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My Ipsy bag just showed up and I thought I'd share with you the contents.
The theme this month was Alter Ego.
Inside I received….
1. Beauty Without Cruelty Premium Hand & Body Lotion.
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3. Nourish Organics Argan Face Serum.
4. the Balm Meet Matte Hughes Liquid Lipstick in Committed.
5. Royal & Langnickel Medium Eye Shader Brush.
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This book tells the stories of two very different women over a period of five years. Their lives to the point they first meet couldn't be much different! Savannah is the heiress who has everything except that which she wants and needs most. Lois: the ex-cop who's always worked hard for everything she ever had only to have it taken from her. This story follows the characters as they learn and grow from the choices they made before the book was set and from those they are forced into making as we travel with them. We share the highs and lows that life throws at them both as they struggle against their own personal demons.
Set mostly in Las Vegas but with visits to other mostly glittering locations around the world this is the story of how they first meet and of their lives as they flow in a similar direction until the end, which is actually where the book introduces us to them. Forbidden Pleasures starts at an awards ceremony where both women are vying for the same coveted prize and contemplating the mysterious (to this point) circumstances which lead to them both being there. We then travel back five years to the night they first met and to the dramatic events which shape this tale. Both women face and fight one of their darkest fears on this night, how each approaches this and how they survive the aftermath of their actions makes for a totally engrossing read.
When I first received Forbidden Pleasures, I had an idea of the type of read it would turn out to be from the cover art and comments. I have to admit to being very pleasantly surprised by it! I was expecting the usual easy to read summer story of lust and glitz, what I actually found was an incredibly well written, absorbing read which captured my attention and even threw in a few shocking moments that were not immediately obvious that they were about to happen. The characters are so well written that while we might not immediately sympathise with them, we can understand them and how they have evolved into who they are as the story starts to unfold.
This is a perfect book to take on holiday with you, but just remember to set an alarm to re-apply your sun cream as this is a real delight to read, it will grip you and not let go until you reach the end! There are a couple of 'WOW' moments hidden in here, where things happen that were totally unexpected but after you've read you can see the pointers that lead up to it, all I could do after I read them was to put the book down and stare into space re-thinking what I'd just read an imagining what my own reactions in those situations might have been before continuing on and finding out how those involved reacted themselves.
All in all I have to say this is one of the best books I have read this year. The roller-coaster ride that's set in motion and which we ride alongside the characters is brought to a wonderful conclusion that doesn't disappoint. It really is a must read book for this summer and I shall certainly be reading it again before too long!


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mark Sanchez, locked in a quarterback competition with rookie Geno Smith, has center Nick Mangold in his corner.
And Mangold thinks the rest of the Jets are with him.
"I believe so," Mangold told the New York Post on Wednesday. "I haven't walked around with a pen and paper and taken a poll, but from the feeling I get, the locker room wants to win. Whoever gives us the best chance to do that, we want out there — and at this point, Mark gives us that best chance."
Mangold has been around for Sanchez's entire four-year tenure with the team: back-to-back appearances in the AFC Championship game, then two straight sub-par, drama-filled seasons. The veteran likes what he's seen from Sanchez this offseason as the quarterback learns the system of new offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg.
"I think Mark is a fantastic quarterback for us, and I think he can do some good things," Mangold told the paper. "He showed some good flashes in the spring, getting (Mornhinweg's) system down and commanding the offense the way that he should be. We'll see how training camp plays out, but either way, the competition will make him a better player."
Sanchez threw for 2,883 yards on a 54.3 completion percentage in 2012. He had 13 touchdowns and 18 interceptions. It was his worst statistical season since his rookie year, only without the playoff run.
The Jets drafted Smith out of West Virginia in the second round of this year's draft. Mangold defended the young quarterback against the "diva" label that has followed him to the pros. As for his work on the field? Let's just say the learning curve is steep in the NFL.
"Mark had a little bit better idea of the ideas and of seeing things, which are things Geno is going to have to work his butt off on," said Mangold.
He added: "He can be a good player for us. … He's a hard worker, and he's asking questions. He's taking the coaching and taking the advice to heart, and I think he's doing some good things."
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Ryan girls' swim team wins PIAA District 12 Championship
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Last season, the Archbishop Ryan Girls Swim Team earned the title of the Philadelphia Catholic League and District 12 AAA Champions. In February, Archbishop Ryan High School took the District 12 title back with a huge win against the other teams in the AAA League. The team now has held the district championship title for the past three consecutive years.
Meghan Kidd, Allison Henry, Sarah Vargas, and Sydney Aston competed in the 200 Yard Medley Relay. These swimmers had tough competition against Saint Hubert's High School during this event, but did not give up and continued to swim hard. They won the event both at PCL's and Districts, and will now continue onto states in a few short weeks.
Sophomore Allison Henry, broke a total of six records this weekend. The 100 Yard Butterfly and 100 Yard Breaststroke were district records. The original record for fly was a 58.37 and Henry recorded a 57.77. The original breaststroke record was a 1:05.29 and Henry went a 1:04.55. The other records that she broke were school records. The events were the 200 Yard Individual Medley, 500 Yard Freestyle, 100 Yard Breaststroke, and 100 Yard Butterfly. She broke the record for the 200 I.M. by a few tenths of a second. The 500 Freestyle record originally was a 5:16, and Henry swam a 5:07.42.
"My two seasons so far swimming for Ryan have definitely been apart of the best years of my life," Henry said. "The team's pride and love for the sport brings so much positive energy in the air which makes this team so special. Every single person on the team plays apart of who we are in such a fun and positive way, which makes me love this team so much. I could not have asked for a better team."
Seven seniors graduated from the swim team at this meet. Sydney Aston, Tara Frino, Sarah Gudas, Kristen Johnson, Virginia Quinn, Connor Gripman, and Frank Masino.
This meet was filled with many accomplishments and time drops by all the swimmers. The team scored a total of 471 points finishing in first place above Saint Huberts, who scored 294 points at the District meet. At the Catholic League Championship meet, Ryan placed second with a score of 526 to Archbishop Wood who scored 603 points.
The following Ryan swimmers received All Catholic:
First Team: Sydney Aston (senior), Sarah Gudas (senior), Allison Henry (sophomore), Meghan Kidd (junior), Alyssa Sieck (junior), Sarah Vargas (sophomore), Winnie Wong (sophomore)
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If an asteroid strikes, don't head for the hills, or the windows: Head for the basement.
A study aimed at sorting out the effects of a catastrophic asteroid impact found that violent winds and pressure shock waves would be the biggest killers, accounting for more than 60 percent of the lives lost in simulated scenarios.
"This is the first study that looks at all seven impact effects generated by hazardous asteroids and estimates which are, in terms of human loss, most severe," Clemens Rumpf, a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton in Britain, said today in a news release from the American Geophysical Union.
