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* Q3 group LfL sales up 3.3 pct, total sales up 14.4 pct
* Premier Inn Hotels LfL sales up 2.5 pct
* Costa UK LfL sales up 7.1 pct
* Says on track to deliver FY expectations
* Top FTSE 100 rise, shares up 3.8 pct
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LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Britain's Whitbread Plc has hit record sales at its expanding Costa Coffee business, serving almost 4 million customers in the same week that rival Starbucks Corp bowed to public criticism and agreed to pay more tax.
"Costa's been the UK's favourite coffee shop for quite some time and we remain the taxman's favourite coffee shop too," Whitbread Chief Executive Andy Harrison said on Tuesday, as he revealed a 3.3 percent rise in third-quarter group like-for-like sales.
Shares in the group, which have gained 50 percent on a year ago, were up 3.8 percent to 2,506 pence by 0905 GMT, pushing it to the top of the FTSE 100 risers.
"Costa's performance is likely to have received a boost from the negative publicity around Starbucks' tax affairs, although it has consistently reported this level of like for-like-sales growth over the past 18 months," analysts at brokerage Panmure wrote.
Whitbread, which also runs Premier Inn hotels and the Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurant chains, said underlying sales at Costa were up 7.1 percent in the 13 weeks to Nov. 29, up from 6.8 percent in the first half.
Sales at the Costa Coffee chain, which has expanded rapidly to over 1,200 UK stores, were boosted by new advertising and by food and Christmas ranges, it said, with sales hitting a record 10 million pounds last week as 3.8 million customers flocked through its doors.
It said this was a record but gave no previous figures.
While Harrison said it would be difficult to single out any benefit it was getting from Starbucks' woes, he did note brand preference data had showed the U.S. firm "had taken a knock".
Last week Starbucks said it could pay 20 million pounds in corporation tax in Britain over the next two years, responding to public criticism over allegations of tax avoidance.
Whitbread's overall 3.3 percent growth marked a slowdown from the first half's 4.3 percent rise in underlying sales, but this had been expected as the first six months were boosted by Britain's wet weather and the Olympic Games.
Across the group, underlying sales at its larger Premier Inn unit grew 2.5 percent in the quarter, as it benefited from a growing market share, particularly in London, and cost-conscious customers remaining loyal to its affordable rooms.
Whitbread said overseas sales at Costa, which is aiming to double in size to 3,500 stores worldwide by 2015/16, were also up, with solid trading in the Middle East and China.
Underlying growth in the latter market had slowed slightly from 19 percent in the first half, however, while central and southern Europe remained difficult, it added.
Total Costa sales for the first 39 weeks of the year were up 22 percent to 734 million pounds. Like-for-like sales at its restaurants in the quarter rose 1.9 percent.
Whitbread said it remained on target to meet market expectations for the full year. On average it is expected to post a pretax profit of 347.90 million pounds for 2012/13, according to a Reuters poll of 22 banks and brokerages, up from 320.1 million in 2011/12.


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Dreaming of Repurposed Daybeds
After 5,000 miles of terrain, locust attacks, historical wind storms, and terrible roadside fires, I have missed you all and am back blogging! The road trip through Arizona, Albuquerque, Oklahoma, and St. Louis was intriguing, as I saw much of America that was unbeknown to my sheltered world in California. I look forward to sharing pictures as soon as I can find a card converter for my dSLR's memory card. After the weather improves, I'll be venturing out to Montreal and the Thousand Islands. In the interim, let us enjoy our regularly scheduled repurposing program!
Daybeds are such a fantastic furnishing option, as you can easily convert them from a couch to a luxurious lounger to a guest bed. I always have a daybed in my office, which serves as a guest bedroom when I have visitors. As my daybed options shall be limited in Hawaii and my wonderful mother-in-law is looking to add a daybed to her home, I have begun brainstorming how I can make my own. Here are a few of my favorite repurposed and DIY daybeds for your lounging pleasure.
Twin antique headboards are repurposed into a chic daybed. The addition of the upholstery sections in the inverted sections of the headboards give this daybed an extra touch of comfort. The best part? You can find DIY directions via Country Living.
This landscape artist repurposed an antique couch into an outdoor daybed. She took away all of the reupholstery and then utilized recycled wood to create a new bench seat. Then she added memory foam pads and pillows to create a chic outdoor daybed, as seen on Sunset. This is a great DIY project for those antique couches with beautiful bones but shabby upholstery.
An antique Victorian crib is beautifully repurposed into a wonderful settee via Country Living. While this may be too short for a proper daybed, it does open our minds to the possibilities of daybeds that live in many antique pieces.
Bitter Betty Blogs shared a DIY tutorial on how to make a mid-century modern daybed from the 1961 edition of the Mechanix Illustrated How- To-Do-It Encyclopedia.
Martha shows us how to take four bentwood chairs and repurpose them into a DIY daybed, along with instructions on how to make the mattress and bolsters.
If you can't afford the price tag of this Nipi Doshi and Jonathan Leviens "princess and the pea" daybed, you could easily create your own version with layers of thin pads and a simple platform made of plywood and your choice of four legs .
Do you currently lounge on a daybed in your home?

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Overhead Squat
The overhead squat is the most basic snatch receiving position strength exercise.
Start standing with the barbell behind your neck and a snatch-width grip. Perform a snatch push press or snatch power jerk to secure the bar in the proper snatch overhead position. Once stable, squat at a controlled speed to full depth, standing again with the bar overhead. The elbows must remain locked throughout the lift and the bar overhead until you return to a full standing position.
The overhead squat is the most basic snatch receiving position exercise. It can serve as part of a learning progression for the snatch (learning the proper receiving position), a strength builder for the upper body and trunk in particular to help in the snatch, and a mobility exercise to improve a lifter's bottom position for the snatch.
Overhead squats should typically be done for sets of 1-3 reps, although as many as 5 may be appropriate at times. If being used a strength exercise, they should be performed toward the end of a workout after more speed and technique dependent exercises. They can be performed before snatches with light weights as a technique primer, or to help warm-up and stretch for the snatch.
The most common variation of the overhead squat includes a pause in the bottom position to further train stability, strength and balance. The overhead squat is also very commonly combined into a complex with snatch push presses preceding it.
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It is to be remembered that I'm no specialist of American whiskies at all, I just don't manage to try enough of them to 'keep fit', so to speak. Plus, heavy oak's not quite my cup of whisky. Anyway, today we'll have a very mixed bag of five of them, from big boys to craft distillers and from wheat and corn to rye… so this should be fun. Hopefully!


