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Kevin Carey – The End of College (Leader Series)
Kevin Carey is an American higher education writer and policy analyst. He is serving as Director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. We asked Kevin about his recent, provocative book, The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere.
Before we get to the substance of the book, I'd like to ask about its reception. If you're like most writers, you are surprised by some of the interpretations of your work. What responses did you not anticipate?
Most of the book takes place in the past and the present, telling the story of how American colleges and universities became what they are and how information technology might allow them to become something new. In the last two chapters, I present some ideas about what the future might bring. As I see it, some students will learn mostly online, particularly as human-computer interaction and digital learning environments improve. But many will continue to attend in-person institutions that provide direct relationships with peers, teachers, and mentors. Those institutions won't, however, have to be colleges as we know them today. In other words, the future of higher education won't be solitary, with everyone but an elite few learning alone in front of machines. Some of the criticism of the book has left out that last part, which is disappointing. Then again, it's been out for less than a month, so maybe people haven't gotten all the way to the end yet.
The future of higher education you present in "The End of College" places more responsibility on individual learners to design and follow-through on their own studies. Self-direction has long been an instructional ideal - we want students to take responsibility for their own learning. But there's a fear that they simply won't, at least not to the extent required in the scenario you've laid out in "The End of College".
People vary a great deal in their educational skills and motivational constructs. Some of them need a lot more support, or different kinds of support, than others. Existing colleges are often impersonal and cookie-cutter in how they treat students, and I think the future will provide more opportunities for customization, personalization, and variation in organizational philosophy. Traditional colleges are less diverse than they like to believe — they share a great deal of the same organizational DNA.
I also think there's an important distinction between "design" and "follow-through." Pretty much everyone needs guidance on the design of their studies. Effective pure auto-didacticism is rare. In many ways, that's the very definition of education: creating an environment and set of relationships that deliberately guide people in the acquisition of skills, knowledge, and habits of mind. On the follow-through side, I think simply being better will accomplish a great deal. Good education challenges people to work hard and move out of their comfort zones, but doesn't push them past the threshold of total frustration. That's crucial and not easy to accomplish, which is exactly why people like the cognitive tutor designers at Carnegie Mellon are working to solve the problem.
So there's no reason to believe the future of higher education will reduce the amount of necessary support that students receive. Quite the opposite.
It's been suggested that your vision for higher education is best suited to well-supported, above average students – leading to a sharper class divide. Poorer students get MOOCs, and the 1% get 4 years at Yale. How do we ensure that this isn't the case?
Only the 1% get 4 years at Yale now. That's the way it has always been, and always will be, as long going to Yale means living in a faux-Gothic building in New Haven, Connecticut. So the question is, can we radically expand the number of people of people who have access to the educational riches of Yale, and institutions like it? The answer is clearly "yes." You can already access the lectures, courses, syllabi, assignments, and exams at Yale, for free. That problem has been solved. The question, then, is what additional educational resources does Yale offer, and can we provide them to many students at an affordable price? The existence of organizations like the Minerva Project, which is just as selective as Yale and also provides a rich liberal arts curriculum, for about one-third the tuition, suggest that we can. There can be many more organizations like that.
A common characteristic of discussions about change in higher education is the tendency for lines to be drawn between commentators and initiatives from within higher education (e.g. faculty) and those outside (e.g. think-tanks, entrepreneurs). Several of the people and initiatives you highlighted in the book are from outside higher ed proper (even some of the MOOC providers felt compelled to step outside of their institutions to bring something to the masses). And you, as an analyst at a think-tank, might also be considered an outsider. Is this divide significant? What might be its' origins?
It's significant, but it can be overstated. Anant Agarwal left a great, prestigious job as the director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to head up edX. This involved moving from a building on the MIT campus to a building located one block away from the MIT campus. I interviewed Robert Lue, faculty director of HarvardX, in his office in the Harvard natural sciences building. He hasn't gone anywhere. He said to me, "HarvardX is Harvard. It is us." The West Coast MOOC providers have definitely stepped outside the academy into the world of for-profit, venture-backed companies, but that's an incredibly porous border. The companies are located in Palo Alto and some of the founders still teach at Stanford.
That said, it's not surprising that people who are currently employed by colleges are only going to go so far in agreeing with the thesis of a book titled "The End of College."
In a review of your book, Don Heller wrote the following:
"In his claim that MOOCs and other online learning materials will replace colleges and universities, Carey also provides a very narrow view of the goals of higher education. A bachelor's degree is more than just a collection of individual courses; college — when done right — also satisfies other developmental objectives, including extracurricular learning, developing interpersonal communication skills (of both the online and face-to-face variety), and instilling a sense of an individual's role in a democratic society."
