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Despite inclement weather, thousands of pro-lifers gathered in Washington, D.C., Friday to protest the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Nothing will stop us from being a voice for the voiceless! pic.twitter.com/1ui9FcoYcJ
— Students for Life (@Students4LifeHQ) January 20, 2016
On our way to witness for Pro-Life in DC. Bring on the snow! pic.twitter.com/MwLiltgJPt
— Bishop Cozzens (@BishopCozzens) January 22, 2016
This year's March took place on the 43rd anniversary of Roe.
#MarchForLife President @jeannemfl – "abortion harms women…research and reality show this" #whywemarch pic.twitter.com/6NiLfDCx23
— March for Life (@March_for_Life) January 22, 2016
Senator Joni Ernst @SenJoniErnst taking a selfie with marchers! #MarchForLife #whywemarch pic.twitter.com/v8fWDqWsGV
— March for Life (@March_for_Life) January 22, 2016
We #MarchForLife! #whywemarch #snowmaggedon2016 @NBCNews @ABC @CNN @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/y16ayWcmbg
— March for Life (@March_for_Life) January 22, 2016
HAPPENING NOW: Watch Joni speak at #MarchforLife: https://t.co/o5iYopw52B pic.twitter.com/XZ5EElEmbj
— Joni Ernst (@joniernst) January 22, 2016
"#snowmageddon can't stop us from marching for life" Carly Fiorina #whywemarch #MarchForLife pic.twitter.com/uPoWjc2XsP
— March for Life (@March_for_Life) January 22, 2016
Big crowd here at #MarchForLife! Little snow won't stop the Pro-life Generation! #whywemarch pic.twitter.com/2kcvSR5sPs
— Sarah Torre (@sarahtorre) January 22, 2016
Proud to stand with #MarchForLife & @SenJoniErnst 2 champion the rights of the unborn & protect the most vulnerable pic.twitter.com/idx5tLuYUz
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) January 22, 2016
Record number of #Prolife female legislators serving in Congress @SBAList #whywemarch #MarchForLife #prolifeprowoman pic.twitter.com/7wfTsEqyjl
— March for Life (@March_for_Life) January 22, 2016
The media doesn't cover the massive crowds at the #MarchForLife. Incredible turnout even with a blizzard on the way. pic.twitter.com/iQ17so1a6k
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) January 22, 2016
And we are off! THANK YOU for marching for life! #whywemarch #MarchForLife pic.twitter.com/oYKSzoLcN3
— March for Life (@March_for_Life) January 22, 2016
Participants in the annual March for Life, the largest pro-life event in the world, shared their reasons for marching on social media with the hashtag #WhyWeMarch.
Every year it snows on M4L it reminds me why we call it "Mother Nature." She is strong! All women are! #whywemarch pic.twitter.com/UM5HGM4Xr8
— Alison Howard (@alisonhoward1) January 22, 2016
Today is the 42nd annual @March_for_Life!
This is one of the reasons why I march! #WhyWeMarch pic.twitter.com/KUKD1QebSh
— Chelsea Patterson (@Chelspat) January 22, 2016
The rally for the #MarchForLife has begun. pic.twitter.com/EFhLiY8jc5
— Fr Matthew Schneider (@FrMatthewLC) January 22, 2016
.@JanetMorana and @regretabortion are ready to #MarchForLife! #WhyWeMarch to keep the #prolife mission alive! pic.twitter.com/NWISbUP2eJ
— Priests for Life (@Priestsforlife) January 22, 2016
Some Snapchats weve gotten so far! Keep sending us your #MarchForLife snaps so we can feature them! #ProLifeYouth pic.twitter.com/Zg9DTEHTyR
— ProLife Youth (@ProLifeYouth) January 22, 2016
This is great. Stay safe, D.C. friends! #Roe43 #WhyWeMarch pic.twitter.com/61itG6gCep
— Becky Yeh (@Becky_Yeh) January 22, 2016
#WhyWeMarch: pro-life=pro-woman https://t.co/QywRyuhbbN #prolife #defundplannedparenthood #lifeisbeautiful pic.twitter.com/hqBQLBnnm5
— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) January 22, 2016
Defend Life! #whywemarch pic.twitter.com/s6lIG7owoy
— Knights of Columbus (@KofC) January 22, 2016
Just chilling with @KelseyGrammer. Nbd #marchforlife pic.twitter.com/5k4BQxTFxB
— Andrew Bair (@ProLifePolitics) January 22, 2016
Our pilgrims are literally braving the storm to #MarchForLife #WhyWeMarch #WeAreProLife pic.twitter.com/sHcgY5mDkE
— Wichita Diocese (@WichitaDiocese) January 22, 2016
Standing for life is standing for women. #WhyWeMarch pic.twitter.com/d0HBxcqcaD
— Fr Matthew Schneider (@FrMatthewLC) January 22, 2016
Snowing at the #MarchForLife! #whywemarch #churchfullyalive pic.twitter.com/74UmZ01JQM
— Alison Blanchet (@alisongriz) January 22, 2016
This is why I work so hard. Over 200 former workers and counting!! #whywemarch pic.twitter.com/W7T1zNBI8A
— Abby Johnson (@AbbyJohnson) January 22, 2016
Crowd is growing for rally. #March4life to follow. #Prolife is #prowoman #WhyWeMarch #Jonas pic.twitter.com/9dNtli4K59
— Kyleen Wright (@kyleenwright) January 22, 2016
Undeterred by expected blizzard, #MarchForLife marks anniversary of 1973 Roe v Wade decision with demo @WhiteHouse. pic.twitter.com/j8W4acUf7T
— Stephen Crowley (@Stcrow) January 22, 2016
The #blizzard2016 has officially begun! #whywemarch #snowvade #MarchForLife pic.twitter.com/E11ws7OmxO
— Kelsey Harkness (@kelseyjharkness) January 22, 2016
Backstage at the March for Life with Cardinal Dolan of New York and the Little Sisters of the Poor.#whywemarch pic.twitter.com/tjhU2H0x4C
— Russell Moore (@drmoore) January 22, 2016
#whywemarch it just started snowing! pic.twitter.com/37qfAra6FJ
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 22, 2016
We be marchin'. #MarchForLife #WhyWeMarch #ProLife pic.twitter.com/L4df1pfMAM
— Jim Cunningham III (@JudoLionBadger) January 22, 2016
Shanley students at #MarchForLife @ellakrueger2 @Tabbykelsch @LangJenna @JP2Schools pic.twitter.com/JaVQPqOTV8
— Ashlee (@AshleeCournia) January 22, 2016
A smaller crowd than normal at #marchforlife, attendees say, but still 1000s on hand with blizzard looming in DC pic.twitter.com/SfV3zMhQTG
— Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) January 22, 2016
Sisters of Life from #NYC ! #MarchForLife pic.twitter.com/XMwzqD0xyN
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) January 22, 2016
Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, tweeted that the protesters were going through "#SnowvWade" to promote an "insulting message."
Tomorrow, anti-abortion extremists will trudge through #SnowvWade to bring insulting message to DC. Denounce them: https://t.co/oYTNLrdJIU
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) January 22, 2016
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RUGBY UNION: Dewar's England call-up
6:00am Thursday 3rd April 2014
6:00am Thursday 3rd April 2014
OXFORDSHIRE'S Michael Dewar has been named in the England Under 18 Clubs and Schools squad for two internationals.
The Abingdon School pupil is part of a 34-strong group training at Loughborough University this weekend ahead of clashes against Ireland Clubs and France A on April 16 and 20.
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"All we've got from London is from the principal of the school commending and supporting the work and efforts of the players in the school. We never had any confidential reports leaked to us to suggest otherwise."
"It demonstrated that maybe junior hockey, properly presented, was a great entertainment sports property. It marked a renaissance and awareness of junior hockey across the country."
"It is most unfortunate that one of the most esteemed coaches in major junior hockey should express his opinions in the fashion that he chose."
"Any form of hazing must be eradicated from our league. I feel comfortable in stating that the activity which occurred on the Spitfires bus is not common and will never be tolerated."
"The actions of the players at the commencement of the game were most concerning and not consistent with the expectation the League has established."
"We are happy to welcome these new owners into our league. It speaks great volumes of the quality of the young men that graduate from our league and their desire to give back to the communities that supported them through their junior careers."
"John has performed as most thought he would and set the bar at a very high level, which we are all very thankful for."


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We stayed here for 5 nights in June 2014 and it is nice small hotel with all basics covered. We took the tram no 2 from Amsterdam Central station( we bought the 4 days ov card and used it to the maximum) and got off at the Amsteveensweg stop and the hotel is a two minute walk from there. You can also take bus no 197 from the airport and get off at the Harlemeerstation and walk about 5 minutes (Ask for Ron Restaurant as landmark) The hotel itself is in a quite lane, very near to one of the gates of Vondel Park. Very small rooms with smaller bathrooms, but very well kept. Have no complains as we would just come back late at nights and be out early mornings. The reception staff was helpful with directions or general advice. The tram stop is near by and very convenient to get to the touristy parts of Amsterdam using tram no 2. We had breakfast at a bagel place nearby and dint use the restaurant at the hotel as the breakfast was 10 euros. But overall good little hotel in a very quite and good neighborhood. Beds were very soft and one can sink in while lying down.
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Fair will spotlight pet-foster-care need
A grass-roots organization needs your help.
