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Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposedby Anand Lal Shimpi on September 17, 2011 2:00 AM EST
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The New GPU
Westmere marked a change in the way Intel approached integrated graphics. The GPU was moved onto the CPU package and used an n-1 manufacturing process (45nm when the CPU was 32nm). Performance improved but it still wasn't exactly what we'd call acceptable.
Sandy Bridge brought a completely redesigned GPU core onto the processor die itself. As a co-resident of the CPU, the GPU was treated as somewhat of an equal - both processors were built on the same 32nm process.
With Ivy Bridge the GPU remains on die but it grows more than the CPU does this generation. Intel isn't disclosing the die split but there are more execution units this round (16 up from 12 in SNB) so it would appear as if the GPU occupies a greater percentage of the die than it did last generation. It's not near a 50/50 split yet, but it's continued indication that Intel is taking GPU performance seriously.
The Ivy Bridge GPU adds support for OpenCL 1.1, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.1. This will finally bring Intel's GPU feature set on par with AMD's. Ivy also adds three display outputs (up from two in Sandy Bridge). Finally, Ivy Bridge improves anisotropic filtering quality. As Intel Fellow Tom Piazza put it, "we now draw circles instead of flower petals" referring to image output from the famous AF tester.
Intel made the Ivy Bridge GPU more modular than before. In SNB there were two GPU configurations: GT1 and GT2. Sandy Bridge's GT1 had 6 EUs (shaders/cores/execution units) while GT2 had 12 EUs, both configurations had one texture sampler. Ivy Bridge was designed to scale up and down more easily. GT2 has 16 EUs and 2 texture samplers, while GT1 has an unknown number of EUs (I'd assume 8) and 1 texture sampler.
I mentioned that Ivy Bridge was designed to scale up, unfortunately that upwards scaling won't be happening in IVB - GT2 will be the fastest configuration available. The implication is that Intel had plans for IVB with a beefier GPU but it didn't make the cut. Perhaps we will see that change in Haswell.
As we've already mentioned, Intel is increasing the number of EUs in Ivy Bridge however these EUs are much better performers than their predecessors. Sandy Bridge's EUs could co-issue MADs and transcendental operations, Ivy Bridge can do twice as many MADs per clock. As a result, a single Ivy Bridge EU gets close to twice the IPC of a Sandy Bridge EU - in other words, you're looking at nearly 2x the GFLOPS in shader bound operations as Sandy Bridge per EU. Combine that with more EUs in Ivy Bridge and this is where the bulk of the up-to-60% increase in GPU performance comes from.
Intel also added a graphics-specific L3 cache within Ivy Bridge. Despite being able to share the CPU's L3 cache, a smaller cache located within the graphics core allows frequently accessed data to be accessed without firing up the ring bus.
There are other performance enhancements within the shader core. Scatter & gather operations now execute 32x faster than Sandy Bridge, which has implications for both GPU compute and general 3D gaming performance.
Despite the focus on performance, Intel actually reduced the GPU clock in Ivy Bridge. It now runs at up to 95% of the SNB GPU clock, at a lower voltage, while offering much higher performance. Thanks primarily to Intel's 22nm process (the aforementioned architectural improvements help as well), GPU performance per watt nearly doubles over Sandy Bridge. In our Llano review we found that AMD delivered much longer battery life in games (nearly 2x SNB) - Ivy Bridge should be able to help address this.
Quick Sync Performance Improved
With Sandy Bridge Intel introduced an extremely high performing hardware video transcode engine called Quick Sync. The solution ended up delivering the best combination of image quality and performance of any available hardware accelerated transcoding options from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA. Quick Sync leverages a combination of fixed function hardware, IVB's video decode engine and the EU array.
The increase in EUs and improvements to their throughput both contribute to increases in Quick Sync transcoding performance. Presumably Intel has also done some work on the decode side as well, which is actually one of the reasons Sandy Bridge was so fast at transcoding video. The combination of all of this results in up to 2x the video transcoding performance of Sandy Bridge. There's also the option of seeing less of a performance increase but delivering better image quality.
I've complained in the past about the lack of free transcoding applications (e.g. Handbrake, x264) that support Quick Sync. I suspect things will be better upon Ivy Bridge's arrival.
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Arnulf - Sunday, September 18, 2011 - link"Voltage changes have a cubic affect on power, so even a small reduction here can have a tangible impact."
Quadratic relationship, rather than cubic ? Reply
damianrobertjones - Sunday, September 18, 2011 - link" As we've already seen, introducing a 35W quad-core part could enable Apple (and other OEMs) to ship a quad-core IVB in a 13-inch system."
Is Apple the only company that can release a 13" system? Reply
medi01 - Monday, September 19, 2011 - linkNo. But it's the only one that absolutely needs to be commented on in orgasmic tone in US press (and big chunk of EU press too) Reply
JonnyDough - Monday, September 19, 2011 - linkThey're the only ones who will market it with a flashy Apple logo light on a pretty aluminum case. Everyone knows that lightweight pretty aluminum cases are a great investment on a system that is outdated after just a few years. I wish Apple would make cars instead of PCs so we could bring the DeLorean back. Something about that stainless steel body just gets me so hot. Sure, it would get horrible gas mileage and be less safe in an accident. But it's just so pretty! Plus, although it would use a standard engine made by Ford or GM under the hood, its drivers would SWEAR that Apple builds its own superior hardware! Reply
cldudley - Sunday, September 18, 2011 - linkAm I the only one who thinks Intel is really wasting a lot of time and money on improvements to their on-die GPU? They keep adding features and improvements to the onboard video, right up to including DirectX 11 support, but isn't this really all an excersise in futility?
