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Rumor says Google might help Samsung in optimizing TouchWiz
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1. AgentZero (Posts: 300; Member since: 16 Aug 2014)
this is good news it will help with speed , updates and features like multi window and mini apps will be more stable and more supported ! hope this is true
29. techandbeers (banned) (Posts: 110; Member since: 02 Nov 2015)
Can we finally all agree stock performs better than touchwiz?
This is why I'd take the 6P over a note anyday. It simply outperforms Samsung's heavy UI. Not saying touchwiz hasn't improved, because it has. But whenever I pick up a note 5 or gs6....or basically anything with touchwiz, I feel the lag instantly.
So hardcore Samsung fans, you must realize touchwiz isn't as optimized as it should be. I'm glad it's finally getting Google's attention.
31. mcflu (Posts: 9; Member since: 12 Jun 2015)
It has come a long way, and yes its still very much laggy, but thats balanced out with the amount of features touchwiz offers. Now, as far as does every use all of those features, I doubt it haha
40. Plume-Veil (banned) (Posts: 174; Member since: 19 Nov 2015)
I think people are missing some of the point of this and it's become a TW bashing thread. It's about generalisation. To me, if the ROM or app has a good performance and useful features that I want, then I'll use it. It must be reliable (no FC) and not hog resources unnecessarily, or pose security risks. I use a modded stock ROM, rooted, repartitioned, deodexed, zipaligned, debloated, minimal Google apps, but I have plenty of customisations with Xposed, different launcher, radio and screen management etc. The phone runs on a very customised and optimised ROM, to keep it functional and responsive. If apps hog memory I look for alternatives and they must have minimal permissions for the job they perform. Some apps I will choose as power user apps with more demands upon the phone because I want that function, for instance, I removed stock soundFX app and music app and installed Viper4Android and Neutron music player. A very complex setup in terms of settings and ability. This uses resources but sounds awesome!
I removed stock email and gmail apps and use Aquamail instead. It has all my email accounts, including work exchange mail and exchange calendar. I can customise the settings to better control synching so it's a much more complex app to set up, but once done, saves battery and just works. If I used the Gmail app, it would try to sync at least every hour all accounts and suck my battery and data down in no time, plus it couldn't handle exchange accounts so I'd have to run another app for that.
I've found Google apps in general try to keep the phone online as much as possible, partly for functionality but also just that Google want to use your data. I look for alternatives to Google apps because of it, but still use some because I like the functionality.
You just need to be able to assess what is good or bad use of your phone's resources for what you want it to be able to do. No one setup will suit everyone.
41. Plume-Veil (banned) (Posts: 174; Member since: 19 Nov 2015)
Every time another app start running, more of the phone's RAM is used, if too many apps are t=running, the phone will slow down... Get a RAM optimizer like Memory Booster. Works for me, I have it on all of my Androids...
54. Fellwalker (Posts: 427; Member since: 04 Apr 2014)
One of the key features of Android is that it shuts down apps to ensure it has RAM available.
43. AgentZero (Posts: 300; Member since: 16 Aug 2014)
well everybody knows stock is faster , touchwiz is getting better and to be honest the stutters are so rare (been using the note 5 for a month now) but for me ill take the multitasking features over stock any day any time , the dual window and minimizing apps is just something i always use but if google really decides to help then touchwiz will be miles better , optimization will help the user experience in general and that is what everybody wants , in the end STOCK vs TOUCHWIZ is a matter of what the user needs , u need more features = touchwiz , you want something basic that just works flawlessly =stock
51. kabhijeet.16 (Posts: 823; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
Totally agree.. I'm currently running Oneplus one (stock android)...
Went to buy Samsung Galaxy Note 5.. In the showroom, I used it for a while. The camera was excellent but instantly felt the lag of TW & came across terrible RAM management.
Instantly dropped the idea. Inspite of some useful TW feature missing, Oneplus one is lot better.
66. alex3run (Posts: 715; Member since: 18 May 2014)
No. Touchwiz just looks WAY better and is more user-friendly.
The bad thing is that Google will turn Touchwiz into a s**t like the second stock UI...
34. rd_nest (Posts: 1656; Member since: 06 Jun 2010)
Better someone ask Google to optimize their own software. Nexus batterylife suck compared to every other phone.
36. techandbeers (banned) (Posts: 110; Member since: 02 Nov 2015)
Stop spreading BS.
My Nexus 6P gets from 5-7.5 hours screen on time. Can't stand when people clearly have no idea what they are talking about.
50. rd_nest (Posts: 1656; Member since: 06 Jun 2010)
I have Nexus 4 and nexus 5, with me right now. And they both suck. Most phones get better batterylife than nexus even with lesser battery.
Note 5 is better than nexus 6P will ever be in terms of batterylife.
And that has been proven by multiple reviewers. Note 5 and iPhone 6s gets much better batterylife with even a lesser battery capacity.
55. housry23 (Posts: 135; Member since: 03 Jun 2012)
I would agree with the Note 5, but not the 6S. The 6S+ probably does, but the 6S is probably more like Nexus 5X battery life. The 6P lasts me all day and then some. What more do you want? They admitted battery life was bad and then they did something to improve it with 6.0.
57. vincelongman (Posts: 5256; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)
We have to remember that the Nexus 4 and 5 were almost half the price of the other flagships yet had similar specs
Which meant cost cutting in hardware (smaller battery, inefficient screens, worse cameras, worse SoC bins, ...)
Nexus 6 was because Samsung should an older inefficient AMOLED
The Nexus 6P has similar battery life with the Note 5 and iPhone 6S+ in low to medium usage
But worse battery than the Note 5 and iPhone 6S+ in heavy usage, because of the inefficient 810
56. Unordinary (unregistered)
Thats it? 5-7.5 only?...
67. keithtae (Posts: 558; Member since: 25 Mar 2015)
Stock android lags as hell. My nexus 7 is my first and I swear last nexus device- it's running slow now. I'm currently using the s6 edge+ and it really is better. Touchwiz looks better, also with more features that I appreciate. Stock android with the stupid double pull-down to get to toggle settings- most stupid idea ever. In touchwiz, I get everything I want with just 1 pull down from top, notification and toggle settings are all there, unlike stock.
39. zeeBomb (Posts: 2312; Member since: 14 Aug 2014)
Google...*sniff* you tha real MVP.
52. engineer-1701d (unregistered)
The Galaxy S7 and Samsung need to go stock Android and then have the ability to download specific items from Samsung App Store to be installed on the phone itself that would make updates universal from Google without having Carrier involved
2. Shocky (unregistered)
Why haven't Google done this already?? Samsung is only the single largest Android OEM by a huge margin.
15. jellmoo (Posts: 2261; Member since: 31 Oct 2011)
Entirely possible that Samsung never wanted this level of partnership with Google before. Their... chuminesss... is relatively recent.
48. fiji.siv (Posts: 92; Member since: 25 Nov 2015)
Although Android is open source, TouchWiz is most certainly not. It's Samsung intellectual property. In order to show it to Google, they need to get the lawyers involved and then Google needs to get their lawyers involved and then management needs to sign the appropriate contracts and engineering usage needs to be scoped and before you know it, it's late-2015.
3. Martineverest (Posts: 504; Member since: 27 Oct 2015)
That won't stop Apple from dominating smartphone profit
7. cheetah2k (Posts: 1834; Member since: 16 Jan 2011)
18. Finalflash (Posts: 3659; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)
No he's right, they get less for more while everyone else gets more for less.
44. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4932; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
And how does that help the consumer again?
4. Feanor (Posts: 888; Member since: 20 Jun 2012)
Uh? Wouldn't there be a competition law to prohibit this? It's like Google releasing a free operating system and then favourizes only one partner?
6. vincelongman (Posts: 5256; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)
Android is still going to be free for all other OEMs
Google and Samsung probably just made a deal where they will help each other out
Google helps Samsung optimize TouchWiz
Samsung helps Google implement some TouchWiz features into AOSP
Other OEMs could probably make similar deals if they wanted
9. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
Maybe Samsung will allow google to use some of it's technologies.
Samsung won't directly help google in implementing touchwiz features in stock android because if Samsung knew how to knew how to implement them, why would they need google to optimize touchwiz?
23. troutsy (Posts: 334; Member since: 17 Feb 2012)
Optimize != Implement
28. techspace (Posts: 1036; Member since: 03 Sep 2012)
They go hand jn hand...making changes/modifying the way of implementation is optimization.
Samsung can share technology and let Google implement it themselves.


