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Methodist deaconess, evangelist, and educator. Discovering shared affinities -- both were "Methodist from birth, participants in egalitarian marriages...mothers, teachers, [and] fierce advocates for women in ministry" -- Pope-Levison was intrigued. And disappointed. "Why had no one ever introduced me to Vennard in my Methodist confirmation class or Methodist college or Methodist seminary?" she recalled thinking (p. 173).
That thought led Pope-Levison (Professor of Theology and Assistant Director of Women's Studies at Seattle Pacific University) down a path of research that resulted in Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and a website dedicated to "an exhibition of women evangelists and their impact on American religious life from the nation's infancy to the present." It also led to Pope-Levison's latest book, Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era, released in December with NYU Press.
"Building" is central to Pope-Levison's thesis. With Vennard as her jumping off point, Pope-Levison uses a series of thematically-organized overlapping microbiographies to argue that Progressive Era women evangelists from New Jersey to Oregon helped to transform evangelism "from an itinerant practice into the grand task of institution building" (p. 4). This stands in contrast to the wandering preachers in the early-nineteenth-century, the "strangers and pilgrims" written of by Catherine Brekus. The twenty-four women included in Pope-Levison's narrative evangelized by creating rescue homes and missions (Chapter 4), religious training schools (Chapter 3), entirely new denominations (Chapter 2), and evangelistic organizations (Chapter 1). Although most of the institutions they built remained relatively small or did not last, they "pioneered women's religious leadership in American Christianity" (p. 181) and passed on their legacy to Aimee Semple McPherson, whose institution-building in the 1920s "had deep roots in the work of women evangelists who preceded her" (p. 177).
Pope-Levison views Building the Old Time Religion as a move beyond simply recovering overlooked stories and forgotten lives. She argues for "a revision of American Christianity in the Progressive Era based upon an aggregate of women evangelists across the country...who settled down, more or less, to build and lead institutions," (p. 174). Their "collective yet unchoreographed decision to build institutions to foster the primary expression of American Christianity -- evangelism -- marked a seismic shift" as "[e]vangelism found expression in brick and mortar....not in preaching and altar calls alone" (p. 174).
Of course, there are different ways to revise historical understanding. Pope-Levison's method is more in line with books like Rebecca Larson's Daughters of Light (a fascinating book full of details about Quaker female itinerant preachers in the eighteenth century) than, say, Susan Juster's Disorderly Women (a book that uses gender analysis to argue for a new understanding of evangelicalism and politics in late-colonial and early-national America).
Most of the women featured in the book (22 out of 24) come from the ranks of the holiness movement. Pope-Levison also includes a Presbyterian and, surprisingly, a Catholic. In a book full of riveting women, Catholic Martha Moore Avery is perhaps the most interesting story. A former socialist, Avery converted to Catholicism and became involved with an anti-Socialist club in New England. She also co-founded a lay evangelistic organization called the Catholic Truth Guild, touring New England (and beyond) in the 1910s and 1920s in the Catholic Truth Guild Gospel Car. One of Avery's favorite tactics was the Quiz Period, in which the audience asked on-the-spot questions related to any aspect of Catholic teaching. Verbal sparring often ensued, a challenge that Avery apparently took to with relish (p. 34-35).
|From The Evening Herald (Albuquerque), 1918
Accessed at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Although there were other women religious leaders in the Progressive Era, every historian must draw the subject line somewhere. For Pope-Levison, leaders in the WCTU, faith homes, and social settlement houses were out because they were not primarily evangelistic; evangelists like Maggie Newton Van Cott or Hannah Whitall Smith were out because they did not build institutions; Mary Baker Eddy, Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Ellen White were out because they were not part of "mainstream Christianity" (p. 17). There were times that I wish Pope-Levison would have included some of the above (or someone like Caroline Bartlett Crane) more fully in the narrative. And the notion that all the holiness women included by Pope-Levison were part of Progressive Era "mainstream Christianity" is debatable. But that was not her project, and she does clearly explain her decision-making process.
If I haven't made it clear by now, I really enjoyed this book. It is well organized, well written, and full of interesting details - a sign, no doubt, of many hours of research. It is also relatively short, which makes it a fine book to consider when teaching a course that covers Christianity in the Progressive Era. Scholars of American Christianity, the Progressive Era, the holiness movements, and American women's history (religious or otherwise) would all benefit from Pope-Levison's work in Building the Old Time Religion.


