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"The biggest mistake we make about scarcity is we view it as a physical phenomenon. It's not."
We're busier than ever. The typical inbox is perpetually swelling with messages awaiting attention. Meetings need to be rescheduled because something came up. Our relationships suffer. We don't spend as much time as we should with those who mean something to us. We have little time for new people; potential friends eventually get the hint and stop proposing ideas for things to do together. Falling behind, turns into a vicious cycle.
Does this sound anything like your life?
You have something in common with people who fall behind on their bills, argue Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan and Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir in their book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. The resemblance, they write, is clear.
Missed deadlines are a lot like over-due bills. Double-booked meetings (committing time you do not have) are a lot like bounced checks (spending money you do not have). The busier you are, the greater the need to say no. The more indebted you are, the greater the need to not buy. Plans to escape sound reasonable but prove hard to implement. They require constant vigilance—about what to buy or what to agree to do. When vigilance flags—the slightest temptation in time or in money—you sink deeper.
Some people end up sinking further into debt. Others with more commitments. The resemblance is striking.
We normally think of time management and money management as distinct problems. The consequences of failing are different: bad time management leads to embarrassment or poor job performance; bad money management leads to fees or eviction. The cultural contexts are different: falling behind and missing a deadline means one thing to a busy professional; falling behind and missing a debt payment means something else to an urban low-wage worker.
What's common between these situations? Scarcity. "By scarcity," they write, "we mean having less than you feel you need."
And what happens when we feel a sense of scarcity? To show us Mullainathan and Shafir bring us back to the past. Near the end of World War II, the Allies realized they would need to feed a lot of Europeans on the edge of starvation. The question wasn't where to get the food but, rather, something more technical. What is the best way to start feeding them? Should you begin with normal meals or small quantities that gradually increase? Researchers at the University of Minnesota undertook an experiment with healthy male volunteers in a controlled environment "where their calories were reduced until they were subsisting on just enough food so as not to permanently harm themselves." The most surprising findings were psychological. The men became completely focused on food in unexpected ways:
Obsessions developed around cookbooks and menus from local restaurants. Some men could spend hours comparing the prices of fruits and vegetables from one newspaper to the next. Some planned now to go into agriculture. They dreamed of new careers as restaurant owners…. When they went to the movies, only the scenes with food held their interest.
"Scarcity captures the mind," Mullainathan and Shafir write. Starving people have food on their mind to the point of irrationality. But we all act this way when we experience scarcity. "The mind," they write, "orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs."
Scarcity is like oxygen. When you don't need it, you don't notice it. When you do need it, however, it's all you notice.
For the hungry, that need is food. For the busy it might be a project that needs to be finished. For the cash-strapped it might be this month's rent payment; for the lonely, a lack of companionship. Scarcity is more than just the displeasure of having very little. It changes how we think. It imposes itself on our minds.
And when scarcity is taking up your mental cycles and putting your attention on what you lack, you can't attend to other things. How, for instance, can you learn?
(There was) a school in New Haven that was located next to a noisy railroad line. To measure the impact of this noise on academic performance, two researchers noted that only one side of the school faced the tracks, so the students in classrooms on that side were particularly exposed to the noise but were otherwise similar to their fellow students. They found a striking difference between the two sides of the school. Sixth graders on the train side were a full year behind their counterparts on the quieter side. Further evidence came when the city, prompted by this study, installed noise pads. The researchers found this erased the difference: now students on both sides of the building performed at the same level.
Cognitive load matters. Mullainathan and Shafir believe that scarcity imposes a similar mental tax, impairing our ability to perform well, and exercise self-control.
We are all susceptible to "the planning fallacy," which means that we're too optimistic about how long it will take to complete a project. Busy people, however, are more vulnerable to this fallacy. Because they are focused on everything they must currently do, they are "more distracted and overwhelmed—a surefire way to misplan." "The underlying problem," writes Cass Sunstein in his review for the New York Review of Books, "is that when people tunnel, they focus on their immediate problem; 'knowing you will be hungry next month does not capture your attention the same way that being hungry today does.' A behavioral consequence of scarcity is "juggling," which prevents long-term planning."
When we have abundance, we don't have as much depletion. Wealthy people can weather a shock without turning their lives upside-down. The mental energy needed to prevail may be substantial, but it will not create a feeling of scarcity.
Imagine a day at work where your calendar is sprinkled with a few meetings and your to-do list is manageable. You spend the unscheduled time by lingering at lunch or at a meeting or calling a colleague to catch up. Now, imagine another day at work where your calendar is chock-full of meetings. What little free time you have must be sunk into a project that is overdue. In both cases time was physically scarce. You had the same number of hours at work and you had more than enough activities to fill them. Yet in one case you were acutely aware of scarcity, of the finiteness of time; in the other it was a distant reality, if you felt it at all. The feeling of scarcity is distinct from its physical reality.
Mullainathan and Shafir sum up their argument:
In a way, our argument in this book is quite simple. Scarcity captures our attention, and this provides a narrow benefit: we do a better job of managing pressing needs. But more broadly, it costs us: we neglect other concerns, and we become less effective in the rest of life. This argument not only helps explain how scarcity shapes our behaviors; it also produces some surprising results and sheds new light on how we might go about managing our scarcity.
In a way, this explains why diets never work.
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much goes on to discuss some of the possible ways to mitigate scarcity using defaults and reminders.

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Harvard economists say that a slowdown in the growth of U.S. health care costs could mean that Americans could save as much as $770 billion on Medicare spending over the next decade.
