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I hated the Owen Wilson knock-off from The Cabin in the Woods. Why not get Owen himself? Who cares about his age?
They weren't dumb teens. They're all doing rather well in college and studying things like sociology etc. None of them start out as "jocks", "sluts" or "dumbasses", even the stoner character was pretty intelligent, albeit stoned a lot. The agency behind it all used chems to turn them into the dumb sterotypes we see in horror movies. The "slut" had chems in her hair dye, the "jock" was being drugged through beer and pheromones in the air.
The reason they were all teens was because historically, it's young people who were sacrificed to the god, not the elderly (probably no small part on it being the elders doing the sacrificing.)
*end-eth the spoiler*
Also, who was "the owen wilson" knock off? The stoner guy? He was one of my favourite characters. I didn't associate him with Wilson at all. It's probably worth noting however, that during the filming of Cabin in the Woods, Wilson was staying low key after a suicide attempt following personal issues.
I saw Crimson Tide yesterday and it was surprisingly good. Not to mention a bit ridiculous at times (the counter-counter-counterrevolution for one) but there were loads of powerful scenes, plus the potential beginning for the Pirates of the Caribbean theme for Hans Zimmer. Or it sounded quite a bit like that at least so...
I was surprisingly friendly towards the idea of the film though, and it does strike me that not everyone would have a similar attitude there. WWIII is a tricky topic after all, and starting one even more, especially given the politics were not that well explained to make everything obvious to the viewer but I was left happy enough. :)
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Just saw Prometheus. Loved it. The symbolism and allegory takes the film from summer blockbuster to another level. If only they had fixed the plot holes and glitches, and had better characterization and dialogue; this movie could have been one of the best films of the year.
The Expendables 2. My wife and I enjoyed it.
I'm going to watch Prometheus tonight!
Saw Looper yesterday; it was quite an entertaining movie. Anyone else find children creepy after watching it?The Medallion of the Imperial Psychopath, a Napoleon: Total War AAR
The Red Blades, a Battle Brothers AAR
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As for the "Owen Wilson" guy (seriously? He is ten times better than that), he is Fran Kranz. He was previously in Whedon's Dollhouse playing Topher, the tech guy. He had some of the best scenes in that show too. Don't know anything else he has done though.
As for Looper, I saw that last week and quite enjoyed it. The plot is completely nonsensical, but you don't question the time mechanics too much whilst watching and it is fun while it lasts. I could have done with the farmhouse section being cut down a bit though.
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Just watched Tim & Eric's Million Dollar Movie a couple of nights ago. It was funny but really depressing. Walked away with a bit of a bitter taste. I still love them, though.
Last night, finally got around to watching Network (1976) and oh my God. One of my top 20 films, I think. Just a brilliant, brilliant script and every actor nailed it. So much epic monologue.
Edit: Oh, wait, and like half a week ago I saw Taken 2 as a joke with a bunch of friends. Thankfully, it was more than shite enough to be geniunely hilarious most of the time. Was also nice to see the rest of the cinema laughing at it, too, thus not making us spoilsport dicks.
So this evening was Looper evening. It's like Inception in that it's a very well stitched together film that's highly enjoyable, but I highly, highly doubt it'd stand up under repeat viewing. My problem with Looper is that its internal logic makes not a blind bit of sense. It uses so many different ideas of time travel that all start to contradict each other that as soon as the end happens, you realise there's a massive hole in logic. Still, it has some moments:
-It plays with cause & effect pretty well at times. The best parts are generally little things, whilst the worst, as stated above, break all kinds of logic.
-The make-up on Joseph Gordon-Levitt is very convincing and a good few shots as him as a younger Bruce Willis work eerily well.
-Bruce Willis kicks ass.
I've seen a good few films at the cinema this year, more than I have for a bit. I have good hopes for Skyfall and the trailer for the film Argo that was attached to Looper looked interesting, but I have to say my film of the year so far remains The Muppets (others include The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises, The Bourne Legacy).
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"This... Time travel stuff, just fries your brain like an egg."
I understood it like this (whited out):
If time isn't linear, it should work like this: Young Bruce and Old Bruce I exist at the same time, Old Bruce I gets sent back into time to get shot by Young Bruce, who then becomes Old Bruce II, and he travels back in time, too, but is luckier. By travelling in this loop, he does indeed meet himself. Do you think it could work like that, or can you give me an example for a break in logic?
Or to say it with the words of someone far wiser than me: It's all "wibbly-wobbley, timey-wimey...stuff."
Looper is one of those rare movies that I would recommend to basically everyone. It's that good.
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You know that scene in the diner where old'un tells young'un to basically fuck off with trying to figure out how time travel works? That's the creators of the film talking to the audience, asking them to just enjoy the movie. The film is a great one that uses time travel as a way to tell a great story. The story is important, not the science of time travel.
I don't believe it can. What you're working with in Looper are several time-travel hypothesis, which is why the logic gets so flawed. Looper establishes, first, stable time loops. That is, a Looper will do their stuff, then live, then be sent back and killed by their younger self. This is a guarantee. If you want another, extremely prominent example, think Terminator. It's self-fulfilling, ie. a paradox. Now, a paradox can only be broken by something outside of the cycle; there is nothing to indicate this can happen.
We are presented with divergent time-lines, or perhaps parallel universes (another popular theory with Looper). The problem with that is that cause-and-effect is clearly demonstrated throughout the film; take for example the Looper at the beginning of the film. The problem with him is, due to what happens to him, there's no way he could've come back through time when he was older, at least he was in the state he was when he did come through because, well...you saw what happened to him.
So as you can see, we already have three ideas; paradoxes/stable time loops, parallel universes/alternate time-lines and cause-and-effect. Now, you could perhaps have two of these at once, perhaps in a way of showing how things could change, or how one of them ends up being broken; this is one of the main problems with any time travel story, that you have to assume that, depending on where you are in any cycle, that it has happened before, will happen again and so on, to the Nth amount of times (presumably infinitely, but let's not go any further down the rabbit hole).
Now you have the ending of the film. Yes, you could argue it's an alternative time-line, but then it calls into questions other events that happen in the film. It can't be a stable-time-loop, because, well...that's quite literally eliminated. It can't be cause-and-effect, however at the same time it is cause and effect because the events unfold differently to how they have happened before. The problem in this comes from how that was triggered, which I thought was a bit of an ass-pull too.
The problem time-travel stories have is that they're already working with a purely theological idea that has many issues and consequences etc. The solution, therefore, is to keep it as simplistic as possible and to eliminate as many conflicts as possible. Looper, however, seems to revel in this and throws everything at the wall to see what sticks. Its own internal logic, the rules of its universe, is completely flawed. The ending needs to happen and not happen at the same time for it to, well, happen.
Or to say it with the words of someone far wiser than me: It's all "wibbly-wobbley, timey-wimey...stuff."
Looper is one of those rare movies that I would recommend to basically everyone. It's that good.
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Thanks for the answer, I read a lot of comments that said the time travel in Looper didn't make any sense, but nobody cared to explain their position.
Well I'm all for backing up my a discussion point, so no worries there. And, ultimately, you're right. It shouldn't detract from the enjoyment of the film, which I've hopefully made apparent, I didn't find lacking. The direction and presentation was slick, the action was shot well, Bruce Willis was Bruce Willis...you couldn't really have asked for too much more for what it was. Some films don't need to make sense to work, although I do find it helps!
If it detracts from anyone's enjoyment, that's fine with me. It is, after all, a valid point of criticism. There are people who don't like the Lord of the Rings because they say the landscape makes the film, and while I don't think that's important, it's certainly a valid point.
On another note though, have you seen Donnie Darko, and what did you think of that?
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LoTR and Donnie Darko I enjoyed upon seeing them, but on reflection think they were pretty dull or bad. LoTR has a lot of ground to cover, ground I've admittedly never read the source material of, but it can drag on for so damn long. It also comes across as being unnecessarily hammy at times. I remember watching Return of the King with a couple of housemates at uni and we spent most of it making fun of what was going on. In LoTR's defence, it does have a spectacular scale, but I don't believe I could sit through the trilogy now 'seriously', whilst I could probably enjoy it considerably if I was able to sit through it mocking it. When it hits its stride though, it can be great.