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As a pioneer in innovative curriculum programs for the community college system, CCCC scored another winning effort with the establishment of its Sustainable Agriculture program in 2002. Developed in partnership with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension and with input from the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, the curriculum is about better growing methods.
Sustainable agriculture focuses on production that renews resources. The program is about more than environmental awareness. It is also about the farming community. Urban sprawl has inflated land prices and small farmers, unable to deal with rising taxes, diminished markets for traditional crops, and supply and equipment costs, are losing their farms.
All this is occurring at a time when the market is rapidly increasing for sustainably-grown products such as cut flowers, vegetables, meat and dairy products. Approximately 85 percent of the organic products sold in North Carolina are grown out-of-state.
The unique curriculum offered through the Sustainable Agriculture program has attracted students from throughout North Carolina, as well as many other states. The program provides both the small business and technical skills needed to develop and manage a profitable, environmentally sound and community-based small farm or agricultural business.
Students work with fellow classmates to plant, cultivate, and harvest a variety of produce. They learn to utilize a variety of tools and equipment, including tractors and tillers. Field trips, farm tours, and internships enhance the learning experience.
You can take advantage of CCCC's convenient location in the heart of North Carolina and become part of a growing agricultural phenomenon. Located on the Chatham Main Campus in Pittsboro, NC, the program is nestled in a farming community just south of Chapel Hill.
A five-acre student farm at the Chatham Main Campus is an organically managed outdoor classroom for research, demonstration, and crop production. The site includes a greenhouse, as well as student-built farm structures including a pole barn, a packing shed and a masonry pizza oven.
Program instructors have a passion for their work and the sustainable farming community. They are a group of agriculture professionals with years of experience in the field and classroom. By maintaining close ties to a vibrant local farming community, they are able to assist students with internships, as well as job placements.
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History: The Sustainable Farming Program at Central Carolina Community College grew out of a desire to address the needs of the farm community in Chatham County and the surrounding Piedmont region of NC. Initiated by local growers in 1996, the program quickly formed into a one-of-a-kind collaboration of farmers, community members, Central Carolina Community College, NC Cooperative Extension Service, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, R.E.A.L. Enterprises, NC A&T University and NC State University.
The Program: The program takes a unique approach to instruction by using successful farmers as the main instructors. The classes are hands on with field trips to local farms and related businesses and are scheduled to accommodate the working student. The Land Lab has been developed as a research and demonstration facility for sustainable agriculture practices, as well as an outdoor classroom for hands-on instruction in horticulture and other agricultural disciplines.
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- Identify those crops which are suitable for organic production in the Southeast and be able to outline a management plan from start-up to market.
- Apply critical and creative thinking skills in farm management issues.
- Select appropriate breeds for farm needs and demonstrate an understanding of the role of livestock in a sustainable production system.
- Select, create and maintain the appropriate technology and structures needed for a successful, small-scale farming operation.
- Write a business plan for a current or future farm business that includes such details as whole farm and enterprise budgets as well as marketing strategies appropriate to skill level and farm scale.
- Create and present a written marketing plan appropriate for sustainable, organic production in the Southeast.
- Summarize the challenges to sustainability in our present system of agriculture orally and in writing.
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- This article is about the information processing that occurs in large-scale and typically networked groups. For a theory about the nature of online communication, see Social information processing (disambiguation).
Social Information Processing is an aspect of social cognition and is "an activity through which collective human actions organize knowledge."[1] It is the creation and processing of information by a group of people. As an academic field Social Information Processing studies the information processing power of networked social systems.
Typically computer tools are used such as:
- Authoring tools: e.g., blogs
- Collaboration tools: e.g., wikis, in particular, e.g., Wikipedia
- Tagging systems (social bookmarking): e.g., del.icio.us, Flickr, CiteULike
- Social networking: e.g., Facebook, MySpace, Essembly
- Collaborative filtering: e.g., Digg, the Amazon Product Recommendation System, Yahoo answers, Urtak
- Social Information Aggregation: e.g., scratchmysoul.com
Although computers are often used to facilitate networking and collaboration, they are not required. For example the Trictionary in 1982 was entirely paper and pen based, relying on neighborhood social networks and libraries. The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 19th century was done largely with the help of anonymous volunteers organized by help wanted adds in newspapers and slips of paper sent through the postal mail.
