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Samsung Galaxy Y review
|Review: November 2011
In a nutshell: The Samsung Galaxy Y is a bargain basement Android phone.
Today's best buy: Samsung Galaxy S8 (SM-G950F) ... from Amazon (£373)
While the iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S2 superphones grab the limelight, there's still a huge market for a budget smartphone that isn't a complete disappointment. Because, sadly, smartphones that cost less than £100 tend to be a letdown. Too many corners are cut in the rush to shed the pounds. Yet Samsung keep trying, because a low-cost compact smartphone that worked would be a cool thing.
The Galaxy Mini has probably been Samsung's most successful effort in this price bracket so far. We complained that the Mini wasn't really that small, so it's nice to see that the Galaxy Y really is tiny. It runs the latest version of Android (2.3, Gingerbread) plus Samsung's TouchWiz user interface, making it an easy yet powerful phone to use. The capacitive display is responsive, though at 2.8 inches, it's too small for comfort. With an 800MHz processor, the phone responds very rapidly too.
So the Galaxy Y gives you the power of the latest Android operating system in a tiny, lightweight and cheap package. As an entry-level Android phone, it has the advantage of running Gingerbread and having a fast processor. Sadly, that's where the good stuff ends. Because far too many corners have been cut here. The screen is too small to be of much use. The camera is awful. Google Maps and the web browser are uncomfortable on the tiny display. There isn't enough memory onboard and generally everything is too hard to do.
So, our verdict is give this one a miss and choose the Galaxy Mini or Galaxy Fit instead. If you have a few more pennies to spend you could try the Galaxy Ace.
Samsung Galaxy Y features include:
- 2 megapixel camera
- Video recording (QVGA, 30 frames/second)
- Display: 240 x 320 pixel (2.8 inches) capacitive touchscreen with auto-rotate
- Music player
- Stereo FM radio RDS
- MP3 ringtones / 64-voice polyphonic ringtones
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, instant messaging, email
- GPS with Google Maps
- Personal organiser functions
- Memory: microSD memory card (up to 32GB supported)
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, 3.5mm audio jack
- Internet: Android browser, GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA
- Quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900), dual band 3G (900/2100)
- Size: 104 x 58 x 11.5 mm
- Weight: 98g
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Average rating from 41 reviews:
Reviewed by Ro
from UK
on 27th Sep 2015
Absolutely the worst phone I have ever had the misfortune to own. No storage space at all, and you can't even remove Samsung's useless bloatware which takes up half that space. Almost every single basic feature you want is missing e.g. blocking numbers - where is it? Oh, sorry, you can't do that. Even though brick phones from the 1990s could already do that. In fact, this is the most common response you'll find online whenever trying to make this piece of junk do anything at all. "Sorry, you'll need to download a buggy ad filled app to implement a basic feature that should have been there in the first place." Which would at least be possible on any other phone... except that the Samsung Galaxy Y only has the space for about 3 apps. "No problem" you might be thinking, "I'll just get an SD card!" Hahaha, nope. It can't download straight to the SD card. So even if you have a 32 Gb card, it will still tell you that you don't have enough space because it FIRST has to download to its tiny internal storage area. Incidentally, this means that you can't even upgrade the software on the phone, since even official Android updates don't have enough space to download to. I used this phone for a year before the frustration almost drove me insane. It practically put me off smart phones for life. I've had many, many phones and never have I hated anything as much as this phone. I would have given it zero stars if I could. Sorry for the rant, but... Dear God...
Reviewed by DAISY
from ENGLAND
on 2nd Sep 2015
I have had problems from the start. Brought it in March 2015, April I took it back to the shop, all o.k. Last month, August I lost all forms of communications while away from home. Had to take the battery out, then put it back in. Worked for a month, now the phone keeps cutting out when making & receiving calls. Worst phone I've ever brought.
Reviewed by Jen
from UK
on 24th Apr 2015
dont buy it. REally disappointing. Has put me off smartphones for life.
Reviewed by stepa
from bham.england
on 28th Nov 2014
Theres only one thing to do with this galaxy y after i finish this and it is beat it with my lump hammer and put petrol on it and watch it burn.ive tried every thing to it to make it run smoothly but it just doesnt want to know.i bought this off my girlfriend at the time.nowonder she wanted to get rid of it asap and i thought she was looking out for me.anyway i got rid of her just like im going to with this phone.both have given me severe depression.we even tried an exorcism on the damn phone to clear it of its evil past but even that didnt work.the end has arrived for this phone.
Reviewed by trish
from england
on 13th Nov 2014
This is the very worst phone I have ever bought.It hangs up at random mid call ,will not always allow me to delete old phone messages and texts.Sometimes will not allow me to answer an incoming call.I have only had the phone for 6 months and the shop where I bought it has gone bankrupt !! Never ever will buy a Samsung again Beyond belief for rubbish
Reviewed by Raymicle
from Malaysia
on 11th Nov 2014
I will REALLY want to smash this DAMN phone to walls! So unreliable when try to make calls. Emergency or no signal. Need to restart so often to make it normal. Software,apps,storage,ram~all sxxks! Never recommend to buy this modal. My pictures gone, mp3s gone, no longer access to gallery or files data...complete junk. Im a fan of samsung product, this tiny phone really annoyed me!
Reviewed by jeanpaul cahill
from uk
on 13th Oct 2014
worst phone ever. battery last half a day. It wont make calls and the memory is non existent. next phone I'm getting will be a nokia. a bit more basic but at least it's reliable
Reviewed by Suzie Q
from UK
on 29th Sep 2014
I have had my Samsung Galaxy Y for about 6 months and find it an un-reliable phone. Even in areas of good signal phone calls often cut out. Now I am having a problem with text messages - it has difficulty sending long messages and now I'm finding that I'm not receiving all my text messages. I have to rely often on my 'back up' phone, (a basic Nokia). I would not recommend it - too many glitches.
Reviewed by BonzoDog
from UK
on 13th Jun 2014
Utter rubbish, cheap and nasty piece of tat.
Reviewed by Sam
from Uk
on 8th Feb 2014
I have had the phone for 2 years, don't get me wrong it's a good phone but the memory is not big enough, I have cleared everything off my phone and memory card and it still tells me my external memory is full...not sure why..I will be upgrading and will definitely stick to samsung...this phone will be passed on to my son
Reviewed by Caroline
from UK
on 8th Feb 2014
Absolute rubbish from Samsung. Can't wait for my upgrade so I can change it.
Reviewed by dhanya
from malaysia
on 7th Feb 2014
Reviewed by cynthia
from indonesia
on 29th Jan 2014
the worst phone i ever had. I will never go buy another phone from Samsung in the future.
Reviewed by Eileen
from England
on 19th Jan 2014
Went onto this phone with contract with Tesco. Have had trouble from the start makiing calls, it switches off mid call. Took it back to shop only to be told that I must keep it "glued" to my ear as the slightest movement puts it on hold. Utter nonsense. Do I put up with it for another 10 months (2 year contract) or cut my losses and get rid of it?
