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After starting several businesses on the side, helping others with their own online stores and running this blog for a couple of years now, I've come to recognize certain patterns and character traits that define success and failure.
Running a successful business isn't just about luck. It's not just about taking the leap of faith. It's not about having the perfect plan or finding the perfect niche.
It's about how you deal with problems as they arise. It's about how you adapt to certain situations when things don't go your way.
The problem most new entrepreneurs face is that it's hard to distinguish between good and bad investments of your time. It's difficult to know when to go cheap and when to splurge.
And for control freaks like myself, it's overwhelming when you first realize that there are a bunch of problems you can't fix on your own.
For me, nothing went as planned for any of my online ventures yet they all eventually turned out to be quite profitable.
Even though I don't consider myself an uber entrepreneur trying to start the next big company, I've come to realize that there are certain attributes and traits that can greatly increase your chances for business success at any level.
Here's what I've learned over the years running my various businesses.
Go In With An Open Mind
Probably the most important thing I've learned is to not rule out any strategy or plan of action no matter how you feel about it. Ultimately, your success is determined by what works and not your personal biases.
I've helped many people with their online stores over the years and the ones who have failed to gain any traction with their businesses have been the ones who weren't willing to try new things or invest additional money into making necessary improvements.
Change is tough. I get it. But if you don't change and adapt, you're going to be overtaken.
For example, I had one reader email me wondering why their site wasn't making any sales. And since I wanted to help, I wrote up a long email detailing what needed to change about his website in order for him to even have a chance for success.
And even though I offered very detailed advice, the reader didn't listen to a word I said. What's worse is that he became extremely defensive and started attacking my suggestions! Just before writing this article, I went to check out his store and he still has the same crappy website up even though it's been over a year since we spoke.
Don't Be Cheap
Maybe it's because I was brought up this way, but I'm pretty damn cheap. In general, I'm reluctant to buy or to sign up for anything that requires me to spend my hard earned cash especially if it's for something that I can make or do myself.
Specifically, I detest paying for services that require a monthly subscription fee. So whenever there's a tool or a piece of software that is supposed to increase my business productivity, I either rationalize to myself why it's a waste of money or I try to write the same piece of software by myself.
In fact, I would still be the same cheap bastard today if it weren't for Aweber.
For all of you that don't know what Aweber is, it's an email marketing service. When I first heard of Aweber, I could not understand why anyone would pay someone else to send email.
After all, email is free and you can send as much as you want from your server without paying a dime. So, I tried to write my own email marketing software from scratch.
And guess what happened? All of the email coming from my crappy email program either got blocked or sent to spam no matter who I sent it to.
Managing email campaigns became a nightmare. After keeping my mail program on life support for several months, I decided to sign up for an email marketing service and tried MailChimp.
Why? Because MailChimp was FREE for the first 2000 subscribers. Starting to see a pattern here?
After a while, I realized that Mailchimp wasn't going to cut it for me either (You can read my full review of MailChimp Vs Aweber here), so I decided to shell out a whole dollar to try out Aweber.
Man! What a difference it was. Customers actually were able to receive the emails I was sending. And there were a ton of features that would've taken me months to implement and test.
In any case, signing up for Aweber opened my eyes and I realized that I shouldn't be wasting time trying to reinvent the wheel.
Be Ready To Adapt Because Your Initial Plans Will Fail
When my wife and I first launched our online store, I had an elaborate plan to get customers in the door that I thought was foolproof! In fact, most of our early revenue assumptions hinged on this one strategy.
The plan was to launch a bunch of Ebay auctions with our products, include a link to our online store in the item description and offer a discount if the purchase was made outside of Ebay.
That way, customers would shop at our online store directly and we could avoid Ebay's ridiculous transaction fees. Little did I know that this was against Ebay's policies.
After almost getting our Ebay account banned, we frantically scrambled to come up with other traffic generation strategies. In fact, most of our initial customer acquisition plans failed and we had to start from scratch at least 2 or 3 times.
I had a similar experience when I first launched MyWifeQuitHerJob.com. I had an elaborate strategy to get traffic from social media sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit etc…
The master plan was to make as many friends as possible on Facebook and leverage these friends to help me vote my articles up.
Ultimately, this plan failed for 2 reasons. One, none of my friends knew what social media was and didn't want to sign up a for a service they weren't going to use.
Two, nobody was willing to vote up my articles on a regular basis. In the end, I had to do a complete 180 and build up this blog the old fashioned way. I had to write good content, reach out to other bloggers and ingratiate myself within the blogging community.
Follow Through And Give It Time
Even though my wife and I managed to make 6 figures with our store in the span of a year, we almost called it quits after the first month or so.
Sales were only coming in at a small trickle and we didn't want to invest a lot of time into a business idea that couldn't make a "full time income". But I'm glad we stuck with it because business didn't start growing exponentially until about the 6 month mark.
Same story with this blog. Traffic didn't start picking up until well over the one year mark had passed. For a while, I wondered if anyone out there was reading my stuff at all. The point is that you need to be committed to whatever business you decide to pursue.
Make sure you pick a business that you can or are willing to maintain for a very long time. Either make a long term commitment or don't even bother trying.
The fact is that most people give up on their idea long before it has a chance to blossom. To a certain extent, the point at which your business will skyrocket is somewhat dependent on luck.
Sometimes you just have to stick around long enough to cash in. For example, our online store got a huge boost when we were featured in Real Simple magazine. Randomly, someone over there contacted us asking to feature a few of our items and we happily obliged.
Had we closed up shop early, we would have completely missed out on this free marketing opportunity.
Don't Be Stagnant
Bottom line, the secret to success is to constantly try new things and to avoid becoming stagnant. What I love about entrepreneurship and business is that the landscape is constantly changing. You have to try hard and keep up otherwise someone else will overtake you.
So whatever you do, don't coddle yourself. If s$%@ ain't happening, don't rationalize it. If things aren't working out now, they aren't going to magically get better without your intervention. The willingness to change makes all the difference.
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The third day of the trial of James Michael Wells, who has been charged with murder for allegedly killing two U.S. Coast Guard members in 2012, began with testimony from the Coast Guard officer who discovered the dead, bloodied bodies of his coworkers.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Cody Jay Beauford testified he entered his workplace and headed for his desk in a room labeled break room. Inside, he said he found the body of James Hopkins, nearly in the fetal position with his hands resting on his head.
"My first thought was someone was trying to play a practical joke on me," Beauford said. Jokes and pranks were not outside of what was considered appropriate, he said.
He tried to get a response from Hopkins, but there was none. On the table in the middle of the room was the dead man's work shirt. At the beginning of a shift, Hopkins would generally drink a cup of coffee and make the shirt conform to dress code by rolling up the sleeves, Beauford said.
After finding one coworker dead, the young officer went to the supervisors' office. There he found Richard Belisle shot and killed, he said. He once again tried to raise a response but was unsuccessful.
Motive, knowledge and opportunity
According to the charges, Wells worked with 41-year-old Hopkins and 51-year-old Belisle in what is called the "rigger shop," a repair shop of sorts near a communications building on the Kodiak Island Coast Guard base. Wells was a civilian employed by the Coast Guard, and in the year leading up to his coworkers' deaths, he'd allegedly been reprimanded on several occasions for problems with his work performance.
Wells allegedly entered the rigger shop shortly after 7 a.m. on April 12 and shot his coworkers with a .44 revolver, a firearm that does not dispense spent shells. He allegedly avoided cameras at the shop to slip in unnoticed.
The government argues Wells was the only person who had the motive, knowledge and opportunity to murder Hopkins and Belisle. Federal prosecutors are relying on circumstantial evidence in their effort to put Wells in prison for multiple murder and firearm charges. There is no physical evidence incriminating Wells, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said during opening statements Tuesday.
Workplace disagreements
Following Beauford's description of where he found the bodies, and his subsequent actions, which included calling a boss and asking for emergency responders, federal prosecutors focused on the rigger shop's work environment.
According to Beauford, Wells, a civilian Coast Guard worker who served as an antenna mechanic, was very knowledgeable but did not share his expertise willingly.
"A lot of times he wouldn't give up more than he had to," the officer said. "Working with him … I remember not always getting the whole picture."
Beauford mentioned disagreements surrounding how projects should be handled. In those instances, there were arguments, but those never escalated beyond heated discussion. No threats were made, Beauford said.
Recalling an instance when the shop crew was tasked with installing a satellite dish atop one of the base's buildings, Beauford said Wells and Belisle disagreed about how the dish should have been hooked up via cables, through the roof or around the exterior of the building. When a supervisor -- one that the defense has argued had it out for Wells -- chose Belisle's approach, the accused murderer accepted the choice and did not appear angry, the officer said.