For Donnie Darko, my problem is the choice at the ending. Putting aside all ideas of time travel, because the whole damn film is so bloody weird that it feels perfectly acceptable, [spoiler]the fact that at the end he's happy to set everything right...but let himself die?[/spoiler] Perhaps it's supposed to be a great character dilemma - how do you know what they're thinking? And so on. My problem with that is that there is no indication prior that he would even consider this as a course of action to take. Sure he has some problems, but it just seems odd. There's absolutely no reason why he couldn't have done all he had and averted his 'fate'. For me, that undoes a lot of the film. The more I've thought about it, the more I've disliked that too.
Despite that, I enjoyed a fair bit of the dialogue, the tone and characters. Also, I'd be far more willing to sit through it again than any of the LoTR films because it's been a good few years since I saw it and I might have misunderstood some of the content when I was younger. I wouldn't be surprised if I missed something integral to the ending that I've discussed, although I don't believe that's the case.


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The Secretary of State for Justice has agreed to consider a dangerous driving crackdown being called for by an Otley family and its MP.
MP Greg Mulholland (Lib Dem, Leeds North West) has been fighting for years alongside the family of Jamie Still, who died after being hit by a speeding drink-driver, to get the law changed.
The 16-year-old St Mary's School, Menston, student was struck by a car in Otley town centre on New Year's Eve, 2010.
The over-the-limit driver responsible, Max McRae, was jailed for four years – but had been allowed to keep driving for eight months after Jamie's death, up until his trial.
Mr Mulholland raised the issue again this week in the House of Commons. Addressing the Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling MP, he said: "If someone is breathalysed and found to be over the limit their driving licence can be suspended straight away.
"However, if someone is found to be over the limit and kills somebody it can take months.
"That was the experience of the family of Jamie Still, whose killer drove for eight months after killing him in 2010.
"Prosecutors do not ask for the suspension of a driving licence in a case of death by criminal driving.
"What discussions will the Secretary of State have with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) about that?"
Mr Grayling replied that he we would "take the matter forward" and look carefully at it.
Judges already have the power to impose a driving licence suspension as a bail condition, but only if prosecutors request it – which rarely happens.
Mr Mulholland, Jamie's family and road safety charity Brake are all campaigning for tougher laws to make an automatic licence suspension a bail condition in cases of causing death by careless or dangerous driving.
But the MP believes that even getting prosecutors to start requesting the suspension, and judges to start granting it as a matter of course, would be "a big step forward".
He said: "It is ridiculous that whilst someone found to be over the drink-drive limit rightly loses their driving licence straight away, someone over the limit who has killed someone with their car does not and are allowed to carry on driving.
"This is what happened to Jamie's family, who had to endure the additional distress of Jamie's killer driving in the same area for eight months.
"Other families must not have to endure this on top of the pain of losing a loved one as a result of someone's reckless, criminal driving.
"This needs to be tackled, ideally with an automatic driving licence suspension as a condition of bail – but in the meantime the Ministry of Justice and CPS must ensure prosecutors are clear they should ask judges to suspend licences.
"I am pleased the Secretary of State has agreed to discuss it further. I look forward to meeting him and putting across the concerns of Jamie's family and others who have found themselves in this awful situation."
Last summer Jamie's sister, Rebecca, handed in a 13,000-signature petition to Downing Street.


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The whole ambience of the camp is colonial: its timeless tranquillity symbolised by the brightly gleaming brass doorknobs and the authentic furniture from years gone by. Inside the spacious main lodge, stuffed heads of animal trophies peer down on big comfortable couches and gleaming wooden floors.
Outside the cottages, potted ferns stand beside old style wooden benches, with hurricane lamps swinging above them.
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But if you've chosen Sabi Sand Game Reserve it's the fabulous game you've really come to see. The Big Five are all here, plus scores of other creatures. Your highly trained ranger and Shangaan tracker will take you on early morning and evening game drives where you are witness to some of South Africa's best game sightings.
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After successfully claiming both team titles at Saturday's Big South Cross Country Championships, Liberty head coach Brant Tolsma and redshirt senior Josh Edmonds recapped the meet with Nick Pierce.
The Lady Flames started the day in Blacksburg, Va. by claiming their fourth Big South title in the last five years. Jennifer Klugh won the individual title, Dacia Bushman came in third and Hailey Neal was fourth, highlighting Liberty's 25-point victory over Coastal Carolina.
The Liberty men's team then followed suit, recording its sixth consecutive Big South crown by a 33-45 margin over High Point. Sam Chelanga, Evans Kigen and Edmonds swept the top three spots in the individual standings to punctuate the team victory.
Edmonds, also recognized as Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year, joined an exclusive club with his third-place finish. He and Josh McDougal are the only two runners in program history ever to earn All-Big South honors four times during their college career.
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In addition to listening to Tolsma and Edmonds discuss Saturday's meet, fans can also watch a video highlight package from the Big South Cross Country Championships, courtesy of the Big South Network. The link is available at the top of this release.
At the conclusion of Saturday's meet, numerous Big South coaches were complimentary of Liberty's efforts.
Speaking about the Lady Flames, Coastal Carolina head coach Alan Connie stated, "My hat is off to Liberty for putting together a great race today from top to bottom to earn the Big South championship."
VMI head coach Paul Spangler added, "All you can control in cross country is yourself, and today, Liberty and Coastal deserved to go 1-2."
Moving on to the men's race, High Point head coach Mike Esposito noted, "Liberty, up front, is about as good as anyone in the country."
Looking Ahead
Approximately 10 Flames and Lady Flames will close out their 2010 cross country season Friday, when they travel to Charlottesville, Va., for the Cavalier Open. The men's 8K will get things started at 4 p.m., with the women's 5K scheduled to follow at 4:45.
Meanwhile, Liberty's top seven men's and women's runners will take this weekend off from competition. They are preparing for the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championships, Nov. 13 in Louisville, Ky. The women's 6K race will begin at 10 a.m. and the men's 10K will go off at 11:15, at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park.


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The software patching configuration built into most operating systems is configured to open a box at home, join your network and start using the computer right away. As environments grow from homes to offices and then offices grow into enterprises, at some point software updates and patches need to be managed centrally. Mountain Lion, as with its OS X Server predecessors has a Software Update service. The service in the Server app is known as Software Update and from the command line is known as swupdate.
The Software Update service, by default, stores each update in the /var/db/swupd directory. The Software Update servie is actually comprised of three components. The first is an Apache server, invoked by the /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.swupdate.host.plist LaunchDaemon. This LaunchDaemon invokes a httpd process and clients access updates from the server based on a manifest of updates available in the sucatalog. These are synchronized with Apple Software Updates via /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/swupd_syncd, the LaunchDaemon for swupdate at /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.swupdate.sync.plist. The Apache version is now Apache/2.2.22.
Clients can be pointed at the server then via a Profile or using the defaults command to edit the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist file. The contents of this file can be read using the following command:
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
To point a client to a server via the command line, use a command such as the following:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://updates.krypted.com:8088/index.sucatalog
But first, you'll need to configure and start the Software Update service. Lucky you, it's quick (although quick in a hurry up and wait kind of way). To get started, open the Server app and then click on the Software Update service.
By default, updates are set to simply mirror the Apple servers, by default, enabling each update that Apple publishes, effectively proxying updates. You can use the Manual button if you would like to configure updates to either manually be approved and manually synchronized or just manually approved but automatically copied from Apple. Otherwise click on the ON button and wait for the updates to cache to simply mirror the Apple servers.
If you would like to manually configure updates, click on the Manual option and then click on the Updates tab.
