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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- The Better Business Bureau (BBB) serving Chicago and Northern Illinois is alerting consumers about Hearthware, Inc. and its product the NuWave Oven, which is typically sold through infomercials. This company is located at 1795 Butterfield Rd. Suite A, Libertyville, IL 60048, according to BBB records. In the past three years, 1,291 complaints from consumers in all 50 states as well as 3 different provinces in Canada have been filed against this company with the BBB. There have been 331 complaints in the past 12 months, 18 from Illinois. A review of consumer complaints shows a pattern of allegations and complaints. This company currently has an "F" rating with the BBB.
Doreen Burton, a consumer from Forest Park, IL recently purchased a Hearthware product. "I called late at night after the commercial for the NuWave Oven. They sent a cooktop instead. I sent it back right away. They charged $121.18 for shipping and handling and would not refund those charges. They did not tell me how high this charge was going to be. I called and complained and the person that I talked to said he would send me a copy of the tape where I agreed. I never got the tape and I never got a refund for shipping and handling."
"The single largest number of complaints allege that consumers were charged either for free products or in exorbitant shipping and processing fees associated with products they thought were free," explained Dennis Horton, director of the Rockford office of the Better Business Bureau. "This is a distinct pattern of complaints, which the company has not corrected. In addition, other complaint topics include: faulty product, difficulty in returning or receiving a refund, misleading advertising practices, and difficulty in contacting the company with emails and phone calls unanswered."
To help avoid problems with purchasing products advertised through infomercials, the Better Business Bureau recommended consumers take these steps:
• Avoid becoming caught up in an urgent sales pitch. Many times sellers use phrases like "for a limited time," "order now before prices increase," and "in short supply." Take your time to consider the purchase.
• Research the company and product. Go to bbb.org to obtain the Business Review on the company and check its BBB rating.
• Compare products and pricing. Search online to compare products and pricing from other manufacturers and sources.
• Read and understand the fine print. Make sure you understand purchase and return policies, restocking fees and exchange options.
• Review seller's privacy policy. Will your name and other information be sold or used to solicit for other offers.
• Obtain a delivery time. Request purchase confirmations and tracking numbers. Be suspicious if the business cannot supply this information.
• Pay by credit card and retain receipts. This allows you to more easily dispute charges. Check your billing and financial statements regularly for only authorized transactions.
The BBB also recommends buyers immediately notify sellers if items are disappointing, damaged or do not arrive as anticipated.
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Sex and shoes? You had me at "stiletto."
Shoes are often objects of desire, markers of femininity or masculinity. In this brief talk, Professor Kelly Olson will take you on a short tour of how shoes in Western culture relate to sexuality and desire. Learn about styles through the ages, from ancient Roman platform sandals to the chopines of the Renaissance, from the dandy's shoes of the eighteenth century to today's stilettos.
Registration is $15 per person and includes an optional 5:30 p.m. tour of The Bata Shoe Museum, a networking reception and Kelly Olson's talk. Guests will enjoy delicious appetizers and one complimentary beer, wine or soft drink per person. A cash bar will also be available.
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The Wine School at San Francisco Wine Center is a year-round wine education center offering tasting classes weekly from 6:30pm - 8:00pm for both consumers and the trade. The Wine School faculty here at San Francisco Wine Center includes Master Sommeliers, James Beard Award-Winning wine authors, Masters of Wine, and Wine Directors from the most famous restaurants in the country including Jason Alexander, Christie Dufault, Jordan Mackay, Mary Burnham, Mauro Cirilli, MS Brian Cronin, MS Emily Wines, and more. We offer unique wine tasting classes on topics ranging from Aromatics and Minerality to varietal and region specific themes. It is truly the best wine education experience for all levels and in a comfortable, fun, and interactive environment. Specialty and customized private group tasting classes with our expert instructors are also available.
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A new brand of DIY self-sufficiency is spreading across The Netherlands. Skilled craftswomen, mechanics, seamstresses, and handypersons are banding together to resist disposable consumer culture. It is the rise of the Repair Cafe, a place where neighbors get together to extend the life of their material belongings. "Fixers" mend clothes, restore furniture, rehabilitate electrical appliances, and enjoy each other's company while industriously toiling away. The first cafe was founded by Martine Postma in Amsterdam in October of 2009. Today, there are 20 fully operational Repair Cafes, and 50 more in the planning stages.
"I started the cafe because I think it's a shame we throw things away before their time," Martine told RNW. "Many people don't know how to repair things anymore." The cafe gives volunteers the satisfaction of fixing things, and it saves community members time and money all while saving the environment.
With the support of the Ministry of the Environment and the DOEN Foundation, Martine is ramping up her efforts to resurrect repair culture in the region. Effectively scaling up means a lot of time on the road. A new van has made it possible for Martine to connect with interested communities. She and a few repair folk travel the country setting up cafes and customizing development strategies for each town. This hands-on approach has been successful because it gives local activists a clear picture of what they'll need to successfully coordinate and grow their own collaborative enterprises.
At the rate Martine is going, it won't be long until there is a Repair Cafe in all of the Netherlands' 415 municipalities. This could relieve a tremendous burden of unnecessary waste and will set a stellar example of what individuals can do to change the global lifecycle economy.
This model should be adopted far and wide. Sure, Brooklyn has sewing clubs and San Francisco's urbanites fix things at the Bike Kitchen, Tech Shop, or Noisebridge, but where do you go when the vacuum refuses to turn on or the stereo is fuzzy? Straight to the manufacturer? Back to the store for a replacement? The economic and environmental burden is too great to continue such wasteful behavior. Thankfully, there are people like Martine on the case.
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The Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP) and the Environmental Water Account (EWA) together form the foundation for the CALFED Bay-Delta Program's efforts to meet its environmental commitments. To make sure the CALFED Program made adequate progress, the CALFED Agencies agreed in 2000 to reinitiate consultation under the Endangered Species Act by September 30, 2004 - the mid-point in the CALFED Program's Stage 1. The Letter Requesting Reinitiation (PDF) outlines the background for the reinitiation process.
The agencies embarked on a lengthy and comprehensive evaluation of the ERP milestones and EWA that culminated in an assessment package submitted to the regulatory agencies on July 16, 2004. The ERP Implementing Agencies (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and the CDFW) also provided a 30-day input period to the public regarding this assessment package; the supplemental information generated by this input period can be found in the Responses to Input (PDF) document.
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First of all I want to thank all of you who left such thoughtful and encouraging comments these past few weeks. You truly helped me to wade through these muddy waters and I am so grateful for this supportive online community.
And while I am still uncertain where Molly fits in the world …I am taking steps to finding myself again. My typical Method of Operation is to remain stoic during the crisis and then run away when it is passed. Since I must remain in town to complete my teaching duties, I have chosen to do a bit of 'virtual' escaping.
So to that end, I thought I might share some of the pursuits that I have undertaken in order to develop a bit of fun in my life again.
I have enrolled in two online classes:
- Great Photos with Any Camera offered by Elisha Snow through Big Picture Classes and Alchemy: The Art and Craft of Writing offered by Jenna McGuiggan of The Word Cellar. It is my hope that both of these classes will help me to hone some practical skills so that I can truly develop these personal interests into full fledged passions. While school continues to keep me busy this last quarter of the year, I know that it is important to do something for me and both of these classes will aid me this summer when…
- I hope to take a third online class, Unravelling by Susannah Conway. My sister-in-law took this class a while ago and absolutely loved it. I shall take her advice and do this for myself as well.
I also plan to finally learn to let go of perfectionism – at least when it comes to doing activities that I enjoy like photography, writing, scrapbooking, and (now) quilting and (hopefully) mixed media art. I need to drop the constant comparison of my efforts to those of professionals – and give myself a break. I need to realize that it is acceptable to do these things because I want to – not because there is a looming deadline that I must meet. I have so many projects that are in various stages of completion – and many others than I have not yet begun. What am I waiting for?
