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XFX has a PSU for those looking to power multiple GPUs
Subject: Graphics Cards | January 27, 2012 - 03:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: PSU, kilowatt, 80 gold, modular psu, xfx, ProSeries 1250W
It seems a short while ago that we joked about 240V 10 amp plugs soon being required for high end machines which pull more than 1000W at peak usage. Now most major vendors offer at least one unit which can provide 1kW of power or more, and thankfully doesn't need you to hire an electrician to install it. XFX, who more often produce the video cards which require powering, has released a new PSU called the ProSeries 1250W. It is rated as an 80 PLUS Gold PSU, which testing showed to be accurate at high loads but not so much at lower power loads. As with most PSUs in this class it has as single 12V rail which is capable of delivering an impressive 104 amps. If you need this kind of wattage to power your next dream machine, check out TechPowerUp's review.
"XFX is well known for their graphic cards but for quite some time they are also into the PSU market with two series called classic and Pro. Today we will test the flagship unit of the Pro series which with 1250W capacity will easily power even the most demanding systems."
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- Lepa G500 Power Supply Review @ Hi Tech Legion
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HD7970 from ASUS and XFX, who offers the most impressive card?
Subject: Graphics Cards | January 26, 2012 - 05:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: xfx, GCN, asus, southern islands, radeon, pcie 3.0, dx 11.1, amd, 7970, 28nm
[H]ard|OCP recently came out with two HD7970 reviews, one made by ASUS and one by XFX. The ASUS Radeon HD 7970 is currently one of the least expensive choices at $559 and runs at the default speeds of 925MHz and 1375MHz. It does ship with ASUS' GPU Tweak utility to allow for easy overclocking if you wish to push the card like [H] did, in their case to 1125MHz on the GPU core, and 1695MHz GDDR5.
The other choice is the XFX R7970 Black Edition which is a custom card, overclocked to 1GHz on the core and 1425MHz GDDR5 but costs $50 more than the offering from ASUS. At the out of the box speeds, XFX's card both draws less energy and runs much cooler and was silent compared to the ASUS offering. Even after [H] overclocked the card to 1125MHz core and 1575MHz GDDR5, which was the maximum possible using AMD's Overdrive, it was almost silent when running full out.
The decision seems to be how much it is worth to you to have a quiet card and if you are willing to find a way to overclock beyond what the Catalyst Control Center can manage.
"We have the new XFX R7970 Black Edition video card to evaluate, which is XFX's current flagship Radeon HD 7970 based video card. With a custom PCB, custom hardware components and custom cooling fan, will it take us to new heights in overclocking, or leave us wishing we had just purchased a "reference" card?"
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6670 @ TechwareLab
- Sapphire HD 7970 3GB Video Cards in CrossFire Overclocked @ Tweaktown
- Asus HD7970 Tri Crossfire @ Kitguru
- ASUS Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU II Top Video Card @ Legit Reviews
- HIS Radeon HD 6570 IceQ @ Funky Kit
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Cards in 3-Way CrossFireX @ Tweaktown
- HIS 6670 1GB Fan @ XSReviews
- ASUS Radeon HD 7970 3GB CrossFire Review @ Legit Reviews
- An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver @ Phoronix
- Arctic Accelero XTREME Plus II VGA cooler Review @ XtremeComputing
- Graphics Card Overclocking: Is it really worth it? @ TechSpot
- KFA2 MDT X4 – GTX580 @ Kitguru
- Galaxy GeForce GT 440 2GB Review @ Neoseeker
- Galaxy GT 520 MDT Review @ OCC
- Nouveau For A $10 NVIDIA Graphics Card @ Phoronix
Retail-ready HD 7970
We first showed off the power of the new AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB graphics card in our reference review posted on December 22nd. If you haven't read all about the new Southern Islands architecture and the Tahiti chip that powers the HD 7970 then you should already be clicking the link above to my review to get up to speed. Once you have done so, please return here to continue.
Welcome back, oh wise one. Now we are ready to proceed. By now you already know that the Radeon HD 7970 is the fastest GPU on the planet, besting the NVIDIA GTX 580 by a solid 20-30% in most cases. For our first retail card review we are going to be looking at the XFX Black Edition Double Dissipation that overclocks the GPU and memory clocks slightly and offers a new cooler that promises to be more efficient and quieter.
Let's put XFX to the test!
The XFX Radeon HD 7970 3GB Black Edition Double Dissipation
Because of the use of a completely custom cooler, the XFX HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation looks completely different than the reference model we tested last month though the feature set remains identical. The silver and black motif works well here.
Continue reading our review of the XFX Radeon HD 7970 3GB Black Edition Double Dissipation!!
A best of three HD 6950 battle royal
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 26, 2011 - 05:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: hd 6950, amd, gigabyte, msi, xfx, factory overclocked
Heading to The Tech Report will bring you to a round up of HD6950's including Gigabyte's GV-R695OC-1GD, the MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III 1G/OC and the XFX HD-695X-ZDDC. The GPU clocks range from 830MHz to 870MHz and RAM ranging from the stock 1250MHz to 1350MHz, with the MSI and XFX offering their own overclocking tools and Gigabyte relying on the Catalyst Control Center for further overclocking. MSI's offering came out looking very good, with the best performance and the best power efficiency and thanks to a mail in rebate it picks up the best ratings in the round up. It is a close race though with the cards performing very similarly, as you can see in the review.
"We've gathered three souped-up Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards from Gigabyte, MSI, and XFX. Which one delivers the most bang for your buck?"
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Great Value from Sapphire: Radeon HD 6870 Dirt 3 Edition and Radeon HD 6850 Vapor-X @ X-bit Labs
- Inexpensive Hi-End: MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III 1 GD5 Power Edition/OC @ X-bit Labs
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 DiRT 3 Special Edition Review @ OCC
- AMD's flagship HD6990: is silent air cooling possible? @ kitguru
- Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Mobile GPU Comparison Guide @ X-bit Labs
- EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified 3 GB @ X-bit Labs
- Gigabyte GTX580 Super Overclock @ OC3D
- Palit GTX 560 Ti Twin Light Turbo 1GB @ Tweaktown
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 550 Ti Video Card Drawing @ Legit Reviews
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti @ Phoronix
- Palit GTX 560 Ti Twin Light Turbo Graphics Card Review @ HardwareHeaven
Announcing the XFX PSU Contest
Subject: General Tech | June 8, 2011 - 12:32 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: xfx, PSU, easy rail, contest
XFX is giving away 10 PSUs, one each day, to a lucky winner who has registered for their giveaway. Each day they zero out the applications so you must re-enter the contest every day, though only one entry per day will count. Winners will get an email and have 24 hours to respond otherwise XFX will pick a new winner. You can also read more about XFX 's PSUs on this page in case you aren't convinced that getting one for free is a good enough reason to try them out.
