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It opened June 1st. I'm not sure when it filled. It was open for maybe 2 weeks.
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Posted Feb 5, '10 at 12:40am
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I got 5/10.
For two sentences? Score is right! Sounds like you had a great time with French!
I took French once myself. When I say once, I do mean once: I only took one class. Now I have to deal with Latin. At least everyone knows it's a dead language and I can't be expected to converse in it.
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 1:57am
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I will just argue that French at least is better than German, and let that be it. Oh, the wonders of offtopic.
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 2:35am
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Trust me, the only reason I haven't banned certain people multiple times from this thread is because I know I'm partially responsible. The WoM would carry an MA15 rating on the basis of its high-level violence, sexual references, nudity and scenes of drug use. And I wanted it to be a children's comic ;_;
Meh, kiddies gotta learn about rohypnol somehow.
Then again Asterix and Obelix is a children's comic and it has lots of violence and arguably frequent scenes of drug use too :P
Yeah, but slapping people with fish is funny violence. Also, can you really count magic potion as drug abuse? I mean, aside from the case of Obelix, they aren't really abusing it, they're taking the right doses.
Bwahahahaha suffer you guys, suffer French in high school! I've already done my time (four years of it).
It's all BS. The only 3 words you need to know to have a good understanding of French culture are: retreat, surrender and collaborate.
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 2:59am
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Come next week I'll wish I had one handy to slip myself during lectures -_-;
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 7:27am
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I will just argue that French at least is better than German
But German's fun! You can sound like you're punching someone or getting hit in the solar plexus when you're telling your mom that dinner is good. Plus you can say to people who annoy you: "dubist ein dumpkoff." Of course, I can insult people in Greek and Italian as well, for reasons known only to me.
Now I have to deal with Latin. At least everyone knows it's a dead language and I can't be expected to converse in it.
I think there's a Latin sub-movement in AG, kinda' like how German is the official language of the Grammanr Nazis.
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 9:13am
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Eh I'm not very good at learning other languages, other then Spanish which most words I remember are the ones I knew while I was growing up and the majority of that is food....guess I eat a lot of Mexican food...well my dad and his family immigrated so I think based on his side I'm a first generation American who doesn't know how to speak another Spanish o well the food is easier to cook then to learn the language...anyways I read an interesting article which describe profanity being the source of a spoken language...supposely it uses another part of the brain, and what would someone with no language say if he had his foot smashed? or some other painful experience...in some sense that is the link so "**** that **** **** hurt" may be better to learn lolz
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 5:26pm
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Well today I found out that you need 3 years of a language to go to a good college.
**** french I'm taking ASL lol.
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 8:00pm
pss that a lie...what you need it high test scores..SAT ACT what ever else
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 9:23pm
Actually the ivy-league colleges probably won't bother taking you unless you have good SATs and do languages. They're all old-fashioned liberal-arty like that and everybody with a good SAT will apply.
If you don't do a language, then do music. Or lots of community service and volunteer work. Anything to pad your CV and make you look like a "well-rounded, cultured person".
I'm totally doing one, maybe even two scenes today.
Posted Feb 5, '10 at 9:43pm
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*raises hand*
I do music!!!
And go to a high ranking college-prep school. I'd say I'm set for college no matter what.
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exploring the
necessary and challenging lessons of hope
intertwined with the Holocaust's unavoidable lessons of despair
à la recherche des leçons d'espoir que nous lègue aussi la Shoah...
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Not a single Jew who came [to the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon] was turned away, or turned in. But it was not until decades later that the villagers spoke of what they had done -- and even then, only reluctantly. "How could you call us 'good'?" they said. "We were doing what had to be done." President Barack Obama, Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day, United States Capitol, April 23, 2009
Weapons of the Spirit Les armes de l'esprit (1989-2014)
Yiddish: the Mother Tongue (1979-2014)
The Optimists—The Story of the Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews From the Holocaust (Jacky Comforty, 2002)
Not Idly By: Peter
Bergson, America and the Holocaust (2013)
winner, documentary award, Toronto Jewish Film Festival
And Crown Thy Good: Varian
Fry in Marseille (upcoming)
We live in times in which hope is a
rare commodity. That is why someone like Pierre Sauvage is such a valuable
resource. [He] is a purveyor of hope,
of faith in the better instincts of human beings. Judging from the footage
he has completed so far, Sauvage has another inspiring effort on his hands.
George Robinson, The Jewish Week,
New York, Feb. 18, 2010
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"War Machine" – HMAS Vampire, Sydney
This is a great close up photo of HMAS Vampire,which is currently on display at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour, Sydney. I could only capture this angle as the "NO Tripod" police were positioned on the other side. It was a little disappointing that HMAS Onslow which is an Oberon class submarine was not docked next to it as it sometimes is.


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This New Year's Day may be one of the noisiest on record for Michigan, thanks to revisions in state fireworks laws approved in 2012.
The start of the new year is included on the list of national holidays for which the use of these colorful explosives is permitted by state law.
Under Michigan's controversial fireworks law, citizens can ignite, discharge and use consumer fireworks the day before, day of and day after a national holiday, including New Year's Day. The list of approved fireworks now includes "projectiles," such as bottle rockets and Roman Candles.
The 10 national holidays recognized by the law include:
- New Year's Day
- Martin Luther King Day
- President's Day or Washington's Birthday
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
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- Columbus Day
- Veterans Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
Many state residents and city leaders—including in Dearborn—have expressed frustration with the Fireworks Safety Act of 2011. Dearborn passed a fireworks ordinance that bans the personal use of fireworks on all days except those protected by the state law.
The state law was designed to increase revenue to the state and encourage citizens to buy consumer fireworks in Michigan rather than in neighboring states.
