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Hampton's dramatic loss of form continues with a narrow 1-0 defeat to a limited, but hard-working Carshalton squad.
Since defeating Whitehawk back in October, the Beavers have gathered only 7 points from a possible 24 - all of them away from Beveree.
On a heavy pitch that cut up from the start and intermittent heavy rain, neither team could claim to have dominated the first 15 minutes but Hampton slowly began to create chances.
A James Simmonds shot from distance flew wide, as did a Jenkins half volley from the edge of the box.
After Jenkins had just failed to connect with a Charlie Moone cross from the right, the visitors took the lead on 36 minutes.
Tommy Brewer's shot beat Rodney Chiweshe, but held up in the mud of the goal mouth, leaving Nathaniel Pinney the easiest of tap-ins.
The conditions dictated the play, the ball holding up in the strong wind or shooting along off the sodden turf, but just before the break Gary Holloway managed to find some space at the edge of the box to try a shot that tested Robins keeper Nick Hamann - who was often seen charging from his goal to hoof a clearance from way outside the box.
After the restart, the Beavers had a golden opportunity to equalise when Neil Jenkins was pushed to the ground as he attempted to reached a long cross, referee Oleg Saliy immediately pointed to the spot.
Gary Holloway stepped up to place the ball on the spot, but his powerful spot kick didn't have the direction to match and it flew high and wide.
The rest of the half saw the Beavers attempting to break the dogged defiance from the Robins although Carshalton could have taken the game beyond the Beavers with just 10 minutes left as Goodman forced a smart save from Chiweshe.
Dean Inman, whose display at the back was as neat as before, nearly scraped the equaliser with a cross-cum-shot, which left Hamann no option but to tip over from in front of his post.
However, this was the last hurrah in a Beavers performance, which disappointed many fans and no doubt the management as well.
Hampton: Chiweshe, Kamara (Turner 62), Jenkins (c), Inman, Powell, Hustwick, Hickey, Holloway, Moone (Bates 46), Simmonds, Bettamer.
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The Renewable Energy Transition and Buildings: Great Opportunities for New Directions
Donald W. Aitken, PhD '58, Donald Aitken Associates
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The urgency of confronting and diminishing the human contribution to climate change, as well as the impending volatility of fossil fuel prices and availability, both direct the attention of scientists, engineers and policy makers toward a shift to non-carbon energy resources, along with an acceleration of improvements in energy efficiency in both production and in end-uses. The renewable energy resources (sun, wind, biomass, geothermal, ocean energy, and others) have made great strides in meeting these challenges in recent years. International policy has further stimulated the rapid advancement in renewable energy technologies and applications. International modeling and studies are now beginning to reveal that a complete global transition to reliance on the natural and renewable energy resources is feasible for advanced industrial nations as well as extremely attractive for developing nations, and both technically and economically possible, this century. An early driver of this is the major role played by buildings, since, for example, by 2030 the United States will have built or rebuilt buildings in the amount of all buildings presently standing in the country. This offers the quickest, most economic, and most attractive opportunity to meet the low- and no-carbon challenge that this and other countries now face. The integration of the renewable energy sources with "sustainable" building design is leading to energy- and carbon-neutral buildings as the norm within perhaps the next 25 years. All of these subjects will be discussed in a pictorial Powerpoint presentation.
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Dr. Donald Aitken graduated from Dartmouth Summa Cum Lauda and as a Senior Fellow in Physics with minors in Mathematics and Music. He also received training in architecture from Frank Lloyd Wright. Dr. Aitken was awarded his Ph.D. in Physics with distinction from Stanford University in 1963. He remained at Stanford as a research physicist and astrophysicist for 9 years, until he was invited to leave to found the Department of Environmental Studies at San Jose State University. This appointment grew out of his commitment to environmental quality and protection, and also enabled him to turn toward his particular interests in renewable energy and sustainable architecture. He chaired his department for 21 years, with time out to work with the U.S. Department of Energy as the director of the solar energy applications programs for the western United States. In 1991 Dr. Aitken left his academic work to serve for 11 years as Senior Staff Scientist for Renewable Energy Policy and Economics with the national organization The Union of Concerned Scientists. Dr. Aitken and his wife, Barbara Harwood, also serve jointly on the faculty of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Dr. Aitken has twice been President of the American Solar Energy Society, and has served as Secretary and Vice President of the International Solar Energy Society. Dr. Aitken has developed fundamentally important international renewable energy policy, he has designed pioneering sustainable buildings, and he lectures on renewable energy policy and sustainable architecture internationally. He is already affecting local and national renewable energy policy in Mexico out of his new home there.


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Eleanor Holmes Norton expressed support for federal employees who may soon have some required unpaid time off. (Stock image)
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is not pulling any punches in her criticism of those responsible for the sequester, saying the across-the-board budget cuts are more an ideological point for certain lawmakers than economic best practices.
"It should be understood that who really controls Congress is not the overall Congress – not the Republicans or the Democrats, but the very large number of Tea Party Republicans," she said. "This large number of people who defy the best of economic analysis and insists only upon cuts, essentially all leading the pack and making it more difficult for others to step outside the pack."
The District of Columbia's non-voting congressional representative kicked off the Federal Managers Association's annual convention March 4 in Washington, D.C., with a morning keynote that emphasized the federal workforce's recent struggle with pay freezes and sweeping budget cuts currently being enforced.
"There are no precedents to guide you as you have to manage your way during a period when you have to ditch long-term planning and even tear up yesterday's short-term plans or reassure and motivate employees with no assurance yourself of what the next day will bring," Norton said. "You can't promise them much."
Federal managers also have to consider furloughs for employees who can "ill afford a day without pay" to reach the savings required by the sequester, Norton said. "You even had to contemplate furloughing yourselves!" she added with incredulity. "I'm not sure that any manager in the history of our country ever had to contemplate laying themselves off."
In light of the escalating anti-federal sentiments and the cuts aimed at the workforce to achieve savings, Norton said she hoped federal employees are used to being rhetorical punching bags.
"If you have an antigovernment point of view, then you see federal employees as representatives of the government – but it's Congress that's representative of the government," she pointed out.
The constant targeting of the federal workforce "borders on an addiction, and it's time to go cold turkey," Norton said. Instead of persistently tapping federal employees for more savings, subsidies to corporations should be stopped, she said, because "why in the world should we give any tax breaks for such profitable companies?"
Norton, who serves on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, last week announced she would offset the impact of the sequester on her staff by donating some of her pay in solidarity – a decision she called "a small action."
"Your pay," she said to the audience, "and the pay of my own employees is subject to the political whims of members of Congress who enjoy constitutional protection against the cuts they're needlessly visiting on federal employees, managers, the public, and the economy. Donating a day's pay for whatever number of furlough days is no sacrifice to me."
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This is one of the most blatantly one-sided political hack articles that I have had the misfortune to read. I understand that Ms. Norton wants to blame her political opposition. But where is the corresponding article laying out the Republican, Tea Party and conservative positions? Why isn't FCW reminding readers that the initial poposal for a sequester came from the Obama Whitehouse, not the House or Senate. Where is the outrage over the fact that the Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to address a national budget for over 4 years? These are some of the issues that you should be addressing.
The Republican controlled House was the only group to put forward a plan to reasonably deal with the sequester. The Dems did nothing but politic For a Dem to make such a statement otherwise is almost laughable if the situation was not so sad. But with the media in their back pocket, they know that they can continue to get away with lie after lie - with at least enough people to keep them in power.
I like how the blame is put on the Republicans in Congress, while the Senate has not been in the loop yet and does not have a say in their raises or the funding bills that supposedly the Congress has sent to them? About the only thing I see that looks good is the pointing out that all the focus seems to be on the hired help (federal workers), and nothing toward the rest of the money pot (industry which pays bribes, although in this country we do not call it bribes).
