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I can delay no longer. The years' least sought after award, which appears on no CVs and is roundly ignored by those in power, is now upon us.
Double Act of the Year has undoubtedly been Lord Justice Leveson and Robert Jay QC. Whilst his Lordship has scowled over proceedings at his inquiry, Robert Jay has been engaged in singlehandedly rescuing the English language. His verbal barrage, which included "nugatory", "condign", "propinquity" and "occlude", left many of us, including witnesses, wondering what the hell he was going on about, but my word it sounded good.
The onward march of social media has continued this year, leaving in its wake the mainstream which too often seems outdated and sluggish. My Blog of the Year is Alastair Campbell's, which combines sharp political analysis with piercing wit. Like him or loathe him, PR has not had a performer of his stature since he left government ten years ago.
A very personal choice for New Media Source of the Year is the Anfield Wrap ("If you're Red get on it!"), a podcast which involves half a dozen Scousers sitting around talking about football, in the process providing a welcome antidote to the lynch-mob mentality of the average 606 caller. How I long to be in the studio with them.
Whilst history might not repeat itself, it certainly echoes. The imprisoning of Pussy Riot in Russia brought to mind the White Rose students in Nazi Germany without, hopefully, the same horrific denouement. That four young women were able to bring such a heavy-handed response from Putin's government demonstrates that it is often the fire of youth which politicians must fear the most.
My Communicator of the Year is actually a former client of mine. Siemens' Juergen Maier, in his many appearances on Channel 4 News, has been succinctly doing the Treasury's job for it, namely talking up the economy, putting over the case for manufacturing and extolling the virtues of state intervention via a National Investment Bank. One senses he is destined for bigger things, bigger even than Siemens.
Norbert Walter-Borjans, finance minister of North Rhine Westphalia, also deserves a quick mention. He has led the way on tax evasion by buying bootleg CDs full of the names of German evaders, simultaneously bringing Swiss German relations to historic lows. Keep up the good work Norbert.
My film director of the year is Danny Boyle. I didn't (and couldn't) sit through all of the Olympic opening ceremony, but his homage to the National Health Service, at a time when it is under siege from our leaders, discomforted the Government and provided a cultural highlight.
Whilst this is an individual award, a number of organisations deserve special mention this year. The Hillsborough Independent Panel overturned 23 years of injustice with a forensic analysis of events which led to the deaths of 96 football fans, whilst USADA, the US anti-doping agency, deserves great credit for uncovering the wrong-doing of a whole generation of elite cyclists.
On the subject of Hillsborough, outside of the families and campaigners, two individuals deserve special praise. It's been a bad year for BBC Newsnight but Kirsty Wark's interview with the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police on the day the report was released was a tour-de-force performance, which simultaneously combined barely concealed rage with direct and at times blunt questioning.
The Prime Minister also deserves praise. The word is that he was genuinely shocked by the contents of the Independent Panel's report, in particular the alcohol testing of the dead bodies of children. His response in the House of Commons, along with his apology for the murder of Irish solicitor Pat Finucane, demonstrated that when he does not allow the "red mists" to come down or play too hard to the cameras, he can come across as a sincere man of great integrity.
Two women have stood out this year for their dignity in the face of unimaginable traumas inflicted upon their families. Both lost sons and then had to endure years of foot dragging, mendacity and falsehoods on the part of the police and other authorities. Both have continued to believe that justice was possible and this year achieved their long held goals.
My Women of the Year are Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen Lawrence and Anne Williams, mother of Kevin Williams, one of the 96 who died at Hillsborough.
It falls to me wish all readers of this blog a happy Christmas, this blog will return in the New Year.


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MERCURY with diamond solitaire setting.
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Product information
Diamond(s): The 4Cs - Quality of a diamond
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- Carat: 0.70
- Color: E (River) Exceptional White
- Clarity: VVS2
- Cut: Very Good
- Polish: Excellent
- Symmetry: Very Good
- Certificate: GIA-Certificate
- Model: Mercury
- Type: White Gold
- Karat: 18k.
- Weight: 3,20 g.
- Size: 53*
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When the industrial washing machine is used for a period of time or because of other factors, the internal cylinder (bile) will be leaking problem. The problem of leakage directly caused by the failure of the machine is not normal use, false in time may also cause the expansion of leaks and serious problems of rust. What should we do when the inner cylinder of an industrial washer leaks?
Industrial washing machine inner tube leaking
First of all, we should find the leakage point of the inner cylinder of the industrial washing machine, and observe the actual leakage, and confirm that it is caused by welding or other reasons. For the leakage of light or not serious removal of the first use of the sealant under the plastic treatment, if it can solve the best, the need for welding treatment.
For industrial washing machine of the internal cylinder of the welding, because of its material is stainless steel, so in the electrode selection we go to choose stainless Steel electrode, at the same time should entrust professional welder welding treatment, so as to avoid welding bad or welding is not secure, the interval time welding place and the problem of off welding. At the same time in the welding time should consider the convenience of the operation, to see whether the counterweight will be removed, or the internal bile removed, in order to avoid the deviation. And we should also observe the actual situation of the rupture, the choice is from the outside or the internal welding. And before welding should be done to clean up work to prevent welding is not strict.
In general, the industrial washing machine inside the tube leakage point is quite a lot, but the causes are mostly caused by welding or rupture. The actual solution is through the glass glue or the welding process, it can not solve the problem can also contact manufacturers to purchase the cylinder to replace the whole cylinder, or the machine back to the plant processing and commissioned by professional technicians to deal with.


