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|A stair nose is designed to create a clean transition from a step to a hardwood floor. Also used around steps and stair landing trims.
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We got 2 t-molds and 2 stair nose pieces of the brazilian cherry to match our laminate flooring that didn't have their own matching moldings. The t-molding matches perfectly, which is what they initially pulled to show us. When we opened up the bull nose it looked like it was a different lot/finish... something was just a little different. It isn't a huge difference but definitely noticable when right next to eachother. So, I would just reccommend comparing all the pieces you buy next to each other, before cutting, in case you need to take them back. Also, one of our t-molds came with a metal liner and the other came with a plastic (I would definitely reccommend the metal)-- just another reason to take a close look at everything before purchasing. It's too bad the people that work there don't double check for you; seems like it would waste less of their time in the long run.
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The stair nosing went on easily. It looks great with the rest of the flooring.
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I had hoped for this floor to look more like actual wood. It was easy to install, and it is easy to clean. I simply didn't know enough about the product before purchasing..had I known, I definitely would have purchased engineered or actual hardwood. As it is currently, my living room looks like a giant kitchen or, even worse, like a roller skating rink with couches.
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Intel Details Atom Z2760: Clovertrail for Windows 8 Tabletsby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/27/2012 3:30 PM EST
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jhoff80 - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkI hadn't realized that Windows 8 x86 is the only version to support Connected Standby. It doesn't quite make sense to me why they would put the feature in one and not the other. Is it just because they figure they have until Haswell comes out before they really need it in x64 anyway? Reply
dagamer34 - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkConsidering most of these devices only have 2GB of RAM and CPU performance isn't the blazing performer we expect from a Core iX chip, 64-bit support isn't much of a priority.
Besides, when you look at Intel's roadmap and see the stuff they are offering for 2013, you can that those chips are far more clearly designed with mobile in mind. Atom gets it's first CPU rearch in 5 years since it comes out, plus a die shrink, plus Intel HD graphics. Haswell becomes available in SoC form, available at 10W (and possibly even lower), and has far more integration with other chips on the board.
While Windows 8 is coming out this year with some really good hardware, the amazing stuff is all for next year. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkReally good hardware?? 1.8GHz atom is still 1.8GHz atom. It is just too slow. A penryn CULV from 5 years ago is faster and it is only 10 watts. The fact that intel cannot shovel out any better turds than this in 5 years is just insulting. Reply
MrSpadge - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkSure they could, they just choose not to. Not that this makes the situation any better for us.. Reply
BSMonitor - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkAnd to think it outperforms all the ARMs you have been using in any of your smart phones for the past 4 years...
Guess 5 y/o Intel turds are better than start of the art ARM turds...
In your comparison. Reply
relic1138 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkWell yea but this CPU is not for RT but the regular version. Microsoft is using ARM for RT. The Atom really is a horrible CPU, very, very slow. Literally for 10 dollars more per chip you can have a i3. I bought a Chromebook last year that I had an Atom, I wanted to throw it out of the window every time I used it. My new Chromebook is 100 times way better now that Samsung dropped the Atom. Hate that chip, hate it, hate it and will never own another one. I even tried Android on my Chromebook for kicks and it was molasses slow compared to my Asus Slider SL101 Tablet. Reply
Zink - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkIf it's as fast or faster than the competition I don't see what the problem is. Windows 8 RT will have A15 in the same form factor which is a much newer architecture so get one of those if it will hurt your feelings less. Reply
maroon1 - Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - linkpenryn CULV doesn't have built-in GPU, and memory controller like modern CPU's Reply
RU482 - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkWhoa....have any references to that 10W and below haswell claim? All the intel docs I've read state 15W TDP, even for the GT3 SoC version Reply
vdx660 - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkHaswell will have a 10W -TDP
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6248/haswell-at-idf-... Reply
vdx660 - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkPlease read this
regarding connected standby. It seems that all Windows 8 versions including x64, x86 and RT support Connected Standby Reply
jhoff80 - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkWell, that's what I had thought, but the article says:
"Connected standby is only currently supported by 32-bit Windows 8, so although Clovertrail supports x86-64 the platform will launch as 32-bit only. There's no support for alternate OSes at this point." Reply
ssiu - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkHow does the Z2760's GPU compare to the ones in iPad3/iPhone5? e.g. how many "cores"? Reply
ltcommanderdata - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkThe SGX545 is only available in a single core configuration and is based on the older Series5 design. Apple uses the SGX543MP which uses the newer Series5 XT design, in a 3 core configuration for the iPhone 5 and a 4 core configuration for the iPad 3. Reply
frostyfiredude - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - link533Mhz MP2, last I checked. The A5X is MP4 at 200Mhz and the A6 is MP3 at 266Mhz, so Clover is a solid 33% faster. As far as mobile is concerned, quite impressive. Reply
frostyfiredude - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkOr not, Looks like it changed... Reply
lowlymarine - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkIt's a single "core" since it's a Series 5, not Series 5 XT design, as someone pointed out below. However, the SGX545 is still capable of higher performance than one SGX543 "core" at the same clock speed per the Wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5), and is running at twice the clock speed of the SGX543 MP3 in the A6. So it should broadly be a wash, especially at a low resolution like 1366x768.
The real question is, as always, if Intel will be able to release working drivers. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkYou mention the SGX545 is only supporting DX9.0L3 at launch. However, the hardware is capable of DX10.1/OpenGL 3.x. Any word on plans to support this? Reply
toyotabedzrock - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkThis website mentions that as well.
Maybe they just claimed it is dx10 compatable. I also noticed that the sgx544 is only dx9. Reply
powerarmour - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkUnlikely to change, Intel has also hobbled the previous PowerVR GPU'd Atom's in the past this way, and I can't see any reason to think different. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkIntel really is fumbling with Atom, they need a real core refresh and they should have pushed to get the low power 22nm node ready.
The gpu is way behind Apple's and I bet the display will not get more than 10 seconds of attention. And without DX11.1 there is no acceleration for the interface or the browser. I'm sure they will not use a high resolution display. And i bet one of the vendors will try and sell a tn based tablet
I wonder if all the MS devs wear glasses or something. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkI'm not sure about the GPU being much slower than Iphone's. It's running at much higher clocks. Reply
Wilco1 - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkBut the Z2760 only has a single GPU while the iPhone5 has 3 GPU cores at 266MHz, and the iPad has 4 at 200MHz. Assuming the SGX543 and 545 are identical in performance, Apple's GPUs are 50% faster overall. Note that using several low clocked GPUs results in lower power consumption than a single highly clocked GPU (but requires more area of course). Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkInterestingly 545 and 543 are not identical in performance. Despite the model numbers there are some pretty significant differences between them. Reply
B3an - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkFrom reading the wiki page a single core 545 is faster than a single core 543 would be at the same clocks. So with the 545 clocked at 533MHz it should be quite competitive to the 3 core 543 @ 266MHz in the A6 or the 200Mhz 4 core 543 in the latest iPad... Reply
dragonsqrrl - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkThey aren't identical in performance. The SGX545 offers more performance per core then the SGX543. The config in the iPhone 5 will probably still be faster, but I'm not expecting a huge difference in performance. Definitely not 50%. Reply
lilmoe - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkNo. The difference isn't 50%.
PowerVR 545 (single core at 200mhz) is capable of 7.2 GFLOPS in apposed to 6.4 for the SGX 543. On paper, the 545 is 12.5% faster than the SGX 543 (single core at 200mhz). If you calculate the number of cores vs clock speeds you'll get this out of the GPUs:
- Apple A5X: 25.6 GFLOPS
- Apple A6: 25.54 GFLOPS
- Clover Trail: 19.2 GFLOPS
Assuming that the Z2760 comes in single core configuration, it should be 25% slower on paper. What we aren't taking into account is the efficiency of the bus and memory controller and the platform as a whole, it's well known that the speed of the GPU core itself isn't the only bottleneck. As stated by the article, the GPU is "fed" much more efficiently in Clover Trail. The number might be smaller or larger in the end product. We'll have to wait and see. Reply
r3loaded - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkA real core refresh is coming next year with Silvermont, with a big leap in the core architecture and a GPU based on Intel's own HD graphics IP instead of being licensed from PowerVR. Clover Trail is nothing more than stopgap to fend off ARM's advance. Reply
r3loaded - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkAlso, if you do find a vendor who makes a tablet with a TN screen, let me know so I can throttle them. >:( Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkLook at the $100ish android 2.x crap TigerDirect runs a sale on every few weeks; nothing but TN crap there. Reply
B3an - Friday, September 28, 2012 - link"And without DX11.1 there is no acceleration for the interface or the browser"
Totally not true. On Win 8 the UI is completely GPU accelerated with DX10, 10.1, 11, and 11.1.
