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CHESS serves a wide spectrum of experimental groups from Universities, National Laboratories and Industry. Each year, approximately 1,100 scientists, graduate and undergraduate students visit CHESS to collect data. In addition, a significant effort of the staff is aimed at developing synchrotron radiation experimental facilities and methods that utilize the high intensity photon flux provided by the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR).
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Today we're excited to announce the launch of two new vertical outstream ad formats, Vertical Video Takeover and Vertical Video Reveal. The new formats allow publishers to easily create new mobile video ad placements that are built for the behavior of today's mobile user. According to MOVR's Mobile Overview Report, Smartphone users hold their phones vertically around 94% of the time and Mary Meeker's Internet Trends reported that vertical viewing accounted for 29% of view time in 2015, compared to 5% just five years ago.
Vertical Video Takeover and Vertical Video Reveal join Mixpo's suite of existing outstream video ad products that give publishers a way to monetize their content with video ads outside of pre-roll. The suite is powered by patent-pending inline technology that delivers the best outstream experience on the market, by providing the first ads with player control scrubbing options and interactive capabilities, on top of high-fidelity video.
As mobile becomes the norm rather than the exception, advertisers are looking for more mobile-friendly ad formats beyond social networks such as Snapchat and Facebook. Publishers once wary of vertical video are also embracing the format, with media companies such as Hearst, The Washington Post, Vox, Conde Nast, and YouTube creating new vertical video ad placements.
A survey conducted by Mixpo found that 100% of advertisers who buy outstream ads believe it is important to have a variety of video ad formats in their marketing mix. The research further found that 71% of advertisers and agencies see the adoption of outstream video ads growing in the next year, with premium inventory placement being the top benefit outstream ad units provide.
Learn more about our new video ad formats in the product videos below or contact us to get started today!


WHAT IS THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CENTER?
The Community Improvement Center (CIC), established in 2004, grew out of Western Crawford County's Annual Make A Difference Day event as a way to meet the critical need in our community to make area homes safe and accessible. The CIC's mission is to coordinate and mobilize volunteers to complete home improvement projects that benefit those with special needs and/or a limited income.
WHAT KIND OF WORK DOES THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CENTER PERFORM?
The CIC performs various home improvement projects, including but not limited to the building of wheelchair ramps, weatherization, plumbing, electrical work, painting and roofing.
All actions of the CIC are performed by volunteers. We have a core committee which is made up of volunteers from the Crawford County Area. Our skilled projects are supervised by a volunteer or volunteers who are skilled in that particular area of expertise – carpentry, masonry, plumbing, electrical, etc. Performing the work are skilled and unskilled volunteers from the Crawford County Area, with a majority coming from Allegheny College as well as the local high schools.
No one gets paid for the labor of the project. All of the work is performed on a volunteer basis. The materials are paid for through generous donations from the United Way, local building supply companies and grants. If possible, we ask homeowners to make a donation to the United Way of Western Crawford County that goes towards funding the project.
2) You must live in Western Crawford County. This includes Adamsville, Atlantic, Hartstown, Cochranton, Conneaut Lake, Guys Mills, Meadville, Cambridge Springs, Conneautville, Harmonsburg, Linesville, Saegertown, Springboro, and Venango.
3) You must document that your household's income was at or below the Federal Poverty Guidelines for the previous 12 months.
Among the Applicants who meet these requirements, we place priority on candidates who exhibit poor health due to disability or illness, who are veterans and/or who are age 60 and older.
Once we receive your application, we will call to confirm that we have received it. We will then schedule a site visit and continue to evaluate the project based on our resources and the homeowner's exact needs. We strive to assess the applications on a project by project basis to ensure that we use our resources effectively.
The CIC is always looking for new volunteers to work with us! We need volunteers from the Crawford County area with a range of skills and skill levels to assist us in completing projects all year long. Whether you are a veteran construction worker, a gardener, a student, or just interested in doing community service, we need your help! If your organization is looking for projects to fulfill community service hours, please contact us. We can help you find someone in your neighborhood who would benefit from your talents.
Financial donations are greatly appreciated. All money goes towards projects and supplies. Also, if you have any gently used tools that you are looking to donate, contact us!