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Stress may save your life if you're being chased by a tiger. But if you're stuck in traffic, it may be more likely to make you sick. This hour, a long hard look at the body's system for getting out of trouble.
Stanford University neurologist (and part-time "baboonologist") Dr. Robert Sapolsky takes us through what happens on our insides when we stand in the wrong line at the supermarket, and offers a few coping strategies: gnawing on wood, beating the crap out of somebody, and having friends. Plus: the story of a singer who lost her voice, and an author stuck in a body that never grew up.
We now know that too much stress makes you sick. Fifty years ago, we had no idea. Credit an upholsterer, a chair, and some lab rats. Dr. Paul J. Rosch, President of the American Institute of Stress, describes a series of not so nice things he and his colleagues did ...
Stress can make fairy tales turn to nightmares, and it can make an enemy of your own body. Producer Ellen Horne speaks with Linda Thompson, famous folk singer whose voice one day flew away. Thompson describes her rare condition, called Hysterical Dysphonia, and how she overcame her body's silence. Dr. ...
This episode really should have had a disclaimer about graphic content... I was listening to it while driving and nearly passed out from the description of the injuries in the boating accident.
I was really upset when I found out that the story of the writer of Peter Pan was NOT true. Its simply not true that he stopped growing, and he was definitely married. I was upset only because I value your show so much mostly because of precision and the fact-checking.
The part about the writer of Peter Pan was really interesting. How such an esteemed child's story that came out of a person's life filled with stress. The idea of never growing up to him was a struggle he dealt with his whole life but it has been turned into an idea that is used to bring happiness to people now.
Also, the description of the baboons and how the nice guy wins out in the end in terms of reproduction made me wonder if thats known by the animals. If the nice personality leads to the most chances for reproduction then why would they continue to use the pecking order to determine chances for mating? I would think they might realize the way mating is occurring and that over time the lifestyle would have changed.
I like the stress episode. I kept coming back to the those who experience stress on a daily or regular basis: Military and Law Enforcement. We could add those who suffer cronic domestic abuse. Is there going to be a follow up?
As a civilian without combat experience, I can relate to the 4 times I should have felt pain from a serious injury but really did not. At the ER, I knew it was my stress reaction staying with me. Typically it blocked pain for over 30 minutes.
I have seen presentations to police academy recruits, explaining the stress reaction. Interesting, but does it really help a person who ultimately is going to experience it on if not daily, then a weekly basis? For example, there is no such thing as a routine traffic stop. It helps those who are aware.
I was surprised you did talk about a rat in an individualized behavioral sink, rather than tie it to PTSD or low life span or high suicide rate for law enforcement officrs and combat veterans.
I listen to Radio Lab in the car and my NPE internet radio on NHPR or VPR.
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Franconia, NH
The torture of animals is not science. This is cruelty, plain and simple.
Someone please post the titles of the songs played on Ellen Horn's interview with Linda Thompson. First time I've heard this music. Lovely.
Are the scientists sadists who could torture animals? And why the humor about it? Very, very disturbing on many levels.
Someone should do to those rat experimenters what they did to those poor animals.
Love the Boards of Canada track in there at 52.20
People who spend their lives screaming at each other, or complaining about everything, should learn that the stress can kill. It kills relationships, and may 'literally' kill someone. There are so many forms of stress and stress can affect all ages, just in different ways.
I was also horrified by Dr. Robert Sapolsky's description of his experiments. I wish this hadn't been handled with such humor. I can't see any benefit to human knowledge about stress that would counteract torturing other living beings. Glad other listeners found this bit as disturbing as I did.
Dear Radiolab people, During the earlier part of this particular radio show, you featured a voice over artist who spoke of "great moments" of phycoligy (?) waiting room furniture maintenance (?) can't remember at this time, do to the fact that my brain is having a silly moment. However, I do remember this fellow did a rather spot on job in recreating the style of voice overs of yesteryear (thinking of the news reels one would see while attending movie matinees in the 1940's, for example). So, my question is: Who is this guy ? And, how might I be able to get in touch with him. He'll be the perfect "go to" guy for some production work I'll be doing in the, not so distant future. Thankyou ! Sincerely, DK.
One of the songs was "Guilty Cubicles" by Broken Social Scene. I, too, am trying to locate the rest of the music clips played within the segment. Great segment, overall.
@alayne from south dakota. Think you are looking for "Piece Peace," by Bill Evans.
Have y'all listened to this TED talk about stress? It strikes me that this perspective on stress would've made a nice addition to the program! http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend.html
After my twin pregnancy, I was cooked and scared about my - quick to snap - new self. My chiropractor saved me with a simple remedy that added restored my 'band width'. He suggested that my adrenal system was sapped post pregnancy and offered a bovine extraction of adrenal support supplements. It helped me... saved me!
Good story - enjoyable to listen to as always.
I'm wondering how you find out what music is played during the show? Is there a list of the musicians/music from each of the talks that you guys do?
Was just listening to this episode for the first time at work. Upon getting towards the end of the first "intense" story, I began to feel faint so I turned off the podcast. I'm normally a bit squeamish, even from seeing certain merdical-related images. But this was the first time that I felt this bad due to audio cues and an overvivid imagination. I figured "let's turn this off for a bit, I'll resume Radiolab in a second when I've recovered my wits".
So I turned it off. But I felt myself getting further and further into the fainting spell. It wouldn't have been the first time I passed out from sheer anxiety (as has happened to me when donating blood), but it definitely wouldnt be a commonplace thing for me either. I tried to slow my breathing, being fully aware of where this was heading if I didn't take control of my situation soon. For some reason, I thought that distracting myself with singing the "Akuna Matata" tune from Lion King would prove to be a sufficient distraction to get the anxious thoughts out of my head, but in doing so I forgot to control my breathing. I was very aware how close I was to fainting.
Next thing I know I'm hearing distant voices asking, "Are you sleeping?" as I wake up on the hard surface that is my desk. I quickly laugh it off, since I was really fine, but I gave my 2 nearby coworkers a good scare as I apparently hit my head hard against the desk. And my head doesnt even hurt. I guess I could've gotten hurt, but I found this all to be extremely amusing and funny. I'll have to go back and finish listening to the story later on.
Excellent show. Couples/parents who spend their lives screaming at each other, or complain about everything, should learn that the stress caused is taking life away, especially when it becomes a way of life; plain and simple, stress kills
I listened to this story on stress and was horrified by the experiments that were carried out on the rats. I am a veterinarian and other members of our staff were listening and couldn't believe the way they casually talked about the torture of these animals. My husband, who was listening with our kids called to warn me and tell me how upset they were and couldn't beleive it was true OR that it was aired on NPR.
I am usually a big fan of Radiolab but after that, I, my family and coworkers are taking a break from listening.
The song is:
Erik Satie – "Trois Gymnopédies"
It was very upsetting to hear of the torture of rats, and the laughter about this during the discussion about the electrical shocks to them. There is something not right about people who are amused by these things.
I am a 4th year med student and mother of two. This show is absolutely amazing from an entertainment/production point of view, also extremely important from a medical point of view. Bravo, Radiolab. And thank you.
I agree with Noelle Wiggins from Portland Oregon. Here are the heart attack rates by race: Whites 25.1, African Americans 24.5, Asians or Pacific Islanders 23.2, Hispanics 20.8, American Indians or Alaska Natives 18.0. So are you saying Whites and African Americans more type A than Hispanics and Native Americans? Are Asians less type A than Whites and African Americans? Or could it be there are several sources of stress and damage at work in heart disease?
I am really saddened and upset to hear about the "stress experiments" on rats: shocking them until they bite eachother, starving them, freezing them, etc.. Wanting to understand why we feel the way we feel never justifies torturing other living beings. It is important to expose these types of things, but to joke about them is cruel and misguided.
I usually really enjoy and learn a lot from Radio Lab. But as a public health practitioner, I was frankly shocked that Radio Lab did an entire show on stress and did not talk about the associations between chronic stress and the persistent health inequities that divide our society. I would strongly suggest that the producers and all listeners watch all the episodes of the documentary, "Unnatural Causes," particulary the first episode, which focuses on the causes and effects of chronic stress. The Unnatural Causes series, which appeared on PBS, has an excellent website. Here is the link: http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/. Unfortuately, by ignoring how chronic stress disproportionately affects people of color, people living in poverty, and others who experience systematic discrimination, this episode of Radio Lab perpetuates the idea that NPR and public broadcasting only speak to the experience of a very small sliver of our society.
Please tell Linda Thompson about the energy work modality EFT. She may be able to 'tap' herself back to a healthier relationship between her brain and her vocal capabilities. DM
Ugh... the researcher (Sapolsky?) who described his hideous torture of rodents gave me stress. Sewing their eyelids open? Freezing them on rooftops during a Canadian blizzard, forced-swim stress tests, electric shocks, food deprivation...? The knowledge that experimenters do this, and are funded for doing this to animals, is truly disturbing. The commentator is laughs. The zapping sounds are NOT funny.
Not amused. Stressed and angry.
The work of Dr Richard Brown, Patricia Gerbarg and Stephen Elliot give great relief from stress of all kinds by using simple breathing techniques. See their websites for remarkable tools to move us from the overwhelming habit of being stress most of the time.
Does anyone know the name of the lovely, wistful and melancholy song..it was played on the piano...more towards the beginning of today's Stress program..
I think it's an old melody..
ethnically cleansed by Serbs, oh c'mon.. really?
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Tigers on the Savannah??? The impala would be 'what are you doing in Africa?'
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At 5:50 there is a song that begins playing in the background. Can anyone PLEASE tell me what the piece of music is called and who the composer is?
Your help would be much appreciated. I have been searching for this information for years. Thank you,
