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Immediate Versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-infected Patients Presenting With Acute AIDS-defining Events (IDEAL)
This study is currently recruiting participants. (see Contacts and Locations)
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The purpose of this study is to compare the early versus deferred initiation of antiretroviral combination therapy consisting of tenofovir, emtricitabine and atazanavir/ritonavir in treatment naive patients who present with an acute AIDS-defining illness, namely pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) or toxoplasma gondii encephalitis (TE).
Other: Time of starting antiretroviral therapy
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Immediate Versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-infected Patients Presenting With Acute AIDS-defining Events (IDEAL-Study)
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDSU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Death, all new/relapsing opportunistic infections and other grade 4 clinical endpoints within 24 weeks after randomization [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Clinical Progression (death, all new or relapsing OI, other Grade 4 clinical endpoint) within 24 weeks. For abnormalities not found in the Toxicity Tables, a Grade 4 event will be defined as potentially life-threatening (extreme limitation in activity, significant assistance required; significant medical intervention/therapy required, hospitalization or hospice care probable). Patients who drop out of study observation before end of week 12 are counted as clinical progression.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Hospitalization days after completion of initial OI treatment between both groups [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Hospitalization days after completion of OI treatment
- incidence of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Incidence of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) as judged by the site investigator (for definitions see below) compared in the two groups during the first 24 weeks.
- virological outcome [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Virological outcome at week 24 (proportion of patients achieving HIV RNA < 400 (<50 copies/mL).
- efficacy and toxicity of the antiretroviral therapy [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Proportion of patients with changes in ARV regimen for lack of efficacy or of toxicity
- quality of life [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Quality of life (QOL), including overall self-reported QOL at Week 24
- immunological outcome [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]For evaluation of immunological outcome, CD4 T-cell counts at week 24 (absolute, relative, CD4/CD8 ratio) and the change in CD4 T-cell counts from baseline will be assessed.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|August 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Immediate arm
Immediate arm: ART should be initiated as soon as possible but no later than 3 days after initiation of OI treatment.
Other: Time of starting antiretroviral therapy
Within 24 hours after sending the screening form, the site investigator will receive a randomization sheet with the decision when to start ART ("immediate" or "deferred"). The day of receiving the randomization sheet will be defined as baseline visit.
Active Comparator: Deferred arm
Deferred arm: ART should be initiated after the completion of OI treatment which is achieved at the earliest at day 21 for PCP and at day 28 for TE. ART should be initiated no later than 6 weeks after initiation of OI treatment.
Other: Time of starting antiretroviral therapy
Within 24 hours after sending the screening form, the site investigator will receive a randomization sheet with the decision when to start ART ("immediate" or "deferred"). The day of receiving the randomization sheet will be defined as baseline visit.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult (at least 18 years) HIV-1 infected subjects
- Antiretroviral naïve HIV-1-infected patients who have developed an acute AIDS defining event, namely PCP or Toxoplasmosis (women receiving prior MTCT prophylaxis may be enrolled)
- Patients who are able to take or to receive antiretroviral treatment and who are able to give written consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Renal failure or CrCl < 60 mL/min
- Patients who are not able to initiate ART or with current contraindications against atazanavir/ritonavir
- Other AIDS-defining events than PCP or TE (exceptions see below)
- Pregnancy/Women of childbearing potential who want to become pregnant
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01417949
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01417949
|Contact: Jan van Lunzen, Prof. Dr.
|+49 40 7410 52831
|Vivantes Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum
|Berlin, Germany, 12157
|Contact: Keikawus Arasteh, MD
|Charitè Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Virchow Klinikum
|Berlin, Germany, 13353
|Contact: Dirk Schürmann, MD
|Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Innere Medizin I, Immunologische Ambulanz/Studienzentrale
|Bonn, Germany, 53127
|Principal Investigator: Jürgen Rockstroh, MD, PhD
|Medizinische Klinik Nord
|Dortmund, Germany, 44137
|Principal Investigator: Bernhard Schaaf, MD, PhD
|Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie
|Düsseldorf, Germany, 40225
|Principal Investigator: Stefan Reuter, MD, PhD
|Universitätshauptklinik Essen
|Essen, Germany, 45122
|Principal Investigator: Guido Gerken, MD, PhD
|Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Medizinische Klinik II / Infektiologie
|Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 60590
|Principal Investigator: Christoph Stephan, MD, PhD
|Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Centrum Chronische Immundefizienz (CCI)
|Freiburg, Germany, 79106
|Principal Investigator: Winfried Kern, MD, PhD
|ifi Hamburg an der Asklepios Klinik St. Georg
|Hamburg, Germany, 20099
|Principal Investigator: Albrecht Stoehr, MD, PhD
|ICH Study Center GmbH & CO. KG
|Hamburg, Germany, 20146
|Principal Investigator: Christian Hoffmann, MD, PhD
|University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Infectious Diseases Unit,
|Hamburg, Germany, 20249
|Principal Investigator: Jan van Lunzen, MD,PhD
|Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Klinik für Immunologie und Rheumatologie
|Hannover, Germany, 30625
|Principal Investigator: Matthias Stoll, MD, PhD
|Universitätsklinikum Kiel, II. Medizinisch Klinik, UKSH, Campus Kiel
|Kiel, Germany, 24116
|Principal Investigator: Heinz A Horst, MD, PhD
|Universitätsklinik Köln, Klinik I für Innere Medizin
|Köln, Germany, 50937
|Principal Investigator: Gerd Fätkenheuer, MD, PhD
|Universitätsklinikum München, Infektionsabteilung, Med. Poliklinik, Klinikum der Universität München, Campus Innenstadt
|München, Germany, 80336
|Principal Investigator: Johannes Bogner, MD, PhD
|Universitätsklinkum Ulm, Comprehensive Infectious Diseases Center (CIDC) Ulm, Sektion Infektiologie und Klinische Immunologie, Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Innere Medizin III
|Ulm, Germany, 89081
|Principal Investigator: Georg Härter, MD, PhD
|Universitätsklinikum Würzburg
|Würzburg, Germany, 97080
|Principal Investigator: Hartwig Klinker, Prof. Dr.
Sponsors and Collaborators
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
|Principal Investigator:
|Jan van Lunzen, MD
|Infectious Diseases Unit, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 29, 2016
|Responsible Party:
|Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01417949 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|EudraCT Nr. 2010-022413-26
|Study First Received:
|August 10, 2011
|Last Updated:
|May 27, 2013
|Health Authority:
|Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 29, 2016


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Landing at these air strips is an experience in itself. Take a look at some of the world's most dramatic runways.
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It may be intermittent for awhile as they work out wtf ever they are doing.
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Got a long way to go before there's even a point in a test server. Will keep updates here (if any) as it progresses.
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Not sure why it decided not to copy it but it should now.
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Oh well
And comments are disabled until further notice. Tired of trying to keep up with the latest exploits from these idiotic spammers. Absolutely NO PURPOSE to what they do...but I've already been down that rant. Can't spam here if you can't fing type here. Suck it.
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Cage Pets:
*Draconic Rage - Currently granting 20% Melee and Spellcasting Haste regardless of the pet's agility level
-I checked this spell using debug code and it's definitely adding the proper amount of haste..though it may not be on client side. It does a simple +% to haste by a specific amount manually put in. No dbcs or anything to screw it up.
*Arcane Haste - Currently granting 650 bonus spell power and 20% spell haste regardless of the pet's intellect level
-Secondary proc aura was not pulling values from primary. It will now.
*Pets have no melee attack distance when in Aggressive mode
-Adjusted melee distance to 10.0f (roughly 8 yards give or take).
*Thundershock has range of 5yards
-Not sure what's up with this spell..since the cast range is set at 30yrds and the AOE distance is 5yrds from target. Modified distance to 40yrds and aoe to 8yrds for further testing
*Electric Discharge
-Same as Thundershock except the aoe part.
