The Tennessee Department of Health has issued licenses to 255 affliction clinics aback a new law took aftereffect on Jan. 1 acute the step.
The Chattanooga Times Free Columnist letters that there are accession 20 applications getting reviewed, while 19 accept been rejected.
The law imposes regulations on affliction administration clinics in an accomplishment to able down on alleged bolus mills. In accession to licenses, the new regulations outlaw banknote payments for analysis and crave accountant physicians to be present in the dispensary at atomic 20 percent of the time.
In an assay of licenses, the bi-weekly begin the accomplished absorption of clinics was in the Northeast bend of the accompaniment and a part of rural counties of the Cumberland Plateau. It aswell begin that some doctors serve as medical admiral to as abounding as 11 clinics.
The licenses will accord the accompaniment added advice about the affliction clinics, said accompaniment Sen. Andy Berke, D-Chattanooga, who co-sponsored the law.
“Once we get our calmly about the ambit of the problem, it makes it easier to amount out what the next footfall should be and will accomplish the administration abundant easier,” Berke said.
Michelle Long, abettor abettor of Health Licensure and Regulation at the accompaniment Department of Health, said anniversary dispensary appliance is advised to accomplish abiding it meets the new requirements.
Long said she didn’t apperceive there were 11 clinics with the aforementioned medical director, but acclaimed some clinics aren’t accessible 5 canicule a anniversary so it would be accessible for one medical administrator to serve abundant clinics. Long said doctors don’t accept to appearance affidavit of the time they absorb at anniversary clinic, but accompaniment admiral can admission a doctor’s files.
Dr. John Blake, a Chattanooga affliction administration doctor, said he supports the law and wants to see even stronger measures put into place.
“There are loopholes in the law,” Blake said. “You accept chiropractors and physicians who are application (clinics) as a business authorization for the purpose of profit, not the convenance of medicine.”
On the top is Georgie’s capital card advantage with admission to user guides and audio news. Beneath that are icons for buzz dialling, contacts, the alarm log, argument messaging, places, and 'more apps'. At the basal is the settings button. Anniversary of these abstracted airheaded has voice-guidance and an calmly presented way for the visually broken to cross (check out the video at the end).
The buzz card has a keypad area anniversary columnist sounds out the number. The contacts card reads out the abode book’s alone entries. The alarm log page has all the alarm information, with a abstracted received, absent and fabricated calls section. Anniversary of these buttons aswell complete out their action if selected.
Text messaging works in the aforementioned way, with a abundant audio description for contacting someone. This aswell applies to accepting and sending messages. Dictating a argument bulletin is done through Google’s articulation acceptance feature, with letters getting apprehend aback afore getting sent. The text-to-speech action works by account out accustomed messages, all of which aids in the app’s account for those with afterimage loss.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Awash on a sea of agitation
The cartage alien through the sea is three times that through the Suez Canal, and 5 times that of the Panama Canal.
Plumb in the centre of this freeway, China endure Tuesday accustomed its newest city, Sansha, with agent Xiao Jie and antipathetic affair secretary, Fu Zhuang.
This city-limits in the sea stands on an island of just over 2sq km, amid 350km off Hainan island, the abutting point in China.
Its citizenry of 1000 comprises a few fishermen, but mainly soldiers, badge and government officials. It contains a column office, bank, bazaar and hospital, and a affected city-limits hall.
The job of the citizenry is to "administer", chiefly, to police, a Chinese prefecture accoutrement an ocean breadth of 2 actor sq km, which is affluent in oil, gas, and fish. China has declared it as "a additional Persian Sea," absolute added oil than Kuwait. China's ascendancy stretches, it claims, to James Shoal, 80km arctic of Malaysian Sarawak and 1800 km from the Chinese mainland.
Despite the Chinese acclimatization of its English name, locations of the South China Sea are claimed by The Philippines, which now calls it the West Philippine Sea, by Vietnam, which calls it the East Sea, and by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Taiwan. Southeast Asians acclimated to alarm it the Sea of Cham, afterwards the age-old Champa commonwealth that prospered in the arena until 500 years ago.
The row over admission to the sea -- chiefly amid China and the countries of southeast Asia -- has broken afar the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations, has apprenticed several ASEAN associates appear afterpiece aggressive co-operation with the US, has affronted ample abhorrence in the arena adjoin China, and has provided the transitionary Chinese administering with a ambulatory could cause that provokes able nationalist fervour.
The sea, which stretches from the Malacca Strait to the Taiwan Strait, contains added than 250 tiny islands and shoals, none with acceptable citizenry and abounding of which are abysmal at top tide. They cover the acerb acknowledged Spratly, Paracel and Pratas islands, the Macclesfield Coffer and the Scarborough Shoal.
Whatever humans alarm the sea, it is baking with absinthian antipathies. It is acceptable over-fished as a aftereffect of added numbers of fishing argosy getting deployed there to beforehand sovereignty, as alternatives to accessible aggressive excursions.
A agile of 30 Chinese fishing vessels, including a 3000-tonne craft, has been fishing for the accomplished few canicule at what China calls the Zhubi Beach in the Spratly Islands. The beach is aswell claimed by Taiwan, The Philippines and Vietnam. Chinese account bureau Xinhua says the admeasurement of the agile is "a rarity".
The Lowy Institute for All-embracing Policy's controlling director, Michael Wesley, believes that the South China Sea is Australia's individual point of greatest cardinal vulnerability. "Canberra is not a affair to the altercation nor a abundant power, and accordingly is able-bodied placed to play a cogent role in proposing and brokering a solution," he wrote in a cardboard appear by the Lowy endure week.
Meanwhile, a 42-page address on the sea appear by the Brussels-based All-embracing Crisis Group endure Tuesday concluded: "All the trends are in the amiss administering and the affairs of resolution are abbreviating All claimants are accretion their aggressive and law administering capabilities."
Australian politicians are bargain to wringing their easily and arguing amid themselves at the alien margins.
The ambiguous plight of Australia's defence strategy, and the disability to arrange the abysmal fleet, affords little befalling to do otherwise.
Tony Abbott said in his accent in Beijing endure Tuesday: "Under a Coalition government, Australia will do what it can to ensure territorial disputes in the South China Sea are managed affably and in accordance with all-embracing law."
Foreign Minister Bob Carr responded by adage that this comprised "a big and actual cogent shift," interpreting it to beggarly Australia would become complex in the altercation beneath an Abbott administration.
Carr acerb alone Wesley's advancement that Australia should try to boldness the issue: "I don't anticipate it is accidentally in Australia's absorption to yield on for itself a brokering role in territorial disputes" in the sea.
"Up until now we accept said we ambition this bound peacefully," Carr said. "We don't yield a ancillary on the assorted claims.
"But we do . . . alarm on governments to analyze and accompany those claims, and accompanying amphibian rights, in accordance with all-embracing law."
Naturally, none of the battling countries admits to defying the Law of the Sea, articulate a lot of acutely in the UN convention. But this avenue has not been pursued actively by any of the parties. China stands by its claims, delineated in a "nine dotted line" that encompasses about the absolute sea, based on celebrated involvements dating aback to the 15th century, and abuttals claims fabricated by its antecedent Kuomintang (Nationalist) government in 1947.
It wishes to achieve disagreements, if it is appropriate to do so, through mutual negotiations.
In comparison, the ASEAN countries that affirmation areas of the sea ambition to face China calm on the issue. They accept continued been discussing a collective cipher of conduct to administer nations' behaviour in the South China Sea. If they can accede a accepted approach, this would amplify massively the burden on China and added non-ASEAN players in the arena such as Taiwan to assurance up too.
Indonesia's awful admired Adopted Minister Marty Natalegawa -- Indonesia has chaired ASEAN this year -- expended ample claimed and civic authority and accomplishment to beforehand the cipher of conduct, aerial from basic to basic in beforehand of the apostolic acme captivated three weeks ago in Phnom Penh.
But Cambodia's Adopted Minister Hor Namhong, who chaired the meeting, captivated at the Peace Palace, which was congenital with Chinese funds, banned to aspect the four paragraphs diplomatically drafted to be allotment of the collective communique to be issued at the end of the meeting.
Carl Thayer, emeritus assistant at the Australian Defence Force Academy, cites a actor at the acme as adage that Cambodia alert alone attempts by added ASEAN associates to cover a advertence to contempo advancing developments in the South China Sea.
Thayer says Malaysia told the summit: "We have to allocution with a individual voice. ASEAN have to appearance a affiliated voice. Or our believability will be undermined."
But Cambodia, more perceived as a basic applicant accompaniment of China, would not aback down. China has become a above adopted broker in Cambodia, endure year announcement affairs to advance $1.2bn, about 10 times the amount of American apprenticed investments.
So for the aboriginal time in ASEAN's 45-year history, a apostolic affair assured after absolution a collective statement.
Indonesian above agent to Australia Sabam Siagian commented: "In the past, ASEAN batten with one voice. From now on, all hell can breach loose. Good luck ASEAN."
The Philippines Adopted Minister Albert del Rosario lamented at the affair that "if larboard unchecked, the accretion tensions . . . getting generated in the action could added amplify into concrete hostilities, which no one wants".
Plumb in the centre of this freeway, China endure Tuesday accustomed its newest city, Sansha, with agent Xiao Jie and antipathetic affair secretary, Fu Zhuang.
This city-limits in the sea stands on an island of just over 2sq km, amid 350km off Hainan island, the abutting point in China.
Its citizenry of 1000 comprises a few fishermen, but mainly soldiers, badge and government officials. It contains a column office, bank, bazaar and hospital, and a affected city-limits hall.
The job of the citizenry is to "administer", chiefly, to police, a Chinese prefecture accoutrement an ocean breadth of 2 actor sq km, which is affluent in oil, gas, and fish. China has declared it as "a additional Persian Sea," absolute added oil than Kuwait. China's ascendancy stretches, it claims, to James Shoal, 80km arctic of Malaysian Sarawak and 1800 km from the Chinese mainland.
Despite the Chinese acclimatization of its English name, locations of the South China Sea are claimed by The Philippines, which now calls it the West Philippine Sea, by Vietnam, which calls it the East Sea, and by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Taiwan. Southeast Asians acclimated to alarm it the Sea of Cham, afterwards the age-old Champa commonwealth that prospered in the arena until 500 years ago.
The row over admission to the sea -- chiefly amid China and the countries of southeast Asia -- has broken afar the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations, has apprenticed several ASEAN associates appear afterpiece aggressive co-operation with the US, has affronted ample abhorrence in the arena adjoin China, and has provided the transitionary Chinese administering with a ambulatory could cause that provokes able nationalist fervour.
The sea, which stretches from the Malacca Strait to the Taiwan Strait, contains added than 250 tiny islands and shoals, none with acceptable citizenry and abounding of which are abysmal at top tide. They cover the acerb acknowledged Spratly, Paracel and Pratas islands, the Macclesfield Coffer and the Scarborough Shoal.
Whatever humans alarm the sea, it is baking with absinthian antipathies. It is acceptable over-fished as a aftereffect of added numbers of fishing argosy getting deployed there to beforehand sovereignty, as alternatives to accessible aggressive excursions.
A agile of 30 Chinese fishing vessels, including a 3000-tonne craft, has been fishing for the accomplished few canicule at what China calls the Zhubi Beach in the Spratly Islands. The beach is aswell claimed by Taiwan, The Philippines and Vietnam. Chinese account bureau Xinhua says the admeasurement of the agile is "a rarity".
The Lowy Institute for All-embracing Policy's controlling director, Michael Wesley, believes that the South China Sea is Australia's individual point of greatest cardinal vulnerability. "Canberra is not a affair to the altercation nor a abundant power, and accordingly is able-bodied placed to play a cogent role in proposing and brokering a solution," he wrote in a cardboard appear by the Lowy endure week.
Meanwhile, a 42-page address on the sea appear by the Brussels-based All-embracing Crisis Group endure Tuesday concluded: "All the trends are in the amiss administering and the affairs of resolution are abbreviating All claimants are accretion their aggressive and law administering capabilities."
Australian politicians are bargain to wringing their easily and arguing amid themselves at the alien margins.
The ambiguous plight of Australia's defence strategy, and the disability to arrange the abysmal fleet, affords little befalling to do otherwise.
Tony Abbott said in his accent in Beijing endure Tuesday: "Under a Coalition government, Australia will do what it can to ensure territorial disputes in the South China Sea are managed affably and in accordance with all-embracing law."
Foreign Minister Bob Carr responded by adage that this comprised "a big and actual cogent shift," interpreting it to beggarly Australia would become complex in the altercation beneath an Abbott administration.
Carr acerb alone Wesley's advancement that Australia should try to boldness the issue: "I don't anticipate it is accidentally in Australia's absorption to yield on for itself a brokering role in territorial disputes" in the sea.
"Up until now we accept said we ambition this bound peacefully," Carr said. "We don't yield a ancillary on the assorted claims.
"But we do . . . alarm on governments to analyze and accompany those claims, and accompanying amphibian rights, in accordance with all-embracing law."
Naturally, none of the battling countries admits to defying the Law of the Sea, articulate a lot of acutely in the UN convention. But this avenue has not been pursued actively by any of the parties. China stands by its claims, delineated in a "nine dotted line" that encompasses about the absolute sea, based on celebrated involvements dating aback to the 15th century, and abuttals claims fabricated by its antecedent Kuomintang (Nationalist) government in 1947.
It wishes to achieve disagreements, if it is appropriate to do so, through mutual negotiations.
In comparison, the ASEAN countries that affirmation areas of the sea ambition to face China calm on the issue. They accept continued been discussing a collective cipher of conduct to administer nations' behaviour in the South China Sea. If they can accede a accepted approach, this would amplify massively the burden on China and added non-ASEAN players in the arena such as Taiwan to assurance up too.
Indonesia's awful admired Adopted Minister Marty Natalegawa -- Indonesia has chaired ASEAN this year -- expended ample claimed and civic authority and accomplishment to beforehand the cipher of conduct, aerial from basic to basic in beforehand of the apostolic acme captivated three weeks ago in Phnom Penh.
But Cambodia's Adopted Minister Hor Namhong, who chaired the meeting, captivated at the Peace Palace, which was congenital with Chinese funds, banned to aspect the four paragraphs diplomatically drafted to be allotment of the collective communique to be issued at the end of the meeting.
Carl Thayer, emeritus assistant at the Australian Defence Force Academy, cites a actor at the acme as adage that Cambodia alert alone attempts by added ASEAN associates to cover a advertence to contempo advancing developments in the South China Sea.
Thayer says Malaysia told the summit: "We have to allocution with a individual voice. ASEAN have to appearance a affiliated voice. Or our believability will be undermined."
But Cambodia, more perceived as a basic applicant accompaniment of China, would not aback down. China has become a above adopted broker in Cambodia, endure year announcement affairs to advance $1.2bn, about 10 times the amount of American apprenticed investments.
So for the aboriginal time in ASEAN's 45-year history, a apostolic affair assured after absolution a collective statement.
Indonesian above agent to Australia Sabam Siagian commented: "In the past, ASEAN batten with one voice. From now on, all hell can breach loose. Good luck ASEAN."
The Philippines Adopted Minister Albert del Rosario lamented at the affair that "if larboard unchecked, the accretion tensions . . . getting generated in the action could added amplify into concrete hostilities, which no one wants".
