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HTC One X+ full review
HTC has given its top-of-the-range One X smartphone a tune-up with some new internal components to produce the One X+. The handset promises improved performance, battery life and extra storage. Read our: HTC One X review.
HTC One X+ review: Design
On the outside, the One X+ doesn't look any different than the One X. HTC has only made changes inside so it's still 8.9mm thin and 135g. Here's what we said about the design of the One X:
"The device has a nice but subtle curve to it making it nice to hold in the hand with the only intrusion to its slender 8.9mm profile being the large camera lens on the rear." See also: Group test: what's the best smartphone?
"This protrudes a couple of millimetres from the back of the phone but doesn't interfere when holding the One X normally in portrait mode. However, its position does make it trickier to support in landscape while not getting a finger in the way of its view. Five discreet metal contacts on the rear are for use with a customdocking station."
HTC One X+ review: Build quality
Although the One X+ has the same appearance than the One X we found build quality to be better.
We said "A lot of care and attention looks to have gone into putting the One X together in its one-piece shell. The screen and touch-sensitive buttons are flush with the case; the only removable part is the MicroSIM tray, located on the top of the phone." And this is still the case with the One X+.
The good news is that the worrying ripple effect of the screen which occurred if the handset was squeezed along the side is not present on our One X+ sample.
HTC One X+ review: Hardware and performance
As we mentioned earlier, it's the inside of the One X+ which has been upgraded in comparison with the One X. It has the same 1GB RAM but a faster 1.7GHz nVidia Tegra 3 processor.
It's only marginally better than the One X's 1.5GHz chip but we saw a big jump in benchmark results. The One X+ scored a healthy 1529 in Geekbench 2, a much better score than the One X's 592 and a much bigger increase in performance than the 27 percent touted by HTC.
We didn't exactly find the One X to be a laggy phone but the One X+ is slightly nipper from a user perspective.
In the SunSpider JavaScript test the One X+ did reasonably well with a time of 1403ms, but this is a little way off the Motorola Razr i and iPhone 5 which managed 1079ms and 903ms respectively. See also: iPhone 5 vs HTC One X+ comparison.
We also tested the graphics performance with GLBenchmark and got a frame rate of 18fps. This isn't bad but the iPhone 5 and Nexus 4 managed close to 40fps.
There's no change when it comes to adding storage because there's no microSD card slot. However, the One X+ has a generous 64GB of internal storage - three times the amount of the similarly prices Samsung Galaxy S3.
The screen is another element unchanged from the One X which is no bad thing. When we reviewed the One X, the 4.7in Super IPS screen was the best we'd seen on an Android smartphone. We said: "the screen has such a high pixel density it gives the illusion that you're looking at a glossy printed page instead of a screen."
There's much stiffer competition now with devices like the Samsung Galaxy S3 which has an equally fantastic display. Even with the incoming wave of Full HD smartphones, the One X+ still looks great.
Like all of HTC's phones, the One X+ comes with Beats 'sound enhancement'. For us, switching this on does nothing more than pump up the volume and crank the bass which is only handy for certain genres of music.
The One X+ is comfortably equipped in its connectivity with microUSB, Bluetooth 4.0, dual-band Wi-Fi, DLNA and NFC.
HTC One X+ review: Cameras
The main rear facing camera remains the same as the One X at 8Mp which takes high quality photos and video content.
We said: "The camera app is fluent, fast and easy to use. There are also a couple of tricks thrown in to impress. Holding down the shutter button takes continuous photos and there's also the ability to take still shots while recording video - which can be shot in full-HD 1080p."
The front facing camera has received a small upgrade from 1.3Mp to 1.6Mp but still shoots video at 720p quality.
HTC One X+ review: Software
The HTC One X+ runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but it's not the stock user interface since HTC uses its own overlay called Sense. In this instance the One X+ has Sense 4+.
The interface is much like it was on the One X but is quite different to the vanilla Android found on Google's Nexus devices. For example, there's no two finger pull down quick settings bar, although there is a link to settings in the normal notifications bar.
There's also no option to put widgets on the lock screen but HTC offers a selection of information including weather, friend stream and notifications which do a similar job.
Luckily HTC hasn't got rid of Google Now, the latest version of Google's search facility which is one of the best new features of Jelly Bean. It provides everyday information like weather, travel and local attractions before you search for them.
Although there's a few things missing when compared to vanilla Android, Sense has a number of benefits. For starters it looks visually attractive which is a good start. We like the large amount of widgets on offer and pre-loaded apps such as Facebook, TuneIn Radio and Polaris Office. One of HTC's latest additions is Best Deals which offers users discounts on local products and services.
HTC has customised the recent apps part or Android to display in a separate window, like Windows Phone 8 but with a 3D view. Although this is not necessary it looks good and we like the fact you can select to use the recent apps button below the screen to bring up menus when held down.
HTC One X+ review: Battery life
Since the design of the One X+ is identical to the One X, it comes as no surprise that the battery is non-removable. But there's less reason to remove the battery of the One X+ because it has a higher capacity, 7.8Wh (2100mAh) compared to 6.7Wh (1800mAh).
The One X only lasted us a day which was the phone's main downfall for us. However, the One X+ comfortably lasted two days with general usage which is a great result. This difference is far more important than the performance boost.
Our good battery life was helped by the power saver which is permanently displayed in the notifications bar where you can easily switch it on and off. You can also customise how it saves battery power.
HTC One X+: Specs
- NVIDIA Tegra 3 1.7GHz
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The local Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois (CAGGNI) has announced that they will be participating as a group in the soon to start 1940 Census Index Project.
If you want to participate in the project with them, they would very much seek your help to do so. You do not even have to be a member of CAGGNI to participate in the project with them!
Why go it alone! Instead, work within the structure of a group whose members are all committed to working on one major project that will help all of us in our genealogy research.
I just received an e-mail from the organization that provides further details on the planned group project.
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We are excited to announce that our society has joined the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project to help index the 1940 U.S. Federal Census! Indexing records from our state, we will be an essential part of this monumental grass-roots effort that will put one of the richest genealogical data sets in the world online, complete and free of charge forever.
If you are not already committed to indexing with another group, we would be happy to have you join us! Go to www.the1940census.com/society and register to participate with our society. Simply select CAGGNI Computer-Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois on the profile screen when creating your account. Every new person indexing with our society gets us closer to milestones that qualify us for incentives provided by the sponsors of the project, so sign up today!
Thank you in advance for your participation. We look forward to the impact this resource will have for researchers of our area and so many others.
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On April 2, 2012, images of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be released for the first time. Unlike previous census years, images of this census will be made available as free digital images.
Upon its release, the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project, a joint initiative between Archives.com, FamilySearch, findmypast.com, and other leading genealogy societies and organizations, will coordinate efforts to provide quick access to these digital images and immediately start indexing these records to make them searchable online with free and open access.
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There are many people still alive today who will be able to find themselves in the 1940 U.S. Federal Census. Others will be able to readily connect with relatives they knew personally or through family stories. Imagine the great resource this will be to current and future society members!
So if you are not committed to indexing with anyone else, consider doing the indexing through CAGGNI. Remember, you do not have to be a member of CAGGNI to do the indexing. Just follow the process outlined in the above note from CAGGNI and you will soon be on your way to help index the 1940 Census. Don't go it alone. Do it with CAGGNI!
