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Here we have a Knox Foxhound fedora hat made of suede leather, with a suede leather band of the same color. Band contains two buckle straps for looks only, not to actually adjust size. Black and red tipped feathers tucked into those straps. One of the feathers is bent and broken, but feathers can be replaced.
The hat circumference is about 23-1/2". Measures about 12-3/4 from front to back, with an about 2" brim all the way around, slightly turned up on edges. Marked Genuine Suede Leather. The black feather is bent and may actually be close to breaking off. Brim has some waves, to be expected given the age. Small cream-colored bow marking the back is yellowed from age. Overall, in surprisingly good condition.
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I see a fair number of emails and messages about this topic. Is it possible to heal without using any addons of any sort? Naturally, the default user interface (or UI) includes a limited number of features where this is possible. Is it recommended in dungeons or raid instances? No, not quite. I've seen opinions from some players where they practically insist that healing without addons should be the way to go. Anyone who does use addons is relying on a crutch. I don't think that's quite fair to say. It's not like these addons are scripts or anything that can "think" and heal for you.

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JACKSON, Miss.—The Birmingham-Southern volleyball team capped off the 2011 season with two wins today at the SCAC Volleyball Championship, defeating Dallas and Rhodes, both by the score of 3-1. The Panthers end the season with a winning record of 21-18 under the guidance of first-year coach Judy Green, formerly of the University of Alabama.
In their first match of the day, the Panther squad defeated the University of Dallas 25-17, 25-21, 22-25, and 25-20 behind the double-double effort of sophomore Alex Bothe. Her 22 kills and 12 digs, complemented by junior Lauren Reibe's 43 assists, helped the Panthers down the Crusaders for the second time this season. Junior Shelby Moore also reached double digits with 11 kills and led the team with three blocks.
BSC's final match of the tournament saw the Panthers recover from a dropped third set to rally back in the fourth and drop the Lynx of Rhodes College. The Panthers won the first two sets by scores of 25-11 and 25-21, fell in set three 25-20, and then battled back to take the fourth set and match 26-24. Led by junior Presley Dickson's and freshman Sara Kate Bracewell's four service aces apiece, BSC outpaced Rhodes in the service ace department 12 to 6. Defensively, four Panthers had double digit digs, led by sophomore Alex Bothe's 19, and senior Alaina Smith recorded five blocks to lead the team.
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Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who began the Third Balkan War and fathered ethnic cleansing, is a Christian with Nazi family roots.
Wartime Nazi movements in Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and Romania have been gone underground – but Serbia's home-grown brand of WWII Nazism has not been - for three reasons, a) it hid under the mantle of Slav nationalism. Because Serb Nazis were anti-Jew, they were exempt from censure, b) Serbia was a close, useful ally of Britain, France and Russia, and 3) Serb Nazism has always been amorphous, concealed in the shadows, and linguistically unintelligible to outsiders.
Serb Slav Nazism began around 1900 and flourished in the 1920's after the creation of unstable, multi-ethnic Yugoslavia. Numerous influential Serb writers and academics, notably Vaso Cubrilovic and Radivoje Pesic, proclaimed Serbs racial superiority, and Serbia the true cradle of western civilization. .
Serb Nazis urged ethnic cleansing of all `racially inferior' Hungarians, Croats, Jews, Albanians, Catholics and Muslims from a purified Greater Serbia, stretching from Italy to the Aegean. Some elements of the Serb Orthodox Church eagerly cooperated - and still do - with these ideas.
Mother Theresa, an Albanian from southern Yugoslavia, ended up in Calcutta because her family was driven from its home by Serb Nazis in the 192O's during a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Back then, as now, Serb Nazis warned of the fertility of non-Serb women, and called for the mass expulsion, extermination or sterilization of `racial inferiors.'
The Serb Slavo-Nazi, Cubrilovic, wrote, If Germany could deport tens of thousands of Jews, the expulsion of a few hundreds of thousands of Albanians would not lead to a world war.
Milosevic rekindled Serb Nazism after Tito had suppressed it for two decades. Serb paramilitary gangsters, like Arkan and Seselj, who spearheaded ethnic cleansing and mass murder, are direct descendants of Hitler's Brownshirt thugs. The Serb army - shades of the SS- was ordered to ethnically cleanse Bosnia of `Muslim filth' on a `sacred historic mission for the Motherland.'
Serb Nazis now denounce Milosevic for failing to accomplish this goal. A significant part of the current ruling-class is made up of Nazis, or rightwing extremists. Unless ripped out by the roots, Nazism may continue its grip on Serbia.
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Its a shame that you call Serbs Nazi's considering that it was the Serbs under Tito who were the partisans fighting against the Nazi's in the 40's and it was the Croats who were collaborators with the regime in Berlin. Shame...
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I am not Serb so I have no interest in defending them.
I don't agree with the crimes they did in Bosnia.
But to say they where Nazis in Second World War, that shows a big lack of historical knowledge.
Read the history before posting such inexact things.
The Croats together with the Bosniacs and Germans killed more than one million Serbs in the second world war. As for Jews, ask Mrs Albright who was born in Serbia how the Serbs protected the Jews.
As for Christian Orthodox church, just leave it alone.
This church was always despite the country it was located the defender of the national values.
You most likely are from SE Europe, I can sense from your rhetoric.
Just take a break and live in the present and prepare for the future.
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FULLERTON, CA - Cal State Fullerton announced Thursday that Jim Krumpos has been appointed head strength and conditioning coach and Scott Alexander has been hired as an assistant women's soccer coach for the Titans.
Krumpos joins the Titans after spending the last three-plus years as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at UNC Charlotte. He served as the head strength and conditioning coach for the baseball, men's and women's soccer, and men's and women's tennis teams as well as the 49ers' women's basketball and volleyball programs.
Prior to UNC Charlotte, Krumpos spent three years as an Intern/Graduate Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Arizona, serving as the head strength coach for baseball and both the men's and women's cross country teams while serving as an assistant strength coach with various other programs during his tenure with the Wildcats.
Krumpos graduated in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies from Arizona and completed his master's degree in liberal studies in 2006 from UNC Charlotte.
Alexander, a former letter winner for the Titans' men's soccer team from 1997-2000, has spent the better part of the last six seasons working with the Fullerton women's squad as a volunteer assistant, helping the Titans to at least a share of three Big West Conference titles and a pair of Big West Tournament crowns.
Working mainly with the Fullerton goalkeepers, he helped mold former Titan Karen Bardsley into one of the Big West's best goalkeepers as she was named the Big West Goalkeeper of the Year a record three times (2004-06) and earned Freshman All-America honors from Soccer Buzz in 2002.
In between his duties with the Titans, Alexander spent two years training with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer and played professionally with the USL's El Paso Patriots in 2003. In 2004, he was the varsity head coach at nearby El Modena HS in Orange, Calif., and is currently a staff coach with the Fullerton Rangers Youth Soccer Club.
During his playing days with the Titans, Alexander saw his best season as a junior when he was 12-5 in net with a 1.20 goals against average and five shutouts. He was also a three-year letter winner at Hemet HS in Hemet, Calif., earning league MVP, first-team all-league, and team MVP honors as a senior.
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LEOMINSTER -- It was another classic in the fierce border war between the Monty Tech and Leominster High wrestling teams.
The Blue Devils had a commanding lead late, but Monty Tech's strength in the upper weight classes proved to be too much. The Bulldogs swept the final four matches en route to a narrow 41-36 victory over the Blue Devils at Leominster High on Wednesday night.
With the victory, Monty Tech improves to 3-2, while Leominster falls to 2-8. Both teams will meet again on Saturday in a quad meet.
"Leominster is always an important match for us," Monty Tech head coach Kieron Smith said. "They are our crosstown rival. Even though we are not in the same division, we look at them as our rivals. We wrestle them every year. Our kids wrestled with a lot of heart today."