But the true passion of my life – what pushes me to develop these other skills – is that I will travel. And, God willing, I will travel to Paris, France this summer for a two week extended stay at this lovely apartment in the heart of Monmartre – my favorite Parisian neighborhood.
I dream of walking along the Seine, capturing the emotion of the scene with photographs and writing intimate thoughts in my journal. I long to visit the Musee d'Orsay for an extended period of time – perhaps completing the research that I think I need in order to start writing the novel that I envisioned eighteen months ago. I imagine myself visiting the small grocery each morning – finding just the right baguette, small wedge of brie, and piece of fruit, and setting off in search of the perfect park in which to enjoy this simple lunch, perhaps with a glass of Bordeaux, and watch the European people saunter through their day. I may even be brave enough to try to use my rusty French once again.
For two weeks I hope to escape my life, for just a short while, and in the process to discover who I have become. I want to pretend to be a writer, living in the country that inspired so many great authors, and slow down enough to enjoy the simplicity of life once again. To that end I have a book waiting for me at the library, Literary Cafes of Paris, which I plan to absorb over the next few days. I have already poured over the book, The Impressionists' Paris and have mentally taken each of the three walking tours. I have researched Rue Mouffetard, an open air market that I have wanted to visit since I was in high school, in the book Markets of Paris, and have even discovered a few others to add to the list.
I feel as though these past few weeks have been the pupal stage of my butterfly existence. I have been a cocooned puddle of goo. But I feel my wings developing and I know that over time I will indeed emerge transformed into the Molly that I am meant to be.


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A winner was selected from 116 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
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We've been in business for over 10 years so we are solid and very serious but we are also fun and have a good sense of humor.
We want the traditional information, like name, phone, email, etc., but we want a card that is eye catching in terms of looks.
This is very hard to say because we have so many potential clients. Basically any business or organization that wants or needs a website is our target audience.
Our cards are primarily given in person at the beginning or end of a meeting with a potential client.
Our audience tends to be ages 30-50, both male and female.
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text: Lawrence Stewart <larry.stewart at sicortex.com> writes: >> On 9/3/08 10:34 AM, "Peter St. John" <peter.st.john at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm thinking that multicore will make topology interesting again, >> because of the difference between intercore on a common chip vs >> going through a nic to even the fastest fabric. >> Peter > > It is probably worth putting numbers on statements like this. For > example, a main memory reference on a fast processor these days is > around 80 nanoseconds. Sending a message to a process on another > node on a fast IB network is getting to 1.2 microseconds. > Communicating to another thread on the same socket is probably not > much faster than a memory reference since you have to thrash a > cache-line or two back and forth between cores. Quite. It is possible that future generations of multi-core architectures will do differently, but right now, a multi-core chip looks a lot (to software) like a normal SMP setup. (I do wonder a lot whether a return to vector architectures might make more sense than multi-core -- there is at least a lot of precedent for making use of vector silicon with good compilers.) > So I am deeply skeptical of the current furor about how we need new > programming models for "multicore chips". We have models that work > perfectly well for 100-1000 core clusters, lets use them. Well, not quite. The HPC community is very good at using such things, so it isn't going to have trouble. The issue is not for people doing scientific computing, but for people doing "normal" applications. Beyond the scope of this mailing list of course. -- Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com


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If you haven't noticed, things don't stay the same for long. The economy was terrific and now we have a recession. You lose a staff member, a new club opens around the corner, people get laid off from work, your promotional actions didn't give you the response you expected. You're wondering if you should discount your prices, raise them or keep them the same.
The key tool for keeping your finger on the pulse of your club and its performance is by using statistics. Having a good statistical management system allows you to manage and control your club. Just as a driver of a car looks at the dials of his car to determine its speed, fuel level, time, distance, battery life or oil level in order to determine the health and performance of his vehicle, so does a club need its dials. They are the indicators of the viability and performance of that enterprise.
What is the product of a Club?
A club just like any other business has to produce a product or service. This product has to be measurable or it is not a product. In the case of health clubs, this product is known as the Valuable Final Product (VFP) for its members. IHRSA's John McCarthy once pointed out that the longest silence he ever heard was when I asked club owners do define their product.
If you know your product, then you can figure out the statistic that shows the quantity of the product being produced or obtained. An example of a VFP is Enthusiastic Members participating on a regular basis at the club and referring new members. With this product you can figure out the key statistic in the club because what is really being measured is participation. Clubs are in the participation business.
There are many types of numbers to keep. There are numbers that show the performance of the club, the divisions, the departments and the performance of the individual staff member. Each staff member should have some statistic that shows his or her productivity.
Why Keep Numbers?
These are some of the reasons you want to keep the numbers:
- What gets measured and rewarded gets done.
- You can see if things are getting better, staying the same or getting worse.
- You can see success from failure.
- Helps determined future strategies.
- Managing by the numbers is better and safer then by operating on hearsay, feelings, hunches and personality contests.
- Statistics gives you the facts, and nothing but the facts.
- Lets the staff know how they will be measured and rewarded.
- Tells you what needs correcting and strengthening.
- Key to performance evaluations.
- If you can't measure it, it's probably not worth doing.
Graphing the Numbers
Lots of clubs keep statistics and look at their numbers, but don't graph them. A statistic is used to make comparisons between now and an earlier time period. Do we have more members this January than last January? Do we have better retention this month versus last month? Graphs allow you to make the comparisons easily and quickly and see the trends affecting your club.
Interpreting the Numbers
The numbers will show a relationship. We know that if referrals go down so will new memberships, which will affect the EFT trend. There are a lot of strategies for improvement, depending on the circumstances. Knowing what questions to ask can help you come up with solutions:
- Am I getting enough people into the club?
- Do I have a sales or marketing problem?
- Are the salespeople closing at least 65 percent of their tours?
- Am I getting enough referrals?
- Do we promote enough and to the correct demographic?
- Is my staff trained?
- Are any staff members affecting the club in a negative way?
- Am I rewarding and acknowledging the marketing and sales people for their accomplishments?
- Is my staff really motivated?
- Is our advertising getting the response I should be getting?
- Is our pricing correct?
Measurement Implementing
- Determine what you want to produce. What is the VFP for the club, divisions, departments and each staff member?
- Identify the correct statistic to measure that VFP.
- Develop a system for tracking those statistics. Gather statistics for such items as gross income, profit, EFT trend, usage, new members and retention.
- Graph those numbers weekly, monthly or yearly.
- Notice the trend and analyze the numbers. What do they indicate?
- Develop a written strategy to improve the numbers.
- Work with your staff to implement those strategies.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies based on the new trend and repeat the above steps.
- Reward your staff for their accomplishments.
- Set new targets and quotas on a weekly basis.
Measuring Up
Great management starts with caring about what's going on, observing what's going on, being aware of what's going on, evaluating what's going on and acting on what's going on so that conditions continuously improve in your club. The key tool to your success is having the facts, and knowing the numbers that show your productivity. Remember, what gets measured and rewarded gets done.
Klaus P. Hilgers is the founder and president of Epoch Consultants, Inc., and is an internationally known consultant, speaker, author and trainer.


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I believe this to be my father's Uncle Gus
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Probably my father's Uncle Joe:
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Family tree of Herde, Ratcliff, and Lemons families. Other family names are George, Herde Porter, Key, Jones, Lemons Parker, Lincycomb, Johnson, Ratcliff, Ross, Schooler, Hawkins, VanSkyke, Wharton, Bourne, Pagel, Preusner, Preussner, Brewer, Bartholmew, Williams, Emery, Price, Daniels, Broadwell, Richards, Pardon, Bogardus, Searing, Whitehead, Wilmot. Is all this information exactly right? Probably not, but I try.