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text: In honor of Halloween, the animal encounters at the National Aquarium have been a bit spooky this week! We have been introducing some of our slithery, slimy, creepy, crawly animals from the rainforest, and teaching visitors that these animals aren't as scary as we may think.. One of the encounters includes tarantulas. Scared yet? Don't be. Though these venomous crawlers are generally thought of as a danger to humans, they do not pose the slightest threat. Tarantulas have venom with the potency comparable to a bee, so their venom is generally not toxic to humans. What's the slimiest creature you can think of? A snake? This preconceived notion about snakes is false! These reptiles are not slimy at all; in fact, they are covered with scales. Snakes have small scales on the top of their body and large scales on the bottom. The large scales, called scutes, help them move their legless bodies. The coloration of their scales helps snakes camouflage themselves in various surroundings. They can blend in with leaves, shadows and even rocks! What has six legs and teeth in their stomachs? Give up? Cockroaches! These fascinating creatures have existed for about 300 million years and were found even before dinosaurs! Even though we see them as pests, cockroaches actually do a lot for the earth. In the rainforest at the Aquarium they help spread nutrients from trees to the soil. You can find out more about these animals and others at the Hallowings and Things encounters everyday at 10:30 a.m. through November 6th! We are also running a special special halloween contest on facebook through Monday. Click here to enter the Hallo-Marine AquaFaces contest! Build your creepiest AquaFace for a chance to win tickets to the National Aquarium's Baltimore venue. Happy Halloween! Tags: animal-encounters, cockroaches, halloween, snakes, tarantulas Categories: Animals, News Previous Post Next Post


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K-Fed has slimmed down and found a job. Sort of.
The ex-hubby of Britney Spears took a page from reality TV dad Jon Gosselin and made an in-store appearance at an Ed Hardy store in Brisbane, Australia, with girlfriend Victoria Prince earlier today, according to the Huffington Post.
A much more svelte Federline -- no longer worthy of the moniker K-Fat -- sported an Ed Hardy cap and white T-shirt as he flashed his pearly whites with his blonde gal pal at his side during the appearance.
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- to be honest, I already have an account, but sometimes I forget to log in or am simply too lazy. xD184.108.40.206 (talk) 19:06, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for your cooperation. This fight is sensless in any way and I start to get worried if there are more who might think I want to steal their spotlight or whatever.Norleon (talk) 22:38, January 27, 2013 (UTC)
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Many testing methods record peak and average measurements during the test period. These average values give a basic understanding of performance, but fall short in providing the clearest view possible of I/O QoS (Quality of Service).
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There's no shortage of compelling storylines in the NFL this weekend.
Unless you've been living under a rock with no access to ESPN, you're surely aware that Tim Tebow and Tom Brady are playing in New England. That would be enough to have everyone's hearts fluttering, but when you throw in former Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels, the man who brought Tebow to Denver, getting hired by the Patriots to assist them this week you get an even bigger bump in the interest meter.
The Packers and Giants are playing a rematch of their entertaining regular season game while also causing some to think back to the NFC Championship Game in 2008 even though Brett Favre played that game and, at last check, he's still blessedly retired without access to a cell phone camera. Aaron Rodgers is the NFL MVP, the Giants are one of the hottest teams in football and that makes for a pretty heady soup.
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And Joe Flacco just wants to be loved. Is that so wrong?
Where does that leave the Saints and the 49ers? Well, there was a flap during preseason because of how much the Saints blitzed, but that's not why the first game on Saturday might just be the most interesting game of them all. Nowhere else this weekend do you have two teams that have achieved so much using totally different means.
It is the first playoff game since the 1950 NFL Championship Game to pit a team averaging more than 34 points per game on offense against a team allowing fewer than 15 points per game. There has never been anything like the Saints passing game in NFL history while the 49ers have taken on the pugnacious spirit of Jim Harbaugh to put forth a defense that became an immovable object by playing with irresistable force.
The mouth waters at what this matchup might bring, especially since the Saints are playing outside of their Superdome comfort zone. Can stud inside linebackers Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman stick with the Saints' all-world tight end Jimmy Graham? Will Drew Brees feel pressure from Aldon Smith and Justin Smith or will he have just enough time to pick apart a defense that hasn't been beaten up all year? Does the Saints running game have enough oomph to help the Saints stay on track outdoors or will it be all up to Brees?
Watching the way those matchups play out will be fascinating, but, as is often the case in games like this, the final score will likely be determined by the rest of the matchup. The 49ers offense, while not high-powered by any means, has been very good at avoiding turnovers all season. The Saints defense, while not stingy by any means, has been very good at forcing turnovers that give their offense extra shots to ring up points.
49ers quarterback Alex Smith will have a lot to say about which side wins that battle. The Niners have built their entire team around lessening Smith's impact on the proceedings, but there will come a time on Saturday when he has to make a play. The Saints offense might be slowed down, but it is going to be stopped in its tracks. Smith is going to have to get his team points and he'll have to avoid handing any more to New Orleans by turning the ball over.
Call it a hunch, but something is going to give on that side of the ball and, when it does, the team that makes the break will wind up winning the game.
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Thought I should start a thread on d-14 bucks since I have two tags and will post pictures of bucks as we take them this year. Here is a picture of myself, my wifey, and my buddy, with some D14 bucks we took a few years ago on a very rainy day, a 2x2, 4x3, and a 4x4 respectfully. Sorry if the picture is bad, but took a photo of a photo with my cell phone. Wish I had used a better camera on this day and yes I shot the scrub, hahahaha. I let my wife take the 4x3!!
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Santorelli scores twice as Canucks clip Avalanche
Vancouver, BC (SportsNetwork.com) - Mike Santorelli had two goals and an assist in the Vancouver Canucks' 3-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.
Ryan Kesler also scored for the Canucks, who have won four in a row. Roberto Luongo stopped 28-of-29 shots.
"If you want to be successful in this league, you've got to be able to hold onto leads, and tonight we did it the right way," Santorelli said. "We wanted to come out strong and not look at the time, and that's what we did."
Jamie McGinn scored the lone goal for the Avalanche, who went 1-2-0 on a three-game road trip. Jean-Sebastien Giguere turned aside 18-of-21 shots.
The Canucks got on the board at the 5:34 mark of the first period. Chris Higgins intercepted Nate Guenin's pass behind the Colorado net. Higgins slid a pass to Santorelli, who beat Giguere with a backhander.
Kesler scored 1:32 into the third frame. Giguere stopped Santorelli's shot from the slot, but the rebound went right to Kesler.
Less than six minutes later, Santorelli kept it on a 2-on-1 rush and wristed a shot past Giguere.
McGinn scored with 7.1 seconds left to spoil Luongo's shutout bid.
"I honestly felt we played a better game than them, and unfortunately we have nothing to show for the result," Colorado coach Patrick Roy said. "But, I mean, Luongo was good. Both goalies were good actually."
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The Haitian tragedy of the past week falls – as my geographically astute readers will observe – just beyond the boundaries of the continent I currently call home. I don't want to suggest that my travels in Africa somehow make me an authority on what is happening in Haiti. I'm not. The blog is This Is Africa – not These Are Black People.
Billy Sothern at Slate nicely sums up the problem – and danger – of foreign correspondents trying to report about a complicated country that they've only just managed to bone up on over a few late night sessions of Googling.
On the one hand, governments across Africa are – to some degree or other – sending aid to the beleaguered island nation. (The list includes the DRC, which, as Reuters reports, "has just been told by the International Monetary Fund [that] its debt levels are fiscally unsustainable." Picture poor Kabila forking over all those hard-earned, debt-relieved dollars!) Plus at least one African leader has proposed "the creation of a new African state to resettle Haitians left homeless by an earthquake."
(A brief but relevant aside: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, who made the suggestion, is rapidly gaining on Libyan Pariah-in-Chief Muammar Qaddafi for my annual "What the Fuck Was He Thinking" African Leader Award. "All we are saying is that the Haitians didn't take themselves over there," Wade told Reuters TV on Monday. "We have to offer them the chance to come to Africa, that is my idea. They have as much right to Africa as I have." This from a man whose visionary plan to combat poverty in his country includes the construction of a 328-foot high bronze statue of the "African Renaissance" with a $27 million price tag attached. And built by North Koreans. From which he'll take a 35 percent cut of future tourist revenues.)
