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At Hollywood's biggest premieres, reporters are always told to arrive at least three hours before even the least-recognizable celebrity first exits a town car.
For "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" U.S. premiere Monday night in downtown Los Angeles, studio Lionsgate instructed members of the media to line up outside the Nokia Theatre at 3:30 p.m. –- a full four hours before a screening of the much-anticipated Jennifer Lawrence sequel, which of course arrives in multiplexes later this week, was set to start.
By 4:30, hundreds of camera-toting journalists were still standing on nearby Chick Hearn Court, out of view of the red carpet.
Once behind the tarp-covered chain-link fence barricading the red carpet, reporters could see a massive mockingjay lit afire. (The mythical creature plays a key part in the Suzanne Collins franchise, and also serves as the title of the third book in the trilogy.)
Lining the carpet were hundreds of fans, all of whom had spent the weekend camping out on the cold cement in anticipation of Monday evening. To pass the time, some had spent their days creating colorful signs. Allye Nomura, 25, held one addressed to Sam Claflin, the British actor who plays swaggering former Games champion Finnick Odair. "Sam, can I have your sugar cube?" it read, a reference to an item the character offers Lawrence's Katniss at the Tribute parade.
"It's supposed to be suggestive," the San Diego resident said with a grin.
Meanwhile, after spending three days in the tent camp, 33-year-old Jennifer Kelley said she felt underwhelmed by the experience. Kelley, who flew from New York for the premiere, is no stranger to urban camping: She lugged her sleeping bag to LA for the premieres of the final two "Twilight Saga" movies, as well.
"They kept this kind of minimalist," she said, a complaining note in her voice. "There weren't many contests or activities, and there was a DJ at a radio booth who was really annoying."
Plus, when Josh Hutcherson and some of the movie's other stars showed up to greet fans, "they only stayed for, like, 30 minutes," leaving many without a coveted autograph.
Meyer -- who was flanked by two friends she met online -- was still able to muster up excitement for the celebrity arrivals on Monday.
"I can't wait to see Jennifer Lawrence," she said, echoing the evening's most popular fan sentiment.
She might get a glimpse of some other celebs too: In one of the more unlikely gatherings of stars, the guests attending the premiere Monday are Matt Damon, Paris Hilton, Usain Bolt, Kelsey Grammer and Steven Spielberg's daughter Sacha.

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I�m glad Colorado voters recalled two state legislators who voted a gun-control agenda their constituencies didn�t agree with. It was the first time in the state�s history that happened, which speaks volumes about how fed up the public is getting with legislative activism.
I�m glad Colorado voters recalled two state legislators who voted a gun-control agenda their constituencies didn�t agree with. It was the first time in the state�s history that happened, which speaks volumes about how fed up the public is getting with legislative activism.
I�ve never been one to wave around the Second Amendment, figuring our whole Constitution pretty much protected us as it was intended to do. But because the current administration shows zero respect for the parts of it they don�t like I feel I should regularly check my hole-cards knowing this crowd will deal from a stacked deck given any opportunity.
I generally don�t do groups; dislike organized and scripted events, name-tags and speakers. So considering my avoidance of anything smacking of membership, secret handshakes or titles, I was loath to voluntarily sign up for something this week. Maybe I did it for the wrong reasons, but they�re my reasons and this is still America.
So I�m now a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association. I went to their website, gave them my name etcetera and paid $25 dues. I�m not especially interested in receiving magazines or in participating in petition efforts directed toward legislators.
I�m not a �gun activist� in the political sense of the term, but simply decided to cast a small personal ballot in favor of gun ownership rights granted under our Constitution; hence, I and my Visa card joined up. I admit that Obama�s dislike for the NRA was a tiny extra perk of membership.
Don�t think I want everybody to rush out and buy guns. I don�t and couldn�t care less who chooses to exercise his or her ownership rights. But I want the right preserved.
I don�t agree with everything the NRA opposes. I have no problem with sound and solid background checks and don�t even have a big problem with reasonable waiting periods.
What I do have a problem with is the present incarnation of our government. Until another administration comes along that will truly �protect and defend the Constitution�� we can�t rely upon good faith and equal execution of laws.
Many liberals would have you believe guns to be the cause of gun violence, blaming the hardware rather than the software. By such convoluted logic, hypodermic needles cause drug addiction.
But logic has very little to do with their politics. Whenever some gangsta idiot with a gun does something idiotic, the left calls out Samuel Colt but leaves Lil Wayne completely alone. There�s no way rational minds can�t correlate cultures with actions.
Oppressively strict gun controls keep weapons out of the hands of law-abiding citizens but don�t impact criminals. Ask someone from Chicago how ultra-tight gun laws work for them.
So for the present, I support the NRA�s efforts to block any truncation of my rights under the 2nd Amendment. When a trustworthy administration regains power, I�ll likely quit and save my 25-bucks annual dues.
Meanwhile the rabid left will continue to preach that umbrellas cause rain.
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Vermeulen family name
Vermeulen (Vermuelen, Vermolen, Vermoelen, Vermule, Van der Meulen), a common Dutch family name, derived from molen, i.e., mill, is found among the Mennonites in the Netherlands and formerly in Prussia. Not all the Vermeulen families are related. Some Vermeulens were religious refugees from Flanders, Belgium. Jacob Pietersz Vermeulen (van der Meulen,) was a Mennonite elder at Haarlem, Holland, ca. 1600. Krijn Vermeulen (Quirijn van der Meulen) lived about the same time at Danzig, West Prussia. Ambrosius Vermeulen in 1589 founded at Danzig the well-known distillery "Zum Lachs" in the Breitgasse. A Mennonite Vermeulen family has been living at Rotterdam, Holland, since the early 17th century. Harmen Gillis Vermeulen was a deacon of the Waterlander congregation there from 1666. He had previously been a deacon of the Flemish church, but left this congregation because of its strictness in church discipline. There are still some Vermeulens in the Amsterdam and other Dutch Mennonite congregations.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Vermeulen family name." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 15 Oct 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vermeulen_family_name&oldid=133569.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1959). Vermeulen family name. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 15 October 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vermeulen_family_name&oldid=133569.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 817. All rights reserved.
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If you're somebody that often gets that bolt in the blue, that can your breath away, resulting in trembling and flushed, it is time you look for anxiety relief treatments. The symptoms reveal that you experienced an anxiety attack and are prone to feel them again. However its treatment has indeed got redefined at the hands of Joe Barry McDonagh, through his innovative and radical One Move Technique against anxiety.
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But how to worry – and how not to – that's the question. I am a professional worrier, anxious by vocation, one thumb always hovering above the panic button. I am so quick on the iPhone keyboard that, in London, riding the rising midnight tide of a toothache, it took me no more than 30 seconds to find an all-night dental clinic on Baker Street – not far, I noted (still a tourist at heart), from Sherlock Holmes's lodgings.
Undue anxiety is the New York affliction, as unearned melancholia is the Parisian one – and over the long years I have discovered various cures, or at least treatments, for galloping anxiety, which I shall now share. Four overlapping but largely distinct types of anxiety afflict modern people, each with its own pathology and palliative. They are catastrophic anxiety, free-floating anxiety, implanted anxiety, and existential anxiety. Let us take them one by one.
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The newspaper quoted Ghomeshi telling the crowd, "Big Ears has played a really important role in my life, because I have a general anxiety disorder."
While a teddy bear might help calm an anxious adult, it is not a widely prescribed therapy, say psychologists. "For anxiety, a goal is to help the person deal with the reality of their situation and their fears," explains clinical psychologist Oren Amitay. "A teddy bear is the opposite of that, seeking solace in a fantasy object."
Two of the women alleging abuse said Ghomeshi introduced them to "Big Ears Teddy" and then turned the bear around before he allegedly slapped or choked them, saying that "Big Ears Teddy" shouldn't see this."
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A man was killed on Route 2 Saturday when the Volvo he was driving slammed into a bridge abutment for the Otter River Road overpass about noon.
Police identified the driver as Shayne Sintz, 33, of 14 Gosher Ave., Worcester.
