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SilverStone Grandia GD07 Review: Centering and Serving Your Mediaby Dustin Sklavos on 4/29/2012 1:00 AM EST
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Chaitanya - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkSilverstone certainly makes some good enclosures. Reply
seanleeforever - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linknice case indeed. i have the GD05 and it sure shows the craftsmanship.
However, i found the this review uses ITX MB in a ATX Case to be... interesting yet pointless. who in their right mind would use ITX MB in this case?
and for CPU coolers, you are just not exploring all the options (or even tried). allow me to copy and paste part of my reviews for GD05 (i have it config with 16G RAM +i7-2700+ SLI GTX 560TI)
...CPU cooler: cooler Master Vortex Plus. VERY IMPORTANT. this is the ONLY after market product that will fit EXTREMELY tightly in this case while giving you the option to have a disk drive. and with powerful setup, you know you need a cooler to replace stock intel cooler (as they are absolutely crap)....
bear in mind, you WILL BE able to fit CM s524 in GD07 since it is a bigger case and you won't run in the problem of having the disk drive blocking additional CPU cooler clearance. Reply
seanleeforever - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkbuy "you", i meant Dustin. Reply
Samus - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkFT01 owner 3+ years. Amazing case, doubt I'll ever replace it.
After owning a number of Antec and CoolerMaster cases and replacing them every time I upgrade the motherboard, that has yet to happen with the SilverStone.
My only complaint is the proprietary 180mm fan's that were included with the case (sleeve bearing) both failed after 2 years and although 120mm fans can be installed in their place, I opted for replacement FM181 Silverstone 180mm fans, which are very expensive $25/ea. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkDid you just not actually read the review? Reply
seanleeforever - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkyes Dustin, i did read the review. i don't any post comments before finishing reading. great review by the way.
i understand where you are coming from: to have a standardized test bed, something to compare with. and since the ATX test bed uses H212 that is a bit to tall, you were forced to use ITX board.
However... the fact remains that, for folks who plan to use ITX board or mini ITX, the are not going to get ATX case.... is there value to measure the noise/thermal of mini ITX in a full ATX case? maybe,but it probably makes as much useful data as measuring how much towing power does a Ferrari California have (i.e. no one cares). i think it would be much more useful should you use the ATX testbed with stock cooler because that is much more likely situation.
on to the product itself. i see some of the problem with GD05 still reminds: unable to mount water cooling solution. also, could you comment on how many type of screws does this case have? the GD05 they had like 5 or 6 type of screws when it really should be 2 or 3. Reply
anirudhs - Wednesday, May 02, 2012 - linkThe config you have is a gaming PC rather than a media center/server. This case is not intended for your config. A CoolerMaster HAF912 at $60 will be more suited. Reply
mepenete - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkIt looks like a great case overall, but for me the price tag is a bit much considering its just for an HTPC. Reply
Origin32 - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkAnd just last week I ordered an Aerocool M40 because there wasn't a better case to put my HTPC/Home Server in. And that thing only has room for 3 or 4 harddisks, and then you have to get a little creative already. FML Reply
cjs150 - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkI think you got it right, very good choice for people who use the media centre as a 24/7 server as well, but otherwise wholly unconvinced
As a straight media centre it is way too big.
Obviously everyone has slightly different views but here are mine:
1. Blu ray drive is a must - should be vibration dampened. Do not mind if full sized or slim line, slot or tray.
2. SSD + 2.5" HD is enough for me - I have a big NAS to download stored content to. Maybe 2xSSD would even better.
3. One expansion slot is enough, 2 would be nice, 3 is unnecessary, 4 is overkill. For a media centre what would you put in the expansion slots? IGP should be good enough now, but some would prefer a discrete GPU, sound card is an obvious choice, may be a TV tuner but that is it.
4. Silence is golden. 30db is already too loud because you can hear it during quiet sections on movie playback. Obviously not a problem if media centre is in different room.
5. Heat has to be controlled - obviously this causes an issue with the silence is golden concept! Reply
randinspace - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkDustin, I enjoyed the review, and in particular think you absolutely hit the nail on the head with your conclusion that the system has a lot of potential. I'm left wondering if it has a bit too much potential in place of realized excellence since I would personally have appreciated better cabling options, a fan controller that actually worked, and a straight out dedicated hot swap bay, but the headroom (and accompanying theoretical lack of expense from such inclusions) must only make it more attractive to boutiques like the very Puget Systems mentioned in passing for providing the i3 used in the review.
I bring them up mostly since I recall reading a case evaluation they did last year, though unfortunately not the case, in which they mentioned that because of some of the design choices that were made in order to make it "toolless" they didn't trust it to survive shipping with a fully installed system in it. I personally find Puget to be a little too conservative in various ways, but considering that and their willingness to make their own modifications to cases I can at least imagine how a toolless version of the GD07 with grilles on the fans might be an unappealing prospect to an outfit like them. Then again it's not like they actually have a product line the GD07 seems to beg inclusion in (yet?).
As to the "controversy" you alluded to at the start, I don't expressly have a problem with the fact that you used the mini-ITX testbed instead of the (micro) ATX one with a different cooler. However, with the present lack of apples to apples comparisons in the charts, I think the review would have been better served with additional anecdotal comparisons, or even testing out additional fan configurations like some people have been clamoring for. Pulling the fans and maybe even a drive or two out of your own GD05 and then taking the noise and thermal readings again (or even doing noise readings on your GD05 as it usually runs for the aforementioned anecdotal comparison) for instance would have been absolutely brilliant. Then again if you give in to a dog begging for food from the table even once... Reply
Hulk - Monday, April 30, 2012 - link17" depth is simply too much for most entertainment centers once you figure in stiff HDMI cables. I'm using the GD04 which Anandtech rightly criticized for the loud fans. All you have to do is reconfigure the power leads to the fans so they are running off the 5V rail and voila, it's quiet. Takes about 1 minute and costs nothing. And the cooling of the three 120's is fine for a low power HTPC. In fact I'm running mine that way with a C2D at 3.0GHz no problem with the stock cpu cooler. Reply
PhoenixEnigma - Tuesday, May 01, 2012 - linkAgreed on the depth - my GD04 is about as deep as I'd want a media center case to be. 17" is ridiculous, IMO. It's at the point I'd be setting it on its side (tower case style) beside everything else, which sort of defeats the point.
One tip - you can get around the HDMI cable (and most other cables, for that matter) issue with angled connectors, or possibly Redmere cables. Reply
zlandar - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkI have a Grandia GD06. Not sure what the point is of making a case large enough to support ATX boards. As the reviewer pointed out, a major problem with this case style is the lack of height to support a tower-type cooler. There is a 18mm of additional height compared to the GD06 I have, but most tower coolers require 150mm+ which this case is short by 12mm. You can go with a low-profile cooler like a Gemini 2 but the performance will never match a cheap tower like a Hyper 212+.
