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Money flow

Why is flow so important?

Lean Flow

When and Where

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"Why is it important?"

and "How to make flow happen"

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When to design for flow

When to design for flow?

Whenever you can discern a repetitive pattern of any kind.

Flow should be an objective of EVERY production environment

Pure flow is rare

In real life — you will probably never see a single company with pure flow processes throughout.

There are usually pockets of flow processes, book-ended by batch & queue processes.

A single value stream map might contain sections of:

  • batch & queue
    (e.g. mixing ingredients)
  • continuous flow
    (e.g. to "make goo")
  • followed by repetitive assembly & packaging.

And the product development and order processing processes for this same product can be designed quite independently of the physical production process.

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Three lean production environments
that EMBRACE lean flow

Elements of flow can be incorporating into ANY process, but these environments EMBRACE flow

What they have in common

They embrace the goal

of moving a produced item quickly from activity to activity without interruption for any of the types of muda.

The general pattern depicted in this flow chart

might represent a Lean work cell,
a repetitive assembly line, or an oil refinery.

The concepts are the same — 'flow'

Work cell

What they all reject

All flow processes recoil at the sight
of a spaghetti diagram that reveals work flow
bouncing wastefully all over the facility

(and getting stuck in piles of either inventory, paperwork, or neglected emails)

in a batch & queue work environment.

Spaghetti diagram

Some key differences

  Continuous Flow Repetitive Lean
Type of things produced Food, chemicals, liquids, lumber, paper, textiles, glass, primary metals...

Often have lot-controlled products, with
co-products and
by-products, and differing potencies or grades

Discrete units — produced in large quantities. Discrete units — produced
in small quantities.

Often have product lines with high number of possible configurations.

Also ideal for
non-inventory service environments.

Primary competitive factors Commodity price. Quality. Delivery reliability. High yields. Product design. Quality. Design for manufacturability. Price. Fast delivery of custom products. Quality.
Product design cycle time.
Typical processes Distillation, heating, reduction, bleaching, grading, spinning, curing... Assembly, stamping, forging, casting, injecting... Same as repetitive.
Typical facilities Many acres, multiple plants, tanks, silos, trains, waste treatment ponds... Assembly line with balanced takt time per operation, and one worker per workstation Work cell with balanced takt time per operation. Every person in the cell operates every piece of equipment. Workers "follow each other around".
Scheduling Focus on utilization of expensive equipment. Scheduled preventative maintenance. Repetitive Master Schedule for long-term planning. Final Assembly Schedule based on actual customer orders + other demands (such as seasonal build-ups) Same as repetitive, but very few "other demands". Almost entirely driven by customer orders.

Primary objective = flexibility. (which requires "excess capacity")

Process control

Supervisory Data Control & Acquisition (SCADA), distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC), statistical process control (SPC), etc.

Also Preventative Maintenance (PM), Laboratory Information Systems (LIMS), and regulatory compliance software (e.g. haz mat, FDA...)

Ideally uses Visual Management Systems:
e.g. Team Boards, kanbans, andons, poka yoke mistake-proofing...

Automated data collection is helpful before and after production — but rarely in WIP.

Might use advanced computer process control systems.

Lean uses Visual Management Systems.

Theory of Constraints drum-buffer-rope might be helpful.

Might use Manufacturing Execution System and automated data collection in production — but the closer to flow, the less needed.

Engineering Change Control, Product Data Management, and Workflow software can be important.

Why are work cells the 'holy grail'?

Holy Grail

Work cells aren't the only way to achieve process flow.

Assembly lines and continuous process flow lines also work well, too.

However... with production lines we have to address the issues of sales forecasting,
batch sizes, finished goods inventories, we have at least removed the gross inefficiencies involved within a classic 'functional department' process environment.

The lean work cell is the 'holy grail' because...

it can accommodate a batch size of one.

And because it can be employed within work environments
that have traditionally been organized in batch & queue departments —
which have the most opportunity for improvement.

Bookmark = quality

Lean Flow requires (and produces)
higher quality than Batch & Queue

As you can see from this chart — flow processes demand high quality in order to function,
and therefore generate high-quality output, almost as a by-product.

  Batch & Queue Flow
Effect of defect
on work flow
There are usually other batches of work to work on while the defective batch gets reworked or scrapped & replaced The entire production process screeches to a halt until the problem is resolved
(this is called andon or jidoka)
Typical number of defective deliveries before problem
is noticed
Usually at least one large
batch — and often more than one
One unit (or the smallest possible batch size)
Typical amount of time before problem
is noticed
The total time between
operations — which can often involve WIP inventory stored for very long periods
Typical measures
of quality
Can be very sloppy. Batch & queue
can tolerate poor quality.
Flow cannot tolerate poor quality. Flow processes demand high quality in order to function — and therefore generate high-quality output almost as a by-product.


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Local politicos and business boosters rallied last night to show their support for efforts to find funding to construct the last “critical mile” of State Route 167 that would finally connect the Puyallup Valley’s warehouse centers to shipping operations at the Port of Tacoma. The road was first envisioned more than 30 years ago, but has never been fully funded.

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Why Map Tacurong City?

“Why map Tacurong City?” asked one friend ” when it’s satellite image is outdated?  It’s even impossible to pinpoint a place, landmark or anything!”

I replied with questions “Why not?  Why not map despite the low resolution satellite image? Is it really impossible?”

“If not us, then who will?”

Yes, if we won’t start mapping our place, no one else will do it for us. Not even Google, per se.

Five years ago I was kind of frustrated when Google Earth came here in the Philippines and I couldn’t find Tacurong City in it. Tacurong City is that red marker in Mindanao in the “cross hair of Pan-Philippine Highway and Isulan-Tacurong road”, as seen on a scrappy red-geen-white satellite snapshot of Sultan Kudarat province. Many of us looked away, forgot this place temporarily and silently hoped one day someone will do “mapping of Tacurong city” for us. Five years passed, we’re still stuck on that same feature-less, blurry red-green-white satellite image. Albeit progressive, already booming and relatively peaceful, Tacurong City is the same red marker with a few misplaced and mislabeled  dots of “places” here and there. The same question is nagging right in front of us? Who’s going to map Tacurong city?  Are we going to look away again? Or should we do something to Map Tacurong?

When Google released Map Maker to the public, it opened the doors for users to “edit”, “place” or “review” places, markers or any point of interest in the Google Map. This offered new possibilities for us Tacurongnons, even if Tacurong City still got this low satellite resolution image . Coupled with other technologies like GPS and smartphones, we now have the power to put Tacurong, and all it’s places, achievements and progress in the Google Map. Map Maker is is free, openly available and relatively easy to use by anyone with only a few basic skills needed. With passion and diligence, the use of Map maker is our key into putting Tacurong City in the map.