Things were looking bleak for the Bulldogs, as Monty Tech trailed 36-18 with only four matches remaining. But up-and-coming sophomore Zack Bowers had one of the finer matches of the day, earning a pin 1:21 into the second period in the 182-pound class. Junior captain Reid Billings kept the momentum with an early pin at 195 pounds, which got the Bulldogs right back into it at 36-30.
"Billings usually goes out there and tries to muscle his opponents, rather than working something in," Smith said. "Today (Billings) worked in an over hook and under hook and he was able to turn his opponent over on his back and pin him. Bowers is the best wrestler on our team right now, and he is only a sophomore.
The entire meet was on the line for Monty Tech senior captain Dylan Hague. If Hague lost, the Bulldogs would have no chance of winning. But Hague rose to the occasion, with four takedowns in the match and accumulated a number of back points and reversal, en route to a 20-4 victory over Leominster's Ray Noguera in the 220-pound match. Hague earned five team points in the victory to cut the deficit to 36-35.
"Our captain Hague came through for us big time tonight," Smith said. "We had a bunch of time off for vacation. I rolled out a mat at the school today, because we haven't practiced in three or four days, and it shows. Wrestling is the type of sport, if you take two days off you're starting all over from scratch. We have a lot of work to do before Saturday's meet."
The heavyweight class determined the winner, as whoever won the match would determine the team victory. A.J. Lambert did not allow for suspense to build as he earned a pin at the 1:20 mark of the first period to seal the Bulldog victory.
Junior captain Matt Applin, at 145 pounds, earned a pin in the victory. Bulldogs Alex Birri and Billy Saball won by forfeits at 106 and 120, respectively.
The early forfeits hurt Leominster, giving them a quick 12-0 hole, but the Blue Devils went on a tear from there. Keith Miller, Marquel Roland, and Ian Perla each pinned their opponents to give Leominster the lead at 18-12.
"It's never fun losing to Monty Tech, it's one of the ones we put a star on the calendar and look forward to," Leominster head coach James Sheehan said. "It's disappointing that we lost, especially since we could have won this one. But it is what it is, and they wrestled better than we did. We have a small roster, and it's hard to win a match when you're giving up a lot of forfeits. We won the matches 6-5, but the two forfeits cost us."
Applin temporarily put a stop to the Blue Devil surge when he tied it at 18-18. But Leominster soon regained its steam.
Ebram Aziz (152), Aaron Thompson (160), and Amos Muma earned three straight pins to give Leominster a commanding 36-18 lead.
"We had a lot of momentum going through the lower weight classes," Sheehan said. "But we finished off with four losses, and that's what did us in."


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HTC Corp (宏達電) yesterday confirmed that chief executive Peter Chou (周永明) had told workers in an e-mail to improve internal communications and "kill bureaucracy" because the company was facing increasing competition in the fast-changing mobile market.
The smartphone maker confirmed the e-mail, reported earlier by Bloomberg News, but it declined to share the e-mail's content because it was considered a confidential internal document.
"Our workers have understood our chief executive's thoughts through this e-mail and expressed their appreciation for his reminder," HTC public relations manager Jessica Pan (潘瑞蓮) said by telephone.
In the e-mail, Chou wrote in English: "We have people in meeting and talking all the time but without decision, strategic direction or sense of urgency."
"Bureaucracy crept in without clear ownership. We agreed to do something but we either didn't do it or executed it loosely," he wrote in the e-mail, which was also sent to HTC chairwoman Cher Wang (王雪紅) and the board of directors.
"Please make sure that we kill bureaucracy," Chou wrote. "Stay firm with the hero innovations and make them even bigger and deliver them."
The e-mail may have been prompted by HTC's struggles over the past year amid stiff competition from Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co.
HTC, the Taoyuan-based maker of the Desire, Sensation and One smartphones, has seen its stock price plummet from a high of NT$1,300 in April last year to NT$243.50 at the close of trading yesterday. Its sales last month fell 17 percent from June and 45 percent from a year earlier to NT$25.03 billion (US$834 million).
On Aug. 3, HTC said that third-quarter sales would range between NT$70 billion and NT$80 billion, representing a drop of 12 to 23 percent from the second quarter, because of falling product prices and a change in its product portfolio.
Declining sales and profitability have prompted HTC to close offices and cut jobs to reduce costs.
"We are disappointed that our sales are down, while smartphone market share is growing," Chou wrote in the Aug. 9 e-mail titled "We are coming back" and outlining "multiple reasons for the challenges" the company is facing.
"Our competitors can leverage their scale, brand awareness and big marketing budget to do things which HTC could not do," Chou wrote. "The fast growth from the last two years has slowed us down."
The company's revenue surged 67 percent last year after jumping 93 percent in 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The 55-year-old Chou said the company now needs to build on its culture, "committed" employees and customer relationships.
"Don't let the processes, rules and norms to impact our important goals," he wrote. "Of course we have to follow certain rules and criteria but don't let small things kill the major goals. Again make sure we have big things in mind."
Following the launch of the One X handset earlier this year, Chou said there are also strong products in the pipeline for this year and early next year, without naming them.
Compared with leading manufacturers, HTC needs to address several challenges before it makes a turnaround, Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Yen (嚴柏宇) said.
"We believe HTC's problems can be fixed, but require significant executive determination to do a big-scale overhaul, otherwise HTC might continue to be under enormous competitive pressure despite having seemingly decent products," he wrote in a note recently.
For example, HTC has not been able to deliver effective marketing messages, instead sending messages that were too complicated for the average consumer to comprehend, Yen said.
Moreover, HTC's internal quality control and public relations problems following several product quality cases have caused significant harm to its brand equity, he said.
Yen also voiced concern that HTC has its feature-planning team in Seattle and hardware team in Taipei, with each team having a different product focus.
"We think HTC needs to go back to the fundamentals of user experience, providing consumers with smooth, reliable, and intuitive features, before thinking of adding more differentiated features," Yen said.


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Sounds strange, I know. But I hope you never have reason to meet Dr. Noah Federman, who makes his living saving children's lives.
Extraordinary guy. Take all the athletes I've met in more than 40 years and this is my hero, even though he has to admit, "Some see me coming and it's a visceral reaction; they put their heads in a trash can and throw up.
"I'm not that ugly," he protests, and we argue for the next 10 minutes.
I wear a hat with the name of the place where he works to every game as a reminder to athletes how lucky they have it. Most just look at it as a hat.
It might be five years since I last saw Federman.
But I get an email from Jeffrey Hughes. I've never heard of Hughes, but he mentions Federman, Ben Howland and John Wooden. And I'm a sucker for anything Wooden.


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Any primer on the basics of the hierarchy within a computer would place the CPU as the central component. It is however serviced by many other supporting units and one of the most important would be the memory. In the modern computer architecture, there are different levels of memory, from the registers on the processor die to the many levels of cache and finally the separate memory modules installed on the motherboard. After all, a CPU is nothing but a giant calculator and the role of memory is as a form of temporary data storage for the CPU to extract and store the raw data and the results from the various operations performed on the data.
The modern computer uses various forms of memory, though they are all usually of the random access type, meaning that the data stored on these memory locations can be retrieved when needed in any order. Excluding the memory embedded within the processor die, the main form of memory found in most PCs today are dynamic random access memory modules or DRAM modules for short.
These modules have undergone quite a few changes in the past ten years but they have stayed recognizable over the years as integrated circuits on a rectangular PCBs. The number of pins have varied as the different formats came and went, from the 168-pin on the SDRAM module to the 240-pin on the current DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM modules. While memory standards are determined by an industry standards body, JEDEC, they are co-dependent on the micro-architecture created by CPU firms like AMD and Intel.
In 1998, synchronous SDRAM which was only introduced in 1996 was beginning to dominate the industry. Yet by 1999, there was a new player, RAMBUS and the company's RDRAM had a large backer in the form of Intel, which licensed the use of RDRAM for its processors. Various issues associated with RDRAM, like its high cost and increased latency dulled its bandwidth advantage and the format was unpopular with consumers.
