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Microsoft's Q3 earnings down from last year, CFO stepping down
0. phoneArena posted on 18 Apr 2013, 18:10
Just to erase any confusion over this, Microsoft deals with its earnings call a bit differently than other companies. So, Microsoft's earnings call that happened today was for the company's fiscal Q3, which matches the calendar Q1, meaning that we're talking about the same timeframe of January to March as with Google's earnings call earlier...
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1. Shaznek (Posts: 43; Member since: 18 Apr 2013)
Why is this different to what the verge is reporting here "Microsoft just released its fiscal Q3 2013 statement, with overall revenue of $20.49 billion up 18 percent year-over-year" and "At the end of the day, however, Microsoft had a healthy quarter — total net income for the quarter was $6.06 billion, up 18.5 percent year-over-year".Also Engadget sounds neutral in their reporting while you guys, just from the title, sound like Microsoft is facing a huge crisis. This is what i call unprofessional reporting.
4. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Looks like they don't like MS?
10. papss (unregistered)
See that's where you misunderstood this site... It's only bloggers, they have no real care to really tell the news but more their spin on reality sort of like fox news..
11. madpiyal (Posts: 108; Member since: 11 Feb 2013)
Why don't u see its form Mr Michel. He has a tendency to defame some companies(in this article MS) and write enthusiastically about Google. I like this site but We tech guys deserve better writings from Phonearena,
20. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
I also dont get it they saying wp8 getting boost devices got boost where the hell is the decline then O_o or they just want to make MS look bad typical media tactics i guess
26. Shaznek (Posts: 43; Member since: 18 Apr 2013)
Alos just cheked Microsoft earnings my self after reading what PCWorld wrote and apparently MS got a year over year growth in all the devisions lol.This article is a fail.
2. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
too bad it was not the CEO stepping down.
5. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Completely agreed.
12. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
I don't get it, why everyone hate Elop? Just because Elop killed Symbian? Symbian is dying before Elop become Nokia's CEO! And because Elop didn't choose Android? Elop wants to try something new, and there's nothing wrong with Nokia and WIndows Phone!
Remember! Android is not gonna rule forever!
13. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
We were talking about Steve Ballmer and his Amazing Punchable Face (TM).
15. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
I'm talking about Stephen Elop and Nokia! :P
16. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Apparently there are some Steve Ballmer fans here.
17. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
I'm Peter Chou's fan! (HTC CEO)
I'm Kazuo Hirai's fan! (Sony CEO)
There, how about that? :P
22. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
althgouh i like WP8 and its other Stuff i also dont like Steve Balmer style and overconfidence in many things.
18. eisenbricher (Posts: 973; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
Dude did you even read the article? This whole thing is about MS. So naturally the guys were talking abt Ballmer.
21. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
ROFL ELOP isnt in article here MS CEO is Steve balmer is CEO i guess
3. pongkie (Posts: 655; Member since: 20 Aug 2011)
I still can't believe they made money on office 365
8. papss (unregistered)
I happen to like office 365..
14. volcano (Posts: 348; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
why not its good and im using it
6. tward291 (Posts: 559; Member since: 14 Feb 2012)
U guys also put a negative spin on anything ms or Nokia or windows
7. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
They deserve it!
23. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
they dont its only few of you guys and PA anti MS / Nokia blogers who make them look bad in real life i dont hear bad words from guys of any type
WP8 is a new OS u simply dont like it cuz u dont want it othervise it is brilliant Ads free OS and customizable its just people dont know how there are many legal tricks for that i just discovered one last week :D and it made my WP7.8 look much intersting now
24. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Windows Phone is all right. It's really the company, and their insistence that they dump the traditional Windows interface for one that doesn't work nearly as well on computers, that I can't stand.
25. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
there is rummor they gona bring that old desktop option back for win8.1 maybe on some extend
but i would bet on the Skinery Software if MS support them on full scale for their ideas they are making most brillient cusotmization option for Wp8 and win8
9. lyndon420 (Posts: 5022; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
How much has ms made from 'Android licenses' so far?
19. jeff1434325 (Posts: 97; Member since: 07 Aug 2012)
I dotn really get this news by Michael H. of PA. this is so different from the news on Yahoo finance & Google finance.
Investors Business Daily----"Microsoft Clears 'Low Bar' With Q3 Results; Stock Up."
Wall St. Cheat Sheet------"Radar Movers: Microsoft and Google Impress Wall Street, IBM Sinks 4%"
Oh please michael, you're NOT doing your research very well-----YOUR FIRED!!!


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The Labour party have gained a foothold back on Kingston Council after four years in the wilderness.
They will be the smallest party in the Guildhall with just two seats, won today after a delayed second recount of Thursday's votes in the Norbiton ward.
Linsey Cottington, with 1,013 votes, and Sheila Griffin, who ran as an independent until 2010 after falling out with the party, polled 986 votes.
Liberal Democrat Bill Brisbane won the third council seat defeating Labour party leader Laurie South by just three votes.
The wins are a reversal of four years ago when veteran councillor Steve Mama was defeated, leaving Labour with no political representatives in the borough.
Labour tweeted the news:
2 #Labgains in #Norbiton & just 3 votes behind for 3rd seat— Kingston Labour (@KBLabour) May 25, 2014
Privately some councillors from other parties will admit having a third party on the council will be a good thing.
Tory councillor Andrea Craig responded to a tweet saying: "The return of three party politics to Kingston will make life more interesting" by saying "Agreed!".
The results bring the total number of Conservative councillor to 28, Lib Dems to 18 and Labour to two.
The Conservatives gained 39 per cent of the vote (52,204 votes), while the Liberal Democrats polled 30 per cent (38,999 votes) and Labour 18 per cent (21,060 votes).
The Green party received seven per cent of the vote (8,987 votes) and UKIP six percent (6,825 votes).

