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Resting on a 5,000 square meter property, the imposing Uro House was built between a few existing trees and its slightly shifted floor plan allows the interiors to benefit from beautiful views of the Sierra Madre mountains. Gathered under the same roof and spread over two floors, the 9,800 square feet interior spaces were separated into public and private rooms, with an accentuated care for the landscape. 7XA Taller De Arquitectura were the talented architects behind this residential project – a cross-shaped modern construction located in Monterrey, Mexico. The two story high contemporary house has terraces and partially covered zones acting as the links between spaces thus creating a carefully planned dream home.
Architects describe their work on the Uro House: "One enters the plot through a very discreet hallway which, as it opens, reveals the house set among the trees. A rotunda surrounds two walnut trees, and it functions as an external entrance hall that connects to a cube of concrete that serves as an access. It takes the visitor to an L-shaped slab, which is the great entrance to the garden and the terraces in the back. The house is organized by a central space with a wood cylinder as a motif. It conceals a commode in the ground floor, and a study room in the first floor. This space divides the zones of the house: on one side, the ground floor contains the social part, opened and merged with the exterior; on the other side, the semiprivate area -more closed and intimate. The first floor holds the secondary bedrooms in the front and the master bedroom in the back of the house, with a view to the enormous garden."


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In New Orleans, fall, like spring, is festival season. After a long and hot summer, we are anxious to get outside and enjoy the weather as it turns crisp and cool . To take advantage of this temperate perfection while it lasts, we find a reason to revel in Big Easy culture every weekend of the month.
This weekend, the New Orleans Museum of Art and its adjacent Sculpture Garden host Where Y'Art (September 7th). The evening will be enlivened by jazz music from saxophonist John Doheny, local restaurant fare from joints like Crepes a la Carte, Green To Go NOLA, and Woody's Fish Tacos, and of course, art and art activities, all accessible with museum admission.
Next weekend, the Fourth Annual New Orleans Burlesque Festival (September 13th-15th), hosted by Harrah's Casino and the House of Blues, presents enticing dancing talent from around the world, including renowned dancers of the past. In addition to performances, the festival will feature panels, workshops and the Queen of Burlesque competition.
To round out this first month of fests, the Fall Garden Festival (September 28th-29th) at the New Orleans Botanical Gardens in picturesque City Park features breathtaking botanical works from landscape designers and garden artists. These remarkable works are accompanied, of course, by live music, local food and drinks, and family activities—the necessities of any local event.
And finally, if you're in the mood for some local films, check out Timecode:NOLA Film Festival (September 28th-29th) at One Eyed Jacks in the French Quarter. This annual fest features a host of movie screenings and the One Reel Super8 competition, in which filmmakers have one week to create a three-minute Super8 film with all editing done on the camera itself.


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By Manos Schizas, senior economic analyst, ACCA
If you have been following any European politics this week, apart from the ECB's bond-buying programme, you will already know the European Commission is expected to propose that, by 2020, 40% of all non-executive board members of European companies should be women – with companies risking fines or other penalties if they fail to comply. Although no one has seen anything other than leaks for the time being, plans are predictably meeting opposition from many quarters.
ACCA being well versed in Brussels etiquette, we do not comment publicly on proposals the EU institutions haven't placed in the public domain. However, we're also not new to the debate on quotas, which has been going on throughout Europe and beyond (e.g. in Pakistan) for quite a few years. Our positions have evolved over time (see here, here and here) and will continue to do so, reflecting the new experiences and evidence in our markets. On the other hand, our core values of diversity, opportunity, innovation, integrity and accountability haven't changed.
While we wait for the full proposal and ACCA's response, I thought I'd share with you a real gem in the diversity research literature. It comes from the Bank of Finland of all places, which recently published a remarkable research paper on the subject by Yiwei Fang, Bill Francis and Iftekhar Hassan. Its title: More than connectedness – Heterogeneity of CEO social network and firm value.
Rather than focusing on diversity among board members, the researchers looked instead for the diversity within – the extent to which individuals have access through their social networks to truly different perspectives and could draw on experience, skills, knowledge and mindsets different from their own.
In order to measure the diversity of CEOs' social networks, the researchers used a massive biographical database of EU and US CEOs in order to track down business leaders' contacts among the business world from their school days onwards. They then analysed the heterogeneity of these social networks in terms of gender, ethnicity, academic and professional background, as well as geographical dispersion around the globe. To be safe, they controlled for the overall size of CEOs' social networks – after all, it's easy to have a more diverse network if you know more people!
They also included as control variables a battery of factors already known to influence firms' financial performance, including two traditional measures of board diversity (by ethnicity and gender), and tested against four kinds of outcomes:
a) sustained share price reactions following a change of the CEO
b) patents filed (as a proxy for innovation)
c) sustained share price reactions to mergers and acquisitions initiated by the CEO's company
d) proxies of firm value and financial performance.
Their overall finding was that the more diverse the CEO's social network, the more value they tended to add to their companies – they made a difference by enhancing innovation and export potential, as well as extracting more value from the firm's investments, including major items such as mergers and acquisitions. As a result, investors typically pay a premium for the shares of companies who have just replaced their CEOs with someone with a more diverse network.
This resonates with earlier ACCA research. Back in 2011, we worked with Forbes Insights to look into the personalities of Europe's business executives and whether they help influence company performance, and our work resulted in the report, Nurturing Europe's Spirit of Enterpriseas well as some excellent online coverage. But what we found was even more satisfying.
