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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Country Music Association's entertainer of the year is the group's highest honor, and voting for the trophy is conducted under strict confidentiality.
But we were able to find a voter who didn't think Miranda Lambert, who leads all CMA nominees with nine, was worthy of the top award.
Her name? Miranda Lambert. She had three chances to vote for herself, and said she passed.
"I just feel like it's such a big deal to be nominated for entertainer of the year," Lambert said. "I'm kind of weirded out that I got in there. Oh, I just can't believe it. But I feel like when you actually win it, it's something that you really have to earn. I have done two headlining tours and they were both this year. You know, I feel like I still have a ways to go before I deserve to take that home."
Lambert's not alone in her angst. The three members of Lady Antebellum — Hillary Scott, Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley — also declared that they did not vote for themselves. Scott called it "extremely premature."
Yet there they are, along with another newcomer, Zac Brown Band, former winner Keith Urban and Brad Paisley, probably the safest bet to win the CMA's most coveted award Wednesday night in Nashville.
The association's traditionally conservative membership has gone radical this year, sweeping away a number of longtime entertainer contenders in favor of something shiny and new. The move was an interesting one to longtime watchers of the awards.
"I have heard they are looking for a new regime, wanting to turn things around and to kind of mix up the shuffle," said Reba McEntire, the 1986 CMA entertainer of the year. "Well, they definitely did. This has sure gotten everybody to talk about it."
And generally what they're saying is, "Huh?" This year's nominations have led to a frank, open and honest conversation.
For those who support the new acts, it's simply a changing of the guard. It happens every so often, with newer, hipper acts muscling aside fading favorites. Then there are those who think longevity is also part of the award and that nominees should have a long history of hits.
"The only thing that I was disappointed in was the acts that have been headlining for so many years, they were not nominated," McEntire said. "In particular, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts. I would've assumed they would've been in that nomination before Zac Brown Band, Lady A and Miranda Lambert."
This sea change by voters has sparked a debate about the nature of the award. There is a perception that entertainer of the year requirements are laid out like commandments on a stone tablet, but the reality is everyone has a different definition.
And the rules don't help much. Look at the language closely and the word ambiguous comes to mind:
"This award is for the act displaying the greatest competence in all aspects of the entertainment field. Voter should give consideration not only to recorded performance, but also to the in-person performance, staging, public acceptance, attitude, leadership, and overall contribution to the Country Music image."
Jay DeMarcus, member of the perennially snubbed supergroup Rascal Flatts and the CMA's board of directors, says the criteria is confusing.
"I've been trying to get to the bottom of it for years," said DeMarcus, who is chairman of the artists relations committee. "I still don't understand it. I sit in those rooms and say, 'Can someone explain this to me?' ... There are certainly people who have been denied before and I think it's something that needs to be addressed and fixed."
Who's definition would you use, then?
For many the number of concert tickets sold is a big factor — perhaps the biggest. It's a great measure of just how popular an act is.
So are record sales.
Many also believe the act should have some sort of television presence, should be a model citizen who donates time and money to charity, and should be a zealous missionary in country music's never-ending search for converts.
"When you figure it out let me know," Jason Aldean said.
Aldean is another singer who had a legitimate claim on an entertainer nomination, yet he was shut out of the awards completely. He's disappointed by the snub and thinks the debate over who gets nominated and how is pointless. He believes the whole thing's rigged.
As a singer on an independent label, he has few CMA members to back him when nominees are chosen. Same goes for McGraw, who records for Curb Records. And that might also explain why a year after winning entertainer and three other CMA Awards, Big Machine's Swift, the biggest name in country and pop, is up for just one.
"The average fan doesn't understand how all that stuff works and the industry probably doesn't want them to," Aldean said. "Fans watch a show and they get all up in arms because their favorite artist wasn't nominated or didn't win an award they were nominated for. Bottom line is it's not based on anything, man. It's based on who can rally the most troops for their guy, and sometimes this guy wins and sometimes that guy wins. It's just kind of the way it all shakes down."
Aldean says the torch will be passed eventually and thought this year's nominations were "kinda cool" for including the three new acts. Despite their protestations, Miranda Lambert and Lady A do have game.
Lady A's "Need You Now" is the No. 2 album of 2010 so far and they've been a fixture on the charts for more than a year. The trio launched its first headlining tour this fall and is country music's second-biggest crossover draw behind Swift.
They're nominated for five awards, trailing only Lambert, who is up for nine — the CMA record for a woman and the second most ever.
Lambert's album "Revolution" was widely hailed as the best album of 2009, has gone platinum and spawned the No. 1 country hits "White Liar" and "The House That Built Me."
"I thought it was just about ticket sales and the amount of people you play in front of, and it's not," said Lambert, who put out her first record five years ago but had her biggest success over the last year. "It's a very broad award. It's about everything you've done in the past year, and I've definitely worked my butt off, so I guess I'm just settling into the fact that I'll have to accept it."
For those who didn't make it, the sting will quickly pass. As DeMarcus notes, success isn't always measured by the number of awards you win.
"I'd rather be rich than have a trophy," he joked.
Associated Press reporter Caitlin R. King in Nashville contributed to this report.


