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The Top ETFs for 2013
There's been some progress on the global economic scene, but it all starts in the US for 2013.
Looking at where we are and thinking about where we are headed, I like US multinational mega caps (they offer quality growth at still reasonable prices with a yield kicker). State Street's SPDR Dow Jones Industrial (NYSEARCA:DIA), Guggenheim's S&P 500 Pure Growth (NYSEARCA:RPG), and the iShares S&P 100 (NYSEARCA:OEF) are my mega-cap cornerstones.
I'm also interested in a mid-cap skew. Real companies, real earnings, real management, and real track records through recession and recovery with enough pricing discrepancies to create values in the hands of informed investors makes the mid-cap camp attractive, with my preferred pick being the Guggenheim S&P 400 Mid Cap Pure Growth (NYSEARCA:RFG).
Europe and Japan
Unlike our resolute avoidance of Europe in 2012, for 2013, I'm increasing our stakes in ETFs that can bottom fish there, but have the wisdom to know that bottom fishing can become a bottomless pursuit if policy risks there and here take a turn for the worse.
Depending upon how the fiscal cliff snafu pans out, 2013 may start out looking like a falling soufflé for any international play. But unloved and overlooked are two key ingredients to my contrarian interests in general and in Europe specifically in 2013. Japan fits this bill, too, with an upside potential of a government interested in driving down the value of their currency in order to stimulate exports of their goods and services.
But I don't need or want to own either outright, except in my Long/Short portfolio or my ratings-based Global Quant portfolio; otherwise, each will be well represented across the boards of our multinational oriented portfolios.
Emerging Markets and Asia
I think that pessimism over Europe, China, and the emerging markets may not yet have peaked, but the ever-tumultuous emerging market nooks and crannies are nevertheless attractive enough to pursue so long as you're in the right ETFs.
The theme of growing global consumers has me more bullish about the long-term prospects for emerging market stocks and bonds than most. (I may be wrong.) Not that I don't think many companies and even some countries are too far ahead or behind the story lines (from valuations to expectations). My tactical pairing of emerging market stock and bond ETFs (that blends the stocks and bonds not just of some of the more mature EM marketplaces but also the under-researched frontier ones) continues to make sense.
In 2013, health care -- via the PowerShares Dynamic Healthcare Sector (NYSEARCA:PTH) and the iShares S&P Global Healthcare Sector Index Fund (NYSEARCA:IXJ) -- remains the core sector investment (about as far a cry from a "bet" as a stock investor can make) across our portfolios. I like the prospects of 40 million new health care consumers here in the US, the aging demographic trends throughout the world, and the increasing demand for health care in the emerging markets.
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King County Sheriff's Office Announces Plan to Hire 14 More Deputies
The King County Sheriff's Office announced Friday (Oct. 12) that 14 more deputies will be hired in the coming months to increase public safety for county residents.
The deputies will be added using current resources from the existing budget.
Sheriff Steve Strachan said that "good budget management by his patrol operations command staff and sergeants which have helped to keep overtime costs down. As a result, funds from current vacancies are being used for the new hires."
The Sheriff was joined at the announcement by King County Executive Dow Constantine, along with Council Members Joe McDermott and Kathy Lambert.
"The key to our reform agenda is to engage employees in a process of continual improvement," said King County Executive Dow Constantine. "I appreciate Sheriff Strachan and his staff – from patrol officers to command staff – for piloting a Lean project that cut the use of overtime, helped fill vacancies, and put more police on the street."
"In the past we have had to maintain a large number of unfilled vacancies in order to save money for unforeseen events and to balance our budget," said Strachan. "Because of the good work of our people at the front lines responsible for managing day to day budgets, we can fill some of those vacancies and put more cops on the street."
The hiring plan is to add four in September/October, five in November and five in January, 2013.
No word yet on where the new deputies will be positioned.
"I commend our Sheriff for managing resources to hire these deputies and keeping public safety in our unincorporated neighborhoods as a priority," said Councilmember Lambert, chair of the Law, Justice, Health and Human Services Committee, and representative of one-third of King County's unincorporated area residents. "These deputies will be deployed in the field, patrolling the large unincorporated areas and providing an increased presence of law enforcement that deters criminal activity in addition to responding to crime reports."

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His defensive rating -- or opponents' points per 100 possession while Stoudemire is on the floor -- is 110, or one fewer than his career worst.
The Knicks allow six fewer points per 100 possessions when Stoudemire is on the bench and have been outscored by 22 points in Stoudemire's 145 minutes.
Their net rating -- the difference between points scored and points allowed per 100 possessions when Stoudemire is on and off the floor -- is minus-13. That's the second-worst net rating on the team.
The usual caveats apply to this kind of analysis, the small sample, his returning from a long layoff and the unreliability of individual defensive metrics more broadly, but I think you'd be hard pressed to have been watching Stoudemire since his return and be especially impressed so far with his defensive presence.
