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January 10, 2014
The Department of Defense issued today the Academic Program Year 2012-2013 Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the United States Military Service Academies (MSA). As part of a comprehensive review, DoD officials conducted site visits at the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy, reviewed academy policies, training, and procedures, and held focus groups with cadets and midshipmen.
"Sexual assault is a crime and has no place at the academies, just as it has no place in the rest of the military," said Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Snow, the director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office. "The Defense Department is committed to strengthening the professional climate across the military, including at the service academies, to reinforce the cultural imperatives of respect, trust, and professional values," he added.
Based on information obtained during these site visits, DoD officials found that all academy programs met the requirements of existing DoD policies and directives and public law. Senior leaders at each academy took steps to become more aware of and sensitive to the needs of victims; led monthly case management groups to improve and sustain timely and effective response to sexual assault; undertook efforts to reinforce service values; held sensing sessions capturing cadet/midshipman perceptions and feedback; and engaged stakeholders and the community to foster a climate of prevention and SAPR awareness.
However, the assessment observations, focus group data and reports show that sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sexist behaviors still occur. During the evaluation period, the academies saw an overall decrease in the number of sexual assault reports made to authorities. In APY 2012-2013, a total of 70 reports of sexual assault involved cadets and midshipmen compared to a total of 80 reports in the prior APY.Of the 70 reports, 53 involve events that cadets/midshipmen experienced while they were in the military. Because there is no prevalence rate available for this past academic year, the department cannot determine whether the decrease in reporting this year at the service academies was due to fewer assaults occurring, or due to fewer victims opting to report.
Focus group feedback from cadets and midshipmen indicate that they believe incidents would be taken seriously by MSA leadership and dealt with immediately. Still, cadets and midshipmen indicate that they remain concerned that reporting a sexual assault will impact their reputation and social standing with classmates.
Given this feedback and the results of the site visits, the secretary of defense directed the implementation of several measures to enhance program effectiveness, advance and sustain appropriate culture, and expand alcohol policies to improve the safety of cadets and midshipmen. The academies will report to the secretary of defense on their plans to support these initiatives by March 30.
The complete report is available at http://www.sapr.mil. For academy specific information, contact the individual military services at 703-692-1580 for Army, 703-697-5342 for Navy, and 703-695-0640 for Air Force.
The DoD Safe Helpline is available to provide confidential assistance to victims of sexual assault. Call, click or text at 1-800-995-5247 or www.safehelpline.org
To read original press release, visit this U.S. Department of Defense link [1].
[1] http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=16475
[2] http://www.nsvrc.org/news/news-field


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Declan wrote:So, personally, I'd put rarely stuck for a word in a variety of situations (television, conversation, shopping etc.) as a pretty good indicator.
That's definitely my definition of fluency. Also, I think there is written and spoken fluency, some languages, like Japanese or Chinese, you can become fluent with the spoken language, but be lost when it comes to books or newspapers. Danish or French are the other way around, you can read university textbooks, but be confused when walking around the streets of Paris or Copenhagen.

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BRIDGWATER Town have announced that chairman Pat Parker has stepped down from his position for health reasons.
In a brief statement on their Facebook page, the club said: "On the January 15, Pat Parker stepped down from chairman due to health reasons.
"We have great pleasure in announcing Richard Johnson is now our Chairman - we also have a new secretary working within the club, Rick Norman, who has taken over from Roger Palmer."
Club manager Richard Fey paid tribute to Pat Parker and praised his 'tireless work." He said: "Pat is Bridgwater through and through and I've got a lot of time and respect for the man for the hours he has and does put into the club.
"People don't see what effort chairman put into their clubs and Pat has worked tirelessly for the club - and always had intentions of standing down come the end of this season.
"Unfortunately due to health reasons he has decided to make the decision now rather than wait, and that's typical Pat, thinking about what's best for the club.
"He was the chairman who gave me the opportunity to manage the club and I thank him for that - and I'm glad he is staying on as vice-chairman.


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The tangents are moot.
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TT Man
Thunder smash!
Note to dallas....bring name tags. Seriously. And a pen.
Why? Surely everyone will recognize you from your avatar.
Oh Mighty Wing
Well yeah....I'll be the super hunky buff guy there with the stick to beat all the ladies off. But how will I know who's who?
if you wore the spandex it would be clearer.
I'm making a formal request that all you fake people (people not from Nashville or "Internet Folk") show up wearing a T-shirt or name tag with your RA screen name. This will make things much easier. Thank you.
Note to dallas....bring name tags. Seriously. And a pen.
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I agree...this is a great idea. I was just telling Schneider yesterday that I imagine him as a big black man.
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Godwottery go(hook)dwo(hook).t<e>ri. Also with lower-case initial. [f; God wot (cf. god sb. 10) in the line `A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!' in T. E. Brown's poem My Garden (1876) + -ery. ] An affected or over-elaborate style of gardening or attitude towards gardens (see quots.); also (in quot. 1939), archaic language.
Thomas Edward Brown. 1830–1897
My Garden
A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
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Fern'd grot—
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Of peace; and yet the fool
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Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
'Tis very sure God walks in mine. 10
I realize that this term has limited applications today, but it's such a lively word, and there's no reason for it to be archaic!


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Episode #160 of the Purdue "Dairy Digest" podcast series focuses on the causes and stages of hypocalcemia.
Many of the clinical signs of milk fever are related to the lack of adequate calcium in the blood that allows for proper muscle function. Milk fever typically occurs because of the sudden decrease in blood calcium associated with the high demand for calcium in colostrum production during early lactation. There are three main stages of hypocalcemia, depending on the extent of blood calcium depletion.
During the first stage, cows can stand but may have muscle tremors, ear twitching or head bobbing, accompanied by bellowing and anxious behaviors.
Stage 2 is the classical presentation in which the cow is down, but alert, with low body temperature, cold extremities and a high heart rate. Cows may also appear bloated and have decreased urine and manure production.
When the cow has progressed to the third stage, she is usually down, unresponsive, lying on her side with extreme bloating. This situation is considered an emergency and can result in death if left untreated.
While diagnosis is usually straightforward, it is important to consider other diseases such as toxic mastitis or metritis, injury or calving paralysis.
Learn more in episode #160 "Causes of Hypocalcemia (Milk Fever)" here.
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Nene Thomas "Masked Ball" Poseable Doll Collection
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Hidden behind the mystery of a mask, there's nothing as alluring as a midnight masquerade. Now, you can delve into the fantasy with this first-ever collection bringing Nene Thomas's graceful masked maidens to life as poseable dolls. Your doll collection begins with Issue One, Midnight Fantasy. Soon, your collection will continue with Issue Two, Masked Destiny, Issue Three, Darling Damsel, and additional masked dolls, each a separate issue to follow.
Available exclusively from The Ashton-Drake Galleries, the masquerade fantasy dolls in this collection are elegantly sculpted in vinyl and inspired by Nene Thomas's incredible art. Full articulation allows you to pose each impressively sized doll in a multitude of ways while her vibrant dress, faux jewels, golden mask with long, colorful feathers and cascading curls add more enchantment. Strong demand is expected for this striking collection. Order now!
- First-ever collection bringing artist Nene Thomas's masked maidens to life as beautiful, poseable dolls, exclusively from The Ashton-Drake Galleries
- Each masquerade fantasy doll in this collection is elegantly sculpted in vinyl and inspired by Nene Thomas's incredible art
- Full articulation allows you to pose each impressively sized doll in a multitude of ways
- Each enchanting doll showcases cascading curls, a colorful, vibrant dress, faux jewels and a golden mask with long, colorful real feathers
- Hand-numbered Certificates of Authenticity
- Measure approximately 16" H; 40.6 cm H
- Reserves the entire collectible Midnight Masquerade Fantasy Doll Collection from The Ashton-Drake Galleries in your name so you never risk an increase on the price of other collectibles in this collection, or miss a single issue of this collection
- Each issue will be shipped to you for your review, about one every month or two (pending availability), at the same low issue price and charged to the credit card on which your order was placed. No need to order each one separately
- You may cancel your collection at any time with no obligation
- "Issue One - Midnight Fantasy," will be followed by "Issue Two - Masked Destiny," "Issue Three - Darling Damsel," and additional masked dolls as they become available
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Hey guys, I am fairly new to bt4 and slightly seasoned to linux. My OS of choice is ubuntu which was great when i found bt4.