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Broadcast: 17/03/2006
Reporter: Melinda James
Well look,of course I'm not privy to what's in the Minister's mind and also to be fair, I guess it's unlikely that Minister Abbott has had the opportunity to read the report, it's fairly extensive and the numbers no doubt will be looked at by his department, but we're confident as I said that they are rigorous and they're robust. Mr Abbott has also said this week that any community that wants Opal, that asked for Opal can have it. Now, if we take Alice Springs for example to be a community perhaps the way is open there for Opal to be brought in. When we approached the government last year, we've kept them appraised of the fact that we've been doing this, because, we want to work with them on getting Opal into the region. When we first spoke to Mr Abbott and the then Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone's advisers and the department of health last year, the response was that it was too expensive. I think we've shown that it's not. I think Access Economics has very clearly shown that it's not and we're very hopeful that we can get, we can get some movement on this. If we don't, we could be in the position in a couple of years of saying oh well BP was commissioned by the Federal Government to invent this unsniffable fuel, it's really good, communities are really happy to have it we've subsidised it in some roadhouses and other commercial outlets and to its credit the government has agreed to do that, but we'll never really know whether it could be a good practical intervention unless we use it properly across the region.
Tony Abbott did talk about a different type of intervention this week, he commented that parents and elders need to take more responsibility when dealing with sniffers. He suggested that parents should simply take petrol away from sniffers? how realistic a suggestion is that in your view?
Well for some parents in our region, it is realistic, and people have done that and I'm sure that if Mr Abbott's kids, or my kid were doing that, that's the sort of thing we would do in response, we would probably do that immediately. But we've been able to bring our kids up in an urban, or semi urban environment, not in a dysfunctional community that has very few mental health services, that doesn't have police on call, that is not, not in a community that's saturated with petrol, with cannabis, with the behaviour of petrol sniffers rampaging around the community day and night, and it's, I think, you'd have to say it's a little bit simplistic to expect that people living in remote areas, who often themselves have health problems, who have had traditionally a very different way of bringing up kids, it's not so simple as to just say take the can away, i think if it was that simple, people would have succeeded more in taking that approach.
You extended an invitation to Tony Abbott to come and see some of those problems for himself, he visited Central Australia in June last year, what benefit do you see in him going again?
Yes the Minister was on the AP lands, APY Lands last year, but I think he spent most of that time at Umewa which is the administrative centre for the Lands, it's not a community as such, and he did spend a bit of time in the evening watching some Inma or dance, at Fregon, what the women clearly had in mind, when they were making that request this week, was for him to actually go and see the reality of people trying to deal with petrol sniffing children in their family, petrol sniffers in their family who have physical and or intellectual disabilities that's secondary to petrol sniffing, and acquired brain injury is the highest type of disability in much of the region, particularly on the South Australian side. That's what they want him to do, and my understanding is that they're hoping that he will do that without perhaps an entourage of media, or without taking a lot of the, I suppose the more extravagant comforts in life that they would really like him to spend a bit of time in the community and see how people really have to deal with this problem.
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As Quakers who believe authentic religious faith requires action that promotes peace, we read with great interest Frank Munger's recent blog and article about the letter from the three Transform Now Plowshares activists in prison for protesting nuclear weapons production at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge.
The activists reminded us all of our moral responsibility to speak out in opposition to paying billions of tax dollars to for-profit corporations to make more thermonuclear secondaries needed to make the bombs work. Such expenditures are wrong in light of so many pressing human needs, the terrible past and potential human costs of the nuclear system, and in contradiction of international treaties to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons in the world.
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Modern 8-year old block in the Van Der Stel part of Somerset West in residential area, with views to Helderberg mountains on all sides. No nearby 2-storey buildings gives this one a spacious feel
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The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) causes significant mortality and no effective vaccine is available. Viruses closely related to SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) have been found in bats in several parts of the world, making re-emergence of SARS a distinct possibility. We propose to develop a safe inactivated and second-generation vaccine to prevent SARS. We showed that virus deleted in the small envelope (E) protein (rSARS-CoV-Delta E), or in this E protein plus six additional genes (6, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, and 9b) accessory for replication were attenuated in hamsters and mice. Among the deleted genes, E gene was the main one responsible for virus attenuation in the animal models tested. Thus, virus with either deleted or mutated E protein serves as a useful platform for the production of a chemically inactivated vaccine, and for the engineering of a live attenuated anti-SARS vaccine. We have shown that SARS-CoV E protein regulates host stress and unfolded protein responses and, consequent immune responses to the virus. We propose the identification and construction of rSARS-CoV including E protein mutants that elicit strong immune responses and are still attenuated.
The specific aims of this project are: (i) The construction of rSARS-CoV viruses with modified E protein mutants eliciting higher immune responses to the virus by maintaining E protein's role in morphogenesis. We hypothesize that preventing the interaction of E protein with host cell proteins involved in stress response signaling will lead to an enhanced immune response. E protein mutant construction will be based on the generation of an rSARS-CoV with a mutator phenotype. (ii) To test rSARSCoV-E* as vaccine candidates in mice using a mouse adapted prototype. We will analyze the immune responses to selected vaccine candidates, and the influence of non-essential group specific genes and of age. (iii) To increase the safety and titer of selected rSARS-CoV-E* vaccine candidates by modification of replicase genes, and to increase vaccine candidate titers using a virus with mutator phenotype.
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Madison - Danny O'Brien didn't engage the spin cycle when asked to describe how the 2012 season has played out.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed," Wisconsin's No. 2 quarterback said this week as the Badgers continued preparing to face host Penn State on Saturday. "But you realize this is bigger than me."
After falling out of favor with the new staff at Maryland last season, O'Brien brought his undergraduate degree to UW.
He beat out Joel Stave and Curt Phillips in camp to win the starting job but lost that job after three games and too many turnovers.
He took over in the second half against Michigan State after Stave suffered a season-ending collarbone injury but saw Phillips win the starting job during the bye week and then make his first start at Indiana.
"By the time Curt was in there, it was about winning the game," O'Brien said. "I think individually it has been really crazy, but I think I have grown up a lot over this season, as a teammate and a man just handling adversity.
"Obviously it didn't go the way I had imagined it, both my personal success and the team's.
"We imagined ourselves being undefeated. Being at 7-4, that's not where we want to be.
