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Novatel Wireless MiFi 4510L Review - The Best 4G LTE WiFi Hotspot?by Brian Klug on 7/14/2011 5:20 AM EST
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quiksilvr - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkWouldn't it make sense to pay for speed instead? I guess the LTE network needs to be more widespread in order for this to work, but it just seems like a sick joke. Oh here's 10 Mbp/s, enjoy it for an hour a month!
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Brian Klug - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkThat's actually *exactly* what AT&T's plans for LTE are. Part of their plan will involve QoS enforced speed tiers just like any other ISP. That was part of what was leaked a while back, you can see for yourself here: http://twitpic.com/5q42gx
Also speeds will be between 8-12 Mbps on AT&T's 700 / 1700 / 2100 MHz LTE deployment. Reply
zanon - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkOf course it makes sense, on every network. Bandwidth caps and QoS tiers are what all connections should be, it's what actually is limited. Datacaps exist because it makes it easier to both milk people for more money, and to limit disruption to outdated existing technologies. Given the control concentrated into so few hands however it's very hard to see anyway to get this situation fixed. Reply
mlosee222 - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkGood review, you are spot on about the lack of configuration options in the web front end. My device is never further than arm's length and it would be great to turn down the wifi power. I actually learned how to write an android app specifically so I could keep track of my data usage and view connection stats on my phone without being logged in the browser interface. Its functional but the GUI is about as pretty as a linux shell.
I don't have LTE in my area yet, although I got to use it a little bit in Vegas. In my experience the 45010L had trouble switching between 3G/4G and required a reboot to get the signal back. I did about five speed tests in Vegas; never broke 5mb and latency was never below 100ms.
LTE just went live in Salt Lake and my area *should* be getting it soon. The last couple weeks I've periodically seen phantom LTE signals with good stats (-60 dbm, 8 snr) but am so far unable to connect. I'm not sure if its a real signal or if the device is lying to me.
I actually use the 4510L exclusively for the data plan on my Nexus S. I don't mind carrying another device in my pocket since I get a data connection that actually works reliably. In my opinion, its a good idea to decouple the data connection from the phone. Tethering a PC is mandatory for my workload and I don't like the red tape carriers put in the way of using phones as a hotspot. That, and its nice to get LTE with a phone that has only an HSDPA antenna.
Overall I'm satisfied with the 4510L. I haven't really experienced LTE yet, although I'm tickled pink with the 3G connection alone. Then again, I'm just happy to get away from the stone-age, overloaded TMobile towers. Reply
jrs77 - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkhttp://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/productFamil...
The Huawei E5830 has all you want. It supports all bands, has a neat web-interface to configure it, has no sim-lock and supports USB-storage. Oh... and it's dirt-cheap for $80 and can connect up to 5 clients simulatanously. Reply
dreddly - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkcool. this sounds like what I need. Our LTE is missing in Canada Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkMaybe next we will check out one of these, I carry around a couple of Huawei modems for personal use that I've never really reviewed or anything. Their Mobile WiFi lineup seems to be gaining a lot of traction lately.
-Brian Reply
ggathagan - Friday, July 15, 2011 - linkBut it doesn't list as a 4G/LTE device Reply
yelped - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkSorry for being off-topic, but what's up with Anand's Evo 3D review? The self-evident answer is that he seems pretty busy lately.
Thanks. Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkHe's working on it, just busy ;)
-Brian Reply
jigglywiggly - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkWhat's the point of this if the max data thing you can get is 10gb? Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkI really think that Verizon is testing the waters to see what will stick when it comes to their pricing. At this point, $80 for 10 GB is... well, too much, really. At least for me personally.
-Brian Reply
testprof - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkBrian,
Perhaps you could do a follow-up comparison to the Sprint MiFi 4082. The Sprint furnished configuration appears to be much more extensive than what you show for the 4510L. The lack of a robust configuration for WiFi is a shortcoming, but is not a problem for me, as I do not attend many large gatherings... I use it principally for updating test systems in the field that have no corporate network connections for security reasons. The 4082 has a MicroSD slot for up to 32GB and supports file sharing, active on-board GPS, USB tethering, and has application widgets. I would prefer the Verison LTE network for its better coverage, but cannot complain about the single price unlimited 4G on Sprint. I am disappointed at the 5GB cap on 3G and the incredible level of overage costs if you exceed that. It is $0.05 per megabyte of data. That's $51.20 per gig!!! Reply
Luscious - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkHave you taken a look at Clearwire's Clear Spot 4G mobile hotspot? They charge only $45/month (or $50 with a business plan that includes a QoS contract) and let you use unlimited 4G (no caps).
My monthly usage falls around 25GB, so at 10GB Verizon's LTE service is in my case overpriced and insufficient. If carriers insist on caps they should raise them!!! 25GB should be the minimum for one month of laptop tethering.
I'm confused though why you want 5GHz in a hotspot when netbooks and notebooks still ship with 2.4Hz radios inside. I don't fancy a wifi dongle sticking out the side of my device, and if interference were an issue, plugging in via USB would solve that. Reply
wpellis - Thursday, September 01, 2011 - linkTo Luscious last comment, the point is that you have flexibility to seamlessly share that internet connection with multiple laptops, devices, etc. Reply
schmitt - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - linkiPads ship with 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Reply
schmitt - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - linkI was a Clearwire customer and used the iSpot. But, their 4G coverage in Vegas was bad. So, I gave the iSpot to a friend and cancelled the service. They will throttle your speeds.
This is from Clearwire's website:
Effective August 22, 2011
Unlimited Use Plans. If you subscribe to a service plan that does not impose limits on the amount of data you may download or upload during a month (or other applicable service period), you should be aware that such "unlimited" plans are nevertheless subject to the provisions of this AUP. What this means is that all of the provisions described in this AUP, including those that describe how Clearwire may perform reasonable network management such as reducing the data rate of bandwidth intensive users during periods of congestion, will apply to your use of the Service. The term "unlimited" means that we will not place a limit on how much data you upload or download during a month or other particular period. However, the term "unlimited" does not mean that we will not take steps to reduce your data rate during periods of congestion or take other actions described in this AUP when your usage is negatively impacting the Internet experience of other subscribers to our Service. Reply
gonna621 - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - linkI upgraded from my 3G to this 4G. The 3G worked great, this thing sucks ass. It does not work with 4G because there is not enough 4G cell sites in my area. It did not work at all when I first got it, because it was hunting for a 4G signal. Tech support had to force it to stay on 3G for it to work.
It turns itseld off several times and day and has to be constantly reset.
You can connect to it and it does not tell you that it is not connected to the internet.
I tried to take it back but they won't accept it.
DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT IT IS A RIP OFF AND VERIZON DOES NOT STAND BEHIND ITS PRODUCT Reply
ggathagan - Friday, July 15, 2011 - linkVerizon is certainly to blame if you're disappointed with the 4G coverage in your area.
The fact that there are not enough 4G "cell sites" in your area, however, has nothing to do with the 4510L. Reply
biffsbiz - Friday, August 12, 2011 - linkGonna621, You are correct, this device works poorly in CDMA, EvDo, & LTE areas. It drops connections continuously, it never shows a signal strength anywhere near what a MiFi 2200 shows, it cannot switch between CDMA, EvDo, & LTE, it is just a poorly functioning device. If you have a MiFi 2200 do not be fooled by it's ease of use and functionality into upgrading to the MiFi 4150L. Keep your 3G device until LTE software works with 1x, 3G & LTE properly. Biff Reply
jayjun - Friday, July 15, 2011 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com Reply
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motor162 - Friday, October 21, 2011 - linkI've had this MiFi for several months and am very disappointed in its performance. I had the MiFi2200 previously which performed very well. The 4510L disconnects frequently on me and is hard to re-connect most of the time.
I've had several techs try to fix the problem and have had the unit replaced twice with the same results. The last tech finally locked out the 4G function trying to make the unit more stable with no real success.
It seems to go into sleep mode at times and there doesn't seem to be any way to wake it without turning it off and starting it up again. What a disappointment. I wish I had my USB760 back, but I need a Wi-Fi hotspot to feed signal to my iPod Touch.
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hawkxp71 - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkHas anyone been able to use the 4510 with XBox live, without NAT issues? Reply


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By Eric V. So
As the Shinkansen sped through the countryside on its way to Tokyo, the bullet train's smooth ride and plush seats should have lulled me to sleep 30 minutes into the journey. However, I was in fact wide awake, my mind tortured by the same nagging questions since early morning. "What if I find it claustrophobic?" "What if I hate it and have to find accommodations elsewhere?"
