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When the PSTN leaves, will your phone number stay?IP telephony, PSTN, telecom service providers, Unified Communications
As the public switched telephone network (PSTN) blinks out of existence, carriers are left wondering what will become of it's by-product: the telephone number. Will it go down with the ship, or will it become the life raft — connecting islands of communications?
I called on Voxbone's vice president of Strategic Alliances, Hugh Goldstein, to answer this question. He took part in a panel discussion yesterday at ITEXPO in Las Vegas on the future of the phone number. Here's what he had to say:
How will telephone numbers be common denominators between networks?
Hugh Goldstein: Voxbone has a big vested interest in this question because we've built a business around telephone numbers. The thing is that telephone numbers are very useful, yet they're linked to this legacy system that a lot of thought leaders in the industry believe will eventually go away. So there's a big debate from people at industry conferences on what the future will look like for telephone numbers. For the next 10-20 years, I expect everyone is going to continue to see telephone numbers in their daily lives. Part of the reason is that it's the common denominator between networks. When we have islands of IP communications we can use any [connector] you like — some SIP networks use email-address-like identifiers. If you have a provider, whether it be an over-the-top (OTT) service like Skype, or you have an enterprise that's built its own private network, they can use [that identifier language] within their own island. But when they want to go outside of that island, the telephone number is the common denominator. That's what everyone uses to find the destination for a call to make communication work.
What might be the long term solution for connecting disparate communication systems?
Goldstein: Long term, there might be other systems that become popular. But at this point in time it's difficult for any one new paradigm to really take a strong position unless there is a huge critical mass of customers just getting on board with it. Even though Skype has many hundreds of millions of users, there's not any big push to make a Skype ID the new telephone number, because it's attached to one individual company and it's proprietary. Telephone numbers are international, regulated — the property of countries essentially — and they're managed by international organizations regulators, so they're viewed as being neutral. That's a very strong attribute, even though we're seeing lots of ideas come about. It's still the telephone number that sits in front of a lot of IP services today.
Why might telephone numbers be replaced?
Goldstein: If there's a complaint about telephone numbers, it's that they're not that easy to remember by people. People prefer language-based things. [But] if that's the complaint of telephone numbers, an IP address of the length of IPv6 complexity would be worse. We all have lots of other different identifiers that are useful for us, like Facebook names, email addresses, [and] Skype names, but the telephone number is something that can link everything together.
How are telephone numbers being used as the common denominator between networks today?
Goldstein: One thing we find in our business [for OTT providers] is that businesses like to have numbers in different geographies. It's something that helps them deal with global markets. So if you run a business in L.A. and you sell to people in Japan, France and Brazil, [and] if you only put an L.A. number there, it's still difficult for people around the world to call an L.A. number. It's a perceived economic barrier. Not everyone's phone plans allows them to call international. Some of them feel reluctant to dial that international number. Maybe there's perceived language issues. But let's say in that scenario they put a Japanese, French and Brazilian number up on their webpage — that opens up the game and allows people in those markets to call and interact to do business with them. [For] Voxbone and other OTT providers like us, the cost to add numbers like that … is very low. So a lot of over-the-top and hosted PBX providers, I think they've found this as something that customers like. For their businesses, it's a way to increase the average revenue per user, because that business is very competitive based on price, so there's a certain amount that you can realistically charge for a phone line and voicemail. But now with international numbers, suddenly that customer in L.A. is [saying;] 'I'll upgrade my account, and I'll add the number in Tokyo, Rio and Paris, and they see a lot of value in doing that. That's what's happening today and that illustrates to an extent why [phone] numbers are still very important.
Continue this interview: Calling all OTT providers: Enterprises want your UC services!
Video content management wrangles streaming video in the workplaceMagic Quadrant, Unified Communications
Employees are streaming more video at work and it's not just cat videos on YouTube. Enterprise video content management is the latest service to emerge in the UC market as interest in enterprise video streaming grows. What exactly is video content management? Any software, appliances or software as a service (SaaS) offering that manages or facilitates the delivery of on-demand video (one-to-any device) across the Web, according to Gartner's Magic Quadrant.
Compared to 2012, the number of hours workers have spent streaming video at the office has risen from 7.2 to 10.8 hours per user, per month. Gartner projects that by 2016, enterprises will stream more than 16 hours of video per user, per month. Video streaming is catching on as enterprises use the technology to improve collaboration, customer service, employee training and advertisements. To prevent the increased video streaming from congesting the network, enterprises are turning to video providers for management services.
While the enterprise video content management market has grown significantly, Gartner said it is too early to forecast the market's future or estimate market size. However, Gartner found that most enterprises are looking at SaaS or hybrid video content management services. Gartner predicts that SaaS for streaming video will continue to grow in the market, especially for organizations that want to use video to target customers or avoid unpredictable storage infrastructure costs.
In its Magic Quadrant, Gartner named two market leaders: Qumu and Kaltura.
California-based Qumu offers a secure video content management system that not only lets IT pros manage and distribute content to any platform/device, but also allows them to capture video from any source and automate streaming and downloading. Qumu was founded in 2000 and acquired by legacy video vendor Rimage in 2011. The company identifies enterprise video content management as its best potential for revenue growth.
According to Gartner, Qumu's strengths include:
— a strong hybrid storage model that allows third parties to be storage partners;
— its partnership with audio search specialist Nexidia;
— and a modularized workflow that makes room for external processes.
However, Gartner says Qumu's pricing model is challenging and difficult to interpret.
Kaltura, based in New York, was founded in 2006 and claims to be the only open source online video platform. It offers a modular platform where IT pros can customize and develop aspects of the service, like the management, publishing, distribution and analysis. Kaltura also offers a social video portal for employees and a video extension for Sharepoint.
Gartner noted that in addition to the company's strong customization, other strengths include:
–a hybrid storage model that allows for third party partners;
–a highly flexible workflow engine; and
–flexible analytics that can serve just about any use case.
Gartner cautioned that transcription for search and other functions provided by Kaltura are licensed from other vendors and the administration and management interface requires more streamlining to make it easier use.
Other providers ranked on the Magic Quadrant include Panopto as the sole visionary; Polycom, Cisco, Kontiki, Ignite, KZO Innovations and Brightcove as challengers; and Sonic Foundry, VBrick Systems and Media Platform as niche players.
HBO's Silicon Valley demos five UC pain points in three minutesConnection Issues, Telepresence, Unified Communications, Video conferencing
Of the growing number of shows starring geeks (Big Bang Theory, The IT Crowd, Halt and Catch Fire) none epitomize the pain points of unified communications (UC) as profoundly as the recent TeleHuman sketch from HBO's Silicon Valley.
If you haven't watched Mike Judge's new show yet, it's a satire of Silicon Valley's high-tech glamour. And while it portrays IT companies at work, its sexual humor and irreverent language make it decidedly unsuitable to watch at work. With that disclaimer, this hilarious clip between characters Big head and Hooli CIO Gavin Belson perfectly illustrates five UC pain points in three minutes.
Before I hash out each pain point, for those more interested in the show than the technology, I invite you to "tune out" the tech talk as figuratively or literally as you like (a la the electric guitarist lawyer in Episode 4).
Enter UC pain point No. 1—cost—where a translucent Belson materializes in a body-size tube, dubbed the TeleHuman, in front of Big Head.
In disbelief, Big Head exclaims "Wow! Cool, am I a TeleHuman over there, too?"
Belson scoffs, "What? No, of course not."