A suspicious vehicle
Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason Bullis, the second witness to take the stand Wednesday, served as the base watchman the night prior to the alleged murders. It was his job to check that the building was locked up after the workday, which he did the night of April 11, 2012. He said he only checks to see if the windows are closed and did not recall whether they have locks.
It was also Bullis' job to monitor the 11 cameras placed around the rigger shop and the main communications station. That night, he spotted a white truck with a white canopy drive up to the latter building then turn around. The truck did so twice in six minutes, video surveillance shows.
Wells owns a white Dodge Ram with a white canopy. The rear end of the canopy on Wells' truck is higher than the rest. The canopy shown on the video was flat, and Bullis contended after questioning by federal public defender F. Richard Curtner that the truck could not have been Wells'.
Curtner argued during opening statements the unknown vehicle may have been casing the rigger shop, implicating the possibility of another murderer.

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Are there any examples of realism in the poem El Cid?
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There are many examples of realism, a form of writing characterized by representation of things as they really are, in El Cid.
In line 375, a painful farewell is unflinchingly described, "They part from each other as the fingernail from the flesh".
Scenes of battle are depicted in all their goriness and horror. An example is in lines 748-751, "My Cid...drew near to a vizier...with his right arm he dealt him such a blow with his sword, he chopped him off at the waist, knocking half of him to the ground".
In lines 727-730, the aftermath of battle is described eerily and vividly, without idealization, "So many shields pierced and penetrated, so many mail coats traversed and torn, so many white pennons come out red with blood, so many good horses wandering without their riders".


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Today I'm pleased to welcome Julie Fison to Writing Classes For Kids. Julie has an exciting new 'Choose your own adventure' book.
Sometimes it's hard to come up with one good ending so I'm totally in awe of people like Julie who are able to write a book with multiple endings and the reader gets to choose their own path.
I've always thought it would be really complicated to try and plot or plan one of those books.
Today Julie is generously sharing her tips and secrets on how she wrote How to Get to Rio.
The book is part of a new CHOOSE YOUR OWN EVER AFTER series (published by Hardie Grant) that lets the reader decide how the story goes.In How To Get To Rio, Schoolgirl Kitty McLean has to choose between going camping with her best friends or going to an exclusive beach resort with popular-girl Persephone. Kitty wants to spend the holidays with her besties but she also wants to get to know Persephone better. The beach holiday has an added attraction – a cute guy called Rio, is going to be there.
Thank you for having me on your blog, Dee. I had a lot of fun writing How To get To Rio, for the Choose Your Own Ever After series, and love the message that a girl's destiny is in her own hands. But the pick-a-path style was definitely a challenge to write! I hope these tips offer some guidance for writers considering this genre.
Planning is essential
I have to admit I am not normally a methodical planner. I tend to have a clear idea of where a story will start, where it will end, and just a line, at most, on each chapter. Normally, the main character comes up against a problem early on in the story, and then spends the rest of the book trying to resolve it.
How To Get To Rio is quite different. It has seven different endings that all evolve from the same opening chapters. That took a lot of planning! The threads for all of the story paths had to be woven into the beginning. I needed to plan the story lines carefully so they would unfold and provide more tough choices for Kitty and a range of possible happy endings.
Choices should be difficult
We all make hundreds of decisions every day – some big, others small, but the toughest ones tend to be those where the choices are equally appealing or equally unappealing. In How to Get To Rio, Kitty's first choice is where to spend the holidays – camping with her best friends, or at a glamorous beach resort with popular-girl, Persephone. Kitty wants to be with her besties, but she doesn't like camping much. She also really wants to get to know Persephone, but she doesn't want to let down her friends. And there's an added attraction to the beach resort – the very cute Rio will be there. Kitty faces a tough choice. If your main character is torn, hopefully your readers will be, too.
Characters must be consistent across the different paths
How To Get To Rio is essentially seven short stories in one book, so it was a bit like writing a series. And just like a series, characters have to behave consistently throughout. But they also have to grow from their experiences, – just as they would in any other type of story. Of course that's tricky and I'm always glad of my editors' input when my characters drift of course. But I also love the way characters have the power to surprise me, no matter how much planning goes into them! The other thing to keep in mind about characters in this type of book is: less is more. A huge cast of characters can be very confusing as they weave their way across different paths.
Have fun
Despite the challenges, I loved writing How To Get To Rio, because it gave me a chance to come up with lots of different story paths. I included a tribe of little brothers in one of the pathways to make sure there was plenty of scope for fun!
I also really like the premise behind the series – that situations will turn out differently depending on the choices we make. It's choice, not chance, that determines our future.
Good luck with your writing choices!
Thanks for dropping in with these great tips, Julie. You can find out more about Julie and her books here and here.
Or catch up with her at the other fabulous stops on her blog tour.
16 March: Buzz Words – Review: http://www.buzzwordsmagazine.com/2014/03/choose-your-own-ever-after-how-to-get.html
1 April: Sherryl Caulfield – Interview: http://www.sherrylcaulfield.com/ever-wanted-go-rio/
9 April: Kids' Book Review – Guest post: http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2014/04/guest-post-unintended-consequences-of.html
15 April: DeeScribewriting – Tips on writing a choose your own ending story: http://writingclassesforkids.com/?p=1932
23 April: Cereal Readers – Interview: http://www.cerealreaders.blogspot.com.au/
28 April: Boomerang Books Blog – Interview: http://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/author/dpowell
13/6: The Book Chook – Tips on writing a news story http://www.thebookchook.com/


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Discussion in 'English Only' started by Antonio, Apr 2, 2005.
Hi Group,
What does "No siree" means? and in what context can I say this phrase?
No siree and Yes siree are just ways to accentuate the response. Very casual usage only.
The phrase that sticks out in my mind is, "No siree Bob"
I personally have never said that phrase and do not intend to use it in the near future.
In what specific cases, do you recommend to use this phrase? I guess probably, when you're emphasizing something? Is rude to say it, in front of people you don't know?
No siree is not necessarily rude, it's just very informal. I say it to my kids (students) occasionally, just to be funny. It's just an add on to the word no.
I think that "No, siree," and "Yes, siree," "Yessiree," and "Yes, siree, Bob" are all casual way of saying, "You better believe it!"
You would think that it was a derivation of, "Yes, sir," and "No, sir," --which are respectful ways to answer someone--but the terms are not thought of as particularly respectful ways of answering someone, but casual-type answers.
John Steinbeck is the first known author that I know of to use, "Yessiree," often in dialogue in his books.
There's no need to use it. It's really not at all commonly used anymore, if it ever was popular in the first place. If you really want to use it, I suggest the following context:
"So, Antonio, were you at that party the other night?"
"No siree", I was home studying."
Although I would say:
"Naw man", I was freaking studying . (Very Colloquial, Don't use except among good friends. Possibly offensive.)
Hi Jlanguage,
What does "Naw man" and "I freaking studying" mean? (Very Colloquial, Don't use except among good friends. Possibly offensive.)
"Naw man" and "I was freaking studying"
"Nosiree!" I was f***ing studying!"
Teenagers say more often "Naw man" or adults say it also?
It's more teenage slang. Teenagers often tend to colloquialize (yea, I made a new verb) speech to an extent that adults usually avoid in order to sound intelligent rather than moronic.
and don't forget "Yessireema'm" !
I always thought that "No, siree" was derived from, "No, sir". Now, it seems to be a colloquial phrase.
"Have you seen Amber since she went on vacation last summer?"
-"No, siree!"
"Do you plan on doing all of your homework tonight?"
- "No, siree!"
"Naw" is a more colloquial way of saying, "No".
"Naw, man" is a more colloquial way of saying, "No, man".
"Do you wanna go to the movies tonight?"
- "Naw, man. I havta baby-sit my little sister."
"Did you get to finish taking the test before class ended?"
-"Naw, man. I couldn't finish the last page."
And "Yessireebob"!
Separate names with a comma.


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As I mentioned Tuesday, the market has a tendency for at least one good bout of profit-taking as the year winds down. While some folks tend to focus on harvesting tax losses, others think it's better to lock in gains and not worry about deferring taxes.
Far too often, market players cost themselves big money trying to save a few dollars in taxes. My experience is that it is generally better to take profits when the charts suggest you should, rather than wait to save some tax money. Fortunes have been lost holding on to stocks in an effort to defer taxes, and I don't want to play that game.
At this point, this market is so thin and so random that I see little to do. I still like some of the small oils like Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. (MHR), but I'm in no rush. I'm just going to stand aside and watch for now.


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Willie Nelson and Family Perform at ConcordÂ's Capitol Center for the Arts Tonight, 6/20
Willie Nelson, American country singer-songwriter, actor and activist, makes his debut appearance at Concord NH's Capitol Center for the Arts with a one-night-only Willie Nelson & Family concert tonight, June 20, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets range from $48 to $83 at www.ccanh.com, the Capitol Center Box Office at 44 South Main Street, Concord NH, and via phone at 603-225-1111.