The car was going westbound when it passed another vehicle on the left, went onto the rumble strip, then veered right and struck the abutment, said Paul Jarvey, a spokesman for the office of District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.
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Virginia is for lovers–and royals, too.
Prince Harry is headed to Virginia and D.C. Wednesday to attend an event in support of the Invictus Games, which are set to take place in Orlando in 2016.
Per Kensington Palace, the Prince will join First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden at Fort Belvoir military base, where they'll meet with wounded servicemen and women in recovery and rehabilitation programs.
The prince, who is Patron of the Invictus Games Foundation, as well as Mrs. Obama and Dr. Biden, both major supporters of our service members and veterans, will take a tour of the USO Warrior and Family Center. They will also watch a short adaptive sports event which is similar to one that will be part of the Invictus Games in the spring.
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Sitting with the C.E.O of Longchamp, along with power-publicist Vanessa von Bismarck, we learned firsthand just how much the initiatives make a transformative difference in these oft-neglected kids lives — and talked to our table-mates about how friggin' lucky we have it (after singing along to Marc Cohn's particularly stirring rendition of "Walking In Memphis," we were all feeling appropriately emo). The fash-pack was out in full effect to lend their support — we chatted to Lily Kwong about her upcoming R29/Ferragamo video (stay tuned, literally), hit the dance floor with social media queen Erika Bearman, and admired the abs on DANNIJO's Danielle Snyder. Despite the torrential rain and fist-clenching traffic caused by Obama's burgeoning BFF-ship with Jay and Bey (sorry, Sandy Kenyon, but your movie reviews are worse than Lindsay Lohan's driving skills), learning how far these New York "children" have come — and seeing our favorite people cheering 'em on (superficial aside — there were some inspiring dresses, too) is a needed reminder of how much more we can give back this fall. Click through to see the chicly charitable girls and guys, then get involved with us, won't you?
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What I'm interested in is to know which packages are included in a default installation for some distribution (across the many distribution that exists...). Almost like a
\listfiles for an MWE containing all packages in the default distribution, if such an MWE could ever exist. For example, if someone (say, a new user) is running the Basic Installation of MiKTeX 2.9, how would I know what the difference is between it and, say, the Complete Installation? And what about different versions, say MiKTeX 2.8? Or TeX Live 2010 and 2011? What about MacTeX?
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This is how it goes down over here... the G-Rated celebration that happens at our house usually ends with us all falling asleep before 10 pm.
May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the
quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and may anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
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Samsung to use a 32nm quad-core Exynos and its own LTE baseband radio in the Galaxy S III
posted by Daniel P. / Mar 19, 2012, 8:35 AM
That makes Exynos 4412 ever more certain to debut in there, since it is indeed made by the frugal, yet more powerful 32nm process, and has four cores that can be humming at 1.5GHz-1.8GHz maximum speeds, depending on who your source is. It is still a Cortex-A9 design, but the die shrink and larger number of cores make for a brawnier and efficient replacement of the current 45nm Exynos in the Galaxy S II.
`It was believed that Qualcomm chips had greater stability and suited easy upgrades. But, that's the old story. Our long-term plan is clear. Using Samsung solutions for Samsung products.''
The decision to go with a one-chip solution for the Galaxy S III has been strategic and came directly from the boss JK Shin. What sounded like music to our ears was the reiterated 26% performance improvement in the new Exynos, with 50% gains in battery life. If you want to see the power consumption and performance of the 32nm Exynos vs the current-gen 45nm, check the demo Samsung did for us at CES.
source: KoreaTimes
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1. kshell1
Posts: 1143; Member since: Oct 05, 2011
32nm already 26% power improvement+greater clock speed+quad core=die s4 die
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 8:49 AM 1
8. Commentator
Posts: 3723; Member since: Aug 16, 2011
The S4 uses 28nm, which has around the same, if not better, power consumption improvement. It can be clocked from 1-1.7 gHz, and a quad-core variant clocked at 2.5 gHz is slated to be released later this year. I wouldn't count out the S4 if I were you.
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 9:26 AM 13
15. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
Exactly, that is what I am always preaching. The new Qualcomm dual-core S4 Krait Pro is coming out this summer & out of the box with 28nm, & 1.5GHz that can be overclocked to 1.8GHz with the new Adreno 320 that will have true Xbox 360/PS3 graphics. Also this fall like you said the Qualcomm S4 Krait quad-core with 28nm, 2.5GHz & Adreno 320 will truly be a marvel. The efficiency it will have due to its 28nm technology will be a huge advantage for Qualcomm, & that is why you can't count them out. The S4 line is a very complete & competent line. It will be right up there with the rest that's for sure.
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 9:59 AM 11
23. remixfa
Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008
you are comparing apples to oranges. the 26% power improvement is from dualcore 4210 to dualcore 4212. thats just from the die shrinking. That is NOT for the quadcore. The article is not worded well in that regard. The S4 gets a 50% gain from the S3, not from the Exynos. That puts it a hair above the exynos 4210 in performance. However, even a 26% improvement from the 4210 to the 4212 puts that back ahead of the S4 in performance and battery... without doing anything other than a die shrink. When you go quad core 4212 and get the extra performance and battery benefits, its going to leave the S4 way behind. At the same time of the Quad S4 launch is just about the same expected window for the Quad 5xxx exynos based on A15 with its massive upgraded GPU. I'll bet whatever you want that exynos A15 crushes the S4 A15 wannabe at the same clock speeds.
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 11:43 AM 9
24. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
Well I hope so because this article is implying that the quad-core 32nm Exynos A9 compared to the dual-core 45nm Exynos A9 is only a 26% difference in performance. I hope that it was a wording error as you are claiming because if not that is going to be a disappointment to me. Ohh & what's the bet?
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 11:53 AM 2
27. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
I don't know but based on this direct quote he seems to be comparing the 32nm quad-core A9 Exynos to the 45nm dual-core A9 Exynos: "That makes Exynos 4412 ever more certain to debut in there, since it is indeed made by the frugal, yet more powerful 32nm process, and has four cores that can be humming at 1.5GHz-1.8GHz maximum speeds, depending on who your source is. It is still a Cortex-A9 design, but the die shrink and larger number of cores make for a brawnier and efficient replacement of the current 45nm Exynos in the Galaxy S II." I could be wrong though...
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 12:50 PM 1
28. remixfa
Posts: 14605; Member since: Dec 19, 2008
10 bux to the winner's paypal account? so, quadcore S4 VS quadcore Exynos 5xxx. You are on. thanks for the money! :) From early reports from samsung about the chip, the quadcore 4212 should be just about double the performance of the current exynos 4210. That puts its waaaaay ahead of the S4. The dual core 5210 A15 is supposed to be at the same level as the quad 4212, and then of course the 5210 quadcore is going to be a good jump from that + the next generation GPU. just for numbers purposes average quadrant score of S3 = approx 2300 average quadrant score of 4210 = approx 3200 2300 + 50% (1150) = 3450 quadrant 3200 + 25% (800) = 4000 quadrant. AKA, the S4 is a hair above the 4210, but will be well behind the 4212 dual core and waaay behind the quadcore and 5xxx series... like ive been saying. :)
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 12:52 PM 1
31. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
Yes that is with the older Adreno 225. The new Adreno 320 will definitely affect those quadrant scores. Remember the Adreno 320 will be on par with the Xbox360/PS3 in graphics output. That will sh*t on the Adreno 225 that comes with the original S4. You know the S4 "Pro" is the real monster dual-core from Qualcomm, that is the one with the Adreno 320. That one will be out this summer, right after the first or original S4 with Adreno 225 that you are basing your numbers on.
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 1:10 PM 1
35. ngo2dd
Posts: 896; Member since: Jul 08, 2011
Okay you keep using wrong number. The Xperia S use the 1.5 ghz S3 and it score around 3000. The HTC phone running the S3 has the 2300. So we redo your math 3000+50% is 4500 which is better then 4000. And you know that quadrant scores is the value of the CPU and GPU test. http://www.phonearena.com/news
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 2:20 PM 1
39. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
Ohh good point, the S3 is greatly affected by the resource hog that is HTC Sense! A S3 with vanilla Android will score huge numbers on Quadrant. The Sony Xperia S's skin is not a resource hog like HTC's Sense. Nice ngo2dd!
