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Girl Scouts plans to sell Camp Golden Valley
The Girl Scouts Carolinas Peak to Piedmont council plans to sell approximately 500 acres of property in Rutherford County.
The council Board of Directors decided to put Camp Golden Valley — located near Bostic — on the market in June citing a lack of long-term camping and a need to streamline the operation.
And Camp Golden Valley is not the only property on the market.
According to the Winston-Salem Journal, the council is also putting Camp Douglas Long and Camp Dot Perry, located in Wilkes County. Camp Rotary, located near Gastonia, is also being considered for sale.
The potential sale has angered some residents with ties to the Girl Scouts.
"Our camp could have been better promoted," said Leann Harper, troop leader of Troop 20166, a local troop based out of Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy Grammar School. "I had the opportunity to rent the camp out every weekend next summer.
"They could have advertised Camp Golden Valley and they didn't."
Council CEO Marcia Cole said the Peaks to Piedmont council is calling it a "right-sizing" of property.
"We're just not using it," Cole said of Camp Golden Valley. "We don't have enough girls camping. We had eight camps when we started and we have sold two and another for sale in Greensboro as well as another we are working to sell in the Gastonia area.
"We are down to four and we really only use three of them."
But Harper said the camp has been utilized.
"To say that it isn't being used is not true because it is," Harper said. "I personally feel they didn't want to keep Golden Valley. It's in an area that can make them some money."
The Girl Scouts have owned Camp Golden Valley for nearly 50 years and Cole said she understood there would be a hardship created by the camp being sold.
"We have it positioned so there is easy travel for any girl that wants to go to camp," Cole said. "The hardship is that camps are like family, especially for people who have been Scouts for a long time and even worked at these camps."
Cole said there are no summer camps being held at the camp and only one or two training sessions and some weekend campouts over the course of the summer.
"Just 15 percent of our girls actually go summer camping," Cole said. "The other three properties can handle the number of girls that want to go."
There are approximately 14,500 girls that are members of the Peaks to Piedmont council. The council serves 40 counties from Asheboro to Murphy but does not include Charlotte.
Harper said the camp has a quality that makes camping an experience.
"When you walk into Golden Valley, it is like walking into the past," Harper said. "It is beautiful and it has archery, boating, swimming … everything you want except Internet, cell phones and those kinds of things.
"Everyone that has been out at the camp has said they are coming back. They want to camp at Golden Valley."
Cole said the council has not put a price on Camp Golden Valley, stating there are still particulars that need to be worked out with real estate professionals.
"The board will have to make the decision on what to ask for it and they just made the decision to sell it," Cole said.
The sale of Camp Golden Valley will leave three other camps within the council: Camp Ginger Cascades, near Lenoir; Camp Pisgah, near Brevard; the Keyauwee Program Center in Randolph County.
"There is a camp in Lenoir that is close to Rutherford County and it is ideal for weekend camping and we use it for that all the time," Cole said. "Anyone can get to Camp Ginger Cascades within an hour."
The Girl Scout organization celebrated its 100th anniversary last year.
"It's losing a member of the family for some folks and that is hard," Cole said. "There is an emotional tie that people have to the camp. We hate it but it has to be a business decision because we can't afford to keep it going with the number of girls we have camping each summer."


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The Sabres are still interested in Bobby Ryan
Jul 2, 2012, 9:23 AM EDT
It seems the Sabres have had a long-running affinity for Bobby Ryan. We've read rumors about their interest in him in the past and now with Ryan looking like he's on the outs in Anaheim, Buffalo would like to take him off their hands.
Bucky Gleason of The Buffalo News reports the Sabres are expressing their interest yet again in the Ducks' goal scoring whiz but they may not have the players necessary to make it happen.
Any deal with Buffalo would likely include Derek Roy, whom the Sabres have been shopping for the past two summers. Ryan doesn't have reservations about coming to Buffalo other than its need for a true playmaker. That would make Philly a better fit at this point.
Ah yes, Philly, the team Ryan said he should be traded to following his rant about not being wanted in Anaheim. If Ryan is that concerned over having a playmaker, being next to Claude Giroux wouldn't be so bad. Buffalo can't exactly offer Ryan that sort of help pitching him Tyler Ennis or Cody Hodgson as a set-up man.
- ravenscaps48 - Jul 2, 2012 at 9:26 AM
But he can come here and be on a line with Nicklas Backstrom and Alex Ovechkin… Make it happen, George!
- ravenscaps48 - Jul 2, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Sorry to sound like a toolbag homer… Just wishful thinking… Carry on
- rockthered1286 - Jul 2, 2012 at 10:01 AM
100% agree with you. I know it's wishful thinking but you see a quiet day 1 of FA, you kind of hope something big like that would happen in day 2…
At least we don't have to pace back and forth all day worried about Parise's final destination since we're obviously not in on the bidding!
- elemeno89 - Jul 2, 2012 at 9:32 AM
coming from a hockey fan and a buffalo fan, i'll believe it when i see it. both names have been surrounded by trade rumors for a while. at this point i wouldn't be surprised if neither move…
- rabidbillsfan - Jul 2, 2012 at 10:15 AM
The only reason Anaheim wants to move Ryan is because they need to pay Getzlaf and Perry. They obviously don't think Ryan is worth the extra cash, so taking Roy wouldn't be a bad thing for Anaheim, he's under contract for a few more years, and at a much more affordable price than Ryan, peaking in the last year at $5.5mil. Roy can play both Center and Wing, and only 2 seasons ago, was on a point per game basis over 30 games. Buffalo could offer alot as far as prospects and future talent. Foligno and McNabb are off limits I would assume, but Luke Adam, Corey Tropp, or even Joel Armia could fill in as those players, with a pick or two. If Anaheim is Heck bent on getting players who can play this year, I think Roy, Sekera, a First and Coey Tropp, which might be a bit much, can land him. I'm sorry, but the jab at the level of talent Buffalo has was a bit harsh. Sure, we have no Claude Giroux, but Hodgson can develop into a great center-man and he probably would land on a line with Pommer, and maybe a PP line with Ennis and Stafford, that would be electric. He would also be the offensive center of attention, along with Vanek. Get it done Darcy.
- buddysguys - Jul 2, 2012 at 10:32 AM
sorry bro roy is in the last year of his deal, hence why they are trying to move him.
- kingfooj - Jul 2, 2012 at 11:38 AM
not a ducks fan, but i believe if they are going to move him at all, it would be in their best interest to get Ryan as far away from the pacific as possible. He always shows up to play when he comes to staples, and im sure he would have no reservations at all laying it all out there when he returns to Honda.
- billsin20xx - Jul 2, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Yes but the rest of the article from the News also talks about how it is very doubtful Ryan would want to play for Ruff. Ryan is not known as a defensive player and Ruff forces every player to play both ends (hence why no one on the sabre's scores many goals (and why we don't win enough to make the playoffs most years)).
So the answer should be get rid of Ruff, but of course that won't happen until the middle of next season.
- thedavesiknowiknow - Jul 2, 2012 at 3:16 PM
I'd love to see Bobby Ryan come to Buffalo, but this would fall under the category of "giant" deal- not exactly a strong suit of Darcy Regier. If Anaheim is interested in 4th round picks and the Derek Roys (on an expiring contract) and Mike Webers of Buffalo's roster, then Regier would reluctantly pull the trigger.
- rabidbillsfan - Jul 2, 2012 at 3:28 PM
Uh, What? I bumbled the Roy contract, $5.5mil in this, his final year, of that deal, but Ruff does not force players to be defensively responsible. If that was the case, we would look more like the Blues and less like the Sabres (Becasue there is no other team in the NHL that is remotley close to us I guess…). Ruff's scheme is to turtle with a lead, something he broke out of a bit last season. Ryan also plays a Two-Way role on Anaheims roster, so again, that makes no sense. The problem is that almost all of our Forwards suck on the back-check and in the defensive zone in general. Kaleta and Gerbe are the only 2 forwards I see that don't kill this team with the puck in their own zone. This is why Staal was mentioned. The most telling number in the Sabres statistics is in his +/-. Year in, year out, we rarely have multiple players over the +10 ranking. Buffalo had 1 player with a +10 or better and that was Tyler Ennis. And thats only because his line was scorching hot at the end of the season.
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Bertha Williamson, 92, of Belfry, Ky., passed away Thursday, November 1, 2012, at the Pikeville Medical Center.
She was born May 27, 1920, at Belfry, Ky., the daughter of the late Hi and America Varney Williamson.
She was also preceded in death by her husband, John B. Williamson; and by several brothers and sisters.