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Duval County elementary school teacher has been arrested on child sex charges involving three victims, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Michael Worrell, 61, a fourth-grade teacher at Greenfield Elementary School on the Southside, was removed from the classroom on Aug. 22, according to the Duval County School District. He was arrested Tuesday on four counts of sexual battery on a child and one count of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child.
According to a police report, three child victims told investigators that Worrell sexually assaulted them in various local hotels. The assaults ranged from 2006 to 2012, according to the report. The victims ranged in ages from 9 to 13 at the time of the offenses, according to the report.
Superintendent Ed Pratt-Dannals will recommend suspension without pay pending termination for Worrell at the Oct. 2 School Board meeting.
Worrell was hired as a substitute teacher in 2003 and then full-time as a fourth grade teacher at S.P. Livingston in March 2006. He also taught at Paxon Middle School from 2009-11.
"The Duval Schools family is extremely concerned by the allegations against a teacher at Greenfield Elementary School," school district spokeswoman Jill Johnson said in a news release. "Based on new processes and enhanced communication between agencies, the district removed this teacher from the classroom immediately upon notification of an investigation into inappropriate behavior off campus. We will provide the outcome of the investigation to the Professional Practices Commission in Tallahassee for any potential action against his teaching certificate."
According to the jail database, Worrell is not eligible for bond. The Department of Children and Families is also investigating.
Worrell's wife, Alma Worrell, spoke about her husband's arrest Wednesday, saying it is hard on her family because they know the young people who accused her husband. She said they were at their home regularly, and she said her husband was just trying to help them out.
Alma said at least one of the three children is a girl her husband knew from one of the schools where he taught, and they've known each other for years. She said the girl even spent weeks at their home during the summer, and her husband would pick up her and her friend and buy them food when they needed it.
But Alma admits that things changed recently.
"I guess one day she need to come home, it should be 4 o'clock and he get mad 'cause she stayed til 5 o'clock," she said. "I think Mike, he get mad at them and then the girl, she went home and she got mad at him and everything came off."
Alma said while her husband is depressed about the accusations, he isn't taking the charges lightly.
"He said that he will fight. He will fight. He is innocent. That's all," she said.
This was Worrell's first year teaching at Greenfield, where many parents were alarmed and angry to learn of the accusations.
"It scares me. I have a kindergartener. It's really scary, actually," parent Teresa Elghali said.
"I definitely feel relieved, but I strongly feel that there should be more and more background checks before taking teachers into the school," parent Aparna Chalasani added.
According to Worrell's background and personnel file, in his last performance review in March 2011 at Paxon Middle, he was rated "satisfactory." He got an "unsatisfactory" rating for "shows sensitivity to students by maintaining a positive classroom environment." He got a "needs improvement" for "demonstrates professional behavior."
Also in the file is a glowing recommendation from his former Navy supervisor, who wrote of Worrell, "I can attest to the integrity and high moral character. ... Mike is a hard-working intelligent individual with solid ethical values ... being able to provide a boost for morale by honestly caring about the people he counseled and served."
Channel 4 crime analyst Ken Jefferson says even when a person is in a position of trust, such as a teacher, parents still have to keep their guard up.
"The best way to protect yourself as a parent and protecting your children is just to not trust anyone," Jefferson said. "You can't just close your eyes and give your kids away and think that they're in good hands because of the status of the individual."
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Kinesthesia or kinaesthesia is a term that is often used interchangeably with proprioception. Some users differentiate the kinesthetic sense from proprioception by excluding the sense of equilibrium or balance from kinesthesia. An inner ear infection, for example, might degrade the sense of balance. This would degrade the proprioceptive sense, but not the kinesthetic sense. The infected person would be able to walk, but only by using the person's sense of sight to maintain balance; the person would be unable to walk with eyes closed.
Proprioception and kinaesthesia are seen as interrelated and there is considerable disagreement regarding the definition of these terms. Some of this difficulty stems from Sherrington's original description of joint position sense (or the ability to determine where a particular body part exactly is in space) and kinaesthesia (or the sensation that the body part has moved) under a more general heading of proprioception. Clinical aspects of proprioception are measured in tests that measure a subject's ability to detect an externally imposed passive movement, or the ability to reposition a joint to a predetermined position. Often it is assumed that the ability of one of these aspects will be related to another, unfortunately experimental evidence suggests there is no strong relation between these two aspects. This suggests that while these components may well be related in a cognitive manner, they seem to be separate physiologically.
Much of the forgoing work is dependent on the notion that proprioception is essentially a feedback mechanism: that is the body moves (or is moved) and then the information about this is returned to the brain whereby subsequent adjustments could be made. More recent work into the mechanism of ankle sprains suggest that the role of reflexes may be more limited due to their long latencies (even at the spinal cord level) as ankle sprain events occur in perhaps 100msec or less. Accordingly, a model has been proposed to include a 'feedforward' component of proprioception where the subject will also have central information about the body's position prior to attaining it.
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Why Chris Jericho has to win The Money in the Bank
by, 06-19-2013 at 01:44 PM (5161 Views)
Money in the bank is just around the corner and with all the buzz around Rob Van Dam, it is time to focus on another. Chris Jericho has to win the money in the bank breifcase to save his career.Keep reading to find out more or stop reading now.
Chris Jericho has been a huge character in every brand he has been in, WWF/E,Smackdown,Raw,WCW. Chris has had his career because of his rivals and his persona. But as the times have changed so has the WWE. We've moved on to Fandango and other midcarders who,are a joke, will be the future of the buisness. Y2J has been pushed to the side to highlight John Cena, Ryback and CM Punk(The only one of the three I like). If WWE does not start putting Jericho in main events, I fear he will wash up and retire. It dosen't seem he will get a title shot anytime soon, so the only way to get him as champ and in the main event is for him to win Money in the Bank.
Possible Outcomes:
Chris Jericho wins the Money in the Bank and cashes it in at Summerslam. Now as champion I would like to see him verse Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, The Rock and heck go ahead and throw Cena in there. I don't expect his reign to last 434 days but I would like to see him get a few rematches in extreme stipulations. After that he should be fine, but if he does fall into the midcard again it will be time for him to hang up his boots.
Note: I loved Jericho as Intercont. Champion but with the current roster I don't see it working out to well. This may sound crazy but I would want to see him verse Undertaker sooner rather than later.


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Troy Carter, Lady Gaga's manager, says he wants to know "how the fans smell": he walks the arena during the star's show to get a sense of how they're receiving the act. Phil Clarke, chief executive of Tesco, has set in motion a retraining scheme for the UK retailer's managers called "Making Moments Matter", preparing them for face-to-face contact with customers.
Yet both men work for organisations (if Gaga can be described that way) that have also pioneered the use of technology – the Little Monsters Gaga fan site, the Tesco loyalty ClubCard – that helps them know their customers and run their businesses more efficiently.
The mixed approach they advocate illustrates a theme that emerged strongly from this week's FT Innovate conference, where both men spoke: how to put the personal touch back in technology? Or, as Aimie Chapple of Accenture summarised at one roundtable session: how do you add the love to Big Data? Read more


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The Splash: Mimicking the Gimmicks
by, 04-27-2013 at 12:54 PM (4541 Views)
Hey Splashers it's been awhile but I've been busy with my Facebook page & radio show: Hardcore Wrestling Radio. This past week I had the honor of interviewing an ECW Original: Jason Knight! Jason has worked with the likes of Mikey Whipwreck, The Sandman, Mick Foley, The Undertaker, and more! If you want to listen to that exclusive interview head on over to www.facebook.com/hardcorewrestlingradio , and check it out! You won't believe what he has to say!
I've been reading a lot of stuff about how the Aces & 8's are copying the nWo and how AJ Styles is copying Sting. I thought it was time to give my 2 ½ cents on the matter.
Aces & 8's
Ever since its inception over on TNA, the Aces & 8's have been slated for mimicking the nWo. While there are a few good points to argue this, I have other points to argue the contrary. I think the Aces & 8's are really mimicking the Sons of Anarchy, a TV show about an organized motorcycle gang that runs a small town in California. They have Prospects, Vice Presidents (or VP's as they call it in the show), and yes…a President. To add another point, there was even a rouge gang in the club called "Nomads", the same name that's on the Aces & 8's vest. I could continue to go on, but I think I've drawn a clear picture that the Aces & 8's are NOT mimicking the nWo. There are similarities but as you will soon see there are similarities in many other gimmicks.
AJ Styles
Another major gimmick in TNA that has gotten a lot of heat is AJ Styles new heel gimmick. Many are suggesting Styles is mimicking Sting when he first became the "Crow Sting" back in WCW. The only real similarities that I see is that Styles is wearing black, he stands out in the crowd (Where Sting stood up in the rafters), and he has outcast himself from everyone.
When Sting first transformed into the "Crow Sting", He changed the color & style of his hair, his face paint, his ring gear, his entrance theme, and he even walked around with a bat as part of his gimmick. AJ Styles has changed none of that. Styles has done none of the above, unless you want to be petty and call him growing a beard a change. Lastly Sting's character was more like a silent vigilante with a purpose, where Styles character has just stopped giving a shit.
Do I see the resemblance? Of course I do. Anyone who has watched both eras would be a fool not to see it. But I also see similarities in John Cena's storyline he had this past year. John Cena lost his big match against the Rock at WrestleMania 28, and since then his personal life and wrestling career suffered, until he defeated The Rock at WrestleMania 29. AJ Styles problems started early last year, with all the rumors about him sleeping with Dixie Carter. It did not stop there as he went on a major losing streak, and culminated at the Bound for Glory series, where he lost, and would not be able to go for the title again, until Bound for Glory 2013. This is Styles year of hell, and at this year's Bound for Glory it will be his "redemption". If that doesn't suit you I could say he is just mimicking The Shield. He is wearing all black and hanging up in the crowd?
This next list is to show you that almost any wrestler or clan throughout the years (whether it was inspiration or just coincidence) can be accused of mimicking other gimmicks.
Jay Lethal
If there is anyone who SHOULD be on this list it's Jay "Black Machismo" Lethal. Lethal from head to toe mimicked the late Macho Man Randy Savage. From his music, to his clothes, hell he even used the same catch phrases! But Lethal did not do this out of disrespect for Savage, he did it out of RESPECT for the future Hall of Famer. In 2007 Randy Savage even called up to let Lethal know how much he loved the gimmick! If the man himself can give his blessings about using his gimmicks, then there shouldn't be any more issues.
While Fandango is currently getting a major push at the moment he does appear to mimics, an old WCW gimmick: Disco Inferno. Let's face it both guys , were dancers..and not good ones either: Only Disco Inferno was lost in a time warp. Both are terrible wrestlers: Take all the kicks and stomps away and all he has is his finisher. Hell if he wasn't Vince's pet project he would still be in NXT. Maybe we should call Fandango the Disco Inferno of the 21st Century?
As much as I loved this group, it screamed Four Horseman. Ric flair was in this group but he really didn't play the lead role like he did in the Horsemen. That was Triple H's Role. Flair took more of James J Dillon's role, even though he did wrestle. The group had the essence of the Horsemen: Private jets, limousines, exclusive restraints, and so on. At one time they even captured most of the titles in the WWE, which the horseman did as well. Evolution may not have lasted as long as the Horsemen, but no one can say they ran like them.
On a side note about TNA's Fortune clan, I really don't think they really mimicked the Horsemen aside from their hand sign. I think that was just Flair's meager attempt to keep the horsemen alive.
Abyss/Joseph Parks
As much as I like Abyss, I cannot stand his alter ego Joseph Parks (his supposed brother). When I first saw Abyss, I thought of Mankind,(aka Mick Foley) and now this second character is showing that he is more mimicking Mick Foley rather than just Mankind. But Foley was in TNA and has worked with Parks, so I wonder if Foley gave him the "Thumbs up" to mimic his gimmick.
When Ryback debuted in the WWE, almost everybody agreed he was mimicking Goldberg. He could come down to the ring, beat up two guys in about 30 seconds, and leave. That was Goldberg's thing. Ryback even got a Goldberg chant going for several months. I will admit though Ryback is starting to evolve and his matches and mic skills are getting better. The big question is can Ryback evolve into his own wrestler, or will he just be content mimicking Goldberg?
I could continue on analyzing gimmicks. But when you put any gimmick under the microscope, you can see that they had some similarities to another gimmick. Nowadays no gimmick is 100% original, they were all inspired by someone else. You don't have to believe me, you can just ask them. Until next time See you when I see you! -Rick Starr