The first item in the Updates tab is the "Austomatically download new updates" checkbox. This option downloads all of the updates but does not enable them. The Updates tab also displays all available updates. click on one and then click on the cog-wheel icon towards the bottom of the screen to configure its behavior (Download, Enable, Disable, Remove and View Update).
Note: The only option for updates in an Automatic configuration environment is disable.
The service can be managed using serveradmin. To start Software Update, use the start option, followed by the swupdate service identifier:
sudo serveradmin start swupdate
To stop the service, replace start with stop:
sudo serveradmin stop swupdate
To see the status of the service, including the location of updates, the paths to log files, when the service was started and the number of updates running, use the fullstatus option:
sudo serveradmin fullstatus swupdate
The output of which appears as follows:
swupdate:state = "RUNNING"
swupdate:lastChecktime = 2012-08-04 17:04:45 +0000
swupdate:syncStatus = "DONE"
swupdate:syncServiceState = "RUNNING"
swupdate:setStateVersion = 1
swupdate:lastProductsUpdate = 2012-08-04 17:07:10 +0000
swupdate:logPaths:swupdateAccessLog = "/var/log/swupd/swupd_access_log"
swupdate:logPaths:swupdateErrorLog = "/var/log/swupd/swupd_error_log"
swupdate:logPaths:swupdateServiceLog = "/var/log/swupd/swupd_syncd_log"
swupdate:readWriteSettingsVersion = 1
swupdate:checkError = no
swupdate:pluginVers = "10.8.91 (91)"
swupdate:updatesDocRoot = "/var/db/swupd/"
swupdate:hostServiceState = "RUNNING"
swupdate:autoMirror = no
swupdate:numOfEnabledPkg = 0
swupdate:servicePortsAreRestricted = "NO"
swupdate:numOfMirroredPkg = 0
swupdate:autoMirrorOnlyNew = no
swupdate:startTime = 2012-08-04 17:04:45 +0000
swupdate:autoEnable = no
There are also a number of options available using the serveradmin settings that aren't exposed to the Server app. These include a feature I used to use a lot in the beginning of deployments with poor bandwidth, only mirroring new updates, which is available to swupdate via the autoMirrorOnlyNew option. To configure:
sudo serveradmin settings swupdate:autoMirrorOnlyNew = yes
Also, the service can throttle bandwidth for clients. To use this option, run the following command:
sudo serveradmin settings swupdate:limitBandwidth = yes
And configure bandwidth using the syncBandwidth option, as follows:
sudo serveradmin settings swupdate:syncBandwidth = 10
To automatically sync updates but not enable them (as the checkboxes allow for in the Server app, use the following command:
sudo serveradmin settings swupdate:autoEnable = no
The port (by default 8088) can be managed using the portToUse option, here being used to set it to 80 (clients need this in their catalog URL from here on out):
sudo serveradmin settings swupdate:portToUse = 80
Finally, administrators can purge old packages that are no longer needed using the PurgeUnused option:
sudo serveradmin swupdate:PurgeUnused = yes
One of the biggest drawbacks of the Software Update service in OS X Mountain Lion Server in my opinion is the fact that it does not allow for serving 3rd party packages, from vendors such as Microsoft or Adobe. To provide those vendors with a manifest file and a quick little path option to add those manifest files, a nice middle ground could be found between the Mac App Store and the built in software update options in OS X. But then, we wouldn't want to make it too easy.
Another issue many have had is that users need administrative passwords to run updates and don't have them (technically this isn't a problem with the OS X Server part of the stack, but it's related). While many options have come up for this, one is to just run the softwareupdate command for clients via ARD or a similar tool.
Many environments have used these issues to look at tools such as reposado or third party patch management tools such as JAMF Software's the Casper Suite (JAMF also makes a reposado-based VM that mimics the swupdate options), FileWave, Absolute Manage and others. Overall, the update service in Mountain Lion is easily configured, easily managed and easily deployed to clients. It is what it needs to be for a large percentage of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) Server administrators. This makes it a very viable option and if you've already got a Mountain Lion computer sitting around with clients not yet using a centralized update server, well worth enabling.
Note: Managing multiple Software Update Servers has changed in OS X Mountain Lion Server, see my previous post for more information on these changes.
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STUNNING views and luxurious furnishings will greet visitors to the Worcester city centre Premier Inn after the ribbon was cut at its official opening.
The 120-room hotel at Worcestershire County Cricket Club's New Road ground opened for business on Monday, January 27 and the chain now hopes its launch party can be followed by some sport-inspired success.
Not only does the venue rub shoulders with its cricketing neighbours but it also lies near the University of Worcester Arena and Worcester Racecourse, meaning it could prove a hit with sport fans.
Mayor of Worcester, cllr Pat Agar, performed the ceremonial duties at the hotel and Thyme restaurant today (Friday) and along with the budget hotel chain's staff, she thinks it will bowl over visitors.
Cllr Agar said: "It's a wonderful addition. We have long needed a hotel of quality in the centre of town and this fits the bill. It has two magnificent views with the cricket pitch on one side and the river and cathedral on the other.
"It is right in the heart of our sporting community in Worcester. I think Premier Inn will do tremendously well and I look forward to it thriving. It has certainly be needed for some time and it is nice to see it come into being."
The hotel's operations manager Sarah Hall says although the flooding delayed the launch it did not affect the building due to its design seeing it raised up on stilts and bookings are now looking "very strong" during the week and at weekends.
"It's fantastic to finally officially open the hotel to Worcester. As soon as the cricket season starts it will be mayhem, but good mayhem, and we are really excited for it all to kick in."
Diners and drinkers in the Thyme restaurant can marvel at close-up views of the cricket pitch, with New Road widely regarded as the most picturesque cricket ground in the country.
While the bedrooms also overlook the pitch along with views across to the Malvern Hills and out to Worcester Cathedral, the river Severn and the rooftops of the city centre.
The budget chain says the hotel has created 40 new jobs for Worcester residents and will contribute £8 million to the local economy.
The hotel adjoins a new hospitality building which opened at the cricket club last September.


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Notes: The authors show that substitution of alanine for the conserved glycine 224 of Nog1, a eukaryotic GTPase, disrupts assembly of pre-60S ribosome subunits but does not significantly affect GTP binding. Amino acids 1–357 of Nog1 (Nog1NG) were expressed with an N-terminal biotinylated tag in E. coli, then purified using the SoftLink™ Soft Release Avidin Resin. The resin was incubated with the cleared lysate for 2 hours with mixing and washed with B300 buffer (25mM Tris-HCl [pH7.4], 10mM MgOAc2, 10% glycerol, 0.05% Brij 30, 1mM dithiothreitol, 300mM KOAc) and B1000 buffer (25mM Tris-HCl [pH7.4], 10mM MgOAc2, 10% glycerol, 0.05% Brij 30, 1mM dithiothreitol, 1M KOAc). Purified protein was eluted with B300 buffer containing 5mM biotin, and the protein was concentrated and biotin removed by ultracentrifugation. The protein was estimated to be 95% pure by SDS-PAGE. GTP-binding assays were performed by UV cross-linking purified Nog1NG and [α-32P]-GTP, recovering the protein by binding to SAM2 Biotin Capture Membrane and quantifying the amount of GTP bound using a Phosphorimager. (3804)
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Notes: The authors compared the transformation potency of five Bcr-Abl kinase domain mutants. They found reproducible differences in the transformation potency of these five mutants, and they investigated whether these potencies could be explained by changes in kinase activity by performing in vitro kinase assays using a biotinylated peptide substrate. Assays were carried out using varying peptide substrate concentrations. The reactions were stopped, and aliquots of each reaction were transferred to the SAM2® Biotin Capture Membrane. Membranes were dried and phosphate incorporation was determined by scintillation counting. (3505)
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LUCKY schoolchildren from Drove Primary School were treated to a school dinner with a difference yesterday.
A group of 28 youngsters were taken to the Lalbagh Restaurant in Rodbourne where they were able to make traditional Indian food, before tucking into the feasts they put together with their own hands.