What are the concrete benefits of mapping your place? During  Sendong, Google Map Ups  (a mapping session like what we are about to do) mapped evacuations centers for easier localization of relief operations. It even have a map of missing persons!

Crisis response map during Sendong in Iligan City

Mapping of evacuations centers by Red cross speeded up help during calamities. That’s not saying mapping is helpful only during emergencies.

One good example is what a police officer in Gen San is doing to map police  precincts and their different offices inside their  camp. This maps aid clients of the PNP in locating different PNP offices as well as police precincts around General Santos City.

For more advance countries and cities like new york , they made a map like this, called “made in New York”, as a resource map for job seekers. Essentially, the map said “I’ve got a job here for you”.

Made in NY a job resource map for job seekers

For us Tacurongnons, the impact of putting Tacurong City on the Google Map is enormous -business and tourism wise. We have agribusiness that’s robust,  Talakudong festival to showcase, we have Baras Bird sanctuary that’s grabbing pages. Imagine you having the power to put your businesses on the map, where Global companies can look at your online business profile and easily access your location through Google map. Instead of us going to their place, with google maps, we bring them here, to Tacurong City. This is what I call mapping Tacurong City beyond just mapping Tacurong alone. If we follow through this interests on us by providing them, the tourists, investors, with a “map” of our place, maybe mapping Tacurong City isn’t just mapping  the city.

Convinced? “But what about the low image resolution?” you ask. “How do we map Tacurong with such blurry image on close up?”

That I should be thankful for your curiosity, for your willingness, for your volunteerism. Because that is exactly why are you here to learn the skills and overcome that temporary barrier. That’s why I highly urge you, even before this workshop, through emails, to maximize this FREE workshop of Map Maker skill and then sign the “request” for a better satellite image of Tacurong City. Many say we’re stuck in that blurry satellite image of Tacurong City. Today, you are saying, “No, we will map Tacurong City DESPITE, that blurry image! We already started it and we will finish it!”

Thank you and let’s map Tacurong City!

(This is the rallying speech, more or less, given by the author during the opening of the Tacurong MapUp Workshop last May 20, 2012 at the Audio Visual Room of the Notre Dame of Tacurong College Tacurong City)

About the Author

- I’m a traveler. I work fulltime as a medical professional. I go to different places most of the time I’m off my day job. I shoot photos for fun, hack computers for even more fun and play badminton as my exercise. And yes, I’m not rich.

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From South Tahoe High School Ally founder to the first openly gay student body president at Sonoma State, Alex Boyar doesn’t let inertia intimidate him.

His efforts to promote diversity and shift the status quo didn’t end with graduation. The 22-year-old STHS alumnus now works as the state director of finance for Delaware’s Sen. Chris Coons, a job that Boyar calls “a dream for any political fundraiser.”

Two pivotal 2008 events sparked Boyar’s interest in politics – the election of President Barack Obama and what he called the “crushing defeat” that followed the passage of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage in California.

Boyar plunged into the world of student government as a freshman at Sonoma State University shortly after that November election. He climbed the collegiate political ranks, culminating as president of the Associated Student Body in his senior year.

While at the university, Boyar helped raised $100,000 to update the school’s diversity center and hire a diversity director who ensures that students have access to a safe haven on campus.

“It’s the center for that continually ongoing conversation about how we secure long-term diversity,” Boyar said.

His work to carve out a niche for students of diverse backgrounds began in the South Shore with the help of fellow STHS graduate Jade Copple and English teacher Bridey Heidel. If they could make STHS a more comfortable environment for even one lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender student, the work would be worth it, Boyar said.

Boyar came out of the closet when he was 15 years old. His parents were “accepting and loving” but his peers were not always so tolerant. A suicide note that a student wrote during Boyar’s sophomore year convinced him that the environment at the high school needed to change. So he founded Ally, a club for LGBT students, that year.

The administration supported the club, but Heidel said she sometimes fielded questions and concerns from the community. STHS staff would address bullying issues on campus if they heard about them, but students often kept silent, Heidel said.

“Jade and Alex just put themselves out there. It was pretty brave of them to be on the front lines. (Boyar) was very willing to be public, and he was doing this at a time when he was very much alone … The entire school benefits from their bravery,” she said.

Boyar said he battled discrimination from some of his fellow students through junior year, but Ally changed that.

“It was a dark and scary place for a time. But it didn’t hit me because I was doing what I believed in and was living my truth,” Boyar said.

“The fact of the matter is I was the token LGBT student. I was out there. There were times when I got picked on, when students didn’t say the kindest things, when it got scary. But by my senior year, it really started to turn around,” he said.

By the 2007-08 school year, many people had rallied around Ally. Students would wear the club’s T-shirts around South Lake Tahoe and more teens were openly stating that they were gay or lesbian.

“He wanted other kids to have a safe harbor. He was tormented. It’s tough being different,” Boyar’s mother, Virginia Boyar, said.

Boyar moved to Delaware five days after graduating from Sonoma. He helped raise $180,000 for Andy Staton’s campaign for a senate seat before Coons hired him to be his fundraising and finance director.

“It’s pretty cool, especially when you consider some of his struggles in (high) school. For me, it’s not just that Alex got this amazing job. It’s this small town kid who stuck out like a sore thumb setting an example for other students to follow,” Virginia Boyar said.


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The new pope’s challenges

An obstructionist Vatican, a chronic shortage of priests and a shrinking global congregation: the list is daunting

By Andrew Brown  /  The Guardian, LONDON

When 117 cardinals gather in Rome to choose the next pope this month, the first thing that will determine their choice is what job they are hiring the man for. Catholicism is in a crisis: the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch compares it to the great changes of the Reformation and the medieval reforms, 400 years earlier, under Pope Innocent VII.

The convulsions that started with the second Vatican council of the 1960s have still not played themselves out. On the other hand, the pope will still be a Catholic. There are not going to be female priests, and only what absolutely has to change will change. The ban on contraception will remain: the best — and the least — that can happen is that it is quietly ignored, even by the hierarchy, and no longer used as the shibboleth of orthodoxy in any priest who wants promotion. Some things cannot change, and we should not assume that the new leader will take up the agenda of the Guardian or the New York Times.

However, it is clear from the pope’s resignation that he knows things cannot go on as they are.

So what does the crisis look like from Rome?

It seems to me that there are three interlocking difficulties for the church. There is crisis in the curia, the Vatican itself. There is a crisis in the clergy and in the developed world, there is a crisis in the laity.

There is also a strategic problem in that the church must deal with the increasing militancy of Islam in the Middle East, and, beyond that, the rise of China and India. However, that does not require new thinking, just the application of well-practiced principles.