With a six-decade career and a catalog of more than 200 albums to his credit, the iconic Texas singer-songwriter Willie Nelson has earned a permanent position in pop music's pantheon with songs that combine the sophistication of Tin Pan Alley with the rough-and-tumble grit and emotional honesty of country music. He brought pop and country together on the radio in the early 1960s with unforgettable songs like "Crazy" (Patsy Cline), "Hello Walls" (FaRon Young), "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Night Life" (Ray Price) and others and, by the mid-1970s, had become a superstar in his own right as a prime mover of a revolutionary and thriving outlaw country music scene. The Red Headed Stranger , Willie's first album for Columbia Records in 1975, catapulted the artist to the front ranks of popularity, making his a familiar name in country and city households across America and around-the-world.
A seven-time Grammy Award winner, Willie Nelson has received numerous accolades including American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards and others. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, an annual series of fundraising events which began as an all-star benefit concert in 1985 to raise money for American family farmers. He continues to lobby against horse slaughter and produces his own blend of biodiesel fuel. An old-school road-dog troubadour with new school wheels, Willie plays concerts year-round, tirelessly touring on Honeysuckle Rose III (he rode his first two buses into the ground), taking his music and fans to places that are always worth the ride.
Willie Nelson's most recent release, Remember Me, Vol. 1, is a hand-picked selection of 14 of Nelson's favorite Billboard country and folk songs, recorded with his long-time friend and acclaimed producer James Stroud. Artists and songwriters reflected in Nelson's versions of their songs include Ernest Tubb, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Rosemary Clooney, Porter Wagoner and Ray Price. In a recent review of the album, the LA Times noted, "Nelson reminds us that his deceptively effortless vocal style can still touch the heart." Remember Me, Vol. 2 is scheduled to be released next year.


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SACRAMENTO - California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified an essential part of Los Angeles County's voting system Friday, jeopardizing the ability of the nation's most vote-rich county to conduct the presidential primary in February.
Bowen said a vendor for the county failed to provide information on time to her office as she was conducting a "top-to-bottom" review of voting systems in California.
Without that information, she said, she could not evaluate the security of the system. She ordered the county's system decertified for the February primary, but said she will conduct a review now and could recertify it with new conditions attached.
At the same time Bowen also decertified most of the other voting systems in the state, but then immediately recertified them with new security conditions attached. Los Angeles County was the only system which was not immediately recertified.
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Conny McCormack was outraged by the move, questioning how Bowen could decertify a brand-new system that had been reviewed and certified a year earlier by Bowen's predecessor, former Secretary of State Bruce McPherson.
"I'm flabbergasted that she would decertify a system she hasn't even tested," McCormack said. "And that was tested, and passed with flying colors last year, by her office and the federal government.
"We have no capacity to conduct a federally-compliant election without this equipment," McCormack added.
The county spent $25 million on the InkaVote Plus system by Omaha-based Election Systems & Software Inc., and first used it in the November 2006 election.
InkaVote Plus is needed to satisfy new federal requirements to assist the blind and disabled, and to catch errors by other voters such as voting for too many candidates in a race or marking the ballot too faintly.
McCormack said it took 18 months to get the system in place, so the county cannot have a replacement ready in time for the February primary.
Bowen's decertification order would not take effect for six months.
But in the meantime, the county is scheduled to conduct three smaller elections - a congressional election in Long Beach and surrounding areas, a city election in Lynnwood and a series of district and local board elections in November that comprise nearly a third of the county.
McCormack noted that poll workers and voters in those elections may have problems trusting the reliability of the system if it has been scheduled for decertification but is still in use for those elections.
Bowen said she did not have any indication that there are problems with the Los Angeles system but she said she found flaws in many of the other systems.
"I haven't reviewed the system, so I can't say there are problems with that system," Bowen said. "The InkaVote Plus system is very different from any of the systems that we did review. But I'm certain if we come up with security measures that county can readily do, that many counties will put them into practice as soon as they can.
Among the conditions Bowen is imposing on systems in other counties are a higher level of auditing for close elections; a restriction of only a single electronic voting machine per precinct, with a full manual recount required for each machine; and tighter controls on data ports and other methods by which hackers can corrupt the voting process.
She gave registrars and vendors 30 to 45 days to come up with plans to implement her new requirements. She did not, however, provide a specific timeline for her own review of the Los Angeles system.
Bowen said she had made multiple requests to ES&S for equipment, software and funding and the company complied too late for her review.
ES&S spokesman Ken Fields said the company did not immediately provide the information because it made several of its own requests for clarification about the review itself, but did not receive answers.
"For a few months, we needed clarification on important issues, such as on the process that was going to be used," Fields said.
"After the state's most recent request for information, we did go ahead, in the interest of trying to make certain that technology was going to be able to be used by voters in Los Angeles County. We went ahead and provided all the information she asked for in late June."
Registrars in other counties are also upset with Bowen's actions.
Steve Weir, the registrar in Contra Costa County and president of the California Association of Clerks and Elections said significant changes to voting systems usually require federal approval, which can take seven months or longer, meaning they may not be valid for the February primary.
He added that Bowen may be creating unnecessary panic in the minds of voters about the accuracy of California's elections.
"We're representing to the voters of this state that their voting systems are vulnerable, and have perhaps been packed, or elections have been changed in the past" Weir said. "And I think that is absolutely not a conclusion that can be drawn by the reports we've seen so far."
Bowen's decision was announced after midnight Friday.
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Dubai, UAE, United Arab Emirates, 2009/01/22 - Co-operation to extend across all Touchmate PC products from high end Gaming PCs to Desktops, Notebooks and Laptops.
NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies, continues to grow its undisputed position of leadership across the Middle East and has signed a strategic partnership with Touchmate, an indigenous IT brand in the UAE and the worlds biggest IT Products Range manufacturer.
The tie-up ensures most of the Touchmate systems will now feature NVIDIAs world class GPU technology across their entire range of Gaming PCs, desktops and notebooks.
One of the first products to come out of this tie-up is Touchmates Transformer Gamers PC showcased during GITEX 2008 and now available in retail from Sharaf DG and others. The PC has 2 configurations using NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800GT and NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT GPUs.
Speaking on the strategic tie-up, Mr. Daniel Saison, Sales Director Middle East, India and Africa, NVIDIA said, We are proud to see the trust that people in the Middle East have in NVIDIA, enabling us to enjoy majority market share here. Our duty and commitment is to continue to provide unique and unmatched solutions to our channel partners and end-users. We are always on the lookout for strategic partners to help us grow our business. Touchmate is a very well known and popular IT brand in this region with a huge PC Manufacturing base. This tie-up provides Touchmate with ultimate visual computing technologies like CUDA, PHYSX and SLI. At the same time it gives NVIDIA instant access to 85 hypermarkets and retail stores in UAE, Oman and Qatar. Together we are striving our hardest to bring the ultimate visual computing platform to the widest possible audience.
Mr. Vasant Menghani, Managing Director, Touchmate commented, We are very happy to partner with NVIDIA who have some exciting technologies to revolutionize the computing experience. This includes CUDA-powered super fast video encoding for your iPods, ultra realistic gaming with PHYSX and very high resolution and quality gaming with SLI. NVIDIA Graphics+ technologies allows us to build the most optimized PCs which brings the best performance at the best price to our customers. We will make concerted efforts along with NVIDIA to educate the market about Graphics Plus and PC Optimization using NVIDIA GeForce graphic cards.
Graphics Plus is a unique functionality of NVIDIAs latest GPUs which differentiates it from competition. Graphics Plus is a term coined by NVIDIA which encompasses four features PhysX, CUDA, SLI/ Parallel Processing and 3D Stereo technology. With NVIDIA PhysX technology, GeForce GPUs bring games to life with explosions that cause dust and debris, characters that move with life-like motion, or cloth that drapes and tears naturally. PhysX technology harnesses the power of both the CPU and any NVIDIA GeForce® 8 Series or higher GPU, giving it the power to handle 10-20 times more visual complexity on screen. The latest NVIDIA GPUs support CUDA technology for accelerating non-gaming applications such as high-definition video playback and transcoding, to photo processing and editing.
