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- Strengthens the Body's Natural Defense
- Strengthens the Body's Natural Immunity
- Guaranteed Over 2.5 Billion Live Cultures‡
- Helps Maintain a Healthy Digestive Tract
- Helps Ease Occasional Stomach Discomfort
- Easy-to-Swallow Bead
- Dietary Supplement
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Superior, Triple-Shell Protection
Natrol Probiotic Acidophilus BioBeads are uniquely protected by an advanced triple shell that ensures viability through all three biophases:
Biophase 1: Targeted-release technology helps guarantee BioBeads potency for 18 months on the shelf and protects viable microflora all the way to ingestion.
Biophase 2: Bead passes safely through the acidic stomach environment unharmed.
Biophase 3: Inner layer gently breaks down, releasing proprietary blend of probiotics that helps support digestive health and immunity.
Suggested Use
Take 1 bead daily.
Other Ingredients
Coconut and palm oils, gelatin, glycerin, lecithin (soy), pectin.
NO egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, artificial flavors, or preservatives.
Contains Milk, Soybeans
Consult your healthcare professional prior to use if you have or suspect a medical condition, are taking prescription drugs or are pregnant or lactating. People with allergies to milk or soy should consult heir healthcare professional before taking this product.
To ensure viability and shelf life, store in a dry and cool place (below 25°C of 77°F and 55% humidity) in the original sealed packaging.
Keep out of reach of children.
|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: 1 Bead
|Servings Per Container: 30
|Amount Per Serving
|Proprietary Probiotic Blend
(2 Billion live cultures at time of manufacture)
Bifidobacterium longum
Lactobacillus acidophilus
Bifidobacterium bifidum
Lactobacillus rhamnosus
|12.9 mg
|*Daily Value (DV) not established.
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If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of Australian smokers who made a New Year's resolution to quit, then there's a 40% chance you may have already had a 'slip up'. Research shows that around 40% of smokers slip up within 3 days of their quit attempt, and a further 30% slip up within two weeks of trying to quit.
Behavioural expert Dr Ron Borland says those who slip up often go back to smoking, but he also stresses this doesn't have to be the case.
'Those who have slipped should treat a slip up as a learning situation, and not an excuse to resume smoking.'
Dr Borland says some of the triggers for slip ups include being with other smokers, drinking alcohol, and accepting cigarettes from someone else.
'Situations likely to cause slip-ups vary with your life style and with the way you use cigarettes in your life,' he says.
For example, a mother at home with young children may slip up if she is stressed and in need of a break. 'Party animals' are more likely to slip up when socialising, especially if they're drinking.
'Being aware of situations that are more likely to result in a slip up can help those trying to give up stay quit for good,' he says.
His advice for those currently battling their nicotine addiction is to maintain their motivation.
'Research has shown that anybody who can stay off the gaspers for a week has all the skills they need to resist temptations.'
'Those who are struggling should remind themselves that they are trying to break a habit, and it can take a while to 'learn' to become a non-smoker.'
'To become a non-smoker involves learning how to enjoy life without cigarettes. This also involves a set of skills that you can learn, skills that you need to develop once you have temptations under control.'
'Smokers trying to quit can take heart from the statistics that ex-smokers outnumber current smokers, which proves that quitting is achievable.'
Dr Borland's advice for those who are at risk of relapse includes:
Remind yourself of how long you have gone without a cigarette, and calculate how many cigarettes you would have had in that period if you had not quit. This will help you stay motivated when you realise how many cigarettes you have NOT smoked.
Reward yourself with some of the money you have saved by not smoking.
If you are experiencing cravings, remember each craving only lasts a few minutes, and use the techniques of delay, deep breathing, drinking water or doing something else to fight them.
If you feel the urge to smoke remind yourself of why you quit in the first place, and remember the health and financial benefits.
If you need extra support, call the Quitline on 131 848
Dr Borland says those quitters who have relapsed should not give up on quitting, but should learn from that attempt, and plan another attempt as soon as possible armed with a new understanding of the challenges.
Dr Borland suggests that successful quitters remember to reward themselves, perhaps by spending some of the money they have saved by quitting on special treats.
'After quitting for a week, a former pack-a day smoker will have saved enough for a dinner out, and after six months could take an interstate holiday with the money they would have otherwise spent on cigarettes.'
Smokers seeking to quit can call the Quitline on 131 848 for free help and resources. Quit have developed a New Year Quit Pack, which features a 2001 diary with a year's supply of quit tips, as well as information about quitting and special giveaways to help deal with cravings.
Quit's survival tips for the holiday season
Summer holiday festivities can be a real challenge for those trying to quit. Planning and firm resolve can help them get through with flying colours. Here are some survival tips:
Try not to drink too much alcohol as it can lessen your resolve not to smoke. Make every second drink a non-alcoholic one.
If you're going to parties, plan ahead and take some sugar-free gum or lollies, and something to hold to keep your hands occupied. Don't be tempted to take along a few cigarettes 'just in case'.
Practise saying 'thanks but I don't smoke' in case you're offered a cigarette.
Remind yourself why you quit in the first place.
If you are tempted to have a cigarette, do something else.
Further information:
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This book continues from the book of DREAMS. There are four editions to this series.
First edition is "DREAMS" and the second edition is called "WITHIN", the third edition is called "MYSTIC".They showcase more of my earliest years to the most recent, 2003 to 2009. I love art and photography so I put them together to form my art. As you look at each piece,they will change depending on your emotions. Open your mind and soul to find the meaning behind my art. Depending on how you look at it,the vision will change each time. Then you will see and feel the meaning of my art.
Believe In Your Dreams!
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I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1960. I had taken photography and art classes in Jr. high, My teacher challenged me by giving me difficult things to draw and photograph. He always told me "you have the eye". I went on to take advanced art classes in high school. I had fun with photography throughout my life but never really got into doing art with it until the year of 2003. The 'digital age' made art more appealing to me, I found the medium for my expressions and turned into the art you see today. Most of my art concepts come directly from my dreams. I will have dreams about certain images over and over, until I get them created. The images of the dream gets added to image by image. Each artwork are linked to each other to from my dream story. I hope you enjoy the artwork. Best Regards, Stan T.
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Shadow Arts And Culture Minister attends film festival launch
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8:04am Tuesday 13th November 2012
ORGANISERS of a celebration of film in York were paid a visit by one of the leading political figures in the arts scene.
Shadow Arts And Culture Minister Dan Jarvis attended the launch of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, which ended its four-day run on Sunday and saw screenings being staged in venues across the city, from the Mansion House and Guildhall to bars and shops.
The idea for the festival, which ran for the first time last year, came from Cherie Federico, its artistic director and the founder of York-based art and cultural magazine Aesthetica. The publication is now sold around the UK and in more than 20 countries.
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Taking a content-centric approach to building relationships
Marketing, today, is about driving closer, authentic, deep and meaningful relationships, on an individual level, between an enterprise and its constituents – customers, prospects, investors, business partners, key influencers, and more.
These constituents are far more informed; and as such, much smarter than ever before. To that end, if an enterprise is unable to articulate its purpose, its ideals and values and how these impact the products & services it brings to market; if it is unable to offer something more than just its wares; and if it is only interested in being heard but not listening, the enterprise will never establish a true relationship with its constituents.
And without a relationship there is no basis for loyalty.
So how does an enterprise build this relationship? By engaging its customers, its prospects, its investors and all other influencers in an interactive and iterative dialogue of which the foundation is content.
Content that tells stories, content that educates, content that informs an understanding of products & services, content that encourages participation, content that drives action – purchase, download, donate, view, share, and more – and content that builds community.
Today, enterprises are creating their own content – video, audio, multimedia, infographics, photography, etc. – and using technology platforms and content networks, such as those offered by PR Newswire, to deliver this content across multiple channels and to enable viral sharing of this content which helps shape a richer story that gets amplified over time.
The channels through which this conversation is happening are no longer limited to paid media, but rather a much broader, fragmented landscape of earned, owned, social and mobile media that complement paid media.
Importantly, each of these channels has different characteristics associated with it. As a simple example, Twitter has a message size constraint; it's optimized for speed and for breaking information; whereas, a blog post allows a much greater amount of real estate to express a much richer and more nuanced version of a story and YouTube provides an entirely different, visual experience for the consumer.
So, content must be optimized for each particular channel – the style, the volume and the speed or the immediacy of that channel. That requires more than just a level of knowledge, individually, about these channels; it also requires a holistic, cross-media, integrated understanding of how to optimize and leverage all these varying channels to really make them work together, cohesively.
And when they work together – when quality content is delivered to the right target audience in the right formats that promote seamless consumption – it helps to coalesce interest across these fragmented mediums and drives response.
Content does not have to have a defined shelf life and should be republished, re-tweeted, mashed up, echoed, spur the creation of derivatives and as such drive continued conversation and engagement. In fact, content that remains discoverable – a key role of owned media – grows in richness over time as more and more people engage with it. This means the enterprise has to continue to monitor and engage to earn a continuing return from that initial content catalyst.
And lastly, the development of consistent performance metrics that measure the relevant indicators (click-throughs, registrations, downloads, etc.) of brand, reputation, demand and ultimately ROI, is key to the long term sustainability of such a content-centric approach.
Amplifying the content beyond the more obvious paid and owned media channels is a core insight. Targeting and widely disseminating this content – via a trusted network such as PR Newswire's – to the contextually-appropriate earned, social and mobile media publishers, gives your content even more credibility and will allow you to leverage many of the already established communities relevant to your content.
As my colleague Tony Uphoff at UBM Techweb puts it in a post titled Marketing as a Service, "Marketing as a one-way broadcast model, done in a series of campaigns simply doesn't work anymore. Successful marketing today requires a content centric, conversational approach that engages and sustains a community of prospects, customers and vendors around mutual interest and the quality of the content exchange. In other words once a brand has engaged prospects and customers with a compelling story, this "community" needs to be sustained and nurtured. This shifts marketing from a project and campaign orientation to marketing as an ongoing service. The key is to be able to build, sustain and curate these communities and engage them on and off line."
Author Ninan Chacko is PR Newswire's CEO.
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This is an excellent post! How we engage with customers has changed enourmosly in recent years and will continue to evolve. Sentiment analysis, monitoring what people say about your brand, your product and your people is key. And more importantly is how you engage back with them and keep the conversation flowing.
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Curvin was exposed to NFTE during his junior year of high school. He created a company called New Dimension Clothing with two of his then-classmates. The students started out by producing silk screened shirts that represented the various inner city neighborhoods in Boston. Their first piece was a simple statement shirt that read "Beantown" in a bold font and the various inner-city neighborhoods written below: Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan and Hyde Park.
Initially, Curvin and his partners had a short-term outlook, "We just wanted to win first place in the class competition and get an 'A' in the class," says Curvin. "However, as we began to develop our clothing company, we saw the potential in what we were creating."
Curvin and his classmates talked with local clothing retailers to learn what it would take to display the t-shirts in their retail stores. "As teenagers, we had no fear about the proper protocol, nor was there any hesitation with regard to whether the store owner would like the shirts that we produced. We made shirts that we liked, and shirts that were appealing to our age group—we knew our target audience."
Two clothing stores offered to sell their shirts on consignment, and they were able to distribute to a third store after showing the business owner their samples. "The third store purchased a bulk order from us. We learned about wholesale orders and selling on consignment through discussions with our NFTE mentors. Joe Mahoney from NFTE was instrumental in our early success," remembers Curvin.
Before NFTE, Curvin had learned graphic design and silk-screening through a summer art program in Boston, but he never thought about selling his designs. "The exposure to NFTE forced me to expand my thoughts," says Curvin. "The program challenged me to think big! Without NFTE, my partners and I would not have had the proper foundation to be able to start our business while we were in high school. We were taught to think about the various distribution channels, to identify our competitive advantage, and to monitor our cash flow."
After high school Curvin left the Boston area to study at Hampton University. In 2007, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing. Curvin is currently working for PNC Bank and pursuing a Master of Real Estate Finance at Georgetown University.
"I enjoyed the hard work, I enjoyed the creative process, and I enjoyed being an entrepreneur," says Curvin. Although I have moved on from New Dimension Clothing Co., I still have the entrepreneurship spirit. I am grateful that programs like NFTE exist. NFTE encourages and exemplifies possibilities."