Reply by Andrea Greenaway
from UK
on 3rd May 2014
I have had problems with mine (also on a Tesco contract) since October. Can't send or receive texts, contacts list "has been deleted" a few times when I wanted to phone out but returns if I take the sim out and rub it although sometimes that means the date sticks on the 1st of January for several days. Have access to the internet but no notifications from facebook etc. Has frozen a few times and failed to make phone calls (most notably when stood in oncology with my elderly mother trying to phone for a taxi). My advice is to phone tech support who are much more helpful than the phone shop. Demand a new phone but be prepared to have to send the phone back and wait for Tesco to receive it before they will send another then when your contract is up go elsewhere as I intend to.
Reply by Paul
from UK
on 27th May 2014
I have got 3 of these on TESCO. I agree 100% they are a disaster, my brother's does not even connect to calls for longer than 20 seconds, texts do not get through until hours after they are sent and the screen locks every ten minutes. I have contacted TESCO about this and they say they will look and repair it as I am out of then 28 day period when I bought it. That is not technically true as they calculate the start date as the date you purchase, not the day you receive the handset or even the day they port your number over to their network. I will be taking this further if I do not get a resolution. I will be asking for 3 new handsets any model, just not this one as it clearly does not work and TESCO should not be flogging it.
Reviewed by shaun hague from englandd on 19th Sep 2013
Good for what it is allround
Reviewed by Nathan from Ireland on 13th Aug 2013
had this phone for 8 months and the memory on it is awful i had only downloaded 7 apps and couldn't download anymore plus the battery life wasn't great either so i got rid of it and got the ace 2 and i must say it's way better, far more memory and better battery life
Reviewed by Fernando from UK on 1st May 2013
How anyone can rate this phone is beyond me!
It constantly hangs, even worst, you don't know it has stopped working because the screen looks OK but no calls will get through.It's only when you try to make a call and can't that that you realise the phone is not working and you have to switch it off and on again so that it works again. No good at all if you want any reliability. Most of the other features are terrible too--the touch screen is misaligned so when you press a number or letter the wrong number or letter appears, the signal is awful compare to an old Nokia and an old Sony phone in exactly the same location.
Amazingly, the sat navs works OK and the voice recognition is not too bad. But for making and receiving calls you are better off with two tin cans.
Reviewed by miguel from England on 20th Jan 2013
this is a good phone i recommend to anyone because u can gave lots of apps on it like twitter ,whatsapp favebook.its good for sociql networking and those who like to chat and you can get lots of fun games on it like hill climb racing. The camera is not that bad but i dont mind cuz i dont take pictures often. tge battery is good for a android,my dads htc only last for like 4 hrs.but if im on this one heavily it should last me a day. i still have 20/25% left but if im onit like to text and play and a bit of games it should be 40/60% its very good
Reviewed by Filthy Herbert from UK on 22nd Oct 2012
What a bunch of moaning Tards on here, the phone is perfectly fine and very useable
Reply by Fernando from UK on 1st May 2013
Actually, no it's not. It's pretty much the worst phone I have had.
Reviewed by Catinthehat from UK on 2nd Oct 2012
My daughter who has just started secondary school really loves this phone and it does everything she needs and more. One word of advice and this probably goes for all android smartphones- do yourself a favour and download a free app called Lookout/Plan B from the Google apps store. She lost her phone at school and we managed to download this app remotely to her phone as she had linked the phone to her google mail account. We were able to track the phone to a specific address in the town we lived in thanks to the GPS capacity- you just text the word 'locate' to the phone and your email address will get emails locating the phone to a googlemaps address sometimes down to as specific as 5 meter radius. We sent this information to the school and hey presto the phone reappeared and was handed in. There are lots of interesting similar stories on the Lookout/Plan B website.
The app does not work with some more recent Android updates but it worked fine with this phone.
Reviewed by phil cain from iom on 6th Aug 2012
Was ditched with this piece of worthless trash when my Galaxy S II was sent away. I can only hope this one breaks also! P.s. typing is a mission!
Also, the terrible excuse of a camera (2MP) needs to be noted, it's worse than the camera of a Nokia 6303
Reviewed by vicky from UK on 14th May 2012
This is the worst phone . I hate it. Its slow and old . Does not pick up reception , impossible to type on. Do not get it.
Reviewed by planetlaxy2012 from United Kingdom on 10th
May 2012
The phone is really small and easy to use and the battery lasts longer than an iphone but it starts to get boring quickly and it is not compatible with all of the apps on android!
The price is good though and it does all the basic things that the other galaxy's do so if you dont want to spend much but want a samsung galaxy then its worth it! get the white one!
Reviewed by Andrew from USA on 25th Mar 2012
The phone is small and cheap.incredible phone.for me, it is like the phone of the month.at last 2012,i want to go to sony ericsson xperia mini 2(if i can).
Reviewed by becki from u.k on 11th Feb 2012
terrible phone, the worst i've ever used. very unresponsive touch screen, took 45 mins just to enter pin code to get it working. returned to vodafone!
Reviewed by aqeel from saudi arab on 3rd Feb 2012
.fbk files not supported. how can i read fbk files.very nice phone.
Reviewed by M Said from Libya on 22nd Jan 2012
This is a nice phone for such a Price, it works just fine with all the fun of Android OS
Reviewed by 12345 from northern ireland on 20th Jan 2012
good phone in general but lose o2 uk reception a couple of times in derry
Reviewed by Yousuf from Sweden on 18th Jan 2012
Great phone the camera is 2mp but is good. The samsung galaxy y is fast and has android 2.3.5 but you can upgrade it to 2.3.6. Some of the apps that are pre installed are google maps android market social hub and youtube. You can download many cool apps from the android markt and samsung apps. Its perfect.
Reviewed by Hamish from Dalkeith, Scotland on 16th Jan
Its a great phone, fits nicely in my hand and the camera has really good smoothing, for a 2MP camera. Quite fast aswell and I got mine for £79.99 in the O2 January Sales whereas at other shops it would be £80.99!
Reviewed by Jos from Sweden on 27th Dec 2011
I bought a galaxy Y along with my father who also has one. They work good, but they turn off/restart themselves whenever they feel like it. I always manage my apps with task killer and my father doesn't really have many apps at all, and the battery is always good. You can't call the cellphone when has restarted itself because you have to write your pin code. It's not fun when you have to set an alarm and the phone turns off itself when you're asleep... Anyone who knows how to fix it?
Reviewed by gary from philippines on 22nd Dec 2011
if you are having problem with you galaxy y, all you have to do is update it. with the supplied samsung kies cd, install it on your laptop/computer and then plug your galaxy y with the supplied usb cable. google and samsung already release the updates, text will increase in size, camera will be better, some icons will be different, wi-fi will go on stand-by when not needed even when left on. battery last longer,,, etc etc,, plenty of improvements. you just need to update the phone.. no problem what so ever i experienced with this phone, for everyday use, this galaxy phone will serve you well.
Reviewed by Jay from India on 19th Dec 2011
Hi,friend this phone have excellent effortable price and {other existings features etc} so my first dream is to buy this Andriod mobile phond from Samsung Galaxy Y.
