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Don't kid yourself. WG is Wow's first and only world PVP success, so players and Blizzard are doing (and should do) a happy dance for that.
But it's got major flaws. Honestly I don't think lag is the biggest, as this article suggests. By far the biggest is the balance. Before the patch, lag was terrible, but the balance was perfect, with the offense winning about 60 percent of the time. You want the castle to change hands often, but you still want the defense to have some chance of winning.
Since the patch, lag is better (but far from perfect), but balance is terrible, with offense winning 80 percent of the time. I don't even show up to defend any more, there's no point.
Fixing the balance is easy, and it should be the highest priority.
I agree that Wintergrasp is Blizzard's first successful world pvp in the game! I love WG, I find it a lot of fun as a healer.
There is a real problem with the fights being completely imbalanced. I play alliance, and we usually have WG 3/4 of the day. Not because of skill (though some of our regs are hardcore pvpers who get their stuff done!) but just because we outnumber them. I'm not complaining that we win WG, but I would like to have a more even playing field so that winning is something to achieve for. I'm not sure how this could be done. Maybe working on tenacity is the answer. I'm not sure.
The lag is what kills me though. During prime time hours, fighting in the keep, my spells will be queued up to five times behind. My target is often dead before the spell is even cast. I just have to try to keep Prayer of Mending bouncing around. This isn't any every prime-time occurrence by any means. Normal prime hours are fine, just a little bumpy. But when it gets laggy, it gets real laggy. IMO, it's either a little laggy or it's so-bad-you-can't-do-anything laggy. There doesn't seem to be an in-between.


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Change management entails thoughtful planning and sensitive implementation, and above all, consultation with, and involvement of, the people affected by the changes. If you force change on people normally problems arise. Change must be realistic, achievable and measurable. These aspects are expecially relevant to managing personal change.
Before starting organisational change, ask yourself: What do we want to achieve with this change, why, and how will we know that the change has been achieved? Who is affected by this change, and how will they react to it? How much of this change can we achieve ourselves, and what parts of the change do we need help with? These aspects also relate strongly to the management of personal as well as org anisational change.
Make sure you check that people affected by the change agree with, or at least understand, the need for change, and have a chance to decide how the change will be managed, and to be involved in the planning and implementation of the change. Use face-to-face communications to handle sensitive aspects of organisational change management. Encourage your managers to communicate face-to-face with their people too if they are helping you manage an organisational change. Email and written notices are extremely weak at conveying and developing understanding.
If you think that you need to make a change quickly, probe the reasons - is the urgency real? Will the effects of agreeing a more sensible time-frame really be more disasterous than presiding over a disasterous change? Quick change prevents proper consultation and involvement, which leads to difficulties that take time to resolve.
For complex changes, refer to the process of project management, and ensure that you augment this with consultative communications to agree and gain support for the reasons for the change. Involving and informing people also creates opportunities for others to participate in planning and implementing the changes, which lightens your burden, spreads the organisational load, and creates a sense of ownership and familiarity among the people affected.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
Giuseppe di Lampedusa 1896-1957, Italian writer in The Leopard
For organisational change that entails new actions, objectives and processes for a group or team of people, use workshops to achieve understanding, involvement, plans, measurable aims, actions and commitment. Encourage your management team to use workshops with their people too if they are helping you to manage the change.
You should even apply these principles to very tough change like making people redundant, closures and integrating merged or acquired organisations. Bad news needs even more careful management than routine change. Hiding behind memos and middle managers will make matters worse. Consulting with people, and helping them to understand does not weaken your position - it strengthens it. Leaders who fail to consult and involve their people in managing bad news are perceived as weak and lacking in integrity. Treat people with humanity and respect and they will reciprocate.
Be mindful that the chief insecurity of most staff is change itself. See the process of personal change theory to see how people react to change. Senior managers and directors responsible for managing organisational change do not, as a rule, fear change - they generally thrive on it. So remember that your people do not relish change, they find it deeply disturbing and threatening. Your people's fear of change is as great as your own fear of failure.
