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So I am sure many of you are extremely excited by the latest force packs and the amazing tools they have given to the Scum and Villainy affiliation in particular. I set to work as soon as I got them trying to finally come up with a deck to use my favourite affiliation and I think I may have cracked it. As I playtested and modified the deck I think I have been able to plug the holes I have found in their strategy. Right off the bat I found that despite the amazing pods we now have for Scum, the affiliation lacked sufficiently heavy hitters to get the game over and destroy enemy objectives. It quickly became clear that an attempt at straight Scum still wasn't viable, so I decided to try some splashes.
I had initially toyed with Imperial Navy as a partner due to their many multi-resource generating enhancements that couple well with some of the Scum cards that seem useless like Bounty Collection and their minor focus on capturing themselves. The more I tried that deck, the more I felt I was stuck with cards that were too situational to rely on so I went back to the drawing board. I decided to try a Sith splash as their pods give me access to Sith Library and other resource generation cards as well as control elements and game enders like Palpatine.
The Libraries have proven invaluable in helping build a solid and rapid resource advantage over your opponent. The need to have the Scum Affiliation card to use a key pod, Lucrative Contract was proving to make building slightly awkward, but I think I have come up with a nice balance to off-set the potentially awkward resource base. Here's my current list and after it I will discuss each card and pod one by one to explain my experience with them and decision to play them. Hope you guys like it!
Scum and Villainy Affiliation Card
Objectives (10):
Looking For Droids (Neutral) x1
The Emperor's Web (Sith) x2
Counsel of the Sith (Sith) x2
The Hunt For Han Solo (S&V) x1
Jabba's Orders (S&V) x2
Lucrative Contract (S&V) x2
Units (25):
Ugnaught x1
Emperor Palpatine x2
Emperor's Royal Guard x2
Advisor to the Emperor x2
Z-95 Headhunter x2
Kuati Security Team x2
Viper Probe Droid x2
Outer Rim Space Pirates x2
Jawa Trading Crawler x2
Weequay Elite x4
Corrupt Official x4
Enhancements (7):
Cloud City Incinerator x1
Jabba's Palace x2
Sith Library x4
Events (14):
Force Choke x2
Force Lightning x2
Get Me Solo! x2
Explosive Charge x2
Dark Precognition x2
Dark Alliance x2
It's Worse x1
Carbonite Chamber Activation x1
Fate Cards (4):
Twist of Fate x4
The basic strategy is to use the Scum units to establish a solid defensive line while striking out with Z-95 Headhunters, Kuati Security Teams and the Emperor. Given the solid resource base, I am usually able to hit Palpatine fairly reliably to start buying my opponent's units in focus tokens and their objectives in damage. Capturing cards is not integral to this deck's strategy, but clever distribution of the cards you do manage to capture can make your opponent's decision of which objectives to attack and when much more difficult.
Now to break it down card by card…
Looking For Droids: This card helps mitigate potentially awkward objective and resource draws. It tends to be a safe place to store captured cards too as its actual effect gets more negligible as the game goes on, which makes it a less attractive target for your opponent's attacks. If I have a choice of it or Web in my opening draw, I usually pick it as Web only affects Lightning and only has 4 damage capacity. I have to use the Scum affiliation card, so the resource match ability and the cards in the set are very helpful to smooth out resource match issues.
The Emperor's Web: I try to avoid playing this objective whenever possible due to its low damage capacity. Jabba's Palace mitigates that problem, but the perk of Web itself is only usable with two out of fifty cards in the command deck. The cards from the pod are integral, though so I'm sticking with it.
Counsel of the Sith: Easily one of the best objectives in the game in my opinion. It can be attractive to use both if you get them in your opening draw, but I tend to settle for just one so I can keep more Scum objectives in play to protect with Corrupt Officials. The pod has so many key cards too.
The Hunt For Han Solo: The pod itself has some great cards to support my strategy, but capturing is sort of a side effect of this deck's overall theme of control and superior resource generation. The objective itself seems good on paper, but capturing isn't reliable enough here so I don't count on getting much out of it if it ever sees play. The best card in the pod is a two of, so I'm fine running the one copy of this set.
Jabba's Orders: I drastically underestimated this objective's ability until I saw the incredible value of being able to effectively predict your opponent's next turn or their defensive potential after flipping it. Additionally, hitting it first turn with a copy of Get Me Solo! can give you a strong leg up on your opponent as you can hit their best unit or even multiple units at once. The cards in the pod itself are fantastic, but more on them later.
