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upgrade option?
Do we get an upgrade option to XP?
HTC's long-awaited Shift UMPC is set to arrive in the UK later this month and, rumour has it, you'll also be able to buy it from Orange. HTC Shift Windows Vista handheld HTC's Shift: runs Vista, connects to 3G The Shift, which first appeared almost a year ago and was due to go on sale in November 2007, will be available …
Do we get an upgrade option to XP?
Also has SD/MMC card slot so I guess you can use ReadyBoost too if you need to run anything really memory hungry.
It's a close call between this and WM6 (you have the choice), but think I'll be opting for Vista.
Interesting to see what battery life and telephony will be like though...
Let's hope no-one accidentally drops the "f" from the device name. But then again, it does have Vista loaded on it.
Paris Hilton because - she's upgrading her Sidekick to one, perhaps?
yes, and is it penguin-friendly, can you run a BSD on it? Vista would eat that 1GB of RAM standing still...
would be good if it was useful for a wider range of tasks than just Solitaire (or "card-assisted masturbation", as it is sometimes called).
...isn't a resolution of 800x480 a little low for a device running Windows Vista and costing more than $1000 ?
It is if you're from Cork ;o)
The HTC Shift is not just a UMPC. It's called "shift" partly because it's part UMPC, part SmartPhone. It also carries a 400MHz CPU running a modified WM6 version that HTC call "SnapVue".
So: HTC Shift = Vista UMPC with rather small HD for a lot of money + a sort of crippled Hermes-esque phone part.
I'm curious but not tempted - a FlipStart costs $699, another £80 will probably shove an HSDPA modem in it in place of the EVDO module (I remain as ever horrified at the lack of coverage FlipStart has managed, and surprised no hack-happy bloggers have cracked the lid open and tried a suitable module inside it). Then I get XP, 30GB, 1.1GHz CPU that is actually capable of running something, and a pocket-sized device.
...for a UMPC with 1024x whatever display. 800x480 hasn't been of any use to anyone (running any modern GUI) since the days of the Amstrad 1640.
Better off getting a 2nd hand X40 or Portege 100 (http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/scpages/smallminisubcheaplaptops.htm) which at least have proper screens, processors and keyboards and really aren't that heavy (<1.5Kg).
"The HTC Shift is not just a UMPC. It's called "shift" partly because it's part UMPC, part SmartPhone."
So it's an upgraded, overpriced version of my Athena? Yeah, I can see that happening, actually. The Athena's an excellent device, but it's not nearly flashy enough to appeal to Joe Public.
If I wanted one of these, I'd get the Eee. Costs less than my Athena did (and that was on contract!), and is more than capable for on-the-go stuff.
So to sum it up...
It's a stupidly big *PDA* with an OS far in excess of it's spec.
Vista's not inherently Bad, but I wouldn't install it on anything but a high-spec desktop this side of 2010.
More, please.
Still waiting the arrival of Fujitsu's U1010 in the UK.
best advert for an eee i've seen...
Makes the iPhone look like a bargain... and we all know Mac OS X is sweet. :)
Arnold: FlipStart has a 5.6" 1024 x 600 screen. The Register seems to have deemed it unworthy of coverage for some reason, but google. They're $699 in the US. Also Sony's UMPC things had 1024 x 600 also, and I think the Fujitsu A100-based one has too.
Greg: I have an Athena (well, had, I slipped over on a train and smashed it a week or so ago - insurance will replace it thankfully) and found in true HTC style, it Didn't Quite Work Well Enough - camera was useless, it's far slower than the CPU speed suggests - and of course, it's an awful phone without a bluetooth handset (LG Style-i should have been standard kit!). Shift is far more than the Athena, it's an Athena with a UMPC attached. The idea is that SnapVue will allow a decent standby to use it as a phone.
The Eee is a nice idea, but the screen dimensions are all wrong IMO. The size of the lid would allow an 8.1" or larger screen and more pixels; or just ditch the wasted space and make it smaller physically. And the lack of storage annoys me. I want one as a successor to my Handheld PC, MobilePro 900c, but I never really made much use of that either.
What made Athena so anachronistic was the inclusion of the HD. Such a short sighted move; added bulk, added power consumption, added fragility - and yet I just stuck 8GB in my E90 for £32.
"cannot make voice calls using a mobile network".
give it a week and there will be a crack !!!!
Oh, absolutely, the Athena is flawed. The hard drive is indeed a pointless addition, as you said, and the OS lags like a bitch. However, it is gobsmackingly portable, and the battery life is fine for me.
I do all my Uni notes on the Athena. I'm in a lecture right now, in fact! Naughty me. I'm hoping to put Project Black on my device soon, which is apparently a lot slicker.
It's not perfect by any means, but it certainly was the best for me at the time, and to be honest I still think it is. A bigger machine wouldn't fit in my jacket pocket, would still need a headset, etc. The Athena's a great little device that does just enough for what I need while on the go, and hopefully Project Black will take away its annoying tendency to lag. I personally woudn't pay more for this Vista based device, because it only really serves the same purpose as the Athena, but it's bulkier, and I'll bet with Vista on it lags just as much.
The Fujitsu whateveritis is about the same size as the Athena - and a similar price stateside. However the Athena does handle calls quite well. My experiences with the FlipStart suggest "with the right apps" (i.e. not Office) it's very quick and portable, and has a better keyboard than Athena.
And I'm running XP, too.
I wish HTC would develop their products properly - finish them off, as it were - as many offer a lot of potential but instead get replaced totally. There is apparently going to be a 16GB Athena in April, but to what benefit - rumours on here suggest the N95 replacement will have 16GB too, iPhones have 16GB - why develop a machine which contains the HD still, I wonder.
You're right about the hard drive. They could rip that out, replace it with flash and either make the device smaller or use the space for even more funky gadgetry.
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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 13 Jul 2012
This week we were visited by Dr Bruce Robison from MBARI. Bruce gave a fascinating presentation on deepwater animals. Another highlight was watching footage of a Luderick spawning aggregation. I had never before seen the colour change shown by the males.
Common Cleanerfish, Labroides dimidiatus
Common Stingaree, Trygonoptera testacea
Luderick, Girella tricuspidata
Painted Sweetlips, Diagramma pictum
Golden Perch, Macquaria ambigua
Hyperostosis in a Banded Sicklefish
Longnose Trevally at Ned's Beach
Longnose Trevally, Carangoides chrysophrys
Southern Longfin Goby courtship display
Southern Longfin Goby, Favonigobius lateralis
Whitebarred Goby, Amblygobius phalaena
Southern Longfin Goby, Favonigobius lateralis
Threespot Damsel, Pomacentrus tripunctatus
Why are the eyes of larval Black Dragonfish on stalks?
Tags fishes, ichthyology, Bruce Robison, spawning Luderick, Hyperostosis, Banded Sicklefish, Longnose Trevally, Carangoides chrysophrys, Southern Longfin Goby, Whitebarred Goby,

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Don't know if it's a bug, but it seems strange:
Was with a half-dragon in western jungle (dungeon with the druid boss who spawns plants).
Since the half-dragon has an magical attack, it can't no destroy the mana-burn plants. Pushing a plant into a monster or another plant destroys the plant (due to knockback). But pushing a plant into a wall does nothing. Which is strange, since monsters can be killed by pushing them into a wall.


