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Female Weight Training Series
- 1 - Female Weight Training Guide
- 2 - Female Weight Training Guide – Part 2
- 3 - Female Weight Training Guide – Part 3
- 4 - Battle Of The Sexes – Gender Specific Training
- 5 - The Best Supplements for Women
There are more schools of thoughts on weight training for men and women that I, or anyone of us, could possibly count. One trainer will say one thing, and another trainer will swear by something on the complete opposite side of the spectrum.
Men know they should train with weights to add muscle mass and look good naked. Women, however, have somehow created this self-fulfilling prophecy and negative stigma towards training with weights. Why? No freakin' idea!
Attention Women – Lift Weights!
Contrary to popular belief, women SHOULD train with weights. BodyBuilding.com has a very well written article on gender-specific weight training.
In a nutshell, the article states very clearly that women should in fact train with weights. Women tend to avoid weights like the plague because they continue to think they will get "too bulky." That's a bunch of bullshit. An old wive's tale, if you will.
Getting bulky or getting skinny or getting toned or changing your body composition in general is all based on your diet and the training methods that one incorporates.
The trainer in me says it's important for all of us—men and women—to exercise all of our muscles. However, the realist in me notices that two genders tend to focus their aesthetics-focused exercise in specific areas. Many men tend to work on their chest, arms, and shoulders, while women focus on their legs and shoulders.
What Training Methods Should You Incorporate?
If you're a woman, for example, you are probably not looking to be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger (unless you're a female bodybuilder, in which case you are!). So you need to find a training plan suitable for your goals (ie toning, slimming down, adding definition, etc).
There are various training methods which will help women to change their bodies, whether for the beach, for the bedroom, or just to look and feel better about themsleves.
The bottom line is women should definitely do weight training. If you spend all of your gym time on the treadmill, expect to look less toned and shapely than a woman who squats!
Unfortunately there is no cookie cutter system I could give which will magically help you reach your body composition goals. Lots of guess and check and lots of thinking and planning will have to be done on your part, including workout regimes and solid dietary plans.
Men, on the other hand, have it slightly easier.
We can get strong, get big, get skinny, get toned, get athletic, whatever. Our bodies carry more muscle and more testosterone, therefore it becomes slightly less daunting to get our bodies to where we want them to be.
Don't take this wrong way, men need to bust their asses HARD, just like women, to reach their body composition goals. Different rep / set schemes for men and women alike are of the utmost importance, as well as training methods and techniques.
It's no easy feat for either sex to change their body composition, but with the proper mindset and a determined motivating factor, it can and should be done!
Definitely head over to this article and have yourself a fine read that might just help you understand how training for each gender works…


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The inspiration for this painting comes from:
a) watching a documentary that had a water buffalo in it and deciding it was quite a paintworthy animal.
b) listening to the song "Alpha Male" by Royksopp on a 6 hour nightly bus ride to Taupo (during which the driver asked the passengers if they were keen to watch a DVD, everyone said yes, I braced myself for brainless Ben Stiller-style family entertainment in form of a romantic comedy but got the most brutal japanese horror thriller with indecipherably small subtitles - the eyes of the popcorn munching 10 year old boy in front of us were glued to the screen.) Anyway the song is beautiful and at the start and the end of it there's this haunting flute melody during which a picture of Jesus walking through the fog, halo and all, comes to my mind. It also reminds me of the 1911 silent movie "L'inferno" which is about the circles of hell and those condemned in them. Then I mixed those influences together, swapped Jesus for a girl and the result is this painting. The song can be heard if you click here. The melody that evoked this picture starts at about 0.43 .

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Last weekend I had the sweetest and nerdiest interaction with a stranger. I was in a figurines and collectibles shop, as you do on the weekend, looking with dreamy eyes at all the Harry Potter related items, when I found myself next to a young girl. I guess she was around fourteen, maybe younger, and reminded me of myself at that age. Not much for the hair colour,
she could have been a Weasley! but for the comfortable clothes and low ponytail, and she looked young and natural, which is not at all a given thing for teenagers nowadays.
I feel a little bit polemical today, after reading one too many blog post about what real girls should be doing every morning in order to achieve their dream or to feel like they have their shit together. Also, what's with this 'looking put together' deal?
There is one scary thing about getting older: your old friends have known you for too long. They have too much they can hold against you. They were there when you had spinach stuck in your braces, when you were comparing boob size, and fighting over Leo's poster found in your favourite magazine. And, most importantly, they know how old you really are.
I may not function too well when it's windy, when I have to carry two things at the same time, or when I am wearing heels. At least I am aware of all this and can act accordingly before stepping outside of the house. If it's raining I like to carry a shoulder bag so I will have a free hand even when holding my umbrella. Flat shoes if I need to walk more than 90 steps. Bandana when it's windy, especially if it's on a Friday, because of reasons.
You will agree with me when I say that everything used to be fine until one day. The day when real adults started asking: "So, what do you want to do with your life?".
Here we are, end of the year and end of this fun and instructive series on adulting and its myths. What better way to conclude than with yet another practical answer we were looking for.
Here we are, end of the year and end of this fun and instructive series on adulting and its myths. What better way to conclude than with yet another practical answer we were looking for.
"Hey, you have glitter on your *insert random part of my body* "
"Hey, you have glitter on your *insert random part of my body* "
"At this point of my life? I am not surprised."
You would never guess how many times during the past weeks I've be part of this little dialogue with random people. So it's about time to say hi everyone, my name is Barbara and I use glitter.
You would never guess how many times during the past weeks I've be part of this little dialogue with random people. So it's about time to say hi everyone, my name is Barbara and I use glitter.
This is dedicated to all my fellow International students, Expats, Foreigners, and Italians around the World. We all have experienced the thrill and the frustration of speaking a second language. Of course, this article will come in handy to all English speakers that have to deal with us on a daily basis.
Without much further ado, here are some common mistakes, false beliefs, and general knowledge we can all benefit from.
Without much further ado, here are some common mistakes, false beliefs, and general knowledge we can all benefit from.
Let me tell you a secret. One of the easiest ways to adulting is to make people believe you are actually doing it right. You know the saying 'fake it till you make it', right? Well, it's time to apply that to your life, starting from your room.
When it comes to living arrangements and habits, every one seems to be a bit of a freak in their own special way. And you only notice that when you actually get your hands dirty in someone else's house. The first thing I want to tell you before you offer to wash the dishes is: ask them if they do soapy sponge or soapy water. Trust me, it matters.
I have to admit, I love acting overly dramatic when something comes up. It doesn't even have to be upsetting or blatantly rant-worthy. I simply feel the need to be a drama queen every now and then. Who doesn't?! Plus, I am from Italy, and pretty much everything I say with any degree of participation sounds worked up and exaggerate. But trust me, unlike what the boyfriend says, I am perfectly calm.