You dont seem to understand how Win 8 or DirectX works. Even if a GPU does not support DX11.1 the 11.1 pipeline is still used, the hardware will just not support all the features of it, which is totally not needed anyway for UI acceleration. The UI will be COMPLETELY accelerated regardless if the GPU is DX10 or DX11.1. Reply
relic1138 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkHave you seen the prices for these new tablets running this horrible CPU, the Samsung starts at 700, ridiculous. Battery life, 4 - 6 hours, nah, hook me up with an ARM version. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkAnand, can you confirm that the GPU is indeed PowerVR SGX 545? Wikipedia lists it as PowerVR SGX 544MP2. Reply
Kidster3001 - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkThat would probably be the Cloverview flavor intended to support Android. You don't think they would completely ignore phones do you? Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkCloverview is the CPU in the Clovertrail platform... Reply
lilmoe - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkYou forgot to mention that Saltware is the core inside the CPU... Intel is getting on my nerves with their codemanes, it's really confusing every time. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Friday, September 28, 2012 - link*Saltwell
... which is based on the Bonnell microarchitecture. :P Reply
lilmoe - Saturday, September 29, 2012 - linkughhhhh Reply
relic1138 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkDouble ughhhhh! Reply
Kidster3001 - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkMeaning it is completely not possible to have another variation of the Clovertrail name? Reply
MonkeyPaw - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkWhere I can really see a big deal with x86 tablet hardware is the potential to build cheaper inventory setups. So long as it has the power to scale GIS programs like ArcView from desktop to tablet (and smartphone), then this could be a rather valuable processor to a particular industry looking for more powerful, compatible, and cheaper field hardware. Reply
PubFiction - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkNetbooks started at $200 tons in the $300-400 range and when you subtract a keyboard it should get cheaper, atom should be starting closer to ARM chips while perhaps not on as nice of hardware they need to hit $200 IMO. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkYou forgot to add a touch digitizer and an IPS screen which is necessary for the wider viewing angle the tablet use case requires. Reply
seapeople - Sunday, September 30, 2012 - linkIf it wasn't for Apple, you'd probably be getting your wish with tablets competing in the $150 range. Of course, they'd have 600x400 TN panels with two hours of battery life, but they'd be a lot cheaper. Reply
powerarmour - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkWell seeing how the current PowerVR 545 drivers (GMA 3600/3650) fare under Windows 8 (i.e. they don't without Metro applications crashing, and the performance is diabolical) I'm intrigued by how it'll actually perform.
Is this suddenly going to be a driver miracle, where a 5 series PowerVR GPU actually works in a DirectX environment?!
I'm not holding my breath too long... Reply
ajp_anton - Thursday, September 27, 2012 - linkDual-core Cortex A9 is faster than Snapdragon S4?
Or clock for clock, S4 is only 5% faster than A9? Reply
tuxRoller - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkHeh, I should've read all the posts first, I guess. Reply
lilmoe - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkThat's because the A9s are clocked at 1.8 GHz, and Krait is clocked at 1.5.... So yea, at the same clock speed, Krait is faster. Reply
Krysto - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkWhat's funny is that Clover Trail is barely competitive with S4 that was launched in the beginning of the year. And Clover Trail is not even out yet.
And it STILL isn't competitive from a power consumption point of view. If it needs a 30 Whr battery, which is twice as large as other tablets, then it's definitely not competitive in power consumption:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/27/3418260/intel-sa... Reply
tuxRoller - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkSo, normalized to dual core krait (which is the only arm15 class chip in the mix) a dual core a9 clocked 20% higher does exactly 14% better. Assuming linear scaling, upclocking Krait to 1.8 GHz gives it only a 5% advantage over the two year old a9.
Is krait particular weak in this benchmark or is something else going on?
What happened to the 3.1 dmips/Hz vs. 2.5dmips/hz advantage?As far as I have been able to determine those figures were never verfied. Reply
B3an - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkI'm sure it's just that particular benchmark. Maybe its why Intel decided to use that one, so it made them look much better (i'd still expect Clover Trail to be faster in other tests anyway, just not by as much). We all know that Krait is certainly more than 14% faster than A9 in most benchmarks, clock for clock. Reply
Wilco1 - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkWhy would you expect Clover Trail to be faster? Like Medfield it has a turbo but likely runs at 1.3GHz by default (possibly even lower if both cores are active). Therefore I wouldn't expect it to be much faster than Medfield, except for the slightly increased turbo speed or on multi-threaded tests.
Note also that the real competition will be with quad-core Cortex-A15 (such as 1.8GHz Tegra4 due early next year) - not the older 40nm SoCs selected for benchmarking by Intel. Once the A15 is out, I wouldn't expect Clover Trail to win any benchmarks, not even SunSpider. Reply
B3an - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkFrom what i've read Clover Trail's cores and platform seem to be a slight improvement over Medfield. And with a Turbo of 1.8GHz. i can imagine it being faster than competing ARM based Win RT tablets on release.
I agree that when A15 is out it will be faster, but on the release of Win 8 i think Clover Trail has a good chance of being the fastest SoC in this power consumption category (for a short time).
And a bit off topic but unless ARM can make *vastly* better SoC's i dont see any point in Win RT any more. A year ago i would argue that Win RT made perfect sense as Intel had nothing that came close to ARM for power consumption and battery life. But now that Intel can match ARM (or even just get close) and also getting in to form factors just as thin and light as ARM can while at the same price points, i dont see any point in Win RT at all now.
Clover Trail Win 8 tablets will now offer literally everything that ARM Win RT tablets offer, but with the big advantage of running all desktop software. While A15 will be faster, it wont be massive jump, in REAL world usage i doubt anyone would notice a difference. It's not worth having another OS for ARM when it has no big advantage and will just confuse consumers and be a marketing nightmare. Reply
Wilco1 - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkI agree Clover Trail is an improvement, but even at release it will be up against newer 1.7GHz quad-core Krait, 1.7GHz Tegra 3's and (if ready at launch) 2.0GHz OMAP5. With just dual cores and a far lower frequency (the turbo is only for short bursts), I do not see how Clover Trail could beat any of these.
I can't see why you'd think Win RT is useless. Win RT devices will have much faster CPU/GPUs and better battery life, smaller form factors and lower prices. When Medfield came out we saw similar marketing from Intel how it was faster and lower power, but actual Medfield phones turned out to be mediocre in performance and battery life compared with phones based 40nm ARM SoCs - despite Medfield being 32nm (note Sunspider was the only benchmark that made Medfield look good, but that is mostly due to software optimization, not raw CPU performance).
Yes Win RT can't run existing x86 applications directly. But is that really a big issue? Which x86 applications are you actually planning to run on your Win8 tablet? Will they work well on a low res touchscreen interface? I doubt it. Will they work well with power saving states? I doubt it. Important applications will be ported and adapted to tablets, just like Office and other basic Windows apps. At that point they should be available for both Win RT and Win8.
However in the end I guess a lot of people will be persuaded by pricing, not the technical details. Reply
Penti - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkThose new chips aren't out, and aren't powering Windows RT (WinRT is short for Windows Runtime which exists on both for confusion) next gen GPU's is still 6-12 months away for most users/devices.
How about Office, Outlook? Business/Accounting software? Office 2013 RT won't be out the same time as these ARM-tablets. How about the fact that Windows RT is less capable then Android and alternatives? Price isn't everything here.
Look the Surface RT will have a keyboard, it will have a multi-touchpad, it will have a touchscreen without pen-support (no dual-digitizer). x86 variants are just so much more attractive if you don't go with Android/iOS instead. It's not like it's easier to port apps to Windows Runtime then to Android NDK, iOS, and the competitors. SDK isn't even out yet in full for the platforms. When A15-based SoC's will be prevalent Intel will move on to Valleyview/Silvermont with none-Imgtec graphics thank god. Different devices and categories to begin with. Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 is quite limited in their platforms and supporting C#, C++, etc isn't winning over developers when every other platform is a lot more robust and still support all the technologies they would expect. Sure you will be able to do some DX stuff but Tegra 3 performs pretty badly. OpenGL ES reaches more users and developers have no reason to not target those if the engine of their choosing has support. Next to those devices (Windows RT) you would be able to pick up IvyBridge/Haswell tablets and they are easy enough to target for game dev. Reply
Wilco1 - Sunday, September 30, 2012 - linkThe 1.7GHz Tegra3 is already out, for example HTC One X+ and Transformer Infinity use it. Faster Kraits are on the way, and Cortex-A15 will be released in the next few weeks. So it's not like Clover Trail will be competing with 6-12 months old SoCs, it will have to compete with the latest ARM cores from the very start.
