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Laptop Buying Guide
The are numerous laptops available on the market. Today's notebook market ranges from 10 inch netbooks to 18 inch DTRs (Desktop Replacements). So every buyer can find the right model for themselves, as long as they know what they are looking for.
The first step is to specify your needs, which would allow you then to pick out the best-suited class of laptop. Our Notebook Hardware Guide will provide a lot of useful tips as it takes a detailed look at each hardware component. This article focuses on the soft skills of a laptop - essentially all the general aspects which are important when buying a laptop.
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Case and Connectivity
The case of a notebook is like the chassis of a car. Besides the looks and the design, the material, workmanship and resulting sturdiness of the model all play an important role. The buyer should keep this point in mind, as a rapidly ageing, crunching and scatched laptop will not be covered by any warranty. Of course, a low-price entry-level laptop will hardly be high-quality and sturdy. In fact, it will probably also use light metals and synthetic materials. Usually, notebooks use simple synthetic materials, but even these materials can vary in quality.
If you get the opportunity to compare laptops in your local electronics market, test the models and compare them to each other: check how strongly the case deforms under pressure, if there are any noticeable gaps or if the model makes noises when being handled. Picking up the laptop with one hand on the hand-rest region should not cause any problems or deforming. You will see that the differences between laptops can be enormous. Neither the price (even expensive models can have poor workmanship), nor the well-known company name guarantee quality.
The display is a weak point of many laptops. To be precise, we often see issues arise from the hinges which connect the screen to the base of the laptop. This part of the notebook is strained intensively over the time the laptop is used, and as such it should be as big as possible. If the hinges of a notebook let the display wobble strongly or can not hold it in position, then the user might be faced with hinges worn out by years of use.
If you plan to use your notebook on-the-go without an additional cover, we recommend having a reliable closing mechanism. This will ensure that no foreign objects enter the gap between the screen and base of the laptop and damage the fragile panel. So the fragile and expensive display can be closed and protected. Sadly, many manufacturers have stopped using such mechanisms in their models.
Interfaces and Ports
Another important topic is the number, type and positioning of interfaces on the laptop. Here, it is important to know what the laptop will be used for. What do I plan to connect to it? Which upgrade possibilities do I want to have? Where will I use the notebook? On the go or rather on the desktop? The following are the most important modern interfaces.
USB ports: As the name indicates (Universal Serial Bus), the USB interface serves as a universal interface for peripheral devices. This includes printers, external hard disks, external TV cards, Bluetooth and WWAN adapter, mice, keyboards, gamepads, USB sticks, digital cameras, Smartphones, MP3 players, etc.
Of course, all these devices will not be connected simultaneously. However, if the notebook has few ports (usually the case in subnotebooks and Ultrabooks), then the user will have to get a USB hub.
Keep in mind, there are various, backwards-compatible versions of the USB standard. These vary in transfer speeds. Currently, the fastest one is the USB 3.0 standard ("Super Speed") which can deliver 300 MB/s in everyday use (about 10x the speed of USB 2.0). USB sticks and external devices benefit greatly from the standard's fast speeds. Interfaces, like FireWire, eSATA or the ExpressCard slot, are being pushed out of the market by the USB 3.0 standard.
Many manufacturers offer special "powered USB" interfaces, which can charge a Smartphone even when the laptop is off. Pay close attention to the connectivity of the laptop, if you want this feature.
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Audio jacks: although it is quite old, the classic audio jack is found in every modern notebook (typically in the 3.5 mm format). Often, two audio jacks are provided (one for headphones and the other for microphone), but nowadays a few laptops use combined jacks for headsets.
The best possible audio quality and multiple-canal output is offered by digital transmission, usually via digital display out (HDMI, DisplayPort). Uncompressed PCM signals, Blu-ray formats Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD can be delivered to the appropriate receiver and output from there - and all this with 192 kHz, 24 bit resolution and 7.1 channels (depending on the standard).
Display output: whether it be an external monitor, beamer or TV, laptops offer display output interfaces which can send the necessary data to these devices. The following connectivity possibilities are available:
The HDMI interface is especially popular in consumer laptops. This interface (up to version 1.2) can only offer a max resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. Although new standards have relieved this limit and now support up to 2160p (also called 4K2K), many high-resolution monitors have drivers which canonly accept the Full HD resolution via HDMI.
The (Mini-) DisplayPort comes to the rescue. This interface can even provide output to a 30 inch display with a 2,560 x 1,600 pixel resolution (or higher). Currently, the DisplayPort is being pushed out indirectly by the mechanically and electronically backwards compatible Thunderbolt interface, as it supports additional protocols, such as PCI-Express, and it thus a competitor to the USB.
Analog video output is provided by VGA. This interface is found less and less in notebooks and is only required for connecting older devices, such as outdated beamers. A high-quality signal quality is not always guaranteed, due to occasional ghost images, blurriness and flickering.
LAN and WLAN: With the expection of a few really thin Ultrabooks, most laptops are equipped with a Gigabit LAN interface. Many users still rely on this interface as it provides high transfer rates (above 100 MB/s) and reliable transfer quality.
Just as important and more comfortable - the WLAN module of a laptop. The standards 802.11a/b/g (older) and 802.11n are widespread. Depending on the number of antennas and transfer stream, the net transfer rate can reach between 150 to 600 MB/s, of which only a third really remains. Besides the speed, the buyer should also pay attention to whether the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies are supported (if required).
The new 802.11ac, which is already available since the start of 2012 as a precursor model, pushes the WLAN technology into the gigabyte speeds. However, we do not expect the technology to completely take over the market till 2014.
Bluetooth and WWAN: besides WLAN, many notebooks also have Bluetooth. Usually this technology is provided by the same Mini-PCIe-card which offers WLAN. This wireless technology is useful for connecting peripheral devices, such as, mice, keyboards or Smartphones. Currently, the 2010 version 4.0 distinguishes itself from the other, older standards thanks to its special energy-saving features as well as higher speeds.
In the consumer market, it is rare to see the additional WWAN module. Depending on the model, the module will support, in addition to UMTS, its expansion, HSPA(+), and the LTE standard. The buyer should check if the installed adapter support as many frequencies as possible (Germany: 800, 1,800 and 2,600 MHz). If not, then the data turbo will only be available in certain locations or with specific providers.
The optimal arrangement of the connections is a mixture of subjective preferencies and practical applications. So it is important whether the user is left- or right-handed. If a lot of connections are placed on the side which you use the mouse, then this can cause an unnecessary cable salad.
For these deliberations, it is important to determine which connections are used and then how often/how long they are used. This can help in reducing the cable salad and free the user's work from issues arising from this issue. The placement of the ventilation opening is also important. The warm emission may be comfortable in the winter, but in the summer it can be a problem.
Input Devices
The quality and user-friendliness of the input devices is just as important. This covers the classical keyboard, available numeric pad (num-pad) and additional keys and shortkeys, for example for a media player. In addition, the touchpad with its additional keys and (if available) trackpoint also belong to this category. Mechanical switches (WLAN on/off) and controls like volume control also belong to this category.
There are various, different keyboard layouts. This can be a problem when the user switches to a laptop made by a different company, as they might install the FN, Delete, Alt and Cursor-keys in different positions. Usually, users get used to the new keyboard within a few weeks.
It may happen that the keys are small. This can be especially problematic when it is the Space, Strg, AltGr, Shift, Enter or Cursor keys. This is not only a problem in subnotebooks (small dimensions), but also crops up in big desktop replacement laptops (starting at 17 inch displays).
Last but not least is the pressure while typing; this differs from manufacuter to manufacturer. The offering ranges from long, soft, desktop-like stroke distances to very short and hard impacts. Chiselled, flat keys may be attractive, but they are not the most user-friendly. Due to the trend towards chiclet keyboard, ergonomically formed keys with a concave surface are getting rare.
In addition to all the above, the user will also have to check the workmanship of the keyboard for flaws. A few of the main flaws include: a keyboard which is not installed properly and one which clatters or bends while typing. Such issues can lead to poor recognition or sticking of individual keys.
These input devices are intended as a mouse replacement and are used to control the mouse pointer. Although they are only sporadically used when working with the laptop on-the-go, their functionality and user-friendliness is important. The criteria for a good touchpad are response times, precision, intuitive interface, the positioning and surface texture. Additional features, like multi-touch gestures and hand sensors, have become widespread and can even be found in cheap notebooks. A lot of newer models place the touchpad keys right on the surface of the touchpad, which is not always ergonomical.