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- CIS Department Prospective Student Visits
Learn about majors/minors in CIS. Enhance your technology skills and your job opportunities! Visit a CIS course with a student.
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- 3/13/2014 K.K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs), "Networking the Cloud: Enabling Enterprise Computing and Storage", Thursday, 11 AM, Wachman 1015D
- 3/14/2014 Ness Shroff (Ohio State University), DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER, "PhD Research: Elements of Excellence", Friday, 11 AM, Barton 108A
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- 9/13/2013 Tom La Porta (Pennsylvania State University) "Quality of Information-Aware Networking", Friday, 11:30 AM, Bartin 108A
- 9/25/2013 Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "Holographic Algorithms and Complexity Dichotomy Theorems", Wednesday, 11:30 AM, TECH Center 111
- 11/1/2013 Lori A. Clarke (University of Massachusetts Amherst), "Using Process Modeling and Analysis Techniques to Reduce Errors in Healthcare", Friday, 11:00 AM, TECH Center 111
- 11/20/2013 Yann LeCun (New York University), "Computer Perception with Deep
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- Dr. Jie Wu gave a distinguished lecture titled "Algorithmic Crowdsourcing and Applications in Social Networking" at theInformation Science & Technology Center (ISTeC) on March 4. ISTeC is a university-wide organization in Colorado State University
- Congratulations to Professor Haibin Ling for his NSF Career Award "High-order Tensor Analysis for Groupwise Correspondence: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications"
- Dr. Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation, visited the CIS Department on Friday January 17. Dr. Jahanian also gave a presentation on "Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication".
- Professor Jie Wu, Chair and Laura H. Carnell Professor, recently served as program chair for CCF China Naitonal Computer Congress (CNCC) held in Changsha, China, October 24-26. ...more...
- Dr. Jie Wu gave a keynote titled "Collaborative Mobile Charging and Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks " at the 2nd ACM Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking, which was held in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2013.
- Ph.D. students Nemanja Djuric and Lakesh Kansakar and their advisor Slobodan Vucetic received an outstanding paper award at the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) ... more ...
- Four additional CIS women students, Cheryl Texter, Kelly Ross, Lisa Clark, and Kimberly Tran have received scholarships to the 2013 Grace Hopper Celebration. ... more ...
- Tatyana Nuzhnaya and Danae Richardson have been awarded scholarships from the 2013 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. ... more ...
- Professor Jie Wu chaired the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing System (ICDCS) held in Philadelphia July 9 - 12. He also gave a keynote speech on Algorithmic Crowdsourcing at the 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-peer computing and Online Social Networking (HotPOST).
- Professor Longin Latecki has been awarded $493,000 for his National Science Foundation proposal "Object and Activity Recognition as the Maximum Weight Subgraph Problem with Mutual Exclusion Constraints" . ...more...
- Computer Science undergraduate Ryan Houlihan Has been awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship. ...more...
- The Future of Computing Competition is to be held Saturday, April 13 in Buery Hall.
- Professor Shan Lin served as the local arrangement Chair of CPSWeek 2013 ...more...
- CIS hosted a NSF CAREER proposal writing workshop on March 15 at Temple University Center City (TUCC). ...more...
- Professor Jie Wu, one of his visiting students Sheng Zhang, and Professor Sanglu Lu, were presented with the "Best Paper Runner-Up Award" at IEEE MASS 2012!...more...
- Professor Yuhong Guo and visting scholar Suicheng Gu presented Outstanding Paper Award at AAAI 2012 ...more...
- Undergraduate Teaching Assistants are available to help with most lower level and mid-level CIS courses in CS and IS&T. The Fall semester schedule is now available.
- The Vanguard Group awards scholarships to Temple CIS students to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference ... more ...
- Jie Wu, Chair and Laura H. Carnell Professor, recently gave a Distinguished Lecture titled "Cooperative Private Searching Clouds" at Tsinghau National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. This lecture was sponsored by Intellectual Venture.
- Fall 2012 Graduate Course: "Introduction to Mobile and Cloud Computing"
- Jie Wu, CIS Chair and Laura H. Cornell Professor, gave a Keynote Address at the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing & Communications, Liverpool, UK, 26 June 2012
The CIS Department and the Student Chapter of the ACM held their annual Awards Dinner on April 19, 2012.
- Future of Computing 2012: AWARDS PROJECTS
- Congratulations to our January 2012 Graduates ... more ...
- The Center for Networked Computing (CNC) has organized a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site on Next Generation Networking Technologies. The REU Site program is recruiting undergraduate students nationwide to spend 8 weeks at Temple University. ... more ...
- The College of Science and Technology Distinguished Faculty and Student Awards for 2011 include awards to a number of CIS faculty and students ( Rolf Lakaemper, Rose McGinnis, Avirup Sil and Kosta Ristovski) ... more ...
- Professor Zoran Obradovic awarded $986,218 grant from DARPA to use data mining to help diagnosis and treat sepsis. ... more ...
- Professor Jie Wu delivered a Keynote Address "Some Reflections on CIS Education" at the China Computer Federation's China National Computer Conference 2011 (http://cncc.ccf.org.cn/) held in Shenzhen, China, Nov. 24-26. ... more ...
- The Center For Networked Computing (CNC) site has recently been added to the Research area.
- CIS is Accepting Applications for Tenure Track and Non-Tenure Track Faculty Positions ...more...
Professor Jie Wu delivered an invited Distinguished Guest Lecture "Some Routing Challenges in Dynamic Networks" at Ohio State University on October 11, 2011.
Undergraduate Coursework Help Area Established
CIS has engaged a group of excellent undergraduate CIS majors to provide coursework assistance to undergraduates in the core 1000 and 2000 level courses in CIS. ... schedule ....