This is a common criticism of online higher education. But it's also odd given that online higher education didn't set out to supplant all aspects of the traditional college experience – its' focus is instruction. On the one hand, I recognize that meeting your spouse or having inebriated conversations with other students at the campus pub is important – it was for me. But isn't also the case that these extracurricular dimensions of higher education are primarily accidents of history – rather than by design. Is it the case that our institutions set out to provide instruction, but these other dimensions then began to form around the core mission?
Per my response above — I have a lot of respect for Don as a scholar of education but I think his critique ignores some of what I say at the end of the book. I quote from some of the relevant parts of the book here http://www.edcentral.org/universityofeverywhere/ in explaining why. In short: there's no reason why we can't have the best of both worlds, online and in-person, for a lot less money than traditional colleges and universities charge today.
If alternative credentials grow in stature and students gain access to more information about the actual learning gains that a particular provider can offer, are we setting in motion a highly competitive education market (i.e. informed consumers with choice)? Are our institutions ready for this? Will they allow it?
Yes, No, and It won't be up to them. We need a competitive market in providing students a great education. We really don't have one now. Educational institutions are complicated and hard to understand and most consumers are naive. There's a dangerous conflation of price and quality. Existing institutions are theoretically in a great position to take advantage of this opportunity, because they employ a lot of smart, knowledgeable educators and have brand names that people trust. But many are deeply committed to not changing, are they are likely to struggle. They'll fight opening up the market to new credentials, for obvious reasons of self-interest, but that's not a fight that can be won forever. If you're battling against better information, your days are numbered.


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Authorities are sending helicopters over Sequoia National Park to look for a hiker who's been missing for several days.
Seventy-three-year-old Wade Brunette of Hansville, Wash. was last seen Sunday hiking by himself along the trail to Mt. Whitney. The search effort began Tuesday, after officials heard he had failed to return from a day trip to the 14,494-foot summit, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
Rescue officials from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Yosemite National Park and eight California counties are involved in search efforts on both sides of the Sierra Nevada crest.
Searchers found no sign of him Thursday and say extremely windy conditions have hampered their progress.

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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Mass Market Paperbound)
Vintage, 9781400077267, 288pp.
Publication Date: April 12, 1981
A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad." Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try with increasing drugs to bring his mind under control. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space...
About the Author
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books--novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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"A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny." –Time"Touching and beautiful." –The New York Review of Books"An excursion into private consciousness…beginning with everyday mentality and ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive." –The Washington Post Book World


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The Human Rights Campaign Store - Palm Springs, CA
The Palm Springs Human Rights Campaign "pop-up" Action Center & Store is located at 388 ½ North Palm Canyon, Palm Springs, California 92262. Our newest "pop-up" location opens on January 28, 2011 and will operate through Memorial Day weekend, serving as a catalyst to LGBTQ activism for thousands of Coachella Valley residents and tourists.
The HRC Store in Palm Springs, California
"We strive to give prospective grassroots LGBTQ activists the tools they need to make a difference," said HRC President Joe Solmonese. "By opening a new action center and store in Palm Springs in the height of the city's tourist season, we will reach thousands of people who want to lend their voices to the fight for equality."
To honor the new Action Center and Store and the relationship with the Palm Springs community, HRC is partnering with the Desert AIDS Project. HRC will create a new tee and donate $10 from every tee sold to purchase an instant HIV test for the Desert AIDS Project. The store was the inspiration of long-time HRC board member and local businessman, Andy Linsky. "The Valley is one of the nation's most welcoming communities for LGBTQ people and their allies. It is a perfect fit to be in Palm Springs to inspire and empower people to fight for their rights. I am particularly thrilled about our partnership with the DAP, one of the nation's leading HIV/AIDS service organizations and an institution beloved by many here."
Located on a bustling block vibrant with restaurants, bars, galleries and boutiques, the Action Center and Store will offer a wide spectrum of merchandise featuring the signature Human Rights Campaign's equality logo. Our apparel selection includes t-shirt, sweatshirt, jackets and caps. We also offer a wide variety of merchandise including key chains, lapel pins, bracelets, necklaces and sterling silver jewelry.
The Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store in sunny Palm Springs is not just for shopping. We are a place where individuals visiting can get energized by the LGBTQ movement and take action in not only California, but nation-wide. Ask a manager or sales associate how you can make a difference in your area. The Palm Springs Store managers and sales associates are a fountain of knowledge for LGBTQ visitors looking to explore Palm Springs tourist attractions and visit landmark locations. Please drop in and visit us soon!
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The class name is the attribute's name, Author. It is derived from System.Attribute, so it is a custom attribute class. The constructor's parameters are the custom attribute's positional parameters. In this example, name is a positional parameter. Any public read-write fields or properties are named parameters. In this case, version is the only named parameter. Note the use of the AttributeUsage attribute to make the Author attribute valid only on class and struct (Structure in Visual Basic) declarations.
