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Today, National Traders Association announced new research reports highlighting Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), Audience Inc. (NASDAQ:ADNC), ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:ONNN), Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (NYSE:BUD) and Diageo plc. (NYSE:DEO). Today's readers may access these reports free of charge - including full price targets, industry analysis and analyst ratings - via the links below.
Euronet Worldwide, Inc. Research Report
Euronet also focuses on expanding its global network. The company has recently announced the acquisition of Pure Commerce, an Australia-based company offering cloud-based financial and payment solutions. The acquisition would allow Euronet to expand its services and operating markets. The company expects the acquisition to contribute approximately three to four cents to its annual cash EPS in 2013. On February 15, 2013 it will release its Q4 2012 earnings results. With migration from developing to developed countries increasing, remittances are becoming more relevant for all major developing economies in the world. Leading money transfer companies like Western Union and Euronet compete on the basis of technology, price, and quality of service offered to remitters. The Full Research Report on Euronet Worldwide, Inc. - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.nationaltradersassociation.org/r/entire_report/5cc2_EEFT]
Audience Inc. Research Report
Audio chip maker Audience, in particular, diversified its customer base away from Apple's iPhone by developing chips for Samsung smartphones and Google's Nexus 10 tablet. The move sent the company's shares up by more than 25 percent as the company forecasts Q1 results at much higher numbers compared to the expectation of analysts. Audience expects revenue will come in at $43 million to $46 million and profit at $1.9 million to $2.9 million. This comes after rumors of fraud by way of fake Twitter posts brought the shares down by over 25 percent a few days ago. The Twitter account of a certain Conrad Block, which had thought to be from short-selling firm Muddy Waters, tweeted that Audience is being investigated by the DOJ on rumored fraud charges. The firm then denied this in its actual Twitter page. Audience's deal with Samsung will set the tone for its future as sales of Apple devices slowly decline, with the Korean smartphone manufacturer accounting for more than half of Audience's revenue. The company's chips are used in Samsung's flagship Galaxy S3, and the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. The Full Research Report on Audience Inc. - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.nationaltradersassociation.org/r/entire_report/3eb0_ADNC]
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Energy efficient device chipmaker ON Semiconductor released two new image signal processor chips for both automotive and consumer applications, used for electronics that use small LCD screens. Their chips can enhance the miniscule screens' display resolution to create sharper and clearer images.
Carmakers like GM and Toyota have expressed interest, and the company believes the two will ensure increased adoption. ON Semiconductor expects that shipments of automotive displays may reach 116.8 million units by 2016, growing at a double-digit rate in each year.Zacks puts the company on a "neutral" stance, citing poor European numbers and sluggish demand in China as factors. However, diversifications across different markets, restructuring efforts, and acquisitions have countered the negatives. The Full Research Report on ON Semiconductor Corp. - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.nationaltradersassociation.org/r/entire_report/9395_ONNN]
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV Research Report
InBev, the brewer of Budweiser, is set to go back to its attempt to take full control of Grupo Modelo SAB de CV or the brewer of Corona beer. The previous $20 billion deal was barred by the DOJ due to antitrust concerns, asking the company to either give up more control of its US beer distribution or sell a brewery. A Reuters report suggests that the new proposal would be letting other companies brew Corona in the US, while still keeping its prospects in Mexico. The acquisition would ensure InBev a larger share of a market full of potential while cutting costs. InBev already holds half of Modelo after it acquired Anheuser-Busch in 2008. In other news, the company will officially unveil the Budweiser Black Crown during this year's Super Bowl, after releasing the Bud Light Platinum the same time last year. The brew has added alcohol content and a slightly higher price tag, which would appeal to more beer drinkers, specifically the younger age bracket of 21 to 34-year-olds. The Full Research Report on Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.nationaltradersassociation.org/r/full_research_report/4c1f_BUD]
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Wine and spirit giant Diageo has partnered with India's largest spirits company United Spirits Limited to buyout United National Breweries' traditional sorghum beer business in South Africa, with a 50-50 split between the two companies. Diageo, who owns popular brands such as Smirnoff, Black Label, and Guinness, has been gradually shifting its focus towards developing markets as economic uncertainty persists in Europe. The company has seen rises in sales in Latin America and Asia, while its stronghold in Africa has strengthened with new staff in South Africa and Nigeria. Motley Fool placed a "buy" rating especially for those seeking "safety" against current "macroeconomic uncertainty," describing Diageo stock as a "quality defensive stock." Analysts expect growth in earnings per share, dividend payouts, and total revenues. The Full Research Report on Diageo plc. - Including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at: [http://www.nationaltradersassociation.org/r/full_research_report/8169_DEO]
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My research focuses on the interface between infectious disease evolution and epidemiology. I am particularly interested in how processes operating at different evolutionary and epidemiological scales act in concert to give rise to patterns in disease population dynamics. The majority of my work focuses on influenza viruses due to the wealth of available data, the breadth of unanswered fundamental questions, and the opportunity for major public health impact.
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Watanabe T*, G Zhang*, CA Russell*, N Nakajima, M Hatta, A Hanson, R McBride, S Watanabe, M Imai, G Neumann, H Hasegawa, J Paulson, DJ Smith, Y Kawaoka. Circulating avian influenza viruses with pandemic potential due to their relatedness to the 1918 virus. Cell Host & Microbe. 15:692-705. (2014) *co-first authors
Koel BF, DF Burke, TM Bestebroer, S van der Vliet, GCM Zondag, G Vervaet, E Skepner, NS Lewis, MIJ Spronken, CA Russell, MY Eropkin, AC Hurt, IG Barr, JC de Jong, GF Rimmelzwaan, ADME Osterhaus, RAM Fouchier, DJ Smith. Substitutions near the receptor binding site determine major antigenic change during influenza virus evolution. Science. 342:976-979. (2013)
Russell CA, J Fonville, AEX Brown, DF Burke, DL Smith, S James, S Herfst, S van Boheeman, M Linster, EJ Schwauren, L Katzelnick, A Mosterin, T Kuiken, E Maher, G Neumann, ADME Osterhaus, Y Kawaoka, RAM Fouchier, DJ Smith. The potential for airborne transmissible avian A/H5N1 influenza viruses to evolve in nature. Science. 336:1541-1547. (2012)
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Russell CA, TC Jones, IG Barr, NJ Cox, R Garten, V Gregory, I Gust, AW Hampson, AJ Hay, AC Hurt, JC de Jong, AI Klimov, T Kageyama, N Komadina, AS Lapedes, YP Lin, A Mosterin, M Obuchi, T Odagiri, ADME Osterhaus, GF Rimmelzwaan, MW Shaw, E Skepner, K Stohr, M Tashiro, RAM Fouchier, DJ Smith. The global circulation of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) viruses. Science. 320:340-346. (2008)
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Succesful ???
It is not that you launch with 99 serveres that are full ... with 1500 people on line that you can speak of "success".
The first week sales are in from distribution (see below link) and ... first week sales of Rift is ... 120.K copies.
LOL, count the other 200K on line direct pre orders and the game has a pathetic low starting of 300K players.
Talking about viral marketing at work.
Stats show the game's launch is appealing to 300K players.
Grtz. But cut the success crap will you :)))
Those Rift servers are simply far too small with 1.5 K caps.
ubergrendle said...
