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Microsoft product director Aaron Greenberg has questioned the launch software line-up for PlayStation Move - claiming that most games for the device are merely modified "controller-based" titles.
Well done, Good sir! Bubbles for you!! :D
I like to move it, move it as well :P
Kinect is set to release on Nov4. That's pretty stupid seeing it well get overshadowed by the much anticipated launch of GT5 this Nov2.
I thought Microsoft don't stoop to this level?
That's some really desperate spin right there.
There's just so many reasons he's wrong I'm not even gonna list them...
Poor Microsoft and their knit-picking. If I was a MS fanboy I would have trouble defending the 360 ahahahaha.
The move is an alternate control scheme and not a required one. That will change at some point as I am sure sony will want to have some dedicated Move ONLY titles. By that, you will not be able to play them any other way.
Sony knows they cant all of a sudden abandon the DS3 control because that is the main control focus for the system. Unlike Nintendo who's wiimote is used for EVERY title made for the wii. Maybe not fully supported but there are wiimote traces built in to each game.
Kinect on the other hand, that one will have Kinect ONLY titles. Maybe there will come a time where they will have combo games using the kinect and controller but for now....its all about the gesture based games.
I feel that both move and kinect will play an even BIGGER role in their next platforms. Possibly being the focal point to the controls right out of the box. It also wouldnt surprise me if Sony were to integrate move in things other than games. Maybe even have it as the remote of the future for their Bravia sets.
This is just the beginning.
Aaron Greenberg, the pot calling the kettle black
What games does kinect have to offer at launch? Shovelware and nothin for the core gamer
*sigh* .... *says the guy that try to sell kinectimals*
@darthv72 if they ever do games using both Kinect & a controller, it will defeat the whole idea of Kinect, "You are the controller". Then its basically the same as Move and Wii just about, which they're trying to differentiate themselves from.
I see your point. IMO, the additional controller scheme approach is the best implementation of motion controller because it eases players into the technology (especially in mid console cycle) and prepares them for the next-gen of motion controls.
There's nothing like drastically forcing people to into a new technology, you have a 50/50 chance of success (Bluray & HD DVD). Nintendo was the exception because it was new tech & such a novelty that everyone bought one, just to try it out. However, most hardcore gamers quickly realized that wasn't that great for their brand of games (in most cases).
Choice is always a good thing for the consumer!
So instead of giving you OPTIONS, MS would rather just force it on you? LOL, yea I'll stick with Sony's approach.
@darthv72 What are you talking about? Sports Champion is Move only and does not work with a controller.
Others give you options, but Move only games are already here. Greenberg is a douche. Blubbing some crap to get recognized.
There will be as many "Move Only" games as Kinect only games (if not more) PLUS (!) the ones giving you options for either move or the controller.
to those who are able to understand what i am saying. People so quick to hit the disagree are obviously seeing what they want instead of what is being said.
Move is a great option for sony and for it to really succeed they need to create the necessity for it. Just making it an option isnt enough. They really need to capitalize on what it could do.
Incentives in games that no DS3 could achieve. What greenburg is saying about the current titles on the market is somewhat true. They are existing games being patched for move as an alternate control type. Sports champions..yes there is 1 game that requires the move but then again it COMES with the move bundle.
I am really looking forward to what sony can do beyond an alternate control for LBP or KZ2. I am not downing move at all. Please understand that I (like many of you) would like to see the realization of what sony has in mind come to fruition instead of seeing it turn into another wii clone.
Quality of games are what sets it apart from the wii but unless sony comes out with some sort of quality control I fear titles COULD end up with tacked on motion support like what has happened with wii.
Pew pewwww. Greenberg needs to look at kinects software first, because waving your hands in the air and stopping red balls (with lag) is the game EVERYONE wants!
So none of the games they designed for Kinect where ever done with eyetoy?
What you're saying is that Sony needs to make games that can't be done with a controller, and that MR. Grennburg is right because all there kinect games cannot be done with a controller, but I don't think that makes Kinect 'better,' I think if anything, it cripples them. Sony has a choice to patch games that can use both DS3 and MOVE (RE5, Heavy Rain) or make totally new games that can't be done without a controller (Tumble, Start the party, Sorcery.) The move controller really gives sony the opportunity to pretty much create any game they want, were as to microsoft, I don't think there able to achieve that just yet.
Which is precisely why I prefer Move to Kinect. I want to be able to play games I like in a brand new way (a la Killzone 3 or Heavy Rain). That's the brilliance of it.
Playing "modified" controller games beats the hell out of talking to little boys and jumping around all over the place.
@darthv72 One need only looke at titles like echochrome ii to see just how much of a brilliant idea that move is. In echochrome 2 the wand doubles as a sort of flashlight and the objective is to change the perspective of the light to alter shadows. This is simply brilliant and something that just cant be done using traditional controllers. Sony has given consumers "CHOICE" just like they have always done. With move you arent forced to use move with every game. I've already 100% completed re5 and now that move is here I have incentive to go back and play a game that I stopped playing nearly a year ago.. Thats powerful marketing no matter how you spin it. Ohh and intial reports are that retailers cannot keep up with the demand of move far surpassing sony's own expectations of sales.. This thing is a hit..
If you care about those bubbles of yours you should refrain from posting any posts that agree with M$ position...even on a M$ based thread.
On Topic...Greenberg is right of course...it's common sense. The games have to be designed from the ground up to work with whatever controller was envisioned. Sony doesn't care, just patch it in there and tell them it's hardcore even if it doesn't work...like shoving your Sony Move towards the TV to pick up a weapon while your being shot at in KZ or add aiming assist to make up for the impossible to steady aiming reticule...stuff like that.
Kinect games will be unique because they will be built to use the unique capabilities built in to Kinect. The next wave of Kinect games will impress and be custom to the Kinect experience.
This one always makes me laugh... http://www.youtube.com/watc...
But the author of this article is trolling. Well, anything for hits I guess.
the games at launch for kinect were eyetoy games, and remember what happened last time sony made a game this gen that was only playable with motion control? (You know, didn't give you a choice?) The game was called "Lair" and the reviewers just refused to give the game a fair shake, just because of that approach. Sony patched the game so it's now playable by normal means, but oh no, the game is still crap in their eyes (even though it was never THAT bad to begin with, now since the patch the game is a solid 8.)
Now since M$ is doing the same thing, with even less impressive software than even Lair, I'm sure we will see plenty of reviews being completely impartial and giving Kinect's crap the same treatment./s
And we care what this person thinks about it why?
Since the Move is alot more successful then everyone thought it would be MS is doing some serious damage control.
And Kinect is basically trying to do the same thing that move is doing just in a different manor.
Or anything from Greenberg, really.
Edit: Bubble for Kain81 ;D
he's basically admitting that kinect isn't versatile enough to be able to be ported to existing games. he's trying to make one of move's strengths look like a weakness. hilarious.
MariaHelFutura calls Greenbergs sanity into question.
1:1 is for real and Kinect has ALOT to prove.
Just because its likely going to need a few months after launch to prove itself? Deliver on promises made two years ago?
Do in fact what Move and the PSeye are already doing?
