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In Mexico, polling is done the old-fashioned way: In person. Could this be the future of polling in post-land-line America?
MEXICO CITY—One Saturday last July, in the central Mexican state of Michoacan, where the country's first constitution was written, two cars carrying six visitors to the city of Apatzingán disappeared. Three days later, in nearby La Cofadria, another three out-of-towners vanished. The circumstances were not mysterious—Apatzingán is known as a base for drug cartels and has been a site of deadly violence—but the targets of the kidnapping were. The nine hostages were all survey-takers who had come to Michoacan to poll residents' preferences in upcoming gubernatorial elections and were working for firms commissioned by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party. For Mexico's well-developed polling industry, days of waiting for signs of life invited some self-examination. Did someone consider their research a threat? "Suddenly the cartels see a lot of cars with strange plates and ask: who are these people?" Ulises Beltrán, the country's most venerable political pollster, speculated the other evening. "Are they the police? Are they the FBI?"
None of the nine who were seized—and released days later—worked for Beltrán's firm; they had been employed by two rivals, Consulta Mitofsky and Parametria. But Beltrán had last summer's suspenseful week on his mind because the incident marked perhaps the greatest threat to the polling method he had helped to pioneer in Mexico. On Tuesday night, Beltrán was in his office in Mexico City's La Condesa neighborhood, putting the finishing touches on a poll for the next day's edition of the newspaper Excelsior. As is the case with polling in much of the world, this required putting boots on the ground. Because it was the last of the polls that would appear before this Sunday's presidential election—Mexican law prohibits the publication of polls over the final four days before voting—Beltrán had increased his sample size. Now, instead of interviewers canvassing 120 of Mexico's electoral precincts to speak to 10 voters in each, they had been scattered across 150. That meant one-quarter fewer logistical worries than usual.
American pollsters once saw such tactile survey methods as a primitive practice to be used only in countries yet to graduate to surveys by telephone. But many are adjusting to the reality that a return to in-person interviews may be one of several imperfect solutions to their own crisis: a rapidly growing inability to reach voters by phone. "It's a lot harder," says John Anzalone, who has polled for 20 years on behalf of Democratic candidates, including Barack Obama. "It used to be that basically everyone had a land line—it's how people communicated. Other than Dad saying, 'You can't answer the phone during dinner,' people liked answering the phone. You had a captive audience." Visiting voters at home is expensive, time-consuming, and occasionally fraught with real peril, but as American political polling reaches the end of its High Modernist era, practitioners are desperate simply to get back in front of people. "It's a throwback," says Anzalone. "But you're crazy not to be experimenting with a new way of capturing them."
In 1988, the newly elected Carlos Salinas de Gortari hired Ulises Beltrán to be the first presidential pollster in Mexico's history. Election polling was effectively nonexistent in the country, a reflection of the fact that there was rarely a horse race worth tracking: At that point, Salinas's PRI had presided over unchallenged one-party rule for more than 50 years. But the new president wanted to take stock of attitudes about policy questions and asked Beltrán—who had studied economic history at the University of Chicago and was then working as a statistician in Mexico's version of the IRS—to design a method of measuring national public opinion.
Even though American political consultants were working across Latin America at the time, there was little that Mexicans could learn from them about basic survey practices. American pollsters built their samples by randomly dialing phone numbers and then weighting the results if the sample they collected failed to represent the demographics of the broader population or electorate. But fewer than one-tenth of Mexicans owned a telephone line, and the ones who did were far from representative of the country: They were wealthier, better-educated, more urban. Beltrán knew he would have to conduct all of his interviews in person.
A half-century earlier, American pollsters had been in a similar position. Beginning in the 1930s, George Gallup sent interviewers to hundreds of locations nationwide and asked them to randomly select individuals in certain demographic categories for questioning. This method was seen as a (far more expensive) corrective to the straw polls that Literary Digest had conducted since the 1920s, by sending millions of ballots to mailing lists built off its subscriber records, phone books, and automobile registries. Gallup's method was validated in 1936, when he accurately predicted Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be re-elected; Literary Digest's poll showed Alf Landon winning 55 percent of the vote. But it was another polling flub 12 years later—the "Dewey Defeats Truman" prognostication—that forced survey-takers to be more rigorous about their methods of selecting households, a shift that dramatically increased the costs of polling. Instead of sending his survey-takers to public places, Gallup began dispatching them to specific doorsteps.
