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According to polls, Denmark is the happiest country in the world.
Meanwhile, a survey finds that 33 is the happiest age to be.
I'd consider finding an original Picasso for $14 at a thrift store money well spent.
James Murdoch steps down from his post as BSkyB chairman in light of hacking scandals.
Kentucky defeats Kansas 67-59 for their eighth NCAA national title.
Not one of the three Mega Millions jackpot winners have stepped up to claim their prize.
Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill swept all 10 categories it was nominated for at the Razzies, an awards show for awful movies.
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Given your handle, you have to be aware of your own confirmation bias operating. I can't tell of you're a troll or what.
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I was trying to set up a post that selectively quotes from Melanie Phillips' articles explaining the utter insanity behind the Archbishop of Canterbury's muddled remarks about bringing sharia law into the British legal system — but I couldn't. Each paragraph is so information-packed and important that (a) I couldn't pick what to quote and (b) I couldn't bear to dilute the impact of the articles in their entirety. I therefore urge you to read the articles yourself, which you will find here and here.
I do have a few words to add, though, about parallel private legal systems. We have them here too. Religious Jews have often resolved disputes through rabbis, not civil courts, and more and more people opt for private mediation or arbitration in the hope that those methods will be cheaper than litigation. With the Jewish disputes, it goes without saying that the law applied is Jewish law. (Phillips has a good description of these tribunals in Britain, and they're much the same here.) As for the mediations or arbitrations, people can choose their law: they can pick the law of the state in which they live, or the state most favorable to the party in the stronger bargaining position. Heck, they could even choose the law of another nation entirely, assuming all parties agree. If the ultimate outcome of the religious tribunal, arbitration or mediation pleases the participants, that's the end of the matter, and they go away happily, without the American civil litigation system ever being the wiser.
However, if they're not happy, they do have recourse to the American litigation system. Sometimes the judge will simply tell the disgruntled party that he agreed in advance to the arbitration, the arbitration was conducted appropriately, and that's the end of the story. Sometimes, though, the complainant will get to have his case heard and, in that case, American law, whether it be federal or state law, applies, as it would to any other similarly situated claimant. Additionally, if someone comes in complaining that the mediation, arbitration or religious tribunal resulted in an outcome that is antithetical to American law (for example, requiring him to sell his daughter into prostitution or to place himself into slavery), the American system will bring the alternative proceedings to a screeching halt. For all that I'm no fan of judges, only those who are mentally disturbed would allow their courts to be used for those purposes.
Rowan Williams muddled proposal, however, does not contemplate a system such as the American one, in which people can circumvent Civil Courts if they so desire (opting, say, for sharia courts), but if they don't desire, they are bound by British law in British courts. Instead, he truly states a belief that the British courts should apply sharia law. As Melanie Phillips explains:
Dr Williams for some reason abandoned nuance altogether and left no room for doubt about what he was saying. Which was, in short, that although the
sensational reporting of opinion polls
recording large numbers of British Muslims who want to live in the UK under Islamic sharia law
clouds the issue,
the adoption of sharia law in the UK seems
and indeed desirable, since Muslims should not have to choose between
the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty.
So although
nobody in their right mind would want to see in this country the kind of inhumanity that's sometimes been associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states,
Muslims should be able to choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a sharia court. Such courts should therefore be
incorporated into the British legal system
as a
constructive accommodation
with Islam.
There is no parallel for this in the American system or even in the British system. Both will enforce as judgments private agreements but, as I noted above, they will not do so if the outcome is inconsistent with fundamental principles of American or British jurisprudence. Woe to England if it backs down from its near universal outrage at Williams' proposal and allows his ideas to become reality, whether actively or by default.
So, go read Melanie Phillips' article and then say a prayer for England, for she sorely needs it. And if you're in a reading mood about Williams, read this one too, at American Thinker.
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I think the Sony conference is going to end me, jesus.
I feel physically exhausted. So good.
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Posted 15 June 2015 - 06:22 PM
I think the Sony conference is going to end me, jesus.
I feel physically exhausted. So good.
Edited by UHYVE, 15 June 2015 - 06:23 PM.
Posted 15 June 2015 - 06:54 PM
Posted 15 June 2015 - 06:56 PM
Sony just drank Microsoft's milkshake.
Posted 15 June 2015 - 07:02 PM
Shenmue and FFVII are probably two of my favourite games ever. I just... I... god damn, I am in shock right now.
I'm giddy, I'm actually giddy.
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Posted 15 June 2015 - 07:07 PM
Posted 15 June 2015 - 07:08 PM
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Posted 15 June 2015 - 07:47 PM
That was legit as fuck. Chances of Nintendo topping it are pretty much zero, but I guess we'll find out tomorrow. God damn.
Come on Drew, I'm sure they'll announce a bunch of neat Amiibo's, don't you care about that?
Haha, Square Enix stocks. The forums wouldn't let me post it as a picture.
If anyone is a GT fan, watch 9hr47m. Their reaction is great, especially when it jumps straight to Shenmue (Kyle Bosman has to do a 1 hour comedy show if anything Shenmue related gets announced).
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Posted 15 June 2015 - 08:24 PM
If anyone is a GT fan, watch 9hr47m. Their reaction is great, especially when it jumps straight to Shenmue (Kyle Bosman has to do a 1 hour comedy show if anything Shenmue related gets announced).
Posted 15 June 2015 - 08:35 PM
Ooh, I am. I watched them react to the whole thing. Huber's reaction to Shenmue was like:
He started crying tears of joy, hahaha... I've got to admit, I was not far off doing the same. Best conference of all time, no joke. We would need a few years worth of rumor build ups before being able to have another conference like this, insanity. I now consider Valve turning up at the PC conference an actual possibility, the Sony conference removed all pessimism from me.
Edited by UHYVE, 15 June 2015 - 11:07 PM.
Posted 15 June 2015 - 08:42 PM
Sony > *
Related: I let my XBL lapse a while ago. Not upset about it.
Posted 15 June 2015 - 09:13 PM
For them to announce another legendary game at this conference...I couldn't even.
