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DUNEDIN, Fla. - In their last two games, the Baltimore Orioles have hit eight home runs, and it's not the big stars who are hitting them. Conor Jackson and Steve Pearce, who may be fighting for the same roster spot, have five.
On Tuesday, Pearce connected twice and Jackson once as the Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays played to a 6-6 tie in 10 innings.
Jackson and Pearce are right-handed hitters, play both first base and the outfield, and neither is on the 40-man roster.
They hit back-to-back home runs in a four-run sixth inning against reliever Esmil Rogers. Catcher Luis Exposito hit another.
Five years ago, Jackson hit .300 for the Arizona Diamondbacks. A year later, he was stricken with Valley Fever, and he's struggled to right his career since.
Jackson was 3 for 3 with a single, double and home run. On Sunday, he had two home runs. Jackson is batting .421.
"There's a lot of spring left — a lot of at-bats left," Jackson said.
Jackson is trying to catch manager Buck Showalter's eye.
"Buck is a little-things-in-the-game type of guy. It's not going to be who hits the best," Jackson said.
Pearce's first homer was hit off J.A. Happ, who is trying to make the Blue Jays as either a starter or reliever.
"I thought it went all right. Was glad to get through three innings; felt strong in the first and third. Keep working on getting the pitch count up and everything. Gave up some hits, but they were balls through the infield for the most part. Overall, I feel good about it," Happ said.
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was pleased with Happ's performance.
"I thought he threw good. Where he's really effective is up. He's opposite of a lot of guys. When the ball stays down they got a few hits there," Gibbons said. "Ball's flying pretty good to left today. But overall I thought it was a good outing for him."
Steve Johnson and Jair Jurrjens are two candidates for the Orioles' fifth starter spot. Both pitched, and not terribly well.
Johnson allowed two runs in two innings and Jurrjens gave up three runs in 2 2-3 innings.
"I felt good physically, so that was good, but obviously the results weren't really what I wanted. I wanted to go out there and pound the zone. Just couldn't really get in a rhythm today, especially early," Johnson said.
Jurrjens, a National League All-Star in 2011, is struggling to regain his form. He signed a minor league contract with the Orioles on Feb. 15. He knows he's one of several who can fill the fifth starter role.
"I'm not trying to think about it. I'm trying to get better and trying to get back to what I used to be. And that's it, that's the only thing I can control. I can't control if the manager decides who is going to win the job. My job is to go out there, try to give the best performance I can and see how it goes," Jurrjens said.
NOTES: The teams combined for 29 hits. ... Andy LaRoche and Ryan Langerhans hit home runs for Toronto. ... Orioles RF Nick Markakis, who was scratched from Sunday's game with neck spasms, said he should be able to play in a few days. ... Blue Jays RHP Dustin McGowan, who's had three shoulder surgeries in the last five years, threw his first bullpen of spring training. ... Baltimore faces Spain's entry in the World Baseball Classic on Wednesday. ... Toronto travels to Lakeland for a game with Detroit. Blue Jays' RHP Brandon Morrow pitches against the Tigers' RHP Justin Verlander. ... Blue Jays RHP Sergio Santos has tenderness in his triceps, and he won't pitch until Saturday.


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I went to San Francisco for JavaOne, and all I got was this Norovirus
Giving every junketeer who might have over-imbibed a good excuse to blow off chores and work once they get home, conference organizers at Sun's JavaOne developer fest at the Moscone Center are now warning attendees that the City has released a public health warning about a virus on the loose.
Testing is still underway to identify the specific virus in question, but they believe it to be the Norovirus, a common cause of the "stomach flu", which can cause temporary flu-like symptoms for up to 48 hours.
Full alert after the jump so you can study up on symptoms if called on to fake them for getting a spouse or boss off your back.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) was notified on Wednesday May 7, 2008, of several persons that became ill after attending or working at conferences at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 30, 2008 through May 8, 2008. The SFDPH is working with the organizers of the meeting facilities to make cleaning recommendations and to confirm the cause of the illnesses. The ill attendees/workers are suspected to have a viral illness called Norovirus. Noroviruses are a common cause of the "stomach flu," or gastroenteritis (GAS-tro-en-ter-I-tis).
What are the symptoms of illness caused by Noroviruses?
The symptoms of norovirus illness include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and some stomach cramping. Sometimes people also have a low-grade fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, and a general sense of tiredness. The illness often begins suddenly and the infected person may feel very sick. The illness is usually brief, with symptoms lasting only about 1 or 2 days.
Are Noroviruses contagious?
Noroviruses are very contagious and can spread easily from person to person. Noroviruses are found in the stool or vomit of infected people. People can become infected with the virus in several ways, including:
- Eating food or drinking liquids that are contaminated with Norovirus;
- Touching surfaces or objects contaminated with Norovirus, and then placing their hand in their mouth;
- Having direct contact with another person who is infected and showing symptoms (for example, when caring for someone with illness, or sharing foods or eating utensils with someone who is ill).
- Persons suspected of being ill with Norovirus should abstain from attending or working at any Moscone Center conferences until 48 hours after symptoms have resolved.
How can Norovirus infections be prevented?
- Frequently wash your hands, especially after using the toilet and before eating or preparing food.
- Carefully wash fruits and vegetables, and steam oysters before eating them.
- Thoroughly clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces immediately after an episode of illness by using a bleach-based household cleaner.
- Immediately remove and wash clothing or linens that may be contaminated with virus after an episode of illness (use hot water and soap).
- Flush or discard any vomit and/or stool in the toilet and make sure that the surrounding area is kept clean.
- Persons who are infected with Norovirus should not prepare food while they have symptoms and for 3 days after they recover from their illness.
Information on more Frequently Asked Questions on Norovirus can be viewed on the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) website at http://www.sfcdcp.org/norovirus.cfm
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Siemens Healthineers is a trusted partner focused on the unique journey from pre-conception to pregnancy through neonatal care, delivering the clinical tools essential for healthy mother and baby outcomes. Explore our AACC Healthy Mother/Healthy Baby Thought Leadership Webinar Series.
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I can tell you from experience that these lacy, sweet and salty cookies go quite nicely with hot chocolate on a lazy sick day. Early in the morning we declared it a pajama day at our house and I can think of no better lazy day activity then giving a lesson in Mexican hot chocolate and how to use a molinillo. A certain four year old also got a lesson in the art of chocolate drizzling (can you guess which ones he did?) and we all learned that a 10 am hot chocolate and cookie break is indeed a great way to pass the time.
