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For Immediate Release – 11/25/2013Contact: Rita Elliott, Director of Communications, 815.226.3374Rockford, Ill., — Recent professional activities conducted by faculty include:
Chair of Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Assistant Professor of Spanish John Burns, Ph.D., has been named as Rockford University's first Global Faculty Fellow within the office of Global Affairs. Dr. Burns is a strong advocate for the internationalization of campus and will be a raving fan for this cause from within the faculty. His central role within Global Affairs is to engage faculty and students in Rockford University's many global initiatives. Ensuring that the international student population is engaged in the community and seeking ways to provide global opportunities to all Rockford University students, faculty and staff. Dr. Burns will play a critical role in developing strategic partnerships aimed at increasing the number of international opportunities the university supports, such as short term and long term study abroad.Assistant Professor of Chemistry Matthew Bork, Ph.D., presented an open seminar at Rockford University on the use of Ruthidium compounds in Photochemistry.
Professor of Political Science Jules Gleicher, Ph.D., attended the annual meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association on Nov. 2, at Elgin Community College, where he chaired and was the discussant on a panel entitled "The Politics of Nuclear Fears, Nuclear Cooperation, and National Security." Dr. Gleicher also participated in the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association in Philadelphia, Penn., Nov. 14-16, where he was a commentator on a panel entitled "American Institutional Design: Views from the Founding." He also served on a roundtable discussion on Yoram Hazony's book "The Philosophy of the Hebrew Scriptures." Assistant Professor of Anthropology Matthew Dalstrom, Ph.D., presented a paper, "Improving Prenatal Healthcare Usage in A Midwestern County," at the meeting of the Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology in Portland, Ore., October 3-5. Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Shawn Klein, Ph.D., and his blog, SportsEthicist.com, were quoted in the October 14, 2013 edition of Sports Illustrated. In his regular back page column, Phil Taylor writes about the importance of playing by the rules and quoted Prof. Klein as follows: "While I may not think that many of these substances [PEDs] ought to be banned ... these players have, through the CBA, agreed to these rules," writes Rockford (Ill.) University philosophy professor Shawn Klein in his blog, The Sports Ethicist. "For them to violate these rules is a violation of their integrity and honesty. For this, we ought to condemn them." Prof. Klein is currently teaching Sports Ethics and will be offering PHIL 340 Philosophy of Sport in the spring semester. Dr Klein was also quoted in a Tri-Parish Times & Business News article, "Ethicists say Destrehan coaches deserve punishment" which addresses the punishment of high school football coaches who illegally accessed an opponent's website to get their practice videos and playbook.Assistant Professor of Economics, Business, and Accounting Caleb Lewis, Ph.D., presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Illinois Economics Association meeting at DePaul University on October 25 entitled "Endogenous Peer Effects: Behavioral Responses In The Classroom."
Assistant Professor of Biology Troy Skwor, Ph.D., presented a paper at the 86th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference in Chicago, Ill., October 5-9. The paper was entitled "Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistant Aeromonas: A Comparison between the Rock River and the Rock River Water Reclamation District." Students Jenilee Johnson, Lauren Hyser, and Sarah Stringer also presented on work completed in Dr. Skwor's lab.
Associate Professor of Education Lynn Stafford attended the Illinois Council for Exceptional Children annual conference in Lisle, Ill., on Nov. 7-9. Several undergraduate students also attended the conference.
Assistant Professor of Education Karen Walker, Ed.D., has written an article that is published in the November 2013 issue of the International Reading Association Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. The article is entitled – "Scaffolded Silent Reading – Advocating a Policy for Adolescents' Independent Reading."
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Everyone is going to have to resist the temptation to analyze every word and syllable Dwight Howard says and to overanalyze every game that is played. The whispers of Dwight Howard putting on a poor offensive show in Sunday's preseason loss to the Heat began before the game had even ended. That notion is completely not true. Howard was strong defensively as he always is and had a bad night offensively (the Magic barely gave him much of a look on the offensive end in this one). It was a preseason game, there is very little to take out of it.
Still, what we do know is that Dwight Howard wants a trade out of Orlando. And quite clearly the team that is on the floor is not going to convince him to stay.
What we also know is that Howard has four preferred destinations. The Magic gave Howard's agent, Dan Fegan, permission to speak with the Nets, the Lakers and the Mavericks. Howard reportedly also added Orlando to that list. It seems these are the four teams that are in the running if he gets to free agency for 2012.
It feels like Orlando is playing a game of chicken right now. The management believes it can do what it takes to keep Dwight Howard in Orlando for a very long time. And it is clear from Howard's statements to the press that he is seriously looking elsewhere and does not believe Orlando is where it needs to be as a franchise to satisfy what he wants to do.