No Kill Pima County is holding a "Fosters to the Rescue" Fair from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Windmill Suites at St. Philip's Plaza, 4250 N. Campbell Ave.
More than 20 local rescue groups will be on hand to educate, inform and inspire prospective pet-foster-care volunteers on how they can improve the dire situation of Pima County's animals.
There will be light refreshments and raffle tickets sold to benefit pet-rescue groups.
For more information visit nokillpimacounty.org online.
Library MangaMania a comic fan's ganga
If you missed Comic-Con International then here's the next best thing.
The Pima County Library is holding MangaMania from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday at Pima Community College's Downtown Campus, 1255 N. Stone Ave.
The event will include art and writing workshops with opportunities to meet local authors and artists, cosplay (costume play), anime viewing, video gaming, a Yu-Gi-Oh (trading cards) tournament, and other Japanese crafting and cultural activities.
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Humane Society sets fundraiser for Aug. 2
The Humane Society of Southern Arizona is hosting its second annual "Dog Days of Summer" fundraising event from 5 to 9 p.m. Aug. 2 at Plaza Colonia, 2850 E. Skyline Drive.
The event is free, but you can buy raffle tickets for chances to win gift certificates and prizes. There will be live music and food for sale from plaza restaurants including Shlomo and Vito's and Gelato.
Guests are invited to bring their canine companions and spend an evening strolling through the courtyard.
Proceeds from the sale of raffle tickets, caricatures from students at The Art Institute of Tucson, hot dogs, and gelato cones will be donated to the humane society.
For more information go to hssaz.org or call 321-3704, Ext. 188.
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Wage Crisis Hits the Courts
The hearing yesterday at the National Labor Tribunal on local authorities' debts failed to produce any progress. State representatives claimed before tribunal president Stephen Adler that only nine local authorities are withholding salaries from employees. In contrast, Histadrut labor federation representatives countered that the number stands at 39.
"We are disheartened by the situation," the Histadrut said last night following the hearing. The Histadrut continued: "We don't see any attempt to reach a comprehensive and just solution. The state puts out one fire and immediately lights another. When the problem of withholding wages for three months is solved, they stop paying wages a month later. We are convinced that personal sanctions need to be taken against local authority heads who do not pay wages owed to their employees, but in the last hearing judge Adler didn't deal with this issue at all."
The tribunal questioned local heads from Taibe, Kfar Yasif and Rama about why their authorities had fallen into arrears and are withholding salaries. The Kfar Yasif head replied, "I fired 80 workers and still the bank isn't prepared to extend me a loan." The Rama head said that a large part of the council's funds are directed toward paying lawyers and creditors. Interior Ministry director general Ram Belinkov said that his ministry intends to appoint special committees to run the affairs of municipalities that have suffered from mismanagement.
MK Yitzhak Cohen of Shas, the minister responsible for religious affairs in the Prime Minister's Office, told the tribunal the Histadrut should sign new recovery plan agreements in the local authorities and religious councils to enable cutbacks that would allow paying wages.
Dorit Tene-Perchik, who heads the legal department at the Histadrut's trade union division, responded that the Histadrut doesn't object to signing a recovery plan deal. However, she announced that should the plan not unequivocably guarantee full payment of workers' wages and their pension plans, the Histadrut would refuse to sign the deal.
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Don't bother thinking about staying here. It was filthy, beds/pillows were the pits and the smoked mirrors were creepy. The breakfast was so disgusting. It was just like getting prepackaged items in a gas station. We used to stay at Microtel Hotels when they were first opened and will never stay in another one ever again.
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Tigers receive AL championship rings
Club presented with hardware in on-field ceremony Wednesday
By Tim Kirby / MLB.com
The Tigers knew they would receive some sort of hardware after defeating Oakland in last October's American League Championship Series, but none of them knew what the actual ring would look like until 30 minutes before the first pitch of their 10-9 win over the Blue Jays, when owner Michael Ilitch, general manager David Dombrowski and manager Jim Leyland presented a ring to each player in an on-field ceremony.
"I don't really know; they [didn't] tell us why [they didn't unveil the design] -- maybe they just didn't have them in on time," Brandon Inge said. "Maybe they wanted the first time we see them -- it's collectively as a team, which makes a lot of sense. You don't want to give one guy his and let him see his [ring] before another [player]. It should be like that, they should get the same enjoyment as everyone else."
The 50 players and coaches in attendance who were on the Tigers' roster at some point during 2006 each did share their enjoyment, as a diamond-laden ring was presented to the players and staff in alphabetical order.
The ring was made by Intergold, Ltd., a company that has previously made rings for MLB, NHL, NBA, MLS, WNBA and CFL champions, and it features 10 diamonds -- one for each World Series trip the Tigers have made in their existence -- on one side while each player's name is also etched onto the side.
Diamonds also dominate the face of the ring and outline a navy blue Old English "D" in the center.
On the inside of the ring, the phrase "nine full innings" is inscribed, a popular message that Leyland often tells the team.
"I'm going out tonight. I'll have my hand up when I order everything," said Leyland, who has over 10 rings from his time spent as a manager in both the Major and Minor Leagues. "I've never seen a ring as beautiful as this. I don't want to get all sentimental, and I don't want to take away obviously from my World Series ring, but I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful ring than this. I really don't."
The players were also impressed with the ring, and Todd Jones went as far to say "someone will have to cut my hand off to wear it."
"When I saw this thing, I almost started crying," Joel Zumaya said. "[It looks like] a World Series ring. Mr. Ilitch does a heck of a job of taking care of everybody. ... If we win the World Series this year, I can't even imagine what the ring is going to look like."
Seven players who received rings -- Brent Clevlen, Jack Hannahan, Kevin Hooper, Zach Miner, Ramon Santiago, Chris Shelton and Jordan Tata -- didn't make the Tigers' roster out of Spring Training but made the 60-mile trip from Toledo, Ohio, in time to participate in the pregame ceremony.
The players will all begin the season with the Mud Hens and will play their first game on Thursday at Louisville, Ky. They left Toledo at 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday and had to leave immediately after receiving their rings, in order to attend a team workout at 2:30 p.m.
"It's definitely all worth it, that's for sure. I'll take a busy day for getting a championship ring," said Hooper, who was called up last September and played in eight games. "We're all excited to be here, but we'll get [the ring] and head right back. This is the best place to be and we all strive to be back here in the limelight. I definitely plan on being back here."
Matt Stairs, who signed with the Blue Jays during the offseason, also received a ring after playing in 14 games with the Tigers last season. He jogged over from the visitors' dugout in a Blue Jays jacket and shared a quick exchange with Leyland before rejoining his new teammates on the first-base side of the field.
Other players who spent time with the Tigers and are now with other teams -- including Jamie Walker of the Orioles and Dmitri Young of the Nationals -- will receive their rings when Detroit makes a road trip to that city, Leyland said.
Now the Tigers can look forward to a regular pregame for Thursday's series finale against the Blue Jays after Monday's AL pennant ceremony and Wednesday's ring presentation.
"It's always good to have this stuff; you really have to take it all in, don't take it for granted, because things like this don't happen very often," Inge said. "You need to cherish it, but at the same time, you have to be good at separating what needs to be done and the enjoyment."
With a pregame forecast of rain or snow for Wednesday's game, there was some talk of a cancellation. But Leyland said the ring ceremony would have taken place on Wednesday regardless if the game was played.
"I think they want to get that behind us and I do, too," Leyland said.
And now the Tigers can put 2006 behind them, albeit with a large and shiny reminder on their finger, even if it doesn't fit everybody.
"I've never been a ring person, my fingers are too skinny," said Curtis Granderson, who gave the ring to his parents to have during the game. "Hopefully it looks all right. ... [If we get another ring this season] I may ask if they can give me a watch or something instead."
Tim Kirby is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A California man has found his wife and teen daughter shot to death in their Pleasanton home.
The San Francisco Chronicle ( http://bit.ly/LDG7ZY ) says 37-year-old Amy Freeman Burton and the 13-year-old girl were killed on Monday.
The woman's husband discovered the victims at about 6 p.m. and he called 911.
Police did not release any additional details.
Investigators wouldn't say if it was being investigated as a murder-suicide or a double murder.
Pleasanton is in Alameda County about 25 miles east of Oakland.
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Hennen leads Tigers, earns all-conference honors
Cassidy Hennen's 45 led Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta to a third-place finish in the final conference meet of the season Monday at The Crossings in Montevideo.
Shiori Legate finished 11th overall with a 50. Lily Erdal shot 54 and Maddie Hennen carded a 53. The Tigers posted a 202.
BOLD's Chloe Altmann was the medalist with a 40.
BOLD shot 179 to finish the season with a clean sweep, winning all seven West Central South meets, for a first-place standing.
Montevideo came in second and the Tigers took third on the season.
Cassidy Hennen finished fourth in the conference. Top 12 are considered all conference.
"I was thrilled to see her finish her final regular season with two great scores of 45 (Benson and Monte)," said coach Austen Miller.
"The girls are all playing well right now and I am anxious for sub-sections," Miller added "Monte will be the team to beat at subs. We beat them in Olivia and I would be beside myself if we beat them in Ortonville!"