Rumpf is the lead author of the study, which is published in Geophysical Research Letters, an AGU journal.
The seven effects on Rumpf's list are wind blasts, shock waves, heat, flying debris, tsunami waves, cratering and seismic shaking. The researchers lumped wind blasts and shock waves together because those phenomena would tend to occur together in the wake of an asteroid strike.
The winds whipped up by an impact would carry enough power to hurl human bodies and flatten forests, while the spike in atmospheric pressure would set off shock waves strong enough to rupture internal organs.
To gauge the damage, the researchers ran 50,000 simulated scenarios with artificial asteroids ranging from 15 to 400 meters (49 to 1,312 feet) across. They found that land-based impacts would be roughly 10 times as dangerous as ocean impacts.
Large asteroids hitting the ocean could generate huge tsunami waves; however, the waves' energy would tend to dissipate as it traveled. Tsunamis accounted for more than 70 percent of the deaths associated with an ocean impact, but only about 20 percent of the lives lost across all scenarios.
Heat effects were implicated in nearly 30 percent of the deaths in the land-based simulations, and here's where Rumpf offered his advice. He said affected populations were likely to avoid harm by hiding in basements and other underground structures.
Cratering and airborne debris each accounted for less than 1 percent of the deaths. Seismic shaking was of the least concern, causing only 0.17 percent of the casualties in the simulated scenarios.
Rumpf emphasized that the risk of an asteroid strike is low, ranging from once every 1,500 years for a 190-foot-wide space rock to once every 100,000 years for a 1,300-foot-wide monster.
The scenarios suggest that most asteroids on the lower end of the spectrum burn up in the atmosphere. An asteroid would have to be wider than 60 feet across to be lethal. That's roughly the width of the asteroid involved in the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor blast, which injured hundreds of people in the vicinity of the Siberian city but caused no known deaths.
Most of the injuries in Chelyabinsk occurred when the shock wave from the blast sent broken window glass flying into the faces of spectators.
Purdue geophysicist Jay Melosh, who wasn't involved in the study, said the report represents "a reasonable step forward in trying to understand and come to grips with the hazards posed by asteroids and comet impactors."
Rumpf said the findings could help Earthlings plan for future asteroid strikes.
"If only 10 people are affected, then maybe it's better to evacuate the area," he said. "But if a million people are affected, it may be worthwhile to mount a deflection mission and push the asteroid out of the way."
Rumpf plans to present his findings at the 2017 International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference, set for next month in Tokyo.


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Projection methods for model reduction of large-scale dynamical systems
Gugercin, Serkan
Antoulas, Athanasios C.
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Numerical simulation of dynamical systems have been a successful means for studying complex physical phenomena. However, in large-scale settings, the system dimension makes the computations infeasible due to memory and time limitations, and ill-conditioning. The remedy is model reduction. This dissertation focuses on projection methods to efficiently construct reduced order models for large linear dynamical systems. A modified cyclic low-rank Smith method is introduced to compute low-rank approximations to solutions of large-scale Lyapunov equations. Unlike the original cyclic low-rank Smith method of Penzl, the number of columns in the modified approximant does not necessarily increase at each step and is much lower. Fundamental convergence results are established for the errors in the approximate solutions and also in the approximate Hankel singular values. For positive real balancing, this work derives a multiplicative error bound and develops a modified scheme with an absolute error bound for a certain subclass of positive real systems. Moreover, a frequency weighted balancing method with guaranteed stability and a simple Hinfinity error bound is introduced. Unlike the existing approaches, the method avoids the explicit computation of the input and output weightings. This dissertation derives an exact expression for the H2 norm of the error system of the Lanczos procedure, the first such result for Krylov based methods. The resulting expression shows that the H2 error is due to the mismatch at the mirror images of the poles of the original and reduced systems, and hence suggests choosing the mirror images as the interpolation points for the rational Krylov method. In addition two algorithms are proposed to overcome the rank deficiencies occurring in the MIMO version of the rational Krylov method. Finally, a novel model reduction algorithm by least-squares is developed, one of the cornerstones of this dissertation. The method is a projection and combines Krylov and singular value decomposition methods. The reduced model is asymptotically stable, matches a certain number of moments; and minimizes a weighted H2 error in the discrete time case. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches is tested by means of various numerical experiments.
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SuperHot is a FPS video game released in 2016 by Team SuperHot. I myself have only been playing the game for about 2 hours and the only thing I can say about it is that it is SUPER HOT! Without giving too much of the plot away, (or lack there of) I will explain how … Continue reading A Nuclear Review: SuperHot (video game)
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Even at high school while the other kids wanted new and fast cars, I just wanted and old antique car. My only problem was I could not afford either. After a stint in the Marine Corps, marriage and college, the old car fever grew. My first car, a 1947 Fleetmaster, was purchased with the help of my late brother. With no where to keep the car it eventually moved on to another life. Enter my second car, a 1952 Ford P/U and with help from a friend we managed to bondo it up and paint it. The Ford was traded on a Jeep which had a very short stay. Next was a 1937 Plymouth P/U that never really got off the ground, and again it was sold. Two El Caminos later my dearly beloved wife was about to sell me. Then I saw the Jalopy on a web site, Craigslist I recall. Understandably my wife was reluctant to give her blessing and did not encourage me to think about it too much. But it was too late! I was already taken in by the looks of the green machine.
I live in the northern part of Florida and the truck was in the southern tip of the state, at least a 10 hr drive away. We began an email dialogue. There were a few bad pictures but it looked very structurally sound. I couldn't believe they were selling it so cheap, and I was definitely interested.
We arranged a date for me to go see it and I set off with my son in law in tow as Miami is a very large city and has a reputation of being dangerous. I told the contact person that if it was as good as they described that I would buy it.
So here we are on the 2nd of October 2010, the two of us driving to a place we have never been to before, to meet people we did not know, with the intention to pay cash for an old car we had never set eyes on before. Boy what a recipe for disaster, but I had the bug, I was on a mission.I towed a flatbed trailer with me and had cash on the hip. We were both nervous because on the way we got a phone call telling us the truck was not at the original site but had been moved. In addition to this, there was only one person there that could speak English. We knew we were at their mercy and so did they. They had us if they wanted us! When we finally found it, it was surrounded by an 8' high wood fence and you had to speak through a microphone. Now we were really nervous.
When I saw the truck, and they started it up...I knew I was taking her home. The lady had saved the last dance for me! I drove it around the parking lot and that was enough for me, she looked gorgeous. She was everything I wanted her to be. It was love at first
site and I have not regretted finding the old gal since. I made an offer and they accepted. We loaded her up and
home we came. I had the biggest smile every time someone passed and waved. I
was like a proud poppa.
The first thing I noticed after getting the new baby home was that she over
heated soon after she was started. I also noticed she did not have a radiator
cap. I should have suspected there was a problem, but hey its very hard to have a cool clear thinking head when your eyes are still glazzed over with excitment.
