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If you’re anxious to get started with Elements, the steps outlined in this short chapter will improve nearly all of your digital photos.
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You’re going to encounter a lot of powerful, in-depth information about how to use Photoshop Elements in this book’s 400-plus pages. But who wants to sit and devour the whole thing while a memory card full of photos is waiting to be explored?

If you’re anxious to get started with Elements, the steps outlined in this short chapter will improve nearly all of your digital photos. Then, when you’re ready to fiddle with settings sliders and really take advantage of what Elements has to offer, continue exploring the rest of the book.

In This Chapter

1. Import and Open Images

2. Crop and Rotate

3. Adjust Lighting and Color

4. Apply Corrections

5. Save the Photo

1. Import and Open Images

Photoshop Elements is really made up of two programs that work together—the Organizer and the Editor—and as a result, you can open a photo for editing in two ways. The Organizer stores your entire photo library and lets you apply metadata such as keyword tags. When you want to make adjustments to an image, you send it to the Editor. If you want to edit a photo independently of the Organizer, you can open the file directly from within the Editor.

Make sure your camera is connected to your computer, or the camera’s memory card is plugged into a card reader.

To import into the Organizer:

  1. Open Photoshop Elements and, in the welcome screen, click the Organize button to open the Organizer.
  2. In the Organizer, choose File > Get -Photos and Videos > From Camera or Card Reader (or press Ctrl+G/Command-G). The Photo Downloader application launches.
  3. Choose your camera or memory card from the Get Photos from drop-down menu (if it’s not already selected) A.
  4. Figure 1-1 A Use the Photo Downloader to import pictures into the Elements Organizer.

  5. Click the Get Media button to download the selected images to your computer.
  6. After the images have been imported, click the one you want to edit and then open it in the Editor by right-clicking and choosing Edit with Photoshop Elements Editor; or, click the Fix tab in the Panel Bin and choose one of the editing options there B.
  7. Figure 1-2 B Open the image in the Editor.

To open in the Editor:

  1. Open Photoshop Elements and, in the Welcome screen, click the Edit button to open the Editor.
  2. Choose File > Open.
  3. In the Open dialog, navigate to the image file you wish to edit and select it.
  4. Click the Open button to open the file.

To import into iPhoto (Mac):

  1. If you use iPhoto on the Mac to organize your photo library, launch iPhoto.
  2. Click the camera or memory card name in the sidebar, listed under Devices.
  3. Type a name in the Event Name field C; one way iPhoto organizes the library is by grouping images into Events based on when the photos were imported.
  4. Figure 1-3 C Select a device and type an Event Name in iPhoto on the Mac.

  5. Click the Import All button, or select the photos you want and click the Import Selected button.
  6. When the import process is finished, click the Keep Photos button in the dialog that asks if you wish to remove or keep the pictures you just imported.
  7. To be able to edit photos in Elements instead of using iPhoto’s editing tools, you need to do this step just once: Go to iPhoto > Preferences, click the Advanced button, and in the drop-down menu for Edit Photos, choose In Application D. Locate Elements on your disk and click Open.
  8. Figure 1-4 D iPhoto can hand off editing duties to an external application like Elements.

  9. Select a photo to edit and then either click the Edit button or right-click and choose Edit in External Editor E.
  10. Figure 1-5 E Choose to edit in Elements instead of using iPhoto’s editing tools.

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That’s right true believers! Stan, The Man, Lee, turned 90 today! The man responsible for creating such long-lasting characters as Spider-Man, The Hulk, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, the ever loving Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm, The X-men, and so many, many more. And so, in appreciation for all of his work, MTV and Stan Lee himself invited a handful of artists to help him celebrate this milestone birthday, by drawing him and some of his characters. And I had the unbelievable honor of being asked to participate, and to include the Peanizles gang in this birthday wish.

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Back in May 2008 I wrote a blog post entitled “On Becoming a VMware Certified Professional” that garnered a large following and generated much feedback. This tells me that I am not the only person who found the organization of the VCP certification program…er…more than a trifle confusing. In rechecking the VMware Education Services Web site today I was pleased to see a more coherently laid-out program. Let’s take a look at VCP4 certification, shall we?

Training Requirement

In my humble or not-so-humble opinion, VMware’s decision to require that all VCP candidates sit for instructor-led training (ILT) in one or more of their official courses is a REALLY bad idea. Obviously the training requirement significantly boosts the revenue stream for VMware; however, how many busy, working IT professionals have the time or money to devote to sitting for a multi-day ILT class? Check it out:

Even though VMware offers these courses in a Webinar (live online) format, this still means that you are physically out of pocket from your workplace for the duration of each class.

Perhaps in response to a ton of candidate confusion regarding VMware authorized vis-a-vis non-authorized training, VMware has this to say:

Participation in a VMware authorized training class is REQUIRED for VCP certification. Candidates who take the VCP exam without a class will NOT be certified or confirmed by VMware. Authorized courses are listed on the Education Services portal of this website. If a class is NOT listed there it is not authorized.

Training requirements can get tricky when you factor in not only those who are new to the VCP4 program, but also those existing VCP3 and VCP2 who want to get in on the V4 action.

VMware put together a very helpful flowchart that depicts the training requirement options for all of these V4 candidate groups; you can look at it on the VCP4 home page.

The VCP4 Exam Itself

You can get a feel for the subject matter embraced in the VCP4 exam by looking at the VCP4 Exam Blueprint (PDF).

Registration for exam VCP410, VCP4 Certification Exam is handled by Pearson VUE; exam cost is $200. The exam is obviously computer based, and is listed at Pearson VUE with a 105-minute time limit. Passing score is 300/500 with approximately 85 multiple-choice questions.

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The ASEAN Energy Management Scheme (AEMAS) was designed in 2004-2006 under the Steering of the ASEAN Energy Efficiency and Conservation Sub-Sector Network and subsequently endorsed by the ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM). It is now being established with funding from the European Commission (Switch Asia program) by the ASEAN Center for Energy and 7 partners in ASEAN countries.

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Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) with the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change has made a policy simulation tool,named Indonesia in 2050 Pathway Calculator(I2050PC).This web-bassed simulator allows users to select multiple options sectoral policies ,especially in the energy filed.
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Within the framework of project titled"Building a Resilient Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatera for Climate Change Mitigation and Biodeversity Conservation"funded bay Government of Indonesia, UNESCO Jakarta is hiring contractor to conduct several activities to provide key inputs to Strategic Environmental Assessment on road development plant in THRS.
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That estimate could easily be even greater.

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Last year, many collectors also opted to drive their restored beauties in the Turkey Days parade. Most collectors are expected to show their rigs in the 2 p.m. parade again this year.

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South Africa’s Future

As I spend more time in South Africa, I confess to starting to feel that the South African government and the broader culture, heavily influenced by European ideas about social welfare, are going to prevent this country from realizing its potential.

Although South Africa is partially an advanced western country that produces world-class products and world-class lifestyles for certain residents and tourists, it also is a country filled with poverty. Shanty towns spring up everywhere as desperate people from rural areas — where there are no jobs — flee to urban areas — where there are few jobs.

Yet, policy and thought-leadership in the government are focused not on economic growth or making jobs available, but on redistributing the pie from white to black and Fabian ideals, long since discredited, for maintaining expensive regulations on employment.

I was horrified at the allFresh conference to hear a top person with the ear of the government propose a quota and require that 30% of the market agents (basically the equivalent of our terminal markets) be black.

