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Wow, the Winter Dew Tour is over and it was a full-on grand finalé. Total East Coast night: freezing ass cold (-8º), wicked windy and somehow the crazy Vermont spectators were totally down to stand out there and cheer on the riders on this tour-ender, pipe final night. Really wonder if that massive crowd was smelling the glove? They had to be. Then again, the Vermont State Troopers had the Liquor Control RV posted up by the exit, so any would-be DUI revellers who were thinking about driving probably thought twice. Yes, I said East Coast night. And in February, it gets very cold and you gotta do what you gotta do stay warm pipeside. Regardless, the riders were heating it up tonight. Of course they were.
Kaitlyn Farrington took not just the women's pipe victory tonight, but also the overall Dew Tour Cup. Big props and big cash for the 20-year old from Sun Valley, Idaho who rode her ass off at every stop of this part tour. A few weeks back she started nailing the backside seven and pulled it out tonight and settled the women's final. Young Maddy Shaffrick and veteran Kjersti Buaas were also gunning and landed in second and third places, respectively. Big high five out to Kelly Marren who sorta owned it tonight, but ended in fourth. Thankfully the cold temps sped up the pipe and the girls were boosting, so they put on a good show for the crowd.
Like Farrington, J.J. Thomas also doubled-down tonight getting the pipe win and also the overall Dew Tour Cup. Always the gentleman, (despite the creepy mustache) Thomas dedicated his win tonight to Danny Davis, who he said is, "the best pipe rider ever." J.J.'s giant back-to-back ten combos were way overhead and landed smooth to edge out the other dudes in the best-of-two-run final. Second went to Brennen Swanson, a Minnesota kid who was the only one to throw out the double-cork this weekend. He stomped two frontside ten doubles, clean as hell, stomped as hell--one in each run. His Ride Snowboards team manager, Matt Sickels said Swanson has been riding pipe for just three years. Holy shit! is about all I can say to that. Third place went to Steve Fisher who popped out a pair of clean runs. Unity Snowboards' rider Dylan Bidez gets the amplitude award (again, here in Vermont)--his best finish on the tour was a fourth place in Snow Basin last month, but this kid gets the crowd fired up with every run he takes. Dylan's got a little bit of the Scotty Lago in him--never holding back and seriously booming on each and every wall. One day soon Bidez will be on the podium. That other contest--the Olympics opened up a lot of slots in the Dew Tour and gave an opportunity to a bunch of fresh, young kids for this final event. Nice to see some new blood in the final.
So that's the quick and dirty on the Mount Snow Dew Tour. Big crowd, big guns from the riders and pretty soon the Transworld team of internet nerds will be hitting the big wrap-up party. Its with a touch of sadness that we say farewell to this year's tour, but at least nobody will have to hear any more "Tech spin!" or "Big grab!" commentary from the live announcer who was on the mic this weekend. Because, it's now officially done. Huge respect to every rider who went out there this season and gave it their best shot--no matter if they made the podium or finished DFL. Competitive snowboarding is no joke and the riders make the whole thing happen. Our hats off to you all.


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Born of Spanish immigrant parents in New York City, N.Y., she attended Cooper Union and then Yale University, being one of two women in the graduating class in architecture in 1949. She raised her family in Palo Alto, Calif., from 1955 and maintained her principal residence there until six years ago when she moved to Ashland.
She was one of the first women in Palo Alto to ride her bicycle to work, hosted two American Field Service high school students in her family and was one of the original supporters of the Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto. In Los Angeles she was one of the first docents at the new Getty Museum and also a garden docent at the Huntington Gardens.
Her career spanned more than 40 years and included work as an architect in private firms and as manager of hospital expansion projects in New York, Los Angeles and at Stanford Hospital. She retired at age 75.
She is survived by her children, Diana, Christopher, Mark and Andrea; grandchildren, Brian, Nicholas, Jeffrey, Monica, Alexander, Tessa and Olivia; and her sister, America. She was preceded in death by her parents, Manuel and Flora Fernandez, and her brother, Oligario Fernandez.
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Tom Martin Rogers, 80, died Nov. 21 of acute leukemia at the Sequoias in Portola Valley.
Born Oct. 8, 1932, in Fresno, Calif., he was the first child of Doris and Glenn Rogers and brother to his late sister, Peggy Brott.
He attended school in Salinas and attended San Jose State University, where he earned his bachelor's degree and his secondary teaching credential. He served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1958 and was stationed in Anchorage, Alaska. After being honorably discharged, he worked as an actor in Fallon Theater in Columbia, Calif., during the summers as he started his teaching career.
His teaching career at the Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District was from 1958 to 1985. These 27 years of service were complemented by 12 years of volunteering at Woodside's Filoli as a docent from 1977 to 1989. After retiring from teaching, he became the prominent curator of Filoli for 22 years from 1989 to 2011, overseeing collections of antiques, artifacts and historical furniture of the estate. He was also a regular volunteer at the San Francisco Legion of Honor and an active participant in the San Francisco Ceramic Circle.
He is survived by his grandchildren, Korey, Jeremy and Klarissa Lee; their parents, Bill and Judie Lee; his brother-in-law, Jack Brott; and nephew, Eric Brott.
Gifts in Tom his memory may be directed to Filoli for the fund directed to the "Conservation of Objects in the Decorative Arts Collection" or for the "Acquisition of Books for the Sterling Library," 86 Ca–ada Road, Woodside, CA94062; or the Sequoias for the fund directed to assist "The Residents Who Exhausted Their Resources," 501 Portola Road, Portola Valley, CA 94028. A celebration of life will be held Saturday, Dec. 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Sequoias.
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Lester Weil, a longtime resident of Menlo Park, died Dec. 5 at his home after a brief illness. He was 95.
He was born in The Bronx on April 13, 1917, and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College in 1937 and subsequently received his doctorate in chemistry from Columbia University in 1945.
He met his wife, Ruth Swid, while at Columbia and they were married in 1944. He worked on the Manhattan Project during the war and was part of the American space program until his retirement in 1970.
Known as "Doc" to many of his friends, for the past 40 years he had divided his time between Menlo Park, raising cows on his ranch outside of Livermore and fly fishing the Bitterroot River in Montana.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth, and his daughter, Nancy. He is survived by his son, Arthur; his daughter-in-law, Alice; his daughter, Beth; his grandson, Sam; his granddaughter-in-law, Nicole; great grandchild, Sierra; his grandson, Matthew; his granddaughter-in-law, Jennifer; and his grandson, Seth. A private family service has been held.
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See original post on page 110, { http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...34918-110.html } post # 1098.
We sent the quilts out the first of this month. Aunt Sheri got her quilt on the 7th and aunt Dorothy didn't go to the PO to get hers till the 16th. But she did get it.
We just heard from my aunt Sheri today about her quilt. She's 82 years old and doesn't respond as quick as she used to but she told us she was quite happy with her quilt and that it was "snugly warm". I'm tickled she liked it.
Now hopefully aunt Dorothy will let us know how she liked her quilt. She's 88 and moves even slower. I do hope she likes it.


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Carl and Lisa Elliott and their young children, Gregory and Felicia, were murdered near Dalton in 1998. It took authorities until 2003 to bring charges against Charles Wayne "Chad" Green and his father, Billy Dale Green. Prosecutors argued the killings stemmed from a drug deal that went sour.
Chad Green was convicted on four counts of capital murder and one count of kidnapping. On appeal, he argued that statements he made to investigators should have been kept out of his trial and that prosecutors improperly used inconsistent theories of the case in prosecuting him and his father in separate trials.
