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Consume fewer calories, use more body fat and feel great during exercise – these are the claims behind slow digesting carbohydrates. Before you ditch your typical sports drink in favor of a slow digesting carbohydrate, check out the truth behind each of these lofty claims.
In this post I will cover:
- One big fat myth – slow digesting carbohydrates won't help you burn body fat
- Trying to burn fat during exercise is pointless
- Fast carbohydrates are better for high-intensity athletes
- Advice for those on a low carbohydrate diet
According to Generation UCAN, makers of a slow digesting starch (a type of carbohydrate), typical high sugar sports nutrition products cause a rapid increase in energy followed by low blood sugar leading to a sharp crash, leaving you feeling tired with a bad case of the munchies ("post-workout cravings" according to their website). Generation UCAN's starch will keep your blood sugar levels nice and steady while delivering long-lasting energy for hard-working muscles. The payoff? You need fewer carbohydrates (and therefore calories) to fuel activity and your insulin levels (a hormone that helps store body fat among other functions) are kept low so your body can pull from a larger supply of body fat (multiple times larger than the amount of carbohydrate stored in muscle and liver).
All of this sounds great in theory. Yet none of it holds up in real life.
Typical sports nutrition products do not cause a sharp crash (symptoms of low blood sugar) when consumed before or during exercise (1). Instead, your body will use the sugar pretty quickly to fuel hard working muscles (2). What about post-workout cravings? Typical sports drinks, gels and gummies won't lead to cravings, despite possible changes in blood sugar, even if you consume them when your body doesn't need them – when you are sitting on the couch scrolling through Snapchat videos (3).
One Big Fat Myth – Slow Digesting Carbohydrates Won't Help You Lose Body Fat
Trying to burn fat during exercise is pointless (unless you are a ultra distance athlete and therefore relying on large amounts of fat for energy to run for several hours at a time). Otherwise it doesn't matter if more fat is used during exercise. What matters most if you want to lose weight? The total amount of calories burned over time.
You are better off burning fat while sitting in front of your computer or sleeping then trying to maximize fat used during exercise. Why? Fat is a slow source of energy – if you are seriously tapping into your fat stores during exercise you aren't exercising very hard and therefore you aren't burning very many calories. If you want to make the most of your exercise sessions, burning as many calories as possible, you'll need carbohydrates to help you sustain your exercise intensity. It's the difference between walking and sprinting. You have to walk for a much longer period of time to burn as many calories as you will if you are sprinting or doing intervals.
Fast Carbohydrates are Better for Athletic Performance
Carbohydrates are the best source of energy to keep up with the calorie demand of high-intensity exercise. The less carbohydrate you have stored in your muscle (stored from the carbohydrate you eat each day), the more your body will rely on carbohydrate consumed during exercise in the form of sports drinks, gels, beans, gummies etc. Fast carbohydrates (the mix of sugars in common sports nutrition products) have been successfully used for decades. Yet some athletes get an upset stomach when exercising. Generation UCAN says their product will lower risk of stomach upset. Unfortunately, a well-designed study found athletes actually had greater stomach upset on UCAN (a slow digesting carbohydrate) than they did on traditional sports nutrition drinks (8). If you don't want the nitty-gritty science, skip the next section and move to the following paragraph.
In this crossover study (each study subject experienced each type of drink) 10 male cyclists consumed 1) 60 grams of carbohydrate from a typical sports nutrition drink (sucrose and glucose blend) 30 minutes before and 60 grams of carbohydrate per hour during exercise (Sports Drink); 2) 60 grams of carbohydrate from UCAN (hydrothermally-modified starch; HMS) before and 60 grams of carbohydrate per hour during exercise (Isocaloric HMS); 3) 60 grams of carbohydrate from UCAN before and 30 grams of carbohydrate per hour during exercise (Low HMS). They spent three hours exercising (one hour at a moderate pace followed by intervals and sprints). There was no difference in performance between the Sports Drink and High HMS. Both the Sports Drink and High HMS resulted in slightly better performance compared to Low HMS (less carbohydrate during exercise). Consuming UCAN, whether 30 or 60 grams per hour, led to greater incidence of nausea compared to consuming 60 grams of carbohydrate per hour from a typical Sports Drink (8).
Typical carbohydrates used in sports nutrition products are digested quickly and used by muscles right away so you can train harder than you would if you relied on slow carbohydrates. The body can use about 30 – 60 grams of carbohydrate per hour, and possibly up to 90 if a mix of different sugars is used. Fat metabolism kicks in after around 20 minutes of aerobic exercise. "After about two hours of continuous endurance exercise, fat is a major source of energy. However, carbohydrate is still essential. Without enough carbohydrate present there is incomplete burning of fatty acids resulting in ketone bodies as a byproduct. When ketones build up, the body's pH drops (metabolic acidosis) and the body attempts to compensate via respiratory hyperventilation," states sports dietitian Sally Hara, MS, RD, CSSD, CDE. You won't improve performance if you consume slow carbohydrates before or during exercise (5).
Fast carbohydrates are also preferential right after exercise – your body can rapidly replenish carbohydrate stores in muscle for use during her next training session. This is very important for athletes who train more than once over the course of an 8-hour period and also important for those who train again less than 24 hours later (6, 7). Anyone who doesn't train again less than 24 hours later can re-stock their carbohydrate in muscle by consuming enough carbohydrate in their diet from potatoes, rice, quinoa, and other higher carbohydrate foods.
You can function on fewer carbohydrates. However, "there is a difference between functioning and performing your best. Athletes and high-intensity sports to follow a low carbohydrate diet are more likely to get tired early and make mental errors," states Hara. If you want to perform well and burn more calories while lowering risk of stomach upset, choose a traditional sports nutrition product instead of being swayed by the false marketing promises behind slow digesting carbohydrate products.
1 Jeukendrup AE, Killer SC. The myths surrounding pre-exercise carbohydrate feeding. Ann Nutr Metab 2010;57 Suppl 2:18-25.
2 Marmy-Conus N, Fabris S, Proietto J, Hargreaves M. Preexercise glucose ingestion and glucose kinetics during exercise. J Appl Physiol 1996;81:853-857.
3 Schultes B, Panknin A, Hallschmid M, Jauch-Chara K, Wilms B, de Courbiere F, Lehnert H, Schmid SM. Glycemic increase induced by intravenous glucose infusion fails to affect hunger, appetite, or satiety following breakfast in healthy men. Appetite 2016;105(1):562-566.
4 Roberts MD, Lockwood C, Dalbo VJ, Volek J, Kerksick CM. Ingestion of a high-molecular-weight hydrothermally modified waxy maize starch alters metabolic responses to prolonged exercise in trained cyclists. Nutr 2011;27(6):659-665.
5 Burdon CA, Spronk I, Cheng H, O'Connor HT. Effect of Glycemic Index of a Pre-exercise Meal on Endurance Exercise Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Sports Med 2016:1-15.
6 Stephens FB, Roig M, Armstrong G, Greenhaff PL. Post-exercise ingestion of a unique, high molecular weight glucose polymer solution improves performance during a subsequent bout of cycling exercise. J Sports Sci 2007:1-6.
7 Aulin KP, Soderlund K, Hultman F. Muscle glycogen resynthesis rate in humans after supplementation of drinks containing carbohydrates with low and high molecular masses. Eur J Appl Physiol 2000;81:346-351.
8 Bauer DA, Vargas F CS, Bach C, Garvey JA, Ormsbee MJ. Slow-Absorbing Modified Starch before and during prolonged cycling increases fat oxidation and gastrointestinal distress without changing performance. Nutrients 2016;8(392):1-16.


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ROCKFORD — Agencies work every day to help lift people out of homelessness, but the needs outweigh the available resources and services in our community.
That's a common story in social services but still a necessary point communicated to a room full of people gathered Tuesday afternoon as part of National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week.