Office 2013 will be included in Windows RT from the start (it's called a preview as it's not the final version but 95% of functionality is there). IIRC Outlook won't be supported as RT already has an integrated mail program. Note that big business apps often support access via a browser, so in many cases you wouldn't need to install any software at all.
You're right that x86 Win8 may be more capable, but you will be paying more as well (a lot more if the rumours are correct). Reply
Penti - Monday, October 01, 2012 - linkTegra3 doesn't have an A15 or A15-class cpu neither does it have a next generation GPU so what are you on about? Tegra 3 is old. A clock increase doesn't change that. Kraits aren't using Adreno 320 yet. S4 Pro aren't available yet. LG Optimus G will become available with it pretty soon though. RT's Integrated mail application is worse than that built in into Android, iOS, Blackberry, Nokia etc. It's a lot worse then Android third party mail clients like TouchDown or iOS integrated. No Office 2013 RT aren't finished by October 26 it's coming next year for many. "Customers can expect to get these updates starting in early November through January depending on their language." - Office blog. Your right that a preview will be available when shipping though.
Many large enterprise applications are accessible mainly through the web, but that doesn't cover all the large enterprises that for example uses Microsoft's technologies and business systems which runs as stand-alone app or all the small business apps you preferably run stand-alone. So it leaves out pretty much any business that doesn't afford a multi-million dollar ERP/CRM/Payroll system. It doesn't take into account that you can also run Citrix receiver to run those Windows stand-alone apps on an Android tablet just the same. Streamed apps probably works better on none-windows platforms here.
On the other hand the preview of Office 2013 is available on Windows 8, 7, today, but not RT. Yet. Get some sense. Your off the target.
Yes x86-tablets costs just the same as today. It's tablet pc's flying spaghetti damn it, about 800-1000 dollars. But that is for 600-800 gram devices, not second devices for none-existing entertainment. Later the slates will be able to go down to 600-700 dollar though i.e. same as higher-end Windows RT devices. Office 2013 RT home & student editions aren't something you your meant to run in business either for that matter. There is no reason the hardware in an CloverTrail Z2760 device should cost more then in an ARM equivalent either. For business it's all about the software, management and capabilities. While Office 2013 RT seems very powerful it's not a full replacement so alternatives still bode well. Of course 8 Pro devices has already licensed Office 2010 and productive environments to go from the start. In hybrid devices it shouldn't matter that 2013 preview has touch control-enhances. It's not like it's easier to port third party software to C++/CX/WRL then to any other platform. There is no definite advantage and it has to compete with much more powerful x86-devices that is only 150-200 dollar more or something of that character. Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, October 02, 2012 - linkThe original point I responded to was: "And with a Turbo of 1.8GHz. i can imagine it [Clover Trail] being faster than competing ARM based Win RT tablets on release."
My point is that it won't be faster as current ARM SoCs have much higher frequencies than the ones mentioned in the article.
For example the latest Tegra3 has a 30% faster CPU and 25% faster GPU than the one benchmarked by Intel in the article. That means that even the old Tegra3 will outperform the Z2760 at launch. Reply
B3an - Saturday, September 29, 2012 - linkI guess we'll have to wait until Clover Trail tablets are available but the main advantage ARM/Win RT had was smaller and lighter form factors, and longer battery life. Being as Clover Trail will be in tablets that are just 8.5mm thick (shown off recently) it already matches ARM variants in that category. Then you have weight, which again it pretty much matches. Thats two main ARM/Win RT advantages already gone... Then you have battery life, and thats looking good but i'll wait for benchmarks. But lets say ARM tablets last an hour or so longer, even then Clover Trail will get "close enough". Say it gets 10 hours battery life and ARM gets 11.... just not worth going for ARM/Win RT with such a small difference.
If theres a quad-core Krait out on release though, and has the Adreno 320 GPU, then that could actually make a noticeable difference in real world usage which is the only that that matters (99.9% of tablet users wont care about benchmarks). But that would be the on ONLY advantage Win RT tablets would have, and for how long? Before Clover Trail the choice was really simple: Intel + Win 8 for performance but bigger heavier designs with lower battery life and ARM + Win RT for slower but lighter and smaller designs with much longer battery life. Now that gap has become very blurred an it makes RT look quite pointless. Reply
relic1138 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkRight, why wouldn't a person just buy a full powered i5 - i7 laptop if he or she needs it. I never understood why people try to force their devices to work past the scope of it's design/purpose. Even running the none RT version on a i3 -i7 tablet sounds silly to me, Photoshop, have you seen those wonderful 24" Wacom monitors, silly.
I do however like the detachable keyboard idea, I own a Asus Slider SL101 and I love using it to type out memo's, email's, doc's,ect. Reply
somata - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkSPECint typically does a decent job of gauging performance on general-purpose code, and the numbers presented seem believable to me. I too was surprised that Krait didn't perform better, but Geekbench also shows Krait performing worse than expected (vs the A9), even if you just focus on the single-threaded tests. Both SPEC and GB are suites and not just single benchmarks, so this makes me think perhaps Krait isn't the A15 competitor it's made out to be. Nevertheless, at least in GB, Krait tends to just edge out Atom's per-clock performance in the single-threaded tests, on average.
Apple's A6 cores OTOH are surprisingly powerful. In fact, I predict they'll turn out to be more than a match for Cortex A15, both in IPC and perhaps even in absolute performance once they get clocked higher in the next iPad. Likewise, given that Intel's in-order Atom is still competitive with the latest out-of-order ARM cores, and how easily Intel's current out-of-order designs annihilate even the A6, I think Intel will have little trouble overtaking ARM from a performance standpoint once the next-gen Atom is released. Reply
Wilco1 - Sunday, September 30, 2012 - linkSpec is well known as the most gamed benchmark as it depends on the compiler and options used. If you think Intel did this test fairly then think again... If you look at less biased benchmarks then you'll see a Cortex-A9 beating Atom by a big margin. For example in Geekbench a 1.4GHz Galaxy S3 easily beats a 1.6GHz Medfield on either single or multithreaded benchmarks.
Eg. http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1090947 (Z2460 score 882)
and http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1107936 (Exynos4 score 1773)
So your conclusion that Intel's in-order core is competitive with ARM out-of-order cores is based on Intel's marketing claims rather than reality.
Krait is a little faster than an A9 clock for clock. However given that it turns out the A6 actually runs at 1.2-1.3GHz, it will come close but I don't expect that it will match the A15 (which is about 50% faster than an A9 clock for clock). Reply
somata - Monday, October 01, 2012 - linkFair point about SPEC, but like I said, in my experience Geekbench results lead to a similar conclusion. The results you provide paint Atom in an especially bad light since you're comparing a 1C Atom to a 4C Cortex A9. That may be a fair comparison as far as overall platforms go (for now), but I'm only referring to the strength of the core; going multi-core is trivial.
I never said that Atom necessarily offers better performance than competing ARM cores, only that it's competitive, which it certainly is. Notice that Krait somehow loses most tests to slower-clocked A9:
Against Atom it's basically a wash (again focusing on single-threaded performance). Also, Android on x86 is AFAIK still pretty immature, so I'm not sure how much the results you cite can be trusted. In Linux the same Atom would score a bit over 1000 overall and win several tests against the A9. Reply
Wilco1 - Monday, October 01, 2012 - linkComparing single-core Z2460 with a quad-core Exynos is reasonable as those CPUs are used in the latest phones. The Exynos is 33% faster on the integer benchmarks and 68% on the floating point (single-threaded only, at the same frequency). I do not call this competitive. Dual cores and a higher turbo won't be enough to make it competitive against current Exynos4/Tegra3, let alone the A15-based next generation.
Yes, it seems current Krait's are hobbled by a slow memory system or a bad memory controller, the memory scores look really bad. QC have to fix this and increase frequency to ~2GHz if they want to stay competitive.
Android is based on Linux, so I'm not sure why you think Linux would improve scores. It's true that netbook Atoms have better scores, but these have a much faster memory system and use far more power. I've seen Phoronix results comparing OMAP and Exynos development boards with netbooks on Linux, and the results are the same: an in-order Atom is only competitive if it is clocked much higher. For mobiles and tablets this isn't feasible because of power. Reply
somata - Tuesday, October 02, 2012 - linkIndeed I was using an Atom N455 as a stand-in for the Z2460 since I believe both share nearly the exact same microarchitecture. I thought maybe I overlooked differences in the memory interface, but both have 6.4GB/s of available bandwidth. With that in mind, I can't see why the N455 should have ~20% better IPC than the Z2460 in Geekbench other than the OS difference...