For years, the cost of cutting edge telepresence technology, like holographic telepresence, has prohibited all but the rich and famous from using it. Big Head, like the vast majority, is one of the honored few to witness such exclusive technology. Despite a promising start to the telepresence industry, in 2014 more businesses are leaning toward cloud-based video conferencing than deploying full-fledged holograms—though a telepresence business case still stands for certain verticals, like medicine.
When the TeleHuman breaks down and distorts Belson, we're taken to UC pain point No. 2: reliability. Nothing is more frustrating than spending boat loads of money on a product that isn't working right. If UC tech were truly plug-and-play, we wouldn't have IT engineers devoted to setting up and architecting a system smooth enough to handle the high demands of voice and video.
What's UC pain point No. 3—you ask? Ease of use (or lack thereof). Belson illustrates this when he yells at tech support to troubleshoot a failed image projection:
Belson: Can you help me please?
Tech support: OK, I think what happened was when you set it up you forgot to –
Belson: I didn't set it up. I paid one of you people to set it up.
The fact that tech support or white-glove services are still needed for some technologies is another barrier to video conferencing adoption.
For pain point No. 4, I'd like to point out the lack of unified UC solutions. When the TeleHuman breaks down, Big Head and the team are forced to break open a laptop and call Belson back using Hooli chat, which is subsequently downgraded to a cell phone conversation. That degradation doesn't come from network-aware technology, however. Employees still need to go to a laptop, open an application and find the person to communicate with (or resort to their cell phones to find the appropriate contact). With true unified communications, the technology can move seamlessly between one communication mode to the next. While vendors are working their way toward unifying solutions—much of today's UC technology exists in disparate environments that beg to be connected.
Which brings us to the last UC pain point: No. 5, the network. UC technology like video is only as good as the network it runs on. Arguably my favorite line from this Silicon Valley scene is the one in which a polite Gavin Belson appears on Hooli chat to say "The TeleHuman is a great piece of technology. Unfortunately, the broadband isn't that great out here in rural Wyoming. That presents a great business opportunity." This scene repeats almost verbatim a conversation I had with RingCentral's VP of operations. He harped on needing broadband in order to move dynamically between modes of communication. As far as broadband accessibility, he said; "I think the U.S. is doing a lot to be there. If you live in a major city, you're fine; but in rural areas, we're still lagging behind."
While UC technology has matured a great deal over the course of decades, the industry still has a ways to go. Scenes like Silicon Valley's UC sketch are funny because we've all been there—we've all cursed at the Godforsaken technology that's meant to make lives easier. But IT pros can be the heroes/heroines at the end of the day. While broadband availability and UC unification may not be in your hands, the network is. For more advice, Ovum Principal Analyst Mike Sapien offers his take on how to keep your UC deployment from failing.
Photo: Gavin Belson materializes in the TeleHuman
Are dual-mode communications double the trouble?
We're living in a world of "dual-mode communications." This was an argument made by Neil Schubert at the Mobile & Wireless World conference seven years ago. We have to have two of everything in order to separate our work and personal lives: a work laptop and a personal laptop; a work phone and a personal phone.
But hold the phone. If you have a mobile device for work, you're in the minority. In a recent article on mobile UC integration limitations, Nemertes Research co-founder Irwin Lazar found that "92% of companies implement bring your own device (BYOD) policies, allowing employees to use personal smartphones to connect to corporate applications."
Flash forward to 2014, you won't hear anyone talk about "mobile" without "BYOD" in the same breath. But today's "BYOD" is more like "BYOBD – bring your own business device," according to Curtis Peterson, vice president of operations at RingCentral, in an interview on business communication.
Peterson believes this because of the restrictions that go along with connecting personal mobile devices to corporate applications, like letting employees use only certain devices purchased at certain locations. But even if a company doesn't make an employee add an asset sticker to the back of the phone, most enterprises — in the name of security — will remotely wipe a phone if it becomes lost. While we have moved mostly away from having to carry both a work and a personal mobile phone, employees have had to become their work persona at the expense of their personal one.
"Kudos to businesses for convincing employees to go buy their equipment for them, but it becomes a challenge down the road in terms of trust and privacy," Peterson said.
While some companies, like DropBox, are spinning off its consumer-grade products into offerings geared towards the enterprise, others, like RingCentral, allow employees to switch between work and personal resources on mobile devices. This is called dual persona or mobile device management (MDM).
"MDM remains a vital component in monitoring key device issues and assuring configuration and compliance with organizational operating policies related to this aspect of management," wireless expert Craig Mathias said in a tip on mobility management.
While this begins to solve the problem, it's just one part of the dual-mode communication predicament. "We might sum up here by stating that MDM is a necessary, but not a sufficient, mobility management capability today," Mathias said.
For a while, linking mobile devices to an overall unified communication strategy may be as complex as managing the devices themselves. Though the need is there, the market may still have some catching up to do.
Plantronics pins hopes on next-gen wearable technology to 'unify UC'
ORLANDO – Imagine using your headset not just for calls, but to adjust the temperature of your conference room or pull up documents you need for your meeting. With the advancement of next-generation wearable technology, those capabilities may not be so far off.
Discussing the future of wearable technology at Enterprise Connect 2014, Plantronics CTO Joe Burton said next-generation wearable tech in the enterprise "can bend the Web to you" to perform those hypothetical capabilities.
Current wearable technology shows the potential for next-generation products to go beyond simply taking voice calls. Intelligent headsets available from Plantronics already have capabilities that detect how near or far users are from their computers and allow users to seamlessly switch calls between mobile devices and their headsets, Burton said.
"We can use a bunch of next-gen technology to begin restoring all of the fidelity of face-to-face interaction and apply that to many business workflows in a way that's compelling," he said.
Burton said Plantronics' focus is on evolving intelligent headset technology to solve relevant business issues for people, from the headset determining which conference room is free to the ability send contextual information, such as a user's non-verbal cues, through a call.
Asked whether consumer market wearable technology like Google Glass could be reconciled with enterprise wearable technology, Burton said there will be no consolidation of devices into "one device to rule them all."
"What we have found is that for the most part, having multiple cooperative devices that do things well makes a ton of sense," he said.
He said devices like Samsung's smartwatches and FitBit wristbands aren't quite there yet in terms of giving users what they need in wearable technology.
"I think it's very early days [in wearable technology], and while we're coming at it from a headset perspective, what we're keenly focused on is… the problems people would love to solve that these new technologies can solve," he said. "We've been a headset company for 54 years; there is a lot of room to run in making real-time communication better."
Will the dying desk phone reinvent itself as a 'multimedia device'?
ORLANDO – With the use of mobile devices and BYOD growing in the enterprise, will desk phones go the way of the rotary phone, or can they be reinvented for the future?
At Enterprise Connect 2014, signs appear to point toward reinvigorating the traditional desk phone. For desk phones to compete with soft phones and mobile devices, they must do more than just provide a voice service.
Of course, vendors weigh in with different points of view, which also depend on the devices their companies support.
"The hard phone right now wins, but it's fading," said Bill Woodall, Unify's director of UC technology.
Microsoft Lync Product Manager Jamie Stark agreed, saying that while desk phone sales continue to increase, it isn't a sign of the their sustainability. Instead, as enterprises trend toward mobility and BYOD, the market will start to see hard phone sales dropping, he said.
ShoreTel's Senior Director of Product Marketing Bernard Gutnick agreed. "People do more work outside of the workplace — work is a function rather than a place," he said. As a result, users are moving away from hard phones that require them to be tied to their desks.