There was a time when women looked flawless with hair curled in a bandana. They could have a family, work in a factory, and take care of their homes. They also had killer eyeliner, and perfect red lips, and they must have been witches for keeping all that up. I can barely do one of those things at a time. Needless to say I usually pick the bandana.
There are certain things that can almost make you believe that you are an adult, or that you're adulting 'correctly'. One of these is to look the part, or to make people believe you know what you're doing, which is hard but not impossible. And then the miracle happens, and you actually do something that's proper adult without even realising it.
Don't forget to check out the previous episodes of Adulting Myth Busters by simply clicking here.
Don't forget to check out the previous episodes of Adulting Myth Busters by simply clicking here.
When you've been living abroad for a while you will realise that, at some point, your excitement for the new is taken over by routine and, most importantly, you don't have to impress new people anymore. This means that your true sense of humour will slowly shine through the language barrier. Or would it?
Every time I pick up a magazine I feel mixed emotions about the kind of articles that get published. I am torn between laughing and wanting to burn the magazines that open with 'Be happy in your own body', and close with 'How to lose 3 kilos in a week'. Without forgetting a 'Triple chocolate cake recipe', and a plethora of size 0 models.
Because logic.
Because logic.
I always wonder how life would be if I were daintier, nicer, more graceful. The kind of girl whose eyes sparkle, who cries pretty, and who looks pleasantly surprised when she inadvertently accesses the front camera.
Wouldn't we all?! The bronzed body and beachy waves kind of girl. The #Iwokeuplikethis creature that, when happy, looks like she's hugged by angelical choirs.
I am the kind of girl that could never spend thousands of dollars on a designer bag. Not for the amount of money itself, which I find ridiculously high anyway, but because I believe I won't be able to fully commit to it. Let's be honest, I can barely commit to a week worth of nail polish colour!
If only we could do humanity as much good with our blogs as our predecessors did with books. If Proust wasn't
busy eating Madelines born in the XIX Century he would have totally written something like this. But in all seriousness, he used that sentence to talk about his writing, so it's not that far off.
I had a dream, that the importance of my daily actions will not be judged by the impact they have on the World but by the effort I put in them. If you've been here long enough or, to be honest, just since last week, you will know that I tend to compare everything to 'when I was in school'. I know, I do that a lot and, guess what? I am about to do it again. Brace yourself.
Imagine the scene. You are dressed up for a night out with friends, wearing your black lipstick and new platform shoes. Right before entering the pub a random guy asks: "Hey, do you think you're Goth?". What would you say? Thankfully this didn't happen to me, or I would have completely missed the point of a night out for some deep philosophical thinking about the essence of life and aesthetics. But hey, isn't this what I do every week on this blog?
I am sure there is someone else, out there, that is going through my same situation. A couple of years ago, as I started caring more and more about eyebrows, my attention towards lipsticks decreased. Maybe all this 90's vibe and beige, pardon: 'nude' colours simply took away the focus from lips. The point is that the infamous Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge didn't even cross my mind. Eyebrows on fleek though are all the rave. They're bang on trend. Amazeballs. And other hip expressions I don't need to add for you to know that I'm cool.
Every person has the power to succeed in doing many things, some may be more difficult to achieve, others, instead, come as easy as to breathe. Or in my case, as easy as falling for possible sales tactics. How to forget my inability to resist anything in a supermarket that says 2 for $3; though the story I'm about to tell you revolves around more meaningful things, items that defines who we deeply and truly are.
In a word: clothes.
In a word: clothes.
I was probably watching some talk show with a celebrity guest, or reading an interview, I can't really remember, but what I do remember is this quote: "So I ask myself, will this matter in five years?". I spent the last month trying to go back to that interview without success, and today I had the genius idea to look it up online. I must say, I keep underestimating the power of search engines, because not only I found the quote, but it's actually a 'motivational quote', despite who said it.
This month I would like to address the big F, family. Not the family that raised you but the one society expects you to start as part of your 'having your shit together'. Maybe it's not a family in the most traditional way, maybe it's just a rooted comfortable relationship with a special someone whom you share life plans with. Life plans and a house, of course, but that's for another episode. As usual, click here if you'd like to check out the previous episodes of Adulting Mythbusters, otherwise keep on reading!
I've recently came across several articles about us being a 'Netflix and chill' generation, with no apparent interest in going out anymore. I don't necessarily think it's true, but I can see why this trend seems to be a breaking point from the usual youngsters troublemakers behaviour.
Certain cities around the World attract you for no apparent reason, even more so if your mantra is 'Wanderlust'. Other times, instead, you feel like you don't really belong to a place despite have been living there for a while. Things get worse when you don't feel 'at home' even in your home Country.
When offered the ultimate all-in-one make-up product there are two things we should consider. First, how many products would achieve the same result combined; the second would be the pleasure of buying multiple items and see them lined up on our "battle-station". Nonetheless I know it's hard to resist anything with 'miracle glow' written in rose gold on a sleek packaging.
I have extreme mixed feelings about school uniforms. When I see kids wearing them I can't help but singing to myself 'poor unfortunate souls' and swirling in my black attire. At the same time I am against the typical school segregation according to the most random criteria. I understand why they say a uniform is the only way to make this division less likely to happen because everyone looks the same, really, I do, but at what cost!
I know for sure I am not the only one who grew up with the myth of the full-time contract: the symbol of financial stability and being an adult, especially if said job is your dream job, or not too far from it. If you need to catch up on the 'having your shit together' episode, you can find it here. If you have no idea what I'm talking about you might need to start from here instead.
We can safely say there are two kinds of people: those who are confident without make-up, and those who feel better wearing it. Me? Torn between the knowledge that my face looks just fine, and the desire to look 'better'. Because that's what make-up does, apparently.
Everyone knows that in the Southern hemisphere seasons are opposite compared to the Northern one. It's summer when it's winter and it's winter when it's summer. That is very easy in theory, but I'm finding it pretty hard to grasp at times.
So you have graduated college, or university, and at your age your parents were married and had two babies, a house, a car, a job. What do you have? A minimal looking white Instagram account is not an acceptable answer.
People often ask me: "Barbs, what's the deal with art today?" Actually, no one ever asks me that, but if they did I would tell them the spotlight is set on the wrong things.
People often ask me: "Barbs, what's the deal with art today?" Actually, no one ever asks me that, but if they did I would tell them the spotlight is set on the wrong things.
There is a time during everyone's life where you feel like you have to 'pick your place'. In the most popular American high-school movie tradition it's safe to say you had to fit into one of the stereotypical cafeteria groups. Spoiler alert! In reality you don't have to.
There is a time during everyone's life where you feel like you have to 'pick your place'. In the most popular American high-school movie tradition it's safe to say you had to fit into one of the stereotypical cafeteria groups. Spoiler alert! In reality you don't have to.