Dear Greenburg F*ck you. oh and if you wanna question software how about this http://www.gametrailers.com...
i just saw that video,n boys if u want play this with somebody u have to stay a way about 1m, or BAM...how this gonna work here in uk?most living rooms r 4x3m. ex;1 avarage person with both arms up in air, will b about 1m,75cm length. now make the maths, remember the living room got units sofas etc.
avarage living room size; 4x5m.well my is a 3 bedroom house, n got that size.2 bedroom may b r smaller or same size.
Got the Move yesterday (actually the bundle & and extra controller) and I've had a blast with it.
Currently playing RE5 and it's very accurate.
Move is FAR more accurate than the wiimote.
Calibration in Sports Champions takes a matter or 5 seconds and makes the game react precisely to every minute movement.
Very pleased with move, and all 4 of us who played it until 2:30 in the morning are as well.
Software is good, not great, but with the games set to be released and the few that are getting patched, Move already has a solid lineup. The same CANNOT be said for Kinect, which has shown to be very poor at what it claims to do. There's a reason why both Sony and Nintendo passed up on the Kinect tech years ago...it doesn't work well enough.
I picked it up yesterday as well. I've been VERY impressed. It took a little time to get my camera set up right (I have little space to work with) so that my son and I can both be easily visible, but now that it's rolling, it's really been amazing. Sports Champions is great because the different difficulty levels impact how 1:1 or gesture based the controller is. It's been a ton of fun. Unlike many of the reviews, I like ALL of the titles on SC. I even find myself jumping to spike in Beach Volleyball. And Bocce Ball is a good team-based game. The accuracy of Table Tennis is astounding
Move has my approval. Greenburg is yet to earn it.
LMAO, you just copy & pasted ur exact same comment from the CVG comments.
guilty as charged I am a jumper also I will have bare spots on the celing soon enough as I am 6'3" and I won't be playing with anyone else because well I am just to darn longand my living room is too dam small
ive got to agree, move is a blast to play. I got my move bundle on friday, played the sports champion demo then bought the full game today. and i love it, especially gladiators thats great fun. me and my bro have played it none stop, i hope they add online to it tho. table tennis tournaments online would be mega.
LMAO I jump in volleyball and gladiator duel.. My arms, butt, thighs, calves forearms, chest, shoulders and abs havent stopped aching since I bought my move.. Its a workout! lol but it's soooo much fun.. Thank you sony..
I like to Move it, remix:
How about saying that most of what Kinect can do has already been done with PS EYE, so it is not revolutionary. What MS did to this generation is a Technology: Apocalypse Or Eden.
Basically what they did was try & destroy PS EYE/Sony stating that it is not needed in gaming & now make it their own by saying it is now the FUTURE Of GAMING (hell no) with this function/feature & so on.
Apocalypse Or Eden- destroying something & trying to make it more Advance for Future purpose which KINECT is NOT, it's not even WORKING properly.
How about you cover that TOPIC Aarongant Greenberg
He must be h!gh on some serious drug$
don't make it personal .. and people can't choose how their faces looks right?
I had a choice of three faces when I was born, didn't you?
Considering the smoke and mirrors of the fake Kinect stage presentations Greenburg couldn't have made a bigger ass of himself with these remarks. Doesn't he remember being at E3? GC?
And everyone's favorite:
but sadly the Kinect system will neither work in smoke or with mirrors.
Or in bright light, if you happen to need to sit down or are black, or in a skirt/baggy trousers.
Agree Morg, agree mantisimo.
All the links you provided are flat out embarrassing. MS has no shame at all and Greenburg proves that every time he opens his mouth.
Videos were painful to watch :/
I can't believe Microsoft is going to sell that to people... for more then the move
Yeah Mike it's embarrassing. The thing that pains me even more is that I know Kinect will sell atleast twice as much as Move will. MS will throw immense amounts of money on marketing and show falsified adverts for Kinect where the lag is non existant and there are no misinterpretations made by the camera at all.
Kinect will sell atleast 4-5 million in USA but here in europe they can't lie to people without being sued to hell so here Kinect won't sell that much I would think. Could be wrong though but I hope I'm not. We don't even need to talk about Japan (I hope).
Wow... that third video had one UGLY girl. Was that even a girl?
Greenburg's really making it hard for me to pull my punches about kinect until I get to try it. If you're going off of what's out at launch, even if all of kinect's software is custom-made, it's still going to be mostly rail-shooters and/or simplistic controls from what we know about most of the games shown for kinect.
I could not wait for move to come out, but now that I know what this is, I most said that its nothing more than the wii numbchucks plus. I wont be buying this at all, I stick to my PS3 controllers, but who knows, maybe they have something worth trying for it, but I dont want no more innacurate stuff like the wii controllers, I had enough of that.
it is acurate and you have to move for it to workif you don't move enough it doesn't work( unlike wii)
Well said. Although I think the Move is worth getting even at this early stage.
Dude move blows the wii out of the water. Graphics are crisp and clean, sound is great, controls are precise and intuitive. Best of all its true 1:1 movement.. Every movement you make is represented in the game unlike the wii's gesture based pre canned animations.. Trust me move is worth every penny..
The biggest deciding factor is how well it's implemented into Action/FPS/RPS/RTS games.
For FPS games (the most popular genre presently) they need to make sure they allow the option for a stationary reticle (in the middle of the screen) and only move the camera, like shooter fans are use too. I've seen quite a few MAG/Socom4/Killzone 3 forum posts on the topic... I think that will make or break the acceptance of Move for the shooter fan.
Sports Champion 75
Tumble 69
Start The Party 55
Racquet Sports 54
Kung Fu Rider 36
Eye Pet Move edition* 69
Ok so lets tally it up shall we?
59.7 %. Except for Sports Champion, nothing on Move right now is worth picking up.
*breaking the rule a bit here since there's a version that can be played without Move. The score would have been 57% without it in we'll let it in.
By the way, this is how i got the percentages because I know we didn't all take maths in school.
(75 + 69 + 55 + 54 + 36 + 69)/600. 600 because all their scores are out of a hundred each.
So in all honesty here, if you take off your SONY shades, you'll see that Aaron is saying it like it is.
Yeah, we are looking forward to the 100% Kinect only titles. They sure will show us. /s
But... all the games you mentioned weren't the ones Greenburg was referring to. He was knocking the Move for games that use the Move as an alternate controller, like MAG, SOCOM 4, Killzone 3, LBP2, Heavy Rain, etc.
Lets compare the review scores of those games to the Kinect-exclusive titles he wants to compare them to, when Kinect comes out, shall we?
..uh-huh ndibu. M'kay...I see what you're getting at, with your supercilious tone.
Why don't you 'n Aaron (it's cool that you're both on first name terms), magic up some statistics in two months, eh? Sports Champions, Eye-Pet, and Tumble have reasonably good scores, and its gonna be interesting to see how the Kinect release day line up pans out. So, see you in two months, where we can compare like for like. Wheeeeeee!
Fingers crossed, eh little fella!
ra ra ra reviews are everything.
how about play the games yourself and then talk?
Wii Sports - 75%
Elebits - 75%
Red Steel - 65%
See how this works?
As one more point of note - Metacritic doesn't have all the scores in their averages, and in the case of Tumble, it is rather harshly rated as 3.5/10 by IGN which is clearly a symptom of a bad review/reviewer in that case and drags the average down.
Greenburg really get's on my nerves.
Pew Pew Pew!!!
