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MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. — Kohl's Department Stores announced a long-term license agreement with Bobby Flay to renew the chef's exclusive line of home and grill products, which will be available in Kohl's stores nationwide and Kohls.com beginning February 2012.
"We are pleased to announce the renewal of our partnership with Bobby Flay and expand the Bobby Flay collection, said Don Brennan, Kohl's chief merchandising officer. "The line has been a strong performer in the home category and continues to deliver on our commitment to offer world-class brands at an incredible value and differentiate Kohl's in the marketplace."
The Bobby Flay collection, which initially launched in 2008, will continue to carry the same product categories as before but will increase the volume of merchandise available under the brand, including a variety of housewares, such as dinnerware and serveware; flatware; drinkware; kitchen gadgets and utensils; grilling tools and cutlery; cookware and bakeware; food storage; kitchen textiles and table linens.


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A headteacher has moved to reassure parents after her school was told it needed to improve by government inspectors.
Ofsted found teaching at Kelmscott School in Walthamstow was not consistently good and pupils' attitude to learning was described as "too passive".
But inspectors praised the school for improving student achievement in a wide range of subjects and its support for disabled children, as well as those with special educational needs.
Ofsted also found the school was "particularly strong" at caring for children in vulnerable circumstances.
Headteacher Lynette Parvez said she was not happy that the school had slipped from a previous "good" rating, but said tougher criteria mean many schools were in the same position.
She added the school came close to reaching the standard and had been recently rated in the top 12 per cent in the country using RAISEonline, which analyses performance based on data relating to pupil progress.
She said: "There's not much there of a major concern.
"To me [RAISEonline) is a fairer way of showing how a school is doing.
"It's not just about A to Cs, it's about how well the children are doing in comparison to where they started."
She added that Ofsted inspectors told her they felt the school's rating would move to 'good' at the next inspection.

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The latest news kept the pressure on corn futures Friday morning. The corn market attempted an early-Friday rebound from losses posted earlier this week, but turned downward by late morning. News that China had rejected more U.S. corn shipments last week probably depressed prices, as did the disappointing result on the weekly Export Sales report. March corn futures dipped 2.0 cents to $4.185/bushel around midsession Friday, while May skidded 2.0 cents to $4.27/bushel.
Soybeans and meal firmed in late-week action. Soybean and product futures suffered losses that did substantial technical damage this week. However, the sheer size of the Tuesday-Thursday breakdown probably prompted short-covering in early Friday trading. Bulls were very likely encouraged by the bean and meal results on the weekly Export Sales report. In contrast, Asian palm oil weakness seemingly dragged soyoil futures downward. Late-morning stability in the face of a bearish industry report was rather impressive. March soybeans edged up 1.5 cents to $12.7125/bushel by late Friday morning, while March soyoil declined 0.10 cents to 38.70 cents/pound, and March soymeal bounced $1.6 to $407.9/ton.
The wheat markets staged a modest rebound this morning. After dropping rather sharply Thursday, the wheat markets appeared to find support early Friday morning. Short-covering probably played a role in the rise, whereas the Export Sales data was not helpful. Ultimately, Great Plains temperatures are expected to fall below zero degrees Fahrenheit early next week, which may be raising concerns about potential frost damage to winter wheat. March CBOT wheat futures rose 2.0 cents to $5.99/bushel just before lunchtime Friday, while March KCBT wheat futures moved up 3.75 cents to $6.35, whereas March MWE futures lifted 0.5 to $6.257.
Elevated cash prices are encouraging cattle bulls. Cattle futures turned decisively higher Thursday in response to news of a fresh upward push in country prices. Given those developments, as well as forecasts for arctic weather over the Great Plains early next week, CME prices sustained their advance overnight. However, beef prices weakened Thursday, which seemingly diminished bullish enthusiasm. February cattle futures gained 0.32 cents to 135.95 cents/pound by late Friday morning, while April futures ran up 0.47 to 136.27. Meanwhile, March feeder cattle futures surged 0.85 cents to 167.85 cents/pound, and May climbed 0.67 to 169.62.
Late Thursday reports seemed to undercut hog futures. Hog futures recovered from surprising late-December weakness Thursday, due in part to midsession reports indicating substantial cash and wholesale strength. However, the late afternoon reports proved less favorable, which probably explains the subsequent slippage. February hogs sagged 0.17 cents to 86.90 cents/pound Friday morning, while June lost 0.15 to 100.92.


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HOUSTON - February 2013, went into the record books as another warmer-than-normal month in southeast Texas.
Based on data from the National Weather Service, from College Station to Galveston average daily temperatures ranged from 2 to more than 4 degrees above normal. It is the fifth month in a row that temperatures have averaged above normal.
Looking on the positive side, February does not rank as one of the 10 warmest on record for the city, so we can call it a moderately warm month. Also, even though we're less than a week into March, temperatures have been running about 5 degrees below normal so far for this month, which is good news.
The overall picture still raises concerns. February data signal a continuation of the larger trend of warm, dry weather that keeps the threat of drought a very dire reality for the area. And, with the growing season and fire season right around the corner, the trends in our weather pattern become increasingly important.
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text: Drethon 212 Report post Posted April 17, 2013 I suspect I'm not along in that my favoriate type of game is RPGs but I don't really like completing them. I like enjoy creating a building a character. I just kind of hit a brick wall when the character improvement ends. This is kind of the same both for single player and multiplayer. To create a game that focuses more on my favorite part I've been thinking about a "generations" game. With this game when your character dies, instead of the game ending it continues with the character's offspring or close reletives. In this way there isn't just one creation and building of a character but many. On the other hand it seems all it is really doing is taking the normal begin, build and end phases of an RPG and repeating them. So I'm wondering what others think about this. Is there a way to focus an RPG more on creation and building as well as extending that part of the game? Or is this something where existing games have already made the most of what is possible? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Seagate Acquires SandForce From Avago/LSIby Kristian Vättö on 5/29/2014 10:25 AM EST
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Homeles - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkMy first reaction to this was a negative one. I'm worried that Seagate won't develop Sandforce as well as LSI could. Reply
nirolf - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI'm not to thrilled either, I hope the SSD market won't end up like the HDD one. Very few players (basically a duopoly) with high prices and low quality. Reply
Murloc - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI never felt the need for anything different from what was offered. There were 4 big companies and HDDs were cheap.