Beltrán developed a similar approach. After Mexico completed its 1990 census, he hired its newly unemployed researchers and turned them into an army of political interviewers. He randomly selected electoral precincts and then within the precinct a block; interviewers started on one side and knocked every third door. If no one was home, interviewers would return later. "It depends how much money you have," says Beltrán. "If you have a lot of money and time, you go back until you get the person you want."
By then, American survey-takers had moved indoors. In 1970, as the share of Americans with telephone lines crossed 90 percent, pollsters realized they could run all their surveys from call centers. By randomly dialing digits they could have greater confidence that they were getting a statistically valid representation of the phone-owning population. When interstate telephone service was deregulated, the cost of polling by phone dropped even further. The only researchers who stuck to knocking on doors were those like the Census and American National Election Studies, which had long questionnaires, deep budgets, and a goal of covering the entire population. For everyone else, polling—especially with the introduction of automated touchtone surveys—became something that could be done cheaply, widely, and often.
As Mexico's 1994 elections approached, Beltrán worked for the campaign of Salinas' successor Ernesto Zedillo. The PRI was finally facing real electoral challenges, and knocking on someone's door and asking how he or she planned to vote seemed a potentially more complicated intrusion than merely asking for one's views of economic conditions. Beltrán ran a battery of randomized experiments to test whether results would be biased by particular aspects of the interaction. Did the questioner's gender alter the interview dynamic? Did the color of the pen guide the respondent to one party or the other? Beltrán found they had little impact, and those factors that did likely cancelled each other out across a large sample. "In the big numbers," he says, "cultural effects disappear."
The greatest concern, however, was one to which the PRI was particularly sensitive: a fear that citizens, suspecting that the clipboard-equipped visitor at their door could be a government agent, would refuse to answer questions—or exaggerate their support for the incumbent party. To mimic the way Mexicans cast ballots on election day, Beltrán sent his interviewers into the field with paper ballots and a box. When it came time to ask which candidate they would support if the election were held that day, voters would be handed a facsimile of the official ballot (which included the party's logos in full color, so illiterate voters could distinguish them) and asked to put an X on their choice and place it into the box. "It is the only way to do it, elegantly," Beltrán says.


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Easy Marinated Mushrooms Recipe
This easy salad is a family favorite during the summer. I find it especially handy when we grill out, because it can be ready whenever the meat's done.
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Managed detoxification is a first and necessary step prior to treatment and rehabilitation. Detoxification can be a major obstacle for some patients, and the availability of managed and safe withdrawal is a prerequisite for long-term treatment.
In our clinical practice we have felt the need for a standardised and safe detoxification treatment regimen for our opioid addicts, as dependence on multiple drugs is so common.
- To assess whether a novel standardised treatment regimen - Buprenorphine (BPN) combined with Valproate (VPA) - will result in fewer withdrawal symptoms during detoxification of opiate–polydrug users than the existing treatment regimen, i.e. Clonidine (CLN) combined with Carbamazepine (CBZ).
- To determine whether there are differences in treatment retention between the BPN/VPA and the CLN/CBZ groups.
- To assess differences in clinical side-effects and biochemical interactions between the two treatment regimens.
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Opiate Dependence Drug Dependence Substance Withdrawal Syndrome |
Drug: Buprenorphine Drug: Valproate |
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Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Treatment of Polydrug-Using Opiate Dependents During Withdrawal |
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 20 Years to 50 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
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Other Study ID Numbers: | SSHF_ARA_001 |
Study First Received: | August 22, 2006 |
Last Updated: | August 22, 2006 |
Health Authority: | Norway:National Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics |
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Type 1 Diabetes Puts Strain on Marriage
March 15, 2013 -- Fears about low blood sugar and future complications are major issues for married couples in which one partner has type 1 diabetes, a small study shows.
The study, published in Diabetes Care, was done in four focus group sessions, two with 16 adults with type 1 diabetes and two with 14 of their spouses.
The intent was to gather preliminary information to guide future research in an under-studied field, says researcher Paula M. Trief, PhD, professor of medicine at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.
"There is literature on the importance of relationships for patients with type 2 diabetes, but very little research on psychological and psychosocial issues of adult type 1 patients at all. They get a lot of attention when they're kids, then it just drops off completely," she says.
The findings of the study suggest that a patient's personal relationships can affect their diabetes and that doctors should ask patients how things are going at home.
In some cases, having the patient bring the partner to an office visit could allow the doctor to explain concepts to the partner as well, Trief says.