Then again, I'll grant you there may be lower-level differences in the memory/cache interface that negatively affect performance. If I concede that the Z2460 is accurately portrayed in the handful of available GB results, then its per-clock performance is in fact closer to that of a Cortex A8. I'd still argue its overall performance is high enough to be "competitive" with an A9 though, in the sense that they will provide very similar user experiences. Exynos may offer much greater peak performance with its four cores, but I'd bet typical core utilization is even lower than on the desktop, further narrowing the effective gap.
Don't get me wrong, more performance is always nice, and it's unfortunate that Intel isn't introducing a new architecture until 2013, but given the relatively simplistic usage scenarios of current tablets, I have no doubt Intel will be ready in time for the real "post-PC" revolution. ;-) Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, October 02, 2012 - linkYes the micro architecture is nearly identical. However LPDDR2 is slower than DDR3 and I'm not sure whether all Z2460 based phones utilise the fastest memory speed. Also the Z2460 can only turbo up to 1.6GHz for a short time, unlike the N455 which can continuously run at 1.66GHz (but uses 6.5W). So a Z2460 is never going to be as fast as the N455.
Note Z2760 results have now also appeared on Geekbench: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/compare/...
I agree performance seems good enough, but it just isn't better performance like Intel's marketing claims (which is how this thread started). Reply
tuxRoller - Tuesday, October 02, 2012 - linkI don't what specint tests and GB doesn't release their code, so I don't know how they test.
Assuming these numbers are accurate, I would have to agree that Krait is not a next gen arch. A 5% architectural advantage is more a bump than anything else.
Assuming the cortex-A15's are all they are supposed to be, they will blow all the rest of these chips out of the water.
The main advantage the Apple cores seem to have is that they are using lpddr-1066 memory (looking at the GB breakdowns, it is their massive memory bandwidth and streaming perf that gives them their advantage). That seems to be what accounts for the difference, but perhaps when AT does the review we'll here more. Reply
tuxRoller - Tuesday, October 02, 2012 - linkActually, the difference isn't 14% but only 5% at the same clock, for that benchmark.
I wasn't aware of any benchmark where krait performed that poorly compared to cortex-A9.
Sure, Intel may have picked this benchmark b/c it makes them look particularly good, but I'm more concerned than with the A9 vs krait numbers.
A 5% architectural advantage seems absurd. Reply
Krysto - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkClover Trail is still not competitive with ARM. It needs a 30 Whr battery, which is more than twice as large as most 10" tablets with a similar resolution (not counting iPad which has a much larger resolution. Clover Trail won't even support such resolutions, because they know battery will die too quickly).
So even if they achieve the 10 hour mark, which I still doubt it. They're doing with a double battery. Doesn't exactly make for a "competitive" chip with ARM, does it?
They're being misleading about a ton of other things, too. I suggest you give this a read:
Also, it's a chip that's launching at the end of 2012. Where is the OpenGL ES 3.0 support? Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkNo idea what you are talking about battery wise. Most 10.1 tablets I know of use ~25 Wh batteries ( Asus, Samsung, Acer, Chinese tablets). Reply
Penti - Friday, September 28, 2012 - linkThe New iPad (iPad 3-gen) uses a 42Wh battery which is actually a larger battery then MacBook Air 11.6. Android tablets tend to use less power consumings SoC's and displays so they do fine on 20-30Wh. Down to about 15Wh. As does x86 Atom stuff when Ivy Bridge does fine on 35Wh (MBAir11). Current atom-powered Tablets PC's like HP Slate 2 or Dell Latitude ST uses a 30Wh battery and they are way more power consuming then these chips. Granted though that those are only good for 6 hours but are more power hungry. They don't need a 60Wh battery here to achieve 10 hours, not 50Wh either. iPad 2 uses a 25 Wh battery. With it's 1024x768 resolution.
Z2760 is a 1.7W chip rather then a 3.75W platform though. Max TDP estimates of course. If you save just 2W every hour that is still 10 Wh for a 5 hour usage period. It's still mostly WLAN, Display, WWAN etc that uses power in these devices.
Semiaccurate article is ridiculous for several reasons first there is no Office 2013 RT yet, there is no Outlook for WOA/Windows RT. There won't ever be any Outlook or Microsoft powered Enterprise email client for Windows RT. They are devices and are managed way worse then even iOS and Android tablets are. Then again their competition aren't Android and iOS tablets, and Atom computers is an full feature computer. It's managed by IT as a computer, it's not competing against Windows RT devices and it can run Office today where there is none available for Windows RT at release. Plenty of ARM SoC's use more silicon then the Intel Clovertrail in mobile variants. That it is designed for Microsoft is moot when ARM-powered Windows RT devices will be just as locked down if not more. It's not like you can virtualize another OS on the ARM-devices either. Drives for PowerVR on Windows RT won't exactly be any better either it's still WDDM drivers. What this chip competes against is Brazos 2.0 and Hondo APU's and coming Temash/Kabini APU's from AMD. Temash will have GCN-graphics but Intel's alternative will be on their own Intel graphics by around then. Besides Atom Z2580 is capable of running Android. If that is your gripe.
Z2760 is already pretty much out in products today, reviews of pre-production stuff is already around. Availability is 26 October. I.e. Windows 8 release. They are fully competitive against early Windows RT ARM-tablets. Even battery wise. They do run Office 2010/2013 beta, where you have nothing for Windows RT today. If you look at Surface RT vs Pro battery, RT will have a 31.5Wh battery and Pro will have a 42Wh battery, but that is a Ivy Bridge powered device! A Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 uses a 25.9Wh battery. The Galaxy Note 10.1 battery weights 136 grams. It's still much smaller then the 42.5Wh battery of iPad 3-gen. No real issue here. How is that more then twice as large? iPad is a 9.7-inch device. Note 10.1 is of course a 10.1-inch. It's roughly twice as large as a 7/7.7-inch device but much of that comes form the display! It's note twice as large as Note 10.1 or Tab 2 10.1 with the same 25.9 Wh battery for Tab 2. Add 25-30 g and you fit the slightly larger battery in there.
PowerVR Series 6/Rogue aren't out in ARM-SoC's yet either, but Intel's own GPU technology does support Windows/DX/OGL fairly well compared to PowerVR-Windows drives. When you get Valleyview next year with Intel graphics, it should work pretty well as a computing platform. After Saltwell based stuff you also get Silvermont (like Valleyview). It's not like Z2760 are suppose to compete against the competition in a years time, late 2013. It's not a new generation chip it's still 2008 Atom-architecture/pipeline. Z2760 is only aimed at tablets where 1.7W TDP is actually okay. Android stuff can always use Z2460, Z2560 when available or use whatever else Hondo aren't meant to run it but you can always make it run, should compete well with Windows-based devices though.
Intel's reference platform here on Z2760 uses a 30 Wh battery just read the damn press release, it's video playback with WiFi activated, but local playback. Over 10 hours for that scenario is totally reasonable. The only real difference on this platform against full featured notebook chips is that it will run 32-bit Windows rather then 64-bit. The platform will use about the same size batteries as ARM-based Windows RT devices. But for summary i.e. 25Wh iPad 2 is not significantly smaller then a 30Wh battery Z2760 device. Reply
relic1138 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkI will bet anything that this CPU will get you a max of 6 hours of battery life when it's first introduced. I have never seen a 10 plus hour Atom system, real world not paper specs. My Samsung 7.7 Tab, now that get's 12 hours consistently. Reply
Ailuros - Saturday, September 29, 2012 - linkSGX545 belongs to the Series5 family as ltcommanderdata already noted and therefore has four Vec2 ALUs, a quite strong triangle setup unit and 16 z/stencil units. Series5 is not configurable in multiple cores, it's just one core in Cedartrail/Clovertrail clocked at 533MHz.
Apple's GPUs since the iPad2 have Series5XT GPUs which can scale multiple cores and the SGX543MP3 in A6 should have a frequency of 300MHz at least.
In terms of triangle throughput a SGX545@533MHz vs. a SGX543MP3@300MHz should be on comparable levels, the MP3 has almost 60% more texel fillrate, about 70% higher z/stencil/pixel fillrates and >120% more ALU throughput.
Frequency by itself doesn't define final performance. As for Clovertrail Intel stated DX9.1 there (whatever that means...probably DX9.0L3) and OpenGL3.0. OGL3.0 is far and beyond above DX9L3 capabilities so it's probably just an issue with IMG getting WHQL certification for DX10.1 for Cedartrail initially and now probably also for Clovertrail.