"But I've grown up as a teammate and I realize our team goals are still there to reach. We can still win the Big Ten. We can still go to the Rose Bowl.
"Obviously it starts with Penn State first."
UW (7-4, 4-3) will secure a third consecutive trip to the Rose Bowl with a victory over Nebraska or Michigan in the Big Ten title game Dec. 1.
With Phillips entrenched as the starter, O'Brien must stay sharp during the week and offer Phillips any tips he can during the games.
"My focus right now is to get better each day in practice and helping Curt out when he is out there," he said. "That is going to help us as a team so that's what I've been focusing on now."
O'Brien visited Penn State and first-year coach Bill O'Brien last spring when he was looking for a new home.
"It was a great visit," he said. "I didn't have a bad thing to say about it. It was awesome.
"Coach O'Brien and that staff are genuine, hardworking guys."
Remember that O'Brien came to UW with two seasons of eligibility. He is pursuing a master's degree in intercollegiate athletic administration but will need to stay at UW through next fall to complete the degree requirements.
He insists that he hasn't thought about the 2013 season.
"I haven't even thought past Penn State," he said. "I love being at Wisconsin. I love being a player, a teammate and a student.
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By Miranda Noland | 01/06/2011 - 09:45
Selena Gomez was an all-around winner at last night's People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles — she took home the award for Favorite Breakout Artist, and she looked stunning in two very different looks. She arrived at the awards show in a pale pink Paule Ka ruffled shoulder minidress with a black clutch and nude Giuseppe Zanotti peep toe pumps.
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By Luisa Orozco | 01/04/2011 - 13:00
Just because the temperature is dropping and you have to bundle up doesn't mean you have to give up on looking cute. This winter season go for a trendy bootie! They work for a festive party or the office and totally jazz up all that bulky winter wear.
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We countdown the 15 best red carpet looks from 2010.
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Gisele Bundchen's new campaign for Balenciaga was revealed and the bombshell Brazilian model looks radically different!
Her trademark beachy, long waves are replaced by a shoulder length choppy bob. Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière's sought to channel a punk spirit with his latest line and Bundchen is covered up from head to toe in the slightly androgynous Spring 2011 collection.
It's a far cry from her Victoria's Secret days, to say the least!
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By Miranda Noland | 12/22/2010 - 09:00
Jessica Alba impressed us this year, not with one or two stellar red carpet outfits, but with her ability to look amazing every single time she walked out her front door. This busy working mami manages to experiment and have fun with fashion while staying true to her gorgeous self.
Jessica is our most stylish Latina of 2010 because she never fails to inspire. Check out some of her best looks, and don't be afraid to try out some new styles for yourself in the year to come!
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A cute clutch has always been a fashion staple, and this season the choices are endless! With styles ranging from flashy to feminine to edgy, here are our fave party accessory picks to match whatever mood you may be in:
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By Miranda Noland | 12/15/2010 - 13:20
We've got wedding fever here at the Latina offices! While waiting patiently for all the details of Joanna Garcia and Nicole Richie's weekend weddings to be revealed, we started thinking about the most beautiful brides of 2010.
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Our stars were out in their finest last night to celebrate the designers that make them look so good at the 2010 Hollywood Style Awards at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California.
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A new dress for the holidays is fun, but a new pair of killer heels is dynamite! We have searched the internet far and wide to bring you the best party shoes under $100 to make your toes twinkle into 2011.
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After raising, lowering, working upon, and testing the stability of 16 different standing desks over the past four years, the Fully Jarvis Bamboo remains our favorite adjustable-height standing/sitting desk for most people. After our latest tests, we also recommend the Uplift Standing Desk. Both desks show more polish in their details and are far more stable than anything else in their price range. The Jarvis and the Uplift are also backed by generous warranties from established ergonomic firms.
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We've accumulated more experience with the Jarvis Bamboo than with any other desk, and it remains the "no-brainer" option for a standing desk. It's rises and falls smoothly with no shuddering and is stable, even at its full height—it's particularly resistant to front-to-back wobble. The Jarvis accommodates the height of 95.5 percent of American adults (though shorter folks may need to add a keyboard tray) and can support up to 350 pounds, counting the top. You can customize a Jarvis that fits your space and looks just the way you want, and it will arrive fast, with easy-to-follow instructions and quality parts. In this field, that's more exciting than it sounds.
Uplift's Standing Desk is a direct competitor to the Jarvis, using a slightly different version of the same lifting frame. Of all the desks we've tested, most of which use the same frame supplier and have similar options, it's the only one that's as stable and reliable as the Jarvis and the only other one we recommend. An Uplift can be bought with nearly the same accessories as the Jarvis for almost exactly the same price. The Uplift's bamboo top is thicker, and it has a few different frame, top, and accessory options than Jarvis. It has a bit less side-to-side wobble than the Jarvis, but a little more front-to-back wobble. In any case, both desks are far more stable than any other desk we've tested. The Jarvis remains our top pick because it's a desk multiple Wirecutter staffers have years of experience with, but we have yet to find any serious flaws with the Uplift desk.
If you already own a standard-height desk you like, and you're not ready to commit to the price of a full-size adjustable desk, we still like the Ergo Desktop Kangaroo Pro Junior. We are researching and testing other desktop converters like the Kangaroo, and will test it against three or four newer options for our next update. For now, though, the Kangaroo Pro remains our pick: it's lighter and hogs less of your desktop than other conversion options. It's ideal for those who are just starting to fit standing and movement into their work day.
If you're going to stand to work, you need a standing desk mat to support and relieve pressure on your feet, back, legs, neck, and shoulders. We tested anti-fatigue mats right underneath the desks we tested for this guide, and found the Ergodriven Topo was the best mat for alternating between sitting and standing. It's plenty comfortable beneath your feet, but what puts it over the competition are its multiple surfaces and densities for bored, fidgety feet and the ability to slide it under a desk and back with one foot.
