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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 21, 2011 4:00 AM ESTI've been on a bit of a tablet kick lately, so even if you have dinner with me—tablets are bound to come up (I only break out the SSD conversation for the truly patient). Last week I had the pleasure of having dinner with Tony Tamasi and Jim Black of NVIDIA, and of course—tablets came up.
I've been thinking about device synergy, something I brought up in our PlayBook review. The problem is as follows: if I'm on my desktop with half a dozen tabs open and perhaps a PDF as well, but I decide to switch over to a tablet—there's no quick way that I can transition my reading environment between the devices. What I have to do is sit down on the couch, whip out my tablet, and manually navigate to each website and redownload/open the PDF. What I'd like to do is something along the lines of HP's Touch to Share, but just on a larger scale.
HP demonstrating Touch to Share
I posed this question to Tony when he asked me about future tablet technologies. From Tony (and NVIDIA's perspective), the problem is a non-issue because eventually all computing is done on your smartphone and you simply dock it from one set of input/output devices to the next. At your desk you'll dock your smartphone to a large display, keyboard and mouse. On the go you'll either have your smartphone or dock it into a notebook like chassis. Presumably you'll have a mid-sized display you could tether it to for tablet use as well.
NVIDIA isn't the only company that believes in the future of dockable computing. Earlier this year Motorola released the Atrix, arguably the best overall Android phone on the market today, with an optional laptop dock. While Motorola's docked experience wasn't all that great, treat it as a proof of concept—there's potential here.
You might argue that Motorola's shortcomings with its laptop dock are a result of its unfamiliarity with making PCs; after all Motorola has never shipped a laptop, just smartphones. You might also argue that a PC maker would have an easier time delivering a more polished, functional solution. You might assume that a company like ASUS might be a good candidate for such a thing. You'd be right.
The Eee Pad
ASUS was at the forefront of the netbook revolution thanks to its close partnerships with Intel and Microsoft. ASUS has been all but absent from the smartphone and tablet revolution again, because of its two key partnerships: Intel and Microsoft. Both Intel and Microsoft lay dormant while the smartphone and tablet revolution pick up speed; granted this may all change around Windows 8, but for now it's the truth. If you're a partner of both Intel and Microsoft, you too lay dormant while competitors like Apple, Samsung, Motorola and LG take your cake. After more than enough thumb fiddling, it was ASUS' turn for a slice. The result is this:
Technically it's called the Eee Pad Transformer TF101 thanks to its ability to transform into a netbook/notebook with an optional keyboard dock and ASUS' inability to shy away from long model names. From here on out we'll just call it the Eee Pad.
At a very high level, the Eee Pad is yet another Honeycomb tablet. It's got an NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC, 1GB of LPDDR2 memory, a WiFi radio, and 16GB of NAND on-board. Delve a little deeper and the story quickly becomes more interesting.
We'll start at the price: $399 for 16GB WiFi. That's $100 cheaper than the equivalent iPad, and $200 cheaper than the lowest priced Xoom. I've often called tablets luxury devices, but ASUS is putting the price pressure necessary on these things for the market to really thrive. While $399 isn't into the "why not?" category just yet, I like where ASUS is headed with this. In other words, I don't believe $399 is the floor here either. Up to now tablets (and smartphones) have been a cash cow for those involved. I don't mind there being premium offerings; I just also want to see something more affordable.
The low price point alone is enough to make the Eee Pad worth considering if you want an Android tablet, but surprisingly enough ASUS didn't sacrifice much in the way of quality to hit it.
The chassis isn't all metal, nor is it soft touch plastic, but that's not to say the feel is bad at all. On the front you've got mostly glass surrounded by a thin strip of metal that wraps around the Eee Pad. Around back there's a textured plastic covering that seems oddly reminiscent of a notebook (the foreshadowing here is quite thick).
The feel is what's most surprising about the Eee Pad. Despite not spending a ton on materials, ASUS managed to build a very comfortable to hold and use tablet. There's a bit of creakyness in the back plastic if you squeeze the Eee Pad, but it's not enough to make the tablet feel cheap. A benefit of not being made of aluminum is I'm not as afraid to set the Eee Pad down on a table as I am the iPad. It feels more rugged, more casual.
Tablet Specification Comparison | ||||||
Apple iPad 2 | ASUS Eee Pad | BlackBerry PlayBook | Motorola Xoom | |||
Dimensions | 241.2mm x 185.7mm x 8.8mm | 271mm x 175mm x 12.95mm | 194mm x 130mm x 10mm | 249.1mm x 167.8mm x 12.9mm | ||
Display | 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 | 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 | 7-inch 1024 x 600 | 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 | ||
Weight | 601g (WiFi only) | 675g | 425g | 730g | ||
Processor | 1GHz Apple A5 (2 x Cortex A9) | 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 (2 x Cortex A9) | 1GHz TI OMAP 4430 (2 x Cortex A9) | 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 (2 x Cortex A9) | ||
Memory | 512MB | 1GB | 1GB | 1GB | ||
Storage | 16GB up to 64GB | 16GB + microSD card | 16GB up to 64GB | 32GB + microSD card | ||
Pricing | $499 up to $829 | $399 | $499 up to $699 | $799 |
The Eee Pad has the thickness of an original iPad without the density, so it doesn't feel as fatiguing to hold—partially due to its larger size. It's definitely the largest ARM based tablet I've used, making it suboptimal for porting around town, but it's very nice to use at home. The Eee Pad is like the comfort food of tablets; it's not the most exquisite but it just feels good. My only complaint about the design is thickness. The iPad 2 and new Galaxy Tab have spoiled us here. I suspect we'll get a nicely redesigned version with Kal-El by the end of the year if NVIDIA works hard enough.
