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Buildings in Pretoria feature a marked colonial influence, along with touches of art deco and South African-style architecture. City landmarks worth visiting include the Union Buildings (South Africa's seat of government), the Voortrekker Monument (a granite edifice commemorating the Voortrekkers' journey from the Cape to the hinterland and which is a National Heritage Site), Mahlamba Ndlopfu (the President's house in Pretoria), the South African Reserve Bank, Loftus Versfeld sports stadium and the South African State Theatre.
Pretoria is also home to the National Zoological Gardens and the Pretoria National Botanical Garden, along with nature reserves such Groenkloof, Rietvlei, Moreleta Spruit, Faerie Glen, Wonderboom Nature Reserve and the Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary,
Pretoria is also proud of its educational institutions: the University of South Africa (the largest distance learning university in Africa), the Tshwane University of Technology, University of Pretoria (Tukkies) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
Those with an interest in history should stop off at Freedom Park on Salvokop – a monument to democracy – and Kruger House, the historical residence of former President of the South African Republic, Paul Kruger.
Pretoria is about 50km north of Johannesburg along the N1. Or take the Gautrain from Johannesburg.
During the day, the centre of Pretoria can be explored on foot, but as there can be some distance between attractions, you would do better to have a car, hire a taxi, use a tour operator or catch a city bus. At night, it's advisable to use a car or a metered taxi.
The Nan Hua Buddhist Temple complex outside Bronkhorstspruit; the Magaliesberg and Hartbeespoort Dam area to the west; and the town of Cullinan, east of Pretoria, in Dinokeng.
Every year in June the Annual Gauteng Motor Show takes place in Centurion.
Day tours depart from Johannesburg for an excursion of Pretoria's historical sites and places of interest: the Voortrekker Monument, Kruger House, Church Square, the City Hall, State Theatre and the Union Buildings. Visit the nearby Cullinan Diamond Mine, and the Air Force Museum at Zwartkop Air Force Base in Valhalla to see old aircraft, uniforms, missiles, aeronautical displays and paintings.
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Guest houses, hotels, lodges, B&Bs and holiday apartments cater for all budgetary requirements.
Pretoria's French and African fine dining restaurants are especially good, as is the local boerekos (farmers' food).
Pretoria is a year-round destination. It's particularly lovely in September and October when the jacaranda trees are in bloom.
The Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History provides fascinating insight into Stone Age and Iron Age artefacts, while the Mapungubwe Museum showcases excavated gold ornaments, ivory, ceramics, clay figurines, beads, iron and copper from a 13th century Iron Age settlement in Limpopo.
South Africa's national sport is rugby football, and Pretoria's Loftus Versfeld is home to the Blue Bulls rugby team, one of the country's top sides. If there's a match on, don't miss it.
Pretoria and its suburbs are not short of shopping destinations, with malls such as Atterbury, Brooklyn, Centurion, Hatfield, Kolonnade, Menlyn Park, Sammy Marks, Sunny Park, Woodlands, Wonderboom Junction and Wonderpark offering shoppers a host of choices. Most of the larger shopping malls feature cinema and restaurant complexes.
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This Week on the Melissa & Doug Blog: Let Your Kids' Personalities Shine!
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No two children are alike (thank goodness!) so this week on the Melissa & Doug blog, we talked about ways to nurture individualism and honor our kids' unique ways of learning. Here's a round-up of the ideas shared this week. To add to these ideas, please e-mail us: we'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
As a way to encourage your child to explore personality and self-knowledge, ask her to make a list of "likes." This can be a craft activity, writing exercise, or simple conversation! Encourage your kids to include favorite books, hobbies, clothing, animals…whatever makes them smile! You may be surprised at what you discover.
Learn About Your Children (and Each Other!) Over Dinner
Dinner is such a cherished time for families, and in this blog post by Ambassador Zina, we uncover 5 ways to have meaningful conversations with your children at meal time. Using our Dinner Box of Questions we share tips on how to set the right foundation of openness and communications for your family so that you can learn more about your child, and each other, night after night.
4 Ways to Customize Your Child's Chores
Teaching your children about responsibility and good behavior is one of the most important lessons they will learn. Plus, it's a great opportunity to help explore self-awareness; working with your child to create a chore chart that reflects their specific goals, capabilities, and motivational incentives. This blog post shares 5 ways to work with your child to tailor a chore chart that helps her develop in the ways she needs most (while letting her have "skin-in-the-game" to remain engaged throughout the process).
Plus, as a bonus, we share a video created by Melissa, explaining how our Magnetic Responsibility Chart came to life from her own family experiences. Watch it here.
From the Fans: 11 Ways to Motivate Your Child
From our chore chart blog post, we received a number of suggestions from our fan community sharing what methods motivate their children to do chores. We had such great responses that we rounded them up in this blog post. Thank you for your contributions!
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ILKLEY will once again be the focal point for artists in Yorkshire as the Ilkley Art Show opens its doors tomorrow (Friday August 15) for the two day event, expected to bring exhibitors and art lovers from far and wide.
One of the highlights of the event, which takes place at the King's Hall, will be an art exhibition featuring 50 artists, with more than 300 paintings.
The event will also feature many demonstrations by artists as well as goods on sale from art material suppliers. Visitors can see artists in action using many different media - from soft pastel to oil painting.
Artists from around the country will be in attendance, including some recognise names from the art world.
Among the exhibiting artists will be local artists Jeremy Taylor form Baildon, Tracey Krupianka from Otley, Ilkley artists Nigel Overton and Denise Ledgerwood, besides nationally well known artists, including Tony Hogan from York, Charles Evans from Northumberland and Coxwold based artists Terry Harrison and Fiona Peart.
The show is once again supported by The Art Shop in Ilkley. During the show Ilkley artist Lucia Smith will both be exhibiting and demonstrating her pastel work at the shop.
Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite picture with one lucky voter winning an original picture.
The show takes place tomorrow and Saturday.
Doors will be open at 10am and will close at 4pm on both days. Refreshments will be available throughout both days.
Contact The Art Shop at, Hawksworth Street, Ilkley, on (01943) 609031 or visit ilkleyartshow.co.uk for more details.


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"If anybody wants to know about my work habit, I can tell you this, that I took the job about Dec. 3 [actually Dec. 1], I started working Dec. 4. I took an apartment [in Boston] Dec. 10. I worked every day in the winter except for two for Christmas. I went to spring training early by two weeks. I had one off day in spring training and that day was a charity day, I did a charity event. Since the season started, I've had two off days."
—Oakland starter Brandon McCarthy suffered a severe head injury when an Erick Aybar line drive struck him on September 5, but he did settle his fantasy football lineup beforehand. McCarthy's health status was still uncertain entering the weekend, but his recent tweets suggest progress. It remains unclear if Monday Night Football will affect his fantasy team's fortunes this week. (Brandon McCarthy, @BMcCarthy32, Oakland A's)
—Martinez has a .600 OBP since returning from his inflamed boil injury. Coincidence? (Zachary Levine, @zacharylevine, Houston Chronicle)
—Maddon's club is right in the thick of the playoff race, but there's always time for humor with the Rays' skipper. (Joe Maddon, @RaysJoeMaddon, Tampa Bay Rays)
—Stephen Strasburg made his final start of 2012 on Friday, and it didn't go particularly well. The Nationals' ace was vocal about his disappointment after being shut down, and the club will now attempt to win without him. (Adam Kilgore, @AdamKilgoreWP, Washington Post)
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - American Airlines passengers in Jacksonville and across the country were delayed Tuesday afternoon after the company's Sabre reservation system crashed. At 4:30 p.m., the airline says its systems were restored, but it will take hours for flights to return to normal.