*Stamina Pet Revisit
-The Stamina pet will now receive an Ultimate ability (1000+ Stamina) that is much improved - 20% of all damage taken by it's owner is redirected to itself and all incoming damage (including the redirected damage) is reduced by 50%.
*Succubus pet Seduction has no DR
-Adjusted this and other fear flagged spells for DR (some fears are not yet flagged properly)
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If you take a look at the Core Devs websites, you'll see that they as well have not been updated in months. This is because it's near impossible to keep up and there are several roadblocks along the way.
I will be revisiting upgrade options after the new expansion comes out..but until then, do not expect any major revisions. As I've said many times already..we both have lives and neither are willing to give anyone else access to do updates..because (as has been proven before) it will not go well.
For the record, I have a 4.3 server working but I'm not releasing it because it causes more crashes and stability issues than anything. It also will take months to add all our custom changes into it. By then, the next patch or expansion even will be out..breaking everything that was done. When Blizzard calms down on major revisions, we will consider moving forward.
Repairs and updates that don't involve 4.3+ are welcome suggestions and I will work on them periodically as I have free time. Ash also checks the bug tracker for quests, items, and other related fixes pretty much daily. It's not like we're standing still..
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Prep Time 5 minutes |
Cook Time 10 minutes
30 ounces Eden Chili Beans (seasoned dark red kidney), 2 cans, do not drain
1/2 cup water
2 cup organic sweet corn, fresh or frozen
2 cup zucchini, finely diced
1/4 cup fresh parsley, choppedor fresh cilantro
1/2 cup Eden Diced Tomatoes w/Green Chilies, do not drain
In a medium saucepan combine the chili beans (with liquid), water, corn, zucchini and tomatoes. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce the flame and simmer about 8 to 10 minutes until the corn is tender. Stir in the parsley and serve.
Beans, Good/High Fiber, Good/High Protein, Low Fat, Macrobiotic, Mexican/Spanish, No Sweetener Added, Soup, Chili & Stews, Tomatoes, Vegan


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DELAND, Fla. – The Stetson University lacrosse team will bring its regular season to a close this weekend as it hosts A-Sun opponents Elon and Howard at the Athletic Training Center. The Hatters (1-14, 1-2) will be playing for a spot in the A-Sun Tournament as they currently sit in fourth place, having yet to clinch a spot in the four team tournament. Stetson will begin its final home stand, Friday, Apr. 25th, with a game against A-Sun newcomer Elon, at 4 p.m.
2014 marks the first year of competition for Elon's lacrosse program, and it enters the contest having played quite well in its inaugural season. The Phoenix have already clinched a spot in the A-Sun Tournament with a 3-0 conference mark and a 7-7 overall record, good enough to put them in a tie for first place in the conference.
Following Friday's game, Stetson will finish out its regular season slate with a match-up against Howard, scheduled for 1 p.m., Sunday the 27th in DeLand. The Hatters and Bison met up last season in Washington, D.C., with Stetson coming out on top for its second A-Sun win of the year. It will look to repeat the feat in 2014 as it has already done with Kennesaw State this season (its other conference win in 2013). Howard currently sits in last place in the A-Sun with a 1-12 overall record and an 0-3 mark in the conference, with a game at Jacksonville on Friday before its match-up with the Hatters.
Goal Keeper Caili Guilday will look to finish the regular season as the nation's leader in saves and saves per game average. The sophomore has an NCAA best 179 total saves and an average of 11.93 per contest.
As for the offensive statistics, it will come down to the final weekend to decide the overall points champion for Stetson this season. After 15 games, sophomore Danielle Horgan leads all Hatters with 24 (15 goals, 9 assists), while freshman Christina Loya is right behind her with 22 (17 goals, 5 assists). Ana Baranowski is not too far off the chase with 18 points off of her 13 goals and five assists.
When it comes to the A-Sun Tournament chase, the Owls of Kennesaw State enter the weekend on the outside looking in as KSU is currently in fifth place (1-12, 1-3). It is important to note that Stetson owns a tiebreaker against the Owls, should the two schools finish the season with identical conference records. The Hats already beat Kennesaw this season, 23-21 in overtime, back on Apr. 5 in Georgia.
Friday and Sunday's game are free for fans to attend and those that can't make it out to the ATC can watch on HatterVision or follow via Live Stats on gohatters.com. The @StetsonLacrosse Twitter feed and Hat-Alerts are also available for in-game updates as well.


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The 4 Greatest Things in Life (Everyone Manages to Ruin)
#2. Leisure
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Leisure-time activities used to be things you did to relax and enjoy yourself. God, what an age that must have been. Now, much leisure time is filled with abject hate and complaining, because as a society we're good at it, but also because I can't finish this sentence. I really don't know. I do it, too, and I don't know why. Do what, you ask? Make myself miserable, of course.
Ever read the comment section under an article on Cracked? Ever read the comment section anywhere on any website? You'd think a solid 50 percent of all the people who go to that site, and it really doesn't matter what site it is, just hate it. They despise it. And that's fine -- maybe you do despise the site. But why keep going back?
Why keep watching shows you don't like and then tweeting about why they suck? Or go see movies made by Michael Bay even though you've never liked a Michael Bay film? I guarantee right now that Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be ripped apart online -- in Facebook updates, on Twitter, and on numerous message boards -- and not one of his pseudo critics will be some poor schlub who just came to America from a quiet Polynesian island where he'd never seen a Michael Bay film before and was totally unaware of his shitty style of thunder-tit filmmaking. They'll be the same people who hated all three Transformers movies and Armageddon and every other cinematic toilet grunt he's sharted out during his career. And no one will make them go see the movie; they'll willingly pay because they want to see how much they hate it. They want to know how badly Michael Bay didn't make the movie they wanted to see, and they'll do it again when he makes Transformers 4, or Michael Bay's Sense and Sensibility.
People seem to really enjoy not enjoying themselves. It's just a way to pass the time. I'm almost positive this explains the existence of things like Nickelback, Donald Trump, and Lindsay Lohan. Do you know anyone who sincerely likes any of those three, not in an ironic way, or in a "Let's see what dumb shit happens next?" way, but just for what they offer society? Of course not -- they don't offer society anything. But not liking them is kind of fun, because you can think of clever insults to sling at all of them the longer they continue to pop up in the news making the world around them some kind of painfully sad joke.
#1. Sex
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On a basic level, sex is very easy, I hear. You put a penis somewhere, there's some friction, a grunt or two, orgasm, cry, sleep. It's simple biology, and so easy that even cats can do it -- and cats are fools. Ever seen one with its leg up, licking its own stink button? Come on.
On a realistic, human level, sex is the most complicated, dominating part of our existence, and don't for a moment think anything wields more control over the human mind than sex. Men who run the world fall in the face of pootie tang; we see it on the news again and again. You're squirting on interns, you're sexting pics of your dong, you're in a public restroom with an 18-year-old delivery boy, and so on and so forth. No one can resist the will of the wiener. The call of the cock. The pull of the poon.
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It's broken dream flavored!
It's because the desire to do the dirty is so strong that it goes from being awesome to being awful for us in the cold, hard light of day in those brief moments of unhorniness after we've gotten what we want. And this applies equally to men and women despite my examples, because ladies are just as capable of waking up in a cold sweat when they realize what horror they've committed and see the guy with the Kid Rock neck tattoo lying next to them.
I read recently that sexual repulsion is diminished by sexual desire. That sentence explains every fantasy you have ever had that you won't admit to and every kind of porn or sex toy you've ever seen that made you wince. When you're in the mood for a nice Reuben sandwich, the idea of maybe licking another person's hiney is pretty egregious. But when you're three drinks into the night and all horned up, you would start a hiney-licking chant if you thought there was a chance that the rest of the room would take it up in a chorus muffled by your own spread cheeks. It's only gross when you don't want it. When you do, it's awesome, and then afterward you feel gross about it until the next time you do it. We've all been there. The pursuit of pleasure will make you hate yourself once you've been satisfied, but man, the pursuit and achievement parts sure are awesome, aren't they?
