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I've cooked several recipes from Keller's "Bouchon" the last couple of weeks, and have loved them all! At the moment (as in right this minute) I'm making the boeuf Bourguignon, and am a little confused about the red wine reduction. After reducing the wine, herbs, and veg for nearly an hour now, I'm nowhere near the consistancy of a glaze that Keller specifies. In fact, it looks mostly like the veg is on the receiving end of most of it. Is this how the recipe is meant to be? Can anybody tell me what kind of yield is expected? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, kindly.
By Paul Fink
This unfortunately titled book changed my life. I always enjoyed cooking and idealized Julia Child &
Jacque Pepin. But I was a typical home cook. I would see a recipe and try to duplicate it little understanding about what I was doing.
Cooking the Nouvelle Cuisine in America talked about a philosophy of cooking. It showed me that there is more depth to cooking. A history. A philosophy.
The recipes are very approachable and you can make them on a budget from grocery store ingredients. I read it as a grad student in Oregon, in the late 80's I had access to lots of fresh ingredients. And some very nice wines, cheap! I was suppose to be studying physics but I end up learning more about wine & cooking.
By Smokeydoke
Here is the discussion thread.
Here is the Amazon link.
My first recipe was Mushroom Mapo Tofu p. 132 I was blown away by how good this tasted. Very spicy! Very authentic. I didn't miss the meat at all. I told Mr. Smokey I'd add ground pork next time and he said it didn't need it. Mr. Smokey refused pork? Ha!
Definitely a keeper and maybe a regular rotation spot.
If I had anything negative to say, it would be the dish wasn't very filling. The recipe is suppose to serve four but the two of us finished it off, no problem, and Mister wasn't full afterwards. A soup, or an appetizer could be paired with the dish to make a heartier meal.
Note: I did receive a complimentary copy of the book to review, but all opinions of the book and recipes are mine.
By JoNorvelleWalker
Started in on Rob's book tonight. Nice pictures, interesting philosophy. The bit about grapevines reminded me ever so much about my balcony. My grapevine has been growing ten or twenty years, planted by the birds. Never a grape, ever. Only recently did I learn that unlike European grapes, the native grapevines are sexual. This one is undoubtedly a boy. He provides lovely leaves and shade, and something for the tomatoes to hang onto.
By Bon Appetit Cookbooks
This topic was hijacked from the Vancouver Board.
What cookbooks do you love to cook out of at home?
Is there a specific recipe that is your favorite?
Or is there a book you just can't live without?
If you have pictures, even better! Lets see how it turns out!
Some of my favorites to cook out of:
The Balthazar Cookbook - The Beef Tartar is amazing! As is the Chicken Liver Mousse
The Babbo Cookbook - The Strawberries & Peaches with Balsamic Zabaglione
Barefoot in Paris - The Blue Cheese Souffle looks JUST LIKE THE PICTURE!
The Bouchon Cookbook - The Roast Chicken will seriously change your life
Gordon Ramsey Makes it Easy - The Chocolate Pots are the easiest dessert in the world and tastes so good....especially with the Amedei #7
There are lots more. Hopefully I can take pictures and show you.
Hopefully this post can be an ongoing thing.
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Pair of homers tarnish Lohse's strong start in loss
Righty matched Dodgers ace Kershaw except for Crawford's blasts
LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw needed only one run to beat Kyle Lohse and the Brewers on Sunday, and he did not have to wait long for a teammate to deliver.
Dodgers leadoff man Carl Crawford hit Lohse's first pitch of the game for a home run, added another solo shot in the fifth and watched Kershaw do the rest. The left-hander baffled the Brewers for eight innings and sent Milwaukee packing with a 2-0 loss at Dodger Stadium.
L.A. took two of three games to snap the surging Brewers' streak of three winning series.
"Both guys threw great," Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun said. "Kyle threw the ball phenomenal for us, and Clayton was as good as I've ever seen him."
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said it even better: "I wouldn't want any part of him."
Kershaw scattered four hits, did not walk a batter, struck out 12 and reinforced one of Braun's favorite adages: If you don't get to a great pitcher early, you might not get to him at all. That was the Brewers' lament Sunday after squandering scoring opportunities in each of the first two innings.
In the first, shortstop Jean Segura and Braun delivered consecutive one-out singles, but cleanup hitter Jonathan Lucroy grounded into a routine double play. Rickie Weeks led off the second with a double -- his first extra-base hit in eight games -- but was stranded there when Kershaw induced flyouts from Carlos Gomez and Yuniesky Betancourt, two of the Brewers' most productive early-season hitters, before striking out Martin Maldonado.
Then it was lights out for the Brewers' offense on a sensational Southern California afternoon. Gomez's flyout to deep right field began a streak of 18 consecutive Brewers batters retired, a run that finally ended in the eighth inning, when Gomez led off with a double. He was eventually caught between second and third base after misreading a broken-bat comebacker to the mound, and again, the Brewers could not score.
In one stretch, Kershaw struck out nine of the 12 batters he faced.
"I don't know how many guys [he retired] in a row," Braun said.
Told the answer was 18, Braun smiled.
"Yeah, that sounds about right," he said. "It felt like it."
So much for Kershaw looking beatable. In his previous two starts against the Mets and Padres, Kershaw did not last through the sixth inning. He lost his past two decisions, spanning three starts.
"When he's commanding the fastball inside, you're in big trouble," Roenicke said. "Because there's not much you can do with the pitch, and he knows when to throw the offspeed stuff away, and no hitter can cover everything. Maybe Don Mattingly could do it. Most guys can't."
Lohse would have been just as effective if not for Crawford, who connected with a first-pitch fastball for a 1-0 Dodgers lead in the first inning and an 0-2 slider for a 2-0 lead in the fifth. Aside from those two swings, Lohse surrendered only three hits in seven strong innings, with no walks and four strikeouts.
"Two mistakes to Crawford," Roenicke said, "and the first pitch of the game, I don't know if that's really a mistake. You want to throw a strike, and the guy hits a home run."
Lohse had owned the matchup before Sunday, holding Crawford to one hit in 13 previous at-bats.
"He caught me with a first pitch out over the plate," Lohse said. "You can't do much about it. I'm not going to throw a first-pitch curveball."
Said Crawford: "A lot of guys have been getting ahead with the first pitch right down the middle. I picked today to try to be aggressive with the first pitch."
Lohse's fifth-inning slider was different. That one was a mistake.
"That ball has to be in the dirt," Lohse said. "We were trying to throw it to the dirt, and it just didn't get there."
His record fell to 1-2, again a victim of poor run support. The Brewers are 2-3 in Lohse's five starts, scoring one total run in the losses. Lohse had already lost a 2-0 duel with the Cardinals' Shelby Miller on April 12 in St. Louis before falling similarly to Kershaw on Sunday.
Is he feeling any frustration?
"There's only so much I can do, and I don't mean that in a bad way," Lohse said. "I mean it in the sense that I go out there and make myself [throw] one pitch at a time, don't worry about the results, focus on what I can control. The rest of the game, I can't do much about. Their guy [Kershaw] pitched a great game, and all you can do is keep your team in it for as long as you can"
The series loss was the Brewers' first since they dropped two of three games in St. Louis from April 12-14, amid a dreadful 2-8 start to the season. Milwaukee will have two more chances Monday and Tuesday against the Pirates to become the fifth team since 1969 to clinch a winning April after losing at least eight of its first 10 games.
Roenicke was content with a 3-3 trip to the West Coast, considering the team's recent winning ways.
"You don't expect things to turn around like that, especially since we don't have everyone [healthy]," he said. "If we had Corey [Hart] and Aramis [Ramirez] and Rick [Weeks] swinging well, I would expect this team to do those things. But to do it without those guys, pretty amazing."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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[all fur-neg-red-pl free and same bear-passive-3plpres fur and allow-gerund-pl with. they sort-gerund and with-know-gerund have-3plpres and shall-3plpast do-inf one other-toward brother-quality with.]
Forget that, everyone, that was wrong. Tikolmian has evolved since then and it's been standardized more. Also, I've started doing my glosses differently.