American's passengers at Jacksonville International Airport were told they are on "indefinite hold."
SLIDESHOW: Passengers stranded at JIA
Official information from the airline is coming from Twitter:
"American's reservation and booking tool, Sabre is offline. We're working to resolve the issue as quickly as we can. We apologize to our customers for any inconvenience," company spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan tweeted about 12:30 p.m.
Two hours later, they tweeted that all flights across the system would be grounded until 4 p.m. Central Daylight Time -- 5 p.m. on the East Coast.
According to FlightAware.com, three flights from Jacksonville International Airport are still waiting to take off:
- Flight 2087 to Dallas, 12:05 p.m.
- Flight 473 to Dallas: 2:45 p.m.
- Flight 3451 to Miami: 3:30 p.m.
There other flights out of JIA tonight are all after 5 p.m., but will likely be delayed because the aircraft didn't arrive from a previous connection.
Elmore said about an hour after the plane taxied out, it returned to the gate and everyone was told they were on indefinite hold.
At American Airlines' hub in Miami, several people reported waiting on planes for up to two hours.
"We apologize to our customers for any inconvenience," the airline wrote on its Facebook page.
American estimates it flies about 275,000 passengers a day and receives more than 239,000 reservations calls.
Sharon Schaeffer was ready to board her flight from Jacksonville International Airport Tuesday evening to Dallas, but instead she waited 90 minutes in a line at the American Airlines counter to find out that her flight was canceled.
"They canceled flight from Dallas to Portland, so I have to stay in Dallas until tomorrow," said Schaeffer.
Schaeffer said American Airlines bought her a hotel for her overnight stay once she arrived in Dallas and then she'd have to take the next connection to her final destination in Oregon.
"Kind of frustrating, now have to call my husband in Portland, tell him not to pick me up until tomorrow," said Schaeffer.
Schaeffer was one of thousands impacted by the grounding of American Airlines flights around the country Tuesday. The airline said it was due to the outage of their main reservation system.
"I just got here and just heard," said Ericka Darden. "I don't even know what's going on, I just heard."
For the most part, if travelers flights were canceled vacationers didn't mind.
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The M'Naghten Rules (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, McNaughton) were the first serious attempt to codify and rationalise the attitude of the criminal law towards mentally incompetent defendants. They arise from a set of questions posed to the House of Lords in M'Naghten's Case(1843) 10 C & F 200 [1] following the attempted assassination of the British Prime Minister, Robert Peel, in 1812 by Daniel M'Naghten. The rules have been a standard test for criminal liability in relation to mentally disordered defendants in common law jurisdictions ever since, with some minor adjustments. When the tests set out by the Rules are satisfied, the accused may be adjudged "not guilty by reason of insanity" and the sentence may be a mandatory or discretionary (but usually indeterminate) period of treatment in a secure hospital facility, or otherwise at the discretion of the court (depending on the country and the offence charged) instead of a punitive disposal. The defense is recognized in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, and most U.S. states with the exception of Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Kansas.
Historical DevelopmentEdit
Today, mental incapacity as a defense, when successfully raised, absolves a defendant in a criminal trial from liability, that is to say it applies public policies in relation to criminal responsibility by applying a rationale of compassion, accepting that it is morally wrong to subject a person to punishment if that person is deprived permanently or temporarily of the capacity to form a necessary mental intent that the definition of a crime requires. Indeed, punishment of the obviously mentally ill by the state may act so as to undermine public confidence in the penal system. Thus, in such cases, a utilitarian and humanitarian approach suggests that the interests of society are better served by treatment of the illness rather than punishment of the individual.
Historically, insanity was not seen as a defence in itself but a special circumstance in which there was no acquittal, but the jury could deliver a special verdict and the King would issue a pardon [2] In R v Arnold (1724) 16 How St. Tr. 765, the test for insanity was expressed in the following terms
whether the accused is totally deprived of his understanding and memory and knew what he was doing "no more than a wild beast or a brute, or an infant".This is clearly, by modern legal, and medical standards, a simplistic test.
The next major advance occurred in Hadfield's Trial (1800), 27 How St. Tr. 765 in which the court decided that a crime committed under some delusion would only be excused if it would have been excusable had the delusion been true. This would deal with the situation, for example, when the accused imagines he is cutting through a loaf of bread, whereas in fact he is cutting through a person's neck.
The M'Naghten RulesEdit
The House Of Lords, having deliberated, delivered the following exposition of the Rules:
- "the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong"
The central issue of this definition may be stated as "did the defendant know what he was doing?", and the issues raised have been analysed in subsequent appellate decisions:
Presumption of Sanity and Burden of ProofEdit
Sanity is a rebuttable presumption and the burden of proof is on the party relying upon it; the standard of proof is on a balance of probabilities, that is to say that mental incapacity is more likely than unlikely. If this burden is successfully discharged, the party relying upon it is entitled to succeed. In Lord Denning's judgement in Bratty v Attorney-General for Northern Ireland (1963) AC 386, whenever the defendant makes an issue of his state of mind, the prosecution can adduce evidence of insanity. However, this will normally only arise to negate the defence case when automatism or diminished responsibility is in issue. In practical terms, the defence will be more likely to raise the issue of mental incapacity to negate or minimise criminal liability. In R v Clarke (1972) 1 All E R 219 a defendant charged with a minor theft (shoplifting) claimed she had no mens rea because she had absent-mindedly walked out of the shop without paying because she suffered from depression. When the prosecution attempted to adduce evidence that this constituted insanity within the Rules, she changed her plea to guilty but on appeal, the Court ruled that she had been merely denying mens rea rather than raising a defence under the Rules and her conviction was quashed. The general rule was stated that the Rules only apply to cases in which the defect of reason is substantial.
Disease of the MindEdit
Whether a particular condition amounts to a disease of the mind within the Rules is not a medical but a legal question to be decided in accordance with the ordinary rules of interpretation. It seems that any disease which produces a malfunctioning of the mind is a disease of the mind and need not be a disease of the brain itself. The term has been held to cover numerous conditions:
- R v Kemp (1957) 1 QB 399: arteriosclerosis or a hardening of the arteries caused loss of control during which the defendant attacked his wife with a hammer. This was an internal condition and a disease of the mind.
- R v Sullivan (1984) AC 156 during an epileptic episode, the defendant caused grievous bodily harm: epilepsy was an internal condition and a disease of the mind, and the fact that the state was transitory was irrelevant.
- R v Quick & Paddison (1973) 3 AER 397 a diabetic committed an assault while in a state of hypoglycaemia caused by the insulin he had taken, the alcohol he had consumed and not eating. Since the immediate condition was caused by external factors, it was not caused by a disease of the mind. Automatism was not available either because the loss of control was foreseeable.