Click here to enter ... every day until the Monday the 13th!
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Buy an AMD GPU (or two) and get a free copy of DiRT 3
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | May 24, 2011 - 02:29 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: xfx, sapphire, powercolor, msi, his, free, dirt 3, amd
If you haven't heard of DiRT 3 by now, you've been missing one of the more technically innovative games developed recently. Racing fans will go overboard for the choice of cars, spanning 50 years of racing history, which you can compete with in races across all terrain types and the more artistic will like the freestyle gymkhana events.
The techies will be impressed by the depth of support for DX11 features and we're not just talking about tessellation added on as an afterthought. The game was designed from the ground up to take advantage of the best graphics cards and to move the way light and shadows interact beyond DX10 HDR and the features other new games have been using.
Whichever you are, picking up a new Radeon card from Sapphire, Powercolor, MSI, HIS or XFX nets you a free copy of the game! How can you go wrong with that?
No doubt you've heard that the newest addition to Codemasters' racing games, DiRT 3 has launched today. The reviews are also in, and they're great, I mean, they're really great.
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A Record Find
How The Phantom of the Opera led me to a long-lost musical treasure in Paris
- By Michael Walsh
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With 20 years' hindsight, it's easy to see that it was right there on the page, hiding in plain sight: "It will be remembered that, later, when digging in the substructure of the Opéra, before burying the phonographic records of the artist's voice, the workmen laid bare a corpse." Thus wrote Gaston Leroux in his horror classic, The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910.
As readers, we are naturally drawn to the last words of that sentence: "a corpse." Dead bodies—fact or fiction—get our attention. Based on the author's clues, the mind races to the crime scene: "the substructure of the Opéra." And so, in our haste to discover this poor unfortunate's identity, we overlook the most important words of the sentence: "before burying the phonographic records."
Few readers pick up a novel, especially a thriller, expecting a guidebook. They want to be swept away by plot and character; the story's setting is usually an afterthought. Novelists, however, know better. The best fiction is grounded, made real, by its sense of place.
So the question is not, what corpse?
It is, rather, what records?
Music lovers around the world were stunned this past December when the Opéra National de Paris and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France announced a major discovery: a time capsule, dredged up from a subbasement of the Palais Garnier, which is also known as the Opéra. Carefully packed away inside two large metal urns was not just one phantom of the opera but many—24 gramophone discs featuring such long-dead artists as Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti, Emma Calvé and Enrico Caruso. In 1907, the discs had been entombed, like Aida's lovers, beneath a great architectural monument.
Though I am a music lover, I was not among the stunned, for, in 1987, I had rediscovered the room where the records had been cached. Several stories underground, far beneath the rush of traffic on the Place de l'Opéra, I spied a metal door bearing a dusty plaque that had to be wiped and illuminated before it could be read. "Gift of M. Alfred Clark, 28 June, 1907," it said in French. "The room in which are contained the gramophone records." I had bumped into it serendipitously, but I recognized it immediately—not for musical reasons, but for literary ones.
At the time, I was involved in two related projects: a biography of Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose sensational setting of The Phantom of the Opera had been the talk of London for a year, and, for Vanity Fair magazine, an article that featured Sarah Brightman, the Phantom's original Christine (and the then-Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber), posing in character around the Palais Garnier, where the novel is set and where the opera company staged its productions from 1875 to the opening of the Opéra de la Bastille in 1989.
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I actually have one of the letters that the phantom of the opera supposedly wrote, it is deathly old and signed "O.G." it written in red ink.
Posted by Joshua Potts on May 14,2010 | 03:08 PM
Patti was my Great Great Grand Aunt. I would be very interested in all information regarding her recordings that have been recently uncovered. I would greatly appreciate knowing more.
Posted by Patti Barili Kelly on August 14,2008 | 05:39 PM
According to the newspaper article from when the recordings were entombed, some of the recordings include: Tamagno, "The Death of Othello" (Verdi); Caruso and Scott, "The Power of Destiny," Duo by Verdi; Plancon, "Serenade from Faust" (Gounod); Battistini and the choruses of the Scala in "Ernani" (Verdi); Mme Patti in "Don Juan" (Mozart); Mme. Melba, Caro Nome from "Rigoletto" (Verdi); Mme. Schumann-Heink in "Samson and Dalila" (Saint-Saens); Mme Calve, the "Habanera," from "Carmen" (Bizet); orchestral passage march in the "Prophete" of Meyerbeer; Miss Lindsay, waltz song in "Romeo and Juliet" (Gounod) Hope this helps those of you curious about some of the recordings. I have this information, because I am the great-niece of Alfred Clark, Gramaphone Company.
Posted by Susan Conklin on May 10,2008 | 10:28 AM
I would really like the name of the EMI Cd that contains all the records so i can look it up on iTunes please..i'm a french and opera lover
Posted by Jilla on May 2,2008 | 06:02 PM
In which chapter of which edition of "The Phantom of the Opera" does Leroux describe "the rooftop graffiti of the frolicsome "rats" (apprentice ballet dancers)"? Posted by Emerson on March 26, 2008
Posted by Emerson on March 26,2008 | 12:42 AM
There was a Paris Opera House that existed before the "Garnier" which burned to the ground. It was called Le Peletier. Perhaps the "body" came from there, and was moved several times? http://www.hberlioz.com/Paris/BPOpera.html
Posted by Leatha b. on March 14,2008 | 11:01 AM
I would like very much to see a list of the records that they put in the time Capsule over 100 years ago. It would be interesting to see what sides they considered significant enough to be worthy of this Historic act. Also I was wondering whether the Caruso's were the center start Pathe Discs, or Caruso's Gramophone & Typewriter Company Gaisberg recordings. Since Alfred Clark was involved in the original capsule, then one would assume they would be the G&T reocordings. Is the list posted anywhere?
Posted by Bruce on March 6,2008 | 07:20 PM
If you would like an inside view of the events that took place in Paris in 1907, you may read about it in a publication I made in May, 2007: "150 Years of Time-Base in Acoustic Measurement and 100 Years of Audio's Best Publicity Stunt - 2007 as a Commemorative Year", Audio Engineering Society Convention Preprint No. 7007. I have translated important documents and give Alfred Clark's personal reports to his head office, the Gramophone Company in London. Enjoy!
Posted by George Brock-Nannestad on March 3,2008 | 03:08 PM
I would like to know the titles of the records! I put in the address you recommend (Smithsonian.com/presence)but nothing. I used to collect opera records and still have maybe 1000 and would like to hear the specific records. I have and love many Caruso's, Melba's, incl. some mauve, and several Patti's. All hers were in the 95000 series as I remember. If 1907 that is after thay had made the better recorded Caruso records but did his voice decline from the 1902 G&T ones? They are much rarer and expensive but the 1902 and 1904 records tend to blast. Dean Howe
Posted by Dean Howe on March 2,2008 | 03:14 PM
I don't understand all the hooplah. As the article above states, "what records?" Does anyone intend to release the list? Are they so rare as to be kept in a locked vault? What's the big deal? We all have records that are 100 years old or more, and are rare, and are expensive.
