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Arthur "Unfinished/D.W., Bossy Boots" Unfinished: Arthur is completely riveted by a book and can't wait to see how it ends. Butà oh no! The last few pages are missing! Now what? Will Arthur ever find out what happens to Dr. Gustavius Boles and Caleb Trimingham on their round-the-world balloon adventure? Or will Arthur have to make up his own ending? D.W., Bossy Boots: For D.W. D
7:30 am
Martha Speaks "Patrol Dog Martha/The Crooning Crook Caper" Patrol Dog Martha - Martha wishes she could help solve crimes like Rascal the police dog, and she's in luck! Officer O'Reilly lets Martha fill in while Rascal is away. Out patrolling, Martha smells a rat. Can she convince them that there's something rotten in the rutabaga? Vocabulary: (E) patrol, citation, smuggle, secur(e)(ity) (I) officer, police, freeze, beat, cop. D
8:00 am
Curious George "Where's The Firedog?/Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye" Where's the Firedog? - George's canine friend Blaze keeps running away from the firehouse. When Blaze winds up in the animal shelter, George and his firefighter friend Sam learn how to keep her safe by putting a tag on her collar, walking her on a leash, and making sure she's never lonely. Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye - Toots the blues-singing germ is back and the Man with the Yellow Hat has a cold. D
8:30 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Rumbly Tumbly/Planet Name Game" Rumbly Tumbly: Nick's hungry tummy is rumbling! But why do our stomachs make noises when they're hungry? A super shrunken trip into Thing One's stomach will show them the answer! They learn how chewing and stomach juices help to break down the food, and the tummy sounds are actually the stomach working. When your tummy is empty, the sounds are much louder! There's only one way to quiet Nick's rumbly tumbly. a chewy chocolate chunky chunk chip cookie! Planet Name Game: Nick and Sally have run out of things to name in the garden. D
9:00 am
Super Why! "Galileo's Space Adventure" Princess glimpses a flash of light while the friends are learning about space. What could it be? The super readers blast off into the tale Galileo's Space Adventure and investigate the solar system with a young astronaut seeking to rescue his beloved teddy bear named Houston. Will the super readers be able to assist, or will Houston have a problem? Educational Objectives: To learn about our solar system. D
9:30 am
Dinosaur Train "Dinos A to Z, Part 3, Classification/Dinos A to Z, Part 4, A To Z Picnic" The Pteranodon family rides the Dinosaur Train - now with extra cars attached -- as it continues picking up more dinosaurs that are in the `Dinosaurs A to Z' song. The Pteranodon family reunites with some dinosaurs they've met before, and are introduced to species they've never met! The Pteranodon kids also learn about classification, and Don leads the way organizing the dinosaurs on the Train by their species, features, and size. The Pteranodon family is on the Dinosaur Train, now very crowded with all 26 dinosaurs mentioned in the `Dinosaurs A to Z' song. D
10:00 am
Sesame Street "The Best House of the Year" Elmo is outside roller skating when he and Leela hear construction noises. They investigate and come across the Three Little Pigs building a brick house to enter the "Best House of the Year" contest. It is a contest to find the strongest, prettiest, bestest house. D
11:00 am
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Daniel's Babysitter/Daniel Goes to School" Daniel's Babysitter - Prince Tuesday comes to babysit Daniel Tiger while Mom Tiger and Dad Tiger go out dancing. As Daniel gets ready for bed, he misses his Mom and Dad, but Prince Tuesday reminds him that they will be back soon. And when Tigey goes missing right before bedtime, Daniel learns what a grr-ific babysitter Prince Tuesday is. D
11:30 am
Sid The Science Kid "Clean Air!" Sid the roving reporter is investigating something strange in his backyard--his Dad is wearing a mask while painting. Sid discovers that his Dad is protecting his face so he doesn't breathe in the dirty fumes. At school, Sid and his friends discover that people and animals on Earth need to breathe clean air, and when we pollute the air around us, it affects the air that everyone breathes. D
12:00 pm
WordWorld "Bed Bugs/Snug As A Bug" Bed Bugs - When the bugs accidentally break Frog's brand new bed, they scramble to put it back together and make things right. Just one problem. They can't tell the letters 'b' and 'd' apart! Can they figure out which letter is which - and rebuild Frog's bed - before Frog returns home? Snug as a Bug - Frog helps insomniac Bug figure out the end of the rhyme "snug as a bug in a . D
12:30 pm
Caillou "Good Friend Caillou" Copycat Clementine: Caillou is annoyed! Clementine is being a copycat - and Caillou doesn't like it. When Clementine copies his artwork at preschool, Caillou thinks this is the last straw.until Clementine admits she's copying him because she really likes his artwork! With help from Miss Martin, Caillou realizes this is a compliment and he feels much better about Clementine's copycat ways. D
1:00 pm
Barney & Friends "The Reluctant Dragon, A Fairy Tale Adventure" Barney teaches that you can't tell from the outside what someone might be like on the inside. He does this by telling a story about a dragon that wasn't at all what others thought she was. The villagers were afraid of her, but it turns out, she wasn't scary at all. D
1:30 pm
Thomas & Friends "Best Times!" Sir Topham Hatt announces that the library is holding a special story time for all the children. He needs an engine to deliver the storybooks. Thomas is so excited that he has been chosen for the special that he doesn't wait to for the books to be tied in place. D
2:00 pm
Curious George "Where's The Firedog?/Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye" Where's the Firedog? - George's canine friend Blaze keeps running away from the firehouse. When Blaze winds up in the animal shelter, George and his firefighter friend Sam learn how to keep her safe by putting a tag on her collar, walking her on a leash, and making sure she's never lonely. Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye - Toots the blues-singing germ is back and the Man with the Yellow Hat has a cold. D
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "Patrol Dog Martha/The Crooning Crook Caper" Patrol Dog Martha - Martha wishes she could help solve crimes like Rascal the police dog, and she's in luck! Officer O'Reilly lets Martha fill in while Rascal is away. Out patrolling, Martha smells a rat. Can she convince them that there's something rotten in the rutabaga? Vocabulary: (E) patrol, citation, smuggle, secur(e)(ity) (I) officer, police, freeze, beat, cop. D
3:00 pm
The Electric Company "The Limerick Slam" Jessica and Manny compete in the annual Limerick Slam. D
3:30 pm
WordGirl "Oh What A Tangled Knot You Tie, Amazing Rope Guy/Kid Action News" Oh What A Tangled Knot You Tie, Amazing Rope Guy - As a villain, the Amazing Rope Guy is not so amazing. He discovers that his true talent is mimicking others. When he goes on a crime spree impersonating all of the villains of the city WordGirl must find a way to end his career as an imposter. D
4:00 pm
Wild Kratts "Octopus Wildkratticus" When Martin accidentally knocks Aviva's creature power suits into a deep Arctic trench, the Martin and Chris dive down in search of them in Aviva's newly invented Octopod submarine. Science Concepts: An Octopus can use ink, jet propulsion, tentacle regeneration, and camouflage in order to escape or hide when in danger. Each feature has an important function for survival. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "A Broom of One's Own" When Wicked puts a CyberSquad Seal of Approval on her new "Wickedy Brooms," it's up to Matt, Jackie, Inez and Digit to make sure the brooms are as good as Wicked claims. They try them out, figuring out their speed - how far the different brooms go in a given amount of time. The brooms pass the test - but Wicked doesn't. D
5:00 pm
Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "The Legend of Ruffman's Gold" Ruff's ancestor Gus Ruffman is believed to have hidden gold in an abandoned mine somewhere in Colorado. He sends Marc, Jay, and Rubye to solve clues, find the mine, and most importantly, find the gold!. D
5:30 pm
Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, Barnes & Noble's CEO resigns, but can the one-time king of booksellers compete in a world dominated by Amazon? And, will rising mortgage rates turn potential home buyers into renters?. D
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7:00 pm
Secrets of Althorp - The Spencers Nineteen generations of Spencers have occupied this childhood home and final resting place of Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana's brother Charles the 9th Earl Spencer provides a personal tour, saying he likes to greet new guests in the library, a room that puts visitors at ease. An ancient globe in the corner of the library also reveals how the world was viewed hundreds of years ago.G
8:00 pm
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery President Thomas Jefferson sends his personal secretary Meriwether Lewis and his friend, William Clark, on an expedition into the unexplored West to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean. From winter quarters at Fort Mandan in what is now South Dakota, Lewis and Clark head westward in 1805 with 29 men, Sacagawea and her infant son. They cross Montana and come to the Continental Divide where, looking toward Idaho - they see more mountains. Part 1 of 2G
10:00 pm
Frontline "Two American Families" Bill Moyers and producers Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes first documented the lives of the Stanleys and the Neumanns, of Milwaukee, in the early 1990s. The project began when the breadwinners of each family, one African-American, one white, were laid off from well-paying factory jobs. This is the fourth film to document how the two families have persevered in the changing economy.G
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'Creative Artist' announces mayoral candidacy with rap video
A candidate announcing his intention to run for New Orleans mayor took a different approach to tell people he was running for office.