All that was a low priority for the time being, plenty of time to fix that down the track. My next task was going to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get the title on the 8th October.
License plates were issued on the 25th January, 2011.
She was now mine, I had the truck, I had the title and I had the license plates.
The following pictures of the Jalopy as I now affectionately call her, were taken a few months after we got her home, and she still had the road dust from the trailer trip from South Florida.
Ladies and gentlemen may I present to you my pride and joy, the jalopy.


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The Intimate Forest
A Celebration of the Beauty of Nature in Oil Paintings by Harlan
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Landscape paintings of the Southwest by Johnathan Harris
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|"Vimla's Village in Pithora Garh"
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|"Radha and Krishna on a Tree"
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There are 8 turtles and 8 fish, eight being a super lucky 2 multiplied by 4. In Feng-Shui (Vastu-Shastra in India), it is said that if there is disharmony between the husband and wife, paintings and sculptures that symbolize the two should be placed around the house and no mirrors to make them four! So this Radha and Krishna symbolizes the two, the two lovers, husband and wife, masculine and feminine energies or whatever you like to call it. It is supposed to bring some oneness and harmony into your family.
I think it's great to made up your own symbols. One dream interpreter has said that there can't be a dictionary of symbols to interpret the dreams, because different symbol means different things for each of us. Instead, we should find themselves their meanings. I think this can apply to Madhubani painting too. I wish you good luck making your versions of auspicious paintings for your friends, family and strangers!!!


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I had a little time in the library before meeting with my Medieval/Renaissance ensemble yesterday, so after browsing among the new titles I came across a book by Katelijne Schiltz about riddles in Renaissance music. I did not have my library card with me, so I was only able to read a little bit of it.
Normally, after reading the descriptions and catalog of various riddle canons (you can see some of the catalog here) my mind would have instantly gone in the direction of writing a riddle canon.
Come to think of it, until just a month or two ago nearly everything I read would inspire me (and sometimes even compel me) to express myself musically. But something has changed.
From the time I began writing music seriously about 20 years ago I have always had a composition project going. I don't know where my compulsion to write music came from, and I marvel at the amount of music that I managed to write while doing the other "stuff" of life. I'm very proud of what I have written, and I know I could write something if I were asked to, but I no longer feel compelled to write music.
Now that I have reached a technical level commensurate with the repertoire I want to play, I get a great deal of satisfaction out of playing the viola (and occasionally the violin). After about 25 years to string playing, I finally feel free to really be creative with my playing. When I hear recordings of myself playing I sometimes even like what I hear.
The newest addition to my musical menagerie is the piano. I started practicing the piano for a few reasons, the first being to improve as a composer by studying Bach's Preludes and Fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier. My second reason was to adequately accompany my students in lessons, and be proficient enough to be able to concentrate on their playing while playing with them.
I am nearly through my third "cycle" of the WTC, and this time around I am spending more time with each prelude and fugue. I consider my daily meeting with Bach sacred time. I am also finding myself feeling expressive when playing the piano. I dabble in other music too: Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, in particular. Approaching this great music with the ear of a composer is a treat. Not trying to produce something of similar quality is, frankly, a relief.
Maybe this current state of affairs comes from reading Nabokov. Michael and I just finished Speak Memory, and are now reading Ada. Even though he was a descendant of Carl Heinrich Graun, and his son grew up to become an opera singer, Vladimir Nabokov didn't care much for music. One of his particular dislikes was "kudos, kudos vy udalilis" from Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin. [Here's a translation of the aria.] I find it an interesting idiosyncrasy that anyone could dislike this, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, but Nabokov certainly was a singular human being, and an extraordinary writer. Perhaps he had so much to his life, literary and otherwise, that he didn't have room for music.
Maybe things will change. I'll let you know when we finish Ada.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
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Olive goes to New York to visit Christopher, now living with his pregnant second wife Ann and her two young children. Put off by Ann's touchy-feely demeanor and an incident with her son Theodore, Olive abruptly announces she wants to return to Maine. Later, Olive receives bad news about Henry and develops an unlikely bond with Jack Kennison.
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Tweet all about it: Racing to tweet
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ASPEN – Each week we pick out our favorite and not-so-favorite tweets (at least those that are printable) about Aspen and display them on Sunday.
Here's what we found – in their unedited form – last week:
• "Heading to Aspen, CO in January to watch the winter X games!" – @Isaak Moore
• "Unfortunately no nice birthday for me 🙁 Crashed in the GS of Aspen and have a bad bruised arm now. Hoping for the SL tomorrow." – @Maria Hofl-Riesch
• "Changing all love songs into songs about money because love can't buy you a ski house in Aspen and money only leaves you when you want it to" – @Bails
• "I'll tell ya where we'll go. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. #Aspen #DumbandDumber" – @Boomer Hermes
• "Got room for one more if you still wanna go to Aspen" – @Nick Myers
• "I thought Aspen was in Greece" – @Jessica Brunner
• "We are Penn State! Watching the game in Aspen." – @John Shaffer
• "I learned to ski in the Rockies #Aspen #iwas7" – @nathan mitseff
• "… Love it out there 🙂 RT @katrinachilders: Gondola ride to the top of Aspen Mountain. Breathtaking!!!" – @Arlene Martin
• "Watching my first ski race ever in Aspen today. Cheering for the women's @usskiteam today! Yea girls!" – @Meg Olenick
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If you don't follow the rules, your comment may be deleted.
Kitchen confidential: A peek into Aspen's restaurant inspection program
Natalie Tsevdos, who is in charge of inspecting roughly 116 food establishments located in the city of Aspen, said violations typically are corrected on-site.


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- January 12: VW Recalls Jetta GLI, Golf Alltrack and Golf GTI recalls | 13 days ago
- December 29: VW Sunroof Leak Lawsuit Alleges Warranty Is Worthless news | 27 days ago
Volkswagen Recall 37L5: Key May Be Removed While Not In Park/FMVSS 114
2018 Volkswagen Golf
Removing the key while the shift lever is in a position other than "Park" increases the risk of an unintended vehicle rollaway that may result in personal injury or a crash.
Steering — Column Locking — Anti-Theft Device
Electrical System — Ignition — Anti-Theft Controller
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- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2015-2018 Volkswagen Golf and Golf Sportwagen vehicles. The build of silicate on the shift lever micro switch contacts may enable the key to be removed from the ignition while the vehicle shift lever is not in "Park." As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 114, "Theft Protection and Rollaway Prevention."
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- Volkswagen will notify owners, and dealers will install an additional switch and circuit board, free of charge. The recall began March 19, 2019. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 37L5.