Why these places though? What is Howard's motivation for pointing to these three specific cities outside Orlando? What is really motivating Howard?
Winning is the simple answer. It is the really simple answer.
We all assume at this point that if the Magic had a roster that unequivocally could win a championship this year and for the foreseeable future, Howard would have already signed that extension.
But this is a post-Decision world. LeBron James may have flipped that whole notion on its head. He was on a team that was in the Eastern Conference Finals, on a perennial contender, in a city that he could get away with murder in (seriously, he could), with an ownership willing to spend and do whatever it took to keep him happy and put a winning team on the floor. And it still was not enough. James left to play with his friends in the warmer climate of Miami.
There are other concerns besides winning. Take a look at Howard's list again:
To get to New Jersey, as is reportedly close to happening, the Nets would be giving up Brook Lopez and likely some other pieces. Deron Williams and staying with Hedo Turkoglu, the Nets are better than the Magic. But are they a championship team? Saddled with Turkoglu's contract and then largely filler, the Nets will have to spend wisely to get to a championship level. This year, even with Howard and Williams, would they be better than the current Magic squad? Experience says no.
In the long-run? That depends how good Billy King is in spending the cap space he will have in 2012 and 2013. Joe Dumars proved just having cap room does not guarantee smart spending.
To get to the Lakers, they would have to give up Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol. The Lakers do not seem willing to do that. But if they were, that would leave a gutted roster that has Howard and Kobe Bryant as centerpieces. And then an aging Metta World Peace and some filler players. Again, is that roster better than what the Magic have even if they add Hedo Turkoglu to that mix? Not this year. In the future as cap room clears up? Yes, it does. The Lakers find ways to attract the best players and always stay competitive. I am sure they will spend their money wisely. Although, that is never a guarantee.
The Mavericks? They don't appear to have the young pieces or draft picks the Magic would want. A trade there seems unlikely. However, Dallas has an amnesty still in their pocket (to use on Brendan Haywood assumedly), a team option on Lamar Odom and some wiggle room to bring in Dwight Howard with another move in free agency. The Mavericks were champions last year and have aspirations to bring in Deron Williams in free agency too. This is a team with winning very much on its mind.
So, if you choose to believe the Lakers and Nets would only be marginally better this year than the Magic as currently constructed if Dwight Howard, you wonder whether other interests are ruling the day. The always poignant Bill Simmons took Howard to task for his selections:
"Let's say Orlando changes its mind — New Jersey would have Deron Williams, a slew of awful contracts, deep pockets and the Brooklyn thing going. There's a ton going on, no question. I like the Howard/Williams pairing, absolutely. But that's not a guaranteed title contender for a couple of years … at least.
"That brings us back to the 'What's important to you, Dwight?' question. Again, it's unclear why he soured on Orlando — it's hard for me to believe that 'Otis Smith doesn't give me input' trumps loyal fans, warm weather, no state taxes and a half-decent basketball situation (Jameer Nelson, Jason Richardson, Redick, Ryan Anderson, Glen Davis and whatever Turkoglu gives them) that matches what he'd have in, say, New Jersey. If he cared about winning titles AND playing in a big market AND finding a trade partner that actually made sense for Orlando, he would have picked these two destinations [Dallas and Los Angeles] as well."
That is quite clearly the question. Is Howard after championships or after playing in a big market and using championships to increase his marketing portfolio? If he could do the championships to get the marketing opportunities then the big market would not matter as much perhaps. But he does not have that championships and a bigger stage is necessary for Dwight to get what he wants on and off the court.
Certainly those three teams appear to have brighter futures than the salary cap hell the Magic have found themselves in — with money committed to Hedo Turkoglu, Jason Richardson and Glen Davis for at least the next three years. But any crafty general manager can find their way out of hell with some patience.
Dwight Howard does not have that patience right now with the leverage to force his way out. And very few people outside the organization have the faith Smith can deliver in time to placate Howard.
It is clear from the teams Howard is looking at that winning is not his only motivator. It certainly is a requirement that these teams be championship contenders for them to be eligible for Howard's services. But it is not the final requirement for sure. Howard wants something more than just to win a championship.
The bottom line is, right now, and looking into the nearby future, the Magic cannot provide Howard with that. They are not in position to win a championship this year and they do not have the pieces to build a championship in the near future. Howard sees the clock beginning to tick on his prime and knows he needs to cash in.
