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Painted wall panels in stoneware. Individual pots and garden pieces also in stoneware.
Work generally available from:
Oakwood Gallery, Edwinstowe.
One Two Five Gallery, Bath.
Contemporary Ceramics, London.
Other Information:
Teaching: Gary is currently teaching ceramics privately from his studio at home in Bath. Please telephone 01225 858888 for details of courses, individual tuition and fees. Gary and Carole's website www.onetwofiveartschool.com gives full details of a wide range of courses including 'one to one', Summer School, Pottery Parties, Staff Training and Special Needs.
Tea Bowls: From July 2013 gary is offering his teabowls through The Tea Bowl Company which sells Gary Wood's Tea Bowls online. These are available in sets of two, four and six and delivered free of charge anywhere in the UK.
Gary has been making and selling his tea bowls for thirty years to discerning satisfied customers all over the world. He has developed his own distinctive signature style, both in the design of the form and the rich depth of surface quality, texture and beautiful colour. Check them out at www.theteabowlcompany.co.uk
Clays used are white stoneware (AWSG) from Bath Potters Supplies and T Material for larger pieces. All the work is fired to 1280°c in an electric kiln. Slabs are rolled by hand and various textures added using textured rollers, stamps and tools. I use various slips, glazes and pigments in combination for contrasting colour qualities.
1984/86 - Studied ceramics at Cumbria College of Art and Design, under Jim Malone.
1985 - Work experience with Patrick Sargent, Bunkers Hill, Northampton, summer.
1986/92 - Ceramics studio in Carlisle.
1986/94 - Teaching ceramics part time in Carlisle and Penrith.
1993/94 - Production thrower, Wetheriggs Pottery, Penrith.
1994 - Established ceramics studio in Bath.
1998/99 - Set up One Two Five Gallery with Carole Waller in Bath.
1990 - Elected Fellow of Craft Potters Association
1991 - Northern Arts Craft Award
1991 - Northern Arts Travel Award
1999 - South West Arts Award towards new work for exhibition in New York
"Quiet Forms" by Ian Wilson, Ceramic Review number 175, January / February 1999.
"New Clay Dawning" by Emma Maiden, Venue magazine, July 2000.
"Now and Then" by Simon Olding, Ceramic Review number 210, November / December 2004. See below for copy of article
"Immediacy and Complexity" by Ian Wilson, Keramik Magazin No:27 - April/May 2005
Wood's latest ceramics are informed by architecture as diverse as that
of New York, Morocco and Venice, as Simon Olding discovers.
The current focus for Gary Wood is a series of wall panels, triggered by recent trips to New York, Venice and Morocco. Moroccan vernacular architecture, in particular, has left a powerful trace on his work. Irregularly formed, the near square stoneware panels carry indentations in the surface, often in the form of tiny raised or impressed squares that look 'almost like braille'. These in turn are given bright touches of colour, forming a pattern to cover the base, or canvas, of the panel. The final effect is one of randomly organised points of colour dotted across the surface. As Wood says, they are the outcome of method and hope, since he aims to work 'with 50 planning and 50 chance'.
The surface of these panels is inescapably textural as well as colourful. A number of reference photographs of the interior and exterior of Moroccan houses and hotels support Wood's careful and systematic practice. But the reference might as easily come from a memory of place as well as a specific building. Indeed, the attraction of this particular kind of surface treatment is propelled by his own strong sense of visual enquiry and experiment.
In his most recent series, a ridged slab of clay forms the 'corrugated' panel, and the application of colour is handled in blocks across the whole surface. These panels refer more consciously to the openings in Moroccan houses, and can be seen as abstracted doorways and windows. 'Each piece', as Wood says, 'becomes its own separate thing, not an image of a specific building'. The series of wall panels thus refers both to an actual place and a real investigation for its own sake into colour, texture and bringing a three-dimension- al element to a fundamentally two-dimensional, 'pictorial' form. Some of the frames of these wall panels are akin to the frames of paintings, and these are works intended pure- ly for the pleasure and interest of being seen as abstract compositions.
Usually Wood has attended to the idea of ceramic as a sculptural and painterly medium without losing sight of the functional purpose of his output. His well-known and high- ly-regarded tea bowls, with their allusions to Japanese pro- totypes, work as drinking vessels as well as they do pots with high aesthetic sensibilities. Recent bowls have been made in the same painterly manner as his wall panels, with impressed and raised motifs covering parts of the surface in a similar manner. The marks in the tea bowls are triggered by the idea of the perforations in the Kasbah walls and the New York cityscape. They play with the idea of the window and doorway. This 'cross-referencing' illustrates how impor- tant it is to Wood to interrogate all the possibilities of a particular visual theme.
Wood's home also functions as a studio and gallery. Here he displays his ceramics along with the sumptuous painted clothing of his partner Carole Waller. Pieces on show include three massive bowl-like forms that were made in response to his inquiry into geological forms and processes (such as erosion, or powerful earth movements). The bowls, made by applying very fluid clay into a mould, also enabled Wood to break away from a long period 'being attached to the wheel'. The wrought and roughly finished pieces, massive and bulky in size, seem to bring his long-standing concern with the textural possibilities of clay to a new dimension. The landscape of these bowls is one of 'frozen softness'. The pots seem to have undergone their own process of weather- ing, with the 'dried mud' crazing recalling in one piece the look of a riverbank or river bed after long exposure to a hot sun. In these powerful abstract pieces, Wood explores the sculptural potential of land, river or seascape with a con- vincing gestural command. The works evoke 'a sense of a place seen and described in one precise moment, a trace of something in landscape that has been through ancient geo- logical forces'. They are symbolic pots, 'about a sense of place, rather than any particular place'.
These impressive landscape pieces now belong to the past. Having concluded his thinking about this geological theme Wood has moved on. It is characteristic of his practice that he takes an organised, methodical approach to a chosen subject or theme, and reaches a settlement over a period of time. A series is closed, and the experience of Wood's partic- ular fascination for textural effect will be carried forward to his future explorations. Closure enables a new line of inves- tigation to open up. Looking at the way his tea bowls stack led Wood to consider tall, thin vessels, thrown in two sec- tions, which were marked by a conscious join between two elements. The consequence was a new series of pots. Other ideas were present here: for example, the consideration of the human form, and the way that clothes drape it. There is a very personal motivation behind his explorations in clay, and Wood is conscious that his pots are made for people to see and handle.