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DCS (Distributed Control System) is a computerized control system prevalently used in various industries. DCS is a broad term used as there are many variants. DCS is to monitor and control distributed equipment. There cannot be a manufacturing system which does not have proper and decisive controls incorporated in the system without which the system loses its dynamic identity. Dynamism to any manufacturing system brings in quality of production, increased volumes, human safety, conservation of energy and robustness to the whole system. DCS is therefore an important part of the system which contributes dynamism to the whole process. Automation Training in DCS would enable the students to acquire knowledge and skills in the subject.
DCS has distributed controls
The elements of control in DCS are widely distributed throughout the system. Actually this is in contrast to the non-distributed systems, where only a single controller is used. A DCS generally makes use of custom-designed processors as controllers. There could be both proprietary inter-connections and standard communication protocol for the communications. The subject knowledge and working skills could be learnt through DCS Automation Training.
SCADA & DCS – differences are subtle
The DCS elements are connected to the physical equipment. They are such as switches, pumps and valves & to HMI via SCADA. The differences between SCADA & DCS are very subtle. Functionality of each overlaps the other – depending upon the advances in technology. Automation Training in DCS would enlighten the students on these aspects.
Wiztech's specialized training
Wiztech Automation, Anna Nagar, Chennai, specialized their Automation Training features in DCS apart from PLC & SCADA. The Automation training's features, advantages and benefits at Wiztech, not only covers the syllabus under DCS, but makes the students confident enough to handle the equipment.
The individual focus that Wiztech Automation provides on DCS / SCADA Automation Training makes the students very comfortable and they enjoy their time space for better understanding and assimilation. After the students complete their Training, the students are certified in the course completion and are also provided placement for job opportunities. While on DCS / SCADA Automation Training, depending on the requirement the students who hail from outside Chennai city and also outside Tamil Nadu, are provided free accommodation.


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Mobile penetration soars past 100% in 97 countries
Finally, the stats that back up what we've all been feeling and seeing in the mobile industry in the last couple of years are in: access to mobile handsets over the first decade of the 21st century has been astronomical. Some of the numbers, when taken against the backdrop of poverty in developing countries, are pretty profound.
Consider, for instance, that more than 2.6 billion people were living without access to toilets at the end of 2010, while 4 billion mobile subscriptions existed in the same period. So more people had cell phone subscriptions than toilets. Think about what that says about modern day society and the barriers being broken down by the technological march.
In 2002, there were just two countries with a mobile penetration rate of over 100%. By late 2010, this rapid access to mobile had spread to 97 countries – 17 of which had penetration rates of more than 150%. When looking at the developing world as a whole, penetration had reached 70% by the end of last year, a mere six years after the developed world reached the 70% mark.
Penetration in Africa specifically was sitting at 45.2% in 2010, higher than the 42.8% penetration in the Americas in 2004 (their rate has since grown to 94.5%). Asia and the Pacific came in at 69.2%, higher than Europe's penetration rate of 67% in 2002 (now sitting at 117%).
In December 2010, while 833 million people were living in some of the poorest conditions in the 49 least developed countries (as designated by the United Nations), there was still an increase in mobile phone usage between 2000 and the end of the decade. Mobile subscriptions grew from 2 million to 280 million (representing a penetration rate of 34%), with almost 66% of people in these regions having mobile coverage.
With millions of people overcoming all kinds of obstacles to make use of mobile tech, there seems to be very little that will stand in the way of our civilisation moving towards exponential mobile expansion, with many communities leapfrogging desktop computer adoption entirely to do so.
Data and analysis drawn from the ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database.


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My PEHP member identification card was lost or stolen. What should I do?
If your member card is lost or stolen, you should immediately contact PEHP to prevent payment of services to any unauthorized person.
I received an explanation of benefits for services I didn't receive. Is this fraud
Billing for services not rendered is one of the most common types of fraud committed by providers. However there are instances when a provider mistakenly submits a claim with an incorrect identification number, causing payment to be issued under the wrong patient. Always report erroneous charges; PEHP's SIU will thoroughly research the charges and determine whether it is fraud or simply a billing error.
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Once your divorce is final, coverage terminates at midnight on the day prior to your divorce date. The divorced spouse is no longer a dependent and if he/she continues using your benefits, you are responsible for any payments made erroneously. You may also not enroll or continue to cover an ineligible dependent (e.g., married child) on your plan.
My doctor billed my health plan for an office visit when all I did was pick up a prescription. I never saw my doctor. Can he charge for this?
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I think my doctor may be billing fraudulent charges. If I report this and you later confirm that no fraud was committed, will my provider know I reported him?
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New Canaan BOF inspects school budget
With the blizzard bearing down on the town last Thursday, the message from the school district at the combined Board of Finance and Town Council budget meeting is that this year is a perfect storm of unavoidable costs.
School security, increased health-care costs, the elimination of stockpiled excess cost grants, and a fixed increase in salaries combined to a 5.7 operating budget increase request in 2013-14.
While many of the comments from the councilmen and BOF members congratulated Superintendent Mary Kolek and the district on their efforts, there was some amount of displeasure over the increase.
Council member John Engel questioned an expenditure of more than $200,000 earmarked for security needs. The line item includes money to purchase more communications equipment, while the majority of it would be for professional, unarmed security guards at the middle and elementary schools.
Engel asked whether the guards could be filled in-house by New
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"We really feel that access and control to our campus is something we can do a better job with," Kolek said. "We need to focus on controlling who is coming into our buildings. These are not police officers and they are not armed, but they are professionals at security and monitoring."
But Engel said there were other options.
"Given an atmosphere in which every dollar is precious, I was a little surprised to see a $200,000 line item for campus monitors," Engel said. "(Police Chief Ed) Nadriczny has advocated for a second SRO (school resource officer) at Saxe, a different approach from outsourcing to an outside firm, for someone who's not armed, and is not used to kids."
Kolek assured Engel that the district and the police have worked together at length to develop security plans, and that they've found this to be the best solution.
The Board of Finance will continue discussion of the budget at its next meeting, Feb. 12.
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In a Sociological Review paper, Julia Carter, reported on the curious absence of love in young women's account of their relationships. She found that many of these women struggled to talk about their feelings in general and about love in particular. Contrary to sociological theories of individualisation, Carter discovered a tendency to describe 'drifting' into relationships which 'just happened'. In this interview, she reflects on the paper and places it in the broader context of the sociology of love.
Why is love sociologically interesting? How have sociologists tended to understand it?
Love is interesting sociologically for so many reasons. To start with, just the one word can represent so many different meanings and understandings: sexual love, intimate love, companionate love, romantic love, parental love, friendship love, inter-species love, love for places, belongings, views. It is a word that is used prolifically to mean so much, which means it is incredibly difficult to define and study.
But intimate love between a couple is different. This is an emotion that has gained prominence and significance over the past 100 years and has come to legitimate a range of institutions, ideologies and policies. With changes in the way society is structured from more formalised institutions to reflexive practices, the formal processes enshrined in law to keep families together have fallen away, resulting in a new bedrock for relationships, families and society: love.