Posted by Dr H S Friedman on March 2,2008 | 01:04 PM
What a marvelous treasure. I was in love with Enrico Caruso the first time I hear his voice. I have no trouble discounting scratches, pop, hisses, and ignorance of the language. At 17 he made my heart soar and he'll always be my first love. I admit I'm not always faithful but I always go back to him!
Posted by jeanine t. farris on March 1,2008 | 06:03 PM
What a wonderful History of a still mistyfying Opera. The "Phantom" and the"Garnier" will always be magical to me
Posted by Nanci on February 29,2008 | 08:05 PM
I have those 78rpm records in my collection. Regards A J Hanekom Cape Town South Africa
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Posted by anonymous on 03/16/2013
I would only recommend eating here if you're in a hurry for expensive, overpriced, mediocre quality food. They bring food so fast and rush you out the door so they can seat the next table its obnoxious. The table next to me hadn't even fully sat down and they were taking their app order. The apps came and they hadn't even taken their coats off! Rude, rude, rude!! Add to that a cheesy atmosphere and expensive prices.
Posted by RCS Northvale on 11/19/2012
This restaurant is our office's favorite. The service is always on and the variety of the menu is key as it offers something for everyone.
Posted by NIS on 08/28/2012
A good lunch spot with nicely portioned, tasty salads and good people watching if you get an outdoor spot or a table by the window. Generally a bit of a scrum by the hostess stand, as the place is popular, but the staff does a good job of getting everyone seated asap. Noise level can be obnoxious, particularly if the windows aren't open.
Posted by Anonymous on 03/09/2012
We came to the restaurant later in the afternoon and enjoyed two Cobb salads and a Steak Sandwich, which were very very delicious! The service was attentive and pleasant! The French Bistro atmosphere was charming and we found the restaurant to be tidy and attractive! We would definitely dine here again!
Posted by foodie on 12/27/2011
Agree with rude references to wait staff - and not very attentive staff...but food was excellent...and atmosphere festive....close to the park for a late afternoon lunch. Priced reasonably for lunch in NYC w/ glass of wine. RUE 57 Tuna Salad is fantastic!
Posted by anonymous on 11/14/2011
were never offered a drink, a different server ...not ours...took our order...got it wrong....they brought back 3 different meals all not what we ordered. the main dish came out without the sides. the sides came out after finishing the main dish and the sauce for both the entre and the sides came out after we had finished eating. definitely do not recommend going anywhere near the place . the only thing that was good was the fish was fresh and the caesar salad was decent.
Posted by Lola on 10/29/2011
I ordered a late lunch ( caesar salad with chicken slices), a side of mashed potatoes and a glass of wine.. price? $ 40.. so very expensive.. but the salad was good, and fresh..the parmesan mashed potatoes were great, crusted on top.. very tasty. Sauvignon blanc was also very nice ( $ 10 a glass which seems average in manhattan). Atomosphere was just ok on day i went, but i have been here before and if you sit near window and windows are open during summer time, you cant get better than that. But it was a cold day... so inside it was very crowded. One suggestion i would have would be to space tables further apart, it was hard for me to get out of my table because it pretty much touched another table adjacent to mine. So in summary: Good food and wine and service, just expensive...


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dogman wrote:Perhaps even more importantly, those examples have a bms that if functioning, will prevent the over discharging and over charging that often is the cause of a LiCo cell flaming.
Plus, of course, those are likely LiMn or LiFePO4 as well.
A hard box is always good, for preventing the other possible cause, physical damage.
Personally, I don't get it why people must store a volatile cemistry like LiCo attached to thier bikes. Mine is in use on the bike, and if not, it's stored in a safe place with some fire containment. I use ammo boxes with vents cut in them. The vents point into my fireplace. When experimenting with repurposing RC toy batteries for a larger ebike pack, it's good to treat them like they will burst into flames anytime.
eva-michael wrote:But all of them are cased aluminum case or the little frog case. It's a very important way to avoid fire. It will isolate the lipo from large oxygen and outside. I will also advise to avoid lipo battery pack with pvc tubing or packed by any flammable material. Use ABS or PE material if you insist a tubing strture for lipo. They are flame retardant material.
dogman wrote:Yes. I just advocate hard shell, or at least more abrasion and puncture resistant battery protection for the prevention of punctures and other damage when the bike is crashed, or just knocked over.
So in that way, a box prevents fires. Don't puncture is in the rules for all chemistries. It matters little if oxygen is excluded, and ALL my battery boxes have substantial vents to let in cooling air to a bms, and to allow flamable gasses to escape if needed. No need to can a battery tight and turn it into a sealed container full of expanding gasses. Canned round cells usually still have a venting mechanisim, which may or may not let gasses out fast enough.
Shorts are another possible cause of fires, so it can be wise to protect some of the wiring on EV's with chafe resistant sleeves. Particularly where a battery wire exits a box, or may be vulnerablle on the route to the controller.
mr.electric wrote:I always look at automotive products to examine best safety practices. Take the example of a Prius battery.
Metal case
Mid pack fuse
Precharge circuit
Contractor on positive and negative lead
That stuff combined with plenty of testing and good software equals a safe pack.
Ebike packs are good when they are set up well. No bms or an exposed Bms and wiring is not very safe.
Look at the batteries on Panasonic ebike motor drives or a good quality cordless drill. You really have to work at it to even expose a wire or board to day light.
The thing that is missing for ES members is a safe pack that has a good discharge rate.
I would like to see a 5- 10c fully encased full bms pack that has been tested before it hits the market.
eva-michael wrote:mr.electric wrote:The thing that is missing for ES members is a safe pack that has a good discharge rate.
I would like to see a 5- 10c fully encased full bms pack that has been tested before it hits the market.
For LiFepo4 battery pack, I think it's still very difficult to have a 5-10C without sacrifice of cycle life. Cycle life is key. EV will not be good vehicle without a good cycle life of battery. Considering cycle life issue, we always remind our diy clients not try to make high C rate LiFePO4 or they will lose money. Generally even headway and Thundersky(winston) will perform nicely and very good cycle life during 1-3C application.
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We stayed at the Hotel Serena for three nights in June. With 2 kids in tow, we were looking for a hotel close to the train station to made travel and hauling luggage easier. The walk to the hotel from the train station is at most 5 minutes and very easy to find. We were greeted by the family that... More
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9.64 acres of commercial property. This is a beautiful piece of property facing the I-10 frontage rd. This property is visibly accessible once you exit 807, and on the way to liberty, offering many opportunities for a business such as lodging, gas station, truck-stop, restaurant, etc. It has high traffic on the weekends from people fishing and boating at the locks and the trinity river banks and is easily accessible from I-10. This is a gold-mine waiting to happen for the right business.