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In the focus groups, both patients and partners were asked two broad questions, followed by free-flowing discussion:
- "What are the emotional and interpersonal challenges you have experienced because you have (your partner has) type 1 diabetes?"
- "How does the fact that you have (your partner has) type 1 diabetes affect your relationship with your partner, positively and/or negatively?"
Partner involvement ranged from very involved and supportive to "help when asked," in which the partner is helpful when called upon but otherwise not involved.
Emotionally, most patients expressed positive feelings toward the level of support they received from their spouse and a sense that the condition had brought them closer together.
However, a smaller group mentioned a negative impact from the diabetes, including problems such as increased emotional distance, sexual intimacy issues, and concerns about caring for young children in the face of the constant threat of low blood sugar, called hypoglycemia.
Indeed, hypoglycemia emerged as a primary concern, despite the fact that none of the patients were unaware of the problem or were at any greater risk for hypoglycemia than is typical of type 1 diabetes.
Partners in particular described "significant worry, stress, and anxiety about hypoglycemia and frustration in trying to prevent or manage it, e.g., the need to carry snacks, to remind and check during lows, and prearrange for emergencies," the researchers write.
Worry about future complications was a second major concern, with patients expressing the need for support without blame from their partners. Other challenges that emerged in the discussions included issues around exercise and weight control and "wrestling with insurance companies."
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Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
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Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
Meh I'm an Optimist.
They made me play "duck and cover" in school as a kid but I got over it.
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Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
Um, I have had Chris Dormer and Ali in my morning commute in the last week or two.
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Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
Wars can be limited, cold, and even non-violent. For those who haven't heard, "War is the continuation of Politik by other means" - Clausewitz
Also worth knowing for the neophyte, though not always germane to the discussion: The Principles of War - MOOSEMUSS
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- Offensive
- Objective
- Surprise
- Economy of force
- Maneuver
- Unity of command
- Security
- Simplicity
Our primary enemy that I'm thinking about here is China. There's a number of other nations who could be considered 'at war' with America, such as Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea and maybe even Saudi Arabia, but none of those are serious geopolitical threats even though North Korea is still officially fighting us. I'm not including the possibility of one of them conducting a nuclear strike, or worse yet, an EMP attack, because despite the potentially devastating result these would still be one-off attacks rather than the sustained geopolitical conflict that I wanted to discuss.
Right now, one of the main attacks against the U.S. is remarkably wise - the use of our own consumer greed against us. China continues to manipulate their currency in order to prevent market economics's results from hurting them. If the renminbi was allowed to appreciate, Chinese cost of goods goes way up, and they become less competitive against other products. What boggled my mind was that apparently we continue to give China foreign aid - $10M according to one Romney speech - that we're borrowing FROM them!
Secretary of State Kerry (puke) claims that we must continue our program of foreign aid, but what does it actually achieve? Many of the countries that receive it are certainly no friends of America. I hardly think what amounts to outright bribery of these countries' leadership, and in pretty much no way benevolence to the foreign populace, is a smart investment.
The 'hot' part of the Chinese-American war seems centered around commercial espionage. While there are incidents such as the hostile downing of our EP-3 plane - which we apologized for! - within the Chinese interpretation of their "Law of the Sea Treaty" controlled zone, most of these incidents are surreptitious. It seems like the Chinese have been conducting an all-out blitzkrieg against American IT interests, from infiltration, to theft, to attempts to sabotage SCADA systems and 'softening up' America's power grid.
Well, I only have two chickens left - predation is a biatch - but we'll be buying 6 more in April or so. Have to buy them in multiples of 6, because New York. We don't eat them (yet).
As for SHTF skills, I'm not as butch as you might imagine. I may or may not have killed a 'coon that ate a bunch of my chickens, and I may or may not have tried to skin it, but if I had skinned it I definitely screwed up attempting to tan the hide.
25-02-2013, 05:20 #15
Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
War is hell.
This is propaganda.
25-02-2013, 18:01 #16
Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
It's not hell *YET*, unless you're on the receiving end. Plus, there's nobody that I'm aware of hitting any beaches in the traditional fashion.
Still, it qualifies as war under Clausewitz' definition, which is why I provided it. It sure as heck isn't propaganda; I don't believe the Chinese really care what Americans think as long as they stay ignorant.