@Julie -- Actually, school is exactly where I first heard Radiolab! It was a psychology class, and he played us "Musical Language." It was about two years later that I remembered it and looked it up; now I listen to Radiolab all the time!
Sorry, I had to point out that impala live in Africa and tigers don't, lion is better.
I fainted from listening to this episode while driving. Definitely should have heeded Jad's disclaimer on the first story! Don't worry though, my passengers and I were fine.
This show is beyond awesome! i listened to one show, after which i immediately started from the 1st episode and making my way back! new lifelong fan!
The song at ~36:10 is Guilty Cubicles by Broken Social Scene.
@Pertti That song is amazing, I know I have it in my itunes, but I forgot what it is called and who its by. Did you have any luck figuring it out? Does anybody know? It kicks in around 36:08.
Thanks guys!
A friend played me a show of Radiolab and after that I downloaded all of the shows and listened all of them almost nonstop. This is the best radio show ever. The production values are through the roof. I just wish there was a new episode every day. I tell all my friends about this show. What is the guitar tune on this show starting at 36 min 8 sec? It's mesmerizing and I would like to hear more of it.
You guys rule.
there's nothing more awesome than RadioLab. If only schools taught this way, our kids might learn a lot more!
I've been listening to Radiolab for about a year now and I always revel in the sense of wonder and questioning in this quality programming.
I've noticed that many of the stories revolve around medical anomalies and this has meant a great deal to me. I developed a condition a year and a half ago that looked like a very intense form of turrets and epilepsy, but never found a diagnosis despite seeing a myriad of specialists. I've felt so connected to many of the guests and their experiences often shed light onto my own.
Thank you so much, keep up the great show!
thanks Tony!
Thank you Tony!
Luis, the music is one of Erik Satie's "Trois Gymnopédies".
Can someone tell me the name of the song used in Dr. Kamran Fallahpour lab to relax (and interrupted by phone ring) ?
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New 3D Printer: Tevo Little Monster + Duet Conversion
For some time I've been considering the purchase of a delta 3d printer. After much research, I settled on a Tevo Little Monster (TLM below). It was a bittersweet purchase, since I had to sell my first printer (after 5+ years of ownership), my Makerbot Replicator (original), to both make capital, and make some room for it.
This blog post is mainly written as a resource to myself to track info, troubleshoot problems, and list upgrades.
TLM Links:
- Tevo USA : Main US page
- 3D Printers Bay : Where I bought mine from
TLM Pros:
- Price: I picked it up for $750 and free shipping.
- Print Volume: The machine is a beast: 45″ tall (without the spool holder, which makes it even higher), with a diameter of around 23″. It has a print volume of roughly:
- 500mm tall (I was able to squeeze out 510mm)
- 350mm diameter.
- One of the main reasons I bought this printer was is 'beautiful in simplicity' construction: Despite the size listed above, the frame is only made up of 5 parts: The 3 OpenBuilds C-Beam style extruded arms that connect to the top/bottom plates. Everything was cut to the same length, and it was square immediately after bolting it together with no adjustments.
- Integrated BLTouch in the delta effector. Docs here.
- 120v AC bed with SSR: 'Nuff said.
- Elegant electronics boxes and power cabling.
- A 'hanging bowden' style extruder: Keeps the mass directly off the delta effector, and decreases the bowden tube length significantly. Based on experience, I dislike bowden's and the blobs they produce.
TLM Cons:
- MKS SBase V1.3 : While it runs Smoothieware and comes with a small touchscreen, I've heard quite a few problems from people running this knockoff Smoothieboard. It also uses integrated DRV8825 steppers, which historically aren't the best choice for 3D printers (needing separate 'TL Smoothers' to help remove artifacting).
- Knock-off hotend and extruder: While these are based on the E3D-v6 hotend and Titan extruder, they're complete knockoffs. And they gave me more grief than anything else stock on the bot:
- The knockoff Titan extruder started squeaking in the first month.
- The PTF fitting in the knockoff heatbreak disintegrated, dropping metal chunks into my filament path. I didn't realize this until taking the whole thing apart and shinging a light in there, and seeing stuff reflect back.
- I didn't realize it at the time, but it appears that the heatbreak isn't all metal (like a standard E3D) : It had some sort of plastic liner. Later, that liner failed, and completely jammed it.
- I'm not sure the '.4mm nozzle' was really .4mm at all. After swapping to a legit .4mm volcano nozzle, I noticed an improvemnt in print quality.
- Basically, ditch that entire hotend for the real thing and save yourself a bunch of pain.
- The bed isn't removable. However, you have plenty of access to it, so I don't feel removing prints from it should be an issue. And since it's mounted directly to the base of the machine, I don't see any calibration issues if I have to really pull on the print to get it off.
First thing, the knock-0ff Smoothieboard had to go. My C-Bot has been running RepRap Firmware on a RADDS setup for some time, so for this bot, it was time to get the real deal: A Duet Ethernet with touchscreen.
- Duet Ethernet
- PanelDue with 7″ Touchscreen
- Nema 17 Stepper Dampers for the three tower steppers.
- (Out of) Filament Detector
- TLM Duet Cover
- Bondtech BMG extruder & .9 deg E3D Pancake Stepper
- .9 deg steppers for the three towers : Noticeable improvement in quality.
- Real E3d-v6 Volcano .4mm nozzle & heatbreak (hotblock, heater cartridge, and thermistor are still TLM)
- Remaining parts of a real E3D-v6 Volcano Hotend (hotblock, heater cartridge, and thermistor)
Duet Pros
I can't say enough good things about the Duet ecosystem.
- 32 bit processor, no delta computation speed issues.
- Live tuning of nearly every value: Via the Duet Web Interface (or any connected gcode sender) you can live tune nearly ever firmware setting.
- Updating firmware is as easy as uploading a single file. No pre-compile (or Arduino IDE) necessary.
- Integrated steppers + 1/256 silence : The integrated TMC2660 drivers, when driven at 1/16 microstepping uses their 'microPlyer' tech to interpolate to 1/256 : The loudest thing on the machine is the PSU's fan. Creepy quiet. you can check out their pdf datasheet here for more techy-info, or this forum post.
- RepRap Firmware : Having used Marlin, Repetier, and Sailfish firmwares in the past, RRF is hands down my favorite. Super easy to edit, and create custom macros.
- Duet Web Control (DWC) : Comes with its own web-server, similar to Octoprint, but specifically for the Duet hardware.
- Actively developed, active community/forum.
Duet Links
- Duet3D : Main page
- Duet Wiki
- Duet Forum
- Duet Hardware Overview
- Duet Pinouts
- Duet Wiring Diagram
- Duet Driver & heater numbers
- CAD files for the Duet Boards
- Connecting a Duet to your PC
RepRap Firmware Links
- Firmware Overview : reprap.org
- GCode library
- Github:
- Update the firmware : Via the DWC
- Firmware Configuration:
- Configuring RRF for a Delta printer
- Tuning Heaters and Temperature
- Setting up auto-bed probing
- Using mesh-bed compensation
- Calibrate Z-Probe, endstops for delta: Duet Forum
- Wizards:
- Online Firmware Configuration Tool (I've not yet used this).
- bed.g for probing.
- M665/M666 : Set Delta & Endstop Configuration.
- Titan RepRap Firmware Configuration
Assembly Notes
The assembly of the TLM took a little under three hours with the help of a friend, following the printer instructions that came with it. Nothing was missing, nothing went wrong. The only think that took a chunk of time was rewiring the electronics to plug into the Duet.
- For setting up the TLM with the Duet, this is the assembly guide I used: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2355136 : This was a lifesaver! Used all their firmware configurations by default. There's also a forum post here that discusses this conversion.
- Had to rewire the endstops: The order of the wires that plug into the Duet are a very different order from the wires that plugged into the MKS SBase, and are an even different order than how they plug into the endstops themselves. Tracking this order is (obviously) really importing when rewiring them!
- All the other connectors that plugged into the MKS SBase plugged directly into the Duet, except I had to cut off the side-clips so they could slide into the Dupont conectors correctly. A combo of side-cutters and exacto-knive
- BLTouch :
- Had two sets of wires: One needed entirely rewired to plug into the Duet expansion pin, while the other needed trimmed & rewired to a single plug, since the other wires weren't needed.
- Had to cut the trace on the board (after removing from the delta effector) to switch it from 12 to 24v.
- I needed to switch the PSU from 220v to 110v, based on where I live.
- As it turns out, the thermistor for the heated bed was bad: I kept getting 9000 deg reading from the firmware. However, and somewhat coincidentally, they shipped with an extra thermistor; I taped it to the bottom of the silicon heater, and it was up and running.
- The top of each of the tower carriages has a small set-screw that is what trips the optical endstops. I hadn't done any adjustments to these: They 'looked' ok. A few weeks of printing later I checked them with my calipers, and they were up to 1.5mm off from each other, and felt loose in their threads: I removed them all, applied blue threadlocker, and screwed them in so a consistent amount was sticking out the top (6mm seemed like a good number).
Slicer Configuration
I use Simplify3D as my primary slicer : It actually has a built-in preset for the TLM : Help -> Configuration Assistant -> Select Printer -> Tevo Little Monster.
I only had to modify a few things to start:
- In RRF's config.g, you need to set 'M555 P2' : This 'sets compatibility' to look like Marlin, which appears only to matter when trying to communicate with host software like Simplify3D, Octoprint, etc. Up until then I had it set to P0 (RepRap Firmware), and I couldn't get S3D to connect. What's interesting is that the baud rate seems to not matter: I've had a number of different values and it connects fine. RADDS, on the other hand, needs 115200.
- Created a new 'Tools -> Firmware Configuration' setup for all the appropriate RepRap Firmware G & M codes. It's also important in the 'Communication' tab to set 'Flow Control' to 'Hardware Flow Control'.
- The above Duet assembly guide Thingiverse link comes with all the needed configuration .g files to get things working properly. To support them, here's my start/end scripts. Obviously, you need to 'Run Mesh Grid Compensation' (G32) to store out the heightmap.csv that the G29 reads before print. But you really only need to do this once in a great while.
; starting script G32 ; Run the bed.g macro which homes and auto-calibrates the machine - also loads the last mesh grid G92 E0 ; zero extruder M98 PpurgeBeforePrint.g ; Purge the extruder along the front of the printer
; ending script G1 E-10 F900 ; Retract 10mm at 15 mm/sec of filament to clean the nozzle. M106 P1 S0 ; turn off filament cooler fan M104 S0 ; turn off extruder M140 S0 ; turn off bed G28 ; Home all M98 PplaySong.g ; play song when print ends
- The purgeBeforePrint.g has the below code. I found that printing small items, even with multiple skirts, didn't always purge enough based on all the 'pre-drool' that came out of the head. This lays down a fat line across the front. A lot like my old Makerbot used to do.
- In the G-Code tab, make sure to:
- Set "Relative Extrusion Distances".
- Set the "Firmware Configuration Type" to the custom firmware I made above.
- In the Temperatures tab, I always uncheck "Wait for temperature controller to stabilize before beginning build", since RRF will become non-responsive until that temp is hit. I manage my own temps manually.