More to the point, though: I came across a heated cyber-skirmish between a couple of conservative eggheads over at The National Review which dragged my beloved little Burundi into the picture. The argument stemmed from a column by editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg – author of the right-wing polemic Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning – in which Haitians are, in a time-honored conservative tradition, more or less blamed for being poor. "The sad truth about Haiti isn't simply that it is poor, but that it has a poverty culture," writes Goldberg, while sounding actually not all that sad.
The blogosphere exploded with nearly three responses. John Derbyshire criticized the author's woeful lament that "Haiti will never get out of grinding poverty until it abandons much of its culture." (He didn't, in fact, disagree "that we need to transform Haiti's 'culture of poverty.'" He just didn't know how to do it.) With a stunning coup de grace, Derbyshire dusted off his CIA World Factbook and boldly proclaimed that "Haiti isn't actually that poor."
Goldberg got testy at being misunderstood. "My meaning was only 'there are places way poorer,'" he wrote.
At rank 203 out of 229, Haiti is in the 11th percentile. To put it another way, one country in nine is as poor as, or poorer than, Haiti. If one person in nine is shorter than me, I'm not that short. As for "arguably slightly poorer": with Haiti at per capita GDP $1,300, I think Eritrea at $700 and Burundi at $300 would give you an argument.
I would like to see that argument. I would like to see Eritrea and Burundi gang up on Haiti and shake their fists and say, "Hey, Haiti, we'll show you abject poverty!"
This whole argument is so dangerously stupid it should come with an FDA warning. Bickering over indices and World Bank rankings when it comes to a certain level of poverty is sort of like arguing about whether or not your hot dog is Kosher: at the end of the day, it's still really, really bad for you. Besides, when you consider the obscene levels of economic disparity you find in much of the developing world, you have to take those measures of per capita GDP with a big grain of WFP-distributed salt. Does Gabon's gaudy $14,200 per capita GDP mean anything to all but a small circle of its oilgarchs? Does the great resource wealth of Namibia (per capita GDP: $6,400) improve the lives of its rural poor? (Actually, according to some, it makes them worse.) Are Kenyans better off than Burundians, since their per capita GDP is nearly four times as great? Even if they live in the far north, where people refer to "Kenya" – i.e., Nairobi – as a distant, far-off land?
Despite the fact that the author's idea of a good time is betting on Human Development Indices, this piece makes a good argument against the HDI. Conclusion: "Scandinavia comes out on top according to the HDI because the HDI is basically a measure of how Scandinavian your country is."
I was talking this afternoon with Pancrace Cimaye, spokesman for Burundi's opposition FRODEBU party. Cimaye – a stout, world-weary man whose paunch suggested a very Scandinavian level of Human Development – was talking about the extreme poverty in Burundi. He said that FRODEBU officials had a certain parlor trick they played in the countryside to show how five years of ruling-party rule had done nothing for the country's development. I will leave aside the swarminess I feel about this schtick, since it sort of makes a point.
They would tell a gathering of party members – sometimes 1,000 strong – that if any of them had a 10,000 Burundian franc note (the equivalent of about eight US bucks), FRODEBU would match it with one of their own. Not a single man would raise his hand. So they would ask if anyone had Fbu 5,000. None. Then 2,000. Then 1,000. Finally, a few farmers would raise their hands. And that was it.
Now, whether that points to the corruption and incompetence of the ruling party – as opposed to any number of very complicated factors – is debatable. But the reality of the poverty it underscores is pretty concrete. I would be happy to bet my own Fbu 10,000 note that you could use that same schtick with a bunch of Kenyan Samburu or Ugandan Karamoja or Mozambican Makonde or Botswanan San or Nigerian Ijaw – or even hypothetical-$1,300-a-year-earning Haitians – and the result would be the same. At some point, the indices are just dressing-up some ugly, naked facts.


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If there's one guy in the world who knows something about populist protests, it's Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Today he said the Occupy Wall Street protests will bring American capitalism to its knees.
During his weekly fireside rant, Khamenei said America's "corrupt foundation has been exposed to the American people."
"They [the US government] may crack down on this movement but cannot uproot it," Khamenei said. "Ultimately, it will grow so that it will bring down the capitalist system and the West."
Khamenei brushed off the 2009 Iranian protests as the work of a Zionist conspiracy. And those were some protests! So if Khamenei is saying Occupy Wall Street is the real deal, everyone better stock up their post-capitalism-era survival bunker. America will soon bow to protesters' demands and be transformed to a land of communitarian outdoor sex-and-free-pizza camping parties.


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New faces to sit at China's top table
THE stakes are so high in Thursday's leadership transition that many Chinese analysts are framing it in terms of the rise and fall of dynasties, amid accumulating social, political and economic stresses.
After a year of scandals and rising public cynicism, the administration of General Secretary Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao begin the handover to a new team led by their deputies, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, at 2pm Melbourne time.
The identities of another five, or perhaps seven, leaders in the Politburo Standing Committee – the inner sanctum of power – will be gleaned by the order in which they walk on stage at the Great Hall of the People.
Analysts, including global investors from Sydney to New York, will be looking for the names of two key potential reformers, Li Yuanchao and Wang Yang, as they gauge the likelihood that the party can deal with growing challenges to the way it dominates political and economic life.
They will also be watching whether Mr Hu hangs on to his post as chairman of the Central Military Commission, as did his irrepressible 86-year-old predecessor, Jiang Zemin.
Mr Hu's complete retirement might indicate the ascendancy of factional rivals led by Mr Jiang, analysts say.
Alternatively, it could suggest Mr Hu has begun to institutionalise the winner-takes-all norms of elite combat that have governed Chinese politics for two millennia.
"A lot of Chinese think of political development in terms of the dynastic cycle," said Feng Chongyi, a political scientist at the University of Technology, Sydney. "The Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang leadership is the last opportunity for the party to start a transition to constitutional democracy to break away from the dynastic cycle."
Dr Feng, an insider and activist, has ceased paying his party membership fees but is yet to have his membership formally revoked.
China watchers, analysts and pro-democracy advocates are fiercely debating whether Mr Xi is at heart a reformer or a stalwart product of the ruling party system.
Some contend that Mr Xi will bide his time and consolidate his power before embarking on a bold political restructuring of the country's Communist-run political system. Others see an inherently cautious operator who has no interest, and certainly no power, to dramatically reform the system.
At most, they say, he might offer token reforms to stave off dissent and maintain the party's ironclad grip on power.
About the only one in Beijing who has not offered a view of any kind is Mr Xi. Keeping with protocol, he has said little during the past months or years that would reveal even the slimmest hint of his intentions. His public speeches have largely been typical jargon laced with Communist fare, urging the party to maintain "purity".
Mr Xi's silence on political reform has made the portly 59-year-old a veritable walking Rorschach test, allowing observers to project onto him whatever views they choose, or perhaps hope, to see.
"Compared to Hu Jintao, Xi is more like a reformer," said Mao Yushi, an economist, offering one commonly heard sentiment. "China is a country under dictatorship, but the new leadership group, I don't think, will take active measures to change the situation. It's too difficult."
Li Datong, a journalist and reform advocate who was fired from his editor's job at China Youth Daily for pushing against official censorship, said he believed Mr Xi realised the imperative for reform but might be hamstrung by a Communist Party that is fearful of losing its power.
"The CPC is facing an unprecedented crisis of credibility, which is fatal for them," Li said.