So what was the cause of this stress and trepidation that made me feel uneasy instead of looking forward to a full day of sightseeing in Tokyo? Well, "it" was no other than the prospect of spending a night in one of Tokyo's capsule hotels.
Capsule hotels are a type of hotel where instead of getting a room, guests stay in small, coffin-like "capsules." They cater primarily to Japanese businessmen who toil long hours at their desks or engage in all-night drinking sessions with their co-workers, and then suddenly realize the last train to the 'burbs has left the building. Thus, all they need are a quick change of clothes, a small space to catch some sleep, and a locker to store their briefcase.
Small is the operative word here. The capsules measure roughly 2 meters in length, and 1 meter in both width and height. Moreover, these metallic coffins, er, capsules are stacked on top of each other, akin to filing cabinets. If you have any trouble visualizing this, next time you visit the laundromat, take a closer look at the rows of front-loading dryers. Now that this mental image has been burned into your brain, are you still daring enough to stay at a capsule hotel?
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Well, I initially wasn't deterred, for two different reasons. First, finding cheap accommodations in one of Tokyo's busiest and most expensive areas, Shinjuku, was almost impossible. The budget traveler inside me was desperate to control costs by any means. Priced at only 3,500 yen ($40) per night, no greater bargain can be had. Second, experiencing this unique, quintessentially Japanese type of lodging appealed to me, adventurous and culturally curious traveler that I fancied myself to be. (I had already stayed eight nights at various ryokans, with an aching back to prove it). And of course, bragging about my daring adventure was but a Facebook status update away.
My Web search led me to the Green Plaza Shinjuku capsule hotel located just a few minutes walk from Shinjuku station. The Green Plaza is situated on the edge of one of Tokyo's infamous red-light districts, Kabuki-cho, home to numerous entertainment clubs, massage parlors, and bars. Kabuki-cho's luster had faded in recent years, and nowadays its streets were lined with mainstream restaurants and retail stores that co-exist happily alongside the adult establishments. The ever-present touts accosting passers-by with their prurient offerings are unavoidable, although a firm "No, thanks" and a swift stride are sufficient to keep them at bay.
Love at First Sight
After check-in at reception and storing my daypack in the locker room, I went down to the third floor in search of my designated capsule. As I roamed the semi-darkened hallways and passed by rows upon rows of them, mostly unoccupied on this quiet Sunday night. From time to time I'd glance at the number printed on the plastic wristband that adorned my wrist, and then following the signs that led to its location.
Finally, capsule #3219 came into view. It was a "bottom", as I had requested at check-in. Excitedly, I turned on the light, and simply stood there for a couple of minutes and stared. And stared. So, this was my bed for the night, this rectangular box with a bare, cold metallic interior. I climbed in on all fours and lay down for a few minutes, taking note of the small overhead TV, the radio/alarm clock, and the printed instructions (in Japanese) for operating these devices. I rolled over to my left, then to the right, and realized the capsule was much more spacious than expected. No, it didn't feel claustrophobic at all, and whatever doubts had dissipated. I breathed a huge sigh of relief, and chuckled at my earlier anxiety.
Shedding Inhibitions
After a long travel day, I was looking forward to a nice shower and a dip in the Japanese-style hot bath. Problem was, although each floor in the capsule hotel had immaculate toilet facilities and a small lounge, a shower would have to be taken in the "big bathing room" on the sixth floor. In the buff, as Japanese custom dictates. Not quite relishing the thought of parading naked in public, I normally would have drawn the line there and said "No way!" But still feeling a little euphoric about my capsule, I simply shrugged and reminded myself, "When in Rome ..." as I climbed the stairs.
The "big bathing room" was simply that. At the center of the room was a huge hot bath, enough for 30 or so people to soak in while watching the local sporting event on the overhead flat-screen TV. I encountered about 15 Japanese men doing exactly that, while an equal number were seated on low stools washing themselves at the shower stalls along the perimeter of the room. Others had finished showering and were either shaving, brushing their teeth, or preparing to descend into the hot bath. (Here's a tip: Do it very very slowly). No one batted an eyelash at all the uncovered flesh jiggling past them. Thus emboldened, I discarded the hotel-issued pajama set in the changing area and made my way to a vacant shower stall.
Guidebooks state that walking around the common bath area with a small washcloth covering your private parts is considered good etiquette, and that once you've submerged your body into the hot bath, the washcloth can be folded and put on top of your head. None of the mostly middle-aged and older Japanese men appear to spend much time reading guidebooks. The sole patron heeding this piece of advice was the only other gaijin among the other customers—a tall, lean, long-haired Caucasian in his 30s. I observed his movements for a few minutes, and thought of striking up a conversation. Almost immediately I nixed the idea, and left him alone to enjoy this authentic cultural experience without intrusion, much the same way that I was.


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With a distinctive baritone and an ear for a great traditional country song, Randy Travis helped the genre out of the post-Urban Cowboy doldrums in the mid-1980s with a string of seven consecutive No. 1 hits at one point that included "Diggin' Up Bones," "Forever and Ever, Amen" and "Deeper Than the Holler." The No. 1s rolled on through 2003 with "Three Wooden Crosses," and he also scored with inspirational and gospel albums.
Last year, Travis, who plays the Majestic Theatre on Sunday, marked the 25th anniversary of his major-label debut with the album "Anniversary Celebration," with duets with stars of today such as Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown and legends Willie Nelson, Ray Price and George Jones.
Despite several recent run-ins with the law, including an arrest for DWI after being found naked on a remote road in North Texas in August, Travis continues to tour and perform before sell-out crowds across the country.
Kicking the show off with an acoustic set will be Rosehill, the duo of lifelong friends Blake Myers and Mitch McBain of Cypress, northwest of Houston. Blending country with a touch of rock that garnered four Top 15 singles on the Texas Music chart, Rosehill last month released its Radney Foster/Jay Clementi-produced sophomore album "Crooked Thoughts."
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Made my first matambre today following recipe in HTG. Made the recommended Chimichunga sauce which made for a nice spicy compliment. Prep and cooking were uneventful. Smelled great cooking. Cooked for 2 hours and let it sit for 10 minutes before cutting. When I started cutting, it started to fall apart. I was able to reassemble it into pieces that looked like they were supposed to and served it to people using a spatula. It sure ate great, I plan to make it again. See links below.
Before I make it again I'd like to see if we can figure out why they are falling apart. I read Grillslinger's recent post and those of several others where they said it fell apart. I'd love to hear from anyone who's had luck keeping the matambre in one piece. I followed the HTG recipe to the letter. Those who had it stay intact-how did you pull that off?
Also I can't seem to get the links to work for Thumbnails. I can get the full sized picture to show up here, but I wanted to be dial up user friendly. When I try to post either of the two codes for thumbnails here, I just get the 2 IMG codes showing up. I've also tried using the Image Shack furnished url's without the IMG codes. No glory. I'm using the code for the direct links below since I can't make the others work. Is there something else I must do? I hit the IMG button, then paste the hotlink for forums url and then hit them IMG button again. Also could someone let me know if the direct links worked ok for them.
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I've been getting a little bored lately on the grill, because most my stuff has been same ol' same ol'. Tonight my wife and I were trying to decide on dinner while walking through Food Lion. It was getting late, we were hungry and nothing looked appetizing. We were just about to call it quits and just get Chinese takeout when I saw a cheap small pork roast. Pork sliders popped in my head, so that's what we went with.
I can't remember the weight of this roast, but I was able to make 8 sliders with it, as well as have enough leftover ground pork to make 2 big burgers with at a later date.
I ground it up in my KA and seasoned the sliders with Sucklebuster's Hoochie Momma.
I threw in a handful of cherry chips to add a hint of smoke. Also roasted up some Jalapenos.
Whipped up a couple different variations, and they were served on King's Hawaiian Sweet Rolls... I loooove their sweet rolls. http://www.kingshawaiian.com/ Two of my sliders were topped with Jack Daniel's BBQ Sauce, Homemade Cole Slaw, and the Roasted Jalapenos. The other two were topped with Sweet Chilli Sauce, Chopped Onions and Pineapples.
Served up with some fresh veggies and Nathan's Beer Battered Onion Rings.
Nice change of pace. Can't wait to make bigger burgers out of the leftover ground pork that's now in my freezer. The pork was nice and juicy and had a ton of flavor.