Ultimately a GPU integrated with the CPU is going to be bottlenecked by the simple fact that it does not have access to any local memory of it's own. Every time it rasterizes a triangle or performs a texture operation, it is doing it through the same memory bus the CPU is using to fetch instructions, read and write data, etc.
I read that the GPU is taking a larger proportion of the die space in Ivy Bridge, and all I see is a tragic waste of space that would have been better put into another (pair of?) core or more L1/L2 cache.
I can see the purpose of integrated graphics in the lowest-end SKUs for budget builds, and there are certainly power and TDP advantages, and things like Quick-Sync are a great idea, but why stuff a GPU in a high-end processor that will be blown away by a comparatively middle-of-the-road discrete GPU? Reply
Death666Angel - Sunday, September 18, 2011 - linkI disagree. AMD has shown that on-die GPUs can already compete with middle-of-the-road discrete graphics in notebooks. Trinity will probably take on middle-of-the-road in the current desktop space.
Your memory bandwidth argument also doesn't seem to be correct, either. Except for some AMD mainboard graphics with dedicated sideport memory, all IGPs use the RAM, but a lot of them are doing fine. It is also nice to finally see higher clocked RAM be taken advantage of (see Llano 1666MHz vs 1800MHz). DDR4 will add bandwidth as well.
Once the bandwidth becomes a bottleneck, you can address that, but at the moment Intel doesn't seem to be there, yet, so they keep addressing their other GPU issues. What is wrong with that?
Also, how many people who buy high-end CPUs end up gaming 90% of the time on them? A lot of people need high-end CPUs for work related stuff, coding, CAD etc. Why should they have to buy a discrete graphics card?
Overall, you are doing a lot of generalization and you don't take into account quite a few things. :-) Reply
cldudley - Sunday, September 18, 2011 - linkIronically I spend lots of time in AutoCAD, and a discrete graphics board makes a tremendous difference. Gamer-grade stuff is usually not the best thing in that arena though, it needs to be the special "workstation" cards, which have very different drivers. Quadro or FireGL.
I agree with you on the work usage, and gaming workloads not being 90% of the time, but on the other hand,workstations tend to have Xeons in them, with discrete graphics cards. Reply
platedslicer - Sunday, September 18, 2011 - linkAs a fraction of the computer market, buyers who want power over everything else have plunged. Mobility is so important for OEMs now that fitting already-existent performance levels into smaller, cheaper devices becomes more important than pushing the envelope. I still remember a time when hardly anybody gave a rat's ass about how much power a CPU consumed as long as it didn't melt down. Today, power consumption is a crucial factor due to battery life and heat.
Personally these developments make me rather sad, partly because I like ever-shinier games, and (more importantly) because seeing the unwashed masses talk about computers as if they were clothing brands makes me want to rip out their throats. That's how the world works, though. Hopefully the chip makers will realize that there's still a market for power over fluff.
Looking at it on the bright side, CPU power stagnation might make game designers pay more attention to content. Hey, you have to look on the bright side of life. Reply
KPOM - Monday, September 19, 2011 - linkI think that's largely because for the average consumer, PCs have reached the point where CPU capabilities are no longer the bottleneck. Look at the success of the 2010 MacBook Air, which had a slow C2D but a speedy SSD, and sold well enough to last into mid-2011. Games are the next major hurdle, but that's the GPU rather than the CPU, and hence the reason it receives a bigger focus in Ivy Bridge (as it also did in Sandy Bridge compared to Westmere).
The emphasis now is having the power we have last longer and be available in smaller, more portable devices. Reply
JonnyDough - Monday, September 19, 2011 - linkYou're missing the point. They aren't trying to beef the power of the CPU. CPUs are already quite powerful for most tasks. They are trying to lower energy usage and sell en-mass to businesses that use thousands of computers. Reply

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The Orioles called-up their No. 1 prospect from Class AA Bowie before Thursday night's game against Kansas City, where he could be making his major league debut.
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Machado is the Orioles top positional prospect. He was drafted as a shortstop out of a Miami, Fla., high school, but is also being groomed as a third baseman.
When he was drafted, he was compared to Alex Rodriguez and Cal Ripken Jr.
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Hanks' and Speilberg's "The Pacific", a 10 part miniseries on HBO, that ran last March on HBO, will be rerun, starting this Thursday, on Veterans Day.
The ratings were not what HBO wanted or expected last March, so I fail to see why they believe running it again for a day set aside to honor veterans, will help.
The following were my initial thoughts on this anti-war propaganda. My opinion has not only not changed, it is reinforced in my mind with the latest slap in the face to all of our troops, not just the WWI heroes.
Touted by Hanks' as a movie that will show the other side of WWII, saying, "'We didn't know our troops did that to Japanese people", did not exactly produce shock and awe.
In the first 20 minutes, we hear WWII soldiers say the dreaded "Jap" word several times. If that is supposed to be the Oh My God moment, it was not. That word appeared in the headlines of newspapers all across America, especially after December 7, 1941.
One scene came toward the end of the movie that I assume is supposed to show American soldiers for the sadistic murdering individuals Hanks and the rest of the anti-war Hollywood ilk, believe about our US troops, features the men taunting a Japanese soldier, shooting but not injuring him, and laughing.
How hard were we laughing when the Japanese tormented, tortured, raped, and killed our soldiers? Was it humorous when the Japanese used Philippines soldiers and Pilipino women, as human shields, all under the nose of the Geneva Convention?
Nothing more than a rehashed version of Oliver Stones' views of veterans, such as in the movie, Platoon, I am sure anti-war types will shout, "See I told you they're no better than baby killers!
Before Hanks starred in the one film that boosted his film career, Philadelphia, while playing a transvestite on a sitcom, no one ever heard Hanks' anti-war political rants. Before Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, fans did not know that Spielberg thought the US's involvement in WWII was unnecessary. Go figure that one out.