Of course it's traditionally almonds in a Florentine but as I was developing this recipe for a class I taught at the Pantry recently a bag of peanuts sat nearby and I thought, "why not?" Where corn syrup usually is I added in maple syrup and I think honey would be lovely here too. It's a simple cookie that comes together quickly yet tastes of something special. My next move is crumbling up a few and scattering them over vanilla ice cream and while I'm at it I may even pour some of that leftover hot chocolate on top. Oh boy.
Salted Peanut Florentines
5 dozen 3 inch cookies, or 2 1/2 dozen sandwich cookies
1 3/4 cups roasted peanuts
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 stick (4 ounces) butter
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
flake salt for finishing
Chocolate Topping, optional: 2 to 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
Pulse the peanuts in a food processor until finely chopped, but not pasty. Stir together the nuts, flour and salt in a large bowl.
Put the sugar, cream, maple syrup and butter in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture comes to a rolling boil and sugar is completely dissolved. Continue to boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla, then pour mixture into peanut mixture and stir just to combine. Set aside until cool enough to handle, 10 minutes. As the batter sits it will firm up. Once at room temperature you may need to form the batter into a rough ball with your hands.
Scoop rounded teaspoons (for 3-inch cookies) or rounded tablespoons (for 6-inch cookies) of batter and roll into balls. Place on prepared baking sheet, leaving about 3 to 4 inches between each cookie since they spread.
Top with a sprinkle of flakey salt (such as Maldon).
Bake 1 pan at a time, until the cookies are thin and an even golden brown color throughout, rotating pans halfway through baking time, about 10 to 11 minutes. Cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool. Repeat with remaining batter. Serve.
Optional chocolate topping: Put the chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl. Bring a saucepan filled with 1 inch or so of water to a very low simmer; set the bowl over, but not touching, the water. Stir the chocolate occasionally until melted and smooth. (Alternatively, put the chocolate in a medium microwave-safe bowl. Melt at 50 percent power for 30 second intervals in the microwave. Stir, and continue heat until completely melted.)
For sandwiches: Drop about 1/2 teaspoon chocolate onto on the flat side of half of the cookies and press together with remaining halves. Return to rack and let chocolate set.
For chocolate decor: Drizzle melted chocolate over Florentines as desired. Set aside at room temperature until chocolate is set.
Store baked cookies carefully, separated by parchment or waxed paper, in an airtight container for up to 3 days.


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Emanuel Feuermann – cello
Emanuel Feuermann: Popper Papillon
Emanuel Feuermann (1902-1942) was almost universally recognized during his brief lifetime as a peerless master of the instrument. Artur Rubinstein said "Feuermann became for me the greatest cellist of all time", Jascha Heifetz accepted him as the first cellist worthy of serious collaboration, and would not play with another for nine years after his death. He was the cellist of choice for conductors including Toscanini, who described him as "the greatest" and said that "there is no one after him" and Szell, who said that he played with "…noblesse and distinction, and with the complete equipment in the service of an artistic purpose." His premature death during routine surgery in 1942 at the age of 39 brought his career to an end before he had a chance to establish the type of widespread fame that Heifetz and Casals secured, but even today -more than half a century after his death- there is a clear consensus, among cellists who were privileged to hear Emanuel Feuermann play and among those familiar with his recordings, that Feuermann was a cellist without equal. His graceful, elegant playing shows both a warm, Kreislerian musicality and a fluid and facile command of the instrument that most cellists agree has never been approached since.
–Excerpted from Brinton Smith's dissertation "The Physical and Interpretive Technique of Emanuel Feuermann"
Emanuel Feuermann's grand-daughter Marika Hughes is a cellist, singer, composer, song-writer and teacher. A native of NYC, Marika was exposed to a varied creative life from an early age. Shortly after completing her studies, Marika left NYC and moved to San Francisco, CA. where she began to explore a musical life outside of the western classical tradition of her childhood training. In addition to playing in the Berkeley and Santa Rosa Symphonies, she joined Quartet San Francisco and performed and recorded for a host of artists and films. In 2006, Marika moved back to NYC where she enjoys playing with many local musicians she has long admired as well as some superstars: D'Angelo, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, Sean Lennon, Valerie June, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Ani DiFranco, Imani Uzuri, Charlie Burnham, Anthony Braxton, Toshi Reagon, Adele, Aruan Ortiz, Nasheet Waits and Henry Threadgill. Marika has appeared on The David Letterman Show, The Jimmy Fallon Late Night Show as well as Saturday Night Live.
CelloBello wishes to thank Marika Hughes for sharing her personal family remembrances celebrating her immortal grandfather. The daughter of Feuermann's only child Monika, these candid, honest stories were passed down through her mother, her grandmother Eva, and her aunt Sophie, bringing uniquely personal and valuable insight to our cello community.
By BRINTON A. SMITH (Professor of Cello at Shepherd School of Music at Rice University; Principal Cello, Houston Symphony Orchestra)
Emanuel Feuermann was born on November 22, 1902 in the town of Kolomea, in what is now the Ukraine, but at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Born into a musical family, his father, Maier Feuermann performed and taught locally on both the violin and cello. Emanuel, or 'Munio' as he was called, was the third of five Feuermann children. His older brother, Sigmund achieved much notoriety as a violin prodigy, overshadowing Munio in the early part of his life. In order to further Sigmund's progress and career, the family moved to Vienna in 1908, where Sigmund eventually studied with Sevcik, and Maier played in the Tonkünstler Orchestra. Munio's earliest cello studies were sporadic, with his father as teacher. He did not begin to study regularly until he was seven years old. He later began studying privately with Anton Walter and made quick progress. He performed his first recital in late 1913 in Leopoldstadt, made his first orchestra appearance shortly afterwards with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, playing the Haydn D Major Concerto. Although sources are unclear, there are some accounts that he made his official debut with the Vienna Philharmonic in February 1914, with Felix Weingartner conducting, again playing the Haydn concerto. The Philharmonic concert was reputed to have been a critical success and the young Feuermann toured with Sigmund during the next three years, performing the Brahms Double Concerto.
In 1917, at the age of 15, Munio was sent to Leipzig to study with Julius Klengel, where he remained for the next two years. When Friedrich Grützmacher died suddenly, leaving the cello professorship at the Gürzenich Conservatory in Cologne vacant, Klengel was asked to suggest a possible successor, and he nominated the young Feuermann, who began his professorship there in the fall of 1919, still only sixteen years old. In addition to his teaching duties, he served as cellist for the Gürzenich quartet and first cellist of the Gürzenich orchestra. During the following years, Feuermann began to perform throughout Europe with increasing frequency, and made his first commercial recordings (the second and third movements of the Haydn D Major Concerto) in December, 1921. In 1923, Feuermann resigned his post in Cologne in order to devote his full attention to his active concert career. During this period he collaborated with Bruno Walter and George Szell, as pianists, and Artur Schnabel and Carl Flesch, among others. In the Fall of 1929, Feuermann was appointed to the cello professorship at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, the premier teaching position in Germany, and he maintained this post while continuing an active concert and recording career. He also formed a string trio with Paul Hindemith and Joseph Wolfsthal, who was replaced after his tragic death by Szymon Goldberg. Hitler's rise to power led to Feuermann being relieved of his post at the Hochschule in 1933.