That chart is *highly* suspect. Its probably based on the only indepedently valided numbers available at the time.
Rift server limits were 1500 during the early beta, they're now 4000 since beta wave 7 (stress test wave). That's in the realm of WoW servers IIRC.
During prime time hours, all rift servers are no lower than medium population; most are high or full still 3 weeks after early start. That's a good sign overall. So, worst case is 99 servers x 2000 = 198,000 sold copies, MINIMUM. My guess is that they've sold around 500,000 copies as people don't want to get burnt on another MMO (like AoC or Warhammer online).
An MMO can succeed without selling 10 million copies. They can survive and succeed on their own terms. LOTRO continues to do well after the F2P model (they've actually *added* servers*). Aion is a significant success worldwide, although not as great in North America/Europe.
Given your attitude to your guildmates listed below (e.g. guild kick for mentioning other MMOs) and your throwing a tantrum around another MMO's success, i'm kind of happy to know you won't be trying something different. We're more than happy to have Blood Legion, Vodka members etc forming the raid progression teams rift side. I suspect they know more about WoW, and Rift, than you ever will.
The time is so sad for WOW that even on OUR VERY fan sites we are being downgraded by the haters when we tell simple and true facts about this terrible pure and newest COPYCAT ...
Listen dude; the Rift HEAD developper himslef stated clearly they TARGETED 1500 people per server in Dec 2010, a mere few weeks before launch.
NEVER EVER can you cite those fake 4K per server you mention. You simply LIE about it..
I show you the first week retail ,sales WITH link above and you say nanana not true.
So the lead developper of Rift himself lies, the sales charts lie, the WOW fans lie.
Get lost.
Like I said I want to read about WOW here NOT ABOUT viral marketeers trying to destroy the GAME I LOVE TO PLAY FOR 5 years now.
Capicse? I hate it . I simply HATE THIS ATTITUDE of pissing on my favorite game and game company.
@bossy Your problem is that you see this as a black and white, good vs. evil situation. You can't imagine how someone could possibly like more than one MMO at once. This isn't Catholic vs. Muslim and gaming isn't religion. Game are there for entertainment, if someone finds RIFT, or any other MMO for that matter, as entertaining as WoW it doesn't make them an idiot or bad gamers. I love WoW and RIFT, astounding right? You do not represent the silent majority. You represent the bitter monority who can't wrap their head around what gaming is truly about. For your sake, I hope your bitter out look is limited to gaming.
Pyromelter said...
1.4 million at launch.
15,000 per server peak.
Numbers are from the wiki article someone previously posted, with reference. I would say that's pretty successful.


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Is it all in the head?
The question is whether the sense of spiritual, refers to anything other than ourselves. Is there any connection between myself and others, between myself and God, between myself and nature, or is such a perception only a set of ideas in my head?
In classical theological/philosophical language, the question is between realism and nominalism. Nominalism, a philosophy that generally dates back to William of Ockham (1288-1348), holds that universals (ideas, concepts, etc.) only exist in the mind. Realism holds that universals have an existence outside the mind. These divisions, inside/outside, may be increasingly problematic in a post-Newtonian world.
For Christians this question is more than "angels dancing on the head of a pin." At its heart, the question asks about the nature of sacraments and relationships. For many Protestant Christians, nominalism has become the default position. The sacraments are decidedly not real (in the philosophical sense). The bread and wine of the Eucharist are simply bread and wine. Their "spiritual reality" lies in the mind of the believer. Memorial theories of the Eucharist are quite clear about this: the Eucharist is only a remembrance (in the mental sense). Baptism is an obedience – nothing happens (except in the mind). Indeed, within this theological tradition, things spiritual are all in the head. Faith is a mental attitude. Love, kindness, forgiveness, etc., all find their existence as concepts within the mind. Christianity, within this tradition, is the adherence to a set of concepts.
Older Christian traditions, particularly Eastern Orthodoxy, are decidedly realist. The Eucharist is truly Christ's Body and Blood; Baptism is a true union with Christ. All that exists does so as communion and participation. Everything we know, we know to some extent through participation. The inter-connectedness of all of creation is not a mental construct – it is a description of how things truly are.
There is a middle ground, fairly common within some Christian traditions. The general, nominalist view is accepted, but with exceptions for certain things such as the sacraments. I suspect that many "traditional" Christians find themselves within this view of the world. Modern culture is deeply nominalist. It assumes that things exist within themselves. All connections are merely mental associations. Such "two-storey" lives are stuck in a constant battle. The assumptions of nominalism feel "obvious" (as do most cultural assumptions). The reality of the sacraments runs counter to the obvious, constantly requiring a different set of assumptions (or the suspension of the obvious). This suspension is called "faith."
It is important to note that this last view, the middle ground, does not have a sacramental view of the universe. It has a sacramental view of the sacraments – a tenuous set of temporary assumptions, at best.
These differences in world-view do much to explain the conversational difficulties between Orthodoxy and most other Christian traditions. Orthodoxy is decidedly realist. However, such realism requires some additional thought and understanding.
There is a view of realism (also quite ancient) which gives rise to magical and "superstitious" practices. If the interconnectedness of all things is understood in a manner similar to all things in nature (as just one more set of quasi-physical phenomena), then attempts to manipulate and control this interconnectedness becomes an obvious temptation. These attempts to control and manage take the form of magic and superstition. Various animist religions, some forms of paganism, and most efforts to influence "luck," all have something of this world-view in common.
I have often thought that "good luck" is the most fundamental religious urge of all people. Modern notions of "prosperity gospel" and the like are simply semi-sophisticated versions of superstition. They have little or nothing to do with classical Christianity. Orthodoxy is by no means immune to magical practices. There are widespread abuses in much of the Orthodox world that are simply magical superstitions. These, too, have nothing to do with classical Christianity. No form of the Christian faith is without its temptations.
Orthodox Christianity holds to a realist view of the world – but does so out of regard to God as the Creator and Sustainer of all that is ("in Him we live, we move and have our being"). The universe is not established on abstract spiritual principles – inert laws of the "supernatural." The universe is established by God and the principles of all things are rooted in God.
All of creation is a sacrament – but not of Plato's forms or the ether of magic's dreams. Creation is a multiform sacrament of God's love, revealing itself to those who are God's friends. The emptiness of modern man lies in his alienation from the world in which he lives. Even his primitive hunger for luck bears witness to his desperation for connection and meaning. The path to that connection and its communion lies through the Cross of Christ. In Him we find ourselves plunged into the uncreated life that sustains all things. And in that life sacrament and reality become one.
Where is reality to be found?
There are no criteria to which any Christian can appeal in order to win an argument. A world-view is an a priori assumption. Christians holding a classical understanding (such as the realism of Orthodox Christianity) have antiquity on their side. Nominalist views evolved at a period in time well-beyond the New Testament and early church era. Whatever nominalism is, it is not the view of ancient Christians.
But is the view of ancient Christianity true? Fr. John Romanides described Orthodox theology as "empirical dogmatics." He did not mean an empiricism rooted in Enlightenment theories of objective reality. Rather, he meant that the teachings of the Orthodox faith are rooted in experience and borne out in the lives of its saints. Without embracing the entire body of Romanides teaching, it is easy to affirm his simple contention. The triumph of Hesychast teaching in the 14th century (a defense of monastic experience and its understanding of the knowledge of God) set Orthodoxy squarely in the middle of empirical dogma. "He who prays is a theologian, and a theologian is one who prays." The truth of the classical Christian understanding is found in a life conformed to that understanding.