- Dr. Xiaojiang (James) Du gave a Keynote Speech at the 7th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM 2011), Sept. 23-25, 2011, in Wuhan, China ...more...
- The Vanguard Group has provided Scholarships for two CIS students to attend the Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference ...more...
- Zoran Obradovic is PI on a new DARPA project "Predictive Modeling of Patient State and Therapy Optimization" ($986,218)
- Jie Wu and his co-PIs Gene Kwatny, Shan Lin and Chiu C. Tan have received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project "EAGER: A meso-scale GENI WiMAX". This is a GENI future Internet project and a collaboration with Drexel University
- Jie Wu, professor and Chair of CIS, gave a distinguished lecture this summer at United Arab Emirates (UAE) University. The title of his talk was "Challenges in Wireless and Mobile Network Applications".
- Congratulations to Rolf Lakaemper promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
- Abdallah Khreishah and his Co-PI Jie Wu have received a grant from the National Science Foundation ($329,163) for a project "CCSS: An Architecture for Joint Integration of Inter and Intrasession Network Coding in Lossy Wireless Multihop Networks".
- Jie Wu and his co-PI Xiaojiang Du have received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project "Mobile Content Sharing Networks: Theory to Implementation". This is a collaborative project with Ohio State University.
- Alex Yates and his co-PI Yuhong Guo have received a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "Learning Representations of Language for Domain Adaptation" ($897,000). This is a collaborative project with Northwestern University.
- Congratulations to the Class of 2011!
- Congratulations to the award winners from the CIS/ACM Awards Dinner, which was held April 21, 2011.
- Congratulations to undergraduate students Moriah Baxevane-Connell, Annika Lutz, Emily LeBlanc, Kathryn Knauth on acceptance to the GHC2011!
- Dr. Jie Wu served as technical program co-chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2011
- On April 9, 2011 a very successful Future of Computing Competition was held by the CIS Department. The award winning projects, judges and sponsors can be found at: Future of Computing 2011 Awards
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- IS&T undergraduate, Ryan Lelache, is finalist in PwC's "Elevator Pitch" competition.
- CIS Faculty receive Concept Award from Temple University
CIS Department at Temple to be Part of Microsoft's Project Hawaii
- Jie Wu and co-authors received the best paper award at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS).
- Temple Team Places 1st in Student Programming Competition at Teragrid 2010
- Scholarships Awarded to CIS students to attend GHC2011
Diversity/Careers Article Explores Diverse Career Opportunities for CS & IT Students
Three new faculty have joined the CIS Department.
Eduard C. Dragut, Assistant Professor
Eduard C. Dragut completed his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in July 2010 at University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a Postdoctoral fellow and visiting faculty at Purdue University since his graduation.His main area of research is the integration of Deep Web sources that provide/sell similar products/services. Other projects he is actively pursuing include: online record linkage and fusion, large-scale entity disambiguation, creation of a sentiment lexicons and, recently, cyber-infrastructure for scientific research. His research interests include databases, information retrieval, managing unstructured data, information extraction, opinion mining and retrieval, and Web data management. His work has been published in leading publication venues such as VLDB, ICDE, CIKM and ACL. He has also co-authored the book Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration.
Shaojie Tang, Assistant Professor (Research)
Shaojie Tang received his Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2012. His current research interests are cyber-physical systems, wireless networking, and mobile cloud computing. His key contributions include a number of theoretical results focusing on fundamental performances of wireless networks (such as the asymptotic capacity of large scale networks), several recognized practical wireless sensor networking systems that integrate systems, theory, and applications. He has published his research in premier journals and conferences, including the IEEE Transactions on Networking and ACM MobiCom. He has been serving as technical committee of many international conferences, such as IEEE ICPP, MASS, and BodyNets.
Ola Ajaj, Assistant Professor (Teaching/Instructional)
Ola Ajaj received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida in 2013. He holds a MS degree in Computer Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, where he published numerous papers in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. He gained teaching experience while completing his degrees at FAU. He has industry experience; he worked for Motorola, Inc., BlackBerry, Inc., (RIM before) and IBM, Inc. His current interests include cloud computing, web services, mobile development platforms, and software patterns


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The Minch
The Minch (Scottish Gaelic An Cuan Sgìth, Cuan na Hearadh, An Cuan Leòdhasach), also called The North Minch, is a strait in north-west Scotland, separating the north-west Highlands, and the northern Inner Hebrides, from Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides. It was known as "Skotlandsfjörð" ("Scotland's fjord/firth") in Old Norse.[1]
The Lower Minch (an Cuan Canach), also called The Little Minch, is to the south and separates Skye from the lower Outer Hebrides: North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, Barra etc. It opens into the Sea of the Hebrides. The Little Minch is the northern limit of the Sea of the Hebrides.[2]
The Minch and Lower Minch form part of the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland, as defined by the International Hydrographic Organization.[3]
The Minch ranges from 20 to 45 miles (32 to 72 km) wide and is approximately 70 miles (110 km) long. It is believed to be the site of the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles.[4] The Lower Minch is about 15 miles (24 km) wide. In June 2010 Eilidh Macdonald became the first person to swim the Little Minch, taking 9.5 hours to cross from Waternish Point on Skye to Rodel on Harris.[5][6]
The Minch Project is a collaboration of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, the Highland Council and the Scottish Natural Heritage which aims to reduce pollution, minimise erosion, minimise litter and promote tourism — in particular wildlife tourism such as dolphin watching — in the Minch. Pollution is a particular concern as the Minch is a busy shipping lane — two and a half million tonnes of shipping pass through the channel each month.
Commercial ferry services across the Minch are operated by Caledonian MacBrayne.