Bertha was a homemaker and of the Primitive Baptist Faith.
Survivors include two sons, John B. Williamson Jr. of Ohio and Michael (Stephanie) Williamson of Belfry, Ky.; granddaughter, Tina Pemberton of Ohio; great-grandchildren, Mikey Williamson and Skyler Williamson both of Belfry, and Jake Pemberton of Ohio; and a host of family and friends.
Funeral services will be held Sunday, November 4, at 3 p.m. with Dwayne Chapman officiating. Burial will follow in the Family Cemetery, Canada, Ky., with family and friends serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held after 6 p.m. Saturday at the Funeral Home Chapel.
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[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,67l,45l 3/1954 Bolger [67/95 X OTHER REFERENCES Bozorth, Ferromagnetism," D, Van Mostrand Co., New York,( [95 pp, 244- 249.
JAMA, Vol. [95, No. ll, p. 28- 29 [966) Husa' s Pharmaceutical Dispensing, Eric Martin et a[ Mack Publishing Co., Easton, Pa. [959) Primary ExaminerA[bert T. Meyers Assistant Examiner-Vera C. Clarke Atrorney-0strolenk, Faber, Gerb and Soffen ABSTRACT: Ferromagnetic contrast media incorporating magnetic ferrites such as magnesium ferrite, barium ferrite, manganese ferrite, manganese-zinc ferrite, nickel ferrite, magnetite, or ferromagnetic garnets; -ferric oxide and a guar gum stabilizer Such media are used for diagnostic or therapeutic treatments of the gastrointestinal or lymph tracts, by subjecting the patient to external magnetic fields to concentrate the medium in the body region to be diagnosed or treated.
FERROMAGNETIC CONTRAST MEDIA AND METHOD OF USE This invention relates to improved ferromagnetic contrast media, and more particularly to a method for the diagnostic and/or therapeutic administration of such media.
It is well known to employ barium sulfate as a contrast material in the gastrointestinal tract. The ingestion of "barium meals" (slurries of barium sulfate in water, with or without a stabilizing agent) provides a valuable diagnostic tool, enabling radiological investigation of the stomach and intestines, examination of contractions and movements, and determination of the location and size of ulcers and growths. Similarly. the use of barium enemas facilitates radiological detection of the existence and location of growths along the colon.
The use of barium contrast media, while relatively simple, is not free from complication. Misinterpretation may arise due to the presence in the region opacified of food remnants, feces, and air bubbles, which are sometimes difficult to distinguish from tumors. In some cases as, for example, in the duodenum, the barium compound passes rapidly, making diagnosis quite difficult. Moreover, the radiologist has practically no control over the internal diffusion of the barium compound, despite the frequent desirability or necessity to concentrate the contrast medium in regions to which it might not naturally diffuse. In such instances, the radiologist has been compelled to selectively apply pressure to the abdomen and tilt the examination table to vary the patients orientation as may be desirable.
The use of barium sulfate contrast media additionally poses problems as to patient acceptability, Thus, frequent variation of the patient's orientation as may be required in connection with barium therapy, may result in disorientation and even nausea of the patient during diagnosis or treatment. Additionally, the chalky taste of barium contrast media further complicates their use in human diagnosis or therapy.
The use of magnetic particles as contrast or therapeutic media has previously been proposed in, for example, the fol lowing publications: Magnetism in Medicine," "Journal of Applied Physics," Vol. 3|, No. 5 (May, I960), pages 404s- 405s; Experimental Approach in the Use and Magnetic Control of Metallic lron Particles in the Lymphatic and Vascular System of Dogs as a Contrast and Isotopic Agent," American Journal of Radiology, Vol. 90, No. 5 (Nov. 1963), pages 1068- I077;Magnet Attracts iron to Thrombose Aneurysms, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 195, No. ll (Mar. I4, 1966), pages 28-29; Particles Iron Out Cranial Aneurysm, Medical World News (May 27, I966), pages 30--3 l.
The preceding literature refers to the use ofiron particles as contrast media or as therapeutic agents employed to thrombose intracranial aneurysms. Such iron particles are not, however, fully inert within a patients body and, moreover, possess relatively high densities, necessitating the administration of relatively large quantities by weight to achieve a desired opacifying function.
It is accordingly among the objects of the present invention to provide novel contrast media, and a method for the diagnostic and/or therapeutic administration of same, which may be readily administered and accurately employed to opacify and predetermined body region.
A further object of the invention is to provide such a medium which is ferromagnetic in nature and which may thus be administered to a patient and thereafter subjected to a magnetic field applied externally of the patient's body to facilitate its concentration in any portion of the body.
It is yet a further object of the invention to provide such a contrast medium which is chemically inert to body fluids and tissue and which possesses a density such that relatively small quantities by weight of the material are required to produce adequate contrast ofdesired body organs.
These and other objects and advantages of the present in vention will be more fully apparent from a consideration of the following detailed description of preferred embodiments of the ferromagnetic contrast medium and diagnostic and/or therapeutic method hereof.
We have found that improved diagnostic and/or therapeutic results may be achieved by administering to the patient to be treated a ferromagnetic contrast medium incorporating a magnetic ferrite having a particle size of 50 microns or less and exhibiting a remanence magnetization approaching, and nearly approximating, saturization magnetization values of from about 30 to e.m.u. Upon the administration of such a composition, the patient may be subjected to an externally applied magnetic field to concentrate the composition in the particular body organ or cavity to be diagnosed or treated.
The ferromagnetic contrast media hereof may thus be concentrated in given portions of, for example, the gastrointestinal or lymph tracts, without continually shifting the orientation of the patient or the treatment table. Moreover, it is possible to utilize the contrast material hereof to differentiate, for example, between air bubbles or feces and polyps by initially moving the magnetic contrast material relative to such objects, and thereafter moving the entire mass. Upon fluoroscopic examination employing such technique, polyps would appear stationary whereas air bubbles or feces would move.
Use of ferromagnetic contrast media of the present invention additionally facilitates the development of new therapeutic techniques. Thus, it is possible to treat ulcers by covering the same for prolonged periods with compositions containing such magnetic media; such compositions may additionally contain suitable medicaments such as magnesium hydroxide, currently employed in ulcer therapy.
It has been found that the novel contrast media of this invention possess several specific advantageous properties, in addition to facilitating the improvements referred to hereinabove, Thus, the ferrite materials employed in accordance herewith are sufficiently ferromagnetic, exhibiting saturation magnetizations of from about 30 to 80 e.m.u., to facilitate effective concentration of the same by means of an externally applied magnetic field or fields. Secondly, such materials have been found to absorb X-rays for diagnostic purposes, and to adhere to the walls of, for example, the stomach and intestines without clumping of flocculating. Moreover, the ferrite materials may be provided in extremely fine size ranges of 50 microns or lesser magnitudes.
Additionally, only small amounts of the ferrite contrast media hereof are required to satisfactorily effect any particularly desired contrast function. Thus, in some cases, only about grams of ferrite would be suspended in [50 cc. of water to facilitate examination of the human stomach. On the other hand, and as indicated above, it is presently necessary to utilize, for example, about 200 grams of barium sulfate for a suspension to fill the human stomach to effect X-ray examination thereof.
The magnetic ferrites so utilized are ferromagnetic ceramic oxides containing two magnetic lattices which are opposed to one another but which do not cancel each other out. Ferrites which may be employed as contrast media include magnesium ferrite, barium ferrite, manganese ferrite, manganese-zinc ferrite, magnesium-zinc ferrite, nickel ferrite, magnetite, and the ferromagnetic garnets. Other ferrites, e.g., cadmium, zinc and copper ferrite, are not so suitable in that they are not sufficiently magnetic, viz, do not possess a high enough magnetization of 30 e.m.u., per gram, at body temperature to permit control by magnetic fields.
It is preferred to employ magnesium ferrite (MgFe O, as a contrast medium for diagnostic and/or therapeutic examination of the gastrointestinal tract. Such material crystallizes with a spinel structure after preparation by sintering at temperatures between l,0OO and l,300 C. It is substantially insoluable in either water or hydrochloric acid at body temperatures and can be milled into particles having grain sizes similar to the commercially available barium sulfate materials, i.e., from about 1 to 50 microns.
The magnetization of magnesium ferrite is dependent upon its mode of preparation and quenching. With air quenching, the materials are taken out of the oven and left to cool at room temperature in the containers they were fired in, and attain a saturation magnetization of 30-40 e.m.u. per gram, depending on firing temperature and percent excess MgO in the material. With ice water quenching, the sample is taken out of the oven very quickly and dumped out of the hot container and into an ice bath. A saturation magnetization of up to 60 e.m.u. per gram may be attained in this manner.