There's a long-stated belief that defense is just about effort, and there's certainly something to that, but only to a point. When it comes to just straight up guarding your man, yeah, it's largely about effort. Amar'e Stoudemire certainly has had the athletic ability over the course of his career to guard a fella, but there's a larger part of defending that has to do with understanding your role in the team's scheme. Too often, Amar'e finds himself totally out of position, looking around like, "Wait, what am I doing over here? How did I even get here?" as someone darts open behind him for an easy hoop.
And yet, I've been somewhat encouraged by Stoudemire's steadily improving play. It hasn't been eye-popping, but he appears to be gradually working his way back into a semblance of form. No one's asking him to morph into a force on the defensive end, but if he can play his role respectably, while continuing to find a groove with the Knicks' guards, I'm still inclined to see him as a real positive for the second half of the season.
Maybe I'm allowing my affection for the guy to blind me to his diminishing skills, but such is my right. So there.


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Editors' note: We've lowered the T-Mobile G-Slate's score slightly to reflect the increasing selection of competing Honeycomb devices, many of which offer near-identical features at a lower cost. For our most up-to-date ranking of top tablets, visit CNET's Best 5 tablets page.
As it's only the second tablet to use Google's Honeycomb OS, many will wonder how the T-Mobile G-Slate with Google distinguishes itself from the first Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola Xoom. For one, the G-Slate has a smaller form factor, including a screen that's an inch smaller. It also houses a 3D camera and includes T-Mobile 4G network support. Otherwise, the tablet functions very much like a smaller Xoom. The devil's in the details, however, so let's get to those.
Design and features
With its 8.9-inch screen, the T-Mobile G-Slate is noticeably smaller than both the 10.1-inch Xoom and the 9.8-inch iPad 2. The G-Slate is only slightly heavier than the iPad 2, but, like the Xoom, feels heftier, due to its odd weight distribution.
The G-Slate has a thickness of 0.49 inch, a little over one-third thicker than the iPad 2's 0.34-inch profile. In landscape mode, its screen is as wide as the iPad 2's, but is about an inch shorter in height. The G-Slate feels comfortable in our hands while typing, whether in landscape or portrait mode, and unlike the iPad 2 with its smooth-as-silk metal casing, the G-Slate isn't as likely to slip from our grip.
On its bottom side, the tablet has ports for Mini-USB and Mini-HDMI--although not Micro-HDMI as on the Xoom. On the top are a volume rocker and microphone pinhole. Two speakers can be found on the right side, with another on the left. Also on the left are the power/lock button, a headphone jack, and the power adapter slot input.
Accessing the G-Slate's SIM card is a little more involved than doing the same on the Xoom. There's a hidden panel on the back, requiring you to push down and slide it, revealing the SIM slot as well as the reset button underneath.
These days you can't have a tablet without a built-in camera, usually two. The G-Slate attempts to one-up the competition by including not only a front-facing 2-megapixel camera, but also a 5-megapixel 3D camera on the back. Technically, this is three cameras in all, although T-Mobile isn't really marketing it that way.
If you've seen pics of the back of the G-Slate, you may have noticed a narrow silver plate across it. You may have also assumed this stylish-looking plate doubled as a kickstand. It doesn't; its only function is to add a little design panache.
The G-Slate is the first Honeycomb tablet with out-of-the-box 4G support, courtesy of T-Mobile's network. The tablet also comes with T-Mobile streaming TV preinstalled as well as an on-demand service called T-Mobile TV, EA's Need for Speed Shift HD, Zinio Reader, and 3D camcorder and player software. Full Flash support is delivered via the Get Flash application, which will install Flash on the device within seconds.
The G-Slate also provides the usual tablet features, such as Bluetooth 2.1 support for audio and peripheral support (including Bluetooth keyboards). The Wi-Fi antenna supports bands up to 802.11n. Embedded sensors for screen brightness, accelerometer, and gyroscope are all included
A 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core mobile processor and 32MB of internal flash memory round out the specs.
The T-Mobile G-Slate is the second tablet to use Google's Android 3.0.1. operating system, aka Honeycomb.
Up until the Xoom, every Android tablet we've reviewed suffered from behaving too much like a smartphone. Google's mobile operating system, its apps, and its developer tools were all geared for the small screen, and it showed.


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Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul was born on August 20th, 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Howard Caspar Paul and Margaret née Dumont. He is of strong German ancestry from both sides of his family. His paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Germany. His mother had both German and Irish blood.
Paul grew up in Pittsburgh, helping out in his father's simple dairy business, maintaining a paper route, and serving in the local drug-store. He was encouraged to save his wages to help fund his college education. Paul showed a strong interest and aptitude for athletics, joining the track and wrestling teams of his school. He won the state championship for the220-yard dash in his junior year in high school. He was also active in the student council, showing strong leadership qualities and charisma early on as president of the high school student council.