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Program: International Studies Abroad (ISA) Location: Guanajuato, Guanajuato Mexico
During my Senior year at Concordia University I was lucky enough to have the chance to study abroad. I wasn't too sure of where to go, but after researching I happened to find a program in the city of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico that catered to my main interest: art. The University of Guanajuato has its own design school and studio art school. I chose to take a break from computers and my major of Graphic Design, so I enrolled in a Printmaking class and Color Photography (with the prerequisite of Black and White Photography completed).
The city of Guanajuato has very strong art roots and it's apparent in its art program. I found it really interesting going to a new school and experiencing a different art program. Guanajuato is the birth city of the Painter/Artist Diego Rivera; I had the opportunity to visit his childhood home that now is a museum and see the original structure and many original Diego Rivera paintings and sketches.
While in Guanajuato, I enrolled in Printmaking I and I learned how to print by cutting a basic image from plastic and a screen print process. Since many believe that screen printing is the oldest form of graphic arts I thought it would be a great chance to start at the basics. I also learned how to develop and process color film and infrared film along with developing prints in my Color Photography class.
I feel that my stay in Mexico not only has impacted my life but my artwork as well. I encourage any student who has the opportunity to study abroad to take it up and pick somewhere new where they can learn and grow from their experience. The classes I was lucky enough to take really allowed me to broaden my horizons.


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On April 21st, Comedian Danny Browning and Gavin Eddings will performing at the American Legion Hall , in Tell City, for a Comedy Event for Perry County native, 17 year old, Tyler Cundiff. Tyler was diagnosed in November 2011 with Leukemia, and in an effort to help relieve the monetary costs, Team Tyler and Comedian Danny Browning will be hosting this event. Admission to this event is a cover charge of $10 at the door, and must be 18 years old to attend this function. A cash bar will be available and proper ID must be shown.


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Virtue and genius are, at best, loosely aligned, but there have been few nastier characters among the great composers than Richard Wagner.
Self-obsessed to the point of narcissism and megalomania, viciously anti-Semitic - ''I hold the Jewish race to be the born enemy of pure humanity and everything noble in it,'' he wrote - disloyal, ungrateful, a ruthless exploiter, a philanderer, polemical, pugnacious, a habitual liar, financially dishonest.
Often artists' works can be separated from their personal lives, but Wagner's anti-Semitism finds frequent expression in his operas.
Even so, his Ring cycle of four operas - which will be staged in Melbourne next year, the bicentenary of his birth - is one of the towering achievements of the human imagination.
It broke new ground in all sorts of ways, but especially in its use of special themes - leitmotivs that Wagner used as building blocks, blending and developing them brilliantly in a continuous flow of music. They represent characters, places (for example, Valhalla), emotions (the renunciation of love), objects (the Rhinegold or the sword Nothung) and more.
In 1958, conductor Georg Solti and producer John Culshaw embarked on what proved one of the great musical collaborations, the first published recording of the Ring, from 1958 to 1965. Anointed by the BBC as the greatest recording of all time, it is being reissued in a remastered luxury edition to mark the centenary of Solti's birth in 1912.
The most lavish CD presentation I have seen, it comes in four parts in a magnificent black-and-gold set designed to look impressive on the coffee table and, more importantly, sound splendid on the hi-fi.
The first book contains the 14 CDs of the four operas, plus the two-CD guide by Deryck Cooke to the dozens of themes, with musical examples - an enormous help to the newcomer. The second book contains all the words, with Culshaw's introductions; the third, Culshaw's marvellous extended essay on the Ring and the recording of it; and the fourth contains a facsimile of one of Solti's scores, with markings explained. There is also a DVD of Humphrey Burton's famous documentary on recording the Ring, a Blu-ray of the whole Ring, another CD of Wagner recordings, a 40-page facsimile of reviews and advertisements from Gramophone magazine and art prints.
Culshaw, like Wagner, embarked on a new way of seeing opera, inspired by the new technology of stereo, with its sense of movement.
Using 78s, the four operas would have taken 220 sides. The protagonists, cigarettes in hand, are touchingly impressed by stereo LPs, given how many times the technology has changed since then. What of the music? No qualms there at all. This Ring remains, by consensus, the one essential version, whichever others you also acquire. Some consider it a little ''theatrical'', with Culshaw's emphasis on special effects and Solti's natural tendency to the dramatic over the lyrical, but in its modern remastering it blazes forth gloriously. In any undertaking as massive as the Ring, there will be a touch of unevenness, but few cycles have assembled such a marvellous group of singers at or near their peak.
The great bass-baritone Hans Hotter might have passed his, but remains the Wotan by which others are judged. Birgit Nilsson as Brunnhilde, Wolfgang Windgassen as Siegfried, Regine Crespin as Sieglinde, Gustav Neidlinger as Alberich and Gottlob Frick as Hunding and Hagen are legendary.
Great Wagnerians abound, Kirsten Flagstad, Gerhard Stolze, James King, Christa Ludwig and George London among them. The young Joan Sutherland is the woodbird in Siegfried. The Vienna Philharmonic is superb.
In all, this is a brilliant testament to a variety of incomparable artists, none more so than the composer himself. Rhine gold indeed.
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen


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I removed the sentence "Despite being upset about the girls' treatment, he refuses to be intimidated." since that part isn't actually shown (or otherwise mentioned) in this episode. --184.108.40.206 21:30, May 10, 2013 (UTC)
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Topic: Hi from England
I was browsing the internet today looking for new info on cholangiocarcinoma as it is so much in my mind because it is just coming up to 10 years ago since my husband was diagnosed with this disease ... and I came across this site for the first time.
Alan was 49 and perfectly healthy until feeling he had some sort of gastric bug. Cutting a long story short, within a couple of weeks he had been diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma and told there was nothing that could be done. Fortunately, within days we found a surgeon who gave us some hope and who was prepared to operate to remove the tumour but, unfortunately it was attached to the portal vein and he couldn't get it all away. Alan then had chemotherapy and radiotherapy and it seemed all was well for a few months, and then it came back ... Two more types of chemo were tried but in the end Alan felt he couldn't take any more and stopped all treatment. He didn't want to see the inside of a hospital ever again, so with great support from our doctor, family and friends, he was able to spend his last three months at home with me and our son, Tom who was 18 at the time.
During the three years Alan was ill we investigated every treatment imaginable, and found there was very little that offered any specific hope. We talked about finding ways of raising money to fund research to hep others who found themselves in our position, but because of the nature of the illness, life soon became too full of just trying to keep things together to do anything about it.
However, after Alan died I decided to do what I could and set up a registered charity here in England, AMMF (The Alan Morement Memorial Fund, registered charity no 1091915) to work towards raising money for research. The charity is small, but we are doing what we can - anyone interested can have a look at the website, www.ammf.org.uk. There are links to helpful sites as well as information on what we do to raise money, and where it goes.
After reading the various posts today, my heart goes out to absolutely everyone who is going through this horrible disease, or is trying to care for someone with it, or who has lost someone to it. Time and again the saying goes through my mind, "why do such bad things happen to good people?"
If there is anyone in the UK (or, of course anywhere else!) who would like to contact me, I can be reached through the website, www.ammf.org.uk.


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- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 pints fresh strawberries, divided
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream, whipped
- Red food coloring, optional
- In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in flour. Press onto the bottom of a 9-in. or 10-in. springform pan; prick with a fork.
- Bake at 350° for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 300°; bake 20-25 minutes longer or until lightly browned. Cool.
- Meanwhile, for filling, puree enough berries (about 1-1/2 pints) to make 2 cups. Set aside remaining berries for garnish. Stir lemon juice and sugar into puree.
- In a small saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over cold water; let stand for 1 minute. Heat over low heat, stirring until gelatin is completely dissolved. Add to puree; chill until mixture begins to thicken.
- Fold in whipped cream and food coloring if desired. Pour into crust; chill until set. Garnish with reserved strawberries. Yield: 8-10 servings.
Originally published as Strawberry Mousse in Grandma's Great Desserts Cookbook 1992, p85
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Peter had a big crush on a Hispanic girl named Limon. Peter had seen Limon while at school. Peter had followed Limon to her house to talk to her about how he felt about her. When Peter arrived at Limon's house her father had answered the door.
"Yes?" said her father.
"I would like to talk to your daughter Limon," answered Peter.
He led Peter to the living room and asked him a question.
"To prove you really know my daughter, tell me how old she is," said the father.
Peter had no idea.
"It's just as I expected. Fine, if you really like my daughter, I will give you a clue." He got out some paper and wrote:
Peter had no clue for the next three minutes. He soon gave up and just guessed 15, his own age. Limon's dad laughed and escorted Peter out of the house without a word. He obviously didn't get the age correct.
How old was Limon?
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As the .co and .cm extensions are available, is there any point in buying them if you have the .com, to protect your brand?
What about registering .biz, .info and .org to protect a brand? Are these extensions still necessary today? (I know about registering the .co.uk and the .net extensions.)
Both of the domain name extensions mentored in your first post are ccTLDs and belong to the certain countries and each of them has specific rules for the registration. I suppose if your business exposure connected to those countries you can use both of them.
Actually I've been reading in various places that these are considered to be newer versions of the .com tld or something along these lines. Even domain registrars say this. Hence my original question.
.co belongs to Colombia.cm belongs to Camaroon
Both countries can do what they like with their domains. If they want to make them temporarily available for anyone to use then they can. If they want to claim them back and restricvt their use to their own citizens at any time in the future then they can do that too because those countries own those top level domains.
That's all very well but that doesn't answer my question.
do Colombia and Camaroon allow you to have one of their domains if you are not based in their country? If not then you can't get them at all.
Do you trust those countries with your content since the country has final say over the domain?
Are that many people likely to mistype the address they are trying to go to that they will end up there rather than on the .com? Do many people type addresses at all to make it worth allowing for these typos?
Is your business one where someone is likely to set up in competition with you using one of those country specific domains?
.co does not belongs to any country and it works well
All the two character top level domains belong to specific countries - if you nad bothered to actually read this thread you would have found out that it belongs to Colombia.
.co is not entirely necessary to protect a brand. I think if you have the spare cash, why not just get it. If you don't, it is not a big deal. With domains being so cheap now a days, you can easily get it.
CO is easy to recognize, simple to remember , flexible to use and anybody can register .co domain,( www.irist.com/co-domains.php) but it is true .co belongs to Colombia
.co is is makes domain shorter to look at. And it's gaining popularity since the big company Twitter started to use it for it's url shortening, t.co.
yes, if you are microsoft like brand
Unless you like those big company like facebook and google that they do apply trademark and patent toward their brandname. As long who taken the domain name that do have the keywords of their brand will be get sue and be taken . But ofcourse that only can do by big companies.
If you do not able to do so , then you only can apply all domain extension that necessaries.
As mentioned ..I agree that big business would reg. .co and other domain extensions , If you have strong brand go for it .. couldn't hurt . Translate your brand to native language if possible also.
It depends on your business and whether you are trying to protect your brand from confusion or imitators/scammers.
For most sites then you will only really need the .com and the the regional domain for the countries in which you operate (.co.uk, .de, .ca, etc) as most people will find your site through either searching on Google/Bing/etc or by just typing the name into their browser's address bar - which will normally try to go to the .com followed by other TLDs.
If your business is a brand that people will try and imitate and pass off as you - or a business with a large level of trust - such as a bank website - then it is important to buy variations that people could be tricked by. For example - if you ran BigBank.com, then as well as the country TLDs as above it would be important to also control BigBank.co and BigBank.cm as otherwise some less than savoury character could buy them and use them for phishing scamsas users would could confuse the domain with it being the real website. Similar problems would occur for other brands where counterfeiting is a problem, and other industries - banks are just a clear example.
As other users already mentioned, you don't have to buy local domains unless your target audience is in those specific countries. Also, you don't really have to buy all the available tlds just to protect your brand. At least I think that it's not worth it. If someone wants to benefit from your popularity, they will find a way.
Sorry, I didn't get any notifications for replies to this thread. But thanks for the thoughts.
I've decided to protect my business brand. I do it for my personal brand so I should for my business. Been learning a fair bit about branding lately. Fascinating topic.
Congrats on the decision. It is everyone's own prerogative to protect their brands. You know what they say - better safe than sorry.
in my view ".com" is enough to build/protect the brand. If you're a web related service/company based (had branches) in the multiple countries, then I'd suggest you to use that country TLD for example ".co.in / .in" for India.
in my view ".com" is enough to build/protect the brand.
@smileverse, I agree if it's a personal blog or whatever.
For an internet tech/media business targeting businesses from all over the world (not specific countries but broadly speaking I could have clients from anywhere), it makes more sense to protect my brand with the most common gTLDs.