"The party has already lost its credibility because of the long time of one-party dictatorship. The regime will collapse like the last few years of [the] Qing Dynasty if the new leaders don't catch this chance to reform." With NEW YORK TIMES
This story Administrator ready to work first appeared on Nanjing Night Net.


text: Friday, May 11, 2012 Daily Physical Activity Essential in Obesity Prevention, Says IOM Report Integrating physical activity into people's daily lives is 1 of 5 obesity prevention strategies proposed in a new report released Monday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Weight of the Nation conference. America's progress in arresting its obesity epidemic has been too slow, and the condition continues to erode productivity and cause millions of people to suffer from potentially debilitating and deadly chronic illnesses, says the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report. Solving this complex, stubborn problem requires a comprehensive set of solutions that work together to spur across-the-board societal change. The 4 other prevention strategies identified by the committee that wrote the report are making healthy food and beverage options available everywhere, transforming marketing and messages about nutrition and activity, making schools a gateway to healthy weights, and galvanizing employers and health care professionals to support healthy lifestyles. Specific tactics the authors noted include requiring at least 60 minutes per day of physical education and activity in schools, implementing industry-wide guidelines on which foods and beverages can be marketed to children and how, expanding workplace wellness programs, taking full advantage of physicians' roles to advocate for obesity prevention with patients and in the community, and increasing the availability of lower-calorie, healthier children's meals in restaurants. The full report can be read online. A report brief and an infographic are available on IOM's website. As reported last week in News Now, HBO will air a 4-part documentary series on obesity on May 14-15 as part of the Weight of the Nation initiative. DVD kits are available for organizations to host screenings of the films in their communities. The kits include the video series and discussion guides in English and Spanish that can be used to delve deeper into the concepts presented and spur individual and community action. Comments An Endocrinologist and weight loss expert in Miami, Florida, has treated thousands of overweight people, both men and women with this diet and natural hormone. No side effects or difficulties have been reported after 55 years of use. Posted by Jeffrey Lipman DO, on 5/11/2012 10:01 PM


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Ahhh…. hello there again…. todays post is well…. u probably saw it before u even read this!! Those who know me know one thing I am passionate about is my photography… so I thought I'd share some of this passion with y'all :> What ur looking at is a photograph I took of Saint Finbarr's Cathedral in Cork City. It was built in the 19th century in honour of the patron saint of Cork (duh!). Now the story of how I came about to take this picture is actually quite funny:
I was chilling at a friends house one day after classes munching on a bar of Dairy milk chocolate when I took a peek out the window at the cathedral… the sun was just setting and the sky was the colour of the warm organic honey my mama used to shove down our throats as children (everyday!!! I tried to avoid it by sleeping in a little extra… doesn't work!)…. AAAANNNYWHOO…. I quickly jumped up, snagging a whole toe on the coffee table to fetch my camera from my backpack to take this shot. Et voilá! Totally worth the blinding pain of my toe AND my picture had a story to tell!
I like this photograph for a number of reasons, one being the feeling that sunset gave me when I first set my eyes on it, like there was an explosion of warmth and passion right behind that building! On another note, I'd love to get your feedback on what you think of this photograph! (I DID use a film camera to take this picture and it didn't exactly scan perfectly but thanks to Mish it looks muy better than the original scan! Phew)
Now that I've conquered the craziness surrounding the fear of showing my photographs to people, you will be seeing more and more of them! I plan to take my #2 trip to the Lough this weekend if the weather stays this nice or if I'm really lucky I'll go to Fota Island and shoot the penguins!
And that ladies and gents concludes post number 3 of Mollie's Blog of Stuff. Thank you for tuning in!
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Metals mining stocks are an option for investors who want to combine exposure to the metals' price movements with an equity position in an underlying business, experts say. One of the world's top gold experts, Frank Holmes of US Global Investors recently stressed current opportunities for such a strategy in his weekly investment commentary of September 30.
"Don Coxe, a global portfolio strategist, highlighted as his investment recommendations to maintain heavy weighting in precious metals, particularly through gold-mining companies," shares Holmes. "He pointed out that gold mines are the cheapest relative to bullion that the market has ever seen."
According to Holmes, other experts like Jeff Nichols, managing director of American Precious Metals Advisors, have said that fundamentals still support much higher prices for gold ahead. "Gold now appears to be returning to the upward pattern that we have seen steadily over the past five years," Holmes explains. "In light of the fact that the European and U.S. debt problems are not going to be sorted out [in early October], gold should find renewed support at these levels."
Adam P. Graf, CFA and director of equity research for precious metals and emerging miners with Dahlman, Rose & Co., LLC., believes the current environment of monetary debasement and financial difficulties is bullish for precious metals, particularly smaller-cap firms. "It's the smaller-cap names where there are projects that are going to increase in value with the price of gold but are also going to increase in value as they bring projects forward and/or get purchased or benefit from multiple expansion as there is a wave of asset purchases," he said.
In early October, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch reiterated its stance that gold prices are set to reach $2,000 an ounce over the next 12 months. The investment group noted that assets under management within some investment products, like physical ETFs, have been relatively steady.
"This is one reason we believe that the recent correction did not reflect a general reassessment of gold's fundamentals. Given continued debt issues in advanced nations and both structural and cyclical headwinds to growth with all the implications these have for foreign exchange and interest rates, we maintain our 12-month gold price target at $2,000 an ounce," said the commodity note.
"Despite the correction, we note that assets under management at vehicles like physically backed exchange traded funds (ETFs) have held up reasonably well. ETFs have actually seen inflows as prices collapsed in the past few days," continued the report. "This suggests in our view that the recent correction does not indicate a broad-based reassessment of gold's fundamentals."
Christopher Ecclestone
Hallgarten & Co.
Entrée Gold (EGI) is a Canadian mineral-exploration company focused on the exploration and development of copper and gold prospects. Its flagship Lookout Hill property in Mongolia completely surrounds the 8,500-hectare (21,000 acres) Oyu Tolgoi project of Ivanhoe Mines. A portion of the Lookout Hill property is subject to a joint venture with Ivanhoe Mines, through its subsidiary Oyu Tolgoi LLC.
The joint-venture property hosts the Hugo North Extension copper-gold deposit and the Heruga copper-gold-molybendum deposit. There appears to be substantial exploration potential on both the joint venture property, for the discovery of additional mineralized zones, and on territory to the west that Entrée owns 100 percent in its own right.
Meanwhile, in North America, it is exploring for porphyry-related copper systems in Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. The primary asset in Nevada is the Ann Mason property, which contains an inferred mineral resource and considerable potential for additional targets.
Entrée optioned two contiguous properties to Ann Mason, Blackjack and Roulette, through agreements with HoneyBadger Exploration Ltd., and Bronco Creek Exploration Inc. This property adjoins several past-producing copper properties of substantial size, so consolidation of the district is a theme the company espouses. It is also seeking additional opportunities to utilize its expertise in exploring for deep and/or concealed ore deposits and recently added a prospect in Peru to those that it had inherited from its 2010 takeover of the Australian miner, PacMag.
Trevor Turnbull
Scotia Capital Inc.
Minefinders (MFN) reported Q2/11 EPS of $0.33, in line with consensus and based on record revenues of $73 million. In July, Minefinders pre-reported gold equivalent sales at Dolores of 49,000 ounces, and [recently] announced total cash costs of $497 per ounce.
The company maintained guidance of 65,000-70,000 ounces of gold production and about 3.4 million ounces of silver output. We believe it is on track to exceed its silver forecast slightly based on current run rates.
We believe operations are running well and we continue to rate Minefinders as Outperform with a one-year target price of $20.00 per share.
Chris Thompson
Haywood Securities Inc.