Love is interesting because it is everywhere and has a significant impact on our culture, society and lives, and yet we can know relatively little about what it actually means. Love is not something we can 'know'- we have to investigate how it is represented socially and culturally. In the UK we are structured by the norm of the loving couple, this is seen as keeping families and society together and stable.
Love played an important part in women's emancipation: the rise of romantic love and its link with marriage, meant women increasingly had more choice in their future partners. The notion of romantic love had historically been reserved for sexual relationships outside of marriage. So as the interconnection between love and marriage grew, so did the condemnation of extra-marital relationships.
This couple love is supposed to take different forms and some sociologists have distinguished between 'romantic' love- a whirlwind, one-and-only type of love- 'companionate' love- a caring, intimate type- 'confluent' love- contingent, democratic and in flux- and 'liquid' love- temporary, weak and based only on happiness.
There are, of course, many other definitions. Alternatively, sociologists interpret love through cultural discourses, highlighting the increasingly commercialised aspects of love and its use as a cultural norm to privilege certain types of relationships. These theorists note the importance of remaining critical of these discourses.
So why does love have such power? Whether a private emotion, organising institution, normative expression, commodity, societal glue or legitimating ideology, love is clearly an important concept to understand and interrogate in modern society.
Do the different understandings sociologists have of love reflect different understandings of it within society?
Sociologists' understandings of love tend to reflect different understandings of it within society, simply because the way we can study love is through talking to people, investigating cultural representations and understanding the structuring and organising principles of love; these will inevitably reflect general societal understandings of love.
Perhaps what produces divergence from societal understandings is the way in which we interpret and analyse these findings. For example, while it may be common knowledge that couples often marry for love, as sociologists, we know that this is a fairly recent development in Western societies that implies changes in wider societal structures and social forces.
Sociological discourses of love generally reflect trends within society; a recent emphasis in debates around relationships, for example, is the retreat of marriage and long-term commitment, supposedly reflected in decreasing marriage rates and the rise of cohabitation (and a focus on living apart together relationships).
Some theorists suggest that there has been a transformation in intimacy and that we live in an increasingly individualised, agentic and democratic world of personal relationships. This may result in two outcomes for intimate love: either it is transitory and temporary or it is increasingly valorised as more formal relationship processes fall away.
Alternatively, relationships and love still appear to be very important to people and so other sociologists suggest a continuity in the ideal of long-term or even life-long love. Love has simply become more risky.
How well do these sociological accounts of love map on to the way that the women in your study talk about their own experiences of love?
The interesting finding for me was that love was not openly discussed by my participants, without prompting from me first. When I asked them about their relationships, their responses were always very practical and very few young women spontaneously mentioned love or being in love. It was almost taken-for-granted and when I did ask, their love for their partner was immediately confirmed.
What became apparent was that long-term love was very important to people, even if it was difficult to articulate. Therefore, sociological accounts of temporary, transitory or contingent love could not be mapped onto women's accounts.
The young women talked about 'drifting' into relationships and forming relationships with friends or people they already knew. What this points to is the de-formalisation of relationship practices- there is more freedom now to begin and end relationships and drift into and out of them. Rather than this being talked about in terms of agency and choice, however, their accounts were characterised by a distinct lack of agency, talking about relationships that 'just happened'. Agentic notions of love and relationships may, therefore, be rather optimistic.
There was, however, evidence from my research to support the normative notion that love should be romantic, once-occurring and life-long. When talking about past relationships, participants would recall (and re-interpret) their emotions, saying 'I thought it was love…' or 'it was not love at all…' This happened in numerous accounts suggesting that 'real' love should only be experienced once and this should not come to an end. This description of love creates the normative imperative for life-long monogamous relationships, reflected in social policy, media and commercial products. Nevertheless, love was not valorised by participants and it certainly was not the only meaningful concept: commitment and marriage were also extremely important.
Sociological accounts of love did not account for the absence of love talk in these women's discussions of their relationships. What I argue is that they found love difficult to talk about because it has become an increasingly private emotion due to the societal emphasis on compulsory coupledom: love has become a quiet, private project for couples in a society that worships coupledom and romance.
Julia Carter is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Politics and Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her research interests include families and relationships, gender, femininities and research methods.


text: SoCal Bans Wood Burning on Bad Air Days But fireplace lovers need not fret: only 24 days per year By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff Posted Mar 8, 2008 8:08 AM CST 0 comments In one effort to reduce the typical SoCal haze, California officials have imposed limits on the use of wood-burning fires in the Southland on high-pollution days in winter. (Getty Images) View 3 more images (Newser) – Officials in charge of air quality in Los Angeles and surrounding counties have banned the use of wood-burning fireplaces during certain high-pollution days. The fines would only be levied on about two dozen winter days, and wouldn't affect gas fireplaces, wood-burning ovens in restaurants, or homes above 3,000 feet, the Los Angeles Times reports. "This is about trading personal rights for cleaner air and public health," explained a district official. Southland fireplaces currently spew about six tons of soot into the air every day, contributing to an estimated 5,000 early deaths per year from respiratory problems. Not everyone is swayed by the ban's benefits, however: one SoCal resident vows, "You're not going to regulate my chimney." (Read more Los Angeles stories.) View 3 more images


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Villa Detached, single storey, shared entrance, in a private property
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Handicapped people welcome1 bedroom
2 roomsLiveable floor area : 485 Sq.ft.
Ground surface : 1 acre
Handicapped people welcome1 bedroom
2 roomsLiveable floor area : 485 Sq.ft.
Ground surface : 1 acre
- View : Panoramic, unobscured, dominant, courtyard, fantastic sunset, nightlights
- Setting : Tranquil, Suitable for a relaxing break
- Sandy beach at 0.5mi.
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- Exposure : South-east
Touristic region : discover Gargano, Umbra Forest, Adriatic Sea
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Parking : Parking uncovered
Interior Villa with View: panoramic, unobscured, dominant, ...
Receive up to : 4 person(s)
Liveable floor area : 485 Sq.ft.
Interior layout : 2 Room(s), 1 bedroom(s), bathroom, shower room, toilets, Kitchen Area, cosy nook, laundry room, veranda
Sleeps - bed(s) : 1 full bed(s), 1 twin bed(s), 1 bunk beds
Guest facilities : T.V., wardrobe, fly screens
Appliances : Crockery/flatware, kitchen utensils, gaz stove, refridgerator, deep freeze, washing machine
Exterior Vacation rental in Setting: tranquil, suitable for a relaxing break
Ground surface : 1 acre
Outside accommodation : Terrace
Outside setting : Private courtyard, yard, olive grove
Outside amenities : BBQ, yard table(s), yard seat(s), outside shower facilities
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Leisure Vieste - Foggia Province
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Leisure activities less than 12 miles : Bathing, pedalo, snorkelling, scuba diving, water skiing, surfing, windsurfing, sailing, pathway/broadwalk, coastal/forest paths, hiking, mountain bike (path), boat trips, horse trecking, fishing, deep-sea fishing, fishing, spear fishing
Attractions and relaxation : Bar/pub, discotheque, restaurant, open air summer movie theater, park and garden, leisure park, historical site, cellar and wine tasting
SurroundingsOcean - Foggia Province
Locality :
Sandy beach at 0.5mi.