Additional keys and Switches
More and more laptops offer special keys, in addition to the keyboard and touchpad, which provide access to a variety of software functions. This includes switches for turning the WLAN and/or Bluetooth on/off and volume rockers. Of course, how sensible these keys are and how often they are required will be determined by each individual user.
One of the most important criteria for most buyers is the display. Especially office laptops, which are used 8-10 hours daily, should be equipped with an excellent display. Basically, displays can be divided into two types: ones with reflective (gloss) surface and ones with a non-reflective or matt surface (non-glare). Preventing reflections is achieved by roughening the display surface, producing prisms on the surface which disperse the reflections. Some manufacturers even install a special coating on their reflective displays so as to reduce reflections.
When picking a display, you should consider the following points:
- reflective displays often have better colors (subjective)
- matt displays only require an average brightness (200 cd/m² or more) to offer good outdoors usage
- reflective displays can only be used outdoors if they have very high brightness. Otherwise, the reflections will make it impossible to read the content.
- distracting reflections on glare displays may even pop up indoors due to bright lights or proximity to windows
- reflective displays tire out the user more than matt displays over a long period of use
On the one hand, the format and resolution of the display are determined by the size of the device, and on the other hand, they are determined by the preference of the user and the available sizes for the model. The current standard is the 16:9 format, and few notebooks deviate below it (16:10) or above it (21:9). The older displays, which used the 4:3 format as the standard, are now nearly extinct.
The resolution and screen diagonal allows us to calculate the pixel density of the model. Low-priced laptops (15.6" with 1,366 x 768 pixels, 17.3" with 1,600 x 900 pixels) usually get a mere 100 dpi, which results in an accordingly pixelated display. Currently, there are expensive models which have displays with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels on a screen diagonal of mere 12 inches. Depending on the user, the word size may have to be adjusted.
The viewing angle stability is important in mobile devices, as such devices are usually moved around a lot and the user wishes to always be able to clearly recognize the displayed content. This means that keeping the picture stable over large vertical and horizontal angles can be really useful, as it grants the user the freedom to move and still enjoy good picture quality. Large deviations in the viewing angle can lead to a darkening/brightening of the display, color invertion or reflections. The IPS panel perform much better, and this is why they are often found in tablets.
The IPS technology also offers high contrast ratio. Cheap TN models of entry-level models can not offer the same quality, which results in a less satisfying black and less life-like picture. This also adversely affects films and games. Users, who often use programs like Photoshop, will require a high color accuracy and large color space coverage (sRGB and AdoberRGB standards). All this information is provided in our in-depth reviews.
Dead pixels are an important and heatedly discussed topic about TFT displays. There are various different types of dead pixels and they are differentiated by their "color". As such, a constantly lit white or black dead pixel in the center of the display can quickly infuriate the user. Almost all TFT displays compy to the Dead Pixel class 2. This means that dead pixels within a certain tolerance limit are expected. Most manufacturers offer a "Zero Dead Pixel" guarantee, while others specify a certain tolerance limit for pixel errors in their warranties. If you want to be sure that your device is free of dead pixels, then you should inspect your device before purchase (local electronics market) or, if buying online, use the obligatory two week exchange guarantee. It is still possible for dead pixels to pop up after a few months or years without any obvious reason.
Touchscreens were a rare feature in notebooks for a long time, but now, thanks to the introduction of Windows 8, the market is being flooded with touch notebooks. The new interface is optimized for touch but also offers the classic desktop, which means that it can be used on classic notebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles. The convertibles are an interesting class and represent the integration of touch in the classic notebook. There are various different approaches to convertibles, whereby the classic approach is closing the display backwards on the keyboard. Usually, an additional input pen is included in business models.
The performance is usually either the deciding factor for buyers or not at all important. The processor or CPU and the graphic card (GPU) are the main hardware components responsible for the performance. In our notebook hardware guide, you will find out what hardware is necessary for what application.
Our comparison of mobile graphic cards presents the reader with details information about GPUs of notebooks and the benchmark of graphic cards will allow the reader to compare the graphic cards to each other.
In-depth information about laptop CPUs can be found in our comparison of mobile processors and the benchmark of mobile CPUs.
These are often forgotten, but they play an important role. For example, high temperatures on the surface of the case and loud noises due to the fan can adversely affect the work experience. We also include the integrated speakers in the Emissions section in our reviews and rate them according to their sound output and max volume.
Although emissions are hardly important while playing games, they can be a problem when working in a quiet office. As such, office notebooks and subnotebooks with hardly any load (running office programs, etc.) should be silent or as quiet as possible.
Besides the emissions, other factors can also influence the subjective experience. The fan control is one of these factors, as a constantly-running fan and a fan which keeps turning up and down, are two different things. It is also possible that the fan noise is distracting by itself, if it is too high frequency. Another source of noise would be the optical drive (DVD, BD), which can drone out the fan when in use. As the level of emission depends on the speed of the drive, some tools can be used to throttle the drive and thus drop the noise emissions. The whooshing of the hard drive is often only noticeable while idle. In fact, SSDs have no mechanical parts and are thus, silent.
Beside the noise emissions, the surface temperatures can also be a source of problems. Every now and again, models are released which exhibit a hot spot (a local area which gets really hot). Very high temperatures are not only uncomfortable to deal with, but might also reduce the life expectancy of the installed components and create instability in the system.
Almost every notebook is equipped with integrated speakers, but the sound output can vary greatly. If you intend to use your laptop for music or DVD playback, then you should check the laptop's speakers before purchase. The alternative is connecting external speakers or headphones.
Battery Life
A laptop with a battery which is too small, is like a car, with a tank limit of 10 liters. The only difference is that for your laptop, you don't need a petrol station, but a power socket.
This point is heavily dependent on the use of the device. From experience, notebooks are mainly used on a table, where the user has a power outlet available. However, if the buyer decides that s/he wants a model for use on-the-go, then it is important to check if the laptop's battery offers passable run times. An alternative would be an additional battery, which would allow the notebook to run over two charges. Some manufacturers include "Ultra- or Multibays" in their models. These slots can be used to install an optical drive or an additional battery.
Overall, Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) or Lithium-Polymer (LiPo) batteries are used for laptops. The latter has a higher energy density. Although many manufacturers promise to use methods which spare the battery and proclaim that the battery capacity only decreases slightly after multiple charge cycles, it is useful to have a second battery as a backup in case of a defect. For modern notebooks, it is no longer necessary to remove the battery when the laptop is off.
The manufacturer's specifications about run time (without load) are often useless in use. It is more important to check if a notebook can deliver long run times in a realistic scenario (medium brightness, WLAN on). For good run times, the capacity of the battery (in Wh) and an efficient system with conservative hardware, are important. You can find out here how to increase the battery life in any model.
Warranty is very important for notebooks. The compact build and intricate balance between the hardware often makes it impossible for the user to repair any defect themselves (replacement parts are also hard to find on the market). As such, the laptop has to be sent back to the manufacturer and the repair can cost quite a bit of money.
A warranty is the best solution to avoid such issues. Most manufacturers offers guarantee periods of 1 to 2 years (from the date of purchase). Business models can often offer 3 years as the standard guarantee, but this is included in the price. The purchase of additional service packets should be carefully considered by keeping the notebook price and the additional premiums in mind.
Some companies offer insurance policies, which present the user with the option of insuring their laptop independent of the manufacturer. Depending on the contract, damage due to personal negligence or theft can be insured against.
Additional Information:
- Additional information about the technical aspects of notebooks can be found in our Notebook Hardware Guide.
- If you have further questions about notebooks or mobile computing, feel free to visit our helpful community in our forum.
- Detailed information about the tests we run in our reviews can be found here.
- Detailed information about CPUs and GPUs can be found in: Notebook Processors and Comparison of Laptop Graphic Cards.
- If you want to a notebook suited for you, check out our reviews or take a loot at our extensive database of external notebook reviews.


