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Nielsen: Some minority groups quicker to adopt smartphones
A new survey from Nielsen finds Hispanics, Asians/Pacific Islanders, and African-Americans have above-average smartphone adoption rates.
Recent market data suggests that about three out of ten (31 percent ) of all U.S. mobile phone users now have a smartphone, but a new survey from Nielsen shows adoption rates are even higher amongst some minority groups. According to Nielsen, smartphone adoption amongst Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islanders reached levels of 45 percent during the fourth quarter of 2010, which 33 percent of African Americans owning a smartphone during the same quarter. In comparison, only 27 percent of white Americans had a smartphone during the fourth quarter of 2010.
The figures for new handsets acquired during the last six months show a similar trend. Some 60 percent of Asians/Pacific Islanders who got a phone in the last six months got a smartphone, compared with 56 percent of Hispanics, 44 percent of African Americans, and 42 percent whites.
Nielsen didn't offer much in the way of explanation for the figures, save to now that the Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, and African-American populations in the U.S. "tend to skew younger." Younger Americans have been the backbone of the mobile phonemarket for years.
Overall, Nielsen's survey finds the three major smartphone platforms—Apple's iOS, RIM's BlackBerry, and Google's Android—in a virtual dead heat for market share, with iOS having 28 percent of the market and RIM and Android each having 27 percent—although Android's share has been climbing very quickly. (The figures echo recent findings from Canalys that found Android has claimed the top spot in phone shipments.) However, Nielsen did find that Apple's iOS is leading amongst smartphone owners who are Asian/Pacific Islanders, with 36 percent reporting they have iPhones. Conversely, BlackBerries were favored by African-American smartphone owners, with 31 percent saying they owned a BlackBerry device.
Nielsen's survey covered some 56,719 people, with 13,258 responding to questions about phone purchases in the last six months.


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Another triumph courtesy of Washington's Foreign Aid Program. |
According to Perkins, he was just one Economic Hit Man (EHM) among thousands plying the same trade worldwide.
installation of military bases, or access to precious resources. Of course, the debtor still owes us money -- and another country is added to our global empire."
Perkins also refers to "Jackals," who are sent to deal with the most
refractory foreign leaders by fomenting revolutions, or staging
assassinations. If that doesn't work, as Barber Conable might say, it's
time to send out the bombers. "When the Jackals fail," Perkins warns, "young Americans are sent in to kill and die."
(In the original version, I mistakenly described the wretched Lindsay Graham as a senator from "North Carolina." Would that I had ten thousand tongues with which to plead forgiveness from the justly offended Tar Heel State.)

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There is a distinct need for senior management and staff to receive media awareness training as opposed to practical spokesperson coaching. Let me explain.
Companies traditionally appoint two to three spokespersons. The spokespeople (who are carefully chosen), need to receive hands on practical training in front of cameras, microphones and live audiences. This type of training is extremely expensive and time intensive and is normally conducted in a studio. Some trainers put spokespersons on the spot and then proceed to show them their weaknesses. This often breaks down people self-confidence levels and should be avoided (You cannot build on sand). Spokesperson training should be positive and uplifting and conducted in simulated environments.
However they also need "contextual" training – training that will add to their understanding but that will be added on in a studio later.
I have decided to focus my training on the level of senior management & staff that needs media awareness understanding.
I teach them a context so that they understand the media stakeholder, how they operate and how to conduct themselves in a media interview situation. This is normally different to those people who speak to the media on a continual basis. It is better to use local providers for that type of training. It is more cost-effective as long as it is built on a base of solid understanding.
Often senior management are the people who have to formulate the messages that spokespersons need to convey or decide on an approach in dealing with the media. They therefore need to understand the media stakeholder, so that these messages and chance interactions with the media will be positive and uplifting. My favorite saying is that media relations need to be approached with strategic intent and if you do not know the rules of the game, how can you play it.
I believe that my recommended two-tier approach is the best for building sound media relations and reputation capacity in the organisation.
To this end, I present a one-day workshop called Media Survival Skills. In this workshop, we cover media awareness, understanding and the seven tools for better media interviews and various powerful and useful tips and suggestions. The day involves pulling newspapers apart, theoretical inputs, skill practices and case study analysis. Brochure available on request! I normally work with a group of ten people but group size is not a problem as long as it does not exceed fifteen.


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A couple of months ago, Trixter of Hornet released a demo called "8088 Domination", which shows off real-time video and audio playback on the original 1981 IBM PC. This demo, among many others, contrasts favorably against today's wasteful use of computing resources.
When people try to explain the wastefulness of today's computing, they commonly offer something I call "tradeoff hypothesis". According to this hypothesis, the wastefulness of software would be compensated by flexibility, reliability, maintability, and perhaps most importantly, cheap programming work. Even Trixter himself favors this explanation.
I used to believe in the tradeoff hypothesis as well. I saw demo art on extreme platforms as a careful craft that attains incredible feats while sacrificing generality and development speed. However, during recent years, I have become increasingly convinced that the portion of true tradeoff is quite marginal. An ever-increasing portion of the waste comes from abstraction clutter that serves no purpose in final runtime code. Most of this clutter could be eliminated with more thoughtful tools and methods without any sacrifices. What we have been witnessing in computing world is nothing utilitarian but a reflection of a more general, inherent wastefulness, that stems from the internal issues of contemporary human civilization.
The bug
Our mainstream economic system is oriented towards maximal production and growth. This effectively means that participants are forced to maximize their portions of the cake in order to stay in the game. It is therefore necessary to insert useless and even harmful "tumor material" in one's own economical portion in order to avoid losing one's position. This produces an ever-growing global parasite fungus that manifests as things like black boxes, planned obsolescence and artificial creation of needs.
Using a software development metaphor, it can be said that our economic system has a fatal bug. A bug that continuously spawns new processes that allocate more and more resources without releasing them afterwards, eventually stopping the whole system from functioning. Of course, "bug" is a somewhat normative term, and many bugs can actually be reappropriated as useful features. However, resource leak bugs are very seldom useful for anything else than attacking the system from the outside.
Bugs are often regarded as necessary features by end-users who are not familiar with alternatives that lack the bug. This also applies to our society. Even if we realize the existence of the bug, we may regard it as a necessary evil because we don't know about anything else. Serious politicians rarely talk about trying to fix the bug. On the contrary, it is actually getting more common to embrace it instead. A group that calls itself "Libertarians" even builds their ethics on it. Another group called "Extropians" takes the maximization idea to the extreme by advocating an explosive expansion of humankind into outer space. In the so-called Kardashev scale, the developmental stage of a civilization is straightforwardly equated with how much stellar energy it can harness for production-for-its-own-sake.
How the bug manifests in computing
What happens if you give this buggy civilization a virtual world where the abundance of resources grows exponentially, as in Moore's law? Exactly: it adopts the extropian attitude, aggressively harnessing as much resources as it can. Since the computing world is virtually limitless, it can serve as an interesting laboratory example where the growth-for-its-own-sake ideology takes a rather pure and extreme form. Nearly every methodology, language and tool used in the virtual world focuses on cumulative growth while neglecting many other aspects.
To concretize, consider web applications. There is a plethora of different browser versions and hardware configurations. It is difficult for developers to take all the diversity in account, so the problem has been solved by encapsulation: monolithic libraries (such as Jquery) that provide cross-browser-compatible utility blocks for client-side scripting. Also, many websites share similar basic functionality, so it would be a waste of labor time to implement everything specifically for each application. This problem has also been solved with encapsulation: huge frameworks and engines that can be customized for specific needs. These masses of code have usually been built upon previous masses of code (such as PHP) that have been designed for the exactly same purpose. Frameworks encapsulate legacy frameworks, and eventually, most of the computing resources are wasted by the intermediate bloat. Accumulation of unnecessary code dependencies also makes software more bug-prone, and debugging becomes increasingly difficult because of the ever-growing pile of potentially buggy intermediate layers.
