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Past Exhibitions at the Rubin Museum of Art
Allegory and Illusion
October 16, 2013 - February 10, 2014
Allegory and Illusion: Early Portrait Photography from South Asia presents approximately 120 photographs and a selection of albums, glass plate negatives, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visites, and postcards illustrating the rich tradition of portrait photography in India, Burma, Sri Lanka, and Nepal from the mid-19th century to early 20th century. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi.
Fiercely Modern
April 26, 2013 - September 16, 2013
Naga describes a group of culturally and linguistically linked, but distinct tribes living on the border between India and Burma. Because the Naga had the reputation for being fearsome headhunters, they were somewhat isolated and evolved a distinctive material culture. They produce decorative ornaments, expressive wood carvings, and vividly colored textiles. The exhibition, from the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, includes examples from one of the largest and most important collections in the world.
Flip Side
March 15, 2013 - February 10, 2014
The texts and images on the back of Tibetan art objects reveal clues to their meaning, function, and historical context. For the first time ever both sides of a select group of scroll paintings (thangkas), sculptures, and initiation cards are explored in detail. Chosen for the beauty, exceptional content, and complexity of their backs, these works of art dating from the 13th to the 19th century illuminate the many uses of the other side in Tibetan culture.
Living Shrines of Uyghur China
February 8, 2013 - July 8, 2013
This exhibition features photographs of sacred landscapes in northwestern China by New York-based artist Lisa Ross. In and around the Taklamakan Desert, Ross photographs Muslim shrines, or mazars, often adorned with recycled flags and fabrics. Ross's remarkable images are largely without the presence of the human figure, allowing the viewer to inhabit a space that is unmediated and complex.
Modernist Art from India
November 16, 2012 - April 29, 2013
Radical Terrain is the final exhibition of a three-part series Modernist Art from India, that examines art from post-independence India. Radical Terrain highlights the diverse explorations of landscape in Indian art after independence, showing how landscape was a means for artists to come to terms with the vastness of India as a new nation. Also featured will be new work by international contemporary artists currently working in landscape, to be introduced during the exhibition.
The Place of Provenance
October 12, 2012 - March 25, 2013
The fourth in a series of exhibitions curated by the renowned Tibetan scholar David Jackson, The Place of Provenance: Regional Styles in Tibetan Painting explores the four distinctive provincial artistic styles of Tibet as well as those of Bhutan, Mongolia, and Qing-dynasty China. Jackson debunks the common Western belief that a single style dominated the majority of these provinces in recent centuries.
July 6, 2012 - January 14, 2013
Homai Vyarawalla (1913-2012) was India's first female photojournalist. This exhibition, the first on Vyarawalla outside of India, will present her photography from the late 1930s to 1970, and narrate her extraordinary life with a biographical film and ephemera from her career.
Modernist Art from India
May 4, 2012 - October 16, 2012
Approaching Abstraction is the second exhibition of a three-part series, titled Modernist Art from India, that examines art from post-independence and post-Partition India. Building on the explorations between abstraction and figuration begun in The Body Unbound, the exhibition distinguishes abstraction in modernist Indian art from abstraction in Euro-American modernism and shows the independent trajectory of abstraction in post-Independence India.
April 6, 2012 - September 3, 2012
Gold, silver and other precious materials were often used to adorn objects of religious devotion, especially the sacred books of the living traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Islam. It is believed that precious materials enhanced the sacred message and the efficacy of the book. This exhibition focuses on physical aspects of sacred books and draws attention to their significance as religious objects.
Casting the Divine
March 2, 2012 - February 11, 2013
A group of 104 sculptures on long-term loan to the Rubin Museum of Art will be exhibited together for the first time in the United States. A selection of the works was previously exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in the United Kingdom, in 1999. The collection is known as the Nyingjei Lam Collection, which means "path of compassion."
Hero, Villain, Yeti
December 9, 2011 - June 11, 2012
Comic book storylines have drawn on Tibet's cultural and religious traditions for more than sixty years, mixing reality with myths and long-held stereotypes. Featuring more than fifty comic books from around the world, Hero, Villain, Yeti sheds light on global perceptions of Tibet as reflected in and informed by these diverse narratives.
Modernist Art from India
November 18, 2011 - April 9, 2012
The Body Unbound marks the first exhibition in the three-part Modernist Art from India series that highlights predominant themes and extraordinary examples of modernist art from post-Independence India.
Mirror of the Buddha
October 21, 2011 - March 5, 2012
In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages, their earthly form visually transformed into the serene countenance of a buddha. Mirror of the Buddha presents exquisite examples of these portraits, painted primarily in the eastern India-inspired Sharri style.
Once Upon Many Times
September 16, 2011 - January 30, 2012
Experience the art of Himalayan storytelling in this exhibition that explores the many themes and forms of visual and oral narratives.
Human Currents
July 22, 2011 - November 13, 2011
Hannes Schmid's large, color photographs and aerial-angled movie capture the claustrophobic crowds, myriad colors, and energy of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, the greatest of Hindu pilgrimages and the largest recorded gathering of human beings on earth.
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Pilgrimage and Faith
July 1, 2011 - October 24, 2011
The role of pilgrimage in three of the world's largest religious traditions—Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam—is explored in this exhibition of nearly seventy works of art and artifacts dating from the ninth century to the present.