In a May 6 paper published in Health Affairs, David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and co-author Nikhil Sahni, a senior researcher in Harvard's Economics Department, point to several factors, including a decline in the development of new drugs and technologies and increased efficiency in the health care system, to explain the recent slowdown.
If those trends continue over the next decade, they say, estimates of health care spending produced by the Congressional Budget Office and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary could be off by hundreds of billions.
Money, Cutler said, that could have a profound effect not just on government spending, but on average workers as well.
If the growth in costs remains flat, Cutler said, money companies might otherwise spend on health care could be directed back to workers in the form of increased salaries. Reduced health care costs could also help relieve financial strain on other critical government programs at both the state and national level.
"At the federal and state level, we've cut everything but health care," Cutler said. "If we can hold the growth in health care spending down, it would reduce the pressure on government, and would allow us to avoid funding one program at the expense of others, or raising taxes."
While recent forecasts by the CBO and Medicare actuaries have taken the recent slowdown in health care spending into account, those estimates come with a fatal flaw - an assumption that costs have slowed largely due to the 2007 recession.
By comparison, Cutler and Sahni's study suggests that just over a third, about 37 percent, of the decrease could be chalked up to the recession. Instead, they say, the bulk of the decline could be attributed to factors like a decline in the development of new treatments.
"For whatever reason, the technology that's available for treating people seems to be improving at a slower rate than in the past," Cutler said. "In recent years, there have been a number of oncology drugs that have been touted as potential blockbusters, but most haven't sold as well as expected. Other analysts have also noted that while research and development spending by pharmaceutical companies has increased dramatically, the number of new drug approvals has remained flat."
With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Cutler said, health care providers received new incentives to increase efficiency and reduce costly problems, such as readmitting patients soon after discharge and in-hospital infections.
"There are a variety of different programs where we've said if you're efficient you'll be rewarded, and so that's what a lot of institutions are trying to do," he said.
Steep out-of-pocket costs have also resulted in many people - even those who are insured - choosing to defer some treatments in the interest of saving money.
"A typical insurance policy now has a deductible of over $1,000 for an individual, and maybe $2,000 for a family, and most people don't have that amount of cash in the bank," Cutler said. "It's a big hurdle. People look at their cost-sharing, and they say this is a lot of money, I'm not sure I can afford it, so they're cutting back on discretionary imaging, they're cutting back on elective surgeries, and on referrals to specialists that might not be covered.
"At the same time, insurers have become a lot smarter about directing people to cheaper alternatives when you do seek treatment," Cutler added. "For example, it used to be that everyone took the branded version of a drug. Now, if you're taking the branded version of a drug, you've gone out of your way to do that."
Ultimately, Cutler said, the question of whether earlier estimates of health care costs are correct will depend on whether insurers, providers and the public continue to work to keep costs under control.
"Don't think of this as plate tectonics, where the Earth's crust is moving and we just need to figure out how fast it's moving," Cutler said. "We have a lot of control over this, through policies in the Affordable Care Act and Medicare and Medicaid. It's not easy -- no change is ever easy -- but if we continue to do the right things, like stressing efficiency and helping people choose less expensive alternatives, then we can make sure this trend continues."
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Artist James Clyne, who already wowed us with what turned out to be a racer lost in Antarctica, also has a gorgeous vision of what it would be like if we started modifying and hacking the moon into a place to live and do business. But what's up with that giant ball in the middle of downtown? City-to-city low-gravity volleyball? Find out the answer, along with details of http://www.jamesclyne.com/artist's vision, after the jump.
After several failed attempts, scientists now believe that by withdrawing water from deep within the moon's inner core of newly discovered ice caverns, their terraforming operation will at last prove successful. Once the water is brought up to the surface and pumped through the eight mile wide transforming spheres, it will then be dispersed as new oxygen-rich compounds, which eventually will create a livable lunar atmosphere. The surrounding city has grown twofold in the last several months and its inhabitants anxiously await the momentous outcome.
Hopefully there's a space for io9 there, because it looks like a pretty decent place to live. That is if you love spires, the moon, and huge balls. [JamesClyne]


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Invitation to Observe Sri Purusottama-Vrata in Sri Purusottama-Dhama
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All Glories To Sri Sri Guru & Gauranga!
Dear devotees,
You are cordially invited to Sri Jagannatha Puri this year to observe Sri Purusottama-vrata under the divine and auspicious guidance of om visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja. Sri Krsna Himself is the predominating deity of this month of Purusottama, which comes every thirty-two months, and one attains greater benefit by performing bhajana in this month than in any other month. All Vaisnavas therefore observe Purusottama-vrata with great care and joy.
This Purusottama, there will be a historic festival and parikrama in Jagannatha Puri for fourteen days, between 5th and 19th August. You will get the chance to visit the renowned temples and pastime-places in and around Jagannatha Puri; to take part in tumultuous kirtana; to hear discourses on Srimad-Bhagavatam, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and other bhakti literatures; to honour delicious maha-prasadam from Sri Jagannatha-deva; and, above all, to engage in real mahat-sanga.
Come and join this unforgettable, spiritual experience
Places you will visit include: Sri Jagannatha Mandira, Sri Gambira, Siddha Bakula (Srila Haridasa Thakuras bhajana-kutir), Sri Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya's residence, birth-place of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Jagannatha Vatika, Sri Gundica Mandira, Sri Nrsimhadeva, Sri Indradyumna Sarovara, bhajana-kutir of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Tota Gopinatha, Yamesvara Tota, the well of Sri Paramananda Puri, Lokanatha Mahadeva, Cakratirtha, Alalanatha, Sri Ramananda Rayas residence, Sri Madhavi-devis residence, Bhuvanesvara, Lingaraja, Ananta Vasudeva, Bindu Sarovara, Sri Saksi Gopala, and much more
Days will be set aside wholly for hari-katha, rest and meetings with Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. Separate arrangements can also be made for devotees who wish to have darsana of Sri Nilamadhava.
