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HONG KONG – World stock markets fell Thursday, with Japan's Nikkei index losing over 3 percent, amid doubts that U.S. rescue plans costing trillions of dollars will soon restore the health of the world's largest economy.
Investors seemed more wary than relieved after U.S. lawmakers finally agreed overnight to a $790 billion stimulus bill designed to pull the economy out of recession by creating jobs through spending and tax cuts. President Barack Obama could sign the measure within days.
The news came a day after the Obama administration's newly revised program to bail out the financial sector with some $2 trillion in funding met with widespread skepticism. Investors criticized the plan for what they said was a lack of specifics.
With economies in the U.S. and elsewhere still showing signs of stress, investors are increasingly pessimistic about the ability of governments to turn around the global economy anytime soon.
"The problem is the U.S. is such a big hole. People are afraid that even more trillions of dollars will not help much," said Francis Lun, general manager of Fulbright Securities Ltd. in Hong Kong. "What they've done doesn't seem to have worked so far. We are facing another crisis, the banks are still insolvent and the economy isn't getting better."
As trading underway in Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 was down 0.8 percent, Germany's DAX lost 1.8 percent and France's CAC 40 shed 1.5 percent. U.S. futures were down, suggesting a lower open on Wall Street. Dow futures fell 58 points, or 0.7 percent, to 7,838 and S&P500 futures slipped 7.6, or 0.9 percent, to 823.90.
In Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei stock average tumbled 240.58 points, or 3 percent, to 7,705.36 — the lowest in nearly three months — as Japan's market caught up with region-wide losses Wednesday after being closed for a national holiday. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 310.91 points, or 2.3 percent, to 13,228.30.
South Korea's Kospi lost 0.9 percent, Shanghai's main index was off 0.6 percent and Taiwan's benchmark retreated 2.4 percent. However, Australia's key stock measure gained 1.2 percent.
Several markets recovered some of their losses by the afternoon as investors digested major corporate and economic news.
Aluminum Corp. of China, the world's biggest aluminum producer, announced it was investing some $19.5 billion in global miner Rio Tinto Group — China's biggest overseas investment ever. The state-controlled Chinese company, also known as Chinalco, will take a bigger stake in the Australian firm by setting up a joint venture and purchasing convertible bonds.
The deal, coming at a time when China's economy is being squeezed by the global economic crunch, reflects Beijing's determination to line up future resources it needs to sustain economic growth. It will also help Rio Tinto pay down some of its nearly $39 billion in debt.
The company's shares jumped 5.6 percent in Shanghai, but lost 4.8 percent in Hong Kong. Shanghai and Hong Kong price moves often differ, with mainland China's markets strongly reflecting local sentiment because they are largely closed to foreigners.
Also in China, new figures showed Chinese banks extended a record 1.62 trillion yuan ($237 billion) in loans in January, more than double the year before, as lenders heeded government calls to loosen credit controls to help revive the economy. Facing an abrupt slowdown due to plunging demand for China's exports, regulators have sought to boost liquidity after years of trying to rein in lending.
Elsewhere, South Korea's central bank Thursday cut its key interest rate to a record low 2 percent from 2.5 percent to boost the country's fast-fading economy. As with other export-driven Asian economies, South Korea has been hit by declines in global consumer demand. Its exports plunged a record 32.8 percent in January.
Overnight in New York, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 50.65, or 0.6 percent, to 7,939.53 in a choppy a session as investors digested the flood of news coming from Washington.
Broader stock indicators also rose. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 6.58, or 0.80 percent, to 833.74, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 5.77, or 0.4 percent, to 1,530.50.
Oil prices rebounded slightly after a steep fall overnight, with light, sweet crude for March delivery up 21 cents at $36.15 a barrel in Asian trade. The contract shed $1.99 to settle at $35.94 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Wednesday.
In currencies, the dollar weakened to 89.91 yen, down from 90.30 yen, and the euro traded at $1.2860 compared to $1.2881.


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It's a Saturday morning, late in the semester, and you're here for a scholarly conference? I love you guys! Welcome to the club of freaks and geeks who pursue scholarship as a way of life.
I hope that's a club you want to join (granted, there are Woody Allenish worries in the ballpark here). I hope you're here contributing to the conversation because curiosity gives you an adrenalin rush, because generating new knowledge makes your heart sing. Because the life of scholarship is not something that should be instrumentalized for other ends; nor should it be reduced to a particular profession; scholarship is a way of life--one I hope you'll pursue in your years ahead even if you never go to grad school or entertain becoming a professor or professional "scholar."
The scholarly life is its own reward: it is a good life--it is the sort of reflective pursuit that has been valorized by the ancients. It is also the sort of life that is increasingly difficult to sustain in a sound-bite culture of perpetual distraction. In the age of the Kardashians and iPhone Twitter feeds, finding joy in the slow-food of scholarly reflection is a counter-cultural pursuit.
Let me highlight three joys of scholarship as a way of life.
The Joy of Finding: Seeing New Corners of the World
The scholarly life is its own reward: joys of being a perpetual student (cp. my own continued experience of the joy of discovery, e.g., in returning to Jonathan Edwards' Freedom of the Will this past semester; I love teaching what I don't know!).
Don't let initiation into the guild beat that out of you. Build habits that will continue to propel you into new arenas in your future.
The Joy of Making: Unpacking the Potential of the World
We might be wrongly tempted to think of scholarship as a very passive way of life: observing, analyzing, describing, criticizing. But in fact scholarship is a fundamentally creative way of life: it certainly requires us to be attentive and attuned to the world--to texts that are in front of us, to slides under the microscope, to data generated by experiments, etc. Scholarship makes us accountable to a world. But if we are really doing scholarship, then we are not just passive consumers of information, nor are we merely passive observers. By posing questions and confirming hypotheses and arguing with the literature and making an argument, we are making. We are unfurling more of the potential that is latent in the world, unpacking new possibilities. Scholarship is a mode of poiesis, of making, creating. It is a generative way of life. Good scholarship is not unlike good craftsmanship: there is a special joy in the product of our labor.
And let's remember: you don't have to be in a lab or a studio or a library to be doing this. The best entrepreneurs are some of our best scholars. A scholarly way of life contributes to culture and the common good.
The Joy of Collaborating
You might be tempted to picture scholars holed up in their offices or studios or laboratories, sequestered from the world, hunched over as they work in isolation. But the scholarly way of life is richest and most innovative when it is pursued collaboratively, through "wisdom networks" and in life-giving teams. Ideas percolate communally.
-Jon Gertner's new book about Bell Labs, The Idea Factory, who shows us that "most sustained feats of innovation cannot and do not occur in an iconic garage or the workshop of an ingenuous inventor. They occur when people of diverse talents and mind-sets and expertise are brought together, preferable in close physical proximity where they can have frequent meetings and serendipitous encounters" (Isaacson). This has found expression in recent architecture for research facilities (Per Paul Goldberger's analysis in "Laboratory Conditions," New Yorker, Sept. 19, 2011, pp. 88-89).
This week I've had two wonderful interactions: with Jim Olthuis, my advisor through my master's degree and long-time mentor; and with Nathan Sytsma, a former student who worked as my MacGregor Fellow. As a scholar, there is a unique joy in being both a "son" and a "father."
A scholarly way of life is fundamentally collaborative--fostered in a community of friendship. So remember your mentors and pay your debts: build into the lives of others; contribute to a team; mentor someone, explore and think and create alongside others.
To say that scholarship is a way of life is to emphasize that it is characterized by certain habits--of reflection, exploration, creativity, and collaboration. These are habits that you have already learned and valued (you're here on a Saturday morning, for goodness sake!). As move beyond your undergraduate education, resist the siren calls that would lure you away from this way of life.