The high court unanimously ruled there was no reversible error.
Chad Green had originally pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder and one count of kidnapping, and testified against his father, who was convicted and sentenced to death. But Billy Dale Green's conviction was overturned by the Arkansas Supreme Court, and Chad Green refused to testify at the retrial.
Prosecutors then reinstated the original charges against Chad Green, which led to the conviction that he appealed.
In a pretrial motion, Chad Green argued that prosecutors should be barred from claiming at trial that he killed the Elliott family if a different claim were to be made in his father's trial. The judge denied the motion.
The high court found that since Billy Wayne Green's conviction had been overturned prior to his son's trial, "there was no longer a theory in Billy's case for the state to 'contradict' in Chad's case."
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The Winds Are Blowing and It's Time to Get Going
The Way We Live Now: stoically ignoring that which is impossible to ignore. Homeless people are everywhere, for chrissake. Investors worldwide are dumping stocks. Wages are down everywhere. A bad storm's a-coming. Cover up or get blown down.
A bunch of academics, real fancy types, got together and did a study and found out that a new job these days usually means a lower-paid job. Thanks guys, thanks a lot, we'll contemplate that one in the moments when we're not extending our hands in greeting to an entering Wal-Mart customer, here in our exciting new career. Who wants to be an electrical engineer anyhow? Greeting is a job that never goes out of style, until they invent slightly better robots.
Storm clouds. Blackheads, a-gathering. Homelessness is up 50% in New York City. Fifty fucking percent! How do you "miss" that? How do you not notice one extra passed-out alcoholic per block in every other tightly-shuttered doorway on Nassau Avenue? We are quite literally tripping over homeless dudes as we walk to the bodega, for severely overpriced ice cream! And this is here in the rich city, where we're more good-looking and our economic rebound is above average.
Thunderheads. Rainclouds. Read the fuckin newspaper, man. We just went through the worst August for stocks since 2001. Home price gains are slowing down, and they weren't that good to begin with. Think you've had a bad month? Wait till you see next month. Wowza.
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" Knicks: A number of team executives say the Knicks have been the most active team during the first five days of the free-agency period.
Team president Isiah Thomas is trying everything to remake the team's roster. That includes, according to multiple team executives, offering Stephon Marbury to the highest bidder. The problem is that no one seems interested in the four years, $76 million left on his contract.
Thomas is willing to trade Marbury to the Sixers for Samuel Dalembert (in a sign-and-trade), according to two league sources. To get a deal to work under the CBA, the deal would have to be expanded because of base-year issues with Dalembert. A trade of Marbury and Tim Thomas for Dalembert, Jamal Mashburn, Aaron McKie and Kevin Ollie works under the cap.
The Knicks' plan would be to move Jamal Crawford to the point, with Quentin Richardson at the two. Channing Frye would play the four, with Dalembert at the five.
Would the Sixers make that trade? They would have the most dynamic (or is that combustible?) backcourt in the league (Marbury and Allen Iverson) and would get to dump two bad contracts. But losing Dalembert at center, with only Marc Jackson left to roam the middle, would be a high price to pay.
If they can't convince the Sixers to deal, the Knicks might be willing to do a smaller deal that sends Marbury to the Hawks for Al Harrington, Tony Delk and Jason Collier. If the Hawks really want veterans (see below), this could be the way to go.
Thomas also has set his sights on several other top free agents. Thomas has been wooing Kwame Brown, Antoine Walker and Stromile Swift but has only enough cash (with the mid-level exception) to bring one guy -- unless, that is, he can work out a sign-and-trade for one and use his mid-level on another. The goal, sources say, is to sign Walker with the mid-level and work out a sign-and-trade with Washington that ships Sweetney back to D.C., where he played his college ball at Georgetown. "
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - A 6-year-old boy is waiting patiently for his mom to come home after she disappeared on Feb. 9, according to her family.
Carline Brumaire Jean clocked out of work at the Royal Pacific Hotel near Universal Orlando at 4:21 p.m., but never made it back home.
"Everybody (is) crying all the time, everybody (is) waiting for her," said Sonny Voltarre, Jean's brother-in-law. "Our eyes is on the street, everywhere, to see when she is going to come back."
It's an 8-mile drive from the hotel to Jean's home near Hiawassee Road and Sagewood Drive. Her family told Local 6 Jean is a new driver. The night she vanished was her third time driving alone since she moved to Central Florida from Haiti last year.
Sheriff's deputies flew over two lakes near the hotel.
Family and friends spent Tuesday night putting fliers on cars and gas station windows near Universal, hoping someone will come forward with information on where Jean might be.
Voltarre said Jean is a happy woman, who loved her son very much and would never leave him.
"She is a very funny person, she make everyone laugh," Voltarre said.
Jean was driving a red Toyota Camry with Florida tag number 158PYF.
A vigil for Jean will be held Wednesday night at 5715 Turkey Lake Road, near Discovery Prep Academy, in Orlando.
Anyone with any information on Jean's whereabouts is asked to contact Tina Carter with the Orange County Sheriff's Office at 407-254-7000.
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CHICAGO--Jan. 30, 2013: The 30 dealers who comprise the Chicagoland Toyota Dealers are offering area residents the opportunity to win an all-new 2013 Toyota RAV4 at the upcoming Chicago Auto Show.
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Gold Glove Finally in Pena's Hand
Carlos Pena of the Tampa Bay Rays has always had a knack for being as good defensively as he was with his bat. In recent years he has improved both at the plate and at first base. Finally during the Rays golden season, Carlos Pena has been awarded the Gold Glove at First Base for 2008.
This season the Rays surrendered less runs than ever before in their exsistance. And at the head of all that was the improved defense in the infield for the Rays. But the defense was anchored by the increased play of Pena at first base in his attempts to snag, block or even leap to get any ball thrown within his reach.
In winning the award, he became the first Rays player in history to win a Gold Glove. Last season he was the first Ray to ever win the Comeback Player of the Year award from Major League Baseball. But this award is icing on the Ray's first baseman's cake after a playoff run and the first winning season in franchise history.
Pena posted a .998 fielding percentage this season for the Rays and only committed 2 errors all year. One of those errors was a throwing error trying to set up a double play late in the season and he overthrew Jason Bartlett at second base.
The Rays went from last in th majors last season with 944 run allowed to a total of only 664 runs allowed in 2008. That was good enough to rank 3rd in the majors for the 2008 season. the teams' Fielding Percentage also rose from .980, which was ranked 27th in the majors last season, to .985 to improve only .05 percent, but tied for 8th in the league in 2008.


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Hey I'm Kam (corder). Or formally known as McKay. I had to make a new name because I mis-read the date for the registration and said I was a year younger than I am... leave it to me to to screw things up. Anyway here are the facts:
I got into Twilight in 2005 before it was really popular. I was probably a little too young to understand it really well but I've re-read them a bunch of times so don't worry I understand it all!
My favorite minor character was Jasper but I think that if I had to choose one to be real I would choose Emmett because I've always wanted and older brother. I also really like Garrett.
I am Team Jacob for me but Team Edward for Bella. Are we using past tenses for the teams now? I haven't been on for a while .
I live in Chi-Town or as I like to call it Edward-Town!! And I'm 14, and I really don't like everyone saying that Twilight is for teenagers, and that the only people who read it are 13-17 year old girls! Because that is not true!