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Daikin Air Conditioning Units
Daikin is a leading designer and manufacturer of quality air conditioning solutions, who work through approved distributors and dealers. D-MEC Services have been providing cost effective Daikin energy efficient climate control solutions for over 18 years. As a Daikin D1+ installer we are able to supply Daikin air conditioning units at competitive prices, along with a 5 year manufacturers warranty.
As a Daikin D1+ Partner we promise:
- 5 year warranty
- To beat any 'like for like' quotation
- Free site survey
- Comprehensive design solutions from a single room to a complete building
- No job too small
- Installation by qualified engineers
- Comprehensive service and maintenance packages
- CRB checked and approved
- Extremely competitive prices
- Easy pay options available
What is the D1+ Partnership?
The D1+ Partner Network recognises D-Mec Services as highly skilled suppliers and of Daikin Air Conditioning, who provide many advantages to the customers they serve. These advantages are listed below and play a vital role in understanding why you should choose a Daikin air conditioning system for your premises and a D1+ Partner to install and commission it.
Why choose a D1+ Partner for your new air conditioning system?
- Established partners with the full support of Daikin UK.
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- Many D1+ Partners offer full service and maintenance.
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- Access to tools and knowledge from Daikin UK for the most up to date product applications.
- Sensitive to the needs of business, avoiding disruption for customers and their customers.
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Core Basic Energy Sciences Catalysis Program:
Low-Temperature Catalytic Routes for Energy Carriers via Spatial and Chemical Organization
PI - Johannes Lercher
Co-PIs - Aaron Appel, Tom Autrey, David Baker (University of Washington), Garry Buchko, R. Morris Bullock, Donald M. Camaioni, Mirek Derewinski, David Dixon (University of Alabama), Zdenek Dohnálek, Bojana Ginovska, Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, Oliver Y. Gutierrez, David Heldebrant, Enrique Iglesia (University of California, Berkeley), Abhi Karkamkar, Bruce Kay, Gregory Kimmel, John Linehan, Donghai Mei, Roger Rousseau, Gregory Schenter, Wendy Shaw, Janos Szanyi, Yong Wang (Washington State University), Eric Wiedner
The program has been restructured and focuses on the elementary reactions of the reduction of oxygenates to hydrocarbon energy carriers (Figure 1). The two thrusts focus on the elementary steps of hydrogenation reactions of CO2 and more complex (unsaturated) oxygenates (i.e., alcohols, ethers) catalyzed by metals (hydrogen addition, hydrogenolysis) and acid-catalyzed reactions such as the elimination of water, hydrolysis of ether bonds, and alkylation of aromatic compounds. Our strategy is to explore and understand the molecular and atomistic pathways of selected reactions on catalysts spanning from single-crystal surfaces via dispersed, supported catalysts to molecular complexes. The fundamental understanding of the elemental steps of reaction sequences enables the emerging knowledge-based design of novel catalysts that operate at lower temperatures and with higher rates than practiced today.
We are making rapid progress on our research objectives using an integrated approach enabled by the synergy within our multidisciplinary team focusing on three crosscutting research themes that are common to many of the research activities:
- Multifunctional catalytic sites or catalytic sites acting in concert
- Spatially constrained, chemospecific environments of active centers
- Use of the condensed phase to stabilize reactants, intermediates, and products for particular catalytic pathways.
Thrust 1: Catalytic Conversion of Polar Molecules
- Multifunctional Solid Catalysts for Lignin to Hydrocarbons – Understanding and Controlling Scalable Catalytic Routes in Aqueous Phase
- Fundamentals of Acid/Base and Redox Reactions on Metal Oxide Catalysts
Thrust 2: Reductive Conversion of CO2
- Designing Molecular Catalysts Using an Energy-Based Approach
- Thermodynamic Linear Scaling Relationships to Optimize Catalytic Reactions in Molecular Complexes
- Modulating Catalysts with an Enzyme-Like Outer Coordination Sphere
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In traditional weddings, a tallit has often been used for the wedding chuppah. The hand painted tallit created at the Artist's Studio is oversized and particularly well-suited as a wedding chuppah. All ranges of colors can be chosen, and in one wedding flowers and vines were used instead of stripes. One tallit featured painted rainbows and clouds because the couple became engaged in a hot air balloon.
In the Sephardic tradition, the tallit is wrapped around the bride and groom during the ceremony, a beautiful practice which many modern couples are adopting. The tallit can also be worked to coordinate with the chuppah's colors and symbols.
The Artist's Studio has also made smaller examples for B'nai Mitzvot, and young boys and girls are excited to have some design input that makes their ceremonies much more personal.


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The Fish Picture
November 27, 2013 2 Comments
By Lefty Kreh and TFO
The fish photo is often a visual reward for that long planned trip and hard earned catch. But, in all of the excitement of hooking and landing a fish, anglers often forget that a sudden jerk out of the water and a tight grip can harm the fish.
Even the angle at which a fish is held can impact its chances of survival.
The most common catch photo is of the angler holding the fish with one hand in a vertical angle. This pose is most popular with largemouth and smallmouth bass anglers; however, toothy fish have often bared the brunt of this "dangling" pose. Whether held by the lip or the bottom of the tail (permit anglers we're looking at you!) dangling a fish by either end can cause severe internal injuries. Popular among salmon and steelhead anglers is the "digging in" pose. The fish is held with the head at a downward angle and tail end pointing up. Poses like this can be especially damming, as internal damage can result. Similar to deer and humans, a fish's organs are contained in a thin sac. When held vertically or at odd angles, gravity can cause the weight of their organs to fatally tear though the thin lining. Don't handle the fish if possible. The best scenario is to bring the fish close, but, while still in the water remove the fly or lure.