Here you are:
Uq texkozel tekō os lur xukedlot teked os qomedel caz. Go likmed os cazpsiced wubolot os dluqlost zios iso izok-micuks xkizokel-ul.
[all hairless.mammals-pl free and same bear-pass-3ppres fur-abl and allow-ger-abl-pl with. they sort-ger-acc and with-know-ger-acc have-3ppres and shall-3ppast do-inf one other-to.dir brother-pl-as.]
And just for fun, the transcription:
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An avid golfer, Mr. Helm was a claims adjuster for Farm Bureau Insurance for over 30 years.
Memorial donations may be directed to: the American Cancer Society (2000 Charlotte Ave, Nashville 37203) or to the American Diabetes Association (220 Great Circle Rd, Suite 134, Nashville 37228).
Arrangements were in the care of Sellars Funeral Home, Lebanon.


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One of the main components of the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform is the Apache Felix OSGi Container over which the various services and sub-components of the platform are deployed.
The container obviously brings along the great capabilities of OSGi as a dynamic component model, where components (and services) can be remotely installed, started, stopped, updated and uninstalled without requiring a reboot. However, one of the other very cool aspect of the container is the ability to Stop and/or Restart the entire OSGi framework remotely, to help resolve/refresh the installed bundles, their bundle contexts and dependencies, etc.
To do so, you just need to go to the Felix Web Console @ the URL – http://server:port/system/console. Go to the System Information tab, where you will something like this:
Note the Restart and Stop options indicated in green.
The System Information tab is also useful to gather other system related information such as the JVM details, memory consumption (with the ability to perform a forced Garbage Collection), etc.


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Connie Mack, the Wise-Cracking Catcher
Ad Gumbert was a well-traveled right-handed pitcher who played his last game in 1896. In his nine year career, Gumbert pitched for National League squads in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. In 1890, he finished 23-12 for the Boston Reds of the Players League under manager King Kelly. In all this time shuttling around the league, Gumbert met many of the game's characters and walked away with a few stories.
In a 1911 issue of Baseball Magazine, Gumbert shared this tale on the greatest play he ever witnessed.
The play was made when I was pitching for Pittsburgh and Connie Mack was the catcher. No brainier catcher ever stepped back of the bat. We were playing Chicago and dear old Cap Anson was leading that team. In those days Anson was a terror at bat ...
Let's ignore for a second that this story appears to have Mack still striding behind Anson when Gumbert throws the pitch. It may have been legal, but it feels a bit unfair—not to mention rather risky with someone as temperamental as Cap Anson at the plate. Instead, we'll focus on the real discovery: Connie Mack was the wise-cracking catcher that only seems to exist in movies!
That's right. Connie Mack, the grand-gentleman of the game, was the 19th-century inspiration of this scene (the most relevant part is at 0:45 seconds).
Better yet, we saw Mack's spiritual heir nearly a century later in the Great Hambino:
This is a discovery for the ages. What are we going to learn next? That Mack secretly weighted 250 pounds? One thing is for certain: we're all going to look at every picture of Connie Mack differently now.
"Got any naked pictures of your wife? Wanna see some?"
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Crop tour results may have depressed corn futures Monday. Corn futures proved unable to sustain their Sunday-night follow-through to last week's late rally Sunday night. Wire service sources cited a private crop tour now being performed, with traders once again keying upon forecasts for a huge fall harvest. September corn sank 5.0 cents to $3.6275/bushel at Monday's close, while December slumped 5.5 to $3.715.
Talk of cash firmness reportedly boosted the soy complex. Persistent signs of demand strength, particularly last Friday's NOPA crush report and today's reports of Midwest cash firmness continue supporting the soy complex. The oil market bounced slightly in response to weekend stability in the Asian palm market. Conversely, the prospect of a massive fall harvest is probably limiting gains. September soybean futures surged 13.0 cents to $11.155/bushel in late Monday trading, while November futures gained 5.75 cents to $10.5775. September soyoil rose 0.09 cents to 32.96 cents/pound, and September soymeal added $3.8 to $392.1/ton.
The wheat markets started the week rather poorly. Wheat futures rallied late last week as the industry worried about a Russian invasion of Ukraine and a resulting shortage of wheat coming from the Black Sea region. Little actually seemed to happen over the weekend, so traders appeared to reverse their positions today. September CBOT wheat fell 8.75 cents to $5.425/bushel as Monday's pit session ended, while September KC wheat dipped 2.0 cents to $6.1775/bushel, and September MWE wheat sagged 3.75 to $6.0825.
Cattle futures rallied to start the week. The cattle market reacted well when beef packers posted firm cash bids late last week. Traders apparently still expect short-term weakness, as indicated by sizeable discounts built into CME prices. Thus, recent country firmness probably looked bullish. October live cattle futures advanced 0.80 cents to 148.55 cents/pound at their Monday settlement, while December futures lifted 0.75 to 151.65 cents/pound. Meanwhile, September feeder futures climbed 0.97 cents to 216.07 cents/pound and November futures jumped 1.05 to 214.70.
CME hogs rebounded from five-month lows. Despite trader suspicions that Labor Day demand from grocers will soon power a bounce in cash hog and pork prices, CME futures dove to their lowest levels since February. That apparently reflected talk of seasonally surging hog supplies. However, bulls proved able to sustain a sizeable comeback. October hogs closed 0.15 cents to 95.10 cents/pound, while December slid 0.17 cents to 88.87.


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CONSERVATIONISTS were just beginning to flex their electoral muscle when cabinet agreed to nominate NSW rainforests for World Heritage listing.
It was a half-hearted measure. Brisbane did not want heritage listing anywhere near its huge swathe of tropical rainforests.
So the Lamington National Park rainforests in south-east Queensland were not mentioned, even though they were a part of the rainforests associated with the Mount Warning volcano system in northern NSW.
On June 17, 1985, cabinet agreed to a recommendation by the Wran government that 204,819 hectares, taking in the Tweed Range, Barrington Tops National Park, the New England Group, Washpool National Park, Mount Warning National Park and the Iluka Nature Reserve, be nominated for World Heritage listing.
But in late 1983 and September 1984 the Queensland premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, had sent in police and graders against greenies and hippies trying to save Cape Tribulation in far-north Queensland from roadworks. They claimed the works would tear a hole through the rainforest and the runoff from annual rainfall would damage abutting fringe coral reefs.
The Bjelke-Petersen government claimed the road was needed to give the Wudjal Wudjal Aboriginal community on the banks of the Bloomfield River faster and year-round access to Cairns, allow police to stop marijuana cultivation and prevent women being taken off Cape York beaches for the white slave trade.
The local National Party MP Martin Tenni's slim 2 per cent margin was also considered a factor in Mr Bjelke-Petersen's decision to call in police to rid Cape Tribulation of the southern greenies.
On September 8, 1984, the federal environment minister, Barry Cohen, submitted to cabinet that pressure on the Commonwealth to protect the Cape Tribulation area from the Queensland government was unlikely to weaken.
''The Queensland premier in a letter dated 28 June 1984 stated that 'irrespective of the international significance of the Greater Daintree area the Queensland government opposes its nomination or any further nomination of any further areas of Queensland for inclusion on the World Heritage List','' Mr Cohen said.
He canvassed direct intervention and said, although Queensland would consider it ''extremely provocative'', it also could result in widespread calls for the government to stop logging in the area. He said the legal outcome was uncertain and the legal costs likely to be unacceptable.
Mr Cohen offered cabinet five options, but opted to discuss the funding of conservation projects with Mr Bjelke-Petersen and not to proceed with unilaterally seeking World Heritage listing.
Mr Hawke did just that in 1987, making it one of the cornerstones of his federal election campaign against John Howard.
Queensland resistance also weakened. Mr Bjelke-Petersen's foolish ''Joh for Canberra'' campaign in the 1987 federal election turned him into a national joke and wiley far-north Queensland businessmen realised ecological tourism was a money-spinner.


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In game 1 Canada took to the field first, Barbados making 163. In reply Canada were 79/9 off 20 overs.
Canada were beaten soundly by Barbados in both matches on Thursday at Cavaliers Sports Club in Barbados. Barbados won the toss in match one and cruised to 165-5. Junaid Siddiqui was the pick of Canada's bowlers picking up 2-18. Manny Aulakh also picked up a pair and Khurram Chohan picked up a wicket before being forced to leave with a lower body injury.