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The snake is a poisonous monster, and is one of the more common foes in the world of Desktop Dungeons. Aside from its poisonous bite, the snake is otherwise a mediocre monster with no special properties. Anyone who focuses on spellcasting to bring them down or who has the HALPMEH glyph to cure poison will find snakes to be an easy form of XP. If you do not have a method to cure poison, you should fight and slay snakes just before leveling up, or else try to kill them without suffering attacks. Having to use a healing potion just to cure poison is a waste of a potion in most cases and you should avoid having to do so if at all possible.
The Snake boss is literally just an oversized snake. He has no additional special abilities other than improved attack damage and health that all bosses receive. This makes him one of the easiest bosses in the game.

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May 17, 2007
Originally uploaded by ocean.flynn.
This outdoor sketch was completed in a few hours at the Malahat look-out this summer.
We returned to this site not along ago: We stopped at the Mill Bay Tim Horton's take out on the way to the Malahat. We sipped our coffee and drank in the view. It was the clearest we've ever seen it. The glaciers of Mount Baker were clearly visible but what left me breathless were the skyscrapers of Vancouver shimmering in the distance behind Mount Newton on Saanich Peninsula. Mill Bay is center-left. Mount Tuam on Saltspring Island is in the center. Mount Baker was visible off to the right although not shown here.
Ethical topography, habits and the unheimlich
May 7, 2007
With our stunning window view of eagles gliding effortlessly over the waters of Finlayson Arm along the ridges and forested steep hills of Sanich Peninsula, we chose to sit side by side more like an awestruck audience than a couple ordering dinner at a restaurant. Within an hour of my arrival at the Victoria airport I felt like I was in another country. Neither the January weather nor the temperate rain forest in its spectacular topography were part of what had become familiar to me as Canadian. I'd already lived in five provinces and Canada's newest territory but this warm land was nothing like anything I had experienced. Most of the rest of the drive along the dark and winding highway was an anticlimax to that view, that is until we came to the Malahat lookout.
Eighteen months later we are again faced with a choice. Today may be the last day of familiar habits repeated day after day. I'm not sure if I have seen, experienced and learned enough yet to be able to leave.
When I first arrived I devoured maps and trail books to lcoate myself in this unfamiliar topography. Mountain trails traced on a map are useful when you are hiking between and around rocky outcrops, ancient trees and stumps, narrow footpaths . . . Deep in among the Garry Oak, Arbutus and Douglas Fir hilly slopes and valley confuse the hiker who ends up not really knowing if she is ultimately reaching a higher level or heading downhill. Like yesterday when we heading out looking for the low trail along the shore of Tzuhalem and ending up in Genoa Bay having crossed to the other side of the mountain just by putting one foot in front of the other.
Google earth offered seemingly endless potential for locating myself in space and time. But now I realize that it is most useful for tracing where I have been. Flickr lets me geotag my digital photos and visual art works unto scaled maps so I can zoom in to exact locations. Google video lets me float my shaky images and breathless voice in cyberspace describing what I am seeing in the 'here-and-now' so that my future self can better remember places that were once familiar.
I have learned the names of the wildflowers that grow under the oaks, fir and deciduous trees of Mount Tzuhalem. I have learned to name it by latitude and longtitude. I know its smells and sounds. I know how to dress in layers in this ecosystem that constantly changes from cool to warm to rain, wind and sun. I know its panoramas and vistas and the names of the mountains and bodies of water that surround it. But I could still get lost here and end up far from my goal.
And this is the glitch in one's ethical topography of self. The everyday habits, the things that make a home a home, can be taken away either by choice or necessity from one day to the next. And there you are in some unfamiliar place, re-examining again, locating oneself again.
For those who can control how their lives unfold or seem to think they can, habits repeated day after day, reinforce values and make ethical decisions automatically without a lot of reflection.
But for the nomads, the one's who travel, the unfamiliar shakes us into thinking consciously, deliberately about entrenched habits, values, goals and perhaps even the meaning of life. This is why this phrase remains with me as a question mark, a point of departure for a line of deep reflection that will never end . . .
an ethical topography of Self and the Other based on an authentic relationship of mutual respect
It is by encountering the stranger, the unheimlich, by getting lost in unfamiliar topographies (Taylor 1989, Murray 1991) that we open ourselves to encountering the Other in a spirit of hospitality and friendship that transcends our habitual ways of knowing. It is the unheimlich that puts into perspective that which we held to be true, about ourselves, our beliefs and our values. If the stranger offers us something that resonates or is dissonant with our own beliefs we are compelled to take them out in the light of day, to examine them with new eyes. It is as if in the mirror-pupil of the Other we see ourselves reflected. If we are mutually respectful we will accept that we are answerable (Bakhtin) to that Other and will at least closely examine our own reflection in her eyes. If we are truly practicing hospitality from a cosmopolitical viewpoint (Bennington and Derrida 1997) we will examine those unchallenged assumptions about our values in a more precise and logical way. We will use more precise instruments and acknowledge that somethings were not as they once seemed and our belief in them need to be revised. Others resonate so soundly that it is evident that they are part of our authentic selves.
I see this outer topography as a metaphor for the inner self. Reconfiguring rivers in that intellectual, emotional, spiritual landscape is to me like reconfiguring entrenched habits of thought or behaviour. It won't happen through human nature but takes a conscious act of will. Through the conscious re-evaluation of our everyday habits and by willfully changing then repeating them day after day we can more clearly evaluate values, behaviours and with greater lucidity and reason (Changeux and Ricoeur 2000b).
1. This is how I have come to internalize Charles Taylor's moral topography of self. Psychologist Murray summarizes Charles Taylor's concept of the moral topography of self.
2. Shields' concept of an ethical dialogical relationship between self and the other has informed my understanding:
Dialogism offers us the potential within a more sophisticated theory of semiosis to position Self and Other, seeing their relationship for what it is, an ethical one of mutuality in the social construction of meaning.
Bakhtin. Answerability.
Changeux, Jean-Piere and Paul Ricoeur. 2000b. What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature and the Brain. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Princeton: University of Princeton Press.
Bennington, Geoffrey and Derrida, Jacques. 1997. "Politics and Friendship: A Discussion with Jacques Derrida." Centre for Modern French Thought. University of Sussex. 1 December.
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "Reconfiguring Rivers Ethics Human Nature and the Brain. >> Speechless.
Murray, K. 1991. "A Life In The World In Australia." Australian Cultural History. 10:32-45.
Shields, Rob. 1996. Meeting or mis-meeting? The dialogical challenge to Verstehen. British Journal of Sociology: 47.
Taylor, Charles. 1989. "Moral Topography of Self." in Messer L A Sass and R L Wootfolk (eds) Hermeneutics and Psychological Theory: Interpretive Perspectives on Personality, Psychotherapy and Psychopathology New Brunswick Rutgers University Press.


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It was 4:05 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2009. I heard my wife, Dianne, say, "I think I'm having a heart attack."
I opened my eyes and saw her standing in the bathroom doorway. She grabbed her chest, took one step and collapsed on the bed.
Two weeks earlier, a friend had e-mailed me a medical report stating that chest compressions were better than traditional CPR and that the survival rate was greatly improved because chest compressions not only massaged the heart but sent blood into the brain, thus preventing brain damage.
I watched my wife turn gray and saw her eyes roll up. She was only 65, and there was no way I was going to let her go without a fight.
I started chest compressions, rapid and continual until she started breathing again. I sat her up, placed an aspirin beneath her tongue and called 911. The commotion woke our adult son from the other side of the house, and he came to assist.
When the paramedics arrived, Dianne's blood pressure was 56/31 and fading. They transported her to the hospital, where I was told her chance of survival was less than 20%.
Five hours later, after the doctors placed two stents in her blocked arteries and put her on blood thinners, she started bleeding. I begged the doctors not to give up, and they didn't. By morning they not only had found the bleeders but managed to stop them.
That night, one of the doctors came in to visit. He said my wife was proof that miracles happen, as she hadn't been expected to make it this far. He told us to hold her hand and tell her how much we wanted her to come home.
They moved Dianne from the Emergency Heart Unit to the ICU, where she remained for the next seven days.
The first two days, she teetered between life and death as her blood pressure slowly regained some strength. On the third day, her pressure rose and the doctor told me she had a 60% chance of survival. He also told me I had saved her life with the chest compressions.
On the fifth day she opened her eyes. Her blood pressure was up to 65/45. They removed the external pacemaker and the heart pump. She was on her own, and all we could do was watch and pray. On the sixth day, they removed the ventilator and she started talking.