10-03-2013, 01:47 #17
Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
16-03-2013, 04:52 #18
Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
BREAKING: North Korea Launches Short-Range Missiles on East Coast
North Korea has fired two short-range tactical missiles off its East coast
SEOUL North Korea has tested short-range missiles in the Sea of Japan (known as the East Sea in Korea), in an apparent attempt to counter-act joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
North Korea test-launched a short-range missile in the East Sea [Sea of Japan] this afternoon, amid the ongoing security crisis on the Korean peninsula following Pyongyangs third nuclear test last month, Yonhap news said.
The source, Yonhap said, was a military source within the South Korean government. The North Korean military launched two KN-02 short-range missiles into international waters, the report said.
17-03-2013, 00:46 #19
Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
China Is Engineering Genius Babies!
and I'm not even scared.
17-03-2013, 13:57 #20
Re: This is it, boys, this is WAR! I'm scared. Really.
Why is it that fascist gov't always seems to fall into the same pattern? [/rhetorical]
Anyhow, I'm far more interested in what their intentions are regarding <us>, as in the West. One of the books I'm reading (slowly) is a somewhat obscure military treatise by a couple of their Command & Staff College instructors (equivalent).


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The 119-126Sn nuclei have been produced as fission fragments in two reactions induced by heavy ions: 12C+238U at 90 MeV bombarding energy, 18O+208Pb at 85 MeV. Their level schemes have been built from gamma rays detected using the Euroball array. High-spin states located above the long-lived isomeric states of the even- and odd-A 120-126Sn nuclei have been identified. Moreover isomeric states lying around 4.5 MeV have been established in 120,122,124,126Sn from the delayed coincidences between the fission fragment detector SAPhIR and the Euroball array. The states located above 3-MeV excitation energy are ascribed to several broken pairs of neutrons occupying the nu h11/2 orbit. The maximum value of angular momentum available in such a high-j shell, i.e. for mid-occupation and the breaking of the three neutron pairs, has been identified. This process is observed for the first time in spherical nuclei. |
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MORNING UPDATE - Twins resign Shannon Stewart. Just before the midnight deadline last night, the Minnesota Twins signed OF Shannon Stewart to a 3 year $18 million contract. He made just over $6 million last year. He will make $5.5 million in 2004, $6 million in 2005 and $6.5 million in 2006. I think those are pretty fair numbers considering the way he performed last year. I almost believe that resigning Stewart makes the Twins the winners in the Bobby Kielty/Shannon Stewart trade. The Twins also chose to offer arbitration to closer Eddie Guardado, meaning they can continue to negotiate with him. It could mean that if he chooses to accept it, the Twins will have to pay more than market value for him, but that's ok. It is still believed that Guardado is leaning toward accepting an offer from the Seattle Mariners. With the Stewart signing, the assumption is that Jacque Jones will still be traded.
I have to apologize for being lazy again today. I'm actually not even in town again today. I don't say this too often, but I'd probably rather be at work today. I'm having a crown put on a tooth. The drilling and the novocain and the pain… It's not going to be a fun day at all. So please, wish me luck!!!
But I thought I should write something for the day. But then I realized that I don't have a lot to say. Not as much "stuff" happened in major league baseball this weekend. I expected plenty of free agent signings and maybe a couple of trades. I really thought the A-Rod for Manny deal (with Nomar Garciaparra going elsewhere) was going to happen. It still could. The Rangers want a deal within a week, which is probably fair. As of when this was written, the Twins had not yet signed either Eddie Guardado or Shannon Stewart. I figured at least one of them would have signed by last night. It is looking more and more like Eddie Guardado will be heading out west, and I don't know what will happen with Stewart. Maybe something will be resolved soon.
For those of you who are like me and are confused about last night's deadline to offer a free agent arbitration, here is something I received from Lee Sinnis yesterday in his Around the Majors e-mail on the topic:
Midnight is the deadline for teams to offer their free agents salary arbitration.
If they offer it, the player has until December 19 to accept. If he accepts, it's the equivalent of a 1 year contract, with a salary determined either by an arbitrator or by the parties agreeing beforehand. If he declines, the parties have until January 8 to make a deal or the team loses the rights to negotiate with him until January 8. The team will also retain their rights to get draft compensation if the player goes elsewhere.
If they don't offer it, which will happen in the bulk of cases, the team loses negotiating rights to him until May 1. They will also lose the right to draft picks.No other major signings occurred, unless you consider Mark Grudzielanek (Cubs), JT Snow (Giants), Robin Ventura (Dodgers), Dean Palmer (Tigers), or Todd Pratt (Phillies) signing with their previous teams as major. Luis Castillo finally officially resigned with the Marlins. Michael Tucker signed a 2 year deal with the Giants. Shigetoshi resigning with the Mariners may be the biggest deal of the weekend, and that certainly wasn't unexpected. So, I'll be back tomorrow with (hopefully) more baseball news.