That goes in more than one way. Orlando is not a major media market. Disney is right down the road, but they aren't selling any shoes any time soon — they are not selling Modern Warfare 3 either — and are not seeking Howard to be the new Mickey Mouse. There are more opportunities elsewhere, and that is something that works against Orlando and always will (sorry).
In his mind, Orlando is not the place that Howard can accomplish these goals.

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So nice notebook
Plenty of RAM and hard drive space make the Dell Inspiron 15R N5010 a good option for anyone who wants a notebook that can also be used as a desktop replacement computer. However, its build quality could be better, as we noticed some annoying creaking in its base, and its screen suffered from shimmering when viewed from certain angles.
Dell's Inspiron 15R N5010 is a 15in notebook with an appealing design and a well rounded configuration. This Dell notebook weighs 2.6kg and is aimed at users who want something that can be comfortably used on their lap, as well as act as a replacement for a desktop replacement.
New model: Read our review of the ivy Bridge-based 2012 model Dell Inspiron 15R 5520.
The Inspiron 15R N5010 runs an Intel Core i5-430M CPU with two cores, Hyper-Threading and a clock speed of 2.26GHz, but the most impressive specifications are the notebook's 6GB of DDR3 SDRAM and 640GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue hard drive. This is more RAM and hard drive space than we're used to seeing in a mid-range notebook, and it gives the Inspiron 15R N5010 excellent multitasking abilities as well as lots of head-room for image manipulation and other memory-intensive tasks. It runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit edition, so all the memory is available.
The Inspiron 15R N5010 has two memory slots. Our model was furnished with one 4GB module and one 2GB module.
Performance tests showed the Inspiron 15R N5010's speed to be adequate for office and multimedia pursuits. Its 2.27GHz frequency is the lowest of all the available Core i5 CPUs (except for the low-voltage models), but the difference between 2.26GHz, 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz will be negligible in real-world tasks. In our Blender 3D test, the Inspiron 15R N5010 recorded a time of 60sec, which is only 5sec slower than the Dell Vostro 3700 and Samsung R580, both of which use the 2.4GHz Core i5-520M CPU. Its iTunes MP3 encoding time was 4sec slower than the Vostro 3700.
You won't really lose too much time when performing everyday encoding tasks, and even more taxing tasks such as DVD ripping will be accomplished in reasonably good time. It took us 1hr 10min to compress our test DVD to a 1.5GB Xvid file, which is only 5min slower than a high end laptop such as Fujitsu's LifeBook E780, which runs an Intel Core i7-620M.
Graphics performance out of the installed ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 adapter is only middle of the road; it recorded a score of 4572 in 3DMark06. It's a low score for a 15in laptop with a $1500 price tag — even the Samsung R580 recorded a quicker score of 7412 in the same test with a GeForce GT 330M graphics adapter. Nevertheless, it's more than enough graphics performance for HD video processing and it will even be able to run some older games.
The hard drive recorded a fast transfer rate of 29 megabytes per second, thanks in part to its high density. Once it gets substantially filled with files, that figure will drop slightly. We're not fans of the way Dell has partitioned the large drive, leaving only 60GB free for the operating system and applications on the primary partition. We had only 20GB free after installing our benchmarking software.
The Inspiron 15R N5010 comes with a roomy keyboard that has firm yet easy to press buttons. It's not tiring to type on it for long periods of time, but the keys do make a hollow thud when you hit them. A number pad is located on the right side of the keyboard, and although it's a little squished, it comes in handy if you regularly use the calculator. The Function keys are reversed (like the ones we've seen on HP's Mini 5101 notebook) and this allows you to change brightness, volume and other tasks without having to first press the Fn button. If you're used to hitting F5 to refresh your Web browser, you'll have to remember to hold down Fn as well.
The touchpad is large, the keyboard feels good to type on and the design of the unit is nice and clean.
A large touchpad allows you to perform various gestures with two fingers: it supports two-finger scrolling, pinching and rotating. You can also set it up so that you can use one finger circular scrolling (a.k.a ChiralMotion scrolling). The left- and right-click buttons are soft and don't make a sound when you press them — we love that.
There aren't any extra buttons above the keyboard; you'll only find the power button. The palm rest has a brushed design and it looks good. It's very smooth though and could become sticky and uncomfortable to use during hot weather.
Sparseness in the design is also evident when you look at all four sides of the base. The ports and slots are well spaced all around the base, including on the spine, instead of being mainly crammed on side. The front has nothing but two speakers, which are reasonably loud and emit great sound for movies and music. The right side has a built-in DVD burner, an eSATA port, a 10/100 Ethernet port and an SD card slot; the left side has a USB port, microphone and headphone ports and an HDMI port; the rear has two more USB 2.0 ports, a VGA port and the power connection.