Reviewed by neeraj from india on 11th Dec 2011
Good phone but price is so much along with its future it shoud be Rs4500 . It is best for it
Reviewed by Yusuf from North Cyprus on 7th Dec 2011
I have bought my galaxy Y in London in Nov 2011, when I was there for WTM event. Now I'm using it in North Cyprus. There is a problem with my phone; It shuts down itself after I ended my calls. I have to re enter pin code to turn it on again. I is boring. It is a nice phone, and I don't want to change it. But there is no registered service here and I couldn't find any solution yet. I wonder why the sellers or main service team don't find a solution for international users. Couldn't they help through internet. I heard same problem from different users abroad but I couldn't find how they solved this problem.
Reviewed by KP Chandrashekar from India on 27th Nov 2011
Orsam, i love samsung phone's since( 6) years when i started use the right now i am using samsung" Y" next i wanted to go for samsung Ace.
Reviewed by RAY BERRY from ENGLAND on 26th Nov 2011
Galaxy y is useless. Only bought it to use as a phone BUT charged battery runs out and not even used the phone, needs charging every day. WHY?????
Reviewed by Bob from UK on 24th Nov 2011
Absolutely the worst samsung I ever bought.Going back to Nokia ASAP. The touch screen has a mind of its own, This phone has put me off samsung for life..........
Reviewed by Lewis from UK on 17th Nov 2011
Update to the Galaxy Y. What a very cheap nasty phone. GRRRRRRRRRR. Got to the point where I went and got the Galaxy Ace. I returned that due to very poor build quality. Come on samsung. No have the HTC Wildfire S. I liked the other HTCs I've had in the past. Even the Wildfire had great build quality. Sorry Samsung but 1 star as I can't give zero stars.
Reviewed by Lewis from UK on 16th Nov 2011
Just got this galaxy y today after i dropped iphone 3gs yesterday. Due for an upgrade in Feb anyway so just needed cheap phone to see me through next months. I've had android devices before but only HTC and tried the galaxy pro for a few days. Anyway, back to the galaxy y. No idea what battery life is like yet but this version of android (2.3) is far better than 2.1 which my other phones ran. Setup to how i like it in np matter of time. Build quality is ok as a cheap phone goes. A plastic screen won't break like my 3gs did. A decent case might help the device feel better. The screen is a little on the small side for big thumbs but auto correction does help once half the settings like swype are turned off. Email and texting work ok. Phone calls ok so far. It's a cheap android phone, nothing fancy bit it does make me want a better range galaxy though.
Reviewed by subhasish from india on 14th Nov 2011
Very nice phone.


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Was his situation really so hopeless? Allen's mother seemed to think so when she came for a conference. "You're going to have trouble with him," she said. "I can't do anything with him, and his daddy's gone."
Those pronouncements were disturbing. But part of my daily private routine is to pray to have everything I need to help my class. As I began to grade papers that night, I asked God to help me see a more positive possibility for Allen.
The words of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science and the founder of this newspaper, occurred to me. She instructed the members of her Church that they "should daily watch and pray to be delivered from all evil, from prophesying, judging, condemning, counseling, influencing or being influenced erroneously" ("Manual of The Mother Church," page 40).
I asked myself: What was the evil in prophesying? The answer came. This harmful prediction about kids was an evil influence arrayed in statistical authority. It would try to convince me that an individual existed beyond the care and control of God.
I stopped what I was doing and prayed for God to help me see beyond this - to see only as God directed and not as expectations predicted.
Allen was suspended a second time for fighting. Grading papers one night, I felt discouraged when I thought about him, but as I was finishing, the thought came to look at his record. I brushed it off, telling myself I already knew his record as a troubled kid. But the thought persisted, and my eye fell on my grade book. When I turned to the page that listed all the homework assignments turned in, I noticed that Allen had not missed a single assignment since school started. I looked at his language arts grades only to discover a string of fairly high marks. Wasn't this evidence of discipline? He was doing his homework even with no one around to make him do it.
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Allen still gets angry sometimes, but he doesn't throw chairs. He has misbehaved in class, but when I've called him on it, he has immediately stopped and said, "Sorry, ma'am."
I wave to him when I see him after school, running track. The coach says Allen has never missed a practice, and his homework still comes in on time.
I don't know how Allen's story is going to end, but my prayers include gratitude for the support he's receiving from unexpected sources. By acknowledging God's tender provision for this boy, whether as inspiration to write poetry or as enthusiasm for track competition, I am comforted, knowing that God sees what is possible for Allen ... and it is good.

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O.W. "Red" Farwell passed away at home surrounded by his family on October 2, 2012. He was born November 12, 1922, near Eagle Rock, Mo., to the late Otto Farwell and Mary Elizabeth (Mae) Ireland Farwell.
Red attended a one room school in Eagle Rock, Mo., and graduated in 1941 from Cassville High School. After graduation, he and a cousin, Wayne Farwell traveled west working odd jobs in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California. In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he joined the Army Air Corp. Red served our country as a tail gunner on a B-17 bomber. He flew a total of 33 missions over enemy territory including Schweinfurt and D-Day, although the average life span of a tail gunner in WW II was 9 missions.
On December 21, 1946, Red married Rachel Barrett, whom he met while attending Missouri University in Columbia. They moved to her hometown of Charleston, Mo. Red taught agriculture to veterans in Sikeston, Mo., and farmed in Mississippi County. He taught at the elementary school in Wyatt, Mo., and served as the principal of Eugene Field Elementary School in Charleston.
In 1966, Red and Rachel relocated their family to Plattsburg, Mo., where he was the principal of Ellis Elementary for 19 years, retiring in 1985. After retiring, Red continued working part-time as a rural mail carrier for the Post Office and measured crops and grain bins for the former ASCS office. Red always enjoyed hunting, fishing, golfing, spending time with family and friends and was an avid supporter of Plattsburg football and wrestling. During retirement, he and Rachel traveled extensively. Highlights included visiting the homes of each member of his B-17 crew and a trip to Greece to visit their daughter, Rachel, and family.
In addition to his parents, Red was preceded in death by one sister, Melba Farwell Sullivan, two brothers, Forrest Farwell and Donald Ray Farwell and one grandson, Mark Farwell.
Those who survive him celebrate his life of almost 90 years, cherish the many fond memories and will miss him greatly. They include his wife of 66 years, Rachel Barrett Farwell; five children, Gregory and Rachel Farwell Pogois, of Athens, Greece; Warren Howard and Sherry Farwell, of Kansas City, Mo.; Beth Farwell and Charles Raymond and Brenda Farwell, of Plattsburg, and Ellen Farwell and Rick Brasiola, of Neosho, Mo.; 15 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by one sister, Shirley Farwell Abbet; one brother and sister-in-law, Thomas Rex and Mary Farwell; two sisters-in-law, Georgia Farwell Hart and Wilena Farwell; honorary sons, Paul Tongelidis, Rick Sherman; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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How would the amateur cracksman fare under the stricter enforcement of the Production Code ushered in by Joseph Breen? The Code had been in existence well before 1934, but that year the office was taken over by Breen amid an atmosphere of increased scrutiny by and pressure from moral watchdogs who wanted to put a damper on the sex and violence rampant in horror and gangster films.