Software developers tend to use encapsulation as the default strategy for just about everything. It may feel like a simple, pragmatic and universal choice, but this feeling is mainly due to the tools and the philosophies they stem from. The tools make it simple to encapsulate and accumulate, and the industrial processes of software engineering emphasize these ideas. Alternatives remain underdeveloped. Mainstream tools make it far more cumbersome to do things like metacoding, static analysis and automatic code transformations, which would be far more relevant than static frameworks for problems such as cross-browser compatibility.
Tell a bunch of average software developers to design a sailship. They will do a web search for available modules. They will pick a wind power module and an electric engine module, which will be attached to some kind of a floating module. When someone mentions aero- or hydrodynamics, the group will respond by saying that elementary physics is a far too specialized area, and it is cheaper and more straight-forward to just combine pre-existing modules and pray that the combination will work sufficiently well.
Result: alienation
The way of building complex systems from more-or-less black boxes is also the way how our industrial society is constructed. Computing just takes it more extreme. Modularity in computing therefore relates very well to the technology criticism of philosophers such as Albert Borgmann.
In his 1984 book, Borgmann uses the term "service interface", which even sounds like software development terminology. Service interfaces often involve money. People who have a paid job, for example, can be regarded as modules that try to fulfill a set of requirements in order to remain acceptable pieces of the system. When using the money, they can be regarded as modules that consume services produced by other modules. What happens beyond the interface is considered irrelevant, and this irrelevance is a major source of alienation. Compare someone who grows and chops their own wood for heating to someone who works in forest industry and buys burnwood with the paycheck. In the former case, it is easier to get genuinely interested by all the aspects of forests and wood because they directly affect one's life. In the latter case, fulfilling the unit requirements is enough.
The way of perceiving the world as modules or devices operated via service interfaces is called "device paradigm" in Borgmann's work. This is contrasted against "focal things and practices" which tend to have a wider, non-encapsulated significance to one's life. Heating one's house with self-chopped wood is focal. Also arts and crafts have a lot of examples of focality. Borgmann urges a restoration of focal things and practices in order to counteract the alienating effects of the device paradigm.
It is increasingly difficult for computer users to avoid technological alienation. Systems become increasingly complex and genuine interest towards their inner workings may be discouraging. If you learn something from it, the information probably won't stay current for very long. If you modify it, subsequent software updates will break it. It is extremely difficult to develop a focal relationship with a modern technological system. Even hard-core technology enthusiasts tend to ignore most aspects of the systems they are interested in. When ever-complexifying computer systems grow ever deeper ingrained into our society, it becomes increasingly difficult to grasp even for those who are dedicated to understand it. Eventually even
they will give up.
Chopping one's own wood may be a useful way to counteract the alienation of the classic industrial society, as oldschool factories and heating stoves still have some basics in common. In order to counteract the alienation caused by computer technology, however, we need to find new kind of focal things and practices that are more computerish. If they cannot be found, they need to be created. Crafting with low-complexity computer and electronic systems, including the creation of art based on them is my strongest candidate for such a focal practice among those practices that already exist in subcultural form.
The demoscene insight
I have been programming since my childhood, for nearly thirty years. I have been involved with the demoscene for nearly twenty years. During this time, I have grown a lot of angst towards various trends of computing.
Extreme categories of the demoscene -- namely, eight-bit democoding and extremely short programs -- have been helpful for me in managing this angst. These branches of the demoscene are a useful, countercultural mirror that contrasts against the trends of industrial software development and helps grasp its inherent problems.
Other subcultures have been far less useful for me in this endeavour. The mainstream of open source / free software, for example, is a copycat culture, despite its strong ideological dimension. It does not actively question the philosophies and methodologies of the growth-obsessed industry but actually embraces them when creating duplicate implementations of growth-obsessed software ideas.
Perhaps the strongest countercultural trend within the demoscene is the move of focus towards ever tighter size limitations, or as they say, "4k is the new 64k". This trend is diagonally opposite to what the growth-oriented society is doing, and forces to rethink even the deepest "best practices" of industrial software development. Encapsulation, for example, is still quite prominent in the 4k category (4klang is a monolith), but in 1k and smaller categories, finer methods are needed. When going downwards in size, paths considered dirty by the mainstream need to be embraced. Efficient exploration and taming of chaotic systems needs tools that are deeply different from what have been used before. Stephen Wolfram's ideas presented
in "A New Kind of Science" can perhaps provide useful insight for this endeavour.
Another important countercultural aspect of the demoscene is the relationship with computing platforms. The mainstream regards platforms as neutral devices that can be used to reach a predefined result, while the demoscene regards them as a kind of raw material that has a specific essence of its own. Size categories may also split platforms into subplatforms, each of which has its own essence. The mainstream wants to hide platform-specific characteristics by encapsulating them into uniform straightjackets, while the demoscene is more keen to find suitable esthetical approaches for each category. In Borgmannian terms, demoscene practices are more focal.
Demoscene-inspired practices may not be the wisest choice for pragmatic software development. However, they can be recommended for the development of a deeper relationship with technology and for diminishing the alienating effects of our growth-obsessed civilization.
What to do?
I am convinced that our civilization is already falling and this fall cannot be prevented. What we can do, however, is create seeds for something better. Now is the best time for doing this, as we still have plenty of spare time and resources especially in rich countries. We especially need to propagate the seeds towards laypeople who are already suffering from increasing alienation because of the ever more computerized technological culture. The masses must realize that alternatives are possible.
A lot of our current civilization is constructed around the resource leak bug. We must therefore deconstruct the civilization down to its elementary philosophies and develop new alternatives. Countercultural insights may be useful here. And since hacker subcultures have been forced to deal with the resource leak bug in its most extreme manifestation for some time already, their input can be particularly valuable.


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In Venice we found 'the Spritz of place' a most tangible (and tasty) bit of identity.
You couldn't miss it.
The bright orange drink, served in stemmed wine or short stout water glasses, was being consumed it seemed everywhere we went.
Neither the time of day nor the location - sidewalk cafes or standing at the counter of a neighborhood bar – had any bearing on consumption.
So it seemed fitting on our first evening in Venice to do start researching this beautiful beverage. With a medley of Johnnie Cash's mournful songs wailing from its speakers, we settled in for sunset-watching along the Guidecca Canal at Al Chioscchetto bar.
The popular spot is a small kiosk from where drinks and sandwiches are served to those sitting at its scattering of waterside tables. It was here we had our first taste of this nectar-like aperitif; the Venetian Spritz; a drink so popular that it has been called "The National Drink of Venice".
One Facebook page claims that it 'not a drink, but a way of life.' Another says that sipping one at this bar is a great way to stare in compania, hang out and blend in. So that's what we did until Aqcua Alta forced closure of this bar and we enjoyed our daily tradition elsewhere.
One of the favorite parts of our stare in compania at this place, however, was watching Keo, the 'bar dog' as he greeted and was adored by patrons and passersby:
But even he had to take a break and enjoy an aperitif:
The 'spritz of place' story doesn't end there though. . .
. . .I'd been researching the drink for this blog post when I came across the mention of a fund-raising project at Guidecca, the women's prison that was tied to the drink . . .
. . . the screen printing and sale of canvas 'Spritz bags'.