Charles O. Anderson, a New Orleans visual artist, released a video about his platform on Tuesday. That's not uncommon for candidates. What was out-of-the-ordinary, though, was the rap he performed in the video.
"If creativity plays a part in who will be elected mayor in 2018, visual artist Charles O. Anderson will already have a massive upper hand in the upcoming election as he uses a rap video to announce his candidacy today during the qualification period," according to a news release posted with Anderson's video announcement.
His campaign team said the artist has been dedicated to ending the murder epidemic in New Orleans.
"I released this video not because I think I can rap or I want to be a rap artist, but because I wanted to ensure that my mayoral bid, and more importantly, the cause gets the attention of the whole city," Anderson said. "I will do anything to make sure that we stop the shootings and killings."

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CT Watchdog: Sirius satellite radio attracts serious number of complaints
For about four years, state attorneys general in Connecticut and other states have been investigating consumer complaints against Sirius satellite radio service.
There is no indication when the investigation will be completed, but for Sirius customers like Sabrina Bright and Becky Melton, it can't be soon enough.
Jaclyn Falkowski, spokeswoman for state Attorney General George Jepsen, assured customers that the investigation is still "active and it is progressing."
"But unfortunately we cannot comment further at this time," she said recently, offering only that her office had received 40 complaints since the investigation was launched in 2009.
During that time, CtWatchdog has received more complaints against Sirius than against any other national company.
There is a pattern to the complaints, which allege:
• Unauthorized charges.
• Customer service representatives whose English is less than fluent.
• Promises of refunds that don't materialize.
• Having to make repeated phone calls to get help with billing issues.
• Cancellations of service not honored.
• Having to spend hours talking to customer service representatives before issues are resolved, or partly resolved.
Spokesmen for Sirius declined to comment on the investigation, the pattern of complaints, or on the individual complaints CtWatchdog sent the company.
For Becky Melton of Texarkana, Texas, the amount of money was not the main issue - $33. The issue was that she felt she was being jerked around.
Melton canceled her service last year.
"I was told in May that a representative would call me when it was time to renew and that I wouldn't be charged unless I wanted to renew," she told CtWatchdog. "I asked the representative over and over if they were sure that I wouldn't be charged and that they were going to call. I didn't get a call and was told that I owe $33."
"I know it's only $33 but it's the principle!"
Sirius canceled the charge after I sent her complaint to the company. Sirius historically has made refunds or provided credits based on complaints I had sent to its public relations department.
For Sabrina Bright, there was a lot more money involved.
Bright, of Michigan, said her husband discovered $588 worth of charges for a Sirius radio subscription in a car they haven't owned in more than 2 years.
First, they refused to refund the money and than credited her husband's account by $338, but the company is refusing to refund the balance.
Sirius has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau despite the fact that there have been 3,293 complaints about billing issues in the past three years. So much for the BBB's rating system.
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Name: Catherine Joanne
Gender: Female
Age: 42
Location: Canada, Alberta
I am in a very loving, understanding, compassionate relationship, which I have been waiting for for some time now. The only thing is he stimulates my emotional side in every way, but in the bedroom he is not as sexual as previous partners I have encountered. I do not know if this is because all my previous relationships have always been about the "sex" and fizzled out, shortly there after, or this is how a "real love thing truly is?" If so, how can I mentally get over this one…he's just not inventive, or has a lack of sexual knowledge. I don't want to end this loving relationship over the bed issue. Please help me out on this one, so I do not sabotage this relationship. Sincerely, Catherine
Like my momma always used to say, if it has four wheels or a dick, you know you're gonna have trouble with it. Listen darlin', if this guy satisfies as much as you say, hold on to him. He's a keeper.
You can always teach the old dog some new tricks. Of course, you're gonna have to take the lead in his sex ed. Let's just hope he's not threatened by a woman who is more sexually experienced, adventurous and progressive than he is.
That being said, I think you ought to make your peace with the fact that he'll probably never become a wild fuck. But then again, you probably don't want that, because those wild fucks don't make for loving, understanding and compassionate partners…as you already know.
Just remember: It's as hard to domesticate a wild fuck, as it is to make a domestic fuck — wild!
Good luck
Name: Jamie
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Location: Georgia
Lately when me and my boyfriend have sex, he's been pulling out because he says his dick burns. WHY IS HE HAVING THAT PROBLEM?
What you got goin' on in your pussy, girl? Nothing about a healthy cunt is gonna irritate a guy's dong. SEE YOUR DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY!
Hey wait a minute! Maybe he's the one with the problem. Maybe he has some kind of a skin irritation or rash or something. And his willie is gettin irritated inside you. HE OUGHTA SEE HIS DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY!
Say, have you seen his dick up close and in good light lately…ever? I am painfully aware that lots of couples never see one another fully naked even when their doin' the nasty. This is not a good practice. You should not only know all about your own pussy and how to keep it in perfect working order, but you should have some working knowledge of how a healthy cock looks and operates. If you're not clear on this you have some homework to do.
And what the fuck are you two doin screwin' around without using a condom? Are you on the pill? You'd better be. Cuz if you ain't ya'll are gonna have a whole lot more to worry about than cock burns, if ya catch my drift.
Good luck
Name: Chris P.
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Location: Montgomery AL
Can it be unhealthy to deliberately avoid male ejaculation for long periods of time? Months, Years? Is it practiced maybe by religious? Can it be done?
Yes, it can be done. And no, it's not necessarily an unhealthy practice! Some people practice total sexual abstinence for their entire adult life. Some of these people do so for religious reasons, others simply because they aren't particularly interested in sex. Either way, there's no real evidence that this practice is injurious to one's health. What I can say for sure is that if one chooses or embraces sexual abstinence as a means to a higher goal, it is virtuous. If abstinence is mandated or practiced out of fear or repression, there is no virtue.
That being said, I do want to remind you of something I've written about a lot recently. It concerns the groundbreaking research on the connection between masturbation and prostate cancer. Australian researchers questioned over 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer and 1,250 men who had not, about their sexual habits. They found those who ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were least likely to develop prostate cancer.
The protective effect of frequent ejaculations was greatest when the men were in their 20's. Get this; men who ejaculated more than five times a week were one third less likely to develop prostate cancer later in life. Kind of amazing, huh?
I think you should also know that even if you don't purposely ejaculate, like through jerkin off or partnered sex, your body still needs to rid itself of old stale semen in another way. Think of it like this, when your bladder gets full you take a wiz. When your prostate and seminal vesicles get full you take a jizz. It's as simple and natural as all that. If you don't relieve yourself of your joy juice on your own, your body will rid itself of your old spooge in a wet dream, or it will flush it out of your system in your urine. It's like if you didn't relieve yourself when your bladder got full, you'd piss anyhow, only it wouldn't be able to properly direct it. Get it? Got it? Good!
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July 29, 2012
TREND ALLERT: Decorating with maps
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July 26, 2012
VILLA DANIELLA on FORMENTERA ISLAND,SPAIN
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July 24, 2012
CAPRI SUITE by ARCHITECT GIULIANO ANDREA DELL' UVA
The old structure, located in the heart of Anacapri, a pretty village situated at the foot of Mount Solaro, is located in the spaces once attached to the convent of the church of San Michele. The loggia, overlooking the lovely internal courtyard and that once connected the church of San Michele to the convent, is now the area where breakfast is served: the natural stone wall treated with whitewash – a typical technique of the island's architecture – reveals the stratification of the structure over the centuries. The contrast is given by the furnishing, design icons from the mid-twentieth century designed by Gio Ponti and by the lemon yellow colour, which is the dominant colour theme in the house.The original lime colours, different shades of azure or turquoise, found under several layers of paint, provide the backdrop to the modern furniture, creating a striking stylistic contrast.
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July 20, 2012
''TRULLO SARACENO'' in OSTUNI,ITALY
Architect Luca Zanaroli from Emilia in Italy has just completed the renovation of a small Trullo Saraceno (local rural building) in the countryside of Ostuni, in Puglia southern Italy.The interior design is characterized by the choice of "contaminating" the rural atmosphere with the use of colours and materials such as iron sheets (untreated and oxidized) used on the neutral and minimal kitchen cupboards, which fit harmoniously into the environment without altering the original quality and features, but enhance them. The furniture is minimal and is an integral part of the building fitting in perfectly with the architecture. The objects, all local handcrafted ones, are the result of personal research carried out by architect Zanaroli in the local territory.
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Labels ARCHITECTURE , INTERIOR , ITALY , RESTORATION , VILLA
July 19, 2012
AN INDUSTRIAL LOFT by Paola Navone
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Labels INDUSTRIAL , INTERIOR , LOFT , PAOLA NAVONE
July 18, 2012
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July 15, 2012
There are some exclusive boutique hotels that have a history and an importance behind them and there are others that have created a new world of ambience, atmosphere and absolute top rate service quality. In the small case that there is a marriage of these two factors you have achieved greatness.Welcome to Imaret !