HBO runs several documentaries, including Rosie's Gay Cruise, and probably thought running The Pacific was a good opportunity for them to appeal to the liberal lunatic fringe. They are probably correct, but what they may have not seen is how differently people will react now when they watch Saving Private Ryan.
The scene in the beginning of the movie, showing the shot-up bleeding bodies of Americans slaughtered on the beach of Normandy, will now draw a response from many who watch The Pacific, thinking they deserved to die.
I will not watch the rest of the series; the first show was enough for me. I noticed that the biggest star in this film was an actor who guest starred in one season of 24, whose name escapes me.
Funny, but as Hanks and Spielberg are huge supporters of Obama, what do they think of his failure to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, as he promised during his campaign.
It is also weird that Spielberg would make a movie, build a website about the Holocaust, then turn around, and show how barbaric American soldiers were after getting involved in a war where Hitler murdered millions of Jews.
The Pacific will do well for HBO's ratings, I presume. However, it will not spark a renewed interest in Charlie Wilson's War or any of Hanks' movies that have not lived up to the few movies he did with Denzel Washington or Kevin Bacon.
It will also not erase the memory of the day that "Japan deliberately and maliciously attacked" the US at Pearl Harbor.


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That decline was mostly in line with a similar price drop nationwide, where gas prices fell 4.2 cents per gallon in the last week to average $3.61, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
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Paris home prices, which have risen 37 per cent since 2009, are set to end their upward streak as French President
Government support for the housing industry ranges from lodging subsidies for students to tax breaks for renovation works and public construction, which totalled €45 billion ($56.5 billion) in 2011, or 2.25 per cent of gross domestic product. Mr Hollande is withdrawing some of that help as Europe's second-largest economy is on the brink of a third recession in four years.
"It's probably the trigger for a price decline which could reach 30 per cent to 40 per cent in five to 10 years," Pierre Sabatier, chairman of research group PrimeView, said.
On top of government's budget cuts, the market will suffer because of an ageing population and stricter mortgage rules, he said.
Amid the worst economic crisis since World War II, French housing prices in the past decade outpaced growth in household incomes, sparing France from a similar property crash as in Spain, Ireland and the UK. In Paris in particular, prices have surged as households fled falling stock markets and used real estate as a haven.
In London, prices have rebounded 11 per cent since 2009 and are still 17 per cent below a 2007 peak. Madrid housing prices are down a third from 2007 records.
Mr Hollande needs to find an additional €5 billion next year to keep shrinking the budget deficit.
The president has raised the capital gains tax on real estate as well as income and wealth levies last year, following similar moves by his predecessor in 2011. Mr Hollande also tightened requirements for tax reductions for buy-to-let investments and interest-free loans for first-time home buyers and increased taxes on vacant properties.
The measures are already having an impact on the property market.
The average price of previously owned apartments in the French capital fell 2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2012 from the previous three months. The number of sales slumped 21 per cent in the quarter from a year earlier.
The prospect of lower prices is already hurting demand. Residential property reservations at Bouygues' real estate unit fell 30 percent last year. To revive sales, Bouygues Immobilier is now offering a discount of 7,500 euros until April 14 for five-room apartments it plans to build. The company will also pay the transaction tax that's normally paid by the buyer.
Bouygues, which also owns television and phone assets, rose 1.7 percent in Paris this year, valuing the company at 7.3 billion euros, while the benchmark CAC 40 index gained 5.6 percent.
While real estate investors may suffer, other people will benefit from declining real estate prices, according to Laurent Quignon, an economist at BNP Paribas.
"To attract workers to cities like Paris, employers have been forced to offer bigger salaries," he said in an interview. "Tenants also had to save to pay for their rent, which was detrimental to consumption," he said. Paris home prices have tripled since 2000.
Higher Wages
The need to pay higher wages for Paris-based employees also made some made businesses less competitive compared with rivals in countries such as Germany, where slower real estate inflation has helped cap labor costs.
"Properties are now staying on the market a bit longer than before," Martin Maynial, an estate agent at luxury- property broker Daniel Feau Real Estate in Paris, said in an interview. "The backlog has increased by more than 35 percent in recent months, due to the fact that rich people left France recently. And one of the main reason people are leaving France is for tax purposes."
The number of apartment sales in Paris fell 10 percent to 27,690 in 2012, compared with 26,540 transactions at the height of the recession in 2009, which was the weakest year since 1996, according to the notaries' records.
Based on pre-contracts that have already been signed, Paris property prices will probably continue to fall in coming quarters because households are in a wait-and-see mode as the economy weakens, the Paris notaries said last month.
Persisting Scarcity
Still, a scarcity of apartments may partly offset concerns about the economy and recent increases in taxes, they said. Bernard Cadeau, Chairman of Paris-based Orpi, the country's largest network of real-estate agencies, also said he sees strong future demand for Paris homes.
"Prices in Paris won't collapse because the market is imbalanced; everybody in the world wants to buy in Paris," he said in an interview. "But outside of Paris, they have to go down by 5 percent to 15 percent."
While prices in Paris might not collapse, a buyer now would have to wait a lot longer for a return on his investment, according to PrimeView's Sabatier.
"Don't buy at these prices if you're a first-time home buyer," he said. "It would take 31 years for a buyer to be better off than remaining a tenant in Paris.
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If Jane Jetson were a real person, I bet she'd use Icy Beauty Re:Set ($65). It's a innovative concept in beauty, so much so that it's patented. As you'll see, it's very "the future is now."