I met with all of the doctors who had worked on Dianne. Each one had saved her life, and each one told me that without the initial chest compressions, she wouldn't have made it.
On the eighth day they moved her to the heart ward. She was awake and speaking clearly, yet she had trouble with her motor skills. The doctor refused to release her until she regained enough strength and had better motor skills. After a two-week hospital stay, Dianne came home.
The doctors were amazed. She had no major heart damage and absolutely no brain damage.
Once home, Dianne continued to receive therapy for six weeks. With constant work, she has regained her strength and all of her motor skills. Now she uses a hand-held breathing machine and works out with limited weights. We celebrated Thanksgiving together, and our Christmas took on a whole new meaning of how precious life is.
We have Dr. Gordon Ewy, director of the Sarver Heart Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson, to thank. He's the cardiologist who spearheaded the early trials of continuous chest compression — or CCR, as he calls it — more than 15 years ago. He now teaches firefighters and paramedics the technique. Dr. Ewy says their survival rate has increased by 300% since beginning the new training. In 2000, the American Heart Assn. named him a "CPR Giant" in recognition of his work.
I have Dianne back, and I continue to adore each and every day we share together. We've been together since we were 16 years old, and last year we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We hope by sharing our story it might save someone else's life or prevent another survivor from having brain damage.
Bill Hillman has worked in the entertainment industry as an actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He and Dianne live in South Carolina with their three dogs.
It was 4:05 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2009. I heard my wife, Dianne, say, "I think I'm having a heart attack."


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The shadow is taking over by acceptance...
The shadow is taking over.
The movement pulled below.
Stifled cries are thrown aside
but I am searching for hope once more.
Stagnation's end- rebirth, insurgence...
Confide in fear, locked inside here, alone but never lost.
Solitude is mine.
The answers to the questions that kills this will.
That boil in our blood...
The fate is never sealed.


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Prescription drug abuse is growing, and it's getting expensive. New York's Mayor Bloomberg has announced a new initiative to crack down:
Under the new city policy, most public hospital patients will no longer be able to get more than three days' worth of narcotic painkillers like Vicodin and Percocet. Long-acting painkillers, including OxyContin, a familiar remedy for chronic backache and arthritis, as well as Fentanyl patches and methadone, will not be dispensed at all. And lost, stolen, or destroyed prescriptions will not be refilled.
City officials said the policy was aimed at reducing the growing dependency on painkillers and preventing excess amounts of drugs from being taken out of medicine chests and sold on the street or abused by teenagers and others who want to get high.
The administration says that "There will be no chance that the patients who need pain relief will not get pain relief." I'm not so sure. A lot of people use the ER as their primary-care physician. And no, I know what you're thinking—it's not just because they can't get health insurance, so Obamacare is not going to fix it. Massachusetts saw an increase in the number of ER visits when they put a similar program in place.
That's because people don't use the ER simply because they can't pay; they use it because their symptoms emerge outside of office hours, or because they find it difficult to take off work from 8–5 on a weekday, or because they can't find a primary-care physician. Limiting the number of pain prescriptions that are written at the ER is going to mean more pain for folks who are legitimately unable to get a doctor's appointment in time.
Of course, I assume that this will also make it harder for addicts to get the prescription drugs with which they are currently screwing up their lives. But it's hard for me to view this as a worthwhile tradeoff. It seems fairly horrible to keep people in bad pain, incurred through no fault of their own, in order to protect other people from themselves. I'm not minimizing the problem of prescription drug abuse, mind you; I've known a few people who've had a hard time with it. But I've also known a few people who were in chronic pain, and I know which one I'd choose.


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Reston, Va.--In a study to determine the diagnostic value of molecular imaging in nodal staging of patients with thyroid cancer, researchers were able for the first time to accurately distinguish between cancerous cells in regional lymph nodes and normal residual thyroid tissue directly after surgery.
Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, reported in an article in the January issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine on the results of a study using a hybrid single photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography (SPECT-CT) camera to determine and locate the spread of cancer cells to nearby lymph nodes.
According to the researchers, the demonstration or exclusion of cancer spread (metastasis) in regional lymph nodes plays a major role in treating the disease since all patients with lymph node metastases are considered to be at high risk for recurrence.
Currently, patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) who have had their thyroid removed are treated with radioactive iodine, which effectively zeros in on and kills any remaining cancerous thyroid cells. Because one of the functions of the thyroid gland is to absorb iodine from the blood, radioiodine is taken up by any thyroid tissue not removed by surgery, including cancerous cells spreading to other body parts, such as lymph nodes. In addition to emitting electrons that destroy the tissue harboring the radionuclide, radioactive iodine emits photons suitable for imaging.
"Normal thyroid tissue as well as residual cancer cells concentrate radioiodine. Performed after ingestion of radioiodine, SPECT-CT provides three-dimensional images of the distribution of the radionuclide in the human body and is therefore used for staging this type of cancer," said Torsten Kuwert, MD, co-author of the article. "Incorporated at first treatment, SPECT-CT allows us to better stratify patients into treatment groups."
In the study, 57 patients received radioiodine therapy. Afterwards, a SPECT-CT camera was rotated around the patients at a variety of angles to capture where the radioactivity was occurring. SPECT imaging can locate cells in the body that are not behaving normally, but does not provide the detailed, X-ray-like images that CT imaging can. The hybrid camera, however, is able to reveal both the malignant cell activity and the exact anatomical location.
"With SPECT-CT imaging, we were able to determine tumor spread much earlier than before," said Daniela Schmidt, MD, another co-author of the article. "Earlier detection will lead to earlier individualized treatment of this potentially deadly cancer."
The researchers also reported that this information led to a revision of the original diagnosis in 35 percent of the study participants. The images reclassified as benign six of 11 lesions that had been considered lymph node metastases and 11 of 15 lesions considered to be indeterminate.
"Our data suggest that SPECT-CT should be used as a routine procedure in DTC patients at the first radioiodine treatment," said Kuwert. "By upstaging or downstaging disease, this hybrid imaging tool may alter the management of more than one-third of patients with the disease."
According to the American Cancer Society, DTC is the most common form of thyroid cancer and one of the success stories in the war on cancer. Since the advent of radioiodine therapy, it has been considered one of the more curable cancers. In 2009, about 37,340 new cases of thyroid cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. Of the new cases, about 28,410 will occur in women, and 8,930 in men.
Co-authors of "Impact of I-131-SPECT/Spiral-CT on Nodal Staging of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma at First Radioablation" include Daniela Schmidt, Attila Szikszai, Rainer Linke, Torsten Kuwert, Clinic of Nuclear Medicine; and Werner Bautz, Institute of Radiology, all from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany.
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SNM's more than 17,000 members set the standard for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine practice by creating guidelines, sharing information through journals and meetings and leading advocacy on key issues that affect molecular imaging and therapy research and practice. For more information, visit www.snm.org.


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Over the years and months, What The Crap has gradually become more and more serious. This is perfectly acceptable, as blogs naturally evolve over time. Still – I have been meaning to create a space devoted to respectfully discussing deeper issues at greater length. Thus:
Appeal To Heaven
Appeal to Heaven will also certainly evolve over time. My initial goal is to clearly communicate conservative ideas and discuss the philosophy of liberty.
Please check it out and let me know what you think!!
PS – What The Crap will still be a place for posting random thoughts, videos, and other stuff I come across. Enjoy.


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In Glendora, Calif., it's been another scorching winter day. Firefighters have a tough battle ahead, but have already managed to contain the blaze by at least 30 percent.
Firefighters made progress Friday against a wildfire — apparently sparked when paper was tossed into a campfire — that tore through two and a half square miles of brush and forced thousands of people from their homes in the foothills outside Los Angeles.
Fire officials told reporters that the fire was 30 percent contained, an improvement from completely uncontained the day before. People were allowed back into their homes in the city of Glendora and in some neighborhoods that had been evacuated in the neighboring city of Azusa.
Crews expressed confidence and said they were focused on putting out "hot spots" near homes and buildings.
"Things are progressing nicely. We're not really having a lot of issues today," said Mike Wakoski, an incident commander. "It's looking pretty good around the structures, and we're kind of turning our head to the north to contain the fire itself today."