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There's not one single thread that runs throughout the finest music of 2012, offering any sense of connection, cohesiveness or zeitgeist-capturing conceptual continuity. What we were offered this year was essentially a vast mess of disconnected sounds and stylings. Our job was to dig around long enough to find the diamonds in the rough.
Here are 20 of my favorites from 2012.
1. Richard Hawley, "Standing At the Sky's Edge"
Inexplicably, Hawley has not been able to break in a major way in the United States. "Standing At the Sky's Edge," his sixth album, finds the British guitarist, singer, songwriter and former member of Pulp favoring a psychedelic wall of sound that is one part Echo & the Bunnymen and the rest pure Hawley – gorgeously moody, impeccably sung, brilliantly conceived and utterly timeless rock music. The singer's bittersweet baritone conveys myriad emotions here, but Hawley's default position is a sort of tattered optimism, a deeply Romantic insistence on maintaining grace under pressure.
2. Bruce Springsteen, "Wrecking Ball"
"Wrecking Ball" arrived like a howl directly from the soul of an outraged American. Its targets – those who perpetrated, covered up, benefited from and then were bailed out of the Wall Street scandal, mostly – suffered the wrath of this country's poet laureate of the proletariat. Springsteen screamed for the voiceless 99 percent, while the E Street Band, joined in spots by Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, created an almighty, glorious racket. This is not Springsteen's most musically ambitious collection, but it is certainly one of his most heroic. (The bonus track "Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale)" offered a spine-tingling hint of the full album of string-laced songs Springsteen recorded and then abandoned in favor of "Wrecking Ball's" tales of betrayal and moral outrage.)
3. Rush, "Clockwork Angels"
A great year for one of progressive rock's most consistently adventurous bands. "Clockwork Angels" is a dense, sophisticated, and incredibly heavy collection that also makes plenty of room for light/shade dynamics. The tour behind the album included a brutally great show at First Niagara Center, and found the band joined by a string section. Now, the trio will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2013. Well deserved.
4. Animal Collective, "Centipede Hz"
As beautifully weird as ever, Animal Collective stretched its wings a bit this time around, bringing the guitars a touch closer to the front, and notching back the reverb a few ticks. The result was an album that sounded like the soundtrack to the morning after a particularly psychedelic evening.
5. David Byrne & St. Vincent, "Love This Giant"
A cross-generational celebration of gorgeous esoterica. Though the two were never really in the same room together while crafting this collaborative effort, somehow it worked.
6. Cat Power, "Sun"
Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, crafted heartbreaking beauty here, with an earthiness that counterbalanced the mildly techno feel of the rhythm tracks. "Sun" is haunting, and Marshall sounds haunted, ill at ease, perhaps even in a bit of emotional danger throughout. A deeply human, beautifully troubling effort.
7. Field Music, "Plumb"
This English band is still flying beneath the radar, but "Plumb" sounds like a prog-rock band covering the Flaming Lips – it's ambitious, trippy, but impossibly accessible. And it sounds best when played in its vinyl incarnation. (Buy the wax – you get a free digital download along with it.)
8. Trey Anastasio, "Traveler"
The Phish guitarist/vocalist blasted one out of the park with this genre-transcending collection of songs. Somehow, Anastasio managed to play indie-rock like it was proggy jam music. It worked, 10 times over. "Scabbard" alone proves that Anastasio is one of the most compelling and wonderfully strange composers in modern music.
9. Porcupine Tree, "Octane Twisted"
With Porcupine Tree on hiatus while leader Steven Wilson pursues a startlingly fruitful solo career, this live album tracked during the band's last tour – behind the double disc "The Incident" – is a gift for fans of the band, and lovers of progressive music in general. At once bludgeoningly heavy and achingly refined.
10. The New Mastersounds, "Out On the Faultline"
This British four-piece bridges the gap between old school organ trios, seriously greasy '70s funk, Manchester rave sounds, Brit-pop and the jam-band scene.
Play it loud, and attempt to sit still. Good luck.
11. Beach House, "Bloom"
Dreamy, richly layered, at times transcendent indie pop.
12. Soundgarden, "King Animal"
The Seattle quartet returns with its first album in 17 years, as ferociously inventive as ever.
13. Japandroids, "Celebration Rock"
Punk-fueled indie-rock, the way it was meant to be played – loud, fast, loose and full of memorable hooks.
14. Dr. John, "Locked Down"
New Orleans street soul meets modern garage rock, via the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach. Brilliant.
15. Muse, "The 2nd Law"
Ridiculously over the top. Muse confirms its spot as the Queen of its own generation.
16. Nas, "Life is Good"
Smart, soulful, underproduced, grittily poetic.
17. Neil Young, "Psychedelic Pill"
Young brings back Crazy Horse. Any questions? Good.
18. Jimmy Cliff, "Rebirth"
The greatest living proponent of Jamaican reggae delivers an album as stirringly powerful as his early, groundbreaking work.
19. Jack White, "Blunderbuss"
The first album that fully delivered on White's early promise. "Blunderbuss" offered elements of everything he's long done well, but for once, the songwriting was as interesting as the sounds themselves.
20. Storm Corrosion, "Storm Corrosion"
Steven Wilson joins with Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt for a moody, sometimes ambient, but more often finely detailed and compellingly melodic double album. Subtly progressive.
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Did you know that that the United States Postal Service is slated to lose $6 billion or more this year? It lost $2.8 billion last year.
With all the outrage over lending billions to financial institutions, you'd think more people would be fired up about running an operation that lost $2.8 billion last year and could lose $6 billion this year. No one is sending packages on credit for people without jobs. There aren't multi-million dollar bonuses for anyone at the post office. It's just a business that is spending more than it earns because mail volume is dropping.
In reading more about it, some people argue that delivery days is a red herring and that the USPS can save money in other areas. While I can appreciate that to a degree, sometimes it comes down to an argument of "less filling" or "great taste." The reality is that the post office is losing money and we're paying for it, with taxes and with higher postage stamp prices, and they need to stop arguing and start fixing.
I am perfectly fine with getting mail five days a week.
What do you think?
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5 Rules of Convenience Store Etiquette (Everyone Breaks)
#2. Do Not Gamble With Your Fellow Shoppers' Time
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There are only a precious few places on Earth where you can buy scratch-off lottery tickets. They are definitely an acquired taste, but there's no shame in buying them. We all like to unwind from time to time. If you choose to do it by carelessly throwing extra tax money at the government in return for a lightning strike's chance at turning a profit, by all means, have at it. There are probably underfunded schools that are depending on you doing just that.
And with the non-gambling community's approval now secured by way of the above paragraph, let's talk about where you can do your lottery playing. The short answer is "anywhere except while standing in line with increasingly agitated customers waiting behind you." That's also the long answer, in case you're curious. No matter how quickly you've learned to remove that unsettling layer of silver sludge to reveal the prizes (or lack thereof) underneath, it's not fast enough to keep the people behind you in line from flying into a quiet rage when they watch you do it as they wait to pay for the bag of ice that's currently leaving freezer-burn marks on their forearm.
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Again, all your fault.
You've given your dollar, you've received your ticket; it's time to kick rocks, as the kids who aren't old enough to buy lottery tickets liked to say the last time I cared to pay attention to what the youth of America have to say, which was sometime around 2009, I believe. Whatever the case, the expression fits: If you've paid for your stuff, any stuff, you must get lost. People are trying to carry on with their lives. You're just ruining that by hanging around after you've completed your transaction.