Re:Set is perfect for jet-setters and those of us who work long hours. It promises to "eliminate evidence of fatigue by re-synchronizing the skin's circadian rhythm." In other words, it aims to trick your skin into thinking you've had a good night's sleep. It uses a peptide to mimic the effect that sunlight has on skin. But the really cool part is the delivery device. To find out about it,
Re:Set comes in a single-dose applicator that's about the size of a tube of lipstick. To use it, you press a piston, pull it back until you hear a little click, and then wait a minute. While you wait, the cream is cooling in the applicator, so when you push out the cream, it's cold. (Hence the name Icy Beauty!)
The cream itself feels luxurious, and it does a great job of hydrating and refreshing skin. I wouldn't suggest this for oily skin, but dry or mature skin will soak this up. And if your skin is sensitive, you'll like the scent-free formula. It's far too expensive to use every day, but it may be worth the investment if you're taking a long flight. I'm flying from one end of the continent to the other next month, and I'm definitely packing one of these—there's no point in letting skin suffer, right?


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AMHERST - A press release issued by the Amherst Police Department Tuesday at 5 p.m. said that the, "Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service has positively identified the human remains that were discovered in Amherst, N.S. on Nov. 16 as Katherine Cora McNeil. Ms. McNeil was reported missing in Oct. 2010 after leaving the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre."
Asked in a phone interview about the cause of death, Amherst Deputy Police Cheif Ian Naylor said the manner and cause of death "are still pending further investigation."
"As of right now, all I can say is our investigation will continue into the cause and manner of death," he said.
He wouldn't speculate on when that information would be available.
McNeil was last seen alive just over a year ago, on Oct. 4, 2010 at 9:15 a.m., when she left the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre, about a kilometre from the site where the remains were found.
The discovery was reported to police Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 10:40 a.m. and, investigators from the Amherst Police Department, the RCMP Forensic Unit, the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service, and 15 Ground Search and Rescue personnel form Springhill and Pugwash collected evidence at the site.
Before she went missing McNeil had been admitted to hospital the day before with an undisclosed ailment and police were notified of her decision to leave, though they were not able to act on it until later.
There were several sightings in the days after she disappeared and police and search teams scoured the area after McNeil went missing but did not find her.
Video surveillance at an Amherst store had her buying footwear and, while there were another dozen sightings around Nova Scotia, further investigation proved they were cases of mistaken identity.


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Regaining Identity a Nightmare for Recent Inmates
Obtaining an identification card is, seemingly, a normal passage through life. But for those who recently have been released from prison, a valid ID can be a nearly impossible luxury.
Case Western Reserve University social-work researcher Amy Blank Wilson, PhD, says obtaining identification is an uphill battle for inmates reentering society. Lacking it can bar ex-offenders from public assistance programs like food stamps and Medicaid, which require clients to show ID.
"Released prisoners are being systematically excluded because of ID requirements," she says.
The problem starts early in the criminal justice system: Suspects routinely have their identification confiscated when they are arrested. Those who don't have it with them as they are apprehended are never given an opportunity to grab it. And the homeless are often forced to abandon all belongings on the street.
Wilson says that for those who are lucky enough to have some form of ID when they're released, often what they have isn't enough. Obtaining major forms of government-issued identification-such as a Social Security card—can require two different forms of IDs, such as a driver's license and birth certificate, neither of which can be granted without at least one other major form of ID.
"When they're released, former inmates face the Catch-22 that 'it takes ID to get ID,'" Wilson says. "This is keeping people from receiving life-sustaining resources. They're missing out on the services they need."


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Update at 4 p.m. ET: Giffords' will be moved to TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) Memorial Hermann, a 116-bed hospital that specializes in rehabilitation for patients with catastrophic illnesses or injuries, especially neurological, The Arizona Republic says. Last year, U.S. News and World Report Magazine ranked it the fifth-best hospital in the country.
Update at 2:56 p.m. ET: The Associated Press and The Arizona Republic both report that the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords plans to move her from Tucson to a rehab center in Houston on Friday. This confirms what CNN had reported earlier today.
Mark Kelly, Giffords' husband, a shuttle astronaut based in Houston, said in a statement that he is "extremely hopeful" at her signs of recovery since the Jan. 8 shooting and that the medical staff at University Medical Center in Tucson have stabilized her to the point of being ready to move to the rehab phase.
"Their goal -- and our goal -- has been to provide Gabby with the best care possible," Kelly says in a statement, according to The Arizona Republic. "It is for that reason that we have chosen to have her undergo rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann, which has a national reputation for treating serious penetrating brain injuries and is also in a community where I have family and a strong support network."
The newspaper said the transfer is expected on Friday, but that that could change depending on her condition.
A family spokesman had downplayed the CNN report in the afternoon, saying they were weighing options in New York as well as Houston, but had not made a decision.
Updated at 1:58 p.m. ET A spokesman for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says her family is considering rehabilitation centers in Houston and New York for the recovering congresswoman, but has not made a final decision, the Associated Press reports.
CNN reported this morning that it had received an e-mail from Giffords' parents saying that the congresswoman, who is recovering from a gunshot to the head, would be transferred to a rehab center in Houston on Friday.
Her doctors have said she could move to a rehab center within days. But Mark Kimble, who works in Giffords' Tucson office, tells the AP that the family has not made a decision yet.
Friends of Giffords' family say there has been talk of sending her to Houston, where Mark Kelly, her astronaut husband of more than three years, lives.
Kelly is scheduled to command NASA's last space shuttle flight, but that's uncertain now.
Earlier posting: CNN, quoting from what its says is an e-mail from the parents of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, says the congresswoman will be moved to a rehab facility in Houston on Friday.
There has been no official confirmation of the report.
The e-mail says Giffords, who is being treated in Tucson for a shot in the head in the Jan. 8 attacks, will undergo aggressive rehab with a team of medical specialists, CNN reports.
(Michael Winter contributed to this post.)