About 982.32' on I-10 East x351.56 on east x 1013.89' back x 304.21on west side. 7.48 wooded acres. Great buy with wide frontage. Property is on South side of I-10 east between Jerry Raymond and Fm 563 south.
20 ac unrest Ranches At Turtle Bayou. Waterfrnt on Turtle Bayou. Wooded. County in the process of working on roads. * Pictures of water are when the seller's purchased. *SELLER'S RESERVE ANY AND ALL MINERAL RIGHTS OWNED BY SELLER'S **The google earth coord for the tract is approx. 29 51 19.76 N 94 40 33.35 W This is in deg-min-sec.but it should get you close. there appears to be a trail going east toward the Bayou near this coordinate which is 2-300 feet north of the drive on the west.
Beautiful lot in Indian Trails subdivision with over 300 feet of bayou frontage leading to one of the areas best kept secrets Turtle Bayou and lake Anahuac . Come fish, duck hunt, bird watch or enjoy the serenity of nature in this easy accessible well-kept neighborhood just minutes from the hustle and bustle of Baytown or Houston.
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Jay-Z in Air Jordan III Retro '88
February 8th, 2013 by Brendan Dunne | 16 comments
While you were waiting on pins and needles for Nikestore to tweet out the link for the Air Jordan III '88 retro, Jay-Z was likely laid back somewhere surveying his Scrooge McDuck sized riches with the sneakers already firmly in his possession. Hey, at least he waited till you got the chance to purchase a pair before he flaunted them out in public. Pictured here is Jay alluding the paparazzi, Beyonce and Ivy Blue at his side, with the just released Air Jordan III '88 with the 'Nike Air' detailing on his feet. Continue reading for all the photos and stay tuned to see which other celebs pop up in the much buzzed about retro.
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got the 2011's but damm seeing these pics make me fee like i cant wait to get my 88's on monday..
hova rockin the cement 88! damn i want a pair asap! i am sure he did not even pay for em and he could probably buy the damn store!
Of course Jay-Z can afford them, sheesh! $200.00 bucks is like spare change for him! :/
@KnicksTape I heard from an employee @ a local footlocker near me dat JB is gonna rerelease des during da summer. Dats wat he told me.
@HeGotShoeGame Nas - "Ether". I'm sure ni**a got like thousands of 'em on ICE hahahahaha....... and given by Jordan Brand for FREE!
@gotjordans not even spare change like a penny on the ground lol hes worth like 4-500 million 200 bucks is nothing, honestly he probably gets all this stuff free from nike, so people can see that the influential/popular people where the brand
@187swizz @KnicksTape I heard earlier than that like next month I hope it's true cause ima be 1stt in line.


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"Very Comfy Beds"
Beds good, location good, friendly morning staff. Bathroom around toilet not clean, very smokey smelling room. Get an ionizing machine, takes smells out of rooms!Hotels.com ゲストの適正な口コミ
"Scary Experience"
The first room we checked into was dirty and smelled of smoke so we demanded they give us a different room to stay in. It was only me and a friend staying there and we were genuinely scared for our safety. We pulled up late one night and a woman downstairs threw something glass out her door and it shattered everywhere. I went in the office to tell the […] staff that it needed to be cleaned up before it popped a car tire and all they told me was that there is nothing they can do about it since it was already broken and that drunks are drunks and they can't stop them. Another night this same lady came out and just starred us down and talked to herself as we pulled away. Besides being scared for our lives, the management was rude. There were days our room didn't get cleaned. I'm going back to Nashville next summer, but I definitely will not be staying here. もっと読むExpedia ゲストの適正な口コミ
"Worst hotel staff"
First off I requested a late check out. They said they would give me til 12pm. I got hotel staff at 11am trying to see why I wasn't checked out yet. On top of that the heat in the room was blowing out cold air and the sink water wasn't working. Hotel staff said it would be fixed when I called them at 7pm. Nothing was fixed at all and I wasn't even offered […] a room change til 2am. My wife is pregnant and the staff was alerted of this. もっと読むHotels.com ゲストの適正な口コミ
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When we got to room, it was not very clean. We found empty beer cans in the night stand, long hairs all over the bed, and the bed skirt had blood stains on it. At 3:00 am the police showed up to break up a big fight in the parking lot right outside our room! It is also in a very noisy location, we left very early the next morning and stayed at the comfort […] suites across the road, and it was absolutley and excellent stay. もっと読むHotels.com ゲストの適正な口コミ
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The stay was average. However, I needed extra towels so i went to the front desk. The person do duty arrived in wrinkel clothes and did not look professional to say the least. I was given one towel and told that if I had arrive sooner I could have gotten two. I explain to him that the first room I was in had wet carpetting and could I get towels from […] that room since it had to be repaired. He told me in so many words "NO". I felt dissatisfied but went on with the stay. もっと読むHotels.com ゲストの適正な口コミ
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The motel was in general disrepair, air conditioning units not labeled so you have to guess how to turn it on, broken windows, broken tiles and duct tape holding shower fixtures together. (yes I said duct tape) The pool was cloudy and had a layer of slime on the bottom. TV was out on our entire 3 day stay with the promise that Comcast was coming out […] to fix it the next morning and of course Comcast never showed up, if that was really the problem. When I asked to talk to management, the staff said they were unavailable, gave me a business card, and said you can call them if you like! もっと読むHotels.com ゲストの適正な口コミ
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Ann 'Quintomom' Romney, an unemployed housewife with five children, has recently gained recognition due to her stressed domestic situation. With a husband on the road almost seven days a week, she doesn't have a chance to have any 'Ann Time.' When her story took to the air, the heartstrings of a selfless job creator were [...]


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We stayed here for the night - a few minutes away from the main motorway intersection at Dijon - makes it a good location for families on an onward journey. We had a super L shaped family room - the children felt they had a separate room but we could still see them and we all felt secure. A quiet... More
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North Idaho Fair and Rodeo
Aug. 21-25. 2013 theme is "Everything Under the Sun." The Fair offers family fun and entertainment, with live music, carnival rides and games, food vendors, arts and crafts, livestock, contests and community exhibits. Demolition Derby, PRCA Rodeo, Draft Horse Shows, and Motocross competitions in the Grandstand. Gates open daily at 9 a.m. Buildings open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
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Smaller in length and height than the standard HK45, the HK45 Compact (HK45C) uses a slim-line grip profile, otherwise is nearly identical in features to the full-size HK45. Like the HK45, the HK45 Compact was developed as a possible candidate for the Joint Combat Pistol (JCP) and Combat Pistol (CP) programs administered by the U.S. military in their search for a service handgun. These programs were suspended before completion and no pistols were selected. The HK45 Compact uses an HK proprietary O-ring barrel for precise barrel-to-slide lockup and optimal accuracy. HK45 barrels are made using the famous HK cold-hammer forging process for superior performance. Using HK's unique internal mechanical recoil reduction system reduces the recoil forces imparted to the weapon and shooter by as much as 30%, improving shooter control during rapid firing and increasing component service life.