While RAMBUS was to fade into a bad memory (pun intended) for consumers who had bought into the technology via Intel's platform, the company was to haunt memory manufacturers for years with litigation, asserting that it owned patents on DDR technology. This would lead to an epic sequence of trials and appeals in American courts involving major players like Samsung, Micron and Infineon among others and lasting almost a decade. Anti-trust and price fixing were some of the related issues that came from the litigation, though RAMBUS has emerged as the eventual winner for most of the cases after many rounds, the most recent concluded in 2008.
This failure of RDRAM set the stage for an uninterrupted progress for SDRAM, with the introduction of DDR SDRAM in 2000, which doubled the minimum read or write unit of the memory module to two words of data and hence increased the memory bandwidth, especially coupled with increased clock speeds ranging from 133 to 200MHz.
2003 was to see the debut of DDR2 SDRAM. As we mentioned: "The major difference between DDR2 and DDR was the doubling of its bus speeds to the memory clock, thus allowing higher data transfer per memory clock cycle." Clock speeds were from 200 to 400MHz (or DDR2-400 to DDR2-800).
DDR3 SDRAM entered the picture in 2007 and with all the major chipsets supporting the new format, should be slowly gaining traction in 2008 and more mainstream adoption in 2009. While the same concept is used to result in a higher pre-fetch of 8-bits and higher data rate, the latencies on DDR3 are also significantly higher. On the other hand, the new memory modules use less power than DDR2, 1.5V compared to 1.8V while the density of the memory chips are also increased. And that is the present state of memory on the desktop now.
Ever since Moore's Law was observed, the computing industry has largely kept to the promise of exponential growth in performance. Yet in one area, it has been looking quite bleak for the better part of almost twenty years. Computer scientists have been bemoaning the inability of memory bandwidth to match the increase in CPU speed. Termed the memory wall, this is a problem that doesn't seem to have an easy answer and even as the advent of newer memory standards is unlikely to cease, eventually it seems, the memory bandwidth will be the limiting factor in computing.
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I got the basics of this recipe from a friend at a Super Bowl party and tweaked it from there. I do have to tone it down a bit for my wife...and my mom once asked if I was trying to get my inheritance early! People who like spicy food really go for it.—Rob Via, Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina
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- 2 pounds beef stew meat, cut into 3/4-in. cubes
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 to 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 jar (16 ounces) hot banana peppers
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 can (10 ounces) diced tomatoes and green chilies, undrained
- 1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 to 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
- Additional banana peppers, optional
- In a large saucepan, cook beef and onion in oil over medium heat until meat is no longer pink. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Drain.
- Seed and chop 10 hot banana peppers (refrigerate remaining peppers for another use). Add the hot peppers, tomatoes, tomato paste, beans, chilies, jalapeno and seasonings to beef mixture.
- Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 2 hours or until meat is tender.
- Uncover; simmer until chili reaches desired thickness. Garnish with additional banana peppers if desired. Yield: 8 servings.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
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Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind, authors of "Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations."...
I have to laugh -- now we are teaching leaders how to have conversations -- something we do as naturally as breathing!
But OK -- I get it. When you are the CEO it can be a lonely place at the top. And how do you start having meaningful conversations with staff without scaring them all to heck? And what are the risks to the leader when they engage in these kinds of conversations?
I've been saying for years that organizational change and employee engagement happen through conversations. Seems to finally be gaining some traction. I work with execs on their listening and storytelling skills, never thinking I'd have to address the ins-and-outs of conversations. But hey -- the insights here are solid and I can see what I need to add when I coach leaders.
This is a podcast that covers these main points and more. It is also a promo for the author's new book, which you might also be interested in.
If you work with organizations and senior executives, you will gain some decent ah-hahs!
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YES, it is. Subcontracting doesn't absolve you of shit. You are ultimately responsible for any tasks you assign to others.
Dell, IBM, "basically everyone else" are equally responsible - although of course any who have packaged the batteries as removable are showing a much more responsible approach.
YES, it is. Subcontracting doesn't absolve you of shit.
This ^. Apply this to many other topics here on
So Best Buy are responsible for this. They ordered the batteries from a third party. Apple is not connected in any way, nor responsible.
I can see where blame really resides. Apple releases mapping technology that isn't ready; that was their fault. Apple used batteries from a third party that had defects that everyone experienced and no one knew about forehand. How is that their fault?
Um at the time of the Sony battery recall (2006), everyone including Apple used removable batteries. It wasn't until the MacBook Air (2008) was first introduced that Apple started sealing batteries. Also everyone else started doing the same.
They are not responsible for 3rd party batteries that Best Buy bought and resold.
By your logic, if I modify my car, we should continue to hold $car_manufacturer accountable for any problems I have with the parts I added from other manufacturers, so long as $car_manufacturer had a problem with that part at some point in their history. That's moronic.
Not only that, but as someone else has already pointed out, those batteries you're referencing were manufactured by Sony, not Apple, and affected a wide range of brands [cnet.com], not just Apple. Everyone involved made things right by engaging in the l
It could also have mentioned "2008"... the year the black and white plastic case Mac laptops and the replacement batteries from ATG were sold.
Best Buy has been fighting this recall of the third party batteries they sold to these consumers for about 5 years now.
All Apple batteries are 3rd party, last I checked Apple doesn't actually make any batteries. The only difference is that Apple has learned from past fiascoes to install better quality 3rd party batteries then what you are going to get from Best Buy.
And yet, I don't recall hearing about machines (from Apple or any other manufacturer) having battery problems lately.
Could it be that this is just a bad batch of cheaply made 3rd party batteries? I think so.
First, the unibody Macs have batteries that are replaceable by anyone with a Torx driver and enough eye-hand coordination to use it. Secondly, if the Apple branded battery squashed bits inside the Mac, you'd have a good warranty claim to replace the whole computer. What's not to like?
Currently, I think LiOn batteries are a crap shoot. Of the dozen or so I have on various bits of equipment, I've had one Apple brand battery expand rapidly, one aftermarket battery for an older white MacBook do the same, one Nikon battery actually start smoking, two Wasabi batteries go tits up and one GoPro battery just petulantly refuse to do anything right out the box.
That's why all my battery chargers sit on a nice 1/4 thick aluminum plate with 72 inches of clear ceiling above them.
Secondly, if the Apple branded battery squashed bits inside the Mac, you'd have a good warranty claim to replace the whole computer.
This is the standard failure mode for lithium polymer batteries. When they are overcharged, deep discharged, or wear out with age, they expand into any available space distorting their prismatic form factor and crushing anything in the surrounding environment. Normally there is no available space since products are designed to hold the maximum possible battery volume. The ba
Currently, I think LiOn batteries are a crap shoot. Of the dozen or so I have on various bits of equipment, I've had one Apple brand battery expand rapidly, one aftermarket battery for an older white MacBook do the same, one Nikon battery actually start smoking, two Wasabi batteries go tits up and one GoPro battery just petulantly refuse to do anything right out the box.
The problem is not the battery, it's energy density. Unfortunately, energy density is also related to two important factors - battery life
Here is my bulging battery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonhowes/sets/72157634257975524/ [flickr.com]
Here is my bulging battery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonhowes/sets/72157634257975524/ [flickr.com]
lol, that does not look safe.
Please don't flame me into oblivion for saying that. I know Apple stuff is manufactured as cheaply as possible these days, but the fact of the matter is that Apple at least has standards given that they're a major corporation. They generally know what they're doing on the hardware end of things, and can be held accountable if a battery explodes or bursts into flames and burns down your house.
I have personally dismantled one of these effected batteries (on a consultation contract from an insurance company). The insides look nothing like the equivalent Apple replacement P/N. For one, the Apple batteries are actually pretty advanced- they've got a built in uC that actually monitors a bunch of variables pulled off the cell, and even keeps track of the number of cycles the cell has gone through and some min/max stuff from the last charging cycle. There's a temperature sensor and a whole bunch of fuses/disconnects designed to protect the unit from a hard short. The SMC built into the computer side communicates with the battery uC and provides a bunch of variable reporting, error handling, and emergency shutdown stuff.