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Readers of poetry who enjoy free-form, flowing imagery in a stream-of-consciousness style will probably enjoy Olena Kalytiak Daviss new book of poetry Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities. Poetry readers who enjoy a more narrative type of poetry will probably not see much here that strikes their fancy.
Davis has a unique way of blending disparate images with emotional interjections, such as in Mark licked me with all his brown lack:
Daviss debt to e.e. cummings cannot be disputed in many poems such as this one. There is a playfulness tempered by an underlying current of deep emotion that runs through many of her poems. These poems also in cummings style have unique line breaksoften in the middle of wordsand a frequent lack of clarifying punctuation and capitalization.
Titles of the poems often look like phrases randomly cut from newspapers like ransom notes: dead beardtongue, of yawl and ketch, and another sign off. Lines from various poems are intriguing yet annoying at the same time: for example, in the wonderfully titled Poem convincing you to leave your wife, the speaker asks, have you dare you see seen it? There is a fun syncopation to lines like that, but they do not have much emotional or comic impact.
All of this is not to say that the poems are not lyric and personal in the finest sense of those words. Most of the poems also have quite a confessional appeal to them. Poem for my #*th birthday has the chaotic jazz style the other poems do, yet it adds a very clear narrative line about the workings of the speakers mind on her birthday, a day in which she put on my new pink low rise cordurory flairs and watched #*#w**dru^^, who i slept with one or twice (in / 1986), report from islamabad for abc. The number signs and asterisks are part of the poem. Davis probably had a lot of fun conveying her ideas while also adding some quirky stylistic maneuvers.
In reading these poems, one needs to quietly and firmly get into a poetic frame of mind. Suspend logical assumptions about what words should look like, which order they should come in, where punctuation should be, and how words ought to be capitalized. And in this frame of mind, one will find some beautiful images and original phrasings. Will you be confused? Yes. Will you care if you are? I didbut you may not.


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While I do not believe Martin Dosh, of the eclectic underground hip-hop label Anticon, is usually considered as a folktronica artist, his sound on the Naoise EP could only be classified as that. Dosh uses a blend of sampled acoustic drums, piano loops and other exotic instruments to create a vibe that resembles the likes of Four Tet or Talkdemonic. Equipped with a busted Rhodes piano, a "tattered-ass drum kit," a sampler and an assortment of effects pedals, he entered the studio with fellow Anticon artists Odd Nosdam and Why? (of cLOUDDEAD fame) and the result was a spontaneous and innovative EP to preview the release of his upcoming full length, Pure Trash. Other similar artists like Lex's Fog and Ghostly International's Cepia contribute well done remixes to keep the EP diverse. I actually like the remix of Naoise better than the original version. Also, #5 and #6 are two impressive live tracks from his California shows. An overall good EP that keeps you interested in the full length, and it should appeal to fans of instrumental hip-hop, folktronica and experimental music in general. Mpardaiolo


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Brian Talcott of Berkeley, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will present a talk on "How Relying on God Brings Healing," at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1728 N. E St., San Bernardino.
Talcott said that learning to pray through the study of the Bible and "Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, has brought him lifelong health. That led him, more than 30 years ago, to become a practitioner of Christian Science healing and later a teacher of Christian Science.
"I've found in my own experience that prayer is a reliable form of health care," Talcott said.
"In this lecture I explore the mental nature of both the cause and cure of illness, explaining how Mary Baker Eddy found and followed Christ Jesus' approach to healing," Talcott said.
"I will address the resistance to trusting God with our health and well-being. A central focus of my lecture is gaining the understanding that we intimately coexist with God, who is love. You can demonstrate for yourself, through communing with God, that you can bring the power of divine love into your life," he said.
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When the average person thinks of homeschooling, one of the following images probably comes to mind: devoutly religious parents, unwilling to expose their children to the evils lurking in schools; children sequestered in a log cabin, unfamiliar with the ways of the world; a harried stay-at-home mom, trying to quickly become expert in subjects as varied as chemistry and Dickens, holding forth from a textbook to her bored and alienated-looking preteen.
But, in fact, running a tutoring service, I've found that a new brand of parent is using homeschooling as an option, especially in New York City. Most of the parents I work with who are homeschooling their kids are doing it for short periods of time, to bridge a gap — either for a temporary situation, such as an illness or relocation, or while figuring out their child's next step.
Here are just a few of the reasons our clients have had in recent years for homeschooling their children:
—Psychological and emotional issues (children with debilitating phobias, bi-polar disorder, victims of bullies, etc.)
—Illness (one heart surgery patient, one with chronic fatigue syndrome, another with recurring mononucleosis)
—Temporary relocation to New York (from other states or other countries) for parents' business — including sports figures and people in the entertainment industry
—Behavioral/discipline issues (kids who have been suspended or expelled from school)
—Learning issues (kids with learning disabilities, or those who learn more effectively in unconventional ways)
—Parents' disappointment in public school options and inability to afford private school tuition
—Parents not wanting their child to be subjected to "tracking" and the competitive culture of some top schools
—Parents' desire for their child to "see the world" and interact meaningfully in their communities as a part of their education
A Growing Trend
A recent article in Child magazine reported that the most current data on homeschooling were collected by the National Center for Education Statistics in 1999. At that time, 850,000 children, or 2 percent of school-age kids, were being homeschooled. But an expert quoted in the same article says she believes the number is now closer to 1.5 million.
Frankly, it doesn't surprise me that the trend is growing. As someone who works with families every day, I know that this generation of parents — myself included — is not willing to settle for education that doesn't meet the needs of our children. We tend to be deeply involved in our children's lives, and very conscious about how the entire schooling process affects their future. If we see our kids suffering at school — due to a learning difficulty, social issue, or psychological or emotional problem — we are not likely to shrug our shoulders and have them stick it out, regardless of the consequences.
