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COPY/PRINTING SERVICES consists of one digital color copier and one b&w printer located in the Copy Room. B&W copies are $0.05 each and color copies are $0.15. IOU's will not be accepted. The digital copier also serves as a printer and as a scanner. Items scanned can be emailed (no charge). Files on a flash drive can be uploaded and printed.
Transparencies are permitted. However, in order to copy onto a transparency the "Paper Select" setting must be changed to the Bypass tray. To do so select "Job Detail Settings", then select "Paper Select" then select the image of a hand then select OK. Put the transparency in the bypass tray. Put the original on the copier and select either b&w or color as needed. After the transparency is made reset the "Paper Select" to "8 1/2 X 11 Plain". The cost is the same as for paper prints but the patron must supply his/her own transparencies.
The library printer and the color copier, when used as a printer, will automatically deduct the amount (either $0.05 or $0.15) per page from the student's printing credits. The color printer default setting is "Automatic".
Additional printing credits may be purchased in amounts of $2, $5 or $10 by currently enrolled TMU and TMS students who have paid the $75 technology fee. Printing credits may be purchased at the circulation desk. For more details on student printing credits see Student Printing Information.
Patrons who do not have printing credits (residents, TMU/TMS alumni, TMU/TMS students who have not paid the technology fee) must purchase a $2 print credit card and must be logged on as a "guest" in order to print. For more instructions on printing in the library as pertaining to guests, please see a library staff member.
CAUTION: When using these or any other duplicating equipment in the library the user must recognize that the copyright law of the United States (Title 17 U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials. The person using this equipment is liable for any infringement.
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My olive green "jeans" are softer than any other pant material I've had while being made from a renewable, pesticide-free resource. I got my pants from a woman selling in a booth at Solfest in Hopland, California two years ago and the company is Harvest, a hemp company from Australia. Totally legal too!

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Ever wondered what goes through the mind of a leading illustrator during the creative process? We grabbed 5 minutes with leading illustrator Mr Bingo to find out just that! Speaking at the recent Adobe CS6 and Creative Cloud launch in London, Mr Bingo talks about going to the pub for inspiration, setting up shoots, developing his ideas from initial sketch to digital animation and shares his secret for client success!
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Lobbying is the practice of influencing decisions made by government, whether by other legislators, constituents, or organised groups, often called "special interest-groups."
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- There are a lot of guys on both campaigns, on all the campaigns now, who do some very questionable lobbying on behalf of very questionable interests and do things that trouble me a whole lot more than a woman writing a book about masturbation.
- Susan Estrich, Hannity & Colmes (November 2, 1999).
- Your rulers are rebels,
- Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions with Members of Congress in which they can explain in detail the reasons for positions they advocate…. Because our congressional representation is based on geographical boundaries, the lobbyists who speak for the various economic, commercial, and other functional interests of this country serve a very useful purpose and have assumed an important role in the legislative process.
- John F. Kennedy, "To Keep the Lobbyist Within Bounds", The New York Times Magazine (February 19, 1956); reported in Congressional Record (March 2, 1956), vol. 102, p. 3802–3.
- If any of the great corporations of the country were to hire adventurers who make market of themselves in this way, to procure the passage of a general law with a view to the promotion of their private interests, the moral sense of every right-minded man would instinctively denounce the employer and employed as steeped in corruption, and the employment as infamous.
- U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Trist v. Child, 1874, cited in David Cole, "How Corrupt Are Our Politics?" New York Review of Books, September 25, 2014
The belief that the people of a democracy rule themselves through their elected representatives, though sanctified by tradition and made venerable by multiple repetitions, is actually mystical nonsense. In any election, only a percentage of the people vote. Those who can't vote because of age or other disqualifications, and those who don't vote because of confusion, apathy, or disgust at a Tweedledum-Tweedledummer choice can hardly be said to have any voice in the passage of the laws which govern them. Nor can the individuals as yet unborn, who will be ruled by those laws in the future. And, out of those who do "exercise their franchise," the large minority who voted for the loser are also deprived of a voice, at least during the term of the winner they voted against.
But even the individuals who voted and who managed to pick a winner are not actually ruling themselves in any sense of the word. They voted for a man, not for the specific laws which will govern them. Even all those who had cast their ballots for the winning candidate would be hopelessly confused and divided if asked to vote on these actual laws. Nor would their representative be bound to abide by their wishes, even if it could be decided what these "collective wishes" were. And besides all this, a large percentage of the actual power of a mature democracy, such as the U.S.A., is in the hands of the tens of thousands of faceless appointed bureaucrats who are unresponsive to the will of any citizen without special pull.
Under a democratic form of government, a minority of the individuals governed select the winning candidate. The winning candidate then proceeds to decide issues largely on the basis of pressure from special-interest groups. What it actually amounts to is rule by those with political pull over those without it. Contrary to the brainwashing we have received in government-run schools, democracy—the rule of the people through their elected representatives—is a cruel hoax!
Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral. If one man has no right to impose his wishes on another, then ten million men have no right to impose their wishes on the one, since the initiation of force is wrong (and the assent of even the most overwhelming majority can never make it morally permissible). Opinions—even majority opinions—neither create truth nor alter facts. A lynch mob is democracy in action. So much for mob rule.
- Linda & Morris Tannehill, Ch. 4, "Government—An Unnecessary Evil", The Market for Liberty (1970), pp. 33–34.


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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Bail has been set at $3 million for a fatal shooting suspect who was later shot by police in southwest Ohio.
A judge in Cincinnati set bail Tuesday for 45-year-old David Franks who remains in the hospital in stable condition. Franks' attorney did not immediately return calls for comment.
Hamilton County sheriff's spokesman Steve Barnett says Franks was arrested on charges of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and three counts of attempted murder on a police officer.
The shootings occurred Sunday about 10 miles from downtown Cincinnati.
Authorities say Franks is accused of breaking into a Green Township residence and fatally shooting his 76-year-old father-in-law, James Schobert. Barnett says Franks was shot three times after allegedly pointing a gun at two sheriff's deputies and a Green Township police officer.