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A new stand for Keya
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Keya owns the entire manufacture process from cotton to packaging and asked D-Side to develop a new stand for fairs they are attending.
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In 1972, a great classic movie was released based upon a novel that had been written in 1969. The Godfather was the name of this movie and with the release of it thereafter, the popularity began to skyrocket. It was an American gangster movie by a man named Mario Puzo, and was then directed by a man named Francis Ford Coppola.Read the rest of this entry »
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Under his direction, the jazz program at FCC has developed a national reputation. The Jazz Ensemble consistently earns top honors at major jazz festivals. Many students have gone on to complete their degrees at institutions like Cal Arts, Berklee, University of North Texas, and USC. Others have gone on to careers as professional musicians. Mike continues to be in demand as a guest artist, clinician, and teacher for jazz festivals and summer workshops throughout the western U.S.
Mike has extensive experience as a studio guitarist, arranger, composer, and producer. As a session guitarist, he has played on hundreds of albums, produced dozens more, and has been a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) for many years. He has played in the pit orchestra for the touring companies of Fiddler On The Roof, Hello Dolly, A Chorus Line, and more. He continues to be active as a performer, leading his own jazz trio, playing with "After Dinner Mints", and serving as the regular guitarist in the band at Northwest Church. His jazz guitar credits include performances with Cannonball Adderley, Gary Burton, Clark Terry, Bob Mintzer, Bobby Shew, Ernie Watts, Arturo Sandoval, and many others.
Mike has composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, musical theater, choral, TV commercials, and of course jazz. His compositions for jazz ensemble have received excellent reviews in the IAJE journal and are widely performed across the United States. They are published by Matrix Music, Heritage Press, and Walrus Publishing. His advertising clients include Bank of America, Pepsi, Safeway, the Big Fresno Fair, the Fresno Bee, and hundreds more.
In the fall of 2004, Mike founded (and serves as musical director of) the Fresno Jazz Composers Orchestra, an ensemble made up of the finest jazz musicians and educators in central California. This ensemble was selected to perform at the International Association for Jazz Education conference in January 2005.At FCC, Mike teaches the following courses:
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While hardly a scientific survey, Fortune this past week released the results from a recent survey it took to ascertain which 50 people are the smartest folks in tech today. In compiling the list, Fortune asked "nearly 100 trusted advisers and experts" to make nominations, and subsequently relied on feedback from analysts to help separate the men from the boys.
The end result is extensive list of the smartest CEO's, engineers, academics, and scientists currently involved in technology. And not surprisingly, two notable figures from Apple make the cut.
Given Apple's meteoric rise over the past decade, it's no surprise that Steve Jobs sits perched atop the list of smartest CEOs.
iTunes reinvented music. Pixar, now part of Disney, elevated animated films. The iPhone changed telecom. And the new iPad has other computer makers scrambling to respond. Rocking one industry could be luck, but upending four? That's smart.
He is a visionary, a micromanager, and a showman who creates such anticipation around new products that their releases are veritable holidays.
And also taking up a top spot on another list, Apple designer Jonny Ive was voted as the smartest designer in tech today. With numerous iPod, iPhone, and iMac designs to his credit, Ive's handiwork has played an integral role in Apple's resurgence as one of the leading consumer electronics companies in the world.
Ive arrived at Apple in 1992 from a small design firm in his native Britain, but his real break came five years later when Jobs returned in 1997. Jobs conducted a high-profile search for an international design director, then chose the soft-spoken Ive from within his own ranks. With the launch of his first product, the iMac G3, Ive turned the utilitarian gray desktop computer into a translucent, gumdrop-shaped fashion statement.


