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Consul General Sandra Fuentes-Berrain Villenave added, "We welcome the partnership with the EEOC and look forward to protecting the rights of our fellow Mexican citizens."
As the Mexican Consulate approaches its annual Labor Rights Week campaign, the EEOC New York District Office will participate in providing information and assistance to Mexican-American citizen and nationals about their rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964. The Labor Rights Week event will also give presentations on wage-and-hour issues and workplace safety, provided by the U.S. Wage and Hour Division and OSHA (the U.S. Occupation Safety and Hazard Administration), respectively.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech cross country teams will host the 2010 Ohio Valley Conference cross country championships on October 30, and coach Tony Cox' teams hope running the meet on their home course might allow them to sneak up and finish higher than expected.
In a preseason vote of cross country coaches in the league, the Golden Eagle men are tabbed for a sixth place showing and the Tech women are picked for seventh place. Eastern Kentucky is picked to claim first place in both the men's and women's races.
"We have some experience coming back on the men's team, but the women's team has lost several experienced runners," said Golden Eagle head coach Tony Cox. "I'm really anxious to see just how all of our new runners will do, and how they can help their teams. It should be a fun year."
Leading the men's team will be senior Sam Taylor, the team's top finisher in six of seven races last year including a 16th place overall finish at the OVC meet to narrowly miss all-OVC recognition. Six other returnees who saw action last year for the TTU men's squad include Chris Bishop, Steven Bretz, Daniel Francis, John Greene, Nathan Livesay, Ben Shassere and Joseph DeLorenzo, a fifth-year senior.
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Last season the EKU men's team claimed its 18th OVC championship and fourth in a row while the Colonel women's program took home its 24th overall title and fourth in a row.
On the men's side in this year's preseason poll Eastern Kentucky received 81 points and nine first-place votes to top the list. EKU was followed by Southeast Missouri and Eastern Illinois in a tie for second (68 points each). The polling was rounded out by Jacksonville State (55), Morehead State (50), Tennessee Tech (34), UT Martin (33), Austin Peay (28), Murray State (21) and Tennessee State (12).
On the women's side, the EKU women also claimed nine first-place votes and 81 points, and were followed by Eastern Illinois (70), Murray State (63), Southeast Missouri (59), Jacksonville State (47), Morehead State (39), Tennessee Tech (29), Austin Peay (28), UT Martin (24) and Tennessee State (10).
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, who joined the OVC in July 2008, is still in a reclassification process to Division I and will not compete at the OVC Championship this season.
The 2010 OVC Cross Country Championships will be held Oct. 30 at a site to be determined. The first regular season action of the 2010 season occurs the first weekend of September.
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Eastern Illinois 68
4. Jacksonville State 55
5. Morehead State 50
6. Tennessee Tech 34
7. UT Martin 33
8. Austin Peay 28
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"We've done an absolute flip," said Jane Kenworthy, executive director and CEO of the Stockton Symphony. "I wish somebody up there would let us know."
In arts and entertainment, though, hardly anyone - if anyone - ever knows for sure. There is, however, a general sense of fiscal recovery and cautious optimism in the area's entertainment community.
Options for younger audiences - which symphony officials are wisely trying to cultivate - suffered a severe flop, though, when the downtown Plea for Peace Center closed in 2013. For the nonprofit, no-alcohol venue, financial reality finally set in after five years. A void remains.
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"We had a much better experience with fundraising, and the sponsorships are back," said Kenworthy, who's worked with the symphony since 2008. "Which is great. Yet we've done less in ticket sales. So we're having some serious discussions about that. Even the pops concerts are not doing as well as our expectations."
When ticket sales for a Feb. 1 "discovery" concert were negligible, it was staged at no cost. Except to the symphony, which lost $17,000.
There are no current plans for a return to two nights of classical performances. The one-concert approach began in 2013 because of financial reality.
Kenworthy said she and conductor Peter Jaffe's contracts end in 2014. They're also facing negotiations with the musician's union after a one-year contract expires.
"I still have people tell me they didn't even know Stockton has a symphony," said Kenworthy, noting that 200 new customers showed up at the Atherton Auditorium freebie at San Joaquin Delta College. "Is it that we're not communicating? Is it the market? We don't get that impression. Lots of people (a full house of 1,200) show up when it's free. Is it the price? We've got a lot of things to think about in terms of earning money."
So does Mike Whirlow. Just like all other entrepreneurs, organizers, promoters and groups.
His Whirlow's Tossed and Grilled restaurant on Pacific Avenue hosts a range of live music on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays - part of a Miracle Mile renaissance that includes The Ave, Mile Wine Company, the Centrale, Empire Theatre/Empresso Cafe and the year-old That's Showbiz theater troupe.
They provide viable options for local musicians, comedians and actors, from neophytes to sixtysomethings.
The Valley Brewing Company - and its re-styled Take 5 Jazz at the Brew - leads in longevity for ticketed events, from jazz, blues and comedy to monthly Sunday appearances by Jeremy "Elvis" Pearce.
While expressing continuing optimism, Whirlow - who's been operating restaurants in Stockton for 30 years - is cautious about adding ticket prices, which requires booking acts that cost up to $1,000.
In such an eventuality, "We don't want the tightwads just to go to the free-band shows with name recognition," said Whirlow, 60, who has revived his youthful keyboard-playing by sitting in with bands and has 100 local musicians on a list of potential performers. "We're toying with how to implement a cover charge. Maybe we'll just have to roll with it and suck eggs for three or four months until it catches on. After Valley Brew, somebody's gotta be the first act out of the gate."