For some reason, this brings to mind one of my favorite passages from Plato--a passage that called me to the way of life of a scholar:
"This much I ask of them: when my sons grow up, avenge yourselves by causing them thte same kind of grief that I caused you, if you think they care for money or anything else more than they care for virtue, or if they think they are somebody when they are nobody. Reproach them as I reproach you, that they do not care for the right things and think they are worthy when they are not worthy of anything. If you do this, I shall have been justly treated by you, and my sons also." -Socrates in Apology, 41e-42a


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The White House says President Obama intends to nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve, once Ben Bernanke completes his term in January.
If confirmed, Yellen, 67, would be the first woman to head the American central bank.
Obama is scheduled to make the announcement at 3 p.m. ET. Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
"The nomination would conclude a long and unusually public debate about Mr. Obama's choice which started last June when he said that Ben Bernanke wouldn't be staying in the post after his term ends in January.
"Mr. Obama gave serious consideration to his former economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, who pulled out in September after facing resistance from Democrats in the Senate."
Yellen has served as vice chairwoman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System since 2010. She had previously served as the CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010 and as governor of the Federal Reserve Board during the Clinton years.
Bernanke has served as chief at the Fed since 2006.
Update at 7:43 p.m. ET. 'Good, Solid, Safe':
"She's a good, solid, safe choice," Bob McTeer, who served as the Dallas Fed Chief and is now a distinguished fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank, tells our Newscast unit.
Yellen, said McTeer, will certainly be less colorful and less exciting a choice than Summers would have been, but she is capable and already "very popular" within the Federal Reserve system.
Yellen, said McTeer, is the "expected" choice. She worked "hand-in-glove" with Bernanke and "most of Washington will recognize that Mr. Bernanke has done an excellent job in steering us away from a second Great Depression back in '08 or '09."
McTeer served with Yellen for a number of years and he says that she's a "very deliberate speaker," who has "all her material thought-out and written-out in advance and some people may find it a little bit tedious."
Update at 7:15 p.m. ET. Decides When To Taper:
The New York Times reports that, if confirmed, Yellen's first test would be to decide when to begin winding down the Fed's economic stimulus. The paper reports that Yellen worked hand-in-hand with Fed Chief Ben Bernanke to institute the policy.
The Times adds:
"If anything, Ms. Yellen has wanted the Fed to take even more aggressive measures to lift economic growth, believing the risks of inflation are modest. But her views and Mr. Bernanke's appear close enough that markets have considered her potential ascension as a sign of continuity at the Fed."
Bloomberg reports that Yellen has made the case for maintaing highly-accommodative monetary policy for the foreseeable future. In 2012 speeches, she said the Fed could keep interest rates at historic, near-zero levels into 2015.
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We've got some more Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release news for you today...
To start… 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has just officially announced Kingsman: The Golden Circle for release on all three disc formats on 12/12, confirming information we've posted based on retail sources. Extras on both Blu-ray versions will include the 9-part Kingsman: Inside the Golden Circle documentary (which includes Distilling the Story: Kingsman Returns, Trafficker, Tailor, Southerner, Spy, Poppy's Special Guest: Elton John, Nefarious Lairs & High-Falutin' Headquarters, Suited and Booted, Weapons of Choice, Brothers in Arms, Doomsday Protocol: Visual Effects, and End Game), the Black Cab Chaos: Anatomy of a Killer Chase featurette, and the Kingsman Archives gallery of concept art and still photos. Note that the 4K disc will also include Dolby Atmos audio. That same day, you'll also be able to get the Kingsman: 2-Movie Collection on both Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD, which will package The Golden Circle with Kingman: The Secret Service. We have updated our 4K Ultra HD Release List here at The Digital Bits accordingly. [Read on here…]
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- Kingsman: The Golden Circle 4K
- Kingsman: 2 Film Collection 4K
- Colossus: The Forbin Project
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- Criterion Night of the Living Dead
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- The Plague Dogs
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- The Night Walker
- Drag Me to Hell: Collector's Edition
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In two days I'll be going to India, my last trip there was 6 years ago, and from what I hear, things have already dramatically changed since then.
What I'm mainly interested to see is how the rising middle class is affecting the country. Is it like the rise of the massive middle class in the U.S. in the 1950's, or is it different?
While I'm there I'll try to visit some of the massive call centers I hear so much about, perhaps make a few contacts. Some of the best engineering talent in the world is in India, so some interesting things must be happening there regarding entrepreneurship. This is a democratic country with tons of talent being used to develop tons of large scale projects, so it's inevitable that Indian entrepreneurs will spring up all over the place. I'd like to meet some of these people.
Some questions I'll ask myself while there:
-What brand of cars are becoming prevalent? Fiats dominated the road last time I visited.
-Last time I went, disposal waste per household was extremely low. I remember one guy with a small basket picking up the garbage for every household in an entire colony (equivalent to an apartment complex). Hardly anything was wasted. How has that changed with modern packaging techniques, fast food etc?
-How easy/hard is it to get an internet connection and power outlet for my laptop over there? Is it expensive?
-Cell phone usage?
-Adjusted price comparison of a Big Mac in the United States and India. Over there It's actually called a Maharaja Mac and is made with lamb or chicken instead of Beef. McDonald's got in some trouble for serving beef.
-Attitudes towards the United States?
I'm also highly interested to see if the level of corruption has gone down, as this is one of the more powerful issues I see holding India back.
The way of doing business there is entrenched in bribes and "Bonuses", many which are now considered a normal part of doing business. The sad thing is the people who enforce the law are involved too, so people are forced to continue the system of bribes in order to get anything done.
For example: If you open a restaurant and need a liquor license, let's just say unless you pay someone a very large "gratuity" for their work, your license won't show up for the next 10 years.
This also happens on a smaller scale. For example: If you want to park your car in a no parking zone, an officer will ticket or tow your car unless you "encourage" the officer not to with a monetary incentive.
I also want to try some sort of money experiment while in India. With the sheer amount of poor people already trying to sell stuff, I don't know if my bottled water experiment would fly over there, so I'll have to look for something else!


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SARBEX 2004 was officiated by the Minister of Housing, YB Dato Sri
Abang Haji Abdul Rahman Zohari Bin Tun Abang Haji Openg. No shit,
that's his full name. I'm thinking I should get a longer name myself,
so that people won't be able to say it without having to pause for a
breath of air midway. 😉
There was much fanfare…okay, the usual ribbon cutting and tour, that's all. Let's move on.
Complimentary food was provided by a catering service, one of whom
had the misfortune of meeting a concrete support pillar, but we already
talked about that yesterday. Just watch out for lorries. 😉
The food is typical expo fare…the cups and saucers, ready to be
filled with coffee or tea, sandwiches and plates lined with disposable
There's fried beehoon (rice vermicelli) and a very strange mixture of vegetables (top).
Chicken wings are also available, as well as curry puffs (top) and beef slices in a bun (far right).
The bastard son of the salmon-egg sandwich also makes an appearance,
with its unorthodox green (pandan bread), spotted white (raisin bread)
and brown (chocolate bread) layers. It's also available in ye ol' pure
white variety, for the ones who prefer to stick to tradition.
The tastiest offering in the free brunch is located under a big
wooden cock, which is guarding over the food. Or maybe it was a
hornbill, I can't tell the difference.
It's that plate with the triple dessert arrangements. The outer ring
is made of a white, chewy kueh wrapped in pandan leaves, and the middle
has half of some kind of pinkish kueh which is soft and dusted with
coconut and the other containing tapioca mixed with some kind of sweet
milky thing. It's great!
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Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Policymakers Err Time and Again about Classroom Teaching
As a result of living in a different world than teachers do, policymakers make a serious error. Too often, they confuse teacher quality with teaching quality, that is, the personal traits of teachers—dedicated, caring, gregarious, intellectually curious—produce student learning rather than looking to the context teachers inhabit, that is the school and classroom settings.