In addition to the production of these bags, inmates tend an organic vegetable garden within the prison's walls and sell their produce, outside the walls, each Thursday on Fondementa della Convertite. They've created a line of toiletries and lotions, some of which use the plants grown in their garden. They also run a laundry for a local hotel. Inmates generate income and also develop job skills during their incarceration, all of which sound like a recipe for success to me.
Speaking of recipes, here are some variations of the drink recipes printed on the back of the bag:
Campari, bitter, or Aperol is the key ingredient in this yummy drink . The orange one – our favorite -- is made with Aperol and the recipe on the back of its bottles calls for three parts Prosecco,(that bubbly Italian wine) two parts Aperol and a splash of soda. Garnish with slice of orange and a green olive.
If You Go:
The bar, Al Chioschetto, is on the Zattere in the Dorsoduro. It is popular spot, especially in summer months when live music is featured, but shutters up when bad weather or high water hits.
We found the Guidecca-produced canvas bags (7.10-euro) anda large selection of skin care products at the Aqua Altra Societa Cooperative Sociale store at 2898 Calle Della Scuola, near Campo Santa Margherita in the Dorsoduro. (Across from the entry to the Scuola).


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Situation & carte Pansion Limni & Porto Tsi Ostrias Studios & Apartments
in Keri Lake Zakynthos Greece
Keri village is a small tourist resort that has managed to keep its traditional character. It is situated in Laganas bay, 16km from Zakynthos and 12 km from the airport. It has a charming harbour with fishing boats that bring fresh fish everyday to the tavernas on the sea front.
This picturesque resort is dotted with many shops where you can find anything you may need during your stay. There are also two diving centers for those who wish to explore one of the most beautiful Mediterranean Sea beds and daily boat trips to the Caves.
The beach is shallow and safe for children to play and the beautiful surrounding mountains combined with the wonderful sea creates a magical view you can enjoy from your balcony.
- Beach 30m (Pansion Limni)
- Beach 130m (Porto Tsi Ostrias)
- Nearest Taverna next to Pansion Limni
- Keri Lake Center 300m
- Supermarket next
- Laganas 8km
- Shipwreck 15km
- Nearest Super Market 60m
- Boat to Keri Caves 200m
- Airport 12km
- Zakynthos Port 16km
- Zante Town 16km


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salted caramel cheesecake sandwiches
- 2 x 200g packets sugared lattice biscuits+
- 750g cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup (175g) brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon golden syrup
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon sea salt flakes
- Preheat oven to 150ºC (300°F). Place half the lattice biscuits, sugar-side down, in the base of a 20cm x 30cm slice tin lined with non-stick baking paper and set aside. Place the cream cheese, sugar, golden syrup and vanilla in an electric mixer and beat for 4–6 minutes or until smooth and the sugar is dissolved. Add the eggs and beat to combine. Add the salt and mix to combine.
- Spoon the mixture into the slice tin and tap to remove any bubbles. Top with remaining lattice biscuits, sugar-side up, and bake for 50 minutes or until the cheesecake is just set. Allow to cool slightly before refrigerating for 1 hour or until cold. Slice into sandwiches to serve. Serves 8–10.
+ You may need to trim a few biscuits with a serrated knife to enable them to fit into the tin.


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1. Consider buying a hybrid, a diesel (so you can run biodiesel), or an efficient conventional car. (Aim for 40 mpg or more; the Honda Insight gets a whopping 56 to 70 mpg on the highway.) Through 2006, hybrid buyers qualify for a federal tax credit; for details, visit www.fueleconomy.gov. Or forgo a car and familiarize yourself with local public transportation routes. Some buses accommodate bicycles, so you can combine your commute and your workout.
2. Follow manufacturer recommendations for regular maintenance. Clogged air filters send a fuel-rich mixture into your engine; replacing one can boost fuel efficiency by up to 10 percent. Also, keep tires inflated to the recommended psi. Deflated tires mean more rubber—and friction—on the road, which makes your engine work harder.
3. Don't play Mario Andretti when the light turns green. Speeding, rapid acceleration, and braking can lower gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town.
4. Avoid unnecessary idling. It wastes gas and money, emits more carbon dioxide than regular driving, and causes twice the engine wear of driving at regular speeds. Idling your vehicle for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel than it would take to restart your engine, so unless you're in traffic, turn your engine off.
5. Combine errands into one trip. Several short trips taken from a cold start can use twice as much fuel as a longer multipurpose trip covering the same distance when the engine is warm.
Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, www.fueleconomy.gov; Environmental Protection Agency, www.epa.gov; National Resources Canada, www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca.


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Imperas Virtual Platform Products Provide Interface to Imagination Codescape Debugger
Oxford, United Kingdom, 23 February 2015 - Imperas™ is releasing the Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) Fast Processor Models for the MIPS Warrior P-class and M-class CPU IP cores from Imagination Technologies. Example virtual platforms are also being released, as well as support for the cores in the Imperas M*SDK™ advanced software development tools. In addition, the Imperas M*SDK and M*DEV™ products support the use of the Imagination Codescape Debugger for embedded software debug and development.
The processor core models and example platforms are available from the Open Virtual Platforms website, www.OVPworld.org/MIPS. The models of the P5600 and M51xx processor cores, as well as models of other MIPS processors, work with the Imperas and OVP simulators, including the QuantumLeap™ parallel simulation accelerator, and have shown exceptionally fast performance of hundreds of millions of instructions per second.
"MIPS Warrior CPUs provide industry leading feature sets, performance, area and power consumption. Partnering with Imperas to provide models in their innovative virtual platform tools provides a huge advantage to MIPS users. These models, together with Imperas' new EPKs that let users run high-speed simulations of MIPS-based SoCs on any suitable PC - can benefit MIPS customers and anyone developing software for MIPS platforms," said John Min, director of processor technology marketing for Imagination. "It is an additional benefit to our users to enable them to use the Codescape debugger for software development on both virtual platforms and hardware platforms."
All OVP processor models are instruction accurate, and very fast, focused on enabling embedded software engineers to have a development environment available early to accelerate the entire product development cycle. Virtual platforms utilizing these OVP processor models can be created with the OVP peripheral and platform models, or the processor models can be integrated into SystemC/TLM-2.0 based virtual platforms using the native TLM-2.0 interface available with all OVP processor models.
The OVP models also work with the Imperas advanced tools for multicore software verification, analysis and debug, including key tools for hardware-dependent software development such as OS and CPU-aware tracing (instruction, function, task, event), profiling, code coverage and memory analysis. The tools utilize the Imperas SlipStreamer™ patent pending binary interception technology. SlipStreamer enables these analytical tools to operate without any modification or instrumentation of the software source code, i.e., the tools are completely non-intrusive.
"MIPS CPUs, with state of the art features such as multithreading and hardware virtualization, require state of the art software development tools," said Simon Davidmann, president and CEO, Imperas and founding director of the OVP initiative. "OVP Fast Processor Models, which are faster and easier to use than other models, accelerate the development cycle and make software debug, test and optimization easier for software engineers."
OVP offers developers models of all MIPS processor cores, including the MIPS Aptiv cores and the MIPS Classic cores - with MIPS Warrior core support now rolling out. OVP also has the new Extendable Platform Kits™ (EPKs™) from Imperas, which are virtual platforms (simulation models) of the target devices, including the processor model(s) for the target device plus enough peripheral models to boot an operating system or run bare metal applications. The platform and the peripheral models included in the EPKs are open source, so that users can easily add new models to the platform as well as modify the existing models.