We found the body of the Inspiron 15R N5010 to be a little creaky, especially on the left side. In this area, the palm rest cover also made a ticking sound when slight pressure was applied to it, and this was very annoying. We think it has something to do with the palm rest brushing up against the heat sink. This works in conjunction with a fan to extract the heat generated by the system, and the fan makes a loud whirr when the CPU is under load. There are also vents on the base of the system and overall we found the Inspiron 15R N5010 to run cool, without much heat coming through the base.
The screen is 15.6 inches and it has a native resolution of 1366x768. It sits about two centimetres in from the spine, which gives the notebook good balance and a slightly different look to the norm. It has a red lid and a black bezel and these colours match nicely with the silver palm rest. There's a webcam located above the screen, directly in the centre, and it's accompanied by a built-in microphone. The bezel and the screen are very glossy though, and reflections can be distracting while you work. In dark environments, we noticed a shimmering in the screen when looking at white backgrounds while the screen was leaned back just past 90 degrees. The shimmering was not noticeable when the screen leaned forward.
The Inspiron 15R N5010 has a 48 Watt-hour battery installed on its spine and it lasted 2hr 20min in our video rundown test. In this test, we disable power management, turn up the brightness and enable the wireless radio. This is a decent time for a Core i5-based 15.6in notebook and you'll be able to get even more life out of it if you use a power management plan and lower brightness.
While we aren't too impressed with the Inspiron 15R N5010's build quality and screen, its specifications make it a good option for anyone who wants a mobile desktop replacement system. It has plenty of RAM and hard drive space and it's also very comfortable to use.
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So nice notebook
"The Function keys are reversed (like the ones we've seen on HP's Mini 5101 notebook) and this allows you to change brightness, volume and other tasks without having to first press the Fn button. If you're used to hitting F5 to refresh your Web browser, you'll have to remember to hold down Fn as well."
Or Alt+F4 to close a window, or F11 to full-screen your web browser, or any other use of the F-keys. I really hope this can easily be switched back. Does anyone know if it can?
i have bought a DELL INSPRON N5010............but it is good enough?
There is a easy way to return normal function keys... you can make it through control panel or BIOS. Everything was wrote in instruction.
I bought my dell N5010 notebook on 10 Jan 2011. I am really upset! There are FAN NOISE, HDD, ODD, Keyboard noise problems and also BATTERY LIFE IS SHORT.with %100 battery charge app. ~ 2hours or less than 2 hours. wireless and bluetooth are closed. cable connection is used. Battery saving performance plan is set. Just Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer application is open and just surfing forums about this problem not watching video, listening music and no more applications on task manager and so on if you use some more applications it goes less 2 hours ~1 hour 45 min ( Could it be because of non- stop working fan?)
I have also shared the other problems that I've faced with DELL n5010 on DELL community web site topic " n5010 - fan is very loud " http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19360116/19811930.aspx
There is also a VIDEO about these problems on youtube topic " Dell Inspiron N5010 FAN NOISE " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQTo3EGiuaQ "
The real product name of this laptop, as shown in BIOS and in Windows System Information, is Dell N5010. For its price, this is a good laptop, but it can also piss you off if you are peculiar about things:
1. For no reason at all, the fan will ramp up and whir every 2-3 minutes for about 20 seconds, even if there is no spike in CPU load. This can become really annoying in a quiet environment, such as a classroom or library. I've updated to the latest BIOS (A12), and the problem is still there. One possible way to fix this is using a tool called "i8kfangui", but installing it on Win7 requires some hackery (see the forums on its site).
2. For a 15.6" screen, the resolution is low: 1366x768. Business laptops have standard 1400x900 for 14" screens. I've had one for years and that resolution was great for the screen size. The screen is glossy and will reflect light. Outdoors, it's almost impossible to see anything, unless you hunch over the screen to shade it. POOR vertical viewing angles. 20 degree off the perpendicular direction to the screen, colors begin to shift visibly: whiteout if you look at the screen from above, darkened if you look from a bit below.
3. The keyboard can be really annoying:
- silly reassignment of Fn keys to perform laptop-specific functions (volume up/down, Wi-Fi on/off etc.) instead of doing those by pressing Fn+F#. Configurable from the BIOS though.
- besides that, the F# keys are labeled a faint blue on black, and are barely visible in a well-lit room. The reflection of the screen on the glossy laptop finish near the hinge doesn't help. The visible labeling is for the laptop function keys (Wi-fi on/off, brightness up/down etc.). This shows how the laptop is aimed at those who don't know what F5 does.