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NEWPORT BEACH – The Island Cinema at Fashion Island could serve alcohol at all showings — including those with children in the audience — if the city's zoning administrator approves rule changes at a Thursday hearing.
The theater wants to add two patio dining areas totaling an approximate 800 square feet, begin opening at 11 a.m. and serve alcohol during all movie screenings with customers having the option to order from a server, according to a city website.
The luxury theater, which opened in November 2011, is a seven-screen complex with stadium seating the includes oversized leather seats, 10-inch arm rests and wide aisles. The theater offers a gourmet menu and an assortment of domestic and imported beers and wines. Customers can take food and drinks to their seats.
The existing permit allows alcohol sales between noon and 1 a.m. at screenings for patrons 21 years and older.
The Newport Beach Police Department reviewed the theater's recent application and does not object to the changes as long as the theater obtains an operator license from the police chief, according to a staff report.
Police, however, expressed concerns about the service of alcohol in a low-light environment that includes patrons of all ages, officials said. Police visited similar operations in the area, the report said, and met with the applicant and its representatives. Police propose the requirement of special training for employees and a prohibition on exterior signs advertising the availability of alcohol.
No more than two alcoholic beverages would be sold or served to any one customer, and the delivery of alcoholic beverages to patrons inside the auditorium would be limited to two per screening, the report states.
Ambient lighting in the theater also must be sufficient "to allow a reasonable person to observe patrons who may be consuming alcoholic beverages," the report said. Additionally, only people in designated theater seats will be able to be served alcoholic beverages, and servers will not be able to carry unlimited, unordered beverages into the theater.
Thursday's hearing is at 3:30 p.m. in council chambers at the old City Hall, 3300 Newport Blvd.
Last month, the city's Planning Commission granted the Port Theater permission to serve alcohol. Theater representatives said the Port likely would begin serving alcohol in February.
Staff writer Richard Chang contributed to this report.


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CBS Corp. (CBS) was the top performer Thursday among the 500 stocks in the S&P 500, up 7.9%. I don't expect the gains to last.
The big broadcaster's shares advanced because it plans to spin off its billboard operations into a real estate investment trust. This may help realize value from a part of the company that investors don't pay much attention to, but that chipped in about $1.9 billion of the media company's $14 billion in revenue last year.
I don't expect CBS shares to do much for the remainder of this year. I can sum up my view in four words: good company, bad stock.
Don't get me wrong. I think Les Moonves, CEO since 2006, has done a nice job in reviving and polishing the company. And the stock has performed superbly for the past four years. It rose 42% last year, 44% in 2011, 37% in 2010 and 76% in 2009.
But that's just the trouble. This stock has already had a big move, to about $41 from about $8 at the end of 2008. To me, the chance of a fifth big year in a row looks remote.
A stock can advance in only two ways. Earnings can rise or investors can get excited and become willing to pay a higher multiple of earnings.
After four big years for CBS shareholders, the shares command about 20x earnings. I can't see why the earnings multiple should expand much beyond that -- especially since the five-year earnings growth rate is only about 3%.
Its top-line growth is also unspectacular. The company had revenue of $14.5 billion in 2004, and $14.6 billion in the latest 12 months. New brokerage-house recommendations aren't likely to boost the stock much. Plus, of the 24 analysts who follow the stock, 18 already recommend it.
Of course, CBS's earnings may grow. Indeed, analysts are predicting earnings growth of about 17% this year (to about $2.94 a share from an estimated $2.52 in 2012). However, I suspect those guesses are a little optimistic in a world where people increasingly get their news and entertainment from the Internet. It may be worth noting that analysts have been too optimistic about CBS earnings for six of the past seven years.
Finally, CBS's balance sheet, while not bad, isn't outstanding. Debt accounts for about 60% of stockholders' equity, compared to 36% at rival Disney (DIS).


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Why do women shame other women?
Yesterday was a day of crappy stories. Maybe you've had a day like that before. It's the kind of day when everywhere you go, someone tells you about another yucky thing that they've experienced. It's not always experiences of violence, sometimes its experiences of feeling belittled, disregarded, or shamed. The common theme in each of these stories for me was that they were stories of women shaming other women.
The sad truth is that this shaming happens a lot. It happens through eye rolling, gossiping, yelling, and blaming. It happens when a woman discounts the experience or opinion of another woman. It happens when we let things like age, gender identity, sexuality, race, socio economic status, or relationship status influence our determination of another woman's worth. We even find ways to shame powerful and successful women, like some of the harsh critiques of Beyonce's performance at the Super Bowl.
This shaming doesn't make sense to me. It's not okay, but the truth is that even I find myself doing it. My feminist framework has taught me that this shaming stems from internalized sexism. My feminist framework has also taught me the value of valuing other women. The world needs women's stories. We have to make an effort to understand and cherish women's experiences.
With that, I have two challenges for myself today. I am challenging myself first, and this one will be hard for me, to pause before I get snippy and examine the real reasons why I'm being so critical. My second challenge is to relate to the women around me in a way that builds them up rather than breaks them down. This probably won't mean that I'll wander around smiley and chipper and spouting compliments. It's just going to mean that I will have mindful contributions and discussions, demonstrating that I appreciate what others are bringing to the table.
Consider taking a few moments to think before you act today. I really don't believe that too many women out there start their mornings with the goal of making someone else feel bad today. What can you do to avoid becoming the antagonist in another woman's story?