When cutting costs the display is usually the first to go, but thankfully our complaints have been heard. Not only has ASUS improved display quality on the notebook side, but the Eee Pad ships with an IPS panel guaranteeing good viewing angles and image quality. The display is a Xoom-like 1280 x 800 and measures 10.1-inches on the diagonal.
ASUS includes two small speakers, one on either side of the display. A volume rocker and power/lock button are both on the left edge of the Eee Pad. On the right side there's a headphone port, mini HDMI out and microSD slot.
The Eee Pad has two cameras: a 1.2MP front facing camera and a 5MP rear camera. There's no flash present.
Along the bottom edge of the Eee Pad is a 40-pin ASUS dock connector, which enables the Transformer part of the Eee Pad experience. ASUS ships the Eee Pad with a 40-pin ASUS dock to USB cable as well as a USB to AC adapter for wall charging.
Charging over USB is ill advised at this point since it'll take somewhere over 16 hours to fully charge the Eee Pad over a standard USB port. ASUS claims this will be fixed with a future software update. I didn't have the time to measure exactly how long a full charge over USB would take; I just measured long enough to know it would be a problem.
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stm1185 - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
Great review. I don't see much current use for the transformer now, but the idea of having something as capable as my old 2.6ghz quad core Phenom tower, in a tablet/netbook, running Windows 8, that is just awesome. I can't wait to see what Asus, MS, and Nvidia or Intel come up with next year. -
damianrobertjones - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
Asus EP121
Acer 1820ptz
Dell latitude XT2
HP Elitebook 2740p
and many more... they are available NOW! -
anishannayya - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
I own the x201T, and while it is a great device, it isn't meant for everyone (it is a convertible tablet PC). While it runs Windows 7, has multi-touch capable screen (and has multiple levels of pressure sensitivity with a stylus), gets 7 hours of battery life, and works like a conventional PC in other ways; it is also nearly 4 pounds with the extended battery and has a typically "large" 12.1" laptop form factor.
The EEE Pad is designed for people who want a thin, lightweight device that is relatively mobile and offers ultra-long battery life. If you don't need to use Windows style applications (90% of consumers), then this device is more suitable than even a traditional PC. -
spambonk - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
And all of them crap. -
TylerTech - Sunday, April 24, 2011 - link
I also own an x201 (work purchased it for a project) I always have a hard time finding a good use for it. If I was using the stylus to draw it would be perfect but I don't.
I would rather have the transformer or xoom and use them as a reading device. I just hope they improve browser sync to the point where its seamless as mentioned in the review. -
medi01 - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
Turning notebook into a tablet and vice versa is a brilliant idea. I bet most manufacturers will follow. -
Spivonious - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
You do realize that convertible laptops have been around for 10 years, right? -
therealnickdanger - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
Yeah, I owned a couple. Bulky, expensive, hot, poor battery life. Obviously they can do more work, but you pay for it in many ways. I've always been a tablet fan, but they have never been as simple and easy as Android/iPad.
I'm still looking forward to sub-$200 pads. And if Microsoft can make Windows8 bridge the gap between regular PC work and content creation with the mobile content consumption models, then the world will be a perfect place.
Too bad the world is ending in 2012, so we'll only have a short time to play with it. -
spambonk - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
You do realize they were rubbish? -
VooDooAddict - Sunday, April 24, 2011 - link
A well equipped tablet PC rubbish? ... No.
Expensive? ... Yes.


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Love the serene blues and the horizontal hung mirror echoing the shape of the lav.
I've always loved these blues and find it convenient that there seems to be so much available right now in these colours.
I worry though, particularly with the current popularity of mosaic glass, that they may become dated looking.
What's your take on this apparent 'trend' of mosaic glass in residential kitchens & baths?
(Keeping in mind that in my little corner of the world glass mosaic is just starting to "find its way to the people" )
Meanwhile, I'll just enjoy soaking in all the watery blues my Piscean heart can take.Hey Susan, you have the vision thing! The mirror I drew and need to find has the same radius as the sink. That they'd have the same radius wouldn't be obvious immediately but it would satisfy my need to bury symmetry and forced perspectives in my projects.
Oh course the current crop of glass mosaics are a trend. The proof of their popularity is the astonishingly low prices of most of them. Inexpensive finishes are usually the first ones to go.
But even with that said, everything looks dated eventually. It's unavoidable. What's considered to be traditional and timeless never is. It's not possible to keep right now out of a design. It happens with cars, with clothes, with homes and with interiors.
Somebody may buy a reproduction pedestal sink and use beadboard on the walls of a bathroom thinking that things like that are timeless, but they're not. They are in fact a traditional style as seen through the eyes of the 21st century. After all, a truly traditional bathroom is an outhouse out back and a galvanized tub pulled into the kitchen to be filled with hot water from the stove.
So even though it's a trend, the best way to ensure that trends age well is to design them well. Trendy designs that are thought through and that display some real creativity and cleverness tend to last.
So in ten years this powder room will look out of date. There is nothing I can do to stop that and it will happen regardless of the style of the room or the finishes I use. However, the best thing I can do for my client is to design this well enough so that in ten years some one will look at it and say "nice design" even if the finishes aren't currently on trend.
That's my take on it at any rate.- Anonymous22 July, 2009 22:58
Paullllll...say no to the second tile option!! The first is more imaginative and original!! Have you considered using large format tiles behind it instead? A different look but might work well with the simplicity of the lacava sink. And, work with your desire of making the room appear deeper. Takes a good installer though!