Team scoring - (1) BOLD 179; (2) Montevideo 192; (3) Morris/Chokio-Alberta 202; (4) Yellow Medicine East 212; (5) Benson 216; (6) Lac qui Parle Valley 221; (incomplete) Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City
Individual TOP FIVE - (1) Chloe Altmann, BOLD 40; (2) Jen Kack, LQPV 42; (3-tie) Cassidy Hennen, MCA 45, Ashley Schmitz, BOLD 45; (5) Breann Mertens, BOLD 46
MORRIS/C-A - Cassidy Hennen 45, Maddie Hennen 53, Lily Erdal 54, Shiori Legate 50
FINAL Conference standings - (1) BOLD 49; (2) Montevideo 41; (3) Morris/C-A 29; (4) YME 25; (4) Benson/K-M-S 25; (6) LQPV 13; (7) A-C-GC 9


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Video Perspective: AMD A10-4600M vs Core i7-3720QM on Diablo III
Subject: Graphics Cards, Processors, Mobile | June 1, 2012 - 10:52 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, trinity, Ivy Bridge, Intel, i7-3720QM, diablo iii, APU, amd, a10-4600m
So, apparently PC gamers are big fans of Diablo III, to the tune of 3.5 million copies sold in the first 24 hours. That means there are a lot of people out there looking for information about the performance they can expect on various harware configurations with Diablo III. Since we happened to have the two newest mobile processors and platforms on-hand, and because many people seemed to assume that "just about anything" would be able to play D3, we decided to put it to the test.
In our previous reviews of the AMD Trinity and Intel Ivy Bridge reference systems, the general consensus was that the CPU portion of the chip was better on Intel's side while the GPU portion was still weighted towards the AMD Trinity APU. Both of these CPUs, the A10-4600M and the Core i7-3720QM, are the highest end mobile solutions from both AMD and Intel.
The specifications weren't identical, but again, for a mobile platform, this was the best we could do. With the AMD system only having 4GB of memory compared to the Ivy Bridge system with 8GB, that is one lone "stand out" spec. The Intel HD 4000 graphics offer a noticeable upgrade from the HD 3000 on the Sandy Bridge platform but AMD's new HD 7660G (based on Cayman) also sees performance increase.
We ran our tests at 1366x768 with "high" image quality settings and ran through a section of the early part of the game a few times with FRAPs to get our performance results. We did also run some tests to an external monitor at 1920x1080 with "low" presets and AA disabled - both are reported in the video below. Enjoy!
This A-10 can't kill tanks but it does beat a Bulldozer
Subject: Processors | May 16, 2012 - 02:29 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: trinity, radeon, igp, gpu, APU, amd. A10-4600M
AMD's A10-4600M APU has finally arrived, showing off an enhanced Piledriver core and a new Northern Islands based graphics core. This is a big step up from Llano in terms of general processing power but not a huge improvement over Bulldozer chips, though the raised clock speed does help it in general tasks. Unfortunately the AMD still chip lags far behind the performance of Intel's mobile i5 processors and while the graphics are certainly more powerful on Trinity they still aren't up to an impressive level of performance. The Tech Report liked the high end A10-4600M but think that Trinity's low power chips are really going to shine in inexpensive ultraportable machines.
You can also check out Matt's review of Llano in a reference laptop from AMD for more information.
"AMD has pulled the curtains back on Trinity, its next-generation APU, which features new Piledriver CPU cores and Northern Islands-derived integrated graphics. Join us as we outline Trinity's architecture and run it through a whole host of benchmarks, from old staples to OpenCL-accelerated apps and "inside the second" gaming tests."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD Launches New Trinity APU @ TechwareLabs
- The AMD Trinity Review (A10-4600M): A New Hope @ AnandTech
- AMD A10 'Trinity' APU review @ Hardware.Info
- AMD Launches New 2012 A-Series APU (Trinity) @ Bjorn3d
- AMD Trinity Preview @ Neoseeker
- AMD Trinity A10-4600M APU Review: Jumping the Shark? @ VR-Zone
- AMD Trinity: Going Mobile with a New APU @ Hardware Canucks
AMD Launches 2nd-Generation A-Series APU
Subject: Processors | May 15, 2012 - 02:28 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, APU, trinity
AMD today announced the widely anticipated launch of its 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for mainstream and ultrathin notebooks, All-in-One and traditional desktops, home theater PCs and embedded designs.
The 2nd-Generation A-Series APU, codenamed "Trinity", is a grounds-up improved design over the previous generation, enabling a best-in-class PC mobility, entertainment, and gaming experience. New features of the product design include:
- Double the performance per watt of the previous generation;
- The AMD HD Media Accelerator with a unique set of technologies designed to optimize video quality available with premium and Internet video content, and accelerate video file conversion;
- An increase in CPU performance of up to 29 percent with higher processor speeds thanks to the next-generation AMD "Piledriver" CPU core with 3rd-Generation AMD Turbo Core technology, where power is dynamically shifted between the CPU and GPU depending on application needs, effectively providing a more responsive experience that can boost CPU frequencies to up to 3.2 GHz;
- AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics for an increase of graphics performance up to 56% over the previous generation. Combined, the CPU and GPU cores deliver more than 700 gigaflops of computing performance – several times more than the fastest x86 CPUs – to boost performance of hundreds of applications;
- Up to 12 hours of battery life through CPU and GPU power enhancements, with clear battery life leadership in notebook form factors.
"The latest OEM notebooks, ultrathins, All-in-Ones and desktops based on the new AMD A-Series APU enable the best video and gaming experiences, highly responsive performance with AMD Turbo CORE, and accelerate an ever-increasing range of productivity and multimedia applications -- in sleek, stylish designs at price points that make sense," said Chris Cloran, corporate vice president and General Manager, AMD Client Business Unit. "Our 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series APU is a major step forward in every performance and power dimension, allowing users to enjoy a stunning experience without having to give up the things that matter to them most. This experience doesn't stop at mainstream notebooks. It carries over into affordable ultrathin form factors featuring the latest in AMD Radeon graphics."
The Growing AMD Accelerated Application Ecosystem
The developer ecosystem continues to gravitate to the unmatched level of compute and unique processing capabilities of the APU as more than 100 applications and games are now accelerated by AMD APUs. The 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series APU gives users superior Web-based video experience thanks to plug-ins for Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 9 that make it easy for consumers to turn on AMD Steady Video technology. Recent applications that have been optimized for use on AMD A-Series APUs include Adobe Photoshop CS6, WinZip 16.5 and VLC Media Player. AMD A-Series APUs are also well-positioned to take advantage of the upcoming transition to the Windows 8 operating system.
"We are excited for the introduction of the 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series APU and are confident it will continue the great work Microsoft and AMD have done together on the A-Series APU," said Aidan Marcuss, senior director, Windows Business Planning, Microsoft Corp. "We look forward to seeing the A-Series APU in action with Windows 8 to deliver a great user experience across a variety of hardware."
For developers who want to engage in the industry's move toward heterogeneous computing, the upcoming AMD Fusion12 Developer Summit will offer them a unique opportunity to enhance their knowledge base. More information on AFDS can be found here.
Unmatched Mobility
With more than 12 hours of 'resting' battery life, AMD is now an industry leader in notebook battery-life performance. The 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series APU delivers increased levels of performance, while consuming half the power as its predecessor.
These gains can be attributed to the new power-optimized "Piledriver" CPU core, as well as to AMD Start Now technology, which is designed to maximize system responsiveness by quickly entering and exiting low power states. With AMD Start Now, the computer resumes from sleep mode in as few as two seconds and boots to the desktop in as few as 10 seconds.
In ultrathin form factors, AMD enables an uncompromised visual experience thanks to a power-efficient and premium AMD Radeon graphics engine. Consumers can expect to see ultrathin notebooks based on dual-core 17-watt and quad-core 25-watt AMD A-Series APUs. These products will be easily identifiable by aluminum-styled VISION Technology stickers at a range of competitive price points.
Best-in-class Entertainment
As more and more people turn to their computers as the hub for their entertainment, the visual aspect of computing becomes ever more important. To enhance these capabilities, AMD created the AMD HD Media Accelerator – a unique set of technologies that enable the best video quality on a PC. Key features of the HD Media Accelerator include:
- AMD Perfect Picture HD – An image, video processing and display technology that automatically makes images and video better with color vibrancy adjustments, edge enhancement, noise reduction and dynamic contrast fixes;
- AMD Steady Video Technology – A technology that enables smooth playback of jittery video content with a single button click thanks to plug-ins for popular Web browsers and multimedia applications;
- AMD Quick Stream Technology – A new technology that prioritizes video streaming on PC systems for a smooth, virtually uninterrupted video stream; True HD video chat with up to four people at once;
- AMD Video Converter – A video compression engine for fast conversion and sharing of media files across multiple formats and devices; Full decode support for H.264, MPEG-2, VC-1, MVC, DivX and WMV.
Gaming Leadership
The 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series APU builds on AMD's legacy of gaming leadership with an increase in graphics performance of up to 56% over the previous generation and support for:
AMD Eyefinity Technology – For the first time, this immersive technology is available from an APU without the need for a discrete graphics card Performance-leading DirectX 11 graphics architecture and 1080p gaming a life-like level of detail; AMD Radeon dual graphics support that delivers a performance boost of up to 75 percent when adding a discrete graphics card to the APU.11 The AMD Radeon dual graphics option also offers support for DirectX 9 for older game titles, and uses new AMD CrossFire Technology Profiles for easier updates.