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An inmate was found dead in Victorville's federal prison was found dead from a suspected suicide Friday night, according to coroner's officials.
The 51-year-old man's name is not being released until his next of kin are notified and details such as why he was in prison are not yet available, said San Bernardino County Deputy Coroner-Investigator Mike Sutcliffe.
Staff members found him at 10:30 p.m, he said..
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The USDA would furlough up to one-third of its workers if automatic spending cuts take effect at the end of the month, the agency warned.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack described the impact of the cuts, amounting to $2 billion, in a letter that warned "these furloughs and other actions would severely disrupt our ability to provide a broad range of public services."
USDA released a copy of the letter on Tuesday.
Vilsack reiterated the prospect of "a nationwide shutdown of meat and poultry plants during a furlough of (meat) inspection personnel" for "as much as 15 days of lost production, costing over $10 billion in production losses."
Meat packers and processors cannot sell beef, pork, lamb and poultry meat without the USDA inspection seal. Inspection of meat for export or import also would stop during a furlough, said USDA. The industry has appealed to USDA to find ways to avoid a disruptive shutdown.
Vilsack did not say how soon furloughs might occur. An aide said she had no additional information. Vilsack assured USDA employees in early February they would get at least 30 days' notice if they were being furloughed.
"Should sequestration occur, we would likely need to implement furloughs impacting about a third of our workforce, as well as other actions," Vilsack wrote in the letter to Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, head of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
USDA has roughly 100,000 employees, down by 4,000 in two years.
Up to 600,000 low-income women and infants could be cut from the so-called WIC program that provides supplemental food and nutrition education if the budget cuts last for the rest of this fiscal year, according to the letter. Current enrollment is nearly 9 million pregnant women, new mothers and their children.
Other cuts, Vilsack said, could include:
- A work pause on the Census of Agriculture. "Data will become incomplete and will not be statistically sound for publication," said USDA. The census, conducted every five years, provides valuable data on farm operation and output that is used in USDA's forecasts. USDA faced repeated funding shortages for its crop and livestock reports in the past couple of years.
- A slowdown in USDA aid to landowners wanting expert advice or matching funds to control runoff from fields and feedlots and a reduction in USDA-backed loans to farmers to buy land or cover operating costs until harvest.


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GIGABYTE F2A85XN-WiFi Review: FM2 and Richland in mini-ITXby Ian Cutress on 8/21/2013 10:00 AM EST
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DanNeely - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkEvery time I look at the ultra-crowded layout of an mITX board I'm reminded of how dated the main 24 ATX power plug is and how much it would benefit from being replaced. While they were king in the p1 era with the CPU and PCI busses running on 3.3v directly and most other chips on the board designed for 5V; 3.3 and 5V are barely used at all any more but have 3 and 5 wires in the 24pin cable; while -5V has been removed entirely from modern versions of the spec. Dropping to a single 3.3/5v wire and removing the -5v one would free 7 pins directly; and with only 4 power pins left in the legacy connector (3.3, 5, 2 x 12) there's no need for 8 ground pins either. Probably we could drop 5 of them.
This would allow for a successor cable that's only half as large; freeing space on crowded boards and replacing the 24wire cable with a 12 wire one that would be much less of a pain to route in a crowded case. I'm inclined to keep the CPUs 12V separate just to avoid trading one overly fat wire bundle for another and because AIUI the other half of why the CPUs 12V comes in separately is to get it as close to the socket as possible without crowding the area with everything else. Reply
EnzoFX - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkYes, I've been saying this since ITX was taking hold. It is absurd how held back we are by entrenched standards. It's not in their business to reinvent. Reply
Jambe - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkI enjoyed this astute observation-comment.
Right on.
That is all. Reply
cjs150 - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkTotally agree on the ATX cable.
While we are at why do motherboards virtually never come with the ATX connector being at right angles rather than straight up - we get that for SATA connectors and it seriously improves cable management Reply
flemeister - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkNot such a good idea for mITX boards, when you might expect to install them in small cases such as the Antec ISK110 or Minibox M350. Right-angled ATX power or sata ports would be blocked off.
How about RAM though? Why not use SO-DIMMs that are about 60% the size of regular DIMMs? They're readily available, and are priced the same or very close to the price of regular size RAM. Assuming two sticks of RAM, that would save even more room on the motherboard than a redesign of the 24-pin connector. Just look at the Asus P8H67-I Deluxe for an example. :) Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkIt's not just mITX boards that would have a problem with right angled ATX power sockets. Unless the PSU also included a right angle 24pin cable it would be problematic in any case that uses cable management holes to route the cables behind the mobo tray. Trying to make a 90* bend in that cramped a space would put a lot of torque on the socket; a big ugly loop sticking up allows for a much looser and less stressful bend. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkFor dimm sizes I think it's mostly a capacity issue. For more modest builds it probably doesn't matter; but higher capacities tend to come out a year or two sooner in full size dimms because you can jam more chips onto them if need be. Currently DDR3 dimms and sodimms both max out at 8GB for desktops; but if you're willing to pay the price premium server ram is available in up to 32GB dimms. Reply
flemeister - Saturday, August 24, 2013 - linkTrue, but how about SO-DIMMs on a budget Intel H81/B85 or AMD A55/A75 board? Or one of the low-power Intel Atom or AMD Brazos ITX boards? Or even a budget Z87 ITX board, to avoid the need for a vertically mounted VRM daughterboard (unless that's actually cheaper to do)? More space for surface mounted components, and probably cheaper to make the board? Could also mean less PCB layers? Reply
DanNeely - Saturday, August 24, 2013 - linkYou're only saving 36 pins/dimm (204 vs 240); so there's no where near enough savings to drop a PCB layer. Beyond that I'd guess that since they do offer some models with SoDIMM slots that they just don't sell as well. If I had to guesses why it'd be that people are more likely to have spare DIMMs laying around than spare SoDIMMs; meaning that the total build cost is lower since the ram is free and/or the cost savings from larger DIMMs are enough to drive shoppers.
The one configuration I could see driving some enthusiast/gamer consumption of SoDIMM based mITX boards would be 4 slots instead of only 2 for 32GB max instead of 16; is conspicuous by its absence. Reply
Hyoyeon - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkYou mention DisplayPort several times, but this board does not have a DP connector. Where did this come from? Reply
IanCutress - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkThe motherboard manufacturer has options when deciding which digital display outputs are put on the motherboard itself. Typically we see HDMI, DP and DVI-D, though as I mention in comparison to other motherboards, some manufacturers can switch up the DP to a HDMI like this motherboard here. Other manufacturers will only use two digital displays (HDMI/DVI-D or DP/HDMI) and take the VGA from the chipset. I've never used a DP monitor in my personal life (I used DP for the 4K article), so I guess I would prefer multiple HDMI ports to rig up a couple of 1080p monitors. Manufacturers have an option of a DVI-I (combined DVI-D and VGA), although few actually do so.
I happen to be working with a mini-ITX motherboard that goes along all three digital displays (HDMI/DP) with the combination DVI-I right now :)
Ian Reply
geok1ng - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkPlease clarify me this point: you mean this mobo can run 3 monitors using cheap HDMI>DVI adapters at the same time, for example, in stock market/online poker? Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkAFAIK AMD hasn't made any GPUs (discrete or integrated) that have 3 legacy (VGA/DVi/HDMI) clock generators; as a result you'd need an active adapter. Intel's the same; with only some of nVidia's higher end cards supporting 3 non-DP displays. Reply
thatbox - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkMy Radeon 5770 does that, if that counts as AMD. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkAFAIK all of those cards just put the active displayport to HDMI/etc converter on the card instead of requiring you to buy a dongle. The CPU chip itself is still limited to two legacy outputs. Reply
thatbox - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkHad to check to see how everything was plugged in. None of my monitors has DP (the most recent one was made in 2006). One CRT (1920x1440x75Hz) using the DVI output with a VGA adapter, one LCD (1280x1024x60Hz) using the DP output with a DVI adapter, and one LCD (1920x1200x60Hz) using the HDMI output with a DVI adapter. I guess maybe the DP>DVI adapter could be active, if it can be active without being powered, but two a year and a half ago it was like twenty bucks as opposed to the sixty or seventy or more most others were and everything works fine. It was not a big a deal as the scary research I'd done suggested it would be. Reply
paperwastage - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkonly the active DP->dual-link DVI is expensive(>$60) and typically needs a power source (via USB)
the active DP->single-link DVI has been around $20-$30 for the past few years now, don't need power source. I remember getting mine for $30 in 2010 Reply
paperwastage - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkAMD itself hasn't made any reference design for 3 legacy clock, but it's partners have (though the demand is weak)
eg: Sapphire Flex - see only 2 "in-stock" versions on newegg
http://www.sapphiretech.com/Flex/FleX_Eng_apply.ht... Reply
GonzaloMin - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $82h… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online. (Home more information)
http://goo.gl/UDMcRU Reply
meacupla - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkdual HDMI is probably for HDMI TV and HDMI receiver.
not that DVI or DP can't be converted to HDMI, at extra hassle for the end user, so DP would be nice. Reply
ShieTar - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - link"The main failure of AMD counterparts in our testing scenario is with Civilization V, which loves single threaded performance."
The word "failure" seems a bit harsh when the CPU allows you to play at close to 60 FPS on 1440p in a game that does not even require fast responses. Reply
Alan G - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkNice review. I've done three builds now with the Intel equivalent of this board and it's really a nice board (one office PC and two HTPCs). The WiFi is exceptional and there have been no dropouts at all. Fortunately on the Intel board the 4 pin power connector is in a more manageable space. Reply
Joel Kleppinger - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkI think this missed the biggest reason to do this review... comparing against other mini-ITX systems in cases that don't support graphics cards. That's where this setup is truly interesting. It felt more like a CPU review with a motherboard review tacked onto it and missed the uniqueness this combo could offer. Reply
arthur449 - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkFor the boot time tests, is Windows 7 being installed with the UEFI boot option? Reply
arthur449 - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkI ask because, in my experience with UEFI BIOSes, going with a UEFI installation and disabling the Legacy boot options speeds up POST times considerably. Reply
torp - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkWhy no power consumption tests with no video card? Reply
porto32 - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkHow long does GIGABYTE usually take to stop providing BIOS updates? Looking at some of their older boards on their site shows the latest BIOS is a beta BIOS and was only less than a year from the initial BIOS date. Providing a beta BIOS as the latest version doesn't very good either. Reply
lichoblack - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkThe Motherboard specs in Newegg list it as also supporting Bluetooth from the same miniPCIe. Is that info incorrect? Reply
davegraham - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkdoes this support Registered/ECC memory? Reply
Lazzerman - Friday, August 30, 2013 - linkI just built a HTPC with this board. Works like a charm! One thing to think about though, I bought the "Streacom FC8S EVO Silver", fanless HTPC case. The case uses 4 heatpipes connected to the CPU, but due to the placing of the ATX connector on this MB, I could only connect 3 heatpipes. No big deal, but had I known before I might had choosen another board. Reply
Reckie - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkWould be nice if FM2+ boards were released before the new CPU's so people who buy a CPU now wouldnt have to buy a new motherboard once Kaveri turns up. Reply