In 2013, The Wirecutter was the first publication to test and directly compare full-size adjustable standing desks and desk converters head-to-head. Freelance writer Mark Lukach built and worked at six popular and reputable standing desks that first year, followed by groups tested by Wirecutter editor Nathan Edwards, and then me, Kevin Purdy. We've tested more standing desks than any other publication, and we've seen the market grow and grow since we started.
Along the way, we've consulted the work of established experts in the field of standing, sitting, working, and maintaining health. We've read the work of James Levine of the Mayo Clinic, a pioneer and early advocate for varying one's work position. We spoke at length with Shane Harris, one of the first journalists to write extensively about standing desks. We referenced, for this guide and our home office work, the work of Cornell University's Human Factors and Ergonomics Research Group (CUErgo). We've communicated with company founders for background on the desks themselves: David Kahl of Fully (formerly Ergo Depot), Jon Paulsen of Uplift, Justin Lucas of Autonomous, and Steven Yu of StandDesk. Most of all, we've kept a watch on the ebb and flow of research and opinion on the dangers of sitting and what standing desks can and cannot do to alleviate sitting's damage.
Getting a standing desk? A desk mat is an essential part of the ergonomic office.
Standing has benefits, beyond those needing more research. In testing standing desks, I (Kevin Purdy) have found that my sit/stand rotation encourages me to tackle tasks I can complete within the 20 or 40 minutes I intend to stay standing. Standing in the early morning helps me focus while still groggy, and standing after lunch seems to stave off a post-meal lull. When standing, I am more likely to walk to fetch something or grab a glass of water or coffee. Standing during a video conference sometimes makes me get to the point when speaking. Not for nothing, standing also provides a higher, more flattering camera angle for said conferences.
Also, having an adjustable standing desk means you have an adjustable sitting desk, too. Most desks are built to a height for the "average person," because they must be mass-produced. Sometimes you can raise the legs or casters a bit, maybe an inch. With an adjustable standing desk that has a memory console, you can figure out your most comfortable sitting height and lock it in, without having to lift up your desk and slide things under the feet.
If you do decide to set up a standing desk, get the ergonomics down. Misaligning your back, shoulders, or neck can lead to pains, or worse. This older graphic from Wired remains the simplest way to illustrate the proper standing desk goals: monitor slightly tilted back, eyes looking about two inches below the top of your monitor, keyboard and mouse at your elbow level or slightly below.
How much should you stand at your desk? Not too much. The best practice to avoid sitting all day is to not sit all day, but standing all day brings its own problems, as factory workers can attest. Rotate between sitting, standing, and moving around, as suggested by the aforementioned Alan Hedge and the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Ideally, you should be standing and/or moving around two hours of every 8-hour workday. Exactly how you break that up depends on your work tasks, your schedule, and how you're feeling on any given morning or afternoon.
Just as standing while working is not yet soundly proven to undo sitting's damage, you should not expect standing to cure any bodily problems you experience while sitting at work. If you have any maladies or concerns, consult an orthopedic or primary care doctor to address problems, or before committing to a significant change in work routine.
Adjustable sit/stand desks come in three general types: hand-cranked, hydraulic/pneumatic, and electronic. Hand-cranked desks are only slightly less expensive than electronic, a pain to work with, and prone to load-imbalance issues. Hydraulic desks like the Humanscale Float are quiet and elegant, but they cost as much as high-end electronic desks, lack any sort of preset height options, and can't hold as much weight. We have focused on electronic desks since we first started testing in 2012, since they're the most popular, reliable, and cost-effective adjustable desks and can hold several hundred pounds.
Generally, in assessing newer electronic standing desks, we considered how they compared to our standing pick, the Fully Jarvis Bamboo, in features, specifications, and price. Some of those desks ended up being dismissed before testing began.
Because adjustable-height desks generally cost at least $500, whatever you buy should be stable and operational for a decade or more. It should also look good the way you want it to, because you're going to spend thousands of hours working on it, whether sitting or standing. You should have few problems buying the desk, receiving it, assembling it, and troubleshooting any small quirks in its operation (and they exist, even for the best desk—see Care and maintenance). The company should offer speedy, reliable support and appear to be in the business for the long haul. If your desk stops working, especially while it's raised, you don't want your next Google search to show that you've been left high and dry.
Almost nobody has owned a modern standing desk with electronically controlled lifts, for five years or more, so reliability and durability are something we have to extrapolate from customer reviews and day-to-day use.
A good standing desk should accommodate as wide a range of human heights as possible. Any desk can hit the middle of the bell curve, but a good desk should be usable by just about everyone.1
The most important thing in a quality adjustable desk is stability. A solid standing desk should not wobble from front to back or from side to side at any height. It should raise and lower as smoothly as possible, without unpleasant noises or shudders. Beyond wobble, there's a feeling of balance, especially when a monitor is attached to an arm or a laptop is on a stand on the desk. It's hard to quantify, but it's easy to feel when you think about your expensive equipment. It is, essentially, a back-of-mind fear that "This whole thing feels like it could go right over if someone bumped it the wrong way." Most desks we tested avoided that, but not all of them.
With those parameters in mind, and after looking into the leading companies, we brought in three new desks to try in the summer of 2016: the Autonomous SmartDesk (no longer sold in the configuration we tried), an Evodesk, and an Uplift Standing Desk. We tested these desks alongside our pick (the Fully Jarvis) in CoworkBuffalo, offering up standing desks to an enthusiastic set of standing workers. We asked each person to rotate desks each day, and, after a few hours of sit/stand shifts, to compare each desk's stability and adjustability to the others.