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As you can see the breadth peaked in early November 2010. Since then rallies have been on lower breadth. Each successful bounce effort after that was not followed by significant breadth. This breadth divergence was clearly a sign of topping pattern.
Now breadth is at extreme negative level. Historically such low levels lead to tradable bounce in next 1 to 6 weeks time frame. Often such low readings also lead to new bull move.
If you see the left side of the above chart you will see that during the flash crash in June to August 2010 period the readings went below 200 to 130 , that resulted in a big rally starting September 2010. Readings below 200 indicate seller capitulation.
A detailed understanding of market breadth and how to use it can help you develop very effective market timing tools that will keep you out of bearish phases and will tell you when major rally is likely to develop. It is one time effort but it will save you hundreds of thousands and make you millions.
The Market Monitor is a breadth based risk management and market timing tool that I have been using for last 10 years. It has kept me out of every risky and bearish period.
Now the tool is used by number of trading bloggers (if you do search for Stockbee Market Monitor you will see lot of them using this tool ) you and many of them have done further refinement to the concept.
As I get many email messages from this blog readers about Market Monitor and how to interpret it the following Market Monitor post details the use of the tool and how to set it up in Telechart.
stockbee Market Monitor is a market timing tool. It looks at the underlying breadth of big moves to determine market direction. The objective of Stockbee Market Monitor is to identify and anticipate market turns quickly and proactively. stockbee Market Monitor indicates bearish or bullish turns zones ahead of the actual turn. It is a overall filter for deciding when to use breakout methods, when to be aggressive in terms of margin and risk, and when to be defensive. I also use Market Monitor to time retirement account funds allocation.
Market Monitor has kept me out of every bearish move since 2002 and has helped me get in to every bullish move right at its beginning and get out before actual top.
Stockbee Market Monitor= Market Breadth of major moves+extreme zones+divergences+breadth thrust
What is market breadth
Market Breadth simply tells you how many stocks are going up, how many going down, and how many are unchanged. Market breadth tells you how many stocks are participating in the move. Market breadth uses market derived data to judge the health of a move.
There are variations of the basic breadth idea like measuring number of new highs and new lows, or measuring the up volume and down volume. But ultimately all breadth indicators mathematically are derivatives of :
Different people have massaged this data in various ways by using variety of mathematical techniques like moving average, exponential moving average, ratio analysis, standard deviation and so on to develop number of breadth based indicators.
Because it is internally driven information, it tells you objectively the participation of stocks in a market move. Sometime one of the indexes can be positive as the index are calculated by price weightage or capitalisation weight age, but breadth does not lie. Breadth treats all issues equal.
So because Dow Jones is price weighted , if say the 10 highest priced stocks are up big , it can be positive, even if remaining 20 stocks are down for the day. In such a case the breadth will tell you real story. The breadth will be 10/20.
Breadth tells you immediately the strength and direction of a move in the market. A market in which more stocks are going up compared to going down and more stocks making new high compared to new low is a good bull market. Extreme breadth is often indicator of exhaustion and such zones lead to reversal. Tops and bottoms are also formed due to breadth divergence. If a move keeps going up but breadth does not increase then that is divergence. Such divergences typically result in failure of the move.
Primarily breadth is calculated by tracking advance decline and/ or new high new low and/or advancing volume and declining volume.
- Total stocks available for trading in the market (T)
- Advancing stocks or advances (A)
- Declining stocks or decliners (D)
- Unchanged (U)
- Advancing Volume or Up volume (UV)= total volume of (A)
- Declining volume or Down volume (DV)= total volume of (D)
- Total volume = total of all volume traded for the day for all stocks
- New high (h)= number of stocks making 52 week high
- New Low (l)= number of stocks making 52 week low
How is Stockbee Market Monitor different from other market breadth indicator
stockbee Market Monitor is different from most commonly used breadth indicator. It only looks at breadth of major moves. Stockbee Market Monitor uses minimum liquidity to calculate breadth. All market breadth indicators take any up or down move to calculate breadth. So if a stock goes up on 100 share volume it is still calculated . In stockbee Market Monitor such stocks are not used for market calculations. Only stock with Dollar volume above 250000 USD or 100000 shares traded are used in all stockbee Market Monitor calculation. stockbee Market Monitor uses price cut offs to eliminate low priced stocks. Fourth difference in use of only Common Stocks to calculate breadth. This ensures you are looking at breadth of only tradable stocks.
These changes in ways to calculate market breadth significantly improves the breadth indicators.
Market monitor looks at breadth of significant moves in the market instead of small moves. By doing that it reduces the noise in breadth data. Say if you use just advancing , declining, and unchanged issues to look at breadth on a daily basis, a stock going up or down 1 cent also gets represented in the data.
Same way if you use up volume and down volume , even a stock trading single share more than yesterday gets reflected in the data. That makes breadth data very noisy. So if you look at breadth chart they tend to be very noisy.
So stockbee Market Monitor uses only certain magnitude moves for calculating breadth.
- Daily time frame=4% plus
- Monthly move=25% plus
- Monthly move=50% plus
- Quarterly move= 25% plus
By using such big moves to measure breadth you are reducing the noise in data.
Stockbee Market Monitor measures breadth on various time frame. That allows you to create slow and fast indicators or strategic or tactical indicators. So market monitor measures the breadth of the market on various time frames.
There is also a variation in how the % moves are calculated. In some cases the reference point for percent change is price number of days ago. In some cases it is lowest price for the period of calculation. The logic is to track both kinds of trends. Some trends start from low points. some start from mid way point. So if you use just new high or new low it can be misleading. This is very critical at turns where up or down moves start from 52 week high or low.
One of the problems with many breadth indicators is that they are 2nd or 3rd derivatives of breadth. This creates a lag in these indicators. The stockbee Market Monitor uses 1st derivative data to eliminate such problems.
Market Monitor Scans
To get stockbee Market Monitor Daily data you need to setup following scans in Telechart. All stockbee Market Monitor scans use Common Stock as stock universe.
4% plus daily
Number of stocks up 4% for the day on high volume.
4% down daily
Number of stocks down 4% plus in a day on high volume.
25% plus Quarter
Number of stocks up 25% plus in a quarter
100 * ((C + .01) - ( MINC65 + .01)) / (MINC65 + .01) >= 25 and AVGC20 * AVGV20 >= 2500
Number of stocks down 25% plus in a quarter.
(100 * ((C + .01) - (MAXC65 + .01)) / (MAXC65 + .01)) <= ( - 25) and AVGC20 * AVGV20 >= 2500
25% plus month
Number of stocks up 25% plus in a month
25% down month
Number of stocks down 25% plus in a month
50% plus month
Number of stocks up 50% plus in a month
50% down month
Number of stocks down 50% plus in a month.
34/13 Bull
Number of stocks up 13% in 34 days.
100 * ((C + .01) - ( MINC34 + .01)) / (MINC34 + .01) >= 13 and AVGC20 * AVGV20 >= 2500
34/13 Bear
Number of stocks down 13% in 34 days.
(100 * ((C + .01) - (MAXC34 + .01)) / (MAXC34 + .01)) <= ( - 13) and AVGC20 * AVGV20 >= 2500
10 Day Ratio
This is not calculated using Telechart. This is calculated by using last 10 days of 4% plus and down breakouts.
10 day breadth ratio= number of 4% plus daily breakouts in 10 days/number of 4% down daily in last 10 days.
This is not calculated using Telechart. This is calculated using the 34/13bull and 34/13 bear data
34/13D= 34/13bull-34/13bear
Total (No ETF)
This is the number of "Common Stocks" from Telechart component lists.
How to interpret Market Monitor
4% plus Daily
up to 300 normal buying pressure
4% Down daily
up to 300 normal selling pressure
10 Day cumulative breadth ratio
When market is in bearish phase first time ratio is 2 plus signals start of a bull move.
25% plus quarter
This is a primary indicator
Market is in bullish phase: 25% plus quarter > 25% down quarter.
25% down quarter
This is a primary indicator
Market is in bullish phase: 25% plus quarter>25% down quarter.
25% plus month and 25% down month
These are secondary indicator.
50% plus month and 50% down month
This is a secondary indicator.
This indicator tells you intermediate term extreme bullish phases and likely pullback/correction points
Readings on 50% plus month above 20 are bearish.
34/13 bull and 34/13 bear
34/13 is a faster version of 25% plus or down in a quarter.
34/13 bull looks for half of that move in half the time frame.