That's especially true if you're hanging around to scratch a lottery ticket, because the implication is that you're going to purchase more lottery tickets should it come to pass that you win. And then what? Do you just stand there endlessly buying and cashing in tickets until your luck runs out like some kind of low-budget game show contestant? You'd better not, because that means multiple transactions, which, in the strictest of terms, amounts to cutting the line. I don't even need to tell you how important it is to not cut people in line. That's practically Ten Commandments-type material, right up there with "don't murder" and "don't drive under the speed limit in the left lane" on the list of offenses that should be punishable by eternal damnation to the unfortunate afterlife of your choosing.
Sure, the cashier should be the one to put a stop to this kind of thing, but misbehaving customers are a team responsibility. Sometimes that cashier is going to be a barely out of high school kid who doesn't know any better than to obey the terrifying older person in front of them demanding multiple transactions to see their big money scheme through to either fruition or failure (almost definitely failure). If that happens, you, the public, must intervene. Take a stand against those who waste our time in line.
Oh, and stop writing checks. Everyone. Right now. Hey, speaking of that ...
#1. Do Learn Your Way Around the Credit Card Machine
Listen, it's 2013, you don't have to hand your credit or debit card to the cashier anymore. You don't have to hand it to anyone. You barely have to carry those things at all these days. You can just wave your phone at stuff you want to pay for. Checks and cash are for people who can't adapt to change, and I mean "change" in the "try new things" way, not in the "worst possible way to be paid a large sum of money" way. Obviously those people can adapt to having coins in their pocket -- they probably even enjoy it, which is terrifying when you consider how many hands the average coin comes into contact with before it reaches you.
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Normal people don't enjoy change, though, and I mean "change" in the ... never mind. You get it. Logical people dislike coins, so they use credit or debit cards. If you're going to be one of these "forward thinking" types who eschew apocalyptic concerns for the relative ease of paying for stuff by swiping a card, however, you're also responsible for keeping up-to-date on how to properly execute the hardware half of a bank card transaction. It used to be enough to just hand your card to the cashier, at which point he would swipe the card through a machine he operated or, depending on your age or the Third Worldness of the country you live in, run it under one of those huge plastic contraptions that use carbon paper and are a fairly decent indicator that you're somewhere you should not be whipping out your credit card.
We've moved on from that, though. And a lot of you people don't seem to realize it. Just as self-checkout lanes at grocery stores and self-service kiosks at the post office continue to baffle countless shoppers each day, so too do the intricacies of using a credit card machine.
It should be simple. In fact, it is simple. You just swipe your card, enter a pin number if you still haven't realized you can simply hit "credit" to bypass that, and then sign your name. Sometimes you don't even need to do that if the purchase is small enough. You can just grab your stuff and go.
So why do we constantly find ourselves sighing passive-aggressively at that one idiot who somehow manages to make swiping a credit card seem like a Mensa quiz? It happens all the time, usually in steps:
1. The customers realize that they haven't even removed their card from their wallet or purse. This is an early warning sign that trouble is afoot.
2. They try to hand the card to the cashier. That card reader could not possibly be more prominently placed in front of them, but they're going to give it a try. It's instinct.
This picture might as well be the 1970s.
3. They will express momentary surprise over this machine's existence. It's the same as saying "ouch" when you bump your foot on something without really hurting it. You expected it was going to hurt, and your body naturally expressed that. Except in this case, you were apparently expecting to see a flux capacitor or something instead of the same credit card machine we've all been using forever now.
4. They will swipe the card with the magnetic strip facing the wrong way, but only after thinking about it for 34 seconds.
5. They will enter the wrong pin or wrong zip code, because at this point the pressure of having to adapt to our ever-changing world has broken them, even if just temporarily.
If this sounds like you, I don't know, maybe see if your local convenience store will let you log some training hours on their credit card machine when business is slow. Maybe you should go make hundreds of $1 purchases to get your technique down. Again, I don't know, I just want you to learn how to swipe a credit card. And if you're holding up the line at a convenience store because that's something you haven't bothered to learn yet, everyone else wants you to figure it out, too. Right there on the spot, preferably.
Learn to properly use the credit card machine at a convenience store and you'll quickly learn how to make temporary friends out of the people in line behind you. But mess it up and you might as well be the dumbest person in the building. The choice is yours.
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#3. Crestfallen Facials
From The Wikipedia Page For: "Facial"
I really hope there is an innocent, unsullied soul out there who's actually finding these drawings of facials super-educational. Like, an 89-year-old Amish man sees this photo -- which I had to embellish with an MS Paint Lucha Libre mask -- and an old-timey candle lights up in his brain and he says out loud to nobody in particular, "ACH, I never knew you could put thart on thert!" (By the way, I call Internet dibs on a reality show called 30 Minutes of an Amish Grandfather Using the Internet. Nobody pitch that shit to TLC when I'm not paying attention.)
Incidentally, the Wikipedia page for "Facial" has more than one illustration of women totally not enjoying said pornographic hallmark. Again, I had to give this second woman a Luchadora mask so some of you don't get fired from your jobs. You're welcome!
#2. Remember, All of These Pictures Are in the Public Domain
From The Wikipedia Page For: "Snowballing"
For reasons unclear, this particular Wikipedia page boasts two adjacent images. The first is the outtake from The Aristocrats you see above ...
...and the second picture is exactly the same as the first, but one of the women has mysteriously transformed into someone who appears to be beloved children's troubadour Raffi. HEY, WHOEVER DREW THIS, YOU'RE A MONSTER.
#1. Oh, This is Just Gross
From The Wikipedia Page For: "Gokkun"
Gokkun is an onomatopoeic Japanese term for when a woman drinks a Big Gulp's worth of semen from a container. And holy hell, you do not need a picture demonstrating this. Anyone's who experienced the wonder technology that is a cup can put two and two together here. Seriously, there's zip that's educational about this picture. People go on Wikipedia to visualize stuff like fennec foxes and goblin sharks, not "how to drink a crowd-sourced smoothie."
In fact, the illustrator missed the most interesting part of this scenario: the line of harried salarymen waiting in line to donate their seed to the perverted arts. Just imagine: One guy is tapping his foot impatiently. A second man checks his watch and sighs -- he doesn't have all day for this! Yet another man shames himself (and his family) by bringing his own Nalgene (what a novice). Another dude is eating a comically oversized submarine sandwich, the mayo-smeared pickles spilling onto his blazer. Finally, there's a guy at the back of the line inexplicably wearing a Jughead crown. Nobody dares talk to him.
In conclusion, there are merits in illustrating some of the more kinesiologically WTF sexual techniques. But if you're considering drinking "the unspeakable gallon," all of your prior life experiences with non-semen beverages should allow you to freestyle your way across that Rubicon.
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Ponderosa Steakhouse in the Park Hills Plaza will serve its last meals today.
The longtime restaurant known for casual dining and its buffets, announced the closing on its marquee and offered thanks.
While the restaurant's general manager was not available Saturday for comment, a manager assisting with the closing said the restaurant's 40 part-time employees were made aware of the decision. She said she was not authorized to address the reasons.
"I just heard about it today," patron Reed Meeker of Bellefonte said after dining Saturday afternoon at Ponderosa. "We used to eat at the one in State College, but after it closed, we came here. It's a really good place to eat."
Jacob Booher of Bedford said he loves the Ponderosa's macaroni and cheese and its buffet.
When living with his parents in Punxsutawney, he said they often went to the Ponderosa Steakhouse in DuBois. So after moving to Bedford, he said began patronizing Altoona's Ponderosa.
"This place is awesome," Booher said. "And it's sad that it's closing."
The Ponderosa Steakhouse in DuBois remains open, as well as ones in Johnstown and Indiana, Pa.