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Free Wifi - best bit. Noisy neighbours all night, I mean all night, party policy not implemented by managers who were onsite. No sleep the first night, smoking outside my room, karaoke singing all night, did not stop, no intervention by owners/managers. Very disappointing. Cont breakfast very basic, coffee terrible, but hard to find good coffee anywhere in Albury. No... More
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If things go as planned by ISRO, India's Mars orbiter craft would leave the Earth's sphere of influence (SOI) shortly after midnight tomorrow on a nearly 300—day voyage in deep space to the red planet after the "most important" manoeuvre of the ambitious mission.
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Mumtaz Ali Khan, who was a minister in the previous BJP Government, joined Congress on Thursday, saying he was saddened by the outfit's decision to project Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate.
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The Benefits of Brutal Honesty
I've always been a big proponent of brutal honesty—in my personal life and in business. And I think my job hunt should be no different. I think above all else, honesty can get you a job, even if it seems counter-intuitive.
As I type this, I'm in a position of talking with two companies, each on their own timelines, who are highly interested in hiring me. I have no offer from either, but their word that it's heading that way. And so, I have recently come to the realization that instead of leading them both on, or trying to use it later to my advantage when actual salaries and offer letters emerge, I have told both of them that the other exists.
By sharing these moments of honesty in initial discussions, the relationship building can begin before I'm even hired.
Now, let me explain why I would do something that seems so against common sense and self-interest. For one, it sets the expectation that I am actively looking—not just for anything—for the right thing. And if delays arise in the hiring process, which is the case for both of these employers, then we all have a better idea of the timeline and what to expect. It makes me look like a valuable resource worth respecting and it also shows that I respect them, too. This eliminates surprises and the hiring game, where some potential new hires attempt to pit companies against each other. If I inform all parties that I am actively looking and the existence of pending offers, it makes us all take each other that much more seriously and we'll better appreciate each others' time. As a potential hire, I start off knowing that I'm not the only one, and I feel that by sharing in a non-threatening way that I also have options, there seems to be less friction and more openness during the process. By sharing these moments of honesty in initial discussions, the relationship building can begin before I'm even hired. And if the final decision comes out and another direction was taken by either of us, then the door would be open for networking, interview feedback, and possibly future opportunities.
Congratulations, you got the job you never wanted! Hooray! Nobody really wants this to happen.
The argument against brutal honesty has never sat well with me. I think that people, in general, want to know the truth, even if they initially have negative reactions to hearing the truth. I believe that the truth often gets hidden or omitted because of some misguided concepts of political correctness or professionalism (both of which I am also a big fan of, in the right circumstances). And I think during a job hunt, not telling the truth in regards to what you're looking for and what you're expecting from employers helps no one. Congratulations, you got the job you never wanted! Hooray! Nobody really wants this to happen. The most meaningful interactions I've had during my job hunt have been the ones where we've both put it all out there and kept it as genuine and transparent as possible. The conversation goes so much more smoothly when both parties know that they can just be themselves and don't have to constantly edit (don't mention the other candidates, he might be offended! -or- I better not tell them I have this other offer, they'll stop interviewing me!). I breathed a sigh of relief when I opened up about my other opportunities, and I think the recruiters for both companies appreciate cutting through the noise as much as possible, too.
Update: One of the opportunities got back to me—they're going with a more junior candidate who was referred by a partner. I did received feedback that the interview went great and I was the most experienced candidate, but that they changed the scope of the position and decided on a junior level candidate instead. We're going to keep in touch.
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Hu Jintao Meets with Canadian Prime Minister Harper
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On February 9, 2012, President Hu Jintao met with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the Great Hall of the People. Hu said since the establishment of diplomatic relations in the 1970s, China-Canada relations have been moving forward. In particular in the new century, the two sides decided to establish and develop China-Canada strategic partnership, pushing bilateral ties to a new stage of development. Facts proved that China-Canada friendship conforms to the fundamental interests and wishes of the two peoples and bilateral practical cooperation has great potential and broad prospects. "The two countries should stick to the principle and spirit of the China-Canada Joint Statement and enhance dialogue in the political field in a bid to build up understanding and expand common ground," Hu said. Hu called on both sides to have a correct view of each other's development paths chosen by their people, and respect and accommodate each other's core interests and major concerns so as to safeguard the overall development of bilateral relations. To push cooperation to yield more tangible outcomes, Hu suggested full play be given to the strong complementarity of both economies while tapping cooperation potential and expanding cooperative areas. He called for cultural and people-to-people exchanges and proposed the enhancement of youth exchanges between both countries to build the bridge of China-Canada friendship. Both sides should also strengthen coordination in global and regional affairs in order to promote recovery and sustainable growth of the world economy. Harper applauded the new progress of bilateral exchanges and cooperation in recent years, saying the progress has pushed the ties to move on a positive track. He said the two countries have seen an increasing consensus and common interests on many major issues. Canada is committed to developing a strategic partnership with China based on respect and mutual benefit and hopes to maintain high-level exchanges and political dialogue, build up mutual understanding, conduct joint research on economic complementarities and enhance cooperation in such areas as trade, energy and investment, he said. He also urged both sides to encourage cultural and people-to-people exchanges and enhance the friendship between both peoples. Canada is also ready to enhance consultation and cooperation with China on global and regional issues, to safeguard world peace and stability and to boost new progress of global economic governance. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Chinese Ambassador to Canada Zhang Junsai and other officials attended the meeting. |


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- Nathan Chow
Boston University, Class of 2009
Cram. It works. Don't cram. It doesn't work.
Sit in the front of the class—ask questions, get known, discuss. Sit in the back of the class—you're the most comfortable there and you can listen and read.
Meet anyone, everyone, anytime, every time. Network—the more the merrier. If you're happy with the small group of friends you have, stick with them—they're the ones who matter.
Pick the best and toughest and/or most well-known professors. They're the most inspirational and you'll learn the most and probably get a better recommendation. Pick the easiest professors. Are you really stupid enough to ruin your GPA by choosing good but tough professors?
Talk to your roommate about dorm issues you're having. They're gonna get worse. Ignore the issues. Is the conversation really worth it?
Keep in touch with your hometown friends—they know you best and they're an important part of you. Cultivate college friendships—you've changed and you're in a new place.
Party, go out, explore the town, stay in to laugh with friends. This life is about people and about having fun—right here, right now. Study, focus, lock yourself in the library. This life is about work and planning for the future.
