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Photographers swiftly capture what sluggish painters cannot, such as the sparkle of a fleeting smile, the identity of a media-shy superhero, or the split second a peregrine falcon breaks the sound barrier. Attain photographic know-how with this voucher.
Choose Between Two Options
- $49 for a three-hour Composition in the Field workshop (a $99 value)
- $89 for a three-hour Composition in the Field workshop for two (a $198 value)
Composition in the Field workshops introduce students to the technical aspects of their cameras, including shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. After instruction on controls, students take to the field with professional photographers to discover techniques and tips for capturing powerful images. Class sizes are kept small, at a maximum of 10 attendees, and new dates and times are added based on demand.
The curated photogenic locations rotate every month, and offer subject matter that includes wildlife, flowers, landscapes and architecture. Participants should bring their own digital cameras and equipment.Check out the full schedule for more information. Classes are held indoors or outdoors depending on the weather.
Digital Photo Academy
As memory cards replaced film reels, many photographers—both professional and amateur—felt befuddled by the new technology. That's where Digital Photo Academy stepped in. Since 2007, the business has facilitated workshops that explore all aspects of digital imagery, from operating cameras and uploading digital files to editing images and airbrushing realistic mustaches. Seasoned professionals lead the courses, helping understudies hone their use of light, framing, and timing. Students furnish their own cameras, and can tote along any ancillary equipment such as tripods, laptops, and flashes that relate to the course at hand.


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Jacques Etoile Lunamatic Silver Dial
I just love the design of this watch. It's dressy but has some playfulness to it. It's not a modern design at all, but you don't need modern for EVERYTHING.... It's made by Jacques Etoile, a German watchmaking brand that is relatively young. Naturally, it's an automatic. What I like about the dial are the brushed silver circles, the 2 moons rotating in their displays (the top shows how the moon appears in the Northern hemisphere, the bottom, the Southern) and the analog date counter (the bottom dial), a very unusual feature. I think it's quite classy and pretty at the same time. Not to pricey considering what the Swiss brands cost.

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Electric Safety Workshop Archives
SRP Offers Free Electrical Safety Workshop
February 19, 2013 by in Business News | Energy | Events
SRP is sponsoring a free Electric Safety Workshop to educate workers on the potential hazards of working near overhead and underground electrical power lines and other utilities. The workshop will focus on tree workers, landscapers and excavators as well as individuals who work around utility lines. Instruction will be in English and Spanish. The event… Read More →


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Oh honey…you're so naturally delicious and you're good for us too! I'm so bummed I had to miss out on an afternoon in Downtown L.A. learning all about your beauty benefits. But, that's OK because I was given the inside scoop from the National Honey Board and six beauty secret honey recipes from makeup artist Mauricio Burgos.
Did you know honey attracts and retains moisture and has antimicrobial properties?
Mauricio Burgos has created six portable beauty secret honey recipes you can make at home and even take with you when you travel. Just make sure to place treatments in air-tight traveling bottles, jars or containers.
Vitalizing Scalp & Hair Rinse with Honey
When on-the-go or traveling, your scalp and hair tend to become dry. This rinse will leave your scalp and hair vitalized.
Makes two applications
4 tablespoons honey
10 tablespoons white vinegar
2 cups water
In a large bowl, add honey, white vinegar and water. Mix until thoroughly combined. Apply this solution as a last step to usual hair regimen when showering. Leave on for 5 minutes and rinse out with warm water to achieve vitalized and radiant hair. Dry and style hair per usual.
Honey-Cinnamon Emollient Night Mask
Overnight treatments are recommended to deeply nourish your face. Try this mix of two very simple and accessible ingredients.
Makes two applications
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon
In a small container, add honey and cinnamon and mix until it forms a paste. Apply emollient onto face before going to bed and leave on all night. Rinse with warm water the next morning. As a second option, apply paste and leave on for 30 minutes before rinsing with warm water.
Honey-Lime Facial Treatment
A quick and effective treatment to give your skin the extra glow that a natural humectant can provide.
Makes two applications
2 tablespoons honey
1 lime
Begin by halving lime and juicing it into a small container, either by hand or with a lime juicer. Next, add honey and stir together until fully incorporated. Apply cleansing treatment by gently massaging onto face. Leave on for 15 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
Refining Honey Neck and Décolleté Cream
Moisturizing is the secret to keep these delicate areas looking soft and young.
Makes two applications
1 tablespoon honey
3 tablespoons nonfat dry milk powder
In a small container, add honey and nonfat dry milk powder and mix until thoroughly combined. Apply onto face, neck and décolleté and leave on for 30 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
Hydrating Eyelash Honey Balm & Makeup Remover
Tired of using an eye makeup remover that irritates your eyes and skin? This one isn't just gentle; it also soothes the skin around your eyes, as well as your eyelashes.
Makes two applications
1 teaspoon honey
3 teaspoons castor oil
In a small bowl, combine honey and castor oil. Cover mixture and allow to settle for one week in a cool area, mixing it every so often until a homogenous solution is achieved. Use every night to remove mascara and eye makeup while nourishing lashes.
Body Moisturizer with Honey
Rescue your skin with this nourishing tonic and enjoy the sweet aroma for a completely pampering experience.
Makes two applications
5 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons rose oil
2 cups almond oil
In a medium sized amber bottle, add honey, rose oil and almond oil. Cover tightly and mix by gently shaking the bottle; if necessary, uncover and stir with a thin utensil. Use moisturizer in the shower by applying onto wet skin, especially concentrating on dry areas.


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Posted by: Dennis Hinkamp on Sep 26, 2012
USU Extension Receives Grant for Bilingual Program
|Hector Mendiola
|USU Extension director of programs for Latino communities
|Phone: 435-752-6263
|E-Mail: email@example.com
|Julene Reese
|USU Extension writer
|Phone: 435-797-0810
|E-Mail: email@example.com
USU Extension and Partners Receive Grant for Community Ed Programs
LOGAN, UT – An award from the Mexican Government will assist Utah State University Extension in offering bilingual and technology literacy classes to adults and youth through the Logan City School District.
The $2,000 funding is matched by one from the USU Community Credit Union and was awarded in August by Mexican Consul Socorro Rovirosa to offer community education programs to Latino populations in Utah. The award was received by Hector Mendiola, USU Extension director of programs for Latino communities, and Shane Ogden, Logan High School principal, and will support the Community Learning Center formed by USU Extension, Logan High School, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and the Consulado de México.
Mendiola said the award is for the 2012-2013 school year and recognizes the community education work for diversity provided by USU Extension with Utah community agencies, the USU Community Credit Union and Utah schools.