Speaking to GamesMaster's Rory Smith for CVG at Tokyo Games Show, Greenberg said that MS's launch software for Kinect was in stark contrast to Move's - as it had been built specifically for the device.
"I think that most of the experiences designed for Kinect were designed from the ground up," he said. "The difference is, it seems, a lot of the games made for Move are really controller-based games that [developers have] added the Move functionality to.
"Our approach has been different, because we feel that a controller is the best way to play games like Halo or Call of Duty. So we'd rather not have you have to choose between using a controller or motion controller; we'd rather design experiences that are uniquely made for Kinect.
-hmmm, despite the headline everything he said seems pretty accurate to me, the only thing to really disagree about is that move may also have some games built from the ground up only for move also, but the point is move is also more controller oriented with move support added, which btw theres nothing wrong with that its just a different focus vs kinect, so he does make a great point when he alludes to this difference with "Our approach has been different" etc...aaahhh but I guess when sony comments about micro its taken as gospel on n4g, any comment about sony from micro no matter how accurate it is, is a NO, NO, lmfao...n4g has become a sony trolled cesspool.
-I actually wish micro would copy sonys strategy with motion controls= lean more to utilizing kinect+standard controls for more hardcore experiences, I think this combination would show off kinects versatility and that would be far more interesting to me than all this casual BS I've seen so far from both companys.
I like the praising MS for doing Kinect only stuff.I read early on that devs HAVE to code ground up for Kinect and that putting it in half way through development or as a patch is not possible.I think MS would love have this level of software support but they can only pay so many devs at once.The fact is that Kinect would not work on games like shooters,it's too slow and unresponsive with no buttons to fire.
MS have a problem that when they release Kinect it will face direct comparison with Move.They need Kinect exclusives to avoid a head to head.Apart from dancing games I see no way Kinect could come out on top.
This guy just talked himself in a circle he said move software is just a controller based games with motion controls tacked on then he said later kinect will have games that use both a controller and kinect...What a douche. Hey greenberg maybe sony doesn't wanna alienate their fans so they give them the choice of controls.
Also he said the kinect will have experiences built from the ground up for kinect...So I guess all kinect games are confirmed to be mini games or on rails...or both


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Imagine a lavish ball in an old castle. The walls of a spacious, richly ornamented ballroom are lined with tall mirrors and a chamber orchestra is playing in the corner. On the floor, dozens of pairs of bejeweled beautiful ladies in long dresses and elegant men in dark suits are dancing with great skill. It's a breathtaking view! Then you look at the mirrors and all you can see is the empty ballroom. What you observed was an illusion, a beautiful but empty image. You just watched the Annual Vampires' Ball in Count Dracula's castle.
Part I of this series, private universities need not worry: By definition, they are on top of all rankings. Think of this, if private schools were not highest-ranked, who would spend up to $100K per year on private education if 25% of that sum would buy equally good public education?
The small but luxurious private universities are gate keepers, who for the right price dispense lifetime membership cards to the American nomenklatura. Therefore, no one at the US News and World Report would dare to question the glittering supremacy of the Ivy League schools, never mind that as a cohort they are 4.4x3.7=16 times less efficient than the comparable public universities (see Figures 1 - 4 and 5 - 6). After all, the United States of America has invented the beautiful and tempting, but otherwise empty images. And this invention has served some of us very well.
Rushing at 90 miles per hour, the stressed-out public educators are remiss in educating public about academia's priorities and difficulties. Here is what the original U.S. propagandist (in 1928, the term "propaganda" did not have the contemporary pejorative connotation), Edward Bernays, wrote on this subject:
EDUCATION is not securing its proper share of public interest. ... The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy. ... There are a number of reasons for this condition. First of all, there is the fact that the educator has been trained to stimulate to thought the individual students in his classroom, but has not been trained as an educator at large of the public. In a democracy an educator should, in addition to his academic duties, bear a definite and wholesome relation to the general public. This public does not come within the immediate scope of his academic duties. But in a sense he depends upon it for his living, for the moral support, and the general cultural tone upon which his work must be based. In the field of education, we find what we have found in politics and other fields—that the evolution of the practitioner of the profession has not kept pace with the social evolution around him, and is out of gear with the instruments for the dissemination of ideas which modern society has developed. If this be true, then the training of the educators in this respect should begin in the normal schools, with the addition to their curricula of whatever is necessary to broaden their viewpoint. The public cannot understand unless the teacher understands the relationship between the general public and the academic idea....I note in passing that private universities have developed a formidable propaganda apparatus since WWI, and continue with great skill to use think tanks and other propaganda outlets to promote their positive public image. After all, they have ample resources and staff to drive their perennial PR offensive. Public universities are poor propagandists, because - hmm - they are much poorer and - setting aside the corrupt "college athletics" - they are not as slick as private universities in lying and covering up:
Then as the 2012-2013 school year commenced, Joseph Asch, Dartmouth '79, wrote an open letter the incoming class of 2016 on the Dartblog titled, "Freshman, There Will be Lies." In his letter Mr. Asch warns, among other declarations, that students should begin their time at Dartmouth with the understanding that the administration will lie, underscoring his point by asserting, "Not small lies, or white lies, or inadvertent ones, but straight-out lies that help the administration gain the goals that it seeks at your expense." He reverses all that the students once thought true about an elite academic institution by telling the class that although they expect this "noble institution" to serve the students, in fact the administration "has goals to achieve, and work in an environment where lying has been part of the modus operandi for many years."In summary, public and private universities are fundamentally different and should not be lumped together in an artificial way that boosts the Ivy League schools relative to the poorer, busier, and less glamorous public university cousins. In Part III, I will get deeper into these gaping differences and public misperceptions.
P.S. (02/21/2014) If you think that the private and public non-profit schools are less than perfect, you should also look at the for-profit universities. The pursuit of short-term profits and generally unethical behavior have created greedy monsters that steal money from the taxpayer and the poor. And Congress seems to be unable to control these monsters, which are feeding on mostly government-backed loans to ruin poor uneducated people.
|Figure 1. Click on the image to see it in full resolution. Tuition and fees charged by the top-ranked private universities. All of these universities are at the top of national rankings, i.e., Princeton is #1, according to the U.S. News and World Report. Add another $25-40,000 per year for living expenses. Another question comes to mind: Is this cartel of private schools colluding in setting their tuition levels?
|Figure 2. Tuition and fees charged by the top-ranked public universities. U.C. Berkeley, the top public university in the U.S., is ranked as #20 by the U.S. News and World Report. The University of Connecticut is ranked #57. Add another $25-40,000 per year for living expenses.
|Figure 3. Undergraduate enrollment in the top-ranked private universities. All of these universities are at the top of national rankings, i.e., Princeton is #1, according to the U.S. News and World Report.
|Figure 4. Undergraduate enrollment in the top-ranked public universities. U.C. Berkeley, the top public university in the U.S., is ranked as #20 by the U.S. News and World Report. The University of Connecticut is ranked #57.
|Figure 5. Cumulative undergraduate enrollment in the 15 top-ranked private (#1-15) and 15 top-ranked public (#20-57) universities. Source : the U.S. News and World Report. The cumulative enrollment ratio is 4.4:1 in favor of the public universities.
|Figure 6. Cumulative tuition and fees charged by the 15 top-ranked private (#1-15) and 15 top-ranked public (#20-57) universities. Source : the U.S. News and World Report. Cumulatively the private universities charge 3.7 times more than the corresponding cohort of public universities.