Current state of knowledgeEdit
The website for the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing suggested the following topics and questions.
- Tagging
- Tagging has already attracted the interest of the AI community. While the initial purpose of tagging was to help users organize and manage their own documents, it has since been proposed that collective tagging of common documents can be used to organize information via an informal classification system dubbed a folksonomy. There is hope[attribution needed] that folksonomies will eventually help fulfill the promise of the Semantic Web.
- Human-based computation and collective intelligence
- What type of problems are amenable to human swarm computing approaches? How can we design the "wisdom of crowds" effect to benefit our problem solving needs?
- Incentives to participation
- How to elicit quality metadata and content from users? How can users resistant to tagging be encouraged to tag content?
- Social networks
- While users create social networks for a variety of reasons --- e.g., to track lives of friends or work or opinions of the users they respect --- network information is important for many applications. Globally, an information ecosystem may arise through the interactions among users, and between users and content. A community of users interested in a specific topic may emerge over time, with linkages to other communities giving insight into relationships between topics.
- Evolution of social media and information ecosystems
- How does content, and its quality, change in time? There is increasing interest in peer-production systems, for example in how and why some open-source projects like Linux and Wikipedia are successful. Under what circumstances are user-generated content sites likely to succeed and what implications does this have for information-sharing and learning within communities?
- Algorithms
- Before we can harness the power of the social information processing, we need new approaches to structured data analysis, specifically algorithms for synthesizing various types of metadata: e.g., social networks and tagging. Research in this area will provide a principled foundation for the development of new algorithms for social search, information discovery and personalization and other approaches that exploit the power of the social information processing.
See alsoEdit
- Computer-mediated communication
- Social computing
- Social information processing theory
- Social media
- Social translucence
- Decision making
- ↑ AAAI (March 2008), Social Information Processing, AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/sss07/
External linksEdit
- Amazon Mechanical Turk
- BootB
- HP Research, Social Computing Lab
- Indiana Philosophy Ontology (InPho) Project
- IBM Research, Social Computing Group
- InnoCentive
- Long Now Bets
- Microsoft Research, Social Computing Group
- PARC blog: Augmented Social Cognition
Additional sourcesEdit
- AAAI, Social Information Processing Symposium, Stanford, AAAI, March 2008.
- Camerer, Colin F., and Ernst Fehr, "When Does ''Economic Man'' Dominate Social Behavior?"
- Chi, Ed H., " Augmenting Social Cognition: From Social Foraging to Social Sensemaking," (video) (at Google), February 2007. (pdf), AAAI Symposium, March 2008, (video) (at PARC), May 2008.
- Crane, Riley (2008), Viral, Quality, and Junk Videos on YouTube, AAAI Seminar, March 2008, Archived from the original on 2008-11-19, http://web.archive.org/web/20081119213535/http://drrileycrane.googlepages.com/VQJ-YouTube.pdf
- Denning, Peter J. (2006), "Hastily Formed Networks", Communication of the ACM 49 (4), http://faculty.nps.edu/dl/HFN/documents/HastilyFormedNetworks_Denning.pdf
- Denning, Peter J., "Infoglut," ACM, July. 2006.
- Denning, Peter J. and Rick Hayes-Roth, "Decision Making in Very Large Networks," ACM, Nov. 2006.
- Fu, Wai-Tat (April 2008), "The Microstructures of Social Tagging: A Rational Model", Proceedings of the ACM 2008 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.: 229–238, doi:10.1145/1460563.1460600, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1460600
- Fu, Wai-Tat (August 2009), "A Semantic Imitation Model of Social Tagging.", Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Social Computing: 66–72, http://www.humanfactors.illinois.edu/Reports&PapersPDFs/IEEESocialcom09/A%20Semantic%20Imitation%20Model%20of%20Social%20Tag%20Choices%20(2).pdf
- Hogg, Tad, and Bernardo A. Huberman, "Solving the organizational free riding problem with social networks"
- Huang, Yi-Ching (Janet), "You are what you tag," (ppt) AAAI Seminar, March 2008.