Thursday, July 26, 2012
State College Handyman SVD Architecture Announces Launch
A website is a admired business apparatus for abounding reasons. BuildZoom afresh conducted a analysis of homeowners and found, “homeowners awful admired claimed referrals if advertent and evaluating contractors.” Sixty percent advised applicant references as “very important” if selecting a home advance contractor. Having a website that offers reviews and referrals are what abeyant barter are searching for.
“Many of my baby jobs accept angry into bigger projects through the accord I accept acclimatized with customers,” said Stephen Dmitriyev, buyer of SVD Construction. Not alone has Stephen has acclimatized a acceptable alive accord with abounding of his clients, that accord has aggressive them to address about the superior account they accept acclimatized from SVD Construction, currently giving him a 5 brilliant rating. The top appraisement is abiding to allure abundant added business to the new website, breadth abounding of his casework will be featured.
While a adjourned abridgement has put the brakes on new construction, adjustment is booming. “Kitchen renovations accept become a big allotment of our business. We do all the plan from attic to ceiling, “said Stephen. This includes, new flooring, new cabinets, countertop replacement, lighting, window installations and treatments, and the accession of kitchen islands. Whether a homeowner is searching to audience and redesign a custom kitchen or just searching to put in a backsplash or install chaplet lighting, kitchen renovations can accommodated any budget.
The bath has consistently been looked at as a sanctuary, a abode that represents calmness and calm. There are abounding new trends in bath renovations, aloof black walls, acclimatized rock flooring, bottle circuitous asphalt work, aloft bathtubs and sinks and accumulation activity able solutions. Homeowners can actuate the character of their bathroom. “We are blessed to advice homeowners get a bath adapted by removing bank paper, replacing doors and windows, installing bath adverse tops, replacing floors, or replacing toilets, bathtubs and showers,” said Stephen
A beginning covering of acrylic can be the aspect bare to animate the autogenous of a home. After years of bangs and scratches, it is accepted for an autogenous to charge repainting. “Our autogenous painting casework includes; painting walls, the ceiling, trim work, and drywall repair,” said Stephen. He has collaborated with designers in the area, in adjustment to accommodate barter with abetment in allotment colors for their home. “By creating a acknowledged alive accord with designers our aggregation gives barter the befalling to get an able assessment on blush choices for their home,” said Stephen.
For a songwriter acclimatized to alive with big account and long-form song cycles, Tim Rakel, of ragged Americana purveyor the Union Electric, has been befitting his band's achievement abbreviate and sweet. With Rakel's antecedent bandage Bad Folk and the still-active May Day Orchestra, he's advantaged long-players that accomplish as a whole. For Union Electric, a alternation of seven-inch annal has been the group's achievement for the accomplished three years, abrogation some admirers to admiration if UE had LP-length ambitions or adopted to plan in ten-minute dispatches. This eleven-song anthology mostly answers that question: Four of these advance barrage from those beforehand singles and addition snuck out on a bounded comp, but the blow are new to listeners. So Time Is Gold is neither a alert aeon of songs nor a abstract of antecedent releases, but the anthology gives a accomplished account of a bandage with some solid plan abaft it and a lot of activity still to come.
“Many of my baby jobs accept angry into bigger projects through the accord I accept acclimatized with customers,” said Stephen Dmitriyev, buyer of SVD Construction. Not alone has Stephen has acclimatized a acceptable alive accord with abounding of his clients, that accord has aggressive them to address about the superior account they accept acclimatized from SVD Construction, currently giving him a 5 brilliant rating. The top appraisement is abiding to allure abundant added business to the new website, breadth abounding of his casework will be featured.
While a adjourned abridgement has put the brakes on new construction, adjustment is booming. “Kitchen renovations accept become a big allotment of our business. We do all the plan from attic to ceiling, “said Stephen. This includes, new flooring, new cabinets, countertop replacement, lighting, window installations and treatments, and the accession of kitchen islands. Whether a homeowner is searching to audience and redesign a custom kitchen or just searching to put in a backsplash or install chaplet lighting, kitchen renovations can accommodated any budget.
The bath has consistently been looked at as a sanctuary, a abode that represents calmness and calm. There are abounding new trends in bath renovations, aloof black walls, acclimatized rock flooring, bottle circuitous asphalt work, aloft bathtubs and sinks and accumulation activity able solutions. Homeowners can actuate the character of their bathroom. “We are blessed to advice homeowners get a bath adapted by removing bank paper, replacing doors and windows, installing bath adverse tops, replacing floors, or replacing toilets, bathtubs and showers,” said Stephen
A beginning covering of acrylic can be the aspect bare to animate the autogenous of a home. After years of bangs and scratches, it is accepted for an autogenous to charge repainting. “Our autogenous painting casework includes; painting walls, the ceiling, trim work, and drywall repair,” said Stephen. He has collaborated with designers in the area, in adjustment to accommodate barter with abetment in allotment colors for their home. “By creating a acknowledged alive accord with designers our aggregation gives barter the befalling to get an able assessment on blush choices for their home,” said Stephen.
For a songwriter acclimatized to alive with big account and long-form song cycles, Tim Rakel, of ragged Americana purveyor the Union Electric, has been befitting his band's achievement abbreviate and sweet. With Rakel's antecedent bandage Bad Folk and the still-active May Day Orchestra, he's advantaged long-players that accomplish as a whole. For Union Electric, a alternation of seven-inch annal has been the group's achievement for the accomplished three years, abrogation some admirers to admiration if UE had LP-length ambitions or adopted to plan in ten-minute dispatches. This eleven-song anthology mostly answers that question: Four of these advance barrage from those beforehand singles and addition snuck out on a bounded comp, but the blow are new to listeners. So Time Is Gold is neither a alert aeon of songs nor a abstract of antecedent releases, but the anthology gives a accomplished account of a bandage with some solid plan abaft it and a lot of activity still to come.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
New Mac software able-bodied account $20 upgrade
I didn't charge to absorb a lot of time with the new Mac operating arrangement to see that phones and book computers accept won out over claimed computers at Apple.
Mobile accessories are already amenable for the aggregate of Apple's sales and profits. Now, Apple is authoritative the new Mac arrangement even added like the iOS software that admiral its iPhones and iPads. It's aswell accidentally bottomward the "Mac" name from the Mac OS X operating software, admitting computers will still be alleged Macs, not "Super-sized iPads."
The new system, formally OS X 10.8 and dubbed Mountain Lion, went on auction Wednesday as a $19.99 download from Apple's App Store. It builds on the antecedent system, Lion, which came out endure July.
Mountain Lion is fabricated for a apple area your computer is just one of your accretion devices, forth with your iPhone and your iPad. Apple wants to accomplish it easier to about-face from one to the other, several times a day.
It's already simple to about-face amid iPhone and iPad. For instance, songs and apps you buy on an iPad will automatically pop up on your iPhone through Apple's iCloud online-storage service. Lion has some iCloud features, but Mountain Lion absolutely brings the Mac into the iPhone-iPad family.
That's what I like a lot of about Mountain Lion. It borrows a lot from its adaptable cousin.
The Mac already had such mobile-like appearance as the adeptness to zoom in or out on a MacBook by avidity your fingers on its touchpad. Mountain Lion goes a lot further:
- A notification centermost slides out from the appropriate of the awning to action agenda reminders and the latest mail items. It mimics, down to the accomplishments color, blueprint and font, the way you get Facebook updates, account alerts and added notices on your iPhone.
- The Mac's iChat app has been scrapped in favor of Messages, which is fabricated buzz affable by accumulation the iMessage account for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to barter texts, photos and video. Now you can forward letters from your Mountain Lion computer to your adaptable friends, or adeptness addition Mountain Lion user from your phone. The way conversations are presented feels added like texting than burning messaging.
- Mountain Lion borrows a "Share" button from iPhone and iPad apps. The iPhoto angel organizer on Lion had that, but it's now congenital into added apps such as the Safari Web browser and the Preview certificate reader. The options change depending on the app. In Safari, for instance, you can forward a Web page by email or column a hotlink on Twitter. In Preview, you can allotment a photo on Flickr or add it to iPhoto.
Facebook affiliation is advancing this fall. You'll be able to absolute who sees your column and add your accepted area through that allotment button. No best will you accept to cut and adhesive links. Mountain Lion will aswell accompany acquaintance advice on Facebook accompany with your Mac's abode book. You charge to assurance on to Facebook alone once, and Mountain Lion takes affliction of the rest.
That "single sign-on" affection is accessible appropriate abroad for added services, including Twitter and Flickr. Already you're active in, you don't charge to admission your username and countersign afresh if accessing that account from addition app.
Mountain Lion brings over addition abstract change from the iPhone.
For the longest time, claimed computers let you install annihilation after question. But with Apple's adaptable devices, you are bound to pre-approved software from the company's App Store. Apple wants to assure you from bad experiences, but it has aswell alone some allegedly controllable apps for abstruse reasons.
Mountain Lion adopts that attendant philosophy, admitting the restrictions aren't as severe. If software you try to install doesn't appear from the App Store, it has to be from a software developer who has registered with Apple for $99. The aggregation doesn't analysis software unless it goes through the App Store, but the Mac checks to accomplish abiding the allotment is valid. A allotment can be yanked if a developer turns out to be evil.
I was denied the adeptness to install Google's photo-editing software, Picasa, acceptable because it was accounting afore the allotment affairs began. It took some sleuthing to amount out how to override that.
Now aback to iCloud, my admired allotment about Mountain Lion. All you charge is an Internet affiliation and an Apple ID - the aforementioned one you actualize for chargeless to buy songs and apps on iTunes. That Apple ID links your acquaintance beyond the assorted devices. The iCloud account comes with 5 gigabytes of chargeless storage; you can pay for more.
Consider Pages, Numbers and Keynote - Apple's versions of Microsoft's accepted Office programs for chat processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Abstracts are automatically stored online through iCloud, unless you change the area to a binder on your computer. It's a tactic Microsoft affairs with its just-announced Office upgrade.
That agency your abstracts chase you wherever you go. Type a book in a certificate on your MacBook and see the changes on the iPad a half-minute or so later. You can admission your files even if you don't accept an Internet connection. Copies are stored on your computer, and changes will be replicated to the iCloud binder already you're aback online.
Mobile accessories are already amenable for the aggregate of Apple's sales and profits. Now, Apple is authoritative the new Mac arrangement even added like the iOS software that admiral its iPhones and iPads. It's aswell accidentally bottomward the "Mac" name from the Mac OS X operating software, admitting computers will still be alleged Macs, not "Super-sized iPads."
The new system, formally OS X 10.8 and dubbed Mountain Lion, went on auction Wednesday as a $19.99 download from Apple's App Store. It builds on the antecedent system, Lion, which came out endure July.
Mountain Lion is fabricated for a apple area your computer is just one of your accretion devices, forth with your iPhone and your iPad. Apple wants to accomplish it easier to about-face from one to the other, several times a day.
It's already simple to about-face amid iPhone and iPad. For instance, songs and apps you buy on an iPad will automatically pop up on your iPhone through Apple's iCloud online-storage service. Lion has some iCloud features, but Mountain Lion absolutely brings the Mac into the iPhone-iPad family.
That's what I like a lot of about Mountain Lion. It borrows a lot from its adaptable cousin.
The Mac already had such mobile-like appearance as the adeptness to zoom in or out on a MacBook by avidity your fingers on its touchpad. Mountain Lion goes a lot further:
- A notification centermost slides out from the appropriate of the awning to action agenda reminders and the latest mail items. It mimics, down to the accomplishments color, blueprint and font, the way you get Facebook updates, account alerts and added notices on your iPhone.
- The Mac's iChat app has been scrapped in favor of Messages, which is fabricated buzz affable by accumulation the iMessage account for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to barter texts, photos and video. Now you can forward letters from your Mountain Lion computer to your adaptable friends, or adeptness addition Mountain Lion user from your phone. The way conversations are presented feels added like texting than burning messaging.
- Mountain Lion borrows a "Share" button from iPhone and iPad apps. The iPhoto angel organizer on Lion had that, but it's now congenital into added apps such as the Safari Web browser and the Preview certificate reader. The options change depending on the app. In Safari, for instance, you can forward a Web page by email or column a hotlink on Twitter. In Preview, you can allotment a photo on Flickr or add it to iPhoto.
Facebook affiliation is advancing this fall. You'll be able to absolute who sees your column and add your accepted area through that allotment button. No best will you accept to cut and adhesive links. Mountain Lion will aswell accompany acquaintance advice on Facebook accompany with your Mac's abode book. You charge to assurance on to Facebook alone once, and Mountain Lion takes affliction of the rest.
That "single sign-on" affection is accessible appropriate abroad for added services, including Twitter and Flickr. Already you're active in, you don't charge to admission your username and countersign afresh if accessing that account from addition app.
Mountain Lion brings over addition abstract change from the iPhone.
For the longest time, claimed computers let you install annihilation after question. But with Apple's adaptable devices, you are bound to pre-approved software from the company's App Store. Apple wants to assure you from bad experiences, but it has aswell alone some allegedly controllable apps for abstruse reasons.
Mountain Lion adopts that attendant philosophy, admitting the restrictions aren't as severe. If software you try to install doesn't appear from the App Store, it has to be from a software developer who has registered with Apple for $99. The aggregation doesn't analysis software unless it goes through the App Store, but the Mac checks to accomplish abiding the allotment is valid. A allotment can be yanked if a developer turns out to be evil.
I was denied the adeptness to install Google's photo-editing software, Picasa, acceptable because it was accounting afore the allotment affairs began. It took some sleuthing to amount out how to override that.
Now aback to iCloud, my admired allotment about Mountain Lion. All you charge is an Internet affiliation and an Apple ID - the aforementioned one you actualize for chargeless to buy songs and apps on iTunes. That Apple ID links your acquaintance beyond the assorted devices. The iCloud account comes with 5 gigabytes of chargeless storage; you can pay for more.
Consider Pages, Numbers and Keynote - Apple's versions of Microsoft's accepted Office programs for chat processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Abstracts are automatically stored online through iCloud, unless you change the area to a binder on your computer. It's a tactic Microsoft affairs with its just-announced Office upgrade.
That agency your abstracts chase you wherever you go. Type a book in a certificate on your MacBook and see the changes on the iPad a half-minute or so later. You can admission your files even if you don't accept an Internet connection. Copies are stored on your computer, and changes will be replicated to the iCloud binder already you're aback online.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Venice to accessible with Mira Nair's The Afraid Fundamentalist
Nair’s approved assistant Lydia Dean Pilcher produces the Mirabai Films and Cine Circuitous production; the blur is backed by the Doha Blur Institute.
The blur is acclimatized from Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 acknowledged atypical — a political abstruseness about a adolescent Pakistani man on the border of authoritative it big on Wall Street, who becomes conflicted with the American dream afterwards 9/11. The activity attempt in Lahore, Delhi, Istanbul, New York and Atlanta.
Festival administrator Alberto Barbera said: “The Festival’s aperture night will affection a blur that provides abundant aliment for thought. It is a best that intends to highlight the growing role of changeable adroitness in all spheres of ability and abreast society. Mira Nair has fabricated ??an admirable blur adjustment of a atypical that deals with the contemporary affair of fundamentalisms of any affectionate or nature. With abundant sensitivity, subtlety and arresting faculty of accurate narrative, the administrator is never afraid to yield a difficult stand, aggressive by abstruse ethical and moral affidavit that, although allotment to face reality, still adios its compromises and aberrations”.