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JMPhoto needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 128 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
Edit: We haven't found what we were looking for. To make it more attractive we've dropped it to just the label, no stationary/logo.
We are about to launch a new winery named Raidis Estate, based in Coonawarra, Australia.
We have found a label that is almost perfect, but we can't get in touch with the designer so we're opening it up to the designers here to see what you can come up with.
Raidis Estate
We are looking for a number of things, but please don't be overwhelmed as they're going to be pretty similar:
- A wine label for our Cabernet Savignion (Red)
- A wine lable for our Riesling (White)
- Both bottles will need a back label, which we envisage will be simple, with information about the wine and some legal info that it needs.
- A business card (EDIT-DELETED)
- A letterhead (EDIT-DELETED)
- The label we like is below linked:
- Label: http://99designs.com/contests/3877/…ies/236229
- We want to not go with the Bull's Head though, we wish to bring our own theme into it which is Boer Goat.
- Rather than the Bulls Head we want a silouette of a goat - on the Cabernet Label we want a Billy Goat complete with horns, etc, looking strong and bold
- On the Riesling we want a kid goat - whether it is jumping or running, but looking young and fresh.
- We though the logo would look best perhaps if it incorporated just a silo of the Billy head, with the horns - but you're the designers and we're happy to have a look at what you come up with.
- That doesn't meant we're completely averse to allowing the designteam to throw something at us that fits that criteria, that is Premiumyet unique.
- If you've got some great idea that isn't the goats, then let usknow, we're not absolutely committed to the goats, but it was the bestidea we've gome up with.
- Premium, Premium, Premium
- We really like the label that I've linked to, so something similar to that. We've tried to get in touch with the designer, but to no avail, and we're running out of time - this needs to get to the bottling line soon.
- Info that the label must have:
- Cabernet Sauvignon (please call it 'Billy') and Riesling (please call it 'The Kid') (separate labels)
- Coonawarra
- Product of Australia
- 750mL
- Alcohol vol - 12.5% (example)
- Raidis Estate
- 2005
- Back label to have address and website: 147 Church Street, Penola, South Australia 5277 - http://www.raidis.com.au
- Probably don't want it to stray too far from what we've indicated - the market that we're in is very conservative and we're going down this track as it is different, but still looks premium.
- That doesn't meant we're completely averse to allowing the design team to throw something at us that fits that criteria, that is Premium yet unique.
- If you've got some great idea that isn't the goats, then let us know, we're not absolutely committed to the goats, but it was the best idea we've gome up with.


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For Vontae Davis, the 2012 season started with a trade from the Dolphins to the Colts. It ended with a defensive player of the week award.
Davis was named the AFC's defensive player of the week for Week 17, after having two interceptions in the Colts' win over the Texans. Davis's first interception set up a drive no which the Colts scored a touchdown, and his second interception — in the end zone on a fourth-quarter pass intended for Andre Johnson — sealed the Colts' win.
Davis is the third Colts cornerback to win defensive player of the week this year, following Darius Butler in Week 10 and Cassius Vaughn in Week 14. The Colts have also had the AFC offensive player of the week twice (Reggie Wayne in Week 5 and Andrew Luck in Week 9) and the special teams player of the week once (T.Y. Hilton in Week 12).


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"The forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace." Ephesians 1:7
Suggested Further Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:5-11
Paul proclaimed the grace of God—free, full, sovereign, eternal grace—beyond all the glorious company of the apostles. Sometimes he soared to such amazing heights, or dived into unsearchable depths, that even Peter could not follow him. He was ready to confess that "our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given unto him," had written "some things hard to be understood." Jude could write of the judgments of God, and reprove with terrible words, "ungodly men, who turned the grace of God into lasciviousness." But he could not tell out the purpose of grace as it was planned in the eternal mind, or the experience of grace as it is felt and realized in the human heart, like Paul. There is James again: he, as a faithful minister, could deal very closely with the practical evidences of Christian character. And yet he seems to keep very much on the surface; he does not bore down deep into the substratum on which must rest the visible soil of all spiritual graces. Even John, most favoured of all those apostles who were companions of our Lord on earth—sweetly as the beloved disciple writes of fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ—even John does not speak of grace so richly as Paul, in whom God first showed forth "all long-suffering as a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." Not, indeed, that we are at liberty to prefer one apostle above another. We may not divide the Church, saying, I am of Paul, I of Peter, I of Apollos; but we may acknowledge the instrument which God was pleased to use; we may admire the way in which the Holy Ghost fitted him for his work; we may, with the churches of Judea, glorify God in Paul.
For meditation: Paul always looked back with amazement when he recalled God's grace to him, the chief of sinners, who so persecuted the Church (1 Corinthians 15:9-10; Galatians 1:13,15; Ephesians 3:7,8; 1 Timothy 1:13-15). Our gratitude and love to God can sadly be limited by our failure to realise how sinful we really are and how much he has forgiven us (Luke 7:41-47).
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The animals, semen and embryos covered by the Balai Directive and how to move them in the EU, the UK or to and from non-EU countries.
If you're moving traditional livestock (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, or poultry), animals that aren't intended for display or conservation, or pet dogs, cats and ferrets that meet pet travel rules, you'll need to use the following guidance:
- moving live animals and animal products as part of EU trade
- importing live animals and animal products from non-EU countries
- exporting live animals and animal products to non-EU countries
- pet travel rules
Otherwise, you may have to follow the rules of the Balai Directive as explained in this guidance - talk to your vet if you're unsure which rules apply to the animals you want to move.
Animals, semen and embryos covered by Balai
You must follow this guidance if you're moving the following animals:
- more than 5 pets per traveller in your party - or any pets that can't be joined by their owner within 5 days
- dogs, cats and ferrets that are being rehomed or don't meet pet travel rules
- simian primates, monkeys and apes
- prosimian primates, eg lemurs, bushbabies, lorises, aye ayes and tarsiers
- ungulates (hooved animals) that aren't farm animals, eg llamas, alpacas, antelopes, camels, wild pigs, tapirs, rhinos, giraffes, elephants, hippos
- captive birds and poultry for exhibitions, shows, and contests which aren't covered by poultry or bird legislation
- honey bees
- jackals, foxes, wolves, African wild dogs, hyaenas
- bears, eg polar, black, brown, grizzly, pandas or giant pandas
- raccoons, coatis, and other new world procyonids
- otters, martens, polecats, badgers, skunks, wolverines
- non-domestic cats like pumas, cheetahs, lions, tigers and leopards
- bats, eg vampire bats, flying foxes, fruit bats, gliders
- flying lemurs and flying squirrels
- marsupials, eg koalas, kangaroos, wombats or wallabies
- possums, bandicoots, bilbys, quolls and Tasmanian devils
- anteaters, sloths, armadillos
- shrews, moles and hedgehogs
- rabbits and hares
- rodents, eg gophers, squirrels, mice, rats, hamsters, voles, beavers, gerbils
You must also follow this guidance if you're moving semen or embryos that aren't bovine or porcine.