While it is thus desirable to utilize a quenched magnesium ferrite in the practice of the present invention (since the magnetization of such material is substantially greater than that of the corresponding unquenched ferrite), other ferrites need not be necessarily so treated. Thus, while magnesium-zinc ferrites, e.g., one in which about percent zinc is incorporated, possess saturation magnetizations of 59 e.m.u. per gram if quenched after firing, such ferrites possess saturation magnetizations of as much as 48 e.n.u. per gram when prepared without quenching.
Magnesium ferrite is particularly acceptable for oral consumption, as its color varies from orange-brown to a darkbrown, depending upon its mode of preparation. On the other hand, other magnetic ferrites are black and may thus be less acceptable for patient administration. Moreover, unlike barium sulfate, the oral administration of magnesium ferrite in, for example, an aqueous slurry, leaves no after-taste and is thus particularly suitable for use as an X-ray contrast medium.
it is believed that the magnesium ferrite, when so administered, coats the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, the coating comprising a material of the formula (MgO),MgFe 0,, which does not agglomerate, which may readily be concentrated by magnetic force, and which is readily X-ray absorptive. It will, however, be understood that the present invention is not restricted to the preceding proposed mechanism ofoperation,
In one particular instance, i.e., for diagnostic and/or therapeutic treatment of the lymph tract, it is preferred to em ploy as the contrast medium the so-called ferromagnetic garnets. Such materials may be readily sized into extremely fine particles, i.e., having particle sizes of from (H to 10 microns. It has been found that the use of a ferromagnetic contrast medium possessing such a particle size range is important to effect satisfactory X-ray examination of the lymph tract.
The magnetic ferrite contrast material of the present invention may be administered together with other known adjuvants employed in connection with barium contrast media. It is, however, desirable, particularly in the case of the preferred magnesium ferrite material, to admix the same with 'yferric oxide. The 'y-ferric oxide is admixed with the magnesium ferrite in amounts of up to 60 percent by weight of the mixture to increase the saturation magnetization of the latter material and thereby facilitate improved concentration of the same by an externally applied magnetic field. The y-ferric oxide is substantially inert, dissolving only slightly in hydrochloric acid at a pH of l and at body temperatures. The mixture of magnesium ferrite and -y-ferric oxide in the amounts specified above, viz, in proportions of up to about 60 percent by weight of the mixture, may possess a saturation magnetization of up to 80 e.m.u. per gram, generally from about 45 to 70 e.m.u. per gram.
Preferably, the magnesium ferrite or other ferrite contrast medium is orally administered in aqueous suspension. It has been determined that stable suspensions of such materials may be produced by admixing the ferrite composition with a Guar gum stabilizing agent, other known stabilizers such as pectin, carboxy methyl cellulose and sodium alginate not being so effective. Guar gum, which is recognized as a safe food additive, consists of the ground endosperms of the Guar bean (leguminous seed Cyamopsis tetragonolobus), the water-soluble fraction of which (85 percentl primarily comprises mannose and galactose, It is suitably admixed with the magnesium or other ferrite in amounts of from about l percent to Zpercent by weight ofthe mixture.
it is additionally desirable to admix the magnesium ferrite contrast agent with magnesium oxide for ulcer therapy applications. The magnesium oxide, a recognized medicament in ulcer treatment, forms a solid solution with magnesium ferrite when such materials are prepared in admixture by sintering at temperatures of about l,0O0C. The magnesium oxide may be employed in amounts of from about 10 percent to lOO percent by weight of the magnesium ferrite material. Use oflesser proportions of the magnesium oxide, preferably about [0 percent has been found to increase the magnetization of the ferrite. The addition of greater proportions of the magnesium oxide, e.g., amounts of the order of 50 percent or greater, lowers the magnetization but markedly improves the texture of the ferrite composition and lightens its color to facilitate improved patient acceptance.
The following examples illustrate preferred, nonlimiting embodiments of the X-ray contrast media, and the diagnostic and/or therapeutic method of administering such media, of the present invention:
EXAMPLE 1 A magnesium ferrite was prepared by filling each of the two jars ofa ball mill with N9 grams of ferric oxide, 62.9 grams of magnesium carbonate, 560 ml. water, 25 porcelain porcelain balls 19 mm. in diameter, and 20 porcelain balls l2 mm. in diameter. The mixture was milled at 50 r.p.m. for 3 hours, after which the material from both jars was emptied into a Buchner funnel and most of the water extracted therefrom. The material was thereafter dried in a suitable porcelain container placed in an oven for 15 hours at l50 C.
The ferrite was prepared by a prefiring operation conducted for 2 hours in a furnace heated at l,000 C. in an oxygen atmosphere. While conventional magnesium ferrite compositions are thereafter subjected to a firing operation at between ]200 C. and 1350 C., such darkens the color of the composition to a black or brown-black hue. The prefired magnesium ferrite, on the other hand, had a less objectionable reddishbrown color. Accordingly, although the magnetization of the preflred material was only about 27 e.m.u. per gram as compared with a 36 e.m.u. per gram magnetization attainable after firing of the composition, the former material was preferred.
The magnesium ferrite contrast material was placed in an aqueous suspension containing a y-ferric oxide magnetization adjuvant. 245 grams of the magnesium ferrite were thus admixed with 250 grams of the y-ferric oxide to produce about 1,000 cc. of the desired aqueous suspension.
Fifty or cc. doses of the aqueous suspension were orally administered to human patients. The patients were subjected to radiological examination approximately 5 minutes after ingesting the contrast medium.
A permanent magnet was simultaneously moved across each patient's abdomen during irradiation to determine the effects of the same upon the contrast material in the gastrointestinal tract. The magnetic ferrite produced opacification on the fluoroscope and on X-ray film in the same manner as characteristic of barium sulfate. Moreover, it was found that movement of the externally applied magnet effected concentration of the ferrite material in predetermined portions of the gastrointestinal region.
EXAMPLE 2 A contrast material similar to that utilized in Example l was prepared, employing twice the stoichiometric amount of magnesium carbonate set forth in the preceding example. Upon reacting the ferrite-forming constituents in the manner set forth above, a material was produced containing MgO dissolved in the ferrite which, when suspended in the aqueous medium, provided a distinctly basic reaction by the formation of Mg(OH),. Such composition, when administered in the manner described in Example I, produced like X-ray opacification and could, moreover, be utilized in connection with ulcer therapy.
EXAMPLE3 A mixture of 8 grams of a commercially available barium sulfate formulation (available under the trade designation Barotrast" and comprising barium sulfate plus an emulsifier) and 6.4 grams of powdered manganese-zinc ferrite (Mn,Zn, ,Fe,0.. wherein it was about 0.5) were initially mixed by hand and 25 cc. of milk were thereafter added thereto with agitation. Finally. the mixture was ball milled for about minutes. A stable suspension of the ferrite was thus produced from which the solids did not separate by gravity or by magnetic at traction.
The contrast material was administered to a number of test guinea pigs by inserting a flexible tube through each animal's mouth into its stomach and passing from 5 to It) cc. of the contrast material thereto. Each test animal was thereafter fluoroscoped approximately l hour after administration ofthc contrast medium, the test magnet being passed over the abdomen and sides of the animal simultaneous with X-ray irradiation to determine the effect of the magnetic field thus produced upon the contrast material in the gastrointestinal tract.
Two permanent magnets were thus employed. The first such magnet was a strong horseshoe type magnet having a 2 cm. wide gap. and a maximum field strength within the gap of L7 kilo-oersted. The field strength some 2 cm. away from the gap along the perpendicular to the center of its face was approximately (L4 kilo oersted. which corresponded to the field strength produced within the test animals during the experiments. The second magnet was substantially a half disc in shape, 7 cm. in diameter. 2 cm. thick. and magnetized along the axis of a cylinder from which the half disc was cut. Such magnet produced a field strength of about 0.4 kilo-(worsted l cm. from either flat face.
Employing the preceding magnet elements, it was found possible to move the contrast material through the stomach of each test animal to effect concentration of the medium adjacent to one side of the animal in proximity to the magnet. It was additionally possible, by placing a horseshoe magnet against the animal's side. to pull its small intestine between the pole pieces of the magnet. Movement of such magnet along the animal: side caused the adjacent sections of the intestine to follow the magnet, removal of the same resulting in an apparent unfolding of the intestinal sections and return of the same to their normal relation. Such operation could, and was. repeated several times during fluoroscopic examination.