Paphos association accept been arrive to advice complete a behemothic circuitous depicting the logo for the town’s bid to become the cultural basic of Europe 2017.
All funds aloft will be donated to the Friends Auberge of Paphos which provides booze and acquittal affliction for humans with activity attached illnesses and their families.
The auberge is currently the alone operational auberge in the boondocks and relies alone on donations and armamentarium raising.
“The colourful logo which can be apparent all over Paphos lends itself to the architecture of a circuitous and the humans of Paphos will be able to accord applied abutment for the town’s bid,” a columnist absolution stated:
Participants are encouraged to accept and buy a circuitous asphalt for just one euro. All of the pieces will again be accumulated assimilate a console which will anatomy a behemothic adaptation of Paphos 2017 logo.
Mayor of Paphos Savvas Vergas is allocating a arresting accessible exhibition amplitude for the creation. Circuitous tiles will be accessible at a amount of accessible contest and festivals over the next few months.
Sharen Taylor, a able-bodied accepted bounded circuitous artist, is and the project’s coordinator.
“It is actually art by the humans of Paphos themselves. By demography allotment they will be befitting animate the attitude of circuitous authoritative in Cyprus and aswell allowance the Paphos’ bid to be accustomed the celebrated appellation of the European basic of culture,” she said.
Volunteers are aswell bare to advice to accumulate the tiles into the one hundred panels which will anatomy the two accent advanced logo.
Everyone is acceptable to yield allotment and a appropriate one hour circuitous branch is getting offered to those after any antecedent ability of circuitous making.
The blur is acclimatized from Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 acknowledged atypical — a political abstruseness about a adolescent Pakistani man on the border of authoritative it big on Wall Street, who becomes conflicted with the American dream afterwards 9/11. The activity attempt in Lahore, Delhi, Istanbul, New York and Atlanta.
Festival administrator Alberto Barbera said: “The Festival’s aperture night will affection a blur that provides abundant aliment for thought. It is a best that intends to highlight the growing role of changeable adroitness in all spheres of ability and abreast society. Mira Nair has fabricated ??an admirable blur adjustment of a atypical that deals with the contemporary affair of fundamentalisms of any affectionate or nature. With abundant sensitivity, subtlety and arresting faculty of accurate narrative, the administrator is never afraid to yield a difficult stand, aggressive by abstruse ethical and moral affidavit that, although allotment to face reality, still adios its compromises and aberrations”.
Paphos association accept been arrive to advice complete a behemothic circuitous depicting the logo for the town’s bid to become the cultural basic of Europe 2017.
All funds aloft will be donated to the Friends Auberge of Paphos which provides booze and acquittal affliction for humans with activity attached illnesses and their families.
The auberge is currently the alone operational auberge in the boondocks and relies alone on donations and armamentarium raising.
“The colourful logo which can be apparent all over Paphos lends itself to the architecture of a circuitous and the humans of Paphos will be able to accord applied abutment for the town’s bid,” a columnist absolution stated:
Participants are encouraged to accept and buy a circuitous asphalt for just one euro. All of the pieces will again be accumulated assimilate a console which will anatomy a behemothic adaptation of Paphos 2017 logo.
Mayor of Paphos Savvas Vergas is allocating a arresting accessible exhibition amplitude for the creation. Circuitous tiles will be accessible at a amount of accessible contest and festivals over the next few months.
Sharen Taylor, a able-bodied accepted bounded circuitous artist, is and the project’s coordinator.
“It is actually art by the humans of Paphos themselves. By demography allotment they will be befitting animate the attitude of circuitous authoritative in Cyprus and aswell allowance the Paphos’ bid to be accustomed the celebrated appellation of the European basic of culture,” she said.
Volunteers are aswell bare to advice to accumulate the tiles into the one hundred panels which will anatomy the two accent advanced logo.
Everyone is acceptable to yield allotment and a appropriate one hour circuitous branch is getting offered to those after any antecedent ability of circuitous making.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
A balderdash in the China boutique
His favourite chestnut apropos a cruise to the Moutai branch in Guizhou arena - area they aftermath a exceptional adaptation of China's baleful baijiu liquor. Raby claims to accept baffled above Chinese arch Zhou Enlai's almanac of downing 37 shots by some margin.
It's the average of the anniversary Boao Appointment for Asia, the Chinese adaptation of the Apple Economic Appointment captivated in Davos, Switzerland. This year's agency is abounding of arch Chinese admiral and ministers, and some absorbing names from all-embracing business and politics. Attendees cover the Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, above US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and Peter Mandelson, who was a abbot and European abettor in Tony Blair's British government.
From above Le Mistral, as humans alpha to alluvion off from cafeteria to the assorted think-tank sessions, a neatly ill-fitted Chinese man after-effects to say hello. Raby yells back: "Ni hao." That, he says, is Liu Mingkang, the well-regarded, afresh retired Chinese cyberbanking regulator.
The next day at about 3pm Raby opens the aperture of the sprawling presidential accommodation at the hotel, area Fortescue Metals Group architect and administrator Andrew Forrest - a above appointment sponsor - has been blockage and entertaining.
With Raby's help, the mining magnate has just hosted Wang Boming, administrator of Caijing, the boundary-pushing business magazine, for lunch. Afterwards insisting I accompany him in a bottle of well-aged Australian shiraz, Raby explains.
"Wang is a princeling," he says. The appellation is acclimated for the accouchement and grandchildren of China's aboriginal revolutionaries. They anatomy something of a actual apart band central the cardinal Communist Affair and one of their number, vice-president Xi Jinping, is set to yield the affair and the country's top job - accepted secretary - and the admiral that goes with it. "Wang brought his brother and a few others with him," Raby adds with dizzying delight. "It was a aces lunch."
In his new career as a business consultant, Raby is on FMG's lath and is one of Forrest's new go-to men in China. He knows all about networking in Beijing and beyond.
While he was ambassador, Raby encouraged Forrest in his efforts to breach the long-held adamant ore cartel of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Brazil's Vale. China was aswell actual agog to acquisition new accumulation sources that ability eventually yield the calefaction out of the adamant ore price.
Raby's abutment for the arguable mining billionaire aswell stemmed from his annoyance with BHP Billiton's hands-off access to China afterwards arch controlling Marius Kloppers confused key sales and business functions to Singapore, as able-bodied as with Rio Tinto's laissez-faire attitude (a agency in the Stern Hu bribery scandal, in which four Rio admiral were accustomed diffuse bastille sentences and added arch admiral concluded up abrogation the country). His abetment of Forrest has been adored with a lath position account $120,00 a year.
Having retired endure August, afterwards a almanac appellation of four and bisected years as agent in Beijing, Raby charcoal actual able-bodied connected. He aswell charcoal in China.
Unusually for the top dog at above embassies, the twice-divorced 58-year-old is blockage on in the city-limits of his final posting, creating Geoff Raby and Associates, which has an added advanced ambit of briefs.
"There is one above Canadian agent here, so that makes alone two of us in the accomplished two decades," Raby says during cafeteria at the best St Regis hotel, which manages the neighbouring architecture area he rents the accommodation apartment. We had agreed that I'd buy cafeteria and he'd accompany the wine; he came address two bottles of red with age-worn labels."Michael Thawley backward in Washington afterwards he was agent there. We don't accept a arrangement [as they do in the US], area humans frequently about-face amid the accessible and clandestine sectors. I've consistently anticipation that cross-fertilisation was absolutely absolutely important. The clandestine area allowances awfully from the abilities accessible agents accompany to their work."
Few top Australian diplomats accompany accessible aggregation boards afterwards they leave the service. Raby cites above agent to Japan Ashton Calvert, who was taken up by Rio Tinto and Woodside, as a attenuate exception.
"I achievement to advice change that. A lot of humans in Australia admiration why you'd accept above diplomats and accessible agents on your board. It happens in Britain and the US. We accompany something that is above the commercial. We accept a broader angle on action - and on the alternation amid business and government and diplomacy. Boards crave a mix of skills. There's alone so abounding financiers and engineers you wish on one board."
It has been absolutely a change, but one he seems to be enjoying. Raby's abiding girlfriend, Shirley Yu Ze, a newsreader for China's state-run CCTV and a PhD student, has confused in with him and his beginning accumulating of predominantly Chinese art.
"I accept 5 agents and the accomplishment bill seems to appear about added bound every time.
I accept acknowledged bills that shock me," he says. "It's a altered world. I accept to anticipate about accumulation and loss. There is a assertive aegis in getting a accessible assistant [and knowing] the accomplishment will be in your coffer already a fortnight."
But 10 months into his new career Raby says he "absolutely" fabricated the appropriate decision. "Occasionally, there are moments of blackout if I anticipate it's just me with no assurance net. But that's how a lot of humans reside and I am just chargeless to say yes or no. There's not a moment of regret, but I am not that array of being anyway."
He has aswell been chargeless to yield a stick to Kevin Rudd, his ancient aide at the admiral in China and after his bang-up as both the prime abbot and adopted diplomacy minister. Alone months afore retirement he had a go at the Mandarin-speaking Rudd, saying: "You don't charge to allege Chinese to apperceive China."
More recently, he accused Rudd of spinning a collective China-Australia statement, issued with Vice-Premier Li Keqiang in December 2009, to his own advantage and disrespecting the Chinese in accomplishing so. The account was meant to accomplishment the mutual relationship, which had attenuated clearly back the arrest of the Rio admiral beforehand that year.
"I will consistently be a bit accountable in what I can say about that. I learnt a lot and it was a actual arduous aeon for a while. Added than annihilation else, the assignment I took from that was one of accumulated governance," Raby adds, in a bright dig at the Rio board.
"It was a shock and shows a charge to ... accumulate a acceptable eye on offices overseas. You can't artlessly say: 'We're assault all our targets, so aggregate is fine.' To be absolutely honest, it showed me what an advancing claiming accumulated babyminding is. In some ways, I feel I am bigger able to sit on boards because of that experience."
Raby reckons he has consistently been somewhat altered from added accessible agents in that he is "a bit of a risk-taker". Others would absolutely agree. Raby was a awful arresting agent in Beijing - in fact, one of the bigger accepted envoys there, with a adamant schedule. His affection for ability and the arts took him into the city's added alluring restaurants, bars, nightspots and contemporary art districts to appear all address of openings and exhibitions.
It's the average of the anniversary Boao Appointment for Asia, the Chinese adaptation of the Apple Economic Appointment captivated in Davos, Switzerland. This year's agency is abounding of arch Chinese admiral and ministers, and some absorbing names from all-embracing business and politics. Attendees cover the Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, above US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and Peter Mandelson, who was a abbot and European abettor in Tony Blair's British government.
From above Le Mistral, as humans alpha to alluvion off from cafeteria to the assorted think-tank sessions, a neatly ill-fitted Chinese man after-effects to say hello. Raby yells back: "Ni hao." That, he says, is Liu Mingkang, the well-regarded, afresh retired Chinese cyberbanking regulator.
The next day at about 3pm Raby opens the aperture of the sprawling presidential accommodation at the hotel, area Fortescue Metals Group architect and administrator Andrew Forrest - a above appointment sponsor - has been blockage and entertaining.
With Raby's help, the mining magnate has just hosted Wang Boming, administrator of Caijing, the boundary-pushing business magazine, for lunch. Afterwards insisting I accompany him in a bottle of well-aged Australian shiraz, Raby explains.
"Wang is a princeling," he says. The appellation is acclimated for the accouchement and grandchildren of China's aboriginal revolutionaries. They anatomy something of a actual apart band central the cardinal Communist Affair and one of their number, vice-president Xi Jinping, is set to yield the affair and the country's top job - accepted secretary - and the admiral that goes with it. "Wang brought his brother and a few others with him," Raby adds with dizzying delight. "It was a aces lunch."
In his new career as a business consultant, Raby is on FMG's lath and is one of Forrest's new go-to men in China. He knows all about networking in Beijing and beyond.
While he was ambassador, Raby encouraged Forrest in his efforts to breach the long-held adamant ore cartel of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Brazil's Vale. China was aswell actual agog to acquisition new accumulation sources that ability eventually yield the calefaction out of the adamant ore price.
Raby's abutment for the arguable mining billionaire aswell stemmed from his annoyance with BHP Billiton's hands-off access to China afterwards arch controlling Marius Kloppers confused key sales and business functions to Singapore, as able-bodied as with Rio Tinto's laissez-faire attitude (a agency in the Stern Hu bribery scandal, in which four Rio admiral were accustomed diffuse bastille sentences and added arch admiral concluded up abrogation the country). His abetment of Forrest has been adored with a lath position account $120,00 a year.
Having retired endure August, afterwards a almanac appellation of four and bisected years as agent in Beijing, Raby charcoal actual able-bodied connected. He aswell charcoal in China.
Unusually for the top dog at above embassies, the twice-divorced 58-year-old is blockage on in the city-limits of his final posting, creating Geoff Raby and Associates, which has an added advanced ambit of briefs.
"There is one above Canadian agent here, so that makes alone two of us in the accomplished two decades," Raby says during cafeteria at the best St Regis hotel, which manages the neighbouring architecture area he rents the accommodation apartment. We had agreed that I'd buy cafeteria and he'd accompany the wine; he came address two bottles of red with age-worn labels."Michael Thawley backward in Washington afterwards he was agent there. We don't accept a arrangement [as they do in the US], area humans frequently about-face amid the accessible and clandestine sectors. I've consistently anticipation that cross-fertilisation was absolutely absolutely important. The clandestine area allowances awfully from the abilities accessible agents accompany to their work."
Few top Australian diplomats accompany accessible aggregation boards afterwards they leave the service. Raby cites above agent to Japan Ashton Calvert, who was taken up by Rio Tinto and Woodside, as a attenuate exception.
"I achievement to advice change that. A lot of humans in Australia admiration why you'd accept above diplomats and accessible agents on your board. It happens in Britain and the US. We accompany something that is above the commercial. We accept a broader angle on action - and on the alternation amid business and government and diplomacy. Boards crave a mix of skills. There's alone so abounding financiers and engineers you wish on one board."
It has been absolutely a change, but one he seems to be enjoying. Raby's abiding girlfriend, Shirley Yu Ze, a newsreader for China's state-run CCTV and a PhD student, has confused in with him and his beginning accumulating of predominantly Chinese art.
"I accept 5 agents and the accomplishment bill seems to appear about added bound every time.
I accept acknowledged bills that shock me," he says. "It's a altered world. I accept to anticipate about accumulation and loss. There is a assertive aegis in getting a accessible assistant [and knowing] the accomplishment will be in your coffer already a fortnight."
But 10 months into his new career Raby says he "absolutely" fabricated the appropriate decision. "Occasionally, there are moments of blackout if I anticipate it's just me with no assurance net. But that's how a lot of humans reside and I am just chargeless to say yes or no. There's not a moment of regret, but I am not that array of being anyway."
He has aswell been chargeless to yield a stick to Kevin Rudd, his ancient aide at the admiral in China and after his bang-up as both the prime abbot and adopted diplomacy minister. Alone months afore retirement he had a go at the Mandarin-speaking Rudd, saying: "You don't charge to allege Chinese to apperceive China."
More recently, he accused Rudd of spinning a collective China-Australia statement, issued with Vice-Premier Li Keqiang in December 2009, to his own advantage and disrespecting the Chinese in accomplishing so. The account was meant to accomplishment the mutual relationship, which had attenuated clearly back the arrest of the Rio admiral beforehand that year.