- Huberman, Bernardo, "Social Dynamics in the Age of the Web," (video) (PARC) January 10, 2008.
- Judson, Olivia, "Feel the Eyes Upon You," The New York Times, August 3, 2008,
- Lerman, Kristina, "Social Information Processing in News Aggregation," IEEE Internet Computing, November–December 2007.
- Lerman, Kristina, "Social Information Processing," (video) (at Google). June 2007.
- Nielsen, Michael, The Future of Science. A book in preparation.
- Nielsen, Michael, Kasparov versus the World. A blog post about a 1999 chess game in which Garry Kasparov (eventually) won a game against a collective opponent.
- Page, Scott E., The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies, Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Segaran, Toby, Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications, O'Reilly, 2007.
- Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla, "Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind"
- Smith, M., Purser, N. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2008). Social Capital in the Blogosphere: A Case Study. In Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, K. Lerman et al. (Eds.), Technical Report SS-08-06, AAAI Press, 93-97.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. - (Sunshine State Conference) The pairings are set for the 2013 Sunshine State Conference Women's Basketball Championship, which will be held March 6-10 at Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee, Fla.
The tournament will tip-off with an opening round game between No. 8 Barry and No. 9 Florida Southern on Wednesday at 5 p.m. The Buccaneers (14-12 overall) completed the regular season with a 5-11 SSC mark, while the Moccasins' (10-16) final tally was 4-12.
The winner of that contest will move on to Thursday's women's quarterfinals to face top-seeded Nova Southeastern. The Sharks (19-7 overall) shared the SSC regular-season title with Lynn (18-8), as each team compiled an 11-5 conference record. NSU clinched the top seed by sweeping the Knights in the teams' regular-season series. The Sharks will play the opening-round winner at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday.
As the No. 2 seed in the bracket, Lynn will play No. 7 Saint Leo (12-14, 7-9 SSC) in the quarterfinals at 5 p.m.
Thursday's other quarterfinal contests also required some tiebreaking to arrive at the match-ups.
Eckerd is the No. 3 seed, posting a 9-7 record in league play and a 14-11 overall slate. The Tritons finished with the same 9-7 league record as fourth-seeded Rollins (18-8 overall). Having split their season series, Eckerd gained the tiebreaker advantage by defeating No. 1 Nova Southeastern 63-61 on Feb. 6. The Tars were swept by NSU in the teams' regular-season series.
In similar fashion, Florida Tech (16-10) and Tampa (18-8) finished with an identical 8-8 conference record. The teams split their regular-season series. Tech gained the advantage and the No. 5 seed with an 83-73 win over top-seeded Nova Southeastern on Jan. 23. No. 6 Tampa was swept by the Sharks in the teams' regular-season contests.
Given those outcomes, Thursday's quarterfinals will pit No. 3 Eckerd against No. 6 Tampa at 7:30 p.m. No. 4 Rollins and No. 5 Florida Tech will square off in the first quarterfinal game at noon.
Thursday's winners will advance to semifinal action at noon and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. The women's final will be played at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
All 16 games of the SSC Basketball Championships will be streamed live on sunshinestateconference.com. Live stats for each contest will also be made available on the SSC website via Stat Broadcast. Results and the tournament bracket will be updated daily on the "SSC Basketball Tournament Central" page on sunshinestateconference.com.
Those wishing to attend the games in-person at Silver Spurs Arena can purchase tickets at the box office window. Single session tickets are $10 at the door. Students attending SSC institutions (with proper ID) and children under 6 will be admitted free of charge.
2013 SSC Women's Basketball Championship Schedule
Opening Round - Wednesday, March 6
Game 1 - 5:00 p.m. - No. 8 Barry vs. No. 9 Florida Southern
Women's Quarterfinals - Thursday, March 7
Game 3 - 12:00 p.m. - No. 4 Rollins vs. No. 5 Florida Tech
Game 4 - 2:30 p.m. - Opening-Round Winner vs. No. 1 Nova Southeastern
Game 5 - 5:00 p.m. - No. 2 Lynn vs. No. 7 Saint Leo
Game 6 - 7:30 p.m. - No. 3 Eckerd vs. No. 6 Tampa
Women's Semifinals - Saturday, March 9
Game 11 - 12:00 p.m. - Game 3 Winner v. Game 4 Winner
Game 12 - 2:30 p.m. - Game 5 Winner v. Game 6 Winner
Women's Final - Sunday, March 10
Women's Championship - 1:00 p.m. - Game 11 Winner v. Game 12 Winner


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An Update on Intel's SSD 525 Power Consumptionby Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013 3:55 PM EST
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RU482 - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - linkbravo on your follow through on this one! Reply
ssj3gohan - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - linkAwesome that you fixed this measurement error (ahem.. sorry to be boasting but... I told you so :P), but you're still not quite there. Look at the datasheet. Now look at bench. See the giant difference?