Introduction, Overview
AMD's position is not enviable. Though they're the only large competitor to Intel in the market for x86 processors, the company is dwarfed by the Giant of Santa Clara. As a resident of Portland, I can't forget this fact. Intel offices are strewn across the landscape of the western suburbs, most of them at least four times larger than any office I've worked at.
Despite the long odds, AMD is set in this course for now and has no choice but to soldier on. And so we have today's reference platform, a laptop powered by AMD's latest mobile processor, codenamed Trinity. These processors, like the older Llano models, will be sold as the AMD A-Series. This might lead you to think that it's simply another minor update, but that's not the case.
Llano was released around the same time as Bulldozer, but it did not use Bulldozer cores. Instead it used yet another update of Stars, which is a mobile incarnation of Phenom II, which was of course an improvement upon the original Phenom. The "new" Llano APU in fact was equipped with some rather old processor cores. This showed in the performance of the mobile Llano products. They simply could not keep up with Sandy Bridge's more modern cores.
Bulldozer isn't coming to mobile with Trinity, either. Instead we're receiving Piledriver. AMD has effectively skipped the first iteration of its new Bulldozer architecture and moved straight on to the second. Piledriver includes the third generation of AMD's Turbo Core and promises "up to 29%" better processor performance than last year's Llano-based A-Series.
That's a significant improvement, should it turn out to be correct. Is it true, and will it be enough to catch up to Intel?
AMD Releasing Mobile Trinity APUs In May
Subject: Processors | May 8, 2012 - 05:30 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: ultrathins, trinity, piledriver, mobile, APU, amd
Last week we detailed the changes and improvements in AMD's upcoming Trinity Accelerated Processing Units (APU). Today, DigiTimes has confirmed that Trinity will be released later this month. The only catch is that the company is only releasing the mobile Trinity chips in May. The higher end, and higher TDP, parts will not be released until August 2012.
A Trinity APU die next to a USB flash drive
According to their sources, AMD will be pricing the mobile Trinity chips very aggressively. They will offer a cheaper alternative to OEMs as AMD based ultrathins compared to an Ivy Bridge based ultabrook notebook. The low power Trinity chips will have vastly superior GPU execution units, though Ivy Bridge may retain the CPU performance crown. Both chips are able to sip voltage and have low TDPs so it will be interesting to see the results of battery life tests once the chips and notebooks are released and are in the hands of reviewers.
Trinity desktop parts are scheduled for release in August, including the A10-5800K, A10-5700, A8-5600K, and A8-5500. They are also planning lower end A6 and A4 series Trinity APUs.
Beyond Trinity, their sources have indicated that AMD will release very low power Brazos 2.0 processors for ultrathins and Windows 8 tablets that have 18W TDPs in June 2012. Vishera–Piledriver architecture, AM3+ socket–FX series desktop CPUs (no iGPU) will be released sometime in the third quarter of this year (Q3 2012). The FX and Brazos processors include the FX-8350, FX-6300, FX-4320, and the E2-1800 and E1-1200 respectively.
While AMD may not have the lowest manufacturing process, are seemingly dropping employees like flies, and had a huge financial loss due to buying themselves out of GlobalFoundries they are still hanging in there and delivering competitive products for the low to mid-range markets.
Trinity Improvements Include Updated Piledriver Cores and VLIW4 GPUs
Subject: Processors | May 4, 2012 - 02:11 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: trinity, piledriver, llnao, fm2, APU, AMD A series
EXP Review has managed to get their hands on a set of AMD slides containing information on one of the company's upcoming processor lines. The Llano successor, known as Trinity, is a new APU due out later this year that is said to bring increases in performance thanks to several architectural enhancements.
A Trinity APU die sitting next to a USB flash drive
Llano is AMD's currently available Accelerated Processing Unit, or APU. The chips combine updated "Stars" mobile Phenom II CPU cores and Radeon 6000 series graphics cores into a single package. Further, the APUs contain a PCI-E 2.0 controller, integrated memory controller, and UVD3 hardware video decoding units. Some models also support AMD's Turbo Core and Hybrid Graphics Technology which allow them to automatically boost CPU clockspeeds when lower GPU usage leaves TDP headroom, and to pair with a discrete Radeon HD 6450, 6570, or 6670 GPU in a Crossfire-like configuration. Built on a 32nm silicon on insulator (SOI) manufacturing process by GlobalFoundries, the APUs employ 1.45 billion transistors and have a die size of 228mm2 for the desktop versions. Desktop parts have TDPs of 65 watts or 100 watts depending on the particular chip and connect to the motherboards using the FM1 socket (which was a new socket for AMD, it has 905 contacts). There are both desktop and mobile Llano parts, though they are essentially the same chips. The mobile parts are scaled down desktop Llano chips that run at lower clockspeeds, top out DDR3 support at 1600MHz (versus DDR3 1866MHz on the desktop parts), have lower TDPs of either 35W or 45W, and use a slightly different socket (FS1).
In our review, and what many other users noted, is that Llano's CPU performance really left something to be desired. Fortunately for AMD, the GPU portion of the chip delivered on performance and made the APU desirable for certain niches. The low power chips had a place in home theater PCs (HTPCs), cheap desktops, and even budget gaming rigs to an extent. Still, the CPU performance really held Llano back in terms of popularity and adoption among enthusiasts.
Llano APU in action during overclocking and gaming tests.
The upcoming Trinity processors bring quite a few enhancements to the table, foremost of which is a revamped CPU part that ditches the old Phenom II processor cores in favor of updated Piledriver architecture CPU modules. The move to the Piledriver x86 cores promises an increase in IPC, leakage reduction, CAC reduction, and increased clockspeeds according to the leaked slides, but the most important change is the increased performance per clock numbers. The Trinity APUs are set to replace the A8–or performance series of–Llano APUs with quad core Trinity processors that utilize two Piledriver modules that each share 2MB cache for 4MB of total L2 cache. In that respect, Trinity will be similar to Llano in that it does not employ any L3 cache that is shared between the CPU and GPU cores. Interestingly, that may mean that using higher clocked RAM can improve performance on Trinity just as it did with Llano. If true, that would make Trinity's improved DDR3 support–up to DDR3 2133MHz– all the better. On the GPU side of things, Trinity moves to a "Northern Islands" VLIW4 architecture with up to 384 stream processing units. Although the GPU area is physically smaller, it is said to be more efficient than the GPU cores in Llano APUs. The new GPU core is DirectX 11 and OpenCL 1.1 compliant. Also, it includes an updated hardware tessellator engine and hardware encoding unit (AMD Accelerated Video Converter).
Trinity will continue to offer 65W and 100W TDPs as well as a 35W part. The TDPs are the same as those in Llano, but AMD has managed to lower the voltages needed to run Trinity out of the box. Also, AMD is claiming the new Trinity chips will sip power at idle–as low as 1.08 watts.
Trinity also ratchets up the automatic overclocking with Turbo Core 3 support which can boost the CPU clockspeed up to 19% or the GPU clockspeed up to 20% above stock clocks. Even better, the APU is able to allocate power to either the GPU or CPU depending on which area needs the boost and how much TDP headroom the chip has when doing certain tasks. For example, AMD shows that the A10-4600M APU can downclock the GPU from the default clockspeed of 685MHz to 496MHz, allowing the x86 Piledriver cores to achieve up to a 900MHz overclock at a clockspeed of 3.2GHz. Alternatively, when the GPU is needed, it can run at 685MHz while the CPU sits at 2.3GHz. They are likely not able to push the GPU much further as any more reductions in CPU speeds would need to be much bigger than any accompanying GPU increases. And at that point, the GPU would likely become bottlenecked and the system would be starved of too much CPU power anyway.
The Trinity APUs continue to be based on GlobalFoundries' 32nm SOI manufacturing process, but this time the chips are slightly larger with a die size of 246mm^2. Although the APU is wholly larger than Llano, they actually have fewer transistors at 1.303 billion versus the 1.45 billion in Llano. Although that may seem like a step in the wrong direction, the new CPU modules and GPU cores are much more efficient than those in Llano so it should all balance out and Trinity should come out on top despite the lower transistor count. The Trinity APUs will also feature an improved instruction set that includes AVX, AVX1.1, FMA3, AES, and F16C which should help the CPU in certain tasks.
Overall, Trinity is looking like an improved part versus Llano, especially in the CPU department. Although AMD's numbers should be taken with more than a grain of salt, they are claiming 26% better desktop system performance as a result of the CPU overhaul. Granted, Bulldozer was not a CPU powerhouse itself when compared to the competition, but it is–at least on paper–a good design. When paired with a relatively good GPU, as is the case of Trinity, the Piledriver [architecture based] (a refined version of the Bulldozer architecture with some under-the-hood tweaks) cores should at the least not hold the GPU back, and at best make the CPU processor performance good enough to make the Trinity APU all the more desirable to an even wider range of potential buyers. Pricing of the new APUs is still up in the air, but they are set to release later this month if a certain leak is to be believed.
I think that we can expect to see an all around better chip with Trinity, though pricing will be the ultimate factor in determining how popular it is. I suspect that Intel will still carry the CPU crown, but if the price is right, AMD can sell a lot of Trinity chips to builders that only need decent CPUs to support good integrated GPU cores in systems where the GPU is more important. I am anxiously awaiting reviews of the new Trinity chips and hoping that AMD continues to have successful chips with their line of APUs.
More images of the leaked slides can be found here. Also, on a somewhat related note, it looks like many of the previous leaks and information that we reported on a while ago was correct.