If there is a concept that resonates with this generation of parents, it is that of options. We expect to raise our kids in the manner we see fit, and that includes education in accordance with values and standards that make sense for us and our children. And if something isn't working for them in their current school, we want the option to take them away from that setting, and find a solution that works better. It means homeschooling them in the meantime, so be it. Luckily for us, such options now exist — and are becoming more available every day.
An Alternative Vision
Try these images of homeschooling on for size, instead: a preteen filming a documentary about the history of his neighborhood; a Spanish tutor conversing one-on-one with a homebound teenager recovering from an illness about her personal experiences in Latin America; a mathematician mom organizing a science fair for a collective of homeschooled kids.
Educating your child at home — even for a short-term stint, while you're figuring out the next step for your child — can have a number of benefits. First and foremost is tailoring the education your child gets to his or her particular learning style, strengths, and weaknesses. Another benefit is the valuable "eyeball-to-eyeball" time studying with you or a tutor — time spent engaged in the subject matter in a way that isn't possible in a classroom with 18-30 students. Schooling becomes more meaningful when your child is at the center of the curriculum. That's why parents so often hire tutors to supplement the classroom experience.
"For my son, homeschooling for his fourth grade year was the greatest blessing," says Linda, a mom in Manhattan. "We just didn't have him at a school that worked for him socially, emotionally, or academically. In the year it took to find and enroll him in a school that was more appropriate, homeschooling filled the gap. He loved learning one-on-one. His passion came back, and his confidence soared. Now he's happy in school again."
Homeschooling also gives you the chance to make the world your child's classroom, and have learning come directly from the community — as opposed to abstract principles without "real life" meaning. You can follow your and your child's inspiration, and put more hours into a subject that intrigues him or her. And while family vacations normally need to be confined to the school's schedule, homeschooling allows you to turn travel into part of your child's education.
Another advantage: Your child can socialize with children of diverse ages, as opposed to being in a classroom only with kids born in the same year.
Social Butterflies
"Wait a minute," I hear you thinking. "'Socializing'? That's just the problem with homeschooling — those kids don't get exposed to other kids. They won't be able to function in society."
In fact, parents who homeschool take great exception to this criticism. After all, as adults, when do we have to interact with a group of 30 people exactly our age? This argument also fails to take into account the great networking ability of homeschooling parents. In New York, there are numerous opportunities for playgroups, athletic teams, special classes, joining up with other kids for field trips, and support groups for parents. Not to mention most kids' innate skill in making and maintaining friendships. "Our son was very good at keeping up with his friends from school, so there was never an issue with social contact," says Mary, a Brooklyn mom whose son spent his middle school years learning from home. From what I've observed, it would be possible to spend every day of the week with peers. Going to the theater, martial arts classes, soccer groups, foreign language classes, music instruction — these are just some of the opportunities I see pop up on the listserv of New York City Home Educators Alliance (NYCHEA) website (www.nychea.org).
While short-term homeschooling doesn't create anxiety about college acceptance, the idea of using it for longer stints may make parents nervous. Rest assured: While reliable statistics are hard to come by, it is now commonly accepted that top universities not only admit homeschooled kids, they even recruit them. Homeschoolers perform above average on the ACT, and are thought to be independent thinkers, creative, and strong on all academic subjects. (The College Board won't release the SAT figures, saying that the pool of test-takers is too small to be a representative sample.) An article in Time magazine reported that 26 percent of 35 homeschooled applicants had been accepted into Stanford University's 2001 freshman class — nearly double the rate of overall acceptance.
Red Tape?
If your child needs short-term homeschooling, most bureaucracy will be through your child's school — making sure he or she stays on top of assignments and the school's particular curriculum. But if you are going for a more long-term option, New York State requires you to create an Individualized Home Instruction Plan. You can modify the curriculum for your child's grade based on the one provided by the Department of Education or ones found online, to fit the bill. Once your IHIP is approved, you can proceed with living up to the plan — with traditional homework assignments and lesson plans, and nontraditional ones as well (field trips included!). At the year's end, either your child undergoes a standardized test, or compiles a portfolio of work for independent evaluation. Mary, whose 15-year-old son is now attending an alternative high school, says that the process was "daunting at first, but turned out to be much easier than I expected." Joining NYCHEA (for $35 year) will also get you more advice and support than you know what to do with.
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So what does that mean, in terms of a day-to-day routine? Mary's son, who had been diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Separation Anxiety, was self-directed enough to handle some time on his own. (And as a small business owner, she didn't have the ability to be his constant companion). The family decided on a mix of private tutoring three afternoons a week, independent reading and homework, and family field trips. We were able to match Mary's son with tutors who fit the bill, both in terms of their ability to teach the academic subjects, and those whose personalities and teaching styles would jibe with the teen's needs. After three years of successful homeschooling and psychological treatment, Mary's son was ready to return to school. "The flexibility afforded by homeschooling during this stressful time was helpful for all of us," says Mary. "His tutors have been wonderful throughout — he's still being tutored after school by one of them a couple of days a week, doing extra work in the areas he needs it, and will do SAT prep when the time comes."
Linda, the mom who homeschooled her fourth-grader until she had figured out a better school situation for him, used a different schedule. Her son worked with his tutor from 9am-noon every weekday morning, covering all subjects required by New York State — math, science, social studies, English, and reading. (They had purchased textbooks, workbooks, and outlines online). The tutor supplemented and modified as she saw fit. The afternoons, says Linda, were less structured, with rotating time spent with her, his father, his caregiver, and grandmother. "After his tutor left, we'd have lunch, and then do some activity — swimming lesson, gymnastics, ice skating, visiting a museum, taking in a performance or the zoo. Sometimes he would have a playdate with another homeschooler," she says. "It was work, but we all enjoyed that year with our son, especially because we could all see how much happier he was."