This empirical dogma is not an argument. It goes where no argument can follow. It is, like the gospel itself, an invitation. It can be proclaimed to the world, but like all things empirical, only experience will confirm its truth.
It is popularly said of Orthodoxy that it is not a set of beliefs, but a way of life. In many respects, this is simply a manner of saying that Orthodoxy is not a nominalist view of the world, but a revelation about the world itself.
Those who stand outside inquiring should ask themselves: did Christ come to assert a set of ideas, or did He come to reveal a way of living? If the latter – then it is not just inside the head.
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i have some questions about your religon father Stephen were can I ask them
You put this so well.
Yes, the answer to our prayers (literally our "asking") is necessarily a matter of both heart and mind. The interesting thing is what happens when the halves are joined — the unintended and utterly sublime consequence of Pascha.
Please forgive me for offering an answer if none were requested.
This resonated with my today. A prominent atheist blogger at Patheos converted to Catholicism yesterday (at least, she announced her conversion yesterday).
I've been reading the responses of her once fellow atheists — many of them violently acerbic — and shaking my head in sorrow and frustration. So much anger and hatred…
Many of their blogs read like the diaries of angry and isolated teenagers. I do not understand the downright FEROCIOUS loathing for Christianity. Their is even a whiff of bloodlust about them.
Their derision stems from a sense of epistemic superiority. They have primarily encountered this nominalistic Christianity and they know it for what it is: the vanity of the imagination. They laugh at it. And in their pride and prejudice, they are unwilling to taste the fruit of real communion with God. It reduces me almost to tears.
Ah well…Pray, pray. Pray for the whole world.
Then again, I suppose, to an extent, we Christians deserve this scorn. We have earned it by our sins, our failure to live the Gospel of Christ. We have walked upon others rather than allowing ourselves to be walked upon. We have judged others while ignoring the chip in our own eyes. We have preened before others and trumpeted our own righteousness. We have not loved our enemies but condemned them. We are our own worst enemies.
Thank you Philip Jude for your heartfelt and poingnant connection between 'Christian nominalism' and the suffering and seething of so many neo-atheists.
God help us all.
"They know it for what it is: the vanity of the imagination." Yes, and well said. I think that modern Christianity is a major source for modern Atheism. And the more militant modern Christianity becomes in its self-defense, the more virulent becomes its opposition. Where the spiral ends is not a pleasant thought.
This nominalistic Christianity is, for me, another way of describing secular Christianity (as I've posted about previously) or two-storey Christianity as I've published about. It's all the same problem. I think that two-storey Christianity is fairly empty intellectually, and bereft of any sacramental understanding of reality. It is a devolved form of the faith, and will probably end up on the "ash heap of history." The damage it will have done before then is incalculable.
Coming out of bondage to such deformities of the faith – sacramental Christianity has a great struggle ahead.
I really empathise with what you just said, having had many similar experiences myself…
On a dialectic/discussion level any contact with this nominalist/atheist world can be extremely painful…
I know that, (yet rarely -if ever- do I conform to this knowledge like I should), it is only me I have any power over. What I mean to say is that only personal, deep, total repentance has the power to change anyone (both me and others)…
These seething neo-athesists in particular cannot be argued with or persuaded for any lasting time, but they are often genuinely and deeply impressed by a living saint's joy, peace, love, nobility, integrity (all fruits of true repentance)
I am reminded of a saying (by Bullgakov I think, repeated by Elder Raphael Noika): "True Orthodoxy does not convince, it charms"
I typically avoid discussions with such people. Is there anything more painful to see than a person unaware of his own immortal and God-beloved soul? It is like a perfectly healthy person who believes he is paralyzed and refuses to so much as lift a finger.
Unfortunately, I was caught up in a few back-and-forths. I kept pointing them toward the saints. One interlocutor responded:
"I know that I am just flesh and blood. I also believe that all human beings are just ordinary flesh or blood. No matter what religion they belong to, no matter how exalted or despised, none are more holy than me, and *none are one whit more profane*. I can be humble in the sense of recognizing my own ignorance and finiteness. I *will not* be "humble" in the false sense, that of placing myself in submission to another ordinary human being for no other reason than because he asks me to, or his followers ask me to. If he has some special property, some special insight or power or moral knowledge, let him *show* that first. Otherwise, I can only regard him as probably another one of the thousands of leaders of false religions that plague the earth."
He was sure I was "talking down" to him. This is a typical response. I was probably a little prickly, which I apologized for. But people don't like to hear that they can only know something through experience. They believe it is either accessible via rational, discursive investigation — or it doesn't exist.
I don't know … I am genuinely depressed from the whole experience. It made me realize my own lack of charity and holiness and the general spiritual malaise of our society. God bless him, me, and everyone else.
I have found over the years that discourse between atheists (or radical fundamentalist protestants) is largely fruitless, and more damaging to my own soul.I think in our age we need to focus more on strengthening our own base of believers, and make more of an effort to catch people when they are open to looking. People firm in their belief will only turn when they themselves perceive something is missing or not right. That happens on God's time, not ours, and certainly not through an argument.
In my opinion, a weakness of us Orthodox in America is the unwillingness or inability to be "in your face" about how different our worldview and lifestyle is. Perhaps with the One Storey / Two Storey Universe analogies we are starting to find a way to communicate this fundamental difference in a way that is easier to get across. Maybe we ourselves are afraid to be clear about it because we're afraid of turning our own on-the-fence believers away. True Christianity is too radical now.
When I look around, there seems to be very few that genuinely get the vastness of the gulf that separates the two world views, even in our own Church. Over the years I have collected a large amount of end-time prophecies of our saints. These used to be reviewed and discussed – along with expectations of the end times – much more frequently in sermons in years passed. Now we are afraid to talk about them – but you can see them unfold quite clearly.
The rampant secularism is the delusion of the devil, that has only accelerated over the years as the world eliminated its Christian civil power structure (its monarchies). The Orthodox Monarch's first responsibility was to ensure the salvation of their subject's souls, a responsibility promised to be upheld during the Rite of Anointing (of a King). The Catholics had this also. But we the people eliminated this from the world, and we the people are living with the result. What did we expect?
So yes, sacramental Christianity does have a huge struggle ahead, mostly to reverse the delusion among our own people – for if they can't see the delusion themselves, call it for what it is and live their lives as examples through true prayer and faith, they will not be able to live as examples for anyone else. The faith will be reduced to arguments and no one will see.
A consoling thought is that many of these militants have their time too… even if only on their death-bed, God finds a way which we don't see at this present moment.
This faith in His providence for them at a much later stage, is one of the first steps that gives you a magnetic confidence (not of your position) but of their extremely fragile belief (in their unbelief) that can be both perplexing and attractive to them when springing from humble love, faith and that liberating aristocratic nobility a truly free Christian can only posses. It is often manifested as an apparent lack of interest in them wanting to change whatsoever (…)
However, what is far more important of course for us – for me – is to cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean…
We are in this world but not of this world – right? We "walk in two worlds" as my Native heritage would describe it. I too cannot adequately describe to non-believers what it is to be Orthodox – not just go to an Orthodox church but truly BE Orthodox. It is not a religion so much as it is simply a way of living – it touches every aspect of who we are and how we interact with others – every day.