Some states even have strict regulations against lifting fish out of the water to be photographed. So, before hoisting that fish out of the water for a photo, check the regulations, or else that toothy smile may turn into a frown.


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Medical research: Clones of Dolly the sheep age well
Nature Communications
Cloned sheep, which are created by a technique called somatic-nuclear cell transfer, age normally, suggests a study published in Nature Communications. The analysis of 13 aged cloned sheep, including four created from the same genetic material as the first cloned animal, Dolly the sheep, represents the first long-term study of the health effects of cloning in a large animal.
Dolly the sheep, who was born 20 years ago (in July 1996), died at a comparatively young age of 6.5 years, having suffered from osteoarthritis. This outcome has raised concerns that cloned animals may age more quickly, or less healthily, than normal offspring.
Kevin Sinclair and colleagues studied 13 cloned sheep between 7 and 9 years of age. Four of the animals were cloned using nuclei from the same mammary-gland cell line as Dolly, so are effectively clones (or genomic copies) of Dolly. The authors performed musculoskeletal assessments, metabolic tests and blood pressure measurements, as well as radiological examinations of all main joints in the cloned sheep and compared them to control sheep (5 and 6 years old). All cloned sheep are still alive and healthy, showing only mild or, in one case, moderate osteoarthritis. The animals also show no signs of metabolic diseases, and have normal blood pressure.
Although the authors could not compare the cloned sheep with normal animals of exactly the same breed and age, and did not measure molecular markers associated with ageing, the study provides the strongest evidence yet that large cloned animals age normally. These findings provide important information about the safety of cloning and its long-term effects on animal health.


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Participate in a religious service, pray, read or engage in quiet reflection in one of two peaceful, nondenominational Owensboro Health chapels.
You'll find the Owensboro Health Regional Hospital Mercy Chapel of Hope on the first floor, to the right of the main entrance. Head down the hall and turn right at the Starbucks.
A priest celebrates Mass at this chapel at 12:02 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, as well as Friday. If you're a hospital employee, check extra+ for a schedule of seasonal services. The chapel is open 24/7, so you can visit any time you need to.
To get to the chapel at Healthpark, our medical fitness center, turn right after entering the building and head through the double doors. Take advantage of this chapel during Healthpark hours.
Pastoral Care is here for you 24 hours a day when you need encouragement, hope or just someone to listen. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 270-417-2100.
Reserve a chapel for your special service if you're an Owensboro Health patient or employee. Call 270-417-2100 to reserve the Mercy Chapel of Hope or 270-688-5433 to reserve the Healthpark chapel.
If you would like to speak to one of our Pastoral Care specialists, please call 270-417-2100. During the nights/weekends, please call 270-417-2000.


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House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two….he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on and on….
Should we buy them larger screen computers – or – a ticket home, permanently?
This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year).


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The alarm is blaring.
You wake up. You brush your teeth. You wish you had time to workout, but you never wake up early enough. You take a quick shower, grab a cup of coffee, a granola bar, and you're off to the office.
You spend an hour on your commute, dealing with traffic and construction and mindless talk radio. You're already dreading the day.
You get to the office and watch the world pass you by. You act cordially with your co-workers. You almost fall asleep in a meeting, but somehow keep yourself awake.
The day is crawling by and you're bored out of your mind. You have some work to do, but it's not important, and will only take you about an hour of effort.
You browse social media on your phone, as you wait for the minutes to pass.
Its finally time to head home. You have another hour of rush hour traffic to look forward to.
You get home and think that maybe you should try to work on that project you've been thinking about for weeks. You don't. Instead you order a pizza and watch the latest episode of [insert the current hit show on HBO or Showtime].
It's getting late now and you're in a full on food coma. You probably shouldn't have had that whole pizza. You wonder how your life reached this point.
You think tomorrow will be better. You'll wake up early, you'll workout, you'll get your work done, and you'll finally start that project.
Feeling a bit better, you get to bed. Tomorrow is exactly the same.
ound familiar? I think everyone has felt this way at some point or another.
You feel like Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill for eternity or like a hamster on a wheel. You're in an endless loop of mediocrity and unhappiness. You're stuck.
This is normal. We all get stuck now and then. The question is, why does this happen? Often it is because there is something in our lives that we believe we should be doing that we're not.
We think life should be different and it would be if we took action. This is where our choices come into play. We get to decide how we handle this situation.
Do we allow it to continue and remain in a state of perpetual discontent? Or do we take action and change it?
We all need to realize that being stuck is as much a choice as anything else. We either choose to suffer or we choose to take action. There is no reason that our lives have to look the same tomorrow.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.Denis Waitley
I think there are three things you should do when you're feeling stuck
1. Find the problem
First is to identify the real problem. It may not be your career. It could be relationships, health, dreams, and so on.
It's not always apparent, but understanding what is causing your feeling of stuckness is the first step.
2. Clear your mind
Once you find the problem, clear your mind. This isn't the moment for brash decisions. Instead give yourself some space to think and understand what you're facing.
If you can travel, go on vacation. If not, take a weekend to yourself to be with yourself. At the very least try to meditate to gain some clarity.
3. Make a choice
You have two options. Either embrace the situation as it is or take steps to change it. Apply to your dream job. Travel the world. Go back to school. Change.
As they say, you're either growing or you're dying. When you find that you're stuck, you can probably guess which state you're in. Figure out what you can do to change your situation and do it.
If you don't change direction, you may end up where you are heading.Lao Tzu
Sometimes feeling stuck is fleeting and it comes and goes. Sometimes it lasts for weeks or months. Changing something is the best way to get out of your funk.
Changes can be big or small and they may or may not work, but you'll certainly have a new experience. You'll be growing and actively trying to make your life better.