- R v Hennessy (1989) 1 WLR 287 a diabetic stole a car and drove it while suffering from a mild attack of hyperglycaemia caused by stress and a failure to take his insulin. Lane LCJ said at 294
- In our judgment, stress, anxiety and depression can no doubt be the result of the operation of external factors, but they are not, it seems to us, in themselves separately or together external factors of the kind capable in law of causing or contributing to a state of automatism. They constitute a state of mind which is prone to recur. They lack the feature of novelty or accident, which is the basis of the distinction drawn by Lord Diplock in R v Sullivan (1984) AC 156, 172. It is contrary to the observations of Devlin J., to which we have just referred in Hill v Baxter (1958) 1 QB 277, 285. It does not, in our judgment, come within the scope of the exception of some external physical factor such as a blow on the head or the administration of an anaesthetic.
- In Bratty, Lord Denning observed obiter that a crime committed while sleepwalking would appear to him to be one committed as an automaton. However, the ruling in R v Sullivan that diseases of the mind need have no permanence, led many academics to suggest that sleepwalkers might well be found to be suffering from a disease of the mind with internal causes unless there was clear evidence of an external causal factor.
- In R v Burgess (1991) 2 WLR 1206 the Court of Appeal ruled that the defendant who wounded a woman by hitting her with a video recorder while sleepwalking, was insane under the M'Naghten Rules. Lord Lane said, "We accept that sleep is a normal condition, but the evidence in the instant case indicates that sleepwalking, and particularly violence in sleep, is not normal."
The courts have clearly drawn a distinction between internal and external factors affecting a defendant's mental condition; this distinction would appear to depend largely upon elements of voluntariness and awareness in the circumstances surrounding the defendant's actions; this is clear from Hennessy, above. In Quick & Paddison, above, for example, the distinction was made that although the defendant was a diabetic, his mental state was influenced less by his diabetes than by alcohol consumption and not eating, and it is implicit in the judgement that this had been, or could have been, within the defendant's control. It would appear that if a defendant is aware of a medical condition which may affect his mental capacity and acts in a manner inimical to that condition, a defence of insanity under the Rules will not be available.
There is occasionally a blurred interface between insanity and automatism, as the comment in Burgess above shows. Actions committed while sleepwalking would normally be considered as "non-insane automatism", whereas in that case, violent assault was considered to support a finding of insanity within the Rules. See also automatism (case law).
Nature and Quality of the ActEdit
This phrase refers to the physical nature and quality of the act, rather than the moral quality. It covers the situation where the defendant does not know what he is physically doing. Two common examples used are:
- The defendant cuts a woman's throat under the delusion that they are cutting a loaf of bread,
- The defendant chops off a sleeping man's head because they have the deluded idea that it would be great fun to see the man looking for it when he wakes up.
The judges were specifically asked if a person could be excused if he committed an offence in consequence of an insane delusion. They replied that if he labours under such partial delusion only, and is not in other respects insane, "he must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real". This rule requires the court to take the facts as the accused believed them to be and follows Hadfield's Trial, above. If the delusions do not prevent the defendant from having mens rea there will be no defence. In R v Bell (1984) Crim. LR 685 the defendant smashed a van through the entrance gates of a holiday camp because, "It was like a secret society in there, I wanted to do my bit against it" as instructed by God. It was held that, as the defendant had been aware of his actions, he could neither have been in a state of automatism nor insane, and the fact that he believed that God had told him to do this merely provided an explanation of his motive and did not prevent him from knowing that what he was doing was wrong in the legal sense.
Knowledge that the act was wrongEdit
"Wrong" here means legally rather than morally wrong. The defendant must be functionally unaware that his actions are legally wrong at the time of the offence to satisfy this requirerment. In Windle ([1952] 2QB 826; [1952] 2 All ER 1 246), the defendant killed his wife with an overdose of aspirin; he telephoned the police and said, "I suppose I'll hang for this." It was held that this was sufficient to show that although the defendant was suffering from a mental illness, he was aware that his act was wrong, and the defense was not allowed.
Crimes Without Specific IntentEdit
In DPP v Harper (1997) it was held that insanity is not generally a defence to strict liability offences. In this instance, the accused was driving with excess alcohol. By definition, the accused is sufficiently aware of the nature of the activity to commit the actus reus of driving and presumably knows that driving while drunk is legally wrong. Any other feature of the accused's knowledge is irrelevant.
The Function of the JuryEdit
s1 Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 provides that a jury shall not return a special verdict that "the accused is not guilty by reason of insanity" except on the written or oral evidence of two or more registered medical practitioners of whom at least one has special experience in the field of mental disorder. This may require the jury to decide between conflicting medical evidence which they are not necessarily equipped to do, but the law goes further and allows them to disagree with the experts if there are facts or surrounding circumstances which, in the opinion of the court, justify the jury in coming to that conclusion.
Under s3 Act 1991:
- Where the sentence for the offence to which the finding relates is fixed by law (e.g. murder), the court must make a hospital order restricting discharge without limitation of time. Otherwise, if there is adequate medical evidence and the defendant has been convicted of an imprisonable offence, a hospital order requires that the defendant be admitted to and detained in a hospital for treatment for a mental disorder (see ss37-43 Mental Health Act 1983).
- In any other case the court may make:
- a hospital order and an order restricting discharge either for a limited or unlimited period of time;
- or in appropriate circumstances,
- a guardianship order;
- a supervision and treatment order; or
- an order for absolute discharge.
There have been five major criticisms of the law as it currently stands:
- Medical Irrelevance
- The legal definition of insanity has not advanced significantly since 1843; in 1953 evidence was given to the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment that doctors even then regarded the legal definition to be obsolete and misleading.
- This distinction has led to absurdities such as
- (a) even though a legal definition suffices, mandatory hospitalisation can be ordered in cases of murder; if the defendant is not medically insane, there is little point in requiring medical treatment.
- (b) diabetes has been held to facilitate a defence of insanity when it causes hyperglycemia, but not when it causes hypoglycemia.
- (c) Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, imported into English law by the Human Rights Act 1998 provides that a person of unsound mind may only be detained where proper account of objective medical expertise has been taken. As yet, no cases have occurred in which this point has been argued.
- Burden of Proof
- The shift of burden of proof from the prosecution to the defence in cases where insanity may be in issue conflicts with the Woolmington v. DPP principle that the burden is always on the prosecution.
- Ineffectiveness
- The rules currently do not distinguish between defendants who represent a public danger and those who do not. Illnesses such as diabetes and epilepsy can be controlled by medication such that sufferers are less likely to have temporary aberrations of mental capacity, but the law does not recognise this.
- Sentencing for Murder
- A finding of insanity may well result in indefinite confinement in a hospital, whereas a conviction for murder may well result in a determinate sentence of between ten and fifteen years; faced with this choice, it may be that most defendants would prefer the certainty of the latter option.