He's also contemplated doing early (6:30 p.m.) and late (9 p.m.) shows to accommodate younger audiences
There also are less-consistent live-music options at Garlic Brothers, Chitiva's, the Bus Stop and Fat's Bar & Grill as well as mariachi tunes at Arroyo's and Casa Flores.
"Now, pretty much Lodi has had an outburst," Whirlow said. "With music at downtown wineries. A whole bunch of them. It's really quite extensive."
Elizabeth and Kevin Costello's That's Showbiz - a 70-seat theater space and school - has added another act to the Miracle Mile.
"I honestly feel, right now, things are stronger than ever and getting stronger," said Kevin Costello, 51, who's also Stockton Civic Theatre's new artistic director. "There's just a lot of theater. I don't see any signs of it slowing down. Things are very exciting. I feel a lot of energy personally."
He and his Civic Theatre colleagues are in the process of raising $32,000 to include a live orchestra - missing in recent seasons - during musical productions.
Theater groups in Linden, Tracy and Lodi have added to Costello's optimism along with the range of productions staged at San Joaquin Delta College and University of the Pacific, both of which also stage a variety of student musical performances and shows by touring musicians - from jazz to chamber music.
The Friends of Chamber Music series, in its 58th year, continues bringing interesting touring ensembles to town.
This year's (Dave) Brubeck (Institute) Festival includes improvisational gigs at Take 5 as well as headliners Al Jarreau (March 28), Eddie Palmieri (March 27), and 2014 Grammy Award winner Terri Lyne Carrington (March 29).
The Haggin Museum's monthly music events, emphasizing local roots on Thursday nights, have been increasingly successful. Lodi's Hutchins Street Square and Tracy's Grand Theatre maintain schedules of local and touring talent - music, theater, comedy and instructional.
Like Kenworthy, Stockton Chorale artistic director Magen Solomon is committed to broadening her audience and continuing to provide opportunities for anyone who wants to sing. There now are five chorale ensembles catering to - and sharpening the skills of - children and adults.
"The impact and growth have been wonderful," said Solomon, 57, in her fourth season with the 62-year-old Chorale, which stages its "Around the World in 80 Minutes" concert Friday and Sunday. "I won't say we aren't always looking for new singers and new audience members, donors and advertisers - to get further out there in the community."
That's always the aim of promoters booking shows at Stockton Arena - which twice ranked in the top 100 worldwide in entertainment-ticket sales by Pollstar magazine in 2013 - and the Bob Hope Theatre.
While the arena's schedule recently has centered mostly on Disney and Sesame Street productions, truck shows and mixed martial arts fighting, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus did return in 2013.
Steve Martin mixes his banjo-playing with the bluegrass music of North Carolina's Steep Canyon Rangers at the Hope on March 14, extending a list of prominent headliners that included Bill Cosby, Tony Bennett, George Lopez and the Tedeschi Trucks Band (a second straight year) in 2013.
As is common among promoters and managers, the only "predictions" indicate that improving economic conditions could add to more medium- to big-name shows in 2014.
When it comes to the "nothing-to-do-here" cliche, Whirlow laughed: "Anyone saying that still is just a couch potato who hasn't gotten out to check."
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I want a tree haus. I want 2 I-Pads – 1 for my mom. I want a dog.
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Our eyes bugged out last Thursday while strolling through Court Square when we spied this empty box of Dunder Mifflin paper in a Charlottesville recycling bin. It turns out that mega-store Staples has licensed the name of the fictional company to satisfy fans of The Office, the celebrated NBC television series– as well as satisfying fans of 92-brightness, 20-pound copy paper.
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Fast Growth of Mobile Phone and Internet Users Highlight Need for Flash Memory Storage Cards; SanDisk Inks Partnerships with Key Distributors
MILPITAS, CA, Dec. 10, 2007 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), today unveiled plans to expand its retail market presence and product offerings in Vietnam. As part of the company's go-to-market strategy, SanDisk named two leading distributors: FPT Corporation, a leading Vietnamese distributor of IT products and mobile phone products, and Ingram Micro, the world's largest wholesaler of technology goods. The company made this announcement at a press conference at the Park Hyatt Saigon Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
SanDisk aims to leverage its new relationships with FPT Corporation and Ingram Micro to better reach Vietnam's growing consumer market of 23 million mobile phone users and 17.8 million internet subscribers. FPT Corporation will focus on SanDisk's series of mobile phone cards while and Ingram Micro will distribute the company's leading USB flash drives, high-performance cards for mobile and digital imaging, and Sansa® MP3 players throughout the country. Vietnam has experienced a boom in broadband Internet services and cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh have up to 90 percent Wi-Fi penetration, creating market demand for portable storage solutions and increased memory capacity for mobile devices.
"Solid economic and infrastructure growth creates a tremendous market opportunity for SanDisk in Vietnam," said Gavin Wu, Managing Director, SanDisk Corporation Asia Pacific. "We believe that our high-capacity memory cards for mobile and imaging, combined with flash memory USBs will help address the need for improved information storage and processing, and Vietnam's increasingly digitally-savvy population."
Today's launch showcased an array of SanDisk's latest high-capacity, flash memory-based products to meet the demands of Vietnamese consumers. Key products featured included:
FPT Corporation, the strategic partner of major mobile handset vendors such as Nokia, Motorola and Samsung in approximately 80 percent of Vietnam's provinces, will apply its success in the handset distribution business to market SanDisk's mobile memory cards.
"Our in-depth knowledge of Vietnam market combined with our extensive experience working with global mobile phone leaders will help to drive success of SanDisk sales and the company's brand in Vietnam," said Hoang Minh Chau, Deputy Managing Director of FPT Corporation.