To be able to make good arrangements for your lodging, for cooking, for bus excursions and for a suitable venue for hari-katha, we need to know at the earliest whether or not to expect you. Please therefore register your name with Brajanath Prabhu or Vrnda-devi dasi as soon as possible. Further notices about this festival will be posted on PureBhakti.com shortly, and will include details about the small registration fee for the festival, the venue for the festival, and the exact schedule for the parikrama. We hope you will be able to attend.
To register, so that we may better be able to look after you, please send a short email to or .
On behalf of Bhaktivedanta Trust International,
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Sriman Premananda dasa Brahmacari
Sriman Brajanath dasa Adhikari
Sri Gaura-premanande!


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BOSTON -- The Red Sox activated reliever Clayton Mortensen from the 15-day disabled list and optioned Pedro Beato to Triple-A Pawtucket on Wednesday.

Mortensen, 28, made three relief appearances in Pawtucket as part of a rehab stint stemming from a strained right groin and gave up two runs in four innings with two walks and four strikeouts. The right-hander is 1-2 with a 5.34 ERA with Boston this season in 30 1/3 innings.

Beato's trip to the Major Leagues was brief. He was called up Tuesday to give Boston some added depth in the bullpen, and after pitching a scoreless ninth inning in Tuesday's 11-4 win over Colorado, the 26 year-old was sent back to Pawtucket. In each of his three relief appearances with the Red Sox this season, he hasn't allowed a run.

In Pawtucket, he's 5-1 with a 1.83 ERA in 20 relief appearances. Farrell: 'We've got to get Jon Lester back on track'

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Wednesday, October 6
Wednesday Dose of Cute: That Autumn Look
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so good to see J2. I still miss New Cat. I think of him often. My cat Gideon who got fluffy in winter like New Cat passed several years ago too.ReplyDelete
I didn't realize that Patchy has passed too. I hope someone moves in with J2 soon.
we both spend a lot of time crying over all the animals who we love & miss.
crying is a small price to pay for the joy we get the rest of the time. I've had my share of tears this year too. Hugs, Liz in TexasReplyDelete
I often wonder how it is that animals know when to wander in and out of our lives (and each others'). I haven't had cats in many years now, and things really wouldn't be good for a kitty here. Still, when the time is right, I have a feeling that some furry feline will find its way to me, and I will have a heck of a time pretending not to want it to stay.ReplyDelete
I just re-read your post & I hadn't realized that Whiskers passed too. sigh. he did have great whiskers.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/07/2010 8:24 AM
I just love old buildings and structures.....and so glad the "smokehouse" is being used again by the cats who Im sure appreciate it greatly! Do you have any pictures of your shack? i would love to see different angles of your property, it sounds lovely, the land too!!ReplyDelete
Sorry for your losses. I have a new adoptee. A small kitten that was in the parking lot of the Tractor Supply Co. Told hubby that would teach him to send me to TSC by myself.ReplyDelete
On another note, your muffins are featured on my blog today.
Our indoor only cat made an escape a few days ago. I miss him terribly.ReplyDelete
Front Door Kitty and Rock Pile Kitty recently arrived. We'd hoped they'd be friends, but FDK is a bit of a snob. RPK is only about 6 or 8 weeks old so I found her a friend, much to husband's dismay. Hissy Sissy is already teaching her to play and cuddle. And make havoc in the little hay barn. I'm hoping our guardian Yama the Llama keeps the predators at bay. I can only imagine what heaven or wherever we end up is going to look like - Noah's Ark gone wild.ReplyDelete
poor sweet J2 and poor YOU! how awful to lose so many pets this summer! I hope J2 makes a new friend soon!ReplyDelete
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Rough Cut: A raw edit from the Ravens' home opening win over the Browns
"Rough Cut" is a loose edit from The Baltimore Sun's photographic coverage of the National Football League. Fanatic fans, marching bands, cheerleaders and lots of game action are just part of the spectacle that is the NFL. This week, photojournalists Kenneth K. Lam, Christopher T. Assaf, and Karl Merton Ferron photographed the Ravens as they beat the Cleveland Browns 14-6 at M&T Bank Stadium.


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Happy birthday to Mike! :D
The young kraken was one of Mike's birthday presents this year. I thought I would share the pattern, spread the joy! :D
I used:
a bit of grey worsted weight yarn
3.5mm and 3 mm hooks
beads for eyes
needle and thread to sew on eyes
Note: Young kraken is crocheted in continuous rounds, not joining in the beginning of rounds. You can place a marker in the beginning of the rounds. I just eyeball it. I figure young kraken can't tell that I'm not exact. And even if he can, he won't mind, because he has bigger things to think about. Anyway. The instructions are listed in steps, not in rounds. It's kind of free-formed, checking its shape and size as we go. The measurements in the pattern are suggestions, certainly make modifications as you see fit. If you need any clarification please feel free to send me a message :D
inc. (increase) = crochet 2 sc in 1 st
dec. (decrease) = crochet 1 sc over 2 st
1. Using 3.5 mm hook, 6 sc in magic ring
2. 1 sc in each sc for 2 continuous rounds
3. inc. in every 3rd st until piece measures approx. 0.75 inch
4. 1 sc in each sc in continuous rounds until piece measures approx. 1.25 inches
5. inc. in every 5th st until piece measures approx. 1.75 inches
6. 1 sc in each sc in continuous rounds until piece measures approx. 2.25 inches
7. *dec., 1 sc*, repeat from * to * for 1 round
8. Â dec. in each sc until there are 8 st left in the opening
9. sc in each sc 8 times
10. stuff, but don't fasten offÂ
11. Now we make the tentacles. Continuing from step 9, ch 20, sc in 2nd st from hook, sc in each ch, sc in next st in the opening.