One test animal was sacrificed and operated upon to determine whether sny particles of the contrast medium had penetrated the wall of the small intestine sections which had been subjected to the greatest magnetic force. In these histological examinations. no ferrite particles were found to have penetrated the intestines. stomach or liver of the test animal.
A further test animal was sacrificed and operated upon after having the flat permanent magnet taped to its side for 2 hours. It was found that the meal which had been fed to the animal remained primarily within its stomach. solely a small portion of the contrast medium having reached the upper section of the duodenum. Such section of the duodenum had been atrscted to the magnet. which prevented the material from moving on. thereby blocking the passage. Here. too. no ferrite particles were found deeper than the intestinal surface.
It was found. in both test animals sacrificed. that the contrast material remaining within the stomach had a pH of 3 whereas that remaining within the intestine had a pH of 8. Both such material samples appeared to have the same consistency as prior to feeding.
The following examples set forth the composition of further contrast media incorporating a guar gum stabilizer (Example 4 and illustrating the manner in which the saturation magnetization of the ferrite contrast material may be modified by variation in the method of preparation thereof (Examples EXAMPLE 4 A contrast medium similar to that formulated in Example I was prepared. The contrast medium incorporated 245 grams of the magnesium ferrite prepared as described in such example. 250 grams of the y-ferric oxide and 10 grams of a guar gum stabilizer. in about 1 liter of aqueous suspension.
EXAMPLE 5 EXAMPLEb A material with 30 percent excess MgO was prepared by mixing 676 grams MgCO, with I038 grams Fe,O,and 5 liters of water. It was fired for 6 hours at 1000C. and quenched in an ice water bath. as described above. The magnesium ferrite composition attained a saturation magnetization of $3 e.m.u. per gram.
EXAMPLE 7 A material with ID percent excess MgO was prepared by mixing 37l grams MgCO with 639 grams Fqo and 4.5 liters water. It was fired at ll00 C. for 5 hours and ice water quenched as described above. The magnesium ferrite composition attained a saturation magnetization of 58 e.m.u. per gram.
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I. A method for X-ray visualization gastrointestinal tract of a patient, which comprises:
a. orally administering or administering by enema to the patient a contrast medium comprising an aqueous suspension of a magnetic ferrite consisting of a ferromagnetic ceramic oxide containing two magnetic lattices which are opposed to one another but which do not cancel each other out. said magnetic ferrite having a particle size of no more than 50 microns and exhibiting a saturation magnetization of from about 30 to e.m.u. per gram. and the contrast medium containing ofthe order of I00 grams of said ferrite per dose;
b. applying an external magnetic field in the region of the patient: gastrointestinal tract to affect the disposition of the contrast medium therein; and
e. detecting the presence of said contrast medium in the gastrointestinal tract by X-ray examination.
2. The method as defined in claim I. in which said magnetic ferrite is selected from the group consisting of magnesium ferrite. magnesium-zinc ferrite. barium ferrite. manganese ferrite. manganese-zinc ferrite. nickel ferrite. magnetite and ferromagnetic garnets.
3. An aqueous suspension of a magnetic ferrite and a guar gum stabilizer. the ferrite consisting of a ferromagnetic ceramic oxide containing two magnetic lattices which are opposed to one another but which do not cancel each other out. having a particle size of no more than 50 microns. and exhibiting a saturation magnetization of from about 30 to 80 e.m.u. per gram; and the suspension incorporating the ferrite in an amount of about I00 grams per cc. of the aqueous medium and the stabilizer in an amount of from 1 percent to 2 percent by welght thereof.
4. The aqueous suspension of claim 3, wherein said ferrite is selected from the group consisting of magnesium ferrite. magneslum-zlnc ferrlte. barium ferrite. manganese ferrite. manganese-zinc ferrite. nickel ferrite, magnetite and ferromagnetic garnets.
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hello, ive been experiencing a problem for about 4 months now, i have 4 gamecube controllers and for some strange reason they just dont work with my wii backups. they work perfectly fine everwhere else (HBC, emus, original wii/gamecube games etc) but they just seem to switch off when i want to play wii backups (like mario kart), ive tried going on the wiihacks irc... but no one seems to know how to solve it. ive followed mauifrogs guide , ive tried different loaders but with no luck. tried absolutely everthing i could think of. As the gc controllers work perfectly with my super smash brawl wii disk but not for any other wii backups, then it must be software related, my wiis firmware is 4.1e. should i follow this guide? if not, help would be greatly appreciated. ive created a thread, but with no replys. thank you
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This guide won't do anything for you if you don't have Bootmii/boot2.
Have you tried SaveMiiFrii? That would be the only way to boot from disk with a black screen. Even then you need to have a dip patched system IOS, DARCKCORP/CIOSCORP or an autobooting modchip installed.
If Priiloader was functional then it should start just by holding the reset button while you turn on your Wii.
If you installed Priiloader and it no longer works then I doubt SaveMiiFrii will do you any good. It's worth a shot though. The original controller will not work unless you take it apart as in the images below. The MadCatz one, I have no idea on. I have an after market controller that will not work at all so it's hard to say.
edit: and we are getting off topic from this thread. I suggest you start a thread in the bricked section and ask for advice since a format will not help you.
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Ubuntu Edge: The desktop-replacement smartphone that's doomed to fail
- By Sebastian Anthony on July 24, 2013 at 10:06 am
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Two days ago, Canonical unveiled its next gambit to push Ubuntu into the hands of consumers: The Ubuntu Edge smartphone. If the Edge Indiegogo project can raise $32 million before August 22, 40,000 Ubuntu Edge smartphones will enter the mobile ecosystem in May 2014 — if the project fails, Canonical says that it will instead focus on bringing Ubuntu to commercially available smartphones, and that the Edge will quietly disappear into the digital ether. And trust me, the Edge will fail.
The Ubuntu Edge is what I like to call a desktop replacement smartphone (DRS). In theory, the Edge runs the Ubuntu Phone OS (or Android, your choice) — then, when you connect it to an external monitor via HDMI and attach a mouse and keyboard via Bluetooth, the Edge automatically switches over to a full version of the Ubuntu Desktop OS. The idea is that, on the move, the Edge is a normal smartphone — but at home or in the office, it becomes your desktop PC. All of your files and settings are synchronized between the mobile and desktop OSes, and it seems you can even access mobile features — such as making and receiving calls — from the desktop.
As I have said before, I believe that the desktop replacement smartphone is the future of computing. The future simply isn't here yet, though, and the Ubuntu Edge is destined to fail. Putting aside the fact that it will almost certainly not reach its funding goal (current estimates put the total at around $20 million after 31 days), there are a slew of hardware and software challenges that cannot be overcome for the next few years.For a start, there are still severe limitations on the hardware that you can squeeze into the smartphone form factor. The Edge is by no means a small phone — 64x124x9mm, or about the same size as a normal 4.5-inch Android smartphone — but, given the state of the art of processors and batteries, there's still only so much that Canonical can squeeze in. The Indiegogo project page says that the Edge will have 4GB of RAM, 128GB of flash storage, a 4.5-inch 1280×720 display (with a sapphire glass screen), and all of the usual wireless, sensory, and camera gubbins. So far, so good.
The SoC, however, remains unlisted, with the project page merely stating that the Edge will have "the fastest multi-core CPU," and no word at all about the GPU. There's also no mention of battery size. These are by far the most important factors when discussing the validity and usefulness of a desktop replacement smartphone.
We know for a fact that it won't have the fastest multi-core CPU, because it simply isn't feasible to squeeze an Intel Xeon into a smartphone. What Canonical must mean is that it'll try to squeeze in the fastest ARM or Atom chip. Based on its expected shipping date of May 2014, this probably means that the Edge will be powered by Intel's Silvermont-based Merrifield SoC, or perhaps something along the lines of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800. Both of these chips will be best-in-class for mobile use, but their ability to run multiple, windowed desktop apps is questionable. Can you imagine running a word processor, video player, and numerous smaller apps side-by-side on a smartphone?There are also serious questions about the power of the GPU. If we assume that the Edge will be powered by the Snapdragon 800, that means we're looking at the Adreno 330 GPU. (We don't know what GPU Merrifield will have yet, but it'll probably be comparable to the Adreno 330). The Adreno 330 posts benchmark scores that are around half that of Ivy Bridge's integrated HD 4000 graphics — and as we know, the HD 4000 will only play last-year's games at medium res and low details.