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Iran Nuclear NewsRussia opposes new Iran sanctions over IAEA report
Russia opposes new Iran sanctions over IAEA report
Reuters: Russia on Wednesday vehemently criticized a U.N. nuclear watchdog report saying Iran appeared to have worked on designing an atom bomb, saying it contained no new evidence and was being used to undercut efforts to reach a diplomatic solution.
By Steve Gutterman
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday vehemently criticized a U.N. nuclear watchdog report saying Iran appeared to have worked on designing an atom bomb, saying it contained no new evidence and was being used to undercut efforts to reach a diplomatic solution.
Sharpening opposition to any new sanctions against Iran in the U.N. Security Council, where Russia has veto power, senior diplomats said further punitive measures would be "destructive" and urged a revival of talks between Tehran and global powers.
The Russian remarks came during a visit by a senior Iranian official for talks on the program which Tehran says is peaceful but the United States and its allies fear is aimed at developing the capability to build atomic weapons.
They underscored a divide between Russia and the West over a report by the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency that deepened U.S. and European suspicions about Tehran's intentions.
"According to our initial evaluations, there is no fundamentally new information in the report," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"We are talking about a compilation of known facts, given a politicized tone," it said, adding that interpretations of the report brought to mind the use of faulty intelligence to seek support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Earlier, in a barrage of Russian comments on Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said any new sanctions "will be seen in the international community as an instrument for regime change in Tehran," Interfax reported.
"That approach is unacceptable to us, and the Russian side does not intend to consider such proposals."
Russia's point man for Iran diplomacy, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, said Moscow opposed "strengthening sanctions pressure on Iran" and is trying to bring other nations in line with that stance, Itar-Tass reported.
"We are showing them the faulty and destructive nature of that policy," Ryabkov said.
In its report on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran may still be conducting secret research with no logical application other than developing nuclear bombs.
A U.S. official said the United States could impose more sanctions on Iran. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the Security Council should be convened and that Paris was ready to adopt "unprecedented" sanctions if Tehran refused to cooperate with efforts to ensure it is not pursuing nuclear weapons.
Russia has grudgingly approved four rounds of U.N. sanctions on Iran after watering them down, with China. But it has criticized Western states for imposing additional punitive measures and signaled in recent months that it would oppose a new push for sanctions in the Security Council.
Russia has close commercial ties with Iran and built a nuclear power plant that was switched on in the Islamic Republic this year. It has repeatedly said too much pressure on Tehran is counterproductive.
Russia is instead calling for a step-by-step process under which existing sanctions would be eased in return for actions by Tehran to dispel international concerns.
MOSCOW CRITICISES IAEA REPORT
In its statement, the Foreign Ministry said discussions of the IAEA report had turned into a tool for attempts to scuttle the Russian initiative and doom chances for a diplomatic settlement, warning that could sow confrontation.
"Russia is very concerned that the report is being used to undermine efforts by the international community for the swiftest possible political and diplomatic resolution of the situation surrounding Iran's nuclear program," it said.
"We also see in this an attempt to deliver a blow to Russian initiatives whose aim to foster a solution."
In a visit that appeared to have been timed to coincide with the report's release, Ali Baqeri, deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, met Russian presidential Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday.
In the meeting, they emphasized the need for new talks between Iran and six global powers — Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany — as well as the IAEA, the Russian Security Council said in a statement.
Senior Russian security officials accept the West has legitimate concerns about Iran's nuclear program. But officials, including Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is expected to return to the presidency next year, have said there is no clear evidence Iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb.
Analysts say Moscow may have calculated that it has little to gain from supporting new sanctions against Iran. This would further hurt ties already damaged by Russia's backing of the most recent measures in June 2010, when President Dmitry Medvedev also scrapped a deal to deliver air-defense missiles to Tehran.
Those sanctions were adopted at a time of improving relations between Russia and the United States, after President Barack Obama downsized a European missile defense plan that Russia opposed and signed a nuclear arms limitation treaty with Medvedev.
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The Reading Spree is happening at Larkrise Primary School in East Oxford. There is plenty of parking on the school playground.
The school postcode is OX4 4AN. Do not try to come through town, whatever direction you come from use the ring road and approach Larkrise on the A4158. REALLY. DO NOT GO THROUGH THE CITY CENTRE.
Coming round the ring road in a clockwise direction from the A34 you will cross over the river Thames and pass the Sainsbury's Superstore. At the next roundabout take the first exit towards the town centre. You will pass a row of shops and down a steep hill (look out for the speed camera) and then up again. At the next set of lights turn right onto Boundary Brook Road. The school is along on the right.
Alternatively, you could turn off for Redbridge P&R (well signed, no need to panic) and walk across Donnington bridge (first right after the Tesco metro and car wash), which is really quite scenic, and past the Donnington estate, which is really quite less scenic. When you get to Iffley Road (the big one), cross over to Boundary Brook road (the smol one) and follow it to the end. The school is on the right.
Coming round the ring road in an anti-clockwise direction you will pass the mini-factory, at the next roundabout take the third exit towards the town centre. You will pass a row of shops and down a steep hill (look out for the speed camera) and then up again. At the next set of lights turn right onto Boundary Brook Road. The school is along on the right.
Buses have changed a little since last year due to the opening of the new shopping centre.
If you arrive at Oxford Parkway station (the fancy new one with trains to Marylebone), take the 500 down to Oxford Station, where the bus terminates, and follow the instructions from below.
If you arrive at Oxford Station you could walk a few hundred yards up to the new Westgate Shopping Centre and go to stop E1 (at the bottom of the hill) to catch a number 3 bus up to the co-op on Iffley Road, from there you'll walk a little further up Iffley Road and turn left onto Boundary Brook Road – the school is along on your right.
If you want to miss out the walk from the station to the shopping centre, you could catch a 1 or a 5 bus in the station forecourt and change to a 3 outside Queens College on the High Street.
Tickets for Oxford Reading Spree will be available through Eventbrite on Friday 15th February at seven p.m. set your alerts so you don't miss the release.
Tickets cost nineteen pounds and include a tasty lunch made by the amazing Sandra and Marie of Waste to Taste. Those who have been to one of the Spree events before will regard that as being worth the ticket price by itself.
Click the link below to go directly to our ticket sales page.
On April 1st 2017 some of the most exciting people in the world of books and reading came to a little school in East Oxford and worked together to create the year's most distinctive day of reading, thinking, discussion and fun.
We had Simon Smith (@smsimon) talking about his life as a reader, Martin Galway (@GalwayMr) on the many splendoured thing that is reading itself, Andrew Moffat (@moffat_andrew) told us about his 'No Outsiders' approach to creating an inclusive school ethos through picturebooks, Nick Swarbrick (@nickswarb) made us think hard about the relationship between home, school and reading, Mary Roche (@marygtroche) inspired us with her intimate dialogical approach for developing critical readers.
Author Piers Torday (@PiersTorday) spoke movingly in an intimate interview with Simon Smith, Darren Chetty (@rapclassroom) challenged us to percieve the hidden bias that excludes children from the mainstream of literature, Rhoda Wilson (@TemplarWilson) helped us think about how we could deliver guided reading to our whole class, Sue Cowley (@Sue_Cowley) led workshop particpants through the steps it might take to get their own book from their laptop to the bookshop shelf and the wonderful Mini Grey (@bonzetta) showed particpants how to make their own fliping, folding, surprising little books.
I've left so many people out – the Story Museum were there and Chris Smith of Storytelling Schools…. so many more.
For particpants the day was a feast, we learned, laughed, enjoyed, debated and made new friends.
Last year, 2018, the second Reading Spree was snowed off when the Beast from the East smashed into Britain making travel too hazardous for people to get to us safely. We're going to make this year even more of a party in compensation.
So, what's a Spree? It's part conference, part festival, part celebration and it's all fun. 2018 is shaping up to be even better than 2017 – some of the same people are coming back, some new ones are adding their voices, the programme will be packed, the lunch will be insanely delicious (and insanely good value) and the only thing missing is… you! SO, don't delay, snap up a ticket while there's some left and let's get this show on the road.
Simon spent some years as a literacy consultant but now works as a Head Teacher in Whitby. He has an infectious passion for children's literature which runs from picturebooks to Young Adult Literature. Simon's blog is thoughtful, entertaining and frequently moving.