Quentin Roosevelt's China
May 13, 2011 - September 19, 2011
This exhibition presents the religious art of the Naxi—one of China's fifty-five ethnic minority nationalities—the majority of which was acquired in the early to mid-twentieth century by Quentin Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, and botanist-explorer Joseph Rock.
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Patterns of Life
April 8, 2011 - August 22, 2011
For centuries Tibetans have used carpets for decorative and functional purposes, drawing upon geometric patterns, auspicious symbols, and natural and mythical imagery for their design. This exhibition will showcase the stylistic variety and uses of Tibetan carpets alongside fine art and everyday objects that echo their imagery and illuminate their utility.
March 11, 2011 - January 7, 2013
Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection showcases some of the finest works of art from the museum's collection while highlighting the stylistic diversity and relationships between different strands of Himalayan and neighboring cultural and artistic traditions.
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Body Language
January 28, 2011 - July 4, 2011
Body Language: The Yogis of India and Nepal presents Thomas Kelly's striking photographs of sadhus, extraordinary-looking wandering ascetics who renounce worldly life and devote their lives entirely to religious practice and the quest for spiritual enlightenment.
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Grain of Emptiness
November 5, 2010 - April 11, 2011
Grain of Emptiness features five contemporary artists—Sanford Biggers, Theaster Gates, Atta Kim, Wolfgang Laib, and Charmion von Wiegand—whose works are inspired by Eastern religious beliefs.
Embodying the Holy
October 6, 2010 - March 7, 2011
Embodying the Holy explores the basic similarities and differences between sacral representations in the Eastern Orthodox Christian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
The Nepalese Legacy in Tibetan Painting
September 3, 2010 - May 23, 2011
This exhibition traces the development, patronage, and distinctive features of Tibet's Beri painting style, one of the country's most influential artistic styles for four centuries. The style represents a shift in artistic inspiration from India to Nepal with the fall of key Indian monasteries in 1203.
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A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom
August 6, 2010 - January 10, 2011
The Rubin Museum presents the first exhibition of late 19th and early 20th century photographs by John Claude White, a British government officer who was stationed throughout the Himalayas during the British Raj. White traveled extensively during his residence in Sikkim, documenting his journeys with an enormous camera. The resulting collection of large format prints represents the mountains he loved and the people whom White considered companions and friends.
Tradition Transformed
June 11, 2010 - October 18, 2010
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine Tibetan artists featured each explore contemporary issues--personal, political, and cultural--by integrating the centuries-old traditional imagery, techniques, and materials found in Tibetan Buddhist art with modern influences and media.
Remember That You Will Die
March 19, 2010 - August 9, 2010
Remember That You Will Die: Death Across Cultures explores the concepts of death and the afterlife in the European and Himalayan traditions from about the fourteenth century to the present. Societies rooted in these cultures have developed complex notions of death, often with startling visual counterparts.
In the Shadow of Everest
February 26, 2010 - July 26, 2010
Tibetans know Mount Everest as Chomolungma, "Mother Goddess of the Earth," the place where the land touches the heavens. In her shadow lies the rugged expanse of the Rongbuk Valley where photographer Tom Wool spent four weeks capturing images in 2001. His sensitive photographs of religious and village life provide a glimpse into this remote land.
February 12, 2010 - September 6, 2010
The transitional states between death and either the attainment of spiritual enlightenment or the return to the cycle of rebirth are explored in Bardo: The Tibetan Art of the Afterlife. For centuries, Tantric Buddhism has used tools that aid in the preparation for hallucinatory visions that appear in the afterlife. Only by recognizing these visions as illusory can buddhahood be attained.
Visions of the Cosmos
December 11, 2009 - May 10, 2010
Visions of the Cosmos juxtaposes Eastern and Western conceptions of the universe through approximately 70 works, including sculptures, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, rare books and prints from American and European collections, and photographs of the galaxies taken largely by the Hubble Space Telescope. Visions of the Cosmos marks the first opportunity for visitors to compare European works with the museum's Himalayan art collection.
The Red Book of C.G. Jung
October 7, 2009 - February 15, 2010
The Red Book of C.G. Jung marks the first public presentation of what may be considered psychology's most influential unpublished work. Jung's fascination with mandalas—Tibetan Buddhist representations of the cosmos used to help reach enlightenment—is evident in these books where mandala structures figure prominently in many sketches and paintings.
Victorious Ones
September 18, 2009 - February 15, 2010
Victorious Ones presents an array of paintings and sculptures depicting the Jinas, the founding teachers of Jainism, and the spaces they sanctify throughout the universe. Central to this Indian ascetic faith, dating from between the 6th and 5th century BCE, is an ethic of nonviolence and respect for all living beings. Images of the Jinas embody these ideals of perfection and serve as objects of devotion through which the Jinas can be accessed.
August 14, 2009 - January 11, 2010
The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous symbols, is created as an artistic aid for meditation. Depicting a realm that is both complex and sacred, the mandala is a visualization tool meant to advance practitioners toward a state of enlightenment. Mandala: The Perfect Circle explores the various manifestations of these objects, their symbolism, how they fulfill their intended function, and their correlation to our physical reality.
A Collector's Passion
June 12, 2009 - November 9, 2009
This exhibition unites objects from Dr. David Nalin's collection and the multiple institutions to which he has donated. Over the last four decades, Dr. Nalin's art collection has grown in scale and scope, spanning South Asia and surrounding regions such as Tibet, Nepal and China.
