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Mr. Boulanger has more than 25 years of experience developing finance strategy and assisting organizations in planning and executing large-scale finance transformation programs. He also has significant experience in developing strategies for and establishing scale Business Services organizations.
Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Boulanger served as the global lead of the Accenture Management Consulting Finance & Enterprise Performance practice, advising CFOs and finance executives of Fortune 500 companies as they seek high performance.
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Mr. Boulanger has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida. He is based in Atlanta, North America.


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Slaughter opens home season with ex-Illini QB at controls
Last year's Chicago Slaughter team missed the Indoor Football League playoffs, at least partly because of injuries that forced them to use four quarterbacks.
This season, head coach Steve McMichael believes that position won't be a problem with Isiah "Juice" Williams under center.
If you goWhat: Indoor Football League games with the Chicago Slaughter
Format: Seven-on-seven football on 50-yard field
Where: Sears Centre Arena, 5333 Prairie Stone Parkway, Hoffman Estates
Tickets: $10-$35, available online at searscentre.com or by calling (888) 732-7784 or (847) 310-3190.
On the web: chicagoslaughter .com and goifl.com
Regular season schedule
Feb. 16: at Cedar Rapids, L 41-31
Sun.: CEDAR RAPIDS, 2:05 p.m.
Mar. 2: GREEN BAY, 6:05 p.m.
Mar. 17: TEXAS, 2:05 p.m.
Mar. 23: at Green Bay, 7 p.m.
Apr. 6: CEDAR RAPIDS, 6:05 p.m.
Apr. 13: at Cheyenne, TBD
Apr. 20: at Cedar Rapids, 7:05 p.m.
Apr. 27: SIOUX FALLS, 6:05 p.m.
May 2: at Texas, TBD
May 11: TEXAS, 6:05 p.m.
May 18: at Sioux Falls, TBD
May 31: GREEN BAY, 7:35 p.m.
June 15: at Green Bay, TBD
The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Williams ran for 2,557 yards while throwing for 8,037 yards in four years at Illinois as a dual-threat quarterback.
"It's Juice's time," said McMichael, the former Pro Bowl defensive tackle of the 1985 Super Bowl champion Bears. "He's an athlete along the lines of these kids coming into the NFL, and that's the kind of offense we'll run.
McMichael says the 25-year-old Williams will bring to the Slaughter the same type of run-pass talents that the San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick, the Seattle Seahawks Russell Wilson and the Washington Redskins' Robert Griffin III made so popular last season in the NFL. Although the Slaughter lost their season opener last weekend, 41-31, to the Cedar Rapids Titans, McMichael's team rushed 31 times for 190 yards, nearly unheard of in the pass-heavy indoor game.
Williams will have help in the ground game from 5-foot-10, 220-pound running back Danny DuFrene, his one-time teammate with the Fighting Illini.
"That little kid is a beast," McMichael said. "We didn't give him the ball enough last week, but we've been working on that in practice."
McMichael, who is now in his seventh season as head coach of the Slaughter, missed the playoffs last season for just the second time, but he has a 53-34 career record with the club. His team opens its home season at 2:05 p.m. Sunday at Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates in a rematch against the Titans.
Players such as Williams and DuFrene are well known, but 6-foot-5, 305-pound offensive tackle Jason Baksas from Western Illinois, along with defensive leader Lenny Radtke, a 6-foot-2, 230-pound, veteran linebacker from North Central College, are worth keeping an eye on.
"Nobody knows these kids now," McMichael said, "but I promise you, they know how to make plays. They're living in anonymity, but just until they get an opportunity."
On the scaled-down indoor field, 50 yards long and 28 yards wide, speed and agility are essential for most of the seven players on each side, although players like Baksas have their niche.
"It's like fast-break basketball, but it's on a football field," McMichael said. "It's a specialized talent. Every one of these guys is fast and quick, or they wouldn't have made the team.
"But I don't like to single out any individual guys," McMichael said. "This is all about 'we,' baby."


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IRVINE — First-year coach David Kniffin insists that his top-ranked UC Irvine men's volleyball team is still searching for its defining elements. But after the Anteaters dispatched No. 4-ranked Pepperdine, 25-22, 25-20, 25-21, in their Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and home opener at the Bren Events Center on Tuesday, it appears that the defending national champions certainly haven't lost much.
UCI (4-0), which captured the crown with three victories at the UC Santa Barbara Invitational over the weekend, displayed no visible weaknesses in handling the Waves (0-1).
Sophomore opposite Zack La Cavera paced the winners with 16 kills, posting a .577 hitting percentage in the process.
Senior outside hitter Kevin Tillie, a returning All-American making his first start of the season, added eight kills, while middle blockers Scott Kevorken (seven kills, a .750 hitting percentage) and Collin Mehring (six kills and hitting .500) proved too much for Pepperdine to handle.
Senior setter Chris Austin (40 assists and three block assists) and sophomore libero Michael Brinkley (a match-high 12 digs), two of UCI's handful of returning starters, were additional stalwarts for the winners.
Mehring, a 6-foot-7 junior who did not dress for road matches last season, earned tournament MVP honors at UCSB.
Dejno, a first-team All-MPSF performer last season who was named American Volleyball Coaches Assn. National Player of the Week, chipped in seven kills on Tuesday.
But it was La Cavera, stepping into the lineup for four-time All-American opposite Carson Clark, who warranted most of the spotlight on Tuesday. He had half of his kills in the final set, including match point.
"I think we're still a team looking for its identity," Kniffin said. "It's kind of that post-national-championship syndrome where we're looking to replace some of the guys we lost. The last few matches for us have really been about each guy figuring out who they are and how they are going to contribute to the team.
"I think Zack is a player coming into his own," Kniffin said. "He's figuring out that he's not Carson, nor do we want him to be Carson. We want him to be Zack. Every match we play with [La Cavera] on the court, he's getting closer to figuring out the kind of player he is."
La Cavera, who added one solo block and three block assists to help UCI earn a 13-8.5 edge in total blocks, said it may have merely been his turn to shine after what he said was a mediocre tournament showing individually.