Fleeing Nazi persecution, Feuermann stayed briefly in Paris and then in London. He moved to Zürich in 1937 and finally to America, where he arrived in October of 1938. During these years, Feuermann continued to record and perform and made several world tours, increasing his reputation.Read more >>
By BRINTON A. SMITH (Professor of Cello at Shepherd School of Music at Rice University; Principal Cello, Houston Symphony Orchestra)
From a comparative analysis of Feuermann's Dvorak Concerto:
Feuermann definitely chose tempos much faster than his colleagues, both for faster and for slower sections (though often Casals' tempos on the slow sections were similar.) Feuermann produced a clear beginning for each note, with the vibrato beginning exactly with the start of the note and not slightly afterwards as with the other cellists. The precise coordination of the left and right hands also contributed this extraordinarily clear sounding of each note. Feuermann's vibrato was faster than that of the other cellists, of an average width and more consistent in application. Feuermann used glissandi frequently to produce a sense of connection between notes, but they were generally fast and lightly emphasized. Whatever the degree of emphasis of these glissandi, it was secondary to (though it also, in fact, helped to create) the emphasis of the arrival and departure note. Often only the highest part of the glissando was heard.
Feuermann made many small accelerandi and ritardandi during the course of a phrase, but these effects were never extreme and the overall rhythmic flow was rarely disturbed. Feuermann played with a clear and strong emphasis on those notes which he wished emphasis, and very little on those he did not. He relaxed the tension in between emphasized notes, creating a clearer sense of rising and falling line. Feuermann interpreted similarly to the other cellists, but avoided technical carelessness and interpretive extremes which could distract from his musical line. One of his colleagues summarized it thus "With the other cellists, I hear every note-every swell and gesture. With Feuermann, I am only conscious of the line."Read more >>
Excerpted from "The Lost Genius of the Cello" by Annette Morreau, published in The Independent, 3 Oct 2002:
"A talent like Feuermann's comes around once in a hundred years"
—Jascha Heifetz
"He became for me the greatest cellist of all times, because I did hear Casals at his best. He had everything in the world, but he never reached the musicianship of Feuermann. And this is a declaration."
—Artur Rubinstein
"He was the most comfortable player up at the top that I have ever heard before or since."
—George Sopkin
"He is an ideal that one strives towards in that kind of honesty, integrity and virtuosity."
—Yo-Yo Ma
"I place him as the most important figure for 20th-century cello playing because he was the one who proceeded to carry cello playing as such to a higher level. If he had lived longer he would literally have taken the place of Casals."
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Motion Charts are a useful and interactive Business Intelligence tool.
Motion charts are a a dynamic chart style allowing the viewer to explore several indicators over time.
Usually they are a series of dynamic bubble charts which allows efficient and interactive exploration and visualization of longitudinal multivariate Data.
Since they are interactive they are generally more exciting and inventive than the usual plain pie and bar charts and can be hugely useful when undertaking showcases for Senior Management and stakeholders on BI projects.
A working example of an interactive motion chart is below – just click on the play button:


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Healthy & Delicious: Broccoli Rabe, Turkey Sausage, and Grapes Recipe
Healthy and delicious recipes from Serious Eats
Editor's note: On Mondays, Kristen Swensson Sturt of Cheap, Healthy, Good swings by these parts to share healthy and delicious recipes with us. Take it away, Kristen!
Don't you just love it when a dish comes together? Don't you love it even more when it consists of seven ingredients, all of which are coincidentally sitting around your kitchen, with no previously assigned purpose?
Yeah, those are good times.
I stumbled over Mark Bittman's Broccoli Rabe with Sausage and Grapes by pure serendipity, while researching beets in How to Cook Everything. The necessary produce was already crowding my crisper drawer, and the oil and seasonings were standing ready in the pantry. Even better, a trip to the freezer revealed two links of sweet Italian turkey sausage, which, when subbed in for their pork equivalents, would lighten the meal considerably.
And whaddaya know? Just about 30 minutes later, there it was: a simple, healthy, slightly unorthodox weeknight dinner. Broccoli rabe was the star of the show, meaning the dish was somewhat bitter, though not paralyzingly so. Fortunately, two big handfuls of grapes provided sweetness and balance. The turkey had some sort of flavor function, too, but mostly, it was just nice to have around.
If you should try it yourself, remember to really wring the broccoli rabe after its initial boil. The vegetable retains a lot of water, which will bog down the final product if not disposed of. Don't be afraid to add extra olive oil, either. Heck, the more, the merrier.
Actually, that's a pretty good slogan for successful, unplanned meals overall: The more, the merrier.
- Yield:4
- Active time: 20-25 minutes
- Total time:20-25 minutes
- 1 pound broccoli rabe, ends trimmed
- 1 pound sweet Italian turkey sausage links
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, plus more if necessary
- 2 large cloves garlic, slivered
- About 1/2 lb seedless red grapes
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Bring a medium saucepan of salted water to a boil. Cut broccoli rabe in half. Boil until stalks start becoming tender, about 3 minutes. Remove and plunge into ice bath, or drain and soak with cold water to stop the cooking process.
Meanwhile, heat a 12-inch nonstick pan over medium heat. Prick sausage with fork, add it to pan, and brown well on all sides. When browned, remove sausage from pan and cut into bite-sized pieces. Add olive oil to pan and let it warm for a few seconds before adding sausage back to pan. Cook sausage about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until pieces are fully browned.
Squeeze broccoli rabe well to get rid of the excess moisture. Chop into bite-sized pieces. Add to pan with garlic and cook until heated, 3 to 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add grapes and cook until fruit is heated through, another 3 to 4 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.


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It seems that every other franchise has gotten a gritty reboot, so why not Super Mario Bros.? Concept artist Anthony Jones considers how the Mushroom Kingdom might look in a crime drama, with portraits of its central heroes and villains.
Jones titles this series simply Mario, and has dreamed up backstories for his reinterpreted characters. He's by no means the first person to identify the power-boosting items in the Mushroom Kingdom as drugs, but he's also added a story about rival mobsters and broken brotherly bonds.
Here are a couple of his backstories.