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 3:01 PM 1
50. ngo2dd
Posts: 896; Member since: Jul 08, 2011
Hell here is the score for the pantech Burst using the S3 and it get 3200 roughly. The 50% is not from the S3 to S4 but the different in GPU 220 to 225. They have never say how much better the S4 is compare to S3 in theme of CPU. http://www.engadget.com/2012/0
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 5:57 PM 1
51. ngo2dd
Posts: 896; Member since: Jul 08, 2011
So here is a video of the one S benchmark on quadrant. If the link don't work then you copy and paste. It is not just 50% better then the HTC score that remixfa posted. It is pretty high. http://androidandme.com/2012/0
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 6:13 PM 1
55. Bangthering_007
Posts: 36; Member since: Feb 21, 2012
Yes u are absolutely right. It's scoe is 4,876 if we are talking nos. Open your eyes @remixfa, S4 will be on par with exynos 5250 (this is the series 5 samsung which u keep on referring wrongly in your posts by the way).
posted on Mar 25, 2012, 12:26 PM 0
42. Dr.Phil
Posts: 2431; Member since: Feb 14, 2011
I think the hope is that we get to see the 5-series chipset in a phone this year, but for right now it is slated to be a tablet processor according to Samsung. The 5-series will be a beast when it is released. However, I think we are getting too caught up on these processor benchmarks when we should just recognize that each of these chipsets coming out this year are powerful in their own right. I mean in all honesty, for what we use our phones for now, you are not going to really notice the true processing power of each of these chipsets. This is very comparable to the PC world where people go out and buy the latest six-core or eight-core processor and GPU, but the games that are out now may only use at most 4-cores (think of games like BF3). So, I think you won't truly see the benefit of quad-core chipsets for another year or so, which by that time you will most likely be looking at the Exynos 6-series or S5 chipset both perhaps based on a six-core chipset. And on a side note, you can spew out benchmarks showing Exynos is better or S4 is better and they both wouldn't mean anything. Just like in the PC world, the chip manufacturers can put in kernels and drivers that take advantage of a certain benchmark. What is going to really matter is real world performance and I don't think you would be able to find that much of a difference unless Samsung makes certain games aimed at their chipset and Qualcomm makes certain games aimed at their chipset.
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 3:56 PM 1
45. ngo2dd
Posts: 896; Member since: Jul 08, 2011
I agree with dr.phil. We have yet to see the enxyos on anything but a Samsung phone. We know samsung make everything in house meaning that they have the best drivers for the processor. I know the Enxyos is a better processor but it is not as big as a jump as people who say it is, we all know who
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 4:08 PM 1
37. rd_nest
Posts: 1656; Member since: Jun 06, 2010
Technically S4 is NOT A15. S4 is just...Krait. Qualcomm does not strictly follow ARM A9/A15 design. Krait is next-gen for sure (after Scorpion), but it's definitely not A15. I can't say for sure, but numbers don't look too good for S4. Yes, they are good when you compare against last year's tech. Let's take a few examples: 1> DMIPS -- raw processing. S4 said to have improved, but it's still less compared to 5250. 2> Memory bandwidth has not been a strong point for Qualcomm or nVidia. I don't see them doing better than Samsung now. It's doubled in S4 compared to S3. But S3 was very less to begin. Whereas Samsung doubled over 4210 which was already highest at this time. I can't say much about Adreno 320. They didn't show any figures yet. But it's still long time before we actually have a product with it. Chances are we will have a T658 before we have a Adreno 320. BTW, T604 is rated at 5x times the Mali400. Another major factor could be Samsung's vertical integration. Irrespective of actual power, it's evident that Samsung has the opportunity to deliver better drivers and firmware. They design, manufacture and then write the codes all by themselves. No other company has this level of integration. Vendors who implement Qualcomm/nVidia solution are in a obvious disadvantage. Check this: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/m
emory/display/20110222201121_S amsung_Develops_Mobile_Memory_ with_Wide_I_O_Interface_Extrem e_Bandwidth.html
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38. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
The Qualcomm S4 dual-core Krait with Adreno 320 is scheduled to be released this summer as the S4 "Pro". Then we will see what the Adreno 320 will do. It's head over heels more powerful than the Adreno 225. They claim Xbox360/PS3 power out of the Adreno 320, that is crazy! Also that is not too far away!
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47. rd_nest
Posts: 1656; Member since: Jun 06, 2010
You need to do 10x times (minimum) compared to Adreno 225 to achieve levels of PS3/XBOX. Even though these consoles are very old, I find it hard to believe that a generational jump would mean so much improvement in performance, specially keeping battery life into perspective.
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52. Dr.Phil
Posts: 2431; Member since: Feb 14, 2011
Well the Adreno 225 is pretty similar to the SGX543MP2. And the Adreno 320 is suppose to be 4 times the performance of the 225. Now, the SGX543MP4+ as you know is the chipset found in the PS Vita which produces PS3-like graphics. So I am pretty sure the Adreno 320 will be comparable to that chipset. It's too early to tell though, but it would be my guess. I really want the Exynos 5-series quad-core with the Mali t-658 GPU. The Mali t-658 is going to have 10 times the performance of the Mali 400 found in the SGS2. Just to put this into perspective we can look at the Open GL benchmarks. The Open GL Egypt 720p benchmark for the Mali 400 found on the SGSII is 50.5 fps while the same benchmark for the new iPad is 140.9 fps. Imagine 10 times the performance of the Mali 400. It would absolutely kill the GPU found in the new iPad especially when coupled with an A15 quad-core processor.
posted on Mar 20, 2012, 12:11 AM 1
54. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
Yes I have to agree with you, that Mali t-658 GPU is going to be very beastly, but that is not scheduled for this year. The earliest it might appear will be late Q1 or early Q2 of 2013. The Adreno 320 will be out this year on the S4 Pro this summer & on the quad-core S4 late Q3.
posted on Mar 20, 2012, 7:50 AM 1
53. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
This is what Qualcomm claims. I tend to believe them because everything they have claimed before has actually come true, especially since they are not the only kid on the block anymore. Qualcomm says it will be true Xbox360/PS3 graphics that can be produced with the Adreno 320. Remember the Xbox360 came out in 2005 & the PS3 came out in 2006. That is 6+ year old technology. It's definitely plausible that the Adreno 320 CAN actually deliver on those claims.
posted on Mar 20, 2012, 7:40 AM 1
3. SuperAndroidEvo
Posts: 4888; Member since: Apr 15, 2011
Ok the 50% gains in battery life is VERY impressive. The 26% performance gain from a dual-core to a quad-core is not that impressive. Plus the integration of LTE on their SoC is huge, so no fake Galaxy S III's in the U.S. anymore. I think the 32nm dual-core A15 Exynos will be better performance gain than the mere 26% from the quad-core 32nm Exynos 4412. I don't know if I am too impressed with the 26% gain in performance. Though the 50% gain in battery life indeed is an eye opener & a game changer!
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 8:50 AM 3
6. McLTE
Posts: 922; Member since: Oct 18, 2011
If we're talking 26% performance increase over what my Nexus has.. I'm all for it! Couple that with 50% better battery life.. kind of sounds too good to be true! I would very very gladly take a smaller boost in performance and BIG gains in battery life. We also don't know which GPU the phone will use.. so it could very well have significant performance gains in games. I'm most excited about the possibility of better battery life.. bring it!