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It contains one bedroom with a queen size (150cm) bed, and a 140cm sofa bed. A cot may be provided.
The large bathroom has a shower recess, hairdryer, towels and a shower gel and shampoo dispenser.
The kitchen-diner face the street with two windows and balconies that provide plenty of natural light.
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Latest News Mentioning George Krivo
Who is George Krivo
George Krivo is a managing director and senior operating executive for defense and aerospace at Cerberus Capital Management. He was CEO at DynCorp International and held executive roles at Science Applications International Corp. and DRS Technologies. Krivo, a two-time Wash100 awardee, served in the U.S. Army for more than two decades. He sits on the boards of Tier One Group, Source Code, Red River and NetCentrics.
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Mac or PC? The war rages on. We've thrown the most recent 13-inch MacBook Pro and the closest PC to a Mac we've seen, the Dell Studio XPS 13, into the ring for an all-out brawl.
For years, the Mac vs. PC debate has been fuelled mostly by subjective ranting; the platforms and the components were so different that it was impossible to compare fundamental characteristics such as performance.
Macs have been on Intel processors for some time now though, making analysing Mac versus PC hardware a bit more like comparing (ahem) apples to apples. Not to mention more and more PC vendors are copying Apple's style and features in order to stay competitive. Things are more alike than they've ever been.
To that end, we're pitting the MacBook Pro 13-inch against the closest PC competitor we've seen to date — the Dell Studio XPS 13. Although the MacBooks are due for a Core i5/i7 refresh any moment now, we just couldn't pass up hardware this close. Both models feature a Core 2 Duo P8700 at 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, a GeForce 9400M, 1280x800 resolution screens, backlit keyboards and multi-touch touchpads. They both feature 802.11n and Bluetooth, and cram in a DVD writer. Batteries are close too, with the Dell being rated at 56-Watt hours and the MacBook at 58.
There are differences though — the MacBook is lighter, coming in at a featherweight 2.04kg compared to the Studio XPS' welterweight 2.20kg, and the Dell comes with a 500GB hard drive compared to the MacBook's 250GB.
We've compared them not only on performance and battery life but on characteristics such as design, features and price. All to answer one fundamental question: if you have a PC and a Mac with near identical components, which laptop reigns supreme?
Proudly declaring "Designed by Apple in California" on all of its packaging, Apple has helped fetishise clean product design — and the MacBook Pro is no exception. With a sleek aluminium case and minimalist, unibody design, the MacBook Pro inspires a desire to cradle it protectively. That said, the Dell Studio XPS 13 is no slouch in the aesthetics department; although its plastic construction makes it look cheaper than the MacBook, the stylish grey accents, military lines, leather and white LEDs should be pleasing to most eyes. Unlike the Mac you also have a choice of colours — white, red or black.
But as any designer will tell you, good looks will get you only so far. In the case of laptops, a great design is one that's functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. Apple's dedication to simplicity and minimalism has resulted in some truly elegant innovations. The multi-touch touchpad here is a prime example: it lets you scroll through documents and web pages by dragging two fingers across it, right-click by tapping two fingers, access Exposé by swiping four fingers vertically or switch applications by doing the same horizontally. You can also navigate through images by swiping three fingers, and pinch your fingers to zoom, or rotate them to, yep, rotate the image. It's an elegant system that you soon find you can't live without.
It also has a backlit keyboard that automatically adjusts to changes in ambient light levels (so long as it's dark enough first) and the MagSafe power connector, which gracefully detaches from the laptop if you accidentally trip over the cord. The screen even closes softly with a satisfyingly soft "whump".
PCs have caught up on the Mac in recent years, with the Dell featuring a multi-touch touchpad as well. Sadly it's tiny and nowhere near as advanced as the touchpad in the Asus U80V let alone the Macbook, with only two-finger scrolling enabled.
It also has a backlit keyboard that, unlike the Mac, allows the user to turn it on and set the brightness in the daylight — on the Mac, you'll need a third party tool to achieve this. On the flip side, the Dell features no ambient sensor at all, meaning that if you forget to turn off the backlight, you're potentially wasting battery.
Both feature chiclet-style keyboards, buttons that illuminates LEDs to tell you how much battery is left and glossy screens; the first two being good, the latter annoying in high light situations or if a light-source is near.
While the powdered grey plastic, leather and white LEDs of the Studio XPS go some way to adding to the style, the Dell fails to reach the same simple elegance of the MacBook Pro, and while the Dell cuts a smaller figure than the Apple in width, depth and height, it loses out on weight, at 2.20kg compared to the MacBook's 2.04kg.
A warning about heat: the MacBook can get uncomfortable after prolonged use, but the Dell gets searingly hot when running intensive tasks such as games. We frequently had to move it off our laps, reminding us of why companies like to call these "notebooks" instead of "laptops" these days.
The winner? Despite the closing gap in the style stakes, it's still the MacBook Pro for its innovative usability features and stunning good looks. Does that make us shallow?
Which would you rather stare at for hours a day?
At 13 inches, both have LED-backlit, flush displays and standard 1280x800 native resolutions, although Apple uses edge-to-edge glass to cover its screen while Dell uses plastic. The effect is that the Dell often ends up looking a little smeared after time, whereas the Apple tends to reflect more in high light situations.
A brighter laptop display gives you greater flexibility for working in a variety of lighting conditions. Both are LED backlit, but the Apple is visibly brighter when placed next to the Dell. Advantage: Apple.
We examined a text document (WordPad on the PC, TextEdit on the Mac) that included samples of various text styles and sizes, searching for letters that bled together or looked blurry. Text on the Dell's screen was crisper and easier to read than on the MacBook Pro's, and we found that most letters on the MacBook Pro looked blurry and its anti-aliasing too strong, especially at lower font sizes. Advantage: Dell.
Playing back Adaptation, we analysed the sharpness, detail and colour quality of DVD playback and looking for instances of ghosting or blurring. The MacBook Pro displayed amazing colours with sharp contrast and no bleeding or streaking. Gradation of colours was also impressive for a laptop screen. The Dell, by contrast, exhibited average colours, lacking the punch of its competition. Advantage: Apple.
Winner: the bright, beautiful MacBook Pro display takes this round, though its text rendering is not a knockout.
If you believe the marketing hype, everything on a laptop is a feature, from the lid latch to the dock connector. But for comparison's sake, we've broken features down into three subcategories: audio/video, storage and slots, and networking. Things have improved massively for Apple here recently, offering nearly the same options as the PC competitors.
Apple prides itself on its products' audiovisual capabilities — but the MacBook Pro includes the bare minimum of A/V features: a microphone and some average but loud speakers, one FireWire 800 port and only two USB 2.0 ports for connecting to external peripherals, such as a camera or a mouse. It also has mini-DisplayPort video out, although its usefulness will be limited, as you'll need to buy an adapter to hook it up to anything other than Apple's own monitors. Apple also doesn't support HDMI, so you'll need to get a third-party adapter and send sound over another wire if you wish to hook up to your TV.
The Dell has all of this except the FireWire 800 and mini-DisplayPort, but trumps with the full-sized DisplayPort, VGA and HDMI. One of its USB ports also doubles as an eSATA port, and it also has FireWire 400.
Both have line in and out 3.5mm jacks, although the Dell uniquely has dual-headphone jacks while the Apple alone supports optical audio. Both have webcams, although the MacBook Pro's video quality is significantly better. The Dell's speakers are also quieter and tinnier than the Apple's.
We're going to call this one a draw: while the PC offers more video connectivity, the Apple offers a better audio/visual experience. Advantage: nil.
If you have lots of MP3s or digital video, storage capacity matters, and the Dell Studio XPS 13 provides an extra 250GB of storage space compared to our MacBook Pro test configuration, which will set you back another AU$220 to upgrade to match. While both laptops are equipped with dual-layer DVD burners and SD card readers, the Mac's card reader can only read SD, SDHC and MMC, whereas the Dell adds MS and xD reading into the fold, and throws in an ExpressCard Slot to boot. Advantage: Dell.
The MacBook Pro and the Dell Studio XPS 13 both include gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), and 802.11a/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity. Advantage: nil.
Winner: the Dell Studio XPS 13 takes this round, but by the barest of margins.
Who will win the multimedia drag race?
Any late-model laptop will do for basic tasks such as checking email and browsing the web, just like most any car will get you from point A to point B. But with dual-core processors, discrete graphics and plenty of RAM, these souped-up hot rods are made for more than checking out LOLcats. We tested their speed on a variety of multimedia tasks to determine just how fine-tuned they are in OS X 10.6 64-bit kernel mode, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit under Boot Camp on the Mac.
We timed how long it took for Adobe Photoshop CS3 to execute our custom Action file on a collection of seven raw images, around 12MB in size. The Action file applies a number of Photoshop's built-in filters, converts to greyscale and exports the resulting images as moderately compressed JPEG files.
While the Mac takes the lead, it's only very slight. Last time we ran Vista on Leopard's Boot Camp its Photoshop score was almost double that of OS X. Windows 7 and Snow Leopard's Boot Camp obviously work better together, but it's still the native OS X that takes the crown here.
The Cinebench benchmark measures processor and graphics performance for rendering shaded images, taking advantage of a multithreaded, multi-core processor, such as Intel's Core 2 Duo. It should be noted that for Windows the 64-bit binary was used, whereas OS X only has a 32-bit binary provided.