"This definitely helps my confidence," La Cavera said. "I had a pretty good match tonight. I didn't play that great over the tournament, so it definitely feels really good that I played so well tonight."
La Cavera said blocking and serving (UCI managed just one ace and had 13 service errors) are areas in which the Anteaters aim to improve as the season progresses. But he admits that he and his teammates have already considered the possibility of an unbeaten season.
"It's definitely not our main focus, but it's definitely a very big goal for us to try to win every single match we have," La Cavera said.
Kniffin, a former assistant and setter at UCI who is trying to lead the program to its fourth NCAA championship in seven seasons, has a more practical approach.
"My goal," Kniffin said, "is to go undefeated into the next match. If we win that one, then my goal will be to go undefeated into the next match and so on. But this is a big-time conference. I don't even know the last time there was an undefeated team, but it wasn't [from the] MPSF. Our goal is to win the next match and if we end up undefeated, cool."
A significant blocking focus on Pepperdine's 6-7 senior opposite Maurice Torres, who shared his team lead with 10 kills, but hit .000 with 10 errors in 25 attempts, helped UCI secure win No. 4.
"That was definitely a big part of our game plan," Kniffin said. "Where we could, I thought we contained [Torres] pretty well."
UCI plays host to USC on Friday at 7 p.m. in a rematch of last season's NCAA final.
The Anteaters' 2012 national championship banner will be unveiled on Wednesday during halftime of the men's basketball game against Hawaii.
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Who understands the importance of performance better than an engineer?
Yet the pressures that come with performing to perfect levels can cause some engineers to cut corners, even obfuscate.
How tragic, then, that three apparently bright (or not quite so bright) young things studying engineering at Purdue University have been charged with using their skills to artificially jack up their grades.
I am not sure how sophisticated this alleged scheme was.
It all began to allegedly unravel at the end of 2012 when an engineering professor was suddenly struck by suspicion that the password on his computer kept changing. He knew he hadn't changed it.
So, as the Indiana Journal and Courier reports, the university's IT security team went into action.
It discovered that the professor's computer had been accessed to allegedly make students seem a touch more clever than they were.
I mention that this scheme might have been less than sophisticated because one of the accused students is said to have been logged onto to the university's Wi-Fi network using his own name.
Those from the sophisticated underworld might think this was a less than stellar thought process from a student of aeronautics and astronautics.
The more the university investigated, the wider the accusations became.
An electrical engineering student was also charged with multiple offenses.
A nuclear engineering major was accused of changing just one grade. He was also said to be the lookout.
Why would they need a lookout? Because the scheme allegedly involved switching the professor's keyboard with one that looked the same, but had a key-logging device inserted.
With this simple ruse, the professor's passwords were allegedly gleaned.
You might wonder whether all these students needed to change their grades.
According to the police, one had nine F's and one incomplete. It would seem hard not to improve on that.
On the other hand, another student, who is accused of changing a total of 24 grades, allegedly altered two A's to A+.
Two of the students have been charged with a multitude of felonies and misdemeanors -- you know, things like burglary, trespassing, and computer tampering -- while the other is reportedly in Japan.
I fear their resumes might, if they are proved guilty, suffer.
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How Muslim millennials are looking for love: Some call it haram (forbidden), but more Muslims than ever are turning to apps like Minder and Muzmatch to find romance.


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One could talk to a hundred Major League Baseball players and get as many different responses as far as what their All-Star Game experiences were like. Angels color commentator Mark Gubicza was named to the 1988 and 1989 American League all-star teams as a member of the Kansas City Royals.
With this year's All-Star Game in Minnesota on Tuesday, Gubicza shared his fondest memories.
The first one, in Cincinnati in 1988, was overwhelming to him.
"I was telling (Angels pitcher) Garrett Richards the other day that we didn't even know we were going to be in the All-Star Game until three days before," said Gubicza, a native of Philadelphia who went 20-8 with an ERA of 2.70 for the Royals that year. "These guys get about a week in advance. I had no idea. I was scrambling to be able to find a way to get my parents out there and my wife. But when I found out that I made it and I got there, I literally, honestly, couldn't breathe. Everyone says that's a weird thing to say. I couldn't breathe.
"I remember going into the outfield doing shagging during batting practice. I stood up against the wall because I didn't want to miss any fly balls. I couldn't move. All these guys I competed against. … Then in the clubhouse, I ran into Willie Mays, Lou Brock, Jim Palmer. I had their Slurpee cups, their bubble gum cards; playing flips, putting them in spokes in my bicycle. All of a sudden I'm having a conversation with these guys."
Gubicza, who grew up playing stick ball in Philly, said that everything went so quickly that he didn't enjoy himself as much as he should have. No problem. He was selected again in 1989 when the game was in Anaheim.
From the sound of it, Gubicza was equally stoked the second time around, but perhaps a bit more ready for the hoopla. Well, maybe.
"I learned so much from talking to Nolan Ryan (then a member of the Texas Rangers) about how to stay strong in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings," Gubicza said. "And then all the guys … and President (Ronald) Reagan was here with Vin Scully (sharing the NBC broadcast booth with Scully for the first inning). I guess it was like being nominated for an Oscar as an actor in a movie. But to be amongst your peers, all the greatest players in the game and then all the greatest players of the past, I still get goose bumps when I think about it."
Gubicza, who pitched in both All-Star Games — won by the American League — went 15-11 in 1989 for Kansas City.
Red-hot Calhoun
Right-fielder Kole Calhoun missed about five weeks in April and May with a sprained ankle. His first game back was May 21 against Houston and he went 0 for 3, his batting average then at .238. He has since raised it to .294. He batted .346 in June and was batting .360 this month ahead of Wednesday's game against Toronto.
He's having a good time.
"I just want to help this team win," said Calhoun, 26. "When this team's winning, it's fun. It's fun out there on the field, it's fun in the clubhouse, the team's clicking. It's almost like this whole thing gets contagious and everybody starts hitting and we're getting those big hits when we need them and throwing the ball well. And that's what makes this whole game fun."
Manager Mike Scioscia is having fun watching Calhoun.