"USU Extension is collaborating with schools with research-based programs to facilitate and implement education for Latinos," he said. "The Logan City School District will offer courses in basic computer skills, English as a second language, Spanish/English literacy and vocational courses."
The program began in 2001when USU Extension, Logan High School, Tecnológico de Monterrey and the Logan City School District founded the Community Learning Center at the Logan High School Technology Multicultural Center to provide technology and educational resources. Approximately 1,400 adults and 1,200 diversity students have learned ESL and technology through the program.
Several Utah school districts are replicating the program in their schools' computer labs. Schools in Granite, Salt Lake, Canyons, Millard and Ogden districts are involved or will soon be involved in the program.
Mendiola said the education work of the Community Learning Center received the 2009 Extension CSREES USDA National Diversity Award and the 2010 Utah Valley University José M. Rubio Lifetime Achievement Award.
"Dr. Mendiola, who has received national recognition for the programs he directs, is a tireless advocate for those students, both youth and adult, striving to improve their capacity to contribute to society and better their lives," said Charles W. Gay, associate vice president and associate director for USU Extension.


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Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) in Infants With Krabbe Disease
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|Krabbe Disease
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) as a Tool to Identify Infants With Krabbe Disease in Urgent Need of Treatment
- Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of corticospinal tracts [ Time Frame: at birth, 1 year and 2 years of age ]
- Motor development at birth, 1 year and 2 years of age [ Time Frame: at birth, 1 year and 2 years of age ]
- Analysis of DTI-Fractional Diffusion Anisotropy (FA) values of corticospinal tracts of newborns [ Time Frame: at age (newborn-6 weeks), 12-months and 24-months ]
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|Study Start Date:
|April 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2026
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|April 2021 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Krabbe Disease
Children with infantile Krabbe disease
Low Enzyme/No Krabbe Disease
Children without disease who have low enzyme levels
Children with no disease and normal enzyme levels
Motor Disability
Children at risk of developing motor disability
Detailed Description:
This study is designed to learn about early brain development in children with Krabbe disease and to use diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) as an early diagnostic tool to differentiate children with infantile Krabbe disease from newborns who are disease free but have very low enzyme levels. Additionally, this study will determine how certain structures in the brain will develop over 24 months in children with infantile Krabbe disease and those without disease who have low enzyme levels. This study will also reveal information about the learning and motor development of children, and will help researchers predict outcomes after treatment.
Krabbe disease is a rare, childhood neurodegenerative disorder caused by galactocerebrosidase deficiency. It results in rapid demyelination, progressive spasticity, mental deterioration, blindness, deafness, seizures, and death. Based on previously published findings, treatment with unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation is now standard for Krabbe disease, provided that the treatment occurs within the first weeks of life and before symptoms appear.
Once newborns are identified through population screening, there is no objective measure to predict if the baby will develop the most frequent rapidly progressive infantile forms of Krabbe or have a slower juvenile or adult form. Phenotype and genotype correlations are not possible because there are more than 150 mutations that can cause the disease and many polymorphisms in the normal population that affect the enzyme level.
There is an urgent clinical need to develop a predictive measure. To date, there are no available tools to classify infants into the infantile versus later forms. New advances in neuroimaging techniques have enabled scientists to quantify changes in brain growth and myelination early in life and before disease symptoms develop.
Knowledge from this study will help identify the window of opportunity for early intervention and treatment to prevent severe disability, and may lead to better treatment strategies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 17 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Positive newborn screening test (low galactocerebrosidase)
- Infantile Krabbe Disease diagnosed by confirmatory low levels of residual enzyme by Dr. Wenger's Lysosmal Storage Diseases laboratory at Jefferson's Medical College (contracted by New York State) and/or carrier status established because of family history of Krabbe Disease. Patients have to be less than 6 weeks old at the time of the first assessment
- Children at risk of developing motor disability
Exclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis or physical signs of known genetic conditions or syndromes, serious medical or neurological conditions affecting growth and development (e.g., seizure disorder, diabetes, congenital heart disease) or sensory impairments such as vision or hearing loss
- Children who may have suffered serious perinatal brain damage, children with birth weights less than 2000 grams and/or gestational ages of less than 34 weeks, or those with a history of intraventricular hemorrhage
- Children who may have a contraindication for MRI (pacemaker, vascular stents, metallic ear tubes, other metal implants or braces).
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00787865
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh-UPMC
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
|Principal Investigator:
|Maria L Escolar, MD, MS
|University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh-UPMC
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Maria Escolar, Director, Program for the Study of Neurodevelopment in Rare Disorders, University of Pittsburgh
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00787865 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01NS061965 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|November 7, 2008
|Last Updated:
|February 14, 2017
Keywords provided by Maria Escolar, University of Pittsburgh:
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Krabbe Disease
Motor Development
Motor Disability
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell
Hereditary Central Nervous System Demyelinating Diseases
Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn
Brain Diseases, Metabolic
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System
Demyelinating Diseases
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
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FB Marcel Reece chats with the other players during practice.
Quarterback Derek Carr discusses Preseason Week 2 against the Rams in Oakland, Calif.
Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack was in prime form as he notched a few tackles and a sack in Preseason Week 2 against the Los Angeles Rams.
Raiders QB Derek Carr looked sharp tossing 2 touchdowns in one half against the Los Angeles Rams in Preseason Week 2.
Running back Marshawn Lynch with his first run as an Oakland Raider for a gain of 6 yards against the LA Rams in 2017 NFL Preseason Week 2.
Okaland Raiders Derek Carr throws a spectacular 31-yard pass to wide receiver Amari Cooper during Preseason Week 2 against the LA Rams.


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Our Ocean and Beach Cleanup was a Huge Success!
Thank you to the 98 volunteers who participated in our Ocean and Cleanup event! Although the visibility was 0-3', well over 350 pounds of trash was removed from the beach and ocean! The BBQ was excellent and the prizes provided by our vendors were phenomenal! We also appreciate the media coverage from KHON 2 news here in Hawaii! The newscast was featured both on the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news. Our sincere hope is that the community was inspired and motivated to fight debris both on land and in the ocean. A Big Mahalo from the staff of Aloha Scuba Divers!


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Happy first day of spring!
This raisin and macadamia bread will be a new favourite of mine. I cannot resist freshly baked bread (I think it's the Finn in me) and this bread is perfectly wholesome and tasty with all the spices and additional treats. I've used the gorgeous crimson raisins, but you could just as well use normal raisins or dried cranberries. If you don't have macadamia nuts, opt for hazel nuts or walnuts instead. Either way I think you'll enjoy this bread as much as I did!