Shingle beach at 4.5mi.
Rocky beach at 0.93mi.
Lake at 12.5mi.
Forest at 6mi.
Amenities :
Downtown at 0.3mi.
Bus stop / bus station at 0.3mi.
Breadstore at 660'
Local stores at 990'
Supermarket at 330'
Mail office at 0.5mi.
Bank at 0.5mi.
Drugstore at 0.62mi.
Hospital at 0.62mi.
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Via Montale
71019 ViesteApulia
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Latitude 41°52'56.784"N
Longitude 16°10'26.04"E
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Poggio Imperiale, Foggia Province, Apulia, Italy
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I ask this question a lot during my day. Am I sweeping the floors right? Am I ringing up the customer right? Did I say this right? Did I read this or hear this right?
Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Is there anything I'm missing?
I spend so much time and energy worrying about being right, doing right, getting things right, looking right in the eyes of others…you get my drift.
Behind these persistent, if not downright tiresome, questions, is the deep fear that if I don't get things right, I will be rejected. I will be unlovable and not worth peoples' time. If I can't do right by everyone I know, or even by society's standards, I will be kicked out of the company of others. I will be an outcast, unwanted and uncared for.
You know that line from the Anchorman movie: "Well, that escalated quickly." There's a very popular meme with that line and scene out on the interwebs now. Yeah. That's how my mind works. It goes from not sweeping the floors perfectly to getting fired in a single bound.
That's anxiety. It is not fun.
But at the same time, I think a lot of people have fears like this. They're those nagging little voices that tell us we're not good enough, our jobs aren't good enough, our grades could be better, our lives could be a little more put together, our relationships could be less chaotic, and us as individuals could be cooler/more exciting/more involved/doing more.
Society puts so much weight in what we "do," to the point that what we "do" is who we are. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it.
Well, I know how I feel about it. I hate it. Yet I play along with it.
When someone I know sees me working at Bed Bath and Beyond or Jimmy John's, I am quick to point out to them that I also coordinate a mentoring program for a church. Because I can't have them thinking I'm not doing anything with my degree.
When I'm asked to help with something, even if it's not very convenient for me to do so, I say yes right away. Because I can't be seen as unreliable and uncaring.
I apologize for things that aren't my fault in case what I've done or failed to do causes offense to others.
I kick myself when I'm not doing all the cool, world-changing things that other people my age and even younger are doing, because I feel like I'm not living my life as well as those people.
I am a pro at needlessly comparing myself to others, when it knocks me down several notches or when it allows me to tower over others. It's toxic, and exhausting, and just plain useless.
What has happened in our lives and in our world that we cannot be content with who we are? Where has the world gotten into its head that if only we were prettier/cooler/richer/famous, everything would be great? At what point does it enter our consciousness that we, just as we are and for who we are, are not enough?
I've been struggling with this question and many other questions related to success and life and my future and the future of others for some time now. If anyone has any insight, or would also like to join the conversation, please share.


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Ok, ok…in all honesty, 99% of the time, I don't consider us to be a big family. However, sometimes it seems like I have 50 kids. And although it seems like adding one more to my existing three wouldn't be a big deal, it really threw us for a loop. I mean, all of our routines were thrown off to a degree, and we kind of had to start all over. I realized that I was going to have to reach a whole new level of organization if I wanted life to flow relatively smoothly. So over the last few months, I have found some organizational breakthroughs in trouble areas that have helped us tremendously and wanted to share them with you.
Problem Area #1: Medicine
My family is notorious for forgetting medicine. We are terrible, terrible medicine takers. We rarely finish an entire dose of antibiotics and a daily medicine, Psh! Whatever!! But….over the past few years, my crew has gotten to the point where we can't forget medicine any more. Lydia, Isaac, James, Tim and I all have daily medicine, almost all of us take Claritin, and really, I wanted everyone to take a multivitamin. What's a mom to do?
Enter the pillbox system! You thought it was just for older people didn't you? Nope! I have reinvented the pill box! (Imagine me standing like a superhero when you read that…it's how I feel about it!) So here's what I do:
Every Saturday, I pull out our medicine bottles for the week and divvy out all the medicine for each day into each person's pill box. Then, each night, we all meet in the kitchen and take our meds and vitamins. I store them in a silverware holder which is perfect, because things like nasal sprays and liquids meds can easily be slipped into the front slots. It also helps me stay ahead of needing new medicine, because I can easily see at the beginning of the week if I need a refill of something and I set the empty bottle on the counter as a reminder to get it filled the next day. Love this!
Problem Area #2: The Paper Problem
We have a pretty serious paper issue at my house. As in…there's a lot of it. Paper from schoolwork, paper from bills, paper from Tim's work, notes that need to be saved, paperwork that comes with the adoption process….the list goes on and on and on. So, I use what's called a Command Center. No, I actually didn't come up with this one, but I sure wish I had! I saw it first at A Bowl Full of Lemons and just loved the idea, so I tried it, and it worked beautifully. I've been using this system for about three years now. It's super easy. When the mail comes in each day, I throw away any junk mail, and I put any bills in the first file labeled, "To Pay." Anything that needs to be filed goes in the second file labeled, (you guessed it!) "To File". Then, the next four files are for my kids' work. This works great with school or home school. When work comes home from school, I go through it immediately. Anything that I need to save, I stick in James's folder. Anything that is trash, I throw away immediately. The same principle goes with home school. All their work that I want to save goes in their files until I can file it more permanently (usually about once a month I'll do a big filing session and put things in their permanent spot).
The next two files are for Tim and me. I used to get in trouble all the time for throwing away things that Tim needed. It never failed that a piece of paper would sit on the counter until I just couldn't stand it, so I would finally throw it away, just for Tim to walk in five minutes later and ask for it. It never failed! But, now, when I'm not sure, I just stick that paper in his file and it's there when he asks for it. I keep my file for anything that I want to keep or need to do. No more cluttered desk space!
Problem Area #3: Chores
With four children, I must admit, I have grown weary of spending my days cleaning. I have tried just letting some things go…but I just can't! I am just not that kind of person. I desperately wish that I could function with a little mess and clutter though. However, it's ok…I have to accept that I'm a compulsive cleaner and picker-upper and work with it. So this summer, that's just what I have decided to do. I realized that if I'm spending all my time cleaning the house, I will get to the end of the day and feel as though I haven't spent much time with my kids at all.