The SSD market already has more players than that. Reply
TerdFerguson - Saturday, May 31, 2014 - linkMurloc said, "I never felt the need for anything different from what was offered. There were 4 big companies and HDDs were cheap."
Then you haven't been paying attention. The blatant price fixing at play after the Tawain floods, along with tripling of prices, reduction of quality and warranty, and subsequent postings of record years are a good example of the OP's message. Reply
TSnor - Sunday, June 01, 2014 - link+1 re prices that didn't make sense and record profits. Reply
ZeDestructor - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkFairly unlikely:
We have three NAND manufacturers: Intel/Micron, Toshiba and Samsung; and a bunch of controllers: Intel, Marvell, Samsung, LAMD, Sandforce and JMicron, as well as more exotic stuff in the PCIe cards, with lots of the variability coming purely from the firmware. Things are looking good! Reply
Penti - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkDon't forget about Hynix here, they do have proper NAND (and controller), there just happens to be no other (than these mentioned) significant memory companies around any more. If you count both Intel and Micron in IMFT I guess we can count Sandisk too when they "resell" Toshiba NAND as part of their joint investment.
It looks more like four NAND vendors, Samsung, Toshiba, IMFT and SK Hynix. As said, there isn't really any proper memory manufacturers other than these either, not any more. Latest victim was Elpida which was absorobed into Micron. Many more before it. Companies like Spansion were pioneers, but focuses on other areas. Four is of course more than the three we have in mechanical HDD's that was 4-5 players not long ago. Reply
Morawka - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkthe only company charging high prices is Western Digital. Seagate has always been a Value Brand. Even when the flooding happened, Seagate drives did not increase in price much. WD on the other hand was charging $350 for a 1TB WD Black Drive for almost 3 years.
I understand a temporary spike while the plant gets repaird, but WD milked it way to long. Reply
ViRGE - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI second that concern. Seagate has not instilled me with confidence over the years. They always seem to come up short in some way. Reply
tuklap - Monday, June 02, 2014 - linkSeagate will continue to improve the technology that LSI left and will also adopt them on their SSHD variants which leads better value to performance for users. :) Reply
althaz - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkThe only surprising part of this announcement is that Seagate didn't make this move when LSI did a few years ago.
Hopefully Seagate and Sandforce can bring some good drives to the table. Lately, all I ever seem to buy are Samsungs. Reply
Hrel - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - link"Lately, all I ever seem to buy are Samsungs."
So pretty much anything is a step up for you. Congratulations, you're at rock bottom, a current Seagate or Mushkin would be better. Reply
Guspaz - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkSeagate's SSDs have amongst the lowest failure rates in the industry. How would Seagate or Mushkin SSDs be a step up? Reply
takeshi7 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkHaving the lowest failure rates in the industry is a good thing. Nobody likes it when their SSDs fail. Reply
althaz - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkSamsung drives are amongst the best performing (in most categories holding outright leads) and are CLEARLY the most reliable in terms of consumer drives (I don't know too much about enterprise drives). If you're not buying Samsung right now, you're doing it wrong. Reply
edzieba - Friday, May 30, 2014 - link"and are CLEARLY the most reliable in terms of consumer drives"
No, that would be Intel's consumer offerings. Reply
althaz - Monday, June 02, 2014 - linkIntel's high-performance drives are slower, more expensive and less reliable than Samsung's drives - which is why I've stopped buying Intel and started buying Samsung. Intel's drives are the next best for reliability, which just goes to show you how good Samsung's drive are at the moment. Reply
romrunning - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkIf you think Samsung SSDs are "rock bottom", you really need to wake up, drink some coffee, and try looking at some benchmarks. Samsung may not *always* take the #1 spot, but for quite a while now, they have always been in the top 5.
Now if you were just trolling, go find another bridge. Reply
Penti - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkPretty sure Seagate has their in-house (SSD) SAS-controllers based of Marvell designs. So they obviously already has some semiconductor design competence and firmware team in this field. Though, they basically had to choose between SF, Marvell and the NAND-fabs own controllers as LAMD is an asset of Hynix, Toshiba has their custom Marvell-variant plus Indilinx through OCZ, Samsung has their own that they won't really share, Intel has their own, WD/HGST has their own assets. Lite-on and a few others do their own firmware to compete in this mix. A mix which is still larger than the three companies controlling HDD's. I guess Marvell will be left as the only independent player. Reply
hojnikb - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkWell, there is also phison, jmicron, SMI not just marvell :) Reply
Penti - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkThey are all too small to count or not focused on performance/mainstream drives. Will check the new article over here at Anand's on the new Jmicronstuff though. Not really a choice for mainstream drives from Seagate though. Or future PCIe m.2/sata-express drives. Reply
weimeng4359 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI totally agree with you.
Marvell's chip is suitable for development by some design house like Lite-on.
Other small SSD controller companies would be acquired by NAND vendors or be dead. Reply
orenc17 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkWTF?!?!?!?!??!?!?! Reply
hojnikb - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkIs anand gonna reviewer the new SMI based ssds, that came out in the last few weeks ? Reply
Taft12 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI can think of Kingston, Mushkin and Intel... Are there any other OEM brands shipping SSDs today with Sandforce controllers? Reply
hojnikb - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkThere are literaly shitton of companys selling sandforce based drive. There must be atleast 50 companies (if not more) that sell sandforce based drives. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkYup. Last time I saw SandForce had over 50 partners, although not all of them are in the retail SSD business (but there are a ton of those too). Reply
Penti - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkMost of these has at some point had SF-drives – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solid-state_d... if one likes to jog their memory about some of the vendors out there. Companies like OWC also use SF exclusively thus far. Let's see if they take the step into PCIe-based SSD's. You will find over 20 companies offering SSD's on an online retailer such as Newegg. Only a few of those have stayed away from SF.
If you like to see some of the names (directed at thread starter) you also have Verbatim and ADATA which seems to use SF in their high-perf drives. Patriot use SF too. PNY and Team group seems to be exclusive SF-users too. Look around and you will probably see a lot. Reply
creed3020 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkMy Seagate 600 240GB SSD has been excellent, and I'm sure that is everything to do with the LAMD sourced controller. With this aquistion I don't see them needing to lean on an external controller anymore.