Depending on your HTPC usage you can use a stock cooler and be happy. I use my HTPC for commercial skipping (DVRMStoolbox and showanalyzer) and for transcoding to my iPad (Airvideo) which will take as much cpu as you have. My i3-550 runs fine with a slight overclock to 3.6GHz.
Would also prefer these type of cases come with a fan controller. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, May 02, 2012 - linkI had not problem with my Silverstone LC10B-E. It could fit a tower CPU heatsink just fine and was pretty quiet. You seem to think there are really only about 3 options, which is ludicrous. Tons of CPU heatsinks of various designs fit in those ATX desktop cases quite easily and can cool even overclocked quad cores. My i3 530 ran with the aforementioned tower cooler (cheap Arctic Cooling 64 or something) at 4.5GHz. When I used a Lian Li Cube (V351-B) I had a Noctua NH-C12P, which is just under 12cm with the standard fan (you could always use slims) ,I had my i7 860 running at 3.5GHz just fine. :-)
So don't be so narrow minded. Lots of options to choose from in every height and cooling segment. :D Reply
mcnabney - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkThe purpose of this box is to hold an ATX-sized board which provides the extended number of slots and drive connectors to completely populate the case as a home/media server. It has made some mistakes along the way.
1. It should have been built 'up' instead of 'out'. It is just too deep. I had to modify my entertainment center for a similar design four years ago. You would have thought that the engineers would have corrected that issue by now.
2. By being too thin you noticed that it wouldn't hold many CPU coolers. This also eliminates the ability to silently cool a CPU - a colossal mistake. Living room PCs shouldn't be making noise.... at all. Small HTPC cases can do it, why not a larger one which should have more options.
3. The drive cage design is stupid. If they are going to provide groups of 5.25" drives they should put them in groups of 3 and also include 3to5 adapters to allow their use in holding 3.5" drives.
4. The best design for the cage would include a thin area across the top that is designed to hold the two 2.5" SSDs AND a slim DVD/BD drive. This would allow the rest of the space to be dedicated 3.5" drive space for storage.
5. There may be ventilation issues for the hard disks. Have you tried filling the case completely with drives (and put them in an array so that activity spins them all) and checking the drive temps? The board looks adequately cooled, but the drive cage looks like a pit of dead air. Reply
mmsmsy - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkI don't know how PC enclosures could stay pretty much the same for so long when they can be totally reinvented to be less noisy, have less wasted space, be much better ventilated and be much, much, much cheaper. This is getting frustrating since I can't buy literally anything neither to my PC nor a PC to the living room that wouldn't be a complete waste of money, because every single one of them is basically the same and begs to improve it's design. There's only so much to do about it as to build one myself... if I had any skills in bending and cutting metal. Ridiculous... Reply
xpeacemaker - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkThanks for the review -- I was excited to see a review of this Silverstone's latest product. I own a GD04 and love the look and quality of it. My biggest gripe for the case is that it's obviously cramped and a nightmare to do maintenance on.
As time went on, my need for hard drive space has increased in priority, yet physical room inside the case is not available (GD04). In addition, I have a sound card that I would love to add to take over the primary responsibilities of sound output, but I can't because with a 5770 in there, there just isn't any room for it.
I would love to see how this case stacks up compared to the GD04 in detail (since this is a newer model). I am most curious to know, what can I fit in here more comfortably that I couldn't do before? How much hardware can I actually stuff in here without modifying the case? How many hard drives were you able to actually install and wire up completely?
I would have liked to see what you meant by the clearance issues you encountered with the 2.5" drive install.
Sorry for the critical feedback. All that being said, I do appreciate your review. Reply
Stabgotham - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkYes, please answer all of these questions. These are the exact questions coming to my mind as well. I'm in the market for an HTPC case, but I really need it to store the physical hard drives (5 x 3.5" HDD's).
I'd also really like to see some future reviews of some of the Lian-Li HTPC cases as comparison. Reply
zlandar - Tuesday, May 01, 2012 - linkI keep my hard drives in a separate Sans Digital enclosure. I use four 2TB drives in a RAID 5 connected to my HTPC through eSATA. Reply
DireNova - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkI've been waiting for this case to come out for a while. I can see that it's not getting a good reception as an HTPC case, but they don't really make desktop cases like they did 10-15 years ago and I wonder if this might be the closest thing yet?
I have a new desk arriving shortly that is 72" wide where my previous desk was 48" wide. While I can now support my NV Surround array without the screens hanging over the sides, the desk will crowd out the space where my full tower now sits.
I would like to find a case that trades vertical height for depth and width so I can set it on my desk, under my monitors (which are on a stand).
I wonder how well it would cool a pair of GTX680s and a moderately overclocked 2600k? I know the TT Frio won't fit here but there are plenty of low profile coolers that would work - I'm just wondering how the overall case would fare trying to cool that kind of system. Reply
TrackSmart - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkI respect your decision to use the Micro-ATX testbed and understand why you did it. That being said, I'm among the party you mentioned who would rather have seen the ATX testbed, but with a different cooler.
I think that would have been equally 'fair' (or equally unfair), since the case limits the cooling system options. We would get to see how it handles a high-powered system, despite being limited to 'lesser' cooling options. That's a more useful test, in my book, than the Micro-ATX version. Though it would be 'non-standard' for comparisons.
You saw that critique coming from a mile away, so fair enough. Reply
fr500 - Monday, April 30, 2012 - link"note that while the GD07 can technically fit a full-size ATX case" on last page... I guess it´s a full-sized ATX motherboard
Nice review Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkFixed, thanks. Reply
CharonPDX - Monday, April 30, 2012 - linkI like the idea of a door to hide bits, but what about HTPCs with drive-bay-mount IR receivers? I currently have a Cooler Master Elite 360 that I use as an HTPC case, and I have a 3.5"-bay-mount IR receiver for the HTPC remote. Yeah, the obnoxious insanely-bright blue LEDs in the chassis and Blu-ray drive are obnoxious, and I'd happily have a front cover that mutes them a little, but it should let the IR through for my remote.
PS, In my CM Elite 360, I have a full ATX motherboard (Intel DP45SG,) with "Extreme" Core 2 Quad (QX6800 at 130 Watts) with reasonably tall cooler (Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro,) and have had a Radeon 4850 then a 5770 in it. When it's time to upgrade, I'll almost certainly move to a more power-efficient setup, which ironically means I can probably go for a *LESS* "beefy" chassis than the one I have or this one. Reply
emueyes - Tuesday, May 01, 2012 - link
How were the temperature measurements obtained for the IGP? I've found most 'boards won't even give a PCH temperature (exception, the Intel DH67DG) let alone the IGP temp. Reply
truprecht - Tuesday, May 01, 2012 - linkI don't see this case offering much the Lian Li PC-33B or PC-C60B don't, other than 2 mostly useless vertical 5.25 bays and more difficult assembly with that huge take-out bay/drive cage thing. Aside from the anodized front panel, the construction looks much cheaper than Lian Li's.