Ronald Colman, hot of his star-making role in 1929's Bulldog Drummond slips into the tuxedo and top hat of A.J. Raffles, amateur cracksman, for the first adaptation of the talkie era. Based on the same play as the 1917 and 1925 versions, the film treads familiar territory, but this time in the company of dashing Colman and the exquisite Kay Francis.
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
It's hard to imagine anyone in 1917 better suited to the role of A.J. Raffles than John Barrymore. As would be the case with many subsequent Raffles movies, this version is based in part on the stage play, which in turn was based primarily on "The Ides of March" and "Gentlemen and Players." Which makes sense; in terms of what one thinks of when one thinks of Raffles, gentleman thief, those two stories and re most Raffles of the Raffles stories
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E.W. Hornung shared with his brother-in-law an interest in crime fiction. But where the brother-in-law chose to celebrate the detective, Hornung came down on the more disreputable side of the law. The brother-in-law was Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. But really, when all is said and done, wouldn't you rather have a drink with Hornung's dapper gentleman thief and star cricketer, A.J. Raffles?


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text: eskin 1 Posted January 14, 2009 On XP/Vista, the OS interacts with the ACPI BIOS to put the processor in lower C-states during idle periods. This is distinct from the clock throttling done by apps like CoolBook. On Vista for example, depending on the model processor, on a mobile platform, the CPU can spend 90+% of its time in the C3 (or lower) state, where clocks are gated, caches powered down, etc. Here's a brief overview (from http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=420&pgno=5) C0 State (Active) * This is the CPU's maximum working state, where it is actively accepting instructions and processing data. * Power saving is virtually zero, unless the CPU has P-state power management enabled. C1 State (Halt) * It is simply done by executing the assembly instruction "HLT" (Halt). * This will stop the instruction pipeline within the CPU from executing any instructions. * Wake-up time is ultra fast (only about 10 nano seconds). * The CPU is able to save up to 70% of its maximum power consumption. * All modern processors must support this power state. C2 State (Stop Grant) * The processor core clock and platform I/O buffers are gated. * In other words, the clock does not exist in the processor execution engines and I/O buffers. * The benefit over C1 is that the C2 state is able to save 70% of the CPU's maximum power plus some platform power. * However, the transition time from C2 to C0 is 10 times more (~100 nano seconds). C3 State (Deep Sleep) * The bus clock and PLLs are gated. * In a multi-processor system, the processors no longer handle FSB snoops to maintain cache coherency. Cache contents are invalidated. * In a single-processor system, memory transactions are prohibited but cache contents are not invalidated. * CPU still saves around 70% power, but the platform power will be reduced even more than C2. * Wake up time is 500 times longer than C2 (about 50 micro seconds). C4 State (Deeper Sleep) * It is similar to the C3 state, but with two main differences. * First, the core voltage is reduced to a very low level (less than 1.0V) to decrease current leakage. * Second, data stored in the L2 cache will be reduced bit by bit over time. * The CPU can save around 98% of its maximum power. * Wake-up time is slower, but still much lower than 1 second (~160 micro seconds). C5 State * When the data in the L2 cache is reduced to zero. * Wake-up time is more than 200 micro seconds. C6 State * New power management feature in Penryn. * When the L2 cache contents are shrunk to zero, the CPU will go into an even lower core voltage. * CPU context is no longer preserved. * Power consumption is currently unknown. Should be near zero. * Wake-up time is currently unknown. Processor C-state occupancy is easily monitored in XP/Vista using the Performance counters, but I have yet to find an easy way to do this on OSX, would really like to know what is going on with the Wind. I'm curious if this has something to do with the delta between battery life running XP vs. OSX. According to the Atom N270 spec, it is supposed to support C0-C4, so there should be substantial opportunity for power savings Anyone know of an Mac app that can show processor C-state occupancy or exactly how C-state is handled by OSX running on a MSI Wind? Thanks, Michael 1 Swag Dog reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Tracing evidence of Lord Ram and his times
Report: Rahul Sinha
Adapted by: Deepak Nagpal
So far, we have travelled through Chitrakoot in India and Norliya in Sri Lanka in our search of Ram. We have also found several things that hint at the existence of Ram. However, we still have to come face-to-face with several things, which will lend weight to our belief that the Ramayana and everything mentioned in this epic is true.
The Ashes
After visiting Chinmaya Temple, we were told that Hanuman had left behind a legacy in Lanka which is still present in its original form – a legacy of ashes which every child in India knows about.
Located close to Ashok Vatika in Norliya are mountains whose soil is of black colour. The researcher on Ramayana, Harinder Sikka told us that mountains located on the left side of the Sita Jharna have black soil while mountains on the right have soil which is of usual brown colour.
Sikka said that the colour of the soil is black because Hanuman had put these mountains on fire along with Ravan's Lanka, as mentioned in the Ramayana.
It is difficult to find the end of these mountains which are spread as far as the vision goes. The soil of these mountains looks like ash but what's striking is the fact these mountains are extremely dense.
It's not just the soil of these mountains which is black but also the rocks. It looks as if these rocks were also burnt. When we asked the locals about any huge fire occurring in the area in recent memory, the answer was in the negative.
Monkeys With Black Tail
While roaming around these mountains, we were shocked to see monkeys whose tails are also black in colour, unlike the brown body.
As if this shock wasn't surprising enough, what we saw next left us speechless. When we went little closer to these monkeys, who were shy unlike their naughty Indian counterparts, we found that their lips and ears were also of black colour.
Locals said the reason behind their black lips, ears and tails is linked to Hanuman.
Lanka Naresh Finds Us
With our search for proofs of Ramayana still incomplete, we decided to leave these monkeys, ashy mountains and sleeping Hanuman behind.
As we travelled further in Norliya, we came across a display board the words written on which read – Ravan Ella. What we were trying to find had suddenly appeared in front of us.
When we enquired about this place from locals, they told us that a King named Ravan used to bathe here. They also showed us a rock on which he used to sit while taking bath in the waterfall. The force with which water used to fall from the top was immense some years back but it has now subsided, as we found. However, the force was still such that we were frightened to even think about being in its way.
The board with words Ravan Ella had been put up by the Sri Lankan government, which proved that it is the present-day Sri Lanka which was earlier called Lanka and that Ravan belonged to this very same land.
One More Setu
It's not just Ram Setu which connects Sri Lanka with India, but also a mountain which is believed to be a part of the great Himalayas. It is said the magical Sanjeevani is found on this mountain only. It is this small mountain which Hanuman brought from India to Sri Lanka.
The mountain is called Romosola, or Sumeru Parvat, which is situated on the coast of Sri Lanka. If one travels by an aeroplane or helicopter, he will find that this type of mountain is not found anywhere else on Sri Lanka's entire coastline.
While roaming around the mountain, we met a local resident named Dharamsree. He expressed ignorance about Sanjeevani, but said people in a nearby village come to this mountain whenever anybody falls ill. The villagers use various kinds of tree leaves to cure the ill.
As we were trying to find the glowing Sanjeevani, which we unluckily didn't find, we saw Sikka concentrating on some leaves. Then we came to know that he was the director of a famous Indian pharmaceutical company, Nicholas Piramal. He then cleared all the doubts we had about the usefulness of these tree leaves.
