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James Najarian, Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 13:35 James Najarian, Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire. New York: Palgrave, 2003. x + 240pp. $110.00 (Hdbk; ISBN-10: 0-333-98583-4). Reviewed by Peggy Dunn Bailey In Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire, James Najarian traces the influence of Keats upon the ways that male sexuality came to be understood and expressed in the Victorian era. One of the most valuable and insightful elements of Najarian's discussion, however, is that he extends his analysis beyond the Victorian era to the World War 1 era poetry of Wilfred Owen and to appropriations of Keats's "story" by contemporary artists struggling to find a language for the horrors of HIV/AIDS and its legacy, especially for the gay community. Doing so solidifies his point that Keats became, and continues to be, a phenomenon of sorts, not just because of his poetry but because of the ways in which the poet himself was turned into a symbol of transgressive sexuality and a commentary on its manifestations and potential consequences. Najarian is careful to point out that Keats's "influence" was transmitted not just by his poetry but also by biographies and conceptions of the "doomed," "sensuous," "effeminate" poet and to make clear that his goal is not to uncover the "real" John Keats but to examine the legacy of "Keatsianism" (2). Will we understand Keats and his poetry better if we "prove"/"know" him to have been a latent homosexual instead of (or, titillatingly, in addition to) a frustrated heterosexual? Not necessarily. Najarian astutely points out that late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century attempts to categorize would be unwise for practical and theoretical reasons; we would do well to remain vigilant regarding the dependability of our knowledge of the sexual proclivities and practices of human beings in a culture and a time within which the discourse of sexuality was so very different from our own. Furthermore, such attempts to "out" Keats, the man, are irrelevant to Najarian's project. In the Introduction, Najarian candidly announces his text as "unashamedly a literary history" (2). Tags: James NajarianPeggy Dunn BaileyJohn KeatssexualityVictorianism Read more about James Najarian, Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire
Ian Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 12:35 Ian Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. x + 387pp; illus. $84.95 (Hdbk; ISBN-10: 0-8223-3558-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3558-0); $23.95 (Pbk; ISBN-10:0-8223-3596-4; ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3596-2). Reviewed by S. Adair Rispoli Greg Pierrot, Shawna Ross, David Jefferson, Dustin Kennedy, Laura Collins, Tyler Hollet, Esther Deutsch, Paul Johnston, Brian Neff Pennsylvania State University Ian Baucom's stimulating and rigorous Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History provides a philosophically sophisticated account of the role of slavery within the development of Western capitalism. Borrowing from Walter Benjamin's angel of history and Giovanni Arrighi's The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origin of Our Times (Verso, 1994), Baucom advances the notion that "now" is never simply the present but rather an accumulation of history, which also moves through alternating cycles of economic development. Slavery, then, is no issue of the past, but one with the most salient consequences in the present, not only because the past has gathered itself within the present, but also because, according to Baucom, our era of high finance capitalism is comparable to that which arose out of the consolidation of the slave trade in the eighteenth century. Through a minutely detailed analysis of the 1781 Zong incident—in which one hundred and thirty-three slaves were thrown overboard in order to collect insurance—he shows how slaves as physical merchandise became at that historical moment the equivalent of finance capital: a potential, abstract and impersonal medium of exchange. Tags: Ian Baucomtransatlantic studiesTransatlantictransatlantic RomanticismS. Adair RispoliGrégory PierrotShawna RossDavid JeffersonDustin KennedyLaura CollinsTyler HolletEsther DeutschPaul JohnstonBrian Neff Read more about Ian Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic
Gordon Bigelow, Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain & Ireland; Philip Connell, Romanticism, Economics, & the Question of Culture; & Maureen N. McLane, Romanticism & the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of.. Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 10:35 Bigelow, Gordon. Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Cambridge Studies in Nineteeth-Century Literature and Culture, no. 40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix + 229pp. $43.00 (Pbk., 2007; ISBN-13: 9-780-521-03553-8). Connell, Philip. Romanticism, Economics, and the Question of Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii + 338pp. $50.00 (Hdbk; ISBN-13: 9-780-199-28205-0). McLane, Maureen N. Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, no. 41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x + 282pp. $50.00 (Pbk., 2006; ISBN-13: 9-780-521-02820-2). Reviewed by Alex J. Dick University of British Columbia Most literary critics are familiar with economic terms like class, market, exchange, circulation, and production even if they aren't all that interested in economics. But people working in the field now called "literature and economics" or sometimes "the new economic criticism" are not primarily interested in using economic terminology to enhance readings of literary works. Nor are they particularly invested in using the tools of rhetoric or linguistics to challenge the ideological principles of academic economics, as even some economists have recently done. The new economic criticism, so called, is not really a branch of literary criticism at all. Rather it is part of a larger emerging field—discipline studies—that has attracted linguists, intellectual historians, anthropologists, and even economists and that is beginning to make headway in literature. Borrowing methodologies from discourse and systems analysis, the object of discipline studies is to understand when, how, and why literature and economics converge within institutional systems like the print marketplace or the University. These scholars share an interest in the way the different academic disciplines operate not discretely but in relation to one another. Disciplines formulate epistemologies by dismissing the usefulness or legitimacy of other competing epistemologies. At the same time, each discipline also adapts terms and ideas from others as part of their own disciplinary mandates. Tags: Gordon BigelowPhilip ConnellMaureen N. McLaneAlex J. DickIrelandpopulationeconomyHistory of Science Read more about Gordon Bigelow, Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain & Ireland; Philip Connell, Romanticism, Economics, & the Question of Culture; & Maureen N. McLane, Romanticism & the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of..
