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By Christina Aberle Long, Berlin, North Dakota
When our kids were growing up, our Good Friday dinner
was always potato soup and a Judas rope. Judas rope
was a piece of dough rolled into a long roll, then
shaped in the shape of a hang mans knot to remind
us of the "Judas" in all of us. Each one
got just one Hangman's knot. On Holy Saturday we had
Hot Cross buns. On Easter Sunday, we had Easter Roll.
It was a sweet dough rolled out in a rectangle shape,
spread with beaten egg white, then added chopped dates
and nuts, rolled-up, put on a cookie sheet in a circle,
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Can HP unseat Dell as the King of the 30 inchers?
Subject: Displays | June 9, 2010 - 04:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
When you think of 30" monitors it tends to be Dell and their 3007WFP/3008WFP
that people think of first but HP is hoping to put and end to this with their new ZR30w. It is 29.7" viewable diagonally with a 2560x1600 resolution and a MRSP of $1,299 which makes it fairly inexpensive compared to other 30" monitors. HP has tried for a balance with the lower price, they didn't make sacrifices on the screen quality but the lack of HDMI or components plugs as well as no real onscreen display obviously contribute to the lower price. You can see AnandTech's full review here which will give you an idea as to how well HP did.
"The last 30" HP LCD we touched was the venerable HP LP3065 back in 2007. The LP3065 is
still available today as well at $1,349 on HP's website. The ZR30w is being introduced at a
price point of $1,299 - some $300 below Dell's UltraSharp 3008WFP display. Interestingly
enough, the ZR30w does away with the plethora of DVI-D ports we praised the LP3065 for
having (almost doubling as a KVM switch). It trims down the 3 DVI-D ports in the LP3065 to
1 DVI-D port and a DisplayPort for the ZR30w. That's not a deal breaker, but you're still
one input shorter a generation later, which is a bit puzzling. Considering other 30"
displays include a plethora of input options, we find the ZR30's a bit spartan - an HDMI
port or component would be welcome additions."
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Sploosh necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 56 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Design a Logo for Punditit.com a Pligg social news site all about sports.
The Logo will be used on the website and in other promotional media. It will be one of the key pillars in what we hope will be a very successful brand
We require a Logo for http://www.Punditit.com a Pligg social bookmarking site about sports.
We want it designed to be used on our website (in the header) and other promotional Media. It should be delivered in PSD format.
We wish to make http://www.punditit.com the number one place to go on the web for sports news and interaction.
The Logo must appeal to men who love sport and love talking about it. They are likely to be between 18 and 45, well educated and reasonably wealthy for their age. They like sports news and talking about sports because it allows them to be witty and irreverent.
To appeal to these consumers the logo should have a clean, professional, masculine feel about it. Much more GQ Magazine than Nuts or Loaded Magazines.
The word would be pronounced 'pundit it' so the logo design must communicate this pronunciation.
The key test for the design is that when someone sees the Logo they should 'Get' the concept straight away.
Please ask if you have any further questions
Nothing in particular - just designs that dont meet the brief
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Iowa men's basketball coach Todd Lickliter's home is for sale. The home, which is located at 1100 N. Dubuque St., is listed for $1.2 million. Here's the listing through Lepic-Kroeger Realtors:
However, it appears Lickliter isn't going to leave the Iowa City area, said Tom Lepic, co-owner of the real estate company.
"They are looking to purchase a different home, and they've already found that home," Lepic said. "They're just looking to sell theirs now.
"They're not going anywhere. They're just moving from one home to another."
Lickliter and his family are in Greece, along with the Iowa men's basketball team, following their three-game exhibition tour.


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Chronic sleep deprivation – or a severe, short-term lack of Z's from, say, cramming for exams over two straight nights – can make you silly or sad, slow to react, memory-impaired and more apt to take risks.
But what it rarely does, according to a leading sleep expert, is make you go temporarily insane, as a JetBlue Airways pilot apparently did on a March 27 flight from New York to Las Vegas. After Clayton Osbon had a cockpit meltdown, ranting about religion and terrorists, passengers eventually wrestled him to the cabin floor and a co-pilot safely landed the plane. Osbon was charged with interfering with flight crew instructions.
During the pilot's trial, a psychologist testified that Osbon suffered "a brief psychotic disorder" due to lack of sleep, according to a court transcript obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday. A federal judge in Texas agreed with that notion and on July 3 ruled Osbon not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
"But if somebody is going to have a psychotic episode due to sleep deprivation, it's usually not the first time it's going to happen, and usually there is a history of depression or other psychiatric illness," said Michael J. Breus, Ph.D., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based clinical psychologist and a member of the American Board of Sleep Medicine.
Breus has not reviewed Osbon's case and can only speak, he said, from his experiences with other patients and from existing literature.
"I don't know about this pilot's mental health background. But think back to when you were in college. Did you ever pull an all-nighter? I sure did. Last time I checked, people who pull all-nighters don't go screaming through the hallways screaming bloody murder at the top of their lungs," Breus said.
At Osbon's trial, forensic neuropsychologist Robert E.H. Johnson testified that Osbon's disorder lasted roughly one week after his mental break aboard the flight. On the stand, Johnson did not make clear how long Osbon went without sleep. The pilot's psychiatric evaluation was sealed during the trial, according to the AP. A JetBlue spokeswoman told the AP that Osbon did not fly March 24 or March 25, and worked a round-trip flight March 26, meaning he had 17 hours of down time before his March 27 departure to Las Vegas.
"The deprivation that would probably be required for somebody to have a psychotic episode - if they've never had one before - he's going to had to have been up for a couple of days," Breus said.
More commonly, especially among emergency room doctors and the parents of newborns, acute sleep deprivation (one or two nights without any sleep) or partial, chronic sleep deprivation (maybe four hours per night over several weeks) can trigger an array of less-frightening symptoms, Breus said.
Depending on how much sleep they are lacking and how long they've gone without closing their eyes, people can hallucinate and find things funny that aren't the least bit comical – also known as being giddy, Breus said.
"Also, your reaction time slows down: you may drive like you might be drunk," Breus said. "You're not making decisions the way you should. Data also shows that people take higher risks when sleep deprived."
He cited cases of gamblers, wagering without much sleep, who disregard high odds and plunk down tall stacks of chips anyway.
"They knew the risks or odds at the table but they didn't care," Breus said.
Inappropriate emotional swings also can take root, meaning people laugh more hysterically than they should when watching marginally funny events, or they become more depressed than is necessary when they witness something just a bit sad.
Oddly, in people diagnosed with depression, their mood can actually lighten when they go 24 hours without sleep – and their depression returns after rest, Breus said.
"What happens with sleep deprivation is usually not permanent. It's usually temporary," Breus said. "So you're sleep deprived, you have some weird behaviors, you react slowly, your mood changes. But once you get some sleep, that stuff goes all away. How long has that pilot been in the hospital now?"
Osbon remains at a mental health facility in Fort Worth, the AP reported. He is scheduled for a hearing early next month during which his possible release from that hospital will be examined.


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How does one say "double-dealing" in Chinese?* Last weekend, Chinese assistant foreign minister Cui Tiankai visited Teheran for the ostensible purpose of expressing concern over Iran's announcement that it is enriching uranium. But Minister Cui's mission was more likely designed to bolster China's security relationship with Iran.
On April 13, the day before Cui departed for Iran, the Chinese Communist Party's official mouthpiece, People's Daily, published a commentary that asserted "the real intention behind the US fueling the Iran issue is to prompt the UN to impose sanctions against Iran, and to pave the way for a regime change in that country. The US's global strategy and its Iran policy emanate out of its decision to use various means, including military means, to change the Iranian regime."[1] Also on April 15, China's Xinhua news agency announced that Iran had been invited to join the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization," China's trade and military alliance framework with Russia and its Central Asian neighbors.[2] China's purpose is to undermine any leverage the international community may have over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The visit of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao to Washington this week is an ideal forum for President George W. Bush to confront his Chinese counterpart on this issue. If he does not, there is little hope of walking Iran back from the brink.