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Practical Spectroscopy
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Crude Rises; Early Gains Pared By Inventory Build
Crude futures settled slightly higher Wednesday, paring an early rise after a surprise increase in U.S. oil stockpiles dug in to investor optimism.
Crude stocks rose by 1.8 million barrels last week, the Energy Information Administration reported, topping analysts' average estimate that called for a 900,000-barrel build.
The surprise build cut through early hopes that had resulted from improving U.S. jobs data.
Light, sweet crude for December delivery settled 32 cents, or 0.4%, higher at $92.51 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after trading as high as $93.79 a barrel earlier in the session. Brent crude on the ICE futures exchange ended 4 cents higher at $109.58 a barrel.
The increase in oil stockpiles allayed some concerns about a recent dip in stocks below their five-year average level for the first time since 2008. But Wednesday's increase was accompanied by a large decline in the stocks of distillates, which include heating oil and diesel, suggesting that fuel supplies are still growing tighter.
Distillate stocks fell by 3.6 million barrels, while analysts predicted a smaller 1.5 million-barrel decline.
"Even though we had a bit of a build here, we're still in an overall destocking trend," said Dominick Chirichella, an analyst at the Energy Management Institute. "From the distillate point of view, it's somewhat positive for prices."
Gasoline stocks rose by 1.4 million barrels, EIA said, surprising analysts that called for a 600,000-barrel decline.
Still, after three straight days of declines, futures remained higher as ADP's monthly national employment report estimated private-sector jobs in the U.S. rose by 110,000 in October, topping economists' expectations.
The data suggest that economic growth is picking up in the world's largest oil consumer.
The gains Wednesday come amid simmering concerns about Europe's sovereign debt crisis. Greece's plan to hold a referendum vote on the country's latest bailout led to a rebellion from some Greek lawmakers, which threatens to topple the government and derail the euro zone's efforts to keep control of the crisis.
Front-month December reformulated gasoline blendstock, or RBOB, settled 0.1% higher at $2.6272 a gallon. December heating oil settled 1.2% lower at $3.0007 a gallon.


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But don't worry, you weren't suffering the after-effects of too much partying the night before, you would have simply stumbled across the annual New Year's Day Nippy Dip.
Around 70 brave volunteers took to the sea to raise money for children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
Now in its fifth year, this years event was bigger than ever with lots of brave volunteers taking to the sea supported by around a thousand people who were cheering them on. The dippers and crowd were lucky in the weather as the sun made its first appearance of 2013, but the sea was still cold.
Michael Hopkins, who helped organise the dip and is a veteran dipper himself, took to the sea first with friend Adam Bennett and made sure the other dippers were well and truly warmed up before they plunged into the icy depths. Dressed as David Hasselhoff andPamela Anderson from Naywatch the two were easy to spot as they led the advance into the cold January waves.
The money is still being counted but it is looking like the event raised around £20,000 for charity CLIC Sargent which supports young people ad their families with cancer.
Michael Hopkins said the event was "huge success" and that they are looking to have an even bigger event next year.
He said: "On the day we had great weather, everything was absolutely fantastic. People from as far as Dundee and Inverness travelled to the Town to take part."
He said that the event would not have been possible without support from a number of people and businisses and he would like to thank the following for their help; Peter Logie from CLIC Sargent who helped with the organisation, the Stonehaven Lions Club esecially Andy Macarble who was MC on the day, Adam Bennett for helping lead the dippers, Michelle Ward and the Royal hotel for providing soup, Jane's Design for their support, Tribe for providing the sound system, Dunnottar Wines for providing the whisky, the Granary for the use of their premises, Woodview embroidery, everyone who turned out and supported the Dippers and finally a big thank-you to everyone who braved the cold January sea.


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Huskers Upset No. 5 UCLA in Extra Innings, Claim Series Win
Peters, who provided the game-winning single in the 12th inning of Saturday's 2-1 thriller, took the first pitch off Mitchell Beacom onto the outfield berm, setting off another celebration that marks Nebraska's first back-to-back walk-off wins since 2003.
"It's crazy," Peters said. "It was a long weekend but the team did a great job and we found a way to win the last two days. I'm not going to lie, it was pretty cool, but it wasn't just me. The pitching staff definitely did great and we had some great plays. It was a whole team effort."
A sophomore second baseman from Fort Collins, Colo., Peters' homer was the first of his career. His walk-off shot also gave NU a series win over a top-five ranked opponent for the first time since upsetting No. 5 Texas in 2006.
"The effort was outstanding this weekend," head coach Mike Anderson said. "You can't say enough about the kids. They never gave up. They were very, very determined. Yesterday in the game, in about the sixth inning when we were behind, I saw that determination. Win or lose yesterday, it was there. They were very determined to get back in it. They did it and today that determination was back."
Nebraska trailed 4-1 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning after first baseman Kurt Farmer retired UCLA's Pat Valaika by tumbling into the first row of seats to end the top half of the frame. The Huskers' rode that momentum to mount a three-run, three-hit comeback with one UCLA error to force extra innings for the third straight day, marking the first time in school history NU has played three consecutive extra inning contests.
Cody Asche and Josh Scheffert came up with clutch RBI singles to highlight the ninth inning after Michael Pritchard tabbed a one-out infield single to start the rally, while Bryan Peters also reached on a throwing error by Valaika at shortstop. Scheffert's single on a 3-1 pitch scored Asche for the game-tying run.
Casey Hauptman (2-1) earned the win for Nebraska as he threw the final two innings and gave up no runs and only one hit, while Tyler King and Ryan Hander combined to shut out UCLA from the fifth to ninth innings. NU starter Brandon Pierce allowed three runs in the first inning but settled down to hold UCLA scoreless in the second and third. The Husker pitching staff combined to produce its best weekend of the season with a 1.32 ERA and a .164 batting average against the fifth-ranked Bruins, last year's NCAA runner-up.
The Nebraska offense was also strong in the series finale despite putting up only one run through the first eight innings. That run came in the seventh on an Asche RBI single, as both him and Peters finished with 2-for-5 days at the plate. The Huskers totaled 13 hits on the day, while UCLA had 11. Bruin starter Adam Plutko went six innings while giving up no runs on six hits. He threw 116 pitches to mark the third straight day UCLA's starter went over the century pitch count.
Nebraska will have a quick turnaround as it hosts Doane College this Tuesday at 1:35 p.m. The Huskers will then welcome No. 24 Fresno State to Hawks Field over the weekend as the series kicks off Friday at 1:35 p.m. Tickets for all games at Hawks Field can be purchased online at Huskers.com, by calling 1-800-8-BIG-RED or by visiting the NU Athletic Ticket Office on the west side of Memorial Stadium.