Responsibility for managing change
The employee does not have a responsibility to manage change - the employee's responsibility is no other than to do their best, which is different for every person and depends on a wide variety of factors (health, maturity, stability, experience, personality, motivation, etc). Responsibility for managing change is with management and executives of the organisation - they must manage the change in a way that employees can cope with it. The manager has a responsibility to facilitate and enable change, and all that is implied within that statement, especially to understand the situation from an objective standpoint (to 'step back', and be nonjudgemental), and then to help people understand reasons, aims, and ways of responding positively according to employees' own situations and capabilities. Increasingly the manager's role is to interpret, communicate and enable - not to instruct and impose, which nobody really responds to well.
Change must involve the people - change must not be imposed upon the
Be wary of expressions like 'mindset change', and 'changing people's mindsets' or 'changing attitudes', because this language often indicates a tendency towards imposed or enforced change, and it implies strongly that the organisation believes that its people currently have the 'wrong' mindset, which is never, ever, the case. If people are not approaching their tasks or the organisation effectively, then the organisation has the wrong mindset, not the people. Change such as new structures, policies, targets, acquisitions, disposals, re-locations, etc., all create new systems and environments, which need to be explained to people as early as possible, so that people's involvement in validating and refining the chnages themselves can be obtained.
Whenever an organisation imposes new things on people there will be difficulties. Participation, involvement and open, early, full communication are the important factors. Workshops are very useful processes to develop collective understanding, approaches, policies, methods, systems, ideas, etc. See the section on workshops on the website.
Staff surveys are a helpful way to repair damage and mistrust among staff - provided you allow allow people to complete them anonymously, and provided you publish and act on the findings. Management training, empathy and facilitative capability are priority areas - managers are crucial to the change process - they must enable and facilitate, not merely convey and implement policy from above, which does not work.
You cannot impose change - people and teams need to be empowered to find their own solutions and responses, with facilitation and support from managers, and tolerance and compassion from the leaders and executives. Management and leadership style and behaviour is more important than clever process and policy. Employees need to be able to trust the organisation.
The leader must agree and work with these ideas, or change is likely to be very painful, and the best people will be lost in the process.
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When people are confronted with the need or opportunity to change, especially when it's 'enforced', as they see it, by the organisation, they can become emotional. So can the managers who try to manage the change. Diffusing the emotional feelings, taking a step back, encouraging objectivity, are important to enabling sensible and constructive dialogue. To this end, managers and trainers can find it helpful to use analogies to assit themselves and other staff to look at change in a more detached way.
There are several illustrations which can be used for this purpose, depending on the type of chnage faced, and the apect that is to be addressed. Here are a few examples, useful for team meetings, presentations, one-toone conselling or self-reminder, particularly to help empathise with others facing change.Both good aids for understanding and explaining why people - all of us - find it difficult to change assumptions, conditioned thinking, habit, routine, etc.
Just as the state of 'unconscious incompetence', needs to be developed into 'conscious competence' to provide a basis for training, so a person's subjective emotion needs to be developed into objectivity before beginning to help them handle change. None of us is immune from subjectivity, ignorance or denial. The lessons and reminders found in stories and analogies can help to show a new clear perspective.
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When I look behind,
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the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
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Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
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and every stone on the road
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In my darkest night,
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and I roamed through wreckage,
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Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes."


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Saunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis) (15 October 1893 - 1 September 1985) was a Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist and a founder of the Welsh National Party (later known as Plaid Cymru). Lewis is usually acknowledged to have been among the most prominent figures of twentieth-century Welsh-language literature. Lewis was a 1970 Nobel nominee for literature, and in 2005 was voted 10th as Wales' 'greatest-ever person' in a BBC Wales poll.. Welsh poet dramatist historian literary critic and political activist
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Advantages: All round good pick for those wanting Caribbean on a budget. Great beach!
Disadvantages: Probably not quite up to 5* standards like some other hotels, but we didn't mind!
...I stayed at Hotel Palma Real, Varadero, Cuba in September 2005 with a friend. We both had a fantastic holiday. I would rate this as a 3/4 star hotel, as it is typically at the lower end of the pricing for holidays to Varadero. However, don't let this put you off this merely makes it even more value for money!