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Well this is a no dip Sherlock.
So the iPad 1 wasn't tested in this benchmark? I'd like to see which devices it's slower than.
This is a clear indication of how raw clock speed and specs don't always mean you'll win the battle. Apple is all about efficiency. The A5 chip was released back in April and still kicks the crap out of Samsung's brand new flagship device.


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MASSIMO Luongo is expecting his Australia side to go on the offensive when they begin their World Cup campaign against Chile this evening.
Luongo is the first Swindon player to be involved in a World Cup for 20 years but, given they must also tackle the Netherlands and reigning champions Spain, the Socceroos face an uphill task make it out of Group B.
However, with their tournament set to begin at 11pm British time this evening in Cuiaba, the Swindon midfielder insisted it's not in his side's nature to sit back and defend.
"We're expecting to win games and advance to the next stage, Luongo said.
"It's a tough group and we're going to try and pick up as many points as we can and we want to win.
"Against Chile we're trying to break them down and counter what they do to score goals.
"We're not looking to hide and simply defend. We're not like that."
"We're focusing on this game and all our training has been geared to how we can compete against them.
"Every group will be a tough group so we just need to work at it. When it comes to the World Cup every team is on a level par because we've all qualified to be here and they're all good players, and the games are very close.
"Most games are 1-0 or 1-1 and anything can happen."
Luongo and his teammates are also banking on the support of fans back home, with the World Cup temporarily grabbing headlines ahead of the likes of cricket, rugby and Aussie Rules Football.
"It's not a massive sport when you compare it to Aussie Rules or Rugby Union or something like that, but it's definitely competing with them at the moment," Luongo said.
"Qualifying for the World Cup has boosted us a bit and at the moment because it is the World Cup, so it's good to know everyone is behind us back home."


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I am new to metro ethernet and have two ME3600x switches. We are connecting multiple customers between to locations and I'd like to map them to different EVC's between the two metro switches at each location. I am attaching a diagram of a proposed architecture. can anyone assist/recommend a config. The link tothe SP network between ME3600's is a dedicated ME private line service. Thanks for any assistance.


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Occurs during a one night stand, usually alcohol and the lowering of standards are a major factor. This is the moment immediately after ejaculation, when the man realizes the horrible mistake he's made/situation he's in, to which he had previously been blinded by lust. After one cums to their senses, they typically conclude that they don't want to be there at all, and their mind immediately begins to race, looking for a way out or an excuse to leave.
-I told her I had to leave to teach Karate class, I didn't know what else to say!
-Well, way to cum to your senses.
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Hello all,
As a reletive new comer to grilling I feel the need to ask what is probably a stupid question but I can't find the answer any place else.
I bought a Weber Genesis Silver late last summer and I love it. Being in Texas almost a week never goes by where I do not get to use it. In fact I've already gone through several tanks of propane in less then 6 months.
I''ve learned to cook ribs, steaks, burgers, pork chops, pork loins, etc on it. In fact I do more cooking these days then my wife.
But my question is this.....
With a gas grill can I use them? If so, how?
And more importantly should I use them?
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's and women's swim teams both sit in sixth place after the opening day of the 2014 Sunshine State Conference Swimming Championships. Highlighting the day was a first place finish by junior Stephanie Martinez in the women's 1000 Yard Freestyle event as the women finished day one with 47 points, and the men earned a total of 38 points on the day.
Martinez touched first in the 1000 Free to kick off the 2014 Championship meet, touching with a time of 10:14.55, just one second off of the SSC Meet record of 10:13.45 set in 2013. Kaitlyn Hite finished the event in 10:52.04, good for 16th, while Megan McGowan and Lindsay Albanese earned 22nd and 23rd, respectively with times of 11:12.20, and 11:25.46.
In the men's 1000 Yard Free, Dillon Kasson led the way for the Lions as he finished with a time of 10:02.50, good for 15th overall. Valentin Lenz and Niclas Bez touched with times of 11:07.64, and 11:25.47, respectively, good for 17th and 18th place.
The relay team of Martinez, Nicole Weber, Chantal Bouthillier, and Hite pulled in a sixth place time of 7:57.58 in the Women's 800 Yard Freestyle Relay A Finals. Following suit, the Men's 800 Yard Freestyle Relay team of Rhet Rheinlander, Jan Dahrendorff, Michael Marino, and Kasson earned a fifth place finish, picking up a time of 7:06.41 in the A Finals.
The B Finals of the Men's 800 Yard Free Relays saw the team of Justin Wulff, Lenz, Bez, and Jackson Hall pull in 14th overall with a time of 7:32.01.
The Saint Leo men's and women's swim teams return to action Thursday, February 20, for the preliminary rounds of the 500 Yard Freestyle, 200 Yard IM, and 50 Yard Freestyle events. Preliminary rounds are slated to begin at 10 a.m. at the Orlando YMCA Aquatic Center. Fans will be able to catch all of the action live on the Saint Leo Sports Network at SaintLeoLions.com.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's and women's swim teams, fans can visit SaintLeoLions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest Lions news by following Saint Leo Athletics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.


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How will social media impact marketers and businesses in 2011? We sought expert opinions from a wide range of pros you're likely familiar with.
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Somehow I did not expect it to end like that. My mother has always made a point of reading Patricia Polacco stories to us as kids and like many out there we have cried, laughed and smiled at her tales of growing up and the struggles that she faced. I admit this was an unexpected listen and one that I think people of all ages should remember to enjoy.
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The story was quite moving, even for my "tough" fifth-graders who usually don't want to share a lot of vulnerable feelings.
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- Making of the Museum
- Cosmè Tura
- Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces
- Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice
- Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy
- The Inscrutable Eye: Watercolors by John Singer Sargent in Isabella Stewart Gardner's Collection
- Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America
- Illuminating the Serenissima: Books of the Republic of Venice
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King Philip IV of Spain
about 1626-1628
Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660) and workshop
Oil on canvas, 199 x 108 cm
Genre: European Art, Paintings
Location: Titian Room
Accession Number: P26e18
The Gardner portrait of Philip IV of Spain is a replica of the famous portrait in the Prado, Madrid, and is one in a series Velázquez painted of the King after the artist's appointment to the court in 1623. The Prado portrait was painted around 1628 and the Gardner replica shortly thereafter. Remarkably, the Prado picture as we see it today represents a complete reworking of the canvas covering an earlier portrait of the King painted in 1623. A copy of that first version, also by Velázquez and now in the Metropolitan Museum, shows Philip IV in a similar pose although the position of the feet is quite different and overall, his figure is stout and his cape wide in proportion. In the Gardner painting, he is slender and rendered in a more idealized form that is meant to enhance his stature as supreme ruler. Dressed in black, Philip stands in a three-quarter stance against an undefined and austere gray background. In a pose that he took during official proceedings at the court, his left hand holds the hilt of his sword and his right hand holds a partially folded note.
The painting of Philip IV of Spain by Diego Velázquez and Workshop was the focus of a major restoration campaign over the past year. The portrait, which hangs prominently and in close proximity to Titian's Europa in the Titian Room, was last restored in 1948. Over the past sixty years, the accumulation of surface grime and the discoloration of previous restorations marred the appearance of both the painting and its magnificent frame. Along with the conservation treatment, a thorough scientific analysis was carried out on the painting to better understand the techniques employed by Velázquez and his assistants.
The conservation treatment, which resulted in a marked improvement in the appearance of the painting, centered on the removal of a darkened polyvinyl-acetate varnish coating and badly discolored restorations from the previous treatment. These degraded layers were removed from the paint surface with cotton swabs dampened with appropriate solvent mixtures. The cleaning effectively removed the restoration materials used in the 1948 restoration; however, much older tenacious restorations which could not be safely removed were left. These, along with numerous small losses and abrasions scattered over the surface of the image, were in-painted and toned to match the original paint layers. A stable and reversible synthetic varnish was applied to the paint surface to re-saturate the image.
The frame, which is one of a suite of similar frames now in the Spanish Room of the Kingston Lacy house, was previously restored; however, it was not re-gilded so the objective of the treatment was to clean and conserve the original gilt surface. In a prior treatment, most of the frame surface had been coated with a thick layer of wax that become dark and dull over time. In addition, areas of loss of gilding had been coated. A laser cleaner was used to soften the wax coatings which were then removed mechanically. Areas of loose or unstable gilding and gesso were consolidated with a stable synthetic resin, and losses were filled and in-painted to resemble the gilt surface.
Technical analysis of the painting, including x-radiography, infrared imaging, and cross-sectional analysis to identify pigments and media, revealed a number of features characteristic to Velázquez and his workshop. The most significant finding is the presence of a red earth ground layer applied to the canvas prior to the execution of portrait. Between 1624 and the late 1620s, Velázquez exclusively used a preparatory red ground layer (the artist reverted to using a gray ground after this period). Cross-sectional analysis revealed that in appearance and composition the ground layer of the Gardner Museum's Philip IV matches the ground layers of paintings from this period. Although not meant to be readily visible, this layer nonetheless has a considerable visual impact on the image, especially in the red tablecloth, where it shows through the transparent paint layers, and along the contours of the figure—where the hands and white cuff meet, for example. In a more subtle way, the red ground layer imparts an overall warm tonality to the portrait.
Philip IV of Spain was originally in the possession of the Marquis de Leganes, a cousin of the Duke of Olivares, the powerful prime minister at the Spanish court during Philip IV's reign. By 1827 it came into the Bankes collection at Kingston Lacy, Dorset. Through arrangements made by Bernard Berenson, the painting was acquired by Isabella Gardner from Colnaghi and Co., London in 1896.