So anyway I was wondering you guys, when you re-registered did you get all your post status back? Or are you guys just that crazy and have already posted 400+ posts? (I am talking to you Feather!)s


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I didn't care either way about the Denali. However, I rescind from my past posts. Kate for the win. Garrett for the win. Kate/Garrett for the win.
Now that that's out of the way, I enjoyed reading about them. It's a different tale surrounding the Denali sisters change in lifestyle, one fraught with even more conflict than Carlisle (Ergo, more interesting ). Eleazar's past as a Volturi Guard was a pleasant surprise, especially how Carmen managed to pull him from them. Amazing.
Carmen I had problems with for one problem and that was her use of Spanish. It just came out of nowhere and really served no purpose (I'm a bit touchy when it comes to my native tongue. So sue me). Mentioning Spanish descent rather than trying to hammer it through would have been preferable; English should have been maintained.
Regarding Irina, I was unsurprised regarding her fate. She had death stamped over her forehead since the incident with Laurent. She may not have deserved it, but she had to know the risk she was running by involving the Volturi.
Tanya neither impressed me, nor made me dislike her. She was actually disappointing. I was expecting more.


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DSCC rakes in $4.2M in January
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised $4.2 million in January, its best first month of a new cycle ever.
The committee ended the month with $3 million cash on hand.
Story Continued Below
"We have a lot of work to do, but there's no question we are off to a strong start," said DSCC Executive Director Guy Cecil. "Our goal in 2014 is to hold the majority and to do that we have to raise the money to compete with Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers. Our supporters are very engaged and ready, and they need to be if we are going to be successful."
The previous off-year January record was $3 million in January 2005.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has not yet released its January numbers.
The GOP needs to pick up six seats next year to win the majority.


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Well, I'm in the midst of some intense coding, but most of it is stuff I've already implemented, conceptually, in the past...I'm just trying to throw it all together for something useful.
I've been fiddling around with AI and pathfinding. I'm using the exact same constructs/concepts as when I posted this demo:
except now I'm adding it to a 3D world. I use a quake3 editor (GTKRadiant 1.4) and quake3 bsps for the basic data and BSP compilation. I edited the entities.def script that the editor reads to determine what entities exist. I added an 'info waypoint node' entity which you place in the map:
So in the editor I just place these little goose-eggs around the world at critical points, and when my program loads the map it parses the entity file, saving the positions of the waypoint nodes. Then, it performs a line of sight test to fill in the row and column entries of a sparse connectivity matrix (a matrix that doesn't save the 0 entries, to speed up computation and decrease memory). It then raises these sparse matrices to n powers, determining what nodes you can get to at various steps. So far, it has turned out to be exactly what I wanted: an effective mechanism for using pre compiled constructs to minimize the amount that you need to do realtime.Code:
/*QUAKED info_player_start (1 0 0) (-16 -16 -24) (16 16 32)
Player spawn location. It works in Quake III Arena, but it is not used in the Id maps. Use info_player_deathmatch instead.
angle : direction in which player will look when spawning in the game.
target : this can point at a target_give entity for respawn freebies.*/
/*QUAKED info_waypoint_node (.05 .5 .5) (-10 -10 -10) (10 10 10)
target : your mother
So, when the AI agent needs to make a move, it can look up these values in the stored matrices (which require essentially nothing memory wise) and find the next move along the leg of a path, without having to know the entire path.
I'm still just ........ing around with things, but I posted a screenshot of a map I'm building to test these things
Each of the yellow spheres you see is a waypoint node. The red sphere (well, there's actually some ms3d model in the middle of it, I think it might be a bert model or a model sentral made for me) is actually a hovertank sitting on an air cushion, and the gray thing is a ramp that I was using to test the physics of the air cushion (I can command it to spawn above the ramp, upright, then when it lands on it it rights itself, slides down one side, and back up the other!!! woot! and it remains stable).
Umm yeah, I'm just happy that I'm making progress, thought I'd share. I didn't bother recording another video because it didn't exactly work last time I tried that.


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ARM's New GPUs to Step up Mobile War With NVIDIA, Imagination Tech.
Jason Mick
November 10, 2011 4:46 PM
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New octacore designs will likely launch in late 2012 or early 2013 in Samsung smartphones and tablets
ARM Holdings, Plc. (
) is making waves in the crowded mobile graphics market, airing a new, more powerful next-generation design [
The chipmaker, best known for its licensed reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors,
is also pushing
licensable mobile graphics processing unit (GPUs) technology, including the new design -- dubbed the Mali-T658. The Mali-T658 smartphone-aimed multi-core GPU promises smoother HD video playback and improved polygon pushing in games.
I. Mali's Competitors are Mali's Partners
ARM Holdings (or just ARM, for short) makes a GPU solution that competes with Qualcomm, Inc.'s (
) Adreno GPU, NVIDIA Corp.'s (
) mobile GeForce derivatives, and Imagination Technologies Group Plc.'s (
) PowerVR designs.
Qualcomm and NVIDIA also happen to be the two of ARM Holdings biggest clients, licensing its
design, used in their respective Snapdragon and Tegra lines.
In other words, ARM is competing against its own biggest clients. The awkward relationship brings to mind Google Inc.'s (
) dual-role as a smartphone OEM competitor via
recently acquired Motorola Mobility
and its
as a smartphone OS maker, gifting its Android OS on its OEM-level competitors like South Korea's Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
). Coincidentally Samsung licenses ARM's CPU
GPU designs, and other Android handset makers like Google almost exclusively use ARM-licensed CPUs.
The GPU wars have moved from the PC onto smartphones and tablets! [Source: Flickr]
The odd web of ARM CPU-makers, GPU-makers, and Android OEMs may be messy, but thus far it's spread a whole lot of revenue and prosperity around. In other words, cooperation has been good, and the competition hasn't been bad either.
II. Eight Cores of Power
Setting aside the sticky web of licensing and GPU entrants, the new T658 GPU represents a major technical stem forward for mobile GPUs.
Like most GPU architectures, ARM's GPU design consists of shader cores each with arithmetic pipelines capable of doing parallel math operations. Modern graphics is largely about intense floating point (e.g. scientific notation decimal numbers) math, except when it comes to colors.
Both the T604 and T658 are Mali Midgard GPUs. The Midgard GPU uses an arithmetic, load/store and texturing "tri-pipe" design. Figures indicate a double ALU per core design is used. In other words, each core can do three or four simultaneous kinds of operations on two ALUs.
A VERY high level view of the Mali Midgard's operation. [Source: ARM Holdings]
It's important to note that this is somewhat different from
NVIDIA's Geforce-derived design in Tegra 3
, which employs shaders with a single ALU per core. As a second point of comparison, PowerVR offers a very similar dual ALU layout to what ARM Holdings is doing here.
ARM has enhanced its GPU in two ways from the previous Mali-T604 design.
First, it's doubled the arithmetic pipelines in each shader core. Second it's doubled the number of (fragment) shader cores from four to eight. The new octacore GPU is on paper four times faster, as the result of these two major changes. These changes allow it to essentially match rival Imagination Technologies' Power VR SGX544 design (which also has 8 cores x 2 ALUs per core).
A (slightly) lower level view of the Mali T658 chip. [Source: ARM Holdings]
The Midgard family looks promising, not only for smartphone chip designs (the primary target), but tablets, netbooks, and laptops, as well. Specifically it packs support for a host of GPU computing and graphics APIs, making it among the most multifunctional chips on paper.