The vector processing capabilites of GPUs and the Scalable Link Interface (SLI) solution from NVIDIA which enables linking of two or more graphics cards to produce a single output is another feature makes it suitable for financial analytics, medical research and other applications requiring huge processing power. And soon, with a compatible monitor and stereoscopic glasses, NVIDIA GeForce GPUs will be able to deliver stereoscopic gaming for over 350 existing games, for the ultimate in immersive gaming.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce graphics products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro® graphics products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla computing solutions products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
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Bloomberg reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cyber-disclosure guidance has "become de facto rules for at least six companies" including Google and Amazon. According to letters sent by the SEC, the companies were asked to, in future filings, disclose to investors if systems had undergone a cyberattack. Companies have expressed concerns that such admissions can hurt reputations, provide competitors with important information or give rise to consumer litigation, the report states. In its deliberations on cybersecurity legislation, Congress has assessed ways to encourage firms to disclose data breaches, including a voluntary reporting system. Editor's Note: The IAPP's recent web conference, The SEC Guidance on Cybersecurity and Incident Disclosure: What You Need to Know, is available for purchase on demand.
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President Obama, under pressure from Republican lawmakers and constituents to reduce the highest jobless levels in more than a quarter century, faces a more persistent, underlying challenge: long-term unemployment.
He will lay out his plans in a speech tomorrow to help bring down a jobless rate stuck around 9 percent or higher since April 2009. One hurdle is finding employment for people who have been out of work more than half a year as their ranks swell to the largest since the Great Depression.
He needs to come up with a plan that is doable and gets passed by Congress, said John Silvia, chief economist of Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. An unemployment rate of 9 percent has been associated with not getting re-elected and its going to be difficult for him to overcome that.
Ronald Reagan is the only US president since World War II to win re-election with a jobless rate above 6 percent. Obamas approval rating was 43 percent in a Sept. 2-4 Gallup daily poll, down from 68 percent in January 2009 during his first three days in office; 50 percent disapproved of the job hes doing.
Part of its not his fault, Jim Glassman, a senior economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, said of Obama. Still, its counterproductive for him to blame the past. If his message is going to be on revving economic growth up, making things easier for businesses, lightening the tax burden on businesses, youd be surprised at how favorable the response would be.
No Mystery
Theres no mystery in the jobs situation, Glassman added. Companies wont hire unless they have a reason if they dont have the business.
The dilemma for Obama is developing policy responses for a problem that some economists, including Silvia and researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in Virginia, say is rooted in hard-to-fix, structural forces such as increased global competition and peoples lack of the right skills. Any solutions likely will need to increase the ability and willingness of the unemployed to find work, Richmond Fed researcher Thomas A. Lubik said in a Sept. 2 telephone interview.
Unlike recessions of the previous century, the 18-month contraction that began with the collapse of the subprime- mortgage market in 2007 and ended in June 2009 hit employees in almost every industry with equal force.
Sustained Decline
It also produced the first sustained decline on record of the employed labor force, which fell to 139.6 million last month from about 145 million in August 2008, reflecting a larger number of people who have given up on looking for work.
The share of long-term unemployed as a percentage of overall joblessness peaked at 46 percent in May 2010 in the aftermath of the recession and has remained stalled at or above 42 percent every month since March 2010. That compares with the historical average of 15 percent from 1960 to 2010 and a previous peak of 26 percent set in June 1983 following the 1981- 1982 slump, according to Lubik, a senior economist, and Andreas Hornstein, a Richmond Fed vice president, who have studied the shift.
With about a third of all unemployed out of work for more than a year, the past offers some dismal prospects for the near-term future, Hornstein said in the telephone interview. Saying that what we are experiencing now is just another jobless recovery looks like an understatement.
Moved in Lockstep
For much of the past 50 years, the percentage of people out of work for at least 27 weeks moved in lockstep with the overall unemployment rate, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Haver Analytics and calculations by Hornstein and Lubik. That correlation began to change in the 1990s, when the ranks of the chronically unemployed began to fall more slowly during recoveries, the Richmond Fed researchers said.
A primary cause of the shift is a decline in the so-called exit rate, or rate at which someone without a job returns to work, Hornstein and Lubik said. The odds of finding a job within a month of becoming unemployed during recessions have dropped to 20 percent from more than 40 percent in 2000, they concluded in a brief this month.
One reason is globalization, beginning with the acceptance of Japanese vehicles in the U.S. and then propelled by the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 and Chinas entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, according to Silvia.
Improving Productivity
Improving productivity among US companies, along with a greater use of capital and technology, also has led to a reduced need for labor in industries that were traditionally accustomed to less competition, he said.
Another component is the collapse of housing prices that began in 2006 and 2007. This has made it harder for property owners to move to areas with new opportunities, contributing to higher levels of structural unemployment, Silvia said.
A revival in building helped spur previous recoveries, typically contributing as much as 0.75 percentage point to growth of gross domestic product adjusted for inflation, Glassman said. Construction, which accounted for as much as 5.7 percent of payrolls in 2006, now has fallen to 4.2 percent.
The industry remains dormant, Glassman said. Builders put up too many houses during the real-estate speculation of the last decade and we need time to absorb this.
The economy lost a total of 512,000 payroll jobs in the year after the recession ended, according to Bloomberg calculations based on Labor Department data. That compares with 239,000 in the 12 months after the July 1990-March 1991 contraction and 562,000 in the year following the March 2001- November 2001 slump.
Net Zero Growth
Employment unexpectedly stagnated in August, producing a net payroll growth of zero, the first time thats happened since February 1945. The jobless rate stayed at 9.1 percent, according to data from the Labor Department released Sept. 2.
What is different this time is the recession has been much deeper than the previous two, Lubik said. We still think this recovery is likely to be another jobless recovery, but on a much larger scale. The unemployment rate and share of long-term unemployment are going to come down very, very slowly.
Fed officials have tried to spur growth by holding the target for the U.S. benchmark interest rate near zero since December 2008 and are pledging to keep it there through at least mid-2013. Theyve also expanded the central banks balance sheet to more than $2.8 trillion. Meanwhile, Fed researchers have said they are focused on determining how much of the elevated unemployment rate is amenable to further central-bank actions.
Role of Congress
With Lubik and Hornstein concluding structural forces have caused a large share of the increase in long-term joblessness, this would require labor-market policies that the Fed cant do anything about, Lubik said. That would have to be the role of Congress.
Obama is scheduled to appear before a joint session of the House and Senate tomorrow, with a plan to spark job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct aid to state and local governments, according to people familiar with the administrations deliberations. Republicans, who control the U.S. House, have signaled resistance to new spending that would add to the federal budget deficit.
Lisa Epperson, a 32-year-old mother of two from Dallas, said she has sent out more than 400 resumes since January, when she was laid off from a part-time job paying $9 an hour as a Levy Restaurants cashier.
Job Applications
Shes applied to fast-food chain McDonalds Corp. three or four times and, as a former certified nursing assistant and dietary aide, also has tried the Methodist Health System.
While shes gotten one or two calls back for interviews in the past month, Epperson said none led to work. Now shes in the process of obtaining two online degrees from the University of Phoenix in psychology.
Im a little frustrated, Epperson said. I feel like the older you get, the harder it becomes for you to get a job. Im not getting my chance even though Im going back to school, so I dont know what the future is going to hold for everybody else. Personally I think Obama is doing the best he can. I really dont know if theres anything he can say that will help.
With assistance from Margaret Talev in Washington. Editors: Melinda Grenier, Gail DeGeorge


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Introduction and Design
Although the target market and design emphasis may be different, there is one thing consumer and business-grade laptops have in common: a drift away from processing power and toward portability and efficiency. At the risk of repeating our introduction for the massive MSI GT72 gaming notebook we reviewed last month, it seems that battery life, temperature, and power consumption get all the attention these days. And arguably, it makes sense for most people: it's true that CPU performance gains have in years past greatly outstripped the improvements in battery life, and that likewise performance gains could be realized far more easily by upgrading storage device speed (such as by replacing conventional hard drives with solid-state drives) than by continuing to focus on raw CPU power and clock rates. As a result, we've seen many mobile CPU speeds plateauing or even dropping in exchange for a reduction in power consumption, while simultaneously cases have slimmed and battery life has jumped appreciably across the board.
But what if you're one of the minority who actually appreciates and needs raw computing power? Fortunately, Lenovo's ThinkPad W series still has you covered. This $1,500 workstation is the business equivalent of the consumer-grade gaming notebook. It's one of the few designs where portability takes a backseat to raw power and ridiculous spec. Users shopping for a ThinkPad workstation aren't looking to go unplugged all day long on an airplane tray table. They're looking for power, reliability, and premium design, with function over form as a rule. And that's precisely what they'll get.
Beyond the fairly-typical (and very powerful) Intel Core i7-4800MQ CPU—often found in gaming PCs and workstations—and just 8 GB of DDR3-1600 MHz RAM (single-channel) is a 256 GB SSD and a unique feature to go along with the WQHD+ display panel: built-in X-Rite Pantone color sensor which can be used to calibrate the panel simply by closing the lid when prompted. How well this functions is another topic entirely, but at the very least, it's a novel idea.
