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Simplistic portrayals of water and sanitation 'crises' have often led to misunderstandings on the nature of the problem and how to address it. The result has been a failure to centralise the needs and interests of the poor and marginalised within different solutions.
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Principally conducted in the KNOTS Team at IDS and the IDS-coordinated STEPS Centre, our work on water justice critically examines the politics and pathways of water and sanitation policy and practice through interdisciplinary research on access, rights and control over these key resources. Through this research we ask how future global action on water and sanitation and water resources management can centralise the needs of the poor and most marginalised.
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The way I see it, you're either in one camp or the other:
a) You're a fan (often a big one) of The Lord Of The Rings, and absolutely cannot wait to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
b) You cannot stand any LOTR film, and think watching a bunch of fantastical characters walk from one end of a map to another is akin to a fork in the eye. Ergo, seeing The Hobbit isn't even a remote possibility.
This post is mostly for the b)s of the world. While it's usually fruitless to try and convince someone to go see a specific movie against their better instincts, I'm still going to try. The Hobbit is enjoyable on every level -- from story to cinematography to the performances -- and despite the inherent nerdiness of the franchise, even the non-geeks among us can identify with the triumphs of a small man over big foes. And, if you stop and think about it, a lot of the great movies of our time orbit around this basic, universal concept: hope, in its purest form, can lead us to realizing our dreams, or things we never thought possible.
If that doesn't convince you, cold-hearted cynic, that you too can enjoy The Hobbit, here are 26 reasons why you should re-consider and give it a chance.
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Crankbrothers Split Quick Release Skewers
What's to improve on the good ol' quick release skewer? Apparently not much if you look at current offerings in the bike world. The DT Swiss RWS design aside, the only significant changes over the years have been the use of more exotic materials, and opening up the cam to the outside elements. Today's bread-and-butter quick release skewer is basically the same one Tullio Campagnolo envisioned when a flat tire frustrated him during a cold road race in 1927. Then, as now, they're made of a rod, a toothed nut threaded onto one end, a lever operated cam at the other and some tapered springs to keep everything away from the dropouts when installing and removing wheels. We've all opened and closed some form of this 80+ year old design so many times it's become second nature to us. It works. It's simple. What more do we need? Well…there is one minor quick release gripe that people often have, especially disc brake equipped mountain bikers and those who spend more time riding than doing pushups. Sometimes there's simply too much stuff in the way or the strength just isn't there to apply enough force to secure them properly or to loosen them later. For whatever reason it's unfortunately too common for riders to under tighten their skewers to facilitate removal later, sacrificing safety and security in the process. Enter the good folks at Crankbrothers with another innovative design to address the problem. The Crankbrothers Split Quick Release Skewers aim to split the forces necessary to properly and comfortably operate a set. The two stage lever design is meant to ease opening and closing by using two levers to do the work of one.
First impression of the Crankbrothers Split Quick Release Skewers: "Hmm…they actually work." We were admittedly skeptical of the necessity or even the advantage of the split levers, but felt a noticeable difference between opening and closing traditional single lever skewers and the two stage Crankbrothers version. The thumb pad on the larger lever covers the smaller lever's end and makes it easy to engage the skewers in one motion if the rider chooses since it might be easier to muster up the requisite leverage in this direction. We quickly started using them as intended though, by first closing the silver lever and then finishing with its bigger brother. Tightness settings that required a considerable effort to move the levers as one were easily mastered with just a thumb when the two levers were engaged separately. Some might describe the difference as subtle, but it is definitely there.
The advantage of the Crankbrothers design was even more evident when opening the skewers to take a wheel off. We've always found that pulling the levers on a well-tightened skewer requires a lot of effort on the part of the fingers and leaves us more prone to entanglements with disc brake rotors. Again, the way the Split Skewers' levers fit together allows both of them to be opened as one like any other skewer lever, but pulling on them separately makes the whole process easier. Ideally everyone will ride for a long lifetime without their skewers loosening unexpectedly, but the ubiquity of lawyer tabs on forks these days indicates that many people out there have struggled to adequately tighten theirs. The Crankbrothers team has taken away one hurdle or excuse that plague cyclists and have come up with a safe, comfortable way to skew and de-skew wheels.
The Crankbrothers Split Quick Release Skewers are made of anodized 6061-T6 aluminum with chromoly shafts. The nut and cam ends have deeply toothed steel inserts where the skewers engage with the bike's dropouts to give a solid connection. The pair weighs in at 125 grams, a bit heavier than other modern skewers but pretty impressive considering the extra material needed for the twin levers and the added weight of the beefy steel shaft.