PJ, I think most pious believers have had your experience–if not in the flesh with someone, then at least in our own heads when we hear or read the arguments of unbelievers. I think 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 is especially pertinent. The gospel cannot be proved by argument: it must be demonstrated . . . with Christ's Self-giving love in humility and meekness leading the way.
Fr. Stephen,
I greatly appreciate what you wrote and it has me extremely interested in the Orthodox perspective on metaphysics (or a perspective beyond metaphysics). What I've gathered from the Fathers is implicit in their writings, with exception to St. John of Damascus (there isn't a question in the world he hasn't answered). I'm curious where you would direct me so I can read about the Eastern perspective on this matter as I've come from a heavily Western influence.
And as much as I hate to link to my own stuff, I only do so to see your thoughts and to see how far off I am from an Eastern perspective:
Realism, Nominalism, and the Marriage Debate
Thanks for the articles. One of the difficulties in finding material on the realism vs. nominalism in the Orthodox fathers, is that, writing before the rise of nominalism, it isn't a possible topic. That leaves us reading and gleaning in general their thoughts in the matter. One of the better writers worth getting to know in this regard is Andrew Louth in Britain. His works, Discerning the Mystery, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition, (and his other stuff as well), are excellent. They tend to be on the expensive side – but they are "magisterial" in their content and an excellent addition to a library. They're certainly intended for the serious scholar and are not light reading. He is an outstanding patristics scholar.
The book on the origins of the Christian mystical tradition is quite excellent. I wish everyone who invoked the charge of "neo-platonism" against the Christian fathers of the East would read it (perhaps it should be required ). The fathers were clearly somewhere in the realm of "Platonism," in that they were realists. If you are a realist, then you will be some form of Platonist, or that is where others will see you. However, even the New Testament seems to share most of these same assumptions (as does the Old, for that matter). And, of course, it's not that the OT is Platonists – but it shares something of a world-view when it comes to realism, despite the cultural divide between Semitic and Hellenic thought. I'm not sure that I'm aware of an ancient culture that is not realist, for that matter.
A place for thought in the matter for me personally, has been in the realm of Quantum Mechanics (though I'm no physicist). Nominalism tends to demand something like a Newtonian view of the universe. Though nominalism predates Newton, it lays the groundwork for the Newtonian imagination. The difficulty for the modern imagination is that it tries to conceive of realism in Newtonian terms, having to posit some rather odd ideas (with sort of "free-floating" universals and the like). The imagination of Quantum thought (and this is where my own use would be) thoroughly dismisses the need for most of the Newtonian assumptions and at least lets us entertain the possibilities of realism.
I look forward to reading your articles and getting back to you. Good to meet you.
Electronically yours,
Fr. Stephen
A quick note on Schaeffer. You find that I use the 2-storey universe image as well. A critical difference (and a problem with Schaeffer, I think), is that he simply grants the reality of a two-storey universe and sees the problem as how to link the two storeys. Thus, his need for absolutes, and infallible Bible, etc. It is "reason" that he wants to save. I argue that there is only One-Storey and that the second storey is a dangerous fiction. I would also suggest that the craving for absolutes and the guarantees of reason are anxieties created by the two-storey universe in the first place. I would strongly support a more "Platonic" model of knowledge, based in participation (communion). This is the Biblical and patristic model of knowledge. It certainly presumes realism. Schaeffer would seem to want the certainty of a kind of realism, but the world imagined by nominalism. Schaeffer's only true "realism" is the Scriptures (it seems to me) – which is quite problematic. He would have a fairly rational hermeneutic (necessitated by his desire for a reliable reason). I think the Scriptures can only be read in the context of the life and community of the One Church. Their meaning is for that community and can be proclaimed by that community, but cannot be independently verified from outside that community. The gospel is an invitation to the life of union with Christ, which is His Body, the Pillar and Ground of Truth.
I've been enjoying your articles. I have some initial thoughts:
As a Christian Realist, I'm not sure I would use "universals," as a necessary concept. How things exist, and how we know them, does not necessarily require universals within a Realist understanding. I would quickly note that God cannot be a universal, for He cannot be a concept, or an item within a metaphysic. He is God and is unlike anything else.
There is, for instance, the fact that we only know God in a particular manner. When He reveals Himself to the Patriarchs, it is never simply as God (El). It is always, "God Most High," "God My Deliverer," etc. Moses encounter on Mt. Sinai is the closest thing to a Universal, but there it is an encounter with The Name – so utterly particular that language cannot quite grasp it. I would contend that we only know God, through the God/Man Christ Jesus. Even as Trinity, we know Him as Trinity, because Christ has so revealed Him as Trinity. We cannot "get behind" Christ to speak about God. This is a great problem in much Christian speech. Moderns have a "historical habit" and want to start with the OT and work their way forward. The fathers (in the East) always begin with Christ and work their way out from there. The God made known to us in the OT, is the Second Person of the Trinity, the Word of God. Shadows of the Trinity are certainly present and the Spirit is referred to. In Orthodox iconography, the OT manifestations of God (burning bush, etc.), are always labeled as Christ, just as Christ is labeled as the "Ho On" (the Name revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai).
But in Christian realism, even knowing of a particular is done in a manner of communion (koinonia) rather than in a nominalist (rational) manner. This is the most significant distinction (the manner of knowing) in Christian realism. In a way, what you have done in your use of metaphysics, is to posit certain universals (I'm not certain how these universals are known – perhaps Schaeffer's Bible?) and then to reason based on those universals.
Christian Realism is not the enemy of reason – human beings reason – but it uses reason in a very relativized sense. It's useful when its useful, but it is not a necessary category of understanding or truth. There are many things we know and perceive that transcend reason.
Something is true because it is real – and to be real it need not be a universal.
Ultimately God is the ground of reality. Things, people, etc., have reality because they are given their existence by God. That which was and is not given its existence by God is not real. Some concepts, statements, actions, etc., are not "real" in the sense that they are not true and deviate from the existence which is given by God. We are created with a direction and movement. That movement is towards union with God. To move away from that proper direction is "sin" ("to miss the mark"). Thus to sin is to move away from true existence and towards non-existence. This is why the Devil is called a "murderer" and the "father of lies." He hates true existence (even his own) but he does not have the power to "unmake" anything, only to encourage things to move away from their proper direction. Repentance is a movement back towards the proper direction.
In moral questions we may ask: is this action a movement towards our proper direction? So, in same-sex marriage, we can ask, "Is this a movement towards the proper direction for humanity?" Without belaboring the point, I would say, "No." It has some similarities (as its advocates argue) to marriage, but its particulars are distorted in some fundamental ways. How those particulars became distorted is not insignificant (genetics, environment, etc.). But as an act, it does not move people towards the end of union with God in Christ.
On the level of culture, we will likely lose this battle (over the understanding of marriage). American thought sees marriage as a contract rather than a participation in God. It is ultimately hard to argue that people cannot enter into a desired contract. What is flawed is the American concept of marriage. Some of that flaw is already manifest in the prevalence and easy acceptance of divorce. Divorce doesn't matter (in our culture) because marriage doesn't matter. Suddenly Christians want to act like marriage matters…where were we when marriage was being deconstructed?