As well as having exhibited widely throughout the UK, Wood has also shown successfully internationally (and in 2000 gained a South West Arts award to support the exhibi- tion of new work in New York). His high regard for Japanese ceramics is clearly evident in the production of his series of large tea bowls. He makes these both for individual effect and for their group dynamic. But the production of these particular pieces will also enable him to consider them as maquettes for a bigger form. The tea bowls have, for exam- ple, allowed him to discover an element in surface treatment that can be applied to his wall pieces. The work has a dual purpose: both to settle an idea, and act as a test-bed for future ideas. It is characteristic of Wood's enquiring mind that he can produce work for both the present and the future moment. It brings an enviable, dynamic force to his output, and one can be confident that his development as a practictioner will be both serious in its method, and reach into new directions. Part of his quiet confidence as a ceramic artist comes from this sense of there being all to discover, and all to focus on for the moment.
- Simon Olding
2008 - The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester
2007 - Urchfont Manor Garden Exhibition
2006 - Bettles Gallery, Ringwood
2006 - Quest Gallery, Bath
2006 - Royal United Hospital, Bath
2005 - Alpha House Gallery, Sherbourne
2005 - Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2005 - Rufford
2004 - Harlequin Gallery, London.
2004 - Oakwood Gallery, Edwinstowe.
2002 - The Green Scene Gallery, Cropredy;
2002 - Oakwood Gallery, Edwinstowe;
2002 - Beaux Arts, Bath;
2002 - Rope Store Gallery, Stroud;
2002 - Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne; Prema Arts Centre, Dursley.
2001 - The Quenington Sculpture Trust;
2001 - Beaux Arts, Bath;
2001 - Dundee Contemporary Art
2000 - Gayle Wilson Gallery, (New York);
2000 - Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, (Bath);
2000 - Beaux Arts, (Bath);
2000 - One Two Five Gallery, (Bath);
2000 - Hart Gallery, (Islington, London);
2000 - Alpha House Gallery, (Sherborne, Dorset);
2000 - Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art, (Eastleigh);
2000 - Vena Bunker Gallery, (Bristol);
1999 - Bettles Gallery, (Hampshire);
1999 - Craft Potters Association winter exhibition, (Oxford);
1999 - Art in Clay, (Hatfield House, Hertfordshire);
1999 - The Quenington Sculpture Trust, (Cirencester);
1999 - Artmonsky Arts, (London);
1999 - Juliet Gould Gallery, (Cornwall);
1999 - One Two Five Gallery, (Bath);
1999 - Dundee Contemporary Arts. The Scottish Gallery, (Edinburgh) (Solo Show);
1998 - The Red Gallery, (Marlow);
1998 - The Podium, (Bath Festival) (Solo Show);
1998 - Laburnum Ceramics, (Penrith);
1997 - Alpha House Gallery, (Sherborne, Dorset);
1997 - Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, (Bath);
1997 - Rufford Craft Centre, (Newark);
1997 - "In The Window", (Contemporary Ceramics, London) (Solo Show);
1997 - `Kaleidoscope', (Contemporary Ceramics, London);
1997 - Vena Bunker Gallery, (Bristol);
1997 - Bath Fringe Art Fair);
1997 - South Hill Park Arts Centre, (Bracknell) (Solo Show);
1997 - Country Works Gallery, (Montgomery Powys);
1996/7 - The Black Swan Guild, (Frome) (Solo Show);
1996 - Rye Art Gallery, (Sussex);
1996 - T. Garner Gallery, (Glasgow);
1996 - Anderson Gallery, (Worcestershire);
1996 - Art Conoissuer Gallery, (London);
1996 - Galerie Handwerk, (Koblenz, Germany);
1996 - Bath Fringe Art Fair. Bough and Lime, (Bath);
1995 - Window Arts Centre, (Bath);
1995 - "Homeworks", (Royal Festival Hall, London);
1993 - "Shaping The Earth", (Touring Exhibition);
1993 - Northern Potters Annual Exhibition) (Tullie House,Carlisle);
1992 - "Clay in Cumbria", (Brantwood, Coniston);
1991 - Masterworks Gallery, (Auckland, New Zeatand);
1991 - Craft Potters Association, (London);
1991 - David Holmes Gallery, (Halifax) (Solo Show);
1990 - Bettles Gallery, (Hampshire); Northern Fells Guild, (Lazonby);
1989 - Tithe Bam Gallery, (Bakewell, Derbyshire);
1988 - Keswick Museum and Art Gallery. (Solo Show);
1987 - Northem Potters Annual Exhibition, (Tullie House,Carlisle);
1986 - Scottish Gallery, (Edinburgh) (Solo Show);
1986 - Central School of Art and Design, (London);
Pots in numerous collections in the UK and abroad, including York City Museum - William Ismay Collection.


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People born in the 1960s and 1970s face becoming the first generation since the Second World War who will be worse off than their parents in retirement, a new study has warned.
The children of these decades are less likely to own a property, will have smaller state and private pensions, and have no more savings or income than their predecessors.
The only way in which they are better off is that they believe they are more likely to receive an inheritance, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) economic think-tank found.
Only those who receive a large bequest from their parents or grandparents can expect to enjoy a more comfortable retirement than the generations who came before them, the report concluded.
However, experts cautioned that in many cases old-age care costs will eat up much or all of the money that pensioners had hoped to leave their children despite a Government pledge to introduce a £72,000 cap on the bills.
The findings represent an end to the steady rise in incomes and living standards enjoyed by successive generations since the end of the Second World War.
The IFS study found that those born in the 1960s and 1970s actually earned more in early adulthood than their forebears did, but had failed to build up bigger savings pots because they spent all the extra money on maintaining a better lifestyle.
At the age of 30, people born in the 1970s were paid three-quarters more than those born in the 1940s took home at the same stage in their lives.
But the younger generation put away about £60 a week less than those who grew up in the immediate post-war period as savings rates declined significantly across all age groups from the late-1990s onwards.
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On top of this, salary growth has slowed down over the past decade, in particular as a result of the financial crisis.
This meant that people born in the 1960s and 1970s saw their incomes stagnate at a time of life when their predecessors received significant pay increases.