Posted 15 June 2015 - 09:46 PM
Pretty good E3 thus far. Pleasantly surprised after the dud that was last years.
Posted 15 June 2015 - 10:10 PM
For some reason not announced during Sony's E3 conference.
Sony is releasing their PS4 new media player today, with DLNA+USB support, which can play MKV+AVI+MP4+MPEG2+MP3+AAC/MP4A.
If it supports subs, then they are beating MS in the media wars IMO. It looks like it can play music in the background while you're playing games aswell, which is super cool, I was actually considering subscribing to Spotify, no need now.
Edited by UHYVE, 15 June 2015 - 10:15 PM.
Posted 16 June 2015 - 09:38 AM
Nintendo's conference was a total dud.
Looks like they're killing off the WiiU. I imagine they will announce their next console at E3 2016, to be released later in the year.
Other than Star Fox, it was completely devoid of anything interesting. What a shame.
Posted 16 June 2015 - 10:21 AM
I also missed part of the Square Enix conference. I'm slipping, you guys.
Posted 16 June 2015 - 10:41 AM
Before anyone gets excited, that new Metroid Prime game does not look like a full entry... Not a fan of the art style at all. What happened to Hunters? I'm not really sure how to feel about this one.
Posted 16 June 2015 - 11:13 AM
I wonder how much GAME would give me for my Wii U.
Posted 16 June 2015 - 11:22 AM
Way late to this party, but somebody at Sony clearly wanted as many vidya gamers to simultaneously jizz as humanly possible.
Posted 16 June 2015 - 02:46 PM
Posted 17 June 2015 - 03:23 PM
Doom: My opinion on this game is partially my own and partially based on what I've seen other people saying (including Drew). The shooting demon bits look pretty decent, but the canned execution animations are so uninteresting and I'm not sure they're a good fit for such a fast paced game. It can work pretty well in stealth games, but in Doom, it feels like the game is pausing combat while it shows you how cool it is to murder something by ripping its jaw off. The space station environments look like places we've seen in a hundred other games. The original Doom had a lot of fantastical gothicy architecture, but in this new one, you're stuck walking around repetitive, rectangular platforms with metal railings in a generic sci-fi facility. They showed a little bit of Hell, which looked better, but hopefully that's not as crazy as they get with the locations. I'm hoping for plenty of environments that resemble those in the original game, as well as large, open levels filled with secrets, also like the original. What they showed didn't seem like much more than a meat-pounding murder-tunnel.
Fallout 4: Nightshade and I have talked about these Fallouts a few times, and neither of us can figure out why people like exploring the worlds in these games. The world in Fallout is brown and grey and dead and destroyed and ugly. I don't want to be in that world and I certainly don't want to go find out what ugly thing is over that ugly hill. I don't need a game to remind me how I feel inside. The annoying part is that post-apocalyptic worlds don't have to be this desaturated and ugly. Destroyed cities and terrain overgrown with vegetation is a great look. Even the new Mad Max game, which does have a very simple color palette, manages to avoid looking ugly. I'd be way more interested in exploring Fallout's pre-apocalyptic retro-future world, but then it wouldn't make sense to be called Fallout. Sticking with the Gamebryo engine also doesn't help out Fallout 4 in the visual department. That engine looks decrepit, and even four years of improvements and physical-based rendering hasn't helped it out much, especially after seeing The Witcher 3 -- a game by a smaller studio with a smaller budget, yet still has that ridiculous amount of content. What's disappointing for me is that I like Fallout's gameplay possibilities and VAT system, as well as all the crafting and building options they've added, but I can't get over that world. If anyone can explain why they liked exploring Fallout 3's world, I'd like to know.
Sea of Thieves: There's not a ton of details about this game, so it remains to be seen what it is exactly, but a multiplayer pirate game set in a giant archipelagic sea where you fight other ships and hunt for treasure really interests me. I think the idea has a lot of potential and it could be really fun.
Battlefront: Welp, Halo 5 certainly won't be the sci-fi FPS I'm playing later this year. This game looks great and its graphics look great, but I still kind of doubt the final game will look that good. They said all the E3 gameplay was running on a PS4, but we'll see about that, DICE. I didn't play the previous Battlefronts, so I can't comment on how this isn't Battlefronty enough, but hopefully this game will be a great successor to Battlefront 2 and not just a Battlefield game with a Starwarts vibe. My main concerns right now are that the game will be broken at launch or it'll be significantly scaled back in terms of content. DICE put out Battlefield 4 only two years ago, which means the bulk of the team has only been working on this game for two years (plus they're also making Mirror's Edge Catalyst). Two years does not seem like enough time to put out a fundamentally different type of game with fundamentally different weapons, vehicles, abilities, mechanics, game modes, art style, etc. without there being some serious caveats. This is not just an iterative Battlefield game, like DICE usually makes -- this is something completely new for them. I think the lack of content will be the bigger possibility. I'm expecting about six large "Battlefront" maps at launch (with plenty of map packs you can buy in the future) for the main 40-man game modes, and the same number of small maps and co-op missions utilizing the same assets. So a large map, a small map, and a co-op mission with a snow setting; a large map, a small map, and a co-op mission with a forest setting, etc. I imagine there will also be more classic Star Wars weapons and vehicles added in these map packs that will make you think: "These probably should have been in the game at launch."
For Honor: From the gameplay demo at Ubisoft's conference and the few other videos they've released, this could be really great. There are not enough multiplayer melee combat games, so I'm glad to see a AAA publisher finally getting behind one rather than another shooty-bangman game. I have to draw comparisons to Chivalry though, and the only thing that I don't like is the combat looks way more rigid and shallow than Chivalry's very freeform combat. In Chivalry, you have three main attack-types: overhead, slash, and stab; these attacks can be swung from above, below, left, or right; there's combo moves, kicking, feinting, parrying, shields, and all kinds of weapons; and most importantly, you can aim your weapon wherever your crosshair is looking, and that allows for a ton of depth and control over the combat. For Honor's combat seems very simplistic: attack from the left, right, or above; block from the left, right, or above. It's unclear what all the combat entails, so I'm probably jumping the gun with these criticisms. Hopefully the game is great, and hopefully the graphics won't be downgraded (they will, though).