Steven E. Jones, ed., The Satiric Eye: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 15:29 Steven E. Jones, ed., The Satiric Eye: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 231pp. $69.95. (Hdbk; ISBN: 0-312-29496-4). Reviewed by Talissa J. Ford University of California, Berkeley "The man who permits you to injure him deserves your vengeance. He will also receive it. Go, Spectre! Obey my most secret desire," writes William Blake, the romantic satirist conspicuously absent from Steven E. Jones' collection The Satiric Eye: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period. What this book does particularly well is to consider the relationship between satire and the culture in which it intervenes—what happens, in other words, when that spectre is let loose in the world. From the American satirist-barber J. R. D. Huggins and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" poet Jane Taylor, to first—and second—generation standards Wordsworth and Byron, The Satiric Eye explores not just the fact but the circulation of satire in the public, consumer culture of Romantic-era England (and America). Tags: Steven E. JonesTalissa J. Fordsatirepolitical satiresatire in poetry Read more about Steven E. Jones, ed., The Satiric Eye: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period
Jerome McGann, Byron and Romanticism & Drummond Bone, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Byron Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 16:29 Jerome McGann, Byron and Romanticism. Ed. James Soderholm. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. 328 pp. $85.00. (Hdbk: ISBN 978-0521809580). Drummond Bone, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Byron. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 360 pp. $24.99 (pbk). (Pbk: ISBN 978-0521786768). Reviewed by Gillen D'Arcy Wood University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Byron plays Mephistopheles to Wordsworth's (and synecdochally, Romanticism's) Faust. Even at moments where he appears a poetic failure—in Childe Harold III or "Fare Thee Well"—he remains magister ludi, hoisting the reader on his own falsifiable expectations. But Byron at the last is also Faust himself. . . . Such is Jerome McGann's Byron, whose articles on the poet, independent of his two early books, have now been collected in a single, indispensable volume. The first two-thirds of the collection, nine essays in all, constitute a Byron book unto themselves, but have been supplemented by seven further pieces, including a retrospective interview published here for the first time, that showcase McGann's crucial theoretical interventions—on the subjects of ideology, historical method, and deconstruction—and treat Byron mostly obliquely. Taken together, the volume offers both an assembly of vital essays by the most important Byronist of his generation, while pointing toward the Greater McGann of Social Values and Poetic Acts (1988) and the epoch-making Romantic Ideology (1983). Tags: Jerome McGannDrummond BoneLord ByronGillen D'Arcy Wood Read more about Jerome McGann, Byron and Romanticism & Drummond Bone, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Byron
William Hone, Regency Radical: Selected Writings of William Hone, eds. David A. Kent and D. R. Ewen Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 12:29 William Hone, Regency Radical: Selected Writings of William Hone. Eds. David A. Kent and D. R. Ewen. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003. 460pp. $51.95. (Hdbk. ISBN: 0-8143-3060-6). Reviewed by Kyle Grimes University of Alabama at Birmingham Romanticists have an unusual penchant for "circles" and "schools." We have a Lake School, a Satanic School, and a Cockney School (which includes the Hunt circle); we have Joseph Johnson's circle, the Wordsworth Circle, Shelley and his Circle; and we have, of course, the plural and seemingly all-encompassing Romantic Circles. It is as if romanticists wish to account for the literary culture of the early nineteenth century in the graphic terms of a Venn diagram. And yet, for all these overlapping schools and circles, some figures always seem to lie just beyond the circumference, unlisted on the roster of any particular school and thus relegated (literally) to the margins of literary history where they appear only occasionally in the odd footnote. Until quite recently, William Hone has been just such a figure. Though he was well known to many of the central writers and publishers of the Regency period, and in spite of his general fame (or notoriety) in the public prints, and though he was the long-time friend of Charles Lamb, the publisher of Hazlitt's Political Essays, and perhaps the best-selling writer in England during the post-Peterloo and Queen Caroline affair periods, Hone has not been widely known or widely read among more recent romantics scholars. Happily, over the last dozen years or so this state of affairs has begun to change. With the publication of such works as Marcus Wood's Radical Satire and Print Culture, Joss Marsh's Word Crimes, a handful of essays and electronic editions (such as The Political House That Jack Built, here on Romantic Circles and on my BioText website), and most recently in Ben Wilson's Laughter of Triumph, Hone's work as a publisher and journalist, parodist and antiquarian is coming into increasing prominence. Tags: William HoneDavid A. KentD. R. EwenKyle Grimes Read more about William Hone, Regency Radical: Selected Writings of William Hone, eds. David A. Kent and D. R. Ewen
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions—Subversive Language, Embodied History Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 11:29 Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Language, Embodied History. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. x + 275pp. 11 Illustrations. $65.00. (ISBN 1-4039-6410-6). Reviewed by Anne K. Mellor University of California, Los Angeles This is a book that will forever change the way we read Jane Austen's fiction. In a series of compelling and well-documented analyses, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson shows us that Austen's work is replete with sexual jokes, bawdy humor, double-entendres, erotic puns. Moreover, she persuasively argues that for Jane Austen, the mind cannot be separated from the body: sense and sensibility, consciousness and physical sensations, thought and feeling, are inextricably fused. Heydt-Stevenson here puts paid once and for all to the misconceived notion that Austen was too "respectable" to explore the functioning of the human body in all its unruly sexuality. She further links Austen's use of bawdy language to her overriding concerns with the economics of marriage, the commodification of the female body, the advent of a consumer culture, and the role of language in mediating between "nature" and "fashion." Tags: Jillian Heydt-StevensonAnne K. MellorJane Austenbawdy languagevulgarity Read more about Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions—Subversive Language, Embodied History
Luke Gibbons, Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 10:29 Luke Gibbons, Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv +304 pp. $60.00 (Hdbk; ISBN: 0-521-81060-4). Reviewed by Frans De Bruyn University of Ottawa Until fairly recently, the Irish dimension of Edmund Burke's life experience and his views on colonialism and empire have been under-explored by scholars and critics. Yet, as Luke Gibbons shows in Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime, both these circumstances are central to any adequate understanding of Burke himself and his extensive writings. Moreover, as Gibbons further claims, Burke's opinions about the British imperial project were intimately shaped by his experience of the colonial system in Ireland. Gibbons brings these interconnected themes together across a wide range of cultural and political contexts, including aesthetics, economic theory, philosophical history, and Irish unrest (the Whiteboys, agrarian struggle, the United Irishmen) to argue for a more integrated understanding of Burke's multifarious thought and experience. Tags: Luke GibbonsEdmund BurkeIrelandFrans De Bruyn Read more about Luke Gibbons, Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial Sublime