You can't import any live ungulates (horses, cattle, giraffes, camels, deer, hippopotamuses) or whales and dolphins into the UK from non-EU countries, unless you have an agreement from
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) if you're in England, Scotland or Wales
- the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) if you're in Northern Ireland
Check the importer information notes to find out the latest information about importing live animals semen or embryos under the Balai Directive.
Importing, exporting and EU trade
If you move animals from an EU country to a non-EU country, this is considered exporting.
If you move animals into an EU country from a non-EU country, this is considered importing.
If you move animals from one EU country to another, this is considered EU trade.
Get an animal health certificate
You must have an animal health certificate to trade any live animals, birds, bees, plus the ova, embryos and semen of these animals.
You must make sure that animals or germinal product travel with their health certificates.
You can find template certificates in Annex E of the Balai Directive, part 1, 2 and 3.
You must ask your vet to do each of the following:
- inspect the animal, semen or embryos before they're moved
- complete the health certificates with the EU Trade Notification System (TRACES)
Before the move happens, the vet should also:
They can find out how to do this using the TRACES support documents on the Animal and Plant Health Agency vet gateway.
Approval and registration
Whether you need to get your holding registered or approved depends on the animals you want to move and the sites you want to send them to or receive them from.
To get your holding registered or approved you need to contact:
If you don't do this, your holding is considered unregistered.
Animals that registered holdings can trade
If your holding is registered, you can only trade the following animals, and only with registered or unregistered holdings in EU member states:
- ungulates that aren't livestock
- birds that aren't commercial poultry
- rabbits and hares
- dogs, cats and ferrets that aren't pets
You can't trade with approved holdings.
You need to put rabies-susceptible animals into quarantine.
How to register your holding
To register your holding, complete form EC3163 and send it to:
- your local APHA office if you're in England, Scotland or Wales
- your local DARD direct office, if you're in Northern Ireland
You must run your holding based on the conditions set out on the form.
You'll be given a registration number which you'll need to use on your animal health certificates.
Moving animals from registered or unregistered holdings
Sending animals
If your holding is registered, you can send animals from the UK to either a registered or unregistered holding in another EU member state.
You can also send them to an approved holding, unless they are carnivores or primates.
Receiving animals
If your holding is registered, you can bring animals into the UK from another registered holding in an EU member state.
To do this in England, Wales or Scotland contact the APHA.
Contact your local DARD direct office if you're in Northern Ireland.
They'll tell you the requirements you need to follow - these depend on the animal and the country of origin but can include:
- testing for avian influenza, tuberculosis, equine infectious anaemia, brucella or other diseases
- putting the animal into rabies quarantine
If your holding is unregistered, you can only bring in the following animals from registered or approved holdings in EU member states:
- ungulates
- birds
- rabbits and hares
- cats, dogs and ferrets that aren't pets
Unregistered holdings can't trade in carnivores or primates.
Animals that approved holdings can trade
If your holding is approved, you can trade carnivores or primates ,semen or embryos as well as the rest of the animals covered by Balai.
Approved holdings must only take in animals from other approved holdings - see a list of approved UK holdings.
You can also contact the APHA or DARD to get a waiver that may allow you to accept rabies-susceptible animals without putting them into quarantine on arrival.
How to get your holding approved
To get your holding approved, complete form EC3164 and send it to your regional veterinary lead (RVL).
To find your RVL in England, Scotland and Wales contact your local APHA office.
Contact your local DARD direct office to find your RVL if you're in Northern Ireland.
You also must have your holding inspected by an animal health veterinary officer - APHA or DARD will arrange this.
The inspector will check your holding to make sure that it has:
- secure boundaries separating it from the surrounding area, eg walls, fences or other barriers
- equipment, facilities and staff to catch, confine and isolate animals
- quarantine facilities where you can isolate and test animals that come from non-approved holdings
- a surveillance programme for incoming animals that's been agreed with your vet
- a clean and separated facility for carrying out post-mortems
- a system for disposing of carcasses that's been agreed with your vet
You also must make sure you:
- keep records of animals' age, sex, species, blood tests, and diseases
- employ an official veterinarian - contact your local APHA office or your DARD direct office to find one
You'll be given an approval number to use on your animal health certificates.
Moving animals from approved holdings to registered holdings
If you want to move animals from an approved holding to a registered holding, you must contact either:
- the APHA if you're in England, Scotland or Wales
- your local DARD direct office if you're in Northern Ireland
Re-inspection for approved holdings
If your holding is approved, it must pass an annual re-inspection, carried out by a whole-time veterinary officer (WTVO) - they'll check it still meets the approval conditions.
It's your responsibility to make sure your holding is annually re-inspected and re-approved, but the WTVO will usually contact you to arrange this.
When approval gets suspended
If your approval is removed you'll no longer be able to trade animals with other approved holdings.
Your regional veterinary laboratory (RVL) will temporarily suspend your holding's approval if they find cases of:
- any notifiable disease
- viral enteritis or aleutian disease in mink
- tuberculosis in apes and non-domestic cats
- European foulbrood, varroasis or acariasis in bees
- myxomatosis, viral haemorraghic disease, tularaemia in rabbits and hares
Breaking approval conditions
The RVL can also suspend your approval if your holding no longer meets any one of the approval conditions.
How long suspensions last
The length of time the RVL suspends your approval for depends on the reason for the suspension.
You'll be given time to fix the problem - if you don't do this the RVL may withdraw your approval.
When approval gets withdrawn
If you can't prove to the RVL that your holding has fixed the problem which led to suspension, your approval may be withdrawn.
Approval for a holding will always be suspended before it's withdrawn.
Licenses you may need
If your holding is approved or registered, you may still need licenses.
Dangerous wild animals
You must apply for a licence under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 if you keep:
- primates
- wild cats
- wild dogs or wolves
- wild boar
- marsupials, eg kangaroos, wallabies, wombats
Endangered species
If you're moving endangered species covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species(CITES), you'll need a permit from APHA.
The APHA will decide whether to issue a permit based on the endangered status of the animals you're bringing in and where they're coming from.
Bringing in rabies-susceptible animals
Find out how to bring rabies-susceptible animals into the UK.
Importing ungulates from non-EU countries
If you want to import ungulates (hooved mammals) from non-EU countries, talk to either:


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[This follows on from Specs]
Just before Christmas, my dad, the ophthalmologist, says to me,
"I think it's time you had laser surgery".
I do a double-take (actually, it feels like a blood vessel explodes in my head), but I get over my shock quickly and I bounce to a phone to book a consultation.
He's recommended a particular surgeon, and a fortnight later, I find myself waiting to speak to the man in question.
A cheerful girl takes me to a room and she does a full eye test to check if my vision is stable. I don't have much of a bridge on my nose, so the clunky trial frames keep sliding down, and I end up having to prop them up with a finger.
I hand her a list of all my prescriptions since time began, and she looks scared ("Oh god, a looney") till I explain that my dad compiled them out of professional interest.
She then scans me with a machine to measure the thickness of my corneas - the laser will be slicing into them, so the thicker the better. I'm expecting to have my eyes dilated - I've brought sunglasses for afterwards as advised - but she sends me to talk to the surgeon.
He smiles at me kindly and has a face I can trust, but to be honest, I'm so set on having this done that he could have looked like Norman Bates. He examines my eyes with a microscope of some sort, puts anaesthetic drops in them and prods them, and he says that they're healthy, but for various reasons I'm only suitable for LASEK.