A Traffic Separation Scheme operates in the Little Minch,[7] with northbound traffic proceeding close to Skye, and southbound close to Harris.
In the south, its entrance is marked by lighthouses at Barra Head, Ushenish and Hyskeir. On Skye, there are lights at Neist Point, Vaternish and An t-Iasgair. The Outer Hebrides are marked by Weavers Point, Eilean Glas, Tiumpan Head and Butt of Lewis. To the east are Rubh Re, Stoer Head and Cape Wrath lighthouses.[8]
A buoy marks Eugenie Rock (named after the vessel which grounded there in May 1859)[9][10] and the nearby Sgeir Graidach.[where?] Previously, these hazards were marked by a red-painted beacon on Sgeir Graidach,[11] the foundations of which can still be seen at low tide.[12]
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- ^ Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) Orkneyinga Saga. Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint). ISBN 0-901824-25-9
- ^ C.Michael Hogan. 2011. Sea of the Hebrides. Eds. P.Saundry & C.J.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC
- ^ "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition". International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
- ^ 'Biggest UK space impact found', BBC News.
- ^ Churchill, Caroline (4 June 2010) "Record-breaker: speed bonnie Eilidh, over the sea from Skye." Glasgow; The Herald.
- ^ "Swimmer completes Minch challenge" 4 June 2010 BBC News - Highlands & Islands. Retrieved 28 August 2011
- ^ Chart C66 :Mallaig to Rubha Reidh and Outer Hebrides. Imray. ISBN 978-1846235016.
- ^ "Lighthouse Library". Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
- ^ "Site NG29SW 8026". Canmore. RCAHMS. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
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iPhone 5s review
The iPhone 5s is the new top dog in Apple's iPhone series of iOS-powered smartphones. It's a powerful and handsome beast, but is it worth the money? Find out in our updated iPhone 5s review. Updated 9 October
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Adding an S to the previous year's new-shape iPhone is a pattern we've seen before, ever since the iPhone 3G turned 3GS in 2009. And once again now in 2013 Apple has evolved its existing iPhone platform.
Only this time the iPhone 5 has split into two – a new flagship 5s and a more playful iPhone 5c in a range of pastel colours. And typographic conventions are rewritten, to turn that shouty S into an altogether humbler lower-case s.
For many Apple product users, though, and quite certainly the early adopters and brave souls that queued overnight to be the first to own the new shiny, the premium metal-and-glass iPhone 5s is the only smartphone to get excited about.
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iPhone 5s review: design and build quality
Construction is the same as the iPhone 5, a rather delicate and all-too scratchable aluminium body with aluminosilicate glass front, and glass inset top-and-bottom cheeks behind. At 112g and 7.6mm thick, it's as ridiculously light and thin as before.
It's not just the iPhone 5c that now demands you choose your colour. For the iPhone 5s Apple introduced a new gilt-free option it's calling Gold - gold-effect back and edges with white glass trim. There's the Silver option resembling last year's white/silver iPhone 5. And the most sober of three, and the only one approaching decent availability at launch, is the black and grey model, dubbed Space Grey. It's like the original black iPhone 5, only with a lighter shade of graphite to its back and edges.
Instead of the Black & Slate and White & Silver options that the iPhone 5 was available in, the iPhone 5s has three colour options: Silver, Gold and "Space Grey".
The same external design means that you'll be able to use the same cases that fit the iPhone 5. Apple did unveil some new iPhone 5s leather cases if you fancy something new, though. Macworld managed to get a closer look at the leather cases during the Apple event, but found that they didn't look or feel very leathery at all. They do, however, fit super snugly (which can be a pain if you want to remove it). Check out our Best cases for iPhone 5s round-up for more.
Wondering which iPhone to buy? Read iPhone 5s or iPhone 5c?
Apple also unveiled the cheaper iPhone 5c on 10 September. You can read our iPhone 5c review here.
iPhone 5s review: Touch ID fingerprint sensor
For technical innovations, the iPhone 5s can boast two major breakthroughs, along with various minor running changes.
For convenience and simplicity, securing your phone by that most familiar of unique identifiers would seem to be a logical next step in smartphone technology. Yet no other company has successfully staked fingerprint recognition on its phones until now. There have been perhaps two Google-based phones from Motorola and LG, both of which made effectively zero mark on the world, not helped by poorly thought out ideas like placing the reader on the back of the phone.
The Touch ID fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5s is the result of Apple's purchase of biometric specialist AuthenTec Inc little over a year ago. The result is a Home button on the phone which, once trained with some quick dabwork, will only respond to the print of the owner.
Unlike the awkward print readers beloved of Windows laptops, which might unlock one time in three attempts, and require you to careful stroke your fingertip along a narrow scanner, the Apple reader is a capacitive touch sensor. This means you need only lay your finger on the opaque glass window momentarily, and the Touch ID sensor does the rest for you.
Like most security systems, it can be defeated by some long-winded and careful preparation, as demonstrated by a German computer club days after launch. The resources and skill to do so are not trivial; and ultimately most people's front doors are protected by Yale cylinder locks which are far easier to open by someone without the right key.
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So for most daily use the Touch ID system should prove useful and even effective at locking down your phone, and will herald a wave of sometimes-works copycat gimmicks from the usual tribute brands.
In our testing, we found the fingerprint setup process incredibly easy. We just placed our finger on the sensor three or four times as requested in the walkthrough guide. Then repeated again to learn the sides and edges of the same digit.
At present the phone can be set up to unlock by either a fingerprint or by PIN; but not by both to create a two-factor authentication system.
Your fingerprint can also be used to buy stuff from the App Store - music, apps and videos. How long before it becomes secure and trusted enough to even part-authenticate real cash payments with other merchants is another question.