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July 12, 2012
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July 11, 2012
MISOOL ECO RESORT in KAMPUNG BARU, INDONESIA
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July 10, 2012
''LA CUCINERIA'' RISTORANTE in ROME, ITALY by NOSES ARCHITECTS
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Labels ITALY , MODERN , RESTAURANT
VILLA in SANTORINI, GREECE
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July 08, 2012
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July 06, 2012
Marina Bay Sands Hotel consists of three unique hotel towers crowned by the magnificent Sands SkyPark. With over 2,500 rooms and suites, Marina Bay Sands Hotel is the biggest hotel in Singapore. The rooms offer views of the South China Sea or Marina Bay and the Singapore skyline.
The Sands SkyPark is an architectural masterpiece sitting on top of the three hotel towers at Marina Bay Sands. This 1.2 hectare tropical oasis is longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall and large enough to park four-and a-half A380 jumbo jets. It extends to form one of the world's largest public cantilevers.
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July 03, 2012
ABATON ESTATE in EXTREMADURA
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Every other week, Anna Hezel talks about the innovations, decorations, and other quiet touches that make a party memorable.
Today: A few tips for show-stopping gingerbread cookies.
I know that Christmas isn't supposed to be a competition, but it can't hurt to have the prettiest gingerbread at the party, right?
Decorating gingerbread is one of my favorite holiday tasks because you can just hunker down with a few episodes of Breaking Bad and a tray of cookies, and before long, you have a stack of lovely edible gifts. It's far more relaxing than gift-shopping, picking out a tree, or, heaven help me, hanging garlands.
Here are some tricks that will work for any size or shape of snowflake cookie cutters. Mix and match these for a whole batch of unique snowflakes. If you want to hang these on your tree as decorations, you can use a plastic straw to punch a hole in the cookie before baking it, and afterwards string some ribbon through it.
More: Get Gena Hamshaw's recipe for Vegan Gingerbread Cookies.
1. Get your frosting right: The ideal frosting for icing cookies will have the texture of melted chocolate at room temperature. I like to cream together 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter with about a cup of powdered sugar, and then add one or two tablespoons of milk, until the texture is right. You can also take a tip from Alice Medrich and skip the frosting altogether.
Scoop about 1/4 cup of the frosting into a small ziplock bag. Squeeze out any air bubbles and seal the bag. Cut a tiny hole in one corner (about 1 millimeter wide).
2. Creating a template: Make a small dot of frosting in the very center of the cookie. Draw steady, straight lines connecting each of the six (or twelve, if you like) most prominent points of the cookie to this center dot. This will give you a helpful starting template for your snowflake design.
3. When in doubt, start with Vs: To get started, draw sets of 3 or four stacked V's at the snowflake's points, with the angular end pointing towards the center of cookie. You can be a little creative here and make your Vs frilly or curly, but it looks best if they are all more or less uniform.
4. Diamonds, dots, and teardrops: Once you're done with the basic lines of the snowflake, try filling in the empty spaces with little diamonds, dots, and teardrops to make the design look more detailed. Diamonds look great at the very tips of the stars' points, and dots and teardrops are helpful for filling in oddly-shaped spaces.
5: The sixpoint star: The middle of the cookie can get a little messy with all of those lines meeting in one place, so I like to cover it up with a little 6 point star. I just make a big dot of frosting in the middle, and then taper it outward into 6 points.
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Focus C1281 Lateral Accelerometer Circuit Failure
aussiefocusfan replied to SkinnyB's topic in Ford Focus ClubI got my replacement Yaw Rate sensor from the scrap yard but the 8M51-3C187-BA does not fit, the plug is different. I sent it back and hopefully they can find a 3M51-3C187-EA for me.
Focus C1281 Lateral Accelerometer Circuit Failure
aussiefocusfan replied to SkinnyB's topic in Ford Focus ClubI started another thread but it was on a South African focus site. Not an Australian site. I called a local scrap yard and they have a Focus ST 225 2008 same year as mine. Funny enough the model of yaw rate sensor is 8M51-3C187-BA which was the one that was in a Focus RS in the Uk on eBay. My focus ST225 has 3M51-3C187-EA. So I purchased that for $90AUD and I am waiting on the yaw rate sensor to arrive. I will give it a go. It is going to be posted as they are located in another State. I couldn't find any locally that I could remove myself. They are going to offer a 90 day warranty if there is any issues. I just purchased electrical cleaner spray, so I will attack the 47 PIN connector when I do the YWS. My other question is did you clear the built up C1281 error with your OBDII port reader? I use torque with a bluetooth OBDII port reader to clear errors. I hope this will work? I do not have any luck clearing with ELMconfig 0.2.6. I will just use ELMconfig to do the Yaw rate sensor calibration. SkinnyB, one more question. Does the traction light come up for you while driving? Not just when first starting the car?
Focus C1281 Lateral Accelerometer Circuit Failure
aussiefocusfan replied to SkinnyB's topic in Ford Focus ClubYes you are very right about trying everything but nothing works.. :) I am going to go to the scrap yard I think. In my country which such an expensive parts car they will likely not allow you into the scrap yard. I will try my luck though! If not I will take their word and get a warranty that it is not a faulty yaw rate sensor. Sorry a little confused with what you've written... you said you changed it over and still had the same error on ELM (c1281) Then you changed the sensor on Tuesday and have not seen C1281 or ESP light? Just to confirm did you change it and still have the error and then it just went away...? Was the 2008 titanium the same model yaw rate sensor? I know the ST and RS have different ones? I am touching wood for you - how long has it been? you know you have to boot it a little to get the c1281 light - normally by driving it a little hard! Also what did you use to clean the 47 pin connector? I have maf sensor cleaning spray? Would that work? Also can I access and remove the 47 pin without removing battery etc.
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aussiefocusfan replied to SkinnyB's topic in Ford Focus ClubMate I suspect ABS pump would be a hard job it links to the brake line
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aussiefocusfan replied to SkinnyB's topic in Ford Focus ClubI am so glad I found this post. I have the same problem c1281 - we must be one of the only people on earth to have this! There is not much advice anywhere! Rest assured I have been dealing with this code for 18months now, with no solution thus far but I am closer to it. I have tried to reset my brake module with ELM even reset yaw rate sensor etc with NO luck. I also removed the drivers seat, and checked and cleaned the yaw rate sensor wires. They all appeared to be ok. I don't know how to access the Brake control module or it's location which I guess is in the engine bay? Anyway I have cleaned sensors on wheels and reset batteries also. I even changed the front wheel bearings and hubs. Did not fix it. I am about to purchased a "used" yaw rate sensor from a scrap yard, It has 35K on the clock this car. My car was 78K. But before I do , I wanted to check the wires in the BCM. SkinnyB please feel free to contact me via private message. We can work this out together! :)
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I got it to work. with the M can setup it works H and visa versa must be wired backwards. Just got to work it out when i get the switch lol
Hello thanks for this great piece of software! I have been following the forum for a while. I am from Australia and drive a Focus ST 2008. It is called the XR5 down under! Ok i've made myself the modified cable as described, I am waiting on my switch to arrive from the UK. In the mean time I want to get it up and running. I was able to access ELM-FF2 BCM options and change the doors to auto lock and save it. It worked! Awesome by the way. Issue I am having is with ELMconfig. I want to access HS-can > BCM. I am able to obtain any read information - not even the vin. I think I may not be in H-can mode. here is the error: I just want to confirm the following. I went through 30-40 pages and couldn't find any answer. sorry if I am being stupid for not reading instructions correctly. I need H-can setup: so: Tape together for can-H setup as follows. Number 3 wire to can-H wire Number 11 wire to can-L wire tape up number 6 wire tape up number 14 wire So I basically put numb 3 and can-h together, numb 11 and can-l wire together. Then left 6 and 14 not together. Free standing. Does that mean it is can-h mode? or I am reading it wrong? is it just numb 3 and can -h wire. I am so sorry for the stupid question I am not technical minded. From reaeding the diagram of the switch it is different again... hmmm ** also does putty only need to be run once? I get the K message for all configs. Log is ok. What wire setup do you need when running putty. the problem is I done the modification then I ran putty? is that ok or is this the cause of the problem. thanks!
Welcome to the Ford forums aussiefocusfan :)


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Sowell's tribute to Friedman is touching. Few intellectuals have been first reviled, then vindicated in their lifetimes, as Friedman has been. "We are all monetarists now," Nixon should have said but didn't; but beginning with Reagan, that statement came true. I hope that Sowell, one of the great Americans of his generation, will someday experience the same public adulation. I know less about Ginzburg, but he too appears to have been vindicated to a degree that must have seemed impossible in the days when Jimmy Carter was preaching lowered expectations and Russia under Brezhnev was advancing around the globe. The normal condition of mankind is to die without knowing whether the causes one fought for triumphed or failed. It is good to know that some heroes, at least, die in the knowledge that their labors have not been in vain.
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Mike Brinkerhoff needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Keepin' It Clean!
I am an enthusiastic, fun loving neat-freak, who is looking to share that asset with local homeowners. My services entail an initial cleaning to bring the project up to my standards, then maintenance to Keep it Clean. As the final touch, I always polish the chrome (faucets, trim, etc) to get a nice sparkle.
With a background in the natural foods industry, I also offer a "Clean Green" service, which probably doesn't justify its own logo, but could be integrated - I'm curious and excited to see what you come up with!