The Fully Jarvis Bamboo is more stable than almost any other desk for its price and looks better than desks costing twice as much. The lifting motor brings the desk up and down smoothly, the desk suffers no notable wobble or shake at its full height, and it never feels like it is going to tip forward or back, unlike some standing desks. The desk ships quickly, in secure packaging, arrives with instructions that are easy to follow, and requires just a Phillips-head screwdriver and an included hex wrench for assembly. The Jarvis accommodates people up to around 6 feet 5 inches tall, which is not the case for all standing desks.
Our preferred setup—a 60-inch rectangular bamboo top, with wire management cutouts at the corners, and a programmable memory handset—doesn't look too office-like for your home or too quirky for an office, and is provides enough color and customization options to suit most people. Fully has sold the Jarvis for three years as of this writing, and is on its 18th iteration of small changes. Several Wirecutter writers and editors have been using versions of the Jarvis for years, and all of them find their desks in good working order and easy to recommend.
The frame (the motor and lifting legs) used by the Jarvis was customized for Fully by Jiecang, a major supplier of standing desk frames. The Jarvis' steel feet are heavier than other desks', about 6 pounds (2.8 kilograms) to most other standing desks' 3 pounds (1.5 kg). Nearly every other Jiecang-made desk frame we tested telescopes downward, with the biggest piece attached to the desktop, while the Jarvis frame telescopes upward, putting more weight toward the bottom. Fully claims this lowers the center of gravity and reduces the sensation of wobble and tipping; another desk maker that uses Jiecang lifts in the other orientation dismissed the idea. Regardless, the Jarvis is one of the most solid and stable desks we've ever tested. Specifically, it is more stable front-to-back than our other pick, the Uplift desk, but slightly more wobbly in side-to-side movements. In both cases, these differences only showed up when shoving or shaking those two desks. Other desks we tested moved noticeably when simply leaning in to reach for coffee, and the Autonomous desk we tested couldn't even hold its own against aggressive typing.
The Jarvis arrives in two boxes, one with the desktop and one with the frame components. Of the four desks we assembled in 2016, the Jarvis provided the best experience. When a Wirecutter staffer purchased a Jarvis Bamboo (with their personal email and payment), they received a shipping confirmation and tracking number two days later. The email noted the carrier, the time frame for delivery, the shipping origin, and had instructions for assembling the Jarvis attached. Most standing desk makers took 3-5 days to ship, with less notice and information provided, and one, Autonomous, left a staffer waiting for months.
Jarvis's instructions were clear, and components were properly labeled. None of the pre-drilled holes on the bottom of the desktop were crooked or improperly spaced for the frame pieces. We wouldn't mention this if this had not occurred with at least two other standing desks, one of which (the EvoDesk) cost $300 more than the Jarvis.
The maximum height of the Jarvis, three-quarter-inch-thick desktop included, is 49¾ inches. Everyone's body dimensions are different, but that height should allow a proper ergonomic keyboard height for most people up to 6 feet 6 inches tall. If you add the optional locking casters onto the feet, the Jarvis gains another two inches. Compare that to the Ergotron we tested, which tops out at 44 inches, effectively ruling it out for anyone taller than 6'1". The Jarvis's minimum height, 24 inches, is three to six inches below the average fixed-height sitting desk. People under 5'4″ may need to add a keyboard tray2 to get their keyboard and mouse low enough for proper ergonomics while seated, but that's true of virtually all desks.
The ¾-inch bamboo top of the Jarvis feels solid and looks great. It's a slightly darkened, three-layer slab of bamboo, sealed with a clear finish that stands up well against hot coffee mugs and ice water condensation. You can get your bamboo top in a rectangle or with a front contour cut-out, or "butterfly" style, with raised "wings" on the sides (an odd option we don't think most people will need), and with cable-routing cutouts in either corner, including power-supplying or wire-hiding grommets. (These cable-routing cutouts are relatively new; we dinged previous iterations of the Jarvis for not including them.) You have two color options for the grommets and three for the frame. You can add locking casters, screw-on pencil trays or wire management channels, PC holders, and other options. Although it's listed as an add-on, you should definitely upgrade to a programmable memory handset, which makes raising and lowering your desk multiple times per day far less of a chore, since you don't have to search for the correct height each time.
Fully (formerly Ergo Depot) has been making ergonomic products since 2005 and gradually iterated on their standing desk designs since the Jarvis's introduction in August 2013. The firm's return policy is clear and relatively generous, asking a $50 flat return fee for a very expensive, heavy item, after troubleshooting measures have been exhausted. They're not the only company with a seven-year warranty, but they're a company we've come to believe is well suited to fulfill it.
In addition to bamboo tops, the Jarvis is also available with laminate or powdercoated MDF or hardwood tops, and even a few weirder options, but we think the bamboo top is the best-looking and the best value. It's also available in a narrow "Junior" version, with an L-shaped frame, or as a treadmill desk.
You can buy just the Jarvis frame in steel or black from Amazon, with free Prime shipping, and attach it to nearly any desktop in the proper size range, though you'll need to drill mounting holes yourself. If you are near Portland or San Francisco, you can visit the Fully showrooms, something most standing desk makers do not have.
Most of the issues you might encounter with the Jarvis, or any standing desk, come from human error. Having built more than a dozen standing desks between writers and editors, we know that, as with all assemble-it-yourself furniture, early errors like loose or too-tight screws or misaligned bolts can compound as you move on. But there are a few other quirks that might arise regardless of how you set it up.
Like most standing desks in its price range, the lifting motors in the Jarvis's legs can drift slightly out of alignment with each other after many uses, causing sounds or vibrations. Most of these issues can be fixed with the desk's reset procedure (lowering all the way and pressing down a button for a few seconds).