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BRAVO, BAYFRONT: We like a spa with a sense of humor. And we like when the hotel where the spa is located appreciates it. And we like Comic-Con International, and we certainly like to see San Diego businesses change it up a bit when the mega pop-culture-a-thon unfurls every July. And definitely changing it up a bit? Spa Aquazul at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. It has several treatments going that, shall we say, have a certain eau de Comic-Con-i-ness to them.
MONSTER MANICURE: A Werewolf Claw Treatment is being offered for nails. A massage called Catwoman's Back Scratch is on the menu. And the Avoid Looking Like the Walking Dead Facial Treatment probably needs no explanation. The prices are reasonable -- there are a handful of treatments for $49 -- and the vision has some cheek. Should more places focused on cheeks and other body parts incorporate some cheek-o-sity into their business plans? Oh for sure. Props to the Beverly Hilton for word on these whimsical specials.


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OpenSSL ASN.1 Parsing Error Denial Of Service Vulnerability
A remotely exploitable denial of service condition has been reported in the OpenSSL ASN.1 library. This vulnerability is due to parsing errors and affects SSL, TLS, S/MIME, PKCS#7 and certificate creation routines. In particular, malformed certificate encodings could cause a denial of service to server and client implementations which depend on OpenSSL.
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KB ID 0001135 Dtd 18/01/16
Seen when attempting to publish a CRL on a Windows Certificate Services Server.
Access is denied. 0x80070005 (WIN32: 5 ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED)
The problem is the COMPUTER ACCOUNT attempting to publish the CRL, (i.e. the Windows Certificate Services Server), needs rights to the physical folder the CRL files live in, like so;
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11-30-2011 10:36 AM - last edited on 03-23-2015 04:22 PM by RogersAliciaG
I was curious what kind of battery life other people are getting with their Galaxy S2 LTE phones.
Mine doesn't last more than a day, with light-moderate usage.
On Wifi, I get about a 2%/hour drain overnight while the phone is untouched.
I'm seeing some posts on other forums about people getting < 1% per hour drains on standby for the regular Galaxy S2, so I'm wondering if it's the LTE that's reducing battery life by half, or if I have some rogue app or configuration issue.
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Read my post in the main SG2 LTE thread (page 205). Sorry, too lazy to copy and paste 😛
milzz: You can always unroot your device if you decide to root.
Just to follow up on my original post,
last night I tried turning off background data to see what kind of effect it had on battery life. Turns out it has a drastic effect!
I went from > 2%/hour on standby to <0.4%/hour, which is amazing.
It's quite annoying not to have auto-sync enabled for gmail and things, but the 5x battery life savings might be worth it. It's still a mystery why some people have background data enabled and still get ~ 1%/hour. I don't have that many apps installed or anything either.
tl;dr - turning off background data improves battery life by a factor of 5
12-01-2011 06:32 PM - edited 12-01-2011 06:33 PM
Forgive the noob quesiton, but just read mchammer's post. I'm having battery life issues too, but have no idea how to "turn off background data". Is that a simple option in one of the settings?
Any help is most appreciated!
EDIT: Oops! Just found it!
Just wanted to follow up on my less than stellar battery performance. Turning off background data does improve your battery performance, but you won't get any updates ex: emails, notifications, weather updates. A lot of my drain would previously come from when the phone was idle overnight because I would keep background data on. If you turn it off, it significantly improves it, but you just have to make sure to turn it on when you wake up and your on the go.
I went to the market and bought Juice Defender Ultimate yesterday and am noticing significant improvement in my battery life. I'm currently sitting at 23 hours on my battery, with 2 hours of display on time, and still at a 40% charge. This is a HUGE improvement as my phone would normally have died by now or been on its last bit of juice. What it does is turn off the data connection in your phone whenever the screen is off. If your screen stays off it will periodically turn on the connection every 15 minutes (mine is set to every hour) for about a minute or so to check for new emails, updates and such and then turn it back off. Everytime you turn your screen on it will turn on the data connection also.
You still receive text messages, and phone calls as they aren't going through the data network. So it basically significantly reduces the amount of battery drain you have when your phone is idle. Previously my phone would drain 20-30% overnight while I sleep. It looks like I had less than 10% drain last night.
If anyone wasn't sure about getting this app, I would definitley reccomend it. It's not a task killer. I've read that task killers are actually bad for Androids.
I'm also using juicedefender with great results. But for me it wasn't JD alone that helped, i'm also using Bloat freezer free (requires r00t). In settings, under applications and then running services, i always saw some services that i NEVER use taking up unneccesary ram (like the stock email wizard, facebook, digital clock, etc). Rather than delete these apps (which are usually part of the stock rom and unremovable) and risk unstability, by freezing them you render them completely inactive without having to remove them. I'm using almost half the ram now and with JD configured just as i like it and i get considerably higher battery life.
For that tiny bit extra i also use screen filter (free from market). This helps dim the screen even further, reducing the drain from our giant 4.5 screen. Sadly screen filter is also how i was able to easily see the vertical banding and splotches on greys and dull reds.
I used to be at ~30% by 6pm from a full charge at 6am, and i'm currently at 74% after 12 hours right now!!
For those interested, our phones can also run custom kernels supporting overclocking upto 1.8ghz (!!) and undervolting with as long as 42+ hours of juice on a single charge. But these are not easy operations and i would recommened a few days of reading if even slightly unsure.
Hope this helps
My battery life has sucked thus far.... From 7:30am this morning for example, by 4pm the battery was at less than 15% remaining.... Very dissapointed so far with anything to do with battery. Actually half-considering returning the phone for that reason alone. I might try Juice Defender but it's insane that a brand new phone, with wifi turned off all day, only out of my pocket maybe 7 times for a total screen time of 15 minutes is out of juice by 4pm!