The closure of many company final salary pension schemes has also hit the younger generations hardest.
In 1997 final salary plans, which typically offer more generous retirement incomes than alternative "defined contribution" schemes, made up nearly three-quarters of all private sector pensions but by 2011 this figure had fallen to less than a third.
Changes to the state pension will also result in future pensioners receiving less than those born in 1940 do, with moves to take away an earnings-related element hitting higher earners particularly hard.
Those born in the 1970s are also taking longer to get onto the housing ladder, with the rate of home-ownership in this age group falling back to about two-thirds compared to a peak of four-fifths for people born in the 1940s and 1950s.
The growing wealth of today's retirees has led their children to bank on getting a financial windfall when their parents die.
Just 28 per cent of people born in the early 1940s have already received or expect to receive an inheritance, compared to 70 per cent of those born in the late 1970s.
Andrew Hood, one of the IFS report's authors, said: "Since the Second World War, successive cohorts have enjoyed higher incomes and living standards than their parents.
"Yet the incomes and wealth of those born in the 1960s and 1970s look no higher than the cohorts who came before them. As a result, younger cohorts are likely to have to rely on inheritances to be better off in retirement than their predecessors.
"But inheritances are unequally distributed, with households that are already relatively wealthy far more likely to benefit."
Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown, the financial services provider, said many people expecting to be bailed out in their old age by large inheritances from their parents would be disappointed.
He added: "Care home costs can run to tens of thousands of pounds a year. So if you have two parents who spend a number of years needing intensive care home support, that can consume a very significant inheritance before it ever reaches you.
"People born in the 1960s and 1970s are going to be the first generation that have not been through the bulk of their adult lives in final salary pension schemes, so they are going to lose out significantly in that regard, and more so people born in the 1970s.
"We have hit the high point of the pensions system and we are going down the other side now."
However, Dr Ros Altmann, a pensions expert, questioned the analysis and suggested that the picture need not be so bleak if younger people embraced changes in working patterns and planned to retire later.
She said: "There are still opportunities for people in 40s and 50s both to save and work longer to give themselves a better lifestyle in later life.
"We need to get away from this idea that it should be an aspiration for people to stop work in their 60s, when they are relatively young and fit. That is not going to be a particularly great life. If you are working part-time, that is going to be a better life."
A Government spokesman said Ministers were "committed to protecting pensioners", adding: "In addition to introducing the triple lock on the basic state pension we have also protected a number of pensioner benefits, for instance free bus passes and TV licences.
"We are reforming the UK's state pension system to be more sustainable for the future and widening access to a workplace pension.
"These combined reforms will improve the incomes of nine million people currently facing inadequate income in retirement."
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On To San Diego Later Today
Doc wasn't his usual sharp self and the offense continued to sputter so the Phillies have lost two games in a row. They and the Rockies were the last NL teams without back-to-back losses and both clubs went down yesterday.
Longest Phillies had gone without consecutive defeats at the start of a season was 33 games by the 1995 team.
Last time the Brewers blanked the Phillies was 8/7/05.
Best part about last night's loss: it's over. Time to focus on an afternoon game today.
Those in the traveling party brought their luggage to Citizens Bank Park this morning for the Delta charter flight to San Diego this evening. One thing you can count on: the weather in SD will be much better than what the Phillies faced during this homestand.
The Padres were rained out yesterday and have a day-night doubleheader in Chicago today. So, the Phillies will land in SD before the Padres.
Petco Park is in downtown SD so the players can walk to the ballpark. No buses needed for the next four days until the trip to the airport on Sunday night for a flight to St. Louis.
Phillies pitchers had given up just five home runs before last night . . . Offensively, the Phillies' 11 homers are 11th in the NL . . . Phillies are 18-4 at Petco Park . . . Happy birthday today to Tommy Hutton, 65 . . . Hal Bodley has a great column on MLB.com on Pat Gillick, who went to Cooperstown yesterday to get a feel for his July Hall of Fame induction.
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Scouting Director Marti Wolever and the national and regional supervisors are underway in preparation for the annual First-Year Player draft, June 6-8.
By signing Cliff Lee, the Phillies first selection goes to the Texas Rangers (33rd overall). With Washington signing Werth, the Phillies will receive #39 (compensation A pick) and #66 (Washington's second-round selection.
Phillies next picks are #90 (second round) and #120 (third round).
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RHP Vance Worley (1-2) gave up two runs in 5.2 innings in Lehigh Valley's 5-2 loss to SWB . . . 3B Cody Overbeck had a single, double, 6th homer and four RBI in Reading's 8-6 win over Erie . . . Clearwater fell to Daytona, 4-3, Travis May (0-2) getting the loss . . . LHP Mario Hollands (2-1) gave up one earned run in 5 innings as Lakewood won at Asheville, 4-3 . . . Domonic Brown was hitless on five at-bats in extended spring training.
This Date In Phillies History
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Recently, I was developing a page that had 3 data tables. Each table had an 'add' button and each row in the table had 'delete' buttons. The problem was that I ended up fighting the JSF specification trying to accomplish this simple task.
The functionality that I wanted for my users was to add or remove rows from these tables regardless of if the data on the rest of the page was valid.Table of contents:
- Immediate
- Action validation
- Tomahawk sandbox subForm
- Optional validator framework
- New component (solution)
First I tried the immediate attribute on my command links. Although this technically worked, I lost all my data in the data table input components. Due to the way the UIData component works, the submitted values will not be correctly processed unless the validation phase is run.
After that, I looked into using only action validation (no validators or required flags). Once again I didn't get the functionality that I desired. It was not possible, while maintaining a clean Object-Oriented design to be able to correctly assign component IDs to the validation messages for the components in the tables (I would have to hard-code the indexes into the messages as well as the view IDs - not an elegant solution).
The third attempt led me to the subForm Tomahawk component from MyFaces. First problem was that the all the components in the form had to be within a subForm. Then I had to create a dummy sub-form that I would submit:
<f:form> <s:subForm id="mainForm"> <-- Other input componenets here --> <t:commandLink action="#{userBean.addEmail}" actionFor="dummyForm" /> </subForm> <s:subForm id="dummyForm" />
Once again this worked only half-way. My action was run, but like with the immediate attribute, the values were lost in the data tables.