Quite the mixed result. It looks like Windows has the CPU advantage (particularly the multi-core under Boot Camp), although the OpenGL implementation in OS X is markedly speedier.
Using iTunes, we timed how long it took to convert 19 MP3 files to iTunes Plus quality AAC files. The 64-bit binary was used on Windows, while OS X's iTunes is still 32-bit only.
The MacBook streaks ahead with iTunes encoding.
Using our own custom 1GB raw .avi file, we timed how long it took the VLC player to convert it to a 3072Kbps H.264 file without sound.
OS X takes the performance crown, leaving Windows to choke in its dust.
Sadly due to the small amount of titles on the Mac, comparative gaming tests are quite difficult. The newest OpenGL title on both platforms with a built-in benchmarking tool is the ageing Enemy Territory: Quake Wars; it's not the most taxing of titles. Indeed, we might be waiting until iD's Rage comes out in order to get some comparable modern gaming tests.
In the mean time, we've settled on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (CoD4), thankfully available for OS X and Windows. A few things colour this test: CoD4 runs in OpenGL on Mac and Direct3D on Windows — while we noticed no obvious visual degradation during testing between the two, the OS X scores here should be considered as data for interest only, whereas the Windows 7 scores both through Boot Camp and on the PC should be the ones compared.
Settings: 1024x768, 2x AA; Sync every frame: no; Shadows: no; Specular map: yes; Depth of field: yes; Glow: yes; Number of dynamic lights: normal; Soften smoke edges: no; Ragdoll: yes; Bullet impacts: yes; Model detail: normal; Water detail: normal; Texture filtering: trilinear; Anisotropic filtering: minimum; Texture, normal map and specular map resolution: normal.
Just like in Cinebench the Mac shows its strong OpenGL colours; but whether under Boot Camp or on the Dell, Windows 7 is pretty much identical as far as CoD4 is concerned.
Winner: Apple romps it in over Dell on the majority of our performance tests.
Will the laptop last until you land?
Anyone who's been on a cross-country flight knows the desperation that comes after your laptop battery dies: suddenly your activity choices consist of watching a tepid in-flight movie or flipping though the duty free catalogue.
We timed how long the MacBook Pro's and Dell Studio XPS's batteries lasted while playing an XviD movie with all power-saving features turned off, and screen brightness and volume set to maximum. All wireless radios were left on, to create a gruelling battery test in which the victor would clearly emerge.
Keep in mind this is a particularly stressful test: you'll get considerably longer battery life out of both machines by leaving the power-saving options on, and doing less arduous tasks like web browsing.
Winner: under our torturous battery test, the MacBook takes it by a huge margin.
There's absolutely no argument that the PC has a much greater breadth of applications and games available for it — but when you can install Windows on a Mac so easily through Boot Camp, it no longer becomes such a huge concern. So what do you get right out of the box, for nada?
No matter what laptop you buy, you'll get a web browser, a media player and a few simple programs (calculator, text editor and the like) bundled with the operating system. But most manufacturers add in a few more apps — ranging from antivirus to disc burning to productivity suites — to their software bundle so that you can get to work (or play) right away.
Your average PC laptop, on top of the functionality offered with Windows 7, is usually chock-full of trial software, Internet Explorer toolbars and annoying things that have over time attained the name "crapware". The Dell Studio XPS manages to, for the most part, avoid this, offering instead a full version of Microsoft's Office Home and Student 2007, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. To get the Mac equivalents you'd need to buy iWork, which contains Pages, Numbers and Keynote for AU$99. Other software included is Roxio's Easy CD and DVD Burning DE Home, Cyberlink's PowerDVD DX and a 15-month subscription to McAfee's Security Center 10.
Dell has also included a dock in an attempt to emulate Apple, but the functionality is limited, the icons on the desktop can easily be obscured by it, and with Windows 7's new taskbar it's completely redundant. We turned it off straight away.
Windows 7 laptops also feature a recovery partition, which means if everything goes pear shaped you can at least re-install your OS and start from scratch, all from the comfort of your own hard drive. This doesn't protect against hardware failure though, and some vendors choose not to include Windows install DVDs — in this case, you'll definitely want to run the vendor's included DVD backup utility to create these. Thankfully, Dell does include a recovery DVD with the Studio XPS 13, along with discs for drivers, utilities and the bundled software.
It's worth noting Microsoft's Live Essentials too. While it has been officially stripped out of Windows and usually requires the user to download it, Dell has bundled it here (as many other vendors have too). The combination of the new Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for Windows Vista and 7 is a clear attempt to battle Apple's iLife suite, while separating it out of the OS avoids annoying the EU.
Apple, on the other hand, includes its entertainment and productivity software with the laptop. At the time of writing, our MacBook Pro 13 came preloaded with the excellent Mac OS X 10.6 and iLife 09.
iLife 09 includes iPhoto (for organising and browsing your digital photos), iMovie (for basic video editing and film capture, which combined with iDVD allows you to create DVD movies), GarageBand (a multi-track music creation and podcasting tool) and iWeb (for website creation). It also features MobileMe Web Gallery, and if you have a MobileMe account, you can upload pictures and videos to it through the application.
While there's no recovery partition here, Apple includes a DVD of OS X for the purpose of getting your machine back on track should things go terribly wrong. It even boots OS X as a live environment, allowing you to recover data or perform tasks on your current installation where necessary, and for the power user, the Unix-based command line is pure win.
Winner: usually Apple's bundling of iLife sets it far ahead, but with Dell bundling Windows Live Essentials and Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, it means this time the PC wins out.
It's all fun and games, until something breaks.
It's impossible for us to judge the quality of service when it comes to interaction with support staff, timeliness and responsiveness, indeed, this will change from customer to customer. But we can look at what support infrastructure surrounds each product.
Dell covers parts and labour for one year on-site (with a technician usually coming to you in one to two days), although this can be upgraded to two years for AU$89, or three years for AU$140.80. All warranties come with 24/7 phone and online support, and either free on-site help from Gizmo if you're in a service area, or three-year phone support from Dell. Manuals, drivers, FAQs and self-help knowledge bases are provided online.
By comparison, Apple also offers a one year warranty, but with only 90 days of phone support on 1300 321 456. It provides an excellent support database on its website, as well as manuals, software updates and downloads, an active community forum is present and helpful, and you can even check the progress of a repair. If you're near an Apple Store, you can make use of its "Geniuses", who can assist with any technical query or issue.
To upgrade to three years (including phone support) costs an offensive AU$419 for the MacBook Pro 13 — which is at least better than any other MacBook Pro that weighs in at AU$579 extra.
Winner: while both companies offer deep and helpful support mechanisms, the huge price to extend to a decent warranty term on the Apple cripples it. With on-site service, Dell walks this one in.
The contenders hit where it hurts: your wallet.
Judging products strictly on price is a sticky proposition. Sure, the lowest price is a compelling selling point, but value (aka bang for the buck) is just as important. Due to the sheer volume of their market, PCs are nearly always less expensive than similarly configured Macs. While Apple's bundled iLife suite usually goes a long way to helping it in the value stakes, Dell's aggressive software bundle negates this advantage.
The Studio XPS 13 only just undercuts the price tag of our similarly configured MacBook Pro, at AU$1845.39 versus AU$1999 — although this goes up to AU$2219 if you upgrade the Apple's hard drive to 500GB to match. Warranty is where it hurts, with Apple charging AU$419 for three years, and Dell only AU$140.80.
Surprisingly, while Apple tends to overcharge on upgrades, here it provides price competitive options compared to Dell on extras such as RAM and solid state hard drives — at the time of writing, Dell charges AU$981.20 for 8GB RAM, AU$402.60 for a 128GB SSD and AU$1107.70 for a 256GB SSD, while Apple charges AU$840, AU$490 and AU$1120 respectively.
Winner: on price tag and extended warranty costs, the Dell Studio XPS 13 takes the crown — but Apple is making ground on offering reasonably priced upgrades.
Wait ... what? A draw?
In the past, this has been where the Mac has won, and more than once. It seems that this time around the combination of Windows 7, and the bundling of Windows Live Essentials and Office 2007 Home and Student has helped Dell fight back on more than the usual platform of price, support and connectability.
Of course, while each laptop has won four rounds apiece here, it's never that simple. More often than not, people fall into either the OS X or Windows camp, and the result for them will be predetermined no matter what the other camp says — precious few are platform agnostic.
The Dell has eSATA, extra video ports, ExpressCard, a card reader that handles more formats, a higher capacity hard drive, price and support in its favour; the Mac fights back by running nowhere near as hot, being better designed, having better battery life, a higher quality display and better performance. It's worth noting though that you could probably buy a more powerful PC for less than the MacBook and completely remove the performance deficit — but our basis for comparison here is machines with similar hardware.
If we had to choose one or the other, we'd still opt for the Mac on the basis of user experience and battery life. You're not held back from tapping the great expanse of Windows software available either, as running Boot Camp or a virtualisation suite will give you access to what you need. Running OS X on a PC is well, a little harder, and not considered entirely kosher by certain parties with big legal wallets.