Delegate Norton has been in Congress since the early 90s. She's a fossil and part of the problem, having racked up debt under three presidents. She has 3 Congressional offices to represent one city, and spends $400,000, around 2 dollars a vote, in the PAC money she raises, to run unopposed every election. She couldn't cut a budget if you glued scissors to her hand and gave her paper with a "cut here" guideline. Until we get rid of tax leaches like her there will be no progress.
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Well D.E.I.M.O.S. Decided to CTD everytime i entered a particular area, so i wrote it off and decided to complete the main quest line, something i've been putting off for a couple of years now!
I Went with No Gods No Masters in the end, and in true Fallout: New Vegas Style It was a buggy, crash ridden mess right until the end credits.
Niner looks interesting, how does he compare to the other big companion Mod, Willow? I had her along in the later part of my game and i thought she was really well done.
Btw does anyone know how J.E. Sawyer and Project Nevada work together?
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Skyrim with mods (lots of mods). I've been running the gamut with various mods in terms of overall improvement both in terms of visual fidelity (better textures & lighting) general improvements (better UI, better animations, improved maps, more control over companions) and better looking characters (Skyrim was a step up from the potato face maker known as Oblivion, but not by much) with improved faces, bodies & hair. Sadly my rather aged 460 GTX seems to struggle with any ENB mods which is a tad annoying (and makes me really hanker for a 600 series GPU), but otherwise I'm quite enjoying the tinkering, though it has necessitated the odd reinstall/restart of the game.
Things I've learnt: -
1) Always use the nexus mod manager rather than Steam workshop. You've a lot more control and it makes life easier if things go tits up and you need to reinstall/uninstall a mod.
2) Always save a vanilla copy of your skyrim folder. If you need to nuke the site from orbit, then it's worthwhile having it so you can delete the old and then replace.
3) Note down the order you install things in (especially texture packs), useful so you can determine where issues may lie (I had hours of fun figuring out how I managed to break my ingame textures at one point).
4) Tools like BOSS and TESVEdit are benefitial if you're running into mod conflicts to help you determine what the problem is and being able to fix it.
5) Having more than one companion (aka loot mule) on the go is great, esp when you're on extended excursions. Though don't give them all bows otherwise you'll never get to fight because they will boggart every opponent.
6) For some people (generally the Japanese it seems) there's no such thing as too big, or too dark.
14-03-2013, 02:19 PM #13463"Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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Willow looks excellent from what I've seen but to be honest I find her a bit of a lore breaker and also she makes me panic whenever I think the permuations of her wandering around the wasteland if I'm honest. She's kooky, trusting, vulnerable but has somehow managed to make it this far in a violent, lawless, male dominated world without something atrocious happening to her. Willow seems like a very well acted and fleshed out character, probably better polished than any vanilla NPC too like Niner, just not one who fits in the Mojave. If you met her in Vegas as a sheltered and reckless gambler who wanted to see the world, there would be no issue I don't think, but I can't buy her being so innocent and intact trekking the Mojave for any length of time.
It makes sense with characters like Sunny Smiles, Cass and Veronica as they have an element of street/wasteland sense to them, and also an element of social protection too-BOS for Veronica, caravans for Cass, generally being out of the way of trouble for Sunny.
I also added the DFB Random encounters mod yesterday as I feel travelling the Mojave should feel dangerous for at least a third of the journeys you make. As long as you have the Mod Configuration manager you can choose how often enemies spawn, how many, where etc, even set up occasional encounters between two parties duking it out, and then the mod randomly spawns them for you in set areas. There's the option to have everyone spawn randomly like Nightkin, Enclave and BOS, but you can also turn them off. I've kept things lore friendly by just permitting fiends, raiders and that sort of thing. Types you would expect to just try and kill you while travelling.
I'm also thinking in the future of trying this mod which makes everything a real survival simulator. Project Nevada and Sawyer just make things feel slightly more involved, plenty enough for you to really get involved in the meat of the game which is the infighting and social stuff, but this amps them up to a really huge degree and turns things into a dessert survival simulator. So if you break your leg and use a doctors bag, you still have a splint modifier for 12 hours. You can't use Vats if someone shoots your hand, you get knocked over if you get shot, you have to drink as many litres in a day as is true to life, resources are more scarce, every bullet should be wisely invested, that sort of thing I wouldn't want to play anything approaching a full game with this on but doing some exploring and a few quests would I think be a good, and very different experience.
Can't see there being an issue with the Sawyer and PN mods working together but unless I've missed something they're essentially the same, with PN allowing you to make things quite a bit more extreme.
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And that's Brutal Legend done.
The final part of the game is without a doubt rushed like there's no tomorrow, and the ending left way too many things unanswered or unexplained.
But even with that, it was still quite the experience. The setting and OST alone make it worthwhile.
I'm replaying Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, this time as a Gangrel. I've decided to go for an evil playthrough, being aggressive to everyone and trying to kill as many named characters as possible. So far it's suprising just how many unique dialogue options there are for characters with low humanity. They put a lot of effort into an aspect of the game few players will ever see.
I'm playing Bit.Trip presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rythm Alien. That's its name. All of the bold stuff.
And, having loved, but absolutely failed at Bit.Trip Runner, this new iteration is much more acessible, and also better in every way.
Now that there are checkpoints, which only ever influence your leaderboard position and nothing else, I'm getting a positive Super Meat Boy vibe from it. There are endless jokes, bonus levels, and additional characters and costumes spread around the game and its levels, and they are tough, but possible, not like the first game.
I guess the tl,dr is that I'm ragequitting less and less, that says it all. If steam tracked ragequits (a sudden death quickly succeeded by alt-F4) I would have gotten at least some achievement in the first game.
Oh, ok. But THEY aren't going to announce that full name everytime you boot up the game, are they? Well, in Runner2 (my suggestion for the short version, official approvement pending) the admittedly funny announcer first announces his name, then the full game title, unskippably (my new favurite word), every time.
But, Y'know, I like the game so much, I'm calling it satire and moving on.
I played the first mission of Heart of the Swarm. The writing is already kicking my jimmies into overdrive.
Then I noticed the achievements are disabled.
I really like achievements in Blizzard games. They have cool icons, unlock cute stuff and I like watching numbers go up. So I had to stop playing.
Back to Tropico 4! It's hilarious and I love the Cold War theme.
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They've been having problems with them on and off all week, but when they've been reenabled I've received all of the achievements that I earned while they're disabled.
And the writing doesn't get much better. The gameplay is good, there are some ridiculously fun single player only units to play with, but it's the usual cliché Blizzard story and acting.
I've been playing and achievements are back on, I never noticed them being off.
The writing is amazingly ham fisted though. Jesus christ it's bad. I can actually picture the best they could come up with was "Kerrigan looks sad here - then she gets angry cause Jims not around - then she gets confused by something - then she gets sad again *ps art director - really make her look sad, like not just :( but :< * ""Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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Had my first chat with Caesar last night (killed him right out first play through). One of the most engaging moments in a game I've had I think. As someone who has devoured history for years and studied it for four at University it was rivetting. I don't know if I've ever come across a better communicated definition of Hegelian Dialectics. And even more incredibly, it was actually relevant to mention it as well.
The presence of the Legion disappointed me as both being a pretty obvious choice in terms of protagonist faction, (A go-to Imperailist force who did morally repugnant things in the name of keeping the peace and bringing civilisation, never seen that before) as well as an uninspired one. At least make something better up than outright rehash of the Roman Empire. Make them more American and more befitting of the lore. Just something less kitsch and cartoony. I could never envisage me siding with them.
Talking to Caesar though reveals that an incredible amount of thought actually went into it all, what the with the whole Hegelian dialectic elements. It was a choice about moving the series as a whole forward. Up to this point in the series the emphasis has been on people grafting out survival, and that was very much the essence of the earlier Fallout Games, the extremity of human action produced by, or indeed causing, the context you find your character in, and the social themes around that. All great stuff of course.
With the introduction of New Vegas though you move onto themes beyond frontier survival, and really into grand politics proper rather than the more small scale social solutions and compromise (although occasional elements like Vault 11 are maybe there to suggest that the two aren't always that different..).