Mario - Is a beat down Plumber and leads a lonely but modest life. He can barely pay his rent and is coming off a drug called "Star." little does he know that he is destined for great things
Peach - She is a successful actress/model and is working her way to the top! unfortunately most of her fame has been due to the help of mob boss Bowser, which leads her into some trouble later on down the road.
Visit his blog for background and portraits of Luigi, Toad, and Wario as well.
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These days it's hard to find a smartphone that balances size, power, and cutting-edge features. Like the Droid Razr M, the exceedingly compact $99.99 Motorola Electrify M does its best to hit the sweet spot among all three. While it comes close to pulling off this impressive feat, the older device can't quite stand up to even last year's competition from Samsung, namely the brawny Galaxy S3. Yes, the GS3 is more than a year old, but it offers a better camera, a sharper screen, and features galore for the same price. Of course, if a highly portable handset with modern Android Jelly Bean is what you want, and you find the Galaxy S3 too much of a handful or all its capabilities overkill, it's hard to beat the Electrify M.
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If you've seen the Motorola Droid Razr M, you'll do a double take when you lay your eyes on the Motorola Electrify M. If it weren't for its faux-silver metallic skin and gray hue, the handset would be the spitting image of its Verizon sibling.
Measuring 4.8 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide and 0.34 inch thick, the Electrify M has a chassis of almost identical proportions to the Razor M's. That's a good thing since both phones are extremely pocket-friendly and compact enough to slide into tight pockets easily.
The Electrify M sports a similarly sculpted body with an attractive rectangular shape, smooth lines, and a gently beveled bottom edge. The Electrify's button and port layout mirrors the Razr's, too, with a thin volume bar and power key resting on the left side. A Micro-USB port for charging and transferring files to PC occupies the left edge. There's a flap here, which covers slots for microSD and SIM cards.
There are no physical keys on the Electrify's front face, either, just virtual Android buttons running along the bottom of the screen. Above the display is a 0.3-megapixel-resolution camera for video chat and self portraits. On the Electrify M's back you'll find its main 8MP camera and LED flash.
To squeeze a relatively large 4.3-inch display into a compact chassis, Motorola opted to use an AMOLED panel with a low qHD resolution in the Electrify M. As a result, images and text lack the crispness and overall impact I've become accustomed to on other handsets with full-HD screens.
For instance, viewing the full desktop version of CNET.com was a bit of a strain on the eyes compared with when I looked at the same site on the Samsung Galaxy S4 (5-inch screen, 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution) or even the Samsung Galaxy S3 (4.8-inch screen, 1,280x720-pixel resolution).
The Electrify M's screen does paint images and video with a richly saturated color palette and deep, dark blacks, though. Viewing angles were also very wide, though that may not seem like an important factor, especially if you're usually the only person gazing at display. Even so,being able to see the screen well from a variety of angles improves my overall impression of a screen's viewing experience.
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When the Motorola Electrify M first hit U.S. Cellular's roster in November 2012, it shipped running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Recently, however, the phone's software has been updated to the more modern Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean operating system.
Jelly Bean brings significant performance and handling improvements, what Google calls Project Butter, designed to speed up the responsiveness and increase the smoothness of Android. I can say that after using the Electrify M both before and after the update, it does feel livelier moving from screen to screen and menu to menu.
Also included with the fresh software are Google's improved voice commands and search capabilities, rolled up into the Google Now app. Google Now performs fancy new tricks, such as automatically displaying the weather forecast or places of interest nearby, and it will even calculate the duration of your commute (to work or home) based on local traffic or transit data.
To be clear, though, the Electrify M doesn't feature pure Android but rather Motorola's custom skin gently overlaid on top of Jelly Bean. Even so, I didn't find it to be overbearing; it actually provides some useful additions. One of them is a handy Quick Settings screen, called up by swiping left of the main home screen. It offers fast toggles for the phone ringer, Bluetooth, GPS, and Airplane mode, just to mention a few.
I also like the Circles widget, placed on the primary home screen, which shows readouts for time (digital or analog), weather, and current battery level. It's both compact and attractive and consists of three circles with faces that flip with slick animation -- each side showcases different information.
By default the phone provides two home screens, but you can have a total of seven to populate with app shortcuts and widgets of your choosing.
As an Android Jelly Bean device, the Electrify M can tackle all your standard smartphone needs. Whether for e-mailing, text messaging, Web surfing, or running mobile apps, the handset is well-appointed. It also ties intimately into Google's wide range of services, such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive, and Talk, along with the Play stores for purchasing books, movies, and music.


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Dude Trolls An Entire Mall Into Thinking He's a Major Celebrity
Last Saturday a bunch of friends went to a popular mall in Virginia and pretended one guy was a big-time Hollywood actor. The group used his real first and middle name, and had everyone including mall security duped. It got to the point where a flock of women would follow him and his entourage around and the mall security escorted him wherever he went. He took photos with babies, signed autographs and got a ton of numbers from chicks. Who says America's obsessed with celebrities?


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Perusing all my usual destinations, I run across a mix of articles – here's a short take on what's caught my eye… Not to worry if you live in the Twilight Zone, this temporary glimpse of reality will do no long term damage, you will be free to return to whichever mixed metaphor reality you choose... Take the RED pill!
Of course every bear wants to know when this GS orchestrated trumped up rally will finally end…
When will Now be Then?
Let's begin with China. Exports CRASHING, down 23% year over year in July. YET, Industrial Production rocketing up 10.8%. Oh yeah, that's a picture of pure health. Their market is clearly re-entering bubble fantasy land yet I see market callers, some of who I almost began to respect, pumping, pumping, pumping returns in China and Brazil. That is a story that will not end well for those buying in now – what a disconnect from reality.
And then there's Russia... Russia GDP Shrank 10.9% Last Quarter as Slump Deepens . Gee, where are their central bankers to pressure their government to massage their numbers? It's hard to live in the Twilight Zone with numbers like that.
Confirming the crashing exports, the Baltic Dry Index which reached bubble heights, CRASHED, then rallied, and is now CRASHING again, losing 20% of its value in just 5 days.
Here's a chart showing the past 3 years of the BDI with the SPX in black behind it.
Here's the BDI versus the SPX over the past 9 months showing the current DIVERGENCE between the BDI and the SPX:
The rebound in the BDI was quite the reflexive bounce. The numbers sound big as it rallied in the giant percentage category. But really – look at it. It was clearly a bubble… the bubble popped… there was a reflexive bounce… and then reality sets in again. Look for this show coming soon to an equity near you!
And Sentiment trader posted a chart showing NYSE up issues the highest they've been since 1991. As the caption reads, "Redefining what OVERBOUGHT means."