James Bieri, Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography: Youth's Unextinguished Fire, 1792-1816 & Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography: Exile of Unfulfilled Renown, 1816-1822 Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 09:29 James Bieri, Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography: Youth's Unextinguished Fire, 1792-1816. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. 457pp. $69.50 (Hdbk; ISBN 0-87413-870-1). James Bieri, Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography: Exile of Unfulfilled Renown, 1816-1822. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 441pp. $69.50 (Hdbk; ISBN 0-87413-893-0). Reviewed by Stephen C. Behrendt University of Nebraska James Bieri's new two-volume biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley appeared in 2004-05 with relatively little fanfare, perhaps because it was published by a less prominent press than one might expect for so major a biography. A flurry of comments in October 2005, though, on the on-line discussion list of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, has focused attention at last on this important new study. As well it should. For Bieri's biography, which will surely be the definitive study of Shelley's life and work for many years to come, advances and enriches the state of contemporary Shelley studies in remarkable ways. Tags: James BieriPercy Bysshe ShelleyStephen C. Behrendt Read more about James Bieri, Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography: Youth's Unextinguished Fire, 1792-1816 & Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography: Exile of Unfulfilled Renown, 1816-1822
Julia M. Wright, Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation Submitted by Jeffrey N. Cox on Mon, 03/20/2006 - 16:13 Julia M. Wright, Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation. Athens: Ohio UP, 2004. xxxiii + 230. Illus: 5 b&w. $44.95 (Hdbk; ISBN: 0-8214-1519-0). Reviewed by R. Paul Yoder University of Arkansas at Little Rock Julia M. Wright's Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation is a well-researched study that situates Blake in the political struggle to define an English (or sometimes British) national identity. Wright is less concerned with "Blake's ideology" per se than with "the formal and rhetorical strategies with which he sought to propagate that ideology," and so she limits her discussion, "almost exclusively, to Blake's printed works" (xxvi), as opposed to Blake's letters, notebooks and manuscripts. The book has a sort of chiastic structure: Wright devotes Chapter 1 to Laocoön and Chapter 6 to Jerusalem (both late works), part of Chapter 2 and all of Chapter 5 to Milton, and all but one section of Chapters 3 and 4 to America and Europe; shorter discussions of Poetical Sketches, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The Song of Los and The [First] Book of Urizen fill out the remaining pages. There is little or no mention of Thel or The Book of Los, and only passing reference to the Songs, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and the Book of Ahania. Wright's topic is "not the 'liberating potential of discursive practices,' but the pan-ideological competition to control the representation of the individual and, more crucially, the community through which the individual is defined" (xxiii). That is, Wright focuses more on competing rhetorical strategies than on the different systems those strategies serve, a distinction that is often difficult to maintain. Nevetheless, the chapters on Laocoön, America and Europe, and Jerusalem are especially strong, and Wright offers some good insights on the social implications of some of Blake's key images. Tags: Julia M. WrightR. Paul YoderWilliam Blakenationalismliterary nationalismnational identity Read more about Julia M. Wright, Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation


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The Army deployed the 173rd ABN BDE from Japan to Vietnam in 1965. This brigade was the only American Army brigade to have its own organic tank support, D company 16th Armor.
I'm looking for a table of organization and equipment for US airborne units equipped with the M56 Scorpion self-propelled anti-tank gun. Ca. late 1950s to mid-60s? Wikipedia and other sources say it was used more or less only by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, as well as the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and saw service in Vietnam.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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The Army deployed the 173rd ABN BDE from Japan to Vietnam in 1965. This brigade was the only American Army brigade to have its own organic tank support, D company 16th Armor.
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I won't claim to be an expert, but I've looked into these before for a game design I've been tinkering with. The M56 was deployed in the assault gun platoons of the combat support companies in Airborne Battle Groups with pentomic divisional organizations. It was also available to leg infantry battle groups at some point, but as a substitute for ENTAC jeeps or M47 tanks (M47s were apparently retained in assault gun platoons through the 60s, at least in CONUS). In '63 and '64, when the 82d and 101st became ROAD divisions, I'm not sure how the M56s were organized and issued, but I suspect they were retained by the individual battalions in either HHC or weapons companies. Six guns per platoon seems to be the standard.
There was also an independent M56 unit, D Company of the 66th Armor that was alerted for Cuba in '62. It was based at Fort Campbell, but I don't have much info about it beyond that. As far as I can tell, it only existed until the 82d and 101st became ROAD divisions, and I suspect it was absorbed into the 101st or disbanded entirely. The 66th Armor histories I've seen don't mention this company at all, but a phone roster at Fort Campbell from Feb '62 confirms its existence, though it also indicated that is was possibly equipped with M41 Walker Bulldogs.
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Thanks for the replies!
As a matter of fact did I already stumble upon both the website and the video, tercio, but didn't even think about writing a mail. That's probably a good idea.
Regarding D Company, 16th Armor: I've read about 15 SPATs altogether assigned to this unit, in addition to a platoon of M106 mortar carriers. So maybe six M56 in two platoons, plus the remaining three to be used as reserve in the HQ element? Would that make sense?
Disregard the warning about that website - it's not the one I was thinking of. For some reason I confused it with the Dynamic Para website, run by Sparky, but they are two separate websites. This one is cool.
Tank company TO&E in the Vietnam era was 17 tanks to a company - three platoons of five tanks, plus two in the HQ. It might be that the HQ didn't use M56s, given the dispersed nature of the operations. The HQ was probably too busy supporting the platoons attached to the airborne battalions to use them, and possibly handed them over to the brigade motor pool as sources of spares or as replacement vehicles. Being that there were only 15 M56s in Vietnam, spares were probably difficult to come by and it wouldn't be unthinkable to cannibalize two superfluous vehicles to save several weeks fighting the supply chain from Guam and CONUS. The mortar platoon was possible a mortar section of two vehicles. A mortar platoon was usually a battalion-level asset; mortar sections would be more fitting at the company level. But D Co 16th was a pretty unique organization in Vietnam. IIRC they turned their M56s in for surplus Marine M50 Ontos, M113 ACAVs and I think even M48A3s at various times.
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For some reason I thought Tercio had posted the combatreform.com site, which was the one I was warning about. The AFV Database he actually did link to is great.


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iOS 7.1 is out! Update adds CarPlay support, improves Siri, iTunes Radio, iPhone 4 performance
Apple on Monday released iOS 7.1 . The new version is available immediately as an over the air (OTA) download. CarPlay, enhancements to Siri and iTunes Radio, and other changes have been made in the new release - including some performance improvement for long-suffering iPhone 4 users.