Introduction, Low-Power Computing Was Never Enjoyable
It was nearly five years ago that ASUS announced the first Eee PC model at Computex. That October the first production version of what would to be called a netbook, the ASUS Eee PC 4G, was released. The press latched on to the little Eee PC, making it the new darling of the computer industry. It was small, it was inexpensive, and it was unlike anything on the market.
Even so, the original Eee PC was a bit of a dead end. It used an Intel Celeron processor that was not suited for the application. It consumed too much power and took up a significant portion of the netbook's production cost. If Intel's Celeron had remained the only option for netbooks they probably would not have made the leap from press darling to mainstream consumer device.
It turned out that Intel (perhaps unintentionally) had the solution – Atom. Originally built with hopes that it might power "mobile Internet devices" it proved to be the netbook's savior. It allowed vendors to squeeze out cheap netbooks with Windows and a proper hard drive.
At the time, Atom and the netbook seemed promising. Sales were great – consumers loved the cute, pint-sized, affordable computers. In 2009 netbook sales jumped by over 160% quarter-over-quarter while laptops staggered along with single-digit growth. The buzz quickly jumped to other products, spawning nettops, media centers and low-power all-in-one-PCs. There seemed to be nothing an Atom powered computer could not do.
Fast forward. Earlier this year, PC World ran an article asking if netbooks are dead. U.S. sales peaked in the first quarter of 2010 and have been nose-diving since then, and while some interest remains in the other markets, only central Europe and Latin America have held steady. It appears the star that burned brightest has indeed burned the quickest.
But why?
Continue reading our editorial on the problems with low power x86 processors...
Get Out the Microscope
AMD announced their Q1 2012 earnings last week, which turned out better than the previous numbers suggested. The bad news is that they posted a net loss of $590 million. That does sound pretty bad considering that their gross revenue was $1.59 billion, but there is more to the story than meets the eye. Of course, there are thoughts of "those spendthrift executives are burying AMD again", but this is not the case. The loss lays squarely on the GLOBALFOUNDRIES equity and wafer agreements that have totally been retooled.
To get a good idea of where AMD stands in Q1, and for the rest of this year, we need to see how all these numbers actually get sorted out. Gross revenue is down 6% from the quarter before, which is expected due to seasonal pressures. This is right in line with Intel's seasonal downturn, and in ways AMD was affected slightly less than their larger competitor. They are down around 2% from last year's quarter, and part of that can be attributed to the continuing hard drive shortage that continued to affect the previous quarter.
Podcast #188 - Featuring David Hewlett - White Space Wireless, AMD and NVIDIA GPU roadmaps, Hard Drives with lasers and more!
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | February 9, 2012 - 04:08 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: wireless, whitespace, ssd, podcast, nvidia, mdt, intel 520, Intel, gpu, APU, amd
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An academic collaboration leads to a GPU/CPU collaboration
Subject: General Tech | February 8, 2012 - 12:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gpgpu, l3 cache, APU
Over at North Carolina State University, students Yi Yang, Ping Xiang and Dr. Huiyang Zhou, along with Mike Mantor of Advanced Micro Devices have been working on a way to improve how efficiently the GPU and CPU work together. Our current generations of APU/GPGPUs, Llano and Sandy Bridge, have united the two processing units on a single substrate but as of yet they cannot efficiently pass operations back and forth. This project works to leverage the L3 cache of the CPU to give a high speed bridge between the two processors, allowing the CPU to pass highly parallel tasks to the GPU for more efficient processing and letting the CPU deal with the complex operations it was designed for.
Along with that bridge comes a change in the way the L2 prefetch is utilized; increasing memory access at that level frees up more for the L3 to pass data between CPU and GPU thanks to a specially designed preexecution unit triggered by the GPU and running on the CPU which will enable synchronized memory fetch instructions. The result has been impressive, in their tests they saw an average improvement of 21.4% in performance.
"Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate – boosting processor performance by an average of more than 20 percent.
"Chip manufacturers are now creating processors that have a 'fused architecture,' meaning that they include CPUs and GPUs on a single chip," says Dr. Huiyang Zhou, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who co-authored a paper on the research. "This approach decreases manufacturing costs and makes computers more energy efficient. However, the CPU cores and GPU cores still work almost exclusively on separate functions. They rarely collaborate to execute any given program, so they aren't as efficient as they could be. That's the issue we're trying to resolve."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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"Don't feel like running today...suck it up and run ...you're an athlete." (John Stanton, founder & owner of The Running Room)
Three half marathons later, I got a number. Half Fanatic #9292. :)
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Goals:Finish C25K
I'm slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter, but I run.
On the road again...
Congrats! Well I am excited there is someone else that is JUST starting too! Is there a place to blog about your progress on this site? Or are you doing it on your personal blog site?
I have a love/hate relationship with running. I do it, but sometimes I love to hate it.


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The Court has considered the Amended Petition of the State Bar of Arizona proposing a system of uniform citation, and the comments submitted by the public. The Court is not opposed to the concept of such a system but first wants an opportunity to participate in the growing national discussion of this subject, in the hope of achieving some uniformity and consistency with other jurisdictions. The national movement is clearly still in the investigative and exploratory stages. The proposal for a system of uniform citation is therefore denied at this time.
The Court has determined, however, that the adoption of the paragraph numbering aspect of the State Bar proposal is in the public interest, will promote competition, and should be instituted for all Arizona appellate decisions effective January 1, 1998. The Court's staff is hereby directed to prepare a rule governing citation to paragraph numbers for all cases decided on or after January 1, 1998.
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Rugby is a sport not meant for sissies or the faint of heart, mainly because of the bone-jarring hits players level against one another without a stitch of protective equipment on them. The game lends itself to these massive tackles, and this one, from a recent high school rugby match in New Zealand, may be the massivest we've ever come across, and that's saying alot. The hitter is Ruslan Casey from Wanganui Collegiate, and the poor gaffer on the receiving end of that brutal hit was Kip Fawcett, a young lad from St. Paul's Collegiate, who deserves much praise and recognition for taking a massive hit like that and getting right up without complaint. Here's the devastation in GIF form… I don't know much about New Zealand, but I do know one thing—they breed some of the toughest, rugby playing kids in the world. [Total Pro Sports] The post As far as massive rugby hits go, this one may be the most massivest appeared first on Last Angry Fan.
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Sorry, I forgot to tag my question. Once again > Traffic's been sth like 20-30 per day up to 150 and more. For a week now traffic on two of my blogs (main blog and subsidiary) has dwindled to practivcally zero. Google webmaster says that its crawlers can't read the syntax of robot/text. All its user agents say: Disallow this or that. Any connection? Could it be that sb's been messing with the accessibilty of these blogs? Am I just paranoid? Thanx a lot for your support and all the great work you're doing!
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After graduation I worked as a researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Germany. My main responsibilities were the integration of an AVR32 based custom board into the Linux kernel. This included some minor contributions to the IIO subsystem.
Relocating to Barcelona I did research on I/O in virtualized environments, based on KVM/Qemu.
Since May 2012 I work at ISEE fixing bugs and adding features to the Linux kernel for our custom board. Part of my work includes porting Android ICS to our boards.


text: Hi all, you have a nice place here with lots of great input. I have a question, probably a silly one at that. Which controller should I get; classic or GC? I would like to play GC games as well as some of the old downloaded ones (Mario Kart etc). I read somewhere that the classice Wii controller doesn't work with GC games. Is that true? Do the GC wireless controllers work with the Wii? I don't have a GC so I can't try it out myself. Thanks in advance.


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The Descent
It's all about survival of the feminist
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Published 5:30 am, Friday, August 4, 2006
So many horror films end with a woman as sole survivor, but don't be fooled. Though Sigourney Weaver slept peacefully at Alien's end, most pay a heavy price.
As someone once snipped at a Texas Chainsaw Massacre screening when a crazed Marilyn Burns finally reached safety, "That girl ain't never gonna be right."
The Descent has similar punishment. Assailed by hell on earth — or beneath it — six nonviolent women turn very violent indeed. If they don't, they'll turn into lunch.
Among them is Sarah (Shauna Macdonald), who loses her family in a prologue car crash. Cut to one year later in the Appalachians, where extreme-sports friends try to cheer her with a spelunking spree.
At first there's no hint of action, just women meeting at a cabin, then slowly entering a cave.
The only frights are from False Alarm Theater — you know, when people needlessly startle each other or a shock turns out to be a dream.
But when the violence erupts, it's volcanic. After a cave-in seals them in, the women bump into some creepy critters: pale, hideous, clammy things that look like Gollum's albino cousins. Shrieking and skittering blindly in the darkness, they furiously devour forest animals dragged from the surface. They regard their human invaders in the same way: as food.
To survive, the women transform themselves into bloodied berserkers. Best of the bunch is Sarah, a resourceful tragic heroine.
But how much can one person take?
Writer-director Neil Marshall makes her a pawn for sadistic sensationalism. He often shoots her in bloodied warrior's stance, as if she's posing for a survivalist poster. And as the gore goes gonzo, he prods us to cheer violence as a retaliatory reward.
But ruthlessness dehumanizes Sarah, who becomes a horror herself.
If survival means jamming her thumbs through a creature's sightless eyes and into its brain, then say hello to her manicured little friends.
The cave's dark claustrophobia is ideal for such mayhem, hiding and showing just enough while keeping the women pinned like lab specimens.