Osinde 4-0-31-0
Aulakh 4-0-37-2
Siddiqui 4-0-18-2
Roberts 4-0-37-0
Chohan 2.5-0-18-1
Hansra .1-0-1-0
Patel 1-0-15-0
In reply, Canada were unable to get any momentum with Raza Rehman (21) top scoring. Henry Osinde (17*) added a late cameo as Canada were shut down at 79-9 from 20.
Patel 9,Sattar 0,Surkari 10,Raza 21,Hansra 3,Limbada 6,Tariq 0,Siddiqui 3,Roberts 2,Manny 5*,Osinde 17*, Extras 3
Match 2
More of the same in match 2 as Canada batted first in this game and posted 95 all out off the last ball of the innings. Jimmy Hansra top scored with 40 but only one other batsmen made it to double figures. Barbados were 3/96 in the 15th over, winning comfortably with Junaid Siddiqui (2-9) leading the bowling effort.
Kumar 3,Sorraine 12,Wadia 3,Cheema 8,Hansra 40,Tariq 1,Limbada 5,Baidwan 5,Siddiqui 6,Roberts 1,Aulakh 3*, Extras 8
Osinde 3-0-28-0
Baidwan 2-0-21-0
Roberts 3-0-21-0
Siddiqui 3-0-9-2
Aulakh 2-0-10-0
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Kelly de la Rocha
Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is a rare disease. It is high blood pressure
in the blood vessels of the lungs.
A person with PPH has extra muscle in the walls of these blood vessels. That extra muscle makes it more difficult for blood to flow through them. As a result, the right side of the heart has to work harder to push blood to the lungs. This additional strain can eventually lead to heart failure.
PPH is a serious condition. It requires care from your doctor.
The cause of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is unknown. Several factors may contribute to the development of the disease, including:
Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is more common in women aged 30-40 years. Other factors that may increase your risk of PPH include:
Initial symptoms of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) may be minor. They will get progressively worse. PPH may cause:
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Diagnosis of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) may be delayed. It is hard to detect until symptoms worsen.
A physical exam by your doctor may show:
Tests may include:
Imaging tests evaluate the lungs and surrounding structures. These may include:
There is no cure for primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). Treatment is used to help alleviate and control the symptoms. Talk with your doctor about the best plan for you. Treatment options include the following:
Medication can improve blood flow, decrease the risk of blood clots, and improve the ability of the heart to pump blood. These may include:
If breathing becomes difficult, oxygen may be given. It may be given through a mask or tubes inserted into the nostrils.
Defective lungs and/or heart are replaced with donor organs. This option is used only in severe cases of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) or when other treatment methods fail.
There are no current guidelines for preventing primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) because the cause is not known.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Pulmonary Hypertension Association
Canadian Lung Association
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Nuclear lung scan. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center website. Available at:
http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Patients/Programs-and-Services/Imaging-Center/For-Patients/Exams-by-Procedure/Nuclear-Medicine/Nuclear-Lung-Scan.aspx. Accessed September 25, 2014.
Primary pulmonary hypertension. American Lung Association website. Available at:
http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/primary-pulmonary-hypertension. Accessed September 25, 2014.
Primary pulmonary hypertension in children. Cincinnati Children's Hospital website. Available at:
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/p/pulmonary-hypertension. Updated June 2014. Accessed September 25, 2014.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:
http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115043/Pulmonary-arterial-hypertension-PAH. Updated June 30, 2016. Accessed September 29, 2016.
Rich S. The current treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension: time to redefine success.
Chest. 2006;130:1198-1202.
What is pulmonary hypertension? American Heart Association website. Available at:
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/AboutHighBloodPressure/What-is-Pulmonary-Hypertension_UCM_301792_Article.jsp. Updated August 12, 2014. Accessed September 25, 2014.
Zamanian RT, Haddad F, et al. Management strategies for patients with pulmonary hypertension in the intensive care unit.
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This blog post is part of the series on customizing the Adobe Integrated Content Review solution.
Any entity of the Integrated Content Review solution like, a campaign, a project, or an asset, includes many participants or team members. The participants at any level in the campaign hierarchy include participants from lower levels. In other words, a campaign includes all the participants of a project. A project, in turn, includes all the participants of the assets within it. Additionally, at any level in the campaign, a participant can be added directly to the team list.
To view/add team members at any level in a campaign, click an entity in the Gantt chart and then click the Resources tab. A newly added team member may not have an avatar image. An instance is shown below:
Understanding the naming convention of the image files
The images display only if the image files are named using the canonicalname_domainname convention. To know the value of domain name and canonical name, follow these steps:
- Navigate to http://localhost:4502/crx/index.jsp.
- Log in using the credentials of the user whose domain name and canonical name is to be determinded.
- The UserID is displayed of the format lcu::domainname::canonicalname. Note the domain and canonical names from the string.
For example, for an administrator the name is displayed as lcu::DefaultDom::SuperAdmin. Hence, the domain name is DefaultDom and canonical name is SuperAdmin.
Adding an image
Let us add an image for a newly-added user named Shashank Kapoor.
- Navigate to ICR_SOURCE/integratedcontentreview/package_data/content/icr/assets/user-images.
Note: ICR_SOURCE folder is the folder where you extract the provided source code of the solution interface. Refer to this help page to read more.
- Add an image with the file name shakapoo_DefaultDom.jpg.
Note: To update an existing image, replace the image file with a new image file. The image file is scaled to 45 x 58 pixels in size. The image filenames are case sensitive.
- Create a directory named shakapoo_DefaultDom.jpg.dir.
- In this directory create a file named .content.xml. Add the following code to it:
<?xml version="1.0″ encoding="UTF-8″ ?>
<jcr:root xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0″ xmlns:nt="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0″ jcr:primaryType="nt:file">
<jcr:content jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" />
- Save and deploy the customized solution interface. To know more, refer to this article.
After updating the image for the above instance it shows in the solution interface as shown below:
Read more about adding team members here, in the ICR solution guide.


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ASUS U2E: Form vs. Functionby Jarred Walton on 4/15/2008 4:00 AM EST
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sam13007 - Friday, November 06, 2009 - linkhi friends
please what's the model of the motherboard of this asus U2E please friends answer me.
thanks Reply
Anonymous Freak - Sunday, April 20, 2008 - link[quote]We still think that it would have been nice if ASUS could have managed to provide easier access to the bottom memory socket.[/quote]
Why? If they are going to ship it with a 2 GB module in there, why does it matter? The chipset only supports a max of 4 GB of RAM, so 2x2GB modules would get you there. Heck, if they were going to supply it with 3 GB of RAM, why not go the MacBook Air-route, and solder the 2 GB onboard to save space, leaving just the one SO-DIMM socket. Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, April 20, 2008 - linkI wrote that before finding out that ASUS was switching the lower socket to a 2GB SO-DIMM - or at least, that's what they say. But then, you never know if your RAM is going to go bad, and making it easy to replace never hurts. A small panel on the bottom could have made this tons easier. Reply
howardmoore - Monday, September 15, 2008 - linkHi,
Is there a way to find out whether the bottom SO-DIMM socket does have 2GB of RAM installed without having to take the thing apart?
I say that because I have a U2E and bought 2GB Ram upgrade (2 x 1GB) on the advice of Orca Logic in the UK. Before I upgraded it said that I had 2GB of Ram, though the chip that was already in the top tray was a 1GB. I presumed therefore that the bottom tray had 1GB also. When I installed one of my new 1GB chips into the spare top tray the upgraded RAM read 3GB, but I would have thought that:
a) If the bottom already had 2GB the top would have read 3GB already.
b) If I installed 1GB more into the top, it would read that I now had 4GB.
So, what to do!? Do I go through the laborious (and potentially dangerous for the laptop!) task of disassembly to see whether I can upgrade the bottom socket, or just live with 3GB? Also, is there a problem with the two sockets being on different amounts - I read somewhere that they had to have the same memory amounts to work effectively. Finally, why cannot I not see 4GB showing?