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Advantages: Well presented, friendly, welcoming, modern
Disadvantages: On a back street
...We visted the Hotel Armadams for our honeymoon back in October 2006 for a short break to take in the sights and sounds of Palma.
It is situated one "block" away from the main promenade in Palma, a road lined on one side with bars, hotels, shops and the marina and harbour area on the other.
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Perfectly Adequate Hotel in a Great Location
Advantages: Great location, cheap, breakfast and evening meal included
Disadvantages: Food not great, bit basic
...We picked the Don Bigote Hotel in Palma Nova because we wanted somewhere cheap and cheerful to stay for a few days in September and we certainly got that. The Don Bigote is never going to win any awards for luxury, but it certainly offers comfort and a good location, for an excellent price.
Getting to the hotel from the airport in Palma is easiest by taxi. It'll set you back around 35 Euros...
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Polenta is so dynamic, and I love this recipe. I used soy milk instead and sweetened dairy free sour cream to make it vegan. The combination of the tangy blackberry jam and smooth, creamy polenta is so good!
Creamy Breakfast Polenta
James Carrier
Notes: If crème fraîche is unavailable, use lightly sweetened sour cream. We like this soft polenta topped with blackberry jam, but it's equally delicious topped with another jam, fresh fruit, or butter and maple syrup.
Yield: Makes about 6 cups; 4 to 6 servings
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 292
- Calories from fat: 8.2%
- Protein: 8.2g
- Fat: 2.7g
- Saturated fat: 1.5g
- Carbohydrate: 59g
- Fiber: 4.9g
- Sodium: 262mg
- Cholesterol: 9.8mg
- 3 cups low-fat (2%) milk
- 1 cup polenta
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 to 6 tablespoons blackberry jam (see notes)
- Lightly sweetened whipped crème fraîche (optional; see notes)
- 1. In a 2 1/2- to 3-quart pan over high heat, bring 3 cups water and the milk to a boil. Reduce heat so liquid is barely boiling.Stirring constantly, pour in polenta in a thin, steady stream, pausing occasionally to break up any lumps. Stir in sugar and salt.
- 2. Simmer, stirring often, until polenta is soft and creamy to bite, 20 to 40 minutes (if heat is too high, bubbles may "spit" globs of hot polenta out of the pan).
- 3. Ladle polenta into bowls and top each serving with about 1 tablespoon blackberry jam and a dollop of crème fraîche.
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- COURSE: Breakfast/Brunch
- CUISINE: Italian
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Rice/Grains
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Cholesterol, Low Fat, Meatless, Low Saturated Fat
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Glinty white gold color in the glass. Explosive nose of fresh cut Seckel Pear, raw honey, elderflowers, fresh vanilla beans and white spices. Sappy and luscious palate, with waves of ripe exotic fruits, notably pineapple, baked quince, wild limes, as well as honeycomb, almond oil and a nervy minerality. Finished totally dry, the zesty acidity makes it a natural with the freshest seafood, simply prepared. A great brunch or bistro wine, and a wonder with hard-to-pair foods like asparagus and artichokes.
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This is one of those rare genuinely funny romantic comedies, rarer still it's an Australian film which doesn't suck.
Ryan Corr, Ryan Kwanten and Sarah Snook, on location in Newtown, Sydney, shooting the opening scenes of Not Suitable For Children. All the party sequences were shot in one week, right in the middle of the shoot. The extras were all inner-west volunteers, some of whom showed up five nights in a row.
Ryan Kwanten ('Jonah') - The most important thing for me is, firstly, does the script work, and secondly, is it going to challenge me as an actor? Is it something I've never done before? And working with talent. I knew within minutes that Peter had a really unique vision.
Ryan Kwanten and Ryan Corr pose for WHO Magazine in Australia. This shot was taken on the last day of the shoot, just hours before the wrap party…
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What lifts this Australian romantic-comedy above the level of most of its Hollywood counterparts is the reality of the characters and the situations and the honesty of the film's approach. Once you accept the fact that Jonah has this strong desire for parenthood, everything falls into place.
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Here's an excerpt from my piece, "I Want You to Be."