The problem with redistribution as a route to prosperity is obvious: Whites account for about 10% of the population. If you took everything they have and redistributed equally to the rest of the population, they would all have very little. Then add in the obvious: The white population contributes to the economy substantially, and that value would disappear if the whites did redistribute everything. Quite obviously, redistribution won’t achieve anything from the economic point of view.

In fact, just talking about these kinds of proposals is harmful. It means the writing is on the wall, and bright young white people who could contribute a lot to the country will look to leave. This is called ‘brain drain’, and it has destroyed much of Africa.

All these smart people worrying about redistribution need to be turned around and focused on growth. There is a limited white population, and it is virtually fully employed. If there is economic growth, the disadvantaged will benefit. If not, it is like rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic; it may occupy you for awhile, but it doesn’t change the end of the story.

But it goes beyond issues of redistribution. In China, if you are at one of those hotels where the rooms are in little bungalows spread out across the property and it starts to rain, all the sudden 20 people appear with umbrellas to escort you to your room so you won’t get wet.

In South Africa, I was in just such a hotel — a beautiful hotel, but they had no extra staff hanging around to escort the guests to their bungalows when it rains. Why? Because although unemployment is a very big problem, the minimum wage is set high for local conditions. It is also difficult to terminate people. All this corresponds to a desire on the part of businesses not to take on workers.

In agriculture, it was traditional that many growers provided housing for workers. Laws have been passed that impute tenancy rights to people who lived on a farm for 10 years. So even if they were terminated, they have the right to stay. Surprise, surprise… many growers have stopped offering housing.

The most important thing is that South Africa gets its people into the labor force. People have to get used to going to work. They have to get used to showing up even when they don’t want to. They have to get exposed to greater opportunities. They have to understand that working is part of their lives.

This is the first step in establishing a culture of hard work that will lead to the productivity necessary to compete with India, China and other countries.

There should be no minimum wage in a country like South Africa. Employment must be “at will” so that any employer knows he can hire, and if it doesn’t work out he can fire at any time with no consequences.

This will dramatically increase employment, make the country more competitive internationally and set the stage for the cultural changes necessary to compete in this century.

The culture at the worker level isn’t the entire problem. The papers today are filled with the news that the South African government has proposed to put quotas on the import of clothes and bedding from China, since the local industry can’t compete.

Most of the arguments in the papers focus on the fact that even if Chinese clothing were banned, the business still won’t come to South Africa, because other nations, such a Bangladesh, Vietnam and the nations of eastern Europe, are all more competitive than South Africa.

This is probably true but the issue raises two more interesting questions:

  1. Why is it that in a country with such unemployment, South Africa is not competitive, and what can be done to make South Africa more competitive?
  2. What kind of government thinks it is helping poor people by raising the price they have to pay for clothing?

Racial redistribution, social welfare schemes, protectionism — all these things cost advanced economies plenty — but these are rich countries that can afford to pay the price. South Africa doesn’t have that luxury.

Sweet Spots For Retail Competition

Here are two stories that intersect in the night. First the Seattle Times reports that Starbucks e-mailed some employees in the Southeast US and urged them to distribute electronic coupons to friends and family for a free iced coffee at Starbucks.

It is unclear why Starbucks did this but, very quickly, and predictably, the coupons spread around the world including showing up on a bunch of web sites for great bargains. Although chat rooms and other forums reported that many stores were rejecting the coupons, enough hit headquarters that Starbucks officially voided the coupon even though it was good through the end of September. It claimed they had been distributed beyond what had been intended in this "friends and family" promotion.

A lot of free coupons must have been turned in to risk this publicity. After all, ice coffee doesn’t cost much and, presumably, some of the people buy a cookie or something while they are there.

I suppose we could write an article about the blindness of some Starbucks employee who didn’t see what obviously would happen.

But, almost simultaneously, I read a piece in the St. Petersburg Times that indicated that Aldi has targeted Orlando and Tampa for its initial foray into Florida. This is the German discount chain whose parent company also owns Trader Joe’s. How does Aldi work? Here is how the article describes it:

The no-frills chain … is all about limited services and low prices that are frequently below those of Wal-Mart.

“We keep it simple,” said Dave Behm, vice president the Florida operation.

Customers will hear no Muzak in its Spartan stores. They have to bag their own groceries. They must pay a quarter for a shopping cart, which they get back when they wheel it back to the cart corral in the parking lot.

Such cost-cutting and the limited assortment of mostly private-label products are the formula for prices as low as 35-cent loaves of bread. With 1,300 items, an ALDI stocks about as many types of groceries as a warehouse club. But there is only one brand and it comes only in the most popularly purchased size rather than those big volume sizes. ALDI, which also stocks fresh produce and meat prepacked by a supplier, boasts that all its products are rated at least Grade A Fancy, Choice or US No. 1.

These stores get little media attention because the media likes to write about glamorous things. So an in-store tortilleria that sells 1% of the tortillas sold by a store may get a 100 articles. The mundane Aldi, which now has 800 stores in 26 states and contributed mightily to Wal-Mart’s defeat in Germany — which caused a $1 billion write-off — is basically ignored.

But not by the Pundit.

The interesting thing about the Starbucks story is that many consultants and trade press articles go around spouting that there now exists this new affluent consumer who doesn’t care about price.

That is not what the Pundit sees. Costco is the classic case; that its parking lot is filled with Jaguars and Land Rovers is legend.

But I see lots of rich people on Jet Blue, and maybe that Starbucks coupon tells us that Starbucks is vulnerable to competition too.

Maybe if someone built a nice place where you could get Starbucks-quality coffee at a discount, people would go for it.

Aldi may be too low quality; note that it promises only Grade A Fancy, Choice or U.S. No. 1. They take aim directly at Wal-Mart’s shoppers.

The Pundit thinks there is a sweet spot in the market for an Aldi-type concept that sells only the best quality. Extra Fancy, Prime, all the best — but at a bargain price.

My brother’s stores, which I wrote about here, are doing this in clothing. His stores physically are as nice as the competitors — much as Jet Blue’s planes are as nice as its competitors. And my brother’s stores don’t sell cheap clothes; they sell good clothes for a lower price. A food store on that model would succeed.

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Where’s The Passion?

The issue of leadership is hot controversy. We started the subject off with a letter to the Pundit, which led to more and more again. Another letter writer weighs in today:

Obviously, any good leader today embraces change and embraces technology. However, not all technology or software is a panacea for an organization, much as no one person is a panacea for an organization. Certainly some people in the industry are a whiz with a computer or at the forefront of RFID; these are operational decisions that any organization will make based upon their view of whether they perceive a value from embracing any technology or not.

I think this discussion of leadership is missing the metaphysical, almost religious nature of leadership. What is often missing in our industry leaders is “passion” in terms of genuine care for this great industry.

All the names you listed are doing great things, and we certainly should not minimize their achievements in any way. Additionally the 40 young people PRODUCE BUSINESS selected last year and 40 more you selected this year have already made significant contributions to the industry. I grant you all that.

However, I haven’t heard from today’s leaders that there is a level of genuine “care” for what makes this industry tick: whether that be the farm worker, the truck driver, the buyer, the store clerk or most certainly the shopper who consumes our products. If I have missed this discussion, then shame on me.

No, I don’t think you’ve missed it. I think there is a long-term trend in which the business is becoming less important to its participants. Part of it is societal.