Apple officially unveiled CarPlay at the Geneva Motor Show last week. While the new technology won't be accessible until auto manufacturers roll out new models later this year, iOS 7.1 adds CarPlay support. CarPlay enables you to control Music, Maps, Messages, and select third-party apps using your car's center console display or through voice commands using Siri.
Also new in this release are changes to Siri - you can manually control when Siri listens by holding down the home button while you speak, rather than letting Siri automatically notice when you stop talking. More natural-sounding voices have been included for Mandarin Chinese, UK English, Australian English and Japanese.
iTunes Radio gets a search field to find new stations, along with other changes. Calendar will let you display events in month views, Accessibility gains new bold font options, offers a Reduce Motion option for Weather, Messages and multitasking UI animations, and more.
Here's the complete list of changes, according to Apple:
- iOS experience designed for the car
- Simply connect your iPhone to a CarPlay enabled vehicle
- Supports Phone, Music, Maps, Messages, and 3rd-party audio apps
- Control with Siri and the car's touchscreen, knobs, and buttons
- Manually control when Siri listens by holding down the home button while you speak and releasing it when you're done as an alternative to letting Siri automatically notice when you stop talking
- New, more natural sounding male and female voices for Mandarin Chinese, UK English, Australian English, and Japanese
iTunes Radio
- Search field above Featured Stations to easily create stations based on your favorite artist or song
- Buy albums with the tap of a button from Now Playing Subscribe to iTunes Match on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to enjoy iTunes Radio ad-free
- Option to display events in month view
- Country specific holidays automatically added for many countries
- Bold font option now includes the keyboard, calculator, and many icon glyphs
- Reduce Motion option now includes Weather, Messages, and multitasking UI animations
- New options to display button shapes, darken app colors, and reduce white point
- New Camera setting to automatically enable HDR for iPhone 5s
- iCloud Keychain support in additional countries
- FaceTime call notifications are automatically cleared when you answer a call on another device
- Fixes a bug that could occasionally cause a home screen crash
- Improves Touch ID fingerprint recognition
- Improved performance for iPhone 4
- Fixes display of Mail unread badge for numbers greater than 10,000
- Continued user interface refinements
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iOS 7.1 is out! Update adds CarPlay support, improves Siri, iTunes Radio, iPhone 4 performance
Installing now. I would love to hear how the iPhone 4 improvements are working. I'm wanting my daughter to update to 7.1, but she's understandably nervous.
The screenshot is from a device running the beta. Based on our preliminary water cooler discussions, it appears the update from the beta is, for whatever reason, significantly larger than the release version. 268 MB for me too.
Downloading right now, on an iPhone 4, I will let you know if the improvements make it a little more responsive….
I've been using IOS 7.1 for about 3 hours and there are improvements, in the last couple of weeks I've even disabled all the transparencies, because at some specific tasks the phone was frustratingly slow, now with the update is a lot more pleasant to use, it won't fly but at least walks faster than before and its still very capable, so I turned the fewer transparencies on again.
That's not related to iOS 7.1, though. The same as it isn't here in the UK yet. Because, licensing.
I don't care if it doesn't have to do with iOS 7.1 I really don't care. It's been almost a year since iTunes Radio came out in the USA
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About to download it onto my iPhone 4...hopefully it speeds up stuff.
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Downloading and installing! Running beta 5, but can't wait to see the official version.
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Really awesome to have a stable release that makes the auto-crash/reboots a thing of the past, amongst other tweaked UI & operating fixes.
At the risk of being superficial, I miss the ratched-up toned-up green icons! It's really obvious how toned down and stodgy the homescreen is now. Boo!
FYI. This paragraph has three typos. Just thought you'd like to know...
iTunes Radio gets a serach field to find new stations, along with other changes. Calendar will let you display events in month views, Accessibility gains mew bold font options, offers a Reduce Motion opinion for Weather, Messages and multitasking UI animations and more.
No update for my JB ip 4s ;( i cant see any update... I guess need to manually download on itunes and loose muy JB!! Too bad ;((
Well my iPhone 5 downloaded update in less then 3 minutes and update is on... Now I'm looking to see what is new. But my mom's iPhone 5c and dad's iPhone 5c showing ESTIMATED TIME more then 5 HOURS (ok, I know servers are full now but I'm surprised then how fast was on my iPhone 5)!!! For now still searching what is new! :-)
Waiting for it to download as we speak. iOS 7.0.6 is pretty fluid on my iPhone 5 anyway but it can only get better. Excited to see if my iPad 2 will run a bit more smoothly (beginning to notice just how much less RAM it has these days).
I know it's not really that related, but I'm still waiting for iTunes Radio in the UK & Ireland...
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Does it not suck on ipads? 7.0 always seemed 'unfinished' on ipads. Did they address this? I"m guessing nope!
GlennRuss probably fixing the issue with wifi sync. I am one of those who deal with this issue. Good luck!
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I updated my iphone 5 and currently updating my ipad mini 2. Speed improvements is noticeable. One thing i have to complain is why they included the weather animation in reduce motion? I just like the weather animation. I keep turning on my reduce motion coz i just dont like the wallpaper to be spread out.
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Since updating to 7.1 my Podcast app just shows a few podcasts (out of 277) and is blank for the rest. You can scroll through the list, it is just mostly blank.
I love the new update! Text is bolder, apps open super fast, and Siri works better than ever. Long live Apple!
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Has any iphone 5 users found a fix for the random crashes? i know its early but just curious.
I didn't have the update available on my iPhone 5S right away no matter how many times I tried refreshing the settings app or opening and force closing it, but when I did a hard reset of my iPhone 5S (holding power & home button simultaneously till the phone shuts off) then when I opened settings and looked for an update it immediately pulled up the update for iOS 7.1
Itching to try but I'm jailbroken and currently addicted to my jb tweaks!!! Soon as I hear 7.1 is jailbroken I'm sold.
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DO you know how many times I have done that? About 50. DO you know how many times I've been to Genius bar? Same amount. Do you know how many times apple has told me to restore? 100 times. And you know something? IT NEVER WORKS. Do you know how many times an Apple tech has restored it in front of me? 20 times. You want to know what their answer is? UPGRADE.
One bug I've seen since the 7.0 betas still exists. In Mail, sometimes if you open a message the blue Unread mark won't clear. Only thing that will clear it is to back out and reopen the message, go back to the inbox and reload by pulling down, or manually mark it as read from the swipe menu. I filed a bug report with Apple about it last year and they asked if the 7.1 beta fixed it, but I couldn't install the beta on my only device.