"The most loving of all caring things, and the most caring of all loving things that you can say to someone is not 'I love you,' but 'I want you to be.'"
I'm paraphrasing the above quote, and I no longer remember who said it, but my best friend and I heard it during college and latched onto it. It became shorthand for our friendship: I want you to be. Shorthand for: I love you like a sister. For: I want you to be you, to be all the things you are, to be all the things you dream of, and I want you to simply be in this moment – alive and here and awake to joy.
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Some might argue that trying to corner Johnson in 2002 only delayed the inevitable. But there was nothing to suggest from the public's viewpoint — everything is so secretive at his Georgia club — that a female member was in the works.
"This is a good turn of events," Burk said. "It came sooner than I expected. I thought they were going to try to outlast me. And I really thought they would wait until the women's movement would get no credit. But if we had not done what we did, this would not have happened now. There's a possibility it would not have happened for 20 or 30 years."
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Other winners?
PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem no longer has to cringe when the subject of Augusta National's membership is brought up. The tour has a policy not to play at golf courses that don't have women or minorities. But the PGA Tour has no control over the Masters. It was suggested to Finchem on more than one occasion that the tour no longer recognize the Masters as an official win, and not have its earnings count toward the PGA Tour money list.
Finchem finally said in May that the Masters was "too important" to ignore.
"We don't get to determining whether their policies are right or wrong, because we don't have to, because we made the conclusion that regardless of those policies, we are going to continue to play and recognize them as part of the PGA Tour," he said some of his most blunt remarks.
Finchem weighed in on Augusta's announcement Monday by commending the club.
"At a time when women represent one of the fastest growing segments in both playing and following the game of golf, this sends a positive and inclusive message for our sport," he said.
Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player were among those who applauded the decision. Perhaps their biggest cheer is not having to answer questions about it. Whatever their feelings — and golfers are known to play it safe whenever topics turn controversial — all they cared about at Augusta National was winning the green jacket.
It comes with a lifetime exemption to the Masters, and a spot in the Champions Locker Room upstairs in the clubhouse. And if they win the Masters in April, they will be invited to a dinner hosted by members, including two of the newest members — Rice and Moore.
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Was Vikings defensive end Jared Allen right when he went on a Minneapolis radio station and said New Orleans is like a "3rd world country?" He seemed to insinuate that New Orleans had the appearance of a bombed out city. That New Orleans is a little crusty. Well, he's probably a little right.
We are a little crusty. We aren't at all anything like Minneapolis. We're New Orleans. A nearly 300-year-old city. 300 years! Minneapolis was a fort when New Orleans was a thriving metropolis. So compared to Minneapolis, I'd say we are a little crusty.
It would be easy for me to vilify Jared Allen. Especially since the Saints play the Vikings on Sunday. But the popular opinion wouldn't be the truthful one.
Jared Allen is correct in a several of his comments, no matter how juvenile, uninformed, or misguided they may be. We've come a tremendous way since Katrina. Accomplishing more in the last 3 or 4 years than this city had achieved in the last 30 or 40. But let's not stop now.
Let's keep the pushing the accelerator. We've made a first down, but there's a lot of field left to cover. We're no where near the goal line. But we are moving in that direction. Let's listen to the criticism, take the constuctive parts, and act on them.
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LG's new Android smartphones all feature big screens and multi-core chipsets. LG today unveiled the Optimus 4X HD, the company's first quad-core phone, a slimmer Optimus 3D Max, and a 5-inch "phablet," the LG Vu--all at an event keyed to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. We got to use themm and here are our early impressions of each.
Hands On: LG Optimus 4X HD Quad-Core Phone
The LG Optimus 4X HD is LG's first foray into the quad-core world. The 4X HD is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, but that's not its only highlight. It also has a 4.7-inch display with a 1280-pixel -by-720-pixel resolution. And yes, that display is gorgeous. And yes, it's fast.
The Optimus 4X is super thin at 0.35 of an inch, but it isn't going to win any awards in the beauty department. It pretty much looks like your standard LG Optimus phone with its black and gray color scheme. The phone feels durable and of high quality, however.