- odd placement of the PrintScreen key between Insert and Delete
- narrow trackpad buttons, often annoying to hit with the thumb
- the arrow keys are too thin, half the height of normal keys
- after having used laptops without a numeric keypad for the past few years, the keypad is not only useless; it gets in the way. where I expect Backspace to be, there's now Keypad Minus.
- there is no Break key (useful for Win+Break to get the Windows System properties, or Ctrl+Break in command line applications)
- there is no context menu key (equivalent to right click on the focused control)
So make sure these things don't bother you, or you'll hate the laptop. Try to get a feel for the keyboard and trackpad at a local store.
Yeah I got it also and I'm loving it. Been a Dell person my self for almost 10 years now. The only thing I HATE about it is the touch pad placement under the letter "M". I constantly touch it by accident when typing and place the cursor where i don't want it to be. Other than that A+ laptop
I have purchased Dell N5010 and i dont know how to set the screen resolution can anybody help.
Mannnnn i have dell inspiron having 4 gb ram
I think the Core 2 duo is best then Core-5 with same n5010 blue
its awefull
i just got this N5010
with core i3
4 GB ram
Display adapter : ATI 1024 MB dedicated model ( hd 5470 )
it works great for me
but i did not yet try it in many games
just nfs undercover , battlefield2 , medal of honor 2010
all settings maximum and it works good
but the battery does not last long
i can not compute it in an accurate way
i guess its like 2 hours or something
Dell inspiron n5010 makes too much noise while using skype....there is a strange sound from the other end....and the noise is heard at the other end as well....any solution?...I still have the warranty...r they going to fix the problem or replace with a new one...?im so frustrated,,,
I got Dell N5010.
But plz tell me how can i get drivers for window Xp.....
pavir try to update the network driver for your n5010 go to dell.com and u will get it over there ok . do not install the one which comes in cd package with ur dell n5010 , try updated on from dell.com . i hope it will work then same i had this problem but it is solved
yeah i have purchased this one but just after a month the usb port on spine(the left one) seemsto be restarting after every 5 min. The pd displays the autoplay option after every 5 min. nd its making me feel really annoying.If anyone can just help me out
I've had this laptop for about 8 months now and it's horrible! It heats up like a monster even when I'm just web browsing, impossible to use on my lap because I don't want my legs to set on fire. Also it makes clicking noises where the left palm rests. One of the RAM chips burnt out causing sporadic BSODs like 2 months after having bought it. And to top it all off the battery has stopped working, it can no longer store charge. WHAT DID YOU SELL ME DELL?!
I bought it about 1 yr ago, I thought that I treat it badly till I read here the problems users have,
yes that's right,it's noisy, fan is always on with no occasion, the battery is weak. my one lasts for less than 1 hr with no vedio.and it's heavy(2.6 kg is heavey compared with other PC's)
I read alot about this PC in many forums, It causes alot of problems,
It doesn't work with win XP unless you change SATA sittings, and if you do, there are no drivers for win XP in dell site.people who need these drivers try to see (www.mushahed.net)
with all of that believe me friends, I love it very much.
yeah I have had this laptop for about 8 months and mine did keep overheating and shutting down bc of it...turns out there was a little but of dust stuck in one of the vents. Apparently this is a common problem with the inspirons in general. You might want to blow some pressurized air (or even just from a manual bike pump)to blow out the dust, that completly solved my overheating problem. So just a warning: this laptop does overheat easily.
i have this lappy for LAST 8 months and i have no significant problems or issues. ihave core i5 4gb ram 500gb hd 1 gb ati 550v graphics with 6 cell li-ion battery giving super performance.
i m gamemaniac and i played al most hi end latest hd games like nfs hp,shift2.tdu2,blur etc its run smoothly with great performance it plays full hd videos with great surround sounds on 720hd screen. only drawback is its unsatisfied battery life it has only 2.20hours but if use 9 cell battery its extend to 3.30 hrs its quite useful. so at conclusion its power-pack all rounder in middle end with price tag of 42000 inr.
thank you
This notebook is very good
After installing windows I losted wireless connection. I watched that network adapter working good. But I am failed to fix the problem
i have dell inspiron N5010.my battery unplugged time is too low,about 45-50 min with ful brightness and with dim only 1 hour..how i can save the battery charge of my lap??