Also, a Zalman 9500AT cooler is 125mm high, not a low-profile "downdraft" model and, based on the HSF clearance specs, should fit in this case. Reply
dtolios - Wednesday, May 02, 2012 - link...I do believe that you should re-define what's the goal of your case reviews...
I - like many others it seams - find it too frustrating watching full towers being tested with mATX boards, and now huge "desktop" / HTPC cases being tested with mITX...I can see that it's hard for each reviewer to have a huge selection of components to play with, but in the long run that's what it should be...
IMHO, I don't care if the X product produces a tiny better thermal performance than the Y product, when the latter offers in exchange unique features...
What fits and how, is way more important than comparing decimals in oC readings a cookie standardized rig produces...
In this case, this is not a "mITX" case...if I want such a mini enclosure, I won't buy this beast...period. I would have most likely an ATX board (not even M) and at least one GPU card...I believe trying and measuring and proving that this case is or is not among the few that can for example "do" a large GTX or 79xx card and an ATX board and up to Z sized CPU cooler, would be the primary goal - aka, who needs this case or what it has to offer ontop of a miTX one. Then compare it with others, if any, that can also to that "on-top" part...
Or when you are bringing in full ATX towers clearly aimed for enthusiasts, and you don't even try to fit a large ATX mobo with at least 2x GPU configuration and a few HDDs, do you actually help the target market of this case or do you just satisfy your arbitrary "scientific" rules of repetition?
Aiming purely on temps etc, is the goal of a cooler review, not that of a case.
Otherwise is the equivalent of testing a supercar and judging it purely on mileage, disregarding many other tangible and ofc all the intangible benefits of such a "niche" machine. I understand that you have the best on intentions writing these, but so do I commenting on your work. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, May 02, 2012 - link"Aiming purely on temps etc, is the goal of a cooler review, not that of a case."
I see you have a whole lot going with the "etc.", because all anandtech case reviews I read mention potential pitfalls concerning fitting various components in the assembly section quite clearly. And if you don't pay attention to the cooling system of your case, you will always get sub-optimal results concerning cooling and noise even if you get the best cooling equipment money can buy. Cases play a big role in cooling and noise production and reception. Reply
Chris Simmo - Tuesday, May 08, 2012 - linkI have the GD-08. I run it as my Gaming HTPC and its great. I fitted a corsair H100 to it with an ASUS P8Z77-V/i5 firstname.lastname@example.com, SSD, 3x2TB HD, HD7850, X-fi sound card and dual tuner. I replaced the Antec Fusion 430 case so I had room to have an ATX MB and extra HD's. I did a fair bit of research before picking this case and none others I could find could fit all this hardware.
Can the reviewer tell me seriously why the f*** would you fit an ITX MB into this case?!!!!
I am really glad Silverstone built a decent size case. They are hard to find (particularly with USB3 front panel). Thanks very much to Silverstone. Reply
pimogo - Tuesday, May 08, 2012 - linkHi Chris
Question: in your build you included an h100, which is precisely what i'd like to do.. either that or the smaller h60. However, the reviewer here basically said that closed radiator systems were a no go due to the motherboard to sideboard constraints. Given that this case is fairly similar to the case you have, what gives? Is it then possible to install an h100 in a stock case or did you have to mod it?
Many thanks! Reply
Chris Simmo - Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - linkI removed the fans on the inside, removed the filter and secured the 2 120mm fans on the outside with fan grills I pulled off dead PSU's. Due to the positive pressure design, I pointed the fans to bow air into the case. The CPU sits at 30c at idle and 65c under load. The GPU is at 40-43 under load. Reply
Chris Simmo - Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - linkI don't know if the post will let me put this in, but here are pics of my personal system.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.248327595... Reply
Chris Simmo - Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - linkSorry, the GPU temp is at idle not load! I also made an extended Molex cable that comes off the PSU harness to the outside of the case. My entertainment unit has been modified with 2x140mm Bitfenix fans and a Zalman fan control to suck hot air away from the HTPC and receiver amp. I mod I highly recommend! I also find the corsair fans to loud and the corsair controller doesn't make them quiet enough, so use the MB headers and artic cooling PWM fans. I also replaced the fan in the PSU.
I have pictures on face book, but the link I wanted to put got removed. Reply
pimogo - Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - linkThanks for the comprehensive response! So you have the 2 fans on the side for the Corsair which are themselves replacements--not the OEM fans? You found the OEM loud?
If they're loud, i wonder if its worth going in that direction. I wonder if just a noctua slim cpu fan would not suffice. Btw how many fans in your case do you have total?
Thanks! Reply
Chris Simmo - Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - linkThe fans are ok on their own most of the time, but on the outside they were a little louder. Since I build computers for a living, I have access to a fair few parts, and the Artic cooling ones have more blades, shifting more air at a lower speed. I think the H100 is worth it. No modifying of any structures is done though Reply
audioman83 - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkI'm selling one used-Like New at Amazon. I treated it with kid gloves. It's in perfect condition. Reply


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In a fit of ambitious curiosity and anti-jingoism, we sought out a Woman We Love... in 194 nations
Who Is Minka Kelly, Really?
In a fit of ambitious curiosity and anti-jingoism, we sought out a Woman We Love... in every country on the planet. Not necessarily the sexiest, but still — a resource. (That first is South Africa's Charlize Theron, by the way.)More
Forget Miss Universe. Well, not altogether. But what's the point of a beauty pageant, really? Shouldn't the women of the world be celebrated for who they are, even if they do happen to look damn fine in a bikini? That's what we thought, anyway, when Esquire.com sought out early in 2010 to find exactly what we found in Minka Kelly, this year's Sexiest Woman Alive, in 193 other women: something different, something beautiful, something that reveals a little bit more about who we are. Put it all together with a little help from the editors of Esquire's 17 international editions and, yeah, you've got some sashes, but also presidents, human-rights activists, models with legitimate hearts of gold, and this one incredible actress from India. Our list is highly subjective and far from scientific — feel free to find your country in the thumbnails below and suggest alternatives — but it's kinda like the United Nations: just useful enough to keep college kids studying it. And now, introducing our ambassadors...