Back to that quad-core processor. NVIDIA's Tegra 3 (now referred to as the 4-PLUS-1 quad-core processor) has a smaller fifth core to help phones conserve battery life. The fifth core handles less demanding tasks such as active standby and music playback. I couldn't test the battery in my brief hands-on demo, but performance seemed speedy and video playback looked gorgeous on that display.
The 4X HD's display is a True HD IPS display. Blacks look very deep while colors look vivid without being oversaturated. The Optimus 4X HD runs the Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and has an 8-megapixel backside illuminated sensor. I took a few shots in LG's elbow-room only booth and was impressed with how the photos looked. The 4X HD is one of many quad-core phones to be announced at Mobile World Congress. We can't wait to put these phones to the test.
First Look: LG Optimus 3D Max
Last year, LG announced the Optimus 3D with a glasses-free 3D display. This year, LG reaffirms its love of 3D on mobile with the Optimus 3D Max.
The Optimus 3D Max is fairly similar to the original Optimus 3D except that it has a slightly larger display (4.3 inches, 960 pixels by 540 pixels). It also has near field communication (NFC) support as well as a 5-megapixel camera. The Optimus 3D Max ships with Android 2.3 but will be upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich.
Another neat feature is that you can convert Google Earth, Google Maps, and other road views to 3D through the LG smartphone's 3D Converter. Want your 2D game to look 3D? The 3D Game Converter will turn any Android game into a 3D game (though it doesn't always look so great). There's also a built-in 3D video editor so you can make the 3D movies you shoot with the Optimus 3D's 5-megapxiel dual lens camera look awesome.
3D on mobile hasn't really caught on in the United States with the LG Thrill (the AT&T version of the Optimus 3D) and the HTC EVO 3D on Sprint being the only phones with this technology. I'm not completely convinced about the usefulness of 3D, but it is kind of fun to be able to play 3D games and shoot 3D video. The 3D quality on the Optimus 3D Max isn't the in-your-face 3D of the movie theaters, but it definitely pops. It looks a little on the grainy side, but colors looked really good in my short hands-on demo.
First Impressions: LG Optimus Vu
The 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note isn't the only "phablet" (or tablet/phone hybrid) out there. The Optimus Vu display is slightly smaller than the Note at 5 inches (1024 by 768 pixels) with the 4:3 aspect ratio and with the same resolution of the iPad's 9.7-inch screen.
In its press conference at Mobile World Congress Sunday, LG made a big deal about bringing LTE phones to the masses, the Vu included. In addition to 4G connectivity, the Vu will pack in a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor in a thin frame (0.33 of an inch), 1GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel camera at the back and 1.3-megapixel on the front. The Vu will launch running Android 2.3 Gingerbread but an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is already in the works.
The LG Optimus Vu has a built-in Notepad app that permanently stays on the bottom of your display so you can pull it up easily. The pen actually feels a lot differently than Samsung's S Pen. It has a rubbery tip that absorbs the pressure you place on the Vu. I noticed a little delay when I tried to open certain apps with the Vu, but that may have been due to the fact that it was a demo unit that many people were using.
The size feels somewhat awkward in hand, but any phone with a display of 5 inches or more usually does. How it compare to the Galaxy Note? I'm fonder of the Galaxy Note's pen software, but that's simply because I've used it more.
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I would absolutely love to participate in more mapping competitions, and finding more people who might potentially by looking for mapping commissions. If anyone knows where I can look for either, I'd love to hear about it.
I'm not really any good at maps yet, but there are some keen map fans at The Piazza, especially in the Mystara forum. He is not too active at the moment, but there is a guy called Thorf who is widely respected as "the Mystara map expert". A lot of the other map fans at The Piazza have based their work on his research (which goes down to the level of identifying typefaces used on maps).
I've bumped into the Cartographer's Guild a few times in the past, but not having done maps before, I just looked at the cool maps and surfed on. But if you had people here and on other forums, I think they could spread news of the specialist maps that related to those other forums. And I think you would get interest in the maps, even without competitions, because you have great maps here.