- Scope
- A practical issue is whether the fact that an accused is labouring under a "mental disability" should be a necessary but not sufficient condition for negating responsibility i.e. whether the test should also require an incapacity to understand what is being done, to know that what one is doing is wrong, or to control an impulse to do something and so demonstrate a causal link between the disability and the potentially criminal acts and omissions. For example, the Irish insanity defence comprises the M'Naghten Rules and a control test which asks whether the accused was debarred from refraining from committing the act because of a defect of reason due to mental illness (see Doyle v Wicklow County Council (1974) 55 IR 71). But the Butler Committee recommended that proof of severe mental disorder should be sufficient to negate responsibility, in effect creating an irrebuttable presumption of irresponsibility arising from proof of a severe mental disorder. This has been criticized as it assumes a lack of criminal responsibility simply because there is evidence of some sort of mental dysfunction, rather than establishing a standard of criminal responsibility. According to this view, the law should be geared to culpability not mere psychiatric diagnosis.
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ M'Naghten's Case
- ↑ Stephen, History of Criminal Law, 151; 2 Pollock & Maitland, History of English Law, 480
- Boland, F. (1996). "Insanity, the Irish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights". 47 ''Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 260.
- Bucknill, J. C. (1881). The Late Lord Chief Justice of England on Lunacy. Brain 4: 1-26.
- Butler Committee. (1975). The Butler Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders, London: HMSO, Cmnd 6244
- Dalby, J.T. (2006) "The Case of Daniel McNaughton: Let's get the story straight." American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 27, 17-32.
- Ellis, J. W. (1986). "The Consequences of the Insanity Defense: Proposals to reform post-acquittal commitment laws". 35 Catholic University Law Review 961.
- Gostin, L. (1982). "Human Rights, Judicial Review and the Mentally Disordered Offender". (1982) Crim. LR 779.
- The Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. The Criminal Process and Persons Suffering from Mental Disorder, Project No. 69, August 1991. [1]
- Elliott, Catherine; Quinn, Frances (2000). Criminal Law, 241 - 248, Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Ltd.


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coda6 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkWhat type of compliance/audit data is available and how do they auditors access? Reply
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Ed051042 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkThis is not very well written, certainly when compared to other AnandTech articles.
You state: "E-mail must be about the most essential IT tool your employees have, so it is not wise to take any risk there." So, there's zero risk in using cloud email? Thirty seconds of research would argue otherwise. Reply
bigboxes - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkI was thinking the same thing. Just last week Google announced that many had lost access to their e-mail accounts. Google downplayed it, but it just goes to show what could happen when you put your data in someone else's hands. Reply
igf1 - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - linkRight, not only catastrophic failure as an outstanding risk, but the obvious security concerns that you might have. So, regarding a company which wont event disclose their layout, whom you have no control over internal policy, who could go out of business in a days notice and sell their severs + your data to question marks and I conclude, that hes right, I'm not leaving it to chance. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - linkI have done 30.000 seconds of research or more. I have seen tens of on premise exchange servers. None of them come close to the availability of Gmail for businesses. Many of them reboot frequently (initiated by the sysadmin), get in trouble after patches or electrical outages and so on. Reply
KentState - Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - linkYou must have seen some pretty bad implementations. In 15 years of IT experience, I've only seen a single outage of Exchange and that in 2001 due to a virus. Secondly, the time it takes to administrate Exchange is exaggerated. Reply
BF04 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkYou praise Google for their business e-mail. However you do not discuss details about it and or any other competition. What about MS cloud services? What about the risk factor, management of employee's email?
This reads like an ad for Google. Reply
Philippe Creytens - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkBF04
There are 3 (large) companies actively promoting 'the cloud' for mail/calendaring: Google (Apps), Microsoft (BPOS/Office365) and IBM/Lotus.
Which cloud offering is 'better'? It depends.
We see companies using (the more expensive) MS offering to avoid IT management and CAPEX/OPEX issues. Impact for the end user? Hardly any. He connects to a server for mail/calendar w/ the tools he/she has been using (Outlook/Office).
Other companies decide to move to Google because of its mainly-browser strategy, continuous updates and device independency (iPad, Android, Mac, Linux).
Impact to the end user? Bigger... at least for the initial couple of weeks as people don't like change.
Companies that need to share/collaborate beyond 'the firewall' would more likely go for Apps.
Irrelevant of the choice, in most cases companies move 'commodity IT' to the cloud because now many companies spend 80% of their IT budgets on 'keeping the lights on'. Not on innovation or drive growth.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=497088 Reply
HMTK - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkI want to add my 0.02 € to the criticism. The article isn't well written (actually far inferior to your other articles) and it nearly ignores the fact that Google Mail doesn't integrate with AD which is a huge drawback for many companies. It also doesn't take into account that bandwith still is expensive and not guaranteed unless you're willing to pay through the nose. And I think I'm not the only one who isn't keen on putting the company's data in some external cloud where you're never really certain who can access that data. Sure, company X may claim that your data is safe but this is a matter of trust and I'm too cynical I guess. Reply
Philippe Creytens - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkGoogle Apps does support AD sync:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/04/sync-... Reply
HMTK - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkIt's still only a synch, not a true integration. I was thinking more along the lines of Sharepoint - Office - Exchange - Unified Messaging ... and all the nice management tools you get with AD. AFAIK you lose a lot of functionality by moving to another platform.
If you put one of the elements (say, Exchange) in someone else's cloud you're basically trusting that other company to keep your data safe and private. A company may be certified as much as it wants, if it gets served a search warrant it has to comply but will the customer know? Doubtful, especially when we see how some governments work. Reply
andyleung - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkI have no idea why people are still so behind in 1990 time. What's so good about AD nowadays? We have all mobile devices popping up every year. Your BB doesn't have AD integrated too and so what? Your company is still using it. You don't have Gmail integrated with AD and so what? I don't think people would have problem logging in Gmail with a separate login as they do for all other email today anyway. And business can leverage other Google apps to help build business processes, which is a big plus. Reply
zeppelin55 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkI work for a company that struggles with outsourcing/cloudsourcing anything. We're also a growing company that very well may be a large enterprise sometime in the future (300+ employees). When I've looked at remote exchange providers there seems to often be user limits. Is this something to be concerned about? Reply
namo - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkAuthor says Exchange account costs $100 user-year (it is unclear if it is only license fees), Gmail $50 user-year. But author didn't mentioned that small business can have hosted email server with $0 license fees using open source software and maintaining it could be very inexpensive if business owner will be smart enough to hire <b>part time<\b> administrator. Reply
MLSCrow - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkFor some of those that are criticizing this article, it wasn't meant to be that much of an in-depth discussion as it was more of a high level overview to answer some general questions regarding cloud benefits. Given what should have been obvious, I will also go on to refute the claim that the article ignores the fact that Google Mail doesn't integrate with AD. On the contrary, did you not read the part as follows, "The only thing where I find our Exchange server to be slightly better is the scheduling events in calendar since the exchange server is integrated with the Active directory server." This already insinuates that Google doesn't integrate with AD. Did you even read the entire article? lol Reply
bplewis24 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkOf course they didn't read the whole article. You are dealing with people who are simply anti-Google here. Some didn't even bother to differentiate GMail with GMail for Business with their criticisms. Reply
rowcroft - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkMS Online Services is $5/month for 25GB of storage. Integrates with AD to boot. Reply
scotth501 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkI'm seeing it for $10 including Sharepoint and Office Communicator IM with audio conferencing:
www . microsoft . com/online/business-productivity.aspx
(I guess I'll keep writing something since this is spam somehow according to the system. I wonder if this is enough of a comment to make it through.)