Forth attempt was a look at the Optional validator framework from http://jsf-comp.sf.net. This would have worked but it didn't have the functionality I needed. For one, only validators with IDs were supported (no attributes could be passed, so I would not be able to use validators like validate length which takes a maximum and minimum value. It is also not able to handle required validators on child components of data tables.
Seeing as how my problem again and again was the phase in which my action was executed, I need a different solution in terms of JSF phase. If immediate was set to true, the action would run but the validation phase would be skipped. The validation phase is needed for the submitted values of data tables though. Having the action fire during model update meant that the validation phase had to be skipped or there had to be a way to skip validation errors.
My fifth and final attempt ended up being my solution. It is perhaps not too pretty, but it got the job done. I needed to get the action event to fire during the process validators phase (in between when immediate fires it and non-immediate). I couldn't just extend command link though because UICommand always sets the phase ID of action events during queueEvent. I could have made a special action event that just disabled the setPhaseId funciton (by doing nothing in the method body), but I thought that more of a hack than my final solution.
My solution was to create a component thats sole purpose in life would be to alter the phase ID of an action event. It would need no renderer either. In the queueEvent I would simple set any ActionEvent's phase IDs to process validation. Then, placing this new component as the parent of an action component (or components), I would make sure my action would run during validation.
Using facelets, I needed no tag, so I just wrote the component and gave it an active attribute in case I ever want to disable the behavior using EL:
import javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase; import javax.faces.context.FacesContext; import javax.faces.el.ValueBinding; import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent; import javax.faces.event.FacesEvent; import javax.faces.event.PhaseId; import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory; /** * * @author Andrew Robinson (andrew) */ public class UIValidationActionPhase extends UIComponentBase { private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog( UIValidationActionPhase.class); public static final String COMPONENT_FAMILY = "-- set family here --"; public static final String COMPONENT_TYPE = "-- set component type here --"; private Boolean active; /** * @return Returns the active. */ public boolean isActive() { if (active != null) return this.active; ValueBinding vb = getValueBinding("active"); return (vb == null) || (Boolean)vb.getValue(getFacesContext()); } /** * @param active The active to set. */ public void setActive(boolean active) { this.active = active; } /** * @see javax.faces.component.UIComponent#getFamily() */ @Override public String getFamily() { return COMPONENT_FAMILY; } /** * @see javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase#getRendererType() */ @Override public String getRendererType() { return null; } /** * @see javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase#queueEvent(javax.faces.event.FacesEvent) */ @Override public void queueEvent(FacesEvent event) { if (event instanceof ActionEvent && isActive()) { log.debug("Changing Phase ID of action event " + event); event.setPhaseId(PhaseId.PROCESS_VALIDATIONS); } super.queueEvent(event); } /** * @see javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase#saveState(javax.faces.context.FacesContext) */ @Override public Object saveState(FacesContext context) { return new Object[] { super.saveState(context), active, }; } /** * @see javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase#restoreState(javax.faces.context.FacesContext, java.lang.Object) */ @Override public void restoreState(FacesContext context, Object state) { Object[] array = (Object[])state; int index = -1; super.restoreState(context, array[++index]); active = (Boolean)array[++index]; } }The usage in my XHTML file was simple:
<f:form> <my:validationAction> <t:commandLink action="#{userBean.addEmail}" /> </my:validationAction> </f:form>
Now the user is able to see validation errors and get feedback on bad input data and my action was still able to run with the validation errors. Luckily my actions (add and delete) did not depend on the model being updated. This solution will not work for those that would need data from the user to be applied to the model.© Copyright 2006 - Andrew Robinson.
Please feel free to use in your applications under the LGPL license
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The GRUB failsafe interaction in some Oracle Solaris releases prompts you to update the boot archive, regardless of whether any inconsistent boot archive are detected. In this release, the system only prompts you to update the boot archive if an inconsistent boot archive is detected.
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You can also use the Reset button at this prompt. Or, you can use the power switch to reboot the system.
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Lauren Parsekian is on a mission: To help bring awareness to the topic of bullying by offering solutions to schools across the country. Parsekian, 24, and her business partner, Molly Stroud, 23, who she met in college at Pepperdine, have a new documentary on the topic, "Finding Kind." I spoke with Parsekian about "Finding Kind" and how she plans to help parents and kids come together and face this problem head on through her Kind Campaign (kindcampaign.com).
Weigel: Why is this topic so close to your heart?
Parsekian: When I was in grade school I was a target of some rumors that started from people I thought were my friends. It created two years of isolation and depression. I developed an eating disorder. I even tried to take my own life. When you are that age, what's going on at school seems like your entire world and it's hard to imagine you will have other chapters.
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Weigel: Why do you think girls opened up to you so much when you were on the road?
Parsekian: Girls seem to connect to me because I understand what they are going through. I've been there. We've all been on both sides of this issue. And since both Molly and I are recently out of college, it wasn't that long ago. But sometimes they would look right at us and say, "I don't think this is a problem." But we set up a booth with the camera where girls could go in and just talk to the camera without anyone hearing what they said. We called this the "Truth Booth." They would open up and break down. Girls would say they started rumors on purpose about another girl because they were jealous of how pretty they were. And others would admit to feeling so alone they didn't want to keep living.
Weigel: Was there one common theme that you heard from the girls you interviewed about how the bullying changed their lives?
Parsekian: We'd hear that people were insecure, or feeling pressure to fit in. Most of the kids wished they felt more comfortable with themselves. What their friends thought of them was so important. They would feel empty inside if they weren't accepted.
Weigel: What can kids do if they see this happening?
Parsekian: If you just took the time to sit next to that kid nobody sits with at the cafeteria, or maybe said "Hi" to someone you don't normally acknowledge—these small steps can make a big difference. We call this being a "change maker." I was surprised to hear how many people remembered the nice things as well as the mean things that were done to them.
Weigel: There is a scene in your documentary where a parent says she went to the principal of the school to ask for help with the bullying and she didn't get any help. What can people do if this happens to them?
Parsekian: So many people in schools will say "It's not my problem," but it's everybody's problem. It's important to have something that's already in place at school that eliminates kids having to come forward. This means starting off the year with a conversation or an assembly. We pass out "kind cards" at our assemblies which are little pink cards people can use to write something nice about someone right there in the room. Then there are the apology cards we hand out, which gives people the right to apologize to the person they've hurt right there. We've seen hundreds of relationships transformed right on the spot. You literally see a girl walk across the room and hug the one she was fighting with. It's very powerful.