Of course, both are important. But policymakers and their influential camp followers have accentuated personal traits far more than the organizational and social contexts in which teachers teach daily. So, if students score low on tests, then who the teachers are, their personal traits, credentials, and attitudes come under close scrutiny, rather than the age-graded school, the regularities in daily practices that accompany this organization, neighborhood demography, workplace conditions, and resources that support teaching. The person overshadows the place.[i]
In attributing far more weight to individual teacher traits rather than seriously considering the situation in which teachers teach, civic policymakers (I include school boards, mayors, state and federal officials) end up having a cramped view of teaching quality. Quality teaching is complex because an essential distinction is masked: the difference between "good" teaching and "successful" teaching. Both "good" and " successful" teaching are necessary to reach the threshold of quality instruction and student learning. To lead us through the thicket of complex concepts, I lean on Gary Fenstermacher and Virginia Richardson's analysis of quality teaching.[ii]
"Good" teaching is about the how and what of teaching. For example, the task of getting a child to understand the theory of evolution (or the Declaration of Independence or prime numbers) in a considerate and age-appropriate way consistent with best practices in the field is "good" teaching. "Successful" teaching, however, is about what the child learns. For example, getting the same child to write three paragraphs in class (not courtesy of a chatbot) filled with relevant details and present-day examples that demonstrate understanding of the theory of evolution or the Declaration of Independence is "successful" teaching. Ditto for a student able to show that she knows prime numbers by completing Eratosthenes Sieve. "Good" and "successful" teaching, then, are not the same nor does one necessarily lead to the other.
Does that last sentence mean that "good" teaching may not automatically lead to "successful" teaching? Yes, one does not necessarily produce the other. How can that be?
Fenstermacher and Richardson point out that learning, like teaching, can also be distinguished between "good" and "successful." The above examples of student demonstrating proficiency on the theory of evolution, the Declaration of Independence, and prime numbers demonstrate "successful" learning.
"Good" learning, however, requires other factors to be in place. "Good" learning occurs when the student is willing to learn and puts forth effort, the student's family, peers, and community support learning, the student has the place, time, and resources to learn, and, finally, "good" teaching.
In short, "good" teaching is one of four necessary components to "good" learning. In making this mistake, policymakers unintentionally snooker the public by squishing together "good" teaching and "successful" learning ad ignoring other key variables. In In doing so, policymakers erase three critical factors that are equally important in getting students to learn: the student's own effort, support of family and peers, and the opportunity to learn in school. "No excuses" reformers glide over these other factors critical to learning (see here). Current hoopla over paying teachers for their performance based on student test scores is an expression of this conflation of "good" teaching with "successful" learning and the ultimate deceiving of parents, voters, and students that "good" teaching naturally leads to "successful" learning.
Not only does this policymaker error about quality classroom instruction confuse the personal traits of the teacher with teaching, it also nurtures a heroic view of school improvement where superstars (e.g., Geoffrey Canada in "Waiting for Superman," Jaime Escalante of "Stand and Deliver", Erin Gruwell of "Freedom Writers") labor day in and day out to get their students to ace AP Calculus tests and become accomplished writers and achieve in Harlem schools. Neither doctors, lawyers, soldiers, nor nuclear physicists can depend upon superstars among them to get their important work done every day. Nor should all teachers have to be heroic. Policymakers attributing quality far more to individual traits in teachers than to the context in which they teach leads to squishing "good" teaching with "successful" learning doing even further collateral damage to the profession by setting up the expectation that only heroes need apply.
By stripping away from "good" learning essential factors of students' motivation, the contexts in which they live, and the opportunities they have to learn in school–federal, state, and district policymakers inadvertently twist the links between teaching and learning into a simpleminded formula thereby mis-educating the public they serve while encouraging a generation of idealistic newcomers to become classroom heroes who end up deserting schools in wholesale numbers within a few years because they come to understand that "good" teaching does not lead automatically to "successful" learning. Fenstermacher and Richardson help us parse "quality teaching" into distinctions between "good" and "successful" teaching and learning while revealing clearly the error that policymakers have made and continue to do so.
[i] Mary Kennedy,"Attribution Error and the Quest for Teacher Quality," Educational Researcher, 2010, 39(8), pp. 591-598.
[ii] Gary Fenstermacher and Virginia Richardson, "On Making Determinations of Quality in Teaching," Teachers College Record, 2005, 107, pp. 186-213.
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There is more way to sell your house in San Antonio. A direct home sale will save you time and money as compared to a traditional listing with an agent. Learn more about how easy the process can be in our latest post!
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With a direct sale to Texas All Cash, you will avoid all of the costs you might incur with an agent. You will not have to worry about paying expensive agent commisions or miscellaneous fees. Some agents will charge administrative fees, so make sure you know exactly what your agent costs will be if you decide to sign a listing agreement.
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Most professional home buyers and investors will buy your house as-is. This will save you money you would normally be paying up front to get the house ready for the MLS. In addition, buyers will try to negotiate additional repairs after the home inspection has been completed.
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When we say we buy as-is, we mean it. Moving can be stressful enough. You don't have to spend your time cleaning either now, or for the next few months while it's listed. Getting a house ready for the market typically requires a bit more than your standard clean-up. When listing, you will need to get it photo ready. And for property showings, your agent is likely to recommend a professional deep cleaning of the house, carpets, etc. You should also consider the exterior of the house. Landscaping and curb appeal should be kept up throughout the entire listing process.
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When you list your house, there are marketing fees that will need to be covered. Some agents include this in their service. However, many others will hit you up for photography fees, listing fees and costs to advertise the house on certain real estate websites. Sometimes you will even find yourself covering the costs or signage and items for an open house. Before signing a contract with an agent, make sure you understand what's included.
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Most agents will recommend you remove all clutter and personal belongings from the home. This includes paperwork, personal photos, and clutter of any sort. Think about real estate listings you have seen. Often times the listing showing cluttered photos are overlooked. We tend to keep scrolling until we see homes that look catalog worthy. Sometimes, this can be beneficial as you will get a head start on packing. However, it can also make you feel like you are living in a hotel and not your own home. In addition, you need a place to put all your stuff. You might find yourself with the additional cost of renting a storage unit until your home is sold and you have moved on to something else.
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With the development of LTE networks, LTE Advanced is now becoming the mainstream. So the LTE-A WiFi Routers are more and more popular, which would provide faster speed than that on LTE category 3 or LTE category 4. Huawei E5186 is the world's first LTE-A router and was very popular in 2016 and 2017. Now the new upgraded Huawei B715 router is available. In this article, we will compare Huawei E5186 and B715 router to see what the difference between the two routers is and which one is better.
Huawei B715 VS E5186 Appearance and Interfaces
Since Huawei LTE CPE E5186 was popular in Europe and Australia in past two years, many people may know it well. Like many other Huawei stationary routers, there are few indicators on the front, such as Power, Mode, WiFi, Voice, Signal. And Huawei logo is in the middle front face. On the back, there are 4 LAN ports (one for LAN/WAN), two RJ11 Telephone port, and USB 2.0 port available. The power switch on/off button is also lined with the interfaces. Huawei Router B715 also has 4 LAN ports (One for LAN/WAN), but it has only one telephone port with the USB 2.0 port. They both use Micro SIM card size. The difference is that the SIM card of Huawei E5186 is located on the edge side while Huawei B715 router has the SIM card slot at the bottom. And they both have two SMA connectors for an external antenna. If you would buy 4G LTE Antenna with two SMA connectors, you can switch the internal antenna to external antenna in the web interface.