Other than that Apple's SGX543 GPU cores are just DX9.0, while SGX544 is DX9.0L3, but under iOS anything above DX9 seems to be redundant for the time being. A windows platform is an entirely different chapter. Reply
fteoath64 - Monday, October 01, 2012 - linkGood estimation on the the gpu performances. We shall see soon when the benchmarks are released on an equal (as close as possible) footing. The good news for Intel is that the power consumption of this chip is respectable but clock for clock, it is almost on par with Tegra3 and considering Tegra 3 has only a single channel memory and a 12 pipeline gpu. The next iteration of Tegra3 will be significant. Even if Nvidia choose to release a slightly tweaked Tegra 3.5 (eg dual ch LPDDR3 1333Mhz, 16pipe Geforce update (400mhz --> 600mhz turbo core) and cpu cranked to 1.8Ghz. This will step the Tegra another 30% ahead of this atom!. Also Intel with their cheapo 32nm process where it could very well do 22nm runs since this is going to be small volumes due to very few customers ....
Almost there but the competition just went another step or two further.
Does it look like Intel is intending to "lock" ARM out of the low-end of the Win8 tablet market ?. If they later slash prices aggressively, it might just work for them. But the issue is that Android is relevant and will keep up its momentum in the tablet space for a long time to come. Win8 RT might see a limited run due to high prices!. That would be a shame. Reply
Wilco1 - Monday, October 01, 2012 - linkThere are indications that Win8 tablets will cost much more than WinRT ones despite WinRT having faster CPU/GPUs, lower power consumption and likely better resolution screens. Win8 makes sense if you absolutely need x86 compatibility and are willing to pay more. That would make Win8 popular with businesses and WinRT with the general public.
So on the consumer side I predict the battle will be solely between Android, iOS and WinRT tablets. Businesses are likely to go with Win8 by default. Reply
relic1138 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - linkNo indications they will cost more, Samsung and Asus in Europe have both posted pre-order pages for their tablets running this CPU. They start at 600 without keyboard and 700 with, this is for the bottom configs. Reply
thebeastie - Tuesday, October 09, 2012 - linkI just cant help but think about the fact that if I am in a Windows ARM RT environment any anti-virus scanner I have wont need to look for like 1 million+ viruses since they cant run x86.. Just makes me feel a lot better.
I think the only fair benchmarks you can run is an Clover Trail Atom Win 8 tablet WITH active AV going in the background VS a Windows RT tablet.
Cant help but think that the Clover Trail will need all the extra grunt it can muster to hold onto some performance, and it better be doing that AV protection with out sucking the battery, yeah good luck with that.
Anyway will see in the benchmarks, oh yeah its not going to be benchmarked to satisfy the average user setup with active AV installed is it? Reply
Wolfpup - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkI'm impressed that Intel really seems to have gotten a just plain better product here...looks like they're beating performance, matching or beating power, and of course most importantly...this can run real Windows, your real programs, etc.
Very cool, but I have to wonder, what about AMD's c and e series CPUs?
Are they still manufactured at 40nm? Do they not support this new polling stuff? If not, then I guess this Atom would make more sense...but I'd still feel better about having an actually-kinda-modern-ish dual core 1.6GHz (or whatever) e chip from AMD...or of course an A series chip would be ideal, since you can actually plausibly use an A8 or A10 as your main PC, even for games... Reply

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This article was published 5/2/2013 (1657 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I am madly enamoured of a man who is inappropriate. He is my high school principal and I am a teacher. I have felt this way for a long time. It keeps me from moving on and finding another man. I see him five days a week and on the weekend I do extra work for my students to impress him. Because of this, I am a totally amazing teacher. He goes home to what? I don't know. I just know he's single now, too, and I go home to nothing. I want him in very bad way. He is so suited to me and we have all the same interests. I don't know how he can't be noticing it too. I can FEEL he really likes me, too. At Christmas I counted the days until I was back in school, and he seemed relieved to see me, too. He invited me to stay after school on some flimsy excuse to talk with him and we were in his office for an hour. I know this is getting crazy already. Should I make a possible career-wrecking move? -- Fire Well Involved, Winnipeg
Dear Fire: Let's say you show your big cards now, and he responds favourably. Then what do you do? Sneak around all year, with people whispering behind your backs? That's not to say people working in schools haven't gotten together and even gotten married, but they have had to be smart about it. If you transfer to another school in the fall, things would have a much better chance. You could tell him in May, and when you both know you're going, something might start to happen. If he asks you why you want to go, you can say honestly "because I have a crush on you." Too bold for your style? You could make a move, like having a theme dinner pot luck party, inviting staff. Would he come? Would he abstain from coming on some excuse? What if you asked for his help? Life is too short not to do anything if you're both single, both hetero and both care.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I am responding to the young lady, 28, in St. Boniface whose boyfriend is lacking in the sexual department. I would counsel her to take heed of your reply. Having reached my senior years, now in my 70s being married to a man for 45 years who sadly lacked in the making love area of our lives is painful and lonely. No amount of common hobbies or togetherness makes up for low response in another if the other is very sexually responsive. Having experienced a low sex drive in my man from the start and thinking things would and could change does not happen. Pay attention and find a man who passionately desires you and acts upon it mutually. Good luck. Also Lonely, St. Boniface
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I'm having an issue placing codes on my site and Safari is driving me absolutely nuts since its not rendering anything that I styled with pre tags. Chrome however, renders fine.
Here's an example page to show my problem: http://www.zell-weekeat.com/creating-web-layouts-part-1-html/
Looks fine in Safari to me. Have you since added the <code> tags?
Yup. I 've wrapped each code blocks with <pre> and <code>.
Did you see the font as Proxima Nova in Safari? I changed my fonts to Source Code Pro in my style sheets and my Safari is still showing Proxima Nova. Also, I configured word wrap but it didn't get wrapped. Instead, it flowed right out of my text content block.
I see Source Code Pro in Chrome and Safari.
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I did a restart on my computer and everything now seemed fine.
Thanks for checking it out for me ralph
Am now thinking whether a word wrap or a overflow would do better for code blocks. I usually see overflow-x more often than word wrap..
I do overflow: auto for the <pre> and I add word-wrap for mobiles (via @media), as I find overflow on mobiles either doesn't work or is really difficult to use.
Sounds like a great plan.
Must I set overflow to none in the media queries for mobile if I were to set word wrap?
Nah, leave it as is.
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Super Bowl XLVII is this weekend, which means I'm getting ready to make a big batch of football finger foods. To me, this classic American experience isn't just about the Big Game (and the entertaining commercials), but also about the good drinks and finger lickin' foods. This year I'm pairing sweet-and-spicy snacks with a few zippy, homemade cocktails for an outstanding Super Bowl spread.
I'm starting with a Sweet and Spicy Popcorn Snack Mix (pictured above). Popcorn, almonds and pepitas are tossed in a buttery mixture of sugar, smoky chili powder, lemon zest and hot cayenne. Caution: This zesty, cayenne-kissed snack is highly addictive.
Next, I'm opting for chicken wings, a Game Day classic. While there is really no such thing as bad chicken wings, it's rare to have really memorable wings that are sweet, sticky and bursting with spicy, sinus-clearing flavor. These Spiced Honey-Glazed Chicken Wings are perfumed with honey, curry powder, cumin and piquant hot sauce.
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WHEN Tracey Darwell and Trevor Caine both suffered heart attacks they never expected to find love in their cardiac rehabilitation class.
But last June Mrs Darwell, aged 50, and Mr Caine, aged 56, met and today they will tie the knot at Mere Hall Register Office, Halliwell, following a whirlwind romance.
Both were struck down by heart attacks within days of one another, Mrs Darwell on June 3 and Mr Caine on June 14, and found themselves at the exercise and information sessions.
Mrs Darwell, a healthcare assistant in the delivery suite at Royal Bolton Hospital, said: "I didn't want to go. I said, I'm 50-years-old, I don't own trainers and joggers.
"I decided to try it once to see if I liked it. Anyway, I loved it."
After spending a week in hospital, where he had a coronary stent fitted, Mr Caine started attending the class of 14.
He said: "We just started chatting, like you do. There wasn't just me and Tracey. Nothing happened, we were just chatting away."
They hit it off and love blossomed, with the couple getting together a month later.
Mr Caine, of Prestolee Road, Stoneclough, who has three daughters, said: "It was the best thing that ever happened to me, as daft as it sounds.
"I couldn't be happier. She never stops laughing. It's everything about her, she's just fantastic.
"It's like we've been together for years. We didn't see why we should wait.
"We've both had heart attacks, why wait 18 months, two years?"