But as with other such films, The Descent seems less about female empowerment than female misery.
One wonders if Marshall has issues. No males suffer here, just women who, even if they survive, won't ever be the same again.


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Can A Porsche Be An Everyday Driver?
Porsche is trying to increase their market share by selling themselves as "Everyday Drivers". While I would LOVE to spend my days cruising along in a Carrera I'm not so sure how practical it would be.
They put several owner stories and videos on their new website, so give it a glance, then take my survey question over the weekend and let me know what you think. Can a Porsche be an everyday driver?
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Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., is the latest candidate to enter the crowded contest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He's also an author, and a thoughtful one at that.
Though he is a font of policy proposals, the Michigan congressman dives deeper and diagnoses the intellectual illnesses weakening America and the West.
In "Seize Freedom!: American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age" (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2011), McCotter offers remedies ranging from regulatory and tax reform, energy and education, to international trade and organization.
In a surprisingly slim, crisply composed volume, he zeros in on the dire threat of record breaking debt, deficits and spending. On foreign policy, he writes prescriptions for the global war against Islamic radicalism ("a faceless foe along a million-mile front"), the containment of Iran and Red China (yes, China is a strategic menace, even as they hold $1.5 trillion of America's debt); and the creation of a "Liberty Alliance" -- a new "coalition of the willing" among free nations- to promote economic and political freedom.
America's leaders, McCotter insists, must be adept at multitasking. While 20th century Americans survived the Great Depression, fought a global war against fascist dictators, overcame the Soviet leviathan, and ended the legal segregation that undercut our moral stature, we confronted those challenges successively.
In the 21st century, we face the challenges of globalization; a world war against Islamic radicalism (a "hideous ideological concoction"); the emergence of Communist China as a global rival; and a corrosive moral relativism -- the "dictatorship of relativism" in the words of Pope John Paul II -- that pervades our public life.
It undercuts natural law and natural rights (the "American Truths") set forth in our Declaration of Independence, the moral justification for our national existence. Unlike the "greatest generation" of the last century, we must face these challenges simultaneously. Ours is a chaotic age.
McCotter identifies ideology and relativism as the twin evils of our time. Conservatism, properly grounded in the wisdom of the West, is the tonic. So practical policy remedies should reflect, and be accompanied by, a broader intellectual renewal.
Our public life should be revitalized through our a rich intellectual inheritance -- the truth that government exists to secure our natural rights, a divine gift -- combined with our repudiation of ideology itself, whether of the Left or Right.
While philosophy is a love of wisdom and a humble search for truth, ideology (based on class or race, or some other form of idolatry) is a narrow formula always promising human perfection and always delivering hell on Earth. No wonder that John Adams called ideology the "Science of Idiocy."
Relativism -- the proposition that something can be true and not true at one and the same time -- not only denigrates the intellect but also unfetters the will.
The rulers' affirmation of "their" truth -- literally the "triumph of the will" -- is tantamount to Big Government on drugs. For media types hunting for sound bites in a 24-hour news cycle, if they have the patience, McCotter offers uncommon fare.
Drawing upon the wisdom of such champions of the Western intellectual tradition as Edmund Burke, Hilaire Belloc and Orestes Brownson, McCotter sees the central task of America's statesmen as securing both order and freedom, and reconciling their competing claims in justice.
Because of the imperfections of human nature, order and freedom will never be perfectly balanced and perfect justice will forever elude us in this world: "Ideologues fit the world to their minds; conservatives fit their minds to the world."
But if American statesmen do their duty, McCotter predicts, the world once again will benefit, as it has done so in the past: "America's future does not lie in becoming a secular, cosmopolitan, socialist backwater. Our America is beautiful. She does not exist to emulate others; she exists to inspire the world."
Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., is a senior fellow with the Heritage Foundation's Center for Policy Innovation.
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BUENA PARK (CBS) — Two 15-year-old boys are in critical condition Thursday evening after an out-of-control van slammed into them while they were walking on a Buena Park street earlier in the day.
One of the boys was reportedly pinned under the van for half hour.
The driver, Gilbert Armando Gonzales, 53, of Fountain Valley, was also taken to a hospital after the crash, which occurred about 3:45 p.m. on the southbound Beach Boulevard overpass of the Santa Ana (5) Freeway.
Gonzales was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, said Buena Park police Sgt. Bill Kohanek.
Gonzales reportedly lost control of the 2003 Chevrolet Astro, which traveled about 50 yards along the sidewalk before slamming into the boys, Kohanek said.
Kohanek said firefighters had trouble raising the vehicle to free one of the boys. That victim was airlifted to a hospital. Both boys live in Buena Park, Kohanek said.
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An experiment: every week I'm gonna get some new blood for your ears; a playlist to get you through the rainy days of March/spring/whatever: bizarre collage pieces, everyone's favorite Italo-disco, Moog grooves, weird video game music, and spoken word things.
This week its anything synth related, mixed in with some more recent but hard to find (yet not hard to find?) oddities. Seek them out; SEEK THE NEW BLOOD.
1. Gen Ken Montgomery – "Enchantment"
3. les 5-4-3-2-1 – "Bond Street"
4. Laugh and Beats – "Laugh and Peace"
5. Vicious Pink – "Can't You See"
6. Señor Coconut – Upper Mambo/Lower Funk
8. Zuntata – "Darius Gaiden: End Titles"
9. VC People – "Danse Macabre"
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Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Minnesota
I have broken a lease. The lease requires 60 days notice and a months rent, 733.00.
Facts: I gave notice after a weekend, a Holiday, and having the main office not return my call. I gave this notice by email.
Said main office withdrew the money, on my submission, on Jan 23rd.
I say the notice was effective Jan 20th. They say it is not effective until February 1st, thereby keeping us on the hook for rent until and including April.
I say, they took my money, and my email notice so the actual date of the notice is Jan 20th. (This is some arbitray date they verbally told me about)
I called repeatedly to negotiate something fair with them regarding my short of 60 days notice. I was held back by constraints in the purchase of my house. (The VA processes were looking like they might not come through on time, appraisal, certificate of eligibility, etc)
I emailed to negotiate something as well. I was told flat out that "WE DON'T NEGOTIATE".
My question is this: Where and what do I file in court so that I do not have to be on the hook for rent up to and including April? I am willing to negotiate and pay something for March.
I explained that I cannot pay a house payment AND a rent payment and I feel that since they took my money, my notice was on time and fair for Jan 20th.
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Sorry-- In Minnesota, Notice is effective on the LAST DAY of the month in which given.
In your case, legal move out would be 60 Days from Jan 31 or March 31, so you are on the hook for Feb. and Mar ( but NOT April).
SO call them back and acknowledge your agreement with the above, then offer to pay for advertising , signage etc. to make SURE it gets rented by Apr. 1, and you should be OK after that.
Make sure you also agree to show the unit and keep it NEAT AND CLEAN>


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Almost 150 people have entered an innovative ultra-short film competition... and there's still time to get involved.
9.88 Films invites moviemakers from across Scotland, the UK and the Commonwealth to submit films of up to 10 seconds on any theme.
The challenge, which is supported by Channel 4, has been launched as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme and has been inspired by the current Commonwealth Games 100m record of 9.88 seconds. It aims to show how great moving images can captivate audiences in the same way.
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The jury for the competition includes Sherlock director Paul McGuigan, The Inbetweeners Movie producer Christopher Young and comedian Robert Florence. It will be chaired by Director of Creative Diversity at Channel 4 Stuart Cosgrove.
Cosgrove said: "Recent years have seen ultra short forms of content - tweets, GIFs and ever shorter films - become an accessible form of mainstream communications. We wanted to take that idea and show that short form doesn't limit creativity or the creation of great works of art, and that making films can be simple and unintimidating.
"We're hoping to discover some great new talent via 9.88 Films and show the world what can be done in just 10 seconds. Just like the 100m final - ultra short films can be truly captivating."
Eileen Gallagher, Independent Director on the Glasgow 2014 Board and Chair of the Ceremonies, Culture and Queen's Baton Relay Committee, said: "9.88 Films is a fascinating part of the Cultural Programme which will inspire and challenge anyone who wants to make a short film to captivate us in the same time as the 100m Commonwealth Record. Film makers of all abilities and from every Commonwealth country can take part making this one of the most exciting and accessible projects which make up the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme."
A number of leading figures in the UK film industry including director and critic Mark Cousins and award-winning filmmaker Morag McKinnon have entered the contest. Watch some of the entries below.
Sillouette by Derya Erdem
Giant Face by Willam Garratt
Take me Back by Henry Woodley
Homey by Ben Garfield
The Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme is a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland.
For more information or to enter the competition visit the 9.88 website. The contest closes at 5pm on Friday, April 11.


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Rockets-Timberwolves Preview
Almost two weeks ago, Houston Rockets coach Kevin McHale made a triumphant return to his home state.
Having cooled off a little since their longest win streak in four seasons, the Rockets will try to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves and former coach Rick Adelman again during the opener to a season-high, six-game road trip Saturday night.
McHale, a native of Hibbing, Minn. and a former star for the University of Minnesota, worked in various capacities for the Timberwolves after his retirement as a player following the 1992-93 season until he was fired as the team's coach after the 2008-09 campaign, his second stint in that role.
McHale returned to coaching when Houston hired him last June and had the team heading in the right direction for much of the past month following a 3-7 start. The Rockets (13-10) won seven straight, capped by a 107-92 victory at Target Center on Jan. 23, before splitting their last six games.