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Justin Gatlin (* 10. Februar 1982 in Brooklyn, New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischer Leichtathlet. Gatlin ist Olympiasieger über 100 Meter und Weltmeister über 100 und 200 Meter, sowie ehemaliger Weltrekordhalter über 100 Meter (9,77 s). Seit 2001 wurde er mehrfach des Dopings überführt, wofür er 2006 eine achtjährige Wettkampfsperre bis 2014 erhielt.
Anfang 2008 halbierte ein Schiedsgericht mit 2:1-Richterstimmen die ursprüngliche Acht-Jahres-Sperre und die Sperre ist somit seit August 2010 aufgehoben.

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Justin Gatlin ist seit 2003 in der internationalen Sprintszene bekannt. Über 100 Meter lief er beim Meeting Weltklasse Zürich 2003 9,97 s. Als er sich 2004 bei den US-Trials in Sacramento über 100 Meter für die Olympischen Spiele in Athen qualifizierte, zählte er nicht zu den Favoriten auf die Goldmedaille. Deshalb war es eine Überraschung, als er in Athen in 9,85 s Olympiasieger über 100 Meter wurde.
Er selbst sagt, dass seine Lieblingsstrecke allerdings die 200 Meter seien. Im Finale über 200 Meter in Athen musste er sich dann jedoch seinen Trainingskollegen Shawn Crawford und Bernard Williams geschlagen geben und sich mit der Bronzemedaille begnügen.

Bei den Weltmeisterschaften 2005 in Helsinki wurde er mit einer Zeit von 9,88 s und einem deutlichen Vorsprung Weltmeister im 100-Meter-Lauf vor Michael Frater und Kim Collins.
Einziger Wermutstropfen blieb, dass er sich in diesem Finale nicht mit dem Weltrekordler Asafa Powell messen konnte, der verletzungsbedingt die Weltmeisterschaft absagen musste. Ein paar Tage später wurde er in 20,04 s auch über die 200-Meter-Strecke Weltmeister, vor seinen US-amerikanischen Landsleuten Wallace Spearmon und John Capel.
Bei der IAAF Super Tour in Doha am 12. Mai 2006 lief Justin Gatlin die 100 Meter in 9,766 s, die später auf 9,77 s aufgerundet wurden, und stellte damit den Weltrekord von Asafa Powell ein. Powell verbesserte diesen allerdings erneut am 9. September 2007 auf 9,74 s. Im Juli 2006 wurde öffentlich, dass Gatlin positiv auf Testosteron getestet worden war. Die Proben stammten vom 22. April. Alle darauffolgenden Ergebnisse wurden rückwirkend annulliert, darunter auch der 9,77 s-Lauf.