Start a club, get an internship, get involved. When you graduate, job interviewers will ask you what you've done, not be picky between your 3.0 or 3.5. Be on track with good grades, good relations with professors, and good research experience. When you graduate, grad schools you apply to want to see solid academics.
I guess the only advice in college is:
Listen to yourself. What's your mission? What's your purpose? What's best for yourself? What makes you happiest? Only you know what's best and only you are in control of your life. Stay true to yourself—but when something whispers in your ear that you might be wrong, don't be afraid of listening to it. Change a bit, experiment, balance.
- by Nathan Chow
Boston University Class of 2009
Dear Readers,
Do you believe in karma? Do you believe that good things come back to you? Help me make a statement about that.
I need as much help as possible on a little project of mine, and I would really love to ask for a favor from all my hundreds of readers, including you.
First of all, helping is free and will take 5 seconds a day. I promise.
(Vote at http://bit.ly/nckarma. You can vote every day until 6/17!!)
If you'd like to help but don't have time to read my personal story, scroll down to the very bottom with "How to vote." Otherwise, sit back and enjoy this ride that people have called "amazing," "sweet", and "touching":
In April, when I visited Philadelphia, I lost some money for the first time in my life (actually the first time I lost anything!).
I've always considered myself to be one of the luckiest people I know. So as luck would have it, this was also the first time I ever packed two blank checks on a trip. I put an extra $40 and two checks in a beautiful and lucky Chinese red envelope and put that in my bookbag.
When my friends and I were buying Philly subway tokens, I was getting something out of my bookbag and must have dropped the red envelope. Throughout the day, I wasn't aware I lost it, since it was meant for extra and emergency cash.
A few hours later, I received a Facebook message from a Terri Shockley, someone I didn't know. She had picked up the envelope just because it looked pretty, found money inside, and found my name on the blank checks inside. Then she did her best to search for me online to return the envelope. (I thiiink I'm easily searchable, but I still thank her for all the time and effort she took in tracking down and pinpointing a Nathan Chow.)
I was back in Boston by the time we were able to talk on the phone about how to get the envelope back to me. Apparently, while she was searching for my name online and on Facebook, she also saw the video of my TED Talk on character education! She said that I must be someone who deserved good things to happen to me. We had a conversation about kindness, karma, and character education before I gave her my address to mail the envelope back to me.
Ever since being Facebook friends with Terri, I found out that she's the Executive Director of Philadelphia's Community Education Center, "a non-profit, community-based arts and education center whose mission is to strengthen the sense of shared community and culture among peoples of differing backgrounds and cultures through the arts."
Awesome! Sounds like something I would participate in.
I also found out that the Community Education Center is currently in a challenge to win a $50,000 grant for renovations and new supplies.
There are ten similar organizations around the country in this challenge. The top five with the most votes will get the grant.
Terri Shockley, thank you for your kindness on a small level and for your passion for leading such an amazing non-profit arts center at a large level!
You're the one who deserves good things in return!
I am inviting all my readers from across the world and all 1700 of my Facebook friends and their friends to vote for your center to get the $50,000 you deserve!
Thank you for such a warm and lasting memory of the City of Brotherly Love!! =)
=== In short: ===
- A stranger found my $40 and took the effort to track me down to return it.
- This stranger, Terri Shockley, leads a community arts center for dance, music, theatre, and much more. Her Community Education Center is in a competition to win $50,000 for renovations.
- In the competition, only the top five centers will win. Terri's has been swaying back and forth between 4th, 5th, and 6th place!!
––> We need YOUR help to vote for the Community Education Center, for me to thank her for her small good deed, and most of all, to make a strong statement about how good things flow in the world!
=== How to vote: ===
- Take 5 seconds to go to http://bit.ly/nckarma. Enter your email. Press Submit. Then press Yes. That's it!
- I purposely shortened the long link (originally kraft.promotions.com/maxwnational/front.do?housename=cec) to the bit.ly address above for you to memorize and visit whenever you're bored!
- You can vote EVERY DAY until 6/17 (coincidentally Boston's area code!).
- It is legal to vote with more than one email address! Vote five times a day until June 17th! Remember, the center just needs to be in the top five by 6/17!
- You won't receive anything in your email.
- Invite lots of your friends too! Getting 50 new supporters is like voting 50 times a day!
- Join all the supporters through Facebook at this event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208853572470627
Thank you for your help and for believing in karma. I've always believed that there's a secret society of positive and all-loving people who love to give and serve––and that, magically, all the best things in the world usually happen to them.
By voting every day, helping here, and inviting all your friends, may all the best things come back to you too!! =)
Love Always,
♥ Nathan Chow
A recent study by the Department of Education showed that where you go to college is the most accurate predictor of success in the future. If you want to strut in your best business clothes every day for the rest of your life and shove past people on the city streets while talking on your cell phone to your significant other about how you're 2 minutes late to your next boring meeting and that, no, you actually do not have time to see your injured son in the hospital today, tomorrow, or anytime soon—and everyone thinks this is success, right?—then it is absolutely essential that you get into your first-choice college.
The study shows that an overwhelming majority of such people (for convenience's sake, a year after the study, they coined the word "tool") went to the college they most desperately wanted to attend—and that if the college was ranked in the top 10 by the U.S. News magazine the year they enrolled, then their chance for success and wealth was exponentially greater.
But the study dives deeper and addresses more than just wealth, impressive titles, and "success." Even if you're one of the very very few people in the world who just want to be happy (c'mon now, who wants that?), the national overplay of college decisions this month will still color everything you do for decades to come. The conductors of the study analyzed the art of starving artists who do what they love to do and whose happiness levels were higher than the average person. They found that, whether in paintings, novels, or songs, the second most common underlying reference, motif, or theme was college admissions (of course, by far, phallic objects remain number one).
In the last part of this groundbreaking study, interviewers asked over a thousand people on their dying beds what their greatest regret was in life. More than two-thirds responded that they still wish they could rewind back to high school and do everything the white bread way, put a check mark next to everything they were told to do, and get into a better college they could brag about on their resumes for the rest of their lives. They said that they might've found a different—and probably better—calling in life if they attended a better college and that being stuck with an alma mater that was only ranked #11 has given them hot flashes and reminders of their inferiority throughout their lives, often leading to serious stress, destructive behavior, and even diarrhea.
The conclusion of the study? If you received a skinny envelope from a top-notch college, then you are screwed with a capital S.
Happy April Fools' Day!! =)
I certainly hope that was quite obvious.
Whether you're applying to colleges, applying to internships, or applying to jobs, no matter what stage of life you're in, just remember: big names, rankings, titles, fame, grades, salaries, and promotions don't matter much.
People, purpose, laughter, and love matter so much more. People for this interconnected world. Purpose for having a sense of direction and meaning in life. Laughter for enjoying every day to the fullest. And love for caring deeply about anyone and everyone. They're what life is really made of.