Ghost Recon Wildlands: Guhhh. Ghost Recon is an open world game now. That feels so unnecessary. What's worse is that this is not just any open world game, but a Ubisoft open world game, which means there will be a giant map full of shit to collect, strongholds to overtake, and radio towers to turn off. I was watching the Gametrailers people watch the Ubisoft conference and none of them thought it was Ghost Recon until the title card told them. Which is not surprising, because this doesn't resemble the strategic, methodical, squad-based near-future tactical shooter that Ghost Recon used to be. Four player co-op is supposed to be the big focus for this game, but the GRAW games had 12 player (non-campaign) co-op missions, so I can't say I'm impressed. The next Ghost Recon could have been what Blacklist was for Splinter Cell, and it would have been great. Ghost Recon deserves better than this. Maybe it'll be great, but what they showed gave me absolutely no reason to think so.
Horizon Zero Dawn: I guess after making boring Killzone games for a decade, you build up quite an array of ideas for something way different and way more interesting. I'm a sucker for tribal culture, so maybe I'm biased, but I think this was the highlight of Sony's conference for me. Came out of nowhere, looks unlike anything else, and seems like it might have a pretty interesting universe.
Hitman Reboot: Impressions from the internets seem to indicate that this new Hitman follows the same sandbox structure of Blood Money, which I believe is the most well received Hitman game. Any sandboxy game that gives you an objective and a set of tools to complete it is something I'm into, so I'm keeping an eye on this.
No Man's Sky: With this E3 showing, No Man's Sky is more divisive than ever. People are very upset that they still don't know exactly what this game is or why they should play it. I can't think of a more compelling reason than an entire unknown galaxy to explore. You can discover worlds and life that you will literally be the first person to ever see. If you're not into that, but you still want to downplay this game, then you loathsome little garbagemen can fuck off.
Uncharted 4: I think Naughty Dog B-Team is making this game, which puts me off a bit, but this E3's demo and the one from six months ago both looked really good. There's nothing super innovative about it, there's nothing we haven't really seen before, but it just looks fucking solid. Levels also appear to be quite a bit more open, which is always what I want, so I'm into this too.
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While it does not let guilds specialize as "raiding" vs "leveling/alt" vs "pvp rawr," it gives everyone a bit of something, and the leveling-useful perks are easier for the guild to get while the major big raiding buffs will require more commitment to the guild (as I feel a raider should provide).
As per MMO-Champion (not seeing a blue source yet),
|The guild talents are gone and your guild now gets extra bonuses depending on its level. There are 25 levels and each level will automatically reward with more cool stuff. The leveling process remains unchanged and your guild will gain experience through PvP, Dungeon and Raid progression, questing, etc ...
Guild currency has also been removed and rewards will just be "unlocked" after you reach a specific level or complete a guild achievement. Once a reward is unlocked, members will be able to purchase it with gold. Some of the rewards include guild tabards, mounts, heirlooms, and it looks like you will finally be able to have a guild tabard on your mount. (Just like the Argent Tournament banners)
New members of a guild won't be able to buy everything directly, they will have to contribute to the progression of the guild before they can access the top rewards. Each time a player helps towards the leveling he will gain reputation with the guild, the best rewards will require players to be exalted with their guild before they can buy it.
Some tasty tidbits I pulled out for commentary:
|Cash Flow: Each time you loot money from an enemy, an extra 5% (later 10%) money is generated and deposited directly into your guild bank.
Guild repairs just got significantly easier for guilds with stingy players. It's not like the player is loosing any of their own hard-earned gold with this, while ensuring the bank's coffers are full of cash that can be used to purchase supplies for flasks (cauldrons?), feasts, mats, etc.
|Happy Hour: Increases the number of flasks gained from using a flask cauldron by 100%.
Chug-A-Lug (Rank 2): The duration of buffs from all guild cauldrons and feasts is increased by 100%.
- Consumable buffs for raiding guilds? Awesome.
- Applies only to you and not the feast you put down that all the puggers are munching on? Likely.
|Working Overtime: Increases the chance to gain a skill increase on tradeskills by 10%.
This one is a bit later in the line, which means it may not be active while we're all leveling to 85. That's my only complaint about it. I'm hoping we'll be able to unlock it while we're leveling so that it will be useful during that time... though I'm going to guess that the "server first" achievements will occur without it. Maybe. We'll have to see.
|Have Group, Will Travel: Summons all raid or party members to the caster's current location. Unlimited range, 6 sec cast / Channeled, 2 hr cooldown
Very handy. Can you imagine the implications for bringing lowbies to, say, Dalaran? Mages and Locks, you may've just lost a corner market on summons, but I think it's for the best. Let's just hope your friends aren't so cruel as to drop your level 5 alt into Deathwing's lap :)
|Mobile Banking: Summons your guild bank.
If you have a more open bank policy, this will be useful to a lot of guildies; if you've closed it off to a restricted few due to risk of hacks stealing it all, then your guild will see less use out of it, but your officers might enjoy it. Overall, I see this one as being far less interesting or useful than a lot of the other perks... like insta-guild mail.
|Mass Resurrection: Brings all dead party and raid members back to life with 35 health and 35 mana. Cannot be cast when in combat. 64% of base mana, Unlimited range, 10 sec cast.
Bwuhhhhh /drool. Okay, so this sounds to me like EVERYONE in the guild that is max-rank (exalted with the guild having unlocked everything?) will get access to mass res. They *might* limit it to only those classes that can res, but I dunno, it's vague and I think it'd be awesome if a rogue could mass-res a whole raid after vanishing during a wipe.
I mean... seriously.
(Edit: AJ burst my bubble by pointing out the mana cost on the spell. I want a rogue mass-res, dangit!)
The whole tentative list is up at MMO-Champ if you'd like a browse :)


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Hello everyone, I hope all is well. We are getting more snow for tomorrow in NJ and then it is going to turn colder again. I know that many of you have been getting hit so hard with the weather, I feel guilty complaining, but ENOUGH!!! The older I get 48, the less I like the cold and that wind that just goes right through your bones.