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Tabou TMF wins Television Production Award for Undefinable Vision TV
On Thursday, November 3rd, 2016 at The Lovinger Theatre in The Bronx, New York, Tabou TMF won a Television production award for Undefinable Vision. Nominated in multiple categories he received the "Best Entertainment/Variety/Performing Arts" program award at the 20th Annual Bronxnet BETA Awards.
This is the third consecutive win for Tabou as Executive Producer of Undefinable Vision TV previously winning awards for "Best Program Series" in 2015 and
"Best Music Program" in 2014. The 2016 BETA Awards theme was focused on "Celebrating the Cinematic Heritage of The Bronx. Past, Present and Future"
The event was hosted by critically acclaimed poet Mariposa Fernandez and featured live music by the legendary Danny Mixon Trio. There were performances of poetry, dance and an excellent tribute celebrating the life of Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Tuskegee Airman and American hero who passed away on July 2, 2016.
Dr. Brown was famous for his skillful piloting of military aircraft's during World War II. He was also a pioneering educator at Bronx Community College for 17 years and one of the earliest BronxNet board members who was very instrumental in shaping BronxNet as some of his friends and colleagues mentioned at the award ceremony.
In attendance were many distinguished professional Television and Film producers, journalists, reporters and media creators as well as public service professionals, clergy, local community leaders and family members. It was a great evening filled with diversity and interesting learning experiences. BronxNet thanked the supporters who helped make the event possible including: Silver Cup Studios, Bronx Chamber of Commerce, Metro Optics Eye Wear, Affinity Health Plan, Bronx Community College and many more… Tabou's said his favorite part of the night other than winning was "discovering more about the history of cinema in The Bronx with Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Studio which was located on Decatur Avenue."
Undefinable Vision ™ is a multicultural variety show focusing on creative art and artists. We showcase interviews and live performances from creative individuals. Our guests include musicians, designers, models, actors, health & wellness leaders, fitness experts, and entrepreneurs. For more information and to view Undefinable Vision TV visit http://undefinablevision.com for updates and current broadcast times.


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Men love war because it allows them to look serious; because it is the only thing that stops women from laughing at them.
-- John Fowles
War is like love, it always finds a way.
-- Bert Brecht
It is said that all's fair in love and war, equating the two, but it seems an unfortunate equation, to say the least. The phenomenon of rape might support it, being as it is a paradoxical combination of what--in more positive circumstances--is otherwise termed "making love" and an aggressive act; an act which in itself is frequently a side-effect of war, perhaps even a method of war, certainly a method in the war between the sexes. The language of love could also support the equation between love and war; there are challenges and conquests, pushovers and knockouts, possession and surrender, capturing, yielding and taking by storm. And we shouldn't forget that Cupid does his dirty work with arrows.
On the other hand, Cupid is a myth, and language is definitely in complicity with myth. It's a vicious circle. The linguistic similarities between love and war won't change until the myths are changed.
Certain differences between love and war are not to be denied, however. The development of mutual attraction, what is generally referred to as love, is universally recognized as the subject of comedy. War, on the other hand, is a serious subject. So where does the war between the sexes leave us? For many, more wounded than walking. Of course, in dealing with battles of the sexes we cannot be dealing with tragedy, because we are beyond that. Along with God, it has been declared dead. And even if it weren't, rape is hardly glamorous enough to be the subject of tragedy; it is the act of a bully and not a hero, a physical testimony to the fear of rejection.
Once upon a time, methods used in wars between the sexes were quite different, and sometimes even gave women the upper hand. The great Irish hero Cuchulain was taught the arts of war by a woman. Queen Maeve was said to lead her armies into battle herself, and naked at that. Which was apparently a tremendous advantage tactically. At the sight of her, the men of the enemy army were unable to fight. Her army invariably won hands down -- and nether parts up, presumably.
These days, it's hard to tell who's winning and who's losing. But maybe that's half the battle.


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These bags are mostly bright colored to portray the exuberance of the occasion and some of them even have graphics and messages printed to give the personalised touch. The bags are of standard quality and can be reused later on. There has been no compromise with the standard of the material used for these bags; they are eco-friendly as well. If you are looking for a bulk of these bags in the assortment at a very affordable and standard price, look no further than HandCraft. So it's time to make your wedding a special one for the guests as well and what can be better than these bags filled with some goodies as an invitation or return gifts for them for that matter?
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The quality of the jute used in this is eco-friendly as well as tough to suit the purpose. There are many different designs and graphics to choose from, in our range of birthday bags. You can make your kid choose the one she/he likes or make an appropriate choice on behalf of her/him. All the designs have been made so thoughtfully that you are sure to get more than one that will suit your kid's personality or will be one of his choices. Make an affordable yet amazing choice to make your kid's birthday a memorable one.


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Let's just start this out by saying I know better.
But if it can happen to me, it can happen to you.
I was looking for a way to simplify my digital scrapbooking files, and I saw a link for software. This was software I had heard of before, and it came from a site I had used frequently. Right before I clicked on the link, the thought flitted through my mind, "I wonder if this is going to load me up with spyware?" And it did.
Out came my suite of tools. I use three, all free, and have had success with the combination. One tool isn't enough; you will find that no one tool gets everything. So the best defense is to use a variety. Here are my three choices:
AVG Anti-virus provides an anti-virus/spyware removal tool. The free version, available for home use only, does not offer the flexibility of the paid version. Both, however, are excellent at catching viruses and spyware.
Spybot is a great tool for getting rid of spyware. It is easy to use, and can be made to run in a way that automatically updates the software, runs the scan, fixes things, and if there were problems, run the scan again on startup. I like this tool because after I figured out how to automate it, I no longer have to think about it.
Lavasoft's Adaware is an excellent tool for getting rid of spyware and also not-so-malicious things that lurk in the computer, like tracking cookies. The free version can't be automated, but it runs well.
I was lucky this time. My tools handled it, after 6 different scans and an overnight software exam. I know there are times when getting rid of spyware or a virus requires a reload. In fact, I just went through this at work, where my anti-virus got infected, and the removal trashed the system.
If you're not using spyware protection/detection, now is the time to start. Don't wait until the machine crashes!
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Dutch eyes on Well star
Skysports.com understands PSV Eindhoven are considering a move for Motherwell's Mark Reynolds.
Last Updated: 01/04/10 11:48am
Skysports.com understands Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven are considering a move for Motherwell defender Mark Reynolds.
Reynolds is regarded as one of the best young talents to emerge in Scotland in recent years and his performances have not gone unnoticed across Europe.
Rangers tried to sign Reynolds two years ago only for Motherwell to keep hold of the 22-year-old.
PSV have held a long-term interest in the player, while a number of clubs south of the border have also kept tabs on Reynolds' progress.
Motherwell are facing a fight to keep hold of Reynolds with the talented defender having just over a year to run on his current contract.
Reynolds' agent, Kenny Moyes, has confirmed PSV and a number of English Championship sides are on the trail of the Scotland Under-21 international.
"It is true that PSV are admirers of Mark," Moyes told skysports.com. "They have held a long-term interest in him and have watched him on several occasions.
"There are a few teams in the English Championship who are also watching Mark and they are keeping tabs on him.
"Mark has just over a year to run on his contract and we will see what happens at the end of this season."


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Nurse Betty Widescreen for DVD
A hard luck waitress in Kansas is totally devoted to her favorite soap opera. When Betty's husband is killed by hit men, the shock causes Betty to turn into Nurse Betty and she hits the road in her husband's Buick to find her true love - a character from the soap opera. The hit men chase her to recover what's hidden in the Buick.