This was a good weekend for the other major Minnesota sports franchises. The Vikings actually beat the Seahawks. I have to admit, I was shocked. The Vikings completely dominated the time of possession and the game. I think the key was simply getting ahead which allowed the defense to play aggressively. They were consistently able to get pressure on Matt Hasselbeck which took them out of their timing. The offense remained strong. They were able to control the clock with some good running. Michael Bennett went over 100 yards (the key Viking question may be the extent of his ankle injury that kept him out toward the end of the game). Daunte Culpepper played another very smart game, hitting the right receivers at the right time. He set things up with good short passing and also was better on the timing of the long passes. Randy Moss was over 100 yards with 2 long touchdowns. Kelly Campbell also had a long TD reception.
The Vikings win kept them in sole possession of 1st place in the NFC North, a game ahead of the Green Bay Packers. The Pack eliminated the oncoming Bears playoff chances by defeating them. The Bears jumped out to a 14-0 lead, but then the Packers scored 27 unanswered. Next week, the Vikings play those Bears. Hopefully the Bears will be so deflated with their loss that they'll fall over for the Vikings! We can hope, right?
The Timberwolves had a great weekend. Yesterday, Kevin Garnett hit a last second shot to give the Wolves a 96-94 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. Latrell Sprewell led the team with 27 points. Kevin Garnett and Sam Cassell added 24 points each. Garnett added 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 blocks and 3 steals. Cassell added 10 assists, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.
But the game of the weekend had to be the Wolves/Kings game Friday night. Those who stayed up to watch it will probably tell you how lucky they were! The Wolves somehow managed to eek out an overtime win. It was the fourth consecutive time the Wolves and Kings went to overtime. The Wolves grabbed a big third quarter lead, but we knew the Kings would make a comeback. The interesting thing is that said comeback came with Vlade Divac, Doug Christie and All-Star Peja Stojakovic on the bench. I won't say the refs had a hand in the Kings comeback (even if I would love to!) However, the Kings took a six point lead with about 30 seconds to play. The Wolves ran an inbounds play to Kevin Garnett who lofted a 3-pointer that went in. The Kings threw the ball in to Brad Miller, an All-Star who led the Kings with 32 points, but somehow, he missed his 2 free throw attempts. The Wolves brought the ball down the court. It was in the hands of Sprewell, but he was guarded tightly, so he kicked it out to Garnett who, with Bobby Jackson right up on him, knocked down another three pointer, his third of the game, and the fourth of his season. So, the game went to overtime, where Garnett and Sprewell led the team to the 112-109 win.
Sprewell led the Wolves in scoring with 37 points and did a great job holding down Stojakovic. Kevin Garnett added 33 points, a career-high 25 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocked shots. Sam Cassell was overshadowed but added 26 points, including the game-clinching layup at the end of overtime. The wins move the Wolves to 11-8 and have to give them confidence heading into Tuesday's game against Golden State.
But, just to show that not everything changes, the Minnesota Wild continued to struggle to score goals. Saturday night, they were fortunate to get a 1-1 tie in Vancouver. Friday night, they lost 2-1 in Calgary. They stand at 9-13-5.
The Minnesota Gophers men's and women's basketball teams both got easy wins.
The University of North Dakota's football team lost in the Division II semi-finals to North Alabama.
St. John's (MN) University defeated Linfield (OR) in a close game to move on to the Division III semi-finals.
Ah, the beauty of college tournament play. Makes you wish that Division I would just go to a tournament, doesn't it? Or, did Kansas State's demolishing of Oklahoma on Saturday night (35-7) in the Big 12 Championship game, yet Oklahoma still gets to play in the BCS championship game help too? The BCS is ridiculous in determining the national champion. I would like to see them use that ranking to determining the Top 12 teams. Those 12 teams would then make the tournament. Seeds 1-4 would then get a first round bye. 5 would play 12, 6 would play 11 and so on. The remaining teams would then be re-seeded after each round until a champion was determined… on the field!!