1 - Business women who don't have time to do the type of cleaning they really want in their home.
2 - Families who prefer to spend their time making memories and having fun, than disinfecting and polishing.
3 - Seniors whose reduced mobility may be preventing them from keeping their home as clean as they've always prided themselves in doing.
Must include the company name, "Keepin' it Clean!" - beyond that, I love fun, creative design! Elements that I have in mind - but am not completely stuck on, include Bubbles, a Mop Bucket, Sparkle Accents, or a Water Droplet for the apostrophe in Keepin'.
Most of all, I want it to be fun, whimsical, possibly even kitschy, to capture the fun nature of my personality and make potential customers want me around.
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Taking Back Sunday is recharged.
Taking Back Sunday's new album, "New Again," came out last week.
Having taken a long break between albums -- it's been three years since the last set, "Louder Now" -- the Long Island, New York, rock band is signaling a fresh outlook with its fourth album. Out last week, it's called "New Again."
Scan the quintet's twenty-something faces and you'll notice that something is indeed new: the addition of guitarist Matt Fazzi.
"With that break and bringing Fazzi into the band it's almost like [there's] a flame that's been rekindled or a spark just got brighter," said lead singer Adam Lazzara. Watch Taking Back Sunday run amok »
Led by the thrashing single "Sink Into Me" (the music video has the band slowly, messily disappearing into a sinkhole), the album just debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart.
CNN caught up with Taking Back Sunday at a magazine photo shoot in Los Angeles where the band shared stories about striking poses and striking each other.
CNN: How do you feel about all that nonmusical stuff like posing for photos, makeup ... ?
Adam Lazzara: It's something over the years we've had to become very comfortable with. I think we're getting pretty good at it.
Matt Rubano: We try to approach everything with our way of doing things and our sense of humor so that it's not uncomfortable.
Lazzara: And I've seen "Zoolander" enough times ...
Rubano: That's the bible. "Zoolander" and Tyra [Banks]. We kind of split it up between those two things. I've learned everything that I know about posing from Tyra. So thank you Miss Banks. I can smile with my eyes like Tyra does.
CNN: Tell me about the single ["Sink Into Me"].
Lazzara: Through all the songs on the record it's the one that came about the most organically. Fazzi just started playing the main riff in the song and then Mark came in on the drums and then 15 minutes later we have a tune.
Rubano: It also has the frenetic energy that we've always been known for, so it was kind of like an obvious choice to represent the new record.
CNN: Some might say that you've taken your music in a more melodic direction on this album. Do you agree with that?
Rubano: I think we've always taken steps forward when it comes time to make a record.
Lazzara: Yeah, you can't be standing in still water.
Rubano: We consider our band a living thing, so the new musical territory that we went into on this record is what keeps us excited and what naturally and organically came out of us. Yeah, there's more vocal harmonies, there's more emphasis on trying to stay focused on writing a great song and that's what a lot of the artists that influence us do.
CNN: What do you like most about being in a rock band?
Lazzara: There are very few things I don't like about being in a rock band. Ever since I was a little kid this was always something that I would love to be doing but never thought was really possible. We're living the dream.
Rubano: We tour a lot so we miss birthdays and holidays and our wives and girlfriends and puppies and children and fish.
Lazzara: I don't think any one of us have fish.
Rubano: Strike the fish. We miss all the other things. But you kind of learn to adapt and that's a little bit of the sacrifice. But we've been to Japan and Australia and places that as a dishwasher or a waiter I really wasn't on track to going to see. Music has brought us around the world, which is unbelievable.
CNN: Adam, what's the most ridiculous thing you've done on stage?
Lazzara: There's a very long list. I dislocated my hip once. That was pretty ridiculous and painful at the same time.
Rubano: You almost broke my skull.
Lazzara: I knocked him out cold one time in front of 15,000 people. It's nothing I'm proud of. It's funny now. But it wasn't so much then. ...
[When I started singing with the band] I just started throwing the microphone around. ... The bigger the stage the more comfortable I would get with it and just see how far I could throw.
[One night,] first song ... I toss it. And then you just hear (makes thud sound). And I looked back and he was flat on his back bleeding profusely from his head. Not awesome.
Rubano: Yeah. To your credit I wasn't really paying attention. And when you're in Taking Back Sunday, while you're performing you have to play your instrument and focus on the crowd and also make sure that you're not going to get decapitated. And I wasn't looking. ...
I was just pouring blood from my face. And they rushed me off stage. And the band kept playing. Thanks, guys. Thanks for doing that.
CNN: How difficult is it for you to all stay friends?
Lazzara: Funny you should ask that. For a long time in the band I think there was a lot of animosity. ... But now after that little break and since we've been doing everything that we've been doing now with "New Again" coming out, I haven't started hating any of you guys yet.
Rubano: Part of the symbolism behind "New Again" is not only musical, but definitely personal. Like we've spent more time together -- the five of us socially -- in the last year and a half than we ever have before that. It's really a trip when we feel like we're going through something like that, but when people that are watching the band feel like they can see the strength of those relationships and the fact that we're really enjoying ourselves, that really affirms that it's actually happening. I really love all these guys. Very much.
Lazzara: Stop it.
Rubano: Since Matt's joined the band he's become one of my closest friends ... and these guys I've known for years and years. And we've only gotten closer and more comfortable with each other. And it works musically tenfold better than it ever has.
CNN: Do you want to have a big group hug or something?
Lazzara: Let's do it (all five band members hug each other).


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Critically acclaimed animation director Satoshi Kon, creator of "Millennium Actress," "Paprika" and " Tokyo Godfathers," died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday in Tokyo. He was 46.
The headline on an earlier online version of this article incorrectly gave Satoshi Kon's age as 47. As the story notes, Kon was 46.
In contrast to the musical fairy tales and comedy-adventures of American animated films, Kon's films blurred the boundaries between fantasy and reality in unsettling ways. His boldly original visions and technical sophistication made him one of the most admired directors in contemporary animation. In Newsweek, David Ansen wrote that Kon "may be the most exciting Japanese animator since [ Hayao] Miyazaki."
Dean DeBlois, co-director of DreamWorks' "How to Train Your Dragon," said, "Satoshi Kon used the hand-drawn medium to explore social stigmas and the human psyche, casting a light on our complexities in ways that might have failed in live action. Much of it was gritty, intense, and at times, even nightmarish. Kon didn't shy away from mature subject matter or live-action sensibilities in his work, and his films will always occupy a fascinating middle ground between 'cartoons' and the world as we know it."
Born in 1963 in Hokkaido, Japan, Kon made his debut as a manga (comic book) artist while a student at Musashino Art University. After graduation and a brief stint in the manga industry, he moved into animation, working as a designer and animator on "Roujin Z" (1991), a science fiction film written by "Akira" creator Katsuhiro Otomo. He then wrote the "Magnetic Rose" segment of the animated anthology "Memories" (1995).
Kon's directorial debut, "Perfect Blue" (1998), impressed viewers on both sides of the Pacific. When young singer Mima quits a pop trio to pursue acting, angry fans stalk her in cyberspace and the real world until neither Mima nor the viewer knows where one ends and the other begins. The film gained wide exposure when Madonna showed clips from it during her Drowned World Tour in 2001.
Kon followed "Perfect Blue" with the less eerie and opulently beautiful "Millennium Actress" (2001). The film opens with documentarian Genya Tachibana interviewing reclusive former film star Chiyoko Fujiwara. As their conversation continues, Kon interpolates scenes from Chiyoko's movies and memories. Tachibana and his blase cameraman are shocked to find themselves inside these visions.
"As a piece of visual legerdemain, as well as a rumination on the place movies have in our personal and collective subconscious, 'Millennium Actress' fascinatingly goes where films have not often gone before," Times film critic Kenneth Turan wrote.
Kon's "Tokyo Godfathers" (2003) was loosely based on John Ford's 1948 film "3 Godfathers." But instead of three cowboys, three homeless people in modern Tokyo find an abandoned infant. Other anime directors have set films in urban slums, but "Tokyo Godfathers" had a raw immediacy that shattered the popular image of a clean, affluent Japan. Kon used a gray-blue palette to suggest the bitter winter cold and the alienation of the characters from a society that disdains them.
Kon shifted from theatrical films to television for the profoundly unsettling "Paranoia Agent" (2004). At the end of the 13-episode series, the viewer is uncertain if the murderous child known as "Li'l Slugger" is a real character, the projection of a toy designer's childhood trauma or a media creation.
Kon's "Paprika" (2006) recently became the subject of widespread discussion on the Web, as many fans noted the similarities between its story about a doctor who enters people's dreams to foil a sinister plot and Christopher Nolan's hit movie "Inception."
In an interview about "Paprika" with The Times in 2007, Kon reflected on the uncertain reality depicted in his films. "That quivering identity seems very ordinary in Japan, which does not have an absolute religion like Christianity, but multiple nature gods and goddesses. I'm sitting in L.A., answering your questions, but in my mind, I may be remembering work left in Tokyo and wondering what's going to be for lunch today. Other people cannot experience that. So the experiences of the heroines in 'Millennium Actress' and 'Perfect Blue' could not normally be shared with an audience."