Have the mirror made. I design my own mirrors and have great craftsmen who can make it and often less expensively. Clients love it and they like telling their friends they had a mirror custom made!:)
I agree about the popularity of mosaic glass. I am over it but people still like it. I like larger format or the different sizes as your first picture illustrates. There are lots of cool materials, just have to find the right one for the job. --cheryl I like that second tile! Not as much as the first, but I do like it. It's not photographing very well and that's a pretty extreme close up. It's made from 8mm squares of back-painted glass. I like it because the scale's so small and if I have to do another horizontal offset I'm going to scream. I have some back-painted 4x12s and another idea I have is to set them vertically instead of the expected horizontal. We'll see. This is a design that still evolving to say the least.
Can your mirror guy make rounded shapes? If so, I may want to talk to him!- Anonymous23 July, 2009 03:33
Actually it is a girl and she is a welder. She makes some pretty cool stuff for me and can do rounded shapes. But, not sure the finish would be as sleek as you probably might want..she has done some very modern countertop supports though and had painted with an automotive finish...looked good but in a mirror the welds might not be able to be hidden that great. I have another guy in Gulf Breeze that does some great and think they can do a more refined material. Depends on what you want.
I agree on the offset...but, I like large glass tiles..like 14x24 ..artistic tiles makes some...just did a fireplace out of them and it was kinda cool! But, vertilcal is always good application! What about circle mirror tiles??? ooooh....might be good looking! But, prob not with the floor...I am doing this in my own bathroom...somewhere. I love circles!!--cheryl Cheryl, excuse my assumption that your mirror guy was a guy --I hate when I do that and I need to stop making assumptions about gender. But you made me thing of something. Mirror tiles actually built into the wall rather than an actual mirror borders on the brilliant. Wow.
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This story, Milagro of the Spanish Bean Pot, gives us a peek into a time and place in history that is little known, but significant in helping tell America's story. Based on historical fact, there is ample evidence of a Spanish Colonial pottery tradition from about 1790 to 1890 in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Some archeologists would argue that only Native Americans made clay pots.Clearly, Romero-Anderson wants people to know that Spanish settlers in New Spain (in what later became known as New Mexico) made clay pots. She's created this story and its protagonist to bring that knowledge forward. Her motivation is good but in giving us that information, she affirms stereotypes of the bloodthirsty Indian, and there are other problems, too.
Some of them are relatively insignificant. In chapter nine, the protagonist, Raymundo (he's Spanish) is successful in getting an old woman to teach him how to make pots. Her name is Clay Woman (she's genizaro). I'll say more about her later. Within the span of one day:
- Raymundo shaped three clay pots, complete with rims and handles, by midmorning
- By noon he made three more and polished all of them with a stone
- After polishing them, he coated the inside of each one with brown paint
- Clay Woman then takes him out to gather plants to use as dyes
- On their return, Raymundo gathers dung chips so they can fire the pots the next day
- Then, Raymundo heads off to water his bean patch
- But! He hears a "blood-curdling war cry"
- It is the Comanches that killed his father a year ago. Now, they kidnap Raymundo and steal horses from Raymundo's village.
- They ride for hours, stop, and then the Comanches kill a horse by shooting an arrow into one of its eyes before eating its raw liver. They roast the rest of it before going to sleep for the night.
For the remainder of this review, I want to focus on Romero-Anderson's depiction of the peoples that are in the story: the Spanish, the Genizaros, and the Comanches.
The Spanish
The year is 1790. Raymundo lives in a small Spanish village in the northern part of what is now known as New Mexico. In 1790, it was New Spain. He lives in a village of adobe houses Raymundo and his mother live in one room. They own two hundred varas (Romero-Anderson says a vara is 2 feet) of bottom-land acquired through a Spanish land grant. Some of the land grants were made to Spanish individuals who agreed to live in less-populated and less-protected areas. Given the Comanche raids in the story, that seems to be the case with Raymundo and his family.
The bean pot in the title is the only one Raymundo's family has, but it has a crack and no longer holds water. They need a new one, but, the genizaros who make the pots have stopped trading with the local Spanish people and sending their pots south, to Mexico.
I'm guessing genizaro is a new word to most people. As such, the way they are depicted is of utmost importance. And given the stereotyped and biased ways that American Indians have been portrayed in children's books, their depiction is equally important. Genizaros, Romero-Anderson tells us in the glossary, were "Christianized (Hispanicized) Indians" (p. 110). She introduces them in chapter two when Raymundo walks past their village:
His search for firewood took him to the crest, past the small village of genizaros, a group of Indians who were ransomed from captivity to the Spaniards. They were given land here far away from the capital and Spanish society before Reymundo was born.Their village includes three adobe houses and two made of stone, surrounded by a fence.
To better understand who the genizaros were, I've been studying two books. One is Violence Over the Land by Ned Blackhawk, and the other is Captives & Cousins by James F. Brooks. They were primarily young Plains Indians who were captured by other tribes and Spanish soldiers, sold as slaves, and subsequently became detribalized (many did not know who their tribal nation was). Those who weren't successfully sold were killed, prompting some Spanish colonists to intervene by redeeming the captives and baptizing them. In return, the redeemed captive owed allegiance and service of up to 20 years to the person who redeemed them. In northern New Mexico, Brooks writes that they became like members of families in a fictive kinship relationship, but he that in the Rio Grande Valley, they were ostracized and looked down on.
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Speaking of Pueblo Indians, where are the Pueblo people in Milagro of the Spanish Bean Pot?! Romero-Anderson mentions them on page 13. Raymundo is on his family's land, looking at a dry wash: "It had once belonged to the ancestors of a Tewa Indian pueblo, Papa had said, but the native people were no longer allowed on land granted to the Spaniards by the Spanish Crown in the Kingdom of New Mexico." On page 20, Raymundo plays "chueco, an ancient game of the Pueblo Indians" but other than that, Pueblo Indians are absent from Romero-Anderson's story. All through that time period, Pueblo Indians were taking Spanish people to court for encroachment and other criminal matters.