You may or may not have tried your best in high school. That's behind you. And you may or may not have been accepted into your top-choice college. Just lead your beautiful life wherever you end up going, whether top choice, second choice, or last choice. Enjoy what you were given. Make the most of any route. Look forward to a fresh start. May you always make all the difference you can with all your gifts to the world and in whatever situation you are in. That's your choice—not anyone else's.
- by Nathan Chow
Boston University Class of 2009
let's stop asking high school graduates where they're going to college and start asking where they're going in life.
let's stop asking college graduates if they've found a job and start asking if they've made their purpose.
let's stop asking workers if they're climbing up the ladder and start asking if they see that the ladder is endless.
let's stop asking our grandchildren if they know how the world used to be and start asking them if they know how the world still needs to be.
let's stop asking all the wrong questions and start asking all the right ones.
- by Nathan Chow
Boston University Class of 2009
I'm very goal-driven with the things that I think need direction. And I have a strong sense of my personal and career-related values.
But I still hate that question.
So years ago when the teacher in charge of my high school yearbook asked it to me and everyone else in the Top 10, our conversation was quite interesting:
Nathan: I don't know.
Yearbook Advisor: You have to know.
Nathan: No, I don't. I don't know.
Yearbook Advisor: Everyone else has something listed.
Nathan: And that means I have to follow the crowd?
Yearbook Advisor: Yes. The Top 10 should be setting an example for everyone else.
Nathan: Well, I'm sorry, but I really don't know and I think this is as much of a good example as everyone else's answer. If you're that desperate, you can pick something for me and include it in the yearbook.
Well, months passed and the yearbook was finally published. I flipped to the career plans page for the Top 10, and apparently the advisor wrote "Engineer or pro wrestler" under my photo. (Yes, this is a true story.) I'm Asian and had a reputation of being good at math, but an engineer was possibly the only thing I knew I didn't want to be.
I found this story funny, but I think there was an important takeaway for myself and for others:
Okay, back to that ugly question and all its flaws. What do you want to be when you grow up? If you're aspiring to be something like a writer, musician, anthropologist, chef, teacher, mechanic, or social worker, you better own up to it and correct your interviewer. You already are that writer, musician, anthropologist, chef, teacher, mechanic, or social worker. It's not something you want to be when you grow up. It's something you live and breathe already.
If you want anyone to consider your seriousness for a career, you need to give a role to yourself. You could say you're a "teacher" if teaching others is what you often informally do, even if you don't stand in front of a chalkboard every day. I suppose you can't really say you're a doctor or politician to people yet, but you could still say you're a healer or a liar…
Instead of asking yourself what you want to be, ask yourself who you are and what you value. Take an inventory of your strengths and personality traits. Then reflect on what kind of effect and difference you'd like to make in the world. While the answers to these questions are open to change throughout your life, they will stay a lot more consistent than "what you want to be." In addition, they'll invite you to explore a lot more opportunities that will help you act on your values.
Years after my high school graduation, I finally figured out part of my life. Some of my main values are educating people, inspiring people, and empowering people. When I leave this world, I want it to be a more loving, compassionate, understanding, forgiving, and connected place. I act on these values by mixing some careers together: teacher, counselor, consultant, writer, filmmaker, juggler, entertainer. These titles may change—and I may encounter new ones I like—but my values will always stay the same. My values are soaked into all of these fields. In all my art, I'm always teaching about love and compassion. Even as a juggler, I strive to dazzle my audience and make them laugh together. In a sense, I hope they are connected during my act and can forget about their differences or worries for the day.
I think it's perfectly fine, and probably even normal, to not know what you want to be. You have plenty of choices in the future, and you wouldn't want to trap yourself into just one. But you need to always think about what gift you can give to the world.
Life is about acting on values, not chasing titles.
- by Nathan Chow
Boston University Class of 2009
Enjoy the laughs! =)
Best Wishes,
Nathan Chow
Boston University Class of 2009
College application season is here. You've worked more than three years in planning, shaping, and doing all the amazing things you'll be putting in your college applications.
Whether you're proud of what you've done or you think you could've done better, you have to admit that for the most part, there's little you can do now to change any of the main application factors or start fresh for any of them (other than writing your personal essays).
Having AP and Honors classes, having a high GPA, having high standardized test scores, having glowing teacher recommendations, and having experience in demanding extracurricular activities—you can't go back in time and study a bit harder for your tests, get a better teacher recommendation by participating more often, or suddenly join a few more clubs.
But here are some ways to bring out the best in what you can no longer change:
Classes and GPA
- If you didn't have Honors classes or good grades your freshman year but did in later years, it's okay. Admissions officers will love how you're progressing academically and how you're challenging yourself. Most likely they'll notice this trend on their own when looking at your transcript, but if you'd like, you can mention your progression in one of your personal short responses or in the optional additional info section (NOT your personal open-ended and creative essay, which should be a specific and focused story).
- If you took an "easy" elective class instead of a traditionally difficult liberal arts class and you honestly had a reason for doing so, mention it in a personal short response or in the optional additional info section. In my senior year, I wasn't able to take AP English because I wanted to take the Intro to Video Production class. I was applying to colleges as a film major and had every reason to do this.
Standardized tests
- It actually may not be too late to retake a test and send in a new and better score. This can even be done after you finish your application and press that "submit" button! You may want to let the admissions office know that they can expect a newer test score later.
Teacher recommendations
- When you ask for a recommendation, be sure to list your specific accomplishments from the class. Don't assume your teacher remembers everything you did.
- Even if she remembers a lot, what she remembers might not be parallel to the "theme" you want to show in your application. For example, if you're applying as an art major, you don't want your English teacher spending so much time saying how great you were at grammar. You want him to talk about the time everyone handed in self-made novellas and yours was so exceptionally and professionally made with full-color drawings on every page and even homemade book binding.
- What was your final grade? Did you regularly outperform your classmates on tests? Was one of your projects or papers exceptional? Were you a leader in discussions and good at drawing out responses from classmates? A good debater? Did you participate when no one else had the courage to? Did you have the commitment and maturity to stay afterschool whenever you had trouble understanding something?
Extracurricular activities
- Turn your "extracurricular resume" from description-based to accomplishment- and number-based. If you were the secretary of a club, don't say you "organized notes" and "emailed members with meeting times"—everyone knows that's what secretaries do. Be specific with things YOU did that other secretaries before you or across the country probably didn't do. Two examples: "increased number of members from 12 to 27 with active Facebook page and Twitter for the organization", "facilitated smooth communication by electronically archiving notes from meetings to Google Documents for all members to easily access."
I hope these ideas prompt some of your own creativity in filling out your college applications. Remember that seeing the past with a new set of lens and selecting what to focus on is still being honest. Tweaking the truth or exaggerating is not.
