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Extended Remote Copy (XRC), also known as z/OS Global Mirror is IBM's premier disaster recovery option for zSeries storage systems.
The XRC Performance Monitor provides additional information to better manage an XRC environment and help XRC achieve the desired performance (typically measured as the latency in updating the mirrored system)at a low cost. The monitor provides information in realtime and also maintains historic records. From a very high level or from a detailed perspective, administrators can view the parameters that contribute to system performance.
Several parts of an IBM zSeries™ environment affect the performance of XRC. The XRC Performance Monitor gathers information from important sources. This functionality not only helps determine the optimum XRC configuration,but also helps quickly identify performance bottlenecks. The XRC Performance Monitor is also useful in spotting trends that may lead to future performance problems;thus it can also assist with capacity planning.
Product highlights
- Provides essential information to verify that Extended Remote Copy (XRC)is meeting the desired service levels
- Collects the data needed to help optimize the use of resources and minimize costs
- Aids in capacity planning with historical trend information
- Helps eliminate performance bottlenecks quickly with real-time information
- Monitors key parameters on an ongoing basis and provides exception reports
- Extended Remote Copy
The IBM Extended Remote Copy (XRC) facility is a disaster recovery solution that helps provide fast recovery of computer operations if a site fails. It provides copy services to help maintain a secondary site with mirrored data so that a switch over can take place in a short amount of time. The primary site is connected to a secondary site using channel extenders and a telecommunications link (often multiple T1 or T3 lines).The System Data Mover software (frequently running on the secondary host) controls the transfer of data from the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server™ (ESS) at the primary site to the disk subsystem at the secondary location.
- The XRC Performance Monitor is accessed using any terminal connected to the host running the System Data Mover software. This can be either the primary or secondary host
- Components of the XRC Performance Monitor
The XRC Performance Monitor comprises three separate modules, which are integrated under one user interface.
- History monitor summarizes how the XRC system was running at a prior point in time. At approximately 15-minute intervals, this report displays key performance information in an easy-to-read sorted table. Detailed information can be obtained about each reader and specific volumes. This information, displayed graphically, can help identify volume contention that may have created bottlenecks. This report includes details about the telecommunications link, such as the amount of data transferred, as well as measures of the mirrored site, such as peak delay times and average delay times.
- Realtime monitor provides a summary of how single or coupled system data movers are running (system data movers update the secondary storage devices).This report queries the Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)to obtain the results. By displaying realtime information, the XRC Performance Monitor enables administrators to detect and resolve problems quickly.
- Batch exception monitor checks the monitor information at user defined intervals for predefined thresholds. This report generates console messages whenever thresholds are exceeded so administrators can take action, therefore eliminating the need for someone to constantly check the monitor.
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The bandwidth of the telecommunications link between the primary and secondary sites is one of the key manageable resources in an XRC system. Because of the cost of high-speed circuits, overbuying capacity can add expense without much benefit. Likewise, if the link is too slow, unacceptably long delays may be introduced when updating the mirrored system.
One of the key applications of the XRC Performance Monitor is to make sure the link is sized properly. Typically, traffic on the telecommunications link varies throughout the day. For example, batch updates to an online system at night often produce much higher traffic on the XRC link than daytime operations. Unattended charting enables administrators to see latency as it varies throughout the day so that they can size resources accordingly. Historical charts show trends, which can be useful for predicting future demands.
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Making his debut on HHK is London-based artist Pride, who has collaborated with U.K Hip-Hop veteran Savvy for the new single "The Right Idea". Released digitally on 25th February 2013, The Right Idea has been produced by Savvy himself, and comes with a number of remixes available to fans for download from the likes of DJ Q, XLII, The Whiteboys and Noji. The Right Idea will be released through Savvy's "Saving Grace Music" through their official bandcamp page which is listed above, however you can listen to Pride ft Savvy – The Right Idea on the soundcloud player below.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Discovery Channel is bringing back its hit "Monster Garage," relocating the production to Detroit and dubbing the series "MG: Motor City." It will premiere in the fall.
The show will feature a pair of top-notch bike designers and builders leading a team of fabricators, mechanics and welders who, with only seven days and $3,000, have to turn average vehicles into outrageous contraptions of fantasy and function.
The first episode in the new "MG: Motor City" will feature an antique Model T being transformed into a "gasser," a term coined in the 1950s when people modified their cars.
Thom Beers, creator/executive producer of the original, Southern California-set "Monster Garage" series, which ran on Discovery Channel from 2002 to 2006 and was hosted by Jesse James, is back as an executive producer of the new series alongside Tom McMahon. For Discovery Channel, Tim Pastore is executive producer.


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A vibration felt through the center floor of the vehicle can be caused by driveshaft flex discs, which crack and shred, causing excessive driveshaft movement. Not repairing these can cause damage to the driveshaft center support bearing, or, in the worst case scenario, damage to the transmission or differential.
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The Texas State Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is charged with overseeing and evaluating all aspects of the care and use of vertebrate animals for research or instructional purposes.
ALL use of vertebrate animals by Texas State University faculty, staff and students MUST be covered by a current protocol approval from the IACUC.
The Bobcat Online Protocol (BOP) system integrates application submission, review, tracking, and communication in addition to providing researchers with secure permanent access to their approved protocols.
Just the basics. This takes you through the six steps required to start and save a new protocol application.
Brief (most are less than one minute) video screenshot tutorials that focus on key aspects of starting, submitting, and managing a protocol in the system such as logging in, navigation, creating an application, accessing applications in process, using the messaging center, and checking protocol status.
No, you will use your regular Texas State Net ID and password.
Yes. The new system incorporates all of the questions from the previous forms but uses conditional branching. Depending on how they answer the initial questions — type of project, source of animals used, etc.— the subsequent questions applicants are presented with will vary.
Click on the section headings at the top of the page to move back and forth. The heading of the section you're currently is hightlighted in yellow. Sections you've previously visited are marked with a red diamond.
Required questions will be flagged in red by the system and must be completed before the application can be submitted.
Anything that's relevant to your application, such as CITI training certificate for project personnel, wildlife permits or licenses, MOUs with collaborating institutions, external protocols, etc.
Click on the "Submit Protocol for Review" button. The status of the application will change from "In Progress" to "Submitted."
The dates you entered are still there but the fields "Valid Start Date" and "Valid End Date" will display the date '1/1/1900' until the IACUC approves the project. This is because the IACUC may require modifications to the original project period. After approval, the "Valid Start Date" and "Valid End Date" fields will contain the dates approved by the IACUC.
There are two ways of tracking your application through the review and approval process:
When you first start an application, the status will be "Submission in Progress." It will change to "Submitted" after you submit it, then to "In Review" when the committee is considering it. If changes are requested, the status will be "In Revision," then change to "Revision Received" after you edit and submit the requested changes. The final application status will be "Approved" or "Not Approved."
Log in, click on "View and Edit Existing Applications," then "Details," then "Preview & Print Application" from the top menu
Log in. You'll notice your application status has changed to "In Revision." That unlocks the application and allows you to make changes. Click on "View and Edit Existing Applications," then "Details," then "Edit Application" from the top menu. When you finish your revisions, click on "Submit Protocol for Review."


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Your gift to help a hardworking entrepreneur will double in impact thanks to a generous World Vision partner.
Sopheak is from Cambodia. She has 2 children. She needs a loan of $350 to buy more chickens .
Sopheak is from Cambodia. She has 2 children. She needs a loan of $350 to buy more chickens .
Sopheak, the mother of two children, raises animals and sells fruit. Her husband is a taxi driver. She needs money to expand her animal business.