According to Sikka, 90 percent of the plants and trees on the Sumeru Parvat had medicinal value. He said that such trees are found only in Himalayas. Many of the plants found on Sumeru Parvat were beneficial in the treatment of heart ailments, allergies, body rashes, problems related to bones etc.
Also located at one corner of the mountain is a statue of Hanuman in which he is shown as carrying Sumeru Parvat. It was quite striking to find this kind of statue in a country which has only a handful of people who know about either Ram or Ravan. This highlighted the kind of faith which Sri Lankans had in Ram and Hanuman.
The Journey Ends, But Not The Search
Our search for Ram and the Ramayana ends here, but not the proofs which are spread across Sri Lanka and India. Many places in North Jaffna, Sri Lanka, are full of such proofs, as we are told. But due to several constraints we have to end our mission here. However, we are only halting our journey in search of Ram and hope to resume it sometime in future. Because as always, the search for truth never ends…!


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Cindy Fair co-authors two journal articles with Elon alumni
Associate professor Cynthia Fair, chair of the Department of Human Service Studies, has co-authored with Elon alumni two articles focused on a longitudinal assessment of the Chapel Buddy Program, a developmental mentoring program that pairs kindergarten students with 6th grade students at a school in Greensboro, N.C.
The goal of the Chapel Buddy Program is to promote school adjustment among children who are experiencing new academic environments, including formal education for the kindergarten mentees and middle school for the 6th grade mentors.
Fair worked with Elon College Fellows and human service studies majors Anna Decker '10 and Kate Hopkins '10. Hopkins is currently in law school at Emory University and Decker is completing a graduate program in guidance counseling at N.C. State University.
The first article, "Developmental mentoring, relationship quality and school adjustment: The Chapel Buddy programme" was published this spring in Early Child Development and Care. The article focused on quantitative data collected over the course of one academic year. The abstract:
"This prospective mixed methods longitudinal study examined the connection between mentor–mentee relationship quality and school adjustment amongst students participating in the Chapel Buddy programme, a developmental mentoring programme. Thirty-one sixth graders were paired with 29 kindergarteners for the duration of the school year. Sixth-grade reports of relationship quality had a significant main effect on predicting the self-reported school adjustment of the kindergarten students at the end of the year. Additionally, regression analyses indicated that relationship satisfaction of the sixth-grader students predicted teacher reported academic adjustment of the sixth graders. Qualitative analyses of parents' perspectives of the Chapel Buddy programme indicated parents believed the programme eased the transition to school. This study concludes that developmental mentoring has a positive influence on school adjustment, specifically school connectedness, for mentors as well as the mentees, and such a programme can be successful for fostering adjustment to elementary and middle school."
The second article, "'To Me it's Like Having a Kid, Kind of': Analysis of student reflections in a developmental mentoring program," will be published this summer in Mentoring and Tutoring. The article describes the qualitative analyses of the 6th grade mentors' reflection journals. The abstract:
"This qualitative longitudinal study focuses on analyses of journals written by 31 sixth grade students who participated in the Chapel Buddy program. The Chapel Buddy program is a developmental mentoring program that pairs sixth graders with kindergarten students. Mentors responded to guided writing prompts three times during the course of the year. Prompts were designed to encourage mentors to explore their role as mentors and their understanding of the mentor-mentee relationship. Results indicated that the program presented a rich, experiential learning opportunity for the sixth graders to develop a relationship with a younger child, to reflect on what it means to be in a helping relationship, and to examine their experiences as 'big kids'. Sixth graders varied in their ability to successfully engage and manage their kindergarten mentees, which in turn meaningfully affected the mentors' satisfaction. Strategies to maximize the educational value of developmental mentoring programs with younger mentors are discussed."


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Negative motivation is the basic ingredient in our cultures. It sells products; it sells government; it sells religion. Motivation is a primary prerequisite to a successful success, or to a successful failure.
Acts 2:38: ... Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
This verse of scripture has been an enigma since the early days of Christianity, because of erroneous teachings. For instance, the word "repent" has been taught to mean: "confession of sin". We have been taught: "If you do not confess your sin then you are going to go to hell." Therefore fear has been bred into people, and people gotten "saved" because they were afraid to go to hell.
In contrast to this, Romans 2 makes a singularly significant statement.
Romans 2:4: ... knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance.
Thus repentance is not a confession of sin, nor do you repent to avoid hell. We are not to preach hell-fire and brimstone in order to get people saved, for it is the goodness of God that leads men to repentance. When people see how good God really is, they will see that He is not a fire-escape from hell. In fact, God and His Word give an enrichment, a joy and an effervescence that make life worth living, and then we can change the motivation for our lives. The non-Biblical motivation has been fear. People have been motivated to be Christian because of fear and have been told: "If you do not confess your sin then you are going to go to hell."
God knew that the world would build on fear, therefore He instituted repentance. "Repentance" means: "a mental change of principle of motivation due to positive action". For one who is motivated by fear, true repentance is a mental change of motivation due to positive action and not negative. It is the goodness of God that leads to repentance, and that is positive action.
In order to see this, we have to first begin to see where the natural man's basic condition resides, and so we go to I Corinthians, chapter 2.
1 Corinthians 2:14: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The natural man, under no condition, can receive the things of the Spirit of God. As a matter of fact, to the natural man the things of the Spirit of God are foolishness, because the natural man is limited to the information he gathers via the five senses. Via the five senses the natural man cannot know spirit, because spirit is spirit; and, in order to understand spiritual things, you must have spirit.
The physical body is fed on physical food, but what are you going to feed the spirit? You cannot feed the spirit on physical food. The Bible is in the senses realm, thus a man could memorize everything from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 and not believe one word of it. The Bible is not "spirit" food; it is "head" food. The mind is part of the natural man, and that is why the natural man could quote the entire Scripture and still not be spiritually alive.
Spirit has to be fed via spirit, and the Word of God teaches that there is only one way whereby you can feed that spiritual man in you, and that is by speaking in tongues in your private prayer life. (See Victor Paul wierwille, Receiving the Holy Spirit Today, 7th ed. (New Knoxville, Ohio: American Christian Press, 1982), pp. 26-28, 35-36.)
The natural man's condition is of such a nature that he simply cannot receive spiritual things. Theref ore he will say: "Well that is foolish. Why would you want to?..." "Man, have you got the religious bug or something? You are crazy!"
If those of us who believe His Word are crazy, then God's Word is crazy. And, if God's Word is crazy, then we have not got much else left. If the natural man laughs at you for your believing and for the manifestations of the spirit that you operate, do not criticize him; he cannot help it. He cannot understand it, it is foolishness to him.
Let us look at this natural man in Ephesians, chapter 2.
Ephesians 2:1-3: And [the word "and" is the word "even"] you ... who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the f lesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
The natural man is by nature a child of wrath. He cannot help but to tear down the things that are the truth of God's Word. The natural man came into the world just body and soul, that is why he is dead in trespasses and sins. He is living physically, but he is dead spiritually. All of God's blessings are wrapped up in Jesus Christ, and it is Christ in you, the hope of glory, that makes the change.
We see this in the 13th verse and following of chapter 2.
Ephesians 2:13 and 14: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both [that is Judaean and Gentile] one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us [Judaean and Gentile].