Nearly 100 people attended the event, which was sponsored by the Rockford, Winnebago and Boone Counties Continuum of Care — a task force on homelessness. The group is comprised of more than 30 nonprofit agencies, government entities and educational institutions that offered an update on local outreach efforts.
The group shared these sobering statistics:
Rockford MELD housed, fed and clothed 41 mothers and 32 children in the last year, but 378 requests for shelter or housing were made, and 195 mothers and children were turned away because of lack of space.
Rock River Valley Pantry provided nearly 1.1 million pounds of food last year to more than 7,000 people in the community. Forty percent of those people were children, and 6 percent were 65 and older
Rock House Kids serves about 150 kids a week who are homeless or hungry.
Rockford Rescue Mission provides lodging for an average of 161 people a night and serves three meals a day to about 150 people. They also provided medical, dental, chiropractic and vision appointments for 1,057 people.
Grace Lutheran Church and GPS Faith Community have seen 240 new families in Loves Park and Machesney Park in 2013 and have served 4,394 people so far this year at their food pantry.
Crusader Community Health has offered medical services to more than 1,500 homeless guests.
Carpenter's Place served 1,900 homeless adults and helped 256 guests secure stable housing and 110 obtain employment.
Rosecrance helped 24 people move from homelessness to shelter and begin receiving appropriate mental health services.
Sherry Pitney, executive director of the Rockford Rescue Mission, said the mission has turned away 140 people just in the past three months. She said if they're not staying at the mission, many of those people end up staying outside, which gets more difficult in the winter.
Pitney said needs have increased because of the slow economic recovery, but also because people in the community face domestic violence and other interpersonal conflicts.
Agencies are also seeing increased needs in the younger (ages 18 to 30) and senior populations, said Kay Larrick, executive director of Carpenter's Place.
"People would ask if I thought the recession or the downturn in the economy was affecting Carpenter's Place, and initially I said 'no' because I said the guests with whom we primarily work are chronically homeless," Larrick said. "However, that really turned a corner in the last couple of years.
"We have amazing agencies providing great services. To me, it almost seems like we don't have the level of services. Like many of us provide housing, yet there just isn't enough housing to meet the need."
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Rail Trip, who is trying to become the third multiple winner of the Hollywood Gold Cup, will be the starting high weight at 123 pounds when the Grade 1 is run for the 71st time Saturday at Hollywood Park.
The defending champion in the Gold Cup, which is worth $500,000, Rail Trip will try to join Native Diver and Lava Man as the only horses to win Hollywood Park's signature race more than once. Both of those California bred geldings won the race three times – Native Diver (1965-67) and Lava Man (2005-07).
Owned by Mace and Samantha Siegel's Jay Em Ess Stable and trained by Ron Ellis, Rail Trip is also seeking to become the first horse to sweep the Mervyn LeRoy, Californian and Gold Cup in the same year since Eleven Stitches in 1981.
Richard's Kid, the 2009 Pacific Classic winner, was assigned 121 pounds. A 5-year-old son of Richard's Kid owned by Zabeel Racing Interational Corporation and trained by Bob Baffert, Richard's Kid has been idle since finishing seventh in the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 27. Baffert is looking for his third win in the Gold Cup.
The actual high weight among the 15 original nominees is Gio Ponti. Both the champion older male and champion turf male in 2009, Gio Ponti, who was given 124 pounds, is not scheduled to participate.
Here is the complete list of weights for the Gold Cup: Gio Ponti (124); Rail Trip (123); Richard's Kid (121); Compari (117); Awesome Gem (116); Sangaree (116); Enriched (115); Slew's Tiznow, Spurrier and Tap It Light (114); Brushburn, Cigar Man, Tres Borrachos and Victory Pete (113) and Kanan Dume (112).


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Road Safety Conference in Halkida, Greece
A United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) conference on Improving Global Road Safety: Setting Regional and National Road Traffic Casualty Reduction Targets was organized in Halkida, Greece, on 25-26 June 2009.
The Conference was hosted by the Evia Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Hellenic Chambers Transport Association, with the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Road traffic safety has become a major global social, economic, development and health concern. Only in Europe as much as 127.000 people die every year and 2.4 millions more are injured or disabled causing, in addition to human suffer, overwhelming costs amounting to 1.5 to 2.5 % of Europe's GDP.
Despite some progress in recent years, South Eastern European countries are still suffering from high numbers of causalities on the road.
The large majority of road traffic crashes are caused by factors that are known and can be prevented. These include excess speeding; driving under the influence of alcohol; non-use of seat belts, child restraints and helmets; non respect for vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists; and unsafe road infrastructure.
Around 150 representatives from the public and private sectors as well as civil society from South-Eastern European countries* and numerous road safety institutions and research centres, such as the FIA Foundation, the Global Road Safety Partnership and the European Commission, came together to present issues, views and strategies to improve the situation.
A special panel, formed by the players of the Greek national basketball team, the Hellenic Basketball Federation and FIBA Europe, promoted "Fair Play" and "Team work" as a way of ensuring safe roads across Greece and elsewhere. Stressing the importance of adhering to rules that promote fairness and safety – whether it is on the basketball court or on the road – the basketball champions signed a declaration for road safety and committed to support this cause.
The representatives of the Hellenic Chambers of Commerce and Industry participating in the conference also adopted a Declaration, in which they resolve to support UNECE work and use their network in Greece to support promotional campaigns, raise awareness and advocate for safer roads.
Lessons learned and recommendations
- Many road safety initiatives and practices can be implemented at low cost and within a short time frame. These actions should be shared with relevant ministries (transport, health, education, communication)
- Good national statistics are essential to quantifying and assessing the problem as well as measuring the impact of action taken
- Road traffic casualty reduction targets should be set to optimize costs and results
- Political will and commitment are essential to secure resources
- International cooperation and knowledge-sharing should be strengthened taking into account the needs of low- and middle-income countries
- Governments are encouraged to actively participate in the decision-making process in the UNECE Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) to help develop road safety conventions and share best practices
- Results of this and other conferences in UNDA Target Project series should be included in the final report to be communicated to the Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow, November 2009.
* Delegations from the Ministries of Transport, Public Works, Interior, Health and Education from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey, as well as France, Italy, and the Netherlands.