At the time of his death, Kon was at work on his first children's film, "The Dreaming Machine." In 2007, he told the Singapore-based Straits Times, "From the children's point of view, it will be an adventure and fantasy story that is exciting. But from an adult viewpoint, you can see another image. The kind of movie I want to make has a double life, a double meaning." Masao Maruyama, Kon's producer and president of the Madhouse animation studio, plans to complete "The Dreaming Machine."
Kon's survivors include his wife, Kyoko.


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The Duke of York will travel to Kuwait on an Official Visit next week. The Duke will be in the Western Asian country 19 May through 21 May.
"Following a request from Her Majesty's Government, The Duke of York will next week travel to Kuwait. The Official Visit, from Monday 19th to Wednesday 21st May, will highlight the close bilateral relationship between the United Kingdom and Kuwait. The programme of engagements reflects a number of The Duke's core priorities, including Education & Skills, Entrepreneurship, and Science," according to a Palace spokesperson.
The trip was authorised by the Royal Visits Committee. Andrew is expected to meet the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, as well as government ministers and other members of Kuwait's royal family.
The Duke will take part in a round-table with young Kuwaiti entrepreneurs, a tech-focused visit to the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science and a discussion on Education and Skills with young Kuwaitis and representatives of the Ministry of Youth.
This visit follows the 2012 inward State Visit to the UK by the Amir of Kuwait. The Amir accepted the invitation from Her Majesty and stayed at Windsor Castle from 27 to 29 November, 2012.
The late Amir of the Kuwait paid a State Visit to the United Kingdom in 1995
In 1979, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh paid a State Visit to Kuwait.
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I had a very difficult summer last year. My nanny went away for a month and my cleaning help left. It was extremely challenging. I vowed to change things this year to make sure it will be a great summer.
We had a wonderful couple spend Shabbos with us this past weekend. They had an almost 3 year old and a 1 year old. Over lunch we got into a heated conversation about their difficult dilemma of where to send their oldest child to school next year. They had 3 choices and we spoke about the pros and cons of each school from tuition to education philosophy to the types of children that go to the different schools.
I guess after hearing parents talking so passionately about the education of their 3 year old, I somehow felt I needed to have that same passion and put it into our summer plans.
I decided that I needed to take my kids away for the summer to be in a Jewish summer day camp with other Jewish kids. Now, I can safely say that we live in one of the most beautiful places in the world, but nevertheless, I decided that we NEED to do this, even though there is an insane amount of planning (and money) that would be needed. I decided that staying here and having to entertain them for the summer would be disastrous, based on my last experience.
I decided to drive myself absolutely nuts as well as anyone who would be willing to listen to this terrible dilemma of mine of how I HAVE to go away for the summer and how the kids HAVE to be in day camp.
I didnt once stop to think that my darling nanny, my right hand lady, will be here this year. All summer long. And my new cleaning help lives down the block and is now a part of the family.
In the summer, my kids are outside all day, every day. We swim at home or we can go to the neighborhood pool. We go to the beach, we go to the park and we live in a hot tourist spot so outdoor activities are endless.
My kids are fabulous at entertaining themselves and love to play together for hours. Not once have they EVER asked me to go anywhere, not even on an airplane. They don't have a clue what day camp is but I DECIDED that they NEEDED it.
I think that if we stay home, they will have a wonderful summer. I also think that I need to realize when it makes sense to stress out and when its self imposed. And when it makes sense to go away. Like when they are a little bit older and can truly appreciate the trip.
My oldest is 7 and is dying to go to Lego Land. I would have these pangs of guilt of how this poor child (who has more then a 7 year old could ever need) cant go to Lego Land because his younger siblings are all too young for the trip.
But you know something. Lego Land will be there when he is 8, 9, 10. And I am sure he will love it when he does get to go.
But as moms, and I am sure many of you can relate to this, we tend to take on self imposed stress. Some things make sense to stress over (Pesach cleaning, making sure the house is ready for Shabbos when its starting in an hour, etc.) and some things we just put on ourselves and its not fair to us or anyone around us.
So after much thought and many conversations with family and friends, I realize that yes, it will be nice one day for them to go to a Jewish day camp but now is just not the time, and that's okay. My kids are very happy and content and I need to look at what IS, not what I think should be. And if what IS is pretty great, then live and let live.
Wishing you all a stress free and wonderful week,


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Lorentz, Deschamps & Associés, is a leading Corporate Finance boutique for European high growth new energy and high-tech SMEs. It was founded in 2004 by Francis Lorentz and Marc Deschamps. The company has offices in Paris, London and Brussels and an international network of partners, including venture capital funds, banks, technical experts, and human resources specialists. LD&A creates and implements financial solutions and transactions (fund raisings, mergers, acquisitions, exits) for the growth and valuation of innovative companies in the telecom, internet, IT, digital media and clean tech sectors.
CEO of high-tech SMEs
We have a corporate brochure that we use when we prospect clients. (attached a sample of it: see page one. This a power point presentation printed in a A5 size: 21 cm x 15 cm)
We want to change its cover (first page) : the idea is to create a cover that'll be printed and used for all our corporate power point presentations.


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This year, signs of fall started appearing in our part of Vermont around early September: splashes of colored leaves in the trees, the apple orchard open for business, the grocery store's Back-to-School display gradually giving way to Halloween. The sunlight turned a deeper gold, and the nights became crisp enough to sleep under the comforter. As the month wore on, squirrels and chipmunks got busy in our yard laying aside acorns for the winter – and driving our dog to fits of frenzied barking at the windows. Channeling my own inner chipmunk, I started baking like a maniac.
The last week of September was glorious: the mountaintops were red-orange, and driving home each afternoon I felt like I was living inside a scenic Vermont calendar. Tour buses full of "leaf peepers" pulled into town; tour groups of fluorescent-spandexed bikers made driving backcountry roads an exercise in caution. The foliage wasn't quite at its peak, but clearly we were in for some spectacular color over the next couple of weeks.
On October 2, I woke up and noticed that there were leaves covering the ground.
[Cue sound effect: brakes squealing as my fall euphoria turned to realism]. Oh, right…RAKING.
We live in the woods, where there are a lot of leaves. When we first saw our house, it was March and there were no leaves on the trees; we were thrilled with how lovely and "natural" the yard looked. By the time we moved in, in June, we realized that our new house was surrounded by so many densely-leaved trees that almost no direct sunlight reached the ground. This is great in the summer, because it means no lawn to mow: we can't grow grass. But guess what does reach the ground come fall? Leaves.
Three years into our Vermont life, and we still have no good leaf management plan. Bagging them up to dispose of them isn't an easy option; our local waste management company doesn't do curbside pickup of yard waste, so we'd have to load up our car with hundreds of bags and drive to the transfer station. Burning, which is allowed here, seems like a bad idea with so many trees and children close at hand. The best option is to rake or blow them back into the woods.
Both methods are exhausting. Raking obviously involves elbow grease: We pile the leaves onto a tarp, and then lug the tarp out into the woods to dump. It's also depressing; each tarp-full clears roughly five square feet of space on our lawn.
Blowing isn't much better. It may be that we don't have the highest quality blower; I feel like I'm battling our leaves armed with a hair dryer. In order to get them moving at all, I have to wait until conditions are just right: no wind, and the leaves have to be totally dry. Those conditions occur about once every Vermont fall. And even under favorable conditions, it's noisy, frustrating work to blow all of those leaves in the same direction. It's worse than a shopping trip with all four of my kids.
So our usual method of leaf removal is "The Grandfather Plan." It goes like this: We wait until either my father or father-in-law is paying us a fall visit. Then, at a moment when all four of our children are throwing simultaneous tantrums, we stare at the grandfather in question with overwhelmed expressions and say, "You know what would be really helpful? See all those leaves?"
We're fortunate to have two able-bodied and willing-to-help grandfathers in our lives right now. But of course, we can't depend on them to take care of our entire leaf problem. First, as grownups, we need to take personal responsibility for our own yard. Second -- and more important -- there's the issue of timing: When do we rake?
The timing issue is tricky. Rake too early, and you'll be cursing every leaf that falls for weeks to come – all of those subsequent leaves that force you outside with the rake and the tarp again and again. But rake too late, and you're in for an equally frustrating task: feet upon feet of soggy, heavy leaves to pile and lug. As with most things, there's a middle ground, a sweet spot when the raking is easy enough and won't have to be repeated for months.
We haven't mastered that sweet spot yet, so we watch the neighbors. There's usually one weekend each fall when everybody is suddenly out in their yards pursuing leaf removal, and that's when we try to tackle our own yard.
It's like a seasonal game of leaf raking chicken. Come to think of it, at around the same time we play a similar game of wood stove chicken. (Yes, we have a wood stove. How do we manage to stack seven cords of wood each spring for our wood stove? See "The Grandfather Plan.")
There's usually a night in early fall when the temperature dips low enough, and the house has cooled off enough, to justify the first wood stove fire of the season. This year, that night has come and gone. When it arrived, we debated whether or not to start the stove. "Fi-re! Fi-re!" my daughters chanted. My husband looked at me and said, "Could you just check Facebook and see if XXX's wife said anything about him starting their wood stove?"