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 9:11 AM 1
13. rd_nest
Posts: 1656; Member since: Jun 06, 2010
26% increased performance is mainly because of the clock-speed bump. 1.5/1.2 roughly equals to 125%... The GPU though could be about 2x time more powerful. This is for dual core 4212 SoC: http://www.samsung.com/global/
I am sure 4412 will have atleast same or more powerful GPU. e/Exynos/data/exynos4_dual_32n m.pdf
posted on Mar 19, 2012, 9:51 AM 2
14. rd_nest
Posts: 1656; Member since: Jun 06, 2010
Check this for dual core 4212: http://www.samsung.com/global/
Quad core 4412 should be better than this. e/Exynos/data/exynos4_dual_32n m.pdf
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The season that once shaped as the greatest in the history of New Zealand trotting has ended in disappointment.
So, instead of chasing $1 million worth of glamour races in coming months, I Can Doosit will not be seen again until next season.
The champion trotter is out of Sunday's A$200,000 Glenferrie Farm Challenge at Menangle and will return to New Zealand for an operation.
That will involve having his troublesome fetlock joints flushed out and then months in a paddock.
Disappointed trainer Mark Purdon was left with no other choice after I Can Doosit's joints struggled to handle the workload needed for an open-class trotter.
"He could have got to the races this week but that wouldn't be fair on him to be racing at 90 per cent," said Purdon. "And it wouldn't be fair on the punters either so we will send him home and look after him."
That also means I Can Doosit misses A$500,000 worth of races in Melbourne later next month and the defence of his Rowe Cup title he won last season.
He started the season in stunning, record-smashing form and looked ready to dominate trotting but the first signs of trouble came when he galloped in the Flying Mile at Cambridge on Christmas Eve.
He has not looked right since and it can now only be hoped he returns to his best again next season.
Incredibly Purdon has gone from having potentially eight open-class horses at Sunday's mega meeting to having just one in Escapee in the Challenge and she will start from barrier nine as she is rated as unruly.
The Trotting Challenge, to be run over a mile, is shaping as a stunner even without I Can Doosit.
The Fiery Ginga (1) and I Didn't Do It (2) drew the inside barriers and their drivers will be determined to lead. That could set the race up for the Kiwi-trained swoopers, headed by wonder veteran Stig (7), Sovereignty (5) and Escapee.


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I knew that you were Canadian, but I never knew you went to school in Ontario!! I was reading your news for the 11th and I read that you were going into OAC in the next couple years. I'm from Ontario too, it's such a small world afterall.
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Fish & Worm
Read it because it's back from hiatus, and needs time to grow once more.
One last thing....GARRY VALK!!! that is all.


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Oman crumbled in front of its fans on home turf against Switzerland losing 1-4 in its opening game of the Four-Nation Soccer Tournament at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex.
According to al-Watan daily, Oman played especially bad on defense, allowing Switzerland to dominate the first half when they scored their first two goals. Oman did play better in the second half, attacking the goal, but not scoring for the first 15 minutes. The Swiss player, Mario, however, struck for the second time of the game on the 67th minute, putting Oman down 3-0. Badr al Mahrouqi's penalty on the 77th minute was Oman's only goal in the game. The Swiss fourth goal was scored on the 89th minute by Yakin Hakin.
Swiss coach, Mr. Hans Peter Zouk said after the game that he was happy with the performance of his team who fully implemented his game plan. Regarding the Omani team he said it played better in the second half.
In the other game of the tournament, UAE held Slovenia to a 1-1 draw. Slovenia scored first on the 82nd minute. Five minutes later the UAE's response arrived through Yasir Salem's goal. Abdullah Al Musfir, the UAE coach said after the game the team had played well. He added the final result was not important to him. He took the job just 10 days ago and this tournament is his first opportunity to learn more about his team.
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text: I was able to convince Steve Deckert, head Zen of Decware, to send me his Zen CSP2 headphone preamp for review. While the CSP2 is also marketed as a preamp, I did not try it as such. It does have 2 inputs, and trim pots for the preamp outs. The CSP2 is an OTL (Output Transformer-Less) design. Manufacturer's website: DECWARE / High Fidelity Engineering Co. The CSP2 is housed in a nice wood frame, but absolutely everything is top mounted – tubes, inputs and outputs, AC cord, trim pots for the preamp outs. I'm not s sure that's my favorite configuration – I generally prefer my jacks to be front-and-rear mounted, but the CSP2 does have kind of a cool look – here is a pic: The CSP2's stock tube configuration consists of three Russian 6N1P dual-triodes (one serving as an input tube for both channels and one as a power tube for each channel) and a 5Y3 rectifier tube. Decware supplies an RCA 5Y3GT that looked OK. I used none of these tubes, however. I used a trio of JAN-Sylvania gray-plate 6DJ8's and a JAN-GE 5Y3WGTB (6087) for the rectifier, all NOS. The truly excellent manual covers tube rolling in detail, and is in well-written English, as the amps are made by Decware in Illinois. The manual provides some basic info about how the sound will likely change using either a 6DJ8 or 6922 in place of the 6N1P, and also lists that 5U4, 5AR4, GZ34, and 274B rectifier tubes can all be used. Some 5U4 tube types can be VERY expensive, and I did not have any available, so I stuck with the 5Y3WGTB, which is not an expensive tube, but at least in this amp, sounded TERRIFIC. And that is the main thing I have to say about the CSP2 – it is a truly, truly excellent tube amplifier. It has enthralling sonics. Transparent, lush, detailed, dynamic – frankly, I wasn't really prepared for how good it sounded. It isn't really a cheap amp, at $795 (and about $80 worth of NOS tubes in my case), but it sounds just fantastic. Bass was deep, powerful, and well defined. It was a little less controlled than my SinglePower Extreme, but still truly excellent. The Midrange was open, transparent, lush, inviting – really ALL the things I hope to get from a tube amp in the mids were delivered in spades. This is truly an amp that lovers of midrange purity will really enjoy. Listening to My Morning Jacket's "One Big Holiday", both vocals are guitar were simultaneously clear and distinct. I would characterize the mids as just slightly rich/ripe/fat – what one would expect from a 6DJ8/6922 amp – but certainly not overly so by any means. And dynamics of snare drum hits were still very fast. On top the CSP2 is smooth as silk, and quite extended. Treble detain is also very good. The SinglePower Extreme has a little more treble extension, and a little more detail, but the CSP2 is no slouch. And it has plenty enough detail to keep things interesting to be sure, while being unfailingly smooth. The interesting percussion details on Sheryl Crow's "There Goes The Neighborhood" was very cleanly represented. Soundstaging was also excellent. The imaging was very holographic. I did feel depth was better than width, and this was again another area where the SP Extreme was a little better, but the soundstaging of the CSP2 was very convincing and notably better than less expensive amps like my Woo Audio WA3. The CSP2 was able to drive my 27 ohm Denon D5000's extremely well, and equally my 600 ohm Beyer DT990's. It's listed as handling headphones from 30-600 ohms. I certainly satisfied myself that this is true. There was plenty of gain for both sets of headphones. Also, and very importantly, the CSP2 is TOTALLY quiet. No hum at ALL. It's a silent runner, which is really nice. Conclusions: The CSP2 is a truly excellent headphone amp. In fact, of the tube headphone amps I already have, the CSP2 is better than the WA3, the Ming Da 84-C 07, and the TNS Sweet 2. I felt the Darkvoice 337 and SP Extreme were a little more to my personal liking, but only VERY slightly, and the CSP2 is available from a USA maker who is very, very responsive to customers, so it deserves strong consideration in its price range. Color me impressed. I am going to try to score a couple decent 5U4G rectifier tubes, and I will report back on how they sound. In the meantime, I can enthusiastically recommend the CSP2.


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Plan for the December 2010 Release (moved to mid 2011)
To be released components
- DPH packages
- Repa packages
(New release of vector is also planned.)
Before the release we must achieve the following
- Haddock documentation of Data.Array.Parallel [MANUEL]
- Replace
-XParallelArraysin the Users Guide, also add
- HowTo and examples on HaWiki http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Data_Parallel_Haskell [DONE]
API adaptation: APIs of vector, Repa, and Accelerate should be unified as far as possible
- Repa's current 'replicate' should be renamed and a new 'replicate' that turns a scalar into an array should be introduced ???
- Check similarity of singleton/unit between all three libraries ???