Thanks in advance for any responses. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, September 15, 2008 - linkYou can use CPU-Z (from www.cpuid.com) to see what memory is installed. Reply
Nimbo - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - link3 years ago I could buy a 10.6' laptop with centrino platform (1.1GHz) 512MB and 80GB HDD for $1000 and DVD CDRW combo for $1000. How come a similar laptop with updated to today's hardware it's dobled in price. Back then the ultra small laptops were not regarded as special and Averatec did not charched a premium because of the form factor.
Asus should follow the same path and de-primiumaze this niche market so I can aforded again. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - linkThe ASUS Eee PC 900 series takes care of the lower spec market, I suppose. It seems that the ultraportable market has either become lucrative due to business interest, or perhaps there just aren't enough customers so they need to recoup the R&D expenses. The specs of a modern ultraportable are quite a bit better than the three year old stuff, though. Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - linkIt would be nice if the optical drive could be swapped out with other hardware, like an extra battery or another hard drive... Reply
IvanAndreevich - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkLast time I used the optical drive on my laptop was to install the O/S. Really, I would prefer my T60 didn't have one. As for this, it would be a much better thing to have the full 2.5" HDD, and perhaps a slightly bigger battery, or faster processor instead of the aforementioned optical drive.
I also have an IBM X31 without an optical drive, and it doesn't bother me a bit. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - linkI use the optical drive on my T43 quite a bit for watching DVDs, burning the occasional disc, and loading programs. Plus the bay can hold another battery or hard drive. Too bad ASUS couldn't fit that functionality into the U2E, would let most people be happy with what they put in the bay. Reply
lewchenko74 - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - link
This review is somewhat flawed. First of all... I echo the comments made by someone else. The MacBook Air is NOT an ultra portable. Its small form factor.. sure, but its still a 13.3" laptop... along with the Dell 1330 XPS and a host of other small factor laptops.
So I dont see why you have to keep banging on about the MacBook Air.
Also ... no mention of the EEE, which has just seen the new model released with a larger 9" screen capable of running 1024x600.
And lets not forget the Lenovo X300 - currently the DADDY of small form factor / ultra portable models. A recent comparison review of the X300 vs Mac Book Air found the Lenovo model stomped all over Apple's baby. (Source : PC PRO magazine)
With regards to this model in the review... its damn ugly. That faux leather look is so 1980's and it looks cheap and nasty. The processor is lacking in all honesty .. although not as bad as the EEE's.
And what's with Vista Ultimate ???? on a device like this what on earth is the point of shipping such a heavy OS? Vista Home or even XP home maybe.. but not ultimate.
World gone mad! Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkThe ASUS Eee PC - even the 8.9" model - is in a completely different category. Sure, it's an ultraportable in size, but the single core CPU, limited memory, and other features make it a rather different setup. Also, it's not yet shipping.
The Lenovo X300 you mention is in the exact same category as the MacBook Air and XPS M1330, in that it is also a 13.3" laptop. Sorry for not explicitly mentioning it, but we should have a review forthcoming.
Finally, while you may not like the leather design of the U2E, it's not "faux" at all. This is real leather. I much prefer it to the glossy coatings found on many laptops. Obviously, tastes will differ. Vista Ultimate? Well, that's what ASUS installed on the review sample; Vista Business apparently ships on the retail versions. I have no problem with Vista these days, as long as you have 2GB or more RAM. Reply
Alphafox78 - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkThey are almost in different categories, but It seems logical to me that the eee 701 should have been listed here as a comparison. I also dont understand why they give review samples of ultra portables to reviewers who have a bias towards 23" LCDs and quad core cpus. they always seem to get negative reviews and why wouldnt they in that light.
In terms of 3d performance, obviously its not its forte, but it would have been nice to see some 3dmark01 results. if it doesnt work with 3dmark06, why were the results even listed. seems really dumb to me to list a result of zero when its just the benchmark app that doesnt work with the x3100. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkThe 3DMark results are *NOT* zero... they're just so low relative to the other laptops that the numbers get pushed into the text. For reference, the scores are:
3DMark03: 1075
3DMark05: 592
3DMark06: 351
If you want detailed 3DMark06 results:
3DMarks: 351.000000000
SM2.0 Score: 104.000000000
SM3.0 Score: 141.000000000
CPU Score: 889.000000000 Reply
Alphafox78 - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkthanks for the #s, didnt see em.
those really arent that bad, the eee gets around 700 3dmark03 when you overclock it, and thats at 800x480! Reply
Lonyo - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkA MBA isn't even an ultraportable.
It's not light, and the footprint is too big.
I'm not saying it's a bad machine, but compared to 10~11" laptops, it's not really in the same class. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkBut there really aren't many 10-11" laptops out there that do compete with the U2E. 12" tablets? Sure. Otherwise, the only currently shipping product I see is the Sony VAIO TZ line... which almost looks like it's manufactured in the same plant as the ASUS U2E. The question is whether people would prefer thinner with a slightly larger keyboard and LCD but without an internal DVD, or thicker with a smaller LCD and a DVD. Weight is about the same. Personally, I'd go for a Dell XPS M1330, because 13.3" is more comfortable for long-term use. (Lenovo X300 is another option in the 13.3" size, with a 1440x900 LCD I think and a 64GB SSD.) Reply
Johnmcl7 - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkI've seen a few comparisons putting an M1330 alongside an ultralight but to me this is very false, although the M1330 doesn't look that much bigger on paper I think in reality it is.
I've had a Sony TX for a couple of years now and I think it's an incredible ultralight machine, more recently I've picked up a 1330 but I've been disappointed with it, in my mind I was expecting something a little larger than the TX with a lot more power. However the 1330 just feels nowhere near as portable, more like a compact 'big' machine if that makes any sense. The M1330 packs a lot of power but at the serious cost of batterylife, on its extended battery it can manage 5 hours or so but the TX on its extended battery can last over twice as long.
Aside from the performance I find the little TX surprisingly good, it remains just big enough to have a usable keyboard, onboard optical drive, vga port, lan port etc. which previously ultralights did without.
I do agree the 1330 is a bit more usable in that it has a great keyboard although I find the screen resolution lets it down a bit, one notch higher resolution would have made it more useful to me.
I'm interested in this review as I'm considering changing my machines, the TX's main weakness to me at least is its sluggish 1.8 inch hard drive. However with SSD that's not a problem, I have a Sony UX1XN with similar specs and a 32GB SSD and I'm perfectly happy with the performance which is far better than the TX. So I have my eye on the Sony TZ as it has the dual core processor, SSD and onboard 3G which would be a decent upgrade. However the price is the main issue so I'll need to see how the Asus compares pricewise in the UK.
I'm always in two minds about the M1330 though, sometimes I feel it's a waste of money and I should sell it along with the TX to fund a TZ. However other times it's beefier processor and dedicated graphics make it a handy travel companion when I just can't take the bulk of the M1710.
I'm just saying I don't think the M1330 and TZ can be compared as rivals, despite being close in size I think they are actually quite different machines.
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JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkThey're definitely different machines and compete in different spaces. The real question is which type of machine users really want? If you really want an ultraportable - compromise performance for improved portability - the VAIO TZ and ASUS U2E are great options. The difficulty comes in figuring out if that's what you really want.
For me, my laptop wish list looks something like the following:
Roughly a 13" to 15" laptop chassis (I'm flexible here)
Definitely a 1440x900 or 1680x1050 LCD (or even 1920x1200)
LED backlighting, a higher color gamut (at least 70%), and preferably something other than a TN panel
A good keyboard layout - for a 15" chassis, it needs a number keypad
For now, Core 2 Duo T8300 or T9300 processor
4GB RAM (but I'll still hold off Vista 64-bit for now)
A large 7200RPM HDD, or at least a 64GB SSD without spending more than $500 on the drive
Something better than integrated graphics - GeForce 8700M or 9500M would probably work - but before this really becomes a good idea I want NVIDIA's HybridPower technology so that the discrete GPU can shut off when it's not needed
Get it under 5 pounds and with 5 (or more) hours of battery life
Some of the above items simply aren't available yet, of course, but that's why it's a wish list. :) Reply
Wurger - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkI would like to get an idea of how comparable this notebook is to a Sony VGN-TZ. It looks like both are being marketed the same way. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkI haven't used the VAIO TZ, but looking at the pictures they appear practically identical to the ASUS U2E in size and major features. ASUS includes 3GB of RAM where the latest VAIO units ship with 2GB, ASUS provides a mouse and carrying bag and Sony only does that on the top models, and ASUS has a 2-year warranty versus 1-year standard. On top of that the ASUS is priced a few hundred dollars lower for relatively equal specs (i.e. the same outside of the memory config, where ASUS has an extra 1GB). Sony does include T7600 and even T7700 CPUs, however, so the price difference more or less balances out.