Huawei E5186 VS B715 Specs and variant models
The predecessor Huawei B593 LTE router has more than 10 variant models. Unlike Huawei 4G CPE B593, Huawei E5186 has two variant models: Huawei E5186s-61a and E5186s-22a, even though it's available for two years. The Huawei B715 was presented to market since the end of 2017, so it has only one sub-model Huawei B715s-23c. In the table below, you will see the details specs and features of Huawei B715 and E5186:
Model | Huawei B715s-23c | Huawei E5186s-22a/E5186s-61a |
Product type | LTE WiFi Router | LTE WiFi Router |
Category | LTE Cat.9 | LTE Cat.6 |
Chipset | ? | HiSilicon LTE Cat6 Chipset |
Data rates | DL 450Mbps/UL 50Mbps | DL 300Mbps/UL 50Mbps |
Supported 4G LTE frequency bands | LTE B1, B3, B7, B8, B20, B28, B32, B38 | E5186s-22a: Band 1/3/7/8/20/38 E5186s-61a: Band 3/7/28/40 |
WLAN | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band 2.4GHz & 5GHz | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band 2.4GHz & 5GHz |
Max support users | 64 users | 64 users |
MIMO | 4 X 4 MIMO | 2 x 2 MIMO |
Connector for external antenna | Two, SMA-female jacks | Two, SMA-female jacks |
App management | Huawei Hilink APP | Huawei Hilink APP |
SIM type | Micro SIM | Micro SIM |
Battery | NO | NO |
Dimensions | 240mm × 448mm × 47mm | 190 mm × 200 mm × 32 mm |
Interfaces | * 1 x power adapter port * 3 x LAN port(45) * 1 x LAN/WAN port (45) * 1 x telephone port(RJ11) * Two external LTE antenna ports (SMA-J1.5) * One micro-SIM card slot * 1 x USB 2.0 port |
* 3 x LAN port(45) * 1 x LAN/WAN port (45) * 2 x telephone port(RJ11) * Two external LTE antenna ports (SMA-J1.5) * One micro-SIM card slot * 1 x USB 2.0 port |
Datasheet | Huawei B715 Datasheet(PDF) | Huawei E5186 Datasheet(PDF) |
User Manual | Huawei B715 User Manual(PDF) | Huawei E5186 User Manual(PDF) |
Other features | VPN, VoLTE, IPv4 /IPv6 dual stack, DMZ, Port forwarding | Firewall, CS Voice, VoIP, TR069 Remote Management, HTTP Online Upgrade, QoS, USB Share, UPnP, IPV6, DLNA, Fax, Print, VPN |
Price | 399.00USD | 259.00USD |
It's obvious to see that the Huawei B715s-23c router is more advanced than Huawei E5186. The Huawei E5186 supports LTE category 6 technology which could achieve download speed up to 300Mbps, which is good for most people in daily life. However, the more advanced Huawei B715 would support peak download speed up to 450Mbps, which is 1.5 times faster than that of E5186. Although we didn't know the chipset model of Huawei B715, the Huawei B715 seems powerful on the LTE technology, including carrier aggregation, 4 x 4 MIMO, TDD&FDD networks support. So you want to buy a better Huawei LTE-A router, it's no doubt that Huawei B715 is the right model. However, as we said, the Huawei E5186 is enough for most cases in daily life or small office. With budget price, if you want to get a decent router without a high price, Huawei E5186 is highly recommended. It's popular in the past two years and gains high praise from thousands of users worldwide.


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Some of the most common concerns for parents of adolescents are tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. The pressure to experiment with these substances can come from friends and peers. If you suspect your child is using these substances, open a discussion about the dangers involved with using tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. Here are some key points you should try to emphasize:
Smoking can turn into a lifelong addiction that can be extremely hard to break. Discuss with your adolescent some of the more undesirable effects of smoking, including bad breath, stained teeth, wrinkles, a long-term cough, and decreased athletic performance. Long-term use can also lead to serious health problems like emphysema and cancer.
Chew or snuff can also lead to nicotine addiction and causes the same health problems as smoking cigarettes. In addition, mouth wounds or sores can form and may not heal easily. Smokeless tobacco can also lead to cancer.
If you suspect your teen is smoking or using smokeless tobacco, talk to your pediatrician. Schedule a visit with her doctor when you and your daughter can discuss the risks associated with smoking and the best ways to quit before it becomes a lifelong habit.
If you or someone else in the household smokes, now is a good time to quit. Watching a parent struggle through the process of quitting can be a powerful message for a teen who is thinking about starting. It also shows that you care about your health, as well as your teen's.
Alcohol is the most socially accepted drug in our society, and also one of the most abused and destructive. Even small amounts of alcohol can impair judgment, provoke risky and violent behavior, and slow down reaction time. An intoxicated teen (or anyone else) behind the wheel of a car makes it a lethal weapon. Alcohol-related car crashes are the leading cause of death for young adults, aged 15 to 24 years.
Though it's illegal for people younger than 21 to drink, we all know that most teens are not strangers to alcohol. Many of them are introduced to alcohol during childhood. If you choose to use alcohol in your home, be aware of the example you set for your teen. The following suggestions may help:
Your child may be interested in using drugs other than tobacco and alcohol, including marijuana and cocaine, to fit in or as a way to deal with peer pressure. Try to help your adolescent build her self-confidence or self-esteem. Ask her also about any concerns and problems she is facing and help her learn how to deal with strong emotions and cope with stress in ways that are healthy. For instance, encourage her to participate in leisure and outside activities with teens who don't drink and use drugs.


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We are disappointed that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has chosen to yet again distort the science behind human-caused climate change and global warming in their recent editorial "Kyoto By Degrees" (6/21/05) (subscription required).
Last week, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and 10 other leading world bodies expressed the consensus view that "there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring" and that "It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities". And just last week, USA Today editorialized that "not only is the science in, it is also overwhelming".
It is puzzling then that the WSJ editors could claim that "the scientific case….looks weaker all the time".
While we resist commenting on policy matters (e.g. the relative merits of the Kyoto Protocol or the various bills before the US Senate), we will staunchly defend the science against distortions and misrepresentations, be they intentional or not. In this spirit, we respond here to the scientifically inaccurate or incorrect assertions made in the editorial.
Since that Byrd-Hagel vote eight years ago, the case for linking fossil fuels to global warming has, if anything, become even more doubtful.
This statement stands in stark opposition to the actual findings of the world scientific community (e.g. the various National Academies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)), and the vast majority of actual peer-reviewed scientific studies.
The Earth currently does seem to be in a warming period, though how warm and for how long no one knows.
If we interpret to "know" as "is judged to be the case based on the available evidence", the statement is patently false. As detailed in previous discussions at RealClimate (see here and here and here) it is the consensus of the scientific community, based on more than a dozen independent studies using both empirical data and theoretical models (including the most recent studies in Nature and Science), that average surface temperatures over the Northern Hemisphere during the past few decades appear to be unprecedented in a very long term context, probably over at least the past 2000 years.
In particular, no one knows whether this is unusual or merely something that happens periodically for natural reasons.
This is incorrect. The natural causes of past climate variations are increasingly well-understood, and they cannot explain the recent global warming. As discussed elsewhere on this site, modeling studies indicate that the modest cooling of hemispheric or global mean temperatures during the 15th-19th centuries (relative to the warmer temperatures of the 11th-14th centuries) appears to have been associated with a combination of lowered solar irradiance and a particularly intense period of explosive volcanic activity. When these same models are forced with only natural radiative forcing during the 20th century [see e.g. Crowley (2000)] they actually exhibit a modest cooling trend. In other words, the same natural forcings that appear responsible for the modest large-scale cooling of the "Little Ice Age" should have lead to a cooling trend during the 20th century (some warming during the early 20th century arises from a modest apparent increase in solar irradiance at that time, but the increase in volcanism during the late 20th century leads to a net negative 20th century trend in natural radiative forcing). In short, given natural forcing factors alone, we should have basically remained in the "Little Ice Age". The only way to explain the upturn in temperatures during the 20th century, as shown by Crowley (2000) and many others, is indeed through the additional impact of anthropogenic (i.e., human) factors, on top of the natural factors.