A month later, I'm back in the waiting room, ostensibly to see the surgeon again as requested but really for my pre-op.
A different cheerful lady takes me into a room to anaesthetise my eyes and then produces what looks like an electronic ear thermometer and nudges my eyeballs with it.
"This is to measure the actual thickness and strength of your corneas", she says. "Yours are nice and strong". I give myself a silent cheer.
She does another scan to measure the actual state of my eyesight. It turns out I'm minus 10 - the upper limit for surgery. I give myself another silent cheer.
Next she dilates my pupils and makes me stare wide at some bright spirals while she photos the topography of my eyes.
I'm sent to wait for the surgeon till the blurriness dissipates. Another patient is talking at the receptionist - "What if I blink? What if the surgeon wobbles? What if the laser messes up? What if there's a power cut?".
He voices all our fears, irrational and otherwise, and I really want him to shut up and die. Thankfully he's called away to see the surgeon.
I'm the next in, and the surgeon is kindly, as before. He asks if I'm still set, after reading the literature, and whether I have any questions. I mention the guy who saw him just before me, and he says,
"I'll tell you what I told him - the whole of London could practically fall to pieces, but the hospitals would still keep going. Think about intensive care units, think about life-saving operations.
And each machine has its own separate back up, and the hospitals themselves have emergency generators."
"What about blinking?"
"You can't."
"Is it like A Clockwork Orange?"
(laughing) "It used to be. Now we just place a rubber ring around each eye. Of course, if you really squeeze, you probably could close your lids. But you won't".
A nurse comes in and takes me away to explain the after-care. He says he can't express enough how important it is to follow the instructions, that they do what they can, but then it's up to me to ensure that I get the best results.
I nod and try to concentrate as he shows me each bottle and minim, and explains what they're for and how I should use them, but I'm a skittish mix of numb and excited.
"Shit just got real", I think, and then I have to suppress the urge to giggle.
She then writes something on a sticker and slaps it on my chest and I wonder if it says, "Do Not Resuscitate" and then quash another (hysterical) giggle.
And he does and it's soothing.
Next comes the rubber ring - a soft clamp of some sort. This pinches and I wince, but then he administers anaesthetic drops and I stop feeling anything.
He douses my eye repeatedly to keep it moist and then I see what looks like a giant cotton bud looming towards me. More dousing. And now time for the laser.
A buzzing begins. And then, something I'd been told to expect but I still wasn't prepared for - a fragrance, a smell, it's meat, it's beef.
Beef cooking, barbecuing, it's me. My stomach rumbles with hunger. Auto-sarcophagy. Not something I'd ever considered before.
The novelty is short-lived though as the sun is blazing brightly despite a chill in the air, and I keep my eyes firmly closed all the way home.
Everything is too tiring and painful. And I'm scared.
Two steps down, one step up, to the left, to the right, the quirks of our landing of which I was so fond are suddenly a nightmare to navigate (in fact, it's like Knightmare but much less fun).
My husband places the goggles on me and tapes them carefully to my face. He also brings me mittens in case I mash my face in my sleep, and he lays out the spare mattress at the foot of the bed where he sleeps in case he knocks my goggles off himself.
I'm not allowed to shower or wash my face, and the constant tears and drops have gunked in my spidery lashes - I wish to God I'd trimmed them beforehand.
I manage to stay up till 10 this time.
The crying has stopped too, which is wonderful at first, but then my eyes begin to dry out and the lenses start to itch and ache. I'd like nothing better than to flick them out, but somehow manage to stay my hand.
Day 5, and my dad comes to check over my eyes. He's been visiting every day and said encouraging things, but I've been unable to see his expression and tell if he really means it.
Today he's delighted to see how I'm doing - his relief is visible as he says he's been praying for me every night.
He says he's been praying for himself as well, because my mum said she'd kill him if anything went wrong. I laugh for the first time in ages.
Then she anaesthetises my eyes and pops out the lenses like she's shelling peas. Blessed release - my eyes start to water.
"No, that was just to stop you from dislodging the lenses - you can even rub your eyes now. You're just like any one else who doesn't need glasses. You're just like everyone else.
Come back and see me in a month's time so we can check your progress, but in the meantime, my door is always open".
Then I go and ruin the moment by trying to push up my phantom specs and poke myself in the nose.
I guess this will take some getting used to.


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Leica Biosystems, which quietly moved into the Boston area last fall, is gearing up for significant hiring, the company says.
"We're putting in the foundations for quite a big team," said Victoria Reid, research and development leader of Leica Biosystems in the United Kingdom. "We do plan to expand. I can't really say to what size."
Leica has a small, temporary space at Cherry Hill Industrial Park on the Danvers-Beverly line. It's not clear where the company plans to locate as it grows.
Leica's group here will make what are called companion diagnostics, tests that help pathologists determine precise characteristics of a patient's cancer. Many drug companies want such companion diagnostics to help predict whether patients will fare well on their drugs.
The company has announced a partnership with Galena Biopharma to develop a companion diagnostic for Galena's breast cancer vaccine, NeuVax, for patients with low levels of HER2 protein in their tumors. Leica already has a diagnostic for high levels of HER2 and is now testing to see whether it can also detect low levels of the protein, Reid said.
Leica is in negotiations with other Boston-area pharmaceutical companies to develop more companion diagnostics, Reid said.
Leica chose to locate north of Boston, she said, to be close to many potential partners, and because the area has exceptionally talented scientists.
"We were aware of the very rich talent pool," she said. "And we've not been disappointed at all."
So far, the company is focusing its Massachusetts work on diagnostics, but Leica is also a research, instrument, and medical device company, said Peter Abair, director of economic and global affairs for the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, a nonprofit that promotes the life sciences and health care industries. He said that all of Leica's areas of focus are a good match for Massachusetts, and hopes the company will eventually expand here.
"I think any company in the life sciences is wise to have a presence of some sort in Massachusetts, especially if they have anything to do with the research side of the industry," he said.
The Boston area is becoming a magnet for biotech companies from all over the world, including from Germany, Spain, Norway, and Israel, and attracting "three companies from Japan just in the last six months," said Susan Windham-Bannister, president and chief executive of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, which administers the state's 10-year, $1 billion investment in the life sciences.
Martha Farmer of North Shore InnoVentures, a Beverly nonprofit that supports life science and clean technology companies, hopes Leica decides to stay on the North Shore. There are already 85 such companies in the area, according to a recent survey.
"If I have the opportunity to convince them to stay here, I sure will," Farmer said.


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It turns out that with some spare time and trial and error, you can find some drafts (or posts marked for deletion?) on Grantland. By altering one number at a time in the seven-digit page URL—I stuck to fooling around with the last three—one can discover a bunch of headlines floating around Grantland's draft space. Call it @Grantland_ebooks. Here are some of the ones we unearthed:
"Most underrated coaches of 2012"
"Is Tom Watson key to Ryder Cup success?"


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Fewer tests and more attention to putting students on the right career track are needed in Texas classrooms, the chairman of the House Public Education Committee said Thursday.
Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, R-Killeen, said although lawmakers recognize the need to adjust what it takes to graduate from high school, specifics of his bill to reduce the number of required tests from 15 to five still face a lot of scrutiny when the House considers the bill on Tuesday.