Haywood looks for aggressive resource-to-reserve conversion for Endeavour Silver (EXK) in the near term, with improvements in grade (silver and gold) and metal recoveries to support the company's aggressive 33-percent production growth plans over the next 2 years.
Haywood estimates 3.7 million ounces of silver, 19,900 ounces of gold at a cash cost of about $6.00 an ounce of silver after credits for 2011, and 4.2 million ounces of silver, 22,700 ounces of gold at a cash cost of roughly $5.00 an ounce of silver for 2012 after credits.
Based on reserves, mine lives of roughly 3.5 years at Guanacevi and less than one year at Guanajuato are justified. A global resource inventory of 18.6 million ounces of silver resources plus gold credits at Guanacevi and 14.2 million ounces of silver plus gold credits at Guanajuato supports additional mine life at both operations.
Haywood currently models mine lives of 8.0 years at Guanacevi and 6.5 years at Guanajuato, significantly more than both mines' reserve life. (Haywood had reviewed the lead projects of Endeavour Silver and has managed or co-managed or participated as selling group in a public offering of securities for this company in the past 12 months.)


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SFCurley wrote:I have a script I wrote which takes a pre-defined field (ip address in your case) and searches through a file (like your banned ip address list) and from there you can take whatever action you want. I will post it here if you think it would be helpful.
{ This script can be run on incoming or selected messages
{ and will read from a user-specified input "match" file.
{ If any of the lines in the input file are found to be
{ present in either the Subject or From field of the email
{ message, the message will then be moved to a user-specified
{ mailbox. Both the user-specified "match" file name and
{ the mailbox name can be changed in the Script Setup.
{ The match-file must be located in the main Poco
{ applicaiton directory.
{ This provides functionality similar to the %file% comparison
{ operation provided by PocoMail, but matches only one way --
{ i.e., the entire match line in the input file must be
{ present in the subject or the from fields for a match to be
{ found.
{ I use this script to sort all of my newsletters into a
{ Poco mailbox called "To Read".
{ You can have multiple versions of this script, with each
{ one's setup referencing a different match input file and
{ target mailbox. In this case, just copy and rename the
{ script in the Poco Script directory and change the Setup
{ Parameters accordingly for each different match/move.
{ Written 08-12-04 by Sean Curley
External $userdata1 "Match Text File Name" #file.txt
Set $ifilename $userdata1
External $userdata2 "Mailbox to Move Matches Into" mailbox
Set $mailbox $userdata2
{ Verify that the specified Poco Mailbox exists
Set $mailboxfile $mailpath
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{ If either mailbox or file are missing go to error routine
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Team of the 2000s: #2- KansasPosted by zhayes9 on August 19th, 2009
Ed. Note: Check the category team of the 2000s for our other entries in this feature.
Stepping away from this decade's rankings for a moment, one could make the argument that the runner-up recipient on our list would top a list of the greatest college basketball programs of all-time. Sure, UCLA and Kentucky fans may quibble, but the combination of legendary players (Lovelette, Chamberlain, Manning, Pierce), pantheon coaches (Naismith, Allen, Brown, Williams) and an arena that every true college basketball fan should visit (Allen Fieldhouse) could surely provide enough ammunition to make an argument to head an all-time list. The successes of this program's basketball has extended into the current decade, complete with Final Fours, national championship heartbreaks and a comeback for the ages. Let's take a closer look:
#2 – Kansas
Overview. As one can tell from the chart above, Kansas has been the model of consistency over the course of the decade. Not even a Hall-of-Fame coach departing for his alma mater could deter the Jayhawks program in the 2000s. In fact, Kansas is the only school to reach the top-five in every single category considered, including a runner-up rank in Sweet 16s and Final Fours reached with seven and three, respectively. Other teams on the list have gone without a losing campaign and reached the NCAA Tournament each season, but none of those schools lost a coach midway through the decade. After Roy Williams departed, Kansas made a tremendous hire, luring Illinois coach Bill Self to Lawrence. He's responded by capturing a Big 12 regular season title each season with the exception of 2003-04, a year in which he finished second and reached the Elite Eight (ho hum). The peak for Kansas may have come in the early part of the decade under Williams, though. The Jayhawk squads from 2001-03 were truly memorable. The 2001-02 club is still the only team in Big 12 history to finish conference play undefeated, a Drew Gooden-led group that finished first in the nation in field goal and winning percentage. A year later, Kansas led the nation in scoring margin and reached the national title game.
Pinnacle. KU's only national championship in the decade would not have occurred if Derrick Rose or Chris Douglas-Roberts had sunk one more measly free throw during the thrilling 2008 National Championship Game in San Antonio. You know the story: Memphis leads Kansas 60-51 with two minutes left, the national title within their grasp…only to experience heartbreak of the highest order. Give the Jayhawks credit, though, for going perfect from the field and line during those waning minutes. Mario Chalmers' game-tying three-point shot with 2.1 seconds left will forever be etched in the mind of college basketball fans and may be the single greatest moment in Kansas basketball history (from the wayback machine: RTC's "morning after" analysis of the game). And that's saying something. Long known for NCAA Tournament chokes, (we'll delve into that in a bit) Bill Self finally reached the pinnacle, a pinnacle that is still going strong today. That national title squad was stripped of nearly every contributing player besides sixth man Sherron Collins and little-used big man Cole Aldrich, yet Self's superb coaching led Kansas to another Big 12 title and Sweet 16 appearance in 2008-09. As the preseason #1 team in the land entering the next decade, the pinnacle has yet to conclude.
Tailspin. Many fans would immediately point to the heartbreaking loss to Syracuse in the 2003 National Championship game (you remember the infamous Hakim Warrick block), a last hurrah for Kirk Hinrich, Nick Collison and Roy Williams gone awry. But I'd be shocked if diehard Kansas fans didn't select the consecutive first round losses in 2005 and 2006 to Bucknell (as a #3 seed) and Bradley (as a #4 seed) as the lowest points of the decade. The 2004-05 Kansas team completely collapsed after starting the season 20-1 and reaching the top spot in the polls, a squad led by Wayne Simien, Keith Langford and Aaron Miles during Self's second season. They would go on to lose six of their last nine games before the shocking Bucknell last-second upset. The following season was different yet finished eerily similar. After a rough start, KU rebounded to win 15 of their last 17 games and the Big 12 tournament before falling to Bradley in the opening round. After the loss, Bill Self was labeled a perennial March choke artist and many questioned whether the Kansas program could ever return to prominence.
Outlook for 2010s: Grade: A+. Kansas has returned to prominence. The Jayhawks enter the 2009-10 season as the near-unanimous favorite to raise another rafter in Allen Fieldhouse, a feat that would complete the quickest rebuilding job in the sport's history. Aldrich appears to be one of the early favorites to win the Naismith Award and Self lured another McDonald's All-American into the fray for next season in talented wing Xavier Henry, coupled with two more top-ten players at their respective positions in Elijah Johnson and Thomas Robinson to go with Tyshawn Taylor, Marcus Morris and Collins. Self is a recruiting machine and appears to be the frontrunner for Harrison Barnes, the top player in next year's class. Kansas is the height of the coaching chain and, barring an unforeseen flameout, Self should be the KU coach for years and years to come (especially after rejecting a monster package from his alma mater, Oklahoma State). The March monkey is off his back and the future is extremely bright for one of the most storied programs in college basketball.


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|HOUSTON (AP) Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan rejoined the Houston Astros on Tuesday as an executive adviser.
Ryan worked as a special assistant to the general manager in Houston from 2004 until he became president of the Texas Rangers in 2008. He added CEO to his title with the Rangers in 2011 and remained in that position until he stepped down in October.