Altoona Mirror records show that Altoona's Ponderosa Steakhouse began using that name on March 1, 1980, after operating as a Patriot Steak House. The change was viewed as one of the ramifications of a buyout that occurred two years earlier, when the Ponderosa chain bought several Patriot Steak House restaurants in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
During the last 30-plus years, Altoona's selection of buffet-style and steakhouse restaurants has increased substantially, with the newest competitor, Longhorn Steakhouse, opening in October 2011, about a half mile away from the Ponderosa Steakhouse.
But the Longhorn Steakhouse has never been good for Booher, who was preparing to eat dinner on Saturday night at the Ponderosa Steakhouse.
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Dangerous conditions in West and South Maui capsized three boats and left lifeguards on "high alert" Friday.
The boats washed ashore at 10:41 a.m. within a quarter-mile stretch between Mala Wharf and the Lahaina Crossroads Apartments, said Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga. He said debris was scattered around each of the vessels, which were battered by "unusually high surf conditions."
Witnesses reported that the boats broke loose from their moorings after a set of five large waves, estimated at 6 to 10 feet, rolled through the area, officials from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said.
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Ilima Kalama takes off on an outside wave at the Ahihi-Kinau surf spot known as "Dumps" on Friday as a large swell hit Maui's south-facing shores.
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Frank Forbes, shown cutting back on a wave with Molokini in the background, was stand-up paddle boarding at another Ahihi-Kinau surf spot, "Moon Surfaces." "It's fun out there," he said. It wasn't so fun in other parts of the island with large waves capsizing at least three boats on the west side.
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This is one of three boats that capsized off Mala Wharf in Lahaina after a set of five waves, estimated to be 6 to 8 feet, rolled through the area and broke moorings on the vessels, state officials said.
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Witnesses told fire officials that they saw no one on the boats or in the water prior to or during the incident.
The affected boats included the 30-foot fiberglass sailboat "Best Revenge," the 30-foot sailing vessel "Carribou III" and the 38-foot trimaran, or multihulled boat, "Triple Play."
DLNR officials said staffers from its boating division at the Lahaina Harbor office were working to remove the boats, including the sailing vessel, which was destroyed by Friday afternoon.
Maalaea Harbor also experienced some disturbance with strong waves that were "tossing boats around," said boat repairman Jamie Dancil.
"The waves were coming over the breakwall really easy during high tide," said the Pukalani resident, who has repaired boats for about 33 years. "I called all my good clients and checked to see if their boat was sitting right, and (told them) if they're not, I'll jump on and tie them up."
None of the boats he was looking after was damaged, and he did not see any surrounding boats pulled from their moorings, he said.
The boat incidents coincided with a high-surf advisory for south-facing shores of Maui. That advisory was extended to 6 p.m. Sunday by the National Weather Service on Friday.
The high surf, expected to be 6 to 10 feet, was caused by a series of south swells that will keep surf above the advisory level through the weekend, the National Weather Service said.
Lifeguards on South Maui beaches were "on their toes" and warned hundreds of beachgoers about the dangerous conditions, said Cameron Layer, acting South District captain for Lifeguard 10.
"We're telling people to always be aware of their surroundings," he said in a phone interview Friday. "Never turn your back on the water, always be with a group and tell the people what you're doing, know your personal limits, and avoid the high surf we have right now."
Monitoring the three Kamaole beaches, Layer said the waves were 4 to 8 feet, which was abnormally high for the beaches that are typically 0 to 2 feet. He said Big Beach and Makena Beach appeared to be the largest with 10- to 12-foot wave faces, and possibly larger.
A male tourist suffered a spinal injury Thursday afternoon at Kamaole I and needed to be taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center, Layer said.
In the event of an ocean emergency, people should immediately call 911 and remember all the details, he said.
"They should stay on the line and remind the dispatcher of any details," he said. "Do not call and hang up."
Conditions do not appear to be letting up anytime soon, with a series of four swells, which started Thursday, expected to keep surf high until Wednesday.
The timing of the swells, which coincided with many students finishing the school year, has compounded the threat, Layer said.
"There's going to be a lot of kids in the water," he said, noting the busiest times are typically from the midmorning to the late afternoon. "It all depends on the timing of the swells, and the peak swells are coinciding with the peak in beach traffic.
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Tradeoffs between resolution, sensitivity, and speed are inevitable in chemical analysis but strides are being taken to boost resolution and to improve "qual-quant" methods that enable researchers to identify and quantify compounds in a single workflow.
Chromatography and mass spec (MS) are the staples in these efforts, but newer assistive technologies such as FAIMS and improved software are also extending the reach of these traditional tools. This was made vividly clear during a number of presentations at "Pittcon", held in Atlanta earlier this year.
FAIMS (high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry) is already demonstrating higher resolution for peptides and lipids and shows great promise for applications identifying post-translational modifications (PTMs), said Alexandre Shvartsburg, Ph.D., whose lab at the Pacific Northwest National Lab, has achieved the highest resolution to date (~330 peptides) using planar FAIMS.
While not exactly new, FAIMS has undergone steady refinement with at least one commercial FAIMS product on the market and several more announced, added Dr. Shvartsburg. Broadly, FAIMS is a gas-phase, ion-separation, interface technology that permits researchers to more effectively separate ions and select which of those ions are passed to the MS for analysis.
Dr. Shvartsburg noted that, "FAIMS is not a single thing. It's a technology. We are working on really pushing the frontier of resolution at the expense of sensitivity, unfortunately as always. Others use it differently.
"For localization of post-translational modifications, FAIMS pretty much beats any other method, and I think this is going to be a major application. So far we've tried it for phosphorylation and acetylation, but there is really no reason (e.g., special chemistries) it should apply only to those two."
In FAIMS, the asymmetric waveform combines a high-strength dispersive voltage (DV), which moves ions toward one or the other electrodes, with a lower strength compensation voltage (CV) used to trap select ions in the sample and send them into the MS. An inert gas is used to shorten the time required for ions to reach terminal velocity.
The entire process is tunable (varying the CV, DV, gas concentration) so researchers can change which ions are trapped and sent to the MS. (For a complete explanation, see www.FAIMS.com.) The net result is better noise reduction, greater ion separation, and higher resolution.
FAIMS systems have varying attributes, some suited for proteomics (larger molecules) and others for metabolomics (smaller molecules). One publicly announced effort (Agilent Technologies and Owlstone) "is very unique," said Dr. Shvartsburg. "It's a microchip FAIMS that is almost invisible and sits within the inlet capillary to the mass spec and is smaller than the size of the fingernail. I have worked with them. They don't have the kind of resolution we have, but they do have much better sensitivity and the speed is amazing at 10 ms analysis."
Dr. Shvartsburg, who has published widely on FAIMS, said the technology might find use in histone code analysis, "which some people will say is the most important area of PTMs." He expects FAIMS resolution to improve by two- to threefold over the next couple of years.
One intriguing result is FAIMS ability to distinguish isotopomers. "It's new but FAIMS can separate some isotopomers in the gas phase. It is stunning and so far not theoretically understood. We discovered it accidentally. It could be a fundamentally new approach for identification of molecular structure using the gas phase of the molecule. In a way like NMR it fingerprints molecules in solution but the resolution would have to get much better."
Discovery of new antibiotics has slowed so much that "we could run out antibiotics to treat life-threatening infection very soon," said senior researcher Lijiang Song, Ph.D., experimental officer in mass spectrometry at the University of Warwick. "This is why the American infectious disease society proposed that we need to discover 10 new antibiotics by 2020, which many people think is overambitious if not impossible. The main reason has been the high rate of re-discovery of known compounds.
"We have addressed this problem by employing high-resolution mass spectrometry to do de-replication in the modern microbial genome mining approach for novel natural products. This means we can identify known compounds very early on and shift our focus to true novel compounds.