"Hitters are going to go through hot streaks here and there," he said. "I think that we have an idea of what Kole can do. I think when the season's over you're going to see him be a plus offensive player for us. I don't know if he's going to maintain the streak he's been on the last 50 or 60 at-bats, but there's no reason to say that he can't."
Weaver much better
Right-hander Jered Weaver had to leave Monday's start after two innings because of lower-back stiffness. He said in the clubhouse Wednesday he was feeling good as he headed out to the bullpen for some long toss.
"Depending on how I feel today after this long toss, we'll see," he said, when asked when his next start might be.
The schedule has him going Saturday at Texas, and Scioscia said that unless Weaver is at risk with his back, he will make that start.
Richards still waiting
With the Angels lobbying hard for right-handed pitcher Garrett Richards to win the "final vote" for the last spot on the AL all-star team, any chance he might simply take the spot left open by Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka vanished Wednesday when AL manager John Farrell of the Red Sox announced his closer — Koji Uehara — will replace Tanaka. Tanaka was placed on the disabled list with right elbow inflammation.
Richards will know by Thursday if he won the "final vote."


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Oscar Wilde was a genius! as we all know.An Ideal Husband is not his best work,his best work is The Importance Of Being Ernest,but AIH is a pretty good second.
The point of the story is that we are all humans,make mistakes.Nobody is perfect and one should love people with their defects included and even love them for their defects.There is no such thing as an ideal husband and no one should live under the pressure of trying to preserve the image of perfection.
For plotline,go to wikipedia.
The dialogue is very much the same as in the play… as in it doesn't deviate from the point,but it's adapted,placed in other settings and order.But that's not a problem at all,I actually admired the creativity and resourcefulness of whoever made this movie.
For example,in the play,the scenery doesn't change much.We are at the Chiltern's,at Goring and then back at the Chiltern's.It's dull,but practical if you're at the theatre.However,in the movie,Lady Chiltern encounters mrs Cheveley while riding,all the characters go to the theatre to see "The importance of being ernest" and you actually can hear the ending line "Not at all,aunt.I only just understood the importance of being ernest" or something like that,after which Oscar Wilde comes out from behind the curtain and salutes the audience.It's brilliant.People in an Oscar Wilde play watching an Oscar Wilde play.And there's a lot more other inventive modifications that do not in any way alter the play,but improve it.I think Oscar Wilde wouldn't have minded a bit.
I appreciated the fact that mrs Cheveley's character is modified too.She is not accused of stealing,nor does lord Goring have to steal the letter from her.She gives it to him willingly after hearing Robert's honorable speech.She acknowledges defeat very gracefully.I liked mrs Cheveley very much in this adaptation.She has scrupules,but you can still hate her.She's manipulative,but you've got to like her.I also thought Julianne Moore was a great choice for this new,improved character.It actually proves Oscar Wilde's point.People aren't all black and white,good and bad.Good people have done bad things and bad people have done good things.
Other stuff to mention…Cate Blanchett is gorgeous,Rupert Everett is so lovable with his distinguished detachment and Minnie Driver is perfect to be Mabel…childish, beautiful, picky, witty and funny.
Bottom line,great film,do watch!
Oh,I feel I haven't said enough about Cate Blanchett.Well,she's amazing!
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An Ideal Husband.Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde was a genius! as we all know.An Ideal Husband is not his best work,his best work is The Importance Of Being Ernest,but AIH is a pretty good second.


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This is a view looking high into a patch of the autumn sky containing the constellations Perseus, Andromeda, and Triangulum.
We're zooming into a region of space nestled between the "demon star" Algol on the left, and the star Almaak on the right.
Our view goes deeper and narrower into space. It is full of stars that are not visible to the naked eye.
Up ahead is a remarkable spiral and S-shaped object that is 300 million light-years beyond our Milky Way.
This is the interacting galaxy Arp 273.
We'll first zoom into the smaller member of the pair. It is a nearly edge-on galaxy that shows distinct signs of intense star formation at its nucleus.
This was perhaps triggered by the encounter with the companion galaxy above.
It is gravitationally distorted into a rose-like shape by the tidal pull of the smaller companion galaxy.
NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay, G. Bacon, and M. Estacion (STScI);
Image: A. Fujii; A. Block (Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona); Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech; and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Publication: April 20, 2011


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Bad at Sports is pleased to have Martine Syms of Golden Age as a guest blogger with her picks from last week's New York Art Book Fair. "Martine Syms is a conceptual entrepreneur based in Chicago, Illinois. You can usually find her doing "research" (reading blogs) in the back office at Golden Age or watching television shows on DVD. Golden Age is a concept shop, founded in 2007, that sells publications, music, apparel and other editioned works created by artists. Golden Age makes a statement about an alternative mode of making and selling art; that it can be straightforward, accessible, and moderately priced."
This year Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair claimed all three floors of P.S.1 to present over 200 international booksellers, galleries, and independent publishers/artists including art luminaries Dexter Sinister, Peres Projects, Electronic Arts Intermix, and E-Flux. Unlike most commercial art fairs this year, the NY Art Book Fair managed to escape the shadow of the recession. Everyone seemed to be having fun amongst the many DIY initiatives that have been doing so much with so little for so long. However, similar to most art fairs, NYABF was incredibly overwhelming and I couldn't possibly see everything. Here are some highlights from last weekends event, if you want to link to projects that I missed, please do so in the comments.
A Modest Proposal For A Serving Library – Dexter Sinister
A Modest Proposal For A Serving Library, Nick Relph and Oliver Payne Dexter Sinister [http://dextersinister.org] (designers Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt) presented a very heady not-so-modest proposal for taking over an abandoned library in Los Angeles that is also the site of the newest video by Brits Nick Relph and Oliver Payne. In the video, books are chroma-keyed onto shelves, and the librarian's serve red wine. Over the weekend the Serving Library also hosted a screening of Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 with an introduction by my favorite Dot Dot Dot contributor Rob Giampietro.
The Werkplaats Typografie
The Werkplaats Typografie, a Dutch post-graduate design program, brought all 17 students to New York for the fair. Across from a wall displaying their most recent graphic output, the students set up studio in which they would bootleg any of the Werkplaats' catalogs for a mere $5.