Certain things are certainly described in a manner similar to universals in the fathers. Beauty and Truth, for instance. But these are always identified with Christ Himself. Christ is beautiful. Christ is the Truth. Thus the beauty and truth of all things are relative to Christ.
Beauty has a huge place in Orthodox thought. I'm not sure that any other group of Christians has a similar place and regard for beauty. To a certain extent, Orthodoxy holds beauty to be a proper and necessary requirement of our movement towards God. The beauty of Orthodox Churches and worship is legendary (though lack of resources or practices of asceticism restrict this sometimes). Every "universal" (if we use the term) finds its place in Christ, or it has no existence whatsoever. Christ is the Logos, and the logoi of all things are created through Him. These logoi constitute to truth of everything that exists. The fathers teach that the logoi of created things can be known by man, but only through the union of the mind with the heart and the "purification" of the nous. The man who is governed by the "passions" (ungoverned thoughts and desires) cannot possibly perceive the logoi of things and remains ignorant. This is why "reason" is always insufficient. True reason (logos) is true perception of the logoi. We are so darkened in our minds by the passions that do not rightly perceive anything.
This is a wonderful area for reflection and reading. I encourage you to keep it up!
AncientFaith Radio should have had you debate David Dunn on "Orthodoxy Today." The priest they selected rattled off trite and rather Protestant responses to Dunn's heterodox assertions.
By the way, I was frustrated to learn from Dunn that Fr. Hopko supports civil unions for gay and lesbian couples (which lead inevitably to same sex marriages) because it is the "loving" thing to do. I don't see how encouraging destructive behavior and a relationship that leads one away from theosis is "loving." Perhaps he misrepresented Fr. Hopko, or perhaps I misunderstood Dunn.
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In connection with his last blog post on the lives of the saints, as it relates to the general communal nature of salvation and even our identity as humans, this post talks about life as more than knowledge and concepts. His final couple of sentences hit me the most. There is enough in these two posts to keep me occupied for some time.
I have to say that your responses are exactly what I was looking for and I deeply appreciate them. I'll look up the books and head back to the Fathers (where I knew their view of reality was implicit, just not explicit).
To tip my hand, my attempt in my essay is to show the Logos as the ground of all reality. William Lane Craig (the famous Protestant philosopher/apologist) recently embraced nominalism, which has many others starting to embrace it as well. Since I'm still technically Protestant (though quickly moving East) I figured it'd be worthwhile to re-introduce realism to the West.
It was something in Pavel Florensky's writings that really sparked it too, specifically his idea of the Logos as the pillar of all things and the Spirit as the power behind all truth.
Not sure of Fr. Hopko's position, but that sounds correct. I don't think he would be an advocate of CU's so much as think it should be allowed. I differ with him on this – but I think we probably have very different assumptions viz. the place of the state and the Church. This is a matter that would likely have a wide variation of thought within Orthodoxy (relation with the state).
Your thoughts and journey sound very interesting. Florensky's writings are very thick – and fascinating. You'll like Louth. His book on Discerning the Mystery would be the place to start.
Gene, indeed.
Father Stephen,
i'm very confused by this post. Either i was incorrectly taught what philosophical nominalism was in school, or else you're using it in a sense different from the reading i did as a philosophy grad student. i don't see why philosophical nominalists would claim that belief in sacraments entails commitment to philosophical realism. i don't see why the kinds of claims made by Orthodoxy about the Eucharist or baptism would count as universals in the sense used by metaphysicians. i thought universals in that debate refers to something more akin to Plato's forms–there exists a form of "horse-ness" which is the universal of all particular horses.
What am i missing here? Is there literature you're referring to with which i'm unfamiliar?
Rather than being the "gound of realtiy," isn't God Himself Reality (with a capital "R"). Whatever our worldview, our humanness distorts Reality to some degree, for God's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. We can only draw near, and nearness is not achieved by adopting principles but through obedience. Obedience always comes before enlightenment, does it not?
You can use nominalism in the sense of no universals (as in Plato's forms), but you can also use nominalism in the sense that everything that exists has a discrete existence, only having connection with anything else by mental analogy or association. It is in this latter sense that I note that nominalism would entail a rejection of the sacraments as classically understood. It might allow for the "middle ground" that I described. This, I think is the more common Roman Catholic position (at least it used to be). In this example, the sacrament is a distinct "miraculous" instance that has no relationship with anything else – i.e. it is not illustrative of anything else. Thus, a statement like that of Patriarch Bartholomew, "The whole world is a sacrament," (a very Orthodox thought), would not make sense.
Orthodoxy would contend (in a form of realism) that reality is indeed "connected." Everything that exists, does so as "symbol," in the strongest sense of that word (it makes present that which it signifies). What is therefore unique about the bread and wine of the Eucharist is what they make present, but not that they make present.
Schmemann's For the Life of the World is an example of this use of Orthodox understanding of realism. In my book, Everywhere Present, the chapter on the Shape of the Universe, treats this at some length. What? You don't have a copy? Use the link quickly and get one!
The Baptist denial of Real Presence makes complete sense to me within a nominalist position. How could it be otherwise. The middle of the road position, of course, is a sort of "special pleading." Everything can be anything with special pleading.
Thank you!
Again with this post, and its comments, Joy! Glory! Bless you and your commenters.
I must stop reading your excellent most recent posts this evening. Thirty minutes ago I purchased a book you spoke of in your previous post and thought,I wish Father Stephen would write a book. Two minutes ago I just purchased your "Everywhere Present." gotta stop reading for tonight, being on a limited income I cannot afford to read more tonight! Bless you, and thank you.
In my opinion, one of your very best posts. What a wonderful conclusion at its end too.
Father Stephen,
Thanks for the reply. Who (as in philosophers) uses "nominalism" in the sense you're describing?
Also, can you point me to any Orthodox writings on how the crucifixion of Christ does its atoning work? i realize that Orthodoxy rejects the forensic or juridical models–like the satisfaction theory introduced by Anselm. But when i was talking to the deacon who's teaching my intro to Orthodoxy class last night, he acknowledged that Orthodoxy rejects the forensic and penal satisfaction schemes, but he wouldn't ever say what position Orthodoxy does endorse (even when i asked him point blank if Orthodoxy endorses a Christus Victor view). Is there any literature on this?
Guy, I read very little philosophy – thus, I don't know. It is a use I've made of the term for a number of years. It might be an idiosyncrasy.
On atonement. Very few books. The topic becomes a "separate" topic only in conversation with the West. It was not controversial in the East and is thus quite integral (typical of many Orthodox matters).
Within the fathers, St. Athanasius On the Incarnation is fundamental. Gabriel's book The Ancestral Sin (sometimes hard to find) is also good.
There are several articles of mine worth noting. They are here, here, and here.
Father, are you familiar with the work of Michael Polanyi, particularly the book 'Meaning'? He is moving towards a realist conception through what is called in his words, 'tacit knowledge' – things which are known by extension or participation primarily, and not via reasoning about concepts.
I think the book is important reading partly because he discusses the difference between archaic and modern minds – and explains pretty well how and why there is a difference, but that the difference is often not what we think – i.e. superstition versus rational thinking, etc.
rivercocytus, I've read him before – but not this. Sounds worthwhile and interesting – thanks for the head's up!