So Long Adware, and Thanks for All the Fish!
Subject: Graphics Cards | March 1, 2015 - 07:30 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: superfish, Lenovo, bloatware, adware
Obviously, this does not forget the controversy that Lenovo got themselves into, but it is certainly the correct response (if they act how they imply). Adware and bloatware is common to find on consumer PCs, which makes the slowest of devices even more sluggish as demos and sometimes straight-up advertisements claim their share of your resources. This does not even begin to discuss the security issues that some of these hitchhikers drag in. Again, I refer you to the aforementioned controversy.
In response, albeit a delayed one, Lenovo has announced that, by the launch of Windows 10, they will only pre-install the OS and "related software". Lenovo classifies this related software as drivers, security software, Lenovo applications, and applications for "unique hardware" (ex: software for an embedded 3D camera).
It looks to be a great step, but I need to call out "security software". Windows 10 should ship with Microsoft's security applications in many regions, which really questions why a laptop provider would include an alternative. If the problem is that people expect McAfee or Symantec, then advertise pre-loaded Microsoft anti-malware and keep it clean. Otherwise, it feels like keeping a single finger in the adware take-a-penny dish.
At least it is not as bad as trying to install McAfee every time you update Flash Player. I consider Adobe's tactic the greater of two evils on that one. I mean, unless Adobe just thinks that Flash Player is so insecure that you would be crazy to install it without a metaphorical guard watching over your shoulder.
And then of course we reach the divide between "saying" and "doing". We will need to see Lenovo's actual Windows 10 devices to find out if they kept their word, and followed its implications to a tee.
Lenovo for those who don't care about security
Subject: General Tech | February 19, 2015 - 12:57 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: superfish, Malware, Lenovo
Since 2014 Lenovo has been selling consumer laptops installed with an innocuously named program, Superfish. For those not in the habit of wiping their laptop and installing the OS fresh to avoid the bloatware generally present on consumer products, you have been sharing the exact same SSL certificate as every other Lenovo owner and the icing on the cake is that it is self signed by Superfish, not a certificate authority. This means any and all transmissions done on a browser (apparently other than Firefox) could have easily been unencrypted by anyone who captured your wireless transmissions since the SSL key you were using is well known seeing as it is present on every recent Lenovo machine.
Lenovo is downplaying the security issue and emphasizing that Superfish was just intended inject ads into your browser based on history and that it could be disabled manually or by not agreeing to the terms and conditions when you turn on your laptop for the first time. As the commentors on Slashdot rightly point out, that argument is disingenuous and exposing your customers to a man in the middle attack just so you can serve them up some targeted advertising is a gross oversight. Samsung has not seen much success with the argument that their monitoring software could be manually disabled either. The program is no longer bundled on Lenovo laptops, as of this year.
"... doesn't mention the SSL aspect, but this Lenovo Forum Post, with screen caps, is indicating it may be a man-in-the-middle attack to hijack an SSL connection too. It's too early to tell if this is a hoax or not, but there are multiple forum posts about the Superfish bug being installed on new systems. Another good reason to have your own fresh install disk, and to just drop the drivers onto a USB stick."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Microsoft opens Office storage back end for iOS love @ The Register
- Qualcomm outs ARM Cortex A72-based Snapdragon 620 and 618 chips @ The Inquirer
- How to Zip, Stick, and Screw Stuff Together @ Hack a Day
- BlackBerry's money-making QNX unit touts virty dual-OS devices @ The Register
- Getting Data Out of the Cloud Before Disaster @ Benchmark Reviews
- New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users @ Slashdot
- Adobe Photoshop turns 25 @ The Inquirer
- 10 Highlights of Jon Corbet's Linux Kernel Report @ Linux.com
CES 2015: Lenovo Shows Off World's Lightest LaVie Z Notebook and Convertible
Subject: General Tech | January 5, 2015 - 03:00 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: ultraportable, tablet, notebook, nec, Lenovo, lavie, ces 2015
Lenovo, in a joint venture with NEC, is bringing the world's lightest notebook and the world's lightest convertible to market. And as the first products from the joint venture to be released outside of Japan, the new LaVie Z HZ550 notebook and LaVie Z HZ750 convertible are impressive.
Both 13.3-inch devices are constructed of a magnesium-lithium body with custom Mg-Li reinforcements to create a sleek looking and lightweight PC that does not compromise strength versus other magnesium alloy products. The HZ550 and HZ750 measure 16.9mm thick and weigh 1.72 pounds and 2.04 pounds respectively.
The notebooks feature a 13.3" WQHD display, YAMAHA audio, stereo mic and 720p webcam. There are two USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI video output, SD card reader, and headphone jack along the edges (and the notebook is just big enough for those full size USB ports). Other features include a dual hinge design reminiscent of other Lenovo (Yoga) products, a chiclet style keyboard, and a wide touchpad sans physical buttons. The dark frame has an angular design. The HZ750 adds a lightweight film touchscreen (no cover glass) and a 360-degree hinge to allow tablet mode.
The Lenovo NEC LaVie Z PCs are powered by Intel's latest Broadwell-U Core i5 processors, 4GB RAM, and a 128GB SSD. The HZ750 can further be upgraded to a Core i7 and 8GB of RAM. Both PCs feature 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0. The HZ550 notebook is fitted with a 29.6 Whr battery while the HZ750 has a 44 Whr battery.
The LaVie Z HZ550 and HZ750 will be available in May starting at $1,299 and $1,499 respectively. They are slick looking notebooks and the magnesium-lithium frame is interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing how they stack up and what else Lenovo NEC has in store (the joint venture agreement was recently extended to 2026).
What do you think about the new PCs?
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CES 2015: Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga Is Broadwell Powered and Available In New Sizes
Subject: General Tech, Mobile | January 5, 2015 - 03:00 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: CES, thinkpad yoga, Thinkpad, tablet, Lenovo, ces 2015, broadwell-u
Yesterday, Lenovo rolled out updates to its entire line of ThinkPad laptops, and today Lenovo is unveiling an update to its business-focused ThinkPad Yoga tablet. The update brings a hardware refresh to the 14-inch ThinkPad Yoga while also adding new 12-inch and 15-inch convertibles.
The new ThinkPad Yoga builds upon last year's model, maintaining the look and feel but updating the internal hardware. It now spans from a 12-inch 3.3 pound tablet to a 15-inch 5.07 pound convertible with enough space for a numerical pad. All models are less than an inch thick, with the 12" being the thinnest at 0.7".
ThinkPad Yoga 12
Display resolution options are capped at 1920 x 1080 across all models, but they are IPS panels with touchscreens.
The multi-mode devices feature a backlit ThinkPad keyboard (1.8mm travel) with track point, a trackpad with physical buttons, a 720p webcam (optional 3D camera on the 15-inch model), stereo speakers (2x 1.5W JBL on 15-inch tablet), and digitizer or Active Pen support.
Port options include two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, one HDMI, and a card reader. A Mini HDMI port is used on the smallest ThinkPad Yoga.
ThinkPad Yoga 14
Lenovo has chosen Broadwell-U to power its business tablets, and you will be able to get up to a Core i7 processor. All models have access to the Intel HD Graphics, and the 14-inch and 15-inch tablets can be configured with dedicated graphics from NVIDIA. The 12-inch and 14-inch ThinkPad Yogas can be equipped with up to 8GB DDR3L while the Yoga 15 can accommodate 12GB and 16GB configurations. Storage options include mechanical, SSHD, and SSDs with storage topping out at 1TB for spinning platter and 512GB for solid state drives (not available on the Yoga 12). Other connectivity options include Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11 b/g/n or 802.11ac Wi-Fi (depending on the Wi-Fi+BT combo card), and a 1x NGFF slot.
The ThinkPad Yoga tablets will ship with Windows 8.1 or Windows 8.1 Pro with an optional Windows 7 Pro downgrade available.
ThinkPad Yoga 15
The new ThinkPad Yoga will be available in February with starting prices at $999 for the Yoga 12, $1,199 for the Yoga 14 and Yoga 15.
The new Yoga 14 has a slight $50 premium over the starting price of last year's ThinkPad Yoga 14, but the new Yoga 12 comes in much cheaper and the larger Yoga 15 can be had for the same price as the new 14-inch model. Many of the popular features are staying the same, including the Lift 'n Lock keyboard, but you are also getting the latest CPU and GPU technology so in all it is likely worth it. Stay tuned to PC Perspective for more information on these machines as we get closer to the launch date.