Well, no, it was not. Maybe there should be a definition regarding what constitutes spam so I can format my reply appropriately.
So, maybe 4th time will be the charm, I guess I'll edit the above URL so it's not usable and maybe that'll pass this ignorant system. Reply
Sivar - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link<b>GMail is not a business tool. Period.</b>
I think GMail is great. After using it at home for years, I can barely stand using Outlook at work. The linked article does, however, raise some points worth considering. Reply
erple2 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkIt does, until you realize that the points it raises are not actually for Google Apps for Business (part of the suggested Google Mail for Business component on page 1), but for plain, free gmail.
So, the points that the blogger raises are, IMO, not valid for this discussion. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - linkNone of the arguments are accurate for Gmail for business, except the calendar comment. Also, gmail is a lot smarter when it comes to spam than Exchange. I have both, and Exchange requires me to a lot of business contacts to "safe sender", although I have exchanged e-mails with them before. Otherwise it ends up in the Spam bin. So Exchange is not a business tool?
Certified Microsoft Partner, worked for MSDN. while that is not enough to discredit the blog, the inaccurate statements do the rest.
For example, You can get Support via Google Partners, and in the US direct Enterprise support is available. Reply
jimbob1001 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkcloud computing is not great for everyone. For our 100 employee business office and windows + CAL costs around £26 per PC. Exchange is about £100 and server £50 - these are for the licences. The SSL cert if probably more expensive (silly exchange 2007 one). The server does other things but raw licences work out at substantially less than google. The server would stay anyway. It has have precisely ZERO downtime other than automatic updates on a saturday evening. I have intervened ZERO times for exchange.
If we were to look at cloud computing then our 2meg SDSL+ ADSL backup (loadbalanced for webaccess) would not be enough. We would need more upload. nTOP shows that the traffic averages 3-5mb constantly with periodic spikes of 10mb+
We couldnt afford larger connections and we arent in a cable internet area. ADSL is typically 10/1mb. Dont even start on hosting data online. Reply
iwod - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkI could never understand why Gmail for Business cost so much.
Most of our company email account are well below 1GB storage. With the largest being 3GB.
We dont mind Ads. ( As long as you dont data mine our email )
Our Company has over a 100 employees, that is $5000 per year for what i consider VERY light email usage.
In our cases, it doesn't make any business sense to use Gmail Business at all. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkIt depends on what you're using email for. Sending attachments can add up fast. As a minion level employee, my pst file at work is ~3GB after 6 years. My program manager says back in the outlook 03 era he had to create a new pst yearly to avoid a >2GB data corruption bug. Reply
Penti - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkJust to add you can get a hosted Exchange account from something like $10-12.5 per month with 2GB inbox. However it quickly gets costly if you add larger inboxes, sharepoint websites, mail to the phones and archiving. It might end up costing something like 200 dollars per user and year. For basic exchange email with calendaring, task and mail and mobile sync. Google Apps is cheap in comparison. Google apps with archiving would cost something like 83 USD per user and year. If your just after IMAP-mail it's the wrong solution to pay for those services though. Reply
iwod - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkNow $10 - 12.5 per year sounds MUCH more reasonable. To be honest we never looked at Hosted exchange account.
And it depends if 2GB X100s will be shared between all of us, or strictly 2GB per user.
But Most of our users uses 1GB after 3 - 4 years. So i think I will look at M$ soon. Reply
Penti - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkPER MONTH. Reply
Penti - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkAnd how much does your exchange setup cost? Stand-alone Exchange CALs is $67. Enterprise CALs is cheaper on the other hand is the exchange enterprise license much more costly. Might end up much the same cost if put out over three years. But hosted exchange starts at 5 USD a month any how. Office 365 at 6 USD might be a much better deal though. But as said compared to other competing services google apps isn't expensive. Hosted exchange can cost several times what Microsofts own services costs. Reply
Grudin - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkMy one issue with cloud computing is security. It is the same issue I have had for a long time. For public insecure information it makes perfect sense. At this time I am basically running my own private cloud for our business and thats ok by me. Yes I have to do all the overhead that goes along with it, but I know my information is secure. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkThat would be my main issue as well. I've read about govt agencies getting access to personal cloud data by going to the cloud provider without informing the end user and giving them a chance to object. For proprietary business information that's completely unacceptable. Reply
andyleung - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkHow easy is that to setup the same security that Gmail has into your own private cloud? How security your premises are? For SME, I think it's easy more secure on Gmail than hosting your own servers in office and owner "secured" information by using a regular passcode door or key lock one. Reply
LastingDamage - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkYou can just the Exchange part of BPOS for $5 an month.
Very poorly researched article, it should have showed the cost of say a 50 users on hosted against the cost of hardware, licenses and support over say 3 years. If you do that you find the cost start to go against the cloud.
Again just looks like an advert for Google and Amazon Reply
andyleung - Thursday, March 31, 2011 - linkActually it's the other way around. If you've done more researched, it's actually all against Exchange or your in-house or regular hosting model. If you just talk about cost of software itself, it may be arguable. If you put hardware and support into the formula, Cloud is obviously cheaper.
Hardware + Software: If you company grows, get more (but you have to remember all the cost of infrastructure upgrade including huge cost from network setup, load-balance and backup solution). Cloud? Pay $50/year for each extra user. From setup point of view, it's a 30 mins job to add 50 employee in GMail but 2 months project in Outlook. Time is money.
Support: This is just way to obvious. For setting up Exchange server, it takes tons of time to configure and test even you hire experts. Especially if you add AD into the game + individual Outlook configurations.
Plus, when time goes on, hardware + software + support will depreciate and so you have to constantly pool tons of money to keep it up. Cloud? Not your money, it's Google's money. Reply
echtogammut - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkAs someone who someone who deploys a number of these solutions, let me try to explain the pluses and minuses of cloud based services.
It is all about scalability and deployment scenarios. Johan is correct in his assertion that most small businesses will save more up front cap cost by deploying a hosted solution vs. a locally managed solution, but as a lot of you have pointed out there are many factors involved. Offices that are bandwidth limited or have sketchy connections may be better off with a local or hybrid solution. A hybrid solution combines have a local exchange server with a hosted or cloud based server.
Where most of my clients are seeing the biggest return is with home offices. Rather than expanding their local offices, they are hiring new employees and having them stay home. With solution like BPOS, Azure and cloud based CRM/ERM software solutions, companies are able expand their offices without having to spend the money on office space or the hardware that goes with that.
I have customers on both Google business solutions and Microsoft BPOS solutions and both have their positives. If Microsoft ever gets their Office 365 released (delayed till at least June/July according to some inside information), they will have a definite leg up over the competition. For companies with over 100 employees, I would always recommend a hybrid solution (i.e. local office Exchange server in addition to cloud), unless you have no centralized office. This gives your company offline access to exchange should your connection go down and helps manage bandwidth. As a side note, I am always amazed at the crappy deals companies have with their ISPs, I highly recommend revisiting your contract every 6 months and renegotiate or check for better deals. Sometimes if you complain loudly enough you can get serious discounts on 3-4 DSL lines, which, properly managed, should give most offices plenty of bandwidth.