So, I decided that in addition to our regular daily chores (making bed, brushing teeth, etc), we would have "duty areas" each day. The areas rotate daily so they don't get too boring. This is essential. I have four duty areas: Laundry Duty, Kitchen Duty, Bathroom Duty, and Outdoor Duty. These are all trouble areas for our family…and yes, I know…it's pretty much the entire house! Here's our chart.
The basic idea here is that whatever child has laundry duty will help me and eventually do some or all of the laundry that day, depending on age and skill level. The same goes for the kitchen, although this seems to be the favorite of all the kiddos (psst…they get to help cook and plan the meals for the day!). Bathroom Duty is a simple wipe down of the bathroom. Outdoor duty consists of picking up trash and toys, watering plants, and cleaning up the car.
Hopefully these ideas have given you some organizational inspiration. I haven't done one of these organizational-type posts in a while because I haven't felt that organized in a while, but we're getting there once again. Baby steps, right? What are your favorite tips for organizing your family?


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to·luor To·lu balsam (tə-lo͞o′)
Balsam of Tolu.
[Spanish tolú, after Tolú, a seaport of northwest Colombia.]
(Elements & Compounds) an aromatic balsam obtained from a South American tree, Myroxylon balsamum. See balsam1
[C17: after Santiago de Tolu, Colombia, from which it was exported]
to•lu(tɔˈlu, tə-)
n., pl. -lus.
1. Also called tolu′ bal′sam. a fragrant resin obtained from a South American tree, Myroxylonbalsamum, of the legume family: used in cough medicines.
2. the tree itself.
[1665–75; after (Santiago de) Tolú in Colombia, where balsam is obtained]
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Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures' and Columbia Pictures' The Magnificent Seven. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns – Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D'Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-Hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier). As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Screenplay by: Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk
Produced by: Roger Birnbaum, Todd Black
Executive Producers: Walter Mirisch, Antoine Fuqua, Bruce Berman, Ben Waisbren
Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Peter Sarsgaard
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Understanding USB Technology
Universal Serial Bus devices have been around since 1995. In computeryears that seems like a lifetime. In that lifetime we've seen two distinct generations of USB technology – USB 1.0 and USB 2.0, and now we're entering the era of USB 3.0. This article describes thehistory of USB, technical differences between the various iterations and the future of USB technology. It will also help you update an oldcomputer for USB 2.0 support.
What is USB?
USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. USB interfaces peripheral devices, like a printer, with a host computer. USB features a standardized plug for attaching various devices. The plug and play nature of USB allows devices to be attached to a computer or notebookwithout restarting the operating system. USB has a sister technology found with many cell phones and digital cameras called Micro-USB. USB technology allows for lower power consumption and higher data transferrates between devices.
How to identify which USB technology your computer uses
When you plug in a compatible USB 2.0 device into a USB 1.x port yourcomputer will inform you that the device could perform faster if youhad a USB 2.0 port. This doesn't mean the device won't work, but due tothe technology differences between USB 2.0 and USB 1.x, the bandwidthbetween the devices would be less than adequate.
You can also figure out if your computer has USB 2.0 by opening theDevice Manager from the Control Panel, click on the Universal Serial BusControllers, and look for the word "enhanced" to describe thecontrollers installed on your system. Not all of the controllers willsay this but you should see at least one that says something like"Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller". The language may varybut if you have the word "enhanced" in there somewhere then you have USB2.0 ports on your computer. It is entirely possible for you to have USB2.0 ports in the rear of the computer, but only USB 1.x ports in thefront (or vice-versa).
Technical differences between USB technologies
The biggest difference between USB technologies exist in the datatransfer rates. The earliest USB 1.x technology had a low speed of 1.5Mb per second and a high speed of 12Mb per second. This was indeed animprovement on previous technologies for data transfer, and alloweddevices like external optical drives and external hard drives to performmuch faster.
USB 2.0 technology was unveiled in 2000 and then made standard by the USB-IF in 2001. This version upped the speed considerably to 480Mb persecond of high speed data transfer. Around the same time USB 2.0 cameonto the market, they also brought out the Mini B plugand receptacle – a connector commonly found in MP3 players and othersmall electronic devices. USB 2.0 has stood the test of time, gainingimprovements throughout the years, but staying relatively the same.
There is a technology which co-exists with USB 2.0, the certified wireless USB technology or WUSB. Imagine connecting your printer,scanner, keyboard, mouse, (etc) without any kind of cables between thedevices! WUSB is an extension of the Universal Bus Protocol And it'sjust a shame that consumers don't see it implemented more often.
As computer hard drives grow in size, processor speeds quicken, andusers move to more robust media like audio and video clips, so too doesthe data transfer technology need to advance and improve. For thisreason, USB 3.0 has been in the works for some time. It is expected tohit the shelves in late 2009 – although an exact date is not known justyet. USB 3.0 will be ten times faster than the current USB 2.0 iteration. This new version will be moving data at a rate of 4.8 Gb per second– in other words, lightning fast.
Each new USB version that comes out still works with the sameconnectors as the previous ones. The backwards compatibility of USB 2.0devices with a USB 1.0 port will remain true for USB 3.0. Many USB 3.0devices and hardware are available, although a lot of motherboards and systems are still sold with USB 2.0 at this time.
History of USB development
If we looked at USB as a family, then the grandfather would be USB1.0, which in 1998 was updated to USB 1.1. This technology slowly tookthe place of PS/2 ports on PC computers, and also made it more viable topush larger amounts of information to printers. The human interactiondevices like the keyboard and mouse soon started to ship with USBconnectors. In 1998, Apple introduced exclusive use of USB ports ontheir iMac. According to Wikipedia, this pushed the technology into themarketplace like never before.
USB devices have some unique features. Did you know one USBcontroller can have 127 devices attached to it? You could accomplishthis by daisy chaining several USB hubs to one another, until you had127 devices attached to a single port on the host computer. (Editor's note: Whether or not the motherboard would provide enough power to theUSB ports to actually have the devices operational is another story!)
USB technology relies on pipes to relay information between theperipheral device and the host computer. These pipes are one way avenuesfor information, with 16 going to the host and 16 coming from thecontroller. Without getting too technical, the pipes are constantlyasking the host controller if any information needs to be pushedthrough. Each USB device has to be installed by a driver when thecomputer is on. If the computer powers off, each of the devices usingUSB technology will reinstall the driver so they can become operable.
In the early version of USB technology, there were two competing hostcontroller device standards. One pushed by Intel called the UniversalHost Controller Interface or UHCI was done away with in USB 2.0 by the Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI). The USB-IF regulates thetechnology behind USB and they demanded there not be competing hostcontroller technology in USB 2.0, as it caused problems for hardwaremanufacturers when working with USB 1.x. As of September 2008, we haveused USB 2.0 as our fully compatible standard, but that will soon changewith USB 3.0. All the old USB devices will still be backwards compatible, meaning you will still be able to attach a USB 2.0 device toa USB 3.0 port on a new computer.