As an example, here's the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">VAIO TZ equivalent of the ASUS U2E-A2B. It has a 12.5% faster CPU and comes with Sprint Mobile Broadband (but only a one-month trial, so who cares), with 2GB RAM. That competes with the http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?Pr...">ASUS U2E-A2B, which costs $100 less and includes an external 160GB USB HDD. The difference in price and features is quite small, but with the warranty I'd give the edge to the ASUS. Reply
erwos - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkWasn't there a variant of the U2E that had an external Sideshow display? I would have really liked to have seen that... Reply
Myrandex - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkWhy 2GB x 1 & 512MB x 1? Or even 2GB x 1 & 1GB x 1? To get dual channel performance, shouldn't they have two identicle sticks in there? 2GB x 2 ftw~!
Jason Reply
BigLan - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkYou can run dual channel with mismatched sticks on intel laptops. I've got 2gb + 512gb on my dell, and cpu-id tells me that it's running dual channel.
They probably topped out at 3gb because they're shipping 32-bit vista and didn't want to confuse customers with 'missing' ram. You could add in your own 2gb stick for pretty cheap if you wanted to. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkNote also that laptops running a 533FSB with DDR2-533 are already matched in bandwidth even in single channel mode. The extra bandwidth helps with IGP a bit, perhaps, but in a system like this the overall memory performance isn't nearly as critical as power requirements. Reply
bigdog1984 - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkI was reading the article and im in need of some clarification on two points. Does the unit have micro-dvi or hdmi because the breakdown chart has hdmi and the review states dvi and how much ram is in the unit,,,chart says 3 review says 2.5 Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkSorry - it's Micro-DVI. It looks the same as HDMI, but doesn't carry audio. At first I thought it was HDMI; forgot to update the table. As for the RAM, the systems are apparently supposed to come with 3GB, but the test unit shipped with 2.5GB (as stated on the bottom of page 9). Reply
ciparis - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkAdding features that the MBA omits (like CD/DVD drives, replaceable batteries, and extra ports) is not "addressing shortcomings".
It's making a different set of tradeoffs.
Whether that's a good thing will depend an awful lot on your needs and preferences. Reply
rqle - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - linkYes, needs and preference will always be a factor, but "shortcoming" does hold true. When some body is able to add features in relatively same size why wouldn't it be a shortcoming? Even apple will release an update model to MBA with more ports, faster, etc… Reply
ciparis - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - link"Relatively" hints at the crux of the matter: it's not the same size, and it wouldn't be able to contain those items if it was. If you're pushing for absolute thinness, something has to go. If that's important to you, those are the trade-offs you make.
Personally I consider having to lug things around that I don't need or want on my laptop most of the time to be drawbacks, but I wouldn't presume to call it a shortcoming of the Asus because have a clear understanding that that's my preference. It's a feature trade-off that makes sense to me but says nothing about what might make sense to the next guy. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - linkThe Air could easily handle more ports if the edges were squared off instead of curved. An optical drive might still be out of the question, but at least you would have more than one USB port. Reply
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USC is expected to name a defensive coordinator within the next few days, and Clancy Pendergast is not only the favorite but remains the only known candidate to interview with Coach Lane Kiffin.
Pendergast, 45, spent the past three years as the defensive coordinator at Cal, but lost that job last month when Coach Jeff Tedford got fired. Pendergast has 22 years of coaching experience in college and the NFL, including a trip to the Super Bowl in 2009 as defensive coordinator of the Arizona Cardinals.
If Pendergast is hired — USC officials declined comment Wednesday — the Trojans are likely to feature a revamped scheme in 2013, including the potential of a 3-4 defense for the first time since the early 1990s.
USC has been in search of a new defensive architect since assistant head coach Monte Kiffin resigned after the Sun Bowl. This week, the Dallas Cowboys hired Kiffin as their defensive coordinator.
Pendergast is known for his multiple fronts and blitzes and, at their best, his teams have thrived on an ability to force turnovers. Pendergast would also fit Kiffin's preference for a coordinator who has experience defending spread offenses in the Pac-12, although Pendergast's success has been mixed.
Against Oregon, Pendergast's Bears did an admirable job in 2010. Oregon won, 15-13, but totaled only 317 yards. In 2011 and 2012, though, Oregon beat Cal by a combined score of 102-32 and totaled 1,138 yards.
Under Pendergast, Cal had the Pac-12's top defense in 2010 and 2011 — in terms of total yards against — and sent nine defensive players to the NFL, but slipped to 10th in 2012 with a young, rebuilt defense.
USC had made no announcement, but some players have welcomed Pendergast on Twitter. Safety Gerald Bowman said he looked forward to playing "my style of football" and top recruit Kenny Bigelow wrote that he was "excited to play for" Pendergast.
Pendergast spent the 1992 season at USC as a young defensive assistant. He was also an assistant at Oklahoma and Mississippi State and in the NFL with Houston, Dallas, Cleveland and Kansas City.
Kiffin and players confirmed Wednesday that an argument among players took place in the locker room after USC lost to Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 31, but said it was a verbal-only tiff.
Reports varied about the intensity of the incident, with descriptions ranging from heated words to a fists-flying brawl. Tempers flared in the locker room after unidentified players questioned the play and leadership of teammates.
In a statement, Kiffin denied that a brawl had taken place. No player discipline is expected to be handed down.
"There was a noisy verbal exchange among a couple players who were frustrated with the outcome of the game," Kiffin said. "It lasted less than a minute and was nothing physical. It happens sometimes in football locker rooms after a disappointing loss."
Players Matt Barkley, Khaled Holmes and George Farmer all denied that a fight took place.
Holmes wrote on Twitter that "the incident in the locker room is blown out of proportion. Many disappointed, competitive young men, but no punches thrown!"
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This article was published 25/2/2013 (1633 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
BRANDON -- A CFB Shilo soldier who offered to pay a girl and a woman to have sex with him and a dog -- then sent them explicit images -- has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.
"There are two... women out there who were disturbed, upset and victimized by what you did," Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta said in Brandon court Monday.
Tyson Larry Shiels, 31, admitted to contacting a 17-year-old girl online in September. He offered her $2,000 to have sex with him and his dog, and sent her an explicit video of himself with the animal.
He contacted her on a website for adult users, so Shiels may not have realized the girl was a youth.
Shiels also contacted a woman on the website in September, and offered her $2,000 to have sex with him and his dog. Shiels also sent her an explicit photo.
Police raided his home on Sept. 28 and seized a pair of laptop computers, hard drives and 10 firearms.
A 26-year-old woman contacted RCMP on Oct. 2 after reading a media report about the case. She said she'd been contacted by a man via the same website, whose profile indicated he was with the Canadian military and stationed at CFB Shilo. The woman was emailed an explicit photo.
In December, Shiels pleaded guilty to two counts of trying to solicit illicit sex and two counts of circulating obscene material.
Charges of bestiality were dropped in exchange for the guilty pleas.
Defence lawyer Michael Dubois suggested Shiels' crimes may be the result of 18 months he served in Afghanistan during a 10-year career in which he served with distinction.
Shiels was deployed to Afghanistan twice, working as an artillery soldier and at command headquarters.
Dubois said that, sometime after the charges were laid, Shiels moved away from the base because he'd been forced from his vehicle, beaten and left by the side of the road.
Dubois said Shiels, who holds the position of artilleryman, remains employed with the Department of National Defence.
However, a CFB Shilo spokesman said Shiels' employment at the base is under review.
The dog no longer lives with Shiels.