I am very behind in answering emails. I apologize but there has been a lot of decision-making and Audrey's dog Wolfgang has been very sick. He is 16, 17 in July and has heart and liver failure. He is such a fighter, he keeps doing all he can to stay with us. There is no way I won't make that a priority. Besides loving Audrey her dogs are like my babies. We have known her two pups since they were brought home and Wolfie as we call him, is just a lover.
Now for the excitement. Well, we have all our windows in except for two which are on backorder. The grilles that snap in are in the house in boxes. I am not sure at what phase they are snapped in place.
This is a shot of our front door which will be stained walnut to match the garage door, it is a two car garage with one large door.
They are getting ready to pour our basement and garage floor. That will be good and may make it easier to get in the house for me.
The other exciting piece of information is that I picked out our kitchen!!! Appliances are ordered and I think we got a great deal. We just placed our order for the cabinets and the countertops. Sample is below, the are Maple and the door is inset.
We are going to meet with the plumbing supply company as soon as the man we are supposed to me with is better from being sick. Our builder, Gerry, really wants to get moving on roughing out the house. I will give you a sneak peek at our kitchen faucet I chose. I wanted to go with a single handle so it would be easier to regulate the water when washing things in the sink and speaking of sinks, I chose a beautiful farmhouse sink. Fergusson had a great price for a Kohler on their website for a Kohler. If the plumbing supply person can't match the prices the internet will be my source.
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The earliest primate fossils unearthed thus far are only 56 million years old, but molecular estimates of the rate of primate evolution predict that there should be some dating back to the Late Cretaceous, closer to 82 million years ago. This is embarrassing for scientists, akin to the time in 1929 when Edwin Hubble measured the age of the Universe as less than half the age of the Earth.
One possible explanation is that earlier fossils are out there, but that no one has found them yet. But Michael Steiper and Erik Seiffert have proposed an alternate reconciliation in a new study of the molecular rate of evolution. Their work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Primate molecular evolution is thought to be related to the size of the animals' bodies and brains; in contrast to other features, these are easily measurable even in fossils. (Brain size is measured as endocranial volume.) Steiper and Seiffert measured these traits in both living primates and in fossils of extinct primates. They then examined how these traits correlated with molecular rates of evolution using DNA databases of the living primates. Finally, they used their new-found correlation to predict the evolutionary rate of extinct primates based on the sizes of the fossils.
Traditionally, fossils have been used only as calibrations when generating molecular rates—they give us times for when certain species diverged, for example. This method of generating a rate estimate is a significant departure.
The authors found that primates have gotten larger over time; our last common ancestor was quite small, similar in size to a mouse lemur. Moreover, size is inversely proportional to molecular rates of evolution, so as primates have gotten larger, our evolution has slowed down. Extinct primates thus evolved more quickly than had previously been thought, accounting for the fact that they show up later in the fossil record than molecular estimates indicated they should. The new, "corrected" molecular clock generated here puts the earliest primates between 63 and 70 million years ago, closer to where the fossils have been found.
Why should body size and rates of DNA change be related? There are two hypotheses. One is that these mutations vary directly with generation time: shorter generations mean more generations in a given length of time and thus more chances to accrue mutations. The other is that mutations vary inversely with body size because smaller animals have higher metabolic rates and therefore generate more DNA-damaging free radicals.
Since larger-brained animals tend to live longer, the finding that evolutionary rates slow as brain size grows is consistent with the idea that DNA mutations are generated primarily during the turnover of generations. But large-brained primates have high metabolic rates for their size, which doesn't square with the body-size hypothesis.
There are similar discrepancies between molecular and fossil timescales of other mammals; the authors suggest that perhaps this method can be used to reconcile them as well.
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Apple suing former iPhone chip designer for breach of contract
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Former iPhone processor designer Gerard Williams III, who left to form his own chip development firm Nuvia, is being sued by Apple for breaking employment agreements.
A7: How Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry
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After delivering just the first three generations of its custom ARM Application Processors between 2010 and 2012, Apple had already reached parity with market-leading mobile chip designers, even while breaking from the Cortex-A15 road map established by ARM to launch its own new Swift core. Apple's next moves embarrassed the industry even further while setting the stage for initiatives that are playing out today.
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A key Apple engineer responsible for leading development teams working on proprietary processor core designs has left the company after nine years of service, according to a report on Friday.
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How AMD and Nvidia lost the mobile GPU chip business to Apple -- with help from Samsung and Google
01/23/2015, 04:01 am
Between 2006 and 2013, AMD & Nvidia fumbled the ball in mobile chips, losing their positions as the world's leading GPU suppliers by failing to competitively address the vast mobile market, enabling Apple to incrementally develop what are now the most powerful mainstream Application Processor GPUs to ship in vast volumes. Here's how it happened, the lessons learned and how Apple could make it happen again.
Apple alerts developers that existing app updates will need to be 64-bit by June 1, 2015
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Apple on Wednesday alerted members of its development community that existing applications on the App Store will need to include 64-bit support for any updates submitted after June 1 of next year.
Document claims to detail 'Phosphorus,' a mysterious chip for Apple's 'iPhone 6' [u]
08/25/2014, 07:08 am
Apple's so-called "iPhone 6" may include a new chip code-named "Phosphorus" for analyzing new data, such as barometric pressure of the surrounding environment of the company's motion coprocessor, a new schematic suggests [updated].
One year after Apple's A7, Nvidia announces first 64-bit ARM CPU for Android
08/12/2014, 09:08 am
Chipmaker Nvidia on Tuesday detailed the new "Denver" variant of its Tegra K1 mobile processor, a high-performance in-order design that represents the first foray into 64-bit processing for Android devices --�nearly a full year after Apple shocked the mobile world with its own 64-bit A7 processor.