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3 Fallen South Dakota Firefighters Remembered
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Three South Dakota firefighters who died on the job last year have been remembered at a national ceremony.
The annual Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service was held on Sunday at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Md. KEVN-TV reports that 85 names were added to the memorial, including Trampus Haskvitz, Jacob Waldner and William Waldner.
Haskvitz died while fighting a Black Hills forest fire in August 2011. The Waldners died in an explosion in September 2011 while helping fight a coal bin fire at the Sunset Hutterite Colony.
More than 6,000 people attended Sunday's service.
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There was some hot action today in the sweaty warehouse in Tampa. Paul Rodriguez ripped the hardest and qualified first and got the golden ticket to the finals. Matt Field was doing bridge poses all over the course during Reese Forbes and Matt Beach's runs. See who else ripped in the photos below. Top 30 qualifiers are skating in the Semis tomorrow. The full run down is at SPoT's site here.
PLG won vert, full results here.
1 Paul Rodriguez
2 Keegan Sauder
3 Peter Ramondetta
4 Torey Pudwill
5 Milton Martinez
6 Chad Bartie
7 Chaz Ortiz
8 Jani Laitiala
9 Nick Dompierre
10 Jereme Rogers
11 John Rattray
12 Danny Falla
13 Sierra Fellers
14 Anthony Shetler
15 Mark Appleyard
16 Mike Peterson
17 Jed Shooter
18 Zered Bassett
19 Pete Eldridge
20 Reese Forbes
21 Mikey Taylor
22 Justin Strubing
23 Rob Gonzalez
24 Javier Nunez
25 Brian Anderson
26 Robert Lopez Mont
27 Matt Beach
28 Roberto Aleman
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So I've been wearing my hotpants for a few days now, for at least half an hour each day. Some of this time has been running around, actively exercising. Some has been on the tube, or even at work, sitting lazily at my desk.
One thing I should mention is that I'm deliberately not changing my diet habits or exercising more than I would in any normal week. This, ahem, is because I'm trying to keep the Zagorra hotpants trial as accurate and scientific as possible.
If I wore them AND went mad on the treadmill, or stopped eating chocolate and cake, then I'm likely to lose weight anyway. So I'm trying to see if by wearing them as part of a normal exercise routine and (sort of) balanced diet will work to cut the calories faster.
As I've already pointed out, my main reason for doing this is simply to test the product that claims to be able to maximise your workout and make you slimmer, faster. Some 500,000 people worldwide have bought these things and I'm curious to see if they've spent their money wisely. At £45 a pop, it's not cheap.
Secondly though, as I realised a few days into this trial, I'm also secretly hoping they'll work. If I can get more out of my workouts, and it helps to keep the lumps and bumps in the right places, then that's a good thing in my book.
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I had mine die within three weeks of use. For those who care, I had it locked at 60Hz. The company that sells them through ebay refused to respond to my messages. Ebay had apparently been having this issue with the seller three times previously during the week and decided to refund my money in full.
Great monitor when it works, Terrible Support
Was about to hit "confirm buy" before I read your commend David... I'll wait a bit I guess. Let us know if your monitor dies Ken :S
I will definitely follow up if it does, but I sure hope not! :)
What dealer on eBay did you pyrchase this monitor??? I see that Amazon offers some of the same monitors at about the same prices, would Amazon be a safer buy??
I'm interested in the Crossover 27Q-P.
As far as I know, I was the first English speaking person to buy one of these Korean monitors. I got my Shimian back in Febuary, have it running at 70hz, and it's been working just fine.
FYI, this commotion all started on Overclock.net
if you buy another one to replace it, you've still spent less than the HP
Owner of a flawless 4 month-old Catleap
Seem like a bargain to me. I notice that some sellers offer a 'perfect version' with a higher grade panel but then it costs more like 500 dollars.
read the fine print of these some of these perfect pixel versions still have a reasonable amount of dead pixels that they consider ok and will not accept a return if you don't have more than so many dead pixels.
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have one of these, bought through the http://120hz.net group buy (for guaranteed overclocking). There is also a great thread about these at HardOCP (Hardforum). These are great monitors, mine was $50 more but hits 120Hz without issue. The colors are great, backlight bleed is not bad, and unnoticeable in games or any movie not set in the Nostromo… Overall, it's a great monitor but make sure you read up on who to buy from.
I am not affiliated with anyone from 120hz, they are just a great place to see the different models and who is safe to buy from… ;)
Could you please send me whom you purchased this monitor from along with the model and approx price. Don't know if I really want to go through 120hz.net
I have had the catleap for 3 weeks now and have been very impressed. Paid $286 and got free international shipping. This monitor is really unbelievable for the price and my only gripe is the response time. The good thing is that its usable for fps, just wouldn't recommend it for the hard core competitive people.
As of now I would recommend this monitor to everyone who can afford to take a chance on this things survivability. If you are the type who needs a warranty just stay away. For everyone else, this is excellent value.
Just a FYI it seems that SquareTrade will warranty these screens.
Ive had my catleap monitor for a few months now and I love it. its amazing in every way including the price. Still no dead pixels or any problems.
I'd be all for getting one or more, but my computer wouldn't handle it and even if it could, I have no desk space :(
The nice thing is that you could spend the same amount of money on multiple monitors here for the same price as one from our leading dealers (even the HP deal). That's always a nice thing if you get one perfect (and even better with multiple in great to perfect condition).
I just wish I had money.
Awww man. Now I just want to buy this solely for Total Annihilation! You guys are killing me!
Remorse on the yamakasi Multi-input.
I have been testing the $400 AUD multi input model all day.
No faulty pixels, excellent colours, which make my 120hz Alienware AW2310 look like it was done in crayons.
The input lag is horrendous....
I've been running some clocks on the AW2310 / a Dell 2407WFP and the Catleap and unfortunately it's around 90ms behind the Alienware, despite having scalers turned off - the multi-input card screws everything. Totally unusable for competetive games.
Yeah, I don't think the multi-input models are worth it, unless you won't be gaming on them or only playing games like RPG or strategy games.