Aesthetically speaking the Crankbrothers Split Quick Release Skewers are jewels like the rest of their lineup. The silvery anodization on the end caps and smaller of the two levers matches well with all five of the color options for the large lever. Also, the black, red, blue, green, and orange dyes that Crankbrothers uses look great next to Chris King hubs, the gold standard of bike bling. The designers at Crankbrothers turned the flared end of the main lever into a well-shaped backdrop for their laser etched logo that cleverly serves double duty as a textured surface for your thumb as you're operating the quick release mechanism. The aggressive machining on the threaded nut and the levers give the skewers a sleek industrial look. However, the nut's three raised and three lowered areas' sharp edges appeared a little tough at first. Overall, the edges of all the moving parts seemed a bit harsh, especially for a product meant to make its use easier and more comfortable than the competition's, but after working with the skewers for a while we actually ended up liking the unrounded look and feel of the design.
The Crankbrothers Split Quick Release Skewers will give any rider added peace of mind and ease of use in the tidily beautiful presentation we've come to expect from the Brothers Crank. Adequately tightening skewers has never been easier and removing the wheels for a quick tire change or to throw your bike on a roof rack becomes child's play. We'd recommend them for anyone who doesn't mind adding a handful of grams in exchange for gaining safety and convenience.


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waffle love.
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- holtkamp said...
i love waffles as well, as evident by the fact i've gone to bruges twice this week :)
- February 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM
- Brittany said...
I love Bruges in SLC so much. Especially in the summer with fresh Utah peaches. But I mean, Nutella doesn't hurt. I've been hearing about this waffle truck! I need to try it.
- February 6, 2013 at 8:43 AM
- Court said...
what i'd do for a waffle! :) that looks so good. it would be bad news for me if we had a food truck 5 minutes away :)
- February 6, 2013 at 9:06 AM
- his little lady said...
Okay, officially craving these waffles! YUM!!
xo TJ - February 6, 2013 at 12:22 PM
- nate and amy crandell said...
Oh snap! That sounds amazing! Might have to make that for dinner tonight haha. (but seriously!)
- February 6, 2013 at 1:53 PM
- Kim said...
A friend of mine heard a story in our stake conference about this man's grandparents who hosted "waffle mania" each fast sunday after church. A new tradition was born. I've been to her waffle mania and it was fab. Get yourself the double waffle maker to cut out cooking time. Important information!
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EDITORIAL: Too big to fail, too big to jail
The entire executive suite at HSBC should be going to prison. The giant bank, based in Britain, moved billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels through its American operations and defied U.S. sanctions by laundering money for Iran, Libya and a Saudi Arabian bank tied to al-Qaida.
But instead, the U.S. Justice Department gave the bank and bank officials a "get out of jail free" card. It reasoned that a bank that is too big to fail is also too big to jail. HSBC has agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle the Justice Department's case against it.
Justice Department officials argued that the size of the settlement will deter criminal behavior by other bankers. They decided to settle the case rather than prosecute for fear that a criminal conviction for money laundering would cause the bank's collapse, which would pose a systemic threat to the banking system. Officials were so worried about this systemic risk that they even rejected charging the bank with the lesser offense of violating the law by failing to report cash transactions of more than $10,000.
The settlement may seem large, but know that HSBC had a profit of $17 billion in 2011. The Justice Department's acceptance of the settlement is a signal that banks, if caught, can continue to be international gangsters without any fear that their executives will be sent to prison.
The settlement follows a pattern of fines rather than criminal charges for bankers who have jeopardized U.S. national security by laundering money for countries that harbor al-Qaida or support terrorism.
Among banks that have paid settlements for violating U.S. banking rules are Credit Suisse, $536 million; Barclays, $298 million; Lloyd's, $350 million; ING, $619 million; and the Royal Bank of Scotland, $500 million.
The settlements are a small part of these banks' yearly profits. As with any money launderer, they are a cost of doing business.
HSBC expanded that business by becoming the money launderer of choice for Mexican drug cartels. Between 2006 and 2009, it transferred more than $670 billion from its Mexican subsidiary to the United States.
If an individual had committed these crimes, he would be doing hard prison time. To deter this large-scale, international criminal activity, the Justice Department should indict the banks and start sending their executives to prison.