A World Vision micro loan will allow Sopheak to buy more chickens to raise and sell. She hopes to also raise pigs.
The income will help her support her children, keep them in school and when her family members get sick help pay for medical treatment.
The Agriculture business sector covers all farming and livestock activities. Some entrepreneurs request loans to help in securing supplies and equipment. Others want to buy more animals to breed or purchase feed and medicines. The majority of our loan clients live in rural communities where agriculture is already understood as a business model. It is for this reason that approximately 50% of our loans are in the agricultural sector.
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Thank you for partnering with World Vision Micro to provide Sopheak Krouch with a small loan for her farming and food business. Sopheak used her loan of $350 to buy more chickens. She continues to make weekly payments of $7 on time.
With the profits she has earned from her growing business, Sopheak is able to purchase food for the family, purchase school supplies and do home repairs.
Sopheak's two children continue to study in school. Thanks to Sopheak's hard work, she will be able to provide a brighter future for her them.
Thank you for supporting Sopheak's small business through World Vision Micro!
Sopheak Krouch has successfully repaid her small business loan. She invested the $350 for her farming and livestock business.
Thanks to the loan that she received, Sopheak was able to use the profits from her business to pay her children's school fees and expand her current business. In the future, Sopheak aspires to earn enough to send her children to school and expand her current business.
Sopheak's two children continue to study in school. Because she was able to invest in her business, she will be able to invest in her family.
Thank you for investing in the power of hardworking people like Sopheak through World Vision! These funds are now available to help other entrepreneurs in Sopheak's community.


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Come visit the Newton County Animal Shelter at 210 Lower River Road, open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. They would love for you to see what great animals they have for adoption. Call (770) 786-9514 for more information.
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This regularly updated compendium lists and briefly describes all of the projects funded under NIJ's Violence Against Women and Family Violence Program.
Rape and Sexual Assault Analyses and Laws is a compilation that includes detailed charts outlining the elements of sex crimes in the United States and its territories as well as the federal government and Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
View this resource.
This document provides a compilation of U.S. rape and sexual assault statutes that was updated in 2009.
This compendium provides research and prevention specialists with a set of tools to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence. The compendium includes more than 100 measures, mostly focused on individuals' violence-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
© 2016 National Sexual Violence Resource Center – Founded by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
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One Response to Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer talk about the making of Dallas Opera's MOBY-DICK.
I thought Moby Dick was one of the outstanding events of all the opera seasons that I have had with Dallas Opera.
The staging, visual effects, singing and acting were all superb.
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Once you have gotten someone's name, made it meaningful, and remembered their face, you will have made a huge improvement in your ability to remember that person.
To insure that you will remember that name, you should make sure to review it soon after meeting them. Review their name, the association that you used to link it to their face, and review any interesting facts about that person that you want to remember. If you can, write this information down so you can review it again later. Do an additional review at the end of the day for each new person that you met, and then one final review a week later. This will guarantee that their name and face are firmly in your long-term memory.
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NEW YORK — Retail competition remains fierce in The Big Apple.
More than most other metropolitan areas, New York sports a variety of retailers open all hours.
Those stores range from small stores and neighborhood bodegas to smaller upscale stores all the way to the large national chains.
The smaller stores rule in borough neighborhoods, including Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, while larger chains dominate the suburban areas.
Matthew D'Arrigo, vice president of D'Arrigo Bros. Co. of New York Inc., and co-chairman of the Hunts Point Terminal Market, said the market plays a key role in helping keep the neighborhood bodegas and green grocers competitive.
"When you get right down to it, they're miniature supermarkets," D'Arrigo said. "Rather than running a Gristede's or a D'Agostino's, people will visit a bodega to save time. Produce is their calling card, along with flowers."
The market maintains a close relationship with those retailers, D'Arrigo said.
"There's a symbiosis between the small green grocers and the small independent restaurants in this huge market," he said. "If they weren't so numerous, we wouldn't be so big. We at the market are a product of what this town is."
Paul Kneeland, vice president of produce and floral for Kings Super Markets LLC, Parsippany, N.J., said the region's retailers do well displaying and selling produce.
"This is one of the best areas of the country to come see fresh produce merchandised," he said. "New York is fabulous in its city-type stores. Everyone's kind of unique in who they serve.
"Shop Rite is the market leader here, and they do a great job. If you're a poor merchant, you won't last long up here."
Competition among larger chains in the suburbs and into the boroughs keeps supermarkets competitive.
"The competition here is still pretty fierce," said Joe Granata, director of produce for RLB Food Distributors LP, West Caldwell, N.J. "The landscape is changing. There's a lot of uncertainty out there with all these chains being bought and sold. Everyone's waiting to see how everything falls out."
Granata cited Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Supervalu Inc.'s recent shedding of stores and noted how Montvale, N.J.-based Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s Food Emporium, an upscale chain serving Manhattan, is now for sale.
The region's independent operators are expanding, said Jeff Young, a buyer for A&J Produce Corp.
"The supermarkets are doing fairly well," he said. "They're expanding and providing more customer service. The solid chains are expanding. There's also more depth of product."
Ira Nathel, president and vegetable buyer of Nathel & Nathel Inc., said there are fewer green grocers in the city.
"They're not like they use to be," Nathel said. "You don't see as much of the just-produce store. We had a big influx ... coming into the retail business 35 years ago. They were selling mostly produce. Now they sell mostly everything else."
Mike Cochran, sales manager and vice president of Robert T. Cochran & Co. Inc., said retail sales remain consistent.
"They seem to be doing OK," he said. "People don't buy as much as they use to though, that's for sure. It is noticeable."
Bruce Klein, marketing manager of Maurice A. Auerbach Inc., Secaucus N.J., said retail sales are steady.
"They're doing OK," he said. "It's just these high prices. The much higher prices in the stores slow business. Retail movement was certainly better before the January freeze."
Coosemans New York Inc. sells to a variety of supermarket customers.
"They complain but they're doing a little better, in terms of sales, than last year," said Alfie Badalamenti, vice president. "They do a pretty good job displaying and merchandising the product."


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Madison Keys pulled out of her Wimbledon third-round clash with Yaroslava Shvedova on Monday due to injury.
The hard-hitting American teenager was due to begin a second-set tie-break on Court 12, having dropped the first set and squandered a chance to serve for the second when 6-5 in front on Saturday evening.
Her withdrawal meant Kazakh player Shvedova, who led 7-6 (9/7) 6-6, went through to a fourth-round clash with Ana Ivanovic or Sabine Lisicki.
Ivanovic and Lisicki were preparing to resume their third-round tussle, in which Lisicki led 6-4 1-1, on Court One.
Wimbledon officials announced a left thigh injury had forced 19-year-old Keys to withdraw.
She was observed at the All England Club on Monday morning with heavy strapping on her left leg, having suffered the injury during the match and called for a trainer in the fading light at 9.25pm on Saturday, prior to dropping serve when bidding to level the match.
The exit of Keys means there are no Americans left in the women's singles at the start of the second week, with top seed Serena Williams having been a surprise third-round casualty on Saturday when she was eliminated by French player Alize Cornet.
Keys had come to Wimbledon with the boost of winning the Eastbourne title behind her, having beaten Angelique Kerber in the final after breezing by Britain's Heather Watson in the semi-finals.
It was a first career title for a player many expect to reach the top 10, and lifted her to a career-high ranking of number 30.
But Keys was in tears as she received court-side treatment on Saturday evening, already fearing the worst.
Keys expects to be sidelined for only a fortnight.
She said: "Before the match I had the other leg taped. That was just precaution. It was tight. I didn't want it to go.