|English PDF
|Greek PDF
|Team Work and Fair Play on Basketball Courts and on Our Roads - Statement by the Greek National Basketball Champions
|English PDF
|Greek PDF
|Declaration by the Hellenic Chambers of Commerce and Industry
|English PDF
Greek PDF
|Final report
|Conclusions and Recommendations
|English PDF
Greek PDF
|Press Releases
|29 June 2009: Greek basketball champions call for safer roads (ECE/TRANS/09/P06)
|19 June 2009: UNECE warns that South-Eastern Europe risks missing its road safety target (ECE/TRANS/09/P05)
|Basketball Declaration Poster
|Opening Speeches
|Mrs. Eva MOLNAR
Director, Transport Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
|Mr. Evagelos SPANOUDAKIS
President, Chania Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vice-President
Hellenic Chambers Transport Association
|Item 1 - The global road traffic safety context
|Mr. Saul BILLINGSLEY
Deputy Director General, FIA Foundation, Coordinator of the Make Roads Safe Campaign
|Mr. Michalis ADAMANTIADIS
Chief, Transport Facilitation and Economics Section, Transport Division, UNECE
|Mr. Gary VACHICOURAS
Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Chambesy, Switzerland
|Item 2 - Road traffic safety in Europe
|Mrs. Virginia TANASE
Transport Facilitation and Economics Section, Transport Division, UNECE
|Mr. Mario VILAR
Field Officer at the Representation of the European Commission in Greece
|Mr. Nenad NIKOLIC
South East Europe Transport Observatory (SEETO)
|Item 3 - Road traffic safety in Greece
|Mrs. Evagelia TSAGA
Director General, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Greece
|Mr. Konstantinos KOUMANTANOS
General, Chief Commander, Traffic Police of the Central Greece Region
|Mr. Yannis GOLLIAS
Professor, National Technical University of Athens
|Mr. Ioannis HANDANOS
President, Hellenic Institute of Transport Engineers
|Mr. Antonis KASTIS
Road Traffic Safety Observatory, Technical Chamber of Greece
|Mrs. Vassiliki DANELLI-MYLONA
Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas, Athens
|Item 4 - Road traffic safety in South-Eastern Europe
|Mr. Anton DUSHEV
Ministry of the Interior, Bulgaria
|Mr. Ante GAŠPAR
Ministry of the Interior, Croatia
|Mr. Raed ARAFAT
Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Health, Romania
|Mr. Huseyin SIMSEK
Superintendent, Ministry of the Interior, DG Turkish National Police, Ankara, Turkey
|Ms. Juna KOTE
Chief of Foreign Relations Sector, Directorate of Foreign Relations and Public Information, Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Telecommunication, Albania
|Mr. Izet BAJRAMBASIC
Assistant Minister, Ministry of Communication and Transport, Bosnia and Herzegovina
|Mr. Dalibor MILOSEVIC
Advisor, Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transportation and Telecommunications, Montenegro
|Mr. Dragoslav KUKIC
Police Officer in Traffic Police Department, Ministry of the Interior, Serbia
|Mr. Marjan KOPEVSKI
Head of the Division for Road Infrastructure, Ministry of Transport and Communications, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
|Item 5 - Road traffic safety in South-Eastern Europe
|Mrs. Luciana IORIO
Italy, Chair UNECE Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1)
|English (part 1)
|English (part 2)
|Mrs. Nelly ALAND
|Mrs. Sophie FOUVEZ
Regional Adviser, Transport Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
|Mrs. Kate McMAHON
Coordinator, United Nations Project on Setting Road Traffic Casualty Reduction Targets
|Ms. Kathleen ELSIG
Regional Manager Europe and Central Asia, Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP)
|Mr. John MUMFORD
Road Assessment Project (iRAP)
|Mrs. Brigitte CHAUDHRY
President, European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR)
|Mr. Kostas THEOFANIDIS
President, Hellenic Association of Safe Transport


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Every time i loose my 3G signal and after it is back on again, waze is still searching network until I close the app and turn it back on. I loose all may navigation data all my drives, all my reports, etc. Non of these are recorded to my account.
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Just in time for the holidays, Apple has brought back the ability to buy an app for a friend from the App Store using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The "gift" option had unfortunately disappeared from the App Store in the iOS 6 update earlier this year, but Apple has added it back along with some very helpful improvements.
While browsing apps in the App Store on iOS 6, tap the "share" icon in the upper right corner. Here you can send a link to an app via e-mail, Twitter, iMessage, etc. If the app costs money, a new sharing option is "Gift."
Tap the gift icon, and you can buy the app for a friend; all you need to do is enter their e-mail address. A new improvement, according to 9to5Mac, is that you can now schedule a gift for up to 90 days in advance. This addition seems like it will be especially helpful for those (like myself) who have a terrible time remembering birthdays and other occasions.
UPDATE: There were a few interesting questions in the comments about certain gifting scenarios, so we got in touch with Apple and got some answers for our readers.
When you gift an app, you are charged at the time you send the gift. If you schedule it for a later date, that merely delays sending the e-mail notification to your gift recipient. So if the app costs $2.99 today, and goes on sale two weeks later, you still pay $2.99. On the upside, if an app is on sale at the time of purchase, and say goes up to $5.99, you still only paid $2.99. There's no price matching or anything of that sort.
If the person you are sending an app to already has the app, you'll have to contact iTunes Support to request a refund, and perhaps gift a different app. Unfortunately, there's no way to check if your recipient already has an app or not. We think it would be better if Apple could automatically convert gifts into credit if the recipient already owns it, but for now you're limiting to contacting iTunes Support (online or by phone) to get a refund.
Finally, a reader wanted to know why gifting doesn't work with music. In fact, it does! You can gift songs or albums using the same method as described above for apps. You can also gift movies, individual TV show episodes, audiobooks. You can't, however, gift movie rentals, full TV show seasons, ringtones, or iBooks based on our testing.


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Check to make sure your financial institution is a national bank, federal savings association, or thrift.
Search Financial Institutions.
Check the List of National Bank Operating Subsidiaries.
Operating subsidiaries are companies owned or controlled by a national bank and regulated by the OCC. The list contains these companies that do business directly with consumers and are not functionally regulated as defined in 5(c)(5) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended. An operating subsidiary does business directly with consumers if it provides products or services to individuals to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.
If your bank is on one of these lists, the OCC can assist you with questions or concerns you may have. Start here.
What if my bank is not on the lists?
If your bank is not on one of the lists above, it is not regulated by the OCC. It may be a savings and loan, credit union, state-regulated financial institutions, or other type of institution. The links below can help you find the right regulator.
Credit Union
- The National Credit Union Administration supervises and insures Federal credit unions and insures State-chartered credit unions. Visit their Consumer Information page for information and assistance regarding credit unions.
State-Chartered Bank
Two Federal agencies share responsibility for State banks.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures State-chartered banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System. The FDIC also insures deposits in banks and savings associations in the event of bank failure. The FDIC's Consumer Protection page provides information and assistance.
The Federal Reserve Board supervises State-chartered banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Visit the Consumer Information page for assistance.
State banks are also supervised by state banking regulators. Visit the Conference of State Bank Supervisors Website for links to state banking departments.
Still not sure who to contact?
The OCC's Customer Assistance Group is ready to help you find out the correct agency to contact with your question or complaint. Call 1-800-613-6743 toll-free Monday through Friday, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Central Time.
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Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross Over Jerusalem, in 351 AD
The Precious Cross appeared in the sky over Jerusalem on the morning of May 7, 351 during the reign of the emperor Constantius, the son of Saint Constantine (May 21).
At that time the heresy of Arianism, which taught that Christ was merely a creature and not God, was causing great turmoil and division throughout the Empire. Even after the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea in 325, many people were drawn to this false teaching, and the Orthodox found themselves in the minority in many places.
Constantius, the ruler of the eastern part of the Empire, was a fervent supporter of Arianism. His brothers Constantine II and Constans, who were pious Orthodox Christians, ruled in the west. They were both killed in separate battles around 350, leaving Constantius as sole ruler. Also in 350, Saint Cyril (March 18) became Patriarch of Jerusalem and began his zealous struggle against Arianism.
In May of 351 a luminous Cross appeared over Jerusalem, stretching from Golgotha to the Mount of Olives, a distance of about five and a half miles. The Cross was wide as it was long, and shone more brightly than the sun. Many people left their homes and workplaces to gather in the church and glorify Christ. The historian Sozomen says that this wondrous sign led to the conversion of multitudes of pagans and Jews to Christianity.
A letter from Saint Cyril to the emperor describing this phenomenon, and admonishing him to become Orthodox, has been preserved. The apparition of the Cross remained over the city for a whole week.
The vision of the Cross over Jerusalem strengthened the Orthodox faithful and contributed to the return of many Arians to the Church. It is also a reminder of the awesome Second Coming of Christ, when "the sign of the Son of man shall appear in heaven" (Matthew 24:30).


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House OKs effort to repeal Obamacare for 40th time
For the 40th time, Republicans pushed legislation through the House on Friday targeting President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, this one a bill preventing the Internal Revenue Service from implementing any part of the health care law.
The measure, symbolic because of the certainty that it will be ignored by the Democratic-led Senate, was approved by a near party-line 232-185 vote.
The legislation married two of the GOP's favorite targets: the 2010 health care law and the IRS, which in May conceded it had improperly targeted conservative groups seeking tax exempt status for detailed investigations.