XXX is one of the people my husband considers to be a model of Vermont toughness, and to start our wood stove before he does would be a display of embarrassing weakness.
It's like they say: Pride cometh during the fall. Or something like that.
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, four young daughters, one anxiety-prone puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.


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Gaining Market Share
The implementation team provided Hubspan with the information it
needed to ensure that transactions would be formatted correctly,
Trommer says. Part of this involved training Hubspan people in how
Office Depot does business. "We wanted to make sure they understood our
selling approach" and sales cycle, he says.
Other than that preparatory work there were no big challenges to the implementation, Trommer says. The companies tested the service prior to launching it live in April 2008. Since that time, Office Depot has seen a "significant" increase in incremental revenue through high-end, business-to-business transactions, as well as an increase in market share.
Trommer would not quantify the revenue or market share gains, but says the technology has given the company a huge boost at a time when business has been slow for many retailers. "In these tough economic times [it's] really helped us gain market share with very little investment," he says.
One of the biggest advantages of the service is its easy scalability, Trommer says. Partly for that reason, Office Depot might expand its use of the service to include transactions with some of its vendors.
Trommer's team, which works with the sales department to figure out ways that technology can enable salespeople at Office Depot to sell products to customers and prospective customers online, collaborated with managers in sales to select the Hubspan offering. Having input from people on the business side, and in particular the sales department, was important because they would be the ones using the technology, Trommer says.
"We needed a consensus and buy-in from them," Trommer says. "We wanted to make sure we were providing them with something that would give them a competitive edge."
Ken Vollmer, principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., says the SaaS integration approach offers several key advantages. These include rapid implementation, low technical requirements and shared expenses across multiple clients.
"We believe the SaaS-based integration market will continue to grow due to the flexibility this option provides," Vollmer says.
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Casper College Offers Sustainable Economics Class | Oil City - Education
Registrations are currently being taken for "Enough is Enough: Sustainable Economics" at Casper College.
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The class, offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Casper College will be taught by Dan Cooper on Thursday, June 29 and July 6 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. According to Cooper, class discussions will focus on whether it is possible to have prosperity without growth and what social and economic changes are required to build a sustainable economy. A growth-based economy will become unstable when it reaches environmental, population, or productivity limits, he said.
OLLI is a program created for adults, age 50-and-up, who wish to continue learning and exploring for the sheer joy of it. Supported by the Bernard Osher Foundation, OLLI is a learning community offering several short courses, field trips and lectures of particular interest to adult learners who are interested in taking short-term, non-credit classes. No college background is needed. Activities take place on the Casper College campus as well as offsite in other community locations.
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For more information or to register contact lifelong learning specialists Vicki Pollock at 307-268-2097.
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"Found rodents had been chewing on wiring . . . (and had to) replace mass air flow sensor and connector . . . $499.61."
This is what my car's service bill said, unfortunately. Apparently the modern car won't run without an air flow sensor and, just in general, doesn't take kindly to invading rodents.
Who could have ever imagined that someone could take a cold medication, break it down and add other chemicals that one would never put in their body and formulate a drug that could ruin their lives and those that come in contact with them?
First of all, who has that much time?
Secondly, why wouldn't they use their time in a productive manner? These, of course, are rhetorical questions. Most of these meth "cookers" are a product of our "womb to the tomb" welfare state we have created.
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A bill making its way through the Tennessee Legislature would give homeowners less advance warning before their homes are sold at a foreclosure auction.
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The Friends of Norris Dam State Park want to publicly recognize and thank the Campbell County Commissioners who voted on April 18 to not support the proposed Lighthouse Lodge and Convention Center.
It is very reassuring to know we still have elected officials who will listen to the will of the people and act accordingly.
At last week's county commission meeting Mayor William Baird announced citizens would no longer be given time to address the commission at its meetings. He did say citizens could continue to address the commission at its workshop the week before the meeting.
Those who want to talk will be given five minutes. Baird initially proposed three but commissioners voted to allow constituents five minutes at the microphone.
Seems fair enough.
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As I write, another federal court has ruled the wicked, perverted Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. While I have not seen the opinion, just out now, I can raise at least five good arguments why it could not pass Constitutional muster. Take for example the Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees. What is good for some is good for all, and if some want to define marriage as "between one man and one woman," they demand strict scrutiny in their claims. It is akin to claims about the existence of God: fantastic claims demand extraordinary proof. Now that we know that we have a presidential candidate whose grandpa had more than one wife, we learn how glibly Mitt Romney can go along with DOMA-pushers, although the law should be called the Offense to Marriage Equality Act (OTOME). His support of heterosexuals-only marriage is mostly to curry the favor his base -- and I do mean base. Stick around, Mitt may etch another sketch.
Want to bet Justice Scalia is salivating to slather DOMA with dogmatic sanctity, just as he has with many other social issues, perhaps betraying in his nastiness and tight-assed opinions his conservative brand of Catholicism. The New Majority will do precisely what was done in Bush v. Gore: Sweep aside a century of precedent and a hands-off policy toward the States in election conducting, thereby annointing GWB as Pope of the U.S.A. (And yes, I know that Bush was an evangelical, nominally, but the new coalition of evangelicals, whether you call them "evangeliCatholics" or "Cathevangelicals," these two extremist religions fit hand and glove when the chips are down in social issues.) SCOTUS probably won't get the issue soon, but we can easily predict the yea's and nay's. Scalito will go along with fellow Catholic Scalia; Roberts will pull back from his Obamacare centrist position to reassure Big Business he is still a conservative, and Clarence, if he can take enough time off from his porno collection, will follow Scalito in following Scalia.
That leaves the other Catholic on the fence. If anyone can figure Kennedy out, please email me privately. I have wondered for years. Oh, and Scalia in an interview said that several states had anti-sodomy laws for years before the Court struck them down. As far as he is concerned having anti-sodomy [read: anti-gay] laws in place and fully sanctioned by the Constitution is a "no brainer." That would come easy for Scalia, who lets the Vatican do his thinking for him, and who never fails to eschew self-recusal even when a corporation having business before the court goes to lunch with this ideologue.
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I'm an optimist. I think there is someone for every one. In scalia's case, someone with a fetish for aging gremlins.
Sort of reminds me of a right wing wag's comment on the not so comely daughter of an avowed communist professor back in the 60s: "You can tell she's a commie: the only way she could get a date is by public decree." In his interviews, Scalia comes off as a smug, self-righteous pomposity.
Same sex marriage IS an economic issue. New York, as I am sure Gov. Cuomo will tell you, has been making a lot of money off gay weddings.
Of course it's an economic issue! I'd LOVE to hear some self-righteous dip try to tell me that there isn't advertising that targets the LGBT community ... and that there isn't a response to such targeting! This is the brand of naivete that lost the GOP this last election!
They added it up, potentially 51% of all the population (women), 3 or 4 percent gay or lesbian or other, fifteen percent African-American, 15 to 20 percent Latino; they don't matter. The ones who would be voting for us have their minds made up and the others will vote for Obama. Now, they talk of courting the black and brown vote. Guess what, guys? Most of them don't think you have anything but ossified ideas and that your party is basically a bunch of angry racist white people, mainly angry white men.
If the Republican party is going to change, the base ideas they hawk will also have to change, that simple. If they can get back to the concept of limited government and spending without going overboard on social issues (which have NOTHING to do with limited government) - in other words, if they can get back to core Republican principles, maybe they have a chance.
I just caught a bit of Ben Stein on CBS Sunday Morning, claiming that the GOP has been dead before and risen from its ashes. Maybe so, but the circumstances were different, particularly in that they were never so far to the right before now, now were their platform and policies so radicalized. If they can't acknowledge that that rightward move was a massive mistake, they WILL render themselves irrelevant, and all the Faux Noise blathering and pundits pontificating won't change that.
It's way too early to think the republican party is dead. I think people were saying the Democrat party was dead 10 years ago. A lot can happen in a few years. Disasters, fads, the rise of a new messiah (George Prescott Bush?), who knows? The pendulum swings back and forth.
The Republicans will have to sort out how to market themselves to an expanded demographic. They did a really bad job of it this time, and spent too much time trying to chat and manipulate the electorate, and pandering to the loonytune religious fanatics. But they, like the South, can still rise from the ashes.
Ben Stein, as usual, is part of the problem, not the solution. He mistakes early release of a few blacks from prison and eating collard greens with ham hocs as "making inroads" into a significant electoral block. He thinks that if he eats menudo now and then and drives around in a low-rider car he can simply gloss over the policy changes going to the heart of the election. The GOP party platform has little of interest to either minority, and since the party is packed with Solid South racists, all these folks need to do is look at the TV image of Haley Barbour to know that the GOP is not their party. They know that the programs Paul Ryan urged on them would mean the end to many entitlements, things that keep folks from starving. The choice, for them, was a no brainer. At this time, "black Republican" and "Hispanic Republican" are either oxymoronic or else euphemisms for Uncle Tom's and Aunt Tomasina's.