The problems of the laity and clergy are intertwined and in the developed world their symptom is obvious: there are not enough of either, and both are aging rapidly and sustained only by immigration from the south.

There is little that a pope can do directly about the problem of the shrinking laity, even in an age of global travel. Wherever he goes, he can draw vast crowds, but the interest and excitement subside when he has gone. The congregations continue to drain away.

The effect has been most marked in places where Catholicism was part of the national or regional identity — Ireland, Quebec, Boston and France come to mind. However, it has happened almost everywhere in the developed world.

In the countries where churchgoing has shrunk, the clergy have also got older and — by report — more gay. Seminaries have closed. More and more priests are imported from Africa, from Latin America and from the Philippines or Vietnam.

That is something the new pope could do something about, but only by relaxing the mandatory celibacy rule.

To allow the ordination of already married men on a much wider scale than already happens with Anglican converts would transform the priesthood and bind it much more closely to the laity. From the outside, such a development looks inevitable.

Whether it seems so simple inside the Sistine Chapel is another question. However, if it does, the electors will choose accordingly. Paradoxically, they are more likely then to choose a cardinal from Latin America or Asia, where the celibacy rules are already widely ignored, than from Europe or the US, where they are followed to the letter, if not in spirit.

Changing the rules on celibacy would still be a convulsive step that would bring fresh problems of its own. It may appear to the cardinals a necessary and unavoidable adjustment to a reality that can no longer be denied.

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 Film festival focuses on Taiwan - Taipei Times
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Film festival focuses on Taiwan

The Taipei Film Festival continues this weekend -- albeit without any

Taiwanese films -- but for those hungry for films with Taiwanese flair, Urban

Nomad, a lower-profile film fest going on this weekend, should satiate

appetites for local filmmaking left unsatisfied with the selection at TFF.

"A lot of the films refer to Taiwan, show people in Taiwan, and all are made

by people who live in Taiwan," co-organizer David Frazier said. "We are

aiming more for entertainment quality than high art."

The fest runs from tonight through Sunday, with one feature per night to

stand out among the film selections dominated by three to five-minute

shorts. In addition, co-organizer Sean Scanlan, a freelance writer and

promoter of literary events, wrote a performance that includes live and

video-taped elements to be performed on both Friday and Saturday night.

Shu-lea Cheang (鄭淑麗), an acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker whose films have

been showcased at several international film festivals, and Tony Wu

(吳俊輝), credited for bringing the experimental film movement to Taiwan,

are probably the most notable directors whose films will be part of Urban

Nomad. Cheang's porno sci-fi flick IKU is lined up as Saturday's feature.

Tickets are sold as one-day passes for NT$150 or three-day passes for

NT$250. That's three days of entertainment for about the same price as a

low-end mixed drink at Carnegie's. Urban Nomad will take place at the Wumei

Winery (烏梅酒廠) in the Whashan Arts District, 1 Pateh Rd., Sec. 1

(華山藝文特區，八德路一段一號). The schedule is available online at www.expoextra.com

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5 beauty treatments to try this month

January can be a bit of a depressing month – it’s cold, we’ve spent all of our money over Christmas and the word ‘diet’ is being thrown around a lot. If you’re in need of a pick-me-up, I’ve put together five beauty treatments to try this month – whether at home or at the salon.

five beauty treatments to try in January

1. Exfoliation – an area of my summer regime that goes down the toilet (and really shouldn’t!) in winter is body exfoliation. It’s a must to keep skin feeling soft and smooth and as our skin often dries out a lot more in winter, removing the dead skin cells is really important to avoid looking like a snake that needs to shed its skin come summertime. Grab your favourite body scrub and have a thorough session once a week in the shower, followed up by a nice rich body cream to hydrate afterwards. *makes note to self to do this over the weekend*

2. Book a neck and shoulder massage – winter often means spending a lot more time indoors as the cold weather and rain can mean going out seems a lot less appealing. Netflix marathons on the sofa can do dreadful things to your posture, so why not book a back massage as a treat to unfold those sofa-induced knots.

3. De-fuzzing - let’s face it, when it’s winter, hair removal isn’t always the first thing at the front of our minds, but when it comes to laser hair removal, you’ve got to start early if you want to be fuzz-free for summer. Laser hair removal is always something I’ve wanted to get done, but sadly my pale skin and ginger persuasion means it’s not something that will work as my hair is too light for it to work effectively. If you’ve been blessed with darker hair and want something more long-term than shaving or waxing, why not speak to a laser hair removal specialist like Sk:n Clinics who will be able to help.

4. Try an at-home mini facial – post-Christmas most of us aren’t exactly feeling flush, so while I’d normally recommend booking in for a professional facial, this month it’s time to try one at home! Double cleanse, exfoliate, relax with a mask (or two) and then give yourself a good pamper with a nice oil and your skin will be left looking revived. I’ll be popping up a separate post on some at-home facial ideas very soon, so keep an eye out for these!

5. Pamper cold-ravaged hands – in winter my hands take a turn for the worse and start to resemble lizard skin, no matter how much hand cream I use (sexy, huh?). Lots of salons offer hand pampering manicures, but for a simple at-home solution, grab some extra rich hand cream (you could also try using something like coconut oil), apply a generous amount and pop on a pair of cotton gloves over the top. I like to do this for a couple of hours while I watch a film, but you could also leave them on overnight – you’ll be left with baby soft hands with minimal effort.

What are your favourite pamper treatments to try in winter?

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  1. I started getting into a proper exfoliating and moisturising routine over Christmas and my skin has been really thanking me for it. I'm so grateful that I managed to start doing it! :)

    Sarah / Sarah Smiles

  2. OOh I definitely need to Book a neck and shoulder massage x

  3. I'd really like to try a proper back/shoulder massage. I'm really not into these beauty treatments that hurt; I once had my bikini line waxed and my god, never again!!!

    Jade x
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  4. I'd love a neck & shoulder massage right now!

    Nic x

  5. A massage and pamper sounds amazing! I lovely bath aswell....perfection!
    Kirsty x

  6. Wow quite impressive treatment for Beauty care, I’ll definitely try it.

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Another national ranking, another B- for Florida

Florida continues to receive high marks in comparison to other states, this time in the newly released Education Week Quality Counts report. The organization gave the Sunshine State a B- grade, putting it at No. 6 nationally. Over the past five years, Florida has consistently remained in the upper echelon of the Quality Counts rankings.

Not too long ago, Florida schools were considered among the worst in the country.

Breaking down that grade into categories, Education Week gives Florida its highest marks in areas of accountability and standards for students, transitions and alignment of those standards from level to level, and accountability for teachers.