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A CONSULTANT working at York's accident and emergency department has spoken out after it was inundated with drunk patients at the weekend.
On Saturday night the department at York Hospital was inundated with 85 ambulances - the same number as seen at Leeds General Infirmary - and at one stage had 40 patients needing to be seen.
More than half were believed to be there for alcohol related matters, including assaults and illness relating to intoxication, and staff faced verbal abuse with security having to be called.
During the evening the forecourt in front of A&E was also reported to have been littered with alcohol cans and bottles which hospital staff were left to clear up.
Dr Manish Gaur, a consultant working in A&E at the weekend, said the pressure on A&E was "considerably worse" than a usual busy Saturday night.
He said: " It was very busy and it was a lot of pressure on our staff and all the resources. I suspect it was the same for the police in the town. Obviously we had to deal with the critical patients first, it was a lot of pressure.
"I suspect more that 50 per cent of the workload was due to alcohol.
"People have an expectation from the NHS and the hospital to address their needs but the public also needs to accept responsibility to their attitude to drinking."
Dr Gaur said staff had worked admirably under pressure. He said: "Our staff face verbal abuse and our staff try to keep the situation calm and act in the best interest of the patient.
"Our staff have high standards and professional values."
Between 9pm and 12am the A&E department saw 34 patients during a time. Typically they would expect 15 to 20 during that time.
Between midnight and 3am an additional 20 patients headed in to the department.
Dr Gaur said he did believe some of the patients had started drinking at Saturday's races.
However, James Brennan head of marketing at York Racecourse, said many people would have been in the city enjoying the good weather and said the racecourse was strictly held to account by the licensing department. He said a wide spectrum of society went to the races, which finished in the early evening, and that problems could be indicative of "wider society challenges".
Police arrested 20 people on Saturday. There were 26 arrests on Sunday, starting from 12.01am. Police dealt with one fight outside outside Popworld where the numbers involved ran into the double figures.
On Saturday between 3pm and 4am the following morning, North Yorkshire Police attended 36 incidents across York which were alcohol related. The same time on the previous weekend police attended 19 alcohol related incidents across York.
Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing, cabinet member for homes and safer communities, said: "The council leader and I will be meeting with the Police and Crime Commissioner soon and will discuss how the council can work with and support the Police in addressing alcohol-related anti-social behaviour problems in the city centre.
"We want to support all licensed premises, including corner shops, supermarkets, restaurants and public houses who are working hard to run a business but do need to look at licence reviews where there is evidence of licensees not operating responsibly, however small in number they may be. We have asked for a representative from the York Licensed Victuallers Association to join the Council's night-time economy group and look forward to their participation".
Unit absent from city on Saturday
MP Hugh Bayley, centre, meets, from left, Don Wotherspoon, Amy Moss, Michael Long and Mark Inman at the mobile community medical unit
THE situation in A&E may have been made worse by the absence of a medical unit which should have been stationed in the city centre to take pressure off York Hospital.
The unit is supposed to be in York on Friday and Saturday nights and throughout the day during the races as part of a six- month City of York Council and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) initiative announced in June.
But the unit was not in York on Saturday because specialist staff were needed to work in other areas, Yorkshire Ambulance Service said.
A spokeswoman said: "The community medical unit is a resource requiring specialist staff and is additional to our core mobile resources. It is not always possible to have the unit in place. We do our best to run it as often as possible, but cannot always guarantee its availability."
Yesterday York Central MP, Hugh Bayley visited the unit to hear how emergency care practitioners can assess, treat and discharge patients with minor illnesses or injuries with the intention of reducing admissions to hospital.


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New Amendments to CO Bill Filed
Amendments were filed yesterday to the law regulating carbon monoxide detectors in hotels passed last year in reaction to three deaths at the Boone Best Western Hotel last spring. The amendments were authored by Senators Brent Jackson and Dan Soucek to include Bed and Breakfast and Tourist Homes that would now be required to have what the bill now calls carbon monoxide alarms. The extensive re-write defines time periods for taking action and penalties for operators. Next action on the bill was not listed on the General Assembly website.