But newer editions of desk phones are becoming what Craig Walker, senior director of communications business at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, called "multimedia devices" that offer features like instant message translation to voice or video through the hard phone.
"The concept is it isn't just a phone number anymore, it is a single identification from a system," Walker said.
As for hard phones going beyond voice services, Gutnick noted that ShoreTel announced a new line of desk phones, the 400 Series, that allow for integration with cloud applications.
ShoreTel rounds out cloud offering with new 400 series for ShoreTel Sky
ORLANDO — ShoreTel announced today at Enterprise Connect 2014 that it is now shipping its 400 series IP phones for ShoreTel Sky, a series of three new deskphone options for cloud customers.
The new deskphones designed for ShoreTel's cloud-based PBX service will come in three versions: the IP480, IP480G and IP485G. The phones will range from basic dialing, grayscale display and speakerphone functionality in the IP480, to backlit color display options in the IP485G. All three of the new ShoreTel Sky series will allow for integration with cloud applications, the company said.
The new deskphone series will complement the vendor's ShoreTel 400 series IP phones for premises-based deployments, which have been available since last fall. The new phone series for ShoreTel Sky is now shipping through the vendor's channel partners, and will offer ShoreTel Sky users a more integrated experience to complement their cloud service, said Bernard Gutnick, senior director of product marketing for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based ShoreTel. "The 400 phones play an important part in reinforcing and controlling the end-to-end ShoreTel experience we want to give our resellers to offer to their cloud customers," Gutnick said. The ShoreTel Sky service was previously sold with Cisco deskphones.
The company is also displaying the fruits of its recent integration with SalesForce.com at the conference — ShoreTel for SalesForce and ShoreTel Sky for Salesforce — two new applications that integrate Salesforce with the ShoreTel on-premises IP-PBX system, and the ShoreTel Sky cloud-based phone service. The integration will allow users to work within one application while collaborating in real-time, the company said.
Business pros want to text, too
Short message service (SMS) text messages have been unofficially part of the collaboration strategy for many enterprises for years. Now, new messaging services are popping up, aimed at taking advantage of this market need and filling in the security gaps left by text messaging from personal devices.
HeyWire Business, a Cambridge, Mass.-based mobile tech startup that broke out of stealth mode last year, introduced a cloud-based business messaging platform which allows users to send and receive SMS messages via their office phone number.
Once the HeyWire Business Messenger app is downloaded by the user, the cloud-based service allows users to plug their landline office phone numbers into the HeyWire Business Cloud. Text messages sent to landline numbers are routed to HeyWire's network. Users can then read the messages on any Android or iOS mobile device in the U.S. Messages can be sent back and forth right from HeyWire's app, which has been designed with enterprise IT requirements in mind. The HeyWire app allows users to attach an auto-reply policy, or access their company directory. The app encrypts all messages, and an enterprise can set a policy to log the communications. .
According to a recent survey of 500 business professionals conducted by HeyWire, 67% are using text messaging for business-related communications. Of this number, 64% would like to use their business phone number, rather than their personal cell phone number for business-related texting. While the main players in this market have been the smaller players so far, Avaya recently threw its hat in the ring with its Avaya Messaging Service.
But certain industries might find smaller startups more capable of catering to their needs. TigerText, a Santa Monica-based startup similar to HeyWire, has carved out a spot for itself in this space with its ability to guarantee a secure, HIPAA-compliant SMS and picture messaging service for business users. Like the HeyWire service, messages can be sent without revealing personal cell phone numbers, and the messages are encrypted and self-destruct after a designated period of time.
As more IT teams implement mobility policies, and try to regulate SMS messages sent for business purposes, they will use messaging services to help enforce security where need be. After all, business professionals may want to text, but separation is still needed between personal and professional communication.
Huddle introduces new mobile UC app
Huddle, a cloud-based collaboration and content management vendor, updated its software to address two major UC market themes — enabling mobile UC and combining social capabilities with collaboration functionality.
Huddle Note, an iOS application, will allow employees to create content in the cloud via any device. The mobile application will serve as a "mobile Microsoft Office alternative," providing document creation and editing capabilities, in addition to feedback and approval functionality for group projects, said Alastair Mitchell, Huddle's CEO.
Huddle Note allows mobile users to share files, collaborate on content, and manage people, tasks and workflow with enterprise-level security in the cloud, Mitchell said. "Employees are used to going to Microsoft Word, creating and saving content locally, and then sending along [via] email. This is changing dramatically," he said. "[Users] are creating all sorts of new content, and that traditional Microsoft Office Stack paradigm is completely breaking down."
One of the biggest trends in the UC market for 2013 was the realization that successful use of social software required integration with the UC and collaboration tools that people were already using. The last thing users want is another platform to sign into that requires them to toggle back and forth throughout the day. Huddle recently announced its decision to partner with Tibbr, an enterprise social vendor, to bring social networking to collaboration environments.
The partnership will allow Huddle customers to share and manage their content in the cloud while socializing with colleagues. At the same time, it will also allow Tibbr users to have full use of Huddle's content collaboration service, with the ability to attach Huddle files to their status updates.
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Although the official release date of Grand Theft Auto's latest installment, Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS, has not yet been announced, news from the Associated Press (via PlanetGTA) states that the game is still on track for a winter release. Release dates are something GTA fans have come to take with a grain of salt, but this time the date sounds promising!
During Take-Two's conference this week, CEO Ben Feder mentioned that Chinatown Wars will be coming out during the company's first fiscal quarter for 2009 - meaning sometime between November 1, 2008 and January 31, 2009. More news regarding Chinatown Wars is expected to come out in the December 2008 issue of Nintendo Power, as promised in their November issue.
In the meantime, Grand Theft Auto IV has continued its sales and has finally reached 10 million units sold (to put that in perspective: Halo 3, the top-selling game of 2007, sold 4.8 million units). During the same conference in which the Chinatown Wars news was announced, Take-Two also noted that GTA IV sales have reached a total revenue of over $600 million, more than this year's most popular movie The Dark Knight!
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Expressions Dance Company will perform "X-Factor" at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, and 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in the Frist Campus Center theater.
Expressions, founded in 1970, is Princeton's oldest dance company and only all-female dance group. The group is entirely student-run and performs both student and guest choreography.
"X-Factor" features music by N.E.R.D., Maroon 5, Evanescence, Michael Jackson, Thomas Newman, Beyonce and others. The show includes ballet, pointe, modern, tap, jazz and hip-hop performances.
Tickets are free for Tiger Ticket holders, $6 for students and $10 for non-students. They are available at the Frist ticket office, (609) 258-1742. For more information, contact Alanna Phelan .
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Murray Hill has gotten a lot of press lately for its notably upgraded restaurant scene over the past couple of years. Amid Les Halles Resto, Zengo, Terroir, inoteca, Teqa is firmly among the key players in raising the neighborhood's foodie profile. Open for under two years, Teqa is a airy, elegant dimly-lit relaxing space designed by Lesly Zamor with a spacious bar and a decor that evokes South Beach and L.A. more than it does New York. It has recently managed to lure the creative genius of Los Angeles chef and taco guru, Chris Goossen to helm its kitchen.
A fierce, wife-beater-donning 38 year with a boxing background, Goossen's demeanor is both provocative and entertaining, to say the least: think: the non-compromising standards of Gordon Ramsey, and the badass mystique of Anthony Bourdain, but the L.A. version of both. Goossen's passion is to celebrate the authentic flavors of Mexico with his inventive and inspired Nouveau Mexican dishes. Goossen has created 42 original tacos with ingredients from around the world. With two decades of the restaurant business under his belt before coming to New York, Goossen brings a wealth of culinary and business acumen to the table. His previous chefing gigs include Dome and Bottega Louie in L.A. and starting his legendary Knockout Taco Truck in the City of Angeles, or "Lost Angeles" as it is cheekily referred to on his fore-arm-lengthed tattoo. Goossen's reads like an L.A. story through and through. Prior to knocking it out of the park with his taco truck, Goossen had worked as Mark Wahlberg's private chef for five years.