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You're going to see the following story in tomorrow's paper, and there's a lesson here …
The hockey season came to an ubrupt end for Nyack/Tappan Zee on Friday when the Ice Hawks forfeited their upcoming Section 1 playoff game to Lakeland/Panas. No official reason was given, but several team members were part of a racy video that appeared on YouTube late Thursday.
Head coach Nick DeSantis would not comment and referred all questions to school administrators. Tappan Zee athletic director Liam Frawley did not return a message left for him at the school where he was supervising a basketball game.
"We were forfeited from playoffs for a borderline inappropriate video in the locker room of Harlem shake," Ice Hawks senior forward Corey Aronson tweeted on Friday to a friend.
A link to the video began making the rounds late Thursday, and the short clip becomes objectionable halfway through. Several team members are doing the Harlem Shake, an uptempo dance re-popularized by a recent song of the same name, and they are wearing very little clothing. Most are in their underwear or compression shorts. All of the Ice Hawks in the video masked their faces. One student athlete danced on a bench wearing only a strategically-placed sock.
The video has been taken off line.
Nyack Tappan Zee had an 11-7-1 record and went into the sectional tournament as the No. 10 seed. Lakeland/Panas will now meet Somers/North Salem in a Division 1 quarterfinal on Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. at Brewster Ice Arena.
Here's the lesson … kids need to be reminded every so often what that omnipresent www stands for. They have to realize these hormonal snippets they keep posting on the World Wide Web are out in the open where friends and neighbors, parents and teachers, bloggers and journalists can see them.
A forfeit in this case seems a little harsh, they weren't being destructive, but they weren't exactly representing those uniforms that were discarded before somebody turned up the music and screamed, 'Action!'


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BWW Interviews: Rod Roberts Talks About PETER PAN & Houston's Local Talent
As consumerism ruled the streets of Houston on Friday, November 23, 2012, the cast of PETER PAN was preparing for a six show weekend in San Jose, California. PETER PAN, with Cathy Rigby back in the titular role by popular demand, is known for being a fun-filled, family friendly extravaganza. The current tour is headed to Houston and will open at Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) on December 11, 2012. To get more information about the show, like the casting of local Houston youth in the production, I chatted with the Dance Captain, Rod Roberts.
Me: PETER PAN will cast 10 local children for its run in Houston. What was the impetus for that idea?
Rod Roberts: They have a great performing arts school for kids [The Humphreys School of Musical Theatre], and in cooperation with the school that we decided we could add some of the kids from the school because they've got a lot of talent there. They had auditions last week or two weeks ago. I wasn't actually able to be there, but they picked 10 kids I believe, 10 or 12, and we're going to add them in any time The Lost Boys are on stage. They're really talented kids too. I just worked at TUTS in March, doing ANNIE, and we used 17 little girls from the school. They were all very professional kids—some of the most professional kids I have ever worked with and very talented.
Me: In your opinion, what is the benefit of using local children in the show?
Rod: Actually, from a business perspective it obviously drums up more business because the kids invite their families, but it also gets more interest into the theatre I think. People who might not necessarily have come to see the show are going to come see their nieces, nephews, or whoever might be in the show, you know. It opens up a whole new door to them, I think.
Me: PETER PAN will be in Houston this holiday season. What makes it such a good holiday show?
Rod: I think—it doesn't necessarily have a Christmas theme in it—but the whole feeling of family and wanting to be with your family...[Pauses]...It's more or less just about the family, how strong the family unit is, and not taking that for granted. It really is about having a strong family and loving who you are with. And, if you want to look at it a different way, you can make a family out of anyone. Like, The Lost Boys aren't necessarily related, but they actually consider themselves to be a family unit, if that makes any sense.
Me: This is your second time through Houston with the show. Are there any changes that audiences who have seen the show can expect?
Rod: It is pretty much the same show, but we've incorporated, in the flying of the show, more of the elements from the DVD, which means the flying sequences are a little more spectacular, I think. We've kind of rechoreographed some of them, and our fly guy, Paul Rubin, is who choreographs those and flies Cathy [Rigby] as well, has redone a few of those things. And we've also added, as part of Neverland, silks. Silks [for aerial acrobatics] come down, and Tiger Lily starts off on that. Other than that, it's pretty much the same show. But actually the talent... I've done several incarnations of this show, and this is a very strong cast, as far as I'm concerned. Everyone is incredibly talented. Everyone brings something different to the show, and, I think, we've gotten really great reviews with this version as well. I think that audiences are going to be able to tell a difference, and I think they're going to be happy.
Me: What is your favorite aspect of the show?
Rod: I like a lot about the show. Basically, I'm not in the show every night. I'm the Dance Captain and Swing, which means I cover, I understudy, all the guys in the show. So, if someone is sick, injured, or something, I go on for them. When I go out there, I like the aspect that, as one of the guys in the show, you're always doing something different. In one scene you're a pirate. In the next scene you're an Indian. You're switching back and forth. You're not just an Indian or a pirate in the show, you're actually doing both. A lot of people are surprised by that; that we're able to do that. It makes it more exciting for the performer to be able to do different things, you know. We're always one or the other in scenes. So, I think that's the thing I like about it. You're not just one thing in the entire show.
Me: In the United States, Cathy Rigby has pretty much become a household name. What is it like getting to tour and work with her?
Rod: She is a great, great lady. She is one of the hardest working people I've ever worked with. I mean, she gets out on that stage and from the moment she flies in through the window, she is on. There is very little downtime that she has in the show, and when she does have her downtime she is changing or doing something that she has to do in the wings to get back out on stage. She raises the bar, actually. She really raises the level of energy in the performance because if you're out there and you're having a hard time, you just look at her and you're like, "Ok, well, she's out here doing this [Laughs], and she is her age, you know, which she is very proud of, and she has grandkids, ok, and this woman is doing interviews during the daytime and coming and doing shows at night, and she doesn't miss. She doesn't miss the show." She is a great, great lady. Both she and her husband, Tom McCoy, who is one of the producers of the show, try and treat everyone as if they are a part of their family.
Me: How did you get involved with this PETER PAN tour? Is there a story behind that?
Rod: I worked with the choreographer of the show. I am her assistant. I first started doing the show back in 2004, and they had already done a previous tour of it. I just called her and asked her, you know, when they were having auditions. I knew they were coming up again, so I flew myself out to Los Angeles, put myself up, and did the audition. I think it was like a week long process, which is pretty short considering some of the things you do in this business. So, yeah, it was probably about a week long process from auditioning to callbacks and Cathy [Rigby] in the room—Cathy is in on the audition process the whole time. She's there behind the table putting her input into it. That's not an incredibly exciting story, but that's pretty much what I did. So, now, when this version came around—we started again last year—they asked me if I wanted to come back and do it again. So, I came back and helped teach the show and put it back together, so it could go out on tour.
Me: As an artist, what inspires you?
Rod: I would say talent inspires me. I find when you're around that kind of energy and people who are talented, you can feed off of that. It makes you work harder. Like I said with Cathy [Rigby], as well, she knows this role inside and out. She knows it better than anyone, but she brings new things to it. Even though she's done it so long, she brings new things to it every day. She changes it up, does little things here and there. Does a line reading a little differently, and that makes you have to think. So you don't get stuck in a rut, you're thinking the whole time. And that kind of thing really inspires me—people who don't get stagnant.
Me: As someone who helps with auditions, especially in the past where you have helped pick out talent for the show, what advice do you offer to young artists who are looking to break into the business?
Rod: This is always a hard question to answer [Laughs] because it's different...[Pauses] I would say, learn...[Pauses] Study. First of all, study whatever it is you're going to do. Whether you're going to be a singer, a dancer, or a singer and a dancer, really study hard. Study. Take classes. Audition as much as you can because you learn a lot from auditioning. You can go to school and study how to be a dancer, an actor, or a singer, but once you get out in the real world there is always rejection. You learn from rejection. One day you might be extremely nervous in the audition room, and then when you leave you're like, "why was I so nervous?" And then you learn from that. You say, "ok, well next time we'll know this is what I have to do, and this is what I have to think about." Or, you know, "I don't necessarily want to look at them when I'm singing." You know, that kind of thing. You learn a lot from auditioning. So, I just say get out there and throw yourself into it.
Filled with magic, energy, and a lot of pizzazz, PETER PAN will be triumphantly soaring back into Houston this December. The production, hosted by TUTS and featuring local talent from their Humphreys School for Musical Theatre, will run in Sarofim Hall at The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from December 11 to December 23, 2012. For more information and tickets please visit http://www.tuts.com/ or call (713) 558 – 8887.