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CES 2015: Limited Edition Vibe X2 Pro Launched Alongside Wearable Vibe Band VB10
Subject: General Tech, Mobile | January 5, 2015 - 03:00 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: vibe x2 pro, vibe x, vibe band, smartphone, qualcomm 600, Lenovo, ces 2015, CES, android l
Alongside the onslaught of new notebooks and tablets, Lenovo is launching a limited edition Vibe X2 Pro smartphone and a new wearable accessory called the Vibe Band VB10. As an added bonus, Lenovo is also showing off a new "Selfie Flash" VIBE Xtension that will work with the Vibe X2.
The Lenovo VIBE X2 Pro is an amped up, limited edition, version of the VIBE X2 that debuted a few months ago. The X2 Pro takes the layered aesthetic further by moving to a larger (but thinner) full metal body with unique color options. It features a 5.3" 1920 x 1080 resolution display, dual 13MP cameras (with support for the Selfie Flash accessory), Android Lollipop support, and tweaked internals. The phone measures 146.3 x 71 x 6.95mm and weighs 140g. The Pro version features champagne gold, electric blue and rock pink color options compared to the white, champagne gold, and red colors of the non-pro Vibe X2.
Internally, Lenovo has opted for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC which is a 64-bit octo core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz and a Adreno 405 GPU. Qualcomm specs the CPU portion as being two ARM Cortex A53 quad cores clocked at up to 1.7 GHz and 1.0 GHz respectively. The SoC is paired with 2GB of internal memory and 32GB flash storage (no microSD expansion). The phone is powered by a embedded 2,410 mAh Li-Polymer battery. Connectivity includes 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1 LE, LTE cellular radio, analog audio output, micro USB, and dual nano SIM slots. Sensors include A-GPS, gravitation, proximity, light, and e-compass.
The phone will run the company's VIBE UI 2.0 on top of Google's Android Lollipop operating system.
In all, the Vibe X2 Pro has a larger display, better camera, bigger battery, new colors, a metal body, and different CPU/GPU.
The limited edition VIBE X2 Pro will be available in China and Europe (specific countries will be announced at a later date) for $499 starting in April 2015. Notably, this smartphone will not be available in the US.
The VIBE Band VB10 is a wearable watchband accessory that pairs with the Vibe X2 (and also supports iOS devices). A metal bond and rubberized strap host a curved E-Ink display (230ppi) along with a battery that can reportedly power the Bluetooth radio and constantly powered-on display for seven days. The Vibe Band can display messages and notifications, be used to accept or reject phone calls, act as a warning if go out of range of your phone, and collect data (steps, calories, distance, and sleep) for a fitness app that can graph your performance and set personalized goals.
The wearable weighs about 30 grams and runs Android 4.4. Further, the VB10 is IPX7 rated as being waterproof up to 1 meter for 30 minutes.
The Vibe Band VB10 will be available in April (China and Europe) for $89.
Finally, Lenovo showed off a new Vibe Xtension called the Selfie Flash. The Selfie Flash plugs into the audio out of the Vibe X2 and X2 Pro to illuminate self portraits in low light environments. The circular add-on is synchronized to the Vibe X2's shutter and a ring of eight LEDs cast diffused light over a one meter distance according to Lenovo. It is rated at 100 selfies per charge.
The new selfie-enhancing Vibe Xtension will be available in April for $29 in markets where X2 and X2 Pro smartphones are sold.
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CES 2015: Lenovo Unveils New Intel-Powered P90 Smartphone
Subject: General Tech, Mobile | January 5, 2015 - 03:00 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: CES, smartphone, p90, LTE, Lenovo, Intel, ces 2015, atom z3560
Unveiled today at CES, the Lenovo P90 is the first smartphone to use Intel's latest Atom Z3560 processor and 5-mode XMM 7262 modem. The smartphone pairs the high end hardware with a colorful body that weighs 156g and is a mere 8.5mm thick.
The Lenovo P90 brings Intel back to the Lenovo smartphone family following a year dominated by smartphones powered by MediaTek and Qualcomm SoCs. Unfortunately, like the K900 that came before it, the P90 will not be available in the United States. Now that I've crushed the dreams of some US readers...
On the outside, the P90 looks to be your average roughly rectangular smartphone with curved edges. Lenovo does manage to spice things up a bit by offering it in Lava Red in addition to Pearl White and Onyx Black. A large 5.5" 1920x1080 display dominates the front of the device. A 5 megapixel front facing camera sits above the display and a 13MP camera with flash and optical image stabilization (OIS) sits on the back.
The Lenovo P90 is powered by a 64-bit quad core Intel Atom Z3560 clocked at 1.83 GHz paired with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal flash storage. Lenovo is using the Intel XMM 7262 modem for cellular connectivity which is LTE capable and supports data speeds of up to 150 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload (obviously, dependent on carrier support, congestion, and signal strength, et al). A large 4,000mAh battery powers the P90.
Unlike the Vibe X2 Pro, the Intel-Powered P90 will ship with Android 4.4 KitKat. Obviously, the Atom-powered phone will have to use binary translation for many apps that are not available natively in x86-64, but the Z3560 should be plenty of hardware to handle that overhead even with the alleged 20%-40% performance hit.
The Lenovo P90 will be available in February for $369. It will hit China and Europe but not this side of the pond.
Are you interested in an Intel-powered smartphone? Do you care what the SoC is, or do you just want something with enough oomph to run your applications? I do wish Intel would be more aggressive in getting its SoCs into phones that will be available here, if only for more competition.
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CES 2015 Podcast Day 1 - Lenovo, NVIDIA Tegra X1, MSI, USB 3.1 and more!
Subject: General Tech | January 5, 2015 - 03:26 AM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, usb type-c, usb 3.1, Tegra X1, tegra, podcast, nvidia, msi, Lenovo, ces 2015, CES
CES 2015 Podcast Day 1 - 01/04/15
It's time for podcast fun at CES! Join us as we talk about the first day of the show including a lot of announcements from Lenovo, MSI, the NVIDIA Tegra X1, USB 3.1 and more!
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CES 2015: Lenovo Shows Off New 24" ThinkVision Display
Subject: Displays | January 4, 2015 - 10:00 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: thinkvision, thin bezel, PCM, neo-blade ips, Lenovo, ips, ces 2015
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Lenovo announced updates and new additions to its Think-branded products aimed at business customers. New ThinkPad PCs, ThinkVision displays, and stackable ThinkPad accessories are launching early this year.
ThinkVision X24
Lenovo is also expanding its line of professional displays with the ThinkVision X24. This monitor is a slim full HD display with a thin bezel aimed at business users desiring single or dual monitor setups. The ThinkVision X24 is a 23.6" Neo-Blade IPS panel with a resolution of 1920x1080. Lenovo used pre-coated metal (PCM) for the rear panel to get the monitor to as thin as 7.5mm. The chrome stand supports tilt adjustments but not swivel or height.
The ThinkVision X24 supports HDMI and DisplayPort inputs, 7ms response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 250cd/m^2 brightness, and 178-degree viewing angles. The left and right bezels are extremely thin to allow for favorable dual monitor setups. The ThinkVision X24 provides a new budget option ($249) for the ThinkVision family.
The ThinkVision X24 will be available in April starting at $249.
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CES 2015: Lenovo Launches Improved ThinkPad Lineup
Subject: General Tech, Mobile | January 4, 2015 - 10:00 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Thinkpad, notebook, Lenovo, ces 2015, carbon, business
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Lenovo announced updates and new additions to its Think-branded products aimed at business customers. New ThinkPad PCs, ThinkVision displays, and stackable ThinkPad accessories are launching early this year.
ThinkPad Notebooks and Ultrabooks
Lenovo, a leading manufacturer of PCs, recently reached a milestone with the production of its 100 millionth ThinkPad, code-named Eve, which will be on display at CES. The company has a plethora of business machines and updates are coming to the entire family of ThinkPads including the X, T, L, and E series. According to Lenovo, the company has opted for 5th gen Core i processors for most of the machines to provide the best performance and vPro capabilities.
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a third generation ultrabook that is lighter and faster than before. The 14" ultrabook builds upon its predecessor with an updated (optionally backlit) keyboard, three button clickpad, and up to a WQHD touchscreen display. The X1 Carbon with its carbon fiber cover weighs 2.9 pounds and is 17.72mm thick (18.46mm if you opt for a touchscreen).
It is powered by up to a 5th Generation Intel Core i7 (Broadwell-U) processor, four to eight GB of DDR3 memory, and up to a 512GB PCI-E SSD. 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, two USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 OneLink, Ethernet, analog audio, and a 720p webcam round out the system's connectivity options.
For the road warrior that finds the 14" X1 Carbon too unwieldy, the new ThinkPad X250 is a slightly lighter (starting at 2.88 lbs) PC with a much smaller footprint. The X250 features full HD (1080p) displays with optional touchscreens, backlit keys, the latest clickpad, and updated internal hardware. Lenovo is using Intel's 5th Generation Core i processor, HDD, SSHD, and SSD options, up to 8GB DDR3 memory, and its Power Bridge dual battery technology for a speedy portable with respectable battery life.