Iran's enabler
China's security relationship with Iran is broad. Despite over a decade of protests from Washington, China continues to export nuclear technology, chemical weapons precursors, and guided missiles to Iran. Indeed, China is one of Iran's top two weapons suppliers (with Russia). A report in 2004 by the U.S.-China Security and Review Commission stated that "Chinese entities continue to assist Iran with dual-use missile-related items, raw materials and chemical weapons-related production equipment and technology" and noted that the transfers took place after the Chinese government pledged in December 2003 to withhold missile technology Iran.[3] The Central Intelligence Agency reported in 2004 that "Chinese entities are continuing work on a zirconium production facility at Esfahan that will enable Iran to produce cladding for reactor fuel." Although Iran was a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and was required to accept International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards on its production of zirconium fuel cladding, Iran made no moves to do so, and China exerted no influence to the contrary.[4]
In November 2004, as concerns grew that Iran was misusing its civilian nuclear power program to support weapons development, one senior Iranian official insisted that China was "against referral of the Iranian issue to the Security Council," where Iran could face economic sanctions, and instead wanted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to retain "responsibility" for the matter.[5] On August 10, 2005, the day that Iran broke IAEA seals at a uranium plant, China's UN ambassador, Wang Guangya, told reporters, "I think it is up to [the IAEA in] Vienna to come up with a solution. I think it is not up to the Security Council." Anyway, "the Council has too many things on the table," he added. "Why should we have more?"
Delaying Tactics
Iran continued to remove its uranium enrichment plants from IAEA oversight. On January 10, 2006, Iran finally removed the last remaining IAEA seals from its nuclear enrichment laboratories. The day before, Iran's deputy foreign minister met with the Chinese foreign minister in Beijing to brief him "about the views and considerations of the Iranian side." As one Washington commentator put it, "in other words, Tehran cleared its action with Beijing." This might explain why China sought, and managed, to water down subsequent IAEA language censuring Iran. Said one western official in dry diplomatic understatement, "Technically, China is being difficult."
European IAEA negotiators had been working fruitlessly with Iran for months, and finally, in frustration, pressured China's IAEA delegation to do something. As usual, China did the least possible. On January 30, it negotiated a very weak statement on Iran. That statement agreed that the IAEA could "report" the matter to the UN Security Council on February 6 but that no action would be taken in the Council until March. Then, on March 20, the Chinese suggested referring the matter back to the IAEA for a further "report" to be completed in four -to six weeks. On March 29, 2006, China and Russia agreed to a nonbinding UN Security Council "statement" calling on Iran to suspend its nuclear program within 30 days-that is, until after Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington-but rejected any language that might imply they would ever approve sanctions. Even if Iran fails to stop uranium enrichment by April 28, China would likely threaten to veto any UN sanctions, and without sanctions, Iran has little incentive to negotiate the dismantlement of its nuclear weapons program. China now serves as Iran's primary diplomatic protector.
A Strategic Calculation
Beijing's policies appear grounded in a strategic calculation that an alignment with Iran is in Chinese interests. In April 2002, shortly after President Bush labeled Iran as a charter member of the "Axis of Evil," Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Teheran and conveyed the message that China and Iran hope to "prevent domination of a superpower on the entire world," according to the Iranian press. "The two countries believe that for as long as a united and a comprehensive definition of 'terrorism' is not offered which can be endorsed by the international organizations, no state can attack other countries under the pretext of fighting terrorism and on the basis of its own definition of the term," reported Iran's state-controlled media. The Iranian press reported that "some political observers" saw the "visit of China's president to Iran in the new century . . . as the undeclared coalition of the two sides against America." In Tehran, Jiang declared that China's policy was "to oppose American deployments in Central Asia and the Middle East." He also pledged that "one of China's most important diplomatic missions is to strengthen unity and cooperation with developing countries and to avoid having developing countries become the targets of American military attacks."[6]
What the Administration and Congress Should Do
In a September 2005 speech, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick asked, "For the United States and the world, the essential question is, how will China use its influence?"
For all practical purposes, the answer is clear: China's influence is destabilizing the international nonproliferation system. It has protected North Korea for decades, and now Chinese diplomacy protects Iran from the punitive sanctions that have been essential to the enforcement of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty against other countries, such as South Africa and Libya.
The Bush Administration should cease pretending that China's involvement in Iranian nuclear weapons negotiations has been constructive and publicly question China's motives. It should confront Beijing's subtle but substantial support for Iranian nuclear weapons, advanced conventional weapons, and other security programs. Public statements of disappointment over China's support for North Korea and Iran's nuclear ambitions would help clear the air and deny China diplomatic leverage. But as long as China can appear to be a "constructive" participant in resolving the crisis, China can claim to be an "honest broker" between the U.S. and nuclear pariahs.
This message must be loud and clear and public-at the United Nations, at the IAEA, during the semi-annual "strategic senior dialogues" between Deputy Secretary Zoellick and his Chinese counterpart Dai Bingguo,[7] and above all, at the summit between President George Bush and Chinese president Hu Jintao this week.
John J. Tkacik, Jr., is Senior Research Fellow in China Policy in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.
* Several Chinese expressions are appropriate translations, from the rather prosaic "gao liangmian pai" (playing both faces) and "liangmian ren" (two-faced person) to the more literary "yijia luanzhen" (using the false to confound the truth).
[1] Li Yongsheng, " 'Huo shang jia you' Yi zai zhicai" ['Adding Oil to the Fire', the intent is sanctions], People's Daily (Beijing), April 13, 2006, p. 3.
[2] "Iran hopes to join Shanghai group this summer," Xinhua news agency, April 15, 2006, at http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/15/content_4425944.htm.
[3] See 2004 Report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, June 2004, p.128, at http://www.uscc.gov/annual_report/2004/04annual_report.pdf. See also Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 July Through 31 December 2003, Central Intelligence Agency, at
[4] "Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2002," The Central Intelligence Agency, April 10, 2003, at http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/bian/bian_apr_2003.htm.
[5] Joe McDonald, "Iran: China Supports Effort to Avoid U.N.," The Associated Press, November 24, 2004.
[6] "Jiang fang Yilang, Fandui Mei zhujun Dongya Zhongdong" (Jiang visit to Iran, opposes US troops in Middle East), Taipei, China Times, April 22, 2002, p. 2. Cites Iran National Broadcast Service as source.
[7] William C. Mann, "U.S., China End Talks Agreeing to Disagree," The Associated Press, December 8, 2005. See also Glenn Kessler, "Zoellick Details Discussions With China on Future of the Korean Peninsula -DPRK 'Criminal State,'" The Washington Post, September 7, 2005, p. A22 at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601562.html.
After 20 hours of discussions with his Chinese counterpart at the August 2005 "senior dialogue," Zoellick admitted he still "did not know if the Chinese deals being struck with countries the United States considers problematic were driven by individual bureaucracies seeking market openings or part of a 'strategic plan.'"


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Investors are boosting wagers on higher commodity prices at the fastest pace in almost four years, rebounding from the least bullish position since 2009, on signs that the U.S. is accelerating and Europe's debt crisis is easing.
Hedge funds and other large speculators increased net-long positions across 18 U.S. futures and options by 10% to 679,191 contracts in the week ended March 26, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. The bets surged 67% in three weeks, the biggest advance since May 2009. Wagers on higher oil prices climbed the most this year, while those for cattle are at a six-week high.
The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials has rebounded 2% from a 10-week low on March 4 as contracts outstanding jumped 10% last quarter, the most in a year. The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than previously estimated in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said March 28. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades vowed to keep his nation in the euro on March 29 after it became the fifth country to seek a rescue since the region's crisis began in 2009.
"Over the last quarter, we've seen an improvement in U.S. economic activity far above expectations," said Chad Morganlander, a Florham Park, New Jersey-based fund manager at Stifel Nicolaus & Co., which oversees about $130 billion of assets. "That has ginned up demand expectations."
American Spending
The S&P GSCI gauge gained 1.3% last quarter. The MSCI All-Country World Index of equities climbed 6%, while the dollar advanced 4% against a basket of six trading partners. Treasuries lost 0.3%, a Bank of America Corp. index shows. The CFTC holdings reached a four-year low in the first week of March and are still about 24% below the average over the past five years.
U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 0.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter, up from a prior estimate of 0.1%, government data show. American household purchases, which account for about 70% of the economy, gained 0.7% in February after a 0.4% advance the prior month that was bigger than previously estimated, the Commerce Department said. The nation is the biggest consumer of corn and crude oil.
The Cyprus government averted panic withdrawals last week when it allowed banks to open for the first time since March 16. Retail sales in Germany, Europe's largest economy, unexpectedly rose for a second month in February, the Federal Statistics Office said March 28. Western Europe will use 14% of the world's copper this year, and the U.S. will account for 8.7% of demand, according to Morgan Stanley.