After running my own hosted Exchange service, I recently switched my own company to BPOS and while it is not without its flaws, I have experience no major downsides and because I no longer have to open a VPN connector I have found it to be fair bit more convenient. Reply
Dug - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkWhy would you need a VPN connector? Unless you are running pre 2003.
Personally I think this whole cloud thing is just an alternative or a backup. More hype by marketing than anything, they are just trying to sell you something else. All it is is placing your services someplace else. I would never rely on it because of limitations.
The author talks about time spent on Exchange servers and the cost of admins. The admins are already an expense, and if done correctly, you shouldn't be touching the exchange server.
I prefer to have my hands on the data on site and have backups offsite. I know how long a bare metal restore is, but I can't get a guarantee from anyone with cloud services without spending tons of money.
It just depends on your needs and what other programs and services you are running. We looked at exchange in the cloud, but integrating with our crm, sap, and everything else is just not worth the time or cost. Reply
konstructa - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkYea I just switched a 5 person company to Google Business Free and it has restrictions on IMAP that are undocumented. The Google forum for free business services is a nightmare of confusion and stonewalling. Google Sync is not available for Mac and I can't get a straight answer from their forum on when it will be available. I suspect that they are going to get rid of the "Free under 50" program because they already have made the sign up very hard to find compared to how it was last year. Once you have to pay it could actually end up being more expensive then Exchange and your mail is spread on unknown servers around the world. They also data mine and no auto HTTPS for the free business Gmail. I am sorry but I feel Google is spread thin and possibly out of their league in a lot of the areas its been pushing into. Reply
iwod - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkWhat's that? Never heard of it? Reply
Penti - Monday, March 28, 2011 - linkhttp://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.htm... Reply
Linwood - Friday, April 15, 2011 - linkWheres the normal Anandtech meat and potatoes? "use linux its cheaper" and "Gmail saves money" Wheres some graphs for comparison? You mentioned hosted Exchange then never talked about its price, its an interesting article, but it's half completed at best.. Reply


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Much smaller than the ones in the 30's,Compare the parks he hit in with the parks of the 1930s or 1990s
That's right,strike what I said and reverse it.. that was my intention, having Mantle behind him was an advantage, as far as laws none broken.As far as I know, Maris broke no laws by playing baseball after expansion, or by batting behind Mantle-actually, didn't he hit in front of Mickey part of 1961?
I was just sayng that the performance by a guy who nver hit more than 39 before or after peaked my interest of why it happened, as does Bond's situation. I believe that he juiced, but I'm certainly also open to the other aspects causing a change as well.
Maris also feasted at the following hitters parks in 61.
Tiger Stadium .297/.381/.784 5 HR's 37 ab's
Fenway .257/.395/.600 5 HR's
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Notebook: Butler excited for next season
Published: Monday, April 15, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
A strong effort that saw her young team reach the semifinals of the Women's NIT, equaling the program's best postseason finish in history, has women's head basketball coach Amanda Butler looking ahead to next season.
UF, which fell to eventual WNIT champion Drexel 67-57 in Philadelphia April 3, was the last of the 11 SEC women's teams that reached the postseason (seven NCAA, four WNIT) to still be playing, finishing 22-15 overall with a team that loses only one senior, Jennifer George.
"We're just really excited and are already talking about next year," Butler said. "We just have a lot of positives to dwell on and build on, and that's where all of our energy is right now."
In addition to returning all eight of the other letterwinners from this past season headlined by junior Jaterra Bonds and freshman sensation Sydney Moss, the Gators will welcome four very talented players that had to sit out due to injury or transfer rules in redshirt freshmen Viktorija Dimaite and Cassie Peoples as well as freshmen Chandler Cooper and Antoinette Bannister.
This summer, UF will welcome 2013 McDonald's All-American Ronni Williams from Port Orange Atlantic High School, the state's No. 1 recruit who is ranked No. 13 nationally (ESPN) and is the highest-rated player to ever sign with the program.
WOMEN'S GOLF: First-year head coach Emily Bastel is excited about her team's chances of bringing home UF's first league title since 2008 at this weekend's SEC Championships.
UF last competed as a team at the Bryan National Collegiate Mar. 29-31, finishing fifth.
"We have high expectations," Bastel said. "We've gone back and forth with a lot of the top SEC schools this year in tournaments, beating them and vice-versa, so I think it's going to be a really exciting championship. There's a lot of teams that can play well, and we're definitely one of them."
This is the first year that the SEC Tournament will be held at a neutral site, with this year's tourney taking place at the Greystone Golf and Country Club in Birmingham, Ala., Friday through Sunday.
Second-ranked Alabama, the defending NCAA champion, is the favorite, but fifth-ranked Arkansas, No. 7 Florida and No. 9 Vanderbilt all bring top-10 rankings into this year's event.
WOMEN'S TENNIS: After grabbing a share of the 2013 regular season title with road wins at Kentucky and Vanderbilt over the weekend — the 27th SEC title in 34 years of competition for UF — the second-ranked Gators (19-2, 12-1) head to Starkville, Miss., for the SEC Tournament.
Play begins Wednesday, with UF's first match Friday at 6 p.m. against the winner of the match between Vanderbilt and the victor of the Kentucky-LSU contest.
Four of the nation's top eight squads (UF, No. 3 Texas A&M, No.4 Georgia, No. 8 Alabama) headline what will be a very tough field.
"There's no question we could go to this tournament and you could lose in the semifinals and still be a national championship caliber team," head coach Roland Thornqvist said. "That's the quality of the field at this event."
MEN'S TENNIS: No. 17 Florida capped the regular season with an SEC home sweep over the weekend, taking down No. 8 Kentucky, 4-3, Friday and following up with a 4-1 win over No. 13 Vanderbilt Sunday on Senior Day.
"We were excited about the weekend," first-year head coach Bryan Shelton. "A couple of weeks ago, we were looking at four tough matches, and we ended up winning three out of four matches over teams that were all ranked inside the top 15, including two top-10 teams. It's always good to finish strong."
UF (14-9, 7-5), which has won three matches in a row and five of its last six, will hope to carry that momentum into this week's SEC Tournament in Oxford, Miss., that begins Wednesday.
The Gators, the No. 3 seed, do not play until Friday at 10 a.m. when they take on the winner of the LSU-South Carolina match.
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Did you know?
Khayalethu Township is also home to a Rastafarian community in a section called Judah Square.
Khayalethu, the township that lies cheek-by-jowl with the Garden Route town of Knysna is a tumbled jumble of wooden shacks that are easy on the eye but hard to live in.
That's why, as your guide takes you through this large and colourful settlement, you'll come across swathes of recently built, modern houses beginning to replace the higgledy-piggledy timber dwellings of old.
Looking down from your lookout point in Khayalethu at the upmarket lagoon developments, you will see why they call Knysna the playground of the rich. And if you follow the journals of 18th Century naturalist Francois le Vaillant, you will know this is where adventurers sat around large fires and cooked exotic dishes like elephant foot for breakfast.
Today, Knysna is a popular tourist spot, with many seasons and festivals.
Penny Mainwaring and Ella Mhlalu are the people behind Emzini Tours. They met at the local Baptist church, hit it off as friends and then formed a business partnership. Penny markets, Ella guides and between them they raise funds for a soup kitchen and a safe house for abused women and children.