In some ways, Romero-Anderson misrepresents the genizaros. She does, I think, accurately portray the disdain that Blackhawk and Brooks report in their respective books. Romero-Anderson writes "The old crone's hair looked like a magpie's nest" and she says that Fools Crow's hair is matted and filthy, and that his torso is caked with grime. (p. 11).
She also accurately portrays the ways that the Spanish feared and accused the genizaros of being witches. On page 15, Raymundo's aunt calls them "evil brujos" (witches). She tells Raymundo to stay away from them:
"Remember what happened to Father Ordonez? I believe the year was 1796. I had come for a visit and that's all everyone talked about. The genizaro witches put a curse on him, Raymundo, and he died a terrible death." (p. 15).Juan, a Spanish man, shoots and kills Clay Woman with an arrow in a dramatic scene that takes place on the day that Raymundo and Clay Woman fire their pots (Romero-Anderson repeatedly says "bake" which to me, sounds odd).
There was, in fact, a Franciscan father named Felix Ordonez y Machado who founded a mission at a genizaro settlement in Abiquiu. Brooks covers this on page 136 of Captives and Cousins. Ordonez died in 1756 of suspicious causes. The new missionary, Juan Jose Toledo, was sick several times in the years after 1756. Then a genizara, on her death bed, accused a Kiowa genizaro named Joaquin Trujillo, of sorcery, the area erupted in accusations and counteraccusations that led to exorcisms during which "pagan" practices of Pueblo Indians were exposed as "evil" activities. Reading that section of Captives and Cousins, leads me to believe that Romero-Anderson borrowed heavily from that series of events. Her Juan (who killed Clay Woman) is Juan Jose Toledo, and, Fools Crow is Joaquin Trujillo. The unnamed setting for her story is Abiquiu, 34 years after the actual event took place.
In the Acknowledgements, Romero-Anderson names Charles Carillo as a source for her writing. I think I'd probably find the Ordonez/Toledo/Trujillo/Abiquiu events in one of his books.
Comanches did raid and kidnap the Spanish and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, but not at the time period the story is set (1790). The Comanches in Milagro of the Spanish Bean Pot are portrayed much as they are in popular culture, as blood thirsty killers. There is a lot more to any tribe than that narrow portrayal. There were a lot of Native and non-Native nations trading and raiding and inflicting violence on each other. The title of Blackhawk's book, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West effectively captures the coalitions and conflicts of that time. If you're interested in knowing more about it, I highly recommend his book.
Romero-Anderson tried to give readers a look into a little known piece of history about Spanish potters. We do, in fact, need stories about that, and about that period during which many nations interacted with each other, but the information has to be reliable. Milagro of the Spanish Bean Pot falls short in that regard.


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What we're all about
At StreetLeverage, we are committed to the belief that it is often the most obvious and important realities that are the hardest to see and talk about.
Founder's Statement
My name is Brandon Arthur.
Yes, I probably should fill the page with a bunch of "I" statements to demonstrate my worthiness of putting StreetLeverage into the world, but I'll save you the eye roll and me the hot air. Let's just say, I have been lucky.
I have had the good fortune of working with—and alongside—numerous working interpreters, industry leaders and educators, and business owners. These travels have given me the opportunity to see and experience the power and complexities of the sign language interpreting field from various points of view.
This experience served as the impetus to organize a space where practitioners and industry stakeholders could come together to share insights and perspective in order to raise the consciousness about the important work of sign language interpreters.
(If the "I" statements are important to you, you can find a highlight reel below.)
"I" Statements
- was born to a father that is Deaf and a mother that is a sign language interpreter.
- am a nationally certified sign language interpreter.
- have worked as both a freelance and staff interpreter.
- held a Director of Business Development/Marketing position for a small interpreting agency.
- love, love, love being a father.
- founded Visual Language Interpreting (VLI) in 1999 and ran it for nearly a decade.
- along with my partners, sold VLI to Purple Communications in 2008.
- worked at Purple as a GM and VP of Community Interpreting, VP of Marketing Communications, and Regional Director of Operations over the span of nearly 7 years.
- worked for Access Interpreting as VP of Marketing.
- served on an RID affiliate chapter board (PCRID).
- served on two National RID conference committees as an interpreter coordinator.
- am an identical twin.
- co-chaired an RID affiliate chapter conference committee.
- have coordinated interpreters for numerous large events (RID, CIT, DeafWay II, NAD, NTC)
- have written articles that were featured in the RID Views.
- graduated from George Mason University with a BS in Psychology and a minor in Business.
- love more than life itself, my life partner and our amazing children.
- am grateful to the universe for my lot in life.


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I took a little break from Costume College sewing last week to whip up some new clothes for my boy to wear to a Bastille Day brunch. First, I made him a little Indienne print waistcoat that would work for both my Curtain-Along project and the Historical Sew Fortnightly "Eastern Influence" challenge. I used a Mill Farm Pattern for his waistcoat, and I thought the pattern made up quite nicely and was definitely worth the very reasonable price that I paid for it. My biggest complaint was that you have to pick one size for the patterns, and since I bought this one 2 years ago, I had to size it up on my own to fit him now. Multi-sized patterns are definitely a plus when working with kids clothes!
My inspiration for this garment came from this adorable boy's waistcoat from the Winterthur Museum. The front is made from a scrap of my Waverly curtains, and the front lining and the back are made from tan cotton duck. I also used a bit of striped light-weight linen for the lining in the back because I like the idea of using mix-and-match scraps for period linings. I was incredibly lazy and machine sewed and bag-lined the waistcoat instead of using period construction techniques, but it still looks pretty much the same and it saved me a good bit of time.