Amazon offers a number of these monitors by the same company's. What's the advantage going to eBay?? Amazon would seem safer.
For this little amount of money, if it dies I will open it up and replace any blown capacitors myself!
I want 3 for a badarse Eyefinity setup.
I ordered a Yamakasi Catleap for $350 shipped. I have had it for probably 4 or 5 months now. It came with no dead pixels, no stuck pixels, and is a beautiful display.
I had a Dell 3007WFP-HC but it got so hot that I have actually made this my new main monitor. At some point I would like to do some sort of dual display incorporating the Dell, who knows.
In any case, LOVE my monitor, the price can NOT be beat in the US. If you are interested in this monitor but worried about buying from abroad, don't worry. The good sellers seem to be very good about defective units and the various Korean companies DO offer a warranty, you will have to ship it back to Korea to get it honored but there is a warranty.
So don't wait anymore! These are awesome monitors and you haven't lived until you've played your favorite games at 2560x1440 on a 27" S-IPS panel monitor.
I really want one of these displays, but I want the 16 x 10 30 inch, instead of the 16 x 9 27 inch. Any info on those? I've seen them on eBay but not sure if they are worth the extra cost.
This is in regards to the Yamacasi Catleap Q270 2B.
I got a reply back from TA planet saying that the Yamakasi 120Hz are out of stock, however for the ones that can wait he said "Another brand, Shimian 120Hz overclock version will be released after one month."
I will look forward to talk to him again next month, hopefuly they are display port only.
By that time they will have AsRock X79 Extreme 11 motheroard. Maybe 7990 will release & will support 120hz & should give me plenty of time to research AMD for 120Hz or cheaper 2x690 & the next quadro 5000 desktop kepler & tesla. All of them freaking waterkooled of course. And be ready for world domination or learn about lots of game/cg movie making so I can justify buying all of that crap then.
I bought the Auria EQ276W from Microcenter yesterday. It was $399.99 USD and came to ~$414 after NJ tax. It's a stunning multi-input (HDMI with HDCP, DVI dual Port, DisplayPort, VGA and mini audi jack) 2560x1440 display and looked great with out of the box settings. It had no dead pixels / stuck pixels or light bleed. Gloss screen but hardly noticeable IMO.
The stock picture above of the Auria EQ276W doesn't do the outer esthetics justice as it as it really looks nothing like the picture.
I haven't tested lag but I also don't intend to use it for much if any gaming.
It comes with a 1yr warranty and I still have the option of returning it to Microcenter is I so whish it but I would probably be more apt to buy another one.
Presumably Microcenter will ship the Auria EQ276W so it doesn't necessarily matter if you don't have a store location near you.
Its price competitive with the other Korean models (specifically the multi-input models) without the risk.
can you please share the color calibration file you generated?? thanks!
I just bought one of the Catleap's. Thanks for the review, this wave of cheap Korean monitors is awesome!
I think this 27 inch 120hz monitor is the best monitor for people who use it for design or watching movie, but it's not the best choice for people who want use it playing games.
In here, price of monitor from $279
Here is the Amazon link for the product
They claim a One Year warranty which, because it is on amazon, surely must have to be honoured.
Any thoughts from anyone?
Great Review.
I was about to buy a crossover to place beside my 27" Apple Cinema Display until I heard that these monitors have calibration issues. Is that something to worry about? Can someone tell me how to get this new monitor to match the color to my Apple?
Yes, there are calibration issues. With the newest Achieva Shimians. For example, you CANNOT have the backlight dimmed. By changing brightness the backlight IS NOT CHANGED and contrast is killed. Which is pretty bad if you use your monitor in a dark room. Expect, eye strains in this scenario.
hi ken,
any update on the monitor? are you still happy with it?
hi ken,
is the monitor still working for you?
Hello. I have had my Shimian 27" 2560x1440 IPS panel for 2 years now and play games (BF3, BF4) almost everyday. Haven't had a single problem from day 1.
I have used mine 8-9 hours 5 days a week at work. Never an issue for the last 2.5 years. Will be buying a few more for my staff.


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Which tells you all you need to know how serious the concerns are about UFC 176, scheduled to take place Aug. 2 at Staples Center.
With nine stitches in her right hand and minor knee surgery planned, Rousey is out of the question. Too bad, because the hometown girl would have done the trick.
When news broke Wednesday that featherweight champion Jose Aldo was injured and forced to withdraw from his main-event fight against No. 1 contender Chad Mendes, the card was immediately in jeopardy.
The UFC site still has the Aldo-Mendes rematch featured on its UFC 176 page. And that could be because UFC President Dana White said Aldo could be ready to fight in 45 days … so maybe it's still on. Just maybe at a later date and/or at a different venue.
But after a glance at the rest of the card, without Aldo-Mendes, forget about a pay-per-view. It would be hard-pressed to sell this for free on any Fox channel.
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And there are some entertaining fights for sure. The return of Gray Maynard against Fabricio Camoes. Bethe Correia looks to beat her second of The Four Horsewomen when she takes on Shayna Baszler. Jussier Formiga and Zach Makovsky are top 10 flyweights. And give me Bobby Green vs. Abel Trujillo any day.
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Look at the last five UFC cards in Southern California:
UFC 157 — Rousey, who had been awarded the women's bantamweight champion, armbars Liz Carmouche in the first women's fight in UFC history (Feb. 23, 2013; Honda Center).
UFC on Fox 4 — Mauricio Rua knocks out Brandon Vera and Lyoto Machida knocks out Ryan Bader in a pair of fights to determine the No. 1 contender to face light heavyweight champion Jon Jones (Aug. 4, 2012; Staples Center).
UFC on Fox 1 — Junior dos Santos knocks out Cain Velasquez to win the heavyweight title in a one-fight main card as the UFC debuts on Fox (Nov. 12, 2011; Honda Center).
UFC 121 — Velasquez knocks out Brock Lesnar to win the heavyweight title (Oct. 23, 2010; Honda Center).
UFC 104 — Machida defends his light heavyweight title against Rua via a controversial unanimous decision (Oct. 24, 2009; Staples Center).
See a trend there? Title fights or star quality.