Raisin and macadamia spelt bread
(recipe adapted from Maku magazine)
600ml warm water
22g dry active yeast
50ml honey
about 600g whole spelt flour
50g macadamia nuts
50g crimson raisins
1/2 tablespoon fennel seeds
1/2 tablespoon cumin seeds
2 teaspoons salt
100ml olive oil
1. Pour the water in a large mixing bowl and stir in the yeast, honey and 200g of flour. Cover the bowl and leave in a warm place for about 10 minutes or until bubbly.
2. Add the nuts, raisins, spices and oil into the starter. Knead in the rest of the flour (you may need to use less or more depending on the type of flour you are using). The dough should be soft and elastic.
3. Divide the dough into two portions. I was being rather ambitious making just one (giant) loaf. There is definitely enough dough to make 2 normal sized loaves instead! Place the portions into greased loaf tins, cover the tins and leave to rise for at least an hour.
4. Preheat your oven to 200C.
5. Bake the breads in the preheated oven for 30-40 minutes or until thoroughly baked through. Cool on a wire rack before serving.


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Generic Name: trimethoprim (trye-METH-oh-prim)
Brand Name: Proloprim
Trimethoprim is used for:
Treating infections caused by certain bacteria.
Trimethoprim is an antibiotic. It works by killing sensitive bacteria.
Do NOT use trimethoprim if:
- you are allergic to any ingredient in trimethoprim or to similar medicines
- you are taking dofetilide
- you have anemia caused by low levels of folate in the blood
Contact your doctor or health care provider right away if any of these apply to you.
Before using trimethoprim:
Some medical conditions may interact with trimethoprim. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:
- if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding
- if you are taking any prescription or nonprescription medicine, herbal preparation, or dietary supplement
- if you have allergies to medicines, foods, or other substances
- if you have liver or kidney problems or blood problems (eg, anemia, porphyria)
- if you have or are at risk for low levels of folate in the blood (eg, you have alcoholism, are elderly, you do not absorb nutrients from food properly, you are in a poor nutritional state, you are taking medicine for seizures)
Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with trimethoprim. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following:
- Dofetilide because risk of severe heart problems may be increased by trimethoprim
- Methotrexate, phenytoin, or sulfones (eg, dapsone) because their actions and the risk of their side effects may be increased by trimethoprim
- Cyclosporine because its effectiveness may be decreased and risk of liver side effects may be increased by trimethoprim
This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if trimethoprim may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine.
How to use trimethoprim:
Use trimethoprim as directed by your doctor. Check the label on the medicine for exact dosing instructions.
- Take trimethoprim by mouth with or without food.
- Trimethoprim works best if it is taken at the same time each day.
- To clear up your infection completely, use trimethoprim for the full course of treatment. Keep using it even if you feel better in a few days.
- If you miss a dose of trimethoprim, take it as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not take 2 doses at once.
Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use trimethoprim.
Important safety information:
- Trimethoprim may cause you to become sunburned more easily. Avoid the sun, sunlamps, or tanning booths until you know how you react to trimethoprim. Use a sunscreen or wear protective clothing if you must be outside for more than a short time.
- Contact your doctor right away if stomach pain or cramps, severe diarrhea, or bloody stools occur. Do not treat diarrhea without first checking with your doctor.
- Be sure to use trimethoprim for the full course of treatment. If you do not, the medicine may not clear up your infection completely. The bacteria could also become less sensitive to this or other medicines. This could make the infection harder to treat in the future.
- Trimethoprim only works against bacteria; it does not treat viral infections (eg, the common cold).
- Long-term or repeated use of trimethoprim may cause a second infection. Tell your doctor if signs of a second infection occur. Your medicine may need to be changed to treat this.
- Trimethoprim may interfere with certain lab tests. Be sure your doctor and lab personnel know you are using trimethoprim.
- Lab tests, including complete blood cell counts, may be performed while you use trimethoprim. These tests may be used to monitor your condition or check for side effects. Be sure to keep all doctor and lab appointments.
- Use trimethoprim with caution in ELDERLY; they may be more sensitive to the effects of trimethoprim.
- Trimethoprim should be used with extreme caution in CHILDREN younger than 12 years old; safety and effectiveness in these children have not been confirmed.
- Use trimethoprim with extreme caution in CHILDREN younger than 10 years old who have diarrhea or an infection of the stomach or bowel.
- PREGNANCY and BREAST-FEEDING: If you become pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using trimethoprim while you are pregnant. Trimethoprim is found in breast milk. If you are or will be breast-feeding while you use trimethoprim, check with your doctor. Discuss any possible risks to your baby.
Possible side effects of trimethoprim:
All medicines may cause side effects, but many people have no, or minor, side effects. Check with your doctor if any of these most COMMON side effects persist or become bothersome:
Seek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur:
Nausea; skin sensitivity to sunlight; stomach upset; vomiting.
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); blistered, peeling, red, or swollen skin; bloody or black, tarry stools; chest pain; chills, fever, or sore throat; decreased urination; joint or muscle pain; irregular heartbeat; painful or stiff neck; purple patches under the skin; seizures; severe diarrhea; shortness of breath; stomach cramps/pain; unusual bruising or bleeding; unusual tiredness or weakness; unusually pale skin; vaginal irritation or discharge; yellowing of the skin or eyes.
This is not a complete list of all side effects that may occur. If you have questions about side effects, contact your health care provider. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. To report side effects to the appropriate agency, please read the Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA.
If OVERDOSE is suspected:
Contact 1-800-222-1222 (the American Association of Poison Control Centers), your local poison control center ( http://www.aapcc.org), or emergency room immediately. Symptoms may include confusion; depression; dizziness; drowsiness; fever, chills, or sore throat; loss of consciousness; severe nausea or vomiting; severe or prolonged headache; unusual bruising or bleeding.Proper storage of trimethoprim:
Store trimethoprim at room temperature, between 59 and 77 degrees F (15 and 25 degrees C). Store away from heat, moisture, and light. Keep in a tight, light-resistant container. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep trimethoprim out of the reach of children and away from pets.
General information:
- If you have any questions about trimethoprim, please talk with your doctor, pharmacist, or other health care provider.
- Trimethoprim is to be used only by the patient for whom it is prescribed. Do not share it with other people.
- If your symptoms do not improve or if they become worse, check with your doctor.
- Check with your pharmacist about how to dispose of unused medicine.
This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take trimethoprim or any other medicine. Only your health care provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for you. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a brief summary of general information about trimethoprim. It does NOT include all information about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to trimethoprim. This information is not specific medical advice and does not replace information you receive from your health care provider. You must talk with your healthcare provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using trimethoprim.
Disclaimer: This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take this medicine or any other medicine. Only your health care provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for you. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a brief summary of general information about this medicine. It does NOT include all information about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to this medicine. This information is not specific medical advice and does not replace information you receive from your health care provider. You must talk with your healthcare provider for complete information about the risks and benefits of using this medicine.