On the menu was chicken Tikka, onion bhajis and naan bread, all prepared with help from the pupils from the reception class.
The day was part of a school topic being run by Drove to help teach the children, aged between four and five, all about different cultures, something which is very important to the school.
"We are running a monthly topic on cultures because we are a school with pupils from many different cultural backgrounds," said Emma Rudman, who is a reception teacher.
"We asked the children about what things they would like to learn about and a couple of them said food so we have come here so they can learn all about how Indian food is prepared.
"In the kitchen they all got to help out with making the naan bread which they all seemed to enjoy and then they all seemed to like the food after.
"It has been a fantastic experience and it's been nice to have some lovely food. The Lalbagh has been very good to us and we are grateful for their help."
During today and tomorrow the rest of the year group will get to head down to the restaurant to try their hand in the kitchen.
"Many of the children will have seen the food or been to an Indian restaurant before but never had chance to make it for themselves," said Emma.
"For some of them though they will never have seen this so it is great to be able to get some hands on experience which they will most likely not get elsewhere.
"Next week we are going to ask all the children to bring in some item of food from home so we can have a look at lots of different foods from different cultures."
It is the first time the restaurant has hosted children from a school but the joint owner has said he is happy to do it again.
Abdul Kahhar said: "It is good for the children to see how traditional Indian food is cooked and prepared so we have invited the school down here to see how everything is put together.
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1933-39: Since Eszter could speak many languages, including Hungarian, Yiddish, Romanian, Italian, French, and Hebrew, she felt at home in Cristuru-Secuiesc, which was located in the multi-ethnic Romanian region of Transylvania. During the 1930s Cristuru-Secuiesc was renamed I.G. Duca in honor of a slain Romanian leader. While her husband, Jeno, ran a jewelry and watch shop, Eszter stayed at home raising their young children.
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1940-44: The Hungarians marched into Cristuru-Secuiesc in September 1940 and annexed it to Hungary. New laws were instituted limiting the rights of Jews. Eszter's children were expelled from public school; her husband was forced to keep his shop open on the Jewish sabbath and, finally, to surrender control to a non-Jewish employee. In the spring of 1944 the Braun family was forced to move into a ghetto established by Hungarian officials and the couple's two eldest sons were drafted into the Hungarian army as conscript labor.
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A Comment on PC Gaming Battery Lifeby Vivek Gowri on 3/30/2013 8:35 AM EST
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TouchPadKing - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkI wonder how long the battery life on this and the Surface Pro would be. if they'd used Intel's new 10-13watt tdp chips... Reply
Flunk - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkI don't think they'd be much better, Intel's "10-13" watt rating are based on a new rating system that's more marketing than technology. Reply
TouchPadKing - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkTheir SDP for the 10-13watt TDP processors is 7watts; http://www.anandtech.com/show/6655/intel-brings-co... Reply
jeffkibuule - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkThat's not really the problem. When I was doing some crude battery life testing on the Surface Pro, my results showed that total platform power when the system is idle and drawing the least amount of power reasonably possible (min brightness, idle CPU, but WiFi on), it only lasted 8hrs and 13 min. Compare that to an iPad 4 with a similar battery at 50% brightness, WiFi on, and typical web surfing/app use which gets 10hrs and you see that Ivy Bridge chews up too much power at idle where ideally a system should be spending most of its time after Turbo Boost kicks in to finish a task. From what I understand Haswell's real power efficiencies come far better regulating power consumption through a combination of on-chip voltage regulators as well as modifications to firmware of non-Intel chips on a motherboard to get Intel's claim of 20-fold reduction in idle power consumption (it's a prominent point on an Intel Ppwerpoint from IDF last year).
With all of these changes, Intel's Haswell Ultrabook certification bumps tested battery life from 5 hours with SB/IVB to 9 hours with Haswell. Proof will be in the pudding, so to speak. Reply
This Guy - Sunday, March 31, 2013 - linkWhat's the price of eggs in china?
Four hours improvement in idle time! I think I'm gonna have to upgrade the old AMD c-50 tablet soon :) Reply
Nexing - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkBeing April, I guess the news may be blown. Haswell's family real power efficiency comes from Intel (finally) switching the chipset lithography from 90nm to 22nm... Adding inboard regulating voltage capacity and deeper idle management gets them to figures nearing 70% of better battery life on mainly CPU oriented tests. Reply
UpSpin - Saturday, March 30, 2013 - linkThere won't be a significant difference at all. The power consuming device while playing is NOT the CPU, but the GPU. Reply
TerdFerguson - Sunday, March 31, 2013 - linkThe battery life is on par with the rest of the mobile gaming experience - awful. Even when selecting parts with the same names (video card model numbers, processor families) or specifications (HD RPM speeds), "gaming" laptops are horribly overpriced and underpowered. Every single vendor seems to feel justified selling subpar parts at premium prices when said parts are destined for mobile platforms. It's no great shock, then, that the gaming experience falls short. Reply
flyingpants1 - Sunday, March 31, 2013 - linkLenovo Y580 is available for as low as $800 and it rules. Reply
designerfx - Monday, April 01, 2013 - link$800 for a subpar experience. The point is nothing today delivers a great experience, and Turd is quite correct about that. Reply
extide - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkThat's not true, you can get a very good gaming experience on a Clevo P150EM laptop with a 680M. Reply
flyingpants1 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkNormally I'd agree but I think the Y580 is an exception. It is based on a quad-core i7, GTX660M, and has 6GB/750GB. It will play BF3 or whatever you like, all day. And it's only $800. That's not much really more than your typical i5/HD graphics/4GB/500GB which kick around for $600. You're basically adding a dGPU that can handle 90% of the games out there for $100-200.
I wouldn't call that subpar. Maybe par. Not amazing.. but not subpar, and definitely not "awful". For PC gamers who need a laptop anyway, for college or whatever, it's probably the best product on the market.
I think the Y580 should have received a lot more attention. The Razer Blade whatever $2500 laptop had equivalent specs and cost 3x more, and Anandtech only published 18 articles about it. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkRidiculous. Any midrange notebook components run today's games well. Any high end ones run today's games REALLY REALLY well. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkUgh, this again? Gaming on notebooks is fantastic. It has ALWAYS been that mobile parts cost more and aren't as fast as desktop parts. But so what? They can still be high end, and mid or high end notebook components run games FANTASTICALLY. They aren't "underpowered" Reply
rootheday - Sunday, March 31, 2013 - linkVivek- at GDC Intel announced new drivers coming in the next week or so should improve performance/watt. Perhaps you could retry the ultrabook when that comes out to see if it either results in better battery life OR better performance at the same battery life? Reply
marc1000 - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkHi Vivek. what do you think about turning on VSYNC on these portable devices? As the GPU would have less "wasted" job to do (locking the max FPS to 60), it should have a reasonable impact on power comsumption. Would it be significant or too small? Reply
extide - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkI was also thinking about this myself. It would certainly help out the ones with faster GPU's and in a way put them on a more level playing field, as they would all be doing the same amount of work; as opposed to saddling the faster GPU's with more work. Reply
Death666Angel - Monday, April 01, 2013 - linkTwo of the games tested had below 60 FPS performance. One had above 60 FPS performance. And four had about 60 FPS performance. If the game is behaving well with V-Sync enabled (read: lag is not too high) and it is a high performer, then you can get a few minutes by enabling it. Anything recent though and you won't even hit the 60 FPS necessary for V-Sync to help anything. Also, I have no idea about the Optimus capabilities of the Edge (have posted a comment about this in the review), but if it has Optimus, in those high-performance cases disabling the dGPU and using the iGPU for easy games might yield more battery life. Reply
marc1000 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linknice point about using the iGPU for light games. but for vsync it will drop the framerate even on games where it is already below 60 fps, because it will make the gpu match the display refresh rate, so if a frame is ready a fraction of time later the time a refresh happens then it will have to wait for the next refresh to display. and the gpu will be doing less work during this time. anyway, I don't know if this would be enough of a difference, but I think it is worth a shot to see. Reply
VivekGowri - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkI think the review should have covered that part (or I thought it did at least), but yes, the Edge has Optimus like pretty much everything else Intel+Nvidia over the last couple of years. I never really tried turning off dGPU in games, though that would definitely help with older games where framerates wouldn't tank. Reply
marc1000 - Thursday, April 04, 2013 - linkthanks for answering our comments, Vivek! regards, Reply
jasonelmore - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linki think you left out a key part in the future of mobile gaming. Battery Technology. We are constantly asking vendors to make more power efficient chips and displays, but we always seem to forget about the battery manufacturers.