Lucrative Contract: This objective is amazing. I only run six mercenaries at this time, but being able to reduce the risk of committing those units to the Force or to counteract enemy Tactics icons is amazing. A fantastic pod and I think it will be an integral part of many Scum decks.
Ugnaught: I have tons of resource generation and this guy's ability is hit or miss as I don't have to do a lot of capturing for this deck to work so he's not so hot. He's a boon more often than a burden, though so he's not bad. Since he generates a resource, he is a good candidate to commit to the Force.
Emperor Palpatine: The big boss of all these mercenaries and criminals. Getting him on table will really put your opponent on the ropes and my playtests have yielded that he is easy to play comfortably and early in the game. His Reaction maintains its usefulness as I have six Sith events in the deck that are all great to recur depending on your needs at the time.
Emperor's Royal Guard: An excellent unit overall and a great one to use to swipe the Balance of the Force. If I eventually fit Boba Fett in here somehow, this guy will help alleviate the risk of Fett's low damage capacity. An amazing card overall.
Advisor to the Emperor: An excellent and flexible unit. If I need resources for Sith, he has 'em. If I need to grab the Balance of the Force, he can. Tactics icons are a great way to make your opponent defend against an attacker as they will get their unit or units focused if they don't. Attack with this guy first against a less important objective to force their hand and then send your heavy hitters once their defenders have been drawn to him.
Z-95 Headhunter: This card is slightly awkward to use depending on the match-up, but it has reliable offensive icons and a solid damage capacity. It's also easy to use this guy to make your opponent want to defend against its blast damage and if you happen capture a card from their hand during the engagement at the same time you're laughing! This card alone tempts me to double the pod count, but I've found the two copies to be plenty thus far.
Kuati Security Team: Not the best unit, but it's neutral which makes it easy to play. It can help chip away at opponent's objectives and defend against sneaky attempts to grab the all-important unopposed damage bonus.
Viper Probe Droid: This guy isn't so hot, but if you use him as your free discard during your draw phase he is rather good. I generally try to avoid playing it from my hand as it takes away from the utility of its ability, so edge battles are also good to pitch it in too. Effectively increasing your hand size is always good, so this guy is a nice little trick to have sometimes.
Outer Rim Space Pirates: This card is incredibly flexible with its resource generation, excellent combat icons, and strong Force icon count. Having Lucrative Contract out makes it even better, so try to get Contract out whenever possible for this and other reasons.
Jawa Trading Crawler: Not the best unit in the deck, but it is fairly flexible. There are a few droids and several vehicles in this deck so the resources can rather easily be taken to their fullest advantage. The combat icons may be edge-dependent, but that just makes this unit a good candidate for an unopposed attack on an unguarded objective. Way more flexible than I first anticipated.
Weequay Elite: One of this deck's all-stars. Even without his cost discount, this guy is an effective threat to your opponents plans both on offense and defense. I am commonly able to get him out for only two, but even at four cost he proves incredibly useful. Committing him to the Force can be very effective if you have Lucrative Contract out to help refresh those extra focus tokens off him. Fantastic card and it will only get better with more Scum sets.
Corrupt Official: I will probably never put this card into play. The discard ability is rather amazing and can easily ruin your opponent's attacks. I generally use them sooner rather than later, however, because I think cycling through the deck to get key cards is important to the flow of my strategy. The deck has four copies so using one to stop even one point of damage is worth it more often than it isn't as you will almost certainly draw more as the game goes on.
Cloud City Incinerator: I don't think I have ever actually put this card into play. The ability does have its uses, but is generally not worth the cost since I could put a unit into play instead. I also like the ability to lure my opponent into attacking certain objectives by storing captured cards on them so the ability becomes even less appealing with that in mind. The two Force icons mean it is usually solid edge-fodder, so it's not a total loss.
Jabba's Palace: This card is amazing. The resource is nice, but the extra damage capacity it grants to each of your objectives is a great way to ruin your opponent's offensive strategy. Playing it after they have already damaged an objective or two can really mess with their math and make them have to go back to the drawing board. It is unique, but the three Force icons mean you can find much use for the second one if you draw it.
Sith Library: This card is what made me want to pair up with Sith in the first place. It has cheap resource ramping that helps get Palpatine and other key cards out as early as possible. I specifically chose sets that had it to include in the deck and basically stumbled upon the Scum to Emperor strategy I am finding to work rather well. This card also combos extremely well with Explosive Charge too, which is a big plus.
Force Choke: I don't think I need to explain how amazing this card is. Emperor recurring it is just icing on the cake!