Ryan will serve as an adviser to owner Jim Crane, general manager Jeff Luhnow and his son and president of business operations Reid Ryan.
''I'm very excited to be back with the Astros,'' the elder Ryan said in a statement. ''I'm happy to assist Jim, Jeff and Reid in any way I can. The Astros have a solid foundation with a strong farm system. I think the future is bright for Houston and I'm looking forward to my involvement.''
The Astros have lost more than 100 games in each of the last three seasons, but their minor league system has been ranked among the best in baseball this offseason.
Crane is glad to have Ryan back in Houston after his time with the Rangers.
''We will use his experience, expertise and knowledge to improve the Astros in all areas,'' Crane said. ''He will be an integral part of our management team. Nolan wants to be a part of our success moving forward.''
Ryan, who played for the Astros for nine seasons, is major league baseball's career strikeout leader and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1999.
''Nolan Ryan's experience and insights will help us on the baseball side - both in terms of decision-making and in maximizing the productivity of our players,'' Luhnow said. ''I'm fortunate as a general manager to get advice and guidance from great former players and Astros - Craig Biggio, Roger Clemens and now Nolan Ryan.''
Ryan won 324 games and set records for strikeouts (5,714) and no-hitters (seven) in a 27-year major league career. He signed with the Astros in 1980 and helped them to their first postseason appearance that year and back to the playoffs in 1981 and 1986.
Reid Ryan joined the Astros last season and is looking forward to working with his father.
''The opportunity to work with my father is very special,'' he said. ''He's had success in baseball on many levels and will be a great addition to our organization.''
The team said Nolan Ryan will join the team at spring training in the next few weeks.


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La Jolla Music Society presents the
BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart conducting
When: 8 p.m. Feb. 15
Where: Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., downtown
Admission: $27-$97
Phone: (858) 459-3728
There are few conductors more American than Keith Lockhart. He's American-born, American-educated and the music director of what's often called "America's Orchestra," the Boston Pops.
So what's Lockhart doing conducting a quintessentially British program of Britten's Sea Interludes, Elgar's Cello Concerto (with Sophie Shao) and "Enigma" Variations and Butterworth's "The Banks of Green Willow" with the BBC Concert Orchestra, which the La Jolla Music Society brings to Copley Symphony Hall on Friday?
The explanation is logical enough: Although Lockhart, who succeeded
He was music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, and since 2010, principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra.
"It was fun preparing this program because every British orchestral musician has played the ("Enigma") Variations pretty much since they could brush their teeth," Lockhart said. "It really is national music for them and they have a high degree of familiarity with it.
"That makes it a challenge coming in as a relative outsider because you don't want to present yourself as knowing more about it than they do. On the other hand, it's your job to put your overarching interpretation on it. We had a great time working on it, actually. I learned a couple things and I hope they learned one or two things."
Mind the gap
If you've never heard of the BBC Concert Orchestra (one of five BBC orchestras), maybe that's because you are an American. The British have been listening to it on the BBC since its founding in 1952. Its broadcast on BBC 2, "Friday Night is Music Night," is among the oldest continuing radio programs in the world and still reaches more than a million listeners. Comprised of 55 musicians with a repertoire ranging from the classics and jazz to experimental and rock music (Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood was composer-in-residence until recently), you've likely heard it on any number of BBC-originated shows, including "Planet Earth."
"It's a wonderful ensemble," said Lockhart, speaking on the phone from Boston. "There's a real feeling of collegiality that extends all the way up to the podium and I like how they approach making music. They are a very versatile group and they dig into everything with the same amount of commitment."
That's something Lockhart can relate to. He's made a living bridging pops and classical.
"I've had that experience pretty much the majority of my career," Lockhart said. "I spent 11 years as music director in Utah, where I would do Mahler (Symphony No.) Six for a weekend, and then fly overnight to Florida to start a Glen Miller tour with the (Boston) Pops."
He's not about to equate a Mahler slow movement with Miller's "In the Mood."
"But I do think the hallmark of being a good musician is you can assimilate a style and you can present it authentically at the highest point of your art," he said. "And I've always felt I love the variety. I love not having to be quite so intense all the time. It's kind of like acting in the Royal
That's entertainment
Unlike the BBC Concert Orchestra, however, many U.S. ensembles continue to make a distinction between their high art and its lowly pop-culture cousins, which may be one of the reasons symphony orchestras are in trouble.
"It's becoming painfully obvious in a lot of communities across America that orchestras are going to have a hard time existing just on their own terms going into the future," Lockhart said. "It's just not sustainable. Look at what's happening with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (which remains embroiled in a months-long labor dispute) or even in places you thought were as bombproof as Philadelphia (where the Philadelphia Orchestra is emerging from bankruptcy).
"I think the hallmark to having a flourishing orchestral ensemble in a city in the future may very well be the ability to do a lot of things well and not feeling that any of those things are beneath your dignity."
In Boston, however, that barrier between high and low shows no signs of budging, even if the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops share essentially the same musicians.
"That, I think, reflects an attitude that we have collectively over here (in the U.S) about the place of 'serious music,' and that attitude may need adjustment, at least in some places," Lockhart said.
Classical music has to often presented itself as something intended for special people who have special understanding and special sophistication.
"What that's done is create a disconnect between the real world of mass culture and entertainment and our world of entertainment," Lockhart said. "Because what we do is still entertainment. It may be particularly profound entertainment, but it is entertainment."
The BBC Concert Orchestra has built a loyal following on that basis, both for its concerts and radio broadcasts.
"People know the orchestra as being a user-friendly ensemble," Lockhart said. "Then we show up and play a concert of Britten, Elgar and Butterworth for them, and they don't tend to think of us as being from another planet."
You've been warned.


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The New York City Fire Department should work closely with Broadway theater owners, producers, and employees to develop new preparedness and training standards for emergencies like the attempted car bombing last May in Times Square, according to a report [pdf] of the New York State Assembly's subcommittee on workplace safety, chaired by Queens Assemblyman Rory Lancman.
The May 1 attempted bombing revealed that theater employees were unfamiliar with "what to do in case of an emergency as well as the unique problems that a theater workplace poses in the event of a fire or evacuation,"
according to the report, which was released on Wednesday and drew on interviews with members of seven theatrical unions including Actors' Equity and the stagehands' Local 1.
"Taking the May 1, 2010, car bomb as an example," the report stated, "theater employees expressed how unprepared they were in dealing with the situation. They were given misinformation, and they were directed to exit through portals they did not even know existed, indicating their lack of knowledge of the building they work in and exit routes. In the event of another attack, the same issues would arise."
The crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks was discovered on a warm Saturday evening near the corner of Broadway and West 45th Street, by the theater of "The Lion King" hit musical, as thousands of tourists and theatergoers streamed through Times Square. Several theaters were evacuated that night, but no injuries were reported, according to the legislative report.
The workplace safety subcommittee, along with Assembly committees on Labor, Governmental Operations, and Cities held round-table discussions on emergency preparedness in the theater district on Dec. 6 with about 30 people: theatrical union members, theater owners and producers, and representatives of the Fire Department, the city's Office of Emergency Management, and the federal workplace safety agency.
In its recommendations, the legislative panels urged that the fire department develop new codes and standards covering both fires and non-fire-related emergencies like a bomb threat; biological, chemical, or nuclear attack; or natural disaster. Theater owners should provide more training for employees — some theaters do not conduct fire drills or train employees with how to use fire extinguishers — and producers should require their employees to receive emergency preparedness training at least once every six months.