The Timberwolves dealt Houston one of those three losses, 120-108 on Monday in Adelman's return to Texas. The Rockets also blew a 19-point lead during a 99-91 defeat in San Antonio on Wednesday but rebounded Friday with a 99-81 rout of visiting Phoenix.
Houston was never threatened after scoring a season-high 59 points and building a 20-point lead by halftime. Kevin Martin's 16 points led a group of seven players in double figures, and the Rockets' reserves totaled 50 points and 23 rebounds.
"The bench is really getting that chemistry together," forward Chase Budinger said. "We're getting used to playing with one another. We start finding where guys like the ball, and also we're bringing energy out there."
The Rockets, though, are 3-7 away from home this season and will face a team that's won four of six. The Timberwolves earned their sixth road win Friday - surpassing their total from each of the past two seasons - by hanging on for a 108-105 victory over New Jersey.
Luke Ridnour hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 1:23 remaining, and Nikola Pekovic had a career-high 27 points and 11 rebounds off the bench. Kevin Love also contributed 20 points despite missing 11 of 16 shots.
Minnesota (11-12) is 6-4 on the road and has won three in a row there. The Timberwolves, though, are 5-8 at Target Center and are on the verge of their second three-game losing streak there.
They've also failed in their four previous attempts at a .500 record this season.
"I wish (we could play more on the road)," Love said. "If it was that way we'd be over the doomed .500 mark that we can't seem to get over. I really don't even want to talk about it because it's kind of been our Achilles' heel."
Minnesota hasn't been .500 or better this late in a season since it was 22-22 on Jan. 30, 2007, and a visit from the Rockets wouldn't appear its best chance to accomplish that feat.
Houston has won eight in a row at Target Center and 15 of the past 17 overall matchups. Another strong performance from Martin in Minnesota could help his team extend its streak.
The Rockets guard has averaged 30.0 points in his last four games there and 27.6 in his last seven overall matchups.
Love has scored at least 29 points in each of the two meetings this season and had a season-high 39 in the Jan. 23 defeat. Beasley tied a franchise record for a bench player with 34 points during the win in Houston.


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Alcohol, strip clubs, and now, sunglasses. "Girls, girls, girls" might be their claim to fame, but Motley Crue have done pretty well with their side projects. Bassist Nikki Sixx has followed in the footsteps of his bandmates and launched a signature line of sunglasses.
"I have teamed up with Blublocker sunglasses to bring you the best shades I've ever owned," said Sixx last week. "I wanted to share my special Nikki Sixx edition that launches today!"
While most rock stars probably spend tons of money on sunnies, Sixx's glasses are only $49.95. Check them out at blueblocker.com.
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In 2010, BPA made two $300 awards to individuals who provided tips on thefts BPA experienced in southwest Washington. Since 2006, BPA has paid 12 rewards totaling almost $14,000.
"We're hoping that this information will help jog the memory of someone who may know about the break in and theft or may have seen something suspicious at the substation," said West. "Sometimes even small details can help law enforcement officials make significant investigative progress."
For more details about BPA's Crime Witness Program, go to the Crime Witness website.
BPA is a not-for-profit federal electric utility that operates a high-voltage transmission grid comprising more than 15,000 miles of lines and associated substations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. It also markets more than a third of the electricity consumed in the Pacific Northwest. The power is produced at 31 federal dams operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation and one nuclear plant in the Northwest and is sold to more than 140 Northwest utilities. BPA purchases power from seven wind projects and has more than 3,500 megawatts of wind interconnected to its transmission system.


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After receiving a substantial redesign this year (find out all the changes in the 2010 Yamaha YZ250F First Ride) Yamaha chose to reintroduce its YZ250F motocross bike as a 2011 model. The changes are minimal with the exception of new color combinations and a slight increase in price. After a few days of pounding out motos at the fast and rough Glen Helen Raceway and the tighter layout of Piru Motocross Park, the quarter-liter YZ-F continues to prove to be an excellent dirt bike, especially for novice or vet riders seeking a 250F that is easy to ride.
Hop onto the seat and the YZ doesn't feel as teeny as other bikes in its class. This makes the cockpit more accommodating for riders of above average height. The ergonomics aren't too tight plus the bike's fit can be tailored by adjusting the position of the Pro Taper handlebar. To do this Yamaha machined four holes into the top clamp. We utilized the forward mounts with the bar clamps reversed which places the bar in the second-most forward position.
This allowed us to scoot forward on the seat thereby placing more weight on the front of the bike for even better turning.
Other nice touches are the shape of the seat with gripper material on the sides and the humongous foot pegs which help provide a nice platform to work from as well as distribute energy load when landing off obstacles. Lastly we also appreciated the curvature of the radiator shrouds that not only look cool but are shaped in such a way that it's almost impossible to hook your leg or boot on it.
(Above) The Yamaha's mild powerband, excellent chassis and Bridgestone rear tire assist it in hooking up out of corners. (Below) The 225-lb Yamaha offers an elevated level of agility on the ground and in the air.
Although the Yamaha still employs a conventional carburetor it works well even compared to the current crop of fuel-injected 250Fs. A choke knob needs to be pulled when the engine is first fired in the morning. Then it can be started within one or two prods of the kickstart lever. Once warm, the engine can be re-lit without the choke, however the handlebar mounted hot start lever needs to be depressed to aid in hot starts.
Carburetion proved to be spot-on and the engine responded instantly when the throttle was twisted. The only time we ever experienced any hesitation is if you ride in too high of a gear and slam open the throttle at very low rpm. Otherwise it ran well.
Out on the track the engine delivers healthy acceleration right off the bottom. It feels strong but at the same time it isn't so powerful that it overwhelms the rider or the rear Bridgestone tire. The engine spools up quickly, but as rpm increases the powerband remains flat without a hint of hit or power rush typical of 250F-class motorcycles regardless of rpm.
"The engine has great bottom to mid-power. It pulls well right out of the corner but once you get going it feels flat up top," commented our test rider Chris See. "Its powerband feels like the exact opposite to other 250Fs. But I think it will be good for someone who is just starting to ride or maybe a vet guy. Even though it isn't fuel-injected it actually runs really well and didn't bog for me."
Considering how linear the powerband is it can be easy to dismiss the YZ's engine as being slow. But it's not. It's just builds power so smoothly that it's deceptive. In a way the engine feels like an electric motor with its immediate power delivery. However rather than twisting the throttle harder to accelerate you instead need to upshift and work the transmission to gain speed.
Speaking of the gearbox, it works without flaw offering a positive feel during engagement even when loaded while motoring up Glen Helen's notoriously steep hills. Equally as pleasing is how light and responsive clutch action is, though our pro test rider said it faded slightly at full-on race pace. To compensate the rider has to adjust it with the plastic quick adjust knob while riding.
Without question the highlight of the new YZ250F is its chassis. Compared to other 250Fs where you can get away with being a bit further back in the seat while turning, the Yamaha responds best when the rider scoots his body all the way to the fuel filler cap. When done so it changes direction with high level of precision. However, if you sit farther back in the seat the bike resists quick direction changes and plows through turns so correct body positioning is important.
Once initiated the bike steers predictably never turning more or less than what the rider inputs through the handlebar. The rear end of the bike feels in sync with the front, squatting nicely and resisting the urge to compress aggressively, buck, or slide out even at an elevated pace. Even at higher speeds the chassis continues to serve up a level of stability that other bikes wish they could match.
One of the best features of the 2011 Yamaha YZ250F is how easy it is to ride for all levels of riders.
Suspension-wise the Yamaha employs a two-way adjustable Kayaba Speed-Sensitive fork and four-way adjustable Kayaba shock absorber. A common complaint for heavier and/or faster riders is how soft stock 250F suspension is, but the YZ250F's set-up actually performed well even for the speed of our test rider. The suspension settings front to back are well balanced and the bike doesn't pitch or squat excessively despite being undersprung for our 170 lbs pro-level test rider.
"Handling was great," says See. "The rear end was good; nice and planted. For me I'd probably need heavier spring rate in the fork and shock, but the valving still felt good—I probably wouldn't need to change it. The suspension is supple initially then has a fair amount of damping as you get deeper into the stroke."
The OE-fitted Bridgestone tires offered a fair amount of traction in the sand and loam at Glen Helen and even in the afternoon hard pack at Piru. While the Yamaha's brakes serve up a high amount of feel they don't have a whole lot of power which occasionally caught us by surprise when bombing down some of Glen Helen's downhills. Braking power was consistent though even under hard and repeated use.
Overall we really enjoy riding the new YZ250F. While we weren't exactly wowed by the outright power of its engine—it is very useable making the bike easier to ride for longer. What we did like is its well-sorted chassis and pleasing ergonomics which help make it an effective motocross bike on the track. It's also important to note that the Yamaha is the only bike to come with a 30-day warranty against manufacturer defects, not to mention the $3 million of contingency up for grabs at 90 racing events in 2011. Yamaha is also the only manufacturer to offer its 250F in two colorways: Yamaha Blue/White for $7150 or for an extra $100 you can get it in White/Red with black wheels and a gold chain.


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Smoke SignalsSeptember 29th, 2011
Welcome to the Tribal DDB weekly Smoke Signals trend report, news from the frontier of digital marketing. We've scoured the net to bring you the hottest stories in the digital, media, and marketing space. Have any thoughts on any of these stories? We want to hear what you think!