SanDisk's distribution agreement with Ingram Micro will help to quickly establish SanDisk in the local market. Ingram Micro provides SanDisk with the broadest channel to market its high-performance mobile and digital imaging cards, USB flash drives and MP3 digital audio players in Vietnam.
"The opportunity to work with the global leader in flash memory in such a fast growing market presents Ingram Micro with an exciting opportunity," said Francis Choo, Managing Director, Ingram Micro Asia Ltd. "I'm confident that this is the first development in what will be a very bright future for SanDisk in Vietnam."
With the strong support of its two distributors, a combination of global expertise and local insight, SanDisk strives to penetrate Vietnam's population of approximately 85 million people. The company will embark on an integrated marketing campaign to build the SanDisk brand. The nationwide campaign, beginning in December, will leverage print advertising, PR activities and point of sales materials to build visibility among retailers, and educate the retail channel and consumers.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
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The NFL Players Association confirmed that Richie Incognito has filed a grievance against the Miami Dolphins over his suspension, NBC News reported.
The grievance has not officially been announced.
Incognito, a guard, was suspended by the team Nov. 3 for misconduct related to the treatment of teammate Jonathan Martin, who abruptly left the Dolphins late last month to receive help for emotional issues.
The NFL is investigating whether Incognito harassed or bullied Martin. Incognito has said the conduct was all part of the normal locker room environment.
ESPN first reported the grievance.
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When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined forces last week with the centrist Kadima Party to form one of Israel's largest-ever coalition governments, it appeared to give him maneuvering room to pursue Palestinian peace talks over the objections of his hard-line political base.
But twin efforts by coalition lawmakers last weekend to strengthen the legal status of Jewish settlements suggest that the political fulcrum of Mr. Netanyahu's government in fact may not have shifted all that dramatically away from stalwarts in his Likud Party who oppose ceding land to the Palestinians on both ideological and theological grounds.
"The prime minister doesn't intend to advance the peace process,'' argues Shlomo Molla, a member of parliament from the centrist Kadima Party who said he has misgivings about the unity government and might lead a faction to bolt the coalition if it doesn't make progress with the Palestinians. "Ideologically, he won't be able to sign an agreement because he is ideologically linked to Judea and Samaria. The Likud is an extreme right-wing party; and when he signs, they will overthrow him.''
To be sure, the newly expanded government has sent out mixed signals to the Palestinians during its first week.
On Friday, a panel of politicians from the hard-line wing of the coalition huddled to discuss a law that would retroactively legalize settlement outposts built on land owned by Palestinians – bypassing recent decisions by the Israeli Supreme Court that the government must dismantle those outposts. Then, on Sunday, a group of ministers discussed a government-sponsored bill to annex the settlements – a move that would effectively negate potential negotiations with the Palestinians over a state. Netanyahu ultimately overruled the annexation idea, while the outpost law is still under discussion.
At the same time, however, Netanyahu dispatched his personal envoy to Ramallah over the weekend to deliver a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Israel remains committed to establishing a Palestinian state. And on Monday, he agreed to ease the conditions of Palestinian prisoners and release 100 bodies of militants killed by Israel, as a gesture to Mr. Abbas that he was serious about talks.
Despite that, Israel Waisner-Manor, a political science professor from the University of Haifa, says he expects no major change in government policy on the peace process.
"I doubt that Netanyahu would suddenly become a dove because [Kadima] joined the coalition,'' he says. "But he also doesn't want to be perceived as someone who doesn't seek out negotiations.''
By bringing in Kadima and its leader, Shaul Mofaz, as a deputy prime minister, Netanyahu boosted his coalition from 66 seats to 94 seats of the 120 member parliament. That means that no single political party can bring down the government on its own, giving Netanyahu new freedom to pursue his avowed support for a Palestinian state. During his first three years in office, he was seen as too dependent on hard-liners to risk his political future on the issue.
Still, the grass roots of Netanyahu's own Likud Party has seen an influx of religious Jewish settlers, who are opposed to compromise and likely to come out strongly against any signs of pragmatism. Any serious progress toward and agreement with the Palestinians is likely to cause a rebellion among Netanyahu's core supporters.
"I don't see Netanyahu getting close to even the minimal conditions of [Abbas],'' says Akiva Eldar, a political columnist for the liberal Haaretz newspaper. "They are negotiating with themselves.''
Moreover, Kadima and Mr. Mofaz's influence on policymaking seems limited. Despite the fact that Kadima represents nearly one-third of the coalition, Mofaz is Kadima's sole representative in the cabinet as well as the "nonet" forum of ministers that Netanyahu consults on foreign policy. And there were apparently no Kadima representatives on the two panels that discussed reinforcing the legal status of the settlements last weekend.
Indeed, one of the first tests of the new unity coalition's mettle regarding the peace process will come during the summer, when the government faces a court-imposed deadline to evacuate several settler homes in the West Bank erected on Palestinian-owned property.
"We have to look at the outposts very closely, as a weathervane," says a Jerusalem-based foreign diplomat who follows Israeli politics but declined to speak on record. "We can see the real Netanyahu now if he so wishes. He can go whichever way he wants. He has run out of excuses. He gets to describe himself at this point."
If Netanyahu continues to avoid a confrontation with settlers and looks for an alternative solution that leaves the houses in place, as his aides have suggested he will, it will be a sign that he sees himself as very much dependent on the hard-liners in his own party.
If Netanyahu should dismantle the homes at the Givat Haulpana settlement, it will be seen as a sign that he is striking a more independent path on foreign policy and may rely on Kadima despite being imperiled among his core constituency.
But Danny Danon, a Likud parliamentary hard-liner, isn't worried. "Netanyahu knows that if he wants to keep his base for the next election, he cannot count on Kadima," he says. "If not, he will be dependent on the goodwill of the center left; and he knows that when they have the first opportunity, they will go against him."