Where it falls further down the line is in the key areas of performance. Florida gets a D- in the status of its academic achievement, although a B in the area of equity helps level the total achievement grade to C-. Part of the reason might lie in the category of school finance, where Florida gets a D+ — that's an A- for equity and an F for spending, placing it 39th among the 50 states.

Education Week does not highlight Florida as a standout in any category, instead mentioning Massachusetts as tops in chance for success for a sixth consecutive year, Georgia as the best when it comes to transitions and alignment, and West Virginia and Wyoming as the two highest performers in school finance. This year's top rated state overall is Maryland, with Massachusetts close behind.

This marks Florida's second B- in a week, the other being from Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst organization. That group ranked states based on adherence to its policy agenda, including adoption of the parent trigger and teacher evaluations based on test results.

A few questions to ponder as we wait for the Florida DOE to give its take on Quality Counts. Is it good enough to be rated well on policies when performance continues to fall short, knowing that achievement has seen strong improvements as evidenced by rising AP, NAEP and other national and international measures, even with tougher standards? If money matters so much, and Florida fails on spending, what should the state stop spending on to improve its education funding and, likely, its results? And finally, as an overarching issue, how much credibility do you place in any of these annual report cards?

UPDATE: Interim commissioner Pam Stewart took issue with the report's finance ratings, suggesting that it looks at the wrong things. "What matters is not how much we spend, but how we spend the dollars we allocate," Stewart told reporters in a conference call. She recommended that Quality Counts add an efficiency measure, comparing dollars spent to academic outcomes.

Overall, Stewart said the state is pleased with the ranking, in which Florida rose from No. 11 to No. 6. The department sent out several comments from state leaders applauding the news.

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Sarah Brightman

Details: Sunday 8 p.m. Tampa Bay Times Forum, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa. $35-$250. (813) 301-2500, tampabaytimesforum.com.

The superstar soprano was scheduled to play the Times Forum in March, but postponed her tour until fall — possibly so she could better prepare for a planned 2015 flight aboard a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station, where she hopes to become the first professional musician to sing in space. She'd be a good candidate; her new album Dreamchaser has an intergalactic theme, with Brightman wielding her formidable voice like a light saber on sparse, dreamy soundscapes like Breathe Me (a cover of the hit ballad by Sia) and B612. Perhaps the album's strangest, yet most inviting, highlight is her cover of Sigur Ros' Glosoli, a song that has no lyrical translation, so she hired Squeeze's Chris Difford to write new, English lyrics. Hey, when you've sold 30 million albums and played the original Christine in the stage musical The Phantom of the Opera, you can do pretty much anything you want.

Jay Cridlin, Times staff writer

Sigur Ros

With Julianna Barwick

Details: Monday 8 p.m. USF Sun Dome, 4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa. $29.50-$49.50. (813) 974-3004, sundomearena.com.

While not as accessible as singer Jonsi's 2010 solo album Go — much of which Cameron Crowe appropriated for his film We Bought a Zoo — new LP Kveikur may be Sigur Ros' stormiest album to date, a thundering cloud of bowed guitars, clattering percussion, chilling chimes and Jonsi's spine-tingling falsetto. It's a formula that's helped spur the Icelandic post-rock trio to festival-headlining heights over the past 20 years. The group, whose songs are sung largely in a made-up language they call Vonlenska, or "Hopelandic," conveys volcanoes of emotion through sheer atmospherics on near-unpronounceable songs like Saeglópur and Hoppípolla. You may not be able to sing along at this show, but you may just leave in tears of joy.

Jay Cridlin, Times staff writer

Keith Urban

With Little Big Town, Justin Lynch

Details: Friday 7 p.m. MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, 4802 U.S. 301 N, Tampa. $29.25-$73.10. (813) 740-2446.

The MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre's whirly, twirly, country music carousel of fun is set to take another spin on Friday, and this time there's an Aussie at the helm. With eight LPs plus dozens of hit singles under his belt, Keith Urban (who was born in New Zealand) can safely say he's been around the block, but a new gig as an American Idol judge seems to have breathed a little more life into an already accomplished career. His new album, Fuse, finds him taking his brand of country deeper into pop territory.

Cheap Trick

With Stormbringer, Little Z

Details: Friday 8 p.m. Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 N McMullen-Booth Road, Clearwater. $39.50-$275. (727) 791-7400.

It's only been four months since we saw Cheap Trick during the Funshine Music Festival at the Florida State Fairgrounds, but frontman Robin Zander (who has a home in the bay area) and company obviously still want us to want them. The '70s supergroup has provided quite the incentive, too. A recent festival gig found them performing the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as well as their own At Budokan in their entirety (no telling what this Ruth Eckerd gig will bring), and other classics like Surrender, The Flame and Voices will surely be on tap.

Tim Reynolds & TR3

With Shaun Hopper

Details: Friday 8 p.m. Skipper's Smokehouse, 910 Skipper Road, Tampa. $15-$20. (813) 971-0666.

You've got to feel for Tim Reynolds. The 55-year-old is a virtuoso by his own right, but the German-born guitarist won't ever be able to get out of the shadow of his very famous friend Dave Matthews. Reynolds is a member of Matthews' eponymous band, plus he and Matthews teamed up on a college-rock classic double CD, 1999's Live At Luther College. He arrives sans Matthews at Skipper's, where he and an excellent band, TR3, will use the Skipperdome's beautiful oaks to set the scene for expertly picked acoustic arrangements (Che, Good Intentions), funked-out jam rock (Do You Wanna, I Must Be Going Insane) and even a bit of southern slack key (South Fork Mud).

The Isley Brothers

With Kem, Nephew Tommy

Details: Saturday 8 p.m. USF Sun Dome, 4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa. $30-$80. (813) 974-3002.

Even with all of the Isley Brothers' tried and true hits like It's Your Thing and Twist and Shout, one of the more impressive things about founding member Ronald Isley is the way he's kept his band's name relevant in this age of Internet sensations and more ephemeral, temporary stars. The 72-year-old's shining moment in contemporary R&B came with his recurring role as villainous Mr. Biggs, where he starred opposite R. Kelly in a series of music videos (you must grab some popcorn and watch the drama unfold), and he continues his crossover tradition by welcoming another soul singer, Kem, to open the show alongside comic Nephew Tommy.

Times correspondent Ray Roa can be reached at SuburbanApologist.com.

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Relax with a hot cup of tea and a generous slice of this low-fat carrot cake!