Bei seinem Comeback nach seiner Dopingsperre siegte Gatlin am 3. August 2010 im estnischen Rakvera über 100 Meter in 10,24 s. Er strebte nun eine Rückkehr in die Weltelite an.
2011 meldete er sich mit zwei 100-Meter-Läufen unter zehn Sekunden zurück und qualifizierte sich über diese Distanz für die Weltmeisterschaften in Daegu, wo er allerdings im Halbfinale ausschied. 2012 konnte er bei den Hallenweltmeisterschaften in Istanbul Gold über 60 Meter gewinnen. Im selben Jahr gewann er mit neuer persönlicher Bestleistung von 9,79 s die Bronzemedaille bei den Olympischen Spielen im 100-Meter-Sprint in London.
Die Silbermedaille, die Gatlin mit der Sprintstaffel gewonnen hatte, wurde im Mai 2015 durch das IOC aberkannt, nachdem seinem Staffelkollegen Tyson Gay anabole Steroide nachgewiesen worden waren.

Nachdem er im Juni 2013 in Rom bereits die dominierende Konstante der Sprint-Welt Usain Bolt geschlagen hatte, galt er nach dem Verzicht auf eine Weltmeisterschaftsteilnahme von Tyson Gay und Asafa Powell wegen positiver Dopingproben und der verletzungsbedingten Absage von Yohan Blake als größter Konkurrent für Bolt und Medaillenanwärter für die Weltmeisterschaften in Moskau. Dort wurde er den Erwartungen gerecht und gewann über die 100-Meter-Distanz sowie mit der US-amerikanischen Staffel die Silbermedaille.

Ebenfalls für die Silbermedaille und dem damit verbundenen zweiten Platz hinter Usain Bolt erreichte Gatlin bei den Olympischen Spielen 2016 in Rio de Janeiro im 100-Meter-Lauf. Über 200 Meter verpasste er in 20,13 s als Neuntschnellster überraschend das Finale.

Doping
Am 29. Juli 2006 gab Gatlin selbst eine positive A-Probe auf Testosteron bekannt. Der positive Dopingbefund war bei einem Staffelrennen am 22. April 2006 in Kansas festgestellt worden. Die A-Probe wurde von der B-Probe bestätigt. Gatlin war bereits während der Junior National Championships 2001 positiv auf Amphetamine getestet worden. Die daraufhin verhängte zweijährige Wettkampfsperre war vom Leichtathletik-Weltverband IAAF nachträglich auf ein Jahr reduziert worden, da er geltend gemacht hatte, dass die Einnahme von Medikamenten zur Behandlung eines Aufmerksamkeitsdefizits als Kind das positive Testergebnis verursacht habe. Somit hätte ihm nun als Wiederholungstäter eine lebenslange Sperre gedroht.
Er einigte sich jedoch mit der United States Anti-Doping Agency darauf, zur Aufklärung des Falles beizutragen und insbesondere als Kronzeuge gegen seinen schon länger als verdächtig geltenden Trainer Trevor Graham auszusagen, woraufhin die Sperre am 22. August 2006 auf acht Jahre (bis einschließlich 24. Juli 2014) reduziert wurde. Außerdem wurden sämtliche Wettkampfergebnisse Gatlins seit der positiven Dopingprobe annulliert, so dass er auch den Weltrekord über 100 Meter verlor. Vor einem Schiedsgericht der American Arbitration Association erwirkte Gatlin eine Halbierung seiner Wettkampfsperre auf vier Jahre bis Juli 2010.

Ende Dezember 2017 nahmen die US-Anti-Doping-Agentur USADA als auch die unabhängige Integritätskommission (AIU) des Leichtathletikverbandes IAAF Ermittlungen gegen Gatlin sowie dessen Trainer Dennis Mitchell und den Berater Robert Wagner auf, nachdem die britische Zeitung The Telegraph eigene Undercover-Ermittlungen veröffentlicht hatte.
Gatlin entließ daraufhin Dennis Mitchell und engagierte Brooks Johnson, der ihn bereits von 2010 bis 2011 trainiert hatte.
Eine Sanktion oder Anschuldigung gegen Gatlin erfolgte seitdem von Behördenseite nicht.

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The difference is evident in the results. Since March, I have dropped down from 180 lbs. to under 165 lbs. The times on my rides have dropped down consistently as well. I'm 15-20 minutes faster on 25-30 mile training rides than I was last year. That's an increase in speed of between two and four miles an hour!! I would highly recommend using Megan and Hit the Ground for your training needs. Her program, although difficult, if followed correctly, will certainly yield the results you are looking for.
I live in Houston, Texas but I work in Aspen in the summer, and for the last four summers Megan has been my coach in a training group of 4-6 runners of various levels. We do speedwork and interval sessions once a week, always starting with a 1-2 mile easy warmup. I look forward all winter to these sessions! As a coach, Megan is demanding yet reasonable, patient yet persistent, and, above all, fun to work with. Maybe the one word that captures Megan's style is supportive.
There are a few things in particular that I appreciate about Megan's coaching. One is, she will always answer your questions – both in session and sometimes by email during the week – thoroughly and thoughtfully; she not only explains exactly what do do, but also why you should do it. The second is, during tough speed intervals she sometimes paces (runs) with you, helping and encouraging you through the temporary agony of it. Her own level of fitness is such that she can do this many times with different people throughout a session and not seem to breathe a bit harder for it!! Thirdly, Megan's expertise extends to diet and nutrition, and she has helped me in this area, too.
The proof is in the times, and I definitely give Megan credit for helping me go from 49:03 down to 46:30 between 2007 and 2008 in the 5-mile July 4 Boogie's Buddy Run. On the track my mile went from 8:43 down to 8:27 between 2008 and 2009.
Megan's voice – "Drive your knees!" and "Breathe through your diaphragm!" are two Megan-isms – echoes through my brain as I train during the winter, and my work with her has not only made me a better runner but has made me love running more.


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Ördög Tibor "Csipa" (Szerencs, 1970. november 5. –) magyar rockzenész, a Hooligans együttes énekese.