My question is can I install bt4 into some existing (or even new) Logical Volumes. I was running bt4 off a USB flash and would like to pick up the read/write speed but don't want to sacrifice my host OS and it's partitions and LVMs.
Is there a way to install bt4 from a shell in another OS? Is there an Alternate install cd which allows the installer to access or create LVMs?
I am looking forward to wirelessly beating the crap out of my lynksys wrt-54G, Seeing how good IPCop really is and exploring wifi, LAN and combined networks.


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Formerly known as the Shared Learning Collaborative, InBloom is a non-profit organization originally created to address a set of common education data analysis and integration challenges defined by the Council of State School Officers. Despite its potential benefits, the project has touched off a substantial backlash from parents and privacy advocates, leading several states and districts to back out of the program. Critics are suspicious of how much data the service would collect, how it would be protected, and how it would be shared.
NYSED remains determined to move forward, and its plans would make it the first InBloom user to go into production. But New York is also a hotbed of opposition and political battles over the program. In the New York City mayoral race, Democrat Bill de Blasio recently pledged that if elected, he will "protect students' privacy and stop this needless invasion of privacy" by denying InBloom access to data from city schools.
The Jefferson County, Colo., school district is also moving forward and seems to have had more success than most at securing support from parent and teacher organizations -- Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association gave a ringing endorsement in an opinion piece for the Denver Post -- although there's still disagreement in the union ranks and on the school board.
InBloom officials and board members say much of the criticism of the service is based on fundamental misunderstandings. For example, critics often describe the service as if it were amassing one giant repository of data from all participating school districts and making it available to any tech vendor or marketing firm. In fact, InBloom promises to give each district control over what data to collect and which users or applications get access to it. Instead of one massive index, like Google search, think Salesforce.com, which provides accounts to many enterprise customers but keeps each customer's data separate and allows each to make separate judgments about what apps to enable for their accounts. However, because InBloom provides a back-end service rather than complete applications, the value it promises is more abstract.
As InBloom's Bates said, "The customer is deciding what data to store and how the data should be used and presented -- to which users and to which applications -- but that does mean it's hard for us to hold up a bundle of stuff and say, 'Here's InBloom.'" One thing that educators tend to find compelling, she added, is the promise of one unified service they will be able to log into for a complete picture of how their students are doing, rather than having to log into multiple applications.
The dashboards NYSED is preparing to launch will not prove that InBloom can deliver on that promise. It's just a first step, with the broader integration application possibilities to follow later -- if the project can stay alive long enough to prove it.
Follow David F. Carr on Twitter @davidfcarr or Google+. His book Social Collaboration For Dummies is scheduled for release in October 2013.


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Exclusive performances by Franti and Potter to headline month-long awareness campaign
WATERBURY, Vt., Oct 05, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- This October, acclaimed musicians Michael Franti and Grace Potter have joined with Green Mountain Coffee(R) to spread the word about fair trade. Fair trade provides a fair price to coffee farmers for their beans, resulting in high-quality coffee and a higher quality of life in coffee-growing communities. Through exclusive live performances on Green Mountain Coffee's Facebook page ( http://www.facebook.com/GreenMountainCoffee ), Franti and Potter will share how small choices -- like the coffee we drink -- can help drive big change.
"Fair trade means that, by doing something as simple as buying Fair Trade Certified coffee, we become directly involved in the lives of farmers by helping them improve education, health and the environment within their communities," said Michael Franti. "Green Mountain Coffee has been a leading force in the fair trade movement and this partnership is an incredible opportunity for us to share the fair trade message by bringing people together with great music and great coffee."
"Partnering with Green Mountain Coffee is a great way for us to reach a larger audience about the positive impact people can have by supporting fair trade," said Grace Potter. "There's no better time than now for people to make the switch and look for the Fair Trade Certified label on the products they buy. It seems like a small thing, but together, we can make a difference in the quality of life for farmers around the world."
Both musicians will give exclusive live performances in October, in honor of Fair Trade Month:
October 8 at 9:00 p.m. PT/midnight ET -- Michael Franti and Spearhead's last concert of their U.S. tour from the Greek Theatre at Berkeley, CA will be live webcast exclusively on Green Mountain Coffee's Facebook page.
October 20 at 7:00 p.m. PT/10:00 p.m. ET -- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals will perform an exclusive concert dedicated to fair trade, streamed live on Green Mountain Coffee's Facebook page.
"This October, Green Mountain Coffee is celebrating Fair Trade Month in a big way, to reach as many coffee drinkers as possible," said Derek Archambault, Senior Brand Manager for Green Mountain Coffee. "Music can be a powerful way to share a message, and through partnering with Michael and Grace, we hope to inspire people that the choices we make about what's in our cup can help improve the lives of coffee farmers around the world."
For more than a decade, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR) has been a leader in the fair trade movement, and its purchases of Fair Trade Certified(TM) coffee have delivered millions of dollars in education, healthcare, and other infrastructure improvements to coffee-growing communities. Green Mountain Coffee -- part of GMCR's family of brands -- offers the largest selection of Fair Trade Certified coffees in the United States. Green Mountain Coffee's Fair Trade Certified coffee is available through specialty and mass retailers, grocery, club and convenience stores, offices, quick-serve restaurants and online.
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House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., says he plans to mark up a new farm bill on May 15, and the bill will reduce spending by $38 billion over 10 years versus the baseline. The cuts will be made up of $20 billion in less funding for food and nutrition programs and $18 billion less for the other titles.
Lucas says the commodity title will be very similar to the one passed by the committee last year – eliminating direct payments and creating a "shallow loss" program to pay for losses not covered by crop insurance and a "target price-countercyclical-type" program.
Payments would be based on 85 percent of planted acreage – up to the total base acres of the farm.
The Senate Ag Committee is also expected to develop a farm bill but with far less ambitious savings than the House plan: just $23 billion over 10 years. So even if these two bills get approved by the respective full House and full Senate, it will be very difficult for a joint House-Senate conference committee to develop a compromise bill that can win final approval in both.
Agriculture Committee members in both houses of Congress are determined to protect the crop insurance program. In fact, the bills they produce will probably even expand coverage. However, other members of Congress are gearing up to try to reduce the costs of the program.
Iowa State University Professor Bruce Babcock claims crop insurance is too highly subsidized and that taxpayers pay more than two-thirds of the costs of the program.
The Congressional Budget Office says that subsidies could be reduced to save as much as $40 billion over 10 years without restricting farmers' choices over the type of insurance or eliminating subsidies entirely. But taxpayers would pay less of the tab, farmers more.
Currently most crop insurance products are subsidized with taxpayers paying more than half the cost of the premium.
Other issues being addressed include
- The Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS): Hearings will be held by the Energy and Commerce Committee to examine the RFS that mandates the amount of biofuel that must be used. Under the current RFS, 16.55 billion gallons of biofuels are to be used in 2013, with 13.8 billion gallons coming from starch-based ethanol. The Committee is currently issuing white papers on the subject and is soliciting input from interested stakeholders. Some issues to be discussed include the "blend wall"; the looming problem of the RFS mandate far exceeding the amount of ethanol that can be used with only a 10% blend rate in gasoline! Other issues to be addressed include greenhouse gas emissions, energy policy considerations and RIN fraud. Changes to the RFS are becoming more likely due to lingering effects of last year's drought and the lack of progress selling e-15 as a solution to the "blend wall" problem.