Can you help me understand the distinction between baptism with Christ in His death and church baptism? If union with Christ in His death occurred at the cross, then it is "real" prior to an individual's baptism in the church, yes? Is church baptism then an acknowledgment of and participation in a prior reality? My apologies if this is an uninformed or illogical question.
PJ–As someone else who's been following the posts at Leah's blog today, I'd mention that the comments you've posted there are being read not only by atheists whose worldview may render them deaf to the point, but also by Christians. Your words may or may not change any atheists' hearts, but other readers may be more ready to read and understand. I, for one, have really appreciated what you've contributed to that discussion.
And, Father, I appreciate this post immensely!
Like battling dragons with a fly swatter. I appreciate the kind words, though. At very least, we Christian readers have exposed some of the atheist readers' gross fallacies.
"the distinction between baptism with Christ in His death and church baptism"
They're one and the same, no?
I think the distinction is that Christ's death and resurrection affects the nature, so the nature participates, but in the baptism the hypostasis – the concrete person – participates. So while no description is sufficient to completely explain it, you could say that in Christ the redemption becomes available, in Baptism it becomes potential, and in the Saints it is actual.
I would not divide it too neatly. Becomes slightly too rational…
There will be a time when we will have hindsight from the kingdom where our baptisms into the death of Christ will be fulfilled in all respects because we will be alive with Him and like Him. Until then, before and after aspects of our participation in Christ and His cross will always confuse the mind. The heart, however, is not confused. It can embrace mysteries of the church as family members embrace mysteries of participation in the family. In both cases we are bound in the present to something that conveys us toward an unspeakable hope – God's own glory. The church and the kingdom are, in truth, the only lasting realities for creatures made in His image. Everything else is either a potential for this kind of life or a negation of it leading to death. Our cross and baptism are one because both graces have one purpose; they join us to Christ in whom there is no separation of anything good from all things good.
Forgive my rambling. I think you addressed this to Fr. Stephen but I couldn't help myself.
Where is the church in the photo?
It is St. Nicholas Church somewhere in Northern Greece
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Babe Ruth jersey goes for $4.4 million at auction
Spending big bucks on baseball memorabilia: a record breaking bid on the earliest jersey worn by Babe Ruth.
The jersey went for $4.4 million. It's the earliest jersey known to exist worn by Ruth. It's a circa 1920 New York Yankees road model he wore in his first season after coming over from the Boston Red Sox.
The jersey's price surpassed the existing record, making Ruth's the most expensive sports memorabilia in history.
The amount spent on the jersey is greater than what the slugger earned his entire career. Ruth made less than $1 million in 21 years of playing the game.Copyright © 2014, The Morning Call


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UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres presented Sister Angélique Namaika of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award at a gala ceremony in Geneva on Monday night.
Sister Angélique, through her Centre for Reintegration and Development, has helped transform the lives of more than 2,000 women and girls who had been forced from their homes and abused by fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) or other armed groups. Many of those she helps suffered abduction, forced labour, beatings, murder, rape or other human rights abuses.
The Roman Catholic nun helps survivors to heal by offering them the chance to learn a trade, start a small business or go to school. Testimonies from these women show the remarkable effect she has had on helping turn around their lives, with many affectionately calling her "mother."
The Award ceremony featured a keynote speech from best-selling author Paulo Coelho and musical performances by singer-songwriter Dido, Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna and Grammy-nominated Malian musicians, Amadou and Mariam.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – More than a dozen patients getting treatment at Nashville's VA hospital have a lot of questions about why they were suddenly asked to leave a Nashville hotel late last week, citing an unspecified "environmental concern" at the hotel.
Roy Bryson is one of those patients, recovering from a stem cell transplant, which he had done through the VA hospital.
The hospital had put him up at the Guest House Inn and Suites near Vanderbilt while he recovered.
On Friday night, the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System told him and the other VA patients at the hotel to move to another hotel immediately due to an "environmental concern" at the Guest House Inn.
Bryson wants the VA to be clearer about why they've had to move. He worries that the environmental issue -- if it's something as serious as mold or a fungal infection – could have affected his recovery, or the recovery of the other VA patients who stayed at the hotel, especially because his immune system is still trying to recover from his medical procedure.
"They need to be right up front with us, tell us what the hazard is, how serious it is, and give assurance that people won't be put back in that environment," Bryson said.
The VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System wouldn't go into specifics about what the environmental concern was because they say it's still being investigated, but it released a statement Monday saying: "We apologize to our Veterans who have been inconvenienced by changing locations. We pride ourselves on personalized, proactive, patient-driven care and will continue to work with them and their caregivers to ensure they are comfortable and have all necessary resources during their stay."
The Metro Health Department said the Guest House Inn and Suites was last inspected in October, and they have not had any complaints or requests to inspect the hotel since then.
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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has not had a good season.
Vick has thrown just 11 touchdowns against nine interceptions, has been sacked 27 times and has lost three fumbles.
He's missed two games with a concussion, and appears to be running out of time in the City of Brotherly Love.
Though he's just a couple years removed from a Pro Bowl season in which he threw 21 touchdowns and just nine interceptions while running for 676 yards and nine scores, at 32 some may think Vick's days as an NFL starter are coming to an end.
ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter says not so fast.
"When you look around the league right now there are enough teams with enough quarterback questions," Shefter opined on ESPN radio Wednesday. "But you look at right now, who has quarterback questions? Michael Vick, would he be an upgrade in Buffalo, would he be an upgrade in Arizona, would he be an upgrade with the Jets?
"Would he be an upgrade with any team that has quarterback questions right now? Those three come to mind."
Schefter noted that if any of those teams feel like they can do better than Michael Vick then it's possible he'll be relegated to being a backup for whatever team he's with next season.
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"Minority-serving institutions engender strategies for success that empower students of color," Gasman says. "We should look to these institutions for strategies that are working, so that we are able to replicate them elsewhere."
But, in order to provide the "big picture" and to complete this comprehensive study, the researchers knew that they were missing one key component: Asian-American and Pacific Islander-serving institutions.
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When MTV aired its 16 & Pregnant episode featuring Briana DeJesus, they weren't just showing the life of one Florida teenager. Briana has a sister, Brittany, who also got pregnant in her teens. But while Briana chose to carry her daughter Nova to term, her sister had an abortion. Their story showed two very different choices with two very different consequences, and now we get to see the two paths these sisters have taken on Teen Mom 3.
Briana has joined the cast of the show premiering on August 26, and so has Brittany, albeit in a supporting role as she is not technically a teen mom because of her choice. Briana sat down with The Stir to talk about what she has been up to in the year since the show was taped and why she isn't worried about Teen Mom haters:
On her decision to join the Teen Mom 3 cast:
I did 16 & Pregnant for a reason; I had a story to tell. My sister had an abortion; I decided to keep my baby, and my episode basically shows the viewers you have choices, and every choice you make, there's still gonna be hardships.
After 16 & Pregnant aired, I had such positive feedback, and MTV decided people really liked my story. I'm pretty sure people still want to see me grow, so they offered me the position, and I was like, might as well go with it.
On her fears about the viewers criticizing her:
I know myself, and I know I'm responsible, respectful. I know I'm a good mom.
On her sister, Brittany, being forced to open up about her abortion for the show:
That was hard for her; that's a sensitive topic that she doesn't really like to talk about. I'm glad that she was able to open up, and now she's the best sister, the best aunt to Nova. She's so supportive. I thought she would be very sad to see me with Nova and grow, but she's actually happy for me and Nova. She's happy for herself that she can still watch a baby grow up.