I also needed to make him an 18th c. shirt, which I am going to count for the HSF "White" challenge. I used the instructions in that same Mill Farm pattern to get me started, although I think I messed something up because the neckline and sleeves are less gathered than I expected them to be. I also had some trouble figuring out how to do the gussets and finish the seams. I am very much a visual learner, and unfortunately, the Mill Farm patterns are quite sparing with their illustrations. I referenced several other sites online to help me wrap my head around it, and I think it all came together okay in the end. I really liked this article by the Northwest Territory Alliance and found their instructions very helpful, even though I didn't follow them exactly.
I made the shirt out of a lightweight linen/cotton blend, and while I used my machine on some parts, I finished everything by hand. I was also excited to be able to use some of my tiny 1920's mother-of-peal shirt buttons from the collar and cuffs. As a finishing touch, I hemmed a triangle of gingham fabric and made a neckerchief to tie around his collar. All of the materials for the waistcoat, neckerchief, and shirt came from my stash.
This outfit is still a work-in-progress, and I hope to make him some drop-front trousers and a jacket sometime this fall. I also made his shirt and waistcoat bigger than necessary, so maybe they will last for a few wearings.


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Structure of Public Higher Education in Massachusetts
One topic that came up at the NTT gathering yesterday is the need for a chart, diagram, guide, or infographic, that concisely explains how governance and collective bargaining are organized in higher ed in Massachusetts. It's an incomprehensible alphabet soup until you learn how things work.
For example: in public higher education, the "board" might be the Board of Higher Ed, which governs higher ed -- except for the UMass system that has a Board of Trustees instead. Both UMass Lowell and UMass Amherst have unions called "MSP" to represent faculty, but they're totally different organizations. By contrast, UMass Amherst has MSP and UMass Boston has FSU, but they actually are legally one entity called JCC that bargains for both. UMass Amherst has three separate unions: MSP, PSU, and USA that cover faculty, professional and classified employees, but FSU does all three at Boston. Lowell, Amherst, and Boston are all affiliated with MTA, but Dartmouth is in AFT. Eventually, you learn all this stuff, but its impossible for someone who doesn't know it to understand how things work.
I think it would be a great idea to have a big chart or infographic that could show governance (from the top down, of course) and then union representation (from the bottom up) with names, acronyms, and leadership info. I think it might really help people get up-to-speed on the structure of things.


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The Affordable Care Act very nearly failed to become law back in 2010 because of a dispute among Democrats over how to handle abortion in the bill.
Now a similar argument between Democrats and Republicans is slowing progress on a bill that could help cut soaring premiums and help stabilize the ACA.
At issue is the extent to which the Hyde Amendment — language commonly used by Congress to prohibit most federal abortion funding — should be incorporated into any new legislation affecting the health law.
Republicans generally want more restrictions on abortion funding. Democrats generally want fewer.
Here's a bit of the history of how we got here.
What is the Hyde Amendment?
The Hyde Amendment, named for Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), an anti-abortion champion who died in 2007, prohibits federal funding of abortion in Medicaid and several other health programs run by the Department of Health and Human Services. Current exceptions allow for funding in cases of rape, incest or "where a physical condition endangers a woman's life unless an abortion is performed."
But the Hyde Amendment is not permanent law. It has been included as a rider every year since 1977 to federal spending bills and its exact language changes from time to time. The rape and incest exceptions, for example, were not included in the annual HHS spending bill from 1981-93. During that time, the only exception was for abortions required to save a pregnant woman's life.
Hyde-like language has been added to other annual spending bills over the years, so federal abortion funding is also now forbidden in private health insurance plans for federal employees, women in federal prisons, those in the Peace Corps and women in the military, among others.
Over the years, Democrats have worked, unsuccessfully, to eliminate the Hyde Amendment, charging that it unfairly harms low-income women who cannot afford to pay for abortions. Proposed elimination of the language was included in the Democratic Party's 2016 platform.
Republicans have tried, also unsuccessfully, to write the Hyde funding prohibitions into permanent law. "A ban on taxpayer funding of abortion is the will of the people and ought to be the law of the land," said then-House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in 2011.
So, what happened with the ACA and abortion funding?
Republicans in both the House and Senate unanimously refused to support the Affordable Care Act when it passed Congress in 2010. In order to pass the bill over GOP objections, Democrats needed near unanimity among their ranks, abortion remaining the biggest hurdle.
The Democratic caucus at the time had a significant number of members who opposed abortion, particularly those representing more conservative districts and states. In order to facilitate movement, House and Senate leaders agreed that the health bill should be "abortion-neutral," meaning it would neither add to nor subtract from existing abortion restrictions. Even today there is disagreement about whether the law actually expands or contracts abortion rights.
At the time, Democratic sponsors of the bill were buffeted by appeals from women's groups who wanted to make sure the bill did not change existing coverage of abortion in private health insurance; and from abortion opponents, led by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, who called the bill a major expansion of abortion rights.
The bill passed the House in 2009 only after inclusion of an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), a longtime opponent of abortion. That bill included a government-sponsored health insurance plan that would have been available on all states' exchanges. Stupak's provision would have made the Hyde Amendment a permanent part of that plan. The amendment also banned federal premium subsidies for private health insurance plans that offered abortion, although it allowed for plan customers to purchase a rider with non-federal money to cover abortion services.
Eventually, the Senate bill dropped the government-sponsored plan, so no restrictions were necessary on the abortion issue. And it was the Senate plan that went forward to become law. Still, differences remained over how to ensure that subsidies provided by taxpayers did not go to private plans that covered abortions.