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What Happened to My Facebook Pages… Again?
Maybe you have noticed fewer posts by your favorite Facebook pages lately, it's because of more of those changes they keep making... I know how to fix it now!
We all have our interests, and "liked" the Facebook pages we thought we would like to keep up with. I had noticed that I was not getting as many updates from pages I had chosen. Now I know why.
All you have to do to get status updates, is scroll your mouse over the "Liked" button on your favorite pages, and choose "Get Notifications" in the drop down menu if you want notifications sent to your mobile device, or to get updates to appear on your News Feed choose "Show in News Feed".
For all of you page admins... Same works the other way around too.
If you find that you have been getting TOO MANY updates, you can still "like" a page to support it, but you don't have to get all of that traffic with your mobile device, or if it's a drunk friends page... you can like it, and never have to hear from them at all.


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Typical form south side of Little Abaco, opposite
Typical form. PI. LVIII, fig. 12.-Shell large, slender, ashy white, or white marbled and longitudinally streaked and clouded with nut brown of varied intensity; the apical 2½ whorls subtranslucent, the remaining ten opaque, smooth and somewhat polished, or more or less sculptured by fine oblique wrinkles with subequal interspaces about three to one millimeter on the line of the suture; apex beehiveshaped; remainder of the shell subcylindric, the last whorl rising a little near the aperture, the peristome thickened, somewhat reflected, rounded, simple, waxen white; throat brownish, with a short low parietal and feeble axial lamina or ridge of callus; umbilicus with a deep narrow chink; the sutures are not impressed; the immature shells are trochiform, with a narrow axial perforation, a small sharp lamina on the pillar, usually a short feeble tooth on the roof of the aperture and very rarely a faint trace of a callosity on the basal wall also, but I have noticed this only once or twice; measurements of the mutations of this species show the following as divergencies (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 179,442) :
Surface Whorls Height Max. Diam. Type Form.
Smooth .............12.5 37.0 mm. 12mm. "
Smooth .............10.5 28.5 11.25 "
Feebly striate.....12.5 37.0 12.5 "
Sharply striate....12.0 27.0 10.0 "
Sharply striate....12.0 26.5 8.0 "
Feebly striate.......9.5 21.0 8.0 "
Subreticulate......11.0 26.0 10.0 Variety a.
Subreticulate.......9.5 21.5 10.0 " "
Very sharply striate.12.0 28.0 10.0 Variety b.
Very sharply striate..10.0 25.0 12.0 " "
Very sharply striate..11.0 22.5 11.0 " "
Very feebly striate....10.0 19.0 7.5 Variety c.
Feebly striate...........10.0 19.5 7.0 " "
Variety a (reticulatum). PI. LVIII, fig. 8.— Shell smaller, colors, tending to livid or purple below ashy white, which is arranged more or less in narrow spiral lines which cut the white wrinkles at nearly a right angle giving a very marked reticulate effect, the striation notably sharper than in the type form.U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 179,443.
Variety b (incisum). PI. LVIII, fig. I0. — Shells stouter, with still sharper sculpture, the form top-heavy, with the maximum diameter nearer the apex than to the base, a less marked umbilicus; the young with a larger axial perforation and on both the upper and lower walls of the aperture a pair of strong short low laminæ beside one on the pillar, making five in all, in the aperture of a shell with six whorls. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 179.440.
Variety c (vermiculum). PI. LVIII, fig. 3. — Shells small, nearly smooth, slender, subfusiform, with the color in large subaxial marmorations or nebulæ. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 179,442.
The range of variation in size; sculpture, and color, as above noted, is very large yet the various forms have nevertheless a general resemblance which points to their common origin. Large numbers of the typical form were obtained.
Dr. Pilsbry remarks of them: "a species not hitherto known, very closely related to agrestinum of New Providence, but with a general tendency to be larger, longer, more solid and varying to smooth, which agrestinum is not known to do. The umbilical slit is also ordinarily longer in your shells and the parietal lamella smaller. The suture above is also more seam-like. These forms are also related of course to marmoratum, martensi, and various other forms all more remote geographically than agrestinum. C. fordii is a stouter more coarsely sculptured species." (Dall, 1905:443-444).


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AMA Aragon 900 Water Cooling Kit Review
Due to the pace at which hardware evolves, just about every part in an enthusiast system tends to quickly become somewhat outdated or under performing compared to what has just been released. As you are most likely aware, it's simply impossible to keep up with the latest and greatest technologies. However, once you do decide to upgrade a part, there's something that must always be kept in mind - cooling. Chances are, that brand new processor or video card isn't only faster, but also more power hungry and requires serious cooling in order to get those sky-high overclocks. Fortunately, many solutions exist and there's a plethora of companies that design and manufacture various models. When it comes to air cooling, some cool better than others, much better in fact. The amount of heatpipes or the cooler's sheer size differentiates the best from the others. However, water cooling isn't as easy to figure out, as the whole cooling process is going on under the hood making it hard to evaluate prior to buying.
Water cooling kits, unlike custom builds, have a reputation of including a bunch of low end components. AMA Precision is a company unknown to me until now, but they apparently are ASUS' thermal solutions design firm, so they aren't a newcomer in the cooling department. What we have here today, is a kit they call Aragon 900, which includes a processor block, 240mm radiator, pump and a reservoir. They claim "ultimate cooling performance for Core i7" and support for "extreme overclocking". This is no small claim, since i7 is capable or outputting impressive power under load, especially when it's overclocked. But I disgress - let's see for ourselves if AMA's latest cooling solution lives up to the hype.
Closer Look
AMA ships the Aragon 900 in a rather unique looking box. I'm personally not a huge fan of dragons and the whole medieval theme, but I'm sure some will like it. Looks aside, the kit comes into a solid cardboard box with a small windows giving you peek at the radiator's fan grill. Both the front and back of the packaging don't say much about the product beside the model name and a catchy phrase. One side is a lot more technically rich, displaying information on the components specifications while the other side makes some bold claims. Most notably, dual video card is definitely stretching it, but the kit can apparently be extended to cool up to 230W worth of components.
Inside the box lies yet another box along with protective foam which houses the main components of the water cooling loop. The radiator, along with both of it's 120mm fans, lies above the processor's cooling block, the pump and the reservoir. Ironically enough, as you can see on the pictures below, the accessory box was victim of a leak of some sort. At first I thought it might have been a leak from the coolant bottle, but, fortunately, it was full and it wasn't showing any signs of leaking. All you need is in there, so no need to go searching for anything except a couple of tools.
Let's have a closer look at the contents.


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CCSU construction
A sheet metal roof section is lowered down to construction workers at a new building being built on the Central Connecticut State University campus Wednesday afternoon. Construction of the projected $38 million classroom building started last August. The 75,000 square foot building is scheduled to open in mid-2013 and will house classes and faculty offices for the sociology, history, anthropology, geography and political science departments, university officials said. It will have 17 classrooms, five seminar rooms, seven labs and 71 offices for faculty and administrators.
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Cannibal Man (US - DVD R1)
Another trip to the chopping block with Gabe, only this time it's not so bloody
Marcos is an average, lower class slaughterhouse worker who lives with his older brother in a rundown bungalow beneath the shadow of a new, expensive apartment complex. When Marcos accidentally kills a cabby, his girlfriend begs him to go to the police. He whacks her instead, and anyone else that questions the whereabouts of his victims. Meanwhile, Marcos' ambiguous neighbour becomes a rather unexpected close friend.