They need to push the envelope and create new more efficient batteries. Imagine if it were like chips, and we see a 30% increase in performance at the same wattage every year. Year after year, those gains would stack up, 3 years time your looking at a 100% increase. I just wanna see battery technology get better, and so many companies seem to focus on component power consumption. Naturally chips will use less power over time, but the gap needs to be closed from both ends. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkGood point. What happened to super capacitors? What happened to these new lithiom ion batteries that supposedly charge in minutes and have orders of magnitude more recharge cycles? They get talked about and then...we're just back to lame old regular lithium Reply
protomech - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkMoore's Law isn't broadly applicable to anything we'd like, just because it happens to be associated with technology. Batteries have improved substantially, but the process has been gradual.
10 years ago I bought a Powerbook G4, the first aluminum model. 46 Wh battery, weighed about a pound as I recall. Real battery life was around 4.5 hours, so average power consumption was around 10 watts.
Now you can buy a Retina Macbook Pro 15", 85 Wh battery, probably also weighs about a pound. Real battery life is around 7 hours, so average power consumption is around 12 watts.
So actually even with the huge improvements in power efficiency and power efficiency, Apple (as an example) has an average design power that's even higher than it was 10 years ago.. because the batteries have improved (and more of the chassis interior is dedicated to them) to allow it.
If Apple integrated the iPad 4's SOC (> 2x as fast as PB G4 btw) and display into a notebook chassis (as Google is wont to do) and repurposed the rMBP battery, then you'd probably see 16-18 hours of battery life. Presumably they're relatively happy with the rMBP battery life, given other design constraints. Reply
Tams80 - Thursday, April 04, 2013 - linkI really wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers of battery technology were trying their hardest to make more efficient batteries.
If anything, the development of components is an anomaly, not battery development. Moore's Law is likely the exception not the rule and therefore to hold other technological development to it's speed is rather unfair.
Not it isn't worth trying, as if no one tries, we see slower development! Reply
Nexing - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkAn important consideration is that Ion Lithium batteries have a longer life when their recharge cycle is applied before they go below 20-30% depletion. There's no memory effect on this type.
As opposed to Ni-Me or Ni-Cad ones, that need to be depleted before recharge, in order to attain longer life.
Few people seems to know this and it is seldom divulged by the specialized press, let alone the consumer channels.
Since from Haswell we'll really start to talk about "all-day" or "day's work" battery life, it seems appropriate to bring this usage practice to the table (and the equations). Reply
Nexing - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkAlso, I understand these tests have been performed down to the depletion point, usually set at critical level 7-8%, hence, this parameter might be changed to include the long term efficiency of this article figures. Reply
TrackSmart - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThank you for this clarifying post. I agree with the author's comment about the Edge being "hard to knock for battery life" when comparing against similar hardware. But this product does not exist in a vacuum. There are other platforms for mobile gaming (outside of the PC realm) that deliver an enjoyable experience while providing considerably longer battery life and better portability.
While the Edge is a technological accomplishment, I really question where this device fits in the grand scheme of mobile gaming. If you want to play your favorite PC games on a trip, your airport time plus flight time had better under 2.5 hours. That's not true portability.
I'd rather see game makers make higher-quality games for low-power mobile platforms. I don't need bleeding edge graphics to enjoy a game. The graphical fidelity that today's smartphones can provide is "good enough" for enjoyment while on the go. The problem is a lack of quality games and quality controls (i.e. non-touchscreen controls). I don't think it will be long before both of those problems get solved. Reply
VivekGowri - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkWell, it's not like you're going to be playing PC games on a competing Android or iOS platform. I'm not even going to offer the iPad or Nexus tablets as real alternatives here simply because the gaming experience sans any physical control absolutely pales in comparison. The Edge was never about competing with ARM-based tablets though, it was about taking real PC gaming into an ultraportable space. And let's be real, I'd rather play 2.5 hours on the Edge than 3.5 hours on the PS Vita. Reply
TrackSmart - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkVivek, we are in complete agreement on that last point. I, too, would take 2.5 hours on the Edge over any of the touch-screen enabled games on Android or iOS.
My comment is not a critique of your article, but a critique of the niche nature of this product. I'm not sure that Razer's gamble here is the optimal path given current (and near future) hardware constraints. Razer has done a good job of meeting their goal of putting PC-class hardware into a portable system, but I think the way forward is to better match high quality games with hardware that fits into a truly portable power envelope.. Reply
damianrobertjones - Friday, April 05, 2013 - linkIt would be interesting to run the same tests on a HP 8470p with the extended BB09 and CC09 batteries. The above can play media for over 17 hours at which I gave up testing Reply
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The future of Arizona's economic development is one that is still being decided. In order to help push Arizona in the right direction, Valley Forward has launched an initiative called Arizona Forward. The more than 40-year-old group brings together business and government leaders to help improve the environment and livability of communities in the Valley.… Read More →


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Reed called the Flux City projects "speculative." To date, many American responses to sea level rise have fallen into two camps: "Evacuate or build a bigger wall," he said. "Maybe there are other ways."
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The effort to transform a 3½-mile stretch of abandoned railway tracks in Queens into a park reminiscent of Manhattan's High Line has reached two milestones: Organizers have raised $1 million for the design and planning phase and next week they will launch a feasibility study spearheaded by two New York firms.
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Restoring natural processes to degraded or heavily managed river systems while respecting human needs is no easy feat, but this summer the Case Study Investigation (CSI) program gave our research team the opportunity to look at three projects that have done just that.
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"As evidence mounts that excessive use of light is harming wildlife and adversely affecting human health, new initiatives in France and elsewhere are seeking to turn down the lights that flood an ever-growing part of the planet."
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Alex Skobel was just two years out of college when he started building homes and, in one of the most challenging times for the industry, he turned Skobel Homes into one of the top-selling home builders in the Gainesville area — all before age 30.
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Age: 29
Occupation: President, CEO, Skobel Homes
Personal: "I have been with my wonderful girlfriend, Loree Schulson, for eight years."
Pets: None
Dream partners for lunch: Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Last book read: "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Favorite TV Shows: "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
Favorite listening: "My song of the summer is Taylor Swift's '22' and I am a fan of Kanye West."
Hobbies: Basketball, running
Education: B.S. in finance, University of Florida, and master's in building construction from UF Rinker School of Building Construction
Since building his first home in Willow Oak off Archer Road in 2007, Skobel's company has built 110 homes, has another 20 under construction and bought more than 500 buildable lots in the Willow Oak, Belmont, Campo Verde, Grand Preserve, Brytan and Pradera developments, with another 500 lots available on raw land in Brytan. He is about to hire his sixth employee.
Skobel, 29, said his model for earning market share has been to build homes with high-end finishings usually limited to custom-built homes at affordable prices. He buys materials in bulk and has bought many lots at a discount from struggling builders or from bank foreclosures.
The family business also saves money by doing a lot of work in-house. Loree Schulson, Skobel's girlfriend, learned AutoCAD to help design floor plans and is the broker of Skobel Realty. Brother Michael Skobel of Skobel Law handles the legal work and brother Adam Skobel designed the computer systems. Alex talked his father, Barry Skobel, a retired physician, into moving up from Boca Raton last year to help with the business.
The savings are passed on to customers.
"There's always a market for housing, unless you're in an area that people are moving out of. The question is who's going to get that market," he said.