We recommend a particular Jarvis setup (bamboo, rectangular 60-inch desktop, memory-enabled console), because we think it's the best value in the Jarvis line. The laminate tops, while cheaper, are thick, heavy, and not too attractive. Most of the accessories for the Jarvis are not custom-built for the desk, just conveniently packaged with your shipment. If you want fewer wires exposed on your desktop, add grommeted cable-routing cutouts to your desktop, or use good, affordable cable management tools.
If you ordered the Uplift Standing Desk with the same configuration as our recommended Jarvis desk, it would cost just a few dollars less. Both firms offer Jiecang frames with near-identical configuration options, are headed by executives experienced in ergonomic design, and offer a seven-year warranty on their desks. What's the difference? Well, the lifts are oriented in the opposite direction, the feet are aluminum instead of steel, and the bamboo desktop on the Uplift is one inch thick, a quarter-inch thicker than the Jarvis's top. This allows for longer screws attaching the desktop to the frame, which Uplifts says makes their desks more stable than the Jarvis. Uplift offers two free grommet holes, a center grommet option not available for the Jarvis, and some desktops, frame, and accessory options that Jarvis lacks. The Uplift we tested had a better shipping, setup, assembly, and use experience than any model we tested besides the Jarvis, and it's a good desk―especially if you want to venture outside bamboo and try other desktop options, like reclaimed teak. We haven't tested Uplift for as long as we've tested Jarvis desks—this is partly self-fulfilling, because several Wirecutter staffers bought Jarvises since we started recommending them, so we have a wider pool of experience—but we like what we've seen so far.
Uplift's desk selector gives you a lot of branching options for your desk layout—even more than Jarvis does. There are three- and four-legged frames in three colors, five colors for eco/laminate, 16 solid woods (compared to Jarvis' three woods and stain options), and two reclaimed wood options. Uplift offers most of the same types of accessories as Jarvis—with the notable and thoughtful addition of a modesty panel—and ships each desk with a free anti-fatigue mat, bag or headphone hooks, or a USB hub. (The mat is better than nothing, but less supportive than almost anything we tested in our standing desk mat guide). Shipping was estimated at 2-4 days for a bamboo desktop, and the packaging, shipping, and assembly process was similar to the Jarvis. We caught one hex-head screw mix-up in the manual text and informed Uplift, and they have addressed it.
As for the bamboo desktop and its lifting frame: it raises and lowers smoothly. It is a little more stable, side to side, than the Jarvis, due to the welded triangular bits at the intersections of the frame and crossbars. The Jarvis seemed, within a very narrow range of human perception, more stable at its full height, in terms of vibrations, front-to-back wobble, and a feeling of being "planted." It's not a day-and-night comparison―more like a 5 to 10 percent difference―and your mileage with wobble/vibration will vary based on your desk setup. A heavily loaded desk will wobble more, for example, and a monitor mounted on an arm will wobble less than one on a stand. The memory console works just like the memory console on the Jarvis―and two other standing desks we recently tested.
The Uplift is a solidly made adjustable-height desk, with a similar stability and a wider range of configuration options than others, from a company with good standing and a reasonable seven-year warranty. If you can't order a Jarvis desk just the way you want it, or you want a desktop option that Jarvis doesn't offer, you should check out Uplift. As with the Jarvis, we tested a version with a 60-inch bamboo top and memory console.
Note: We are in the process of testing newer standing desk conversion units, a subcategory of standing desks with a lot of tricky what-if scenarios and fixed-height limitations. For now, we believe our initial recommendation of a Kangaroo Pro Junior is still the best guidance. Most of the following section, and the competition section, is based on text written by Wirecutter alum Mark Lukach.
If you already have a desk that you love and don't want to replace, consider the Kangaroo Pro Junior. It represents the best way to transform your sitting desk into one where you can stand and then easily switch back and forth between the two positions. It supports more weight than most conversion options, it moves relatively smoothly between positions, and you can still use its workspace when it is lowered on your desk, unlike other conversion units.
The Kangaroo Pro Junior comes almost fully assembled, with all the tools you need to complete the setup in just a few minutes. A 24-by-18-inch platform serves as the base (the non-Junior model has a bigger platform, but you probably don't need it if you're not planning on also having a notebook or other stuff on the standing surface). The base level is for your keyboard and mouse, and the second level is for your VESA-mounted monitor. It's definitely a smaller space to work from while standing, and switching between positions takes a good bit more time, but it does allow you to introduce a standing habit into a workspace without totally reconfiguring it. While the regular Kangaroo models have a platform for a laptop or monitor, the Pro models replace the top platform with a VESA mount. If you have a mountable monitor, go for the Pro.
With your monitor and keyboard in place, you loosen first a bottom knob (or "brake," as Ergo Desktop calls it), which allows you to then gently lift the platform and monitor, with pneumatic assistance. You then loosen another knob to raise the monitor to your new standing eye level. When you're ready to go back down, you loosen the main knob, push down, tighten the knob again, then bring your monitor down and tighten that knob, too. A removable stabilization leg should go under the keyboard platform once you're standing, and be removed when lowering again; you can skip it for short, keyboard only standing sessions. If you shuffle a lot between standing and sitting, this is quite a few steps, especially compared to the one-click operation of a memory-handset standing desk.
With the stabilization leg in place, the Kangaroo Junior's platform can support up to 15 pounds of pressure while raised. You can slouch a bit, but it can't take your full leaning weight. Other desktop-conversion options only hold a keyboard and a mouse, without much structural support. Without the leg, the Kangaroo platform will still hold your monitor and keyboard, or even a laptop if you work with a laptop/monitor setup. (We tried this.)