The most innovative business executives, and the ones most likely to become CEOs, were a category we named 'the Star Pupils'. This is what we had to say about them at the time:
STAR PUPILS. These are professionals who invest heavily in their own personal development, acquiring mentors with ease and making the most of other people's expertise. Of the entire sample they are the likeliest to rise through the hierarchies of organisations, even when the dominant business culture is stacked against them. Women who thrive in masculine environments often fall into this category, and CEOs are significantly more likely than other executives to match the Star Pupil profile.
Star Pupils form the largest category at about 24% of the respondents. Over half of the Swiss respondents fall into this group, as well as 30% of the French and Italians, as opposed to only 16% of British executives.
Otherwise, Star Pupils exist in similar numbers everywhere: large companies and small, finance and IT, men and women. However, only 5% of CFOs, treasurers or controllers are Star Pupils. It is not clear why this might be, as the traits of Star Pupils would appear to be adaptive in any function, but one possible explanation arising from the research literature would point to the lack of a full-fledged mentoring culture in these functions.
Looking even deeper into the Forbes data, we were able to unpack the particular personality traits that made up different categories – 'pursuing personal development through others' was the dominant characteristic of Star Pupils (see a comparison here). The Movers and Shakers, who shared a lot of the Star Pupils' innovative capacity, also scored well in this dimension.
Here's an interesting question – would the findings of Fang et al apply to CFOs as well? Do CFOs with more diverse social networks create more value? Is it important that the social networks of CEOs and CFOs overlap/complement each other? And at any rate, how diverse are the social networks of CFOs? Going by the Forbes data on 'pursuing personal development through others', finance professionals were slightly worse than average social networkers and our small sample of CFOs in particular were even worse. I've written to the researchers and maybe one day we can repeat their analysis.


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There are simple things you don't know about New Zealand. Here are the fun facts about this beautiful country.
New Zealand has become one of the most sought-after holiday destinations. However, there are things you might know about this amazing country. Here are the top 20 fun facts about New Zealand.
1. The Maori name of New Zealand is Aotearoa which means the land of the long white cloud.
2. New Zealand was once governed as part of the territory of New South Wales and later a part of Australia.
3. It is one of the three countries in the world that has two official national anthems of equal standing. The first is God Save the Queen and the other is God Defend New Zealand.
4. New Zealanders are also called Kiwis but kiwi is not a fruit. It is New Zealand's native flightless bird.
5. It was the first major nation to have universal suffrage. Since 1893 all male and female citizens have legally been allowed to vote.
6. Queen Elizabeth II is officially Queen of New Zealand, represented in the country by a Governor General.
7. To become a New Zealand citizen, you must swear an oath of loyalty to Queen Elizabeth.
8. The official languages are English, Te Reo Māori and New Zealand Sign Language.
9. New Zealand is one of the world's least populated countries with just over 4.8 million people here.
10. The largest city in New Zealand is Auckland although its capital city is Wellington.
11. The country is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire and its most active volcano is Mount Ruapehu, found in the middle of the North Island.
12. When in New Zealand, you must drive on the left side of the road.
13. Auckland's Sky Tower is the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 meters high.
14. New Zealanders love cars with 3.4 million cars registered in 2018 for 4.8 million people - making them one of the countries to have the highest car ownership rate in the world.
15. Popular films that were made in New Zealand include 'Once were Warriors', 'The Whale Rider', 'The Piano' and the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
16. This was the first country to have its three top positions of power held simultaneously by women; Prime Minister Helen Clark, Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright and the Chief Justice Sian Elias.
17. There are no snakes in the country!
18. 30% of the country is forest.
19. Gisborne is the first city in the world to see the sunrise because it is 496.3 kilometres away from the International Date Line.
20. Dairy farmers produce a whopping 100 kg of butter and 65kg of cheese each year for each person living in New Zealand.


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Nokia has claimed that by 2013 it could become possible to recharge your phone from the ambient electromagnetic radiation (AER) emitted by Wi-Fi transmitters, mobile phone antennae and TV masts.
The Finnish phone firm has developed a prototype AER phone able to suck up 3-5mW of power, but said it's working towards a prototype that'll slowly recharge itself by gathering up to 50mW, sufficient to trickle-charge a phone that's turned off.
Markku Rouvala, of the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, told journal MIT Technology Review that AER power generation works in a similar way to the method through which RFID tags power themselves: the conversion of electromagnetic waves into electrical signals.
Nokia is working on wideband receivers capable of sucking in energy from 500MHz transmissions up to 10GHz.
"I would say it is possible to put this project into a product within three to four years," added Rouvala.
The firm's keeping mum about its specific plans for now. But Rouvala hinted that, ultimately, AER would probably be used alongside several other energy-harvesting technologies, including solar power. ®


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Glenorchy History - from Tungsten to Tourism!
It's been 100+ years since 'Tungsten' was found in "them thar hills" behind the tiny town of Glenorchy 45km from Queenstown, New Zealand.
When early gold miners 1st found Tungsten (the metallic element of scheelite) it was known to them as "white Maori" as was considered more of a nuisance! Its great weight meant it chocked up riffles in the sluice-boxes and it was difficult to separate in the final wash up.
Glenorchy community depended on this one mineral in wartime it was of strategic importance! Enhanced demand caused higher price and a booming industry. Tungsten steel was used in barrels of large-calibre guns possessed special properties - hard and tough as nails (resilience to explosive shock). Also it has a high melting point and is very flexible.
In the 1880's 'Sheelite' (the mineral that houses Tungsten) was found at Mt Judah above Glenorchy, causing an influx of prospectors...and no wonder...one month of intensive work could produce one tonne of Sheelite, which was worth 60 pounds back in the day. That's equivalent to $70,000 today for 4 weeks work....WOW!
The Sheelite was sitting high on Mt Judah and was tough to extract. The original miners used very basic tools (think picks, shovels and crowbars) and blasted tunnels to get further into the rock. Mines sprung up all over the mountain, personally named by the miners who started them.