"We want to talk the most people we can out of buying resales into buying new homes. Our competition is the resales and the other new homes."
A normally tight-knit building community has been less than enamored by Skobel's business practices. In 2009, his application to join the Builders Association of North Central Florida was denied by the board. Adam Bolton of Robinshore, who was president at the time, declined to comment on the record about the reasons for the denial.
Skobel said he thinks it is because he undercut another builder's prices in Willow Oak and forced other builders to adjust their methods to compete.
"We were giving customers a better value than them," he said. "We stole a lot of their business."
Still, Skobel said he harbors no animosity toward other builders and would like to work things out.
Skobel was studying finance at the University of Florida and said he thought real estate would be a good way to get into finance "because it's local and I felt like, hey, I can know the real estate market better than a lot of other people. I thought what better way to get into real estate than to build the product."
He went on to earn a master's degree from the UF Rinker School of Building Construction.
After graduating, Skobel went to work for Transeastern Homes in Jacksonville and then for Pulte Homes in Orlando as superintendent for condominium construction.
He maintained an apartment in Gainesville to visit Schulson and when the condo market dried up, he moved back.
With investments from his father and others, he started Skobel Homes in 2007. The slowdown in housing gave him time to learn the market and how to build homes, he said.
"I did whatever it took to make sure we were able to build that house and built it right. I was out there myself. I worked very late at night every day," he said.
"At the beginning, I was doing everything — selling, building. I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off."
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The State of Louisiana has initiated a series of programs to offset the catastrophic loss of coastal wetlands. Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority was formed and charged with developing and implementing a comprehensive coastal restoration plan. The State Office of Coastal Activities was established to carry out CPRA policies. In addition, the Governor's Office of Coastal Activities coordinates all state agency activities that pertain to the coast of Louisiana. Visit Their Site⇒
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Roundup: No. 7 UF women's tennis defeats Ole MIss
Published: Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 11:51 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 11:51 p.m.
The seventh-ranked Florida women's tennis team completed their weekend trip to the Magnolia State with a 4-2 win against No. 24 Ole Miss (11-7, 5-6 SEC).
With the threat of rain in the forecast the match began one hour earlier than originally scheduled and play started with singles action with the hope that one school would clinch the dual match prior to needing the doubles point to decide the outcome.
Florida (17-4, 9-2) obliged as seniors Olivia Janowicz and Sofie Oyen provided the first two singles wins of the match, before the Rebels took two of the next three matches, with freshman Kourtney Keegan taking the win on court six for a 3-2 Gator lead.
Sophomore Brianna Morgan provided the clinching heroics with a 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3 victory against Caroline Rohde-Moe moments before rain flooded the courts.
UF next hosts Vanderbilt (17-4, 10-2) at 5 p.m. Friday.
Men's tennis: 15th-ranked Florida defeated visiting Ole Miss, 4-1.
After honoring the team's two seniors, Mike Alford and Florent Diep, both played a role in earning the conference win. Paired with sophomore Gordon Watson at No. 1 doubles, Diep earned his 40th-career doubles win with an 8-6 victory on court two that clinched the doubles point for Florida (12-7, 7-3 SEC).
Ole Miss (8-12, 3-8) got on the board with a two-set victory at No. 1 singles followed by Alford, who fought back from an early deficit, taking the match in two sets at No. 6 singles.
Freshman Elliott Orkin bounced back from a first-set loss and decided the match for the Gators on court five.
The Gators conclude the 2013-14 regular season with two road games next weekend: At Vanderbilt on Friday and at Kentucky on Sunday.
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Lenovo IdeaCentre A7 All-in-One Review: Starting to Get The Balance Rightby Dustin Sklavos on 9/26/2012 12:01 AM EST
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Kibbles - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkFrom the way the hinges appear, it looks like the base can sit flush with the monitor? If so, is there some kind of mount on the bottom of the base so you can wall mount it? Reply
SunLord - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkIt seems the hinges are so you can move the display down at a steep angle and use the 10point multi touch screen or that's how it looks like it's meant to be on the lenovo website Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - link... Yet Lenovo leave those problems in.
I mean really, I didn't even know there were 27" 1080p IPS panels, but if there are, they must be destined for low end TVs only. I'd much rather see a 24" 1920x1200 panel.
As you said, why not a Geforce 650M?
Dodgy Realtek networking aside, what the hell are they doing putting a 5400 RPM HDD in ANYTHING these days?
Especially in a high cost machine. Reply
Snotling - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkYeah, penny pinching @ho!es. 7200RPM drives cost almost nothing more, that's just screwing with the uneducated buyer.
The display's low resolution for its size also gets a +1
I couldn't care less about the G630M, those machines are not in any way designed for gamers anyway. Reply
Meaker10 - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkIts a 2.5 inch drive and 1tb 7200rpm drives dont exist in standard height. The next best is 750gb 7200rpm which is quite a drop. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkConsidering that this is not a standard case, I don't see why 15mm vs 9.5mm is an issue. Cost might be, but probably not height. Also, I don't see 750GB as "quite a drop", the people I know who would use an AIO don't use a lot of data on their PCs, they have no big movie collections, and their photos/music/data is easily stored in 320GB drives. :) Reply
Meaker10 - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkIts a numbers game and 15mm drives are noisy, power hungry and less reliable, also at that point you may as well go slim 3.5 inch. Reply
royalcrown - Saturday, September 29, 2012 - linkI have 1.5 tb on an external drive with my Imac. Reply
Calista - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkI agree with Dustin, why would any sane designer add the HDMI-ports to the side while only adding a single USB-port easily accessible. What's most likely to be added to the HDMI-input? I would say a gaming console - something we don't move around very often. What's most likely being connected to the HDMI-out? A second screen of course. Something we definitely don't move around very often.. USB-sticks, external hard-drives, cell phones, cameras etc - those are the things that we may add or remove many times a day. And often connecting many at the same time.
Same with the hard drive - the added cost of adding a small SSD could be as little as $75 but could mean a world of difference performance-wise. I'm all for keeping a conventional HDD as well for added storage. If needed - increase the size of the base a few cm.
I don't have any issues with the resolution, a lot of people with less than perfect eye-sight find 1920*1080 on a 27" screen just fine.
Something else I wish they would have added is mic in/out on the front *as well* as to the back. Perfect for hooking up a headset while still being able to have proper speakers connected to the back. Reply
Calista - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkOk, a laptop could be connected to the HDMI-in as well. And if so a side placement make sense. But HDMI-out on the side...? Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkThis AIO is definitely interesting. I like the looks of it. I think the hardware of AIOs should always be in the base instead of behind the display. The port location is strange but not a deal breaker. But they should have included an SSD of at least 128GB, maybe in turn cap the HDD at 500/750GB to offset cost. And that Geforce 630 is just insulting. If you go with an Intel CPU, give us a midway decent GPU as well. Or give us the option to go with AMD Trinity. I hope you can get some AIOs with Trinity to review (if there even are some).
On another note: 3k+ contrast on an IPS? Holy cow, I've only seen that kind of static contrast on *VA panels. IPS topped out at 1.5k for the best panels I've seen. Reply
Orvtrebor - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkAt this price it does fall a little short, but overall it would work perfectly for most people.
The hardware is more than good enough for the type of people who want small and silent low power rigs.
Gamers will never touch a rig like this, and casual gamers (non 3D type games) will be fine with this hardware. Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkWith an SSD, sure, but nobody is happy paying $1500 for a machine and getting a 5400 rpm disk. Reply
Orvtrebor - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkI completely agree on the storage front, like I said it falls short, but at 1500 you shouldn't have to add anything to it day 1 like an ssd Reply
jaydee - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkAn SSD, a real graphics card (with displayport for a 1440p 2nd screen). Could do without the touchscreen (is there really a demand for that?) Reply
tukkas - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkthe lenovo page lists broadcom, not realtek, as the network/wfi interface -- am i missing something?