The fire has destroyed five homes and damaged 17 structures, including homes, garages and other buildings, and it has cast an eerie haze over Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean. Battling the blaze on Friday were almost 1,200 firefighters, 150 engines, nine helicopters and four air tankers.
Hundreds of firefighters are on the frontlines of a dangerous wildfire that started after three people allegedly started an illegal campfire. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
By Thursday afternoon, firefighters had stopped the fire's rapid advance and the risk to neighboring communities. More than 3,700 people had been ordered to evacuate; by Friday, that figure was down to about 1,000.
Wind still posed a threat: The National Weather Service said red-flag warnings, signifying extreme fire danger, would stay in effect because of low humidity and the possibility that Santa Ana winds would blow through the foothills and canyons.
Police said the fire apparently started before dawn Thursday when three men tossed papers into a campfire in the Angeles National Forest, northeast of Los Angeles, and a breeze kicked up.
Three men were being held: Clifford Eugene Henry Jr., 22, of Glendora; Jonathan Carl Jarrell, 23, of Irwindale; and Steven Robert Aguirre, 21, of Los Angeles. Bail was set at $20,000 for each, police said.
Officials now fear California is headed into a replay of the big drought that lasted from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday declared a drought emergency and asked residents to cut their water use by 20 percent. He did not rule out mandatory conservation measures later.
Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby confirmed that firefighters have contained about 30 percent of a wildfire burning through Southern California, but that worries over expected humid weather have prompted a red flag warning for residents in the area.
And California isn't the only state suffering: Federal agriculture officials have designated parts of 10 other parched states disaster zones due to dry weather.
In just the past two weeks, the extreme drought in California jumped from 27 percent of the state to 62 percent, said meteorologist Chris Dolce of The Weather Channel, citing the U.S. Drought Monitor. That is by far the highest percentage since the drought monitor began in 2000.
The good news is that California still has no exceptional drought – the worst category.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The Colby Fire destroyed homes, damaged structures, and casted an eerie haze over Los Angeles as more than 3,700 people had been ordered to evacuate; by late Thursday night. Battling the blaze on Friday were almost 1,200 firefighters, 150 engines, nine helicopters and four air tankers.
This story was originally published on Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:19 PM EST


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Here is a video showing the yet to be released AMD kaveri APU running Battlefield 4 on ultra.
Quite a shocking testament for AMD APU's technology.
THis APU is releasing Jan 14 2014 worldwide.
Another amazing fact is that AMD has boosted IPC of the CPU by nearly 20-30%+.
It sports revised steamroller cores called steamrollerB.
Clock speed has been reduced to 3.7-4.0 ghz compared to richland/trinity and even AMD FX cpu's. This shows the potential of this apu.
Another major factor in the video is the ram running at 2133MHZ. Today's price of 2400 Mhz ram vs 1600Mhz is $10. This clearly shows 2400Mhz going mainstream for Intel broadwell and kaveri APU's.
Note:The video drivers are not optimized. HSA and Mantle are yet to be implemented. Should provide another 15-25 % a year from now.


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NICK FYFFE: YOUNG MAN WHO MADE DISCO SOUND MORE BEAUTIFULThe members of Jamiroquai. Talk about their musical styles, techniques, instruments...
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Nick Fyffe has left the band but he has done more than enough to become a bass legend.
young virtuoso from Synkronized and A Funk Odyssey, he played his punchy funky disco super bass lines in 2 great Jamiroquai masterpieces:
Synkronized and A Funk Odyssey.
When he was auditioned in Chillington studio, Derrick said: "well,you've got my vote", though a lot of cool players with big names (bassists from spice girls, incognito, the honeyz)
were auditioned before he came to show what he can do. Nick didnt think about following Stuart style, he decided to play bass lines his own, amazing different and very special way.
He said some of Stu fans will slate him but some may like what he does
as well.
i was one of those who became Nick's fans while i continued to be Stu fan as well.
Nick used a lot of effects even before he had to imitate those Toby's synth
bass lines from Synkronized. and he did it so cool!!!
listen how he used his Lovetone envelope filter effect on WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE!!! fantastic, isnt it???? and the whole bass line is a real masterpiece!!!
yamaha trb 5 bass Nick uses:
though he played crazy tricks not as often as Stuart did but the notes he played were so cool , so surprising and so special.. check FALLING.. he is simply genious !! there was so much soul and grooving disco melody
in his lines....
and he had his own funk bass style.. i think nobody else can play a better line for "You Give Me Something" or "Love Foolosophy" and "Little L"
i am Nick fan...he is the man!
Drawing influence from the funky bass lines and bass-heavy electro and hip-hop of the 1980s, Nick's future was clearly one with a groove.
That Nick wound up playing bass with massive pop-funksters Jamoriquai is no secret, but how he got there is little known and almost unbelievable.
he began to play bass when he was 18 and before that he played guitar and drums.He even did a diploma in jazz studies and popular music in Chicester.
Looking for a new project in 1998, Nick answered an advert in Melody Maker for a Jamiroquai tribute band and during the days waiting for a response, read that Stuart Zender had left the band. He made the obvious connection and knew there was a hole to be filled. After making a few enquiries, Nick soon found himself auditioning for the real deal – Jamiroquai. Nick's 80s funk style slotted in perfectly with the band and he was offered the job. Ironically, the day the offer came, the tribute band guy called to invite him to an audition. When Nick explained that he was now unavailable because he was Jamiroquai's bass player, the guy was speechless!
Nick's live debut with Jamiroquai was on the band's sell-out 'Synkronized' tour in 1999. The tour confirmed not only that Nick was the man to put the low-end into Jamoriquai but also that he was a serious musician in his own right.
when he passed an audition the guys didnt tell if he became part of the band or not. Nick was about to drive away in his mum's old beat up car and
he asked Jay if he got the job. Jay kicked the the tire of Nick's car and said:
"Let's put it this way : you wont be driving this car for long!"
music man stingray 5 bass Nick used during synkronized era:
and here's a great interview where you can find a lot of interesting things about Nick :
Bassist: Summer 1999
Jamiroquai's Nick Fyffe
by Steve Lawson
Special thanks are due to Nik Hunt for typing up this article in full.
From obscurity to one of Britain's best bass gigs, Steve Lawson charts the fairytale rise of Jamiroquai new boy, Nick Fyffe
FIRST NIGHT NERVES / ''I enjoyed the photoshoot for Bassist, 'cos it took my mind off it all, prancing about on the beach''.
It's the rock n' roll dream: get plucked from obscurity, audition for one of the world's biggest bands and get the gig. Just occasionally those dreams come true, as they did for Nick Fyffe when he replaced Stuart Zender in Jamiroquai. 'I still can't believe it's all happening', he admits.
Having dabbled with guitar and drumsm Nick took up bass when he was 18 and after doing the usual covers-band stuff at school, be began the time-honoured ritual of answering 'wanted' ads in search of gigs. "I auditioned, but I never knew what I was doing." He laughs at the memory, "So I decided to get some lessons."
Two years after leaving school, Nick decided to study music: "I got my head together and did a diploma in jazz studies and popular music in Chicester. I had a great time but it put me right off Jazz!" While there, he joined an 11-piece band called Funk Assembly, playing the London University and Club circuit. This became a full time commitment after leaving college. "I ended up booking and promoting gigs. Half the band had day jobs - the horn section were all in the army! Logistically it was a nightmare, but every gig was a big event." But the pay wasn't great. "I was skint," he admits, "Then, just as Funk Assembly started to get some interest, and someone put forward some money for us to do an album, the whole thing fell apart.
"I moved to London and started answering ads in Melody Maker," he says. "I did some work with one of the guys from Freakpower, and got to know the band."
This meeting proved to be a pivotal link in Nick's rise to stardom. "I was flicking throught a copy of The Sun one day, and saw the article about Stuart leaving Jamiroquai. I rang Jim Carmichael from Freakpower, who'd supported Jamiroquai on tour, and asked him to put me in touch with them. I rang the management company and said, 'My name's Nick, I'd like to fill a vacancy'. I had to send off a biog, but no tape. I sat chewing my nails, wondering what to write. But I just made it simple - my name, the gigs I'd done and my gear. I think Jay was impressed with the names of my Lovetone effects pedals," he laughs.
"A week later I got a call. Jay wasn't at the first audition, but I got on well with the rest of the band. I was nervous beforehand, but once there, I felt at ease. I played the tunes, and then asked if we could play some more 'cos I was enjoying myself! So we had a little jam.