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Product Pick: Applied after blow-drying, Kérastase Lumiére Nutri-Sculpt gives your hair a glossy, high-shine finish; $29.
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A buddy of mine got divorced a while back for several reasons, including the fact that his wife was a serious shopaholic. (Also: She enjoyed business trips/sleepovers with other men.) She ran up more than $25,000 in credit card debt snapping up Hermes scarves and $1,000 purses that she never took out of the shopping bag, instead hiding them around the house so that my poor friend didn't find them. I fear our good buddy, the Zuck, may suffer from a similar malady.
Consider Facebook's recent bling bundles: a $19 billion chat app a few weeks ago, a $2 billion virtual reality company the other day. What are you even going to do with VR, Mark? Do you want your employees to look even creepier than Google's?
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Maybe Zuckerberg will merge Oculus with Facebook so that you can photobomb someone's selfie or lick up the gravy in the glistening high-def food photos people love to post. Let's hope it's not for games -- unless he wants us to completely lose ourselves in the wheat fields of our Farmville homesteads or suffer PTSD when gunned down in a Mafia Wars drive-by.
Living large
Another sign pointing to Zuck's shopaholic malady: Unlike Google's plan, his long-term acquisition strategy bears no obvious malevolence. He spends $15 million for Branch (more conversation technology), somewhere between $10 to $15 million for Little Eye (Android monitoring), SportStream for "sports conversation analysis," and other random purchases like speech translation, bookmarking, customer loyalty, facial recognition, the never-before-done photo sharing, maybe satellites, and the completely WTF American Farm Bureau Federation. What the hell is the overall vision here?
I get SportStream -- surely, it's the first phase in Zuck's scheme to acquire sporting facts he can then dispense among the proletariat at the local watering hole and, eventually, become a real boy. Customer loyalty, facial recognition, and satellites all sound like a way to track down Google+ users and kill them. But what's he going to get by brain-draining American farmers? Hold back our food supply until we pledge allegiance to the United Corporations of Facebook?
There's no coherence. Google's acquisitions form an obvious, linear path to world domination. By contrast, Zuckerberg's shopping sprees seem like the expenditures of a heroin-shooting monkey with ADHD. Where's the AI data mining? Where's invasive dream and thought analysis? What about gulag construction or Facebook-branded Legos?
And we're not helping. All Zuckie has to do is offer a ridiculous sum and our high-minded, long-term business values go right out the window. WhatsApp went from "building a long-term business" and "money can come later" to "Holy crap! Let's take a bath in coke and hookers." As for the poor shmucks who helped crowdfund Oculus, "ROI" now stands for "Ripped Off with Impunity." I don't think Zuck even bargains with these folks. He just takes the fair valuation, quadruples it, then tosses in a vacation to Ibiza or a Porsche -- who can resist?
Stop him before he spends again
We should. I mean, not me personally, but folks with the capacity for innovation and the will to do something with it. No one begrudges you your payday, but take a look at the zig-zag path of your predecessors. Odds are you too will end up like the pricey, pristine baubles favored by my pal's ex, hidden and useless.
Zuck is clearly acting out and testing his boundaries. He says he's going for enough frequent-flyer points, so he can get to Pluto (and buy it), but it's obvious he wants to see how far he can go before he gets in trouble. We need to stop being enablers and take away his technetium AmEx card, undoubtedly studded with diamonds and the crystallized eyeballs of Aztec kings. It's hard seeing him pout, but it's good for the industry in the long run. In the meantime, let's hope he kept the receipts.
This article, "'Hi, my name is Mark, and I'm a Silicon Valley shopaholic'," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the crazy twists and turns of the tech industry with Robert X. Cringely's Notes from the Field blog, follow Cringely on Twitter, and subscribe to Cringely's Notes from the Underground newsletter.


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TAMPA, Fla. – Saint Leo University Head men's basketball coach Lance Randall will serve as a guest speaker at tonight's 27th Annual Tampa Bay Boys Basketball Coaches Association year-end banquet. The banquet will start at 6 p.m. and will be held at the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Tampa.
Named the Sunshine State Conference's Coach of the Year in his first season at the helm, Randall has brought his history of successful coaching to Saint Leo, helping the Lions win 19 games and earning the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament berth in 2012. He was only the third coach in the 45 year history of the program to earn Coach of the Year honors.
Randall led a resurgence in the Lions basketball program. He inherited a team that was picked last in the SSC preseason poll and led it to a third-place finish in the regular-season standings with a 10-6 conference mark. First with a 18-12 overall record, the Lions won nine consecutive games at one point, breaking a program record that dates back to 1987. The hallmark of Randall's squad is hard-nosed defense, and his Lions led the league in scoring defense and finished fourth in the nation, permitting just 58.7 points per game. Saint Leo also led the league in holding its opponents to a 39.6 percent field goal percentage and 30.4 percent three-point percentage.
The Tampa Bay Boys Basketball Coaches Association will use the evening's banquet to honor the top players and coaches in the Tampa Bay area. Awards will feature the area's Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, Team of the Year and All-Academic performers; in addition to many other awards that will be handed out.


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Wednesday, Jul 30, 2014 06:00 am
Children�s theatre seeks adult
St. Albert Children�s Theatre is doing something it has never attempted in its history. The theatre troupe is engaging an adult actor for its upcoming winter production, A Christmas Story, The Musical.
This nostalgic award-winning holiday tale was introduced with a voice-over in the film and later the Broadway production simply added a narrator.
The narrator is the young hero of the story who�s now a 40-year-old man with a great deal of life experience behind him looking at his youthful past.
�We�re looking for a male either 40-plus or someone who can play 40 plus,� said SACT artistic director Janice Flower.
�We need a level of maturity as he tells the story.�
Actors interested in auditioning for the role of narrator are to prepare a monologue. They will also be expected to do a cold read, Flower said.
Auditions are on Thursday, Aug. 14 at the children�s theatre rehearsal space, 10A � 215 Carnegie Dr.
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thesuperject - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkDo we know what boot modifications other than booting to the all apps view will be made? I'm of course really hoping for the option to boot straight to desktop, but I'm a bit skeptical since they didn't specifically say that would be available. Reply
B3an - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkIt can boot to either the Desktop, Start screen, or All Apps screen. By default it boot to the Start screen. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkPretty easy to hack Win8 to go to desktop already:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+8+launch+to+desktop Reply
JDG1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkNo real Start menu? Fail.
Title bar text still centered rather than left-aligned? Fail.
All searches on your PC piped through Bing? Massive privacy (and antitrust) fail.
SkyDrive? Fail. I can do without "the cloud".
