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High pressure across the Great Lakes Wednesday evening will push cooler air southeast into eastern North Carolina on Thursday. High temperatures will dip from the 60s Wednesday into the lower 50s Thursday afternoon. Communities along the Outer Banks may see afternoon temperatures in the 40s despite plenty of sunshine. Temperatures will dip to around freezing the next two nights. Dry conditions will last through Saturday afternoon but a strong cold front will likely bring showers and thunderstorms by Sunday.
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Beer Stacking, David Hasselhoff, and the NFL Draft
It's Friday, and now we're all wanting summer to get here so we can check out the new Portal 2 DLC. Did you know there's a gun in Shadows of the Damned called a "Big Boner?" Seriously, you can see it in developer diary. Also, we've got a Morrowind mod to see you through the weekend: Rebirth.
Once you're done with all that, you might enjoy these links.
- How Not To Stack Beer (Break)
- Netflix Instant Distractions Of The Week (Screen Junkies)
- 9 Greatest Steals in NFL Draft History (Total Pro Sports)
- How To Build A Deadfall Trap (Made Man)
- Textalyzer keeps you from sending those drunk text messages (Guyism)
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The Canvas Tote That Anchored A Boat
Bert knew his crew had no way to control the vessel. The captain and crew of the Windrift were returning from a regatta when a treacherous storm set in, slamming the craft with high winds and breaking waves. The loud "crack!" they'd just heard was the rudder snapping off above the water line – just as they entered a mile-long inlet famous for rip currents and hazardous sandbars.
Captain Bert recalls, "The tow line was about to break, putting us in peril once again. We needed a sea anchor. Then I saw it: our "Windrift" bag, a Lands' End® Canvas Tote. We never go to the boat without it. We tied a dock line through the bag's handles and hurled it aft.
"As soon as it hit the water, it helped slow the boat. Soon the official tow boat was on the scene. It was a long, rough ride through the rest of the inlet, but we made it. I was concerned the bag would give way… but to my surprise, not a stitch was out of place. I can honestly say the quality of the construction of our Lands' End Tote played a big role in our avoiding damage to our boat and possible injury to our crew. Thank you for making such a fine product."
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Clover talks about her work for Sydney communities and the power of independence:
As Lord Mayor, I have transformed our city government into a responsive organisation that has a carefully consulted long-term strategy and the practical expertise to achieve results. Our City is focused on securing a sustainable future—environmentally, socially, culturally and economically.
I have worked to create better transport options including a network of safe, separated cycleways that make bike riding a convenient option.
Small bars and live music a really important part of our culture. I'm working to create a balanced night-life that gives people more choice late at night.
Supporting our GLBTI community is something I've always been passionate about, and I continue to work with them on important issues.
A successful city needs a diverse economy. My work to support creative and digital start-ups is helping boost Sydney's reputation for innovation.
More people are choosing to raise children in Sydney so I'm working to boost the amount of child care available while making sure children have access to high-quality parks and open spaces.
As an independent elected representative, I work for our community's interests, for the needs of Sydney and for the future. I love our area and want to make it an even better place to live and work, and to transform it into a leading sustainable city globally.
I represent you directly, providing an independent alternative to party politicians. I challenge government inaction and the stranglehold of vested interests over political parties, which has shut out community input.
I work for a better environment and living amenity, and to defend our parks and foreshores. I promote progressive solutions to inner city problems, and I have initiated social justice legislation of state significance.
I offer you courage, commitment and integrity, more hard work and active representation to address the problems of Sydney, as well as an ongoing commitment to raise standards in government and politics.
My career in the NSW Parliament
In a career spanning 24 years, I was honoured to represent inner Sydney as an Independent as the Member for Bligh and the Member for Sydney.
I took your concerns directly to Parliament to influence and get action from Government. I spoke on legislation, asked questions and lobbied responsible Ministers to keep your concerns on the agenda.
I was forced out of Parliament because of legislation enacted by the O'Farrell Government, with the support of the Shooters and Fishers Party and the Fred Nile group, that bans the holding of elected positions in both state and local governments.
I held both positions from 2004 to 2012 by majority popular vote, state and local, but my reelection as Lord Mayor of Sydney for a third term means I had to resign my state seat following the passage of the Government's legislation.
Representing our community at both levels of government allowed for effective and efficient democratic representation.
If you'd like to know more about my work as the local member, you can read my final speech to parliament here: www.clovermoore.com.au/my-final-speech-to-the-nsw-parliament/
You can also watch this story from ABC's 7.30 Report about my final day in the NSW Parliament.
Lord Mayor Salary Trust
My decision to run for Lord Mayor in February 2004 was made in extraordinary circumstances. The City of Sydney and South Sydney Councils were sacked and forced together just seven weeks before the Council's elections were due.
I gave an early commitment that if elected I would not accept the Lord Mayoral salary and that I would donate it to charity.
This commitment resulted in my establishing Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP Salary Trust in October 2004 and donating my Lord Mayoral fees to the Trust.
Guided by the management of a Trustee Committee, the Trust has donated over $1.1 million to projects that have helped young people at risk, homeless people, former prisoners and their families, and people with mental illness. It has also supported animal welfare and community environmental projects.
See a full list of grants here: www.clovermoore.com.au/lord-mayor-trust-grants/
The Committee includes solicitors Richard D'Apice and Gerard Gooden, Cr Robyn Kemmis, and my former Electorate Officer, Roy Bishop, who has extensive experience with community-based welfare organisations and is familiar with my values as well as my commitment to finding compassionate solutions to complex social problems.
The Committee is now reviewing the priorities of the Trust and how donations from my Lord Mayoral fees can best be directed to innovative, cutting edge projects that will achieve worthwhile outcomes for people most in need.


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Beware: CISPA Gets Closed-Door Hearing Tomorrow
Make a note, readers: Tomorrow, the House Intelligence Committee is having a closed-door hearing on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Those of us still laboring under the delusion that a free and open society demands a free and open discussion of proposals that could adversely affect all of us should therefore pay close attention.
Best described as the evil twin of the thankfully vanquished SOPA and PIPA bills, CISPA would go farther than either of those laws ever dared dream. Presented as an amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 to address the threat of so-called cyberterrorism, the bill would so broadly define cyberterrorism as to render all but the most passive web users suspect.