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Paramedics treating an assault victim on the side of a highway in Melbourne's east themselves became victims when he attacked them.
Police said officers were present about 8.40pm on Monday when the 29-year-old man being treated abused paramedics, hit one across the face and jumped from the ambulance.
The man struggled with police but he broke free and he ran across the west-bound lanes of the Maroondah Highway in Mooroolbark, a police spokeswoman said.
The man, from Bayswater, was hit by a car near the intersection with Edward Road and was taken to hospital with head injuries and a broken leg.
Police want any witnesses to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
An earlier version of this story suggested the attacker was 25 and from Morwell. The error was the result of incorrect information being given to the reporter.


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Marvell wins as Dell starts shipping ARM-based servers
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LONDON Dell Inc. said it has started shipping server computers called Copper based on the ARM processor architecture to selected customers. The servers are based on Marvell's quad-core Armada XP SoC products.
[ARM TechCon 2012, the largest ARM design ecosystem under one roof, is Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 in Santa Clara. Click here to check out agenda.]
Dell (Round Rock, Texas) said it was responding to demands from its customers for it to enable the development of an ecosystem for ARM-based servers and that it believes they are well suited to web-hosting front-ends and Hadoop environments. Hadoop is an open source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications.
"The ARM-based server market is approaching an inflection point, marked by increasing customer interest in testing and developing applications, and Dell believes now is the right time to help foster development and testing of operating systems and applications for ARM servers," the company said in a statement.
Dell said it had began testing ARM processors for servers internally in 2010 in response to increasing customer demands for increased power efficiency and computing density.
Dell said it would be delivering Copper servers to partners such as Canonical and Cloudera to support their development activities.
The processors are Marvell-designed 1.6-GHz CPU cores that support both symmetrical and antisymmetrical multi-processing with hardware cache coherency and a 64-bit DDR2/DDR3 memory interface at an 800-MHz clock rate and 1600-MHz data rate. These devices also incorporate up to 2-Mbytes of L2 cache, Quad x4 PCI-express interfaces, multiple USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet ports, SATA, security engine and advanced power management techniques.
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How and why is it funny? Any suggestions?
Are these supposed to be funny facts? I don't find them amusing at all. I think you need to work on making jokes with competency false and totally incorrect facts so that is hilarious. Try looking at the featured works for examples.
How good is an idea behind the article?
I think you have a good idea to do a funny article on. Just try to limit the real facts here.
How good does it look and how well does it read?
The format and grammar are amazing. Like is this supposed be on the real WIki?
How are the images? Are they relevant, with good quality and formatting?
Images are used well, they need better captions though.
The article's overall quality - that indefinable something.
Please if you need help, put the correct links to call for help! It will come.
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HEALTH chiefs have reversed a controversial decision to invite companies to bid for the GP out-of-hours contract in East Lancashire.
The news has been welcomed by campaigners, who feared a tender process would result in a 'profit-seeking' firm winning the contract, saying this would impact on patient care.
The overnight and weekend GP service has been run successfully for 20 years by East Lancashire Medical Services (ELMS), a highly regarded group of local doctors and nurses.
Bosses at East Lancashire Clinical Comm-issioning Group (CCG) had intended to put the service out to tender this year, but will now examine the options as part of a wider review of urgent care. The out-of-hours service is still likely to be tendered, but as part of a wider urgent care contract that could include other services such as GP walk-in centres, which could mean ELMS are better positioned to win the deal.
Russ McLean, who runs the Patient Voices Group attached to ELMS, said: "This is brilliant news because ELMS already run several urgent care services in East Lancashire and will be in a good position to bid for any integrated contract.
"It looks like the CCG jumped the gun by signalling their intention to put the contract out to tender. They seem to be making it up as they go along."
The move to look at an integrated contract mirrors a decision taken last month by Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group.
A spokesman for East Lancashire CCG said: "Clinicians and staff within NHS East Lancashire CCG have worked closely over recent weeks to discuss and agree how we can better develop in and out of hours services following national guidance we received regarding access to primary care services."