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"Breakfast is the first, most important meal of the day," Chiddy Bang MC Chidera "Chiddy" Anamege says. "We named our new album Breakfast because this is our first proper album, and the most important moment so far in our careers. Plus a lot of significant things seem to happen for us while we're eating breakfast foods"
Technically, Breakfast may be the first full-length disc from Chiddy, a Nigerian who grew up in Newark, NJ, and producer Noah "Xaphoon Jones" Beresin, but it isn't the first time the world has been introduced to Chiddy Bang. After the duo met freshman year at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Chiddy and Xaphoon began creating and self-releasing music via the Internet, attracting fans with their deft combination of hip-hop, electronic and indie rock styles. Chiddy Bang released their first mixtape, The Swelly Express, in 2009, generating buzz with a catchy track called "Opposite of Adults," which samples MGMT's "Kids."
Since then, the pair has dropped two more mixtapes, 2010's Air Swell and last year's Peanut Butter and Swelly, both of which were greeted with acclaim and anticipation for the eventual album that would succeed them. Breakfast, recorded over the course of a year in New York, Los Angeles, London and Philly, represents that next step for the group, a legitimizing offering that showcases the duo's full range and skill.
"This album is like Chiddy Bang 3.0," Chiddy notes. "It's what happens when we have access to large studios with real instruments. It's what happens when we can have orchestras and synths and string sections. It's all the stuff we never really had. And it's me rapping off what the music inspires me to say."
"We have spent the past two years going from performances in frat house rec rooms to the mainstage of festivals like Glastonbury and Bamboozle," Xaphoon adds. "We have spent a lot of time honing our sound and creating the best beats and rhymes. To be able to release a proper album for our fans is the greatest feeling."
Breakfast was written the same way Chiddy Bang has always conceived their songs--digitally. Samples have always been an instrumental part of how Xaphoon constructs the music and beats, an aspect of the band that lends itself to the exploration of different genres and ideas. So while the Internet has been notably important in how the group releases music, it's also key in how it's created."Noah makes the beats, emails them to me, I write a rap on my computer, we go into the studio," Chiddy explains. "The Internet has always been a huge part of how we get the music out there but also how we actually make the music. It's part of the process. I write 90 percent of my raps on Gmail, because it has that auto-save feature. The Internet is crucial. It has so much to do with how we make the music."
The album, which collects songs that the duo has written since signing with EMI in 2010, was produced by Xaphoon as well as several guest collaborators, including Grammy nominee Sam Hollander -Train, Cobra Starship and Kelly Rowland- and John Hill -M.I.A., Shakira-. As for the guest appearances? Chiddy Bang was more interested in having fun making the music than trying to snag famous rappers to cameo on the disc.
"It's an album that was made not with big features in mind, not trying to get who's hot right now," Chiddy says. "It's real music that you can feel. Everybody that's on the album is our friend. They don't have to be famous or anything. Great people that we feel are musically solid and we can vibe with in the studio. The album is a result of those vibe sessions."
"Ray Charles," the lead single off Breakfast, follows two other previously released tracks, "Mind Your Manners" and "Baby Roulette," which was featured on last year's mixtape and includes an appearance by Train's Pat Monahan. The album is notably diverse, culling a vast array of musical influences into a cohesive, energized collection of songs that truly reveals Chiddy Bang's evolution as a group. The upbeat party anthem "Handclaps and Guitar," which Chiddy feels best represents him on the disc, leans toward the more propulsive side of the spectrum while "Talking to Myself," a slower track featuring U.K. singer Sam Frank, "shows how we stepped it up a notch in terms of the sound."
The release Breakfast is a significant moment in Chiddy Bang's career, but it's by no means the group's sole accomplishment. The duo's hit single, "Opposite of Adults," was certified gold last August, selling almost one million units worldwide, and its video, which won Best Video Woodie Award at the MTV Woodies, has over 16 million views on YouTube. Chiddy Bang's tracks have been featured in commercials for Taco Bell and Jeep as well as numerous video games, including "Madden 12, "Need For Speed" and "Fight Night." They've also toured extensively, performing at festivals around the world including Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, The Bamboozle, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits.
Chiddy also broke two Guinness World Records last year. At MTV's inaugural Online Music Awards, Chiddy set the Guinness World Records title for the Longest Freestyle Rap while also simultaneously breaking the Longest Marathon Rapping record, clocking in at 9 hours, 18 minutes and 22 seconds with Xaphoon cheering him on from the turntables. In the end, it's that pairing of the two artists that makes Chiddy Bang such an innovative and successful hip-hop act. The influx of stylistic variety has allowed the duo to alter the landscape of what is possible in rap music today."When you talk of Chiddy Bang you talk of what I bring to the table, I'm the hip-hop dude that comes in who grew up listening to The Fugees and Jay-Z and Kanye West, and mix it up with Noah, who listens to whole bunch of other shit," Chiddy says. "He's very aware of all music and other styles outside hip-hop. When we did that sample MGMT it was before anyone knew who MGMT was, but Noah was on it. That's Chiddy Bang. It's bringing new things together."


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Bid for FBI building sets off regional competition
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI's announcement that it needs a new home has touched off a virtual real estate beauty contest, with communities around the region jockeying for the opportunity to attract the law enforcement agency -- and attendant economic benefits -- to their neighborhoods.
The pursuit has turned congressmen from neighboring states into competing pitchmen, spurred newspaper op-eds and even required a public apology from an economic development official who disparaged another community bidding for the headquarters. Public debate on Capitol Hill and in the real estate development community has focused on whether an agency whose identity is linked to the nation's capital could find a more suitable home in the Washington suburbs.
"You would expect there to be competition among the jurisdictions for a development project as favorable as the FBI," said Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, who joined counterparts from Virginia in testifying last month before a House subcommittee. "We're all friends. We're going to try to sell our jurisdictions as the best sites."
The contenders include Maryland's Prince George's County, already home to federal agencies specializing in intelligence research and cybersecurity. Northern Virginia proponents boast of the area's high-quality schools and proximity to the CIA headquarters and other existing FBI facilities, including its training academy, in the area. The District of Columbia is also offering a waterfront site near highways, public transit and a major league baseball stadium.
The General Services Administration, which oversees federal office space, has received about three-dozen submissions following its request for ideas to develop a new headquarters of approximately 2.1 million square feet. One idea under consideration is a property swap in which a developer would take over the existing FBI headquarters in exchange for constructing or providing a new building for the agency. That possible arrangement would allow the government to save on costs of a new land acquisition while a developer would get the chance to build the new headquarters and repurpose a downtown city block.
The level of interest isn't surprising: At stake is a multi-million-dollar economic development project that would bring thousands of jobs, expand the tax base and boost area retail and service industries.
"Think about the daytime population, people coming to the FBI headquarters morning, noon and night," said Douglas Cooper or the Urban Land Institute in Washington, a nonprofit research group. "Think about the potential for people relocating from one jurisdiction to the other to be closer to work."
The FBI's current headquarters, a hulking Brutalist structure that opened in 1974 on prime Pennsylvania Avenue real estate, is known by many Americans for its appearances in news broadcasts and movies. Millions have visited for tours, which are now discontinued. But the FBI says the J. Edgar Hoover Building is obsolete, inefficient and in disrepair. Those findings were confirmed by a 2011 Government Accountability Office report that agreed the building didn't meet the agency's long-term security needs.
The bureau wants to move more than 10,000 employees spread among leased annexes throughout the region into a secure consolidated headquarters near the highway and mass transit. It says a new headquarters could save at least $44 million in rent payments annually.
The competition manifested itself at a House subcommittee hearing last month, when congressmen normally accustomed to uniting behind joint regional interests took turns trumpeting the virtues of each one's state.