Worst laptop ever! Worst battery! Can't even withstand 45 minutes... Battery began to fail on the day my warrenty got over.. Worst keyboard and worst hard disk! had them both replaced! Turns off all of a sudden when you are in the middle of some important work! Occasional blue screen errors! Please don't buy from dell.. Go for sony.. or atleast hp! I am never ever gonna buy from dell again..
googly keypads.. nice
OK Thanks
I have a Dell Inspiron N 5010 Laptop, Accidental damage has happened to display. Display is looking blurr. Can you please share how much will it cost to change the display in India.
"When i insert the os cd and restart my computer to boot from it, i get to the boot order menu, and give the cd rom as the device to boot from, but it just doesnt boot from there!! instead, it boots from the hard drive, and starts loading the OS....mine is dell inspiron n5010 model....plz help me"
This computer has known motherboard (which causes the overheating), and hard-drive issues. Frequently, they have to replace both parts within a year. I originally purchased this computer and one for my mother. Both were out within the year. The one I have now has already needed the hard-drive reinstalled twice and the motherboard once and the fans once. This product is made very cheaply and I am not rough with my computers. Make sure you buy a GOOD warranty you will be using it.
fucking series...dont prefer this.......
i have 5010 .
my screen led is bad now. it dont work.i have to replace it.what do i do? what kind of scrren shoud buy?tkz
I bought a dell inspiron n5010.... upset upset upset all the time
with in 6 months my battery has gone with in 1 year speakers were gone and fan is also making so much of noise... I dont prefer
I'm also a victim of this lappy. Used to turn of with blue screen with fatal error message. Then touch pad issues. Over heating. Automatic power on. Speakers gone. Beep sound with blank black screen with no booting. Wholly crap.
This is the perfect model you can go for if you want to become an expert in laptop repairing. Never DELL again.
I have owned my Dell Inspirion now for about six years now. This past year it was infected with a very nasty virus that prompted me to overhaul it completely. In doing this I upgraded the processor from M430 to M520. Nine cell battery and 240G SSD. With these improvements it is very responsive, quick to boot, longin, video, music , word processing, spreadsheets, everything you could possibly think of. Because the way the Dell Inspirion is built I was able to install this upgrades myself. There was only one exception, SSD is only 240GB, replacing a 500GB SATA it was worth the sacrifice now that cloud computing has taken hold.
I've been using this computer for 4 years now, and it's still in fine working condition. My model has an upgraded graphics card and only 4GB of RAM compared to the model reviewed by PC World, but I still have never had any problems running decent games. Don't think Crysis would work though, so I haven't tried it. Also a nice amount of customization options. I prefer working with the function keys as the default, and holding the Fn key to change brightness or switch media tracks. I've even bought a new keyboard that was easily installed once the old one had problems after 3 years of solid use.
On the other hand, especially in summer, it has MAJOR problems with overheating. The hard drive heats up, and due to poor product design the graphics card is right next to it. This means that while playing any graphics-intensive game, and sometimes even when doing simple day-to-day stuff, it will simply overheat and shut down instantly.
But this problem can be avoided by pulling the case off, cleaning the dust out and making sure the heat sinks are still properly in place every 4/5 months, and having a cooling pad and/or using it in a cool environment. The cooling pad makes it SLIGHTLY less comfortable to use on my lap, but worth it.
Overall a great laptop, but not being able to use it in summer is a bit of a downer. Too many negative reviews based solely on the overheating, small details like apparent fan buzzing? and getting a virus, which I'm pretty sure isn't the computer's fault.
I've had one of these laptops for three years and I push it to the limit in terms of what I do: high resource requiring vidya games. I haven't had a problem with a single game I've tried to play which is saying something for the value of it. The Keyboard is perfect for me, and the tracpad is one of the better that I've ever used. I had to replace the motherboard once which is the only thing keeping me from giving this that last half a star, but I knew that could be an issue coming in, and it lasted long enough for what I did with it.
worst laptop ever...having overheating issue,fan,battery prob.,DONT....DONT buy this laptop...go for asus 1000% better then dell......my next laptop will be of asus...
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PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) - Two Nye County deputies have been treated at a hospital after they were hurt trying to break up a road rage incident near a Pahrump video store.
The Nye County Sheriff's Office says 63-year-old David Fann has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a protected person and
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Authorities say a deputy was flagged down about noon on Sunday by a man and a couple on Highway 372 near Starlite Video. The deputy tried to separate the people and calm down the suspect before Fann reportedly took a swing at the deputy.
Officials say the deputy took Fann to the ground and struggled with him until backup arrived and helped put him in handcuffs.
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Like it or not, tolls will be a reality in the future
THERE'S no easy answer to finding the money needed for Virginia's transportation infrastructure.
The Virginia Department of Transportation says there is a $10.1 billion shortfall in needed roadwork over the next 25 years.