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It's For All Scouting Volunteers!
As a movement whose leadership is overwhelmingly volunteer, the Boy Scouts of America recognizes the importance of acknowledging the invaluable services that men and women render to youth. Of the hundreds of awards that the BSA presents each year to those on the local council, regional, and national levels, the Silver Buffalo , Silver Antelope , Silver Beaver , and Silver World awards are the most prestigious. Although the criteria are different for each of these awards, there is one common thread: The recognitions are granted by one's own peers in Scouting for distinguished service to youth. Other BSA awards, by comparison, are granted only to those who have completed a prescribed course of study or have participated in special training sessions.
Training, Service, and Longevity awards.
The training awards and keys are designed to recognize unit Scouters for tenure, training, and performance in their leadership roles.
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SurfCast designs Operating System technology and has four issued patents with additional applications pending.
SurfCast designed a new concept referred to as 'Tiles'.
Tiles can be thought of as dynamically updating icons. A Tile is different from an icon because it can be both selectable and live -- containing refreshed content that provides a real-time or near-real-time view of the underlying information.
Tiles can provide dynamic bookmarking -- an at-a-glance view of the current status of the program, file, or content associated with it.
Tiles enable people to have all their content, applications, and resources, regardless of whether on their mobile device, tablet, computer, or in their Cloud -- visualized persistently -- dynamically updating.
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If you are using Adobe Acrobat/Reader in Firefox/Chrome to view PDF files from long URLs you may notice that the Save button is not working as expected. It may be disabled (greyed out), or it may be enabled, but clicking on the button does not bring up the Save dialog to save the PDF to the local file system.
In some organisations the PDF files may be loaded from complex applications which require long URLs to serve parameters with the PDF. For example:
The URL above will show the PDF, but the Save button will not work as expected:
This is an issue with some versions of Adobe Acrobat/Reader 10 in Firefox/Chrome, and will be resolved in a later update for Acrobat/Reader. The issue occurs when the URL contains more than 259 characters, as Firefox attempts to use this URL as the file-name in the Save dialog. Such a long URL can exceed a file system limit and therefore the Save dialog does not appear.
- Use shortened URLs to avoid the issue.
- Use Acrobat/Reader in Internet Explorer.
- Use Acrobat/Reader 9 with Firefox/Chrome.
This issue does not happen with the latest version of Acrobat/Reader 11, and will be fixed in a future release of Acrobat/Reader 10.
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Dog-friendly Barford Saint Michael, 1 Beds & Pub Within 1 Mile
This delightfully curved-roofed, single-storey barn lies at the back of the owners' cottage in the lovely village of Barford St Michael. Well placed to visit a plethora of fascinating nearby towns and villages, there are plenty of fabulous walks to be found from the doorstep.
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Charles J. "Chuck" Waechter- Obit
25 May 2010 — Havelock, Craven, North Carolina
Charles J. "Chuck" Waechter, 85, of Havelock, died Tuesday, May 25, 2010, at home.
A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.
Born in Asbury Park, N.J., Mr. Waechter was a World War II veteran who served in the 3rd Division of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific. He graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1950 and went on to a career as a professional engineer, credited with a number of patents. He was an avid skier, enjoyed camping and hiking and raced motorcars. After his children were grown, he embarked, with his wife, on a life of adventure and travel. Living on boats for 32 years, the couple sailed across the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans and cruised extensively in the Caribbean and along the Eastern Seaboard.
He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Barbara Waechter; three daughters, Barbara Cole of Livingston, Texas, Robin Dean of Edcouch, Texas, and Holly Canoni of Barre, Mass.; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
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HARRIS COUNTY - Investigators with the Harris County Sheriff's Office said the driver of a red pick up truck was likely speeding when he lost control, jumped a curb and slammed into a man who was putting air in his tires.
The crash happened at a Shell gas station on Aldine Mail Rt. near the Eastex Freeway just before 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
Charles Garley was bent down next to his car when the truck hit him. Deputies said he died instantly.
"I'm told he was putting air in his tires and the truck jumped the curb," said Carla Hall, Garley's sister. "His wife was in the car and was rushed to the hospital."
The extent of her injuries are unknown. Two teens were also in the pick up truck and one of them was taken to the hospital, too.
Deputies took the driver in for questioning and were testing him for suspicion of DUI.
"I just hope and pray it was just an accident," Hall said. "And no drugs or alcohol was involved."
Hall told Local 2 her brother was kind, thoughtful and he loved to cook.
"He was always calling me, asking for recipes," she said. "He liked to cook for his wife. He was always trying to surprise her and do nice things for her."
Investigators will gather evidence and present their findings to the District Attorney's Office.
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About the Book
A Day Without Toast is a children's book featuring Christopher J. Bean and his very bad day, which all starts when he decides not to eat his morning toast!
The illustrations are created by scraps of paper cut and arranged to form the day's events Christopher has to endure.
Children and adults alike will enjoy the rhyming nature of the text and the visual impact of the paper images. One of the goals of this book is to introduce some new vocabulary to its young audience through hearing it in the context of the story.
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- Category Children
Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
40 Pages
- Publish Date May 01, 2009
- Tags Chritopher Bean, picture book, rhyme, paper, toast, dog, children
About the Creator
I was an elementary school teacher for several years before deciding to tutor full-time. I have always loved children's books and have been able to read my fair share on the job. I also love to work with paper and other artistic mediums. With that foundation, I always knew I would write a children's book at some point; that day finally came with the publication of A Day Without Toast. I live in Michigan with my husband Chris and Miniature Schnauzer, Pancake. You can usually find the three of us enjoying our backyard or the wonderful nature trails in our area. I also like to travel, garden, read, and support the local businesses, restaurants and attractions. I adore animals of all types and use them for my main inspiration in my art and writing. Therefore, I plan on donating a percent of my profits to a national wildlife organization.
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Kathryn moved from her homeland of Australia to the United States in 1991 only to capture some of the most sought-after awards in the country including the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, Grand Prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, Concert Artists Guild Management Award, and awards at solo competitions such as the Primrose Competition, Washington International Competition, and the Pasadena Instrumental Competition. As an original member of Pacifica Quartet, Ms. Lockwood has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall, Corcoran Gallery, St. Lawrence Center, and University of Thessaloniki / Greece, and has been heard live on NPR's Performance Today. She collaborated with violist Michael Tree on an all-Dvorak CD and composer Easley Blackwood on recordings released by Cedille Records. In 2005 Kathryn released a solo recital CD of viola music by Inessa Zaretsky, "Fireoptics," about which Strad declared "Lockwood is absolutely inside the music's idiom, finding appropriate tonal shadings."
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A CAT with character who used to live at Evesham Community Hospital has gone missing after being re-homed.
Chunky the black and white cat was once a firm resident at the hospital in Evesham, going between wards.
After health and safety concerns he was given a new home by an Evesham nurse at her house in Holloway in Pershore, but on Tuesday, March 25, he went missing from his new home.
"He has been with us for four weeks," said Nicola Harley, who rehomed Chunky. "He is a bit of a character and is very friendly. All the staff and patients loved him.
"We are quite eager to find him. Everybody is worried about him. We are worried he may be trying to go back to Evesham or maybe he found a new home."
If anyone finds Chunky, who is microchipped, they should call Nicola Harley on 07842237118.


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New real estate rule aims to dash disputes
Wednesday, Jun 18, 2014 06:00 am
A rule change by the Real Estate Council of Alberta is an attempt to reduce confusion and disputes between realtors and their clients.
Starting July 1, when buying or selling residential property, clients of Alberta real estate professionals will be asked to sign a written service agreement.
This decision came from the Real Estate Council of Alberta, which is an independent governing body that sets, regulates and enforces standards for real estate brokerage, real estate appraisal professionals and property management.
This rule change will keep clients informed about and understand what can be expected from their relationship with a real estate professional, minimizing confusion and disputes.
�The objective of the rule change is to advance the relationship and to clarify expectations,� said Kevin Clark, council chair for the Real Estate Council of Alberta.
�This change will affect buyers in that they will now sit down with an agent and put into writing what the expectations will be � there are a lot of areas to cover in real estate.�
The signing of a written service agreement has been the standard practice for residential sellers in real estate, but it is a new rule to sign a buyer representation agreement. This is said to enhance consumer protection, and will help with clients� understanding of what the real estate professional will do on their behalf and which and what services will be provided, Clark said.
The written service agreement will also outline expectations of service, the obligations and responsibilities of the parties, the consent for collection, use and distribution of the client�s information, and will provide a method of calculation of how the real estate professional will be compensated.
Association statistics indicate there were approximately 65,000 residential transactions in Alberta in 2013.
Further information on the rule change can be found at: www.reca.ca.