The third party battery basically has none of this. The external chassis is compatible with the Apple unit (as to fit in the laptop properly), but that's about it. The micro controller built into the third party battery basically does nothing- it only implements enough functionality to keep the SMC happy and allow the laptop to identify and use the battery. There are no thermal safeties, no fuses, nothing. The laptop should be able to detect a defective cell on the Apple branded unit and actually refuse to charge it- but that is impossible on these third party batteries because the uC is hardcoded to basically return "I'm OK!" irregardless of the physical state of the lithium packs.
IMHO; these things shouldn't have been sold at all. The fact that they're going up in smoke now is absolutely no surprise. I can only compare the cheapness of these batteries to other "Apple compatible" accessories that come from third party companies in China. They skimp out on everything possible, and you get something that if you're lucky just barely works- and if you're not, then it burns your house down. If you want to check that kind of thing out, just google the difference between the official Apple USB wall chargers, and the design of the Chinese 3rd party equivalent. It is vastly the same thing with these lithium batteries.
The laptop should be able to detect a defective cell on the Apple branded unit and actually refuse to charge it
It is. Shortly before my last MBP went out of warranty the battery symbol was replaced with a warning sign and the dropdown menu informed me that the battery required attention from a service technician and wouldn't be charged until then. At the local certified reseller they connected a Firewire drive and booted into a diagnostic program, which informed them that the battery was damaged and needed to be replaced.
I don't know if it's a reaction to the time when Sony accidentally sold IEDs instead of batter
I don't know if this was the site you were referring to, but it was a really interesting read and has lots of graphs and measurements and such:
http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-apple-is.html [righto.com]
It's shocking how different everything is!
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Wagatsuma Fellowship Recipient Hugh Schuckman starts fieldwork on Peace Corps and Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers
As a recipient of the 2011-2012 Hiroshi Wagatsuma Memorial Graduate Student Fellowship, Hugh Schuckman will compare Japanese and US volunteer development initiatives in Outer Mongolia. A former Peace Corps Teacher Trainer volunteer himself, Hugh noted the diversity in understandings of "democratic" and "participatory" development within the organization's staff and volunteers during his two years of service in Gobi-Altai, Mongolia. Now a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Hugh has returned to Outer Mongolia for six months in order to observe and interview Peace Corps and Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) at their volunteer work sites. His dissertation research will centrally explore these diverse understandings of "development." In addition, Hugh hopes to provide a platform for Mongolians to voice their own perspectives and experiences with US and Japanese development through interviews with Mongolians connected to Peace Corps and the JOCV.
Because Outer Mongolia is roughly the size of Texas, yet has a relatively small population of about three million people, many Japanese and American volunteers work in remote rural villages. During his field research, Hugh will travel overland by jeep to meet these volunteers and their Mongolian counterparts. Hugh noted that "With the Wagatsuma Fellowship funding, I've already been able to take a fantastic nine-week intensive Mongolian language class through the American Center for Mongolian Studies in Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar. Throughout the summer and fall, this support will allow to me to access isolated volunteer sites in the Mongolian countryside." Among his site visit plans, he will travel to the southwest Gobi desert, where he was stationed as a volunteer for two years, along with other lesser known areas such as the northern forested areas around Khovsgol Lake and eastern desert steppe plains in Khentii province. By underscoring the diversity in Japanese, US, and Mongolian perspectives, Hugh hopes to explore potential development methods that most value Mongolians' input in shaping the future of their unique country.
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As a kid, I used to love the old Japanese Godzilla movies (which is why I will never, ever forgive the people behind that shitty-ass remake. WTF was that?!). I especially liked Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.
The reason I was thinking of Godzilla today was because I had started writing up a post about Alabama's head football coach, Nick Saban. Like me, when you think Nick Saban, the first thing that probably comes to mind for you as well is heartless, fire-breathing evil (only with slightly less personality).
So I began free associating some ideas along the "Saban is Godzilla" theme when I remembered the giant statue of Saban that Alabama had already erected...
And, voila, like that, the spark of an idea was upon me: Pure, cold-blooded oversigning malevolence vs a metallic rush to deify (because, you know, what could possibly go wrong with putting up a statue of one's head coach while he's still there).
It really is the perfect monster movie.
So who would win such an epic battle of B-movie villainy? As you know if you've watched such flicks, there isn't just one battle between the two baddies in each film, but many. In different places, and against different backdrops. Thus, the MZone breaks down what would happen in the scariest movie of the year...
If the 9-foot bronze statue of Mecha-Nick Saban fell over, he'd crush that nearby wall. But it can probably be fixed in a matter of weeks or days.
When Nick Saban recruits some kid only to abruptly pull his scholarship at the last minute, "grayshirt" him or make him take a medical hardship, these harmful actions leave scars on kids that can last a lifetime.
Nick Saban always looks like a guy getting an enema while in a dental chair having a root canal at the same time. Even Mark Dantonio has been known to remark, "Man, that dude needs to lighten the fuck up."
Mecha-Nick Saban just looks like the same guy getting only the enema.
Being 9 feet tall and made of bronze, Mecha-Nick Saban will not flee when things get tough.
After coaching at MSU and realizing he couldn't rise above Michigan when the playing field was level, Nick Saban fled to conferences where that wouldn't be the case. Remember these words from Saban after he left MSU?:
"At Michigan State, we were never No. 1," Saban said. "That was always Michigan. It was always U-M this or that."
This one is easy. Mecha-Nick Saban is loved by pigeons.
Nick Saban is hated by any college football fan who doesn't bleed Crimson and White.
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Sharon Hill PA, Sep 5, 2011: Lyme Disease blood testing has been notorious for its unreliability This has been responsible for misdiagnoses and inappropriate patient care, as well as confusion on the part of both patient and physician alike.
Now, as a result of intensive research, Advanced Laboratory Services Inc. is able to offer what will rapidly become the new gold standard of Lyme tests, the Borrelia Culture.
Until now, the most widely used confirmatory tests for Lyme disease have been serologies.
• Being indirect tests, at best they can only indicate possible exposure to this organism at some previous point in time. It has been variously reported that the sensitivity of these assays is low and may miss anywhere from 30% to as many as 70% of cases of Lyme.
• Once positive, these serologic tests tend to remain positive for variable periods, even years, even after treatment.
• Therefore they do not and cannot be used as a marker for progress during treatment or for success of treatment. In addition, some acute viral infections may potentially give a false positive result.
How are most other infectious diseases diagnosed?
Traditionally, a culture is taken to see if an infection is present, and if so, what specific bacterium is causing it. Unfortunately, because Lyme Borrelia are symbionts, meaning that they need a living host to survive, trying to get them to thrive in vitro has been a nearly impossible task.
In addition, they are noted for their very slow growth.
Because of these difficulties, Borrelia culture until now has not been available to clinicians.
Advanced Laboratory Services Inc. is proud to announce that they have overcome many of these technical difficulties and is able to offer Borrelia cultures.
While still considered investigational, the new methods employed allow these advantages:
• By definition, culture is a direct test and if positive, indicates that an infection was present at the time the specimen was taken
• Cultures may be positive even in a patient who is seronegative
• In theory, any fluid or tissue that is infected can be cultured
• All known strains of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato can be detected
• When combined with PCR and DNA sequencing, the exact identity of the Borrelia can be ascertained
• Advanced methods have the promise to increase yield and decrease turn-around time
• Culture positivity fulfills even the strict CDC surveillance case definition
• Will become the new Gold Standard for laboratory testing
Currently, Advanced Labs is offering two Borrelia blood culture panels.
• The Basic Panel consists of culturing, with confirmation of identity by histology and by specific immunostaining. The report, if positive, will include a picture of the actual immunostained culture result. The expected turnaround time for this is approximately 10 to 14 days. However, some do grow more slowly, so all cultures will be held in the lab for a minimum of six weeks.