Force Lightning: My early drafts of this deck had issues with vehicle-based strategies and this card provides some more options when dealing with such a deck. Yet again, Emperor recursion makes it even better!
Get Me Solo!: This card seems iffy, but aside from the explosive starts it can allow if you draw it with Jabba's Orders, even missing with its capture ability allowed you a look at the opponent's hand. The value of that cannot be overstated. Knowing which cards they have to use in edge battles and can play next turn can make both your offense and defense stronger. With two Force icons, this is really flexible card.
Explosive Charge: I expect this card to keep getting better as the card pool expands and enhancements grow in their importance. With the number of enhancements in this list you can easily sabotage everything from your opponent's resource base to their offensive and defensive tactics. I generally pitch it if I can't use it immediately, however, as I think it is important to cycle cards without an immediate use in hopes of getting cards you want to play right away.
Dark Precognition: One of my favourite cards. The effect seems simple but, in my experience, the more you dig through your deck, the better off you are in the game. It can also be recurred with Palpatine if you have a crummy hand and want to try and draw some better answers to the board state.
Dark Alliance: I haven't had to use this card yet, but there is always the chance that I could draw no Looking For Droids and Sith objectives the whole game. The two Force icons make it useful in edge battles, so it is never really a dead draw.
It's Worse: I haven't had a chance to use this card as anything but edge fodder yet, but the potential is there. I avoid holding onto it, though as it is contingent on what cards your opponent is playing no matter how devastating a surprise it can be.
Carbonite Chamber Activation: This is a killer card, but its use is somewhat narrow. In the right match-up, it is downright annoying to play against, though. Once again, two Force icons still maintain its value in situations where you can't use its ability to much effect.
Twist of Fate: Easily the best Fate card in my opinion, so the more the merrier! It isn't hard to make your opponent waste several cards with this one if you use it effectively, which I'm sure you all know how to do by now.
I hope you guys like the deck and would love some feedback! So far I haven't found Looking For Droids to be completely necessary but the potential for resource screw is rather apparent without it so I think I will stick with it for now. If anyone has any math or stats to help me determine the odds of being resource screwed without it if I were to swap it for another Sith or Scum objective, I would greatly appreciate it! Scum and Villainy for life!
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Gallery Four guru and consistently cutting-edge curator Jason Hughes continues the 25th anniversary parade of high-concept, artfully arranged group shows at Maryland Art Place with Material Matters, an exhibit intended to explore "the sociopathic tendencies within our society by appropriating various examples found in consumer culture and social indifference." A mouthful, to be sure, but the 10 local, national, and international artists showcased here create works that fit Hughes mission while remaining immediately accessible, always tongue-in-cheek, and often profound.
The show opens with a rare instance of site-specificity. Berlin-based artist Adrian Lohmüllers performance art project "fecal COMMERCE" uses a sandwich-board sign outside the gallery and floor-mounted decals to lead Power Plant Live! and Port Discovery tourists to the public rest room inside of MAP and a wall-mounted installation that documents his ongoing efforts to find public toilets by asking municipal employees for advice. Its an activity that he encourages his audience to continue, by sending him photos and written documentation of their efforts. Listing his materials as "questions, toilets, uniforms, and feces," Lohmüller explores the effects of consumer culture on bodily functions and calls attention to the fact that most "public" rest rooms in America are found within McDonalds, chain hotels, and other commercial spaces.
Two artists from San Salvador similarly challenge consumer ideals with works that repurpose the detritus of Western pop culture. Walterio Irahetas Kryptonia series of sculptures and photographs subverts that most American of icons, Superman, in surprising and compelling ways. "Meeting Lena," an arrangement of action figures that poses Superman in a compromising position with two buxom, bikini-clad Japanese anime characters, pokes fun at the modern-day tendency to value sex appeal over heroism and integrity. More poignantly, Irahetas photograph "Supergirl in Atitlán" captures a careworn Guatemalan woman posing outside of her rough-hewn shanty home, dressed in Supermans iconic red and blue uniform. The effect is absurd and depressing all at once, illustrating Americas overwhelming urge to export its pop culture, not its resources or humanitarian aid.
Installation artist Simón Vegas "Shanty Mall" is a miniature model of an American shopping mall, constructed with Adidas and Nike shoe boxes, discarded Starbucks and McDonalds packaging, slabs of cardboard, and other materials commonly used to build shantytowns in Third World nations. The concept is simple yet staggering and, like Irahetas work, underlines the economic disparity between America and the rest of the world while questioning the U.S. capitalist machines eagerness to colonize underdeveloped countries with Western products and consumer ideals.