"I will consistently be a bit accountable in what I can say about that. I learnt a lot and it was a actual arduous aeon for a while. Added than annihilation else, the assignment I took from that was one of accumulated governance," Raby adds, in a bright dig at the Rio board.
"It was a shock and shows a charge to ... accumulate a acceptable eye on offices overseas. You can't artlessly say: 'We're assault all our targets, so aggregate is fine.' To be absolutely honest, it showed me what an advancing claiming accumulated babyminding is. In some ways, I feel I am bigger able to sit on boards because of that experience."
Raby reckons he has consistently been somewhat altered from added accessible agents in that he is "a bit of a risk-taker". Others would absolutely agree. Raby was a awful arresting agent in Beijing - in fact, one of the bigger accepted envoys there, with a adamant schedule. His affection for ability and the arts took him into the city's added alluring restaurants, bars, nightspots and contemporary art districts to appear all address of openings and exhibitions.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tesla's Model S is fast and fun
I am now a affiliate of a baddest club: I’m one of the actual few who has apprenticed Tesla’s new all-electric Model S affluence sedan.
Last week, the aggregation accustomed a few associates of the bounded columnist to analysis drive the car for about 15 account each. That’s not abundant time for a absolute evaluation, but it is abundant for some able antecedent impressions.
The aboriginal words that appear to apperception about the Model S are “fast” and “fun.” The car I drove, which is a higher-end, $77,400 version, has some austere pickup. Tesla says it will ability 60 afar per hour in 5.9 abnormal and is governor-limited to 130 afar per hour.
Those aren’t world-beating numbers — Tesla is affairs a “performance” adaptation of the Model S that will get to 60 mph in 4.4 abnormal — but they’re affluence fast for a lot of drivers.
When you bite the accelerator, you don’t get the clear barrage of a V-8 engine, but there’s something aberrant and blood-tingling about activity a car rapidly ability artery speeds and above with no sounds added than a little alley and wind noise. It about feels like getting on the Starship Enterprise as it goes into bastardize drive.
And the nice affair about that ability is that it’s instantaneous. You don’t accept to downshift or delay for the manual to do so for you, because basically there is no accessory box. Also, the ability is accessible even at artery speeds — instantly — if you wish to canyon someone.
The Model S feels solid and takes curves tightly. The car’s array backpack is below the cockpit rather than in the block or in the front, giving it a low centermost of force and bigger stability. And its onboard computers automatically lower its abeyance as you get up to artery speeds.
One acute affair about active the car is the amount to which you can personalize the experience. You can acclimatize the abeyance up or down to abstain boring the cowl if you dip into a driveway, say. You can acclimatize the council to accomplish it tighter, like that in a sports car, or looser, like that in a acceptable American affluence car.
And you can acclimatize the feel of the accelerator. The accepted setting, which provides a big recharge addition to the battery, gives the car the activity of accepting a accepted transmission; as you let up on the accelerator, the car slows markedly, as if you had downshifted into a lower gear. But you can change it so the accelerator feels added like one in a car with an automated transmission, area there’s beneath deceleration if you let up the pedal. The accommodation is that you aswell forward beneath allegation aback to the batteries.
On the outside, the Model S looks like a cantankerous amid a Jaguar and a Maserati. It may be the latest in high-tech automobiles, but it doesn’t scream “electric car!” And that’s a acceptable thing.
On the inside, the car feels a bit Spartan. It has covering seats and copse trim, but the berth is a bit bland, basal and utilitarian.
What stands out in the Model S berth is the 17-inch touch-screen affectation that serves as its centermost console. Through it, you can acclimatize the radio, the active acquaintance and the altitude control. You aswell use it to appearance video from the rear-facing camera, maps from Google Maps and even cream the Web through its congenital browser. The affectation is ample abundant to acquiesce you to appearance its card controls, a map and radio buttons all at the aforementioned time.
The car has a congenital cellular abstracts radio, which allows users not alone to cream the Web, but aswell get turn-by-turn aeronautics and admission Internet radio. But the “connectivity package” that allows you to do all that is optional. Tesla isn’t yet advice the price.
Unfortunately, the animate is somewhat limited. In agreement of its ball capabilities, for example, users can admission TuneIn radio and Slacker radio through the blow screen, but not Pandora, Spotify, Google Music or any added Internet radio service. You can beck music from such casework to the animate from your smartphone, but you can’t ascendancy those apps through the animate itself. Tesla assembly said they plan on abacus that adequacy eventually.
The animate aswell doesn’t abutment articulation control. So you can’t columnist a button and acquaint it to punch a buzz amount for you or change the channel. Tesla’s arch technology officer, J.B. Straubel, said the aggregation affairs to add articulation ascendancy application Google Voice, but it’s not accessible at launch. And sorry, iPhone fans, the aggregation doesn’t yet plan to abutment the new hands-free capabilities Apple is abacus to its Siri feature.
Last week, the aggregation accustomed a few associates of the bounded columnist to analysis drive the car for about 15 account each. That’s not abundant time for a absolute evaluation, but it is abundant for some able antecedent impressions.
The aboriginal words that appear to apperception about the Model S are “fast” and “fun.” The car I drove, which is a higher-end, $77,400 version, has some austere pickup. Tesla says it will ability 60 afar per hour in 5.9 abnormal and is governor-limited to 130 afar per hour.
Those aren’t world-beating numbers — Tesla is affairs a “performance” adaptation of the Model S that will get to 60 mph in 4.4 abnormal — but they’re affluence fast for a lot of drivers.
When you bite the accelerator, you don’t get the clear barrage of a V-8 engine, but there’s something aberrant and blood-tingling about activity a car rapidly ability artery speeds and above with no sounds added than a little alley and wind noise. It about feels like getting on the Starship Enterprise as it goes into bastardize drive.
And the nice affair about that ability is that it’s instantaneous. You don’t accept to downshift or delay for the manual to do so for you, because basically there is no accessory box. Also, the ability is accessible even at artery speeds — instantly — if you wish to canyon someone.
The Model S feels solid and takes curves tightly. The car’s array backpack is below the cockpit rather than in the block or in the front, giving it a low centermost of force and bigger stability. And its onboard computers automatically lower its abeyance as you get up to artery speeds.
One acute affair about active the car is the amount to which you can personalize the experience. You can acclimatize the abeyance up or down to abstain boring the cowl if you dip into a driveway, say. You can acclimatize the council to accomplish it tighter, like that in a sports car, or looser, like that in a acceptable American affluence car.
And you can acclimatize the feel of the accelerator. The accepted setting, which provides a big recharge addition to the battery, gives the car the activity of accepting a accepted transmission; as you let up on the accelerator, the car slows markedly, as if you had downshifted into a lower gear. But you can change it so the accelerator feels added like one in a car with an automated transmission, area there’s beneath deceleration if you let up the pedal. The accommodation is that you aswell forward beneath allegation aback to the batteries.
On the outside, the Model S looks like a cantankerous amid a Jaguar and a Maserati. It may be the latest in high-tech automobiles, but it doesn’t scream “electric car!” And that’s a acceptable thing.
On the inside, the car feels a bit Spartan. It has covering seats and copse trim, but the berth is a bit bland, basal and utilitarian.
What stands out in the Model S berth is the 17-inch touch-screen affectation that serves as its centermost console. Through it, you can acclimatize the radio, the active acquaintance and the altitude control. You aswell use it to appearance video from the rear-facing camera, maps from Google Maps and even cream the Web through its congenital browser. The affectation is ample abundant to acquiesce you to appearance its card controls, a map and radio buttons all at the aforementioned time.
The car has a congenital cellular abstracts radio, which allows users not alone to cream the Web, but aswell get turn-by-turn aeronautics and admission Internet radio. But the “connectivity package” that allows you to do all that is optional. Tesla isn’t yet advice the price.
Unfortunately, the animate is somewhat limited. In agreement of its ball capabilities, for example, users can admission TuneIn radio and Slacker radio through the blow screen, but not Pandora, Spotify, Google Music or any added Internet radio service. You can beck music from such casework to the animate from your smartphone, but you can’t ascendancy those apps through the animate itself. Tesla assembly said they plan on abacus that adequacy eventually.
The animate aswell doesn’t abutment articulation control. So you can’t columnist a button and acquaint it to punch a buzz amount for you or change the channel. Tesla’s arch technology officer, J.B. Straubel, said the aggregation affairs to add articulation ascendancy application Google Voice, but it’s not accessible at launch. And sorry, iPhone fans, the aggregation doesn’t yet plan to abutment the new hands-free capabilities Apple is abacus to its Siri feature.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Fans 'making this accord get done'
They were accustomed with authoritative a new amphitheater possible, and they mostly reacted to the account with jubilation.
Saskatchewan Roughriders admirers animated Saturday's pre-game advertisement that arena is to breach on a new football amphitheater in Regina next year. Premier Brad Wall expects the openair, "roof-ready" amphitheater will accessible for the Riders and its admirers in 2017.
Regina's Stephanie O'Soup larboard Saturday's matinee bold doubly contented afterwards the home aggregation baffled the league's arresting best B.C. Lions 23-20.
"It's amazing. It's about time," O'Soup said of Wall's confirmation. "It's able-bodied deserved; the admirers accept been so admiring and loyal for so abounding years. We deserve it as fans, as a city-limits and as a province."
The 33,000-seat, $278 million, amphitheater is to be advised to lath a approaching roof. Funding will be breach amid the province, which has committed $80 million, the city-limits of Regina, at $73 actor additional a accessible $100-million bigoted loan, and the Roughriders organization, which will accord $25 million.
Roger Brandvold, administrator of the Saskatchewan Roughriders lath of governors, batten of the role Riders admirers accept played in the new amphitheater activity that he said was consistently the board's top priority.
"Thank you to you, Rider Nation, because you are authoritative this accord get done," Brandvold said in his pregame address.
Not all Riders admirers reacted to the account with dizzying enthusiasm.
Ben Quesnel, of Regina, questioned the project's call as he larboard Mosaic Amphitheater afterwards Saturday's game.
"I'm not abiding whether we charge it or not," Quesnel said. "... Do we absolutely accept to go draft $270, $280 actor on architecture a aboriginal amphitheater that holds maybe a little bit added than this amphitheater afore the expansions? Do we charge to do it? I don't know."
Like endless added fans, however, he alleged the advertisement "pretty exciting" because Saskatchewan's analogously baby population.
Ben's cousin, Gregory Quesnel, cited the province's citizenry as a abeyant accountability should affairs move advanced on a retractable roof.
"Maybe we don't accept the citizenry (to pay for it)," Gregory said. "We're not accepting the roof. It's not gonna happen."
B.C. Place and the Rogers Centre in Toronto are the alone two roofed stadiums in which CFL teams play. Both are multi-use accessories that are home to two able sports teams.
For her part, O'Soup isn't affairs into the skepticism. She said the aggregation deserves a world-class amphitheater that she believes will allure added football fans.
"This is a time for celebration," she said. "It boosts our abridgement every time a bold is played here," she added, citation admirers who biking beyond the province, as able-bodied as from out of province, to watch the Roughriders.
Before Saturday's bold started, O'Soup reflected on her 20 years' account of watching Riders amateur as a video played on the maxtron awning which showed highlights of the amphitheater through the years. She said she will be sad to see the 80-year-old Mosaic Amphitheater burst but hopes pieces will be congenital into the new website at Evraz Place.
Saskatchewan Roughriders admirers animated Saturday's pre-game advertisement that arena is to breach on a new football amphitheater in Regina next year. Premier Brad Wall expects the openair, "roof-ready" amphitheater will accessible for the Riders and its admirers in 2017.
Regina's Stephanie O'Soup larboard Saturday's matinee bold doubly contented afterwards the home aggregation baffled the league's arresting best B.C. Lions 23-20.
"It's amazing. It's about time," O'Soup said of Wall's confirmation. "It's able-bodied deserved; the admirers accept been so admiring and loyal for so abounding years. We deserve it as fans, as a city-limits and as a province."
The 33,000-seat, $278 million, amphitheater is to be advised to lath a approaching roof. Funding will be breach amid the province, which has committed $80 million, the city-limits of Regina, at $73 actor additional a accessible $100-million bigoted loan, and the Roughriders organization, which will accord $25 million.
Roger Brandvold, administrator of the Saskatchewan Roughriders lath of governors, batten of the role Riders admirers accept played in the new amphitheater activity that he said was consistently the board's top priority.
"Thank you to you, Rider Nation, because you are authoritative this accord get done," Brandvold said in his pregame address.
Not all Riders admirers reacted to the account with dizzying enthusiasm.
Ben Quesnel, of Regina, questioned the project's call as he larboard Mosaic Amphitheater afterwards Saturday's game.
"I'm not abiding whether we charge it or not," Quesnel said. "... Do we absolutely accept to go draft $270, $280 actor on architecture a aboriginal amphitheater that holds maybe a little bit added than this amphitheater afore the expansions? Do we charge to do it? I don't know."
Like endless added fans, however, he alleged the advertisement "pretty exciting" because Saskatchewan's analogously baby population.
Ben's cousin, Gregory Quesnel, cited the province's citizenry as a abeyant accountability should affairs move advanced on a retractable roof.
"Maybe we don't accept the citizenry (to pay for it)," Gregory said. "We're not accepting the roof. It's not gonna happen."
B.C. Place and the Rogers Centre in Toronto are the alone two roofed stadiums in which CFL teams play. Both are multi-use accessories that are home to two able sports teams.
For her part, O'Soup isn't affairs into the skepticism. She said the aggregation deserves a world-class amphitheater that she believes will allure added football fans.
"This is a time for celebration," she said. "It boosts our abridgement every time a bold is played here," she added, citation admirers who biking beyond the province, as able-bodied as from out of province, to watch the Roughriders.
Before Saturday's bold started, O'Soup reflected on her 20 years' account of watching Riders amateur as a video played on the maxtron awning which showed highlights of the amphitheater through the years. She said she will be sad to see the 80-year-old Mosaic Amphitheater burst but hopes pieces will be congenital into the new website at Evraz Place.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Developers cull out of Mayflower
The action in Mayflower over a section of acreage for accessible development may be over for now.
Developers accept aloof their appeal to complete allotment of a subdivision in an breadth that could accommodate added than 300 graves, according to the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
Following a Mayflower Planning Agency affair Tuesday that was abounding by associates of the Palarm Missionary Baptist Church and the Friends of Ida Bell Cemetery, no development will abide in the area, city-limits admiral said.
The planning agency had already appropriate an ecology abstraction of the area, the amount of which may accept angry abroad approaching development. Those who abounding the a lot of contempo affair were greeted by the agency with the actuality that annihilation abroad was in their easily until any address about the breadth of grave sites had been established.
Cemetery Hill, breadth two cemeteries may be located, is abreast River Road Loop in Mayflower, and Byron McKimmey had attempted to advance subdivisions on the acreage previously, said Skip Stewart-Abernathy of the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
“[McKimmey] is on almanac as actionable assorted regulations and agreements with the Little Rock District Corps of Engineers and the City-limits of Mayflower,” Stewart-Abernathy said. “There is boilerplate on the acme of the acropolis or on its north, east and apparently south slopes that comatose cannot hit his burials.”
Residents of River Plantation Subdivision accept abutting with associates of Palarm Baptist to accomplish abiding all grave sites are accounted for, and Andrew Timmer from the acreage owners affiliation said that they accept been able to analyze added than 300 sites.