Econompic Data produced a chart showing Federal Receipts versus Federal Outlays. SIMPLE. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL FOLKS!!! FOOT STOMP!!! For those WHO DO NOT GET IT, please, PLEASE study this chart REAL HARD. Think about it. Think about the math. Think about the debt. Let me know when the light bulb comes on - perhaps people will see a sign.
How about the fact their credit has been yanked?
Doug Short (dshort.com) who produces the "Four Bad Bears" chart as seen below…
...Produced a new chart he's calling "The Road to Recovery?" What he did was simply align the reflexive bottoms of the four bad bears. Interesting for sure:
Did all the stimulus simply make us take longer to get to the same point as during the Great Depression? I think so, but let's see how it tracks over time. My take is that all the stimulus, debt hiding, number massaging, manipulation, lies and deceit will make the inevitable fall that much worse. Sure, call me a pessimist – I call it reality, would you like to come in?
Doug also produced this chart showing the DOW rally in '29/'30 compared to the current rally:
And this chart that he produced shows what Doug calls the REAL four bad bears. Here all the indices are adjusted to "real" dollars and the chart begins in the year 2,000 for the S&P 500. This chart is actually somewhat bullish in that it bolsters the case that we made a giant ABC correction from the 2,000 top. For a myriad of reasons, that is not what I believe to be the case and not the way McHugh counts it either.
And the most bullish chart I have seen also comes from Doug. Here he aligned the S&P with unemployment and noted the peak turns in unemployment correspond with a lag to the turn in equities. This is what has the bulls deluded. The question you have to ask yourself, of course, is did unemployment really peak? Of course for that to happen, the real economy must be producing jobs. Is that happening for REAL? I say no, sorry. The numbers are massaged beyond belief, real hiring has not begun, and that's all part of the Economic Mass Psychosis brought to you by the central banks who control both your government and the media.
Oh, I know what you bulls are thinking… which is the dream and which is reality?
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As part of an assignment in our sophomore Natural Systems course The Nature of Human Nature students & professors alike write a nature autobiography. Here is a first effort, a beginning of sorts, of mine.
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My brother Clay and I.
I grew up in a broken home. My parents eventually divorced, but only after many years of intense struggle and pain. It is in this context that I found my love for nature. I was hooked for as long as I can remember--I am thankful beyond words for this attachment. As I look back, I am convinced that this connection saved my spiritual life and helped in my search for personal identity.
As I look at my career as a scientist, I see several distinctions in my connection and interaction with nature when compared with my childhood. I owe a large debt to my childhood experiences. I am now a scientist because of these experiences. Science was the only choice for me. As a child, though, my connection seemed somehow more complete. More fun. More true. My adult connection has matured. I still feel the excitement while doing research in a tropical lagoon, or while exploring the rainforest or snorkeling over coral reefs. Teaching is special as well. Yet, my enthusiasm has been tempered by life's many demands and responsibilities. As a kid, I was one with nature. As an adult, I only get to visit now and then. I miss it.
Images. Five years old. A spring day. A squall line is moving in from the west. The sky darkens as rich, moist winds are drawn towards the approaching storms. Lightning is intense and getting closer. My friends are running for cover, inside away from harm's way. I'm mesmerized, frozen in place not by fear but by wonder. I want to be in the storm, part of the rising updrafts and streaking lightning. Reluctant to stay outside while my friends are inside, I leave but only after I'm drenched, excited by my boldness.
Images. Hunting for toads on a summer night. Flashlights shining, kids searching for calling males perched neck deep in a temporary pond. Who can find the most, the biggest. Only days before I've played baseball in these very fields--I had pitched a no-hitter. Now they were filled with frantic reproduction.
Images. A Cape Verde storm moving westward across the Atlantic Ocean, formed by a ripple in the steaming atmosphere over Africa. I'm excited by the prospects of tracking the storm across the ocean. Will it become a hurricane and reach New Orleans? Probably not. But.....
Twenty-five days later the storm is moving through the Bahamas only to be blocked by a massive high-pressure system to Betsy's north. Remarkably, Betsy turns completely around aiming is 150 mph winds towards southern Florida and eventually, into the Gulf of Mexico. New Orleans is right in the path.
My mother has me painting a privacy fence the morning that Betsy strikes. "Mom, the fence is going to be history by daybreak" I say as I watch the cumulus clouds- racing, racing from the east. I continue to paint.
Ten o'clock. Dark, kinda scary. Winds about 90 mph from the northeast. Parents withdraw to the showers. Mom, drunk, asleep in the bathtub. Dad, sitting with her, one step behind. Brothers, terrified. A sliding glass door shatters into a billion pieces, fragments whipped into lethal missiles thrown without conscience like buckshot into the living room wall.
Midnight. It's just me and the storm. Beyond fear, without fear. Winds are gusting over 125 mph. Betsy has all eye over 80 miles in diameter. New Orleans is underneath Betsy's eastern wall cloud surrounding the eye--an incredible 80 miles of the most violent weather anyone would ever want to experience. I watch as the privacy fence blows away, section by section cartwheeling out of sight.
One a.m. I gather strength as the winds increase. Winds over 150 mph. I'm outside of the house on the leeward side. I had no idea that the wind could blow that hard. Just when I thought it couldn't possibly blow any stronger, it does. My mind, my life are riding the winds. I'm beyond amazed. I want to know how these storms work. What a night!
Images. Thirteen years old. I told my parents I was at City Park looking for turtles. They didn't want me going to the place I wanted, no needed to be--the woods in eastern New Orleans parish, my own private rain forest. Oak trees hundreds of years old, thick carpets of ferns and spooky, dense swamps. Here, only here my adrenaline flows to the max. Real fear and respect for what I'm about to do, what I'm about to see.
It takes about 20 minutes for me to calm down as I step from the bus into the woods. I accommodate my fear and use it to connect me, focus me to the creatures I'm trying to find. I stop. What was that I heard? Ten feet away a box turtle withdraws into it's shell as I approach. Somehow, I hear the turtle closing it's shell while hiding under the ferns. I find it-- I am one with the turtle. On a good day I might find 10 turtles this way.
My mother was a saint. She hated reptiles but I guess she loved me. At the age of thirteen, my entire backyard was turned into a herpetarium. Cages were full of snakes while the fenced-in yard held upwards of 100 box turtles. My only real problem was the high escape rate of my captive reptiles. Turtles were easy to recapture in neighbor's yards. Once loose, snakes, on the other hand, presented numerous logistical problems. Most were never seen again. A few were spotted by anxious folk who rushed to my home for me to save them, the people that is, from the snakes.