Hopefully there will at least be a GPO setting to turn the Bing and SkyDrive nonsense off. Reply
Lonyo - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkIt has a start menu.
They just called it the Start Screen, and it's a screen menu rather than a menu in the bottom left. Reply
JDG1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI don't want it to fill the full screen. Why should it? The old version worked fine without completely blocking out everything else I was working on. Reply
B3an - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkWhy should it not fill the screen? It makes way more sense. It shows way more stuff and useful information (that also updates) than a tiny list in the Start Menu ever did.
And you can't do anything else when the Start Menu is open anyway, if you click outside of it, it will close. So why would you even need to see other stuff?? You open it to launch a program or search for something, which the Start screen does better as it shows more information. Reply
shiznit - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkNo it doesn't make sense. 99% of the time I hit the WinKey/Start Button is to type the first few letter of whatever application or file I want to open and the hit Enter.
Why do I need that taking the whole screen? Another way OS X is now superior to Windows. Yes I said it, flame away. Reply
elmicker - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link"No it doesn't make sense. 99% of the time I hit the WinKey/Start Button is to type the first few letter of whatever application or file I want to open and the hit Enter."
So why can't you do that in Win8? That process is identical - the only difference is for that fraction of a second you're typing your screen is purple. You're not actually using the screen when going through that use case, so losing the screen isn't a negative. For all the use cases where the start menu would be used - searching for something unknown, having a rich, full-screen interface makes a LOT of sense. Reply
Shaocaholica - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkGoing full screen for anything is jarring. It shouldn't be something that happens often and was a poor choice for a desktop OS.
Visually, especially with big monitors, having the whole screen(s) change from one color to another can really strain your eyes. Something thats not a big deal on phones and small tablets but annoying on big desktop displays and TVs. Reply
UltraTech79 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkRich full screen interface my ass. Its not 'rich' its bloated shit that tries to pawn itself off as minimalist. It is neither. Reply
mr_tawan - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkYou can do that, regardless of the menu taking the whole screen (Windows 8) or not (Windows 7). Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkNo, actually -- there's one key difference. On Win7, type "Firewall" as one example. You get one program at the top "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security", followed by four entries under Control Panel ("Windows Firewall", "Allow a program through Windows Firewall", "Check firewall status", and "Check security status"), and then below that are any documents, pictures, or files that match. Under Windows 8, what you get is "No apps match your search", so you have to go to the "Settings" section where you see four entries, or the "Files" section below that. So instead of "Firewall[Enter]" you end up typing "Firewall" [Down x2][Enter][Enter] and you end up at a slightly different screen.
This may seem like a minor detail, but there are numerous other things you might type (Resolution, Network, or anything that isn't considered an app) where you have to go to the Control Panel or Files screens to find what you're after -- there's no "all results in one page" option, though perhaps that's part of what's changing with Search on Windows 8.1.
And then there's the whole "swap out everything on your screen for the Start Screen" aspect. On a tablet or a small display, it might not seem like a big deal, but on a 30" monitor let me tell you: I don't need a freaking 2560x1600 screen just to show me a list of four items, one of which I'm going to click. It's a huge visual transition that just doesn't need to happen, and IMO it looks like crap. Reply
EnzoFX - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkExactly. This should silence those pro-metro start screen, if you could call it that. The question isn't why not, it's why, as far as a Desktop screen is concerned. Reply
MisterAlex - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkIt's especially ridiculous when you're typing your search based on something you're looking at on-screen (e.g. a tutorial in a web browser). I reverted to Win7 on my desktop machine. I sold my Windows laptop and bought a MacBook. Reply
lmcd - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkwhat you get is "No apps match your search", so you have to go to the "Settings" section where you see four entries, or the "Files" section below that.
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This is being fixed according to other sources. Reply
whatthehey - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkI think you might want to check those "sources". What they're doing is unified search, but not in the same way as the Win7/Vista Start Menu -- now along with a search of your local files, apps, settings, you will be getting Internet searches as well. That might not be so bad, but Bing is the power behind the Internet searching, and I'll be damned if I've ever enjoyed Bing search results -- all of MS' advertising notwithstanding! Reply
MrSpadge - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link"So instead of "Firewall[Enter]" you end up typing "Firewall" [Down x2][Enter][Enter]"
That's the only issue I have with the Win 8 start emnu, eh screen. Working around it by going straight to the control panel in an explorer window if I know what I'm searching is in the control panel. Reply
Hubb1e - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkNo, you can't just start typing. You have to choose between apps, files, or settings first which is worse than windows 7 which included anything. I believe this was done because of slower tablets. I've tried to like windows 8 but it's terrible and this update doesn't really address any of my concerns. Plus it's ugly... Reply
Hubb1e - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI should also add that the search bar is way up in the top right corner of the screen while the start button is way down on the far bottom left which is a huge movement of a mouse on a large screen. It's just a terrible UI for a mouse. Reply
inighthawki - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkYou are aware you don't need to click the box to start typing on either OS, right? Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkOf course you can start typing. Though the default is Apps, you can change to the other 2 after you typed. You don't have to know where it is you are looking before you type. Reply
sphigel - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkYou're wrong about that. You can start typing immediately but it will default to searching apps. If you want to search files or settings currently you'd have to click that group. Anyways, it's changing in 8.1 and searching should be just as quick and powerful as it was in 7. Reply
lmcd - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkYou can do the same thing now. Hit start and begin typing in Windows 8. Try it. Reply
shiznit - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkto the people saying "you can still do that", read above. But that is not the point. The point is that W7 and OS X and others do it BETTER. They made the UI worse in the sake of forcing people into their tablet UI and turned an otherwise respectable upgrade into a joke, hoping it would eventually lead people buy tablets that look the same. Could have worked 5 years ago, but now we have better options. Reply
UltraTech79 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkIt should not fill the screen because it doesn't NEED to fill the screen. Why take up more space for absolutely no advantage? metro is shit. Windows 7 UI was a step forward from XP and most people enjoyed it because it was simply GOOD DESIGN. Metro is done terribly in most places. Its done well in places like the task manager where it looks beautiful though. Reply
Sabresiberian - Sunday, June 02, 2013 - linkBecause I don't want to see my 27" monitor covered up by app squares or rectangles and on a background supplied by MS. And even if my only complaint came down to a "pretty picture" one when I'm not running apps full screen, it is still a valid one.
I'm overall FOR Win 8, it has enough improvements under the hood to justify buying it over Win 7 for my personal use. That being said, MS has decided that forcing me into what should be an entirely optional way to interface with my computer doesn't sit well with me.