Otherwise, I LOVE the sped up animations. Makes it feel much more usable.
It's a pretty boring update! Although that's probably what's needed. I really hope the random crashes go away and that my iPads feel faster.
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Yeah and do you want to pay it for me? I cannot just afford to drop 500 bux on a new phone. I am not eligible for another 8 months and ATT EVEN THOUGH I HAVE BEEN WITH THEM since they were cellular one, WILL NOT put me on ATT Next yet, EVEN THOUGH I have never been late with a payment, EVER. So go ahead, tell me again to upgrade, I'll give you my bank routing number.
You don't have to be a ass
It's a 4 year old phone, what do you expect?
I was thinking you should have a upgrade since you have the 4
You can always dump AT&T and switch to TMobile
I left AT&T and NEVER looked back
Plus you WONT have to pay $500 for the 5s or your ETA with AT&T
Check it out
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I think I was hoping for too much. The unlock animation - the icons coming in from outer space - is faster than before, but the OS still responds as slowly as before. Pity.
"Feel no difference" are kidding me lol it's feels twice as fast, responsive to me and anyone else who's actually using 7.1 lol. Makes 7.0 feel unfinished and rushed IMO. Much more polished and IOS'y.
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Just installed it. It seems there might be different update packages as the update for my 4S was only 186MB. Maybe the 2.68MB update is for the original 5 & 5C & the 1.3GB one is for the 5S. Or they are dependant on the last update that was installed prior to the 7.1 update.
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It appears iOS 7.1 does away with full screen contact photos on incoming calls. Did Apple offer any rationale for this design change? It is utterly senseless. Yesterday, a fleeting glance told me if a call was from my boss, my wife, and so on. Now I have to pick up the phone and read the screen. What am I supposed to do, use the teenagers' kludge of having separate, cheesy ringtones (that I will have to commit to memory) for each important contact?
Thanks, Apple. Thanks a lot.
I see what you mean. I personally am in love with the new phone and decline buttons. The ones they were using in the iOS 7 debut were just too blocky and tacky. However, I too wish they would've kept the full screen contact photos for calls. But it was probably for good reason. I now see that we have options to text and remind along with answering call or declining (we may have had those already, correct if I'm wrong) so my guess is that this change was likely made to free up UI space for those features. And to be fair, the contact pic is still to the right in a sizable circle, so it's not like you would have to squint to see who it is. But not everyone is the same, so I would imagine this will no longer be an issue when we receive larger screens.
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I see what you mean. I personally am in love with the new phone and decline buttons. The ones they were using in the iOS 7 debut were just too blocky and tacky. However, I too wish they would've kept the full screen contact photos for calls. But it was probably for good reason. I now see that we have options to text and remind along with answering call or declining (we may have had those already, correct if I'm wrong) so my guess is that this change was likely made to free up UI space for those features. And to be fair, the contact pic is still to the right in a sizable circle, so it's not like you would have to squint to see who it is. But not everyone is the same, so I would imagine this will no longer be an issue when we receive larger screens.
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I think that because the new call buttons are circular, which seems to warrant some uniformity around the OS, that Apple took it a step further to include incoming contact photos. Do you sync your Facebook/Twitter accounts and add that information to pre-existing contacts? That's another reason they may be circular.
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Is the mail app not liking gmail on 7.1? Let me know of anyone else is having problem. I am finding this baby a whole lot faster, but I hope I can, you know, send mail and stuff.
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Yes, but it will go from filled-in to outline. Filled-in means an app is currently using your location, outlined is a geofence. I notice that the icon I have is constantly outlined and that's why it won't go away so I'm guessing my iPhone is geofencing always. I don't think it displayed when an app was using geofencing pre-7.1 so that may be what's keeping the icon live in the status bar.
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I love the fact that I can resize the wallpaper when setting it, rather than having to use a 2nd app or change the UI features.
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OMG....this thing got so hot that I even got a notification from the phone saying "Temperature now, iPhone needs to cool down"
This happened right after installing the new update, I was just using the gps.
It was really, really hot.....I restarted the phone after updating though.
I did the update about 45 min before leaving work. It took a few tries bec I assume the servers were being hammered. It was not quite done with "preparing" when I was out the door. I assumed losing wifi would end the update but I was incorrect, it kept going and finished on the drive home. I only noticed drain so far on battery bec it undid all my settings (ie turned background updates and bt and wifi on where I leave that all off). Haven't noticed any other issues.
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Anyone having issues installing this on a iPad 4? I can't get it. Says it's still searching for update or it'll error out.
I'm in Canada and I thought that the update would allow me to use iTunes Radio but it is not coming up. But the last update it would come up and I would click start listening and then it would tell me that it is not available in my country. I've turned my device off and it is still not working.
The new UK Siri voice is terrible. Much harder to understand, does anyone know if it is possible to roll siri back?
I don't have many apps on my phone, but it has been updating for 30 minutes now and it says 3 hours remaining through itunes..I attempted to update OTA last night, but received error 3 times. Does it usually take this long?
ETA: This is my first iphone
Can I just go back to the original software? My phone has been turning off on me ever since I have iOS 7 -____-
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Updated my iPad 3 and iPhone 5s. Works great on both. The stock icons such as iBooks seem a shade to two darker which I think is better. The "Bold" selection really makes a definite change. So much as I went back and forth several times before deciding to leave it turned off. The text on the keyboards in some apps like Notes was really nice with Bold on, but the glyphs in some programs like Numbers were too bold for my taste so it left Bold off. As for the Reduce Transparency function, I found the wallpaper made that decision for me. I use it on my iPhone but not on the iPad because of the different wallpapers used. Overall I love the changes. The effects are really noticeable and thus gives the user more control on the look of their device.
I could not update my ipad on the last 2 updateS. I keep getting, try back later) I also have a macbook pro 1 year old..I connected my ios device to itunes (latest version) and it says you cannot back up your device on this,,,I tried my old winters,put the latest itunes..It took awhile,,,thought it was going to work..Then it showed..Your device has timed out.My ipad is working fine..But what is going on with my ipad update..and my macbook not able to back it up..I have plenty of room left.