Most global warming alarms are based on computer simulations that are largely speculative and depend on a multitude of debatable assumptions.
This is not correct. Concern about global warming is not based primarily on models, but rather on an understanding of the basic physics of the greenhouse effect and on observed data. We know from data that we have caused the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere to rise sharply during the past century: it is now much higher than any time during the past 650,000 years (which is as far back as reliable ice core data exist). And we know that this rise in CO2-concentration changes the radiation balance of the planet and leads to a warming of global surface temperature. This is scientifically undisputed and well-established physics, which has been known since in the year 1896 the Swedish Nobel prize winner Svante Arrhenius calculated the climatic effect of a rise in CO2.
Since there is a continued increase in emissions of (in particular) CO2, continued greenhouse warming is highly likely to continue. The models serve merely to quantify these basic facts more accurately, calculate the regional climate response, and compute effects (such as the expected increase in ocean heat content or sea level) which can be tested against observed data from the real world.
The editorial then returns to the issue of paleoclimate reconstructions and the so-called "Hockey Stick", repeating literally each of RealClimate's documented "Hockey Stick" myths:
Then there's the famous "hockey stick" data from American geoscientist Michael Mann. Prior to publication of Mr. Mann's data in 1998, all climate scientists accepted that the Earth had undergone large temperature variations within recorded human history.
The actual prevailing view of the paleoclimate research community that emerged during the early 1990s, when long-term proxy data became more widely available and it was possible to synthesize them into estimates of large-scale temperature changes in past centuries, was that the average temperature over the Northern Hemisphere varied by significantly less than 1 degree C in previous centuries (i.e., the variations in past centuries were small compared to the observed 20th century warming). This conclusion was common to numerous studies from the early and mid 1990s that preceeded Mann et al (1998). The Mann et al (1998) estimates of Northern Hemisphere average temperature change were, in fact, quite similar to those from these previous studies (e.g. Bradley and Jones, 1993; Overpeck et al, 1997), but simply extended the estimates a bit further back (from AD 1500 to AD 1400). In reality, the primary contribution of Mann et al (1998) was that it reconstructed the actual spatial patterns of past temperature variations, allowing insights into the complex patterns of cooling and warming in past centuries. In fact, regional temperatures changes (e.g. in Europe) appear to have been significantly larger, and quite different, from those for the Northern Hemisphere on the whole. Neglecting the significance of the large regional differences in past temperature changes is another classic pitfall in the arguments put forward by many climate change contrarians (see Myth #2 here).
The WSJ editorial continues,
This included a Medieval warm period when the Vikings farmed Greenland and a "little ice age" more recently when the Thames River often froze solid.
The sentence, first of all, perpetuates two well-known fallacies regarding the so-called "Medieval Warm Period" and "Little Ice Age". See the RealClimate discussions of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period for explanations of why both the Viking colonization of Greenland and the freezing of the River Thames actually tells us relatively little about past climate change.
The actual large-scale climate changes during these intervals were complicated, and not easily summarized by simple labels and cherry-picked anecdotes. Climate changes in past centuries were significant in some parts of the world, but they were often opposite (e.g. warm vs. cold) in different regions at any given time, in sharp contrast with the global synchrony of 20th century warming.
The WSJ then continue with a statement that is problematic on several levels,
Seen in that perspective, the slight warming believed to have occurred in the past century could well be no more than a natural rebound, especially since most of that warming occurred before 1940.
Firstly, the overall warming of the globe of nearly 1 degree C since 1900 is hardly "slight". That warming is about 1/5 of the total warming of the globe from the depths of the last Major Ice Age (about 20,000 years ago) to present.
Secondly, the argument that the climate should have naturally "rebounded" with warming during the 20th century defies the actual peer-reviewed scientific studies which, as discussed earlier, suggest that the climate should have actually cooled during the 20th century, not warmed, if natural factors were primarily at play. Anthropogenic greenhouse gases are required to explain the observed warming. Also, it is incorrect that most of the warming occurred before 1940; in contrast, the warming since 1970 is larger than that up to 1940.
The WSJ proceeds with the claim that key scientific findings that are common to numerous independent studies (specifically that late 20th century hemispheric warmth is anomalous in the context of past centuries) can somehow be pinned on one particular research group or even individual (see Hockey Stick Myth #1 here):
Enter Mr. Mann, who suggested that both the history books and other historical temperature data were wrong. His temperature graph for the past millennium was essentially flat until the 20th century, when a sharp upward spike occurs — i.e., it looks like a hockey stick. The graph was embraced by the global warming lobby as proof that we are in a crisis, and that radical solutions are called for.
This is patently incorrect.
The WSJ then echoes the final of the "Hockey Stick" myths discussed on RealClimate (see Myth #4 here), claiming that the "Hockey Stick" has now been discredited:
But then, in 2003, Canadian mathematician Stephen McIntyre and economist Ross McKitrick published a critique calling Mr. Mann's work riddled with "collation errors, unjustifiable truncations or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculations of principal components, and other quality control defects."
In fact, these claims have been demonstrated to be incorrect by an independent group of scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) . These authors have shown that the 'alternative' reconstruction promoted by McIntyre and McKitrick (which disagrees not only with the Mann et al reconstruction, but nearly a dozen independent reconstructions that agreee with the Mann et al reconstruction within statistical uncertainties) is the result of censoring of key data from the original Mann et al (1998) dataset. Unlike the original reconstruction of Mann et al (1998), the reconstruction that McIntyre and McKitrick produced using the censored data set fails standard statistical tests for validity, and, in the words of the NCAR group, is "shown to be without statistical and climatological merit".
Correct for those errors, they showed, and the Medieval warm period returns.
This is just bizarre. The claimed reconstruction of McIntyre and McKitrick, in fact, indicates anomalous warmth during the 15th century. This period doesn't fall even remotely within the interval commonly referred to as the "Medieval Warm Period" Instead, it actually falls within the heart of the "Little Ice Age" itself! The irony of contrarian supporters of the claims of McIntyre and McKitrick is that, if their reconstruction were valid (which it is not), it would actually argue for unusual warmth during the heart of the "Little Ice Age".
Mr. Mann has never offered a serious rebuttal to the McIntyre-McKitrick critique.
This is not true. In fact, Dr. Mann has demonstrated the falsehood of the various McIntyre and McKitrick claims in excruciating detail on RealClimate (see here and here). More significantly, however, McIntyre and McKitrick's claims have now been refuted by at least two independent teams of climate researchers (see here and here).
He has refused to fully explain his methodology.
Quite to the contrary, the methodology used was described in detail not just in the original 1998 publication, but in an expanded description provided last year on Nature's supplementary website. The original description was adequate for other researchers with appropriate training to closely reproduce both the algorithm and the published results. In fact, the NCAR researchers referred to above have made their code for implementing the Mann et al (1998) method publically available here. In the process (scroll down to bottom of this page) , they demonstrate the impacts of the numerous fundamental errors made by McIntyre and McKitrick. With this publically available code and data, anyone can reproduce and check the reconstruction of Mann et al (1998).
Meanwhile, a review of about 200 different temperature studies was published in 2003 by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the journal Climate Research. It likewise reaffirmed the longstanding consensus that there have been large temperature variations over the past millennium.