I'm not if I really like the combo fo Sandforce and Seagate. Neither brand has a rock solid realiability record. Combine them and I'm not sure what you get?!? Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkHere's an interesting thought: Avago tends to be more of an enterprise company, right? Yes, they offer a bunch of smaller components, but they have a lot of industrial, military, etc. stuff. If so, they may have looked at SandForce and LSI and over time decided they just weren't a good fit. It was a completely new market for Avago and would require a lot of changes; Seagate on the other hand has a big consumer focus (with some enterprise stuff as well), so they could do more there. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons for the sale, but it certainly doesn't instill much confidence in SandForce for me. After the various reliability issues with earlier SF controllers/drives, if SF-3700 was headed the same way Avago may have just decided, "You know what: we don't want to be involved with the inevitable fallout." Seagate already has plenty of experience dealing with unhappy customers, so not a problem. :-) Reply
BMNify - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - link+1000 Reply
odoyle-rulez - Friday, June 19, 2015 - linkIf you look past the grandiose fairy tells that LSI was telling in 2012 and 2013, what sticks out is that LSI could never close a major deal with their PCIe-SSD products. Time after time, all the big companies (Google, FB, Microsoft, etc.) either went with in house designs for Flash storage or awarded Fusion IO the business. Prior to LSI getting bought out, the lack of success and execution by the ASD organization had caused that group to get merged back into a single storage group with the RAID (RSD) folks. Once Avago got a good look at the books and the product development, the decision pretty much made itself for them. Avago makes money, and that group was failing to pull their weight.
Seagate is the last stop for the LSI/Avago ASD group. I am sure that they have already started to purge a good deal of the employees who came over, particularly in management. Seagate will either push the Nytro products into actual relevancy in the marketplace or absorb the technology into future products and drop the product line altogether. Reply
jwcalla - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkLSI never really did much with SF. It just kind of withered on the vine it seems. Reply
Wall Street - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI am surprised that so may sites are surprised. LSI took on over $5 bn. of debt to acquire Avago. High growth businesses generally require a lot of investment relative to the amount of cash flow that they generate because so much of the money needs to be rolled into the next generation of product. Sandforce would clearly be a good candidate where LSI could sell it off for a high cash value and use the proceeds to pay down some of the debt. This seems like a logical move, LSI isn't really in a position to pour more money into Sandforce R&D who need it for their next gen controller. Seagate has the money in the short tern and will look to develop Sandforce's long-term potential to wedge themselves into the SSD market. Reply
isa - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkWell, if the SF3700's are really delayed, this acquisition isn't going to help in the short run: engineers and other employees understandably will be heavily distracted for many days as they await their true fate, new management, priorities, work location, benefits impact, etc. Doubtful many will trust or believe the inevitable initial message of "nothing really changes: keep working!"
And if really delayed prior to this acquisition, I hope the Anandtech crew can pick up insightful info at Computex for what's the cause(s) of the delay up to this point. I doubt any SSD maker will comment honestly and specifically on the record, so I'd expect specific insights to be understandably unattributed. Reply
MS - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkIt will be interesting to see how the IP plays out. I know that I have been issued at least 2 patents on technology used by Sandforce, even though those patents are owned by Toshiba now (courtesy of the OCZ acquisition). Those go back to the crazy times when Ryan and I were just looking into the crystal ball and everybody called us Loonies and now some .... have a chance to harvest the fruit of our (no, it is not loins).. :P Reply
bji - Monday, June 02, 2014 - linkThe fruit of your what? Patent trolling? Or did you actually attempt to create product from these patents you acquired? Reply


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The Llama FiascoMystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
Like all detectives in Washington, Agent Llearson liked to get away once in a while. One day, while looking at the news, he noticed that there was a carnival in town, complete with an animal show. Llearson had always had a fondness for animals, so it was all the more reason to take off the day and head on down, which is just what he did.
After purchasing a ticket, Llearson stepped through the gate and into the carnival itself. All around him there were games and people, and as he walked down the main path, his ever-observant detective ears caught little snippets of conversations of the people walking by.
"...didn't I tell you not to eat that stick?"
"... of course it's a bay, what could go wrong?"
"C'mon Johnny, take the rag and get that mess cleaned up..."
"... are you sure this is California, honey?..."
"... and then he got 3 dollars worth of gum!"
Deciding that there was nothing important going on, Llearson headed toward the animal convention to watch a couple of shows. He was just about to take a seat when, all of the sudden, he heard angry yells, and a few seconds later a man came running into the field with a llama, followed closely by a shouting man.
"Come back you thief! That is my llama! I had it tied right next to my car and you had the nerve to go and steal it boy! Oh, if only there were police here..."
The other man attempted to run out of the other side of the field, but Llearson stepped in front of him and asked, "Just what is going on here?"
"That man stole my prize bay llama, he did!" The angry person yelled, "Quick call the police or something!"
Agent Llearson sighed. So much for the day off. "I'm all the help you're going to need, sir. Llearson's the name. Detective Llearson. With 2 l's.
"Llearson?" The man with the llama asked. "Well, my name is... Tony. And I did not steal that man's llama!"
"Oh yes you did!" the other man howled. "You are a no-good llama thief, that's what you are, and if you do not give me back my llama now, I will take it back by force!"
"Detective, I did not steal this llama! My family owns a black calico llama farm down in Oregon, and I decided to bring my favorite and enroll him in the contests. That's the honest truth!"
The angry man leapt forward and grabbed at the llama's tail, but all he got for his efforts were a few limp black hairs, which he promptly threw on the ground in disgust. "You let my llama go now, or I will phone a SWAT team down here in 3 seconds!"
"No way!" Tony yelled back, "This is my llama, and there's no way you're going to get it!"
Both men advanced on each other, but Agent Llearson stepped between them and said, "Now, now, gentlemen. I know which one of you fellows is lying, and if a confession is not made, I will be forced to make an arrest for attempted burglary."
Who stole the llama? And how did Agent Llearson know who did it?
HintJust what did the angry man get for his efforts? Take a closer look and think about it.