In the upper chamber, a compromise was ultimately reached by abortion-rights supporter Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and a Democratic senator who opposed abortion, Ben Nelson from Nebraska. Nelson was the final holdout on the bill, which needed all 60 Democrats in the Senate to overcome the unanimous GOP opposition. The Boxer-Nelson language was a softening of the Stupak amendment but still allowed states to prohibit plans in the ACA's insurance marketplaces from covering abortion.
In addition, President Barack Obama agreed to issue an executive order intended to ensure no federal funds were used for abortions.
In the end, both sides came out unhappy. Abortion opponents wanted the Hyde Amendment guarantees in the actual legislation rather than the executive order. Abortion-rights backers say the effort constricted abortion coverage in private health plans.
And both sides are unhappy, still. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group, 26 states have passed legislation restricting abortion coverage in any plan sold through the ACA's insurance exchanges.
Another 11 states have passed laws restricting abortion coverage in all private insurance sold in the state. Nine of those states allow separate abortion riders to be sold, but no carriers offer such coverage in those marketplaces, according to a 2018 analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)
And three states — California, New York and Oregon — require nearly all insurance plans to provide abortion coverage, according to the National Women's Law Center.
And, what's at stake in the latest health bill?
The issue for 2018 is a bipartisan bill that seeks to stabilize the individual insurance market and the ACA's health insurance exchanges by providing additional federal funding to offset some recent premium increases. Some options include restoring federal subsidies for insurers who cover out-of-pocket costs for very low-income customers and setting up a federal reinsurance pool to help insurers pay for very expensive patients.
But once again, the abortion debate threatens to block compromise.
Many Republicans are dubious about efforts to shore up the health law. They still hope its failure could lead to a repeal they were unable to accomplish in 2017.
Even some who say they are sympathetic to a legislative remedy want to add the permanent Hyde Amendment language that was left out of the final ACA, although included in Obama's executive order.
That is "not negotiable for House Republicans," a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said this month. The White House has also endorsed a permanent Hyde Amendment.
But Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who has been negotiating the insurance bill for the Democrats, calls any additional abortion restrictions "a complete non-starter" for Democrats.
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Unleashed
Introduction and Specifications
NVIDIA has held a dominant position in the high-end GPU space ever since the introduction of the G80 architecture back in November of 2006. When the G80 first arrived in the form of the GeForce 8800 GTX and the pared-down GeForce 8800 GTS, the cards were clearly superior to anything else at the time in terms of both performance and features. As time has passed, rival ATI has closed the gap somewhat with the Radeon HD 3800 series, and has even surpassed NVIDIA in some ways, for example with DX10.1 and native HDMI with audio support, but through it all NVIDIA offered enthusiast gamers what they arguably desired most - high performance. And it shows in the discreet graphics card market share data.
NVIDIA eventually refreshed their product line-up with the 65nm G92 GPU, which incorporated support for their PureVideo HD video processing engine with some texture processing tweaks thrown in for good measure as well, but the G92 didn't offer significantly more performance than G80. In reality, cards based on the G92, like the GeForce 9800 GTX, were actually inferior in some ways. With today's launch of their GT200 GPU, however, NVIDIA has truly taken things to the extreme. While the GT200 does borrow heavily from previous generation GPU architectures, it is simply in a class of its own at the moment. And as you'll see, the jump in performance is similar to what we've all gotten use to and experienced again, when the GeForce 8800 GTX was first introduced.
The first two cards based on the GT200 GPU architecture are the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260. As their names suggest, the GTX 260 is a pared down version of the flagship GTX 280. We'll explain the differences in detail a little later on. For now, take a look at the features and specifications posted below.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Graphics Card
The GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 GPUs
Before we get down to the technical nitty gritty, you'll notice NVIDIA has a new naming convention for these cards. GeForce GTX denotes the current high end, with the model number afterward its performance level in relation to other cards in the same family.
Our GeForce 8800 GTX launch article goes in depth on the G80 GPU architecture and explains NVIDIA's CUDA GPGPU technology. Also, our GeForce 8800 GT, 8800 GTS 512MB, 9800 GTX and GX2 pieces encompass the majority of our G92 GPU coverage.
In regard to features, however, the GT200 GPU has a lot in common with the G80 and G92. There is still no DX10.1 support, the video processing engine hasn't changed, and the GPUs are manufactured using TSMC's 65nm process node. Of course there are some significant tweaks to the architecture that increase performance dramatically for not only 3D rendering but stream computing as well.
For more detailed explanations on many of the features shared between the GT200 and NVIDIA's previous GPU architectures, we'd suggest taking a look at a few previous HotHardware articles:


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How better to spend the fall months than inside by the fireplace with a warm cup of cider and a book in hand? the doctor and our team at Worcester Dental encourage you to warm up your mind this fall season with a few great books. Sure it may be easy to put off reading when balancing a hectic schedule, but reading is vital to brain development. Besides, reading is always a blast!
This week, we thought we'd ask what you or your child are reading this fall. Do you have any suggestions for must-read books this year? Out of ideas for great fall reads? Ask us for suggestions, and we would be happy to provide a few. You may also ask a local librarian here in Worcester, Massachusetts for some ideas.
Happy reading! Be sure to share with us your fall picks or your all-time favorites below or on our Facebook page!


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Date(s) - 10/09/2017
10:00 am - 11:00 am
We look forward to welcoming you to Christ The Servant King Church here in Hampton.
Sunday Morning Family Worship is at 10am
Children and Youth groups are available. Children are invited to join their groups during the earlier part of the service, allowing full family worship at the beginning and end of the service.
We have an excellent baby and toddler area to the side of the main worship space with media and sound available so your child can play, allowing parents to still take part in the service.
Refreshments are served at the end of the service.
For previous sermons please go to our Media Section


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By Felicity Arbuthnot – London
"The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war."– (Martin H.Fischer, 1879-1962.)