Tunnelling into the rock required blasting with gelignite explosives, and rails were built to push hand trucks filled with debris out to the entrance.
These were tipped over the edge of the mountain causing big "tipping piles" that still scar the landscape today.
STILL CURIOUS? There's a lovely documentary on this topic called "Sheelite Mining - Glenorchy District, New Zealand. A History of Mining for the Mineral Sheelite"
Now Glenorchy thrives on Tourism, Glenorchy and its surrounds makes it easy to let the imagination run riot and segue into realms of fantasy which worked wondered for Peter Jackson LOTR movies. Everything about the place has a feeling of being pristine, primeval and unspoiled. Enter this Gateway to Paradise and you too will experience pure inspiration!
Thanks for reading, if you'd like to explore the Glenorchy District further we'd be happy to take you on a tour and share local tales, history and immerse you in the incredible beauty of the area.


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What is a Sooner?
At the University of Oklahoma, we seek to learn lessons from history. These lessons help us to create a fairer society for the future.
While many people know the nickname Oklahoma Sooners is uniquely linked to the University of Oklahoma and has become synonymous with excellence, some aren't aware of the roots, which reach to our state's Indian Territory origins.
Originally the home of several tribal nations of the Southern Plains, Congress set aside Indian Territory in 1830 as part of its forcible relocation of numerous tribal nations from their ancestral homelands via the Trail of Tears. Following the U.S. Civil War, some tribal nations lost portions of their new land in Indian Territory due to renegotiated treaties, which became known as the Unassigned Lands.
Pioneers, known as Boomers, vigorously campaigned to settle the Unassigned Lands, which were later incorporated into Oklahoma Territory. Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory became known as the Twin Territories.
Famously, Oklahoma Territory was opened for settlement through land claims races, or Land Runs, and in 1889, thousands made their way to the Twin Territories to participate in the first of these dramatic events. Each race began with a pistol shot, and those who jumped the gun were called Sooners. Later, Indian Territory was opened for non-native settlement, and in 1907 the Twin Territories were merged into one state � Oklahoma � which is the joining of two Choctaw words, "okla" and "homma," meaning "red people" or American Indian. Due to the enthusiasm of many pioneers and their descendants, "Sooner" came to denote energetic, "can-do" individuals.
The university embraces the complexity of our heritage. OU athletics teams were called either Rough Riders or Boomers for 10 years before the current Oklahoma Sooner nickname emerged in 1908.
Taken together, Oklahoma Sooners reflects our state's American Indian and pioneer heritage and, today, symbolizes a special university spirit that values resilience and perseverance as well as the inclusivity that unites all who are a part of the University of Oklahoma family.


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Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro may have hit the FCC
posted by Michael H. Dec 22, 2012, 5:35 PM
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1. MeoCao unregistered
I think this is very dumb idea, Surface pro is a laptop but can't replace powerful laptops. It is also not convenient to hold as tablet. Very confusing product.
posted on Dec 22, 2012, 8:56 PM 4
3. Droid_X_Doug
Posts: 5993; Member since: Dec 22, 2010
This is really v. 1.0 of the concept. This is an example of how a tablet like the Surface needs a more capable CPU (i7 quadcore analogy) that draws the same (or less) power as an S4 Pro. Maybe v. 2.0 does a better job of meeting the requirements?
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 12:14 AM 0
5. haseebzahid
Posts: 1853; Member since: Feb 22, 2012
i5 surface isnt bad at all i think its balance between performance and power managment besides if it can run hig end games well then it can run any software u put in
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 12:58 AM 0
6. Droid_X_Doug
Posts: 5993; Member since: Dec 22, 2010
Plus there is the matter of weight. i5 requires a larger battery, which equals more weight. If v. 2.0 can provide i7 computing ability at S4 Pro (or better) electricity consumption, battery size (and weight) can be reduced. Hopefully Surface v. 2 can meet the challenge.
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 1:30 AM 0
8. MeoCao unregistered
lol, I think u r talking about 2014 tablets the point is the market for so so portability and not so powerful as laptop tablet is very small. Most people are better served by a really powerful laptop and/or a true tablet.
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 1:42 AM 0
9. Droid_X_Doug
Posts: 5993; Member since: Dec 22, 2010
MS has recognized how tablets are cannibalizing the netbook and some part of the notebook markets. If memory serves, the Surface Pro was targeted at users who want more than a Surface RT - kind of bridging tablets + notebooks with desktop OS. Right now, that means a heavier product than people want in a tablet form factor. The challenge for MS and its partners is to deliver. Sammy seems to be in the lead with its 14nm chipset. Maybe Intel can leapfrog Sammy (LOL!)? Competition is the mother of innovation....
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 2:18 AM 1
28. haseebzahid
Posts: 1853; Member since: Feb 22, 2012
which one is a true Tablet u are talking about those toys get over it even a phone can do what those TRUE tablets can do in less price
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 3:04 PM 0
12. haseebzahid
Posts: 1853; Member since: Feb 22, 2012
no doubt i7 is better but i7 is more get more heated i think :P
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 6:00 AM 0
18. MeoCao unregistered
To know which 1 is better we must know what they are used for. for desktop i7 are better as they are more powerful, for tablets ARM chips are better as they are much more efficient.
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 10:25 AM 0
20. Bilpocalypse
Posts: 301; Member since: Oct 13, 2012
The problem with ARM chips is that you can't run legacy software on them. That is the whole point of the Surface Pro. Whether it is a successful endeavor remains to be seen (it is more of a niche device), but I believe that there is a demand for such a device and MS is at least attempting to meet that need.