Images. Eighth grade. Thirteen years old. Danger. Genetic memory. Copperheads, water moccasins, pygmy- and canebrake- rattlesnakes. They're here, under a bush or beside a tree. I want to see them, find them, fascinated by their danger and beauty.
May 30. Memorial Day. My best friend Eddie and I get on the bus early on Saturday morning. We're on the way to our "hunting" grounds. Its cloudy, temperatures in the 80's. By 9:00 a.m. we'd caught over 25 box turtles to put into my backyard herpetarium. It was going to be a heck of a day.
I couldn't believe it. A large, no huge canebrake rattlesnake lay on the ground before me. There it was, over six and a half feet long of reptilian splendor. Fangs about an inch long. It's head was bigger than my fist while it's body was as big around as my upper thirteen year old thigh. The rattles were over three inches long. It showed no fear. As I admired the snake, it slowly crawled away. I called Eddie to come see it. The snake had almost gone into the brush when Eddie--for some reason known only to him--grabbed the reptile by the tail. A trophy. About twenty rattles detached as it disappeared into the woods.
Later, toting the turtle sack along with us, we caught a magnificent king snake. These constrictors make wonderful pets and we were proud to have found it. While walking in a transition zone between the upland hardwood forest and lowlands swamps, I came across a copperhead. The snake was a splendid specimen. I kept my distance as I admired its remarkable beauty. I called Eddie over to see it. The snake, not wanting to wait for my friend, quickly attempted it's get-a-way. Eddie, convinced of his adolescent invincibility, grabbed the snake and tried to throw it out into the open so he could get a better view. He had done this trick one hundred times before and had always succeeded. Eddie was fourteen, quick and could outwit any snake. Well, almost any snake.
The snake turned and bit him on the top of his right hand. First shock, then pain and fear bonded us. We couldn't believe it. He let out a scream as two puncture wounds were blossoming on his hand. I took off my shoe laces and tied off his circulation at his wrist to prevent the spread of poison. Soon, I scrambled through the brush to Paris road to flag down a car for help.
I stood in the middle of the highway to stop the first vehicle I saw. Two young men, about 18 years old and boat in tow, stopped. They were on their way to go fishing. They wouldn't go fishing that day. Their day was taking a turn for the worse.
I asked if they could take us to the nearest phone so that we could call the police who would take us to Charity hospital. Eddie had alternative plans. He asked if they would mind taking us to the hospital rather than calling the police--he didn't want his parents to find out what happened! It sounded like a reasonable plan to our young fishermen.
Proper snakebite procedure in those days was to make incisions on the wound to remove snake venom. I asked the rescuers if they had a knife for the job. They looked in their tackle box and came up short. The best they could do is offer me a very dull butter knife.
Eddie was beginning to go into shock. As we were speeding to the hospital, I cut his hand with the butter knife. I pressed down hard but couldn't break his skin. The driver's companion by then had come up with a razor blade. I began to cut again. This time the razor blade cut into Eddie like a knife through butter.
Blood was everywhere. I could peer into his hand--tendons were where the puncture wounds used to be. Eddie slipped deeper into shock. We sped faster to the hospital.
I was frightened. We were going 70 mph in a 40 mph zone. Traffic was heavy. I asked if we could slow down. Please slow down. The driver would not, could not, he only went faster.
I saw the pedestrian standing on the neutral ground. I knew he was about to make his move. "Please don't do it" I said to myself. He was looking for an opening in the heavy traffic so that he could cross to the north side of the highway. We were in the middle lane of three. He made his move. He crossed the first lane, hesitated, then darted across ours. He didn't have a chance. Our right bumper struck him propelling him high into the air. He was dead before he hit the ground.
A frozen moment The car lost control. I can still see the faces of eleven people at a bus stop looking up in horror as our car swerved towards them. We stopped before we struck them.
Eddie, bitten by a poisonous snake, cut with a razor by his friend, and involved in the death of another human, slipped deeper into shock. We were lost in the shuffle. Dream time. No one knew who we were or why we were there. I walked to where the body lay on the highway. It was surrounded by spectators and policemen. I told an officer all that had happened leading up to the accident. At first he wouldn't believe me, the story was so bizarre. Eddie and I were soon on our way to Charity hospital.
Images. Swamps. Primeval in their splendor. Moss draped across cypress limbs. Bayous meandering through the submerged jungle. Majestic blue herons. Alligators. Sacred.
Images. Marshes. Up at dawn. Bonded with friends. Excited about the day. Fishing. Exploring. Prehistoric Indian sites. I love it.
Images. Seventeen. A summer adventure. I get paid to do this! I'm an ordinary seaman on a freighter, the Rice Queen, off the coast of Central America. I'd just sailed through the Panama Canal. Crew members-- tough people who took me in.
Oceans bluer than robins eggs. Flying fish stranded upon the ship's deck 20 feet above the water--What drove them there in the night? Dolphins by the hundreds leaping, racing towards the ship's bow. Manta rays, filter feeders bigger than Volkswagens, breaching the ocean's surface. Sea turtles lounging in groups. Making love, patiently waiting in line. Sea snakes. Whales. Tropical storms.
On lookout at 2:00 a.m., alone and content. Mystery. Looking for other ships in the dark night. Stars from horizon to horizon. Searching--lost and found in the river they call the Milky Way.
Images. High school. Little in-class interest, less inspiration. Mr. Tregg, math teacher extraordinare. Sports. What happened outside of school more important, more vital than school could ever be.
Thirty years later. I'm a college professor teaching a field course in the Bahamas on San Salvador island. Flashbacks to my childhood. As the students and I were admiring the panoramic view from the lighthouse, I noticed a thunderstorm developing to the south. The storm was not as large as the ones we had recently experienced. Nevertheless, I immediately told the students to come down from the lighthouse. Soon afterward it began to rain, but the lightning was still in the distance. Instead of walking back to the uncovered, open flatbed truck to return to the field station, we moved from the lighthouse to the lighthouse keeper's home, which is located about 20 meters south of the lighthouse. We knocked on the front door but received no response, so I decided the group should stay on the covered front porch, reasoning that this would be a relatively safe spot to wait out what seemed to be an average storm.
The rain came down harder as we gathered on the large, deep porch, and as the storm moved closer, I experienced a sinking feeling. A narrow band of intense lightning was advancing directly towards us. I told the group that we would be in a "lightning danger zone" in about two minutes and I suggested that everyone sit down away from the front of the porch. Then we waited. Joe, sitting against the front wall of the house, said: "If one of us gets struck, we all get struck." We laughed nervously. No one really expected to be struck by lightning.