Despite the exploitative English title, its banned status in the UK in the 1980s, and Blue Underground's garishly grotesque DVD box art, Cannibal Man is not a particularly gory or even gruesome motion picture. Instead, this Spanish made pot-boiler is particularly low-key, slow moving, and often quite subtle. Eloy de la Iglesia's film has very little in common with Umberto Lenzi's jungle excursions, or even one of Jason Vorhees' stalk and slash trips to Crystal Lake, and is more comparable to John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Though Marcos' decent into madness isn't as easy to believe as Hitchcock and Polanski's better creations, the film still has an uncanny ability to deeply disturb. Though the plot isn't terribly intricate (basically people keep stumbling onto Marcus' secret and he has to kill them), and the camera work could charitably be referred to as 'minimalist', the filthy set design, buyable performances, and greasy atmosphere grindhouse their way under the skin and stay there pretty effectively. The film opens on a short scene of an actual slaughterhouse floor as actual cows are actually slaughtered. Just like similar scenes in Ruggero Deadato's Cannibal Holocaust, these scenes of genuine slaughter add an element of realism to the tone of film (for better or worse) that never quite leaves (though in Iglesia's defence, these cows weren't endangered and most likely eaten afterwards).
The film's dialogue suffers from bad English dubbing, but the characters still manage to impress, and the actors are surprisingly natural. The violence holds more of an emotional impact because of this, which sets the film apart from average slasher features. One might even say the rather drab gore effects even pull the viewer out of the shocked state they're expected to create. The scenes left to our imaginations are infinitely more effective in this case. The underlying themes of social upheaval, the mistreatment of the poor, etc, are a little too blatant, and often a little awkward, but the homosexual implications are intriguing. These aren't particularly subtle either, but the way the story comes together makes this additional element one of the film's most original aspects.
Like so many Blue Underground re-releases of Anchor Bay titles, Cannibal Man appears to be utilizing the exact same transfer. I don't own the Anchor Bay version, so I am unable to do a direct comparison, but I saw it recently enough that my memory is still rather fresh. This transfer is decent, but has its problems. The print strobes for almost the entire runtime, and sometimes the image warps a bit. Details are sharp enough, considering the sources age and budget, but contrast is a little too bright. There's quite a bit of grain, but dirt and artefacts are hardly issues. Flesh tones are a bit on the red side, but not brutally so, and in general the colours appear correct.
The solo Mono track is no frills, but besides a little problem with fluctuating vocal volume levels, it's clean and clear. The sound design is very minimalist, but effective, as is the music. There are only a handful of scenes with imposed score, and often they are entirely without production sound. It is unfortunately the Blue Underground wasn't able to get a hold of the original Spanish track, because the dubbing is quite ineffective. The performances are flat, the lip-sync is way off, and the dialogue is repetitive and unnatural.
The only extra on the disc is a trailer. Not much.
Possibly too low-key, and a bit overlong for most rabid horror tastes, Cannibal Man may be worth a look for art house fans. It's not a flashy looking feature, and ineffectual English dubbing hurts, but the characters are interesting and the film's creepy nature is often quite effective. Don't see it expecting gory murder set pieces or graphic flesh munching and you probably won't be disappointed.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Dave Brock Banned Join Date: November 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,237
Glad to see you like this Gabe. Too few people do due to the bad marketing and "Cannibal Man" re-title that confounds the expectations and thus seems to breed contempt.
Hard to imagine it was piled in with the video nasties.
Hard to imagine it was piled in with the video nasties.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 13th November 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia
Cast: Vicente Parra
Length: 98 minutes
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A homebrew club member is designing an IIPA recipe with hops at 60, 30, 20, 10, 5, and 0 minutes. It made me wonder - what are 30 minute hops for? I never use them and I always figured that at 30 minutes you're blowing out all of the flavor/aroma and not getting the full bittering potential out of them either.
Depends on the beer, and what you are trying to do. 30 Minute additions are said to give the most glycoside development from the polyphenols. These aid mouthfell and flavor. The bitterness utilization is still fairly high, and the flavor is said to still be there.If you look at some of the recipes from Vinnie Cilurzo and Matt Bryndilson, those use additions at 30 minutes. Those are some good beers.Look at the latest Zymurgy and you will see recipes that that use hops at 60 and 0, and the ones that use hops all the way through.I think late hops are fine, but the production breweries will use additions at flameout and then whirlpool for best flavor and combine that with dry hopping for aroma.
Any of you guys ever read the "Roving Brewer" articles by Eric Watson on the Beer Tools website?He has some pretty different views on hopping as well as yeast. I'd be interested in your comments about what he writes on both issues, but for this thread at least about hopping. He sez never FWH. Whadya think?FWIW, I just did an APA on Saturday with a load of 30 minute hops and 15, 10, 0 as a kind of experiment. It will be dry hopped as well. I'll let you know how it goes.
Given there is no sense of taste without the sense of smell, is it even possible to add aroma without adding flavor?


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Skip to comments.Crimson Trace Withdraws from Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show
Posted on 01/23/2013 1:16:21 PM PST by Cacique500
For Immediate Release:
Janurary 22, 2013
Crimson Trace Withdraws from Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show
(Wilsonville, OR) - Crimson Trace Corporation, the industry leader in laser sighting systems for personal defense, announces their withdrawl from the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show February 2nd- 10th in Harrisburg, PA.
Despite five years of attendance to serve the over 200,000 consumers in the Harrisburg and surrounding areas for one of the largest outdoor shows in the country, Crimson Trace stands with their industry partners and the NRA, who have decided not to attend in reaction to the decision from Reed Exhibition on displaying modern sporting rifles.
When firearm freedoms are being threatened, which they are today, we must act, said Lane Tobiassen, President of Crimson Trace. We will continue to support our industry partners, the NRA, and our customers in this critical time, he added.
For more information about Crimson Trace Corporation and their industry leading, products, services and training messages, please visit www.crimsontrace.com or call 1-800-442-2406.
The bottom is falling out on the Brittish Owned company, Reed that puts on these shows.
How many exhibitors have now declined?
How many attendees are now attend-nots?
(Last Updated: 23 Jan 2013 @ 12:13pm)
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How many exhibitors have now declined?"
...over 200 last I checked!
How many exhibitors have now declined?"
...over 200 last I checked!
1200 vendors @ $7000 minimum for a table = $8.4 million
250,000 visitors @ $14 per head = $3.5 million
The vendors have already paid their money and won't get it back, but the visitors will stay away in droves. Next year, how many vendors will be dumb enough to fork out another $7000? This show is finished.
Do you have a link?
I don't see any info at http://www.crimsontrace-laser.com/
I predict a US based company will be competing with this show next year.
All they will have this year are demcrats who fish and RV.
"The vendors have already paid their money and wont get it back"
Lets hope there is also a lotta refundin' goin' on!
but it rubs me the wrong way when the elite forces try to force legitimate items out or our reach....just like cigarettes....
sure....we'll condemn cigarettes but then vote in pot smoking, as if pot smoking doesn't damage your lungs....
down with false govt edicts!
Good, but those lawyers are going to cost a bunch more than $7K.
The RV Geezers may show up, but they won't spend any of their geezer money.