- Immigration: The Senate is working on a single comprehensive immigration bill that will deal with a broad range of issues and provisions. In contrast, the House has begun a process of dealing with the different aspects of immigration reform with a series of different bills. The first proposal deals with agricultural workers. The new plan would replace the old H-2A program with a program that would allow agricultural workers to stay in the country for 36 months – followed by a three-month return to the immigrant's home country. The program also limits the use of certain tax credits and welfare programs. For example, the immigrant workers will not be allowed to bring spouses and minor children with them.
- Pesticide approval: Long running settlement talks between EPA and various environmental groups over the approval of hundreds of pesticides is over – at least for now. More than two years ago environmental groups filed suit against EPA, charging the agency had not considered the possible impact on endangered species when approving the use of about 300 pesticides. The fear among farm groups and pesticide makers alike was that most or all of the pesticides could be removed from the market while EPA did extensive evaluation. The groups have been in settlement talks since May 2011. But late last week the U.S. District Court of California dismissed the lawsuit. The ruling can be appealed within 60 days. The lawsuit could have affected about 30,000 ag-chemical applications affecting all 50 states.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Walmart shoppers in Jacksonville took a moment Saturday to sign banners that will be sent to Newtown, Connecticut, to those grieving after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Channel 4's Kumasi Aaron spoke with some shoppers about the messages of support they shared on the banners, which were featured in the Regency and Fleming Island stores.
"That little note that someone writes down means so much more than an email," said shopper Diane Cohan.
Cohan and dozens of others stopped shopping and signed the banner for Newtown's children. For Cohan, it was just a little way to share a big message about how much she cares.
"My heart's been breaking ever since it happened, and I feel like my hands are tied other than sending money," she said. "So it was just kind of a way of saying what I wanted to say."
Cohan's message is filled with love and compassion. Cohan said words of kindness made a difference in her healing, and hoped hers would do the same for others.
"Just I want to send them love and God's blessing," she said. "Just keep that in their hearts and that will get them through. I know, I've been there."
Organizers said they hope the two banners together will uplift those who need it most in Newtown.
The banners say, "God Bless Newtown, Connecticut. Jacksonville, Florida loves you."
One will go to the elementary school. The other will go to a local boy scout pack.
"It's one thing for me to tell you a whole city loves you, is thinking about you. It's another thing when you come in the school and you physically see it. And it reminds you that a whole bunch of people stand with you," said Slama.
Those who left the notes said they hope the children who read them know just how much others are thinking about them.
"Just to know that other people care and other people love and love them, and are thinking of them. And are trying to wrap their arms around them," said Cohan.
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As New York braces itself for Samsung's heavily hyped launch of its latest Galaxy smartphone, complete with coverage on giant screens in Times Square, the choice of venue reflects the company's conviction that it has gained the upper hand in its battle with Apple, writes Simon Mundy.
In 2010, with Apple still dominant in the smartphone market, the first Galaxy handset was launched at a modest event in Singapore. A year later, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung unveiled the second in the series; by May 2012, it was confident enough to launch the Galaxy SIII at a high-profile standalone event in London. Now, as Thursday's New York launch demonstrates, Samsung is going all out to attack Apple's grip on its home US market. Read more


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Editor's note: The 2013 graduates of the cosmetics and fragrance marketing and management master's degree program at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York presented their Capstone presentations at the Beauty in a Digital World event, sponsored by Beiersdorf USA with research partner Google, at FIT's Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium in June.
The following white paper accompanied the presentation from group leader Katherine Voyten, co-leader Lauren Edelman, and group members Nichole DiNunzio, Alexandra Hardyment, Lauren Hirschbach, Carlos Omana and Allison Robl.
The beauty industry today is very focused on commercial transactions in the traditional brick and mortar channel with 95% of sales in the U.S. taking place in physical stores. Consumers, however, have shifted the way they shop in this new digital age. They do not want brick and mortar to be treated as a separate channel from the online world and expect to get the best of both of these environments wherever they are. Consumers also expect to find whatever they are looking for easily, but the beauty industry still makes them work too hard to get what they want. There is a huge opportunity to leverage technological capabilities to help consumers have better commercial experiences wherever they shop. Only 5% of beauty sales take place in the e- commerce channel, but other categories have much higher penetration: toys & games 13.9%, consumer electronics 13.1%, consumer appliances 10.2%, and apparel at 6.3% ("Emergence of S Commerce," 2013, 60). This highlights a significant under-index in online sales for the beauty industry, which also means a missed opportunity to capture more consumers and grow industry sales overall.
This is happening for two reasons. First, beauty is an experiential category and consumer-product interaction is essential in the path to purchase. This paper will highlight opportunities to use digital technology to enhance the consumer experience in all channels. Secondly, brands and retailers are not leveraging existing technology to enhance or create new purchase opportunities. This paper will also explain how both the current brick and mortar and online retail channels will need to evolve to keep up with consumers' growing demands, and how a new model of commerce creates opportunities for consumers to transact anywhere and for brands to sell everywhere.
In the current state, the online and offline channels are not seamless or frictionless, although brands are beginning to use technology to close the gap. Online and offline began as two separate commercial environments. Over time, these two worlds have moved closer together. Some brands have been successful bringing high tech elements from the online world into brick and mortar. Other retailers have successfully elevated service by bringing high touch elements from in store into the online environment. However, it is still not the seamless experience consumers are seeking. 89% of consumers feel retailers should enable them to shop in whatever way is most convenient and 49% of consumers feel the best thing a retailer can do to improve the shopping experience is to be more seamless between the physical stores, online and mobile channels (Samuel, 2013).
Consumers have become very comfortable in a complex environment of omni- channel retailing, where technology enables 24/7 access to products, education and service. A new model of commerce must incorporate the three key drivers that define our interactions with consumers at every touch point: convenience, curation, and customization. The consumer expects a consistent brand experience across all channels. Therefore, it is up to brands and retailers to implement an Infinite Commerce model, introducing high touch experiences to the online environment and incorporating digital elements that add value to the in store experience. Implementing the Infinite Commerce model requires operational and organizational changes from brands and retailers to improve the consumer experience. Consumers will be able to snap a picture of any object and purchase it directly. Image, sound or video recognition technology locates the product. And the brand ships the product directly to the consumer. The end result of this implementation is that the consumer will experience Beauty on Demand.
This new model, Infinite Commerce, conveys a continuous cycle of commerce. It addresses the key desires of consumers, utilizes technology to create commercial opportunities everywhere and allows consumers to opt in for high touch experiences when needed.
Brick and mortar locations will continue to be a dominant retail channel for the beauty industry, but in order to grow, they will need to evolve. They should introduce meaningful digital technology to the in store environment and evolve the format of the in store channel with the end goal of creating a more customized, enjoyable experience that encourages increased consumer engagement and interaction with beauty.
Julie Bornstein, CMO of Sephora has said, "The key is to figure out where technology can add to the physical experience, rather than focusing on just the appeal of an iPad sitting in a store (that wears off quickly)" (Bornstein, 2013). Retailers and brands must bring high tech to the offline channel to elevate the consumer experience by guaranteeing the most appropriate selection, encouraging discovery and ultimately driving more sales.
Facial recognition and predictive analytics technology will revolutionize the in store experience. Installations at counter will recognize and synthesize your consumer profile, based on publicly accessible information. It can then recommend products that will work for a consumer's unique beauty needs. As a result, each virtual beauty advisor consultation can be customized and will never start from square one. Layering meaningful digital technology to augment the in store environment is just the beginning of transforming the in store experience.