For all I know I might have a dud for a phone which might explain the battery issue. The other big issue I'm having is when the phone sits in my pant pockets, something causes the phone to get so hot it almost burned my leg this afternoon. As soon as I put it on the counter, the heat goes away, but having tried it 3 times today, the phone heated up each and every time in my pocket. Anyone else having this problem?
So far, very dissapointed for a phone that I had very high expectations about....
same here. I tried disabling most of the background apps but still battery life is usually done by 430-5pm.
I tried lowering the brightness but the screen issues (blob) gets too annoying. only happens on the dark screens.
Very disappointed with the battery life overall. Minimal usage but its a power hog! Will be trying to use juice defender along with Advanced task killer and see if that helps.
p.s. have to bring a charger everywehre i go with this phone 😞
Mine is about the same thing. Ive read on blogs and watched on youtube that taskillers do not work. They shouldnt even be used. Androids OS is different from say a blackberry because once yuo exit out of a program on your droid, it pauses and sits in limbo until you use it again making it faster to restart where you left off. I believe that when the program has not been in use for an hour or so, it falls off the "running app" list. The android OS is supposdely configured to put more emphasis on "needed" apps to run on your device like messaging, flash, etc. It has an internal brain of what needs to shutdown in order to run new apps. Blackberry on the other hand, you actually have to go into the app and manually close it or else it will lag and freeze. This is from my fact findings.
Also, personally for me, I would never run juice defender because Im always on facebook, twitter and checking emails like every 5mins. So I would never use that app.


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Yoder Smokers 16" Cheyenne Offset Smoker
Yoder Smokers 16" Cheyenne Offset Smoker
"The Cheyenne" moves you beyond simply grilling and into the world of slow smoking and barbecuing. The difference is this; the heat and smoke are drawn through the cooking chamber indirectly, the indirect heat is the secret to producing moist, super tender meat with that rich smoky flavor. Whether you are feeding your family or a gathering of a dozen people put the Cheyenne to work for you and be prepared to enjoy Blue Ribbon results.
Standard Features:
- Cooking Surface 703 Sq. Inches
- Two 16.75"x15" Cooking Grates in Main Chamber
- One 13.75"x15" Cooking Grate in Firebox
- Overall Length 68"
- Overall Height 48"
- Overall Depth 30.75" (Including Front Shelf)
- Weight 315 lbs
- 16" X 36" x 18"
- Offset firebox
- Constructed from NEW ¼" pipe and plate
- Dual-damper through draft control
- Thermometer mounted on cooking chamber door
- Stainless steel handles are "cool to the touch"
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Traders will be glued to the web Thursday night as thousands of cancer studies go online. What's the trade as these studies potentially send shock waves through biotech stocks on Friday morning?
On Thursday at 9 pm ET the American Society of Clinical Oncology also known as ASCO is putting nearly 5,000 studies on its website all at once, explains CNBC Pharmaceuticals Reporter Mike Huckman on his blog"Pharma's Market".
The data could move a whole bunch of stocks Friday including Genentech (DNA),Celgene (CELG), Imclone (IMCL),Bristol (BMY), Glaxo(GSK) and Lilly (LLY), just to name a handful, he says.
Although it may seem like an odd way to distribute the information, ASCO is attempting to prevent what some consider insider trading.
In years' past ASCO has sent out a big, heavy book with all the data to approximately 25,000 of its member doctors as well as select reporters. But then investors would try to game the system and get some of those oncologists to hand over the book or tell them what's in it. Subsequently those alleged leaks manifested themselves in trading activity, explains Huckman.
Traders, which stocks do you likes best?
I'd keep an eye on Celgene (CELG), counsels Pete Najarian. Also watch Medarex (MEDX) and Genentech (DNA).


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Is the winter fuel payment counter-productive to energy policy?
This project investigated whether the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) is in harmony or discord with energy policy goals.
Previous work funded by the Nuffield Foundation has shown that the labelling of income support measures affects how older households spend them. Households spend a much higher percentage of the WFP on heating and electricity than other transfers that do not have the word "fuel" in the title. This begged the question: If the labelling of the WFP encourages households to spend the transfer on energy, are they then less likely to install energy efficiency measures and/or renewable technologies?
The researchers compared households which were only recently eligible for the WFP with those that had just missed eligibility, accounting for variation in characteristics such as employment status and income and found that there was a clear negative shift in the probability of installing renewable solar or wind technologies. They conclude that changing the name of the WFP would make recipient households more likely to invest in renewable energy technologies while still achieving the health goals of the current WFP policy.
Dr Ian Lange, Division of Economics, University of Stirling
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Lange I., Moro M. and Rahman M. (2014) Policy labels and investment decision-making
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- How the tax and benefit system relates to ageing and care
- Understanding the compliance costs of benefits and tax credits
- Designing a 21st Century Business Profit Tax
- IFS Green Budget 2013-2016
- Responses to changes in marginal tax rates for high earners
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Non-lawyers often seem to find it difficult to understand that lawyers must maintain a distance from the cases they are dealing with. In the family context, it would be all too easy to get involved in some of the highly-charged and often distressing situations that lawyers deal with, but to do so would be to fail in one's professional duty. The corollary of this is that lawyers are often accused of not caring, as discussed by Lucy Reed of Pink Tape in her post 'Don't you lot EVER think about the kids?', my Post of the Month for October.