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RVC member, Lori Hale, a member of the Zora Arkus-Duntov Society was recently invited to attend the C5/C6 Bash at the National Corvette Museum. Many activities were planned during her visit there including meeting and dining with the Board of Directors. She was able to participate in the VIP Plant Tour as well as the Museum Tour. Lori said that "the plant tour was awesome and exciting to watch the cars roll off the assembly line. What symmetry and American ingenuity." It was mentioned that the plant would be shut down in September for retooling that effects the 2013 Corvette, which may come out at the Detroit Auto Show in January.
Lori's daughter, Janet, made the trip with her. They stayed at the 1869 Homestead Bed and Breakfast owned by Wendell and Jan Strode. (Wendell is the Director of the Museum.) The history of this property goes back to the late 1700's when it was given as a grant to Nathaniel Lucas for his outstanding service in the Revolutionary war. The Homestead has been in Wendell's family since 1958.
Lori's biggest thrill happened on Saturday when she had the chance to ride in a vintage 1963 Z06 Sting Ray Racecar. She did admit that she told the driver "to step on it". And he did. They did a few laps and Lori was ready to go again – she would love to have driven it. It was a highlight of the trip.
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Hi Peter. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend Scrabble 6 night. I'll be in London for the Paralympics. Hope you'll organise another one soon. No doubt all the other sharks will be there!!
hi peter thanks for supporting our pub quiz last thursday, good questions werent they? we are running another one august 17th
your wine prize will be there at arts club. seel you then, vawn
Thanks Peter! If you're on Facebook, add Grainne O' Grady (Inclusive Choir) as a friend and you will see our links to some nice versions of "Smile" :-)
Hi all! Thanks for joining the group and great to see you on wednesday. Could you rate the meet up? Hopefully reviews here will encourage new comers to join.
Hope to see you at the one of the Music Matters Inclusive Community Choir rehearsals this week. If you need any more information just e mail [masked] or call Grainne on [masked] and check out www.musicmatters.ie
Hi Peter, hope to see you at the choir, if you want to give me your e mail address I can send you on some info. Otherwise will give it to you at rehearsal. Welcome!
Hi Peter, that is really short notice....a pity..I have already something planed otherwise I would have come. Next time !
Ha Peter. Im all outta credit here. Wish id gone to Aja!My shift as in night duty shift(before u have any naughty thoughts!) was cancelled so one cheered oneself up with a naggin of smirnoff! Oh and two pair of boots from carl scarpa. Hee! Hee! Now I will be off to see the cappachuins 2 morr,wearing me trainers! Dont blow my cover!!!!
Hi peter i havent yet been to a meetup but plan to go to the killmainham arts night this monday i will phone you on your mobile when i get there as i dont know any members yet , and
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Martin Peretz, former publisher and editor in chief of The New Republic, had a column in the opinion section of yesterday's Wall Street Journal that possesses considerable stunt value: The man who sold his magazine just last year to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes hops up on a prominent perch to lament what Hughes has done with the thing. More


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Google Glass gets face recognition
PUBLISHED: 24 May 2013 07:53:12 | UPDATED: 25 May 2013 00:33:42PUBLISHED: 24 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 25 May 2013John Davidson
Updated: Now this is why I would fork over $1500 and risk looking like a tool to wear a pair of Google Glasses: face recognition.
Lambda Labs, a San Francisco-based augmented reality company, says it has developed facial recognition software for Google's not-so-soon-to-be-released Glasses, that will tell you the name of who you're looking at. The software will be made available to Google Glass app developers within the week.
The software spots faces in your field of vision, and then puts names to that face, ranked in order of probability, based on a pool of mug shots that you've already uploaded to some servers somewhere. Presumably you can turn it off, so it's not trying to name every passerby as you walk along the street, and you only turn it on when you arrive at a party or a meeting where you're worried that you'll forget a name.
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BlackBerry Q10: a review in five words or less
PUBLISHED: 21 May 2013 00:05:48 | UPDATED: 21 May 2013 12:52:56PUBLISHED: 20 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 21 May 2013John Davidson
The BlackBerry Q10 qwerty keyboard is excellent for messaging, but sacrifice has had to be made on screen size because of it.
I could write this week's review, of BlackBerry's Q10 smartphone, with four words and one punctuation mark: It has a keyboard!
That's all you need to know. Either you've been dying for a good keyboard phone to come out, in which case the BlackBerry Q10 is almost certainly the phone for you, or you haven't, in which case, forget it. Don't even read on.