Életpályája
Szegény családban nőtt fel, négy testvér közül ő a harmadik. Becenevét onnan kapta, hogy kiskorában állandóan bátyjaival és azok nála idősebb barátaival lógott. Ilyenkor a nagyok mindig "kis csipásnak" nevezték, így ragadt rá a Csipa név. Édesapja korán elhunyt, ezért kénytelen volt abbahagyni a középiskolát. 14 éves korában összeállt régi barátaival, Tóth Tiborral (Tibi) és Kiss Endrével (Endi) – ők ketten már zenéltek együtt Elektromos Rock néven – és létrehozták a Ramses nevű formációt.

A Ramses 1986-1990 között létezett, ez idő alatt kisebb hírnévre tett szert Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megyében. 1989-1991 között mindhárman bevonultak katonának. A mundérból megszabadulva 1992-ben a Dance nevű együttes gitárosa fedezte fel őket, és bekerültek a zenekarba. 1993-ban a két lemezt kiadott Dance feloszlott, utána a három barát együtt zenélt – még saját név és számok nélkül. A ma is működő, sikeres Hooligans 1996-ban alakult meg. Basszusgitárosuk, Maróth P. G. kilépése után az új taggal, Móritz Norberttel kiegészülve zenéltek 1997-2007 között, azóta Késmárki Zsolt a basszusgitáros.

A magát funk & rock stílusúnak tekintő Hooligans harmadik lemeze, a 2001-es Kánaán alapozta meg az együttes sikerét, ami a 2003-as Szenzációval és a 2005-ös Vírussal tetőzött; a 2007-es Bohémélet és a 2008-as Privát mennyország is sikeres volt. Ettől fogva rengeteget koncerteznek és turnéznak, valóságos rajongótáborra tettek szert.

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 Ördög Csipa Tibor biográfia a Hooligans együttes honlapján

 Csipa - G-Portál

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TAPACHULA, Mexico — As thousands of Central American migrants continue their long walk to the U.S. border, prompting daily condemnations from President Trump, the Mexican government has had to decide: Are Trump's threats enough to trigger an intervention?
The caravan has marked another chapter in Mexico's complicated effort to balance threats from the United States with the country's own domestic politics. Detaining or deporting the caravan's members would certainly please Trump, but it would flout Mexican immigration laws and further the impression that the government is taking orders from a hostile White House.
So far, the Mexican police appear to be conscious of that tension and the perception of their presence. Riot police have stopped to pose for pictures in their gear, as if ready to combat the migrants, letting international television crews film them before retreating.
The caravan risks a wider confrontation with Washington if Trump threatens to cut off aid to Mexico, as he has threatened to do in Central America, or attempts to seal the border with the U.S. military. Every day, billions of dollars in trade crosses the U.S.-Mexico border, and any attempt to block those flows could inflict serious economic harm on Mexico. The newly renegotiated North American trade agreement hangs in the balance as it has yet to be ratified by lawmakers.
The Mexican government's dilemma is worsened by the fact that the incoming government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned on a gentler approach to migration, saying it would not hunt down migrants as if they were criminals.
Mexico's incoming foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said Monday on Mexican radio that it would be a "big mistake" for the Mexican government to use its armed forces to try to stop the caravan.
After a meeting Monday with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland in Ottawa, he added that his administration would offer more work visas for Central Americans. "We are going to invest in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador," he said.
That day, on the bridge connecting Mexico and Guatemala, Mexican police fired tear gas at the migrants, closing the official border as television crews and photographers captured their actions. But just next to the bridge, police watched as thousands of migrants crossed the border illegally by raft, settling for the night in the main plaza of the border city of Ciudad Hidalgo.
Still, the images on the bridge, at least for that moment, appeared to impress conservatives in the United States.
"I want to thank the Mexican officials and the Mexican police for putting their lives on the line," said conservative commentator Laura Ingraham on Fox News on Friday night.
"I think this is the best Mexico has ever been," said former congressman and Trump supporter Newt Gingrich on Ingraham's show.
But in Mexico, the images were seen differently.
On Sunday afternoon, there was yet another test. A convoy of police officers, wearing riot gear and carrying shields, headed for the migrant caravan, ready to form a barricade that would block the more than 5,000 Central Americans headed north.
When the migrants approached the police checkpoint, officers pleaded with them to apply for legal status in Mexico. There were empty buses ready to take them for processing. A police helicopter swooped overhead. The caravan paused briefly as the migrants talked among themselves. Maybe Mexican authorities would give them temporary visas, they thought, or maybe it was a trick, a sneaky way for Mexico to deport the migrants en masse.
"Vamos!" several migrants yelled, and they walked through the checkpoint unhindered. The officers then threw their riot shields in a bus and drove away. The caravan continued.
Mexico is by no means lax on undocumented Central American migrants. Last year, according to the Interior Ministry, Mexico deported 82,000 migrants from the region. It's possible that, at any moment, the government could decide to take a harsher stance with the migrant caravan.
"We know they can decide to stop us at any time, and it scares me," said Alside Caseres, a member of the caravan from Honduras, who is traveling with his wife and son.
It was Monday morning, and Caseres and his family were packing their bags, preparing for another day of walking in the heat. They had slept in the plaza on concrete the night before, eating noodles and tortillas donated by local residents.
"Viva Mexico!" yelled some of the migrants who had already started walking.
Indeed, Mexican authorities have repeatedly encouraged the Central American migrants to apply for legal status here, but it was unclear what that status would yield: asylum in Mexico, a temporary visa that would allow enough time for migrants to traverse the country, or something else. Several hundred members of the caravan have agreed to be processed legally, and over the weekend they were taken to a shelter in southern Mexico, which is currently closed to journalists.
On Monday morning, organizers of the caravan expressed skepticism toward Mexican immigration authorities.
"Humanitarian assistance has been predicated on detention," said Irineo Mujica, the director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras.
'It's time for me to go back': Deportees join migrant caravan to return to U.S.