Next year, the IRS will begin enforcing the requirement that most individuals have health insurance, collecting fines from people who don't. The agency also will distribute subsidies to help people buy insurance in new exchanges.
Repealing those provisions would enfeeble the heart of the measure, which was aimed in part at making health care more affordable for lower-income people. Analysts say healthy people must purchase health care to help cover the costs of those who are ill, and the fines are designed to prod those who are fit to buy policies.
Sponsor Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., named his bill the "Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act."
"We simply want patients and families and doctors to be in charge of health care, not Washington, D.C., and not the IRS," Price said.
Democrats argued that Friday's vote, the last before the House was joining the Senate in a five-week recess, was a waste of time that ignored the country's larger economic and budget problems and was aimed instead at letting Republicans score political points with conservatives.
"Political red meat is not what this country needs," said Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y. "We need a Congress with a vision for tomorrow."
With the IRS under congressional and Justice Department investigations for its mishandling of groups' applications for tax-exempt status, Republicans warned that the agency should not get involved in Americans' health care.
"This is nothing short of an unwelcome, big-government overreach into the most personal aspect of our lives," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.
Democrats said that the IRS would only have peoples' names, addresses, family size, incomes and insurance information.
"Assertions that the IRS will have access to personal health information is wrong and deliberately misleading," said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich.
Friday's vote marked the 40th time the GOP-controlled House will have voted to repeal all or part of the law.
Most of the measures have died in the Democratic-controlled Senate. A handful have been enacted, including one that reduced small business record-keeping the law had required.


text: Loading. Please wait. Using a circulation fan to save energyThe circulation fan in an air conditioner can be a valuable energy saver in certain climates at certain times of day. Those are important caveats, because an air conditioning fan can also increase energy costs if not used properly.The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy recommends buying a central air conditioner with a fan-only switch, but only recommends using the fan-only setting when the temperature drops at night.Use a circulation fan to circulate outside cool air into a home instead of running the compressor, particularly in dry, mild climates. Experts at the Energy Extension Service at Kansas State University estimate that the compressor uses 10 times as much energy as the fan in a central air conditioner. Therefore, the fan can keep the house cool, pull in more fresh air and save money on energy bills.This only works when the temperature drops substantially at night. Of course, every person has a different idea of comfort, but circulation fans may be a good bet when the outside temperature is below 85.On the other hand, during the day and on evenings during heat waves that don't bring nighttime relief, a fan may increase energy usage. This is because the fan will make the compressor work harder to dehumidify the air. The air conditioner draws out moisture, which collects on the coils. When the fan is run without the compressor, this moisture may evaporate again, forcing the compressor to work harder when it cycles on again.Set the fan to the "auto" position whenever the compressor is running, and the outside air is too hot.For air circulation, it's better to rely on ceiling fans in individual rooms while they are occupied. Ceiling fans offer comfort, but do not actually reduce the temperature, so even though they are energy misers, there is no sense in running them in an empty room.Another option is a whole-house fan, which is something of a hybrid between an attic fan and a ceiling fan. Whole-house fans typically go into the ceiling in a central part of the house. They are designed to draw in cool air and exhaust hot air. They use about one quarter of the electricity of a central air conditioning system, but they are also only effective during relatively cool periods. Experts suggest whole-house fans are most effective when the exterior temperatures are below 82 degrees.


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Sarawak or Borneo? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Sarawak or Borneo? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Indonesia View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message khmerhitJoined: 31 May 2003Posts: 1874Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject: Sarawak or Borneo? Does anyone teach in Sarawak or Borneo? thanks khmerhit Back to top JoachimJoined: 01 Oct 2003Posts: 311Location: Brighton, UK Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:41 am Post subject: Hey, Actually Sarawak is in Malaysia. The Indonesian portion of Borneo is called Kalimantan. I never taught there, but I did go travelling to Balikpapan for a long weekend - that was incredibly strange! J Back to top gugelhupfJoined: 24 Jan 2004Posts: 575Location: Jabotabek Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:01 am Post subject: I understand that the island of Borneo lacks a Cambodian ambassador as yet, so a possible vacancy there. Back to top willyJoined: 29 Mar 2003Posts: 215Location: Samarinda,Kalimantan,Indonesia(left TW) Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject: ya, its my home now, samarinda that is. its a nice qoute place Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Indonesia All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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This is the most up-to-date guide to the law of business organizations on the market. It is a practical, how-to guide for use in the classroom for paralegal and lawyer training, and it is a highly useful desk reference students can use later in their offices as they practice in this area. Current forms and clauses throughout illustrate the rules described, and representative cases in each chapter demonstrate how the courts interpret that area of business organizations law. These tools, along with Internet resources and substantive explanations of the use of these tools in practice, make this required reading for legal professionals who want to excel in their work. Students, instructors, paralegals and attorneys have relied on this book for more than 30 years. Now, in its most current and modernized form, it is the only book on the market with such expansive information.John E. Moye is the author of 'The Law of Business Organizations', published 2004 under ISBN 9781401820190 and ISBN 1401820190.[read more]
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Most of the stories you read on Ars this week came straight from the show floor at the Las Vegas Convention Center. You'll find plenty of articles here about the hardware (and software, and infrastructure) of the future form new car tech to AT&T's plan to go all-IP. You'll also find plenty of stories not from CES in this list—our interview with the Republican staffer whose views on copyright got him fired, reporting on an extremely crtical Ruby on Rails bug, and an update on the antics of John McAfee, to name a few.
- "Buffy vs Edward" remix unfairly removed by Lionsgate
- "The telephone network is obsolete": Get ready for the all-IP telco
AT&T wants to get rid of obsolete PSTN equipment, and those pesky FCC rules.
- Republican staffer fired for copyright memo talks to Ars
Derek Khanna needs a new job, but he's unapologetic about his reformist views.
- Extremely critical Ruby on Rails bug threatens more than 200,000 sites
Servers that run the framework are by default vulnerable to remote code attacks.
- The bizarre tale of John McAfee, spymaster
75 laptops, 29 "pillow talk" operatives, and one crazy gringo.
- Adobe almost does something amazing by accident
Making Creative Suite 2 free seemed like a genius move. Unfortunately, it wasn't.
- RIM's BlackBerry 10 bets on gestures for its saving grace
Join us as we go hands-on with RIM's new mobile operating system.
- 1998's most intriguing OS, 15 years later: Hands-on with Haiku alpha 4
Nostalgia runs high, but is the BeOS reboot more than an interesting diversion?
- $17,000 Linux-powered rifle brings "auto-aim" to the real world
Austin-based startup makes "Precision Guided Firearms" sporting a lot of tech.
- Vint Cerf's futuristic wine cellar—and what it means for you
RFID tags on every wine bottle in your house? Why not?
- In which Ars is allowed to see—but not touch—an Ubuntu phone
No touching! Canonical shows us an Ubuntu phone, tells us to keep our hands off.
- Simulated trip to Mars left crew with sleep, exercise problems
Some napped, one shifted to a 25-hour day; all but one remained alert.
- Power saving through marketing: Intel's "7 watt" Ivy Bridge CPUs
The new CPUs definitely save some power, but not as much as you might think.
- The brains of GM's new infotainment system? Your personal smartphone
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Culture Award... June 2013
So... two of you have asked for another "culture award"... (translation: chance at more free money).
So... after some thought, I came up with what I think is a pretty good one.
It's been on my "to-do" list for a bit to create a video that demonstrates how to rebuild a pump properly, and what all the parts and pieces are for/do. (There's really nothing much to the pumps, but if someone doesn't KNOW they don't KNOW)....
Then I realized that there's no reason to open up other stuff like this to the user community.
Three awards will be given for the month of JUNE (and July, so don't lose too much heart)...
There will be a $50 award, a $100 award, and a $200 award...