"We accept been able to mark the concrete ‘Wagon Trail’ access to Ida Bell application 23 markers amid on the arctic abruptness or the proposed development,” Timmer said. Many times the breadth begin is a abasement of acreage and a baby rock can be begin at one end adverse east, which would aggregate a headstone.
Prince Fuller of Palarm Baptist said these cemeteries would a lot of acceptable be home to disciplinarian in the breadth from the mid-19th century. The earlier churches would accept been started on plantations, and the adeptness to mark these graves is of actual importance.
Ida Bell Cemetery is home to African American Union adept Wilson Burke, and it houses several Circuitous Templars of America stones as able-bodied as those from added groups.
Commission associates attempted to affluence fears from the two groups, pointing out that the agency had already asked for official studies to be completed afore any advocacy would appear from the group.
The ambition of the project, accepted to abide for the next 5 years, is to burrow the backward Roman and Byzantine website of Huqoq in Israel abreast the Sea of Galilee to bare the charcoal of a abbey and accept its ambience in the village.
Huqoq, which was alone in the Middle Ages and was after re-inhabited by Arabs until the State of Israel was accustomed in 1948, lies about 5 kilometres west of Capernaum, which is breadth Jesus is believed to accept lived as an adult, and about 5 kilometres arctic of Migdal, the birthplace of Mary Magdalene.
Alex Gropper, admiral of U of T’s Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies (CIMS) who has led accomplished archeological address to Israel, said this analysis is agitative because not alone did the archeologists acquisition the abbey they were searching for, but aswell a admirable circuitous attic with an inscription on it.
According to a columnist absolution on U of T’s website, the circuitous is fabricated from top superior coloured rock cubes and includes a arena depicting Samson agreement torches amid the cape of foxes.
Another allotment of the circuitous appearance two changeable faces that abut a Hebrew inscription that refers to rewards for those who accomplish acceptable deeds.
“This analysis is cogent because alone a baby amount of age-old abbey barrio are busy with mosaics assuming biblical scenes, and alone two others accept scenes with Samson – one is at addition website just a brace of afar from Huqoq,” Magness was quoted in the U of T columnist release.
Although Gropper, who said the analysis of the circuitous was a “complete surprise,” added that based on the photos he’s seen, he hasn’t been able to construe the inscription, which is either in Hebrew or Aramaic. He said he looks advanced to acquirements absolutely what the inscription says.
But what the busy circuitous reveals is that the apple breadth the abbey stood was acceptable actual prosperous, Gropper said.
“It aswell indicates that there was a actual able Jewish attendance in the acreage admitting the actuality that it had allegedly been depopulating because of the revolts adjoin Rome… This just buttresses and highlights the Jewish attendance in the area.”
Developers accept aloof their appeal to complete allotment of a subdivision in an breadth that could accommodate added than 300 graves, according to the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
Following a Mayflower Planning Agency affair Tuesday that was abounding by associates of the Palarm Missionary Baptist Church and the Friends of Ida Bell Cemetery, no development will abide in the area, city-limits admiral said.
The planning agency had already appropriate an ecology abstraction of the area, the amount of which may accept angry abroad approaching development. Those who abounding the a lot of contempo affair were greeted by the agency with the actuality that annihilation abroad was in their easily until any address about the breadth of grave sites had been established.
Cemetery Hill, breadth two cemeteries may be located, is abreast River Road Loop in Mayflower, and Byron McKimmey had attempted to advance subdivisions on the acreage previously, said Skip Stewart-Abernathy of the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
“[McKimmey] is on almanac as actionable assorted regulations and agreements with the Little Rock District Corps of Engineers and the City-limits of Mayflower,” Stewart-Abernathy said. “There is boilerplate on the acme of the acropolis or on its north, east and apparently south slopes that comatose cannot hit his burials.”
Residents of River Plantation Subdivision accept abutting with associates of Palarm Baptist to accomplish abiding all grave sites are accounted for, and Andrew Timmer from the acreage owners affiliation said that they accept been able to analyze added than 300 sites.
"We accept been able to mark the concrete ‘Wagon Trail’ access to Ida Bell application 23 markers amid on the arctic abruptness or the proposed development,” Timmer said. Many times the breadth begin is a abasement of acreage and a baby rock can be begin at one end adverse east, which would aggregate a headstone.
Prince Fuller of Palarm Baptist said these cemeteries would a lot of acceptable be home to disciplinarian in the breadth from the mid-19th century. The earlier churches would accept been started on plantations, and the adeptness to mark these graves is of actual importance.
Ida Bell Cemetery is home to African American Union adept Wilson Burke, and it houses several Circuitous Templars of America stones as able-bodied as those from added groups.
Commission associates attempted to affluence fears from the two groups, pointing out that the agency had already asked for official studies to be completed afore any advocacy would appear from the group.
The ambition of the project, accepted to abide for the next 5 years, is to burrow the backward Roman and Byzantine website of Huqoq in Israel abreast the Sea of Galilee to bare the charcoal of a abbey and accept its ambience in the village.
Huqoq, which was alone in the Middle Ages and was after re-inhabited by Arabs until the State of Israel was accustomed in 1948, lies about 5 kilometres west of Capernaum, which is breadth Jesus is believed to accept lived as an adult, and about 5 kilometres arctic of Migdal, the birthplace of Mary Magdalene.
Alex Gropper, admiral of U of T’s Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies (CIMS) who has led accomplished archeological address to Israel, said this analysis is agitative because not alone did the archeologists acquisition the abbey they were searching for, but aswell a admirable circuitous attic with an inscription on it.
According to a columnist absolution on U of T’s website, the circuitous is fabricated from top superior coloured rock cubes and includes a arena depicting Samson agreement torches amid the cape of foxes.
Another allotment of the circuitous appearance two changeable faces that abut a Hebrew inscription that refers to rewards for those who accomplish acceptable deeds.
“This analysis is cogent because alone a baby amount of age-old abbey barrio are busy with mosaics assuming biblical scenes, and alone two others accept scenes with Samson – one is at addition website just a brace of afar from Huqoq,” Magness was quoted in the U of T columnist release.
Although Gropper, who said the analysis of the circuitous was a “complete surprise,” added that based on the photos he’s seen, he hasn’t been able to construe the inscription, which is either in Hebrew or Aramaic. He said he looks advanced to acquirements absolutely what the inscription says.
But what the busy circuitous reveals is that the apple breadth the abbey stood was acceptable actual prosperous, Gropper said.
“It aswell indicates that there was a actual able Jewish attendance in the acreage admitting the actuality that it had allegedly been depopulating because of the revolts adjoin Rome… This just buttresses and highlights the Jewish attendance in the area.”
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
McKenzie becoming a mentor
The Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive back turned 30 on March 17, making him the oldest starter on the CFL team's defence. If Saskatchewan's offence starts a game with five receivers - and keeps 32-yearold fullback Neal Hughes on the sideline - McKenzie is the oldest starter on the entire team.
"I never thought the day would come," McKenzie, who's in his fourth season with the Roughriders, said Tuesday at Mosaic Stadium. "It's all smiles over here. I love it-
"I need to set an example for the younger guys. I need to do it on the field, off the field, in words or by showing them. I like the role."
In terms of years of service in the Roughriders secondary, fifth-year safety James Patrick has McKenzie beat, but McKenzie has assumed more of a vocal leadership role.
As a result, he's following the lead of former Roughriders DBs like Eddie Davis and Lance Frazier, tutoring younger players like halfback Eddie Russ, in his second season with Saskatchewan but his first as a full-time starter, and cornerbacks Woodny Turenne and Terrell Maze, each of whom has one game of experience with Saskatchewan.
"Some of the guys look at me in that way (as the wily veteran)," McKenzie said. "It's not hard to step in and tell the younger guys, 'Hey, look, this is the right way to do it.' '
In reality, McKenzie used to be one of those guys.
When he joined the Roughriders in 2009 after stints with the NFL's Houston Texans and AFL's Arizona Rattlers, he needed (and got) tips from his veteran teammates to understand the way of the CFL world.
McKenzie started for the first time late in 2009 when Frazier missed a game with the flu. Frazier returned the following week, but McKenzie replaced Davis at the other halfback spot after Davis underwent knee surgery.
Following Davis's retirement that off-season, McKenzie took over as the starter in 2010 - and he has flourished.
"I feel like I've gotten better each year," the 5-foot-9, 190-pound product of New York City said. "I'm more experienced now.
"(Because of that) you know what's coming and what teams like to do. You're more in touch with what's going on."
Roughriders defensive coordinator Richie Hall said McKenzie is playing more aggressively and physically than he did in his first two seasons in Saskatchewan. Hall was the Edmonton Eskimos' head coach at the time, but he has seen McKenzie progress since Hall's return to the Roughriders in 2011.
"(McKenzie's using) a different technique, but regardless of what technique you use, the bottom line is, 'Do you play with confidence or don't you play with confidence?' He's playing with confidence," Hall said. "When you do, you get results because you make plays and you're not worried about other things.
"About the middle of last year, he started playing very well for us. He had some picks. This year, he has been around the ball and doing those little things that maybe a lot of people might not notice. But as coaches, we notice and we see his improvement as a player."
McKenzie credits three former defensive backs - Hall, Roughriders DBs coach Barron Miles and Saskatchewan head coach Corey Chamblin - with helping his development and his burgeoning confidence level. He's hoping to build on a 2011 season in which he had 53 tackles, seven knockdowns and two interceptions.
"As far as last year goes, I was growing to that," McKenzie said. "It comes with time.
"Working with (Miles), you can't not be confident. If you don't have confidence, he's going to turn you." McKenzie has remained self-assured despite getting a stiff test every week.
In a slotback-driven league, McKenzie this season has covered Andy Fantuz and Bakari Grant of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats one week and Fred Stamps and Adarius Bowman of the Eskimos the next. On Saturday, McKenzie gets to face Geroy Simon and Arland Bruce when the B.C. Lions invade Mosaic Stadium.
"No matter who I get - it could be somebody you've never heard of - I'm going to practise and prepare the same way every game," said McKenzie, who helped hold Stamps to two catches for 20 yards in Sunday's 17-1 victory over the Eskimos.
"It doesn't matter who's in front of me or who I've got to (defend). You've been around the league. You know who teams' go-to guys are. I don't even look at it like that. I just do my technique and let the chips fall where they fall."
"I never thought the day would come," McKenzie, who's in his fourth season with the Roughriders, said Tuesday at Mosaic Stadium. "It's all smiles over here. I love it-
"I need to set an example for the younger guys. I need to do it on the field, off the field, in words or by showing them. I like the role."
In terms of years of service in the Roughriders secondary, fifth-year safety James Patrick has McKenzie beat, but McKenzie has assumed more of a vocal leadership role.
As a result, he's following the lead of former Roughriders DBs like Eddie Davis and Lance Frazier, tutoring younger players like halfback Eddie Russ, in his second season with Saskatchewan but his first as a full-time starter, and cornerbacks Woodny Turenne and Terrell Maze, each of whom has one game of experience with Saskatchewan.
"Some of the guys look at me in that way (as the wily veteran)," McKenzie said. "It's not hard to step in and tell the younger guys, 'Hey, look, this is the right way to do it.' '
In reality, McKenzie used to be one of those guys.
When he joined the Roughriders in 2009 after stints with the NFL's Houston Texans and AFL's Arizona Rattlers, he needed (and got) tips from his veteran teammates to understand the way of the CFL world.
McKenzie started for the first time late in 2009 when Frazier missed a game with the flu. Frazier returned the following week, but McKenzie replaced Davis at the other halfback spot after Davis underwent knee surgery.
Following Davis's retirement that off-season, McKenzie took over as the starter in 2010 - and he has flourished.
"I feel like I've gotten better each year," the 5-foot-9, 190-pound product of New York City said. "I'm more experienced now.
"(Because of that) you know what's coming and what teams like to do. You're more in touch with what's going on."
Roughriders defensive coordinator Richie Hall said McKenzie is playing more aggressively and physically than he did in his first two seasons in Saskatchewan. Hall was the Edmonton Eskimos' head coach at the time, but he has seen McKenzie progress since Hall's return to the Roughriders in 2011.
"(McKenzie's using) a different technique, but regardless of what technique you use, the bottom line is, 'Do you play with confidence or don't you play with confidence?' He's playing with confidence," Hall said. "When you do, you get results because you make plays and you're not worried about other things.
"About the middle of last year, he started playing very well for us. He had some picks. This year, he has been around the ball and doing those little things that maybe a lot of people might not notice. But as coaches, we notice and we see his improvement as a player."
McKenzie credits three former defensive backs - Hall, Roughriders DBs coach Barron Miles and Saskatchewan head coach Corey Chamblin - with helping his development and his burgeoning confidence level. He's hoping to build on a 2011 season in which he had 53 tackles, seven knockdowns and two interceptions.
"As far as last year goes, I was growing to that," McKenzie said. "It comes with time.
"Working with (Miles), you can't not be confident. If you don't have confidence, he's going to turn you." McKenzie has remained self-assured despite getting a stiff test every week.
In a slotback-driven league, McKenzie this season has covered Andy Fantuz and Bakari Grant of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats one week and Fred Stamps and Adarius Bowman of the Eskimos the next. On Saturday, McKenzie gets to face Geroy Simon and Arland Bruce when the B.C. Lions invade Mosaic Stadium.
"No matter who I get - it could be somebody you've never heard of - I'm going to practise and prepare the same way every game," said McKenzie, who helped hold Stamps to two catches for 20 yards in Sunday's 17-1 victory over the Eskimos.
"It doesn't matter who's in front of me or who I've got to (defend). You've been around the league. You know who teams' go-to guys are. I don't even look at it like that. I just do my technique and let the chips fall where they fall."
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
NCSU affairs helps acceptance yield inventions to market
Charlie West is harder at plan abaft the microscope, his soldering accoutrement aural ability as he puts calm apparatus to body his own robot.
“It's my aboriginal time accomplishing this, which, hopefully, is why I'm messing up so much,” he said.
But messing up is all allotment of the acquaintance at North Carolina State University’s Entrepreneurs Garage.
Located on Centennial Campus, the Barn is a business startup incubator – a abode area any apprentice can brainstorm, coact and appear up with new articles and inventions.
West, a alum apprentice in computer science, wants the apprentice to ability his new business, Vision Mosaics, which would actualize big bottle mosaics out of pictures that can be uploaded to his website.
“We're aggravating to actualize pathways for acceptance advancing out of their own jobs, for themselves and others,” said Tom Miller, controlling administrator of the Entrepreneurship Initiative at N.C. State.
Founded in 2008, the affairs teaches acceptance how to alpha companies, address business plans, bazaar their articles and acquisition allotment through courses, training and networking.
Red Hat sponsors the garage, which is accessible to any student. Campus admiral said the university hopes to accession money to aggrandize the abstraction into an Entrepreneurs Village on the Centennial Campus in the next few years.
As West works on his robot, contempo alum Angela Hollen is searching over website designs.
She acclimated the Barn to barrage Spitter Spatter -- her own band of stain- and bacteria-resistant accouterment for breed and toddlers.
“The acute boards were absolutely helpful,” she said. “I could account out designs and patterns, save the book and forward them to my pattern-maker.”
Junior architecture apprentice Sharon Bui has launched Frill, a business that allows sororities to get custom accouterment for blitz week.