Photo courtesy of the PETER PAN Press Office.


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Congratulations Daniel.
Thanks guys!
This has been the best part of a long journey.
How the heck did I miss this?! Congratulations. And you could not have picked a more auspicious time. The day before my birthday;-)
Good looking couple.
Wow, I don't know how I missed this! Big Congrats, You Two!!!!!
Congratulations, SB. Ning is a lucky guy!
Thanks for the great comments! Br. Richard, I would have loved to have you officiate. If we can get Georgia on board, you might have a lucrative moment as couples make up for lost time!
For us, it's hard to explain what this meant. We've been together 16 years. With the new law, our state registered civil partnership would have automatically changed to marriage in 18 months. I think it's 18 months, but at some point, anyway. Being registered meant that in WA, at least, we were considered "sort of married".
Even so, for the first time in our lives, we wore bow ties. We put on suits for the first time since I went for job interviews 12 years ago. The last time I wore a suit, I had a full head of black hair! Neither of is ever expressive, and both of us were near tears.
This is the only photo where I don't look like I'm scowling. I wasnt' scowling, I was trying not to cry.
Thanks again.
How freaking awesome! I only wish I could of been there. Better yet, I wish I would have been the one marrying you two. What's the use of the "brother" title if I can't use it? :P
How wonderful!
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- Spiked drinks and sexual violence at Germany's Oktoberfest
Spiked drinks and sexual violence at Germany's Oktoberfest
By Adam Ibrahim
MUNICH: Oktoberfest in Germany is supposed to be a coming together celebration where people descend on German soil for good times and good drink. This year, however that is changing as reports of a dramatic rise in sexual violence and spiked drinks are coming forth.
Marta Frings told Bikyamasr.com that this year is transformed from a joyous affair for women into one of horror for many. As a server in Munich, she has seen first hand the number of assaults on women, and it is disgusting her in ways she can only attempt to describe.
"I have seen servers get groped by men by the hour. As we pass, the men, often drunk just grab our behinds and our chests as if we are playthings for them," she told Bikyamasr.com, her anger in obvious form. "There was always some grabbing and harassment, but this year it is out of control."
She retold the story of one of her colleagues who was grabbed in the crotch by two men and held down as they attempted to go farther.
"The woman slapped them and called for the police, who came and removed the men, but this is a crime and we need to have legal action in order to preserve this tradition," she said.
It's just as bad for women drinkers at the festival.
According to the Munich-based institute for the prevention of sexual abuse, the "Safe Wiesn for girls and women" initiative, setting up a help point for women at the Munich Oktoberfest, taking in women who have had too much to drink, are lost, or have been the victim of assault.
Christine Rudolf-Jilg from the institute told The Local that so far, 91 women had been treated at the centre – already a 40 percent increase on the total number of women that arrived in 2011.
"We think that five of these girls had their drinks spiked," she added.
For Fings and other women attending and working at the Oktoberfest, they are demanding better security in order to ensure the safety of women.
"If this continues, I think women will protest and call for boycotts next year. This is not the German way," she added.
(To read original article, visit this Bikyamasr link)


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Later this month, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board could set in motion the most radical redesign of public schooling in Baton Rouge since the desegregation fights of years past.
Superintendent Bernard Taylor, who started in June, announced in November he wants to reconfigure and remodel dozens of public schools located in four areas of Baton Rouge into "attendance regions" with boundaries that would erase the neighborhood zones of the elementary and middle schools located in those regions.
Three of these regions are in north Baton Rouge and one is in southeast Baton Rouge. Taylor has said the regional boundaries would be similar, though not necessarily identical, to the traditional zones for the four affected high schools — Capitol, Glen Oaks, Scotlandville and Woodlawn.
The school system would set up regional "marketplaces," pitting school against school in a competition for students and the per-pupil funding that comes with those students.
Under Taylor's plan, many schools will get new principals, and current teachers in those schools will have to reapply for their jobs. Those not rehired will end up in the job market, pursuing vacancies inside, and perhaps outside, the school system.
"This is going to be a time of great unrest for a lot of people, not from a negative point of view," Taylor said Friday. "I'm talking about soul searching and introspection of the sort that many of (our) teachers never have to deal with."
Taylor, however, is also offering teachers a potential role in the restructuring of these schools.
If the School Board approves the changes Feb. 21, Taylor said, he plans to hold an immediate "competition of ideas" in which educators can submit proposals for educational themes and programs to help schools compete against each other.
The changes, if approved, would take effect with the start of the 2013-14 school year in August.
Taylor has refined his proposals based on feedback he received during a series of community forums in November.
Taylor embarked on a second round of forums Jan. 23 with two held so far. He did not sugarcoat matters at a forum in the cafeteria at Capitol Elementary School on Jan. 23, telling those who attended that the changes will be difficult and may mean some teachers lose their jobs.
But, he said, the changes are necessary for the school system to remain financially viable as it now faces outside competition from charter schools and private schools receiving publicly funded vouchers.
"If we don't control our own destiny, our destiny will be decided by others," Taylor said.
Another forum is being held at 6 p.m. Monday at Scotlandville High, 9870 Scotland Ave. A fourth forum that was supposed to be held Tuesday night at Southeast Middle has been postponed; no new date has been set.
Taylor said he wants to conclude discussions with the leaders of the state-run Recovery School District on the future of Glen Oaks and Prescott middle schools before scheduling a forum for the southeast area.
The two schools were taken over in 2008 after years of low academic performance, and the school system has sought unsuccessfully for years to get the schools back to relieve overcrowding at other middle schools in the parish.
Taylor said if he can get one or more of the state-run schools back, more students will stay closer to home. He said that would relieve crowding in schools in the southeast area.
A group of Southeast Baton Rouge residents were unsuccessful in an attempt in 2012 to break away and form an independent school district in the area. They have said they plan to try again this year when the Legislature reconvenes April 8.
Taylor's plans have been hard to describe because the details remain in flux, and he has not laid them all out in one public document. Rather, he is releasing details piece by piece, region by region and forum by forum. Videos of four of the forums he's held so far have been posted on the school system's website, www.ebrschools.org.
Taylor said he will release a full proposal sometime after Monday's forum at Scotlandville High.
The School Board is planning to debate Taylor's plans at a meeting Thursday and vote on them at its Feb. 21 regular meeting.
Taylor said he plans to extend the attendance region concept to other parts of Baton Rouge in the years to come.
A consistent theme running through Taylor's plans is an effort to give families more choices of where to send their children to school. In so doing, he is upending the "community sensitive attendance zones" that were the hallmark of its efforts in the mid-1990s to resolve a long-running desegregation suit.
In the affected regions, public schools would no longer draw primarily from the neighborhoods surrounding their school. Instead, students living in multiple neighborhoods across a much larger geographical area would select from a menu of options.
The regional menus would include new magnet schools, charters schools, schools with new grade configurations, and a range of new but yet-to-be-determined programs and themes. These menus would also include several schools now run by the Recovery School District.
Taylor has scaled down the number of new magnet schools he wants to create. In November, he talked about creating three new magnet programs and expanding a fourth one. Now, he's talking about creating just one new magnet program at Claiborne Elementary School and expanding a Montessori magnet at Belfair Elementary.
Taylor said he's still weighing whether to turn Mayfair Middle School into a magnet school as well.
In the case of Glen Oaks High, Taylor is proposing splitting the school in two with a more traditional high school competing with a new charter school. This is similar to an idea Taylor suggested when he was hired for superintendent of creating "educational malls" where schools of different types could compete against each other.


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Mobile Form generates html snippet from XDP template designed from LiveCycle Designer. In this post, we will decode the internal structure of the generated html snippet. Once you are familiar with the html structure, you can customize it at will.
Generally, Mobile Form generates an html <div> element for every object of XFA form maintaining the same hierarchical structure. Here is the html snippet source of the xfa form and the red lines shows the 1-1 mapping between xfa objects and html.
As mentioned earlier, for each xfa object, Mobile Form will have a corresponding div. Every div has, in general, 4 attributes:
- class: This is the attribute that should be used for customization. Mobile Form generates many different class selectors based on the various attributes of XFA object. One can use these class selectors to specify styles on the objects.
- id: This is for internal usage. There is no guarantee for getting same id all the time. Anybody shouldn't use it for customization.
- style: This is again for internal usage. XFA form specific layout styles are applied on the element using this attribute.
- data-xfamodel: This is again for internal usage. Mobile Form keeps xfa form specific data in this data attribute. One should not temper with this to ensure smooth processing.