  • Melted butter, to grease
  • 150g (1 cup) self-raising flour
  • 80g (1/2 cup) wholemeal self-raising flour
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 155g (3/4 cup, firmly packed) brown sugar
  • 125ml (1/2 cup) reduced-fat milk
  • 60ml (1/4 cup) vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs, lightly whisked
  • 240g (about 2 large) carrots, peeled, finely shredded
  • 1 tablespoon icing sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, extra
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    Preheat oven to 180°C. Brush a round 20cm (base measurement) cake pan with the melted butter to lightly grease. Line the base with non-stick baking paper.
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    Sift the flours and cinnamon into a medium bowl. Add the husks to the bowl. Stir in the sugar. Whisk the milk, oil and eggs together in a bowl. Add to flour mixture and use a wooden spoon to mix until well combined and smooth.
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    Stir carrots into mixture until just combined. Pour into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted in centre comes out clean. Set aside for 5 minutes and then turn onto a wire rack to cool.
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    Combine the icing sugar and extra cinnamon in a small bowl. Sift over the cooled cake before cutting into wedges to serve.

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Keep this cake in an airtight container in fridge for up to 1 day - serve at room temperature.

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This stew has been tops in our home for years. The aroma as it bakes makes everyone's mouth water and the gravy is divine on mashed potatoes.—Gertie Brooks, Almost, Michigan
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 10 min. Bake: 2 hours YIELD:6 servings

  • 2 pounds beef stew meat
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
  • 1 medium carrot, shredded
  • 1/3 cup Burgundy wine
  • 1/2 pound sliced fresh mushrooms
  • 2 tablespoons onion soup mix

  • 1. Brown meat in hot oil; salt and pepper to taste.
  • 2. Transfer to 2-qt. baking dish. Combine remaining ingredients; pour over meat. Cover and bake at 350° about 2 hours or until meat is tender, stirring occasionally. Add small amount of beef broth if you like more gravy. Yield: 6 servings.

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These crisp cookies are especially popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas with a cup of hot tea or coffee. It's convenient to bake a batch, too, because you can store the dough in the fridge until needed. —Gloria Anderson, Paso Robles, California
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 15 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch
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TOTAL TIME: Prep: 15 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch
MAKES: 33 servings

  • 1-1/4 cups butter, softened
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
  • 3-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 2 cups chopped fresh or frozen cranberries

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2 each: 178 calories, 9g fat (5g saturated fat), 31mg cholesterol, 134mg sodium, 21g carbohydrate (11g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.

  1. In a bowl, cream butter and sugars. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Stir in walnuts. Carefully stir in cranberries. Shape into three 7-in. rolls; wrap each roll in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
  2. Unwrap and cut into 1/4-in. slices. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire racks. Yield: 5-1/2 dozen.
Originally published as Cranberry Icebox Cookies in Quick Cooking September/October 1999, p44

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"I've made these a few times. As written, I'd probably give this 3 stars because they have a nice texture, even when I substitute ground flax mixed with water for the egg (use a fork to mix water with ground flax, about 2 heaping forkfuls mixed with a little less than 1/4 c. water to get an "eggy" consistency, use 1/4 c. of this mixture per egg). If you use the flax instead of the egg, you can eat the raw dough without worrying about salmonella. I buy whole flax seeds from the bin at the health food store and grind them in a coffee grinder and store in the fridge or freezer and if it smells fishy, it's gone bad. I increase the almond extract to 2 teaspoons because I found the dough to be kind of bland. I rarely use the walnuts as they are expensive and I don't typically have them. This dough freezes well so you can just slice off how much you want and bake as needed or have it ready for your holiday baking."

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"I've been making these since the recipe was first printed. Very tasty! I sprinkle them with sugar before baking."

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"They where OK but nothing that I would make over and over."

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"I love cranberry cookies, and these are especially nice with fresh cranberries - you get that little bite of something extra special. I drizzle these with melted white chocolate - a cookie exchange hit for sure!"

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During the fifty years he has been variously a reporter, a political spokesperson, and a broadcaster, Bill Moyers has demonstrated a deep commitment to understanding the workings of our government and the role of the individual in society. His essays and commentaries, such as the recent Shivers Down the Spine, A Time for Anger, and Journalism Under Fire, are argued over and passed along as soon as they appear in print or on the Internet. Identifying what he sees as a political system increasingly at the mercy of a corporate ruling class, he urges a reengagement with the spirit of community that makes the work of democracy possible. Not only a trenchant critique of what is wrong, Moyers on America is also a call to arms for the progressive promise of the people of America, in whom his faith is strong.

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Bill Moyers is the former host of NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS. He was one of the organizers of the Peace Corps, spokesperson for President Lyndon Johnson, publisher of Newsday, senior correspondent for CBS News, and producer of many of public television s groundbreaking series. He is the winner of more than thirty Emmy Awards, and the author of the bestselling books Listening to America, A World of Ideas, and Healing and the Mind."

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High winds push growing Washington wildfire

WINTHROP, Wash. — Pushed by howling, erratic winds, a massive wildfire in north-central Washington was growing rapidly and burning in new directions today.

Road closures and evacuations were changing regularly, as hot weather and winds with gusts up to 30 mph were pushing the fire over ridge tops and toward a cluster of small towns northeast of Seattle.

“This is a very active and fluid situation,” fire spokesman Chuck Turey said.

As of this morning, the lightning-caused fire had scorched nearly 340 square miles in the scenic Methow Valley. The fire was measured at 260 square miles Friday.

People living between Carlton and Pateros have been told to leave their homes. The fire has blackened hillsides, destroyed homes and downed power lines. Many towns were without electrical power or phone service Saturday.

Officials said there are no reports of serious injuries and only one more structure was destroyed overnight by the lightning-caused wildfire.

Minor burns and bruises had been reported, but Turey called that “a pretty amazing safety record.”

Airplanes and helicopters were dropping water and fire retardant on all parts of the fire, with no one area more of a concern than another, Turey said.

“We’re seeing some wind shifts so that the fire is going to be pushed in some directions it hasn’t been pushed to date,” he said, adding that the good news is that in some places the wind is pushing the first back on itself.

Rancher Vic Stokes, 60, went to bed Friday thinking the fires had calmed down and his ranch outside of Twist was safe.

He and his family have been fighting brush fires since Thursday, getting little sleep.

By Saturday, a fire had jumped to a nearby creek bed. Stokes, his son and his daughter-in-law spent the morning clearing brush. “Anything that hasn’t burned has a chance of burning yet,” Stokes said.

So far, his home is intact, but he’s lost hay and a barn and is worried for livestock he had grazing in an area that’s now scorched.

“We need to get up there and see what we can find that’s alive. We know we lost cattle,” he said.

As the fire got closer to Carlton, rancher Pete Scott brought 60 cattle to his property in town from the range land. His home, a green oasis, is serving a meeting point for some of the displaced residents. “We’re trying to survive,” Scott said.