Mrs Darwell, from Little Lever, who has two sons, said: "My husband died 10 years ago on Valentine's Day of a heart attack.
"I always said I would never get married again. I wasn't looking for anybody."
But after meeting Mr Caine, the mother-of-two had a change of heart.
She said: "We just get on together, I love him to pieces.
"I told my friends, I've met this man, I'm in love, God sent him to me.
"I'm going to marry him."
The pair are now looking forward to a long and happy future together after their heart attacks, which came as a shock. Following this afternoon's ceremony in front of 40 friends and family, seven bridesmaids and two best men, they will honeymoon in the Lake District and then move into a bungalow in Little Lever.
Mrs Darwell said: "Our lives are just beginning after they both nearly came to an end.
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Jarrett Bay's cold-molded, custom-designed boats are constructed with a hands-on approach.
By Elizabeth A. Ginns
Maybe I've been living in New York City for too long, but these days it seems like the quicker you can get something done, the better. Take, for example, McDonalds—a number of them now guarantee your food in 90 seconds or less. Or how about online access? Instant access, through the likes of DSL and cable connections, has become the preferred method for surfing the Web. Even this article that I'm writing is wanted sooner, as opposed to later. But at Jarrett Bay Boatworks in Beaufort, North Carolina, the old saying of "good things come to those who wait" seems to be alive and well.
It is true that all boats—even production boats—are handmade to a certain extent. There are no machines that just produce these magnificent machines without human input. But Jarrett Bays, cold-molded, custom boats that possess the Carolina flare that's a trademark of vessels built in this part of the country, are hands-on handmade.
They're entirely hand-sanded (I didn't see one power sander the several hours I spent touring the facility), largely hand-painted, and designed from the ground up—even down to the doorknobs—as per customer specifications. And customers don't simply dictate whether they'd like cherry or burlwood for their cabinetry or whether they'd like Caterpillars or MTUs; rather he/she is involved in the entire process—from the boat's conception, straight through to the color of the interior fabrics and even the interior set up. Entire staterooms can be relocated or even eliminated, closets can be removed for rod stowage, towers can be re-angled, and more. Gary Davis, head of new construction, and others involved in the construction of a Jarrett Bay concede that their customers become "like family" by the time construction is complete.
Though there are different approaches to cold-molded construction and certain builders prefer one material to another, Jarrett Bay builds on a wooden-framed jig, not on a mold, and the structural portion of its boats are built upside down, directly on the jig. Three layers of thinly laminated okume plywood (thin enough to bend by hand, which is a key reason Jarrett Bay uses this medium) of varied thickness are stacked one on top of the other in alternating directions. Each layer gets, as Davis says, "glued, screwed, and tattooed," under the guidance of Vince Russell, who oversees most of the hull construction. It's then fiberglassed on both the inside and, once the hull is removed from the jig and flipped, outside as well.
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Sojo has luxury of tinkering with lineup
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Team Venezuela manager Luis Sojo used both Tuesday's and Wednesday's exhibition games before his team departed for Puerto Rico and the World Baseball Classic to play around with his lineup.
A luxury he appreciates, Sojo had Elvis Andrus as the designated hitter and Asdrubal Cabrera as the shortstop on Wednesday. Salvador Perez started for Miguel Montero at catcher.
"I've got a lot of flexibility with the lineup," Sojo said. "If you turn it around, it's going to look real good. We've got three to five guys -- Pablo Sandoval, Miguel Cabrera and Carlos Gonzalez -- they all are great hitters on their team."
Omar Infante started for Marco Scutaro at second base. During batting practice, Cabrera took grounders at the hot corner -- his position with the Tigers. Sandoval has manned third base for two consecutive days.
There are countless All-Stars, a pair of National League Gold Glove Award-winning outfielders, an American League MVP an NL Championship Series MVP and a World Series MVP on the roster.
"It's definitely a really good, balanced team," Scutaro said. "We have a little of everything. We have some pop, some speedy guys and good defense. It's all a matter of between those two lines and trying to perform."
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Tourists visiting Seattle this summer will have direct access to Queen Anne via a new route with Emerald City Trolley.
The trolley service's motto is to show the best of what Seattle has to offer, said sales and marketing specialist Allison Fraser.
"We want to be a vehicle to get people off the beaten path and [see] the hidden gems," she said. "Queen Anne is absolutely one of those places."
Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce president Connor Haffey started lobbying for the trolley to come to the area at the end of last summer. The chamber didn't sponsor or pay for the service to come to the area, but it will likely buy advertising space with the trolley.
Emerald City Trolley was already thinking of expanding to Queen Anne. Once company officials attended a Queen Anne Chamber meeting and spoke to the businesses, "we said, 'Hello, Queen Anne is a great option,'" Fraser said.
Right now, Emerald City Trolley has two routes: one downtown, and the other goes to city overlooks and the Ballard Locks. The Queen Anne stop will be added to the second route after a stop at Kerry Park. Fraser estimates the stop will be on Queen Anne Avenue North between West Crockett and Boston streets.
The service will begin on weekends starting May 23 and then move to full daily service on June 6 until Sept. 28. The service is slated to stop in Queen Anne every 45 minutes, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Each trolley typically holds 30 to 35 passengers. This summer, Emerald City expects ridership to hit 17,000 between the two routes.
Right now, the plan is to just offer the service during the summer months, although Emerald City is considering a holiday-shopping tour trolley, which it offered on its downtown route last December.
A neighborhood benefit
Those are 17,000 people who probably wouldn't stop in the area otherwise, Haffey said. People who live on Queen Anne can only do so much to support local businesses, he said; having those extra people who can see what the area has to offer "should be a great benefit."
Even though there are Metro buses that run up Queen Anne Avenue, they don't offer the same experience, Fraser said. The trolleys have a tour guide on board who points out highlights and gives tourists tips on where to eat and shop. On a city bus, tourists don't get "that added level of narration," although Fraser admits this method may be a little bit slower than taking a bus.
Chamber executive director Charley Shore said parking is "horrendous everywhere, so I think this will be a no-brainer for people." Tourism often "stalemates in the downtown area," she said, so hopefully this will be a way to entice people up on the hill.
The trolley is in tandem with the quaintness Queen Anne area strives for, Shore said: "Tourists especially will think that that's part of the experience — taking the trolley."
Speed won't be as important to tourists, and even though locals do use the service, it's typically when they have family in town, Fraser said; they don't often see commuters using the service.
Shore said she hopes local will also take advantage of the service as an easy way to get in and out of the area.
Business support
The stop on Queen Anne Avenue between Crockett and Boston streets isn't a coincidence: The trolley service gets funding from local business partners, who influence where it stops. The names of those businesses haven't been officially announced.
Fraser said the new stop will be a big boost to businesses in the area. "We feel it adds a great deal of value because we're providing an option to get tourists to that area to shop, explore and eat," she said. "It brings more money into the area without clogging the streets with traffic and taxis."
Queen Anne is a great area for tourists, Fraser said, but often it's difficult or confusing to get there. Luckily, the local business community has been really welcoming to the trolley service, Fraser said.
"We're so happy Queen Anne has welcomed us as they have," she said.
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A Notebook Of Visual Musings
de George Quiroga
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A variety of imagery provides inspirations for those that like to jot things down, write poetry and song, doodle, sketch, or put pen to paper for any reason. This is a notebook that is sprinkled with a mix of eclectic images whose only connection is with the soul of the author. Enjoy.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Bellas artes
15×23 cm
80 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación nov. 16, 2012
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George Quiroga has been involved with photography in one form or another since he first saw an image develop in his father's darkroom at the age of four. Photography is the way that captures how George views his life and the surroundings that make his world complete. He considers himself a freelance artist that uses photography as his primary medium and relishes that freedom to explore his vision without bounds. Major influences on his vision include his father's optimistic outlook of life and poetic artistry combined with his mother's talent for painting. George chooses subjects that signify beauty both in the natural world or man-made. George resides in South Florida but has traveled to interesting places in the world in search of inspiration, new experiences, and a unique image or two.
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In a recent taped workshop, an executive at PwC, the professional services firm, shares that she's uneasy revealing the brand-name organisations she's advised for fear of "bragging". Another says she's hesitant to say the names of chief executives she's worked with directly, lest it looks like she's "name-dropping".