You've worked ridiculously hard the past few years. Be proud of everything you've done in high school so far and know that it's normal to wish you did more of this or better at that. But the past is over. Focus on the present. Make the best of what you've done. You can and will do even better in college!
I leave you with one of my favorite quotes:
"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; and Wisdom to know the difference."
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Best Wishes,
Nathan Chow
Boston University Class of 2009
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]]>- Books YOU'RE interested in should be a supplement to the books you're told to read.
- Browse the bookstore and library at least twice a month. Make it a habit.
- Go to your university bookstore's textbook section and read / skim / browse through the books required in classes you want to take but can't fit into your schedule. "Take" the class on your own.
4. Be passionate about your classes.
- Take classes you're actually interested in. (That usually starts with choosing a major you like—not one your parents chose for you or one that sounds impressive.)
- Take classes you're curious about. Be adventurous and expose yourself to new fields.
- Visit your professors during their office hours. Be honest with them. You don't need to bring in an organized conversation agenda for them to see your passion for the class and academic field. You can talk to them about things you don't understand, about contrasting ideas, and about your confusion. Wanting to talk about something and explore it deeper demonstrates as much passion as knowing something already.
- Read the books your professors recommend but don't require. Even better, read the books your professors wrote! Cite any of these in your papers. It's not ass-kissing. It's simply learning more from the person you've been listening to all semester.
3. Learn from people.
- Remember when you were choosing colleges and you told yourself you wanted to be in a place surrounded by other smart students? You're here now. Take advantage of your environment. Talk to your friends about academics, the news, the world, philosophy, and life. You'd be surprised by the depth of such conversations and how much you can learn in just a 45-minute lunch.
- Listen to and think about real conversations you have with friends or overhear from strangers. Not all learning is academic. There is lots to be gained from everyday informal conversations (even gossip!) about relationships, friendships, and work. These are parts of life too!
- In addition to visiting your own professors, you can even email professors you never had and ask if you can talk to them during their office hours (if they have time when none of their actual students are there). This is particularly useful if you need a bit of guidance in a field you enjoy and study on your own but don't have the time or prerequisites to take courses in.
- Listen to those special people who love you unconditionally and want the best for you: your parents!
2. Seek out other ways of learning
- Attend special lectures organized by your university, other universities, or your town. Use your university's calendar webpage to browse such events. (BU's: http://bu.edu/calendar)
- Visit museums. Go on guided city tours. Watch films.
- Every day, jot down the things you encountered that you were curious about. Then JFGI. (Just f'in Google it!)
1. Learn from experience and life.
- As much as you'll learn from books and people, at the end of your life, would you rather have read about and heard about life or experienced it? Dare to make your own mistakes. Dare to experiment. Skip your business class and go out there and teach yourself what works and what doesn't work in serving people. Close your psychology book and go out there and find out for yourself how humans behave. Forget perfecting your Writing101 assignment and practice your own craft by writing in a journal, writing letters to friends, and starting your own blog. You'll learn from it all. What is failure anyway?
- Remember that whether it's academics or life in general, you are the only person who can decide which "classrooms" you want to enter, you are the only person who can decide what experiences will count as lessons, and you are the only person who can decide how well you do. You are your own best teacher and you alone are fully in charge of your own learning.
- Remember that you can learn anything you want. It won't show up on your transcript or resume, but it will show up in your life. You won't be graded on it, but you will gain from it. That's what real education is about and that's what real life is about.
Be a student of life and for life.
- by Nathan Chow
Boston University Class of 2009


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By Rick Banas of BMA Management, Ltd.
Like all great fairy tales, the lessons from "The Wizard of Oz" are not limited to children. They are universal.
I mention the "Wizard of Oz" today because the MGM (currently Warner Bros) movie starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale premiered on this day back in 1939. The movie was one of the many adaptations of the book "The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy Tale" written by L. Frank Baum in 1899 and published in September 1900.
Growing up, watching the movie on television was an annual event. It wasn't until we were visiting our oldest daughter in Costa Rica a couple of years ago that I finally read the book.
Given my sense of humor, I loved when I read about the Wizard concocting a bran cereal mixture, placing the mixture into the Scarecrow's head and then declaring that he has a "bran-new" brain.
The movie is filled with so many wonderful visual effects, songs and memorable lines. Who can forget "Somewhere, Over the Rainbow;" "Follow the Yellow Brick Road;" "We're Off to See the Wizard'" "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My;" "I'm Melting;" "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead;" and the last line of the movie "There's No Place Like Home." To listen to a music playlist, click here.
The movie also is filled with a variety of messages about life, some of which are learned the easy way and others only after a crisis or a scare.
Early on in the movie Dorothy learns in fairly easy fashion that you cannot run away from your problems. Right after Miss Gulch storms into Dorothy's home, calling Toto a menace and threatening to take the dog to the sheriff to have him destroyed, Dorothy takes off. She, however, has the good fortune of running into Professor Marvel, a fortune teller who helps Dorothy understand how hurt Auntie Em would be if Dorothy ran away.
The other messages, however, only come after Dorothy is knocked unconscious by a tornado and after Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion overcome Flying Monkeys and the Wicked Witch.
Through all of her adventures, Dorothy discovers that everything that she could ever have wanted was right there in her own backyard.
Through the Wizard, Dorothy's friends – the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion – realize that the qualities that they have been seeking were always right there within themselves.
As the rock band America so appropriately notes in its song "Tin Man," "Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn't already have."
The Lion also learned that he was confusing COURAGE with WISDOM. As The Wizard pointed out, "under certain circumstances, it is acceptable to be afraid."
While Dorothy learned that running away from problems doesn't solve anything, the Lion discovered that running away from danger doesn't mean you lack courage.
Sadly, what I see all too often in working with older adults and their families is that it takes a crisis or a scare to open up their eyes to wisdom of assisted living.
I recall one couple who kept putting off making a move, despite pleas from their family. Like so many other older adults, they wanted to live in their house forever.
Then, one day, a family member called hoping that Mom and Dad could move in as quickly as possible. Mom had taken a tumble in the bathroom and was in the hospital. Dad, in trying to help Mom, managed to flood the room and cut his hand so badly that he was in the Emergency Room, getting stitches.
Fortunately, we had an apartment available and assisted living still was appropriate. Often, this is not always the case. It is so hard telling someone that their health needs are now beyond what we can provide in assisted living and that a nursing home might be the only option.
What can be so hard for folks to appreciate is that while "there is no place like home," a house is not a home. As the saying goes, "home is where your heart is."
Maybe that is one of the reasons why so many folks who have lived with us for a period of time tell us that looking back their biggest regret is waiting so long to make the move to assisted living.
What are your thoughts? Leave a comment and let us know.
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AR-15 and M4 Armorer's combo wrench tool. Made of all steel construction and compatible with most M16, M4, and AR-style rifles.


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