Network Card
Broadcom 11b/g/n Wi-Fi wireless
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/we... Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkThe WiFi in the review unit comes up as Realtek. Reply
geniekid - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkIf I'm a gamer, a 630M isn't going to be adequate. If I use this computer professionally, the mediocre screen isn't going to be adequate. If I'm a casual user, I probably do all my computing solely off my laptop.
I don't understand who would want an all-in-one standalone that can't play games and doesn't have an amazing display. Reply
Sadheal - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkI think you're wrong on the IPS panel.
3000:1 contrast ratio + serious ghosting = VA panel (mostly MVA)
No IPS panel does 3000:1 contrast.
MVA panel are horrible ghosters.
By the way, 1,67 DeltaE is great (it's considered OK under 3). Reply
tim851 - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkThe 27" iMac starts at just 250$ more. You get a better screen, better graphics card and better hard disk.
I feel cheated by Apple enough as it is, but this is Lenovo offering a worse bang for the buck. The 250$ upmark will be almost negated if you sell this thing within 3 years, as Lenovos hold their value far worse.
I don't like the course the IT industry is taking, with everything being either cheap and flimsy or high quality and Apple-priced. Apple has insane profit margins, there must be manufacturers willing to offer the same quality for less money. Reply
ananduser - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkAdd the windows license on top and you're at least 350$ more. That coupled with the inability to install windows without that shoddy bios emulation bootcamp does. In essence, not a good deal. Reply
tim851 - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkBoth the iMac and the Lenovo come with an OS - why would I add a Windows licence to the iMac? I'd reckon most people buying AIOs couldn't care less what OS they run. Reply
ananduser - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkIf you put it that way you're correct. People completely OS agnostic could get the imac for 250$ more. But I could also say that the same OS agnostic crowd could top 250$ more over the imac and get something better like the HP Z1. Reply
royalcrown - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkWow...You obviously don't own an Imac. The "Shoddy" bios emulation you speak of runs windows perfectly, Ubuntu, linux mint, BSD etc..; It also boots from usb drives and external usb and firewire.
Im writing this on an imac running Windows 7 x64 right now. How is it shoddy when it runs for days without crashing ? Reply
Juddog - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkThe idea itself is actually pretty nifty; a nice big 27" touch screen with Windows 8 sounds pretty cool.
This isn't a machine to play games on, it's a machine you'd put in the kitchen or the kids room, so the graphics really doesn't have to be that fast. You can upgrade the graphics card to a GT630 2 GB from a GT630M 1 GB on the website, along with getting an SSD boot drive at the high end.
That being said, I agree with some of the points above; a faster hard drive and a repositioning of the ports would be fairly cheap to implement and the graphics card options are pretty limited. This is one of those products that I feel would be great in a lobby somewhere, or combined with an in-home entertainment solution. For example having something like this in your kitchen linked up to the lighting in your house, or to the temperature control, or to music devices placed throughout the house etc.. Reply
Conficio - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkI like the looks of this and finally an IPS panel. While I'd love to have an option for higher resolution, it would be fine with me for a dorm or single room apartment.
I'd love to see some price reducing options:
* Ditch the extra GPU hardware. As many don't game at all. For seniors and many more it is a waste of money and energy.
* Offer i5 dual core processor. There is plenty of people that don't need a quad core for reading e-mail and watching the picures/videos of the grand kids. (Just make sure it is HD4000, so the graphics are not degrading too much).
Other improvement suggestions:
* Put headphone plugs in front
* Put USB in front two at least for keyboard + mouse or side (more of them)
* Improved Wifi with 2x2 or 3x3 streams(most home users are fine with Realtek NIC for wired)
* make the core PC upgradable, so that it can be replaced and the monitor re-used
* faster/better hard drives SSD options Reply
OBLAMA2009 - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - link$1500 is a lot for notebook performance and a low resolution monitor Reply
The_Kristoffer - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - linkWhen are you going to publish the rundown of Haswell? I've been waiting for, what feels like, forever! Reply
tukkas - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkDustin, what is you preferred 27 inch aio at this point? lenovo, dell, hp? anything else?
thank you Reply
royalcrown - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkI don't really see the point of this Imac clone; If they are gonna do it at least give people a COMPELLING reason to buy like dual 7xxx gpus or something. Buyers who wanted a mac but want better gaming performance could go for this. Till then it's a so so knock off. Reply
adriantrances - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkLenovo so mediocre nowadays. Thinkpads with 900p TN screens, or 768p IPS screens, switch from good keyboard to mediocre keyboard. It's like getting worse to worse every year. Imagine an X330 with 13.3" 1200p IPS, old keyboard, ivy bridge, hmmm.
Nice design on this AIO, but should be 1440p IPS, SSD ( so cheap ), Intel WiFi, somewhat poor GPU, proper USB placements, and some more smaller quirks. Reply
Juddog - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkA 1440p IPS panel would shoot the price way up. Reply
royalcrown - Saturday, September 29, 2012 - linkYeah, When IBM owned them, the A seiesThinkpad was awesome. When Lenovo bought them, I decided I wasn't going to buy a laptop ever as those were the only ones I liked. Reply


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Aveda Sap Moss Shampoo
I love this shampoo and so do my dreads! The earthy smell is wonderful, and it keeps my dreaded hair (naturally curly) from drying out. . The thing is, you still need a normal sized amount in your hand! It left my hair feeling clean but not dry or stripped. The shampoo lathers well (very creamy) too. I really love this!


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Food glorious food, there really is nothing quite like it especially when you're visiting the land of spice and all things nice.
It's taken two weeks but my appetite is back and what a place to renew my passion for Indian culinary delights.
North Kerala, home to boiled eggs with spicy fried batter around, bread that tastes like pancakes (brotta), rice meals shaped as cakes, hot pea curries, deep fried bananas, rice in coconut milk, pickled beetroot and much, much more.
It turns out I just don't like curries served in the very tourist areas. As soon as we left the tourist trail the food suddenly became a lot more appealing.
We are volunteering at a project near Kalpetta. The scheme aims to educate local tribes, spread environmental lessons across India, provide water and sanitary systems for locals and empower women.
We are staying with an Indian family who run the charity, plus two Indian social worker students. This bubbly family is headed by Omana, a 4ft 6in lady, who's devoted her life to helping people less fortunate than herself. It's down to her infectious determination and passion for change that most of the local villagers have toilets. When she arrived the majority of residents had holes in the ground, riddled with bees, mosquitoes and other insects spreading disease.
She lobbied for funding to anyone who would listen. But with the loos in place she hasn't stopped there. This smiley little Indian woman, who hangs a picture of Gandhi in her make-do office, with dial-up internet, has set up education centres, helped tribes secure funding and supported widows - who can't remarry because of the local culture - find money to feed their children.
Needless to say she is quite some lady; very talkative, witty, friendly, and cuts to the chase.
Her home and charity is called Rasta. I don't know if she is aware of Rastafarians, but the two share at their heart an appreciation for the rhythms of life.
Volunteers pitch in, in whatever way they can. I have been helping with the project's PR and with lessons for the children.
Sam and me have hit it off with the kids as they have a weak spot for games on our kindles.
The surroundings feel quite similar to my old home in North Yorkshire with rolling mountains fencing our two storey apartment in. The temperatures mirror the heat of one of Britain's hottest summer days.
It's great living with a local family as they introduce us to everyone, know what local events are on and show us all the sights.
We went to a flower show which had most of the elements of English country show, only with an Eastern twist. There was a vegetable and fruit tent, showcasing tropical masterpieces such as pineapples shaped as ducks, watermelons carved into towns and lots more creative sculptures.
The girls we are living with invited me to join them on a fairground ride which spun for about 20 minutes. They laughed the whole way round.
India is a country of artists. Everything is made to look beautiful from the rainbow colours of homes, to people decorating their rickshaws and buses, padding them out with colourful materials, tinsel, flowers, paintings, slings, tapestry and posters. This brightness is embodied in the country's national beer - a Kingfisher which also appears on water bottles and t-shirts.