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While Lent, which started Wednesday, is a very old religious practice, people are finding ways to use new technology to help in its observance.
A site created by a group of friends from southeast Louisiana, http://www.whattogiveup.com, presents some traditional ways that people mark the season, such as giving up alcohol, television or something else. But its main goal is to offer a new approach.
Through a tweet, an email or a Facebook post, each day will bring a new challenge. Some are easy, some are harder, but each "will challenge the things that many of us take for granted," said one of the friends, Robert Benson, whose web company, Benson Technology, created the site.
As of Ash Wednesday, the site had 3,000 followers, he said.
The first challenge: "Today use your non-dominant hand for tasks such as brushing your teeth and eating."
Others will include:
- Buy or prepare a meal for someone who doesn't expect it.
- Insert change in a few vending machines.
- Sleep on anything other than a pillow tonight.
- Find, watch and share a YouTube video that speaks to you spiritually.
Connect with the project through:
WEBSITE: http://www.whattogiveup.com
TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/WhatToGiveUp
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/WhatToGiveUp
On your phone
If giving up your smartphone is not your Lenten fast, Sue Sperry, a public relations manager in the New Orleans area, suggests a handful of apps to help with the Lenten season.
LENTEN MAGNIFICAT COMPANION (Apple iOS, 99 cents): This app features chants, prayers and liturgical texts for Mass and the Vigil.
ICONFESS CONFESSION HANDBOOK AND GUIDE (Apple iOS, $1.99): Designed to help people who are not familiar with the Sacrament of Penance. The church asks every Catholic to go to confession at least once every year during Lent, so use this app if you are unsure how to prepare and receive the Sacrament.
STATIONSOFTHECROSS (Apple iOS, $0.99): As you pray the Stations of the Cross on Fridays, Ave Maria Press' app will help you reflect on each station with text and pictures.
LENT FINDER (Android, free): This app helps the user find the date Lent begins and ends, find the days of fasting and briefly describes Lent. Specific fasts that are detailed in the app are the Nineva fast, Great Lent, Apostles fast, Assumption fast and the Nativity fast.
MINUTE MEDITATIONS FOR LENT (Android, Free): This app by best-selling author Kathryn J. Hermes is filled with personal accounts, approachable spirituality and meaningful reflections for Lent.
Contact Leila Pitchford-English at lenglish @the advocate.com.


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Commuters slogging along the 91 through Yorba Linda probably don't know that within their view are three of the county's last commercial orange groves.
The 24.69 acres of trees are squeezed between the Santa Ana River to the south and condominiums, tract homes and the BNSF Railway to the north.
The Orange County Flood Control District acquired the groves in 1987 as part of a 240-acre purchase from land developer CW Associates. The district wanted to prevent development here in case the Prado Dam ever needs to release water in an emergency.
And the orange trees, well, they look nice.
"We decided to keep the orange groves for aesthetic reasons," said Nadia Haidar, a spokeswoman for OC Public Works, which oversees the district. "We thought that it would be nice to have along the riverbed, and it wouldn't cost us anything to maintain."
Neff Ranch, a harvester based in Laguna Hills, pays the county $130 annually to pick and sell the oranges. The three Yorba Linda orange groves make up about one-third of the orange-grove acreage harvested for market in Orange County, according to the 2012 Orange County Crop Report.
Pamela Harrell, president of the Yorba Linda Preservation Foundation, said the groves are the only remaining groves of the citrus ranch started by Susanna Bixby Bryant, who pioneered orange growing in Yorba Linda in the early 1900s.
"We have this (historical) wealth out there that is nowhere else in the county," she said.
Because it lies in the flood control area, the Bryant Ranch groves will be protected from development for the foreseeable future.
(The Santa Ana City Council is expected to decide the fate of 230 trees on a 5-acre property next to Portola Park that is owned by a developer that wants to build houses.)
Something else that likely won't change for a while: Yorba Linda's last orange groves remain largely unknown to even the city's residents.
That's OK.
The hawks, rabbits and fire ants that call the groves home seem happy to just live within the dull growl of the freeway. The only sign of human interference is the occasional tractor passing by to make sure the irrigation system pumps water to sustain the bright Valencia oranges.
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NEARLY £250,000 has been invested in new GP walk-in centres to ease pressure on Swindon's emergency department and help care for around 20,000 residents.
Under a pilot, which is expected to be rolled out later this year ahead of the busy winter season, three acute 'Success Centres' will launch at the Great Western Hospital, Carfax Medical Centre and Moredon Medical Centre.
They will be open seven days a week to people requiring a one-off consultation for a minor ailment or treatment from 8am until 8pm.
No fewer than 27,565 people were admitted to A&E between October and December 2013.
Hundreds of them attended the emergency unit because they were unable to book an appointment with their GP or needed to be seen out of hours.
Thomas Kearney, the associate director of commissioning at Swindon CCG, said the new scheme would allow the health services to meet patients' needs more quickly.
"The project aims to identify and assess the current demand for GP appointments across three testing sites within Swindon over the next five years, by increasing the availability of on-the-day requests for a GP appointment or home assessment and treatment by a GP," he said.
"When we launch the scheme later in the year, the pilot centres will ultimately operate from three locations, the Great Western Hospital site, Carfax Medical Centre and Moredon Medical Practice. These sites will be introduced on a phased basis and we will be contacting patients directly through their GP surgery.
"When the scheme is launched eventually, the potential benefits could be easier access to 'on the day' GP assessments at the pilot centres to meet patients' urgent medical needs, and more time to support our tens of thousands of patients with at least one long-term condition; such as heart disease and COPD.
"It is hoped that along with other schemes we are running, we will be able to reduce the number of people attending A&E when they could be seen more effectively elsewhere."
As pressure is taken away from the Great Western Hospital and growing demand becomes more manageable, it is expected the three centres will help the health body save £140,000 in 2015-2016 and around £260,000 a year between 2016 and 2019.
"The estimated cost of the scheme is £249,000 but, if successful, could save around £260,000, resulting in both a better experience for our patients as well as further resources which can be invested elsewhere," he said.
Dr Liz Price, associate medical director for unscheduled care at the Great Western Hospital, said the centres would help significantly reduce demand of the A&E department.
"The CCG is trying to reduce demand on us by putting out facilities in the community and they have plans to open Success Centres.
"A proportion of the people who come to the emergency department could potentially be seen by a GP so the Success Centres can be there for people who were not able to get a GP appointment that day.
"They will just be able to walk in and get one there."