My dining companion and I had the opportunity to speak with Goossen briefly that evening. The first things that struck me about him were his fierceness and sense of humor. He asked us to pardon the wife-beater, and made a charming joke about the temperature in his workplace. When asked what his culinary vision and message, Goossen responded that his mission is to educate. He explained that "New Yorkers don't get Mexican food." They're not accustomed to the heat and don't yet have the palate for it. Goossen aims to change that. Part of his vision is also to prove that that fine food can be served on a taco. If you doubt his cred or dedication, Goossen's created 42 tacos with ingredients from around the world.
Asked how he runs his kitchen, Goossen fired a reflex-like response: I'm a tyrannt. He talked about educating his kitchen staff by not coddling them. He practices breaking people down to build them back up and make them better than before. He summed up his approach by stating: "I'm the nicest a…(insert unisex body part) you'll ever meet." Keep reading to find out whether the dishes rise to match the persona.
The menu includes an extensive cocktail list, many of which are made with tequila and a reasonable selection of wines by the glass at the $10 range. Menu categories include appetizers, salads, (all within the $10 – $15 range) three distinct taco categories and main courses (between $17 – $24) and desserts (under $10).
I ordered a rose hibiscus tequila drink. The fresh juice flavors were very pronounced and added a natural bitter-sweet dimension to the sweet tequila undertones. My dining companion ordered spicy cucumber margarita. This was a margarita slam dunk, and is the drink that I will be sure to order on my next visit. Both cocktails were priced at $11.
Dinner began with an order of Taquitos de Carnitas and border chopped salad. The hard shell was filled with juicy braised pulled pork and flavored with salsa mexicana and a modest sprinkling of cotija cheese for creaminess. When taking our order, our server asked us about our heat-factor preferences, and we opted for mild-medium and the taquitos had just the right amount of kick.
The salad was a refreshing segue to the grounding effects of the taquitos. It consisted of vibrant shreds of farmer's kale jazzed up with jicama, bacon, breadcrumbs and a compelling citrus vinaigrette.
The Hawaiian Tuna Poke was an ingenious blend of flavors and textures. Made with fresh and generously meaty cuts of Tuna Poke sushi paired with avocado, jalapeno and a light sprinkle of togarashi, or Japanese chili powder, in a hard taco shell, this dish was excitingly scrumptious and lingered pleasantly on my blissful palate.
For the main course, I enjoyed the Oaxacan style fish of the day. On that day it happened to be the esc0lar. It was grilled with subtle seasoning which allowed for the delicate nuances of the fish's flavors to shine through. The thick chunk of fish was flaky and moist and had a light, but highly enjoyable flavor. It was paired with an elegant smattering of roasted shitake mushrooms. I later read up and escolar and learned that it has been known to cause gastric distress because of its high-oil content if consumed in inordinate quantities. I'm glad to report that I hadn't noticed any excessive oiliness and suffered no discomfort whatsoever at having enjoyed this dish.
For dessert we shared the churros with vanilla sauce. The churro orbs were crisp and puffy and had a dense but caky consistency. Resting atop a seductive bed of warm white wine-infused vanilla sauce, the dessert and the side of fresh berries that accompanied it was gone within less than a handful of minutes.
THE SERVICE: Knowledgeable and attentive without being intrusive. Our servers were consistently able to answer questions about the menu and provide guidance when necessary. Inquired about food allergies and heat-factor tolerance.
Offering a youthful vibe, foodie pleasures and reasonable tabs, Teqa's an excellent choice for an intimate dinner or for small groups of adults. It also serves lunch and weekend brunch.


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Aug 11, 2007 8:25pm
Brandyn Eugene Bettencourt
Drum Major
Good evening~
~it is about 6 o'clock finals day. The corps is on our busses and making our way to ther rose bowl. Everyone in the corps is ready, we just had our final run-through a few hours ago. It was on fire, and the corps knew it and they in-turn pushed out even more. The run-through was just breathtaking.
~as for the last two nights, we have been pleased with our performances. But we are ready to go for more than what we put out those past two nights.
~last night was the age-out ceremony. It hit home the fact that tonight is my last night to put on my uniform and perform with this awesome group of professionals. Tonight I hang up my uni for the last time, and pass the torch to the next generation of devils'.
~I am proud of the time that I have spent here; the lessons I have learned, the friends I have made, and the chance to perform on a level that many people never think of approching. It has truly been a pleasure and and honor. I thank you for letting me share some of my thoughts and experiences with you all. Again, it has been my pleasure and an honor to be a part of this organization and be able to share this with you.
~good night, I need to go prepare for finals. I remain sincerely yours~
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By Dennis Seid/NEMS Daily Journal
Renasant Bank has joined AT&T as sponsors of the annual Gum Tree Run. 2013-Gum-Tree-logo
The race is in its 36th year and will include a 10K run and 2K fun run. It will be held on Saturday, May 11 during the three-day Gumtree Festival (May 10-12)
Race director Andy Hughes said sponsorships are crucial in raising the $20,000 to $25,000 necessary to offset race costs.
The Gum Tree 10K is the largest in the state, attracting 1,000 to 1,200 runners. Hughes hopes to reach a record 1,500 this year.
Procees from the race are donated to Habitat for Humanity in Tupelo. The race is its biggest fund raiser of the year, said Habitat director Donna Jarrell.
In the past eight years, the Gum Tree race has raised about $40,000 for Habitat for Humanity.
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I keep my PM box full. Use email to contact me: firstname.lastname@example.com.
I fully predict the dems will lose their supermajority in 2010. In the meantime, republicans have nothing to fear apparently. Getting even a democratic supermajority to agree and pass legislation is like herding cats.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
How about this one??
If, and I say if, this were to happen the Dems will begin to panic.
They want to keep their jobs.
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That probably says more about my reading, voting, and posting skillz than about my perl competance, but I'm happy regardless.
Debian ~ Zeroconf
After my previous errors with libhowl0 I managed to get something working.
Hacking x11vnc to announce itself whenever it starts (with a nasty fork()/exec() combo).
Now when I launch xvncviewer I am presented with a list of hosts upon the LAN which have active VNC servers running.
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ARTS-3113 Printmaking: Intaglio and Relief
Designed to introduce you to the tools, history, and basic techniques of printmaking through the use of the etching press. Etching, drypoint, collograph, relief, and monotype techniques will be discussed. Students are encouraged to explore the problems and concerns of their own images technically through multiples and one-of-a-kind prints. A series of critiques, group discussions, research and information gathering assignments, lectures and demonstrations complement studio work. This course is normally offered in the fall semester.


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The Ole Miss defense forced two turnovers and held Georgia's potent rushing game to 3.3 yards per carry. Punter Jim Broadway averaged 45.6 yards on eight attempts.
The defensive line interior played well, Issac Gross with seven tackles and a sack, and Gilbert Pena with six tackles.
Defensive end C.J. Johnson had seven tackles and 1.5 sacks.
Thumbs Down
Mistakes in the Ole Miss secondary led to a big day from Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray. The Rebels' offense couldn't run the ball, was unable to capitalize on the Georgia turnovers and gave up three turnovers of its own.