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Because she won't be silenced. Because she takes the grand ideals of Afghanistan's fledgling democracy at face value. And because her condemnations before parliament of warlords, drug lords, the Taliban, and the Karzai government are as courageous as any battlefield heroics, earning her worldwide admiration — and a few assassination attempts.
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A new sub-postmaster is being sought to run a Horsforth post office which boasts a tribute to Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee.
Cragg Hill Post Office has become known for the gold post box outside which was painted to celebrate the achievement of the Olympic gold medallist in 2012.
Now Post Office Ltd is looking for someone to run the branch, as the current postmaster is retiring due to ill health.
The New Road Side branch is described as a business opportunity that would suit someone with commercial experience.
Tony Stannard, Post Office field change advisor, said: "This opportunity would be an ideal venture for someone who wants to take on a new challenge, and develop the retail side of the business, or for a nearby business to absorb the Post Office into their existing retail as it brings with it guaranteed customer footfall.
"The new owner of Cragg Hill Post Office would benefit from an investment programme which is aimed at ensuring the best possible customer experience in branches that are bright, accessible and inviting – either at the existing premises or a new location."
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A man shot and killed himself when El Paso police detectives went to arrest him on a sex-abuse warrant early Wednesday at a Lower Valley apartment complex, a police spokesman said.
A police spokesman said David Carpio, 36, killed himself when police went to arrest him. Carpio was sought on suspicion of a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
Shortly after 2 a.m., detectives from the Crimes Against Children Section were serving search and arrest warrants at Carpio's home at the San Marcos apartments, 921 N. Zaragoza, police said. Detectives were walking into his apartment when they heard a gunshot. Detectives pulled back and called for crisis negotiators and the SWAT team. Carpio was found dead when the SWAT team entered the apartment.


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A PROLIFIC burglar responsible for more than £100,000 of crime has been jailed for five years.
Steven Paul Garner, 37, stole jewellery, irreplaceable photographs, medals and more, over six years, including in York and Malton.
Michael Smith, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court Garner showed police properties he had raided as part of the "clean slate" policy after he was arrested.
Garner, 37 of Daleside Walk, West Bowling, Bradford, admitted three burglaries and asked for 71 other offences including 45 burglaries and 19 attempted house burglaries to be taken into consideration, including in Tadcaster.
Mr Smith told the court Garner broke into a house in Flaxton, York, on February 12, while the occupiers were out at lunch.
He forced the French window with a garden fork and stole £10,000 worth of property including a laptop, bank cards, a phone and a car parked outside, which was later recovered in Bradford.
He was traced through DNA but overnight on April 27/28 he stole £2,000 worth of goods from a Cleckheaton house as the householder slept. In early May, he burgled a house in Castle Howard Road, Malton, while the occupant was on holiday.
A cleaner found drawers and a safe opened and items were strewn about the floor. Items including a jewellery box containing treasured medals presented to the retired occupant by his church were stolen.
Garner was traced through a bus ticket left at the scene.
Mr Smith told the court one of the biggest burglaries taken into consideration was in Pembroke Way, Whitby, where £30,000 in property was stolen, including items that belonged to the householders' deceased relatives and irreplaceable photographs of their parents.
Anne-Marie Hutton, for Garner, said he felt genuine remorse, which was why he had helped the police.
She said he accepted he had caused extreme misery to his victims and wanted to have everything cleared up so he could start afresh on his release.
Judge Christopher Batty said the burglaries he admitted were only the tip of the iceberg and while Garner would receive credit for assisting police, it was clear he had been burgling homes regularly since 2008.
The judge said: "People are entitled to feel safe and secure in their own home. They are entitled to believe the items they collect or purchase after their hard work will remain safe and secure. When their homes are violated by people like you they feel insecure."


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NAMA Names General Mills VP Greg Schlafer Chairman
Date Posted: October 29, 2012
Washington, DC—The North American Millers' Association (NAMA) announced Oct. 29 Greg Schlafer as the new leader and chairman of NAMA for the 2012-2014 term.
Schlafer is the vice president, sales, Bakeries & Foodservice at General Mills and is currently serving as NAMA's vice chairman.
The announcement was made at the annual NAMA Board of Directors meeting held October 26 in Asheville, North Carolina.
"It was a great pleasure to work with Paul Maass as his vice chairman over the last two years.
"He's been a fantastic chairman for NAMA and I want to thank him again for his service.
"I'm honored and excited to carry on NAMA's legacy as chairman for the next two years.
"It's a privilege to serve our membership and the industry," said Schlafer.
Schlafer was elected as vice chairman in 2010 for a two-year term before rising to the leadership position as chairman.
He has been on the NAMA Board since 2005 and the Executive Committee since 2009.
He is currently a member of the Finance/Budget Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Production Data Collection.
At the same meeting, Jim Meyer, president of Italgrani, U.S.A., was elected vice chairman.
Meyer was also elected to a three-year term to the Executive Committee. Meyer has been on the NAMA Board since 2005.
He has served on numerous NAMA committees and is currently the Finance/Budget Committee chairman.
NAMA awarded Honorary Membership to two retired members:
• Fred Luckey, retired from Bunge Milling, Inc. and currently the chairman of Field to Market, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating opportunities across the agricultural supply chain for continuous improvements in productivity, environmental quality, and human well-being.
• Roger Mortenson, retired president and CEO of House-Autry Mills in Four Oaks, North Carolina.
Honorary Membership was also awarded, posthumously, to Jim Sharp who passed away in March 2010, shortly after retiring from C.H. Guenther & Son as vice president of purchasing.
His wife, Joyce Sharp, and son, Michael Sharp, attended the meeting and accepted the award.
NAMA is the trade association of the wheat, corn, oat, and rye milling industries. Member companies operate mills in 38 states and Canada, representing more than 90 percent of total industry production capacity.
For more information, call 202-484-2200.
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Help us celebrate the end of 2010 with a round-up of all your Cooking Channel favorites. This week we're looking back at the shows, recipes, foods and photos you loved the most.
#1 Online Video of 2010: Tandoori Chicken
Fans of Indian Food Made Easy host Anjum Anand followed her into the kitchen of Gaylord Restaurant, the very first Indian restaurant to open in mad-for-curry London almost fifty years ago. The tandoori chef walks Anjum through the making of the classic dish, tandoori chicken.
• See How He Does It
• More Indian Recipes from Anjum
• Learn How Anjam Anand Started Cooking
#2. Nigella's Quick Crostini
Nigella's video follows closely behind with an easy crostini recipe that's perfect for your last-minute New Year's party.
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#3. Herbed Chicken and Vegetables
Italian cooking goddess Giada found the perfect flavor combination to spice up week-night chicken: fennel seeds, parsley and thyme.
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• More Weeknight Chicken Dinners
#4. Meet Chuck Hughes
Cooking Channel fans were ready to meet this rock star, his food views and food tattoos. Stand back!