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Justin Lofton celebrated his 25th birthday on Friday at the Daytona International Speedway, coinciding with the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' season opener, the NextEra Energy Resources 250.
"Friday was a lot of fun. It's always cool to celebrate my birthday the week of Daytona, but it was really special this year to have the race fall on my birthday," Lofton said.
After months of anticipation, the event marked the debut for the 2009 ARCA Racing Series champion with his new team Germain Racing. Lofton and crew chief Ryan Fugle showed instant chemistry, as the duo had no problem securing a starting spot for the 100-lap Friday night race after Lofton grabbed the 17th starting position in his No. 77 Lofton Cattle Toyota Tundra.
Once the green flag fell Lofton needed only six laps to move into the top-10. By lap 20 however, Lofton radioed Fugle that his Tundra was running a bit hot, causing him to have to move around in the draft in order to get more air into the nose of his machine in order to cool down the rising temperatures.
Under green on lap 28, Lofton drove the No. 77 Toyota down pit road for his first pit stop of the night. The crew got to work, changing right side tires and adding fuel.
10 laps later, the first caution flag of the event waved, allowing Lofton to make another stop. This time the crew swapped out all four tires, added fuel, and made an adjustment under the rear end of the No. 77. The additional work cost Lofton a lap, but by the next caution on lap 55, Lofton was given the free pass, putting him back on the lead lap.
Fugle then made the call on lap 56 and again on lap 67 to bring Lofton down pit road in order to top off on fuel. With 33 laps remaining, he informed his driver, "Use long gears. We're good to lap 101, but save all you can for a green-white-checkered."
Just 10 laps later however, a multi-truck wreck broke out in turn 1. Over a dozen trucks were involved, including Lofton. With damage to the Lofton Cattle machine, the newly 25-year-old drove to pit road for repairs.
Lofton returned to the track, but a bent truck arm left Lofton with a challenge behind the wheel. On lap 85, the truck broke loose, sending Lofton spinning through the tri-oval. After additional repairs, Lofton rejoined the race.
With just two laps remaining, the caution fell following a 10-truck accident across the front stretch. Luckily, Lofton missed the melee.
After waiting out a 10-minute red flag for clean-up, Lofton took the restart from the 24th position for a race-extendig green-white-checkered finish.
With the help of spotter Mark Green, Lofton maneuvered his way through the draft on the 2.5-mile superspeedway, wheeling his way to a solid 18th place finish.
"We had a tough race but the guys did a great job working on the truck and we pulled out a solid result. We have a great group of guys here and it feels good to get our first race together under our belts. I'm real excited about heading to Phoenix next. It is one of my favorite tracks," Lofton added.
Lofton and the No. 77 Toyota Tundra team will next hit the track on Friday, February 25th at the Phoenix International Raceway for the Lucas Oil 150.
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Entertainment at fitness facilities has moved so far beyond televisions mounted on the wall or from the ceiling that club owners providing only this option could be left behind sooner rather than later. Today's entertainment is all about personal choice for the member, and that personalization can offer extra revenue for the fitness facility.
It's an on-demand world. People want what they want, when they want it. That's why TIVO, on-demand movies, MP3 players with video and music downloads, streaming videos on the Internet and even individualized ring tones for cell phones are so popular.
It's no wonder that personal viewing screens, available for some time from various equipment manufacturers and as add ons by entertainment companies, are now becoming a must-have for many fitness facilities.
"Our members like to have control over their own viewing experience," says David von Storch, owner of VIDA Fitness, a 29,000-square-foot fitness spa that recently opened in Washington, DC's Verizon Center, an entertainment and sports facility. "So even though big screen TVs look great, [members] like to have their own personal viewing screens, so they can view their own program at their volume."
Crunch Fitness offers a choice to members of either viewing entertainment on their own personal screens or watching a larger plasma television.
"Some members like individual screens, and others don't care for that," says Keith Worts, senior vice president of operations at Crunch Fitness, New York.
Brian Wilson, the director of marketing for entertainment and services division at a fitness equipment manufacturer, says, "If I'm a club and I don't have personal viewing screens and someone down the road has them, I'm in trouble if I don't buy them. I think you are starting to see that happen more and more across the country."
Even at smaller club companies, such as Form & Fitness with a location in Mequon, WI, and another in Grafton, WI, personal choice is a must. The clubs offer large-screen TVs on the walls, but all cardio equipment has personal viewing screens with a full cable option, says Gretchen Quist, owner.
"TV nowadays is considered a guilty pleasure for people's busy lifestyles," Quist says. "If…we can help [members] take care of that guilty pleasure while they exercise, they feel good about exercising and taking part in their guilty pleasure."
Earning Extra Cash
One thing some manufacturers hope fitness facility owners won't have any guilt about is earning some additional revenue from their members' pursuit of entertainment during exercise. As entertainment options expand to allow for on-demand video viewing, Internet accessibility and streaming video, revenue options have opened to club owners.
With video streaming, an entertainment company provides the content for the streaming video and can leave time for the club to insert its own content. Another option is for the club to create the video and then sell time within it to local businesses, says Troy Severson, marketing manager at a technology company whose technology is installed in many lines of fitness equipment.
For several years some club owners have earned revenue by offering advertising on a branded video network offered by an entertainment company. Wilson's company is introducing a product that allows a club to have a branded home page on personal viewing screens. Club owners can define the content that they want to deliver to their members. Choices can range from network and cable TV stations to content that is created specifically for that club. For example, the club could provide a trainer channel in which users could meet all the club's trainers or a day care channel where users could watch their children in the facility's child care area.
Another entertainment company offers clubs Internet-based banner ad revenue.
However, earning additional revenue in this way isn't necessarily appealing to all club owners.
"I think there's a fine line with that one," says Worts, who contends that the popularity of filters to get rid of pop-up ads demonstrates that people don't want to be inundated with advertisements. "If it's tastefully done, it can happen. We want to protect our brand. If we decide to go that route, it will be a careful decision."
One entertainment company offers club owners additional revenue opportunities through the sale of a cheaper version of an MP3 player that members can use exclusively at the club, says Guy Danhoff, the director of entertainment operations at the entertainment company. Club owners earn part of the revenue from the sale of the MP3 player, and they can brand the product with their own name, providing advertisement for the club. Through this company, clubs also can sell monthly subscriptions to customized podcasts that can be downloaded at a kiosk at the fitness facilities. Members can subscribe to a specific genre of music and download a podcast within that genre. The music is ordered so that the beats per minute match the user's workout.
However, not every club owner is convinced this new technology is necessary. Even though it's technologically exciting to download videos or music at a fitness facility, von Storch doesn't believe most members will do it and, therefore, he has no desire to pay for the technology.
"What is good about personal viewing screens is that you push one button and put on your headphones and you are ready," von Storch says. That's especially important for the uninitiated member, which is where membership growth resides. "The technology will appeal over time to the people who are bringing their own iPods and are into fitness. It has more appeal to those people than to people who are just trying to figure out where the locker room is."
In addition, club members are time pressed and taking time to download a movie or music while at the gym isn't how members want to spend their time, says Peter Taunton, founder of Snap Fitness, a fitness franchise company in Minneapolis, MN.
"Our members want to get in and out," Taunton says. "Those who have an iPod have preloaded them [before coming to the gym]."
Quist echoes the time-pressed theme. Members don't want to put a lot of effort into their pre-workout routine, she says, noting that 80 percent of members get on a machine and hit the quick start button rather than using the options that require plugging in more information.
Members aren't asking for high-tech solutions, von Storch says. Instead, they are asking for creative programs that allow them to break up their routines and interact with people to achieve their fitness goals.
Worts says, "Whenever you are going to invest in something, you have to see the cost-benefit value. Will it add to the member experience?"