"In the middle of the second set I kind of felt something a little bit. I was thinking, 'Try to get through the set, maybe it could finish, have the next day to recover, try to get better'.
"Then I think it was the 3-2 game, I was serving. I just felt it really go. After that it was pretty painful.
"I have a muscle strain in my adductor. It's not terrible, not really long recovery time. But they were warning me it could get worse."
Keys acknowledged she had been emotional on leaving the court on Saturday evening, and said: "It was more like I was trying not to bawl my eyes out. I think there were some tears.
"It's definitely not how I want to be leaving Wimbledon, but it happens. You just have to take it in your stride, just accept it, just try to get better."


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Is there an equity risk premium? Can investors take advantage of it? Yes, according to Jeremy Siegel. No, according to a delightfully scornful riposte from sometimes FTfm writer John Keefe.
Feel free to join in the fight in comments, but bear in mind that in the long run, we're all dead.


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Social Innovation Initiatives
The Silicon Valley 3rd Annual Social Innovation Leadership Forum 2014 (SILF 2014)
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San Jose City Hall
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San Jose, CA 95113
Register now: www.sjsu.edu/svsiln/
Social Innovation leadership Forum 2013
The 2013 conference, attended by 250 innovators and leaders from various sectors, continued the conversation from last year and helped the innovators of Silicon Valley come closer to achieving one common goal: providing social change in San Jose and giving relief to the social problems in our community.
In Spring 2012, San Jose State University hosted a highly successful Social Innovation Leadership Forum with its partners: Altis Solutions, The City of San Jose, Global Green Village, Hewlett-Packard, Social Enterprise Alliance – San Francisco Chapter, and Step-Up Silicon Valley. The Forum brought together over 120 nonprofit, corporate, community, education, entrepreneur and student leaders to explore how innovation and an innovation-centered leadership approach can help these leaders tackle society's most pressing challenges. As a result of this forum, partnerships between participants were created, and collaborative projects geared towards alleviating poverty in under-served neighborhoods were begun.
The 2013 conference, attended by 250 innovators and leaders from various sectors, continued the conversation from last year and helped the innovators of Silicon Valley come closer to achieving one common goal: providing social change in San Jose and giving relief to the social problems in our community.
This Forum embraced the "Unconference" theme, or Open Space Technology, in which participants are engaged in selecting topics of interest.
Social Innovation Leadership Forum 2012
On March 20, 2012 we co-sponsored an all-day Social Innovation Leadership Forum at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose. The purpose of this event was to bring together social entrepreneurs, thinkers and leaders from non-profits, business, government and the community to share innovation leadership lessons and help create a social innovation network.
There is a growing need for innovators to address the many social problems and economic
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Please visit the SI Leadership Forum 2012 home page to learn more about this event.
Social Innovation Institute (SI2)
This initiative leverages the symbiotic relationship among San José State University, social entrepreneurs, the city of San José, foundations, and other innovation organizations to encourage and train people to apply technology and innovation for the good of the local community. The Social Innovation team members are Bradley Maihack ( Hewlett-Packard), Richard Okumoto (Social Entrepreneur), Joyce Osland (Professor-SJSU), Malu Roldan (Professor-SJSU), Richard Sessions ( Altis Solutions) and Dave Wilde (Global Leader-In-Residence).
SHiFT Magazine
SHiFT is a unique, student-run magazine focused on innovation for the common good. Its goal as a catalyst for social change in the Silicon Valley goes beyond merely reporting facts to spurring its readers to action. SHiFT is published four times a year by students from San José State University. These highly talented students are advised by industry veterans: Richard Okumoto - publisher-magazine, Thomas Ulrich - editor-in-chief and journalism professor, Richard Sessions - publisher-web. The Social Innovation Institute team are board members.
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I Am Mandarin Empire
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I am Mandarin Empire from I Am Cute Dresses by Sato Watanabe. This book has no patterns but all the projects are from very simple geometric shapes – great as it made me feel as if I made this dress from scratch although I was guided by the book. I added an elastic waistband as the "boxy" look doesn't suit me very well. I can't wait to try more dresses from this book.
I wrote more in my sewing blog here: http://cathywu.com/journal/treadling/2012/12/31/i-am-mandarin-empire/
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Events Venues
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Special Event Parking:
For large events and events after hours, parking is allowed in designated lots without permits.Try to park in Garage II when visiting these venues: University Theatre, Studio One Theatre, Studio Two Theatre, Schmidt Center Gallery and the Performing Arts Building (PA) 101.
Parking for Concerts, Theatre, Exhibitions and Lectures:
From I/95 exit Glades Road heading East. Make a left into FAU's Main Entrance (NW 10th Ave.). Make your first, immediate right on Indian River St. Continue straight and make the fifth left on St. Lucie Avenue South. Follow along curve and continue straight. Make a left on Arts Ave. Park in Parking Garage II on your LH side.
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A FATHER and daughter have had a lucky escape from a house fire that saw the tiles explode off the roof of their Preston home on Saturday morning.
Metropolitan Fire Brigade Commander Frank Besanko said tiles were blown up to 15 metres away and neighbours reported hearing explosions.
Commander Besanko said rain had caused moisture in the tiles and fire had turned that moisture into steam.
"It is an unusual occurrence and I haven't seen it in a long time," Commander Besanko said.
It is believed the tiles may have woken the father and teenage daughter because there were no batteries in the smoke detectors in the house.
The fire began at the rear of the house, possibly in the sunroom, just after 5.30am. Seven fire trucks took 25 minutes to control the fire but the damage is so extensive the house is likely to be demolished.
The replacement bill has been estimated at $200,000.
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The Black Box Gallery at the N'Namdi Center of Contemporary Art will feature Jim Pallas' Art Giants in Detroit through July 21!
Opening Reception
Friday April 27, 2012 6-9 pm
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With O.M.D. back in full swing, singer Andy McCluskey just wants to maintain his dignity
With a handful of hits in the '80s, British pop band Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark, or simply OMD, charmed with wispy romantic tunes such as "Dreamin'," "So in Love" and "Tesla Girls." Then the John Hughes penned-film Pretty in Pink hit theaters featuring "If You Leave" which put OMD on the map and into A-list territory. By the end of the decade, they dissipated and it's taken them two decades to get back on the proverbial horse.
"The overall idea of us making another go was that we were alive and kicking and relevant," singer and co-founder Andy McCluskey says. "It was down to a simple criteria: were we motivated to write music like the way we're used to expressing or were we motivated because we're a sad bunch of middle-aged men. We hoped we're the former and not the latter."
McCluskey keeps a sharp sense of humor about his sort of comeback position as well as a lackadaisical approach to being on the road. The band quietly released its latest album History of Modern last year and followed up quickly with a tour. But both have received critical acclaim and while the band may not be breaking Gaga records, the veteran band is if figuring out what to do with its resurgence.
That is if there is anything to do with it. When they blew up with "Leave," the band fell into a trap. The hit added pressure to their next release as well as practically bankrupting the band paying off people helping them get to the top. With that sudden rush of fame, the band imploded.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Worst Christmas Special Ever
There has been so much talk lately about Blake Shelton's recent Christmas special, 'Blake Shelton's Not So Family Christmas', which received great reviews. Definitely not a family show, but very funny, very creative and very well put together. People are still talking about the novel approach Shelton took with this show.


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POLICE were called to Boscombe this morning after a woman was apparently attacked.
An area of the churchyard at St Clement's Church, St Clement's Road, was cordoned off this morning, with police officers and forensics experts on the scene.