The next phase of the evolution of the physical beauty retailer will be the introduction of new, smaller-format boutiques. These boutiques can be located as free standing stores or can pop up within other locations like hotels and airports. Proximity will continue to be a crucial factor as 75% of all purchases are made within 15 miles of consumers' homes (Joyce, 2012). Consumers are beginning to see the big-box store format as impersonal and overwhelming and there has been a return to "shopping small" with an emergence of localized boutiques. Consumers have always felt their relationship with retailers needs to be genuine and personal and are looking to establish stronger relationships where they shop (Yarrow, 2012). Macy's and Walmart have already begun to capitalize on this trend and have introduced smaller, more localized initiatives, through My Macy's and Walmart Express. My Macy's directs consumers to the best location based on their zip code and products they are looking for to make the hunt for something specific easier ("My Macy's Shop Ahead," 2013). Walmart Express is the smaller store format now being offered by the biggest of the big-box retailers, to allow consumers more localized, convenient access, still at the signature everyday low prices ("New Walmart Express Store Opens in Princeton," 2013).
The product assortment and services offered in smaller format boutiques will be customized to the clientele so the selection will vary according to location. Digitally enabling stores will make this possible. Merchandise can be selected and ordered based on local community demographics and shopping habits. The stores will all have WiFi and will be enabled with Geofencing technology (which "works by defining a virtual boundary around a real-world geographical area. In doing so, a radius of interest is established that can trigger an action in a geo-enabled phone or other portable electronic device," ("Geofencing," 2013). As consumers shop their personal mobile devices will be synched with the store's database, allowing the staff to immediately understand their interests and needs, thereby providing the appropriate products. Consumers will discover and explore new product and service offerings which will inspire incremental purchases they may not have located in traditional big-box formats.
Another key to the evolution of the physical store environment is leveraging artificial intelligence technological capabilities, which can be combined with advancements in facial recognition tools in store. This will produce an elevated and curated offline shopping experience because retailers will have more relevant information than ever before. The evolution of traditional brick and mortar to a more localized and curated approach to retail, will further enhance the consumer shopping experience, leading to increased sales.
The online channel is lagging behind brick and mortar in beauty sales because it does not replicate the high touch experience of the in store environment. Today, the online beauty commercial environment is very flat with static pictures of products and few tools to help consumers make purchase decisions. The high touch experience, which is essential to beauty, is nonexistent because consumers do not have the ability to experiment with products and get the same level of service that is provided in stores. The toys and games category enjoys one of the highest penetrations of online sales in the U.S. at 13.9%, so it is an interesting industry to watch for digital innovation ("Emergence of S Commerce," 2013, 60). Video gaming, in particular, is a category that was once very static and flat within the home entertainment category. With various systems striving to offer gamers better experiences through their television sets, Xbox revolutionized the video gaming industry with the introduction of Kinect, which allows the player to be the controller, physically inserting the player into the gaming experience. This same concept will be replicated in the future of beauty e- commerce.
By the end of 2013, an estimated 29.3% of U.S. households will have a TV connected to the internet through either an internet-enabled smart TV, game-console or other device ("Demographics," 2013). Penetration is on the rise too as it is projected that by 2016, 43.1% of U.S. households will have a TV connected to the internet. The tools to experience beauty in a high touch format already exist in consumers' homes and are on the rise.
The online retail environment will replicate the high touch store environment through an interactive screen experience. Motion-activated technology will allow consumers to literally browse aisles of products and make selections for purchase directly from the screen. Brands and retailers will have the opportunity to use this platform to invite consumers to experience their best and most unique stores. It introduces a new type of exploration for two reasons. Consumer interaction with products will evolve into an environment that replicates the engaging layout of a store as well as the opportunity to enjoy "entering" and experiencing far-flung boutiques such as the Chanel flagship in Paris or the new Sephora flagship in Shanghai.


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Admit it. You enjoyed your Mother's Day brunches and dinners yesterday, but you feel stuffed.
You overindulged yourself.
Now that the sun is out and the temperature is rising, it's the perfect time to kick-start your eating and fitness regimen.
Take part 2 of our pop quiz to re-acquaint yourself with some health facts:
1. You've been told over and over that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Which breakfast -- each identical in calories -- is most likely to keep you feeling fuller longer?
A. One bowl of instant oatmeal
B. One bowl of steel cut oatmeal
C. One vegetable omelette and fruit
You might be surprised to learn C is the correct answer. Harvard's Dr. David Ludwig examined overweight teens, feeding them different breakfasts of equal calories. The teens who ate the veggie omelette breakfast reportedly ate less for the rest of the day. Meanwhile, the teens who ate the instant oatmeal ate the most (81 per cent more) for the rest of the day. The lesson here? Make sure your meals contain carbohydrates combined with protein, fibre and fat. The combo helps you metabolize your meal more slowly, likely leading to feeling more full and satisfied with your meal. That means you'll likely eat less. Of course, the bowl of steel cut oats is still high in nutrition, but perhaps combining it with a handful of nuts and or a few scrambled egg whites would have helped curb hunger better. Instant oats -- especially the sugar-laden flavoured kind -- can raise blood sugar levels quickly, instigating the release of excess insulin that leads to hunger and metabolic chaos.
2. If you're exercising at a moderate intensity, what should you drink during your workout?
A. A sports drink with electrolytes
B. Water
C. Half orange juice, half water and a pinch of salt
Water is the best hydrator if you're working out at a low to moderate intensity for an hour or less, say most exercise scientists. Gulping Gatorade or other types of sugary sports drinks is unnecessary and can even lead to weight gain. Opt for sports drinks if you're working at a high intensity for an hour or more -- or if you're working out for a short, but intense session. (High intensity exercise means you can't carry on a conversation during your workout and are panting when you try to speak.) Sports drinks can replace valuable minerals you lose in your sweat thereby keeping you hydrated longer. They also give you a dose of energy in the form of quick-acting carbs. You can make your own, low-cost sports drink by mixing orange juice with water and adding a pinch of salt.
3. You pride yourself on limiting your sugar intake because you know the substance isn't so good for your health. Which of the following foods contains the most sugar?
A. One tablespoon strawberry jam
B. One tablespoon of pure maple syrup with no artificial flavours
C. One tablespoon of granulated white sugar
All of the above foods contain the same amount of sugar -- about 13 grams in a tablespoon. Honey contains even more sugar -- about 17 grams in a tablespoon. While it's true that strawberry jam, pure maple syrup and honey contain trace amounts of other nutrients, the bottom line is this: sugar is sugar, no matter what form in come in. All of the above forms of sugar have the same effects on your pancreas, your blood sugar levels and your tooth health.
4. You've seen the advertisements and have heard the hype about Greek yogurt. It may be better for you than other yogurts because:
A. It's made by hand in small batches and with less artificial ingredients than regular yogurt
B. It's richer, yet lower in fat than regular yogurt
C. It's higher in protein than regular yogurt
If you chose C, you're correct. Greek yogurt is higher in protein than regular yogurt. Where regular yogurt may contain nine grams of protein in a 3/4-cup serving, the same amount of Greek yogurt could contain more than 20. Greek yogurt seems to be all the rage these days and for good reason.
You can get it with various fat counts, but even the non-fat version of Greek yogurt is extra thick and high in muscle-building protein. That's because of the process of making it. (With yogurt labelling, the adjective "Greek" refers to the way it's made, not necessarily where it's made). After the milk and/or cream to make yogurt is heated and enriched with live bacterial cultures, it is strained in a fine filter. This removes the water and the whey. The result is a yogurt that contains double the protein, just because it's more concentrated. It's also extra thick and doesn't require added thickeners such as gelatin, guar gum and carrageenan that are sometimes found in conventional North American yogurt. Nevertheless, there are some Greek yogurt brands that still add artificial thickeners to their products. If you want the best stuff, avoid yogurt with such thickeners.
5. Now that spring is here and produce is more plentiful, you're looking forward to cooking some for you and your family. Which cooking method will best retain your vegetables' nutrients?