About Imperas
Imperas Software was founded in 2008 to develop and deliver embedded software development systems. The company's comprehensive product line enables the rapid creation of high-performance virtual platforms and the efficient development of embedded software utilizing those platforms. Imperas' technology allows for software engineering schedules to be significantly reduced while improving the quality of products relying on embedded systems. In 2008 Imperas founded the Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) consortium to improve the availability of open model libraries and virtual platform infrastructure. Leading communications, automotive, consumer electronics and embedded processor companies rely on Imperas for the development of their electronic products. The company's corporate headquarters is located near Oxford, UK and it maintains support and sales organizations in Silicon Valley, California and Tokyo, Japan. For more information about Imperas, please go to www.imperas.com.
Imperas, Open Virtual Platforms, Extendable Platform Kits, EPKs, QuantumLeap, MPonMP, OVP, OVPsim, M*SDK, C*DEV, S*DEV, M*DEV, Extendable Platform Kit, EPK, ToolMorphing and SlipStreamer are trademarks of Imperas Software Limited. Imperas acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.
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The Boy's favorite color is purple. It's not surprising really, since his father and I are both University of Washington alums, and not only that, his father was in the Husky Marching Band. For those who don't know, UW's colors are purple and gold, so there is a lot of purple in our world. And so, since he was old enough to express a preference for a color, he has chosen purple.
This would be unremarkable except that in 2013, purple is a girl color. How the fuck purple became a girl color is beyond me, but I dare you to find a single piece of purple clothing in the boy section of any major retailer's website. Just like pink, purple is officially a female color. So, when he wants a purple coat, or a purple backpack, or anything else purple, we have to shop from the girl section of the store. He's old enough now to understand that, so I have taken to buying things online whenever possible, so he can't tell that I am buying him a girl's coat.
Our stores are now very divided between boy and girl. Go to any large toy store, or the toy department at any big box store, and you'll see that the aisles are color-coded. Pink aisles have dolls and…dolls, and more dolls, and maybe some more dolls. Oh, and clothes for dressing up. Boy aisles have trucks and guns and cars and dinosaurs and action figures (which are really just dolls with tougher clothes).
Now, The Girl is still young, but she seems to like cars and trains and dinosaurs as much as her brother. And she also likes dolls. But The Boy shuns dolls, and pink things. The moment he catches a whiff that something is a "girl" thing, he wants nothing to do with it. And, I think that's fairly common, for girls play with boy stuff, and for boys to refuse to play with girl stuff.
How does this happen, that boys learn to reject what they perceive as feminine? Well, one way is this: a friend recently told me about her friend's son being bullied because he has a purple bicycle, and purple is a girl color. (The Boy has a purple bicycle too.) It just gets worse the older boys get, and the more gendered every product is–the peer pressure to reject the feminine and embrace the masculine is powerful and cruel.
And don't even get me started on people who think that letting their son dress up as a princess will make him gay. First off, as if being gay is a bad thing. You know who doesn't accidentally knock anyone up when they're teenagers? Gay people, that's who. Check one worry off the parenting-a-teenager list, amiright? Secondly, if all it took was dressing my son in some princess dresses to make it so I never have to worry about him knocking a girl up in high school, I would go out and buy out the entire Disney store. Thirdly, how come people think princess garb can make a boy gay, but nobody is worried about a pirate costume Turing their daughter into a lesbian? Oh yes, because it's OK for girls to be masculine now, but it's not OK for boys to be feminine.
When faced with this reality, my first thought was, "How sad for The Boy to be so limited. Maybe it's finally better, more powerful, to be female, because there are more options for girls." But then I realized, what is happening is that the feminine is still seen as lesser in our society. Boys don't want feminine toys because they think feminine things aren't as good. And girls can go for masculine things because masculine is better. They're just aspiring to be something "better" by choosing the boy toys.
It's great that girls have more choices. But it's not OK that the feminine is still lesser. We'll know we're on the right track when I can buy The Boy a purple coat without worrying about what happens when he finds out I bought it from the girl section of the store.


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HOW TO: Spot Fake News (Via Facebook)
Facebook have detailed their top 10 tips to Spot Fake News:
- Be skeptical of headlines. False news stories often have catchy headlines in all caps with exclamation points. If shocking claims in the headline sound unbelievable, they probably are.
- Look closely at the URL. A phony or look-alike URL may be a warning sign of false news. Many false news sites mimic authentic news sources by making small changes to the URL. You can go to the site to compare the URL to established sources.
- Investigate the source. Ensure that the story is written by a source that you trust with a reputation for accuracy. If the story comes from an unfamiliar organization, check their "About" section to learn more.
- Watch for unusual formatting. Many false news sites have misspellings or awkward layouts. Read carefully if you see these signs.
- Consider the photos. False news stories often contain manipulated images or videos. Sometimes the photo may be authentic, but taken out of context. You can search for the photo or image to verify where it came from.
- Inspect the dates. False news stories may contain timelines that make no sense, or event dates that have been altered.
- Check the evidence. Check the author's sources to confirm that they are accurate. Lack of evidence or reliance on unnamed experts may indicate a false news story.
- Look at other reports. If no other news source is reporting the same story, it may indicate that the story is false. If the story is reported by multiple sources you trust, it's more likely to be true.
- Is the story a joke? Sometimes false news stories can be hard to distinguish from humor or satire. Check whether the source is known for parody, and whether the story's details and tone suggest it may be just for fun.
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Physics students in this coursewill need to acquire a dedicated course notebook for use in both the lab and the lecture/demonstration/discussion part of the course. Because it will be collected quite frequently for grading purposes, the notebook must be dedicated to physics; there should be no Math work, History work, English work, etc. in the notebook. Virtually any bound notebook will do; though it is recommended that it contain at least 140 pages to document your work on the labs for this course; two 70-page notebooks would likely meet the need. Not only will you use the course notebook to document your work in the lab, you will also use it to keep notes on your learning, whether from textbook reading, classroom discussion or classroom lecture/demonstrations. The notebook will become a central tool to your learning; it will also comprise a good portion of the manner in which your performance and learning will be assessed in the course.
Physics is not a spectator sport. Those students who approach physics in passive mode will be less thrilled and most disappointed by the course. Physics involves involvement! It demands a proactive approach to learning. It demands pondering, thinking, problem-solving, inquiring. To be successful, you will have to both sort it all out and put it together. The course notebook represents an attempt to assist you in the task of being involved, being active, and being thoughtful. It should help you to sort it all out and put it together.
Perhaps the location in the room where you will be most on your own and most active will be in the laboratory. You won't be alone in the lab, but you will be on your own - on your own to ponder a question, to adopt an approach to answer it, to collect some data and to sort out the meaning of what the data says about the answer to the question. Science happens in the lab. We ask questions whose answers are found through observation, measurement and data analysis. This is what science education should be all about - training students to think like scientists and to engage in the types of activities which scientists engage in. In this course, you will be quite active in the lab, involved in a question, pondering and thinking through the results, and determining the answer to the question.
Your course notebook will be part lab notebook. Each of thelabs which you do will involve the completing of a lab report. These lab reports will be placed in your lab notebook. You will record your data, write your conclusions and discuss your results in the lab portion of your course notebook. General guidelines for reporting on your labs are found on the page titled the Lab Reporting Process. You should read this page several times and tape it into the front of your lab notebook for ready and frequent access. Specific guidelines for each lab will be provided on a unit-by-unit basis.