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Bayesian networks of society-environment interactions
Bayesian networks of society-environment interactions are being developed to aid management and decision-making under conditions of environmental variability and uncertainty. By succinctly and effectively translating causal assertions between variables into patterns of probabilistic dependence, Bayesian networks (BNs) facilitate logical and holistic reasoning in complex systems. Such reasoning is necessary for accurate analysis, synthesis, prediction, diagnosis, and decision-making. In society-environment systems, BNs are useful because the predictive link that we want to model is often a complex causal chain, the entirety of which rarely falls within a single, coordinated research project. BNs allow this causal chain to be factored into an articulated sequence of conditional relationships, each of which can then be quantified independently using an approach suitable for the type and scale of information available.
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prsig needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 53 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
I'm an Iranian student living in Holland. I have created this website to provide information and videos of the Iranian football to those living outside of Iran.
The website is mostly visited by Iranian football fans outside of Iran.
Hello everyone,
For my website http://www.irangoals.com I need a new layout so that is why I am setting up this contest.
As you can see in the attachment I have already made something how I like to see the layout.
The template should be web 2.0. The colors in the attachment file are just used for example, so please use colors you like. Try to use green in it though.
Paying with paypal.
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Not everyone should be exactly like I printed out in the attachment. If you have a better idea use yours!
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Introduction to the SVS SB13-Ultra
The SVS SB13-Ultra powered subwoofer features a 13.5″ driver with 50mm peak excursion. It is driven by a 1,000 watt RMS Class D amplifier (3,600 watts peak). This amp has a dual band parametric equalizer and a unique limiter circuit that retains dynamic shadings even when pushed hard. The sub is a sealed box design with tight and clean bass. In fact, my nearfield THD+N (1 foot) measurements were all under 0.33% from 28 – 100Hz at 100dB!
- Design: Sealed Enclosure
- Driver: One SVS 13.5″ High-performance Ultra Driver Optimized for Sealed Enclosures
- Amplifier: 1,000 watts RMS Continuous (3,600 Watts Peak), Class D
- MFR: 20 Hz – 460 Hz, ± 3 dB
- Inputs: 2 RCA Unbalanced and 2 XLR Balanced
- Outputs: 2 RCA Unbalanced and 2 XLR Balanced
- Dimensions: 17.9″ H x 17.4″ W x 20.4″ D
- Weight: 92 Pounds
- Finishes: High Gloss Piano Black or Black Oak Real Wood Veneer
- SECRETS Tags: SVS, Subwoofers, Audio
Design of the SVS SB13-Ultra Subwoofer
The SVS SB13-Ultra is a fairly compact, high output sealed box subwoofer. Subwoofers can be designed in any number of ways but the two most common design concepts are either ported (bass reflex) or a sealed box (acoustic suspension). Ported subs tend to have a lower tuning frequency and a faster roll off below the tuning frequency while sealed designs normally have less extension but with a gentler roll off. In the hi fi and home theater belief systems, ported subs are considered higher output and less precise in their reproduction. They are generally viewed as optimal for movie effects while sealed subs, with their "tighter" and more controlled response characteristics are considered the better choice for music systems.
But SVS wondered what it would take to develop a sealed sub that would exploit cutting edge technology to bring you the best of both design concepts? Thus the SVS SB13-Ultra was born.
The SVS SB13-Ultra has been designed from the ground up to be a high quality and high performance compact subwoofer. The engineers at SVS call this a "Fully Optimized Design" which means they considered every aspect of the system – driver, amplifier and cabinet in order to achieve the optimal performance objectives.
The SVS SB13-Ultra is roughly an 18″ cube. Don't be fooled by its smallish footprint as this bad boy clocks in at 92 pounds net! This may well be the densest subwoofer I have ever had in my system. I was able to load and unload the box from my car. I also singlehandedly unboxed the subwoofer and wrangled it into position in my listening room. That will be that last time I do that. A quality hand truck is now at the very top of my shopping list!
SVS told me that there are two major keys to making a great sealed box subwoofer – lots of clean power and lots of cone excursion. Let's start with a breakdown on the driver. It starts with a 13.5″ Rohacell-backed pulp and fiberglass layered cone. The motor sports a 43 pound magnet structure. The 3″ diameter voice coil is bifilar wound to reduce impedance. This voice coil sports dual 9″ spiders that are spaced ¾" apart. This prevents rubbing or twisting of the voice coil. The driver features a gap extension plate to balance the force/displacement curve in the forward stroke direction. Additionally, the voice coil assembly is designed so it can't "bottom out". The stitched surround has a parabolic cross section. The whole assembly is supported by a die-cast aluminum basket.
So what does all this jargon mean to you, the consumer? It means that this sub's driver has a very light and stiff cone. The motor can handle gobs of power in a controlled fashion with a peak excursion of 50mm! In the end, you can rest assured that you are getting substantial, linear output capabilities and very low distortion.
The conservatively rated Class D plate amp produces 1,000 watts RMS with a peak rating of 3,600 watts. It has a built-in control circuitry that is tailored to the system's response. In this regard, SVS fully exploits one of the primary advantages of a powered speaker design – the ability to closely match the amplifier to the system. Furthermore, a high pass filter is not required for protection due to the sealed box design.
SVS has designed a unique limiter circuit for their subwoofers. Most limiter circuits chop off the first dynamic peak but let the tail end of a given passage come through at full power. SVS's limiter circuit is is different. It is designed to equally attenuate each section of a passage, thereby retaining the dynamic shadings of the music.
The amp has a (manual) dual band parametric equalizer, room gain compensation control with adjustable frequency and slope along with adjustable digital delay on the main speaker line-level outputs to time-align the speakers and subs. All this is controlled by a single rotary knob and rear-panel LCD display.
The grille is a heavy duty perforated steel cage that is a perfect aesthetic fit with the subwoofer's extreme image. The sub is available in either black ash or gloss black. My review unit was gloss black. The quality of the finish was exemplary.
Setup of the SVS SB13-Ultra Subwoofer
SVS shipped me the SB13-Ultra review unit via FedEx. I was busy at the office so I went online and requested FedEx to hold the package at my local FedEx Office location. A few days later, I borrowed my wife's SUV and headed over to pick up the subwoofer. The lady who brought it out from the back room had a pensive and wry look on her face when she turned to look at me. Why? Well, it's because the box weighs over 100 pounds! I was still able to lift it into the back of the car and unload it by myself without getting hurt or dropping the sub. But I'll get some help moving the sub the next time because it is much heavier than it looks.
Assembly of the sub was a breeze. It comes with four conical feet that you screw in. You then place the sub in the proper spot, connect the signal cable(s), connect the included detachable power cord and install the heavy duty metal grille.
This amp has a full suite of line level inputs and outputs. These include both balanced and unbalanced stereo inputs and outputs. There are no speaker level inputs.
The STA-1000D Sledge amplifier is highly flexible. It is controlled through a rotary knob and a two-line backlit LCD display. There are eight available functions that allow configuration and control of the subwoofer. (I do wish that the display were on the front of the cabinet as I had to read it upside down and backwards.) The functions include:
Volume (dB)
High Pass Filter Adjustment (on/off, frequency and slope)
Low Pass Filter Adjustment (on/off, frequency and slope)
Phase (0° – 180°)
High pass delay (ms)
Room compensation (on/off, frequency and slope)
Sub mode (sealed, 16 Hz or 20 Hz)
Parametric EQ (2 filters, frequency, level and Q for each)
I put the sub in the front left corner of the room and connected a single unbalanced interconnect from the sub output of my Marantz AV7005 surround processor to the right channel input of the SB13-Ultra. After adjusting the volume and phase of the sub, I used it in this configuration for a few days until I was ready to dial in the sub's EQ.
I calibrated the sub's dual band parametric equalizer using a Radio Shack SPL Meter, a CD with one-third octave test tones, a notepad and a pen. I started by making a quick grid on the sheet that showed each tone and the published correction factor for my SPL meter.
I then ran through the tones, recorded the measured level, calculated the actual response and took a first stab at the correction I would need. Rooms tend to have both peaks and nulls and it is advisable to simply focus on attenuating any peaks you measure as nulls can be like black holes, absorbing so much energy that you will quickly overload your subwoofer trying to fill in the suckout.
So I focused on two strong peaks in the response. It took me a few iterations to get the right attenuation and Q for each peak. All told, I finished this exercise in about half an hour. I am pretty certain less experienced users will take longer at this, but it was largely a matter of simple trial and error until you get it right.
From this point on, I did not use the room correction software in my SSP. I simply used the sub's EQ, manually setting the speaker distances and levels. I set all satellites to small and toggled the high pass between 80 and 90 Hz until I ultimately decided to leave it at 80 Hz for all my subjective discussions in the next section.