The irony here could not be more striking, for if the editors of the WSJ were familiar with the news reported by the WSJ, they surely should have been aware that the Soon and Baliunas study was discredited on the pages of the Wall Street Journal itself. Indeed, as described in that previous WSJ article, a team of leading climate researchers detailed the numerous fundamental flaws in the Soon and Baliunas paper in in the American Geophysical Union journal "Eos". This matter has been discussed elsewhere at great length, including previously on RealClimate both here and here (see "Myth #2").
computer models …suggest the upper atmosphere should have warmed substantially in recent decades. But data from weather balloons and satellites don't match the projections.
There is indeed a discrepency between some analyses (but not others) of the satellite data in the lower troposphere and model predictions, yet the satellite data continue to undergo quality checking and re-processing and there are a few indications (such as Fu and Johansen, 2005) that problems still exist. The jury is still out on this issue (but they may be about to come back in to the room).
There's also the matter of the alleged melting of the Antarctic ice cover, threatening a catastrophic sea level rise. In fact, recent data suggest the ice is thickening and temperatures are dropping in most of the continent.
Models actually predict that the interior of the ice sheets should gain mass because of the increased snowfall that goes along with warmer temperatures, and recent observations actually agree with those predictions. Some areas, such as the Antarctic peninsula and the West Antarctic ice sheet are losing mass, consistent with temperature trends there.
Finally, an increasing number of scientists are concluding that variations in solar radiation associated with sun spots — that's right, the heat of the sun — play a major role in Earth's climate.
Solar forcing of climate is indeed an important component, and in the pre-industrial period appears to explain a significant share of the century-scale variability (though there is large uncertainty in the magnitude of the effect). There is likely an increase in the early 20th Century as referred to above, however, since 1950 there is no evidence for increases in solar activity (most indices are flat) and so it is highly unlikely to be able to explain the bulk of the current warming trend.
The WSJ editors then try to reverse nearly two decades of scientific research by promoting a qualitative graph (which is not actually based on any real data) that was offered simply as a schematic by the IPCC back in 1990:
So what would be a fair representation of how most scientists view the climate of the past 1,000 years? We'd suggest the graph nearby, which we reprint exactly as it appeared in the first report of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (hardly a group of oil-funded hacks) in 1990. It shows that our own warming period is neither unique nor all that hot.
The WSJ may prefer to use 15 year-old guesses on which to base their opinion, but the scientific community has an understandable preference towards up-to-date and quantitified research.


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"You Complete Me" Interactive Exhibit Opens at NMU
MARQUETTE, Mich.—Northern Michigan University's DeVos Art Museum will present "You Complete Me: Mediating Relationships in Contemporary Art." The exhibit opens Monday, Oct. 1, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 11. Several events will occur in conjunction with the exhibit. All are free and will be held in the DeVos Art Museum unless otherwise noted.
Atlanta-based photographer Jill Frank, whose work is part of "You Complete Me," will speak at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5.
A listening party with Chicago-based InCUBATE and guest Eric May will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at Upfront and Company in downtown Marquette. This will be followed by a dance party with InCUBATE and May serving as DJs. InCUBATE is a research group dedicated to new approaches toward arts administration and funding. It is represented in the NMU exhibit.
A film screening of "twohundredfiftysixcolors" is scheduled at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20. The 16mm film is composed of animated gifs curated by Jason Lazarus, whose work is featured in the exhibit, and Eric Fleishauer. Both will discuss the film after the screening.
Reconfigured furniture pieces by NMU students and community members will be unveiled at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26. Chicago-based band the New Materialists will perform using musical instruments and technology based upon defunct furniture parts. The New Materialists' work is on display as part of the "You Complete Me" exhibition.
A poetry reading and open mic hosted by poet and The Grove Behind author Andrea Scarpino will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8. Scarpino is the creative dissertation coordinator at Union Institute and University's cohort doctorate program in interdisciplinary studies. She will read selections inspired by visual art and a poetry open mic will follow.
"You Complete Me" features works that can be completed only with the involvement of others. This causes the artists and artwork to become mediators, asking the viewer to negotiate their perspective by becoming part of the work.
DeVos Art Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday; noon to 8 p.m. Thursday; and 1-4 p.m. weekends. For more information, call 227-2235 or visit www.nmu.edu/DeVos.


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Pawcasso Lead
Pawcasso Lead
Introducing the 'Pawcasso' collection with subtle pastel brush strokes and tonal logo emblem - perfect for Spring / Summer!
Our printed leads are #matchinggoals when teamed with our harness or collar within the collection.
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- Printed pattern in woven material
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- D ring at handle base to attach poo bag holder
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HTC upgrades its fleet with new Desire S, Wildfire S and Incredible S
HTC has just announced 3 new phones at the MWC right after the Flyer Tablet.
The first is the Incredible S, With:
- 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 b
- 768MB of RAM
- 720p HD video
- 8 megapixel camera
- Dual-LED flash and autofocus
- 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera
- 1450mAh battery
- Resolution is 800 x 480.
Not too far Behind is the Desire S with
- 3.7-inch
- HTC Desire inside a new aluminum unibody shell
- 5 megapixel Camera
- MSM8255 chipset
- front-facing camera (1.3MP)
- 768MB of RAM
- 1450mAh battery
- Gingerbread (2.4)
And Finally the all new Wildfire S which is essentially the original Wildfire but with HVGA resolution and Android 2.3 Gingerbread preloaded.
All three devices to be available in the next quarter
Read the Full Press Release
HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S™ and HTC Incredible S™ deliver premium style, power and speed
BARCELONA, SPAIN – Mobile World Congress – February 15, 2011 – HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, today unveiled three new versions of its most popular and advanced smartphones – HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Incredible S. The new smartphones continue HTC's commitment to expanding the market for advanced smartphones while providing distinct choices in design, power and value. Each phone also includes HTC Sense, HTC's unique customer-focused user experience that puts people at the center by making phones work in a more simple and natural way.
"HTC developed the HTC Sense experience to bring cutting-edge innovation to our customers in simple and natural ways that just make sense – this is what HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Incredible S represent best," said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. "These new phones offer an exhilarating mix of style, innovation and features that extend people's mobile experience in ways that feel personal and completely original."
HTC Desire S
As a successor to the popular and award-winning HTC Desire, the new HTC Desire S blends stunning design with power and speed. Inspired by the HTC Legend™ smartphone's aluminium design, the HTC Desire S is sculpted out of a single block of aluminum making it feel solid and natural in your hand. With Qualcomm's new 1GHz Snapdragon™ MSM8255 processor, the HTC Desire S offers snappy performance and power. It offers dual front and back cameras, High-Definition video recording and the 3.7-inch WVGA display presents multimedia content brilliantly.
HTC Wildfire S
Building on the popularity of the HTC Wildfire™ smartphone, the HTC Wildfire S smartphone is an affordable, compact and playful device that packs a powerful smartphone experience. It enables people to maintain and build connections and friendships through popular sites like Facebook®, as well as through voice and text messaging. You can instantly tag your friends in photos before posting them on Facebook, or share your latest discoveries from the Android™ Market at the touch of a button.
HTC Wildfire S is one of HTC's smallest phones ever – measuring just 10.13cm long and 5.94cm wide – and boasts a distinctive 3.2 inch, HVGA display.
Celebrate your individuality and choose from a wide variety of colors including black, purple and white. The phone's home screen is fully customizable with your favorite apps, widgets and content, while a 5-megapixel color camera with auto focus, expandable microSD™ memory and support for a variety of audio and video formats make a great all-around multimedia device that slips easily into any pocket.
HTC Incredible S
The alluring HTC Incredible S smartphone combines cutting-edge design with a premium mobile experience for those who dare to be different. Showing what can be achieved when engineers and designers work together to raise the bar for mobile phone design, the HTC Incredible S smartphone features a stunning, contoured body that highlights the internal hardware components of the device. Capturing and viewing video in crystal clear High-Definition has never been so easy and a bright 4-inch WVGA Super LCD display and stereo surround sound bring a vibrant cinematic experience to the palm of your hand.