Repeat step 11 seven more times. I varied the length of the tentacles from 20–25 ch.Â
After the last tentacle is made, sl st into the opening, fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing.
Using tail, weave in stitches to close the opening. Pull so the stuffing won't come out, but not too tight. Fasten off, weave in ends.
12. Now we make the fins. The first fin is crocheted vertically down the rounds (see photo below).
Using 3mm hook, attach yarn at the 2nd round from the top. ch 1, sc in each of the next 3 st, hdc in each of next 2 st, dc in next st, dc and hdc in next st, sl st in next st, fasten off.
Now, the other fin. Attach yarn at the opposite side of the bottom of the first fin, and crocheting up the rounds, like so…
ch 1, hdc and dc in next st, dc in next st, hdc in each of the next 2 st, sc in each of the next 3 st, sl st in next st, fasten off. Weave in ends.
And we're done the crocheting part :D
For the eyes I found 2 saucer-shaped ruby red faceted beads that I thought would be perfect for a young but fierce kraken. To make it extra special (because it's Mike's birthday), I made two rings with wire to kind of set the eyes (jump rings would work perfectly, I just didn't have the right size at the moment) I sewed both on with thread.
Young kraken, lurking in the deep sea…
I'm quite proud of it, I must say :D
He now sits regally on Mike's desk, staring at me as I type this…
 Cheers! :D


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How much can a billion dollars buy? The undivided attention of America's entire political and chattering classes. Case in point: our ongoing national fixation on debt and deficit.
By Sam Pizzigati
Down through the millennia, single individuals have changed the course of history, some through their intellect, some through their courage, and still others through the depth and breadth of their vision.
But you don't have to have smarts or courage or vision to change history. You just need a ton of money, the sort of fortune that the 86-year-old Peter Peterson has amassed over his years wheeling and dealing on Wall Street.
Peterson has been obsessing for years over federal budget deficits. Now his obsession has shoved the nation to a "fiscal cliff" that might well end up raising the age that Medicare kicks in and chopping billions out of all sorts of other programs near and dear to the hearts of America's working families.
These cutbacks make no sense. The current federal budget deficit directly reflects the bursting of the housing bubble five years ago and the resulting Great Recession. Put people back to work and end that recession, progressive economists note, and that deficit would quickly start shrinking.
These progressive economists, unfortunately, don't have hundreds of millions of spare dollars to make their case to the American public. Pete Peterson does.
Five years ago, Peterson sold the bulk of his stake in the Blackstone private equity firm he co-founded 22 years earlier. That sale, in just one day of trading, added $1.8 billion to Peterson's already ample personal fortune.
Peterson millions went to think tanks across the political spectrum.
A year later, with a $1 billion outlay from that fortune, Peterson established the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to target "undeniable, unsustainable, and untouchable" threats to America's fiscal future and began a massive lobbying blitz for a "bipartisan" solution to federal debt and deficit.
Peterson's foundation almost immediately began dispensing millions from its imposing stash of cash, funding everything from a classroom curriculum to a film documentary and a "fiscal wake-up tour." Other millions, a National Journal analysis points out, went to think tanks across the political spectrum.
Three years ago, Peterson dollars helped fund the high-profile national Simpson-Bowles Commission, a "bipartisan" maneuver to pitch cutbacks in social spending as an essential ingredient in any "responsible" approach to deficit reduction.
That commission would prove unable to reach a budget-fixing consensus. No problem. Peterson dollars were soon funding a new public relations campaign that enabled the commission co-chairs, former GOP senator Alan Simpson and former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles, to barnstorm the nation.
This campaign, in turn, eventually morphed into "Fix the Debt," a more tightly organized effort to resurrect the "core principles" that Pete Peterson holds near and dear. Among them: the need for "pro-growth tax reform" that "broadens the base, lowers rates, raises revenues, and reduces the deficit."
Translation: Let's shift tax burdens off the rich and onto average Americans. Average Americans have largely tuned out Peterson and his Fix the Debt friends.
Average Americans have largely tuned out Peterson and his Fix the Debt friends.
Fix the Debt has overshadowed the various other Peterson-funded lobbying efforts, mainly because the new group's "fiscal leadership council" includes a who's who of America's corporate and banking superstars, everyone from Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein to Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer.
These Fix the Debt CEOs have been jetting in and out of Washington, pushing their case with lawmakers and White House officials. They're hoping for better luck with officialdom than they've had so far with the American people.
Average Americans have largely tuned out Fix the Debt. One sign of the times: The Fix the Debt online petition backing the nostrums of Simpson-Bowles "as a starting point for a plan to reduce the federal debt" had just 300,000 signatures as of last week. The original Fix the Debt petition goal: 10 million signatures.
No matter. Even without generating anything close to a public groundswell, Peterson's agenda remains alive and well on Capitol Hill. Peterson, of course, doesn't personally deserve all the credit. His basic budget agenda — keep federal spending down — has always resonated powerfully with America's most affluent.
The main reason: the less the federal government is investing in programs that help working families, the lower the pressure for raising taxes on America's rich to help finance that investing.