According to CISPA, a threat to cyber security is described as "information in the possession of an element of the intelligence community directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to, a system or network of a government or private entity, including information pertaining to the protection of a system or network from either 'efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network'; or 'theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information."
The bill would require – yes – require the director of National Intelligence to create protocols by which the intelligence community can share information with private entities and encourage said entities to share that information right back. And yes, you read that right: CISPA also labels any infringement of copyright as a threat to national security. And as such it allows your private information to be shared with practically anyone, regardless of probable cause, without your consent.
Tomorrow's hearing will cover several amendments to the proposed law, supposedly to provide oversight to the bill's more… unstructured provisions. But the hearing is being conducted in secret, and longtime watchers of the bill's progress know that Congress has never adequately explained why a bill like CISPA is necessary. More worrisome and a troubling sign of a stacked deck, the most strenuous criticism from any member of the House Intelligence committee comes from Adam Schiff, who is demanding – if you can call it that – an amendment requiring private entities to take 'reasonable efforts' to excise personal information from any data shared with the government. Pardon me, I think my heart stopped beating from overwhelming gratitude.
We will be watching closely for any new developments, but as is customary in these situations, we cannot assume things will work out in our favor. By all means, call your representative if you'd like to make certain your feelings about CISPA are known.


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|Feature : Names
|The name tag is the primary tag used for naming a Element.
We use name=* to tag the name of things. We tag names of roads, pubs, railway stations, parks, buildings and anything which has a name. See more at Map Features#Name
ITO Map has a layer to highlight named and unnamed and/or addressed buildings.
Key Variations
Descriptions and examples.
- name=* – Default name
- name=Channel Tunnel
- int_name=* – Internationally known as
- int_name=Eurotunnel
- nat_name=* – Nationally known as
- nat_name=That debt-ridden hole in the ground (obviously a joke, not an actual valid tag usage)
- reg_name=* – Regionally known as
- reg_name=Gateway to France
- loc_name=* – Locally known as
- loc_name=The way to Carrefour
- old_name=* – Historically or previously known as
- old_name=A long swim (obviously a joke, not an actual valid tag usage)
- alt_name=* – when alternative name exists (which doesn't fit in one of the tags name above) (recognized by Nominatim)
- alt_name=Chunnel
- short_name=* – for a common abbreviation, useful for searching (recognized by Nominatim)
- short_name=UK
- official_name=* – The fully qualified official name. It has been created for country names, but we need a clarification for other cases between name, int_name, loc_name and official_name.
- official_name=Principat d'Andorra [where name=Andorra]
- sorting_name=* - name, used for correct sorting of names.
- sorting_name=Communication street (where name=street of Communication)
Abbreviation (don't do it)
If the name can be spelled without an abbreviation, then don't abbreviate it. Computers can easily shorten words, but not the other way (St. could be Street or Saint). If the signs have abbreviated words and you don't know what the full word is, then use it temporarily until someone else completes it. Using short forms is a decision of software, i.e., the underlying data should have the full street name. This will allow a renderer, a router or a location finder to introduce abbreviations as necessary. See, for instance, the list of abbreviations used by Name Finder and Nominatim.
Use mixed case with the first letter of each word capitalised, e.g., Church Street, not Church street. Note: Regional rules have preference over general rules. For example, in Flemish, capitalisation of last names gives a hint about the nobility status of the person. Street or company names derived from those last names should copy the same capitalisation. In non-Latin based languages, it's often not even possible to capitalise a name.
If the name is incorrect when spelled in full, however, do not falsely expand it. (For example: Wilts & Berks Canal, British placenames beginning with "St".)
Apart from following the above rules, you should always enter the full name as it appears on the street name signs.
Be aware that street signs may contain errors.
Watch out for apostrophes. The same rule applies. If the street sign has an apostrophe, the OSM data should have an apostrophe. There is no obvious consistency; the London Underground station Barons Court is adjacent to Earl's Court, one with an apostrophe, one without.
Name is the name only
The names should be restricted to the name of the item in question only and should not include additional information not contained in the official name such as categories, types, descriptions, addresses or notes. However - if something has the official name "East 110th Street" this full name should be in the name nonwithstanding the fact that the "street", the "110" and "east" might be deducible from some other information. If something really doesn't have a name, don't add a name to OpenStreetMap. Any additional information should be included in separate tags (see, e.g., aforementioned links) to identify its meaning.
Some examples of incorrect usage:
- Multipolygon Baldo Forest: do not include the object type or other OSM terminology, if it does not apply outside of OSM
- The Royal Albert Hall, London: do not otherwise include the location London as part of the name, even if there are multiple objects of the same name
- closed pub (due for demolition): do not describe the object in lieu of a name. Consider the description tag and also adding an old_name tag
- no name (see #No name, below)
- Interstate 5 southbound lanes: do not separately name parts of the same object where they are separate in OSM, but not outside of OSM.
- Manchester City (for a city named Manchester, do not add a descriptive City; however note that New York City may be correct as the common name for The City of New York)
No name
Streets which have no name could be tagged noname=yes, but there are several tagging proposals under discussion: Proposed features/Noname. The idea is to clearly indicate that the street genuinely doesn't have a name, because the absence of a name tag is increasingly used to indicate areas which need to be surveyed still.
Left and right names
For way objects, names can differ by side of the object.
For example, a street may be on the boundary between Belgium and the Netherlands, Belgium gives it the name "Amsterdamsestraat" and the Netherlands gives it the name "Brusselsestraat".
This is solved by using the name:left=* and name:right=* tags to name both sides separately (using the direction of the way to determine left and right) . The name=* tag can still include both names in order to support different tools.
note: different left-and-right names doesn't exclude the existence of multilingual names (which also happens more often on country borders). So tags like name:left:fr=* are possible.
By now the majority of rendering systems can deal with unicode characters, so you can use the local script for the default name tag. There is no need to use the Latin script.
See also Multilingual names
For adding localized names in different languages, add additional name tags with a two letter suffix on the name key. For example, name:fr, for the name in French and name:en for the name in English. The default name (occupying the 'name' tag without suffix) should be the name in whatever language is used locally.