The particular source of the criticism that Lucy discusses is a children's guardian, who is quite clear in their view as to how the case should be resolved and becomes frustrated by what they see as lawyers (acting for parents) causing unnecessary delay. However, as Lucy says, parents are entitled to a fair trial too: "For what is fairness if it is not something applicable to all parties?". She concludes: "I think about the kids all the time. How could one not? But then I get on with giving sound advice and acting on my instructions, and put my faith in the court to work out the right solution."
It would be nice if this post were read in certain quarters, before lawyers are insulted in this way.
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Tommy & Georgie Awards 2014
The last month has seen us celebrating outstanding homebuilding in both the Thompson Okanagan and Lower Mainland with the CHBA Tommy Awards and CHBA Georgie awards. Both gala events were a spectacular display of the best BC has to offer in style and innovation for new home building.
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The newest entry in the beautiful Art of Drawing series presentsone of the most popular and important topics in the fine arts:realistically capturing human anatomy and the nude on paper. Richlyillustrated, with every anatomical explanation shown in detail, itputs each concept into practice through sequences of drawings thatshow the intricacies of muscular and skeletal structure. Buddingartists will visually grasp general concepts of anatomy andproportion; learn formulas for constructing the figure; travel partby part through the torso, arms, legs, head, hands, and feet; andsee how to depict lifelike movement and poses. Then, they can showoff their new knowledge in several projects, including a male bodydrawn in colour pencil and a woman?s back done in charcoal andsanguine.ISBN13: 9781402755170
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#066 – Claire de Lune (pink beige)
I like the Swan-designed palette and lipstick though I'd get the lipstick first. Then again, the one with the paisley design has a prettier color. I hope to see swatches soon. 🙂
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S.F.'s writers' Grotto grows up
When Rachel Levin left her job at Sunset magazine to freelance, she tried writing at home. "I couldn't get any work done," she said. Squatting in cafes, where she struggled with the noise and fretted about leaving her laptop unattended when she went to the restroom, was no better.
So Levin did what scores of journalists, novelists, memoirists, screenwriters, playwrights, filmmakers, radio producers and poets have done over the past two decades in San Francisco. She rented office space at the Grotto, a shared work complex that offers the monk-like quiet and privacy that writers need and the mutually reinforcing sense of community they crave.
It's a paradox members extol with vivid personal testimony about the help they've found with everything from pitching a story to fixing a sentence and the almost ineffable sense of support and courage they derive from being near other people trying to do the very hard thing they are trying to do.
Journalist and author Todd Oppenheimer recalled a time when he was trying to expand a magazine article into a book and found himself "paralyzed" by the piles of notebooks he had amassed in his research. Roaming away from his desk, he bumped into Grotto co-founder Po Bronson and spilled out his writer's block dilemma.
'Ignore the boring'
"It's easy," Bronson told him. "You just ignore the boring stuff, take all the interesting stuff and explode it out." Oppenheimer's work flowed after that. His book, "The Flickering Mind: Saving Education From the False Promise of Technology," was a hit.
Laura Fraser said her memoir, "An Italian Affair," never would have happened if another Grotto co-founder, Ethan Watters, hadn't read some online pieces she'd written for Salon and suggested the book idea. David Ewing Duncan joined the Grotto in 2000 after moving from Baltimore. "I was new to the city, recently divorced and feeling very isolated," he said. Several years later, Duncan was an enthusiastic participant in the Grotto Nights series at the San Francisco Public Library, the packed readings-cum-parties that were emblematic of a new energy in the city's literary life.
Levin had heard about "these cool older writers" at the Grotto and thought it was a place where serious work got done. Now, having published her first piece in the New Yorker and busy with many other projects, Levin is both producing and surrounded by serious writing all the time. "I could spiral inward without this," she said. "Just being here motivates you to do your own best work."
Now in its fourth location, a snug maze of 32 offices threaded around a lunchroom, communal kitchen and classroom space on Second Street near South Park, the Grotto is taking steps to remain creatively vital and fiscally viable as it marks its 20th anniversary. (A celebration is in the works for March.) Newly constituted as a four-man limited liability corporation, the "institution that has never had much organization," as Watters put it, is behaving more and more like a grown-up that intends to ensure its own future.
Rising rents
Membership has now grown to about 100, with more writers sharing offices and thus increasing overall revenues. Some office rents are rising in January, and everyone will now pay an annual fee to help cope with a building rent increase. Public classes, held at night and on the weekends, contribute 8 percent of the $200,000 annual budget. "Enterprise members," like the online magazine Collectors Weekly, pay a higher office rate than individual writers but still below market value in the tech-driven South Park office-space boom.
Having already helped incubate the Rumpus, an online site that covers everything from art to comics to sex, the Grotto constituents would like to do more things digital. Fraser's female-author Shebooks — a curated collection of short e-books — is one example. Duncan's health-and-bioscience-based Arc, which borrows something of the TED Talks model of public events as conversation and publication starters, is another.
Hanging out in Watters' invitingly disheveled office, its occupant and Bronson sounded both proud and slightly bemused by the growth of something that began, in 1994, as an improvisation. Along with fiction writer Ethan Canin (now a professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop), the two friends rented a flat in a Market Street Victorian. The name was "stolen," said Bronson, from a writer friend of his who rented a cramped room, labeled the Grotto, in Bronson's home garage near Ocean Beach.
In his informal Grotto history, Bronson acknowledges some of the skepticism people had of what they imagined was "the boys with the tree-house fort, a place to get drunk at 2 in the afternoon and screw women and never grow up." But work got done. Midday drinking was rare. Books and prominent magazine articles appeared. Aced out of the first space by a group of lawyers who could afford a rent increase, the writers found a second home and invited more people to join, only to be out on the street again a few years later during the dot-com boom. An abandoned pet facility near City Hall saved the day.