The fire has calmed down near Pateros, where it destroyed about 100 homes Thursday and Friday, Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said. “It’s just starting to run out of places to burn,” he said.

The fire has picked up on its north side closer to Winthrop, but winds have been erratic and were blowing the fire in different directions.

The blaze was burning in a sparsely populated area, with homes scattered throughout the woods and along the highway.

Fire officials told KING-TV in Seattle that the Chiwaukum Creek Fire west of Leavenworth has grown to 6,638 acres and is not contained.

The television station reported that there are no reports of structures being burned, but residents in the area near Leavenworth are under an evacuation order, according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources.

The Chiwaukum Creek Fire has closed U.S. Highway 2 from Coles Corner to Leavenworth.

Gov. Jay Inslee said about 50 fires were burning in Washington, which has been wracked by hot, dry weather, gusting winds and lightning. Some 2,000 firefighters were working in the eastern part of the state, with about a dozen helicopters from the Department of Natural Resources and the National Guard, along with a Washington State Patrol spotter plane.

Karina Shagren, spokeswoman for the state’s Military Department, said 100 National Guard troops were on standby, and up to 1,000 more in Yakima could receive additional fire training. Active duty military could be called in as well, Inslee said.

Also on Saturday, authorities announced that they are bringing in two military air tankers from Wyoming to help fight wildfires in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Officials at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, say the tankers were activated to ensure that firefighters had adequate air tanker capability in the region.


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SSIS - How to Use "Character Map" Transformation (LowerCase, UpperCase) in SSIS Package

Let’s say we are extracting data from a source and we have to write to flat file or excel but before we write data we want to format one column to lower case and other column to upper case.

SSIS provided us a transformation called “Character Map” that can perform different operations on string type columns. We can either add a new column or we can do In-place change for that column. We used Uppercase and lowercase operations on CountryName and SalePersonName respectively. The same operations can be done by using Derived column transformation.

As shown below, We added a new column CountryName_Upper and used Uppercase as operation on CountryName column. For SalePersonName we did In-place change and changed to lowercase.
How to use Character Map Transformation in SSIS Package to convert string values to Lowercase or UpperCase

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Epson banks on updated Micro Piezo ink tech

Goes on the offensive at its own event in Spain

At a recent conference in Spain, Epson announced it is to replace its entire consumer printer and scanner range this autumn. learned that at least a dozen new products will go on sale. But the print giant also took the extraordinary step of slamming the competition - by name.

New market entrant Kodak took the biggest slamming. Epson director of inkjet business, Robert Clark, claimed Kodak's printers would reach the end of their life-cycles before the consumer had recouped the cost of the hardware through cheaper ink.

Ink efficiency and the end cost to the consumer over time is what printer manufacturers want the market to be shaped around. But consumers are still seemingly mostly only interested in initial printer price. Still, Epson claims its improved Micro Piezo (Thin Film Piezo) print head technology is the answer.

To back up its claims, Epson commissioned German testers TUV Rheinland to conduct a study into ink efficiency. Unsurprisingly, Epson's cartridges came out on top with single-ink tanks being more efficient than the three or five-colour cartridges used by competitors such as HP and Canon - although both also offer single-ink options.

It's all about the wastage

However, the findings also highlighted how much ink is wasted by the average inkjet, from all manufacturers. Kodak's EasyShare 5300 used just 36 per cent of the ink in its tanks before one colour ran out and the cartridge had to be discarded. The average performer faired at around 60 per cent, meaning a huge amount of the average ink in a cartridge never gets used.

Hartmut Muller-Gerbes from TUV admitted that the test didn't account for how much money the consumer would waste, but the "ecological outcome". Espon says its Micro Piezo TFP technology can overcome the ink efficiency problem.

So what is it? The technology uses electrical signals to change the shape of piezo elements. It then fires ink droplets according to the physical force generated by the change in shape of these elements. Epson believes that compared to other inkjet systems, Micro Piezo technology offers superior ink ejection performance, compatibility with a wide variety of inks, durability and efficiency.

As a result, Epson has managed to develop a nozzle with a density of 360 dpi - the world's highest for an inkjet print head using piezoelectric technology.

Beyond the home

Pointing to the future Norio Niwa, executive vice president of Seiko Epson, said at the event in Spain that the company will "continually develop Micro Piezo beyond the home". Citing LCD displays as an example, Mr Niwa said Micro Piezo technology is now being used in the fabrication of the colour filters for eighth-generation LCD panels that are used in large flat-screen TVs.

Compared to conventional processing techniques, the use of Micro Piezo technology to apply the necessary red, green, and blue (RGB) colour combination greatly reduces the number of processes necessary to make the colour filters. This considerably improves productivity and cuts costs.

Another promising area for Micro Piezo technology is printing on demand. "We're taking advantage of our Micro Piezo technology to popularise POD systems," Mr Niwa said.

"This will allow people to produce the prints they need, when they need them, in the exact quantities needed, and on whatever material they choose. We'll be developing our own products as well as selling our head technology to other companies."

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Google offers half a million free ebooks

New Sony Reader now looks 500,000 times more appealing

Google and Sony announced today the launch of half-million public domain ebooks, optimised for the Sony Reader and for reading books on the go on your trusty old laptop.

Head over to the Sony eBook store – – and then click through to Google's Unearth a Classic section on the site to see what's on offer right now for absolutely no money at all.

Google is clearly on a roll this week, what with the UK launch of Google Street View and some rather tasty new Google Chrome browser experiments.

And if you are not (yet) the proud owner of a Sony PRS-505 or PRS-700 Reader, the experience of reading one of the half-million books on offer for free on your laptop is actually not that bad. Of course, it doesn't come close to the real thing, but then again, neither does the Sony Reader. Yet.

New Project Gutenberg?

"We have focused our efforts on offering an open platform and making it easy to find as much content as possible – from our store or others – whether that content is purchased, borrowed or free," said Steve Haber, President of the Digital Reading Business Division at Sony.

"Working with Google, we can offer book lovers another avenue for free books while still providing a seamless experience from our store".

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Microsoft free AV to be called Security Essentials

Free anti-virus could be available as early as September

Microsoft's freebie anti-virus app has lost its Morro codename in favour of the yawn-inducing (but presumably more reliable-sounding) moniker Security Essentials.

Insiders at neowin broke the news earlier today, with a brace of screenshots that look very similar to yesterday's screenshots but with a sober blue background.

NeoWin says that this latest build of the no-cost AV software, which will be available for Windows XP, Vista (32- and 64-bit) and 7 systems, has been in testing for two weeks.