Unlike some of its competitors, the Kangaroo Pro Junior doesn't attach to your desk—it simply sits on top. This is convenient because you can slide the Kangaroo to the side (assuming you have the room) or remove it entirely if you need to accomplish tasks that don't involve a keyboard. The full-size Kangaroo provides a bigger platform and more stability, but also takes up more space and is heavier. Most people will do just fine with a Junior, which holds a mouse and keyboard at the proper heights.
Most of the time, standing desk issues can be solved with one fix, common to all desks that use motorized lifts: a reset procedure. You bring the desk all the way to its lowest height, let go of the "down" button, then press and hold the down button again until the console reads "RST." Press and hold the down button one more time, and the desk will sink a little lower, do something approximating a shimmy, then raise back up. If your desk still has whatever raising/lowering/balance issues you noticed, make sure there's nothing underneath its feet, or a cord putting pressure on its frame, and then contact the manufacturer.
As for the bamboo tops of our preferred desktop configurations, both Jarvis and Uplift: They are sealed beneath environmentally friendly UV-resistant finishes and should survive many years of coffee cups, water glasses, and minor scratches without issue.
StandDesk offers standing desks at roughly the same laminate and bamboo-top price points as most manufacturers, although with a shorter maximum height (45 inches, covering those about six feet tall) and a slower rising and falling rate. Our timing with StandDesk has lined up awkwardly two years in a row; our last guide revision arrived before their first post-Kickstarter model, and this version comes before a notable redesign of the core product, according to designer Steven Yu. We're eager to try out the next iteration of StandDesk's product.
A "V2" of the NewHeights VertDesk, which we tested and dismissed in a previous version of this guide became available after our initial tests. It still has a lower weight capacity, and its crossbar is a choice for stability over aesthetics. Still, we intend to try out this desk, as it prices out fairly close to our top picks when configured in similar fashion.
For years, The Wirecutter recommended the NextDesk Terra to people who want a standing desk that's as beautiful as it is functional. When we started this guide, the NextDesk Terra was our top pick, and for years it was the best option—when the Jarvis first came out, it had a less sturdy frame and an ugly laminate top. Since then, the Jarvis and its near competitors have gotten better-looking and sturdier, and the average price of a nice standing desk is now about half that of the Terra. The Terra, it should be noted, has a beautiful, made-in-America aluminum frame with Linak actuators that are a little quieter and faster than Jiecang's, and a bamboo top that's a bit sleeker-looking. Writer Mark Lukach and editor Nathan Edwards, who wrote previous iterations of this guide, both bought NextDesk Terra models with their own money and have used them for years. They're very good desks. However, the Jarvis and Uplift offer 95 percent of the polish and experience of the Terra for about half the price.
NextDesks's parent company offers an inexpensive brand, EvoDesk, with options very similar to the Jarvis and Uplift desks: Jiecang lifts, desktops made of laminate, bamboo, or rubberwood, and a five-year warranty. We bought a 60-inch rubberwood EvoDesk. The pre-drilled holes were alternately too shallow and required wrist-straining cranking, or too wide, leaving some screws feeling stripped and the frame not as firmly mounted to the desktop. The T-shape frame had more front-to-back wobble than the Jarvis or Uplift, and our laptop bounced around more on its stand while typing than with those desks, too. Considering a 60-inch EvoDesk costs more than a Jarvis or Uplift when configured with rubberwood (nearly $200 more with bamboo), we'd recommend passing.
Autonomous sells adjustable standing desks starting for roughly $500 less than the Jarvis. One version of that desk, with dual motors (like other standing desks), was provided to us, in a smaller configuration that Autonomous no longer sells. The pre-drilled holes were rough, or not where they were supposed to be. The instructions were the most confusing of any desk we assembled. The desk itself, a T-shaped desk with Jiecang lifts, is okay: for $250 in laminate, or $350 bamboo (at the time of writing), it would perhaps be an option for those who don't need a beautiful desk, don't load much on it, and just want a desk that can go up and down, and are willing to take a chance on a very new company that offers a cheap desk with a 30-day trial and a 5-year warranty.
The Autonomous ordering experience, however, was painful for another Wirecutter writer (who ordered with his personal email and credit card). The initial shipping estimate was moved back two months. An email asked the buyer if he'd like to try "a new frame design" that "works just the same as the old one," shipping three weeks after his initial estimate. The desk he received was entirely different than our sample desk, with only one motorized leg lift, and a spinning hexagonal bar connected to the other leg to lift it. The desk's instructions were minimal, it arrived without protective feet, and it took hours to discover a fix to an issue with the crossbar. We emailed Justin Lucas, a director at Autonomous, about these delays and confusing switches. Lucas told us in mid-August that Autonomous would shift to another motor and control-box maker in early September, and that the shipping delays were "good symptoms of startup scaling and fast growth." These were not reassuring answers, and we do not recommend buying a standing desk from Autonomous.
Varidesk, maker of desktop conversion units (addressed further below), released a full-size Pro Desk 60 in mid-2016. Unlike other standing desks, this desk's top raises mechanically to a preset height when you lift it. As a result, it holds much less than most electric standing desks (50 pounds), though that's not a dealbreaker for everyone. We held off from testing, however, because the Pro Desk 60's maximum height of 43½ inches roughly accommodates those 5'11" and under. Varidesk told us that a higher-standing model is forthcoming; we'd be keen to test it when it arrives.
These are the desks we tested and dismissed prior to 2015:
The NewHeights Elegante comes from one of the first standing-desk companies we discovered, but its VertDesk was entirely forgettable. The Elegante is a huge step in the right direction, but you're paying a lot for a desk with a cluttered wire-management system and an inspired but imperfect control panel that isn't as sturdy as it could be. The most basic version, with a 24-by-36-inch top (which is what we tested) comes in at over $1,200, but you can easily configure the desk to cost more than $1,800, which makes it even pricier than the NextDesk Terra, a much better desk. And while it's comparable to the Jarvis, it's more expensive.