The presence of the Legion, it's purpose so clearly explained by Caesar in his treatise on political philosophy, addresses the elephant in the room that was maybe hanging after the first three games-what next? The Third iteration seemed to end with the suggestion that the future was nothing more than a perpetual state of survialsim and misery ala The Road. NV explicitly addresses that with the device of a faction who are actively trying to enforce a historical, not just political, revolution. The Legion are not primarily defined by pragamtics and circumstance, as is the case with pretty much everyone you encounter in the Fallout Series, but ideological intent and posterity, and an emulation of the Pax Romana acts as perfect means to tie circumstance and the forging of a new historiogrpical narrative together. The Legion is a deliberatley historical antidote to create a post-historical Fallout world in the Fallout Universe.
That in itself is pretty clever, but to craft a world as involved and grand for that to make sense, and for that explanation to further lift and intensify the whole narrative, is a truly incredible feat for a videogame I think. If the fate of the Mojave is my main concern (which of course, it might not be) the game has presented a set of resolutions which really have no clear winner, without that being a contrived, deliberately earnest grey area trope. Each side just offers something different, all of them plausible depending on where you're coming from, and that can also evolve and change over time as well. It's mindblowing to think how much work must have gone into the design to allow that to carry from the grand scale choices down to the momentary minuatie, from the dialogue to the actual moving parts as it were.
Also, talking to Benny before you kill him reveals some really strong writing that hints at his tribal character and makes him actually memorable for something more than his suit and being Chandler, which I wasn't expecting. Nice touch. Actually felt..something.. killing him, rather than completely indifferent towards him as was the case before that conversation.
Such a fucking good game.
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Getting fed up with the grind in Defender Quest now.
So, if your over equipped(level) you lay down a core of ranged firepower, a few priests to decloak and a few knights set to kill armour.
Then you play at x4 upgrading evenly and pop off a maxed out dragon fire when the things get hairy.
If you are barely equipped you might need to respec your characters (max regeneration barbarians for example), to deal with the specifics.
If you are underpowered? Go play an earlier level on extreme.
New game plus us adding specialised equipment, but much of it is pointless.
I'll try and hold out a little longer.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office holds its annual memorial service to honor its fallen officers Thursday starting at 10:45 a.m. The public is invited to join JSO, family members, friends and colleagues of slain officers during the "Tribute to Our Fallen Officers" service.
The event will be held on Bay Street in front of the Police Memorial Building.
The memorial honors the 60 men who have died in the line of duty since 1840, protecting the lives and property of the citizens of the Jacksonville community.
Retired Admiral Victor Guillory will read a Police Memorial Day proclamation during the ceremony. The tribute also includes a "Twenty-One Gun Salute" by the JSO Honor Guard, "Missing Man" flyover by the JSO Aviation Unit, music selections by the Clay County Sheriff's Office Pipes and Drums and the retiring of the Memorial Wreath by Sheriff John Rutherford and Fraternal Order of Police President Steve Amos.
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Saint Leo, Fla. (September 26, 2006) – The Saint Leo University volleyball team (11-4, 2-2 SSC) defeated Florida Tech (2-15, 0-5 SSC) in three games in a Sunshine State Conference match Tuesday night. Saint Leo swept the games by the scores of 30-25, 30-28, and 30-24.
Saint Leo was paced by freshman outside hitter Chelsea Armer (San Jose, Calif.) who tallied a match-high 12 kills and a .222 hitting percentage, and junior middle blocker Rachel Taylor (Palmetto, Fla.) who contributed with a hitting percentage of .240 and 9 kills. For Florida Tech, senior outside hitter Jessica Metzger led the way with 10 kills.
Saint Leo hit .161 as a team for the match, while Florida Tech hit .159. The Lions faced a 14-10 deficit in game three before storming back to gain the lead at 22-21. The Lions then rattled off 8 of the next 11 points to claim the match and pull to 2-2 in SSC play.
Saint Leo will remain at home on Wednesday night for the re-scheduled conference match against Eckerd College (7:00 p.m.).


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Out-of-body experiences are the phenomena of seeing the image of one's body from an external perspective. We report the case of a patient affected by psychophysiological insomnia who presents hallucinatory phenomenon, successfully treated with haloperidol.
We hypothesize that these hallucinations during psychophysiological insomnia are expression of an alteration of specific neurocognitive networks that regulate the cognitive arousal systems.
Occhionero M; Natale V; Martoni M; Tonetti L. Mind's eye: a case of out-of-body experiences. J Clin Sleep Med 2012;8(4):445-446.
Autoscopic phenomena (AP) are hallucinatory visual experiences that consist of seeing the physical body placed in external visual space, like a reflection in a mirror. Many diseases, brain lesions, pharmacological agents, and altered psychological states are reportedly associated with these phenomena.1 An interesting feature of this type of hallucination is that it can be observed in the absence of neurological and/or psychiatric diseases. Favorable conditions seem to include the wake-sleep and sleep-wake transitions.2
There are three main types of autoscopic phenomena, characterized by different phenomenology: out-of-body experiences (OBEs), autoscopic hallucinations (AH), and heautoscopy (HAS).3 In OBEs, the patient sees himself outside his own body, has the impression of seeing the environment around oneself and one's own body from an external perspective, and finally had the feeling of a body-mind separation. In AH, the patient sees a reduplication of himself in his extrapersonal space without disembodiment, a sort of mirror image of oneself. Generally, self-perception (feelings, emotions, thoughts) remains anchored to one's own body. It is a pure duplication of the body, not of the mind. HAS represents an intermediate form between the out-of-body experience and autoscopic hallucination, with a confused or double allocation of the self. The patient isn't able to decide if he is disembodied or not, and his experience is similar to a "double consciousness," but the body perception is confused (single, double, or disembodied).
In the present case report, we discuss OBEs in a patient affected by psychophysiological insomnia who presented hallucinatory phenomena during spontaneous infra-sleep awakenings.
SC, a 50-year-old female, reported a history of insomnia for approximately 3 years. To permit a correct diagnosis, the assessment protocol provides a sleep log, actigraphy, and anxiety (STAI) and depression (ZUNG) questionnaires. The patient evaluation was carried out through 4 sessions, during which other sleep disorders were excluded. The diagnosis was psychophysiological insomnia characterized by difficulty maintaining sleep (see Table 1).
Mean of measurements from actigraph, sleep log and questionnaires
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The patient spontaneously reported that she had OBEs 3 times in the previous 6 months during nighttime awakenings. The description provided by the patient was extremely detailed and vivid. She described her body split: "I see myself as if I was from an airplane and looking down at a distance of about five feet. I feel split and I see myself down. I have my body down, I'm not in my body, I'm out of my body. My mind sees my body, I see the shape of my body. The part of mine that is over…it seems strange to me looks like an angel, an entity. I see the body there but I'm like air…"
The patient estimated that the duration of each phenomenon was very short, but not static and therefore not comparable to a photograph. She describes the experience as a small video with an abrupt, approximately half-minute onset and offset. An interesting aspect was related to the uncertain reality testing: the patient was not able to determine whether the hallucinatory experience occurred in the real world or in her mind. Certainly, she was aware of the real nature of the phenomenon.
Given the unpredictable and rare nature of the phenomenon, it was not possible to perform a PSG recording to understand the physiological condition (sleep or wake) in which the OBEs occur.
The patient also reported that in recent months, her dreaming activity has significantly increased. The dreams had become very complex in content and very vivid regarding visual hallucinatory aspects.
She judged these hallucinatory experiences to be very real, but she was not worried about them. This condition was accompanied by feelings of strangeness, wonder, amazement, and happiness at seeing her body sleeping on the bed. During the day, she believed that these phenomena could be indicators of a severe psychological disorder.
The emotional dissociation related to the dream should not leave amazed. Cognitive research on dream bizarreness (and OBEs are a case of bizarreness in the representation of self) has amply demonstrated that rarely the dreamer has an oneiric awareness of any implausible content (it could be also a cognitive mechanism useful to the maintaining the continuity of sleep). The implausibility produces emotional incongruence during the dream recall.