Those four words and that one punctuation mark completely define the phone. They mean that the Q10 is completely brilliant for messaging – for email, SMS, Twitter, Google Talk (now renamed "Hangouts"), and BlackBerry's own excellent messaging system BBM – and they mean that it's not all that brilliant for a lot of other apps, those that need screen real estate more than they need a keyboard.
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BlackBerry opens up BBM for other platforms
PUBLISHED: 15 May 2013 08:01:00 | UPDATED: 16 May 2013 05:39:11PUBLISHED: 16 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 16 May 2013John Davidson
BlackBerry chief Thorsten Heins made a surprise announcement that BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, would be given away free of charge to iPhone and Android users. Photo: AP
At BlackBerry's annual conference here in Orlando, an announcement from BlackBerry's chief executive Thorsten Heins had attendees scratching their heads and wondering, what the . . .?
Finishing off his keynote address, Mr Heins made the surprise announcement that one of the company's prized assets, its instant messaging system known as BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, would be given away free of charge to iPhone and Android users.
In a crowd of BlackBerry devotees, this was big news, much bigger than the announcement of the new, cheaper BlackBerry phone, the Q5, designed for emerging markets.No more will people have to own a BlackBerry in order to use BBM, arguably the best instant messaging platform on the planet. From this summer in the United States, users of Apple's iOS and Google's Android phones will be able to send and receive text messages on the BBM platform, too. By the end of the year, users on those other platforms will be able to make voice and video calls on BBM as well. When that happens, the Android and iOS versions of BBM will have "feature parity" with the BlackBerry version, as Mr Heins put it, meaning that, on the face of it, BBM will no longer be a reason to own a BlackBerry.
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Amazon phone will be holographic 3D: report
PUBLISHED: 10 May 2013 08:00:10 | UPDATED: 11 May 2013 00:33:57PUBLISHED: 10 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 10 May 2013John Davidson
Amazon is working on a secret smartphone that will have a hologram-like 3D screen you can look at without wearing 3D glasses, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The phone will use special retina-tracking technology to calculate how to create the holographic image, so that it appears to be 3D from every angle, the Wall Street Journal says. It's a little late for April Fools' Day, so I guess they must have their well-placed sources.
That same retina-tracking technology might also be used to allow users to navigate through the phone just by moving their eyes, the report says.
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The strange case of the double dose device
PUBLISHED: 07 May 2013 00:06:21 | UPDATED: 07 May 2013 00:08:31PUBLISHED: 07 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 07 May 2013John Davidson
The Asus Transformer AiO gives you two computers in one.
The Asus Transformer AiO might well be the strangest device we have ever reviewed here in the Digital Life Labs.
How strange is it, you ask?
It's so strange, it defies entry into our testing database – the first device ever to do so. There is just no category to file it under, so we had to break our database rules and put it in two categories. It's so strange, it breaks our results charts – again, for the first time ever. It's so strange; it's the first computer to ever give me vertigo during the review process. That's how strange it is.
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Kindle Fire spreads, now 10 inches big
PUBLISHED: 06 May 2013 07:53:53 | UPDATED: 06 May 2013 14:17:18PUBLISHED: 06 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 06 May 2013John Davidson
What started as a small Fire is fast becoming a conflagration. Amazon is planning a 10-inch version of its popular, low-cost Kindle Fire tablet, according to an analyst in the know.
NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim says that the world's biggest bookseller will start production of a 10.1-inch Fire in the third quarter this year. The big tablet will have a 2560x1600 pixel display which, if you do the maths, works out to be 299 pixels per inch, significantly sharper than the 264-pixel-per-inch "Retina" display on the Apple iPad.
Just when you thought tablets were supposed to be getting smaller. Nope.
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Wave hello to Galaxy S4 – it's got the magic
PUBLISHED: 29 Apr 2013 23:07:11 | UPDATED: 30 Apr 2013 15:01:19PUBLISHED: 29 Apr 2013 PRINT EDITION: 30 Apr 2013John Davidson
If only more things in life were like Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone.
If only my gin bottle would pour me a shot whenever I waved my hand past the alcohol cabinet. If only my TV would pause the video whenever my eyes were drawn away from the screen and towards the alcohol cabinet, and resume the video again when I returned (seconds later) with that drink. If only my friends would stop talking the moment I stopped listening.
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Waterproof Samsung Galaxy S4 in the pipeline
PUBLISHED: 29 Apr 2013 07:43:34 | UPDATED: 29 Apr 2013 16:27:48PRINT EDITION: 29 Apr 2013John Davidson
Try doing this with a Galaxy S4. No, wait! I mean, don't try doing this with a Galaxy S4. This picture is of an Xperia Z
What's the one thing Sony's Xperia Z smartphone has that Samsung's Galaxy S4 lacks?