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The man behind the camera: legendary Miami photog Tim Chapman retires
Here is a Tim Chapman story, one of many concerning the Herald photographer who worked his last day this past Friday after 40 years on the job.
It was a frigid morning in South Florida. Tim, our roving a.m. shooter/newsgatherer, was out performing a humdrum chore: looking for a "weather photo."
The call came in to the news desk around 9. It was Tim checking in from Bill Baggs state park, where the manager had just explained that on bone-chilling days, the park's iguanas drift off into a trance-like state and go limp, plopping to the ground like ripe mangos. When the weather warms up, they reanimate and skitter away.
And, by God, it was true, Tim said, at least the falling-out-of-trees part. Instead of a carpet of leaves, Bill Baggs was blanketed by catatonic iguanas.
That sounds fishy, an editor told Tim, but he insisted it was so, and he is a very insistent guy. So, OK. We put a blurb online that said the weather was so cold in South Florida it was "raining iguanas in Key Biscayne." Exaggeration? Maybe a tiny bit. But we figured what the heck. It's Web only. It will never wind up in the paper.
Tim, though, was a little irate. Half an hour later, he stormed into the newsroom, stalked over to the news desk and threw down a limp, green, two-foot-long iguana like a poker player revealing a royal flush. Then he launched into a tirade about never, ever doubting him if we know what's good for us. He was sort of kidding. Maybe.
After that admonition, Tim, ever the environmentalist, took the creature downstairs and (he swears) revived it with his lighter.
Late that night, Tim's editor got a call on his cell phone from Tim, never a good thing. Tim had had a beer or two, and he was howling, like a grizzly with his paw in a trash compactor. Between threats and curses, he roared that "SOMEBODY is messin' with our STORY!"
A subsequent call to the news desk revealed that the story had done so well on the Web that they'd decided to run it in the next day's paper. Except a literal-minded night editor had gotten his mitts on it, phoned Tim and wanted to know how we could possibly say it was "raining iguanas"? Did we count the iguanas? Was it two? Five? Fifty? Shouldn't we do a little more reporting before making such a bold, sweeping statement? Maybe interview an expert on animal physiology?
For Tim, who hates authority, hates being grilled, hates process, hates editors, it was too much.
The good thing about newsrooms is that they attract quirky, interesting, head-strong individuals. Tim is one. He despises bosses and corporations, loves the outdoors and nature, has no neck but fists like a sock full of rocks. He is fierce, fearless, funny, proud, and maybe a little crazy, but in a good way.
On a newsman's salary, he helped put his son through medical school. He is retiring with Charlene, his new bride (they were married last month after 15 years together) to a home on stilts in Big Torch Key, miles off the main road, where he can enjoy a drink and smoke a cigar undisturbed while watching the sun sink slowly into still waters. He built that home with his own hands, over a period of years.
As a Herald photographer for four decades, he covered wars, hurricanes, riots, earthquakes, waves of refugees, kidnappings, plane crashes and the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana.
And, on a cold day in January 2008, the one and only "iguana rainstorm" ever to hit Key Biscayne.


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The name Lenovo may conjure up images of basic black ThinkPad laptops lined up in offices and cubicles around the world. But the company also has a very creative and inventive side, usually found only in its lesser-known consumer IdeaPad line of products.
Most IdeaPad laptops are cool-looking and reasonably priced (although the basic aesthetic could use a little updating), and the new IdeaPad Y480 includes some of the newest components available, namely an Intel Core i7-3610QM quad-core processor (from the new Ivy Bridge line), and Nvida GeForce 640M graphics.
At $1,079 for this configuration, I'd call that a good deal for a tricked-out 14-inch gaming/multimedia machine with Intel's third-generation Core i-series CPUs. But, there's one huge caveat -- the display only has a 1,366x768-pixel native resolution. For a $1,000-plus laptop with a quad-core CPU and high-end GPU to have such a low screen res is ludicrous, like connecting a Blu-ray player to an old 19-inch tube TV.
Looking over the different configurations of the Y480 available from Lenovo, from $999-$1,200, all are stuck with the same display. If that doesn't bother you, this is the least expensive Ivy Bridge quad-core laptop to date, and has Lenovo's excellent build quality and keyboard, but that resolution will be a deal-killer for many.
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|8GB, 1,600MHz DDR3
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|Nvidia GeForce GT 640M / Intel HD4000
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|13.6x9.4 inches
|1.3 inches
|Screen size (diagonal)
|14 inches
|System weight / Weight with AC adapter
|4.5 pounds / 5.6 pounds
Like the Y500 Series laptops we've reviewed previously, the 14-inch Y-480 is sedate, and more upscale-looking, but funkier than a matte black ThinkPad. The lid has a simple black brushed-metal cover that would fit in at the office, coffee shop, or nearly anywhere in between.
The keyboard is similar to the ones we've seen on other Lenovo consumer systems, with its signature variation on the flat-topped island key style. The key faces curve out a tiny bit at the bottom, which I assume makes them easier to catch with an errant fingertip when you're typing quickly. The type of keyboard on IdeaPad laptops is a longtime favorite, and I seem to make few typing mistakes when using it. The keys on this particular model, however, are a bit clacky and noisy.
The touch pad is large, with a matte surface that provides just the right amount of finger resistance. The awful single rocker bar from last year's Y Series has been replaced with buttons built right into the pad itself, as on a MacBook. The usual array of multitouch gestures work on the pad, such as the two-finger scroll, which was pleasantly responsive (it can frequently lag on Windows laptops).