HELP! I updated my iPhone 4 with the new update iOS 7.1
I can't open FaceBook now? I checked settings & it's installed, it was working fine till I updated, everything else seams to be working fine tho? Why can't I open FaceBook now?
I downloaded the update on my 5s and the bottom controls on safari are gone. I can go back by swiping the screen but I can't open new pages, bookmark sites or anything. I must be missing something or the changes are so simple I don't know where to find them. Any advice?
Well well well ... Is not working for me ... I got iPhone 4s and since i updated to iOS 7.1 version my WiFi does not work ... I did all the resets bla bla bla and still does not respond.
I cant even turn on my WiFi anymore.
C c c c c c ...
I updated to the iOs.71 last weekend.i now cant open my Facebook App on my Ipad 2 . It just goes back to the desktop display.. All of the other icons work fine.. Help!
Ever since I updated to iOS7.1 my sound has been very wonky. When I take my phone off of vibrate, the sound doesnt work, if im getting a call or my alarm goes off it does but if im trying to play music outloud it doesnt work unless I place it onto a dock than take it off while the music is playing. It works with my headphones in though. Other than that, everything is fine.
My daughter has the IP 4 32gb and she just updated to the latest update, and today while driving she plugged her phone in to listen to the music on her phone and we get a connecting message, it never loaded. She tried my IP 4 that I have not updated yet, and it loaded fine and played my music. Please advise. Is it the update? Can she go back to the previous software, and not have the latest update?
Siri has clearly been re-engineered. Unfortunately, it fails every time I ask it to "read my text." On the other hand, it will speedily reply to, "what time is it?" "Set a timer for 20 minutes" or "what's the weather outside?" Seems that many things are no longer going out to Apple's server, but are being processed locally. On the other hand, the inability to read text messages is a real hassle. I use this feature all the time with earbuds while I am riding my bicycle. Oddly enough, it will send out text messages, just fine. But when someone replies, I can't find out what they have said without looking at the phone.
i went to update my iphone 4 today and I cant get it to go past the plug in part. I plugged it in and it still wont. its really annoying since I use my phone all day. now I have to go ot the iphone store after I get off work. maybe it's me. who knows.
I have a wifi-only iPad4, which is now rendered useless because iOS 7.1 has broken the wifi sync! If you haven't gotten this upgrade yet, stay away from it!
Has anyone else had issues with emails downloading as they come in? Since the latest download I have to tap the email icon on both my iPhone 5 and my iPad for the messages to update. Before the email icon always had a running total.
I have been using this new free iOS 7.1 app for photos. Its pretty cool. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/front-flash-selfie-camera/id867875658?ls...


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Highlights: Amalfi Coast & Islands (Positano)
An exclusive itinerary taking in the best of the Amalfi coast! Upon arrival at Naples, be whisked off to the Amalfi coast, stopping en route to view the fascinating site of Pompeii in the company of an Expert Guide. Enjoy a number of exclusive excursions and tours such as a private tour of the Amalfi coastline, a private tour of Capri with an optional helicopter flight from Capri back to the mainland, and an optional afternoon sailing aboard a traditional wooden vessel on the Mediterranean. Of course, you will want to have some time at leisure to relax in the state of the art spa in the hotel and make some time for exploring at leisure or a round of golf perhaps. Consider adding another few days in this little piece of paradise!
Enjoy a private vehicle transfer with an English speaking driver from Naples to the Amalfi coast. Taking time to stop off at Pompeii for a 2 hour visit with an English-speaking guide, you will absolutely enjoy the site. Walk through some of the ancient streets of Pompeii where you can see the baths, forums and villas built by the prosperous Romans in the year 80 BC. Marvel at the fabulously preserved Fresco paintings which adorn the walls and floors of the villas. Even if your interests do not lie in history, you will still be incredibly impressed by this massive archaeological site. This site includes the Amphitheatre, Gymnasium, House of Menandro, The Grand theatre and Small theatre, Gladiators Barracks, Thermal baths and House of Vetti. You will then continue en route to the Amalfi coast. For your convenience, this tour includes the entrance into Pompeii.
A welcome package with a city map, train tickets (if relevant), and any other touristic information that we deem you may find useful will be waiting for you upon your arrival at your first hotel on your trip.
Meet your private guide & driver and enjoy a very scenic and relaxing excursion, experiencing Italy's most famous drive, with minimal walking involved. With its luxuriant vegetation and sun-drenched climate, Sorrento became a favorite resort of wealthy Romans. Experience this cliff-top setting, with an imposing Duomo with a distinctive 13th-century cloister, and a charming, flower-filled town are all there for you to explore. Enjoy some free time in Sorrento before continuing your drive towards Amalfi. View theunforgettable Dolomitic cliffs, which at many points tower perpendicularly out of the sea and have been sculpted by nature into fantastic shapes. Amalfi is situated at the mouth of a deep gorge along the coast. You'll take a narrated walk around the town center of Amalfi with your guide who will explain the history and architecture of the Cathedral of St. Andrea while you marvel at the exterior architecture, a mix of Moorish and early Gothic design. Have some free time given in Amalfi for lunch (not included), independent exploration or shopping before driving back onwards towards the picturesque town of Ravello, some 5km from Amalfi, which has a number of must-see sites including the Villa Rufolo, from the XII century, built by the Rufolo's family and Villa Cimbrone, due to their splendor and decor. Both villas (entrance not included) have an amazingly beautiful garden to visit. Indeed, from Villa Cimbrone, you can admire one of the best panoramic views of Italy, on all the Amalfi Coast, and on the Coast of Cilento. Some free time will be provided before driving back towards your hotel. Depending on time and your preference, the day will be spent visiting these beautiful towns and stopping off at scenic points along the way. Entrance to Chiostro Paradiso included.
Enjoy lunch at leisure in either the towns of Amalfi or Ravello. A good spot in Amalfi is Pizzeria da Maria- indeed it has been listed as as one of the ten best pizzerias on the Amalfi Coast in more than 1 guidebook. In addition to a selection of pizzas, a wide variety of seafood dishes, and a few pasta dishes are served. Alternatively, Il Mulino, a 200m walk uphill from the town square is another good choice. if you feel like a fine dining experience for lunch (or indeed for dinner), the Villa Cibrone is an excellent choice and is in a fantastically beautiful location. Come before 6pm and you can stroll through the property's extensive landscaped gardens, and take in the marvellous sweeping views of the bay. This place comes highly recommended!