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Gorman: 'You can't let things go to your head'
This wasn't how college football fans envisioned Robert Foster and Dorian Johnson sharing the same field.
They might have imagined seeing Central Valley's Foster, ranked the nation's top receiver prospect by Scout.com, and Belle Vernon's Johnson, the nation's No. 2 offensive tackle prospect by ESPN's Scouts Inc., in Pitt's blue and gold or Ohio State's scarlet and gray or Alabama's crimson and white.
This wasn't a night for those dreaming of watching Foster and Johnson play for the same team. Instead, they were opponents in a WPIAL Class AAA first-round playoff game.
And only one of them played.
"I'm not sitting out for no reason," Foster said. "I'm sitting out for a reason: I'm learning from my mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes, and I made mine."
A week ago, while Johnson was recovering a fumble in the end zone for his first-ever touchdown in a victory over Albert Gallatin, Foster was being ejected from a loss to Beaver Falls after drawing two personal-foul penalties. Under PIAA rules, Foster is automatically suspended for the following game, meaning a loss would make this his last game.
"It's tough, but you learn from your mistakes," Foster said. "I was wrong for what I did. I apologized to my teammates and everyone else that supported me. But I believe in my team and my coaches that they will do what they have to to win the game."
Not only would Central Valley have to beat Belle Vernon minus Foster but also without injured quarterback Nate Climo and tailback Jordan Whitehead.
So Foster and Johnson were essentially in the same situation, knowing the fate of their high school careers was not in their hands but those of teammates.
Despite Johnson's dominant play on both sides of the ball — not to mention Foster's absence — Central Valley rallied for a 17-16 win over Belle Vernon on Elliot Taylor's 22-yard field goal with seven seconds left Friday.
Where Johnson could at least block and tackle, Foster could only watch from the sidelines.
"The ball is not in my hands, but I truly believe I have teammates that can make plays," Foster said. "Instead of people watching me, they can watch my teammates make plays. There's no more coming to games to see me; it's coming to see Central Valley. I'm not Central Valley. I'm just Robert Foster.
"I can't do things on the field if it wasn't for my teammates. That is one of the best lessons I've learned: Don't let things go to your head, obviously. When you're someone special with God-given talent, you can't let things go to your head. You've got to let it go in one ear and out the other."
Sounds like someone who has already let things go to his head. Which is easy to do when colleges covet your services as a recruit and recruiting services covet breaking your commitment to a college.
It's the Catch-22 of prep football. We watch relative unknowns develop into major-college prospects only to see them become overwhelmed by overexposure during the recruiting process.
Where Foster led Central Valley to a WPIAL title as a sophomore and has more than 1,000 yards and 16 touchdowns rushing and receiving combined this season, Johnson generated attention with his 6-foot-6, 285-pound frame and athleticism.
"He's scary," Central Valley coach Mark Lyons said. "We've probably never faced an offensive lineman with that capability of wiping out a side of a line.
"Everything everybody is writing about him and why they're recruiting him, it's pretty accurate. To find another high school defender to neutralize him, it's not fair. I look at it as you're asking a defensive back to play Foster one-on-one."
Belle Vernon coach Aaron Krepps believes the oversaturation of recruiting coverage and social media has made players household names before they are mature enough to deal with the pressure.
"These are still young kids," Krepps said. "It becomes a burden. It's not something they should have to deal with in the sheer volume they have to."
Foster learned another lesson Thursday, after revealing on Twitter that he was ready to announce his college choice. When word spread within minutes, he retracted the statement and said he would wait.
"The biggest thing he has to understand is, everybody is watching you," Lyons said. "Whether they're watching for the good things or if they're jealous and they're waiting to nail you, that's what he had to learn. Kids don't always look at it like that. They're like, 'You mean, somebody wants me to fail?' Yeah, they do."
Johnson shies away from the spotlight for that reason.
"It is pretty nerve-wracking knowing you have people coming to watch you," Johnson said. "You don't want to mess up."
Especially with your high school career hanging in the balance.
Kevin Gorman is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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About a month ago, Pete made a post revealing how Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith's blog, Digital Urban, featured a two-part tutorial on how to create 3D models using 3D Max and then import these models into Oblivion. In the most recent online issue of The Escapist, writer Allen Varney discusses how architects have been using game engines for experimentation with architecture, in an article titled "London in Oblivion."
Within the article, Varney covers Hudson-Smith's work using Oblivion's game engine and construction set (see the above video). At the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), to which Hudson-Smith belongs, they found success recreating and importing structures from London — including the quad from University College London and the London Eye Ferris Wheel. Here's a clip from the article:
"The situation improved with Oblivion. 'It is a joy to work with and, with the use of plugins, a work flow can be produced to visualize models in under an hour.' In September 2006, CASA built an Oblivion version of the university quad, then imported London's Millennium Eye Ferris wheel and an entire cityscape originally modeled in 3ds Max. Hudson-Smith has posted two tutorials on exporting from modeling programs and importing the models into the Oblivion engine, as well as a four-minute YouTube movie demonstrating the entire process.
'Bethesda Softworks have done a good job with their Elder Scrolls Construction Set,' Hudson-Smith says. 'It is by far the easiest way to import models direct from 3-D modeling packages. The inclusion of a 'sandbox' with today's games is without doubt one of the major strong points in the industry. To be able to use a game engine (albeit not commercially) for under $40 is a fantastic step forward.'"
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Cortana virtual assistant coming to US Windows Phones early 2014, Europe and Asia later on
15 Comments
1. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
It should come early everywhere if it supports English US. Just do it MS.
2. LetsBeHonest (Posts: 1526; Member since: 04 Jun 2013)
Windows phone 8.1 seems like a beautiful package... Things will get better in 2014
now it'll be fight against ios7 vs android 4.4 vs wp 8.1.
and cortana sound pretty cool
3. hmd74 (Posts: 489; Member since: 31 Jan 2013)
Hope it speaks Persian...
4. johnbftl (Posts: 281; Member since: 09 Jun 2012)
Speak Persian? You mean Farsi? I've never heard of a language called Persian.
7. Naruto_Uzumaki (Posts: 26; Member since: 22 Mar 2013)
In fact, Persian is correct
11. GamePlayer (Posts: 51; Member since: 06 Jun 2013)
Farsi and Persian are the same thing.
5. DOODpls (Posts: 13; Member since: 08 Sep 2013)
I wish, they release the english version of it worldwide, then update it later on with other language
6. Alexander_K (Posts: 19; Member since: 18 Feb 2013)
Well, Bing Translator supports Persian, so it should included.
I'm from Bulgaria and as you might expect my language is not the most popular in the world, but if they make Cortana support all 44+ languages that Bing Translator does, it will be something never done before. Here in the Balkans we get excluded from every kind of sensible support (the updates come here last), we don't have Microsoft Stores or Nokia Care, so it would nice for once to do something good for the little guys.
8. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2286; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Nicee... keeps on getting better :-)
9. ilia1986 (unregistered)
That one time I'm jealous of a rival OS..
Oh well. I expect Google to have an actual assistant as well soon. In all Languages. Voiced by Jarvis. Yeah! :D
10. supa_dupa (Posts: 80; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)
I hope it will support Austrian, Brazilian and Canadian languages..:-)))
12. iDroid8 (Posts: 155; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
Will this have support for canadian, american, british and australian languages? :P
13. Sauce (unregistered)
I'm unfamiliar with her, but from the thumbnail, she looks like Olivia Wilde. Olivia Wilde is hot.
14. volcano (Posts: 348; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
She's intelligent character in the Halo video game series


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Heres tuesdays food off the grill :
-Bacon wrapped Pork Tenderloin ,filled with dried Apricots and Plums that have been soaked in Bourbon overnight.Rubbed with Texasbbqrub. Indirectly grilled on a small Weber with Hickorywood.
Finished with a very thin coat of Texas Pepper Jelly
-Garlic mashed potatoes with grilled onions
-Peas and carrots with sauce hollondaise.
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The Dream Machine by X-Ray Pop will soon be re-released by Dark Entries Records.