The 14-inch display has a native resolution of 1,366x768 pixels, which is standard for 13-inch and smaller laptops, and fine on less-expensive 14- and 15-inch ones. But, this is a high-end system, selling for over $1,000, and with the latest Intel processor and Nvidia graphics. A 1,600x900-pixel display would be much more appropriate.
No one who wants to play games with the GeForce 640M GPU will want to keep the resolution that low, and the screen can't play 1080p full-HD video at its native resolution. The display makes the Y480 look and feel like a much less expensive laptop. The JBL-branded speakers were above average, however, and a good choice for a smaller system.
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We've seen 15-inch IdeaPad Y Series laptops with combo USB/eSATA ports. That's missing here, but you do get two USB 3.0 ports as well as two USB 2.0 ports.
There are six different preconfigured versions of this system on Lenovo's Web site. They run from $999 to $1,199, but the differences are slight, all having to do with hard-drive capacity and optional Blu-ray drives.
All six Y480 models currently available share the same 8GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT640M GPU, and 2.3GHz Intel Core I7-3610QM processor. In our benchmark tests, it performed very well, on par with the other quad-core Core i7 laptops we've seen with the new Intel third-generation Core processors. It fell behind the ridiculously overclocked and overpowered Origin EON17-S, and was a couple of seconds faster than the Asus G75. All of these Ivy Bridge laptops handily beat out even high-end second-generation Intel Core i-series models.


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This coming weekend John and I are heading to Dragon Con, one of the world's largest sci-fi, comicbook, fantasy, and pop-culture conventions. For four blistering days more than 50,000 geeks will flood downtown Atlanta, and oh yes, IT WILL BE GLORIOUS.
Maybe you've heard about Dragon Con before and wondered if it was right for you. If so, then allow me to help:
10 Signs You Belong At Dragon Con:
- You've ever celebrated an Xbox achievement with cake:
Xbox Cake Wreck: ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
- You prefer your inscriptions in binary:
Alternatively, this reminds you of Flight of the Conchords' "binary solo."
- Mistakes like this fill you with nerd rage:
"Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?"
(And bonus points if you get the reference.)
- Speaking of mistakes: you also know that Spider-Man is spelled with a dash, Lucasfilm only has the "L" capitalized, and "Wookiee" has two Es - unless you count the original novelization, which is technically canon, but if you're up for arguing this with me then you're pretty much making my point.
- You think zombie wedding cakes are awesome:
"More like The Walking WED, am I right? Eh? EH?!"
- You occasionally forget your friends' birthday, but never H.P. Lovecraft's:
Now that's darkly dreamy.
- You once drove somewhere with a giant Dalek cake strapped into your passenger's seat:
(Why yes, now that you mention it, these ARE getting oddly specific...)
- The recent news of Ben Affleck being cast as Batman caused you real emotional turmoil:
It's like a match made in Gotham's Malibu Dream House.
- Or maybe you don't care so much who plays Batman because WHEN THE HECK DO WE GET A FEMALE SUPERHERO MOVIE?!
And finally, you belong at Dracon Con if:
- You have a favorite Doctor, are now afraid of angel statues, and/or have at least three close friends who NEED this cake for their next birthday:
(That's obviously not professional, but I figured you'd forgive me, just this once.)
My favorite Doctor is Peter Davison, btw, and he's going to be there this weekend, so I just may fangirl all over his shoes. Would it be terribly stalkerish if I brought him a bouquet of decorative vegetables? (I also dearly love Sylvestor McCoy, who is ALSO there, and a mutual friend offered to introduce us, and SQUEEEEEEE excuse me I may need to lie down for a moment...)
See you this weekend, fellow geeks! (And follow my tweets if you'd like to say hi!)
Thanks to Jessee, Amy L., Jennifer M., Anony M., Liliya, Sam H., Suzanne S., & Brian L. for helping me geek out with my geek on.


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It is "Put Up or Shut Up" Time for the Rays
And so it begins.
The Texas Rangers are the first team that has been mathematically eliminated from any chance at a 2014 post season berth.
From this point on that number will grow constantly until the final 10 spots are secure and the celebration champagne flows around the league.
Sure I want to see the Tampa Bay Rays in that hunt until the end, and possibly get a chance to fight again even if it is Game 163 to claim that glistening trophy. If this team needs any visual reminder of how they are respected around baseball……just play the video above.
It sucks that once again the Rays are not included in clips showing spectacular game ending plays, walk-off heroics or even a hint of pitching brilliance. That video in itself would make me work a bit harder, grind a bit longer and produce a bay of salty sweat to grip another post season chance.
Sure time is passing quickly for any rise of the Rays to get within single digits of even a chance at an American League East title. But maybe, just maybe if this team can duplicate their recent road magical essence at home, they could easily erase a few competitors, start a righteous climb up the Wild Card ladder and grasp a chance of baseball in October.
I am one of those fans who believes until the door is shut. That Destiny, Hope and even her twin Faith can embrace this Rays squad and help them on their journey.
This Rays home stand will decide if they travel upward or slide down further out of any contention.
. To add a little bit of spice and additional drama to the mix is the pure fact the Rays play 22 of these final 28 game against their A L East rivals.
That's right, the Rays only have 2 sets of 3-game series against the Chicago White Sox (@ home) and the Cleveland Indians (in C-town) outside the confines of the A L East.
The Rays have will play Baltimore Orioles only 3 more time ( 3-Home) this season, the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees each 6 more times ( 3-Home, 3-Away) this season.
But there is a bright and shining light as the Rays will get the chance to face the current cellar dwelling Boston Red Sox 7 times (4-Home, 3-Away) before the season wraps up.
It is no longer about playing .500 ball over the rest of the season.