The company website is www.crimsontrace.com - the announcement was posted to the company facebook page and internally.
Thanks, I searched www.crimsontrace.com as well. I wanted to send something to ESOS. I will at home where I can access FB.
Please Also Remember Going Live on Feb 2nd The Start of The Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show www.MyNortheastClassifieds.com will go live to the public. We will be providing any vendor who has pulled out of the show a FREE centrally located marketplace to sell their items, products, services, etc. Supporting members of the public will have the confidence that ONLY vendors and items listed in this market place will be by approved vendors.
Dang, have a heart! If I have to buy something from each of those guys I'll go broke and have a house full of firearms and accessories...uh...not like now, I mean...never mind...
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About the professor
Dave Schweingruber
Was born November 1967 in East Lansing, Michigan. My first home was East Wilson Hall on the Michigan State campus. My dad was the residence hall director.
Is pronounced Schwine-groo-ber. My funny last name means something like "pig-digger" and may mean that my distant ancestors from Switzerland raised pigs or lived in the vicinity of wild boars.
Grew up in Bluffton, Ohio. We moved there when my dad was hired as the dean of students at Bluffton College, a job from which he recently retired. My mom recently retired as director of the college's Institute for Learning in Retirement.
Graduated from Bluffton High School, where I was a hurdler on the track team and president of the Latin Club. During high school I worked as a local sports reporter at The Bluffton News.
Attended Bluffton College, a Christian college affiliated with the Mennonite Church. One notable difference between BC and Iowa State: professors at Bluffton leave the room during a test because the campus is governed by an honor code.
Worked four nights a week throughout college as a sports reporter at The (Findlay, Ohio) Courier.
Graduated in 1990 with majors in sociology and history. Other notable people who attended Bluffton College include Phyllis Diller, Hugh Downs and a member of the boy band 98 Degrees. (But none of them graduated.)
Covered the education beat at The Lima (Ohio) News as my first job after college.
Started graduate school in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research projects in graduate school included an ethnography of a homeless shelter and a study of demonstrations in Washington, D.C.
Taught Introduction to Social Psychology and led Introduction to Sociology discussion groups during graduate school. My first experience teaching a mass class was during a Sociology 100 guest lecture.
Married Nancy Berns in May 1995. She is a sociology professor at Drake University and author of Framing the Victim.
Has two daughters. Lydia is six years-old and enjoying first grade. Chloe is three and starting preschool.
Wrote a dissertation on a door-to-door sales company and graduated in May 1999 with a Ph.D. in sociology.
Began teaching Introduction to Sociology at Iowa State in Fall 1999. In addition to Sociology 134, I regularly teach Sex and Gender in Society (Soc 327).
Has researched a number of topics, including how people get engaged and plan their weddings, demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and introduction to sociology textbooks.
Is a member of Trinity Christian Reformed Church in Ames and is active in Areopagus, a campus ministry that promotes the relevance of the gospel for the context of higher education.
Enjoys reading novels. Some of my favorite contemporary authors are Ha Jin, Jonathan Lethem, Stephen Millhouser, Richard Russo, Jane Smiley, and Scott Turrow.
Has been watching The Simpsons every week since it premiered. If you can recommend a good Simpsons clip to show in class, let me know.
Enjoys the movies of Joel and Ethan Coen and was glad they won a much deserved Acadamy Award for No Country for Old Men. My other favorite Coen Brothers movies include Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and The Man Who Wasn't There.
Listens to the music of singer/songwriter Steve Earle. If you are also a Steve Earle fan, be sure to come up front and say hello. We need to stick together.
Is a life-long fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburth Pirates. I grew up in Big Ten country and became an Illini fan during my eight years at Illinois. I root for Iowa State teams but find the games most interesting when some of my students are involved.
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iOS 8 is likely to supercharge the functionality of Apple's iPad with a new split-screen multitasking feature, according to sources with knowledge of the enhancement in development. These people say that the feature will allow iPad users to run and interact with two iPad applications at once. Up until now, each iPad application either developed by Apple or available on the App Store is only usable individually in a full-screen view.
The ability to use multiple applications simultaneously on a tablet's display takes a page out of Microsoft's playbook. Microsoft's Surface line of tablets has a popular "snap" multitasking feature that allows customers to snap multiple apps onto the screen for simultaneous usage. The feature is popular in the enterprise and in environments where users need to handle multiple tasks at the same time.
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Gov. Cuomo signed a bill on Tuesday that outlaws hunting Eurasian boars, now done in fewer than 20 commercial hunting facilities statewide.
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Wherever you are from, it is probable that you eat tomatoes in one form or another. Tomatoes originated in South America but are now found all over the world. Without tomatoes we would have no cheese and tomato pizza; no ketchup; no baked beans on toast; no lasagne or spaghetti Bolognese; no tomato soup; no BLTs; no mozzarella, tomato, and basil salad; no tomato gazpacho; no tuna nicoise; no salsa; and no tomatoes with our fried breakfast--or any of the other hundreds of dishes that use this savoury fruit. (Although often thought of as a vegetable, tomatoes are technically a fruit. They contain the seeds from which new tomatoes plants will grow.)
Wild Tomatoes
Tomatoes are thought to have first grown in western South America, in the region of modern day Peru and Ecuador. Wild species are still found in these areas as well as farther south in Chile and Bolivia. Tomato plants are found in all sorts of environments from the deserts and dry valleys on the Western slopes of the Andes to fog-saturated cloud forests and even above the snowline on the Andean mountains. However, most wild species prefer dry conditions.
Very varied in size, colour, and appearance, most wild tomatoes don't look anything like those you would buy in a shop. They are usually about a centimetre across, green in colour, and covered with fur. What's more, their taste can be distinctly bitter and unpleasant. Which of these wild tomatoes (if any) gave rise to the modern tomato is not certain, but it probably developed from the species Solanum pimpinellifolium, which looks and tastes most like the tomatoes we are used to.
Domestication of the Tomato
At one decisive moment in the history of the tomato, someone decided to plant and grow tomatoes rather than picking them in the wild. This was the very first tomato farmer and with that move the future of the tomato was changed forever. When or where this first happened we will never know for sure. Some people have guessed tomatoes were first grown in Peru and Ecuador (around where the tomato originated thousands of years ago). This area was home to many complex civilisations, culminating in the Incas, but no evidence has yet been found that any of them farmed tomatoes. Others have suggested that tomatoes were first cultivated by humans in Mexico--around 4000 miles to the north. Certainly by the 1500s, when Europeans first arrived in Mexico, the native peoples had long been growing tomatoes for food.
Wherever it first happened, when people started farming the tomato it would have looked much like it did in the wild. However, each time they picked their tomatoes they could use the seed from the best ones (e.g. the biggest or the sweetest) to sow more tomato plants. By selecting the best tomatoes to grow, they grew plants with better and better tomatoes. This process of changing a wild plant into one that is good for humans is called domestication and it is how wild tomatoes began to change into the tomatoes we eat today.
Spread of the Tomato
Well before the 1500s the tomato plant had already travelled 4000 km north, from its origin in the Andean region of modern day Peru and Ecuador to Mexico. It may have been that tomato plants were deliberately transported north to Mexico by humans or that after eating tomatoes birds or other animals carried the seeds there in their stomachs .