The desire to confront the greatness of nature brought Romantic wanderers to travel. Also it's said that opening your eyes to new horizons will open your mind as well. This is all so poetic and awesome, but what about culture shock?
The desire to confront the greatness of nature brought Romantic wanderers to travel. Also it's said that opening your eyes to new horizons will open your mind as well. This is all so poetic and awesome, but what about culture shock?
Welcome old friends, and new friends, to this
much needed series of articles about adulthood, or better: adulting! Because we have many questions about the journey towards adulthood, and the answers are nowhere to be found.
This morning, in front of the mirror, I realised how much time I spend drawing and blending lines on my face that I won't be able to see until it's time to remove them. Or when I catch a glimpse of my own reflection in shop windows,
because I am one of those girls. So, all that time spent putting a face on my face has an obvious downside, which is when people eventually see me without make-up.
After having tackled how to read a blog, here I am talking to you about why you should read blogs. Speaking for myself, not reading blogs is not an option, and I'm guessing since you are here neither is for you.
More often than not travelling is seen as a way to leave your everyday life behind, or to explore new and exotic places. Also there are business trips, family trips, school trips, and trips to Mordor to destroy a ring. The last kind rigorously not to be done alone.
I've always considered my inability to make plans, and yet my desperate need for them, as an interesting quirk that started after University. Now, I am wondering if there is a word to define this strange feeling of anxiety and unsettlement that paralyses me when I think about my future and life choices.
If it's true that 'nomen est omen' (= your name is your destiny) then why don't I feel 'out of place' in Australia? Despite what most people assume, Barbara is more than an old fashioned name: it means 'one whom cannot speak' and, as barbarians ultimately were, 'foreigner'. Even so, being a foreigner in a city like Melbourne, mostly populated by Italians, Greeks, and Asians, is not a real challenge.
What we post on our social media not only indicates our mood of the day, in the case of a picture, for example, it shows our style, life, passions. Posting an image has the undeniable power to give others an idea of what we are experiencing. Even though a picture a day doesn't mean much compared to the 24 hours that compose that day. It's almost ironic if you think of how much work and dedication goes to build your social image literally cropping out of the picture everything that's modest, dull, repetitive, in a word: daily.
You might remember the girl who, on the bus, was wearing my same shoes, and how I handled the situation with my famous positive attitude *cough cough*. As you have noticed, that was just the first example of things that happen on Melbourne's public transport. Today I want to tell you about that time I lost such attitude and declared war to the man sitting next to me on the bus.
'How to read a blog'? What nonsense! I know all of you can read blogs, and write some pretty good ones as well! I feel that this little "How to" is necessary
'How to read a blog'? What nonsense! I know all of you can read blogs, and write some pretty good ones as well! I feel that this little "How to" is necessary
especially to organise my own ideas when it comes to the two major blog types I came across recently.


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Long, sleek and beautifully shaped into a thick, curvy stem tipped by a pretty petaled bud, the ultra feminine, sinfully silky Olivia vibe is an absolute powerhouse of pleasure, containing within its velvety, sweet-spot seeking form eight fantastic functions of creative vibration.
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Angled gently into a shape that effortlessly, and very effectively targets inner erogenous zones like the g-spot, Olivia is also a wonderful choice for precision external pleasure, working particularly well as a clitoral stimulator.
The strategically curved body places that subtly enlarged, gently textured head directly against chosen sweet spots no matter how you choose to employ it.
Eight decadent modes of vibration wait to be explored with a touch of one simple, subtly button placed within easy reach at the bottom of the shaft- a separate power button shuts things down at a moments notice.
Flowing through various intensities of steady vibration into toe-curling mash-ups of pulsing, escalating pleasure, Olivia offers a sensation for every stimulation pursuit imaginable.
In terms of material, this vibe tips the scale of safety with satin smooth Pure silicone that's completely hypoallergenic, extra hygienic and perfect for anyone with sensitive skin.
Silicone is nonporous and easy to clean, a quick wipe with a good toy cleaner will get the job done, or you can wash your vibe with mild soap and water.
As with any silicone toy, use a good quality water based lube, avoid silicone formulas and contact with other silicone toys and products.
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Rick Wheat Noavel Headstall
Rick Wheats Noavel Headstall was introduced to the farrier industry when Rick met BWFA member Jarvis Bowen from Georgia at a clinic in Tennessee. Jarvis introduced Rick to the FNRC in 2000 in front of a group of farriers and Instructors who could tell right away that it was a better training device than others from the past. Breaking and training a young horse from bucking to saddling and then trimming by student farriers was all done in a matter of a few hours without injury to anyone. The owners and onlookers were so impressed; we promised Rick that we would share his Noavel Headstall with every farrier in the BWFA.
Beginning that year, Rick and his son James along with their trained handlers hosted clinics at the FNRC/BWFA every month, attended our other clinics and conventions and traveled to every horseshoeing school he could while hosting his own clinics and traveling literally all over the United States. We highlighted the Noavel on the Horseshoe'n Time tv show which lead to his own show and just on and on.
As a horseman most all of his life, Rick would trim and shoe his own horses. The BWFA proudly accepted his membership as a certified farrier to add to his accomplishments.
Farriers' Formula Life Data Labs helped to sponsor Rick as well as others.
Rick has been quoted to say that farriers use his Noavel more than most. Once a farrier demonstrates the gentle but firm uses to calm horses down that are otherwise hard to shoe, the owners are in complete surprise and ask where they can find their own.
Here are just some of the photos from that first day.
Here is Chris McCulloch (to the right), BWFA farrier, at a horse owner clinic while demonstrating how to safely use the Noavel in just picking up the feet.
The Noavel Headstall has a Patent No. US 6,643999 B1
Four Sizes are available:
Standard fits most quarter horse size heads.
The Intermediate (or Yearling) size fits from 6 months to 2 years or small Arabian and Paso Fino heads.
The miniature A and B sizes fits minis and colts from birth to 6 months. This is perfect to begin loading on the trailer and leading with the mom. Then go right into the Intermediate and graduate up to the Standard for most grown horses.
There is also a Draft Horse Size.
Here is Ricks horse (below) modeling his Noavel Headstall. The Noavel is an all around halter for leading daily, riding, shoeing, etc. No need for any other halter. All you need is a 15 foot cotton rope and a light clip as a lead line or clip on your reins to each side.
All sizes are $150.00 plus shipping. Leather or Neoprene headstalls with lifetime guarantee.
DVD on Breaking and Handling $25.00 each
Contact the BWFA for purchase
For Questions, contact Rick and his wife Shana Wheat working from their ranch in Batesville, Arkansas at (870) 307-5274 and follow their face book.