One last point; the amp has room gain compensation that attenuates the deep bass in smaller rooms. I did not use this control as my room is rather large. But it is a nice touch for SVS to include this feature which helps with bass integration in rooms less than 2,400 cubic feet.
The SVS SB13-Ultra Subwoofer In Use
I often find it difficult to integrate subwoofers into my system. This is normally due to any one of a number of reasons. Probably the most common reason is that a lot of subs have peaky response. When they do, I have to keep fiddling with the level turning it up and down until the balance seems right. Anytime I switch sources (or discs even) then I need to adjust it again striving for a subliminal blend. A lot of times, I can never get a good blend between a subwoofer and the satellites.
Some subs may have flat response, but they impart their own character to the bass. This is most often in the form of distortion. It doesn't really matter if this distortion originates from the amplifier, the driver, port noise or from a poorly designed cabinet. All that matters is that a majority of subwoofers have a characteristic sound that further complicates the task of blending them with the main speakers.
The SVS SB13-Ultra handles both of these points as well as any sub I have evaluated in the last several years. This is evidenced by the bench tests in the next section. But I could hear the differences long before I ran the measurements. I could hear the very flat response of the SB13-Ultra. Plus, this sub's extremely low distortion and sealed cabinet provided a most accurate sound with minimal overhang. It wasn't dry, it was just plain accurate. As a result, I got superior integration of the sub. This also meant that I could turn up the bass, get a better sense of slam and the sub didn't stand out too much. Add to that the super powerful amp that means you don't have to worry about overload and you simply have one hell of a great product.
The first material I evaluated was the Diana Krall Blu-ray "Live in Rio". I listened to the DTS HD Master 5.1track this time around. Diana Krall always attracts the best musicians to play with her. For this live performance, her band shares the stage with a small orchestra that performs on a number of tunes, but I prefer the parts of this disc where she is playing with the smaller jazz ensemble.
As discussed above, the parametric EQ provided an excellent blend. As a result John Clayton's runs on his upright bass held together across the transition from the sub to the satellites. The SB 13-Ultra laid down a rock solid and steady foundation to the music with nary any hint of peakiness. I didn't hear any of the far too common effect of the bass sounding like a detached entity. And the bass was nuanced throughout each track. This was indeed a very good beginning to my evaluation.
The next piece I used was the redbook CD by Robbie Robertson – "Contact from the Underworld of Redboy". I listened to this disc in Dolby PLII Music mode. This CD is mixed with copious amounts of synthesized bass.
The SB13-Ultra underpinned the sound better than any sub I've had in my system in the last 5 years. It revealed all the life and nuance in the very low bass. By contrast, lesser subs may put out plentiful bass energy but it can be more of a formless mass that smears the bass texture recorded on the disc. Even though the bass on this disc is dominated by synthesizer, there is plenty of transient information and the SVS preserved the dynamic integrity of the bass lines.
The SB13-Ultra has tight bass response with a natural decay and very little overhang. This contributes to great timing. This was most evident with tracks like "Sacrifice" and "Rattlebone" where the bass rolled along at the appropriate pace and in time with the mid and upper registers.
This sub could also dig deep. Take "Peyote Healing" for example. This song has the lowest bass pulses on the disc. They were very clean through the SVS. These pulses were largely felt, not heard.
Another disc with a ton of low bass energy is the SACD of Sting's 1999 solo album "Brand New Day". I listened to the 5.1 channel layer. As a reviewer, I have become a little spoiled with clean low bass over the years so I was sort of taken aback by the even stronger, cleaner output from the SB13-Ultra when compared to other subs in its class.
It made me think of a friend of mine who used to play sax with Bob Seger. He said their engineer would tell him that he knew he had the bass right when he could feel it in his chest. Well, on "Brand New Day" I could really feel it in my chest – believe you me. On top of that, the SB13-Ultra revealed low bass on this disc that most subs just cut off. As before, the bass pacing was exemplary so bass lines didn't lag like some subs (despite the very deep extension).
Well I would be remiss to conclude this review without evaluating a cinematic piece. How about "Dark Knight Rises" for a movie with some bombastic moments? This is a rockin' action flick with kick ass bass throughout – the SVS brings out the best in it too. A common complaint with this movie is that Bane's voice can be difficult to understand. With the SVS SB13-Ultra, I heard every line from Bane loud and clear.
When Batman flies away from cops at the end of the stock exchange scene, the walls of my room were literally bowing from the stress. Later, the big explosions during the stadium attack scene were full-throated and well controlled. I personally attest that the SB13-Ultra sub has nuance, power and slam all in one package.
The SVS SB13-Ultra Subwoofer On the Bench
All the below measurements were in-room response. The distortion measurements were performed on-axis in the near field (microphone 1 foot from the center of the driver) to mitigate any room boundary effects. The frequency response tests were typically performed at 1-meter on-axis with one exception as described below.
The plot above is the standard in-room frequency response test of the SVS SB13-Ultra. This test result showed serious boundary and room-induced modal effects.
To demonstrate the level of performance possible with the SVS SB13-Ultra, I ran an additional test from the prime listening seat with the parametric EQ engaged. The above plot indicated a response curve of +/-5dB from 20–100Hz. As mentioned above, I was able to get this frequency response in about 30 minutes with a pen, a notepad, a Radio Shack SPL meter and a CD with test tones. Not bad at all!
At 80Hz and 100dB, the distortion (THD+N) was inaudible and measured only 0.22%.
Tested at 40Hz, the distortion rose slightly but was still remarkably low at only 0.33%.
The 31.5Hz plot was also clean and the measured THD+N was even lower at just 0.15%.
The measured THD+N at 28Hz was another very clean plot at only 0.33%. This was measured at 100dB as well. Below 28Hz, the distortion rose rapidly, but the sub was still capable of substantial output to 20Hz, albeit with a much higher measured distortion.
Conclusions about the SVS SB13-Ultra Subwoofer
The SB13-Ultra was designed by Mark Mason who joined SVS in 2011 after a long stint as a Design Team Manager at PSB. Mark has developed several subwoofers and full-range speakers for SVS since making the move.
I personally like the design approach he took with the SB13-Ultra. It plays loud and deep with extremely low distortion. But it also has the ability to deliver finely nuanced bass with textures and dynamic shadings that are quite rare even by today's standards. It consequently integrates well with the rest of your system allowing you to crank it up a little and really plumb the depths as they say. It is quite frankly and engineering juggernaut.
I haven't upgraded my sub in over five years. Until now, that is. I am buying the review unit. Pretty sure I'll hang on to this one for a while – it sounds great, it's compact and it looks very manly – arrggh, arrrggh!


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Friday, July 25, 2008
Bicycle & Automobile Coexistence.
Tension between cyclists and motorists over shared use of the roadway has been an ongoing issue since cars supplanted the bicycle as the dominant vehicle of personal transit. Recently however a road rage incident in Mandaville Canyon in which a motorist intentionally used his vehicle to seriously injure two cyclists has become a lightening rod in the debate about what it means to share the road in Los Angeles.
Although there are things that both cyclists and motorists can do to more harmoniously coexist, I noticed in reading online comments there is often a lack of understanding on the part of motorists on certain safety concerns of cyclists, common cycling behavior as well as the laws for bicycles (I will be discussing primarily California law). So I would like to address some of these common misunderstandings and for starters all laws concerning cars apply also to bikes, and bikes can use all roads except where expressly forbidden by signage, such as most urban freeways. I admit that when I primarily drove to get around I didn't know much about any of this even though I had always done some bike commuting. Education on cycling issues is massively under whelming, which is something that really ought to change. As mentioned toward the end of one my blogging cohorts recent posts, simply adding a cycling question to the DMV test could help educate and is a relatively simple thing to change.
In the interest of furthering education on sharing the road, I will over a series of future blogs posts address various points of confusion or contention, entitled Bicycle & Automobile Coexistence. These posts will primarily focus on educating drivers, however there are things many cyclists need to be aware of all well (I'm looking at you cyclists riding the wrong way in the bike lane). So lets all hold hands and share the road like little bears with delightful icons on their chest or something.
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awww! the bike and the car are in love!!
- July 25, 2008 at 2:54 PM
- IRMA said...
i would wear this as a t-shirt!
i feel that the department of transportation could do a better job raising awareness about sharing the road with bikes. Here is one, instead of plastering crappy movie and t.v. ads on the side of buses, they could place "share the road" "bikes are traffic" have the vehicle codes spelled out for everyone to read, as well as "car doors kill"
- August 7, 2008 at 7:58 PM
This is a fantastic idea. I constantly see this here in seattle, people are upset at cyclists who are doing things legally and safely because they simply don't understand that it's both.