Here is an example of the usage. All these tags might appear on the same element :
name=Irgendwas (the default name, used locally) name:en=Something (the name in English) name:el=Κάτι (the name in Greek) name:de=Irgendwas (the name in German) name:pl=Coś (the name in Polish) name:fr=Quelque chose (the name in French) name:es=Algo (the name in Spanish) name:it=Qualcosa (the name in Italian) name:ja=何か (the name in Japanese) name:ko=뭔가 (the name in Korean) name:ko_rm=Mweonga (the name in Romanised Korean)
This leads to a more precise definition of alternative names.
Example of language codes according to the alpha-2 code of ISO 639-1 :
de German pl Polish el Greek en English es Spanish fa Persian fr French it Italian ja Japanese ko Korean ru Russian zh Chinese
ko_rmRomanised Korean (NOT conforming to BCP 47 standard, should be: )
A short discussion on this language suffixes can be found on the discussion page.
Renderer support: There are a few experimental rendering systems displaying these localised names. See Map Internationalization
Import: using osm2pgsql allows users to define new .style files which can include other language's name columns and bring them into the database. In order to render from these columns it is necessary to set up PostGIS views which present these columns as 'name' instead of 'name:languagecode'. An easier alternative might be to use a lua style file to move "name:XX" if it exists to "name".
Editor support: JOSM builds 1044 and newer support the display of local names. It detects the current system locale and tries to display names in this language first. You can change the order JOSM looks for names in the JOSM expert settings. Example: To display names written in Thai first, even if the current locale is 'en' set the following property:
Avoid transliteration
Transliteration is the process of taking a name in one language, and simply changing letters from one script to another. In general we should avoid doing this with tags in the OpenStreetMap database. Everything with a name could have auto-generated transliterations, so not just city names, but every road, and every cafe! This kind of automatic augmenting with data is best left for data users. For example, Sven Geggus has demonstrated the principle of rendering with auto-generated transliterations. We want to avoid adding in tags into our database for every named object via automated or semi-automated Import.
Instead we only put commonly used names in other languages into the database. While we typically think of these as translations, in most cases names that fit this criteria are not literal translations, example: the lake that the city of Geneva lies on is in French (Geneva is a French speaking city) Lac Léman, in German Genfersee. These are names which have been used by people on the ground, speaking in different languages (In general we're following Good practice#Map what's on the ground)
For example, small towns in England probably don't have a special Russian name, unless there is a local Russian community or something. Their names can all be transliterated into Russian script, but it's not a good idea to add lots and lots of tags to all the towns in England containing these transliterated names.
loc_name is for the name of a feature as it is known locally, but only where this is deemed to be too much of a slang name or otherwise unofficial-sounding. Ordinarily though, the name which local people use is the name we set in the name tag! Examples where we have used loc_name:
- There is a bridge in Glasgow known as the Squinty Bridge, but its official name is the Clyde Arc. I have never heard anyone calling it that, so the bridge is tagged loc_name=Squinty Bridge name=Clyde Arc.
- In Reading there's Union Street, but it's been known for decades as Smelly Alley on account of the fishmongers that lined it. The loc_name is ideal.
Apply when an alternative name exists, e.g., a street name has different syntax, sometimes even on street signs, although it is not only for street names.
Don't use it for abbreviations and only when one of the other name types don't apply, e.g., reg_name or name:lg_code for regional translations.
These alternative names are usually not rendered, but can be used by applications like Nominatim.
sorting_name=* is a proposed approach to supply an alternate name which systems can use for the purpose of sorting alphabetically. This would be useful for street names in some languages/countries, particularly Russian, where words like "Street" are frequently used as a prefix. This is problematic if you simply sort on the main "name" tag.
Date namespace suffix for historical names
The date namespace suffix can be used for historical names, e.g., "name:1953-1990 = Ernst-Thälmann-Straße".
Further reading
- United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations, e.g., street-type abbreviations.


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Proverbs and quotable: using very short texts in language learning
18 Chadian English teachers from the teachers college, language centers and secondary schools in Ndjamena participated in a 90-minutes electronic seminar (webinar) on Wednesday January 9, 2013 at the American Embassy. The webinar focused on the use of proverbs and quotable in language learning and the discussions were led by a State Department's Office of English Teaching specialist. Participants, most of whom face a direct need for English teaching materials, followed presentation with a special interest. The program discussed the importance of using proverbs in short texts to enhance the understanding of new expressions and vocabulary by students. Real vehicles for moral advice, proverbs can be used in many activities such writing, speaking, and reading, etc. After the viewing session, participants exchanged ideas on how best to use proverbs and quotable in Chadian classes.


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Life O'Riley Farm & Guesthouse
Restored school house on a 160 acre farm, queen size bed in loft, sleeps up to eight with a full kitchen. 50 acres of woods with rolling fields towards the Wisconsin River. Farm fresh products provided for breakfast.
Six miles south of Boscobel at the corner of Cty Hwy T and Riley Rd.


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Over the past week, our usual diet of almost-topless pictures has taken a beating. Yes, Poonam Pandey and Sunny Leone – those good women who always deliver the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) pics – have shown us their religious side. Poonam has been to the Kumbh Mela, and Sunny went to Siddhivinayak. This has caused more surprise in India than anything else ever has, but we should have seen it coming. Here is the exclusive proof that they were always religious:
If you can tear your eyes away, look at Sunny Leone's belt – specifically, the buckle in the middle. Clearly, this has three arms, and was modelled on a holy trishul, of the make used by Shiv Bhagwan to strike fear into the hearts of evildoers
Here, a barely clad Poonam Pandey celebrates Holi. But the deeper message is not in her state of undress, but in the Holi part. Not only is she celebrating a religious festival, but she also chose one which rhymes with 'holy', thereby proving her belief in all Gods way before the Kumbh Mela
All religions tell us that we should strive for the light within ourselves. This picture illustrates just that. As Poonam sits on a bed in some hotel room somewhere, her long legs are irresistibly drawn towards the only source of light in the room. Some might think the posture was chosen to show off every naked inch of those limbs, but we know better, don't we?