Keys For Victory
Evaluating the keys for victory in Saturday's GameDay section:
1. Keep up with Jones: A check mark here. Jarvis Jones, the SEC sack leader, had three tackles, no sacks, one tackle for loss.
While Jones was held in check, his teammate, Alec Ogletree, had a big game with 11 tackles, a sack, two tackles for loss and an interception.
2. A great game from Scott: Clearly, this didn't happen as Ole Miss averaged just 1.6 yards per attempt and was held to fewer than 100 rushing yards for the third time this season, the second-straight week. Jeff Scott had 21 yards on 13 carries.
3. Mix it up against Murray: With two of its top cornerbacks out, the Ole Miss secondary struggled with Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray.
The Rebels could have had 11 cornerbacks on the field, and it wouldn't have mattered when a freshman safety left his position in zone coverage. That's what happened at the end of the first half as Georgia took its first lead in the game.
Murray passed for 384 yards with four touchdowns and no turnovers.
Cody Prewitt. The sophomore safety led the Rebels with 11 tackles, a half sack and a fumble recovery.
Bottom Line
The Rebels were not expected to win at Georgia, but being so efficiently dominated by the opponent is always a gut-check for confidence. Now they must respond against a well-coached opponent, Vanderbilt, who is also hungry for bowl-eligibility.


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Flooding shuts three roads down in Shoshone County
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Three roads have been shut down as Shoshone County is dealing with springtime flooding.
Old Coeur d'Alene River Road from Bumble Bee Bridge is closed for 13 miles near Enaville. There are around 50 residents and two businesses in the affected area.
Shoshone County deputies went door-to-door telling people they can either evacuate or stay put. People were warned that if they stay put that the closures could last as long as five days.
"There is an unknown number this time that did not get out and are still in their homes. We think they are safe," said John Specht with Shoshone County Emergency Services.Shoshone County flooding video
Elk Prairie Road from Forest Highway 50 to Calder is also shut down, which means people have to detour 22 miles to get to St. Maries.
"It affects about sixty people. They do have a way out it's just about on extra 22 mile drive," said Specht.
Riverview Road between Enaville and Cataldo is also closed. Shoshone County Emergency Management said people are able to get out from either end.
Crews are out along the Coeur d'Alene River clearing debris that lead to clogging and erosion and are putting in rocks for more stability. For the next few days, the road closure signs will move as the river decides were it wants to go.
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Had an awful situation this past weekend where an old 18mth BLM got a hold to a 6mth Boykin pup. Almost killed him and now we are looking at 3K of reconstructive surgery on the pups jaw.
The BLM had never ever shown an aggression towards anyone or any dog. They were in the airing pen with some other dogs.
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Birthplace of the Titanic captain goes up for sale
When Stafford couple Neil and Louise Bonner paid out £35,000 for a two-bedroom house in 2002 they were also buying a chunk of history.
When Stafford couple Neil and Louise Bonner paid out £35,000 for a two-bedroom house in 2002 they were also buying a chunk of history.
The property, located on Well Street in Hanley, Stoke on Trent, is believed to be the birthplace of one Captain Edward John Smith, captain of the Titanic.
But now, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the disaster, the couple are putting the house back on the market.
Captain Smith was believed to have lived at the house until he left to begin his naval career.
He died along with 1,500 people when the ship struck an iceberg in 1912.
Neil and Louise Bonner, of Cypress Close in Baswich in Stafford, bought the house after seeing it featured on the television and have rented it out over the last decade, but now say it is time to move on. It is now on the market for £80,000.
Mrs Bonner, aged 60, a former university lecturer, added: "We just thought it would be an amazing opportunity so I mentioned it to Neil.
"It's a Victorian end of terrace built in the early 19th century and it was used as a corner shop by Captain Smith's mother. It's just a very humble and working class house. It has various outhouses.
"Captain Smith left home when he was 13 or 14-years-old and he went away to sea."
The house, which has been rented out for the last decade, is even mentioned in the current Titanic exhibition at The Potteries Museum, Hanley.
Mrs Bonner added: "We will miss the place. What we're really looking for is a Titanic enthusiast to buy it and appreciate the history of it.
"Since it went on the market it's already triggered some interest.
"One of those has included someone on the phone from a Titanic museum in Germany."
Freelance journalist Mr Bonner, aged 64, said the house had been special but with the centenary of the Titanic they believed it was a good time to sell. He said: "We bought it after seeing it featured on the BBC news.
"It's been fascinating to have had a connection to the Titanic story and it's certainly provided an interesting talking point over the years.
"We thought the time was good to let it go and have already had some interest."
For Captain Edward John Smith, commanding the Titanic on its maiden voyage to New York in 1912 should have been a fitting end to his illustrious career.
But the supposedly unsinkable ship struck an iceberg in the Atlantic and sank to the seabed on April 15. After leaving Southampton on April 10, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown, Ireland before heading westwards towards New York.
On April 14, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40pm ship's time. The glancing collision caused Titanic's hull plates to buckle inwards in a number of locations on her starboard side and opened five of her 16 watertight compartments to the sea.
Over the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually filled with water and sank.
The sale of the home is being handled by Reeds Rains in Hanley.
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i might be able to get you in Free; lmk if interested & i'll get on it
i might be able to get you in Free; lmk if interested & i'll get on it
No difference. I'm just totally swamped with work right now so I'll need to work through the weekend. Thanks though!
Well that makes 3 of us, Hey if you read this before you go, maybe we should get those passes that Sir Steve is making, then we could recognise eachother even more, i am gonna ask for one, maybe it would be a good thing to have at all the coneventions...
"I assume my reputation for arrogant presumption precedes me"-Area man
if either of you haven't bought yer tix yet say so here, cuz if not i Might be able to get you in free
thanx, but i got mine last month!
"I assume my reputation for arrogant presumption precedes me"-Area man
AAAHHHHHH!!!! I bought my weekend pass yesterday!!! How could you get in for free anyways?
Anyways, I hope to see you guys tonight!
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
Have been offline for the last 2 months, so sorry for lack of response on my part, just got back online this evening.
Am planning on a trek up to the fest, but it will be on Sat. Really wanted to see Billy Dee Williams!! Sorry I missed the Friday meeting
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R2 Up to her neck in sand on the beaches of Hawaii
Oh hey R2, nice to hear from you, we thought this one lady was you, but then we figured out it well wasn't... Me and Jay, and Touch met up and walked around for a good couple of hours. He went to meet all the guests, i left to go eat dinner, Billy will be there saturday, hopefully all day.
"I assume my reputation for arrogant presumption precedes me"-Area man
fun meetin & hangin w/you two, too bad b'jr needed to leave in a hurry eh anyhoo i posted a fuller report here
Hey all, sorry I missed out on meeting everyone. I had a ton to get done over the past few days and did not have time to check the boards. I hope you all had a great time and found somethings that you wanted without getting ripped off in the process. Less than two days, and hopefully we will all have substantially added to our respective collections. Good luck to everyone on Tuesday.


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Maximum performance without compromise, this is the creed of the new Brutale RR 1090. The Brutale RR 1090 is the most important addition to the new Brutale 2012 line-up, it is an absolute missile capable of exceptional performance and a level of handling that makes all other naked bikes pale by comparison. The 1078cc four-cylinder engine with radial intake and exhaust valves offers the highest power output ever by a Brutale. New camshafts, new intake tracts, new throttle bodies (same bore diameter as the F4) all contribute to the record power level of 116,5 kW (158 hp) at 11.900 rpm. This engine is simply extraordinary and capable of satisfying even the most demanding rider thanks to the addition of the slipper clutch, new engine mapping and traction control with 8 levels of intervention.