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Topic: Just when we were getting better
It has been quite sometime since I've posted and have really missed being on the site. May 8, Emilee and I were hit head on by a drunk driver just 2 miles from our home. I send praise and joy to the Lord for the both of us...Emilee escaped with absolutely no injuries other than that of the seatbelt and airbag. They flew her to Flagstaff Medical just as precaution. I however, my right femur shattered along with my ankle and heel. I was also flown to Flag, and underwent three surgeries within two weeks time. I am now in a cast and will undergo therapy after July 2 to walk again. I have a metal rod in my thigh holding things together, a brand new plastic ankle and heel! Can't wait to get some use out of them. During my stay in the hospital....I just kept thinking of Lee and all of our loved one's as they battled day in and day out, fighting this cancer...how brave, strong and awesome they all are and were to face such a beast. Their stories of hope and strength helped me not to complain. Gave me strength to get up and do as the doc's said even though it hurt like hell. Gave me peace that if they suffered the way they all did, my little ol' broken leg was nothin' but that...a little ol' broken leg and I was going to make it through this no matter what. It made me a whole lot tougher than I ever could imagine. I am soooo very grateful that I found this site well over a year ago...because looking back, I would have never thought I would be where I am now, getting through every day on hope, faith, love and the inspiration of everyone here.


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- Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces
- Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice
- Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy
- The Inscrutable Eye: Watercolors by John Singer Sargent in Isabella Stewart Gardner's Collection
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The Roman Tower, Andernach
Joseph Mallord William Turner, British, 1775-1851
Watercolor on paper, 20 x 28 cm
Genre: European Art, Paintings
Location: Yellow Room
Accession Number: P1e12
After the defeat of Napoleon, Europe was again open to travel and in 1817 J. M. W. Turner visited the battlefield of Waterloo and then journeyed up the Rhine River. On his return to England, he produced a large number of watercolors based on graphite sketches he made of the Rhine. Fifty-one of these drawings, including this one, were acquired by Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall, one of Turner's most important patrons as well as a close friend. Although not made on the spot, this drawing preserves a freshness and spontaneity. Throughout his career, Turner adjusted his watercolor technique to the scenery he encountered, and as a result, each set of drawings possesses an individual style.
When Mrs. Gardner acquired this watercolor, she was still feeling her way as a serious collector. She was initially interested in British art, and the purchase of this watercolor by Turner, as well as a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti – both bought at auctions of famous collections at fairly high prices – shows her determination to start at the top. However, despite talk of buying Gainsborough's celebrated Blue Boy, her interest in British pictures soon fizzled.
Source: Alan Chong, "The Roman Tower, Andernach," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 191.
Purchased in 1890 at the London auction of the collection of Walter Fawkes.


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Strasburg's sparkling outing bests Hamels, Phillies
Righty allows one run over eight innings as Nats take series finale
WASHINGTON -- In the first six innings of Sunday's rubber game against the Phillies, the Nationals had three hits. Their right-handed ace, Stephen Strasburg, had two of them.
But in the seventh inning, two slow rollers changed all that. Ryan Zimmerman hit a dribbler to second base and beat the throw to first. Three batters later, backup catcher Jhonatan Solano rolled another one toward third base to score Zimmerman, waking a dormant Nationals offense.
Washington went on to score four more runs in the inning to back Strasburg, who had nine strikeouts, and pick up a 6-1 win over the Phillies at Nationals Park.
It's not exactly how manager Davey Johnson drew it up. But he'll take it.
"Those things, that's called momentum," Johnson said. "Once you start getting a little bit of momentum going your way, that's what you need."
Added shortstop Ian Desmond: "A couple weeks ago, they probably would've turned a double play on that swinging bunt by Solano, somehow, some way. But things are starting to unfold. … We're getting those lucky drops every once in a while, and that's what you need."
Strasburg and Hamels had a combined record of 3-12 entering Sunday, but neither pitched like it on a cool afternoon before an announced crowd of 39,033. Hamels fanned five of his first seven batters. Strasburg in one stretch retired 14 of 15, striking out nine during that span. He struck out the side in both the fourth and sixth innings.
"My fastball command has gotten a little better as the season has gone on, and I've gotten more comfortable out of the stretch," Strasburg said after allowing just one run in eight innings. "It's all about making adjustments. Sometimes you're not going to start the year where you want to be, but it's all about how you end the season."
Strasburg was sharp. He had excellent control of his fastball and struck out the Phillies' Nos. 3, 4, and 5 hitters twice each. The only blemish on his afternoon was a balk, the first of his career, in the eighth inning. Strasburg moved his right arm while standing on the rubber, which home-plate umpire Mike Winters viewed as a move toward his glove. The balk allowed Ben Revere to score from third base.
"It can be interpreted both ways," Johnson said. "It was a fine line in there."
Strasburg said he wasn't focused on outpitching his counterpart, Hamels, though the two pitchers traded strikeouts -- and hits. Hamels singled off Strasburg to lead off the third inning. Then Strasburg doubled off Hamels in the bottom of the inning, and also singled in the sixth.
The Nationals finally found some traction after the seventh-inning stretch. Zimmerman worked a full count and hit a dribbler to second base and beat out Freddy Galvis' flip to first. Adam LaRoche singled to right field, and Desmond laid down a bunt to advance the runners.
"I thought it was a good job of Desi getting that bunt down," Strasburg said. "It's all about putting pressure on the other guy. [Hamels] hung in there for a long time, and I just had to keep on going out there and match his zeros. We were able to go out there and get it done late in the game."
After Desmond's bunt, Tyler Moore took three balls before Hamels intentionally walked him to load the bases. Solano followed with a slow roller to third baseman Michael Young, whose throw home went between the legs of Phillies catcher Humberto Quintero, allowing both Zimmerman and LaRoche to score.
"I knew it'd be bang-bang," Young said. "My gut told me he'd probably have a beat on it to be safe, but you've got to go for it there."
Steve Lombardozzi cleared the bases in the next at-bat, doubling down the right-field line toward Delmon Young. Lombardozzi then scored on a double to left by Denard Span. After Strasburg exited the game with 112 pitches -- the third straight game in which he's exceeded 100 -- Tyler Clippard pitched a scoreless ninth.
The Nationals once again recorded double-digit hits, and there was speculation after the game that this would allow Johnson to finally shave the stubbles of gray hair on his chin. He promised not to shave until the bats got hot, but now that they have, he's hesitant to mess with the mojo.
"It's getting close," Johnson said with a smile.
Tom Schad is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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THE forecast looks bright for a student whose weather website gained 128,000 hits during his coverage of Typhoon Haiyan.
Nathan Foy has developed an interest in climate patterns and his coverage of the devastation in the Philippines on his Force 13 website saw thousands log on for the latest updates.
The budding broadcaster was rewarded with an invitation from the BBC to Media City in Salford to see what goes on behind the scenes of some of the region's most successful shows.
Nathan, aged 18, said: "It was quite an experience to see the studio, what goes on behind the studio and have a chat with a people who work there."
He is studying at Diversity in Barrier-Breaking Communications, an organisation based at Bolton Market that helps people develop confidence through broadcasting.
Nathan, from Leigh, who has autism, also presents a radio show using a computer, two monitors and a microphone in his bedroom.
His coverage of Typhoon Haiyan was extensive before it struck south Asia in November.
It was the most powerful storm on record and it looked ominous from an early stage according to Nathan, who suggested such devastation could be a feature of future storms.
He said: "There was always the threat that it was going to be quite a bad storm but I don't think anybody could have predicted it would be as bad as it was.
"It's up for discussion at the moment. I don't think we are seeing anything abnormal just yet. Some people say we will see fewer storms but more intense ones."


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By Rick Maze
The Defense Department could take a leap forward in its sexual assault prevention programs this summer with the planned deployment of an all-service database to track the names of victims and alleged offenders, the nature of the assaults, and the outcomes, if any, of legal proceedings.
This will require the services to take a more uniform approach to issues such as handling evidence and conflicting testimony, and also will provide a better look at the scope of the sexual assault problem across all of the services.
A Government Accountability Office report, dated March 30 but released April 10, updates lawmakers on 25 recommendations made by the congressional watchdog group since 2005 for improvements in sexual assault prevention programs.
One bit of progress: The Defense Department has prepared a defense-wide policy for criminal investigative organizations so that all will use the same basic processes and rules for collecting and using evidence. The policy also calls for the services to share resources in both investigating and prosecuting sexual crimes.
Congress mandated a defense-wide database of sexual assaults in 2008, but a joint-service system won't be fully operational until August, according to the report.
The services generally define sexual assault in the same way, but until now, they have had their own approaches for undertaking investigations, retaining evidence and keeping records. Having everyone record crimes in the same way lets the services compare which may be more successful with sexual assault prevention programs.
The report was provided to Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., who has led a bipartisan group of lawmakers pushing the Defense Department to do more to address sexual assault in the ranks.