Here, Sunny Leone struts her stuff in yet another fashion show. The underlying religious message is strong: idols in our temples are decked in gold and jewels every morning; they were once naked and undecorated, but they became ornamental. Sunny is exactly the same; she was once (very) naked, but is now a walking gold commercial
At first glance, this picture seems to have no religious message at all. But, if you stop looking at the lovely Ms. Leone, and look at the extreme right of the picture, one emerges. The top of the buffet dish cover has a barely concealed cross, and we all know that is the most recognizable religious symbol in the world
Poonam Pandey on a red carpet. Just money there, no God, right? Wrong! Look at the backdrop, and you will see the word 'Lion' written no less than 11 times. If this is not a tribute to Narasimha, the half man-half lion-all awesome deity, what is? Even her endorsements are holy!
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Barn lights come in different colors, shapes, materials, and designs. They often are made of powdered coated materials that are great options for exterior and interior lighting effects. Powered coated barn lights are more durable and flexible, as they could withstand any weather either hot or cold. Examples of widely used barn lights are gooseneck arm extension barn lights and barn lights with straight arms. They also come in different sizes, such as 12 inches, 16 inches, and 18 inches sizes.
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The device or instrument that is used to measure the speed, pressure, fuel, air, dimensions, distance, temperature and pressure of the automobile is known as auto gauge. These instruments have an indicator or a needle to show the measurements.
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When you think of sugar, the first thing that you are likely to think of is the white table sugar you add to a cup of coffee. However, there are many different kinds of this sweet additive, although many are only used within the commercial baking and confection industry...
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Weigh balances are indispensable in our daily lives. From industrial weigh balances to high precision digital scale to spring balances and hydraulic scales there is a range of weigh balances designed for specific uses and applications. The traditional iron or wooden scale was the oldest form of weighing machine invented by man and was mostly used for domestic purposes.
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If you have to obtain the best quality picture, it is very important to select the right DVI cable for your device. So, make sure you know which cable you need!
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Hydronic heating systems are by far the most popular options among people. It uses water to get the floor heated. A Boiler pumps the water into tubes lining the area beneath the floor and heats the room. Users can manage the heat levels for every room individually by making valve or thermostat additions.
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There are a wide variety of facial toners on the market and selecting the right product for your skin type can be a bit overwhelming, Understanding the difference types of toners, tonics and astringents will aid you in selecting the right product.
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In March 2012, the popular public radio program "This American Life" retracted its story on working conditions in Chinese factories that manufacture Apple products. The story was based on the play "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," a supposedly factual account of playwright and performer Mike Daisey's travels in China. Reporters for This American Life learned that Daisey had either stretched or invented key details in the play, and when host Ira Glass confronted Daisey about the inconsistencies, Daisey insisted that journalists and playwrights have "different languages for what the truth means" and that his play could be considered "true in the context of theater." This panel seeks papers that consider the questions prompted by the controversy surrounding Daisey's play and his efforts to defend it. To what extent are documentary playwrights granted artistic license with the facts? What do audiences and critics expect from documentary plays, which implicitly promise to shape "real" stories into an emotionally engaging narrative? What strategies have documentary playwrights employed to obscure or to foreground their roles as the biased interpreters of fact? Have some strategies been considered more successful than others? What debates have surrounded specific attempts to re-present history as theater, particularly when playwrights choose divisive topics, such as Matthew Shepard's murder or the urban riots of the early 1990s?
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I am feeling very depressed,sad, moody, and over whelmed. I thought that this was normal because I am pregnant and our hormones are crazy but I have never felt this way before and this is my 2nd pregnancy. I have no family troubles nothing extreme, but say if I drop a cup I seriously want to crawl into a ball and cry all day. I have a 3 year old at home and this isnt fair that mommy wants to sleep all day and cry. I get mad a my husband for no reason and its so exsausting.... ALso I noticed once I cant tell i am really off balance with my emotions I start getting more discharge than normal... please let me know of something this could be! Thank you!
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"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. John 14:1-3
These beds with mosquito nets are in an open sided garage at the home of Jiwa and Rosa in the very troubled side of town. It is the boys accommodation area for the lucky ones who have been taken in. Hundreds of homeless children turn up three afternoon's each week for a very basic meal. Aunty Rosa and Uncle Jiwa have spent themselves in reaching out to unfortunate children who literally have nowhere else to go.
The growing death rate from HIV AIDS and substance abuse in PNG means there will be many more children left to fight for survival on the streets. Many will turn to a life of crime and violence simply to exist in a nation where the government has no policy in place to help the widow and orphan. We can become critical and accuse the politicians and government… or we can ask the Lord what He requires of us. I am praying at the moment and seeking the Lord for His wisdom because I would love to see a long term solution initiated for the orphans of this nation I love.
You and I have been rescued by God's grace through Jesus. We are in many ways orphaned by the curse of sin. Yet He has made a way for us to be welcomed into the eternal family of God's kingdom.
We are either the lucky ones… or simply the blessed ones. We have been given the privilege of hearing the good news. Let us live by what we have heard and do what we can.
And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. Mark 10: 13-15
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The iPhone 3GS Hardware Exposed & Analyzedby Anand Lal Shimpi on June 10, 2009 12:00 AM EST
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First, two quotes from my review of the original iPhone:
"The issue is that the iPhone interface is just as responsive as a computer, so you inherently expect the sort of performance you'd see on a notebook and it's just impossible on a device like the iPhone."
"I think overall we need a handful of upgrades to the iPhone alongside 3G; we need a faster processor, possibly more system memory, maybe even faster flash. The MLC flash in the iPhone has absolutely horrendous write speeds compared to SLC, which could be holding the iPhone back a bit. I can see Apple introducing a 3G version in about 12 months, addressing many of these issues at the same time."
Indeed, 12 months after the launch of the first iPhone - Apple did fix the wireless performance issues with the iPhone 3G. Unfortunately, the hardware remained untouched. All of my other complaints in those two quotes remained open ticket items between Apple and I. In fact, things got worse. Here we have what I wrote at the end of my iPhone 3G review:
"Apple must be wary of the direction the iPhone is headed in. While the UI was absolutely perfect for the phone that launched a year ago, today's iPhone is hardly the same. With easily over twice as many applications on an iPhone today vs. a year ago, performance and navigation have both suffered. The impact isn't tremendous, but Apple will have to adjust the iPhone accordingly in order to avoid turning the platform into a bloated, complicated mess."
Two days ago, Apple announced the iPhone 3GS - designed to address one thing: performance. The other half of my complaint in the conclusion of my 3G review, addressing navigation and UI with the new expanded iPhone platform, isn't addressed by the 3GS. I suspect that in another year we'll see that. But today, it's about hardware.