All set for customizing the individual html elements of Mobile Form, well, you need to know what all class selectors are applied on each div element. Mobile Form first adds a class for type of objects like subform, field, draw, area etc, then subtype of object like if it a field then what type of field: textfield, choicelist etc then the name of the object. You will find these 3 class selectors on each and every html div element corresponding to XFA objects. Here is the complete list:
|XFA Object
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|field, buttonfield
|Check Box
|field, checkboxfield
|draw, arc
|Content Area
|Date Field
|field, datefield
|Date/Time Field
|field, datetimefield
|Decimal Field
|field, numericfield
|Drop-down List
|field, choicelistfield
|Email Submit Button
|field, buttonfield
|Image Field
|field, imagefield
|HTTP Submit Button
|field, buttonfield
|draw, image
|draw, line
|List Box
|field, choicelistfield
|Numeric Field
|field, numericfield
|Password Field
|field, passwordfield
|Print Button
|field, buttonfield
|Radio Button
|field, radiofield
|draw, rectangle
|Reset Button
|field, buttonfield
|Signature Field
|field, signaturefield
|Text Field
|field, textfield
|draw, text
|Time Field
|field, timefield
Besides the above class selectors, Mobile Form adds the name of the object as a class selector also. This is very useful if you want to apply some customizations to a particular field or draw element.
I will now backup a bit and describe how Mobile Form generates an html form from an XFA Form.
The initial html snippet generated by Mobile Form looks like the following with all the jsp variables <%=@@variables@@%> expanded into encoded html strings, as soon as you open any form in the browser:
Here formAction is the submitUrl specified in the request parameter. For detail on the request parameters refer Mobile Form. The <div> at line 2 contains all the data required to show a form. The
_initializeXfaLoading() method of xfa runtime javascript generates the actual form while loading which will look like following:
Now let's see how Mobile Form represents individual XFA Objects into Html objects.
For draw elements, Mobile Form uses SVG.
text objects are represented using SVG Text. We don't use html text because the layout generated by the html text doesn't really match up to the text layout by XFA. SVG Text gives more control to the author by not doing auto layout. The "text" element of SVG has
textLength attribute that gives finer control over the length of the text object. SVG is the primary reason why Mobile Form looks closer to PDF Form. Similarly line, arc and rectancle are represented by SVG only. Only The
image object is represented using html5 <img>.
XFA Field object is wrapped in one html
<div> that contains two different
<div>, one each for caption and widget, something like the following:
Field caption is represented in SVG just like the draw text object whereas the field widget, the interactive area or the area where user can click and fill the data, is represented using
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caption div but also merge
widget div and
field div. Every
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PHILADELPHIA -The Penn men's lacrosse team gave No. 4 Cornell all it could handle for three quarters on Saturday. The fourth quarter? The Big Red turned the tables. Big time.
Penn was up 11-8 heading into the final frame. The Big Red responded by scoring seven unanswered goals in less than nine minutes, and they tacked on another with about a minute to play to win, 16-11. Cornell outshot Penn 14-1 in the fourth, and while the Quakers won the face-off battle 5-4 in the quarter the advantage was minimized by seven turnovers.
The loss dropped Penn to 1-5 overall, 0-2 in the Ivy League. Cornell improved to 6-1, 2-0.
Penn certainly threw the first punch in this contest, and for a long time it looked like it was going to be enough. The Quakers were up 5-2 after one period, stretched it to as much as 7-2, and never allowed Cornell to be closer than two goals until that final, fateful frame.
Anthony Adler got Penn on the board at almost the exact midpoint of the opening quarter, scoring an unassisted goal. That was matched by Cornell's Connor English, but just a minute after English's goal Zack Losco fired home an unassisted tally. Adler then sandwiched a pair of goals around an English score -- the first assisted by Dan Savage -- and then out of a faceoff Losco fed long-stick middie Alex Blonsky for a point-blank shot that he converted. It was 5-2 after one period.
Penn added to its lead quickly in the second period, as Savage finished a feed from Tim Schwalje, and then two minutes later sophomore Drew Belinsky netted an unassisted goal. At that point, it appeared that Penn's constant aggressiveness on offense kept catching the Big Red off guard.
Cornell finally settled down, and after a scoreless six minutes they scored twice in 46 seconds, the first coming from Steve Mock and the second from Roy Lang. Penn answered, though, as Savage scored unassisted with 3:43 left in the half. However, Cody Bremner scored a man-up goal with 1:25 left, and then Matt Donovan scored unassisted to make the score 8-6 at the break.
Penn came out fighting again to start the second half, and John Conneely finished an Adler feed to make it 9-6 just over two minutes in. Chris Langton answered for Cornell a little more than a minute later, but then nearly seven minutes went by without either team scoring. When a goal finally came, it was out of the stick of Savage and gave Penn a 10-7 lead. Cornell's Thomas Keith almost immediately responded, scoring off the ensuing faceoff, but then Rob Fitzpatrick nicely finished a feed from Belinsky to wrap of the third-quarter scoring.
The Big Red wave came early and often in the fourth. Langton started it with a bull-rush goal from up top just 1:23 in, and then a minute later English finished a Mock feed. With momentum swinging, Langton knotted the score with 10:59 left on another singular effort from up top, tying the game at 11-11 (the game's first tie since 1-1). It took nearly three minutes after that, but the Big Red grabbed its first lead with 8:10 to play when Mock finished an English feed.
Cornell wasn't done. The Red went a man-up and scored again, this time Donovan finished a feed from Mitch McMichael. Nearly two minutes later, Lang scored off a Donovan feed, and then just 47 seconds after that Mock took a feed from Max Van Bourgondien and finished it off.
Penn was forced to press on defense after that, and with Brian Feeney out of the cage and the clock near a minute, Donovan beat his defender and easily scored into an open goal.
Adler finished the day with a hat trick, his first as a collegian, while Savage also scored three times for his third hat trick this season. Both of them also had an assist. Losco and Belinsky finished the day with a goal and an assist apiece.
Cornell outshot Penn on the day, 37-29, and Feeney ended the day with seven saves. One bright spot for the Quakers was on face-offs; both Joe McCallion and Danny Feeney had successful days on the X, winning 21 of the 32 faces on the day. Feeney was 10-of-14, while McCallion was 11-of-18.
Penn returns to action next weekend at Yale. The Quakers and Bulldogs will face off at 1 p.m. in New Haven, Conn.
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My boss wants to have a small gathering for lunch next week. His current head count is 40 people. He wants me to cook the ribs. We are also going to be bbqing chicken breasts and hamburgers. Side dishes 4 different salads, chips, salsa, guacamole, bread etc.. My thought is 12 racks of ribs. Does this sound about right?
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Start saving time and set up a connection with one of your favorite apps.
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We need permission to access both your accounts, this is necessary to keep your accounts in sync.
To Authorize your 1CRM Account, we need your Subdomain, Username and Password. Don't worry, though, we treat your data securely with absolute confidentiality!
Choose the filter for each app to define the subset of contacts you want to keep in sync. Setting up more than one rule is available from the Medium plan onward. For 1CRM, you can choose a subset of your contacts based on tags or all your accounts at once.
Keep in mind some important side notes in regards to the availability of Multiple Rules. Want to set up more than one rule? Check out here how to do this!
Once you have chosen your filter(s), you can continue with the rest of the configuration as described in the steps below. Bear in mind that not all steps/features are available in each connection.
In between your filters you are able to choose the direction of your sync in the drop-down menu. Choose to sync two-way or one-way in either direction.
Only syncing contacts with an email address, as this is the field we use to match your contacts. This feature is optional when configuring 'older' connections, you'll be able to tick or untick the box. For newer ones, this is mandatory, just to make sure you're always protected from duplicates (don't we all hate them!). If you do wish to turn off this feature, just give us a shout at email@example.com. Don't worry, we will always advise first on how best to proceed!
The availability of these features is app and connection dependent. If the boxes are not there to tick, the features are simply not available. We need to be able to detect deletions and/or unsubscribes on one side and at the same time be able to create a tag/group/list/... named 'PieSync Trash' or 'PieSync Unsubscribes' on the other side. When available, we always explain how and in which direction this feature works for that particular connection.
Syncing Unsubscribes or Syncing Deletions is not available in all connections.
3.5 CHOOSE YOUR MASTER APP (When conflicting change is detected)
We need you to choose the 'winning app' in case PieSync detects conflicting changes. PieSync detects changes on a field level: Chances of having a conflict are very small; only when two people are updating the same field of the same contact, in different applications at the same time, with conflicting information, there is a conflict (phew, we hope you survived that sentence as well)! On the rare occasion, when a conflict does occur, PieSync will take the value of the master application.