AnswerIt was the rather angry man who was lying. He said that the llama was his "prize bay llama." However, if you did a little research, you would know that bay llamas are red, with black hair on their heads and legs. And yet, when the man grabbed at the tail of the llama, he got a few black hairs. Also, if you look back in the story, you will see that someone in the carnival was talking about a "bay." This was no doubt the angry man and his partner trying to determine the type of the llama they were going to steal. Too bad they guessed wrong. Tony is the real owner. He knew the llama was a black calico all along, even if he couldn't really remember his name very well.
As it turned out, the angry man did confess. "Well," he said to Agent Llearson, "you foiled my llama-getting plans once again. But next time, you will not be so lucky!"
"Hey!" said Llearson. "You're that guy who tried to steal from the frantic farmer that one time!"
"Well spotted," the man said, "but I must be off now!" And with that, he ran around the corner of a tent and disappeared.
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Mekhe (Thies), November 13, 2009 (Agence de Presse Sénégalaise) - The rural community of Méouane (Tivaouane), Senegal has a new solar bakery that reaches 500°C and supplies bread to a village of about 70 houses.
The launching ceremony was organized by the GIE Sope Khadim village women, who simultaneously received 140 ovens for cooking at home. Present at the event, the office manager of solar cookers to the Ministry of Scientific Research, Abdoulaye Toure, explained his presence by the government's willingness to assist women in starting their solar cookers.
This project is funded by the GEF Small Grants Programme (GEF), with technical collaboration of the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP). The mobile solar bakery reaches 500°C and can produce 70 loaves in the morning and 100 in the evening," said Abdoulaye Toure. Since 1982, he added, this project has operated. "With American cooperation, the project was updated and we've created a solar bakery," said the designer. He added: "It can be moved around because we have found to Mekhe, Pékess, Thilmakha holding weekly markets in their localities. The oven can serve these people too.'"
According Abdoulaye Toure, he has been combined in this solar oven and the gas will be used alternately. Thus, he said, the bakery can operate continuously. "This is the fourth project funded by the GEF in the area. Ndoukoura is a community where the solar oven is a tool specially crafted for cooking," said Toure, also designed the project. The furnaces cook but more important is that the tool preserves the environment. "The search for firewood is a headache for the village," lamented the scientist.
The solar cooker is a box that fit the sunlight which converts into heat and placed under greenhouse (CO2), one can raise the temperature to 180 degrees, which is enough to cook any dish. The designer noted, however, some problems related to the adoption by the Senegalese this oven in the 1990s, noting that Burkina Faso is the country that has the largest number of solar cookers in the world. But, "strength to continue, we returned to again offer this tool to help in household domestic work", said in charge of cookers at the Ministry of Scientific Research. Regarding environmental impact, he noted that it contributes effectively to the preservation of natural resources. "Just to accompany this technology from a small reforestation program to revive the ecosystem," said Abdoulaye Toure.
The oven has he said, "is the first revival of ecosystems is the preservation of vegetation cover." As an example, he explained that women spend 10 000 CFA francs or more per month to buy firewood. "The oven can not solve everything but it certainly can solve problems in energy, almost 70%", provided the designer. According Abdoulaye Toure, can solve a capacity for a family of 12. "Today a double oven was made that a family of 15 members can take home."
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Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center is "delinquent" in filing past tax forms and could face late fees and even cease and desist letters if it doesn't come into compliance, according to the state Attorney General's Office.
Christus is more than four months late in filing a Form 990, the tax form that nonprofits file with the Internal Revenue Service. Alanna Goodman, Charities Unit Investigator for the AG's Office, says the AG's Office also hasn't received any notice from the IRS that Christus applied for an extension.
Christus spokesman Arturo Delgado says Christus received an extension from the IRS and doesn't know why the AG's Office isn't aware of it. IRS spokesman William Brunson tells SFR that it can't disclose information about a 990 other than to provide a copy if it's been filed.
Lee Hipps, president of the National Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Philadelphia, says nonprofits in general sometimes fall behind in their accounting because they don't have staff dedicated to that function, but that's not usually the case for nonprofit hospitals.
"Hospitals are a little bit different than regular nonprofits because hospitals in essence function like businesses," Hipps says. "They're usually more on top of getting those things done because they have the staff to get them done."
As SFR previously reported, Christus has been audited by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for part of the same time period covered by the missing 990. The draft audit released March 29 covers fiscal year 2009 (Oct. 1, 2008-Sept. 30, 2009), during which time Christus allegedly used ineligible county match money to draw down $23.7 million in federal Medicaid money.
That audit raises other questions when compared to a Santa Fe County indigent care claims report, which states that Christus' indigent care claims for FY09 totaled $4.5 million—raising the question of what Christus did with the remaining $19.2 million intended for indigent care.
Santa Fe County commissioners have repeatedly asked Christus for greater accountability of its public funding. At a February 2010 Board of County Commissioners meeting, the BCC tried to impose transparency requirements as a condition of the hospital receiving county money. The BCC wanted to know if Medicaid money is leaving the state and going to Christus Health's—which owns the hospital—Texas headquarters, and asked the hospital to allow a BCC member to sit on its board and be privy to financial discussions.
"It could really improve relations between the hospital and the county if we felt like we were all working together on doing what was best for the community," Commissioner Kathy Holian says of the board member idea. But I'm pretty sure that they don't really want us to look at their finances very carefully, and that's why they are just not interested in that at all."
Holian and Commissioner Liz Stefanics tell SFR that Christus also has not provided any information as to what public money is being spent on, arguing that, as a nonprofit, it isn't required to. Delgado says it didn't honor the request to put a BCC member on the hospital board because hospital board members "cannot represent any external interests." However, Delgado assures SFR that all Medicaid money "remains in our community" and none leaves the state.
According to Christus' 2008 Form 990, the hospital's profits for that year totaled $18.6 million. That year, CEO Alex Valdez made $513,352 in base pay and other compensation besides benefits. Ernie Sadau, who is listed as the hospital's director but was the Texas-based senior vice president and chief operating officer of CH at the time, according to the CH website, made $967,423.
"If they're making those kind of salaries, they probably are not anxious for the community to know that," Holian says. "As far as I know, they haven't cut their budget at all, even in these hard economic times."