That's DIPM. Enable it and you'll have entirely correct measurements. Reply
ssj3gohan - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link(failing an edit function, I'm replying to my own post)
Edit: I see that Anand said there will be DIPM-only testing in 2013. Great. Just keep in mind that all power consumption measurements you have now don't really mean anything to desktop and laptop use cases. They only apply to server workloads where DIPM doesn't exist, or workloads where the SSD is constantly hammered at maximum speed. Reply
asphyxxiate - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - linkAhem. This is a weird place to do this, but I'm a huge fan of your work. It's truly awe-inspiring. Can't wait for the MADPSU! (And more updates in English, please. Sometimes Google Translate just doesn't cut it ;) ) Reply
ssj3gohan - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkUh... thanks :) but yeah, this really isn't the place. I'll update my blog very soon about MADPSU.
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ABR - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkWhile performance per watt is surely there, these all fall short in absolute terms of the best 5400 RPM regular hard drives, which come in around 1.5W under load. (And regular hard drives don't care if you're writing incompressible or not.) I'd like to think the technology will get there eventually, but as with cars over the last couple of decades there seems to be a never-ending focus on (horse)power. Reply
phillyry - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkBut these race to sleep sooner and therefore use less power for the same work (see the iPhone 5 review for an overview of this concept).
So, not only will the SSD use less power but so will the system. Reply
will2 - Sunday, April 07, 2013 - linkAny thoughts if the 240GB 525 + mSATA>2.5" adapter a better choice over a 520 or Sammy 840 for an efficient ultrabook ?
With that in mind, does anyone know if: a) the adapter degrades speed (are data+control lines direct connection ?), b) which make of adapter Anand used, c) if choice of adapter affects compatibility ?
The Intel datasheet states typ Idle 250mW, Active 300mW; any explanation why measured Idle is double the Intel spec ? Do the measured active consumptions, eg. 3.47W during Random Wr, accord with (am guessing the 10:1 disparity due to Intel using avg power over time) the Intel active 300mW 'typ' spec ? Reply


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ARM's Mali-400 MP4 is the Fastest Smartphone GPU...for Nowby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2011 1:21 PM EST
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tipoo - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkSince the rendering techniques are so different this comparison might be futile, but I thought it was interesting that the old GeForce4 MX 460 put out about 38 Million triangles per second. Some of the mobile GPU's are getting up there, and the MP2 of course is already well past it with 65 million. Reply
DanNeely - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkTriangles really aren't a good axis to compare one once you start getting to GPUs more than 7 or 8 years old. Although geometry processing has surged in the most recent generation of cards, it only increased bot about 2x between the GF5xxx and 2xx series. Improved texture, shading, and anti-aliasing capability returned much better improvements in image quality. Mobile GPUs probably won't evolve quite the same way (higher DPI makes AA much less needed); but they're getting to the point where geometry is going to be mostly maxed out in terms of farther returns for a while. Reply
gstrickler - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkI know that ARM is generally very good on power utilization, but do we have any power utilization comparisons of these GPUs (or the whole SOC/phone). 2x-4x the performance is great, if it doesn't kill your battery life.