And then there's the battery. While the battery obviously doesn't matter when you're docked, it plays a huge role in defining the power envelope of the SoC and other components, because this is still a mobile device that will be used on the move. To achieve adequate performance for desktop computing, Canonical might have to squeeze a quad-core Bay Trail chip inside — but when you're unplugged, you might not have enough juice to power that beefy SoC for more than a couple of hours. Ultimately, without a decent battery, you end up with the smartphone equivalent of a desktop replacement laptop — you know, one of those gonad-melting beasts that doesn't last more than 30 minutes on battery power. For a $830 device that will primarily replace your existing smartphone, that just won't fly.
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Perhaps we're being too hard on the Ubuntu Edge, though. Maybe it's more than enough to start with a smartphone that can be plugged into a monitor for some big-screen word processing or web browsing. As hardware and battery life improves, a true desktop replacement smartphone that can multitask and play PC-quality 3D games might become feasible. As is often the case with Kickstarter and Indiegogo projects, you are basically buying into something that isn't quite ready for prime time — you are brute forcing the development process with your consumer dollars, in effect — and it would be silly to expect the first version of a product, produced in tiny quantities with little hardware experience, to be perfect.
The Ubuntu Edge, as perhaps the name suggests, is a bleeding-edge device for people who want to be first in line to experience the consolidated, carry-your-desktop-with-you future. In that regard, it's a very exciting device indeed. Even if it does fail miserably, it lays the groundwork for an exciting new breed of converging post-PC devices — and, ironically enough, we'd finally have a Linux desktop that's capable of gaining significant market share.
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I think that this is less 'lets make a device that we can sell on the market' and more 'lets make a device that enthusiast will buy and through that lets show the world what our software can do even with underpowered hardware.'
pelov lov
Yea, this is definitely a case of differentiation and offering something entirely new rather than providing a stable and mature platform to consumers right off the bat. This is inevitably going to suffer from a serious case of the first gensies, but I think it's worth the growing pains. Ubuntu isn't going to get anything accomplished by going with a 'me too' approach to entering the smartphone/tablet market. Just look at WP8 :/
I also don't think that the hardware will be an issue, frankly. The dedicated video decoders on SoCs are very good and with the introduction of 64-bit ARM and Intel SoCs, we should see more RAM for multitasking – which for most users is just 20 tabs open in a web browser anyway.
Lots of folks are bypassing their PC upgrades in favor of tablets and smartphones, and now a majority of their interaction with a 'PC' is with a tablet and/or smartphone. Pulling out your phone and docking it so you can type away on a keyboard seems like a natural transition to me. Let's face it, the majority of people who used to buy desktops never needed them to begin with, but just the keyboard.
Micaiah James Fonken
I think people are forgetting the low resource requirements that most Linux systems have… even Ubuntu being as bloated as it is, doesn't seem to top 2GB of ram very often on my PC, even running things like Blender and Gimp, and a few libreoffice docs. I mostly skimmed the article, but I don't see much taking into account the OS itself. Only the hardware was considered.
I actually see One market for this concept: Africa and the rest of the Third world. We sometimes forget that it is NOT everywhere where someone has the choice between a iPhone, a Mac or can Call Dell for a PC.
So the parts of the world where the growing device market IS the Cell phone. A cellphone that can 'morph' into a low powered, internet capable PC by attaching to a Monitor may be a niche technology for certain parts of the world.
No.. $100 p4/core 2 duo desktops have you beat.
Here in America…Yes. I wasn't talking about America or England. I was talking Africa. Or even parts of the Subcontinent outside the Main Cities, out in the sticks. Even in China, where a lot of their population still resides in the countryside…and a CELLPHONE is their Primary Tech Buy…NOT a PC.
Ubuntu Edge concept can outrival all types of PC and probably even tablet pc for most application (not in the living room!).
Joel Hruska
I agree with you that we are headed in a direction where most people compute most of the time with touch.
This is subject to certain significant limits on battery life, device capability, and a fundamental need for performance. Adobe will never port the full desktop version of Photoshop to a smartphone because a smartphone is incapable of adequately presenting the UI (and a program as complex as Photoshop cannot be simplified to smartphone touchscreen levels and still retain its full suite of capabilities.)
That doesn't mean we won't have smartphones with photo editing. It suggests, instead, that there will be a demarcation between power users who require pixel-perfect pointing devices and serious program functionality (desktops, notebooks) and everybody else.
Actually, I would qualify that statement further…
'Most CASUAL Users would USE such a device for general content viewing, minor documents and website user interfaces…'
These are the people and the uses I was thinking about when I said this concept might go very well in Third world and rural areas like farm villages in India and China.
Most CASUAL users have no need for Photoshop. They don't even know that GIMP even exists and have no need for that either. As another poster intimated– the Average CASUAL PC user is ever ONLY using the PC for Email and web-browsing. The rest of the Box, the 4+ GB of memory, the other THREE cores on the CPU…they'll never touch it! That's why Tablets are taking off like they are. A good portion of Tablet customers have NO NEED for a full boxed PC or even a Laptop.
And in the Developing Third world where the Cellphone is the NEW Network, they are more concerned about e-Communications and using the various forms of e-commerce enabled via their smartphones. For these people, most of them, CASUAL users, a touch interfaced Smartphone device is ALL they need at this juncture.
But in another 5 years– Whooosh! Things may take off like it did for us in the 90s.
5 6 years from now, maybe however, first off, there is an entire pc repair and support infra, second cost, third, personal vs family use, Lastly mobile Internet.
1mb for 3gb then 256kbs is 10 dollars+ a month in Jalandhar. That's more expensive than North American mobile internet, when people have that Internet at home what do you think cell will have?
There are idiots selling their land for iPhone or drugs, but majority have cheap Nokia and prepaid sim.
People will get pc first.
Also, Khalistan Zindabad.
This subcontinent would have starved over the past 40 years if not for the USA and Punjab so long term discussions given the climate in both areas (political) are senseless.
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"Adobe will never port the full desktop version of Photoshop to a smartphone because a smartphone is incapable of adequately presenting the UI "
never is a big word! the newer windows 8 laptops are all touch. And high end smartphones have more number of pixels than the usual laptop.
On the hardware side, look at the increase in GPU capabilities from Snapdragon 600 to 800. Nearly doubled. And that is just with architecture improvements only (both 28nm planar). Would anyone bet against it doubling and then doubling again with the move to 20nm and then 14/16nm trigate… where does that leave the comparison with Intel core series processors in the next couple of years. As of Intel moving forward with its own GPU, well Larrabee was such a success, wasn't it!! And how much improvement has there been in Intel integrated GPU performance over the last 3 years??
Always remember when comparing Intel and the best of breed of ARM. Intel is on a 22nm finfet manufacturing process, Snapdragon is on 28nm planar. In 2015, Intel and ARM converge on the manufacturing node.
So, I guess by next year or if not, then definitely by 2015, we are going to see smartphone hardware fully able to run PCs. As for Adobe and others like it, they should be moving towards where the puck is going rather than where it is right now
Joel Hruska
never is a big word!
It's not about hardware, it's about precision. You can't do pixel-perfect selection with a fingertip. You can't pack enormous complexity into a finger-driven interface.
That doesn't mean most users won't transition to touch devices — if anything, it implies a market bifurcation.
Hoàng Anh
5 6 years from now, maybe however, first off, there is an entire pc repair and support infra, second cost, third, personal vs family use, Lastly mobile Internet.
Nicolas Klein
Sadly. You're wrong. I live in a so called "Third World" country; not the poorest of all, but still.
Firstly: this device is expensive, much more than a cheap smartphone and cheap desktop pc put together. (Of course it will deliver much more, but is still expensive).
Secondly, and maybe most important: Crimes and cellphone's stealing are something common, I think that more than half of my friends got their cellphone stolen at least ONCE. This would most certainly be an issue if I have to be carrying around BOTH my pc and cellphone at the same time.
Though I love the idea, it is NOT for the Third World countries yet.
Not to disparage what you've said– but I would still argue that this is the Form/Function direction that we are heading towards. Even here on the streets of NYC, the desired device of choice IS the Cellphone. NOT the PC. The Tablet is a moderate second place.
The girl talking into her iPhone or her samsung galaxy doesn't REALLY think of it as a 'Smartphone' or an ARM-powered handheld PC. To her, like a lot of people, it's a Cellphone that let's them look at their email, Facebook and do basic transactions with their bank. Something that before they were basically FORCED to by a PC or a Laptop and stash it on a desk somewhere.
And yes, they're stolen on a regular basis. Doesn't stop people from NEEDING it, though. When your friends phone was stolen– Did they throw up their hands and Cry: "That's it! I won't risk the money anymore and will just wait until I get home to check my email!"
Not bloody likely.