In 1492, Columbus made his first landfall in the New World. This was to change the future of the tomato, as it led to the Spanish exploration and conquest of the Americas, their discovery of the tomato plant, and the eventual spread of the tomato to all four corners of the earth.
The first tomato plants to be taken to Europe probably came from Mexico, the site of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which was conquered by the Spanish conquistador Cortes in 1519. Here the Spanish discovered the Aztecs eating a domesticated form of the tomato that they referred to as Xitomatl. Bernardino Sahagun, a Franciscan priest who visited Mexico in 1529, wrote that the Aztecs combined tomatoes with chillies and ground squash seeds to make a sauce [or salsa]. Salsa made with tomatoes and chillies is still a popular relish in Mexico and the USA today. To find modern recipes for the tomato, including salsa, click here .
It is likely that tomatoes first arrived in Europe via some Spanish port. However, the first record we have of tomatoes in Europe appears in the 1544 work of an Italian herbalist called Matthioli. The tomato that Matthioli studied was around the size of a fist and a bright yellow colour so he called the tomato "pomi d' oro", or "Golden Apple". The tomato and the name 'Golden apple' spread quickly north through Europe. Tomatoes were being cultivated in Germany by 1553, in Holland by 1554, and in France just a few years later, and by 1597 the tomato had crossed the channel and was being grown in England. Tomatoes had also spread rapidly in the other direction and by the beginning of the 1600s the tomato was being cultivated south of the Mediterranean, in Syria, Arabia, Ethiopia, and Egypt. By 1700, Europeans had even taken the tomato as far as China and South and Southeast Asia. The first record of a tomato in North America is from 1710. Thus, from its initial domestication in the Americas, and mainly by the hand of man, the tomato travelled all around the globe in less than 200 years. Since then it has continued to spread and at present the tomato is cultivated from Indonesia to Canada, from Iceland to Cameroon.
Use of the Tomato
The Aztecs grew the tomato for use as food. And, just after its arrival in Europe, in 1544, the Italian herbalist Matthioli noted that it was eaten in Italy, like mushrooms, fried and seasoned with salt and pepper. However, the tomato had to jump two main hurdles before it was widely accepted in Europe as a food.
Firstly, there was a common belief that the tomato was poisonous. This is not as strange as it sounds as the tomato had been identified as belonging to the same family of plants as the infamous, and aptly named, Deadly Nightshade. Also, although they are not found in the ripe fruit, the leaves and stem of tomatoes contain chemical compounds known as alkaloids that are in fact toxic to humans.
Secondly, the tomato's smell and taste seems to have put many people off. One French book on plants, published in 1600, described it like this: "This plant is more pleasant to the sight than either to the taste or smell, because the fruit being eaten, povoketh loathing and vomiting." Whether the tomatoes available in the 1600s really tasted that bad or whether the European palate just wasn't used to the taste is difficult to know.
By the 1600s, although it was not commonly eaten people had started to call the tomato 'love apple', which inspired, or was inspired by, the tomato's reputation in some quarters as an aphrodisiac, eaten to boost sexual desire. While it is safe to assume that most people did not view tomatoes as an aid to romance, they were still considered a great novelty and it was fashionable in many countries to grow them as ornamental plants – just as we might grow roses today. In fact, the first major use of tomatoes in Europe was not as food, but as a decorative plant for the gardens of the wealthy.
Gradually the tomato began to gain acceptance as food and by the beginning of the 1800s was widely eaten across Europe. It took a little longer (until the 1830s/40s) for it to become popular in North America, but soon the continent was held in the grip of a 'tomato mania' and there are reports of whole dinners themed around this humble fruit.
Soon after the tomato had become popular eating, people started to use it for making drinks. These included tomato wine, tomato beer, tomato whiskey, and even tomato champagne! Today we don't drink much tomato bubbly, but the tomato is still famous for its use in the gruesome sounding cocktail: a 'Bloody Mary'. (The Bloody Mary is a cocktail made with tomato juice and named after Queen 'Bloody' Mary of England who was famous for burning large numbers of Protestants at the stake. For tomato recipes, including this cocktail, click here.)
At various times in its history, both before and after its general acceptance as a food, the tomato was used in medicine. One of its most enthusiastic (if not reliable) fans was the Englishman William Salmon. In 1710 he suggested using tomatoes to treat burns, itching, ulcers, running sores, back pain, headaches, gout, sciatica, and the intriguingly named 'fits of mother'. Interestingly, tomatoes are regarded today as beneficial for our health, if not in quite the same ways suggested by William Salmon. With our modern understanding of vitamins and compounds such as antioxidants, the tomato has become valued not only as a delicious food but also as a valuable part of a healthy diet.
How the Tomato has Changed
Wild tomatoes are small and often green, hairy, and bitter tasting. Not very appetising and a far cry from the tomatoes we would buy in the shops. But by the time the tomato had reached Europe (in the 1500s) it had already been domesticated by Native Americans. In fact, it seems they had bred tomatoes of all sizes, shapes and colours. The first tomato to be described in Europe was large, ribbed on the outside and yellow in colour. However soon other types of tomatoes appear in the records, including ones that were small and round like our cherry tomatoes.
Tomatoes changed little in the next 200 years. Then, as their popularity as a food increased, they became an important commercial crop. Suddenly it was in the interest of farmers to improve tomato plants. At first farmers concentrated on breeding plants with better yield (how much tomato fruit could be grown on a plant) and appearance. The plants became more productive and tomatoes became rounder, smoother and mostly red in colour. The number of varieties (each suited to different climates and tastes) available increased rapidly in this first burst of tomato breeding. As demand increased, it became clear that tomatoes would sell all year round. This was a problem for countries where tomatoes would only grow in the summer. Attempts were made to breed tomatoes that would produce fruit earlier in the year, but the best solution appeared to be to transport tomatoes from warmer areas where the plants would fruit all year. To do this, the tomatoes had to be made tougher so they could survive transport without damage. This meant breeding tomatoes with thicker skins that are less prone to splitting and breeding firmer tomatoes that are less likely to burst or bruise. Producing tomatoes of a regular size and shape also became important as this allowed efficient packing of the tomatoes for their journey. Increasing firmness has also increased the ease of tomato picking. To aid tomato picking further, plants that produce and ripen all their fruit at the same time and tomatoes that separate easily from their stalks have also been bred. These developments have decreased the cost of picking tomatoes and have paved the way for picking by machines.
One of the other great drivers for tomato breeders is disease prevention. Tomato breeders have pitted their wits against the continuously evolving challenge of disease since the very earliest days and it remains one of their greatest challenges. In modern field plantations or greenhouses containing large numbers of very similar tomato plants, disease can spread extremely rapidly.
The first half of the 20th century saw a dramatic development in the approach to farming. Increased availability and use of pesticides and fertilisers changed the demands of all types of farmers. Plants that could take up and benefit from high levels of fertilisers and resist otherwise very effective pesticides were now needed to make the most of modern farming techniques. By the 1980s, tomatoes had become cheaper than ever and were available to the western world 365 days a year. But there was a growing feeling that consumers and producers alike had lost sight of why the tomato was such a desirable crop: its delicious taste. All the attention on breeding these other desirable attributes into tomatoes meant that the flavour, texture, and nutritional value of tomatoes took a back seat. Since then there has been a growing interest in the quality – taste, flavour and nutritional content - of tomatoes.