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 1:26 PM 0
22. Droid_X_Doug
Posts: 5993; Member since: Dec 22, 2010
I may be overly optimistic about the demand for a Surface Pro type of device that can run legacy software. Then again, there were all manner of doubters when people were talking about tablets 2 years ago. At one point back in time, even Steve was dismissive. And then the iPad was born. MS still needs to get a number of things right, and their batting average isn't the highest, but.... A Surface Pro that has the computing power of an i7, weight and battery life of the current gen iPad (less weight would obviously be better), retina display with LTE connectivity could see sales taken away from a bunch of competing platforms. It might even become the standard for a whole new market segment. MS no less. What a novel concept.
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 2:26 PM 0
23. haseebzahid
Posts: 1853; Member since: Feb 22, 2012
i think ur totall point is only android should be ok to do things, all others can leave their buisness to hell and u are so mean that you dont like different thing not coming from google. othervise its best thing MS could have ever done i7 ingetration can get way to expensive at moment they not using heatsink fans for surface so let the technology grow and its the perfect direction not some toys that Ipad and droid tablets are to date it is actually for professionals thats why it named PRO and besides ur beloved android was garbage when it was out no one said it is underrated so drop it and stick to iphone back then. opposing this tech shows ur ignorent and biased and Technical people are gonna throw their ipads and android tabs in store rooms when they realize that those are toys for games and media stuff, documentation and end of story but surface is what even i imagined the true tablet long before MS announced. back when only ipad was here limited with larg screen overpriced and underperfomer . and even if Pro turns out lags and slow people wont give a s**t if it can do all latpot stuff too not just movies and creating a document which a phone can also make So question what can ipad or Android tablets do that Iphones and Android phones CANNOT then tell me what can PRO do
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 2:37 PM 0
21. Droid_X_Doug
Posts: 5993; Member since: Dec 22, 2010
I am not talking about using an i7 chip, just using the i7 level of performance as a benchmark. i7 is a non-starter from both electricity consumption and heat generation perspectives.
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 2:19 PM 0
24. haseebzahid
Posts: 1853; Member since: Feb 22, 2012
i think u are correct my knowledge is not upto date on new procesors but dont u think i5 is already expensive maybe thats why MS might have delayed i7 just to catch the market first with some level of competetive price with laptops then latter they might move to all level i3,i5,i7.....
posted on Dec 23, 2012, 2:44 PM 0
25. Droid_X_Doug
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I am just using i7 as a reference point for computing power. A chip that combines the computing power of the i7, electricity consumption, heat generation and cost of the S4 Pro is future-ware. IF MS and its partners can pull it off, IMO MS has a shot at being relevant in a new market segment. But that is a lot of ifs. Of course, MS tends to do a better job of focusing itself when faced with existential challenges, so it may yet pull success from the jaws of defeat.
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4. haseebzahid
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atlest they started in new direction rather following the toys games like Ipads and other android tabs that do nothing but games and media stuff. and it is not dumb idea it is what tablet needed its u who think that idea is dumb although Surface is not out to tell how it performs but the idea is better then being an open system
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Can you say what can we use this Surface Pro for? As I see it portability means for entertainment or light busines jobs which does not need a powerful CPU but demands long battery life, light weight, ergonomic design... Most heavy jobs are better performed with desktop mode. even hard core gaming.
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10. Shino
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No, my friend. I am so anxious to get a Surface with real Win, just because I need a reliable machine, on which to use fully AutoCad, Office, a lot of programs made for Windows and etc. None of these can be done properly with an iPad or especially with some sort of Android. And beseides all that, I need some balance among the upper, the weight, performance and batt life.
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13. haseebzahid
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i take it as a office use for developer suits like .NET PCB Shematics designing , C/C++ , Embedded system coding, intall Virtual machine and get full linux in the Pro running u name it and more it also can do MAYA Adobe coral draw i hope and other things and maybe u are limited to movies and games which pro can do f9 games for android is no match for games from Desktop if u ever played them so Pro is really something ahead of tablets in functionality and Laptops in portability
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I think there are many geeks want Surface Pro, but not many more beyond that. I can predict that Surface Pro will fail badly: it can't compete with either tablets or laptops for the mass market.
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i think u are total biased or dont want to understand the limitaion of ur open android in tablets u see android phones and tabs are no different except for the screen size thats a joke but technically true surface RT surface PRO are totall different u can compare RT with tablets PRO doesnot have any direct competetion my projection says it may not catch sales in first 6-10 months but when people see what it brought people who will want to buy laptops will also look at PRO those who want tab will also look for PRO in one year it might take off stronger then u expect it and geeks u are talking about are not geeks they are profestionals working. if u nothing but a high school kid u probably not know it but in office pro is perfect ipads are not android are not. only thing that failed was android tabs i say Epic fail to compete Ipads so get over ur lames with nothing special but customization hahahahaha bravo. their are only few hundered or thousands of guys like u who would say that. and uptill now people only get tabs cuz it makes them chick magnet or they are probably show offs or want to try something differnt. dont see a reson for getting ipad or nexus when u already have iphone or sgs3
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The same old same old, this won't make no diffrence! When sales for this is declining, theres no demand for Pro! Unless they use Nvidia Gtx and along with 3Gb Ram and iNtel i3 clocked at 2.5 Ghz and has side air vents so the Cpu and Gpu can be cooled down, till then an epic fail! its all about power and specs™®®
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u are just mean and biased and closed minded. you dont know a jack about things. my advice please leave PA get a admission in school and lets hope they let you in. or if u so awsome and genious why dont you show us all how will u do it the things u crying about
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Actually, upon thinking about it some more, I've changed my mind about the usability of the "heavy tablet / hybrid " category. Just imagine sitting on the sofa with a two pound + touch device on your lap. You'll see that you need a proper angle of interaction with the screen, without supporting it with your hands (because of the weight ). How do you achieve that? With a kick stand! It just needs to be thicker and comfortable. Such device with a high end specs would be an absolute laptop killer.. The significance of keyboard is overrated and manufacturers should just go for the detachable solution instead of doing stunts like Dell XPS 12 or Sony Vaio Duo 11. This..http://m.techspot.com/review/6
..is a much better idea imo, but needs to streamline that keyboard into something much flatter.