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It was my original post. i spent the last two mornings sending her at close(20') range to three groups of three bumpers. I was close enough to yell a loud no! when she dropped her initial selection, called her back to heel and sent her again with loud praises if she brought back her first touch. Did pretty good yesterday and not a miss today! I'll back off tomorrow to greater distance but so far i'm encouraged.
It appears that there are different definitions of "shopping". I think of it as a dog looking at one then another then another then finally picking one up. IMO once they pick one up, they should bring it promptly to hand. If they drop one and then get another, it is a switch. No switches ever allowed!!!!!!
Before I begin pile work, mine are already collar fetched and if they pick one up, then drop it, it is correction time. I let them look around for the right one when they get to the pile, but once it is off the ground, it better be coming toward me.
Pick your battles regards
The pain of regret is much worse than the pain of hard work.
Some shop without picking up others have one in mouth while looking for another, most times its indecision on the dogs parts, probably the 1st time he has seen multiple choices. So simplify it for him more seperation between bumpers at 1st and a check cord. When he picks the 1st bumper up, no here and a tug on rope with either choke chain or pinch collar, whichever he has been trained with. Create a desire to pick up and return quickly.
Switching is a huge no-no, and it comes to light when a diversion bird is thrown on the dogs path while returning from a retrieve, as in a hunt test
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Are you referring to the dog hunting one mark ,leaving the fall area to hunt a different bird..? There is another application for the term switch...
When there is a diversion bird thrown close to the line a dog is returning on they can be tempted to switch birds ....Any time a dog picks one off the ground and drops it for another one it is a problem ...They should never lay one down once it is in their mouth ...That is how cripple birds escape....Steve S
"Your dog learns as much by doing his work right,by your praise and encouragement, as he does by your displeasure and correction." DLWalters
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My dog can handle a simple diversion so far. What's hard is having a pile of 5 to 9 bumpers in a small circle of space. Which one do you want, Ma?
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained through the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment." Mahatma Gandhi
"Prepare your dog in such a manner that the work he is normally called upon to do under-whelms him, not overwhelms him." ~ Evan Graham
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
― George Bernard Shaw
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Obviously new to this and many here have offered advice and thoughts based on a lot more experiance then I have. The one thing I have learned, the hard way, is its easier to train then to correct. By allowing to shop, I have no clue on what future poor behaviors this has foundationally been built on by allowing my pup to shop. If I am honest with myself, I don't send my pup to the pile saying "go ahead and shop and when your feel your done and deciding, come on back to me with it". So I just lowered my standards and thats a slippery slope. But each dog and owner is different and I have to weigh the cost/benifit of maybe nagging and loosing sight of the drills objective if I have a dog that cant handle nagging well.
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'Rare Earth' author to deliver lectures, Jan 9-11
Posted December 21, 2006; 04:52 p.m.
Peter Ward, co-author of the bestselling book "Rare Earth: Why
Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe," will deliver a series of
lectures at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, Jan. 9-11, in McCosh 50.
The talks, rescheduled from Nov. 28-30, are titled "The Undesigned Universe." Ward is expected to argue that while bacterial life may be widespread in the universe, conditions for complex forms of life are actually hostile.
Ward, a paleontologist and professor of biology and earth and space sciences at the University of Washington-Seattle, published "Rare Earth" in 2000 with Donald Brownlee. He has appeared in public debates with proponents of intelligent design. In his Princeton address, he will explain how scientific evidence points to a finite age for life in the cosmos and why this evidence is incompatible with the theory of intelligent design.
The three individual lectures are titled: "Designs on Life," Tuesday; "Designing a Habitable Solar System," Wednesday; and "The Construction of the Cosmos," Thursday.
The series, designated as the Stafford Little Lectures, is sponsored by the University Public Lecture Series and Princeton University Press.


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An esophageal perforation is a hole in the esophagus. The esophagus is the tube food passes through as it goes from the mouth to the stomach.
Perforation of the esophagus
The contents of the esophagus can pass into the mediastinum, the surrounding area in the chest, when there is a hole in the esophagus. This often results in infection of the mediastinum (mediastinitis).
The most common cause of an esophageal perforation is injury during a medical procedure. However, the use of flexible instruments has made this problem rare.
The esophagus may also become perforated as the result of:
Less common causes include injuries to the esophagus area (blunt trauma) and injury to the esophagus during an operation on another organ near the esophagus.
The main symptom is pain when the problem first occurs.
A perforation in the middle or lower most part of the esophagus may cause difficulty swallowing, chest pain, and breathing problems.
Signs include:
You may have a chest x-ray to look for air in the soft tissues of the chest, fluid that has leaked from the esophagus into the space around the lungs, or a collapsed lung. X-rays taken after you drink a non-harmful dye can help pinpoint the location of the perforation.
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You may need surgery, depending on the location and size of the perforation. If surgery is done, it is best to have it within 24 hours of when the perforation occurred.
Treatment may include:
If little or no fluid has leaked, a stent may be placed in the esophagus. This may help you avoid surgery.
Sometimes a perforation in the uppermost (neck region) part of the esophagus may heal by itself if you do not eat or drink for a period of time. In this case, you will another way to get nutrients, such as a stomach feeding tube.
Surgery is often needed to repair a perforation in the middle or bottom portions of the esophagus. Depending on the size and location of the perforation, the leak may be treated by simple repair or by removing the esophagus.
The condition can progress to shock -- even death -- if untreated.
Outlook is good if the problem is found within 24 hours of it occurring. Most people survive hen surgery is performed within 24 hours. Survival rate goes down when treatment is delayed.
Possible complications include:
Tell the doctors and nurses right away if you develop the problem when you are already in the hospital.
Go to the emergency room or call 911 if:
Because of their nature, these injuries are difficult to prevent.
Eckstein M, Henderson SO. Thoracic trauma. In: Marx JA, ed. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier;2009:chap 42.
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'm sorry. This is an Arduino Micro r3 from Radio Shack. Running Windows 8 64I found the problem, I think. In all the sketches that aren't working, it says "wait for serial - needed for Leonardo only" which obviously applies to the Micro as well.
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Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform
Ronald Weitzer and Steven A. Tuch, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Race and Policing in America explores how race affects the relationship between police and citizens. Written by Ronald Weitzer and Steven Tuch, professors of sociology at George Washington University in Washington, DC, the book examines the influence of personal and secondhand experience, mass media accounts of police activity, and neighborhood conditions on citizens' views in four major areas, including overall satisfaction with city/community police, police misconduct, police racial discrimination, and evaluation of and support for reforms in policing.
The authors draw from an extensive review of existing studies as well as the data from their own NIJ-funded study that explored the opinions from a national representative survey of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics. The book's findings provide a more complete picture of race and ethnicity and policing than did earlier, less-inclusive studies.
For more information, visit www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521851521.


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Posted On May 1, 2013 by Allison Schutes
Starting today, hundreds of volunteers will begin heading to the beach every morning just before sunrise in search of tracks left by some exciting visitors: female sea turtles coming ashore under the cloak of darkness to lay their eggs.
May 1 marks the start of sea turtle nesting season in the southeast United States; it's the only time of year when these animals return to dry sand after spending almost their entire lives in the ocean. Female sea turtles tend to return to the same stretch of beach where they hatched to lay their own eggs. After hatching, baby sea turtles must dig their way out of the sand and sprint to the surf while avoiding predators ranging from foxes and raccoons to sea birds and ghost crabs.