To find out more about how EU-SOL, a multi-million Euro research project funded by the European Commission focussed on improving the quality of potatoes and tomatoes, aims to produce tomatoes with better flavour texture and nutritional value, click here.
To learn more about the techniques that plant breeders have used to develop the wild tomato into the varied product available today, click here.


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Tales From the 2012 Gartner Symposium
Research firm Gartner's 2012 Symposium showcased some of the most important trends and data affecting the IT world. The symposium is home to speakers who take time to discuss trends, share information. Peter Sondergaard, head of global research at Gartner, shared insights into the key factors that are driving innovation and investment in the IT world, leaving few topics off the table during his discussion. Sondergaard touted the growth of the cloud and examined app downloads across the enterprise. He talked about Apple's iPad and how important it is for corporate users. Sondergaard even tapped into the importance of Windows 8—not today, but a couple of years down the road. Simply put, his findings were enlightening, and will go a long way in helping CIOs establish a better understanding of the things that matter most in the corporate world. Realizing that, we've included here some of the data points that Sondergaard shared during his symposium presentation, along with some of the trends that are impacting today's corporate IT decision-makers.


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When you are talking to someone, nearing the end of the sentance or thought, and a sneeze comes on. Instead of just excusing yourself and taking a second for the sneeze, you continue talking thinking you can make it to the end of your comment before the sneeze overcomes you; You were wrong, you have just snalked. Sneezed while talking.
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The original Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse was constructed of stone taken from the shore of Lake Huron in 1848. The keeper's house and separate tower were located on a three acre clearing hacked out of the dense wilderness.
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In 1875, a Class A lifesaving station was constructed 300 yards south of the lighthouse. It was the first lifesaving station opened on the Great Lakes. The 62 year history of the station credits over 200 rescues to this station and its brave crews. The Thumb Bottomland Preserve surrounding Pointe aux Barques contains 105 known wrecks, reflecting the danger posed by shoals surrounding Pointe aux Barques.
The Pointe aux Barques keeper's house and tower have been completely restored and contain historical artifacts from a bygone era. The Museum is open to the public free of charge and donations are kindly appreciated to help fund the Society's projects.
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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 6.x -- Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Video Integration Limitations and Restrictions
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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 6.x > Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Video Integration
Limitations and Restrictions
This section contains the following information:
- Apple Safari Restrictions
- Configuration Considerations for Video Administration
- Database Unavailable During Initialization of Video Administration
- Expected Behavior for Video Administration
- Limitations of Video Administration
See also the Release Notes for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Video Integration Release 5.4 and Release 6.0, and Video Administration Release 5.6 here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/ps5664/ps5669/prod_release_notes_list.html
Apple Safari Restrictions
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing does not support joining a video conference from the Apple Safari client. Users attending a web conference by using Safari cannot see the Use My Video Endpoint Number field and cannot join video conferences.
Configuration Considerations for Video Administration
- Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Video Administration can set only one Cisco MCM gatekeeper as its Cisco Internal Gatekeeper's neighbor.
- In certain countries, such as the United States, an area code is usually dialed with a phone number. In such cases, under Resource Management > Gateway in Video Administration, check the Always Dial Area Code check box.
- Ensure that terminal area codes are defined correctly and that domestic long-distance prefixes are omitted. DID numbers are currently assigned on a per-endpoint basis rather than on a per-meeting basis. This is an internal configuration and cannot be changed by using the Video Admin Configuration Tool or the Video Administration web interface.
- To ensure that web pages and pop-up windows are displayed normally, we recommend that you set the screen resolution to a standard resolution, such as 800 x 600 pixels or 1024 x 768 pixels. The minimum recommended resolution is 800 x 600 pixels, and the recommended font size is Normal or Large.
- The MCU service template name and description, terminal name, and gateway service prefix can contain only ASCII text. Unicode and other double-byte characters (such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hebrew characters) should not be used.
- Video Administration supports the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing 3500 MCU version 5.1 only in normal capacity configuration mode. High capacity mode is not supported. Additionally, high definition endpoints are not supported.
If the database is not available during Video Administration initialization, restart the service when the database is available. If the connection between the database and Video Administration is lost after Video Administration initialization, Video Administration will function normally once the database is operating.
Expected Behavior for Video Administration
- If an MCU is taken offline, in-session meetings running on the MCU are canceled. The meeting records are moved to the History tab in the All Meetings and My Meetings sections.
- Taking an MCU offline and causing a large number of conferences to be rescheduled may result in an out-of-memory error.
- Cisco Unified Videoconferencing MCU version 4.x features, such as Encryption and Qualivision, function properly with Video Administration but are not displayed as meeting type information or in the In-Meeting Control user interface.
- If someone calls from an audio phone that has video capability to the video
conference, the system shows the endpoint with video and audio capability, even if the user only is using the audio capabilities.
Limitations of Video Administration
- Cascading cannot take place between a Cisco Unified Videoconferencing MCU version 4.x and an MCU version 5.0. Video Administration supports cascading only by using the same service on each MCU.
- Disconnecting Video Administration from an MCU while a conference is taking place may cause terminal participants in that conference to be disconnected.
- For cascaded MCU conferences, only one terminal participant on a slave MCU can be displayed on the conference layout.
- If the No Self-See setting is selected for an MCU service, when dragging terminals to the layout box on the In-Meeting Control screen, certain terminals are not displayed since they comply with the No Self-See restriction.
- The Subconf list on the In-Meeting Control screen displays inconsistent information for a cascaded conference.
- Video Administration does not support the Force Conference PIN Protection field in the MCU service definition.
- When scheduling a conference with 3G terminals, a terminal defined with a bandwidth of 64Kbps video is actually connected at 64Kbps audio. A workaround for this problem is to define the 3G terminal as an IP terminal whose E.164 number is a combination of the 3G Gateway service number and the phone number of the 3G terminal.
- When scheduling an MCU meeting with a meeting password, when the MCU authorizes a terminal by using the meeting password, Video Administration does not receive notification of the authorization event. Video Administration can determine this information only by polling MCU conference status, which may cause a delay in the notification of the authorization event to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace.
- In the Resource Management section of Video Administration, when you change the settings for a terminal, the changes are not reflected on the Terminals tab of the Meeting Templates and My Meetings sections.
- Reporting on a large number of conferences (on the Upcoming tab or the History tab) may cause an out-of-memory error.
- Adjusting the server clock disrupts the status of any recurring meetings that are scheduled.
- Each time you restart the Video Administration application, allow a few minutes for the service to initialize correctly. It is possible that some meetings may need to be extended during this time. In that case, meetings are not extended.
- The External conference authorization policy field on the Settings > Conference Management page must be set to None.
- If a meeting is set in waiting room mode, an H.323 terminal cannot unlock the meeting unless it is designated as the host terminal of this meeting.
- MeetingPlace Video Integration does not support endpoint-initiated ad-hoc or virtual room meetings by dialling a service prefix plus random number to form a meeting ID.
- Video Administration does not support the "auto" service in the H.320 gateway where the bandwidth is negotiated dynamically when a terminal connects.
- Video Blade fragmentation issues may occur when one meeting is scheduled on a Video Blade using a desktop service, and a second meeting is scheduled on the same Video Blade using a high rate service. Even though the combined port usage of the two meetings may be less than the capacity of a Video Blade, the meeting may still fail if the desktop meeting occupies the Video Blade DSP resource in such a way that only whole ports are left available for the high rate meeting, and only 1 or 2 ports are available. This is a rare event.