OK, Friday, I told you to check out Rich's Weekend Baseball Beat this weekend. He did a two-part interview with Mike from Mike's Baseball Rants. Be sure to check out their links at the left of this screen, but here are the two parts to the interview. Part 1 covers a broad bunch of topics. Part 2 discusses the Hall of Fame and who should make it and why. Very interesting!
That reminds me, please be sure to check out my two part Hall of Fame discussion. Part 1 covered the players on the ballot for the first time. Part 2 covered those returning to the ballot. I have received some great e-mails on that topic. Tomorrow, I will post a mailbag with some of the messages I received. If you would like to participate and have your opinion heard (or read), send me an e-mail.
Well, that's it for today. Quick, but we covered a lot! Tomorrow's mailbag could also include other e-mails from readers. If you have any thoughts on the Twins or what they've done (the Milton trade), or what they should do, let me know. Like I said, just e-mail me and you will probably end up quoted on tomorrow's website (if you want, be sure to let me know whether or not you would like to be named).
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Anthony Fox |
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6 |
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Michael Labuda |
ChiSox Daily |
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7 |
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KDUH Sports |
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7 |
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Seth Stohs |
SethSpeaks |
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7 |
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David Lee |
Braves Buzz |
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8 |
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Missy Olson |
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Windows 8 Phone OS: This is seriously the best mobile OS out there, with no competition. I was an iPhone user, and before that BB user, never found Android exciting, its simply a flawed and free OS to gain marketshare. Windows 8 OS is cool, gorgous, super smooth, has live tiles that gives you info before launching an App (can quickly glance what's going on), email client is amazing, the Music client is simply gorgous, and it is SUPER EASY to use.
Apps: I have NO IDEA what CNet and other reviewers are complaining about! Yes, ofcourse it doesn't have as many Apps as iPhone/Android, it's a FREAKING NEW PLATFORM, DUH! How many Apps did we have at launch of iPhone or Android? I actually think there's more than enough useful apps as launch and they've done an amazing job so far and it will only grow in time. You just need to search around and find replacement for your favorite Apps and I haven't had any issues. One cool thing is you can *try* most apps without paying, and then if it works for you can pay and get the full version. It's fantastic!
Maps: Nokia owns Navteq that is the BIGGEST supplier of maps to all GPS and navigation tools out there (for instance Garmin). So, you KNOW they got this right. It actually has more countries covered than Google Maps. It is very smooth, is very accurate (unlike Apple Maps that are simply inaccurate), and is fast! I find it hard to pick between Nokia Maps and Google Maps, it's a toss-up, and both TRUMP Apple maps.
Nokia Drive: This is turn-by-turn navigation and CAN WORK OFFLINE! This feature alone is worth getting this phone. Imagine traveling to Europe and like to rent a car and drive around... you can simply download the maps for countries you visit, turn Data off (not to pay extra roaming costs), and use this as your GPS. FANTASTIC!
Call Quality/Data: Nothing to complain, it's simply Nokia quality for calls (best in the market), and data speeds are FAST under LTE.
Browser: IE10 is awesome. I love that website entry is at bottom of screen vs. top, so it's easy to use. Website just show-up PERFECT, and with the great resolution, screen size, and WIDER screen than iPhone 5/GS3, you just have MORE ON THE SCREEN, hence a better experience. I actually think websites show up better on this 4.5 vs. 4.8 on GS3 due to the wider aspect ratio.
Wireless charging: WHY not all phones come like this is just beyond me?! It's sooo cool. Simply place it on the plate and have it charged, if it rings, pick up with no unplugging required, cables dangling, etc... Another innovation on this phone!
Build Quality: 10/10, it just feels solid, is made of Poly Carbonate which is used for most expensive gadgets, it has curved glass and curved body and it's just a premium device, at a totally different league vs. GS3, and IMO even better built than iPhone5.
WEIGHT/SIZE: There's so much BS about this phone's size and weight that just infiurates me. CNet claims this is heavy? ARE YOU SERIOUS?! This weighs as much as 2 clices of Ham and I never noticed the weight until I READ the review... People add metal/huge protective cases to their phone and add weight all the time. The size is just like GS3, and it does weigh a tiny bit more, but it's ABSOLUTELY NOT AN ISSUE, it's simply non-sense to say that's a downside.
Cool factor: 10/10. This is ONE COOL PHONE and DIFFERENT! I wish I could get the Cyan or other colors, but in Canada we only get Black for now. If you got a choice, get a non-black color, it will totally stand out!