At the time of assessment, the patient took one-half tab benzodiazepines (brotizolam 0.125 mg and 0.33 mg of lormetazepam) before bedtime. These drugs did not produce any improvement of her symptoms. We considered appropriate to redefine the therapy with an integrated approach, combining pharmacological (neuroleptic at low doses) and psychological support. The rationale for this choice was to use the neuroleptic, which has a hypnotic effect and an ideation reduction effect. The latter action was intended to counteract the OBEs and the excessive oneiric activity. Seven months after the beginning of therapy, a marked improvement of the subjective symptoms was observed, without any OBEs reported.
The interesting aspect of this case report is the occurrence of OBEs, likely triggered by the frequent night awakenings. Visual hallucinations are quite common occurrences during hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations and are a physiological aspect of these phases.6 Such experiences, however, are usually simple visual images characterized by the presence of lines, flashes, and simple geometric shapes. In this case report we observed OBEs which are quite rare in a clinical setting and could be considered a particularly case of recurrent complex visual hallucinations (RCVH).7 In our opinion, the drowsiness can be considered a gray area characterized by the psychophysiological proximity to sleep on the one hand, and the state of low perceptual and sensory stimulation on the other. Both of these factors (physiological and environmental) destabilize the control processes and the levels of consciousness typical of wakefulness. It is possible that this situation could facilitate hallucinatory experiences of self as a result of two components: (1) insufficient neurofunctional integration and lack of binding information from different neural networks responsible for the perception of one's own body as an integral part of psychophysical self-awareness, and (2) the instability of psychophysiological arousal with rebound both on the maintenance of sleep and mental activity. Research on psychophysiological insomnia attributes a specific role to an excessive activation of the central and/or autonomic nervous system (hyperarousal hypothesis).8 According to this hypothesis, a high level of arousal could activate elaborative and mnemonic cortical processes. This condition could lead to the occurrence of hallucinations and excessively vivid oneiric activity as expressions of an alteration of specific neurocognitive networks that regulate the cognitive arousal systems. In selected cases with intense oniric activity and maintaining primary insomnia, pharmacological treatment with low doses of a neuroleptic should reduce cognitive iperarousal given its well-documented effects on the fronto-limbic dopaminergic pathway.
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
Dening TR, Berrios GE, authors. Autoscopic phenomena. Br J Psychiatry. 1994;165:808–17. [PubMed]
Bunning S, Blanke O, authors. The out-of-body experience: precipitating factors and neural correlates. Progr Brain Res. 2005;150:331–50
Blanke O, Mohr C, authors. Out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, and autoscopic hallucination of neurological origin Implications for neurocognitive mechanisms of corporeal awareness and self-consciousness. Brain Res Rev. 2005;50:184–99. [PubMed]
Lichstein KL, Durrence HH, Taylor DJ, Bush AJ, Riedel BW, authors. Quantitative criteria for insomnia. Behav Res Ther. 2003;41:427–45. [PubMed]
Natale V, Plazzi G, Martoni M, authors. Actigraphy in the assessment of insomnia: a quantitative approach. Sleep. 2009;32:767–71. [PubMed Central][PubMed]
Ohayon MM, Priest RG, Caulet M, Guilleminault C, authors. Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations: Pathological phenomena? Br J Psychiatry. 1996;169:459–67. [PubMed]
Collerton D, Perry E, McKeith I, authors. Why people see things that are not there: a novel Perception and Attention Deficit model for recurrent complex visual hallucinations. Behav Brain Sci. 2005;28:737–94. [PubMed]
Perlis ML, Giles DE, Mendelson WB, Bootzin RR, Wyatt JK, authors. Psychophysiological insomnia: the behavioural model and a neurocognitive perspective. J Sleep Res. 1997;6:179–88. [PubMed]


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I really liked this idea for charring meat:
"Marinade your meat. Charring proteins like beef or chicken—whether in a pan or on the grill—causes the formation of heterocyclic amines, or HCAs, which some research has tied to cancer, explains Clare McKindley, R.D., L.D., of the University of Texas. But compounds in herbs like rosemary, oregano, thyme, mint, and sage help stabilize the sugars in your meat, which in turn limits the formation of HCAs by up to 88 percent, McKindley adds. Before you cook your meat, soak it for at least 30 minutes in store-bought or homemade marinades featuring those herbs, McKindley recommends. "
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Politicians must stop being "judgmental" about benefit claimants and accept responsibility for having created a system which traps people into dependency, Iain Duncan Smith has said.
Middle-class viewers were only "shocked" by programmes such as Benefits Street because the deep failures of the welfare state had previously been "ghettoised", he said.
And the Work and Pensions Secretary backed a fellow Tory minister's warning that voters were fed up with hearing "what we hate" rather than positive messages.
Mr Duncan Smith used a speech marking the 10th anniversary of the social welfare think-tank he founded to launch a defence of his major benefits shake-up.
It was something he would have wanted to do even if the Chancellor was not seeking deep public spending cuts as it would end a culture of dependence on handouts, he said.
The cabinet minister made direct reference to Benefits Street, the Channel 4 programme which focuses on the daily lives of several residents living in a Birmingham street.
It has caused controversy amid claims from critics that it has demonised residents and has turned poverty into entertainment.
Mr Duncan Smith welcomed the greater public exposure of a "tragic state of affairs" that at its worst meant people were "pushed into crime".
"With income inequality under Labour the worst for a generation, whilst the middle-class majority were aware of the problems in poor communities, they remained largely unaware of the true nature of life on some of our estates," he said.
"For too long we let these problems be ghettoised as though they were a different country.
"Even now, for the most part they remain out of sight - meaning people are shocked when they are confronted with a TV programme such as Benefits Street.
"The reality is that our welfare system has become distorted, no longer the safety net it was intended to be."
Speaking of those who resorted to crime, he said: " Such behaviour can never be condoned, but it is a tragic state of affairs - and a mark of how far the current system has failed - that people should feel pushed into crime by having their aspirations to make a living penalised."
Mr Duncan Smith - whose own tour of deprived council estates after being ousted as Tory leader in 2003 prompted him to set up the CSJ and embark on his bid to reform the system - said he "absolutely" backed comments made by Treasury minister Nicky Morgan.
In a warning about "language and tone", she told a Tory think-tank that Conservatives too often say that "we're anti this, we're anti-that, we don't like them, we don't want them here, we don't want them doing this".
"If we talk about what we hate all the time, we're not talking about what we like and what we want to do to help people who want to do well in setting up businesses or making our schools the best," she said.
"We never say actually we are on the side of these people, we want this to happen and we think this is great," she cautioned.
Asked if he agreed, Mr Duncan Smith told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: "Yes, absolutely. This is about life change.
"Our mission here should be about renewal, about getting people who have been locked away in the benefits system away from productive life back involved and engaged."
He went on: "The last thing that politicians and others should do is to be judgmental.
"In a sense we have created this system that entraps people. Our job is to reform it so that it gives reward to those who do the right things and actually gives people in places like that a real opportunity to get on up and play a productive part in society."
"I'm in favour of talking about what we believe will improve life, not always finger-wagging."
He said he preferred to think of "cuts" to benefit spending as " legitimate reductions" because people would be less reliant on benefits.
In the speech, he placed his radical shake-up of the system in the same Tory tradition as the anti-slavery movement of Wilberforce or the labour reforms of the Earl of Shaftesbury.
Pilots of the new Universal Credit system were demonstrating "remarkable" behavioural effects in terms of claimants' commitment to finding work, he said.
He also hailed "promising signs that the trend of bringing in migrant workers at the expense of British workers is being reversed" with 90% of the rise in employment over the past year accounted for by UK nationals.
With Chancellor George Osborne seeking another £12 billion of welfare savings in the two years after the 2015 general election, Mr Duncam Smith said they would be targeted at parts of the system "which are actually limiting people's horizons".