Stunning good looks?
OK, so what's the other thing the Xperia Z has that the SGS4 lacks?
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Flexible LG phone this year — report
PUBLISHED: 26 Apr 2013 08:13:52 | UPDATED: 26 Apr 2013 13:21:34PUBLISHED: 26 Apr 2013 PRINT EDITION: 26 Apr 2013John Davidson
These brilliantly faked-up images are of a Philips phone doesn't exist, unlike the LG phone which just might exist. Dinard da Mata - www.behance.net/ddm
LG will release a smartphone with a flexible OLED display this year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The vice president of LG's mobile phone business, Yoon Bu-hyun, reportedly told the newspaper that the phone is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter.
It's not clear how flexible the displays in the new phones will be. Flexibility in Organic LED (OLED) screens can serve two purposes. The most science-fiction purpose is to make devices that can wrap around things, like your wrist. The other, far less sexy purpose is to make screens that don't shatter. These latter screens flex enough so as not to break when you drop them, but not enough that you'd notice they were flexible. (Until you drop them, of course.)
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Samsung S4: just say 'when'.
PUBLISHED: 23 Apr 2013 19:00:00 | UPDATED: 24 Apr 2013 11:01:26PUBLISHED: 24 Apr 2013 PRINT EDITION: 24 Apr 2013John Davidson
Side-by-side with the iPhone 5 ... The Samsung Galaxy 4S has so many new features there's a very real risk that useful things could simply go undiscovered by many consumers. Photo: Bloomberg
When Samsung's flagship phone, the Galaxy S4, goes on sale this Saturday at Telstra, Optus, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone for $899, you'll be able to buy a device that quite conceivably has more features than any phone ever released.
If you live in Sydney or Melbourne, you could even buy the feature-rich phone before Saturday.
At the Sydney Opera House, where Samsung launched the Galaxy S4 on Tuesday night, and at Samsung's flagship stores in Australia's two biggest cities, the phone will be available for pre-sale from Wednesday morning, making Australia one of the first countries to sell what is expected to be the second most popular consumer electronics device in the world this year, behind Apple's iPhone. But customers buying the phone early still won't be able to pick it up until Saturday.
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Intel's pain, your cheap Android tablet
PUBLISHED: 22 Apr 2013 09:03:38 | UPDATED: 22 Apr 2013 12:47:42PUBLISHED: 22 Apr 2013 PRINT EDITION: 22 Apr 2013John Davidson
Cheap Intel tablets and laptops, expected to appear in coming months as the PC industry mounts a last-ditch defence against the Apple iPad, could come with Google's Android software rather than Windows, according to a report.
Intel boss Paul Otellini said last week that touch-screen computers would "probably" come down in price to below $US200 by the end of the year. That would get you a computer with a "non-Core" processor, known as Intel's "Atom" processor. Atom tablets and laptops are significantly slower than computers running Intel's Core i7, i5 or even i3 processors, but nonetheless we've seen some very nice Atom machines this year, all of them running Windows 8.
Well now it turns out that at least some of the cheap machines in the pipeline may not run Windows at all, but Android.
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Toshiba's MacBook Air/Pro killer
PUBLISHED: 19 Apr 2013 08:39:10 | UPDATED: 20 Apr 2013 00:32:33PUBLISHED: 19 Apr 2013 PRINT EDITION: 19 Apr 2013John Davidson
What do you do when people aren't buying laptops any more? Do you stop making laptops, or do you make them fancier than ever?
Toshiba appears to have opted for the second course of action. It's just announced a very fancy new laptop, the Kira, that's designed to compete with Apple's MacBook Air, and Apple's MacBook Pro, both at once. (Not that the MacBooks are the real problem here. It's sales of Apple's iPad that are undermining laptop sales. But, still, the MacBooks have been the trendsetters in the ever-shrinking world of laptops.)
The Kira is the first Windows 8 laptop we're aware of to sport a "Retina" style display, Retina being Apple's magic word for when the screen is so sharp, the human eye can't make out individual pixels. In the Kira's case, that means a 13.3 inch screen with a massive resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, which translates to a pixel density of 221 pixels per inch. That's only a shade less sharp than the 226 pixel-per-inch screen on Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina display. So the screen on the Kira should be a sight to see, just like the MacBook's screen is a sight to see.