• We also offer the Extended Panel. In addition to histology and immunostaining, the identity of all positive cultures will be further studied by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and by nucleic acid sequencing. These extra steps will generally require an additional 10 to 14 days. However, if the initial histology with immunostaining is positive, a preliminary report will be issued while the nucleic acid studies are pending.
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• Sensitivity exceeds 80% if the patient is symptomatic at the time of blood draw and not on antibiotics for at least four weeks
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• As with all blood cultures, may need several sets to be sure
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We have found that the success of culturing Borrelia can be increased by following these simple recommendations:
• The patient should not have been exposed to any antibiotics, even those not known to affect this organism, for a minimum of four weeks prior to the blood sample being drawn.
• Borrelia are more likely to be recovered from patients who are symptomatic at the time of blood sampling.
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At the Game Developers Conference today, Activision technical director Jorge Jimenez has revealed their photorealistic next-gen engine.
well, with all that money they made, they better get to it, before battlefield kills it
For some reason I cant get over how creepy next gen faces look(to me)....As impressive as they are theyre so freaky looking. Even if they show some kindve emotion. Its especially hard when the pictures are med-large sized and I have my fingers across my eyes. Im excited for next gen but I gotta get rid of my fear. :/
Personally I think it looks great but there is still a certain amount of glassiness to the eyes here and there. To be fair though the detail is insane and looks great from a distance (well looks great at all angles, just some are more 'fake' than others) and is always hardest to get right no matter the medium. The video (don't remember where I saw it) looked better although it also highlighted flaws like they usually do (eyes again being main issue). The video wasn't quite as impressive as some of the other tech demos due to less realistic animation but they might had been intentionally exaggerating it at times to show wider range of motion (which would be great for non-human characters in other games).
I love all the tech and gameplay videos we've seen so far though as just looks fantastic and a significant boost from this generation all around (and in many cases better than what we've seen on PC which only makes sense--half of it is running on PC but designed with next gen in mind so ups the ante compared to games of today).
This next year and onwards should just be great all around for console and PC gamers both especially since the architecture is more familiar for all platforms (according to rumors for Xbox naturally) and probably easier to port to PC (easy=less money to do it) so we might see even more new games than we did this generation.
I can't wait for new consoles to be released although there's still quite a few games between now and then to hold me over. Plus a backlog that's only growing longer as time goes by.


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Sunday, March 28, 2010
BBC Report: US May Not Veto Israel Condemnation
Historically, the US has vetoed the never-ending, one-sided resolutions against Israel coming out of the UN. Coupled with recent diplomatic events, this would come as another troubling sign that our relationship with Israel is seriously deteriorating.
17 comments:
- Findalis said...
The US will not veto. Obama's policy is the utter destruction of first Israel, then the whole Jewish population of the world!
- March 29, 2010 at 9:11 AM
- Gary Fouse said...
I hope you are right. Could be that just the leaking of this info is meant as another slap in the face.
- March 29, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Lance Christian Johnson said...
Obama's policy is the utter destruction of first Israel, then the whole Jewish population of the world!
That is certifiably insane.
- March 29, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- Findalis said...
Not when you look at the church he went to for 20 years. He recently sat down at the White House with both Louis Farahkan and Rev. Wright. Both advocate the genocide of the Jews.
- March 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Ingrid said...
Gary, you hope she is right?
You both scare me.
- March 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM
- Gary Fouse said...
I know you don't like Israel, but have you ever thought about the fact that while Israel would be content to live in peace, her enemies are bound and determined to destroy her? I recommend that you read the Hamas charter and what it says. I have previously described it. The anti-Jew hatred in the ME is white hot and is Koran-based.
If there is no Israel, where can Jews live peacefully without having to confront anti-Semitism every day?
- March 29, 2010 at 6:03 PM
- Lance Christian Johnson said...
He recently sat down with Farrakhan and Wright? When the heck did this happen? I tried a brief search, but I couldn't find anything.
And Wright advocates for genocide of the Jews? I know he's nutty, but when has he ever said that? Shoot, I don't even think that Farrakhan has said that - although I will give it to you that he's a raving anti-Semite.
And what exactly do you guys know about Wright's services beyond that ten second clip that Fox News showed over and over again? I've pointed out before that I read from somebody who attended their services several times, and he did not characterize it the way you guys do. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to go there either, as it seems to be all the touchy-feely bullcrap that you get from any church.
The fact of the matter is that it's an insanely huge leap to jump from Obama not vetoing a condemnation to saying that he wants to wipe out all Jews.
Gary, is this really somebody who you want on your side?
- March 29, 2010 at 6:17 PM
- Gary Fouse said...
Are you trying to divide me from my allies?
I have not heard those things, but here is what I will say. Farrakhan and Wright are anti-white, anti-American and anti-Jew. Wright makes dumb comments everytime he is interviewed including a few days ago.
Obama's relationship with Wright and his church was a dsigrace and should have excluded him from the presidency.
As for the Israel/Palestinian issue, it is clear to me that he favors the Palestinians. He is not on the Israelis side.
- March 29, 2010 at 8:41 PM
- Findalis said...
The Farakhans were last in the WH on 1/29/10 http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0133ec3c9ec4970b-popup
Louis was scheduled for the "Science Club" I kid you not.
Wright's last visit was on 2/26/10 for his 5th group tour of the WH
BTW dear old Bill Ayers, you know the guy he really didn't know well, just another guy around the block. His last visit to the WH was on 12/30/09. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef01310fe2d565970c-popup
For the record: No other sitting President of the United States ever met with, let alone would invite Farahkan to the White House. The man is a bigot, racist who dreams of killing all the Jews in the world.
- March 29, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- Lance Christian Johnson said...
Even if you can make the case that he's not on the side of Israel, there is still a HUGE gap between that and saying that he wants all Jews to be destroyed.
- March 29, 2010 at 9:49 PM
- Ingrid said...
Gary, I hope you don't believe that I don't give Israel the right to exist in peace. I just don't like the way they bully the Palestinians, and I believe it is because of that there will be no peace ever.
I just wonder why people defend Israel, no matter what they do.
I just think Findalis is paranoid for the wrong reasons.
- March 30, 2010 at 2:15 AM
- Lance Christian Johnson said...
Ayers and Wright are listed as being part of "group tours". I'm pretty sure that I could take part in a group tour of the White House if I wanted to do that. As for Farrakhan - Science Club Members? I don't even know what that is. And this certainly doesn't mean that Obama himself met with him.
Also, with a little further digging, there wasn't even a check-in time for Farrakhan, which leads me to believe that he never even showed up. With Ayers, there are three guys there with that name. How can you be sure that it's THE Bill Ayers that has you guys all paranoid?
And shoot...just rechecked the Wright thing...there are four "Jeremy" Wrights. Isn't his name Jeremiah? Sure, Jeremy is a variation on that name - but come on! Why wouldn't he use his real name? And if he was trying to be sneaky, couldn't he do better than that?
This doesn't prove squat.
- March 30, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- Gary Fouse said...
I wrote on this a few months ago. The White House released a visitors list which included the above names, but they were not ones we all know.
What it appeared to be was a clever trap to get conservatives to jump on it. One blogger did some digging and exposed it.
- March 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Gary Fouse said...
I won't go into the myriad of details here, but I sincerely believe that Israel has been victim of a long campaign of lies that the public has bought into.
- March 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Lance Christian Johnson said...
What it appeared to be was a clever trap to get conservatives to jump on it. One blogger did some digging and exposed it.
Wait a second and let me see if I can get this straight. You're saying that the White House put this list out, knowing that conservatives would jump on it, and then liberals would later do a little bit of fact-checking and see that there's not really anything to it?
Really? Is that what you're saying?
And it seems as though conservatives have indeed jumped on it. It just happened here in this thread!
- March 30, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Ingrid said...
Gary, it goes both ways. Many years ago a dear Jewish friend of mine said "the Palestinians are vermin and need to be exterminated", that was the end of our friendship. I have heard plenty from both sides and they are ALL wrong.
I think the US needs to do what is good for the US and not what is best for Israel.