One of the most common themes I hear is some that cyclists act entitled. This is undoubtably true, but in many cases I suspect motorists don't know that the cyclist IS entitled. Personally I'd like to see this addressed in the driver education course. I hear people get upset about this because they think that I'm only intersted in educating drivers, but almost everybody rides a bike (in seattle, maybe not NYC) also has a drivers license. Driver education courses are simply a good means to an end in this case, getting 90% of the audience in a single fell swoop.
Anyway, I'll do more ranting on my own blog (blog.ridecivil.com). Stop by for a visit.
- September 8, 2008 at 9:23 PM


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While American men's brands once prized the quality and cachet of European construction, or the cheapness of Far Eastern production, some of the best fashion now is produced right here in the U.S. Martin Marks on Lunch Break looks at today's top "Made in the USA" menswear. Photo: AP.
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... I ... each ... me in the USA is on stopping just short of ... the American flag on the lapel what are they doing it's up to ... more marks right now he's joining us on sat making its way right here to lunch break looking very dapper thank ... our youth that made us ... indeed in India ... nicely done that wouldn't that answer wasn't in the sun that when he tells LaVette about this because for a long time even us us a piece for ... upscale men's we're seeing this would have ... a look that is being down scale that is really changing isn't this is actually been quite a resurgence of the main U S A label especially with the one tree designers are a band of outsiders Antonis PO Jack spade ... the actually take a lot of pride in making these things in the USA ... because I think that they now have this ... level of expertise that they didn't have previously ... the title seems right for this to mean we're all were overlooking a new jobless numbers today that's really all I mean if the economy stupid people keep talking up and tossed ... out translates over in the fashion too ... are they what the marketing are they having to do to convince guys like you who care about what they wear and the quality of it ... says to trust them in the USA label it's funny because time and time again when I was talking with people they are more interested in producing the best clothes that they could possibly make versus the Maiden USA label and that was sort of a secondary benefit from it ... um it just appears that a lot of this expertise is now here ... and they're able to produce these garments of that ... previously ... you would have assumed that they cut right decision when I use to cover fashion and I would talk to says companies it was a loss or a company called hanky panky they make that many women long said they make the USA and they said ... they can just simply Control McCauley much better but having here in town versus having an overseas are they finding that to be the case in in in square indeed they are they're finding that a lot of the um Communications is a lot better and they can also walk to the factory ... one of the designers I spoke with um can actually you know take the subway center where it manufactures his team so it's up ... to is a win-win ... in particular is breakdown couple garments like what got what is different about some of these garments ... that are being made in the USA vs Union the European counterparts certainly will be towns are known for their great manufacturing quality and the Maine USA ... um the jackets I think are up in particular you can sell with the softer shoulder it has a more rugged feel to it ... a more seasonal feel which is on very nice it makes it very ... particular ... name is decouple desires and again it was to come a few more people are out there ... looking for labels ... so today that they are made in the USA what what what what US certainly of Brooks Brothers The and that I as of the shirts um I believe ... that the custom shooting ... aam Antonio as well as a great designer public school Jack Spade in fact makes a lot of their of ... their seats in the United States if not all of them ... a call ... and in discovery quickly calls cost Al comparable European cents higher or lower ... on the ... wealthy are ... on par with a ... roughly on par with RAC dragon and the same


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The link to documentation on freedesktop is currently giving a 503 and providing "guru meditation". Does anybody happen to be a guru and available to meditate on XID: 890648862? --cfr (talk) 03:22, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Installing changes
This was recently added to the installation process.
# umount /sys/firmware/efi/efivars # modprobe -r efivars # modprobe efivarfs # mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
Anyone care to explain what this is supposed to do and why it would be necessary? These commands look non-sense to me and I installed gummiboot on half a dozen machines without ever needing this. I mean, executing these commands doesn't actually change anything on the system, what am I missing? 65kid (talk) 15:46, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
@65kid: Refer Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Inconsistency_between_efivarfs_and_sysfs-efivars for more info. Keshav Padram Amburay (talk) 16:20, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
- But UEFI#UEFI Variables Support in Kernel states: However since core/linux 3.10 efivarfs is built-in and efivars is again a separate module. So, aren't the above commands totally superfluous? -- Dfe (talk) 15:41, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Mount /boot and efivarfs
Now systemd automatic detect ESP and mount it as
/boot. Also systemd mount
efivarfs. You no longer mount
/boot manually or add entry in the
/etc/fstab. If you try mount
/boot manually or from
gummiboot install command will fail.
# findmnt /boot TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /boot systemd-1 autofs rw,relatime,fd=36,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct # findmnt efivarfs TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /sys/firmware/efi/efivars efivarfs efivarfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
Please add this notes to the Article.
Unikum (talk) 05:44, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
- ". If you try mount /boot manually or from /etc/fstab gummiboot install command will fail." That's just not true, gummiboot install should work fine either way. What kind of error message is this supposed to cause?
- Either way, I don't really like adding a note about the ESP automount yet for several reasons:
- * the fsck is missing in the generated mount unit (this is on systemd's TODO list)
- * it mounts /boot with 0700 permissions. Not sure if this is intended by upstream, but it is annoying and causes warnings from pacman.
- * this feature isn't even documented in systemd yet
- * This is a systemd feature, gummiboot just happens to be the only bootloader to export the EFI variables needed for this (for now). So it's probably debatable whether to put this on the systemd wiki or the gummiboot wiki.
- 65kid (talk) 07:51, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
LTS kernels
Although not strictly false, I think the page is a bit misleading because somebody might well think that gummiboot can boot the LTS kernel provided only that you add the EFI menu entry manually. But as far as I know the LTS kernels cannot be booted this way because they lack the stub loader. Obviously that doesn't mean you can't install gummiboot to do something else (boot another kernel, boot a boot loader etc.) but it is a bit odd the way it is put? --cfr (talk) 23:41, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


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The Demographic Cliff
Americans are not reproducing enough, and the long-term consequences are dire, says Jonathan V. Last, author of "What To Expect When No One's Expecting," in a discussion with WSJ Weekend Review editor Gary Rosen.
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... I ... these days there are lots of reasons that Americans are worried about the future of the United States ... their fiscal problems problems having do with health care immigration a host of issues ... but our guests today says we've got it all wrong we're missing ... the real problem so what were joined today by Jonathan last ... By Jonathan ... and that area ... so Jonathan is the author of the new book with really in titled what to expect when no one is expecting so so what is that title mean Jonathan what's the real problem we're missing here ... the real problem we're missing is the right to create work that demographic class ... since the nineteen seventy three we haven't been having enough babies here in America it is to keep our population steady ... and Telenor leases continue to grow because immigration and the phenomenal demographic momentum ... you know sooner or later that's the key route would be facing ... stagnant demographic profile that's the sort of thing that leads to ... all the other ancillary Proms we see in our economy with entitlements ... will that but I don't get it where where we are increasing in population but not dramatically doesn't that mean there's just more stuff for those of this tour around if we add don't keep ... growing in terms of population ... now on for Chile it doesn't default folder that were true ... that the prom is that when two things happen when your fertility rates this low ... the first is that your age profile perks and see one of a lot more old people when you have young people ... in all people wonderful ... Michael people ... but the problem is they they consume less and fewer good less goods ... then then people further down on the age scale ... and and because of that to them wind up with diminished consumption in just about everything other than health care ... and the other thing is they you know they invest differently there looking at ... asset for mentioned that and then eventually asset drawdowns he don't have ... a large pools of capital to help with innovation ... and Xu GCC is actually countries that are just further ahead of us on the road to the Democratic left countries like ... Greece and Japan ... you wanna put the stagnant economies that that's an enormous Proms entitlement systems ... that and now look to to first world country like America ... we might people whether this demographic storm by only having ... now you know in a giant crisis of the entitlement state ... that I am now thirty years of basically flat economic growth would be a lot of fun but we can we can muddle through ... the prom is the entire world is undergoing this transition the exact same time ... and the results can be a lot different and less stable countries the mouse ... will go to bed haven't we been dealing with this problem through immigration so people who've been here for generations are having so many babies but we're getting ... lots of newcomers right and dad and many of them tend to have a higher birth rate isn't that a kind of six ... you know it is in fact it is only fixated on going for us ... I mean I look I actually am sympathetic to both sides of the immigration debate because massive immigration the way we experience it ... carries all sorts of awesome and I think those costs are real ... but when you look at immigration just as the demographic plans ... it's really been an enormous eight years been the only thing keeping us from going over the demographic left ... in Denso's I say and what to expect ... and you know we should be thankful we have disintegration of the last thirty years is about as many strip those numbers out our profile literally looks like what the senior up ... but what we have two problems in the first of which is that there's a supply side immigration ... and most demographers believe that ... we are looking at the end of mass immigration from South and Central America because they are undergoing the same fertility crises that we're ... going here ... and secondly what we've seen with ... cheaply Stanek Americans to immigrants to America ... they come to us that these elevated fertility levels and that they repress the mean green thing really quickly ... I'm that's the sort of a lessening ... of the of the lovely power of a man of American culture ... I am so you know this panic Americans in recent events of the doing the heavy lifting the demographic profile for a long time ... so so why is this happening Jonathan and what if anything can we do about it ... were there is nothing we tended not ... to work properly ... although we might be ... it was the reason is happening at nine times this book ... literally thousands of factors seen on a range from new creation so Security to creating carseat losses actual revolution ... and some other factors are really good and some other factors that because we've we get a lot of women going to education are going into college now and then go eat all sorts of industries and in the economy ... it's a very good thing ... but you know treat these are problems that it pushes people for smaller families and later marriage ... and services giant constellation of forces at work here and what I really think represents modernity itself ... you know for modern living has created this problem ... and aggressive how we get out of it that no one knows people been trying to use fertility rates when they societies hit this wall of literally since the fall of Rome and honor and that no one has found a good fix yes ... okay did you do you do you think any of the solutions proposed by people on the left people on the right makes sense or they were trying ... some of them are days you know I did the letter I have different ideas about this and you know in the academic field people made him really serious study this ... year on the left they tend to think of more more government spending will help that the creation of ... state government daycare centers will help ... Diana some evidence that helps at the margins the really on the margins ... and on the right there is in a belief that will be fixed the tax code and an ... antique urged initial family guy is that will work ... out there's some evidence that you know from places like Singapore that that doesn't help all that much either ... you know is what we really have to do is try to get there some room for some smart Neil was policy in U S Cardinals policy basically just means ... making life easier for the people who will read what activities you can write people have kids they don't want ... and then the other half is changing the culture yet she hopes is that people ... don't tell your future more and are willing to have kids because none of the big secret all this ... is that having kids is kind of draw deal it's not a lot of fun right ... all right ... author Jonathan last things for joining us ... for Wall Street Journal weekend Revue I'm Gary Rosen ...