My point - surface pro has a really usable concept, just needs to make that kickstand lap-friendly.
With high end specs, such device would absolutely kill the laptop as we know it, in every way.
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Well Folks within 2 weeks if it already has not happened Microsoft will send out it's Windows 8 Pro "Surface pro" to Internet tech site reviewers. I know the ones who will damn it Already because if they did not like the Windows "Surface RT" because of design reasons they wont like the Microsoft "Surface Pro" but I hope none of these reviewers Fail to point out that the Microsoft "Surface Pro" will run full desktop/laptop Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT and some windows 95/98 Programs in compatibility mode. This is why it will be a hit for a lot of People like myself who would want to use it to occasionally run our Old PC Desktop/laptop Programs. Folks there are Windows fans out there. they are not be as Kooky, vocal, or will stand in long lines to buy Windows products but they are out there and negative reviews of the "Surface pro will mean nothing to them because this Tablet will run full Windows programs and happens to be well built in a style that is uniquely it's own. Now if Microsoft sells it at the right price man Oh man they will have a winner among us Windows fans. The Windows fans need their Hero product. Android fans already have theirs, the Apple fans have their Ipad and Ipad Mini now the Windows fans have theirs which will probably be the "Surface Pro" tablet computer how ever Dell, HP and Lenovo and others have some nice Windows 8 Tablets out there too!
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Currently I need to travel with a laptop and tablet. I use the tablet for light tasks like web surfing or watching movies and use the tablet for work. My laptop is about 3lbs and my tablet is 1.5 lbs. That brings me to 4.5lbs. A surface is less than 2 lbs so lets just call it 2lbs and the type keyboard weighs very little about .35 lbs. So I can shed a good 2 lbs off my travel requirements and reduce space. A dual core i5 is great for getting work done and the ocasional game. The hd 4000 will let me play source games and stuff like batman just fine and will blow through the metro games on the store. I certianly don't see the surface pro selling as well as the ipad but I think for alot of people they need x86 for work and so it will sell well to those who travel alot for busniess and those who just want a more capable tablet. Some of you guys say its two heavy or thick. But in all honesty .5lbs more than other tablets isn't much. Battery life should be about 5 hours of watching video and 8 hours of web surfing based on other i5 ulvs with similar battery sizes.
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There is a whole market segment of people who are traveling and looking to lighten the load that gets hoisted on their shoulders. You see them at the frequent flyer lounges tethered to the electrical outlets as they recharge their batteries that have run down on the flight they just got off of. If they could trade their 4 to 5 lb. load for say a 1 to 1.5 lb. load and have the ability to do everything they are doing on their tablet + notebook, they would do it in a heartbeat. That is the opportunity in front of MS. The big unknown is whether MS can pull it off.
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Forget the surface pro! This is it!! :) http://www.expertreviews.co.uk
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Dr. George W. Grayson, the Class of 1938 Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary, has made more than 200 research trips to Latin America. He is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and a board member of the Center for Immigration Studies. He served as a Democratic member of the Virginia state legislature for 27 years and belongs to Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Grayson lectures regularly at the U.S. Department of State, at the National Defense University, and at universities throughout the United States and Mexico. In addition to preparing a dozen books, as well as monographs for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he has written Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State? (Transaction Publishers, 2009), Mexico's Struggle with Drugs and Thugs (Foreign Policy Association, 2009), Mexican Messiah (Penn State University Press, 2007), Mesías Mexicano (Random House-Mondadori, 2006), Mexico: the Changing of the Guard (Foreign Policy Association, 2001), Strange Bedfellows: NATO Marches East (University Press of America, 1999), and Mexico: From Corporatism to Pluralism? (Harcourt Brace, 1998). Dr. Grayson has written articles for the Commonweal Magazine, the Harvard International Review, ForeignPolicy.com, Foreign Policy, Orbis, World Affairs, the Baltimore Sun, the Christian Science Monitor, the Houston Chronicle, the Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Reforma (Mexico City), the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He wrote a weekly column for Milenio Semanal (Mexico City) and is a frequent commentator on CNN and NPR and affiliate stations. Dr. Grayson holds a J.D. from the College of William & Mary and a Ph.D. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.
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The Evolution of Los Zetas in Mexico and Central America: Sadism as an Instrument of Cartel Warfare
April 25, 2014
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Few cartel leaders acquire fame for culinary skills. However, Miguel Ángel "El 40" Treviño Morales, the sadistic erstwhile chief of Los Zetas, became skilled in preparing "el guiso" (the stew). His recipe is simple. After torturing a victim, even an infant, he plunged him into a 55-gallon pig cooker, doused him with gasoline, and set him on fire.
The Impact of President Felipe Calderón's War on Drugs on the Armed Forces: The Prospects for Mexico's "Militarization" and Bilateral Relations
December 31, 2012
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The ever wider involvement of the armed forces in Mexican life is examined by addressing the question: "Is Mexican society being 'militarized'?" If the answer is "yes," what will be the probable impact on relations between the United States and its southern neighbor?