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On being compared to the other Teen Moms:
I don't like that. I feel like I'm Briana, that's Katie, and Alex, and Mackenzie. I don't feel like ... we're the same, but we're different in so many ways.
On her relationship with ex-boyfriend (and father of her daughter) Devoin Austin:
Devoin is Devoin, still the same old Devoin. He's still up and down; he doesn't know if he wants to be a father or not. There are days where he'll try and then there are weeks where I won't hear from him. It came to the point where I was like if you're not going to put your full attention and your all into your daughter, you're wasting my time and you're wasting her time.
Kids need structure, and if you don't have any of that, there's no reason for you to have kids.
I don't need him. I have my mom, my sister. Nova's going to be OK. I'm going to teach Nova when she grows up that you don't need a man; you can do this on your own, and it's a living proof when she sees those videos.
On the strong women in her life, helping her:
I don't know what I'd do without my mom. My mom is like my lifeline. If I didn't have my mom, where would me and Nova be?
My mom supports me, but she doesn't raise my child. What she put through my head when I told her I wanted to keep her was "I will help you when I can, but this is your child, and you need to take care of her. I'm not taking care of her." Still to this day, she doesn't overdo it.
She's a busy woman and it's not my mom's responsibility to take care of my child. It's my child, my responsibility.
Did you watch Briana on 16 & Pregnant? What are you looking forward to seeing on Teen Mom 3?
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One of my favorites! She has a good head on her shoulders!
It is really great to hear about a Teen Mom actually getting her head on straight and taking responsibility for her child and for herself. I got pregnant at 19, so I can relate to an extent. My parents originally were not supportive of my keeping the baby. But they came around. They have helped me out in the past, when I was younger. I am 29 years old now. I had my oldest and only daughter at 20 years old. I had my second child and oldest son at 22. My youngest child and 11 month old son I had at 28, last September. I'm so lucky that my soulmate and the love of my life ended up coming into my life before we had our first child, when we were 19 and 20 years old. Now, we have 3 children together and our 10 year anniversary is in October.
Having a great support system is key in having children young. If not for my sister and my mom and stepdad, I honestly don't know where we'd have ended up. We got our life together and have been independent of financial help since our second child was born. If I could tell young people one thing, it would be to use birth control and make sure that its LOVE...anything less than love isn't worth what you're giving up! Also, if you find yourself in the position of being a young mother/parent, always always always do the best you can for your kid! They have to come first, and you come second, for the rest of your life!! Live, laugh, love and BE SAFE!
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Apple 13-inch MacBook Air review
Summary: The 2013 13-inch MacBook Air has enough internal improvements to make it one of the most desirable ultraportable notebooks on the market. It may lack an ultra-high-resolution display and touchscreen functionality, but there's little else to fault it.
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- Superb industrial design
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- 4th-Generation Core (Haswell) CPU
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- Excellent battery life
- Fast 256GB SSD
- 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- Moderate pixel-density display
- No touchscreen functionality
- Price mounts as options are added
Apple's MacBook Air has been upgraded, not only with Intel's latest 4th-Generation Core (Haswell) processor and its improved integrated graphics, but also with faster flash storage and next-generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The 22nm Haswell-architecture processor, in particular, is designed from the ground up to be power-frugal, which helps Apple squeeze what it claims is 'all day' battery life from the new MacBook Air range — 9 hours on the 11-inch model and 12 hours on the 13-inch model reviewed here.
These improvements, allied to the MacBook Air's elegant and functional industrial design, make this arguably the best non-touchscreen ultraportable you can buy. Our review unit, with 256GB of SSD storage, costs £1,129 (inc. VAT, or £940.83 ex. VAT).
The MacBook Air's slimline unibody chassis is familiar enough, but it's always useful, as a reviewer, to be reacquainted with the latest model — if only to recalibrate the critical faculties when it comes to evaluating excellence in industrial design and construction.
Many other notebook manufacturers have, to put it politely, been 'influenced' by Apple's MacBook Air — notably Google with its Chromebook Pixel. Although, in our opinion, the 1.35kg (2.96lb) 13.3in. MacBook Air beats the 1.52kg (3.35lb) 12.85in. Chromebook Pixel on design and ergonomics, one area where Google's notebook has an edge is the screen, which is a high-resolution (2,560 x 1,700 pixels, 239ppi) touchscreen. The MacBook Air's glossy 1,440-by-900-pixel display is perfectly adequate, but it has a considerably lower pixel density (128ppi) — and, of course, lacks the Chromebook Pixel's touchscreen functionality. A 227ppi Retina display, as seen on the current MacBook Pro, would be nice.
The MacBook Air's screen may lack touch capability, but its large glass touchpad goes a long way to compensating for this. With inertial scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, three- and four-finger swipes, double-tap and drag functionality, you can do an awful lot with this touchpad, which is easily the most responsive we've used.
The island-style 79-key backlit keyboard is also very comfortable to type on. It has 12 half-height function keys above the number row, flanked by dedicated Esc and power keys, plus a dedicated cluster of 'inverted-T' cursor keys in the bottom right corner.
The MacBook Air is not overburdened with ports and slots, but it does sport two USB 3.0 ports, one on each side, and a Thunderbolt port on the right-hand side. The latter can daisychain up to six Thunderbolt peripherals and also supports MiniDisplayPort devices (and, via an adapter, VGA, DVI and HDMI monitors too). If you need wired Ethernet, it's available via Thunderbolt or USB adapters, both cables costing £25 (inc. VAT); a Thunderbolt-to-FireWire adapter is also available at the same price.
The left-hand side also carries the excellent MagSafe 2 power connector (take note, Microsoft Surface), a headphone jack and a dual microphone array; there's also an SD card reader on the right-hand side (this is absent on the 11-inch model).
The 13-inch MacBook Air is powered by a dual-core (4-thread) Intel Core i5-4250U running at 1.3GHz (up to 2.6GHz in Turbo Boost mode). Graphics are handled by the improved CPU-integrated HD Graphics 5000. It has 4GB of 1,600MHz DDR3 RAM and a PCI Express 256GB solid-state drive. Optional improvements include a Core i7-4650U processor for an extra £130, 8GB of RAM for another £80 and a 512GB SSD for £240 more. Tick all those boxes and you're looking at a pricey (but desirable) £1,579 (inc. VAT) notebook.
Another improvement in the 2013 MacBook Air is support for next-generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi via the latest (Broadcom-driven) Airport Extreme module. This dual-band (2.4GHz/5GHz) adapter also supports 802.11a/b/g/n modes and incorporates Bluetooth 4.0. Because we also had a 2TB Airport Time Capsule, a combination of 4-port (3xGbE LAN, 1xGbE WAN) 802.11ac router and 2TB NAS, we could set up a 5GHz network to test the 3-stream, 80MHz-channel (1.3Gbps line rate) 802.11ac operation (see below).
