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Third, And Most Importantly, You Need To Have The Discipline To Follow Your Forex Trading System Rigorously.
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A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit areas near the Taiwan Strait at 07:57 am Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter was monitored at 23.28 degrees north latitude and 118.60 degrees east longitude. The quake struck at a depth of 20 km, the CENC said in a statement. A series of tremors were detected at 3.6-, 3.4-, 4.5- and 3.8-magnitude following the 8 am seismic event. No casualties have been reported at the time of writing. Earthquakes are of frequent occurrence in Taiwan Strait but most are minimal at magnitude and usually cause little to no damage.
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GOLDEN WONDERS: In this awesome photoshoot, Andy Hooper immortalises seven British medal hopefuls, proving they're worth their weight in gold
JENNA RANDALL, Synchronised swimmer
Jenna, 23, was swimming at two and took up synchronised swimming at seven. At 5ft 8in, her long limbs help her glide through the water while her incredibly strong hands are crucial for the 750 moves in a three-and-a-half minute routine. Lean and graceful, she maintains her physique with ten-hour pool and gym training sessions six days a week, and her diet includes crumpets and turkey for breakfast and big pasta dinners.
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RACHEL CAWTHORN. Sprint canoeist
Born in Guildford, Rachel, 23, first got into a kayak at 15... but fell out. It didn't put her off though, and she's since become the first British woman to win canoeing medals – a Gold and a Bronze – at both European and World Championships. Her muscular frame combines strength and flexibility, and her 5ft 9in height allows for a longer stroke in the water. Rachel eats yoghurt, muesli and fruit for breakfast, with added honey to help burn excess fat.
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TONIA COUCH, Diver
Plymouth-based Tonia, 23, has been diving for more than ten years since quitting gymnastics after dislocating an elbow. She and partner Sarah Barrow are the most successful British women's pair
in 74 years, winning Gold at this year's European Championships. Tonia has built immense core strength by training six hours a day, six days a week. She watches what she eats but still enjoys Chinese meals and McDonald's.
Tonia Couch
ANNE KEOTHAVONG, Tennis player
After taking up tennis at the age of seven and enduring two career-threatening knee surgeries, Londoner Anne is now Britain's No 2 female player. Standing 5ft 9in tall, the 28-year-old works on the
strength in her lower body, where huge amounts of power can be generated in the legs and hips before being transferred into a shot. Off court she is keen to pursue a career in the media and has done work with Sue Barker as a pundit.
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MO FARAH, Distance runner
Somali-born Mo, 29, fled his war-torn country and moved to Britain with his family aged eight. He began running at school in London, winning five English junior titles. Famous for his sprint finish,
he runs 120 miles a week at an average of 5.4 minutes per mile, and uses an underwater treadmill and a cryogenic chamber cooled to -104°C to aid recovery. Mo, who is 5ft 9in tall, has no strict diet but loads up on carbohydrates before a race.
Mo Farah
TOM JAMES, Rower
Tom, 28, from Cardiff, won Olympic Gold in the coxless four in Beijing, and has won the Boat Race with Cambridge. His 6ft 2in frame gives him tremendous reach and pulling power, while his perfect rowing technique is founded in his muscular back. He was diagnosed with a heart complaint just before Christmas, but medication and careful observation have allowed him to recover. Rowers like Tom eat oatmeal and grains three hours before racing.
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BRYONY SHAW, Windsurfer
At 29, Londoner Bryony is the only British female to have won an Olympic medal in her sport – Bronze in 2008. She learnt to windsurf aged nine, and in 2004 postponed her architecture degree to windsurf full-time. At 5ft 4in, Bryony is small for a windsurfer but has supreme balance. Her diet includes porridge for breakfast, light lunches of sandwiches or fruit and highprotein dinners – and she treats herself to a chicken tikka masala after competitions.
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They look like shimmering statues, perfectly cast in 24-carat gold – the ultimate tribute to the physical perfection of Britain's Olympians.
But beneath their glittering exteriors lie the flesh, blood and beating hearts of some of our leading medal contenders.
GB Diver Tonia Couch gets painted in gold by make up artist Natasha
Our awe-inspiring photographs are the result of an 18-month odyssey by the Daily Mail's award-winning photographer Andy Hooper, who set out to 'immortalise' our athletes.
Dismissing the idea of a conventional shoot, Andy persuaded them to take time out from their gruelling training schedules to be covered from head to toe in gold paint and turned into living sculptures. Visa, The National Lottery and the Exchequer, who fund Team GB, helped Andy gain access to them.
'I wanted to showcase as broad a range of athletes as possible and do something totally different to what had been done before,' says Andy. 'I wanted to immortalise them. It was amazing to see how they were transformed once they were painted – Mo looked like an Egyptian pharaoh.'
Andy enlisted the help of leading make-up artist Natasha Bloom who, despite years working with top models on cutting-edge fashion shoots, found this to be her biggest challenge.
When the athletes found a window in their intense training regimes, Natasha had to drop everything. 'I went from one extreme to the other – from working on fashion shoots which can take a whole day, to suddenly having only an hour to prepare these athletes,' she says.
'We travelled to the Pyrenees where Mo Farah was doing altitude training in an old ski chalet. I was constantly checking to make sure I had all the kit I needed and that I hadn't left anything behind as I knew we wouldn't get a second chance.'
Andy enlisted the help of leading make-up artist Natasha Bloom who, despite years working with top models on cutting-edge fashion shoots, found this to be her biggest challenge.
Achieving the authentic solid gold look Andy wanted was made more complicated by his insistence that the paint didn't make the athletes feel uncomfortable or restrict their movement in any way – a problem with most standard body paint. He also wanted them as shiny as gold bullion.
Natasha came up with the idea of using ultra-fine gold pigment powder mixed with baby oil. She applied it with a sponge and used gold spray to colour their hair, going through more than 150 cans.
Painting their kit, she explains, was the most time-consuming part of the process and was done weeks in advance, with coat after coat needed for the perfect effect.
Of course there were several Olympians who couldn't find time to commit to the project and even some superstitious contenders who declined to take part, feeling that being painted gold would add to the already sizeable pressure upon them ahead of the Games.
Tom Daley was one of those who politely turned down the offer.
'I think once they see the end result, the ones who didn't take part will be kicking themselves,' laughs Andy. 'One or two were a little apprehensive when the paint was going on, but they all enjoyed doing it. It was brilliant that they agreed to give up their precious time to take part.'
Natasha agrees. 'The way they've been immortalised like this is spectacular. When they all looked in the mirror and saw themselves, they were stunned. Thankfully, none of them behaved like divas. I'm used to that in my job, but given the task in hand, they were all fantastic.'
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UPDATE: Pasco County deputies arrested the Uber Eats driver mentioned in this story. She is now accused of making her story up because the man involved didn't have money to pay her for a ride.
Heidi Schmutz was arrested Thursday and charged with filing a false report. You can find our updated story on her arrest here.