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Quick Look at ASUS UX51V: My CES 2013 Laptopby Jarred Walton on 1/12/2013 3:40 AM EST
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ashetosvlakas - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkRaid-0 random accesses should be twice as fast. No? Reply
madmilk - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkNo, RAID stripes are much bigger than typical random accesses. Reply
ashetosvlakas - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkRight, but you don't need to read the whole stripe when doing random I/O. At least, linux md does not. Stripes are only for data placement, not necessarily for pre-fetching or write-combining. Reply
ashetosvlakas - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkhttp://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/k...
Here is a performance analysis of a RAID-0 with SSDs. It seems that at queue depth one performance is not very good for random I/O, probably due to latency. At high queue depth it is exactly twice as fast. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkDon't forget that you need to compare the 2x120GB to the 240GB single drive. Reply
ashetosvlakas - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkRight. So then, if SSD Nand scales with capacity, RAID-0 is useless, unless you are limited by the SATA interface. I'm sure there are 128GB SSDs though that perform more than half as good as their 256GB counterparts in random reads. Would these be good candidates for RAID-0? Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkPersonally, a good SSD is more than fast enough for anything I see consumers doing. We're basically saturating the SATA bus with single drives in theoretical testing, sure, but how often are you doing stuff where you want/need >500MBps? There are use cases where such things are important, but not for consumers -- for professionals, servers, and workstations. Reply
jeffkibuule - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - link1) People rarely, if ever, use the number pad.
2) Trackpad isn't centered.
3) After looking at a Retina MacBook Pro screen, even 1080p on 15" screen is too low.
Maybe I'm asking too much, but I think ASUS is just trying to pull a fast one for the price they are asking for. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - link1) Speak for yourself
2) Centered on the spacebar -- if you center on the laptop and have a 10-key, your palm will always rest on the touchpad when typing. So basically, this is the same complaint as #1.
3) I wouldn't say it's too low, but it is lower. Depending on your eyesight, it may or may not matter.
There's no doubt the MacBook Pro Retina has a better LCD, overall build, SSD, touchpad, and battery life. It also starts at $2200 and doesn't run Windows as well as it runs OS X (basically, it's not even remotely optimized for Windows use -- not that I expect it to be). People don't cross shop MacBook vs. Windows; they either go Windows or OS X, or perhaps go OS X but sometimes dual-boot into Windows. Anyway, the point is that $200 isn't a big enough gap to say ASUS is offering you reasonable savings.
No one gets to charge Apple prices except for Apple; everyone that tried doesn't sell enough product to be worthwhile. I knock off $50 from the price for the SSDs, $200 for the LCD, $100 for the build quality, $25 for the touchpad, $50 for the battery life, and then take another 15% off for not being Apple. Hence, I think the UX51VZ should be selling for more like $1500. Reply
Narrlok - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkThe $2,000 they're charging for the UX51 in the United States must be a pricing error. The variant they sell in Sweden is called the U500VZ (same specs) and sells for SEK 15.995:-, whereas the MacBook Pro 15" with Retina starts at SEK 21.495*, so this is more in line with the relative prices you listed ($1500 vs $2200).
How are you liking the build quality though compared to a unibody MBP and an HP EliteBook 8570p for example?
* Yes USD 1 is closer to SEK 6.5 and not SEK 10, but that's the way regional pricing works, plus we have 25% VAT. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkBuild quality is generally good, but I notice there's a seam on the back-right hinge that has pulled apart a bit. The way the top and bottom of the chassis comes together isn't as good as on the MacBook line I don't think, and the aluminum is a bit thinner. But if the pricing is right I would certainly recommend this laptop as a good overall option -- and I need to look for updated touchpad drivers, which I'll do now.... Reply
Death666Angel - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkInteresting, German prices seem pretty reasonable. 1564€ for the ASUS Zenbook UX51VZ-CN035H whereas the cheapest Apple 15.4" Retina Notebook costs 1974€. That's a good enough gap in my opinion. I personally would much rather use the 13" ASUS UX31/32, because I don't need the 10-key or the quad core CPU when I'm on the road and like the smaller form factor (11.6" Acer 1st generation Core-i3 ULV user here). :D Reply
warisz00r - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkI think more people should learn that the correct position of the trackpad is ALWAYS centered on the spacebar. On the MacBook line, Apple can afford to have the trackpad centered length-wise to the chassis because they can afford to lose a little trackpad-spacebar symmetry to gain a much better aesthetics. Of course the fact that the last time they fitted a 10-key on the MacBook was donkey's years ago (if they ever did), helps. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkAfter updating my ProBook to Windows 8, I actually saw an overall decrease in battery life. I was surprised by this, since Win8 is supposed to have better idle characteristics. I wonder what would happen if you put Windows 7 on it?
Either way, perhaps a nice article at Anandtech would be a battery life/power consumption comparison between Windows 7 and 8 on various hardware. Reply
Rezurecta - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkI own this laptop. Extremely thin, extremely light, all aluminum, quiet, 1080p IPS matte, i7 with gaming class discrete graphics, EXCEPTIONAL AUDIO for a laptop(I am a headphone audiophile and the sound is quite good for the platform), amazing storage, 3 ports of USB 3 (very important not only USB 3, but 3 ports for kb, mouse, perhipheral), and backlight keyboard that is excellent to type on and even has a numpad.
This is a one of a kind laptop, that is a PC. I suppose you could buy an MBP pro and hack install windows. I think Asus is charging a premium because they are the only one who has a product of this caliber and isn't Apple.
They hit pretty much every painpoint for enthusiasts who want thin and light.
The touchpad is problematic, but usable. I use double touch for right click and sometimes it doesn't work. The laptop also has an external mini sub (quite nice and fills out the sound decently). The plug is starting to wiggle and I start to lose audio connection with the sub. Suppose its a good time to test Asus support.
Overall, Asus was the only one who satisfied the checklist and I was willing to pay a premium to fill it out. Most important is the fact that Asus is willing to create an ultra premium Windows laptop. We should encourage this. Reply
slippysoup - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkI picked up an Asus X202 for Christmas that also uses the Elan touchpad. Thanks to a comment on an Amazon review, I installed Samsung's driver for the same touchpad and it made a world of a difference. Here's the link:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/samsung/630167-sam... Reply
puttersonsale - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkHe says there is NO touchscreen but if you go to the Asus website and watch the video for the laptop you actually see him use the screen as a touchscreen.....is it touch or isnt it then? The video im talking about is on this page: http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/UX... Towards the 2nd half of the video you see him clearly take a finger swype across the screen and it moves the metro interface. Reply
puttersonsale - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkjust so you dont have to watch the whole thing i think its @ 1:54 - 1:56 ish of the video Reply
Narrlok - Monday, January 14, 2013 - linkThat's a newer model. The one he has doesn't have a touchscreen. For some reason ASUS decided to keep the old model names (UX51VZ, U500VZ) for then ew ZENBOOK Touch. Reply
puttersonsale - Monday, January 14, 2013 - linkThanks a ton that is confusing lol
You'd think they use a different model number for the newer one. Reply
JJJJS - Monday, January 21, 2013 - linkAs mentioned above, Asus has announced a touchescreen version of this laptop, but it has yet to be released.
One issue not mentioned in this review is that the SSD drives have a proprietary connector so are not user-upgradeable with off-the-shelf parts.
Also, when this product was originally announced pre-launch it was stated that since the laptop could hold two physical drives, there would be an option of dual SSD using Raid-0, or a combination of a 128GB SSD and 500GB HDD. IMHO, this latter configuration would be ideal because it gives the owner the best of both worlds -- the fast data access of the SSD for booting/apps and critical data, with the less expensive high capacity of the HDD for large data such as a media library.
Unfortunately, post launch it appears that ASUS is indeed manufacturing and shipping models in the SSD/HDD configuration but only in small eastern European markets. The United States, Western Europe and other countries only have the dual SSD models available.
I do not understand the rationale behind this release strategy and find it really disappointing. Do others agree with me that the SSD/HDD variant would be a desirable configuration and hope that ASUS would release it in western markets? Reply


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PREMIER Barry O'Farrell told Triple M that police have been supplied with the computer IP address of the troll who attacked Tigers captain Robbie O'Farrah.
The Wests Tigers and Origin hooker, whose mum died in June, was targeted by an internet 'troll' who posted a disturbing, sexually explicit tweet about his mother on Sunday night.
It prompted an instant backlash online, with Farah's supporters lining up to condemn the abuse, which was posted using the Twitter handle maxpower118.
Mr O'Farrell weighed in as Farah's supporters demanded action.
"Shouldn't matter who target is - completely unacceptable,'' the premier tweeted.
"Will follow up & happy to work with Feds to stop it.''
Farah himself responded to maxpower118, saying he'd `rip his face off' had the abuse been said to him in person.
It appears the maxpower118 account, which used a skull-like face as a profile picture, was deleted soon after the row erupted.
The incident comes shortly after Sydney-based actor Charlotte Dawson, 46, was rushed to hospital after being subjected to a torrent of internet abuse.
Following her recovery, the Kiwi-born actor spoke out about the trolls in a TV interview - and then suffered even more abuse.
Her case prompted fresh debate about possible new laws making it harder to post anonymous abuse online, and the Farah case is certain to spur more calls for action.
A number of abusive tweets have been prosecuted in the UK, where there are laws governing what is said and written on social networking sites.
In April, 21-year-old Liam Stacey was jailed for 56 days after he posted racist `jokes' about the footballer Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed and neary died during a match.
More recently, a teenager was arrested after he allegedly posted abuse to the British diver Tom Daley.
The teenager was released with a warning.
Originally published as Farah subjected to vile Twitter abuse