Of course, these are only two examples. Other parents have gone strictly by the school's curriculum, and hire tutors from 9am–2pm, five days a week. It depends on what the parent envisions, the sort of curriculum they're using (curricula vary from state to state and country to country). It also depends on the child's age, since younger students can't manage as well with long stretches of independent study time. The individually-tailored nature of homeschooling is perhaps its biggest asset — as well as its most fundamental challenge. For one parent to fill the six "regular school" hours between 9am and 3pm on her own is daunting, and probably unrealistic. Mixing it up with groups, tutors, and trips makes the day go by faster, and accounts for the fun and free time found at even the most rigid schools.
LAURIE GERBER is the founder and president of Partners With Parents, Inc., an in-home tutoring service that helps New York City parents looking for a customized educational experience for their children (including tutoring, academic coaching, homework help, music lessons and homeschooling). She can be reached at (212) 928-5014, or email@example.com. Their website is www.partnerswithparents.com.
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Where Medieval History and Radical Politics bumble into Each Other and have an Existential Crisis
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
A Day to Feel Some Pride in the Discipline
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- Anonymous9 June 2011 at 07:12
Dear Guy,ReplyDelete
The Royal Historical Society May 2011 Newsletter does say
'There is much in the news to engage us as a Society – from the first signs that government spending cuts
are damaging history provision within universities, through worries about the effect of student fees, through developing plans for the place of the discipline in the schools curriculum, to the AHRC's apparent flirtation with 'Big Society' ideology. On all these issues, the Society keeps a watching brief and acts wherever possible to express the interests of the discipline forcefully and responsibly.'
It would be instructive to learn what 'acts wherever possible' means in this case, perhaps those of your readers who pay to be Fellows of the Society can ask questions in the spirit of Guy's justified concerns?


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Evelyn Waugh once complained that the Conservatives had been in power for years but not turned the clock back by a minute. The old reactionary should be alive at this hour. He could watch with shock and awe as the Tory "modernisers" defy their name by wrenching back the hands of the clock - to 1995.
Once again a public boy with good manners is seeking to become prime minister, although this time his alma mater is Eton rather than Fettes. Once again, he seems refreshingly normal. He has a pleasant wife and young family, and announces that he is as far from old-fashioned machine politician as it is possible to get. Once again public relations are the core of his campaign, although this time he doesn't need hired help in the form of Philip Gould and Peter Mandelson, because he has spent years as director of communications for a media conglomerate and can spin himself.
Like Dr Who, Tony Blair is regenerating into a fresher, younger actor who, in a novel twist in the plot, will lead the Conservative rather than Labour Party. Close your eyes and listen again to the young pretender's speeches from the time when Oasis topped the charts, Bridget Jones was counting the alcohol units and Osama Bin Laden's name was unknown to all save a handful of twitchy intelligence officers.
Here is David Cameron setting out his vision for the Tory party in a speech to the Policy Exchange think-tank at the end of June:
"We'll never achieve a dynamic economy and a decent society if we expect the government to do everything, as the left say, or if we expect individuals acting on their own to do everything, as some on the right have implied . . . Shared responsibility is the hallmark of a civilised society. It's a profound Conservative insight and instinct that the state can't do everything and shouldn't try."
It might have been the master in his prime. First Cameron establishes a false dichotomy: only communists have ever believed that the state should do everything, and only anarchists have believed that the state should do nothing. No serious British politician in the 20th century believed in anything other than a mixed economy. Then he uses the false dichotomy's dialectic to show that he, Cameron, has seen the thesis clash with the antithesis and can give the electorate the triumph of concluding the synthesis.
This is Blair, 1997, talking to an audience in Southampton:
"In the 1950s and the 1960s the big question in politics was: what can the state achieve? In the 1970s and 1980s the big question was: what can the individual achieve? Neither of these questions is right for the new century. Today the question we must answer is: what can society achieve - not the state on its own, not individuals on their own, but all of us together in a community, where opportunity for all is matched by responsibility from all."
Blair's interpretation of history was as selective as Cameron's. At the end of Margaret Thatcher's reign in the 1980s taxes took roughly 40 per cent of gross domestic product, just as they did at the end of the 1960s and just as they do now. Even if they didn't, why does it follow that Cameron's "shared responsibility" or Blair's "opportunity for all and responsibility from all" is the best policy? Why not return to state power or anarchic indivi-dualism? If Thatcherism was the answer in the 1980s, why not in the 2000s? Ditto with the alleged socialism of the 1960s.
As the philosopher Jamie Whyte points out in A Load of Blair, these reasonable questions cannot be asked. The cunning of the dialectical rhetoric is that it shoves the listener on to the train of history. There is no choice about the destination, no chance to change direction. You had x, then you had y, so - QED! - you must have z.
Not that Cameron wants us to think he's a sly political manipulator. On the contrary, he assures us he likes nothing better than swapping the falsity of the metropolis for the decent values of his West Oxfordshire constituency. "I love being a constituency MP," he enthuses. "And it often strikes me that we behave completely differently in our constituencies from the way we behave at Westminster . . . We're calm and reasonable. We don't score points; we help solve people's problems. We try to understand what's going wrong, and how it can be put right. We bring people together to tackle issues."
Or, as Tony Blair explained in 1994: "I feel a perfectly normal person. I look at politicians who are older than me and I wonder when was the last time they had their own thoughts to themselves in their own way without feeling they had to programme their thoughts to get across a message . . . This may sound an odd thing to say, but I don't actually feel much like a politician."
In 1993 Tony Blair was for the family - "out of a family grows the sense of community. The family is the starting place." In 2005 Cameron, too, bravely came out for the family - "It can make us happy when we're sad" (as can beer with whisky chasers).