Comments ARM Media manager Steve Steele, "I should mention that Midgard supports all your favourite graphics APIs (Khronos™ OpenGL® ES, OpenVG™, Microsoft® DirectX® 11) and Compute APIs (Khronos OpenCL™, Google® RenderScript™ compute and Microsoft DirectCompute®). And not just any OpenCL I might add – Full Profile OpenCL is supported thanks to the IEEE 754-2008 floating point capability built into the GPU hardware."
By contrast the SGX554 is a bit more limited in its standards support, though this doesn't exactly affect most users on the smartphones end -- as most smartphone apps (e.g. browsers and image editors) are still in the early stages of GPU computing optimization.
Both Tegra 3 and the Mali T658 are capable of supporting up to 1080p. Tegra 3 promises 1280x1024 pixel resolution -- OS allowing. By contrast, details on Mali's LCD driving capabilities weren't revealed.
It's rumored that one advantage that Mali may have over rival designs like Geforce and PowerVR is cache coherence -- i.e. in layperson's terms, it can share its fast local memory between the GPU and CPU.
In the limited available information some important details are unknown, namely:
Did the vertex shader count change?
Is the ALU count per fragment shader still two (as early diagrams suggested)?
How wide is the ALU/are the ALUs? (See
for a guess at the width from the
gen. design.)
What does the pipeline look like/how deep is it?
What's the clock speed?
What resolutions are supported by the built-in LCD driver?
We're reaching out to ARM for answers. But don't necessarily expect a response -- the company is notoriously cagy on details about its implementation.
III. What Phones/Tablets Will This Land in, And How Good Will They Be?
The GPU is "out now" from ARM, but that means someone still has to go and put the little bugger on a finished chip design.
Samsung's processor line recently made an important switch from Imagination Technologies GPUs to ARM Holding GPUs. The older Hummingbird chips (still in use) pack PowerVR GPUs, but the new Exynos chips pack Mali GPUs. This a huge win for ARM Holdings as it means that its GPUs are in the latest and greatest products from Samsung, including
the best-selling Android smartphone, the Galaxy S II
The Galaxy S II used the Mali T400 design -- the last major design before Midgard. This two-generations-old design was capable of the best overall graphics performance of any smartphone in OpenGL benchmarks (though trailing higher-clocked Imagination Technologies' SGX540 in pure triangle output)
in September
, but has
since been dethroned
by the SGX543 MP2 (onboard the iPhone 4S) in benchmarks.
It's hard to say when the Mali-T658 products will land, but Q3 2012 seems a fair guess. That's just after Imagination Technologies is deploying its octacore-ready SGX554 architecture (Q2 2012).
The latest Samsung roadmap shows the Exynos 5250 as the first chip to sport the Mali T604. That's due out in 2012. Samsung commonly releases two system-on-a-chip designs per year, so a second half 2012 launch sounds about right.
With the next-generation not-yet-named Exynos Mali T658-equipped chip and the Exynos 5250, ARM Holdings is poised to likely spring into second or third, behind Imagination Technologies (and potentially NVIDIA) in the smartphone/tablet market. PowerVR remains entrenched on devices from Apple, Inc. (
) and Motorola Mobility.
The major unknown is Tegra. By 2012,
Tegra 4 (codename
) chips
will be dropping with a host of improvements, including a GPU design which can have up to 64 cores (of course, comparing this to ARM Holdings and Imagination Technologies' octa-core GPUs is a bit questionable as the architectures are apparently very different). If Tegra 4 can come out ahead of the SGX554 at the Mali-T658 in performance, it just might continue its climb in market share. Tegra is increasingly being picked up by Motorola, LG Electronics, Inc. (
), and traditional PC makers turned tablet market entrants like Acer Inc. (
A final player worth mentioning is Qualcomm, whose Adreno design comes in the Snapdragon processors heavily used by HTC Corp. (
). Qualcomm will surely be looking to bring its A game too, so it's too soon to count it out.
A final word:
Who offers the best power efficiency, the best performance, and the best combination of the two is clearly only part of the picture. A major aspect of the success or failure of these various entrants -- including the Mali-T658 -- boils down to what kind of deals with OEMs are reached, and how those OEMs fare in the market.
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Bush designated to clear room for Floyd
Former No. 1 pick draws interest from other clubs, says Towers
By Corey Brock / MLB.com
"The Matt Bush era is probably over," San Diego general manager Kevin Towers said on Thursday.
The 22-year-old Bush was designated for assignment on Thursday to make room on the 40-man roster for outfielder Cliff Floyd, who agreed to a one-year contract worth $750,000.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that police in El Cajon were investigating allegations that Bush took part in an assault involving two boys lacrosse players on the Granite Hills High School campus in El Cajon.
El Cajon police Lt. Steve Shakowski confirmed an investigation involving Bush and allegations of assaultive behavior and public intoxication to the Union-Tribune.
"The Padres have learned of a possible off-field incident earlier this week involving pitcher Matt Bush. We are still gathering information about this incident and will have no further comment at this time," Padres CEO Sandy Alderson said in a statement.
Shortly after he was drafted in 2004, Bush was arrested after an altercation at a nightclub near the Padres' Spring Training facility in Peoria. He was accused of felony assault and misdemeanor trespassing, disorderly conduct and alcohol consumption by a minor and was subsequently suspended.
Because Bush was protected on the 40-man roster in December, preventing other teams from selecting him in the Rule 5 Draft, the Padres only options are to trade or release Bush.
"We have 10 days to trade him or ask release waivers. There have been clubs who have expressed interest in him over the last 12 months," Towers said.
"It was a difficult decision to make, but he was the 40th man on the 40-man roster. We're going to get on the phone and hope to make a trade and hope to get something back for him."
Bush was drafted as a shortstop out of Mission Bay High School in San Diego, agreeing to a $3,150,000 signing bonus only after management balked at the signing bonuses the two players they preferred -- Florida State shortstop Stephen Drew and Long Beach State pitcher Jered Weaver -- might command from agent Scott Boras.
But Bush didn't advance past the Class A level, hitting .219 over 722 at-bats. In June of 2007, the Padres converted him to a pitcher where the early returns were positive, as his velocity consistently ran in the mid-to-high 90s.
But Bush, who turns 23 on Feb. 8, threw only 7 2/3 innings that summer before his right elbow started bothering him. Bush would eventually need reconstructive elbow surgery, which forced him to miss the entire 2008 season.
"We tried it with him as an infielder, it didn't work out. We got him on the mound and he ran into the elbow problems," Towers said. "We knew this was a possibility. Sometimes you have to make tough decisions. We felt he was the right guy to designate."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: i'm another user affected by the choppy youtube playing (and very slow Steam downloads) since the web scan feature introduction. I've noticed that the suggested workaround implies rebooting the pc after disabling the WS, but in my case (ZAISS + Firefox here) rebooting isn't required: for Youtube, just refresh the page after disabling it, and for Steam just pause and then resume the download. Hope it will help other users with the same issue to save time.


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Im not a gun guy,I have a member of my family who has been affected by gun violence and even 20 years after she still has emotional issues from it.
But I don't wanna have them taken from people who are responsible gun owners,but my opinion if that animal can't get access to those guns,those kids and teachers are probably still alive.
Fears that lawmakers might soon enact tougher gun-control laws may have triggered a run on guns on Black Friday, according to reports. The FBI says it fielded a record number of background-check requests for gun buyers.
"With the recent election, some people are making buying decisions just in case something [a new law] happens,'' Don Gallardo, manager of Shooter's World in Phoenix, Ariz., told USA Today.