Businessmen today are likely to have other focuses. I’m rushing back from South Africa to catch the first “Dad’s Club” event at my older son’s school. My wife works, so she can’t be quite the catcher for all problems domestic that my mother and grandmother were. Societal expectations have changed, and that 110% commitment level is much harder to find. It may be bad for the industry but it certainly puts leaders in touch with consumers who are struggling to juggle all the same things.

My grandfather was a member of something called the Scavenger’s Club. I don’t really know much about it but, apparently, in his day in the produce industry in New York, it was common to gather socially with other members of the trade down on the Washington Street Market. Today, there is no demand expressed for Hunts Point to start holding dinner dances. There is more of a divorce between social life and work life.

There also is a tendency to rely on professional staff as the industry became affluent enough to support such a thing. When Bob Carey was asked to be the entire staff of PMA, he was a graduate student at the University of Delaware. If much was going to be done, it was going to be done by volunteer leaders.

Today, between PMA, United and the Produce for Better Health Foundation, the industry has well over 100 people on its payroll to take care of things.

There are fewer people who were born to the trade and, even more important, fewer people who are certain their children will wind up in the business. That reduces commitment levels.

There are a few of us left. Why do you think I am in South Africa? Because the industry needs to be represented, because the future depends on strengthening these relationships, because I can help.

I hope that people with passion will rise to the top and help us lead the industry, but I also hope that the professional staff of these organizations develops the kind of institutional support so that every leader doesn’t have to be a superstar.

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by igoryonya (Scribe)
on Dec 09, 2009 at 16:39 UTC ( #811963=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??
igoryonya has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to detect where the script was launched from. I need to be able to detect if the script was launched from the console window or from the window environment by using a shortcut or some GUI file manager.

The purpose is: If the program was launched from the console, it will be outputting directly to console. I mean, running with it's text version interface, but if it was launched from the GUI by a file manager or a shortcut, or whatever (NOT console), it will be launched in it's GUI Window (not text) interface with buttons etc.

I can't use ENV variable to test if it's console, because perl says that it's console, unless it's ran as a CGI.
And no, I don't want to pass parameters in the shortcut or the command line, to specify that it's GUI. I just want to be able to type or double-click on the script file.

I know that it's possible, because, a long time ago, a Creative sound card came with a music player with the drivers installation. It could launch a text version of the player in the dos window when you type it's executable from the dos window, but when it was launched from the file manager by double-clicking on the executable, it launched it's GUI version.

So, in other words, when the script detects that it was being typed in the console to launch, it will use console interface subroutine (STDIN/OUT, etc.), but when it detects that it was launched not from the console, it will go to the Tkx subroutine for the GUI interface.

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Re: Detect Environment
by almut (Canon) on Dec 09, 2009 at 16:49 UTC

    Maybe check -t STDIN  (would test if STDIN is opened to a tty) — see filetests

      Another option is to check if the DISPLAY env var is set, and open up graphical if it is.

      I think that's the behaviour things like emacs use for example. It does mean that if you open a console from your GUI and then start the program from there, it'll open up with the GUI, which seems to be slightly different from what you describe although more intuitive.

      (Update: "You" in the above means the OP of course, not almut)

        FYI: It's a frequent case where you have a console window open on an XTerm. Then you'd be on a console, but you'd still have DISPLAY set.

Re: Detect Environment
by ikegami (Pope) on Dec 09, 2009 at 17:32 UTC
    If your make your two programs, one being
    #!/bin/sh program --gui $*
    Then you can just click on it, it's never ambiguous, and you let the user control which one he wants if he wants to be specific.

    Altenatively, you could accept --console and --gui to force one, and use heuristics if neither is specified.

      There's also the popular “hard-links that investigate $0 approach”. While we're chatting about shell scripting, I think "$@" (in Bash, not Perl!) gives a more robust approach to grabbing command-line arguments.
Re: Detect Environment
by cdarke (Prior) on Dec 09, 2009 at 17:58 UTC
    Assuming that you are running on Microsoft Windows. The Creative sound card software could have inspected the STARTUPINFO structure used to create the process by calling the Win32 API GetStartupInfo.
    Processes started by Windows Explorer appear to have the dwFlags member set to (at least) STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW. Trouble is that Win32::Process does not expose that interface.
Re: Detect Environment
by GrandFather (Sage) on Dec 09, 2009 at 22:45 UTC

    Long ago the 'DOS Window' was really and truly a DOS box and applications running in it had no access to the Win32 API. Windows Executables have a DOS stub that often simply generates an error message and exits. It's pretty likely that the Creative application provided the DOS interface in the stub and didn't do any detection of context at all - Windows did that for it and applied a little DWIMery. That solution doesn't work now because the since Windows 2000 the console is not a DOS box and the stub doesn't get executed.

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Easily the strangest thing I've seen in code. Jolly good work, Len.

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The second feels the cleaner approach to me as well, but it is not correctly implemented. So I suppose one could argue it is too clever. Alternatively, one could fix it:

sub ripper2b { ## Second implementation, take b my $file = $_; return unless s/\.(?!$ext)\w+$//i; my $priority = "$_.$ext"; if (-e $priority && !-d $priority) { $nom += unlink $file; } }
My two fixes:
  • (?!$ext) is zero-width, so (?!$ext)$ is just $. We need to remove the extension as well, whatever it is, so add \w+ to the regex.
  • The "." was removed by the substitution, so we need to add it again along with $ext.

If that does not make sense to you, the second implementation is just too clever. Go with the first.

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by KurtSchwind (Chaplain) on Oct 30, 2007 at 14:19 UTC
    I think you went the right way. The 2nd one is much closer to working than the first. I'm not even entirely sure what $wang was supposed to hold. Also, I would have missed the \w+.
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The typical company fraudster is a trusted male executive – sometimes even the chief executive – who gets away with more than 20 fraudulent activities over a period of up to five years or more.

This finding is based on research by KPMG Forensic, the fraud investigations division of the professional services giant.

“He typically works in the finance department and commits the fraud single-handed,” says Richard Powell, partner at KPMG Forensic.

Given that the total financial loss caused per company fraudster stands at more than £675,000 in nearly half of all cases, Powell believes HR should work harder on preventing, spotting and tackling fraud.

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“The first step is introducing a fraud policy that’s communicated throughout the organisation to help create a culture where employees are very clear about how unacceptable it is and what to do if they suspect it,” he says.

“So often, we see whistleblowing or reporting mechanisms set up, but the culture doesn’t encourage people to use them.”

Dave Martin, security consultant at LogicaCMG, adds: “Part of the policy should include regular and rigorous checks, and all staff should be made aware that this happens.”

With regard to detection, Powell advocates the use of data analytical tools to weed out unusual trends or transactions. “HR should also be alert to red flags such as an employee seeking to preserve their control over an area you wouldn’t expect them to be involved in, or a member of staff never taking any holiday,” he adds.

The stickiest area of all for HR is the investigation of suspected fraud.

“The key here lies in gathering facts in an objective and fair way,” explains Powell.

“We encourage HR to have a response plan, which sets out clear do’s and don’ts.”

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The alternative, says Tony Hyams-Parish, partner at law firm Rawlinson Butler, is the risk of a constructive dismissal claim by an employee.

“That said, employers sometimes forget that they do not need to be sure of someone’s guilt to the criminal standard of proof,” says Hyams-Parish. “The important test as far as employment cases are concerned is that there is a genuine belief in someone’s guilt, and that such a belief is based on the results of a reasonable investigation.