During the initial sync, when we match your databases based on the email address field, we will also use your Master App choice when there's a difference on another field level. Don't worry, when your master app has empty fields, we won't delete any field information in the other app.
3.6 ADDITIONALLY SYNC TO THE GOOGLE CONTACTS GROUP 'MY CONTACTS' (When syncing with Google Contacts)
When you have a connection setup with Google Contacts, you can additionally sync your contacts to the Google Contacts group 'My Contacts'. This feature is especially useful for iPhone users, as your iPhone contacts get synced to 'my contacts' in Google by default.
This feature is only available in connections with Google Contacts.
This part in the configuration shows you the default fields we currently keep in sync and how we map them between the two apps you have connected.
This feature allows you to create custom mappings, defining which contact fields should be kept in sync between your applications, including standard and custom fields.
We support 1CRM Custom Fields!
The customizable field mapping is set up and shown in the white part below the default field mapping in the configuration. You can add an unlimited amount of mappings and remove, enable/disable them anytime.
- Find more information about Customizable Field Mapping here and don't forget to read our blog post!
- Why is my connection not showing the option to create customizable field mappings?
Make sure no other integrations are running next to PieSync for the accounts you have connected in PieSync. Other integrations will have access to your data and have the ability to manipulate as well. For this reason, we kindly ask you to use PieSync and nothing else to keep your data in sync. Other integrations running in parallel with PieSync are a no-go!
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Spring 2004 DVD Performance Roundup: More DVD Dual 8Xby Kristopher Kubicki on 4/28/2004 7:00 AM EST
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rlrus - Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - linkNu has posted the official firmware upgrade B373, I hope this one is as good or better than the unofficial B372. I bought this drive and hope I have as good results as Anand Tech. With it's ability to write 8 times on 4 times Media and it's speed and error rate being almost as good as the more expensive drives it seemed a bargain. Reply
mcveigh - Sunday, May 02, 2004 - link21:
the Nu models do as well or better than everyone else and at the lowest price point.
why shouldn't they win? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Saturday, May 01, 2004 - linkJeff7181: I think there is a way to get it to scale proper. I will do that for the next review.
Kristopher Reply
QuaiBoy - Friday, April 30, 2004 - linkSeems to me that all of the DVD writer reviews lately on Anandtech seem to favor the Nutech product. I don't see a reason from these results to pick that drive over any of the others. There's nothing that makes it anything special, and it certainly doesn't deserve an award over the other drives.
Another vote for total write times and for not claiming that all drives with the same chipset will perform similarly. Too many variables. At least test with more media types, like TY and Optodisc. Cheapies like Princo appeal to many as well.
-Evan- Reply
Jeff7181 - Friday, April 30, 2004 - linkThe Write Quality graphs are very misleading/hard to read since they are all on different scales... makes on look like crap until you realize you're looking at a 0 - 10 scale rather than 0 - 70. Anything you can do about that or are you just stuck displaying what the crappy software showed you? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, April 29, 2004 - linkThis was all commented on in the article. The 708A and the 2500A also use radically different pickups and servos. But then again, i never claimed those two were similar in the review either.
Belzer: most of those drives i pointed out were clearly rebadges.
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CrazeeHorse - Thursday, April 29, 2004 - linkBelzer,yes. Maybe I should have rephrased my statement, as MAXIMUM burning speed. Yep, it also depends on the burn strategy employed.
CrazeeHorse - Thursday, April 29, 2004 - linkBelzer,yes. Maybe I should have rephrased my statement, as MAXIMUM burning speed. Yep, it also depends on the burn strategy employed.
CrazeeHorse - Thursday, April 29, 2004 - linkReply
Belzer - Thursday, April 29, 2004 - link"If you mean burn speed, of course it will be similar in different drives that use the same chipset, as their burn speeds are defined by the chipset!"
Uhm, no! Burn speed also depends very much on the write strategies implemented in the firmware. For example NEC ND-2500A and Pioneer DVR-A07 use the same chipset. The NEC uses a 4x-6x-8x Z-CLV technique for 8x burns, the Pioneer uses a 6x-8x Z-CLV technique and is faster.
Drives with the same chipset can have very different properties, only complete rebadged drives will have the same properties.
CrazeeHorse - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkKristopher, define what you mean by performance. If you mean burn speed, of course it will be similar in different drives that use the same chipset, as their burn speeds are defined by the chipset! However, if you take a wider view,IMO, performance also refers to the burn strategies,media compatibility, media preferences.. all of which can vary from drive to drive, even if they are based on the same chipset. Case in point.. Pioneer 107 and NEC 2500A use the same co-developed chipset. However, NEC allows burning of certain 4X +R media (eg. RicohJPNR01) at 6X, while Pioneer limits them to 4X in their official firmware. NEC's drives have been reported to have problems with some batches of RitekG04 -R media, while Pioneer's drive seems to burn them without any issues.
So I reiterate.. performance should cover a whole lot of other parameters,besides the ones defined by the chipset.
Oh,Ian, this is bhairavp from CDRLabs.
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkIts OK. The similarities i claimed though were in performance, not features. The operative word is similar also. So yes, in some instances it would be like saying motherboard and and motherboard b perform similarly because they have the same chipset.
When it comes down to it, if the Memorex, ASUS and Pioneer drives are all very similar (well actually identical), wouldnt you just want the cheapest?
Ian@CDRlabs - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkSorry Kristopher, I didn't get your email. Send it again.
Just to be nitpicky, there are differences between the 2500A and DDW8800, at least cosmetic. The AOpen is missing a head phone jack. The MSI and Sony drives also have their differences. In particular, the Sony is lacking HD-Burn support.
While those are good examples of companies using the same OEM, I wouldn't say that the Gigabyte (OEM BTC?) performs like the Lite-On 812S just because they have the same chipset. That's like saying this and this motherboard perform the same because they have the same Intel chipset. You Anandtech guys should be able to relate to that. Reply
arswihart - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkCan somebody tell me what bit setting is and why I should care about it? Thanks Reply
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkIan i sent you an email the other day and you never responded ;)
There is 0 difference between the NEC2500A and the AOpen DDW8800. Same with the MSI and Sony, and the ASUS and Pioneer. They just use the same OEM so all the components are identical. Manufacturers get really upset when you say stuff like that, but its the truth.
Kristopher Reply
Ian@CDRlabs - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkYou might want to try KProbe2. It now has separate PI/PO settings.
I was a little surprised by the "would expect similar performance" comments. While some of drives use the same chipset, there are a lot of other differences (Ex: firmware, pickups, etc) that effect performance.
Also, when are you going to start including writing times to go along with the average writing speeds? IMO, this isn't the way to show which drive is "fastest". Reply
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - link#6: I heard otherwise about using the DDW-061 to DDW-081 utility on the DDW-082 and bumping your 8X burns to 10X. I havent tried it though thats something i will look at after finals maybe.
Kristopher Reply
Booty - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - link'didja *read* the article??'
Nope, sure didn't... I skip through parts of most AT articles because they either get too wordy or I just don't have time to read them thoroughly. In those cases, I skip to the conclusion for a summary. My bad. Reply
CrazeeHorse - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkNumber 2 : You can download the B372 firmware from www.rpc1.org
Number 4 : Nopes.. you're outta luck.
Mr Kubicki.. Why didn't you test KProbe @ 4X/8ECC as is being used @ CDFreaks and CDRLabs? The original scanning PI/PO specs call for 1X/1ECC scanning, so Max/1ECC is not going to give you correct results.
ALso, there is NO hack for making the Nu081 burn at 10X, and their bitsetting utility is perfect. The disc is recognised as DVD-ROM by all the DVDROM drives I've tried, so it seems to work just fine;)
l3ored - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkthe nutech and toshiba error charts dont come up Reply
mkruer - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkStupid question but i must ask, is there a firmware update to the Plextor 708A that allows us to burn dual layer DVD's? I remember there was quite alot of talk about the new drives supporting the feature, but that it was not enabled. Reply
deadseasquirrel - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - link"Why wasn't the Plextor 8x drive included in this comparison?"
didja *read* the article??