(As well as The Piazza - which covers all D&D settings ever published - you could spread news of relevant maps to the likes of the Dragonlance Forums run by Dragonlance Nexus, the Candlekeep Forums and the Canonfire Forums.) I actually saw a really nice looking map of Toril earlier and I'm tempted to crosspost that one to The Piazza's Forgotten Realms forum, as we had someone who made something fairly similar.
EDIT: BTW, over at The Piazza, the local moderators try to keep a sticky thread of useful links in each campaign setting subforum. So if you are looking for websites like Candlepower, you can go over and harvest lots of links there.
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I would absolutely love to participate in more mapping competitions, and finding more people who might potentially by looking for mapping commissions. If anyone knows where I can look for either, I'd love to hear about it.
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When its over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best that you were capable of? If so, the score does not matter. But if you find that you did your best you were capable of, you will find it to your liking. -John Wooden
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The Revelation Of Jesus Christ Bible scriptures located in Galatians 1:11-24 explains directly from God's Word the Revelation Of Jesus Christ topic.
Galatians 1:11
But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
Galatians 1:12
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
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To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
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Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
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But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
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Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
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Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
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And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
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But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
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And they glorified God in me.
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White chocolate fudge with red and green candied cherries? Well, yeah, this fudge belongs at the North Pole. The brilliant Christmas colors of our white chocolate Christmas fudge just scream "Awesome Christmas Treat!". Be sure to leave some out for Santa…I sure hope it will last that long. I know he will want a bit of this fantabulous Christmas Fudge recipe. I happen to know that it is his favorite. White chocolate fudge…uh, YUM!
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BELLEVUE, WA - November 10, 2010 - Telanetix, Inc. (OTC BB: TNXI), a leading communications solutions provider offering next generation voice services and solutions to the business market, today reported financial results for its fiscal 2010 third quarter ended September 30, 2010.
Highlights for the Third Quarter
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. Management believes certain non-GAAP measures provide relevant and meaningful measures by which investors can evaluate the business. EBITDA is defined as earnings or loss before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, and the company defines Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA adjusted for non-cash items including stock-based and warrant compensation, charges related to changes in fair market value of warrant and beneficial conversion feature liabilities, as well as the Company's recent recapitalization. A reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to net income can be found at the end of this release.
"During the quarter, we achieved our fifth consecutive quarter of core revenue growth while delivering our fourth consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA," said Doug Johnson, Telanetix's CEO. "While our total revenue decreased due to the expected attrition of sales related to our legacy business, our core voice revenue increased 14% year-over-year. This continued growth in core voice revenue was driven by increased demand for both our Digital Phone Service to the SMB market, and our SIP trunking service, which is the IP based voice services backbone we offer up market to larger customers."
Mr. Johnson added, "We also continue to expand our channel partnerships that will drive growth of our core voice business segments in 2011. Our channel relationships with both Mitel Networks, and recently announced, Vertical Communications will offer our SIP trunking service to a new base of potential customers, including larger medium sized businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises. In addition, we began two new channel partner trials for our Digital Phone Service offering as we look to expand our reach in the hosted business voice market.
"During the quarter, we also completed a comprehensive financial recapitalization that reduced our overall debt from $29.6 million to $10.5 million while simultaneously increasing our working capital by $1.5 million. We believe Telanetix is now in a much stronger position to expand its presence and share in the market, as both small and large businesses increasingly seek to leverage the Internet to reduce the cost of their telecommunications service while increasing the quality of products and services they receive."
Financial Results
Total revenue for the third quarter was $6.9 million, a decrease of 4.1 percent compared to revenue of $7.2 million in the year ago quarter. Gross profit was $3.8 million, or 55.3 percent of revenue, compared to $4.2 million, or 58.6 percent of revenue a year ago. Total operating expenses were $5.1 million compared to $5.1 million a year ago. Net income for the third quarter of 2010 was $14.2 million, or $0.05 per share, compared to net income of $78,000, or $0.00 per share, in the third quarter last year, the increase was primarily due to the recent recapitalization of the Company. Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter was $346,000, an increase compared to negative adjusted EBITDA of $61,000 in the prior year.
Fully diluted weighted average common shares outstanding as of September 30, 2010, were 344.6 million.