For the best user-submitted videos that help troubleshoot a problem or demonstrate the use of a BFT (or DFA, so long as you use the terminology "BFT" to avoid confusion) system.
I know there are experts out there that have cleaned your check valve... or replaced your check valve... or purge solenoid or whatever. Maybe if you've got the knowhow you can submit it and get $50 for it (since it's a smaller task).
Wanna give a full sweep of your filtration setup? How you collect? What the process is all about? Maybe that's worth something.
Wanna go through a full video demo of an SSB install? (For those of you that perhaps ordered one but havent' installed it?) Maybe that's worth something.
For the big kahuna stuff... shoot a video that shows an install of an entire kit install?
Scan the forums... see where the most common questions are... pick a topic... shoot the video in the context of you showing a chimpanzee how to accomplish the task you've picked... and submit it for consideration.
THREE awards will be given out at the end of June... and then the competition will reset again for July...
Final determination made by me, blah blah blah, BFT has the rights to the videos submitted and can post them on our web site, blah blah blah... common sense rules apply. I'll pick the winning videos (and the $ category they fall into) at the end of each month.
In the end, I'll also probably need not only final video content, but also raw footage you shot so that I can do any re-editing that might be necessary... (blah blah blah). We can work out details on how to submit them as we get closer to the end.
So... pick a topic... shoot a video, and see if it flies.
Happy shooting.
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You will have better fortune if you message Clay directly. However be forewarned, I haven't seen Clay around the boards very often (like for a few months). I'm not sure if he is just watching or something/someone broke the camel's back and he left these boards. I hope he is still around because I believe him to be a very, very intelligent and authentic man. I don't call many guys "men" by the way.
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FT211: "Criticizing a woman's policies doesn't mean you're a sexist or are afraid of strong women." —Old Pithy
Fundamental Truth
You can call a Man Fatso but not a Woman because of the Double Standard when it comes to being Fat
Back when David Letterman was on NBC and the show was called Late Night with David Lettermen they had an old football player on one night. I think he was a defensive linesman or a linebacker. Who played football before there was money in playing football. Back then it was just guys playing a game hard and then getting drunk afterwards.
On this episode of Late Night this football player was telling a story about one game. It was late in the fourth quarter. The score was already decided. Nothing could happen to change who was going to win the game. But the other team was still playing hard. Trying to win. So after one play he wandered over and entered the other team's huddle and said something like, "Come on, guys. Let's just wrap this up and go get some beers already." At which point one of his teammates yelled over to him from the other huddle, "Hey fatso! You're in the wrong huddle."
"Hey fatso! You're in the wrong huddle." It's funny. For that's the way guys are. They hurl insults at each other. And if you were a heavy guy there was nothing wrong with calling you 'fatso'. It's the way men joke around. It doesn't work with women, though. If you have an overweight female coworker and you address her as fatso you'll find yourself in sensitivity awareness training. Or fired. Because there is a double standard when it comes to being fat. You can call a man fatso. But not a woman.
Anyone espousing Keynesian Policies should be Criticized for they are doing Harm to the Economy
The political opposition and the main stream media treat President Obama with kid gloves. They will not attack him. Or even criticize his policies. Because President Obama is the first black president. And the political opposition and the mainstream media are terrified that someone will call them racist if they do. They fear that so much they'd rather see the economy collapse from his Keynesian economic policies than risk being called a racist.
President Obama is a Keynesian. Like most people in Washington making policy are. Which is a shame. As the historical record clearly shows these policies fail. But our politicians still manipulate interest rates. And spend money. Believing in the fallacy of demand-side economics. Which didn't work to end the Great Depression. It only made the stagflation of the Seventies worse. It created a dot-com bubble and a dot-com recession. And it created a housing bubble and a subprime mortgage crisis. Giving us the Great Recession. And further Keynesian policies on top of these past failed policies have given us the worst economic recovery since that following the Great Depression.
So anyone espousing Keynesian policies should be attacked and criticized. For they are doing harm to the economy. And the country. Which is why the Democrats love President Obama. (Well, at least before Obamacare threatened their reelection chances). Because they can have him do all the things they want to do. Manipulate interest rates. Keep them near zero. By printing money. And then borrow even more money at those near-zero interest rates. Allowing the government to go on an orgy of spending. That's why they love President Obama. (Well, at least before Obamacare threatened their reelection chances). For if anyone criticizes this reckless and irresponsible policy they can just label them a racist. And they immediately shut up. Just knowing this keeps people from speaking up in the first place.
It's easier to Lie when you can Scare away Criticism with Charges of Racism or Sexism
But the political opposition and the mainstream media have no problem calling Governor Christie a fat man. Christie is not black. A woman. Or a Democrat. So he's fair game. They can make the most vile fat slurs with him and it's okay. Fatso. Fat-ass. Whatever. They don't call it hateful. They just laugh. And pile on. They'll even go so far as to call him a fat elephant on the cover of Time Magazine. Putting a very large profile of him that takes up most of the cover and call him the elephant in the room (a GOP reference). Because it's okay to call him fat-ass and every other possible fat slur you can think of. But do you know who you can't call fat? Hillary Clinton.
Should Hillary Clinton run for president again the political opposition and the mainstream media will treat her with kid gloves. They won't call her fatso. Or fat-ass. Because that wouldn't be nice. It's okay to use those invectives against Governor Christie. (Just take the Christie fat slurs and replace his name with hers and see the kind of reactions you get). But if you dare use that tone with Hillary Clinton they will label you a sexist. Accuse you of being afraid of strong women (but not so strong as to be able to put up with fat jokes like Governor Christie). Proof that there is a Republican war on women. And should she win the presidency there will be little criticism of her policies. Because no one wants to be labeled a sexist. Or be accused of being afraid of strong women. Especially with the first female president. So she will get a pass on most everything she does. Like President Obama. Despite being as deserving of attacks and criticism. For she is a Keynesian, too.
With only 23% of the nation identifying as liberal the left has trouble passing their liberal policies. So they lie, of course. A lot. And it's easier to lie when you can scare away criticism with charges of racism. Or sexism. Which is why they like President Obama so much. (Well, at least before Obamacare threatened their reelection chances). He was the first black president. Which made it harder for some to criticize him. Which helped make the lying easier. So they will most likely try to follow this strategy. Perhaps with Hillary Clinton. Who may be the first female president. Following that with other 'firsts'. Until the opposition and the mainstream media learn that criticizing a woman's policies doesn't make you a sexist. Or afraid of strong women. It just means you're criticizing a person with bad policies who happens to be a woman. Just as they will be able to criticize a black president one day.
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If you have found yourself looking back on your long and successful career in the travel inudstry and wanting to evolve into a challenging, next-level specialised role, then this could be an exciting opportunity for you.
For the past seven years I have had the absolute pleasure of finding amazing people for this warm, dynamic, positve and growing team. I fondly refer to them as "The All Star Team" - for very good reason! Here is your chance to continue your craft and love for the travel industry, earn a fantastic remuneration level, gain great work-life blance whilst being part of a highly experienced and mature-minded team of impressive capabilities, fun and laughter.
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Half of a two-map set, this map of British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon Territory is a wonderful travel map with points of interest in tourist destinations such as Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, and Dawson, as well as hundreds of national parks, wilderness areas, campgrounds, and ski resorts. Published in April 1978, its companion map features additional information on these beautiful provinces.
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Cuddyer homers, drives in three as Rox top Dodgers
Chacin allows one run over six innings with six strikeouts
LOS ANGELES -- Michael Cuddyer provided the offense, Jhoulys Chacin added to Colorado's string of strong pitching performances and the Rockies defeated the Dodgers, 3-1, on Sunday at Dodger Stadium.
While the 10-game road trip, in which the Rockies went 4-6, may not have gone exactly as planned, they finished the first half with a four-game series split against the Dodgers and a starting rotation that has found a rhythm.