Weigel: If someone is reading this and thinking bullying isn't a problem in their child's world—what would you say to them?
Parsekian: There was not a single community we came across that didn't have a bullying problem. This needs to be part of the curriculum. Parents would be surprised to hear how much this goes on with kids who are as young as 8 years old. I recently went back to my own grade school and told the story of what happened to me when I was bullied and my 7th grade teacher was sitting in the room and she had tears in her eyes. She had no idea what I was going through and that this was happening on campus. We hear that over and over again. We have a kit on our website (kindcampaign.com) that schools can sign up for that supplies everything from sample questions to get the dialogue going, to the apology cards. People have to take this seriously before we have more tragedies on our hands.
Find trailers, screenings and more information about the documentary "Finding Kind" at findingkind.indieflix.com.
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Lauren Parsekian is on a mission: To help bring awareness to the topic of bullying by offering solutions to schools across the country. Parsekian, 24, and her business partner, Molly Stroud, 23, who she met in college at Pepperdine, have a new documentary on the topic, "Finding Kind." I spoke with Parsekian about "Finding Kind" and how she plans to help parents and kids come together and face this problem head on through her Kind Campaign (kindcampaign.com).


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The proposed reform to phase out the 18 percent preferential interest rate enjoyed by retired civil servants, military personnel and public school teachers is expected to save the nation at least NT$27 billion (US$$914.76 million) a year by 2020, officials at the Ministry of Civil Services said yesterday.
The Ministry of National Defense added that the planned reform would also save the ministry NT$6 billion a year.
Minister of Civil Service Chang Che-shen (張哲琛) and Department of Retirement and Survivor Relief Director Lu Ming-tai (呂明泰) unveiled the reforms to the civil servants' retirement system at a press conference.
Similar reforms applying to retired military personnel and public school teachers were announced by the Cabinet.
Under the plans, the 18 percent preferential savings rate would be cut to 12 percent in 2016, with a decrease of 1 percentage point every year afterward until 2020, when the rate is to be replaced with a floating interest rate.
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Among them, 190,000 are retired military personnel, 120,000 retired civil servants and 110,000 retired teachers.
According to government statistics, the cut in preferential rates will affect about 227,000 civil servants, among whom 81,208 are retired civil servants and 146,540 are active civil servants, in addition to about 220,000 military personnel, including 31,000 retired military officials and 190,000 still in military service.
Under the plan, retired government employees who took out their pensions in lump sums before the new retirement system for civil servants was enacted on July 1, 1995, and the respective new retirement systems for the military personnel and teachers were established in 1997, will still enjoy the 18 percent preferential interest rate because they had lower incomes in the earlier years of their careers.
Meanwhile, the ministry proposed adopting a "rule of 90" system in 2016, in which a civil servant can only be eligible for monthly pension payments if their age and years in service add up to 90.
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An income replacement cap of less than 80 percent is to be imposed on civil servants, military personnel and public school teachers, who can receive up to about 90 percent of their pre-retirement income under the current pension system.
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The Governor also proposed providing $10 million in state matching funds to help research universities attract new federal grants for biomedical and other high-tech research. The concept of matching funds for research was originally recommended in New Jersey's Plan for Higher Education. The Governor's proposal targets the state's six public and independent research universities – NJIT, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Seton Hall University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and UMDNJ.
Governor Whitman also proposed investing $5 million to expand the highly successful business incubator program, which provides high-tech start-up firms with low-cost office, light manufacturing, or laboratory space on or near college and university campuses.
In addition to these new initiatives, the Governor's proposed budget for FY 2001 provides an increase in operating aid to the senior public institutions and maintains the four-year commitment to boost state funding for community colleges. The proposed increases for public institutions include up to 1% in performance-based increases. The budget includes an additional $1 million for independent colleges and universities.
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New Jersey's civic sector has entered the cyber era, thanks to a new website created by the Citizenship and Service Education (CASE) Program at Rutgers University.
The website, njserves.org, is a comprehensive source of information about civic and service organizations throughout New Jersey. It provides a searchable directory of over 40,000 civic organizations, online matching of volunteers and opportunities, a digital warehouse of donated goods and services, and information about upcoming events and ongoing projects.
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In addition, njserves.org facilitates communication and collaboration within the civic sector. The website helps organizations exchange information about best practices, identify partnership opportunities, and search for new funding sources.
The website provides extensive linkages to schools, museums, houses of worship, United Way organizations, ethnic associations, human service organizations, foundations, local and state government agencies, and many others. Even organizations without their own websites can be included in the database, giving them an initial presence on the web.
The website is staffed almost entirely by Rutgers students. A team of 16 developed the initial database and website design and continues to maintain the extensive site and develop new features, such as planned policy forums and an online newspaper.
Although njserves.org will not be formally launched until February 29, it has been online since the fall and "community response has been tremendous," said D. Michael Shafer, director of the CASE program, which each year matches about 2,000 service learning students with 400 community organizations.
He explained that njserves.org was conceived to address the organizations' concerns about being left out of the digital revolution.
"As far as we can make out, no one else in the country is doing anything near as ambitious as this," said Dr. Shafer. The online initiative was developed with financial support from PSE&G and Novartis. Other corporate sponsors include Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, the NJ Nets, and Prudential. Rutgers contributed the computer hardware and continues to supply connectivity.
Dr. Shafer believes serving community needs is an important part of higher education's mission, and colleges and universities must make their "human capital" available to the public. He and his team are reaching out to other campuses in New Jersey, asking them to become part of njserves.org by including their community services in the database and posting notices of campus events on the calendar.
The njserves.org team is also encouraging web-savvy students to help local organizations develop their online presence and asking colleges and universities to offer space on their web servers to civic organizations.
Over 150 leaders and practitioners from schools and colleges throughout the state attended the December 7 joint summit on high school to college transitions hosted by the Commission and the State Board of Education.
Although the two state bodies have been working closely in recent months, the summit was the first large-scale effort to involve school districts, colleges and universities, and others with a stake in education.