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Significant investments were made aiming to turn Golden Horn into a center where city festivals and special events take place among the museums and cultural centers during the post-industrial transformation process of this district. In particular these substantial and significant investments are being made paying utmost respect to the building heritage located in the Northern part of the Golden Horn (factories, shipyards, building cradles and launch ways, electricity power stations, slaughterhouses and so on). Now, the Northern part of the Golden Horn is in the process of being transformed into a cultural centre where historical buildings starting from the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, "Tersane-i Amire (Maritime Arsenal and Dockyard of the Kaptan Pasha (Captain of the Sea), "Aynalıkavak Pavillion", Rahmi M. Koç Industry Museum", "Sütlüce Culture Center" "Miniatürk" and "Silahtarağa Museum District" with their rich cultural heritage stand all along its coastal line. For the Southern coastal line of the Golden Horn, in particular the district between Eminönü and Eyüp where almost all historical and cultural heritage of its port structure was destroyed, it is however, unfortunately not possible to mention about a concentrated activity similar to that of Northern part. Although some important points of attraction such as Fener- Balat and Tahtakale are situated at the inner side, the southern coastal line of the Golden Horn remains poor in terms of cultural structuring other than Feshane-i Âmire", "Women's Work Library" "Zindan Han" and "Baba Cafer Zindanı" whereas a very intensive cultural structuring has been taking place at the north shoreline of the Golden Horn. The Golden Horn is being transformed into a "port museum", nevertheless the Southern part should also be balanced through intensive activities similar to that of the Northern part. In this sense, the "Rezan Has Museum " that was established and located inside the Kadir Has University is a very important initiative and fills a very important gap within the framework of such an important strategic geography.
Kadir Has University's main building which was converted from Cibali Tobacco and Cigarette Factory by Kadir Has Foundation in 2002 has been granted the European Nostra Award in 2003 due to its extremely meticulous and comprehensive restoration and its contributions to the historical environment in which it is situated. The venue opened to the public as Rezan Has Museum when the ruins of a structure dating back to the Ottoman era and a Byzantine cistern found underneath this historical building following the completion of its restoration.
Seferikos Cistern and Ottoman Structure
The cisterns, water reservoirs made of stone, were structures which played an important role in meeting water requirements of Istanbul in Byzantine period. The Byzantine period cistern taking place in our museum and dated back to late 11th century is comprised of 48 arches, 15 pillars and 20 columns. This structure having a square-like rectangular plan was built directly to accumulate water.
After losing its function as a cistern, it was first used as the tobacco warehouse of Cibali Tobacco and Cigarette Factory and then as a supply warehouse during the 2nd World War.
European Nostra 2003 Award
European Cultural and Natural Heritage Union Europa Nostra is an independent establishment working to protect the world's culture heritage. The main building of the Kadir Has University converted from Cibali Tobacco and Cigarette Factory won the 2003 Europe Nostra Award, the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage as the best preserved building for protecting and keeping our historical and cultural heritage alive.
For more information: http://www.europanostra.org/


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The Free&Alter Software Distribution offers a Free Software distribution downloadable for Solaris, HPUX, and IRIX. It contains 100 of the most popular Free Software applications used in research centers, like the GNU utilities, XEmacs, DDD, the GIMP, and Scilab. Unlike other distributions, it can be installed in the directory of your choice. The installation takes place in an intuitive GUI, and environment variables are easily managed by TkChoice.
freeBIOS is designed to be a generic open source firmware for use in any PC-like system. Firmware initializes a computer and its peripherals, and then transfers control to the operating system. Firmware also provides various interfaces which operating systems may call to accomplish certain system-wide tasks like power management or PCI bus scanning.
Briefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX operating system based on U.C. Berkeley's 4.4BSD-lite release for the i386 platform (and recently the alpha platform). It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's Net/2 to the i386, known as 386BSD, though very little of the 386BSD code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and how it can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page.
FreeNOS is an experimental microkernel operating system for learning purposes. The system is very experimental, yet it currently supports virtual memory, simple task scheduling, and interprocess communication (IPC). It currently contains support for a few devices, including VGA, keyboard, i8250 serial, ATA drives, and PCI controllers. FreeNOS has an experimental implementation of several filesystems, such as the virtual file system, procfs, tmpfs, linnfs, and ext2fs. Current application libraries include libposix, libc, libteken (terminal emulation), and libexec (executable formats). All source code has been documented with Doxygen tags. It has been tested on recent versions of Qemu, VMWare, VirtualBox, Bochs, and bare hardware.
Frugalware is a general-purpose Linux distribution designed for intermediate users who are not afraid of text mode. "The Frugalware Philosophy" is about simplicity, multimedia, and design. The authors try to make Frugalware as simple as possible while not forgetting to keep it comfortable. Frugalware uses Judd Vinet's pacman package manager.


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I'm always attracted to clothing that's interesting, so when I saw this skirt at Lublu Kira Plastinina, I just had to pull it for a shoot. The color combo and peplum detail look like the love child of cotton candy and origami (yup, picture that for a second). I edged it up with these Schutz booties and glam'd it up with some clip-in extensions from Irresistible Me. It's all about balance y'all! Happy Friday and have a wonderful weekend.
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text: Effects of Chronic Ankle Instability on Energy Dissipation in the Lower ExtremityTERADA, MASAFUMI1; PFILE, KATE R.2; PIETROSIMONE, BRIAN G.3; GRIBBLE, PHILLIP A.1Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise: November 2013 - Volume 45 - Issue 11 - p 2120–2128 doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31829a3d0b Applied Sciences Abstract Author Information Purpose This study aimed to investigate the influence of chronic ankle instability (CAI) on lower extremity joint energy dissipation patterns during a stop-jump task. Methods Nineteen participants with self-reported CAI and 19 healthy control participants volunteered. Participants performed five double-leg vertical stop-jump tasks onto a force plate. Lower extremity kinetics and kinematics were examined with an electromagnetic tracking system interfaced with a nonconductive force plate. Lower extremity joint energy dissipations were calculated for the hip, knee, and ankle in the sagittal plane during 50, 100, 150, and 200 ms after initial contact with the force plate. Energy dissipation values were normalized to the product of body mass and height [J·(N·m)−1]. Individual joint contribution to total lower extremity energy dissipation by the ankle, knee, and hip was reported as the percentage of energy dissipation by each joint over the total energy dissipation of all three joints. Independent t-tests and standard mean differences were conducted to assess differences in each dependent variable between the CAI and the control groups. Significance was set a priori at P < 0.05. Results The CAI group demonstrated significantly less percentage of knee energy dissipation (P = 0.04) and higher percentage of ankle energy dissipation (P = 0.035) of the total energy dissipation during the 100 ms immediately after initial contact compared with the control group. Conclusions We found altered energy dissipation patterns at the knee and ankle during a stop-jump task in the CAI group. These findings may provide insight into kinetic alterations that may be associated with CAI. Future research should consider this information as it may be used to develop more effective interventions to target these potentially modifiable energy dissipation patterns in those with CAI. 1Musculoskeletal Health and Movement Science Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, Judith Herb College of Education, Health Science and Human Service, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH; 2Department of Health and Human Performance, School of Education, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC; and 3Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Address for correspondence: Masafumi Terada, M.S., ATC, Musculoskeletal Health and Human Movement Science Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, Judith Herb College of Education, Health Science and Human Service, The University of Toledo, Health and Human Services Building, Room 2508, Toledo, OH; E-mail: email@example.com. Submitted for publication October 2012. Accepted for publication May 2013. © 2013 American College of Sports Medicine


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Buffalo Bills first place in AFC East? Yes, next week as well!
So, last week, my opening day address, my first article of the 2017 NFL season, got sent to the ashcan of history because of some technical difficulties at our end here at BillsMafia.com. Big apologies. No worries. It was mostly Continue reading