“Conceivably, therefore, someone could be dismissed, but found not guilty by a criminal court.”

Gary Freer, partner at law firm McGrigors, warns employers that they may also be at risk of discrimination claims in the absence of a proper investigation.

“If you accuse someone of fraud who’s just back from maternity leave, or if they are older, for instance, they might claim they’re being victimised for such reasons, and that you were looking for a way to get rid of them,” he explains.

When the con is on…

If a fraudster is at large…

  • Get your facts straight, especially when dealing with senior people. The costs and negative publicity could be substantial, particularly as senior staff are more likely to take early legal advice and challenge decisions.
  • Carry out a full, measured and structured investigation, gathering objective evidence such as accounting information and expense claims. Only then should you confront your suspect.
  • Follow all usual disciplinary procedures.
  • Disclose any investigation to any regulators if you are part of a regulated industry.

  • Attempt to access someone’s computer to find evidence as it can change the trail of evidence.
  • Interrogate your suspect or ask leading questions. Asking open-ended questions elicits more information and ensures balance.
  • Forget to record all contents of the interview with the suspect.
  • Fail to bring in outside help if you don’t have in-house expertise.

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PEZ's Tour Of Down Under to the Tour Down Under. Getting to Adelaide was no simple plan, as Steve chose to drive 2000km across the outback through 100+ degree heat, crossing bushfires, desert plains and native wildlife to make it to his cycling nirvana, the 2014 Santos Tour Down Under. Here's his trip.

Words and pics contributed by Steve Prokop
How often have you heard "it is not the destination but the journey"? Well this trip is probably the exception!

My inaugural PEZ TDU Road Trip ran from Brisbane, QLD, Australia, through the infamous remoteness of the Australian Outback, to Adelaide, South Australia. 2,000 kilometers door to door. In 2 days. By car. Sure we could have flown down, tackled the airport with bike bags and associated luggage like everyone else and get there in 2 hours. But I know that PEZ likes to do things differently, and driving to the Santos Tour Down Under presented itself as an opportunity, so, Why not? That is the PEZ way after all.

The distance between Brisbane in the north east and Adelaide doesn't look too bad on the map....until you take into account that Australia is a simply huge country - 14 times the size of France! Map courtesy of

The car was loaded up with bikes, riding kit and of course an abundance of snack bars, chips and everything else that constitutes road trip food. A superb morning greeted us as the final bits were loaded into the car and we managed to hit the road at 5:45 AM to clear the city traffic chaos. Ha poor suckers having to go to work!

Loaded up and ready to go!

The great thing about my city of Brisbane is that within 30 minutes, you are into the country and farmland.

Just outside of the city and nothing but rural landscapes for the next 48 hours or so...

We had nothing but the thoughts of the new cycling calendar ahead of us. All the excitement a new year brings, new teams, new rider combo's, new sponsors, new kit and colours. We have poured over all the news scuttlebug and almanacs and in 48 hours we will be in the centre of it all. This has to be the best time of the year, the excitement and expectation of the new season.

2 Hours out of Brisbane we struck our first road works, but we sneak through the "green light" joining the queue of traffic that had been waiting for 15 minutes or so. Winning! Climbing the Great Dividing Range - a mountain range that extends from Cairns in the North 4,000 kilometers south to Victoria in the south - at Cunningham's gap see's the landscape change from rural to proper agricultural regions, a patchwork of crop farms, with different colours and all very uniform shapes.

Climbing the Great Dividing Range via 'Cunnigham's Gap'

Our goal today is to cover 1200 kilometers - break the camels back so to speak, and at this rate we are well on the way.

Despite the solid average speeds that can be maintained, outback Australian driving poses it's own challenges, not least of which is a majority of the main highway network remains single lane each way.

Yep, this is the National 'highway'

This is enough to make sure your concentration is maintained and with some very average road surfaces along the way this sort of driving really can be frontier stuff, particularly for foreigners. Reaching the next town, usually over 100 kilometers between each one, is cause for celebration.

Towns also present the opportunity to see what is the latest in marketing ideas.....from the 70's that is, a lot of which are still in active duty today.

A particular favourite of mine was the 4 seater tandem, being offered in Moree, which is in the middle of nowhere. But even it was overshadowed by the massive sign advertising Uranus.

This educational sign being displayed in a rest area caused us to turn around just to make sure our eyes were not deceiving us. Apparently this is a great location to see Uranus at night...

Once midday had passed and the sun starts its arc to the west, another image so familiar to Aussies on their road trips starts to shine. While it is probably not unique to Australia but it is one that always reminds me of road trips, long hours behind the wheel and a desire to get to the stop for the night.

It is of course, the sunset through the bug splattered windscreen. The sun's rays are long, the early evening sky is still clear and the colours have a blue hue to them. It is an image that seems to shout 'road trip'!

Arriving in to a town called West Wyalong, we know we are over half way and on the downward slope to cycling nirvana. We have made our 1200 k's, with some light to spare. This is important because once the sun goes down, wildlife Australia wakes up. Kangaroos in particular are a massive problem, hitting one of these doesn't bear thinking about, with average weights 60-70 kilograms. There is a reason country people have massive bull bars or 'roo bars' on the front of their vehicles.

After settling into our room, and heeding the advice of the welcome notice we walk the 200 meters into town to the pub for dinner. The air is still 35 degrees at 7:30pm, and the sun is setting. Country Australian towns are all the same, a central main road, with the shops lining the sides, their awnings spread to the kerb providing shade along the footpaths.

There is a roundabout in the middle which has a town clock or ANZAC memorial as its centre piece, and is usually adorned with 2 pubs on opposing corners. Great pride is taken on the public gardens of the town providing a bright green or colourful floral change to the brown of the sunburnt land surrounding them.

Tomorrow the challenge is the Hay plains, heat, and the potential of being diverted due to bush fires. We find our pub and order the "special" rump steak and a beer, which became two beers very quickly. The 'special' was supposedly smaller than normal, at $10 with chips and veg, but when it came out, it was one of the biggest I've seen! These country people sure know how to feed a worker.

The next day the alarm went off before sunrise. We wanted to get 200 kilometers down the road before breakfast, because today was going to be the toughest. We were tackling the Hay Plains, and the temperature was being predicted to hit 46 degrees in Adelaide. So despite the potential of kangaroo activity we needed to get going.

Cycling in my native Queensland is best done in the morning before the heat of the day takes hold and we have the benefit of the day breaking as early as 4:30 am, so it is normal for us but the Outback is different. The sun throws an incredible golden light that illuminates the countryside. It is amazing to drive through, particularly driving away from it!

In this photo you can see on the sat nav that we have an impressive 119 kilometers before the next turn. This was the pretty section with the road undulating and trees all around. It changes the closer you get to Hay, and after Hay it is dramatically different.

Driving without incident we arrive at Hay for breakfast, and I feel like something completely rubbish. I dont know why but my mind turned to pancakes, I had a craving that had to be fixed and luckily the local shop could provide - with some nice fattening bacon thrown in for the mix. Calories I'm sure I'll burn off fast when we actually get to Adelaide and start riding anyway...

The butcher next door to my cafe had done some pretty funky artwork for his shop to stand out and the temperature at 8:30 was already 35 degrees, it was time to keep moving.

Leaving Hay behind us, we had 200 kilometers of basically nothing ahead of us.