"I think we played an outstanding series," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "We played lights out, we held the Dodgers to two runs in the last three games. That's a team offensively that's going better than anybody in all the game. Big win today and a nice series, nice way to end the first half."
On Friday, Juan Nicasio threw seven shutout innings. On Saturday, Tyler Chatwood allowed one run in an eight-inning complete game, and on Sunday, Chacin was just as effective.
"It's a big step for our young guys," Weiss said. "Guys like Chacin, Chatwood and Nicasio the other night taking a big step. If those guys keep progressing, it's going to be a big lift for us in the second half."
Chacin recorded a quality start for the fifth time in his past six starts as the right-hander scattered six hits across six innings, allowing just one run.
The Dodgers threatened to score more in the sixth inning, but Chacin was able to maintain his composure and get out of the jam.
After a walk to Andre Ethier and a single by Scott Van Slyke, the Dodgers had two on and one out. The crowd was beginning to generate some noise, but Weiss made a visit to the mound and gave Chacin the confidence he needed to finish the inning with the lead intact.
"Walt just came to me and said, 'That's your game. If you want to win this game, you get out of it,'" Chacin said. "That gave me a lot of confidence and I liked that. I made my pitch, that's all it is."
Following Weiss' mound visit, Chacin struck out Jerry Hairston Jr. and got Yasiel Puig to fly out.
As Chacin was limiting the Dodgers' bats, Cuddyer, who is headed to New York for his second All-Star Game and Monday's Home Run Derby, was providing the run support.
A day after getting shut out by Zack Greinke, the Rockies wasted no time as they scratched across a run in the first.
Dexter Fowler -- who finished the game 2-for-5 -- led off with a double and scored three batters later on Cuddyer's RBI single.
Cuddyer continued to have success against Dodgers starter Ricky Nolasco, as he gave the Rockies a 3-0 lead in the fifth.
Batting with two outs and Carlos Gonzalez on second, Cuddyer took a 1-0 pitch from Nolasco and deposited it into the right-field seats for his 16th home run of the season.
"When it came out, I was hoping he didn't swing," Nolasco said. "When you get that feeling and you throw a spinner like that, they usually don't come back. He's a good hitter and he did a great job of not trying to pull it and going with it. I'd like to have it back, but at the same time, this is the big leagues and good hitters are going to do that."
Nolasco -- pitching for the home team at Dodger Stadium for the first time since he was acquired last week -- lasted just five innings and allowed three runs on eight hits.
The Dodgers' lone run came in the fifth when Puig, pinch-hitting for Nolasco, singled and scored on a single by Adrian Gonzalez.


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Calling it "the browser you loved to hate," Microsoft is encouraging nerds to give Internet Explorer 9 a second look, and even try it out—at least for a site or two.
The new tumblog brings together hipster-trolling graphs, quotable quotes from Twitter, blogs, and the press, and video advertisements to make a single case: Internet Explorer is actually pretty good now, and instead of dismissing it out of hand, it's worth checking out. Microsoft even goes so far as to say that users don't have to switch from their current browsers—just pin a few popular sites to their taskbars and use Internet Explorer for those.
The new campaign mirrors our own findings when we reviewed Internet Explorer 9. Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote "Even if you don't use Internet Explorer, you should try it out. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are embarrassments that you should be ashamed to use. Internet Explorer 8 is acceptable, but no more than that. Internet Explorer 9 is the anti-IE6."
In the 12 months since, Firefox and Chrome have both overtaken Internet Explorer in many regards once more, but Internet Explorer remains usable, and is worlds apart from the Internet Explorer of old.
The video that Microsoft has produced of a classic Internet Explorer hater visiting a psychiatrist to try to overcome his Internet Explorer problem, and stop preaching the mantra that Internet Explorer's only value is to download other browsers. The video recognizes the role that nerds played in building market share for Firefox and, to at least some extent, Chrome.
For all the steps that Microsoft took with Internet Explorer 9, and the steps the company is taking with Internet Explorer 10—it's currently shaping up extremely well—it's still going to struggle to win over this nerd demographic. The nerds' friends and families might not need the richness of addons and extensions that Firefox and Chrome boast, but the nerds themselves do. Without these extras, they'll never be comfortable using Internet Explorer as their primary browser, and that makes it awfully hard for them to recommend it to others.


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If there's one company that's really doubled its efforts in regard to TV design this year, it's LG. Judged purely from the outside, the 2012 line looks like it should comprise the best TVs on the market -- very sleek and slim. But based on our experiences with models such as the LM9600, LM6700 and the G2, looks can be deceiving. Similarly, the LG PM9700 has seen some design improvements and even some picture quality tweaks, but it still finds competition tough.
This plasma is decent enough but out of its depth at this price level. Picture quality is improved on last year's with better black levels and a new matte screen that's a real boon in bright rooms, but when you're comparing it against plasma TVs as marvelous as the Panasonic ST50 and Samsung PNE6500, it loses out.
Featurewise it's not bad, with unusual inclusions like WiDi for mirroring your laptop display on your TV and LG's exclusive Wii-like Magic Motion remote, and the Smart TV suite is easy to use and content rich. But when it counts: picture quality trumps features.
Is the TV the company's best plasma yet? As a Magic 8-Ball would say, the "signs point to yes," but is it enough given the superiority of the competition? "My reply is no."Series information: I performed a hands-on evaluation of the 50-inch LG 50PM9700, but this review also applies to the 60-inch screen size in the series. Both have identical specs and according to the manufacturer should provide very similar picture quality.
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If you're looking for a sexy television, then LG's 2012 range of LED TVs can't be beat. Slim, with impossibly narrow bezels, they're the supermodels of this year's TV fashion catwalk. The PM9700 may not look like Miranda Kerr, but it's still quite restrained and even elegant, though with one major caveat.
At a 1.5-inch thickness, the TV's bezel's diagonal is as about as thin as plasma can get these days; a measurement also seen on the Panasonic VT50. However, as the VT50 has what's called a "bezel-less" design (with the additional sheet of glass on top) it does look slimmer.
The strangest part of the LG's design is the stand itself. It's a metallic concoction that looks a little like alien fingers, or a boomerang if I'm kind. At least it's mostly hidden by the TV itself, but I definitely prefer the ribbon stands of the LCD line.
The PM9700 also comes with the company's patented Magic Motion remote, which now comes with a scroll wheel. While it works relatively well, you can find yourself sweeping wide due to a sometimes low sensitivity. I would have liked to see an additional wand remote for some of the finer controls we expect from the company's other TVs.
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The LG PM9700 is the company's flagship plasma, but it lacks some of the features found in the LCD range. The most obvious is passive 3D. While the company has been gung-ho about its passive technology for a while, it's not something that can be easily implemented in a plasma; therefore this TV requires active 3D goggles. Unfortunately, the AG-S350 3D glasses are sold separately and not included in the box, and the TV is not compatible with other companies' active 3D specs. Also omitted is the dual play mode for simultaneous two-player gaming.
Some other models in LG's range have a four-mode remote (with voice) but the included model nixes the voice search -- no big loss, though.
In case you glossed (ha!) over that chart above, check it out one more time. This is the only a plasma TV with a matte screen available today, and honestly that screen finish is its most exciting feature in my book. I haven't seen its like in a plasma since the Panasonic TH-PX77U series in 2008.
The TV also includes THX certification for both 2D and 3D sources, which is the other major step-up over LG's less expensive PM6700 series.
The TV is also compatible with laptops and other devices that use Intel Wireless Display for desktop PC mirroring. I didn't test that feature by press time, however.