News Channel 8 is not naming the man in this story because he is no longer a suspect.
ORIGINAL STORY: A man is behind bars after a terrifying situation was reported by an Uber Eats driver in Pasco County.
An arrest report says a 31-year-old approached an Uber Eats driver at Denny's in New Port Richey around 3 a.m. Wednesday. As the woman was loading her car with food, deputies say he approached and started rambling about the food being his.
The woman claimed she told him to leave her alone but, according to the arrest report, he jumped in the passenger side front seat of her car. The woman told deputies he said he had a gun and instructed her to drive. The arrest report says he also took her cell phone and kept touching the woman against her will by grabbing her breasts.
The driver told deputies he gave her instructions to her delivery address when she told him someone would get suspicious if she didn't make her delivery. When she made the delivery, the woman claimed she tried getting the attention of the customer but couldn't get help.
After leaving the delivery, the Uber Eats driver claimed she tried to drive south on US-19, but told deputies the man grabbed the wheel and took the car to the Rodeway Inn parking lot.
Once the car was stopped, the woman said she was able to get the attention of a man who helped keep him occupied while she ran away.
The victim later positively identified the man as the suspect. He was arrested and charged with false imprisonment.
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Watch: Trini's London pub featured on BBC
Trinidadian Randy Rampersad has been featured on the BBC for what some say could be the world's most ethical pub, the Green Vic.
The BBC shared the viral video online which received positive comments from viewers and over 2,000 shares on Facebook.
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Rampersad explained that much of his supplies, food and even the staff at his business are supported in an ethical way.
"I was born in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, I came here when I was six years old.
"I've got the opportunity to make a difference here. How cool would it be to have a pub that gives back to charity?" he said.
He explained his pub uses only ethical supplies for everything, such as the beverages, uniforms, and even the toilet paper used in pub bathrooms - and a percentage of profits are also donated to charities.
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Phyllis Mills: "Absolutely brilliant! These are the people who should be recognised!"
Anne Rae: "Makes me proud to see a trini brother doing so well."
Thelma Doncaster: "Brilliant we need pubs to think like this? For a better future."
Tobias St Cloud: "Great idea. Wish ppl in Trinidad can see this and take note. Not everything is about getting rich but sustainability. Represent Trinidad."
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I think there's a lot of ways to be a mom. I grew up in a really wonderful church family, and I would say that I had a great mom, but I also had a team of women who were mothering me as well. They were mentors, and there were other ones that I could talk to and I could trust that would feed into my life. While that is removed from... Being a mentor to someone else's child is removed from having your own, there's such a wonderful, biblical mandate from the Lord that older women should be discipling and mentoring and teaching young women.
The bonds that I made with those women were amazing. They were the ones that threw me a baby shower. They're the ones that helped me fundraise for my adoption. So you can develop such strong bonds with people and you can be used by the Lord in such mighty ways that sometimes a biological mother just doesn't have the end road in that. I was so thankful for other women who wanted to invest in my life and mentor me in my life. But I also think these days there's just so many options to build your family.
I think it's important that you can grieve and it's okay to be incredibly disappointed with the brokenness that might exist in the way you thought your family would be formed. That's okay. I think grieving is appropriate, but I also think that the joy comes in the morning. There is a time to mourn, but then there's a time to wake up and seek out hope from the Lord about a different way to be a mom. It might look like mentoring someone else's child or being a part of someone's family, or that might look like adopting a child or being a foster mom. We're in desperate need of foster moms around this country. Good, good homes that provide a stark difference to the trauma that those kids are coming from.


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LiveOps Cloud – Tapping the Billion Dollar Call-Center Market on AWS
LiveOps Cloud is ready to break open a huge untapped market. The company is a long-time solutions provider for the contact center industry, and just recently launched CxEngage, a new contact center-as-a-service platform built and run entirely on AWS. I asked Jeff Thompson, LiveOps Cloud's CTO and SVP for engineering, to tell us a bit […]Read More
Building Bridges for Better Cancer Treatment with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
My colleagues Jessica Beegle and Christopher Crosbie shared the inspiring story below! — Jeff; The science of cancer research is continually evolving to include new fields of study. Examples include development of chemotherapies, radiology amplified treatments, and epidemiology for identifying carcinogens. Pathology continues to help deepen the understanding of the disease's manifestations. The discipline of […]Read More
Airbnb – Reinventing the Hospitality Industry on AWS
Airbnb is a classic story of how a few people with a great idea can disrupt an entire industry. Launched in 2008, over 80 million guests have stayed on Airbnb in over 2 million homes in over 190 countries. They recently opened 4,000 homes in Cuba to travelers around the globe. The company was also […]Read More
How Tokyu Hands Architected a Cost-Effective Shopping System with Amazon DynamoDB
I am a flâneur! I enjoy wandering around a new city, exploring the nooks and crannies, and figuring out what makes it unique and special. On one of my trips to Tokyo I was walking through Shibuya and found and amazing hobby store. The 8-floor building contained tools, supplies, and kits for almost every imaginable […]Read More
AWS – Ready to Weather the Storm
As people across the Northeastern United States are stocking up their pantries and preparing their disaster supplies kits, AWS is also preparing for winter snow storms and the subsequent hurricane season. After fielding several customer requests for information about our preparation regime, my colleagues Brian Beach and Ilya Epshteyn wrote the following guest post in […]Read More
King – Using Amazon CloudFront to Deliver Mobile Games to Over 200 Countries
I recently spent some time on the phone with the folks from King to learn more about how they use Amazon CloudFront to serve game content to a world-wide audience. All About King The company was founded in 2003. At that time, they built web games easily accessed from the various portal sites that were […]Read More
Oscar Health – A new Kind of Health Insurance Company, Powered by AWS
As part of a trip to New York last month, I paid a visit to the headquarters of Oscar Health to learn more about what they do and how they use AWS. I sat down with Brent Langston (Site Reliability Engineer) and Mackenzie Kosut (Head of Technical Operations) to learn more. All About Oscar Oscar […]Read More
Success on AWS: Broadcast Interactive Media + Wowza Streaming Engine
I would like to share an exciting AWS customer success story with you today, courtesy of AWS Partner Wowza Media Systems and their customer, Broadcast Interactive Media. This is the first of what I hope will develop into a series of guest posts authored by AWS partners and customers. If you are interested in contributing […]Read More
The AWS Report – Joe Vaccaro of Citrix
In the latest episode of The AWS Report, I spoke with Joe Vaccaro of Citrix to learn more about the topic of desktop virtualization. Co-host Lee Zen chatted with our colleague Eric Schultze to learn more about the Virtual Private Cloud. If you can take a minute to fill out our video survey after you […]Read More
Pulse – Using Big Data Analytics to Drive Rich User Features
Its always exciting to find out that an app that has changed how I consume news and blog content on my mobile devices is using AWS to power some of their most engaging features. Such is the case with Pulse, a visual news reading app for iPhone, iPad and Android. Pulse uses Amazon Elastic MapReduce, […]Read More


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Huggies Offers 'Made By You' Diapers
Move over, "Baby's First Christmas" ornament. Kimberly-Clark is now offering Huggies Made by You, an online service that lets parents and gift givers create and buy personalized diapers.