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms have led to elderly and disabled people being kicked out of their homes for failing to pay the hated bedroom tax, while dying cancer sufferers have faced benefit sanctions for not finding work.
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How far should my radar be able to see? K.C. via e-mail
Radar "sees" essentially the same way, with maximum distance limited by the combined height of the antenna and the target, except that radars can actually see a bit over the visible horizon due to a difference in how microwaves and visible light waves bend. According to Furuno, you can add 15 percent to standard horizon-distance table values or use 1.23 in the formula. Of course you are also limited by how powerful the radar scanner is, not to mention how well the target reflects back microwave pulses. However, if your 48-mile-rated antenna was 100 feet high (big boat!), it would still only be able to see a good 100-foot-high target about 24 miles away due to the horizon effect (12.3+12.3=24.6 miles). That's why long ranges are mostly useful for tracking rain clouds and high-flying birds.
While we're on the subject, note that the visibility distance given on charts for navigation lights only describes the brightness of the lights (in normal conditions). You may need to know the heights of the light and your eye to figure out how far away you can see it. In fact, if you do that calculation and catch the light right on the horizon plus get its bearing, you can plot your position without electronics. It's called "bobbing a light," and it's very salty. Finally, the horizon-distance table I've been referring to is in American Practical Navigator (a.k.a. Bowditch), and we'll put a copy of it, along with this Q&A, on our Web site. —B.E.
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18 September 2000Honda's Best-Selling Civic Lineup Moves Into a New Class With All-New 2001 Model Lineup
TORRANCE, Calif., Sept. 14 The Honda Civic, the best- selling small car in the U.S. for the past five years and an American favorite for nearly 30, has been completely re-designed and re-engineered for the 2001 model year. The all-new, 7th generation, 2001 Civics offer sporty new styling, improved engine performance, a host of safety and environmental enhancements, significantly more interior room, added value and a new level of comfort. Combined with Honda's traditional leadership in dependability, quality and reliability, the all-new 2001 Civic moves beyond its benchmark status, creating a class all its own. Prices for 2001 Civic sedan models will increase an average of just 0.5 percent or $80, on a sales-weighted basis. Prices for the best-selling Civic LX Sedan, which accounts for more than half of all sedan sales, will increase $80 to $15,010. Civic coupe models increase an average of 2.5 percent or $376, much of the increase coming from the addition of anti-lock brakes as standard equipment on EX Coupe models. Other coupe models increase in price from $60 to $80. The Civic DX Coupe, the lowest priced Civic model, will have a price of $12,760. New for 2001 is the Civic LX Coupe, which will have a base price of $14,810. Highlights for the 2001 Civic lineup include: * Targeted Five Star frontal impact NCAP rating (pending NHTSA certification); * Larger, more powerful and more fuel-efficient engines; * All new suspension and chassis; * A flat rear floor, contributing to an average of 2.3 cubic feet of additional interior room, moving Civic into the "compact class," while maintaining virtually the same overall exterior size; * Advanced dual-stage front airbags; * Dual seat belt pretensioners; * "LATCH" (Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children) seat tether system; * Immobilizer anti-theft system, standard on all models. Side airbags are available on all Civic models as a $250 option. When equipped with side airbags, the front passenger seat has a side airbag cutoff system that will prevent the side airbag from deploying if a child or small- statured adult is out of position or leaning into the side airbag deployment path. The new 1.7-liter engines provide horsepower gains ranging from 5 to 10 percent while fuel economy has been improved up to 10 percent. The new engines are also cleaner burning than the ones they replace. All Civics will have an Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (ULEV) rating -- the first car to be sold nationwide with a ULEV rating. The 2001 Civic lineup will include distinct sedan and coupe body styles available in DX, LX and EX trim levels. Both 5-speed manual and automatic transmissions are available on all models. The Civic Coupe also is available in a high mileage HX version, with both a 5-speed manual transmission and improved automatic Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT). The Civic GX Sedan will again be equipped with a natural gas powered engine, "the cleanest internal combustion engine in the world." The CVT transmission has been added to the GX for 2001. Although the DX trim level is considered the entry vehicle into the Civic lineup, it is also packed with features. With a base price of $12,760 for the Coupe and $12,960 for the Sedan, the Civic DX comes equipped with such features as a more powerful 115-horsepower engine (up from 106 hp in 2000), power steering, adjustable steering column and AM/FM stereo. All Civic LX models add a wide range of features including air conditioning, power windows, power door locks, cruise control and a cassette player to the stereo. Civic EX models are powered by the 127-horsepower VTEC engine with improved torque characteristics for 2001 (to 114 lb.-ft. @ 4800 rpm from 107 lb.-ft. @ 5500 rpm). Other standard EX equipment includes, a moonroof, a CD player, keyless entry system and larger 15-inch wheels and tires. EX models start at $16,410. The Civic HX Coupe is again the fuel economy leader in the Civic lineup. With a 36/44 city/highway EPA rating for an HX equipped with a 5-speed manual transmission and 35/40 rating for the HX with an automatic CVT (continuously variable transmission), both HX models should again be among the 10 most fuel efficient vehicles in America. HX models start at $13,560. 2001 HONDA CIVIC PRICES AND EPA DATA EPA Model Transmission MSRP City/Hwy. Civic DX Coupe 5-Speed Manual $12,760 32/39 4-Speed Automatic $13,560 30/38 Civic HX Coupe 5-Speed Manual $13,560 36/44 CVT $14,560 35/40 Civic LX Coupe 5-Speed Manual $14,810 32/39 4-Speed Automatic $15,610 30/38 Civic EX Coupe 5-Speed Manual $16,410 32/37 4-Speed Automatic $17,210 31/36 Civic DX Sedan 5-Speed Manual $12,960 32/39 4-Speed Automatic $13,760 30/38 Civic LX Sedan 5-Speed Manual $15,010 32/39 4-Speed Automatic $15,810 30/38 Civic EX Sedan 5-Speed Manual $16,910 32/37 4-Speed Automatic $17,710 31/38 Destination and Handling Charge is $440 per vehicle.


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Barrio Film Festival Comes to MOPA
The Museum of Photographic Arts will host the second annual Barrio Film Festival this Saturday and Sunday, September 21 and 22.
The festival, which was held in Barrio Logan last year, will consist of more than just film screenings though. Opening on Friday night with a celebration at Til-Two Club, the festival will also include an art show, a number of video workshops and two days of short film programming. All films will be shown in the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater at MOPA. The festival will wrap up on Sunday evening with an awards celebration at The Spot.


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Download the full report: Swimming Upstream: Freshwater Fish in a Warming World(pdf)
Whether fly fishing for wild trout in the legendary waters of Yellowstone National Park or ice fishing on Michigan's famed Black Lake, fishing traditions hold a special place for Americans of all ages. Generations have enjoyed our nation's clean waters in pursuit of the fish that give life to rivers, streams, and lakes across the country. Today, angling is big business, generating $26 billion annually in expenditures by some 27 million adults.
Changing climate poses new risks for our treasured freshwater fish resources. Warming waters mean lost habitat for cold-water species, the likely encroachment of species typically found in warmer areas, and exacerbation of existing stressors such as habitat loss, pollution, invasive species, and disease. More extreme weather events—especially longer and more intense droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and floods mean increased likelihood of fish mortality. Shorter winters with less snow and ice cover mean shifts in stream flow and water availability through the spring and summer months, as well as lost opportunities for ice fishing.
We need to act swiftly to protect our fishing heritage. We must cut the carbon pollution that currently is on track to cause significant warming by mid-century. At the same time, we must take steps to safeguard fish and their habitats from the climate changes that we can no longer avoid. This requires redoubling our efforts to restore and expand critical habitat, while carefully considering climate impacts in all our conservation activities. Finally, we must manage our water resources in a way that ensures that both people and fish have the clean, cool, and abundant water they need to survive.