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Seven Letter WordLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
There is a common English word that is seven letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains a common English word - from seven letters right on down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing a letter at a time?
AnswerThe original word is "Snowing". It decomposes to:
sowing, swing, sing, sin, in, and I.
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As I wrote on Twitter last night, there's almost nothing to take away from Amar'e Stoudemire's debut in terms of what the Knicks can expect from him going forward. This was his first game in nine months. How good he'll be, and how quickly, is a complete unknown, even to him. His skills varied significantly even within his first game. Knowing what they'll be, with regularity, going forward is simply impossible after one game, and no recovery days.
But I think we learned a few worthwhile things, first about how he'll fit into the roster if he can recover his skills, and why concerns about his effect on the team don't bear close scrutiny.
As far as what he'll bring to the Knicks, the way Portland's defense treated him allowed a first-hand look. They paid him significant attention, with the concentration providing the Knicks with the kind of perimeter looks they've only been getting with Carmelo Anthony on the floor this season. The space also allowed for someone like Chris Copeland to operate on the opposite side from Stoudemire, and it is easy to envision similar lobs to Tyson Chandler or even Marcus Camby in the space created by Stoudemire's presence. And, to Stoudemire's benefit, vice versa.
What we also learned is that putting Stoudemire and Anthony on the floor, minus a Chandler or Camby, is a horrific defensive idea. It is theoretically possible that group could outscore an opponent; the defensive limitations of those two in the front court, alone, might not make it actually possible. It is worth waiting to see what Stoudemire can be, offensively, since he was dominant as recently as last March, and for most of his career prior to that. But he's never been a good defensive player, lacking more in skill than in effort on that end.
Also, if there were any worries that the mere presence of Stoudemire would ruin Anthony offensively, well, he scored 45 points while Stoudemire played just under 17 minutes. Now, it may be that more Stoudemire time will come at the expense of having Anthony on the court for 41 minutes plus, as he was Tuesday night. But no one should view this as a bad thing: some extra rest for Anthony, and letting someone else carry part of the offensive load, will only add life to Anthony's legs come May, while giving the Knicks an offensive alternative, should Anthony miss time, to simply hoping their threes go in.
And that dynamic is also at the heart of why worries that adding Stoudemire can ruin the Knicks don't make any sense. Or, at least, I can't follow the logic. Come with me and see why.
Scenario one: Stoudemire plays really, really well off the bench. The Knicks, accordingly, start winning with regularity. Exactly where will the push come to change things up, and insert Stoudemire in the starting lineup? They're winning!
Scenario two: Stoudemire doesn't play so well, and the Knicks still win consistently. Exactly where will the push come to change things up, and insert Stoudemire in the starting lineup? He's not healthy/effective enough to be in there?
Scenario three: Stoudemire struggles, and so do the Knicks. Exactly what will the Knicks, at that point, have to lose by trying Anthony and Stoudemire together? But in this scenario, it isn't Stoudemire who is causing the team to struggle. He's a possible solution.
Really, though, this is a brand-new team. The starting five that helped the Knicks to their hugely successful start is no more. Raymond Felton is out; Jason Kidd is playing a new position; Ronnie Brewer is a shell of the player who started so strong. Even Tyson Chandler isn't 100 percent at the moment, thanks to an ankle injury.
The problems the current Knicks face predate Amar'e Stoudemire's return. And having a player of his caliber return should help the Knicks to solve those problems, if in a different way than they did back in November.


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A SCHOOL has applied to drop its intake ahead of the opening of a proposed free school.
Cedars Primary School was expected to become Blackburn's largest primary school after the merger of Hawthorn Junior School and Cedar's Infant School.
But the school has applied to drop its intake from 90 to 75 amid claims the intake of other Blackburn schools are also affected by the provision of the 600-place Olive Islamic School.
Last autumn, Sacred Heart RC Primary School claimed it was likely to close due to the the Olive, which also saw a number of staff members leave.
The change will mean the 540-place Cedars Primary will shrink to 450 in six years and 24 pupil places were unfilled this year, causing a loss of £60,000 to their anticipated budget.
Simon Jones, Chair of Governors at Cedars Primary and Lancashire's NUT representative said other local schools were poised to reduce their intake.
Cedars headteacher Steve Bladon said: "New schools are changing the local demand for places. If I plan for 90 children, the school is staffed to accomodate that number and we spend accordingly.
"With 24 less children than anticipated this year, it means our budget is out by £60,000. It makes more sense to concentrate on smaller class sizes. The school will stay the same size, except for reception this year, but over time it will become smaller. We will focus on reducing class sizes from 30 to 25."
However his chair of governors, Simon Jones, said schools were telling the union that numbers across the area were due to fall. He said: "Schools I speak to are already preparing long term for reduced numbers because of applications like the Olive.
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Pagan But Not Forgotten
Signed RHP Jason Marquis to a one-year deal worth $3 million. [12/3]
The original Marquis-Padres relationship formed out of desperation. Marquis needed a job after wearing out his welcome in Minnesota, and the Padres needed a healthy starting pitcher. The results were better than anticipated, so much so that the Padres are willing to pay Marquis real money in order to return. One development worth eyeing is Marquis' increased strikeout rate. He threw 61 percent sinkers with the Twins, but shaved it to 53 percent with the Padres in favor of more sliders and changeups. If the strikeouts stick, Marquis might be more than a back-of-the-rotation stabilizer.
Signed OF-S Angel Pagan to a four-year deal worth $40 million. [12/3]
Another piece of San Francisco's championship squad will stick around. Pagan's new pact comes on the heels of B.J. Upton's five-year deal with the Braves, worth more than $75 million. Upton is younger, and blessed with all youth's perks, but you can make the argument that the two have performed equally well over the past three seasons. Pagan owns a slight edge in True Average and a larger lead in defense, if FRAA's evaluations of the two are to be trusted. Factor in baserunning and Pagan's lead widens. If it wasn't obvious, Pagan's greatest strength has been his ability to do many things well and few things poorly.
Of course, past results are not always indicative of future performance. The most worrisome aspects about Pagan are his age (he turns 32 in July) and the circumstances that led to his exit in New York, which remain unclear and puzzling. Pagan must have stopped doing what irked the Mets once he joined the Giants, or else the Giants don't consider the actions damming. Whatever the case, San Francisco feels good enough about Pagan's body and his personality to bet on him for four years.