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A regular meeting of the Hopkins Zoning and Planning Commission was held on Tuesday, May 31, 2005, at 6:30 pm in the Council Chambers of Hopkins City Hall.
Present were Commission Members Peter Sholtz, Kristi Halverson, Michael Kjos, Jeffrey Paul, Jannina Aristy, Virgil Aarness, and Mary Hatcher. Also present was City Planner Nancy Anderson.
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With everything moving along rapidly in the digital space, it seems every week there is something new online for marketers to sink their teeth into.
To save you time to crawl the web we have summarised some of the major changes in the past 4 weeks.
Its all about being mobile
Figures released in late December by research firm Gartner show laptops outsold desktop PCs in Australia for the first time in 2008. In particular, there was significant demand for lightweight laptops with shorter lifespans outselling desktop PCs.
In addition to the above growth in mobile broadband has grown 40%, enabling people access the web any time any where.
This trend is making consumers even more accessible.
It is also expected that this demand for accessibility will produce an explosion in uptake of smart phones in 2009. In 2007 smart phones equated to only 16% of all mobile phones, but in 2009 this is expected to rise to 57%. This trend will be the most significant in the plight of mobile marketing and should be on the agenda for many of us in 2009.
Google Street View Maps
Just 3 weeks ago, Google's street view expanded to now include many more Geelong streets, Darwin and other remote parts of Northern Territory.
On the Australian Google Blog, one of Google's Product Managers stated that Australians are now using street view as a way of checking out destinations for their next holiday.
The question however is just how will Australian websites embrace the latest Google technology? With some of the largest benefits obvious for the tourism industry there is also possible application with the property market. Marketers within relevant industries should thus be looking to capitalise on this new technology. This could not only be done through integrating street view maps within their site, but by considering the use of mash-ups which integrate video's and other imagery into maps for a more interactive web experience.
Yahoo7 Web Mail
Whilst much of the world may consider us a relatively small market, it is good to see that Yahoo7 sees us as important. Yahoo7 has recently introduced new email services and Australia is the first market to test these outside of the US.
The new Yahoo7 Mail features include a "smarter" inbox that prioritises messages from existing contacts – making it even more important for email marketers to get recipients to add your company email address to their email contact list.


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Pistachios, when eaten with high-carbohydrate foods, may result in lower than expected blood sugar levels, an important factor in reducing risk of diabetes.
1 cup Butter or margarine
1 cup each Sugar and packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons Grated lemon peel
4 Eggs
3 cups Flour
½ teaspoon each Baking soda, baking powder and ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon each Ground cloves and salt
¾ cup Buttermilk
½ cup Rum
½ cup Chopped natural American pistachios
Rum Glaze
Rum Glaze: Melt 2 tablespoons butter or margarine; remove from heat. Stir in ¼ cup rum and 1 to 1 ½ cups powdered sugar to desired consistency. Stir in ½ cup chopped American pistachios.
Combine butter, sugars and lemon peel in large mixer bowl; beat until smooth and creamy. Add eggs, one at a time; beat well after each addition. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, spices and salt. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to butter mixture. Stir in rum and pistachios; pour into greased 12 cup fluted tube pan or 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 325° F. about 50 minutes or until wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; turn onto rack. Drizzle with Rum Glaze while hot.


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Media Content: Texts as 'cultural indicators'
Icon, index, symbol.
Describe this image's iconic, indexical and symbolic dimensions.
According to this blog post, which is the most important 'code' that explains the meaning and power of this image?
Case Study: Miley Cyrus and Discourses of Gender
Narrative, genre, discourse;
Meanings travel
different 'texts' and into everyday language.
Things you need to know about Gerbner and the violence profiles
Media texts help us explain how social reality is created
Qualitative and quantitative methods both engage with the concepts of signs, narratives and discourse.
Analysis of media texts must connect to the analysis of media industries and media audiences.
What are 'media texts'?
The role that symbolic communication plays in creating culture and society.
The way that this general process in human communication is developed in particular ways by media industries.
This is why it is useful to think of them as 'cultural indicators'.
George Gerbner used this phrase to reflect his view that media texts are important links in a chain of social communication now dominated by media industries.
'Cultural indicators' reminds us that texts have to be understood in relation to the societies and industries that make them, and the people who use them.
Key reading: Paul Hodkinson, "Media Texts", "Media, Culture, Society" (Sage, 2012).
Semiotics, narratives, genres: the world we live in exists through the meanings we give to it.
Myth and Discourse: The meanings we give to it decides the things that we do in it.
Cultural indicators; 'media texts' come out of and flow back in to industrial, political and cultural processes: we need systematic methods to explain how these processes work.
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Robert Capa's 'Falling Soldier', Spain, 1936
From Reality to Media reality
Now read this.
According to this account, what makes this photograph important?
What does this tell us about the relationship between media
and media
The point here is that photographs are symbols that can be used to represent political ideas that serve particular interests. Click below to read a short article on a recent example of this phenomenon.
A short article on why this matters in the parts of the world that many of us don't see.
Example: Miley Cyrus, intertextuality and the real experiences of gender.
When Miley met the Insane Clown posse; intertextuality and the production of gendered language.
Insane Clown Posse Theatre: Fuse TV
Beavis and Butthead
Mystery Science Theatre
What does this say about gender?
How are the meanings affected by intertexual links?
Discourse: How do these meanings pass into the real world through language that 'does' something? The example of 'hookup' culture.
Language does things in the world. Media industries play a key role in fixing meanings in language. That's the connection between media content and social power.
From qualitative textual analysis to quantitative content analysis
Harold Lasswell: Media research must be based on the systematic description of media content.
The problem with interpretative work on individual texts is that it can be easily dismissed as subjective and selective.
George Gerbner agreed-to an extent. BUT his work was ALSO concerned with the creation and circulation of political meaning through signs.
An example of propaganda from the Great War: the question of how 'typical' these images were during the war inspired the move to quantitative content analysis.
Gerbner's work started with an interest in folklore; stories which conveyed meanings about cultural values.
Gerbner saw media texts as links in chains of social communication-the connects cultivation with the concept of encoding/decoding, which we'll discuss next week.
Gerbner coined the phrase 'cultural indicator'. What he meant by this was that media texts contained clues about how commercial storytelling by media industries now played the social role once occupied by folkore.
Gerbner was interested in how narratives were built across texts through the repetition of signs.
Was Violence the dominant sign of Prime time TV, and if so, what did this mean?
What are the basic elements of content analysis?
Counting of media content
The goal is to produce reliable accounts of media content: analyses that anyone could reproduce, given the same methods (depend on methods, not the sensitivity or insights of individual researchers).
Close attention to sampling of content
Development of coding categories subjected to testing and refinement
Coding done by teams, checked with tests of intercoder reliability
Klaus Krippendorf, "An Introduction to Content Analysis", Sage 2013.
Back To Gender
Content analysis supports the view that discourses of gender are a key feature of media content.
In the 1950s, Gerbner had used multiple methods (content analysis, interviews with media producers, interviews with retailers) to argue that magazines encouraged women to know their place and find happiness through consumption.
Meaning can't be measured
Cultivation made no distinctions between genres
Cultivation took no interest in audience interpretation.
The violence described the symbolic structure of TV content. The was never represented as a definitive account of what the meaning of the medium
The violence profiles explicitly set out to map the signs that CROSS genres. This is in keeping with notions of intertextuality and discourse.
Gerbner DID argue that different responses to different texts were irrelevant to the preferred meanings of corporate storytelling...
BUT, this was an argument he made by looking at texts in relation to evidence about viewers' responses....which leads us into next week's session on audiences.
A short piece on the way that the meaning of TV violence might have changed.
Media texts 'represent'
The Violence profiles
Annual content analysis of the violence on prime time US television.
Commissioned in the 1960s, at a time when there was great concern about social conflict in the US (the research had a political context).
Content analysis looked at the amount of violence on prime time, not on particular shows or genres.
The text was 'television', because viewers watched by the clock, not by the show-this idea reflects the idea of intertextuality.
The Method
It's a mean world.....
The Results
Violence had a distinct pattern; it happened to women, elders, kids and people of colour.
The people who got away with it were most likely to be white middle class middle aged men.
The 'meaning' of TV was that 'it's a mean world'.
If you're a woman, your in danger, and there's nothing you can do about it except follow the rules and hope society will protect you.
This was television's main 'narrative'.
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Mega Block on Harbour line between 11.30 to 15.30 details here Press Released by CR
Nerul-Mankhurd UP AND DN Harbour Lines (11.30 AM TO 3.30 PM)
Down services for Panvel/Belapur/Vashi leaving Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai from 10.35 am to 02.59 pm and Up services for Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai leaving Panvel/Belapur/Vashi from 10.56 am to 3.14 pm will remain cancelled.
Special services will be run on Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai-Mankhurd-Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai section during the block period.
Harbour line passengers are permitted to travel via Trans Harbour / Main line from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm on their valid tickets.
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Many people never give much thought to how factories and industrial businesses get the machinery that they need to function every day. It is not like factory owners can go shopping at the local mall for the equipment they need to keep their businesses afloat. They also may not find much of what they need at large equipment dealers in their local area. Rather than risk a shut-down because your factory lacks the machines it requires to make the products your clients have ordered, you can shop online for machinery and gear made by manufacturers like Nitto Kohki and others. You can place the order, have the purchases sent to your factory, and stay on schedule to meet order deadlines.
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Depending on the nature of your industrial business, you may need to order heavy-duty equipment that lets your staff create machine parts and other products for your clients. When you shop online, you can find machines that can cut through metals, bevel products that your factory makes, and punch holes through materials that would ordinarily be difficult to manipulate and transform by hand.
The machines come in a variety of sizes and styles. You can select those that can fit inside of your factory and also serve the needs of your business.
Along with machines, you can find other gear that you may need to have on hand for production purposes. For example, if your workers are expected to hoist heavy pieces of products in your factory, you can make this job easier for them by ordering industrial magnets for lifting. The magnets, along with gear like hoists, chains, cranes, and other gear can help your business work more efficiently and also keep the people on your production floor safe from injuries. You can find out more about these items for sale when you visit the company's website.
Customer Account Options
If you plan on shopping on the website often, it may pay you to set up an account. The account lets you shop easier and also keeps track of things in your online shopping cart. It likewise can store your payment and shipping information.
You can also find resources to use to learn how to use the machinery and gear. The company also has its phone number available for questions and concerns.
Your factory needs equipment to function. You can find machines for sale online.


