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Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1, for 64-bit systems, OEM

Please note: Please be advised that you can not upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 with an OEM version. If you wish to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7, you will need to purchase Windows 7 Upgrade product.

Windows 7 Professional
Everything you need for work and home
With Windows 7 Professional, fewer walls stand between you and your success. You can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and recover data easily with automatic backups to your home or business network. You can also connect to company networks effortlessly and more securely with Domain Join. With all the exciting entertainment features of Windows Home Premium, it's a great choice for home and for business.

Easiest Windows to use ever
? Simplify your PC with new navigation features like Aero Shake, Jump Lists, and Snap.
? Customise Windows to look and feel the way you like by changing themes and taskbar programs.
? Easy to network (with or without a server).
? Back up your complete system over a network.

Faster and more flexible
? Windows XP Mode gives you the business flexibility you need.
? Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
? Takes full advantage of 64-bit PC hardware and memory.

Best PC entertainment experience
? Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV with Windows Media Center.
? Blu-ray read/write support for data files.
? Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.

Engineered by us. Inspired by you.
Two years ago we started asking PC owners what they wanted from Windows 7. As a result, many big and small improvements have been made to Windows 7. Check them out!

Windows 7 simplifies everyday tasks
Desktop - Introducing improved taskbar previews, bigger icons, pinning, and creative ways to personalise.
HomeGroup - Simplifies home networking, so it's easy to share files and printers.
Jump Lists - Quick access to your favourite pictures, songs, websites, and documents.
Snap - A quick (and fun) new way to resize and compare windows on your desktop.
Windows Live Essentials - Get free PC software, including Mail, Photo Gallery, and other favourites!
Windows Search - At last, searching your PC is as simple as searching the web.

Windows 7 works the way you want
Performance improvements - It's designed to sleep and resume quickly, use less memory, and identify USB devices quickly.
Full 64-bit support - Windows 7 makes the most of powerful 64-bit PCs, the new desktop standard.
Power management - New power-saving features are designed to help laptops run longer.

Windows 7 makes new things possible
Easier wireless networking - Windows 7 gets you online quicker, so you can work anywhere.
Windows Media Center - Watch, record, and pause live TV (additional hardware required).
Windows Touch - With Windows 7 and a touch-sensitive screen, you don't always need a keyboard or mouse.

Windows 7 system requirements
If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
? 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
? 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
? 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
? DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Additional requirements to use certain features:
? Internet access (fees may apply)
? Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware
? For some Windows Media Center functionality a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required
? Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware
? HomeGroup requires a network and PCs running Windows 7
? DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive
? Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1 GB of RAM, an additional 15 GB of available hard disk space, and a processor capable of hardware virtualization with Intel VT or AMD-V turned on
? Music and sound require audio output

While every attempt is made to ensure the information provided on this page is accurate, specifications change from time to time and we are not liable for any omissions or errors.

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More Mobile Wallets Incoming: Placecast Launches White Label ShopAlerts Wallet

We've seen some notable developments around mobile payments that turn handsets effectively into credit cards, credit card processors, reward point aggregators, and more. A new product out today could see the ranks of these services swell even larger: mobile marketing company Placecast is launching ShopAlerts Wallet, an HTML5-based, white-label service combining local offers and payments, which it wants to sell on to credit card companies, carriers and retailers to develop their own mobile payment wallets and loyalty services. PlaceCast says that this is service is the first of its kind, in that it ties location-based offers?(the service Placecast is best known for)?to mobile payments in a "turnkey", plug-and-play solution. Based on HTML5, the service works across all smartphone platforms, and is potentially easier to implement and use than a native app:?"There?s no app to build for marketers, and no app for consumers to download," the company says.

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Analysis: Goldman judge cuts Wells notice disclosure burden

(Reuters) - A federal judge's decision that otherwise went against Goldman Sachs Group Inc has made it easier for companies to defeat shareholder claims that litigation threatened by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should be disclosed.

U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty in Manhattan said Goldman could not be sued under federal law for securities fraud for failing to disclose it had received a Wells notice from the SEC, though news of a notice often causes a negative market reaction.

The case related to Goldman's alleged failure to disclose conflicts of interest in its sale of risky collateralized debt obligations such as Abacus 2007 AC-1, which led to a $550 million settlement between the bank and the SEC.

A Wells notice shows that SEC staff intend to recommend civil charges and lets a recipient mount a defense. But it is SEC commissioners themselves who decide whether to bring a case.

"At best, a Wells notice indicates not litigation, but only the desire of the enforcement staff to move forward," Crotty wrote. "When the regulatory investigation matures to the point where litigation is apparent and substantially certain to occur, then ... disclosure is mandated."