The made-to-order diapers can be customized with names, monograms and dates and come in a choice of five limited-edition designs. Marketed under a partnership with digital commerce solution provider BrandShop, they're available exclusively at huggiesmadebyyou.com.
"We know that a lot of thought goes into selecting the perfect gift for expectant parents reflective of the celebration of each unique baby," said Sara Young, general manager of Huggies. "Overwhelmingly, consumers express passion for personalization and we're thrilled to be offering Huggies Made by You to deliver a gift that's as exciting to give as it is to open."
Huggies Made by You was unveiled at an exclusive baby celebration for interior designers and husbands Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent to celebrate the arrival of their son, Oskar. The event was curated by celebrity party planner Nicole Marie Pittmon.
"Our aesthetic is all about adding personal touches," said Brent. "The new line adds that personalized expression, so that you can gift something that truly reflects new parents and their baby."
Each custom order costs $75 and consists of 28 premium Huggies Made by You diapers in one of the five designs. The products are only available in size 1 (eight to 14 pounds).
The custom diaper "fashions" can be shared by using #MyHuggies and tagging the brand on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest.
While Huggies may be the only brand offering exclusive diapers, it is not the only packaged goods company outsourcing its e-commerce business to BrandShop, which provides everything from fulfillment and secure payments to customer service. Other companies that sell goods through Brandshop include Tommy Hilfiger, Casio, Waterpik, Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day, Caldrea (aromatherapy), Senseo (coffee machines), Kuhn Rikon (cookware) and Hershey.
A BrandShop consumer study found that four of five shoppers expect to be able to buy products directly from a brand's site and would do so if given the option.
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Never underestimate the power of a pretty woman to divide and [sometimes] conquer. Segie was a case in point. The greatest barriers to a woman getting to the N1 spot include:
1. Perception as a lightweight. This is not helped when she gets shrill or the tears appear when outraged;
2. An underlying dislike, especially among the men [and a surprising number of women] who simply don't want a woman in charge;
3. A tendency to speak the truth, which the majority then construe as "tinfoil hat". Sherlock Holmes mentioned this – give the opening premise and the conclusion, leaving out the middle bit and people will be baffled. Worse than that, the speaker will be ridiculed, doubly so if it is a "pushy" woman saying it.
The key expression being used about Michele Bachmann is "don't underestimate her". Over and over again, when she appears to be punching above her own weight:
… she surprises with a victory and don't forget there is a very strong push in the western world for a woman to be parachuted into the top spot [Harriet Harman?] and if that woman is pretty and if what she says makes a lot of sense to a lot of core people, then her gaffes can be overlooked and her little white "avoidances" are simply blips along the way.
Especially in America but also elsewhere, it comes down in the end to perceptions. Some candidates might be good people but if they're simply disliked, then that's the end of the story. However, when someone is seen as a battler for the common man [not overtly feminazi], a person "they" try to silence, a fighter for freedom and so on, when she comes across as genuine and free of poli-speak, then that can go a long way, at least as far as an Iowa caucus win.
What are her chances? Here are some random comments from various sites and comments at those sites:
Ever since Michele Bachmann announced her intention to form a presidential exploratory committee, pundits, including Ed Kilgore at TNR, have been making the case that she has a good chance at winning Iowa—or if not winning, then doing well enough to hurt one or more of the stronger candidates. Republican caucus-goers in the state, they argue, are at least half-nuts, and therefore may well support Bachmann or some other candidate who doesn't pass conventional standards of seriousness.
Compared to Huckabee, Michele Bachmann is an altogether different sort of candidate. Since 1972, no candidate in any way similar has run a competitive campaign. The only three members of the House who had plausible shots at winning—Mo Udall in 1976, Jack Kemp in 1988, and Dick Gephardt in 1988 and 2004—were all senior members with leadership positions, legislative accomplishments, or both. No, Bachmann belongs in a different category, with other sideshow acts who may attract attention but have no real chance to win the nomination. And even in allegedly crazy Iowa, those candidates rarely impress on caucus day.
That's a bit of a downer for her. A brief break for a quick look at Michele in action:
How about this, from Daily Caller?
Let's assume for a minute that she runs but doesn't win. At some point, whoever is left standing will want the support of her and the army of grassroots supporters she commands. That means direct attacks on her run the risk of alienating a base of people the eventual primary winner will need.
But what if she does run to win?
If the field is Romney, Pawlenty, Gingrich, Huntsman, Santorum, Paul and Cain — no Mitch Daniels and no Sarah Palin — there's a good base of primary voters who, not feeling overly enthusiastic about any one nominee, might be inclined to channel their energy and support toward Bachmann.
Can you imagine what the response would be if Palin opted not to run and instead endorsed Bachmann?
… and this:
To impact the race, Bachmann doesn't need to win in any of the early contests in New Hampshire, Iowa or South Carolina; she just needs to finish in the top three.
Looking back at 2008, the top three finishers in New Hampshire received 37%, 32% and 11% respectively. In Iowa: 34%, 25% and 13%. South Carolina: 33%, 29% and 15%.
Essentially, garnering at least 15% of the vote is enough to finish third in the early contests. Given that, it really isn't that farfetched to imagine the only candidate in the primary with the full support of the Tea Party movement receiving at least 15% of the vote in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina.
If Bachmann were to be in the top three early on, what does it say about the other four or five guys who don't? Can they make a credible case to stay in the race? You can't really make the case for Bachmann to get out if she's consistently outperforming more "traditional" candidates.
She may not be able to win the whole thing, but she sure can ensure that some people don't either.
Delmar Jackson, a Democrat:
Bachman has something no one else has, Bachman has the best immigration voting record of any candidadte as graded by Numbersusa. People were mad as hell in 2010, tired of being smeared as racist,xenophobe,bigot,nativist and dummies just because they wanted less legal immigration and zero illegal immigration, and to have our laws enforced.
In 2012 they will still be mad, but looking for payback to the democrats that want to import a new class of permanent Democrat voter and republicans that want cheap compliant labor for their ruling class masters. I am a democrat, have voted for carter and Gore and got involved with immigration issue over the environmemt. Immigration opened my eyes, it has opened a lot of American's eyes to our weasels in washington.
Bachman is looking better all the time.
Now opinions like that, which point to crossover votes, always a big factor for the party brass, will not go unnoticed. You all remember Jim Hacker as the most acceptable candidate to all interested groups.
Do not underestimate this woman.