After that things happened quickly. Lightning lit up the sky. Three seconds later thunder followed. One km away. In the next moment more lightning. Closer. Then, lightning, thunder and shock hit all at once. Electricity flowed through the group. We were thrown into the air. My body was numb. I couldn't speak. I lost any sense of time. A frozen moment. And then I looked to my left, and locked eyes with John, a student. We both screamed.
Everyone screamed. A strong, peculiar odor of burned rock, hair, and ozone permeated the air. Barely able to move, I banged on the front door, trying to awaken the lighthouse keeper. Students banged on the door, too. The lighthouse keeper, who had been sleeping after a night's work, let us in. We stumbled and crawled over one another onto the floor of his living room until, with four walls wrapped around us, we felt safer. We stayed until the thunderstorm was over.
Was anyone hurt? Was everyone present and accounted for? I couldn't bear the thought that any of the students might be dead or seriously injured. The electric field of the lightning strike had enveloped us. One student had been knocked unconscious but quickly recovered. We compared peculiar star-shaped burn marks on our thighs, arms, backs, buttocks and shoulders where electricity had entered and left our bodies. Eight students, upon returning to the field station, required a visit to the doctor's office with problems ranging from sore muscles and electrical burns to hearing loss.
Being a reasonable professor, I put the syllabus aside and gave the class the afternoon off. A few students and I completed field work on a research project in Grahams Harbor, San Salvador. While on the boat ride to the transect location, I broke into uncontrollable laughter. It was impossible to take the work at hand seriously. I laughed till I cried as tension left me. It was great to be alive.
Brief History
I received my Ph. D. in Oceanography from Texas A & M University in 1984 and have been at Miami University since 1988 where I am Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, an affiliate of geology, affiliate and Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Science, Director of Discovery-Oriented Science Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Founding Science Editor for Dragonfly. My research and publications are in the areas of ecology, paleoecology, and science pedagogy and I teach a wide variety of subjects, including field courses in tropical ecology in Costa Rica and the Bahamas. I play sports with my friends and children, especially basketball. I love to fish and look through telescopes and I enjoy all outdoor pursuits and explorations on land and sea. I also play a mean game of poker.
As Director of the Julia Rothermel Center for Science Discovery I have the responsibility of overseeing the use of inquiry in our core science courses. Various labs that we use in our core courses focus on geologic time, earth-moon realtionships, the sun, taxonomy, and statistical analyses. Our Natural Systems Core faculty have articulated a teaching philosophy. which you may be interested in reading. My vita contains info on my publications, published abstracts, undergraduate publications here at Western, presentations, and grants.
I am absolutely obsessed with the weather and I teach a course on Global Cimate Change. Each fall, I teach another course in the geology dept., Evolution of Past & Present Ecosystems. I also enjoy working in the tropics where I have taught a total of 15 field seasons. These tropical courses are Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Tropical Marine Ecology of the Florida Keys, Everglades, and San Salvador, Bahamas. I take lots of pictures on these trips. So, take a look!!
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Kanchanaburi, ThailandKirsty Turner
Kanchanaburi is the largest of Thailand's central provinces. Just two hours from Bangkok by bus or train, Kanchanaburi makes a great place for a day trip, although the stunning natural beauty of the area, combined with its intriguing turbulent history often entices people to stay for several days or even a few weeks.
There are two main towns in Kanchanaburi Province that are popular with visitors; Kanchanaburi city, which is the capital of Kanchanaburi Province, and the picturesque border town of Sangkhlaburi.
Located on the banks of the Kwae Noi, or River Kwai as it is popularly know to travelers, Kanchanaburi city is the home of the famous Bridge on the River Kwai, which is visited each year by thousands of tourists from every country.
Surrounded by beautiful mountains, lush paddy fields and farms, there is no limit to what can be seen and done in this interesting region. A great way to view the countryside is to ride the Death Railway to Nam Tok. Once there, make sure you visit the Sai Yok National Park with its two Sai Yok waterfalls, the perfect way to cool down on a hot sunny day. Whilst in Sai Yok, check out the Mueang Sing historical park, where you will discover the ruins of a Khmer town and temple.
The spectacular seven-tiered Erawan waterfall, situated in the Erawan National Park must not be missed, and climbing the 1,500 feet to the very top offers incredible views out over the top of the jungle. It is easy to combine a visit to Erawan National Park with a trip to the nearby tiger temple of Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, where many tame tigers reside and roam freely under the watchful eye of the gentle monks who also live there.
Of course, Kanchanaburi is famous for its World War II POW camps, and visits to the JEATH War Museum and the Thailand-Burma Railway Museum are good places to find out the facts behind this sad period of history, whilst people can pay their respects at the Kanchanaburi War Cemeteries.
There is plenty for the adventurous to do and activities such as trekking, cave exploration, elephant riding and canoeing are all popular. Kanchanaburi's roads are good and clearly sign posted, so a good way to spend a day or two is to hire a bicycle or a motorbike and drive off into the countryside.
It's worth trying to time your trip to coincide with the River Khwae Bridge week, which is celebrated around November with sound and light shows at the Death Railway Bridge.


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Ask the Critic: How Do You Know What to Order for a Review?
Editor's note: Here to answer your dining questions is New York restaurant writer and former SE senior managing editor Carey Jones. Have a question? Email [email protected] with the subject line Ask the Critic to submit.
Dear Critic, How do you choose what to order when you're reviewing a restaurant? I've always wondered that. It would seem like you usually can't order the whole menu (at most places, anyway), so what do you pick?
Many a night I've gone to a restaurant with the intention to review. And many a night my dining companions have kindly set aside their menus and let me take care of the ordering. Is there a method to the madness?
Yes and no. Sometimes a certain dish will just call out to you. (If you can read about a thin pressed sandwich of uni, miso butter, and pickled mustard seeds on the menu of New York's Toro and not order it —well, I don't know if we have anything more to say to each other.) But there are other reasons to order, too.
If everybody's doing it. Like any other creative enterprise, restaurants are subject to trends, and to plenty of publications, trends matter. So my hypothetical restaurant—let's call it Fork + Spoon—is doing an unusual beef tartare; that's certainly A Thing right now. How does its stack up against my favorites in town right now: Estela's fabulous beef-sunchoke tartare, or Skal's raw beef with littleneck clams?
If nobody's doing it. On the flip side, if a dish looks strikingly original, you can't ignore it. It looks like Fork + Spoon is really into Eastern European flavors? Okay, interesting. That dish has three vegetables I've never heard of? Worth a closer look.
If it sounds amazing. Self-explanatory, no? If a dish leaps off the page of the menu, if it's the sort of thing you eagerly clap your hands for as it's brought to the table—well, order the damn thing.