"La Machine á Rêver is the B-side to the L'Eurasienne 7″ single by X Ray Pop released in May 1984. It will be re-issued on Dark Entries Records in July 2012 on a compilation of early material by this influential French band. This video first appeared on a collection of scopitones by X Ray Pop recorded at Elysee Sound March 1984. X Ray Pop are Doc Pilot: Casio PT20, MR10, Vocals + Zouka Dzaza: Lead vocals." – darkentriesrecords.com
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Activists belonging to the environmental group Robin Wood hold placards protesting against Russia's President Vladimir Putin and former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as they demonstrate in front of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. The tribunal was holding a hearing into the dispute between the Netherlands and Russia over the seizure by Russian forces of the Dutch-flagged Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise.
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A new piece of legislation sponsored by Texas Senator John Cornyn is designed to infuse police departments around the country with more federal money to help reduce the staggering number of untested rape kits.
Cornyn said there are an estimated 400,000 untested rape kits nationwide. Local 2 Investigates has been reporting since January of 2011 on the Houston Police Department's struggle with this issue. Currently HPD reports it has more than 6,600 untested rape kits stored in evidence.
Cornyn stood with Mayor Annise Parker and several victims rights advocates as he announced the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry Act, or SAFER.
"I don't have to make a decision going forward, do I test a rape kit or I'm going to keep my library hours open," said Mayor Parker referring to budgetary constraints and decisions made over several political administrations contributing to Houston's backlog. "No mayor should have to make that decision."
"What the Mayor described is nothing short of a national scandal," said Cornyn.
Every year, through the Debbie Smith Act, the federal government awards more than $100 million to police departments around the country to help with forensic science. Currently the Act requires that only 40 percent of that money be spent on forensic testing of evidence. Cornyn's proposed bill would require 75 percent of that money be spent on testing and another 7 percent spent on auditing backlogs. The proposed bill also calls for the creation of a national registry to help track audits of untested kits and help prioritize the analysis of untested kits.
No one knows the pain of an untested kit more than Lavinia Masters, who attended Cornyn's announcement. Masters said she was raped at 13 years of age by stranger and her kit sat untested in a Dallas evidence room for more than 20 years.
"No price tag should be put on my sanity, on my life, on my living, on my life after, on my happiness," said Masters
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Topic: Cannot Resist to Not Repost This Wonderful Sharing from Past Message
Hi, everyone,
When doing research,I found this message from a former user named "Jim".
message was well said,hopeful and touching even he lost his wife after 4 year of battle of this cancer. I copy just that section below.
"We lost her November 7, 2009 after a long and valiant fight - almost four years after initial diagnosis and major liver resection.
We never asked the tough questions, never asked any doctor how much time she had left (although we had a fairly good idea), and never even knew what stage her cancer was - those things were simply felt to be out of our control. We always talked about what we were going to do "when you get well".
People ask me how we got through all that. My answer is that she and I had a firm belief in God, trusted in his mercy through faith, and had claimed our eternal salvation by accepting Christ as the son of God and our personal savior. Its just that simple.
Now for the happy part! The last four years were the best years of our lives. How can this be? Here's the answer: when a man and a woman are as deeply in love with each other as we were - sharing the same foundation of faith and spiritual belief - are then confronted with their own mortality, they start living and communicating and treating each other like they should have been doing all along. That makes for an absolutely wonderful relationship, one that can overcome any obstacle or adversity. The fact of the matter is that our stars crossed from the moment our hands first touched at that theater in 1958 and stayed crossed, faithfully and loyally, for over 51 years, 43 years of which were as man and wife. During all that time, we shared more joy than anyone could expect out of life - and yes some sadness as well. Sadness is fleeting and cured by time, but happiness vividly lives on. Really, now, what man or woman is entitled to expect more than that out of the uncertainties and vagaries of a life we all must inevitably deal with?"
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Did you know?
The Blyde River Canyon is the third largest in the world and has been renamed the Motlatse River Canyon.
The 29 000ha Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve is carved out of nearly 2,5km of red sandstone and is one of South Africa's most remarkable geological features. Also known as the Motlatse Canyon, it is the third largest canyon on Earth and is situated below the confluence of the Blyde ('joy') and Treur ('sorrow') rivers.
This Mpumalanga nature reserve stretches for 60km from just north of the little town of Graskop, up to the Abel Erasmus pass. You'll get stunning views of the Escarpment from legendary viewpoints such as God's Window, where on a clear day, you can see as far as Kruger Park and Mozambique.
Other natural attractions include Bourke's Luck Potholes, where Tom Bourke, a 19th-century gold rush prospector, is said to have made his fortune. Water erosion over millennia has carved cylindrical sculptures from the canyon's red and yellow rocks which are interspersed with rock pools.
From the canyon look out eastwards to the Three Rondavels or Three Sisters, three massive spirals of dolomite that rise from the far wall of the canyon. A single quartzite column, aptly named the Pinnacle, rises from the wooded canyon, offering more spectacular vistas.
The environment varies from high mistlands to the drier and warmer lowveld around the Blyde River Dam.
You'll find more than 1 000 species of flora in the reserve, including several species of endangered cycads, and, in spring, carpets of wild flowers. Try to visit at least one of the nearby several beautiful waterfalls.
Bird and animal life is abundant. Spot Verreaux's eagle, the rare bald ibis which nests on the cliff ledges, and all five species of South African primates, including vervet and samango monkeys, chacma baboons and both species of bushbaby.
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Who to contact
Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency
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How to get here
Blyde River Canyon is situated along the Panorama Route and easily accessible from the west of the Kruger National Park and the towns of Sabie and Nelspruit.
Best time to visit
Abseiling is best in winter, from June to the end of August, but the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve is spectacular throughout the year.
Around the area
Organised tours of the Blyde River Canyon Hiking Trail, God's Window, Three Rondawels, The Pinnacle, Bourke's Luck Potholes, visitor's centre and the Blyde River Dam are available.
Tours to do
There are organised tours that take in Blyde River Canyon, God's Window, Three Rondawels, The Pinnacle, Bourke's Luck Potholes, the visitor's centre and the Blyde River Dam.
Get around
Self drive
What will it cost
The view is free.
Length of stay
You could spend a few days exploring this area on route to or from the Kruger National Park
What to pack
Pack sturdy boots, cameras and binoculars, as well as swimming gear, sunscreen and hats. A sense of adventure will also stand you in good stead.
Where to stay
The Blyde Canyon, a Forever Resort, is a three and four-star resort 50km from Graskop with commanding views of the Canyon. At the base of the canyon, you will also find Swadini which offers the view from below next to the Blyde River. It is 35km from Hoedspruit.
What to eat
Pancakes in Graskop
Best buys
Buy some craft or curios from one of the many craft sellers in the area.


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I got tired of waiting for lowes to put them on sale so as I was looking through old post I found one were someone took a copy of a northern tool add off of their web site for the chargriller for $99.00 to lowes. Well thanks to that person for the tip. They sold me mine for $99.00 to. Since I already bought the side box a week ago when I brought my grill home I was ready to go. Believe it or not The whole thing grill and side box only took my about an hour to assemble. Of coarse I am a lot like Tim the tool man You could say I was smoking. Now I have my smoker and no wood. I have already got plans for my wifes apple tree (how I hate that tree!). I am going to dig up a little dirt around it when the wife is not home and cut a 2 inch deep ring around the bark then cover it back up. That will teach her not to make me clean up all the apples year after year (it wouldn't be so bad if she would at least make one pie.)plus it should be quite seasoned by next year. I will tell her I'm sorry honey the tree is dead from neglect I guess you should have fertilized it, or I will blame it on some african beattle or bug not native to or region. I am so bad but what can I say with that tree gone I will kill to birds with one stone. I guess this new grill is going to turn me into some horrible liar but I am despirate for wood. I have also been looking at the two huge alders that are right on the edge of my backyard. I am going to dig up my survey stakes and run a line and if they are on my property They are gone to. I am on a mission now I will have to call around and see if someone has a cord of seasoned alder it sould be cheap as it is considered a junk wood around here every one burns douglas fir in the fireplaces.
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D'oh! That's what I said to myself as I went to lock my bike at work yesterday morning and realized that I forgot my u-lock at home in the garage. I scratched my head for a moment and then rolled Betty through the back door, up the elevator, and into my office, where she kept me company for the day.