The Impetus
After yesterday's Pre vs. iPhone 3G battery life article I got a few emails from people very close to the chips used in the iPhone 3GS. A couple of exchanges later and I realized it might be time to go a little deeper with the hardware behind the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre.
The Original
The iPhone and iPhone 3G use a system on a chip (SoC) from Samsung. The SoC is a custom part and actually has Apple's logo on the chip. The SoC houses the CPU, GPU and memory for the iPhone.
The CPU is based on the ARM11 core, in specific it is the ARM1176JZF-S. The CPU runs at 412MHz to save power, although the core is capable of running at 667MHz. The ARM11 CPU is a single-issue in-order microprocessor with an 8-stage integer pipeline. It's got a 32KB L1 cache (16KB for instructions, 16KB for data) and no L2 cache. The ARM11 CPU in the iPhone also has a vector floating point unit, but thankfully the SoC includes a separate GPU for 3D acceleration. You can think of this core as a very high clocked, very advanced 486. And extremely low power. Under typical load, the CPU core should consume around 100mW. By comparison, the CPU in your laptop can require anywhere from 10 - 35W. Idle power is even lower.
Paired with this CPU is a PowerVR MBX-Lite GPU core. This GPU, like the CPU, is built on a 90nm process and is quite simple. The GPU does support hardware transform and lighting but it's fully fixed function, think of it as a DirectX 6/7 class GPU (Riva TNT2/GeForce 256). Here's PowerVR's block diagram of the MBX:
The MBX-Lite in the iPhone shares the same architecture as the MBX but is optimized, once more, for power efficiency and thus is significantly slower.
I don't have exact clock speed information for the MBX-Lite in the iPhone but I'm guessing around 60MHz.
Coupled with the CPU and the GPU in the iPhone's SoC is 128MB of DDR memory, all on the same chip. It's a pretty impressive little package. You get a CPU, GPU and memory all in a package that's physically smaller than Intel's Atom.
Now the 486 came out in 1989 and the original 3dfx Voodoo graphics card came out in 1996. The iPhone's SoC would be ridiculously powerful if it were running the sorts of applications we had back then, but it's not. We're asking a lot from this little core and although it has performed admirably thanks to some clever software engineering on Apple's part, it's time for an update.
Enter the ARM Cortex A8
This past weekend Palm introduced its highly anticipated Pre. While I'm still working on my review of the Pre, I can say that it's the closest thing to an iPhone since Apple first unveiled the product two summers ago. In many ways the Pre is lacking in areas that the iPhone has honestly perfected, but in others the Pre easily surpasses Apple's best.
One such area is raw performance. While both the iPhone and iPhone 3G use the same old CPU/GPU, the Pre uses TI's OMAP 3430 processor. The 3430, like the SoC Apple uses, has both a CPU and GPU on the same package. Instead of the ARM11 and the PowerVR MBX-Lite however, the OMAP 3430 uses an ARM Cortex A8 core and a PowerVR SGX GPU. Both are significant improvements over what was in the original iPhone.
Thankfully, Apple fans don't have to be outclassed for long - the newly announced iPhone 3GS uses a comparable CPU/GPU pair.
Although unannounced, the iPhone 3GS uses (again) a Samsung SoC but this time instead of the ARM11 + MBX-Lite combo it's got a Cortex A8 and PowerVR SGX; just like the Pre.
A derivative of this is what you'll find in the iPhone 3GS
If the ARM11 is like a modern day 486 with a very high clock speed, the Cortex A8 is like a modern day Pentium. The A8 lengthens the integer pipeline to 13 stages, enabling its 600MHz clock speed (what I'm hearing the 3GS runs at). The Cortex A8 also widens the processor; the chip is now a two-issue in-order core, capable of fetching, decoding and executing two RISC instructions in parallel.
The ARM11 processor in the iPhone/iPhone 3G has a basic vector floating point unit, but the A8 adds a much more advanced SIMD engine called NEON. The A8 also has twice as many double precision FP registers as the ARM11. The addition of NEON and the improved vector FPU in the A8 makes the processor much less like the original Pentium and much more like Intel's Atom. Granted, Atom is significantly faster than the A8, but it also draws much more power.
Caches also get a significant improvement. I believe Apple will be using a derivative of Samsung's S5PC100, which has a 32KB/32KB L1 cache (I/D, we may see a 16KB/16KB config instead) and a 256KB L2 cache. The L2 cache, as you'll remember from the first section, is a new addition to the A8; the ARM11 core didn't have an L2.
|iPhone 3G (ARM11)
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The combination of higher clock speeds, more cache and a dual-issue front end results in a much faster processor. Apple claims the real world performance of the iPhone 3GS can be up to 2x faster than the iPhone 3G, and I believe that's quite feasible.
The new SoC is built on a 65nm manufacturing process, down from 90nm in the original hardware. However, power consumption should still be higher for the new SoC compared to the old one. ARM's own site lists ~0.25mW per MHz for the ARM11 core but < 0.59mW per MHz for the A8. That's for a 650MHz low power A8 core and I'm expecting 600MHz for the 3GS, that's at most 3x the power consumption of the CPU in the original iPhone. So how can Apple promise better battery life?
The thing about these comparisons is that they don't show the full picture. With the same battery capacity, running at full speed, the new iPhone 3GS would run out of juice faster than the existing iPhone 3G. But that's rarely how people use their phones. Chances are that you'll perform a few tasks before putting the phone back to sleep, and what matters then is how quickly you can complete those tasks.
Just under nine years ago Intel talked about a technology called Quick Start. Let me quote from our IDF 2000 Day 2 coverage (wow, that was a while ago):
""Intel has figured out that it is best to use full CPU power for a split second to finish a task and then put the CPU to idle as this conserves battery life the best. Although one may suspect that when running complex operations the CPU would not have time to go idle, this is not the case. To illustrate this point, Intel used an example of DVD playback. Very stressful on the system as a whole, Intel's quick start technology allows the CPU to "hurry up" and perform the DVD decoding operations and then go idle until the frame is displayed to screen and the next scene needs to be calculated. This saves battery life because, although the system may require 3 watts or so to "hurry up", the power consumption goes down near .25 watts when idle. By averaging these two numbers, one can quickly see how quick start can extend battery life.""