Total cash and cash equivalents were $2.3 million at September 30, 2010, an increase from $965,000 at June 30, 2010.
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Management will conduct a conference call at 1:30 p.m. PT (4:30 p.m. ET) today. To access the call in the United States, dial (866) 700-6067 and to access the call internationally, dial (617) 213-8834 and enter pass code 90254962. The call will also be broadcast live over the Internet and will be available for replay for 90 days at www.telanetix.com. A telephone replay will be available two hours after the call through November 17, 2010 by dialing (888) 286-8010 in the United States and (617) 801-6888 for international callers. All parties will need the following replay pass code 67960962.
About Telanetix, Inc.
Telanetix, Inc. (OTCBB:TNXI.ob - News) is a leading communications solutions provider offering voice over IP (VoIP) services to all business market segments. Telanetix solutions meet the real-world communications demands of its customers with an industry-leading value proposition of cutting edge products and technology that brings enhanced productivity and industry-leading savings to our customers. The company's hosted telecom voice services, marketed under the "AccessLine" brand, give companies flexible calling solutions, a simpler installation experience, and a greater range of support options than traditional telecom providers. With a history of serving over 100,000 business customers, including Fortune 50 companies, we've scaled our award-winning technologies to meet the needs of entrepreneurial-minded small businesses.
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Advanced Micro Devices is coming out with its own Centrino.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker is prepping an energy-efficient notebook chip, code-named Griffin, as well as a platform based around Griffin called Puma, (similar to Intel's Centrino) that will likely allow AMD to better compete in the rapidly growing notebook market.
Griffin will go into mass production toward the end of the year and Puma-based notebooks sporting the chips will hit in mid-2008, according to AMD Fellow Maurice Steinman.
Intel has produced chips sporting architectures optimized for notebooks since 2003 and has come out with new versions at a somewhat regular pace. Partly as a result, Intel has maintained a larger market share in laptops over AMD than in other markets.
After Griffin's release, AMD will follow with Fusion, a chip that integrates graphics into the processor core in 2009, he said. Fusion will first appear in notebooks. (Last year, AMD said Fusion would come out in 2008 or 2009.)
Griffin is AMD's first chip specifically designed for notebooks, said Steinman. AMD sells chips tweaked for notebooks now, but these products are effectively just more power-efficient versions of the other chips AMD sells into other markets.
"If you look at our current offerings, it's really the same basic microarchitecture being offered in notebooks, servers and desktops," he said.
By adopting a new architecture, the company says it can cut power consumption further without worrying as much about making changes that might affect how the architecture works in the server world, for instance.
In Griffin, for instance, the two processing cores and the integrated memory controller-- which shuttles data back and forth between the processing cores and memory--are all on separate power planes. By separating all of these subcomponents in Griffin onto different planes, two can go into deep sleep states while the last one continues to work. The memory controller can also operate at a lower voltage.
In Barcelona, an upcoming four-core server chip from AMD, the memory controller is on a separate power plane, but the four cores are all on the same voltage plane, he said. Power consumption is important in servers, but not to the same degree as with notebooks, noted Steinman.
Griffin will also be able to drop to slower speeds when full performance isn't needed. Currently, AMD chips can drop to 800 megahertz. The cores in Griffin, independent of each other, will be able to drop to one-eighth the chip's stated speed. Thus, if it's a 2.4GHz chip, a single core will be able to drop to 300MHz to conserve power.
"You can get some real work done at those lower frequencies," he said.
In another twist, Griffin will be able to shut down lanes inside of the HyperTransport 3 links connecting different processors, when not in use, he said. These power savings techniques will largely be controlled by the CPU and the chipset, he said, and will be independent and above any power management techniques implemented by the operating system.
Griffin, though, won't be able to accommodate as much memory as a server chip, Steinman said. He didn't specify how much less, but said the chip was designed for notebook-size memory loads, not the massive amounts of memory servers can require. Again, this architectural difference saves power.
The chip will initially come out on the 65-nanometer process. Each core will contain a 1MB cache.
Puma, meanwhile, will continue the power management theme by coming with a feature, called PowerXpress that shuts off the discreet graphics processor in notebooks when they are running on batteries. In the unplugged mode, notebooks will run on the graphics capabilities in the chipset.