For now, at the onset of the course, it is simply important that you understand that the laboratory is sacred. It is the place in the room where it is guaranteed that the student becomes an active participant. It is the place where the student becomes engaged in the doing of science. At the onset of the course, you will need to adopt the posture that the answers are found in the back of the room - in the laboratory. In the laboratory, you will be engaged in one of the most important activities of science – asking and answering a question through observation, measurement and data analysis.
Your course notebook will be part lab notebook and part lecture notebook. Lab and lecture. These are two entirely separate activities. One is very active; the other much more passive. One is a lot of labor; the other is a lot of oratory (at least on the part of the teacher). While every effort is made to make the back of the room and the front of the room seamlessly integrated, the activities which occur in each part are different in nature. In your course notebook, you will document your activities in the course – whether it be a lab in the back of the room or a lecture/demonstration/discussion in the front of the room. And because the activities are quite different, we will document it on different halves of the page. The right side of the page (front of each sheet of paper) will be reserved for labwork. The left side of the page (the back of each sheet) will be reserved for the front of the room (class notes, book notes, practice problems, discussion questions, etc.). When your course notebook is submitted for grading, the right side of the pages will be given careful scrutiny. Your lab grade in the course will be based on the reports which appear on the right side of every page.
If you are in the back of the room and making observations and recording measurement, you are doing right side work. Document this work on the right side of the page in one of the four sections of the lab – Purpose, Data section, Conclusion or Discussion of Results. If you come to the end of the page, you will turn the page over and continue recording your data and observations on the right side of the next page (not the back of the page you were just writing on). Suppose you are in the front of the room and we are discussing the lab (post-labbing); and suppose you wish to take a note or two on what your teacher is saying; you would be recording those notes on the left side of the page. Your teacher's ideas and comments are never included in your lab report (the right side of the page); if you wish to annotate something he says, place it on the left side of the page. If your teacher starts the period by doing some boardwork – introducing or developing a topic, then you would be recording notes on the left side of the page.
As mentioned earlier, specific guidelines for each lab will be provided on a unit-by-unit basis. The guidelines provide the title of the lab, the question you are trying to answer and the purpose of the lab, and a short description of what the lab report should include. Read these descriptions carefully; failing to include what is requested in the description will result in a low grade on the lab. Occasionally, you will be provided with a diagram, a data table or a graph which will form the basis of the Data section of your lab. These will be provided on a unit-by-unit basis. When the time comes for the lab, you should cut them out and tape them into the Data section of your lab report. If it doesn't fit completely into your lab , simply tape one half of it into the notebook and fold the other half over so that it does fit. (Some of these things you could figure out on your own.) Copies of these pages are maintained here on the course website for easy printing in the event that yours becomes lost; such copies are best accessed using The Laboratory link on the side navigation menu. Near the end of the unit, you will be given a grading sheet. This grade sheet identifies the point value of each lab and describes how the lab will be graded. If you miss a lab due to an absence, you should consult the teacher in order to find out how you will make it up.
On occasion you will be given a short assessment on your activities in lab. The assessment will be in the form of a post-lab checkup. It will consist of a series of questions about the lab activity that will provide feedback to each of us as to the type of understanding which resulted from the lab. These post-lab check ups will typically be done in class at the beginning o the period. You will be able to use your lab notebook on a post-lab checkup.


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CEDARVILLE, OHIO – January 9, 2013 – Cedarville University will soon receive clean, renewable energy from the sun. On December 31, 2012, the financing package was finalized, setting the stage for construction in early January 2013 for a 2,154 kilowatt solar array on the southwest edge of campus. Power is expected to begin flowing in April.
The solar array will be located on newly acquired land the University purchased from the Village of Cedarville. A new underground utility corridor for the solar array will allow the zero emission source to feed electricity to the University's distribution system, making it the largest solar system directly connected to a university in Ohio.
The system will include monitoring and display features that support the University's curriculum. Also, the energy produced would be sufficient to serve the needs of 250 homes and provide cleaner air by removing over 2,478 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.
"Cedarville University has been pursuing ways for the engineering department to use renewable energy as a teaching tool in the classroom," said William E. Brown, Ph.D., president. "This is a great opportunity for our students, but also for the Southwest Ohio region."
Cincinnati-based Melink Corporation, the developer of a similar project for the Cincinnati Zoo, is the developer of the project. It will perform the engineering, procurement, and construction services, as well as financial arrangements. Melink's partners include U.S. Bancorp, Union Bank & Trust, DP&L Energy, Yellow Springs Renewable Energy, TMI Electric, and the Village of Cedarville.
Cedarville University has been using solar technology in its academic curriculum for many years. Engineering faculty have incorporated the technology to advance missions-minded projects in Liberia and throughout the world, while the University's engineering students have won six World Solar Splash boat competitions.
"The Village of Cedarville deeply appreciates the University's role in making this project a true partnership that benefits the entire Cedarville community," said Robert Fudge, the Village of Cedarville Mayor.
"Melink is proud to serve as the developer for this largest-of-its-kind solar PV installation in Ohio," said Steve Melink, President of Melink Corporation. "Hopefully, it will inspire other schools and universities to consider clean and affordable renewable energy solutions."
About Cedarville University
Located in southwest Ohio, Cedarville University attracts 3,400 undergraduate, graduate and online students to more than 100 areas of study. Celebrating 125 years, Cedarville is a Christ-centered learning community recognized nationally for rigorous academic programs, strong graduation and retention rates, accredited professional and health science offerings and leading student satisfaction ratings. Visit www.cedarville.edu.
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1-Chip DLP™ Projectors PT-REZ12 Series
Evolved 1-Chip DLP™ Projectors Transform Your Experience with a Smooth, Frictionless Workflow
Key features
High-Contrast Visuals Deepen Engagement |
Flexibility and Expandability for Timesaving Workflow |
New Compact Body Supports Maintenance-free Projection |
Panasonic Projector: 1-Chip DLP Projector PT-REQ12 Series Introduction
Dramatic Visuals Take Production to New Heights
Deep, Smooth, and Dimensional 4K1 Images
Quad Pixel Drive produces smooth 4K1 images with fascinating depth. The technology meets demand for absolute visual realism in immersive spaces (particularly museums and 360° projection mapping) by creating detailed images without visible pixels or pixel-gridding, even when viewed up close. Engage your guests in the creator's world with a true-to-life visual experience that brings the whole story to life.
1 With Quad Pixel Drive [ON].
Rich Color Enhancer for Vivid, Accurate Colors
Rich Color Enhancer is an original color optimization technology with two selectable modes. Dynamic Mode balances brightness and color for clear image visibility in bright environments. Standard Mode optimizes color reproduction by expanding red-channel output, leading to more naturally vibrant red expression. This is critical for the accurate reproduction of artwork and other color-rich content.
Gradation Smoother to Reduce Color Banding
Gradation Smoother reduces banding in gradients of shaded color that can become evident in images that lack enough color bit-depth. Use the projector remote to select from three levels of image correction depending on how much banding is present, or disable the function when it's not needed. Gradation Smoother is a lifesaver when banding is apparent in the projection, and there's no time to re-edit the content.
Evolved Dynamic Contrast
In addition to a higher 25,000:11 contrast ratio, Evolved Dynamic Contrast gains new scene analysis circuitry that more accurately recognizes light and dark areas of the image. The difference between black, white, and contrasting colors stands out more dramatically than ever before. It minimizes dimming when projecting contrast-rich content and makes black deeper and whites brighter. Each video frame is analyzed in real-time, and light output is continuously adjusted to meet the precise contrast requirements of each scene.