Whatever; I'm smart enough and flexible enough to get along without a "Start menu", right-clicking the bottom left corner gives me most of what it provided that I use anyway. And, I get that MS doesn't want to confuse the lowest common denominator with options, and that is possibly a good thing. They are also adding the capability to make the Start screen a portion of the desktop, which I think is an excellent idea, one that I've proposed in several posts, though it doesn't sound like it will be entirely what I want, which is simply a phone-sized area of the desktop that I can make look just like my phone.
MS has shown it IS listening to the complaints. Win 8.1 may not address them all, but it is a step in the right direction, and I think people should be focused more on what it brings than being so negative about what it doesn't. By all means continue to give MS CONSTRUCTIVE criticism (no one listens to whiners), but also give them credit where it is due. Reply
Chrysaor - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkYou can pin your apps to the taskbar, or create shortcuts. If you don't want to use the start screen, you don't have to. Reply
JDG1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkBut without third-party add-ons, I can't use the start *menu*, which is what I want.
And I don't pin anything to the taskbar - I have it set up to look and work like it does in Windows XP (Never combine, use small icons, 'Disable pinning to taskbar' enabled in local Group Policy, Quick Launch toolbar re-added). Reply
andrewaggb - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkCurious, why would you re-add the quick launch toolbar and disable pinning? The other stuff I get is a personal preference thing.... but I can't think of any reason why the quick launch bar would be preferential to pinning. I guess because pinning groups with running apps?
Personally I really liked the windows 7 desktop changes but I guess that doesn't mean everybody does. Reply
JDG1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkYes, I don't like intermingling app shortcuts with indications of running apps. I prefer being able to tell at a glance at the bottom of the screen which items are running. The combined "superbar" doesn't do that, but fortunately it's easy on Windows 7 to set things back to the way they used to be. Reply
sadsteve - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkThe icons on the quick launch take up a lot less space on the task bar than a pinned app. Reply
mircea - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkYou know you could have chosen from many OS's to "use the start *menu*, which is what I want."
Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows 98SE / Windows ME / Windows NT/ Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Vista and a bunch of Linux versions.
So please stop complaining about the missing/hard to configure taskbar or missing options of a start button. You choose to use Windows 8, no one forced you to.
The ONLY 2 things I really messed by the lack of Start Button is a closer click to shutdown/switch users/restart (if you really want to mouse/touch click a shutdown button instead of a hardware button, or use shortcut keys) and the search that needs first to be told to look in apps, store or files. Everything else I found I can do slightly faster or as fast as in Win7. Reply
Bull Dog - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkWhy should be have to accept regression? Reply
oldabelincoln - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkAMEN! Reply
AbbyYen - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkPlease,,,,,,they, AKA microsuck force you to use win 8. for every new laptop with shiny hardware out there now force you can't buy what you suggested.
I have cash pile up because of the 16:9 screen and now those lcd offering are getting into acceptable range with 1080p ( I still want 16:10).
I can't buy and use nice laptop without going to the rout of workstation of business laptop with the size and weight bigger then those 90s Compaq EVO lappy.
even the direction keys in lappy have shrink into baby finger size.
all these greedy, retard, big head, ignorant buffalo manufacturers should die. who are they to decide what's good and not for us?
please bring back those care thinking engineer for god shake. stop listening to those clueless so called MBA graduate.
I'm sorry for all these rant because we have been tying to win Eco and culture. I know we need to move on for next century tablet types of portability productivity devices. But how hard can it be to design something run on OS like xp or win 7 in lappy mode, and when you plug away the screen you get win8 to start with the work you're doing on lappy mode? store those code in the tablet memory and once u unplug the lcd it start up win8 and load the work together eg: words, Excel and etc.
you have all the time and resource and also market share for you to think and evolve. win8 is a selfish, rush and sub par product from stevy ballmerry. Reply
Stuka87 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkSo you are saying we have to just sit back and accept MS taking away one of the most used features in Windows 7 just so they can poorly implement a touch interface on millions of machines that don't have touch screens?
Not to mention even if most of those machines had touch screens, they would go unused because touch interfaces are inherently slower when using a mouse and keyboard. Well unless you have three arms. Then you would not have to lift your hand off the mouse and stretch up to the screen. Reply
guidryp - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkDoes absolutely nothing to address my concerns with Win8. Sticking with Win7 indefinitely. This may be my last Windows PC. Reply
p_giguere1 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkDid you consider third-party utilities that could potentially address your concerns?
Start8, Classic Shell, Pokki, StartIsBack, Start Menu 8? Reply
JDG1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkIs there any third-party utility that causes the title bar text to be left-justified like it was in all previous versions of Windows?
I know it sounds like a small thing, but the centering of that text really screws up my eye-tracking. Reply
Pirks - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkgood luck with becoming macfag Reply
Zeratul56 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkCome to think of it, the launch pad works very similar to the windows 8 start menu. Not that I have a problem with either approach. The hate against windows 8 is unjustified. It is superior to windows 7 in every way. Reply
danstek - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkOs X launch pad works more like the android application drawer than anything else and the dock holds frequently used apps across desktop/home screen. Reply
inighthawki - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link" The hate against windows 8 is unjustified. It is superior to windows 7 in every way."
As a Windows 8 fan who is apparently one of few who like the start screen, I cannot agree with this. The start screen has advantages, and works fine for me, but there are disadvantages, and very clearly many areas for improvement that they haven't touched on at all. Reply
piiman - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkWell thanks for clearing that up. If only someone had told me you that it was Zeratul56 approved it would have made it all better. But if its so much better why is it not selling well and 90% of the comments don't agree with you? I guesss you just know what we all like and need? Reply
gannic - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkYep buy a Mac so that you will have your Start menu back .... oooooh wait Reply
warezme - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkWindows 7 FTW Reply
Bull Dog - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI am a desktop user, and none of these changes Microsoft is talking about look to be fixing any of the core problems that haunt Windows 8. Wooooo changes! So what?
I was attracted to Windows 8 because I wanted the better Task Manager and better Copy dialog. However when I tried Windows 8, I found it to be a nearly unusable, non-stop train of frustration and misery. I would go so far as to posit that stock Windows 8 is an unmitigated disaster for desktop users. Thankfully other brave souls have created solutions that I was able to utilize to restore Windows 8 to a usable state. I use StartIsBack and I found a desktop theme that doesn't drive me crazy.
My main monitor is a Dell U2711 (27in, 2560x1440) and for me, the Modern UI Start Screen is a complete farce. There is nothing it does, that the Windows 7 style Start Menu doesn't do better. The Start Menu's search function is vastly better than the Start Screen's. When performing a search, the Start Menu displays results from all applicable categories in an easy to read list. In contrast, the Start Screen's Apps, Settings, and Files categories only display one at a time and require the user to perform additional mousing and extra clicks view all the results from a search.