- March 31, 2010 at 12:37 AM
- Gary Fouse said...
Obviously, I don't agree with that statement. But what is it that would be good for the US? To walk away from Israel? To grease the skids like we did with the shah of Iran? To completely take the Palestinian side? That, of course, would be very convenient.
Neville Chamberlain thought he was doing what was best for England when he threw Czechoslovakia under the bus in 1938.
- March 31, 2010 at 10:09 AM


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Trying to Dance. Photographs by JH Engström. Design by Patric Leo. Edited by Gösta Flemming. Layout by Patric Leo, JH Engström and Gösta Flemming. Journal, Stockholm, 2004. Unpaged. Quarto. First edition. SIGNED on title page. Clothbound with tipped on cover image. No jacket as issued. Numerous color and black-and-white reproductions.
"I'm always looking for presence. Whenever I try, my doubts get unmasked. Easier then to stick with absence. I'm not trying to prove anything. I don't have that many memories yet."--JH Engström, from the back cover.
One of the most sought after photobooks of the last ten years! The first of an autobiographical trilogy that also includes Haunts (2006) and Wells (2008).
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, shot in New York and Sweden, presents a nonlinear juxtaposition of views of Engström's everyday surroundings, ranging from self-portraits and nudes to landscapes and interiors. The book does not offer the viewer an overall narrative that would subsume the meaning of the single image. It is a visual stream-of-consciousness monologue, an ongoing succession of moments that retain an importance of their own, fragments of relentlessly passing time. The impression of looking at memories, rather than documentary images, is heightened by the variety of the photographs, which span from straight black and white to heavily color-manipulated. Engström eloquently uses photographic techniques to evoke his subjective experience of a given moment. He says: 'I can only make photographs of what I feel, of what results from my encounters with people. In this regard, my work is completely subjective. At the same time, I am interested in objectivity, in the fact that since you take photo- graphs, you always deal with reality. And in this respect, I am not interested in subjectivity. It's a paradox.'"
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In this new post to his blog Jim Plush looks at a design pattern that could help you and your application become less reliant on external content sources and increase your user satisfaction for it.
No one has a 100% SLA. This means that more than ever you need to code defensively to prevent external resources from tarnishing the user experience of your site. This is where the Circuit Breaker Stability Pattern comes into play (From the book "Release It").
The concept behind the breaker is easy - too many failures from the resource and the script to grab the content is "broken" and no request is made until the connection check signals the "all clear". He includes a class and a walk through to show how it might work in a connection to a script on a test server. The CircuitBreaker class has enough smarts to be able to tell if the given resource can be fetched from (the circuit is closed) or not.


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Goal revealed in June the Gunners were close to sealing a deal for the Real Madrid striker and Rooney recently admitted he is open to a move to the Emirates Stadium as Arsene Wenger looks to build a side that can challenge for the Premier League title.
"I've never played against [Higuain] but anyone who plays for Real Madrid and Argentina has to be quality," Wilshere told ESPN.
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Arsenal launched a late-season surge for the second season running to again usurp rivals Tottenham to the final Champions League qualification spot on the final day of the campaign.
While Wilshere accepts it was vital the Gunners secured their place amongst Europe's elite, the 21-year-old is keen for the club to challenge for major honours and believes players in the mould of Higuain will help the cause.
He said: "You look at the type of players like Higuain we're trying to bring in and you've got to be encouraged. I think we need a few more, not to step right into the team but to add to the squad.
"We need our squad to be as deep as United's and City's. They can change their back four completely and still win. There's no way United would have won the Premier League trophy with 18 players.
"It's no secret we need to win a trophy. How long has it been now, seven or eight years? The players feel the pressure and we've gotten close a few times like with the Carling Cup a couple of years ago. I think once we win one, others will follow."
Wilshere returned to first-team football midway through last season following an injury-induced 17-month absence.
Despite making 33 appearances for Arsenal, the midfielder underwent ankle surgery in May in an attempt to solve lingering ankle, heel and foot troubles and he insists he is now ready for the 2013-14 season.
"I'm really looking forward to having a solid pre-season," Wilshere continued. "I haven't had one in two years and once you miss it, you're always playing catch-up.
"It's a chance to show the manager that you deserve to be in the team and I think there's going to be competition for a few spots. But that's a good thing.
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It doesn't take a footballing genius to see that Marco Reus has been steadily improving over the last few seasons.
Such growth has culminated in him becoming recognised around Europe as one of the most intriguing prospects currently gracing the footballing world and, dare we say it, he looks like he could have it in him to get even better.
Of course, as is the case with all emerging talents who aren't produced at sides historically considered the greatest in the sport, he's tumbled head-first into the growing pile of exciting young players linked with a transfer away from the place that made him who he is.
In Reus' case it's Manchester United that are rumoured to be eyeing his situation with all the intent of a predatory bird circling prey and, with a mooted €35million release-clause on his head, it's more than likely that unless he pens a new deal with Dortmund, his club won't be in a position to refuse offers.
Call it a controversial opinion but I for one think that if Reus has any view to becoming one of the world's best players he needs to steer as well away from Old Trafford as it's physically possible for him to do.
To kick off the argument there is the perhaps pertinent points of trophies.
At Dortmund Reus stands in a good position to win silverware. To win the Champions League may be asking a bit too much of Jurgen Klopp's young side, but they will certainly be there or there abouts in the competition, not to mention a surefire favourite to run Bayern Munich close for the Bundesliga.
Alternatively at United Reus would find himself at a club that not only looks a cut under the required bench-mark for those hoping to compete for Europe's finest honour, but is also struggling to assert dominance in their own country.
Moyes is re-building his United squad and, although it's an admirable notion, Reus would be taking a step down in quality if he were to join the cause.
Then there's the matter of his personal development. With Jurgen Klopp having penned an extension until 2018, Reus has to carefully weigh up whether his skills will thrive elsewhere or whether or not remaining under Klopp's tutelage stands to benefit him the most.
With David Moyes he would be risking working under a manager who has little experience in dealing with players of his calibre and potential, as well as placing himself in uncertain surroundings. As aforementioned, the United squad is in undeniable transition and isn't currently a stable, proven environment desired by a player who's looking to better himself.
There's then the simply fact that at the moment Borussia Dortmund are a better side than Manchester United. The latter has a far more impressive legacy and therefore far more impressive name to add to the resume, but Reus would be taking a step down in the quality of football he is playing each week were he to decide to move to the Premier League champions.
His current employers are a force on the up, who are proving with each passing Champions League fixture that they now have what it takes to contend with the biggest names in the sport. In stark contrast the Red Devils are at the very best indifferent without Sir Alex Ferguson, and it could be a good few years before they come close to replicating the glory they enjoyed with him at the helm.
I'm not saying that Reus should opt for the likes of PSG, Chelsea or Arsenal- three clubs who have also expressed an interest- rather I'm deducing that the 24-year-old should remain at Dortmund for now achieve everything he possibly can with the club.
With the departure of Mario Gotze to Bayern Munich, and the fact that current key man Robert Lewandowski looks all but set to follow, Reus is set to take on a new impetus at the club, and could find himself the key figure in Klopp's exciting setup.
He should harness this opportunity and allow his abilities to grow in it, rather than moving to somewhere else just for the sake of the a big name and even bigger transfer fee.
It won't be everyone's cup of tea, and there is the chance that Reus could develop further with a move to the Premier League, but for me he stands to lose more than he will gain if he trades the yellow of Dortmund for the red of United.
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A quick update on the Mariachi.
In the interests of mountain bike handling and practicing technical skills, I wanted to throw a shorter (70mm) stem on it. I also wanted to look at a slight riser bar shape, for greater comfort on long SS rides.
I didn't want to, but had to do Thomson. And if you're doing Thomson X-4, that means dress-up kit.
Artsy shot.
Standard RATG garage shot.