An interesting subplot to keep an eye out for is what position Pagan is playing at the end of the contract. The Giants will start Gary Brown either in Double- or Triple-A, and it's not a stretch to think he could knock on the door by the end of the campaign. From there, Pagan will presumably slide to a corner. For the time being, the Giants could have an outfield of Pagan, Hunter Pence, and Gregor Blanco, though don't be surprised if they add another outfielder before spring arrives.
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Angel Pagan: nice player, best name in baseball.
Dec 03, 2012 19:34 PM
Maybe "being good at baseball" is what Pagan did to irk the Mets?
Dec 04, 2012 04:46 AM
I like that Pagan's acts with the Mets were "damming." What did his action dam? Poor play in the center field position? Certainly, once he left, that poor play was no longer dammed, and Antres Torres' suckitude came pouring through.
Dec 04, 2012 15:41 PM
Does this look like Aaron Rowand's deal at all? Torres can now be had for near nothing. Schierholtz too. Is Pagan $39 million more valuable than those two?
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Shares in HPI, which oversees a portfolio of 41 pubs and seven detached bottle shops, floated at $2.10 each and have traded recently around $1.95.
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CONSIDERING the panel was composed of old political warriors, they were pretty well-behaved.
The Business Council of Manitoba convened a conference Thursday to celebrate its 15th anniversary. Included in the sessions on the past 15 years, and the future of the province, was a unique gathering of first ministers.
In the morning, former Prime Minister Paul Martin and former Quebec Premier Jean Charest offered their take on Manitoba's place in the global economy. In the afternoon, however, was an unprecedented gathering of four former Manitoba premiers: Ed Schreyer, Howard Pawley, Gary Filmon and (via a video link from Washington) Gary Doer, now Canada's ambassador to the United States.
For those of us who stalk the activities of politicians, this is pretty meaty stuff. Former premiers, especially those from opposing political parties, rarely gather to discuss current affairs. This was a particularly interesting event because the premiers are so incredibly different from one another.
On this panel, you got the full spectrum of retail political styles: Schreyer's gruff bluster; Pawley's methodical, almost mournful tone; Filmon's simple elegance and efficiency; and Doer's folksy charm. There was, for the most part, a quiet respect among the four premiers.
Filmon and Pawley were definitely the feistiest. The two premiers scrapped over whether the NDP government Pawley led up until 1988 left power with a deficit or a surplus. It's a very sore point with the NDP, who claim a surplus. It never got close to blows, but there were flashes of anger on both sides.
The panel was, like the conference itself, an exercise in deference. The panels were interesting, but not edgy. Difficult problems were confronted, but without much in the way of courageous solutions. And the big-name visitors imported for the conference — such as Charest and Martin — were flattering to a fault in their analysis of Manitoba.
There were times during this conference when the panelists sounded a lot like a visiting rock star who starts off every concert, no matter where he is, by assuring the audience they are the greatest fans in the world. As Schreyer said in a thinly veiled criticism, the conference was not "a waste of time, per se, but it was time-wasting."
That does not mean there were not important moments. Even with the deferential tone, this was a day when the audience could reflect on Manitoba's place in the country, the continent and the world without partisan or special interest howling.
Listening to the narrative of the conference, here is a precis of what we know about Manitoba: it is a unique place in Canada, more economically viable than other smaller provinces but lacking the ambition and opportunity of larger provinces. We have our challenges — creating opportunities and education outcomes for aboriginals, lowering the provincial debt, balancing priorities such as health care and infrastructure — but over the past 15 years (the period studied by the Business Council for this event) we've performed admirably in most areas.
Perhaps the most important observation was made by Kevin Lynch, a former federal clerk of the Privy Council who is a master of big data. Lynch pointed out the world's economies are so interconnected now that "when a Cypriot bank has a bad morning, the Toronto Stock Exchange drops 150 points." In that kind of world, Lynch and others noted, Manitoba is little more than a very small cog in a national wheel that is a very minor player in the global economy.
The implication is that much of what happens here is really the result of events that take place elsewhere. It's comforting to know that we're doing a pretty good job of not creating our own problems, and disturbing at how little control we have over our own future. That does not mean that any government of any stripe should get a free ride. Only that, to borrow from a famous inspirational saying, we should change the things we can and accept with patience those that we cannot.
This is an interesting time to live in Manitoba. The provincial government is struggling to eliminate its deficit and taking chances, most notably with its increase in provincial sales tax to fund infrastructure. The economy is growing slowly, but is still ahead of the national average. There are business successes, and some social failures. We're gaining immigrants, but still losing some native born kids.
That mix of good, bad and ugly is a source of great pride for some, and concern for others. Fortunately, it's the debate between those two camps that makes this such an interesting time.


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Android 3.2 on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer: Testedby Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/3/2011 2:43 AM EST
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Ralos - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - link... when will they fix the WiFi and YouTube HD issues?
I have two WiFis in my house. One (802.11n) is seen as half power two floors away (no concrete, no metal), and the other one (802.11g) is "out of reach" even when standing 10 feet from it. As for YouTube HD, it may takes 30 minutes to watch a 5 minutes video as it spends most of the time buffering.
But the most annoying one, and I can't understand why it hasn't been addressed yet is when will they add an option to disable the "clicking" on the trackpad. Ever try to write anything (email or whatever) on the keyboard? If you don't disable the trackpad altogether, then as soon as the palm of your hand will touch the pad, the cursor will be moved to somewhere else, and so will the rest of your typing.
I love the form factor, display and all, but this is just not "there" yet. Reply
quiksilvr - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkOn the top left, there is a dedicated key for disabling the trackpad. It should be the fourth one from the top left. Reply
Ralos - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkI do not wish to disable the trackpad altogether, just the "clicking" as is possible on any laptops. I'd like to be able to move the "mouse", but that not the slightest touch on the trackpad be registered as a click. Right now, I'm typing this on a desktop and the mouse points somewhere on the second line of this text. If I was on the Transformer and my palm (base of thumb) would just brush the trackpad, the the cursor would be moved there, and this text would be typed in the middle of this message... Reply
darkhawk1980 - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkThe Youtube HD issues are your own. If your tablet is spending too much time 'buffering' a video, I'd suggest a better internet connection. Youtube HD works fine for me over my crappy DSL.