There is no popular way to do it. Higher gas taxes? Tolls?
People don't want either of them.
The three recent VDOT meetings on the proposed tolling of Interstate 95 are proof that it's going to be a very tough sell, no matter where they want to put tolls.
But, like it or not, tolls appear to be our future, and it seems like express lanes will be the leading wave of that future.
As many of you know, new electronically tolled lanes recently opened on Interstate 495 in Northern Virginia.
And anyone who travels Interstate 95 north can see construction of the future express lanes in the median, which seems to be moving along at warp speed.
To see what our future might have in store for us, just look west to California, where many an American trend starts.
This year, two new interstate express lanes opened, bringing the state total to five, according to a report by neontommy.com, a website run by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The article reported that there are 14 express lane freeways nationwide now and said that "figure should double, and perhaps nearly triple, during the next decade."
We'll be part of that doubling or tripling, with the express lanes stretching first to Garrisonville and then, more than likely, to Massaponax.
So it looks like more and more of us will be adding those E–ZPasses to our vehicles at some point.
At least there's one person who doesn't have to worry about tolls—Kris Kringle.
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Dear Scott: There's a small section on Lee Hill School Drive many pedestrians and bikers use.
There is no shoulder and a blind curve where it makes it very dangerous because drivers do not see them.
I called VDOT a few months ago to see if they could do a survey on the safety concern I had and I was told an engineer would call me and that they would need to survey it.
No response, and it's been a few months.
This is the small section of road on the east side of Dominion Parkway where Lee Hill School Drive intersects with it, near Crossroads Baptist Church and Lee's Hill South.
—Tang Subkanha, Spotsylvania
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"However, if the writer is interested in future roadway improvements that would support pedestrian traffic in this area, we recommend that they contact the county to consider the addition of sidewalks or trails," Tina Bundy with VDOT said.
VDOT says there could be funding available for such projects.
If you must walk or ride a bike in this area, be extra careful, or look for a safer place to get your exercise.
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10 comments:
- Dave said...
I'm guessing those were from your trip to Kentucky? The Florence in your first picture makes me think of Alabama though. The last picture is very creative!
- April 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- flydragon said...
Ha, great last pic!!
- April 18, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- walk2write said...
You would post your first vacation pics on Saturday! You tease! Is that your daughter saving you a table in the last pic? I want a story, darn it.
- April 18, 2009 at 9:14 AM
- Susie said...
I know you had a great time being down here in the south. That last picture is cute.
- April 18, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Ilona said...
Wonderful pictures! I go by that water tower on the way to Tennessee :) and the last one is so cute and clever.
- April 19, 2009 at 2:35 AM
- Terri said...
Love that last picture! You "prides" yourself on your photography, and rightly so! :)
- April 19, 2009 at 8:42 AM
- tina said...
That last picture IS very cool. I recognize the tower in the first of course. There is a story behind it involving the mayor of that city. Are you familiar with it? Something like it used to say Florence 'Mall', and they had to change it when they changed the name of the mall, so to save money they changed it to 'Yall'. It's been a while since I read it but you've heard the story?
Yes, blogger visits pass too quickly it seems! We had an excellent time visiting with you and Cindy and her family. Most fun!
- April 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- TC said...
Dave: Yes, they're from our trip home (I still consider Kentucky my home because half of my heart still lives there). Florence, Kentucky.
FD: Thanks, we were being creative. ;~)
W2W: Yes, that's my sweetie pie, my youngest daughter, she'll be 14 on May 11, the day before my birthday. And I'm sorry about no story yet, you'll have to wait a bit longer. ;~)
Ms. Susie: We had a wonderful time, and the weather was much more spring-like than in western PA.
IIona: Have you ever stopped in Florence on your way to Tenn? We sometimes stop and eat there but that's about all. Those murals were on the back wall of the new library in Greensburg.
Ms. Terri: I don't "prides" myself on a lot of them. For every hundred I take, a half-dozen might be keepers.
Ms. Tina: I wasn't aware of the story behind the naming of that water tower. How interesting. You're a wealth of information!
- April 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- tina said...
I read it somewhere. I really need to find the resource but look at the picture. Can you see where the M would be? I found it neat.
- April 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Kylee said...
I know this is an old post, but when I saw the Florence water tower pic, I had to have a better look, because I've seen this several times! We go by it when traveling to points south. Love it!
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2014-2015 Book History Colloquium at Columbia University
The Book History Colloquium at Columbia University, open to any discipline, aims to provide a broad outlet for the scholarly discussion of book history, print culture, the book arts, and bibliographical research, and (ideally) the promotion of research and publication in these fields. Our presenters include Columbia faculty members and advanced graduate students, and scholars of national prominence from a range of institutions.