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"What is a red velvet cake?" is the question. The answer: "A yellow cake with a hint of cocoa, dyed a deep beautiful red." Some of you may know red velvet cake as the armadillo cake from the movie Steel Magnolias; others may know it as the best cake they've ever tasted! Buttercup staffers describe the icing as somewhere between buttercream and whipped cream. Long beating makes it light and fluffy, and its not-too-sweet flavor makes it a perfect mate for red velvet cake. Read about the search for the origins of red velvet cake.–Jennifer Appel
Red Velvet Cake
- Quick Glance
- Serves 10 to 12
- For the red velvet cake
- 1/4 cup red food coloring
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 cup buttermilk (either low-fat or full-fat)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Red Velvet Icing (recipe below)
- For the red velvet icing
- 2 cups milk
- 3/8 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 pound unsalted butter, cold
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Make the red velvet cake
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and lightly flour three 9- x 2-inch round cake pans, then line the bottoms with waxed paper.
- 2. In a small bowl, whisk together until well combined the food coloring, cocoa powder, and vanilla. Set aside.
- 3. In a large bowl, on the medium speed of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar until very fluffy, about 4 to 5 minutes. Add in the eggs one at a time. Add the flour in three parts, alternating with the buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Add in the salt. Beat in the cocoa mixture until thoroughly incorporated. In a small bowl, mix together the vinegar and baking soda. Add to the batter at the end, making sure to mix well.
- 4. Divide the batter among the prepared pans. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- 5. Let cake cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely on wire rack.
- Make the red velvet icing icing
- 6. In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, whisk to combine the milk and flour. Stir constantly over medium-high heat until smooth and thick (anywhere from 12 to 18 minutes). Let the mixture cool for at least 50 minutes. When cool, remove the "skin" that has formed at the top and discard.
- 7. While mixture is cooling, on the medium-high speed of an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until quite fluffy, about 4 to 5 minutes. Add in the vanilla extract and mix thoroughly. Incorporate the cooled milk mixture in thirds, beating well after each addition.
- 8. When cake has cooled, ice between the layers, then ice top and sides of cake with red velvet icing.
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The Obama administration's Syria policy was unraveling Monday after weekend developments left the Syrian Opposition Coalition and its military command in turmoil, with the status of its leader uncertain and its newly selected prime minister rejected by the group's military wing.
State Department officials said they still planned to work with the coalition, to which the United States has pledged $60 million, but analysts said the developments were one more sign that the Obama administration and its European allies had no workable Syria policy.
The opposition coalition, already in its second incarnation, has proved to be as beset by factionalism as its predecessor, the Syrian National Council, exacerbated this time by the meddling of foreign donors, analysts said. But, the analysts added, the United States has no other entity to back in a war that pits the regime of President Bashar Assad against a jihadist-dominated rebel movement.
"This is it. The U.S. can't reboot it a third time. If they can't make this work, they've got nothing," said Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of the blog Syria Comment.
Syrian Opposition Coalition leader Mouaz al Khatib announced his resignation Sunday, citing his frustration with unspecified foreign powers, which he accused of trading funding for control of the group. The coalition said it had refused the resignation, and Khatib later announced on his Facebook page that he'd lead a delegation representing Syria this week at the Arab League summit in Qatar, leaving his precise status uncertain.
State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said it was unclear whether Khatib had resigned and that events were still "playing out."
"What's important is that the Syrian opposition continues to work toward what they've laid out, which is a vision for a tolerant, inclusive Syria," Ventrell said. "There may be different leadership that will come and go, there may be different folks who play different roles, but we are going to continue to focus on that important vision."
The confusion over Khatib's resignation was compounded by word over the weekend that the head of the Supreme Military Command, the semi-affiliated military wing of the coalition, refused to recognize newly chosen Prime Minister Ghassan Hitto, saying the premier had been improperly elected and pushed through by Qatar, one of the biggest backers of the opposition movement and its armed rebels.
Hitto, a longtime Texas resident who recently returned to the region to join the opposition, heads what was envisioned as an interim government that's poised to take over once Assad falls. But his credibility is deeply in doubt now that Khatib appears to have resigned and Hitto's military commanders reject his leadership. The rejection also casts a pall over American efforts to pass through the coalition millions in U.S. money destined for Syrians whom the fighting has forced from their homes; Hitto was in charge of the coalition's nascent aid organization.
Opposition activists who were privy to details of the negotiations say Hitto's nomination was backed by Syria's Muslim Brotherhood, the conservative Islamist organization that's fought the Assad regime for three decades and is at the forefront of the political opposition.
Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood patron, supported Hitto over the objections of rival Persian Gulf nation Saudi Arabia. In retaliation, opposition activists say, Saudi Arabia, which is a key supplier of weapons to the rebels, pressured the Supreme Military Command's leader, defected Gen. Salim Idriss, to reject Hitto, essentially putting negotiations back at square one.
"With a clear absence of the U.S., small players like the Qataris and Saudis will take over," said a prominent Syrian opposition activist who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivities of the topic. "It's bringing the government down, when the goal was to put an end to the chaos and vacuum."
The setbacks over the weekend only underlined the lack of progress the Syrian political opposition has made after two years and millions of dollars in outside aid.
The lack of opposition cohesion raises the specter of a bloody free-for-all should Assad fall, perhaps plunging Syria into anarchy with no credible body poised to take charge.
"We have a leader who resigned, an interim prime minister whose election was conducted without transparency and the formal opposition has failed. I don't know what happens if Assad falls," said Rafif Jouejati, a spokeswoman for the Local Coordination Committees, a network of activists with more than 80 branches throughout Syria.
Jouejati, who's consulted with the State Department on Syria policy, said key developments to watch were whether the coalition-linked rebel command would live up to its promise of accepting civilian leadership and whether cooperation could improve amid both sides complaining of being sidelined.
"The Syrian opposition needs to look at itself in the mirror and realize it's been a colossal failure to the Syrian people," Jouejati lamented. "It's time for a complete overhaul."
Landis predicted that the United States will try to restore some type of role for Khatib, who'd fallen out with the Muslim Brotherhood by calling for conditional talks with Assad, a track that the U.S. and Europe are quietly pursuing in hopes of preventing a total collapse of Syrian institutions but that Brotherhood activists reject after decades of heavy losses to the Assad dynasty. It's in the U.S. government's interest that the coalition doesn't totally collapse, especially as a rebel group that the U.S. government has labeled an al Qaida-linked terrorist group, Jabhat al Nusra, gains ground throughout the country.
"It's going to limp along because they need it," Landis said. "They need a political organization that's pro-West."


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Following heavy snowfall on the South Shore of Nassau County Friday into Saturday morning, Feb. 8 into 9, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its federal partners, including the National Weather Service, continue to closely monitor the major winter storm systems that have affected the area.
At the state's request, FEMA liaisons have been positioned in state emergency operations centers in New York, in both Albany and New York City, in addition to Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Rhode Island, and Vermont. A National Incident Management Assistance Team is deploying to the Northeast to provide support if additional support is requested to help with emergency response coordination and other needs. These personnel are in addition to the joint state and federal field office staff already in place supporting ongoing disaster recovery efforts in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont following Hurricane Sandy. Other teams and personnel are ready to support, if needed and requested.
FEMA's regional offices in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, New York City, and Philadelphia are in contact with state emergency management counterparts and with tribal emergency managers in the path of the storm. FEMA's National Response Coordination Center in Washington, D.C. continues to monitor the situation and hold regular operational briefings with regional and federal partners as the severe winter weather continues.
"Everyone has a role to play in the response to this winter storm," said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. "Follow the direction of your state, local and tribal officials, and if you are told to stay off the roads, stay home, and when it is safe, check on your neighbors or friends nearby who may need assistance or extra support. Older adults and individuals who are dependent on life-sustaining medical equipment or assistive devices such as a ventilator or mobility devices, may need additional support in areas that have lost power."
FEMA has echoed the warnings issued by the National Weather Service and local elected officials in the affected region, and asks citizens and visitors in areas with severe winter storms to avoid all travel both during and immediately following the storm and to heed all advice and safety information provided by state, tribal and local emergency officials.
Individuals in areas affected by the storm, are reminded of these safety tips during the storm:
• Stay indoors during the storm.
• Walk carefully on snowy, icy walkways.
• Avoid overexertion when shoveling snow. If you must shovel snow, stretch before going outside.
• Keep dry. Change wet clothing frequently to prevent a loss of body heat.
• Use generators outdoors, away from doors, windows and vents.
• Check on your neighbors or friends nearby who may need assistance or extra support.


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Ready to earn your degree, and looking for great on campus accounting graduate programs? Whether you want to earn a graduate certificate, your master's degree, or even your doctorate, finding on campus accounting graduate programs might be the first step on your path toward success.
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On campus accounting graduate programs might be a great fit for you, whether you're an experienced accountant or a recent graduate from a baccalaureate program. But with the variety of options out there—taxation and forensic accounting to name a few—how do you know what program might be a good fit for your needs and interests?
Why Consider On Campus Accounting Graduate Programs?