Creating the right mix of tests to prepare some for trades and other for four-year universities is tricky, and many proposals are likely to come forward. At a press briefing, Aycock said he expects more than 100 amendments to be proposed to HB 5.
"Finding that balance has not been easy," he said of the five tests, with two others optional for college-bound students. "We want to encourage kids to move up… But at the same time we don't want to pigeonhole everybody into a four year degree plan."
Numerous testing plans are under consideration, as lawmakers undo 2009 reforms that expanded the testing protocols. Educators vary on whether the reduction in state mandated tests weakens classroom standards.
Opponents of the plan to reduce the testing regimen have noted those with four-year college degrees are going to make up the future workforce.
"More than 90 percent of those jobs will require post-secondary education," a consortium of businesses said in an open letter to state senators. "The need for highly-skilled workers is nationwide, and the states that succeed in creating a 21st-century workforce will be the magnets for new investment and innovative industries."
Aycock said his primary goal is reform only of the high school requirements, in order to allow students flexibility so they can prepare for skilled jobs or further education.
The current battery of tests wasn't a workable solution, Aycock said. In the first year of testing, to achieve the 77 percent passing rate, the passing rate was set at achieving 37 percent correct answers on the math test, he noted.
"By last session it became pretty apparent this system was heading a lot of kids into the ditch," he said of the graduation requirements.
With more funding for schools beginning to receive support in the statehouse, Aycock said other concerns about his testing plan might be altered to appeal to more House and Senate members he said he is agreeable to more commitment to career counseling, so students who plan on attending college can be advised of the classes and test they should take.
Though a departure from the current state education plan, Aycock said HB isn't a permanent solution.
"I think education will always be a moving target," he said. "It will never be fixed, because it is not a fixed subject."


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A vasectomy is a simple sterilization procedure that can be performed right your doctor's office, so it tends to cost less than other surgeries. Over the long term, a vasectomy may even be less expensive than other birth-control options such as the Pill or IUDs. See our cost-comparison chart.
How much does a vasectomy cost?
Without insurance, the cost of a vasectomy typically ranges anywhere from $350 to $4,000, depending on location, surgical technique used, and other variables such as your method of payment and whether a doctor uses income-based sliding scales.
Some physicians bundle the cost of a vasectomy into one overall price, while others list them separately. (Price bundles can include initial consultation, anesthesia, follow-up appointment, and/or semen analysis.) If you're paying out of pocket, be sure to get clear estimates on each of those items, or a list of everything that may or may not be included in the bundled price.
Does insurance cover a vasectomy?
The cost of a vasectomy is covered by most health insurance policies, so contact your insurance company and to discuss your coverage. In such cases, the majority of the associated vasectomy costs will be paid by your insurance. Your exact out-of-pocket cost will depend on your plan's:
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In addition, vasectomies are often a qualified health savings account (HSA) expense. If your insurance plan won't pay for the procedure and you contribute to an HSA, you may be able to get reimbursed that way.
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If you don't have health insurance, the procedure can require a significant up-front payment. Some options can help make that more affordable, including:
- Discount for paying in cash - Making the payment in cash is the next best option if you don't have insurance coverage for vasectomy. Even if you create a special savings program in your household budget, it should not take long to put aside the total amount needed. A full cash payment in advance may earn a small discount.
- State assistance - Many states offer this to men who lack funds to pay for the procedure. Ask your doctor whether there are programs that may apply to you.
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Sad news to hear. But it will not stop me from buying AMD in the future. Intel is is evil, Nvidia hates Linux, so my only choice in buying CPU/GPU's is AMD.
No announcement yet.
AMD Is Indeed Losing More Linux Developers
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Ah, this is a shit!
I knew J?rg from Linux Tag in Berlin. Gave him a beer.
Dahmit! Not another one.
It's really hard to see an "underdog" company which was very FOSS friendly always struggle so hard. I wonder how they want to do their new ARM-chips without proper support from the software side. The OSRC Dresden was a damn good thing to have even if you didn't hear so often about it like you did with the Radeon FOSS stack.
But this is after so many years of oppression by intel and ignorant customers (but this is not intel inside, it is probably not compatible) and vendors (selling "real MHz").
And I wish they'd fire management not engineers. You can't operate anything with managers alone.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
Originally posted by Adarion View PostI wonder how they want to do their new ARM-chips without proper support from the software side.
Originally posted by bwat47 View PostAMD is a sinking ship on linux it looks like. Their proprietary driver is always dropping support for fairly recent hardware and calling it "legacy", and they are laying off developers for the OSS stuff.
Intel if you want integrated graphics, nvidia if you need a dedicated card. Its a shame, I had hopes for AMD on linux when they started to release documentation.
Yes it's unfortunate that those cards are still prefectly capable of running pretty much anything remotely taxing for us right now, though I see it merely as collateral damage. At least we still have their work on the FOSS side of things.
So please stop making it sound like AMD has a grudge against Linux users. It's called "resource management in a financially troubled business 101". If you want to help them, get a newer card or contribute to the FOSS drivers, that's the best you can do, and also much more constructive. You'll be happy you did soon enough.
As for the article at hand, well it's indeed troubling, though I still think it's a bit early to know what's going on exactly. I suppose AMD will at least relocate the affected depts.
As for the people in Dresden being let go (if it is the case), a big thanks for your work and I'm sure you guys will find new positions, with your knowledge and all!Last edited by PsynoKhi0; 11-03-2012, 10:38 AM.
Is this news sad? Yes and no. If the open source community has documentation for AMD graphics why are they sad that AMD is kicking out Linux developers. Linux is created based on developer's free time and most of all free will. I think former AMD Linux developers will try to support AMD products on their free time. It is not the end of the world.
AMD's proprietary graphics drivers are always pathetic. I prefer to use open source drivers or Xorg's drivers for ATI and AMD graphic cards although they have their limits in features. I always hesitate when using AMD graphics in Windows.
Originally posted by Rallos Zek View PostSad news to hear. But it will not stop me from buying AMD in the future. Intel is is evil, Nvidia hates Linux, so my only choice in buying CPU/GPU's is AMD.
I do not work for nVidia. I have used AMD graphics and Intel graphics in Linux. nVidia still comes out being the best.
Originally posted by curaga View PostWith Intel dual cores already costing 200-300$, what do you think would happen with no competition?
Linux is created based on developer's free time and most of all free will.
I have only partial stats, but I even think it's more than 80%.
nVidia makes their drivers closed source because they feel they can write them better
Originally posted by Greg Kroah-HartmanThe very good side effects of having your driver in the main kernel tree are:
- The quality of the driver will rise as the maintenance costs (to the original developer) will decrease.
- Other developers will add features to your driver.
- Other people will find and fix bugs in your driver.
- Other people will find tuning opportunities in your driver.
- Other people will update the driver for you when external interface changes require it.
- The driver automatically gets shipped in all Linux distributions without having to ask the distros to add it.Also nVidia makes their drivers closed source because all the tasks are handled by software instead of mostly hardware.


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Strengthening monitoring of Universal Primary Education (UPE) funds
Despite walking a distance of 10 kilometers every day, sometimes without a proper meal, the teachers at Nakalama Primary school are always at their desks at 8.00am and teach till 4.00pm. This is a drastic change from what the situation was in 2012 when a teacher would on average report to school once in a fortnight.