These bars are a wee bit narrower than the stock aluminum ones. I haven't yet decided if I like that…I was digging the wideness of the stock bars. We'll see. However, I'm amazed at what a huge change the shorter stem makes in the bike's handling. I'm loving it. There's just enough room to get my Garmin on there…but the steering is right now direct…without being twitchy. It's a match made in heaven. And the dress-up kit looks…snawesome. Also, FWIW, a 140 gram weight reduction ('bout a third of a pound).
I've been putting on SS miles lately, because I really like this bike, because I'm really trying to work on technique, and because the SS kicks my butt. It's a different kind of workout. You have moments where you're spun out on the road, and moments where you're standing on the pedals, heaving with all of your might…and no gears to help you out.
The Mariachi invites exploration. The (somewhat heavy) 2.2″ Trail Kings have tons of traction and reasonable volume, and inspire confidence in all conditions. And so, I put them through their paces, with some trailbusting.
Busting through hip-tall grass, crossing drainage culverts, riding across plowed fields…just another day, living the dream.


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For nearly 16 years, Karen Dendy has had a strong and trusted friend by her side for support. The 68-year-old Bismarck resident can remember when Lester was introduced to her when she lived in Grand Forks, following the flood in 1997.
"Both my mother and father had arthritis, so it wasn't surprising when I began experiencing a lot of hip and knee pain," Karen says. "During the flood, I spent a lot of time sandbagging, which triggered even more pain."
Combined with her job as a third-grade teacher, it wasn't long before her hip and knee pain was impacting her quality of life. After receiving an official diagnosis of severe osteoarthritis in her hips and knees, it was time to get help, and Karen knew she needed surgery.
She tackled her hips first and had a total hip replacement on both sides. And that is when Lester appeared, providing much-needed support after her surgeries.
Before Karen brought him into her classroom, Lester had remained nameless. This was because Lester was not a person, but a cane.
"The first day I walked into my classroom with my cane, my kids were so concerned," she says. "I had to think quickly to lighten the mood, so I named him Lester. The kids immediately fell in love with him."
Her students quickly became accustomed to seeing Lester at Karen's side and made him the class mascot. While she made light of the situation, the pain and discomfort Karen felt was still serious.
"While my hips were better, I still had a lot of pain in my knees," she says. "So Lester was essential to help me get through the day as pain-free as possible."
And Lester provided years of support before Karen finally decided to have knee replacement surgery -- even through a move from Grand Forks to Bismarck to be closer to her family.
Her first surgery, performed by Dr. David O'Regan, orthopedic surgeon at Sanford Medical Center in Bismarck, happened in July 2013. Sanford was a Blue Distinction Center for knee and hip replacements with quality and value designations at that time.
But before Karen's second knee replacement surgery in October 2013, Sanford raised its already high standard of care provided to patients. The Joint Replacement Center opened and was the first program of its kind in the region.
The center is a dedicated unit at Sanford Medical Center with private rooms, tailored to meet the specific needs of knee and hip joint replacement patients.
"Our Joint Replacement Center has numerous benefits to our patients and for our staff," says Dr. O'Regan. "Our patients are more satisfied in the personalized plan of care they receive, and our team works in a more efficient manner."
Patients at the Joint Replacement Center follow a wellness model, which means they wear normal clothes instead of hospital gowns and get as active as possible during their stay. They also are given a daily newsletter and individualized goal sheets to help provide guidance through every step of recovery.
Patients can feel confident in the care they receive from the nurses, who all have specialized training in hip and knee replacements.
Another unique feature is an orthopedic nurse navigator, who guides patients through their joint replacement journey. The nurse navigator provides pre-operative education classes and also provides follow-up visits and care after patients are discharged.
"Our nurse navigator is essential to providing an exceptional level of care," Dr. O'Regan says. "She facilitates relationships between physicians and patients and is always there to answer any questions that may arise."
Another change Karen noticed was the inclusive, group-oriented therapy offered right in the unit.
"There was a definite difference from my previous surgeries," she says. "I was up and moving and exercising with a group of patients just like me. I truly felt like I was a part of a team, and the camaraderie was great. We were there to support and motivate each other."
That support is one reason why our knee replacement patients are spending less time in the hospital. Before opening the center, the average length of stay for a knee replacement was 3.48 days. Now the number has decreased to 2.2 days.
"Patients say they push harder and find therapy easier with added support," says Dr. O'Regan. "A typical schedule consists of me performing surgery on Wednesday morning, and our patients are ready to go home Friday afternoon."
However, before patients are discharged, a special "graduation" ceremony is held. Patients who have been together during recovery and therapy gather together with the medical team for one last meal.
"This was so very special to me," Karen says. "Our caregivers also were able to attend, so my husband was able to share in this moment."
Now that Karen is home, Lester still has a special place in her heart, but he's not leaned on for support nearly as often as before.
"In many ways, Lester has been my best friend," Karen says with a laugh. "He's been through a lot, and now it's time for him to rest."
Karen now has more freedom to move and enjoy her life with family and friends and is certain the Joint Replacement Center helped her return to a better quality life as quickly as possible.
"I didn't feel like a stranger in a strange place at Sanford," she says. "Every single nurse, physician and therapist was so thoughtful and caring. I felt so special, so cradled and have never experienced such patient-centered care."
Call (701) 323-8920 to schedule an appointment or more information about our joint replacement specialists or the center.


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Our sweet bun-bun Billie is not with us anymore... . She was owned by my daughter Indra. Indra got her bunny as an easter-present in 1999. Indra was 10 years old then, Billie was 6 months old. We bought Billie from a petshop where they were absolutely sure that she was a dwarf-bunny. Hm , no no, we all believe that either his mommy or his daddy was a normal big rabit :rolleyes: :D .
Oh well, dwarf or not, we all fell in love with that little funny bunny immediately!
here is Indra with her new pet
From first day on, she was always trying to escape by digging a hole to the free world. Luckily all our neighbours knew we had a bunny, so she always ended back in her cage. One time though she disappeared for 6 days! The 5th day, she was back in her run... . She had been making a tunnel under our garage, and she stayed there during the day!!
In 2001 we moved into our new house. My son made a big outdoor run; no possibility to make holes, because there was chicken-wire there too!
Billie loved his pen, and was very happy when we got a guinea pig Jasper; they were great buddies!
Sometimes, she came in the livingroom. But she got overwhelmed by all those sniffing and hissing cats
Now Billie is gone to the Rainbow Bridge, where he found back his buddy Jasper.
This the last pic from her (she was dying)
My hubby buried Billie right under her little shelter, where she was most of the day (see pic #2)
Goodbye my dear friend, we will all miss you so much....
Please visit Billie's own page on my website: Billie


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I did a quick search of the forum, and was unable to find any information on this, so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
I can not login with Opera 9.21! I keep getting the error 'Wrong User Name or Password'. Has anyone else experienced this problem? I have been able to login using Firefox to post this, so my User name & password work.


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Barry W. Jacob
Barry W. Jacob, 67, of Warwick passed away August 19, 2012, at home. He was the beloved husband of Kathleen R. (York) Jacob.
Born in Providence, he was the son of the late Leo and Phyllis (Williams) Jacob. Mr. Jacob was a Certified Nursing Assistant and caregiver for the State of Rhode Island for 18 years until illness forced his retirement. He served in The United States Army and was a member of the American Legion.
He was the loving father of Dawn C. Largy, Kenneth R. Jacob and Andrea J. Jacob, all of Warwick. Cherished grandfather of five. He was the brother of the late Paula Jacob.
His funeral will be held Thursday at 9:00 am from The Urquhart-Murphy Funeral Home, 800 Greenwich Avenue, Route 5, Warwick (Exit 12A on I-95) with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. in St. Francis of Assisi Church, 596 Jefferson Boulevard, Warwick. Burial, with military honors, will follow in the Rhode Island Veterans' Cemetery, Exeter. Relatives and friends are invited and may call Wednesday 6-9 p.m.