Overall: I have NEVER owned another phone that has WOWed me as much and has done so many things as well as this phone. I literally pick it up multiple times an hr just to feel the awesome quality. It is the best internet experience with the gorgous display, the camera is simply untouchable at night, and if you are a younger user who takes pictures at night a lot, YOU MUST OWN this. The phone is different than all slabs in the market, and if you're in US, it's an incredible deal with AT&T.
If you wanna BE DIFFERENT, BE COOL, OWN a Lumia! Bottom line!
Updated on Nov 15, 2012
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If you are on AT&T, the choise is clear. Price on the 920 is absolutely ridiculous $99... Black Friday Sale in the US pegs it at only 50 bucks!
- super-sensitive touch screen
- readable screen in bright sunlight
- optical image stabilization and PureView algorithms in the camera
- Exclusive Nokia Apps
- Wireless charging (though rumor is the Verizon 8X will have this)
Both have great screens as far as pixel density goes. Both have the same snappy dual-core CPU. The camera on the 8X is no slouch either, and their front-facing camera does edge out the 920's front camera. But the big deal-breaker for me is non-expandable 16GB storage on the 8X. OUCH. The 920 isn't expandable either, but at least you get a roomy 32GB. -
nice review!
I was able to special order the cyan and it oozes cool.
And just think... this is just the beginning of WP8. There will be even more improvements as time goes by.
As far as Audio, It's probably a tossup between the 920 and the 8X. The 8X has Beats Audio and a built-in amp. The 920 has Dolby Audio I think.... Both sound great, and matter more on your headphones (as others have said). I am eying those nice Monster headphones on the Nokia accessories website. I think the 8X might have the edge because of that built in amp... but honestly, I think the advantage is a small one. The 920 wins hands down when you add up the full package of features.
I will say the 8X is a great looking phone, and people who are not on AT&T have a lovely option for jumping on the WP8 fun through that device. The California Blue on the 8X is lovely. And while they are roughly the same height, the shape and smaller width of the 8X is nice for people who want a smaller feeling phone. -
@Osa007, the music sounds perfect to me. I have no idea HOW Cnet rated the same chipset sound (HTC has the same chipset) better? To me, for any portable music device, earphones make the BIGGEST difference and I got a nice Seinheiser that sounds just perfect!
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What does music sound like. Based on CNET review HTC 8X sounded better.


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on by Nunez384Pros + Sound quality is very good
+ There are 5 HDMI inputs
+ Audessey setup was great
+ Manual is very detailed and comprehensive
+ Plays FLAC files for stunning, high resolution musicCons - No SACD support
- NO pre-amp outputsSummary Sound quality is very good. Even air play songs from my iPhone sound very good. Compared to my last Denon AVR-635, my speakers had a more open sound and better sound stage or presence. FWIW, I'm running 12 year old Paradigm Titan bookshelf speakers along with the Paradigm's center channel from that era which I believe is CC-170. The surrounds are Paradigm ADP-170's and finally the sub is a 12" Polk PSW-505.
Hooking up the HDMI and speaker wires is pretty easy and standard. I did have a little trouble feeding 12 ga speaker wire onto the posts and behind the nut. Is if you're running 12 ga wire you'd be we'll advised to some banana plugs. Smaller ga wire was no trouble. I used the Audessy set up with the microphone and I wasn't thrilled. Make sure you go back and change your front speaker size to small or you'll be wondering why your sub won't fire in anything but 5.1 feeds.
Nice thing is that I was able to change the subwoofer level for each sound setting and device I use. So I have a little more sub with stereo or matrix setting but a little less when watching movies. Anyway, after a bit of a learning curve and adjusting the sound settings, I find the sound for all devices to be very good. I'm a guy who cares more about music reproduction than home theater sound, but it does that very well too.
In order to get the most out of this unit, you really need to have it on your home network. Otherwise, you'll have no Air play ability or Internet radio. Streaming pandora from my iPhone as I write this...it's nice. Very nice to be able to Turin the receiver from any room in my home and play whatever I want. Even pulls up lots of local, national, global radio stations that stream over the Internet. The receiver has no wifi so you have to use cat5 cable to hook up to your network. I solved this using a netgear power line adapter (model XAVB1004). Super easy! I recommend checking it out if you need a wired network connection.
iPod/iPhone connectivity:
It's nice to be able to hook up your iPhone to the front USB port to play music. You can even use the Denon remote to browse your music from the sofa but the interface leaves a lot to be desired. Much better if you're networked. That way you feed your wifi and the router feeds the receiver. Just use your phone like you normally would.