In addition to the new colours, you'll be able to spot the difference between the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5s thanks to the metallic ring around the iPhone 5s's Home button, which is part of the new fingerprint sensor feature.
Importantly, Apple notes: "All fingerprint information is encrypted and stored securely inside the Secure Enclave inside the A7 chip on the iPhone 5s: it's never stored on Apple's servers or backed up to iCloud."
In addition to unlocking your iPhone, Apple's Touch ID sensor can be used to make secure payments on purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store or iBookstore. You don't have to, though. You can still type in your actual password if you'd prefer.
See also: Are we giving too much info to Apple? We look at Apple's data collection and privacy policy
iPhone 5s review: speed boosts provided by A7 processor
Apple has turned its hand to processor design for several generations of iPhone chips now, starting with the Apple A4 chip that premiered in the iPhone 4. Now manifest as the Apple A7 chip, this latest design is undoubtedly a major advance in processor engineering, if also the least obviously sexy to a style fashionista.
The real boon for Apple's new A7 chip and its architecture is what it will do in other, future Apple devices. Given the possibility of more than 4 GB of memory, and raw performance that now starts to challenge Intel's Core processors, we see little reason to not expect the MacBook Air or a similar lightweight laptop to be offered with a battery-sipping ARM processor sooner rather than later now.
Even while it matters little to this phone here and right now, followers of computing technology will recognise this as a significant advance which heralds some interesting developments, and sooner rather than later.
It's a real marketing coup to be able to promote 'up to 2x' speed increases, especially when that's measured against the already ample-quick Apple A6 found in the iPhone 5. Ask a user of last year's phone what they'd like to see uprated, and you're unlikely to see 'speed' anywhere on the list. While competing Google Android phones still suffer perceptible lag issues in the interface, making users chase the rainbow of faster phones, the latest iOS 7 runs relatively slick and smooth on recent iPhones.
Alas, benchmark testing of a phone's performance is entirely moot now. Before Samsung and Google's other hardware partners were caught cheating by fiddling with the processor when benchmark apps were running, we had a rough and ready way to see progress in chip design between phones.
Now we have no meaningful numbers to compare - at least not against Android-based phones. But recent research from AnandTech.com suggests that at least Apple is not using these dirty tricks to artificially inflate its numbers.
So that said, let's look at some numbers from Geekbench. Version 2 of the popular benchmark application rated our iPhone 5 with around 1660 points. The same app puts the iPhone 5s at an average of around 2240 points - so that's about a 35 percent increase in point score at least.
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Version 3 of Geekbench includes separate single- and multi-core processor measurements. We saw 724 points from the iPhone 5 in single mode, and 1409 points for the 5s - nearly double, actually a 95 percent increase.
In the Geekbench 3 multi-core test, the point scores rose from 1298 to 2556, similarly almost two-fold; a 97 percent score boost.
In the GFXBench 2.7 test, running EgyptHD, the iPhone 5s averaged 53 frames per second, which is pretty nippy. In practice any game or graphic-intensive task on the phone should look exceptionally fluid.
To give a rough idea of browsing performance, the SunSpider test will explore the speed of JavaScript rendering. That's not the same as web-browsing speed per se, although since so many web developers rely on JavaScript to make their sites dynamic and interactive, the test gives some guide of loading and rendering performance. The iPhone 5s completed the task in 417 millisecond, which also happens to be the fastest figure we've seen for any smartphone or tablet on any platform.
Such benchmark numbers are really only kicking the tyres, though: what really matters is how the phone feels, particularly now benchmark tests' usefulness have been invalidated by desperate Android pedlars.
In use we found the iPhone 5s pretty slick and responsive, if not as quick in screen animations as an iPhone 5 running iOS 6, for instance. While most of the time the whooshing perspective effect of opening and closing an app appeared seamless, at other times we could see some of the intermediate frames of the animation in a more stilted way.
We experienced some app crashes – Safari and Settings to name but two – the phone recovered instantly and seamlessly each time with barely any delay as it relaunched them.
The display is the same as that used on the iPhone 5, 1136 x 640 pixels, sharp and colour-rich, and although it sometimes felt fractionally less responsive to our fingertip touch, this could equally be down to changes in the software code of iOS 7.
Thanks to the A7 chip, Apple says the iPhone 5s is twice as fast
In addition to the A7 chip, the iPhone 5S has a brand new part called the M7. The M7 is a motion coprocessor, which takes advantage of all of the sensors and continuously measures the data coming from the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass without having to wake up the A7. This will open up lots of new opportunities for fitness apps, so expect to see an abundance of new fitness apps and updates soon.
Read more about how the iPhone 5s compare to Samsung and other smartphones here.
See: The M7 motion coprocessor in the iPhone 5s is a big deal
iPhone 5s review: battery life
More power typically demands more power from the battery pack. Apple has several strategies to deal with this most fundamental of issues for today's mobile devices.
To offload some of the low-level background duties, which nonetheless would keep the main CPU busy enough to deny it power nap moments, an additional little coprocessor has been added to the iPhone 5s. The M7 chip's given role is to process incoming sensor data from the accelerometer, compass and gyroscope, some of the components that give the phone its orientation.
So iOS 7's wallpaper parallax effect, where the background image seems to slide behind as you wiggle the phone, is driven by the M7 chip. And with the current fad in fitness and health monitoring apps built for the iPhone, Apple has spotted a new usage area that can be improved, without impinging so much on the phone's essential battery longevity.
There's also been a tiny swell in battery capacity, from 5.45 to 5.92 Wh. How does this 8.6 percent increase relate to real-world battery life? Apple says it's added two hours on its runtime when browsing over 4G.
That promised improvement is probably as much due to the change of cellular RF chipset, which should now enable an iPhone 5s to work across any upcoming 4G LTE service in the UK. As well as roam across more next-gen networks when you're travelling beyond these shores.