"I was called back for the second audition. That's when I got seriously nervous! At first I thought nothing would come of it, but now it was down to the last five players. It was all a bit daunting - Steve Lewinson (Spice Girls), Nick Cohen (Incognito) and Paul Lancaster (The Honeyz) who's a great player were all up for it. I thought, "I'm never gonna get this.'
"I didn't know what I'd have to do at the second audition, " he continues, "so I couldn't prepare. I turned up and met Jay. I started jamming with the band and it just seemed to click. After that they showed me a new tune, the band disappeared and left me alone with Al Stone, their producer. I had to put down a bass track - there wasn't a guide bass part - and Al said that, vibe wise, it was the best of the tracks they'd done. He didn't say that I'd got the gig, but he hinted I was close. The band came back to hear it, and liked what I'd done. Derek said, 'Well, you've got my vote', and I began to think that the gig may be mine. Jay asked me to come back the next day. When I arrived, he came over, gave me a hug and said 'You're the new bassist for Jamiroquai!" and that was that!"
After Zender had left, much had been put on hold in the Jamiroquai camp. Now with Nick on board, they refocussed on the album. "But for the first three weeks I didn't do anything. There was some re-working needed to get the songs to a point where I could come in. When I eventually started recording, it was all done really quick. The pre-production had been done and I was going straight in on the album, not demos. I stayed at Jay's for the recording, and didn't have time to think about it. It's all a bit of a blur."
Many people assume that the hardest thing about landing a high profile gig is filling shoes of a better-known player, but Nick, now 26, has avioded the pitfall of comparing himself to Mr Zender. "I didn't hear anything that Stuart had done on the new album." he says of the recording process. "I don't think about 'following Stuart'. If I did, I'd stress myself out."
It's obvious that Nick has his head screwed on, and is looking to establish himself in his own right. "Obviously comparisions will be made, especially by other bass players. But at the end of the day, your average punter isn't that bothered. Jay's the frontman, and a lot of people might not even notice the change. Stuart was a high-profile bassist, so I'll probably get slated by people who wish he was still there. But some might prefer what I do. Ultimately I don't really care."
Of the new album, Synkronized, Nick says, "I recorded about seven tracks, four of which are on the album. There were a couple of tracks that we recorded live, and I was pretty much left to do what I wanted. Jay would sometimes have an idea that he'd hum and then I'd play. There was a lot of freedom, except when Jay had a specific idea - sometimes he'd come up with a bass line and write the track around that.
"The rest of the album is keyboard bass, which is the sound they were going for. I have to replicate that live, which is fun - I get to use lots of pedals and stuff. I'm using a five string, to get those low notes.'
So the honeymoon's nearly over and it's down to the stuff of being in a band - touring. The Synkronized tour started on June 9, in Brighton. "It went very well," he told Bassist the following day over coffee in Covent Garden. "We were well rehearsed, we just had to go out and do it. I was very nervous. But I enjoyed the day. I was very nervous. But I enjoyed the day. I did the sound check, then the photoshoot for Bassist, which was great 'cos it took my mind off the whole thing, prancing about on the beach. When I got back to the venue, I managed to eat a little, but then the nerves kicked back in. It took me a few tunes to relax, but then I really got into it - it was great. When we came off the stage, everyone gave me a hug. Now I'm looking forward to the rest of the tour."
And what a tour. "After the UK," he says, referring to the eight gigs the band played here in June, to estatic audiences. "Next is the states, then South America, Europe, Japan and then back to the USA. Next year we go to Australia and we end up doing all the UK festivals next year, which will probably be the end of the tour." Probably? Sounds like a heavy schedule!
As Billy Bragg once sang, 'It's a mighty long way down rock n' roll, from Top of the Pops to drawing the dole', but Nick Fyffe has done it in reverse, and remains philosophical. "I've suddenly found myself here, playing for Jamiroquai, which I couldn't have imagined eight months ago. Everything's so new - I'm very naive and inexperienced. I've never done a tour before. At every other gig I've done, I'd come off stage and go and see my mates. At the first Jamiroquai gig I saw a few friends, went over to say hello and suddenly these people came from nowhere wanting autographs and stuff! I don't know if I'll ever get used to it - it's a bit surreal. The fame side of things just isn't reality. I'm still getting my head round the whole thing."
Nick's Funk Assembly
the tools of the trade for a Jamiroquai bassist
Nick recorded on a pre-Ernie Ball Musicman, but uses a newer 5-string on tour. Amp-wise, he is yet another Ashdown convert. "They're nice and simple. I don't like too many buttons and lights. I just want to turn on, plug in and sound good. During the rehearsals I had the EQ out and it sounded so punchy - I've got an 8x10" cab and an 800 watt head."
But it's Nick's effects set up that seems to be at the heard of the Fyffe sound. "I had all these mad ideas for pedal boards and switching systems but I decided to keep it simple. All the pedals are in line, and if I run into trouble I can just bosh the line selector and get a clean sound.
"I've got a Sans Amp before the line selector, then a Digitech Whammy Pedal, a DOD EQ and a Lovetone Meat Ball envelope filler. The meat ball has it's own loop, and I've got a Lovetone Big Cheese pedal... [laughs] and that goes into Big Mac, large fries and a milkshake! The Big Cheese goes into an EBS Octave pedal, both in the loop of the Meat Ball. That goes into a Q-Tron, which goes into an EBS chorus / Flange / Pitch thingie. It's not that cimplicated really" [Yeah, like, sure!] "I love trying out new sounds, but I'm not really into the train-spotting side of it... Honestly!"
Fitting Tribute
A while before I auditioned for Jamiroquai, I was going throught the ads looking for work, and saw one for a Jamiroquai tribute band. The guy said he's call me when they were next doing auditions. I thought no more about it until the day of my second audition for Jamiroquai when I got home to a message saying, 'It's the about the Jamiroquai tribute band - we've got some auditions', I thought this is SO freaky! I told Jay about it when I heard I'd got the job, and he thought it was hysterical. I considered doing the audition just for a laugh, but I thought if I didn't get it, it would be too much!"
this great pic is taken from http://www.jamirotalk.net
"Jay came over, gave me a hug and said 'You're the new bassist for Jamiroquai"
"It took me a few tunes to relax, but then I really got into it - it was great"
the interview from http://www.mtey.com
Last edited by High_Times on Wed May 25, 2005 5:34 pm, edited 3 times in total.
ohhh man you maded me cry with this post....
he (and Matt) are (and Nick was) the only new players i really love a lot....
i really like his performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2003... it was just amazing!
your post was the best one man... i think you're now preparing a new one... hehehe make a new one for DJ Dzire!! heeehhe
NICK is music itself!!!! i am his fan!!!!
my dream is to have his e mail to thank him in person!!!!
you know what i am listening to now?
Love Foolosophy and Do It Like We Used To Do !!!
its all one crazy beautiful bass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'd like to make a thread about dj DZire (who i love soooooo much!!!)but i dont have his pics except mpg stills
Ok ok...Nick Fyffe...
Really hard to play after Zender...I think it's a fact....
Sorry but I never loved his play until Montreux performance,where he had an amazing sound!!
I don't know, well he's a good bass player for sure, with fluidity and all...but Zender had HIS grooves and I'm not sure it's the same case for Fyffe:maybe to impersonnal for me...It sounds like any other good bass player...when you heard Stu's lines and during EOPE and ROTSC tours...well you see how his feeling is different!!
But this is just my point of view...
yehhhh man those songs are xtremely nice! i love them!!!!
P.D.: i have a friend that has meet and has contact with Nick...
i will find some information about this and then i will write ok?
bye man! nice post again!
Edgar do you mean Renaud, guy from France, who went to master class and talked to Nick and Nick has signed 2 pics for him?
hi troll!!! check these pics, they are really cool, one made by FunkEducation, the other is from http://www.mtey.com site.
yeh man the same one... heheheh
so you know him...
Im here to pay my respect to Nick Fyffe, Bassist Legend!
I'm a huge fan of nick absolutely love his style!!!!
It's sad that he ain't part of Jamiroquai nomore
We definately have to follow up on any Nick Fyffe projects...see what his been up to in the music scene lately.....
i am listening to love foolosophy now and feel so cool!!!
a masterpiece with amazing bass line!!!