Smart TV: In concert with the Magic Motion remote, the LG Smart TV platform is one of the most fun to use. The different tiles are fairly sensibly arranged, with the video services front and center while the "useless gumpf" like 3D World is relegated to the second screen. You can also create and edit different "cards" to surface the apps and functions you want, making the system one of the most customizable of any TV. Unfortunately, the Smart TV interface is also the TV menu, and accessing the Settings menu, for example, requires a bit of wand waving to access.
For a list of all of the video services and other important apps the LG offers you can see the list here.
Picture settings: Due to the issue with smoothing dejudder being stuck "on" for everything (see below), your only nonbuttery option is to use the Game mode, where picture settings are quite sparse. There is a color temperature slider and a control for "skin," "sky," and "grass" colors. If you want to venture into other modes -- in the hope they'll fix the dejudder issue -- there is no adjustment possible in THX (both 2D and 3D). Elsewhere, namely in the two Expert modes, control is plentiful. The two-point grayscale system only has one point, although LG's 20-point control obviates that problem, and there's a full color management system.
Connectivity: The LG PM9700 includes all of the connectivity a modern TV needs including four HDMI ports, two component inputs, two USB and a PC input. Internet connectivity is handled by both onboard wireless and Ethernet.


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With the ownership of the Saints Row franchise switching hands to Deep Silver, the chance that we will see a new take on the series is rather likely. As we are still figuring out the details surrounding the demise of THQ, the Daily Reaction crew of Seb and Dan discuss what this could mean for GTA's biggest competitor, Saints Row.
This, plus that Sony controller patent, means great things for the sex toy industry. New levels of immersion.
I think Deep Silver will have a "hands off" approach with Volition and allow them to do as they please. In this day and age where publishers are cutting costs left and right by removing the game manuals, Deep Silver aren't. I took a look at my Dead Island booklet today and its there, it's thick and it is full color. This just makes me feel like they do care.
Saints Row 4 FPS (nothing like sky diving in first person view swinging dildos, and so fworth and so on..


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"Take one step from the Charles, and you might find yourself in the Mekong!"
This is how the associate dean at Richard Rabinowitz's graduate school replied when Rabinowitz broke the news that he was leaving Harvard to take a job as a costumed interpreter at Old Sturbridge Village in rural Massachusetts for $1.10 an hour. Rabinowitz was a luckier-than-average 21-year-old, studying American religious history on fellowship at one of America's top universities, where he was safe from being drafted to fight in Vietnam. He was, however, "bored to tears," he tells a crowd of college students gathered in the Luce Center at the New-York Historical Society. The students have come to hear one of America's preeminent public historians give a speech on "Using Your History Major."
Rabinowitz did not end up in the Mekong Delta, fighting for his life. Instead, the instinct that drove him away from the Ivory Tower and toward the mock village from the 1830s guided him over the next forty-one years to a celebrated career as one of America's most respected developers of museum exhibitions. Through his company, American History Workshop, Rabinowitz has created more than five hundred successful and innovative history programs at sites such as the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS), the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and Federal Hall, just to name a few in the New York area. His recent blockbuster exhibition for N-YHS, "New York Divided: Slavery in the Civil War" won him critical acclaim, as well as contracts to develop four new exhibitions, including "French Founding Father: Lafayette's Return to Washington's America," which continues through the summer, and "Grant and Lee," which opens in the fall.
Rabinowitz says he couldn't have articulated it at the time, but as a stilted grad student in the winter of 1967, he had a sense that something was missing from his education. "I had an instinct," he says, "that there was more to the way in which history should be studied than could be found simply in libraries, in written documents."
An example of such learning came to him during an extensive oral history interview he once conducted with his mother, a Jewish immigrant from Poland. He asked her how his grandmother had prepared chicken during the family's first years in America. "What time of year are we talking about?" she responded. Chicken back then, he discovered, differed in flavor and quality from season to season, and this "challenged the cook's ingenuity" in a way that today's supermarket chicken does not. "I realized," he says, "that we don't have so much of the knowledge of the past. It's disappeared because our lives are so different. We don't know that chicken was once, not just organic, but it actually had variability. It wasn't an industrial product the way it is today in, you know, Frank Perdue's world."
"She had such extraordinary knowledge in her fingertips," he tells the now-rapt crowd of college students. "That kind of learning," he says, is what he saw at Old Sturbridge Village.
"Conveying the stuffitude"
Rabinowitz remembers his visit, on a Sunday in January 1967. Wearing loafers and chinos, he was unprepared for the cold he encountered inside the buildings of the historic village. His years of reading primary documents had never impressed on him such a basic reality of early American life. Of this visceral learning experience, he says, "it was a revelation that the world had this physicality to it, this materiality to it, this stuff—this stuffitude."
Rabinowitz spent six years at Old Sturbridge Village, working his way up to director of education. In 1975, he went back to Harvard and finished his Ph.D., but was again bored by the inertia of academic life, with its endless meetings and bureaucracy. He quit for more project-driven work, consulting for small museums. One of his first completed projects was designing the "Cranberry Bog" at Ocean Spray's Cranberry World. But work as a consulting historian was unsatisfying, with its "days of interviewing to get a three-day job." After a stint working for the National Endowment for the Humanities, he decided to start American History Workshop (www.americanhistoryworkshop.com).
Since that January day at Sturbridge, first as a historic interpreter and later as a curator, Rabinowitz has dedicated himself to conveying the stuffitude of history. It is a process he sees as essentially theatrical, using the same dramatic and visual techniques that make, say, a great production of Macbeth into a life-altering experience. In the past, Rabinowitz has defined the vanguard of exhibition makers as "the playwrights of memory and its reputation," setting them against the old guard or the ancien régime, the antiquarians and architectural historians who keep dusty objects in Plexiglas cases. Thinking outside of the box is not for him an idle play on words, but rather the foundation of his art.
A few weeks after his N-YHS address, Rabinowitz invites me into his brownstone home in the historic Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn to help me understand how the techniques of theater can transform remote figures in the past into human beings "who are just as complicated, just as thoughtful, just as confused as we are today." In hushed tones, Rabinowitz, whom I had begun to think of as some kind of maverick showman, reveals himself to be a deeply serious man—serious about "entertainment," he says, "in the best sense." As we sit in his living room, surrounded on two sides by the books of great American thinkers, Rabinowitz describes the French idea of entertainment. The French make a distinction between filling the mind (entretenir) and amusing or diverting the mind (divertir). For Rabinowitz, entertainment is "not a diversion. It's really focusing, in the way that you say, 'I'm going to entertain your proposition.' . . . That's my kind of entertainment. I want to fill people's minds with the kind of idea that keeps them awake at night, that keeps them thinking."
Staging the textual
By way of illustrating the special alchemy that distills texts into theater, Rabinowitz points to a book in his library—one of hundreds of almost identically bound volumes. "I have in this bookshelf," he says, "a clear 1960s transcription of James Wilson's draft of the 1787 federal Constitution. For purposes of reading it, I'd show you the passage in my library." But for the exhibition "Miracle at Philadelphia" in 1986, he chose Wilson's manuscript because it contained a telling imperfection: "On page seven of this document, James Wilson stops crossing out the word 'Governor' and writing the word 'President,' and from there on the Chief Executive Officer of the United States he describes as President." At that moment, he says, "the world turns." He continues with the lesson, "So what's the difference between president and governor in 1787? God is never described as the president of the universe. . . . So moving from governor to president was a way of tempering or toning down the office." And by displaying the draft, "you could actually see this happen in a single moment in time."
Visually, Rabinowitz might display a document like this on the desk in front of a full-sized figure, posed, he says, "in such a way that you felt you were sort of stepping and looking over the five-foot-four guy, and you were looking over his shoulder as he was actually taking his notes." He used this technique in the same exhibition to bring life to James Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention—notes Rabinowitz calls "the Rosetta Stone of American Constitutionalism." Without these, he says, "you would hardly know what happened in Philadelphia in 1787." This technique is decidedly out-of-the-box, or, as it were, out of the Plexiglas case. "It's not in a case as a reverential thing that should be just seen from afar and worshipped. It's actually something that was actually written on rag paper by someone with a quill pen who took time and made mistakes."