And as it stands right now, UFC 176 is lacking in both.
And 27 days out, this is not good.
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Some were thinking there was a chance the winner of Sunday night's main event at The Ultimate Fighter 19 Finale could be in play. Frankie Edgar and B.J. Penn certainly had the credentials and names, but Edgar retired Penn with a three-round dismantling. If it were a quick finish, maybe. But that was wishful thinking.
And why should Mendes put his title shot on the line? He's the No. 1 contender and has earned it, winning five in a row after losing to Aldo and a perfectly placed flying knee in January 2012 in Brazil.
Who else is out there? The UFC, especially as it expands globally, puts on tons of fights, so few top-card fighters are available on such short notice.
Unless White wants to take some of his blackjack winnings, stuff them into a pair of pillowcases and cruise into the 209 area code and attempt to sway Nick and/or Nate Diaz to bring some of their Stockton faithful south for a mini-vacation in August, it looks like a longshot.
OK, say Mendes accepts a fight against another top featherweight. But it isn't a title fight, and that's not going to cut it for pay-per-view buys.
Whether Mendes still fights or not, and maybe another good fight gets thrown in, this card could be headed for Fox or Fox Sports 1. Of course, there are all sorts of programming logistics to solve there.
Then what do you do with fans who have paid big money for tickets to see a title fight on a PPV card … that they can now see for free from their couch?
There's also a chance it could get pushed back, which could be tough in light of the calendar at Staples Center. And there's a distinct chance it gets postponed AND moved elsewhere.
This is the most likely scenario. But if they can't figure out a way to do that, then maybe…
This could happen, but no doubt Zuffa — the parent company of the UFC — is doing everything in its power to prevent it.
It has happened before and it was not pretty.
UFC 151, slated for September 2012, was canceled after Dan Henderson suffered a knee injury and had to pull out of his fight with light heavyweight champion Jones.
The UFC tried to get Chael Sonnen as a late replacement, but Jones refused to take that fight on eight days notice.
White pinned the blame on Jones for declining to face an alternate opponent, but he and the UFC took a fair amount of criticism for its shallow pool of fighters — not to mention a major financial hit.
No doubt this is the last scenario the UFC wants, but it is certainly in scramble mode at this point.
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History and influences
Person-centered therapy, now considered a founding work in the humanistic school of psychotherapies, began formally with Carl Rogers.[7] "Rogerian" psychotherapy is identified as one of the major school groups, along with psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis (most famously Sigmund Freud), classical Adlerian psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and existential therapy (such as that pioneered by Rollo May).[8]
Rogers affirmed[7] individual personal experience as the basis and standard for living and therapeutic effect. Rogers identified six conditions which are needed to produce personality changes in clients: relationship, vulnerability to anxiety (on the part of the client), genuineness (the therapist is truly himself or herself and incorporates some self-disclosure), the client's perception of the therapist's genuineness, the therapist's unconditional positive regard for the client, and accurate empathy.[9] This emphasis contrasts with the dispassionate position which may be intended in other therapies, particularly the more extreme behavioral therapies. Living in the present rather than the past or future, with organismic trust, naturalistic faith in your own thoughts and the accuracy in your feelings, and a responsible acknowledgment of your freedom, with a view toward participating fully in our world, contributing to other peoples' lives, are hallmarks of Roger's Person-centered therapy. Rogers also claims that the therapeutic process is essentially the accomplishments made by the client. The client having already progressed further along in their growth and maturation development, only progresses further with the aid of a psychologically favored environment.[10]
The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Rogers (1957; 1959) stated[9] that there are six necessary and sufficient conditions required for therapeutic change:
- Therapist–client psychological contact: a relationship between client and therapist must exist, and it must be a relationship in which each person's perception of the other is important.
- Client incongruence: that incongruence exists between the client's experience and awareness.
- Therapist congruence, or genuineness: the therapist is congruent within the therapeutic relationship. The therapist is deeply involved him or herself — they are not "acting" — and they can draw on their own experiences (self-disclosure) to facilitate the relationship.
- Therapist unconditional positive regard (UPR): the therapist accepts the client unconditionally, without judgment, disapproval or approval. This facilitates increased self-regard in the client, as they can begin to become aware of experiences in which their view of self-worth was distorted by others.
- Therapist empathic understanding: the therapist experiences an empathic understanding of the client's internal frame of reference. Accurate empathy on the part of the therapist helps the client believe the therapist's unconditional love for them.
- Client perception: that the client perceives, to at least a minimal degree, the therapist's UPR and empathic understanding.
Three of these conditions have become known as the 'Core Conditions' 3, 4 and 5 (above).
Rogers asserted that the most important factor in successful therapy is the relational climate created by the therapist's attitude to their client. He specified three interrelated core conditions:
- Congruence - the willingness to transparently relate to clients without hiding behind a professional or personal facade.
- Unconditional positive regard - the therapist offers an acceptance and prizing for their client for who he or she is without conveying disapproving feelings, actions or characteristics and demonstrating a willingness to attentively listen without interruption, judgement or giving advice.
- Empathy - the therapist communicates their desire to understand and appreciate their clients perspective.
Rogers believed that a therapist who embodies these three critical and reflexive attitudes will help liberate their client to more confidently express their true feelings without fear of judgement. To achieve this, the client-centered therapist carefully avoids directly challenging their client's way of communicating themselves in the session in order to enable a deeper exploration of the issues most intimate to them and free from external referencing.[11] Rogers was not prescriptive in telling his clients what to do, but believed that the answers to the patients' questions were within the patient and not the therapist. Accordingly, the therapists' role was to create a facilitative, empathic environment wherein the patient could discover the answers for him or herself. Reference: Rogers, Lyon, Tausch. On Becoming an Effective Teacher, Routledge 2013. p. 23.
See also
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- ↑ Prochaska, J. O., & Norcross, J. C. (2007). Systems of Psychotherapy: A Trans-theoretical Analysis, Sixth Edition. Belmont, CA: Thompson Brooks/Cole.
- ↑ Cooper, M., Watson, J. C., & Hoeldampf, D. (2010). Person-centered and experiential therapies work: A review of the research on counseling, psychotherapy and related practices. Ross-on-Wye, UK: PCCS Books.