The Dog & Cat Hospital is the setting for some of the more cherished episodes in Grotto lore, even if the principals can't always agree on the particulars. Watters and Bronson remember the bird that crashed through Oppenheimer's skylight as a duck. Oppenheimer thinks it might have been a seagull. And then there was the fire, Watters remembered.
Unreliable narrators
"What fire?" asked Bronson, setting off a meandering discussion of oven pilot lights, a leak and basketball games on the Dog & Cat deck. It could have been a textbook illustration of unreliable narrators, something to be discussed in the Grotto lunchroom or a hallway.
The Grotto moved to its current location nine years ago. What Fraser remembers as a "boys' club" when she joined in 1996 is now a very different place. Women outnumber men by 2 to 1. Asked why that might be, Fraser proposed that "there may just be more women interested in finding support and community. A lot of guys think they can go it alone."
At one recent lunch, 15 women and three men gathered around a large table, over sandwiches and microwaved leftovers, to hear guest speaker Oscar Villalon, managing editor of the San Francisco literary journal Zyzzyva. People wandered in and out as the discussion meandered away from slush-pile submissions to the challenge of creating "buzz" for a book. The collective energy picked up. Almost everyone had something to ask or say about the battle to get marketplace attention for their work.
Grotto members insist that the atmosphere is supportive rather than competitive. Grace Rubinstein credits the place for helping her recapture "the creative, personal style of writing I got away from in graduate school." Janis Cooke Newman found a new agent from a Grotto crony and confers with others about pay rates. "I'm not saying it never happens," she added, "but it's surprising how little professional jealousy there is."
According to Watters and Bronson, only one Grotto writer has ever been asked to leave. Fraser remembered her as "this very snarly person" who bragged one day about writing for the New York Times. "I looked around the room," Fraser said, "and realized a third of the people there had written for the Times."
There's one point of geographic-specific pride that gets repeated around the Grotto. In San Francisco, the line goes, writers read each other's books. In New York, they read each other's reviews.
"We probably are a little more snarky in New York," allowed Joy Parisi, co-founder of the shared writing space Paragraph in Lower Manhattan. "But not here. People come here to work. It's like a gym, where being around other people motivates you."
Open space
Both Paragraph and the Writers Room, a space that opened in New York 18 years before the Grotto got going, have open-space plans rather than closed-door offices. Members — the Writers Room has 300-400 during the course of a year — claim desks on a first-come, first-served basis. There are no phone calls and therefore no working journalists, as there are at the Grotto — where some writers occasionally wear noise-canceling headphones to drown out voices in nearby offices. "We have what I like to call sanctuary," said Writers Room Executive Director Donna Brodie.
Quiet prevails, too, at the Writers Junction in Santa Monica, a haven for aspiring screenwriters. Member Jay Elias compared the place to a college library, complete with long tables, comfortable chairs and couches, and a completely silent "deadline room."
The Grotto has spawned its own spinoffs and imitators in the Bay Area. One of them, the Sanchez Annex, recently moved into a Castro Street space not far from the Grotto's original home. "We were very much inspired by the Grotto," said the Annex's Scott James. "Without them, I don't think we would have done this. They've had a tremendous impact on San Francisco — maybe more than even they realize."
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In clinical trials inhibition of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) raises HDL cholesterol levels but doesn't robustly improve cardiovascular outcomes. About 2/3 of trial participants were obese. Lower plasma CETP activity is associated with increased cardiovascular risk in human studies, and protective aspects of CETP have been observed in mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD) with regard to metabolic outcomes. To define if CETP inhibition has different effects depending on the presence of obesity, we performed short-term anacetrapib treatment in chow- and HFD-fed CETP-transgenic mice. Anacetrapib raised HDL cholesterol and improved aspects of HDL functionality including reverse cholesterol transport and HDL's anti-oxidative capacity in HFD-fed mice better than in chow-fed mice. Anacetrapib worsened the anti-inflammatory capacity of HDL in HFD-fed mice. The HDL proteome was markedly different with anacetrapib treatment in HFD-fed vs. chow-fed mice. Despite benefits on HDL, anacetrapib led to liver triglyceride accumulation and insulin resistance in HFD-fed mice. Overall, our results support a physiologic importance of CETP in protecting from fatty liver, and demonstrate a context-selectivity of CETP inhibition that might be important in obese subjects.
This article contains Supplementary Data online at http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.2337/db18-0474.
- Received April 26, 2018.
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Satellite praised for coral bleaching info
Australian researchers in Canberra have found Envisat's medium resolution imaging spectrometer can detect coral bleaching to about 33 feet deep.
That means the European Space Agency's Envisat, the largest Earth observation satellite, could potentially monitor affected coral reefs worldwide.
Coral bleaching occurs when algae living in living coral polyps are expelled. The whitening coral may die, producing negative affects on the reef ecosystem.
"An increase in frequency of coral bleaching may be one of the first tangible environmental effects of global warming," said Arnold Dekker of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. "The concern is that coral reefs might pass a critical bleaching threshold beyond which they are unable to regenerate."
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Perry's works explore the urban space, the structure of the city and its surroundings, with his work moving around two central areas: the public space and the studio space. In the public space, Pery collects physical materials (mainly pieces of wood) that he uses as raw material for his works, along with the collection of visual materials such as sketches and photographs of situations and structures in the urban landscape. These materials are processed and refined in the studio into a work of art. The connection between the visual and physical objects that characterize his works creates a new meaning and a different perspective on everyday situations.