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Sunday, January 06, 2013
Wow, as always I have had a crazy December. Long story short, I got in a car accident - on my way home from the gym! - on December 8 and just last weekend purchased another car. Between there, it's been dealing with insurance, paperwork, doctor visits, car shopping, making sure I had a way to get around. Sufficed to say, my focus has not been on eating healthy and working out.
My previous vehicle that was wrecked was paid off. Now that I got a new (used) vehicle, I will have a car payment again. And since it's newer, my registration fee is 3 times as much. So, in light of the money situation, I decided to not continue with Jenny Craig. A big decision since I've been doing Jenny Craig for a very, very long time.
I truly do know what I need to do and it all comes down to me making the effort. Whether I'm on Jenny Craig or on my own, if I don't make the effort, I won't lose the weight.
Jenny Craig had really good food and I'll miss that, but even with my discount, it was still pricey and there are so many great affordable "diet" meals out there if I want something quick. Plus I like to cook meals and have all sorts of great cookbooks - Jenny Craig, Sparkpeople, Biggest Loser, Hungry Girl.
The other thing I liked about Jenny Craig was the accountability. I had to weigh in once a week in front of someone, but I can log my weight in here once a week and on my Body Media Fit (Body Bugg).
I've seen through different blogs I follow and through Sparkpeople that there are others who follow a plan and stay healthy.
I already have the knowledge. I just need to apply it.
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Thanks for the encouragement ladies. So far, so good.
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Wow! It's great you're okay from your accident! You're absolutely right. You have the cookbooks and you have the knowledge. You can do it and we're here to help you if you fall. Good luck!
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It sounds like you have a good plan and are ready to do this without Jenny. I'm impressed that you took an inventory of what you needed to do and then changed so you can stay on track! Happy New Year to you!
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It's holy week, and all around me people already say happy Easter everywhere I go. It irks me, 'no, no, it's not happy yet'. However, I think what they mean is probably more something like Happy Easter holiday, and of course, as a good agnostic, I don't really care, it's just that for some reason* this time seems contemplative to me, it seems like something is a little oppressed before it's released, and there's a proper sense of spring and the life it brings with it.
So I thought I wanted to find two fragrances which might be a bit related to this time. In fact it will be three, because my # 1, and the only fragrance that I feel wholly encompasses this time is Serge Lutens' De Profundis, I wrote about it when it was first released at All I Am-blog. But a short quote; "I get the decided feeling that the fragrance itself yearns and beseeches you to think of the violet, once gone, like an echo. There is incense but I find it only detectable as a feeling of calm and quiet, it isn't a dominant note, and yet it almost feels like it is a main player of the fragrance because of the serenity it emits." I won't repeat myself further.
Cardinal is all about the incense and myrrh, the smell of Catholic Church is unmistakable, like the incense burned and swung in a place through centuries seeped through stones and interior. The actual burning and smoking is like it's long gone from the fragrance and what is portrayed here is the remains which has taken the shape of its surroundings. Its straight and contemporary style with underlying ancient context, reminds me of the opening of something like Arvo Pärt's Passio. The text is the Latin words from John's Passion, and the musical style is contemporary minimalist and yet pointing back to early music styles, it's meditative and deceptively simple. Perhaps Cardinal is not exactly deceptive in its simplicity, it's a tad bitter-sweet but pure, nearly purist, something that takes it away from the ancient, and towards clean and modern.
Ombre Indigo, like the rest of Olfactive Studio's opus is inspired by a photo. Funnily I'm not sure I care so much for this, I think it's easier for me to ignore press blurb than pictures, and when it comes to images, I prefer to conjure up my own from whatever it is I smell. So, I haven't looked up what was the inspiration. For me it's all about papyrus in this fragrance, and you'll need to like this greenish swampy note to like Ombre Indigo, since it is its heartbeat. Like Cardinal, OI has that strange thing of using something as ancient as papyrus (and incense), which should perhaps evoke dead sea scrolls and illuminated scriptures, but instead is using papyrus to make it set of the other notes in a contemporary way. At first, played up against the juiciness of a discreet plum it becomes dry, against the bitter saffron it becomes almost sweet, green against the ashen incense and ashen against a white musk and faint ambery dry down. I've only ever smelled papyrus done as a green note, so I really enjoy the clever way it is used here, especially together with the incense heart I think it pairs to simple, contemplative perfume.
I will be back when it's time to wish everyone a happy Easter, but until then; Did you know there's actually a perfume called 'Resurrection' (and another one called Resurrextion)? And to get over that info, here a little more Pärt meditation: Spiegel im Spiegel
*Probably vastly influenced by stories from my childhood and thousands of artist's depictions.
Samples and bottle (SL) bought. Sketch of Michelangelo's Firenze Pieta and feature both by me.