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Waiting for Gridlock to be updated........
i just wanted to say thank you for this article
something that i wanted to say a long ago
the way its represented , specially the way you compare on putting pictures before and after as well as all the new in depth representation of every new jailbreak tweak , thank you again and keep up the good work , i love it this is my favorite article on the web that i visit most often and i don't usually comment ...
The guy seems to have been silent for more than a year. If I can get those two tweaks on an iP5, I will happily sell my GS III :-)
colorclock is neat, but y ou can't tell what the hell color you are setting it to in the settings. its' like trail and error. or use a photo editing program or look online for color codes first.
hopefully they update the settings so you can see the color you're changing to


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Flames NewsFlames Home > Softball Home > News
Ole Miss Posts 5-1 Victory Over Liberty
Ole Miss built a quick 3-0 lead on Saturday, on the way to a 5-1 win over Liberty at the FGCU Softball Complex.
With the win, the Rebels even their record at 2-2, while the Lady Flames are off to an 0-3 start to the 2014 campaign at the FGCU/Four Points by Sheraton Invitational.
Ole Miss outhit the Lady Flames, 8-4, and benefitted from four Liberty errors, scoring four unearned runs.
RT Cantillo and Alyssa Invergo both went 2-for-3, while Invergo tripled and drove in two runs. Madi Osias hit a three-run homer.
For the Lady Flames, Sammi Shivock singled and scored Liberty's lone run, and Kelby Allen hit an RBI double.
Shelby Jo Fenter (1-0) earned the win, allowing one run on four hits, while recording eight strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings. Osias picked up the save with 2/3 of an inning of hitless softball.
Chandler Ball (0-1) drew the loss, yielding five runs (one earned) on eight hits in 6 1/3 innings, while Alyssa DiMartino pitched the final 2/3 of an inning.
The Rebels jumped ahead early, building a three-run lead after half an inning. Cantillo drew a leadoff walk, and an error with one out put runners on first and second. Osias blasted a three-run, two-out homer to stake Ole Miss to a 3-0 advantage. Ball fanned Strother to end the threat.
Zavodny led off Liberty's first time at bat with a single, but a double play and a strikeout defused the Lady Flames' rally.
Ball worked through trouble in the top of the third. With runners on second and third and two outs, Ball got Osias on a comeback grounder, leaving the score at 3-0.
Ole Miss added one tally in the fourth, as Miranda Strother hit a leadoff single and advanced to second on a throwing error. Following a wild pitch, Invergo plated Strother with a sacrifice fly, making it 4-0.
After a leadoff walk in the bottom of the second, Fenter retired the next 10 batters in a row. Brown then made it to first when third baseman Allison Brown dropped a popup in the fifth. Lawrence then hit a two-out bunt single, but a Zavodny popout to second brought the fifth stanza to a close.
The Rebels boosted their advantage to 5-0 on an Invergo RBI triple during the sixth frame.
Liberty answered Ole Miss' sixth-inning run with one of its own. Shivock led off by singling to right field. Kelby Allen hit a two-out RBI double, bringing Liberty to within 5-1.
Ole Miss threatened but could not score in the seventh. Cantillo and Haley Culley hit back-to-back singles, and both runners moved up a base on a wild pitch. With one out, DiMartino replaced Ball in the circle. Cantillo was erased at the plate after a wild pitch, and Osias grounded out for the third out.
Back-to-back walks to Katie Han and Blair Lawrence gave Liberty life with one out in the seventh. Osias came on for the save, getting a fielder's choice and a groundout to cap seal the victory.
The Lady Flames face host Florida Gulf Coast tonight at 7 p.m. at FGCU Softball Complex. Following the conclusion of tonight's Liberty-Florida Gulf Coast contest, Sunday's final round schedule will be determined.


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MOPA is dedicated to helping you incorporate photography into your existing classroom curriculum. We offer free curricula resources for current exhibitions, educational plans and suggested activities. Visit our resources page for curricula downloads, gallery guides, online tools and more.
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A variety of tours are available for school groups. These tours must be booked in advance through our tour request system. Visit our tour page to learn more.
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The CARE Program is an educational partnership program between the Museum of Photographic Arts, La Jolla Playhouse, and Timken Museum of Art.
The partners' artist instructors collaborate with teachers to integrate art into English, math, and science curricula that give students an experience with photography, theater, painting and drawing. Students work on projects that connect to the three disciplines, giving them a broad range of opportunities to express their creativity, imagination, and perspectives.
The CARE Program has worked with Title I schools across San Diego since 2005.
CARE programming includes artist-in-residency education at school sites, field trips to partner museums, theatrical productions, and teacher professional development opportunities to instruct teachers on the integration of multiple disciplines into school curricula.
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Through a collaborative partnership with the Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Learning at SDSU and the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, MOPA has explored the important connections between STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning and the photographic arts, while also developing hands-on opportunities within our gallery spaces that welcome exploration and discovery.
We welcome you to explore the culmination of this project in Seeing is Believing?, where we explore 3D photography from a multidisciplinary perspective.
For more about the InforMath project, please visit the Informal Mathematics webpage.


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Nexus: Today in Literature: a website about the great people, books, characters, and events in literary history.
Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive, a repository of classic and modern poetry.
PoemHunter.com - an index of poems from different poets all around the world.
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Santiago B. Villafania, a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan, is the author of poetry collections Bonsaic Verses (2012), Pinabli and Other Poems (2012), Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles (2007), and Balikas na Caboloan (Voices from Caboloan, 2005) published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New Authors Series. He has been published in several countries and translated into several languages. Villafania is one of the 11 Outstanding Pangasinan conferred with the 2010 ASNA Award for the Arts and Culture (literature) during the first Agew na Pangasinan and also the 430th Foundation Day of the province on April 2010. He is a member of Philippine PEN writes a regular weekly column for the Sunday Punch.