Another accomplished Khayalethu guide is Mawande Kondlo, who runs a B&B and a restaurant called The Roosterkoek Shack, named after a kind of griddle caked cooked over coals. This young, enterprising Denzel Washington-lookalike, will feed you chicken, chops and the local delicacies of pap (polenta) and chakalaka (spicy pickle) before you embark on your drive to the schools and projects of this vibrant township.
One of the highlights of a Khayalethu township tour is a visit to a place called Nekkies ('Little Necks'), also known as Little America. Here you'll meet a Ghanaian who cuts hair for a living, a Malawian tailor who has dreams of being a big businessman, Somalian shopkeepers and a Nigerian restaurateur who married a South African woman 10 years ago, and adds a touch of Lagos magic to his lunches.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Emzini Tours
Tel: +27 (0)44 382 1087
Cell: +27 (0)82 338 6289
How to get here
Your guide will meet you at your accommodations in Knysna.
Best time to visit
It's an all-year-round destination.
Around the area
The Garden Route and Tsitsikamma area is packed with adventure options and day drive choices.
Get around
Either in your guide's vehicle or, if you prefer, in your own.
What will it cost
About R450 per person negotiable, depending on how much time is spent.
Length of stay
Knysna is good for a whole week's holiday. Khayalethu is a half-day tour.
Where to stay
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Self-adaptive MEMS vibration energy harvester targets low frequencies
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CEA-Leti researchers are developing an innovative energy-harvesting technology that collects vibrations from the environment and converts them into electricity to power a variety of sensors.
A unique aspect of Leti's energy-harvesting microsystem is its ability to use vibrations of varying frequency and amplitude. Although it is easier to convert stable, highfrequency vibrations (over 1 kHz) into electrical energy than low frequency unstable ones, Leti has chosen to focus on harvesting low-frequency vibrations with varying frequencies and amplitudes. The reason for this choice is that many of the vibrations in natural and man-made environments are relatively low frequency (under 120 Hz), and often depend on energy sources of varying activity levels such as engine vibrations, vehicle speed, wind level, etc.
The output power of a vibration-driven energy harvester is directly proportional to the vibration amplitude and frequency of the energy source and to the size (seismic mass weight) of the harvester. Output power is inversely proportional to the harvester's frequency bandwidth. Consequently, it is much harder to efficiently harvest power from low-frequency sources with a large frequency band response and with a very small system size than from a stabilized high frequency vibration source.
Seeking better harvesters
With those challenges in mind, Leti (Laboratory for Electronic and Information Technologies of the French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission) set out to find a better way to maximize the output power of energy harvesters. The laboratory developed an electrostatic micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) structure capable of efficiently converting both low- and highamplitude vibrations into electrical energy, thanks to a unique patterned electrode structure – see figure 1.
Fig. 1: All three elements shown separately - The SiO2-based electret (purple slice) is to be mounted or patterned directly onto the MEMS seismic mass (shown standing). The whole assembly is then mounted a few micrometers away from the electrode glass plate (shown at the bottom with several electrode patterns) to form the vibration energy harvester.
This patented electrostatic structure translates the input vibration into multiple capacitance variations, which are used to convert the input vibration energy into electrical energy. When a constant charge is placed in the variable capacitor, the voltage varies in inverse proportion to the capacitance variation (capacitor voltage = charge/ capacitance) and the associated energy varies in proportion to this voltage:
In other words, a capacitance variation induces an energy variation, and that energy variation is used to supply the output load.
This type of structure differs from a piezoelectric structure in that the energy level converted per cycle by the electrostatic structure can be adjusted by adjusting the charge value and is not linked to a specific material property. If no charges are placed on the structure, no electrostatic forces will be applied to the structure. The structure is then free to move and no mechanical work is converted into electrical energy. However, if a large charge is placed on the structure, a large electrostatic force appears in the structure, preventing it from moving. As a result, the capacitance value remains constant and no electrical energy is delivered.
To maximize the output power, an optimum charge value is required that matches the mechanical impedance of the vibration source and the converter input.


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Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Sept. 27, 2005
Fairfax County Recognizes Its Award Winners
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors recognized county staff members Monday for their recent honors from the National Association of Counties and the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The National Association of Counties awarded Fairfax County with 11 Achievement Awards for modernizing, streamlining or expanding services to residents, and one Acts of Caring Award for volunteer programs. County staff members also were recognized for being honored as the No. 1 "Digital County" from the association and the Center for Digital Government, as well as winning a 2005 Governor's Technology Award from Virginia.
The following Fairfax County agencies earned accolades: Department of Family Services; Department of Finance; Department of Housing and Community Development; Department of Information Technology; Department of Management and Budget; Department of Planning and Zoning; Department of Public Works and Environmental Services; Department of Systems Management for Human Services; Department of Vehicle Services; Fire and Rescue Department; Health Department; Office of the County Executive; Office of Emergency Management; Office for Equity Programs; Office of Partnerships; and the office of the Providence District Supervisor.
For more information contact the Office of Public Affairs at 703-324-3187, TTY 711.
County staff members are recognized by the Board of Supervisors at its Sept. 26 meeting. (Photo/Fairfax County)


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Ok, the subject was kinda weird, i admit it. but that's the first thing i noticed when i saw his picture in the book. i was all like, "heeeyyy! look! he's got a rubix cube! 'the cube of rubix!' ha ha, copywrite..." next thing i noticed was his stance kinda defies gravity. next was that he had green hair and tht it was really long. if i didn't have my glasses, i'd think he was a girl. after playing white (or should i say, after having my brother who played it 24/7 tell me what happened) i was all like, "wow, he's, like, the nicest bad-guy ever or something"
so... yah... poor N. he had a horrible childhood and a weird name. me and my brother decided that "N" stood for "Norman" not because of any evidance, but because, 1) it's a funny name, and 2) just to be funny, it's after a chracter from TP. (if you watch the show, you should know what TP stands for and know the joke)
Amyroselove: I agree, but this page is only for the article. VesperOne121212 (talk) 18:01, July 20, 2012 (UTC)VesperOne121212
How come he never had Darmantitan on his team? He had that When he was a kid! Dialgaofpower 21:52, March 27, 2011 (UTC)
He just didn't use it...I think. ANX219 22:05, March 27, 2011 (UTC)
Age confusion!!
How old is N? What are your sources for his age? According to what I know, you can only guess by his appearance! I need some sources!
...yes, this definitely needs sources.
He is around 12 to 16 years old. I think 14. AbigailF (talk) 05:04, February 1, 2014 (UTC)
I just want you all to know that even though N and Ghetsis look similar it have never been officially confirmed if N is Ghetsis son or if they are relatives and in the game one of the Seven Sages said that nobody knows if N and Ghetsis actually related. also if they are relatives it doesn't necessarily mean they are father and son. Sapiro 10:18, July 4, 2011 (UTC)
They share the same surname and Ghetsis calls N 'son' in the Jap version. It's also stated in the game that Ghetsis raised N, so he's at least his adoptive father. Jazzcookie 13:06, July 4, 2011 (UTC)
I noticed something...