Following a panel discussion, participants broke into groups to explore three key issues: academic preparation, admissions policies, and support and guidance for students and parents. A summary of specific issues addressed at the summit will be shared with participants and the broad education community in the near future. The State Board, Commission, individual school districts, and higher education institutions will continue deliberations in an effort to identify specific steps to make students' transition from high school to college smoother and more successful.
The Commission in January awarded grants totaling $553,000 to three institutions for urban revitalization projects in Paterson, Trenton, and Jersey City.
Passaic County Community College, New Jersey City University, and Thomas Edison State College each will lead a collaborative that includes local government, business, and community organizations. Two projects involve multiple higher education institutions. Each collaborative will provide matching funds.
"These exciting projects demonstrate higher education's enormous potential to stimulate urban rebirth and community revitalization," said Commission Chairman Alfred J. Cade. "The funded projects are consistent with the strengths of the lead institutions and with ongoing revitalization efforts in the community."
The Urban Revitalization Grant Program was created in response to a recommendation in New Jersey's Plan for Higher Education. In 1998, 12 urban institutions were award-ed planning grants to forge local partnerships and develop plans to address urban problems in their locales. Individual or multiple institutions from seven of the eight eligible locales submitted implementation proposals.
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Passaic County Community College $184,425
Paterson Community Technology Center will provide technology training and access to community residents and local businesses to bridge the "digital divide."
Partners include city government, Paterson Urban Enterprise Zone, PSE&G, and Hispanic Multipurpose Center, Eva's Village, Greater Paterson OIC, Paterson Small Business Development Center.
New Jersey City University $184,285
Hudson County Community College
St. Peter's College
Stevens Institute of Technology
Project Director: Jill Lewis, (201) 200-2308
Institute for the Advancement of Community Leadership and Service Learning will expand higher education's involvement in the civic life of Jersey City and Hudson County.
Partners include city and county government, Jersey City Housing Authority, Hudson County Chamber of Commerce, Hudson County Coalition of Nonprofit Organizations.
Thomas Edison State College $184,285
Mercer County Community College
Project Director: William A. Watson, (609) 777-4351
Collaboration for Trenton's Heritage Tourism Initiative will spur the economic revitalization of Trenton by creating an infrastructure to promote tourism linking visitation, the arts, culture, and entertainment.
Partners include city, county, and state government; Trenton School District, Mercer County Chamber of Commerce, Trenton Convention & Visitors Bureau, Trenton Downtown Association, North 25 Corporation, Isles, Inc.
Midway through his first year, Executive Director James E. Sulton, Jr. offered the Commission his observations about New Jersey higher education and its future, saying a tighter focus on key student needs will propel the system toward excellence and national prominence.
While his nine months on the job have been enlightening and exhilarating, Dr. Sulton said his one frustration is that the higher education system's many strengths remain a well-kept secret. The Commission intends to tackle this problem by increasing awareness of New Jersey higher education and its vital contributions.
At the Commission's December meeting Dr. Sulton said, "For me, students are at the heart of the higher education enterprise, and decisions at all levels should consider their needs. Student transfer and articulation is perhaps the boldest expression of a genuinely learner-centered approach to higher education."
While institutions are trying to address the transfer issue, Dr. Sulton said New Jersey needs a seamless statewide process that recognizes varying student needs and differences among each institution's courses and programs. He called for statewide implementation of ARTSYS, an online transfer system that allows students to evaluate transcripts, determine course equivalencies, and assess their prospects for transfer.
Pointing to campus diversity as another area that requires a student-centered approach, Dr. Sulton said that given New Jersey's diverse enrollment and supportive climate, the state has a unique opportunity to demonstrate national leadership.
"Governing boards and institutions must capitalize on diversity — a strength of our higher education system — through conscious efforts to weave diversity and multiculturalism into the fabric that unites each campus community," said Dr. Sulton. Noting that a diverse campus community benefits all students, he called on each institution that has not already done so to develop a comprehensive diversity plan that addresses recruitment of underrepresented students, faculty, and staff; campus climate and intergroup relations; new approaches to curriculum and teaching; and accountability.
The Commission on Higher Education welcomed two new members in January.
Cecile Feldman, D.M.D., is the acting dean of the New Jersey Dental School of UMDNJ. Governor Whitman appointed her to a one-year term as the Commission's first faculty representative. Legislation enacted in April 1999 added a faculty member to the Commission's membership; the appointment will rotate annually among the various higher education sectors. In addition to her dental degree, Dr. Feldman holds an M.B.A. and a bachelor's degree in economics, all from the University of Pennsylvania.
Amy Handlin, Ph.D., a member of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders since 1989, was recommended by the President of the Senate for appointment to a six-year term as a public member of the Commission. Dr. Handlin is also an assistant professor of marketing at Monmouth University and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Public Issues. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. from New York University.
Governor Whitman signed legislation granting voting status to the Commission on Higher Education's two student members on January 6.
The Commission had long supported giving its student members the vote and actively sought passage of the legislation sponsored by the late Senator Wynona Lipman and Assemblyman Craig Stanley. The Student College Coalition also worked hard to generate support for the bill.
"Our student members contribute significantly to the Commission's work, and we feel strongly that the entire higher education system will benefit from granting them voting privileges," said Commission Chairman Alfred J. Cade.
Student members Heidi White and Wilma Velazquez cast their first votes as Commission members at the January 28 meeting.


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This is the front page of today's Boston Herald. Not the sports cover. The front page. All because Harvard got the spot in the tourney it knew it would get as of Tuesday. All Boston learned yesterday was that the Crimson would be playing Vanderbilt in Albuquerque in the first round, which is actually sort of depressing on a couple of levels. First, Albuquerque? Second, wouldn't Harvard rather avoid playing a private school, one-percent team spirit, and all that?
But let us not scorn Harvard—we've done that already and I'm sure we'll do it again—but rather the Herald, a tab tasked with representing Boston's volksgeist, the unique spirit that we've come to know so well through film adaptations of Dennis Lehane novels. The Herald is the working-man's paper, the newspaper that gets purchased from a Store 24 before being splashed with Dunkin Donuts French roast. The Herald is the paper of the lady who makes you wait at the RMV in Danvers. The Herald speaks for every cop in Woburn. Well, it used to. Now it belongs to the Rockefellers and Kennedys and Dershowitzes just like everything else. Oh well. Damn it, Harvard.