We've only tried the iPhone 5s with UK 3G networks so far - specifically, Three - and found battery life of the iPhone 5s and its iOS 7 software to be slightly reduced, compared to our iPhone 5 with iOS 6.
The iPhone 5 we've found will typically last for something close to 48 hours between charges, after a routine that typically comprises 4 hours of web surfing combined with playing music through earphones; a few dozen text messages per day; ditto Mail message writing, sending and reading; some GPS sensor use from Apple Maps; and various other minor app usage, including two overnight stretches of 7 hours phone sleep.
With the iPhone 5s and effectively the same usage pattern, the phone would last a little less than 36 hours, including two overnight dormant spells.
Fewer hours of battery runtime is a shame. Apple is already the market leader in smartphone battery life, but putting an even clearer gap between it and the competition would have been welcome.
See also:
How to replace an iPhone battery that's not working
How to improve iPhone battery life in iOS 7 (and iOS 6)
iPhone 5s review: wireless capabilities
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities are unchanged, and here lies another small disappointment - Apple has not taken the cue from its own upgraded AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule routers to add 11ac wireless to the iPhone 5s. The emerging wireless standard - still in draft until next year - introduces not just faster throughput but greatly increased range too, which would have been a useful asset.
The absence of 802.11ac on the iPhone 5s is not a deal-breaker, of course; no more than the continued restriction of audio quality will stop music lovers from acquiring a new iPhone this year.
To wit, to the best of our knowledge, the iPhone continues with its just CD-quality audio subsystem, where there is a growing need to take on high-resolution music - 24-bit/96kHz capability, for example.
iPhone 5s review: camera
Both cameras on the iPhone 5s have been uprated from their iPhone 5 counterparts. While the front FaceTime webcam maintains its 1.2-megapixel resolution but gains better low-light sensitivity through larger sensor pixels, the main photo and video camera on the flip side gets a similar pixel enlargement, and also benefits from a clever two-part LED flash system.
Called True Tone flash, it mixes two light bright LED sources of different temperature to more naturally light your subject, and hopefully avoid the washed-out glare of most simple flash units.
The difference in sensor pixel size is quite literally microscopic. In fact, by expanding the main camera's pixel width from 1.4 to 1.5 µm, you would need a particularly powerful lens to see the difference - just 100 nanometre per pixel. But larger pixels yield greater electrical output, leading to clearer images in low-light conditions without resorting to messy noise-reduction techniques. A faster aperture of f/2.4 instead of f/2.2 really helps with indoor and dusky shooting too.
We found picture noise to be dramatically reduced in night-time shots. It almost negates the dual-flash upgrade, as to date we've achieved better results by switching off the flash entirely and relying on natural light, giving great natural, evening shots
On the video side, faster processing allows the camera to capture more frames every second when filming. Switch to Slo Mo in the camera app and it shoots at 120 frames per second - then replays at a more familiar 30 fps, giving the illusion of slow-motion. It really is as fluid as regular footage. People are going to have a lot of fun with this feature, although we must sacrifice a little resolution. Where normal video is shot in full-HD, Slo Mo captures 1280 x 720-pixel video.
While it remains 8-megapixels, the new camera in the iPhone 5s features a new five-element Apple-designed lens with a larger f/2.2 aperture. The camera's new sensor has a 15 per cent larger active area, and the pixels on this sensor are 1.5 microns in size.
In addition to the hardware, Apple has also designed the Camera app in iOS 7 to take advantage of the new camera and the A7 chip's imaging capabilities. Before you take a picture, the iPhone 5s will perform auto white balance and auto exposure, and will create a dynamic local tone map around the image to get better highlights and shadows. The camera actually takes multiple images and analyses them in real time to see which is the sharpest.
Apple didn't stop there. The iPhone 5s also has auto image stabalisation, which aims to give users a much sharper image. There's also a new Burst mode, which will take photographs at 10 frames per second until you let go of the shutter.
Read our Apple iOS 7 review and everything you need to know about the new camera in the iPhone 5s.
Also: Camera app in iOS 7 review
iPhone 5s review: processing speed and benchmarks
The iPhone 5s's Geekbench score is more than twice that of the iPhone 5c. Last year's iPhone 5, however, was about 10 percent faster than the new 5c in this test.
The A7-powered iPhone 5s earned a Geekbench 3 Multi-Core score that was 33 percent higher than the Galaxy S4 and 65 percent higher than the HTC One.
Geekbench 3 (single-core score)
- iPhone 5s 1393.0
- iPhone 5c 671.0
- iPhone 5 723.0
- iPhone 4S 217.0
- iPhone 4 213.0
- HTC One 591.0
- Samsung Galaxy S4 667.0
Geekbench 3 (multi-core score)
- iPhone 5s 2485.0
- iPhone 5c 1180.0
- iPhone 5 1302.0
- iPhone 4S 412.0
- iPhone 4210.0
- HTC One 1507.0
- Samsung Galaxy S4 1862.0
Sunspider 1.0.1
- iPhone 5s 454.0
- iPhone 5c 715.6
- iPhone 5 707.6
- iPhone 4S 1573.1
- iPhone 4 2682.9
- HTC One 1117.4
- Samsung Galaxy S4 1210.5
The Sunspider JavaScript tests showed the 5s finishing the test in 454 milliseconds versus the 708 milliseconds of the iPhone 5 (lower is better). The iPhone 5 was just 1 percent faster than the iPhone 5c.
Read more about how the iPhone 5s compare to Samsung and other smartphones here.
iPhone 5s review: UK price
The 16GB model of the iPhone 5S will set you back £549 from the UK Apple Store. For the 32GB model, it'll cost £629, and for the 64GB model, £709.