"We have successfully identified and characterized more than 30 new compounds in the last five years and patented two families of novel bioactive microbial polyketide natural products (as antibiotics or anticancer agents.)"
Dr. Song's methodology was created "to analyze the genome sequence first to identify potential interesting secondary metabolite gene clusters, such as PKS, NRPS, where one can even predict whole or part of the structure of the secondary metabolite if made.
"We then make knock-out mutants and carry out comparative metabolite profiling with LC-UV-MS/MS for wild-type and knock-out mutants to identify novel targets, followed by structure elucidation with MS and NMR."
Dr. Song labels HR-MS/MS as "probably the most efficient way to do de-replication while high-resolution and high-accurate MS is probably the most sensitive (nanogram or even lower) and reliable way to do de-replication."
With the emergence of high-speed, high-resolution MS, particularly the Bruker MaXis UHR-Q-TOF, said Dr. Song, it has become possible to screen a large number of samples for novel bioactive natural products by using UHPLC coupling with HR-MS/MS and still identify novel compounds quickly.
Dr. Song predicts that this approach will find its way into most natural product-based drug discovery programs. "Apparently, the current 40–60,000 resolution is good enough for most of the things we analyze, but it is not enough to distinguish sulphur isotope, which is one of the element contained in many natural products.
"I would like to think the resolution of Q-TOF HRMS will reach 100,000 in a few years time. By then HRMS/MS will become even more useful. Though many may argue that FT-ICR is better, the running cost for FT-ICR turned out to be too high for most of the labs. Their extreme high resolution (millions) is probably most suited for more specific applications."
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The 9 Biggest Bastards of 2011
A mere smattering.
Our working definition of a bastard: Someone who does anything to win, and bows to no one. You'll find them on both sides of the moral fence, because human beings are a little bit ape, and even littler bit angel. Good or ill, you eventually need a bastard, because as we know, bastards always win. Unless they're facing bigger, more or better-equipped bastards.
The fact is, they're the ones who get the most done -- usually something reason and morality suggest should never have been done at all. If you don't claim them, some other group will. Here are the unbelievable achievers you would mostly not want to meet at parties.
2011's triumphant bastards (for the 10,000th year running), were the rich, powerful and corrupt, which (surprisingly) are sometimes discrete groups.
Oh, man, what a cock-up. Weiner was always a staff-mauling, race-baiting loudmouth, making enemies in his own party for protecting the middle class and for talking to Republicans the way Republicans talk to everyone. Still, it takes a Film-Schwarzenegger sense of invulnerability to use Twitter for sexting and not expect to end up with a Reality-Schwarzenegger scandal. Anthony Weiner, you are 2011's recipient of the Gary Hart Award for Sex-Addled Democrats. Your prize is a month's worth of irresistible news headline puns.
My colleague and comedy-crush Luke McKinney outlined what an infected cyst Trump really is, but there's no bottom to the pot of loathing that bubbles for this goon. What he doesn't coat in gold he files for bankruptcy, and only King Midas should be able to do both of those at once. Despite enough fiscal irresponsibility to thrive in politics, his presidential platform amounted to pounding the birther chord and hoping the chorus would carry the tune. Plus, he earned a lifetime ban for selling mail-order steaks through Sharper Image, which is offensive to cows and people who love to eat cows.
"I am personally going to take a shit on each one of these."
Every day they're not [allegedly -- Cracked.com's lawyers] hacking 9/11 victims' phones, they're [definitely -- Cracked.co.uk's solicitors] hacking dead English people's, because interviewing survivors is too classy. How do you hire for that kind of job, anyway? You need, at the very least, a sleazy private investigator, a sexy woman of mystery played by Angelina Jolie and a 13-year-old Korean whiz kid.
Other bastards hate this bastard for proving they're bastards with their own documents. This year WikiLeaks revealed how many prisoners at the Guantanamo
gulag phantom zone detention center are innocent but shackled up anyway, because the spring pageant needs a high headcount to really make the "Yankee Doodle Dandy" number soar. On the plate for 2012: determining whether Assange is also a molesty bastard.
2011 was the year we learned these rampaging bloodsuckers thrive on incest. Again, much like the 1 percent.
You'd think marrying your cousin would fall out of fashion
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Another year, another Galaxy S phone! Since the very first Galaxy S, which came out in 2010, Samsung has been regularly refining and improving its formula for success in the mobile industry. It is mainly thanks to this series of handsets that the manufacturer is now enjoying lush revenue streams and having a profound influence over the whole Android ecosystem...
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1. lee480 (Posts: 197; Member since: 24 Sep 2012)
Sorry. Either buying the HTC One or Xperia Z.
10. abdane (Posts: 494; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
can you tell me why are the htc one and the xperia z better than the GS4 ? other than the design... unless, all what you want is the design ???
23. lee480 (Posts: 197; Member since: 24 Sep 2012)
Can you tell me why the S4 is better than Xperia Z and the HTC One?
For me-
I do not care about what type of CPU. Does not affect real world performance.
I do not like screens that displays inaccurate colours nor do I care about viewing angles.
It's more a usability question. I do not like cheap flimsy Samsung plastic. I prefer premium materials. Dislikes oncoming. :)
30. SleepingOz (unregistered)
"Can you tell me why the S4 is better than Xperia Z and the HTC One?"
The answers are found in your own comment, it's all the things you're pretending not to care about. =3
44. abdane (Posts: 494; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
cpu and screen are hardware, all phones now are similar in hardware... software is the thing... and the GS4 features blows both the one and the xperia z !
95. Feanor (Posts: 713; Member since: 20 Jun 2012)
Depends one's point of view; The S4 is the one with the most software enhancements but to me most of them are gimmicky and I could imagine myself disabling in real life most of them. And if on top of that I get annoyed everytime I switch on the screen to see what 'life is...' according to Samsung in horrible faux hand written font, I'd go for the modern UI of the One or the neutral aesthetics of the Z.
266. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)
no no no, smart stay smart scroll and smart pause are only the real gimmicks but theyr opening for some revolutionary thiings in the future regading being smarter with eye tracking tech..
108. Jack58221 (Posts: 153; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)
just like the gs3, most of those features are pointless. I know I would end up turning most of them of right out of the box, and never be using others. Bah my phone against a friend phone when I will not see them for a few hours, our just text/email them? Eye tracking meet ADHD... Yeah, it all goes off right away.
So for me, outside viewing and aluminum body, or inside only with plastic body.
472. giri555 (Posts: 111; Member since: 15 Mar 2012)
"Features" - 90% of buyers won't use those gimmicy "features"..whats the sense and logic?
49. RapidCat (Posts: 351; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
because S4 did not use iPhone round corner patent design.
and xperia Z is upgly device
64. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Candy bar edge2edge with no curve phones look more stylish sexy and slick then iPhone ugly looks! Look at Oppo5....!
So you like Plasama TV with round curves and not with sharp edges! Phones that have curves look ugly!
461. phonemonkey (Posts: 168; Member since: 13 Feb 2012)
Say something that makes sense,
Please I'm begging you
107. monkeytown (Posts: 125; Member since: 26 Jul 2012)
if you favor the XZ, apparently you care about one of the worst displays ever, an overhyped but crappy camera and of course the wrongly designed loudspeaker, that you block with your own hand
183. AshishRomea (Posts: 145; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
i own an Xperia Z , people who have seen it call it better than all the phones out der ! Display is very good & camera is great ! persnal experience!
265. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)
oh users withn talk.sonymobile.com say otherwise :D
bugs left & ryt :D speaker, call quality, battery, stmina mode, screen, signal, camera, laggy homescreen, death etc
193. therealestmc (Posts: 328; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
I am going out on a limp and say you have never seen the phone personally. You are just going off what others have said. Tell me I am wrong. Unlikely, though.