The A8's power consumption has to be well under that 3x max I quoted above, and the iPhone 3GS needs to be more than just 2x faster at executing instructions, but if possible then it's quite feasible for the faster A8 to draw more instantaneous power but draw less power on average than the ARM11 core in the original iPhone.
The iPhone Becomes a Gaming Platform: Enter the PowerVR SGX
Now that we're familiar with the 3GS' CPU, it's time to talk about the GPU: the PowerVR SGX.
Those familiar with graphics evolution in the PC space may remember Imagination Technologies and its PowerVR brand by their most popular desktop graphics card: STMicro's Kyro and Kyro II. The Kyro series used the PowerVR3 chips and while STMicro ultimately failed to cement itself as a NVIDIA competitor in the desktop, the PowerVR technology lived on in ultra-mobile devices.
The SGX is on Imagination Technologies' fifth generation of its PowerVR architecture, and just like the Kyro cards we loved, the SGX uses a tile based renderer. The idea behind a tile or deferred renderer is to render only what the camera sees, not wasting clocks and memory bandwidth on determining the color of pixels hidden by another object in the scene. Tile based renderers get their name from dividing the screen up into smaller blocks, or tiles, and working on each one independently. The smaller the tile, the easier it is to work on the tile on-chip without going to main memory. This approach is particularly important in the mobile space because there simply isn't much available bandwidth or power. These chips consume milliwatts, efficiency is key.
The MBX-Lite used in the original iPhone was also a tile based architecture, the SGX is just better.
Also built on a 65nm process the PowerVR SGX is a fully programmable core, much like our desktop DX8/DX9 GPUs. While the MBX only supported OpenGL ES 1.0, you get 2.0 support from the SGX. The architecture also looks much more like a modern GPU:
Pixel, vertex and geometry instructions are executed by a programmable shader engine, which Imagination calls its Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE). The "coprocessor" hardware at the end of the pipeline is most likely fixed-function or scalar hardware that's aids the engine.
The SGX ranges from the PowerVR SGX 520 which only has one USSE pipe to the high end SGX 543MP16 which has 64 USSE2 pipes (4 USSE2 pipes per core x 16 cores). The iPhone 3GS, I believe, uses the 520 - the lowest end of the new product offering.
A single USSE pipe can execute, in a single clock, a two-component vector operation or a 2 or 4-way SIMD operation for scalars. The USSE2 pipes are upgraded that handle single clock 3 or 4 component vector operations, have wider SIMD and can co-issue vector and scalar ops. The USSE2 pipes are definitely heavier and have some added benefits for OpenCL. For the 3GS, all we have to worry about is the single USSE configuration.
|iPhone 3G (PowerVR MBX-Lite)
|PowerVR SGX @ 100MHz
|PowerVR SGX @ 200MHz
|Manufacturing Process
|Clock Speed
In its lowest end configuration with only one USSE pipe running at 200MHz, the SGX can push through 7M triangles per second and render 250M pixels per second. That's 7x the geometry throughput of the iPhone 3G and 2.5x the fill rate. Even if the SGX ran at half that speed, we'd still be at 3.5x the geometry performance of the iPhone 3G and a 25% increase in fill rate. Given the 65nm manufacturing process, I'd expect higher clock speeds than what was possible on the MBX-Lite. Also note that these fill rates take into account the efficiency of the SGX's tile based rendering engine.
Final Words: Preparing for 3GS
As I mentioned earlier, the Palm Pre uses a similar combination of hardware to what I expect from the iPhone 3GS. TI's OMAP 3430 combines a Cortex A8 CPU core with a PowerVR SGX 530 GPU. The difference is that while the Pre uses its excess horsepower to enable user-level application multitasking, Apple won't be. The Pre is most definitely faster than the iPhone, but it still has some rough edges. Combine the power of the Pre with the highly optimized software stack of the iPhone and you've got the recipe of an extremely fast iPhone. While I've yet to play with one, on paper, the 3GS should be every bit as fast as the videos make it seem.
The iPhone 3GS' performance upgrades should make the phone feel a lot faster, but the real improvement will be what it enables application and game developers to do. Apple recently hired two former AMD/ATI CTOs, presumably to work on some very graphics-centric projects. The iPhone 3GS may be a mild upgrade from a consumer perspective, but what it's going to enable is far from it; watch out Nintendo. Remember the performance gains we saw in the early days of 3D graphics on the PC? We're about to go through all of that once more in the mobile space. Awesome.
Looking toward the future, there's always more around the corner. There's the Cortex A9 which brings multiple cores to the table, and the PowerVR SGX engine can be scaled up simply by adding more USSE pipes to the architecture. Newer manufacturing processes will enable bringing these technologies to life without any decrease in battery power.
It's curious to me how central ARM and Imagination Technologies are to these smartphones. On the PC side it's all about Intel, AMD and NVIDIA but when we're talking Pres and iPhones it's all ARM and PowerVR. Intel wants to bring Atom down to ARM power consumption levels and NVIDIA desperately searches for treasure in the mobile market, but those two are the underdogs in this race. For the foreseeable future at least.
There you have my take on the iPhone 3GS' hardware. If Apple would just get their pre-ordering system working right I might not even have to camp out this year...


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By DELAWESE FULTON, Fort Jackson Leader
FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- Dreher High School principal Jeanne Stiglbauer celebrated the achievements of women with Fort Jackson leadership at the post's annual Women's Equality Day luncheon. The Columbia educator also called for women to push for more progress.
This year's luncheon, held Tuesday at the Fort Jackson Officers' Club, was hosted by the Fort Jackson DENTAC. DENTAC'S commander Col. Michael Cuenin said he invited Stiglbauer to speak because she is a leader in her field who has garnered the respect of students and parents alike. Cuenin added that his son is a recent graduate of Dreher High School.
The official date of Women's Equality Day is Aug. 26. Cuenin said Fort Jackson's leadership decided to celebrate the day a week early because of schedule conflicts. Women's Equality Day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment which gave women full voting rights.
Stiglbauer, a wife and mother of three, has served as an educator in Richland School District One for more than 30 years. She has been named a national distinguished principal and recipient of the South Carolina Milken National Educator Award.