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Todd was born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Chaim Goldbogen (an Orthodox rabbi) and Sophia Hellerman, both Polish Jewish immigrants. He was one of nine children in a poor family, the youngest son, and his siblings nicknamed him "Toat" to mimic his difficulty pronouncing the word "coat." It was from this that his name was derived.[1][2]
The family later moved to Chicago, arriving on the day World War I ended.[2] Todd was expelled[citation needed] in the sixth grade for running a game ofcraps inside the school.[2] In high school, he produced the school play, The Mikado, which was considered a hit.[3] He eventually dropped out of high school and worked at a variety of jobs, including shoe salesman and store window decorator. One of his first jobs was as a soda jerk. When thedrugstore went out of business, Todd had acquired enough medical knowledge from his work there to be hired at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital as a type of "security guard" to stop visitors from bringing in food that was not on the patient's diet
Todd began his career in the construction business, where he made, and subsequently lost, a fortune. He opened the College of Bricklaying of America, buying the materials to teach bricklaying on credit. The school was forced to shut its doors when the Bricklayers' Union did not view the college as an accepted place of study.[2] Todd and his brother, Frank, next opened their own construction company. Their company was worth over a million dollars but came to an abrupt halt when its financial backing failed in the wake of the Great Depression. Not yet twenty-one, Todd had lost over a million dollars with the loss of his backer. He was now the father of an infant son and had no home for his family.[4]
He later served as a contractor to Hollywood studios,[3] and during the 1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago he produced an attraction called the "Flame Dance."[5] In this number, gas jets were designed to burn part of a dancer's costume off, leaving her naked in appearance. The act attracted enough attention to bring an offer from the Casino de Paris nightclub in New York City.
Todd got his first taste of Broadway with the engagement and was determined to find a way to work there.[4] After seeing the Federal Theatre Project's Chicago run of The Swing Mikado, an adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado with an all African-American cast conceived by Harry Minturn,[6] Todd decided to do his own version on Broadway, The Hot Mikado, despite protests by the FTP. The Hot Mikado, starring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, opened on Broadway March 23, 1939.[7][8] The subsequent success of Todd's production, at the expense of the Chicago production, contributed to the financial crisis and ultimate demise of the Federal Theatre Project unit in Chicago.
Todd's Broadway success gave him the nerve to try taking on showman Billy Rose. Todd visited Grover Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair, with a proposal to bring the Broadway show to the World's Fair. Whelan, eager to have the show at the fair, covered Todd's Broadway early closing costs. Rose, who had an exclusivity clause in his fair contract, met Todd atLindy's, where Rose learned his contract covered new forms of entertainment only. To avoid any head-to head competition, Rose quickly agreed to promote Todd's production along with his own.[9]Todd went on to produce thirty Broadway shows during his career.
Todd's business career was volatile, and failed ventures left him bankrupt many times.[10][11]
In 1945, Todd floated the idea of holding the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in newly-liberated Berlin. Although baseball's new commissioner Happy Chandler was reportedly "intrigued" by the idea, it was ultimately dismissed as impractical. The game was finally cancelled due to wartime travel restrictions.
In 1952, Todd made a production of the Johann Strauss II operetta A Night in Venice, complete with floating gondolas at the then-newly constructed Jones Beach Theatre in Long Island, New York. It ran for two seasons.
In 1950, Mike Todd formed Cinerama with the broadcaster Lowell Thomas (who founded Capital Cities Communications) and the inventor Fred Waller.[12] The company was created to exploit Cinerama, a widescreen film process created by Waller that used three film projectors to create a giant composite image on a curved screen. The first Cinerama feature, This is Cinerama, was released in September 1952.
Before its release, Todd left the Cinerama Company to develop a widescreen process which would eliminate some of Cinerama's flaws.[13] The result was the Todd-AO process, designed by the American Optical Company.[14] The process was first used commercially for the successful 1955 film adaptation of Oklahoma!. Todd later produced the film for which he is best remembered,Michael Todd's Around the World in 80 Days, which debuted in cinemas on 17 October 1956. Costing $6 million to produce, the movie earned $16 million at the box office. In 1957, Around the World in 80 Days won the Best Picture Academy Award.
In the 1950s Todd acquired the Harris and Selwyn Theaters in downtown Chicago. The Selwyn was renamed Michael Todd's Cinestage and made into a showcase for Todd-AO productions, while the Harris was renamed the Michael Todd Theatre and operated as a more conventional cinema. The facades of both theaters survive as part of the Goodman Theatre complex, although the interiors have been demolished.
A William Woolfolk novel from the early 1960s, entitled My Name Is Morgan, was considered to be loosely based on Todd's life and career.Todd with daughter Liza and wife Elizabeth Taylor, 1957
At age seventeen, Todd married Bertha Freshman in Crown Point, Indiana, on Valentine's Day 1927. He had been interested in Bertha since age fourteen, but needed to develop confidence before even asking her out.[2][15] In 1929, she bore him a son, Mike Todd, Jr.[4] A turning point came for Todd when his father died in 1931; Avrom Goldbogen decided to change his name to Mike Todd the same day.[4] Bertha Todd died of a pneumothorax(collapsed lung) in 1946 in Santa Monica, California, while undergoing surgery at St. John's Hospital for a damaged tendon in her finger.[16][17][18][19]Todd and his wife were separated at the time of her death; he had a lengthy affair with Gypsy Rose Lee in the early 1940s. Less than a week earlier, he had filed for divorce.[18][20]
The following year, Todd married actress Joan Blondell on July 5, 1947.[21] They were divorced on June 8, 1950, after she alleged that he had abused and extorted her,[22] including holding her out of a window by her ankles.
Todd's third marriage was to the actress Elizabeth Taylor, with whom he had a tempestuous relationship. The couple exchanged vows on February 2, 1957.[23] Todd was 47 and Taylor was 24 (two and a half years younger than Todd's son); he was also her third husband. Todd and Taylor had a daughter, Elizabeth Frances (Liza) Todd, who was born on August 6, 1957.[24]
On March 22, 1958, Todd's private plane Lucky Liz crashed near Grants, New Mexico. The plane, a twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar, suffered engine failure while being flown, grossly overloaded, in icing conditions at an altitude which was too high to sustain flight with only one working engine under those conditions. The plane went out of control and crashed, killing all four on board.[25]
In addition to Todd, those who died in the crash were screenwriter and author Art Cohn, who was writing Todd's biography The Nine Lives of Mike Todd, pilot Bill Verner, and co-pilot Tom Barclay. Taylor wanted to fly to New York with her husband, but stayed home with a cold after her pleas to come along were overruled by Todd.[26][27] Just hours before the crash, Todd described the plane as safe as he phoned friends, including Joseph Mankiewicz and Kirk Douglas, in an attempt to recruit a gin rummy player for the flight: "Ah, c'mon," he said. "It's a good, safe plane. I wouldn't let it crash. I'm taking along a picture of Elizabeth, and I wouldn't let anything happen to her."[28]
His son, Mike Jr., wanted his father's body to be cremated after it was identified through dental records[29] and brought to Albuquerque, New Mexico, but Taylor refused, saying he would not wantcremation.[30][31] Todd was buried in Forest Park, Illinois, at Beth Aaron Cemetery in plot 66,[32] which is part of Jewish Waldheim there.[33][34] In his autobiography, Eddie Fisher, who considered himself to be Todd's best friend, stated:
There was a closed coffin, but I knew it was more for show than anything else. The plane had exploded on impact and whatever remains were found couldn't be identified....The only items recovered from the wreckage were Mike's wedding ring and a pair of platinum cuff links I'd given him.[35]
In 1977, the remains were desecrated by robbers, who broke into Todd's coffin looking for a $100,000 diamond ring, which, according to rumor, Taylor had placed on her husband's finger prior to his burial.[36] The bag containing Todd's remains was found under a tree near his burial plot.[37] The bag and coffin had been sealed in Albuquerque after Todd's remains were identified following the 1958 crash.[29][38][39] Todd's remains were once more identified through dental records and were reburied in a secret location