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The Ending Of Outlander Season 5 Explained
By Abbey White/May 11, 2020 2:32 pm EST
Contains spoilers for Outlander up to and including season 5, episode 12, "Never My Love"
While much of Outlander's fifth season is explicitly focused on adapting the events of author Diana Gabaldon's fifth book The Fiery Cross, the show is known for plucking critical moments from previous and future books when putting each of the popular novels to the screen. Like Outlander showrunner Matthew B. Roberts explained to Deadline, "As in seasons past, we always look ahead and behind to see if there's any way to add in something we've missed or bring up a future bit that may be appropriate to the upcoming season."
When it came to the season 5 finale, that meant taking one of the harshest moments for Claire Randall Fraser in Gabaldon's sixth book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and dedicating an entire episode to the brutal, life-changing experience. Not only did Outlander season 5, episode 12, "Never My Love" plot the emotionally excruciating sexual victimization of one of its two leading characters, but it also marked the third sexual assault in the Fraser family. Being set in the 1700s means that violence in general is no stranger to Outlander and its characters. But the adaptation and impact of the Outlander season 5 finale will undoubtedly have lasting — and perhaps far-reaching — consequences in the long-running Starz series' future.
Here's the ending of Outlander season 5 explained.
Claire's knowledge and an accidental printing catch up to her in a violent way on the Outlander season 5 finale
Earlier in the season, Jamie (Sam Heughan) requests that Fergus (César Domboy) take a note to the printer. Moving with haste, Fergus grabs the first sheet he sees on Jamie's desk, and after taking down his message, heads to the printer. But what becomes evident during a trip to the neighboring community of Brownsville is that the sheet Fergus picked up had on the back of it the preventative health care leaflet Claire (Caitriona Balfe) had been writing. That was only intended for the women of Fraser's Ridge. It was ultimately printed and used by women in Brownsville — including the wife of alcoholic abuser Lionel Brown (Ned Dennehy) — to prevent pregnancy. The ending of season 5, episode 11, "Journeycake" saw Lionel discover Claire wrote the newspaper article under the pen name Dr. Rawlings.
Brown and a mob of men from Brownsville descend on Fraser's Ridge and kidnap Claire. They plan to force Claire to confess that she's Dr. Rawlings to the women of his community who look so fondly on her. As they drag Claire through the North Carolina woods, they also attack her with their fists and knives, and eventually gag her. At one point, she nearly escapes, bartering with one man who believes she's an actual witch. But Lionel prevents it, and as punishment, brutalizes Claire again. After Claire is tied to a tree as the men make camp, another named Wendigo Donner (Brennan Martin) reveals to Claire that he is a time traveler from 1968. Claire pleads with him to help her, but he simply re-gags her, saying they must wait until the rest of the men are asleep. Before that can happen though, Lionel, his nephew, and the rest of the men sexually assault Claire.
Claire returns to the ridge with Jamie and her trauma
After a failed attempt to travel back to the 1960s through the stones, Bree (Sophie Skelton), Roger (Richard Rankin), and Jemmy return to Fraser's Ridge with Young Ian (John Bell). But upon their arrival, they find Jamie and a band of men arming themselves as they ready to head out and find Bree's mother. Ian and Roger both join, as do Fergus and the twins, Josiah and Keziah (Paul Gorman). Eventually, the group finds Lionel and his men in the woods, and an all-out slaughter ensues. Jamie discovers Claire battered and bruised while tied to a tree. As Jamie tries to coax Claire back to him, he and the rest of the men of Fraser's Ridge begin to realize what has happened. To enact justice for Claire, Jamie has the remainder of Lionel's men murdered in front of her and asks that the still-breathing Lionel be brought back to the ridge for questioning.
Once back on the ridge, Lionel is left in surgery. Jamie is in a fury, but Claire tries to quell his anger by downplaying what's happened to her. In a bold and powerful testament to her resilience, Claire declares that after surviving imprisonment, miscarriages, and war, she will survive this, too. "I am supposed to be shattered by this. Well, I won't be," she says, defiantly.
Following Claire's confession, Bree and Roger make one of their own. While helping Claire bathe, Bree begins to see the cracks in her mother's armor, recognizing them from her own assault at the hands of Stephen Bonnet (Ed Speleers). She doesn't press Claire, but Bree does assure her that if and when she's ready to talk, she has a shoulder and an ear. Once back at her own cabin and in bed with Roger, her husband admits that during the fight with Lionel's men, he killed one of them.
Lionel meets his end as Claire and Jamie try to move forward in the Outlander season 5 finale
Jamie's plans to question Lionel are out the window the very next day. When Claire goes down to the surgery with the help of Marsali (Lauren Lyle) to address her attacker's wounds, she becomes overwhelmed. In a brief, crushing moment, Claire picks up a scalpel before dashing out of the room and breaking down in a corner of the house. After Claire leaves, Lionel begins to taunt Marsali, aware of the fear he creates. But Marsali reminds him that she never took an oath to do no harm, stabbing Lionel in the neck with a syringe full of hemlock. Upon finding a fraught Marsali, Jamie comforts her before taking the man's body back to Brownsville. As Lionel warned, Richard threatens his revenge on Jamie and Fraser's Ridge, seemingly suggesting the fire that has been long foreshadowed to kill Outlander's leading couple.
Jamie refuses to respond, opting to go home to his wife and fight that battle another day. He underscores his choice with a sweeping and emotionally charged speech on the ridge — stating that what a man will kill and die for are often the same, and in this case, they are his love. At the house, Bree and Roger reveal that they've made peace with staying in the 1700s, as their home is where family is. Meanwhile, Jamie eventually joins Claire on the porch, where she looks out and states she's thankful for the ordinary day, one of the last they'll face as the Revolutionary War looms.
But the final moments of the Outlander season 5 finale are some of its most quietly powerful amid the difficult story. As Jamie and Claire lie in bed intertwined, Jamie asks how Claire feels, and she quietly responds with a single word: "Safe."
The events of Outlander's season 5 finale were a major departure from the books
The episode's final scene caps off a storyline plucked from one book and placed into the TV timeline of another. In an interview with Elle, star Caitriona Balfe revealed that the Outlander team's decision to show Claire's rape storyline sooner had a lot to do with Claire's development in The Fiery Cross.
"In book five, there isn't a whole [a lot] of Claire in comparison to the other books," Balfe explained. "Her story is on the back burner a bit. I think this is part of the reason Matt and Maril [Davis, executive producer] decided to pull this storyline from book six."
But it wasn't just the timing of the episode that was significant or different from its source material. Those who have read A Breath of Snow and Ashes know the traumatic event went from a single sexual assault by a faceless, nameless man in Diana Gabaldon's books to a mob of men and a dissociative episode — a vivid alternate universe within which Claire could escape her attack. In an interview with The New York Times, showrunner Matt Roberts explained why.
"We've had multiple assaults on the show, and we were wondering how Claire survived hers because emotionally, it doesn't seem to affect her in the books as much it did Jamie or Brianna. How was Claire able to survive in a different way?" Roberts said. "I thought if we show her leaving her body to go into the dream-escapes, that could mitigate what's happening visually."
In the same interview, Balfe also revealed that the approach of Netflix's Unbelievable served as a guide for how they sensitively tackled filming Claire's assault. "We had so many conversations about how to empower Claire," the actress said. "You never really see the attackers. We didn't want to give them any space."