Similarly, local fiber artist Liz Ensz blends Western consumerism with Middle Eastern design principles in "Gas Pump Floral Motif," a 2005 work cleverly mounted to mimic wallpaper on one of MAPs walls. Using the large-scale repeating patterns found in Islamic religious architecture, Ensz incorporates images of gas pumps into an otherwise innocent-looking floral design. By blending a Middle Eastern cultural touchstone with an easily recognizable symbol of Americas real interest in that area of the world, Ensz creates a uniquely satirical hybrid of sacred and profane imagery.
Washington, D.C.-based artist Jason Zimmermans art books, bound in pristine white, are strange and unevenly successful documents of modern culture. "Rape the Willing" compiles a lurid assortment of e-mails and explicit photographs from internet users arranging anonymous meetings to enact twisted rape fantasies--presented with cotton curatorial gloves for audience examination. The gloves seemingly protect you from the smutty contents, while more practically preserving Zimmermans virginal white book bindings. The less intriguing "Disney World" is an identically bound collection of snapshots from the famous theme park, which seems to rely on the weak pun produced when viewers don the Mickey Mouse-esque gloves to flip through the pages. And "Passport Remnants," a series of passport photos with their heads removed, looks equally bland next to "Rape the Willings" more incendiary conceit.
Works by Laura Burns, who examines the plight of marginalized women in Juarez, Mexico; Joel Kyack, who illustrates mans struggle against nature; and Daniel Rich, who appropriates images of Gaza, Ramallah, and other crisis epicenters, are equally strong--but Material Matters real centerpiece is Cliff Evans three-channel moving image projection, "The Road to Mount Weather." Playing on a 15-minute loop in the gallerys darkened back room, the piece is a collage of images--political, religious, and popular in nature--all found on the internet. With a soundtrack that includes applauding crowds, religious choruses, and other vague yet evocative sounds, porn stars, soldiers, politicians, and religious figures drift hypnotically through war-torn wastelands, suburban neighborhoods, and sports arenas, creating a bizarrely soothing brand of information overload.
Accompanied by a lovely full-color catalog, Material Matters is both visually arresting and timely--an excellent destination show.
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In the past decade, many strategies have been developed to enhance oral protein delivery. The aim of the current work was to develop a nanoparticulate system based on ionic gelation between chitosan and Arabic gum for loading of insulin. Various formulations were prepared using 23 factorial designs. The optimum association efficiency was obtained for formulations F2, F5, and F8. The release profile of insulin in phosphate buffer solutions (pH 6.5 and pH 7.2) is completely different than that in acidic medium (pH 1.2). Increased solubility of chitosan in acidic medium and better swelling of Arabic gum chains at pH >6.5 resulted in lower insulin release of nanoparticles at pH 6.5 in comparison with that of the other pH mediums. The values of the exponent n were 0.49 and 0.82 for formulations F8 and F5, respectively, indicating a non-Fickian transport. This suggests that release is possibly controlled by diffusion or relaxation of the polymer chains.
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An avid traveler, American Tripper Kyle Stanton has studied abroad in Budapest, lived in South Korea and hung out with locals in Kosovo. He is our Tripper of the Week.
Tell us a bit about yourself.
I'm a 24 year old writer from New Jersey, USA who just graduated with an MA in history. Right now I'm a freelance writer but I've worked as an english teacher in South Korea and a census supervisor in the US. Currently I'm planning my first trip ever with my Father. We're going to Iceland in a month!
What inspired you to move to Budapest for a year and what did you enjoy most about living there?
I've recently returned home from Budapest after doing a Masters Degree in History there. There were a lot of things I loved about the city but I think that my favorite thing was having a great public transport system at my disposal. Being an American kid from the suburbs, I've always had to drive everywhere. In Budapest though, pretty much any part of the city was reachable within 30 mins and it was extremely easy to use. It's also great to not have to worry about finding a designated driver when going out for a night on the town. I find that you come across some of the most interesting characters on the late night buses.
One of your favorite places on earth is Somaliland. What makes it such a cool place?
Somaliland was great because Somalilanders were generally really happy to show me their country. It's a remarkably peaceful place that has had uninterrupted democratic elections yet not many people in my country know about it. It's technically not a separate country from Somalia but it has it's own government, currency, flag, etc that isn't recognized anywhere else in the world. That makes it a really unique place to see. The only drawback is that it's quite difficult to explain to passport control agents where I went and why I went there!