Dorset Police has not yet confirmed the nature of the incident, but has said it was called at 5.30am to reports of a disturbance in the area.
A resident of Hamilton Close, who did not want to be named, described hearing a young woman screaming outside her house.
"She was bleeding from the face and had obviously sustained a head injury," she added. "I was trying to speak to her and she was screaming 'please help me, please help me – I have been attacked'.
"The poor girl, her voice was so distraught.
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Ward councillor Jane Kelly said: "It is very concerning to hear about this. I hope the woman is not badly injured and I send her my best wishes.
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A CAR hit a tree after a two-vehicle crash in Accrington.
Emergency services were called to Paradise Street just after midnight.
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Q&A: A Renaissance for the Trucking Industry
Editor Dana L. Brundage and Senior Editor William B. Cassidy discuss why there is a need for a trucking industry renaissance, how far away we are from such a renaissance and which companies have already started this transition in this podcast.
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Q: This week The Journal of Commerce put out their annual Guide to Trucking. In that you write about a trucking industry renaissance. Can you tell me why you think such a renaissance is necessary in the industry?
A: its largely because trucking has had such a hard time financially for the past three years, especially during the recession of 2008 ad 2009. There were thousands of smaller companies that went bankrupt or simply shut down, owner-operators who parked their trucks, and many, many major trucking companies reported serious losses.
It's only this year that we're beginning to see a real turn around financially for many companies. We've seen it in their balance sheets and their profit and loss statements for public companies. We've seen it in the rates that are being charged by trucking companies to shippers. So there's a real need for financial recovery in the trucking industry, not just to make a lot profit but in order to be able to reinvest going forward in their own operations.
Q: How far away would you say we are from such a renaissance?
A: We're still a ways away in some areas, and in some areas we're quite close. It depends on the kind of company really. And this was the point that came across in my reporting which I would like to give to you. People talked about a rail renaissance for about ten years now. It started out with people trying to see if they thought there was a chance for a trucking renaissance. I believe there is but it won't look like the rail renaissance that much.
The rail renaissance was all about sustaining profit by controlling capacity, by controlling the ability of the industry to grow in a way because there are only about seven class I railroads. There are thousands and thousands of trucking companies.
But the thing that is happening with trucking is that companies that are able to understand their costs, to better manage their customers relations and understand their customers' costs, are finding it easier to set a price which is amenable to the customer and also gives them a fair profit.
And that is where I think the renaissance in trucking is going to come about. It's going to be a change in management in a way which enables trucking companies to achieve more sustainable profitability rather than being caught in these up and down cycles that we have from recession to recovery to recession again.
Q: Bill are there any companies currently heading in that direction?
A: Yes there are some companies who are already there I would say. Two of them: one in truckload and one in less-than-truckload.
Knight Transportation, a truckload carrier based in Phoenix has an operating ratio in the range of 83 I believe. The operating ratio is the ratio of their operating expenses to their operating revenue. So at 83 that means they are making close to 20 cents on every dollar, which is extraordinary for a trucking company. Railroads have ORs in the 70s ad 60s for the most part, the major railroads.
In the LTL arena it's Old Dominion Freight Lines. Old Dominion is the only one of six publicly traded LTL carriers with more than $1 billion in revenue that had a profit in 2009. They're not the biggest of these carriers, in fact out of those six they're down toward being number six, but they are the only one that had a profit. Although their profit was halved in 2009 they were still in the black. Second quarter of 2010 their profit doubled from the same quarter in the previous year and from the first quarter. So they're care of attention to their own costs and their customer costs have paid off for them in a very big way.


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HERE we go again, cutbacks at Rednock School. The same thing happened 30 years ago when the school was last rebuilt. Is there no one at county level who can add up, look at and read a drawing, cost a project, etc, etc, read the details from the contractors submissions and award the contract with no strings attached? Having been a district councillor at Stroud, I have had some experience as to the way the system works and when you see how some of the contractors outline their quotations, it's enough to make a dog laugh - and this from very large companies. It is still not too late for a full appraisal as to what is going on. How can we have cost cutting only six weeks into the build? The time has come for a major change at county level and to elect people who know what they are doing at any level of government.
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (FoxCT) - She may be a burglary victim, but 83-year-old Estelle Samek is neither weary nor scared.
"I'm mad, I'm very angry that he did something like that," said Samek.
She stumbled on a man rifling through her New Britain Avenue home on Tuesday afternoon, but she didn't back down.
"There was this man standing there with his hands in my husband's dresser drawer, so I looked at him and I said, 'Who the hell are you?' And I turned around and ran and he ran behind me and he tackled me on the stairs and he slammed me into the table and into the wall and he took off," Samek said.
He got away with jewelry and cash, she said.
Police chased him through the neighborhood with dogs, stopping to ask Lisa Kim and other wide-eyed neighbors if they'd seen him.
"I said, 'OK guys, let's go inside, look the doors, close the garage,'" said Kim.
Officers eventually caught up with the accused burglar, identified Tuesday night as Luis Ortiz, 29, in Newington.
"It was one of those situations where he'd pop up, we'd find him or whatever," said Lt. Stephen Estes of the West Hartford Police. "A lot of ground was covered by this guy and our officers in this chase."
The violent break-in and the chase dominated the evening gossip in West Hartford.
"Shocked! I actually I texted her and asked her if she was home and I said, 'I just heard on the news that there was a burglary,'" said Emilia Pereira, who lives around the corner from Samek.
"We all started talking around the neighborhood, just keeping an eye on things," said Kim.
Meanwhile Samek said she's feeling a little sore, but proud that the officers cornered her alleged attacker.
Ortiz is charged with home invasion, burglary, robbery, larceny, assault, criminal mischief and interfering with a police officer.


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Joel Sherman repeated his call for Jose Reyes to be traded in this column, an idea that has some merit. But it has merti in the sense that trading any single player has some merit, depending on what you get in return. Trading David Wright has merit if the Mets could get Ryan Zimmerman, Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper in return. And if Met ownership tells Sandy Alderson they don't want to/can't spend the money on a long-term deal for Reyes, Alderson has no choice in the matter.
What continues to confuse me is the idea that somehow, Jose Reyes should be traded regardless of the return, because having Jose Reyes around for the next 5-6 seasons is a losing proposition. The two ideas consistently floated by Sherman and others are that Reyes' on-base percentage is too low for Alderson's taste, and that his baseball IQ is too low in general.
Let's take the on-base percentage first. Apparently, Reyes' competition is Rickey Henderson, or other leadoff hitters, regardless of position. The thing is, Reyes plays shortstop, an extremely valuable defensive position. So instead of comparing him to other leadoff hitters- an artificial construct- let's look at his value compared to his actual peers.
Among shortstops with at least 400 games since 2007, Reyes ranks sixth among the 17 shortstops in on-base percentage. The five ahead of him? Hanley Ramirez, Derek Jeter, Troy Tulowitzki, Yunel Escobar and Rafael Furcal.
Now, keeping in mind that the Mets need to do more than trade Reyes- they also need to fill the shortstop position- which of these five is likely to replace Reyes? Hanley Ramirez isn't going anywhere, clearly. Neither is Tulowitzki, much as the Mets wish he would.
Is Jeter a good bet to outproduce Reyes? Not only is he a decade older, and looks terrible this season, but even over the past four-plus seasons, Reyes outslugged him, .441 to .419 (unadjusted for park), and stole 183 bases to 74 for Jeter.
Furcal's injury issues make Reyes' look minor, and Yunel Escobar is a .401 slugger who stole an eighth as many bases as Reyes while fielding his position poorly.