Stable as a Mountain
March 13, 2009 - July 13, 2009
Portraiture is one of the most powerful and significant expressions of figurative art, and in the Himalayas the subjects of religious portraits are exclusively religious teachers, or gurus. By preserving the physical appearance of a guru, an icon is produced that can charismatically substitute for the teacher in his physical absence. As such these portraits often embody the teachings of the guru and the traits of the enlightened mind.
Nagas: Hidden Hill People of India
March 13, 2009 - September 21, 2009
Residing in the low Himalayan hills of northeastern India and Myanmar (Burma), the Nagas are a people faced with both tradition and transition. This very diverse community is divided into a number of tribes and sub-tribes and speaks as many as 30 different languages.
Patron and Painter
February 6, 2009 - August 17, 2009
A painting tradition established in the traveling courts of the great Tibetan Karmapas, most of what we know of the Encampment Style belongs to its eighteenth-century revival by the great scholar-painter Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1700-1774). A combination of Indo-Nepali and Chinese artistic elements, the Encampment style was fostered under the tutelage and support of Situ, who acted as both artist and patron.
Color & Light
December 12, 2008 - May 11, 2009
South Asia has long been famed for the beauty and diversity of its decoratively stitched cloth. Embroidery served—and to a large extent still serves—multiple functions in daily and religious life, serving as components of clothing, domestic and religious ornamentation, animal covers, and articles of daily use. The exhibition shows the extraordinary diversity apparent in the wide range of colors, patterns, and imagery of the region's textiles.
The Last Nomads
October 31, 2008 - March 2, 2009
The Wuzhu Muqin are the last remaining nomadic tribe in China, and have become Mongolian photographer A Yin's source of inspiration. Yin has become his people's advocate, exposing to the rest of the world the ancient lifestyle they maintain in the face of rapid modernization. Comprised of images captured over ten years, this exhibition offers a striking visual account of daily life in the Inner Mongolian highlands: from the labors of migration to the intimacies of kinship.
The Dragon's Gift
Friday September 19, 2008 @ 10:00 AM
The Dragon's Gift comprises 87 works of art in the New York presentation, including intricate paintings and images created using applique and embroidery framed in brocade, called thangkas; gilt bronze and wooden sculptures; and ritual objects ranging in date from the 8th to the 20th century, with especially strong examples from the 17th through the 19th century.
Buddha in Paradise
May 9, 2008 - August 18, 2008
In this exhibition, thirty paintings lay out the concept of "paradise" in Tibetan Buddhism, understood through different approaches and teachings, the most radical of which confronts us with the realization that paradise is all around us if we are able to perceive it. Poetry and writings by Buddhist masters, including texts that guide the passage from death to rebirth, are provided to accompany the visual communications of these ideas in paintings, textiles, and sculpture.
Red, Black, and Gold
May 2, 2008 - November 10, 2008
This exhibition explores the three unique types of Himalayan painting in which color is used to invoke mood and emotion. Red is for alarm, power, and resolve. Black is for caution, fear, and protection. Gold is for wonder, wealth, and opulence.
Earthly Immortals
April 4, 2008 - August 18, 2008
This exhibition focuses on the high level of skill, sophistication, and creativity of Tibetan artists as they embraced Chinese ideas and combined them with distinctly Tibetan innovations in paintings of arhats—figures recognized as fully realized preservers and transmitters of Buddhist wisdom.
Nepal in Black and White
March 14, 2008 - October 13, 2008
"The realization that not only my camera but also the modern world was making ever-increasing intrusions into even the most remote areas of Nepal compelled me to document a time and way of life slipping inexorably into the past." —Kevin Bubriski, 1993.
From the Land of the Gods
February 2, 2008 - February 7, 2011
This exhibition features the finest examples of Nepalese art from the RMA collection, highlighting the variety of forms and subjects, techniques and media that emerged from the creative matrix of the Kathmandu Valley.
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Bon: The Magic Word
October 5, 2007 - April 14, 2008
Bon: The Magic Word is the first exhibition of art to illuminate the Bon, a religious and cultural group living in the Himalayas and Central Asia—a group almost unknown in the Western world.
Written on the Wind
September 14, 2007 - February 11, 2008
Celebrating the opening of RMA in 2004, more than 120 modern versions of traditional Tibetan prayer flags were created by contemporary artists from around the world. Prayer flags, dar cho in Tibetan, are a means of spreading good fortune to all beings and have been a part of Himalayan culture for thousands of years, dating back to the pre-Buddhist Bon tradition.
BIG! Himalayan Art
August 17, 2007 - March 17, 2008
This exhibition presents the largest objects from the RMA collection in a dazzling display of brightly colored paintings and explores the reasons for creating the even larger thangkas.
May 10, 2007 - October 16, 2007
The sacred mountain Wutaishan (Mount Wutai), located in Shanxi Province, China, is believed to be the earthly abode of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Manjushri, and for a thousand years it has been a focus of transnational pilgrimage for the Chinese, Tibetans, Mongols, and Manchus alike. This multi-culturalism, endemic of Himalayan art, is reflected in the objects in this exhibition coming from Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia, and China, including paintings, sculptures, masks, book covers and features a six-foot wide woodblock print, a panoramic view of Mount Wutai filled with temples and miraculous visions.
What Is It?