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Performance Scaling with OCZ's 8800 GTXby Derek Wilson on 2/16/2007 11:00 AM EST
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bigtoe36 - Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - linkDerek
I think you have the overclocking results a little wrong in the article.
here is what I get your results to be. I removed the GTS card.
Asus 621/1026
Leadtech 621/1026
Sparkle C 621/918
Sparkle 621/1008
Shader domain will have been the major factor here holding some cards back, also did you try manipulating the PCIE bus as this will usually allow the cards to clock higher?
Overall i get the MSI top and OCZ card second from your testing which is not at all bad.
Beenthere - Saturday, February 17, 2007 - linkOCZ's PSUs and other products haven't been top shelf like their memory original was, so I'd take any claims with a large grain of salt.
Many PC hardware companies have discovered how technically challenged most consumers are and thus have decided to profit from this. OCZ and other companies know that most hardware review sites will shill for them just to get free hardware to review. Few sites have the integrity to write an honest review lambasting a company for a crappy product. Instead the reviewer generally notes the positives and ignores the blemishes or outright malfuntions. When consumers purchase the product and find it's a piece of garbage, that's when the shit hits the fan. Reply
DerekWilson - Monday, February 19, 2007 - linkPersonally, I really like OCZ PSUs ... I use them in my personal and test systems.
There really was no reason to tear apart OCZ for their 8800 GTX. While there is nothing incredibly noteworthy about the part, there weren't any problems. While we can't say all OCZ 8800 GTX cards will overclock as well as the one we had, we were able to acheive higher clock speeds than a few others we've tested.
We will certaily tear into hardware that deserves it. Reply
lopri - Friday, February 16, 2007 - linkI feel the pain of reviewing vendor cards. All of them essentially being reference cards, there is only as much a reviewer can explore. I'd have like some more comments regarding warranty and customer service experience, but the card being supplied by OCZ that would have also been somewhat pointless.
However, the good part of the review where core clock / shader clock scaling was discussed in-dept is very informative. I've been aware of this behavior myself via RivaTuner monitoring and AT's review confirms it. For anyone hasn't understood this before, this information should be taken very seriously if s/he intends to overclock 8800 series cards. Basically, most (if not all) GTX are capable of 600+MHz core clock, and the performance jump occurs at 620~621MHz and 636~637MHz. This means an overclok of 630MHz will net you the same FPS as that of 620MHz.
Most interesting bit for me was that after the last performance jump @649MHz(?), no ammount of overclocking will bring extra performance gain. I didn't know about this and thank Derek for this finding. Again, this is very interesting. I would like to know why this is the case, as well as the exact formula NV utilizes for this clock speed jump. Maybe in the next review? :) Reply
adholmes - Friday, February 16, 2007 - linkThe idea that all of these cards are reference designs got me thinking. I wonder if the review was done with 5 different cards from the same manufacturer, would the results would be the same? Are the differences we observe due to vendor implementation, memory selection, etc., or just natural manufacturing variances? Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, February 16, 2007 - linkwe'd love to get nvidia's formula for clocking their cards, but I don't think they'll give us the timing diagram :-)
And I wouldn't say that there would be *no* ammount of overclocking that would bring more performance -- we just don't have a card that will go high enough ...
similar to previous cards, it looks like the gap widens as clock speed increases -- in other words, the higher you go, the more you need to increase clock speed to hit the next performance bump.
We might see something in the mid 670s ...
I think aftermarket cooling would help -- which I might try. That would certainly make it interesting -- if water or phase change cooling could get you enough clock head room to reach the next plateau. Reply
lopri - Friday, February 16, 2007 - linkThe reason why I thought there was some kind of 'ceiling' is that the touted rumor before the G80's debut. If I remember correctly, there was something along the line of :
- Up to 1.5GHz Shader Core Clock
Since the shader clock rises with core clock, if the shader clock's theoretical limit is 1.5GHz by design - again, this is a guesswork on my part - wouldn't there be some sort of ceiling?
Anyway, I think NV should disclose this mystery regarding the whole clock domain thingy. :D Reply
abhaxus - Friday, February 16, 2007 - linkBut 640mhz was 5th out of 9 in your chart, and 1020mhz was 4th out of 9. I just hate it when statistics are misused. The numbers LOOK high but in fact were close to median results in your small sample. In fact the core clock was below average... Nitpicky I know, but maybe it's flattering for you guys to know people read your articles closely enough to notice crap like that? I hope so.
I liked the review and was very interested in the scaling of the GTX (although I am now leaning toward a 320mb GTS for my 1680x1050 LCD). Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, February 16, 2007 - link640 MHz is actually 4th ... you're including the XFX 8800 GTS overclocked to 654 -- which shouldn't count in a comparison of 8800 GTX cards.
1020 MHz more or less == 1021 MHz ... in fact, I'm absolutely positive that the OCZ 8800 GTX would run stable at 1021 -- I just didn't bother to bump the clock speed up that little bit. I suppose it's a slight difference in method between the way Josh and I determine clock speed. That extra MHz isn't going to do anything for anyone ... (it's cool to know that something happening an extra million times per second isn't going to have any impact on the outcome isn't it).
Anyway, I do appreciate that you guys keep up with that sort of thing -- I know I did back when I was just reading the site. :-)
If you're still interested in GTX scaling, please stay tuned -- I didn't originally include Vista because NVIDIA's driver didn't properly support overclocking, but with the BIOS editor I can just change the clock speeds at a low level. Combine that with the fact that NVIDIA just released a DX10 demo that uses all kinds of neat shader centered features and I'm really excited about doing some clock scaling with DX10 code.
Wish I'd had this before I finished testing for this article, but I think I can definitely find some other things to talk about with DX10, Vista, and overclocking. Reply
abhaxus - Saturday, February 17, 2007 - link
(it's cool to know that something happening an extra million times per second isn't going to have any impact on the outcome isn't it).
putting it that way... yes, it is actually very cool. At least cool in the way we nerds think about things.
When you do that scaling with DX10 I would really really really love you guys if you ran some stuff on the GTS 320mb to see if there's a big disadvantage with the lower memory with dx10 shaders. As I said, I have a 22" WS LCD and so far it seems like the 320mb version is more than enough for what I do in current games, would be nice to know if it does well in the future also. Reply
acejj26 - Friday, February 16, 2007 - linkis it a combination of warranty and guarantee? Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, February 16, 2007 - linkSorry, I typed the word for the person to whom a warranty is given, thus the spell checker failed me. Thanks for the catch. Reply


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toddnmd wrote:"There is generally less reactivity with food AFTER a patina develops, so I think there isn't really an issue of the patina transferring to food--they're generally stable after they develop. I've had more concerns about new blades (or freshly cleaned ones) that are more likely to react with food."
Charcuterie wrote:I know this all too well...didn't have time the other day to finish ordering the Richmond AS Laser and lost out as it is sold out I guess? Anyone know about this or have any extra?
Knife Fanatic wrote: "Just wanted to chime in here. Regardless if you keep the patina or not, the patina DOES slow down reactivity and significantly reduces the odor of the steel (once it is formed). I have NEVER seen a patina increase odor on a knife. The only time I see getting rid of patina as desirable is if I paid 1,000 for a mirror-polished knife; letting a patina form would defeat the purpose of the mirror finish and why I paid all that money. Even stainless steel needs a patina sometimes. The process is called "passivation." A thin patina is chemically forced onto the surface of the steel to reduce reactivity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passivation_(chemistry) There's even some Youtube vids on it if I'm not mistaken. I can not dispute the fact that some Japanese restaurants don't like patina, but to think of a patina as dirty is silly IMO. That's something that a customer might see, nothing more. Patina is not reactive and does not come off. But, by all means, if you want to keep your knives nice and shiney then do so if you like. Great choice of knives and stones BTW, hope they serve you well. "
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It is traditional at this time of year to catch up with friends and family with a letter boasting of the year's accomplishments. So, I thought it would be a great opportunity to let you know about just a few of the things the charity has achieved over the last year, thanks to your support.
Read my letter below to find out more.
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Finding the Groove
I copied my gray underpainting and added a deep brown tint to the copy. Again, the "multiply" was turned on for that layer. This made the underpainting very dark which is what I wanted to build the colors upon.
The next step was to paint the oafish, troll-like giant. Having again to fight the urge to use bright colors, the bulk of his vest is an olive green and his pants a maroon red. The skin tones where built up in many separate layers which were flattened once I got them to my liking. I feel that I still need some work in the color theory for skin tones but it is getting there. Practice, practice, practice!
The final touches like highlights, some lines, and a few dollops of color were added to bring the final piece to life. I was very happy on how the final turned out. Seeing the textures of the brushes helped make this look less digital and more traditional. Your thoughts and opinions are greatly welcomed.
Until next time, I leave you with this quote:
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ICC Announces Intercontinental Cup Fixtures
Canada has drawn defending champions Afghanistan in the opening round of the 2011-2013 Intercontinental Cup. The International Cricket Council's first class tournament will feature 8 teams and run over 3 years as opposed to the previous editions which ran over two years.
Joining Canada in the tournament are Afghanistan, Scotland, Ireland, Namibia, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, and the Netherlands. Canada has not won any of the previous five tournaments but were finalists in 2004 and 2007.
Accompanying this tournament will be a 50 over tournament that creates an international 50 over league. The matches are slated to have full One Day International status however some items are still being reviewed with respect to Namibia and UAE who do not have ODI status.
The countries are in the process of negotiating match schedules for this associates Future Tours Program and matches will be announced in due course. Afghanistan (June/July 2011), UAE (July/August 2013), and The Netherlands (September 2013) are Canada's home matches in the tournament. Canada will visit Ireland (September 2012), Namibia (March/April 2012), Scotland (June/July 2012), and Kenya (March/April 2013) over the next 3 years.
The announcement ends speculation about the future of the tournament and gives schedule certainty to the ICC's top Associate member countries for the next several years.
The ICC will make a decision about Canada and other Associates participation in the 2015 World Cup at their annual conference