Page 5: "Alas, our award winning Plextor 708A, which is also based on the LC897490, is not capable of 8X DVD-R, so we could not include it in this roundup." Reply
moktaw - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkBought the NuTech 081 several months ago. Firmware upgraded to a 082(at least that's what Nero and DVDInfoPro say with B370 Firmware). This is my first DVD burner. Outstanding product, especially at $80. Burned about 25 discs so far without any coasters. I would love to find the B372 firmware upgrade talked about in the article, Checked NuTech's website this morning and couldn't find it. A typo or do I need to look elsewhere? Thanks for the great discussion. Looking forward to the 16x dual layer burners this summer. Reply
Booty - Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - linkWhy wasn't the Plextor 8x drive included in this comparison? Reply


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The next time Skip Bertman's grandson Ezra comes down from Baltimore for a visit, he wants to go to Poppy's field.
Well, Ezra, it's about to officially become Poppy's field. In a very real sense, it has been for a long time since before you were born.
Sometimes it takes a crusade to create a great change. Often times, though, it takes the will of just one man.
For LSU athletics and college baseball, Bertman is that man.
There's a plaque in the LSU clubhouse beneath Alex Box Stadium — the new Alex Box Stadium that Bertman willed into existence when the old one was no longer able to hold all of his dreams. It's attributed to longtime Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, but it suits Bertman as well:
"The difference between possible and the impossible lies in a man's determination."
It is Bertman's determination and dedication that put his name above the scoreboard in Alex Box Stadium, an honorific that will become official before Friday night's game against Ole Miss. It is his vision and passion that made him perhaps the most influential person in the history of college baseball, and certainly the most influential person in the history of LSU athletics.
It's not really possible to tell Bertman's story without including a chapter about a man named Bob Brodhead, LSU's athletic director and a central cast member in the "Crazy Days at LSU" years of the mid-1980s.
Brodhead wasn't good at avoiding controversy, but he was exceptional at hiring coaches. He hired Bill Arnsparger, Sue Gunter, Buddy Alexander, Scott Luster and Jerry Simmons among others, Southeastern Conference championship-winning coaches all.
Bertman turned out to be the multi-faceted jewel, a man with the ability to coach and promote at similar genius levels. Bertman was bringing in the San Diego Chicken to entertain fans at the same time he was scheming to beat you, predicting to his players and coaches how a game would unfold before it happened.
"When dad got to LSU, he saw the vast untapped potential of the baseball program," Mindy Brodhead Averitt said. "He thought baseball should and would win. The way to make that happen is you get the best guy for the job.
"When dad was with the (Miami) Dolphins and Skip was at the University of Miami, he had clearly heard a lot about Skip — not just because he was a scholar of the game but in the marketing and promotions end of it. That spoke to my dad."
Bertman knew that making sure the coffee was hot was almost as important as the balls and strikes. As LSU baseball's success and attendance grew — along with its profitability — Bertman started getting calls from other SEC athletic directors.
"I got calls from David Housel at Auburn and Frank Broyles at Arkansas," he said. "They wanted to know, 'How do you do that?' I told them to get a coach and build a ballpark. Then others followed."
Bertman didn't reinvent the pastoral glory of baseball, but he did distill it and expand it to the masses at the college level. Today, every successful college program owes a bit of its special appeal, and a sliver of its profits, to Bertman.
He knew those angles, too. He was going to retire in 2001 and ply the speaking and fundraising circuit when former LSU Chancellor Mark Emmert tabbed him as an unbeatable compromise pick to replace Joe Dean as athletic director.
Like "Mr. String Music" before him, Bertman was clearly putting his enormous popularity on the line. But as athletic director he did what he thought was right and not what was popular, like instituting the Tradition Fund for LSU season tickets going into the 2004 football season.
Of course, it didn't hurt ticket sales that LSU won the 2003 BCS title. As Bertman would be the first to admit, you have to be both good and lucky, and he's often been both.
After all the wins and the glory, the thing Bertman is proudest of may be surprising.
"The fact that the fans clap for the other team is what I enjoy most," said Bertman, who recalls having to tell fans in his early days they were umpires, not referees, calling the balls and strikes. "I love that. They give a standing ovation for a great pitching performance by the other team."
There's a standing ovation coming Skip Bertman's way Friday night when the field at Alex Box officially becomes Poppy's field.
It's impossible that anyone could be more deserving.


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The Best Watches of 2011
Elegant styling, profound complications and tributes to classic models mark our annual best-in-show top-10 list of wristwatches.
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Perennial favorites such as Rolex and Patek Philippe delight the observer with a host of new models. Baume & Mercier and Vacheron Constantin unveiled rare complications. TAG Heuer and Rolex paid homage to earlier watches. Corum made an automatic version of its classic Golden Bridge. In all, 2011 has shaped into a banner year for watchmaking with a few surprises in store for the observant consumer—including the nomination of the first nonmechanical watch for Cigar Aficionado's "Best in Show." Have a look at the next generation of fine watchmaking.
Baume & Mercier:
Classima Jump Hour
Classima Jump Hour
When the head of IWC Georges Kern added a second Richemont Group brand, Baume & Mercier, to his responsibilities, he brought his love of telling stories through the collections in his charge. So the existing model families at Baume & Mercier have now been streamlined and revamped. Each chapter of the brand's new story adds up to represent "Hamptons" lifestyle.
The Classima line now contains some absolutely beautiful examples of classic watchmaking that are outfitted with smaller complications, such as this jump-hour model. Its moniker comes from the hour display in a small window at the 12 o'clock position that jumps forward at the top of every hour. A relatively rare complication, it is an eye-pleaser despite its unfamiliar dial approach, which sees all three displays (hours, minutes, seconds) separated.
The Classima line now contains some absolutely beautiful examples of classic watchmaking that are outfitted with smaller complications, such as this jump-hour model. Its moniker comes from the hour display in a small window at the 12 o'clock position that jumps forward at the top of every hour. A relatively rare complication, it is an eye-pleaser despite its unfamiliar dial approach, which sees all three displays (hours, minutes, seconds) separated.
The complication is clothed in a completely classic case and dial. The barleycorn, guilloché-style stamped dial harmonizes perfectly with the numeral font chosen and the gold color of the hands, minute and second markers, as well as the frame around the jump hour window. Combined with the convenience of the automatic movement, it perfectly embodies the current trend toward understated luxury while standing out in a crowd.
A limited edition of 500 pieces in a 42-mm stainless steel case, the Classima Jump Hour retails for $5,400.
Laurent Ferrier
Galet Micro-rotor Entre-Pontst
Galet Micro-rotor Entre-Pontst
Monsieur Laurent Ferrier has turned into the pundits' choice—an insider tip for the aficionado. Placing extreme emphasis on the quality of the horology inside, Laurent Ferrier's technical delicacies are clothed in extremely conservative dress, destined to keep them in style for as long as watchmaking continues to exist.
Critics—if Laurent Ferrier had any—might call this boring, but it is really nothing other than simply beautiful. The new Galet Micro-rotor Entre-Ponts, for example, is housed in an 18-karat white- or red-gold case, wonderfully sized at 40 mm, which is certainly destined to become the new classic dimension. The silver or slate-gray dial classically offsets the case, and the slender assegai-shaped hands are unobtrusive, yet very legibly display the time without obstruction or ambiguity.
However, the element that really sets collectors' hearts soaring is found underneath the hood in the beautifully designed movement: the placement of two large stabilizing bridges that are decorated with côtes de Genève reveal only two elements—two that deserve to be highlighted. A gold micro rotor efficiently and stably winds the movement automatically and a new escapement style containing new materials keeps the time. Though the double direct-impulse escapement contains silicon elements, its inspiration was found in the work of Louis-Abraham Breguet, perhaps the standard among classic watchmakers.
The Galet Micro-rotor Entre-Ponts can be purchased for $52,000 in rose gold and $53,500 in white gold.
HD3 Slydeu
One of the challenges that looms for manufacturers is that the younger generations don't generally wear watches nor see them as an expression of taste. The attitude seems to be: why bother strapping something to your wrist if you already have the time displayed on your mobile phone?
One of HD3's three founders—well-known industrial designer Jorg Hysek—has come up with the answer by approaching timekeeping in the same way that all technology is approached these days.
Welcome to the era of the Slyde. This fine watch is not mechanical and actually functions much like an iPod on the wrist: not only does it tell the time in a variety of selectable ways, it can also store pictures and other data. It is operated in a user-friendly manner with the same sort of touch screen available on many electronic devices today.
While some components are derived from fine watchmaking (the tactile sapphire crystal covering the screen and water-resistance to a depth of 30 meters) others are in sharp contrast, which is part of the extreme allure. The owner can connect the Slyde to the Internet for recharging and downloading customized modules. All technology inherent to the Slyde and its electronic movement is internationally patented.