The FBI said it took 154,873 calls on Nov. 23, a marked increase over the agency's previous record number of calls: 129,166 last year. The bureau was so overwhelmed that a few outages occurred at some call centers, WMBF reports.
The FBI does not track actual firearms purchases, and the number of weapons sold could be even higher than the number of background-check calls because customers can purchase multiple guns, USA Today reports.
Shira Goodman, executive director of the Pennsylvania anti-gun violence group CeaseFirePa, agreed that buyers' concern over potential gun restrictions likely were in play this year, CBS Philadelphia reports. But, as Goodman noted to the station, "There was a lot of advertisement about what the re-election of President Obama might mean, although no action has been taken yet, or in his prior term, about limiting access to legal guns."
Meanwhile, gun-rights advocates celebrated the uptick in buyer interest. "Responsible firearms ownership is popular, mainstream and growing," National Shooting Sports Foundation President and CEO Steve Sanetti said in a post on OpposingViews.com. "Americans in record numbers are choosing to own firearms for target shooting, hunting, collecting and personal and home protection."
How about this for Federal Gun Law:
1. Mandatory Federal Background Checks for all (no exceptions) Gun Purchases. Criminal, Mental Health, Violent, etc. and other causes would result in a "denied", but without those qualifiers, a "pass" finding.
If this puts Gun Shows out of Business, so be it. They'll adapt (for example, change the way the shows work so they are a "One Weekend Look, Next Weekend Pickup" style of show.
2. Draconian Federal Mandatory Minimums for crimes committed while in posession of a gun. I..e have a gun and rob someone, automatic +10-15 years on top of the existing sentence for armed robbery, no parole possible till the minimum is served.
If we can do that for "drug crimes", which is frankly a horrible miscarriage of justice, we can damn sure do it for guns.
3. Outright Ban on "Millitary Design" Weapons. If the gun was designed for purposes of killing more than one individual, it's banned. AK, AR-15, Uzi etc.
Rifiles with a capacity of under 10 rounds, handguns with a capacity under 10 rounds, and shotguns would all reman 100% legal. Millitary style weapons would not unless "deactivated" via barrel filling (i.e. for collectors).
4. And this is vital, full ban on a variety of ammunition designed for pentrating armor or causing greater harm to human beings.
5. And this is the real key IMO.......the Gun Rights side gives ALL of the above up.....to get a new Constitutional Amendment that protects, in no uncertain terms or questionable language, the right to own guns within the framework set up above. The right is absolute, and cannot be revoked without case that meets 1. above (criminal, insane, violent crime, etc).
If you are a law abaiding citizen, you can own as many Hunting Rifiles, self-defense hanguns an shotguns as you want, and as many deactivated guns of any kind, without ANY fear of loss of those rights without cause.
But it's a valid point.
1. Suicides.
2. One on One Known-Assailant/Family Killings.
3. Criminal-based, Gang killings with illegally obtained or stolen guns.
All the legislation in the world, including a full ban, will not put a dent in these. The suicidal will find other routes (no shortage there), the personal killings will still happen, but will be chokings or knifings or blunt force trauma, and gangs and criminal will fight and kill no matter what weapons they can obtain, inlcuidng (regardless of laws they are happy to break) guns for a long time to come.
Same could be said ofthe crazy mass-killer types. They're planning some mass-killing event.....do you think they'll waffle over obtaining a gun illegally, when they plan to kill dozens?
We shouldn't overlook the lives saved/ acts of violence stopped by personal firearms in self defense, this number is also staggering.
Americans want guns, after the mall shooting here in Portland there has been a marked rise in gun sales, as there was in Co, and as I am sure will prove to be the case in Newton.
You can still do a background check by phone.
I know this cause the guy at the gun range up the street told me that on Black Friday he could not get through on line and after many attempts the FBI answered the phone and he was able to process 16 back ground checks at once.
Face to face sales (used gun sales) require no back ground check in almost all states. In fact I know of no way I could perform a back ground check on someone if I wanted to sale a gun.
Common sense laws are in place to minimize their negative impacts.
Thats what needs to happen with guns.
Interestling enough, I was talking to my wife several weeks ago about getting a gun... This tragedy has had the exact opposite impact than what you state above in my case.
I Am Adam Lanzas Mother
Liza Long
Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants.
"I can wear these pants," he said, his tone increasingly belligerent, the black-hole pupils of his eyes swallowing the blue irises.
"They are navy blue," I told him. "Your school's dress code says black or khaki pants only."
"They told me I could wear these," he insisted. "You're a stupid *****. I can wear whatever pants I want to. This is America. I have rights!"
"You can't wear whatever pants you want to," I said, my tone affable, reasonable. "And you definitely cannot call me a stupid *****. You're grounded from electronics for the rest of the day. Now get in the car, and I will take you to school."
I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me.
A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings knew the safety plan-they ran to the car and locked the doors before I even asked them to. I managed to get the knife from Michael, then methodically collected all the sharp objects in the house into a single Tupperware container that now travels with me. Through it all, he continued to scream insults at me and threaten to kill or hurt me.
That conflict ended with three burly police officers and a paramedic wrestling my son onto a gurney for an expensive ambulance ride to the local emergency room. The mental hospital didn't have any beds that day, and Michael calmed down nicely in the ER, so they sent us home with a prescription for Zyprexa and a follow-up visit with a local pediatric psychiatrist.
We still don't know what's wrong with Michael. Autism spectrum, ADHD, Oppositional Defiant or Intermittent Explosive Disorder have all been tossed around at various meetings with probation officers and social workers and counselors and teachers and school administrators. He's been on a slew of antipsychotic and mood altering pharmaceuticals, a Russian novel of behavioral plans. Nothing seems to work.
At the start of seventh grade, Michael was accepted to an accelerated program for highly gifted math and science students. His IQ is off the charts. When he's in a good mood, he will gladly bend your ear on subjects ranging from Greek mythology to the differences between Einsteinian and Newtonian physics to Doctor Who. He's in a good mood most of the time. But when he's not, watch out. And it's impossible to predict what will set him off.
Several weeks into his new junior high school, Michael began exhibiting increasingly odd and threatening behaviors at school. We decided to transfer him to the district's most restrictive behavioral program, a contained school environment where children who can't function in normal classrooms can access their right to free public babysitting from 7:30-1:50 Monday through Friday until they turn 18.
The morning of the pants incident, Michael continued to argue with me on the drive. He would occasionally apologize and seem remorseful. Right before we turned into his school parking lot, he said, "Look, Mom, I'm really sorry. Can I have video games back today?"
"No way," I told him. "You cannot act the way you acted this morning and think you can get your electronic privileges back that quickly."
His face turned cold, and his eyes were full of calculated rage. "Then I'm going to kill myself," he said. "I'm going to jump out of this car right now and kill myself."
That was it. After the knife incident, I told him that if he ever said those words again, I would take him straight to the mental hospital, no ifs, ands, or buts. I did not respond, except to pull the car into the opposite lane, turning left instead of right.
"Where are you taking me?" he said, suddenly worried. "Where are we going?"
"You know where we are going," I replied.
"No! You can't do that to me! You're sending me to hell! You're sending me straight to hell!"
I pulled up in front of the hospital, frantically waiving for one of the clinicians who happened to be standing outside. "Call the police," I said. "Hurry."
Michael was in a full-blown fit by then, screaming and hitting. I hugged him close so he couldn't escape from the car. He bit me several times and repeatedly jabbed his elbows into my rib cage. I'm still stronger than he is, but I won't be for much longer.