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If there was one real surprise at this year's Academy Awards, it was the winner for Best Foreign Language Film. The front-runner was widely thought to be the Israeli movie "Waltz with Bashir," but the Oscar went to "Departures." It's a Japanese film that had not yet opened in the U.S. Well, today, "Departures" opens. Bob Mondello says it's easy to see why the Oscar-voters liked it.
BOB MONDELLO: When a Tokyo orchestra goes bankrupt, its cellist, a young sad sack named Daigo finds himself unable to support a big-city lifestyle. So he and his wife move back to his rural hometown, and he starts a job search. There's no orchestra to work for, but an ad offering a career working with departures. Sounds promising - the travel industry intrigues him. So he arranges an interview and is hired almost before he sits down. At a high salary, too.
There is, however, a catch: The word departures in the ad was a misprint. The job involves working with the departed - the dearly departed - preparing bodies for cremation.
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Mr. MASAHIRO MOTOKI (Actor): (As Daigo Kobayashi) (Foreign language spoken)
Unidentified Man: (Foreign language spoken)
MONDELLO: Daigo is about to leave when the boss offers him his first day's salary and suggests he try the job and see. And soon the musician, who's played winningly by Masahiro Motoki, starts to get in touch with his inner undertaker.
The stylized ceremonies, all performed with grieving relatives in attendance, turn out to require nearly as much delicacy as playing a cello did. Daigo discovers the rituals have a real beauty to them, also a habit of not going quite as planned, which can lead to unexpected comedy.
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MONDELLO: What the film doesn't say, but what Japanese audiences would know, is that Daigo's initial reluctance isn't just about what he sees as the job's ick factor. Dealing with dead bodies and dead animals was regarded as unclean in Japan for centuries, and that prejudice dies hard. Those who prepare bodies are still widely discriminated against - and that discrimination can extend to families - so that if, say, your great-grandfather worked in a slaughterhouse, you may have trouble landing a job.
So when the film empathizes with Daigo, as his wife reacts with revulsion, or his neighbors shun him, it's engaging in social criticism - which may be why director Yojiro Takita built so much humor into the story, even though slapstick seems at odds with the material - and why he made the visuals so seductive. The strategy definitely worked for Japanese audiences, who forked over more than $60 million at the box office.
And while this lovely, sentimental film is hardly likely to have success on that scale in the U.S., it will absolutely delight the art-house crowd. Multiplexes will be crowded with noisy summer films, after all, from which "Departures" will represent a sophisticated and elegant departure.
I'm Bob Mondello.
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Cardiff have made their sixth summer signing with the acquisition of Uruguay Under-20 international Maximiliano Amondarain.
The 20-year-old had a spell on trial with the Bluebirds, who confirmed the signing on their club website, earlier this summer and he impressed manager Malky Mackay enough to secure a move from CA Progreso on a four-year contract.
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Disgusting place and horrible drinks!!!
Hi I went to this Restaurant today with a couple Friend's we order Margaritas and mojitos, the drink were fine until the second round when they serve me a margarita with lips stick all over the glass, that was very disgusting, after I did order a Yucatan Trio ( THE SPECIALTY OF THE HOUSE) and then when I was half way of my dish guess what happen? I did almost swallow a big long and tick curly hair that was in my cochinita pibil, that was the most disgusting thing from that place, that was my first time there with my friend, we did talk after with manager about it and he put the all bill on the house and he did apologize to us for what happen and he did offer us a free meal for the next time we will come back, but personally I don't care about the free meal. I will never go to that place never ever in my life again, even if they wont charge me nothing, also the food was really poor in FLAVOR and no taste at all, the only thing that I did like it from this place was the CHIPS & GUACAMOLE that's all.
Please guys check first your food carefully and drinks before your eat it or drink it!
I give to this place half start.
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Horrible dish no taste at all and I did also find a big curly hair in my cochinita pibil
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A favorite restaurant to go to in Pasadena among some of my friends. They have great food, not too greasy or salty, and also has great margaritas! When I crave Mexican food, I crave El Portal!
I think I got their Chile Relleno (I hope i spelled that right) or whatever it was… it was delicious. I finished the plate even though I was full halfway through the dish!
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Indoor Cycling, Mindfulness, & Facing FearsI'll never forget my first spin class. I was in my early thirties and complained to a friend
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AOL has been in the news lately only for two reasons. One, its lagging business and underperforming stock, and two, its recent patent sale to Microsoft, and eventually Facebook, which helped the latter stave off Yahoo's patent assault on it.
AOL sold off most of its patents to Microsoft for $1.1 billion. Today, the sale has been completed, and AOL, true to its word, has announced that it will be giving the cash back to its shareholders.
It has announced a $600 million repurchase of AOL stock, and a one-time cash dividend of $5.15 per share, which adds up to nearly $480 million.
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Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Bryozoans, Tiny Living Fossils from the Cambrian, Are Still Very Much Alive
Joel Kontinen
According to the evolutionary story, the world has changed dramatically in "500 million years."
But scientists now know that some Cambrian animals have resisted change for aeons:
Recently, a tiny bryozoan was named after David Jablonski and Susan Kidwell, who both are University of Chicago researchers.
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"Lurking in oceans, rivers and lakes around the world are tiny, ancient animals known to few people. Bryozoans, tiny marine creatures that live in colonies, are "living fossils"—their lineage goes back to the time when multi-celled life was a newfangled concept. But until now, scientists were missing evidence of one important breakthrough that helped the bryozoans survive 500 million years as the world changed around them."
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The Cambrian Era is still an enormous enigma for evolution. For some, it might be a real headache, as the creatures assigned to this period are far too complex and some Cambrian fossils are too well preserved to be that old, calling their assumed age into question.
Lerner, Louise. 2017. Fossil that fills missing evolutionary link named after UChicago professors UChicago News (16 November).
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