Blair was "tough on crime"; Cameron says the Prime Minister is not tough enough. Blair used globalisation to justify a flexible labour market; Cameron says that "in the era of globalisation, we'll never achieve our economic potential if we smother our economy with excessive taxation and regulation".
In 1997 Blair stated that he believed firmly in the bleeding obvious - "that people achieve more together than they can alone. That the rights we enjoy are matched by the duties we owe, that security is life's most precious commodity." In 2005 Cameron announced he, too, wanted policies whose virtues were so universally agreed that they were beyond political debate - "a dynamic economy", "a decent society" and "a strong, self-confident and outward-looking country".
I could go on, but it's time to take on the understandable question of where the modernisers are going wrong. The case for them appears so overwhelming that criticism feels like mere contrarianism. It is true that, for the first time in a century, the Tories have made the fatal mistake of falling out of step with British society. Millions of people who have no real objection to their policies won't vote for them, because of their repellent image. Imitating Tony Blair appears the logical tactical manoeuvre. As writers in the New Statesman - your correspondent included - have repeated a thousand times, Blairism is just a PR stunt. Why not use the tactics of the man who destroyed the Conservative Party to destroy new Labour?
Yet sometimes it can be a mistake to take the NS literally. The Blair of circa 1995 disappeared in the global crisis of 11 September 2001, and it has been impossible to accuse him of being all style and no substance ever since. Think what you will about his policies, but at least you know what they are. By contrast, the Conservative modernisers have nothing to say about the great issues of the modern world. You leave Cameron's speeches without the faintest idea of how he would tackle Islamism or protect his country. Should Britain stick with the United States or move closer to France and Germany? What's gone wrong with multi-culturalism? Should democracy be encouraged in the Middle East, and if so how? Answer comes there none.
Derivative and dated, Conservative modernism is ultimately a counterfeit. You can almost catch the sweet reek of the cara-melised sugar that holds the confection together. A public grown weary of PR will turn up its nose in an instant.
At about the time Evelyn Waugh was complaining about the modernism of his generation of Conservatives, a journalist confronted Brendan Bracken, Winston Churchill's slippery but plausible sidekick. He couldn't put his finger on what was wrong, until something clicked, and in an indomitable voice he cried: "You're phoney! Everything about you is phoney. Even your hair, which looks like a wig, isn't."
Unless he can mature overnight by at least ten years, the same will be said of David Cameron.


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Subject: Re: [CON] That cat Buster - Christmas party 2004
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:08:30 EST
In a message dated 12/11/04 12:49:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
That cat of indeterminate gender named Buster. The parrots want to know
if it wearing a feather boa under its red collar
No, Lorna, tell the parrots not to worry, no feather boa for Buster. In the
past, she had tried to make one for herself by catching as many birds as she
could, but found it was hard to get a matched set. And as she considers
herself "The Queen of Everything", only perfection will do. So she has decided to
stick with her red collar and "pure gold" bell. (I have refused the request
for a diamond tiara).
Well, we're still atop the Christmas Tree waiting for Crown Princess Fran and
the ghost horse. I'm sure they'll be along soon. (Oops, Buster just clawed
one of the big fir trees we're balancing - be careful of splinters when you
tie on the hammocks).
Oh, there she is! Fran, Fran, over here!!! Wheeeee, here we go -- see you
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Selena Gomez, David Henrie and Jake T. Austin took in questions from the ladies while promoting their TV movie.
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For those of us who have inherited familial tendencies that have us accumulating fat in certain areas, liposuction is a miracle tool, says Dr. Michele Koo of Aesthetic Surgery Institute. "It should not be used for weight loss; its function is to contour and smooth areas of disproportionate fat accumulation due to genetics," she clarifies. "We all have lumps and bulges that 98 percent of the population can't get rid of on their own."
Koo says areas most amenable to liposuction include the thighs, waist, tummy, hips and the chest for men who have gynecomastia (abnormal breast enlargement). "Liposuction is extremely safe in the hands of a board certified plastic surgeon who performs the surgery regularly," she says.
"And the fat removed won't easily come back to that specific area, because the fat cells themselves have been removed," she explains. Koo uses both ultrasonic and low-energy laser liposuction, depending on the problem area. The goal, she says, is to maximize the amount of fat removed and minimize the blood loss. First, the energy is delivered, then the emulsified fat cells are removed. Recovery time depends on the number of areas liposuctioned and the volume of fat removed. "If only the abdomen or thighs are treated, recovery may be as short as two days for return to a sedentary job."
Plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Myckatyn of Washington University's West County Plastic Surgeons also uses several different types of liposuction, depending on the areas to be treated. "True liposuction is surgery, regardless of the type," he emphasizes. "It may include traditional liposuction, power-assisted liposuction, Vaser (ultrasound-assisted), or SmartLipo, a brand of laser-assisted liposuction. There are some treatments touted as 'non-invasive' that target the fat from the outside without surgery, but they don't remove the actual fat cells."
Myckatyn says one of the best techniques now used involves injection of a tumescent solution. "The injected solution includes normal saline, a vasoconstrictor to shut down small blood vessels, and lidocaine, a topical anesthesia to provide numbing," he explains. "We do small areas in the office, larger ones in the operating room." He uses SmartLipo on the neck or other small-volume areas because it seems to produce a modest amount of skin tightening, he says. Vaser, ultrasound-assisted liposuction, is the method of choice for male breast reduction because there is proof it works better on the fibrous fat of male breasts and does a better job of removing that fat.
Myckatyn says when considering liposuction, clients should have a body mass index of 30 or less. Also, he says, the doctor you choose is more important than the type of equipment. "I would rather go to someone who does more than 300 standard lipo procedures a year than to someone who has a fancy machine and took a weekend course," he says.
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