The trackpad is an issue they need to correct though. There should be an option that disables the trackpad during typing. That would pretty much fix every issue that is related to the trackpad on the dock. Reply
nickfrost - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkActually the Youtube HD issues are from the update to 3.2. I'm in the same situation. Right after the update my TF shows half the signal strength and I can't download anything more than a couple of MB at a time. Streaming video is impossible.
@Ralos check http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transf... and http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f... for solutions to the WiFi problem. I had to set my TF with static IP instead of DHCP to alleviate (not eliminate) the problems. It seems that the TF is renewing its DHCP lease evry couple of minutes thus dropping the connection.
Anand, you didn't experience this issue? Reply
Ralos - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkI totally confirm that the YouTube HD issues that I have were there in 3.1 and are not new to 3.2. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkAre you talking about the YouTube app? I've confirmed that seems to work fine post update even with HD content. Even using the YouTube desktop site I can stream video but Flash doesn't run well enough on these tablets to really provide a good experience (dropped frames but no rebuffering).
Signal strength hasn't been an issue post update either, at least in my office but I haven't done any edge case testing.
Take care,
Anand Reply
nickfrost - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkYes. Using the Youtube App to watch an HD video results in frequent buffering (not stuttering). This happened for me right after the update to 3.2. It seems that the TF is trying to renew the DHCP lease every couple of minutes, therefore the connection drops. I'm not even able to download 8MB of PDF file!
I set the connection to use a static IP and now it is better.
But still I experience a major problem with signal strength. My router is in my home office upstairs; my family room is directly below it. With 3.1 I used to get 4 bars, with 3.2 I get 2. Nothing else is changed except my TF firmware.
Take a look at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id... Reply
Ralos - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkI can stream music alright. I have a 30Mbits/s connection (confirmed through Speedtest.Net on a desktop), and I access it through a 802.11n triple channel SMC wireless router. It is only showed as being connected to half the power (2 bars out of 4) on the Transformer. The other WiFi (a 802.11g one) is 10 feet away from the tablet, and it can't even connect to it. If it's been a long time, it will be marked as full strength, but when I try to connect to it, it fails, then marks it as out of reach.
So far, it's only on YouTube *HD* that I experience this problem. *Normal* videos on YouTube (240 or 320p) seem ok.
Oh, and half the time I try to reach the Android Market, that fails too. Reply
darkhawk1980 - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkAs I have said, it is just you. I can play them just fine on my (B50) Asus Transformer without ANY issues.
Go to the XDA Dev forums. There are threads on how to fix your issue, both with Wifi as well as the Youtube HD problem. Many people like to assume it's a problem on the whole, it's not. It's only with specific people. Clear your cache and I'd be willing to bet the issue goes away after a restart.
As I said, I have no issue with 720P HD videos on my Transformer. Reply
oliwek - Saturday, August 06, 2011 - linkyou should try to install and use Wifi analyzer : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.farproc.... Reply
darkhawk1980 - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkAnand, why didn't you bring to light the other 'new' issues that the 3.2 update has brought with it? The wifi connect/disconnect issue (randomly losing your connection) which can only be fixed at the moment by setting a static IP for your tablet.
Also, what about the 'default application' issue? Say you have multiple media players installed (Diceplayer, Rockplayer, Moboplayer, and stock player). Try to open up a video through the file browser. You will notice the screen dim, but no 'default application' choice window pop up, correct? Now rotate your tablet 90 degrees, and then back 90 degrees, and suddenly it's back. Why? Better yet, after you set a default application, reboot your tablet and repeat the above. You'll see it hasn't saved the default application!
I'm also concerned that you haven't really reported on video playback at this point. I really would think that this should become a standard test for tablets. More importantly, try playing back a 720P high profile video with any video player (besides Diceplayer). You will notice that you get no audio and very choppy video. Now download Diceplayer (there's a trial version available) and play the same video. You get good video (as long as you play from the internal memory, or a high speed SDCard, my class 6 card couldn't do it) and audio (even if it's encoded in AC3 or Dolby Digital). I find it slightly disturbing that even the stock video player can't do this, yet a developer's player can.
Lastly, and while this is rather unique to the Asus Transformer, you might want to keep in mind that at this point, I think it's the only tablet that you can install a full version of Ubuntu onto the tablet and essentially get a notebook out of it, even more so if you have the dock. This is a rather unique feature (while unsupported by Asus though). I think it's something that should atleast be mentioned. Reply
B3an - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkCompletely agree about video, it should be a standard test on all tablet reviews and maybe even OS updates like this, atleast with big updates. And not just for Android but any tablet or OS.
I'd also like to see how tablets handle all kinds of video formats, plus codec performance, and include things they cannot play at all. Maybe even image quality tests if possible, or atleast a mention of it thats done with your own eyes if theres nothing out there yet to test video image quality on the OS.
And... it would also be great to see image quality tests with the the GPU regarding 3D rendering. Something like you often get with AMD or Nvidia card reviews. Again If possible.
When Android Ice Cream comes out then iOS 5 should also be out, and it would be really great to see a highly detailed article comparing them both and all the things mentioned above. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkWe talked about video playback in the initial Honeycomb reviews. Tegra 2 doesn't officially support High Profile H.264 which is why there are issues with the stock video player.
I actually hadn't run into the default app issue because I haven't played with some of the other media players, I'll start doing that now though :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
darkhawk1980 - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkGreat!
I really suggest looking at Diceplayer though. I'm not sure how the dev does it, but somehow they manage to get 720P high profile to work on the tablet. This is the only media player I've found that can pull this off so far. Reply
jaysns - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkDoes it make the interface seem any quicker at first glance or apps load a little quicker? I know this isn't a full blown review but any initial responses on this would be appreciated if you could. Thank you. :) Reply
darkhawk1980 - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkHonestly, I haven't noticed a huge difference. It's about the same as it was in the stock 3.1. There are tweaks to improve the performance, but from a purely stock perspective, nothing really has changed, sadly. I'd like to see some kind of general improvement in the UI and it's feel. That's about the only thing that I can say I feel IOS in general has gotten right. Their UI does not feel slow at all. Reply
IKeelU - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkThere's only 1 thing that really jumps out at me in those graphs: the iPad2 is fast as hell. Android is nice, but for gpu prowess, there's really no competition it seems. Reply
darkhawk1980 - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkGo back and read the Ipad2 previews. Another thing to bear in mind, Ipad 2 runs at 1024 x 768 compared to 1280x800. Less pixels means less processing which means higher FPS (which stupidly, is what those graphs show....how about comparing apples to apples instead of apples to oranges?).