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Discussion in 'Wii - Backup Loaders' started by ridgecity, Jun 18, 2009.
Anyone knows how to fix it or if it's cause by the new hardware? It's got a 2.5 80GB USB hd...
Um, you mean you have a magnetic drive next to your (crt) tv and youre wondering why you're getting interference?
I would move it away before both your TV and hard drive get fried.
no, when I turn on the Wii, the hd starts working and you can see the tv noise, as if it there was interference, doesn't go away, only when the wii and usb are on.
So yeah, move the hard drive farther from your TV.
It looks more like an electric thing, and its a plasma. Do the Wii usb ports have enough juice to power a 2.5 hd?
I get this issue as well... it appears some drive enclosures don't have filters on the line and cause 'static' or 'snow' effect on the TV. 1st... try a USB cable that has a line filter on it, or if the drive has an external power adapter try plugging it into an outlet that does NOT share the same power source as the TV.
(I get the same effect if I plug a florescent light into the same power strip as my TV as well)
I got this problem too before, but i fixed it by buying a more expensive enclosure.
Mine only does that if I dont have anything plugged into the top usb port :/
How about using an unearthed plug for the hdd? (the earth connection on european power plugs can easily be "taped" over to isolate, if you dont have an unearthed power socket)
I believe the earth is leaking from the tv to the wii to the hdd, or the other way around, causing interference.
Sadly of no use to me as I am using a usb powered hdd. Its going to be more likely a case of electromagnetic interference
The interferance is passing though your scart/RCA video input. I bet if you unplug your RCA video cable your tv is fine.
Make sure your RCA/ Scart cables are not passing over the AC input for your drive or any electrical cabling. Try not to loop electrical cables , plug your Wii onto the same power outlets.
I have a PEGA dock station with Multi video outputs for the Wii. I bought a high quality sheilded RCA cable and it solved my problem. It could also be your HD Enclose also, if its a cheap HD enclose this can will happen also. But if you bought a good WD Passport or something the drive should be ok.
Which "more expensive" enclosure did you buy?
I have this one: http://ritmotech.com.au/satotech/product_i...0198cfbb3f341b1
It was inexpensive, but I definitely get snow every time whenever I turn it on when plugged into the Wii. I've tried plugging it into other power points, used different power cables etc but it won't go away.
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Brzezinski wants Israeli jets striking Iran 'shot down'
Zbig Brzezinski: Obama Administration Should Tell Israel U.S. Will Attack Israeli Jets if They Try to Attack Iran
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Brzezinski threatens Israel with "a Liberty in reverse" – interview with Daily Beast
Israel is no ally when the rogue state treacherously attacked the USS Liberty on June 8th, 1967 (murdering 34 American sailors/marines and wounding 172) and has been lying about such ever since:
Remember what Israel did to the USS Liberty and what our government did to us (click on the pic of Eric Margolis at the following URL):
Representative Elijah Cummings Stands Tall for the USS Liberty Vets:
Israel wants Iran free of S-300 for 'future operations'
Israeli attack on Iran 'catastrophe', says Sarkozy
Iran ready to pay for probe into Israeli nukes
IAEA conference criticizes Israeli nuclear program
Here is the actual threat to the world:
Martin Levi van Creveld (born 5 March 1946) is an Israeli military historian and theorist:
We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force…. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.[4]