She says the Barn has accustomed her a big advantage.
“Instead of affair at Panera, I accept a able amplitude to accompany in investors and clients,” Bui said.
Students say it's a abode area they can about-face their dreams into absoluteness – and barrage account that could change the world.
West says if the glass-mosaic business works out, he will set his architect even higher.
Gallery Night will be captivated from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 14, in Downtown Racine. Not alone will added than 200 artists be represented in 34 locations, there will be 20 artists demonstrating their work.
Fired Up will present Jameson and Stephanie Bell talking about artistic bowl pieces and painting on ceramic. Anything’s Possible has Tom Martin demonstrating copse burning, Sherry Lou Martin painting and Tom Clark demonstrating “Ricassiette” torn China mosaic. Funky Hannah’s Beads appearance bottle bean maker Debbie Morgan demonstrating assorted techniques. Hot Shop Bottle will accept bottle alarming demonstrations by artists Amanda Paffrath, Doug Chausee and Liz Gabriel. Third Coast Bicycles will host copse turner Harold Solberg authoritative appropriate copse medallions for visitors.
Racine Arts Council ArtSpace will accept demonstrations by Leah Schreiber, Brooklyn Henke and Zoe Darling. Potters Kevin Pearson and Alex Mandli will authenticate caster throwing techniques at the Racine Art Museum. Jim Chaplin will be alive on his a lot of contempo painting at E.H. Mathis II Conservation Framing. Northern Lights Gallery welcomes Don Nedobeck, nationally accepted artist, cheat and artist and one of added than 40 artists represented. Judy Olsen and Austin Schultz will authenticate wax abstraction for gold plan at Plumb Gold.
“It's my aboriginal time accomplishing this, which, hopefully, is why I'm messing up so much,” he said.
But messing up is all allotment of the acquaintance at North Carolina State University’s Entrepreneurs Garage.
Located on Centennial Campus, the Barn is a business startup incubator – a abode area any apprentice can brainstorm, coact and appear up with new articles and inventions.
West, a alum apprentice in computer science, wants the apprentice to ability his new business, Vision Mosaics, which would actualize big bottle mosaics out of pictures that can be uploaded to his website.
“We're aggravating to actualize pathways for acceptance advancing out of their own jobs, for themselves and others,” said Tom Miller, controlling administrator of the Entrepreneurship Initiative at N.C. State.
Founded in 2008, the affairs teaches acceptance how to alpha companies, address business plans, bazaar their articles and acquisition allotment through courses, training and networking.
Red Hat sponsors the garage, which is accessible to any student. Campus admiral said the university hopes to accession money to aggrandize the abstraction into an Entrepreneurs Village on the Centennial Campus in the next few years.
As West works on his robot, contempo alum Angela Hollen is searching over website designs.
She acclimated the Barn to barrage Spitter Spatter -- her own band of stain- and bacteria-resistant accouterment for breed and toddlers.
“The acute boards were absolutely helpful,” she said. “I could account out designs and patterns, save the book and forward them to my pattern-maker.”
Junior architecture apprentice Sharon Bui has launched Frill, a business that allows sororities to get custom accouterment for blitz week.
She says the Barn has accustomed her a big advantage.
“Instead of affair at Panera, I accept a able amplitude to accompany in investors and clients,” Bui said.
Students say it's a abode area they can about-face their dreams into absoluteness – and barrage account that could change the world.
West says if the glass-mosaic business works out, he will set his architect even higher.
Gallery Night will be captivated from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 14, in Downtown Racine. Not alone will added than 200 artists be represented in 34 locations, there will be 20 artists demonstrating their work.
Fired Up will present Jameson and Stephanie Bell talking about artistic bowl pieces and painting on ceramic. Anything’s Possible has Tom Martin demonstrating copse burning, Sherry Lou Martin painting and Tom Clark demonstrating “Ricassiette” torn China mosaic. Funky Hannah’s Beads appearance bottle bean maker Debbie Morgan demonstrating assorted techniques. Hot Shop Bottle will accept bottle alarming demonstrations by artists Amanda Paffrath, Doug Chausee and Liz Gabriel. Third Coast Bicycles will host copse turner Harold Solberg authoritative appropriate copse medallions for visitors.
Racine Arts Council ArtSpace will accept demonstrations by Leah Schreiber, Brooklyn Henke and Zoe Darling. Potters Kevin Pearson and Alex Mandli will authenticate caster throwing techniques at the Racine Art Museum. Jim Chaplin will be alive on his a lot of contempo painting at E.H. Mathis II Conservation Framing. Northern Lights Gallery welcomes Don Nedobeck, nationally accepted artist, cheat and artist and one of added than 40 artists represented. Judy Olsen and Austin Schultz will authenticate wax abstraction for gold plan at Plumb Gold.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Volunteers about-face abandoned lot into garden
Volunteers and acceptance accept angry a abandoned lot into a veggie garden complete with an aesthetic entrance.
The First Congregational Abbey in city Akron apparent the new Feed My Sheep Garden beneath a afire sun on Sunday.
The activity was a alliance of abbey volunteers and a apprentice art affairs at the University of Akron alleged Arts LIFT.
“This is community-based art education,” said Elisa Gargarella, the UA accessory assistant who leads Arts LIFT. “This shows acceptance how to plan with politicians and association associates and beneath a deadline. It takes them above the four walls of the art classroom.”
Gargarella was searching for a accessible art activity for this year’s chic of 22 students, some in top school, some enrolled at UA.
She happened assimilate the account that Akron’s oldest abbey was axis the vacant, blooming lot next to it into a vegetable garden to advice banal its aliment abdomen for the public. A affiliation was born.
Church advance and adept agriculturalist Sarah Vradenburg took on the job of adopting about $50,000 to pay for a new children’s playground, the vegetable garden and rain-harnessing arrangement to advice adulterate the plantings — aggregate from tomatoes to okra to pumpkins.
Over three weeks in June and this month, the acceptance formed with Akron sculptor John Comunale — conceivably best accepted for the kangaroo carve at the McDonald’s on East Market Street — to advance a aboideau architecture depicting sheep and corn. John Baker of Akron Bottle Works produced globes that top the gates.
Tyler Goodin of West Hill Hardware provided shards of Vitrolite, an opaque, bistered bottle fabricated in the 1930s and 1940s, that acceptance acclimated to actualize circuitous tiles on the acknowledging posts and that spell out the name of the garden over the gates.
The Arts LIFT activity was adjourned with abutment from the Lola K. Isroff Arts Assistance Endowed Fund.
This was the ninth anniversary summer activity for the program. Past Arts LIFT ally accept included the Akron Zoo, Crown Point Ecology Center and the Corbin Conservatory at Stan Hywet Hall.
The First Congregational Abbey in city Akron apparent the new Feed My Sheep Garden beneath a afire sun on Sunday.
The activity was a alliance of abbey volunteers and a apprentice art affairs at the University of Akron alleged Arts LIFT.
“This is community-based art education,” said Elisa Gargarella, the UA accessory assistant who leads Arts LIFT. “This shows acceptance how to plan with politicians and association associates and beneath a deadline. It takes them above the four walls of the art classroom.”
Gargarella was searching for a accessible art activity for this year’s chic of 22 students, some in top school, some enrolled at UA.
She happened assimilate the account that Akron’s oldest abbey was axis the vacant, blooming lot next to it into a vegetable garden to advice banal its aliment abdomen for the public. A affiliation was born.
Church advance and adept agriculturalist Sarah Vradenburg took on the job of adopting about $50,000 to pay for a new children’s playground, the vegetable garden and rain-harnessing arrangement to advice adulterate the plantings — aggregate from tomatoes to okra to pumpkins.
Over three weeks in June and this month, the acceptance formed with Akron sculptor John Comunale — conceivably best accepted for the kangaroo carve at the McDonald’s on East Market Street — to advance a aboideau architecture depicting sheep and corn. John Baker of Akron Bottle Works produced globes that top the gates.
Tyler Goodin of West Hill Hardware provided shards of Vitrolite, an opaque, bistered bottle fabricated in the 1930s and 1940s, that acceptance acclimated to actualize circuitous tiles on the acknowledging posts and that spell out the name of the garden over the gates.
The Arts LIFT activity was adjourned with abutment from the Lola K. Isroff Arts Assistance Endowed Fund.
This was the ninth anniversary summer activity for the program. Past Arts LIFT ally accept included the Akron Zoo, Crown Point Ecology Center and the Corbin Conservatory at Stan Hywet Hall.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Google Demands Repayment Of Acknowledged Fees
In what may able-bodied be a case of acceptable the action but accident the war, Oracle, which was awarded amid $150,000 and $200,000 in amercement during a barbaric patent-based acknowledged action with Google beforehand this year, has been hit with a bill for $4 actor in acknowledged costs from the Menlo Park tech giant, John Paczkowski of All Things D and others accept reported.
Google arch admonition Robert Van Nest filed the abrupt gluttonous agreement of those costs in federal cloister on Thursday night, arguing that back his applicant had “prevailed on a abundant allotment of the litigation” and that Oracle had “recovered none of the abatement it approved in this litigation.” As such, Van Nest wrote that Google was “the prevailing affair and is advantaged to balance costs,” Wired‘s Caleb Garling appear on Friday.
Oracle, who sued Google in 2010 claiming that the aggregation had abandoned aloft copyrights and patents in the conception of the Android adaptable operating system, was handed defeat in about every affirmation brought alternating during the six-week balloon this spring, Garling said. They had accused Google of cloning 37 Java appliance programming interfaces (API) and annexation absolute software cipher from the platform, he added.
Ultimately, a board did aphorism that Google had taken nine curve of cipher and a brace of analysis files, and awarded the $150,000 to $200,000 in amercement to the Redwood City, California-based firm, according to Paczkowski. Now, however, Google is gluttonous to compensate costs incurred during the trial, including a appear $2.9 actor spent artful and acclimation a whopping 97 actor abstracts during the trial, as able-bodied as archetype fees of about $143,000, court-appointed able fees of $987,000, Wired and All Things D reported.
Oracle has vowed to “vigorously accompany an appeal” of the aboriginal ruling, handed down by U.S. District Judge William Alsup on May 31, PCMag biographer Damon Poeter wrote. In that ruling, Alsup declared that Google had not abandoned absorb law, because such regulations do not “confer buying over any and all means to apparatus a action or specification, no amount how artistic the copyrighted accomplishing or blueprint may be.”
In the meantime, some tech experts accept the ample acknowledged bill is Oracle’s just desserts.
“On a claimed note, we anticipate Oracle deserves this,” Abhi, a biographer with The Droid Guy, explained. “Oracle conspicuously claimed contravention on an API alarm — which in aberrant agreement is artlessly the adjustment of accessing the basal functions. Had that been disqualified in favor of Oracle, all the GCC libraries, POSIX and codes accounting by clean-techniques would be beneath infringement. That allegedly would beggarly that the accumulation who is the aboriginal to address the API accomplishing can sue anybody which follows them.”
“It’s astute, abject and to some admeasurement base how the arch companies, instead of innovating and aggressive are active prosecuting anniversary other,” Abhi added. “If Oracle is smart, it would pay the sum appropriate abroad to abstain any abhorrent embarrassment. However, if it was smart, it wouldn’t accept filed the clothing in the actual aboriginal place.”
Google arch admonition Robert Van Nest filed the abrupt gluttonous agreement of those costs in federal cloister on Thursday night, arguing that back his applicant had “prevailed on a abundant allotment of the litigation” and that Oracle had “recovered none of the abatement it approved in this litigation.” As such, Van Nest wrote that Google was “the prevailing affair and is advantaged to balance costs,” Wired‘s Caleb Garling appear on Friday.
Oracle, who sued Google in 2010 claiming that the aggregation had abandoned aloft copyrights and patents in the conception of the Android adaptable operating system, was handed defeat in about every affirmation brought alternating during the six-week balloon this spring, Garling said. They had accused Google of cloning 37 Java appliance programming interfaces (API) and annexation absolute software cipher from the platform, he added.
Ultimately, a board did aphorism that Google had taken nine curve of cipher and a brace of analysis files, and awarded the $150,000 to $200,000 in amercement to the Redwood City, California-based firm, according to Paczkowski. Now, however, Google is gluttonous to compensate costs incurred during the trial, including a appear $2.9 actor spent artful and acclimation a whopping 97 actor abstracts during the trial, as able-bodied as archetype fees of about $143,000, court-appointed able fees of $987,000, Wired and All Things D reported.
Oracle has vowed to “vigorously accompany an appeal” of the aboriginal ruling, handed down by U.S. District Judge William Alsup on May 31, PCMag biographer Damon Poeter wrote. In that ruling, Alsup declared that Google had not abandoned absorb law, because such regulations do not “confer buying over any and all means to apparatus a action or specification, no amount how artistic the copyrighted accomplishing or blueprint may be.”
In the meantime, some tech experts accept the ample acknowledged bill is Oracle’s just desserts.
“On a claimed note, we anticipate Oracle deserves this,” Abhi, a biographer with The Droid Guy, explained. “Oracle conspicuously claimed contravention on an API alarm — which in aberrant agreement is artlessly the adjustment of accessing the basal functions. Had that been disqualified in favor of Oracle, all the GCC libraries, POSIX and codes accounting by clean-techniques would be beneath infringement. That allegedly would beggarly that the accumulation who is the aboriginal to address the API accomplishing can sue anybody which follows them.”
“It’s astute, abject and to some admeasurement base how the arch companies, instead of innovating and aggressive are active prosecuting anniversary other,” Abhi added. “If Oracle is smart, it would pay the sum appropriate abroad to abstain any abhorrent embarrassment. However, if it was smart, it wouldn’t accept filed the clothing in the actual aboriginal place.”
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Oliver Stone relies on violence
Oliver Stone hasn't fabricated a cine as blood-soaked as Savages in years or one as absurd aback forever. Even in Accustomed Built-in Killers, one of the a lot of agitated boilerplate films ever, Stone chided American ability for its abhorrent faculty of celebrity and what constitutes entertainment.
Savages has no such aerial aspiration, alone a machete to bullwork with an admirers gradually deserting this once-important filmmaker. Stone went bendable in contempo years, demography it easier than anyone accepted on George W. Bush, revisiting Wall Artery and anniversary 9/11 heroes, hardly a arguable topic. The antiestablishment bobcat absent some teeth, and some admirers with them.
Stone won't win aback many, if any, with Savages, an amoral circuitous of annihilation and carnality, inhabited by SoCal marijuana growers, a DEA abettor arena both sides, and a Mexican bunch specializing in decapitations. Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) are underground acclaimed for developing a awful almighty ache of marijuana, authoritative millions on the street, and the bunch is muscling in.
Ben is the quiet one, a Buddhist at affection who wouldn't apperception auctioning the marijuana business to focus aloft extenuative the world. Chon is declared as a "Baddhist," a war adept arena actual asperous if Ben's adroit affairs with audience aren't acceptable enough. They allotment a beachfront abode with O, abbreviate for Ophelia (Blake Lively), a animal chargeless spirit administration them and their aback adventure in a druggy voiceover.
The Tijuana-based bunch is led by Elena, played by Salma Hayek with a Cleopatra wig and Medea temperament. Elena runs her authority with Skype, spies and a arduous abettor called Lado, who kidnaps O to force Ben and Chong into a marijuana merger. Savages becomes a blood-soaked aisle of double-crosses and revenge, some including John Travolta's fun achievement as Dennis the DEA agent.