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Spotify knows how to brand a music service.
Last year, the ad-supported streaming service introduced "offline listening" to its mobile and desktop music applications for premium subscribers without ever mentioning the dreaded phrase "DRM" – in spite of the fact that access to the songs disappears as soon as you stop paying.
Today, it has announced a couple of new ways to access its extensive library in the cloud, whose limitations are so cleverly branded that you'd hardly notice. Read more


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I'm looking to create some code for a boustrophedon path planner. Unfortunately, this code is beyond my current skill level, so it will take me a while to learn. To start, I have some general questions:
1. Is there a way to handle a polygon in python?
2. Is there a method to look for the vertices of a polygon?
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Had a virus raise it's ugly head earlier this week. Got rid of it but ever since then, wamp won't open in the bin. It's color is red and it won't connect to my local host.
I've found C://localhost/wamp program on my C: drive. There is also a C://wamp where I've done most of my work.
I tried to uninstall wamp which removed it from my desktop, but apparently didn't remove it from my C: drive. I've restored my system to yesterday, before I uninstalled the wamp server, but I still can't get it to open phpmyadmin etc. in the bin
I've attached the error message when I double click on the wamp icon from my desk top.
I read about being sure it would open in port80, but I don't know how to check that it is opening there.
Any help would be appreciated.kathpoole
Here is the steps to start your wamp server.........
WAMP5 is now WampServer 2 : install PHP MySQL Apache
Thank you for your reply.
I had gone there earlier and downloaded the wampserver for 64bits and access is denied. here is the screen shot.
I'll try for 32 bit but thought that wasn't a good idea.
Am I posting this issue in the right place?
based on your OS, you can decide...whether go for 32 or 64 bit..
No matter what I do, the aestan tray encounters a problem and needs to close. Uninstall, install, 32bit, 64bit, official, unofficial. All with the same aestan try problem. I just don't know.
You can go here and download 32 bit wamp server...before installing that, you can remove all existing wamp server installations, restart the system and then install...Download WampServer 2 - Download PHP, apache, MySQL
I appreciate your help. I've done all that and the aestan tray is still encountering problems.
I don't know where you are, but it's the middle of the night here and the cat wants me to go to bed.
Maybe I need to learn to live without this little goody.
what version of windows do you have?are you running iss on http://localhost?are you running a networking program such as skype?
basicly your port is being used by something else instead of wamp so you will need to close what ever is running on port80 and then restart all services in wamp.
I'm sure you are absolutely right, port 80 is being used by something else. I'm sorry to be so ignorant, and I don't know how to find out what is interfering. Would you please be so kind as to tell me how to check out what is using port 80, then change it?
I really appreciate your help.Kath
if you can answer my questions certianly
OK, I'm running Windows XPI don't know what iss is. I've deleted my local host. Am I right in thinking that it's connected to the WAMP server?I had Skype at one time. Don't remember uninstalling it but it isn't there now. Skype isn't anywhere. I found some PNG images in the old data file but not program.