A. Steaming on stovetop
B. Boiling in water
C. Roasting/baking in oven
Researchers say water is the worst enemy of cooked veggies; it leaches many of the nutrients out of them so they end up in the cooking water rather than in the produce. So instead of boiling your carrots and cauliflower, cook them on the stovetop in a colander placed over a pot of boiling water until they are just tender. (The steam from the boiling water does all the work while the boiling water never actually touches the vegetables). The next most nutrient-retaining cooking method for veggies, according to a study published in the Journal of Food Science, is baking in the oven and grilling. Both are methods that require no water. While it's true that heat diminishes certain nutrients, some such as lycopene in tomatoes, are actually enhanced by cooking. Keep in mind that boiling your veggies in soup is fine; whatever nutrients are leached out end up in the delicious soup broth.
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JAY McEveley might have been frustrated at having to sit out four Swindon Town matches through suspension but the full-back has revealed that his three-week lay-off has flown by.
McEveley was banned following his dismissal in the first leg of Town's Johnstone's Paint Trophy area final tie against Peterborough United on February 5 after colliding with Posh striker Britt Assombalonga.
He has since missed the 3-2 win at Port Vale, the stalemate against Colchester, last week's penalty shoot-out heartbreak to Peterborough and the weekend defeat at Leyton Orient but returns to the Swindon squad for the visit of Crawley Town this evening.
"It's gone quickly, actually, with the games coming thick and fast," he said. "It's been frustrating, not being able to get out there and help the lads but I'm glad it's gone quick and I'm back available now."
McEveley said he could understand why he had been shown his marching orders at London Road.
"My eyes were on the ball. I was on the other side of the pitch, I'd just taken a free-kick, the keeper's got it and threw it out and I'm just running, looking at the ball. I didn't see him there and just went for the ball," he said.
"The way the game is now it probably is a sending-off, but it's not if you know what I mean. You just can't do anything now days. I've learnt my lesson, I'll go in with my head next time and get six stitches instead."
McEveley still believes Town can reach the play-offs, despite sitting seven points behind Peterborough, who currently occupy sixth place in the table.
"We haven't given up at all. We've got 14 games left and we've got to give everything," he said. "We can beat anyone, we can go on a run and if we do that we can get in the play-offs.
"It's not like we're sitting in 14th or 15th position and it's a long shot to get in the play-offs. We're there, we just need a little run together."


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Gus Van Sant—whose fascination with emptiness has manifested itself in everything from those long, arid stretches of Gerry, to his uninspired remake of Psycho, to working with Taylor Lautner—has now set his sights on the equally barren Fifty Shades Of Grey, the novel that is to literature and romance what the subjects of Elephant are to high schools. And to land his dream job of tackling this Holy Grail of emotional blankness, Van Sant reportedly "shot a steamy sex scene" from the book unsolicited, casting the appropriately vacuous Alex Pettyfer as billionaire Christian Grey, and having him and an unknown actress act out the moment where sort-of-heroine Anastasia Steele loses her virginity, announcing her blossoming into womanhood with an erotic "Aargh!"
Neither Van Sant nor Pettyfer are officially involved with the adaptation, of course—though possibly in their favor, the film is being produced through Focus Features, which previously teamed with Van Sant on Milk and Promised Land, and Universal, which just hired Pettyfer for its remake of Endless Love. Still, The Wrap suggests that Van Sant being in the running "confirms the producers' intentions to hire a high-class filmmaker to deliver a tasteful adaption" of the Twilight fan-fiction porn where a man pulls out a woman's tampon and inserts anal beads.
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This is more a question not a comment. As the Project PICS stored on my MAC grow to close to 10,000 PICS I am wondering what other ASP's & ASPM's do with the outdated PICS. Please comment & send feedback!
I never have the time to go through all of my PICS in order to create order. Apparently, the situation is only going to expound as I take (and save more PICS.
Any suggestions? Storing them on CD seems so last year! HA HA!
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This is one of our kettle-dyed semi-solid yarns that are rich and savory. Order them in 50g, 100g kettle-dyed, or 150g kettle-dyed skeins to coordinate beautifully with our gradient yarns or our speckled handpainted yarns. Every kettle-dyed skein is immersed in at least two dye baths of different colors to give it a rich, deep semi-solid hue. Gorgeous, hand-dyed yarns in saturated colors work up into beautiful and satisfying projects.
*Like the Sea After a Storm Kettle-Dyed Semi-Solid* is one of out odes to The Princess Bride. Westley is "poor and perfect, with eyes like the sea after a storm. We love Westley almost as much as Buttercup does, we just had to make another color in honor of him.
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EXCITED children are already anticipating the arrival of Santa as he makes his annual tour of Kendal's housing estates.
The Kendal and District Lions Club will be escorting Father Christmas on his sleigh from next Wednesday.
This year's tour will begin on Wednesday December 12 on Burneside Road and Briery Meadow.
The tour itinerary is as follows: December 12, Burneside Road and Briery Meadow from 6pm; December 13, Kendal Parks from 6pm; December 14, Oxenholme and the Oaks from 6pm; December 15, Wattsfield and Collinfield from 6pm; December 16, Asda from 2pm to 4pm; December 16, Parkside Road and Castle Estate from 5pm; December 17, Sandylands from 6pm; December 18, Burneside from 6pm; December 19, Asda from 6pm to 8pm; December 20, Kirkbarrow from 6pm; December 21, Valley Drive from 6pm; December 22, Rinkfield and Heron Hill from 5pm; December 23, Vicarage Park and Underwood from 5pm; December 24, Asda from 2pm to 4pm.
The Lions will be supported this year by other nominated local charity groups, including Derian House, the Boys' Brigade, the Lads and Girls' Club, 1st Holme Scouts; Sandgate Hydrotherapy Pool, Sandylands Methodist Church, the King's Food Bank, Kirkbarrow Residents' Association, Kendal Air Cadets, Kendal Mountain Rescue and the Kendal Army Cadet Force.


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WITH the last game of the season looming on Saturday as the 11-6 Montreal Alouettes will visit the 5-12 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Bombers head coach Tim Burke said he is no closer to knowing his future with the team.
Burke, who stepped into the head coach's role on an interim basis after the football club fired Paul LaPolice on Aug. 25, has a 3-6 record with the team he inherited.
"I don't know. It's completely up to Garth (CEO Buchko) and Joe (GM Mack) and the board," Burke said.
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BURKE brought out a hand-written list of injuries on Monday to meet with the media, noting there's so many he can't remember them all.
In addition to quarterback Buck Pierce, who has a shoulder injury, the following players will miss Saturday's game: RB Chad Simpson (foot), RB Will Ford (shoulder), SB Terrence Edwards (foot), R Isaac Anderson (shoulder). Others who could possibly miss the game and will be evaluated as the week goes on include DB Demond Washington, DB Johnny Sears, QB Joey Elliott, DL Bryant Turner, DL Kenny Mainor and DL Jason Vega.
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THERE was a vote of confidence from the coach for backup quarterback Joey Elliott, who came into last Saturday's loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to relieve Pierce after he was injured.
Elliott, who has a 2-5 record as Winnipeg's starting quarterback, completed just 14 of 29 pass attempts for 126 yards and an interception against the Tiger-Cats.
"I think he's got a chance to be a full-time quarterback in this league. He's progressed throughout the year," Burke said. "I don't think he had his greatest game this last week.
"But I do think that Joey has a chance to be a starting quarterback in this league."