Life-sized sculpture techniques such as this played an even more evocative role in "New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War," which grappled with New York City's complex role as practitioner and beneficiary of slavery. When visitors entered "New York Divided," they stood in the shadow of bales of cotton hanging from the ceiling. Once inside the exhibition, they learned that half of New York's exports in 1822 were in the form of slave-picked cotton. A perceptive visitor walking through "Slavery in New York" would have been haunted by the ghostly sculptures peppering the exhibition area—black men and women that had been expertly formed out of wire, making them both transparent and unavoidable.
Such is Rabinowitz's specialty—setting the scene for history's unsettling details. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum (www.tenement.org), which Rabinowitz helped create in the mid-1980s, transports visitors from its now-fashionable Orchard Street, Manhattan, location directly into the homes and stories of immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century. The making of this exhibition was a turning point, both for Rabinowitz, and for the culture of museums as a whole. Rabinowitz told the crowd of students at N-YHS that while the 1970s had seen exhibition makers turn away from "dusty objects in rows" and toward the exploration of themes, the Tenement Museum initiated another turn, this time away from themes and toward actual stories.
The decision to tell the actual stories of actual families who actually lived in the restored building is the kind of idea so obvious that its genius was not readily apparent. The idea occurred to Rabinowitz's team only after months of work on the project. Initially they had planned, in the style of the day, to devote each apartment in the tenement to a different immigrant group—one each to African Americans, Irish, Jews, Italians, etc. The stories would consist of composite sketches of hypothetical families. As it turned out, Rabinowitz told scholars gathered for the Beyond the Liberty Bell conference in 2003, "historians are not very good dramatists." When researchers reported on the initial two families, German and Irish ones, he said, "both groups featured an intermarriage between Protestants and Catholics, an industrial accident in 19th-century New York's dangerous trades that crippled the old man, the dangerous activity of a son in the city's politics or social conflicts, and a daughter's dangerous liaison across ethnic boundaries. It looked as though the museum would become an endlessly repetitive soap opera of immigrant tribulations, masking a lot of ethnic stereotyping."
A fortunate discovery
The project was saved by the discovery of Natalie Gumpertz's 1883 petition to have her husband Julius, who had abandoned the family nine years before, declared legally dead so that Natalie could inherit Julius's East Prussian fortune. It was the kind of detail—the kind of stuffitude—that Rabinowitz lives for.
The Gumpertz family story, which can still be experienced several times a day at the Tenement Museum, illustrates another principle that underpins much of Rabinowitz's work: the use of "sacred spaces" to forge a connection between visitors and people in the past. In his 2003 speech, Rabinowitz described creating exhibition spaces that are "treated as shrines. These are zones of reverence and remembrance separated from the arenas of storytelling themselves, where visitors may immerse themselves in the trials of historical figures." In the same way that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., invites visitors to take part in a highly emotional communion with the past, so the Tenement Museum offers an experience that is, for Rabinowitz, "sacred in a sense to my history" as the son of immigrants.
When walking into the museum's 97 Orchard Street tenement, the first thing a visitor notices is how dark it is—and that is before the tour guide turns off the light bulb, installed for safety, that provides what little light there is. On my visit, I was struck by the transition from the clamorous street life outside to the dark, chapel-like air inside. A pair of chatty English women on the tour ahead of me automatically adopted their church voices. "Dark!" one whispered. "So dark," the other whispered.
Upstairs my tour group was squeezed into the restored 1878 apartment to hear the Gumpertz family story. We are told that, at its peak occupancy, eighteen people might have shared the space in which the fifteen of us can barely find room to stand. The story, like the Gumpertz apartment, is divided in two, with the first, unhappy half told in the dank kitchen area, and the second, happier half told in the bright sewing room adjacent to it. These environmental factors aid our understanding as much as any of the extensively researched details the tour guide tells us.
Of course all the theatrical techniques in the world aren't a substitute for good scholarship, the absence of which would render an exhibition as historically relevant as Disney 's Pirates of the Caribbean ride. "There is a potential danger," Rabinowitz says, "of centralization of historical memory—the kind of fabrication and substitution of a commercially generated public memory for personal experience." When developing high-profile museum exhibitions for mass public consumption, there is the danger of watering down, or even eliminating, the very history you are in business to preserve.
For this reason, along with the sacred spaces and participatory theater intrinsic to his exhibitions, Rabinowitz insists on a "forensics lab" element, where visitors are free to examine the evidence and challenge the conclusions of the exhibition maker. This means making the original documents that informed the exhibition available for close study, such as the bank books of freed African Americans that he displayed in "New York Divided." "Maybe only one in 135,000 actually spent that kind of time," he says, "but that visitor deserves to see the evidence." The main point of an exhibition, Rabinowitz says, is to "strengthen our public's understanding and our public's ability to weigh evidence." This principle allows Rabinowitz to entertain without falling into diversion.
Seeing "Grant and Lee" through a modern lens
The upcoming exhibition on "Grant and Lee" is about as far from diversion as Rabinowitz can get. This major exhibition was first developed at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, where it was called "Lee and Grant," under which name it is now traveling to other cities.
In New York, however, the exhibition underwent some customization, with contributions from Rabinowitz. "'Grant and Lee' is shaped by the fact that my son is going to Iraq in a couple of weeks as an officer in the Army National Guard. So I can't escape that." The exhibition reverberates with echoes between past and present, exploring not just Grant and Lee as men of character, but also the very character of American war-making.*
The exhibition follows Grant and Lee's postbellum efforts to reconstruct the South, and includes a close look at their response to an insurgency of ex-Confederate soldiers in New Orleans. "I want to put you in an experience where you feel like you're in the post-Civil War New Orleans. There's an insurgency that's developed, who are primarily interested in creating a regime of terror to drive black people, former slaves, freedmen now, into a situation where they lose the vote, where they're forced to work for peon's wages." Through the exhibition, he wants to "bring you in that situation, feeling the peril, and learning from your own feelings about it."
"There are great ironies there," he says. "These great skills that [Grant and Lee] had in wartime as America's two most brilliant generals really failed them in a way when it came to figuring out how to organize the peace."
Addressing such heady and contentious issues to a diverse audience is what Rabinowitz calls "an interesting challenge." In the museum setting, "some people are 75 years old, and some people are 5 years old, and they are often in the same group. So you really have a challenge to create a productive learning experience that works for a group of people, and deals with issues that are deeply significant to their lives." Ultimately, he says, "the story is complicated, like all of history. It should be fun, it should be interesting, it should be engaging, but it's not simple."
* Copy has been altered since publication to reflect a correction or additional information.


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Answering a question we posed last week, Nintendo has officially announced two DSiWare-packed DSi bundles for Black Friday, available only as long as supplies last.
Last week's leaked Best Buy Black Friday ad outed the two new Nintendo DSi bundles, each packed with a unique assortment of DSiWare, which left us wondering if the DSi would come preloaded with games from here on out. Apparently not, as Nintendo's official announcement plays the "While supplies last" card.
Otherwise, the information is the same. You've got the Metallic Blue DSi packed with five Mario titles - Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again, Dr. Mario Express, WarioWare: Snapped!, Mario Calculator, and Mario Clock; and the White DSi bundle with three Brain Age Express titles, Clubhouse Games, and Photo Clock.
"These limited-edition bundles come packed with some of the great Nintendo DSiWare games and applications that have made Nintendo DSi such a big hit with shoppers young and old," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "The special price and pre-installed titles make the bundles a huge value for the holidays."
So if your retailer is participating and you're done playing Guitar Hero, this might be a good time to upgrade to a Nintendo DS with two cameras and downloadable games.