Mark McKinnon at the Daily Beast wrote an interesting piece on how Michele Bachmann could capture the Republican nomination. Here's an excerpt from the article:
Though prone to gaffes and non-answer answers, she is a formidable fundraiser, an icon among Tea Party enthusiasts, draws cameras like flies, and her detractors are legion. And it's looking more and more likely she will run for president. Also, it's not a stretch to see how she could very likely win Iowa and we know what happens after that.
No, not Sarah Palin. Get ready for a conservative firebrand from Minnesota who may make memories of Palin pale quickly. We are talking about Rep. Michele Bachmann who, while Palin hesitates, has aggressively jumped into the fray. And while she's not my cup of tea (party), Bachmann would arguably be a stronger GOP candidate for president than Palin in 2012. She works harder, she's smarter, she has more discipline, more focus and, perhaps most important, she has fire in her belly.
Chair of the House Tea Party caucus and an outspoken champion of the movement, Bachmann raised more campaign cash in the 2010 congressional midterm elections than any other candidate. And her $2.2 million haul in the first quarter of 2011, mostly from small donors and before she has officially entered the race, tops former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
Her "positive intensity" among Republicans and right-leaning independents, as measured by Gallup, is higher than Palin's, even though her name recognition is far lower. Though political pundits pounce on her every misspeak and mangled factoid, while being far more forgiving of the president's mispronunciations, and historical inaccuracies, she electrifies crowds and displays unnerving message discipline.
Her upstaging of the GOP's response to the State of the Union address created consternation within the party, but got at least twice the attention and coverage as did Paul Ryan, who delivered the party's formal response. Ninety percent of politics is showing up. And Bachmann is showing up in Iowa. And she's creating a lot of excitement among the conservative faithful. And Bachmann would fill the void left by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), who decided not to run for president in 2012: She is both a fiscal and social conservative, which is what Iowa Republican primary voters like. If Mike Huckabee doesn't run, and Palin doesn't run, that leaves Rick Santorum as Bachmann's only real competition among these core voters. And he lost his last election by 16 points.
"What I find most fascinating about the article is this quote from Karl Rove on Michele Bachmann":
She's smart, she's tough, she's funny, she's got a lot of personality and all of that will help her if she throws her hat in the ring.
Will she win the nomination? Will she even decide to run? Both questions are up in the air. That said, they do make a compelling case. If Palin doesn't run, Bachmann will very readily be able to capture her base of support mostly unopposed and, without Huckabee, could surprise us in Iowa. With an Iowa win and her already powerful fundraising network, Bachmann would fastly become competitive in other states which are friendly to her brand of conservatism. With her "Tea Party" credentials, fundraising prowess, and personal roots to Iowa – a win there for Bachmann is not out of the question.
Could we see President Bachmann in 2013? I don't know. What I do know is that I would vote for her over Obama any day of the week, especially if she can lay out a good platform with a solid running mate.
… but some negatives:
* I just can't see someone who makes that many dumb remarks/statements/gaffes being taken seriously. What in God's name makes her qualified to be President?
* She is just the latest flavor to be brought out to save the establishment from their greatest fear…an honest woman. It's NOT going to work.
* She'd keep T-Paw from getting off the ground in Iowa (and hinder his fundraising base too) AND split up a lot of the Evangelical/Tea Party vote from potential candidates Huck and Newt (more in Iowa than in South Carolina, but significantly in both places).
* She wants to be Romney's VP. I'm not kidding either. I love Bachmann….she's a great woman, and I respect her. She hits all the points that Romney is going to need, and we know that he can't pick Palin.
* Bachmann is flat out crazy. It scares the living daylights out of me that anyone would think that this lying lunatic might qualify to even run for President.
That point about VP was interesting.
"I have no idea," says Scheffler, president of Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition. "This is probably the most wide-open field we've had in decades."
If one could even call it a field yet — so far, it's looking more like an open casting call.
"We are starting slower, compared to four years ago," says Matt Strawn, chairman of the Iowa Republican Party. "There is greater fluidity in the race.
"It's wide-open," Strawn says.
Some other quick grabs:
* Having witnessed Congresswoman Bachmann's rise from conservative education activist to member of Congress close over the last decade and a half, I have learned one thing: Never underestimate her.
Agree with her or not, she is a very skilled candidate. Whether that translates to a win in the Iowa caucuses is debatable, but it is indeed possible.
* Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Bachmann is a dynamic, charismatic, very, very skilled candidate — and she knows how to work the crowd. You are underestimating her.
* Those [negatives] are good points, but I think everyone should look at how she secured the Republican nomination for MN-CD6 her first time out. She was up against two very formidable candidates–one of which had extremely strong conservative ties–and blew them both out of the water by out-working and out-networking them. Minnesota's caucus system is similar to Iowa's and Bachmann works very well in a caucus system. I doubt she will do as well in primary states.
* Bachmann certainly has some strikes against her [fringe candidate, backbencher in the House], but she also has some advantages not shared by most of those other candidates Bernstein mentioned. Bachmann is raising a lot of money now and has demonstrated an ability to raise a lot of money in the past — not just for a House member, but for anyone. She was also born in Iowa, is from a next-door state and is very, very close to Rep. Steve King, the, uh, kingmaker of Iowa conservatives.
There is this too:
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) says she's not running for re-election while campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination, but the Minneapolis Star Tribune notes "the 2012 political calendar makes it easy for her to change her mind."
"If she stumbles in the primaries, state law would allow her to discontinue her presidential campaign and file for re-election to the House by June 5, 2012. That could discourage other Minnesota candidates."
There are a number of stalking horse theories – to stop Palin, to ensure Romney – and if true, then she will surprisingly win a few. As for her, she seems very much to me a genuine candidate, at least in her own mind. She's Tea Party and the Tea Party are on a mission.
Whatever happens, it's going to be very, very entertaining and apart from our Boris and Cheeky Lembit, who but the Americans can add such colour to their political races?


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There are growing calls for a national digital ID scheme. The Bank of England's Mark Carney is one of the latest to back such a move, reasoning it will better protect people's finances. A new techUK white paper makes the case that digital identities are essential to unlocking the value of the digital economy. With many advantages being championed, Chris Lewis from financial security software developers, Synectics Solutions, looks at how a scheme could work to benefit financial organisations and consumers.
A national digital identity scheme has significant potential to deliver in two key areas; security and simplicity. Both of these factors are of increasing importance to consumers and businesses.
Data released last year by fraud prevention service, Cifas, showed identity fraud hit an all-time high in 2017. Levels of this type of crime have increased 125% in a decade and it's a problem affecting consumers of all ages. It costs financial organisations billions of pounds, while proving stressful and time-consuming for consumers.
Increasing regulation to better identify and verify customers has been designed partly to tackle the growing threat of ID fraud. This has been met by a willingness among financial organisations, and an understanding by consumers, but is far from the perfect solution. Both parties appreciate the fundamental sentiment of Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering regulations and checks, and likewise, both share the frustrations of how these, inadvertently, compromise customer experiences.