During their current AL East only home stand, the Rays might have to win 7-8 of these contests to make their future a bit brighter before they head on a 6-game New York, Toronto road trip.
Now is the time to win at all costs, it is truly time for this Rays squad to fully articulate and embrace that this home stand is the true essence of a proverbial "Put up or shut up" moment.
With only 28 games left in the 2014 schedule the Rays have to intensify their game and win at least 18-20 of these contests at a minimum to be within the last cloud of dust for a post season slot.
Now is the time for the Rays to truly leave it all on the field.
Winning Will Cure the Rays Current Blues
As the Tampa Bay Rays players and staff assembled on the Tropicana Field turf after Sundays game in their "Loud Pants" ensembles for their chartered flight to New York it is apparent the team is trying to do evereything possible to again set the course of this Rays ship in the right direction. Losing 2 out of 3 against the pesky Angels this weekend did nothing for the Rays confidence level as they head into a critcal 4-game mosh with the New York Yankees.
Losing right now should be the last thing on the Rays menu right now The Tampa Bay Rays do not need to be sputtering at this important juncture of the season. The Rays need to resemble more of a classic muscle car (69 Camaro) and use their offensive horsepower to thrust right through the next two weeks with their hair on fire. This is not the time to become in any way timid or secure, then get trampled by letting another team get the best of them as they daydream of the future.
Every single team and players the Rays will play against during the duration of this 2010 season is going to try to knock the Rays off the post season mountain top and cause them stumble or flutter. The Orioles, Mariners and Royals have nothing to lose except a few 2011 MLB Draft positions. It will be on their immediate radar that if they can,as a spoiler team put their own late season exclamation point on their year by defeating the Rays in a game or shocking them in a series, they will do it in a New York minute.
But first the Rays have to digest firmly in their own minds that they will collectively begin to stop defeating themselves on the field. Small mistakes right now have shown huge reprecussions, and wins right now come at a premium price. I will give Desmond Jennings a break in getting thrown out in a rundown the other night because he might have misread a sign or the pitcher's motion.
Rookies make those mistakes. But the Rays have to eliminate that possible mistake scenario and focus and adjust accordingly to what the opposition is going to give them for the rest of the season. Every single mistake no matter how small on the surface will be magnified and could be a key element towards a defeat. Eliminating simple mistakes could be a key component to the success or failure of this team over the next two weeks.
Right now the Rays are not playing to their true potential. For some reason they seem to shift into a defensive mode or shell after obtaining a lead and then try not to make critical mistakes instead of going out and playing the "Rays Way" and strongarm a team like the Angels.
The number of 1-run games recently played in by the Rays might not signal a offensive slowdown on the field, but the Rays current offense seems to be on a tethered leash and needs to break away soon. If not, the Rays might be packing for an away series in the American League Divisional Series instead of flaunting a home field advantage.
The Rays have given the Minnesota Twins ample time to rally and converge fast upon the Rays for a shot at homefield advantage in the post season, and might even give the Twins a chance topass both the Rays and New York Yankees soon and control their own postseason destiny.
That can not happen. The Twins must be kept down in the second or third seed range for the Rays to get a favorable match-up that provides them an honest chance to again get to the American League Championship Series. Any stumbles or bumbles from this point on gives not only the Yankees and Twins a "leg-up" on the Rays, but give the Texas Rangers a dose of confidence that the stumbling Rays might be an easier target to defeat in the post season.
The next four days in their series against the Yankees should be a major battle for the Rays to secure their second American League East title. Any deviation from the ultimate game plan could tumble the Rays into a second place scenario and then the Rays will have to await their possible opponent and fate after October 4th.
Most Rays fans have acknowledged that a split or better in this series is within the Rays firm grasp, and a falter at all to lose more than two games in this series will be the possible boot step the Yankees will use to secure the division and become clean and clear of the Rays carnage over their final games.
This is the time for the Rays veterans to come to the front and bring the young guys with them to blow this Yankee series and the Rays offensive machine into high gear. This is the time for destiny and fate to either join together in the Rays cause or see this team falter. The next four games will set the overall tone of the Rays final home stand, and provide the Rays with a chance for the enitre team to celebrate with the home fans instead of by themselves possibly in Kansas City.
Right now the stars are aligned for the Rays to possibly clinch next Sunday in front of the afternoon crowd at Tropicana Field. With a current "Magic Number" of 8, the Rays know that any loss, or wins by the Boston Red Sox, who also begin a 3-game series against the Baltimore Orioles tonight could put another banana peel on the Rays path to the post season. Winning right now provides a more solid foundation going into the final games and the playoffs.
It is as simple as Nike always says, "Just Do It", and the Rayscan come home to the Trop late Thursday night for the last home stand with a renewed sense of gusto and bravado that will propel them into the playoffs.
The game plan is simple, just win and the rest will take of itself. But even the simplest of plans can run into hidden traps and slight deviations from the norm. For those trying moments,maybe another simple premise of "adjusting and conquering on the fly" will be in order to provide success for the Rays.
No need trying to complicate the rest of the year's game plan. Winning breeds success and bolsters the positioning the Rays will need to rise to the top again. All we need now is a quick adjust ment or tune-up to our offensive machine, then the Rays can rev up those motors to rhe redline and get some much needed distance between themselves and those dastardly Twins and Yankees. Plus a few well placed wins also put the final dagger into the Red Sox still beating playoff heart. That in itself should be motivation enough.


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Who let the dogs out?
In 2009 the Baha Men's lyrics felt caustic, clever, comical and slightly subversive, perfect for the debauched Las Vegas bachelor party that was about to unfold. Phil, Stu and Alan — a.k.a. the Wolfpack, played by Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis — were about to begin their politically incorrect, impossibly irreverent and consistently perverse struggle to reconstruct the night and figure out where they lost the groom.