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• Chuck's Top Recipes
#5. Cooking with a Wok
You won't get too far in Chinese cooking without one of these. Ching starts with Lesson #1: What to buy and how to season it.
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• More Chinese Food Made Easy
• Ching's Top Recipes
#6. Spinach Omelet Souffle
Ah, oui! Laura Calder's ingenious two-whisk method makes one of the fluffiest omelets we've ever seen.
• See Just How Fluffly
• More French Food at Home
• Our Best Breakfast Recipes
#7. Bitchin' Kitchen Promo
Who'd have guessed this new show would cause such a stir? But Nadia's fans have spoken! Watch out for this firecracker…
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• Stay Up Late for Bitchin' Kitchen
• Top Recipes from the Show
#8. The Secret to Scrambled Eggs
Two egg videos in one Top 10 list? In this one, Iron Chef Michael Symon shared his six secrets for egg-cellence.
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• More Recipes from Michael Symon
• Our Best Breakfast Recipes
#9. Making Naan From Scratch
Anjum does double duty, and shows us how easy it actually is to make your own delicious naan bread.
• Bake It Crisp
• More Indian Food Made Easy
• Top Recipes from the Show
#10. Meet Laura Calder
Laura opened up and told us she wants to be just like the vegetables she cooks with: real, earthy, honest, and a little quirky.
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STUDIO JOB : Biscuit Collection
I am not a fan of plates as decorative objects to be hung on walls... at least I wasn't. That's all changed now that I've seen the Biscuit collection from Studio Job for Royal Tichelaar Makkum. They've been available for several years-- I must have been sleeping the day these hit the nets because they're so undeniably cool. The many designs are based on iconic symbols- all presented with a twist. I hope they're food safe because I'm just impish enough to want to see if he'll still date me after I serve dinner on the plate called "cells."


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- "...it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn. Only one who has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, would commit such a crime. The blood of a unicorn will keep you alive, even if you are an inch from death, but at a terrible price. You have slain something pure and defenceless to save yourself, and you will have but a half-life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips."
- —Firenze explains to Harry Potter why the slaying of a unicorn is a crime.[src]
Unicorn blood is a thick, goldish substance that runs within a unicorn's veins. The blood of a unicorn can be drunk in order to keep a person alive. However, the act of slaying a unicorn will cause the drinker to suffer a cursed life[1] though the specifics of what this actually entails are not known well. It is probably a Non-Tradeable Item, since the sale of this substance is controlled by the Ministry of Magic, making it strictly forbidden.
In 1992, Lord Voldemort used unicorn blood to sustain his life until he could steal the Philosopher's Stone in order to regain his true body. As he was possessing Quirinus Quirrell at the time, Quirrell drank the blood on Voldemort's behalf, because Quirrell's body was dying as it is from sharing it with Voldemort's fragmented soul. Late in the 1991–1992 school year, when Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, and Draco Malfoy were caught out of bounds, they were punished with detention in the Forbidden Forest. At the edge of the forest, they joined Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper, who told them that a unicorn had been injured and that they were to search for it. After some initial difficulty with Malfoy's behaviour, Harry, Malfoy, and Hagrid's hound Fang found the slain unicorn; however, before they could report their discovery to Hagrid, a hooded figure swept down upon them, causing Malfoy and Fang to flee. Harry was paralysed by fright and the pain in his scar and could not run away. As Harry collapsed to the ground, he was saved by the centaur Firenze.
In 1994, Peter Pettigrew used unicorn blood along with Nagini's venom to create a potion which would create a temporary body for Voldemort, until he could regain his true body. It is unknown if producing such a potion and proceeding to use it (orally or otherwise) creates a similar curse upon the user's life. In Voldemort's case, his re-usage of unicorn blood (having indirectly consumed some two years prior) may have had a cumulative effect on the curse's potency. Voldemort's questionable degree of humanity, however, may have diluted, or even negated entirely, the efficacy of the curse.
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- As Quirrell had been drinking the unicorn blood on Voldemort's behalf, it is uncertain if he or Voldemort would have been the one afflicted with the "cursed life" mentioned by Firenze, if not both of them. It is also possible this curse may have played a part in Quirrell's death after his abandonment by Voldemort at the end of the school year.
- It is unknown if or how Voldemort was affected by his use of unicorn blood through Quirrell in the 1991–1992 school year and again in his Rudimentary Body Potion in 1994. It is even possible it may have played some part in leading to his eventual downfall in 1998.
- It is unknown whether a person who drank unicorn blood without being the one to kill the unicorn, or even knowing what they were drinking, would be cursed, as Firenze stated that the drinker is cursed because they killed an innocent and pure creature.
- It is unknown if Pettigrew is cursed as he had slayed unicorns to acquire the blood for his master, an act which Firenze described to be the affliction of the curse, as opposed to actually drinking it himself. Regardless, Pettigrew suffered a lack of respect from his peers over the next few years before he finally died unceremoniously by Voldemort's machinations.
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POLICE have taken a man into custody after they believed he was 'violent' and may be armed with a baseball bat near Worcester Arena.
Sketchy details are emerging of an icident at 11.38am today during which a man was taken into police custody at Hylton Road near the Arena and the railway tracks in Worcester.
A spokesman for West Mercia Police said initial reports were of 'a violent male with a baseball bat' although no baseball bat had been found.
She said: "He was taken into custody."
It is not clear yet what he was arrested for. The Worcester News will supply these details when we have them.
An eyewitness said he saw officers between the side of the University Arena and the railway tracks. He said: "I saw about four or five officers run around the front of the arena, down the service road. There were two marked police cars, a police van and an unmarked police car and they were travelling at speed. Officers were looking in undergrowth near the railway tracks. Then after a couple of minutes they all sped off."
Another witness said: "Some of the Arena staff came out to watch what was going on in amazement. Officers ran around the back of the Arena." He said towards the end of the incident there were six police cars and seven to eight police officers.
Those with information can contact West Mercia Police on 101. The incident reference is 0179s140814.


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Did you know?
The ancient people of Thulamela were the ancestors of the modern-day Venda people.
Pafuri, in the wild and woolly north of the Kruger National Park, is where you go if you love baobabs, bird-watching, buffalo, elephants, solitude and the old adventurers' accounts of the legends of Thulamela. In the Shona language, the name Thulamela means to 'give birth'.
There's a little hill near South Africa's border with Zimbabwe where, today, you will find the 'upside-down' trees, perhaps pick up the traces of wild dog passing, or a Sharpe's grysbok out there in the distance, under the white seringa tree.