Nakalama Primary school is one of the sixteen schools in Iganga district that were selected to participate in the project entitled "Strengthening oversight functions for accountable service delivery" (Oversight project). Under this project, forty monitors were trained to make impromptu visits to the schools and ascertain that the resources allocated to Universal Primary Education are properly utilized.
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- The project, "Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in the Utilisation of UPE Resources" is being implemented in partnership with the Anti-corruption coalition of Uganda.
- 40 monitors from eight sub-countries were trained to keep tabs on the utilization of UPE resources, helping to increase transparency and accountability.
- Over 19,200 children have benefited from the reduction of teacher absenteeism as the number of teachers in attendance daily has increased from four to ten teachers.
- The total cost of the project so far is 40,000 USD.
The oversight project is being implemented by the Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU) with support from UNDP and with collaboration from other key players such as the Ministry of Education, Education Service Commission, the District Education Officer, the Resident District Commissioner, Chief Administrative Officers, School Management Committees, parents and pupils.
The integrity clubs formed as a result of the project have helped sensitise teachers, pupils and the entire community that transparency and accountability is a must. As Mr. Owera Wilson, the deputy head teacher at Nakalama Primary School puts it, "Before ACCU came in to explain to us the benefits of being more accountable, we were totally lost."


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Post-2015 Agenda: Unprecedented global discussions about development priorities start in 100 countriesJan 15, 2013
National consultations capturing development priorities are underway in 66 member states, and the United Nations works with governments to expand the list of countries to 100, according to representatives of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Women, and World Health Organizations (WHO).
The consultations are part of an unprecedented global consultation which aims to build consensus between people, communities, cities, countries and stakeholders such as people with disabilities or youth - groups that usually don't participate in multilateral negotiations - on what are in their view key development priorities.
"In Zambia, a meeting is organized today in Lusaka by the UN country team on health, with local civil society organizations," said Olav Kjorven, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of Bureau for Development policy at UNDP. "Since November 2012, 12 workshops have been completed in the Amazon region of Loreto in Peru, involving children, youth women, and grassroots leaders."
In Albania, the UN country team is using Facebook to implement the consultations. The government also plans to use the results of the consultation as inputs into the national development strategy, he added during a presentation to Permanent Representatives of the Missions to the UN in New York.
Consultations are being held in all regions of the world, including in France, Germany, Spain, and other European countries.
On the global level, the results of consultations will be synthesized in two reports scheduled to be published in March and September 2013.
The reports will be handed to the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the High-level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to define a process by which world leaders will arrive to an agreed future development agenda that will succeed the Millennium Development Goals.
The High-level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda - led by three co-Chairs: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia; President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia; and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom - was asked to prepare a bold yet practical development vision to present to member states in 2013.
The Open Working Group is a group of countries set up by the June 2012 Rio Declaration to design sustainable development goals.
The national consultations are complemented by five regional consultations and 11 thematic consultations which cover conflict and fragility, education, energy, environmental sustainability, food security, governance, growth and employment, health, inequalities, population dynamics and water.
Each thematic consultation is co-hosted by member states. For example, the health consultation is co-hosted by Botswana and Sweden. Like the others, this consultation takes place online at www.worldwewant2015.org, and in a series of meeting that will culminate in a two-day conference on health in the post-2015 agenda in Botswana in March.
Through the two synthesis reports, the results of consultations on all levels will inform the High-level Panel's recommendations on a global development agenda and the work of the Open Working Group.


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Freeman's, a 208-year-old auction firm owned by the Freeman family of Chestnut Hill, whose appraisers are often seen on public TV's "Antiques Roadshow," held its inaugural auction of American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists on Sunday, June 9. The sale attracted competitive bidding from both private collectors and museums, and the 38 paintings from the Pennsylvania Impressionists section achieved $668,373 total.
The top lots included George William Sotter's "Covered Bridge, Winter," which sold for $122,500, and "Steel Mills, Pittsburgh" by Frederick R. Wagner, which achieved a world auction record at $45,000, more than doubling the previous one from 2003.
"Freeman's has been selling Pennsylvania Impressionists dating back to when the artists were still alive and working. We are the world leader in this market and have posted auction records for Pennsylvania Impressionists from Fern Coppedge and Kenneth Nunamaker to Roy Nuse and Antonio Martino," said Freeman's Vice Chairman and Fine Art Department Head Alasdair Nichol. "There was a noticeable uptick in the number of Pennsylvania Impressionists works consigned for this inaugural sale."
Additionally, the rare offering of 59 paintings by Walter Stuempfig from The Forbes Collection was sold to a standing-room-only crowd. This collection was amassed by noted art connoisseur and businessman Malcolm Forbes and subsequently by his family.
Several paintings were acquired by Woodmere Art Museum, the Chestnut Hill museum known for its focus on Pennsylvania artists from the Delaware Valley. Stuempfig, who was recognized for his moody atmospheric works, frequently used Philadelphia and its surrounding regions in his compositions.
"We were delighted to exhibit and sell Stuempfig's works in his hometown. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Chairman Samuel "Beau" Freeman, the sixth-generation Freeman to run the firm. Beau runs the auction house with two sons, Samuel, 51, and Jonathan, 37, and more than 30 employees.
The auction house came into being in 1805 when Thomas McKean, the governor of Pennsylvania, appointed Tristram B. Freeman to the office of auctioneer in Philadelphia. The son of an Anglican minister in Devonshire, England, Tristram moved to Philadelphia in 1795 at age 32. He had been trained as a printer in London, and tried to re-establish himself as one in Philadelphia, without success.
As an auctioneer, however, he started selling wholesale goods that were flowing into the city from the docks, then moved into real estate and estate sales. By the 1830s Philadelphia was booming, and so was Freeman's.
During the last 208 years, the auction house has sold some remarkable properties, among them, in the 1880s, the Philadelphia Post Office building on Chestnut Street, which went for $425,000, a record for a single piece of real estate sold at auction at that time, and in 1922, the liquidation of raw materials, machinery and factory buildings in Nitro, West Virginia, a town formed during World War I to manufacture ordnance.
The firm has always been strong in books, prints and Americana. In 1969 Freeman's discovered an authentic first printing of the Declaration of Independence by John Dunlap of Philadelphia, one of 16 known copies at the time, and sold it for $404,000. In 1979 it sold a Thomas Affleck chest-on-chest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $92,000. In 1980 Freeman's celebrated its 175th year with a sale of a "Peaceable Kingdom" by Edward Hicks for $210,000.
In 2005 Freeman's sold a copy of the United States Constitution printed by Dunlap & Claypoole in the Sept. 19, 1787, Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser for $207,225, against a high estimate of $120,000.
Freeman's holds over 30 auctions a year in the following categories: American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts; English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts; Asian Arts; American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists; Modern & Contemporary Art; Books, Maps & Manuscripts; Posters & Other Graphics; Oriental Rugs, Carpets & Textiles; Fine Jewelry& Watches; Silver & Objets de Vertu; and European Art & Old Masters.
The company's marketing alliance with Scotland's Lyon & Turnbull has extended Freeman's reach into the European marketplace, maximizing global sales opportunities. Additionally, Freeman's offers Trusts & Estates and Museum services.
For more information, visit freemansauction.com.