The dedicated volunteers who walk these beaches every morning look for signs of new sea turtle nests so that they can monitor and protect the nest sites and track how many turtles hatch. Yet on most walks, these volunteers find more trash on the beach than sea turtle tracks.


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turkey junky wrote:i few posts ago charlie you mentioned re-thinking hunting your season A hunt period in MN & hunting the last hunt period in MN??? i was just saying i plan on doing the same due to this late winter/spring...
charlie elk wrote: Back then my mind was filled with all the not so pleasant turkey hunts where saner folks opted out and old thick skull-ed charlie was out in the thick of it.
Gopherlongbeards wrote:Charlie, you make it sound like there is an option to NOT be out in the weather during your 5 day MN season? You only get 5 days, you hunt them all, weather be damned
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Pros: Flat, Natural SQ. Lightwieght, Multi-purpose, Super Comfy
Cons: Accurate, yet weak lows. Amping helped more than intuition suggested.
As a young audio enthusiast with most of my knowledge base centering around car audio, I found my appreciation for sound begin translate across into the home. Audio nuts run in the family, so between knowledge obtained from relatives and my own satisfaction of curiosity, I have come to learn much about the extremely complex niche of home loudspeakers. Being a college student makes living situations far from ideal to venture (as a consumer) into the large, lovely loudspeaker market. Naturally, the right avenue to achieve beautiful sound seemed to be headphone Ave. While not related to the product I am reviewing, I feel as though to really deliver accurate information to the reader - and essentially give you, the reader, what you're looking for - I should give you a background to better understand my role in the sound community. With this understanding, it will be easier for you to judge the accuracy of my writing and the validity pertaining to your needs or wants. I hope to deliver useful, indicative information to you - not to necessarily persuade a purchase.
With all the background aside, let's focus on these phones. These Sennheiser HD 448s are a closed circumaural headphone, with an impedance hanging around 32 Ohms , SPL ~114dB and a frequency response from 16 -24000Hz.
Comfort: Technicals aside, these are a super comfortable phone. The earcup is large enough to indeed be circumaural, although those with over-sized ears may find this a tight fit. These aren't the smallest cups I've seen on a circumaural headphone, but they're smaller than the pictures show initially. The photo below (even though a bit is cut off) shows the cups to be around 3.5 inches on the outside but only about 2.5 for the ear itself. My ears are of average size, and I have no problem fitting into them for a seal. Pads are mildly stiff to create a seal, but the pressure on the head is barely noticeable. The headband rests nicely with an additional pad included to reduce pressure. It is easy to forget these cans are on your head. This is barely worth mentioning, but hours of listening does lead to a pair of warm ears. With headphones that have any isolation at all, this is to be expected. The comfort and weight give a distinct advantage for traveling. The included bag is pretty standard (black, cloth, subtle Senn logo with drawstrings) but is nice for packing around a portable device in addition to the phones. All in all, these give a comfortable, semi-loose fit on head - isolating quite well despite the low clamping force. I will say if you prefer a secure, tighter fit as opposed to a more loose pillow like fit you may find these to not be as secure.
Durability: This is where the 448s are probably the weakest. To be honest though, anything that isn't fragile can be taken care of with just a little conscious effort. For a 100 dollar headphone, they're about what you would expect - adjustable plastic headband and exterior with above average padding, and a small cable (diameter) w/permanent one sided connectivity. I do like the jointing system included here for limited swiveling and rotation, but improper care might render these plastic joints a weak point. Bottom line: I think with some care these should be durable enough. I've had them for over a year now with no issues and have taken them on numerous trips.. planes, trains, automobiles.
Sound Quality: I'm quite picky when it comes to sound, so I may tend to err of the harsher side (although not always). I will do my best to offer a perspective here with my experienced ears outside of headphones. When I started my consumer research with the goal of obtaining my first set of solid headphones without destroying my wallet, I ran through some options hovering in the $150 range. While I found some nice options, I absolutely made the right choice by backing off price-wise to obtain these HD448 (ehm, ATH-M50 - greatly prefer the 448).
I'll start with the highs: I'd say for ~$100 you're getting more than what you paid for. Symbols are present, yet not harsh. Higher frequency female vocals sound controlled and accurate with no distortion. The presence of the highs is significant enough in that you won't need to seek them out, but do lack the excitement to raise the hair on the back of your neck. I would describe the highs as natural, and very relaxing. Some may accuse the highs to be a bit boring, and if they did I wouldn't be able to tell them they're wrong. I do thoroughly enjoy the emphasis on how organic the highs are in these cans however, almost like a sense of refreshment. While the highs lack the excitement you might find in a Grado, I promise these headphones won't generate the listener's fatigue you'll find in brighter setups. In fact, even against much nicer headphones, I could argue that these are one of the least fatiguing in sound signature. The overall dark presentation could be considered favorable for long plane rides. The highs are well controlled here, without hiding too much.
The Mids: I tend to enjoy this part of the spectrum more than the high or lows, and I feel a good mid-frequency is what separates the nice from the poor. Mids are absolutely underrated in the untrained ear. That being said, mids add an unrealized dimension to those who have been listening to less than ideal sonics. The mid-range frequencies produced in these are absolutely unmatched for headphones I've heard in this price range. The mids alone in the 448s make a Bose price tag look like even more of a joke than it already is. The vocals are wonderful, and way beyond what I expected for this tier of can. Guitar string recoil is refined and separation from the vocals is definitive. Piano mid-notes are true. The foundation of the sound can tangibly be associated in this range of the spectrum. The quality mids add a body to the music that compliments the neutral highs quite nicely, avoiding an airy, empty sound which strands the highs as sound lacking mid-range does. These cans avoid the mudding together of mid-notes, which is more common than it should be for a lot of audio equipment. The aforementioned makes these headphones ideal for vocal and acoustic based sound. Sennheiser outdid themselves with the mids here in this price range - I was impressed.
The Lows: Overall, I would have to say quite disappointing at first, and still lacking a bit. Running these 3.5mm and no amplification really causes the 448s to draw a blank here. They lack the enjoyable thump in fast paced rock and certainly don't have the balls for any hip-hop oriented music. These seem to have trouble with a specific mid-bass note, it almost comes out "fuzzy" at times. This could be my picky ear speaking, but after logging hours on another (more expensive) headphone I really notice it. However, this isn't to say they can't hit the lows. These Senns reproduce them quite accurately in fact, just in a muted fashion. Mid-bass percussion and bass guitar strumming sound articulate, just muted. This is where a better sound source or amp can drastically improve these cans. I ended up amping them (FiiO e7), and while I did notice a mild positive difference in the highs and mids, the assistance in the lows introduced a substantial improvement. I was able to get some thump out of them with some bass-boost assist on the amplifier (low setting on FiiO e7). Generally, I try and steer clear of bass boost, given that I am far from a basshead and it usually just skews the spectrum - but here it really was necessary. To be honest, I found these headphones a surprisingly difficult 32 ohms to drive. I know impedance isn't tell-all when talking about ease of drive, and the HD 448 are an example of that. They sound just fine unamped, but amping them helped quite a bit - even more so than amping a set of 32 ohm Beyerdynamic DT 770 in my opinion.... surprising, right? I guess the take home message here is this: don't expect much of anything from the lows (below mid-bass) unless you're listening for it, but know you can improve these later on with amplification if you're tight on money at the moment.