Meet your private driver at the hotel for your private transfer towards the jet foil loading dock. You'll join a jet foil and sail across to the island of Capri for the start of an unforgettable day trip to Capri. For so small an island, about 4 miles long and 2 miles wide, Capri has had much said, sung and written about it. On the way, you will get to enter the magnificent Blue Grotto, a renowned sea cave on the coast of Capri. The brilliant blue colour of the water is illuminated by sunlight reflecting through and underwater cavity, through the sea water. Upon your arrival at the island, you will be met by a private driver and English speaking guide, where you will then go down to Capri town which is very chic with shops, hotels and restaurants lying along winding streets. The main square Piazza Umberto has a pretty white church and several open-air cafes where you can sit and watch the world drift by. Leading off the square are medieval looking alleyways and arcades full of shops selling the handcrafts of the island such as clothing, jewelery made from coral and gold, shoes and ceramics. Admire the colorful gardens of Augustus overlooking the famed Faraglioni Rocks and Marina Piccola where Gracie Fields once lived. You will visit Villa San Michele, a beautiful early 20th century residence built on the ruins of the Roman Emperor Tiberius' villa, with commanding views of Capri town and it's harbor. Enjoy the relaxed pace of your day before you depart back to port the same route that you came. (Includes: transfer to /from jetfoil, jet foil return ticket, Blue Grotto, Augustus Garden, Villa San Michele entrance).
With a pickup from your Positano hotel by your private driver, you will drive towards a local winery at Vesevus where you will enjoy tasting 5 different local wines accompanied with salami, cheese, olives, seasonal vegetables, pasta You will also be able to enjoy a Vesuvian oil tasting with bruschetta and local Napoletean pastries, paired with a pera grappa of local production. Upon completion of your tasting you will climb Mt. Vesuvius (approximately 45 minutes), accompanied by your guide, and walk around the crater at 3,900 feet. From the summit you'll have panoramic views of the picturesque Bay of Naples from east to west. Peering down into the depths of the crater, you may see plumes of steam issuing from the sleeping, but still active, volcano. You will then return to Positano. (Includes: entrance Mount Vesuvius, wine tasting 5 wines, cold cuts, pasta, pear grappa, Napoletean pastries).
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Enjoy a private transfer with your own vehicle and driver to Naples airport. Transfer time is approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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I think it's worth creating a separate thread on 780g. forum1793, I've got a question for you there.
With Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H and with monitor connected via hdmi to the onboard 780g, it always takes a while for bios or boot up to appear on monitor. During this delay the screen is blue. The duration of the delays is not constant.
Then when starting and more commonly when stopping X there is a similar delay. I have a 12' long hdmi cable. I have not yet tried to see if this exists using rgb cable.
What is reason for these delays?
Are there things I can do to change this?
I think it's worth creating a separate thread on 780g. forum1793, I've got a question for you there.
1. Do you see the delays when using a different monitor on VGA or DVI ?
2. It sounds like you are getting a normal boot sequence (with boot messages on the display), just starting after a delay. Is this correcdt, or are you only seeing info on the screen once the kernel is loaded ?
Put differently, what is the first thing you see on the screen :
- bios messages ?
- console messages from text/vesa driver ?
- desktop startup stuff from x driver ?
I don't remember and will have to try again in near future.1. Do you see the delays when using a different monitor on VGA or DVI ?
The delay is of random duration when bios starts and when X starts AND stops. The computer is doing its regular stuff, the screen is just not showing it. Sometimes on booting, the screen comes up fast enough to see the bios messages. Other times it does not become visible until waiting for the grub menu. Once it is up in text mode (before X but after grub) there are no noticeable delays. But when starting AND stopping X there are delays again. During these delays I can type commands and they will be carried out, I just can't see them.Put differently, what is the first thing you see on the screen :
- bios messages ?
- console messages from text/vesa driver ?
- desktop startup stuff from x driver ?
I think the issue is probably hardware related because it happens before linux even loads. It's like the computer is trying out rgb, dvi, and hdmi to see a response. Eventually it figures it out and sets it. I find the random durations to be odd and this was why I pointed out I had a 12' HDMI cable. Are there different qualities or types of HDMI cable that impact this?
I'll try out the rgb. I eventually bought a 12' rgb cable as well. I might even try my shorter one. Come to think of it I do have shorter hdmi cable I can try as well.
FWIW I'm up to BIOS F4
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Hmm. Have to admit my first thought is that the graphics hardware is coming up OK but your display is taking a while to sync to the signal. Might mean the wrong timing is being used, not sure.
Testing with a shorter/different cable would be interesting, but first test IMO would be with a different display on VGA or DVI connector.
Tested with same monitor but shorter (5 feet vs 12 feet) hdmi cable. No difference. Same delays in monitor showing bios or when switching into X.
Tested with same monitor (32" vizio LCD tv) but using vga (aka d-sub or rgb). This basically eliminated the delays. I can also see one more video mode when you right click on screen and try to change screen size. Also the whole screen fits on the monitor whereas with hdmi the visible area was smaller than the device window, i.e. there were icons to the left of what I could see as well as below.
Tested with different monitor (19" princeton) in vga. No apparent delays when booting (can see bios) and it found even more screens in X.
Tested again with this 19" monitor using dvi. Looked basically the same as vga. So, no apparent delays.
All of these tests using radeonhd but the delays were there with both radeonhd and fglrx.
These delays with hdmi must be hardware related, either with 780g or with TV. If you are going to use hdmi cable, at this time you will want to use fglrx and put up with the minor delays. Fglrx finds all of the video modes (or screen sizes).
Reviving the thread
Hy devs, here I am asking for help with my problem.
Definitely there is some kernel option that kills fglrx with intel_agp
but I don't know which it is. Some few ppl got it working on intel agp chipsets.
I created this thread:
But still got no directions on how to debug this problem.
I wanna help, if I can debug the problem and give you the information necessary to fix the bug would be nice.
Thanks in advance.
Could we please see a fix for rpm package generation in the next ATI installer release? It would greatly facilitate beta testers working with ATI equipment. Eh, like me for instance.
Getting the packages built into discrete units is invaluable for x86_64 users who need to get the 64 drivers in, and then JUST the 386 lib part of the drivers for mesa, wine and opengl apps.