Kindly omit flowers. Gifts in his memory to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or any Cancer Society would be appreciated. www.murphyfuneralhomes.org


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Tightened water restrictions may be on horizon
Officials with the city of Big Spring say water conservation efforts during the winter and spring months have gone well, but with little rain forecasted for the coming months, mandatory restrictions are likely on the horizon for the Crossroads area.The city is currently in Stage 2 of its Drought Contingency Plan, which requires city water customers follow a number of outdoor water use restrictions, a contrast from the mandatory restrictions the city implemented last summer.According to Interim City Manager Todd Darden, talks are already under way between the Colorado River Municipal Water District and its customer cities regarding restricted water deliveries in the coming months."We're in a situation where we haven't gotten the spring rains we had hoped for," Darden said. "That's a sort of double-edged sword for water use in Big Spring. While the rains would help us by raising the water levels in the CRMWD reservoirs, it would also begin to green-up people's lawns, which seems to kick start area residents into watering their yards more often."We've talked to CRMWD and they are asking for us to calculate the averages for our water usage. They will take the winter use average, the summer average and then the peak consumption from the summer months and from that, determine how much water they will deliver to us. It's a pretty complicated process, but all of the cities who get their water from the water district will have to do it."Darden said the city has done well in conserving water since dropping from Stage 3 to State 2 of the contingency plan. However, the move from restrictions enforced by the law to a honor-based system is beginning to fray at the edges."We're beginning to see more people washing their cars in their driveways or watering their lawns and trees on days we've asked them not to," Darden said. "People are beginning to go back to their old habits, the ones they had before the water restrictions, and that's bad for everyone."According to CRMWD officials, the O.H. Ivie Reservoir — which has been the principal source of water for water district cities since last year — is currently at 19.34 percent capacity, down almost 6 percent since October 2012. The E.V. Spence Resrvoir is currently at 4.84 percent capacity, while the J.B. Thomas Reservoir currently sits at a dismal 0.56 percent.Under Stage 2 of the contingency plan, water customers are requested to limit the irrigation of landscaped areas to Sundays and Thursdays for customers with a street address ending in an even number, according to city officials. Water customers with a street address ending in an odd number are allowed to water Saturdays and Wednesdays between midnight and 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. and midnight."Irrigation of landscaped areas is permitted at anytime if it is by means of a hand held hose, a faucet filled bucket, watering can of five gallons or less, or drip irrigation system," Darden said. "Also, water customers are requested to refrain from washing cars and to continue to practice water conservation and to minimize or discontinue water use for non-essential purposes. Wasting of water is still very much prohibited."At the rate we are going right now, I believe we'll be going back to Stage 3 sometime toward the end of June or, possibly, sooner than that. It's very, very important that water customers continue to do everything they can to conserve water."


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Slackware: the classic distro that's as timely as ever.
Slackware enjoys the official position of "the eldest" of all of the currently developed distributions. Started in 1993 by Patrick Volkerding it began its life as a series of improvements to SLS' version of Linux. By and by, it grew into a separate distro of its own. In fact, several other distros (who shall remain nameless) used Slackware as their basis before they ventured off into their respective directions.
Through the years, many aspects of Slackware have remained the same such as the ncurses-based installer, the use of LILO over GRUB, and the general lack of auto-configuration tools. Back in the day this simplicity was no big deal; this was par for the course. But as the years passed, and as other newbie-oriented distros emerged with their graphical configuration wizards and step-by-step hand holding assistants, Slackware remained true to its commitment to be the most Unix-like Linux in the market.
And this meant staying true to the no-frills mentality that has made the distro famous.
But the simplicity/conservatism that Slackware is known for has been the butt of criticism as of late because newer distros have a tendency to dumb down the interface, make Linux easy for everyone, and, in the process, their advocates put down other supposedly "harder" distros as being 'archaic' or a waste of time.
Now I have no problem with making Linux easy for the newcomer. I have always said that anything that makes Linux readily available to the masses is a win for Linux in general. But to equate "ease of use" with the quality of a system is not in the best interest of the community as there is not a 1:1 ratio between ease of use and quality as we shall see.
The most popular distribution at the moment has to be Ubuntu. It has taken the computing world by storm and is making a great deal of headway. In addition to being easy to use, it boasts more packages than most distros. And many cite this as the reason to use Ubuntu: "Look at all of the packages!"
Nobody in their right mind needs or wants 20,000+ packages on their system; they couldn't use them all. My experience with the Ubuntu family of Linux has shown me that after 4 or 5 apt-get installs, the system gets a little bloated and tends to be less responsive.
What's more, Ubuntu releases tend to be issued as a set. By that I mean that the software has been vetted to work together. This is fine for most people but it also means that building a newer edition of that finance manager may take some effort. And, barring that, you will have to wait until the next release of Ubuntu to get a newer edition of that app you like so well (Unless someone built a more recent version and uploaded it to the backports archive. At any rate, you are still at the mercy of others for your package upgrades).
By contrast Slackware is built from the ground up with the expectation that the end user will be building their own packages at some point. And Slackware provides a robust build environment that makes compiling and generating packages as easy as ./configure && make && make install. Most every library needed to compile a program or application is already present. In fact, many Slackware users boast that they've never had an app fail to build.
Since most users of Ubuntu use probably 15 or less packages on a daily basis, let me ask you a question: Would you rather have complete control over those 15 apps, complete with the ability to upgrade them to the latest versions as they become available, or would you rather leave it up to the system/distribution developers? I don't know about you but give me control every time.
Okay...this is a big one. Many users of Ubuntu will proudly proclaim that their beloved distro resolves dependencies and makes life a 'walk in the park' for them. And I agree that this can be a time saver. But, as anecdotal evidence shows, the automatic dependency resolution on Debian-based distros will, many times, download unnecessary packages to satisfy the required package set. This contributes to the bloat and system degradation that is frequently associated with Debian-based distros.
Slackware puts you in charge of dependencies. It also means that any dependencies will be met only to the extent necessary. No uneccessary packages. This assures a cleaner system with less bloat and faster performance. What's that you say? Having to meet dependencies is time consuming? Well, remember: if the average user uses 15 or less apps on a daily basis, this is really a manageable exercise and the results (a cleaner, more responsive system) make it well worth your time. Besides, making a Slackware package is not rocket science and they can be readily installed, removed, and upgraded.
True. But Slackware is a commercial distribution as well. Many do not realize this. The Slackware user base is large enough that Patrick Volkerding can afford to make it available for free even though it is a commercial product. This speaks both to the size and the quality of its user base. Slackware users know the value of the distro and many support the distro for its continued development. I know that some complain that it is but the product of one man's opinion of how an operating system should be. Maybe so, but Pat's choices have made Slackware not only standards compliant, but it has maintained a consistency that has been the hallmark of this distro since its inception. And unlike Ubuntu, which has yet to be profitable, Slackware has a business model that is proven and working.
And such a fast release cycle means that bugs are present in every release. It also means that many features are not fully mature when the release hits the servers.
By contrast, Slackware releases once or twice a year...when its ready. There is no corporate mandate to release in a certain time frame. And what about older releases of Slackware? Slackware is still supported back to version 8.1--released in 2002!
Since a Slackware user can upgrade a package at any time by compiling and installing, Slackware users do not have to wait for a system upgrade just to have the latest bits. And because the kernel that ships with Slackware is "vanilla", chances are you will never have a problem with system breakage after a kernel upgrade or recompile.
So is Slackware. The latest Slackware (as of this writing) is Slackware 12. It boasts KDE 3.5.7, HAL and Dbus for auto-mounting of peripheral devices (a feature not seen before on Slackware--remember, it is conservative), Linux kernel 188.8.131.52, the list goes on. In fact, with this release, Slackware is now just as capable for the desktop as Ubuntu is but much more stable and responsive.
Nobody knows just how far or effective Ubuntu's deal with Dell will get Canonical or Linux on the desktop for that matter, but one thing is certain: whether Ubuntu fails or succeeds, Slackware will continue to remain true to its roots and Slackware users will continue to deploy this powerful, stable Linux OS for years to come.
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