It is cumbersome and tiresome for consumers to have to produce various forms of identification and verification, remember several passwords and go through multiple authentication checks – which will only increase following PSD2. People want their money to be safe and to complete secure transactions, but also want applications and interactions with service providers to be simple and straightforward. A national digital ID scheme could realise this.
Potentially, such a scheme would involve two levels of ID profile for each individual. These would include a private profile that consumers manage using a combination of soft and hard verification. This profile is then cross-checked against an individual's public profile, which is verified according to a wide-variety of data sources. For example, this may include information from credit reference agencies, banks, insurers, employers and public sector unique identifiers such as National Insurance numbers. The two levels are validated to create one unique digital ID for each person.
The digital ID would then be stored in a secure 'wallet' type application on a smart phone. Consumers would be able to access this via a passcode or potentially through facial recognition or fingerprint scan, depending on the type of phone. The ID could be instantly presented to a financial organisation, either in person by showing the mobile device or electronically by sharing the profile through a secure transfer mechanism. Both means of presentation would also be backed-up with other levels of customer authentication but would be less time-consuming and significantly more secure.
A self-served, singular ID of this type would mean each customer verification is based on reams and reams of data and extensive validation, which is constantly updated and accurate. This will make it increasingly difficult for fraudsters to impersonate other people and create synthetic identities. It would also make it harder for criminals to set-up mule accounts for laundering money.
Needless to say, technology will be crucial to the infrastructure and practicalities of realising these benefits. The digital IDs need to be securely stored, accessed, shared and recovered. However, equally as important as technology, is the need for collaboration.
Public and private sector organisations need to come together to share data. This will ensure IDs are kept 'real-time' and accurate. It means any fraudulent attempts to impersonate and manipulate IDs are quickly determined and analysed, reducing the ability for criminals to try and use an identity across different sectors and for different reasons. It will also help 'thin-file' individuals without a substantial credit footprint through utilising alternative data sources.
Collaboration will also ensure there's national agreement on one type of digital ID scheme, avoiding the potential for multiple different options. This will fulfil the time-saving and simplicity benefits consumers crave, and which businesses know are important to customer satisfaction. A singular scheme will free-up the capital and resource currently invested in multiple levels of customer verification. This could be invested in other areas to tackle financial crime.
Finally, collaboration could overcome any 'big brother' concerns consumers have about sharing their data and it being captured in one place. Big businesses already have lots of data about customers and consumers know this. Feeding this into a central scheme managed by the data subject gives power back to consumers and promotes transparency and trust. Similarly, organisations working together to share customer data presents the opportunity to better reward and incentivise people. The "carrot on stick" approach would help drive public acceptance and adoption of the ID and has already been demonstrated recently across Scandinavia.
Society is not that far away from a national ID scheme. People are already using application processes like 'sign-in with Facebook or Google' and using technology to remember log-in details. To take the next step to making a national ID scheme a reality, consumers and suppliers need to be engaged early and be part of the development process.


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Yesterday I spent mainly at the Crescent Lake Lodge. The ground seemed old, beaten down by the feet of hundreds of thousands of overfed children. Smoke from the British Columbian forest fires robbed the sky of blue and the trees of definition. This morning, thinking of the lost beauty, I'm on the way to Marymere Falls, walking through a forest of shaggy red cedars and soldier-straight Douglas Furs.
The trail has been reduced to hard pan by thousands of tennis shoes. Dust raised by passing walkers coats trail-side ferns and the leaves of salal berry plants. But I am alone and the trees can't help but impress.
Don't we savor those rare chances to be the only presence in a place of famous beauty like a rain, Venice's St. Mark's Square or the south rim of the Grand Canyon at first light?
It is small by Alaskan standards but Marymere Falls has its own mossy beauty. I sit on a wooden bench worn smooth by the bottoms of previous visitors. Some of them carved initials into the bench or into the railing that marks the edge of a sheer cliff. But on this summer Saturday morning no one approaches with a knife. The sound of tired children or grunting parents doesn't compete with that made by tumbling water in a great hurry to join the lake.


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Box Hill's skyline will dwarf that of Hobart or Canberra within three years, with 11 towers approved or under construction and dozens more to come.
The suburb in Melbourne's leafy east has been the city's hottest property market for two years, real estate agency Savills says.
Developers have been targeting low-rise commercial buildings for conversion into residential skyscrapers.
A further $2 billion of development is planned, Savills director Clinton Baxter said, and a "staggering" 149 residential projects were now at different stages of development.
Together, Mr Baxter said, they would would provide 5500 new apartments.
"The developers descending on Box Hill are typically of Chinese background, with an acute appreciation of Box Hill's appeal to the Asian market," said Mr Baxter.
"They have the expertise and financial resources to produce projects of this scale rapidly."
But many people who live there say Box Hill's development frenzy is handing developers "obscene" profits, and could create a "modern-day slum" and "transport chaos".
One former councillor, Tanya Tescher said long-term residents were there "for the surrounding landscape, and not to be faced with towers looming in their backyard".
"This is not the CBD, it is suburbia, and that is what people living in the area want."
Other community groups fear that the rise of the tower blocks gave no thought to accessibility and would make it harder for people to get around.
"We need to allow easy access through and around Box Hill for cyclists, people with disabilities, mums with prams and people with mobility aides," said David Morrison, from the Whitehorse Active Transport Action Group.
"How do we get there? We make sure that we have adequate provision at street level through setbacks and the ability to cut through laneways and buildings."
Box Hill is one of nine metropolitan activity centres in Melbourne, well served by public transport and meant to deliver jobs, housing and services.
Whitehorse Council wants to encourage taller buildings in "a major development precinct" near Box Hill railway station and Whitehorse Road.
This week, a panel of planning experts appointed by the Andrews government began hearings into Box Hill's future.
Among those giving evidence was retail property giant Vicinity, which owns the Box Hill Central shopping complex and 50 per cent of Australia's biggest shopping centre, Chadstone.
Lawyers for Vicinity told the panel it wanted to expand Box Hill Central to include high-density residential and offices, and to go higher than the 20 storeys it would be allowed.
Vicinity argued in its submission it had "5.5 hectares of developable land immediately above and adjacent to the rail station/bus interchange" – the equivalent to almost three blocks in Melbourne's CBD.
The company queried why the biggest buildings in Box Hill would be built away from the railway station, on busy Whitehorse Road west of Nelson Road.
Also presenting to the panel was Ms Tescher, who won office at last year's local elections opposing towers in Box Hill. She resigned earlier this year.
She warned that residents in Box Hill and nearby Mont Albert did not want more towers, yet felt powerless to stop them.
Meanwhile, developers of large buildings can, she said, "afford a QC to defend their interests".
She told panel chairman Lester Townsend that no other metropolitan activity centre had allowed the heights seen in Box Hill. The recently completed Whitehorse Towers are 36 and 26 storeys.