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Not only does Best Buy love apple, they seem to hate everyone else. Take a look at this "display stand" at a Best Buy store. I wont name the store, this is absolutely unacceptable that a retail giant like Best Buy runs this kind of operation. I went here looking for the Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus and I wanted to take a second look at the Galaxy Note ( the 4.0 because the 5.0 was just too clunky looking) to my dismay, here's what the Samsung Display looked like. On display that had a Galaxy Tab 10.1 that would not power on so I dont know if it had a dead batter or it was broken. they had a Galaxy Tab 8.9. on the other side of the table they had labels for the Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus and the Galaxy Player 5.0 but neither device was on the display. under the table were a few misc accessories. When I asked one of the employees, "what's up with the display and were are the devices" she said that they were out of stock. when I asked her what that means and why do they have a display of they're out of stock, she said that they were sold out. Of course she was lying, they were NOT sold out, they just neglected to properly display them. So I march her over to the Apple section and sure enough everything was pristine and shinny and waiting for customers. Please note that this is no reflection on Samsung or Best Buy as a whole, but that particular store and its employees (if I can say all that on ModMyi)
Now the employee saying it was out of stock when it wasnt is dumb, im sure best buy management would have a field day for saying something like that...(so what store was it? )
Best Buy's policy of requiring ID for ALL returns prevents me from shopping there. Their databases have been hacked at least twice that I know of. If they record my ID with Driver's License Number, Address, Issue Date, Expiration date, etc. and the system is hacked, I am now vulnerable to Identity Theft. If I used a credit card to make my purchase, it is not even more likely for someone to steal my identity (at least my credit card and charge stuff to it at the bare minimum, as they would have my name and address as well).If they continue to have this policy, they should go out of business. This added to the fact that they have no customer service skills and definitely do not have skilled staff when it comes to computers can definitely explain why they have been struggling. This doesn't even touch the fact that they have higher prices than many online options.
I WORK at BEST BUY and Only reason it may show that best buy loves apple is cause apple pays best buy to have more showing (more advertising space instore). If samsung did the same thing then samsung would have as big if not bigger stands. As well as why would best buy be an apple lover, its because 1/6th of best buys TOTAL REVENUE it makes in an ENTIRE YEAR comes from apple products ALONE. Thats ALOT of money.
CMWADE The IRS has been hacked a dozen times in the last 3 years. Doing your taxes is enough for you to have identity theft lol. As for ID Returns, they are only legally aloud to take down your name and adress, not your drivers ID number ect... which would be big in the identity theft part.
As for struggling? what are you talking about? Best buy has been in the + profits every year for the past 5 years. Even with the recession. lol wow you're a noob on this topic lol.
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Alexevo lol wow... "you're" just as bad since NOOB has NOTHING and i mean NOTHING to do with spelling lol
Best Buy is the only store with an official Apple section (outside of Apple, which probably goes without saying). Makes sense that they would be pushing something like this.
This is exactly why chain retail stores are hated by alot of people, I can't stand them or their employees. These stores tell their employees to sell whatever product paid the most for advertising and not what is best for the customer, and unfortunetly there is a large portion of customers who do not know what they want and fall prey to the sales vultures. Absolutely disgusting, I urge everyone who is new to buying phones or tablets to do your research before you go into a chain store and buy what you "need" and avoid the vultures.
Btw, Best Buy pays Apple substantial quantities of u/t cash to set up shop in Best Buy, not the other way around. The second that Samsung has the marketshare and demand Apple does, I'm sure Best Buy will whore themselves out to Samsung.
Keep it real y'all.
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PROJECTS: Having wrapped touring with her band, She & Him, the singer and actress revives her search for Mr. Right this month as quirky Jess on New Girl.
SHE WORE: Deschanel stepped into the studio wearing a dark blue Sandro peacoat; a Tommy Hilfiger blouse; an Escada skirt; and a small, black patent Chanel cross-body bag.
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 12/27/12 -- Today, Nova Scotia's Department of Justice announced Major-General Blaise Cathcart, Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Armed Forces, as one of the Province's 2012 Queen's Counsel appointees.
The National Defence Act creates the position of Judge Advocate General. The Act also establishes that the Judge Advocate General superintends the administration of military justice in the Canadian Armed Forces and acts as legal advisor in matters relating to military law.
"The Queen's Counsel designation is achieved through exceptional merit and contribution to the legal profession," said the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence. "This prestigious appointment is a testament to Major-General Cathcart's professionalism, leadership, and devotion not only to the Canadian Armed Forces but to his home community."
Queen's Counsel appointments are a way to recognize the contribution of outstanding Nova Scotia lawyers who must, as a minimum, have 15 years in good standing as a member of the Bar Society of Nova Scotia, have made strong personal contributions to their communities and to the legal professions, and who must have also received the respect of their peers.
"An appointment to the Queen's Counsel holds both modern and historical significance," said General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff. "This designation recognizes Major-General Cathcart's outstanding legal career, his dedication to the legal profession and his commitment to the Canadian Armed Forces."
Queen's Counsel applications are reviewed by an advisory committee, chaired by a judge and composed of other lawyers with the Queen's Counsel designation.
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Corsair and OCZ: New Standards in Fast DDR2by Wesley Fink on 8/4/2006 5:50 AM EST
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Beaner - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkJust curious...
The picture of the Corsair DIMMs show the bottom one as 512MB.
Was the wrong one used for the photo? Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkThe model name is correct at the top of the sticker, so I'm guessing it's a pre-release sample and the "512MB" is simply a typo. As Wes mentions, it doesn't appear that Corsair has an equivalent 2x512MB kit (yet?). Reply
CrappyLuckMan - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkI would still like to see how budget DDR2-800 performs too. For some reason you guys left them out of the feeding the monster article. Do you guys think it's better to just go with value PC5300/5400 and overlock it? However, I would think you could overlock value DDR2-800 to around 1000mhz. In honesty I'm posting this out of selfishness since I ordered Corsair XMS2 1GB kit (my games I run never hit 1GB PF usage) TWIN2X1024-5400C4 4-4-4-12 1.9V for $108 is great for relatively low latency low voltage highly compatible ram.
Your articles with specifics such as voltage and latencies you use for stable overclocks really save us users some time and we thank you for that. Reply
CrappyLuckMan - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkOops made a bad com error. I should mention I meant to say it would be nice to compare which is better, lower latency lower voltage value pc5300/5400 or higher volt higher latency value pc6400 ram. Sorry tired from waiting on news for new motherboards last night lol. Reply
EarthsDM - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkWesley,
In the discussion of his article, "Conroe Buying Guide: Feeding the Monster" (July 19th, 2006) Gary Key replied to a question on G.Skill memory, saying "We still have additional memory selections from a variety of suppliers arriving for further memory reviews at this time." Is this what he meant, or are you guys going to review the G.Skill? I don't want to sound ungrateful for the reviews you do, but G.Skill is a memory that of a lot of us (system builders) are interested in because it seems to offer the best performance/price.
On a separate but related note, do you know when the next round of motherboard reviews will be posted? I'm sitting on some Core 2 Duos and I need systems to put them in for back-to-school. Thanks a bunch!
-EarthsDM Reply
Wesley Fink - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkWe have the latest G. Skill on the way. We will schedule a review when it arrives. Reply
EarthsDM - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkThanks! Reply
yacoub - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkThe enthusiast, by definition, is always looking for more - more speed, more power, more performance. The quest is for the best - performance so good and speeds so fast that no one can touch their results. You may even consider the enthusiast an elitist, but that is no different than the car enthusiast, a photography enthusiast, or any technology area where hobbyists can be found.
Well that's your opinion and I'd disagree with it. Enthusiast does not always equal elitist (in fact it rarely does) nor a need to have the most expensive and latest item. One can be an enthusiast of cars without owning an exotic supercar. One can be a photography enthusiast without ever taking a picture, but simply appreciating the work of others.
I'm not picking a nit, but pointing out the fallacy that if you buy the most expensive and newest item you must be an ethusiast. On the contrary, (reviewers excluded) you're most likely just a sucker for marketing or poor monetary management.
Most computer enthusiasts for that matter are much more interested in building the best bang-for-the-buck system, not the most expensive one they can find, and generally not even using the latest parts. I would say the overclocker is the epitome of the computer enthusiast, as 'he' not only looks for the best performance but often elicits it 'him'self by taking budget parts and using 'his' knowledge and resources available, runs them at the speeds of much more expensive items, thus getting the best of both worlds - cost and performance.
Just a thought. Reply
Wesley Fink - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkThe most expensive is not always the best performance, as we have pointed out many times. The enthusiast seeks the best. The quest for best performance for "x" dollars is also seeking the best. So is overclocking a cheap part for best performnace.