- -fdph-par should be the default (and sensible error message if the dph package is not available) (still needs to be passed explicitly) [DONE]
- -Odph should be equivalent to '-O2 -fsimplifier-phases=3 -fsimplifier-iterations=20' [DONE]
- Move GHC.PArr into the DPH libs. (Needed for Haddock.) [MANUEL]
- Find out if we still need the
NoSpecConstrannotation and remove it if not [ROMAN]
Bug fixes:
- Vectoriser needs to be adapted to Simon's recursive superclasses patch; partially done, but recursive data types don't work yet [DONE]
- The combination '-fvectorise -O0' should work [ROMAN]
- Trying to vectorise the
DotPexample from the tutorial on the Haskell Wiki,
-fdph-seqfails with (
-fdph-parworks fine)
*** Vectorisation error *** Tycon not vectorised: Data.Array.Parallel.Lifted.PArray.PArray
- LLVM back end only partially working with DPH (held up due to LLVM backend problems in the HEAD #4838); only affects BarnesHut [BEN]
- Repa edge-detection is deadlocking with more than 2 threads [DONE]
- Fix the BH seg fault in DPH. Roman has found the problem [DONE]
Performance goals:
- rl wrote "Alas, I just noticed that with -fdph-par, some of the examples seem to trigger LiberateCase a lot, resulting in absolutely ridiculous code blow-up."
- rl fixed bounds checking related issues and needs to release a new vector (which needs to be pulled into the GHC vector repo) [ROMAN]
- In addition, there is a problem with join points in the presence of errors (diverging computations) [ROMAN, SIMON]
- Vector works fast, sequentially, compared to C, Haskell mutable-array version [FINE]
- Benchmarks: NoSlow, vector versions of Repa benchmarks
- Repa works fast in parallel
- MMult [OK, but about 20% slower than in 6.13; try with LLVM and w/o bounds checks] [BEN]
- Laplace (new stencil implementation) [BEN]
- Blur [OK]
- EdgeDetect [OK]
- Statically-nested DPH programs should work fast, in parallel
- Dynamically-nested DPH programs without user-defined datatypes should run correctly and scale, but absolute performance may be lacking
- Quicksort [BROKEN (SpecConstr loop when using
-dph-seq) & SLOW] [SIMON & BEN]
- Quickhull [OK]
- Quicksort [BROKEN (SpecConstr loop when using
- Dynamically-nested DPH programs with user-defined datatypes should run correctly, but not necessarily fast
- Words [BROKEN (SpecConstr loop again, when using
-dph-seq; same as Quicksort)] [ROMAN & SIMON]
- BarnesHut. [BROKEN: ROMAN]
- Words [BROKEN (SpecConstr loop again, when using
- Works well
- Fine for the release, but could be better
- Not usable
Tags in bold require attention before the release.
More benchmarks details at DataParallel/BenchmarkStatus
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Gay scores 41, Kings down Pelicans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rudy Gay tied a career high with 41 points, and the Sacramento Kings cruised to a 114-97 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night.
Isaiah Thomas had 20 points and 11 assists, while DeMarcus Cousins had 18 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks for the Kings, who've won five of eight.
Gay hit 16 of 25 shots, including 5 of 8 from 3-point range.
Tyreke Evans scored 17 for New Orleans, which trimmed a 23-point first-half deficit to six shortly before halftime, only to fall behind by 23 again in the third quarter and remain behind by double digits the rest of the way.
Anthony Davis scored 16 points and blocked four shots, and New Orleans rookie center Jeff Withey had a career-high 14 points, but that was not nearly enough to prevent the Pelicans from losing for the ninth time in 10 games.
Quincy Acy grabbed 10 rebounds for the Kings, who outrebounded New Orleans 46-35.
The Kings were the sharper team from the outset, shooting 70 percent (14 of 20) in the first period, during which they scored 38 points and build an 18-point lead.
New Orleans had 10 players in uniform, out of 15 on the roster. Ryan Anderson (herniated disk), Jrue Holiday (stress fracture, right shin) and Jason Smith (right knee) were injured. Reserve shooting guard Anthony Morrow was sick and newly acquired guard Tyshawn Taylor was not with the team. All 10 active players had checked in before the first quarter ended, in part because four players (Davis, Al-Farouq Aminu, Greg Stiemsma and Alexis Ajinca) each had two fouls in the period
The Kings' lead grew to 23 on Gay's 3 midway through the second quarter, and it might have been worse if not for Withey's 12 points in the period.
New Orleans enjoyed momentum for only the last half of the second period, scoring on 10 of their last 11 possessions. Withey's dunk sparked a 12-3 spurt, capped by Roberts' fast-break layup.
Next came an 11-2 run during which Evans scored eight, trimming Sacramento's lead down to six at 62-56 before Derrick Williams' free throws gave the Kings a 64-56 halftime lead.
If the Pelicans thought their second-quarter surge had them in striking distance of a memorable comeback, they were sorely mistaken.
Sacramento opened the third quarter with a 17-4 run, which began with two baskets by Cousins' and included two 3s by Gay, the second making it 83-60.
The Kings led by as much as 24 in the second half and were not threatened after that.
NOTES: Gay also scored 41 at Miami on Dec. 13, 2009. … The Kings conclude a six-game road trip Wednesday night at Houston. They are 2-3 on the trip so far. … Four players spent at least one season of college under current Kentucky coach John Calipari: Cousins, Davis, Evans and Darius Miller. All are former Kentucky players except Evans, who played at Memphis, Calipari's previous stop. … Sacramento beat New Orleans for the second time in six meetings.


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"Gizmodo published this morning allegations by the bromine industry claiming that Greenpeace's report on the iPhone was inaccurate and alarmist. They got an official rebuttal to the bromine industry by Greenpeace, but the most interesting part is their acknowledgment that their targeting of Apple, even while they have similar reports on every manufacturers, is a deliberate attempt to grab headlines. While it's logical and not surprising, I find it quite shocking to see them be so cavalier, and even hypocritical, about it."
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The Age of Vulnerability
If you are wondering what the Wall Street crash did for U.S. credibility abroad, listen to this. In the middle of the pain and suffering of the global economic and food crises of 2009, a group of South Asian economists and policy makers met in India and mocked the United States: "You guys messed up, and you're taking the world economy down with you. Thank God we were smart enough to ignore your advice, so our financial sector was never deregulated, and we still grow most of our own food. We keep government grain stocks to cushion price spikes, and we're even better than China because we rely more on internal demand than exports so we're not taking as much of a hit," as one participant summed up the sentiment of the meeting.
Is anyone in the United States (and other, poorer nations of the world) listening? We certainly are intrigued. So, after 30 years of working on and off in the Philippines, we return to gauge the debate, among members of the nations' new government and among ordinary Filipinos. How is the government and how are Filipinos, we asked, responding to what we call the "triple crises of vulnerability": the global economic crisis, the food crisis, and the spreading environmental crises of water, forests, fisheries, and climate?
Some broader context is helpful here: For these past 30 years, the United States (along with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization) has preached the merits of "free trade"—gearing economic activity to global corporations and markets in order to take advantage of the so-called "efficiencies" of trade and investment with other countries. From the United States to the Philippines to Mexico, governments set incentives and rules so that firms shifted from local to global markets and, in the case of the Philippines, roughly 11 million people ended up working overseas.
Over these decades in most countries, banking was deregulated so that new high-risk financial instruments reaped big gains for investors, but small businesses that once formed the backbone of most economies had trouble getting loans. Firms produced goods in global factories that exploited natural resources and workers from poorer countries like the Philippines where governments offered lax labor and environmental standards. Over this period in the Philippines, the big foreign-exchange earners became overseas workers, call centers for Western firms, electronic exports, and tourism.
In this era of what financier George Soros calls "market fundamentalism," the rich soared to unimaginable heights (the number of billionaires in the world jumped from 111 in 1987 to 1,011 in 2010) while workers, the environment, and fairness suffered. We now know that this strategy made poorer countries extremely vulnerable to external shocks from the economies of other nations, over which they have no control.
