier for him, and for YouTube (where 8m people watched the dive live), but despite strenuous efforts to identify some great scientific benefit of the stunt, it is a far greater leap for brand-marketers – and I worry where they will go next.
The Austrian's sponsor is an introverted company with an extrovert energy drink brand and it has blasted out a niche in extreme sports, from Formula One to air races. Plenty of people pointed out on Twitter on Sunday that if Mr Baumgartner died, so would Red Bull's slogan "Red Bull gives you wings". Read more


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Caterers Della and Stephen Moran are reopening their popular Marlborough restaurant.
The couple closed Moran's in London Road in 2000 when it was discovered that Mrs Moran, 51, had cancer. Since her recovery they have concentrated on their outside catering business.
But work is now underway to bring back the restaurant – but this time they are created more laid-back vibe.
Mrs Moran said: "We kept the restaurant because we always felt it was something we would want to go back to and when we lost my mum in August we felt it was time to re-establish it.
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At Heps, the top eight advance past the preliminaries and the top-six finishers will score in the finals of each event on Sunday. Most event finals will take place on Sunday.
Brown finished fourth in the pole vault when she cleared 3.80 meters (12 feet, 5 1/2 inches). She did so on her second attempt and matched a collegiate best which also ranks second all-time at Penn. It is just one centimeter shy of the school record held by current volunteer coach Samantha Crook.
Penn was dominant in the short sprints. Three of the eight qualifiers in the 60-meter hurdles were Quakers. Junior Gabrielle Piper, senior Amber Scott and freshman Eliana Yankelev each advanced to Championship Sunday in the event. Piper was second in her heat and third overall at 8.63. Scott set a new personal best with the fifth-fastest time in school history (8.87), while Yankelev did the same with the eighth-fastest time in Penn history (8.95).
Two more Quakers qualified for the finals of the 60 meters. Sophomore Heather Bong moved up in the school record books with a qualifying time of 7.73. That ranks her sixth all-time at Penn, while sophomore Princess Lydia Ali, who entered the meet ranked fourth in Penn history in the event was third among qualifiers at 7.68.
Bong also qualified for the finals of the 200 meters when she won her heat with a career-best time of 25.21. That was the best mark of the season for a Quaker and ranks eighth all-time in school history.
Freshman Elyssa Gensib was just outside the scoring in the 5,000 meters, but she also dented the school record book. Gensib became just the sixth woman in Penn history to break 17 minutes in the event with her 13th-place time of 16:57.30. That places her fifth all-time at Penn.
The Quakers are in seventh place in the team standings following the first day of competition with four points. Cornell is in the lead after Day One with 35 points followed by Harvard's 29.
A full recap of the 2013 Indoor Heptagonal Championships will be available at PennAthletics.com shortly after the completion of Sunday's events.


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Pontypridd will play their British & Irish Cup tie away to Ulster Ravens on Saturday 10th December at the Deramore Park ground, home of Belfast Harlequins RFC.
The fixture has been moved from the Ravenhill stadium as the Ulster senior team will play a Rabodirect Pro12 league tie against Aironi there on Friday evening 9th December.
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