You've visited one place not many travelers have – Transnistria. Is it as exciting a place to visit as it sounds?
Transnistria was definitely as interesting as it sounds. It does seem like the closest thing to the Soviet Union today although like Somaliland, it technically doesn't exist on maps. It was weird for me to see a huge statue of V.I. Lenin in front of their capitol building. They have a president for life who owns most of the industry in the country as well. Being a traveler there means navigating their ex-Soviet bureaucracy. Accompanied by my host, it took me almost two hours to deal with their migration office. I also was interviewed on Transnistrian state television when I went to a concert there. So maybe I'm famous in an ex-Soviet breakaway state?
Interacting with local people is one of the things you love about traveling: what's your most fond memory of meeting locals?
Interacting with local people is definitely central to my idea of traveling. I think it's the best way to find out what a place is really like and what local people really do. As you can tell by my profile picture I love food. I've found some of the best local places to eat by talking and staying with local people. I found the best al pastor tacos in Mexico, bureks in Serbia, kitfo in Ethiopia, and Iskender kebabs in Turkey by asking locals. You can bet that if a traveler were to ask me about the best places to eat in Northern New Jersey, I wouldn't lead them astray!
You lived in South Korea as well. What was your most memorable experience while living there?
For me, the fun part of South Korea was looking for its history. In a country that seems to be only looking forward to the future, this was a challenge. But going for hikes through unlikely places could reveal a different Korea. During one of my best hikes, I saw a 400 year old pagoda, a dog farm, and I peered into North Korea from the top of a mountain. Like any good hike in Korea it was capped off with a bottle of soju (rice wine). I find that if first impressions of a place aren't what I had hoped for, it's good to explore even more.
What is your best "one time when I was traveling in ___" story?
There are so many stories and memories I have from traveling that it's hard to pick just one. I'd say Christmas of 2010 in Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo is probably my fondest memory. I got there by hitch hiking most of the way from Budapest. Basically, the city is where the war in Kosovo ended. A bridge cuts the city into strict ethnic areas, Albanians in the south and Serbs in the north. I stayed on the northern side with Serbs who are my age. It was amazing to me, how hospitable they were to me even though a few of them had actually been fighting against Americans during the war a decade ago. They wouldn't let me pay for anything and I felt really welcome. In a city that's still policed by American and European soldiers, I was the first American they had met who wasn't part of the military or an NGO. They took me to some interesting places like an abandoned Yugoslav-era spa, a rock club, and a thousand-year-old Orthodox monastery. I think that our interaction definitely changed each other's opinions of our respective countries. For me, this trip was everything I hope and look for in travel.
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"Israel's goal is to have the entire world destroy each other, then they would rule"
Is EVERY critique of Israel and the IDF considered anti Semitic/critique of global Jewry?
It seems like Anonymous is really just acting as Palestinians not for them. Is Anon antisemitic?
If isreal imploded peace would blossom all over the world.
Israel is the 'original' Paper Tiger. To be hacked to such a degree by a Palestinian is precious.
Has anyone from anonymous apologized to the 19 yr old in Halifax who was wrongly identified?
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Not a whisper of this in the usa.
As far as tactics go, this was the dumbest in history of mankind.
When the Usa and Hamas rid themselves of Zog,peace will return.
Someone should make Israel to attack itself. nice project hey?we all will be better off
Israel nuclear war have begun get ready people
I will be impressed when they publish their nuclear launch codes
It is hard to take down the guys who invented the methodology of the Internet and computer chip
Spend time and efforts on fighting the real killer who's killing more Muslims than Israel ever did!
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The Fairfax County Police Department sends 370 vehicles home every day with employees, many to localities as far afield as Stafford and Spotsylvania counties.
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For many years, Fairfax has had no policy governing how far a take-home car could go or how it could be used when an officer was off duty. That allowed the cars to be taken on hunting or fishing trips, officers said. Some officers who have a take-home car don't have a personal vehicle.
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Fredericksburg currently sends 38 of its 114 passenger vehicles home overnight with employees. But until three days after a May FOI request from The Free Lance-Star, its parks, recreation and public facilities department was sending 14 home. It now sends one home on a regular basis, and three more on a rotating on-call basis. (See this story.)
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Michael Thompson, president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, said long-distance driving not only runs up gas and maintenance costs but also adds mileage to the vehicles so that new cars must be bought sooner. "If they're taking them home to Fredericksburg and back, there's something about that that doesn't sit well," Thompson said.
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Our family has grown up here and we have had more happy times than we can remember. Every year we introduce something new. This is the first ripe lemon from our new tree in the garden.