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20 Feet From Stardom singer talks exposure
Claudia Lennear, a US soul singer featured in Oscar-nominated documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, returned to the stage at Screen's latest awards-season event.
The screening was presented with Altitude, who will release in the UK starting March 28, and TWC-Radius, which handles the US release where it has made $4.8m at the box office and been named the top-grossing doc of 2013.
- INTERVIEW: Tom Quinn and Jason Janego, RADiUS
- REVIEW: 20 Feet From Stardom
Morgan Neville's Oscar-nominated film looks at the work and lives of the world's best backing singers. It features interviews with the likes of Mick Jagger, Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer, Tata Vega, Bruce Springsteen and Sting.
Lennear told the audience at London's Covent Garden hotel what she learned from the documentary. "Until I saw this film, I didn't know that Darlene Love was the voice of The Crystals," referring to music producer Phil Spector's uncredited use of Love's voice on the 1960s girl group's singles.
Lennear made her name singing back-up for Ike and Tina Turner. She also sang bank-up vocals on Joe Cocker's 1970 Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and live album and on George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh.
Talking about how she got involved with 20 Feet From Stardom, Lennear revealed that Sheryl Crow suggested the filmmakers contact her, despite the two having never met or worked together. "They found me 35 miles outside of Los Angeles, where I'd always been," Lennear recalled.
Her meetings with Mick Jagger are often cited as inspiration for The Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar while David Bowie is said to have written Lady Grinning Soul about Lennear.
Asked about an eye-roll she gives in the documentary when asked about Jagger and her appearance in Playboy, the singer said: "Looking back I don't regret one moment. I remember meeting Hugh Heffner in his pyjamas and him talking me into it over the course of a year.
"There's two ways of exposing yourself – and I'm sure you'll get the double entendre there. The first is to get your name out there. There other is become a sex symbol. You can keep your shirt on but I was happy to take off mine."
Following a short-lived solo career, Lennear left the music industry to become a teacher. "I don't sing rock and roll anymore and do more choir and classical singing," she added. "I wish I had known more about the business side but I loved the experience."
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OK, everyone performs brilliantly and memorably, BUT one of the more familiar names, Darlene Love, gets to re-write some pop history around herself. Love makes a desperately false claim to voicing Phil Spector's biggest hits only to be "held back" in her career (according to Love) because the original girl group,The Crystals, were given the credit for her work. Cue a video of the girls lip-syncing to Love's He's A Rebel.
Case proved? No, because He's A Rebel was in Love's own admission just some early paid session work for Spector who she charged over the odds because he was in a hurry to record the track. As she has said many times over, Love never expected to get the credit or any publicity at all for He's A Rebel which Spector released on the unsuspecting Crystals who then had to promote it for him (that video clip).
Love has given loads of interviews on this subject and is on record as saying that she only became interested when He's A Rebel began to take off. Surely if I can find this stuff out by looking on youtube anyone can.
However, it gets worse. Love and the Blossoms (and I really like them) reform for the documentary and Love is asked to suggest a number to sing. Da Doo Ron Ron? Now things are getting really scary as far as The Crystals are concerned. The Crystals (who could really sing by the way) and whose fiery La La Brooks was just 15 years old when she cut the lead vocals on Da Doo Ron Ron, have been given a complete pasting in the edit by director, Morgan Neville.
This isn't just bad journalism. With Neville's help, Love is treading all over these artists in her revised account of the early Spector years. And lets remember that The Crystals and La La Brooks are still alive and well, out there performing today. Brooks is now a solo artist, but her memories and background are of shooting to stardom at the age of 15 with Spector and of singing the lead vocals on Da Doo Ron Ron and Then he Kissed Me as well as there being a string of other songs charting for The Crystals in their own right.
Darlene Love was nowhere near this stuff and her input as far as The Crystals are concerned has been greatly exaggerated to say the very least. This part of the documentary is almost a hit piece and it beggars belief that Neville does nothing to rein in Darlene Love's excesses.
The more so as Love could genuinely refer to the issues which she faced a bit further on down the road under contract with Phil Spector. She finally pulled herself out of a hole in some style and went on to become famous in her own right. Alright, there is a lot more going for the documentary in terms of some great performances, but there is also a lot of sentiment contained in the premise for the documentary. It is all about being a great performer, about performing behind others who are receiving the stardom.
Note how this documentary has worked in reverse for La La Brooks and The Crystals who are more or less having their work plagiarised from above. Can it get any worse for them? Very soon the "20 Feet From Stardom" circus will be coming to town to promote this film. If their US appearances at screenings of the film are anything to go by Darlene Love will be digging herself in even deeper on the subject of who sang what in the early Spector years, while Morgan Neville just smiles and looks on approvingly.
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Computex 2014: Crucial Shows Ballistix Elite DDR4by Kristian Vättö on 6/4/2014 11:25 AM EST
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Homeles - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkThe uneven pin length Crucial was talking about is much more visible in this photo. Reply
yrral - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkCan you explain the rationale behind the uneven pin lengths? Reply
NXTwoThou - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkProbably how to prevent you from putting DDR3 into the same slot. To reduce cost, they might be retaining the same layout, the only thing you'd have to do in production of the slot would be a slight change to the plastic to raise the edges up and then a slight change in production of the memory to no longer be square. You try and put DDR3 in, it wouldn't be able to seat down due to the raised edges. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkThe notch being misaligned would result in the dimm being much farther out of socket than the tiny curve would; and there're strait edge ddr4 dimms so just the shape can't be the reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkProbably to make inserting it easier in a tight slot since you're only forcing the initial insert on a part of the dimm at a time. Reply
extide - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkBingo ^^ This is why. Reply
Scabies - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkSo it begins (finally!) Reply
hughlle - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkSpeak for yourself. Doesn't interest me in the slightest. Still havn't been given a reason to upgrade beyond core2quad and ddr2. Reply
dylan522p - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkThat's cause you don't need the performance. You CPU is actually weaker than an i3 in multithreaded and gets bent in single threaded. Reply
designerfx - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkI'm genuinely happy to see it myself, but I would expect that it is definitely going to be a while before it's affordable and commonplace. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkOn the Intel side, the rumor mill says it'll launch with Haswell-E later this year and with the new SkyLake architecture/socket in 2015. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkI haven't seen anything about AMD's plans; but with their APUs being ram bottlenecked, I'd expect them to jump on board as soon as it's not prohibitively more expensive. Reply
Antronman - Monday, June 09, 2014 - linkAMD is changing their architecture design completely.
Their architectures have been CMT so far.
Now they're going for SMT with excavator. Same stuff that intel uses, and that makes H-threading possible. Reply
Antronman - Monday, June 09, 2014 - linkActually not true.
One of the reasons that DDR3 was so expensive at release, was because back then in the Core 2 days, was when PC parts were helluva expensive (you can get the same real-world application performance for much less. For the FPS you'd get a game today, for a game back then you'd pay much more to get as much FPS.) (Anybody remember Nvidia's 4000USD Nforce boards?) DDR3 came out right then, when prices just started to drop. Prices for DDR3 dropped in about a month or two to something affordable.
DDR4 is coming out at a time when prices are starting to stabilize, and slowly drop. Reply
A5 - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkThen do more with your computer? Reply
HisDivineOrder - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkAnyone going Haswell-E is FORCED into a DDR4 "upgrade." Reply
Senti - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkAnd it's a nice thing. My previous "forced upgrade" to DDR3 when I went i7-920 still serves me well till today.
In 2-3 years you'll look as pathetic with DDR3 as you are with DDR2 today. Reply
UltraWide - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkWhen will they stop with the heatsinks? Reply
WithoutWeakness - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkTons of companies produce RAM without heatsinks, Crucial included. The addition of heatsinks is just another way for companies to differentiate and make their products stand out to consumers. Reply
Peanutsrevenge - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkDangit, I only JUST upgraded to DDR3 (My income doesn't even come close to matching my love of hardware). Reply
ExarKun333 - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkCan't wait! Haswell/Broadwell-E here we come. :) Reply
RaistlinZ - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkGood stuff. I won't be among the early adopter s though. My I7 4770k rig will last until at least the end of 2016. Reply
Welsh_Jester - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkLooks like x99 is a worthy upgrade from my i7 920, 3000mhz and 3200mhz nice speeds to start off on and a fair bit higher than ddr3. Reply
ballast - Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - linkSame situation on 920. Waiting on Skylake personally as that's being commonly hailed as a true CPU successor. The change in architecture will hopefully be interesting. Reply
Senti - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkGood luck with Skylake – I bet it'll be as handicapped as desktop Haswell: you can get unlocked multiplier OR L4 cache OR TSX/VT-d. Great choice, isn't it? And no one knows how many cores will be there – might end up with the same 4 max, lol. Reply