Early Years
He is a graduate of Gettysburg College with a B.S. degree in Biology, 1957. He pursued a Doctor of Medicine degree from Duke University's School of Medicine, graduating in 1961, then went on to complete his medical internship (Henry Ford Hospital Detroit) and residency in obstetrics/gynecology (Magee-Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh). Demonstrating his strong respect for military service, Paul proudly served his country as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force after which followed his enlistment with the United States Air National Guard, all in the 1960's. He then established his private practice in Texas. He was known to decrease his professional-fees, and even sometimes to waive them altogether, in order to steer clear of Medicare or Medicaid payments.
Paul joined politics in 1971, becoming a delegate to the Texas Republican Convention. He ran for US Congress as a candidate for the Republican Party in 1974 against Democrat Robert R. Casey but failed in his bid for a seat. A couple of years later, when Representative Robert Casey received his appointment as head of the Federal Maritime Commission from President Gerald Ford, special elections were conducted to fill the post Casey vacated. Paul won the special election to fill that seat but was not able to hang on to his post when he lost the general election afterwards to Democrat Robert A. Gammage.
Paul won the seat again on his subsequent bid in 1978, in a rematch against Gammage. He was just as successful for re-elections in 1980 and 1982. Notching a first, he proposed term limit legislation for the House of Representatives. He cited this proposal when he refused to run for re-election later on. He did run for the US Senate in 1984 against Phil Gramm, was defeated, and went back to his practice as an obstetrician/gynaecologist on a full-time basis.
Running for President
But politics beckoned strongly. In 1988, Paul left the Republican Party and ran as the presidential candidate representing the Libertarian Party. His bids to lower taxes and reduce the size of the federal government ran parallel to the interests of the Libertarians. Differences in beliefs focused on issues of abortion as the party was strongly in favour of personal liberty, opposing restrictive laws on actions/lifestyles of individuals. Despite these differences, though, Paul earned the respect and support of the party.
His candidacy was seen by many to be more of an interest to put forward his libertarian ideas and thoughts than to in fact seriously pursue the presidency. He did not win, running behind George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis in the final results. This prompted him to return to his medical practice and other business enterprises.
In the middle of the '90s, Paul reunited with the Republicans. He sought to be nominated by the party for a seat in the House of Representatives. He ran against Greg Laughlin, who had the support of mainstream Republicans. Laughlin parted ways with the Democrats to join the Republicans amidst the Republican takeover of Congress. Laughlin tried to represent Paul's beliefs as extremist and unconventional. In spite of his slim chances, considering Laughlin's strong hold over the Republicans, as well as the strong support coming Laughlin's way from rich and influential groups the likes of the National Rifle Association, Paul defeated Laughlin. He won the primary and proceeded to win the 1996 general election.
People at the forefront of the Texan Republican Party made like efforts to dislodge Paul when he ran for re-elections in 1998. He remained undefeated. He ran for re-elections in 2000 and 2002, winning both bids. Nobody opposed him when he ran in 2004 for his ninth term in the Congress.
In 2006, the Democratic Party fielded Shane Sklar against Paul in his bid for re-election. Paul was able to retain his seat.
Second Attempt at the Presidency
In 2008, Paul decided to run for the presidency again but failed to make it to the finish, ending his run somewhat early in the game. Again, people thought Paul was more interested in using the campaign to endorse the issues close to his heart rather than seeing it as a passionate battle for the top office in the land. John McCain won the Republican nomination soon after. Some of his peers thought that Paul would pursue his bid, running either as an independent candidate or with the Libertarian Party but Paul thought otherwise. His support went to Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party.


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World News - Duke case DA's apology not accepted
The North Carolina prosecutor who originally charged three Duke University lacrosse players with rape apologized Thursday even as the state's attorney general labeled his actions "offensive." Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong issued a statement supporting the dismissal of remaining charges against the three student-athletes a day after Attorney General Roy Cooper pronounced them innocent. "To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students who were wrongly accused," Nifong said. One of the students, Colin Finnerty, told CBS' 60 Minutes: "It may be an apology, but it doesn't make me feel any better. It was his actions more than anybody's that caused the harm."
This SOB should be made to serve all the sentences that he was trying to bush on these students. Make him pay every dollar they spent out of his own pocket even if it takes everything he has, or will ever have. This happens more than people realize, Prosecutors have to be taught a lesson that they will personal pay all damages
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US Helicopter Lifts Tsunami Aid Workers Whose Boat Slammed Into Solomon Islands Reef
A Navy helicopter airlifted more than 20 people off a fishing boat that struck a reef while ferrying a medical team to help tsunami victims in the Solomon Islands, an official said Friday. The Taiwanese boat hit the reef off the western town of Gizo on Thursday night after delivering aid supplies to outlying islands, said Taiwan's ambassador to the Solomon Islands, George Chan. "The U.S. helicopter helped us to lift the Red Cross workers and our medical team," Chan told The Associated Press. "I was told they were safely evacuated." Seventeen Red Cross workers from New Zealand and the Solomons, Taiwanese medical workers, two patients and a crew member whose back was injured were airlifted, he said. Another 13 crew were still on the grounded vessel. ...