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Control your home from your phone, cheap(ish)
PUBLISHED: 17 Apr 2013 08:02:36 | UPDATED: 17 Apr 2013 18:45:34PRINT EDITION: 17 Apr 2013John Davidson
Here we have (left to right) a Smart Control, the Harmony remote control app running on an iPhone, and a Hub.
It turns out that "universal" isn't the absolute you might think it is. Logitech's new Harmony Ultimate universal remote control looks set to be Logitech's most universal remote contol ever.
Logitech has just announced the Ultimate, as well as its cheaper sibling the Smart Control, both of which represent a radical rethink from Logitech on the way their universal remotes should work.
Both devices come with what's known as the Harmony Hub, which is a little box (pictured to the right, above) you sit in your home entertainment system, that controls your entertainment devices by blasting out infrared or Bluetooth commands. Bluetooth is important because several gaming consoles use Bluetooth rather than infrared for their remote controls, making them impossible to control with, shall we say, less universal universal remotes.
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'One' classic example of when less is more
PUBLISHED: 09 Apr 2013 00:05:42 | UPDATED: 25 Apr 2013 14:19:20PUBLISHED: 08 Apr 2013 PRINT EDITION: 09 Apr 2013John Davidson
With the One, HTC has made possibly the best and most elegant phone around.
One is less than a lot of numbers. It's less than two, for example. It's less than four (or, more correctly, S4) and it's less than five. Unless you're standing on a podium, in which case one is more than all other numbers.
With its latest phone, known simply as "One", HTC has taken both counting systems to heart, and has adopted a less-is-more approach that, in terms of features as well as numbers, is almost completely out of step with the rest of the industry.
The HTC One has a camera with only four megapixels, when the flagship phones from other makers have eight or 12 megapixels. The One runs just one app on the screen at a time, when the trend seems to be to have as many apps open on the screen as can fit. (LG's Optimus G can display three.) The HTC One runs Android 4.1, when many competitors have already moved to 4.2. Its screen is just 4.7 inches in size when the benchmark is now 5 inches. It has only a couple of major new features, when its biggest competitor, Samsung's Galaxy S4, can count its new features in the dozens.
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Facebook unveils new Home for Android
PUBLISHED: 05 Apr 2013 07:45:00 | UPDATED: 06 Apr 2013 00:34:00PUBLISHED: 05 Apr 2013 PRINT EDITION: 06 Apr 2013John Davidson
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg fists pumps with enthusiasm over new Android Facebook app. Reuters
Facebook has unveiled "Home", a suite of applications users and manufacturers be able to load onto Android phones to ensure a phone user's every waking hour is dedicated to the addictive social networking site.
As predicted, Facebook's announcement of Home Thursday night fell short of the much-talked-about Facebook-branded phone. But not by far. For all intents and purposes, the new software simply allows Android owners to roll their own Facebook phone, focused on the phone owner's friends and family rather than on apps.
Facebook explains it like this: "Home isn't a phone or operating system, and it's also more than just an app. Home is a completely new experience that lets you see the world through people, not apps."
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however the dwarves are not greedy scumbags as thought by many but are kind helpful people with a bad reputation.
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dwarfs are found in many stories such as "Eragon" and the rest of the series. They are also found in the story "Dragon Rider".
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Why would one find dwarves unattractive? All races have a beauty to them :)
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Its been a while since the MSU-Northern Skylights volleyball program has had two conference wins in a season, but just three games into the 1999 Frontier Conference season, the Skylights have done just that.
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The Skylights split their home-opening weekend, losing to the Bulldogs in three games 15-9, 17-15, 15-12. Northern rebounded Saturday night to beat the Orediggers in three straight, 15-12, 18-16, 15-12.
Friday night, Western jumped out to a 9-2 lead early in the first game, Northern came back and cut the lead down to 9-4. The Bulldogs rattled off three unanswered points to move to a 12-4 lead. The Skylights then came alive and battled back but trailed 12-9 before Western finished the job.
In game two, Northern exploded out of the game and went up 5-1. Western pulled back into the game but still trailed 6-4. Then Northern went on an 8-5 run to lead 14-5. The final point would elude the Skylights as Western rattled off 10 unanswered points and went on to win 17-15.
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In the second game, it was Tech who jumped out first and built a 10-3 lead. This is when the Skylights kicked it into high gear and went on a 10-1 run to take the lead from Tech at 13-11. The Orediggers battled their way back and the game was tied at 14-14 and then 15-15 before Tech took a 16-15 lead. Northern stayed tough and got the ball back and rattled off three straight to win the second game.
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