Also, any explanation for the difference in performance between the Nexus S (1GHz Hummingbird and an SGX 540) vs the Optimus 3D (1 GHz OMAP4430 + SGX 540) or the Infuse 4G (1.2GHz Hummingbird + SGC 540)? Different GPU clocks? Different number of GPU cores? Reply
jordanclock - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkDifferences in the CPUs and driver efficiencies. Reply
B3an - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkThe article/review of the actual phone is clearly linked above and if you bothered to look it you'll see that the battery performance is actually better than most other smartphones, even with this being the fastest phone/SoC on the planet. They might not have battery performance tests for playing games but the GPU is still used when using the browser and other stuff, which was tested in the review. Reply
room200 - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - link<i>and if you bothered to look it you'll see that the battery performance is actually better than most other smartphones, even with this being the fastest phone/SoC on the planet. </i>
I always find it interesting how there's always someone who jumps in on a poster with a smart-ass comment. It would be so much easier for you to skip the post and shut the hell up. Ooops, look at me; I'm doing it too. Reply
ph0tek - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkAnd yet you post the most stupid and pointless comment here. Nice one moron. Reply
coder543 - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkI do believe he succeeded in his goal then. People who post moronic comments will not understand how moronic those comments are until someone takes it to the extreme so that they can get a taste of their own medicine, per se. His comment effectively points out how dumb those types of comments are. Particularly the one being sarcastic about him not looking at the link. Gaming deserves its own benchmarks on battery life.. the way gaming uses a GPU is nothing like how a browser uses it. Reply
SlyNine1 - Monday, September 12, 2011 - linkUntil you look at the ones preceding it. AKA Mine, Yours and anyone else that keeps this crap going. Reply
gstrickler - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkIf I were interested in reading about the phone, I would have read the article. This was a separately published link with the title "ARM's Mali-400 MP4 is the Fastest Smartphone GPU...for Now". If it's about which phone is fastest, then the title is misleading. I came to find about CPUs and GPUs, not about specific phone models. Reply
bh64 - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkIt would be a challenge, but what I would really love to see is a ballpark comparison of these mobile GPUs to their desktop counterparts.
The question that bugs the living juices out of me when seeing these kinds of reviews is: "What year of desktop graphics hardware are we approximately at on mobiles?"
Does anyone know of any comparisons of that nature? Reply
DanNeely - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkYou could go digging for old quake 3 benches and see what cards gave similar perormance levels. Reply
Mike1111 - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkVery nice! The only thing faster this year will most likely be the A5 in the iPhone 5 since OMAP5, Krait and Tegra 3 AFAIK won't be available in a smartphone this year. Reply
ph00ny - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkIt's not just those two in the running. ARM already announced the T604 which is supposedly several times faster than 400MP Reply
GnillGnoll - Monday, September 12, 2011 - linkARM also said they expect T604 to be available in devices in late 2012 at the earliest. Reply
dagamer34 - Monday, September 12, 2011 - linkAccording to this Engadget article, the ARM T604 is likely going to be paired with the Cortex-A15 for late 2012, which means we won't be seeing in the Galaxy S III, but maybe the S IV in 2013.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/arm-intros-next... Reply
jlago - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkiPhone 5 could be faster, it depends how much they've had to scale back the performance to make the A5 work in a phone form factor. They have the advantage of being last out the gate and can tune to beat this, if they can find the power/thermal headroom. Reply
inplainview - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkThe best thing I love about these comments and this site is that for the average person none of this matters. It is only important to guys who still live in their parents basement, have a half eaten pizza next to their 2 liter bottle of diet Pepsi, and a tube of Clearasil on the shelf. Anantech has been a great source of info to me in many ways. Long live the geeks. We shall inherit the Earth. By the way, I do like girls and talk to them frequently. Have been know to get intimate from time to time as well. :) Also, I know what the sun looks like. :) Reply
Arnulf - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkYou are so cool !!! May I adorn myself in your awesome stellar glow ? Reply
inplainview - Monday, September 12, 2011 - linkI prefer money. Nothing else will do... Now move along. You are not nearly as funny as me. Reply
Stormkroe - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkWhy is the Sensation missing form gl2.1 benches? Also, no where in the vellamo chart does the sgs2 get anywhere close to 100% faster than the evo 3d. I'm a huge adreno fan, and feel that it performs WAY better than most people give it credit for, usually due to it's higher resolution in tests that can't be ran off screen. Reply
sprockkets - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkYou need to read the article; they no longer have the phone to test with it. Reply
ab303 - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - linkEarlier version of glbechmark has the following result for IPAD-2 offscreen test @ 1280x720
Egypt offscreen: 38
PRO offscreen: 55
the new version from this report indicates 85/148.