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New Track Up on YouTube! (Banjo-Kazooie)January 22nd, 2011
Yes – that's right – we've uploaded a new track. We actually got together and fully recorded a song. It's been a long time, and we've all been very busy with various things on a personal and professional level – but we've finally found the time to get back together and we'll be finding much more time to do so going forward.
Over a full year on. Yeah. We know. What happened? Well, life happened. I'm very busy with my work – I'm a freelancer who writes about games – so is Lloyd, and Sam is studying for a degree in music technology (something you'll see reflected, I think, in the quality of our work going forward) and we're both also super busy with our lives in general. That said, we're finding a little more time now. We're doing more. We've got several exciting mixes lined up that we've all been toiling away on arranging during our hiatus. I hope you look forward to them.
As for the rest… We're still planning to get a limited run of CDs printed, and we'll still be releasing downloads of all tracks free via this site. A download of this is coming after I do a final, final mix of it. In the meantime, enjoy the YouTube version. Leave us a comment with your thoughts! We're recording again next Friday…excitement! Be sure to subscribe on YouTube, as sometimes we put stuff up there a little earlier.
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Japan's first round of its monthly Festival of Data is out, and the big one is the January core consumer price index (which excludes volatile fresh food prices). Core CPI rose 1.3% from a year earlier (a good thing, and beating the +1.2% forecasts from both Reuters and Wall Street Journal/Nikkei), but it slipped 0.3% from December.
For a glimpse into the future, the February core CPI in metropolitan Tokyo, used a leading indicator for the nation as a whole, rose 0.9% year-on-year (again beating a 0.8% projection from Reuters, WSJ/Nikkei) and was up 0.1% from December.
Less news on the unemployment report, which printed at 3.7% — same as the month before — as widely expected.
And rounding out the trio, household spending (by families of two or more) rose 1.1% in price-adjusted terms from a year earlier.
None of these numbers could get the forex market to budge, however, with the dollar at 102.16 yen, just as it was before the numbers.
Anyway, those were the Finance Ministry's numbers. Coming up in a few minutes, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry gets its turn, with industrial production and retail sales for January. Stay tuned.
- 6:51 pm
- Australia: On with the earnings!
- by Mike Kitchen
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The S&P/ASX 200 is flat, but never mind: Earnings season rolls on in Australia, and today it's cheers for James Hardie and mild booing for Woolworths and Virgin.
Specifically, shares of global building-materials name James Hardie are showing off a 5.9% gain after reporting a net quarterly profit almost triple that of a year earlier and, even better, a special dividend.
Shares in Virgin Australia, however, have made a 2.3% descent in early trade as the airline swung to a loss in the fiscal first half and declined to issue guidance. The carrier's downbeat results followed a dismal report from rival Qantas Airways the day before, though unlike Qantas, Virgin thankfully announced no layoffs.
Speaking of which, Qantas shares are flat after some brief gains in early minutes.
Also on the earnings front, Australia's No. 1 retailer Woolworths traded 1.7% lower despite a 15% gain for first-half profit and a increase in the interim dividend and a hike to the low end of the grocer's full-year profit outlook.
And due out later, Harvey Norman results. Its shares are currently up 1.4%.
Elsewhere on the market, miners are mostly firmer (BHP Billiton up 0.8%, Rio Tinto up 1.3%), while insurers are weaker (QBE down 2.3% after gains in recent sessions, IAG down 0.6%).
- 7:01 pm
- Japan datapalooza, Part II
- by Mike Kitchen
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Nice one, Japanese manufacturers! You managed to grow production by 4% during January, solidly above the 3% rise in the Wall Street Journal/Nikkei poll.
And you, Japanese retailers! Up 4.4% in Janaury compared to a year earlier, accelerating from a 2.5% rise in December. But large-scale retailer subindex, just a 0.1% rise?
Anyway, those are the numbers, and just a tiny reaction from the market: dollar at 102.12 yen vs. 102.16 yen pre-data, and Nikkei futures down 0.5% vs. 0.6%.
We'll have some of the analyst reaction later in this blog, but for now, it's on to the open…
- 7:30 pm
- Time for a dip in Tokyo
- by Mike Kitchen
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The Nikkei Average is off 0.1%, slipping from a flat open as the yen rises modestly after the premarket Japanese data storm.
The Topix is 0.2% lower, and the dollar is buying ¥102.05, compared to ¥102.12 just before the open and ¥102.16 just before the data.
Auto makers are an early casualty (Toyota Motor down 0.5%, Honda down 0.9%, Subaru-maker Fuji Heavy down 0.8% despite a stock-rating upgrade from Deutsche Bank), while banks are likewise weak (Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Financial Group down 0.5% each, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group down 1.2%, Shnisei Bank down 1.4% after strong gains yesterday).
But other industrials are enjoying an updraft from better-than-expected industrial output data (see earlier post), as Fanuc rises 0.9%, TDK adds 2%, and motor-maker Nidec revs 1.1% higher.
Sony Corp is also doing well, meanwhile, with its shares 2% higher after Citigroup raised its rating to buy, and with the Nikkei reporting the company will sell its former headquarters (its "birthplace," as the Nikkei puts it).
Also on the make is Orix, its stock 1.8% higher, with Kim Eng Securities citing a 24% increase to the financial firm's full-year net-profit guidance.
- 7:33 pm
- Markets check -- 9:33 a.m. in Tokyo
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Japan (Nikkei Average) down flat
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.1%
Seoul (Kospi) flat
- 9:01 pm
- Hopping higher in Hong Kong
- by Mike Kitchen
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is 0.4% higher in early trade, as it seems that yesterday's 1.7% gain wasn't enough to satisfy the bulls. The Hong Kong H-share index is up 0.6%, and even the Shanghai Composite is ahead by 0.1%, shedding its opening loss.
Casino stocks are a source of strength after Nomura tipped a 33%-35% gain for February's Macau gambling revenue, which would beat a consensus forecast of 25%-30%, according to Barron's. Among the movers, Galaxy Entertainment is up 0.9%, MGM China is up 1.4%, Wynn Macau is up 2.1%, and Sands China — the sole Hang Seng component of the group — is gaining 1.5%.
And the big Chinese banks are also mostly higher, carrying on from yesterday's banner session after the central bank said that current market operations don't imply any change to policy. (See yesterday's Asia blog.) Agricultural Bank of China is up 0.9%, Bank of Communications is up 0.6%, and China Merchants is up 2%.