Detail Clarity Processor 4 Improves Image Clarity and Sharpness
Detail Clarity Processor 4 analyzes video signal frequency bands for each scene, extracting distribution information of ultra-high, high, mid, and low-frequency components. Panasonic's unique image quality correction circuitry then applies optimal processing enhancement to each area of the screen. Building on the capabilities of Detail Clarity Processor 3 available on previous Panasonic 1-Chip DLP™ projectors, Detail Clarity Processor 4 significantly improves the sense of clarity, making fine details seem crisp, sharp, and lifelike.
Adjust Black Levels on Curved Screens
Achieving uniform black levels inside blended areas on curved screens has always been difficult. This is because the screen's curvature distorts the width of the black borders that define the adjustment area. Panasonic answers the problem with flexible black-level adjustment to suit arbitrary screen shapes. You can use up to 17 control points to reshape black borders so they fit the screen symmetrically without distortion. Black levels can be set precisely within a half-pixel margin, so blends are indiscernible even when viewing the screen at close range.
Adjust Black Levels Inside and Outside the Image Display Area
Panasonic's black-level adjustment has evolved to eliminate distracting black-level bumps that can appear in blends outside of the image display area after geometric adjustment is applied. By unlinking black-level adjustment from geometric adjustment, black-level settings can be applied to the entire blend, including the image overlaps outside the image display area, for a completely seamless multi-screen image.
Note: Black-level area setting must be performed before black-level adjustment. The ability to unlink black-level adjustment from geometric adjustment is supported only on flat screens when adjacent images are aligned vertically or horizontally.
Smooth Playback of 2K/240 Hz1 Content
REQ12 Series can play 2K/240 Hz1 video with an input-to-output latency of just 6 ms2, smoothly reproducing fast-moving objects and action sequences with minimal blur. High-speed 2K/240 Hz1 content can be displayed over multiple screens with edge-blending enabled, making REQ12 Series ideal for sharing gameplay action with audiences at eSports events or for any application where fluid motion and fast response are important. REQ12 Series also supports Panasonic's optional ET-SWR103 Real-Time Tracking Projection-Mapping System. This ready-to-use Software Development Kit (SDK) works with infrared cameras to enable image projection onto fast-moving objects at 2K/240 Hz1, enabling the seamless combination of digital and analog worlds in your interactive XR attraction.
1 The display frame rate corresponds to the input signal frame rate.
2 Value is approximate. May vary depending on the input signal, peripheral devices, and other conditions.
3 Optional ET-SWR10 is used in conjunction with third-party devices (sold separately). Compatibility with third-party devices cannot be guaranteed. Other limitations apply. For more information, please visit the ET-SWR10 webpage.
Supports Widescreen Input Signals
Single-chip DLP™ projectors are a popular choice for bringing on-site and remote teams together in hybrid conferencing spaces. The latest video-conferencing software can output a 21:9 signal to a REQ12 Series projector so that the faces of remote participants appear along the bottom of the screen at eye level with those seated in the room. This improves communication fluency among members of the group. In addition, with more games, films, and other immersive content produced with a 21:9 aspect ratio, it makes sense to invest in a projector that can deliver a cinematic experience.
Effortless Workflow, Improved Expandability
Wide Scalability with Intel® SDM-ready Slot
Intel® SDM-ready slot integrates optional proprietary or third-party1 function boards. These reduce installation complexity and make it easier to adapt, scale, and expand your projector's connectivity to suit different applications and event-site infrastructure. The projector works with Panasonic's DIGITAL LINK Terminal Board (TY-SB01DL), 12G-SDI Terminal Board (TY-SB01QS), 12G-SDI Optical Function Board (TY-SB01FB), and Wireless Presentation System PressIT Receiver Board (TY-SB01WP), as well as selected third-party1 PC boards, terminal boards, and AVoIP boards.
Note: The projector terminal layout pictured is for illustrative purposes only.
1 Proprietary and third-party Intel® SDM-ready function boards sold separately. A list of third-party function boards tested for compatibility with the PT-REQ12 Series will be announced. Panasonic cannot guarantee the operation of third-party devices. The transmission method to the slot must be by HDMI™ signal.
Import and Save Your Custom Test Patterns
In addition to 10 built-in test patterns, you can now import and save up to three custom test patterns to the projector. You can save your preferred test patterns or use your client's content to calibrate the projector before the video source is connected. Access compatible BMP or PNG image files saved to USB memory via the Test Pattern menu, where they can be saved, renamed, or deleted using the projector remote control.
Note: Supports PNG (1/8/16/24/32/48/64-bit, non-transparent, alpha blending disabled) and BMP (1/8/24-bit) formats with a maximum resolution of 3840 x 2400 dots.
Smart Projector Control1 App Smooths Your Workflow
Smart Projector Control1 app simplifies projector setup and operation. Connection is easy: just scan the QR Code2 displayed in the projector's OSD menu with your smartphone camera. You can control up to 64 projectors simultaneously and adjust settings without needing to project the OSD menu. You can select test patterns, adjust lens settings via the new lens-control UI, lock brightness, and perform focus adjustment using your smartphone camera3 from distances of up to 30 m (98 ft)4 away. For more information, visit the Smart Projector Control webpage.
1 Available free from the App Store or the Google Play store. Check device and OS compatibility before downloading and installing the app on your device.
2 Requires optional AJ-WM50 Series Wireless Module (sold separately). Product availability may vary by country or region.
3 Some devices do not support the projector autofocus function.
4 When projecting a 300-inch image. The maximum distance is 3 m (10 ft) for a 100-inch image.
Save Prep Time Before Setup with NFC Function1
NFC function1 allows you to prepare your projector for installation and setup at the event site when AC power is unavailable or when OSD projection isn't possible. Just place your phone on the NFC decal to connect, and use the Smart Projector Control2 app to read and write settings such as Projector ID and IP address. Projectors can be prepped for immediate network connection and setup the moment power rolls out on the installation site, saving time and resources. After the event has concluded, projector settings can be reset to factory defaults while unplugged, an action that used to require OSD menu projection.
Save Prep Time Before Setup with NFC Function1
Flexible Screen Adjustment via Remote Control
Free Grid lets you easily fix image distortion caused by uneven projection surfaces or objects on flat or curved screens using the projector remote control. Reshape the image by adjusting control points or V/H lines on an overlaid grid. Select from various grid resolutions between 2 x 2 and 17 x 17 lines depending on the precision you require. Work progress is saved automatically, and grid and control-point colors can be changed for best visibility over the background image.
Preactivated Upgrade Kits for Geo Pro1 Software
REQ12 Series ships with preactivated licenses for upgrade kits that come bundled with our free Geometry Manager Pro1 software. ET-UK20 Geometry Manager Pro Software Upgrade Kit expands the software's functionality and adds sophisticated edge-blending, color uniformity, and masking tools. ET-CUK10 Auto Screen Adjustment Upgrade Kit uses data from a connected camera2 to automatically calibrate edge-blended areas by adjusting their brightness, color, and black level, saving you the time and hassle of manual calibration.
1 Visit PASS to register your projector and download free Geometry Manager Pro software for Windows® (upgrade kits included). Visit the Panasonic Geometry Manager Functions webpage for more information.
2 Compatible cameras comprise Nikon D5200/D5300/D5500/D5600/D7500. Use of the Auto Screen Adjustment function with these cameras requires installation of the Auto Screen Adjustment Plug-in (a free camera driver available from PASS). Use of the Auto Screen Adjustment function with D7500 requires Geometry Manager Pro Ver. 6.1.10 or later and Auto Screen Adjustment Plug-in Ver. 5.1.10 or later.