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Did you know?
Experts say that children under the age of five should be physically active for at least three hours a day.
Too often at child-friendly restaurants, the atmosphere and food are great for the kids, but not so for the parents. But that doesn't hold true for Johannesburg, where many restaurateurs have perfected the art of creating an ambience for young and old alike.
Bambanani in Melville caters brilliantly for children, featuring an enclosed, outdoor play area that includes a giant jungle gym, dress-up area, sand art, nail bar and hair-braiding area. There is also supervised childcare that allows parents to relax completely while they order off the tapas menu or tuck into one of the restaurant's legendary breakfasts.
The River Cafe at the Sandton Field and Study Centre is another family favourite, with its beautiful garden setting and ample space for the kids to climb trees or play in the giant sandpit. It specialises in children's parties (you can order pony rides too), while for the adults there's a monthly morning craft market on a Sunday.
In North Riding is Blandford Manor, which offers a family restaurant as well as arts and crafts activities.
At the Zoo Lake Sports Club you'll find Panettone Café, a fun family restaurant where kids can make their own pizza, in between jumping on the playground equipment.
Feastt in Parktown North is another restaurant that appeals to families because the food is rather delicious and it caters for children in an alfresco environment. One of its offerings is chef classes for mini-cooks.
Also in this part of the world, Rosebank's Serendipity is a fun place for Sunday breakfasts – children can play to their heart's content, either inside in the book area or outside in the garden, while their parents enjoy the sunshine and a bit of downtime.
Children are also welcome at the Lifestyle Garden Centre on Beyers Naude Drive with its mini-amusement park, where they can be entertained while their parents browse for homeware, plants and fresh produce, or catch up over a cup of coffee in one of several eateries.
And finally, one can't talk about family friendly without mentioning the Spur chain of restaurants. Spurs generally come with a well-equipped play area and a steakhouse menu that caters for adults and children alike. They can be found throughout South Africa.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
85 4th Avenue, Melville, Johannesburg
Tel: +27 (0)11 482 2900
48 Keyes Avenue, Rosebank
Tel: +27 (0)11 447 7836
Parktown Quarters, 7th Avenue, Parktown North, Johannesburg
Tel: +27 (0)11 447 8001
Best time to visit
Opening times are different for each restaurant. However, most restaurants are open for breakfast from 8am. Places like Bambanani and Serendipity close at 5pm, while Spur steakhouses are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Tours to do
A guided night tour of the Johannesburg Zoo is lots of fun. These are on offer during holiday seasons.
Get around
Having your own car is an advantage. Children will also enjoy a ride on the Gautrain.
What will it cost
Some child-friendly venues have a cover charge to cover the cost of child-minders. At Serendipity in Rosebank, this fee is R40 per child. At Bambanani there is no cover charge, but parents are expected to tip the carers. Cost of menu items vary from restaurant to restaurant, but R50 should cover a child's meal and drink.
What to pack
Sun cream and sun hats are essential if the children are going to be outdoors.
Where to stay
Johannesburg has a number of hotels, guest houses and B&Bs that cater for families. Try the Protea group of hotels or the various Tsogo Sun hotels, as well as independently owned B&Bs.
What to eat
Kids love the French toast at Bambanani. Mini-burgers are very popular Spur restaurants.
What's happening
There is always something for the kids, from fun rides at Gold Reef City to science exhibitions at the Sci-Bono Centre in Newtown.


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I have been working as a freelance PPC Manager for the last 2 years and have recently set up my own PPC website.
Most of the work i have currently done has come from agencies - they have provided a lot of the clients i have worked for.
On my new PPC website i have listed the clients i have worked for under experience but have not explicitly stated they were clients of my company. Instead i have worded it as "our staff have experience working with the following clients".
I did not get permission to use the logos on my site but i did not think it would cause a problem and i did indeed work on PPC campaigns for all the companies listed.
I have today received a letter from a big law firm asking me who gave me permission to use one of the logo's on the website.
I do not know how to handle this situation.
Any advice is appreciated.
Just remove the logo from your website, and don't think this issue again unless you hear back from the attorney.
Get permission to use the logo , and send the name of the person who issued that permission to the attorney.
I am not sure that removing the logo and not contacting them will work as they are a big company - blue chip in fact.
I do actually do some work for them but it runs through another agency that passes the work to me - so technically the agency is my direct client, however as stated above it was worded as experience our staff have... rather than this is our client.
In any case i never had permission to use it but isn't it considered fair usage to use a logo to demonstrate the companies i have worked with as examples?
If they are a big company, there is little reason to think that they really care much about you using their logo. They are probably just doing the ordinary cease and desist to protect control of their logo. Have you caused them any substantial material damage or gained materially to a significant degree by the use of their logo? (I mean significant to them, now you). If not, I wouldn't worry about this if you just take down the logo.
But it sounds like you don't really want to, hence the second paragraph. As for fair use, I'm not sure about this question. In fair use it doesn't matter if you profit on it or not, I don't think, and plenty of people use other companies logos in that way. But, I don't know if it's really enforceable or whether they could compel you to take it down. I do know that they could make it unpleasant for you to find out.
I doubt it's fair use to use their logo.
Using company logos would typically require their permission, and as an agency worker I doubt you'd get it - perhaps the agency could, but typically your employment contract would demand you remain anonymous, so I really doubt you'll get any joy.
That's usually the deal with such work - you get jobs handed on a plate, but the downside is that typically, you don't get to use the work in your portfolio.
Even if you worked for the company directly, you should gain permission to use their details and branding in your own marketing - some companies may not particularly care from a legal POV, but most will expect it as a courtesy.
I have removed the logo but am not sure what i should do next - maybe i should or should not contact them to tell them that?
I am worried that this won't be the end of it.
Don't contact them.Why are you worried?
I would not contact them. There is no reason to as they both will lead to the same result if additional action is needed. If not, then you simply don't need to worry about it.
Option 1: You contact them to find out what to do next, they tell you what they want you to do (since you're offering)
Option 2: You don't contact them and if they do want you to take further action, they will contact you anyway
Option 3: You don't contact them and you've removed the logo, the problem is gone and they move on and so do you ... easy as that.
I'd choose Option 3
If you don't contact them the file remains open and in a pile on someone's desk. Sooner or later they will pick it up and take it to the next step.
I, myself, would contact them and tell them you took the logo down -- don't respond to their questions or invite further conversation. Getting the logo taken down is the biggest reason they contacted you and they will probably close their file.
Very odd advice.
What file are you referring to and who's desk would this be? If this is a large company that is simply sending out tons of notices to people found using their logo, I really doubt they would bother with a 'next step' if the logo were down. Further, what would that next step be if there were no damages to begin with (which I'm assuming there weren't).
If getting the logo down is the biggest reason they contacted you, per your post, then taking the logo down is the easiest way to satisfy them.
The original post says they received a letter from a big law firm. Some associate has started a file for everyone he has contacted, and eventually, he will follow up on his contacts.
As to damages, if we are talking about a registered trade mark, there are statutory damages.
But what will be accomplished by contacting them to tell them that the logo was removed?
Having reread this thread I think everyone agrees that taking the Logo down is the right decision.
Now the question becomes: do you reply to the law firm and tell them you took it down or not?
As I said in my post above, some associate at the law firm has opened a file. If he hears no response he is going to take the next step and escalate his actions. IMHO, I do not think the associate will take another look at the web site to see if you have taken action, but will assume from your silence that nothing has been done.
By contacting the lawyer and telling him you took the logo down, you have taken the action they are most interested in. At that point there is little to be gained from further action by the logo owner, and they will most likely go away.
This is doubtful.
Even Getty Images, the most notoriously aggressive defender of their IP/materials doesn't follow up on every lead from every fishing expedition. They send out thousands of letters, they follow up on many of them, and a handful go to legal. If the poster doesn't have deep pockets, there has been no real damage, and the logo was taken down then it's hard to imagine this 'big company' pursuing this legally.
In most cases, the legal folks are tasked with doing just the opposite. They seek to prevent unauthorized use of their logo in the most cost effective way, which in most cases is to send a letter or C&D and simply stop the misuse. Only in cases where there is some compelling reason to take legal action (i.e. real damages, real profits by other party, libel, or a juicy financial award) would they pursue it.
The action they are most interested in is the logo being taken down ... which they have already done. I highly doubt the action they are interested in is hearing from the person directly telling them that they took it down.
If this law firm finds this paper on their desk and wants to escalate it to further action, they would need to confirm that nothing was done (at which point they would look and see that the logo was no longer being used). No lawyer is going to "escalate" an action because notification wasn't given (unless that was explicitly stated in the request). If they notice was to take the logo down immediately, they have done so and followed the instructions requested. Nothing further is being asked, so nothing further is needed. Simple as that.


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