One option that Worts says will add to a member's experience is on-demand movies and TV shows.
"If they missed last night's episode of "The Sopranos," they can watch it [when they come into the club]," Worts says.
Beyond Entertainment
Adding more entertainment options to equipment doesn't make much sense to Kim B. Blair, founding director of the Center for Sports Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. That's because people already bring their own personal entertainment devices to the club. Integrating entertainment into equipment simply increases equipment prices, he says.
However, Severson says that integrating these devices into the equipment improves the experience for the member. Watching a movie on a MP3 player is best when users hold it in their hands. For use on fitness equipment, a larger viewing screen positioned properly is a better option, he says.
Integrating this technology into the equipment also increases the infrastructure and backbone a club needs to serve all the technology — which requires a lot of bandwidth, particularly during prime time at a fitness facility, Blair says.
"If you are going to add value to the equipment, it should do what equipment was meant to do — get people fit," Blair says.
The entertainment options, Blair says, are being pushed upon users by manufacturers and technology companies.
"A lot of times the technology people don't understand what will motivate people and make them use it," says Blair, who not only is a triathlete but who also is an advisor for a company that provides users with the ability to track their workouts and offers suggestions on changing their workouts.
That's why Blair contends that more studies need to be done to find out what motivates people to work out. He theorizes that entertainment might initially get members through the doors, but to keep them there, clubs must provide data that helps exercisers track their progress and offers feedback.
"My view is that what people want is useful information," says Blair, noting that the Nike+, a partnership between Nike and Apple that uses a foot pad wirelessly connected to an Apple Nano iPod via a running shoe, caught on because it provides useful information, allows users to compare themselves to others and tracks their progress. Other companies also provide products that track an exerciser's workouts and offer feedback.
What members truly want may depend on the type of individual they are. More athletic types may want the data tracking option while new exercisers may want to zone out on entertainment options.
Whatever their motivation, members will soon see a change in their entertainment at clubs as some manufacturers work with MP3 and entertainment companies and on demand video companies to integrate a variety of new technologies into the current cardio equipment in clubs. That will come quickly with beta testing in 2007, says Gregory Florez, CEO of FitAdvisor Health Coaching Services and First Fitness Inc.
Once this happens, Florez predicts it will turn the industry upside down because clubs will begin investing in these systems rather than in the large entertainment systems they now buy for thousands of dollars. Instead, they will buy subscriptions that can connect the member at home or in the club and will respond to customers' needs and their goals and barriers.
That will not only personalize the experience for members, but it will also provide savings and an opportunity for additional revenue for club owners.
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Bringing up the Tail End
Are fitness equipment manufacturers hurrying to catch up with the technology already being used by exercisers? Yes, says Gregory Florez, CEO of FitAdvisor Health Coaching Services and First Fitness Inc. End users are buying MP3 players and bringing them into their clubs because that technology is not available there.
"Manufacturers are saying that they can't be left out of this," he says.
Guy Danhoff, director of entertainment operations at an entertainment company, agrees that many equipment manufacturers are "behind the eight ball" with their focus too much on integrating personal viewing screens into their equipment. In the meantime, entertainment companies are moving ahead with broadening the options available on personal viewing screens, he says.
"Manufacturers reacted too slowly [to new technology]," Danhoff says. "Personal viewing screens…are a very popular piece to put in a facility, but what is changing is the options that you put in it. You can't have just a straight video feed because there are other companies out there offering MP3, streaming music videos, podcasting…It's not enough to just have personal viewing screens on your equipment."
Troy Severson, marketing manager of a technology company, doesn't necessarily think manufacturers and entertainment companies are too far behind in the technology that they offer. The ability to do video on demand has been around for several years, but the technology hasn't been at the right maturity level as far as ease of putting it in place and cost for manufacturers to adapt it to fitness equipment, he says.
Most manufacturers don't have the money or sophistication to develop the technology on their own, so they must partner with technology companies, Florez says. However, fitness equipment manufacturers eventually will need to have this technology competency on their own, Severson says.
"They will need to understand information technology and how it impacts their products and product development," he says.
Brian Wilson, director of marketing for an equipment manufacturer's entertainment and services division, cautions against thinking that partnerships between equipment manufacturers and technology companies offer the complete answer to playing catch-up.
"The fitness industry is a unique industry," Wilson says. "You really have to understand that environment. So even though someone can go out and buy expertise in the technology, unless those technology people have experience providing technology in the health club environment, it is very likely that the technology won't hold up. There is tremendous value in experience in this industry."
The Problem with PVS
While the popularity of personal viewing screens (PVS) is increasing, their use isn't without problems. If not positioned properly, the screens can cause users to exercise in a biomechanically incorrect manner that causes strain on users' necks, says Brian Wilson who works for an equipment manufacturer.
The second issue is that screens that are integrated into the equipment traditionally haven't held up well in the fitness environment. Because they are integrated into the equipment, the failure of a personal viewing screen can cause the entire piece of equipment to shut down.


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VIDEO: Sounds from Day 3 of the NBA D-League Showcase
RENO, Nev. — There's only one reason why Josh Howard would be dressing in a cramped makeshift locker room, trying to work the tightness out of a balky hamstring and hoping to get a chance to run the floor in front of an audience that would might number 200 if you counted the security guards and maintenance workers.
"I'm still living my dream of playing basketball for a living," he said.
Of course, that fantasy was on a much grander scale four years ago when Howard was in the third season of a four-year contract worth $40 million.
That's when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Two years later, he tore the meniscus in the same knee. Nine months later, he tore the ACL in his right knee.
Which is how a former NBA All-Star still in the prime of his career at 30 winds up at 33 in an almost empty Reno Events Center in the NBA D-League Showcase, making $25,000 a year playing for the Austin Toros.
"I'm in this league because I've been given an opportunity to show people that I can still play basketball," Howard said. "And I'm here because I'm still having fun."
Howard admits that he "got kinda down" after tearing up his second knee and had to begin the rehabilitation process all over, but said he never thought about retirement.
"Injuries happen," he said. "It's part of the game and it's just something else that you've got to find a way to overcome. I don't have a reason to feel sorry for myself. No. Not at all."
Howard went to training camp in October with the defending Western Conference champions. But though he couldn't earn a spot on the roster, the Spurs offered him a chance to continue his comeback with their D-League affiliate. Playing in Austin allows him to be close to his children, who live a three-hour drive away in Dallas.
Though Howard was cautioned by his agent and friends that he was in for the culture shock adjustment of making bus rides instead of charter plane flights to games, trading in the Ritz-Carlton luxury of the NBA for budget accommodations and playing before in small town arenas, he claims there was no hesitation about joining D-League life.
"I'm not the typical NBA player that sits there and worries about what other people think," Howard said. "There's not an ounce of me that says any of this is beneath me. I play the game because I love it. I know there are other guys out there that might not want to do it. But to get the opportunity to play the game again after I tore my ACL a couple years ago, I had to jump at the chance. That's how I was raised my mama and my grandma — don't ever waste an opportunity."
So Howard wrote his name on the short list with Antoine Walker as the only NBA All-Stars to ever play in the D-League. He's played in nine games with the Toros, averaging 12.8 points and 4.3 rebounds and is currently nursing a hamstring injury that he suffered on Saturday.
"Before the hamstring I was running with all these 23- and 24-year-olds and keeping up," Howard said. "The positive thing from the knee injuries is that I've had most of three years of no wear and tear on my legs, so they don't have the typical mileage of a guy who's 33.
"I've been working on getting myself back into the kind of shape that I need to play in the NBA. At this point, I can't say how close I am. I've only been playing here for two months, just working into the swing of things. I'll keep being confident. It's up to the GM's in the league to pick me up to the next level."
Howard never had the long shooting range that could make him a floor spacer. The knee injuries have taken away his former explosiveness going to the rim. But he's still convinced he can play.