Quickly Find the Correct Projection Angle
Laser projectors can be installed at any angle through 360° to map images over floors, walls, and 3D objects. However, adjusting the projection angle to match the one specified in the design simulation can be tricky, especially if the projector is difficult to reach. REQ12 Series features a gyro sensor that detects changes to the projector's body pitch and roll angles and displays the information graphically in the OSD settings menu. Installers no longer need assistance to check the projection angle as the body is adjusted. They can view the on-screen graphic and adjust the projector angle as necessary before securing the unit.
Note: The displayed values are based on the results of angle sensor detection and may differ from the actual angle representing the posture of this projector. The displayed values are for reference only, and accuracy is not guaranteed.
New Cabinet Design for Reliable Operation
Dust-Resistant Optical Engine and Liquid Cooling System
REQ12 Series features an optical engine and laser light source that conform to the IP5X Dust Protected (IEC 60529)1 standard, eliminating the need for an air filter and enabling 20,000 hours2 of maintenance-free projection. Reliability is proven by accelerated dust-chamber testing in significantly dustier conditions than those in which some competitive products are tested. A refined liquid-cooling system enables continuous operation in dusty environments with significantly lower noise levels than the previous series, ideal for quiet spaces such as museums. In addition, the stylish new cabinet design blends unobtrusively into the space to minimize distractions.
1 The Dust Protected performance of this unit is not guaranteed to be free from damage or failure under all conditions (environment with conductive dust, etc.). Please use an enclosure in environments with smoke containing oil, salt, and moisture.
2 Around this time, the light output will have decreased by approximately 50 %. IEC62087: 2008 Broadcast Contents, NORMAL Mode, Dynamic Contrast [3], temperature 35 °C (95 °F), elevation 700 m (2,297 ft) with 0.15 mg/m3 of airborne particulate matter. Panasonic recommends a checkup at the point of purchase after about 20,000 hours. Light-source lifetime may be reduced depending on the environmental conditions. Replacement of parts other than the light source may be required in a shorter period. Estimated maintenance time varies depending on the environment.
Remote Preview LITE for Monitoring During Events
Remote Preview LITE lets the projectionist confirm connectivity and assess image adjustment changes prior to video projection by viewing thumbnails of the input signal on a laptop. This is useful at events such as live concerts where opportunities to check content on screen are limited due to soundchecks, sunlight on the screen, and other logistical factors. Accessed via software or web browser, Remote Preview LITE works with the projector in Standby1 or with the shutter on and reduces the chance of errors before the performance.
Note: Requires Multi-Monitoring & Control Software Version 3.3 or later available free here. For more information, click here.
1 Projector must be set to Pre-Show Mode.
Backup Input Redundancy
Two identical signals can be simultaneously transmitted to HDMI 1 (Primary) and HDMI 2 (Backup). If transmission to the primary input is interrupted, the projector switches to the backup automatically in a minimum of 0.3 seconds1 without screen-blanking. This layer of insurance gives greater peace of mind during events where image display can't be interrupted.
Note: Primary Input (HDMI 1) and Backup Input (HDMI 2) terminal assignment is fixed. Input signals to primary and backup inputs must be identical.
1 Varies depending on the Backup Input mode and the connected external device.
Highly Reliable Multi-Laser Drive Engine
Multiple laser modules are equipped with our unique Failover Circuitry technology. In the unlikely event a single diode fails, Failover Circuitry continues to supply electricity to the functional diodes in the series, minimizing brightness loss. If the same issue were to occur in projectors without Failover Circuitry, all diodes in the module might shut down, resulting in a significant loss of brightness.
Specifications table
Projector type | 1-Chip DLP™ projectors |
DLP™ Chip | Panel Size | 0.8 in diagonal (16:10 aspect ratio) |
DLP™ chip | Number of Pixels | 2,304,000 (1920 x 1200 pixels) |
Light Source | Laser diode |
Light Output*1 *2 | 8,000 lm / 8,200 lm (Center)*3 |
Time until light output declines to 50 %*4 | 20,000 hours (NORMAL/QUIET), 24,000 hours (ECO) |
Resolution | WUXGA (1920 x 1200 pixels) |
Contrast Ratio*1 | 25,000:1 (Full On/Full Off, Dynamic Contrast [3]) |
Screen Size (Diagonal) | 70–700 inches (with supplied lens) |
Center-to-corner zone ratio*1 | 90 % |
Lens | PT-REZ12/REZ10/REZ80: Powered zoom (throw ratio 1.36–2.10:1 for supplied lens), powered focus; PT-REZ12L/REZ10L/REZ80L: Optional powered zoom/focus lenses |
Accessories & Software
The rental frames are sturdy, strong and visually appealing. In addition, they offer a horizontal and vertical adjustment feature for the ideal projector position.
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Lenses for 1-Chip DLP
1-Chip DLP™ Projector Zoom Len - Throw Ratio 16:10 (2.07 - 3.38:1)
Lenses for 1-Chip DLP
1-Chip DLP™ Projector Zoom Len - Throw Ratio 16:10 (0.940 - 1.39:1)
Lenses for 1-Chip DLP
1-Chip DLP™ Projector Zoom Len - Throw Ratio 16:10 (0.680 - 0.950:1)
Lenses for 1-Chip DLP
1-Chip DLP™ Projector Zoom Len - Throw Ratio 16:10 (0.550 - 0.690:1)
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Related resources
PT-REZ15/REZ12 Series Leaflet PDF data (English)
Catalog PDF data: PT-REZ15/REZ12/REZ10/REZ80 (English)
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Image Data
PT-REQ12/REZ12 Series Remote Controller High-res
Product Image: PT-REQ12/REQ10/REQ80/REZ12/REZ10/REZ80
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PT-REQ12/REZ12 Series Remote Controller Low-res
Product Image: PT-REQ12/REQ10/REQ80/REZ12/REZ10/REZ80
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Product Image: PT-REQ12/REQ10/REQ80/REZ12/REZ10/REZ80
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CAD Data
PT-REQ12/REZ12 Series with ET-C1U100 CAD DXF (English)
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Operating Instructions
PT-REZ12 Series Operating Instruction (English)
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IN FURY LIES MISCHIEF (Midnight Mayhem #2) by Amo Jones
Release Date: March 10th
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She was everything that I wanted.
He was everything that I despised.
Until she wasn't.
Until he wasn't.
Killian Cornellii was a walking calamity. He reached inside of me and touched every single inch of my ruined soul, but he didn't just touch it. He caressed, petted, and captivated it. He tailored me to fit into the palm of his hands. The same hands that possess so much cruelty, were the very same that comforted me.
I thought I knew him.
He thought he knew me.
This isn't a fairy tale, or some achingly beautiful story about two soul mates who instantly fall irrevocably in love with each other.
This is a story about a love so painful, so rich, that it destroys everything and everyone around it.
Including ourselves.
Midnight Mayhem is the platform to which Killian performs his tricks on, but the greatest trick wouldn't come from him.
It would come from me.
Tricksters don't have hearts.
They just pretend that they do.
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
His hand slips beneath my pants, the cushion of his thumb pressing against my clit. "I'll kill them."
My mouth falls open, a soft moan falling from between my lips. "You have demons too."
He grips onto my waist and lifts me onto the table. The table that helped steal a piece of my soul. His hand dips beneath my top, removing it slowly. "True. I have many, but I wouldn't be the devil I am today if I never got to commit the sins I did then."
About the Author:
Amo Jones is a USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, totally winging this author thing (she's probably doing it all wrong). She likes cake, loves wine, and her religion is magic (Slytherin). She's a profound work-a-holic, but when she's not writing, you can find her chilling with her kids & Husband at the nearest beach, with a cocktail in her hand.