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Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the proposed Bill on micro-finance institutions will provide adequate legislative framework for development and regulation of the sector.
The Micro Finance Institutions (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2012, is currently being scrutinised by a Parliamentary Standing Committee.
"We are hopeful that the Bill will be cleared by the Standing Committee, then brought to Parliament for passage.
"Once the bill is passed, I hope that it will provide an adequate legislative framework for the entire gamut of micro-finance services," he said at MicrofinanceIndia Summit 2012 here.
The Bill seeks to empower the Reserve Bank to regulate the micro finance industry and fix interest rates ceiling on loans to be provided by lenders.
The Bill, which was drafted in the backdrop of problems faced by borrowers of MFIs in Andhra Pradesh and other states, seeks for compulsory registration of MFIs with the RBI.
Stating that MFIs play an important role in financial inclusion, Chidambaram said "responsible financing by way of transparency, interest rate rationalisation, respectful recovery procedure must be followed by micro finance institutions" are among the challenges the MFI sector face.
He asked MFIs to verify data on borrowers with credit bureau so as to avoid multiple borrowing or over indebtedness.
"I will request the micro finance sector to adapt itself to the expectation of public at large especially with regard to their code of conduct," Chidambaram said.
Micro finance -- the business of doling out small loans at high interest rates to poor people who are unable to access conventional lending instruments -- has come under intense regulatory scrutiny in the wake of an Act passed by the Andhra Pradesh government.


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Office floors offer elegance and efficiency, while retail space is occupied by Barneys New York flagship store offering a great shopping experience. Largely opened up to the outside, this impressive building has a glass facade, multi-level terraces and is surrounded by gardens.
Tri-seven is on a hill thus even from the 8th floor it has expansive views overlooking Roppongi, Shinjuku and other parts of Tokyo. With a 5-star fit-out, artwork, spectacular boardroom, spacious offices, a coworking lounge and a large pantry, this location is one of the nicest serviced offices in Japan. In addition, a seismic isolation system reduces shaking and guarantees safety in the event of an earthquake, a relief to both tenants and their clients.
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GoPro Returns as Official Camera as Ford Racing Mustang Challenge Goes HD
July 12, 2010
TOOELE, UT (12 July 2010) – When it comes to their equipment, race car drivers always want the best of the best. So it makes perfect sense that for the second season running, GoPro has been named the "Official Onboard Camera" for the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge.
GoPro, maker of the world's bestselling and highest performance wearable HD video cameras, will be used to capture onboard racing footage during the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge races. With a GoPro HD HERO onboard each driver's car, the action is delivered directly to the race fans. The Mustang Challenge video initiative first developed at the onset of the 2009 season, and the Compass360-produced content delivers high-quality video excitement after every race weekend, viewable at http://www.youtube.com/themustangchallenge as well as http://www.mustangchallenge.com.
This is the second year that GoPro has provided onboard camera footage for the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge but new this year is the use of GoPro's new HD HERO. Beating out all other cameras in its class, the GoPro HD HERO provides the highest quality HD video with its ability to record in 1080p. And when set to 720p at 60 frames per second, video from the GoPro HD HERO can be played back in super smooth slow motion to capture the hair raising action of the Mustang Challenge.
"We're excited that the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge has chosen to upgrade their Racing Mustangs with the HD HERO camera, "said Nicholas Woodman, CEO and founder of GoPro. "This series is so competitive and the cars look and sound so cool. It will be great to watch the racing from inside the cockpit and even outside on the splitters and bumpers thanks to the ease of mounting the HD HERO anywhere on the car. The Ford Racing Mustang Challenge captured in glorious GoPro HD thanks to the series' decision to GoPro…we can't wait to see it."
The GoPro HD Motorsports HERO package, which provides all the mounts and accessories needed to record your own heart bounding racing experiences, can be purchased at your favorite shop, or GoPro.com.
"The GoPro camera is pretty amazing, and our drivers and fans have been impressed with the quality that our Mustang Challenge videos deliver," said Series Director Lynda Randall. "We are very happy to extend this partnership with GoPro and everyone is very excited to see what happens now with the HD cameras on board. Bringing this content to the web has been an excellent way for us to develop a following with fans who can't make it to all the races and we are looking forward to continuing to put on a good show, no matter if people are watching in person or on line!"
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A controversial hockey call, which took a goal away from Russia in its first Olympic match-up against the U.S. in Sochi, has got even President Vladimir Putin talking.
He was at the Saturday game that became a topic of heated debate after an American referee decided not to count a goal scored against U.S. netminder Jonathan Quick. The goal itself, the ref ruled, had been slightly moved off its moorings before the puck crossed the line.
The call forced the tied game into overtime then a shootout where the U.S. ultimately prevailed.
Since then, accusations of cheating and conspiracies have abounded. Russian fans were so upset they protested in Moscow, chanting, according to the New York Times, "turn the referee to soap!"
Now Putin has weighed in, revealing that he, too, disagreed with the call, but expected more from the Russian team.
"Even referees sometimes makes mistakes; here I wouldn't tar anybody with any brush, but I thought that we would win by a big margin," Putin said, according to Russia's RIA Novosti news site. "You and I shouldn't forget that sport isn't only about skill but also about the athletes' courage, and even a good slice of luck."
The RIA Novosti report also points out that the referee's call had been receiving a lot of attention in Russian media. The anchorman of the state's Rossiya network, the report said, even suggested that the referee's call was the result of a multi-million dollar deal tied to NBC's broadcast rights. "The Americans didn't purchase a defeat, he claimed."
The game's 3-2 conclusion secured a place for the Americans in the next round, but forced Russia to earn its quarterfinal spot with one more game against Norway. (Watch it here at 7:30 a.m. ET.)


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Plus now it'd be 4 years til he could turn out for SA anyway.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"Ben Stokes, that most unlikely saint, worked the second of the two miracles he needs for his canonisation." - The Guardian's Andy Bell on the England all-rounder's Headingley ton
Isn't Trott now ineligible for your Saffies as he's played a Test for us?
Or something.
RIP Fardin Qayyumi (AKA "cricket player"; "Bob"), 1/11/1990 - 15/4/2006
It's why Tahir wasn't eligible for the yarps as soon as he got his passport, he'd played for Pakistan A in 2005, so had to wait until April this year to become available for SA.