Additional Notes: Just like any headphone worth owning, it will require some burn in time. Out of the box these sound quite harsh with noticeable crackling. I recommend at least 30 hours of burn-in, and wouldn't be surprised if more was needed. Don't be fooled by their sound out of the box!
Also, these isolate quite well as a closed can - making these even more ideal for traveling. They have no problem reducing background chatter, but do not completely block outside noise (not active noise canceling). They leak very subtly despite sounding quite loud off the head.
As with most closed cans, imaging is inferior. The sound quality is great, but the soundstage is limited by the closed back design of the headphone. That being said, it isn't all that narrow... just not as favorable as some of the open models I've experienced.
I would also consider these cans aesthetically pleasing, if this is of significance of you.
In a Nutshell: these cans are a steal for the money. I had no hesitation giving these 5 stars in the value department. I am happy I went with these over some more expensive models I was initially eying. Highs are fine, mids are glorious and lows are disappointing (unamped). A ton of sound for 100 bucks, and operate fairly well right off a portable device. These still represent one of the best "values" I know of. I find myself recommending them to many people who are on a tight budget and appreciate a natural response that isn't necessarily bass dominant. If you don't plan on amping these right away, I suggest you do so in the future. Most headphones of higher quality than these will require amplification anyways - these flirt with the line of amplifier necessity.
If you have any questions about the Sennheiser HD448s, reply with a post and I would be glad to answer!


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We absolutely love the Tiger pup we kept from our breeding. From the sounds of it everyone else loves their pups from our litter too! Here is a picture of Blitz, this was taken when he was 8-9 months old, he is now 16 months old and very impressive.DSC_0718.jpg
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Here is Dutch at about a year, he is on the left. The pic on the bog is at about a 1 1/2 old.
Could anybody post up his pedigree please? Thanks! Kyle
"You can't eat a pig whole, but you can eat a whole pig." - Joe S.
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I've trained a couple. They are very motivated to work for you, handle pressure well, and are both good markers. My kind of dog.
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I had a little chat with Richard who confirmed that I was evil. I really do think that people in free software do great things because
- they find pleasure in what they do,
- they use GPL/BSD/... because they can reuse code so that they can focus on what they are interested.
I was told that saying that telling fun and "lazyness" (efficiency I would say to be politically correct) were evil and had nothing to do with Free Software.
Since this day, as I regard every project from the community without any moral judgement, I drop the Free Software/Open Source appelation that divide (stupidly) our community to use the Libre Software appelation: Hey, we head toward the same direction, why would we fight?
launch the Free People Project for every buddies that feel like Libre Software is about being "evil" (fun & lazy) should make an announcement on badvogato (2 months)
build the project.libroscope.org page to describe the project behind www.libroscope.org so that everybody can understand how to help. (1 months)
translate french articles in libro.org so that we have content on libro.net (that will be english) (?)
install a SPIP on my P100 so that people can mess it up before using it on libroscope. (?)
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Haarlem is between Amsterdam and the Northsea-coast. When you look outside, you see the Haarlem church St Bavo (with the famous organ) in the background !
It is just a bed, no breakfast. There are plenty of nice breakfast-places in Haarlem.
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Jocé is friendly and relaxed, the room nice and clean, Haarlem a lovely little town. Everything was fine!
You get, whats written in the description: It's a small room with two beds, a shared bathroom and that's it. No closet or locker for your cloth, not even a shelf. If you're looking just for a place to sleep, this is the right place: The beds were very comfortable and Jocé is a great host. "Checking in" early was no problem, since she told us, were to get the key. WiFi is availible and her house (where she's living with her cute cat) is only a few minutes walk away from nice restaurants and the lovely towncenter. I would come again!
Nice place in the Netherlands. We had a good time.
Jocé was very nice and helpfull.
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Very recommendable place to stay ! Great location, very nice room, quiet neighborhood, very nice host - just perfect! I will for sure book Jocé's room again when visiting Harleem/Amsterdam or places nearby.
Thank you, Jocé, for your hospitality!
We stayed two nights with Jocé at her lovely house in Haarlem.
We felt very welcome and enjoyed the clean and bright room so much; she left leaflets and brochures about Haarlem and Amsterdam which we found very useful.
All of the small touches like this made for a great weekend.
Nice clean room & clean shared bathroom. Nice hot shower. Parking was not an issue, I parked for free in front of the house. Ten minute walk to city square. My hostess Joce is very nice. I recommend this room for short stays. If you have issues using stairs you may want to double check if this is right for you. Thank Jpce for a nice stay.
Lovely room and fantastic host! Perfect location if you want to see experience Amsterdam (only 20 mins by train) without having the constant hustle and bustle. Would have given 5 stars if we'd had a double bed and some tea and coffee making facilities! :)
We loved our stay in Haarlem and we would very much recommend this nice attic room for future visitors going here.
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Pleasant room and bathroom and a cozy, welcoming hostess. Thanks, Joce!
Prettige kamer en badkamer en een fijne, gezellige gastvrouw. Bedankt, Jocé!
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I will vote for Gov Palin in 12 if she wins the nomination, and perhaps even in the primary. She is far better qualified than Osama for the office.
I will vote for Gov Palin in 12 if she wins the nomination, and perhaps even in the primary. She is far better qualified than Osama for the office.
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The R's squandered their right to be in charge by their lack of fiscal prudence. One has to remember "the only difference between a liberal & a social conservative is the length of their hair". Both groups want to tell us what to do & will spend lots (of someone else's money) to accomplish that.
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
I should actually rephrase what I said before. I do not like her for national office in any way. I would probably not be interested in her for governor of my state unless she was the only conservative running. I think she would probably be a good mayor or counsel member and that local politics are more within her abilities. Alaska is a different place and maybe she is good as governor there. I do believe she took some unfair hits and that she was abused more than others in the race. I just kind of feel she is too "walmart" and lacks the social skills necessary to deal with people with more social skills. I just see reality tv written all over her, you know the family that you see on a reality show that is completely off the wall and is not the least bit embarrassed at themselves. I think she is done as far as national politics go and really hope she does not mount a run in 12. I think that weather it is fact or the perception that has been cast upon here, she is a liability to anyone she tries to help on the campaign trail because I feel more people dislike her, or even think she is a joke, than there are that take her seriously. Again she may have one of the greatest political minds we have ever seen, but if she does public perception of her, the media portrayal, and her own actions do nothing to prove that she does.
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Here is an accomplished, Governor of Alaska, woman. She's easy to look at has conservative values that she is not afraid to express and connects favorably with an amazing number of people. She also generates an unreasonable amount of venom from the left much of it having nothing to do with policy or honest disagreement over ideas.
If you don't like what she stands for that certainly is your right, make your case. To denigrate her for the clothes she bought or the perception that she's "dumb" doesn't bring much to the party in my opinion.
"The longer you let a dog go in the wrong direction the more they think they are going in the right direction" Don Remien.
Please, please, Sarah in 2012. Please!!
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
If there is anything that we all learned about the 08 election is that its no longer about who is qualified, or about the issues (even though people will still use that argument) elections are now won or lost in the media. The Media in all of its forms including the internet are now the communication vehicle to the masses. How candidates are perceived are molded by the media...
As much as I like Palin she is basically damaged goods, her private life has been scrutinized and exposed and in many ways violated by the media. she makes for good political fodder and can energize the right and bring out the haters from the left, but could she ever win a national election...highly doubt it..
By the Bye, good taxpayers--What happened to that money that was given to Sweet Sarah for that bridge to nowhere? Shouldn't it go back to cover some deficit holes?
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!