Beyond the X-series, Lenovo has added new models to the ThinkPad T, ThinkPad L, and ThinkPad E series. Lenovo has managed to refine the hardware while keeping the same design principles that have made the predecessors successful.
Lenovo ThinkPad T550
The new machines are thinner, lighter, have better battery life, more ports, high resolution display options, and use Intel's 5th Generation Core processors.
Lenovo's business focused products are slated for availability early this year with the majority of hardware coming in the next two months. For laptops, pricing and availability work out as follows:
|Lenovo Notebooks
|Starting Price
|ThinkPad X1 Carbon
|ThinkPad X250
|ThinkPad T450s
|ThinkPad T450
|ThinkPad T550
|ThinkPad E550
|ThinkPad E450
|ThinkPad L450
The new machines are welcome evolutionary updates to the established ThinkPad pedigree. What are your thoughts on the new notebooks?
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House OKs bill that would allow more paddling in Wyoming parksFeb 7, 2014 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The House approved a wide-ranging public lands bill Thursday that would speed logging of trees burned in last year's massive Rim Fire in California.
The bill also would lift longstanding restrictions on canoes, rafts and other "hand-propelled" vessels in rivers and streams in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., said the measure would allow more paddling access so people can have "a truly unforgettable experience" when they visit the parks.
The park service opposes the proposed changes, saying that existing restrictions allow visitors to experience the solitude and wildness of the parks' pristine waterways without the "intrusion" of watercraft.
The measure also allows vehicular access to North Carolina's Cape Hatteras National Seashore, extends livestock grazing permits on federal land in the West and lifts longstanding restrictions on canoes, rafts and other "hand-propelled" watercraft in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
The House approved the bill, 220-194, on a largely party-line vote. It now goes to the Senate, where it is considered unlikely to pass. The White House opposes the bill but has not issued a veto threat.
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing an extensive salvage operation to log dead trees on about 46 square miles of timberland charred in the fire last August. If approved, logging in the Stanislaus National Forest could yield more lumber than the combined annual output of all the national forests in the state.
A measure sponsored by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., would waive federal environmental laws for the salvage operation. Timber sales would raise hundreds millions of dollars that could then be used to replant and restore devastated forests near Yosemite National Park, McClintock said.
"But time is already running out. Within a year, the value of the timber begins to decline rapidly as the wood is devoured by insects and rot," he said.


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Adobe Updates After EffectsVersion 5.5.1 improves performance, fixes bugs
According to Adobe, After Effects 5.5.1 improves RAM preview performance in Mac OS X and also supports 2 GB of RAM on Macintosh models. Other changes include:
- View options are now saved correctly in the preferences file;
- Fixes problems with Electric Image and 16-bit Maya IFF files;
- New blend modes introduced in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 are now preserved on import;
- Adobe Premiere 6.5 titles now import as solids instead of "missing footage" placeholders;
- Adobe Premiere project import now preserves in and out points for missing footage;
- TIFF output from After Effects no longer generates a warning when imported into Photoshop 7.0.1;
- Fixes problems with Standard and Advanced 3D Renderer.
The After Effects 5.5.1 updater is available free for current After Effects users. For more information or to download the update, visit http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads.
Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveMotion, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at [email protected].
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More people are choosing to rely on their own security systems rather than a quick response from law enforcement officials to protect their homes. Such systems actually can aid the police by providing them with hard evidence of criminal activity to use in their investigations. Here are some ways to set up your own security system.
It's better to stop someone trying to break in outside your house rather than inside, so the first step is to install motion-sensitive lighting at strategic places around the property. These lights are readily available in hardware and department stalls and relatively easy to install. For most houses, installed four sets of lights---one on each side of your house---will be sufficient. These will snap on when the sensor detects motion, which often is enough to frighten would-be burglars away.
Video Cameras
Security cameras are so common now they often cover city streets and traffic lights. You can use camcorders with slow recording speeds to give your own home the same coverage. Install them in not-so-obvious spots, such as under the eaves or in trees facing the house. You can set them to record directly onto videotape or memory cards, then replace the media at regular intervals. Or you can have them wired to a central video cassette recorder in the building to record there. In this case, you can record up to 10 hours in slowest speed on VHS tapes.
Other Security
Another, easier way to get visual coverage of your property is to use trail or scouting cameras. These cameras actually are designed for hunters to track high-traffic animal trails for use in hunting. They generally are less expensive than camcorders and they can be left alone outdoors without much maintenance. They can be attached to the building or trees. You can get them with video or still image capability and they have built in motion sensors. They can be used in daylight or night time and many of them have infrared flash or lighting units to capture the images. They also have time stamps so the images will tell you exactly when something happened.
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In our U.S. business, our all-outlet retail market share reached a record high. We were up about 0.5 share point over the past 52 weeks through a 28.1% share. Moreover, we gained or held share in every one of our U.S. categories. The share results are particularly encouraging given recent price increases on almost every U.S. brand.The other good news is that our U.S. categories are getting healthier as pricing takes hold and the economy recovers. Overall category consumption on an all-outlet basis was up about 0.5 point for the past 52 weeks. This is the first consumption growth we have seen in our U.S. categories in the past 3 years. Our Cleaning segment delivered a very strong quarter, with volume up 5% and sales up 7% behind volume gains and pricing. Home Care volume increased behind double-digit increases in our portfolio of Clorox-branded cleaning products, including strong gains in Clorox Disinfecting Wipes due to strong merchandising and solid innovation like our new bleach, our new Clorox Bleach Foaming Spray. Gains in Home Care were partially offset by volume declines at Pine-Sol due to a substantial price increase driven by escalating pine oil costs. Our overall Home Care market share was up almost 1 full point, achieving a record all-out market share in the past 52 weeks. Our Laundry business saw a volume decline, primarily due to the impact of price increases taken last August of the Clorox Bleach and Clorox 2 products. Dollar share was flat for the past 52 weeks, and the category is stabilizing after a couple years of significant decline. This month, we will begin the rollout of our new concentrated Clorox Bleach. Initial reaction has been very positive, and we expect a smooth transition and strong merchandising support. On our Professional Products business, we saw another strong quarter. Volume was up by over 50%, driven by the recent acquisitions and a double-digit increase on the base business.
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A Chinese web portal, NetEase, has claimed that a mini iPad is being developed by Apple to go on sale later this year to compete with Windows 8-based tablets, reports The Telegraph.
According to Kotaku (who translated a report from NetEase), Apple is planning to release an iPad Mini sometime in the third quarter, and will produce around 6 million of them.
NetEase is citing "Taiwan media reports" which are based on orders Apple has placed to factories, including Honhai Precision operated by Foxconn.
The Korea Times wrote last month that Samsung was supplying Apple with "new PLS-based LCD technology for smaller iPads."
Citing a Samsung official as its source, they said Apple was "planning to release a smaller iPad, probably with a 7.86-inch screen," later this year. The current iPad has a 9.7-inch screen, reports Baller Status.
The report claims that the devices will cost anywhere from $249 to $299. An Apple spokesman, as usually, said: "Apple Inc. does not comment on rumours or speculation."
The well-connected John Gruber has claimed that Apple has a 7.85-inch iPad in its labs, but he does not know whether the product will ever make it to market, tells Mac Rumors.
A 7.85-inch "iPad mini" display with a resolution of 1024×768 would carry a pixel density of 163 pixels per inch, the same density as the non-Retina iPhone and iPod touch models.
However, writes Mashable, despite the latest reports, there are reasons for skepticism. First of all, rumors of a smaller version of the iPad have circulated since Apple's initial introduction of the product in early 2010 and have not come to pass.
Second, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was skeptical of 7-inch tablets. He called such devices "tweeners" that are too big to compete with smartphones and too small to vie with the iPad. And, finally, Apple would likely cut sales of their pricier iPads if it released a smaller, cheaper model.
"I'd like to comment on the avalanche of tablets poised to enter the market in the coming months," said Steve Jobs on the Apple's quarterly earnings conference in October 2010. "First, it appears to be just a handful of credible entrants, not exactly an avalanche.
He continued: "Second, almost all of them use seven-inch screens as compared to iPad's near 10-inch screen. Let's start there. One naturally thinks that a seven-inch screen would offer 70% of the benefits of a 10-inch screen."
"Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. The screen measurements are diagonal, so that a seven-inch screen is only 45% as large as iPad's 10-inch screen. You heard me right; just 45% as large," he added.
Steve Jobs also said: "Well, one could increase the resolution of the display to make up for some of the difference. It is meaningless, unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of the present size. Apple's done extensive user-testing on touch interfaces over many years, and we really understand this stuff."
"There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touch screen before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them. This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps," he added.