HTC Incredible S also takes high quality pictures with its 8-megapixel camera with dual flash, and it easily enables videos, photos and music to be shared from the handset direct to a TV using DLNA® technology. Thanks to the HTC Incredible S's front facing camera and video call functionality, users will constantly be able to chat with their friends face-to-face.
The HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Incredible S smartphones, will be broadly available to customers across major European and Asian markets during Q2 2011.


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Laurence Lampert
Canadian philosopher
Laurence Lampert (born 1941) is a Canadian philosopher and leading scholar in the field of Nietzsche studies. He was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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editLeo Strauss and Nietzsche (1996)
edit- Nietzsche's arrival in modern philosophy signaled an unprecedented necessity: "probity", "intellectual conscience", Enlightenment radicalized by a new bravery that scorns any comforts like God.
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- How can historicism consistently exempt itself from its own verdict that all human thought is historical?
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- Strauss' whole study indicates that noble nature as Nietzsche presents it—no, embodies it—replaces divine nature as Plato presents it.
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- The way of Socrates had shown itself to be a limited way because it concerned itself "only with the scientific investigation of justice and the virtues," and it had shown itself to be an intransigent way because it chose "non-conformity and death." Plato corrected the way of Socrates—he removed the limitation and tempered its intransigence.
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- Nietzsche discovered the clue to esotericism early … "The fact of the pious fraud."
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External links
edit- nietzschecircle.com, Interview of Prof. Lampert by Daniel Blue, 'The Nietzsche Circle' (2008)


text: A typical morning. The usual music. Their normal lives. The peace these seven girls experience will suddenly be destroyed. By the living dead... zombies. A reality that they never wanted a part of, an amazing and terrifying zombie world. They all share one wish: "We want to live." These girls will struggle through this saga, in order to achieve a miracle.


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Spice Girls Announce Reunion Tour Without Posh: See the Mixed Reactions
Today, five becomes four: The Spice Girls are officially reuniting for a 2019 tour, but Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham will sadly sit this jaunt out. The six-date mini tour will also only hit cities in the U.K., beginning June 1, 2019.
Releasing a very Spice Girls-flavored video Monday, original members Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown, Geri "Ginger Spice" Horner, Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton and Melanie "Sporty Spice" Chisholm announced the reunion run with no mention of Beckham.
However, Beckham released the following statement to coincide with the tour announcement:
"Being in the Spice Girls was a hugely important part of my life and I wish my girls so much love and fun as they go back on tour. I know they will put on an amazing show and the fantastic fans past and present are going to have a wonderful time!"
Despite Posh's positive attitude and well wishes, fan reactions to her not being a part of the tour are definitely mixed:
Meanwhile, many fans outside of the U.K. were devastated to learn the tour isn't truly an international tour, despite being seemingly titled "The Spice World Tour." (We're still hoping additional dates in different countries will be announced in the coming months.)
Of course, many Spice Girls fans are just excited to see the iconic girl group getting back together for shows in any form.
The last time the Spice Girls performed together was when all five members came together for the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony. It was an amazing performance and gave '90s kid everywhere nostalgic flashbacks in the best way possible.
Will you be getting tickets when they go on sale this Saturday, November 10? A Spice Girls reunion show is a pretty great excuse for a vacation across the pond, if you ask us.


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Kanye West Rushed to Hospital With Wife Kim Kardashian in Tow
Kanye West was apparently feeling so under the weather yesterday that his dutiful wife, Kim Kardashian, deemed it necessary to deliver him to the ER.
The rapper was admitted to the West Hills Hospital in San Fernando Valley on Sunday (July 22). TMZ reports that West was suffering from the flu and, after experiencing worsening symptoms, made a "beeline" to the emergency room for some much-needed medical attention.
The tabloid points out that the artist had recently been tweeting about experiencing ongoing sinus issues, though it's likely unrelated to his current issues with the flu.
Back in November 2016, West was hospitalized after exhibiting "erratic behavior." At the time, the rapper was suffering from severe exhaustion as the result of intense sleep deprivation. Subsequently, he was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center for psychiatric observation.
After being discharged from the hospital, West took a near-yearlong break from social media. The hospital stint followed the abrupt cancellation of his controversy-laden Saint Pablo Tour.


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Anonymous Hacks FBI and Records Conference Call
Earlier today, Anonymous released a confidential conference call between the FBI and law enforcement officers in the UK. The 16-minute call discusses ongoing investigations into hackers associated with Anonymous, AntiSec, and LulzSec.
From all appearances, Anonymous retrieved the sensitive access code information and a list of attendees from an FBI email account. The group released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group.
The email, titled "Anon-Lulz International Coordination Call", was published on pastebin earlier today: https://pastebin.com/8G4jLha8 . The email with details for accessing the call was sent to law enforcement officials in Britain, France, the Netherlands and others but the only people who identify themselves on the call are from the FBI and Scotland Yard.In a message on Twitter, Anonymous posted links to the audio recording and said the FBI "might be curious how we're able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now."
The initial link to the conference call was for an mp3 download, but it was also made available to stream on YouTube.
The FBI and Scotland Yard have now confirmed that their internal conference call describing their investigation into Anonymous hackers was illegally intercepted, as was the email containing the conference call details. The Metropolitan Police also confirmed it, saying:"We are aware of the video which relates to an FBI conference call involving a PCeU representative. The matter is being investigated by the FBI. We continue to carry out a full assessment. We are not prepared to discuss further."
Karen Todner, a lawyer for Cleary, said that the recording could be "incredibly sensitive" and warned that such data breaches had the potential to derail the police's work."If they haven't secured their email it could potentially prejudice the investigation," she told. Following a spate of arrests across the world, the group and its various offshoots have focused their attention on law enforcement agencies in general and the FBI in particular.


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Furniture World Magazine on 12/2/2011
A big challenge that sales associates face when working with bedding clients is that many customers view our mattresses as commodities; seeing the bedding purchase as a necessary evil, instead of what it really is, a major decision that affects the quality of their lives.
Changing this mindset requires that furniture stores and sleep shops go beyond pitching mattresses based solely on price and brand. It requires a consultative approach that addresses quality of life concerns. We can accomplish this through the utilization of a process I call the "Science of Sleep".
Stores that use this Science of Sleep approach see significant improvement in sales, closing rate and average unit selling price. Customers exposed to it show more interest in looking at better quality sleep sets and ultimately spend more money. That's because they gain a deeper understanding of why spending more is in their best interest.
In order to help our clients make an informed investment decision we can share the latest research that illustrates the importance of sleep and how it effects every aspect of their daily lives. We can provide solutions and share the benefits gained from quality sleep. A prerequisite for doing this is to be able to relate to our female customers and their families.
The remainder of this article will look at some of the sleep science you can share with customers. But first let's take a moment to recognize that this process starts with questions you ask them such as how they sleep, how they feel in the morning, and how many hours of sleep they get. From there it's an easy segue to ask them something like, "I would like to share some information with you before we look at any mattresses and it will just take a couple of minutes." Once you've done that, you've set the stage for them to start thinking about the importance of investing in a quality sleep set. You can plant the idea that mattresses are not all the same, they are not a sack of potatoes, they are not a commodity. Buying a mattress is a big deal. That's the mindset you want them to have, and you can create it in just five minutes.
The Science
The keys to living a quality life are exercise, nutrition and a forgotten dimension called Quality Sleep. Sleep is a necessity, not a luxury. Sleep determines our alertness, energy, mood, thinking, productivity, safety, longevity and especially our health. The sleeping brain promotes synaptic growth, a process that enhances memory, problem solving, decision making and creativity during the REM, or rapid eye movement portion of the sleep cycle.