The police came quickly and carried my son screaming and kicking into the bowels of the hospital. I started to shake, and tears filled my eyes as I filled out the paperwork-"Were there any difficulties with at what age did your child were there any problems with.. has your child ever experienced.. does your child have "
At least we have health insurance now. I recently accepted a position with a local college, giving up my freelance career because when you have a kid like this, you need benefits. You'll do anything for benefits. No individual insurance plan will cover this kind of thing.
For days, my son insisted that I was lying-that I made the whole thing up so that I could get rid of him. The first day, when I called to check up on him, he said, "I hate you. And I'm going to get my revenge as soon as I get out of here."
By day three, he was my calm, sweet boy again, all apologies and promises to get better. I've heard those promises for years. I don't believe them anymore.
On the intake form, under the question, "What are your expectations for treatment?" I wrote, "I need help."
And I do. This problem is too big for me to handle on my own. Sometimes there are no good options. So you just pray for grace and trust that in hindsight, it will all make sense.
I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza's mother. I am Dylan Klebold's and Eric Harris's mother. I am Jason Holmes's mother. I am Jared Loughner's mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho's mother. And these boys-and their mothers-need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it's easy to talk about guns. But it's time to talk about mental illness.
According to Mother Jones, since 1982, 61 mass murders involving firearms have occurred throughout the country. Of these, 43 of the killers were white males, and only one was a woman. Mother Jones focused on whether the killers obtained their guns legally (most did). But this highly visible sign of mental illness should lead us to consider how many people in the U.S. live in fear, like I do.
When I asked my son's social worker about my options, he said that the only thing I could do was to get Michael charged with a crime. "If he's back in the system, they'll create a paper trail," he said. "That's the only way you're ever going to get anything done. No one will pay attention to you unless you've got charges."
I don't believe my son belongs in jail. The chaotic environment exacerbates Michael's sensitivity to sensory stimuli and doesn't deal with the underlying pathology. But it seems like the United States is using prison as the solution of choice for mentally ill people. According to Human Rights Watch, the number of mentally ill inmates in U.S. prisons quadrupled from 2000 to 2006, and it continues to rise-in fact, the rate of inmate mental illness is five times greater (56 percent) than in the non-incarcerated population.
With state-run treatment centers and hospitals shuttered, prison is now the last resort for the mentally ill-Rikers Island, the LA County Jail and Cook County Jail in Illinois housed the nation's largest treatment centers in 2011.
No one wants to send a 13-year old genius who loves Harry Potter and his snuggle animal collection to jail. But our society, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare system, does not provide us with other options. Then another tortured soul shoots up a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom. And we wring our hands and say, "Something must be done."
I agree that something must be done. It's time for a meaningful, nation-wide conversation about mental health. That's the only way our nation can ever truly heal.
God help me. God help Michael. God help us all.
liza long is an author, musician, and erstwhile classicist. she is also a single mother of four bright, loved children, one of whom has special needs.
IFnyou took the conceal training, you can buy as many as you wish.
All guns, when bought, are registered with ( I believe) the Feds. A federal form is filled out.


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Hi everybody,
I didn't find a better place to ask my question, I hope here is okay.
I am trying to describe a voice, I kind of know in my head what should it sound like, but I can't pick the words (English's not my first language).
Voice can sound oily, charming, etc. I want to have something between those two, as to opposed to uncultured and gruff. Or if I say cultured/uncultured it has to be accent, not voice? I'm not sure.
Just give me some ideas about adjectives, if you can think of any, please.
Another question that I have is about an official phrase in Br English that a policeman would say when arresting someone.
"I'm arresting you in? the suspicion of? murder" - sounds strange. Do I have wrong prepositions?
"You are under arrest for/in relation to the murder of...?" - but doesn't it mean that the police is already decided he's guilty? I don't want to have that. When people are arrested, they generally have not been proven guilty yet.
Does anyone know what British police officers actually say?
I am grateful for any input.


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text: I thought I would share an idea that came to me the other day. I had been using some side canvas leaders based on the ones Sharon Schamber has on her quilting site. The only thing that I didn't like about those is that they have to be pinned, unpinned, repinned, etc. when advancing the quilt and rolling it back. So I had a thought (see pic). I just took a couple of paint stir sticks and put one on bottom, one on top, and then clamped it using the two side clamps as well as an additional quick release clamp in the middle. It works great and keeps the side of the quilt from distorting and is very quick to undo and redo. Love it!


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Ok, let me start by saying that Eclipse is my favorite book in the series. So if anything, I think I was more inclined to be picky about this one. I've now seen the movie twice: once in IMAX about three weeks ago in LA with a bunch of movie critics and last night in NYC at midnight with fans. Stop reading here if you don't want spoilers
Overall I think the movie had a nice balance of action and romance. It did a particularly good job of bring a book that is loaded with Bella internal monologue the screen. I also really like the expanded universe point of view segments such as the transformation of Riley, the Volturi watching, and especially the Cullens in fighting mode.
I've had various people ask, "Should I see it in IMAX?" Let me start by saying, I'm not really an IMAX person. It makes me dizzy. This was the first movie I saw at an IMAX in almost a decade. The first 5 minutes was just really hard to watch in IMAX, so fast too intense, but keep in mind I don't do well in IMAX and maybe that's exactly what another person would like. I also feel some of the intimacy is lost in IMAX.
So let's break this down into the pro's & the cons:
None of these are of they "it ruined the movie for me" quality. It was more like "damn, 5 more seconds, a hat, or a car would have solved that."
- The pace was just a little too fast for me. I get the action is needed but it was too quick at times.
- The one part of the book I missed was Bella seeing the possibilities of life with Jacob flash before her mind. We don't get that she really considered the alternative so much as feel like it's one impulsive kiss to save a friend from death. You don't get the full weighing of choice.
- The wolf telepathy isn't adequately explained. You understand that they communicate telepathically, but not that there are no secrets. The non-book person isn't going to grasp that they cannot hold back a single thought.
- Our mod Shelley (Something Blue) said it best. "Bryce isn't feral enough" She doesn't look like a nomad, you don't get that sense of wildness. Victoria was dressing in cast offs with leaves in her somewhat bushy hair now looks like she's now shopping in Armani exchange and coiffing with high end hair product. Even in the battle with Edward there is barely a hair out of place. It doesn't visually work which impeded the acting. Bryce does a good job manipulating Xavier's character, but when the embrace leads to that over the shoulder shot you needed much more of that "I'm only putting up with this cretin till I have my revenge." look. The scream is good in the battle with Edward but you don't get the consistent crazed murderess who will stop at nothing(we get that from Xavier, but not from Bryce). I wanted to really see her lose it. Not sure if that was a directorial, actress or both choice, but for me it fell short. Didn't ruin in, but it didn't live to potential.
- The Volvo continues for me to be utterly laughable. They blew the chance at doing the iconic car. At the very least, since the exact model Stephenie cites is no longer in production, a bright silver sedan should have been used. To repeat myself from New Moon. "The car is forgettable. It blends into the background, and that's exactly what you DON'T WANT when you are talking iconic car." It's like hooking James Bond up with a Caddy instead of an Astin Martin, or giving KnightRider an Impala. It doesn't take me out of the story, but it doesn't enhance it. I don't notice it and I doubt that's what Volvo was gunning for. Granted Bella's truck is slightly off, but it has the flavor of what was intended, there is NONE of that flavor when you swap from a sports car to a SUV.