That's up from the iPhone 5's previous price of £529, £599 and £699 for the same capactities, but Apple does now offer a cheaper version of the iPhone: iPhone 5C. It'll still cost £469 for the 16GB version and £549 for the 32GB version, though. The 8GB iPhone 4S is also still available to buy for £349.
We've been in touch with the UK mobile networks and have tariff information for the new iPhones - you can read more here. iPhone 5s tariffs and pricing: Best Apple's iPhone 5s contract
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iPhone 5s review: Verdict
It's easy to dismiss the iPhone 5s as a resell of last year's phone with a gimmicky finger reader. Touch ID's existence on a hugely popular consumer device is now showing how the technology has finally come of age. The double-speed processor gives full bragging rights to iPhone 5s users, and ensures the phone nearly always feels incredibly responsive. But the real power of that processor breakthrough will not appear today; instead consider it useful insurance for future developments on Apple's OS platforms. In daily use, the upgrade of the cameras will be the noticeable change that lift the leading world's favourite smartphone.
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Treasury officials said the December gains, particularly in the income tax collections, indicate economic strength and an advancing recovery.
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Democrats, however, said the revenue shortfall is compounded by a $123 million gap from the prior fiscal year that Christie rolled into the current budget.
"It's a substantial amount," said Assembly Budget Committee Chair Vincent Prieto, D-Hudson.
And a new analysis from non-partisan legislative budget analyst David Rosen shows major revenues now have to grow by 12.7 percent to make Christie's spending goals by the end of June. Such growth hasn't been experienced in New Jersey in eight years, when then-Gov. Jim McGreevey, a Democrat, used tax hikes and spending gimmicks to boost revenues.
"We still have a long way to go here," said Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee Chair Paul Sarlo, D-Wood-Ridge.
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In a report released Monday, Rutgers economists measured the storm's costs to the state at nearly $12 billion, and said $25.1 billion in aid is needed through 2015.
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After winning the Absolute Title, Vincent Nothing was on top of Absolute Intense Wrestling. His first challenger was no slouch. "Classic" Colt Cabana is a name that almost everybody knows. From ROH to now WWE, Colt Cabana has been everywhere and held many titles along the way. At "Set It Off" Colt wanted to add another title to his mantle, that being Vincent Nothing's Absolute Title. Will Colt be able to add another notch onto his resume? Or will Vincent Nothing prove his worth as Absolute Champ by beating a person the caliber of Colt Cabana?
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Square Stand Lets Small Retailers Put Their iPads to Work May 15, 2013 Square announced Tuesday it would reach out to retail outlets with its new Square Stand, an iPad dock that can handle business transactions and customer analytics. The mobile payments processing startup said small and medium-sized businesses would be able to collect customer loyalty information when they ring up sales. Square Stand replaces the cash register. |
Groupon Regroups With Q1 Revenue Gains, Mobile Growth May 09, 2013 Groupon reported a better than expected first quarter thanks to strong North American revenue growth and an uptick in mobile customers. That helped send the daily deal website's stock soaring Wednesday. The company reported revenue of $601.4 million, an 8 percent jump from the $559.3 million during the same time last year. |
Yahoo Alum Will Help Shazam Tune Up for IPO April 30, 2013 Shazam on Monday announced that former Yahoo executive Rich Riley will be its new CEO as the song identification app company prepares to launch an IPO. Riley will take over for Andrew Fisher, who had been the company's CEO since 2005. Fisher will remain at Shazam as the executive chairman. The company also recently snagged the BBC's Daniel Danker as a chief product officer. |
Will Your Shopping Cart Roll to Where Your Customers Are? April 20, 2013 Can I be everywhere my customers want to shop? The good news is that this rhetorical question is not all that far-fetched any longer. In its day, the Sears catalog revolutionized the consumer shopping experience and ruled the market. Decades later, it has been rendered obsolete by the ultimate, innovative consumer shopping medium -- the Internet -- and its current lead innovator, Amazon. |
The Hidden Risks of Mobile CRM, Part 2 April 19, 2013 Mobile marketing may just be in its infancy, but it already has ushered in a world of new risks -- or rather, existing risks that have been repackaged. They range from running afoul of still-developing regulations to security concerns, to consumers misinterpreting content. As people connect with the Internet through multiple access points, keeping a marketing message consistent is becoming more essential. |
eBay Likely to Be Forgiven for Q1 Misses April 18, 2013 eBay posted solid first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, but the company underperformed based on projections by Wall Street. eBay then delivered guidance that did not meet the mark, doubling investors' disappointment. As a result, they are casting worried eyes toward eBay's future. "eBay, though economically resilient, is not immune to the slowdown in Europe," said Charles Lewis Sizemore, a Covestor model manager. |
The 6 Secrets of Highly Successful M-Commerce April 15, 2013 If we take a page out of our not-so-distant past, we can see that on the web, both commerce applications and functionality have contributed to the demise or success of mobile apps. The success of business models, return on investment and viability of mobile initiatives all depend on how well m-commerce is managed and handled. |
eBay PayPals It Forward April 02, 2013 eBay is enjoying a surge on Wall Street in the wake of last week's analyst day, when it reassured Wall Street and investors that growth from its core Marketplaces and PayPal businesses was on track. It was the first time since 2011 that analysts had gathered at the company's San Jose, Calif., headquarters. |
The Revolution Is Over, and M-Commerce Is Here to Stay March 16, 2013 In case you missed it, 2012 -- the so-called "year of mobile" -- came and went pretty quickly. Now we simply live in a mobile world. E-commerce is moving to mobile devices more and more, and that trend is not likely to stop anytime soon. U.S. retail mobile commerce sales will grow from $13.63 billion in 2011 to $86.86 billion by 2016 -- increasing from 7 percent to 24 percent of all retail e-commerce, eMarketer predicted. |