Samsung's chipmaking business posts weak outlook as rumors of Apple shift persist
08/05/2014, 09:08 am
To date, Samsung has been the sole supplier of custom A-series processors for Apple's popular iPhone and iPad, but industry watchers again expect that to change after the South Korean company signaled that its microprocessor business has a bleak outlook.
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Apple sued by University of Wisconsin over A7 chip at heart of iPhone, iPad
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GlobalFoundries may subcontract Apple A-series chips for Samsung at New York facility
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GlobalFoundries to build A-series chips for Apple in New York - report
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Fit Two, Page 12, Panel 3 … the vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse but limited
In a world without words, only the small-minded will be tongue-tied. Although our gallant crew aboard the HMS Snark is none of the above, they are maintaining strict radio silence as they slip by the pictorially-fortified beaches of the deadly Festung Schnark. The tension is palpable, our brave lads (and lass) are straining every nerve as they man (and miss) their weapons.
And what weapons are these? Steam-powered concussion-primed pencils? Petrol-driven semi-automatic violins? Pshaw to such antiquated music-hall-cross-talk-claptrap! Our snarqistadores are armed with only an indifferent somnolence, punctuated by an insouciant nasal susurration … they are snoring, they are snorting, they are sniffing and sneezing, they are speaking that most ancient, somatic and asemic dialect of the body physical, proof positive against all visual illusions and cognitive man-traps of the so-called higher intellect.
Hold on, what's all this, you say? Lost in the disorienting farrago of my mixed metaphors and strained allusions? Missing the connection, the old brain-box gone off-track, signals crossed somewhere? Don't panic! I shall refer you to the classic solace of the dislocated and confused Victorian bourgeois Snark hunter — a Bradshaw's Guide!
Look here, sirrah, here it is writ out, plain as can be! All the lost luggage and missed connections of long-dead phonemes, waiting on long-gone railway platforms for a linguistic rendez-vous with a common usage that never arrived … schnarren, schnarchen, snarren, snerka … and yes, dare we say it — SNARK!
I think I'd better go and have a nice lie-down now. To sleep, perchance to snore — aye, there's the snark.
NB. A tip of the ink-stained tuque to goofy, the proprietor of the wonderful and highly recommended Bradshaw of the Future, whose etymological assistance in our Snark hunt has been invaluable and fascinating. BOTF's provenance stems from that " desperate wrong-doer " in Lewis Carroll's " A Tangled Tale ". Any resemblance to railroad Bradshaws real or fictional , either living or dead, is purely coincidental on my part … dismiss it all as a false cognate destined to plague as-yet-unborn googlistas surfing the digital Bradshaw of the future.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Fit Two, Page 12, Panel 2 … English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal water ...
January 27th, 1832 is the birthday of Charles Dodgson, who passed away January 14th, 1898. The former preceded the latter, as befits an Eminent Victorian. Coincidentally, the English poet and author Lewis Carroll also died on the 14th, last Monday, 13 days before his birthday on the 27th, next Sunday.
As I have noted once before, this befits the author of The Hunting of the Snark, a poem whose composition was finished before it was begun.
Repeat the previous paragraph to fulfill the Clochetic Rule of Three and as a reward for your truthiness, you may have a slice of the birthday panel shown above. Delicious, eh? Some nice bits of Sir John Tenniel, a juicy morsel of Dora Maar (with a succulent Alfred Jarry center) and all of it garnished with the abraded glyphs of Oysters à la Alberto Savinio!
NB. Congratulations to the LCSNA and Messers P.L. Heath, J. Dixon and L. Carroll on their well-done and informative publication of "La Guida di Bragia". This work has been obliquely referred to before in these pages, during a meandering blather on Chirico and his brother Alberto Savinio. It seems that the heady scent of Anglo-Italian Railway-Surrealism is in the air … bravo!
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Fit Two, Page 12, Panel 1 … oh, my decacephalic, clochetic captain
A quick-thinking Silesian photographer captures the rare spectacle of a school of puppetfish (Puppespielen bellmerensis*) disporting themselves in the mangrove-shoals of the River Spree while the HMS Snark heads out to sea on its final voyage … a wordless panel, as befits this week in which we observe the January 14th deathday of Lewis Carroll …
O Bellman! my Bellman! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, your bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring …
*This particular taxonomic, visual and surrealist reference must remain somewhat vague. But what a draftsman! Perhaps the best of the last century … you google at your own risk. NSFW.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Fit Two, Pages 10 and 11 as a Spread … le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau
Shhhhhh, we're hunting Snark! We have been tracking a magnificent specimen for over eight months and I think we have it cornered now, here in the thick undergrowth of pages 10 and 11.
Weapons at the ready, we plunge in! A brief, violent struggle and we re-emerge with our prey, securely trussed and in the bag! But wait, what's this? Not a Snark at all, but rather — Henri Matisse, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Sigmund Freud, René Magritte, Théodore Géricault, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico and Yves Tanguy! Not a Snark, not even a Boojum — just a plenum of dead Continentals reeking of turpentine, cigars and cheap plonk. We return to camp with our luckless prey, chastened and humiliated.
Later that night the quintessential protosurreal big-game hunter, Louis Aragon, waxes poetic on the pleasures of the chase as he sinks deeper into his cups …
"It was a time when, meeting in the evening like hunters after a day in the field, we made the day's accounting, the list of beasts we had invented, of fantastic plants, of images bagged."
We turn to him, a knowing smile upon our lips … yes, M. Aragon, why not? We roughly thrust him into our game bag alongside the others, those other exquisite corpses … the perfect bait for a Snark! Drink that new wine now, Louis!
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Auld Lang Snarkyn
This New Year's Eve greeting from all of us at chez snarque will not only convey our best wishes for your future prosperity and happiness but more importantly, serve as a suprachromatic hypercognitive post-bibulative remedy, ie., a New Year Day pick-me-up guaranteed to open the eyes of even the most inert dionysiacs and bacchantes.
Special thanks to my 3-month old nephew, Leopold, who so kindly lent himself to the production of this garish, yet genuinely protosurrealist illustration. I have come to the conclusion that the true, genuine, singular and ineffable Meaning of the Snark can only be apprehended by a cheerfully small human being in a funny hat and plastic loincloth with an insatiable, drooling, passion for women's breasts. Nonsense is this young fellow's meat and drink!