October 27, 2005 - June 14, 2010
Himalayan art is new terrain for many people. This exhibition is intended to serve as a guide through this exhilarating landscape. It is organized into four sections, each addressing one of four basic questions about Himalayan art.


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I've had one for almost 3 months (non at&t version). Coming from over a year with the Dell Streak, it was a WELCOME upgrade. That dual core processor smokes the old streak. The display is super clear. I dumped the touch whiz interface and went with Go Launcher.
Gingerbread 2.3.6, ICS will be out sometime before July....if you believe the press.
In my experience, Samsung's earlier Galaxy S II models performed more smoothly and the global version of the Galaxy Note (sans LTE) is also a speedy performer. This leads me to believe that the software on this particular Note for AT&T is not fully optimized to take advantage of the hardware underneath.
Uh no it's actually because that 1.5GHz chip is a lot slower clock for clock than the 1.4GHz Exynos, and the Adreno 220 gets utterly destroyed by the Mali-400MP4. The US/Canada LTE version is simply an inferior device on the inside than even the original i9100 with a 1.2GHz Exynos. We saw this exact same thing with the Qualcomm SGS II models. They can't perform scrolling animations properly, they can't do the pulldown menu animation smoothly, and they can't do zoom in or zoom out gestures smoothly. Samsung's hardware accelerated interface runs fine on a Mali chip, no amount of software modifications will ever make Adreno GPU chips good though.
2nd sentence... "Straddling the line between a smartphone and a tablet, the Note features a massive 5.3-inch display" Massive? Whales are massive. 5.3 inches is not 'massive' Especially coming from a website where I read about the new 8 inch iPad MINI. 8 inches is mini and 5.3 is massive?
Yeah, I get it. 5.3 inches is big for a phone, but isn't this supposed to be 'straddling the line between a phone and a tablet?' Why didn't you treat it like a small tablet and see how it worked? You did the whole review as if it's a phone that's too big to be a phone. Maybe try it like it's a small tablet you can make calls with and see how you like it. Try a bluetooth headset.
The size is the obvious special feature about this thing, and yet there's no speculation as to whom it's marketed towards. The business community, art students, doctors who need to sign a prescription via an app?
I know it's more fun to talk about how big it is (HEY NOW!), but is it possible you missed the point of it?
When I saw this, I just had to have it. I sold my GS2, and bagged this little beauty. I'm not concerned about the size, it by no means a brick as some describe, as its not 4" thick, would be perhaps best described as a tile! I can only imagine the people who say this weren't around in the 80;s when phones were more like breeze blocks!
Yeah, its big next to an iPhone but then Ive always thought they were too small! I wouldn't swap if for anything, unless of course the GS3 equivalent of a Note was due out!
Its bigger than most phones, but then you do get more with it!
It's terrific! In any store where it's displayed here, it's the most difficult phone to get to - there are always people crowding to try it out.
Disappointing conclusion in the article. Was hoping to get one, but given what they said about it in the review, I may have to reconsider now.
I have one and I absolutely love it! I used to have iPhones and the Galaxy S2, but now I'm in love with this one. The only problem I find with it is when using Google Maps when driving, because the phone is so big that it usually falls down from my thigh.
Cant wait to see one up close!!! Im a big guy and my Iphone has always felt too small to me.
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Disappointing conclusion in the article. Was hoping to get one, but given what they said about it in the review, I may have to reconsider now.
The conclusion was based on personal preference, not so much on phone performance, battery life, screen quality etc. If you're worried about the size, find something about the same size and carry it around to test it out. Much like when women get 'enhanced' they fill a baggie with rice and 'try it out' to see what size feels good.
personally... i've never heard anyone ever say 'yeah, I really like my phone, but the screen is too big.' You may need looser pants though
Checked out this phone yesterday at the AT&T store in SLC. They didn't even have it out on display on it's "debut" day. The sales rep said they couldn't get it to tether to their security cable, so they just didn't put it out. Seriously?!?!
Anyway, my question is there any way to get this phone from AT&T or otherwise and somehow have it work on the Verizon network? I'm a long time Verizon customer who has learned to despise "Big Red", but realizes they do have the best network in that states. I really don't want to wait and only hope Verizon decides to get this phone, I want one yesterday!
Also, is there a way to possibly scoop up one of those international versions that everyone on YouTube seems to be able to get their hands on and do a review because they work for a "Tech" company?
NO. They are 2 different technologies. AT&T's version will not work on Verizons Network.
Hey, thanks for answering my question. That's what I thought as far as two differing technologies. Such a bummer! Absolutely am obsessed with this phone now after checking it out yesterday. It was a lot larger than I expected, but nonetheless will only hope Big Red gets it...
I finally got to play with the phone and i dont think its too big they made it pretty thin. The thing is i always carry my tablet which is way thicker and pretty heavy in my jacket pocket but sometime it gets inconvenient. this phone is very good not sure it will fit in the front pocket. Thats why they need a belt case which will make this easy to carry around.
Dell streak 5 looks such a mess compared to this and i wont be surprised there will be a 6in phone soon.
I tried video and i am not talking about music video i am talking about tech videos which have detailed pictures and graphs and they were reasonably clear.
I downloaded a book and i could read it pretty well compared to other phones. I tried reading news on websites that was very good although a 7in tablet is better but this size is great for pretty much everything.