You can never have peace without the prince of peace, the Lord Jesus Christ, because the natural man is the child of wrath. He is going to utilize, to the best of his ability, what he knows, but all he knows is what is gathered via the five senses, and that cannot be spiritual. Therefore, everything he institutes for peace has to terminate; it has no life in it, for it lacks that one great element that makes for peace, the prince of peace.
Verses 15-19: Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain [two, Judaean and Gentile] one new man, so making peace;
And that he might reconcile both [Judaean and Gentile] unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby [that is, in himself with his death]:
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
For through him we both [Judaean and Gentile] have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.
If you belong to a household then you must have a father. The natural man is a child of wrath by nature because he is dead in trespasses and sins. When the natural man gets born again he has Christ in him, the hope of glory; he spiritually has a new Father. For those that are born again, God is our Father, and we are His children. That makes the household.
Christianity is not a religion. There is a lot of religion in so-called "Christianity" today, but that is not God's fault. Religion is what man does; Christianity is what God wrought in Christ. Christianity is not a religion-it is The Way, The Truth, and The Life it is what God wrought in Christ. It is a Father and His family; God is our Father, and we are His children. That puts us in the household of God.
Verse 20: And [we] are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.
To walk in the revelation of the apostles and to apply the principles that they applied and the efficacy of the Word that they utilized is apostolic succession.
Verse 21: In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.
Every individual believer in this Body is a tabernacle, but the believers all put together make up the Temple.
Verse 22: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through [or, "by way of"] the Spirit.
Still speaking of the spirit, II Timothy 1:7 tells us:
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Therefore the spiritually dead man, who is outside of Christ, has to have an unsound mind because all he has to go by is the information he has acquired via the five senses. That information is not trustworthy when it comes to spiritual things. Thus, without the spirit and without a mind renewed to the reality of the spirit within, man, biblically speaking, has an unsound or insane mind.
God does not give a spirit of fear. Then there must be someone else who does give it. But, the spirit that God gives is a spirit of power, love and a sound mind.
The reason that people who have belonged to the household of God, the born-again ones, have continued to manifest an equally unsound mind is because they have never put on, in the renewed mind, what God, by His mercy and grace, put on the inside, Christ in you, the hope of glory. They have never been transformed by the renewing of the mind, because the new birth does not affect the mind.
Whether we like it, or whether we do not like it, we are the products of what we think. No one can believe beyond what he or she is taught. All the knowledge of the natural man has to come by the five senses. He is totally ruled and governed by those five senses, and therefore his motivation is a motivation of fear.
Repentance is a mental change of principle of motivation due to positive action. There is only one way up and out for the natural man-he has to get born again and then begin to get a sound mind.
Romans 5:12,15-17: (The New English Bible) Mark what follows. It was through one man that sin entered the world, and through sin death, and thus death pervaded the whole human race, inasmuch as all men have sinned.
But God's act of grace is out of all proportion to Adam's wrongdoing. For if the wrongdoing of that one man brought death upon so many, its effect is vastly exceeded by the grace of God and the gif t that came to so many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.
And again, the gif t of God is not to be compared in its effect with that one manes sin; for the judicial action, following upon the one offence, issued in a verdict of condemnation, but the act of grace, following upon so many misdeeds,issued in a verdict of acquittal.
For if by the wrongdoing of that one man [Adam] death established its reign, through a single sinner, much more shall those who receive in far greater measure God's grace, and his gift of righteousness, live and reign through the one man, Jesus Christ.
There is only one way whereby the natural man can get all these blessings. He cannot receive it as a natural man, for they are foolishness unto him; he must be born again, born from above. (That is what the words "born again" mean in John 3:3 and 7. The word "again" is the Greek word another, meaning "from on high"; thus: "born from above").
The natural man must be born from above so that the spiritual law will take precedent over the natural law. By nature he is a child of wrath, but when he is born again of God's Spirit he is a child of God and belongs to the household of God. At that moment he again has a contact, a connection, between God and the spirit that God gives and can walk and talk with Him. This is what Christianity is all about.
Romans 10:9 and 10:That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
This is talking about confessing Jesus as lord in your life. Before this, the natural man has confessed somebody else as lord, but he changes and confesses with his mouth Jesus as lord and believes in his heart (in the innermost part of his being) that God raised him f rom the dead. Man is not saved by works, he is saved by grace; and yet, believing and confession are works. That is why believing is unto righteousness and confession is unto salvation. At that moment God goes into operation, and that which He operates is by grace. The natural man believes "unto", but the work has to be a work of unmerited grace, for you are born again of God's Spirit.
That is the miracle of the new birth, which is the greatest reality in the whole world-that God would so love us that in a moment of time we could be born again of God's Spirit. At that moment we belong to the household of God and pass from death unto life, and are nevermore to come into condemnation. The wrath of God has no effect upon us, and we are now heaven bound and all hell cannot stop us. That is the only way the natural man can attain. The natural man cannot work his way in; he cannot even pray his way in. He cannot even confess his sins and get in, because man is not saved by confession of sin, he is saved by confessing the saviour from sin, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And from that moment on, the natural man is now a man of the household of God. He has the peace of God. He has all the fullness of God in Christ in him.
Ephesians 2:4-10: But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together ["quickened" means "made alive"] with Christ, (bygrace ye are saved;)
And [not only quickened us, but] hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Each man must choose his motivating principle. We are surrounded with the negative in abundance. This is why we must declare God's goodness, which leads a man to repentance. This is a day of grace. We have the privilege of living in this day and in this grace and of holding forth the ineffable greatness of God's wonderful, matchless Word.
This type of repentance means, a mental change of principle of motivation due to positive action. You are the one who decides what you want to do with your life. Each person has to make that decision for himself. Everything starts with the individual. You cannot help your neighbour until you first help yourself.
Every man must make the decision whether his motivating principle is going to be fear or whether the motivating principle of his life is going to be the grace of God which He has so freely bestowed.


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Securus Technologies – Helping Law Enforcement Officers do their Job Efficiently
Securus Technologies has been paving the way for future of the correctional sphere through its ground breaking technologies and a wide range of innovative products and services. Moreover, the company has frequently been adding new products and services to its portfolio, which has helped make Securus Technologies a preferred partner to the many law enforcement agencies in the country.
Securus Technologies has focused on research and development from the very beginning, and it has allowed the company to come up with products and services that are far more superior to what is provided by its counterparts. The law enforcement agencies are aware of the challenges they have to face in the line of duty every day, and it is why most of the law enforcement agencies are using the investigative technology company offers. Presently, more than 2,600 law enforcement agencies are using the products and services of Securus Technologies, but in the next few years, that number is expected to increase by a fair margin.
Securus Technologies believes that technology has a pivotal role to play in keeping the crime rate low in the society. It helps in ensuring that the law enforcement officers do not have to face threats to their lives as often as they do today in the line of duty. Thanks to the effectiveness of the products and services of Securus Technologies, many lives are saved, and the crime rate has been lowered in the sectors the services of Securus Technologies are used.
It is due to this that many law enforcement officers share their appreciation for the company in the form of letters.


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Early Success Program
Eligible first-time NEW to College Students who have never attended any college are required to complete assessment andorientation-counseling prior to enrollment.