There is absolutely no indication that you are moving forward. It is you, and an invisible headwind that sees fuel use increase significantly - at least we're not on our bikes! The game you play is recalculating how much fuel you will have by the time to get to the other side. People towing trailers regularly come unstuck along here. The speed limit is 110 km/h on this dead straight road and it's incredible to drive into the horizon seeing the curvature of the earth, scouring for Emu. Everyone driving towards you waves, and you in return. But sometimes a surprise appears on the horizon, you can't make it out properly, but very soon you see it.

A drover working what is called the long paddock. Mustering cattle from one area to the other. Cracking his stock whip to keep the herd moving, cattle dogs also keep the cattle heading in the same direction. This is a main outback highway to remember.

We push on, munching our way through the snack reserves we have on board and all the time our view is straight ahead, flat, and featureless.

Ahead and behind as far as the eye can see - the view's the same.

Through all of this in the distance there are some trees, then rises in the landscape and soon we have cleared the Hay Plain - all 300 kilometres of it. There is a sense of achievement in the PEZ mobile, and thoughts turn back to the excitement of being in Adelaide for the season kick off. Very quickly we are over the New South Wales border and into Victoria, following the mighty Murray River.

The famous Murray river

We pull up for lunch, not because we needed to, but because if we didnt we'd be in no mans land, between towns at lunchtime. Missing lunch sees the dining options reduce to a bag of crisps at a servo (ed: gas station in 'Aussie'), so we find a cafe and have a rest in the lovely temperature of 42 degrees. We spy the newspaper shouting the message that today the mercury is to hit 44. By coincidence we are given table marker 44 as well.

There is a major bush fire threat, and for the last 80 or so kilometers we have seen plumes of smoke rising up in the air. We learn that the road between Ouen where we were and Melbourne had been cut off, and fires further to the west were being monitored. That could be bad for us, as this would mean the road to Adelaide was susceptible - right on our way!

We passed the police road block for the Melbourne road. Looking forward the smoke coming from where we were going was increasing. With the radio on the local station we were getting the reports and madly looking up town names on the map to see if we were in trouble. Getting closer it was soon apparent that this was not great, but we got through.

We drove through smoke for a solid 8 kilometers, and while we were in no danger, it did give us a good idea of how frightening bush fires can be. Unfortunately lives would be taken and property lost with devastation to wildlife and stock. The following day, the road was cut to through traffic.

Clearing the smoke we were less than 200 kilometers to Adelaide! Woo Hoo. The final run in was fantastic, the excitement and anticipation was evident. Counting down the kilometers after all the driving was the best. What it did show was by driving down, our anticipation and enthusiasm had a chance to develop and mature. We worked hard to be here and we were going to bloody enjoy it! For us it was much more rewarding to come over the Lofty range, spy Adelaide in the distance and sigh as we finally made it. It seems a lot more real to be here. Flying would be great, like we did last year, but it was too easy...

There was just one more little thing - the newspaper lied!

47° Celsius or 117° Fahrenheit. It doesn't matter how you say it, that's seriously hot.

Santos Tour Down we come!

Steve 'VeloRoo' Prokop is an Aussie cycling enthusiast who runs a bike hire and Tour company with his wife Julia in the south of France for most of the year before returning to Australia in the French winter to enjoy the sunshine and visit events such as the TDU. Check them out at for an unforgettable cycling holiday.

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Adam Scott carded a 67 in the first round of his Australian Masters title defense on Thursday and was tied for second spot, two shots behind fellow Australian Nick Cullen.

No. 2-ranked Scott made a bogey on the par-4 eighth -- his 17th hole of the day -- at Royal Melbourne to drop to 4 under and a share of second place with Germany's Max Kieffer.

Scott won the Australian PGA last weekend at Royal Pines in his first home event since winning the Masters. He will team with Jason Day for Australia next week in the World Cup, also at Royal Melbourne, then play the Australian Open the following week at Royal Sydney.

"A 67 around here is a good score," Scott said. "It was a bit of a slow finish but it was a good way to open up.

"I felt like I left a couple out there but my game was in pretty good shape other than that and four rounds like that might go a long way this week."

Left-hander Cullen eagled the 304 meter par-4 11th, holing out from 59 meters with a 60 degree wedge. He followed with birdies at the 12th, 13th and 17th to open a three-stroke lead at 7-under but came back to the field with a bogey on 18.

"Any time you shoot 6-under around a course like this you have to be happy," Cullen said.

Kieffer was also happy with his form on his first visit to Melbourne.

"I love it, it's great. It's testing every part of your game," he said. "My expectations were very low because it's 10 hours time difference. It is quite a lot and obviously the preparation was not how it should be but it is a good learning experience."

Zimbabwe's Brendon De Jonge and Australia's Peter O'Malley had 68s and were in a group of eight players at 3 under.

Jarrod Lyle, returning to play after his second bout with leukemia, opened with a 72 and was level with Vijay Singh at 1 over.

After an emotional start, Lyle settled into a round and mixed three birdies and four bogeys.

"It was a feeling I thought I would never experience again," Lyle said. "The emotions overtook me on the 1st tee.

"It's something I always dreamed of, having my daughter at a tournament. It was great she got to see what I do.

"My dream is to come here and make the cut. After 12 holes things were looking grim but I fought like crazy."

Scott was leading after the early groups finished but was overhauled by Cullen, who fired an eagle on the 332-yard, par-4 11th and had six birdies but closed with a bogey at the 18th for a 65.

American Matt Kuchar opened with a 71.


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Top Moment No. 6: The Day That Harry Died

Top Moment #6: Harry Kalas Passes Away in the Broadcast Booth in Washington

http://popcultured.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/harry-kalas.jpgThis isn’t a top moment because of a particular play in the field or a tremendous home run hit, but because of the passing of a legendary figure.  If we voted on Worst Moments in Phillies History, this would certainly be at, or near, the top.  It makes this list because of the magnitude of such a loss; one that had a lasting impact on the 2009 season.  It isn’t a particularly joyous occasion, but it deserves its spot here as this list tries to tell the story of the past year.

Harry Norbert Kalas was born a broadcaster.  His soothing delivery became epic upon excitement; it was something you waited for and when it happened, it made the play that much more special.  Whether it was a “long drive, deep center field” or a “great diving stop”, or even the occasional “6-4-3 twin-killing”, Harry Kalas allowed for the game of baseball to be thoroughly enjoyed. It mattered not that you were five or 95 years of age; he connected generations with that smooth baritone voice.  There isn’t a Phils fan on Earth that hasn’t shared a drink with Harry Kalas, either through the transistor, or more recently, the flat screen. There isn’t a Phillies fan on Earth that didn’t shed a tear on that somber spring afternoon.

On April 13, 2009, as HK prepared for another day at the park, his big heart gave way, and he was called up to the stadium in the sky.  The Phillies would still play that day against the Nationals, pulling out a 9-8 victory with heavy hearts.  But the game meant very little other than a win for the standings. It meant nothing it all because the voice of the team for nearly four decades would no longer raise his voice in celebration as the Fightin’ Phils scraped and clawed their way to victory.

This is certainly a day no Phillies fan will ever forget.  Still, it’s good to know we can all take joy in the fact that HK finally got to call a World Series clincher.  He also died in the place where he’d made so many memories – the booth, getting ready to call another game.  I’m sure he’s busy right now hanging with Whitey, smoking stogies, taking pleasure in yet another baseball game.