Goldman got its Wells notice in July 2009, but that was not revealed until the SEC accused it of fraud the following April. Two employees, Fabrice Tourre and Jonathan Egol, also got Wells notices, and the SEC eventually charged Tourre with fraud.

Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University, said Crotty's decision is the first to conclude that receipt of a Wells notice does not trigger an automatic disclosure obligation, including for companies that like Goldman may have earlier made general disclosures about regulatory probes.

"The tension is that investors want to know everything, and companies want to reveal nothing," Henning said. "Judge Crotty's decision pushes the trigger point for when disclosure is required to a later date. That's good for companies. From an investor transparency point of view, this is not helpful."

A 2009 study by Cornerstone Research found that 17 of 58 Wells notice disclosures from April 2002 to January 2007 triggered large stock price declines. It also found that these 58 announcements, when analyzed collectively, triggered statistically significant stock price declines.

MARKET MOVING, BUT NOT DISCLOSABLE

Goldman shares fell 12.8 percent on April 16, 2010 when the SEC announced its civil fraud lawsuit over Abacus, wiping out more than $12 billion of the Wall Street bank's market value.

By the end of June, after more details had emerged about Goldman's CDO, the shares had fallen nearly 29 percent.

Another U.S. regulator, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, in November 2010 fined Goldman $650,000 for failing to reveal the Wells notices that Tourre and Egol had received.

In his decision, Crotty did let the Goldman shareholders pursue claims that the bank failed to disclose it had bet against some CDO it was selling, and let billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson bet against securities he chose for Abacus.

Still, the judge said that while companies have a duty to make "accurate and complete" disclosures, this did not mean they needed to disclose everything, but rather enough such that what was revealed "would not be so incomplete as to mislead."

He explained: "A corporation is not required to disclose a fact merely because a reasonable investor would very much like to know that fact."

Robert Daines, a professor and governance specialist at Stanford Law School, said the judge tied his holding close to the facts of the case, making the broader impact unclear.

"Because a Wells notice is issued before the SEC knows much about the case, the notice may or may not turn out to be important," he said, "and so the SEC has long taken the position that a Wells notice may or may not be material information."

Henning said Crotty's decision could prompt an SEC review of Regulation S-K, which sets out reporting requirements for public companies. But he also said greater disclosure obligations could backfire on the agency by forcing more disputes into the open.

"A Wells notice serves a purpose for the SEC, to prod companies to settle," he said. "But if it is something companies must disclose immediately, the SEC may become more reluctant to issue a notice, and that could reduce its flexibility."

SEC spokesman John Nester declined to comment.

The Tourre case remains unresolved. Egol was not charged.

The case is Richman v. Goldman Sachs Group Inc, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 10-03461.

(Reporting By Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

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Deciding on the best Voip Pbx Company
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Returning the pop to Renaissance paintings

A new look at old paintings reveals never-before-seen details of two Renaissance works of art, including hidden decorations in brilliant silver and gold.

The hidden accents appear on frescoes painted in the Chapel of Theodelinda in the Monza Cathedral in Italy. To the naked eye, they appear dull and are sometimes even painted over. Using a new technique, however, Italian scientists can make the colors pop. These new visualizations could help art historians restore and conserve the paintings.

The technique is called thermal quasi-reflectography, or TQR. It uses reflected light to differentiate between different pigments on a piece of art.

"This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first time that this technique has been applied on artworks," study researcher Dario Ambrosini of the University of L'Aquila in Italy said in a statement. "This novel method represents a powerful yet safe tool for artwork diagnostics." [ See Photos of the Renaissance Art ]

A new light on old art
Art conservators have long used parts of the light spectrum not visible to the naked eye to bring out tiny details in old paintings. Infrared light, for example, has wavelengths longer than visible light. By taking images of artwork in these long wavelengths, scientists can see places where layers have been painted upon layers, revealing preparatory sketches and changes by the artist.

Other techniques use thermal, or heat, energy to investigate the materials a painting is made of as well as structural flaws. A dot of paint with an air bubble behind it, for example, will emit less heat than spots where the paint is flush because of the insulating properties of air.

Ambrosini and his colleagues turned this last technique on its head. Instead of measuring heat emitted from a painting, the researchers shone a halogen lamp in the mid-infrared spectrum onto the frescoes and measured the amount of light reflected back. A camera capable of capturing mid-wavelength infrared light recorded the image created as the light bounced off the art.

The set-up was simple, but the researchers had to control the environment carefully, ensuring that the lamp did not heat the painting surface and that there were no other sources of heat nearby.