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Murphy was inactive in the Pacers' 124-117 loss at New Jersey on Wednesday.
"We really missed him the other night," O'Brien said. "He's playing at a really high level."
Murphy has averaged 18.1 points and 11.4 rebounds in his past seven games, and the Pacers have won five of them.
"He's just been great for us," Danny Granger, who led the Pacers with 26 points against the Nets, said. "He's a solid 3-point shooter, he can attack any big man in the league and he rebounds. He's been helping us a lot."
The Pacers remained 2 1/2 games behind Atlanta for the eighth playoff spot in the East. New Jersey fell to 1 1/2 games behind the Hawks.
"It was an important win for us," Murphy said. "We needed to get this one. We fumbled around and didn't play well in New Jersey."
Mike Dunleavy scored 19 points and Marquis Daniels added 14 for the Pacers, who have won five of seven.
Vince Carter scored 33 points, Devin Harris scored a career-high 27 and Josh Boone had 15 points and 16 rebounds for the Nets, who left the game disappointed.
"They got us rushing a little bit, but we just didn't make the plays that we needed in order to win," Carter said.
Before the game, O'Brien said he wasn't happy with any of his players' defense. He changed his tune after Indiana held New Jersey to 8-for-24 shooting in the fourth quarter.
"We defended at a really high level in the second half," he said. "I thought our defense won this game for us."
Indiana opened the second half on an 8-0 run, including two 3-pointers by Murphy, to take a 64-63 lead. The lead seesawed throughout the period until Travis Diener hit a mid-range jumper in the closing seconds to give the Pacers a 92-91 lead heading into the fourth. Carter scored 17 points in the quarter, and Granger had 12.
Dunleavy made a short jumper, then a 3-pointer at the start of the fourth to give the Pacers a 97-91 lead.
New Jersey closed to within 104-102, but back-to-back buckets in close by Daniels made it 108-102 with 2:40 to play.
Granger fouled out with 1:47 to go, and Carter made two free throws after the foul to cut Indiana's lead to four. Granger's replacement, Kareem Rush, hit a 3-pointer with 1:19 to play to boost Indiana's lead to 112-104.
"We did not do a very good job down the stretch," Nets forward Richard Jefferson said. "They hit a lot of shots. Every game this time of year is big. This was just another team in the hunt. It's going to come down to the very last game of the season."
The Pacers led by 14 points in the second quarter, then went cold. The Nets closed the half on a 28-7 run to lead 63-56 at the break. The Pacers often have lost after building big leads this season, but the prevented it this time by shooting 51 percent in the second half.
"We're growing as a team," Granger said. "It might be real late in the season to be doing it, but better late than never."
The Pacers shot 14-for-25 from 3-point range in the game to earn a split in the season series. New Jersey knew it wasted an opportunity by letting the Pacers shoot so well from the outside.
"The difference from the other night was we didn't defend like we need to," Carter said. "It comes down to our defense sometimes being good, sometimes not so good."
Indiana closes with a favorable schedule. Six of the Pacers' final nine games are against teams with losing records, and four are at home, including an April 8 game against Atlanta.
"We must continue to play at this level and not let up," Murphy said. "On the next two or three days, we need to relax, keep our game faces on and get ready for the rest of the season. We will take them game by game."
Notes: Indiana F Jermaine O'Neal said he expects to be ready to play early next week after missing 33 straight games with a bone bruise on his left knee. ... Dunleavy tipped in a shot by a New Jersey player in the third quarter. It was credited to Boone. ... Harris averaged 24.3 points and 9.7 assists in three games against the Pacers this season. ... The Pacers are 5-3 with Flip Murray as their starting point guard.
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I can't say I knew what to expect going into Persona 4: Dancing All Night. I mean Persona 4 has an amazing soundtrack and I had no doubts that the Persona team could put together a decent rhythm game, but the idea of sending Yu and his friends off on a dance themed adventure seemed perhaps a tad strange. Thankfully though they've managed to craft something compelling out of this bizarre concept, telling yet another meaningful and interesting story of the Investigation Team's post Midnight Channel exploits while at same time putting together some simple yet nicely flexible rhythm gameplay. While I definitely think this should be the last we see of the Persona 4 cast, Persona 4: Dancing All Night serves as a pleasantly upbeat way to send them off before they take a bow and we move on to Persona 5.
While the gameplay and presentation most certainly take center stage in this game, why don't we start off by talking about the story, as that's what makes this feel like a true Persona game. Taking place after the events of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (though not referencing the events of those games, nor featuring any of the Persona 3 or Arena specific characters) the premise here involves the Persona 4 crew being asked to act as back-up dancers for Rise's big comeback show and quickly getting swept up in a kidnapping plot which involves the members of rival idol group Kanamin Kitchen and a new shadow world where feelings are extra potent and violence is impossible. I won't spoil any of the specific plot points here, but as you might imagine, the Investigation Team adapts to their new surroundings and saves the captured idols by the dancing their hearts out, eventually meeting up with the twist villain and performing an epic final show that puts to mind the end of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
It's a fun little story that does a great job of using the gimmick of dancing to convey emotions to underline and remind us of the lessons all of the party members learned during the events of Persona 4, while at the same time putting forward some new characters with their own struggles for contrast. You even get some nice side threads in the form of the party splitting up by grades, Yu's cousin Nanako hanging out with Kanami (the only non-kidnapped member of Kanamin Kitchen) while acting generally adorable, and an odd and frankly poorly used framing device involving Margaret telling the story of what's going on to someone who has ended up in the Velvet Room. There's a lot going on but it all fits fairly well together and the game uses these different story tracks to keep things interesting throughout the run of its fairly long campaign. However, there is one complaint that I would lodge against this game's writing and that is the over simplification of the Persona 4 characters, who have lost a lot of their depth since their original 2008 adventure. Everyone has had their primary character trait over-emphasized to the point of being cartoonish; Kanji has been made dumber and more aggressive, Teddy is even more goofy and weird, Dojima is just completely exhausted all the time, and Nanako has become so childish and naive that she seems to act even younger than her age. While this makes sense to a point, it does remove a lot of the texture and unique human edge that helped originally endear us to these characters.
Moving onto the gameplay, the base concepts here are nice and simple but designed to escalate very intuitively, creating rhythm gameplay that's really easy to pick up but hard to master. There are basically two types of inputs you need to worry about, button presses and thumbstick swipes. Button inputs are done with the Up, Left, Down, Triangle, Circle, and X buttons, with each key corresponding their respective physical directions on-screen. As you might imagine, you simply need to press the buttons as the notes line up, gaining extra points for precision timing. They also throw some dual notes at you, which have you hit two buttons at once, as well as some notes that you need to press and hold, which is all pretty standard rhythm game stuff. They also have large circular beats which come down the line now and then that you need to swipe the thumbstick in any direction to hit. These notes aren't counted against your combos or your audience gauge (which is basically a "You Rappin' Cool" meter that acts as your health) but do grant bonus points and extra gauge when you manage to hit them correctly. These large circular notes also help to activate the game's special fever mode, which grants you a dance partner as well as easier combos and more points for a small period. And that's pretty much all there is to it, it's not an overly complex system though obviously it loses something in the written explanation.
That said, because the gameplay is rather simple, it's also incredibly intuitive and feels nicely tactile as the notes you're pressing start mixing in with the music. It also enables a very wide range of difficulty options, allowing you to deeply tailor the experience to your specific wants and needs. In addition to four overall difficulty levels (the final one being the unlockable and extremely intense "All Night" mode) there are also a ton of modifiers you can buy and activate. These modifiers do things like make it so that you can press any button to hit any note, take less gauge damage from a miss, make the all notes invisible, make the notes move at hyper speed, as well as numerous other things both advantageous and torturous. This means you can play at the difficulty level you're comfortable with and then tweak it further to be easier or harder in specific ways that suit your play style. My only real complaint with the gameplay is the fact that the note patterns seem to be complementary to their attached songs rather than strictly imitating the original notes, which can make some of the timing feel a bit more up to interpretation than I'd like. That ends up feeling like a minor quibble though and the patterns still end up feeling natural enough that anyone familiar with the Persona 4 OST will pick up on them rather quickly.
Lastly we have the presentation which is probably the most meaty aspect of this game. Starting off with the visuals, Persona 4: Dancing All Night looks absolutely stunning when it wants to be. While all the story scenes are done with the standard 'talking head' character portraits, interspersed with the odd animated cutscene, the actual dance numbers are shown using lush vibrant 3D animation that has the P4 crew looking the best they've ever looked. There's a ton of detail to the character models, the backgrounds are vivid shadow world fever dreams, and the animation is smooth and dynamic. While the choreography is hard to focus on while trying not to fail at the gameplay, it all looks quite well done with each character having their own specific style and flair. They also went all out providing you with tons of costume and accessory options with which to kit out your characters, bringing in almost every costume from Persona 4 proper as well as an array of nonsense costumes. These really help spice things up when you're playing through the same songs multiple times, as the lead dancer of each specific song can't be changed. It's easy to get sick of Yu's standard costume after a few hours, so why not dress him up as Dojima for shits and giggles, the costume for which even comes with a little cigarette that Yu gets to smoke.
The most important aspect of any rhythm game though is the soundtrack and overall sound design, and Persona 4: Dancing All Night offers both more and less than I was expecting in this regard. The song list consists of a whopping 30 different tracks which split the difference between songs from the game and remixes of those songs. The overall selection has most of what you would want and the remixes are generally pretty decent takes on the songs we've come to love, though there are a couple of dubstep style tracks I'm not so keen on. My issue with the tracklist though is that many of the remixes feel somewhat unnecessary and I would have rather they used those spots for other Persona 4 songs or even some stuff off the Persona 3 OST, as the soundtracks of those two games complement each other quite well. One particular omission that really grates on me is the fact that there is no playable version of the Tanaka's Amazing Commodities theme, a personal favourite song of mine, which plays in the shopping menu but is oddly found nowhere else in the game. As for the rest of the sound design, the voice acting is of the same high quality as always and the sound effects are decent and blend well into songs themselves.
Overall this game feels like a pleasantly upbeat epilogue for the Persona 4 crew. While the characters are starting to lose their luster after all this time and are becoming somewhat watered down, this last adventure helps remind us of the struggles they faced way back when and solidifies their images in our minds as we get ready to head into Persona 5 next year. This is only helped along by some very tight and enjoyable gameplay that should please any level of rhythm game fan, set to a soundtrack that hits the majority of the nostalgic notes that scored our journeys through Inaba. As such I'm giving Persona 4: Dancing All Night a 4 out of 5 stars; it is one last jubilant hurrah for the Midnight Channel, a fitting end to Yu and his crew's story.


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Did you know constipation affects up to 30% of the population? The number is huge. I realized that one of the issues is that the
definition of constipation
is so unclear. Each of us experiences it in a different way, which is the primary reason for the difficulty in specifying constipation. Every three days is perfectly average to a few patients. Different people will believe their situation strange should they don't experience a bowel movement once a day. Less than half show variations in either direction, but generally, about large fraction of all normal people must go every day. Another thing is the
the causes of constipation
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Individual variation in typical bowel movements between people suggests differences in the definition of constipation. In the United States, there exists a federal medical institute expert in digestive problems and constipation treatments called the NIDDK. The NIDDK's position on the issue is that constipation is diagnosed by a single bowel movement each three days. Constipation is diagnosed on a person to person basis, as is clear from the aforementioned observation. Constipation is best assessed with the advice of a personal doctor. The doctor will begin to note a personal background. Food intake, physical activity, lifestyle, and schedule of bowel movements are likewise objects of inquiry by the doctor.
Family background, such as whether a sibling shows gastrointestinal disease could be the facts the physician wants to understand. The doctor brings up such queries prior to prescribing constipation treatments since constipation can be commongly an indictor of an underlying illness. These general questions may reveal more symptoms pinpointing the core reasons for constipation. It would be impossible to list them in a helpful way, as there are so many likely reasons of constipation. Like insufficient uptake of rich fiber products, as an example, constipation may arise from minor dietary decisions. In addition, more complex disorders, such as Crohn's disease, can cause constipation.
Finally, life threatening disorders that are thankfully much less common, like colorectal cancer can cause constipation. It is thorny to discuss any specific constipation treatment, in absence of knowing more concerning the underlying factors. However it is worth knowing that a dominant cause for constipation is a fiber poor diet. It turns out that taking in enough fiber might be extraordinarily difficult. Casual diet may be not enough for some sufferers. Medicines acting as supplemental fiber are available over the counter and through prescription. Many take personal constipation treatments by changing diet by increasing roughage in food. More obscure is the fact that this treatment does not always lead to success due to fallacies of sources of fiber. Consuming many apples and vegetables is insufficient. The particular sorts of fruit is very important. Muscle relaxers and fluid retainers can assist in passage of colonic contents in the situation that consumed fiber is not enough.
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