This brings me to another point about the absurdity of using the Modern UI Start Screen and Apps on a Desktop PC. Because it is full screen, everything requires ridiculous amounts of mouse movement to reach various UI elements. As an example, shutting down the computer with a mouse in stock Windows 8, requires around 100% more mouse movement and an extra click compared to using the Start Menu.
I also fought an issue with the Desktop Modern UI theme. I always set my Taskbar Buttons to "Combine when taskbar is full." Because of the following:
1. The title bar text on windows, like file explorer, is black.
2. The text in the taskbar is white.
3. There is no separate adjustment for window border color and taskbar color.
It is impossible to have good readability in both the task bar and title bars. One is left with four choices:
1. Bright colors with good title bar readability
2. Dark colors with good task bar contrast and unusable title bars
3. Medium colors with poor contrast and readability in both areas.
4. Hassling with finding a custom theme that doesn't do something else equally stupid.
As a last positive aside, I don't miss Windows Aero Glass, and I especially like not getting kicked back to Windows Aero Basic when I load a program that won't run with Aero Glass. Reply
andrewaggb - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI agree the searching was way better in windows 7. But they've specifically said they are fixing it with unified search in 8.1 Reply
oldabelincoln - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkBul Dog - Thanks for saving me from having to reiterate those items. I'm getting tired of the focus on the start menu/button, because anyone cen easily fix that with 3rd party solutions that are free and work. The painful issues you list are the REAL "screw the desktop user" issues - MS has hardcoded these things into 8, driving me - and appearently you as well - NUTS! 8 is a great OS with a hideous GUI - but it's the GUI where most of us spend a lot of time. If I have to switch OS's to get a UI as polished as 7's was, then I will do so - and so will a lot of other Windows users.
MS appears to care only about tablet users at this point. Reply
jaydee - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkSo as a desktop, non-touch screen, Star8 dock, Win8Pro user this pretty much means nothing to me, am I understanding this right? Reply
Tuffrabbit - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkStill sounds like a downgrade from Win 7... About all I use windows for anymore now days is just gaming, Mac for everything else... Reply
andrewaggb - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkBiggest selling point for windows 8 is the boot time in my books. My wifes laptop is 3 years old with a 128gb intel ssd 320. nothing really special. from power on to start screen is 10 seconds. That includes all the bios time and everything else. I'm sure a good computer, particularly with a fast ssd and a faster bios could do it in much less time. Every computer I've put windows 8 on boots fast. It's nice. Reply
xdrol - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkLet's Windows 8 boots 5 seconds on a machine with SSD. So what? Even it Windows 7 boots three times as slow, it's 15 seconds. Show me one person who actually cares.
If your Win7 boots noticeably slow, buy a freaking SSD, problem solved. Reply
designerfx - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkwith the UEFI windows 8 restrictions, I will never be buying windows 8. Not going to be forced to agree to TOS just to boot the machine, either. Reply
inighthawki - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkAre you referring to the secure boot issue? Windows 8 boots just fine with secure boot turned off, leaving you with the same level of security as any previous version of windows, and allows multi OS booting as well. I see no issue here... Reply
freedom4556 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkIt does, does it? Not my experience. Have you tried mutli-booting an OEM Windows 8 machine? We needed to dual-boot Windows 7 for a training class at work, and as soon as I disabled secure boot, the OE Win8 imaged stopped working with a message to turn secure boot back on. Now, I turned it back on after the class, and it booted just fine, so at least there was no permanent damage, but flipping a bios setting every time I wanna boot something not Windows 8 is ridiculous. Reply
Latzara - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkCan't believe the continued colossal whine about the start button like nothing works without it and you can't function if you don't have it. It's really ridiculous. Reply
Inteli - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI can't believe the colossal whine about the start screen being just as good to people who obviously don't care. I don't like the start screen on a desktop, yet it seems perfect for a tablet. The start screen seems like a colossal waste of space on a desktop. Honestly, if you give me an actual start menu Windows 7 style in Windows 8 (without a 3rd party program) and let me never again see metro, I'll happily buy Windows 8. If Microsoft included both the Windows 95 start menu and the Windows XP start menu in Windows XP, how much harder could it be to have the start menu and the start screen, with the ability to enable/disable one or the other? Not saying it wouldn't be harder, but it can't be so difficult that they can't reasonably put it in. It would sure please a lot of people. Reply
EnzoFX - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkOf course they can, the problem is they don't want to. They want the start screen to take hold, so grow, forced or not, they're banking on it. Reply
Dentons - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkIt wouldn't be hard for Microsoft to add a start menu, in fact they've done it. As I understand it, pre-release builds of Windows 8 included a fully working start button and start menu that could be activated with a registry edit.
The problem is that Microsoft has strategically positioned Windows 8 to save their stagnant mobile platform. To do that, the desktop has to feature Metro. (or is it 'not-metro')
Their mobile platform is in a chicken or egg position. Users won't buy it until it has apps, but app builders won't bother until it has users. It's why they're forcing the start screen onto desktop users. It also why they took away Aero Glass, mobile doesn't have the GPU for it. They're praying that if they force Metro down the throats of every user in Windows ecosystem, the app developers will follow.
Given the recent 14% drop in PC sales, Microsoft's stand on this is only likely to strengthen. They certainly realize that to lose mobile is to lose the war. They know this is a far larger threat to their hegemony than the Internet was in '90s.
Except this time, much of the cost is being paid by Microsoft's biggest customers. Enterprises who are loathe to retrain their employees and system builders who are seeing terribly diminished sales. These customers are not at all happy to paying the price for Microsoft's mobile plans. They're starting to push back. Android and Chrome seem to be the biggest beneficiaries.
It's why Android and Chrome notebooks are being released by all the big names. Reply
haplo602 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkOn the contrary, tablets and phones DO have the GPU to fully use Aero. They don't have the battery power for it :-)
I am quite amused about all the windows 8 discussion. I did not use Windows past XP (I will have to upgrade to 7 on the company laptopt this year however). I ma using XFCE on Linux, a "primitive" desktop by Windows standards. However it has everything I need and more (virtual desktops are a big feature for me). And since Steam on Linux is taking off slowly, my gaming needs will be taken care of in time.
Don't take this as a Linux rant, I just want to point out that different things work for different people and that's the problem with Windows at the moment. Microsoft is restricting options quite heavily. Reply
piiman - Saturday, June 01, 2013 - linkAnd options is what Windows has always been big on. Now they want to take options away to force us to the metro BS and MS store and services. There should be optoions during install for , Desktop non touch, Desktop touch, Laptop non touch, Laptop Touch and Tablet. Give us back our options MS! Reply
EnzoFX - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkLike Inteli says, you clearly don't care. There are people who do, who can just as clearly see the painful differences. Furthermore, of course it's all relative, we're talking about just an OS, so throwing around superlatives isn't much of an argument. As far as one aspect of an OS, it is a failure as far as Desktop screens are concerned. Laptops and tablets are another matter. Reply
Dentons - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkWhy should we spend money on Windows 8 when it will require third-party utilities (that also cost money or time) just to make Win8 function as well as the Windows 7 we already have?