Be your own judge go check it out at the att store
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2nd sentence... "Straddling the line between a smartphone and a tablet, the Note features a massive 5.3-inch display" Massive? Whales are massive. 5.3 inches is not 'massive' Especially coming from a website where I read about the new 8 inch iPad MINI. 8 inches is mini and 5.3 is massive?
Yeah, I get it. 5.3 inches is big for a phone, but isn't this supposed to be 'straddling the line between a phone and a tablet?' Why didn't you treat it like a small tablet and see how it worked? You did the whole review as if it's a phone that's too big to be a phone. Maybe try it like it's a small tablet you can make calls with and see how you like it. Try a bluetooth headset.
The size is the obvious special feature about this thing, and yet there's no speculation as to whom it's marketed towards. The business community, art students, doctors who need to sign a prescription via an app?
I know it's more fun to talk about how big it is (HEY NOW!), but is it possible you missed the point of it?
The reason the Galaxy Note was reviewed as a phone and not a tablet is because at its core, it is a phone with a large screen. It runs a phone oriented and optimized operating system, uses phone apps, and if you purchase it from AT&T, requires a voice plan with minutes in addition to the required data plan. Tablet devices do not (natively) make phone calls, preferably use tablet operating systems and apps, and never require a voice plan when used on a carrier's network.
To respond to your "who is marketed towards?" question, I have spoken to both AT&T and Samsung on this matter, and both companies feel that it is a mainstream device and are marketing it to every person that is interested in purchasing a smartphone. Its target audience is not a subset of smartphone buyers that might be able to benefit specifically from pen input or a massive screen - it's everybody. In light of that, is this really a phone that everyone can use? No, it is not. I never said that it wouldn't have a specific market or purpose, but for the general audience, it is very hard to recommend a device that a.) has laggy performance when it shouldn't, and b.) cannot be used comfortably with one hand by the vast majority of users.
I bought one in December and I'm really happy with it. Now when I'm used to the awesome 5.3 inch OLED screen, all other phones screens look so uncomfortably tiny. Including iPhone 4S.
The battery lasts for 2-3 days easily on casual use.
Since the phone is slim, it can easily fit to my pocket despite the screen size. Just waiting now for ICS-update. Maybe rooting it then also.
Any review of a phone that discounts it because of size is completely irrelevant. No one cares about your opinion of size because anyone that buys one can see the size for themselves before buying it.
It is usability, performance, and stability that matter in a review because no once can discern that information while still in the store.
I can acknowledge your opinion on size in reference to using it one handed but only with the caveat that everyone's hand size and flexibility are different which must be noted when stating such an opinion.
Thanks for your reply Dan. As you pointed out in the review, size is the Note's key feature but there's evidently some subjectivity tied to it. On the other hand, the sluggishness is inexcusable at this stage of the smartphone game -- and if it's due to a poor CPU choice as princeton said (comment #2) then not even a ICS upgrade will save this.
Poor CPU performance really blew this but I'd also like to add that 5" is not to big for a phone at all!
My first "smartphone" was a iPaq6340 in 2004, here is a quote from a review: Weighing in at 190 grams and measuring 119 x 75 x 18 mm, it's compact ad powerful for its size.
The note is 27mm taller, which makes no difference cause you hold it by the width not the length!(and that was the antenna length on the old phone anyways)
Did our hands get smaller since 2004 or what? I think people really need to get rid of this obnoxious fingernail sized phone idea! I want a bloody big phone with an enormous keyboard so I can actually use the damn thing and see more than 4% of a web page at a time.
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Oh man I would kill for one of these.
Root it and slap on some ICS custom rom goodness and it will be future proof for years to come
By far best phone I've ever had. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
It's just a giant Galaxy S II
I have a samsung galaxy s wifi 5.0 tablet. It's ideal for watching videos on as it has a good sized viewing screen, but comfortably fits in a shirt pocket.
My phone screen is tiny at 3.2 inches and drives me nuts.
The note would suit me down to the ground as it combines both devices.
I actually prefer using it two handed as typing is really easy this way. Viewing web pages is also easy on the eye.
Grading it as a tablet or a phone is not the point coz you cant put this surely in either category but at least evaluate it for what it is....as far as marketing of the device goes stores will say it is for everyone coz they dont want to limit the appeal of the device by saying its for business oriented buyers or people who like to work on the go but hate carrying a 10" slab with them. You are the reviewers it should be clear in your head what are you reviewing
thats what they said for ipad :)
Has lots of potential but is let down by OS. It looks like Ice Cream Sandwich is being replaced over the next couple of months by Jelly Bean which promises a much greater leap in capability from Honeycombe. Samsung in all honesty really got the timing wrong this time.
I was keen when I first heard about it....an LTE networked very large phone or small tablet. Should be marketed with small 'in ear' hands free set and very thin and longish microphone extension. When exactly does a phone become a tablet?
"When I am running to catch a subway train and need to bang out a quick message on my phone, the Note is the last phone that I want to be in my hand."
If you weren't diddling around typing messages maybe you wouldn't need to be running for that subway. In any case wait 'till you get situated.