So even if we pretend that Sandy Alderson is so consumed with on-base percentage that he doesn't recognize the value of slugging percentage- an unlikely proposition- Reyes is arguably the best bet of this group to post a high on-base percentage at the position.
For the record, those right behind Reyes: Jason Bartlett, Edgar Renteria, Stephen Drew, Jimmy Rollins, Orlando Cabrera. Which of these players would you rather see than Reyes at shortstop over the next few seasons? The only one close for me is Drew, but keep in mind, from 2007-2011, he's about even with Reyes in slugging (.443 to .441) while playing home games in a far better power park, and his basestealing isn't in the same galaxy.
As for Sherman's other bizarre point:
In addition, with Reyes' poor at-bats with runners in scoring position, Alderson is getting a taste for Reyes' dubious baseball IQ, which should grow into a greater factor as some of his speed dissolves with age and he has to think his way through more on-field issues.
I assume he is referring to Reyes' 2-for-19 with runners in scoring position this year, which is pretty silly. His career OPS is .775 overall, .816 with runners in scoring position. And yes, he got caught off of first base last night, so that demonstrates his baseball IQ more than his perfect 8-for-8 in stolen base attempts this season, despite his speed dissolving.
And that's the other logical disconnect I don't quite get- Reyes, with way above average speed, is going to slow down, so the Mets can't keep him. But a shortstop without that speed isn't going to slow down, and get slower than Reyes?
In other words, there are good reasons why teams will want Reyes going forward, and it has little to do with paying for past performance. He's in his age-28 season, a peak performer at a position with very few of them.
If another team wants to give the Mets several pieces, including a comparable shortstop, or other significant upgrades, trading Reyes will make sense. But if not, the Mets would be wise to pay him. Getting rid of Reyes, in a vacuum, does little other than remove an elite player from the roster, and create an enormous hole to fill.


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Traditionally, masala dosa is served with a potato curry, coconut sauce, and a spicy vegetable and lentil broth called sambar. The restaurant serves several variants of the dish, where the basic pancake is accompanied by fragrant, simply spiced, South Indian curries. These include potatoes with onions, curry leaves, mustard seeds and mixed beans in a rich sauce; chicken and butternut flavoured with aromatic spices and coconut cream; and lamb cubes in a creamy tomato gravy and channa masala, which is made with chickpeas.
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Masala Dosa offers cooking classes that will teach you how to cook with South Indian spices. As well as roasting and grinding spice mixes, you will learn basic curry preparation and how to make roti. Once the lesson is over, you can enjoy the variety of curries you have prepared. Note that classes are subject to a minimum booking of 8 and maximum booking of 16 people.
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DOUGIE Freedman has challenged his side to find a ruthless edge between now and the end of the season.
Wanderers have seven games remaining, starting with a trip to Huddersfield Town this afternoon.
While the match appears to be a dead rubber, with both sides comfortably clear of the drop zone and nowhere near the play-offs, Freedman has thrown down a gauntlet to his players to start capitalising on their dominance of games.
Asked whether the pressure is off going into the game at the John Smith's Stadium, the Scot insisted there was still plenty to play for.
"It's definitely not that way," he said. "I think this squad is starting to come together to realise what is expected of them.
"We have drawn far, far too many games this season. Too many have been on a knife's edge – but I don't want to do that, I want to win games of football.
"Instead of drawing a game 1-1, like last weekend, I want a 1-0. If it's 3-2, I don't want to see it become 3-3.
"The players are in a good frame of mind at the moment – so that's what this season is about now, becoming that team."
Freedman has a full squad to pick from after Mark Davies, Neil Danns and Joe Mason returned to full training duties.
It has left the manager with 18 fit players to choose from – some of whom are still playing for their places in his future plans.
Freedman wants to use the time wisely and instil a winning mentality that can serve the club well next season.
"We have got to get over that mind block that when we get into the lead, we need to start putting teams to the sword.
"How many times have we played well, not got that goal, and then got the sucker punch? I'm fed up of saying it.
"Saturday was a classic example. And because we didn't make our superiority tell, we end up being a penalty away from losing the game altogether.
"That's my expectation for this season now. I thought we'd nailed it against Blackburn, and, after that ,Leeds, and I thought 'this is us now', but that consistency has eluded us again.
"If the rest of this season is about anything for us – it's showing we can do that."


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Another day, another Hollywood lawsuit.
TMZ reports that director James Cameron, his production company, and 20th Century Fox are being sued for stealing the idea for the hit movie 'Avatar,' the number one film of all-time. A screenwriter claims that Cameron stole the idea from two different screenplays he wrote and wants $2.5 billion.
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48 West Food, Music and Tech Festival is set to kick off President's Day Weekend, Feb. 15-16, in Chandler, Ariz., with speakers discussing entrepreneurship, downtown restaurants bringing their best dishes, and local bands lighting up the night.
As an attempt to put the Valley on the technology map that Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas are so prominently featured, 48 West brings together some of the brightest minds in technology to share techniques and practices for entrepreneurship, commerce, technology innovation and interactive media. Attendees can expect to see Jaime Casap, senior education evangelist at Google Inc., and Bob Worsley, founder of Arizona-based SkyMall, among others.
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The panels on Feb. 15 will focus on entrepreneurship, business development, partnership and new media, and the focal points of discussions on Feb. 16 are workshop and building tech-ready workforce. There will also be startup camps.
On top of technology, the event also plays host to two concert nights with performances from Arizona-based bands Mogollon, Jared & The Mill, Banana Gun, The Wiley One, Doctor Bones and the Veragroove, and Tomorrows Bad Seeds and Micah Brown from California.
In addition, 48 West is partnering with FIRST to host the "Duel in The Desert" Robotics Competition for high school students.
"The robots this year are required to be able to throw a Frisbee through a slot at the end of a playing field, and they get extra points for being able to climb a pyramid," Dow said.
To top it off, several restaurants, including The Sushi Room and the Living Room, will be offering their best dishes at the events.
The concerts are free to attendees of all ages. The technology panels will net attendees $30 for each day and $50 for both days.
To purchase tickets or for more information about 48 West, please visit 48-west.com.
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When: Friday and Saturday, February 15-16, 2013, 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Where: Friday:
• Startup Camp, Gangplank Chandler, 260 S. Arizona Ave.
• Main Event, Chandler City Hall, 175 S. Arizona Ave.
• Concert, Dr. A. J. Chandler Part, 3 S. Arizona Ave.
• Startup Camp, Gangplank Chandler, 260 S. Arizona Ave.
• "Duel in The Desert," Continuum Science and Technology Park, 2501 S. Price Rd.
• Main Event, Chandler City Hall, 175 S. Arizona Ave.
• Concert, Downtown Ocotillo, 2475 W. Queen Creed Rd.
Cost: Panels $30 per person per day, $50 per person both days; concerts are free
Online: 48-west.com


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MonkeyPaw - Monday, February 07, 2011 - link"Android itself already is multithreaded naively, in fact, that's part of delivering speedy UI. "
Naive Mutlithreading? Sounds a little scary to me! :D Reply
chinkgai - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkhey guys,
i noticed the first chart at the top of your first page has 1ghz for the cpu speed all the way down when the paragraph right below it states that it the 3d receives a 200mhz bump.
nice article btw. Reply
chinkgai - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linki meant fourth page Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThanks, fixed :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkAnand,
Font changing is also available on my Galaxy S i9000. Samsung ships the phone with 3 extra fonts and you can download more from the Market by searching for "FlipFont". Reply
mongo lloyd - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThe review, as far as I could tell, didn't mention which audio chip was in the phone, or have any audio fidelity benchmarks for that matter.