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Bosnia and Latohead Meet
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Here are some shots from the last week. Mark, Trev and I fished the Ribnik together for three days of exciting grayling action – well to be honest the first day was challenging, we felt we nailed them well on the second day and very little happened on the third day. The animal in question which is very obviously feeding in one of the photos was carefully imitated by the three of us.
The weekend saw a bunch of us casting at Latohegy for the SL Meet. We played the Danish Games and had a Shootout, along with demonstrations, wine tasting and fun.
Photos from me (the random and generally focus-free ones) as well as from both Trev and Zsofia. Thanks!


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Dog-friendly Cromhall, 2 Dogs & Barbecue
This former farm building has been sympathetically restored, furnished and decorated in a contemporary style, retaining many original features and beams. Single storey and detached, it is set within a small cluster of holiday properties near the owners' home and provides an ideal touring base.
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A POPULAR Primary School in Bridgwater is to benefit from four classroom extensions and a bigger and better playground thanks to a £1m project.
St. Mary's Primary School in Oakfield Road told the Mercury designs for their new facilities have now been approved, and work has already started, with a new car park.
A brand new playground will be built during the October half term and pupils from the School Council have quizzed bosses at Somerset County Council about the project.
Headteacher Mary-Jane Collington said: "The children have been asking lots of questions and the council was very impressed.
"We have worked closely with Somerset County Council to ensure children receive optimum benefits from the project, with no impact on the school's budget.
"The Local Authority has agreed to construct a new playground, which will be much bigger, better and safer than the existing one.
"St Mary's is already oversubscribed, with over 60 parents putting us as their first choice. The project will help accommodate the growing local need and we hope to take 60 students next year."
The final phase of the project, which also includes construction of new toilets, cloakrooms, office and group rooms, will see the main building work start around Christmas.
The classroom extensions will be built on the school's huge field, but will not take away too much space.
Gabby, 9, said: "It's really exciting for the school. The fact that we will be a big school means we will have lots more children to play with."


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#CreateNow World Tour: UK Highlights
December 09, 2013
Since mid-September, Adobe's #CreateNow world tour has brought creative experts and Adobe's own evangelists to cities across the globe. We've been celebrating all things Creative Cloud by giving all of you the lowdown on the very latest updates to our creative offering.
On 26th and 28th November we came to the UK, stopping off in Bristol and Edinburgh. With new features and applications being continually updated in Creative Cloud, the #CreateNow events have been a great chance for the pros and I to show everyone just what exciting and dynamic content can be created using the new suite of tools.
A number of deep dive sessions took place at both events, with specialist knowledge on everything from digital imaging to video editing being shared.
Richard Curtis kicked off proceedings with two photography based sessions exploring Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC, walking through the workflows for designers and publishers and telling everyone how photographers can reimagine their content and share it with the rest of the world via Behance.
Iona Walters showcased Adobe Muse, the software which makes it possible for designers to create web pages without having to code, as well as highlighting how the Edge suite of tools and services can save web designers hours of time thanks to handy features like responsive design.
Niels Stephens was up next, focusing on all things video-related. He showcased some of the latest updates to Adobe's CC video applications, inclu ding the seamless collaboration between Audition and Premier Pro as well as running through performance enhancements to After Effects CC.
Finally, Rupert Knowles spoke about the huge shift towards digital publishing and demonstrated just how simple and seamless digit al publishing can be with the Digital Publishing Suite, with some great examples of tablet publications from Adidas and TopGear, which were honed using InDesign CC.
On the day, attendees were encouraged to live tweet throughout the event as well as have a go on our very own interactive graffiti wall, with some great feedback:
I think the #CreateNow tour has been so successful as we've tailored the day to suit what our audience want to know and hear. The #CreateNow sessions focused on the workflows that creatives deal with on a day to day basis as well as exploring how to get the best from Creative Cloud. By listening to feedback and interacting with our customers, we are enabling people to enhance their creative processes.
If #CreateNow has inspired you, find out more about becoming a member of the Creative Cloud and the tools that are available to you as part of our creative community here.
If you want to see more images from the Adobe #CreateNow events, then head over to our Creative Juices Facebook page. Follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page to stay tuned on future events.
John Cole, Adobe Digital Media Manager for Northern Europe


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HP Spectre XT TouchSmart Ultrabook Reviewby Dustin Sklavos on 5/27/2013 5:00 AM EST
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StealthGhost - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkI don't see the point In an ultrabook that has to stay connected to the wall because it only gets 3 hours of battery life. Reply
deeps6x - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkSo much to dislike already about this laptop and I didn't even get past the spec sheet on the first page. To start, you put a frickin' hard drive in your premium product? Come on HP. I thought you were smarter than that. Nobody wants the heat and noise. 1080P, IPS? Yes! Glossy touch screen? FAIL. FAIL HARD!!! No need to read further. Jumped to comments. First comment is about another fail - junk battery as well it appears. My oh my. So disappointing HP. Sad. Reply
CSMR - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkStupid comment. This products "fails" to be suitable for you, but not everyone is like you.
Hard drive + SSD is an excellent combination for people who want both an extremely responsive system and storage space. A 500GB SSD would be better but such a laptop would be much more expensive. Reply
Egg - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkThere are very few matte touch screens. Have you ever seen a matte touch screen at say, a POS kiosk or an ATM? Touching it quickly wears down the finish so you have glossy spots on the screen. See http://www.anandtech.com/show/6585/lenovo-thinkcen... for an example of a rare matte touchscreen that doesn't have this problem.
If you're complaining about a touchscreen itself, well it's somewhat useful for Windows 8. Reply
Voldenuit - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkLenovo Thinkpad X230T has a matte touch (and active digitizer!) screen. I should know, I got one for my wife last xmas. Reply
WhiteAdam - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $82h… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online. (Home more information)
http://goo.gl/u1sGF Reply
rvd2008 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - link"Come on HP. I thought you were smarter than that."
Are you kidding? After Touchpad, WebOS and Autonomy fiasco? Think again, same board of directors who appointed Apotheker rule HPQ with Meg Whitman at the helm. What can go wrong? Reply
StormyParis - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkI disagree with your dislike of SSD cache. I'd rather my laptop have a small SSD cache and some real storage, than a full SSD that will be 1- holding stuff that doesn't require speed (data files, media, rarely used codeà 2- small 3- expensive. I think HP have made a good trade off here. Reply
arthur449 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkAn HDD is only acceptable in a computer if you don't care about or have control over all the software running in the background. If I'm going to recommend this device to anyone, and they're not going to take the time to cut away the useless bundled crapware, then its not an acceptable experience.
A single SSD in a store-bought PC like this is a necessity, not an option, for a positive out-of-the-box experience. (Of course, that depends on whether or not they chose an absolutely horrid SSD, but that's what reviews like these are for.) Reply
hughlle - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkNecessity? Don't be silly. Positive out-of-the-box experience is completely subjective. Next people will be telling me that 4gb of ram is a necessity in this regard, or 64 bit etc. Reply
arthur449 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkExperience is subjective, you're right.
I'm not saying that I can quantify experience with a number. (Uhh, I rate this laptop a 6.5 on the User Experience Index.) In 20 years, I can count on one hand the number of laptops I've bought or set up for coworkers, friends, or family that had an acceptable amount of included software pre-installed. Acceptable in this case means the computer didn't grind to a halt on startup while it loaded Horton Speedy Disk, Extra Discount Firewall with Extra Popups, Super Unnecessary Manufacturer Splash Screen to tell me when I've pushed a button to disable wireless, etc. All of them with very few exceptions did this, and the addition of an SSD is the most effective throw-money-at-it solution.
Oh, and for the record, the HP dm1z is the first PC that came to mind with an acceptably low amount of bloatware. And it was a netbook. Reply
Scott66 - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkOne reason I love Apple machines. Very little bloatware especially once they got rid of the trial version of Office.