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A controversial air traffic procedure has nearly caused midair collisions during takeoffs and landings around the nation and brought a stern warning from U.S. safety investigators, who this month ordered the practice halted at Memphis International Airport, according to federal records, controllers and pilots. Passenger jets arriving at Memphis and several other airports routinely fly directly over the top of planes landing on another nearby runway. Earlier this year, a midair collision between a Northwest Airlines DC-9 and a commuter plane was narrowly averted in Memphis, according to a report on the incident. The issue offers a rare glimpse into the steps aviation officials take to increase capacity at airports and the debates that arise over safety. Dangerous configurations where planes travel on crossing runways or nearby runways with intersecting flight paths can also be found at other airports, such as Minneapolis-St. Paul, Las Vegas and Philadelphia, ...
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Report: Long Drought Leaves 12 Million Chinese Short of Drinking Water
More than 12 million Chinese are short of drinking water because of a widespread and long drought over many parts of the country, state media reported.Xinhua News Agency said the drought had hit the north, northwest and southwest of China, and had also affected 14 million hectares of arable land.It quoted the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters as saying late Thursday that the three-month long drought had affected crop plantings in the southwestern city of Chongqing and in Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces.Tian Yitang, deputy chief of the office, said the situation would get worse in China's northern areas as little rain is forecast and temperatures are rising....
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Some Iraqi legislators declared the U.S.-led plan to secure Baghdad a failure after an unprecedented suicide bomb attack on parliament Thursday capped a violent week in the capital. The explosion inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government buildings, killed at least eight people. Also Thursday, a suicide truck bomb collapsed a bridge across the Tigris River, further isolating mostly Sunni western Baghdad from the largely Shiite east. The attacks came nearly two months after the U.S. and Iraqi militaries began raising troop levels to control violence in Baghdad. "Someone can walk into our parliament building with bombs. What security do we have?" said Saleh al-Mutlaq, who heads the Sunni National Dialogue Front in the Iraqi parliament. "The plan is 100% a failure. It's a complete flop," said Khalaf al-Ilyan, one of the three leaders of the Iraqi ...
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'I am plotting a new Russian revolution' London exile Berezovsky says force necessary to bring down President Putin
The Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has told the Guardian he is plotting the violent overthrow of President Putin from his base in Britain after forging close contacts with members of Russia's ruling elite. In comments which appear calculated to enrage the Kremlin, and which will further inflame relations between London and Moscow, the multimillionaire claimed he was already bankrolling people close to the president who are conspiring to mount a palace coup. "We need to use force to change this regime," he said. "It isn't possible to change this regime through democratic means. There can be no change without force, pressure." Asked if he was effectively fomenting a revolution, he said: "You are absolutely correct." Although Mr Berezovsky, with an estimated fortune of £850m, may have the means to finance such a plot, and although he enjoyed enormous political influence in Russia before being forced into exile, he said he could not provide details to back up...
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Sheffield Wednesday skipper Rob Jones could return to face his former club Scunthorpe.
The 6ft 7in central defender, a summer signing from Scunthorpe following a loan spell with the Owls last season, has missed the last two games due to a broken nose.
Manager Gary Megson made eight changes to the side beaten at Blackburn in the Carling Cup in midweek and the likes of goalkeeper Nicky Weaver, defender Julian Bennett, midfielders Jose Semedo, David Prutton and Chris Lines and strikers Ben Marshall and Clinton Morrison are all expected to return to the side.
Winger Jermaine Johnson has yet to appear for the Owls this season after sustaining a knee injury in a summer friendly against Stoke, but is expected to return to full training on Friday.
Megson has no other new injury or suspension problems as the Owls bid for a third successive league win at Hillsborough.
Scunthorpe manager Alan Knill could make changes after seeing his side edged out by Newcastle in the Carling Cup just 48 hours earlier.
Knill has no new injury or suspension problems but midfielder Michael O'Connor is expected to miss out again due to an unspecified muscle strain.
Oliver Norwood, on loan from Manchester United, stepped in for O'Connor on Thursday night when Scunthorpe lost 2-1 after extra-time, but Michael Collins provides Knill with an alternative option.
Fellow midfielders Garry Thompson and Mark Duffy stepped off the substitutes' bench against Newcastle and could also provide Knill with fresher legs.
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A friend of mine suggested me to test a kite, which he really likes.
It is a Dyno 2011 13.0
He said I should use 32m lines, so I did.
Unfortunately the wind wasn't that strong, maybe 16-18 knots, so I could not really test it for its ability. But so far I am happy that I have a smaller kite that with 32m lines is still controllable.