I suspect that the new version result on IPAD-2 is for 800x480 resolution and not 1280x720.Could be a bug in iOS port of the new GLbenchmark version... result is very suspicious considering it is almost 3X higher than previous version number. Reply
iwodo - Monday, September 12, 2011 - linkMay be worth Anand to look at it? Reply
ab303 - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - linkIPAD-2 results @ 1280x720 offscreen with vsync should be as below:
Egypt ~ 50
which is still better than galaxy S2. most likely latest glbenchmark has bug in iOS port... watch out new release. Reply
ab303 - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - linksorry meant with vsync OFF Reply
GnillGnoll - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - linkVersions of GLBenchmark before 2.1.0 don't even have the offscreen test. Reply
ab303 - Friday, October 07, 2011 - linkyes, it did have. what they had was an offscreen 720p test (but still with vsync on).
Egypt was ~ 38FPS for 720p offscreen with vsync on, on the IPAD-2
The next version of glbenchmark removes the vsync on, and the result now shoots up to 85.7! this is too good to be true. For people familiar with opengl, onscreen tests require eglswap() to be called, for offscreen test if you remove the eglswap() and do glflush instead, you can get the FPS without vsync limitation.
But there is no guarantee that the underlying drivers and h/w do the same work as onscreen test. For e.g. a smart driver can figure out that it gets a bunch of render buffer commands routed to offscreen FBOs, but the result is not even used (no pixel read calls or texture loads from these FBOs), and so can skip the rendering.
Unless you have tools to extract frames out of the GPU, you can never be sure if the results of these offscreen tests make sense or not.
So, i dont think it is right to assume that IPAD-2 GPU is much better than Mali400MP just by looking at one data point from glbenchmark. Reply
Josemarti - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - linkI'm wondering Why do not include the Motorola Atrix in your investigation.
Specially now when Google had bought Motorola. No matter what, I think Atrix must be a reference in this stuff, because Google is owner of Android and Motorola.
I think you are in time to include it.
PS: Sorry my bad English. Reply
randombytes - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - linkWas release in Oct, but it is using same A5 chip as of iPad2. Reply


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David Guetta is set to release a new single, Just One Last Time, featuring Swedish duo Taped Rai. He talks to Andy Welch about the collaboration and his influence on pop music.
By Andy Welch
Every now and again in music, a new artist comes along with a new sound that changes everything.
Think back to when The Strokes released their debut Is This It? in 2000 at the tail end of Britpop with scores of homegrown bands playing the similar melodic, often plodding guitar rock.
As soon as Julian Casablancas and his mates from New York arrived, you couldn't move for other painfully thin musicians playing angular punk(ish) songs while clad in skinny jeans, leather jackets and battered pairs of Converse.
The charts reflect the trend until things reach a point where everything sounds homogenised - and someone else comes along and repackages pop in a different way.
French DJ David Guetta had been making music since 1984, although few but the most dedicated of clubbers will have heard of him until around 2007 when he released his third album, Pop Life.
It was a minor success, and paved the way for his true breakthrough in 2009 when he teamed up with former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland to release When Love Takes Over.
The song, initially a Guetta instrumental until Rowland heard the track and pleaded to write and record a vocal over the top, went to No 1 all over Europe, including here in the UK, where it planted Guetta at the top DJ table, and gave Rowland's solo career a much-needed second wind.
"The first time I heard the track I immediately knew it would be a huge hit," he says today, looking back.
Since then, he's worked with numerous vocalists including will.i.am, Akon, Nicki Minaj, Jessie J, Jennifer Hudson and Snoop Dogg and become one of the biggest-selling artists in the world. He's now sold around three million albums and a phenomenal 15 million singles.
Whoever he's working with, however, his involvement is impossible to miss. He deals almost exclusively in euphoric house, each electronic song keeping the listener hanging on for the 'drop' - the moment where the beat fully kicks in and song takes off - and an equally memorable chorus.
He's also paved the way for a legion of imitators. Scotland's own Calvin Harris, for example, teamed up with Rihanna to record We Found Love in 2011, a song that sold six million copies around the world and almost certainly wouldn't have done so without Guetta laying down a template of house, Europop and RnB before him.
There's also the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) boom in the US. He is not single-handedly responsible for boosting the interest in the genre, but he has played a large part in its recent success.
Despite the fact the US gave the world dance music - particularly the cities of Chicago, with its house music, and Detroit, a spiritual home of techno - the nation's mainstream never took to the club beats in the same way the UK and mainland Europe did.