Happy Snark Hunting in 2008, with forks and hope and railway-shares for all!
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To some people, apples conjure up an Autumnal feeling. However, I saw on the BBC news this week that English apples are being picked now, in July, and it's the earliest they've been harvestable for decades. It's probably something to do with the odd sunshine-and-showers (ok, downpours) summer we're having but I got distracted by images of lovely apples and forgot to listen to "the science bit"!
In tribute to English apples, I decided to make this traybake; however, there's a small confession that I couldn't find any for sale yet (I guess picking takes a while!) so have used imported Granny Smiths. I make no secret that apple is my favourite fruit to bake with – I love the flavour, the texture, and the look of it.
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For the cake:
20g unsalted butter
1 ½ tablespoons golden syrup
150ml cider
250g self raising flour
½ teaspoon ground ginger
45g soft brown sugar
75g sultanas
75g walnuts, chopped
1 egg
For the topping:
1 large Granny Smith apple – or any other tart eating apple
40g unsalted butter
2 ½ tablespoons caster sugar
60g plain flour
75g walnuts, chopped
Optional: a dusting of icing sugar before serving
Thick cream
Preheat the oven to 170˚C/fan oven 150˚C/325˚F/Gas mark 3.
Line a 20cm x 30cm baking tin with baking paper. I used a disposable tin traybake cases and used spray on cake release.
Start by making the cake: place the butter and golden syrup into a saucepan and melt together over a gentle heat.
Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the cider – put to one side.
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, ginger, sugar, sultanas and walnuts.
Add the golden syrup mixture along with the egg and stir until well combined.
Spoon into the prepared tin and level the surface.
Now make the topping: peel, core and chop the apple into rough chunks about 1.5 cm big.
In a saucepan (use one larger than you need just for the butter as the other ingredients will be added) melt the butter then stir in the sugar, flour, chopped apple and walnuts. It will be a dry mix.
Spread this topping over the cake batter already in the baking tin – I found this easiest to do by hand.
Level the surface then bake for approximately 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean. Mine took exactly 30 minutes.
Leave to cool in the baking tin, on a wire rack.
A dusting of icing sugar just before serving really "pretties them up"!
Serve in generous squares with thick cream.
Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have made.


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When it comes to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's relationship, apparently nothing burns brighter than their North star.
During a Tuesday appearance on The View to promote her new talk show Kris, Kardashian's mother Kris Jenner took time to explain the real meaning behind her granddaughter's name amid jokes of possible alternatives including Pan-Am.
"I love the name North – I'm pro North, absolutely," Jenner says. "The way [Kim] explained it to me was that North means highest power and she says that North is their highest point together."
She adds, "I thought that was very sweet."
Despite the direction of the 1-week-old's full name, Jenner is quick to point out that baby girl's surname isn't an issue.
"You don't walk around calling somebody North West – you just [call them by their first name]," she says, sharing the couple have already decided on a nickname for their daughter.
But before the lineup of ladies could move on to the next topic, Barbara Walters couldn't help but add, "If they have other children [they could use] South West [and] East West."
"That's Barbara. She's always thinking!" quips Jenner.
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Oct. 8 Davey Johnson postgame interview
Q. If you wouldn't mind talking about Zimmermann today, what just didn't work for him?
DAVEY JOHNSON: That's some of the youth in the pitching staff. He didn't really make a lot of adjustments out there. He kind of stayed one way hard away, a good, fastball hitting club, you have to use both sides of the plate, and he didn't really use his slider much early on. Started going to it a little later. But that's just a little inexperience. He's got a very live fastball, but his game plan, basically, was stay away and pound the zone. They are a good fastball hitting club.
Q. Your rotation has gotten you so far. But you come home and you'll have Jackson and Detwiler, both of whom were hit hard here a week ago. Any concerns with the rotation?
DAVEY JOHNSON: No, Jackson's got a lot of experience. He pitched a heck of a ballgame against them, one of the outings. He's certainly up for it. But you know, you have to pitch; you can't go out there and just throw against this ballclub. This is a good fastball hitting club. You have to make some good pitches.
Q. Is there a lesson that Edwin can take from something like this?
DAVEY JOHNSON: Well, he's a very experienced pitcher. I mean, you know, Detwiler at times has gotten the same load, hard sinkers away. He's got great off speed stuff, and when he uses both sides of the plate, he's tough. I don't care how good of a hitting club you've got. But this is part of the maturation process of the staff.
Q. Even though Zimmermann won't go against the Cards again, his ERA is more than twice against any other team; why do some teams own certain pitchers for long periods of time?
DAVEY JOHNSON: You know, pitchers can get into a little rut. Even when I was in Baltimore, he had such a great fastball and he would use that in and out, he had great command in and out and he could pitch with that and just set up his breaking ball, but he got into trouble, because he can go both ways, using the breaking ball instead of the fastball, not always use the fastball instead of the breaking ball. Hitters are smart and they see patterns, especially with all this technology they look at every start, see how you pitch. And pitchers, you have to make adjustments. I think our guys have come a long way. I really like the progress they have made in a very short time to be where they are at.
Q. What did you think of Bryce today, his first hit
DAVEY JOHNSON: Well, that's inexperience, too. Had a little rally going there and he was in scoring position and he tried to get to third, and that kind of killed the rally we had going. Again, that's just a little inexperience. He's overly aggressive there. He didn't tag up. He had to go back and tag up, and that was right. But it was wrong to try to go to third.
Q. And at the plate, what did you see yesterday and today?
DAVEY JOHNSON: Well, everybody was complaining it was very hard to pick up the ball. It's hard to pick up the spin on the breaking ball. Obviously early on, young hitters were swinging out of the zone. I mean, that I don't think Jaime Garcia threw but just a few strikes, and he got outs on balls way out of the zone.
Q. To follow that up, what point did you feel like the shadows were really no longer a factor? Was it around the second inning or so?