I could do many tricks with it and it feels nice in the air. Lift and hangtime is good, but need more wind to really judge it. Can't wait to get it out in strong winds to see its potential!
So, if you think your kites are too fast, try longer lines and see the difference in turning speed.


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"There's nothing wrong with being scared, Norman, so long as you don't let it change who you are." — from Laika's film, "ParaNorman"
The bright sun warmed the brisk morning air as I walked near Diver's Cove. A flock of pelicans skimmed the surface of the ocean while a couple of cormorants, necks stretched out, appeared to try to keep up. Gulls shrieked overhead, mingling with the cawing of two crows.
Mesmerized by the beauty of the sights and sounds, it took a moment before I realized that some of the shrieks came along with nervous laughter and were emanating from humans somewhere below.
As the tide came in, two women apparently were attempting to traverse the rock outcrop despite signage warning to the contrary. Had they no fear? Had they no perception of the risk?
Fear. Unlike with these women, it can stop you in your tracks, turn your limbs and mind to jelly, and take your ability to make wise decisions. As the advice from "ParaNorman" suggests, it can — in taking away your ability to think rationally — even turn you into something/someone other than yourself.
An emotion induced by a perceived threat, fear is a basic survival mechanism — one of which the two women climbing the rocks seemed to be unaware.
Perception or reality? How does one decide? Feeling threatened is not the same as an actual threat, but how is one to know? Is there real danger, or can we move forward?
Fear of the unknown can leave people too scared to take the path they really want to. It can keep them immobilized and unable to make decisions of any kind, often leading to a feeling of helplessness, of being a victim.
Whether real or imagined, fear can be a major factor in how we respond (or don't) and in who we become. We have all seen people in our own lives who have let fear rule them, if even for only a small span of time. Their fears become almost paranoia as they perceive threats as persecutory or conspiratorial.
Irrational? Perhaps. But that is the power of fear. That is the challenge posed by relying on perception alone.
Somehow, the two women on the rock outcrop did not perceive the very real threat that was being posed. In other instances, people may bypass facts and assurances to the contrary to remain fearful and see a looming threat. There are many underlying reasons for the differences, but can we choose who to be?
Who do you want to be? Who is the person you see as yourself? It is my belief that we can choose wise counsel, discernment and rational thinking in order to allay many of our very natural fears. We must often go beyond the immediate perception to do this. Then, and only then, can we choose the path to staying who we truly are.
As Norman would say, that would be "AWE-some!"
Oh, yeah — the two women at Diver's Cove? They finally chose to back off the rocks as they weighed the facts — a good, smart choice.
CHERRIL DOTY is an artist, writer and director of the Sawdust Studio Art Classes in Laguna Beach. Always fascinated, inspired and titillated by the beauty and the ever-changing mysteries of life, she can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at (714) 745-9973.


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These tests, McLaren notes in its press materials, follow months of virtual testing in the McLaren Simulator at the company's HQ in Woking, the same one they used to develop both the 12C production car and its Formula 1 cars.
The GT3's in fair parity with the road car, though about four inches wider, with new electronics and a new suspension system. Since the MP4-12C's ProActive Chassis Control System doesn't meet FIA regs, the 12C GT3 will use race-typical roll bars and dampers. The same 3.8-liter twin turbo V8 has been tuned to race spec, along with a Ricardo racing gearbox instead of the 7-speed Graziano box in the road version.
From 2012, McLaren Automotive and CRS Racing will supply and support a limited number of FIA GT3-compliant racing cars based on the McLaren 12C high-performance sports car for privateers. Interested in racing one? Register at www.mclarengt.com.


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I know alot of people have problems with fps drops and weird lag when they stream/attempt to stream with XSplit.
Just to clarify, if you have any sort non- latency issues when you try to stream or fraps it's for 99% of the cases a issue with your settings or your hardware.
Streaming requires a lot of CPU power, but really anyone can stream in acceptable quality if you know what you're doing.
To help people out I decided to make a guide for how you can get rid of the annoying XSplit lag (that's most likely caused by your Windows settings) or get better fps in general when you stream. This lag is mostly caused by the way XSplit records what you're doing - the "screen region" recording
First of all: Dxtory is not a free program, you can find their website here.
You can test the trial for free but you will have a big watermark in the middle of your stream (I think).
There are probably other ways to get a license for it but as with any program, if you like it - buy it (especially if you make money out of streaming).
So what is Dxtory?
Dxtory is similar to fraps, it's a way for you to record your games to your hard drive.
The difference between Dxtory and fraps however is that Dxtory has a DirectShow output which makes you also able to use this for XSplit and streaming.
I will post pictures of every step you have to go through to be able to stream and also comment it with what I'm doing and in some cases why.
This is what Dxtory will look like when you first open it.
If you don't see any text in this window, start/restart your game and it should pop up.