Yes Livna is great and all that, but there's really no substitute for having rpm's generated by the factory installer. You guys have the heads up on nvida in this regard, they've never done anything like this AFAIK.
Thanks to you guys for any consideration you can offer for the next ATI driver release in fixing this.
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Loved Moore Towers and Moscowitz showing - plenty of attack is what they need and of course consistency. Anyone has their LP video?
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Jason has work to do, but that's a pretty good score for a junior.
I heard Caluza wasn't planning on doing the long progam, just the short.Wonder why Johnson, Fournier and Caluza withdrew?
Great competition. This made my weekend.
Nagasu looks like a woman. This is her best program to date. Hope she can clean up her landings on the second part of the program but, realistically she is going to need a 7-triple jump program if she wants to get back on top. And she would need to do this at her GP assignments to build a strong reputation with the judges.
Lam is way to stiff
Hicks has a rather strange technique not sure she can climb ahead of Polina, Gracie and Hannah
Dornbush is looking sharp. Not sure how I feel with the free skate but, the short was great.
Jason-looks too much like a girl to me, not sure if it's the pony tail or that extremely feminine music. He is despreately going to need that 3-axel.
Some of the other guys had great skates. Kudos to Sean and Grant
Armin is looking pretty good as well as Farris (youtube brought me to the LA competition from July) so I am comparing all of them.
A good start to the season for Nagasu. She looked more determined here than in any competition last season. Her score was surprisingly low, though. I'm guessing her 3Toe in combination must have gotten a < .
I love Vanessa's SP
Transition into her combo jump is gorgeous. If someone can help her clean up her jumps, she would be amazing. Her spins and steps are top tier, if only the jumps can match those.
Mirai's LP on the other hand is a mess.
Starting from the first lutz, it feels like she had no choreography going afterward. Any of her movements had no relation to the music, at all. And then the next 2A-3T was just randomly there, it was like she's skating to a different tune. Wow, what a hopeless FS.
Even Miki's Morosov-stamped program seemed 1000x better choreographed.
I'm thinking maybe the problem is Mirai's inability to do complex choreography. Her programs start to look exactly the same with simple crossovers thrown in. I thought Lori was the problem, giving her uninspired craps to work with.
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Mirai can do complex choreography, have you seen Carmen? But I think considering it's the start of a season which followed her worst season on the senior level, I'm guessing they wanted to play it safe for now. I actually liked how they placed a few of the elements like the first triple lutz and the double axel-triple toe(it had a nice build up to the entrance) and how they used the combination spin to highlight a change in the mood rather to finish like everyone does now the layback at the end. I also liked the transitions into the second lutz and the first loop. The choreography outside of that was pretty mediocre but I thought Vanessa's free skate was actually worse; there were points at the end where I thought she was being possessed by Rachael Flatt, and her try-hard jazz moves, except at least Rachael smiled.


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Well, that was certainly an interesting night. After surviving April with the White Sox, I can wholeheartedly feel your bullpen pain (in fact, I was still feeling it when Thornton trotted out in the 10th) and all I can say is that it is so incredibly frustrating to watch things fall apart.
I know you would have prefered a win this time, (wouldn't we all?!), but I have to say that both of these series with Angels have been some of the most entertaining (and hair-pulling stressful) baseball of the season.
I am going to be so tired tomorrow.
-Keleigh (Watching the Dandelions Grow)
Those pictures are filled with Awesome: 1) Angels Wrestling Masks. Enough said. 2) A sign in the outfield warning fans about bats leaving the playing field. Better safe than sorry.
The pic of the 2 super fans was great! I hated to see Wells get injured. I thought he was just starting to come out of his slump. At least, I was hoping he would. Hope he heals and comes back stronger than ever. Especially after the news about Morales.
Keleigh – While we all would prefer a win, I agree, both series between our two teams were full of exciting games and great baseball. And it's been fun blogging through them with a great White Sox fanbase, I might add. If the Sox had won this solely by hitting Walden (and they were hitting him, it could have happened) I wouldn't have been annoyed with the outcome and our bullpen. It's the walks and the outright errors resulting in runs scored that drive me batty. But everything leading up to that was awesome, tightly contested, well played baseball on both sides.
Rob – Thanks! Well, the photo of the gate was more to show that I had field seats. I was excited about them because you can't find those cheaply very often. But, yes, we are quite thorough with our fine print in CA and here it's necessary. Check out the lady on her cell phone in the corner of the group mask photo. If I were the sort of person to chat on the phone at a game, I certainly would not be doing it in the third row of the field seats just to the homerun side of the foul pole.
Ron – Thanks! Yeah, it was very disappointing about Wells. I really do think he was in the process of coming around and I know it took him a whole season to recover statistically from his last injury so I worry about continuing slumps, booing fans and the impact it will all have on his ability to be successful in Anaheim. Hear, hear to the healing and coming back stronger than ever. In a way, I think the news about Kendrys was good. After all of his setbacks and continuing pain and lack of flexibility, even I could see that scar tissue was becoming an issue that wasn't going to resolve itself.
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Guess the power of the mask didn't stick around for last night's game. Whoever threw that intentional-walk-turned-wild-pitch, tell him thank you for me :)
Catherine – There are many, many things I would love to say to Kevin Jepsen right now but, while not all of them involve profanity, Thank you somehow isn't on my list. :) Guess it's safe to say your guys have turned that corner, eh?
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Fully Online Fee
: $150.00
Provides the student with an understanding of how decision support systems using the capabilities of the computer can be combined with human intelligence to make better decisions. The course focuses on how information is collected, stored, organized, and managed to assist persons at all organizational levels make more effective decisions. Problem solving and decision-making are examined within the framework of information systems that use databases and spreadsheets as tools that assist with the processes. Specifically, students use Microsoft Excel to address such topics as "what-if" scenarios, sensitivity analysis, plotting and graphic displays. Microsoft Access is also used to gain experience in designing and creating effective databases, developing effective data interfaces, creating queries, and generating meaningful business reports. 3 credits |
Linda Kavanaugh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Systems
Computer and Information Systems
firstname.lastname@example.com 412-397-6445 phone 412-397-6469 fax Wheatley Center 331 Profile For additional course information, First Class requirements, syllabus, etc., check the About The Instructor section for a link to a Faculty Website. |