DAVEY JOHNSON: Yeah, after about the third inning, I thought that everybody was seeing the ball better. But that's also, you know, we have some young hitters that are aggressive; need to be a little more patient.
Q. And also, I know this has been a national story all year with Stephen being shut down, and talking about your pitchers for 3 and 4, and I know he's a kid but can Stephen offer something?
DAVEY JOHNSON: We're still a very young ballclub, and this experience, it's a quick study. I mean, this is the time you see what happens against good clubs if you don't make adjustments, don't change your patterns. You can't stay one way.
I don't think, like Zimm, I don't think he came in and usually he uses away and comes in, but he felt more he wanted to just go away against a good fastball hitting club. And early on in the shadows here, you can track a fastball better than you can track a breaking ball, and he just didn't really have one in the first couple of innings.
Q. Are you surprised how many one sided games, one way or the other, these two teams have had in the last four or five weeks?
DAVEY JOHNSON: Not really. You know, we've got some awful good hitters on our side and they have them on their side. You've just got to make pitches. You just can't go after a club and just throw hard. You've got to pitch. There's a difference between when you really mature as a pitcher, you use all your pitches and it's easier. Obviously tonight, Zimm, he was he had a good live fastball and good movement, but you can't stay one way.
Q. Are you pretty much satisfied to be coming out of here 1 1, or does the sight of all those home runs, etc., leave a bad taste in your mouth?DAVEY JOHNSON: No, any time your starter goes early, it can be ugly. But I thought the bullpen did a good job. Garcia got his feet wet in post season, did a good job. You know, found out after I took him out, he's been under the weather for the last couple of days, but I'm the last person to tell if they are under the weather; they all want the ball. But we're fine. We're ready to go home.
Q. Is this today the type of Cardinals' offense you expected to see, as opposed to the Cardinals' offense in Game 1?
DAVEY JOHNSON: I hope I never see this offense again (Laughter).
Their numbers speak for themselves. They have got a fine hitting ballclub, and good pitching will slow down good hitting, but you've got to make pitches, and we didn't do that tonight.
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Pickup of lefty Huff gives Giants pitching depth
Southpaw could contend for long-relief role or No. 5 starter's spot
SAN FRANCISCO -- If you missed it, and you probably did, the Giants added some intrigue to their Spring Training pitching competition.
San Francisco acquired left-hander David Huff from the Yankees last Friday for cash considerations. The move drew remarkably little attention in the Bay Area when it was announced late in the afternoon, due largely to timing (the start of the weekend commute on local freeways) and Huff's modest career record (21-27, 5.32 ERA).
But anybody combining Huff's experience who happens to throw left-handed has to be taken seriously. Huff, 29, has made 54 starts in 69 Major League games with the Indians and Yankees. His ability to function as a swingman who can start or relieve enhances his value.
"The fact that he gives us some depth is really worth looking at," Giants vice president and assistant general manager Bobby Evans said Monday.
Until the Yankees designated Huff for assignment last Wednesday when they signed heralded right-hander Masahiro Tanaka, he was expected to vie for New York's fifth starter's spot.
Huff joins right-hander Yusmeiro Petit as a contender for the Giants' long-relief job and the No. 5 starting berth, though Ryan Vogelsong will enter camp next month as a clear favorite to win the latter role.
Moreover, Huff, Petit and reliever Jean Machi are out of Minor League options. Merely pitching well enough to stay on the Major League roster will motivate each of them.
Huff, whom Cleveland selected in the first round of the 2006 First-Year Player Draft, divided last year between the Indians and Yankees, posting a 3-1 mark with a 5.50 ERA in 14 outings (two starts). He led Cleveland in victories as a rookie in 2009, when he finished 11-8 with a 5.61 ERA in 23 starts.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti and bullpen coach Mark Gardner inherit the task of attempting to figure out why Huff has defied the percentages by faring poorly against left-handed batters. They've hit .311 off him with a .381 on-base percentage and a .519 slugging percentage in his career, compared to .280/.325/.471 for right-handed batters.


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Sorry for being gone so long!! The Taurus is a good gun. Nothing fancy, but serviceable. To make the trigger better there is a couple options. First is a trigger job. . .but you said that is too much sooo. . . You can get a spring kit for it and have it installed. The springs are about 15-20 retail and any good gunsmith shouldn't charge more then another 20 to put them in. Its an easy job. This will make it lighter, but it will still be a little rough.
Cheapest thing to do to get the trigger pull smoother is to get yourself some snap caps. They are dummy rounds that have a spring primer on them so you can dry fire a gun and not hurt the fireing pin. Then you give your trigger finger a real good workout pulling that trigger again and again and again and again!! That will smooth out the surfaces in the action that feel gritty. Its not as good as a trigger job, but it will improve the feel without the cost of taking it to a gunsmith.
I've just recently re-entered the fire owning world, and got my Canadian Purchase and Acquisition License (PAL) for restricted and non-restricted firearms. I had given up my firearm collection in the 1990's, after I lost my hunting partner. My first pistol, with my new PAL, is a Regent 1911 A1 .45 copy (Turkish made). I use to own a Colt 1911 (pre-1926, not an A1), and had that tuned up to hit a 6" square target every time, at 100 meters. I noticed that with the Regent, I was lucky to hit the 100 meter 4" gong twice, out of a 7 round clip (more with one of my 10's), so I designed and built what I call my V-6 bushing compensator (I'm a hobby machinist). I had looked at other designs on the net, then came up with this one myself. Longer on the barrel than the stock bushing, and tighter in the slide, I now hit that 100 meter gong at least 5 of 7. I have another one in my head, with 2 more ports making it a V-8.
Well, right there you have seen the quality difference of good machining and just good enough!!
Thanks for sharing the pic! I love to see what people come up with. And the accuracy improvement you saw was the bushing/comp you made that is tighter. It is now holding the barrel tighter with the slide and sights. Fitting a new bushing for a 1911 is one of the most important things you can do for accuracy! Good job and keep tinkering!