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Phillies nearing self-imposed payroll limit

Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. (Carlos Osorio/AP)

The Phillies won 73 games in 2013 with baseball's fifth-highest payroll, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press. That has created a new dynamic in a city not accustomed to seeing its baseball team spend; fans are not satisfied with a huge payroll.

It is all relative, of course. A decade ago, the idea of the Phillies owning the fifth-highest payroll in Major League Baseball was a crazy one. They have spent with the highest bidders in the last half decade. But those bloated contracts are weighing down performance. The Phillies say it has affected their ability to spend.

These are the Phillies' payrolls in the last five seasons, according to internal figures leaked to The AP (MLB rankings in parenthesis):

2013: $168,569,538 (5th)
2012: $174,523,432 (4th)
2011: $165,313,989 (3d)
2010: $145,539,931 (3d)
2009: $138,286,499 (10th)

Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said the team will maintain a similar payroll in 2014 to last season's. That means there is little left to spend. The Phillies have committed $141.7 million in average annual value (AAV) salaries to 13 players. They have four arbitration players to pay, although those contracts are not guaranteed until opening day. Figure another $12 million is required to sign those players.

That's 17 players at $153.7 million. The rest of the roster is filled by those making at or near the league minimum of $500,000. So another $4 million or so there. That takes the payroll to $157.7 million.

Remember, this not straight salary calculations. It is, in fact, complicated arithmetic. That is why any projections are difficult to make. Payroll is highly dependent on injuries (the more you have, the higher your payroll) and in-season maneuvers.

The collective bargaining agreement recognizes "payroll" for 40-man rosters as "the average annual values of contracts and $10,799,590 per club for benefits and extended benefits, which include items such as health and pension benefits; club medical costs; insurance; workman's compensation, payroll, unemployment and Social Security taxes; spring training allowances; meal and tip money; All-Star game expenses; travel and moving expenses; postseason pay; and college scholarships."

So add another $10.8 million to any payroll figure. That puts this current projection at $168.5 million, or right around what the Phillies spent in 2013. This does not include costs for the 40-man roster, potential call-ups, or performance incentives. But, mostly, it offers a rough picture that puts the Phillies at or near their self-imposed expenditures limit.

The luxury-tax threshold increases in 2014 from $178 million to $189 million. So that is not a factor, even if the Phillies were to invest more in their payroll. The Phillies drew 553,315 fewer people to Citizens Bank Park in 2013. That was the second-worst decline in baseball. Perhaps they are budgeting for a further drop in attendance this season.

But, as Forbes reported Tuesday, Major League Baseball surpassed $8 billion in revenue for the first time ever. Teams have never been more profitable. New national TV contracts awarded all clubs an additional $24 million in 2014 without lifting a finger. And the Phillies are negotiating their next TV rights windfall with Comcast SportsNet.

"We should be contending with this kind of payroll, at $165 or $170 million," Amaro said last week.

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Babin should rethink his plan to run with the bulls in Spain

Novelist and journalist Ernest Hemingway was a man’s man. At age 19, Hemingway volunteered to man an ambulance on the Italian front during the First World War. He was embedded as a reporter covering the Greco-Turkish War in 1922, the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, and the liberation of Paris in 1944 (where he was known to slap on a helmet and grab a rifle himself – he earned a Bronze Star, but not for that). The man known as “Papa” was a boxer, big-game hunter, and sport fisherman, and survived two plane crashes on successive days.

On a vacation trip to Spain in the 1920s, Hemingway became fascinated by the running of the bulls at the annual Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona – where participants try to stay ahead of the massively horned, two-ton creatures running wildly through narrow cobblestone streets seeking to gore any human being in their path. Hemingway included those bull-running adventures in The Sun Also Rises, his first, and perhaps most brilliant, novel.

It is, maybe, a similar sense of adventurousness that makes Jason Babin such a good football player. The Eagles defensive end does play a little as if his hair were on fire – he is a quick-twitch muscle covered in tribal tats blasting off starting blocks, a hard-from-the-outside rushing lineman who, much like a heat-seeking missile, zones in on a scoped-out target: the quarterback. Then again, maybe Babin seeks adventure just so he can brag to his buddies.

Last week we learned that Babin missed the Eagles’ recent first edition of organized team activities because he had been snowed in on the Alaskan tundra, where he was glacier-climbing and bear-hunting and where he had no connection to the outside world since cell phone reception is, well, kind of nonexistent. See, that’s the thrill of it.

Babin also revealed that in early July, just a couple of weeks before the opening of an Eagles training camp that is expected to spawn an NFL championship contender, he is scheduled to run with the bulls in Pamplona.

Babin last week labeled the Festival of San Fermin another punch in his “man card,” which I assume is a bucket list for younger men. (I’ve always thought that folks who needed to punch a “man card” and go to great lengths to publicize that they are doing so are covering up some insecurity, but I digress.)

Perhaps he didn’t fully think this thing through. Besides the fact that it really wouldn’t be ideal if Babin got hurt running with the bulls a couple of weeks before training camp, it would appear that if he were injured, he would lose the rest of his salary.


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TX Lege – These are the names to remember

The Texas State Senate just saw an absolutely amazing act of civic and democratic engagement. There is so much I want to say about it, but first I want to outline the events as they went down, for context.

The outline of the facts:

On May 27, Texas governor Rick Perry abused executive power and called a special session of the senate that had more lax rules about how bills could be passed. These special sessions are meant to deal with specific issues and crises, but have been exploited to ram through bills that the regular senate sessions didn’t pass. Special sessions only need a simple majority to pass bills, unlike the 2/3 of quorum required at regular sessions.

On June 11, more than two weeks in, Republicans added an omnibus bill SB5 to the special session that directly targeted reproductive justice: One would ban abortion at 20 weeks, regardless of rape, incest, life of the mother, ectopic pregnancy, preeclampsia, or divine intervention. The other imposed such stringent requirements on abortion providers (down to the fucking corridor sizes) that only 5 of the 47 abortion providers in Texas would qualify, and the others would have to shut down.

(This special session was called for redistricting issues, and had just had transportation funding added to its docket. Oh, special sessions are meant to deal with crises? And should focus on specific issues? Well fuck you, I’m Republican.)

Last Thursday on June 20, 700+ Texans showed up at the hearings in Austin to testify with their story and to stage a citizen’s filibuster against the vote. They were shut down at around 3 AM, despite there being hundreds of people left who had been there for 12 hours who did not get a chance to testify, because their testimonies were getting “repetitive”.

Last Sunday on June 23, hundreds of Texans showed up again at the debates hoping to prevent a vote on SB5, as Democrats proposed amendment after correction after amendment that delayed the vote for 15 hours. It’s notable that the woman who actually sponsored the bill stopped taking questions 2 hours in, because she was jeered for saying that rape and incest exceptions to the abortion ban were not necessary because rape kits can “clean a woman out”.

On Monday morning at 4 AM, the Republicans used their majority to force an end to the debate and the legislature gave preliminary approval to the bill. I should mention that about 63% of Texans think there are enough abortion laws on the books in the state, and 75% of Texans think abortion is a decision for the woman and her doctor, not for politicians. This meant, however, that there was a 24-hour-delay until the Senate could consider it.

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Axiata customers throughout Asia will be able to use Wikipedia service for free. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh Post

AXIATA Group Berhad, parent company of local telecommunications provider Smart, and Wikipedia operator the Wikimedia Foundation announced a partnership to offer Wikipedia on mobile devices free of data charges to Axiata customers throughout Asia, a press release said.