America's rich and powerful can't seem to get enough of the Fix the Debt "fiscal responsibility" message. Business groups, reports the New York Times, are now paying Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles $40,000 a pop — each — for speechifying at their conferences and confabs.
Will Peterson and friends emerge the winners when the "fiscal cliff" dust finally settles? In a sense, these deep pockets already have prevailed. Congress could — and should — be debating how best to put America back to work. Lawmakers are instead debating how much to cut the federal help for average Americans that our rich don't want to pay the taxes to support.
The rich have, in effect, framed our political debate. In plutocracies, they always do. A century ago, Americans understood that reality. Their response? They made plutocracy itself their target. Someday soon, we'll need to follow suit.
Labor journalist Sam Pizzigati, an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, writes widely about inequality. His latest book, The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, has just been published.


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New release (20130919) of CM10.1 for S3 Mini is available!
If you want to say us thanks by donating us using PayPal, feel free 😉
Do full backup before installation and wipe data/cache (factory reset) after installation (only from stock ROM).
If you're updating from older CM10.1 version or migrating from Oliver's CM10.1, you don't have to perform a wipe!
You can get it on our DOWNLOAD page.
- offline charging made from a scratch by us (beta, some bugs might present)
- whole system compiled with GCC4.7!
- battery improvements
- updated CM sources
- RIL (call/messages/3G)
- 2D/3D HW Acceleration
- GPS and A-GPS – fast fix getting
- Glonass navigation
- compass
- audio (both speakers/headphones/microphone)
- sensors
- Wi-fi
- bluetooth and A2DP support
- all native tethers (Wifi/BT/USB)
- native Wifi tether
- camera (normal/panorama/camcorder)
- Google Play
- full CM10.1 functionallity
- CPU sleep mode
- App2sd support
- SIM Toolkit
- no flicker
- full hardware video acceleration (720p)
- YouTube HQ
- Wifi direct
- 3.0.84 kernel
- BLN (backlight notifications) support
- offline charging (beta)
- New BT/GPS/Wifi/offline charging/audio drivers and – no longer buggy Samsung's ones!
- none
I'ld be glad, if you would share links to our download page, instead of direct links to download.
Also would be great, if you wouldn't create the mirrors 😉
Guys who made it happen:
- Macław
- Marcin1147
Thanks for help from:
- OliverG96
- tom3q
- lupohirp
Before you'll ask for help, check our FAQ. Maybe answer is already here?
If you want to say us thanks by donating us using PayPal, feel free 😉
If somehow you'll find a bug, use our bugtracker if you want to report it.
Now the post appears ;D Thanks Maclaw.
In what areas did battery improve?
The 3G network issue has been fixed?
Very thanks for your work, of course 😉
i hope the 3G network issue has been fixed 😀
If I come from previous CM 10.1, Must I to do all wipes?
youtube application works correctly?
Yes.It works!
For me dont works (I8190L)
No. Still problems with it. Works sometimes, but anytime can freeze image and continue sound
I've Got it working using an older version of youtube app.
Great work guys, as always a smooth rom. But I found a persistent bug, it appears that the phone doesn't read the obb folders or something… well the ones I add myself, because I have a bunch of backed up games (it's faster than to download them on the play store) and the phone says an app is of 5.53mb when the obb file is of abaut 1.6gb, so is this an error of my phone or is it the rom? thanks
Did you put them in the internal storage? If not, copy them there.
I did put them in the internal storage.. but it still doesn't work..
Install the app first (e.g. Asphalt 8: Airborne, then put the obb files in internalsd/Android/obb/(name of Asphalt 8 folder that usually starts with com.) if that still doesn't work you probably need the gameloft folder with the sub-folders and all that
I do that, and it doesn't work.. it looks like it doesn't link the obb folder to the app… coz I've tried asphalt 8 on my nexus 7, and it works, so I know it's not the game. Also I've discovered that is only with the obb files, because dead space uses the conventional Android/data and it works normally…
Can someone please help me?
Any clue about why on some phones it is not possible to search for any network at all?
Woow offline charging !
Maclaw, when i select "Only Use 2G Network" and restart the phone,it returns to 3G Network again 🙁 Can you solve this problem ? 🙁
This problem's solve. Flight mode on and 10 second after flight mod off only 2g. Problem is solved 🙂
I english is bad. Sorry.
whole system compiled with GCC4.7??
download always stops at 17mb. help please? 🙁
Hello, Maclaw!
You are doing a great job for the S3 mini!
But the problem of locking YouTube still, I know the problem is the ROM. And if CM10.1.X upgrade to solve the problem? Still have a problem with YouTube is that the image degradation is not real in Full HD.
Grateful for your understanding.
Awesome work guys!
In each update improvements are substantial, only I wanted them the following if not too much trouble, it will be possible to place a configuration section of gestures, for example see the area of notifications without drag the bar.
I think that many would appreciate…
Thx Team!!!
Great Work.
I'll go update my ROM now. 😀
grazzie 😀
Hi guys! I'm still having the issue with 3G data connection. My company is Amena (Orange). Is there anything I can do?
Nice job anyway!!
Any solving method for Instagram cant upload video problem ? 😀
Problem with WI-FI and 3G, Vodafone Italia.
Hi maclaw
Thanks for the update!
I'm sorry to ask, but the "illusion rom" You'll Ever?
You said earlier that you can repair it!
It would be very nice!
Illusion ROM would be nice. I like the fact that it has Halo))) without the many confusing options on PAC
HI,thanks for your jobs,but does it works with the "N" version?
The "N" part of the "N" version does not work (yet).