Side-splittingly hilarious, it used a heady blend of Mike Tyson, a Bengal tiger, a hooker, a baby, a chicken and a crazed, screaming and sometimes naked Mr. Chow to incredible comic effect. The movie came out of the blue. It was blue — its hard-R edge took the summer by surprise.
And then it took the summer.
Ah, those were the days, historic even, when "The Hangover" stood for something. For better or worse a cultural threshold had been crossed, the raunch rules rewritten.
And now? I'm not sure who let the dogs out this time, but they should be made to pay.
Or forced to suffer the fate of the giraffe in the ubiquitous trailers — the one whose long, lovely neck won't clear the low clearance bridge. The giraffe is only a portent of bad things to come. The audacious jokiness of a chicken picking through the morning-after wreckage in the first film has devolved into fighting cocks being thrown out windows and worse.
If I were going to point fingers — and I am — I'd suggest the first mistake was in jettisoning the original writers. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who came up with the characters, the idea and the story in the first place, are now relegated to "character credit," and cashing checks I'm sure.
Initially, director Todd Phillips seemed to know what he was doing — that the best way to handle all the outrageousness was to be even more outrageous. It worked.
Phillips stayed to direct the Wolfpack's disappointing wedding trip to Thailand for 2011's "Part II." And he's the man in charge of "Part III." Meanwhile the box office, along with the myth that the "Hangover" is still funny, has hung on long after the comedy has left the building.
Phillips and Craig Mazin co-wrote the three-quel, dropping Scot Armstrong, who helped them with the dirty work on "Part II." Since Phillips' name keeps turning up like a bad penny, let's put the blame for the down-slide on his shoulders. In fact, let's send him to the Bangkok prison where "The Hangover Part III" begins.
Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) is incarcerated inside its ancient walls and as things get underway the inmates are in full rebellion. Toilet paper, beds, guards, basically anything within reach is raining down. By the time we see Chow, he's racing through the tunnels that snake their way under the prison. Sewage is involved.
Something has to be concocted to get the guys back together and us to the theater. Instead of a wedding, it's an intervention to get Alan into rehab in Arizona. There are problems as soon as they hit the road, most significantly a kidnapping, with Justin Bartha reprising his missing person's role as Doug.
The conflict comes in the form of a series of detours. Chow has taken a bunch of gold from a mob guy named Marshall (John Goodman). Because of Alan's connection to the Asian outlaw — there's a trail of prison letters — Marshall is threatening to kill Doug in three days if they don't deliver Chow and the gold.
Jeong's time with the Wolfpack has been well spent, turning him into one of Hollywood's highest profile punch lines — a featured player in seven films this year alone and a series regular on NBC's "Community." It has also made him perhaps the most visible Asian actor since Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee and Jet Li kicked their way into the game, which only underscores the difficulty for rising male talents such as John Cho ("Star Trek," "Harold & Kumar"), who are trying to get beyond the stereotypes.
Whatever "The Hangover" has done for Jeong, it is equally telling what he has done for the franchise. His sideshow-freak Mr. Chow has become the main attraction in "Part III." Like the Demerol that Stu is forced to dispense many times in the next hour or so, Chow is much better in very small doses.
Before the smoke clears there will be a run-in with the Mexican police, a reconnection with former hooker Jade (Heather Graham), a flirtation with a Vegas pawn broker (Melissa McCarthy), yet another wedding and yet another morning-after in which Stu's body once again serves as a reminder of how bad things got.
Galifianakis, the comic gift in the first, keeps on giving. Just not as generously. Still, what humor there is to be found in "Part III" is due to that innocent idiocy he embodies in the 42-year-old man-child of Alan.
For the most part, though, the Wolfpack has grown meaner over time. Cooper's main job, except for one cool stunt atop Caesars Palace, is to look good, drop F-bombs and scowl. Helms' role is to remain angry and insecure about the whole dentist-versus-doctor thing.
Chow, if possible, is more bitter than ever. If old friends have to be sacrificed to keep Marshall's fortune, so be it.
Come to think of it, Chow is actually an apt metaphor for the movie — indescribably irritating and only in it for the money.
'The Hangover Part III'
MPAA rating: R for pervasive language including sexual references, some violence and drug content, brief graphic nudity
Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
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It's getting to be pecan season again. Yeah! I've already posted my personal favorite pecan pie recipe. Tuesday was Hubs birthday. He loves pecan pie so I planned on making him a pecan pie for his birthday. He also choose lasagna for his birthday dinner. He made the pasta sheets himself! So after getting caught up making lasagna( really awesome lasagna!)I ran out of time. I remembered reading a recipe in The Pastry Queen cookbook for some pecan pie bars. Because they have a shortbread crust and didn't need to cook as long as the pie I knew they'd be done in time.
Wow are these bars great. They are basically a pecan pie on a shortbread crust that you can pick up. No fork needed. Portable pecan pie, what could be better! These bars are crunchy/gooey in all the right places.
We also thought the coconut was a great addition. The next time I make these, (and there will be a next time!) I'm going to throw in a couple handfuls of chocolate chips.
So now I have two favorite pecan pie/dessert.
Texas Pecan Pie Bars
source: Rebecca Rather, The Pastry Queen
Yield: 1 dozen
1 1/4 cups unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup firmly packed golden brown sugar
4 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
8 large eggs
6 cups firmly packed golden brown sugar
1/4 cup Bourbon (recipe says optional but you'll be missing out if you leave it out!)
6 Tbl unsalted butter, melted
2 Tbl Vanilla Extract
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
2 cups pecan halves
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 12 by 17-inch baking pan with butter or cooking spray.