To completely understand the uses, we suggest you purchase the DVD. You will be convinced that a light hand can do wonders. The horses…and owners… will learn to respect your knowledge and skills.


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Leading independent Scottish property consultancy CKD Galbraith's Ayr Office is marketing a substantial country property within the sought after "golden triangle" in Ayrshire, close to the conservation village of Symington.
Fairfield House is set within large mature gardens of about one acre. The house lies close to the A77, offering excellent commuter links to Glasgow. Formerly a substantial country property, the property has been damaged by fire, and now presents a wonderful renovation or development opportunity.
The accommodation is currently designed to include three main reception rooms, centred round an imposing central hallway with double height ceiling and stairs leading to an upper gallery. The living room and study both have a lovely south-westerly outlook over the rear garden. The bedrooms are on the ground and first floor, with two en-suite bathrooms, an additional family bathroom and a cloakroom. There are a kitchen and utility room conveniently adjoining each other at the western end of the house, leading to a rear porch, sunroom, boiler room/store and an integral garage.
Fairfield House now requires full renovation, or alternatively, there is potential for full redevelopment of this substantial site, subject to planning permission being obtained.
The house has attracted considerable interest, with in excess of 60 viewings since its launch to the market. Buyers have seen this as an outstanding opportunity to re-create what will be a stunning family home.
PDF available on www.ckdgalbraith.co.uk
Offers over £175,000 are being sought.
A closing date has now been set for Monday 21st March 2011.
For further information:
Contact Bob Cherry 01292 268181
About CKD Galbraith
CKD Galbraith is an independent property consultancy specialising in serving the needs of private clients. It employs over 180 people in offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Cupar, Inverness, Aberfeldy, Castle Douglas, Ayr, Elgin, Galashiels, Kelso and Peebles.
The partnership provides the full range of property consulting services across the commercial, residential and rural sectors throughout Scotland. The company enjoys a successful relationship with its associate firm in London, CKD Kennedy Macpherson.
The company's rural arm specialises in farm sales and purchases, the management and sale of large estates and woodland, valuations and building surveying work.
CKD Galbraith
7 Killoch Place
Ayr KA7 2EA
Ayrshire, Scotland
Contact: R A Cherry BSc MRICS
Tel: 01292 268181
Fax: 01292 292300
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: www.ckdgalbraith.co.uk
CKD Galbraith's Ayr Office is a founder member of the Elite Ayrshire Business Circle.
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4th graders in "First Lego League" learning about oil spill prevention/
4th graders from Washington Heights in New York City prompted PortSide NewYork to create a new educational program: tankers and oil spill prevention. The kids are part of an after-school program "First Lego League" designed to grow interest in STEM topics. It's working!Read More


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We are two sisters sharing our journey and lessons learned as young adult caregivers, sisters, and grievers as we dealt with the most stressful and difficult time in our lives - the death of our 39 year-old sister from cancer.
Losing a Puzzle Piece is designed to be an online resource to provide support for other young adults and siblings who are facing a similar situation while balancing their roles as parents, spouses, and professionals.
We offer stories, encouragement, laughter, and community in the hopes of helping others facing cancer, end-of-life care, death, and grief. Learn more about our story here.


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Life coaching offers you a fresh new way of looking at things—a new perspective to consider that may open up expanded possibilities. Rather than giving advice, a trained coach asks questions that may have you consider new ways of looking at the same situation.
If you are focused on attaining a goal, whatever it may be, consider looking at it from a differing point of view so you can figure out how to accomplish it. Ask yourself these questions:
- Can you accept yourself where you are now? Could you start moving towards loving yourself just as you are?
- Can you imagine your life with your goals attained? How does it feel? Could you find ways to keep feeling better now?
- What is your strategic plan of action to accomplish your goal? Are you committed to following this plan explicitly? If you deviate temporarily, can you get back on track?
- Since this is a process, can you trust life's timing, expedite getting back to loving yourself and stay positively persistent?
- Write down and try to experience your results now, even though time hasn't quite "caught up" yet.


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4-pounder with a 13.3-inch screen. Optical drive is modular.
Below-average processor. Middling performance. Top-tier configuration is overpriced.
Bottom Line
The Fujitsu LifeBook S2210 business ultraportable has a larger-than-average screen and a built-in optical drive. The base model is the best value.
Just when you thought the well of AMD-based laptops was running dry, in comes Fujitsu with another Turion X2based business ultraportable. The LifeBook S2210 is an upgrade to Fujitsu's long-standing S2000 line, appealing to customers who spend more time on the road than in the office. It runs on an AMD dual-core processor, albeit a 1.6-GHz TL-52, but the preloaded 2GB of RAM is exactly what you'll need to run Windows Vista Business. Three configurations are available for the S2210; I reviewed the high-end model ($1,979 list), which is probably not what you want unless your company enjoys squandering money. I'll tell you why the basic, $1,299 model is a better fit for your company.
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To start, the S2210 is indistinguishable from other business laptops in a crowded room because it maintains the same corporate consistency: black and bland. The lid is protected by a magnesium-alloy shell much like that of the Lenovo ThinkPad X60 (Vista) though the S2210's screen has a little more flex to it. Roomy and bright, the 13.3-inch transflective screen is larger than those of typical ultraportableswhich usually come in at 12 inches and under. And the glossy layer really makes this screen ideal for media-centric tasks such as editing photos for your blog, creating PowerPoint and Visio presentations, or transcoding video for your Web site. I like the full-size keyboard. It reminds me of the one found on the Dell XPS M1210 (Vista), not too mushy yet still tactile. My one nit with it is that I would like to see Fujitsu quiet down the noise from mouse clicks.
The only differences that stand out among the three configurations are the hard drives, memory, and optical drives. The base configuration ($1,299) offers 512MB of memory, a 40GB hard drive, and a DVD/CD-RW drive. The midrange ($1,699) model ups the memory to 1GB and the hard drive to 80GB, and offers a DVD burner in lieu of the combo drive. The high-end model that we reviewed ups the memory to 2GB and the hard drive to 100GB, and offers the same DVD burner as the midrange model. Fujitsu deserves a lot of credit for integrating an optical drive into a 4-pound unit. Though most businesses won't need more than the DVD-ROM/CD-RW found in the base model, I still felt that a DVD burnerwhich come with the two higher-end modelsshould have come standard across the line. The optical drive is modular, so you can always swap in a DVD burner or an extra battery at a later time. The 100GB hard drive is pretty large, but not worth the $200 extra it costs to add one to the low-end system. Unless you're creating tons of videos and photos, a 40GB hard drive is adequate.
All three configurations of the S2210 offer three USB ports, a FireWire port, and an S-Video-Out port. A 4-in-1 card reader (SD, xD, MS, MS Pro) lets you offload photos from your digital camera. Fujitsu is focused on security; all models will have TPM 1.2 and a fingerprint reader built in. And when you sit back and watch a DVD movie, the S2110 has media playback buttons (Play/Pause, Rewind, Fast Forward, Stop) to ease the process.