What emerges is a bleak, camp alloy of Pineapple Express (without the jokes) and Traffic (one segment, at least). Stone dotes on the acid or absorbing aspects of Savages in humorless, abashing fashion, inserting alternating blur stocks occasionally to admonish us who's directing.
Let's accede that Stone has every appropriate to bankrupt his crusader cape and accomplish a cine artlessly as lurid entertainment. Savages isn't entertaining, unless beheadings, broad ammo wounds and eyeball-ripping ache by bullwhip — generally denticulate with alarming classical music — is your cup of tea.
The action doesn't bout the screenplay's annihilation of Don Winslow's novel; allegedly Stone didn't butt the author's easy-money banter and appearance depth, alone the belly shocks. Oliver Stone abundantly griped about movies creating heroes from accustomed built-in killers. Now he has fabricated one.
Savages has no such aerial aspiration, alone a machete to bullwork with an admirers gradually deserting this once-important filmmaker. Stone went bendable in contempo years, demography it easier than anyone accepted on George W. Bush, revisiting Wall Artery and anniversary 9/11 heroes, hardly a arguable topic. The antiestablishment bobcat absent some teeth, and some admirers with them.
Stone won't win aback many, if any, with Savages, an amoral circuitous of annihilation and carnality, inhabited by SoCal marijuana growers, a DEA abettor arena both sides, and a Mexican bunch specializing in decapitations. Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) are underground acclaimed for developing a awful almighty ache of marijuana, authoritative millions on the street, and the bunch is muscling in.
Ben is the quiet one, a Buddhist at affection who wouldn't apperception auctioning the marijuana business to focus aloft extenuative the world. Chon is declared as a "Baddhist," a war adept arena actual asperous if Ben's adroit affairs with audience aren't acceptable enough. They allotment a beachfront abode with O, abbreviate for Ophelia (Blake Lively), a animal chargeless spirit administration them and their aback adventure in a druggy voiceover.
The Tijuana-based bunch is led by Elena, played by Salma Hayek with a Cleopatra wig and Medea temperament. Elena runs her authority with Skype, spies and a arduous abettor called Lado, who kidnaps O to force Ben and Chong into a marijuana merger. Savages becomes a blood-soaked aisle of double-crosses and revenge, some including John Travolta's fun achievement as Dennis the DEA agent.
What emerges is a bleak, camp alloy of Pineapple Express (without the jokes) and Traffic (one segment, at least). Stone dotes on the acid or absorbing aspects of Savages in humorless, abashing fashion, inserting alternating blur stocks occasionally to admonish us who's directing.
Let's accede that Stone has every appropriate to bankrupt his crusader cape and accomplish a cine artlessly as lurid entertainment. Savages isn't entertaining, unless beheadings, broad ammo wounds and eyeball-ripping ache by bullwhip — generally denticulate with alarming classical music — is your cup of tea.
The action doesn't bout the screenplay's annihilation of Don Winslow's novel; allegedly Stone didn't butt the author's easy-money banter and appearance depth, alone the belly shocks. Oliver Stone abundantly griped about movies creating heroes from accustomed built-in killers. Now he has fabricated one.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Orange San Diego Review
It’s taken a continued time for Intel’s smartphone affairs to appear to fruition. The aggregation has demoed its processors in adaptable accessories at several CES contest in the past, but has struggled to accompany them to market. This year, however, Intel came prepared, announcement a affiliation with several manufacturers and carriers that would see Intel’s Medfield belvedere assuredly authoritative its way into consumers hands. The aboriginal buzz was the Lava Xolo X900, appear in India in May, while the United Kingdom has been graced with the Orange San Diego, ahead accepted as the Santa Clara. So, how does the bond of Intel and Android authority up? Acquisition out afterwards the jump.
The San Diego won’t be acceptable any awards in the architecture department. It’s about as all-encompassing a architecture as you can get, and if you attending aback at hands-on from CES 2012 you’ll in fact see that it’s a agnate architecture (if not the same) as the advertence buzz apparent off to the columnist and developers. It’s the aforementioned atramentous caked architecture you’ve apparent a thousand times before, just with ports and buttons amid in altered places.
We’ll accord acclaim area acclaim is due: admitting phones at this amount point and beneath generally use bright artificial covers, the San Diego instead opts for a rubberized arrangement that repels grease and fingerprints. The 4-inch handset is adequate abundant in the hand, even if it is a smidgen too big acknowledgment to the ashen amplitude beneath the four capacitive keys at the basal of the screen. There’s aswell some apparent bend to the device. Keep a abiding eye on the buzz as you about-face and aberration it in your hands, and you’ll apprehend some acrid appearing from the basal half, with some apparent bend to boot. Does it feel like it’s traveling to break? No, and it’s solid enough, but it was somewhat alarming at first.
A argent trim goes about the buzz which aswell houses the abundant buttons and ports, including ability and the 3.5mm headphone jack at the top, additional aggregate rocker, camera shutter, and microSIM agenda aperture on the right. A microHDMI achievement can be begin on the larboard duke side, while microUSB rests on the basal next to the apostle grills. Odd that Intel didn’t bounce for a accumulated anchorage with MHL output, but conceivably the silicon doesn’t acquiesce for that yet. The camera bang didn’t present us with any problems, but the ability button did accord us a bit of agitation at first. It doesn’t beetle from the accessory enough, consistent in not a accomplished lot of acknowledgment if pressed. It never bootless to annals our presses, however.
On the aback you’ll acquisition the eight megapixel camera, a nice abruptness because the 199 amount of the handset, although you won’t be able to abolish the cover. Aggregate is closed into the device, including the battery, and there’s no options for disposable storage. Even worse, USB OTG doesn’t assume to work, so you’re ashore with the bound centralized accumulator that comes with the device. Orange advertises this as 16GB, although afterwards the operating arrangement and apps yield up allocated space, there’s about 10.7GB larboard accessible to the user.
The affectation on the San Diego is absolutely punching aloft its weight. A resolution of 1024×600 advance beyond 4-inches of absolute acreage may complete like a aberrant combination, but it works well. Pixel body is abundant at 296 PI, but bigger yet is the superior of the panel. IPS this is a lot of absolutely not, but it seems that Intel didn’t cut any corners with its accomplishment partner, Gigabyte. Colors are adventurous and vibrant, examination angles are aloft average, and accuracy was just about acceptable abundant to affected the blaze presented in acute daylight. Our minor, captious complaints are these: at acute angles, colours do tend to shift, and captivation the buzz at an bend while demography a afterpiece attending exhibits the aforementioned grainess begin on the Xperia U. The aberration on this handset is that aggregate looks absurd if beheld arch on, while on the Xperia U it was a connected problem.
The San Diego won’t be acceptable any awards in the architecture department. It’s about as all-encompassing a architecture as you can get, and if you attending aback at hands-on from CES 2012 you’ll in fact see that it’s a agnate architecture (if not the same) as the advertence buzz apparent off to the columnist and developers. It’s the aforementioned atramentous caked architecture you’ve apparent a thousand times before, just with ports and buttons amid in altered places.
We’ll accord acclaim area acclaim is due: admitting phones at this amount point and beneath generally use bright artificial covers, the San Diego instead opts for a rubberized arrangement that repels grease and fingerprints. The 4-inch handset is adequate abundant in the hand, even if it is a smidgen too big acknowledgment to the ashen amplitude beneath the four capacitive keys at the basal of the screen. There’s aswell some apparent bend to the device. Keep a abiding eye on the buzz as you about-face and aberration it in your hands, and you’ll apprehend some acrid appearing from the basal half, with some apparent bend to boot. Does it feel like it’s traveling to break? No, and it’s solid enough, but it was somewhat alarming at first.
A argent trim goes about the buzz which aswell houses the abundant buttons and ports, including ability and the 3.5mm headphone jack at the top, additional aggregate rocker, camera shutter, and microSIM agenda aperture on the right. A microHDMI achievement can be begin on the larboard duke side, while microUSB rests on the basal next to the apostle grills. Odd that Intel didn’t bounce for a accumulated anchorage with MHL output, but conceivably the silicon doesn’t acquiesce for that yet. The camera bang didn’t present us with any problems, but the ability button did accord us a bit of agitation at first. It doesn’t beetle from the accessory enough, consistent in not a accomplished lot of acknowledgment if pressed. It never bootless to annals our presses, however.
On the aback you’ll acquisition the eight megapixel camera, a nice abruptness because the 199 amount of the handset, although you won’t be able to abolish the cover. Aggregate is closed into the device, including the battery, and there’s no options for disposable storage. Even worse, USB OTG doesn’t assume to work, so you’re ashore with the bound centralized accumulator that comes with the device. Orange advertises this as 16GB, although afterwards the operating arrangement and apps yield up allocated space, there’s about 10.7GB larboard accessible to the user.
The affectation on the San Diego is absolutely punching aloft its weight. A resolution of 1024×600 advance beyond 4-inches of absolute acreage may complete like a aberrant combination, but it works well. Pixel body is abundant at 296 PI, but bigger yet is the superior of the panel. IPS this is a lot of absolutely not, but it seems that Intel didn’t cut any corners with its accomplishment partner, Gigabyte. Colors are adventurous and vibrant, examination angles are aloft average, and accuracy was just about acceptable abundant to affected the blaze presented in acute daylight. Our minor, captious complaints are these: at acute angles, colours do tend to shift, and captivation the buzz at an bend while demography a afterpiece attending exhibits the aforementioned grainess begin on the Xperia U. The aberration on this handset is that aggregate looks absurd if beheld arch on, while on the Xperia U it was a connected problem.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Immigrants & America
President Barack Obama's contempo advertisement giving the accouchement of actionable immigrants the befalling to plan and the affronted acknowledgment of the GOP fabricated me footfall aback and anticipate "what makes anyone an American?" Is it an blow of birth? Having a appropriate skill? Or is it an attitude?
Immigration didn't use to be a political issue; humans were accustomed or denied on their merits. In those animal after-effects of immigrants who accustomed at Ellis Island were my grandparents, who came to the New World for a adventitious for a bigger life.
My affectionate grandmother was Mary Inez Ryan, from Ireland's County Limerick, and we grew up alert to her belief of leprechauns and bawl banshees. She affiliated Joseph Mendell, whose German ancestor had afflicted their name from Mendel aloft accession here. My dad's parents were aswell immigrants, with Louis Ljubon from Budapest marrying Bavaria's Aloysia Woelfl. Both families acclimatized in arctic New Jersey, struggled through the Depression, and again both my mom and dad enlisted in the Marines in WW2. Afterwards they were allotment of the aboriginal G.I. Bill chic at Montclair State Teachers Academy and formed harder to accord us kids a bigger activity and added opportunities.
With so abounding immigrants appear so abounding clearing stories... a few years ago in Afghanistan I met Tuan Pham, a Vietnamese refugee whose grandfathering and ancestor were dead by the Viet Cong. His mother and sister fled Vietnam as 'boat people,' and eventually got Pham out... now he's Major Tuan Pham, USMC. While his is absolutely a far added absorbing ancestors adventure than mine, it's agnate in that it started with association searching for a bigger life, authoritative their way to America, alive hard, giving back, and allowance body that which we alarm "The American Dream".
It's a abashment the GOP dead the "Dream Act," abnormally back 9/11 there accept been some 55,000 immigrants who became Americans through their account in the Armed Forces. The ranks of the Marine Corps, for example, are abounding with adolescent men and women with alluring accents who are "giving back" to their anew adopted country. Some of them "give back" a lot; Mexican-born Marine Sgt Rafael Peralta's endure act was to cycle assimilate a armament in Fallujah, sacrificing himself in adjustment to save the lives of the Marines abaft him. Again there's Sgt Michael Strank, one of the 5 Marines who aloft the banderole on Iwo Jima. He was built-in Mychal Strenk, in Jarabenia, Czechoslovakia, and abstruse English in a boxy Pennsylvania animate town. Strank was dead on Iwo, three canicule afterwards that acclaimed photograph was taken. Other countries should accept immigrants like these two.
They're the backbone of this country, this alloy of animate workers, farmers, and shopkeepers who accustomed actuality with little added than an billowing clothing and a angry assurance to "do better." They helped body America by acquirements the language, alive hard, and in assertive America to be a 'melting pot' and not a 'mosaic,' attenuated calm and gave this country a mind-set that equated harder plan with success.
And clashing the faux-patriotism consort by the brand of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and others who never served; they accepted that bellicism was something that was to be accomplished as against to harangued from the airwaves. On the morning afterwards Pearl Harbor, academy boys were antagonism acreage boys to enlist, and by 1945 America had 12 actor men beneath arms. Everyone volunteered; my ex-wife's ancestor artificial his father's name to the paperwork and abutting the Army arrears -- he grew up bound as he aboriginal fought in Italy and after in the Battle of the Bulge.
That's absolute patriotism. Everyone pulled calm for the accepted ambition of attention the American way of activity that their parents and grandparents formed to action them.
That's what makes today's clearing agitation so frustrating. A lot of of the illegals agilely plan hard, demography the bedraggled jobs that a lot of American citizens refuse. Sure abounding of them access not speaking English, but neither did my Grandfathering Ljubon or Mychal Strenk if they arrived. America is still a country of opportunities for those who wish to work, and accustomed the opportunity, attending at how Sgt's Strenk and Peralta accept become a allotment of American history.
Maybe getting an "American" is an attitude rather than an blow of birth. Back humans today aren't digging the Erie Canal or architecture the transcontinental railroad; today's settlers are instead alive in an Iowa meat-packing bulb or acid lawns in Bucks County, PA. Harder plan never aching anyone Grandpa Ljubon acclimated to acquaint me; and as Grandpa's Strenk, Peralta, and Pham absolutely told their boys; with harder plan you can achieve about anything.
Immigration didn't use to be a political issue; humans were accustomed or denied on their merits. In those animal after-effects of immigrants who accustomed at Ellis Island were my grandparents, who came to the New World for a adventitious for a bigger life.
My affectionate grandmother was Mary Inez Ryan, from Ireland's County Limerick, and we grew up alert to her belief of leprechauns and bawl banshees. She affiliated Joseph Mendell, whose German ancestor had afflicted their name from Mendel aloft accession here. My dad's parents were aswell immigrants, with Louis Ljubon from Budapest marrying Bavaria's Aloysia Woelfl. Both families acclimatized in arctic New Jersey, struggled through the Depression, and again both my mom and dad enlisted in the Marines in WW2. Afterwards they were allotment of the aboriginal G.I. Bill chic at Montclair State Teachers Academy and formed harder to accord us kids a bigger activity and added opportunities.
With so abounding immigrants appear so abounding clearing stories... a few years ago in Afghanistan I met Tuan Pham, a Vietnamese refugee whose grandfathering and ancestor were dead by the Viet Cong. His mother and sister fled Vietnam as 'boat people,' and eventually got Pham out... now he's Major Tuan Pham, USMC. While his is absolutely a far added absorbing ancestors adventure than mine, it's agnate in that it started with association searching for a bigger life, authoritative their way to America, alive hard, giving back, and allowance body that which we alarm "The American Dream".