Remember to share with your clients the fact that when we sleep it's not like parking a car in a garage. We sleep in 90 minute segments. In the early segments of the sleep process, our body is healing itself. In the later stages of sleep, called REM, where dreaming is at its height, the brain heals itself which is essential for creativity, decision-making, problem-solving and memory. So if your customers are not getting a full eight hours of sleep they are truly cheating themselves. To accomplish peak performance, we humans must, on average, invest one third of our lives to sleep. Remember, the quality of sleep has an impact on our quality of life and undisturbed sleep is highly correlated with quality sleep. Studies show that every hour of sleep deprivation below 8 hours results in a 25% loss in productivity. Six hours of sleep or less lowers our resistance to viral infections by 50%. Six hours of continuous sleep is more restorative than eight hours of interrupted sleep.
Our clients need to understand the impact of quality sleep loss. Sleep loss results in drowsiness, mood shifts, anxiety, depression, decreased motor skills and decreased cognitive performance such as the ability to concentrate and remember. It affects our communication and decision skills; our ability to handle complicated tasks. It also affects our productivity and creativity.
I mentioned earlier the importance of relating to the female customer and her family. The quality of sleep is especially critical to women. Since women influence over 85% of mattress sales it is important to illustrate that we understand her particular needs. Women have significant sleep quality problems. They sleep less than men and have shorter periods of Deep Sleep. Women are more vulnerable to being disturbed by partner movement and more prone to insomnia (53% more than men). The menstrual cycle, pregnancy and menopause also impacts their quality of sleep.
According to Dr. James B. Maas of Cornell University:
You can sell more bedding if you make an effort to show your female shoppers that you understand their specific needs and can help them to develop solutions to help them achieve better quality sleep.
One of the major causes of sleep loss is backache. Americans spend at least $50 billion each year to help them deal with their low back pain. According to the National Institute of Urological Disorders and Stroke, back pain is the biggest cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work. A new mattress that provides the proper support and comfort for proper spinal alignment has been shown to make a big difference in back health. Dr. Mehmet Oz, of the Dr. Oz Show, states that most cases of back pain are mechanical or are non- organic, meaning they aren't caused by serious conditions as arthritis or injury. Improper posture or lack of spinal support is at fault. Also, Dr. Clayton Dean of the Maryland spine Center says replacing a mattress every five to nine years is a great idea, especially for those who wake up with back stiffness or pain.
New scientific research continues to unmask the effects of chronic sleeplessness, and the results are enough to keep us up at night. Here are four of the most devastating effects, courtesy of the American Heart Association.
This kind of information can be shared with consumers through the Science of Sleep approach to help them understand the importance of quality sleep and the necessity to invest in premium bedding in order to maximize their opportunity to obtain quality sleep. Stress the fact that a mattress is an investment not an expense. Furthermore, it's an investment that affects their quality of life and everything that they do.
The Science of Sleep approach also has significant relevance to the consumer and to you as a retailer.
Today's furniture and bedding retailers have moved aggressively toward promoting the importance of their own store brands. Every store can say that they have great prices and carry major mattress brands. Using the Science of Sleep approach can be a further point of differentiation. It's a way to enhance your brand and become more important to your female customers by showing that you care.
Nora Lee, the author of "The Mom Factor, What Drives Where We Shop, Eat and Play", says 75% of America's 108 million adult women are moms. They do business with companies who care. Women are the key influence in mattress purchases. She purchases not only for herself, but on average three other people. By sharing some of the research through the Science of Sleep approach with her, you can illustrate that you understand her needs and care about her and her family.
In doing this, your salespeople take a consultative selling approach that illustrates they are not simply salespeople; they are home furnishings consultants focused on establishing long-term trust and solid relationships.
The Science of Sleep process is dedicated to creating a win/win/win situation. Clients win because they truly understand that their investment in a quality sleep set will improve their quality of life. This is the type of information that they have not received in other stores. Retailers win because they truly provide service, knowledge and value that separates them from the competition. Sales consultants win because they found a way to develop a deeper customer relationship based on knowledge, that allows them to step up customers to sleep sets with features that help to promote a better night's sleep.
Science of Sleep in 5 Minutes (Sample Dialogue)
Sales Consultant: Welcome, have you been in our store before?
Client: No, we thought we'd check you out.
Sales Consultant: Great! We have a large selection of sleep sets available in all sizes and in stock for immediate delivery. Tell me, who's the sleep set for?
Client: For me and my wife.
Sales Consultant: What size bed do you have now?
Client: We have a standard, a full size now.
Sales Consultant: Before we look at sleep sets, I'd like to share some information with you on the most recent sleep research. I want you to make an informed investment decision for the right reasons. Tell me, how long have you had your current sleep set?
Client: We think about 10 years.
Sales Consultant: Since you last purchased a lot has happened. Society is faster paced now, more competitive, more demanding on our time and the level of stress has increased dramatically. Because of this, people, especially busy moms; have become more and more interested in finding ways to improve the quality of life for themselves and their families.
Sales Consultant: Research has found that there are three elements that affect our lives. They are nutrition, exercise and quality sleep. Quality sleep has a direct impact on our ability to cope with the stress and pressure of everyday life. This is really magnified by the pressure of raising families.
Sales Consultant: How many hours of sleep would you say you get regularly?
Client: I don't know, probably six hours. I'm sure not enough.
Sales Consultant: Well, you're not alone. With all the things we have to stuff into our days, we often don't consider the importance of quality sleep. This question of sleep has never really been explored until recently. It's been determined, that on average we need eight hours of quality sleep to rejuvenate and revitalize ourselves so we can achieve peak performance.
Sales Consultant: Recent research has clearly established that proper sleep is not a luxury, it's a necessity. It has also been determined that quality sleep affects our energy, alertness, mood, productivity, health and even our safety.
Sales Consultant: If we're getting 6 hours of sleep or less, our resistance to viral infection is lowered by 50%. We also know that Delta, or deep sleep, is where the body is healing and repairing itself. So, if we're not getting continuous quality sleep, we're like 63 million other Americans, we're sleep deprived and not realizing our full potential quality of life.
Sales Consultant: Sleep researchers have developed some simple questions to determine if we're sleep deprived. (Hand the card to the client). May I share them with you?
Sales Consultant: As you can see, there are more questions, but if you answered "yes" to at least 3 of these you may be sleep deprived and need more and better sleep. If you do, don't feel alone, 64% of Americans get less than 8 hours, experience these conditions, and are sleep deprived.
Sales Consultant: One of the keys is to obtain uninterrupted sleep. The 2 major reasons for interrupted sleep are the transfer of motion from one partner to the other when one of them turns. The other is back pain, which is caused by the lack of proper spinal alignment and support by the mattress.
Sales Consultant: Now that we've seen the need and the benefits of quality sleep, let's discuss how we'd provide that quality sleep and improve the quality of life for you and your family.
Ron Wolinski conducts a full day seminar that takes an indepth approach Science of Sleep. He is VP Performance Groups for Profitability Consulting. His expertise in management stems from the positions he has held such as Manager of Training for Art Van Furniture, VP of Sales and Marketing with Contact Interiors, training consultant to Thomasville and architect of Thomasville University, President of Behavioral Dimensions, Director of Sales Education for Simmons, National Director of Education and Development for Value City Furniture and most recently, Director of Education and Retail Services for La-Z-Boy, Inc.
He consults with retail organizations internationally on Consultative Selling, Communications, Leadership Skills, Organizational Development, Interviewing and Recruiting, and Customer Service. Questions relating to this article or to other related topics can be directed to Ron at email@example.com. Read more of his articles posted to the www.furninfo.com website or call him direct at 734-420-3430.
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