Sunshine's highest approval was 15 storeys, in Ringwood it was 15 levels, in Frankston 17 to 18, Dandenong 12 and Epping 10 to 12 storeys, she said.
"Why is Box Hill the only metropolitan activity centre among all of these which is proposing to [support] high towers?" she asked.
"There is no rationale for this except for allowing developers to make obscene profits."
The Whitehorse Active Transport Action Group warned the new skyscrapers would become "slums".
It noted that the recent approval of a number of high-rise towers to accommodate 4400 people amounted to the population of a medium-sized country town being added.
More tower approvals would "further stretch the local infrastructure," the group said. "A modern-day slum will be the inevitable result."
And the projected influx of residents and visitors from higher-density development over the next decade would, the group warned, "result in transport chaos if the current ... transport infrastructure [was] not reviewed and greatly improved".
According to Hale Consulting forecasts, public transport usage at Box Hill interchange is tipped to rise from 16,300 rail passengers, to 31,300 in 2039. Bus patronage is tipped to rise from 13,700 to 30,000 over the same period.
Helen Harris is another former Whitehorse councillor who gave evidence at this week's hearings.
Box Hill had been designated as high density for about 50 years and the suburb's trams, trains and buses made it an ideal development centre, she told Fairfax Media.
She said suggested height limits for areas simply did not work unless they were mandatory.
"From bitter experience as a councillor, I found it extremely frustrating that developers would breach the suggested height limits and that VCAT [the state planning tribunal] would approve those extra height limits," Ms Harris said.
Now secretary of the Box Hill Historical Society, Ms Harris wants Planning Minister Richard Wynne to place mandatory height limits over Box Hill.
Madeleine Heffernan edits The Age's Monday education page
Clay Lucas is a senior reporter for The Age. Clay has worked at The Age since 2005, covering urban affairs, transport, state politics, local government and workplace relations for The Age and Sunday Age.


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Within the education that we give to our children, the teaching of economics is one of the pending subjects in most cases. Teaching how economic relations work, the concept of income and expenditure, the value of things or the concept of money and its use, is not easy to transmit or even to learn.
To face the teaching of how the economy works in our children, we must follow some basic criteria and a series of rules so that they know how society works and the economic relations between individuals. Here are the first three rules to teach the economy to our children and to value what they have.
The exchange of goods and services, the first lesson
Determining the right age to begin economic education is complicated since each child shows a different capacity for reasoning and learning throughout his or her life. In any case, the first concept we should teach a child is how barter and the rudiments of trade work.
This teaching is practically an innate teaching since on many occasions, our own children are taught the concept of barter through teachings of good-evil or right-error. Using the phrase "if you behave yourself, let's go to the movies" or "I'll buy you this gift if you pick up your toys" is one of the first approaches to barter.
On this basis, we can explain to a child with relative ease how trade and the exchange of goods or services work and simultaneously we can introduce the concept of money as a key element for the standard valuation of any exchange.
What is money, explained for children
Explaining what money is to a child is a bit complicated if we want to understand money in the same way that we adults do. One of the best definitions of money for a child is the following:
Money and its different representations (bills, coins…) are the symbol of the value we give to things so that we can exchange them for other things. If we use money, it is easier to put people in agreement so that we can exchange what we need and that helps us to live better.
At this point, parents, we will be able to explain to our children how parents get money through their work and with that money, they can buy things for their daily life. In the same vein, we can explain that if we do not have money for our work, it is very difficult to make an exchange with other people.
A simple example for our children to understand this mechanism. Suppose parents work in a car dealership and instead of paying you with money in exchange for your work, they will pay you in vehicles or car parts. If we then want to buy food in the supermarket, they will not exchange our food for those car parts, because in the supermarket, they do not need them. On the other hand, if in the work of selling cars, they pay us money, if we can exchange it in the supermarket for food.
The value of things, what two parties are willing to accept
Finally, the next phase of basic economic education for our children is to explain how to quantify the value of things and how the value of things is always relative. This value is very simple to explain whenever we delineate that this value is what two parties are willing to accept for the same.
It is enough to give them a couple of examples contextualized to their age. Suppose we are in the jungle and we don't have shoes. How much would we pay for a light bulb in the jungle? Its value would be zero, given that in the jungle itself we do not have electricity and therefore we would be buying a useless object.
However, if someone offers us some boots if we could pay for them the amount that we consider reasonable and that improves our walking through the vegetation.
How to make our children value what they have
Valuing a product, service or else implies being aware of the effort we need to achieve it. Value is a relative concept that depends as much on the need we have for that thing as on the effort we have to make to achieve it.
All parents explain the value of things with the mechanisms of effort or reward to their children with the examples we have already set. Translating these values within the monetary field can be done by comparison as a first approximation.
For example, we can explain to them how much we have to work to pay for our housing or how they themselves get good rewards or gifts if they achieve high goals. Translating a gift, a trip or a holiday into monetary terms can directly teach them how subjective values are translated into economic terms and they will learn to formally and emotionally value what they have.
In short, the first thing our children have to learn are the rudiments of commerce, how the exchanges of goods and services are carried out and how the value of things is conditioned by the need we have of them and by the supply and demand that exists in each of the situations we face in our daily lives.


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Dell has been in the gaming business long enough with its Alienware lineup of laptops, Inspiron series and its recently announced G-series. Dell has termed the G-series as its 'affordable' lineup of gaming laptops. It offers an NVIDIA GTX 10-series GPU and Intel 8th gen processors at a price tag of below Rs 1 lakh. In making the laptop cheap, there have been certain tradeoffs. Most importantly, and I can't stress this enough, the device looks nowhere like a gaming laptop. I looked at the dull design, felt the jagged edges around the chassis of the laptop and I got the impression that this laptop should not be costing me more than Rs 40,000 - Rs 50,000. It's only after delving inside the hardware details of the laptop that I got the full measure of it.
The Dell G3 variant which was given to me for review had an 8th-gen Intel Core i7-8750H CPU, 4 GB of Nvidia GTX 1050Ti GPU, 16 GB of LPDDRX4 RAM, 1 TB of HDD storage and 256 GB of SSD storage. While the laptop's price has been listed as Rs 82,090 for the 128 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM variant, the increase to 256 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM and including GST, the price comes to Rs 1,08,503.
The G3 has also been declared as the thinnest 15-inch gaming laptop by Dell. While the device did not feel too thick, and at 2.5 kgs it does not feel very heavy when compared to other gaming laptops, it does not give out the vibes of what a typical gamer might want out of his/her rig. In comparison, at least from the photos online, the Acer Nitro 5 looks very much like it could appease a gamer.
If looks matter to you, you might be better of with the MSI GF Series or perhaps the recently announced Lenovo Legion Y530 for which our review will arrive shortly. But if it is pure internals you are looking for and are on a moderately tight budget, then this laptop is for you.