Threat Posed by Mounting Vigilantism in Mexico
September 15, 2011
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In recent years, the Mexican media has highlighted brutal acts of vigilantism, known as linchamientos or citizen violence, against suspected wrongdoers in their communities. Mobs have torched presumed pedophiles; average citizens have beaten suspected home invaders; and passengers on buses have hit, kicked, and tortured men who have tried to rob them. Is this behavior related to the nation's bloody drug war? Does it spring from the indifference of police to poor areas? Or is a means for members of an anonymous crowd to release frustrations over persistent unemployment, acute poverty, and ubiquitous corruption?
La Familia Drug Cartel: Implications for U.S.-Mexican Security
December 13, 2010
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To compensate, 30 minutes are being added to each school day and lunch breaks won't be as long. Elementary school students will also see less time for recess and physical education classes.
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Still on the slate for the next couple of months are plans to switch factions - possibly twice - to check out some of the changes to the game's evil side (and the other bard subclass). Sometime in November, I run out of game time that was purchased through the strangely short-sighted sale promotion stacking, so the next expansion will almost certainly have a far greater price tag (for both the expansion and the game time that seems required to take advantage of it). Time will tell where this game sits on my list when the dust settles.


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Money spent trying to change the weather is wasted, and takes away money needed to adapt to the weather. We can stop emitting CO2, sure, and we can become damned poor and unable to help the people who are REALLY POOR. I'm not worried about us. I'm worried about the poor people in low-lying areas. Who's gonna take care of them if the rich countries have impoverished themselves and not succeeded at changing the weather.
Remember: Kyoto has cost the world half a trillion dollars already. How much of that money would we have been able to spend to buy up low-lying land in India, Bangladesh and other such countries? That's how the free market would deal with warming: people in rich countries buying out the property of people in poor countries, so they can afford to move elsewhere and rebuild. How many shanties in India could you buy with a half-trillion dollars? All of them, I'll venture.


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Babin hired as new AD/football coach in Warren
The Warren Warriors have a new athletic director and head football coach in 32-year-old Chris Babin. The School Board accepted the hire on Tuesday night during a school board meeting. Babin will replace John Woodard, who moved on to become the new athletic director and head coach at 2A Quitman. Woodard was 8-11 in two seasons in Warren.
Babin leaves Class 2A Deweyville after going 17-5 in two seasons with a district record of 8-2 with two playoff appearances and one district title. Babin helped snap a five-year playoff drought in Deweyville. Warren last made the playoffs in 2005.
With realignment, Warren is in Class 3A-Division I with the likes of Anahuac, Buna, East Chambers, Hardin, Kirbyville, Kountze and Woodville.


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Elliot Erwitt has shot advertising images for many years. I believe too, that his work has also been licensed for use in advertising. At any rate, he has been asked in the past to recreate some of his famous images as advertising, say, the kid on the back of the bike with a computer instead of a baguette. What follows are some examples of his advertising work.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Google Ads are back
Five hours after the Techdirt article was posted, I received an email from Google stating they had re-reviewed my case and determined that I am not violating their copyright policies and therefore could have Google ads posted on my blog.
I will be posting a link direct to my torrent file, but not to TPB or other torrent sites. I don't want to go through this problem again (though it would be funny to see what would happen if it did).
One good thing about this is that it has helped raise awareness of the problems with corporate copyright policies and copyright regulation as a whole. When a person is unable to post his/her own products on the 'net because someone fears copyright infringement has occurred, there is a definite problem.
Some of the Techdirt comments say that I should have known this would happen because I posted links to TPB and Demonoid, which are "bastions of piracy". Well, my using them as a way for people to find my book shows that they are also able to be used for legitimate purposes. Just because other people post copyrighted material on there doesn't mean they are wholly "evil". They are simply tools, much like a knife. It can be used for good or bad purposes, but in and of itself, it is only a device to be used.
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It's funny if you think about it: Google condems you for linking to sites like the piratebay, but if you do a google search using " filetype:torrent", you can find pretty much any torrent you want. :)
- September 28, 2012 at 9:41 PM
Try using a magnet link instead of linking the torrent. That should make it "safer" against google's copyright policies.
For more information check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme
Note that inn the pirate bay all downloads have a magnet link, you can take the one from your torrent.
- September 28, 2012 at 10:06 PM
Ha the tyranny from google [like all monopolies]: I recall a webmaster getting is adsense account suspended because he wrote pedobear in an article.
This kind of blind censorship/control [suspend first, discuss later] will be shown to be more and more flawed as more and more people will get random unjustified and moronic bans from google.
It shows only a great disrespect form google towards its users.
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This is a good way to say it...
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Most of the bikes in the US have some sort of racing heritage, born from downhill dirt races or circular tracks or high-speed races through the countryside. We have a NASCAR culture where it's not how we get from x to y, but how fast we get there. We want to make our bikes faster and lighter, creating compromises to eek out performance.
Here's where the Urbana comes in to the equation. This probably isn't the first time you're reading about the Urbana. If you've been reading Cyclelicious, Commute By Bike, or Lovely Bicycle you know it's a tough, fun alternative to your run-of-the-mill hybrid or mountain bike. So you want to know if it's heavy or fast, right?
The Urbana is the first bike from the company of the same name out of Montreal, Canada. The key to the bike is the tough as nails frame that allows tires 2.6" wide to fit on the bike --with fenders. It's a step-through design out of aluminum with a love-it-or-hate-it look. The dropouts are modular for future upgrades to belt drive. The headset is threadless and the steerer is mated to a BMX-style 4-bolt stem. The handlebar is, again love it or hate it, a BMX type. Need to raise your handlebars? Just swap out the bars for ones with higher rise. If your 6 ft and like the bars a little higher than the saddle you'll likely need an 8" riser bar.