HSBC too is on the rise, though underperforming fellow blue chips with a mere 0.2% rise, after its London shares rallied overnight on news it's in talks to unload its Pakistan operations.
Also on the upside, China Eastern Airlines is enjoying a 1.1% lift for its shares after Credit Suisse upped its rating on the stock to outperform, while China Railway Group is 0.9% higher, with Kim Eng Securities citing the company scoring a lucrative subway contract in Chongqing.
And electric-car maker BYD is extending its recent gains with a 1.8% improvement today as the market celebrates a more-than-sixfold spike in 2013 net profit.
Moving south, meanwhile, China Unicom is down 1% after its annual net profit rose 47% but nonetheless trailed the consensus analyst forecast, according to The Wall Street Journal.
And Boyaa Interactive, which joined the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in November, is getting slapped with an 8.4% drop in its shares after its annual net profit was trimmed by 5%.
- 9:11 pm
- Markets check -- 10:11 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.1%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.6%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.3%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi) flat
- 10:55 pm
- And now we're down...
- by Mike Kitchen
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Splat! That is the sound of Asia stock gains falling off the table. And the culprit may be lurking in the forex market.
Shanghai, which saw marginal gains at one point this morning, has just entered the midday break with a 1% loss. Solid gains for Hong Kong are gone too, with the Hang Seng Index down 0.4%.
The China reversal coincides with the yuan hitting its lowest level against the dollar since last summer, as the greenback buys 6.18 yuan.
Some analysts and reports have suggested the recent losses for the Chinese currency is all about the central bank seeking to punish speculators who saw the yuan as a one-way bet. Whether true or not, the big banks don't like today's forex action one bit. Bank of Communications is down 1.1% in Shanghai and has swung to a 1% loss from a 0.6% gain in Hong Kong. Agricultural Bank of China has moved to a 1.2% HK loss from a 0.9% gain previously.
Meanwhile, Tokyo has reopened for afternoon trade only to find the dollar now well below the ¥102 level (currently at ¥101.79). That sent the Nikkei Average dropping to a 0.8% loss after ending the morning flat.
While the yen had offered little immediate reaction to this morning's data, a contributing factor to the dollar's subsequent fall could be Bank of Japan board-member Sayuri Shirai.
As the Japanese market went into the break, Dow Jones Newswires reported Shirai as saying in a New York speech that Japan may take longer than two years to achieve sustained consumer inflation of 2% (two years being the Bank of Japan's stated target).
"The time horizon of 'about two years' should be interpreted with some flexibility rather than as a rigid 'two years,'" she said, according to the central bank's transcript.
Still, such talk could just as well push the yen lower if it means more easing is ahead, and the data reports were also a likely factor in the move.
We'll see if shares in Tokyo or Hong Kong do one of their last-day turnarounds, but if not … well, the bears need to make money too.
- 10:56 pm
- Markets check -- 12:56 p.m. in Tokyo
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Japan (Nikkei Average) down 0.5%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) down 0.3%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 1% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.1%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.4%
- 11:57 pm
- Japan datapalooza, Part III
- by Mike Kitchen
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Sure, today's cavalcade of Japanese data wasn't exactly a market-shaking event, but it's worth taking a quick look at some of the reaction rolling in.
Capital Economics:
CapEcon's Japan economist Marcel Thieliant liked the data overall, saying they confirmed an economic pick-up ahead of the first of a dreaded two-part hike in the national sales tax, slated for April.
Retail sales climbed "to the highest level since the late 1990s," he wrote. "But if the experience from the last sales-tax hike in 1997 is any guide, the real surge in spending will have to wait until February or March."
But he worried about the month-on-month drop in core consumer prices, and said that "the first fall in inflation since the start of quantitative/qualititive easing shows that the Bank of Japan still has more work to do reach its inflation target."
He said the latest figures show signs core inflation has "started to level off at levels well short of the target" set by the Bank of Japan for sustained 2% inflation.
Crédit Agricole:
Economist Yoshiro Sato also saw a flattening ahead for the core consumer price index, writing that "though higher energy contribution is to remain for another couple of months, it will start levelling off from April 2014, for which the year-on-year comparison of energy goods will be affected by higher prices over the same periods last year."
"Thus we continue to expect that the core CPI inflation rate will decline towards the middle of the year, and if our view turns correct, the reaction by the Bank of Japan will depend on whether the central bank will be forward-looking or backward-looking," Sato wrote.
However, he was more upbeat on where manufacturing is going: "With gradual recovery in demand both home and abroad, trend recovery in production will remain in place."
- 12:01 am
- Markets check -- 2:00 p.m. in Tokyo
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Japan (Nikkei Average) down 1.2%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) down 0.3%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 1%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.1%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.2%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.5%
- 12:42 am
- Yuan off
- by Mike Kitchen
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All over the news today is the yuan's big drop (see earlier post on this).
And what a drop! According to The Wall Street Journal, this is the farthest the currency has fallen against the dollar since China began its managed float of the yuan in 2005.
Most fingers are pointed at the People's Bank of China, saying the central bank is driving the yuan down to (a) discourage speculators who see it as a one-way bet, (b) stop hot-money inflows, (c) prepare for upcoming forex reform, (d) help the economy, (e) etc.
For more on this, check out our Currencies column.
- 12:44 am
- Markets check -- 1:44 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Japan (Nikkei Average) down 1.1%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) flat
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.3%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.1% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.4%
- 1:23 am
- A mostly positive February
- by Mike Kitchen
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Of the Asian index majors, only the Nikkei Average is ending the month with a loss. Here are the scores, per FactSet (though note that some markets haven't yet closed for the day):
ASX up 4.1%
Hang Seng Index up 3.9%
Sensex up 2.6%
Taiex up 2.1%
Kospi up 1.9%
Shanghai Composite up 1%
Nikkei Average down 0.5%
- 1:28 am
- Markets check -- 2:28 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Japan (Nikkei Average) down 0.6% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.2%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.1%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.1% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1% (closed)
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.4%
- 1:54 am
- VIDEO: Why China's yuan is falling
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- 3:18 am
- Markets check 4:18 p.m. in Hong Kong
- by Laura He
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Japan (Nikkei Average) down 0.6% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) flat (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.4% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.1% (closed)
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Daniel Radcliffe has been a huge movie star since skyrocketing to worldwide fame as Harry Potter when he was just 11, but that doesn't mean the now 24-year-old can't be floored by new opportunities. He was "incredibly flattered" to be asked by Jon Hamm to play a younger version of the "Mad Men" star's character in a low-budget but top-drawer TV miniseries, for example.
"It makes me feel fantastic, are you joking?" Radcliffe told me Monday by phone from London. "It's just a lovely thing."
In "A Young Doctor's Notebook," premiering at 9 p.m. CT Oct. 2 on Ovation, Radcliffe plays the unnamed title character as a newly graduated physician who ministers to the people of a backwater Russian village in 1917. Hamm plays the same character as a middle-aged, morphine-addicted Moscow doctor reminiscing about his early career and trying to figure out where it all went wrong.
Despite playing the same character, Radcliffe and Hamm interact in the four half-hour episodes as if the older doctor is walking through his own history and, according to Radcliffe, "giving me a hard time."
One scene in particular has had tongues wagging in Britain, and likely will here, too. The two doctors share a bath.
"It was all right," Radcliffe said of sudsing with Hamm. "When we got in the bath with each other we were like, 'Oh, this shot is gonna go everywhere. We are going to be seeing this photo in many years to come.'"
Apparently they hop in a tub again in the second season which he just finished filming outside of London. Radcliffe said he was given "possibly my greatest piece of memorabilia" from a set just the other day: the loofah they use. "So I can sell that one day if I ever come on hard times," he joked.
It's doubtful the actor will come on hard times. "Notebook" is just the latest in a series of interesting career choices Radcliffe has made since he became the star of "Harry Potter." To name just a few, he stripped naked on stage for the well-received "Equus," starred in the horror flick "The Woman in Black" and, in the upcoming film "Kill Your Darlings," has a gay sex scene while playing beat poet Allen Ginsberg. (It is showing Oct. 11 as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.)
Based on the autobiographical short stories of Mikhail Bulgakov, "A Young Doctor's Notebook" is airing in the U.S. on Ovation, a boutique network that won't give it nearly the eyeballs as the "Harry Potter" films, or even AMC's "Mad Men."