Indeed, ec in late 2008, emanating from the Wall Street casino as a giant bubble in U.S. housing prices burst. Then banks and other financial markets crashed. The crisis quickly spread to Europe and to those poorer countries most tied into Western markets. Turkey and Mexico, for example, found export markets and remittances from overseas workers drying up. Many countries in Asia fared somewhat better, since they traded more with China and India—which partially insulated their economies from such shocks. About half of the Philippines' global trade and other economic ties, for instance, are still with the United States and Europe; it thus remains vulnerable to a global economic crisis that has defied conventional predictions of recovery. onomic crisis struck
For most countries, economic crisis has been accompanied by a food crisis, as prices of rice, wheat, corn and other basics soared in 2008, fueled by both unusual weather and opportunistic speculators. This led to widespread protests and unrest in countries like the Philippines, which still imports up to 10 percent of its rice, the country's most important source of calories (it is the most import-dependent of the rice-consuming nations).
Meanwhile, the spread of global assembly lines and trade, heavily dependent on fossil fuels, deepened the climate crisis. The Philippines sits on key lists of the 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change, as the majority of rice and other foodstuff are grown on land that is barely above sea level.
In the middle of such global suffering and continuing vulnerability, what better time to rethink the overall economic and agricultural path? We asked this of a group of Philippine Congress members, led by Rep. Erin Tanada and Rep. Walden Bello. Coming from various political parties, most harbored hopes that global markets would simply pick up again and the Philippines could continue to live off the largess of other countries. But every Congressperson with whom we met in these hallowed halls has been spooked by the food crisis, and we found a refreshing openness to new ideas.
Ready for Anything
YES! Magazine's special issue on building resilience for hard times ahead.
The good news, as we told these members of Congress, is that alternative economic models more rooted in small businesses and small farms are spreading around the world. In the United States, the local farm movement has expanded rapidly; for the first time in decades, the number of U.S. farmers has stopped shrinking. From local farmers markets to the spread of worker-owned cooperatives, creative people are building communities based on rooted economic activity, less inequality, more ecological health, and involving people more directly in the decisions that affect their lives.
We found this also in the Philippine countryside, where we spent time with dozens of farmers. We discovered a growing number who had shifted from so-called "high-yielding" varieties of rice heavily dependent on imported and toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides to local seeds grown organically and kept healthy by a variety of homemade "concoctions" to control pests and weeds (more on this in our next blog).
Back to the India conference of 2009. The participant ended his report: The global economic crisis "is a blow, but we'll still grow at 6 percent and we'll catch you [in the U.S.] even sooner in the global economy than we would have otherwise. Hope you learn something from this."
- about finding rootedness from John Cavanagh and Robin Broad.
We can strengthen out communities and ourselves to prepare for the uncertain world of failing economies, climate change, and oil depletion.
What do we do now that neoliberal globalization has failed? Walden Bello outlines 11 pillars of a deglobalized economy.


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Apparently the programmers at Fox think American viewers are still buzzing in a tryptophan-fueled, post-Thanksgiving feast euphoria.
What other reason do they have to subject us to "I Hate My Teenage Daughter" (8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Fox; 1 star) so late in the Fall TV season?
Oh yeah, because they wanted to bury this turkey for as long as they possibly could. Sad to say, another round of Black Friday madness would deliver more laughs than this brainless new sitcom.
Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran are wasted as single moms and besties who are each raising a 14-year-old daughter who are also best friends. Annie (Pressly) and Nikki (Finneran), who were unpopular in high school, have given their daughters the world in order to make them confident (and popular). They've also made them spoiled brats.
Annie, we're told over and over again, was raised in an overly religious household where she "lived in military lockdown and dressed like a character from 'Little House on the Prairie.'" She tries to put limits on daughter Sophie (Kristi Lauren), but usually gives in at the first sign of protest.
Nikki was overweight—there's a running gag about how her classmates teased her that she ate one of her cats—and suffered from alopecia as a teen. Still insecure, she wants to be pals with mean girl Mackenzie (Aisha Dee), so she lets her daughter get away with anything.
Annie's ex, Matt (Eric Sheffer Stevens), and Nikki's ex, Gary (Chad L. Coleman), aren't any better at parenting—so the women can count on little help from them. I'm not quite sure why Jack (Kevin Rahm), Annie's former brother-in-law, is still in the picture.
Annie and Nikki are the only characters given any definitive personalities, which are infuriating because their desperation to please their daughters has made them both pathetic wimps. (I'm currently visiting my parents on vacation, and my mother said to me the other day, "I can still beat your [butt]." That's not going to happen in this show.)
The show's creators have the germ of a good idea here. A decent writer could mine plenty of jokes out of the relationship between bratty teens and their indulgent parents. (See "Modern Family," "The Middle," "Suburgatory" and those annoying MTV reality shows.)
Unfortunately, the writers of "I Hate My Teenage Daughter" trot out retread jokes about skimpy clothes, Facebook and cell phones. And I'm sorry; an overly active laugh track is not going to make these lines any funnier.


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The Fiat 500 Abarth's unique look makes it a head turner. Sporting a clean and simple design, the Fiat 500 Abarth's front fascia features its signature "whiskers and logo" face with "Abarth" badge in the center.
From the side, Abarth-designed side skirts give the Fiat 500 Abarth an athletic profile, as do the standard wheels: 16 x 6.5-inch Abarth designed cast-aluminum wheels with dark mineral gray painted pockets. Optional 17 x 7.0-inch Abarth designed forged-aluminum wheels finished in Hyper Black or Bianco (White) are also available.
Around back, a large lift-gate-mounted spoiler extends the roofline of the Fiat 500 Abarth. And another "Abarth" badge can also be found on the rear lift gate.
Other unique accents include chromed door handles and a chromed license-plate brow with "500" logo.
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The interior design theme of the 2013 Fiat 500 Abarth is an artistic blend of clean lines and functional appointments.
The 2013 Fiat 500 Abarth has seating for four with 50/50 split/fold-down rear seats. The luggage compartment offers 9.5 cubic feet of space or — with the rear seats folded — 26.8 cubic feet of space is available.
Interior color options include Nero (black ambient environment), Tessuto Nero/Rosso (black/red cloth) seating, Pelle Nero (black leather) seating and Pelle Rosso/Nero (red/black leather) seating.
Additional amenities and highlights include air conditioning, available automatic temperature control (included with Comfort and Convenience Package) liftgate liner, front-passenger glovebox with dampened door and remote keyless entry.
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The 2013 Fiat 500 Abarth features a turbocharged and intercooled 1.4-liter MultiAir Turbo inline four-cylinder engine with SOHC, 16-valves, 160 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque. The 500 Abarth comes with a five-speed manual transmission.
Fuel economy ratings are 28 mpg in the city, 34 mpg on the highway and 31 mpg combined.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have come to a deal on filibuster reform. The deal is this: The filibuster will not be reformed. But the way the Senate moves to consider new legislation and most nominees will be.
"I'm not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold," Reid (D-Nev.) told me this morning, referring to the number of votes needed to halt a filibuster. "With the history of the Senate, we have to understand the Senate isn't and shouldn't be like the House."
What will be reformed is how the Senate moves to consider new legislation, the process by which all nominees -- except Cabinet-level appointments and Supreme Court nominations -- are considered, and the number of times the filibuster can be used against a conference report. You can read the full text of the compromise, which was sent out to Senate offices this morning, here (pdf).
But even those reforms don't go as far as they might. Take the changes to the motion to proceed, by which the Senate moves to consider a new bill. Reid seemed genuinely outraged over the way the process has bogged down in recent years.
"What the Republicans have done is turn the motion to proceed on its head," he argued. "It was originally set up to allow somebody to take a look at a piece of legislation. What the Republicans have done is they simply don't allow me to get on the bill. I want to go to it on a Monday, they make me file cloture, that takes till Tuesday. Then it takes two days for the cloture vote to 'ripen,' so now it's Thursday, and even if I get 60 votes, they still have 30 hours to twiddle their thumbs, pick their nose, do whatever they want. So, I'm not on the bill by the weekend, and in reality, that means next Monday or Tuesday."