And here is a pic of a 1911 i build a few years ago. A friend of mine was sending pic after pic of custom 1911s to my phone with fancy leather and nice shiny blued slides. So I had to throw my "work" gun up on the table and take a few pics of it to send to him what a real gun looked like. Not some showpiece kept in a glass cabinet and brought out to impress friends!!
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...If you are celebrating today, I hope your holiday will be jam packed with family, friends, food and fireworks. I suspect that only cursory attention will be paid to posts today, so I decided to feature some simple recipes for folks who might be looking for last minute ideas for their holiday barbecues. One is a non-alcoholic drink that fizzes when sorbet is added to it. This sipper is raspberry flavored and quite refreshing. It becomes even more enjoyable as the sorbet melts into the drink. The second recipe is for a quick-fix parfait whose colors are flagrantly and unashamedly patriotic.This is a really easy dessert that is assembled rather than baked, and, if you have the ingredients at hand, you can have it on the table in five minutes. Really! Have a delicious day.
Raspberry Fizz...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Real Simple
1/2 cup sugar
3 tablespoons lime juice
2 cups cranberry juice
3 cups seltzer
1 cup ginger ale
1 pint raspberry sorbet
1) Combine sugar and 1/2 cup of water in a small saucepan set over high heat. Bring to a boil and cook until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add the lime juice. Let the lime syrup cool to room temperature.
2) Combine 1/2 cup of lime syrup with cranberry juice, seltzer, and ginger ale in a large pitcher. To serve, pour into glasses and top with scoops of raspberry sorbet. Yield: 6 servings.
Red White and Blue Parfaits...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens
1 (8 ounce) carton vanilla low-fat yogurt
1/4 teaspoon almond extract or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 (8 ounce) container frozen light whipped dessert topping, thawed
3 cups fresh raspberries and/or cut-up fresh strawberries
3 cups fresh blueberries
1) Combine yogurt and extract of choice in a large bowl and whisk to blend well. Fold in whipped topping.
2) To serve: Alternate layers of berries with layers of yogurt mixture in six (12-ounce) glasses. Yield: 6 servings.
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Majors in the American Studies Program approach the elusive concept of culture by beginning with one basic question: what are the stories we (Americans) tell ourselves about ourselves?
Borrowed from anthropologist Clifford Geertz, this question prompts others. Who gets to tell these stories? Who remains silent or invisible in them? How do different texts, artifacts, images, events, spaces, or places tell stories? And how do American stories change over time? You'll ask these questions and explore the ways that events, spaces, and objects—whose meanings we take for granted—are informed by the race, class, ethnicity, gender, and/or sexuality of their makers. Alongside a faculty of published scholars and dedicated teachers, study the complex interactions of peoples, identities, forms of expression, social structures, and political institutions that have contributed to American life while also exploring the relationship between the United States and the world.
Building on core courses in the American Studies Program, majors draw on the offerings of departments and programs across the College. Students frequently choose to minor in related fields such as African-American studies, cinema studies, or women's, gender, and sexuality studies.


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Preparing for KSAT – Sweden
Time has come for part three of the Rebellion issue. With the sub-theme 'Mental Disorder', KSAT is arrannged for the first time in Sweden, in Malmö.
In Malmö a collaborative installation will take place under the name 'Atlas of the least obvious'
1 Week to go and here are the artists participating:
Carl Larsson, Carolin Hansson, Cisse Bomholt, Elisabeth Gellein, Erik Lagerwall, Erika Östman, Gwendoline Perrigueux, Magnus Caverius, Margrete Bjone Engelien, Mia Frykholm, Nawel Oulad, Oscar Glemme, Thibault Pomares, Yasmine Tashk
We're looking forward to some amazing days out on the field. Please come join us!


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called on Congress Thursday to finish work on an immigration overhaul by the end of the year, a lofty goal that will be difficult to meet given the staunch opposition of many House Republicans. While immigration remains one of Obama's top second-term priorities, the issue has been overshadowed for months, most recently by the 16-day partial government shutdown. The president's shift to a greater focus on immigration came as the White House was seeking to shift the conversation away from the deeply problematic rollout of Obama's health care law.
During remarks at the White House, Obama insisted that Congress has the necessary time to finish an immigration bill by the end of the year. The Democratic-controlled-Senate passed sweeping legislation this summer that would provide an eventual path to citizenship for some 11 million immigrants living here illegally and would tighten border security. But the measure has languished in the Republican-led House.
"It doesn't get easier to put it off," Obama said, during an event in the East Room. The White House was buoyed by comments this week from Republican House Speaker John Boehner who said he was optimistic his chamber could act on immigration by year's end. But Boehner has long had trouble rallying support from the conservative wing of his caucus and it's unclear whether he can get their backing for the comprehensive bill Obama is seeking.
Most House Republicans have said they prefer a piecemeal approach to fixing the nation's fractured immigration system. Immediately following Obama's remarks, a spokesman said Boehner was opposed to "massive" legislation that no one understands.
"The House is committed to a common sense, step-by-step approach that gives Americans confidence that reform is done the right way," spokesman Brendan Buck said. "We hope that the president will work with us — not against us — as we pursue this deliberate approach."
Obama, along with some Republican leaders, had hoped that the growing political power of Hispanics would clear the way for an immigration overhaul, a goal that has long eluded Washington. No sweeping immigration legislation has been passed since 1986.
Obama won an overwhelming majority of Hispanic voters in the 2012 presidential election and some political analysts believe that the country's shifting demographics will make it difficult for Republicans to win the White House without boosting their appeal to the Latino community.
But most conservative tea party-backed Republicans oppose measures that would grant legal status to people already in the country illegally, even with the fines and long waiting period that would be imposed by the Senate measure. The recent shutdown and debt ceiling fight also fueled deeper resentment toward Obama among those lawmakers, who got virtually nothing out of the deal that was reached to reopen the government and lift the borrowing limit.
In the wake of that messy stretch for Congress, Obama urged lawmakers to see immigration has an opportunity to show the public that government can work. "Rather than create problems, let's prove to the American people that Washington can actually solve some problems," Obama said.
article by Associated Press via thegrio.com