If I were not able to bring Betty into my office, I don't know what I would have done. It was too early to buy another lock from a bike shop, too risky to leave the bike unlocked outside, and too time-consuming to return home for the u-lock.
What would you do in this situation? Has this happened to anyone else? (I can't be the only goof out there!)


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Visiting Artists Program presents seminar with Kevin Everson
Kevin Jerome Everson was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio. He has an MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron and is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. His artwork—paintings, sculptures, photographs, and films, including six features and over one hundred short-form works—have been exhibited internationally at festivals, museums, cinemas and galleries. His films Emergency Needs and Quality Control were included in the 2008 and 2012 Whitney Biennials. A solo exhibition of his short films, More Than That: The Films of Kevin Jerome Everson was held at the Whitney in 2011. He has been the subject of career retrospectives at the Centre Pompidou, Paris and Visions du Reel, Nyon. He is the recipient of the 2012 Alpert Award in the Arts for Film/Video. The 3-disc boxed set Broad Daylight and Other Times is distributed by Video Data Bank. A solo exhibition is planned for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland in 2014.


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Thursday, June 19, 2014
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The Diocese of Saint Clement in southern Russia has its seat in Saratov and serves a huge territory of over 540,000 square miles, an area close to twice the size of Texas. Yet there are just 21,000 Catholics living scattered across this vast area, and just 43 Catholic priests to minister to them. In many places there is often no more than a tiny community, occasionally even only a single Catholic family, with the next nearest Catholics living hundreds of miles away. It goes without saying that it is not possible to build churches wherever such micro-communities exist, and even if it were possible, there would still be too few priests to minister to them all.In order to reach these scattered Catholic communities, the priests often have to travel long distances. But this is fundamental to the survival of the Catholic Church in the area, since without a priest the faithful cannot receive the sacraments and there is always the danger that the people will lose their sense of inner connection with the Church and their faith might then wither away. This would be the beginning of a vicious spiral, since when the faith starts to weaken, then there will be no spiritual vocations and thus there will be still fewer priests to minister to the people, thereby further weakening the faith and still further impoverishing the soil of future native vocations. It is still the case today that most of the priests of the diocese are from abroad.On a practical level, such vast distances lead to heavy fuel costs. Yet if the priests are unable to make these journeys because they cannot afford gas, then still more faithful will be deprived of the grace of Holy Mass and Communion and the opportunity to baptize their children or celebrate Christian weddings. And these are people who already suffer on a daily basis from the sense of isolation and separation from their brothers and sisters in the Faith. The local church is poor, and the priests are dependent on outside support to enable them to visit and encourage their scattered flock. Thanks to the generosity of your benefactors, ACN is able to provide this crucial support, and this year we gave $20,300 to subsidize the cost of the pastoral travel of the priests of the Diocese of Saint Clement. We are sure they will remember you in their grateful prayers.
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Turns out I had 4 ribs leftover from Saturday night
Plus a bunch of rib trimmmings from cutting them down to St.Louis style. I smoked these along side the ribs. ONce I got the meat off the ribs and the trimmings, I had a whole plate of meat.
What to do? Warm it up with a bit of sauce and make a "McRib" sandwich out of it.
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MAX Whitlock will begin his quest for gold at Rio 2016 when he returns to action this weekend for the first time since his London 2012 heroics.
The pommel horse specialist will be the star attraction at the English Championships at the Europa Centre in Kent on Saturday afternoon.
It will be the first time he has competed since claiming two bronze medals at last summer's Games, and he admits he is raring to go.
He said: "I've had a long break and a long build up to this competition, so hopefully that will pay off on the day — because gymnastics always comes down to how you go on the day.
"But I'm in good shape and happy with my routines so I'm definitely ready.
"Before the Olympics it was about trying to prove myself to everyone, but now it's more about meeting people's expectations, and that does bring a bit more pressure.
"My main goal is Rio now, of course, but first I know I need to get European places through competitions like this to make sure I am in position to get one of those places when Rio comes around."
Whitlock and South Essex club-mate Reiss Beckford will be aiming to secure one of six spots on the Great Britain team for the European Championships in Moscow in April at this weekend's competition.
Whitlock will look to underline his status as one of the world's best pommel workers, especially in the absence of superstar Louis Smith, who said last month he is considering retiring from the sport.
Smith led the British men into an Olympic all-round final for the first time in 88 years in London, and Whitlock admitted he would love to lead the team in Rio.
Whitlock said: "Louis was a great captain for us in London and I know how much it meant to him. So I'd love to lead the team in Rio — it would be a dream come true and an honour."
Whitlock will also use the competition to develop his growing reputation on the floor, and move towards recognition as a top level all-rounder.
Beckford will be in contention on the high bar and rings as he bids to return to the GB set-up.
Brinn Bevan will step up to the senior ranks alongside Anthony Wise as part a healthy contingent from the Basildon Sporting Village-based South Essex club.
Their main competition is likely to come from Huntingdon Gymnastics Club's Daniel Keatings, who was bitterly disappointed to miss out on an Olympic place, and Sam Oldham, who was part of that historic bronze medal winning team with Whitlock, Smith, Dan Purvis and Kristian Thomas in London.
Purvis is Scottish so will not compete and Thomas is away in America, so the South Essex team will have a good chance of podium places.
South Essex also has Nathan Adams and Douglas Turnball competing in the Boys Age Group category on Friday, and Hayden Skinner, Dominic Sesto, Josephine Tang and Karis Maskell in the Junior Age Group on Sunday.
FitzWimarc pupil Karis, 11, trains five days a week at the Sporting Village and has spent two years on British Gymnastics development squad.
South Essex's director of coaching Scott Hann said: "Karis is one of the many talented and dedicated youngsters we've got coming through and an example of what a great production line we've got here at our club."


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Did you know the song Rebel, Rebel was the first song to get David Bowie "noticed" by the popular music press in the United States?
Turns out the rebel idea goes over big in lots of genres, including clothing design. Meet REBEL8 owners Mike Giant and Joshy D. REBEL8 is a San Francisco-based lifestyle brand with deep roots in skateboard, graffiti, and tattoo cultures. Joshy runs the business and Mike sees to the art.
Joshy and Mike met in the late 1990′s in San Francisco's then bustling graffiti scene. Josh ran the popular graffiti website, HiFiArt, and Mike was one of the city's most notorious writers. Years later, and having had some experience with a previous clothing venture, Josh approached Mike about creating a handful of t-shirt graphics. Mike agreed, and a small batch of shirts was made. Josh sold those shirts out of a messenger bag around the city, and REBEL8 was born.
Today, Joshy D. runs the business and Mike Giant sees to the art. REBEL8 makes it clear that despite its success, it is still committed to the communities from which it comes, and strives to reinforce its unique lifestyle with every product.
Every REBEL8 graphic by Mike Giant is hand-illustrated. Unlike most clothing graphics, which are created by digitizing the original artwork into vector format, Mike's graphics are exact reproductions of his original art. No part of the original inked line is compromised in this process. The end result is a product with an edge of authenticity seldom seen in today's mass-produced market.
Below, MIke talks about his REBEL8 work:
Q: How did you get started as an artist?
A: The first time I made a mark on something is really when it started. I didn't start working professionally until 1993.
Q: Tell us a little about your genre. Are there lots of artists who do what you do? Where are they concentrated? What makes your work stand out from the rest?
A: Well, these days I mostly work in black and white. My work gets out to the world through t-shirts, books, and gallery shows. My skills with Sharpies have been highly regarded among my peers for over 15 years.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Bold, simplistic, graceful…
Q: How did you come to use Sharpie markers in your work?
A: I began using Sharpies as a graffiti artist in the late 80s. They were the pen of choice for inking our graffiti sketches in our sketchbooks, and they were readily available (and easy to steal). From then on, I've used Sharpies almost exclusively in rendering my final drawings. Continue reading


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What kid doesn't like looking at picture of themselves? How much more fun is it to be able to use some crayons and color you own picture coloring page? Well that is exactly what we are going to do today. There is no special photo editing software to download or purchase. {…Read More…}
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