- When dialing into a Video Administration meeting, the MCU meeting ID is displayed on the endpoint monitor.
- Terminals in restricted mode (56K) cannot access a gateway in unrestricted mode (64 Kbps).
- Adjusting the server clock disrupts the status of any recurring meetings that are scheduled.
- Upload of a high definition continuous presence MCU service to another MCU that does not support high definition continuous presence is not supported.
- MCU features, such as encryption and Qualivision, function properly but are not displayed as meeting type information or in the in-meeting control user interface.
- When working with an MCU service that supports presentation view, the presentation view should be the second layout in the service definition on the MCU.
- When inviting multiple endpoints to a meeting, by default Video Administration sends the invitation request to the MCU for each endpoint in sequence without any delay between the requests. Sometimes this can cause a timing issue with the MCU so that not all the endpoints can connect successfully. To resolve this issue, go to Configuration Tool > General Settings and set the Command Delay value to 100 to 200 milliseconds.
- For Release 5.4(2.103) only: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace deployments do not support the use of the "Reserve Port on EMP for dynamic cascading" parameter on the Scheduling Settings tab of the Video Admin Configuration Tool.


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Welcome to the Lemmings Walkthrough where our team of contributors will help you work through the game via a step-by-step tutorial. A Gamewise walkthrough aims to take you all the way through the game to 100% completion including unlockable quests and items.
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Hermes appoints Director of Business Development for Italy.
Hermes Investment Management, the £29.8 billion manager focused on delivering superior, sustainable, risk adjusted returns to its clients – responsibly, has today announced the appointment of Angelo Natale as Director, Business Development, Italy, in a move which demonstrates Hermes' continuing commitment to growth in Europe. Based in London, Angelo will report directly into Paul Voûte, Head of European Business Development.
In this newly created role, Angelo will be responsible for building a client franchise across institutional and wholesale investors in the Italian market. He will oversee the Firm's regional development, asset raising targets and work with colleagues to build local awareness of the Hermes' offering and brand recognition. His appointment coincides with the recent registration of Hermes' UCITS fund range in Italy.
Angelo joins from Duemme SGR SpA, the asset management arm of Gruppo Banca Esperia where he was Senior Director, Business Development. Previously, he was Group Investor Relations Officer at Kairos Investment Management Limited, responsible for institutional client relationships with a broad array of international investors and investment consultants. Angelo's experience spans over a 20 year career in capital markets and asset management, having also worked for Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers in New York and London.
Paul Voûte, Head of European Business Development, Hermes Investment Management, said: "Over the past three years, Hermes has dramatically expanded third-party assets with over half of new clients coming from Europe. Italy is a core European market, important in the next stage of our growth strategy in the region. Angelo's wealth of experience will help us deliver on this strategy."
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Hermes Investment Management
Hermes is focused on delivering superior, sustainable, risk adjusted returns for our clients – responsibly.
Hermes manages assets on behalf of more than 200 clients* across equities, fixed income, alternatives and real estate, with £29.8 billion* assets under management. In Hermes EOS, we have the industry's leading engagement resource, advising on more than £115.7 billion* of assets.
We believe in Excellence, Responsibility and Innovation
- Excellence: We aspire to excellence in everything we do. This manifests itself most visibly in our investment performance. We will only offer products to our clients where we believe there is a strong investment thesis and where we can deliver sustainable alpha.
- Responsibility: We believe it is our responsibility to lead discussion and debate about the fiduciary responsibilities of fund managers to our clients, their stakeholders and, ultimately, society at large. We have always sought positive engagement with the firms in which we invest.
- Innovation: We have the entrepreneurial culture to identify forward-looking products that meet those needs, along with the resources and speed-to-market mentality to develop them rapidly.
Our structure gives clients globally the benefit of access to a broad range of specialist, high conviction investment teams operating within an established and robust operating platform.
Hermes' investment solutions include:
- Private markets - International real estate, pooled funds, segregated mandates, UK commercial real estate, UK commercial real estate debt, UK private rental sector real estate, infrastructure and
private equity
- High active share equities - Asia, global emerging markets, Europe, global, and small and mid cap
- Specialist fixed income - Absolute return credit, global high yield bonds, multi strategy credit, UK government bonds, and UK and global inflation-linked bonds
- Multi asset - Multi asset inflation
- Responsible investment services - Corporate engagement, intelligent voting and public policy engagement
*Please note the total AuM figure includes £3.7bn of assets managed or under an advisory agreement by Hermes GPE LLP ("HGPE"), a joint venture between Hermes Fund Managers Limited ("HFM") and GPE Partner Limited. HGPE is an independent entity and not part of the Hermes group. £0.2bn of total group AuM figure represents HFM mandates under advice. Source: Hermes as at 30 June 2015 with exception of four portfolios totalling £0.8bn/€1.1bn/US$1.2bn/A$1.6bn dated as at 31 May 2015.
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League to discuss women's equality agenda
Katherine Bodde, policy counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union, will discuss Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's women's equality agenda during the annual meeting of the League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara on Saturday.
The business meeting begins at 10 a.m. at the Protocol Restaurant, 6766 Transit Road, Amherst, followed by lunch at noon.
The league will also recognize Erin Heaney, director of the Clean Air Coalition, for her group's successful protest against Tonawanda Coke. She will receive the Making Democracy Work Award.
League member Anne Huberman will receive the Joan K. Bozer Leadership Award.
The event is open to the public. For more information, call 884-3550.


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Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2011
After a week of stormy weather and a forecast that put the chance of rain on Saturday at 30 percent, Virgin Mobile FreeFest went off mainly without a hitch. It broke records, too -- organizers projected total audience at 50,000 people throughout the day, the largest crowd in the festival's six-year history for what was already the state's biggest outdoor music festival. The turnout is remarkable because just a day before, organizers still weren't sure if the event would have to be scrapped. "This was a raging river only 36 hours ago," said Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson on Saturday. "We were close to canceling." But Saturday was cloudless, pristine day, with only sporadic drizzling early on. The free show featured performances by rock band The Black Keys, Canadian DJ Deamau5, the R&B singer Cee-Lo Green, the art-rock band TV on the Radio and singer-songwriter Patti Smith -- on three stages. Organizers nearly tripled Merriweather's capacity by converting parking lots into staging areas to make room for the festival. More than two-thirds of the roughly 50,000 tickets were given away online, via Facebook. The rest was a mix of bought tickets -- packages cost $49.50 -- giveaways by sponsors and partners, and gifts to participants in Virgin's volunteer program. The free tickets, a feature since 2009, are what set FreeFest apart from virtually every other major music festival. Branson said the plan is to keep the festival free for some years going forward. "No promises, but every year we do what we can to keep it free," he said. The festival's other distinguishing characteristic is its musical character, which favors independent and alternative music. Last year, the headliners were British rapper M.I.A. and the indie behemoths LCD Soundsystem, popular acts but hardly household names. The running theme this year was dance music. Usually relegated to the so-called dance forest, it was everywhere this year, both on stage and off. That's partly thanks to the closing headliner, Deadmau5, a Canadian DJ known for performing in a mouse head mask who has amassed a heavy following in recent years. Deadmau5 paraphernalia was easily the de facto accessory this year - fans wore Mickey Mouse-style ears and wore t-shirts emblazoned with the DJ's signature silhouette. More than last year's audience, which was happy to chill out on the lawn listening to Jimmy Eat World and Pavement, this year's seemed like mouse-heads, or wannabe mouse-heads. At the very least, die-hard, future card-carrying members of clubland. Other acts - like the 19-year-old wunderkind Porter Robinson, the Swedes Teddybears (also fond of animal masks) and the Australian dance bands Cut Copy and Empire of the Sun - delivered similar big-tent dance music meant to keep the kiddie ravers moving - songs and remixes that were each more caffeinated than the last. By the time Robinson played a remix of Chuckie & Hardwell's "Move it 2 the Drum" half-way through his set, the dance forest was starting to feel like a miniature Ultra, Miami's electronic music festival. Even when it started to drizzle, the dancers were undeterred. Some complained about the traffic around Merriweather Saturday; others that the lines to the restrooms were too long. Still, there were was little grumbling about getting to watch top-shelf talent perform for free for 10 hours straight. Here's our guide to the hits and misses of this year's FreeFest. -- Erik Maza and Wesley Case
Josh Sisk, Baltimore Sun
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From back-alley barbecues and plates of sandwiches for a few needy people 50 years ago, Sydney's free Christmas Day lunch volunteers now feed and cheer up thousands.