I used a Momentus Hybrid drive in an old macbook and it added a few more years of usability and much more storage. Reply
Peskarik - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link4GB of RAM IS necessity. Hello. Reply
Flunk - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkI think if you take in that this is a $1299.99 system it is a necessity. There are a lot of systems you can get around the $1000.00 mark that ship with 128MB SSDs. This system is certainly not trading on it's high CPU or GPU performance so it really needs that SSD to justify the high price. You can get a computer that will perform as well as this for $400. Premium casing isn't worth $899.99 to most consumers. Reply
andrewaggb - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkmuch rather have a 256gb ssd. And get rid of the bloatware. They need to take you to a screen in a setup process where you can check which items you want installed or not installed. Or make a real uninstall page where I can check off 20 metro apps and 10 desktop apps and uninstall them all at once. I had to setup 9 lenovo windows 8 laptops last weekend and it was painful removing all the crap one piece at a time. Reply
Egg - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkI think hughlle was being ironic. Reply
wanderer000 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link4GB is a necessity to properly run Windows 8. Ram usage on my desktop is high for Win8, I can't imagine how slow it'd be on a laptop with anything under 4GB. That point btw is the last stop before 64-bit becomes a necessity, because 32-bit can't handle anything over 4GB of RAM. Times change as do positive out-of-the-box experiences.
That being said, something that doesn't change is the factor of not having to manage software in the background. This is always a point in that section, as is low noise and heat. So in regards to that, yes. An SSD should be mandatory in a PREMIUM product nowadays. Reply
kkwst2 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkMaybe for you. My "necessity" is at least a 256GB SSD plus at least a 500GB, preferably a 1TB HDD. That is why I have stuck with the Thinkpad T-series despite the crappy screens and poor battery life. If you could configure this with a 256GB SSD in the mSATA slot plus the HDD, that would be ideal for me. The battery life is still an issue, but I can deal with that more than I can the lack of storage. I need the HDD for all my data files. Won't fit on even a 256 SSD. Reply
hughlle - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkI happily run all OS's on my old shuttle with two gb of ram. Sure it's not as fast as with 4gb but it still does the job just fine. I happily use my parents bloatware ridden pcs with old mechanical drives and they work just fine too.
I am not arguing that an ssd or more ram should be mandatory for an expensive product, that is just common sense, like a £100,000 car should have a big engine etc. I'm just stating that the term necessity is wrong. There is no requirement for these things, but rather it is just highly recommended for you to have them, but i have neither and the machines work just fine, so clearly it is not a case of HAVING to have these better components just that it makes more sense. Reply
Solandri - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkI actually prefer the mSATA cache SSD + 2.5" HDD configuration. It gives you the most flexibility, provided the notebook is designed so you can easily swap out these parts.
- If you like it as is with a cache SSD, use it as is.
- If you don't like the HDD, you can replace it with a SSD.
- If you like the HDD but want a bigger SSD, just replace the cache SSD with a larger mSATA SSD and configure it as your boot drive.
- If you want large capacity SSD, replace both the mSATA SSD and 2.5" HDD with large capacity SSDs. That'll give you nearly 1 TB of storage for a reasonable price.
The single SSD design limits your options and your max storage capacity. It's much better to have both mSATA + 2.5" storage bays. Reply
arthur449 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkYou're going to have to qualify your statement about the keyboard, "Typing action is pretty good, but it's about time for HP to retire or revise this design." Apart from the display, the keyboard is one of the most important aspects of a notebook computer. I've recommended HP models to my friends and family members specifically because their use-case required a typing experience that didn't leave them with the urge to (pardon the hyperbole) saw their hands off. Having a consistently competent keyboard is vastly more important, at least in my opinion, than having a newly designed one. Reply
mschira - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link2.25kg, low voltage CPU and 2h battery life?
Are they joking?
I keep saying, it's not Windows that is the problem it is the hardware makers.
P.S. mac 15" retina: 2.05 kg, quadcore CPU, GPU, battery life is north of 7h.
I know much more expensive, but still. Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkAgreed, it's very much up to the system builders. Granted, IPS displays do suck down more power, but other machines already get better battery life with one. Windows machines are perfectly capable of getting close to or above Macbook battery life, I'm not sure what stops a few of them. Reply
protomech - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkIt's not really a direct competitor to any apple product.
It has the processor of a MBA, display resolution/quality between a MBA and rMBP, price of a 13" rMBP (once you add the SSD), slightly thicker/heavier vs a 15" rMBP).
Unique features are a touchscreen and terrible battery life. Reply
mschira - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkbut comparing it to MBA will make it fare even worse when talking about battery or weight.
And when talking about price, too.
M. Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkJust vaguely curious, if I took out the hard drive in the Spectre XT and put in my Momentus XT 750 hybrid hard drive from my old laptop, would the mSATA cache still work as normal? Would any extra setup be involved? Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkAh, crud, even the hard drive is not serviceable? Reply
Peskarik - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link"Not user serviceable" - no need to read further Reply
3DoubleD - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkI'm starting to wonder if it is possible for PC manufacturers to build a competent laptop or ultrabook. What is it that holds them back every single time?
One thing I can think of is that they might not have any guarantee that they would sell very many of that model, so they need to drive their margins up to compensate for lower volume. If that is the case, what if one of the manufacturers (HP, Lenovo, ASUS, ect.) did a kickstarter-like launch. They show us the laptop (theoretical or prototype), maybe get it reviewed a couple times, then we can put our money where our mouths are. If they hit their kickstarter goal, then they can know they will be profitable with that model through economies of scale without aggressively boosting their margins by using crappy parts. Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkIndeed, it's the volumes and R&D and manufacturing costs. With Apple notebooks, they are guaranteed to sell well, plus they are able to get away with high margins on each. Combine the two and the company is comfortable spending a bit extra on manufacturing quality and optimization. With the likes of HP, they have so many different new models they don't know if each will be a hit, plus PCs above 1000 dollars don't sell in anywhere near mac quantities, so they have to cheap out on manufacturing and optimization to play it safe.
I wish someone would just take a one time Unibody-like risk, they only had to research that once and were able to get so many years of use out of the design, and it's still arguably the best. Reply
whyso - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkThis review is of rather poor quality. Anandtech you need to look at clock speed and throttling. You comment that the cpu benchmarks are unusually low so open cpu-z and look at the clockspeed during the test that is unusually low. Also would be really nice to have you run furmark + prime and report the speed of the cpu + gpu and temperature. Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link"I've checked clocks, run tests multiple times, but in the end still been left with a notebook that's just slower than it should be." Reply
jeffkibuule - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkThis leads to a serious question, if PC manufacturers could ever build a laptop as well designed as a retina MacBook Pro, would people shell out the extra cash to buy it? They keep saying no, but I wonder if that's really true. The product managers really need the power to say "No, this is shit, try again" instead of having to meet arbitrary deadlines. Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkI really don't know the answer to that, currently Apple does own the high end market. It's a chicken and egg thing, do high end PCs not sell well and that's why no one will make a well thought out one, or will no one buy a high end PC laptop because there are few good offerings? Reply
andrewaggb - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkThe fact that the retina mbp's sell well indicates there is a market for high end laptops. And most software still runs on windows so it's impossible that there is no market for high end windows pc's.
The market is crowded with average-ness. Make a good product and market it so people are aware you've made something worth buying. Works for Apple and Samsung.... Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkThere's a market, sure, but the unsure thing is if anyone could dislodge Apple from it. Samsung did that in smartphones, but look what that took, they had the most costly marketing campaign for smartphones period, as far as I know. The PC market has had shrinking margins for years, plus the sales are in decline, while I don't think it will die soon or ever I suspect the heads of these companies would look at that and find it too big a risk to sink lots of R&D, new manufacturing cost, and marketing into. A booming market like smartphones, sure. Reply
FreeAintFree - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkAnyone wanna bet HP farmed the design of this out entirely to the OEM. With final approval by accountants. OEM instructions: "Hit this price point and be sure to factor in the payments from these bloatware vendors". Pathetic and deserves to sit on the shelves and collect dust. Reply
Gunbuster - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkWhy don't you take any laptops apart anymore? There is no longer any "In" to the "In and around" page... Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkHe did say it wasn't serviceable, maybe they use some crazy screws or glue? I'd like elaboration on that too. With some internal mods some of the problems would be helped, namely the hard drive speed. Reply
ananduser - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkI hate to bring Apple up Dustin, but you should review the 1200$ 13" MBP. First of all I believe that this is the only Apple unit that Anandtech never reviewed. Secondly I would wish to read your opinion(rather if it is at least as stern) on a 1200$ 13" laptop with a 5400rmp HDD and 1280x800 TN panel. Reply
protomech - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkThe non-retina MBPs aren't terribly interesting, nor are they terribly competitive.