Build and Design: 6/10
Put the Dell G3 and any regular business laptop such as Lenovo Ideapad 330S side-by-side and you would think that the latter is a gaming laptop. When closed, the design of the G3 is quite low-key. The Dell logo is emblazoned in the centre while the cooling vents sit below the hinges of the G3. Opening the laptop will greet you with more of the same bland design, except for the palm rest, which at least has a pattern on it.
The trackpad is placed slightly on the left side and there are chunky bezels surrounding the display of the laptop. A small detail to notice is the fact that the WSAD keys are outlined with squares. The edges on the end of the palm rest are jagged and not rounded. During long durations of typing, my wrists usually got hurt. All-in-all, the device may not be as light as the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin RF, but it's not as heavy as the Alienware 17 eitherm which weighs close to 5 kgs. It's certainly no looker, but to be quite frank, for such heavy-duty internals at this price point, some compromise has to be made.
Keyboard and Trackpad: 7.5/10
The buttons on the G3 were smooth, with flat keycaps, much like keyboards on any other laptop. Obviously, it would be too much of stretch to expect any kind of mechanical keyboard. There is room for a full-size numpad though and the keys are backlit by blue LEDs. The G3's keyboard was quick and responsive and I did not face any kind of delay in output while typing. As a matter of fact, I'm writing this review on the G3, and the experience has been smooth. Except for, obviously, the sharp edges on the palm rest, which have left quite an impression on my arms.
The trackpad is big and placed slightly to the left. I did not get any kind of unwanted movement of the cursor when accidentally brushing my palm against the trackpad, which is a good sign. However, I felt that the response on the touchpad was just slightly delayed. This was a little irritating but I was using a mouse most of the time, and I trust you will too, especially if you're buying this laptop for gaming. The buttons underneath the trackpad were working fine.
Features: 8/10
The Dell G3 is quite well endowed for a laptop costing Rs 1 lakh. The hexa-core 8th-gen Intel i7 processor makes computing a breeze on this PC. This is a 45 W chip with 6 cores and 12 threads, which is something that much more pricier laptops such as the MSI GS65 have in them.
The graphical load of the system is handled by an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti with 4 GB of memory, which is quite a robust entry-level option. This happens to be a shade more powerful than the one in its competitor, the Acer Nitro 5, which has a GTX 1050. But then again, the Nitro is cheaper.
Apart from that, you also get 16 GB of high-speed DDR4 RAM and storage options include a 256 GB SSD and a 1 TB of hard drive. Mind you, this is the top variant of the Dell G3 and there are cheaper and lower configuration models as well. Though we'd recommend you stick to this one for your entry-level gaming needs. A 256 GB SSD means you'll have ample room for one or two of your favourite games, and with 16 GB RAM, you won't have reason to upgrade. You can get by with 8 GB of RAM, however.
In terms of connectivity, the Dell G3 offers an HDMI 2.0 port, Ethernet, 2x USB 3.1 Type-A ports, 1x USB 2.0 port, SD-card reader and a combo audio jack. There are no ThunderBolt ports on this laptop, but in the interest of future-proofing, I would have liked to see at least one USB-C port.
Display: 6/10
Here I believe that the Dell G3 has a bit of a hill to climb. The 15-inch FHD display of the G3, while good under normal circumstances, does not get the brightness level I would've wanted. The maximum brightness on the laptop was nowhere near to what I had expected from a gaming laptop. Colour accuracy was also a big issue on the display as our tests showed that the G3 had an sRGB coverage of just 52.4 percent. This is depressingly low as some laptops in its price range such as the MSI GE62 7RE Apache Pro had a sRGB coverage of 87 percent. While all this goes to show that the G3 doesn't have the best of displays out there, I don't think casual gamers such as myself would an issue with the display.
Rise of the Tomb Raider looked just as cinematic and visually pleasing as I've come to expect. While playing Call of Duty: WWII the opening of the Allied invasion at the beach of Normandy was enthralling enough. I'm not saying that the Dell G3 has a good display. I'm just stating that I don't have a problem if its colours aren't as vibrant as it should be. The games still look quite appealing.
Performance: 6.5/10
This is a part where I'm quite impressed with the Dell G3. As mentioned before, I've received the highest specced variant of the laptop and I'm happy to say that it doesn't disappoint.
While running all the benchmarks, I came to find out that the Dell G3 can definitely hold its own in its price league. While benchmarks tell us how good or bad a device can be in terms of performance, I can assure you that playing games for a long duration is the only real test for a gaming laptop.
The Rise of the Tomb Raider has some of the most visually pleasing graphics I've seen and in my humble casual gamer opinion, it can perhaps be matched by Elder Scrolls last instalment, Skyrim. Running the game at Very High settings saw a considerable lag in the first few minutes as the frame rate dropped to a lowly 22-24 fps.
However, this lag vanished after this time period and only returned a few times when the GPU had to render a very wide environment. I was easily getting 30 fps most of the time I was playing. The benchmarking test showed us a 32.7 average frame rate at Very High settings running FHD. Very High settings do push the 1050 Ti beyond its limits.
While playing it on High, there was no visible lag and the game ran at nearly 60-65 fps with negligible frame drop. Again, the only exception I felt was during the very early stages of the game where a massive amount of details had to be rendered. Our benchmarks showed that Tomb Raider touched an average of 54 fps on high settings running FHD.
Doom ran quite effortlessly at over 70 fps on the highest settings, giving me quite the visual pleasure when pulling out the eyeball of Cacodemons. However, here I would like to mention the fact that this laptop has NVIDIA Battery Boost, which basically means that when the laptop is unplugged/not charging, performance drops significantly. In theory, Doom should be running at 30 fps on battery, but I only saw frame-rates of 10-12 fps. Clearly, gaming on battery is out of the question, except for maybe casual titles. When I spoke to Dell about this, they said it was a feature controlled by Nvidia and that there was nothing they could do about it.
Apart from that, Call of Duty: WWII was a breeze on the highest settings and did not stutter even once. I also experienced no lag in gameplay, even when I was twisting and turning English B-25 Mitchell Planes 20,000 meters in the air.
However, talking about gaming and not mentioning either Fortnite or PUBG in this day and age is criminal. Let me give you the low down here. Epic settings on Fortnite are an absolute breeze on the Dell G3. Gamers usually complain about a drop in frame rate just as they are about squeeze that headshot on their opponents. Well, that will not happen in Fortnite. It may, however, happen in PUBG. Running the game on Ultra settings injected a certain amount of lag that will be quite unacceptable to professional players. I would recommend High settings for the game, which gave me a somewhat steady frame rate. The drop in video detail is marginal on this display and to be quite honest, it doesn't even matter that much.
One other thing that Dell has done well is endowing the G3 some decent thermal management abilities. Temperatures rarely crossed 87°C even during intensive tasks like video rendering. Most laptops in this range easily cross the 90°C mark.