A top-of-the-line Wolfson chip, like the Galaxy S I hope? Reply
Brian Klug - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkIt's got a Wolfson WM8994 - audio sounds great. I'll definitely consider audio benchmarks as well going forward.
-Brian Reply
djgandy - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkIt'll be interesting to see how all the other SoC's perform with DDR2. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkWhere can I find more information on this? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkHere's a link to the immediate mode vs. tbdr discussion in our old Kyro II review:
Take care,
Anand Reply
silverblue - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkI'm not sure I agree with the wording in this article about TBDR. The reason PowerVR didn't need to slap DDR RAM onto the Kyro II cards is because they simply didn't need it thanks to the reduction of traffic that comes from deferred rendering. The unknown element at the time was hardware T&L because it simply wasn't available and was thought to be impossible, however as this is yet again being performed on-die, wouldn't that also result in a marked reduction in traffic? Might need some clarification on this one.
I've never seen it confirmed that the Adreno GPU performs TBDR; some clarification would be appreciated on this one as well! :)
Onto the option for changing fonts... my vendor-agnostic Galaxy S has such a feature called "Font style" under the Display settings, allowing you to choose the "Default font", "Choco cooky", "Cool jazz" and "Rosemary", with the option of getting more online. Reply
Exophase - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkQualcomm bought out AMD's mobile GPUs and hence the Adreno 200 was a rebrand of AMD z430. Here's a little more background on the tiling nature of z430:
(since apparently I can't post a link without being flagged as spam just google for this: gdc2008_ribble_maurice_TileBasedGpus.pdf - it's the first hit) Reply
silverblue - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkInteresting... I'd like to see the differences between their approach and that of Imagination Technologies. Reply
silverblue - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThanks by the way... answered a lot of questions. :) Reply
AndroidFan - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkshould be 300mhz (=600/2) Reply
Zaitsev - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkIs the camera really too thick to fit the width of the phone? I heard of many Evo users who have cracked the glass covering. While I haven't had this problem, it makes me wonder if it's really necessary in the first place.
Thanks Reply
MeSh1 - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkI cant wait until you can wirelessly shoot your phones display to your tv ala intel WiDi. This HDMI out is cool, but the cable kind of kills it. With wireless display your phone becomes a game controller :) or a remote when shooting movies to your tv. Plus how cool would it be if your phone can fetch movies from your home network and you shot the playback to your TV. The Sony NGP should have implemented this. Ah well. Reply
GoodRevrnd - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkTV link would be awesome, but why would you need the phone to bridge the TV and network?? Reply
aegisofrime - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkMay I suggest x264 encoding as a test of the CPU power? There's a version of x264 available for ARM chips, along with NEON optimizations. Should be interesting! Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkWhat is the point in having a high performance video processor when you cannot do the two things that actually make use of it? Those two things are: 1. Watch any movie in your collection without transcoding? (FAIL) 2. Play games. No actual buttons = FAIL. If you think otherwise then you dont actually play games. Just stick with facebook flash trash. Reply
TareX - Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - linkThe only reason I'd pay for a dual core phone is smooth flash-enabled web browsing, not gaming. Reply
zorxd - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkStock Android has it too. There is also E for EDGE and G for GPRS. Reply
Exophase - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkHey Anand/Brian,
There are some issues I've found with some information in this article:
1) You mention that Cortex-A8 is available in a multicore configuration. I'm pretty sure there's no such thing; you might be thinking of ARM11MPCore.
2) The floating point latencies table is just way off for NEON. You can find latencies here:
It's the same in Cortex-A9. The table is a little hard to read; you have to look at the result and writeback stages to determine the latency (it's easier to read the A9 version). Here's the breakdown:
FADD/FSUB/FMUL: 5 cycles
FMAC: 9 cycles (note that this is because the result of the FMUL pipeline is then threaded through the FADD pipeline)
The table also implies Cortex-A9 adds divide and sqrt instructions to NEON. In actuality, both support reciprocal approximation instructions in SIMD and full versions in scalar. The approximation instructions have both initial approximation with ~9 bits of precision and Newton Rhapson step instructions. The step instructions function like FMACs and have similar latencies. This kind of begs the question of where the A9 NEON DIV and SQRT numbers came from.
The other issue I have with these numbers is that it only mentions latency and not throughput. The main issue is that the non-pipelined Cortex-A8 FPU has throughput almost as bad as its latency, while all of the other implementations have single cycle throughput for 2x 64-bit operations. Maybe throughput is what you mean by "minimum latency", however this would imply that Cortex-A9 VFP can't issue every cycle, which isn't the case.
3) It's obvious from the GLBenchmark 2.0 Pro screenshot that there are some serious color limitations from Tegra 2 (look at the woman's face). This is probably due to using 16-bit. IMG has a major advantage in this area since it renders at full 32-bit (or better) precision internally and can dither the result to 16-bit to the framebuffer, which looks surprisingly similar in quality to non-dithered 32-bit. This makes a 16-bit vs 16-bit framebuffer comparison between the two very unbalanced - it's far more fair to just do both at 32-bit, but it doesn't look like the benchmark has any option for it. Furthermore, Tegra 2 is limited to 16-bit (optionally non-linear) depth buffers, while IMG utilizes 32-bit floating point depth internally. This is always going to be a disadvantage for Tegra 2 and is definitely worth mentioning in any comparison.
Finally I feel like ranting a little bit about your use of the Android Linpack test. Anyone with a little common sense can tell that a native implementation of Linpack on these devices will yield several dozen times more than 40MFLOPS (should be closer to 1-4 FLOP/CPU cycle). What you see here is a blatant example of Dalvik's extreme inability to perform with floating point code that extends well beyond an inability to perform SIMD vectorization. Reply
metafor - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkAccording to the developer of Linpack on Android:
It is mostly FP64 calculations done on Dalvik. While this may not be the fastest way to go about doing linear algebra, it is a fairly good representation of relative FP64 performance (which only exist in VFP).
And let's face it, few app developers are going to dig into Android's NDK and write NEON optimized code. Reply
Exophase - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThen let's ask this instead: who really cares about FP64 performance on a smartphone? I'd also argue that it is not even a good representation of relative FP64 performance since that's being obscured so much by the quality of the JITed code. Hence why you see Scorpion and A9 perform a little over twice as fast as A8 (per-clock) instead of several times faster. VFP is still in-order on Cortex-A9, competent scheduling matters.
Maybe a lot of developers won't write NEON code on Android, but where it's written it could very well matter. For one thing, in Android itself. And theoretically one day Dalvik could actually be generating NEON competently.. so some synthetic tests of NEON could be a good look at what could be. Reply
metafor - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkWell, few people really :)
Linpack as it currently exists on Android probably doesn't tell very much at all. But if you're just going to slap together an FP heavy app (pocket scientific computing anyone?) and aren't a professional programmer, this likely represents the result you see.
I wouldn't mind seeing SpecFP ported natively to Android and running NEON. But alas, we'd need someone to roll up their sleeves and do that.
I did do a native compile of Linpack using gcc to test on my Evo, though. It's still not SIMD code, of course, but native results using VFP were around the 70-80MFLOPS mark. Of course, it's scheduling for the A8's FPU and not Scorpion's. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThanks for your comment :)
1) You're very right, I was thinking about the ARM11 - fixed :)
2) Make that 2 for 2. You're right on the NEON values, I mistakenly grabbed the values from the cycles column and not the result column. The DIV/SQRT columns were also incorrect, I removed them from the article.
I mentioned the lack of pipelining in the A8 FPU earlier in the article but I reiterated it underneath the table to hammer the point home. I agree that the lack of pipelining is the major reason for the A8's poor FP performance.