- ↑ Ward, E., King, M., Lloyd, M., Bower, P., Sibbald, B., Farrelly, S., et al. (2000). Randomized controlled trial of non-directive counseling, cognitive-behavior therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. I: Clinical effectiveness. British Medical Journal, 321, 1383-1388.
- ↑ Bower, P., Byford, S., Sibbald, B., Ward, E., King, M., Lloyd, R., et al. (2000). Randomized controlled trial of non-directive counseling, cognitive-behavior therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. II: Cost effectiveness. British Medical Journal, 321, 1389-1392.
- ↑ Shechtman, Z., Pastor, R., 2005. Cognitive-behavioral and humanistic group treatment for children with learning disabilities: A comparison of outcomes and process. Journal of Counseling Psychology 52, 322-336.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Prochaska, J.O & Norcross, J.C. 2007. Systems of Psychotherapy: A Trans-theoretical Analysis. Thompson Books/Cole:New York, p.138
- ↑ Prochaska, J.O & Norcross, J.C. 2007. Systems of Psychotherapy: A Trans-theoretical Analysis. Thompson Books/Cole:New York, p.3
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Prochaska, J.O & Norcross, J.C. 2007. Systems of Psychotherapy: A Trans-theoretical Analysis. Thompson Books/Cole:New York, p. 142-143
- ↑ Rogers, Carl (1951). "Client-Centered Therapy" Cambridge Massachusetts: The Riverside Press.
- ↑ "Person-centered therapy" on the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders website
- Arnold, Kyle. (2014). Behind the Mirror: Reflective Listening and its Tain in the Work of Carl Rogers. The Humanistic Psychologist, 42:4 354-369.
- Bruno, Frank J. (1977). Client-Centered Counseling: Becoming a Person. In Human Adjustment and Personal Growth: Seven Pathways, pp. 362–370. John Wiley & Sons.
- Cooper, M., O'Hara, M, Schmid, P., and Wyatt, G. (2007). The Handbook of person-centered psychotherapy and counseling. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
- Rogers, Carl (1961). On Becoming a Person ISBN 0-395-75531-X
- Rogers, C. (1957) 'The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change', Journal of Consulting Psychology, 21 (2): 95-103
- Rogers, Carl. (1959). A Theory of Therapy, Personality and Interpersonal Relationships as Developed in the Client-centered Framework. In (ed.) S. Koch, Psychology: A Study of a Science. Vol. 3: Formulations of the Person and the Social Context. New York: McGraw Hill.
- Rogers, Carl (1980). A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
- Poyrazli, S. (2003, March). Validity of Rogerian Therapy in Turkish Culture: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education & Development, 42(1), 107-115. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from PsycINFO database.
- Prochaska, J.O & Norcross, J.C. 2007. Systems of Psychotherapy: A Trans-theoretical Analysis. Thompson Books/Cole:New York.
- Rogers, Carl (1951). "Client-Centered Therapy" Cambridge Massachusetts: The Riverside Press.
- Rogers, Carl, Lyon, HC, Tausch, R. (2013). On Becoming an Effective Teacher – Person-centered teaching, Psychology, Philosophy, and Dialogues with Carl R. Rogers and Harold Lyon. London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-81698-4: http://www.routledge.com/9780415816984/
External links
|Library resources about
Person-centered therapy
- World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling
- The Person-Centered Website
- An Introduction to Person-Centred Counselling at CounsellingResource.com
- The Carl Rogers Bibliography Online
- Person-Centered Bibliography
- Person-Centered Bibliography in French
- Association for Person Centered Therapy Scotland
- The Association for the Development of the Person Centered Approach
- Network of the European Associations for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling
- The British Association for the Person Centered Approach


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Carol Southern Keneas, whose editing style is credited for the success of the "Angelina Ballerina" books as well as a wide range of titles including "Jackson Pollock," the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the artist, died on Saturday in New York City of complications of cancer surgery.
She was born Carol Kauffman in Silver Spring, Md. She was an art student living in Greenwich Village when she met the satirical writer Terry Southern, the author of "Candy" and "The Magic Christian" and the black humorist behind the film "Dr. Strangelove." Mr. Southern also wrote the screenplay for "Easy Rider." He became a 1960s icon and is pictured on the cover of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.
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I've done a lot of things which at the time made me feel very happy. I've walked on islands made of straw in Peru, drunk green tea from the most ornate teapots I've ever seen in Japan, gotten lost in the raw noise and chaos of New York and Marrakech, spent hours browsing through incredible bookshops in Australia. I've danced (badly) in cities all over the world. But, honestly, the most beautiful thing I've ever seen is my baby's face. I wish I could send a message back to the scared, heavily pregnant me of three months ago. I wish I could tell her that everything will be alright because the most perfect little boy I've ever seen has given me some semblance of peace.
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That last paragraph is probably (no, in fact, DEFINITELY) needlessly sentimental so I'm going to interrupt the saccharine sweetness by exposing yet more of my terrible personality. As I mentioned in my last blog post (which just happened to be earlier today - what an eager beaver) my friend has also recently had a baby. I really like my friend and her baby is beautiful but, and this is a big but (haha! big butt), she appears to have given birth to her personality as well as her son.
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At long last, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has ratified the 802.11n standard. In a press release quietly issued late in the day on Friday, September 11th, the IEEE announced that its Standards Board had ratified the IEEE 802.11n-2009 amendment, defining mechanisms that provide significantly improved data rates and ranges for wireless local area networks (WLANs).
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The finalized standard, which includes a 560-page 802.11n amendment, makes good on its promise of backwards-compatibility with earlier drafts and also adds some new capabilities.
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Paul Nikolich, IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee Chairman said in Fridays press release, "Everyone involved in the 802.11n process--and no one more than Bruce Kraemer [Chair of the IEEE Wireless LAN Working Group], whose strong leadership has been instrumental from the start--deserves congratulations because this is a key data communications milestone and a good example of the consensus building environment 802 provides for its participants. The amendment will enable a dramatic leap forward in WLAN scalability with only a modest associated rise in costs for the industry and end users."