126. umadddd (banned) (Posts: 29; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
LOL my sides ahahhaha
since when was cheap recycled soda can aluminum premium? LOLLLLL
263. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)
"its more a usability question"??
yet u can only mention abt the plastic? is it related to usability?
by the way when we talk abt usability, Galaxy s4 was called by some experts to hit LIFESTYLE, thats usability.. it hits Health, display adaptation for every uses, Group PLay for the benefit of several group interactions, Feature-packed camera for fun and simple photography uses, MULTITASKING, AIR GESTURES have their uses esp when your eating something and that hover hover drop down is really cool and useful, etc im tired coz i have lots to say
anyway HTCone and Galaxy s4 are my favor8s
get that Xperia Z and fix everything abt it so the users of that f**king phone will not be sad..
273. zackdbassist (Posts: 22; Member since: 15 Mar 2013)
Better camera on S4, better multitasking on S4(Read Multi-Window), screen can be tuned according to your preference and then it is far superior to z's screen even in terms of contrast, better battery backup for sure(Read bigger battery), smaller and lighter chassis,
Sony on the other hand is waterproof and looks really good.Apart from this there is nothing that the S4 can't do better. Just my 2 cents.
319. xtremesv (Posts: 297; Member since: 21 Oct 2011)
I say it again, you must be among the minority of people who use their smartphones without a protective aftermarket case just for other people to admire the dented or scratched aluminum/glass body.
396. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)
the final hardware unit has better call quality.. gsmarena has the final hardware unit :)
so it isnt one of the cons now..
28. wendygarett (unregistered)
Gs4 is pentile? OMG is it true Ray?
36. wendygarett (unregistered)
Oh well, HTC SLCD 3 with 468ppi win once again :p
112. monkeytown (Posts: 125; Member since: 26 Jul 2012)
don´t expect to see any pixel with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 ;)
so, yeah it is pentile, but it doesn´t matter
308. dragonite99 (unregistered)
pentile with extra subpixel.. its as good as RGB
41. BillyG (Posts: 305; Member since: 24 Sep 2012)
let them enjoy their dead-water-resistant-paperweight (XperiaZ) and HTC One with its bad battery and wait-forever-update. soon we'll enjoy seeing them complaining that the updates took forever (as usual with htc...) and those bad batteries (and if something wrong happened, they'll have to exchange the whole phone, and HTC cust. service aren't famous for their services...) and that physical build that called for scratch, dents, chamfered edges probs (like what happened to those iCons). soon they'll understand what those iConUsers feel when they drop their phones.
and in few months, we can eat our popcorn while waving our hands on our S4 reading their agony and be thankful we didn't make those mistakes...
59. DanishDynamite (Posts: 41; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
HAHAHA!!! that was very entertainingm because a farely new report shows that HTC is the fastest company, when it comes to updating their phones... Well, except from Apple and Google... :D hey, and you forgot to mention the Samsung Galaxy S 4 (cheap plastic, that doesn't feel like a premium device at all. And the misleading "Octa-core" that actually just 4+4... And the useless S-features that they have added...)
HTC One FTW!!!!!!!
76. BillyG (Posts: 305; Member since: 24 Sep 2012)
lol, tell that to one x/+ users... ask them who get the latest android update first, GS3/Note2 users or those one x/+ users... and i won't start lecturing you about the diff. between Polycarbonate and 'cheap plastic' , you'll only see what you wanna see... btw, enjoy your so called 'premium' build, but don't come crying because of the dent, scratches, or discoloration of the plastic between the metals (i already read this problem on a german forum since the HTC already released there).
i'll give it 3 months, and i'll enjoy reading those complaining of HTC One, it'll certainly brighten my day... :D
391. gtrxman (Posts: 122; Member since: 10 Sep 2011)
And I suppose you prefer vinyl seats to leather in your car...
77. SleepingOz (unregistered)
I'd really like to see this "farely new report".
Again the old "cheap plastic" argument.
Plastic(polycarbonate) is more suitable for phone than aluminium, One X, L920 and even my GNOTE II are clear examples! Aluminium doesn't absorb shocks well and is also prone to bending, scratches and dents. Not to forget signal and NFC interference.
"And the misleading "Octa-core" that actually just 4+4"
You, sir, is an ignorant.
"Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP)
This is the other actual implemented function mode of a big.LITTLE CPU. In this case, all 8 cores can be used simultaneously by the system.
This is a vastly more complex working mechanism, and its implementation is also an order of magnitude more sophisticated. It requires the kernel scheduler to actually be aware of the differentiation of between the A7 and A15 cores. Currently, the Linux kernel is not capable of doing this and treats all CPUs as equals. This is a problem since we do not want to use the A15 cores when a task can simply me processed on an A7 core with a much lower power cost.
The Linaro working-group already finished the first implementation of the HMP design as a series of patches to be applied against the Linux 3.8 kernel. What they did is to make the scheduler smart enough to be able to track the load of single process entities, and with that information to schedule the threads smartly on either the A7 cores or the A15 cores. This achieves much lower latency in terms of switching workloads, or better said, switching the environments (CPUs) to the respective work-loads, and exposes the full processing capabilities of the silicon as all cores can be used at once.
You can follow the advancements of this in the publications of the Linaro Connect summits that happen every few months. The code was only published in the middle of February this year for the first working implementation equivalent in power consumption to the IKS."
81. DanishDynamite (Posts: 41; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
That awkward moment when you find out that i'm a 14 year old boy from Denmark... And no, they don't work simultaneously, that's the whole point about it....
91. SleepingOz (unregistered)
Here you go, kid.. =]
109. DanishDynamite (Posts: 41; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
Oh you are so right! I know nothing about phones. But just one last question, where the f**k does it say anything about the S 4 using big.LITLLE MP? oh... nowhere, so before thinking you are better, get it right. I'm having a good time being smarter then two older gentlemens, that thinks they know more than me, FUNNY! Don't embaress yourselfs :D
120. SleepingOz (unregistered)
The GSIV won't be using the Heterogeneous Multi-Processing because it will drain the battery drastically but that doesn't mean it can't!
It's called the magic of XDA.
Anyway, the GSIV has a real octo-core processor. So, again, your argument about the Exynos 5 Octa being a quadcore gimmick is invalid. =]
Btw you're the one embarassing yourself here, for talking about things you know nothing about.
121. DanishDynamite (Posts: 41; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
Just sayin, not everybody knows how to root their phone... :D
135. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
So OZ has a valid point! It's like when you buy a sports car you can modify the exhaust turbine pistons raise the Engine Management and obtain a further BHP and Tourque which makes the whole car as it should be, not restricted as if as standard!
Yes Rooting is kinda simple if you follow instructions!
275. zackdbassist (Posts: 22; Member since: 15 Mar 2013)
See kiddo, talking the way you are is not helping your argument. And when someone who knows more than you is actually sharing something that would help you know more, then grasp the info with both your arms open. Htc offers one of the best products in the market but isn't that good in all aspects.
And the exynos 5 octa used in s4 is indeed based on Arm's big.Little architecture. Go, get your facts right , , provide us with some concrete evidence(Read source) that HTC updates their product faster. If this is not possible then change your name to DanishPastry instead of Dynamite, that'll suit your age and the way you talk better. Grow up kiddo or at least show some respect to the people who know more, being a fan of some brand is not bad but then you are not someone who appreciates technology.
Technology ftw!
Add a p after htt in the above link and see for yourself that exynos 5 octa is all about big.LITTLE architecture.
286. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
The exynos 5 octa core is a big.little cpu..arm used this CPU at MWC to show off the big.little features...
388. Dark4o90 (Posts: 205; Member since: 20 Feb 2011)
ooo the big guy from samsung and the big guy from ARM said that BIG-LITTLE is there, and you think you know everything ho ho ho, when you don't know something it doesn't mean it's not true, just don't say anything you don't know for sure and learn ENGLISH "embaress"
467. wh3resmycar (Posts: 3; Member since: 05 May 2013)
hey dumbass. big.LITTLE is an design for cortex A15. seriously. just go kill yourself.