I think every review of a phone device should have an additional bottom line sitting right next to the usual review categories. Since we're forever stuck in these carrier-connected decision points, that added bottom line should be: "Is this device worth jumping ship from carrier x and signing on with carrier y." Since iPhone is arguably the standard for smartphones, that would be a good benchmark to use for example. I would want to know whether it stacks up enough to jump ship. I understand that the reviews have to attempt to be neutral on things, but after my extensive experience with both Android and iOS, the app competition isn't even close. I'm not going to leave my extremely capable iPhone to switch to a platform filled with workarounds, bells and whistles, and limitations. iPhone is king of the hill for many reasons. A big display, a movie projector, an overkill camera, a stylus represent bells and whistles compared to the comparatively finished product that is the iPhone. Sorry. I would love to play with this Galaxy Note, but phones are not like shoes such that you can own several pairs of and alternate them day by day with your outfit. You have to pack up, move, and live with these things...and make payments.
I just don't like this phone. It eats up my data when NOT being used. Never use GPS. It has a mind of it's own. Unusable in bright light. Will not respond to instructions for hours at a time. Music plays on incoming message (and will not stop) instead. of set sound. Wipes photos off without bring asked to. etc, etc.
My biggest fear in holding a phone this big is dropping it. I carry mine everywhere! Since we got the 4GLTE here in New York, I've been tempted to get this with AT&T; taking notes would be great. But that 180 grams; heavy! Now they're coming out with an even bigger one. Really?
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Instead of wasting money on add campaigns why not try an come up with a better network? Then again what do I know
You're actually right, but it is considerably faster than AT&Ts 14Mbps HSPA
What a master plan... Rag on the phone you are going to be selling in a couple months.. Almost as smart as google plus:P
Lol. Right
I don't need proof that T-Mobile's network is faster, I need proof that the T-Mobile girl actually eats.
It's an unfaoir test. Verizon iPhone 4S or any other 3g device will obviously be slower. Try this test with a Droid Razr Maxx. Uh-oh tmobile...
If it was the sgs2, it's a fair test. If it was the sgs2 Hercules, the test was shenanigans.
More than once a week.
I love how the guy says "See how fast T-Mobile CAN be", so what this is theoretical data speeds? T-Mobile doesn't even have LTE, so their "4G" is exactly the same technology the iPhone 4S uses - HSPA+ ... not 4G in my opinion.
Its all bullzhiat i have both tmobile galaxy s 2 and iphone 4s on att and to tell the true tmobile network suckksss!! The galaxy feels faster than my iphone 4s and i could be cuz my iphones is JB and have so many tweaks but when it
Comes to network att is faster by a lot.
No she runs on non-existent 4G networks. Seriously if there is no 4G band how can all these service providers advertise something that doesn't exist. Stupid consumers ftw
T-mobile is rubbish, it always let me down in every way shape and form...
One word: Capped. (2gb/5gb/10gb) after that it's back down to tmobile's slowass 3g.


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Wake me when itтАЩs Tuesday тАУ the day Terry FranconaтАЩs juicy and highly anticipated book is scheduled to hit the shelves.
Not a moment too soon.
Look, I understand the importance of publicizing and spreading the word to the masses that thereтАЩs something on the immediate horizon that you may want to check out. The particular PR campaign for FranconaтАЩs 368-page opus has me a tad confused, however.
WouldnтАЩt you want to keep something like this under wraps as long as possible? Chances are a book in FranconaтАЩs own words about his Red Sox managerial tenure is going to have absolutely no trouble selling, particularly in New England. Saturday on barnesandnoble.com, the book stood 17th in sales ranks.
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At least the Boston Globe has the decency to wait until after the release date to publish passages from FranconaтАЩs book, which the newspaper will do for three straight days beginning Sunday, Jan. 27.
The account that Sports Illustrated was able to obtain should have come with a disclaimer that stated the following: if you plan on buying the Francona book, skip the next few magazine pages. Otherwise, continue reading.
Not everyone likes to have milk and cookies separately, but thatтАЩs exactly whatтАЩs shaping up here. You read the SI excerpt, purchase the book only to find yourself potentially jumping over this not-your-typical teaser that was unveiled to the public a week before its release.
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тАЬWhat IтАЩm hoping is it will be taken the right way, and people will take the time to read it and form their own opinions, and not just [go by] what a two-page thing says,тАЭ is the wish Francona expressed to MLB.com about having the book viewed in its complete form.
Perhaps my objection to Sports Illustrated making content from FranconaтАЩs book available before hand stems from the magazine running an excerpt from Jack McCallumтАЩs тАЬDream TeamтАЭ prior to its release last summer. Part of me was curious to read McCallumтАЩs account even though my mind was already made up that I was going to buy the book the day it came out.
Upon arriving at Chapter 28 entitled тАЬThe Greatest Game Nobody Saw,тАЭ a conundrum arose. Do I fast forward given the part about the intrasquad scrimmage involving Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson since I was already aware of what happened thanks to SI, or do I keep continuing to read under the assumption that this is new material? In the end, I flipped to Chapter 29, though there was a part of me that regretted jumping the gun and reading what Sports Illustrated printed from McCallumтАЩs well-crafted rendition of arguably the greatest team ever assembled in sports history.
Presented with the same predicament with the Francona book, there was no hesitation on this end. Desiring to read the book from cover to cover, I ignored SIтАЩs plug for a literary work that figures to attract enough attention.
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Like a worm on a hook, thereтАЩs a part of the book thatтАЩs dangling out there. Hopefully there are some folks who didnтАЩt take the bait and plan to read FranconaтАЩs book with an open mind.