“Wikipedia is free as such already, but notwithstanding the customers are charged for the data volume they consume while accessing Wikipedia through their mobile device,” Smart CEO Thomas Hundt told the Post.

“Upon implementation, Smart subscribers, and the subscribers of other Axiata networks across Asia likewise, will not be charged for the data volume consumption while browsing Wikipedia pages.

In late January, VimpelCom, parent company of local telco provider Beeline, and the Wikimedia Foundation also announced a partnership for free Wikipedia access for VimpelCom customers.

The partnership is part of the non-profit organisation’s Wikipedia Zero program, targeting those whose primary opportunity to go online are mobile devices.

“This partnership is an important step forward in our mission to enable everyone on the planet to access free knowledge,” said Kul Takanao Wadhwa, head of mobile with the Wikimedia Foundation in the release published on Tuesday.

“With Axiata, one of the largest Asian telecommunication providers, we’re now able to expand free access to Wikipedia in more countries. With this partnership, Wikipedia Zero is now available to 410 million mobile users around the world,” he said.

According to data from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, sales of SIM cards in Cambodia reached 19.7 million last year, a 21 per cent increase to 2011. The number of internet users increased 60 per cent, reaching 2.7 million last year.

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Cambodia Angkor Air is the National Flag Carrier of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Considering safety as the keystone of our operation, and persistently carries the mission of promoting the economy and tourism of Cambodia. We are proud to leverage the image and characters of the country through our friendly hospitability. Following our business expansion, Cambodia Angkor Air is recruiting many positions in 2016 as below:

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 4  Investment Executive  Investment Division  2
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For most of the week, this east-side discoteca remains cold and dark, hidden behind a chain-link fence and locked up tighter than Fort Knox. On Friday and Saturday nights, however, the place comes alive with colored lights, hundreds of dancers, and Latin beats. The interior is home to a rollicking sea of dancing humanity, including plenty of caballeros y damas. Though the bar offers good selection of tequilas and south-of-border beers, the focus of El Capri is more on dancing than drinking. A steady stream of bachata, banda, and cumbia is pumped out by the DJs, while norteño bands occasionally perform. Gentlemen typically sport sharp cowboy garb and ostrich-skin boots, while ladies tend toward tight dresses, low-cut blouses, and skintight jeans. Even if you don't get to bailar with a bonita babe by night's end, chances are you'll eventually run into her mingling about or at the Mexican food joint down the street.

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10 High Country Concerts To Attend To Beat the Heat This Summer

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Tres Ikner and Jen Juniper of Dutch Holly.
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It's summertime in the Valley, so it's about to get disrespectfully hot outside. It's as if Mother Nature herself is telling you to move, so with triple digits on the horizon it seems like a great time to find some cool shows in the Arizona high country and beyond.

There are hundreds of shows going on all over the state and into some of our neighboring states, so we thought we'd narrow down some of the choices for you. Here are 10 concerts within driving distance that will help you beat the heat and keep your brain from melting this summer.

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Ziggy Marley will be at Pepsi Amphitheater on June 5.
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Ziggy Marley — Pepsi Amphitheater, Flagstaff  June 5

It’s unfortunate that Bob Marley died so young, but fortunately his kids do a damn good job of paying homage to him, and to be honest, they are no slouches as songwriters themselves. Ziggy Marley is going to be rocking the Pepsi Amphitheater in Flagstaff with his band on June 5, and I can’t think of a better way to spend a summer's day than driving up to Flag and swaying in the pines to a reggae pioneer’s offspring who is becoming a reggae legend in his own right.

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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
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The flag-bearers of modern-day hippie positivity are always worth catching, even though the band no longer counts singer Jade Castrinos as a member. Still, the band has a vast catalog of hits that make even the most jaded music fans smile, and seeing them in an environment likely to be 30 degrees cooler than Phoenix will only make the songs sweeter.

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Pro Teens — Firecreek Coffee Company, Flagstaff  June 9

Phoenix's own surf-pop heartthrobs Pro Teens are going on a big summer tour this year, and to kick things off they are making a stop at Flagstaff’s Firecreek Coffee Company on June 9. Joining them will be Flagstaff’s own posi-rockers Dragons, as well as Coffee Pot and the Valley’s Sun Hex. Pro Teens make some cool music; mix that with the cooler climate of Flag, and what you’ve got is a chilled-out evening in the mountains with some amazing up-and-coming Arizona music.

Parker Smith — The Spirit Room, Jerome  June 17
The Spirit Room in Jerome is such a neat place that it’s worth going to just to check out on any random night. But when an authentic folkster like Prescott’s Parker Smith is on the guitar and vocals, it makes for an evening when can make your mind travel back to a time when Jerome was one of the biggest cities in Arizona. The entire town and definitely the venue already have an old-timey quality to them, but add in a musician who walks the walk as well as he talks the talk, and it becomes the sort of evening that is more than worth driving up from the Valley for on June 17.

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Samsung Galaxy Discover S730G

Samsung Galaxy Discover S730G
320 x 480 pixels
3 MP
Qualcomm MSM7225A
Single core, 800 MHz
RAM: 0.5 GB
BATTERY: 1300 mAh
MEMORY: 4 GB + MicroSD
Posted: Feb 6, 2013
Market status: Released
Features: Fingerprint Lightweight Thin LTE Rugged NFC Dual SIM

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  • The camera lacks autofocus
  • The camera lacks flash
  • No front-facing camera
  • Too little RAM memory (0.5 GB RAM)
  • Single-core processor
  • Low pixel density screen (165 ppi)
  • Low-resolution camera (3 megapixels)

The Samsung Galaxy Discover is a low-end smartphone, operating on Android 4.0. It offers a 3.5'' 320 x 480 px display, a single-core 800MHz Qualcomm processor, 3MP rear camera and all the perks of the smart platform.

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  • Device type:
    • Smart phone
  • OS:
    • Android (4.0)
  • Form factor:
    • Candybar
  • Dimensions:
    • 4.59 x 2.42 x 0.45 inches (117 x 61 x 11 mm)
  • Weight:
    • 4.4 oz (125 g)
      the average is 5.3 oz (152 g)

  • Physical size:
    • 3.5 inches
  • Resolution:
    • 320 x 480 pixels
  • Pixel density:

    Pixel density - The pixel density of a display represents the number of pixels over an area of one inch. It’s measured in “pixels per inch”, or ppi. The higher the number, the more detailed and good-looking the display is.

    • 165 ppi
  • Screen-to-body ratio:
    • 50.90 %
  • Colors:
    • 262 144
  • Touchscreen:
      • Capacitive, Multi-touch
  • Features:
    • Light sensor, Proximity sensor

  • Camera:
      • 3 megapixels
    • Software Features:
      • Digital zoom, Geo tagging
    • Shooting Modes:
      • Night mode, Scenes
  • Camcorder:
      • Yes

  • System chip:

    System chip - Most modern handsets use an advanced chip that includes many of the device’s hardware modules like the processor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and sometimes even the wireless radio. This field shows what particular system chip (or System-on-a-Chip) is used in the phone.

    • Qualcomm MSM7225A
  • Processor:

    Processor - The processor is the main computing component of a phone and is a major factor when it comes to the overall speed of the device. Some more powerful smartphones use dual-core and quad-core processors designed to deliver greater performance.

    • Single core, 800 MHz, ARM Cortex-A5
  • Graphics processor:
      • Adreno 200
  • System memory:

    System memory - System memory, or RAM memory is the type of memory that the device uses to temporarily store data from the OS or currently-running apps. The more RAM available to the device, the better the performance will be when multiple or heavier programs are running.