People everywhere will be needing a Connective device to access even basic Gov't services…and a Smartphone that can expand into a Full sized Interface on a Monitor is something I can see an internet cafe shop offering Monitor-Linkup for a tiny fee. Or something like that…mind you, I'm not talking TODAY. More like in a few years, this may be a more prevalent plug-in capability on MANY smartphone brands now that Ubuntu has broached the ordinary consumer-friendly version of the idea.
Yes, I know Geeks already know how to do it with all kinds of work-arounds. But if a farmer in the sticks or a girl can just plug a cable between the phone and a flatscreen to get a functional PC, it will be a 'Well Duh, of course!" moment.
Hey racist dravid mlechha when parts of your own shit country make Africa look like heaven, why the rhetoric Africa and the rest of the third world? Niggers in NYC making you insecure? Or a black woman reject you?
For the specs this is a good deal, but your attitude showing. Fair and lovely that way..
I usually get stuff for half on ebay so I wouldn't get this yet, and my pc is fine 2500k will run around this.
I'm going to go look at Ubuntu Os because a fellow countrymen is pushing it, but BlackBerry 10 seems to be more efficient t most tasks.
Khalistan Zindabad
Nicolas Klein
They don't avoid BUYING a phone. But almost always choose the cheapest phone available that meets their most basic requirements.
I could EASILY, like REALLY EASILY afford an iPhone 5 (or even better a Galaxy S4), yet I chose to buy a 130$ used (but good enough) Android instead.
I agree that potentially this will be the devices everywhere around, but on 3rd world countries they'll have to get a LOT cheaper before they reach massive market.
This is only a Limited edition for professionals as Mark has stated! It is a testing ground.
There is a market everywhere. Let us face the facts: $6,331,315 in 3 days – so there are people who want that.
If you don't like Ubuntu Edget buy something else. I am in, I want to be part of the revolution and I have no problems if other people stick with their legacy devices.
I like your question what CPU and GPU can be in the Edge, as it is an important unanswered question.
But seriously… you've only been looking at CPU/GPU offerings from two US-only companies and dropped to conclusions it would be Intel or Qualcomm? Did you even check what companies like Imagination Technologies and ARM will offer in 2014? I'd appreciate if you did, and updated the article.
Joel Hruska
You don't seem to understand how the licensing model works. ARM builds CPU designs, not CPUs. So it could theoretically be an Nvidia chip or a Samsung Exynos, but Qualcomm currently rules the roost on performance with Intel as the x86 alternate.
The chances that an NV or Samsung part would offer dramatically different performance is negligible. It could utilize an Imagination or Mali GPU, but again, performance will likely hit at the top end of today's tablet range, as exemplified by the Adreno 330.
I know that there are IP-only companies and IP+silicon companies. Your conclusions are not very accurate though.
A few possibilities for 2014 phones/tablets: Nvidia Tegra 5 (300-400 GFLOPS), ARM MALI T658 (500-600 GFLOPS), Imtech PowerVR 6 (100 – 1000 GFLOPS). The GFLOPS-numbers are based on marketing-stories, so please read them as such. The release dates of these GPUs are very vague though. The Adreno 330 is picked as the performance-king for Q4 2013 (LG G2 and Sony Xperia Z Ultra), but certainly not for Q2 2014.
For more than two years I've seen too many "Qualcomm vs Intel" stories out there, as if there are no other processor-companies. The assumption that one of these two will "win" the complete battle is completely out of reality. If you think it is, get all your money and buy their stocks. http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1374696000000&chddm=1283&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:ARMH;NASDAQ:INTC;LON:IMG&cmptdms=0;0;1&q=NASDAQ:QCOM&ntsp=0&ei=g_bvUZGwCvCUwQP1zwE
pelov lov
It's not the GPU that sells Qualcomm but the modem. Unfortunately for Intel, there's currently no reason to buy them over anyone else in mobile market :P And, yea, I definitely think that even the current flock of SoCs can provide the power to drive such a device. 20nm should allow for an even bigger bump (risk production late 2013 with ramping mid-2014?)
I think you're overestimating the sheer processing power required here, Joel. I see this as a 'plug your phone in and type away' thing and not a 'replace your workstation because you won't need it anymore' shindig. This is a product for folks who never needed a desktop other than the keyboard, the display, and an OS conducive to fitting both of those peripherals – which is a huge chunk of people. It's sort of like Metro, except you don't have to feel like an idiot when you're asked to 'slide to unlock'
Joel Hruska
Sure. But I'm not really arguing against that. The fact that *I'm* not happy with a smartphone as a universal use device doesn't mean no one else can't be. ;)
Joel Hruska
"A few possibilities for 2014 phones tablets"
1). Qualcomm (stated)
2). Intel (stated).
3). Nvidia (stated by me, unlikely to offer dramatically superior performance, no current silicon).
4). Samsung (likely GPU partner, ImaginationTech, ARM also possible). Likelihood of offering dramatically different performance? Low.
Yeah, think I covered those already.
Qualcomm is the safest assumption. But even if it *isn't* Qualcomm, I don't see that changing the final equation one iota. Take out Qualcomm, drop in Samsung, story doesn't really change.
… x86 vs arm that is the story. Joel covered that..
I'd like to see this device make it. I would like to check out this new toy.
Taylor Holmes
Until the open source world can implement office software comparable to MS Office, this concept would fail even if it was free. So far, Libre Office and Apache Open Office have failed us. Maybe mozilla should swoop in and save the day; they've already made a good email client.
Jeremy Garcia
It already does. For 90% of users, Libre Office is either comparable, or better than MS Office. Considering that MS's Ribbon interface is a joke, especially for productivity oriented users, I don't see how Libre Office ISN'T a viable replacement for MS Office. It may be fine for the non-savvy users, but for people who need to get work done, it's a real hindrance. If you combine the fact the Libre Office has a traditional menu layout we're all used to, and ubuntu's ability to search nested menus for commands (via HUD), Libre Office is just better at getting work done. And considering the cost of MS Office along with MS Windows, it only makes sense to use MS Office if, and only if, the company uses some seriously advanced formatting, formulas, macros, etc., but even then Libre Office is catching up in those departments as well.
The only time I've needed MS Office is to convert format sensitive documents (such as resumes) to .docx format for digital viewing, and the only reason why I need to do that is because everyone (including non-profits and public services who can't really afford the licenses) are stuck on MS Office.
Joel Hruska
I loathe Libre Office (and pre-Office 2007) graph engines. That's a killer. As far as Word is concerned, I'm confident I could switch if I had reason to.
Haha, I have used Ubuntu over 4 years now and do many things and research is my priority and Open Source has not failed, do a little research. Movies are rendered on Ubuntu, Google developers run Ubuntu and Servers are running Ubuntu over RedHat, the wave is coming like it or not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Jamie MacDonald
It'd be nice to see something like this work. I could buy into it. I wouldn't see it replacing a desktop within this decade, though. There will always be more power available to a desktop than a smartphone, and for gaming and intensive professional work, the desktop is still going to hang in there.
Sadly the desktop is dying! I will always use one but as News states daily the laptop is losing sales f a s t! Remember when we stored data on a floppy and now we have flash drives, things will change and Canonical is at the forefront of evolution!
Jamie MacDonald
The news also tells me that the war in Afghanistan will end soon. I tend to ignore the news.
Laptops are inferior to desktops and smartphones. They're a halfway that'll get bled out between the two. Too bulky compared to a phone, too weak and hot compared to a desktop.
I started reading the article and I got tired with the CPU debate. If the Ubuntu desktop on Android phone is already working, why would it be an issue for this new model?
Hi Pierre, here are commenting too many people who are arguing coming from ideology or fear. Many Windows users can't accept that they are a dying species although still a majority (at least on the desktop). But the Linux wave can't get stopped and so the Windows lemmings create FUD. You are right the CPU discussion is stupid and I am doubting that most commenting people here have a solid experience with Ubuntu. My oldest PC is 20 years old and runs Ubuntu 12.04 without any problems.
Hi Pierre, here are commenting too many people who are arguing coming from ideology or fear. Many Windows users can't accept that they are a dying species although still a majority (at least on the desktop). But the Linux wave can't get stopped and so the Windows lemmings create FUD. You are right the CPU discussion is stupid and I am doubting that most commenting people here have a solid experience with Ubuntu. My oldest PC is 20 years old and runs Ubuntu 12.04 without any problems.
Alex Peter
I knew Extremetech is a WINDOW licker. But seriously guys, how the HELL you know that it is doomed to fail even before a launch? Please lay for a while, I think it will pass, if not see a doctor, nothing wrong in that. This will be last article I'll be reading in Extremtech. Good bye.