This is similar to Fraps FPS-counter in your top left corner.
You can leave this as default if this doesn't affect your gameplay.
Else just unmark everything here.
Even though you might not want to record to your hard drives and only stream with Dxtory, the program will still ask you to pick a folder in your filesystem where videos will be saved.
You can really pick any folder on your hard drive if you don't want to record videos and just stream.
If you want to record you should pick a folder on a hard drive that isn't the same as where your Windows/WoW is located.
You can also test the speed of your harddrives here, try to pick a folder that is as fast as possible if you want to record.
As you will have to press record to get any sort of output from Dxtory you can here change your record keybind.
Default is F12, I've set mine as * on the numpad.
This is your video output settings.
I recommend using the default codec and settings for it but you can change the framerate for what suits your PC.
Lower output frame rate = higher fps when you play. I however do not recommend going below 20 FPS since it will make your stream look very choppy.
Check "File output" if you want to record videos to your hard drive.
Check "DirectShow Output" if you're going to stream it.
Since I only stream with my Dxtory I only have DirectShow Output checked.
This is your audio settings, if you're only going to stream you can just uncheck this since XSplit can handle audio recording very well.
These are the advanced settings, here you can select several things I really have no clue about.
Processing threads is the amount of threads from your CPU that will be used.
If you want to read more about what this is you can go to wikipedia.
Since I have a i7 2600K I have the ability to use a max of 8 threads, I don't know if this is optimal or not however.
Now click this button at the bottom (left corner).
This window will pop up. Set your output resolution here.
The higher resolution the more it will require of your PC and less FPS you will have in game.
Try out what resolution suits your PC best and write this here.
Also select same frame rate here as you wish to stream in (affects your performance aswell, see step 5. for more details)
SET THESE SETTINGS TO SAME ON ALL OUTPUTS (Output1, Output2, Output3, Output4).
Now open XSplit, remove all your previous Scene Sources from the list (you don't need to remove pictures etc however).
Go to Add and click Add Camera....
Select Dxtory Video 1
Open World of Warcraft or the game you want to stream in and press your recording hotkey (F12) and your game should show in a corner of your xsplit.
Select one of the corners of this tiny window and drag it out so it fills xsplit.
Change the settings in "View" (marked with red) to the same as your Dxtory output (frame rate, resolution).
13. You're done.
However, I know alot of people have problems and will have problems that the output in XSplit will be in very bad quality and possibly look stretched.
This is an issue with your settings we set when we clicked this button not being "activated".
What you should try if you have this problem is to try adding another Dxtory Video (1, 2, 3 or 4) in XSplit as we did here:
If this doesn't work try to make sure the settings are saved and just experiment with it.
Hope this gives as good results for you as it did for me and my mates.
General thumb rules for streaming:
If you have FPS issues but no latency issues - the problem is your settings.
If you have latency issues but no FPS issues - it's your internet connection.
If you have FPS issues, lower your streaming/output resolution and/or frame rate.
Never go below 20 fps, decrease your resolution instead (personal opinion).
Various common 16:9 resolutions:
960x540, 1024×576, 1280×720, 1366×768, 1600×900, 1920×1080
Various common 16:10 resolutions:
960x600, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200
If you have latency issues but no FPS issues, lower your bitrate.
You can edit the bitrate in your XSplit by your channel settings.
A good thumb rule when setting a bitrate - (Your upload in mbit - 0,3) * 1000
So if you have 0,8 mbit up, go with 500 kbit in bitrate. This should leave enough upload to handle other connections like skype and WoW.
If you have really good upload, you should considering having it in the 2000-3000 region depending on how much your streamers lag (if they lag at all).
If you have any questions please write them in the thread and not in a PM so other people who might have the same question can read it aswell.
Have fun streaming.
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Here's Taylor Swift, leaving the gym in NYC in the cutest post-gym outfit ever, carrying what is undoubtedly her favorite bag of the year: the Dolce & Gabbana Sara Bag. You can find a slightly more formal, brocade version of the Sara on sale for $1,274 (down from $1,820) at MATCHESFASHION.COM. It's worth noting that this site is now offering free shipping and free returns (with full refunds on duties for returns) for US customers with the coupon code USAFREE.
Taylor loves this bag so much, we penned an extensive post about her love affair with the D&G Sara all the way back in April. In other news, is anyone else alarmed by the number of full grown, (presumably non-paparazzi) men that are standing around taking smartphone photos of Taylor? How about the guy who is obviously waiting to filch whatever she threw in the trash and list it on eBay?


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Hometown hottie: Local bartender seeks mate on Bachelorette
At the start of ABC's The Bachelorette premiere on Wednesday, January 14, new bachelorette Meredith Philips, a 30-year-old model and make-up artist, awaited the 25 suitors who would arrive by limo.