Eight centuries ago, however, the place teemed with ancient African trade. From the glass beads and pottery shards found on Thulamela Hill, researchers have learnt that Arabs, Madagascans and Indonesians visited here, bearing trade goods from as far afield as China, in the form of Ming vases for example. In return for these pretty baubles, the visitors departed with slaves, ivory and gold, lots of gold.
Ancient African civilisation was in full swing up on Thulamela Hill. Master goldsmiths were hard at work. Hunters came in for a brief respite before venturing back into the Limpopo Valley after vast herds of elephant. In fact, Thulamela overlooked an elephant highway that ran from the Indian Ocean in the east, westwards towards the Okavango.
Thulamela was probably ruled by a senior chief, who lived secluded on the top of the hill. His subjects, who clustered about the base of the hill, numbered no more than 2 000. In the early 1990s, official excavations revealed a female skeleton who was subsequently dubbed 'Queen Losha'. Venda women show their respect for men by placing their hands next to their left temples when they pass.
That's exactly how 'Queen Losha' (in real life, probably no more than a senior wife to the chief) was found buried.
Two months later the skeleton of an important man was uncovered. He soon took on the name of 'King Ingwe' (leopard), because on the day of the find, a leopard was waiting near the researchers' vehicle when they returned.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
SA National Parks
Tel: +27 (0)12 343 1991
How to get here
Thulamela lies in the northern section of the Kruger National Park. You either drive north through the park or enter via the Pafuri Gate.
Best time to visit
Any time of year, but each season has its unique appeal.
Around the area
Do day drives around the Kruger National Park, and perhaps visit Tzaneen and the Magoebaskloof forest area on your way to or from the northern Kruger Park, where you'll find Thulamela.
Tours to do
Tours take place daily (morning and afternoon). A maximum of 15 persons per tour. Bookings and payment at Sirheni bushveld camp, Shingwedzi and Punda Maria restcamps, and Pafuri gate.
What will it cost
Approximately R800 per chalet, sleeping two.
Length of stay
Three days, to get the feel of the northern Kruger National Park.
What to pack
Seasonal packing − just keep at least one warm item for the summer nights, which can turn cold.
Where to stay
At Punda Maria rest camp in the Kruger National Park.
What to eat
Self-cater and barbecue − that's the way to eat in the bushveld.


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When in Milan
The Fashion Week hoopla started with my favorite showroom, Sequin. They have great collaborations and always an awesome atmosphere. I mean there are bunnies hopping around! This year they worked with Tadashi Shoji, Houghton, Ruffian, Badgley Mischka, and Douglas Hannant for runway jewels.
Before they head off to Paris, Fenton/Fallon previewed a chunky matted color collection. The stones looked like pieces of candy and had an unbelievable scale, perfect for catching the eye of any street style photographers.
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MOST of the Top 10 fastest-growing communities in Manitoba are First Nations, especially remote ones.
Fox Lake, the tiny community on the Nelson River near Gillam, nearly doubled in size over five years. It started small, with just over 100 people. Now it has nearly 200.
That mini-boom could be a harbinger of things to come. Fox Lake was among four First Nations to sign a deal with Manitoba Hydro to build the Keeyask dam over the coming decade, securing jobs and revenue.
And, while Canada debates the viability of remote reserves, Barren Lands First Nation, one of the most northerly and isolated bands in Manitoba, posted a 78 per cent population increase.
"It's wonderful news," said band councillor Delphine Bighetty. "We can use that information to advocate for the people here."
Bighetty said she's noticed a small number of people returning to Barren Lands from the city, but she says the population spike is mostly due to new babies and growing families.
Also topping the list of super-charged reserves is Garden Hill First Nation in the Island Lake region on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Most of the reserves in the area are booming, but Garden Hill's population jumped 46 per cent. Relatively speaking, that's twice the boom Steinbach is seeing.
Wilf Falk, the province's chief statistician, urges caution when looking at some of the data, though, especially on First Nations with very small populations to begin with. The arrival of one or two families can dramatically skew the numbers.
And, Falk said census counts have traditionally been less reliable on reserves -- Statistics Canada often attaches an asterisk to some of its reserve data if the sample size is too low. It could be a reserve was under-counted in 2006, inflating the new growth rate.
But Falk said there is no doubt Manitoba's First Nations are booming. Reserve populations grew by 11.6 per cent since 2006, more than double the province's growth rate.
Census strays
According to Statistics Canada, the fastest-growing place in the province is the mysterious Division 20, Unorganized, North Part.
It grew a whopping 400 per cent since 2006, which sounds like a lot until you notice it started with 24 souls.
Division 20 is one of a handful of census orphans. It's a tract of wilderness land located north of Swan River. It's not part of a rural municipality Statistics Canada can use for boundaries, so the agency makes its own census subdivision.
Another one -- Division No. 18, Unorganized, East Part -- is located in the northern part of the Interlake, and it also grew at a remarkable clip. In 2006, only 88 people lived there. Now, there are 124, making it the 10th-fastest-growing census subdivision in the province.


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Cap'n Fred and the Treasure of Beigebeard
Pirate Captain Fred and his band of scurvy sea dogs were sailing the seven seas, just like normal for a Wednesday afternoon. "Arrghh, there be the smell o' doubloons, lads, I feels it in me bones," exclaimed Fred. Just moments later, actually it was 5 hours, but moments for the sake of the story, there was a cry from the crow's nest. "Ship ahoy, ship ahoy," shouted Pirate Rook. Sure enough the ship came further and further into view. "Arrrrghhhh, that be the scallywag landlubber, Pirate Ecnic. Load them cannon lads, there's gunna' be fireworks," yelled Fred.
The ships came together, and all manner of swashbucklin' ensued. Captain Fred won the day, which surprised everyone, including himself, and the victorious scoundrels looted Ecnic's ship. "Cap'n, Cap'n we gots a map, a treasure map. It say it be the map o' Beigebeard 'imself," roared a few of the crew. "But the final secret I takes to Davy Jones' locker," howled Ecnic, whilst being assisted to disembark, and with that he stepped off the end of the plank.
The crew followed the map's directions and they eventually found themselves in a graveyard, but there the clues ran out. It was a clear night, with a full moon, and the time was about midnight. They searched by candlelight and discovered it was full of Beigebeard's family. There were the graves of Beigebeard himself, his first wife, his second wife, his 9 official children, his 37 unofficial children, his 3 brothers, his 7 sisters and a host of cousins, uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces. "What is we to do, Cap'n," asked the mangy crew. "Arrrrrrghhhhhh, start diggin', o'er there," bellowed Fred.
Where had Fred told them to dig for the treasure?
AnswerAll good pirates know X marks the spot, and even some grog-riddled pirates like Fred knew as well. He told them to dig where Beigebeard's first wife was buried, since she was his ex.