It has not been an auspicious couple of weeks for UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
His Cabinet colleagues, largely a bunch of millionaires, have accused the unemployed of being work-shy and a burden on the taxpayers – never mind that businesses are closing in near industrial numbers and that often hundreds, if not thousands, apply for one job. Additionally, according to the Literacy Trust: "One in six people in the UK struggle with literacy. This means their literacy is below the level expected of an eleven year old … Men and women with poor literacy are least likely to be in full-time employment at the age of thirty."
A junior Health Minister has accused the poor of being fat because, she has decided, they eat the wrong things.
The latter of course, implies that the overweight poor will be a further burden on Britain's National Health Service, being more likely to develop chronic conditions. It seems this health fascism exempts government Ministers and politicians such as the Minister for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, who must flatten the tires and springs of his Ministerial limousine, along with other political rotunds, politicians who of course, live entirely at the taxpayers' expense, from large salaries, with all financial outputs covered and health care.
David Cameron himself stated that without the health help he had received, often twenty four hours a day, for his little son Ivan, suffering a chronic condition which subsequently proved fatal, his family would have been unable to cope. Now under his government, the Health Service too is under government fire – slash and burn style. Cuts in welfare include attempting to force the very disabled, even potentially terminally ill back to work. Some have committed suicide.
Public anger and resentment is palpably mounting against pretty well all policies in a government seen as completely blind to the reality in Britain's villages, towns and cities.
The government message of course is fiscal belt tightening, "getting the economy back on track."
Then the Prime Minister cancelled a long planned address in Europe on Britain and the EU (another mess) leapt on a 'plane for Mali, a geographical stone's throw away from the ruins of his last African foray, Libya, and announced support for France's reckless insurgency, in one of the few countries the British have not invaded, plundered or colonized. So much for fiscal probity.
The opposition Labour Party's Defence spokesman, Jim Murphy, commented of what rapidly became Operation Creep: "The UK commitment to Mali has grown from lending the French two transport aircraft, to the deployment of perhaps hundreds of troops to the region." Most will be there, Cameron has assured, on a "training mission."
In what should have been a mega reality check for anyone but the Prime Minister, former Labour Cabinet Minister, Frank Dobson, pointed out that: "The American catastrophe in Vietnam started off with a deployment of troops in a training capacity."
From there he went to meddle in Algiers, popped in on the remains of Libya in a sixteen vehicle armed and armored motorcade, where he addressed a police training college (in English) and assured them that: "In building a new Libya you will have no greater friend than the United Kingdom. We will stand with you every step of the way." That should send a chill down spines.
Cameron's decision to fly to the Maghreb, wrote one commentator: "was a Blair-style statement that Britain intends to stay involved. Indeed, Cameron's references to a 'generational struggle' make him sound remarkably similar to Tony Blair after 9/11."
"I believe we are in the midst of a long struggle against murderous terrorists and a poisonous ideology that supports them," he told the World Economic Forum in Davos on returning.
Whilst: "We've successfully put pressure on al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan, so al-Qaida franchises have been growing for years in Yemen, in Somalia" and across parts of Africa he warned. His predecessor, "Peace Envoy" Tony Blair, wanted by lawyers and others worldwide for his Iraq lies, cheered on Britain in Mali from the television studios.
It now transpires that David Cameron relies on Blair, who may yet be headed for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, as, seemingly some sort of mentor, from whom, it is reported, he has been taking personal advice. The Chancellor, George Osborne, is reported as referring to Blair as "the master."
Cameron is quoted as being: "very admiring of Blair, whom he regards as a nice person and has conviction." With judgment like that there may be those who feel he would be dangerous in charge of a broom, yet alone a country.
Iraq's ruins, widows, orphans, three million dead, five million displaced are testimony to Blair's "conviction" and niceness, in this tenth anniversary of the invasion year and twenty second of the embargo, which Blair endorsed, helped sustain its strangulation, colluded with – with UK aircraft aiding the illegal US bombings, during his term in office, 1997-2007.
On Monday (4th February) David Cameron hosted Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan at a dinner at the Prime Ministerial country home, Chequers: "as part of his ongoing efforts to help to strengthen Afghanistan-Pakistan relations and promote regional peace and stability", according to The Independent.
It would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall as the canapés did the rounds. Ahead of this much touted mini summit, President Karzai gave lengthy interviews to the Guardian and ITN. It was to put it mildly, a bit of a broadside:
"In 2002 through 2006, Afghanistan had a lot better security. When we had our own presence there, with very little foreign troops, schools were open in Helmand and life was more secure", said the President.
Moreover, whilst he appreciated "the sacrifices" and "contributions" of the British forces: " … we also would like our allies in the west to recognise the immense sacrifices of the Afghan people in the last ten years, the immense loss of life and the suffering that the Afghan people put up with …"
Acknowledging corruption within the Afghan government and its agencies (indeed the allegations leveled at his own family and connections are a litany) he stated that: "in comparison to the corruption coming through the international donor contracts, and the way the money was spent (it was) really insignificant." He gave examples.
Asked about the attacks by Afghan troops on coalition forces, he said it "pained" his Administration as a "serious breach of hospitality" for which Afghanistan is known, but: " …there has to be a lot more cultural sensitivity by our allies when they send troops to Afghanistan. Plus much more."
Given night raids, wholesale destruction of lives, livelihoods, homes, terrorism by Drones, his restraint was commendable, the more so since he and colleagues survived a US "friendly fire" missile attack in 2001, suffering serious injuries, his also involving damage to facial nerves, still sometimes noticeable.