While playing games, I'll admit that the G3 does indeed get a bit hot, but since the cooling vents are pointed in the opposite direction to the user, the heat doesn't get to you while playing. The keyboard area also remains relatively cool as well.
The bottom line on gaming is that you can't ask for more in a Rs 1 lakh laptop. The Dell G3 delivers on many fronts that its competitors such as Asus ROG Strix GL553VE or MSI GE62 7RE Apache Pro can't, even though they are priced higher. If you want more high-end gaming then it surely will come at extra costs. And if you don't mind splurging, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin RF is a great option. It retails for Rs 1.85 lakhs.
Speaking a little about the speakers on the Dell G3, it would seem that while they are definitely loud enough, they are quite hollow. At high volumes, I also find that they start crackling a lot. Also, they are placed below and get blocked when I have the laptop on my lap. It would have been better if Dell could have made front-firing speakers.
Battery: 7/10
Battery life happens to be quite good on the Dell G3. While running the standard PC Mark 10 Battery test I got 2 hours and 23 minutes, which is quite good for a gaming laptop. The MSI GE62 7RE Apache Pro had about 1 hour 50 minutes in it while the Asus ROG Strix GL553VE shuts down at 1 hour and 30 minutes. While unplugged, the Dell G3 runs the Doom Skybox level for 90 minutes, however, it is only at 10-12 fps so it's basically pointless. The MSI ran for 52 minutes at 30 fps while the Asus ran for 53 minutes at 30 fps. Bottom line is that you can expect decent battery life from the G3, but if you're gaming, you'll obviously want to keep your laptop plugged in all the time.
Quite honestly, I believe that the Dell G3 looks like a good deal to me. And there's no pun here because make no mistake, this is an unattractive looking laptop. It lacks that gaming laptop vibe, and while that can be a good thing at times, the design is too dull even for a normal laptop. The display could also do with an upgrade. These issues aside, the internals are quite good and are great value at this price.
If looks matter, splurge on the Lenovo Legion Y530, which is just as capable, a little more expensive, and features a smaller SSD.
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Marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state has "produced some demonstrable and persistent benefit" to police departments' ability to solve other types of crime, according to researchers at Washington State University.
"Our models show no negative effects of legalization and, instead, indicate that crime clearance rates for at least some types of crime are increasing faster in states that legalized than in those that did not," the authors write in a study published in the journal Police Quarterly.
A crime is typically considered "cleared" if authorities have identified and arrested a suspect and referred him to the judicial system for prosecution. The Washington State study examined clearance rates for crimes in Colorado and Washington from 2010 through 2015, using monthly FBI data.
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Join the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in honoring and celebrating the life of Mariana Ornelas through an exhibit from Saturday, March 9th, 2019 through Friday, May 10th, 2019. Mariana Ornelas donated her collection of beautiful textiles and huipiles to help sustain the Esperanza's cultural programs and highlight the tradition and importance of huipiles, textile work, and the conditions and experiences of the people who make them.
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Huipiles are special articles of clothing usually made of organic fibers such as cotton, wool or silk is worn by indigenous women in parts of Mexico and throughout Guatemala. It represents the pueblos and cultures of specific indigenous communities and is used for daily wear with more elaborate ceremonial huipiles made for weddings or community celebrations. The colors, the symbols, and the type of weaving in each huipil speak volumes about the culture and spiritual beliefs of each indigenous community and the ties to the natural world.
Huipiles exhibited for sale will include huipiles from the city of Juchitán, Tehuantepec, in Mexico that are made from heavy velvet featuring large floral imagery, and huipiles from pueblos throughout the state of Oaxaca featuring animals, plants and nature. Huipiles from pueblos of the many regions of Guatemala will feature more intricate designs and tight weaving in the tradition of indigenous weavers who have worn huipiles for centuries.
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Fast Food and Its Consequences
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16 March 2011
Fast Food and Obesity
Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20% or more above normal weight. What causes obesity is when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. For many people this boils down to eating too much and exercising too little. On the other hand, there are many factors that play a role in obesity such as age, gender, genetics, physical activity, psychological factors and even medications. For years, people have felt that fast food chains are to blame for obesity because they do not alert their customers to the hazardously high calorie and fat content of the food they offer. Needless to say obesity is directly linked to a customer's choice to spend his or her money on fast food.
Fast food is not to blame for obesity for various reasons. According to Fast Food, researchers claim "We now eat to relive our stress, to alleviate our boredom, or simply make ourselves feel better" (18). Moreover Fast Food Franchises donot obligate people to buy from them. People choose to grab bad eating habits all by themselves. So does being bored and feeling sad mean you have to eat a cheese burger or get an ice cream bar? The only thing humans need is self control. If a person is bored they can go do exercise, and if they are sad and feel like eating there stress away they can eat fruits instead ice cream.
Nonetheless there is always other options on what you can eat other than fast food. Over the past forty years America has transformed from a society where most people prepare their own meals from scratch to one where most meals are either prepackaged or eaten outside of home (Fast Food 20). One of the problems with eating prepackaged food is that it contains more calories because it is served in larger portions. This is a reason why the cause of obesity has increased in America. Not only because most Americans are eating an oversized amount of food. But also because they are not receiving the nutrition they need. Needless to say, that blaming the food industry for serving larger portion sizes is to ignore the fact that Americans are doing it by free will, when they have other alternatives such as preparing their own meals at home.
Further going, a generation ago most Americans limited their daily food consumption to three meals and if they did eat between meals it was likely to be a piece of fruit or something easily consumed. According to Cutler a Harvard economist "Today the average adult eats the equivalent of four meals a day and children eat close to five, much more than in 1970" (Fast food 21). In other words Americans are snacking more then what they should. Of course snacking itself does not necessarily lead to weight gain, depending on what is eaten. Even McDonalds has offered apple slices as a healthy way to snack between the day. However people will rather buy there chocolate chip cookies.
Meanwhile lawsuits are being placed against Fast Food restaurants as a way to combat obesity. Todd G. Buchholz an economic advisor in the George H.W. Bush administration argues that "Consumers, not the food industry , are responsible for obesity" (Obesity 133). If someone who is a healthy eater and exercises daily was to eat a burger once a month, it wouldn't harm them. Fast Food chains were made for those people who know how to balance a healthy life with a treat once in a while to satisfy themselves. Not for people who know its not a healthy choice of food but choose to eat their like if it was. However it is acknowledged that fast food does carry a part of the blame for obesity. Even the healthy choices at fast food restaurants are unhealthy. McDonalds wants its customers to associate the idea of a healthy lifestyle with its brand (Obesity 29). Needless to say, McDonalds number one motivation is to keep its customers addicted to its products, and if lettuce covered with...
Cited: Greenhaven Press. Fast Food. Michigan: Farmington Hills, 2009. Print.
Greenhaven Press. Obesity. Michigan: Farmington Hills, 2006. Print.
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