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Mechanical Behavior of Random Fiber Networks
R.C. Picu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Friday, April 13, 2012, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series.
The deformation of dense, random fiber networks is important in a variety of applications including biological and man-made systems. Examples from the living world include the cellular cytoskeleton and various types of connective tissue. Examples from the non-living world include paper, rubber, insulation, and consumer products such as baby diapers. In all these applications mechanics is important since the network performs a structural function. In this work we study physical aspects of the deformation such as: how the intrinsic heterogeneity of the network controls the overall system behavior, whether both bending and axial stiffness of individual fibers are important on the system scale, and whether characteristic length scales can be identified for this type of material. We also develop methods to solve boundary value problems defined on domains containing a large number of fibers without discretizing each fiber in the system, i.e., we develop coarse grained models for fiber-based materials. The presentation will include results pertaining to both cross-linked and entangled networks. A brief review of other ongoing projects will be also presented.
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Professor Picu received his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College and then spent three years at Brown University as a postdoctoral research associate. He became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998. He is currently Professor in the same Department. He published two books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He is a Fellow of ASME.


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The state House Education Committee approved a measure that would allow parents to petition the Recovery School District to return a school back to local control if that school has earned a "D" or "F" for three consecutive years under RSD management.
Under House Bill 115 by state Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, schools could be returned to local school system control if parents of a majority of the students sign a petition making the request.
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This is going to be a simple tutorial today. If you are still bullish on the market, the room may be starting to feel too crowded. I will assume the role of attention-seeking instigator by yelling "Fire!" in that crowded room. Arguably, in the past four consecutive sessions, domestic economic reads (includes initial fourth-quarter earnings guidance) and the political headlines have worsened, and that is inching its way into stock prices (or for you bookworms, valuations). I am disturbed by what I am seeing in the markets, whether it's how connected groups are acting (truckers trading down in tandem with consumer discretionary) or in minute things that are not so minute but nobody is bothering to pay attention. In all honesty, when I close my eyes of late I have visualized stock prices sitting on a three-legged stool and termites gnawing at the stool's legs, without stock prices having full awareness. "FIRE!"
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Here is another layer of ugliness to print out and distribute to friends:
- Investors are being exposed to data head-fakes, and over time that tends to erode confidence (if valuations are cheap enough, you could wager on data troughs, but valuations are not attractive to me now and data are only in the preliminary stages of incorporating the fiscal cliff's first set of results). For example, durable goods are favorable on the non-defense component in October, and ISM is bad.
- Stocks are failing technical tests, and this is what I mean. Percentage declines are accelerating at key moving averages from session to session. I am witnessing a stealth dump-and-go strategy, likely by the smart money trying to keep the dumb money dumb by not wholesale dumping (let's be clear: the smart money has a well-articulated directive that is being executed).
- No love for a strong quarter in a hot sector, e.g., Toll Brothers (TOL). In fact, the S&P Homebuilder Index closed down 0.4% on Tuesday after logging a 1% gain earlier in the period.
- A dreary pre-announcement from Darden (DRI) is ruled by the market as very negative to comparable companies; any share gain stories are ignored. I read Darden's news as consumer getting in touch with their inner fiscal cliff and that requires Darden to offer greater promotional frequency and magnitude. Price war? Toss Darden's historical valuation in the trash -- "new normal" consumer stuff once more. Winners: eat-at-home stocks.
- SPDR Gold (GLD) and iShares Silver (SLV) are two investment vehicles that have fallen into no man's land prior to a Fed meeting (which always brings with it rampant chatter of inflation). It's telling on the momentum behind corporate pricing power and the impact the Fed could have against fiscal upheaval.
Bigger Picture Thoughts
- Special dividends equal money out the door to fund future earnings growth equal a need to seriously revaluate long-term multiples and free-cash-flow projections on any company doing this gimmick (this does not benefit investors with a longer-term horizon -- pension funds must be upset).
- For those jumping up and down on 2013 employment acceleration, try this on for size: pull up six-month charts on Men's Wearhouse (MW) and Jos A. Bank (JOSB).
Market Call
Bearish. Defined, either completely on the sidelines (I prefer this option) with cash on hand, an overweight position in defensive sectors (as I noted Tuesday, I am concerned about correlation should fiscal cliff uproot the markets), or a few shorts on stocks that are clearly technically disintegrating. Suddenly, the China recovery theme has become a little long in the tooth, tossing the debate back to the severe amount of unknowns inside this month domestically. By the way, a Darden pre-announcement does nothing to alleviate concerns on fourth-quarter earnings season; thus far, earnings season is far off in the distance, but you had better gobble up the early inning clues now because it's looking ugly (see tech warnings and lagging nature of important tech indices).


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A 25-year-old Corsham man who started having sex with a girl when she was 14 has been jailed for two years.
Lee Collingwood befriended the youngster at a bus stop when he offered to help her when she was being bullied by school mates.
But as their friendship developed the couple started having sex.
And he also made a film on his mobile phone of the child carrying out a sex act which he kept on his computer along with other indecent images of the girl.
Colin Meeke, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court on Friday that they fmet in September 2012 at a Chippenham bus stop.
He said Collingwood offered to wait with her as she was being teased by boys from school and, as they parted, they exchanged phone numbers.
"They started contacting each other on a daily basis. She, it is quite clear, very quickly became fond of him. She trusted him," he said.
The girl has a number of personal problems which he helped her with and it was clear her parents knew of the friendship, the court was told.
He was fully aware if her age and early last year, a couple of months before her 15th birthday, they had sex in his flat despite having discussed the legal consequences.
Mr Meeke said the couple had sex a number of times until Collingwood's female lodger came home unexpectedly and heard the couple in his bedroom.
He said: "She challenged both the defendant and the girl and there followed then an exchange of emails and other messages between the lodger and the complainant trying to explain to her the way she had been used and abused by the defendant.
"It was the lodger who reported the matter to the police."
Mr Meeke said the teenager did not see herself as a victim and said she still loved the defendant.
Collingwood, of The Laggar, Corsham, was arrested and made a full admission to the police about what had happened.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child, taking, making and possessing indecent photographs of a child.
Mark Ruffell, defending, said what his client had done was not predatory but an act of stupidity.
He said that they had been friends for a number of months before it became sexual and many people, including her family, knew they saw each other.
Although Collingwood accepted making the movie of the girl, he said the other images she had sent him or placed online herself and had asked him to try to remove them for her.
As well as holding down jobs at Argos and Travelodge, which he had left as a result of the conviction, he was also active in the local charity science-fiction group.
He would go along to events free of charge dressed as characters from Star Wars, Doctor Who, or other sci-fi shows, so visitors could have their photo taken with him.