At Orbit Billiards that night, a crowded house awaited those suitors, too– but they only had eyes for one: Anselm "Anse" Clinard, a 32-year-old actor and UVA grad who once tended bar at the Corner pool hall.
They got what they came for.
As the fifth limo pulled up to the mansion where the show is taped, out stepped Clinard, whose long Fabio-styled flyaway hair set him apart from the more conservatively coiffed men. He approached Meredith and kissed her cheek.
As Clinard retreated inside following his initial meeting, he shared his thoughts on the show's main attraction: "She made me weak in the knees," he told the camera. "I was star-struck."
The show continued with a cocktail party at which Meredith chatted up as many men as possible. At the end of the party, however, Meredith had a "difficult" decision to make: eliminating 10 of those 25 suitors.
Given 15 roses– one of which was the "mysterious" white rose– Meredith was instructed to bestow a flower on each man she wished to get to know better. Those left standing with no rose were sent packing. (The white rose, it turned out, signified the first man with whom Meredith would go out on a date.)
One by one– and with great dramatic flair– Meredith named the men who would remain on the show.
To Clinard's– and the Orbit crowd's– great dismay, he was not among the chosen.
"It might take me a little while to get over this," Clinard said on-screen in a special post-selection interview.
Two months after screening, however, he seems to have gotten over it.
"I feel really good about how they portrayed me," says Clinard, who now calls L.A. home.
Indeed, Clinard came off as a sweet guy, and old Orbit friends say that wasn't acting.
"I can't tell you enough about what a nice person he is," says Orbit General Manager Ben Hicks. "He's an amazing dude."
Over the years, Hicks says, Clinard would come and go, as acting gigs arose. Orbit was always waiting for his return. "We really wanted to keep him around," says Hicks.
Live Arts also kept the light on for Clinard. He played multiple roles, including Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar and the motorcycle-riding Eddie in Rocky Horror Picture Show.
"He's good-humored, large-spirited, warm-hearted," says Live Arts artistic director John Gibson. "He's the last person you'd want to see sucked into the maw of reality show television."
Clinard's biggest role, says Gibson, was Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, where he "memorably lounged in unbuttoned pajamas." Gibson says he watched Clinard grow as an actor during that production. "That's a demanding role," he explains. "It was a stretch for him, but he made the stretch."
Clinard says beating out thousands of applicants for The Bachelorette was more a stroke of luck than an acting stretch, however.
"I met someone in casting at a party," he says. "Some of the girls I worked with teased me that I should go on."
Just one week before taping began, Clinard was brought in for further interviews.
"I wasn't sure I wanted to do it," he recalls. "I almost let it slide."
But for an actor struggling to get exposure in cutthroat La-La land, a national show like The Bachelorette could be a breakthrough opportunity, he says. He decided to throw caution to the wind and made plans to be away from his life for as much as six weeks.
One week later, he was home. But he had a big secret to keep, and that, he says, was hard.
"I signed an agreement that said I'd give them $5 million if I talked," he explains.
Being home for Christmas in Lynchburg, he says, was hardest. "People were trying to dig," he laughs. "I couldn't tell them."
These days, Clinard says life is somewhat back to normal. Now that he's been publicly eliminated from The Bachelorette, he's contractually allowed to date again (though he says there's no one in the picture right now). He's also helped a friend launch a business called Autopilots, which gives partygoers a safe way home.
And anyone who missed Clinard's stint on The Bachelorette has a second chance of sorts: He'll be on air again come spring for a Bachelorette reunion show.
Anse (right) chats up Meredith with competing suitor Marcus during the show's premiere.


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The aim of the courses in Theatre Arts is to increase enjoyment, understanding and performance; to develop critical judgment and taste; to provide for enrichment of the student's theatrical and professional life. Theatre arts is offered as a minor only; there is no major in theatre arts.
A minor in theatre arts requires six courses (18 credits) in the discipline and must include THR 1080 and THR 3380 or THR 3420. The remaining credits may be earned by completion of theatre courses (THR) and designated dramatic literature courses dual-listed with English (THR/ENG).


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I'm pretty new, and looking for partners for early mornings and evening...
just to get a great workout :)
Let me kno if you are interested!
hi Tracy,
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Boolean Localization, in Practice
A new proof of the existence of the standard closed model structure for the category of simplicial presheaves on an arbitrary Grothendieck site is given. This proof uses the principle of Boolean localization.
1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 55U10, secondary 18F20, 55U35.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
I'm Back!
I know, I know, it's been freakin' ages since I last posted anything here, and I'm sorry for my prolonged absence.
Things have just been rather odd in my life the last few months — non-RA related, I'm glad to say — and I've just, well, disengaged to be honest.
But enough of that.
Happy New Year's to you all! I have been silently following along with those of you who have blogs, really!