3) Those screenshots were actually taken on IMG hardware. IMG has some pretty serious rendering issues running GLBenchmark 2.0.
4) I'm not happy with the current state of Android benchmarks - Linpack included. Right now we're simply including everything we can get our hands on, but over the next 24 months I think you'll see us narrow the list and introduce more benchmarks that are representative of real world performance as well as contribute to meaningful architecture analysis.
Take care,
Anand Reply
Exophase - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThanks Anand.
I'm surprised to hear that shot was from IMG, given that it was an IMG employee who made the comment originally about Tegra's 16-bit banding being evident on it, from the screenshot. Whoops. I do wonder what could be causing this, then.
Nonetheless, while that definitely makes my 16bit color claim invalid the depth buffer one should still hold. We might need to wait and see how much of a difference this actually makes, or rather how effective nVidia's 16-bit depth space is.
I'm glad to hear that you're as concerned about benchmarks on Android as I am. It's especially frustrating when I see people using them to try to indicate Atom being substantially better clock for clock than Cortex-A9. Reply
Exophase - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkManaged to miss this:
"The test ramps from around 3k vertices to 15k vertices per frame, and 190k to 250k triangles per frame"
That line doesn't make any sense. How would you have hundreds of times more triangles than vertices? You must have meant something else. Reply
sid1712 - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkGreat review as usual but i'm disappointed about the lack of details on the Sound Quality of the phone. A comparison of the sound quality (via headphone jack) alongside the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy S (with Voodoo kernel preferrably) would give a good idea about the SQ of the phone. Reply
ScentedKandle - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkRelated to this, the audio codec lists "lossless" but doesn't mention what format. Can the audio chip natively decode FLAC? Reply
teldar - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThe order of buttons if the same as my droid x. Reply
Pjotr - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkDoes it really record 1920x1088? Does this unorthodox resolution play well on TVs, if you put it on a USB stick, for example? Reply
Brian Klug - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkIt plays back from the phone properly, and most of the playback software just does a crop. A ton of devices actually produce 1088 and don't make note of it, it should playback fine.
-Brian Reply
unmesh - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkFor active aka switching transistor power consumption, C*V^2*f (C is capacitance and f is frequency) is a better proxy than V^2/R.
The conclusion that operating voltage has a huge effect remains the same. Reply
Kevin098 - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkHey, can you make a video comparison between the iphone 4 retina display and Optimus 2x ? Reply
StormyParis - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkPages and pages of (apparently not very acurate, too) perf data, and not even one line on sound quality, which is one of my key buying points for a phone.
No info on whether I'll be able to stream PC-resolution videos off my server to my bed over wifi.
Overall, not a very useful review. More like a dick size contest. Reply
SoulShadow - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkBrian,
Do you have any idea if that audio chip will make it into all future Tegra 2 phones, or is this just a lucky phone? Droid Bionic with a Wolfson DAC would make me a happy camper. Reply
Brian Klug - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThose specific choices are ultimately left up to the handset makers. It seems to be a relatively common component to select however. I have no idea whether the Bionic or Atrix are getting that same audio IC.
We can definitely run RightMark audio analyzer on phones from now on. ;)
-Brian Reply
LostPassword - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkI travel. Limited bands is disappointing. Waiting for comparisons to HTC dual core. Screw Motorola. Reply
HAVM - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThere is one SoC missing in the 2011 roadmap...
Nokia and likely also Sony Ericsson will start to ship smartphones based on the ST-Ericsson U8500 platform in the second half of 2011. Reply
softdrinkviking - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkis that going to be dual-core, or competitive with the tegra/omap/scorpion level socs? Reply
kenyee - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkThis is probably the most comprehensive Optimus 2x review I've seen yet, so big kudos.
What still bugs me about phone reviews is they don't seem to measure how well GPS receivers work in the phones. Even a simple stick it outside at the same location and see how many satellites show up and how quickly (GPSStatus has a feature that measures time to first fix) would help.
E.g., my crappy Moto Cliq sometimes flakes out and even if it claims it sees 10 satellites, it never gets a fix. It's important for those of us who are using our phones for navigation... Reply
strikeback03 - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkThere is a whole section titled "GPS Performance" on page 9, basically comes down to that the hardware seems fine but since it is still preproduction A-GPS wasn't set up. Reply
vision33r - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkIs the iPhone 4, all the other phones all had bulges, plastic, and weird ergo shapes.
No wonder the iPhone 4 is sought after more, metal, optical glass, highest resolution, and pixel density count. Reply
azagall - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkGood performance but the back of the phone is the ugliest I have seen in a while ... And why the plastic ... Isn't this supposed to be a premium phone? Reply
texanstc - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkIt looks like I'm not missing much with the LG 2X. Reply
rpmrush - Monday, February 07, 2011 - linkSolid review, but please at least use spell check. I'm not a grammar or typo freak, but there were way too many simple typos that spell check wouldn't even let you get by with. At least have someone proof read it before you publish to the public. Reply
zowie - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkwho can create a new type battery, who will be the richest man in the world Reply
uhuznaa - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkYeah, and until then those who manage to come up with some decent power management will be the richest...
Seriously, every improvement on the battery front almost always just leads to devices drawing more power. It's somewhat ironic that last year's iPhone still leads the pack when it comes to battery life. Power management (that is: don't draw more power than absolutely necessary by throttling or shutting down components that aren't needed or aren't fully needed in a given moment) is hard and boring design work nobody seems to care for. And with devices and software getting replaced with the next iteration every few months this is even understandable, it's just not worth the effort, especially when nobody seems to care and benchmarks are so much more important to the crowd. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkHow is is typically played back: Cropped, or vertically resampled? Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkTegra 3 has 4 1.5GHz Cortex-A9's according to a leaked slide.
That was a great article! A few minor corrections: The ARM11 VFP is fully pipelined (so it can beat the A8 on FP performance). Like the A8, Scorpion is 2-way in-order, not limited out-of-order. In-order cores issue instructions in-order but may complete them out-of-order. On the other hand, OoO cores use register renaming to issue instructions out-of-order but complete them in-order.
Note none of the micro benchmarks used emits Neon instructions. JIT compilers don't have enough time to generate high quality code, let alone autovectorize! For proper benchmarking you will need to run native code compiled with a quality compiler (not GCC - it is still far behind the state of the art on ARM, especially Thumb-2). Reply
metafor - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkI would argue with that definition of OoO. A design does not need register renaming in order to issue any arbitrary instruction OoO. It's simply a trade-off of whether to centralize hazard tracking on register accesses or on retirement. Reply
PWRuser - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkExcellent review. Please, in your future reviews don't stop including gems like this one:
"Generally while browsing I can feel when Flash ads are really slowing a page down - the 2X almost never felt that way."
That's what matters! Including hands on observations along with a full volley of synthetic benchmarks.
This review comes as close as humanly possible to portraying a handset's ability to readers without the said readers trying it out.
Your attention to detail puts other reviews to shame. Keep up the good work. Reply
sarge78 - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkDon't forget about ST-Ericsson's U8500 A9. They could be a major player in 2011/2012 with potential design wins from Nokia and Sony Ericsson. Reply
warisz00r - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkWhat equipments do you use to test the phone's audio quality with? Reply
phut- - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - link"NVIDIA tells us that the Tegra 2 SoC is fully capable of a faster capture rate for stills and that LG simply chose 2MP as its burst mode resolution. For comparison, other phones with burst modes capture at either 1 MP or VGA. That said, unfortunately for NVIDIA, a significant technological advantage is almost meaningless if no one takes advantage of it. It'll be interesting to see if the other Tegra 2 phones coming will enable full resolution burst capture. unfortunately for NVIDIA, a significant technological advantage is almost meaningless if no one takes advantage of it. It'll be interesting to see if the other Tegra 2 phones coming will enable full resolution burst capture. meaningless if no one takes advantage of it. It'll be interesting to see if the other Tegra 2 phones coming will enable full resolution burst capture."