My high-end review unit has Bluetooth built in, but there's no need to add it should you get the base model because pairing your laptop to a cell phone is usually not a priority for most businesses. In fact, the only compelling reason to go with this $1,979 configuration is its 2GB of RAM. (You would definitely want to upgrade the $1,299 model's RAM at only 512MB.)
With 2GB worth of RAM, the S2210 produced respectable Adobe Photoshop scores despite having an underpowered 1.6-GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52. It is a dual-core processor, so the S2210 will garner better performance scores than, say, the Toughbook CF-W5, which has a 1.2-GHz Intel Core Solo U1400. But it won't beat the Intel Core 2 Duo selections found on the ThinkPad X60 (Vista). Transcoding a video on the S2210 is at least 40 percent faster than on the Panasonic laptop. And although the system has discrete graphics from ATI, the fact that it's an extremely low-end model means its graphics performance will be similar to that of a system with an integrated chipset; so I don't suggest running any 3D-intensive applications. But it was able to run all of Vista Business's 3D features smoothly, thanks to its hefty RAM. The S2210 comes with a mid-size 56-Wh battery, with which you can squeeze out about 1 hour 35 minutes running down a DVD. That's at least 2 hours less than, say, the ThinkPad X60 (Vista) with its 85-Wh battery. That battery life is way too meager for a business ultraportable. The option is available to swap out the optical drive for an additional battery, but the standard battery should at least get you in the 2-hour range, especially in the high-end model.
The $1,979 price of my review unit Fujitsu LifeBook S2210 is a little high for the needs of a typical business user, and quite frankly, the parts don't add up to the price. The S2210 has the same weak processor across the line, though my configuration loads a generous amount of memory to tame the ferocity of Windows Vista Business. The 13.3-inch screen and built-in optical drive are great ways to keeps your productivity steady while you're on the road. Just make sure you start with the base model.
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JEZEBEL: As someone who likes to bake and doesn't own a car, I have schlepped a lot of cakes on a lot of trains. I've maneuvered pies over subway turnstiles and Tupperwares between strangers' elbows. What was unusual about this one lemon cake was that I wasn't carrying it—and that's where this experiment was born.
My husband and I were going to our friends' house for dinner, two trains and a bus ride away. I had volunteered to bring dessert and now I foisted it off on him for the long trip. As we changed trains at a crowded platform in downtown Boston, all eyes seemed to be on Doug and the lemon cake. He ducked his head and hurried past the stares until we reached the farthest, emptiest part of the subway platform, where we stopped. He said, "Is this what it's like to be an attractive woman?"
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Welcome to 2013
Welcome to 2013.
I am so excited about 2013, and I am writing to tell you why, and what I see coming in the very near future. If you have already invested in Gold and Silver, congratulations! You have taken one of (many) the first steps to putting yourself on the right side of the Great Wealth Transfer. Recently, the mainstream media has globbed onto a few hopeful words from the Fed that QE3 would wind down this year. That caused gold prices to drop slightly at the end of last week.
And part of being a member of Success Council, includes knowing what is going on when your gold prices fluctuates. I remember when I started investing in precious metals, I watched the prices daily to see how much money I "made" or "lost" that day. And it drove me crazy. So I decided to write this post to let you know exactly what I think is in store for 2013 (and I am still incredibly Bullish about Gold and Silver).
Now, I know over the last few days, gold prices have dipped (1%) because "several" Bernake Boys thought that they "may" end QE3 in 2013. Yeah right. They've been promising false ends since 2008. In case you don't know, here is just part of the 5 year history:
- Nov. 25, 2008: The Fed says it will buy $500 billion in mortgage bonds… Yes, you heard right, as in the mortgages that people are still walking away from daily. Crappy investment. But what do they care? Its only your money.
- Dec. 15-16, 2008: The Fed creates a target range for interest rates and cuts its key federal funds rate to between zero and 0.25 percent. That's a record low. The Fed vows to use all the tools it has to rescue the economy from the worst financial crisis and recession since the 1930s.
- Jan. 27-28-2009: The central bank signals it's prepared to buy longer-term Treasuries and expand other programs.
- March 17-18, 2009: The Fed says it will start buying up to $300 billion in government bonds over six months. Why government bonds? Well, China slows down its purchase of government bonds… and someone has to make up the difference. It also decides to boost purchases of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities and debt. The actions are aimed at driving down rates on mortgages and other debt. Ha ha! More of your money gone due to high inflation…. turn on the printing presses Bernake!
- Sept. 22-23, 2009: The Fed slows a mortgage-buying program to complete its purchases by March 31, 2010, instead of at the end of 2009.
- Aug. 10, 2010: It decides to use some money generated by its mortgage portfolio to buy government debt, to try to lower rates on mortgages and other loans…. doesn't this sound like the worst idea ever?
- Aug. 27, 2010: In a speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Chairman Ben Bernanke lists several options to boost the economy, including the purchase of additional government bonds…. Shocker! More money to the government?
- Oct. 15, 2010: Bernanke signals the Fed will buy more government bonds to boost the economy, drive down unemployment and protect against deflation. When it hasn't worked for two years, lets just keep doing more of it!
- Nov. 3, 2010: The Fed announces it will buy $600 billion more in Treasury bonds to try to hold down longer-term rates.
- June 22, 2011: The Fed confirms it will complete its purchases of $600 billion in Treasury bonds by the end of the month. The purchases were intended to drive down rates on mortgages and other debt.
- Aug. 9, 2011: It says it plans to keep its benchmark short-term rate at nearly zero until mid-2013. It's the first time the Fed has set a target for keeping the rate at that level for a specific period. The date reflects its assessment that the economy will remain weak.
- Sept. 21, 2011: Through a program called Operation Twist, the Fed says it will sell $400 billion of its shorter-term securities to buy longer-term holdings to try to lower Treasury yields further. The Fed also says it will reinvest its holdings of mortgage-backed securities, which could help keep mortgage rates at super-low levels.
- Jan. 25, 2012: The Fed says it's unlikely to raise interest rates until late 2014 at the earliest, extending a period of record-low rates by at least a year and a half.
- June 20, 2012: The central bank says it's extending Operation Twist through the end of 2012. And it says it's prepared to act further if the economy deteriorates. Its not working? Just spend more!! What a crock.
- Sept. 13, 2012: The Fed says it will spend $40 billion a month to buy mortgage bonds for as long as it deems necessary to make home buying more affordable. It plans to keep short-term interest rates at record lows through mid-2015. And it's ready to try other stimulative measures if hiring doesn't pick up.