Sam, or Twiggy as I now like to call him, has dropped about three clothes sizes after picking up a virus but refused to see a doctor for a week. He finally went to hospital yesterday so he's on the mend now but he's mainly bones at the moment. Yesterday I had to open a bottle of water for him because his strength has gone. Like all good men though he's hardly mentioned it.
There have been some subtle differences between the men and women in India. The first being the obvious one, women not showing their shoulders or knees. This has meant I've been boiling over while Sam wore whatever he liked.
On buses there are women-only seating which has meant I have had to sit in an old man's seat at times, despite pleading for him to sit back down. Thirdly, women don't seem to do any customer service jobs, so at bars, restaurants, shops and buses it's only the men we speak to. Normally, as well, they will mainly speak to Sam.
Finally it seems frowned upon or just not allowed for men to show women any public affection; holding hands or putting arms around each other. But men do this with other men all the time so it's quite normally to see men walking down the street with their arms round each other or a man resting between another man's legs, but that's never seen with a man and woman.


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Saturday TAI CHI with Kathleen Brenner
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This series of classes is designed for adults at a beginners level, or as a refresher for those with some knowledge of tai chi. Kathleen Brenner teaches a 10-form set of Yang style tai chi.
Learn the sequence of movements and practice on your own!
$30 series fee payable at first class. (Save the online fee: pay--cash only--at the first class.)
Note: No class March 9.
Kathleen Brenner has studied Tai Chi for over 20 years and has won several gold, silver and bronze medals in international competitions. Brenner has taught tai chi and Chi Kung to hundreds of people of all ages over the last twelve years. She was honored recently for being one of seven certified instructors in North America working under the direct guidance of Master Wang Hai Jun.
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Sandra Glahn's Coffee Cup Bible Series
Sandra Glahn serves at DTS as an associate professor in the Media Arts and Worship Department and is the editor in chief of Kindred Spirit. Sandra has been blessed with the gift of writing and is the creator of a 10-volume study Coffee Cup Bible Series, examining individual books of the Bible. Her best-selling fiction work Lethal Harvest was acclaimed as a Christy finalist by the Christian Booksellers Association.
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
When you speak with sales training professionals with the regularity that I do, it's only natural to develop some insights about the recent trends affecting our industry. As impartial analysts, however, my firm, ES Research Group (ESR), relies on empirical data to draw real conclusions. So we conduct research.
Our individual observations can be fairly accurate, but there are times when the real numbers surprise us.
This past fall, ESR and global performance improvement firm BayGroup International conducted a comprehensive survey on the "State of Sales and Purchasing." Our goal was to better understand how sales professionals perceive procurement within their customers' organizations and how procurement professionals perceive sales within their suppliers' organizations. We asked about what they have experienced over the past few years and what lies ahead. A total of 239 "buy side" and 352 "sell side" negotiators participated, and they were each asked exactly the same questions.
The results of the survey were remarkable in a number of ways, not the least of which was the level of agreement between the two sides. The data makes very clear that the relationship between buyers and sellers has changed dramatically in the last five years and is still changing. The negotiation process has become increasingly complex. Buyers now have the upper hand. Both sides see a need to move away from the traditional understanding of negotiation as a competitive event and toward greater collaboration — a dance, if you will, and everyone is learning new steps.
In a recent ESR webinar about the research, BayGroup International's president, Ron D'Andrea made the observation that procurement has now achieved a "cabinet-level position" and, charged with the responsibility of creating economic value for the buying company, is driving real change.
"They are looking to ensure there is a process in place and the process is followed. As a result, sellers have become more proactive about understanding the buying process and planning how to engage procurement much earlier," D'Andrea said.
Supplier reduction programs have also had an impact, requiring sellers to work in new and creative ways so they can better meet buyers' needs while continuing to generate the same level of profitability and revenue for their own organizations. "When there are fewer suppliers, those that are chosen will have much greater opportunity," D'Andrea noted. "They should be working on strategies to help procurement people meet their own needs and the needs of the organization."
Both buyers and sellers perceive themselves to be skilled negotiators, but also recognize the skill of the party on the other side of the table. Each recognizes that their negotiation support system has areas of weakness, including leveraging technology and systems and implementing effective post-negotiation debriefing processes.
The survey data also revealed some stark disagreements. Buyers, for instance, strongly favor RFP processes, while sellers tend to see the RFP as a barrier that blocks their ability to demonstrate value to decision-makers. Nearly half
(47 percent) of buyers favor e-auctions, while sellers fear that the growing prevalence of online auctions commoditize their offerings and reduces the buyers' understanding of its value.
Over the past five years, the sales process has undergone a major transition and we are just beginning to understand the implications. Clearly there's no going back. As buyers and sellers continue to find ways to create economic value for their respective organizations, and to manage the tension that is an inherent part of any negotiation process, both
sides have something to gain from understanding the other's mindset, encouraging collaboration among all of the stakeholders early in the process, and learning the "moves" that will help each achieve their desired results — and the dance begins again.
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A priest jailed in Sussex for a string of sexual offences against children, abused young boys in Cornwall and Devon.
Robert Coles, 71, of Upperton Road, Eastbourne, appeared at Brighton Crown Court on Thursday, February 14, and was sentenced to a total of eight years for sexual offences against young boys.
These were in West Sussex, Devon, Cornwall and the Isle of Wight.
The court heard he had told senior clergy, including the Bishop Of Lewis, Wallace Benn, that he had sexually abused one of the children but this was not passed on to police.
He had been awaiting trial due to commence on 10 June over seven alleged offences of sexual assault between 1982 and 1984 and between 1978 and 1979.
Coles had pleaded not guilty to all these offences.
At a hearing on 14 December last year at Chichester Crown Court, Coles had pleaded guilty to 11 offences during the same respective periods.
At yesterday's hearing, prosecutor Ryan Richter advised the court that after consideration, including consultation with Sussex Police and the three victims, the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to proceed with the seven outstanding charges.
Judge Anthony directed that the seven charges would lay on the court file.
Coles was sentenced to a total of eight years imprisonment on Thursday for the 11 offences to which he had pleaded guilty in December.
Coles was also served with a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) prohibiting him from any contact with the three victims, from having any unsupervised contact with boys under 16, and from seeking any employment or voluntary work which would involve unsupervised access to children under 16. He was also required to register as a sex offender for life on his release from prison.
He had been arrested on 6 March last year following a six month enquiry by Sussex Police detectives, and was charged in August 2012 on the authority of the South East Complex Case Unit of the Crown Prosecution Service with whom we have worked very closely in this investigation and prosecution.
None of the charges related to any allegations of recent or current offending and police emphasise that there is nothing to suggest that any children are currently at risk.


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HTC Releases Bootloader Unlocking Tool for HTC Sensationby Brian Klug on 8/15/2011 2:18 PM EST
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DanNeely - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkAnyone who finds a 5 step flowchart daunting shouldn't be attempting to unlock their device at all. Reply
Powelly - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkAmen to that! Reply
fhaddad78 - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkI love that HTC is doing this. I hope they stick it to Apple in the end. Android has been such an amazing learning tool in so many ways. From a programming standpoint: how to write good code, how to collaborate with others in developing large scale software. And it's just a pure abundance of practical code to learn from, light years ahead of anything you will learn in a university setting. Now add HTC into the mix and it's just more awesome knowledge. My only beef is I can't absorb all this information fast enough. :) Reply


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The Crap We Missed – Wednesday 6.11.14
Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed which looks like it's about to get shat upon by Coco at any moment. (Clean up, aisle Zaloog.) It's also got a shitload of pics from the 22 Jump Street premiere, because not only did the tip of Channing Tatum's penis finally crack (Clean up, aisle Superficial Editorial Dept.), but Richard Grieco got to make an legitimate red carpet appearance without anyone handing him their car keys. It was a special day for everyone.
Except Andy Dick's daughter. I'd hate to be in high school with Andy Dick's daughter right now,
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