Jailing Collingwood, Judge Tim Mousley QC said: "I take very much into account the age difference between the two of you, ten years or so in terms of mathematics.
"I take into account the affection she undoubtedly had for you, I also take into account to a limited extent assessment of her vulnerability.
"Looking at her vulnerability one has to look at the often quoted need to protect certain people such as her from herself."
He imposed a two-year jail term and told him he must register as a sex offender for ten years and also be subject to a sexual offences prevention order, restricting his liberty, for that period.


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HOUSTON - If you haven't filed your taxes yet, what are you waiting for? The Internal Revenue Service will begin processing returns on Wednesday.
The Internal Revenue Service issues most refunds in less than 21 days, so if you get your return in electronically this week, you'll likely get your money well before March. KPRC Local 2 has come up with a couple of ways to make sure you get more or save more on taxes this year.
If you earned $50,000 or less last year, you can probably take the Earned Income Tax Credit. The ETIC reduces how much you owe in federal taxes and it could score you a refund. The IRS said one in every five people who qualify don't claim the credit. To find out if you do, use the Earned Income Tax Credit Assistant on the IRS's website.
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If you fancy a leisurely walk along the Garden Route coastline, as opposed to a challenging hike, then the Dolphin Trail is the hike for you.
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The Dolphin Trail starts at the Tsitsikamma National Park rest camp, at the mouth of the Storms River. Take the N2 west from Port Elizabeth or east from Plettenberg Bay, pass through Storms River Village and follow the signs to the Tsitsikamma National Park.
Best time to visit
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If you feel like a rush of blood to the head, try the Bloukrans Bridge Bungee Jump at Storms River Village.
What will it cost
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By jameskinney
"Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man – the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society…"
Marshall McLuhan
Excerpt from Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man, Part I.
Originally published in 1964
Putting multivalent minds to the task of building the sort of "productive future" alluded to by Howard Gardner should be easy given that we live in an era where our technology radically connects (many of) us to one-another in ways that transcend our traditional constraints of space-time and gives rise to new paradigms of language and discourse that re-define our notions of class, culture and the self, to name but a few.
The inter-web of all things, as Marshall McLuhan presaged in the opening quotation almost half a century ago, has endowed us with one might consider as a shared intelligence that is transforming our paradigms of knowledge and value in ways that may not be entirely obvious to us at this point and, despite our best intentions and designs, these media will shape human discourse according to their own innate potentials and in ways that will bare unintended consequences both good and bad.
The inter-web is a highly complex ecosystem of technologies and protocols that form what we now call the "cloud"—an adjective that adequately expresses the conceptual fog that envelops most of us as we contemplate how we might negotiate its complexity and harness its power in meaningful, ethical and effective ways—ways that eschew sentimentality and longing for more certain and halcyon days in favour of addressing the very real and messy challenges that lie ahead of us.
We are exhorted by Gardener and his adherents to cultivate multi-faceted states of consciousness and to synthesize the data gleaned, gathered, weighed—the insights sparked and given wings and purpose—all against a technological backdrop that is characteristic of an ecosystem in Darwinian overdrive. This backdrop imparts a duality to the economy of transformation that can variously enhance and accelerate it or simply confound it.
The question that is front of mind for me is: "Is it possible to move from merely coping with the challenges that face us to thriving in the turbulence that abounds in their wake? Thriving will depend on whether we can wrestle this seemingly intractable and chimeric landscape and re-shape it on a human scale with human values, language and metaphors at its core. In this way we will be able to comprehend and share in the abundance of opportunities that abound in the hyper-connected globe. Let us then explore some of these challenges by sharing candid reflections on how the connected minds of ourselves and our students are being facilitated or obfuscated in this emerging landscape.
Questions to Consider:
1. If we assume that, for the foresee-able future, technology will play an increasingly important role in education, what do potential (Good and Bad) do you envision for transforming the current learning ecosystem?
2. What spaces, organizational structures or opportunities exist for the "connected mind" to synthesize and share insights and information from the other domains of the mind?
How are technologies enhancing or inhibiting this synthesis and sharing?
3. How important are student faculty narratives to the process of synthesizing and sharing of information and insights gained from the various domains? Are you actively exploring modes of digital storytelling with the student as an active producer of content knowledge? If so, what form does your storytelling take?
4. Are you exploring Digital Citizenship, Connecting, Collaborating and Building Personal Brand value through active participation in communities of practice? How are you accomplishing this?
5. Are you directly engaging your students with complex, global social ecosystems as part of their learning experience? If so, what is it comprised of and what protocols/ use case scenarios do you find most effective?
6. How do you curate the artefacts (numeric, textual, audio, video, image, reflections, impressions) of exploration from the different domains and how do you articulate/visualize the constituent parts and how they inter-relate with one another?
7. Given students are potentially a Go0gle String from an answer, how do you see and convey the value proposition that you, the educator, represents? How do you position yourself as a conduit of know-how against a multitude of 24/7 ON DEMAND channels of know-how that feature Fast Forward and Rewind?
Recommended Texts:
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
By Marshall McLuhan
Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas
By Richard Ogle
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
By J. David Lewis-Williams
This article is so right on to the transcendent thinking that was started by a lot of artists and technological for fathers in the 1960's. The Neo dada movement saw this and I've been drawn to this thought process. Thank you I call myself a seeker. It's nice to hear from my peers.


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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Speaking of which, the lovely ladies over at Pimlico magazine asked me to contribute a place setting for their holiday issue and I wanted to share it with you too. Hot pinks and reds are always festive! I printed one of my favorite holiday quotes on an overhead transparency and cut to size for the plate. Read the whole issue to see lots of other holiday inspired ideas.
My house still looks like a holiday and baby bomb went off in here so I'm not quite ready to show you anything new for this years holiday celebrations but its as good a time as any to remind you that I've shared some fun freebies in years past. Hope you can put them to good use this year (and if you do, please drop me a line, I love to hear about it
christmas card self mailer / naughty or nice gift tags / mini poster
Of course I'm collecting holiday inspiration on my ho ho ho pinterest board but I know a lot of you are cooking up some good stuff in your homes for the holidays and on your own blogs. Share and share alike!
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That place setting is just so refreshing and really beautiful. Love it! We've been busy getting ready for my grandmother's estate sale, so I have no decor up. Instead, I'm busy rearranging furniture, making room for all the stuff I've brought in from her house. So ready to be finished. And for merry making!ReplyDelete
Love that place setting! Mix of pink, red and aqua is so great. So far I've been slowly decorating our house, including when I made a bunch of wreaths last week, which are up at my blog. Loving getting into the holiday spirit!ReplyDelete
This is such a fabulous place setting. I love the colors and everything is just perfect. Beautiful job!ReplyDelete
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