- Nov. 14, 2012: The Fed signals that it may be preparing to take further steps to stimulate an economy that remains too weak to reduce high unemployment. The minutes of its October policy meeting suggest it might unveil a bond buying program to replace one that expires at year's end.
- Dec. 12, 2012: The central bank says it plans to keep its key short-term rate near zero at least until unemployment drops below 6.5 percent - as long as expected inflation is tame. For the first time, the Fed makes clear that it will link its actions to specific economic targets. Yikes.
7 Big Probelms In 2013: 1) Fiscal Cliff. Congress just postponed making any real decisions about the fiscal cliff. It simply delayed most of the tax increases and spending cuts. The only decision they did make adds $4 Trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. And, as Ron Paul said a few months ago, the Fiscal Cliff is bullshit - we are way to far gone. But don't be surprised when mainstream media keeps babbling on about the "Cliff."
2) Debt Ceiling. Get ready for some more drama on your T.V.s about a debt ceiling increase (for the 75th time). You may recall the same Soap Opera from 2011. The result? August 2, 2011 the debt ceiling was raised. August 3, 2011? Gold hit all time highs. Fast forward to January 2013: In a weekly video address, President Obama stated, "One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for the bills they have already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic. Last time Congress threatened this action, our entire economy suffered for it." First off, I love how when he spends the money, he takes credit for "stimulating the economy" and when the bill comes… its Congress' bill to pay. Regardless, a rise in the Debt Ceiling is coming your way, so stay tuned, and buy gold.
3) Eurozone Crisis. Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland… all these economies are crumbling into a greater recession. Germans grow resentful as taxes increase due to their relatively successful economy. German taxes support weak Eurozone, possibly leading to a recession in Germany. The Euro is barely alive and in intensive care… for now.
4) Iran. Iran wants its nuclear program. Obama does not want them to have a nuclear program, and has issued sanctions, crippling Iran's economy, in an attempt to bully them into submission. Iran is also nearly at war with Syria and Turkey, countries which, Iran believes are puppets for Western interests. Iran may just contract around the sanctions, like they did with India, when they agreed to allow India to buy oil for gold. China and Russia may be next to deal with Iran in an oil-for-gold swap. China and Iran have already switched from the dollar to bilateral trade, because the US sanctions any bank that facilitates these transactions. Yes, this means the dollar is devalued further, and if they start trading in gold, this will help gold prices will rise.
5) Disaster Relief Funding. Congress has just approved huge federal disaster relief funding. The below chart shows the amount of funding for disaster relief paid by the federal government vs. private insurance companies since Hurricane Katrina. Pre-Katrina? Feds paid only 26%. Post Katrina? 69%. Ask yourselves, why? Oh, yeah, so the tax payers can make up for the insurance companies' losses.
6) Mortgages / Foreclosures. Above, when I mentioned that the Fed had bought up all this bad debt / mortgages from the banks. Guess what? The foreclosures haven't even started to unfold. I predict that banks are holding onto these properties in an effort to falsely prop-up the housing market so everyone in a non-recourse state doesn't just walk away from their upside down mortgages. Not to mention, in many states and countries "eviction outrage" has led to the public demanding that banks stop foreclosure proceedings, even when they have a legal right to continue. This means the market is not allowed to work, and the other shoe will drop very shortly, leading to another drop in home prices.
7) Student Loan Debt. For the first time on record, the delinquency rate on student loans has jumped above the rate for credit cards, car loans, or any other kind of consumer loan. It has basically gone parabolic. And we are not talking small numbers. The total Federal debt (not including state debt is $956 Billion.
These are just some of the things that are going on as we enter 2013. I don't bring these things up to depress everyone. I bring them up as a reminder of the opportunity on your doorstep. If you haven't signed up to attend our live webinar teaching you how to get on the right side of the World's Great Wealth Transfer, now is the time. If you're already a member. Congratulations! You are about to take over the world! To Your Success, Jarrod
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Stanley Kubrick's Irish Odyssey: Why The IRA Forced The Director Off The Emerald Isle During Filming Of 'Barry Lyndon'
In the summer of 1973, the famed American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick – already regarded as a cinematic genius based on his steady output of stunning films, including "2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange," "Dr. Strangelove" and "Lolita," among other classics -- arrived in the Republic of Ireland to begin work on a new movie based on the adventures of Barry Lyndon, a fictional 18th-century Irish soldier-adventurer-gambler-playboy-con-man created by English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.
Kubrick, a notorious perfectionist who demanded absolute authenticity, spent months in Ireland filming in such well-known sites at Powerscourt House, Waterford Castle, Moorstown Castle, the Kells Priory and Dublin Castle. The movie company featured hundreds of extras all in period costume, including many military figures meticulously adorned in appropriate gear. One of the most memorable elements of the film (which gathered modest critical success upon release in 1975) had to do with its absence of artificial or electrical light – indeed, nearly all lighting in the movie came from either natural sources or candlelight, thereby creating some spectacularly beautiful images similar to paintings of that era.
But Kubrick's masterpiece about an 18th-century Irish rascal (played by Ryan O'Neal) almost never got made – not because of actor salary demands or studio opposition. Rather, the Bronx-born film auteur came head to head with the grim Irish political realities of the 1970s, namely, the Irish Republican Army, then at the zenith of its militant activities. According to various accounts, including biographies of Kubrick, the IRA placed the director on a "hit list," apparently because he was making a film depicting English soldiers on Irish soil. (Ireland was under British rule at the time the story takes place.)
According to Kubrick biographers, an agent of Britain's Special Branch, which monitors national security, called his production office at Ardmore, in County Waterford, to warn Kubrick that their intelligence determined he was a potential target of the IRA. When Kubrick became aware that his life was suddenly in grave danger -- around January 1974 – he departed Ireland for England by taking a ferry from the port of Dun Laoghaire, just outside Dublin. Within just two days, the entire film production crew followed his exit out of the country. (Kubrick had permanently moved to England from New York in the early 1960s.)
Not only was Kubrick terrified of the kind of violence perpetrated by the IRA (over the prior few years, the militant group had killed or wounded dozens of people in both Ireland and Britain), but he had already received threats in Britain following the release of his prior film, "Clockwork Orange," which prompted him to withdraw that movie from circulation in the United Kingdom (ironically, over objections to its explicit violence). In fact, Kubrick had been blamed for a number of copy-cat murders in England that were allegedly inspired by the "ultraviolence" in "Clockwork Orange."
In the documentary "Castles, Candles and Kubrick" by journalist Pavel Barter, it was revealed that the IRA may have already planted some bombs on some of the film locales for "Barry Lyndon." "Everyone turned up to the set and asked 'where is our director?'" Barter told Irish media. "It was a sudden exit, but it was probably necessary." After Kubrick's departure, he continued filming in England and Germany.