Whether you're looking for a convenient, commutable option from home or work, or want to study in an exciting new location, on campus accounting graduate programs might have a lot to offer you. Studying on a physical campus might be a great option for learners who thrive in that classroom environment. You might have the opportunity to collaborate with peers, interact with faculty, and more. Studying on a physical campus might avail you of valuable networking opportunities, in addition to facilities and services like libraries, technology labs, career and academic counseling, and more. The specific services and facilities available at your school of choice might vary, so it's important to follow up with your selected options for additional details.
What Concentrations Might Be Available in Campus Accounting Graduate Programs?
One important aspect of selecting on campus accounting graduate programs that may work for you might be identifying your particular interests and career goals. In your professional accounting career, you might work in a variety of settings, ranging from managing personal finances to roles in large corporations. This may carry with it a variety of possibilities and focus areas. While many accounting programs and even positions might have a more generalized focus, many others may be more narrowly focused on a specific concentration area, including examples such as taxation or forensic accounting. Even within those concentration areas, you may have specific interests. For example, taxation might include focuses on topics like State and Local Tax (SALT), federal tax, international, sales and use, compliance, and more.
Whatever your area of interest, whether you want to enroll in a more generalized program that builds a solid foundation of accounting skills, or pursue study in an area more narrowly tailored to your desired career path, great options might be available if you choose to apply.
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If you're ready to start looking for great on campus accounting graduate programs, how do you know which ones to consider? Even if you've narrowed down some of your options, such as studying on campus or pursuing a specific concentration, a number of programs might still sound like great possibilities. Knowing what types of programs might be out there may help you to make that decision.
On Campus Accounting Master's Programs
On campus accounting master's programs might be offered in a variety of forms. From potential concentration areas like taxation and forensic accounting to unique degree types, choosing the right program might be a multifaceted decision.
Accounting master's degree programs might award any of several types of degrees upon completion:
- M.S.A., or Master of Science in Accounting
- M.Acc., or Master of Accounting
- M.P.A. or Master of Professional Accounting
- M.B.A. programs in taxation, accounting, or other related areas.
- M.S.T. or Master of Science in Taxation
- LL.M. (Legum Magister, or Master of Law) in accounting, taxation, or another related field.
In some cases, (such as for M.S.A., M.Acc., and M.P.A. programs) the differences between individual programs might be fine, and come down to elements such as naming convention; in others, the differences might be more significant. Some of these programs may also be more specialized or have unique perspectives. For example, an M.B.A. program might focus on business and leadership skills in addition to accounting coursework, while an LL.M. program may be offered by a law school and take a legal perspective accordingly. Depending on your goals and interests, you may find that some of these degree types are more likely to interest you than others, but make sure to follow up with any program you might be considering for additional details, as the specifics may vary.
On Campus Accounting Doctoral Programs
Looking to earn your accounting doctorate? Whether you want an accounting program, or a related concentration like taxation or forensic accounting, great on campus programs might be out there for you, if you choose to apply and are accepted.
On campus accounting doctoral programs, like master's programs, might be offered in several forms. Each of these degree types might have unique advantages, depending on your areas of interest, career goals, focus areas, and other related factors. Among these doctoral program degree types may be:
- Ph.D. Programs
- J.D. Programs
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The degree of contrast between these program types may vary depending on the individual programs in question; however, your professional goals might help you to narrow down the options in some cases. For example, many D.B.A. candidates may already have earned an M.B.A., and might be value the opportunity to focus on business and leadership related topics alongside accounting. Some Ph.D. candidates may want the opportunity to teach in a university business school setting in the future. Meanwhile, J.D. programs, which are legally focused and often offered by or in conjunction with law schools, may attract students interested in how accounting and legal issues intersect, or are pursuing concentration areas like taxation.
As always, the specific details of each program and program type may vary at your schools of choice, so follow up with your preferred programs for more information when making your decision where to apply.
On Campus Accounting Graduate Certificate Programs
Whether you already hold a master's degree or higher, or you're not quite ready to earn it, great accounting graduate certificate programs may be available for you to apply. Earning a graduate certificate in accounting or a related concentration area may be a great way to pursue graduate level education and expand your expertise. Some of these programs may focus on narrower concentrations, enabling you to study your topic of choice in detail without enrolling in a full degree program. On campus accounting graduate certificate programs may be offered at the master's or even post-master's level.
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Ready to start looking for great on campus accounting graduate programs? GradSchools.com is here to help you find them! If you need to narrow down your options a bit more, you might choose to add filters such as your preferred concentration, program level, or location. Once you're satisfied, read up on your potential program choices, and reach out to your favorites for more information or to begin the application process.
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Investigators crowded around the small, lifeless husk laying shattered on the street before them. The morning sun glistened off a cracked 10-inch display; broken chips and transistors littered the ground like so many spent pennies. Sounds of revelry echoed from somewhere far away as the townsfolk celebrated a bright future full of tablets, phablets and wirelessly charging phones, unaware of the death in their midst.
One investigator kneeled down and depressed the gadget's power button. Three seconds later, a blue screen of death slowly faded to black on the broken screen.
"It's official," the man said. "The netbook is dead."
"I think we know who is responsible for this," one of his colleagues replied. "I'll start hauling tablets down to the station for questioning."
"Not so fast," the first investigator said. He slowly stood. "Bring me Windows 8."
The end of an era
Netbooks have been on life support for a while now. In the past year, Dell and Toshiba formally bowed out of the market, while Lenovo's S-series netbooks have been on-again, off-again, but mostly off-again. (They're currently available as part of a limited-time offer, most likely to drum up interest in the company's new, full-sized S-series offerings.) Back in May, the Canalys research firm announced that netbook sales dropped for the sixth consecutive quarter, and by a whopping 34 percent compared to the previous year.
Two companies stayed true to the first ultra-portable form factor through all the doom and gloom: Acer and Asus. But no longer. Both companies plan on pulling the plug on netbooks, DigiTimes reports.
Acer has yet to officially confirm the report, but nevertheless, Asus' withdrawal represents the death blow. Asus produced the first computer to carry the netbook name — the original Eee PC — and continued releasing netbooks faithfully ever since. Until now, that is.
What motivated Asus to snuff out its own offspring? The inspiration seems straightforward at first glance: Asus CEO Jerry Shen told DigiTimes that the company "plans to have its Transformer tablet PCs fill the 10-inch mobile device market, replacing its netbook product line."
As with any good murder mystery, however, things aren't as simple as they seem.
Tablets: Perp or patsy?
The rise of tablets left netbooks bruised, battered and reeling. It's hard to gloss over the fact that netbook sales started their gargantuan nose dive pretty much the exact moment that the original iPad was announced in 2010. Netbooks are slow and frumpy; tablets are responsive and sexy. To make matters worse, Windows never really fit well on a 10-inch screen, while tablet operating systems were designed around tinier displays. Frankly, it's no surprise that the mainstream has diverted its attention away from netbooks to focus on tablets.
The netbook form factor still holds some value in some niche uses. For instance, business travelers with heavy workloads tend to lean towards portable PCs with physical keyboards. Just this February, Asus marketing VP Kevin Huang told PCWorld that "Asus created the netbook category, and I think netbooks today still provide the most cost-effective computing product solution servicing certain user segments–i.e., the K-12 education market."
A proper investigator perks his ears up when someone displays a sudden change in behavior. Why did Asus change its tune so dramatically in such a short time?
The DigiTimes report says it was due to "a sharp drop in demand in emerging markets," one of the last bastions of netbook growth. I say hogwash: Windows 8 drove the final nail into the netbook's coffin.
Windows 8: Microsoft kills the netbook
Manufacturers struggled to make money with netbooks in the best of times; even with low-end processors and a small, low-resolution screen, it's hard to make money on a PC that will only sell for $200 to $350 at retail.
In fact, screen resolutions may be one of the major factors in the death of the netbook. Most notebooks stick to a 1024 x 600 display; Windows 8 requires 1024 x 768 at a minimum. You need a full 1366 x 768 resolution (seen on most mainstream laptops in sizes up to 15.6-inches) to take advantage of the operating system's snap feature.
Display costs consume a large chunk of a laptop's overall component costs. Manufacturers who have been able to draw some slim profits from netbooks would be in over their heads if they add higher-cost, higher-resolution displays to goad Windows 8 into working on the pint-sized PCs… and that's not even counting the cost of upgrading to touchscreens to take advantage of Windows 8's finger-friendly features, something tablets sport by default.
Heaping on even more expense, licensing costs for Windows RT are rumored to be $50 to $100, depending on the version, with no low-cost equivalent of the Windows 7 Starter edition found on so many netbooks being available. Compare that to the price of the open-source Android OS that powers so many tablets: $0. To be fair, several manufacturers pay Microsoft a licensing fee for each Android device they make to avoid possible patent litigation — but Asus isn't one of them.
Meanwhile, all the spiritual successors to netbooks yield higher margins for manufacturers: Ultrabooks, tablet-notebook hybrids, and low-cost ultrathin laptops. Manufacturers will never be able to create profit from sheer netbook sales volumes again. Investing in Windows 8 and its higher-costing display requirements just doesn't make sense.
When you consider the evidence, the culprit is clear: tablets and shifting consumer desires may have left netbooks in a critical state, but it was Windows 8 that killed the netbook off for good. Moore's law is a cruel mistress indeed.
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