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Peter Mendelsund, book designer
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Drawing on a life-long engagement with reading and a celebrated career as a book designer, in this talk Peter Mendelsund will discuss his two August 2014 publications—Cover, which focuses on his book cover designs and What We See When We Read, an illustrated phenomenology of reading that explores how we visualize images from reading works of literature.
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"The Bank of Industry": Rewards of Merit and the "Emotional Capitalism" of Nineteenth-century Children's Print
Patricia Crain, Associate Professor of English, New York University
The reward of merit is one of very few dedicated childhood print genres. A premium handed out in the nineteenth century schoolroom, the reward of merit imitates other nineteenth-century documents, especially currency, stock certificates, transportation and entertainment tickets, and voting ballots, as well as parlor prints. They exhibit the full array of nineteenth-century visual iconography and advertise, often self-consciously, the printer's art. This paper explores the reward of merit's iconology, and the ideology of making the classroom into a site of mock-capital exchange, one that imagines childhood as the place to transact the business of what one set of rewards calls "the bank of industry."
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Valentino Rossi's crew chief Jerry Burgess says he will be haunted to his grave by the Italian's failure to be competitive enough to challenge for victories during a disastrous two-year stint with Ducati.
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Bootlegger says:
For what its worth. According to Soup's and Furusawa, the engineering gurus and technical people at Yamaha Racing did NOT want Rossi nor Burgess back. The marketing suits won the battle however.
Any bets Ben Spies has a much better year 2013 than 2012 ?
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saturn392 says:
matters any more! What was - was, What is - is, What will be - will be. look to the future the future's bright.
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The future's Orange?
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get over it!!
but I'm on Vodaphone.
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bluehaze60 says:
The problem is that Rossi & burgess told Ducati what was wrong with the bike so prezziosi turned to his computer & looked at the data & did nothing so that's why it didn't w irk out, that's why prezziosi was fired,with a bit of German efficiency & technical know how & money will turn the bike round, as for dovisioso being a development rider, I'm not so sure about that, they had the best rider & tech guy to sort it out & Ducati let them go.rossis patience finally ran out when he threw the Ducati up the road at Laguna seca
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Just out of interest, why do you see 4 new frame designs as doing nothing?
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Bob Buttamasangy says:
Bluehaze you're a dreamer mate! Time to get your hand out of your pants and take your two bit opinion somewhere else, not even the Flo Fangirl Club are stupid enough to believe that old chestnut anymore. Cheers ya bonehead!
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DukeR says:
I understand Jerry Burgess' complaints and everything. But he doesn't explain how Stoner won so many rances and a championship.
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motoking says:
very good comment.
but actually in 2011, JB already said that stoner gone through the limit. even sometimes over it. that's what made stoner is master of beast. he HAS TWO BALLS and use it properly.
unlike the 9 times ass lucky CHICKEN champion that got chatter on his ass from rode the beast. LOL.
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Powered scooters sent 10,000 people to emergency rooms last year according to the federal consumer product safety commission.
One of those was nine-year-old Tekeyah Williams of Charlottesville. She died New Year's Eve crossing the street on her new motorized scooter.
Now the general assembly wants to regulate scooters.
No license, no insurance, no inspection, and no helmet, that's the law right now for moped drivers in Virginia.
Currently you only have to be 16-years-old to drive a moped, but there are no age regulations or laws for scooter riders.
"As you go from bicycles, [where] anyone can ride them, to mopeds, where you have to be 16, to motorcycles, where you have to actually be a licensed driver. You're trying to figure out how these scooters and other things fit in," said Delegate Rob Bell.
"You've got those little razor electric scooters. You've got those little skateboards [with] gas motors on the back, you've got those little pocket rocket motorcycles that look just like a real motorcycle, but they're really tiny [with a] very very low seat height. So on some of these things, you're standing, some of them you're sitting, but all of them generally are hard to see. Small. It's almost as if you are riding a toy in the street and that's not safe," said Sgt. Mike Farruggio of the Charlottesville Police Department.
The Virginia General Assembly Transportation Committee is looking at all of these items as well as powered wheel chairs hoping to decipher what category they fit into and how they should be regulated.
"If you have a scooter and it can go over 45 miles per hour, is that something we want to limit to people over 16?" asked Bell.
The main concern is children's safety and how to make sure kids can still have fun while playing it safe.
In July, the state of Connecticut was successful in banning all mini motorcycles and scooters, but the Virginia state assembly has not said that they would take things that far.
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