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If you're finding it difficult to stick to an exercise routine, take a moment to consider whether your workout fits with your personality.
Here are a couple of methods that might help. Or not. But quizzes are fun, so why not?
The 8 Colors of Fitness Suzanne Brue developed a fitness personality assessment based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and wrote "The 8 Colors of Fitness" to help people discover the right workout style for them. People who fit the blue type, for example, are goal-oriented and find motivation by tracking their progress, so Brue recommends that they keep detailed records of their workouts so they can see how far they've come. Saffron types tend to be intuitive and might enjoy exercise that focuses on the mind/ body/soul connection, such as yoga. Take the quiz.
Squares, circles and squigglies Fitness expert Linda Shelton divides fitness personality types into five shapes: square, rectangles, triangles, circles and squigglies. Circles are emotional and love to socialize, so Shelton recommends that they exercise in a group setting or find a nurturing trainer. Squigglies (the coolest shape, in my opinion) are more outgoing and dislike routine, but they get bored easily, so Shelton suggests they keep trying new classes and activities so they don't lose interest in exercise. What's your shape?
Self-motivator vs. team player vs. spontaneous: The American Institute for Cancer Research came up with a short, simple quiz to determine your workout personality. Read the entire WebMD article for more insights.


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Despite how much I love World of Warcraft, I've got to say that leveling through the same zones over and over gets old after a while if you're an alt-a-holic like myself. So, when faced with the prospect of starting a new character on a new realm, I decided to try a different approach: I picked up a copy of Joana's 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide. For those of you unfamiliar with Joana's guide, it walks you through the fastest way to level up in World of Warcraft with a combination of grinding and questing. Joana's time of 4 days and 20 hours /played to level 60 sounded good to me, so I decided to give it a go, and when we all created new characters on Zangarmarsh to play together in It came from the Blog, I created a blood elf Hunter (though I have little experience playing Hunters, they seem to be best equipped for this speed leveling game) with plans on following Joana's guide and seeing how quickly I could get to level 60.
After leveling my new hunter, Lizzie, up to level 11, I've pretty much decided I'm not going to be breaking any major records -- though I may beat some personal bests. Interested in hearing about Lizzie's newbie Adventures in Azeroth? Keep reading!
I have to say that the first ten levels of playing a hunter aren't pleasant ones. Early in the game, hunters are essentially a ranged DPS class with no way to maintain range -- we don't get Concussive Shot (slowing an attacker so we can maintain distance) until level 8, we don't have access to pets (who can distract and tank our targets) until level 10, and we don't get Wing Clip (slowing an attacker so we can gain distance) until level 12. And I found that when an enemy got too close, it often meant my death -- hunters do their best damage from range, and when an enemy gets too close, you can no longer use your ranged attacks. (And let me tell you, my melee skills seem pretty darned weak.) If I got an add while finishing off a target, I'd either have to run away or it would kill me -- the damage I can do in melee range is so weak that things often killed me before I killed them if the fight started in melee range.
Somehow, I don't think Joana's guide took dying into account...
However, I think there may be hope yet for me to manage to play this hunter to level 60 and beyond. At level 10, hunters receive a series of quests that eventually results in them being able to tame pets of their very own. With a pet tanking things, I should be able to keep my distance from any nasty mobs and pelt them with deadly arrows from a safe range, greatly improving my survivability. The only question is -- which pet?
Having never seriously played a hunter, I have no idea which pets are good or bad or if the differences between them really matter that much. Like a good little newbie, I hit up Google and found Petopia, which introduced me to a huge subset of information of which I'd previously been completely unaware. Special pet skills? Training points? What?!
However, after thoroughly studying and taking advice from my guildmates, I find I am no better off than when I started. There are far too many options available to me! So I leave it to you, dear readers -- take an active role in my young hunter's development and tell me what sort of pet you think Lizzie ought to tame. And never fear -- I'll get back to you next week with a full account of the taming process with plenty of screenshots!
Update: Sorry, folks, but I'm afraid the poll is over. Cat won out over boar by a slim margin. However, if you're interested in reading more on my adventures as a newbie hunter, check out Adventures in Azeroth!


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Hidden Job Market
What is the Hidden Job Market?
It is estimated that 80% of jobs are filled by companies who never advertise the position and are filled by referral, or the "who do you know" method of recruitment. So while keeping an eye on job posting sites and newspaper ads is important, the percentages are in your favor if you utilize the hidden job market.
The best way to find the hidden job market is by:
- Identifying types of employers you are interested in
- Find specific potential employers
- Finding contacts within the target employer
Before you can identify potential employers, it is important that you have an idea of the kind of industry you want to work for, the skills sets you want to use and/or where you want to live. If you're not sure, you can meet with a career counselor.
Identify the companies and organizations that you are interested in. There may be companies you are familiar with and many more that you have never heard of. Many positions are located in smaller businesses, so be sure to extend your search past the Fortune 500 list of companies.
Find specific potential employers by
- Tapping into your network of professional and personal contacts to identify potential employers and conduct some information interviews.
- Searching job search sites to find positions that use your skill sets. What types of employers are hiring those positions?
- Looking in the Yellow and White Pages seems old-fashioned, but is still the fastest way to find a listing of employers in a specific city or area. Or try whitepages.com
- Search the Chambers of Commerce for the city or region in which you are interested.