Yeah! I don´t believe in this doomed prediction either.
Just think of how Windows Surface RT is declining!
And tablet pc virtual keyboard don´t have any tactile feedback as a ordinary keyboard have.When tablets get EAP=Electro-Active-Polymers maybe tactile feedback can make tablet pc same property as ordinary keyboards.
Canonical have showed this concept before with a dock for connect a smartphone to a computer display (and a keyboard and a mouse).
I rather think that this concept will outrival all types of PC (or mostly applications for PC).
So they will lick soon a cadaver :-)
Senthilkumar Raju
OK. I have decided to pledge $625 + $30. I hope I will find a use for such device. :) I feel I have too many computers already. But if it is a success I will definitely develop for it, so it should be worth it.
This smart phone is awesome…I have posted about it
Smart, I would have got shastaar and a Samsung or BlackBerry off eBay. Are you a dravid?
callum ramage
The first version of the iPhone was HORRIBLE to use and we all know how that worked out. The first gen is for the enthusiasts, second gen will be the less adventurous enthusiasts and third gen will hit mass adoption. I don't personally think this kickstarter will succeed but I think the phone would.
So few of the people I know play games on computers. So few of the people I know multi task on computers. All the average consumer wants is something they can attach to a larger screen and watch youtube with.
It is a indiegogo-crowdfunding project not kickstarter!
The Ubuntu Edge phone it too expensive but it will of course be expensive in the beginning for early adopters!
And think of all fork of Ubuntu if they start similar crowdfunding projects and developing!
Docking a smartphone to a computer display can outrival all types of PC (or mostly of them!).
Why is Ubuntu Edge doomed to fail?
The phone is to expensive but it have a lot of top edge properties like LTE dual antennas,4gb RAM and 128gb internal memory (maybe the last property is not so important).But I still believe in Canonical´s concept with a dock to connect a smartphone to a computer display and using the smartphone as broadband connection!
It is not expensive considering the fact that a desktop PC can get replaced.
Can I install Steam for Linux on this? Will it run my games?
I know it won't run my 700+ Windows games (yes, I'm addicted), but if it can run a subset that may make it tempting.
Not likely. Steam is x86 only closed source app and while Valve wants to go ARM apparently (they even have plans for own console apparently), none of that will be there in 2014.
A. This had better be an Atom inside there. You have to remember that any software that already runs on Ubuntu OS is only really compiled for X86 with the exception of a small percentage that is compiled for the Ubuntu on ARM project (or whatever it's called). I really don't believe Conical has the buisness clout to convince every developer to port their software to ARM, either.
B. This whole "PostPC Utopia" thing really kills me. People already have more than they "need" with a phone, and have for some time, and yet companies like Lenovo, AMD, Intel and Nvidia (okay, maybe not AMD, but when has that not been the case?) are still making billions in spite of their mobile products only being a fraction of their total sales.
The desktop is never really going to die. It's still cheaper to build a 300 dollar APU based rig and place it in an office than to issue your workers all smartphones that they would have to plug into a monitor that was already there in the first place for the computer. On the home front, gamers and hobbyist such as the many computer generated artists and folders will always want more power, no matter how much your phone offers. There will always be the "oh, your phone plays Battlefield 3 at 1080p on max settings at 35FPS?, Well, my rig plays BF3 at 4K X 3 at max at 60FPS on 240Hz 3d monitors."
I will admit that the normal soccer moms and grandmas will be well suited to use only a smartphone (believe me, my grandma knows how to use Facebook a little too well), but there will never be a day when there isn't a market for a strong desktop build, even if the numbers are shrinking amongst the plebs, and to that effect, I say good riddance. The fewer calls I get from family and friends asking me to fix another freakin Macbook, the better.
Well, unlike other ecosystems Ubuntu can leverage the fact that it's open-source so they don't need to get software authors to port the software to ARM, package managers can. In fact, large majority of Debian (the source of 99% of Ubuntu's apps and packages) has been ported to ARM to a great extent already:
Off course, few closed source programs that do exist and are native apps (i.e. not Java or something like that) will either need to be ported by the authors, or won't be available.
I think this report is doomed to fail maybe it was written with an influence from big shots.
This device is the future of computing and its best for convergence.
I am tired of using PC, cell phone, laptop and tablet and instead if I get one device to work with , there is nothing like it.
Besides you carry your privacy with it wherever you go.
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With the new developments in GPU power by Nvidia as per the next gen mobile GPU artical http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57595188-92/nvidia-offers-glimpse-of-powerful-next-gen-mobile-chip/ . It is more then likely a very good contender for this project as the Logan project will be available for mobile devices in 2014 so maybe the will delay the Ubuntu Edge and integrate this in into it, witch will make it (if battery issues can be sorted out) a very good multitasking and 3D game playing devise.
"When good ideas come together, Great ideas are made reality"
I am not the greatest fan of an all ubuntu base environment but lets be realistic even if this does work and is not a big failure it will still only be a first gen device and we all know it would not be long before we have the same type of device from Android and Microsoft and Mac. and a lower cost and with second gen tech in it. this but a first step into what we all know is the way forward, wearable tech that is not just for facebook but would be able to do anything a PC can do.
Choking Kojak
You said "form factor" — my respect for you immediately fell…
I'm not sure I want to live with the tradeoffs of shrinking my PC to smart phone size…even in the near future where they are more and more capable, a full sized PC or at least laptop-sized device will blow it away in performance and price. I don't mind size, my place has plenty of room for these devices!
Most people have USB printers, scanners, chat headsets, external drives (inc. optical), stereo-jack speakers, so unless you have/invest in Bluetooth versions of those, this is going to be not much better than adding a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to a tablet.
As Apple don't seem to be much interested in convergence (yet anyway), the only company that could realistically pull this off are Microsoft, and even then it's too early for them to ponder, and they know it.
Some folks said the same thing when floppy drives first came out, this is the way to store data, floppys are history flash drives today cloud tomorrow!
Canonical is at the forefront of evolution!
Sebastian I feel sorry for you, such a shallow mind! I do not have a 'smartphone' yet and will not buy one unless it has Ubuntu OS!!!!!!!
I don't think too many prospective buyers consider the Edge to be a true "desktop-replacement" but rather an unlocked high-end smartphone that runs both Android and Ubuntu. The fact that the Edge has desktop functionality is just a bonus. So no, the Edge isn't doomed to fail. Will the Edge supplant the iPhone? No. But I wouldn't be surprised if it, or one of its offspring, outsells the Nexus 4.
Why does the desktop computer have to die for the edge project to work out? Can't there be a market for both?
So there is no doubt that our main "PC" will be mobile very soon. I would love to see a two layer hybrid OS(chrome os with file support+android) from google in next gen phones.
Our very own SELMA unit.
I can't wait until that's a real thing.
1) Snapdragon 800 is old news. Canonical made it pretty clear they will aim for fresh-outta-lab hardware that other vendors will still not consider in serial production at that time (may 2014) — i.e. something ike hardware that will appear on top of the line androids circa xmas 2014 or even early 2015.
2) What would be a lot more proper journalism is having something like a T7200 in there with GMA 950, since I still have my old HP nc6400 and it runs Ubuntu (even Unity) just fine (think Eclipse, Inkscape, Gimp and DarftSight CAD software), and flies on XFCE.
Really I think that sounds like bullshit marketing. I get the impression the big manufactures pay the component makers to get the best new hardware first. How shall canonical pay more than samsung and apple.
Samsung and ESPECIALLY Apple do not want to make a mobile phone that costs $600 ex works and sell it for $800. Apple has all that cash primarily because the $1000 iPhone costs $150 in the Chinese factory that makes it for Apple. There is a bullshit marketing in the whole story, but it's the bullshit marketing you have already swallowed hook and sink. Canonical are not in the mobile phone business. This is a one off whose sole purpose is to get the tech in the market early to show off their OS.
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I don't see it doomed or failing. I think the article is poorly researched.
We've been using devices weaker than the edge for years. Both my tablet and netbook are slower than the edge, and both of those I've docked, or connected to the TV. If those old devices are fast enough, and the Edge has a better CPU and GPU then it'll be fine for most desktop use. The entire specs argument is Bogus.
Battery life when docked is irrelevant, as you'll be next to a mains outlet.
Given all of my docs, projects and VCS have been online for years, we've been in the "desktop in your pocket" future for a long time. The edge is just the next step in a long line of progress that you'd have to have sat in a hole with a bucket on your head not to notice.