If he doesn't get a call-up from the NBA this season, Howard said he'll keep pushing on.
"Right now, I'm focused on the getting this team better, getting myself better and if that call-up comes, I'm taking it," he said. "If not, I'm gonna finish out the season out here. Then maybe it's the summer league, if the opportunity presents itself.
"Some people don't get one chance at the NBA. As long as I'm getting another one, I'll take it. It's a chance to keep living my dream."


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...And the Egypt Development Marketplace 2013 Grantees Are....
Almost two months ago the announcement was made about the World Bank, IFC and partners providing grants of 1.25 million via the Egypt DM. Since that announcement, many have been contacting us via various channels to find out who the actual 34 grantees are? Well here is your answer! Below please find the 34 selected grantees institutions, with links to their websites and social channels when available. They are broken down by governorate, with a very small blurb about each one. Why so little information? Well, most of these organizations speak Arabic only and therefor their information is only available in Arabic. We are working on translating all related documents, and while that takes time, we hope to have full pages on our website for each one of them later in September. We also hope to do feature stories here in our blog for some if not all the grantees, stay tuned!
Community Development Association in Al Ezzeyya: Recycling agricultural residues and animal waste into compost and high value organic fertilizers, to manage waste, decrease environment hazards, and increase productivityof the agricultural land.
Friends Association for the Disabled and Community Development at Sadfa: Improving livelihood through supporting modernization, quality management and marketing of beehives and their honey production.
Alhayah Erada for Sustainable Development: Revival of kilim/wool weaving to generate income and create employment for women of the Beni Addiat village.
Community Development Association in Badary: Hand-processing and packaging of pomegranate fruit to increase income for young girls and youth through introducing quality and marketing to new local and export markets.
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If Apple were to accompany its expected September launch of an iPhone 5 with an "iPad Mini" announcement as well, it may ignite revenue in markets such as China and Europe because a smaller tablet would be more attractive in those countries, according to an analyst.
Apple will debut its new iPhone and an iPad Mini on Sept. 12, according to iMore.com, a site devoted to Apple rumors. Shares of Apple, which did not yet return call for comment, jumped 2 percent on the report Monday.
"A smaller-sized iPad would prove beneficial to Apple by expanding the company's reach in developing countries such as China and elsewhere, while also catering to more price sensitive consumer in developed parts of the world, such as the U.S. and Europe," wrote Topeka Capital's Brian White, who has speculated Apple would make such a move for a while, in a note.
Apple got hit last week initially following its earnings report after sales missed expectations. Apple executives said on the conference call that rumors about the iPhone 5 release were hurting current sales of the iPhone 4S.
The growth figures on the iPad continue to be shocking.
Apple sold 17 million of the device last quarter, an 84 percent jump over a year ago. But the company was only able to launch the tablet officially in China last week because of a trademark dispute and reports suggest sales have not been as robust so far in the region as in other countries. A smaller device may help that.
"A 7.85-inch iPad Mini would likely prove less obtrusive during social outings and more easily tucked into a purse or jacket than a 9.7-inch iPad," said Topeka's White. Also "a smaller, more portable device would prove more suitable for younger children, while schools would appreciate the lower price point given the growing budget constraints."
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Nate Quinn '00 was an exceptional and promising young artist when he graduated from Wabash, and he's continuing his work in New York and is also working on sets for Broadway shows.
But Quinn returned this fall in a new role—as teacher and judge at the Art Department's 2003 Art Bash, which drew educators from around the state and this year attracted promising high schoolers from across the region for a juried exhibit called "Safe Haven."
Here Quinn critiques the work of one of the 39 contestants. Earlier, he joined advertising executive Tom Denari '85, architect Robbie Brundige '91, and graphic designer Chris Rozzi '90 at a panel presentation where alumni explained how art has informed their careers.


text: At 17:01 17-2-2005 -0800, Jim Lux wrote: >At 04:19 PM 2/17/2005, Jim Lux wrote: >>At 02:54 PM 2/17/2005, David Mathog wrote: >>>At Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:08:05 +0100 Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>> > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:08:05 +0100 >>> > From: Vincent Diepeveen <diep at xs4all.nl> >>> > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Academic sites: who pays for the electricity? >>> > To: "David Mathog" <mathog at mendel.bio.caltech.edu>, >>> > beowulf at beowulf.org >>> > Message-ID: <18.104.22.16850216190804.0106fcc0 at pop.xs4all.nl> >>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>> > >>> > At 08:16 16-2-2005 -0800, David Mathog wrote: >>> > >In most universities services like electricity, water, and >>> > >A/C are paid for by the school. To do so they take "overhead" >>> > >out of every grant. Partially as a consequence of this they >>> > >typically have a very poor ability to meter usage on a room >>> > >by room basis. >>> > > >>> > >Now somewhere between the 10 node Pentium II beowulf sitting on >>> > >a lab bench and the 1000 node dual P4 Xeon beowulf in a machine >>> > >room that takes up half the basement the cost of the electricity >>> > >(both for power and A/C) goes from a minor expense to a major >>> > >one. Really major. For instance, in that hypothetical large machine, >>> > >at 10 cents per kilowatt hour (a round number), assuming 100 watts >>> > >per CPU (another round number) that's: >>> > > >>> > > 1000 (nodes) * >>> > > 2 (cpus/node) * >>> > > .1 (kilowatts/cpu) * >>> > > .1 (dollars/kilowatt-hour) * >>> > > 365 (days /year) * >>> > > 24 (hours/day) = >>> > >----------------------- >>> > > 175200 dollars/year >>> > >>> > Complete academic nonsense calculation. If you use quite some electricity >>> > the electricity gets up to factor 20-40 cheaper. Getting a factor 10 >>> > reduction in usage bill is pretty easy if you negotiate properly. > >Just where do you live that such negotiations are possible. Here's some You aren't going to negotiate about a single small room with a few lightbulbs obviously. We're talking about huge usage, like if all supercomputers are located at 1 central spot and the entire institute with thousands of working places gets powered in a central way, and usually electricity offering companies aren't going to put online their rates for reduced usage, as that would give them a bad negotation starting point :) Nuclear power gets more and more exported from France to rest of Europe. For example Italy is importing 25% of its total power, majority is from France. Netherland and Germany import roughly 20% of their power. That will get more and more, simply because building electricity producing central plants can only get build for a specific amount of time (like 25 year contract) and then must get cleaned up. Obviously such rules make building your own producing central plants impossible for the electricity producing companies. I'm not taking a political viewpoint on what type of electricity is damaging more than the other and what should happen in the future in that respect. Yet closing eyes for reality is something else. More and more power gets used. Computers take a part of that power, industry majority. In USA last so many years no new nuclear plants have been built. Obviously that means that the market there is different from Europe, where the energy market seems to be more innovative than USA. Even though for certain plans i have little respect for. Like the 150 meter high windmills they want to build in Houten, just a few hundreds of meters away from newly build houses, where tens of thousands live, that is IMHO a wrong idea. Don't have the details here how big the diameter and speed of airtransport is of those mills, but obviously they can only get build because the government wastes money on them and at most kill huge number of birds who have near zero chance to survive if they are near those mills. Yet it's another innovation in Europe. The energy market is one of the most complex financial markets and not only because politicians prefer to close their eyes for its problems. Another major problem is who owns what in europe. Is the government again going to own the transport infrastructure or can independant transport companies keep doing the job? There is difference between energy producers and energy consumer delivering companies and so on. Yet a