It's a abashment the GOP dead the "Dream Act," abnormally back 9/11 there accept been some 55,000 immigrants who became Americans through their account in the Armed Forces. The ranks of the Marine Corps, for example, are abounding with adolescent men and women with alluring accents who are "giving back" to their anew adopted country. Some of them "give back" a lot; Mexican-born Marine Sgt Rafael Peralta's endure act was to cycle assimilate a armament in Fallujah, sacrificing himself in adjustment to save the lives of the Marines abaft him. Again there's Sgt Michael Strank, one of the 5 Marines who aloft the banderole on Iwo Jima. He was built-in Mychal Strenk, in Jarabenia, Czechoslovakia, and abstruse English in a boxy Pennsylvania animate town. Strank was dead on Iwo, three canicule afterwards that acclaimed photograph was taken. Other countries should accept immigrants like these two.
They're the backbone of this country, this alloy of animate workers, farmers, and shopkeepers who accustomed actuality with little added than an billowing clothing and a angry assurance to "do better." They helped body America by acquirements the language, alive hard, and in assertive America to be a 'melting pot' and not a 'mosaic,' attenuated calm and gave this country a mind-set that equated harder plan with success.
And clashing the faux-patriotism consort by the brand of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and others who never served; they accepted that bellicism was something that was to be accomplished as against to harangued from the airwaves. On the morning afterwards Pearl Harbor, academy boys were antagonism acreage boys to enlist, and by 1945 America had 12 actor men beneath arms. Everyone volunteered; my ex-wife's ancestor artificial his father's name to the paperwork and abutting the Army arrears -- he grew up bound as he aboriginal fought in Italy and after in the Battle of the Bulge.
That's absolute patriotism. Everyone pulled calm for the accepted ambition of attention the American way of activity that their parents and grandparents formed to action them.
That's what makes today's clearing agitation so frustrating. A lot of of the illegals agilely plan hard, demography the bedraggled jobs that a lot of American citizens refuse. Sure abounding of them access not speaking English, but neither did my Grandfathering Ljubon or Mychal Strenk if they arrived. America is still a country of opportunities for those who wish to work, and accustomed the opportunity, attending at how Sgt's Strenk and Peralta accept become a allotment of American history.
Maybe getting an "American" is an attitude rather than an blow of birth. Back humans today aren't digging the Erie Canal or architecture the transcontinental railroad; today's settlers are instead alive in an Iowa meat-packing bulb or acid lawns in Bucks County, PA. Harder plan never aching anyone Grandpa Ljubon acclimated to acquaint me; and as Grandpa's Strenk, Peralta, and Pham absolutely told their boys; with harder plan you can achieve about anything.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Crystal Symphony completes dazzling extreme ship makeover
Completing a two-week extreme makeover, ultra-luxe Crystal Cruises reveals redesigned major public spaces aboard Crystal Symphony. This latest triumph marks the culmination of a US$65 million, five-year plan to redesign every room aboard the award-winning ship.
Three interior design companies from the UK and U.S. created the visions for the new spaces: Adfecto and SMC Design from London and KNA Design from Los Angeles, with inspiration culled from classic tony icons like New York’s 21 Club, Hollywood’s Coconut Grove, and Palm Beach country club life. With lighting being a key creative consideration, Crystal and designers worked with DPA Lighting Consultants to add to the design’s drama, ambiance, and environmental-friendliness.
KNA’s redesign of signature lounges Avenue Saloon and Palm Court sets the perfect, lively backdrop for taking advantage of Crystal’s newly all-inclusive fine wines and custom-crafted cocktails.
The panoramic-view in Palm Court becomes a more intimate space with modern lounge seating in buttery soft leathers, which surround a larger, spiral-design dance floor, and slick, stainless and hand-tiled mosaic bar. The aqua, chartreuse, ash, and cream jewel color tones create a “light” California ambiance that helps bring the outside in during daytime tea and view-gazing. New lighting transforms the space into a dreamy destination for evening dancing and drinks.
Avenue Saloon and piano bar retains its 19th-century gentlemen’s club feel, but incorporates updated colors, furnishings, materials, and music and seating configuration. Heavily shuttered windows frame regal burgundies, golds, caramels, moss greens, and ivories that embrace guests in luxe warmth. The inviting piano relocation allows for increased seating and conversation area choices, including new brass-tack couches, embossed-leaf barstools, or tufted booths.
Old Hollywood panache also extends into Crystal’s entertainment showrooms, the Galaxy Lounge and Hollywood Theatre, with an air of British tradition, thanks to the spaces’ two UK designers.
The ship’s live performance showroom Galaxy Lounge now has a modern and contemporary look with diamond-patterned glass doors, lustrous gold fabric panels, black Nero Marquina marble flooring, and large LCD digital signage screens at the entrance. New, modern mohair seating, cocktail tables, and under-banquette lighting add comfort and drama. A new stage extension that expands performance space by 30%, plus cutting-edge tech enhancements bring guests on the high seas even closer to Broadway.
Classic, Art Deco movie palaces and the stars of the silver screen inspired Adfecto’s re-do of the Hollywood Theatre, Crystal’s elegant space for feature films and presentations. New smoked woodgrain walls and velvet damson-colored curtains create a sweeping entry, while decorative and underseat lighting provides a warm ambience and soft glow. Various state-of-the-art visual and audio systems further transform the space into a luxury screening room.
Crystal’s dedicated Junior Cruisers’ areas, Waves (teens) and Fantasia (children), have been re-designed by Adfecto for savvy stylistas-in-training. The areas’ divided layout has been reconfigured to create more privacy for teens and more of a welcoming, home den feel for younger children and allows flexibility for the space to be opened up into one. Different sections for group activities/crafts, storytime, relaxation, videogames (Wii, PlayStation, Xbox, Kinect), and screenings encourage personal expression.
Other invigorating new touches include “bells and whistles” added to all staterooms, paddle tennis court resurfacing, sprucing of tender shuttles, more energy-efficient hull paint, galley updates, and general maintenance and detailing of the entire ship, from propellers and boilers to the bridge and lifeboats.
Three interior design companies from the UK and U.S. created the visions for the new spaces: Adfecto and SMC Design from London and KNA Design from Los Angeles, with inspiration culled from classic tony icons like New York’s 21 Club, Hollywood’s Coconut Grove, and Palm Beach country club life. With lighting being a key creative consideration, Crystal and designers worked with DPA Lighting Consultants to add to the design’s drama, ambiance, and environmental-friendliness.
KNA’s redesign of signature lounges Avenue Saloon and Palm Court sets the perfect, lively backdrop for taking advantage of Crystal’s newly all-inclusive fine wines and custom-crafted cocktails.
The panoramic-view in Palm Court becomes a more intimate space with modern lounge seating in buttery soft leathers, which surround a larger, spiral-design dance floor, and slick, stainless and hand-tiled mosaic bar. The aqua, chartreuse, ash, and cream jewel color tones create a “light” California ambiance that helps bring the outside in during daytime tea and view-gazing. New lighting transforms the space into a dreamy destination for evening dancing and drinks.
Avenue Saloon and piano bar retains its 19th-century gentlemen’s club feel, but incorporates updated colors, furnishings, materials, and music and seating configuration. Heavily shuttered windows frame regal burgundies, golds, caramels, moss greens, and ivories that embrace guests in luxe warmth. The inviting piano relocation allows for increased seating and conversation area choices, including new brass-tack couches, embossed-leaf barstools, or tufted booths.
Old Hollywood panache also extends into Crystal’s entertainment showrooms, the Galaxy Lounge and Hollywood Theatre, with an air of British tradition, thanks to the spaces’ two UK designers.
The ship’s live performance showroom Galaxy Lounge now has a modern and contemporary look with diamond-patterned glass doors, lustrous gold fabric panels, black Nero Marquina marble flooring, and large LCD digital signage screens at the entrance. New, modern mohair seating, cocktail tables, and under-banquette lighting add comfort and drama. A new stage extension that expands performance space by 30%, plus cutting-edge tech enhancements bring guests on the high seas even closer to Broadway.
Classic, Art Deco movie palaces and the stars of the silver screen inspired Adfecto’s re-do of the Hollywood Theatre, Crystal’s elegant space for feature films and presentations. New smoked woodgrain walls and velvet damson-colored curtains create a sweeping entry, while decorative and underseat lighting provides a warm ambience and soft glow. Various state-of-the-art visual and audio systems further transform the space into a luxury screening room.
Crystal’s dedicated Junior Cruisers’ areas, Waves (teens) and Fantasia (children), have been re-designed by Adfecto for savvy stylistas-in-training. The areas’ divided layout has been reconfigured to create more privacy for teens and more of a welcoming, home den feel for younger children and allows flexibility for the space to be opened up into one. Different sections for group activities/crafts, storytime, relaxation, videogames (Wii, PlayStation, Xbox, Kinect), and screenings encourage personal expression.
Other invigorating new touches include “bells and whistles” added to all staterooms, paddle tennis court resurfacing, sprucing of tender shuttles, more energy-efficient hull paint, galley updates, and general maintenance and detailing of the entire ship, from propellers and boilers to the bridge and lifeboats.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and $.25 of history
It’s June 22, the alpha of our additional anniversary on the road. We chock-full at a blow breadth on I-86 in Pennsylvania which was on allotment of the Seneca Indian Reservation. The architecture was congenital like an Indian abode with circuitous designs to represent the “Three Sisters” which are corn, wheat, and squash, and addition one to represent a campfire. Round seats were abiding in a amphitheater about the mosaics. Stained bottle windows and paintings completed the Indian motif.
The afterward day we collection forth the coffer of Basin Erie. We chock-full at a VFW column in Painesville and were arrive to their BBQ. The architect of the town, General Edward Paine who served in the Revolutionary War, was originally from Connecticut.
The VFW associates told us about a esplanade with baptize avalanche in the next town, Elyria, and we larboard in seek of the “Cascade Park” and river walk. It was simple to find, but not so simple to traverse. There was a boardwalk with an discount of the avalanche breadth we chock-full to yield some pictures and a aisle forth the river.
We started down the trail, which was in acceptable shape, but it bound deteriorated. At the alpha of the trail, a alternation hotlink fence ran forth the ancillary of the aisle with a aciculate bead to the river. Shortly, we saw the fence lying on the ground, the aisle narrowed, and the ancillary became difficult to cantankerous and was absolutely dangerous. We weren’t cutting our hiking boots, so we alternate to the VIEW and went forth our way. This is for us an archetype of a baby boondocks accepting a accustomed asset and not befitting it maintained. I am abiding with the appropriate administration solutions could be begin to accomplish these trails safer and added accessible. Our next stop was the boondocks of Amherst, Ohio, the “Sandstone Capital of the World.”
We were told that rock from the quarry was acclimated in architecture the Kremlin, and in Bill Gates house. We went to the library to get added information, but were clumsy to acquisition anything. Researching the bounded newspapers database was actual difficult and cumbersome.
We connected forth I-80 through acreage of blah growing as far as the eye can see. It was windy, and amateur tractor trailers anesthetized by us, acceptable beyond the lane lines. If you accept never been anesthetized by a dispatch tractor bivouac with three box trailers or tankers in a cantankerous wind, you are missing “something.” The 70 mph acceleration absolute is just too fast for us and gas breadth is sacrificed at these speeds.
There are abounding attractions in Michigan, but back we had anxiety for the advancing weekend for a bivouac in the Hiawatha Civic Forest (half amount with our Senior Pass), we had time for alone one added stop and chose the Sleeping Bear Dunes Civic Lakeshore.
Again application our Senior Pass, we were accepted to the coffer dune ascend area. The dunes are a huge acropolis of bendable sand. It is absolutely a climb, difficult in the bendable sand, and hot, and dry. The accolade at the end of the climb, is Basin Michigan. Some humans just sat in the sand, accouchement played as if at the beach, and some struggled up the abruptness cutting sneakers, flip-flops, sandals, or barefoot. There are fee-free canicule in all Civic Parks, but this wasn’t one. At $10/car it is a lot to pay to play in the sand, so if you plan to go to any civic park, analysis the internet for fee-free days. Of course, it was chargeless with our Senior Pass.
After our sand-hike, we went on the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive (again $10/car but we acclimated our pass). This was a narrow, one-way alley with affluence of hills and curves. There were 12 credibility on the map to stop and analysis out. There are barbecue areas, a lath walk, and a stop to discount the dunes and Basin Michigan. We stopped, and watched in awe as the basin appeared on the added ancillary of a dune. A boardwalk led to an discount that was congenital over a abrupt bank. The wind was strong, and the after-effects had whitecaps.
The afterward day we collection forth the coffer of Basin Erie. We chock-full at a VFW column in Painesville and were arrive to their BBQ. The architect of the town, General Edward Paine who served in the Revolutionary War, was originally from Connecticut.
The VFW associates told us about a esplanade with baptize avalanche in the next town, Elyria, and we larboard in seek of the “Cascade Park” and river walk. It was simple to find, but not so simple to traverse. There was a boardwalk with an discount of the avalanche breadth we chock-full to yield some pictures and a aisle forth the river.
We started down the trail, which was in acceptable shape, but it bound deteriorated. At the alpha of the trail, a alternation hotlink fence ran forth the ancillary of the aisle with a aciculate bead to the river. Shortly, we saw the fence lying on the ground, the aisle narrowed, and the ancillary became difficult to cantankerous and was absolutely dangerous. We weren’t cutting our hiking boots, so we alternate to the VIEW and went forth our way. This is for us an archetype of a baby boondocks accepting a accustomed asset and not befitting it maintained. I am abiding with the appropriate administration solutions could be begin to accomplish these trails safer and added accessible. Our next stop was the boondocks of Amherst, Ohio, the “Sandstone Capital of the World.”
We were told that rock from the quarry was acclimated in architecture the Kremlin, and in Bill Gates house. We went to the library to get added information, but were clumsy to acquisition anything. Researching the bounded newspapers database was actual difficult and cumbersome.
We connected forth I-80 through acreage of blah growing as far as the eye can see. It was windy, and amateur tractor trailers anesthetized by us, acceptable beyond the lane lines. If you accept never been anesthetized by a dispatch tractor bivouac with three box trailers or tankers in a cantankerous wind, you are missing “something.” The 70 mph acceleration absolute is just too fast for us and gas breadth is sacrificed at these speeds.
There are abounding attractions in Michigan, but back we had anxiety for the advancing weekend for a bivouac in the Hiawatha Civic Forest (half amount with our Senior Pass), we had time for alone one added stop and chose the Sleeping Bear Dunes Civic Lakeshore.
Again application our Senior Pass, we were accepted to the coffer dune ascend area. The dunes are a huge acropolis of bendable sand. It is absolutely a climb, difficult in the bendable sand, and hot, and dry. The accolade at the end of the climb, is Basin Michigan. Some humans just sat in the sand, accouchement played as if at the beach, and some struggled up the abruptness cutting sneakers, flip-flops, sandals, or barefoot. There are fee-free canicule in all Civic Parks, but this wasn’t one. At $10/car it is a lot to pay to play in the sand, so if you plan to go to any civic park, analysis the internet for fee-free days. Of course, it was chargeless with our Senior Pass.
After our sand-hike, we went on the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive (again $10/car but we acclimated our pass). This was a narrow, one-way alley with affluence of hills and curves. There were 12 credibility on the map to stop and analysis out. There are barbecue areas, a lath walk, and a stop to discount the dunes and Basin Michigan. We stopped, and watched in awe as the basin appeared on the added ancillary of a dune. A boardwalk led to an discount that was congenital over a abrupt bank. The wind was strong, and the after-effects had whitecaps.
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