- Kristen's wig in the battle training scene is horrible. The pinned back look screams flattened wig. She would have been better in a hat or hood.
- You miss the wounded feeling that you have at the end of Eclipse, that each party a la Wuthering Heights has been rotten to each other on more once and that their actions have come at a cost.
- I couldn't put my finger on it until I saw today's MTV discussion with Phil Tippett, but I really liked the looked of the New Moon wolves better. They were richer, deeper coats and colors. I also really liked the human eye aspect. These wolves looked like they went on a diet. they didn't look like they were going to pound the earth. If the human forms are built, shouldn't the wolf forms be built too?


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USFilter will supply a 200-gallon per minute (gpm) Memcor® Submerged Microfiltration (CMF-S) system to update the June Lake Public Utility Districts existing water treatment plant in June Lake, Calif. The AXIA packaged CMF-S system from USFilter Memcor Products is part of the district's effort to meet current and future water quality regulations.
The district's existing facility, a 30-year-old pressure filtration plant, required improvements to meet water quality regulations and repairs to its aging infrastructure. To assist in expanding and upgrading their treatment plant, the district hired Kennedy/Jenks Consulting of Sacramento, Calif., to evaluate alternative treatment processes.
"Package pressure filtration, contact clarification/filtration and membrane filtration were evaluated," said Todd Reynolds of Kennedy/Jenks Consulting. Based on the evaluation, the district chose membrane filtration to treat the surface water from June Lake. The project included prepurchase of the AXIA packaged CMF-S system in the early design phase, allowing the final design to be based on the selected equipment.
The design of the system will allow for increased capacity, enabling the district to meet anticipated drinking water demand for the next 20 years. USFilter will supply a 200 gpm, expandable to 400 gpm, AXIA packaged plant that will fit within the existing building footprint.
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When I was a free agent this winter, I didn't think too much about staying in the National League. Instead, my focus was to get back to where I was as a pitcher a few years ago.
For three years in a row, I was threw more than 200 innings. The last couple of years have not gone so well. In 2009, I was on pace for 200-plus innings, and then I had an emergency appendectomy. Last year, issues with my back ended up costing me two months. I think I could have gotten to the 200-inning mark, but those things happen. My focus is on staying healthy this year. If I do that, and I reach 200 innings again, that will tell me I am doing something right.
When I am not pitching, I will root these guys on. I think I can help some of the young guys when they need advice. Maybe I can take some of them under my wing. I've been through a lot, and I can share a tip here or a pointer there that they can benefit from. Hopefully, something I say or do will help them further their careers and their success.
It was definitely weird at first when I came to the Padres. I had some jitters, but the guys here have been awesome and they accepted me right away. I am excited to come out and play hard with my new teammates. One thing that has helped me with the transition is that this team feels like it can win. I am fortunate that I came from a team that had a lot of success last year to a team that expects to do the same this year.
I am coming here with guys like Jason Bartlett and Orlando Hudson who have won before, and it seems like each of us is blending well with a good group of core guys. Those core guys are the type of players you want to build a winning team around. It brings to mind the saying, "Veteran guys bring the knowledge, and the young guys bring the fire." Hopefully, the combination here gets me going again and helps the team.
Another big change for me will be the stadium that I now call home. PETCO Park is known as a pitcher-friendly stadium, and the Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati is not. I try not to think about it. You still have to go out there and limit mistakes, because mistakes get hit out of the yard regardless of where you are playing. But there is more of a margin for error pitching in PETCO. My plan is to go out there with the same mentality -- be aggressive and try to help us win.
Of course, I will never forget my seven seasons with the Reds. I really enjoyed my time there. Early there was a lot of change going on. We had teams that just didn't play well. But from those teams, I met a lot of great guys who were great teammates.
We also had some good times. In 2006, we came close. Last year, of course, was great for the organization. It had been a long time since Cincinnati made the playoffs, and it was great to be a part of the team that did that. As a rookie with Oakland, I got to celebrate the postseason and then going to the Reds, it was a long wait to do it again.
Now being some 2,000 miles away, I still hope the Reds do well. I followed them some during Spring Training, but I have to focus on me now. I have to focus on what I need to do and what we need to do. There is a good vibe in our clubhouse; we have a lot of good young arms here and, hopefully, I can do my part.
A two-time 16-game winner with the Reds, veteran right-hander Aaron Harang is set to start his first season with the Padres after inking a one-year deal during the winter. Harang, who is from San Diego and went to San Diego State University, is looking to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2010 campaign that saw him go 6-7 with a 5.32 ERA for the 2010 NL Central champions.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Ubuntu for Android shows us the future of computing
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1. antmiu2 (Posts: 406; Member since: 19 Jun 2011)
this concept would be so much win for my atrix + lapdock
8. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
And best of all, it looks like you're the first to get this since Canonical used an ATRIX as the demo model.
16. ledbetterp3 (Posts: 467; Member since: 31 Aug 2011)
Hmm... Maybe the ATRIX 2 will be next?
2. jmoita2 (Posts: 930; Member since: 23 Dec 2011)
Watch out...Here come the Apple lawyers!!!
5. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Don't be that guy.
3. Arpad (Posts: 40; Member since: 05 Jan 2012)
Yet another well written and educational article by Michael H.
6. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
4. cybervlad81 (Posts: 89; Member since: 04 Apr 2011)
Phone arena needs more writers like Michael H. I have enjoyed reading every one of your articles of late, Thanks PhoneArena and Micheal for these great articles.
I am really looking forward to the MWC coverage on this.
7. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Thanks! I'm pretty pumped to see what comes out of MWC too.
9. TechDroid (Posts: 37; Member since: 14 Jun 2011)
Great article, although there are some points I would like to point out.
1. I am not sure whether or not the problem of user adoption rate you mention is going to be such a big one compared to normal desktop Linux, since this product is mainly aimed towards business users, but of course, I might be wrong :)
2. You say that 1-2% is a small number, but when you think about the number of people using computers today, I think there are quite a few million people using Linux, and that is not a very small number.
Again, great article with lots of insight. Only time will tell if you are right :)
10. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
1) This product may start life aimed at business, but it will very quickly move into the consumer space.
2) 1-2% is a very small number, especially considering that 1-2% is not a unified whole, as I mentioned. That makes up a few million Linux boxes out there, but how many are Fedora or Ubuntu or OpenSUSE? Each may have all the apps you want, but many are different in operation and don't have any unification beyond the Linux kernel.
11. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
Interesting article to read. It is amazing to see how powerful mobile phones are becoming. Feature phones turning into smartphones.
12. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
its a neat premise, but without them actually joining forces with google and bringing real adoption across the "dual" platform, I dont see this is a successful venture. Of course, since one of my biggest complaints about tablets is about the lack of true PC functionality, having them do a true dual venture would be neat. It seems like it would be near identical to the way that MS is proposing WP8 desktop mode.
If Canonical and Google work together to find a compatible middle ground, it could be a viable alternative to what is essentially going to be the only "PC" experience on the tablet space, WP8.
13. Jericho (unregistered)
Awesome article!
Like i said in my last weeks comments go goobuntu.
My personal favorite desktop os ubuntu comes to my personal prefered mobile os android.
14. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
This is the best possible solution for the future.
Can't wait to have a fully capable computer in my pocket.
If google knows anything, they must embrace this and give it full support!