It's clear that Microsoft is forcing Metro down the throats of desktop users in order to buttress their stagnant mobile platform. They're doing this at the cost of their customers. Change has a cost. Retraining has a cost. Change for no good reason has unrecoverable cost.
Microsoft is not doing what their users want or need, they're doing the opposite in order to help Microsoft's strategic vision. They clearly feel that to give users what the want would threaten their business strategy. To that I say, too bad.
My enterprise fully realizes why Microsoft is doing this. That's why we are definitely skipping Windows 8 and are even talking about moving off of Windows entirely. By treating desktop users as fodder for their mobile plans, Microsoft runs a real risk of losing the enterprise desktop, perhaps even the consumer desktop. Reply
James5mith - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkI'm so glad they are bringing back unified search. It was extremely frustrating that they segmented search in Windows 8. Windows 7 unified search was awesome, and segmenting where the system would search by default was a step backwards for me. Hooray for them listening.
Now if only they would return "jumplists/recent items" to items on the Start menu like they were in windows 7, I would have no more complaints about windows 8. It's the last major lament I have about the change. I liked being able to right click on notepad and find recent items, without having to have notepad pinned on my taskbar. Reply
Da W - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkIf don't have a touchscreen, why don't you just stick with Windows 7 and stop bitching and moaning all over the internet?
Especially those who bought an Android tablet, it's your fault if Microsoft felt the urge to move that way!
Metro is here to stay. You can either adopt it, move to linux, move to android, move to mac, but please, just shut the &*?&* up.
Written from my surface pro while my desktop is collecting dust and spider webs in the basement. Reply
BMNify - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkWhy buy a Surface Pro when I can just RDP from my Android tablet? Reply
Da W - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkCause a surface pro is 10X more powerful and i'm not a cheap bastard who buy 200$ pieces of plastic crap. Reply
BMNify - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkMy desktop that I RDP into is 10x more powerful than a Surface Pro and stores more than 100x the data. My Android has more than twice the battery life and is powerful enough for what I need. I'm not a fool who wastes a $1000+ on an unnecessary device. Not to mention the apps available for my Android dwarf that of your Surface Pro or that if I were to break or lose it I'm terribly concerned both because it's not expensive and my data is safe and sound on my desktop (with RAID and auto backup to a NAS) not in the "cloud".
And just for fun, are you aware that the insurance companies in America are working with OSHA to ban non-portable touch devices (aka touch screen desktops) citing liability concerns to due ergonomics? MS can't win a lobbying war against this kind of force. I'm struggling to see a need for Windows touch at all.
Anyway, enjoy your toy. Reply
freedom4556 - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkYaaaaay, we got our button back! Now I don't have to shoot for an invisible 4x4 pixel square on my multi-monitor setups and in VMs! Reply
gkltoo - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkA Windows Start Button without an accompanying application menu system has all the cachet of the heavy spring-loaded start foot button on the floorboards of a 30's - 40's Chevrolet. Reply
Fly by - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkI concede that I am a computer user, not a technical enthusiast. Notwithstanding some technical improvements, for me Win 8 fails in concept. I loved Win 7, my first impression of Win 8 was that I hated it.
There is a significant interface functionality problem. This is not about user preferences for older familiar OS that will change in time. Attempting to create a hybrid integration of mobile devices with splashy screen chunks may work on the mobile device but it takes away complexity and useability for traditional PC users. I found it the least intuitive of MS's OS releases. It took me a while to find how to exit a page, ridiculous. The throw away concession to the old interface is less useful than Win 7.
Then of course, we have the obvious attempt to corner software use by flooding us with MS or approved software. Feels greedy to me and bloaty.
Solution? 2 OS systems, one for the mobile must haves and the 2nd OS for desktop users extending the functionality of Win 7.
In nature hybrids either thrive or die. Desktops are here to stay and may ring the death knell for Win 8. For the first time ever for me Apple is starting to look attractive despite the heavy handed proprietary structure and cost. Reply
rwei - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkNever thought I'd see the day when Engadget was more comprehensive than Anandtech. What gives?
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/30/microsoft-windo... Reply
moonflower1952 - Friday, June 21, 2013 - linkOne day long ago an IT boss told me that windows 3.11 could never be beaten by anyone including MS. Also told my ONE DAY they would have a DVD 12 speed spinner. NO MACHINE could ever handle anything more powerful. Any thing higher than 3.11 would be secret military business to do with nuclear weapons.
Even at the time I thought he as a bit of a dick head. You see I like drawing and photo's and knew in my heart MS would make something better 'cause computers are all about drawing and photos.
I am 60 now and cannot wait for my 70th birthday... just think what America will be inventing and what China is copying . Life is great if you are happy and believe in a better, faster, small , ball ripping future. Reply
peter589 - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - linkThe most upset thing is the serial number will invalid sooner or latter, if you hate that, you can search **online windows key**on google, wish it helps! Reply


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Stellenbosch is also known as Eikestad, or 'the town of oaks'.
The Stellenbosch winelands are considered to be the capital of the South African wine industry. With more than 60 estates currently operating, it's the leading centre for viticulture and viticultural research.
Simon van der Stel arrived at the Cape as commander in 1679 and soon after was appointed its first governor. Later that year he undertook his first tour of inspection, which brought him to 'the most charming valley he had ever seen' - the Stellenbosch winelands.
So enchanted was he that he set up camp in a grove he named Stellenbosch, and there decided to establish a second settlement after Cape Town. He grew to love the town, spending his birthdays there. And he ordered the planting of the oaks, which is why it is sometimes referred to as Eikestad, or 'town of oaks'. Today these massive trees shade the historic Dorp Street, which runs through the well-preserved old town.
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Patagonian Southwest Atlantic
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This area provides important breeding habitat for marine seabirds and mammals along the East Coast of Argentina.
Peninsula Valdés, a well-known international tourist destination, harbours the only continental breeding colony of Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) and provides breeding and calving grounds for Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis).
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Early this century, fur seals and sea lions (Family, Otariidae) were heavily exploited for their fur and oil, resulting in a dramatic decline of local populations, especially of fur seals. This ecoregion supports a very important fishery, especially for Hake (Merluccius hubbsi), Common squid (Loligo spp.), and Shortfin squid (Illex argentinus).
Marine birds include the Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus), Imperial cormorant (Phalacrocorax atriceps), and the pale-faced sheathbill (Chionis alba).
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