Umm... I noticed that the cube attached to N's belt has these weird green symbols on it. I was reading the Pokémon Black & White walkthrough book, and I saw that in the picture of him. ...I dunno if this is important, but...
So, this page should have a spoiler warning at its top! It totaly broke my fun of finding out who N is by myself... Pops16 16:50, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
- Well thats kinda what the wiki is for. finding out information. Slay Talk "Shadows wonder why we scream."17:03,6/16/2012 4,527
Haven't any one noticed that in the program there is no appearance or mention of team plasma(no counting giovanni). i though they would of come up being major characters and actually dissappionted about it.
(starshade) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Star shade123 (talk • contribs)
I really have no idea what you mean. Rainbow Shifter (Write to me) 14:53, October 14, 2012 (UTC)
Pokemon Black and White 2 Best Wishes N
I watch the pokemon episode off from anilink. It was episode 20 season 2 at 24:05, N was in the anime at the ending getting off a boat.Golden Manda (talk) 02:50, December 2, 2012 (UTC)
A Potentially canon identity to N (With supported evidence from the history of the Pokemon Franchise)
There is a major part of Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 version where you follow Zoroark into a cave in Victory Road that leads to the ruins of N's Castle. However, when you go into N's Castle, the Zoroark is nowhere to be found, and N is the only one there. When you with him to his throne room, even more evidence of his Zoroark being non-existant appears when he only has Reshiram in his party, when he clearly had a Zoroark in Black and White that was male. This has started a thoery that, unbeknownst to many, has a lot of evidence to back it up and just as much to not support it. Here's the list of the only known evidence that N may actually be a Zoroark:
- The same Zoroark was also a male backpacker in Pokemon Black 2 and White 2, meaning it may have started turning into people as a Zorua.
- N's ponytail bears a striking resemblence to Zoroark's.
- It would not be the first time a Pokemon was a trainer in the history of the Pokemon franchise in all departments. It was evidenced that Mewtwo could in the first movie. It must also be taken into consideration that, even in the games, a powerful enough Ditto can take the form of a human using transform or the ability Imposter, and become a trainer easily without anybody knowing its actual identity until it faints from a strong enough attack hitting it. This means any Pokemon could possibly become a trainer under certain limitations, be it the abilities Illusion or Imposter, the move Transform, or other special cases like Mewtwo's. (Who used cloned Pokemon)
- N desired the liberation of Pokemon so that humans and Pokemon could co-exist without the use of Poke Balls. This may be something many Pokemon also wish for, though they don't actually express it. N may have learned how to make telepathy work with lip synchronization for human transformations as a Zorua (should this thoery be proven true), so it is possible that if N actually is a male Zoroark then it was possible for him to fool even Ghetsis himself all this time.
- N could communicate with Pokemon as if he understood their language. This would be impossible for a normal human or Psychic trainer unless the average human spent a lot of time with them. Pokemon mainly understand each other's language, and learn to express themselves to humans over time. This means that it is most likely N may be a Zoroark since no human could possibly learn to communicate with Pokemon so quickly at very early ages in time.
- The fact that the Male Zoroark is completely nonexistant when you reach N's Castle played a huge part in this potentially canon debate.
But, N uses a male Zoroark in the final battle, disguised as a Vanilluxe. N is not a Zoroark.Bookworm314159265 (talk) 13:19, September 25, 2013 (UTC)
Voice actor?
Did they do the right thing in having Joshua Seth voice him? Personally, I think Vic Mignogna is the better choice for N.
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With the help of Bill Dunning, a former radio broadcaster and journalist, SFR caught up with the elusive Jolly Old Saint Nick, aka Santa Claus, by phone at his home in the North Pole. You can grill him yourself at the DeVargas Center (564 N Guadalupe St.) 4-7 pm until Dec. 18. He'll be there 10 am-5 pm from Dec. 18 through Christmas Eve.
SFR: Who is Bill Dunning and why do I have to go through him to reach you, Santa?
SC: He is Santa's agent in Santa Fe so that we can keep things a little better organized. He's not the best-organized fella in the world, but we kind of like the guy and the elves think he's kind of funny.
Do you have a real job or is being Santa a front for burglarizing houses?
Being Santa Claus is Santa's full-time job. I don't really have time for that.
Do kids have to believe in you to get gifts?
That's awfully hard sometimes to prove whether they do or don't. If the kids believe in Santa Claus, it makes it easier for them but, even if they don't, Santa believes in them. Santa even believes in you, sweetheart.
Do they have to believe in Jesus?
That is usually a separate issue, but it helps to believe in some manifestation of a higher power. When you get right down to it, it's that sort of higher power that not only gives Santa the ability to do what he does, but you and everybody else.
What about all those other Santas roaming around the country?
Santa is not a single individual the way you are. Santa is an idea; Santa is a concept. All of us at one time or another get to be Santa Claus in one way or other, and Santa gets to be a little bit of everyone else too. Because Santa is you, Santa is your parents, Santa is your uncles and aunts.
So then there's no 'real' Santa?
Everybody is real. You're real; the person at the next desk over there is real. So are those people walking down the sidewalk outside your office. So we're all real to the extent that we're all Santa Claus.
What's the worst thing that's ever happened while a kid sat on your lap?
Oh my goodness. Well, Santa has never had the fabled story of a kid having an accident. The worst thing that happens is when a kid's not sure what's happening and suddenly panics and starts crying…The all-time worst thing that happens is when mommy doesn't quite understand and loses her temper. It's a situation where we all have to be very patient.
How do you feel about the song 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus'?
All of the songs about Santa Claus are just a little bit embarrassing. I find I like the old Christmas songs best; maybe that's 'cause Santa is some 1,300, 1,400 years old.
What's the deal with the elves? Are they your slaves?
They're my friends. We all help out together. I was saying everybody is Santa Claus in some way and everybody is an elf too because elves are the folks who do the work and make things happen. And an awful lot of people are that kind of helper and Santa appreciates them very much.
Will I get what I want for Christmas if I don't know what I want?
Santa has a way of dealing with that. Because one of the most exciting things about Christmas morning is when you have a package under the tree and you don't know what it is, and you open it and it's a big surprise. That's what Santa can do when you're not sure what you want.
Thanks, Santa.
You remember to be a good kid. Don't worry. Be happy. Ho ho ho ho…


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Lynchburg Celebrates Liberty Hoops, Anticipates NCAA Tourneys
A crowd of Flames fans gathered outside the Craddock Terry Hotel in downtown Lynchburg Friday for a pep rally celebration as City Council and the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce congratulated Liberty University's men's and women's basketball teams on their recent Big South Conference championships and bids to the NCAA Tournaments.
In a proclamation by Mayor Michael A. Gillette, read by Vice Mayor Caesar Johnson, March 15, 2013, was announced as Liberty University's Men's and Women's Basketball Team Appreciation Day.
"Whereas both teams have earned tickets to the NCAA Tournament and whereas we are proud of these student athletes and their accomplishments and thank them for bringing March Madness to the City of Lynchburg … we wish the best of luck to the Flames, the Lady Flames, and their coaches, and advisors, and supporters, and cheerleaders, as they travel and compete in the Big Dance," Johnson said.
The news was met with applause and Johnson led the chant, "Go Flames go."
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