Not even heavy downpours could dampen spirits at the free lunches in the city on Tuesday, hosted to help out the homeless, the hard-up and the lonely.
Reverend Graham Long of the Wayside Chapel at Potts Point said an annual Christmas Day street party had been hosted there since 1964.
"Originally it started out as a smallish barbecue in the back alley and it just grew over the years," he said.
An estimated 1000 people were fed on Tuesday.
New volunteer Sheila said it was her first time skipping Christmas Day mass, but she'd waited 35 years for an opportunity to contribute at Wayside.
"Just very gently, you've touched somebody in your life," she said.
Ken Sharpe, 80, said he thought the party was "a damn good idea".
"Look around - the feeling. As the daughter says, she hugs and kisses people that another time you'd cross the street to get away from," he told AAP.
"People should do good things for other people and they don't need religion as a crutch - they should just do it."
At a Christmas Day lunch at Ashfield in Sydney's inner west, the Exodus Foundation laid on more than 65 hams, 55 turkeys, 220 litres of gravy and 330 litres of custard to feed an expected 3000 people.
Reverend Bill Crews it was the foundation's 27th free Christmas Day lunch and each year there were increasing number of people turning up.
He said the annual lunch began with a plate of sandwiches for two lonely people 27 years ago and this year was set to be the biggest yet.
"Just because you're lonely or you can't afford Christmas doesn't mean you have to go without," Reverend Crews said.
At Eveleigh in inner Sydney the Salvation Army's Streetlevel Mission fed about 1500 people in its 16th year of operation, with 150 volunteers giving part of their day to help out.
Meanwhile, thousands of worshippers attended church services across the state.
It was standing room only at St Mary's Cathedral for the morning service led by the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell.
In his homily, Cardinal Pell said the birth of Jesus contained a message "that produces love and goodness".
"This baby did grow up to redeem us by his life, death and resurrection," he said.
Outside church, one worshipper, Sean, said the service was a chance to connect with his family's past.
"My father has always come, my grandfather has always come, and my son has decided he wants to come - it goes back generations," he said.
Sydney's St Andrew's Cathedral hosted a Lord's supper on Tuesday morning, followed by services through the day, including an address by Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen.
In his annual Christmas message released earlier, he said Christmas was a time to fix feuds and forgive.


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Combination antiviral therapy helps
prevent the virus that causes
hepatitis C from reproducing in the body. Peginterferon and ribavirin are combined to give the best response to treatment. A protease inhibitor (such as boceprevir or telaprevir) also may be given along with peginterferon and ribavirin.
Peginterferon is given as a shot once a week. Ribavirin is taken as a
pill 2 times a day. During the course of your treatment, your doctor frequently
may adjust the amount of medicine you are taking.
The length of
your treatment depends on what hepatitis C genotype you have. Genotype 1
generally is treated for 1 year and genotypes 2 and 3 generally are treated for
6 months. If you have genotype 1 and your viral load does not improve after 3
months of treatment, your treatment may be stopped.
Combination antiviral therapy is
prescribed for people who have ongoing (chronic) hepatitis C infection. It may
be given to people who have never had treatment or when interferon alone has
failed to control the disease.
Peginterferon—a longer-acting form
of interferon—combined with ribavirin is better than standard interferon
combined with ribavirin. The two kinds of peginterferon work similarly.1
How well treatment works is measured by
whether you still have the virus in your blood 6 months after treatment.
Treatment usually works better if you have genotype 2 or 3 than if you have
genotype 1. Most studies have shown that treatment with peginterferon and
ribavirin works for up to 50% of people with genotype 1 and up to 80% of people
with genotype 2 or 3.2
If you are also
infected with
HIV, the combination of peginterferon and ribavirin is
considered better than standard interferon and ribavirin.3
Combination antiviral therapy is more likely to
be effective if you:
Many things affect the decision about
who should receive antiviral treatment for hepatitis C.4 For example, treatment may be recommended for
people who are at least 18 years old, have detectable levels of the virus in
their blood, and have significant liver damage confirmed by a
liver biopsy.
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
If you develop
anemia as a result of taking ribavirin, your doctor
may prescribe a medicine called erythropoietin to help your body create more
red blood cells.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects.
(Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
You will need regular follow-up
visits with a liver specialist during treatment. The specialist will order
blood tests to check your liver enzyme levels and to see whether the virus is
still present.
Peginterferon and other interferons may be given
without ribavirin if you have anemia or heart or kidney problems.
People with normal or slightly elevated liver
enzyme levels but whose
liver biopsy shows little or no liver damage may
choose not to have antiviral treatment. Instead, a doctor can monitor the
condition with periodic
liver function tests and a liver biopsy every 3 to 5
Even if the initial treatment does not eliminate the virus,
your doctor may advise you to continue antiviral treatment, because it may
reduce liver
inflammation. For some people with significant liver
damage, antiviral therapy may slow the progression of liver damage or make
liver cancer less likely.5 If you already have
cirrhosis, some studies show that antiviral therapy
can help you live longer.6
Only a few clinical trials have tested antiviral medicines in children.
The results suggest that they work about as well in children as in adults.
Combination therapy using interferon and ribavirin is now approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration for use in children ages 3 to 17 years.
If you are obese or have poorly controlled diabetes, you may need to delay treatment until you get your
weight or blood sugar under control.
If you have tried interferon
in the past and did not get good results, talk to your doctor about newer
combinations of peginterferon with ribavirin or the new protease inhibitors for hepatitis C treatment.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
If you need to take this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
For women: Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
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Evaluating suitability for drug therapy. American Family Physician, 69(6): 1429–1438.Chung RT, et al. (2004). Peginterferon alfa-2a plus
ribavirin versus interferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C in
HIV-coinfected persons. New England Journal of Medicine,
351(5): 451–459. Management of hepatitis C: 2002. Consensus Development
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Beyonce, Fashion & the Presidential Inauguration
What do some of the nation's hottest celebrities wear to the inaugural parties? Stars like Billy Ray Cyrus prove... whatever they want. With Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey and more.
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