Defender defeated

Microsoft Security Essentials completely replaces Windows' built-in Defender and offers protection against viruses, spyware, trojans and rootkits.

However, it will continue to use the wonderfully named Microsoft SpyNet, the Defender user community that helps to classify, track and protect against the ever-shifting threat from spyware.

NeoWin expects Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 to be available to the general public in September, although Microsoft is sticking with its stated '2009' release date for now.

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Sony HTR-6500 review

Sony stays on the front foot

Our Verdict

With its great performance and recording flexibility, the HTR-6500 is extremely desirable

The number of recording systems rose sharply in 2004, but Sony's HTR-6500 beats most of the competition. It is compatible with both DVD-RW/ RW and DVD-R formats, making it one of the most flexible around. There's also a component output for high-quality recordings, while the amplifier caters for Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks.

DVDs look striking, and recordings from terrestrial broadcasts are similarly good. The super-slim speakers belie their size to provide spectacular surround sound. Action effects are accurately placed and the subwoofer backs this up with plenty of bass.


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Sony KDL-V32A12 review

Sony's HD Ready LCD screen has a host of clever goodies

Our Verdict

An above average performer, with some very nice visual characteristics. But why the wait?

  • HDMI input

    HD Ready

    digital tuner and DVD picture quality

  • No PC input

    limited black levels

    slight softness in HD footage

Whatever god you worship, now would be a good time to offer up a prayer of thanks. At long last, Sony has delivered unto us an HD Ready TV. We can start to forget the debacle of Sony's previous LCD and plasma TVs which, despite in some cases targeting the 'luxury' end of the display market, failed to provide the digital video jack needed to guarantee compatibility with the next generation of high-definition sources (including Sony's own Blu-ray high-definition DVD players).

The brand is, in fact, launching a whole range of new HD Ready TVs in the coming months. But the first model we've managed to get our hands on is the 32in LCD KDL-V32A12.

Back in black

Aesthetically, while it loosely follows the current 'black is the new silver' trend, the V32A12 puts its own distinctive spin on things, going for a less glossy finish and more black-dominated look that restricts the customary silver trim to a single narrow strip. The result may be a bit butch for some tastes/living rooms - but I like it!

A quick perusal of the V32A12's connections reveals that, hallelujah, there really is an HDMI jack. Phew. Plus there is a set of HD-capable component video inputs, completing the connectivity phase of the set's HD readiness. Another interesting discovery is a CAM slot, indicating that this TV carries a built-in digital TV receiver, while more run-ofthe- mill stuff includes a trio of Scarts, and the usual S-Video and composite video last resorts. This is fine so far as it goes, but some sort of PC connector wouldn't have been too much to ask for on an £1,800 TV.

Completing the V32A12's key HD Ready stats are a widescreen native resolution of 1366 x 768, and compatibility with all the key HD formats.

Also crucial to the V32A12 is its WEGA Engine image processing. This proprietary picture-improvement system is designed to deliver more fine detail, enhanced all-digital scaling, better colour tone/richness, and smoother contours and colour gradations. And it impressed me very much on Sony's previous flatpanel line.

As you'd expect of a company with as much DVB experience as Sony, the digital tuner in the V32A12 is backed up by a tasty set of secondary features, including full support for the latest seven-day electronic programme guide and interactive functions. You can also set timer events directly from the EPG, and sort through the listings by genre.

Other more mundane, but still noteworthy, features include a backlight adjustment, a dynamic picture contrast boost, gamma correction for adjusting the balance between light and dark picture parts, and noise reduction routines that include various levels of processing, plus CNR and MPEG block NR options.

Picture perfect?

When it comes to images derived from the TV's own digital tuner, the V32A12 immediately impresses. Particularly startling is the treatment of MPEG noise. Digital images from most channels look smooth and polished rather than blocky and shimmery. And even when a little MPEG fizz does rear its head (including during the occasional DVD via the HDMI jack), there's an MPEG noise reduction mode on hand to tone it down to more acceptable levels.

This Sony's digital tuner pictures also score over those of most rivals by actually looking quite sharp - presumably the softness caused by low bitrates is countered somewhat by the detail-boosting talents of the WEGA Engine. I say presumably because if it's true, WEGA Engine certainly goes about its picture-improving business at the expense of remarkably little in the way of negative side effects.

This clarity extends into RGB-fed Sky Digital or progressive scan DVD playback too, with, for instance, every last skull on every last coin of the cursed Aztec booty in Pirates of the Caribbean being clearly defined.

Doubtlessly assisting WEGA Engine to deliver such a sharp impression is the Sony's impressive response time. Even rapid footy action during Match Of The Day fails to catch the set out, with the players looking reasonably crisp and free of smearing or blurring no matter how fast they leg it around.

Also worthy of praise are the V32A12 colours, which look bright, compelling and solid enough to give the picture three-dimensional presence, no matter what source you're watching. Digital 'toons such as Toy Story look good enough to eat.

There's no hiding the fact, though, that the V32A12's pictures aren't quite as benchmark-setting as I'd hoped for from a cutting-edge TV that sits at the higher end of the current 32in LCD price spectrum.
One key problem are its black levels. There's definitely an improvement in this area over Sony's previous LCD efforts, but there is still something forced about dark scenes, such as the below-deck shots in Master & Commander. Black picture parts also lose some depth thanks to the flattening impact of a gentle blue overtone, which neither the contrast booster nor the gamma correction tools manage to completely eradicate.

Next, perhaps because of this blue tinge, darker colours can occasionally look ripe in tone. Finally and perhaps most disappointingly, the V32A12 doesn't rise to the challenge of highdefinition sources as much as I'd like, looking marginally softer than the best sets out there.

Sadly the V32A12's sound is rather average, lacking the power and frequency-range to do even a fairly tame movie soundtrack full justice. Just as well most of our readers will probably be using some secondary sound system, then.

Ultimately, the V32A12 delivers a lot, but still falls a little short. While I'm cock-a-hoop that Sony has finally got with the HD program, and delivered an HD Ready TV with a picture performance that's certainly never less than distinguished, I can't help but wish that the brand had ushered in its HD aspirations with something more class-leading. Had this model appeared eight months ago, then the story might have been slightly different. But things are moving fast in the LCD arena.

Overall, this remains an above average performer, with some very nice visual characteristics. But I'm left wondering why we had to wait so long for it to arrive. John Archer


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Our Verdict

It's not going to break the bank at £70/£80, but the ZTE F930 is still a mite expensive for the feature set it offers up.

  • Small and light
  • Good Home screens arrangement
  • Good stills camera
  • Some nice software features
  • 3.5mm, top mounted headset connector

  • No Wi-Fi or GPS
  • Disappointing web browser
  • No FM radio
  • No mobile email

Touchscreens are where its at with mobile phones, and increasingly that means not just at the top end of the range but at the middle and lower ends too.