That said, being able to dock/undock your phone isn't a great advantage, because its already synced to the cloud and up to date with my PC, but it'd be nice to have the same customised apps, inbox, message history, and environment available.
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I think this is a great idea imagine this:
You've got your smart phone which you can use for normal smartphone stuff with smartphone apps.
Your smart phone can plug into a desktop monitor (and charge) and detect bluetooth keyboard and mouse with full desktop apps.
Maybe a few years off but a great idea, we'd only need to have one device on us also topped up with mobile payments we might not even need to carry pointless credit/debit cards with us.
Just an idea that will probably eventually happen!
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hihi.. can i know which country is better to study medicine? can i knw the medical university ranking in the world?
hihi.. can i know which country is better to study medicine? can i knw the medical university ranking in the world?
my senior and teachers told me that Russia is the good one
but the living is not like malaysia
as they are communist country before
my teacher said their flat (pangsapuri) is 3 time worse that malaysia
i have no idea whether it's right or not
maybe that one is the cheapest
sweetiojj, new questions can be posted in existing threads. There is no real need to open new threads for all kinds of questions that you have...Originally Posted by sweetiojj
"Never argue with an idiot (or a troll) theyll just drag you down to their level and beat you to a pulp with their experience." -Internet 1:1
It is always good to be naive, for when we cease to be naive, it is the end of life as we know it!
Check out our ReCom wiki!
Do contribute by writing or editing the existing articles so that everyone now and in the future can benefit from it!
Like Vseehua said, you should go to the SIG and take a look at all the threads concerning medicine and look at all the previous deliberations on medicine and where it is better. If you do not know what a SIG is, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see a list of Special Interest Groups. Go to the link saying, 'every little thing about medicine'.
I will not be so cruel to you as not to answer your question. I have been a newbie myself. I am a JPA scholar doing medicine in University of Western Australia. I will try my best to answer your question.
When considering where to do medicine, the most important thing you must take into account is money. Studying medicine is definitely an expensive thing.
1st scenario. Money is an object for you. Your family does not have tons of cash stored in the bank, ready to be used. I think you have a few options. Number one, you can study locally. Go to public uni thru matrix. Work your ass off in matrix and get yourself into one of the public unis. If you can't do that, do not despair. Now you have the option of russia or the czech republic. Ukrainian universities are no longer recognised so forget about them. I don't know in specific detail as how studying in Russia is, but there are a lot of recommers who are in Russia and would love to help you on that. Another reason why you should go to the Medicine SIG. Next one the price scale is studying in local private unis. Cheapest would be AIMST in Sungai Petani. They are moving to a new campus and have a good training hospital. Next, if you like name brands, go for IMU. It is a good place to study with a lot of kiasu students pushing you and themselves to work harder. You can also try for Monash university. Another quite expensive name brand option.
2nd scenario, money is not an object for you. Your family is willing to pay watever it takes for your education. Cheapest among the expensive is Manipal twinning. This is a great uni and India often provides the BEST hands on experience in the world. Students from Australia are now going to India to get their surgery skills perfected. Next is PMC twinning. You get a 'branded' education from Ireland, which is quite good. Another place I can't do justice. Again visit SIG for more details. Next is IMU twinning. You get to choose which twinning you want to go to, but there are stringent selection criteria.
3rd and final scenario. You are royalty or heir of the Genting empire or something like that. Money is something you never bothered to think about. Cheapest of the 'big boys' is Australia. That will set you back about 1million ringgit for the 6 years of education here. One BIG problem is getting in. Australia has one of the world's strictest entrance systems for medicine. Do not expect to get in on mediocre marks. No matter how much you are willing to pay, your seat is not guaranteed. The most expensive is studying UK medicine. Getting into UK unis are much easier. Of course, getting into Oxbridge is shit hard but getting into B-List unis are pretty easy. One major problrm is moola. (Money) It will set your parents back about 1.2 to 1.3 million ringgit. But you get a pretty good education.
One thing about deciding where to do medicine, is never trust the agents. They will tell you exactly what you want to hear which may not be true. Once you have committed to something you cannot pull out. So, use Recom, the SIG specifically to get real info about unis from real students who are actually studying there. And don't bother with rankings. Studying medicine or any other course finally comes down to YOU. You decide how good a doctor you are going to be. Post questions in relevant SIG thread if you have further questions.
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Hi. I got 2 questions:
1. Australia is 6 yrs but UK only 5 yrs. So is Australia really cheaper then UK?
2. How's the opportunities to do specialist training in Aust & UK?
As said, refer to the SIG, there are a lot of information there already.Originally Posted by Tourist
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jay3349, i totally disagree with your comment that it's easier to get into UK universities for medicine. It's total rubbish, i would say. Only certain medical schools in Australia are considered ''good'', namely Melbourne and the ANU which are in par with oxbridge. I don't reckon Universities like Tasmania would be better than your so called ''B-List'' Universities. That's a total insult, and please do watch your words before posting next time.
I'm referring your ''B-List'' Universities to Bristol, for example. If i've misinterpreted any of your ideas, do give me a knock on my head.
If you want to work at local hospital, then local uni and private college will be better and more cost effective. If you want to serve abroad, then you can go anywhere u like. The reason is because only local training system knows well what do local hospital need from a DR. it would be very sad when u come back from so called "Good" oversea medical college but u realized that u just can't adapt with local working environment and being scrutinized by MO/Specialist as you know nothing/few regarding practical procedure, and tagged ' Incompetence', eg. delivery of a baby, applying Plaster of Paris, proper physical examination technique, adequate operation assisting skills and experience.
Think twice before go oversea, u may not earn back the tuition fee in future 10 years if you work in M'sia.
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Effective work practices for Free and Open Source Software development
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Understanding these questions is important because the digital society entails an increased use of distributed teams for a wide range of knowledge work, but research indicates that distributed teams face numerous obstacles to effective work. The two research questions will be addressed in a study of Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams. FLOSS teams are important examples of distributed teams: developers contribute from around the world, rarely meet face-to-face, and coordinate their activity almost exclusively by means of email and bulletin boards. Yet some teams have been outstandingly successful at quickly developing reliable and useful software. In addition to its importance as an example of distributed work, FLOSS is an important phenomenon worthy of study in its own right. Millions of users depend on FLOSS systems such as Linux and the Apache Web server, yet our knowledge of the practices used by developers is still scarce.
In the current study, we will examine how distributed teams develop shared mental models to guide members' behavior, roles to mediate access to resources, and norms and rules to shape action, as well as the dynamics by which independent, geographically-dispersed individuals are socialized into these teams. As a basis for this study, we develop a conceptual framework that uses a structurational perspective to integrate research on team behaviour, communities of practice and shared mental models. A key innovation of this proposal is the integration of three methods to investigate these dynamics: natural language processing and social network analysis of team interactions and source code analysis. The work will be carried out by a multi-disciplinary team including researchers from the fields of information systems and natural language processing.
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Being Present in Online Communities: Learning in Citizen Science. 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies.(2015).
Editorial: The role of information systems in enabling open innovation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems . 15(11),(2014).
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Group maintenance in technology-supported distributed teams. Information & Management. 51(3), 297-309.(2014).
I recently took part in a webinar on "Peer Production, Collective Intelligence, and Open Communities: Issues for Researchers and Educators". The recording is posted here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvL-Cpg4lK8
Open Source Software Adoption: A Technological Innovation Perspective. Association Information et Management.(2013).
The January 2013 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review is on the theme Open Source Sustainability. It's available here. Nicolas Julien, Felipe Ortega and I have a paper in the issue on sustainability of Wikipedia.
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This really depends on if you care what your parents think. If you have a close relationship with mom and dad, respect them immensely and consider them friends as well as parents, then you should absolutely care what they think.
If your parents are completely out of touch with reality and don't like the new beau because of something superficial like tattoos, piercings or the fact that he's not a doctor or lawyer, then screw them.
The following are completely reasonable and acceptable reasons for why your parents wouldn't like your boyfriend, and you should heed their advice:
- He doesn't treat you well.
- He abuses you either physically or verbally.
- He mooches off of you.
- He's rude and disrespectful.
- He considers a full-time job playing video games in his boxers.
The following are totally lame reasons for your parents not to like your boyfriend, and you might as well ignore their opinion on the matter:
- He's a struggling yet passionate and hardworking artist.
- He didn't go to Yale or another Ivy League school.
- His idea of fashion is a tank top and board shorts.
- He has tattoos or piercings.
- He drives a beat-up truck.
If your parents don't like the guy you're dating, take some time to think about your relationship with your parents and the reasons why they don't like him. There is where your answer lies.