I suppose my point was that the enthusiast is not one to "settle" for mediocrity or buy a cookie-cutter system. Your points are well taken and I am in basic agreement. Reply
yacoub - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkThen they aren't elistists, as elistist brings to mind a rich person who just buys the latest and greatest because 'it is'. Overclockers are economical people to a fault. The two don't match up, hence the discrepancy. =) Reply
epsilonparadox - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkThat also is your opinion. To me an elitist is someone who demands a higher standard that the common folk. An elitist to me in the computer industry is someone who buys items that he/she knows will raise the level of standards among his peers. The items this person purchases doesn't necessarily have to be the most expensive but usually demands a higher premium because of the proven value. Reply
yacoub - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkAlas, labeling one an "elitist" has a distinctly negative connotation to it, and that is not an opinion, that is simply how it is (fact, if you will).
e·lit·ism or é·lit·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-ltzm, -l-)
The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources.
The sense of entitlement enjoyed by such a group or class.
Control, rule, or domination by such a group or class.
n : someone who believes in rule by an elite group [ant: egalitarian]
So by discussing the term elitist, you further the point that those who seek the best bang for the buck are certainly not elitists in the commonly accepted sense. Not to mention your comment regarding a price premium also goes against the core ideology of the overclocker - ie, those who look for what is most cost-effective and NOT premiumly priced. Generally speaking they are items that (at least initially) are lesser-known and often rather cheap because their real potential is commonly unknown. If anything the nature of the overclocker is the opposite of your elitist, in that they are interested in taking common things and making them into superstars, instead of just buying premium-priced items that supposedly have better performance according to the manufacturer's marketing department. Reply
rjm55 - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkI want, therefore I have. Reply
araczynski - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkthanks for a good read, i agree that the overclocking scale is looks like its designed by some marketing group, stop using that kind of junk.
when shown in real scale those small differences are nothing. Reply
jmke - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkWould be cool to see the charts start at scale 0, which would show the rather small impact of overclocking/getting higher rated memory modules. With a scale starting close to the min. score, the increase shown in the chart is not quite realistically represented ;)
Did you run into weird results with: DDR2 PC4200 low timings vs DDR2 PC5300 medium/high timings ? Reply
Spacecomber - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkYour comment beat me too it. I also was going to chide Anandtech for producing charts that dont have a scale starting from 0. You should stick to tables, if all you are trying to do is show the number of points difference between one speed to the next. Reply
Wesley Fink - Friday, August 04, 2006 - linkTables are already included as a summary of results for each tested memory. The Corsir table is on page 4 and the OCZ on page 5. The charts are there to show the impact of memory speed scaling on performance, which is not well-illustrated in the table or in our common bar charts. We added a paragraph explaining that scales are reduced to better show the small differences in performance between these two memories.
You are both right that charts using zero-based scales will make the differences appear smaller than the reduced scale charts, but we were trying to compare the small differences in the Corsair and OCZ. We do prefer zero-based charts and an explanation was definitely needed. Reply
Googer - Saturday, August 05, 2006 - linkWith the performance of these DIMMs being about the same it really comes down to price, warranty, and reliablity as the deciding factors when you are shopping for RAM. Reply


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This article was published 4/6/2010 (2636 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
IN his last years as prime minister, Brian Mulroney could not figure out why the very same Canadians who had given him majority governments in 1984 and 1988, disdained him so much. His popularity in opinion polls had dropped to 11 per cent. Only one of his Conservative predecessors, R.B. Bennett, who had governed during the worst years of the Great Depression, likely had been less popular with voters.
Desperately needing some answers, Mulroney called journalist and author Peter C. Newman, whom he was then speaking to regularly for a proposed book about his years in office (which eventually became the basis of Newman's sensational 2005 book, The Secret Mulroney Tapes).
"Look it Peter," Mulroney said to Newman, "tell me the truth. What's going on? Why am I so unpopular?"
"Okay, Brian," Newman replied. "It's simple: nobody believes a word you say." Mulroney did not call Newman again for six weeks.
This past week, former Manitoba Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant concluded the same thing as Newman. His inquiry report of Mulroney's backroom dealings with German businessman Karlheinz Schreiber stated that the former prime minister's version of events was not credible and labelled his actions "inappropriate."
A year out of office, Mulroney had willingly taken hundreds of thousands of dollars stuffed in envelopes, claimed that the money was a business retainer, and then only paid income tax on these funds when he was compelled to do so. On top of that, in 1997 he received $2.1 million when a lawsuit against the federal Liberal government was settled in his favour largely, we know now, on misleading testimony he gave about his true relationship with Schreiber.
In short, Mulroney has dug himself into such a hole that it is truly impossible to believe anything he says.
For a prime minister who cared so much about history and his own legacy, this must be a bitter pill to swallow. That legacy has been seemingly tainted and tarnished beyond all reprieve.
Ambitious and possessing a sizable ego, Mulroney arrived in Ottawa in 1984 obsessed with his own stature and place in Canadian history. Politically, that was a strategic error. Mulroney cared to the point of distraction what literally every reporter, whether it was from the national media or the Bugle-Observer in Woodstock, N.B., wrote or commented about him.
More telling was Mulroney's determination to eclipse Pierre Trudeau.
Mulroney resented the respect and adulation accorded Trudeau. (It later bothered Mulroney to no end that in rankings of Canada's prime ministers, historians routinely rated Trudeau higher than him.)
Like a school boy, he kept score, later reporting how he had received superior treatment in Moscow from Soviet officials than Trudeau had when he had visited Russia.
Where Trudeau had failed with Quebec, Mulroney would be victorious -- or so he believed. Instead, his bold attempt to resolve the Quebec constitutional conundrum, which gave rise to the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords, is today remembered kindly as "what might have been," and more frequently as a great debacle.
When Mulroney left office in 1993, a few years before the Schreiber affair erupted, he was proudest of having given Canada the free trade agreement and the not-so-popular but fiscally necessary GST. He had accomplished a lot.
"Brian Mulroney was one of Canada's most activist prime ministers and ought to be remembered for some real accomplishments, such as the crusade against apartheid in South Africa, the anti-acid rain campaign in North America and of course the free trade agreement," Peter C. Newman says today. "His problem was that he wanted to be loved instead of being satisfied with being respected."
He departed Ottawa refusing to accept his unpopular reputation as a politician who was too slick for his own good.
"We came in with a lot of style, and we left with a lot of style, with a lot of fights in between, but this record is there and it's going to be hard to match," Mulroney said at the time. "I'm more than willing to sit back and let history takes its course. If I died tomorrow, I'd die a happy man. I did what I said I was going to try to do."
But Mulroney also left the Progressive Conservative Party weak and badly split, with the rise of the Reform Party and the Bloc Québécois. The utter demise of the Tories in the 1993 federal election was another consequence of the Mulroney legacy that required about a decade to partially repair.
The disgruntled western Canadians of the old Reform Party have returned to the Conservative Party fold, but the Bloc remains a powerful force in Quebec, making it difficult for either the Conservatives or the Liberals to obtain a majority government.
Other Canadian prime ministers have gotten into lots of trouble. Sir John A. Macdonald's legacy was stained by the Pacific Scandal. He was forced to resign over allegations that he took bribe money from magnate Sir Hugh Allan in exchange for the lucrative contract to build the CPR. Yet the wily Tory chieftain was back in power within five years.
In 1931, accusations of impropriety were raised against Liberal leader William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Liberal Party over $700,000 in election contributions the party had received from the Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Company, whose plans for a massive hydro-electric power development on the St. Lawrence River had been approved by the Liberal cabinet in an order-in-council in the spring of 1929, about a year before the election (which King and the Liberals lost).
King, who pleaded ignorance, received a public rebuke over this matter and, like Macdonald, returned to office victoriously in 1935, putting the Beauharnois Scandal far behind him.
With Brian Mulroney, the charges are more serious and the acts more seedy.