User interface:
Wanted to make sure I mentioned that the on screen display (on the tv) does make it pretty easy to navigate through the various receiver settings. Now that I'm more familiar with the unit, I can quickly jump into the settings menu and make a quick change if I feel it's necessary. Much better than squinting at the AVR display.
Would have given it 5 stars if I didn't have to go back and adjust all my settings after using the Audessy setup. Otherwise, I'm very happy and would recommend. Kinda afraid to update my firmware though since its working so nicely right now.
Note: I suggest you have to check for low price of this receiver at: www.avreceiverreviewsbuy.com/buy-denon-avr-1913
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on by akindyPros The sound is great and the feature list/flexibility (I have mine set to bi-amp) is fantastic.
Cons "Mode Not Supported" error
Static and flashing imageSummary All the time I get a "Mode Not Supported" error from my Samsung TV, never was a problem before the Denon. It also has trouble with many of my HDMI devices. I can't pinpoint a source (sometimes switching from an analog input to HDMI, other times from cold power up) but it will behave as if it is re-initiating an HDMI hand shake over and over. It will show no picture for several seconds, flash static, show the picture, then repeat.
"LOVE this receiver! Great sound and a very easy set-up."
on by DieselncPros It sounds AWESOME!
Easy on-screen set-up
Easy auto-sound calibration system that sounds unbelievable
Lots of inputs
A very nice and easy to use remote.
Love the air play for my Itunes
The Denon remote app is a nice feature, too.
Can be set up for 5.1Cons It is not Wi Fi and it only has one sub input.. Both did not affect me.
Summary I had a Denon AVR-87 for 12 years before my purchase. It was a great receiver, so I decided to stick with Denon. After a lot of research, I decided to go with the AVR-1913. I have not been disapointed. Now being on the market for over a year and being discounted in most stores, you get a lot of bang for your bucks. I loved how easy it was to set-up(on the TV screen) and I have enjoyed the perfectly balanced surround sound with crisp highs and deep clear lows. This was made possible by the sound auto-calibration feature. Also, I don't have the speakers to set up for 7.1 at this time. It was very easy for me to set this receiver up for 5.1. I have also taken notice of the video up-conversion. It looks amazing. If you need WiFi, then that would be an issue with this receiver and it only has one subwoofer input. Other than those 2 things, don't worry about this receiver. Go out and buy it... You won't regret it!! Did I mention that it sounds AMAZING?
Love the online network (hard-wired) features like Pandora and internet radio.
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"This is the worst component that I have ever had!"
on by kaps--2008Pros Nice unit, I just wish it worked!
Cons The sound quality & volume vary. When you fast forward the volume can change without any input. When music comes on the volume goes down & sounds muffled. I've called Denon many time & no help. I think it's a conflict with Directv.
Summary I really wish Denon Tech Support but after six calls they could not help fix this but they are absolutely no help. My retailer said it sounded like a compression problem. I even swapped out the unit. Yesterday they exchanged it for a Yamaha which works Great!
I really wish Denon Tech Support could help but after six calls they could not fix this. They were absolutely no help. My retailer said it sounded like a compression problem. I even swapped out the unit. Yesterday they exchanged it for a Yamaha which works Great!
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"Sound that will make you the envy of your friends"
on by SeanPatrick76Pros Unparalleled sound quality
Easy to use and effective Audyssey speaker configuration
Highly customizable audio options - right down to individual speaker crossover frequencies
Great looking GUI
Simple and effective remote controlCons No built in Wi-fi or Blutooth, but assuming you don't need to use your smartphone to operate the receiver all the time, not a big deal.
Summary Initially I bought the Sony STR-DN1030 on CNET's suggestion, but was left a little underwhelmed with the sound. Not that it was BAD, but it didn't really beat my old Denon 5.1 system, and I realized that after messing around with blutooth and wifi for a bit, 99 percent of the time I'd NEVER use them. So I went with my gut and exchanged it for the Denon 1913. What a difference, again the Sony didn't have BAD sound, it's just that the 1913 sounds SO GOOD it blows everything else away. My living room has NEVER sounded so good, with rich lows and crisp high's for movies, games, and music ( By the way, the networking is superb for the Denon, and the GUI feels current and easy to use ) -
If you need the extra Gizmo's fine, go with the Sony or the Onkyo with a cheep dongle, but if what you really want is performance for your media - BUY THIS RECEIVER!


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