Unseen detail
The researchers tested the TQR technique on two frescoes, or murals created on wet plaster on walls. The first were the 15th-century paintings in the Chapel of Theodelinda, which depict the life of the patron queen of the church. With the TQR system, the scientists were able to make out extra detail on the old frescoes. Suits of armor, dulled and uniform to the naked eye, reveal sharp lines and careful detail under the infrared technique. In one case, the individual fingers of a soldier grasping a staff come out of hiding.?

Because silver and gold pigments are highly reflective, they stand out strongly in the new views of the Theodelinda frescoes. Decorations on the soldier's armor appear almost luminous in the new images.

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Next, the researchers tried the technique on Piero della Francesca's "The Resurrection," which dates back to the 1460s and depicts the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This painting is held in the Museo Civico of Sansepolcro in Italy.

In this fresco, the new images showed differences in pigments that look nearly identical to the naked eye. They also showed telltale signs of retouching, as well as a segment of a soldier's sword painted with two different fresco techniques. These tiny details can be very important to art historians trying to restore a work to its original condition.

The researchers are now testing the technique on other, non-fresco types of paintings, hoping it can be used to tell what kinds of pigments were used to make the painting.

"Determining the chemical makeup of the pigments is important in determining how best to protect and restore the artwork," Ambrosini said. He and his colleagues reported their work Monday in the open-access journal Optics Express.

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Can a whole food diet really help your health? - Fitness Nutrition ...

You might have noticed the term ?whole food? being thrown around at every super market. Being the good consumer you are, you?re probably wondering if adopting this type of diet is actually beneficial.

Before I go into the debate of whether a whole food diet can benefit your health or not, I think it?s necessary to attempt to clarify what a whole food diet consists of. I use the word attempt, because this is no easy task.

For starters, whole foods are defined as foods that are unprocessed or unrefined, or done so very minimally prior to consumption. For some people this may mean only consuming fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds and nuts. Others interpret a whole food diet to include animal products.

To make matters even more confusing, the term organic is often entangled with whole foods. One should note that while whole foods can be organic, and organic foods can be whole foods, this is not necessarily always true. Organic primarily refers to the processes used while farming, and the term whole food refers to the state of the food during consumption. Head spinning a little? It?s okay; for the purpose of clarity let?s include organic animal products in a whole food diet.

The main reason whole foods are thought to be a healthier choice is because vital nutrients are often lost during processing and refinement. To give you a better idea of what this means, lets look at six ways a whole diet can benefit your health.

• Increased fiber: Whole foods such as broccoli, brown rice, almonds, and oatmeal are great sources of fiber. Fiber helps move wastes from the body, which keeps the digestive system clean and running smoothly.
• Decreased fat intake: A diet consisting of whole foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and seeds contains less fat than a diet of processed foods. Even low-fat meals often have twice as much fat as whole food meals. Lower fat intake can keep cholesterol levels down and reduce the total number of calories per day.
• Decreased sugar intake: Whole foods include a variety of natural complex carbohydrates which are typically filling, therefore decreasing your desire to snack on these unhealthy treats. There aren?t any added sugars or sweeteners either.
• More nutrients: A whole food diet consists of foods that provide greater nutrient dense options in comparison to a diet with highly processed foods. You often would need to eat double the amount of a processed food to get the same amount of nutrients as the whole food option.
• Variety of foods: The variety of fruits, vegetables, seeds, grains, and nuts in a whole food diet is practically limitless. This allows for greater consumption of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that directly benefit daily bodily function.
• Greater satisfaction, less overeating: Meals that are rich in nutrients and fiber are more filling than processed foods. They take a longer time to chew and eat, allowing your body to signal when it?s full before you?re over stuffed.

It is also important to mention an increased amount of phytochemicals in a whole food diet. Phytochemicals have been proven to reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and colon disorders. Research, such as a study conducted in 2000 by the USDA-ARS, observed the benefits of a whole food based diet among twelve women who previously had high fat levels. After a four-week whole-food program, blood tests revealed lower lipid levels, improved colon function, and decreased cholesterol levels. So what?s the take home message here? If you?re looking to eat healthier and improve your health, switching to more whole foods is a great place to start!

Additional Whole Foods Resources

A Definition of What Exactly Are ?Whole Foods?
Defining Whole Foods, Redefining Healthy Eating
Starting a Whole Foods Diet: 3 Simple Steps

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3. Adding Complexity is Not the Solution: Basic Economics of a Healthy Diet
4. Food Substitutions Can Add Nutrients
5. A Definition of What Exactly Are ?Whole Foods?

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