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AMD's chip-supply reassessment leads to big quarterly losses
AMD has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, and as expected, the numbers aren't pretty. In early December, AMD slashed its Wafer Supply Agreement with its chip-baking partner, Globalfoundries, and warned investors that it was going to take a sharp hit due to that action. They were right. If that …
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1) PC (particularly desktop) sales are falling dramatically
2) Intel command significantly greater market share in the laptop market due to low power and high performance offerings
3) AMD don't have a product range that is being widely adopted by tablet makers
4) AMD still make very powerful and market leading graphics chips / cards
5) AMD used to command a lead in large server farms with their Opteron chips offering good performance/power
So - what's the future outlook for AMD ? It seems bleak unless there is high demand for graphics cards and AMD command a lead on the large server market. Is this broadly right and if so, what's the future for them ?
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I don't know, if the rumblings that AMD are making the graphics and CPU for the PS4 are true then that should be a step in the right direction. If they're doing either for the 720 then that's also a big plus.
Likewise AMD have been working on those new ARM server chips for a while, that could lead to a break in the low power tablet market also, if they can start making arm chips with ATI graphics onbourd.
Desktop wise though they're still boned, I'm pretty certain my next PC will be AMD though, just because I like supporting the underdog, but that next PC isn't coming for another couple years.
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AC- I think you're a little confused or behind the times perhaps?
1. PC desktop sales are NOT falling dramatically, but laptop sales and portables are increasing.
2. Actually Intel can't "command" anything but they currently enjoy greater laptop sales than AMD - not because they have a better product, but because they use bribe money, aka marketing money to entice OEMs. AMD's laptop APUs are actually better in performance for most consumers and almost equal in power consumption to Intel's best laptop APUs.
3. Actually AMD does have a product line (as you will see soon) that is widely adopted by tablet makers and all other makers of portable devices. This is what Rory Read was hied to implement and he has done so. If you listened to AMD's financial phone conference you'd know they are about to announce many new portable OEM products shipping in Q1.
4. In addition to AMD's powerful and class leading GPUs, they make class leading APUs and very powerful desktop/laptop CPUs/APUs. While Intel may hold the performance crown at the moment in CPUs but not in desktop or laptop APUs, AMD is selling a ton of FX processors because they deliver better performance per dollar than Intel's i3, i5, i7 line and the FX processors far exceed any Intel CPU in multi-taking ops. The only thing Intel has going is bragging rights for the faster IPC, at the moment and that is only part of what PC performance is all about - as AMD has proven and consumers have substantiated.
5. AMD did lose a lot of enterprise server share because they castrated their server division. Rory Read understands that this is a key market where AMD has good products to offer and they bought SeaMicro to accelerate AMD's ability to recover the loss server market share - which is quite likely as micro servers are in high demand and AMD has the best hardware for that segment - right now. They will need to continue their development in server tech, which is what Bulldozer was originally intended for. Piledriver will improve things considerably and OEMs are already building wonderful low power, heigh efficiency servers with Trinity APUs - which were never intended for servers, but that work amazingly well for servers.
The future for AMD is almost limitless in reality. APUs are what 98% of PCs and portables will be using in a few years. There will still be a niche market for discrete CPU/APU applications for those willing to pay excessive prices for same. With AMD being far ahead of intel on APU development, they are in the driver's seat for a few years though Intel is making progress quickly. As noted above AMD already is in numerous portables and will be in a lot more.
Reportedly 1 in 3 laptops sold in Q4 of '12 had an AMD CPU/APU in it, which is impressive considering the size of AMD compared to intel. Intel has realized that portables are the growth future several years after AMD determined this. Now Intel is closing their desktop mobo division and trying to get portable sales to help their bottom line which is dwindling.
As far as AMD's financial situation they did far better than I expected them to do with the horrible economy and their massive restructuring. I would not be surprised at all to see several more quarters of red ink while they re-organise and purchase assets such as SeaMicro and other complimentary entities to grow their market share in many new as well as existing market segments. It's not easy for anyone in the PC industry right now be it Intel, Apple, Microsucks, et al but at least AMD is now adjusting to the market dynamics and finding new revenue streams as they continue to advance development across all of their product lines.
Re: Expert Analysis - Hardly
You forget the other thing going on at AMD, they recently shelled out for an ARM license to design and build a 64-bit ARM processor for servers.
That's the one that may be giving Intel a few sleepless nights. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that also crop up as an APU with decent Graphics / GPU compute support, as AMD are going that way with everything else. What you'd be looking at there would be something like a 64-bit Tegra3 on steroids, which could be a bit of a game changer in some very obvious markets.