The future of USB
WUSB works on the Ultra-wideband principle of radio technology. It isbased on a wireless data transmission technique to build up a secure and high-speed connection between devices.
Due to the presence of Wireless data transmission, it has low-power consumption and offers high bandwidth to provide a USB-like user experience. Theoretically, WUSB offers a maximum speed of 480 Mbps. The best possible performance is within the working range of 10 meters. But in real time working conditions, it offers around 50-100 Mbps speed at shorter range and performance decreases with increasing distance.
USB 3.0 technology incorporates a piece of fiber optic that will work with older copper connections. The move to USB 3.0 should quench the thirst of storage junkies and other savvy users. The move will likely mean very fast transfer rates from portable devices to a desktop. This could facilitate new technology for mobile users, as we can move data quicker between devices.
USB 3.0 is also known as SuperSpeed USB due to the faster datatransfer rates and an amplified maximum bus power. It also has a better power management system so that either the host computer or the USBdevice will start power saving mode when USB enabled devices are not inuse.
It also has the new and better connectors and cables to facilitate speedy data transfer and these connectors are compatible with the earlier USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 standards.
A common problem that is reported in the VIA Arena forums is that people can't have all their USB devices plugged in at the same time and this is doubtless due to the USB ports not being able to cope with thepower requirements. The greatest achievement of SuperSpeed USB is toprovide more power to power-hungry devices that are USB powered, and italso allows USB enabled battery charged devices to charge more quickly.
Although it is certain that USB 2.0 technology is here to stay for atleast the next five years, USB 3.0 has all the potential to replace USB2.0 ports in the future. The faster data transfer speed and powermanagement makes it an ideal option for smaller mobile devices. Inmobile devices, battery life is really important and having USBtechnology that is power efficient is therefore highly attractive.
The future of USB technology hinges on the success of USB 3.0. We'lllikely see this next version enjoy the long shelf life granted to its predecessors.Author: Viaarena


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The University of Toronto Varsity Blues football team dropped a 65-7 decision to the No. 6 nationally ranked Carleton Ravens on Saturday, September 10 at Varsity Stadium.
Rookie defensive back Jamal Johnson scored U of T's lone touchdown in the fourth quarter. The Toronto native picked off Ravens quarterback Tanner DeJong and ran it 85 yards into the end zone.
Second-year defensive back Nick Hallett led the Blues with eight tackles, while third-year linebacker Micahel Leslie notched six tackles in the loss.
Third-year running back Alex Malone led the Blues offensively, rushing 16 times for 116 yards.
Carleton quarterback Jesse Mills went 24-for-30 for 319 yards and four touchdowns. Fourth-year receiver Nathaniel Behar made eight receptions for 129 yards and three touchdowns, while Kyle VanWynsberghe also made eight receptions for 121 yards. Jayde Rowe led the Ravens on the ground with 15 rushes for 112 yards and 1 major. Leon Cenerini led all players with 8.5 tackles in the win.
Tunde Adeleke opened the scoring late in the first quarter, returning a Toronto punt 77 yards for the major. The fourth-year defensive back struck again early in the fourth quarter, returning another punt 69 yards for his second TD of the game.
The Varsity Blues return to action next Saturday, September 17 when they host the York Lions in the 47th annual Red & Blue Bowl at Varsity Stadium. Kick off is set for 1 p.m. Advance tickets are on sale here.
GAME NOTES: The Varsity Blues celebrated their four national and 10 provincial 2015-16 championship teams, as well as Olympians Gabriela Stafford, bronze medalist Kylie Masse and Donna Vakalis, at halftime.
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You'll love the facilities, you'll enjoy our choice of breakfasts fully cooked Australian, Japanese or continental inclusive in the price, vegetarian on request, you'll appreciate the location so close to the international and the domestic airports, the Perth CBD, the lovely beaches and naturally some fine golf courses. We'll give you a hand every step of the way including great deals! Although we are close to Perth Airport, we are outside flight paths.
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Standard price $170 is for two persons only. The Luxury suite can sleep up to four persons with having a queen size double in the main room and twin king size singles an adjoining room. This is an extra $40 per extra person per night up to a maximum of 4 persons not including baby, the use of the cot and high chair is free and so is baby
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If you wish to book extra Guests this can only be done in our deluxe Family Suite the cost will be $40 per person per night
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- Internet access
- Laundry facilities
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Celebrate the Queen's Birthday. Here Are 5 Royal-Themed Gifts Available in the UK This Summer.
Her Majesty the Queen reaches the magnificent age of 91 this Summer. We at myUKmailbox love to celebrate Royal occasions and with this year also being the Sapphire Jubilee, 65 years since the Queen's coronation, this is the time to order your perfect Royal Gift and let us ship to you, Quickly, Safely and Securely.
1) Buckingham Palace Champagne and Wine Gift Set
For a real touch of celebration and the feel of genuine quality how about this double bottle Gift Set of Wine and Champagne direct from the Royal Shop at Buckingham Palace.
Perfectly presented in a classy Gift Case complete with the Buckingham Palace Crest it contains a superb Champagne to suit lovers of Chardonnay, with citrus fruits
and hints of pear and peach, giving a fresh yet rich flavour.
To complement the Bubbly is a medium-bodied Pauillac Red, from the vines of Chateau Lafite and nearby Chateau Duhart Milon, which has hedgerow fruit flavours of blackcurrant, raspberry and redcurrant in a well balanced wine.
Perfect to enjoy during the Queen's Birthday celebration. Enjoy!
2) Handpainted Tower Of London Chess Set
This is a real touch of luxury and could be a superb conversation piece in your display cabinet.
Featuring models of the Tower of London as the Castles, ravens double as the Knights, medieval styled Kings, Queens and Bishops complete the first row and the Pawns are represented by Yeoman Warders, the famous ' Beefeaters'.
All the pieces are handmade and painted, and presented in a lavish gift box.
Add a look of luxury to your home with this fantastic collectors item.
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For all the foodies out there here is a fabulous food and drink hamper that is packed with loads of luxury goodies.
From delicious farmhouse pork pate to lovely caramelised onion chutney, savoury tomato and olive bread thins to salted mixed nuts and crunchy hand cooked cheese and onion crisps.
For those with a sweet tooth the hamper contains a lovely jar of strawberry extra jam, strawberry steamed pudding and a luxury cornucopia of swiss chocolates from renowned chocolatier Lindt.
Not forgetting of course a quaffable sparkling wine and a fruity, crisp Shiraz from vintners Wolf Blass.
Expertly presented in a willow hamper this is the perfect gift for those lazy summer days.
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