Nick you're fantastic bass player!!!!
Re: NICK FYFFE: YOUNG MAN WHO MADE DISCO SOUND MORE BEAUTIFUL
wow man, this is a very old topic!
but taking it back just to say that?
be sure to say something important about a topic is very old
After hearing 40 years of Basslines, my favorite is now Nick Fyffe.
I begun to love the BASS when i was a child seeing "77 Sunset Street". So I wanted a Double Bass and i got one ( I had to work hard during school for this (3 Years!).
I loved hearing Deep Purple then Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke.
1978 i met Sting ( with The Police as SUPPORTING ACT! of Eberhard Schöners Laser Show)
So I became Sting-Fan and bought an Ibanez Musician MC 940 Bass.
Since I heard JAMIROQUAI on 1995 i played Police and Stanley Clarke Lines.
I LOVED THIS MUSIC Great Voice and a young creative STU Z. !
I studied many great Bassplayers but Nick Fyffe is perfect in Sound and Ideas. He refreshed the Basslines of jamiroquai - a Professor on BASS. Not only for Disco Sound
He could become as great as James Jamerson, Marcus Miller, Bootsie Collins.. ecc.ecc.
I always play his Basslines - every Day - THANK YOU NICK
Re: NICK FYFFE: YOUNG MAN WHO MADE DISCO SOUND MORE BEAUTIFUL
I will take heat for this, but I think Nick Fyffe was the best bass player of all time in Jamiroquai. Concert footage of him in Verona and Montreux are awesome. Stu and Paul are great also, but I still like Nick Fyffe the best. I wish he was still in the band. He has made the rounds with Robert Plant, Deep Purple, Pixy Lott, The New Number 2, etc., but never as great as moments with Jamiroquai. T. Morrison, USA.
Re: NICK FYFFE: YOUNG MAN WHO MADE DISCO SOUND MORE BEAUTIFUL
Y'know, I think the bass is a huge component of Jamiroquai.
And what made Jamiroquai famous is crediting the music with the bass of Stu.
But I do really love much of the music with Fyffe -especially the Disco.
But Paul is great too!
Jamiroquai features the bass, and many great players. And I'll bet each can play each other's songs.
of course I should be working
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WHAT: To observe the International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, 6 February, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, UNICEF and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) will host a Google+ Hangout discussion on the progress made in FGM/C abandonment, and the challenges that remain ahead.
The virtual event will feature:
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David Crystal Goes Beyond English 101 in "100 Words"
In his new book The Story of English in 100 Words, the absurdly prolific David Crystal provides a unique answer to a question he poses: "How can we tell the story of the English language?"
To do so, Crystal compiles a "personal list" of 100 words, each chosen not only on its own merits but as the catalyst for a broader linguistic issue. Those 100 chapters — on words such as dude, ain't, bloody, bridegroom, mead, marry, gaggle, hello, unfriend, and cuckoo — allow Crystal to teach the history of English through 100 separate lenses. For example, the chapter on money leads to a discussion of idioms such as get your money's worth and money is the root of all evil. Then the chapter on music allows for a discussion of spelling variation, since that word has been spelled musiqe, musyque, and musyk, among other ways. With this clever format, Crystal is able to wander all over the lexical map, using each of his 100 words as a reference point and launching pad. The result is a highly readable, fascinating book that should please rabid wordaholics as well as casual lexicon-likers.
This book is unusual in that it spotlights terms — like and and what — that word books usually ignore. Though many word-lovers are only attracted to the most humorous or oddball words (I am guilty in this regard, which is why I'm a language columnist and not a lexicographer) the true work of lexicography involves looking at all the words, in all their uses and permutations, which isn't nearly as sexy as looking at exceptions and outliers alone. As Kory Stamper of Merriam-Webster remarked on her terrific new blog Harmless Drudgery: "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to reading these 5,000 citations for the word 'get.'" Crystal's focus is similarly true to the all-encompassing, labor-intensive science of lexicography.
At the risk of sounding like the most cliché-ridden reviewer ever, there is something for everyone in 100 Words. I am uninterested and disinterested in the history of disinterested, but the chapter on that skunked word should grab the attention of fans and foes. I go higgledy-piggledy for words that use reduplication, so the chapter on dilly-dally and similar words was just my kind of mumbo-jumbo. Since I like math, I was pleased to learn that billion has long meant a million millions in England, in addition to the thousand-millions meaning I knew as a Yank. The chapter on schmooze and Yiddish clued me in to the fact that Joe Schmo is a form of schm-reduplication, which seems so obvious now. Other readers will have their own discoveries, and likely plenty of them. I found this book to be powerful reinforcement for concepts I already knew and an enjoyable introduction of ideas and facts I didn't.
Throughout, Crystal strikes a balance between minute linguistic details and overviews of broader lexical issues. Despite my lexilove, some word books try my patience when the details — however intriguing — are presented one after another with not enough reference to a larger point or concept. Crystal never falls into that pattern. Besides his weapons-grade research skills, Crystal is a sharp, understated writer who can surprise you with his wit in lines such as this from the chapter on Yiddish words like schmuck: "...if anyone said shpin, shtill, and shkin, we would think they had a speech defect — or were engaging in a bad imitation of Sean Connery."
I'm not sure the ultra-learned Crystal would appreciate the following compliment, but this is also a classic bathroom book. It might even be the ultimate bathroom book for a word aficionado. The short chapters make it easy to flip through and read non-linearly, which can be helpful in these low-attention-span times. I've reviewed a bunch of word books and read a boatload, but this one stands out for its scholarship, accessibility, and uniqueness.
In fact, Crystal continues to cement his place as the Michael Jordan of word mavens — or maybe the Isaac Asimov of word mavens — as he cranks out book after book of enlightening work. This one would be a tremendous gift for any word-loving friend, including yourself. While you're adding to your Crystal collection, think about picking up Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, published in 2008. That book is a potent demolisher of all those myths about texting that are commonly repeated and completely malarkey. When it comes to finding facts and pulverizing poppycock, Crystal is a word maven's best friend.


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Things Finally Looking Up for Area Loser?
March 29, 2017 in Creative Writing, Personal | Tags: author, blog, blogging, corpulence, employment, internet relationship, job interviews, literary terms, loser, mistaken identity, overeating, pathetic fallacy, perpetual loser, spare tire, The Onion, unemployment, weather, winter clothes, writer | Leave a comment
There just might be hope on the horizon for a perpetual loser (and selfsame author of this blog). After years of failure and disappointment (what other, more successful people generally term "life"), things might just be looking up.
The erstwhile writer has had a dry patch for a while, but coming up with the Onion-esque title for this post, as derivative and unoriginal as it is, has actually inspired him to think he just might have something to contribute to society after all. (Undoubtedly he's wrong and you all know it, but please let him keep fooling himself, at least for a day or two… would that be too much to ask?)
And then there's the development of two (two!) (as-yet) loveless internet relationships, which represent a new high for concurrent, virtual, precarious connections in his life, beating the previous high of one potential match whose seeming rekindling after months of silence turned out to be a case of mistaken identity, namely that it became apparent that the woman in question confused him with another man entirely. They were never to meet again.
After a period of unemployment, the author had two interviews in a single week, bestowing a sense of promise and potential upon him that has been long absent. While it may not seem to be a big deal for people who manage to hold down gainful employment for years at a time, for this fuckup it's a headline that fairly screams, "I'm back, baby!"
Just today, the local failure had a meal that, for the first time in months, he actually enjoyed and took pleasure in. You wouldn't know it from his corpulence (the term "spare tire" to describe a tubby midsection might have been invented for his body) but although he eats plenty each day, his profound loserdom means that eating has often been an empty, joyless act. But no more!
And the weather! Might it finally be turning? May a day be approaching when he doesn't have to wear a jacket, scarf, and toque? Is his happiness at this tiny joy not the very definition of pathetic fallacy? (Seriously, is it or isn't it? He may be an author, but he doesn't know his literary terms very well.)


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Bell: Super Bowl non-call was the right call
- 49ers%27 fourth-down toss to Michael Crabtree featured contact but didn%27t warrant flag.
- Non-calls cut both ways throughout Super Bowl XLVII.
- Officials set tone for the game by not doling out many flags.