Also bear in mind, the Ipad 2 is using the SGX543MP2. When the TI OMAP 4 4470 hits, it will seem slow in all respects. Granted Tegra 2 can't compete as well, but for Tegra 2 being NVidia's first real SOC, it's not surprising. Reply
Miggleness - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkIf you do the math though, the Transformer has 24.4% more pixels than the ipad2. Add that many FPS to the transformer, the Ipad2 still beats it by a good margin. Of course, the amount of pixels being processed and gain in fps aren't directly proportional. Hope to see new hardware soon!
Good to read that android updates are happening more frequently across different manufacturers as compared to last year. Reply
etobare - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkexcuse me but are you saying that the omap 4470 will make the A5 seem slow? or the other way around?
i was thinking about that, i got a droid 3 knowing that my gpu is a sgx540, and that will be slower that a possible a5 equipped iphone, but on a phone it's not a big deal (for me), but for tablets, i really want the best SoC possible and OMAP4 seems a little weak GPU-wise, remember that OMAP3 went its entire life using SGX530 while iphones and galaxys went to 535 and 540 Reply
etobare - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkduh, i just read about 4470 having a sgx544, good for them, disregard my previous comment Reply
snoozemode - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkAnand, thanks for great reviews, It would be very interesting with a recurring shootout and comparison of the latest and greatest SoCs from the big 5, Qualcomm, TI, Nvidia, Samsung and Apple, in other words not focusing on any specific device and maybe use performance numbers from several devices that uses the same SoC and make an average out of it.
In essence I would like to see a bit of the old anandtech. Reply
JasonInofuentes - Thursday, August 04, 2011 - linkSo, this would be great, and with the variety of SoCs about to premier on tablets this Fall we might be able to do this sort of comparison. Unfortunately there will always be some variations within the standard including something as simple as the OS build. If you pay attention to benchmarks, as Android 2.x iterated their browser benchmark values improved tremendously, such that my OG Droid at 1GHz running CM7 with Gingerbread competes on Browsermark with far more powerful hardware running Froyo.
So, it's almost impossible to account for all of the variables and compare these SoC's on equal footing. That doesn't mean we won't try though! :) Reply
vision33r - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkSome of the features added are nifty but quite useless. The biggest problem are the freezes, the battery drain still there. How can TF + dock last less than 7 hours during sleep. I can leave the iPad 2 sleep for 3-4 days and still have 40% battery.
WIFI is very problematic now, it doesn't want to work 1/2 the time and can't reconnect.
The graphics seems snappier but most of the games I play aren't optimized for Tegra 2 so it's not good enough. Reply
darkhawk1980 - Thursday, August 04, 2011 - linkCall Asus technical support. There is a known issue with the dock's that causes the dock's battery to drain even while the unit is off, specifically the dock isn't turning off the power to the keyboard and other devices when the transformer is put into sleep mode. But keep in mind, this is a DOCK problem, not a tablet problem. You should only need to return your dock to have the problem fixed. Check the xda developer forums for more information regarding the issue. Asus technical support is active in the forums and has provided support for those people there (which is more than I can say about a few other companies when it comes to support).
Your wifi issue can be resolved by setting a static IP instead of allowing a dynamic IP to be set. You have to set it on the tablet though, not setup a static IP on your router for it. There's an issue with the transformer (and currently ALL honeycomb 3.2 devices) trying to renew the ip lease every few minutes. Reply
sidprak - Thursday, August 04, 2011 - linkI believe the TegraZone app and new boot screen were added in version 3.1. I had those on my tablet before I updated to 3.2 Reply
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rupaniii - Thursday, August 04, 2011 - linkUhm, just look at it... I know this is about Pinch To Zoom, but, uhm, that's a new meaning to the thing, LOL. Reply
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In the late 1960s, Kophamer moved his operation from the San Fernando Valley to Wheeler Ridge, Calif., where he packed sweet corn for himself and for Kern County Land Co. Kern County became the focus of his operations.
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Topic: Lost my 24 year old son 4/22/07
Having just passed the 2 month mark yesterday of Shaun's death, today I find myself looking up information and trying to cope with the feeling of being absolutely blindsided by cc. I suppose that could be interpreted as healing just a bit, to the point where I can at least read about it and talk about it.
Yes, Shaun was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when he was 14, and was later found to have developed schlerosing cholangitis, but we understood that the worse case scenario would involve a liver transplant. Shaun was an identical twin, so we were confident all would be well. We also were told that he stood a greater chance than the average UC patient of someday developing cancer. Last year he started getting regular colonoscopies & no concerns were noted. Then, in March, after about three weeks of back pain & generally not feeling well, he went to the doctor, was immediately sent for an ultrasound, and was admitted to the hospital. Our athletic, handsome son, a championship volleyball player & rugby coach, had stage four cc. We only had six weeks with him before he passed away.
It's a blessing that I don't feel blame or regret. It was so dramatic and quick, I am left feeling that there is no question he was only meant to be here for 24 years. However, I am puzzled as to why no one in the medical field thought to order a general scan along with his colonoscopy. Is cc really that rare? I'd like to encourage any person afflicted with Schlerosing Cholongitis for more than a few years to seek getting a scan of some type. We were told Shaun would need to start thinking about it after he'd had the disease for more than 10 years. Well, this marks year # 10 and he's gone. I could tell his doctors were devastated. Perhaps this experience will save some other person, who because of their youth and vigor, doesn't fit the exact profile of someone likely to succumb to cc.
My heart goes out to other people facing this horrible disease in their loved ones. I came to this site because I have had so much support these last three months and want to reach out, if I can be of any help to anyone else.


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