EDIT: Actually, Trott was already committed to us because he'd played those 2020 internationals a couple of years back.
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Would have to get another tattoo then...
That century was easily the greatest century I have ever seen. And I've watched over 160 centuries.
The question one has to ask is, is it time to build a side, or as Vaughan put it an 'empire', or is it time to pick the best side to tour SA. If Collingwood is picked, it wouldn't be the worst decision, but if he's not I would be more impressed because it suggests that the selectors have put the focus on the future. Ideally, I'd like to see him replaced by someone who isn't Bell but theres not very many options here. Perhaps Joyce would make more sense?
Tendulkar = the most overated player EVER!!
Beckham = the most overated footballer EVER!!
Vassell = the biggest disgrace since rikki clarke!!
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Signature Theatre Center's Cheri, based on the story of Colette's classic 1920 novella, officially begins performances off-Broadway November 19. Directed, conceived and choreographed by Martha Clarke, the opening night is set for December 8 and will play a limited engagement through December 22 at the Irene Diamond Stage.
The new production features a text by playwright Tina Howe and stars ballet dancers Herman Cornejo and Alessandra Ferri, as well as Oscar nominee Amy Irving. The show uses dance, theater and live music to tell the tragic story of a six-year affair between Lea, an aging retired courtesan and Cheri, a pampered young man in Belle Epoque Paris.
The Cheri creative team includes scenic and costume designer David Zinn, lighting designer Christopher Akerlind, sound designers Arthur Solari and Samuel Crawford and music supervisor Sarah Rothenberg.


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California's controversial ban on same-sex marriage is back in court Thursday as proponents argue that the previous judge's decision to strike it down should be invalidated because he is gay.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments on whether the decision to strike down Proposition 8 should be overturned because Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker failed recuse himself or disclose he was in a gay relationship.
Walker overturned voter approved Proposition 8 in August of 2010 saying that measure violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection. But lawyers for Prop 8 backers have argued the judge stood to personally benefit from his decision and should have recused himself.
Walker publicly revealed after he retired in February that he is in a 10-year relationship with a man. In an earlier ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware said Vaughn Walker did not have to divulge whether he wanted to marry his own gay partner before he declared Prop 8 unconstitutional.
But Prop 8 backers appealed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals who will hear arguments during a two hour hearing Thursday.
The three-judge panel will also hear motions on whether videotapes of the Prop 8 trial should be made public. Walker had his staff record the proceedings, with the assumption they were for his personal archive.
Backers of the ban on same-sex marriage will argue that the tapes should be kept unpublicized, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned cameras from broadcasting the trial in the first place.
In an interview last April, Walker said he saw no reason to step down from the case because he was gay.
"I don't think it's relevant. I never thought it was appropriate to recuse myself from that case," Walker said. "It would not be a positive development if you thought a judge's sexuality, ethnicity, national origin or gender would prevent a judge from handling a case."
Proposition 8 passed in the November 2008 state elections, adding a new provision to the California Constitution, which provides that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.


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If we're being all pedantic, then i'll suggest a few comiCs as well:
Foxtrot (or perhaps some people might classify this as a "funny"??) is pretty good if you're a bit of a geek. Kind of like Calvin and Hobbs but starring a boy addicted to computer games. Needless to say I can relate to that one.
I'm surprised there's been no praise for Slave Labour Graphics yet. I was a sucker for Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Lenore when I was younger. Some of the stuff's worth a look if you're into Edward Gorey, and some of it falls short. Certainly worthwhile having a little dig around though.
Anyone care to recommend any web-comics or funnies? I like that dinosaurs one that was so popular a little while back.


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- Page 1 Asus Eee PC X101CH Review
- Page 2 Connectivity, Screen and Audio Review
- Page 3 Performance, Value and Verdict Review
- Fanless cooling = quiet
- Slim and light
- Attractive, textured chassis
- Matt screen, decent connectivity
- Very affordable
- Poor screen
- Limited performance
- Not upgradeable
- Average battery life
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- Review Price: £209.00
- 10.1in, matt, 1024 x 600 TN screen
- Atom N2600 dual-core 1.6GHz CPU
- 1GB RAM, 320GB 5200rpm HDD
- Slim (22mm) and light (1kg)
- Wi-Fi N, Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI
The netbook has now come full circle. From a tentative, innovative product released by Asus back in 2007 with the original Eee PC 4G 701, the netbook went from strength to strength, finally evolving into elegant and award-winning budget ultraportables like the Toshiba NB550D. However, now netbook popularity is on the wane again. This is due in part to convertible tablets like the Asus Transformer Pad 300 offering better screens and longer battery life in a thinner, lighter chassis, and partly due to the sharp drop in price of more premium 13in laptops, of which older models can now be easily found for under £400.
With more and more companies not refreshing their netbook lines anymore, the company that started it all is one of the last bastions of the humble netbook. Today we're looking at one of Asus' latest models, the X101CH, to find out if the netbook is worth keeping alive.
The X101CH suffers from many of the classic limitations we've come to associate with a netbook. Advanced connectivity like USB 3.0 is not available, the 10in screen sports a sub-par 1,024 x 600 resolution, and at its heart remains an underperforming Atom processor backed by a mere 1GB of RAM with Windows 7 Starter running the show.
On the other hand, the X101CH is thin, light and attractive, adds HDMI thanks to its newer chipset (where most older netbooks only offered analogue video out through VGA), brings a fanless design to the table that means this ultraportable runs almost noise-free, and it also offers 'instant-on' wake-up from standby – despite using a slow hard drive rather than hybrid SSD/HDD storage.
At least where its design is concerned, Asus has everything pretty much spot-on too. You can't expect the most premium materials or build quality at a price of around £210, but the X101CH is nonetheless solidly built. Its matt textured finish is also relatively rugged and provides a good grip. It's available in black, white or red/black.
Thin and light are also on the menu, as the X101CH maintains a profile of just 22mm and weighs exactly 1KG (1.001kg in our measurement). That's both thinner and lighter than most rivals, which is more important than ever in a market where specs, connectivity and screen type/quality are necessarily restricted. The one-piece power adapter is also worth mention, as it's compact and quite attractive with a handy blue LED.
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