New Zealand is not a state of Australia and rugby is the best sport ever played.
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Total 1 Lite Antimicrobial Touch Screen Cover
Safertouch™ antimicrobial touch screen overlays are a simple and effective barrier to keep public and workplace touchscreens free of microbial contamination. The entire film contains an optimized antimicrobial agent designed to provide continuous protection at the surface. This keeps common touchpoints cleaner and helps reduce the anxiety associated with returning to normal everyday operations.
The film can be replaced every 90 days and is easily removed, leaving no residue.
5 7/8″" X 3 5/8" | .25" corner radius | 5ml thick
SaferTouch™ antimicrobial touch screen overlays are an effective barrier designed to protect critical touch screens like coffee brewers, vending machines and kiosks. The product provides a cleaner surface and prevents the buildup of microorganisms. The film is designed for public areas, offices, breakrooms, facilities touchpoints, and a variety of additional applications for lasting surface protection.
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Yucca brevifolias, like rambling, shaggy sculptures in one of the Plant Communities areas at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.
One of the plantings in the Plant Community areas, with yuccas and cacti.
Winter seems to have forgotten Seattle, but we still had a 'mid-winter break' from the schools, so I made a short tour to Los Angeles and surroundings with my family. As I walked out from the plane into the glistening sunshine at the tiny Long Beach airport and felt the balmy winds caress my pale cheeks, I once again wondered why we ever left Melbourne and settled into the chilly climates of Stockholm and Seattle, when the southern zones are so much easier for your mind and body...
A member of the genus Mimulus, I had misplaced my notes and can't find the right name for this...
Arctostaphylos tomentosa, the woollyleaf manzanita, also member of the heather family.
A small mishap on the agenda made my planned visit to Huntington Botanical Gardens impossible, so instead I made a surprise visit to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont. Covering over 86 acres, Rancho Santa Ana is the largest botanical garden of California, exclusively dedicated to native California plants. Its was founded in 1927 by Susanna Bixby Bryant, a member of one of California's pioneering families, who was worried about the rapidly disappearing native California flora - an amazingly visionary deed at time when most people and even scholars had no interest for the local plants. Originally founded on her ranch in Orange County, Rancho Santa Botanic Garden was relocated in 1951 to Claremont College campus to be part of its graduate program in botany.
Located on a plain of the San Gabriel Mountains, the paths are laid out in meandering circles that cover three different areas. Indian Hill Mesa with its dense clay soil is planted with California wild lilacs, Manzanitas and other mature cultivars of native Californian plants. The East Alluvial Garden contains the desert garden and the coastal plant collections, including the Californian Fan Palm Oasis, where native palms have been allowed to keep their skirts of dried, brown fronds; a surprising reminder of how palms really should look like. The third area is the Plant Communities display. Here, Californian natives as cacti, yuccas, pines and the legendary Joshua trees cover a huge 55 acres, all planted in habitats that looked so naturalistic that it was difficult to believe them to have been planted by people.
* Fremontodendron 'California glory' (flannel bush) in the California cultivar garden, where new varieties of native plants are selected and grown for commercial use.
Wandering through the winding paths of the Plant Communities, I was happily reminded of some of the hikes I have made in South Eastern Australia and in the Big Sur area in California; so far apart from each other, but still so similar in their nature. Only a few people were out in the gardens, so I was left to my own devices, admiring all the members of Californian plant families, represented there in all hues of green from ashen grey to the deepest emerald. Only some 20 miles away from the bustling LA, Rancho Santa Ana was filled with sparkling birdsong. As the sweet scents from the aromatic plants filled my lungs, I felt well compensated for my disappointment for not seeing the Huntington gardens.
Overview of the Plant Communities area, with San Gabriel Mountains as a majestic backdrop.


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A Colony in a Nation
Title | A Colony in a Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Hayes |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-03-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
New York Times Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and democracy. Drawing on wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis, as well as deeply personal experiences with law enforcement, Hayes contends that our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, the law is venerated. In the Colony, fear and order undermine civil rights. With great empathy, Hayes seeks to understand this systemic divide, examining its ties to racial inequality, the omnipresent threat of guns, and the dangerous and unfortunate results of choices made by fear.


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Release Date: January 8, 2013
It's been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.
Threatened by false friends, hidden enemies, and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, Can their love survive through the ever night?
In this second book in her spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, Veronica Rossi combines fantasy and dystopian elements to create a captivating love story as perilous as it is unforgettable.
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Kodak to receive $525M from patent sale (Update)
Eastman Kodak is selling its digital imaging patents for about $525 million, money the struggling photo pioneer says will help it emerge from bankruptcy protection in the first half of next year.
Apple Inc., Google Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Corp., China's Huawei Technologies, Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are among the 12 companies paying to license the 1,100 patents, according to court filings. Patents have become very valuable to digital device makers, who want to protect themselves from intellectual property lawsuits. But Kodak, which has been trying to make the sale happen for more than a year, wound up receiving substantially less money than had been expected.
Rochester, New York-based Eastman Kodak Co. said Wednesday that the patent sale will help it repay a substantial amount of a loan it received under the bankruptcy process. It also satisfies a key condition of a new, cheaper $830 million loan package, which required that the patents be sold for at least $500 million.
Founded in 1880, Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection in January after a long struggle to stay relevant. First came competition from Japanese companies, then the shift from film to digital photography over the past decade. Kodak failed to keep up. The once-mighty company, whose workforce peaked at 145,300 in 1988, said at the end of September that it expected to wind up with 13,100 employees after another round of job cuts.
Since filing for bankruptcy protection, Kodak has sold off several businesses, such as its online photo service, and said it would shut down other divisions, including the manufacturing of digital cameras. The company intends to focus on commercial and packaging printing. It sees home photo printers, high-speed commercial inkjet presses, software and packaging as the core of its business as it emerges from bankruptcy.
Kodak began mining its patent portfolio for license revenue in 2008. In January 2010, it sued Apple and RIM, saying that smartphone makers infringed its patent for technology that lets a camera preview low-resolution versions of a moving image while recording still images at higher resolutions.
But by July 2011, it was trying to sell its 1,100 digital imaging patents. Analysts initially thought the portfolio could fetch between $2 billion and $3 billion. But Kodak struggled to find a buyer.
The 12 licensees for Kodak's imaging patents were organized by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corp. Kodak spokesman Christopher Veronda said each licensee will pay a portion of the total cost and then have access to all the patents. The deal also includes an agreement to settle patent-related litigation.
The sale represents "another major milestone toward successful emergence" from bankruptcy, said Antonio M. Perez, Kodak's chairman and CEO, in a statement. "Our progress has accelerated over the past several weeks as we prepare to emerge as a strong, sustainable company."
Kodak will keep ownership of about 9,600 patents, focused mostly on commercial imaging and printing technologies.
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Nancy J. Cameron
I work as a lawyer, writer, and educator. I am a family law lawyer, and confine my practice to settlement. Although I spent years doing trial work, I believe that most families and children are best served by being supported to work together in resolving their family matters. For this reason, I specialize in collaborative practice (also know as collaborative law) and mediation. I also train and teach interdisciplinary collaborative practice.
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My Book
This is a book written for professionals who want to learn more about collaborative practice. It is a primer for collaborative lawyers. The book has chapters on divorce coaching and on the role of the child specialist written by Dr. Susan Gamache, as well as a chapter on the role of the financial specialist written by Doreen Gardner Brown. It was nominated for the ACLEA Best Publication Award. Originally published by CLE, British Columbia, it has been a CLE best seller.