Geoffrey Cocks, a professor of history at Albion College in Michigan and an expert on Kubrick and his films, told International Business Times that "Barry Lyndon's" early scenes of British military units on parade and in bivouac were shot in Ireland and it was possibly these scenes in particular that raised the ire of the IRA. "The early 1970s were a time of great nationalist unrest in Ireland ever since the Bloody Sunday [massacre] in Londonderry [Northern Ireland] in January 1972," he said. "So when Kubrick began filming in Ireland… he was walking into a highly fraught situation. Ironically, he had moved filming to Ireland partly in response to a threat he had received from unidentified sources in England." Cocks also suggested that these death threats likely confirmed the Jewish Kubrick's "trepidation about the world, which stemmed from his deep reading and observation of a world of violence and war."
Robert Kolker, an adjunct professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, however, noted that in a biography of Kubrick by John Baxter, the IRA may have threatened the director not over "Barry Lyndon" itself, but rather in connection with the continuing fallout from "Clockwork Orange." In any case, the story of Kubrick's departure from Ireland may also have exacerbated the perception of his reclusiveness – something both Cocks and Kolker believe is exaggerated.
"Kubrick did not enjoy the celebrity chumminess of Hollywood since he was above all an artist who wanted his films to say something about the world," Cocks said. "So he preferred rural England, where his success as an artist who could at the same time fill theater seats and allowed him the time to read and research topics that he would then painstakingly craft into unique and visually powerful films."
After the 1975 release of "Barry Lyndon," Kubrick would release only three more films over the remaining quarter-century of his life: "The Shining" (1980), "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) and "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999). He never filmed in Ireland again.


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I had the joy of being contacted by Pre-Op Assessment who had received a card from a patient praising one of their staff. It is outstanding.
Dear Sir/Madam,
In all my years of good, bad and very poor experiences at Worcester Royal, I just have to write to you as I received such excellent treatment yesterday Wednesday 5th June at my pre-op appointment.
I saw Jo at the pre-op clinic and I have to say that she was the most warm, kind, and caring person I have ever seen at Worcs Royal. I cannot praise her enough and her explanation of all the procedures was excellent.
If everybody could try to achieve Jo's caring personality the world wold be a better place. She made my day as you can see.
I enclose a personal thank you card for Jo; if you would please pass it on to her.
Well done pre-op dept.
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It made me think:
Here is a lady who has had lots of visits to WRH. She can spot good and bad patient care.
Elaine Harbison (Junior Sister) who brought the card to me had such obvious pleasure that one of the team has been thanked. This is the sign of a supportive and functioning team.
People don't develop in a vacuum. The department and the staff within it provide and ethos and ambience that empowers caring and excellence from staff
Jo is outstanding- I wonder what patients say about you? And if it is not as glowing, then how might you make it so? Perhaps we should ask Jo!I think our thanks should be returned to this lady. Taking the time to write in is not easy. And to give such praise in the light of long experience of NHS treatment is powerful.


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Athletic Bilbao 2-1 Manchester United: same as the first leg
Athletic produced another excellent display, and again should have won the game by more than one goal.
Marcelo Bielsa was able to bring back Fernando Amorebieta after suspension, in place of Mikel San Jose. The rest of the side was unchanged from the first leg.
Sir Alex Ferguson surprisingly left out both Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernandez. Michael Carrick came into the centre of midfield, and Tom Cleverley started on the right.
This game went remarkably similar to the first leg – Athletic dominated, wasted chances, then United got a late goal to make the scoreline close.
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Athletic were obviously going to play the same way as the first game, and the focus here was on what United would do. After all, they needed to win the game and also needed to score two goals – neither of which they accomplished.
The decision to leave out both Welbeck and Hernandez was an odd one, and not merely because they needed to score. Granted, neither has been in good form recently, but Athletic play a very high defensive line, and therefore are vulnerable to pace in behind. With United uncomfortable with the pressing in midfield, they might have liked the option to play longer balls in behind the defence – Rooney had a half-chance through this route within the first minute, but that was a rare sight of goal.
The selection of Ryan Giggs was also surprising – he's simply not mobile enough for a game of this intensity, and didn't do enough without the ball. Arguably United's major mistake in the first leg was letting Ander Iturraspe have so much time on the ball (he was Rooney's man in the first leg), and Giggs was passive defensively. He did make some good runs in behind the defence, but passes rarely found him.
The selection of Cleverley on the flank was odd, even considering the lack of options on the wing. Park and he were in each other's roles, although it did make sense to have Park in the centre for mobility alongside Carrick.
Man-marking in midfield
Both central midfield duos looked to mark each other – often Park Ji-Sung up against Ander Herrera, and Michael Carrick with Oscar De Marcos. This created a frantic midfield zone based around movement, tracking and rotation of positions – Athletic were more comfortable with this, and fared better.
To give United some credit, they realised the challenge they were facing and did attempt to be more proactive than the first leg by closing down. When Giggs did get goalside of Iturraspe, all the players in the midfield zone were marked, which meant it was up to the centre-backs to bring the ball out of defence. Javi Martinez did this excellently, and created the chance for Iker Muniain's shot off the post. Jonny Evans tried to do the same, but Athletic shut him down well.
Elsewhere, Athletic did the same as in the first leg. Quick passing, one-twos – and a bit of cultured route one with Fernando Llorente's goal. They also got the full-backs forward more than in the first leg, with both Jon Aurtenetxe and Andoni Iraolo doing that run typical of a Bielsa side – the full-backs taking advantage of the wingers stretching play and creating gaps in the middle, by charging straight towards goal from wide. Iraola nearly scored a goal of the season contender in the second half.
Athletic's intensity was terrific and they showed an ability to calm their passing and see out the game late in the second half. It's difficult to say too much more – if you missed the game, try to watch it somehow.
Athletic dominated over two legs, but they probably won the tie in the first match. It put United in a position where they had to attack here, and Athletic barely let them get into the final third.
This should act as something of a wake-up call to United (and perhaps English football in general) – Athletic looked light years ahead of United in terms of their attitude when they didn't have possession, and moved the ball so much quicker.
This will win Athletic a lot of fans, many of whom will be wondering why they are down in 7th in La Liga. There are two main answers to that question: first, they took a while to adjust to Bielsa's methods and didn't win any of their first six league games. Second, they have been wildly inconsistent, putting together consecutive wins only once all season. It's difficult to play at this intensity every match, and they are more suited to cup competitions where they can put maximum effort into a few games. That's why they're doing well in the Europa League and in the final of the Copa del Rey, but those successes will probably come at the expense of league form.


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In the hours leading up to Microsoft's surprise event, it had become clear the company was going to introduce its own tablet. As the announcement neared, I wondered what would differentiate a Microsoft tablet from Apple's mighty iPad, causing casual shoppers to look it over in the electronics aisle and decide that it's the tablet they need to buy.