2. Using a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. beat the butter and brown sugar in a large bowl on medium speed about 1 minute. Add the flour and salt; mix on low speed until evenly incorporated but still crumbly.
3. Press the mixture evenly over the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake the crust for 15 to 20 minutes, until it has darkened to a deep golden brown. Leave the oven at 350°F.
1. Whisk the eggs and sugar in a large bowl until blended. Stir in the bourbon, butter, vanilla, flour, and salt, then the coconut and pecans.
2. Pour the filling over the cooled crust, spreading evenly. Bake until set, 25 to 30 minutes.
Cool thoroughly, at least 30 minutes, before cutting into 3-inch squares or diamonds.


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Tom Higgins, NASCAR's storyteller, will have story told in Hall of Fame
We have always known around The Charlotte Observer that Tom Higgins is a hall of fame storyteller.
On Friday, NASCAR made it official.
Higgins, a larger-than-life character for half a century at our newspaper and still a contributor to our pages, was announced Friday as the fourth recipient of the Squier-Hall Award for NASCAR Media Excellence. Higgins will be honored during NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Jan. 30, 2015, and featured in an exhibit at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte.
"Tom knew every inductee into the NASCAR Hall of Fame personally, so it's only fitting that he join them," said Mike Persinger, the Observer's executive sports editor.
The Observer was the first newspaper to cover every race in NASCAR's top series. And for decades, Higgins was a star in NASCAR's pressbox. He loved to laugh, loved to listen and, most of all, loved to tell stories.
"You knew when he was in the press box or the media center, and you knew when he was in the paper," Persinger said.
Somebody better cut off Higgins' microphone at a pre-determined time at the hall of fame induction ceremony in 2015. Otherwise, we will all be sitting there for another hour listening to Ol' Tom talk about once having a beer at the White House with first brother Billy Carter in 1978, or watching Richard Petty lead a conga line of dancers in 1992, or seeing driver Harry Gant catch 19 rainbow trout in 19 casts during an Alaskan fishing trip in 1985 and then wade back onto shore, yelling, "I've got to get out of this water. They're a-chasing me!"
On second thought, though, don't cut off the microphone. Higgins at full throttle is one of life's singular pleasures.
"One of the things that makes Tom special is that he is a natural storyteller, a skill that came in handy covering NASCAR," Persinger said. "Writing about the pioneers of a sport that was intensely of the Carolinas and the South, Tom saw history firsthand and gave the characters life on the pages of the Observer."
Higgins' deep admiration for both the sport he covered and the men who built and raced those cars seeped through all of his writing. As Higgins once described the 1958 Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C., which was the first major stock-car race he covered: "Storybook stuff, only it was real. I never imagined that cars could go so fast, or that men would be crazy enough to drive them."
By the time I arrived at the Observer in 1994, Higgins was already a local legend. He had grown up in the job, and NASCAR had grown up along with him. Once just a good ol' Southern boy covering good ol' Southern boys on dirt tracks around the South, Higgins had been sent as far away as Australia on assignment as NASCAR's popularity skyrocketed.
As NASCAR hall of famer Ned Jarrett once said at an awards banquet in 2011 in a story later recounted by ESPN: "Tom was the voice of the sport when it came to the written word. My driving career goes all the way back to 1953. When I started winning races a few years later, you would go to Victory Lane and then go to talk to the media – we called it the press back then. It would be the track public-address announcer and Tom Higgins. That was usually it."
Higgins helped tutor me in the sport. Walking through a garage with Higgins was like having an all-access pass at a rock concert. He knew everyone, and everyone knew him. The Earnhardts, the Pettys, the Frances, the Bakers – Higgins was on a first-name basis with all of NASCAR's first families.
And when tragedy struck the sport, as it did with some regularity during NASCAR's earlier, more dangerous days, Higgins took the losses very hard. Those were his friends.
Always, with myself and others, Higgins was generous with his time. I didn't know a lug nut from a spoiler at the beginning, but Higgins never made me feel foolish about it.
Higgins officially retired from our newspaper in 1997, but he has never totally left us. He has continued to write online and in print for both our racing and outdoors pages – he was originally hired by the newspaper as an outdoors writer, and his father had been a game warden.
When I wanted to take a couple of my boys fishing on Lake Norman in 2010, I asked Higgins to recommend a local guide. Not only did he hook me up with a great one, he also came along on the trip.
"I just love to see kids catch fish," he drawled, and we caught a boatload that day.
But for most longtime Observer readers – and now forever in NASCAR's hall of fame – Higgins' name will be synonymous with racing. As Persinger said: "I was lucky enough to work with two legends of journalism early in my career, two men who always made me look better as an editor because they always had the goods. Ron Green Sr. was one. Tom Higgins is the other."


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I have a cart with another cart on top which gets pulled down by another cart on the side. There is no friction.
The question is:
How strongly do I have to push with $F$ to keep the cart $m_1$ stable?
I work in the system of the cart $m_3$. This system accelerates with some $a$. The force of inertia pulls back on $m_1$ with $m_1 a$. That is opposed by the gravitational force of $m_2$, which is simply $m_2 g$.
The acceleration that I need for this to be stable is:
$$ a = \frac{m_2}{m_1} g $$
Here comes the point I am not too sure about:
The force is on $m_3$ and on $m_2$, so the driving force would be this:
$$ F = (m_2 + m_3) \frac{m_2}{m_1} g $$
On second thought, I think also need to accelerate $m_1$ some way or another, so that my total force would be a little higher:
$$ F = (m_1 + m_2 + m_3) \frac{m_2}{m_1} g $$
I prefer the latter, but what is the right solution?