Performance & battery life
To gauge the CPU and GPU performance of the 1.3GHz Core i5-4250U-powered MacBook Air, we ran Maxon's synthetic Cinebench 11.5 test. For reference, we compared the results to those from Eurocom's recently reviewed high-spec Haswell notebook, the Racer 3.0, which runs a 2.7GHz Core i7-4800MQ processor and Nvidia's discrete GeForce GTX 780M GPU:
Although the MacBook Air is no match for the appropriately-named Racer, it's no slouch either. Perhaps a more appropriate comparison is with Microsoft's Surface Pro, which is powered by a previous-generation combo of 1.7GHz Core i5-3317U processor and Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU. The CPU scores are identical at 2.41 points, but the MacBook Air's upgraded HD Graphics 5000 GPU gives it the edge in the OpenGL test with 23.67 frames per second compared to the Surface Pro's 15.63.
Disk performance from the MacBook Air's 256GB PCIe SSD is excellent, Xbench reporting write speeds of up to 575MB/s and read speeds of up to 406MB/s; the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test recorded 670MB/s for writes and 727MB/s for reads. Among other things, this translates into a fast boot time: we logged the average time from power on to the Mac OS X desktop at about 13 seconds.
We also used Xbench's disk test to examine the MacBook Air's 802.11ac Wi-Fi performance, specifying the 2TB hard disk in the Airport Time Capsule 802.11ac router/NAS as the target. Within the ZDNet/CBS Interactive office, which is a fairly noisy RF environment, the average throughput reported by Xbench for 256KB transfers remained around 200Mbps for up to 25 metres, before dropping off to around 20Mbps at 50m:
Impressive as the 2013 MacBook Air's CPU, GPU, SSD and Wi-Fi improvements are, the best news is about battery life. Apple claims up to 12 hours of wireless web browsing for the 13in. MacBook Air, which we tested by measuring the system's power consumption under various conditions (idling and running a workload, with different screen brightness settings) using a Voltcraft VC940 Plus watt meter. Dividing the resulting wattages into the battery's 54 watt-hour (Wh) rating gives an estimated battery life figure (Wh/W=h):
Our results suggest that, with a middling screen brightness setting and the system dividing its time between idling and being fully loaded, you can indeed expect to achieve Apple's claimed 12 hours, which justifies its billing of 'all day battery life'. Thanks to the Haswell architecture's improved power management features, the system also moves in and out of sleep mode impressively quickly too.
Although it looks much the same as the 2012 model on the outside, the 2013 13-inch MacBook Air has enough internal improvements to make it one of the most desirable ultraportable notebooks on the market — if not the most desirable. It may lack an ultra-high-resolution display and touch functionality, but there's little else to fault it.
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|32.5 x 1.7 x 22.7 cm
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|Intel HD Graphics 5000
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|LED-backlit TFT (glossy)
|Display size
|13.3 in
|Native resolution
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|2 x USB 3.0
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|Flash card
|Ethernet controller
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|802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac
|Pointing devices
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|backlit, 79-key island-style
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|1.3 megapixels
|Audio connectors
|dual array
|AC adapter
|Battery technology
|Estimated battery life (mfr)
|12 h
|Removable battery
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HTC is betting big on the HTC One, throwing everything it has into this device, with leading design, specs that impress and a radical change of direction with the UltraPixel camera.
If you're sold on the idea of the HTC One, but are reluctant to move from your existing phone, or from a different type of device like the iPhone, then fear not, because moving into your new phone is very simple.
Settings transfer has been in HTC devices for a while, letting you use Bluetooth to talk to your existing device and move across important information. Previously it was mostly list based, asking you to select the manufacturer, then the model, before prompting you to make that Bluetooth connection.
In the HTC One (and we'd imagine future, unannounced HTC devices) the process has been streamlined, with more options added.
If you're an Android user, then there's good news. There's now an app calledHTC Transfer Tool that will take care of much of it for you. It establishes the connection to your old device and then finds data to transfer over.
It will take your bookmarks, calendar, text messages, contacts, music, photos/videos and settings from your old device. It takes some time, and if you have lots of music or video then that will really add to the amount of time it takes.
It's worth noting that it doesn't transfer all your Google account details or assets, so your Google contacts and calendars don't sync. If you have no "phone" contacts, then none will move over.
If you're an iPhone user, then you also have numerous options to transfer your device over. There's a Bluetooth route as well as from an iTunes backup. Using iTunes will mean you have to use HTC Sync Manager on your PC or Mac.
This application not only handles syncing between your PC and your HTC phone, but also offers iPhone transfer as part of the package. You'll be prompted to back up your iPhone and then given a list of backups you can access to move data over to the HTC One.
If you want to escape from BlackBerry or Windows Phones, then the HTC One and Sense 5 also offers this option. Again, it's via Bluetooth transfer and we noticed that the BlackBerry Z10 isn't listed, if you're quickly changing your mind about BlackBerry 10.
With the launch of the last generation of devices, HTC opened up the Get Started online process. This provides you with a website at start.htcsense.comwhere you can select your device and network and do a great deal of the personalisation before your device arrives in your hand.
You can select to preinstall apps, set-up Blink Feed, sign into Dropbox and so on. At the end of the process you'll be prompted to sign-in with your Facebook or HTC account.
When you have your new HTC One, you'll get the option to sign-in to apply the settings from the Get Started website and you're all set.
Of course, with Google's services sitting behind Android much of what you might want to set up is probably best run through Google. If you're still moving contacts from phone to phone via your PC, it might be worth importing them to your Google account so they can be managed in one place. Then you simply have to sign in, which you'll have to do to access Google Play anyway, and you're all set.
If you're moving from Android and want to preserve your SMS messages and call history then we can recommend SMS Backup+, which will back up your messages and calls to your Gmail account and you can restore them at will on a different Android device.
That's where the real fun begins, because once you have your old phone data, you can add all your online accounts, pull in all your apps, tinker with the settings and you're done.
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NHN Corp, whose sites include Naver the leading Korean search engine, announced expansion plans starting with the Japanese market, according to an Associated Press report.
Naver uses a community based method for its search results with users helping each other find answers. This method works well within the Asian culture, according to the NHN CEO.
"In the search sector, we can provide users with a meaningful service based on a social and cultural foundation," NHN CEO Chae Hwi-young said. "In this regard, Japan could be a model very similar to South Korea. I believe Japan is where we can excel more than anywhere else."
NHN also plans to enter the English, Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese and other markets.
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The stars are officially in line for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Paramount and Warner Bros. will be splitting the difference, the former taking domestic distribution and Warner, who's had a hand in all of his projects from Insomnia on, has international duties covered. An IMAX release is already confirmed. Most definitively, however, a release date is already set: November 7, 2014.
Warner's delay of The Hobbit: There and Back Again from July 18 to December 17, 2014 had raised speculation that, given Warner's involvement in the project, Interstellar might be taking that place. Instead, as Paramount head Brad Grey puts it, "November is the perfect way to start the Thanksgiving and holiday movie season for audiences around the world." Indeed, the film will have a jump on other holiday heavyweights like The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, There and Back Again and Tomorrowland.
However, if the impending 24th James Bond film materializes with a director (after Sam Mendes bowed out earlier this week), will Nolan's ambitious vision get piled? Probably not: the box office receipts for the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception have proven Nolan is a rare combination of auteur integrity and box-office success. He's too important or fascinating to be ignored or forgotten, and Interstellar will likely follow through on the promise.
He'll be polishing his brother Jonathan's script and directing this tale of "a heroic interstellar voyage to the furthest reaches of our scientific understanding." Alternate dimensions, time travel and Hans Zimmer music are all possibly at stake.
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