That doesn't bother the obviously enthusiastic Radcliffe, who counts himself lucky to have the luxury to choose roles based solely on whether they are interesting to him. And anything based on the work of Bulgakov, his favorite author, interests him.
"I just always loved his style of writing," he said. "He's got such a great imagination and such a great sense of humor as a writer, but he's also incredibly emotionally powerful."
A lot of the emotion—and many a dark laughs—come from blood-drenched scenes in which Radcliffe performs an amputation here and a tracheotomy there. In the first episode, he pulls part of a man's jawbone from his skull while trying to extract just one tooth—and it's hilarious. Radcliffe joked that he's become so good at his gory surgical scenes that he's ready to try a medical procedure for real.
"No not an amputation, but if there was an emergency on a plane and they needed somebody to do a tracheotomy on somebody I would love to have a go," he said, laughing. "The part of the series that I absolutely love is the fact that it is so bloody and gory."
Radcliffe and I talked more about the minseries, his career choices and how he, like the young doctor he plays, has suffered crises of confidence. Before that, check out the preview below.
I loved "Notebook," but was not expecting all the gore.
No, no. No one is when they go into it, but it's definitely become something of a [trademark]. We recently finished shooting the second series and we had a moment ... when the production company actually said to us, "Guys, I think we need a bit more blood in this series." We kind of established it's all sort of one of our trademarks now--the mixing of a very bloody gore with comedy. And at one point in the second series we were like, "We think we need a little bit more blood because there's a certain expectation now that has to be met." But yeah, no, it is a very gory, funny show. I'm glad you liked it.
It's so quirky at first with you and Jon being face-to-face despite being the same person.
I loved that idea because I was a big fan of the book. I'd actually read the book before they even approached me to do it. And when I got the script originally, I was intrigued because so much of the book is basically played out as a monologue in his head. It's internal in a monologue kind of going the whole time and him commenting on what's happening in his life. So I was sort of thinking, how are they going to make that interesting and not use a voice over? That's where the device of the older doctor/younger doctor timeline—about an older man remembering his youth—came from. So you could have Jon, as it were, walking through his own flashbacks and sort of commenting on them and generally giving me a hard time.
So how tired are you of hearing the name Leopold Leopoldovich?
[Laughs.] Oh, not as tired as Anna is up saying it. Bless her, Vicki [Pepperdine], who plays Anna, has had to say that fucking line so many times now and even more in the second series. It's just a great joke. It's a variance of that joke that we've again seen before, but it's not a nice version of that idea, you know, going into a place where the person who just left was just a hero to everyone, the person who had your job before you who is just adored and his memory still lives and breathes every day and is just as loved as ever it was. And you have to walk in and replace him. And it's just that sort of that awful feeling. And so there's definitely, you know, I love that joke.
Jon Hamm, I understand suggested you for the role. Tell me how that feels?
The thing about John and I was we met once so briefly at the BAFTAs like the year before or maybe six or seven months befor we ended up doing this. And immediately I liked him a lot and we were very pleasant to each other when we met. But it wasn't anything more than a quick meeting. And when I heard that he had suggested me for this I was just kind of blown away really. I was really pleased. I had done "SNL" by then and I know that he's friendly with all of those guys, so maybe they'd given him good reports or whatever. But yeah, he suggested me so I was incredibly flattered by that.
We've talked a little bit about the interaction that you guys get to share on screen, but speaking as an actor from that point of view, how was that?
He's a fantastic person to have on set, Jon. Because he's one of the few actors that I've ever worked with—in fact I'm pretty sure like he's the only actor I've ever worked with whose actually been able to save the production time. Jon's directed on "Mad Men" now, so he's directed stuff and he knows how that works and he has a real understanding of the technical side of the way a shoot goes.
So for example there was one evening where we were shooting a scene, we only had half an hour to get it. And normally you shoot a scene one way and then you turn around and shoot the scene the other way. But in this case Jon, when we were rehearsing, said to me, "Well, just don't go over into that corner of the room. If we keep the scene over here then we won't have to turn around and we'll be able to shoot the whole scene in half an hour rather than having to come back to it tomorrow." And on a shoot this fast, having an actor with an understanding of all of that was amazingly useful.
Also, he's a great actor and that makes it a lot easier. When you're working with somebody who's a really great actor it makes your job to act with them very easy, because you're really only as good as the person you're opposite. So yeah, it was a joy to work with Jon. He's awesome.
You were a big Bulgakov fan before any of this even happened, right? How did you get into him?
I read "The Master and Margarita" when I was about 18 and I loved it. And then I read "A Country Doctor's Notebook" shortly after that. ... What he writes are not funny books; they're dramatic books with some very funny moments. And I think we just accentuated his comedy that is already underlying in his text. We just sort of brought it all out. And added in a lot more slapstick that he probably intended there to be in his original books. But I definitely think, like we've made something totally in the spirit of Bulgakov and it is something that he really would have enjoyed.
And you even took a trip to Russia, is that right?
I did for my 21st birthday I went to his house. Well, I wanted to go to Russia for ages anyway. And I saw that his apartment had been made into a museum and I wanted to see that. The actual day of my birthday was the day we went to the Bulgakov museum. I had a walk around and it was great, it was really fun. Because in "The Master and Margarita" there are lots of scenes that take place in his apartment, which was based on his apartment in real life. So I kind of got to tour the book basically.
That's great. We talked a little bit about the graphic scenes. Tell me about playing the surgeon.
The part of the series that I absolutely love is the fact that it is so bloody and gory. And when you read the book you kind of realize that it needs to be, because the descriptions in the book of some of the operations are pretty stomach-turning because they're so specific. So yeah, it was great.
In the first series the scene where I amputate the girl's leg and the scene where I did the tracheotomy, we filmed back-to-back over a period of three days. So it was just cutting people up and blood for three days. And with a group of very young girls; you're constantly trying to put the scene in some kind of context for them so they kind of understand what's going on and aren't freaked out by the amount of blood that's being poured onto them. So it presented its own challenges, but it's also really great fun. And the fact that we have to shoot it all so fast gave it a kind of energy that I think—that panic of your first ever surgery as a doctor must be terrifying. And so definitely it was something that we wanted to capture, that just pure terror of the first time you are actually responsible for somebody else's life.
The doctor doubts himself and his abilities. Have you had issues with that kind of thing, the self-confidence?
Oh definitely. I think everybody does. And there comes a point in your life when you, especially in my life and the circumstances of my life meant that I fell into something very, very young—which I loved. But when you do start doing something very young you sometimes question, "Well, would I have been doing this anyway had I not come to it through this route? Am I doing the right thing?" You definitely have moments of questioning that. I did probably when I was about 18, 19 years old. But I think moving past that is one of the stages on the road to sort of adulthood. Not that I'm perfectly confident all the time and never have issues of self-doubts anymore. But it's definitely a lot more manageable than it was in my late teens.
You've made a lot of interesting choices since "Potter." And I was wondering what your criteria is for what you decide to do?
Yeah, first of all it's about originality and finding something that I haven't done before. I don't want to repeat myself. And by that I don't just mean that I don't want to repeat Harry, I also don't want to repeat "The Woman in Black" or "Kill Your Darlings." My job is the most fun it can be when I'm constantly choosing different, varied things. That's what I love, my job is a lot more fun when I get to do that. So really it's about that. It's about the real originality. Is it gonna challenge me and make me do something that I haven't done before? And the director and the script really--I mean those are the things it comes down to. If I'm passionate about all of those things, I'm in a position where I don't have to do a job unless I am passionate about it. So I feel very lucky to be in that position. And I certainly, so far at least, have been able to just choose projects that are things I love, rather than things I feel like I have to do or anything like that.
You say that you're in a position that you don't have to do some things that you don't want to do, but you have like 10, 12, 15 movies coming out in the next couple months?
[Laughs.] So yeah, about that. [Laughs.] I've got one in the next couple of months and then the next two hopefully in next year fairly early.
Well, do you ever just want to stay home and not shower all weekend and eat tons of food?
Well, you know, I do that on Sundays. That's generally my Sundays sitting in front of football from 1 till 11 at night eating. So I do have that once a week. Yeah, I definitely like to work. But I'm taking some time off in October and I'm definitely gonna be enjoying that time to relax.
You just finished Season 2. Is that going to be just as fun?
I actually think it's gonna be even darker and even funnier. We sort of used up all the short stories from the book in the first series so the writers have had to pull from a lot of other Bulgakov stories to get the material for the second season. And actually I think giving them that kind of a freedom within the parameters of characters they've already established has created what will be in even more emotionally powerful, and hopefully funnier second series. I mean the first is hard-hitting and funny, but I think it'll be even more with the second one.
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