washing machine eats thousands of watts and nearly everybody has one at home in Europe. Certain products we daily use and just throw away get produced by throwing tens of thousands of watts into battle in heavy industry. So complaining about energy usage of computers is a good thing, but shouldn't get overreacted. >real numbers from Southern California Edison. >http://www.sce.com/CustomerService/RateInformation/BusinessRates/LargeBusin ess/ > >First off, you're looking at a 200kW load for 1000 nodes, which is a hefty >load, just for the computers (not counting lights, HVAC, etc.) But, no >matter, we'll assume your facility is sucking at least 500kW some of the >time, so that would put you in the large business TOU-8 tariff. >http://www.sce.com/NR/sc3/tm2/pdf/ce54-12.pdf > All the large consumer tariffs are time-of-use sensitive. I assume you >wouldn't want some sort of "Critical Peak Pricing Options" or "Demand >Bidding Programs" > >Let's assume you're being served at 240V (as opposed to having your own >distribution transformers, etc., although as a 200kW consumer, that's >something you should consider). > >Looks like the rates break down as about 0.016/kWh for the delivery, and >the actual power (generation) runs somewhere between 0.04/kWh (off peak >summer) to 0.12/kWh on peak summer. > >There's also a raft of other charges (metering, demand (runs about $10/kW >of instantaneous demand), power factor, etc.) > >Compare this to Domestic service.. where the rates run from 0.11 to >0.18/kWh, depending on where you sit relative to baseline, season, etc. >(I'll also point out that I was paying SCE $0.26/kWh at home in the summer >of 2001, but rates are lower now.) Now, you might consider Residential to >be artificially constrained for political reasons, so we take a look at >GS-1 (general service..) >Here, we have 0.07 for delivery and 0.085 (totalling 0.155/kWh) during the >summer. > >The point is, there isn't a 10:1 ratio... not even close. And, rgb's >ballpark of $0.10/kWh is a perfectly reasonable estimate, if a bit low for >Southern California. Even as far back as 1990,on peak, large customers were >paying on the order of $0.11/kWh. > >It is possible that if you were buying power directly (which is possible, >as a large end user), you can pay "market rate" for each kWh you >consume. The price is quite volatile, though... At the peak of the market >failure a few years back, a kWh on the open market was something like $20 >during peak times. I doubt you want to schedule your cluster ops to take >advantage of electricity rate fluctuations. > > >>>Well, it isn't complete nonsense, unless you care to dispute the >>>number of days in a year, hours in a day, or cpus in a dual node >>>computer! >>> >>>The only term you're complaining about is the price of >>>electricity. I'm not privy to the electrical rates that our >>>school pays, they may well be an order of magnitude lower. My >>>home rates certainly aren't, but then, I don't buy as much >>>power as the campus. It's also not at all clear that the >>>campus would sell power to the end users at the same rate >>>which it pays the utility. > >CalTech probably buys their power from City of Pasadena, but it's probably >similar in rate structure to SCE's TOU-8. Home rates are somewhat >artificially low for political reasons. The folks really getting the short >end of the stick are small businesses who don't have the negotiating power >that a large business does, nor the political clout of elderly pensioners >dying from heat. > > >I'll also note that if you start paying for kWh, you're going to want to >give serious consideration to buying more nodes than you strictly need, and >shutting down the cluster during on-peak times. A typical pricing strategy >might be 0.15/0.07/0.05 (on/mid/off peak): Peak lasts 6 hrs (1200-1800), >mid is 0800-1200,1800-2300, and offpeak is the rest. There's 93 hours of >offpeak time out of 168 total in the week > >For the pricing and schedules above, it turns out that the optimum is to >shut down only during peak, but run during midpeak, for an average energy >cost of 0.056/kWh, but using 22% more computers. > > > >James Lux, P.E. >Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group >Flight Communications Systems Section >Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 >4800 Oak Grove Drive >Pasadena CA 91109 >tel: (818)354-2075 >fax: (818)393-6875 > > >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >


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You speak for everyone?BurningBeard wrote:Don't worry, everyone had you tagged as someone suffering a genetic birth defect long ago.The Brown Knight wrote:I love women but every now and then, I get in the mood to be in the presence of a well groomed black man with a nicely trimmed goatee, with an adequately large shoe size, that completely blows me away and tickles my fancy so to speak.
I am interested to see if "everyone" truly feels this way.
My suggestion to you is to create a poll on this forum and pose the question (i.e. "In your opinion, has The Brown Knight suffered a genetic birth defect long ago?").
I am willing to bet BIG MONEY that if you created said poll, most people would perceive me as an intellectual savant as opposed to a QUOTE UNQUOTE "having suffered a genetic birth defect long ago." Their votes would be reflective of this and in the end, you would have egg on your face.


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The first Spanish-speaking settlers came to New Mexico at the end of the 16th century, when King Phillip II of Spain turned his sights northward from Mexico. Don Juan de Oñate led an expedition of colonists and Franciscan friars to settle the new land. Most of the colonists were from Spain, or were Spaniards born in Mexico, and they brought with them a blend of Spanish and Spanish-Mexican culture. In late fall 1598, after a six-month journey, the caravan reached the confluence of the Rio Grande and the Chama River. Here they established the first, temporary, capital of the Province of New Mexico near San Juan Pueblo.
Isolated from government centers in Mexico, the colonists had to be self-sufficient, raising all their own food and making their own clothing. They adapted some of the farming methods they had known in Spain or Mexico and learned new techniques from the Pueblo Indians. They worked together to build and maintain irrigation ditches, harvest crops, and build houses. They fought off attacks by Apache and Comanche Indians. They held fast to their beliefs in their patron saints, and they assembled often for prayer and celebration. The cohesive economic and social system they created served them well for two and a half centuries.
In the 19th century, as settlement began to expand beyond the valleys of the Rio Grande, this traditional culture was challenged by new influences. Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821. The Santa Fe Trail brought Anglo-American traders and merchants, some of whom settled permanently in New Mexico and married into Spanish-speaking families. In 1846, New Mexico became part of the United States. Trade with the east brought new products and information on current fashions. Local Hispano society took advantage of some of these changes and resisted others. On the small subsistence farms, or ranchos, in the valleys of Northern New Mexico, it is still possible to find tangible evidence of both how the Hispanos, as the early Spanish settlers of New Mexico and their descendants are called, maintained their traditional culture and how they adapted to change.


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Last post May 01, 2012 11:48 AM by bbcompent1
May 01, 2012 10:33 AM|breath2k|LINK
I installed the latest version of this to be used with VS 11 Beta (and it says its compatible) but it doesn't appear in the Source Control plugin dropdown, any ideas why?
May 01, 2012 10:56 AM|bbcompent1|LINK
Because AnkhSVN doesn't support VS 11 beta. Submit a ticket with the makers of AnhkSVN to add support of it. It supports up to vs 2010 at this point.
May 01, 2012 10:58 AM|breath2k|LINK
It certainly claims to on the site, I also looked in VS Web 2010 Express and still couldn't find it though.
May 01, 2012 10:58 AM|bbcompent1|LINK
Seems like AnkhSVN 2.3 will support it apparently, according to this link here: http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=154
Maybe you were using an older version?
May 01, 2012 11:00 AM|bbcompent1|LINK
Ok, I think I see what you have going on... to enable AnkhSVN as the source control, do the following steps:
Tools > options > Check "Show all settings" > Source Control > Select AnhkSVN - Subversion SUpport for Visual studio
May 01, 2012 11:06 AM|breath2k|LINK
I installed the latest one, but I will try and download and install again to be sure.
That's what I'm trying to do but it doesn't appear under source control or in the Plug-In Selection area. VS 2010 doesn't even seem to have Source Control in settings (All Settings is ticked).
May 01, 2012 11:28 AM|bbcompent1|LINK
So source control option isnt even there? Is this VS2010 express because I know that probably doesn't allow add-ins.
May 01, 2012 11:37 AM|breath2k|LINK
It is VS 2010 Express, I figured that's why it wasn't there but I was also aware the option doesn't appear unless you have a valid SVN installed.