FTC Puts a Damper on Freewheeling Digital Advertising March 13, 2013 The Federal Trade Commission released its updated Dot Com Disclosures guidance on Tuesday, emphasizing the requirements for advertisers targeting mobile devices. In short, the rules that apply to ads in newspapers, radio and television also apply to mobile devices and social media. The update is the first since the guidelines were released in 2000 -- an era when smartphones and tablets were far, far less ubiquitous. |
Samsung Adds Its 2 Cents to the Digital Wallet Market February 27, 2013 Samsung opened up its new Wallet app at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Wednesday, joining Apple and Google in the market for electronic storage and scanning of tickets, memberships and discounts via smartphones. The company's announcement comes two days after it said it had entered a worldwide agreement with Visa to offer the latter's PayWave near field communication payment system. |
Upgrade Points to Mobile as Groupon's Real Deal February 15, 2013 Groupon got a stock bump this week following an analyst's upgrade, a rare occurrence for the daily deal site; its stock price has plummeted since its debut on the public market. The company's evolving business model, an increasing presence in mobile commerce and an international push can help the online coupon dealer hit $9 per share over the next 12 months, according to analyst Arvind Bhatia. |
M-Commerce Is on a Tear, Survey Says February 14, 2013 Mobile commerce sites showed growth during the 2012 holiday shopping season as they gave consumers more on-the-go options for buying and researching products, according to the latest ForeSee Mobile Satisfaction Index. ForeSee, a customer experience analytics firm, saw the Index jump two points over Christmas 2011 to a score of 78 on a 100-point scale for its Holiday Retail Edition. |
The Key to Mobile Marketing: A Strong Opt-In List February 09, 2013 Mobile messaging -- which includes SMS, MMS and rich media messaging -- has quickly become a staple in the world of marketing campaigns for many large brands. Mobile messaging, although still in its infancy, has drastically impacted the marketing landscape and is vital to any program. Mobile messaging creates a very personal link between a brand and its customers. |
Headless Commerce Lets the Product Sell Itself January 26, 2013 If done right, online selling of digital content -- including software, games, e-books, periodicals and other digital media -- can take traditional retail e-commerce a huge step further into a new and very different -- but potentially highly impactful -- sales and relationship-building environment. Unlike physical goods e-commerce, selling digital content should happen in the context of life. |
Target Fights Showrooming With Price-Matching Scheme January 10, 2013 Target has announced that its brick-and-mortar stores will extend the company's holiday season price-matching policy year round. It has promised to match the prices customers find on identical "qualifying" products at Amazon, as well as the e-commerce websites of Walmart, Best Buy, Toys 'R' Us, Babies 'R' Us and others. |
App It Up: Mobile Strategies for Small Businesses January 04, 2013 Even when Darien Gold's pilates clients aren't in her studio, they can work on their moves by following the instructions and imitating the positions on her mobile app. Gold uses the app to expand the reach of her business, according to Bharath Lingam, CEO of PurpleTalk, which worked with Gold to develop her app. |
Amazon Creates Safe Haven for Kids on Kindle Fire December 06, 2012 Amazon is enlarging its Kindle universe to expressly target children. It has rolled out Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, a service that offers several different types of content for children 3-8 years-old, including books, games, educational apps, movies and TV shows. |
All Things Appy: Top 5 Android Shopping Tools December 01, 2012 Keep things simple with Barcode Scanner. Scan the product barcode wandering the aisles and read up on the product via a Google Web search or Google's shopping Web pages. That's it. It's super useful when showrooming, in-store browsing, price-matching, or looking for independent reviews and specifications. |
Google Buys Custom Coupon Startup November 29, 2012 Google acquired retail coupon company Incentive Targeting, giving it a way to target consumers with deals based on their preferences and broaden its e-commerce presence. Incentive Targeting works with manufacturers of grocery and consumer products to design personalized, timely coupons and special offers. |
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And yet that kind of work -- and those who do that kind of work -- seems to be looked down on by American society, regardless of the fact that brains and aptitude are required there, too.
Crawford writes about how in his job as a mechanic he'll be faced with a motorcycle that won't start, so he must test theories and use the correct tools and parts to get a successful result, which is an engine that runs. It requires skill, practice and intelligence, and should generate respect. Yet it seldom does.
By looking down on those whose occupations require hands as much as or more than brains, we've widened the division that was already there. The author laments how far blue-collar work, both in numbers and prestige, has fallen, saying our "economic landscape has become such that those who don't go to college are viewed as suspect, stupid, and/or unemployable. The massification of higher education has created a new vocational pitfall: I've got a degree; therefore, I should be doing smart, clean, fun and well-paid work."
Much as we might like it to be true, we aren't all created equal. Not physically, not mentally, not gumption-wise. There's no one-size-fits-all education solution. It's ludicrous to continue as though every child is actually capable of getting a college education if they're just willing to -- gosh darn it! -- buckle down and apply themselves. (Strangely, an equally common-sense argument -- that not everyone is capable of repairing engines or trouble-shooting an office air-conditioning system -- is rarely mentioned either.)
It's natural for parents to want the best for our offspring, so it makes sense that we harp about studying and getting good grades from the time our children are small. But perhaps we're deluding ourselves about what really is best, not only for our children, but for our country as well.
We need to know how to do things for ourselves again. We need to be self-sufficient. Self-reliant. We need to be able to use our hands as well as our brains. And we need to respect those who work on both sides of the line, or eliminate the line altogether. Our scorn should be saved for those who deserve it.
Like sarcastic children who get pleasure by causing grown-ups to squirm.
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