For the best part of 20 years, the genre was all but ignored there, but now artists such as deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia and Skrillex are among the biggest names and reaping the benefits of the doors opened for them by Guetta's continued success and shaping of the charts.
Later this month, the 45-year-old DJ will release his new single Just One Last Time, on which he's joined forces with relatively unknown Swedish duo Taped Rai.
"It's always a bit hard to describe the secret ingredient that will actually make a track become a single. This new single works nicely with the previous tunes I released last year, like Titanium or She Wolf," he explains, referring to the two songs he recorded with ex-Zero 7 collaborator and solo star Sia.
"They all tend to express a new direction I've taken recently towards a fresh, more soulful kind of music," he says, emphasising it was always his aim to bring more soul to dance music while taking in strains of electronica and even indie rock.
He came across Taped Rai when a friend played him one of their demos.
"I had never heard of them before but as I'm always really excited to work with new artists, I contacted them immediately. I'm known for my collaborations with international superstars, and at that time I'd just finished two features with Sia. Her song Breathe Me is well known, but she wasn't so well known on a global level.
"What I mean is I am always open to meet new people, discover new talents and I want to help them to grow," he adds.
"A few days later I started working on the tune, they liked it and we finished it together in my studio in Ibiza. As it was their first record, they were quite demanding and we had quite a few sessions in the studio.
"At the time it felt a bit long, longer than usual for me, but it was for the best in the end. I appreciated working with the guys and the result is outstanding. They have a really strong work ethic and I respect that."
In working with lesser-known talent, it seems Guetta has hit upon something that excites him. He becomes animated when talking about his plans for the future, which largely consist of nurturing smaller artists and collaboration.
"That's more than important," he says. "Actually that is really crucial for me right now. It's going to be my priority in the coming years as a producer. I've found that it is something really fresh and exciting to work on, definitely, and I'm going to stick with it.
"I like the idea of supporting new talents and revealing them to the public. Moreover, they are reliable, humble, professional and committed to work with. They deserve to be known, and I feel really happy if they can get more exposure because of what I have done.
"There are no names I can tell you as yet, but it's probably going to happen. Let's see what the future brings."
Even by his standards, the past two years have been huge for Guetta, with headline slots at major European festivals, lucrative club appearances and a string of chart-topping albums to his name. He says there is a lot of stress with that success, but he's not letting it get to him.
"There has been a lot of pressure, but I am always looking forward. It has been extraordinary. I get a lot of personal satisfaction from reaching a worldwide audience, meeting new people and working with all kinds of artists. To touch so many people with my music does mean a lot to me. Every new successful record feels like a love story that will never end.
"From now on I'll make music without any deadlines, which I find very relaxing. I take much more pleasure that way. I'm really happy to work without any preconceived plan in my head.
"No demands, just me and my inspiration. No pressure."
Extra time - David Guetta :: Pierre David Guetta was born in Paris on November 7, 1967.
:: When he was 18 he began DJing at the Broad Club in Paris. By 1994, he was promoting club nights in the city, and had a number of minor dance hits to his name.
:: He released his debut album Just A Little More love in 2001 and it has gone on to sell 300,000 copies.
:: His 2011 album Nothing But The Beat sold over 3.3 million copies.
:: She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) featuring Sia was No 1 for five weeks on the European club charts.
:: David Guetta releases new single Just One Last Time feat Taped Rai on January 21. The album, Nothing But The Beat Ultimate, is out now


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Two juveniles arrested in attempted carjacking/robbery
Published: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 10:20 a.m.
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Two juveniles passing through Gainesville were arrested Thursday on charges related to the attempted robbery and carjacking of a woman outside the Books-A-Million store at 2601 NW 13th St., police reported.
The incident occurred about 6 p.m. when the teenagers, one from Texas and one from Georgia, saw a woman get out of her car with an iPad and go into the bookstore. Police said they waited until she left the store, then pushed her against a wall and tried to take the iPad and her car keys.
After the victim screamed and fought the two off, they ran from the area. An officer spotted them at a nearby McDonald's and detained them. Police said the victim identified them as the assailants.
The teens said they were casing the area to commit a carjacking so the could get to the beach, police said.
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