Retaining the essence of what makes a fine watch tick—namely the ability to create and transmit emotion—the Slyde's sizable, no-frills case measuring 47.71 x 57.84 mm is available in black or gray titanium and rose gold with power reserve lighting reminiscent of a laptop on the side of the case. Its straps can be had in a choice of leather, printed alligator skin or rubber. Prices range between $6,895 and $48,000, depending on the case material and diamond setting.
The underlying principle of the smartphone with a tactile screen brings watchmaking into the 21st century—and perhaps into the hearts and minds of young technophiles: it does raise pure emotion. And it comes with a charger.
Corum Golden Bridge Automatic
Corum Golden Bridge Automatic
Corum's Golden Bridge is one of the watch industry's all-time classics. First released in 1980, it was immediately hailed as an innovative work of horological art thanks to visuals that went far off the norm yet remained elegant and wearable. This year it took a step further.
Aside from the inventive baton movement designed by master watchmaker and cofounder of the A.H.C.I. (Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants/Horological Academy of Independent Creators) Vincent Calabrese, the case of the original Golden Bridge comprised two hand-faceted sapphire crystals held together by four golden screws and two bases of yellow gold. Thirty-one years ago, some of the greatest difficulties posed by its manufacture were polishing of the intricately shaped crystals and drilling them with precision.
The Golden Bridge, so completely elegant in its transparency and so difficult to achieve, was resuscitated several years ago and now plays a central role at the brand today. Combining traditional watchmaking with both classic and new materials, Corum writes a new chapter in its history as the first baguette movement with a tourbillon (released last year) and, unbelievably, with automatic winding—which was this year's big introduction.
With every detail visible through the sapphire crystal case, the main challenge, explained CEO Antonio Calce, was in keeping with the linear motif of the movement while adding a self-winding mechanism. "To keep the movement's design pure, the unique solution was to invent linear winding," he said. Calce cited three main challenges: winding capacity, the oscillating weight's mass and, naturally, friction. "We tried 10 different material combinations before settling on cupro-beryllium and steel with a nickel-polytetra-fluoroethylene coating comparable to Teflon," he explained. The result is a wondrously elegant movement—it seems to float on air caught between two panes of sapphire crystal—that does not look as if it could support all the mechanical functions it does.
It is for the moment available in a limited production of 130 pieces in rose gold ($42,000) and 70 pieces in white gold ($44,000). The svelte case comes across in a very masculine manner, measuring 37.2 x 51.8 mm.
Patek Philippe Ref. 5235
Patek Philippe Ref. 5235
To represent the slew of lovely watches Patek Philippe has brought out in 2011, many of which are highly demanding pieces of complicated horology, we pick the brand's first regulator wristwatch. This is a dial style that enjoys popularity among connoisseurs: it separates out the hours, minutes and seconds to make reading the time more precise once the wearer has gotten used that presentation.
This automatic 40.5-mm white-gold wristwatch—one of the larger Patek Philippes—also contains an annual calendar. If you own a typical mechanical watch with a date function, you will have noticed that at the end of months with fewer than 31 days a manual adjustment is required. The perpetual calendar function, which adjusts for the length of the month automatically, is a very high complication that is pricey and can become a pain to set if you don't wear it every day. The annual calendar is the perfect in-between solution. Not nearly as pricey as a perpetual calendar, it still recognizes all the months but February, leaving you with only one date adjustment in a year.
The biggest advancement of this watch is, however, its hacking-seconds function. This very practical little addition allows the owner to set the watch to the second. Pulling out the crown stops the timekeeping. This is very important to a regulator where the seconds display is literally in the spotlight. ($51,000)
Rolex Oyster Explorer II
The original Explorer model from the 1950s was named for the world of exploration. Today, Rolex retains three well-known explorers as ambassadors to underscore the association.
Rolex introduced the Explorer II in 1971, an upgraded version of the original Explorer model. Sometimes viewed by consumers as the redheaded stepchild, its precision, robustness, power reserve and styling were enhanced at this point—these are the kinds of details that Rolex is consistently advancing rather than making groundbreaking announcements and continuously designing new models. One of the boosts was to chronometer-certify the model, meaning to have it certified by an independent Swiss entity called the C.O.S.C. (Contrôle Official Suisse de Chronomètres) to stay within a certain chronometric range: the average daily rate of a mechanical chronometer must remain within –4 and +6 seconds a day. Year for year, Rolex remains one of the leaders in earning C.O.S.C. certificates for its watches. All chronometer-certified Rolex models bear this fact emblazoned across their dials.
This year's relaunch of the Explorer II is only the third change to the watch since 1971. Perhaps the biggest new element to this model is the buffed-up 42-mm stainless steel case size, making it the third largest watch in Rolex's entire collection. This fact alone is destined to please a great deal of sports watch fans as it definitely makes it more contemporary in styling.
Another difference is the return of the orange GMT hand, which points out the second time zone and/or am-pm information using the 24-hour scale on the bezel. This design element—famously nicknamed "Freccione" (big arrow) by Italian collectors in the 1990s—was directed at cave explorers operating largely in the dark. Against the backdrop of the black dial—the newest
version is available with either a black or white dial—the orange hand is eminently legible.
version is available with either a black or white dial—the orange hand is eminently legible.
Water-resistant to 100 meters like a good Oyster, it also includes the signature magnifying lens over the date. Its Oysterlock clasp features the Easylink 5-mm comfort extension link, a patented extension system that folds out to let the wearer increase the length of the bracelet up to 5 mm for regaining maximum comfort. This may be desired should there be an increase in temperature, altitude or physical activity, which may cause the wrist to expand. ($7,750)
Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle
World Timet
Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle
World Timet
At the SIHH 2011, Vacheron Constantin made an absolute mark in world timing. The International Meridian Conference in 1884 established 24 time zones, which have since been expanded to a full 37 in the modern day. This state of affairs can be chalked up to politics: Nepal, for example, boasts a time zone that is on the quarter hour, while others such as India are on the half-hour.
The Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle World Time allows all 37 time zones to be seen at a glance on a metal dial with a Lambert projection map, with Daylight Savings Time and reference city indication.
Another superimposed part is a sapphire crystal dial with day/night shading and a 24-hour display for easy reading of home time. A third, outer part is a metal chapter ring for the local time (main hands), which stays fairly unobtrusive. This complicated piece of horology remains incredibly clean and represents a real milestone for providing all world-time information.
This is obviously not an easy thing to master, and up to now not one watch company has been able to do it properly without overcrowding the dial—and making it rather illegible.
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• hubbub •
Pronunciation: hê-bêb • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, mass (no plural)
Meaning: Commotion, tumult, uproar, ruckus associated with human activity.
Notes: Hubbub is a bereft lexical orphan; it doesn't even have a plural form. There was at least one use of this word as a verb, but this is considered a nonce usage. The same is true of hubbubish.
In Play: Today's Good Word most often refers to the commotion caused by human voices: "What is all the hubbub going on over there by the water cooler?" The next most frequent source of hubbub is the traffic of big cities: "Terry Yaqui tried to escape the hubbub of New York by retreating to a Japanese village, but he found an annoying hubbub there, too."
Word History: The word hubbub comes from a Celtic source that is probably related to ub ub ubub!, a Scots Gaelic interjection expressing contempt, or to abu, an ancient Irish war cry. In any case, hubbub was first recorded (1555) in the phrase Irish hubbub, which meant "the confused shouting of a crowd". Some wag suggested that the word originated in the phrase, "Hey, bub," as used in an Irish pub just before a brawl breaks out. No confirmation of that claim has come to my attention. In addition to the senses it has developed, hubbub was again used, possibly in an unflattering way, by the New England colonists as a term for a rambunctious game played by Native Americans in which players were noticed saying, "Hub! Hub! Hub!" (Thanks to one of the Goodword editors, Paul Ogden, for the name 'Terry Yaqui'.)


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Pasadena Cheeseburger Week
Pasadena Cheeseburger Week runs Jan. 12-17. For a list of participating restaurants, suggested cheeseburger crawls and to vote for your favorite burger, visit www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com.
Swiss or American cheese? Hold the ketchup or pile on the mustard? Add some bacon or replace the beef patty with a slab of chicken?
There is no wrong way to eat a cheeseburger in Pasadena, which claims is the birthplace of the modern meal. For Cheeseburger Week, a handful of Southland residents shared what makes their favorite local burger the best.