Students who start college informed and prepared through EARLY assessment, orientation and counseling are more likely to be successful and to reach their educational goals.
Students may choose to participate in the Early Success Program (ESP) and receive the benefit of earlier enrollment. Students eligible for ESP must submit an admissions application for Spring 2019; take assessments in English, reading and math or ESL testing; and complete orientation-counseling by Tuesday, August 28th to receive this benefit.
Student steps for ESP are:
Application to the college
Starting Wednesday, August 1st students can submit a Spring 2019 application online
Assessment for English, math, and reading or ESL test
Complete these 3 assessment tests or the ESL test before orientation-counseling. Preparation information and dates and times are available at
Orientation & Counseling should be completed after assessment tests.
Available online or in on-campus workshops.
Starting Friday , August 31st you may view your enrollment appointment for the Spring 2019 semester on MyCerritos; upon completion of the Early Success program receive an earlier appointment for spring semester classes. Enrollment starts in October.
First-time NEW to College Students applying for the fall semester who do not complete all the steps by Tuesday, August 28th will not receive ESP early enrollment. First-time NEW to College Students who do not complete Assessment and Orientation-Counseling will not be able to enroll.
For more information, visit the links above or call Cerritos College Counseling Services at (562) 467-5231.


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Mr Qu and his wife Ms Dai came to Australia in September 2013. Ms Dai was studying at an Adult Migrant English Program when she found out about Metro Assist's bus tour. The tour was organised by our settlement worker in partnership with Canterbury Council, aiming to help newly arrived migrants in the area to get to know local services. The tour took Ms Dai to Metro Assist, Canterbury Council, Canterbury Aquatic and Fitness Centre and Canterbury City Community Centre. It was a fun day, and a helpful experience as Ms Dai learnt about the pool, parks, local government and other community services.
Ms Dai learnt about the pool, parks, local government and other community services.
When Ms Dai and her husband found out they were expecting their first baby, Ms Dai came in to the Metro Assist Office in Campsie to ask for information about Centrelink and affordable renting. We helped with the application forms for Centrelink payments, and advised Ms Dai about affordable housing schemes. Ms Dai's husband was still looking for work as an IT professional. Through our services, Mr Qu met an experienced IT manager who became his mentor – helping him improve his resume and make a strategy for finding a job. Mr Qu found his first job within a few months.
Mr Qu found his first job within a few months.
Now the couple's baby is 15 months old, and we keep in touch with the family, connecting them with playgroups and parenting programs around the Canterbury area. Ms Dai is now interested in returning to the workplace and hopes to get a job in aged care. We hope that SkillME will help her, too, find meaningful work.


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Claudia Linders [NL] is principal @Claudia Linders, a studio for interdisciplinary research and design based in Amsterdam. Claudia Linders received her Master's degree in Architecture from the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Claudia Linders is involved in vision and concept development, crossing the borders of the architectural domain and the fringes of design and art in public space in particular. Recent partners and clients include Droog, Museum de Paviljoens, Ymere, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diller Scofidio + Renfro New York, NEXT architects Amsterdam, Art Centre HEDEN The Hague, Roosje Klap and the Dutch Ministry of Finance. Award winning projects are the 2 euro coin 200 jaar Koninkrijk der Nederlanden and Hestia Daycare centre Amsterdam.
Claudia Linders is head of the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design department at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. For the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) she curated transdisciplinary exhibitions such as BACKSTAGE ON STAGE -Salone Milano 2014- and LIVE FACTORY MAKE MY DAY -Salone Milano 2013-.
Claudia Linders is involved with art-education at several international institutes, i.e. by the curation and coordination of the interdisciplinary design studies at The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and by teaching and lecturing at the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow.
Claudia Linders is member of various committees and advisory boards. Among them she is a member of the Amsterdam Amenities Committee for Art in Public Space (Commissie voor Welstand en Monumenten) and member of the Committee for Ateliers en (Woon)Werkpanden –CAWA- Amsterdam. She was a member of the Eindhoven Art Council and member of the board of the Erasmus Pavilion Rotterdam.
[photos KABK Milan 2014, Joel Nieminen]


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The post below was first published on our Employment blog
The rights of EU citizens currently in the UK were the subject of considerable focus last week, in light of concerns as to whether the Home Office will be able to handle applications from the estimated three million EU citizens currently here and the position if no Brexit deal is agreed.
Citizens' rights are one of the three areas on which the EU requires sufficient progress to be made before negotiations can encompass Britain's future relationship with the EU. The UK is proposing to introduce a new 'settled status' in UK law for EU citizens who have been resident in the UK before a specified date (not yet defined but to be no earlier than 29 March 2017 and no later than the date of the UK's withdrawal). This status will only be available to those with five years' residence, but other individuals resident in the UK before the specified date will be able to apply for a temporary residence permit to cover the period until they have accumulated five years. EU citizens will be able to continue to reside in the UK for a transitional period of two years after the UK's withdrawal from the EU, and during that period will have to apply for status to remain thereafter. Further details can be found here.
At the Home Affairs Committee meeting on 17 October, Amber Rudd gave assurances that the Home Office would be prepared and able to handle the registration process. The plan is for the process of registering for settled status to be largely completed entirely online, with online checks made with the HMRC and DWP with the applicant's consent. The process is to be much simpler than the current process for seeking permanent residence, and will be simpler still for those who already have permanent residence. Ms Rudd stated that the new system should be up and running by the end of 2018 and individuals will be encouraged to apply from that point, so with the transitional period will have more than two years to do so. The "default position" will be that applications to register for settled status are accepted, unless there are issues of fraud or criminality.
The Committee questioned Ms Rudd repeatedly as to what the position would be if no deal on Brexit is reached. She stated that she 'fully expected' that EU citizens currently in the UK will be able to stay here, that she could not envisage circumstances when they would be asked to leave, even if no deal is reached. However, she considered it would be a mistake to give a unilateral guarantee of this at this point, given that negotiations with the EU over issues such as family entitlements are still ongoing. She stated that a White Paper for an Immigration Bill would be available by the end of 2017 and that she hoped there will be more evidence for EU citizens there and, once the new registration process for settled status is in place by the end of 2018, they "will see that confirmed". The new Immigration Bill is expected to have its first reading in January 2018.
The Home Affairs Committee is seeking written evidence on the capacity of the Home Office to meet the Brexit challenge by 6 November; views can be submitted here.
On 19 October the Prime Minster published an open letter to EU citizens in the UK here. The letter states that "I couldn't be clearer: EU citizens living lawfully in the UK today will be able to stay". However, she then goes on to note that there are still "a small number of important points" to finalise in the negotiations. She states that the two sides are "within touching distance of agreement" and that she is confident that discussions can be concluded in the coming weeks. The letter does not expressly address the position if there is no deal. EU citizens hoping for a clear, unilateral guarantee of their rights to remain, whatever the circumstances, may not be reassured.
As to the process for registering for settled status, the letter reiterates that this will be a "streamlined digital process" which costs no more than the cost of a UK passport, with simple criteria. The Prime Minister confirmed that applicants for settled status will not be required to account for every absence from the UK and will no longer be required to show that they had Comprehensive Sickness Insurance covering their time in the UK (as required for certain individuals under current EU rules). Those who already have permanent residence will have a simple process for swapping this to settled status.