Re: Expert Analysis - Hardly
ARM is another potention revenue stream and that is good for AMD. AMD already has SoC's and many low voltage designs that are in high demand. The key with AMD's limited resources is to pick and chose the best areas to generate the highest profits with some stability in an ever changing marketplace. Intel is only one competitor that they must deal with, there are many in the ARM segment.
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I dont see how crit SEP can pass strength, unless your crit is really really really low?
Because as you get more and more crit, the SEP for crit goes down, so maybe if you had 1% crit instead of the average 30% crit, perhaps crit SEP would be higher than strength...even then i doubt it? (dont have excel available now so can't check...)


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The struggling Big East Conference came up short again in the latest round of expansion.
The conference lost its fifth member in the past 18 months with Rutgers bolting for the Big Ten Tuesday. Now the league could lose one of its two most prominent remaining football programs.
Louisville or Connecticut could join the Atlantic Coast Conference -- which is seeking a replacement for Big Ten-bound Maryland.
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"Who can look at you and say they're not behind getting rid of cancer?" said Peters.
That's the point of having people who dealt with cancer or whose loved ones did, lobbying their legislators about the things government can do to help.
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Although I am an advocate of project-based learning, I am not unaware of its challenges. As the old military adage has it, failure to prepare is preparation to fail, so here is a list of what I consider to be the main issues you need to be aware of. Many of them may be subsumed under the general heading "management", but I believe it's worth itemising them all nonetheless.
This is a key issue. As we saw in 7 Reasons to use project-based learning in computing, a "rich" problem has many potential dimensions. "How can we make the roads safe around here?", the example given in that post, has no simple, cut and dried answers. For example, one reason that kids get knocked over by traffic is that they step out into the road while texting or listening to music. Another reason is that children find it hard to judge the speed and distance of oncoming vehicles. Those are not easy problems to solve. On the other hand, a "problem" like "What's the climate like in New Mexico" can be solved in about two minutes, simply by looking it up.
You don't have to come up with the problem yourself. Staff, parents and pupils themselves can be invited to make suggestions, based on the things that are worrying them. The list they come up with should keep you in projects for quite a while!
I mean this in two senses. First, you need to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to develop the same skills. Not necessarily in one project, which would be asking a lot, but certainly over the course of the year. Otherwise you could have a situation in which a pupil only ever does writing or design work, and never touches data handling, for example. Think of the individual pupil outcome as a patchwork quilt: it doesn't work if all the squares are the same colour.
Second, if one is not careful, it is very easy to allow some pupils to get away with doing very little. However I think one needs to be both pragmatic and perceptive.
I once had a class for two hour lessons, twice a week. If I saw a couple of pupils taking a break to discuss last night's soap, I took the view that as I can't work for two hours solid, why should I expect them to be able to? But after a few minutes I'd catch their eye and point to the clock. That was all that was needed.
Some pupils look like they are not doing any work at all. But just because you can't see their brain whirring doesn't mean that nothing is going on. In one group I had, one boy spent virtually all group discussion time talking about football with his friends on the next table. But every once in a while he would lean over, and make a suggestion. The others invariably followed this new lead, and it was also invariably a brilliant idea. So who is to say he wasn't working, just because he didn't demonstrate it in the usually accepted manner? This, of course, raises another issue arising from PBL….
If 5 people are involved in a project, how do you assess each of them on the quality of the outcome? You could decide to simply give them all the same mark. I think that is unfair, or potentially so. I preferred to do three things in this regard:
This is related to assessment, but is not quite the same. What I am referring to is the fact that you need to ensure that each pupil is improving, which entails being challenged. Hopefully, pupils are not doing the same sort of thing in every project, but if they do end up working in the same area twice, the second time should be a development rather than a repetition.
If a pupil misses a particular type of opportunity, how will you ensure that s/he makes up for it? This relates to the points about monitoring: if a pupil has been involved in 4 projects, say, over the course of the year, and has not once touched computer programming in all that time, you may have to tell him what role he is going to take on in the next project. Hey, if it's good enough for Lord Sugar to do that on The Apprentice, it's good enough for me!
You want the start of the lesson to be dynamic and purposeful. The pupils want that too. What you really don't want is 30 kids all shouting "What do I have to do?". The best way to ensure a proper start of the lesson is to allocate time at the end of each lesson for planning. Pupils should note down the following:
I have adopted this approach with even the most challenging of classes. It works.