Cuenin said Stiglbauer's selection as speaker at the Equality Day luncheon not only honored the achievements of a local woman but it was also symbolic of the similar responsibilities of educators and military officials.
"A lot like at Fort Jackson, where parents leave their children to be trained, parents also leave their children at schools," he said.
In her address Tuesday, Stiglbauer told the audience of Soldiers, officers and civilian employees that "we have indeed come a long way, baby." Women's suffrage efforts in the 1800s and 1900s and the victory in 1920 have brought women to this point, she said.
Women have made great strides in the last 100 years. They are doctors, Nobel Prize winners and politicians, Stiglbauer said. Even still, she encouraged the Soldiers - particularly the women - to ponder and act on this thought: "What can we do to speed progress for ourselves ... for our daughters ... our sisters throughout the world'"
Stiglbauer said the 19th Amendment gave women their voice, but it is up to women to use that voice.
"The truth is that we're responsible for our own fate," she said.
Stiglbauer's words resonated with many of the women at the luncheon.
"I thought her comments were timely and appropriate," said Diann Lucas, an Equal Employment Opportunity specialist.
If women are to make any more advances, "we have to do it ourselves," Lucas said.
Paula Darrow, who served in the Women's Army Corps and is a senior operations assistant at Fort Jackson, said she truly appreciates the advances women have made in our society - especially the military. She admires that there is a garrison commander, colonels, command sergeants major and first sergeants who are women.
"When I came into the WAC, we weren't considered Soldiers," Darrow said. "And to see women now, they are on equal footing."


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It is especially popular to see the sunset over the sea through the hole. Many people gather at the spot facing the evening sun around the time of sunset. The sunset there has been selected as the "100 best rising suns and evening suns in Wakayama Prefecture" and the "100 best evening suns in Japan."
The sea is very transparent, and there are many fish. In addition, octopuses, squids, sweepers, small abalones, and echinus live in the sea.
As the island is made of conglomerate, sandstone, and siltstone, it is easy to erode. The falling of rocks due to wind and waves has been advancing in recent years. It is Engetsu Island that is a small island of a transient shape that has been accidently made by nature which fall all the time if left as it is.
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American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC), a Westborough, Mass.-headquartered vendor of high temperature superconductor wire and machinery and a supplier of grid stabilization products, has recently received $4.6 million of new orders for D-VAR systems for wind farms in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. According to the company, the D-VAR allows operators to regulate the voltage of individual wind turbines to optimize their operation and output.
The latest orders will increase the amount of wind-generated electricity served by AMSC's power electronics solutions to more than 1.8 billion W (1,800 MW) – close to the company's two billion watt objective for March 31, 2007, AMSC says.
'The performance of the power electronic systems business unit has surpassed our expectations for this fiscal year,' says Greg Yurek, AMSC's chief executive officer. 'Following closely on the heels of several other contracts, these new orders are expected to enable us to grow revenues for this business unit by 50 percent year-over-year to more than $22 million.'


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New details have become available in the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Authorities are now saying at least 26 people are dead. Eighteen of the victims are children. The shooter, believed to be a 20-year-old man with an unknown connection to the school, is dead at the scene. It remains unclear if he killed himself, or if he was killed by responding officers.
No other details about the shooter or the victims are available. There is an unconfirmed report that a second shooter may have been involved. ABC news reports car searches are being conducted at the scene.
Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said there is no longer any danger to the public. "The shooter is deceased inside the building. The scene is secure," Lt. Vance said in a press conference. "Many agencies are working together to answer questions about what happened ... the public is not in danger."
The gunman opened fire shortly before 10 a.m. inside the main office of the school. His body was later found in a classroom and a .223-caliber rifle was recovered at the scene. Earlier reports indicated police had recovered a Glock and a Sig Sauer.
Sandy Hook Elementary has been evacuated. The children were taken to a nearby fire station.
At least three wounded people were rushed to Danbury Hospital for treatment. In a post on its Facebook page, the hospital said, "Out of abundance of caution and not because of any direct threat Danbury Hospital is under lockdown. This allows us simply to focus on the important work at hand."
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Team SA all set for debut A1 GPTue, 20 Sep 2005 12:09 AM
A unique new motor racing series, it's contested by 25 countries in identical cars over a 12-race schedule taking in 12 different countries including South Africa. Representing 80 percent of the world?s population, A1 Grand Prix brings together teams and drivers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland and the USA, plus a further three countries to be announced on Monday, September 19.
Shakedown tests at Silverstone in England and Paul Ricard in France in August have prepared the competing teams for the opening races on Sunday. South Africans Tomas Scheckter, Stephen Simpson, Alan van der Merwe and Gavin Cronje have all tested the South African car, like its rivals decked out in the colours of the national flag and proudly carrying the Robben Island prison number 46664 that was worn by former president Nelson Mandela.
Stephen Simpson will drive the car at Brands Hatch.
?This is a proud moment for us and all fellow-South Africans,? said Tokyo Sexwale, official seat holder for the South African team and chairperson of A1 Grand Prix Team South Africa.
?Sheikh Maktoum of Dubai?s vision has provided our country with a golden opportunity to compete against the nations of the world in a global motor racing competition never seen before, where it is nation against nation as opposed to a contest between drivers and constructors," added Sexwale.
?All the cars are identical, specially designed and built for A1 Grand Prix, so the playing field is level. We expect this series of 12 races to provide the world?s motor racing fans and the supporters of each nation with close and exciting racing. The A1 Grand Prix concept will bring these nations together in a common goal ? to join together in a celebration of united nations, international goodwill and national pride.?
Ms Dana Cooper, CEO of A1 Grand Prix South Africa, has urged all South Africans to support their team in this competition. ?Like the African Cup of Nations and the Rugby World Cup, here is an opportunity for our country to take on and beat the best in the world in the exciting world of motor racing,? said Ms Cooper.
Sporting and technical manager Mike Carroll is confident that the South African A1GP team will acquit itself well in the new series.
?Handling our race preparation until we can assemble our own South African team is Spanish-based BCN, who finished second in the 2004 FIA Formula 3000 championship. They have done a great job preparing the car.?
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Points are scored on a scale of 10 through one for the top 10 places in each of the sprint and feature races. In addition, the team that has recorded the fastest lap time over both races will receive a bonus point.