    • 0.5 GB RAM
  • Built-in storage:
    • 4 GB
  • Maximum User Storage:
    • 2.7 GB
  • Storage expansion:
    • microSD, microSDHC up to 32 GB

  • Capacity:
    • 1300 mAh
  • Type:
    • User replaceable, Li - Ion
  • Talk time:
    • 8.50 hours
      the average is 23 h (1377 min)
  • Stand-by time:
    • 11.0 days (264 hours)
      the average is 18 days (438 h)

  • Music player:
    • Filter by:
      • Album, Artist, Playlists
    • Features:
      • Album art cover, Background playback
    • Supported formats:
  • Video playback:
    • Supported formats:
      • MPEG4, H.263, H.264
  • Speakers:
    • Earpiece, Loudspeaker
  • Headphones connector:
    • 3.5mm

Internet browsing

  • Browser:
    • supports:
      • HTML, HTML5
  • Built-in online services support:
    • YouTube (upload), Picasa/Google+

  • GSM:
    • 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
  • UMTS:
    • 850, 1900 MHz
  • Data:
    • HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s, UMTS
  • 2G Data:
    • EDGE, GPRS
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Phone features

  • Sensors:
      • Accelerometer, Compass
  • Notifications:
    • Haptic feedback, Music ringtones (MP3), Polyphonic ringtones (72 voices), Vibration, Flight mode, Silent mode, Speakerphone
  • Phonebook:
    • Unlimited entries, Caller groups, Multiple numbers per contact, Search by both first and last name, Picture ID, Ring ID
  • Organizer:
    • Calendar, Alarm, Calculator
  • Messaging:
    • SMS, MMS, Threaded view, Predictive text input (T9, XT9)
  • E-mail:
      • IMAP, POP3, SMTP, Microsoft Exchange
  • Instant Messaging:
      • Hangouts / Google Talk
  • Hearing aid compatibility:
      • M4, T3
  • Other features:
    • Voice dialing, Voice commands, Voice recording, TTY/TDD

  • Bluetooth:
      • Yes
    • Profiles/ Protocols:
      • Advanced Audio Distribution (A2DP), Audio/Visual Remote Control Profile (AVRCP), Generic Access (GAP), Generic Audio/Video Distribution (GAVDP), Generic Object Exchange (GOEP), Handsfree (HFP), Headset (HSP), Object Push (OPP), Phone Book Access (PBAP), Serial Port (SPP)
  • Wi-Fi:
      • Yes
    • Mobile hotspot:
      • Yes
  • USB:
      • USB 2.0
    • Connector:
      • microUSB
    • Features:
      • Mass storage device, USB charging
  • Charging connector:
    • microUSB
  • Positioning:

    Positioning - This field shows the positioning systems supported by the device. There are three main types: GPS, A-GPS and GLONASS. GPS - This is one of the most widespread global positioning technologies, developed and maintained by the U.S. government. It uses satellites in order to detect your location. Works best in clear weather. A-GPS - A-GPS stands for Assisted GPS and is the industry standard for positioning and navigation. “Assisted” means that it can use local wireless networks, in addition to satellites, for quicker and more precise localization. GLONASS - GLONASS is a global positioning system, developed by the Russian Federation. It’s very similar to GPS, but isn’t so popular in cell phones.

    • GPS, A-GPS
  • Navigation:
    • Yes
  • Other:
    • Tethering, Computer sync, OTA sync

Shopping information

  • Warranty period:
    • 12 Months

Regulatory Approval

  • FCC measured SAR:

    FCC measured SAR - Working closely with federal health and safety agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the FCC has adopted limits for safe exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy. These limits are given in terms of a unit referred to as the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), which is a measure of the amount of radio frequency energy absorbed by the body when using a mobile phone. The FCC requires cell phone manufacturers to ensure that their phones comply with these objective limits for safe exposure. Any cell phone at or below these SAR levels (that is, any phone legally sold in the U.S.) is a "safe" phone, as measured by these standards. The FCC limit for public exposure from cellular telephones is an SAR level of 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 W/kg).

    • Head:
      • 0.85 W/kg
    • Body:
      • 0.77 W/kg
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  • OS:
    • Android (4.0.4)
  • Dimensions:
    • 0.47 inches
  • Weight:
    • 4.45 oz (126 g)
      the average is 5.3 oz (153 g)
  • Capacity:
    • 1500 mAh
  • Talk time (3G):
    • 7.00 hours
      the average is 38 h (2284 min)
  • Stand-by time (3G):
    • 6.8 days (164 hours)
      the average is 24 days (566 h)
  • CDMA:

    CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access. A technique of multiplexing, also called spread spectrum, in which analog signals are converted into digital form for transmission. For each communication channel, the signals are encoded in a sequence known to the transmitter and the receiver for that channel. The foremost application is digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800MHz band and 1.9GHz PCS band. CDMA phones are noted for their excellent call quality and long battery life.

    • 800, 1700/2100 MHz

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Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm plan joint venture V.J. | , 9:50 p.m. July 28, 2009 2009-07-28

Qualcomm Incorporated and Verizon Wireless today announced an agreement to form a joint venture to provide machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communications and smart services offerings across a wide variety of market segments, including healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, distribution and consumer products. Capitalizing on the growth of M2M and smart services, the joint venture (name still to be determined), which will be equally owned by Qualcomm and Verizon Wireless, will be well positioned to provide a single source for end-to-end M2M solutions.

Smart services are the new services and business models enabled by M2M capabilities. For example, smart grid technology enables utilities to wirelessly connect to their grid assets, such as circuit breakers, transformers and other sub-station equipment. This wireless monitoring capability allows them to develop interactive utility networks that are more intelligent, resilient, reliable and self-balancing.

"The Verizon Wireless vision for bringing the benefits of 'everything connected' to the marketplace started with the introduction of the open development business and the selection of LTE technology for our 4G network," said Anthony Lewis, vice president of open development at Verizon Wireless. "We understand that no single company will be able to provide every aspect of the new M2M ecosystem on its own. This distinctive partnership with Qualcomm allows us to swiftly build on the strengths of each company's M2M strategy. The JV's focus on unlimited innovation will enable the production of next-generation products and services that will release the full power and potential of our network for customers."

The joint venture will be led by M2M industry leader Steve Pazol, who previously served as vice president of Global Smart Services at Qualcomm. Qualcomm has provided a variety of M2M solutions that have added "always-on" mobile connectivity to assets, providing access to network intelligence and benefiting enterprise customers.

"M2M is a rapidly growing market projected by some analysts to reach more than 85 million connections globally by 2012," Pazol said. "The next five years will be a significant period of innovation in M2M. Qualcomm and Verizon expect to create a company focused in evolving niche aftermarket strategies to embedded product standardization strategies, driving down costs, increasing performance expectations and enabling impactful new business models."

The new joint venture will leverage Qualcomm's advanced connectivity technologies and Verizon Wireless' expertise and simplified device certification process. The joint venture will deliver seamless, fully integrated M2M communication with global connectivity. Key new capabilities will include cloud computing solutions to automate device provisioning, and to track, monitor and manage assets. Custom white label applications for OEM customers, productized applications for end-use markets, new diagnostic tools for monitoring network health and device performance, data aggregation services, back office integrations and other professional services required to deliver whole solutions also will be provided.

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