Anandtech did review the non-retina MBP 15", and struggled to find anything to write about it.
"It's pretty difficult to find things to write about the 2012 MacBook Pro hardware. You can essentially sum it up in one paragraph, or even one sentence if you try hard enough. The 2012 MBP looks exactly like the 2011 MBP, which looked exactly like the 2010 MBP, which looked exactly like the post-April 2009 MBP."
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6037/the-2012-macboo... Reply
stephenv2 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkI really am going to stop reading any reviews by this author. Just like the case reviews, his personal opinions and biases are so strong and often things I don't agree with, it's impossible to get much useful information out his reviews. Reply
Commodus - Monday, May 27, 2013 - linkWhat exactly do you think is an unfair bias here? Gotta elaborate a little more than that.
Besides, the benchmarks don't lie. It IS slower than most of the pack. It DOES have terrible battery life. Those aspects matter quite a bit. Is he going to pretend those problems don't exist just to humour you? Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkBias towards or against what? If you don't like my work, that's fine, I can't please everybody, but you have to give me some kind of feedback I can actually use. Otherwise your post serves no purpose other than to publicly decry someone.
Remember there are actual people producing this work, so when you go off and just post something like this it really serves no purpose other than to offend. Reply
seapeople - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - linkI'm pretty sure he was auto-replying, as in, replying to himself. It makes much more sense that way. Reply
SirPerro - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkWhy $170/$370 upgrades are "exhorbitant", "staggering" and "offensive" in this review and not even a "miserly decision" in the MBP one, taking into account that the same upgrades in the apple store are exactly $200/$400 for the MBP whose lack of SSD seems to be much more palatable?
Please be consistent with the reviews. People out there have brains. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkIf I were the one handling Apple reviews, I think you'd find I'd gripe about those, too. ;) Reply
SirPerro - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkGood to know. I agree with all the adjectives in either case. Reply
andrewaggb - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkI agree with the crazy upgrade prices. I've often ordered stuff without upgrades and just bought the upgraded parts myself cheaper. Which is pretty ridiculous considering now I have two drives and two sets of ram.... Reply
APPL - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkI own this laptop.
It is excellent save the usb 3 hd disconnect issues. I use it as a desktop replacement and am about to upgrade the HD to a Crucial M500 960GB in a monthish.
What is with all the haters? Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkAh, so you can upgrade the hard drive? That would fix one of the gripes at least. If I got it I would swap in my Momentus XT 750 hybrid from my last laptop anyways, not keep the 5400 standard hdd. Reply
barbarbar - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkI own this laptop in a European version. It has the i5, instead of i7. I disagree with this review on a couple of points:
- The unit is very servicable. The underside can be taken off with regular philipshead screws. This gives access to the full system. The harddrive is easily replaced with an ssd, and the caching ssd is a regular mSata ssd. I have replaced both in 5 minutes, one samsung 840 pro 256 and one crucial m4 256. Both were recognized without problems and work great.
- The memory can also be upgraded by the user very easily, see previous point. The european version came with 4gb, I added 8gb without problems.
- HP has made it very easy to do a clean install of Windows. If you make a backup tot a usb stick, with the provided HP software, you can then do a clean install. The HP installer will give you the option for a clean Windows install when booting form this usb stick.
- The glass touchpad functions very well, although you will need to dive into the settings of the touchpad to get it this way.
What I do agree with this review:
- The processor speed it throttled for low noise. Mine will even go as far as to get stuck on a low processor speed when the turbo mode is used fo an extended period, this seems to be a bug. Only a restart will fis this.
- The machine is very quiet, although there are some problems with defective fans. Mine had to go back for a fan replacement, and several forums list users also having this problem.
- The price is a little hard to justify for the stock version. Compared to other laptop with a 15" full-hd ips touch screen, 3 usb ports and 2.2kg, it is very hard to find a competitor.
- The built quality is decent. The aluminum looks good, but the softer plastic on the bottom scratches easily. My usb ports have little pieces chipped, as this is one piece of plastic. The bezel around the screen could use some improvement.
Overall I think your review is a little too harsh if you keep the main competitors in mind. In a perfect world, I would rank this laptop as an 8 (B). Compared to what is actually available on the market, I think it deserves a 8.5 (B+). Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkMy Dell Studio 15 also does that thing where it gets stuck on low multiplier after a while. I used throttlestop to prevent it, but it is annoying. Reply
andrewaggb - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkthanks for posting. an honest response from somebody who actually owns it means a lot. Reply
cknobman - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkWell designed high quality chassis and hardware coupled with:
1. Slow HDD and small SSD cache
2. Abysmal battery life - its a shame you can call something and "Ultrabook" that barely gets 2 hours of battery life. I get more than this from a 4 year old first gen core laptop with its original battery.
3. Bloatware city
HP you just cant help but f'up good things. Cant see who would want this thing. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkIndeed, my 3.5 year old Core 2 Duo laptop on its original 6 cell battery still gets 2.5 hours of moderate use with the screen at half, what the heck HP. Reply
Trinitron - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - link1080p? Not interested. I'm not buying anything less than 1920x1200. I don't see why 1080 is still being pushed. It's not 2008 anymore.
1080p needs to die and soon. My Asus Transformer Infinity is 1920x1200 and it's almost a year old now. Why would i buy anything brand new in 2013 which was less? Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - link16:9 vs 16:10. They aren't directly comparable. And 1920 resolution is still really good for a 15 inch. Reply
NCM - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linktipoo claims "16:9 vs 16:10. They aren't directly comparable."
No, pomegranates and shoes aren't directly comparable. Or fish and bicycles. Displays of 16:9 and 16:10 are certainly comparable, and the 16:9's shorter screen always comes out on the losing end of the comparison. Reply
Belard - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkI agree with you and Trinitron... I'll be keeping my 1920x1200 res monitor as long as I can. I hate that the notebooks (even ThinkPads) went to 1920x1080. at 15" display at 1080 is as TALL as a 14" 1200 display.
I do understand WHY they do this. Its cheaper to make and its a standard for HDTV and computers. It *IS* super handy to plug your 1080 notebook to a HDTV and not have the notebook flip through video modes and what-not. That is a big plus.
So... I hope to get a 27" 2500x1440 display in 2 years that costs under $400. Reply
Silma - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - linkWhile writing reviews of products that aren't even available on the market and different from what the Customer will purchase is borderline dishonest, reviews that are published many months after product availability are frankly of very limited interest.
The pros and cons of the HP Spectre XT TouchSmart or the Thinkpad Carbon have already been exhaustively enumerated for monthes in other publications. Reply
grave00 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkBean counter. More like top level management. Same people that always wreck the company. Reply
PatriciaBau42 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - linkuntil I saw the check 4 $7083, I did not believe that my cousin could truley bringing home money part-time on there computar.. there brothers friend had bean doing this for less than 12 months and a short time ago cleared the morgage on there apartment and bought a top of the range audi. I went here, Exit35.comTAKE A LOOK Reply
Hrel - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkThunderbolt?! Fuck that! I don't wanna pay for that stupid licensing fee. Get rid of it.
Also I agree about the cache, anything over 1k should have 200+GB dedicated SSD either through mSATA or SATA. Though I'd prefer mSATA so I can have normal hdd for storage. Reply


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