15. 14545 (Posts: 1681; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
I hope they do, cause this would be awesome if it comes along and is easy enough for the average user to install/use. That's where this will win or lose support. K.I.S.S. google. You make it simple to use/install/start and you would have the chance for mass adoption. And it would truly set them apart from Apple. That, and I hate W8.


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Ex-Maverick Derek Harper: Dwight Howard would be an 'ideal' addition this summer
Former Dallas Mavericks point guard Derek Harper joined Elf & Slater on 105.3 The Fan. Here are some highlights:
On whom the Mavs need to target in free agency:
"I always think that you start with a big. I love Bernard James. I like Chris Kaman and all of those things but if you add Dwight Howard to the Mavericks' roster provided that he's healthy, I think he's the ideal guy because you can play the game inside out. You don't have to be all perimeter as a basketball team. Anytime you can add a guy like that, you add that guy. The other thing you have to have is a point guard. Not to knock Darren Collison, I think he's had a pretty good year under the circumstances. But when you start talking point guard, you need a guy who has experience and that really understands that position wholeheartedly. Darren has done an adequate job this year. But if you ask Rick (Carlisle) and Mark (Cuban), those are the two areas they want to solidify."
On why the Mavericks failed to gel this season:
"I think the reason things haven't worked out is because Dirk (Nowitzki) was injured to start the season. You take anybody's best player off the roster, and they're going to have a tough time winning games. I just feel like trying to implement seven new guys with Dirk Nowitzki, you're going to have a hard time being consistent as a basketball team. For me, that's where it is plain and simple."


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Combined, these workers number nearly 17 million people who have only tenuous ties to the companies that pay them — about 12 percent of everyone with a job.
The number of temps has jumped more than 50 percent since the recession ended four years ago to nearly 2.7 million — the most on government records dating to 1990. In no other sector has hiring come close.
Hiring is always healthy for an economy, according to Julia Light, branch manager for Preferred Staffing Inc. of Russellville.
"I have strong feelings about folks having employment opportunities," she said. "I've seen a lot over the years. Some years it was booming.
"It has cycled up and down over the past 20 years. Right now, temporary employment positions are trending up. A lot of companies in Russellville are hiring temps and many are employing people as 'temps-to-hire.'"
A "temps-to-hire" position is one where employers establish a set time frame which gives temporary employees a chance at becoming full-time, according to Light.
"Potential employees know about the conditions of employment before they accept it," she said. "If they meet the company's requirements during the time frame alloted, they have an opportunity to be put on that companies
payroll, full-time."
Susan Houseman, an economist at the Upjohn Institute of Employment Research, said 27 percent of such assignments lead to permanent positions. The use of temps has extended into sectors that seldom used them in the past — professional services, for example, which include lawyers, doctors and information technology specialists.
"It's good for the community," Light said. "It's also a good trend nationwide.
"During the recession, it was hard on people in Russellville. In recent months it has increased. Employers who have not used us before, or recently, are now calling. This is a good indication."
As far as the local economy is concerned, it has a trickle-down effect, according to Light.
"If people are working, they are spending money in local stores," she said.
An Associated Press survey of 37 economists in May found that three-quarters thought the increased use of temps and contract workers represented a long-standing trend.
The trend toward contract workers was intensified by the depth of the recession and the tepid pace of the recovery. A heavy investment in long-term employment isn't a cost all companies can bear in today's market climate.
"There's much more appreciation of the importance of having flexibility in the workforce," consultant Barry Asin of Staffing Industry Analysts said.
The result is that temps and contract workers have become fixtures at large companies. Business executives say they help their companies stay competitive. They also argue that temp work can provide valuable experience.
"It opens more doors for people to enter the labor market," Jeff Joerres, CEO of ManpowerGroup, said. About one-third of temporary workers work in manufacturing. Temps can be found on production lines, repairing machinery and stocking goods in warehouses. About a fifth are administrative.
Shortages of doctors and nurses have led some hospitals to turn to temp agencies. Staffing Industry Analysts forecasts that spending on temporary doctors will grow 10 percent this year and next.
Some school districts now turn to temp firms for substitute teachers. This lets them avoid providing retirement benefits, which union contracts might otherwise require.
Only the health care and leisure and hospitality sectors have added more jobs during the recovery. But each is roughly five times as large as the temp industry.
The proportion of all jobs in the temp industry is about 2 percent, just below a record set in 2000.
Temp hiring has accelerated even though the economy has 2.4 million fewer jobs than it did five years ago.
Temp jobs made up about 10 percent of jobs lost to the recession. Yet they've made up nearly 20 percent of the jobs gained since the recession ended.
A survey of companies with more than 1,000 employees by Staffing Industry Analysts found they expect 18 percent of their workforces to be made up of temps, freelancers or contract workers this year, up from 16 percent in 2012.
Walmart officials said they've been hiring, disproportionately, more temporary workers. "Flexible associates," they are called.
Spokesman Dave Tovar said temps allow store managers to provide permanent workers with more reliable schedules.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Serena van der Woodsen is back in town.
The Wild Brunch
Blair reveals that she knows Serena slept with Nate before running off.
Poison Ivy
Blair uncovers scandalous information about Serena.
Bad News Blair
Blair is thrilled when she is chosen as the face of her mother's clothing line.
Dare Devil
Dan makes elaborate plans to impress Serena on their first official date.
The Handmaiden's Tale
Dan is torn between his childhood friend, Vanessa, and Serena
Serena and Dan finally acknowledge that they are crazy about each other.
Seventeen Candles
A devastated Blair puts on a happy face for her 17th birthday party.
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Dan invites Serena and her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family.
Hi, Society
Serena's grandmother convinces her to attend the upcoming Debutante Ball.
Roman Holiday
Blair's father comes home for Christmas with an unexpected guest, his boyfriend
School Lies
The gang breaks into the school swimming pool for an impromptu night of fun.
A Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate
Gossip Girl reports that Serena has been spotted buying a pregnancy test.
The Blair Bitch Project
Having recently been dethroned as Queen Bee, Blair hesitantly returns to school.
Desperately Seeking Serena
Georgina returns to Manhattan to stir up trouble -- and Serena's past.
All About My Brother
Georgina tells Serena she is prepared to reveal damaging information about her.
Woman On The Verge
Georgina reveals the true reason that Serena fled Manhattan for boarding school.
Much 'I Do' About Nothing
With Serena's life on the line Blair decides to take matters into her own hands
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Cadenza's Retrovirus Released Today via Steam
January 31st, 2013 -- SANTA ANA -- Cadenza Interactive is proud to announce today the release of its sophomore title, Retrovirus, for PC via Steam. In development for two and a half years, Retrovirus is a modernization of the "six-axis" ( 6DoF) shooter concept as explored by the mid-90's classic Descent.
Players take on the role of the anti-virus "Agent," a system process designed to seek out and destroy the viruses that are rapidly destroying an innocent computer system. Retrovirus is built around five hour campaign, fully voiced by Zen Josey and IPL eSports broadcaster Kevin Knocke. The campaign can be enjoyed solo, or in co-op with a friend.
In addition to campaign co-op, multiplayer fans will enjoy co-operative challenge scenarios, and competitive gameplay modes like Deathmatch and FPS MOBA (PvPvE).
Retrovirus features a robust decision-based AI, a host of friendly and enemy processes, and a richly stylized computer world. Players can expect a world colored by dynamic lighting, viral infestations throughout the environment, and of course, challenging fast-paced combat.
Cadenza Interactive is an independent PC development studio based in Santa Ana, California.
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