119. DanishDynamite (Posts: 41; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
Okay, i don't know about you, but i don't want to look like an idiot :D I totally respect what Samsung has done with the S 4, it is a marvelous piece of engineering, but i just have some other priorities, like Boomsound and the alumunium-body, so let's just stop this, we won't agree anyways :D but seriously, calling me "stupid" is not right, i use a lot of time at phonearena, android authority and other webpages, i know more then most grown men about phones. and i'm just telling you that they, yes they work simultaneously, but only when it's big.LITLLE MP, and the S 4 doesn't use MP :D no hate
140. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
You have a point there I agree, calling some one :stupid, should've been called unaware or uninformed or untechy!
304. esperanza (Posts: 49; Member since: 23 Mar 2013)
Boom sound is just stereo speakers. Nothing special. The stereo speakers on two sides are a nice touch, stereo is kind of useless (like on my iPad Mini) if both speakers are shooting in the same direction, the sound mushes together anyways, loud but hella noisy as well.
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86. BillyG (Posts: 305; Member since: 24 Sep 2012)
don't waste your energy explaining it to him/her... he/she clearly have no idea about tech. or only got 1% knowledge about high-end smartphones. probably just an ex-iConUser who finally want a taste of android.
96. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Looks like an iPhone user or has no knowledge about Tech or about how CPU threshold and down Threshold supplement each other on work loads?
89. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Yes I do agree OZ, but when you feel and touch Stainless Steel or Caron Fibre or a phone made all with DragonTrail glass is pure class touch to it! It's called "Prestige"
99. SleepingOz (unregistered)
I know the "prestige" feeling you're talking about. I had the OG Xperia and the N8, but I still prefer the polycarbonate of my GNOTE II. It's stil intact after several falls.
101. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
True! They should've made phones with all in one materials....?
178. ngo2dd (Posts: 896; Member since: 08 Jul 2011)
Here is my source why you are wronghttp://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar
215. SleepingOz (unregistered)
"There are two different implementations of big.LITTLE that hardware makers can use: one in which the Cortex-A7 and A15 cores can be active at the same time (called "big.LITTLE MP" in ARM's documentation) and one in which a Cortex-A7 core powers down when its corresponding A15 core powers up and vice versa."
From the link you posted..
I'd really like to know how was I wrong?
Have you even read my comment in the first place?
In my comment I quoted the part where AndreiLux, who is a recognized dev on XDA, explains how all the 8cores can be used simultaneously by the system.
303. Trex95 (Posts: 905; Member since: 03 Mar 2013)
Okay i got it. But due to the android need more power than other OS, why didn't made the LITTLE A9?! i understand that will effect the battery life but not big of deal cause Samsung still can offer bigger battery.
508. skyguy7567 (Posts: 148; Member since: 17 Nov 2012)
I know that all 8 cores can be used in the system, but are you Samsung fans stupid enough not to notice a huge problem on your very own phones? HEAT! MAN! 4 Samsung cores on the GS3 already caused complains of the phone reaching 50 degrees c, and the 8 cores 'won' the overall heat champion at 60 degrees C. The record temperature on my xperia z is just 45 degrees C. Samsung is trying to give you burns. Extreme heat can also damage the cheap components within the phone. Reports say Samsung components of Samsung phone turned into charcoal from the desert heat of the CPU.
439. jo_Ny (Posts: 27; Member since: 05 Sep 2012)
very true except the fact that this so called Octa doesn't runs on HMP but on CPU Migration instead, in which only 4 cores of any cmobination will ever be working at the same time. So it's you who are an ignorant, I guess...??
400. johnriii (Posts: 238; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
HTC is the fastest company to updating their phones? please explain how you came to that!!! Us thunderbolt owners were promised ICS back in March of 2012, and we finally got it in December, 2012. yeah, they're really fast!!!
65. RapidCat (Posts: 351; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
agree with you BillyG. and i can't wait to see hwat samsung offer with Premium Suite. this is only the 1st software implementation.
one thing i can sure is "Samsung Orb Photo", they say its better than google sphere
@ DanishDynamite, i think htc use the cheap metal :) why not build their phone with titanium, gold or silver, that is premium. or can htc make their own model, not use iPhone and Blackberry or SGS 1 model?
htc fast company, One ship with 4.1.2, S4 with 4.2.2???? how htc fast update company?
72. DanishDynamite (Posts: 41; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
Iphone? Blackberry? SGS 1? uhm, it uses aluminium like the iPhone 5 yes... but that doesn't mean that they copied anything. Blackberry, yes, it has that speaker at the bottom, but the Blackberry Z10 hasn't got that...? And the SGS 1...? WTF has that in common with the One? the screen? NAh. The Processor? Nah. Oh, now i know, the camera? No... Wait.
search for "Htc is fastest at updating their phones" and then look at that phonearena article...
Red it? okay, then i only have one thing left to say... EAT
88. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1116; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
If HTC uses cheap metal then what does Samsung uses? Plastic from Toys'R'Us? Use your head before bashing something that is better than what you are defending.
92. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
Aluminum is dirt cheap. Recycling plastic probably costs more. Although the CNC machining might cost a lot since time is money.
100. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Stainless Steel is much better!


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Yes, he was highly sought after......and yes there's extremely high potential. However, there's no guarantee he will be able to fit in with NHL. Without seeing him step foot into this league, he's a big question mark.
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Heart and soul guy? The same guy with major alcohol and domestic problems? The same guy who was scratched through most of the 2012 playoffs? There is absolutely no place for this loser. And to the idiots spewing, "BUT, BUT, HE ADDS SIZE, GRIT, AND TOUGHNESS!".....no. The guy is 5'9, built small, and adds zero strength to our lineup. Big difference between grit and rat.
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The new Superblack suit from HUGO radiates intensity thanks to its unique dyeing process and sharp, narrow cut. Discover the story behind the suit.
The enduring appeal of the all-black suit
The black suit is a modern style icon and features in every man's wardrobe. So how can you stand out when wearing one? HUGO has the answer. There is black, and then there is HUGO Superblack.
A unique fabric
HUGO's Italian manufacturer spent no less than five years developing an exclusive process that allows pigment to deeply penetrate its pure wool yarn for an intense, fade-proof hue. This Super 130 thread is woven into a fine wool cloth from which every HUGO Superblack suit is cut.
How to wear it
While the colour is crucial, the style and cut also define this contemporary suit. The single-breasted jacket features a narrow fit, piped pockets and rounded shoulders, casting a sharp silhouette as suited to business as it is to drinks after night falls.
Go for a sharp monochrome look in an extra-slim fit white shirt and narrow black tie, or up the intensity with a tonal black shirt. For a more unconventional twist, wear your Superblack suit with a T-shirt and Chelsea boots.
Permanently black
Each HUGO Superblack suit is completed with a unique finishing process to seal its colour. This prevents the fabric from fading over time, ensuring a lasting deep, dark hue and subtle sheen.
Still not into black? A Supernavy suit is also available from HUGO.


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Allow me to welcome you to the website for the Wellcome Image awards, a showcase of the best and most stunning biological images from the Wellcome Image collection. Without giving away too many spoilers, the winners' gallery for 2012 includes images of the developing vascular system of a chicken embryo and a scanning electron micrograph of a moth fly, to name a few. Each image is accompanied with blurbs that answer questions such as, "how was this image created?" and "why did the judges select this image?" Beyond simply being composed of the winners' galleries for 2012 and previous years as well, the website also includes a section that describes the various imaging techniques used to create the winning images. These include electron microscopy, diffusion tensor tractography, and x-ray computer tomography, among others.
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