No historian will ever be able to write about him again without considering the whole sordid Schreiber affair. And Mulroney already has to live down the crude image of him as profane, vulgar and overbearing as revealed by Newman.
Still, history is endlessly reinterpreted and the motivations and actions of its key players re-evaluated.
Monica Lewinsky has already become nothing but a minor footnote in the career of U.S. president Bill Clinton, in the same way that John F. Kennedy's sexual peccadilloes have seemingly not damaged his legacy. Even Richard Nixon, the only American president to resign in disgrace, has been rehabilitated in recent books and films.
In his new biography of R.B. Bennett, Ontario historian John Boyko has done the impossible: He has almost made the Conservative prime minister, a notoriously arrogant bully, a bit more likeable, portraying him as "the rebel who challenged and changed a nation." Boyko nearly pulls off this act of historical sleight of hand by stressing Bennett's accomplishments and down-playing all those nasty attributes that made him so unloved.
So can the impossible happen? Fifty years from now, a young Canadian historian, examining the "big picture" might decide to reinterpret the career of Brian Mulroney and, incredibly as it sounds, arrive at the conclusion that the Schreiber affair and those cash-filled envelopes were largely irrelevant to Mulroney's larger achievements. "Lyin' Brian" might not yet stand the test of time.
Winnipeg historian Allan Levine's most recent book is Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba, which won the McNally-Robinson Book of the Year. His next book, By the Hand of Destiny: The Life of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's Greatest and Most Peculiar Prime Minister, will be published in the fall of 2011.


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You have only two more days to post your comments about Reef Fish Amendment 39, the instrument that could, if enacted, change the way recreational fishermen take red snapper from the Gulf of Mexico.
RFA 39 deals with regional management of red snapper for recreational fishermen, and the ongoing battle between recreational fishermen and the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council makes it even more important you make your wishes known.
The quickest way to do that is via website: http://tinyurl.com/8gzj87p.
Here's what you need to know: The amendment is designed to hand over control of recreational red snapper to the five Gulf states.
Last year, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries stepped up to the plate first with a plan to manage red snapper off our coast, and set creel limits and seasons to take what state biologists and fishery managers believe is our 15 percent share of the recreational take of red snapper.
In June, the GMFMC moved to request the LDWF provide its regional management plan along with a plan to develop Gulf-wide regional management.
Since then, the GMFMC's staff developed a "scoping" document that would outline alternatives, define regions, determine allocations and other management plans. It was followed by staffs from the five states agreeing to demand the council study regional management.
So, today, from Louisiana's each-state plan, the scoping document identifies five regions and asks for other public comment about the plan. (A GMFMC member confirmed last week that the other four state's plans maps were drawn by council staff to water down and further confuse the issue.)
From here, the best is that each state manage its own waters, even the waters out into what the federals consider to be "their" water, the distance from state water boundaries out to the country's claim at 200 miles.
For Louisiana, the best is that we manage our seasons and daily limits according to what the scoping document calls "biological abundance," not the other choices of "historical landings data" or "angler abundance."
And each state's fishery agency should get the money the GMFMC uses to manage this fishery. Problem is nothing will be done this year, and we can only hope that this plan will be in place for 2014.


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Australians need to prepare for more prolonged heatwaves in 2013, according to a Bureau of Meteorology climatologist.
With the mercury set to soar to 43C on Tuesday, which some experts say could be the hottest day in Australian history, Dr David Jones told News Ltd "the odds are stacking in favour of an above average summer in Australia".
"We know these heatwaves are increasing, with more hyper days, and one of the features is we are going to get more record high temperature days," he said.
"We are still fairly early in summer. Australia has been hot for about four-and-a-half months and we are still not in the hottest period of summer."
The country's record national average temperature is 40.17C, which was reached on December 21, 1972.


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There's now a phone number you can call any time with questions about literacy programs in Lancaster County.
The Lancaster Area Literacy Cooperative (LALC) recently debuted its literacy hotline, (803) 286-READ (7323).
That number will allow you to receive information about any of the 13 local agencies partnering with LALC.
If you're out of town, you can call toll free at (877) 775-READ (7323).
Kathy White is glad Lancaster City Council has rescinded a recent decision to annex 121 acres of land into the city limits.
On Feb. 23, council voted unanimously on final reading to annex two tracts of property adjacent to Forest Hills subdivision and Partridge Hill subdivision near West Meeting Street.
The land, owned by St. Katherine Properties, LLC, had been given an interim zoning of R-10, a residential district that requires 10,000 square feet per lot. An R-15 classification, though, is less dense, required 15,000 squire feet per lot.
The University of South Carolina at Lancaster's Native-American Studies Program will kick off its fifth annual Native American Studies Week on March 27 with a festival highlighting Native-American art and culture in South Carolina.
The event will feature American-Indian dancing, drumming, storytelling and arts and crafts demonstrations. Vendors will be on hand selling Native-American art and crafts, including Catawba Indian pottery.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a 2-month-old baby at a Springdale Road home on Wednesday.
According to a sheriff's office incident report, deputies responded to the home and talked with the 25-year-old father.
The man said he got out of bed and went into the living room about 10:45 a.m. to watch television with his two other children. He said he took the comforter from the bed and made a pallet on the living room floor so he and the other two children could lie on the floor, the report said.
County Council will discuss a potential high school firefighter program at its meeting Monday.
Council will hear a presentation about the proposed four-credit elective class from Lancaster County Emergency Management Director Morris Russell.
The proposal calls for starting the program in two local high schools and expand it to other schools if needed.
County Administrator Steve Willis said if the county adopts the new program, students could become certified firefighters upon completion of the course.
A grievance hearing for former Lancaster Police Department Sgt. Pat Parsons has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday.
The hearing will be held in council chambers at Lancaster City Hall, 216 S. Catawba St.
Parsons, 50, was fired March 2 after complaints from Angela Thompson and her son, LaDarius Truesdale, 18, that stated that Parsons used obscene language and threatened Truesdale and his family as Parsons investigated a case involving a stolen scooter.
A Lancaster man was arrested on drug charges after a traffic stop by county drug officers on Thursday that yielded more than 6 pounds of marijuana and $20,000.
Lepoleon Hall, 32, of 927 Louisa St., has been charged by the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute marijuana within proximity of a park.
According to a press release, drug officers serving arrest warrants in the Central Avenue area saw Hall driving and knew that his driver's license was suspended.
Three Lancaster men, including one wanted in a shooting last month, were arrested after a traffic stop in the parking lot of Crenco on South Main Street on Monday.
Demarcus Antoine Samuel, 20, of 122-A Pleasant Hill St., was charged by the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office with unlawful carrying of a handgun, possession of marijuana and no turn signal.
MiQuavis Jamar Cunningham, 19, of 305 N. Market St., was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana.
• 1999 – The Mulvaney Group begins putting together an 800-acre development it called St. Katherine's.
• July 2002 – Property zoned Planned Development District (PDD) 8 at the request of the Mulvaney Group/St. Katherine's.
• September 2004 – County Ordinance 623 creates special tax-assessment district for St. Katherine's.
KERSHAW " Officials say a fire at a vacant industrial building in Kershaw is suspicious.
Several fire departments from Lancaster and Kershaw counties battled a blaze at the vacant building on Little Dude Avenue in Kershaw on Wednesday night.
The fire started about 3:30 p.m. at the vacant tin building across from ECN Inc.
Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile said the fire is suspicious, but has not been ruled an arson.
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ADRIAN, Mich. - An area of Adrian was closed off Friday when several gallons of acid spilled.
At 9 a.m., Adrian police and fire officials had closed roads and asked people to stay away from the area of East Maumee and Gulf streets.
A barrel containing 30-35 gallons of nitric acid starting giving off gas after reacting with a small amount of sodium hydroxide.
There was no immediate threat to the public, but officials said the closures were necessary to get the area cleaned up.
It was cleared just after 1 p.m.
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