NEW ORLEANS -- Regardless of the pain in Jim Harbaugh's gut, the San Francisco 49ers were not robbed. The Lombardi Trophy earned by the Baltimore Ravens is not tainted.
No call on fourth-and-goal?
The officials got it right by not throwing a flag for the contact involving Michael Crabtree and Jimmy Smith — which went both ways — before 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's pass sailed out of reach.
Had referee Jerome Boger or head linesman Steve Stelljes, the official closest to the play, thrown a flag it would have been a disaster that would have likely settled the Super Bowl by a penalty. Championships should not be determined by a flag.
Harbaugh — whose sideline fit included slamming his cap to the turf and gesturing for a holding call as he screamed at officials — disagrees. After the game, he whined that a penalty should have been called on the third-down incompletion to Crabtree, too, due to the receiver's contact with Cary Williams.
"There's no question in my mind that there was pass interference, and then a hold," Harbaugh said. "I realize I'm on the side of the 49ers. I'm the coach of the 49ers. There's some bias there, but I wouldn't bring it up unless it was obvious."
It was a tough break, for sure. Yet while Smith's arms got around the outside of Crabtree for a split-second, it also appears that the receiver initiated contact by jamming into the cornerback off the line of scrimmage. And Crabtree also extended his arm as he pushed off Smith's helmet.
The good non-call was also consistent. It's how the game was played.
"You can't just look at one play," former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, who started his career with the 49ers, said Monday afternoon as he passed through his hotel lobby. "You have to look at how the refs called the entire game. They let the guys play. The last thing you want to see — especially at the end of a Super Bowl — is for a bad play to be bailed out by a penalty flag."
The legacy of one of the most thrilling Super Bowls ever should not be the call that wasn't made. There's a lot more to remember, from the power outage to the Harbaugh brothers to MVP quarterback Joe Flacco to Ray Lewis' last ride.
Jim Tunney, a retired referee who worked three Super Bowls, told USA TODAY Sports he would not have thrown a flag, either, on that fourth-down play.
"If you let 'em play for 59 minutes," Tunney said, "you've got to let 'em play the last minute."
The non-calls went both ways. On the last Ravens scoring drive in the fourth quarter, an apparent late hit on quarterback Joe Flacco on third down wasn't called, either. A penalty would have extended the drive.
Besides, there's much to second-guess about the 49ers' play-calling choices on their final three plays. The 49ers threw to Crabtree, rather than tight end Vernon Davis or Randy Moss, on back-to-back passes. After a first-down run, offensive coordinator Greg Roman didn't attack the middle of a Ravens defensive line that was thinned by the knee injury that sidelined Haloti Ngata.
For egregious non-calls, the officials missed it by not ejecting Williams for shoving an official during the melee that ensued after Ed Reed's interception in the second quarter. Although Williams maintained that it wasn't intentional, we've seen players get ejected for merely touching an official.
Ask Washington Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall, who was ejected from a game in October for making contact as he protested a non-call. In the Super Bowl, Williams should have noticed that the man he shoved was wearing black and white stripes.
Says Tunney, "When you go to break up a fight, sometimes you're going to get bumped."
That the human element of officiating is part of the post-Super Bowl debate seems fitting . This season started with the lockout of the officials and the glaring miscues of their replacements. If not for the fiasco at Seattle, when the Green Bay Packers' apparent game-ending interception was ruled a touchdown , the lockout might have lasted longer.
Now this. Although 49ers fans might argue, it's a good thing that the non-call won't go down in history as the most memorable thing about Super Bowl XLVII.


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Top Mountie speeds internal review of fatal shootings in Moncton
RCMP officers use their vehicle to create a keep a perimeter in Moncton, N.B.on Wednesday June 4, 2014. (Marc Grandmaison / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
OTTAWA -- In the aftermath of the fatal shootings of three RCMP officers last month in Moncton, N.B., the country's top Mountie is promising a full review into the equipment and training his officers are given.
Commissioner Bob Paulson says he has appointed retired assistant commissioner Phonse MacNeil to lead a comprehensive internal review into what happened in Moncton on June 4, where three officers were gunned down and two others injured before a 30-hour manhunt that ended with the arrest of a suspect.
"All facets of this event need to be understood," Paulson said in a statement posted on the RCMP website Thursday that included additional information to an internal email he sent to members of the department June 25.
"Clearly the death of our three members in the course of duty and the near deaths of many others demand that we seek to fully understand the facts, learn from them and if required, change our practices promptly."
The RCMP has faced criticism from Rob Creaser of the Mounted Police Professional Association about the equipment and training its officers receive.
Creaser has said many detachments don't have high-powered rifles or specialized armour that is better able to protect against rifle fire.
He also said the RCMP hasn't acted quickly enough on recommendations made after the deaths of four officers in Mayerthorpe, Alta., in 2005. The officers in Alberta were guarding a marijuana grow-op when the owner opened fire on them with a rifle, leaving them to defend themselves with 9-mm handguns.
As a result of those shootings, it was recommended seven years ago that police be equipped with proper protective vests and the C8 carbines, a type of assault rifle used by military personnel and many police forces.
Paulson said in the Moncton-based Codiac detachment, all but three patrol vehicles and traffic cars had one set of hard body armour in them.
In his June 25 email to members of the force, Paulson wrote that each car responding to a report of an armed man in Moncton was equipped with hard body armour, but the updated statement on Thursday clarified what was in the email.
Paulson said on that night, 22 sets of hard body armour were assigned to various vehicles and three tactical troop members were assigned their own armour. An additional 132 sets of the armour were flown to Moncton, Paulson said, as they were "cognizant of the increased number of members involved in containing the suspect."
The RCMP commissioner said discussions so far about the hard body armour and the number of carbines available has been "a very superficial, easy and incomplete effort to look for explanations and orient blame for what has happened."
Paulson said the RCMP's division in New Brunswick was in "the early days" of deploying the C8 carbines and that four members in the Codiac detachment trained on them. The detachment had six patrol carbines, which were being used in training and unavailable, he said.
Paulson said the review by MacNeil must give the RCMP a complete understanding of what happened.
"We -- the RCMP -- must objectively examine our response and preparation for this type of event," he said. "We will make whatever changes we must to our practices and policies to minimize the chances of this ever happening again."


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I've noticed a small but increasing number of DearMYRTLE workshop webinar attendees are using their iPads to connect. Let's start a discussion about how the GoToWebinar App works and where it still has room for improvement.
This is a screen shot of my iPad1 taken just now (using the Skitch app) as I wait for Thomas MacEntee's Navigating the 1940 US Census webinar to begin in 22 minutes. This is hosted by our friends at LegacyFamilyTree.com. From time to time, I can see Geoff's mouse pointer choosing a different "While you're waiting..." screen.
GOOD: Sound quality and the screen images appear excellent, though I am only in the waiting room. (The webinar has over 2,000 registrants, but only 1,000 seats, so I've signed in early.)
GOOD: I see it would be possible for me to speak, using the iPad1's built-in microphone. However 99% of webinar attendees are kept in mute mode because of the sheer number of attendees. Have any of you had experience with your mic going live for real-time conversations with a webinar presenter?
NOT SO GOOD: I am aware from one webinar attendee that the iPad app has no view of the "chat" screen, so she couldn't click to view the handout for this past Monday's webinar.
CONFUSING: The webinar service is GoToWebinar, yet the app for my iPad is called "GoToMeeting". I guess from an attendee point of view, this doesn't really matter.
WONDERING: Is there a way to present using the GoToMeeting app on my iPad?
What have your experiences been?
If mobile devices are the wave of the future, then we'll need to share experiences with how to use them. Genealogy webinars are certainly main stream. Let's see how the viewing apps progress.
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
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New sentence ordered for man who used Craigslist to seek teen sex
Ohio man's sentence vacated by appeals court
An appeals court panel has vacated the 17½-year prison sentence of an Ohio man who used Craigslist to arrange sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy.
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Tuesday ordered Kevin Weiner's case sent back to a federal judge for resentencing.
The court says the judge used the wrong sentencing guidelines and that the 44-year-old Columbus man faced only a maximum of 10 years.
Weiner agreed to plead guilty to sexual coercion and enticement of a minor. In exchange, the government didn't file charges related to three boys who said Weiner abused them.
Weiner was arrested in March 2011 after arranging sex with an undercover agent posing as a 14-year-old boy.