It's also why I tried VS 11 Beta because it said it worked with it but I can't get it to appear despite re-installing.
May 01, 2012 11:48 AM|bbcompent1|LINK
I have found some odd behaviors in the 11 beta. For example, it can hose up VS 2010s ability to use the query designer. I suspect that the beta might take existing installed options and use them unless it is a virgin installation on a plain machine. You might try this beta again but this time on a VM that is dedicated to only that task.


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Jen Hirsh Wants to Be Your 'One and Only' On 'American Idol'
While last night may have belonged to the men, tonight it was time for the ladies on 'American Idol' to answer back — and Jen Hirsh did. While at first we were skeptical of the California babe with a Jersey Shore tan, she won us over with her song of choice: 'One and Only' by Adele. Hirsh started off strong and pulled off a performance that was almost flawless.
The judges bobbed their heads in unanimous approval as she both hit and missed some notes. It was towards the end of the song that Hirsh began to sound a little shaky. The breakdown is where we really wanted her to shine, and that's where she seemed to fall flat. Steven Tyler even mentioned this when they cut to the judges panel but asserted that despite this, there was "something about her confidence that made her voice fly."
Jennifer Lopez called her the first person of the night to "come out and let loose a little bit." She noted that even though Hirsh did not hit every high note, she went for it and you could "feel the feeling in the song." Randy Jackson complimented her swag and R&B style and went as far to call her one of the greatest singers in the competition. While we were digging her obvious connection to the music, we're yet to be as convinced that Hirsh will be the 'One and Only' standing at the end of the competition.
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Since this is my first post on the IE Blog, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Kelly Ford and I'm part of the test team responsible for testing the user experience in IE. I also head up our accessibility testing efforts.
Today I wanted to talk about three aspects of accessibility as they relate to IE and Windows in general. First is access to the Windows OS for individuals with disabilities, second are a couple of hints for users of screen readers using IE in XPSP2 and finally is a request for feedback to help guide our development in IE7 and beyond.
Accessibility Starting Points
Some blog readers may already be familiar with the wide range of technologies and issues around software accessibility. For those that are not I wanted to provide a few starting points to learn more. Whether you are an individual with a disability, know someone who has a disability or accessibility isn't something you have much experience with, there are many resources available. The key point is that the computer and web can open doors to people of many different abilities. Through accessibility features in Windows or a category of software known as assistive technology, people with mild to severe impairments can find software and hardware solutions to help in getting access to the computer and web. Some resources to learn more about this topic are:
Microsoft Accessibility Home – http://www.microsoft.com/enable
Assistive Technology Industry Association – http://www.atia.org
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative – http://www.w3.org/wai
MSDN Accessibility Resources - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/accessibility.asp
Hints for Users of Screen Readers with IE in Windows XPSP2
For those unfamiliar with screen reading technology, a screen reader is an application that is used by individuals who are blind to access the computer. Text appearing on the screen is verbalized and optionally displayed in Braille with the appropriate hardware. Inside of IE, screen readers use a combination of Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and the document object model to present a screen reader friendly view of web pages. Briefly, items such as tables are presented in a more linear fashion, structural information such as which text is a link, a heading, alternative text for a graphic or part of a list is inserted, and a general overview about web pages such as the number of links, form elements and alike is provided. There is much more that today's screen readers do inside IE and if blog readers want more details around this technology let me know.
In monitoring feedback around screen readers and IE with XPSP2, I've noticed a couple of recurring issues for which I wanted to offer screen reading users hints.
Accessing the Information Bar
The switch from dialogs to the Information Bar for things such as automatic file downloads, ActiveX installs and related notifications was one of the larger user experience changes introduced in IE for Windows XPSP2. Although we offer a first time alert dialog notifying users of this change and detail how to use the Information Bar in help, I've seen many screen reading users ask about the Information Bar on various discussion forums. The most important question deals with how to get access to the bar with the keyboard. The hotkey for setting focus to the Information Bar is alt+n. You can then press space to receive a menu of choices related to the notification being displayed. The Escape key will close the Information Bar.
If you prefer notifications about blocked activities through dialogs, you can revert to this behavior by turning off Information Bar notifications for certain activities. The help under Internet Explorer's Information Bar has full details on the procedures for making these changes. That said we recommend leaving the Information Bar on and using alt+n to access the Information Bar with the keyboard when it appears.
Pop-Up Blocking and Screen Readers
IE's pop-up blocking technology attempts to allow a class of pop-ups that we consider "user initiated". Briefly this means that if the pop-up is the result of pressing Enter or clicking on a link, IE will generally allow the pop-up.
As mentioned earlier, inside IE most screen readers present a modified view of web pages by default. One result of this is that when in this modified view, even though you may be pressing Enter to activate a link, the link itself is being activated through one of several programmatic methods. In some instances you may find that you press Enter on a link and the result is still a blocked pop-up. In such cases you can use a feature common to most screen readers and typically known as Pass Key Through or some variation on this name. Using your screen reader's hot key for this feature and then pressing Enter on the link you want to activate will send the standard Enter key to IE. In most cases if the pop-up should be allowed by IE's pop-up blocker after this, the new window will open.
Accessibility in IE7 and Beyond
Accessibility is something Microsoft, the IE team and I take very seriously. We want to continue building software that can be accessed by everyone as well as ensure that the wide range of assistive technology products for Windows and IE work well with what we develop. We'd like your feedback on what's working well for you today, where you'd like us to improve and in general hear your thoughts around accessibility and Internet Explorer. We look forward to your thoughts on the topic of accessibility and Internet Explorer here on IE's blog.


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VIDEO: Bulls Proposal
ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — Benny The Bull, the mascot in Chicago, has historically been one of the NBA's best mascots. So during last night's TNT game, when Benny sat a Bulls dancer in a chair at halfcourt, she appeared to have no idea what was happening but she went with it because, well, what else are you going to do?
What she obviously didn't expect? For her boyfriend to pop out of the Inflatable Benny costume and propose at midcourt. She said yes, by the way, despite (as Reggie Miller points out) her fiance putting the ring on the wrong hand.
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Cancer is a political problem more than it is a medical problem.
"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food," said Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications. "Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job."
"What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day." - Dr. Herbert Ley, Former FDA Commissioner
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By Ed Harris
A local woman is collecting candy for St. Jude's Hospital.
Allyson Genovese began the St. Jude's Candy Drive several years ago after learning that her stepdaughter's mother, who works at St. Jude, would bring in Halloween candy for the kids at the hospital. The first year Genovese was able to collect 70 bags of candy and offered it to the hospital.
"I was told that I was the answer to their prayers and they held a Halloween party for the children," Genovese said.
Last year Genovese was able to collect 400 bags of candy, which made shipping an issue. Genovese said the cost of shipping the candy was quoted at $500. For a bit she had partnered with a local company that covered half the costs, but the business has since closed.
Now Genovese, a WBFF pro, is hosting a charity fitness class on Saturday, Oct. 12, at a place to be determined. The cost for the class is $20 and the money raised will be used for shipping purposes. Any money raised beyond the shipping costs will also be donated to St. Judes.
Those interested in donating can drop off the candy at several area businesses. These include, Villari's Martial Arts Center, 405 Queen St., Just Results Weight Loss Center, 123 Whiting St., Plainville, Lavender Fields Day Spa, 175 New Britain Ave., Plainivlle, Professional Financial Group, 51 North Main Street, Suite 2A, Yankee Harley Davidson, 488 Farmington Ave., Bristol, Hot Tans, 855 Queen St., Studio 7 Styling Salon, 360 North Main St., suite 11, Praline's Café, 50 Center Street, American Gymanstics, 1280 Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike and Catalyst Health & Fitness, 100 Main St., North Southbury.