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ASUS VivoTab, VivoBook, ZenBook and Transformer Book Hands-onby Jason Inofuentes on 10/23/2012 5:45 PM EST
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MadMan007 - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - linkThat last pic actually made me LOL thinking that Asus was going to produce a 27" tablet like the one they showed earlier this year! Nice one. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkAt least the screen looks decent with piano keys.
Windows 8 is so ugly, so so ugly.
It's so pathetic.
It's so washed out pastel.
It's so retarded.
It's so dumbed down and borked.
It' so ugly, I didn't mention how fugly it is.
What a disaster of idiocy. Reply
db4williams - Tuesday, November 06, 2012 - linkSoooo your saying you don't like it? lol
Don't let your nerd rage control you too much. Win8 is'nt that bad. Reply
Zink - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - linkThere's something to be said about the confusion of having so many devices. This is like Windows laptops, even Android tablet lineups are easier to understand.
This is only one manufacturer and with another 5 or so big OEMs it gets very confusing for most consumers. I hope there is some attempt to help compare similar products between OEMs and make it easy to understand which is for you. Atom, ARM, i5, 1080p/IPS, battery docks, premium build etc.
Otherwise my Mom would be more likely to go get an iPad because it will be the same as the iPad everyone else has. Reply
dennya - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkHey, as of today, when you consider color, capacities, and cell providers, there are 51 different iPad models in the US alone!
Personally, I'm glad for the variety, because it lets Asus address users with different desires. The 13" Transformer Book looks awesome to me, but I'm sure the 13" tablet seems insane to a lot of people. For those people, there are the 11.6" models.
Simplicity is only a good thing if you have very mainstream desires. If you want something a bit more niche, like the 13" Transformer Book, you appreciate companies like Asus that offer a variety of choices. Reply
MadMan007 - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkIt's a point that's been made before, and on a superficial level it makes sense. But when you think about consumer electronics there have always been lots of manufacturers and they've all had wide lineups. Think about audio/video equipment going back decades. Stereos, record players, cassette players, CD players,A/V receivers, televisions - they've all had advances, broad lineups, incompatible technologies, dead ends, and yet people bought them and not just 'whatever everyone else had. Consumers were able to make sense of the lineups somehow.
Maybe with computers and now portable devices it's confusing for some consumers - but I would say that goes for older consumers, maybe 40+, who didn't see computing technology evolve until they were a bit older. Young people today are very tech savvy and able to parse the lineups with no more research than people used to do for A/V equipment. There are of course those who are not inclined technically inclined or willing to research but that's what their tech savvy friends are for. Reply
JasonInofuentes - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkI was thinking about this last night and it occurred to me that this is actually a reasonable approach for a company with the design chops and capacity of ASUS. There's a certain mystery behind who will win the balance of performance, form factor and battery life. So putting all your chips on red is way too risky, even Microsoft is hearing this by releasing Surface RT and Surface Pro.
Now, in three years, once Windows 8's successor has arrived, if we're still looking at multiple SoC types, multiple form factors, and no clear superior option, then we'll know there's a big problem. Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkThe idea is that your mum wouldn't need to worry wether it's i5 or i7. These are mechanically different designs, so they will actually feel different. Once you decided which one you want, the choice is narrowed down considerably. Best would probably be to try them out in a shop personally. Reply
frozentundra123456 - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkYea, I am totally confused. Dont even know much about the various ARM processers, much less all the tablets available. Not to mention WinRT and what you can do with that. So now you have Android, WinRT, and Win8, not to mention conventional laptops with or without touchscreens, tablets, tablets plus docks, and laptops that fold over like the Levano yoga.
Personally, I would probably go with Win8 in some form, even if it is a bit slow (atom) or uses more power (Ivy). My experiences with a Acer A100 and android have been mixed at best. Still seems buggy and really slow, kind of like the old computer I once had running Win ME on a 450mhz celeron with 2mb integrated graphics. The best course might be to wait a year or two for Haswell and maybe something from AMD (???) and let the market sort itself out. Reply
tayb - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkConsumer choice is never a problem. Buy what you like. Android gets into trouble because the different options don't have the same version of Android and even with tablets that have uniform versions of Android there are UI customizations that make them look and operate differently.
This will be a minor issue with Windows as there will be Windows RT tablets and Windows 8 tablets. The real difference between these being the ability to run x86 apps. So long as Microsoft and retailers/etailers do a good job of educating consumers this shouldn't be a problem. It certainly won't be nearly as big of a problem as it is on Android. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkBullhockey. It's only complicated for the dweebs who sit around musing the horrors of not knowing all the differences.
People actually buy a device and use it, and when they do that, all the horrors you speak of with differences don't matter one whit.
Not just you, it's a common theme here, for the membrains, the retarded, the failing critics, the comedy of fraud the whiners pull.
Clearly not one of them mentioned a single thing they like about this or that version, because they haven't got a freaking clue, they haven't used a single device let alone two that are not exactly the same. If they have, it still proves almost complete brain death, as no ins or outs are shared.
Another faux nightmare brought to you by the "cool critics without a clue". Reply
Impulses - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkSo the touch enabled Zenbook really felt that natural to use? I'm surprised, I've never felt it was natural to reach out and touch my display when using my Transformer docked, I only did it when I had no mouse (mostly because the touchpad is pretty mediocre and Android is obviously evenlmore touch centric). I guess if it's no more than a $150 bump over the regular model then it's a worthy experiment...
I think if I pony up $1,000+ for any kind of 13"+ device it's because I want a high res display for serious desktop workloads, I might as well just accompany it with something like a cheap Nexus 7 than try to awkwardly shoehorn it into a tablet usage model. Too many of these devices seem like jack of all trades wannabes...
I guess they're either banking on upselling anyone who ever bought a netbook (with many of the <11"hybrid devices) or hoping people buy into pairing the smaller devices with external displays when they need to work for hours? That's the only scenarios where I see one of those devices being better than a separate laptop and a tablet, at least for people who use a laptop as their main work station. Reply
frozentundra123456 - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkI guess I would look at it just the opposite way. I have a 7 inch Acer A100, and find it almost useless for anything more than web browsing, and even for that it is very slow, locks up, and the touch interface is very inconsistent. Sometimes you can touch something you want to and it will not register the touch, and other times you can barely touch something by accident and it thinks it is a command. So if I had a nice ultrabook, I probably would have no desire for a tablet.
I really hate Android, at least on this device. Slow, buggy, poor wi-fi and no 3G or 4G. Just a very limited device. I only bought it to check e-mail when at a different lab than the one I normally work in, but it barely picks up the wi-fi signal even for that, while a regular laptop has a very strong signal in the same lab. I only paid 200.00 for it on close out, so for that price, I can deal with it. But if I had paid 400.00 or more for it like some tablets, I would be furious. Reply
blackbrrd - Sunday, October 28, 2012 - linkLow-end hardware performans worse than the high-end hardware, even if both are using Android. Take me, I bought a cheap Huawei U8800 for 200$ while my girlfriend bought the Samsung Galaxy SII for 700$ (yeah, it was that expensive here in Norway). My phone locks up once in a while, is slow, the touch is unresponsive now and then and all that. Her's never do that. Why? The better hardware.
In other words, your complaints isn't about android, but on products with anemic hardware matched to a more demanding OS or software. The reason Apple has a good reputation is among other things that they don't release mismatched hardware/software.
From a review of the A100: "Like so many other tablets on the market, the A100 packs a 1GHz Tegra 2 processor. In general, we think the SoC has performance limitations, with some visible lags being fairly typical. " Reply
Visual - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkImportant details are missing....
Is the VivoBook ARM, Atom or IVB? Does it support touch?
What are the resolutions on the devices? I see you specified it only on the Transformer Book and the AIO.
Do any of the tablets (and especially the Transformer Book) have a digitizer, and what kind? A pen silo?
Do any of themy have an option for 3G, GPS, accelerometer?
Does the Transformer have an additional battery in the keyboard dock? Is there an option for a backlit keyboard?
What are the weights? Reply
Visual - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkOh well, I see now that you have another article with more specs and details. You could've linked to it to reduce confusion a little. Reply
powerarmour - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkSo where the hell are these Clover Trail tablets?, are the graphics drivers that bad?! Reply