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I love pumpkins and not just at Halloween. I am probably one of the few people who actually saves the meat from the pumpkin before carving a Jack-o'-lantern so I can make a pumpkin pie. Yes, it's a lot more work, but the benefit is a food treat that is actually good for you. And of course the health benefits of pumpkin seeds are well known.
It turns out that pumpkins are perhaps the oldest domesticated plants on Earth dating back as far as 10,000 years B.C. according to Cindy Ott, the author of Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon. When Europeans first arrived in North America, they relied on pumpkin as a survival food and they even made beer from it. The large orange globe is rich with nutrition and will store well in a root cellar providing food through the winter. Of course that was when we had root cellars and people even bothered to preserve and store food in the days before super markets and quick stops.
The appearance of a smiling or spooky face carved on a pumpkin is only a recent occurrence, supposedly an old tradition to frighten away evil spirits who might be lurking. The roots of Halloween go back 2000 years to the ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain when the spirits of the dead supposedly walk the Earth for a night. The word Samhain actually means 'summer's end.' Much later in the 8th Century that Pope Gregory III designated November 1st to honor saints and martyrs. The holiday, All Saints' Day, incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain and the evening before was known as All Hallows' Eve and later Halloween.
So now you know more than you probably need to know about pumpkins and Halloween. But do be sure to carve up a pumpkin and actually eat it. If you think of it as a big squash or gourd, you'll prepare it in a similar manner. Cut it in pieces, scrape out the pulp and seeds, and bake in the oven at 350 degrees F for about an hour, depending on the size of the sections. Once it's cooked and cooled, you can cut of the skin and your pumpkin will be ready to use in pies, soups, or as a yummy side dish. You can see in my pumpkin pie, I added raisins or dried fruit and pine nuts to give it an extra oomph. Enjoy!
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Visa Wellington on a Plate-Liquid Nitrogen Cooking is Back!
Loved our experiments with liquid nitrogen cooking, keen for more?
We're back with Visa Wellington on a Plate to create more culinary delights at sub 190. Click here to see us live in action: dompost.co.nz.
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Graduation from the Le Cordon Bleu Cuisine Diplome, June 2013
It ends in a flurry of chefs hats…
After 9 months of butter, cream and sumptuous food I graduated from the Cuisine Diplome in June 2013. It was a fantastic 9 months filled with learning, top quality ingredients and fantastic french food.
One of the key highlights included developing my own dish for the the student restaurant at Le Cordon Bleu New Zealand: Potato scaled groper with crayfish cream, crab tuille, pea mousse, clams and prawn oil (photo above).
It was a privilege to work with so many fantastic chefs from around the world and be awarded top student of the course.
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Love a bit of science in the kitchen, this ones for you!
With the help of resident mad scientist Darrell Smith we explored the culinary possibilities of cooking at sub 190. Here are some of the delights we cooked up…
Dragon's breath marshmallows – Espresso snowballs – Nitro nutshells, blue cheese and honey string – Nitro Lime mousse-Chocolate Antarctic melts with Maple popcorn – Salted caramel ice cream
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CORVALLIS - John Buckhouse, a professor in the Oregon State University Department of Rangeland Resources and a nationally known range management specialist, has received the Trail Boss Award.
Given annually by the Pacific Northwest Section of the Society for Range Management (SRM), the award recognizes exemplary lifetime contributions in range management research and education. The Pacific Northwest Section of the SRM includes Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
"Buckhouse's long record of high achievement as a teacher, researcher and Extension Service educator makes him more than deserving of this honor," said Bill Krueger, head of the OSU Department of Rangeland Resources. "He is one of the most highly regarded professionals in the rangeland resources discipline today."
A rangeland watershed improvement expert, Buckhouse joined the OSU faculty in 1975. Over the past quarter century he has worked with thousands of students, conducted numerous rangeland research projects and has steadily become known throughout the country for his leadership in range management. The Society for Range Management is the major professional society for rangeland ecology, science and management in the United States. Its membership includes scientists, land managers, ranchers, environmentalists, range biologists, wildlife biologists and others.
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For the sauce: 3 (14oz) cans diced tomatoes
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
5 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped (can sub dried)
⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes
¼ teaspoon of salt
⅛ teaspoon of pepper
For the lasagna: Lasagna noodles
2 cups frozen chopped spinach
6oz goat cheese
1 ½ cups shredded mozzarella
1 cup grated parmesan cheese
In a large skillet cook the garlic in the olive oil 2-3 minutes over medium heat. Add tomatoes, basil, red pepper, salt and pepper.
Bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer. Allow to simmer 10-15 minutes to thicken.
While sauce is simmering cook the lasagna noodles and dethaw spinach in the microwave. Wring spinach dry in paper towels.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a prepared large glass baking dish add ½ cup of sauce to the bottom. Top with noodles.
Spoon about ¼ cup of sauce over the noodles or enough to cover the noodles. Using ⅓ of the spinach, layer on top of the sauce. Sprinkle with ½ cup of mozzarella. Then add a layer of noodles, ¼ cup of sauce, and ⅓ of the goat cheese. Repeat layers spinach then goat cheese.
Spoon remaining sauce on top, followed by remaining spinach, parmesan cheese, and mozzarella. Dot the top with goat cheese.
Cover with foil and bake 30 minutes. Remove foil and continue to bake an additional 15 minutes.
Recipe by
Supper for a Steal
at http://supperforasteal.com/spinach-and-goat-cheese-lasagna/