If it sounds crazy. A foie gras grilled cheese at Chez Sardine. Kung pao pastrami at Mission Chinese Food. I had doubts about both; I ended up loving both.
When a restaurant puts a dish on its menu that's a little bizarre, it tells you something regardless of how it tastes. If it's brilliant, then you get to see what the kitchen is capable of. And if it's horrible? You learn that the chef doesn't necessarily know how to edit his menu (or execute his ideas). Either way, it tells you more than a competently prepared, original dish.
If it's integral to the restaurant concept. You've got to order pan con tomate and a simple egg tortilla at a tapas joint. You've got to get some kind of pasta at an Italian spot with a robust pasta section. You've got to try the star meats at a barbecue joint. Evaluate the basics before you go off the rails.
If it's nothing like the restaurant concept. A pizza on the menu at a non-pizzeria. Why? Can you really pull it off? A paella on the menu at a vaguely French-American restaurant. Again, why? Knowing whether the kitchen can pull off an oddball dish or not tells you quite a bit about the chef's abilities and instincts.
And don't order the same thing twice... Multiple visits are an industry standard, but even with multiple visits you might not be able to order everything on the menu. So resist the urge to revisit old favorites...
Unless you have to order the same thing twice. If there's a lackluster dish I've heard praise for elsewhere, I'll occasionally give it a second shot; perhaps the kitchen had a bad night, perhaps that was a bad batch of dough. And if there's a lackluster restaurant I've heard praise for elsewhere, I might give it another visit, too. When critically evaluating a restaurant, your opinions are ultimately your own. But researching the current consensus can help you make informed decisions.
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Switchvox Announces Mid-line SMB PBX Appliance
AA300 Appliance scaling to 150 users rounds out Switchvox's line of bundled hardware-software iPBX solutions.
Switchvox is only one of a number of companies that's built a product line on the foundation of the Asterisk open-source PBX code, but it is certainly one of the most successfuland one of the first to take the approach of bundling its software with carefully engineered hardware, to create an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage IP PBX appliance.
Of the various Asterisk-based product lines, principal Asterisk sponsor Digium selected Switchvox as a partner, in a sense, acquiring it last September. Since that acquisition, there as been a steady stream of announcements, including a free Switchvox offering and a hosted version.
Back in March, we reported on the debut of Switchvox's offering for the small end of the SMB scale, the AA60 appliance, designed to support a maximum of 30 users. Also announced at that time was version 3.5 of the Switchvox SMB software suite.
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This week Switchvox, unveiled the latestand finalmember of its trio of SMB-targeted PBX devices, the AA300 Appliance, which scales to 150 users and supports 45 concurrent calls. (The heavy hitter of the trio, the AA350 scales up to 400 users, and offers some hardware redundancy.)
To recap some of the more appealing features of Switchvox's SMB Appliance offerings, they come "VoIP ready," meaning that no additional hardware is required to connect them with SIP or IAX IP trunk lines. Other kinds of network connectionsincluding analog trunks, and T1/E1 linesare facilitated by optional (extra cost) interfaces. Conferencing and conference scheduling are integral, as is call recording.
For an exhaustive list of the features of Switchvox SMB, go here.
Above all, the Switchvox technology is designed to be easy to deploy and manage. "Customers and our channel partners are benefiting from the rapid delivery of Switchvox on appliances that can be up and running, supporting phone calls just about as soon as they come out of the boxand can be easily upgraded as customers need more features or to add users," said Digium general manager Joshua Stephens. "The result of all our work is more options for customers that let them get rid of expensive phone systems, yet keep all the functionality of a PBX designed for the largest business."
For an in-depth discussion of some of the slicker setup and management features, see our March article.
Retail pricing for the AA300 begins at $4,240with substantial discounting through channel partners. It is available now.


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Not yet, but I certainly hope in the next two days the beardforgen drops....
Is there any subliminal messaging in the fact that DOPEGEN came out before FUZZFACEGEN?
I'm having a chuckle - beards and bongs all in the same week.
You just killed what moral I had left lol. Sent from my SM-G950W using Tapatalk
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I'm assuming that it was your smart phone that took away your morals?
Considering that the Indian Air Force have allowed beards for years, including for pilots of supersonic fighters, and their pilots are still breathing, I thought it was pretty clear that Air Canada's beard restriction was always more of a fashion/tradition thing than an actual flight safety issue. But now there is actual SFU research that backs up the experience of India.


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More About This Title Be Expert with Map and Compass, 3rd Edition
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GPS devices are great, but they can break, get lost, or easily be hampered by weather conditions, making basic map and compass skills essential for anyone who spends time outdoors. This popular, easy-to-use orienteering handbook has been helping people find their way for more than fifty years. Now updated to include information on GPS as well as current Web sites, references, sources, and photographs, it remains the book of choice for professional outdoorsmen, novice orienteers, and outdoor organizations as well as teachers, scout leaders, recreational hikers, hunters, and others around the world.
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If you're looking to feel more comfortable in the wilderness, this updated guide is an indispensable reference.
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The late BJÖRN KJELLSTRÖM was a Swedish champion in orienteering who loved to share his passion for the outdoors. His writings on the subject have been published in several languages. He helped invent the modern protractor-based compass and cofounded the internationally renowned compass company Silva. He is credited with introducing orienteering to the United States. He was also one of the founders of the Swedish and U.S. Orienteering Federations.
CARINA KJELLSTRÖM ELGIN developed her love of nature and of orienteering by literally following in the footsteps of her father, Björn Kjellström, on daily childhood excursions.
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Introduction The Art (and Science) of Orienteering.
The Map and Compass in Your Everyday Life.
The Map and Compass in the Outdoors.
Map and Compass for the Family.
Map and Compass Bringing People Together.
Using the Map and Compass in Education.
The "Romance" of Orienteering.
Part I Discovery: Fun with Maps Alone.
What Is a Map?
What the Map Tells.
Traveling by Map.
Part II Exploration: Fun with the Compass.
The Origin of the Compass.
Compass Design Basics.
Traveling by Compass Alone.
Test Your Compass Skills.
Fishing and Hunting: Special Use of Your Compass.
Part III Adventure: Fun with Map and Compass.
The Excitement of the Uncertain.
Traveling by Map and Compass—Orienteering.
Hints on Wilderness Orienteering.
Part IV Challenge: Competitive Orienteering.
The History of the Sport of Orienteering.
Your First Orienteering Race.
Hints on Competitive Orienteering.
Organizing an Orienteering Event.
Preparing the Course.
Running an Orienteering Event.
Answers to Tests.
Map and Compass Resources.
International Orienteering Federation Control Descriptions.
Training Map Attached to Back Cover.