Click here for the PDF version of this weekly report.
In this issue:
Bringing Digital Back to Reality
Multiscreen Strategies Provide Results
Bringing Digital Back to Reality
LEGO is thinking beyond its physical bricks. A new product called 'Life of George' ties mobile gaming to the brand's offline experience. Users are provided with 144 bricks, a "Playmat", and an iOS app. The app presents players with objectives, or things to recreate, and the phone's camera is used to snap a shot of the work, verify it, and then award points for speed and accuracy.
This isn't the first time that LEGO has blurred the line between the digital and the physical. The company provided Mindstorms NXT owners with the ability to control their creation using an Android application. And a kiosk in the LEGO store at Rockefeller center adds a digital layer to product boxes using augmented reality.
Implications: Hybrid products aren't merely about novelty. They are beginning to present new business opportunities and can be pivotal in strategic marketing. Suwappu is a popular example of a hybrid product thatuses physical toys as a canvas for character development and storytelling. As seen in LEGO's 'Life of George', this type of thinking can be executed effectively only if product development and digital strategy become more collaborative.
Multiscreen Strategies Provide Results
New research from Nielsen argues that marketers should embrace and create cross-platform experiences. The research was commissioned by Google and ultimately released in a report called "Better Together: Examining the Incremental Utility of Cross-Media Campaigns".
In short, consumers were brought to TVCity, an interactive lab in MGM Las Vegas, and were asked to watch ads on a TV set, a computer, a smartphone, and a tablet. According to Media Decoder, twenty-two percent of the group members watching the video on TV were able to recall specific details about an ad. That number was bumped up to 39 percent when the video was watched across all four screens.
Implications: Devices are splintering and consumers are beginning to form personalized collections of screens. This new reality is bound to drive new behaviors and present opportunities for advertisers to get involved. For those looking to get started, there are already emerging patterns. Precious Design recently published a report on multiscreen strategies, where they present thought-starters for understanding and designing within an ecosystem of screens.
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DePauw's Basketball Teams Both Post Wins Over Rhodes
February 16, 2004
February 16, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - "The Tigers got their 10th consecutive win in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference game at home," the Indianapolis Star writes of yesterday's victory by DePauw's women's basketball team over Rhodes College, 82-51. "Amy Argetsinger and Sarah Zondor each had 17 points to lead DePauw (20-3, 11-1)," which is ranked #12 in the the nation in Division III. DePauw's men also prevailed Sunday, handing Rhodes a 68-66 defeat.
The Star notes, "The host Tigers (15-8, 8-4 Southern Collegiate Athletic) won after rallying from a 10-point deficit with seven minutes to play. Matt McDonald led a balanced DePauw attack with 11 points and Reid Sakel followed with 10."
You can access the article online by clicking here. Visit the Web page of DePauw's women's team by clicking here. Read more about the men's team here.
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How to Tile Your Backsplash
Give your kitchen a new look in just one weekend with a do-it-yourself tile backsplash. It's easy with our free printable guide and simple-to-install mosaic tile sheets.
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DIY Tile Backsplash
Adding a new tile backsplash is more than just a way to amp up your kitchen's style. If you've ever lifted the mixer out of a bowl of batter just a tad early, you know that an easy-to-clean backsplash makes practical sense, too. And it's a quick project. The beauty and utility of a new backsplash can be yours in a single weekend.
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What You Need
- Level
- Tape measure
- Grout sealer
- Goggles
- Gloves
- Bucket
- Tile
- Putty knife
- Spacers
- Rags
- Stirrer
- Drill
- Tape
- Thin-set mortar
- Sponge
- Grout float
- Notched trowel
- Nonsanded grout
- Drop cloth
Watch a Backsplash Go Up
Watch tile go up on this backsplash, and see how simple the process is. You can do it!
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Step 1: Prep the Job
Start by removing any wallpaper or loose paint. Sand the wall and sponge away sanding dust for good adhesion. With the wall clean, tape your mosaic tile sheets in place to check your layout. Cut sheets as needed using a utility knife, cutting the mesh from behind. Work out how you will handle any gap between the tile and the bottom of the wall cabinets. Aim for a gap as close as possible to a half tile. You can start your tiles without a grout line along the countertop or leave a grout line to help close the gap above. Tape sheets in place all the way to the corner, again trying to achieve a gap no larger than a half tile. Mark the location of the sheets as you remove them.
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Step 2: Apply the Thin-Set
Tape your drop cloth to the counter. Ladle thin-set mortar onto the wall, and carefully work it with a notched trowel to make smooth, even ridges. Check manufacturer's specifications for recommended trowel notch size (1/8 inch is common).
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Step 3: Tile the Backsplash
Install the whole tile sheets first, lining them up with your reference marks (you'll be able to just see them through the thin-set mortar). Keep the joints between the sheets consistent using spacers. Once it's applied, pull the sheet back to check for voids. Apply more thin-set mortar as needed.
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Step 4: Set the Tiles
When all the tiles are in place, firmly press them onto the wall with your fingers or a clean grout float. Check that all the tiles are set evenly. Wipe off any excess thin-set mortar.
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Step 5: Apply the Grout
Allow the thin-set mortar to set (usually 12 hours), then mix the grout. Work the grout into all the joints by moving the grout float across the tiles vertically, horizontally, and diagonally. Fill all voids between the tiles with grout.
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Step 6: Sponge Clean
After the grout is in place, sponge repeatedly with a damp (not wet) sponge to clean the excess grout off the tile.
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Step 7: Wipe with Dry Towel
Once the grout has dried according to the manufacturer's instructions, use a clean, dry cloth to remove any haze.
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Step 8: Seal the Grout
For easy maintenance down the road, apply grout sealer. It will reduce the likelihood of staining. Caulk where the backsplash meets the upper cabinets.
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Switches and Receptacles
Switch off the power at the breaker panel, unfasten the two screws holding the switch or receptacle, and gently pull it away from the wall. When tiling and grouting are complete, add a box extender as shown. Because of the extra thickness of the tile, you might need longer screws.
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Tiling Tip
Use spacers so your tile is aligned along the length and width of the wall. Without spacers, your tile will likely be crooked. Also keep in mind that your walls may not be completely square. To account for this, you might have to cut some tiles to fit or compensate with a larger grout line beneath upper cabinets.
Next Slideshow Kitchen Backsplash Ideas
Kitchen Backsplash IdeasTransform your kitchen with one of these stylish backsplash ideas. With backsplash ideas for tile, stone, glass, ceramic, and more, you're sure to find a kitchen backsplash design that fits your style and budget.Begin Slideshow »


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Race star Eddie Izzard chats with Craig Ferguson on Late Late Show.
Izzard made his Broadway debut in the 2003 production of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award. Izzard has worked with Mamet before; he made his West End drama debut in the playwright's The Cryptogram in 1993. His other stage credits include Oneonta, Edward II and his many solo comedy shows, including his first U.S. hit, Dress to Kill. His film credits include The Secret Agent, The Cat's Meow, Shadow of the Vampire, Velvet Goldmine, Ocean's Thirteen and Across the Universe.


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Veteran Malayalam actor Kollam G Krishna Pillai passed away at his residence in Chavara on Saturday, 29 January, due to age-related illness. He was 81. Pillai was cremated at Mulamkadakam cemetery in Kollam on Sunday evening.
However, many people, including some popular media houses, have mistaken him for another Malayalam actor who is a namesake and was last seen in the popular Malayalam serial "Kunkumapoo" on Asianet. The news outlets also carried the wrong photo while reporting on the death of the "My Dear Kuttichathan" actor. It has to be noted that both the actors have made a mark in the industry with their presence in many films and television serials.
Kollam GK Pillai, born in 1934, began his career as a theatre artiste and later became a familiar face for the Kerala audience, portraying many comic and character roles in Malayalam movies and TV serials.
In a career spanning six decades, he acted in more than 4,000 plays and 80 movies. He made his acting debut in films with AN Thampi's directorial venture "Masappady Mathupillai" in 1973. Some of his notable movies are "Sayoojyam" (1979), "Lajjavathi" (1979), "My Dear Kuttichathan" (1984), "Aa Neram Alpa Dooram" (1985), "Ulsavappittennu" (1988) and "Arabikkadaloram" (1995).
However, due to vision impairment, he had stayed away from the entertainment industry for the past four years. He was last seen in the Malayalam serial "Nilavilaku". Before beginning his career as an actor, Pillai used to work as a conductor with the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation.
He is survived by his wife Madhavikuttiama and four children — Jayasree, Usha Kumari, Vijayasri and Bindhusri.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -Jackie Carmichael scored 20 points to lead four Illinois State players in double figures as the Redbirds defeated Evansville 82-63 Wednesday night.
Carmichael scored 13 of his points in an early stretch that saw Illinois State (12-3, 3-1 Missouri Valley) take a 30-12 lead. The Redbirds led 42-25 at halftime.
Osiris Eldridge had 18 points and eight rebounds for Illinois State. Lloyd Phillips had 11 points and nine assists and Tony Lewis scored 10 points. The Redbirds shot 50 percent from the field in the game while Evansville shot 31 percent.
Denver Holmes scored a game-high 23 points for Evansville (6-8, 0-4). Colt Ryan had 12 points and James Haarsma had nine points and 11 rebounds for the Aces.