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Many segments of the market, such as schools and universities, and home and small business users, had already grown comfortable enough with 802.11n-draft 2.0 to deploy networks using it. But, for enterprises, there has been more reticence toward early adoption.
The ratification is most significant for enterprises. A lot of universities have already adopted 802.11n, after receiving assurance that the final standard would be backwards compatible. This final ratification puts the issue to rest for lots of customers, Mike Tennefoss, Head of Strategic Marketing at Aruba Networks, one of the companies that sits on the 802.11n committee, told Wi-Fi Planet today. In the broader enterprise, there was fear of last-minute changes [to the standard]. This ratification is really good for corporate customers. Ratification was the last barrier holding up the actual widespread adoption of 11n in the general enterprise market. We think it will open up the market significantly.
While the ratification is big news, it is also, in many ways a small detail. Its a bit like learning that a person has finally been officially named CEO after running a company successfully and publicly for several years, but with a different job title.
It doesnt change anything for us, says Tennefoss. We will of course certify under the finally ratified standard, so that we will eliminate that draft citation on the logo. It doesnt change our development plans or our marketing strategy. It removes the impediments that were preventing customers that were really interested in high-performance, high-security systems from moving forward. We expect more activity in sales, but its not changed in technical ways.
Tennefoss also points out that for Aruba, the lack of a final standard hasnt slowed down sales this year, but the presence of one may provide an additional boost. We had a record quarter, a record year, a record three quarters in a row, says Tennefoss. Theres a very large surge in demand in the way of new orders, a lot for 11n, so I would say we would like to see that trend continue.
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Looking ahead, improvements to 11n should include both speed and energy efficiency.
We do sit on the n committee and there is work under way on the next higher speed version of 11n. As we look forward into the coming years, well see enhancements to enable it to go faster on the technical side. The target is comparable to gigabit Ethernet, ultimately, says Tennefoss. On the other side, on the product design side, I think ratification is basically going to lead to more stratification of the market, where there are lower-priced all the way up to high-performance solutions. The standard has removed any concerns that there will be last-minute changes; it will be safer to move forward with lower-priced devices shipped in higher volume.
But what about your iPhone or BlackBerry? When will it get 802.11n?
Right now, the benefit of using g is power consumption, says Tennefoss. There aren't yet ultra-low power 11n wireless handsets, phones, scanners, or barcode scanners on the market, but these devices are in the pipeline. We know the chipset vendors are working on it. The new iPod touch has an 11n chip in it, but the battery operating time hasn't been announced. I dont know when it will happen, but it will happen. That will result in market transition from g to nbattery life.
Trading up
With the advent of the new standard, a couple of vendors have launched cash for clunkers-themed promotions to encourage legacy users to upgrade their equipment.
San Francisco-based innovator, Meraki, announced its Cash for Wireless LAN Clunkers event on September 9th. The special promotion [represented by the photo, right, courtesy of Meraki] includes a $150 credit for each access point traded in for a Meraki network. To qualify for Cash for Wireless LAN Clunkers, customers must register with Meraki and make their purchase by September 30, 2009.
We understand that todays economy makes it challenging for organizations that want to upgrade their IT infrastructures, said Ivan Montoya, Vice President of Marketing at Meraki in a press release. So we want to make it easier for them to trade-up from an aging 802.11b/g wireless network to a Meraki 802.11n wireless LAN, the new standard.
Meru Networks also announced its Cash-4-Clunkers promotion today. The initiative will offer enterprise businesses a rebate of $200 per legacy AP using micro-cell technology when traded in and replaced with the purchase of one with Merus 802.11n wireless LAN virtual cell technology.
We built this program to address the business demand for a faster, more reliable and predictable wireless network. Cash-4-Clunkers provides an incentive to dispose of legacy 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN products and advance to best 802.11n infrastructure, reaping tremendous cost-savings through improved performance and wireless enterprise management, said Rachna Ahlawat, Vice President Marketing, Meru Networks in a press release. As the only vendor in the market to have been shipping enterprise grade 802.11n for over two years, the experience we have gained is unparalleled. Our commitment to deliver the best 802.11n platform for providing wired performance with wireless benefits will help our customers to migrate to all wireless edge.
Power to the people
Also ratified is the IEEE 802.3at-2009 Power over Ethernet (PoE) Plus standard. The new PoE Plus standard defines the technology for powering a wide range of powered devices at up to 51W over existing CAT5e-and-above cables.
Naomi Graychase is Managing Editor at Wi-Fi Planet.com. She's been using an 802.11n-draft network at home since 2007.


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Sustainable Development
About Sustainable Development:
Sustainable development is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs", as famously phrased by the Brundtland Commission in 1987.
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were adopted by the UN Member States in September 2015 for the period 2016-2030 reflect an ambitious and transformative framework – a paradigm shift in international development that has the potential to put the world on a more sustainable path and ensure a life of dignity for all. In addition, the new agenda is underpinned by goals on peaceful and inclusive societies and effective institutions, means of implementation and follow-up mechanisms to make the agenda work.
While the MDGs were of limited relevance for the UNECE region as a whole, the 2030 Agenda is designed as a universal framework for all countries, regardless of their level of development. UNECE activities are closely related to many of the areas of the SDGs and will be instrumental for translating the new framework into concrete measures throughout the region and beyond.
The concept of sustainable development was endorsed by the world's Governments at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and reaffirmed at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 (Rio+20). Despite progress, social, economic and environmental considerations have yet to be fully integrated in policy-making, business practices and lifestyles throughout this diverse region.
|The Regional Survey on the Planning, Implementation, Follow-up and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals is available in English and Russian. Please see responses.


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Quote:Sorry everyone, but pressure points for combat aren't accupuncture points!
Quote:Okay, what about the concept of pressure points being acupuncture points? Well, maybe then the answer is that a pressure point is an acupuncture point? Many people use the acupuncture charts as maps to where pressure points are located. These have to be the official/legitimate pressure points, dont they?That answer, by my definition, is also wrong. And NO, the charts tell the locations of ACUPUNCTURE points NOT the location of pressure points.
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