Well, some men bring knives to gun fights, while others bring guns to knife fights -- and Microsoft just brought a keyboard to the tablet fight.
Rolled into the back cover of the new Microsoft Surface, is a magnetic QWERTY keyboard, which can fold out and under the tablet, allowing for more familiar laptop-like text input on the tablet's screen. When done typing, you can simply fold the cover to the back of the tablet, where it becomes a protective case.
This is the secret weapon. A keyboard. And you know what? It's brilliant. That keyboard could, by itself, seduce a lot of tablet buyers, especially those who want to use their tablets for work -- not just watch, listen and flick birds across the screen.
With the Touch Cover keyboard, Microsoft successfully names and exploits the iPad's greatest weakness: Typing on glass is a pain, and nowhere near as efficient as typing on a real keyboard. While there are keyboard accessories for the iPad, they often add a lot of bulk to the device, require an outside power source and are just generally inelegant.
Microsoft's solution to Apple's keyboard problems is seamless and looks terrific. For anyone considering a tablet as a portable productivity device, the Surface should immediately jump into consideration. And all because of that slim little keyboard.
In some ways, the Microsoft Surface is a nice-looking tablet with a pitch that we've heard from many hardware manufacturers before. It has a USB port, a microSD slot and a removable battery. It's thin, it's light and it will be "competitively priced." The 10.6-inch display, with a 16:9 aspect ratio, looks lovely for watching movies.
But again, we've heard that all before, and none of those add-ons or perks were enough to even make a bleep on the iPad's radar. We've seen thin, light tablets with lots of ports, removable batteries and neat-o operating systems attack the iPad and limp away with weak sales. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, we even saw dozens of tablets running Windows 8 -- from Acer, Asus, Azkaban or wherever -- that inspired no confidence and caused no excitement in the tech world.
Only the Kindle Fire -- a smaller tablet, with an incredibly low price tag -- succeeded in denting Apple's incredible dominance in the tablet space. And even now, Kindle Fire sales have cooled off considerably.
The Surface appears to be the third tablet -- after the iPad and the Kindle Fire -- to get the general public along with the tech world excited for a new tablet. "Surface" trended for hours on Twitter following the announcement. The unveiling of the Surface rocketed to the top of Reddit, the so-called "front page" of the Internet, amassing tons of praise in the comments section. Even without a set price or a release date, technophiles are energized.
What makes this announcement different, is that the excitement has not been generated because of RAM, pixel count or any other particular spec. It is because of the new functionality that Microsoft has presented -- a functionality that has obviously been missing from the tablet marketplace. The built-in kickstand props the tablet up and the built-in keyboard rolls out for you to type, just as you would on your laptop.
This is a powerful message for Microsoft to sell to enterprise buyers looking to make bulk purchases of productivity tablets for employees. It can also be a strong sell to everyday people, who view tablets as potentially helpful, portable devices for home and office use.
On its first day in the wild, potential buyers are listening and they seem interested. Will they still be listening in four months, when the first Surface tablets are rumored to be released?
Who knows?
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The Applied Quality Management course (APS-402) provides students with the knowledge and techniques required to improve product quality and process efficiency by identifying and measuring production process variability which, if not successfully addressed, leads to inconsistent product quality, costly wastage, non-standardization and other reliability and productivity problems. This course introduces basic quality management concepts and definitions and builds on that knowledge to explore Statistical Process Control (SPC) based quality improvement techniques as a means to diagnose, reduce, and eliminate causes of variation and to assist in process improvement, production control, production planning, and decision making. A brief review of the fundamentals of statistics and probability and their applications in quality management is provided, and various measurement and control techniques -- for example, charts for variables and attributes, are presented.
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According to Tiscali, the struggling provider has about 100,000 subscribers to its broadband IPTV programs. That may sound like a lot of subscribers, but it's about half the amount the company hoped to have signed up.
The company has closed its IPTV offering in Italy already but at this point has no plans to close the UK IPTV service it operates. IPTV is an interesting alternative to satellite and cable to many users.
This is the first we have heard about the subscriber numbers to the service. Despite the fact that Tiscali had hoped for twice that number, 100,000 viewers doesn't sound bad to me.
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Hi Tom,
I'd guess that any person or any system that needs DUT1 has long since switched over to telephone, fax, or the internet to obtain this information.
"I'd guess" is not an inventory.
The internet is faster, more reliable, and far more global than LF or short-wave timecodes ever were. Further, you now get 4 or 5 digits of precision instead of just 1, as well as history and predictions tens or hundreds of days in advance. All with one line of code and a URL.
"One line of code and a URL" is not an Interface Control Document.
So regardless of what happens with leap seconds, I vote that the lonely DUT1 digit no longer be updated in time codes.
The only votes that count are the member states of the ITU-R.
Few tears were shed when GOES went away. Or Loran-C. Or CHU. Or pop-corn. Or when analog TV time/frequency went off the air. It's time for DUT1 at 1 baud to make its exit as well.
"The tire didn't come off with the first four lug nuts, so why should it with number five?"
In contrast, the transition from analog to digital TV was planned out and executed in great detail. Consensus-building occurred before decision-making. Provision was made for backwards compatibility. Funding was provided to end users in the form of coupons for a simple conversion device.
The unwisdom of decommissioning LORAN did receive negative comment.
I deployed and operated an automated feed of GOES data from the 9600 baud UNIDATA stream in the 1990's (as well as a more direct whole-disk mbone feed from the AF via Maui). This was just before they transitioned to the 3-axis stabilized spacecraft. There was a period of time when the U.S. fleet was down to one GOES and they parked it due south of Arizona, very handy for astronomers in the Southwest (though our risk of hurricanes is quite low). Reports of GOES's demise are greatly exaggerated:
On the other hand, there is a nice retrospective of the GOES time code service:
It would be prudent to generate similar reports for DUT1 before shutting it down.
The elimination of these other time signals has acted to increase, not reduce, the importance of getting it right for UTC and DUT1 themselves.
If you want to play it safe perhaps NIST could freeze DUT1 in WWV/WWVB at its current value of -0.3 until someone calls to ask if there's a problem.
Is the notion described here safe? How would one test such an assertion? Is the operational system the correct sandbox?
Redefining UTC and contingent changes will directly or indirectly impact 7 billion people. Why would the ITU-R seek to "play it" anything other than safe? It is the ITU that will be left holding the bag, none of the other alphabet soup of organizations.
After that issue is settled, then permitting DUT1 to temporarily spill over 1.0 seconds is the next hurdle.
An incremental deployment plan is indeed likely to be safer than going cold turkey. Having a plan of any sort is even more fundamental.
I remain unclear on how the application of "time tested" systems engineering best practices is a controversial position.
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