But the deal Reid struck with McConnell doesn't end the filibuster against the motion to proceed. Rather, it creates two new pathways for moving to a new bill. In one, the majority leader can, with the agreement of the minority leader and seven senators from each party, sidestep the filibuster when moving to a new bill. In the other, the majority leader can short-circuit the filibuster against moving to a new bill so long as he allows the minority party to offer two germane amendments. Note that in all cases, the minority can still filibuster the bill itself.
A pro-reform aide I spoke to was agog. "Right now, you have to negotiate with McConnell to get on a bill," he said. "Tomorrow, if this passes, you still need to negotiate with McConnell to get on a bill. It changes nothing on how we move forward."
The agreement also limits the number of times you can filibuster a bill after both the House and the Senate have agreed to it, and it limits the post-filibuster period on most nominations from 30 hours to two hours. Both reforms will speed the pace of the Senate a bit -- the limit on post-cloture debate for nominations is particularly welcome among reformers -- but neither is anything close to a game-changer. The question among some reformers, then, is what happened?
Last May, Reid shocked observers when he went to the Senate floor and apologized to Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley (Ore.) and Tom Udall (N.M.) for blocking their efforts to weaken the filibuster. "These two young, fine senators said it was time to change the rules of the Senate, and we didn't," Reid said then. "And they were right. The rest of us were wrong -- or most of us, anyway. What a shame... If there were anything that ever needed changing in this body, it's the filibuster rule, because it's been abused, abused and abused."
Reformers think Reid changed his mind again in December, after a series of amendments to the Defense Authorization bill went awry and he began to worry that a talking filibuster, if not properly managed on the floor, could actually mean no filibuster at all in some cases. Reid said as much to me during our interview. When I asked him why he didn't go for Merkley's talking filibuster proposal, he said he'd concluded that it actually does get rid of the 60-vote threshold. He was, instead, pursuing a gentleman's agreement with McConnell to encourage more talking filibusters.
A second explanation for Reid's early enthusiasm for reform might be that Reid needed to convince McConnell to strike a deal and that the only way to do that was to scare him a bit. "Whenever you change the rules here," Reid said, "you have to show the other side you can change them with 51 votes." It's the fear of the partisan reforms, in other words, that leads to bipartisan reforms.
Reid still wants to keep Republicans a little scared. He recalled that earlier in the 112th session of Congress, Senate Republicans began filing motions to suspend the rules after their filibusters were broken. "They couldn't win these votes," Reid said. "It just ate up time. I put up with it for awhile and then said no more. I went to the floor, and I said that's dilatory. The chair said no, it isn't. I overruled the chair, and now you can't do that because I set a precedent. I'm capable of doing more of that."
I asked Reid whether he really thought the filibuster could survive in a Senate where, in truth, the majority leader, alongside 49 other senators and the vice president, could change any rule they wanted.
"The only way we'll get rid of the filibuster is if it continues to be abused," he said. "Hopefully, what we'll do here will stop some of the abuse, but what will happenif the minority continues to abuse the rules is we won't get rid of the filibuster, but we'll go to something like what [Sen. Tom] Harkin has pushed, where one vote is at 57, and then another vote is at 55."
But for now, Republicans have little to fear. The filibuster is safe. Even filibusters against the motion to proceed are safe. And filibuster reformers have lost once again.


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I got back from my Honeymoon on Sunday and we've not had a second to breathe really, what with going back to work straight away and having so many odds and ends to sort out so I still have lots to do. To make things worse, Yuki Kitty is not feeling too good right now, she's lost weight since we've been away and is looking a bit yellow rather than her usual healthy pink which means we have been up all night (its 3am as I type!) trying to find an emergency vets or somewhere to take her first thing in the morning.
Oh well, life is nothing if not a challenge!
I have lots of things to blog about, the wedding photos, the honeymoon and some amazing beauty finds whilst I was away in Greece, of all places! (I say this as we were staying in a very touristy resort but I still managed to find a Sephora!). Bear with me, after sorting out kitty, and lots of cleaning and tidying I hope to be back to some kind of normality.
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As we've discussed elsewhere on this site, LIFE magazine for many years published a popular feature called Miscellany—"a back-of-the-magazine institution," as one of LIFE's editors once characterized it, that always featured a full-page photograph of . . . well, of almost anything. Merriam-Webster defines miscellany as "a mixture of various things," and across the decades LIFE's version routinely presented readers with photographs of inexplicable natural phenomena; animals with unusual talents, or creatures that had got themselves into some sort of terrible mess; people in bizarre or humorous situations; head-scratching optical illusions, and the like.
Here, LIFE.com offers the first edition of what will eventually become an entire series of galleries paying fond tribute to Miscellany. We start in 1952, the year that the feature launched in the magazine; subsequent entries in the series will feature our favorite pictures from other years, as well as occasional "themed" Miscellany galleries.
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According to the report's findings, newspapers continued to capture a major portion of the spending on advertisement in the Arab World. In 2000, newspapers controlled 41 percent of the total spending on advertisement. The rest of these expenditures were distributed between television channels—39 percent, magazines—14 percent, and radio commercials and billboards—each capturing three percent of this market.
The Arabian Gulf states had spent some $912.5 million on advertising in 2000. This spending volume was split between Saudi Arabia in the lead, with $377 million, $241 million in the UAE, $199 million in Kuwait, $57 million in Bahrain, $50 million in Qatar and $29 million in Oman.
The total spending on advertisement in the State of Kuwait had shown a 15 percent increase last year, growing to $199 million in 2000, up from $174 million in 1999. — (Albawaba-MEBG)
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The Lord said, "As you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
"But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful."
1. This Gospel ends with the call to "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." What does the word mercy or merciful mean? To help figure the meaning of this word out, try looking it up in a dictionary and also asking two people you know to define the word. You can compare the three definitions you found.
2. Why does the Gospel say we should be merciful?
3. How are you like your mom and dad? How do you look like them? Act like them? Sound like them?
4. How does the reading tell us we can become children of God the Father?
5. If we become children of God by being merciful the way God is merciful then we need to find out how God is merciful. To do that, listen in the liturgy for places where we say "Lord have mercy." What kinds of things does the priest or deacon ask God for, before we say, "Lord have mercy"?
6. How are your parents, teachers, friends, or people at church merciful, the way God is merciful?
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon's fourth-quarter net income fell 45 percent, as sharply higher revenue failed to keep pace with increased spending on order fulfillment and digital content, a trend that's become the norm for the world's largest online retailer.
The company's financial results missed Wall Street's expectations — but investors sent the world's top online retailer's stock up more than 9 percent in after-hours trading.
"It boggles the mind," said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis, who attributed the stock price jump to slightly stronger-than-expected operating income. "A lot of people scratch their head at the valuation given to Amazon and the support the stock has."
The company says it has been investing a lot of its income into enhancing its distribution network, its shopping website and its Kindle business as part of a long term growth plan. It opened 20 order fulfillment centers in 2012, bringing the total to 89 worldwide.
Amazon's profit margins have been thin because of heavy investments —and the deep discounts the company offers consumers. Even so, investors continue to be more than forgiving. Its stock price gained 45 percent in 2012. It has risen another 4 percent so far this year.
Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday that it earned $97 million, or 21 cents per share, in the October-December period. That's down from $177 million, or 38 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier.
Revenue for the crucial holiday quarter grew 22 percent to $21.27 billion from $17.43 billion.
Analysts had expected earnings of 28 cents per share on revenue of $22.26 billion, according to a poll by FactSet.
"We're now seeing the transition we've been expecting," said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, in a statement. "After five years, eBooks is a multi-billion dollar category for us and growing fast — up approximately 70 percent last year."
In contrast, he added, sales of paper books saw the lowest December growth rate in the company's 17 years as a book seller — up just 5 percent.
Though revenue fell short of expectations, Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Youssef Squali said Amazon's profit margin was much better than expected at 24.1 percent compared with 20.7 percent a year earlier. This could signal that Amazon is starting to reap some benefits from its investments.