ItтАЩs been awhile since a Rhode Island Division I college basketball entry has harbored serious NCAA Tournament prospects. ThatтАЩs why we should start paying a little more attention to the goings on at Bryant, where the stars seem to be aligning for Tim OтАЩSheaтАЩs Bulldogs.
Now 6-0 in the Northeast Conference following SaturdayтАЩs home victory against Wagner, Bryant is enjoying the kind of winter thatтАЩs been rare around these parts. Nine years have elapsed since the Ocean State last sent a representative to the Big Dance.
Since Providence CollegeтАЩs one-and-done appearance in 2004, local college hoops enthusiasts have been buried under an avalanche of on-court struggles and coaching changes. Winning basketball has rarely been a topic of conversation.
Granted thereтАЩs plenty of season remaining, but at least Bryant is giving us the hope that the NCAA dry spell could be mercifully coming to an end.
Judging by the one-point outcome the two teams staged last Thursday night, the boysтАЩ basketball teams at North Smithfield and Middletown appear on track to collide in the Division III tournament. If there is a second meeting, it will take place at a neutral setting. The memories of the Northmen defending their home floor in a pulsating 57-56 triumph will likely stick with the Islanders for the balance of the regular season and undoubtedly make them eager for another crack at a North Smithfield squad that is currently one of two R.I. high school teams that have yet to absorb a loss this season.
N.S. improved to 10-0 in Division III-North and 13-0 overall after cruising to a 75-37 win against St. PatrickтАЩs on Saturday. For those curious, North Kingstown is the other unblemished unit, the Skippers 9-0 in Division I and 14-0 overall.


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The primary aim is to evaluate if PSH and/or ultrapro mesch reduces chronic groin pain postoperatively compared to lichtenstein mesh. The second aim is to evaluate quality of life, recovery from surgery and frequency of recurrencies in the three groups
Condition | Intervention |
Inguinal Hernia |
Procedure: Hernia repair |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Subject) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Three Different Techniques for Open |
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- postoperatively pain [ Time Frame: Postoperative 36 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Visual analog scale (VAS)
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: 36 month postoperative ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]SF36
- frequency of recurrencies [ Time Frame: postopertive 36 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]check patients journal
Enrollment: | 160 |
Study Start Date: | October 2006 |
Study Completion Date: | March 2012 |
Primary Completion Date: | March 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: Lichtenstein
Hernia repair with lichtenstein propylene mesh
Procedure: Hernia repair
Hernia repair admodum Lichtenstein with polypropylene mesh
Procedure: Hernia repair
Hernia repair with Ultra Pro Hernia System (UHS)
Procedure: Hernia repair
Hernia repair with Prolene Hernia System(PHS)
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 75 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Male |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18-75 years
- unilateral primary hernia
- open surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
- Recurrent Hernia
- Bilateral Hernia
- laparoscopic surgery
- Female
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Responsible Party: | Anders Thorell, Assoc prof, Karolinska Institutet |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01699971 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 2006/672-31/4 |
Study First Received: | October 1, 2012 |
Last Updated: | October 3, 2012 |
Health Authority: | Sweden: The National Board of Health and Welfare |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hernia Hernia, Inguinal Pathological Conditions, Anatomical Hernia, Abdominal |
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Elkin: 'Justice has been done' at Ariel institute
07/18/2012 01:22
Right-wing MKs hail decision to upgrade college; Left warns move will damage int'l reputation, lead to academic boycotts.
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Right-wing MKs called Tuesday's decision
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a triumph for the settlement movement, while those on the Left slammed the move.
Coalition chairman Ze'ev Elkin (Likud), who serves as head of the Knesset Lobby for Higher Education, praised the education and finance ministers and the Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria (CHE-JS) for "failing to give in to the brutal pressure of the university heads."
"The university heads have always desired to keep the club closed, but today justice has been done in a historic process that transformed Ariel into an Israeli university," Elkin said.
MK Alex Miller (Yisrael Beytenu) and MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), co-heads of the Knesset committee for granting Ariel university status, welcomed the CHE-JS decision.
Miller said the decision "strengthened Israeli academia and gave a crushing response to those who wanted to thwart AUC's development."
The Yisrael Beytenu lawmaker added that Ariel University Center's management worked hard to achieve university status, calling the educational institution an "academic lighthouse" that would "lead the world of academia in research and development."
Hotovely said the decision to establish a new university would create jobs and high standards for Israeli researchers, which would maintain the country's strong position in world academia.
"This is a happy day for Israeli academia, and for Ariel's students – Jews and Arabs, religious and secular – and for the city of Ariel, which is at the heart of the Israeli consensus," she said.
Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman also welcomed the decision, calling it an "important step in both strengthening Israeli academia and strengthening Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria." Students would also benefit, Liberman added, as the new university would make "worthy and great contributions to research."
State Control Committee chairman Uri Ariel (National Union) said the decision had been made despite pressure, and declared it a "holiday for Israeli academia."
MK Yariv Levin (Likud) called the decision a "major step toward strengthening the academy and further proof of the spiritual power and physical health of the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria."
MK Danny Danon (Likud), who is also a member of the Knesset's Education Committee, dubbed the move a "triumph for the settlements over the Left."
"The new university combined with the Levy report [on the settlements] vindicates the settlement enterprise, which will grow international recognition of Judea and Samaria as an inalienable part of Israel," he said, adding that university heads should "concentrate on their studies and get out of politics."
MK Haim Katz (Likud), chairman of the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, also hailed the decision, which he said would strengthen Israeli academia and Ariel's status.
MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) said the decision merited a "day of celebration."
"For the first time, we managed to overcome the leftist junta in academia. Leftists need to understand that not all the intelligentsia hang out between Sheinkin Street and Ramat Aviv," Ben-Ari added, referring to the Tel Aviv thoroughfare that in past years was known as a liberal hotspot, and the site of Tel Aviv University.
The Im Tirtzu – Rebuilding a Zionist Society movement also welcomed the council's decision, saying that present and future students would be the "big winners" of the move.
"This will add competition between academic institutions and improve academic excellence and research in Israel," a spokesman for the movement said, adding that academic freedom would help balance "anti-Zionist trends" in Israeli academia.
Meanwhile, MK Einat Wilf (Independence), chairwoman of the Knesset Education Committee, slammed the decision.
"If the ministers of finance and education have tens of millions of extra shekels for higher education, they should use them to strengthen existing universities that have barely recovered from a decade of cuts," she said.
Wilf said the proper solution would have been to delay the decision in order to reexamine the entire structure of higher education in the country, with the possibility of adding an intermediate level to several deserving colleges.
MK Amir Peretz (Labor) said the decision to make AUC a university reflected a policy of favoring the West Bank over the Israeli periphery.
"[Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu's time in office will be remembered as a time of abandoning the periphery and the weak in favor of the settlers and the haredi population," Peretz said, adding that the decision weakened the rest of the universities and colleges and would hurt Israel's international standing.
MK Dov Henin (Hadash) attacked the move as "a negative message to the Palestinians and the Arab world and an overriding of academic considerations in order to establish the settlement project.
"The Netanyahu government has ridden roughshod over the academic system and academic considerations in order to entrench the settlement movement," Henin said, adding that there was no substantive justification to establish Ariel as a university, that it was contrary to international law and that it would deepen the isolation of Israeli academia.
Earlier on Tuesday, Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal-On warned that the move to make AUC a university would lead to an academic boycott of Israel.
Maintaining her academic theme, Gal-On added, "The CHE-JS was appointed by the defense minister who specializes in the science of occupation, which has brought Israel to the immorality of creating an institution on stolen land, which does not let those it dispossessed through its gates."
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Rampage puts spotlight on issue of mental illness
A week after the horrific gun rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, some Americans have shown their spiritual grit by going shopping. For guns and ammo.
As graves were being dug for tiny coffins in Newtown, Conn., bidding on eBay for four Glock handgun ammunition magazines — identical to those carried by Adam Lanza when he took those children's lives — rose to nearly $120 from their usual $45. Elsewhere, people flocked to stores to snatch up whatever semi-automatic weaponry remained in stock.
That's how these shootings always play out. One side says, "At long last, it's time to control guns." The other side says, "Stock up while you can."
Easy access to lethal firepower is an issue we have to resolve, but it's not the only problem made plain by these mass-murder attacks. Another is the state of mental health care.
Countless people face problems such as raising a bipolar child, or managing depression and their job, or finding affordable long-term cognitive therapy that can help them develop coping skills and thus keep them from reaching for alcohol or drugs. Coping with mental illness is a struggle and a burden very few can bear on their own. They need help.
One in four people will suffer from a mental health issue in their lifetime.
Last week, a brave blog post made the rounds with the provocative headline "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother." Liza Long wrote of life with her 13-year-old child: "I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me." She told how he repeatedly threatens to kill her or his siblings.
It stirred attention and compassion, but relatively few concrete suggestions of what we can do to help parents and children caught in this situation.
The anguish mental illness brings upon people's lives is more preventable today than it has ever been, thanks to prescription medications, research on the brain and its chemistry, and better diagnosis and treatment programs. Yet mental health is simply not the type of problem that people rally around.
That's too bad because public funding of mental health care has been hard hit by the recession and budget cutting. The budgets for some public systems are nearly 40 percent smaller than four years ago, even though demand for services continues to rise.
Here is how the budget cuts are playing out across America: States are cutting staff, closing state hospitals, restricting the numbers served, shifting to for-profit managed care systems and reducing crisis treatment. Particularly hard hit is programming meant to be easily accessible within communities.
Here is how we "care" for people struggling with mental health in America: They are our homeless. They are emergency room patients. Prisons are stuffed with them. More than half of the nation's prisoners have or have had a mental disorder.
Fold in societal stigmas and harmful mischaracterizations that link mental illness with evil and it shouldn't shock that so many people don't benefit from appropriate care.
Mental illness is complicated, and our hesitations to deal with it are multiple. Legal quandaries exist when the patient is an adult unwilling to seek care. Still-developing children are difficult to diagnose, as are people with multiple problems such as a mental disorder combined with alcoholism.
Adam Lanza had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, but no form of mental illness. Yet his actions seemingly would indicate a mental state that was anything but healthy; a sane son does not pump four bullets into his mother and then go on a rampage against schoolchildren and their teachers.
A series of "what ifs" certainly come to mind. What if he'd had a caseworker? A mental health assessment of the 20-year-old would probably have revealed that he was suicidal, and that would have raised the question of whether there are guns in the home. Timely intervention might have prevented this tragedy.
The well armed of America have the National Rifle Association working for them, and far too many weak-willed members of Congress. But who do the mentally ill have? Who do those who care for them have to make sure they are not forgotten in between tragedies such as Newtown?
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