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Update: The Kindle 4 is ready to buy now. The lowest priced Kindle Reader yet, it is available both with or without sponsored ads and screensavers. Pictured on the right the new sleeker design is also adopted by the new Kindle Touch Reader.
Kindle 4 Hands On Review
Well I've been playing with my new Kindles for a while now, and I have to say I am never going back to the keyboard model! Of course you can read the more technical details of the ebook readers below. But if you would like a completely unscientific look at why I think this is the best Kindle yet, here we go:
Kindle 4 Plus Points
- Well the price is pretty amazing, but then I'm not paying for things I personally don't need (but others might use).
- No ugly keyboard! Just a simple 5 way controller and 4 buttons for things like the home screen. It's really easy to use.
- Improved paddles for page turning (I used to knock them somehow on the 3rd generation model).
- Unbelievably light and small – it makes the older models feel huge!
- Totally intuitive to use immediately.
The Potential Down-side
- No audio – I never use it so not an issue for me.
- Only comes with wi-fi (there isn't a 3G option) which is fine so long as you have a wireless home router or spend lots of time at Starbucks!
- Half the memory (2GB) of other models. But you still have unlimited online storage for Kindle books so this isn't a biggie for most of us.
- Smaller battery (part of the reason its so small and light) means you'll have to find the charger every 3 to 4 weeks.
- Typing is a bit of a chore using a virtual keypad and arrows, but then I found it a nightmare on the tiny old keyboard and am happier to save all my typing needs for when the laptop is on!
Kindle 4 Verdict?
Well, you can probably tell I personally love the latest dinky little ebook reader. But, I do understand it isn't for everyone. If you need 3G or you love typing on your Kindle this probably isn't the best one for you.
But at the price, it is exactly what it should be; a dedicated eBook Reader that excels at being just that and doesn't waste time trying to be much more!
The Kindle 4 Announcement:
It was a relative surprise announcement that more than one new reader would be introduced in the autumn of 2011. We were expecting a tablet, but not to get a whole range of new e-ink based products too.
All the new Kindles come without the traditional keypad used on earlier models. Some will love this, but others that do order content, or surf directly on their current ebook reader might not be quite so comfortable using the on screen keypad included in the new models.
New Kindle 4 Specification
Well the latest line of ebook readers are smaller, lighter and faster than the previous models. The same Pearl E-ink is being used for the displays so don't expect any difference to how great text looks on these little beauties. The key points that most of us will want to know are:
1 Kindle 4 Details
This is smaller than ever with a size of 6.5″ x 4.5″ x 0.34″ and a weight of only 5.98 ounces. The storage capacity is less than previous models but still good enough for most of us at around 2GB or 1400 books. The battery is smaller (and lighter) too, so this will only last around a month.
There is no keypad, instead you use the five way controller for everything. An on screen keypad which you will need to navigate with the controller can be used for notes etc. For those of us that really do simply want to read on their Kindle this is not an issue, and personally I think it is worth it to do away with the extra space the keypad takes up.
The very best bit is that the 4th generation Kindle is cheap, really cheap. On release they are priced at $79 for one with sponsored ads and special offers, or $109 for the ad-free model.
This is a nice little package, it comes with wi-fi only and has smoother, faster page turns than previous models.
The perfect budget Kindle for those that love to read.
It doesn't have any audio, unlike the rest of the ebook reader range.
2. Kindle Touch Details
Also released on 28th Sept was the Kindle Touch Reader. You can pre-order now and shipping is scheduled to begin around 21st November. This makes it pretty likely to be something of a panic buy for Christmas since we don't know just how much stock will be available then. No surprise then that lots of people are ordering very early in deed!
Anyway, what do we want to know about this then?
Well, firstly this has the same battery, display and storage as the Kindle 3 (now called the Kindle Keyboard). Where it differs is in size, look and navigation. The whole thing is smaller at 6.8″ x 4.7″ x 0.40″ and only 7.5 (wi-fi) or 7.8 (wi-fi + 3G) ounces.
There are actually four versions available. They are all pretty much identical. A version with only wi-fi comes with or without sponsored ads, and a version with both 3G and wi-fi comes in the two choices as well.
The big change is the use of touch-screen technology. The keypad is gone and there are no external controls, everything is done with touch. Because IR touch technology is used there is no extra layer on the display so moving to touch-screen has no impact in the clarity of the view.
Kindle 4 – Better Than the Old Ones?
This is difficult. If you love keypads you won't like the new models! But don't panic as the keyboard models are still being sold anyway. Personally I think the smaller and lighter feel more than makes up for the loss of a keyboard. Plus you get X-ray technology that lets you find out tons of cool information about whatever you're reading.
The actual displays are still 6″ but you get to hold a lighter even more portable gadget which I think makes the Kindle 4 and Kindle Touch better than the rest. But, I don't type on my reader! 🙂
And now back to our original article…
We just love the Kindle here. But, we also love new things, advances in technology and the chance for a gadget that is already great, to become even more fantastic. That's why we're already wondering about the Kindle 4. What will we be offered next by the world's best selling ebook reader?
Kindle 4 Possibilities
Well of course Amazon aren't going to let on yet, as to what their next generation reader will be like. But, based on consumer likes, market trends, and some cool advances in the technology behind these electronic reading devices, we can make a few educated guesses as to what it will be like:
- Full color Kindle? Until recently this seemed like something only likely in the far distant future. But since the guys that make e-ink have now created a full color version of their display technology (e-ink Triton) this is perhaps not so unrealistic. In fact Hanvon are already set to give the world the first color e-Reader based on this technology late in 2011.
- Kindle Touch Screen? The world, it seems has yet to get over its fascination with touch screen technology. In fact, one of the things that people now tend to do when given a new gadget with a relatively large display, is to touch it. We find touch technology really easy to navigate and are demanding it for more and more of our personal electronics. Since rumours began in Jan 2010 that Amazon had bought out a touchscreen display technology company, it seems like this advancement is bound to come sooner or later.
- A 7″ Kindle? With the tablet pc growing more popular by the day, and the Nook Color giving us a slightly larger ebook reader it might make sense for Amazon to do the same. If a new seven inch Kindle display version were released it might provide a good vehicle for offering the more costly options of touch-screen and full color, without eliminating the great Kindle 3 and its super low price-tag. It might also prove to be a far more popular "larger" Kindle Reader than the nearly dead in the water DX.
Would We Buy the Kindle 4?
We know what is possible for the next generation reader, but would any of us actually want these options?
With regards to the Kindle in Color? Well, to be honest I am pretty sure that the majority of current Kindle owners are more than happy with monochrome displays since they are primarily reading fiction. But that isn't to say that a color option might improve take up with young families as it would really bring the bed-time story into the digital age.
And, a Kindle Touch? Well this advancement I believe simply has to come if Amazon expect to keep their customer base away from more slick, touchy-feely tablets. Plus it would mean they could do away with the keypad, modernising the design with the option to make the whole thing smaller (yet keep the same 6″ display), or keep it the same size and give us a slightly larger display. You can see how much can be shaved off the size with the same display if you move to touchscreens by comparing the latest Sony Reader against the current Kindle 3.
And a 7″ Kindle Reader? This one, I am not so sure about. It does make sense to perhaps add a new reader to the range. One that is a little larger (yet not so bulky as the DX) and give it color. This would be far more useful for those wanting to view images, graphs and charts, magazine subscriptions, or children's story books.
For my personal reading habits, the current six inch monochrome is just perfect, but I would consider a touch-screen a and doing away with the keypad a great move. I can see others being tempted by something a little larger and in full color too.
Kindle 4 Release Date
The official release date of the Kindle 4 is 28th September. The Touch Screen Kindle will start shipping around 21st November, but is available from 28th September.
This is What Our Readers Wanted From the 4th Generation Kindle:
What would you like from the Kindle 4?
- Full color display (28%, 1,438 Votes)
- Touch-screen (27%, 1,365 Votes)
- Expandable memory (15%, 743 Votes)
- Bigger screen (14%, 734 Votes)
- User replaceable battery (9%, 485 Votes)
- Better foreign character support (6%, 282 Votes)
- Something else - tell us in the comments! (2%, 77 Votes)
Total Voters: 2,172
90 Responses to "Kindle 4"
Would love a touch screen, smaller size (with being able to lose the keyboard), light weight.
Would LOVE to know release date, since I was thinking of buying one soon 🙂
I read a LOT of books on my kindle, but would really like to read Manga / comic books as well, and this is where a colour version would be great. Even if the colours are muted, it would still be awesome 🙂
I would also like to see a backlight for night reading!
I'd like to see lights going down the sides of the screen. NOT back lit, because that screws with the reading in sunlight, but if you recessed the screen just 1/8 on an inch more and then added side lighting, you could still read in the dark. Obviously, users would need to be able to turn them on and off. Also, I'd like to see the ability to download real audiobooks, instead of the terrible text to speech function…although it would be great if they could improve that, because I drive a lot and it would be great not to have to buy ebooks and audiobooks. However, I think audiobooks are probably more realistic.
Would love an ergonomic groove or trough around the perimeter of the screen to rest the thumb in to make it easier to hold. The text to speach could be linked to the dictionary cursor to provide a pronunciation of individual words. I would also like to see a way to know how many pages in typical hard back publication a book is and page numbers so I can relate to how big a book is. The % bar graph is useful but you can't rally tell how much book you are reading.
instead of paying 7 bucks (or so) for an electronic copy of a book… why not allow us to simply borrow books for a very small monthly fee? lets say… $1 a month and we can borrow any book in their library, one book at a time. if they did that, i would buy one immediately.
color e-ink technology looks pretty cool too. but being able to borrow books instead of paying 8 or even 10 bucks would be simply amazing.
– better PDF navigation
– ability to zoom text-embedded images (eg in textbooks)
– better image resolution (again, very important for textbook reading)
– an option to rent books for a smaller fee compared to the purchase price, or some system similar to Netflix, where the customer pays for a data plan and can read several dozens of books per month without having to purchase every single one
– real page numbers
– more and nicer fonts
I would like native support for the international EPUB ebook standard, both DRM and non-DRM EPUB. This is the only thing that currently holding me back from buying a kindle.
I am registered blind, and would really like to have a decent voice synphasiser on the Kindle. The 'tinny' american one that there is at the moment is awful
Page number display and maybe a slightly larger screen without enlarging the overall size of the casing,also a key lock (Like the on on the iPad) which leaves page turn buttons active but locks the keyboard functions so you can rest your thumb without bringing up the menu.
It would be great to have a touch screen, where you could highlight like with a pen on paper.
Would like to know when its going to be released!
What I really want is the ability to read .epub files. It doesn't have to support DRM protected ones, just standard epubs. Its an open format, so no licencing issues. Almost a no-brainer, because the .mobi format used by Kindles is getting left behind.
I was thinking of buying one soon. I Would LOVE to know release date!!!!
I read a lot of tech books and magazines and they tend to come in pdf format, so it be nice to see the next kindle display them correctly in a readable font size.
I expect larger screen, definitelly 7′ display to see more text at once. Or with current dimension even 8′ would be from corner to corner. No sh..ty keypad needed. Definitelly not touchscreen, I want to have clear view, without fingerprints all over.
A Pixel QI screen, surely! All the benefits of e-ink style screen and an LCD combined.
With touchscreen kindle I suppose it would be awsome to use it as sketch pad but that would
require better screen technology than the eink at the moment
-> an ability to manage subfolders and navigation from my computer.
-> an ability to upgrade the software.
-> my own screen saver imaes.
-> improve the text to speach.
-> some sort of street map program (no need for interactive GPS).
-> more formats (epub, djvu…)
I'd like a moderately larger screen with much better resolution: width increased to between 800 and 1200 'pixels' from the current 600.
PDF viewing needs an intelligent zoom function which whilst leaving just minimal margins around the text will fit the page to screen width or height – irrespective of the margins set in the pdf.
No desire for a touchscreen, but a marginally better keyboard would be appreciated.
Would like to know when it will be available. I'm iinterested in buying a Kindle but holding off until the latest and greatest comes out to make a decision.
same reason, 🙂
you can join and wait for a kindle together
I currently own a kindle 3G "6, Some of things I would like :
I would love to see WPA2 (AES) encryption option in the new Kindle. Currently it does not support it, which makes it impossible to connect to some WiFi networks that support only WPA2 and none of the old standards (like WEP and WPA). Keep in mind that over time, more and more access points switch to the new encryption.
You can bet that whatever Kindle 4 is going to look like, it is going to be aimed at taking down the best that Nook has
to offer. I am deleriously happy with my kindle 3, and I don't go anywhere without it. In my mind, I would like to see a
color DX. I went with the wifi version instead because I live in an area where 3G coverage is slower. Just how slow it is
I don't know. I want the larger screen, but not at the cost of sacrificing the speed of wifi. The touch screen is not so important
to me. I just want a color version DX with wifi instead of 3G and then I could die a happy man. Can anyone tell me if the
3G coverage is really slow in the rural areas?
I live in a rural area of Norfolk…3G coverage for my Kindle is not a problem. Downloading and uploading is fairly fast…the system searches for other network providers if 3G is not available.
Tell me when it will be released!
I cannot see the advantage of colour for an ebook display…no books have colour print and few have pictures…better to have an SD memory slot so that the owner can categorise their library on to separate cards rather than search through the "index" system if the Kindle itself. This would also increase greatly the available books one can acquire…It may also make more internal memory available for other functions…
A touch screen would enable a bigger reader screen, a stylus would be needed though to access an alpha numeric display to input notes (some people have "dumpy" fingers).
It would also be an advantage to alter some of the text and be able to upload these corrections….I have noticed that a lot of converted texts have poor conversion of some words/letters and it make reading a bit of a problem…pdf ebooks could be converted to a more user friendly system in the downloading to a Kindle…many pdf pages are difficult to read and expanding the page makes reading difficult…
Can hardly wait to get one. Hope it comes out soon.
It would be useful to have a separate keyboard with a pointer device on it available for the versions one, which could be plugged into the usb port. In addition, if the connection for this keyboard incorporated another usb port, the Kindle could be charged whilst using they keyboard. This would be very useful if you wanted to browse the internet in a Wi-Fi spot. A pointer would be especially useful.