The components of the Urbana vary by model. My test bike had a Shimano red-band 8-speed Alfine IGH, a roller brake on the rear wheel and a cable-actuated disk on the front wheel. It's also equipped with an SKS Chainguard, and SKS thermoplastic fenders (would Bikes For The Rest Of Us ride it any other way?). The Urbana also had a tough rear rack with integrated grocery-bag hooks to make any disposable bag into a pannier.
How does it ride? Smooth. My regular commuter has 2" wide tires and a sprung saddle and the Urbana blows it away. The Nid de Poule (apparently a French term for pothole) Sidewalk tires soak up the bumps as you glide off of curbs or traverse gravel. Interestingly the tires don't seem to sap my pedalling energy like I expected. The bike has some momentum to it but never feels slow.
What can you do with the Urbana? Take it grocery shopping, give a friend a ride (the rack can take it), commute to work or just cruise along your favorite gravel path or bumpy sidewalk. When equipped with fenders, chain guard and hub brakes there's really no excuse to hop on a have some fun, regardless of the weather. I think one of the best uses would be bike camping along the C&O Canal towpath here in the DC area. The Urbana would just float over the gravel trail and let you enjoy the scenery. Besides, are you really in that much of a hurry?
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I know there was a lot of chat about butter. Was it the ingredient that made these or put them over the top? How did yours turn out?
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I just couldn't really try and enjoy because it was just too much butter. Prefer normal cinnamon rolls.
I did not like the sticky part of it (maybe because I'm Swiss, grew up with cheese Fondue and Raclette,… and really love (almost) anything sweet but unfortunately not that gooey sticky part! – so sorry!)
Butter! Oh I gave him a good cut (I could replace more than 1/2 of the total amount) and made new mixtures to replace it. Oh…I'm slowly becoming a butter Terminator!
I would much prefer to eat a good quality butter laden treat like this once in a while than a lesser version ever. We really enjoyed these!
Amen! Quality makes the differene.
Ditto that!
I followed the recipe to the last word.. i agree the butter felt excessive but decided since I wasnt going to be making these too often.. I might as well go the whole way.. I really enjoyed them…and so did my family!!
I did add orange zest to my filling and replaced the pecans with walnuts since you dont get pecans in India!!
I'm sorry I didn't participate this week! I was under the weather last week, and honestly, just couldn't prepare this treat for my family. I make cinnamon rolls frequently, and this version just screamed over-the-top with butter. One day perhaps I'll try them.
When the "Baking with Julia" series first aired (decades ago), I remember the country being in the midst of the low-fat craze. Although I admired Nancy Silverton, I just couldn't bring myself to make these sticky buns back then because of all the butter. Nowadays I spend much of my free time baking. My husband and I try to exercise portion control and to adhere to Julia's philosophy about everything in moderation. I made these buns yesterday, and the only change I made to the recipe was to toast the pecans, something I always do now when baking. We both thought they were delicious. It is quite a lot of butter, and I probably won't make them very often, but I'm very glad I finally made the recipe.
When my older son (who at best will condescend to eating baked good/pastries and at worst flat out refuse to!) says, "Mom, can we have these on Christmas morning instead of what we usually have?", I know it's a winner! Too much butter? Maybe for every day, but what a lovely treat (it was Mother's Day, after all).
Didn't make these. Will do so when I purchase a new mixer. Don't want to take a gamble with my KA mixer. However, I made Sticky Pecan Buns in a baking class. So, I know what most of you refer to when you say it was "delicious". Look forward to seeing the creations of my fellow bloggers.
I just got back from a trip from Chicago and didn't get to the recipe. I will make these on the off week. I want to try this recipe.
I skipped making these mostly because of all the butter and I didn't want to completely break my KA mixer… maybe someday I will try to make half the recipe.
As a Wisconsinite, butter is pretty much a staple (I am just old enough to remember the outcry when margarine finally became legal in the state). And as Julia herself said, these are an occasional treat. I love that they weren't too sweet, either in the brioche itself or the filling.
I'd make the brioche dough again before I make croissants again, any day. Like the result better, and the brioche can be used for a number of different things.
Who made Dori Greenspans Brioche and Sticky Buns from Baking from my home to yours? Which one did you like better?
I did and I think I liked them better. Still decadent but not so over the top!
Pheeew just on time!! Loved this recipe!! http://bakinginspain.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/twdbwj-walnut-sticky-rollspanecillos.html
I definitely would cut the butter next time. I'm a BIG fan of butter, but that's all I tasted with this one – thinking that it could be cut in half I would hope!!
I found that the butter was completely blended into the buns – amazing that the dough could hold so much butter without being greasy!
I was really beginning to feel sorry for butter with all the negativity directed toward him! :) In reality I think we all see this type of baking as a special event rather than something we will be making regularly. My boys LOVED them especially since I changed the sticky caramel to my mother-in-law's famous creamy caramel topping and left out the pecans altogether. MMMMMmmmmm!
I just found this site and joined right away! I didn't receive my book until today, so I had to pass on this recipe. I love butter, but do agree in moderation. I will try this recipe at some time!
I made this recipe exactly as written and they were amazing! I was concerned about eating all that butter, so I gave most of the recipe away to my neighbors. I loved the brioche dough and will make that again soon. I believe the sticky buns are a special occasion treat!


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Alexander Stubb, the foreign affairs minister, said he thinks it will be perfectly possible for Britain to "differentiate" itself in Europe as there are lots of opportunities to "take a few raisins out of the bun".
Several EU foreign ministers were on Wednesday hostile to Mr Cameron's plans for agreeing a new relationship with Europe and calling a public vote on membership of the EU by 2017.
However, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, struck a conciliatory note and Mr Stubb told BBC Radio Four this morning that the speech was actually "constructive".
"We need Britain in Europe and Europe needs britain as well," he said. "It's going to be a long path but it's very good for the British EU debate."
He said his views might seem surprising from a staunch pro-European, but he "wants to see the UK serious and at the of the EU debate not yapping about from the margins like Ukip."
"This really clarifies the debate and it was a gutsy move," he added.
Mr Stubb, who has previously warned Britain not to put itself on the margins, was also optimistic about the British Prime Minister's chances of achieving renegotiation with other EU members.
"There has been a lot of differentiation inside the EU over its history," he said. "A lot of countries are not in the euro, lots are not in Schengen, there are some outside defence and hundreds of directives not implemented. Of course we have stick to the bulk of it but of course we can take a few raisins out of the bun."
Conservative Lord Owen, the former foreign secretary, said David Cameron's speech was that of a party leader rather than a prime minister as it failed to set a clear path for a future with Europe.
"[The speech] contains not one single idea and is all about British exceptionalism," he said. "To delay restructuring the Single Market is fundamentally wrong. It must be done at the same time as eurozone reform."
Last night, David Lidington, the Europe minister, said the Conservative manifesto would set out more detail on Britain's approach to clawing back powers from Brussels.
However, Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, told BBC Breakfast this morning that the Prime Minister "shouldn't start with a detailed list of items".
"We should start with a direction that says, look, what weメre trying to do here is to ensure that decisions about Britain that need to be taken in Britain can be taken in Britain," he said.
After Mr Cameron's speech, Mrs Merkel signalled she might help Britain reach a deal by saying she would be prepared to listen to Britain over its "wishes" for looser ties with the EU.
Mrs Merkel said she wants to see a "fair compromise" after David Cameron called for radical EU reforms before a public vote on Britain's membership.
"Germany, and I personally, want Britain to be an important part and an active member of the European Union," she said today.
"We are prepared to talk about British wishes but we must always bear in mind that other countries have different wishes and we must find a fair compromise. We will talk intensively with Britain about its individual ideas but that has some time over the months ahead."
Her intervention was see as the first step towards a possible victory by Mr Cameron, who has always argued it is possible for Britain to get a "fresh settlement" with Brussels.
The Prime Minister was yesterday cheered by his own party in the House of Commons, after he promised a referendum by the end of 2017.
In a move that risked infuriating European leaders, he has also called for wider reform of the EU allowing countries to define their own relationships with Brussels.
"Far from unravelling the EU, this will in fact bind its members more closely because such flexible, willing cooperation is a much stronger glue than compulsion from the centre," he said.
Ministers from the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Finland have all signalled they may be open to this idea.
However, several foreign ministers from Germany, France and Italy dismissed Mr Cameron's chances of getting a fresh settlement with Brussels or deeper reform of the whole EU.
One of Mrs Merkel's close allies also today called for immediate British referendum on EU membership because Mr Cameron is unlikely to get the new settlement he envisages.
Gunther Krichbaum, the chairman of the Bundestag's powerful European committee, told German MPs that Britain should get on with a vote.
"There's no reason to delay the decision because all the arguments are on the table," he said. "There is and can be no renegotiation in Cameron's sense."
Mr Krichbaum also attacked the PM's timing for a referendum, after 2015 during a period when the eurozone would trying to create "fiscal union".
"While others switch into fourtth gear, Cameron goes into reverse gear," he said.
A German foreign minister earlier warned Britain will not be allowed to "cherry pick" which laws it wants to follow.
Guido Westerwelle flatly rejected the Prime Minister's demand that the condition of Britain's continued membership was the return of sovereignty.
"Germany wants the United Kingdom to remain an active and constructive part of the EU. But cherry picking is not an option," he said.
Mr Westwerwelle insisted that, in stark contrast to Britain, Germany is currently pushing for extra EU powers to tackle the eurozone debt crisis, a position that leaves little scope for a special deal for Britain.
"Germany wants an ambitious reform of the economic and monetary union in such decisive issues as the future of our common currency. We do not need less, but more integration," he said.
His comments echo those made by Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, who went further to suggest that France would "roll out the red carpet" for businesses as Britain mulls whether to leave the EU.
"We can't have Europe a la carte," he said.
"Imagine the EU was a football club: once you've joined up and you're in this club, you can't then say you want to play rugby."
Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, the Spanish foreign minister, also accused Mr Cameron of playing a "very dangerous game" by feeding Euroscepticism by offering a popular vote on the EU.
"What Cameron has to understand is that you can't put the brakes on that train," he said.
Joschka Fischer, the influential former German foreign minister, even accused Mr Cameron of living in "ideological dream worlds".
"The belief that the EU could be renegotiated and Germany would support this borders on a belief in miracles," writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung today.
EU officials are alarmed at Mr Cameron's promise of a British referendum at a time when many Europeans would like a vote on developments in the EU, from imposed austerity to bailouts of Southern Europe.
"He's created a timebomb with the referendum. The clock is ticking. There is no renegotiation and no inclination to give Britain a special settlement at a time when the eurozone is having to do things that everyone dislikes," said a high-level EU official. "He has put the referendum back in European politics and no one is going to be grateful to him for that."
Martin Schulz, the German speaker of the European Parliament, said: "This was an inward looking speech that does not reflect European reality and will not impress many of the UK's European partners. The speech was more about domestic politics reflecting concerns of Eurosceptic elements of the Conservative Party.
"Prime Minister Cameron with his referendum announcement is playing a dangerous game for tactical, domestic reasons. (He) resembles the sorcerer's apprentice, who cannot tame the forces that he has conjured – forces that want to leave the EU for ideological reasons, to the detriment of the British people."