The GeekDesk v3 is a basic desk—no frills, no accessories, just a tabletop and a frame. It has a simple design, it works well, and it looks fine. We tested the v3 back in 2012. The Jarvis has a superior height range and lifting capacity, as well as a much longer warranty. The company's shipping charges push the total for a GeekDesk over $900—more money for less desk, in comparison with the Jarvis. The GeekDesk Max has a higher weight capacity and a programmable controller, but it starts at $1,000 before shipping.
We also tested the UpDesk PowerUp in 2012. It's another desk with a good motor but a basic design. Aesthetically, it's comparable to the Elegante and GeekDesk. Its features are solid: It has a good motor, presets, a five-year warranty, and a good range of height (24½ to 50½ inches). Once again, however, the Jarvis undersells this model by a few hundred bucks. And for about $1,000 (plus shipping), we want something that looks great. UpDesks's UpWrite is much the same, but with a whiteboard surface. We have not yet tested the company's "Ultra PowerUp" desks, which replaced the PowerUp models.
We also looked at Herman Miller's Renew and Steelcase's Series 7, which are of excellent quality and very sturdy (and from well-respected manufacturers), but these desks are fairly difficult to find since their makers target them at the corporate world and tend to sell them in bulk. They're sold through authorized retailers, which set their own prices.
NextDesk also sells a Terra Pro model with four adjustable legs to counteract the wobble of two-legged standing desks. We've seen one in person, and it's a tank; the Pro can hold up to 630 pounds. It starts at $2,700, so you'd better need that lifting capacity—NextDesk tells us it's extremely popular with musicians who have to move heavy sound-editing equipment.
We really wanted to like the lifting mechanism of Varidesk desktop converters, which pop up and down easily when you pull two levers attached to the top platform. And they're cheaper than the equivalent Kangaroo models from Ergo Desktop. But Varidesk products have a drawback: size and bulk. While the Kangaroo Pro Junior is designed to easily slide out of the way, a Varidesk monopolizes your desk.
Our impressions of the Varidesk line comes from our 2013 tests, but we are testing a newer model in 2016. We will update as soon as we have had some time with it.
The rest
We have not seen several other adjustable standing desks, at least not in their latest versions. As mentioned above, we didn't look at new versions from UpDesk or GeekDesk because the great value of the Jarvis meant that we could rule them out immediately.
Initially, the IKEA Bekant seemed promising. With a minimum height of 22 inches and a top height of 48 inches, it will work for people up to 6′4″. It can hold up to 154 pounds. A Gizmodo review in October 2014 generated a lot of excitement about the Bekant, though that seemed to be the reviewer's first experience with a standing desk. Three Wirecutter readers commented that they bought the Bekant. Two are returning it due to instability and poor build quality, while the third is fine with the purchase. We will get a Bekant in for testing, but we can say that most people will be better off buying a Jarvis frame and getting a cheap tabletop for it.
The Rebel Desk is strictly hand-crankable, and it looks too industrial.
The PlunkDesk is a stunning, beautiful wooden stand that reminds us of a music stand—but it also reminds us of a wooden music stand and costs $500 to $900, depending on what wood you get.
The most advanced desks currently available, the Stir M1 and F1, have embedded touchscreens and tell you when to stand up and sit down, based on what you program into the desk. It can even learn your standing habits. They also start at $3,000, and the cost rapidly increases with additional features. Yikes.
Finally, Focal's Sphere and Locus are simply too expensive.
(Photos by Kevin Purdy.)
1. People under 5'1″ may need to use a keyboard tray to lower their keyboards to an ergonomically optimal seated height, while those over 6'5″ may need to use casters to raise their desk frame to get an optimal standing height, but a good desk should fit everyone in between. Jump back.
2. We haven't yet tested keyboard trays, but this one has negative-tilt adjustment, keeps the keyboard six inches below the desk surface at the lowest, and has a short enough base that it doesn't interfere with the crossbeams on the undersides of Jiecang-based desks like the Jarvis or Uplift, so it's a good option for an adjustable desk. Jump back.
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Originally published: October 5, 2016
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I have Amazon, Marble Queen Radicans, Brazilian, Rosette, and Ozelot swords. I like swords in general - easy to grow, but some can get big quick!
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I know many people have had good luck with them in the past but recently that's been the case as I have heard others with similar problems. I don't know if that have gotten any better now or not. I just wanted to make you aware of it.
Thanks Boredom. It has been a long time since I ordered from them but I may rethink ordering from them, now that you mention it seems like last time I ordered it took about a month and two or three emailsf or me to get the plants that I had ordered and I don't want to wait that long again.
Yes that's another thing it took like 3-4 weeks for me to get my plants in and several emails. On the other hand they did refund my money and were nice about it.
I am going to look around and see if I can find anything close thats close the same price before I place my order.
I like aponogetons... Most are pretty easy to grow.
I'd take out the Echinodorus Parviflorus... they're too slow-growing in my opion. I'd go with Radican swords.
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Made with the best ingredients; soybean extract, vegetables(such as onion, garlic, leek), natural sea salt and water. These ingredients make dishes more flavorful and nutritious.
Naturally enhanced flavorant (No chemicals!)
Available in liquid form
Mild taste and light color
No preservatives, artificial coloring, MSG or GMO
Made Only in Korea
Usage Suggestion: Use to add savory flavor to soup and other dishes as a natural flavor enhancer
How to Use: Add 4g (1/2Tbsp) of Sempio "Yondu, Green Label" at the end of cooking.
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