Everything else does 😉
Hi, I'm having trouble with YouTube it always freezes me if I wtavh some of the videos in youtube, please fix it.
Try downloading an older version of youtube app (4.x).
OK I will try. Thanks.
Where do I download older version of YouTube app?
I found a version at xda dev forums. But there are varios websites with older version apk apps.
If a new update of CM ROM do I need to wipe my data/factory reset? It is really important to this step to update a Custom ROM.
No you don´t need to wipe etc.
Even wiping a cache and dalvik cache?
No. Nothing.
Hi guys! I'm still having the issue with 3G data connection. My company is Kazakhstan (Tele2). Is there anything I can do?
Nice job anyway!!
Whatsapp+ isn't working/ installing anymore. I have to install the normal version of it since this Update. Somebody else has this problem?
i've the previous release on my s3 mini, now to update i have just install the rom withuot wipe everythinhg?
i've to install also again gapps ?
No. No wipe etc. needed. Just flash the new Version. Also Gapps.
I have installed today this rom, works great, but mobile connection and mobile signal doens't work.
Does anyone know how to fix it?
Maybe you hace todo add APN settings manually
Battery performance is better than previus CM10.1 ?
and Deep sleep active this rom ?
Yes, battery life is a bit better.
MY friend disabled the system ui.now the phone wont boot up.pl help
Reinstall with wipe via CWM recovery. Or use ADB via recovery and enable it again.
I can't access cwm it stays in boot screen.is there a way to do it on a computer
Did I do something wrong or there's no fm radio?
Install Spirit FM 😉 Choose S3 / ICS mode.
Thank you very much, it worked so fine it's scary
Is this the only real fm tuner availabile? (not that I didn't like it, just curious)
It's the only for easy use. And it's the best of all 😉
Hey Maclaw, I regularly download your CyanogenMod ROMs but I still don't understand the App2SD part because it never works for me, how did it work for you? Do you use an app to test it out or did you just enable it in the Android Kitchen?
And I also don't understand offline charging, could somebody explain it to me? (I know it sounds dumb but it just sounds like normal charging, because you can do that whether you're on or offline can't you?)
You can charge your phone while it´s turned off.
Updated just now with no problems, and all seems fine so far. I was getting really good battery life anyway, so it will interesting to see what this ROM does! Offline charging… er, does that mean charging the phone when it's turned off… because I've never had a problem with that either! Keep up the great work 🙂
Hello, Maclaw!
You are doing a awesome job for the S3 mini!
But still have a problem İnstagram Video,Youtube,Vine…
BT headset doesnt work in calls
GCC 4.7. Why not GCC 4.8.1?
Problems with calls/sms/3g.
It can't connect to any mobile operators. WIND ITALIA
Which model do you have? I can join WIND IT network, but it looks like having some network problems (bad signal).
Anche io uso wind italia e da me 2g c'e non so 3g perche non sono coperto a casa mia.
S3 mini GT-I8190 H3g brand first, now I've flashed a stock rom without brand.
Same problems with H3g sim.
Maclaw hi first of all thanks for your work by the great development you do for the mini s3. peirte wanted to fix the problem of the capacitive buttons light up when you touch the screen and most of the time are on. also that better battery life because in less than five hours and the rest is this perfect acabando.por very smoothly and without any fault or mistake. THANKS
why always s3 mini ?
Nice job. Works better than cm 10, no bugs for now. Thanks
Sms app doesnt send my message
Hi. Seems to eat too much energy (dead in 6 h) what can i set?
The logo for offline charge is awesome 😀
for me battery has become worst, and the RIL is worst too. the lag between answering and listening voice is now evenlarger. I think it is because there are too many update. i nk i'll wipe….
According to my stats, Android system has used 165% of the battery… I don't know what it means but one thing is sure:
Battery last a lot less now than using the previous immediate release =( please help us Saint Maclaw
Same problem as kubakos, draining battery like hell and seems to be a bit slower than privies version imo. Still grade job.
Great even:)
After updates the battery lasts 6 hours, I had to wipe … now the battery lasts exactly 1 day 11 hours 48 minutes (clean with battery calibration)
seems like many user said that if wipe will have better performance :/
Hello, Maclaw! Can you update CM to v.10.1.3?
– off topic:
We love ubuntu touch 😉
Small bug – when a call comes in, the screen stays off.
Well, IMO the battery life is NOT as good as the 20130908 ROM… at the end of an average day, I used to be left with 75%, now I am left with only 50%.
Pleas look at CPU spy to determine GHz bug. After each upgrade and having WiFi enable the bug appears. Disable WiFi, shutdown, wait a few seconds, restart and enable WiFi. Have about the same battery drain with each update before (1.5 days).
1000MHz bug appears to be fixed with the new 20130924 ROM. I am just going to reboot again with WiFi on… yep, CPUs on 200MHz when idle…. yay! Great work!
Can someone tell me how to download this ?
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Here's the latest: Right on the heels of a statement from San Francisco archbishop-elect Salvatore Cordileone that sexually active LGBT Catholics are unworthy of participating in the Sacrament of Holy Communion (the central act of Catholic worship and the cornerstone of Catholic identity), Newark Archbishop John Myers is going one step further, declaring in a "sweeping pastoral statement" issued Sept. 25 that all pro-marriage-equality Catholics are unfit to partake in the Eucharist. The Record reports:
He ... said in the statement, a copy of which was provided to The Record before its release, that Catholics who disagree with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church on marriage should "refrain from receiving Holy Communion." He said he issued the statement because of what he described as a lack of clarity on the subject by other bishops.
Myers also says that in considering how to cast their ballots in November, Catholics should scrutinize the "full spectrum" of each candidate and not vote for any candidate who does not endorse what he calls "proper" marriage. He also supports gay people marrying non-gay spouses; according to The Record, Myers "wrote that it is possible for gay people to be married to members of the opposite sex and live 'good, faithful and even joyous married lives. It is a lie to say that they are living, or have lived, a lie.'" Finally, Archbishop Myers compares same-sex marriage to incest: "Even those who propose radically altering the definition of marriage would not advocate allowing two brothers or sisters or an uncle and his nephew to marry (say, for the tax benefits, or for hospital visiting privileges)." According to The Record, a notice will be distributed to parishioners in churches all across the Newark Archdiocese this Sunday informing them of the letter and directing them to the archdiocesan website, where it's posted.
Let me be clear: When Archbishop Myers says that Catholics who don't subscribe to that church's Stone-Age sexual mores are unworthy of full participation in the church, he's not talking about a small sliver of the Catholic population. On the contrary, polls consistently show that Catholics support LGBT equality at a higher rate than the general public. In fact, a whopping 71 percent of Catholics support full civil marriage rights for same-sex couples.
But as far as Archbishop Myers is concerned, these pro-equality Catholics -- nearly three-fourths of all Catholics in America -- aren't really Catholics at all, at least not Catholics in good standing. With prelates like Myers promulgating these appallingly divisive and discriminatory views, it's no wonder that membership in the Catholic Church is falling fast and the number of young men training for the priesthood has cratered.
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Hard Cider Sangria
I had some fun shopping for the ingredients for this sangria. I was testing the new Isis Mobile Wallet app. The app offers a new way of making point of sale payments with your mobile device. At the checkout, you just launch the app, wave your device in front of the machine where you usually slide your credit card, and the payment is made. Since the app requires near field communication (NFC) to function, you need to use it on a device with that capability. Currently, iPhones do not have NFC. I received a Samsung Galaxy III and a stipend to use Isis Mobile Wallet, and was happy to be able to use it at Whole Foods where I shop regularly. It's reassuring to know the security features of the app. Not only is a PIN number required to launch the app, the SIM card in the device is also secure. If your mobile device were to fall into the wrong hands, the app couldn't be used and your account couldn't be accessed. There were a few hiccups in getting my account set up within the app, but once it was working, it was easy to use. Within the app, you can view a list of businesses that accept it as a form of payment. And, another interesting feature is that those businesses can offer special discounts and other offers within the app. There was a Whole Foods coupon available the first day I shopped with Isis. Unfortunately, neither the employee at the checkout nor I could figure out how to make the coupon work. I asked about how to use it at the customer service desk, and the employees there weren't sure either since this is such a new service. But, they happily paid me the amount I should have saved with the coupon. It's a nice feature, and I'm sure all the parts of the app will just get simpler to use in time.
For the sangria, I chose apples in two colors. I found some pretty, organic Golden Delicious apples and used small, red, organic Galas as well. There are also some orange slices in the sangria. The lemon juice came from a Meyer lemon I had just received in my CSA delivery. Then, I needed to decide which hard cider to use. One of my favorites is Leprechaun Dry which is made in Houston. Whole Foods always has Leprechaun, and that day I also found Isastegi which is a Basque cider from Spain. I'd never noticed it there before. I only tasted one cider on my recent trip to northern Spain since it wasn't actually cider season, so I was excited to taste this one at home. I've learned that Spanish ciders tend to be very tart with a bit of flavor of beer yeast. It's a different style of cider than American and English hard ciders. I enjoyed tasting the Isastegi, but it was tart, so I went with the Leprechaun for balanced, apple flavor. Depending on the sweetness or tartness of the hard cider you choose, you may want more or less lemon juice than suggested. I'm betting this cider sangria will be a festive addition to Thanksgiving Day.
I was contacted by M80 on behalf of AT&T to write about the Isis Mobile Wallet app. I received the Samsung Galaxy III device and a stipend to use within the wallet app.
Posted by lisa is cooking at Sunday, November 18, 2012
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A divine drink! So festive.ReplyDelete
As Elle Woods said, Sangria is yummy!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful sangria my friend :)ReplyDelete
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I love the look of your sangria! I also don't know a single soul that doesn't love a glass (or more!) of it :)ReplyDelete
A white sangria...looks divine!ReplyDelete
All I have to say to this is YES. I'm not a huge fan of hard alcohol but sangria, I adore!ReplyDelete
I'm so used to drinking regular Sangria - It's nice to be acquainted with a refreshing alternative!ReplyDelete
Yummy! Just in time for the holidays!ReplyDelete
With friends, cocktails for Thanksgiving is the way to go! We rarely have cocktails among family members, which is too bad. :)ReplyDelete
i simply don't like the taste of alcohol, but the one boozy beverage i can tolerate and almost enjoy is sangria. as much as i love cider, this version might just be the answer!ReplyDelete
Looks delish and love your presentation :)ReplyDelete
Great idea to make a hard cider sangria! Perfect for Thanksgiving (or Halloween). Really a nice drink - thanks for the idea.ReplyDelete
you threw me with your techie jargon, but hey, I am glad it is a convenient way to shop; a friend's son here is developing this in France as well. anyway, going back to food and beverages this looks totally perfect for the holiday season; cheers!!ReplyDelete
This looks like it would be the perfect house warming drink if I get to move this month!!ReplyDelete
Yum, wish I was enjoying one of these right now!ReplyDelete
Happy Thanksgiving! This is a great celebratory drink :)ReplyDelete
I think I'll make a batch of your sangria to take to our friends for Thanksgiving. Since I have an apple orchard, I have a cellar full of hard cider.ReplyDelete
Although I don't drink it looks delicious. Happy Thanksgiving.ReplyDelete
I've not heard about that app. Very cool...I think. I have an I-phone however. I'm just learning to love hard cider. Mostly been cooking with it. This drink looks beautiful and refreshing.ReplyDelete
So pretty. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
The joys of technology!ReplyDelete
Your hard cider looks beautiful. You are right it is perfect to sip while cooking Thanksgiving as it will not make you lose track of your oven timing.
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A few animals, such as apes and otters, do use sticks and stones as tools. But even so, we humans do classify ourselves as the "tool-making animal".
Well, a little while ago, we humans invented a new tool, and it seems that this new tool will revolutionise our manufacturing industries over the new few decades. It can make anything — a working clock, jewellery, vaccines, a metal axle for your car, a tooth, a human body organ, a violin, a hand gun, or even a copy of itself.
This new tool is called, rather confusingly, a "3D printer". But it does not print 3D pictures, the kind that spring to life when you look at them with the special 3D glasses. No, it makes or fabricates actual 3D objects, one thin layer at a time — and then builds up hundreds or thousands of these layers (on top of each other) until the final object is completed.
So why did the process get called "3D printing"? Well, one popular type of printer is the ink jet printer. It prints onto paper by squirting out tiny balls of ink from tiny nozzles — and these tiny balls of ink are so little that it would take thousands of trillions of them to make up a litre.
Some 3D printers make their fabrications by squirting out tiny volumes of liquid from tiny nozzles. And, just like a regular printer, the 3D printers are controlled by a computer which follows instructions from a file.
One website that you can download files from is called Thingiverse — Digital Designs for Physical Objects, and there are many others.
The engineers call this process 'additive layer manufacturing', but the more popular name is 3D printing, and we'll probably be stuck with it for ages.
The first 3D printers were used in the late 1980s to make plastic prototypes of complex designs, so that the engineers could see and hold a full-size model of what the final device would look like. They would deposit a thin layer of liquid resin, and run a tiny ultraviolet beam over the surface in a specific pattern. The ultraviolet light would harden the resin. Then they would put down another very thin layer, harden part of that, and keep on building it up. The unhardened resin would just drain away or be washed away. After several hours or days, the final object, perhaps the size of a loaf of bread would be ready. But it would be made of a plastic resin, not metal or wood or leather that the final manufactured object would be made of.
Since then, the field of 3D printing, or additive layer manufacturing, has advanced enormously. First, the technology has gone far beyond making plastic prototypes to making production runs of actual objects. For example, the giant aerospace company Boeing has printed some 22,000 parts for their jet planes, both military and civilian. Second, the field has split. At one end are the huge professional-grade printers that fill a warehouse. At the other end you can buy, for a few thousand dollars, an amateur-grade printer that will sit on a desktop.
Today, there are many different types of these 3D printers. The raw materials that go into them can be plastics (either solid, liquid or granular), metals, ceramic powders, metal or plastic film, chocolate, simple chemicals, concrete and even paper. There are many different technologies to harden the raw material into the physical object — ultraviolet stereolithography, selective laser sintering, electron beam freeform fabrication, direct metal layer sintering, and so on.
The technology is still young. The process can take a long time, the surface finish can be variable, and it's still difficult to build objects from many different kinds of materials.
But the potential is enormous. You could print off a metal gear to replace the broken one in your car's gearbox, or some of that extra-good lubricant for your bike chain. In a sudden killer flu epidemic, you could print off enough anti-viral drugs for your whole family. You could use one 3D printer to make another identical 3D printer, and so on, and so on.
We could send these machines to an asteroid, and they could use the raw materials of the asteroid to build a home for us, when we eventually get there.
Maybe the 3D printer will be like the printing press in 1450, the steam engine in 1750 or the transistor in 1950. Whether there'll be one in every home by 2050 remains to be seen...
Published 15 May 2013
© 2023 Karl S. Kruszelnicki Pty Ltd


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Chocolate Brownies
Don't you love a great tasting and easy Chocolate Brownie recipe? This is almost as easy as opening a box mix only without the added preservatives. I love to eat them with or without frosting. I also love to put chocolate chips in them. I think my favorite part about this recipe is not only how wonderful it tastes but that it only makes enough for an 8" pan. Now of course you can double or triple this recipe but I made this for the grandkids and I really didn't want a ton of leftovers!
Source: Marge's Brownies, by Marge Engler – Melody Burns from Cooking From Scratch on Debbie's Back Porch Facebook Page.
In a medium bowl combine the cocoa, sugar, flour and salt.
In a small bowl whisk the eggs, then add the
butter, vanilla and stir to combine.
Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture and mix to combine.
Spray an 8" x 8" baking pan with cooking oil
and evenly pour the brownie batter into it.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 25 minutes or
until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Let cool and cut into squares then serve.
Chocolate Brownies
- 4 Tbsp cocoa
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl combine cocoa, sugar, flour and salt.
- In a small bowl whisk the eggs. Add the butter and vanilla and stir to combine.
- Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture and stir just until combined. Do not over mix.
- Spray an 8" x 8" oven safe dish with cooking oil.
- Pour brownie batter into the pan. Spread it out evenly.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Let cool. Run a knife around the outside edge, cut and serve.
*If you double the recipe use a 10" x 13" pan.* Adjust the time.
*If you triple the recipe use a jelly roll pan.* Adjust the time.