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The tournament that York University made famous across Canada by winning in 2010 will be coming to a TV set near you. The American College Cricket Championship will be broadcast live on TV Asia starting this year. ACC president Lloyd Jodah made the announcement in New York on Monday.
Several schools that participated in the CanUCric tournament earlier this summer are expected to participate in the event.
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New York, October 4, 2011
American College Cricket today announced an agreement with TV Asia as their exclusive worldwide broadcast partner in all formats for matches beginning October 09, 2011 in the United States
The Semi finals and Finals of the North East and Mid Atlantic Regional Championships will be available on TV Asia every Saturday at 7 pm EDT beginning October 29, and repeated at 12 midnight EDT each Saturday until December 8, 2011. The schedule will be more extensive next Fall.
The top 32 teams from this Fall season will then compete in the Nationals, the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship in March 2012 in Florida – Cricket Craziness just before College Basketball's March Madness!
TV Asia will televise the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship including the final 6 matches live from Florida on TV Asia. The National Championship will be played as usual for the Shiv Chanderpaul Trophy.
"American College Cricket pioneered cricket promotion on Facebook, Twitter and now Google +, to reach the Cricket audience in the USA and Canada and was the first to broadcast domestic cricket in the USA in March 2010. TV Asia's mission and strategy is geared towards the American and Canadian audience so they are the ideal Media Partners", American College Cricket's founder and President Lloyd Jodah stated.
"In continuing with our mission to highlight and encourage local Talent, TV Asia is proud to be associated with American College Cricket in televising the regionals and the Spring break Championship Cricket matches in USA & Canada", stated Mr. H.R. Shah Chairman of TV Asia. "This agreement reaffirms TV Asia's commitment to be the Voice and Mirror of the South Asian Community in United States and Canada," added Mr. Shah who agreed to be on the Advisory Board of American College Cricket.


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Google Reveals New Glassware and an Updated Google Glass Modelby Brandon Chester on 6/24/2014 7:39 PM EST
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drewmsmith - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkThis puts an actual consumer version of glass at least 6 months out. If the only thing they did was a ram upgrade and are still cludging along with that TI omap 4430 then I don't see the point. They are getting far enough removed from modern mobile SOC now that any development efforts will need to be reassessed. Reply
ImSpartacus - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkYeah, the 4430 was just a single A9, right? There's no way it can use 2GB of RAM. Reply
danielfranklin - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkNo, it was dual, but not at very high clocks.
Main reason they would want to upgrade the SOC would be for power usage, at 45nm your ultra lightweight device must be all battery! Reply
aryonoco - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkPerhaps they are just waiting for 20nm SoC and radio stack to become more widely available, and are going to skip 28nm in the process. Reply
danielfranklin - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkI would think so. I certainly dont expect the product to be released to market before its given a good overhaul in that department. Ram is certainly easier to upgrade on a dev platform as the OS changes are automatic, perhaps changing SOC was just going to be too hard.
The 4430 isnt exactly slow, but its graphics performance isnt too good. Though the resolution is pretty low isnt it? Reply
uhuznaa - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkSoC, resolution, storage and basically everything about that thing is ultra low-end. The only unknown is the optics, but apart from that I would expect it to sell for $99 or less. Maybe Google is even aiming at an ad-sponsored free device sooner or later. Anyway, such a device can be cheaper than even the cheapest smartphone. Reply
GC2:CS - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkGoogle to update their SoC lot less power hungry (and pricier) 20 nm SoC ? Nope theirs only goal is to make them as cheap as possible and 45 nm is an old process with very good prices. Adding another gig of RAM is possibly the cheapest upgrade they could make. Yes 2GB... They are not looking at this as an efficient ultra mobile platform but rather like a very low end phone with some additional ram so it can det bloated by unoptimized software over time. I don't like their approach... They want 1500$ for these, they are yelling Reply
GC2:CS - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkaround how innovative they are, how their future looking and cool experiments are changing the world, while it has a minimal benefit for anyone and while their are building an ultra low-end platform, that could be sold for very low prices (or even for free) to spread dust called ADware into eyes of every human being on earth. Reply
ol1bit - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - linkI never thought about how old the hardware was getting good call! Reply
Pork@III - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkHmm, google "glass"! S*itty version! I am waiting for "wire in the brain."... Reply
GC2:CS - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkI will rather get google googles.... Reply
Yorgos - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkwww.youtube.com/watch?v=eJyMEkb_8to Reply
danjw - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkMany here seem to question the utility of Glass. But, I see lots of applications for them. A heads up display (HUD) for both drivers and pilots. Sure your phone can do a lot of those other things they have apps for but, this is integrated into your regular routine. You can get a text from your significant other while in a meeting. Yes, they aren't at the price for the average consumer yet, but that is at least partly because of the low volume of production.
Glass is still in early development and yes there is a while yet before these will be put into use by most people, but I do believe it is a very interesting technology. Reply