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As one ages, memory tends to decline. However, even young, healthy individuals can experience memory lapses. A new study has found that the application of an electrical boost to the brain of a healthy person can improve memory performance. The research may lead to methods to improve memory in seniors. The findings were published on August 28 in Science by researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
The researchers used a procedure known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which is a therapy that is increasingly being used for psychiatric disorders; it involves placing fist-sized coiled magnets on the scalp to stimulate different brain regions. At present, how or why TMS is not known, it has found to benefit some patients. In 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved several TMS devices for treating migraines and depression. Previous studies have reported that it can improve performance on different types of memory tests; however, only a handful of studies have examined whether the benefits persist after stimulation stops or assessed how stimulation affects the brain's memory circuits.
The study group comprised 16 healthy adults who were between the ages of 21 and 40. They used functional MRI scanners to make detailed maps of the subjects' brains; the hippocampus, a brain region key to memory, was located, and its connections to another brain region called the parietal cortex was determined. Functional MRI scans of brain activity image greater neuronal traffic between the two areas when individuals are performing memory-related tasks; in addition, lesions between the areas can result in severe memory deficits.
The participants first underwent a baseline memory test; then, the brain stimulation sessions began in which rapid-fire magnetic pulses were focused on a fingertip-sized area toward the back of the skull for 20 minutes per day. The location of the stimulation differed slightly between the participants, based on brain scans showing their unique connections between the parietal cortex and hippocampus. After five days, the participants were given a 24-hour break from stimulation and asked to repeat the memory test. The subjects who had received TMS improved their scores by about 20-25%, whereas the controls who had not received the stimulation exhibited little to no improvement. The brain scans also showed increases in the amount of communication between the hippocampus and parietal cortex in subjects who received the stimulation. The more the two regions worked together, the better people performed on the memory test, Voss says.
It is possible that in the future TMS can become a treatment for memory problems in individuals with neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, the researchers are planning a study that will test the procedure on individuals with early-stage memory loss.


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Four More Infinity Ward Vets are Oscar Mike
Infinity Ward has been hemorrhaging staffers thick and fast these last few days, and the news of Respawn Studio's creation has led to four more devs quitting the Activision-run developer. Lead designers Steve Fukuda and Zied Reike have flown the coop (according to the latest report by Kotaku), both of whom have been a key part of Infinity Ward since its inception in 2002. Programmer Rayme Vinson and Lead Artist Chris Cherubini have also jumped ship.
Whilst Activision claim that they still retain a "deep bench of proven talent," this latest move demonstrates that their dirty tactics of withholding royalties simply isn't keeping their troubled studio in line. Turns out that developers work better when they're happy rather than slaving under a "climate of fear". Funny, that. [Gamesindustry.biz]
X-COM and Syndicate to Return
Anyone remember X-COM and Syndicate? These two classic strategy titles provided hard-as-nails strategy action nearly two decades ago, but have now been slated for a next-gen reboot.
2K Australia and 2K Marin will be shoehorning the X-COM universe into a first-person shooter. We half-expected Ken Levine's studio to be dealing with the remake (as rumours have been circulating for months), but it seems that Bioshock 2 has cemented 2K Marin's credibility as an FPS developer.
"With BioShock 2, the team at 2K Marin proved themselves as masters of first-person, suspenseful storytelling, and with XCOM they will re-imagine and expand the rich lore of this revered franchise. Players will explore the world of XCOM from an immersive new perspective and experience firsthand the fear and tension of this gripping narrative ride." - Christoph Hartmann, 2K President
Apparently, this FPS will combine new shooting mechanics and suspenseful storytelling with tactical strategy and planning. We'll bring you more as the story develops. [Kotaku]
In other news, EA-owned Starbreeze Studios has applied for three patents for Syndicate, the cyberpunk RTS/RPG hybrid that wowed gamers in the early 90s with brutal gameplay and impressive tactical scope. Details are still thin on the ground, but these patents almost certainly suggest that a remake's on the way. Whether or not Syndicate will be remodelled into an FPS remains to be seen. [VG247]
Street Fighter Community Fundraises for Homeless Gamer
I know this is a 'soft' story, but it's always great to see a community band together and help out one of its own. New York Street Fighter forum Shoryuken has been raising money for Chris Hu, a fellow SF fan who tragically lost his home, possessions and savings to a fire. Apparently they've raised over $1000 already.
We'd like to salute this group of kindhearted gamers and thank them for raising the profile of online communities everywhere. [via Joystiq]


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Dexy is a multi-purpose project automation tool with lots of features designed for working with documents. Dexy is written in Python and has a command-line interface. It's open source software with an MIT license.
Dexy makes it easier to create technical documents by doing the repetitive parts for you. Dexy provides a consistent interface to tools and scripts so you don't have to run them manually. Your project's dexy configuration keeps track of what to run, in which order, and with what parameters. This way, your whole process is captured so anyone can run it using one simple command and the results will be consistent.
You want to write a blog post with examples showing how to use an API. Dexy will automatically:
Dexy uses the idea of filters. A filter accepts some input, changes it somehow, and emits some output. Filters are what do all the work in dexy.
When you write a dexy configuration file for your project, you tell dexy which filters to apply to which source files. When dexy runs, it looks for each source file and then applies each of the filters you specify.
You can specify multiple filters, and each one will run in sequence, taking the previous filter's output as its input.
Filters can be written in Python or other languages. To write filters in other languages, you need to create an executable script. Dexy has a plugin system so it's easy to write your own filters and add them to dexy.
You can also run scripts using dexy, by passing the script files through a filter which executes them in the correct interpreter.
There are several filters which run Python code in dexy.
Scripts can interact with other files in your project. They can open files to read data, and generate new files which then become part of the project.
You want to use R make a graph of some data which is in a CSV file. To implement this in dexy, you could:
After running dexy,
When you want a document to include a few lines of code, or an image generated by an R script, or the result of a calculation based on data from your API, you do this by including a reference to the location of that information.
Dexy provides a standard way to refer to locations within your project. Each document has a
key which is just the source file's filepath plus any filters which have been applied. You can refer to an entire document by referencing its key, or you can refer to just part of a document by referencing the name of a section in that document.
d in these expressions refers to a dictionary or key-value map which contains references to each of the document's dependencies. These dependencies have already been processed (this is discussed in the next section), you are just telling dexy's template engine where to pull information from.
Dexy populates the
d object as part of the
jinja filter (several other templating systems are also available and they have access to the same
d object). When you want to write a document which includes content from other documents, you apply the
jinja filter to the source of this document. Jinja uses curly brackets to denote template content, so in your document you write expressions like
{{ d["script.R|r"] }} and when the
d expression is evaluated, it inserts the content from that source at that point in your document.
If you change the source of
script.R and run dexy again, dexy inserts the most up-to-date version of
script.R|r in every location which references it. This is how dexy makes it possible to always refresh your documents to refer to up to date versions of code.
There are some fancier features available too, like custom data types which let you call functions on the content from source files.
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