Take the ZTE F930, for example. It is exclusive to 3 Mobile at the moment, and it costs £79.99 on Pay As You Go. That £79.99 includes the usual 3 Mobile £10 of calls, so the handset is really just £69.99.

The phone is unashamedly targeted at the 18-25 age group. We'll say right at the outset that we think that is a bit wide of the mark. Our best guess is that this phone is better suited to teens and that anyone in their twenties is likely to want something more sophisticated.

ZTE f930

Many people in the target age group look first to much fancier handsets like the iPhone 4, or the HTC Desire. Then they see the price and start compromising, maybe thinking about the less expensive Samsung Galaxy Portal, for example.

ZTE f930

If these are still too expensive, the ZTE F930's £80 might appeal. But there's a lot of competition. For around that price you can now get the likes of the Samsung Monte and Nokia 5230 on PAYG, both of which give the ZTE F930 a run for its money.

And frankly they're both better than the F930.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's go back to the beginning.

The ZTE F930 is a white and silver handset. It looks quite cute – teenage cute rather than 18-25 cute. It is small in size at 105.7 x 12.6 x 46mm and it weighs a nice round 100g.

That is small and tidy for the hand – and ideal for the paws of the young, still-growing teens we think are more likely to go for this phone.

There's a neat design to the under-screen buttons with a diamond-shaped Menu button and the Call and End/power keys on a long strip. The Menu button doubles to give you access to open apps and to alerts when you give it a long press.

The sides are also well designed with some neat curvature accented by an off-centre silver strip that runs round the edge of the chassis.

ZTE f930

The left edge houses a micro-USB mains charger and PC connection connector, while on the right is a camera shortcut button and a volume rocker.

ZTE f930

The bottom is clear, and on the top there's a 3.5mm headset connector and screen lock button.

ZTE f930


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Cooperative Scalable Moving Continuous Query Processing

A range of applications call for a mobile client to continuously monitor others in close proximity. Past research on such problems has covered two extremes: It has offered totally centralized solutions, where a server takes care of all queries, and totally distributed solutions, in which there is no central authority at all. Unfortunately, none of these two solutions scales to intensive moving object tracking applications, where each client poses a query. In this paper, the authors formulate the Moving Continuous Query (MCQ) problem and propose a balanced model where servers cooperatively take care of the global view and handle the majority of the workload. Meanwhile, moving clients, having basic memory and computation resources, handle small portions of the workload.

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Who am i ?  My name is Mykou Y. I am a student in high school. I am a freshman. In my family, have 3 sisters and 3 brothers. I am fourteen years old. I am in jrotc. When i grow up i want to become a cosmetologist. Well at first i wanted to become to freestyle dancer.I want to become a cosmetologist because i love touching makeup, and when i was younger i used to always love watching my mom put makeup on herself.

I Love football. Every free day when me and my cousins and my uncles we don't have anything to do we would go to the park across from my cousins house and play football at the field. We each divide into two groups and my uncle will be the quarterback and throw the football to us. We only play until 5 or 4 down and we have to see who wins.

I love jrotc because i get to communicate with other people i Don't know or never seen before.Why i join jrotc? I join rotc because i want to try something new and i want to know the difference between pe and rotc. And because i want to try out their awesome uniform, and you have to wear it every week on thursday. I also join jrotc because i want to earn or get ribbons.

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let this savage torture cease
leave me and my empty shell
to slowly, slowly rot in hell

this empty hole inside of me
is where my frail heart used to be
everything it once adored
hardens and becomes a sword

it pierces through my frozen skin
burning me from there within
but i feel naught, see naught, but death
and his petrifying breath

he breathes
he seethes
vows for vengeance
on life
his wife
for her presence

but he does not understand
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You never notice,

how broken I am.

I'm good at pretending,

no on better at it than me.

The tears fall down,

like rain in the spring.

But still,

you don't notice.

You focus on them,

the fakes, the liars.

But the one who loves you,

she sits here and suffers.

Wanting you to hold her,

but you fail to see.

that girl is me.

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PRINCETON — A Northeastern University graduate who majored in physics and math, Justin Dowd has spent the first months of his adult life in his parents' basement drawing images of the solar system with chalk.

"It's tedious but it's coming out well," he said, admitting that his parents were not thrilled with this track. "It's starting to make a little more sense now that I'm actually getting paid to do it."

Mr. Dowd has only a couple of weeks left to complete his stop-motion chalk animation video about the presence of amino acids on comets and what they reveal about life in the universe. He has been hired as a contractor by TED-Ed, which he said will likely post the video on its website by the end of the summer.

"This is a combination of art, education and science that is not something I was planning on doing," he said. "I love this and I love the space industry so I'm kind of getting a piece of both."

With a scientific background and no formal artistic training, Mr. Dowd has managed to go from doodling on the specials menu chalkboard at a Boston restaurant where he worked as a food runner into a career opportunity. Oh, and it got him a ticket to space.

In 2012, thanks to another chalk animation video, Mr. Dowd won a contest sponsored by Metro, an international daily newspaper chain, landing him a seat on a commercial space flight.

During the trip, he will be rocketed 65 miles into the sky, spend about 20 minutes in Earth's orbit, and then head for home.

The trip was originally scheduled for this summer, but has been pushed back a year as the company, California-based XCOR Aerospace Inc., is still working on developing the two-seater spacecraft, Mr. Dowd said. He completed training last summer when he went on a simulated flight in the Netherlands.

While in college, Mr. Dowd was hired by the newspaper chain to make short educational videos using chalk animation on topics like whale brains, gecko feet, black holes and dark matter.

"Every two weeks I was turning out a new video," he said. Shortly before he graduated, TED-Ed, a website that provides a free platform for teachers and students to learn about a slew of topics, accepted his video proposal.

"TED-Ed has a very structured video production process that was different from what I was used to," he said.

He pitched several ideas, and once they settled on one, he wrote a script, which was edited and then recorded by professional voice-over artists. He made a storyboard, moved on to drawing, and is now in the thick of photographing each of the 20 scenes.

Mr. Dowd is creating the entire video with stop motion animation, meaning that he makes slight changes to the set, whether drawing a line or rotating the image before snapping a photo and assembling it on his computer and stringing them together so the images appear to move.

For a transition that will take about four seconds showing the night sky behind a tree, Mr. Dowd said he spent about five hours, slowly rotating the scene between photos.

He created the set using an elaborate system of ladders, duct and electrical tape and other household items like fishing line, file storage boxes and weights.

"Everybody does these things on computers," he said. "I'm kind of a dinosaur."

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