Asked what stood in the way of progress in Afghanistan: "The risk is continuation of foreign interference …" Further: "The exit of foreign forces will not bring more violence … but a serious, strong, good reduction in violence will occur." Earlier he had said: "On our own, as Afghans, we will be good. It's the external factors that will determine the extent of progress and stability or the lack of it."
On the planned departure of western troops from Afghanistan one comment was that perhaps the reason was: " …that they have felt that there was no fight in Afghanistan from the very first day, that terrorism was not in Afghanistan to be found, that they had to go to the (Taliban's) sanctuaries long time back, that they didn't do that and since they cannot do that even today there is no point for them to stay in Afghanistan, so they would like to leave …" Ouch.
(It should be said that in the mid-nineties Karzai not only worked with the Taliban, but they asked him to be their Ambassador to the United Nations.)
In a long interview there are certainly some enlightening lines. US and UK "progress" and conquest of "hearts and minds" over twelve years in Afghanistan seems to lie buried in that "graveyard of empires."
The US is committed to "an enduring presence" in Afghanistan (it's the minerals, stupid.) So far Hamid Karzai is talking a conciliatory line. They would perhaps be confined to the odd base, but in no towns or villages. Mr Karzai seems like a man who is capable of changing his mind.
It is to be hoped nothing went wrong with the menu of that bridge-building Prime Ministerial dinner. Britain has had another major food scandal, with horsemeat found in beefburgers – and pork in halal meat. Hope none found its way to Chequers to round off Cameron's latest accident prone couple of weeks.
– Felicity Arbuthnot is a freelance journalist specializing in social and environmental issues with a special knowledge of Iraq. She contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.


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Data Management Plan
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Data Management Plan
DMP Template v2.0.1 (2015-01-01)
Please provide the following information, and submit to the NOAA DM Plan Repository.Reference to Master DM Plan (if applicable)
As stated in Section IV, Requirement 1.3, DM Plans may be hierarchical. If this DM Plan inherits provisions from a higher-level DM Plan already submitted to the Repository, then this more-specific Plan only needs to provide information that differs from what was provided in the Master DM Plan.
1. General Description of Data to be Managed
These data were created as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management's efforts to create an online mapping viewer called the Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer. It depicts potential sea level rise and its associated impacts on the nation's coastal areas. The purpose of the mapping viewer is to provide coastal managers and scientists with a preliminary look at sea level rise and coastal flooding impacts. The viewer is a screening-level tool that uses nationally consistent data sets and analyses. Data and maps provided can be used at several scales to help gauge trends and prioritize actions for different scenarios. The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer may be accessed at: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr.
This metadata record describes the North Carolina, Northern digital elevation model (DEM), which is a part of a series of DEMs produced for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management's Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer described above. This DEM includes the best available lidar known to exist at the time of DEM creation that met project specifications. This DEM includes data for Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank, and Perquimans Counties.
The DEM was produced from the following lidar data sets:
1. 2014 NGS Coastal Mapping Program Topobathy Lidar: Post-Sandy Atlantic Seaboard
2. 2014 NC Statewide Lidar - Phase 1
The DEM is referenced vertically to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) with vertical units of meters and horizontally to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The resolution of the DEM is approximately 3 meters.
Notes: Only a maximum of 4000 characters will be included.
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(e.g., satellite, airplane, unmanned aerial system, radar, weather station, moored buoy, research vessel, autonomous underwater vehicle, animal tagging, manual surveys, enforcement activities, numerical model, etc.)
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Program Managers, or their designee, shall be responsible for assuring the proper management of the data produced by their Program. Please indicate the responsible party below.
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Programs must identify resources within their own budget for managing the data they produce.
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NOAA has issued Information Quality Guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information which it disseminates.
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Process Steps:
- 2016-01-01 00:00:00 - The source elevation datasets listed above were identified, downloaded, edited, and finalized.
- 2016-01-01 00:00:00 - Source elevation data and their associated hydro-breaklines, where available, were downloaded. Data were then reviewed and edited to meet the project's requirements. The major requirements were delineating streams 10m or greater in width, removing bridges over streams greater than 10m wide, flattening inland water bodies, and converting data referenced to an older geoid to the current geoid, Geoid 12B. NOAA's VDatum datum conversion tool was used to convert geoids. Ocean-connected water areas were removed from data prior to final mosaicking. Data were then mosaicked together based on date, with the most recent data taking priority. Ocean-connected water areas were given a value of -99 to standardize this area's value across sources, to flatten water for mapping, and to make it easy for users to remove ocean-connected water if desired.
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- 1.7. Data collection method(s)
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- 4.2. Approximate percentage of the budget for these data devoted to data management
- 5.2. Quality control procedures employed
- 7.1. Do these data comply with the Data Access directive?
- 7.1.1. If data are not available or has limitations, has a Waiver been filed?
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- 7.3. Data access methods or services offered
- 7.4. Approximate delay between data collection and dissemination
- 8.1. Actual or planned long-term data archive location
- 8.3. Approximate delay between data collection and submission to an archive facility
- 8.4. How will the data be protected from accidental or malicious modification or deletion prior to receipt by the archive?
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NAO 212-15 states that access to environmental data may only be restricted when distribution is explicitly limited by law, regulation, policy (such as those applicable to personally identifiable information or protected critical infrastructure information or proprietary trade information) or by security requirements. The EDMC Data Access Procedural Directive contains specific guidance, recommends the use of open-standard, interoperable, non-proprietary web services, provides information about resources and tools to enable data access, and includes a Waiver to be submitted to justify any approach other than full, unrestricted public access.
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The NOAA Procedure for Scientific Records Appraisal and Archive Approval describes how to identify, appraise and decide what scientific records are to be preserved in a NOAA archive.
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Discuss data back-up, disaster recovery/contingency planning, and off-site data storage relevant to the data collection
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