The only guidelines for the candy are no peanut candy and no loose candy, such as candy corn. The donation deadline is Friday, Oct. 18.
Local woman collecting candy for St. Jude's Hospital
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text: On Thu, 13 May 2004, Daniel Fernandez wrote: > Hi, > > We're studying the possibility of installing a 64 bit testing node. > > The main purpose is about getting impressions related to the performance > increase we would obtain in our particular scenario, computational fluid > dynamics. > > In order to do the test, we have no doubt about the OS: Red Hat > Enterprise 3, but we are a bit confused about the harware of choice: > > Athlon64 > Opteron > > As far as we know, Opteron has two main differences: > > - A wider memory interface (128 bit in front of 64) > - A larger L2 cache memory (1 Mb) > > Before doing any test, the questions are: > > 1) > > Which is the theoretical maximum performance gain using full 64 bit > architecture in front of 32 bit, taking into account that our > computations are done in double precision floating point using really > big matrices? I don't know what theoretical maximum gain means -- something with multiplying out clocks, pipeline form factors, datapath widths, and assuming perfect state? Never happens, more or less useless number. I do have a moderate amount of faith in what process-specific microbenchmarks like stream and lmbench tell one (not as much as one might think, but some useful data points). I also have a LOT of faith in using your own application as a benchmark on a loaner machine (or machines). So much so that this is one of the points of focus of my next couple of Cluster World columns -- the importance of understanding your application and the deep significance of "YMMV" when asking other people what to buy. If stream or stream-like microbenchmarks would be of any use to you, I have Opterons but not Athlon64's handy. Maybe somebody else can do the other for you. Remember, though, that even these results may vary significantly with compiler, with link libraries, with WHICH Opteron motherboard you get and how memory is loaded onto the motherboard. It is very, very difficult to get portable numbers without a prototyping machine that is "like" the architecture you are considering in very specific form (ideally, identical). > 2) > > Is it nowadays the 64 bit solution using Linux ready for production? > If this is the case, which problems may we have to deal with in order to > compile and run our code in a full 64 bit environment? I'm using dual Opterons (Penguin Altus 1000E's) running Fedora right now without any major problems. Your two problems are likely to be rebuilding things that aren't for some reason in the Fedora core and already built for the Opteron. So far I haven't encountered any major problems compiling gcc-based code linked to the GSL and other useful/standard libraries. YMMV, but a lot of people have these boxes now and together they form a powerful force pushing for full and clean distros, so even if you find something that doesn't work it likely WILL work and at worst you might have to help make it work in the best of open source tradition, if it is in your key work pathway. We're likely to buy nothing else for cluster nodes in the medium run. So far they are by far the cost-benefit winner. > 3) > > Which is the most mature solution: AMD Opteron or Intel Itanium? Did you mean mature or moribund;-)? I'm only half kidding. Itanium is dead as a doornail as technology goes -- overpriced, underperforming, incompatible. Intel is migrating to a (more or less) Opteron compatible 64 bit processor as fast as they can get there, as Major Software Companies (MSC) have announced that they aren't going to do major ports to new chips with new machine languages and compilers anymore if they can possibly avoid it. If Intel dropped the price of an Itanium to slightly LESS than that of an Opteron, I think they'd still have trouble maintaining a market, because Opterons are relatively easy to port to and will in principle run i386 code (badly, of course) native. Sometimes. I haven't had a lot of luck with it, of course, because you can't mix i386 code and 64 bit DLLs and we installed a 64 bit version of the OS from the start, but theoretically it will work. The good news is that Opterons are surprisingly fast for MY applications for their relatively pokey CPU clocks, and some benchmarks show that they can be really quite fast indeed for memory intensive applications relative to e.g. an Athlon or P4 clock. They also run much cooler than regular Athlons (again for my application). I draw ballpark of 185 watts loaded (dual CPU Opteron) vs 230 Watts or so loaded (dual CPU Athlon) running more or less the same code. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Annual to bamboo-like; roots generally fibrous
Stem generally round, hollow; nodes swollen, solid
Leaves alternate, 2-ranked, generally linear; sheath generally open; ligule membranous or hairy, at blade base
Inflorescence various (of generally many spikelets)
Spikelet: glumes generally 2; florets (lemma, palea, flower) 1many; lemma generally membranous, sometimes glume-like; palea generally ± transparent, ± enclosed by lemma
Flower generally bisexual, minute; stamens generally 3; stigmas generally 2, generally plumose
Fruit: achene-like grain
Genera in family: 650900 genera; ± 10,000 species: worldwide; greatest economic importance of any family (wheat, rice, maize, millet, sorghum, sugar cane, forage crops, ornamental, weeds; thatching, weaving, building materials)
Reference: [Hitchcock 1951 Manual grasses US, USDA Misc Publ 200; Clayton & Renvoise 1986 Kew Bull Add Series 13]
See Glossary p. 26 for illustrations of general family characteristics. Generally wind-pollinated.
Perennial, generally from rhizomes
Stems 115 dm, generally not branched, ± smooth; nodes generally 24
Leaves generally basal and cauline; sheath smooth or scabrous; ligule membranous; blade flat to inrolled
Inflorescence panicle-like, open to dense; branches ± drooping to appressed; spikelets ascending to appressed
Spikelet: glumes subequal, generally lanceolate, acute to acuminate, lower generally 1-veined, upper 3-veined; floret 1, breaking above glumes; axis prolonged beyond floret, hairy; callus hairy; lemma < glumes, awned from below middle to near base, tip generally 4-toothed, veins 35, awn straight to twisted, bent; palea ± = lemma, thin
Species in genus: ± 100 species: cool temp (especially moist montane); some forage value
Etymology: (Greek: reed grass)
Reference: [Greene 1980 Ph.D. Thesis Harvard University]
Hybridization, polyploidy, and asexual seed set contribute to taxonomic difficulty.
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stems 36 dm, tufted; nodes 23
Leaves generally basal; ligule 56 mm; blade ± = stem, 12 mm wide, inrolled, upper surface scabrous
Inflorescence 512 cm, dense, narrow; lower branches < 3.5 cm, ascending to appressed
Spikelet: glumes 810 mm, scabrous; axis ± 4 mm, hairs < 3 mm; callus hairs 23 mm; lemma 57 mm, awned near base; awn exserted 5+ mm beyond glume tips, bent, twisted
Chromosomes: 2n=28
Ecology: UNCOMMON. Bluffs, cliffs, coastal scrub, forest
Elevation: < 1200 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, Outer North Coast Ranges
Horticultural information: DRN, IRR: 7, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 &SUN: 4, 5, 15, 16, 17, 24.


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I have routine every month… I buy every magazine that has a decent beauty section. This usually includes Lucky, Shop ETC, InStyle and Allure. Then I flip through the pages and make mental notes of all the things I thought were interesting. This month, I was looking at the cover of Marie Claire and it mentioned it's beauty special on the cover. A 100 page beauty section? I'm in.
I started flipping through the magazine and then I realized that most of this was fluff. They even highlighted some products that were pretty old, at least one could be pretty hard to find since it may be sold out. About half of the section was advertising. I'm not naive enough to think that advertising wouldn't be in the picture, but out of the 58 pages of advertising, 27 pages of ads were all in a row… I actually sat there and counted them. I think I remember why I stopped buying that magazine, I think I'm out now.
On the other hand, Allure is pretty good this month. I've started to become a little dissapointed with Allure lately, especially after the inaccuracies on their beauty blogs article a few issues back but this month's issue was very interesting. It's their Best of Beauty issue so there were tons of products mentioned but it also has some "Beauty 101" tips and an article on perfumers. This issue was more enjoyable for me than some of their recent issues and it was about time.
Do you read Marie Claire? I love Carrie Bradshaw as much as the next person but this was a huge dissapointment. I didn't even read the rest of the magazine.


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