Slaughter has sponsored legislation to require expanded legal training for judge advocates involved in the investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults, and to make conversations that a sexual assault victim had with a victims' advocate or health care professional confidential, meaning they could not be used in legal proceedings.
(To read original article, visit this Army Times link [1])
[1] http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/04/military-pentagon-plans-sexual-assault-crime-database-041012w/
[2] http://www.nsvrc.org/news/news-field


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To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Pan Macmillan imprint Picador is re-issuing 12 of its 'greatest novels' in March.
This one-off list, which is being spearheaded by Picador UK, draws on prize-winning and bestselling authors from 40 years of publishing, including Bret Easton Ellis, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold, Helen Fielding, Graham Swift, Alan Hollinghurst and Australia's Tim Winton.
'It's an incredible list,' says Picador Australia publisher Alex Craig. 'Man Booker Prize winners (Last Orders, The Sea, The Line of Beauty), cultural game changers (American Psycho, Bridget Jones's Diary), classics (All the Pretty Horses) and bestsellers (The Lovely Bones, Room).'
In Australia, the list includes three local titles—Tim Winton's Dirt Music (which is part of the UK-selected top 12), Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance and Carrie Tiffany's Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living. These hand-picked titles have been chosen to reflect 'the spirit of the anniversary—representing the past, the present and the future of the imprint', says Craig. 'All three novels engage with Australian themes and concerns deeply rooted in our landscape, history and psyche. All are stunning novelists at the forefront of Australian literature.'
As with any new series, the design is crucial. Picador has chosen black-and-white jackets as a nod to the 'distinctive white spines and black type' of Picador's early paperbacks. Each title includes extra content such as reading-group notes, interviews and articles from the authors (all published around the time the novels were released), and is priced between $19.99 and $22.99.
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Drinking raw milk is risky business, but a new report published Wednesday in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, shows that it may be riskier than previously reported, according to an NBC News article available here.
Researchers, looking at cases in Minnesota over the last decade, found that raw milk sickened one in six people who consumed unpasteurized dairy, with children most at risk.
USA Today reports that 60 percent of the illnesses reported occurred in children and teens. Twenty-five percent occurred in children under the age of 5, including an 11-month-old infant who died after contracting toxic E. coli O157 infection.
"Outbreaks associated with raw milk occur frequently and receive a lot of media attention, but our study shows that sporadic cases of illnesses associated with raw milk consumption far outnumber cases associated with recognized outbreaks," Robinson said in an email to NBC News. "We hope that our findings will help inform potential raw milk consumers when thinking about drinking raw milk or giving it to their children."
Read, "Drinking raw milk is risky business, new report suggests."
The researchers found about 530 people who were sickened by raw milk over the last 10 years, and about half of those who became ill received their raw milk from their own or a relative's farm. However, researchers warn that the actual number of cases may be undercounted and "just the tip of the iceberg."
They suggest that based on previous research, the 530 cases represented 20,000 actual cases. Read more here.
Recently, a family in Tennessee experienced first-hand the dangers of feeding raw milk to children. Five-year-old Maddie Powell was one of nine children sickened in the outbreak. She was hospitalized for nearly a month after developing hemolytic uremic syndrome, a potentially fatal kidney disease associated with severe E. coli infections. Powell was released from the hospital in late November.


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UF lineman released from jail
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 12:01 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 12:01 p.m.
Florida offensive lineman Jessamen Dunker was released on his own recognizance Thursday morning, a day after his arrest for grand theft of a motor vehicle on the UF campus.
Dunker, a redshirt freshman from Boynton Beach, was arrested for driving a scooter that had been reported stolen. Along with the third-degree felony charge for grand theft of a vehicle, Dunker was charged with driving with a suspended license, a misdemeanor.
UF coach Will Muschamp is aware of the incident and likely will address Dunker's standing with the team Friday when he meets with the media.
Huntley Johnson, Dunker's attorney, said Dunker purchased the scooter for $600.
"His position is he paid $600 for the scooter and I'm prepared to represent him on that basis," Johnson said.
The State Attorney's Office will investigate the incident and then decide whether or not to bring formal charges against Dunker.
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We are MBAs. We are supposed to be about business, strategy, maximising profits; so the most common words you should be hearing in the business school should be "show me the money!", Jerry Maguire-style. But that is not what I heard or have been hearing at Saïd, at least recently. It is about the human side of the MBA. Read more
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>Off the Beaten Path>Using a forerunner 205 for geocaching
Best Present Ever
My kids have been geocaching with an outdoor camp and have enjoyed it. My daughter and I are doing a short back backpack trip this weekend (should be chilly! We still have snow on the mountains, which isn't usual for early November in Shenandoah). I know there are bunches of caches in the section we'll be in, and I'm hoping it will distract my daughter from whining about how miserable she is.
It appears that I can use my 205 to download waypoints, whatever that means. Does anyone have simple instructions for the not-bright?
Use your smartphone instead? Tried with my 305 and it didn't work well. We then found the app for the android phone and that is easy as can be.
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul.
Use your smartphone instead?
Use your smartphone instead?
+1 on this. Tried with my 405 and it was a little frustrating.
Since then have had success with android & WP apps. I'm sure there's one for iPhone too!!
2013 Goals1) Break 1:50 in a HM (PR 1:52:19)2) Break 4:00 in a Marathon (PR 4:20:39)
Feeling the growl again
I have the Android geocaching app, it looks pretty good but I haven't applied it in a real-life setting yet.
As for concerns about running down your battery....that is going to take quite a bit of GPS operating time. I used my Android phone as a GPS in VERY secluded Montana last year, with a mapping app, and it worked very well. You can't leave the GPS on all day, but you can get quite a few hours in without worrying about depleting a battery that started full.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
I hate to run down my battery tho when I'm backpacking with my daughter in case of emergency...
My wife has a droid razr (I still have an old dumb phone) and it eats battery something fierce. We bought one of these and it is great. At something like 3 times the battery in the phone, we no longer have to worry when we will be able to charge.
I have an old Garmon Etrex I have used for years it is simple and gets the job done . I have a 2 year old smart phone with a crappy GPS that really struggles to get a single but I love the apps for it. One App I have gotten into is Munzee hunting and this could be become bigger than Geocaching. Not too many around my area but the numbers sure are growing. .


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talk about the last second advice warning. ios7 released in a minute supposedly.
holding off upgrading my Iphone 5 and IPAD 2 which are on 6.1.4 and 6.1.3 as want to jailbreak them both.
Is it possible for me to still upgrade to 6.1.4 even tho 7 has been released ?. I'm convinced that I have a bug that is causing my poor battery life, would like to do a DFU restore back to stock to see if it sorts my battery issue, at least that way I could rejailbreak when winocm releases his untether for 6.1.4 in the near future
If I want to upgrade my JB iPhone and iPad from 6.1.2 to 7, should I uninstall my Cydia tweaks first? Once iOS 7 installs, I can't access them so they will just be wasting lots of space "reported as other" in iTunes.
They will continue to sign 6.13/6.14 for a short time. You can restore now but don't leave it too long.
iH8Sn0w's advice is standard but well worth repeating.
Updating my iPad 3 now (It's taking a while). I have decided to wait on the iPhone 5, because I have lots of tweaks that I like including the ios 7 theme. Hubby's iPhone is not jailbroken, maybe I will upgrade his later after I play around with the iPad. I have to admit, I am excited to see what it looks like on my iPad. How long should it take?
I don't plan having a jailbroken phone since I have the iPhone 4, and I will wait for the next iPhone 6, maybe? On my phone the jailbreak of 6.1.2 was slowing me down and I did not like it at all. Yes I had the option to get all the tweaks and free stuff but, eehhhhhh I don't think that sacrificing the speed for the jailbreak was worth it. I haven't been jailbroken for almost 5 months now and I have to tell you, I don't miss it as much as I thought I would.
Like they said, its a personal decision, and you have your own opinion.
BiteSMS (quick reply is essential)
Mail Enhancer Pro
Pandora Downloader (this alone is worth jailbreaking)
ProTube Extension (extremely essential)
Like you, this is only my opinion, but I won't upgrade until most of these features are available in iOS 7 in one way or another.
Keep in mind that any jailbroken apps may not run on IOS 7 if they haven't been updated yet.
This is always the problem with a major IOS upgrade. However, if you can't wait (and I don't know why you would not wait), you can upgrade to IOS 7 thru Itunes 11.1 and that will erase all your jailbroken apps.
Also Saurik, the creater of Cydia and Winterboard has said that Winterboard may not be available for IOS 7 unless he gets help from the devs who have created themes which run on Winterboard.
I may not ever update to IOS 7. Most of the upgrades have been available for jailbroken devices for years.