Prize money per race weekend totals US$1-million, with the winning team taking home $300 000, the runner-up $200 000 and the third-placed team $150 000. The 10th placed finisher will earn $10 000. The overall winner of the 12-race World Cup of Motorsport will be rewarded with a cash prize of $1-million dollars.


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Castle Season 6: What Would a Caskett Engagement Mean For Alexis?
We still have a few months to go before Castle Season 6 premieres and we find out if Beckett will accept Castle's marriage proposal, but should an engagement be in Caskett's future, Rick's on-screen daughter, Alexis, (played by Molly Quinn) is already thinking about how a potential union would change the family dynamic.
"I don't think that Alexis will ever see her as a stepmom because a stepmother has authority," Molly tells TVLine. "There's no way that Alexis would be OK with that. She's used to running the house. And not even her dad has that much authority. So she would see Beckett as an equal and she would totally appreciate [her]. But I don't even think Beckett would ever try to [parent]. Alexis is an adult now. She's 20."
And while Alexis may be well on her way to adulthood now, Molly acknowledges that things would have been different for Rick's only child had Castle and Beckett gotten together years ago. "If this had happened when Alexis was 16, that would have been a totally different story. I'm very glad that it didn't happen because that would have been a lot of rebellion and a lot of trouble."
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2013 FIM Ride Green Team Nine-time World Champion Valentino Rossi has displayed his true "green"..
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Honda's Quinn Cody has astonished with a top 10 overall finish in what has been his first Dakar Rally. What's more, Honda's 10-times Women's Trial World Champion, Laia Sanz, has taken a stunning victory in women's category on her Dakar debut.
Dakar 2011
Repsol sponsored Marc Coma (KTM) showed again that he is one of the best Dakar Rally riders of all time by securing his third Dakar motorcycle racing victory. A triumph that was rounded-off with the first position of Laia Sanz, in the female class.
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As the Dakar Rally moves into its second half, Quinn Cody of Team Honda Europe is riding top ten times and has moved into 8th position overall after Stage 8 on Monday.
Flying through the Dakar stages, the American competing aboard the Honda CRF 450 Dakar X is enjoying every moment of what is his first Dakar Rally.
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For the third consecutive year, the Dakar will go through Argentina and Chile, covering 9,500 kilometers, 5,000 of them timed.
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By The Numbers: The Growth of Yoga
Yoga as we know it today is a far cry from its origins in ancient India. Western yogis certainly enjoy the yogic benefits to the psyche, but the contemporary practicer appears to be far more interested in the physical benefits. Much of what we see around the yoga conversation has to do with muscle tone and lifestyle issues (such as the white girl uniform). Regardless of which benefits yogis enjoy most, there's no questioning that it's a growth industry you can't ignore.
And that's why Channel Signal collects and measures consumer comments to bring you our monthly category report on yoga. It is ripe with opportunity for the outdoor and lifestyle industry. Here are some quick-hitting stats for your Monday.
Statistics on the Growth of Yoga
$27 Billion
amount spent annually in the U.S. on yoga products
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percent increase in yoga participation from 2008 to 2012
20.4 Million
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anticipated average annual increase in industry revenue through 2017
Yoga Interest Over Time
When compared to other similar forms of indoor recreation, yoga not only dwarfs the competition, it's the only activity experiencing steady growth. This growth has not gone unnoticed by the thousands of studios, apparel and nutritional companies reaping the benefits of the $27 billion dollar industry.
- 2014 Outlook for the pilates and yoga studios industry, SNews, December 16, 2013
- Top 10 Fastest-Growing Industries, IbisWorld, April 2012
- Google Trends for Yoga, Retrieved January 9, 2014
- Yoga Statistics, Statistics Brain (original sources NAMASTA, YIAS, LiveStrong, Yoga Journal), July 28, 2013
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Senior Matt Loochtan places 2nd in all-around
Paterson finished 5th on all-around, 2nd on high bar
Canadian National Champion is ready to achieve more this summer
The Hawkeyes finish strong, placing sixth nationally
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2014 -- Competed in every competition... tied for 17th on high bar (14.500) at NCAA team and all-around finals... tied for ninth on high bar (14.300) at NCAA qualifier... tied for 14th on high bar (14.500) at Big Ten Championships... placed 13th on high bar (14.350) and 30th on pommel horse (11.600) at Arnold Classic on March 1... took the runner-up spot on high bar (14.550) in victory at UIC on Feb. 23... finished seventh on high bar (14.000) and 11th on floor (13.600) against Illinois on Feb. 7... finished third on high bar (15.000) and 11th on vault (14.200) at Oklahoma on Feb. 1... placed 13th on floor (14.250) and 20th on high bar (13.900) at Windy City Invitational on Jan. 18.
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Dematerialization of the compact disc
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For the last five years the web has been boosting my shop's income. Before we started selling on the web I wondered if it would put us out of business.
Back when Internet Explorer was still 1.x (During Mosaic's brief reign I was using the internet but pooh-poohing the web that had my friends so excited.) I read Wired. As with Playboy mostly for the interviews. All sort of blue sky projects, electronic paper, kiosks where you'd roll your own CD were going to sweep the world in minutes.
Dimly I recall an art history book a friend had, it was called something like The Dematerialization of the Art Object. Here I was reading about the dematerialization of the consumer object, at least the ones on which my livelihood depends.
Years have passed and we're still selling books and CDs. But coders and technicians are still at work. Equally, maybe more importantly, music and books have become more tightly concentrated in the hands of small group of intellectual property magnates. With friends in both political parties, copyrights are extended, nasty legislation like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act becomes a weapon against kids and information scientists (information doesn't want to be free, it wants to be a monopoly?). The blue-sky scientists work to bring their work to earth. Big money and technology are slowly becoming aligned.
Money is what really empowers technology. Two of America's great Satans of retailing, Wal-Mart and Best Buy, are ready to offer MP3 downloads. That will have to eventually effect the distribution and sales of standard CDs.
Some folks won't be going along for the ride. At least not at first. For all I know First National Bank of Atlanta doesn't exist anymore. Back in the 70s when I lived in Atlanta and teller machines were introduced they named theirs "Tillie the All-Time Teller." A stupid smiling face was painted on it. People, particularly older people didn't trust the machines. Did a silly name a little bit of paint help? Beats me. Nowadays everybody uses banking machines.