There's learning, and there's quality learning. So-called peer learning is not much good if the person you're teamed up with has the same misconceptions or same lack of knowledge as you do. You need to:
What do you think is an acceptable "wait" time? Personally I believe that 5 minutes is too long. You need to have a range of strategies that you can employ, to ensure pupils are not hanging around waiting for you to answer a question. For example:
If a project is something the kids can really get their teeth into, and there is a sense of excitement, even urgency, then forget about the idea of a British Library type of atmosphere. It's going to be a bit noisy, and at any one time kids will be walking about getting resources, talking to other pupils or printing stuff out. If that's something you find hard to handle, or difficult to explain to a visiting inspector, then maybe PBL is something you should avoid.
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It's Hazy, Hot, and Humid in Jacksonville.
We're now into week 3 of auditions and we kick it off in Jacksonville Florida. The home of high humidity and very large gators. It was a good start in Florida. It must be all the humidity that warms the voices up. Or maybe it's the drunken non-making out that Paula did with Kara. Either way, it started out very nicely.
Naturally, the more it went on, the worse it got. I don't know, with the way the show started, I had some high hopes for Florida. I wasn't expecting everyone to rock, but I was expecting a little better than what they had. They did make it up in the end, and though I didn't agree with all the choices they made today, there were some really good singers.
On a side note, thank you American Idol. Finally, a show that didn't have a bleeding heart story. It was a nice release from the mundane of the normalcy's of the show. Let's see how they do in Salt Lake City tomorrow.
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Grammy After-Jam With The Original Time
We can now confirm some truly funky news! According to some sources and Time member Monte Moir's Myspace page.
The original line up of The Time will be performing at the Grammy After-Party Feb. 8th. We here that performance is gonna be funky for no reason. Can a Doctor get an invite.? I'll bring the mirror.-Dr.FB
Bruce Springsteen's Working On A Dream
Why is it, as hard as I am trying to give this project a chance, I just can't get into it? Perhaps, after the Super Bowl will give it another try.-Dr.FB
Kanye West GQ Shoot
Kanye West posted behind the scenes footage of his GQ shoot on his blog.
He is going all out. Thoughts?-Dr.FB
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Leonardo DiCaprio having dinner in Century City at Houstons with his girlfriend Giselle 2.0. Aftwards they headed to the movies. No word of they saw his new flick...
Ryan Gosling partying it up at Bardot and djing on the ones n twos. Interesting sign in Bardot advises cameras strickly prohibted. Guess no sign outside as paps and unprofessionals wait outside....
Donny Osmond let it slip that he might be following in his sisters footsteps on the next season of Dancing With The Stars.....
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NBC will have the first U.S. interview with President Barack Obama during the Super Bowl pre-game show. Obama's first interview went to an Arabic network that aired today.
The interview will be done with Matt Lauer, who was recently scooped by Katie Couric and 60 Minutes with the interview of Captain Sullenberger of the Miracle on The Hudson River flight.
More of the interview will air on the Today show Monday Feb. 2nd.-Dr.FB
Follow-Up On Travolta Extortion Plot
In a story we have been following somberly, arrests have been made in the Travolta extortion plot.
Tarino Lightbourn, a paramedic who has been allegedly accused of taking photos of Jett Travolota while in the ambulance was arrested. The police are looking for a "certain document", which we cannot confirm. He is still in custody.
The Travolta family friend Former Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchombe was released over the weekend and is still claiming innocence in the 25 million dollar extortion plot.
More will be covered on Wed. in court in the Bahamas.-Dr.FB
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I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but Felipe did this as his final for a film class.
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Known simply as Dermot, an Irish soldier in the French Foreign Legion, was inspired by a US marine who actually got a date with Mila Kunis and has taken to YouTube to ask rapper Azealia Banks out on a date.
According to his YouTube post, Dermot is on duty with the French Foreign Legion in French Guiana. However, his plan, once his service in the jungle comes to end, is to go to New York and take Azealia Banks out for a night on the town.
In his YouTube blurb he says, "Inspired by the US marine who posted a video from Afghanistan (successfully) asking Mila Kunis out on a date, I decided to do my own video from my French Foreign Legion base in French Guiana asking the super-awesome Azealia Banks if she might be free for a drink."
Stranger things have happened and who knows, the singer, rapper and song writer, formerly known as Miss Bank$, might just show him around "The City that Never Sleeps." She is from Harlem after all.
Mila Kunis was certainly eager to go on a date with US Marine Sgt Moore, last year. So who knows Dermot, you might be in with a chance. Good luck!
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