On the RA front, I'm actually doing very well. I'm still doing the Actemra-infusion thing (aka tocilizumab), once a month. For the past couple of months, I've felt more or less normal. Yes, you heard me correctly: normal. It's kind of freakish actually. I've had the odd pain in my hands and twinge in my knees and feet, but really hardly at all.
In fact, I'm going to email my rheumatologist to make an appointment to talk to her about cutting back on my dose of Methotrexate. When I started taking the Actemra, she mentioned that that might be a possibility, depending on how things went. It would be good, because I have to say, taking it has now come to make me feel ill. Not ill because of the needle, I don't think, but because of the thought of the drug, which started, again I just think, because the drug itself makes me feel slightly nauseated. So, a combination of the physiological and psychosomatic, I'm pretty sure, but there you go.
In other drug news — walking pharmaceutical stew that I am — I've been cutting way back on my migraine medications slowly but surely, since I rarely get them anymore, and when I do, my acute medication takes care of them quickly. I'm down to just 25 mg of Topamax each day and hardly any Verapamil. Yay! Hoping to get that down to nothing in the next couple of months. The fewer drugs at this point, the better. Would that it could be nothing…
P.S. The pic is of my sister and me. Cute, no?
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Here's to minimum pain and drugs in 2012! =)ReplyDelete
Welcome back! Great picture. It's good to hear that you're feeling so normal. Normal is good.ReplyDelete
I'm curious about your migraines, and whether the timing of their onset was related to the onset of your RA symptoms. I started getting migraines about the same time that my RA reared its ugly head, and I've heard a couple other people say the same.
Have a terrific 2012.
Joan: Thanks, and to you, too!ReplyDelete
Warmsocks: Thanks to you, as well! Re my migraines, no, I had had them before the onset of RA, but curiously enough, with that, they have almost totally gone away. I get the odd one, and strange but unproblematic and very brief visual ones, but that's it. My neurologist says it's hard to know why that might be (especially since, as he says, they don't know exactly what causes the darn migraines in the first place), but the anti-inflammatory I'm on could possibly be making a difference in the frequency and severity. Whatever it is, I'm glad I'm basically down one problem!
A great new year's to both of you, too!
Great pic! And I'm glad to hear you're feeling so well. Cutting back on MTX sounds fantastic - it always feels like such a victory to cut back on a drug.ReplyDelete
It's great to see you back! :)
Yay nice to get an update Laurie. So glad you're doing really well. That doesn't surprise me about the mtx, my friend feels sick just at the thought of it too. Hope work is going well and here's to a fantastic 2012 :)ReplyDelete
Dear Helen & Squirrel,ReplyDelete
Thank you!
Way to go rocking the scar, Helen, and glad you're doing so well, Squirrel.
A great 2012 to both of you!
Wow, good to hear from you!! Glad to hear that you are doing so well :)ReplyDelete
Just the other day my cousin (who has colitis) and I were talking about mtx and how we both get sick even thinking about the injections, how we can still "taste" it (does anyone else "taste" the injections??). Funnily enough, though mtx pills make me nauseous, they do not have the same vomitous effect.
Majorily cute picture of you and your sister. You look nothing alike.
OMG, can soooo taste it at times — sort of a metallic sensation. Blech, blech and more blech. I know the Methotrexate is a good thing and all, but it just is icky. Must get over it!! I've heard the pills make people feel sick and can give you an upset stomach, which I so don't want, but I'm not sure what to do. Right now my strategy is to stuff my mouth full of chocolate as a distractionary ploy....ReplyDelete
And re my sister and I, no, we don't look anything alike at all, do we? Nor does my other sister...lol!
Glad to see you back! And hear things are going well. I'm alsoReplyDelete
So glad to hear positive things about Actemra I just did 2nd infusion a week ago and things have been a lil rocky... Cute pic
Good to hear from you. It's great to know that you are doing so well but I'm jealous! Wishing you a great 2012.ReplyDelete


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Freddie Reallocates More Funds to Boost Short Sales
Freddie Reallocates More Funds to Boost Short Sales
Money used for a federal program aimed at helping 18 hard-hit housing market states can now reallocate its funds to help home owners complete short sales or other foreclosure alternatives, Freddie Mac announced Monday to mortgage servicers.
Mortgage giant Freddie Mac, along with Fannie Mae, has recently placed more focus on helping home owners complete short sales to avoid foreclosure. (Read more: Fannie, Freddie Speed Up Short Sales)
The Hardest Hit Fund reportedly has been an underused program by 18 states and the District of Columbia. The program is to provide home owner assistance to states through loan modifications, short sales, unemployment assistance, and mortgage principal reduction. But only 3 percent of the funds for the $7.6 billion program has been used as of Dec. 31.
Some of that money can now be allocated to helping more distressed home owners, including borrowers for short sales, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, or relocation assistance, according to Freddie Mac.
Source: "Freddie Directs Servicers to use Hardest Hit Fund in Short Sales," HousingWire (April 23, 2012)