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The other day, I was trying to paint that "just right" shade of nail polish on some plastic beads for trout fishing when sometime fishing guide J. Binkley Backwater called.
"That you?" he said.
"I hope so," I said. "How are you, Bink?"
"Not so good," he said. "I made up a mess of humpy eggs for bait last week, and that old witch who lives next door has been after me ever since."
"I'm not surprised. The last time you cured bait, the EPA listed your place as a Superfund cleanup site."
"This time, it weren't just the stink or the pollution," he said. "Her little mutt got loose and came over to my place. It ate about a pound of bait, then rolled around in the rest."
"Good grief, Bink."
"It gits worse," he said. "The next thing I knew, my hound Letch was havin' his way with the little yipper. That mean old woman throwed a bucket of cold water on the dogs, then she throwed one on me and knocked me down. There I was, layin' on the ground, with her cussin' and chewin' on me for all she was worth, and I looked up and seen the dudes I was s'posed to take fishin' that day, standin' there, watchin'."
"You didn't make much of a first impression, huh?"
"They left without payin', so I guess you're right. And that's why I called you. Stuff like this has been happenin' way too often, and it's costin' me money. Got any idees how to fix it?"
This was tricky ground. Backwater is long on promises but not much else, an "all sizzle, no steak" kind of guy. He never takes any advice that involves doing work or spending money. Past suggestions, such as replacing his relic of a boat or cleaning up around his "lodge," had been ignored. A new tack was called for.
"Do you know anything about branding?" I said.
"Yup. Last January, I accidentally backed into my woodstove."
"No, I mean a collection of ideas and images that might increase your market share in the guided fishing industry. For example, you could come up with a logo and a slogan to use in your brochures, calling cards, Web site, and so forth."
"Hmmm. That advertisin' stuff costs money, but I like part of that idee. A slogan might help keep the dudes' hopes low. That way, they don't git excited when they don't catch nothin'. How about this slogan: 'We might git skunked, but we probably won't git drowned or arrested.'"
"I was thinking of something more positive, but edgy, so as to reflect your, um, unique character and services, Bink. I'm thinking your logo could be an image of a king salmon with a grizzly in its jaws, over the slogan, 'Far North, far out.'"
"Say, I sorta like that," Backwater said. "And it don't commit me to nothin', neither."
"Right. People seeing that logo and slogan would immediately recognize what you have to offer."
"Long as they don't expect too much, I don't care what they want to believe," Backwater said.
"A good theme song is another effective branding tool," I said. "I suggest something upbeat with a good downbeat, such as 'The Fisherman's Prayer' by Mr. Whitekeys and the Fabulous Spamtones."
"That's good, as long as it don't cost me nothin'."
"If you did a fishing report for a radio station, they might play your theme song and give you a plug for free."
"I like that free part, but what would I report?"
"You'll think of something," I said.
"I s'pose you're right. I could always tell them how to fix up a mess of humpy eggs for bait."
Les Palmer is a writer who lives in Sterling, and who occasionally lets his imagination run wild.
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This is part of my national anthem(Australia) I've googled and looked in the dictionary but cant find a concrete definition for girt.
jennyau 46-50, F 11 Answers 1 Jul 13, 2009
Girt means surround. So.. "Surrounded by sea"

I hate our anthem.
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i hate u
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girt by sea means surrounded by sea
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scilla a stupid *****
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Maybe the "H" was left of the word G I R T H !!
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Surrounded as in we are an island.

As for our anthem it is ours and you can not go changing it just because it is old. It has history :)
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i second Robyn1972.
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Blowed if I know. I'm still trying to work out how we all got Ostriches.

(Its actually a contraction of "girdled" an old word for surrounded.)

But I'd sooner have "I am Australian " as the anthem. Much more apropriate in my book.
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"Our land's in the middle of the sea"

I just googled it.
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Tokyo 2020 went with my first choice for their new and improved official logo.
The fresh and geometric design was unveiled this week from a field of nearly 15,000 entries and four finalists shared earlier this year.
According to the organizing committee's official statement, the design is from a former architecture student turned artist, Asao Tokolo, whose website Tokolo.com features some pretty cool other works and designs.
My expectation is that the indigo blue -- a sign of "refined elegance and sophistication," may eventually be turned into an array of other color schemes and even presented in a three-dimensional form, as the rectangles of varying sizes may be easily assembled like LEGO pieces.
Those three different shapes, by the way, are indicative of "different countries, cultures and ways of thinking."
Indigo and midnight blue are longtime personal favorites of the color wheel, and for unknown reasons the logo instantly brought to mind music blue references starting with Madonna's 'True Blue" and Joni Mitchell's "Blue" album. If you want to get technical with Japanese color traditions, check out this document and this site for a rainbow -- that's 虹 in Japan -- of history.
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Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Jason Woo at Hong Kong based equity researcher The Woo Group today announced first quarter earnings that exceeded all previous quarters in the company's history.
Jun. 20, 2013 -- HONG KONG -- The Woo Group which was formed in 2002 by brothers Jon and Jason Woo has seen decade of mainly consistent growth since its formation, but according to Chief Executive Officer Jason Woo the company is going through a "period of exponential growth" and has seen earnings in the first quarter of 2013 almost double based on those earnings reported in the same period in 2012.
"This is excellent news for The Woo Group, and not only in respects to our generated revenue. It reflects our diligence and efficacy and I believe will only add momentum to our already rapidly growing client base" commented Jon Woo, Chairman of the board of directors.
The Woo Group's income is primarily derived from the collation of stock market data and the subsequent compilation of reports on those stocks the company is commissioned to review. However The Woo Group also provides a range of other services to both institutional and private investors. The increase in the Company's quarterly earnings has been largely attributed to the tremendous increase in corporate contracts signed over the past 12 months with major brokerages and investment banks in Hong Kong where The Woo Group is located, and the income derived from these research commissions.
The Company's private investment advisory department too saw an increase in its overall earnings of over 30% based on a 2012-2013 year by year comparison of first quarter earnings. However the largest increase in The Woo Groups reported earnings was seen by the company's trading arm where revenues exceeded a 145% increase on the first quarter of 2012.
"We are naturally very pleased to report such promising performance data, and I am confident that with the contracts we have more recently acquired and our continued trading performance, we can expect a further increase in the second quarter" said Chief Executive Officer, Jason Woo.