The Windows 8 tablets will go on sale later this year and are believed to cost a similar amount to Apple's iPad. At the same time, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet is far cheaper and therefore seen as more of a threat. However, Apple's first-quarter results revealed that Amazon's entry had a minimal impact on iPad sales.
Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee, a financial analysis company, said that an iPad mini is "inevitable," according to the Apple Insider. Wu said the smaller iPad, which he believes to be 7.85-inches in screen size, would be "the competition's worst nightmare."


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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Evite Names Tech Veteran Pucino As CFO
Los Angeles-based online invitations service Evite has named Paul Pucino as the company's new Chief Financial Officer, the firm said today. Pucino is a longtime veteran of Southern California's technology industry, having served as CFO of such companies as THQ, Digital Insight, and Tekelec. Evite said Pucino will be responsible for all accounting, finance, financial reporting, and financial systems at the company. Evite is a subsidiary of Liberty Interactive Corporation.


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LGBTQ General Assembly, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
28 January 2012: LGBTQ General Assembly
For the third year running, we are organizing the LGBTQ General Assembly - an opportunity for networking and meeting organizations who are interested in the community. This is a free and open day of celebration and information.
After the success and support we had in 2010 and 2011, I am pleased to announce that we are in the process or organizing the 2012 LGBTQ General Assembly and hope to encourage your participation.
Currently we have promised participation by Peter Tatchell, Iain Stewart MP (LGBTory) and many more.
The assembly seeks to bring together all the organizations that are interested in the Lesbian, Gay, Bi- and Transgender and Questioning communities in South-East England. We aim to offer:
Presentations from charities and support groups, explaining what they offer and what they are seeking in terms of support, volunteers and funding;
An exhibition hall in which organizations can display information about what they are doing (or sell their goods);
An opportunity to meet and network with likeminded people;
An open debate / question and answer session during which you will have the opportunity to question a variety of leaders;
A fun and interesting day out.
It will be held again in Milton Keynes on the last Saturday in January, admission remains free to all.
This year, we are going to try to organize our speakers around a common theme: Body, Mind and Spirit
We are seeking to identify for the moment potential speakers and exhibitors. Please register your interest as soon as possible, so that we can start planning the details of the event. All you need at this point is to contact me by e-mail [email address available to members only] or [email address available to members only]) and tell me your level of interest.
We are also interested in identifying anyone who may be able to provide original entertainment on the day. Please feel free to forward this to anyone you believe may be interested.
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This event has been added to the OUTeverywhere calendar by Peter L from Milton Keynes in the Buckinghamshire area.
I am married, gay and Christian. As a consequence, I am rather lonely and unsatisfied! I would like a relationship, a friendship with someone with whom I can have a conversation, but also, I would like a man to hold me tight, and slowly, tenderly make love to me...
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YULEE, Fla. - A 39-year-old Fernandina Beach man was arrested Tuesday on charges related to stealing credit card information, according to the Nassau County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said Larry Deason was arrested on four counts of felony fraudulent use of a credit card and two counts of misdemeanor fraudulent use of a credit card.
Deason, who worked at Great Clips Hair Salon in Yulee, was using his cellphone to photograph customer's credit cards when they made purchases at the business. According to the Sheriff's Office, Deason would then make fraudulent purchases using information obtained on the credit cards.
The total amount charged on six different credit cards was $2,326.70, deputies said.
Deason was also arrested on an outstanding warrant for driving while license suspended, according to the Sheriff's Office.
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Three Arrested for Kidnapping Tourists in Bolivia
LA PAZ -- Bolivian police arrested two men and a woman who allegedly kidnapped two Swiss tourists, whose families paid a ransom of $30,000 for their safe release, a law enforcement official told Efe on Thursday.
The arrests came on Tuesday and in the next few hours the suspects will appear before a judge, who will rule on where they will be held pending trial, the official said.
The trio are members of a band that carried out "express kidnappings" of tourists visiting the Andean region of Bolivia, where in 2006 an Austrian couple and a Spaniard were murdered by a similar gang allegedly linked to the police.
Police said the arrested kidnappers speak several languages, among them English, French and German, whereby it was easy for them to establish a relationship with the potential victims.
The trio kidnapped the two Swiss tourists on March 19 in a La Paz neighborhood as they arrived back from a trip to Copacabana near the border with Peru.
The kidnappers demanded from their victims' relatives a ransom of $30,000, which was deposited in a La Paz bank, and two days later they withdrew almost all the money.
The tourists were freed on March 22 and reported the crime to the police, despite the death threats the criminals had made against them if they went to the authorities.
Police said that the kidnappers were captured after being identified on security videos at the bank when they went there to withdraw the ransom money. EFE


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In January, Lukas wrote a collection of things left to do. Later I wrote a tentative release schedule that turned out to be too optimistic. I just updated that document with new dates. Sorry about this.
There are two actually quite cool reasons for the delays. One is that we had two projects at Liip where we had to integrate the CMF into existing projects. It was fun, but we found quite a lot of issues and missing features in Doctrine PHPCR-ODM that we fixed resp. implemented. (The Symfony2 Form component is incredibly powerful, but requires the persistance layer to work very exactly and we did not want any more workarounds and hacks to a achieve functionality.) The other reason is that many other people started using the CMF too. Some found issues that need to be fixed, others even managed to contribute fixes themselves – but which took time to review and comment on. Also, a lot of new features have been built or are currently being built.
One feature I am particularly happy with is that PHPCR-ODM can now cascade persist referrers. This is quite useful for example to embed route and menu editing into the edit form for static content, as shown in the screenshot. (This is already in the ContentBundle and should come into the sandbox with the next update.)
As soon the above 2 client projects have stabilized, Lukas and I plan to focus on cleaning the base layers PHPCR and Jackalope to a point where we can tag release candidates, then bring Doctrine PHPCR-ODM to a state that can be called 1.0. We might have to postpone new features, but try to find all the interface changes and similar things to avoid BC breaks once 1.0 is stable.
Getting things out depends on contributions from the community too. While it is great to get new features, we now need to focus on cleaning up those we already have. On improving the documentation. On investigating bugs. The Release plan links the important missing pieces, if you want to dig into something.
There is the idea for a hackday in May or June. Please contact me or Lukas if you are interested. If we have enough interest, it is much more likely that we actually organize something.
I will present PHPCR at the Symfony Live conference in Paris beginning of April. I will also be at the hackday on Saturday if anybody is interested in meeting me there. Additionally, Thomas and me planned a (very focused) hackday on April 3rd to integrate SonataPagesBundle with PHPCR on the 3rd. If you are interested in helping with that integration, please contact me or Thomas.
This week, we also did a hackday at Liip, with focus on documentating some of those new features people built. I tried to collect what we achieved that day:
First things first: I'm very impressed by your efforts on the CMF. I can see that it has MUCH potential.
Despite the fact that I can see the potential and want the effort to succeed, the documentation is just really bad. Not a little bad, but REALLY awful.
I've read every piece of Symfony CMF documentation. I've read the code for the SimpleCMF and all the CMF bundles. I know what all the pieces are supposed to do. But I still can't get anything to work right together.
The simplest example of creating a document, attaching a route and a menu item, then displaying the data still eludes me. I'm doing something wrong and I have no idea what it is.
The Doctrine project does a great job of "Code First" documentation. My request to y'all is to put together a full "code first" that covers:
* Create a simple document class.
* Create a simple route class.
* Create a simple menu item class.
(Note: Not the three-in-one thing that SimpleCMF does.)
* Create data fixtures that populate data into the PHPCR using these three classes.
* Create a simple controller and view for the data.
I'm sure there are a few other things that y'all can think of that should go into such a document, but you get my point.
I would LOVE to help write documentation. I'll test the code in the docs if you want. Whatever help you need, I'll give you what I can.
But right now I'm pretty much dead in the water, and I know there are many others like me really struggling with this code base.
So please add this to your list of TODOs for a stable release.
– Kevin
Hi Kevin,
Thanks a lot for the feedback and for caring enough about the CMF to get angry about the documentation ;-)
I think one of the big challenges we have is that those who write documentation already understand how the CMF works. So we really need feedback on where people get stuck.
It is on my agenda to go over the CMF documentation and i will try to streamline it more.
I will try to convert the "Getting started" section more into a "Code First" thing and will ping you when its ready for a review.
For the meantime, there is also the symfony-cmf-devs mailing list and the #symfony-cmf IRC channel where you can ask questions. I am optimistic that we can help you get unstuck.
Thank you. I look forward to reading it.
Hey David great work with the documentation can we get the code as well for the slideshow block.
hi arthur, slideshow doc is almost there, you can read the current draft at https://github.com/symfony-cmf/symfony-cmf-docs/pull/104


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