Most notebooks, Steinman conceded, actually don't come with a discreet graphics chip, but it will save power for those that do.
Puma, though, may raise some diplomatic problems for AMD. For years, the company has carped about Centrino, claming that it locked notebook makers and consumers into an all-Intel world. In the meantime, AMD bought chipset and graphics maker ATI Technologies. As Centrino is all-Intel, Puma is an all-AMD solution.
AMD signaled it would start to move toward platforms last year.
In 2003, Intel came out with Centrino, a notebook platform designed around the then new Pentium M. The Pentium M relied on a different architecture than other Intel chips at the time and consumed substantially less power. Centrino also came with Wi-Fi chips, rare then, and the notebooks were tuned to ensure they would work with public hot spots. Sales zoomed and the success helped spur Wi-Fi adoption.
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- Isn't competition wonderful??
- The constant competitive battle between Intel and AMD shows us what healthy competition can do - bring real innovation and advancement. They are constantly pushing each other to produce better, cheaper products. Who wins in this battle? We all do.
Compare this to the situation with operating systems where we have a big fat-cat pseudo monopoly, Microsoft. They can spend most of their time figuring out how to squeeze more money out of us all and less time satisfying their customers needs. Progress and innovation has been stunted by this situation and there is really no end in sight, especially now that M$ has a huge arsenal of patents to try and bury any competition. bummer.
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- I like the idea of "discreet" graphics. Does this mean that the monitor switches from the dating site to photos of airplanes when the significant other enters the room??
Another question: why is this blunder still in the article two weeks after its posting? Perhaps no one took the time to write Mr. Kanellos. Perhaps no one noticed. Perhaps we've lost the ability to read. Your choice.
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- On the other hand, my email to Mr. Kanellos was returned with the note "address rejected" by CNET. Perhaps he sought employment elsewhere. Too bad. I like his clear style.
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- Puma has graphics that pwn Centrinos, the highest end graphics for centrino, I believe is 4700MHD, which has lower performance than Radeon HD 3100, which is on the low end for Puma based laptops.
Core2 is better than Turion any day, the high end Turions compete with low end C2Ds
I would say Puma for light (read as non crysis) gaming, Centrino for everything else
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Benjamin Chen is a leader in business and technology management, with over 25 years of experience in working with both startups and fortune companies, focused on media, online advertising, interactive agency, enterprise software, accounting, content management systems, networking and data centers.
Mr. Chen is the Founder and CEO of Mochila, a leading content and syndication platform for delivering customized solutions for brand advertisers and premium publishers.
Mr. Chen has worked as an external entrepreneur in residence for both JP Morgan and Mission Ventures as well as acted as an advisor conducting due diligence on many new business models and technologies for GE Capital. At iXL, a strategic interactive agency (now part of Publicis Groupe), Mr. Chen was the global CTO and CIO responsible for all internal and external technology initiatives, as well as leading the due diligence in the acquisition and integration of over 30 companies, helping grow the company in three years from 60 to 3,000 people, with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Client engagements included work for AT&T, Delta Airlines, Federal Express, GE and Sony. He was part of the management team that took iXL public in 1999, with a market capitalization of over 4 billion.
Mr. Chen was Founder and CEO of AppGenesys, CTO for Boxtop Interactive and Founder and CTO of Ironlight Digital (bought by Publicis Groupe). Mr. Chen also worked at CBS Studio Center, as a technologist working on some of the first convergence of prime time television content and the internet. Mr. Chen produced the 1996 Emmy Awards Cybercast.
Mr. Chen is on the board of Function (X) Inc. (FNCX).
Mr. Chen is frequently invited as a speaker and panelist to new media, technology and venture conferences.
Mr. Chen is a graduate from the University of Southern California and is an avid martial artist with a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido


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Sorry for all the photo spam today, but this is the last one, I promise!!!
I just wanted to show off my new Journal that I bought as I'm coming to the end of mine already! Plus I found these cute little Postcards which I think will be great for sending a sweet little message to someone. They're bound to come in handy anyhow (: