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The Kent State University Faculty Publications was first published in 1968 under the guidance of then Provost John J. Kamierck. The 1968 volume, with the cover seen here, listed publications by faculty across 4 colleges (Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Education, and Fine & Professional Arts) and one school (Library Science). In 1970, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Bruce Harkness took up the task of maintaining the bibliography of faculty publications for the college, and for nearly 40 years the college has published and distributed the bibliography. In 2008, A&S Faculty Publications assumed digital form, which you will find here.
The mission of the faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences includes researched-based scholarship. The curriculum of the college is built upon the knowledge produced by research and scholarship, and scholars fully engaged in research bring the best possible educational focus to their students. The A&S Faculty Publications annual and biannual bibliographies below are a record of faculty accomplishment, and the College of Arts & Sciences is justifiably proud of the scholarship of its faculty.


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Karen Lee Jones Thompson O'Briant
Karen Lee Jones Thompson O'Briant May 17, 1952 - April 27, 2012Karen O'Briant, beloved wife of Mickey O'Briant, passed away on Friday, April 27 at 2:30 p.m. in Richmond, VA after a long and arduous battle with breast cancer. Karen and her husband Mickey had been in Virginia Beach attending a class at Atlantic University when Karen became severely ill from sudden complications due to her cancer. Karen was 59 years old and she has been a long time resident of Sweetwater, TX. Karen was born in Denver, Colorado on May 17, 1952 to Ada Glenell and Richard Wesley Jones who are now both deceased. She is survived by her husband Mickey and ex-husband Barry Thompson. She has two brothers, Gary Jones and Paul Jones of Denver and one half-sister, Betty Ferraro of Irvine California. She has two sons by her previous marriage, Jeff Thompson, currently residing in Colorado and Jon and wife Kristie Thompson who lives in Georgetown, TX. She has two step sons, Michael O'Briant and Paul O'Briant of Waco and three granddaughters, Malee, Lana and Layla Thompson. She attended high school in Arvada, Colorado and attended Mesa Junior College in 1970-1971. After college, she worked as Senior Secretary for the Colorado Heart Association in Denver until marriage in late 1971 to Air Force Sergeant Barry Thompson. During the next eight years, Karen traveled to Guam, Idaho, Texas and Louisiana, gave birth to two sons, and served a Red Cross Case Worker for the Air Force Family Services at each base. Her husband finished his time with the Air Force in 1979, and they settled down in Central Texas in 1979. In 1979, Karen was hired by Dr. Dudley Baker as the Educational Coordinator for the Ob/Gyn Department at Scott & White Hospital/Texas A&M University College of Medicine when the Charter Class began in 1979. She was promoted within two years to become the Residency Coordinator and the CME Coordinator for the Ob/Gyn Department. Karen was also instrumental in the role of Executive Director of the Texas Association of Ob/Gyn (TAOG).She married Mickey O'Briant in 2002, and moved to Sweetwater, Texas. In 2002, Karen agreed to be the director of both TAOG and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Texas Section. Karen performed both roles incredibly well from her home. In 2007-08, Texas became its own district of ACOG, and the administrative aspects were handled by Karen. In 2010, an ACOG district office was established in Austin, TX and Karen mentored and collaborated with the newly appointed executive director of ACOG. Karen has maintained her role as executive director of TAOG.She was honored at the Joint TAOG/ACOG Texas District Annual Meeting in October 2011. She was presented with an official State of Texas Proclamation for her dedicated service and she was also presented with a Texas flag that had flown over the state capital in Austin. Karen was also inducted into the prestigious TAOG Hall of Fame for her many years of dedicated service and support to the ob/gyn doctors who practice across the State of Texas. Although retired, Karen continued to handle the TAOG affairs as a transition to an Austin office was being formulated.During Karen's lengthy battle with breast cancer, she was a champion to many others who are battling this disease through her support and positive uplifting in several online cancer support groups. Her positive sunshine attitude has helped many who are battling this terrible disease and who are enduring the often 'not so pleasant' treatment protocols that are often used to treat cancer's various conditions. Her desire and message to those still in this battle is to remain positive and to never give up. Karen was also well known throughout the Big Country's music community as an entertainer, vocalist and keyboardist for bands such as The Screaming Moon Dogs, Desert Ethic, Brazos, Moe and Keli and Static Pulse. Karen was loved by all she came into to contact with. She was a truly a spiritual person who loved God and His Son Jesus and she did her part to promote this love to all who knew her. Heaven has become brighter by her presence and she is now the true angel that she has emulated while being here among us. We will indeed miss her love and light here on this earth.Memorial services for Karen will be held on Saturday, May 12 starting at 1 p.m. at the Trinity Baptist Church in Sweetwater, Texas. Trinity Baptist Church is located at 1503 Crescent at the corner of Sante Fe and Hailey. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org, by phone at 1 (800) 227-2345, or by check to The American Cancer Society, 3402 N. First Street, Abilene, TX 79603.


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Revision as of 23:48, 10 February 2011
- 1 Backing Up
- 1.1 Unexpected Behaviour
- 1.2 Error Messages
- 2 Importing / Migrating with importbuddy.php
- 2.1 Unexpected Behaviour
- 2.2 Error Messages
- 3 Debugging Tools
Backing Up
Unexpected Behaviour
Backups Time Out / Marked as Bad
- Backup file size is too large so it takes too long to finish & server kills it. Try reducing backup size, excluding directories, disabling compression to speed up zip file generation, or getting host to enable native zip compression if not already enabled.
- Backup file location permissions do not allow writing. Give write permissions to the directory /wp-content/uploads/.
Fallback to Compatibility Mode (not necessarily a 'problem')
- The command line command 'zip' is unavailable. Ask host to allow access to it. Not available on Windows without using the zip package we provide (Ask Dustin about this until he documents it!)
- exec() function is disabled in PHP. Ask host to remove this block or remove it from the block list in cPanel if available. (Ask Dustin about this until he documents it!)
- They are using Windows. -- ask Dustin.
FTP Transfers Fail
- Login credentials are wrong. Test them to be sure. This is surprisingly common. View the HTML source to obtain the hidden password.
- The path entered is incorrect or the directory has not been created. BackupBuddy requires the path to already exist.
- Some hosts block outgoing FTP connections, port 21 (standard FTP port), and/or do not have the FTP extension available for their PHP installation. This can easily be tested by entering settings for a known working FTP or by taking the FTP settings the user entered and trying them in an FTP client.
Scheduled Events Fail to Trigger
- The scheduled date is wrong and has not passed.
- Not enough visitors are visiting to trigger the schedule. Someone must visit any page on the WordPress site on or after the scheduled time for the event to occur. If no one visits during the time-frame then the event may be missed or occur at an unscheduled time.
- The backup is failing. Test manual backups.
Error Messages
Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Unable to save result set in /www/wp-content/plugins/backupbuddy/backupbuddy.php on line 1673
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /www/wp-content/plugins/backupbuddy/lib/zip/zip.php on line 124
- exec() is disabled somewhere in PHP configuration. Ask the host to correct this or use cPanel to edit PHP settings to enable it if possible. See 'Fallback to Compatibility Mode' above.
Importing / Migrating with importbuddy.php
Unexpected Behaviour
The source site is now redirecting to the destination site (or vice versa):
- This occurs if the new database settings were not entered during Step 4 of importbuddy.php. Because of this, both sites are now sharing the same database so one of them (usually source) is redirecting to the other (usually destination). importbuddy.php needs to be re-run inputting the source URL on Step 4 and using the source database settings. This will reconfigure the source database to use its proper URL. Next importbuddy.php needs to be run again inputting the destination URL on Step 4 with the NEW database settings for the new database. This way both sites will have their own database for their respective URLs.
Links (permalinks) return 404 errors
- The .htaccess file was not configured properly or was not writable so importbuddy didn't update it.
- To fix log in to the admin dashboard and navigate to: Settings -> Permalinks and click 'Save Changes'.
- To manually fix, edit the .htaccess file in a text editor following the format on the .htaccess page.
You Have Problems at EVERY Step of the Restore
- So, you have watched the 45 minute video (http://pluginbuddy.com/get-a-backupbuddy-product-tour) and you get to Step 4 and realize that you had to use every alternate method and you just AREN'T feeling lucky and need to get the migration done. Below is a Step By Step to *every* alternate step if you know in advance that this won't just be a click and restore operation (likely due to your hosting configuration). Doing the restore this way literally took me 5 minutes to restore a site (with 150 articles and photos) and then 5 more minutes to figure fix the 500 internal error (which I've also included):
- Perform the backup as directed and download the backup.zip file and install.php file
- Upload the two files above to the new empty directory (in my case a new site)
- In the new installation (in the cPanel) create an empty database and a user. Give the new user 'all permissions' for that database and write it down
- While in your cPanel (in the 'File Manager'), manually unzip the backup zip file
- Navigate to http://yourdomain.com/installbuddy.com and follow directions BUT in Step 1 in 'Advanced Troubleshooting Options' choose 'Skip Zip File Extraction' and continue until your database set up (Step 4 or 5)
- In the setting of the database, fill in the database name, username & password that you created already and test the connection
- Finish install
- But wait… the installation says 'successful' but your site looks weird and you get an error message when you try to login at /wp-admin… luckily two other persons reported that in this forum and I found this EXTREMELY helpful thread: http://ithemes.com/forum/index.php?/topic/5454-500-internal-server-error-after-successful-migration/
- Amend your .htaccess file according to the link in the point above.
Error Messages
ERROR #9003 / #59233894: NOTE: Did you refresh after finishing the import? If so, [...]
- Please see BackupBuddy Error Code #9003
500 Server Errors:
- .htaccess (click for details) file is causing URLs to be redirected improperly or is malformed.
- PHP is not functioning or enabled for the site. Check with basic phpinfo().
- A 404 error is occurring but the server is not set up correctly to return a 404. Do sanity check with .htm file.
The backup zip file is not found:
- The zip file has been renamed to a non-BackupBuddy format.
- The zip file permissions are wrong. Ex: Not readable.
- The zip file is not in the same directory as importbuddy.php.
- The zip file has not finished uploading or was interrupted in transit. If BackupBuddy was used to send it try manually uploading.
Debugging Tools
- SQL to update URL in posts manually: update wp_posts set post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://OLD_URL', 'http://NEW_URL');
- Command line zip test to check if exec is enabled and zip can create a file. Download: Media:Zip_test.zip


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Often, when pigs die, they are sent to someone's dinner table, but if one Houston researcher is successful, pigs will have another way to give life to humans. The Texas Heart Institute's Doris Taylor thinks she's figured out how to turn a pig heart into a human heart, The Houston Chronicle reports.
It takes about two days for a mild detergent also used in baby shampoo to clean a pig heart of all of its pig cells. This process leaves behind an eerie, white heart-shaped "scaffold," which can then be filled with human stem cells, immature cells found in our organs and tissues. The stem cells grow until they fill out the scaffold, then a blood supply is introduced, bringing the new, and now human, heart to life.
Taylor said she hopes her team can bring an in-human study of bio-artificial hearts to the Food and Drug Administration in the next two years. Read more here.


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Dave White Profile
Dave White
Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex
Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex
Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
Pensioners, assemble! Read full review
Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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Metascore®Generally favorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Marigold Hotel achieves what it sets out to do: Sell something safe and sweet, in a vivid foreign setting, to an underserved share of the moviegoing market.
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Even at its most predictable, the winning characterizations and soulful insights into aging keep the handsome film on a warmly satisfying track.
A refreshing, mature fairy tale.
We suspect that the film will be about their various problems and that the hotel will not be as advertised. What we may not expect is what a charming, funny and heartwarming movie this is, a smoothly crafted entertainment that makes good use of seven superb veterans.
See all The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel reviews at Metacritic.com
OK for kids 14+
Fabulously acted retiree drama will appeal more to parents.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is aimed at adults -- grandparents, actually. But that doesn't mean that teenagers can't see it, because there are lots of worthwhile inter-generational lessons about class issues, travel, friendship, tolerance, and what constitutes a healthy marriage. Expect some language (one "f--k," plus a few "s--t"s and other curses), a few racist comments (which are clearly portrayed as ignorant), and sexuality (a young couple kisses passionately, one character reminisces about a gay love affair, and another two are fixated on finding romance) -- including a couple of erection jokes. But with its stellar cast and humorous take on adventure in the "golden years," there's no reason teens can't join their parents in watching.
Messages: There are some wonderful messages in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel -- like that love shouldn't be based on class or family background and that it's never too late to try something new, change your life, or learn about a different culture.
Role models: Each of the characters is a role model (with the possible exception of Mrs. Ainsley, who's difficult and narrow-minded and doesn't really change much). Evelyn bravely takes her very first job and loves it, Graham rights the biggest wrong of his life, Douglas finds the silver lining of being in a country he's never visited before, and Madge and Norman look for romance even though some would say they're too old for it. Even "Young" Sonny stands up to his mother in order to follow his dream of running the hotel for seniors and marrying the woman he loves.
Violence: One character dies unexpectedly.
Sex: A few of the couples flirt, and there are jokes about Viagra-like pills. Sonny and Suneina kiss passionately, and in one scene she strips to get into bed with him, only to discover that he's not the person in the bed.
Language: One "f--k," plus a few uses of "s--t," "bollocks," "crap," "hell," "sod it," "oh my God," etc. One character makes several racist remarks at the beginning of the movie, when she refuses to see a black and then South Asian doctor. She wants an "English" (white) doctor.
Consumerism: Not an issue
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Social drinking at dinners and at a hotel bar.
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As the Independence Day holiday nears, Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) reminds Iowans to keep food safety in mind at picnics and barbecues.
"When large gatherings like holiday-related picnics and meals happen, we typically hear about people getting ill with diarrhea and vomiting from foodborne illnesses," said IDPH Medical Director Dr. Patricia Quinlisk. "Most of these illnesses are caused by foods that are improperly cooked or stored."
Especially during warm weather, food safety begins at the grocery store.
"When shopping, buy cold foods like meat, poultry and dairy products last, right before checkout," Quinlisk said. "Plan to drive directly home from the grocery store so the food doesn't sit in a hot car any longer than necessary. You may also want to take a cooler with ice or insulated grocery bags to transport perishables home — especially if your drive home is more than half an hour."
Once home, place cold foods like meat, poultry and dairy products in the refrigerator right away.
To make sure you, your family and friends have a healthy holiday, remember the following tips:
• Cook all meats thoroughly, especially ground meats like hamburgers and sausages like bratwursts. Use a meat thermometer to ensure the middle of the meat has reached a temperature that will kill the organisms that can make us sick. Cook chicken to 165 degrees, ground meats like hamburger to 160 degrees, and whole meats like steaks or pork chops to 145 degrees.
• Marinate foods in the refrigerator — not on the kitchen counter or outdoors. In addition, if you plan to use some of the marinade as a sauce on the cooked food, set aside a portion before adding the raw meat, poultry, or seafood. Don't reuse marinade as this can recontaminate the food.
• Cook thoroughly and immediately after "partial cooking." If you partially cook food in your kitchen to reduce grilling time, do so immediately before the food goes on the hot grill.
• Keep cold food cold and hot food hot. Whether in your car or on the picnic table, illness-causing bacteria can grow in many foods within two hours and during the summer heat, that time is cut down to within one hour.
• Don't reuse platters or utensils. Using the same platter or utensils that previously held raw meat, poultry or seafood allows bacteria from the raw food's juices to spread to the cooked food. Instead, have a clean platter and utensils ready at grill-side to serve your food.
• Have a way to wash your hands prior to eating. For example, if picnicking, bring soap and water or hand wipes so that everyone can clean their hands before they eat.
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NEW CHANGES TO SELF-EMPLOYED BORROWERSThursday, March 11th, 2010
"CMHC is tightening the criteria needed for self-employed borrowers to get mortgage insurance, changes that will come into effect on April 9, 2010 according to Canadian Mortgage Trends.
Borrowers who apply under CMHC's self-employed stated income product will need a 10% down payment instead of the 5% down payment now required. These borrowers will also only be able to refinance up to 85% ltv instead of 90%.
Debbie Thomas, partner and broker of record at The Mortgage Group, recently told CMP she has noticed a trend of insurance guidelines tightening for self-employed borrowers, who often write off a large portion of their income for income tax purposes.
"The whole issue of reasonability has now been forced back and self-employed deals that used to be approved are not even close to being approved today," said Thomas. "It hasn't been announced or anything that has come out from the lenders or insurers, but it's something we've definitely noticed."
As well the criteria for using stated income has changed. If the business is less than three years old stated income can be used. After 3 years it has to be proven income.
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The Human Touch: iOS & Beyond
September 5th, 2011
Brighton, UK
Sold Out
Workshops available.
Conference sold out. Workshops still available.
Please pre-register if you are in town on the Sunday to avoid congestion at registration on Monday morning.
|Brighton Dome
|2:00 pm–5:00 pm
The Royal Banquet takes place from 6pm to 10:30pm. It starts with a drinks reception in the kitchens, followed by a tour of the palace, and culminates with dinner in the Royal Banqueting Hall.
|Brighton Pavilion
|6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Champagne reception
|7:00 pm–7:30 pm
Private tour
|7:30 pm–10:30 pm
Dinner in the Royal Banqueting Hall.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
|Brighton Dome
|8:30 am–9:30 am
Registration, teas, and coffees.
|9:45 am–10:00 am
Please take your seats.
|10:00 am–10:45 am
Opening video followed by introductions by Aral Balkan, a keynote by Matt Gemmell ("Unusability") and live music.
|10:45 am–11:10 am
Break (25 minutes)
|11:10 am–12:15 am
Jeremy Keith presents "One Web", we have another live music act, and we conclude with the Geek Ninja Battle on mobile platforms.
|12:15–1:15 pm
Lunch break (1 hour)
|1:15 pm–2:30 pm
We kick things off after lunch with live music and a hands-on Corona hacking session by Seb Lee-Delisle followed by keynotes by Sarah Parmenter and Relly Annett-Baker on common design challenges in mobile and "Arse over tit: the art of making stuff backwards".
|2:30 pm–2:55 pm
Break (25 minutes)
|2:55 pm–4:05 pm
A conversation with Ronald Wayne, the third founder of Apple, followed by keynotes by Joachim Bondo ("Going beyond delicious") and Anna Debenham ("The Digital Native").
|4:05 pm–4:30 pm
Break (25 minutes)
|4:30 pm–5:35 pm
Geek Ninja Battle on tools, technologies, and design challenges, followed by our last live music act of the day and the closing keynote by Cennydd Bowles ("The Things of the Future").
|5:35 pm–6:00 pm
Closing remarks and end of conference.
|Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
|7:00 pm–11:00 pm
A Night at the Museum after-party.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
Doors will open at 9:30AM and workshops will begin promptly at 10AM and end by 6PM. Teas and coffees and light refreshments will be available.
The following workshops will take place at Lighthouse Arts and Training at 1, Zone B, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ (see here for directions).
The following workshops will take place at MyHotel Brighton, 17 Jubilee Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1GE (see here for directions)
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
Doors will open at 9:30AM and workshops will begin promptly at 10AM and end by 6PM. Teas and coffees and light refreshments will be available.
The following workshops will take place at Lighthouse Arts and Training at 1, Zone B, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ (see here for directions).
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
The Royal Banquet pre-conference dinner takes place on 4th September at the Royal Pavilion, a palace situated in the heart of Brighton. Forty-two lucky attendees will join speakers, sponsors, and invited guests on the evening before the conference to enjoy a champagne reception in the royal kitchens, take a private tour of the Pavilion, and dine like the Windsors at a 90-person dinner in the Royal Banqueting Hall accompanied by a string quartet.
The Royal Banquet is now sold out.
There's nothing like experiencing an energised, passionate presentation by an expert at the top of her field. Find the inspiration and motivation you crave in these power-packed 18-minute TED-style presentations by top names in mobile, web, and user experience.
Carefully curated by Aral Balkan, our keynote speakers were cherry-picked because they care deeply about what they do, are prolific contributors to the community, and wonderfully inspiring presenters.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
As designers and developers we all have own treasure trove of tips, tricks, tools, and workflows that help us be better at what we do, make us more efficient, and maybe even add a bit of fun and delight to our days. Wouldn't you like to know what little secrets our workshop authors and instructors have in their repertoires?
Tech beats are short, five-minute presentations where you will learn about the tools, tips, and tricks that our speakers use to give themselves tech superpowers.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
Geek Ninja Battles are 45-minute moderated panel debates on issues that matter to mobile designers and developers. We have two of them at this year's conference.
The first Geek Ninja Battle is on platforms. Should your next app support iOS, webOS, Android, Windows Phone, web? Or several? Or maybe even all of them? What are the pros and cons of each platform?
Among others, the topics debated will include how developer-friendly the various platforms are, how easy it is for developers to monetise apps on the platform, how much of a user base the platforms have, and how they compete on user experience.
Join representatives from the various mobile platforms as they engage in a battle of wits and features. While we don't expect to have a single winner, we do expect the debate to be lively and highly enlightening.
The second Geek Ninja Battle is on tools and technologies. Now, more than ever, designers and developers are spoiled by the sheer number of tools and technologies they can develop with. From native development tools and environments like Xcode, Objective-C, and Cocoa Touch on iOS to cross-platform technologies like Appcelerator Titanium, Corona, and Adobe Flash, to web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
With so much choice, which is the right one for your next app? Which tools and technologies are easiest to get started with, and which ones require more development effort? And does your choice of technologies effect the user experience and competitiveness of your apps?
Join community champions as they debate the merits of the myriad of tools and technologies you have at your disposal as a mobile designer and developer today.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
The Show & Tell stage, sponsored by Monotype Imaging, is a platform for Update attendees to deliver 5-minute lightning talks during in the breaks. In addition to the community sessions, Monotype will also be presenting sessions on typography design and use in mobile and web development.
Attending Update? Want your five minutes of fame at the conference?
To increase your chances of getting picked, keep the following presentation tips in mind while preparing your proposal:
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
Learn about the hottest topics, techniques, tools, and technologies from the top instructors in our industry. The hands-on, intensive, and intimate workshops at Update last from one to three whole days and really let you sink your teeth into the subject matter.
The workshops range in duration for one day to three days and take place following the conference day, on the 6th and 7th. Workshop tickets include access to the conference on the 5th.
Workshops at conferences are usually more like seminars, with quality sacrificed for quantity as they pack up to 30-40 people or more into classes. Not so at Update. Unlike other conferences, we asked our instructors what class-size they would prefer and went with their recommendations.
Our workshops, like the conference itself, are intimate affairs. They're actual hands-on workshops, not seminars. Attendance is capped at around 15 people (some less, a few slightly more). This is to ensure that you get personal attention from your instructor. This also means that space at our workshops is very limited so book early to avoid disappointment.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
Our special guest at Update 2011 is Mr. Ronald Wayne, one of the three founders of Apple.
Mr. Wayne, now 77, worked with Steve Jobs at Atari. In 1976, he wrote and co-signed the document that brought Apple Computer into existence. He also created the first Apple logo and wrote the manual for the Apple I computer. He received 10% of Apple Computer but relinquished his stock–worth over $30 billion today–for a total of $2,300 a few weeks later.
Aral Balkan will be interviewing Mr. Wayne about his time at Atari, about the early days of Apple with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and about what he's been working on in his post-Apple years.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
During the conference day, the keynotes, tech beats, and Geek Ninja Battles are punctuated by live acts from various artists including a jam by 100 Robots that you will help direct with your mobile phone.
In between talks, head to the exhibition hall in the foyer and the upstairs chill-out lounge to interact with digital art installations from various artists.
After the conference, catch extended sets by the artists at the A Night at the Museum after-party.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
What better way to end a conference that begins at a palace than with a party at a museum? The prestigious Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, to be precise.
Wander around this beautiful and spacious venue and dip into extended sets from our live acts. Experience digital art installations alongside the traditional exhibits currently showing at the museum.
This is one geeky after-party where you'll actually get the chance to talk to each other.
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
Beautiful fairytale palaces, majestic royal banquets, inspiring keynotes, engaging live acts, lively Geek Ninja Battles, and happening after-parties in prestigious museums… Update is more than just a conference, it is a tightly-scripted, beautifully hand-crafted experience. It is a mobile conference with a soul.
Be part of the magic this September!
Don't miss out, book your ticket now!
The range of devices accessing the web is increasing. We are faced with a choice in how we deal with this diversity. We can either fracture the web by designing a multitude of device-specific silos, or we can embrace the flexibility of the web and create experiences that can adapt to any device or browser.
Jeremy Keith is a web designer and developer with over a decade's experience of using and teaching web technologies such as JavaScript, microformats and HTML5. He has written three books, DOM Scripting and Bulletproof Ajax, and most recently, HTML5 For Web Designers. When he's not crafting websites at Clearleft, Jeremy can usually be found ranting and raving at conferences like An Event Apart. Right now he's very excited about responsive web design, which he feels may herald an even bigger revolution than the original web standards movement.
In his spare time, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the band Salter Cane, curates an online Irish music community called The Session and runs Huffduffer, a site for creating podcasts of found sounds. You should unfollow him on Twitter.
Here you are planning your new app and dreaming of it storming to the top of the app store. Allow me then just to cut in for 18 minutes to show you why you're going about it all back-to-front. I'm going to take your blue sky thinking and reduce it to a one-inch frame so you can focus on what you're really making and how just a few words makes the biggest difference of all.
Relly Annett-Baker lives in a leafy market town with her husband and two small sons. As a result, she eats far too many cakes from Waitrose and can be guaranteed to stand on Lego at least once a day.
As well as being content strategist and content writer for Supernice Studio, she is employed as live-in domestic staff by two cats. She also writes articles and jabbers on about copy to anyone who will listen, creates scrapbooks, and continues to procrastinate over the draft for her book, a guide to creating web content for designers and developers, to be published in Spring 2011 by Five Simple Steps.
She better finish this biography before her editor spots she isn't writing her book again.
In this hands-on session, Seb will show you how easy it is to make an Angry Birds clone for iOS and Android in Corona. Bring a text editor of your choice and the free Corona SDK, and prepare to play along!
Leading software designers and developers have been stiving to create "Delicious" app for years now. And rightly so. It's the apps the users talk about, desire and buy. But is it really the peak of what we can achieve as software creators? I say we should take it to the next level. Beyond Delicious.
Although mostly known for his award-winning chess application, Deep Green, Joachim Bondo is also a long-time Mac developer, M.Sc. of Economics and Finance, ex. stockbroker and investment banker, wrist watch aficionado, but first and foremost, master of good taste.
Technology has, of course, changed the world – but its main power has been social, not commercial. Despite the best efforts of the industrial age, the general public now holds the cards. They can have any colour they like, including black. They can bring down newspapers, industries, and governments. They're not going to take your shit any more.
So farewell and good riddance to "pile em high and sell em cheap", saturation advertising, and consumption culture. It's time to put people – and humanity – at the heart of business.
Cennydd Bowles is an interaction designer, speaker and writer based in Brighton, UK. His second book, Designing the Wider Web, will be published this winter.
For too long, the field of user experience has preached about pandering to ordinary users - meeting their needs, empowering and even delighting them. iOS devices (and many of the apps that run on them) are often lauded as the pinnacle of user-centric design, but sociopathic developers can take heart: it's still possible to design extremely unfriendly software. Join me on an evil tour of the very best principles of user-hostile design.
Matt Gemmell is an iPad, iPhone and Mac OS X developer specialising in user experience. He runs his own business, Instinctive Code, and is an invited speaker at industry conferences.
He has written hundreds of articles on development and interface design at mattgemmell.com, and his clients include Apple and other Fortune 500 companies.
The current model of teaching students using a standardised system with a single suite of software on a desktop computer is no longer justifiable. The "digital native" has access to an array of technology on various platforms, which are rarely allowed within school gates despite their relevancy and educational potential.
Network lock-downs and zealous firewalls in schools also widen the chasm between the classroom and reality. Is this condemning a generation to be purely consumers of technology rather than creators?
Anna is a freelance front-end developer based in Brighton, doing work with Mozilla on a project called Hackasaurus that builds web development learning tools for kids. She also runs a community called Scrunchup for young designers and developers.
It's all too easy to get blinded by a beautiful interface design, but the real work starts long before you start layering gradients, bevels and highlights in your favourite graphics editor. Designing for iOS presents its own unique set of challenges that can easily show the rookie from the professional. In 18 minutes, Sarah will be addressing the most common challenges, through her experience as a user interface designer.
Sarah specialises in User Interface Design for iOS devices and the web, she regularly makes contributions to online web design related websites and written features to various magazines. Sarah also speaks at web design conferences around the world and is lucky to consult, and work for, many companies that we all know and love.
Sarah has also been shortlisted for the .net awards "Designer of the Year" 2011.
The Titanium Mobile workshop will be an intensive two day training course on the fundamentals of writing native mobile applications in JavaScript.
Over the course of two days, students will be exposed to a best-practices approach to building cross-platform mobile applications with Titanium. Using an increasingly complex example application, students will learn how to leverage cross-platform and device-specific APIs to deliver a "best of breed" mobile application for both iOS and Android. Some of the topics to be covered include:
Before taking the course, make sure you:
Kevin Whinnery is an experienced web developer on both the client and server side. Prior to joining Appcelerator, Kevin has worked on a diverse set of web development projects, including a web service API for ERP software, front-end code for a mutual fund trading application, and built a student information system from the ground up in his spare time. With Appcelerator, Kevin can usually be found educating developers on the Titanium platform, or building mobile and desktop applications for one of Appcelerator's awesome clients. Kevin lives in Saint Paul, MN with his wife and three children.
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Designing for iPhone and iPad is becoming a natural progression in many jobs and an expectation from employers.
The learning curve can be quite steep and many underestimate just what is involved with designing for these devices, finding themselves knee deep in a project but not knowing where to start. This workshop will conquer the unknown and is suitable for anyone who is starting out in iOS Design or expected to design for iOS Devices as part of their everyday job. By the end of the workshop day, you will be able to plan, design and prepare final documents for developers and gain a full knowledge of all the essential stages of designing for iPhone and iPad.
A basic knowledge of Photoshop will be required for the design session late morning and a flair for design a bonus, but obviously, not essential.
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Core Animation underpins the user interface of virtually all iOS apps. Even if you don't use the framework directly, it forms the base upon which the view classes rest, and has consequently played a pivotal role in the success of the platform.
In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to leverage Core Animation in your own apps, to provide feedback to the user, and — dare we suggest — add delicious effects and other eye candy. We'll start the day learning about utilizing Core Animation via the UIView class, before moving on to more advanced usage and the CALayer class. Numerous types of animations will be covered, from basic translations and rotations, to dissolves and advanced transforms. Techniques for producing sequences of animations will be discussed, and you'll even learn how to apply and animate Core Image filters.
This one-day workshop will be very hands on, with the aim of imparting skills that you can take away and start using in your own software straight away. You will need to bring a laptop with Xcode installed, so that you can complete the exercises, and build and run examples.
The workshop will be based around a single, deceptively simple example: bouncing a ball. In the real world, bouncing a ball poses little challenge to most of us, but — as will become apparent as the day progresses — bouncing a virtual ball with Core Animation can be as simple or complex as you want to make it. Riffing on this one example will introduce all of the skills you need to incorporate Core Animation effectively in your own iOS apps.
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This is a full day workshop on Core Data. In this session we will start at the beginning of Core Data and work very quickly up to the daily usage of Core Data. What do we use most often and how? What do all of the bits do?
Some things we will be discussing:
This will be a workshop format so there will be exercises and one on one opportunities as well as open periods where the class decides what direction the tutorials will take.
This is a full day workshop on Core Data. In this session we will be taking a deeper dive into Core Data and all of the sharper edges. This workshop will assume you have a working knowledge of the fundamentals of Core Data.
Some things we will be discussing:
This will be a workshop format so there will be exercises and one on one opportunities as well as open periods where the class decides what direction the tutorials will take.
Get started in Core Data and go beyond the basics by taking both classes together as a two-day workshop.
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This day long workshop will be a mix of introducing the latest technology & tricks on the mobile device and hands on practical exercises where you'll get to play with what you're learning.
Although this workshop will have an iOS focus, a lot of the technology we will look at applies to most new WebKit based devises (Android, Playbook, etc) and smartphones running Opera Mobile.
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First 60 minutes can make your workdayColleen Coates
Mark Twain once said, "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."
Fortunately, this wasn't meant to be taken literally, but is a colourful metaphor for smart time management: get the most undesirable task out of the way first thing, and the balance of your day will go much smoother. Tackling the least desirable job first may come as a bit of a surprise strategy, especially to slow starters who prefer wading into the workday one toe at a time, but it's one way to ensure you make the most of your first 60 minutes of your day.
Here's another quote from economist Richard Whatley that's not only a little more palatable, but underscores the importance of hitting the ground running: "Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it."
Some of the most successful people in the business world use their first hour in surprising but effective ways. For instance, Tumblr founder David Karp says he does not check his emails from home first thing in the morning because it doesn't feel good or productive. Plus, he says, if the matter is truly urgent, he knows that someone will undoubtedly call or text.
For most of us, checking our overnight emails as soon as our bleary eyes can focus is like a reflex. But Karp might be on to something here.
Resisting the temptation to scroll through messages eliminates unnecessary distraction that keeps us from concentrating on those "frogs" that need to be handled first thing. By checking your email first, you risk doing what someone else wants you to do instead — and why give someone else the power to change your top priorities?
Here are some other strategies for getting your day off to a great start:
Arrive on time. Showing up late for work can derail your entire day, not to mention that it makes an unfavourable impression on your co-workers and boss. But getting in on time helps get your mind in the game and promotes a feeling of accomplishment.
Take advantage of the peace and quiet. If possible, getting to work before anyone else lets you set your own pace and stay on track. Without the interruption of the phone ringing and no one to look over your shoulder or stop by to gab, you should be able to power through the work that needs to get done.
Fuel up mentally and physically. If you're not a morning person, do whatever it takes to come in to the office with a positive attitude even if that means taking time to stop for breakfast and a second cup of coffee. Your mood affects others, so be aware of the impact your attitude has on their day.
Start with a clean slate. While you may have to work on unfinished projects, treat each day as a new one with fresh eyes and a clear perspective. This renewed approach may help you come up with innovative ideas and tap into previously-overlooked solutions to problems.
Take a deep breath. Do something to focus on the here and now, rather than bringing any baggage from home or a stressful commute to your workplace. Slow down and take few precious moments to calm and centre your thoughts before slipping into work mode.
Reward yourself at the 60-minute mark. When you successfully complete the tasks you needed to finish, mark the end of the hour by giving yourself a mini-reward: a coffee break, a breath of fresh air, a brief stretch and walk around the office, a chat with a co-worker or even a little treat. You've earned it.
Leave a to-do list at the end of the day. Determine tomorrow morning's priorities and create a list of what needs to be accomplished in the first hour of the day. You'll appreciate the reminder of what's what while clearing away those morning cobwebs. At the same time, organize any needed materials so that no time is wasted once the clock starts ticking.
The first hour of the workday sets the tone for the following seven hours, so make sure you use it wisely by charting a course for a successful day. By remaining committed to positive habits every morning, you should be able to end your day on a productive note.
— With reporting by Barbara Chabai
Colleen Coates, CHRP, CCP, is a practice leader with People First HR Services Ltd. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Carbon nanotube, molecule joined to create new transistor
Keywords:R. Colin Johnson? Columbia University? organic molecule? carbon-nanotube? molecular transistor?
Columbia University researchers have successfully married a carbon nanotube with an organic molecule, creating what they said is the world's first hybrid carbon-nanotube/molecular transistor.
The experimental device enabled the chemical reaction in an application-specific organic molecule to be harnessed by the high carrier-mobility of carbon nanotubes.
"We have achieved something of a milestone by being able to wire up an ultrasmall transistor where we married carbon nanotubes with organic molecules," said Shalom Wind, senior research scientist at Columbia University. "We are taking the best properties of both and optimizing them so that we can combine them into a single switch."
Wind joined Columbia in 2003 after a stint at IBM Research's T.J. Watson Research Center where he helped characterize nanotube transistors. Like IBM's original design, Columbia's molecular transistors used a carbon nanotube as the transistor channel. The researchers cut the nanotube and inserted an application-specific organic molecule to functionalize the resulting molecular transistor, leaving the nanotubes as the source—and drain—electrodes.
"Molecular transistors represent the ultimate in scaling, so we need to understand them," Wind said. "We grew our nanotubes in place on the substrate, made a gap and inserted the organic molecules, which have their own special properties, enabling them to be used, for instance, as sensors,"
The researchers successfully inserting several different types of organic molecules, and reported detailed test results for an application-specific organic molecule that changed its conductivity in response to Ph. This enabled the molecular transistor to act as a Ph sensor.
The insertion technique used nanoscale lithography and a oxidation process that prepared the severed ends of the nanotube for chemical bonding to the inserted molecule. By ensuring the gap cut in the nanotube was similar in size to the molecule to be inserted, the researchers were able to marry the ends of the nanotube to a single organic molecule.
The researcher was performed at Columbia University's Nanoscience Center.
- R. Colin Johnson
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There are a few important things to know before one heads across our expansive country to attend the annual National Bike Summit. The time change is an important detail, as is the fact that "dude" isn't really an acceptable honorific on the east coast. But these pale in significance to another sliver of wisdom. Allow me to recommend the following as the foremost consideration for anyone embarking upon a trans-national journey that begins in San José: the San Bruno Caltrain and BART stations are not the same station.
That's right, it really is required that one disembark Caltrain in Millbrae, then take a BART train from Millbrae to San Bruno, then transfer to a different BART train in order to reach San Francisco International Airport. If one thinks to oneself "I shall simply transfer between the two systems in San Bruno," one will find oneself alone and cold, standing in the dark at a lifeless Caltrain platform at 5:50 am. At this point, one will require a cab if one is to resume the journey. Bummer most foul!
Twelve hours after my initial navigational bungle, I found myself in the third basement of the glorious Grand Hyatt in Washington D.C. (the majority of the gloriousness was, alas, several floors up, where daylight still penetrated the air), with presidential wunder-adviser Mark McKinnon. He was there to share with us the tools of persuasion, passion, and persistence that make American politics such a universally respected and wholesome institution, and help us harness those tactics in order to boost our efficacy as advocates.
The next two days were a whirlwind of workshops and one-on-ones with my colleagues from across the nation. I attended breakout sessions that focused on harnessing diversity in bike-promotion programs, uniting the racing and advocacy worlds, and figuring out the mess that Congress has made of the Federal Transportation Bill. At night I attended the Alliance for Biking and Walking's annual advocate party and awards ceremony, then a get-together for participants of the National Women Cycling Forum (okay, a few of us kind of crashed that one, but were received with smiles), and spent Thursday night first at the Summit's closing reception in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and then celebrating a successful week of learning and lobbying with my fellow advocates (no photos from that one – what happens at Ultra Bar stays at Ultra Bar!).
The main point we delivered to Congress last week was this: biking and walking is important and needs funding. The latest bill to come out of the Senate, MAP-21, preserves funding for programs like Safe Routes to School, Transportation Enhancements, and Recreational Trails (though it clumps them under the monicker "Additional Activities." Now we just need to convince the House to adopt their version of MAP-21, and in the meanwhile continue to fund existing programs. Piece of cake, right? We were able to meet in person with Representative Zoe Lofgren's Legislative Assistant in charge of transportation, and were assured that the Congresswoman gets it: Biking and walking are good for the economy and the environment, and funding transportation projects will help create jobs that the country needs badly. We're looking forward to congratulating her and her colleagues any day now for moving a bill through that keeps America moving.
All in all, it was a pleasure to reconnect with my counterparts from around the country and see all the innovative and exciting work other coalitions, clubs, and individuals are focusing on. Representative Earl Blumenauer (a rather bike-friendly Congressmember), told us all at the closing reception that his colleagues made a mad dash to hunt down bicycle lapel pins on the morning of our arrival, worried about the "bike people" descending upon the Capitol. If 800 of us can get members of Congress to worry about the way they look enough that they pose as bike advocates for the day, maybe there is hope for our national movement!


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I'm currently working on a trial to change several cyborgs to feature tracked propulsion instead of moving legs, while still being just 1 template. My problem however, is that as soon as it starts moving, the tracked propulsion I had in place for its body is swapped with the standard supercyborg moving legs. I used a slot from a super cyborg.
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AAA Four Diamond Hotel in Downtown Chattanooga
Lookout Mountain, a forested summit to the south of downtown Chattanooga, is one of the city's most popular outdoor attractions. Its rocky knolls are crisscrossed with more than 30 miles of hiking trails, but the best way to get to the top is on the Incline Railway, a trolley-style tram that travels up and down the mountain at a near-vertical incline. You can also travel deep into Lookout Mountain on a tour of Ruby Falls, an underground waterfall that cascades through one of the country's deepest cave systems. It's easy to get here from The Chattanoogan—the AAA Four Diamond hotel is just 15 minutes away, in the heart of downtown Chattanooga. Winter temperatures often rise into the 50s and 60s during the day, so you can explore the mountain all year long.
To fuel up after a day of sightseeing, head to Broad Street Grille, one of The Chattanoogan's onsite restaurants. Executive chef Matt Pinner prepares bison meatloaf, pan-roasted fish, and other seasonal southern specialties using locally sourced produce and meats. Alternatively, unwind with a pint of beer from the Chattanooga Brewing Co. at The Foundry, an upscale lounge that hosts live music on Friday and Saturday nights.
The Chattanoogan Spa is located on the second floor of the hotel. Many of the treatments here are inspired by Lookout Mountain, including a mountain-mud body mask and a Ruby Falls hydrating body treatment infused with local passionflower.
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Museums and Parks Along the Riverfront
Chattanooga, which sits right along the Tennessee-Georgia border, was a major railroad hub in the late 19th century, inspiring the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Today, the city has scrubbed away its industrial-era grime and adopted greener practices, including an electric shuttle that runs through downtown and lots of public parks. These include Coolidge Park, a downtown hangout along the river where kids can hop on a century-old carousel and enjoy acres of open green space.
Chattanooga is also home to the Walnut Street Bridge, one of the world's longest pedestrian bridges. The bridge's wrought-iron trusses stretch across the Tennessee River, which bisects the city's downtown. From here, you can take a scenic stroll toward other downtown attractions such as the Tennessee Aquarium and the Hunter Museum of American Art.
The city, which the New York Times named one of the top 45 places to visit in 2012, has seen a resurgence of arts and culture in recent years. Chattanooga now hosts a number of art and music festivals each year and encompasses several up-and-coming art districts lined with independent boutiques and galleries.


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The Samsung Galaxy S III released on all major U.S. networks to much fanfare. It's not uncommon to hear the Galaxy S III referred to as the pinnacle of Android smartphones, and with good reason. With the latest internal components, amazing external aesthetics and a killer screen, the Galaxy S III has everything the Android user needs and longs for in a smartphone. But will it be the de facto Android smartphone for 2012? Read on to find out.
We'll note before starting this review that we occasionally do joint-reviews of devices here at Android and Me, and Sean Riley contributed to this review.
1. Form Factor
If you're looking for a phone that breaks the Galaxy S mold, you aren't going to find it here. While Samsung finally stood up to carriers and ensured that customers received the same physical device regardless of carrier, the Galaxy S III still feels like a big slab of plastic with a screen. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and the device is super light as a result, yet still feels well-built and solid in the hand.
The Galaxy S III features a power button on the right side of the device, microUSB port on the bottom, volume rocker on the left side, and a 3.5 mm headset jack on the top. On the back of the device you'll find the camera, with an LED flash and speaker grill on the left and right sides of the camera, respectively. The Galaxy S III comes in two finishes, Marble White (reviewed) and Pebble Blue. The Marble White is a nice finish on the phone, and presents a refreshing change to the customary black slabs in the wild. The Pebble Blue looked equally good in the brief moments I had with that variant of the device, a good choice for those of you who prefer darker phones.
After having my hands on the AT&T HTC One X and the Sprint EVO 4G LTE, I can honestly say that I prefer the form factor of the Galaxy S III, and I think many of you will as well.
2. Software
When it comes to the software on the Galaxy S III, Samsung has included Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich complete with their customary TouchWiz UI. This isn't your familiar old TouchWiz; Samsung has pulled an HTC and toned down the UI a bit in order to give the Galaxy S III a slick look and feel. As with Sense 4.0, Touchwiz for Android 4.0 is a pleasant to use UI, the skinned applications actually work well and are in some ways better than the stock version in Android 4.0.
One of the better additions to Touchwiz 5 is the revamped lock screen that brings the same ability to launch four customary applications directly from the lock screen found in HTC's Sense UI. Most people primarily use only a handful of applications very often; for example, I use Phone, Tweakdeck, Facebook, and the Camera, and set those to the lock screen for quick access.
Samsung differentiates its UI by some of the included applications, one example is S Memo, which allows you to draw on pieces of paper or over screenshots you take from your device, helpful when you want to send something to someone with commentary. Perhaps the most notable added feature on the Galaxy S III though is the Siri-competitor S Voice, which allows you command your phone to perform certain tasks or search for things using only your voice. In our testing, both the S Memo and S Voice performed very well, though I must admit that the latter isn't quite up to Siri par here. We're hoping that Samsung and Google could work together to leverage Google Now and S Voice to come up with an unparalleled personal assistant.
In all, Samsung's Touchwiz UI remains slightly more polished and user-friendly than HTC Sense, and in my humble opinion at least retains its position as the preferred custom UI on Android smartphones.
3. Longevity
One of the biggest gripes users have with smartphones is the long-term usability, or longevity, of the device. Many people voice concerns that their device won't get the latest and greatest operating system when it's released to other, newer devices, and that manufacturers are slow to resolve bugs and hiccups that come with the device.
Samsung has made the Galaxy S III at least partially future-proof. The Galaxy S III includes 2GB of RAM, which makes for an insanely fluid user experience and ensures that the device will get upgrades for at least the next few years, or the life of your cellular contract. Additionally, forcing carriers to adopt the same device with only a bit of bloatware added will likely result in quicker upgrades, meaning it shouldn't be 6 or more months after an Android version is released for the S III to get the update.
Regardless, the Galaxy S III is a powerful device with top of the line components that will leave customers pleased with their devices for the two years they'll likely own it. That's still pretty much a rarity in Android smartphones these days, as most devices are much less pleasant to use after a year or so.
4. Hardware
Many were disappointed to hear that the U.S. Galaxy S III would not be getting the quad-core processor that is offered internationally, but I assure you that the dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor running at 1.5 GHz will change your mind almost immediately. I've never seen Android 4.0 run as smoothly as it does on the Galaxy S III. Transitions never seemed to stutter and apps launched instantly. Gaming was no different, I couldn't find a title in my library that the Galaxy S III wasn't able to keep up with. Now as noted in the previous section the 2GB of RAM no doubt has its hands in some of this performance, but regardless of how it is being achieved the point is that the hardware in the Galaxy S III will not disappoint.
It's worth noting that the Galaxy S III also features NFC, which Samsung is leveraging for their S Beam functionality that allows you to quickly and easily share content between devices.
5. Call Quality
Call quality is almost an afterthought for most people at this point; we simply expect that our devices will perform well as phones, which is and will continue to be their primary functionality. I'm happy to report that the call quality on the Galaxy S III was up to par. Both the in-ear and speakerphone produced clear phone calls, and parties on the other end of the phone reported being able to hear me just fine as well.
6. Display
The display was another somewhat contentious point for the Galaxy S III as the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the PenTile screen was audible from the launch event. Actually seeing the Galaxy S III screen will make you forget any implication that it is in some way inferior. The 4.8-inch 1280×720 Super AMOLED is the best display I have seen on a smartphone. Colors are vibrant, without being over saturated, and text is crisp. Usability in full sun is acceptable, but not markedly better than other smartphones on the market.
I've said it before, but I don't care if the pixels look flawed under a microscope, the reality of using the Galaxy S III is that anything you put on that screen is going to look amazing.
7. Camera Quality
As a Galaxy Nexus owner this was probably the most anticipated feature of the Galaxy S III for me since it is, at least in my opinion, the Achilles heel for the Nexus. When it was revealed that Samsung was using an updated version of the imaging chip utilized in the oft deified iPhone 4S camera I was thrilled and the Galaxy S III lives up to that hype for me. I even appreciate Samsung's enhancements to the basic camera app.
There are quite a few additions to the camera, but I'll stick with the three that I found particularly useful. The first and my personal favorite is the "HDR" mode. For those unfamiliar with HDR it basically takes multiple shots at different exposure levels to produce one image with greater contract in light and dark areas. What I enjoyed about Samsung's implementation is that it doesn't push things too far and in the end just gives you a very well exposed shot, the flower below is a perfect example, without HDR on the sky was slightly blown out and the foreground looked quite dark. The camera does also give you the unmodified version, so if you are a purist you still have that image to play with later.
The burst mode is another much appreciated feature, especially if you have quick moving children or pets. The ability to have the camera fire off 20 shots consecutively over several seconds without having to tap the shutter repeatedly is a real boon and also prevents the inevitable camera jiggle from tapping the screen over and over. I was less impressed with the "best shot" option which takes what it considers the best photo from the series and deletes the rest, but your mileage may vary there.
Finally I appreciated what amounts to a slight tweak to the panorama mode and that is the little blue frame that helps to show you whether you are straying from your line as you stitch the panorama together. It's a minor detail that is tremendously helpful for shooting a panorama.
The Galaxy S III is naturally capable of capturing 1080p video as well and not surprisingly the results there are fantastic. I assumed the detail would be there, however I was surprised by the complete lack of any chop or stutter to the video as I've often seen that with 1080p video from previous smartphones. Here's a brief sample video and if you watch it in full 1080p you'll see what I mean.
8. Verizon 4G LTE
One of the biggest advantages for the Verizon Galaxy S III is the 4G LTE network, which produces download speeds ranging from 5 to 12 mbps, and upload speeds in the 3 to 5 mbps neighborhood. Of course, AT&T has an emerging LTE network, but it's not quite grown up yet; many regions are stuck on HSPA+, which offers somewhat slower speeds on average than LTE. Sprint and T-Mobile have LTE networks in development, with both carriers planning on fully-implemented networks by the end of 2013. That's a long way off, and makes the Verizon our preferred carrier for the Galaxy S III, since it has day 1 access to a fully-implemented LTE network.
9. Battery Life
Battery life on the Samsung Galaxy S III has been nothing short of amazing for me. It still can't hold a candle to the Droid RAZR MAXX, but with it's significantly larger screen and smaller battery it does a remarkable job trying.
I was able to consistently get 15-17 hours on a single charge with the SGS3, which is a good 3-4 hours beyond what most LTE phones on Verizon have offered me in the past. These results were without employing any specific battery saving measures so with a modicum of additional effort even the heaviest of users would be extremely hard pressed to burn through this battery in a single day.
10. Price
Safe and sound, back in good old $199. After the last year or so of seeing all the high-end devices on Verizon spiking launch prices between $249 and $299 it is nice to see things come back down to the once reliable $199 mark.
Also with the availability of the microSD slot I see little reason to bump up to the 32GB version since you can pick up a 32GB class 10 microSD card for about $35 on Amazon. Even less if you go with a class 4 card and if you are just using it to store media that should get the job done just fine.
The full retail price of $599 is a bit harder to take, especially since other carriers have it at $549, but the reality is that so few customers opt to go that route that I can't really penalize the Galaxy S III for it.
If you don't mind not going directly through Verizon you can also get the Galaxy S III starting at $149.99 from Amazon.
Anthony – The Samsung Galaxy S III is set to take the world by storm. We tested the Verizon version of the device, but we're certain the next statement applies to all variants of the Galaxy S III; it is by far the best Android device released to date, and will likely hold that crown through the remainder of 2012. I thought I wasn't going to like how big it is, and indeed it is rather large with that 4.8″ screen; but it's managed to maintain the svelte look and feel of the Galaxy S II line, and thankfully doesn't feel as big as it actually is. Users should have no trouble holding and using the device with only one hand, which is a common complaint lodged against larger smartphones.
Frankly, if you're up for an upgrade or looking for a new device, you simply owe it to yourself to get the Galaxy S III, our Editor's Choice for 2012. You won't be happier with any other Android.
Sean – Anthony and I agree almost completely on this device. The Galaxy S III is the best smartphone I have had the pleasure to use and were I looking to upgrade today it is absolutely what I would buy.
My only minor complaint regarding the Galaxy S III is the fit and finish, which doesn't look quite as high quality to me as, for example, the HTC One X. With that said, I prefer the feel of the Galaxy S III in the hand (which is more important to me anyway).
I'll counteract that minor complaint with something that didn't make its way into the review proper, and that is that the speaker on the Galaxy S III is an order of magnitude louder than any other smartphone I've used. I was able to hear podcasts or music playing on it basically throughout my house if I turned it to full blast whereas I normally can barely hear my smartphones when I leave the room.
The combination of the high-end hardware, the fairly lightly modified software and of course the sheer number of these devices that Samsung is going to have out there should keep the Galaxy S III a relevant and reliable device well into the future.


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Is It Worth It? We Investigate Whether You Should Bother To Build An LT1
Way back in our Dec. '07 issue, we ran an article that provided a thorough look at the LT1, Chevrolet's engine that bridged the gap between the original small-block and the company's current Gen III and IV family of engines. For its time, it was very advanced, utilizing reverse flow cooling, improved cylinder head design, and sequential fuel injection ('93 and later). The LT4 variant improved on the recipe even further with an aggressive cam profile, even better heads, and a lightened valvetrain. Some of these innovations became standard equipment on the forthcoming LS1. But the LT production run was limited to just six years between 1992 and 1997, meaning the number of these engines and the parts available are much fewer than the Gen I small-block and the LS engines as well.
So, based on the limited appeal of this engine, who, if anyone, should care about this article? Anyone who owns or is considering buying a fourth-gen Camaro or Firebird, C4 Corvette, or Impala SS. Plus, some restomod guys are swapping LT1s into older GM muscle cars because they drop right in place of a standard small-block without all the fiddling you have to do to get an LS engine in.
So, here's the deal: We scored an LT1 out of a '94 Caprice police car with the intention of rebuilding it and bolting parts onto it to find out the potential of these engines. Here's how it went down.
If our engine looks a little crusty, that's because it is. This is a high-mileage unit out of a 9C1 Caprice that saw hard time first as a police car and then as a taxi cab. The car had more than 225,000 miles on the clock when we pulled the engine. B-body trivia experts will note that our engine has aluminum heads instead of the factory iron heads. Before we bought the car, someone installed Edelbrock heads but never ran the car with them. More on that later. We took it to our buds at JMS Racing Engines for a teardown and inspection. We wanted to rebuild this engine as cheaply as possible, reusing as many of the stock components as we could.
During the teardown, we encountered the normal stuck fasteners. One of our flexplate bolts was seized, and the head of the bolt rounded when we tried to unscrew it. Though we tried special sockets, we eventually had to chisel it off.
LT1s have a unique, press-on balancer hub that requires a special puller. In a pinch, you can remove it with an air hammer.
We were encouraged by the cleanliness of the bores and hoped to get away with just replacing the rings and bearings.
Our hopes were dashed when we checked the thrust flange on our crankshaft. It was worn so badly that the crank was unusable. JMS' Jeff Johnson said this is a common problem.
The torque converter loads up the crankshaft in such a way that it causes excessive wear on the thrust bearing and flange. We replaced the crank with a new one from Scat.
After the block was machined and the crank balanced, JMS' Jeff Johnson began reassembly. Here's a look at the new timing set, which includes the water pump drive gear partially hidden behind the cam gear.
JMS handled the assembly, but we had to get it ready to run on the dyno. To speed up the process, we ordered a wiring harness from Painless Performance rather than try to decipher the factory harness. We were impressed with the Painless harness–all the connections were labeled and the kit included this nice, braided loom. We had the engine wired up in just a couple of hours.
Here's the engine wired up and ready to be rolled into the dyno cell. To get an accurate baseline, we decided to run the engine totally stock with the original cam, iron heads, iron exhaust manifolds, and stock catalytic converters.
Unfortunately, our engine wouldn't start. We double-checked all our wiring and even replaced the mass airflow sensor and ECM before finally getting out our factory service manual and tracing the problem to a bad OptiSpark. There was no high-resolution signal from the optical trigger to the ECM, so the plugs wouldn't fire. Though aftermarket OptiSpark units are available, we wanted one from GM–and good luck finding one in stock at your local Chevrolet dealer. We bought ours from LT1 specialist George Bates Automotive in Upland, California. They're not cheap, either.
Bates warned us to pay close attention to this connector. It's the link between the ECM and the OptiSpark, and it often gets melted by engine heat. We checked our factory harness and found that it was, in fact, a little melty looking. It's a good idea to wrap this connector with some sort of heat-insulating sleeve.
Bates also told us to replace the OptiSpark vent tube line. Running the engine without venting the distributor can cause it to fill with ozone and will lead to an early failure. We also took this opportunity to replace several broken and damaged vacuum lines.
Though they say it's impossible to put an OptiSpark on wrong, trust us, it can be done. The pin from the cam is supposed to fit into the square-shaped slot (arrow) on the back of the distributor, but is it possible to get this misaligned. Though it will not fit in the slot, the pin can align with one of the other two wrong slots. If this happens, it will drive the distributor, and the engine will try to start and sound like a traditional geardriven distributor that is off a couple (or several) of teeth.
Here's the trick: When installing the OptiSpark, push the unit on by hand. It should seat fully just by pushing on it. Do not use the bolts to draw it on. If you have to force it on, it's misaligned. Also, using the bolts to tighten the unit could cause the mounting tabs to break. You'll be shelling out big bucks for a new OptiSpark if this happens.
With the new OptiSpark installed, the engine started right up. Our Matco scan tool verified that the ECM was going into closed loop and everything was working normally. We made a couple of dyno pulls to establish our baseline and were pleased with a respectable 282 hp at 5,300 rpm and 339 lb-ft at 3,800 rpm through the stock manifolds and cats.
Next, we swapped in Edelbrock's Performer LT1 heads and Performer-Plus cam package. These heads have been available for several years and are advertised to make about 25 hp more than stock. See the sidebar for a comparison of the cam and head packages. We also installed a pair of emissions-legal Edelbrock headers but kept the stock cats.
We did encounter another problem during the head swap procedure. While unplugging the fuel injectors, we accidentally touched one of the connectors to the manifold, shorting it out and causing the fuel injector driver fuse to blow. We didn't realize this, of course, until after the swap was done and the engine wouldn't fire again. Be warned–disconnect power to the ECM when messing with the fuel injector connectors.
We had more problems once we got the engine fired again. The stock Caprice ECM has a rev limiter set at about 5,500 rpm and would cut fuel before the engine was making peak power. We had a Hypertech programmer on hand but had to jumper the pins because the ALDL on our Painless harness was the newer-style OBDII connector and the programmer had an OBDI connector. These computers have a very slow baud rate (information transfer speed) and it takes almost 10 minutes to reprogram the ECM. Hope you're not paying for dyno time by the hour.
With the rev limiter raised to 6,000 rpm, the Edelbrock combination made 343 hp at 5,800 rpm and 378 lb-ft at 4,300 rpm.
Our final combination to test was Edelbrock's new RPM Xtreme heads and LT4 intake manifold. These heads were brand-new to the LT1 scene last year, and we had hopes for big power numbers. We combined them with Edelbrock's Performer RPM LT4 Air-Gap intake manifold but kept the Performer Plus cam and exhaust.
On the dyno, however, we struggled to make much more power than we did with the previous combination. Looking at the datastream on the scan tool, we noticed the ECM was taking out 11 percent of ignition timing in knock retard and suspected that the overly sensitive LT1 knock sensors were picking up the extra clatter of the roller rockers and pulling timing out. From the factory, LT4 engines came with roller rocker arms but with less-sensitive knock sensors. With a pull of 366 hp at 5,200 rpm and 404 lb-ft at 4,200–well down from Edelbrock's advertised numbers for this combination, we realized we had the limit of how much power we could make with the factory ECM programming.
We also scheduled a day at Westech's engine dyno. Fuel-injection guru Ernie Mena ran the engine, making fine-tuning adjustments to the timing and fuel maps in between each pull. Thanks to his tuning, we finally got the engine to churn out 412 hp at 5,600 rpm and 402 lb-ft at 5,900 rpm. To take advantage of the Edelbrock heads' more efficient combustion chambers and airflow characteristics, we needed to reprogram the ECM, so we downloaded Tuner C.A.T.S., ECM reprogramming software for GM computers of that era. We also needed a set of cables to connect a laptop computer to the ALDL. We got ours from AKM Cables.
For grins, we swapped the Edelbrock cam with a custom-ground one from Comp. Though it only improved on the Edelbrock cam by a few horsepower, the wider lobe-separation angle smoothed out to the point where the engine sounds almost stock.
At the same time, we swapped the stock throttle body for a trick 52mm unit from Holley and added MSD's new Pro-Billet distributor. This is MSD's version of the OptiSpark, which allows a total of 14 degrees of adjustment–7 degrees advanced and 7 retarded. This also allows fine-tuning of the ignition curve without having to reprogram the ECM for each timing adjustment. Stock OptiSparks are not adjustable.
Our Advice
We don't regularly run fuel-injected engines on the dyno, so we had a really steep learning curve during this process. To do a job like this yourself, we highly recommend the following:
Buy a factory service manual. Get one for the car your engine came out of. We would never have gotten our engine running without it.
Budget extra money to replace sensors. We had replaced the OptiSpark cap and rotor, thinking the optical trigger was still good. It wasn't.
Be prepared to buy an extra ECM. Our original one never worked, and our replacement got burned up once during reprogramming. They cost about $125.
Plan on engine or chassis dyno-tuning if you replace your heads or cam. There is a lot of learning capability built into the factory ECM, but those parts will alter the amount of airflow through the engine to levels that are greater than the ECM can handle. You'll need to tune it to get the most power from your new parts.
Click here for the LT1 dyno chart
Test One
Stock LT1 355 CID 10.5:1 compression ratio
Iron heads–54cc chambers
|Intake valve
|Exhaust Valve
|Intake Port
Cam specs ('94 Chevrolet B-body)
191/196 degrees duration at 0.050-inch tappet lift
0.418/0.430-inch valve lift
111-degree lobe-separation angle
Test Two
Edelbrock Performer LT1 heads–54cc combustion chamber
|Intake Valve
|Exhaust Valve
|Intake Port
Edelbrock Performer-Plus cam
218/218 degrees duration at 0.050-inch tappet lift
0.525/0.525-inch valve lift
112-degree lobe-separation angle
Test Three
Edelbrock Performer Air-Gap intake
Edelbrock Performer XTreme cylinder heads–54cc combustion chambers
|Intake Valve
|Exhaust Valve
|Intake Port
Edelbrock Performer-Plus cam
218/218 degrees duration at 0.050-inch tappet lift
0.560/0.560-inch valve lift*
*RPM XTreme heads tested with 1.6:1 ratio Harland Sharp rocker arms
112-degree lobe-separation angle
Dyno'd at Westech with long-tube headers
Test Four
Same as above but with custom-ground Comp Cams camshaft and ECM tuning
218/224 degrees duration at 0.050-inch tappet lift
0.570/0.565-inch valve lift*
*RPM XTreme heads tested with 1.6:1 ratio Harland Sharp rocker arms
117-degree lobe-separation angle
Our LT4 Conversion
The LT4 was a one-year-only version of the LT1 that came in '96 Corvettes with the six-speed transmission. Some of these engines also found their way into the engine compartments of special-edition '97 F-cars. The LT4 made just 30 more horsepower than the standard LT1, but the power under the curve was better.
For several years, GM was selling a conversion kit to convert a stock LT1 to LT4 specifications, but it has been discontinued. Some of the parts are available separately, however.
Our LT4 conversion consists of Edelbrock's RPM XTreme cylinder heads, an LT4 intake manifold, Harland Sharp 1.6:1 rocker arms, and a Comp Cams camshaft with specs very similar to GM's famous Hot cam. The heads are called partial CNC'd, meaning the combustion chambers are fully CNC-machined, but the runners are not. Edelbrock says the difference in airflow is minimal compared with a fully CNC'd runner, but the difference in price is substantial.
Note that the LT4 cylinder heads have raised runners, and therefore you must use an LT4 intake manifold and intake gaskets. The standard LT1 stuff will not fit.


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Figure 1. Mobile Services Market Forecast for 2014
The Market
Interim Voice Solutions on the Way to LTE
Circuit-Switched Fallback
Figure 2. Circuit-Switched Fallback for Voice and SMS
Possible Concerns with 3GPP Standard CSFB
Network Upgrades
Tracking Area-to-Location Area Mapping
Figure 3. Tracking Area to Location Area Mapping Issue
Roaming Retry
Figure 4. Roaming Retry Procedure
Cisco CSFB Interworking Function (CSFB-IWF)
Figure 5. Circuit-Switched Fallback Interworking Function
• User equipment registers with the LTE network
• The serving MME registers with HSS
• The serving MME informs the VLR registered to CSFB IWF
• CSFB-IWF registers as the serving MSC with HLR
Figure 6. CSFB IWF Call Flows
• Mobile origination: The user equipment leaves the LTE network and re-tunes to the 3G network where its location is updated. The HLR then sends a Cancel Subscriber command to CSFB IWF and the subscriber is removed. The user equipment initiates the call.
• Mobile termination: The Gateway Mobile Switching Center (GMSC) initiates a termination attempt (sending the Send Routing Information [SRI] message to the HLR). The HLR sends the Provide Routing Number (PRN) message to the CSFB-IWF (acting as VLR). The CSFB-IWF sends a page to the serving MME. The MME forwards the page to the user equipment. Upon receipt of the page message, the user equipment leaves the LTE network and re-tunes to the 3G network. Upon registration in the 2G or 3G network, the user equipment sends out an LAI. This LAI is forwarded to the HLR, which then sends a Cancel Subscriber command to the CSFB IWF MSC. The CSFB IWF initiates a new termination attempt (sending an SRI to the HLR). The HLR sends PRN to the serving MSC and the MSC sends back a PRN acknowledgement (ACK). The HLR sends a SRI ACK to CSFB IWF. CSFB IWF sends the PRN ACK to HRL and HRL sends the SRI ACK to the GMSC, which terminates the call to the user equipment.
Figure 7. Mobile Initiation and Termination with CSFB IWF
• Reduced operational rollout costs and complexity.
• No need to perform upgrades to MSC and HLR platforms.
• Requires no specific tracking area to location area mapping changes on MME (MME is provisioned as if it is connecting to a standard SGs interface).
• No disruption to existing network elements.
• Support for SMS over SGs and CSFB through a centralized gateway.
• Does not require SGs software licensing or IP hardware upgrades on any network MSC.
• Operators no longer locked into existing vendors (such as current MSC suppliers) for the CSFB solution.
• Common platform for MSC Telephony Application Services (TAS) and other Cisco CSP services for investment protection as IMS evolves to include services such as voice over Wi-Fi and voice over femtocell.
• Does not require or use Roaming Retry.
• A signalling-only solution with no bearer impact.
Single Radio Voice Call Continuity
Figure 8. Single Radio-Voice Call Continuity Interworking Function
• The Sv interface (based on the General Packet Radio Service [GPRS] Tunneling Protocol version 2-C [GTPv2-C]) to the MME is used to appear as an MSC server enhanced for SR-VCC.
• The MAP-D interface to the HLR is used for location management, subscriber management, and call handling procedures.
• The MAP-G interface to the VLR is used to allow the MSC and VLR to retrieve the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI).
• The MAP-E interface to the MSC is used for handover of calls from Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) to UTRAN/GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) during SR-VCC access transfer.
• The SIP Interface to the Media Gateway Controller Function (MGCF) is used as a bearer control protocol during and after the SR-VCC handover. The MGCF will interwork SIP to ISDN User Part (ISUP) towards the MSC.
• The MAP interface to the SMSC is used for mobile originated and terminated SMS.
• The Mw, Mg and Mj reference points towards the IMS core are used for appearing as a MSC enhanced for SR-VCC with the SIP interface, I-MGCF, and O-MGCF, respectively.
Figure 9. SR-VCC IWF Interfaces
Other Technologies Beyond VoLTE
Figure 10. The Evolution to VoLTE
• Multiple devices associated with the same user account
• Older mobile devices
• Video calling, picture sharing, and other media streams
• A standardized approach to support of services such as call forwarding, hold, and three-way calling
Why Cisco
For More Information
• Cisco Mobile Internet: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns973/networking_solutions_market_segment_solution.html.
• Cisco Voice and Video Over LTE - Solution Overview: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns973/solution_overview_c22-643109_ns1129_Networking_Solution_Solution_Overview.html.