Maryland officials are pushing a site near a mass transit station in Prince George's County, which officials say is already home to about a quarter of the region's federal workforce and agencies including NASA and the National Security Agency. Virginia officials have touted a GSA warehouse facility in Fairfax County -- between the existing headquarters and the FBI training academy and laboratory in Quantico -- which they say would allow for easy access to the airports, Capitol Hill and the White House.
The states have selectively cited studies and statistics to bolster their case. Maryland officials say more headquarters employees live in their state than in D.C. or Virginia; representatives from Virginia have made similar assertions.
The debate has also included discussion of the region's demographic and economic differences. Fairfax County, consistently ranked among the nation's highest-income counties, says the headquarters would be another boon to an already-thriving region, while Prince George's County officials see a chance to help the county catch up to its more affluent neighbors.
"These sorts of locations and these sorts of decisions are not based really on who needs it the most for different reasons," said Sharon Bulova, chairwoman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. "It's not that Fairfax County doesn't need it and that Prince George's County does. I would be very surprised if the FBI and the federal government make a decision on who needs it most. It should be on the merits."
The process took a snarky turn when Gerald Gordon, president of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, was described by the Washington Business Journal as jokingly suggesting that an FBI headquarters in Prince George's County would be conveniently close to where its agents go to pick up criminals.
The county struggles with violent crime and was shamed by a public corruption scandal that brought down former County Executive Jack Johnson -- who was recorded by the FBI directing his wife to stow cash bribes in her undergarments -- and other county officials. Gordon later apologized for having "mentioned some negative aspects of a neighboring jurisdiction."
"The county is moving on and the sins of the previous administration should not be exacted upon a county of hardworking, honest people," said Aubrey Thagard, a top county economic development official, adding, "We'll debate the merits of our location anytime, anywhere, with anybody," he added.
D.C. officials have proposed relocating the bureau to a waterfront development near the Anacostia River.
It's an agency "that needs to be on call," said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.'s non-voting representative to Congress.
That point was echoed by one retired FBI agent, who in a letter to The Washington Post made the case for keeping the bureau in Washington by saying, "Even in today's fast-faced electronic world, the need for face-to-face meetings is critical to getting things right."
Aside from any sentimental attachment, any decision on where to site the headquarters needs to account for practical concerns like traffic management and affordable housing options, said Cooper, of the Urban Land Institute.
"Wherever they decide to relocate, it's going to have an impact throughout the region -- not just in that one jurisdiction but throughout that region."


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Welcome to another Pink Saturday!
Today's pink photos will be short and sweet. It's been a busy week of painting and fixing up the house, as well as making.............tutus!
This is something my girls and I love to do together. We have sold them locally and I hope to get some listed in my "store" this weekend but who knows if that will happen. Did I mention I have a computer armoire to paint???:-) They did convince me to get a booth at a few Holiday bazaars so that should be fun. Anyway, here is our contribution to pink Saturday...
Thank you to Beverly at How Sweet The Sound for another wonderful Pink Saturday!
Beverly also asks us to introduce you to a new blog each week. One of my "blog friends" just started a beautiful new blog called Hue Knew...and it is full of beautiful photo collages of decorating in various color schemes.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!


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Turner Publishing (http://www.turnerpublishing.com) asked if I would consider reviewing a new book. I'm glad I agreed. Historic Photos of Alaska has just been published, a large format book of black and white photographs from the period 1867 to 1979. Dermot Cole, long-time columnist for the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer, provides the text and captions.
As a journalist, Dermot also has an interest in history (apart from his twin brother, Terrance, history professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks). Dermot Cole is the author of Amazing Pipeline Stories published by Epicenter Press in 1997, about the people and Fairbanks during the Alaska oil pipeline construction.
The perspective of Historic Photos of Alaska, is for those readers outside Alaska. That is, this is a pictorial history of Alaska as part of "America". [Through no fault of this book, many in the US will still consider Alaska as a foreign body, along with New Mexico.]
The photos are arranged by time periods, from purchase to statehood– 1867-1905, 1906-1919, 1920-1940, and 1941-1979. These periods represent significant periods of US and Alaska relations. The orientation is a deliberate effort to stand apart from the usual Alaskana picture books. Another significant difference in this book is the choice of rarely seen photos and not the ubiquitous ones. The photos are reproduced with sufficient quality to review again and again and see something new each time.
Readers can follow themes such as regional changes (southeast Alaska also known as the Northwest Coast compared to Nome in northwest Alaska) and transportation. However, other themes can be chosen by readers according to personal interest.
Most of the dogs are Alaska huskies (freight variety), such as ones on pages 44 and 55 and in harness, page 58. However, the team on page 67 is actually part of a Saami family (reindeer herders originally from Scandinavia. Note the hats and boot toes.) The harness setup is very different from that of the Eskimo family team on page 128. There are also sporting dogs (early 20th century conformation) such as the one on page 92 belonging to Jim Haly. Look carefully. The dog has just spotted another dog out of view, and kicked up a cloud of dust with his hind legs.
Electric trees
Even on the frozen tundra of Nome (page 111) and sprouting ever more branches over time in populated areas such as Cordova page 120 and Fairbanks page 151.
One way to trace the influence of the military in Alaska is through men's hats in the photos. Since Territorial days, the military has been a significant economic and development force in Alaska. Much of the early geological studies and geodetic surveys were military. World War II and then the Cold War continued the inflow of money and people. Photos from pages 168 to 180 show differing aspects of building the Al-Can or Alaska Highway and the later battles of Attu and the Aleutians. (see related posts here on the Al-Can and the Aleutians, https://theelderlies.wordpress.com/special-projects/photo-index-cking-wwii/)
Everywhere. The curiosity of Edwardian women's fashion in open-air fish camp (useful against mosquitoes I suppose); the plank streets (for cars and horses) 400 miles from the nearest highway; even a Piggly-Wiggly store outside of the South.
Dermot Cole avoided the shop worn stash of Alaska photos. However, the next to last photo, page 197, is of the oil pipeline's zigzagged engineering (to avoid temperature stresses) up the North Slope and over the Brooks Mountain Range. It's a clever homage to the iconic Klondike gold rush photo of the future miners traipsing up the Chilkoot Pass.
I do have some quibbles with the book. There is an amazing variety of horses depicted but no photos of cows at Creamer's Dairy in Fairbanks (I like the image of the wood stove chimney peeking out the milk truck to keep contents from freezing at 40 below).
More importantly, an outline map of Alaska is needed, with the places of photos identified.
The southwest of Alaska is mostly excluded. Considering that most folks in or outside Alaska believe everyone lives in an Eskimo igloo, it would also be helpful to include a map of languages/cultural regions in the state. Most readers will not be aware of the significance of the temporary, river going, hide boat depicted on page 44 built by the Athabascan Indian trapper to bring his skins to market. Compare with the more permanent skin boat built by Iñupiat Eskimo marine hunters on page 103. I already noted the Saami family.
The period of the first half of 1919 is missing although extremely important in the demography and history of non-urban Alaska. Upwards of 80% to 100% of people in some communities died during the pandemic of the "Spanish Flu". The Jesse Lee Home (I ran across this recently published history) was one of several that cared for orphans left behind (those that survived long enough for help to reach them).
A suggested reading list would be nice, including Steven Langdon's 1993. The Native People of Alaska. Anchorage, AK : Greatland Graphics. ISBN: 0936425172 9780936425177 OCLC: 27405205
A great companion volume would be John S. Whitehead's 2004. Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawaii, and the Battle for Statehood. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press. ISBN: 0826336361 9780826336361 082633637X 9780826336378, OCLC: 55665367
This book is not supposed to be a comprehensive pictorial history. Cole did an amazing job just to make a selection from all the possibilities and put together such an enjoyable book.
[Dermot Cole. 2008 Historic Photos of Alaska. Nashville: Turner Publishing Co.
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