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
By RICK KASH and DAVID CALHOUN
In the flagrantly expansionary economy of the past several years, sloppiness in planning and execution were hidden as business sales and profits went up constantly. These days, you are not only competing with ever-growing sources of supply from competitors all over the world, but all of that supply is competing for flattening – even contracting – demand. In this new competitive reality, any mistake can have significant consequences.
The solution must go beyond tightening the screws still further on the supply chain. Now, the precision must occur on the demand side of the equation.
One reason for this is a shift in expectations. Today's customers and consumers expect more precision from business because, thanks to the tech revolution, the world around us has become much more precise. GPS devices will show you within inches how to get from point A to point B. Atomic clocks measure to the billionths of seconds. Twitter can tell you exactly what your friends are up to at any given moment. YouTube, TiVo, and iTunes allow you to access the history of recorded entertainment to find exactly the experience you want at that moment. And cellular telephones let people contact you anywhere on the globe.
In the face of this unprecedented increase in precision, is it any wonder that customers and consumers are increasingly impatient with inaccuracies, delays, and imprecision? Precision has become the leitmotif of the lives of your consumers – and if you fail to match that precision, those failings will seem even more amplified.
What consumers also instinctively understand is that precision has long been a precursor of progress. In high technology, ever-smaller chips also have ever more functionality. In medicine, laparoscopic and laser surgery enables doctors to work in small, almost microscopic spaces instead of using more invasive procedures. Heart stents are implanted with precision to prevent heart attacks and strokes. The Kindle delivers thousands of books to your home on a small device within seconds, and soon tiny chips called RFID (for radio frequency identification) will track individual packages as they travel across America or around the world. Precision is almost always the path into the future.
We have seen similar shifts in expectations in the past. Twenty years ago, we experienced a shift to immediacy, to a 24/7 world, thanks to the Internet and companies such as Federal Express and Amazon. More recently, mobility has become an everyday expectation, enabled again by the Internet, by telepresence and technologies such as Skype and Second Life, and driven by a natural desire among people to stay connected with each other wherever they are.
The biggest corporate success story of the century to date, Google, is perhaps the perfect exemplar of the growing need for – and the power of – precision. As consumers, most of us would be lost trying to find what we need on the Internet without Google or another search engine. But acting as a tool to help you find precisely what you are looking for on the Web only explains in part what has made Google such an amazing game changer.
The real power of Google is its ability to help advertisers increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their advertising spending through greater precision. The company helps advertisers reach exactly those consumers who are most likely to be interested in their message. Indeed, almost every significant purchase (as well as many smaller purchases) consumers make today begins with online research. Consumers have learned to compare hotels, cars, TVs, shoes and a thousand other product categories via the Web. What's more, the consumers conducting these searches are much more likely than the average TV viewer, newspaper reader, or radio listener to actually make a purchase in the category being researched.
The genius of Google's business strategy is that it placed itself right in the middle of this research/decision-making process – an idea so radical that it caught potential competitors, such as the big newspaper and magazine families, so completely by surprise that they not only cheered the rise of Google, but often even turned over their Web page to the Google search engine. By the time the media giants realized their mistake, Google had placed itself at the crossroads of the online retail and advertising world.
In practice, Google can show its advertiser clients precisely how consumers who saw their advertisements online actually behave. Google can also show how many consumers actually click on an ad or visit an advertiser's site for additional information. The advertisers in turn can see the increase in traffic to their site, as well as where this traffic came from, time spent on the site, pages viewed, and, of course, sales.
Like Google, adding greater precision to your business model has the potential to turn it into a kind of "profit search engine" that can be used to pinpoint the most profitable demand in a market, to help you understand the basis for decision making of those customers, and help align your supply precisely with the highest-profit demand.
Injecting greater precision into your business model drives both greater efficiency and greater effectiveness. And Google isn't the only company that has come to appreciate that fact.
Excerpted from "How Companies Win" by Rick Kash and David Calhoun (HarperCollins Publishers)
David Calhoun has been Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of the global information and media company The Nielsen Company since 2006. Prior to that, he served as vice chairman of General Electric Co. and president and chief executive officer of GE Infrastructure, as well as chief executive of a number of GE divisions and subsidiaries. He lives in New York.
Rick Kash is the founder and CEO of The Cambridge Group, one of the premier consulting firms in the United States. He is also the author of "The New Law of Demand and Supply." An acknowledged expert on demand, Kash's many clients include some of the world's most successful businesses. Kash also serves on a number of boards of directors and is a frequent public speaker. He lives in Chicago.


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So glad football season is here again. All we need is one more reason to fire up the smoker, right? Decided on some baby back ribs as I have not done them in years, I usually go with spares. Rubbed down with a 2/2/1 mixture of DP Dust, Stubbs Rub and Fiesta Rib Rub (I'm trying to use up all my rubs so I can start blending my own again)
Threw them on the smoker at 250 with a mix of hickory and apple
A few hours later they were joined by some ABTs
Rather than going the 2-2-1 method, I opted for a modified 2.5-0.5-1.5 method which seemed to get my ribs done perfectly to my liking, not falling off the bone, but with just a bit of pull.
I feel like that by blending the three rubs, it added a bit of depth and complexity that none had on their own. Just reaffirmed my decision to start blending my own rubs from scratch again.
My Baylor Bears put up a strong showing, the ribs came out nicely and no work on Monday. All in all.....could my Sunday have been any better? I think not.
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The Penn State Extension Dairy Team's mobile app, DairyCents, is now available for download on Android devices. DairyCents has been available since August on iTunes and has over 600 registered users to date.
Users from 44 states have been using the app and downloading feed prices for over 40 of the 90 feeds available in the database.
The first feature of the DairyCents app is a standardized Income Over Feed Cost (IOFC) calculation using the user's state-specific milk and alfalfa prices and corn and soybean meal prices from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The second feature of DairyCents allows the user to compare their purchased feed price to the Penn State Feed Price List and to other users in the database who have purchased the same feed.


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Lambda Chi Forest Essential Letter Tee
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