Amazon's operating income jumped 56 percent to $405 million from $260 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. That's much better than the company's guidance, which was for an operating loss of $490 million to an operating income of $310 million.
For the current quarter, Amazon expects revenue of $15 billion to $16.6 billion. Analysts had expected revenue of $16.86 billion.
For all of 2012, the company booked a net loss of $39 million, or 9 cents per share, down from a profit of $631 million, or $1.37 per share. The shortfall was due to a 60 cent per share loss in the third quarter of the year, which resulted from a charge related to its stake in online deals site LivingSocial. The company said it was also due to heavy spending on its Kindle business, new geographic locations and video content. It also said it hired about 50,000 temporary workers at its distribution centers across the U.S. during the holiday season.
Revenue in 2012 grew 27 percent to $61.09 billion from $48.08 billion, slightly below analysts' expectations of $62.1 billion.
Few large corporations are able to grow revenue at such a pace year after year. Apple Inc., the world's most valuable public company, is a notable example. The iPad maker increased revenue by 29 percent in 2012, to $165 billion. Still, investors punished Apple's stock after it reported earnings last week, due to signs that the company's profit margin is shrinking and its iPhone faces stiffer competition in overseas markets.
Seattle-based Amazon's shares rose $24, or 9.2 percent, to $284.35 in after-hours trading. The stock had closed down $15.69, or 5.7 percent, at $260.35.


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Two sisters growing up in Chicago, an author who calls himself a "barbecue life coach," a cocktail mixologist and a pizza chef extraordinaire will highlight the ALA Annual Conference's first Cooking Pavilion this July in Chicago. Authors and chefs will be heating up the exhibit floor with fantastic displays of the latest cookbooks. Chefs will be there everyday to prepare the hottest recipes on the Demonstration Stage and to autograph their latest books. Among the works expected to be featured include:
Saturday, July 11, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Ari Weinzweig, author and Zingerman's Co-Owner & Founding Partner, moved to Ann Arbor from his hometown of Chicago to attend the University of Michigan. After graduating with a degree in Russian history, he went to work washing dishes in a local restaurant and soon discovered that he loved the food business. Along with his partner Paul Saginaw, Ari started Zingerman's Delicatessen in 1982 with a $20,000 bank loan, a staff of two, a small selection of great-tasting specialty foods and a relatively short sandwich menu. Today, Zingerman's is an Ann Arbor institution—the source of great food and great experiences for over 500,000 visitors every year. Each day the Deli serves up thousands of made-to-order sandwiches with ingredients like corned beef and pastrami, homemade chopped liver and chicken salad. The Deli stocks an array of farmhouse cheeses, smoked fish, salamis, estate-bottled olive oils, vintage vinegars, whole bean coffees, loose leaf teas and much more.
Ari has written over 211 issues of Zingerman's newsletter, "Zingerman's News," and has contributed to such magazines as Fine Cooking, Specialty Foods, Gourmet Retailer, and Food and Wine. He has received praise for his books: "Zingerman's Guide to Good Olive Oil," "Zingerman's Guide to Good Vinegar," "Zingerman's Guide to Good Parmigiano-Reggiano," "Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service" and his newest book, "Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating." His latest volume is "Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon" published in July 2009.
Saturday, July 11, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Low & Slow: Mastering the Art of Barbecue in Five Easy Lessons by Gary Wiviott and Colleen Rush Wiviott and Rush ask the reader to forget their notions about barbecue and, in essence, start over and do exactly what they tell you. Get it right with the "Five Easy Lessons" program, which includes over 130 recipes and step-by-step instructions for setting up and cooking low and slow on a Weber Smokey Mountain, an offset smoker, or a kettle grill. Wiviott is a barbecue life coach, whose popular online tutorial has been teaching the virtues of low and slow barbecue. Rush is the author of The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining: From Salad Forks to Sommeliers, How to Eat and Drink in Style Without Fear of Faux Pas (Broadway, 2006).
Sunday, July 12, 1 - 2 p.m.
Matthew Locricchio created the highly regarded Superchef library series of cookbooks for young readers. The eight books in the series introduce young chefs and new cooks to classic recipes from Italy, France, China, Mexico, Greece, India, Thailand and Brazil. His book The International Cookbook for Kids won the prestigious Disney Adventures Magazine Book Award for Best Hands-On Book for Kids 2005. In 2006 it was also honored with two Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Best Book for Children and Family in the USA, and Best in the World (Honorable Mention) for 2005. His latest book The Second International Cookbook for Kids features the cooking of Greece, India, Thailand and Brazil.
Matthew was born into a restaurant and catering family in Detroit and has worked in the food service industry a great part of his life. Included in his resume as a chef are stints at the well known Gandy Dancer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, The West Coast Stock Exchange's private club in San Francisco, as well as the legendary Barbary Coast restaurant. Matthew has also taught as a guest instructor at The Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. He guest lecturers in the series "Adventures in the Global Kitchen for Kids and Families" at The American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Matthew's next book is devoted to American cooking for teenagers and will be published by Marshall Cavendish in the fall of 2010.
Monday, July 13, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Spatulatta Cookbook by Isabella and Olivia Gerasole Isabella and Olivia Gerasole are poised to be an enormous success in the culinary world. They have an abundance of media experience already—appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Today, and have been featured on ABC-TV's World News Tonight. These spunky sisters inspire and motivate other kids to become chefs and have fun while making healthy meals and snacks. They host on www.spatulatta.com, a cooking for kids Web site that recently won a 2006 James Beard Award. Their kid-friendly recipes range from basic "Mom's the Star Toast" to a peek into various ethnic cuisines like "Yumbo Gumbo."
Monday, July 13, 1 - 2 p.m.
Market-Fresh Mixology: Cocktails for Every Season by Bridget Albert (Author) and Mary Barranco (Contributor) The book is a celebration of a bold new integration of culinary art and cocktail culture. Market-Fresh Mixology shows how additions from the farmer's market, garden, or pantry can elevate classic cocktails to the next level. It also introduces an entirely new dimension to the ideal of seasonal cocktails, with a clean, contemporary approach that uses fine spirits and fresh ingredients to create cocktails for every occasion. Practical tips on cocktail mixing techniques, garnishes, enhancements, glassware, and bar tools are also included as well as amusing lore surrounding classic cocktails.
Monday, July 13, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas by Craig Priebe Chef Craig Priebe, the executive chef for Henry Crown & Company in Chicago, has grilled for more than a decade and his pizzas have won numerous culinary awards. For seven years, Priebe owned C.K's Grilled Pizza, a restaurant garnering acclaim from media including National Public Radio, U.S. News & World Report, Travel + Leisure, Delta Sky Magazine, Atlanta Magazine, Pizza Today, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas" is Priebe's debut cookbook, packed with more than 75 quick and easy recipes, full color photographs, and all the latest techniques that will inspire a beginner cook or a seasoned chef to fire up the grill.


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This hearty bean and barley soup tastes like it has simmered for hours, but actually it's quite quick to throw together. Plus this recipe for healthy bean and barley soup freezes beautifully. If you have cooked barley on hand, omit the quick-cooking barley and stir in 1½ cups cooked barley along with the broth in Step 2.
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The wonderful luck of Cincinnati sports teams in big games seem to be continuing. Last night Armein Kirkland, UC starter, tore his ACL against #4 UConn and is reportedly out for the year. UC basketball was already severely shorthanded since many of the recruits left after Huggins was fired; now they are down another one.
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My doc. has requested i wait 4 weeks before playing basketball with the possibility of my spleen of swelling. However, both the ER and my doc have examined me and my spleen appears to be normal. What means do I have to determine if my spleen would swell at any point?
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The subjective signs of a swollen spleen are often indefinite. They include pain and tenderness in the upper left abdomen. If enlargement is even bigger than normal, then a sense of heaviness might appear. If the spleen creates pressure on the surrounding organs (in more severe cases), then vomiting, cough, loss of breath and heart palpitations might occur.
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