LG have probably made this decision based on the sensitivity of the invariably minuscule sensor they will have used. Having 6 frames of 12mp is pointless if they are 12 incomprehensible megapixels due to the lacklustre sensitivity of the pixels in their chosen part.
The kind of sensor you find delivering a meaningful burst in something like a 5D mk2 is enormous and power hungry, in comparison to an operating environment such as a phone. Reply
matt b - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkJust curious because I've heard rumors that HP will use the Qualcomm chipset and I've also heard rumors that they will stick with Ti for their new tablets/phones. I just wondered if you know for sure since I know that you met with folks at CES. I hope that we all find out tomorrow at the HP event.
Great review. Reply
TareX - Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - linkI'd like to see Tegra 2 on the Xoom compared to Tegra 2 on the Optimus 2X.
Why? Well, simply put, the only Android version that seems to be optimized for dual-core is Honeycomb. Reply
Dark Legion - Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - linkWhy is there no Incredible on 2.2? I could understand if you had both 2.1 and 2.2, like the Evo, but as it is now does not show the full/current performance. Reply
Morke - Thursday, February 10, 2011 - link"It's a strange dichotomy that LG sets up with this launcher scheme that divides "downloaded" apps from "system applications," one that's made on no other Android device I've ever seen but the Optimus One. The end result is that most of the stuff I want (you know, since I just installed it) is at the very last page or very bottom of the list, resulting in guaranteed scrolling every single time. If you're a power user, just replace the launcher with something else entirely."
You are not right there.
First you can create additonal categories (aside from system applications and downloads) and move applications between them.
Secondly you can rearrange the ordering of the applications inside a category (allowing you to have those on top which you access most frequently). You can also delete applications right away in this edit mode.
There is a youtube video demonstrating this:
See time index starting with 4:21.
Maybe you should correct your review on this? Reply
Morke - Thursday, February 10, 2011 - linkThe correct youtube URL demonstrating application launcher management is actually
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDo-1-jwLko&fea... Reply
brj_texas - Thursday, February 10, 2011 - linkAnand,
A question on the statement in the benchmarking section, "the SunSpider benchmark isn't explicitly multithreaded, although some of the tests within the benchmark will take advantage of more than one core. "
Can you clarify which tests support multi-threading in sunspider if that is in fact what you meant?
On the topic of multi-threading, we've used moonbat, a multi-core variant of sunspider, to explicitly test multi-core performance with javascript code. I wonder if you have any other benchmarks under investigation that measure multi-core performance?
-Brian Reply
worldbfree4me - Saturday, February 12, 2011 - linkThanks for another thorough and in-depth analysis. But I have a question to ask,
Should we upgrade (break our 2 year contract agreement for this phone) or ride out our contract?
We trust and value your our opinion. Tom's hardware does a GPU hierarchy chart every few months, can you do a phone hierarchy in the future? Reply
lashton - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - linkThey have a really good idea and lead the market but it falls short because its not quite right Reply
tnepres - Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - linkI now own a optimus 2x. The first was dead on arrival, but this one is perfect. The LG software is innovative and pleasing to the eye. In various places they made real improvements to the UI that are just brilliant,ie. the ability to sort and categorize apps. At times the UI is not as fast as you would expect, especially when adding apps/widgets to one of the 7 pages. It seems LG generates a list of widgets for you, so you can see what apps support this mode, and that takes about a second. As I recall, on HTC devices you are just presented with a list of apps and u have to try and see if you can widget it.
The LG keybord has a brilliant feature, you tab the side of the phone to move the cursor. Sadly in other respects the keyboard is lacking, ie. when you long-pres you do not get the alternates you might wish, such as numbers.
The batterytime is superb, using the UI consumes much less power than on my desire.
Copy/paste in the browser does not activate via long-pres, you have to hit menu button, but on the plus side its easier to use than what HTC made.
During 2 days of very intensive use i have had 1 app (partially) crash and that was the marketplace. No other issues so far, its my verdict that the unstability issues are overrated.
No problems with wifi using stock ISP (TDC) supplied router. (sagemcom)
To engadget: How on earth (!!?!!?) can you state there is no use for dualcore. When browsing one loads flash the other the rest. Its so fast you cant believe it. Try loading www.ufc.com on a non dualcore phone and you get my drift.
I do not hesitate to give the optimus 2x my warm recommendations.
VERDICT: 9/10 (missing 4g) Reply
Sannat - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - linkgsmarena sound benchmark for optimus 2x isnt great...could it be a s/w issue...?? Reply
dendysutrisna - Saturday, August 06, 2011 - linkVery nice article ... and I'm just a layman about this kind of information technology. But maybe someday I should know about complicated things like the above. I can only make the review at a glance (and maybe subjective, try looking at this page: http://www.bestdealscomputers.net) on products that use chips, such as NVIDIA, on a tablet computers.
Move on ..... Reply
dendysutrisna - Saturday, August 06, 2011 - linkSory I mean at here: http://www.bestdealscomputers.net Reply
dendysutrisna - Saturday, August 06, 2011 - linkSo Smartphone can do all that can be done of a tablet computer? The only restriction the size of the screen just ... look at the specifications on the following pages ... http://www.bestdealscomputers.net/tablets/motorola...
Wow .... Reply
mohamedbhimji - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - linkAn interesting story, I recently purchased a HTC Panache (aka MyTouch 4G) and was really disappointed by the battery life when compared to my wifes iPhone, my iPad and my work BlackBerry Torch - but looking at the stats here it appears that it's about average when it comes to Android devices and other phones.
I am still looking at getting a higher capacity battery. Reply
sarah sm. - Tuesday, October 04, 2011 - linkOptimus 2X uses Duel Core so the speed is very fast. When playing a game with my friend, Optimus 2X loads faster than his smartphone. If users with an LG smartphone want to download various apps or games, I recommend to visit uk.lgworld.com Reply


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hello, i am new to SEO and it happens that our company is building a site which they uses of accordion jquery. My question is, is it alright to use accordion jquery? the accordion creates url with #. for example: exmple/accordion/number1.hml. then when use the accordion the generated url will be exmple/accordion/number1.hml#page1 ; exmple/accordion/number1.hml/#page2. is there a big effect in SEO or is there any way to remove the #page1 and #page2?
Those kinds of URL are fine in principle. It's common to have URLs like that that are links to specific parts of your page. Google takes no notice of your JS, anyway, just your HTML, so it's not an SEO issue.
The bigger issue is that those links will be dead with JS off, and that's a shame. It would be better to construct the accordion in such a way that you don't have dead links like that in the HTML. The content should be accessible even with JS off.
thanks for the reply, actually that's what i am thinking of, sorry if i can't post the url of the website, it's currently unavailable since it's in the production state.
well what i am planning is to use the accordion and then link those content to another page. is it a good idea?
I'm not quite sure what you are describing there.
it goes like this, will be using accordion jquery and inside there's a preview of the product content.
In that case, what you describe sounds fine.
thanks for the response. i appreciate it. but i am still open for some suggestions on how to improve the jquery script.
We'd need to see it to suggest how to improve it. There are accordion scripts out there that merely enhance what is perfectly good, accessible HTML, which is the ideal.
thanks, ralph.m!