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Do You Cherish God's Word?
Psalms 107:20 says,
He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
God has given us His Word for our benefit, and yet so many Christians ignore it to their hurt.
It is like the story of the woman a preacher went to visit one day. She lived in a dilapidated house. As long as he had known her, she had struggled with poverty. Twenty years earlier she had been the housekeeper for the wealthiest woman in town, but the wealthy woman had died. So this housekeeper moved into an old shack.
As the pastor was visiting her, he noticed a document framed on the wall. He said, "Do you mind if I borrow this for a few days?" She replied, "Well, you can borrow it, but please bring it back. Although I can't read, it is very important to me. It is the only thing that the lady left me when she died. It is very valuable to me. It reminds me of her. So make sure you bring it back."
He took it and had it investigated and authenticated. It was the will of the woman who had died, and in the will she left her housekeeper a fortune. The housekeeper could have had any house she wanted in the whole city and had servants of her own, but due to her ignorance, she lived in poverty and had a rough go of it all those years.
That woman reminds me of a lot of Christians. They don't read their Bible, but they admire it because it reminds them of God. They haven't taken time to find out the inheritance that belongs to them as believers.
God's Word is a light to our path. It is our guidebook for life. It is bread for our spirit. It is our strength. It is our refuge in troubled times.
Cherish God's Word.
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12-day event series to celebrate MLK's dream
Updated 9:38 pm, Thursday, January 10, 2013
The city's annual commemoration of Martin Luther King's birthday will grow by 11 days this month with the first-ever DreamWeek San Antonio, a series of cultural, social, educational and sports events that begins today and will culminate with the city's annual MLK march Jan. 21.
Organized to encourage exchanges across the city's various cultures and communities, DreamWeek's opening event this morning is a briefing on "The Business of Culture" sponsored by the nonprofit San Antonio for Growth on the Eastside, followed by a luncheon to discuss SA2020, Mayor Julián Castro's long-term planning initiative.
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Other events will range from interfaith services to a reading of King's "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," from a celebrity basketball tournament to a battle of the bands, and from an evening with poet laureate Carmen Tafolla to a burger fundraiser Saturday to help a group of East Side teens attend President Barack Obama's inauguration.
The latter is sponsored by the Claude & ZerNona Black Developmental Leadership Foundation, which runs a teen leadership program.
A complete list of events is at DreamWeek.org. The series is named after King's famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.
Jeff Miraglia, a member of the DreamWeek planning team, called it an ambitious way to build on the city's annual MLK march, regarded as the largest in the nation, and "an exciting opportunity for the people of San Antonio to advance the voice and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
The project had its genesis with Castro, who a couple of years ago "challenged a few advertising agencies to more broadly brand San Antonio beyond the Riverwalk and the Alamo," said DreamWeek's co-founder and president Shokare Nakpodia of the advertising agency The Mighty Group.
"He mentioned the MLK march ... and basically said that it was an incredible opportunity to show off Diversity USA," Nakpodia said. "That resonated with me, and I kept thinking of how that could tell that story every single year."
A Nigerian native who grew up in England and lived in New York before coming to San Antonio, he said the city's approach to conflict can be a model for the nation.
"Somehow or another, we naturally allow our cultural difference. We've had a strong racial divide here for so long yet, come Fiesta, we celebrate an incredible, colorful mishmash. It's not the norm in other cities. It's very tolerant."
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DALLAS - A Texas man has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages from two doctors he said were responsible for removing his healthy kidney and leaving a cancerous one in his body.
According to a lawsuit filed this week in Tarrant County, Glenn Hermes underwent surgery last year at a Fort Worth hospital and was informed after the procedure that doctors had removed the wrong kidney.
Hermes was "greatly shocked, stunned and depressed," court documents said. He will likely need to be on dialysis or receive a kidney transplant, his lawyer said.
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To the editor:
What's wrong with this commission? Only $50, Commissioner Schauner, for a fine? You and your buddies think nothing of charging $72 for a burned-out headlight. You and your cohorts think nothing of charging $14.72 for sewer and $4 for a stormwater runoff fee each month on my water bill of $35.83. Over 50 percent in those two fees alone.
Charge the $300 fine and, in a very short time, with only 1,000 users of marijuana you will have 300,000 real dollars to use toward purchasing economic development land. After all, isn't the buying and selling of pot an economic development scheme for some?
To the City Commission, please get some real issues before you. If the five of you cannot come up with any new, really original ideas, then resign at the end of the year. After all, you are all now asking why you weren't told about sewers, about road planning, about what is what and what is not. I ask of all of you, why did you give the city manager a raise? Does he not tell you? I ask the city manager the following: Do you not ask questions of your staff?
To the taxpayers of Lawrence, ask yourself if the election was over. After all, nothing is happening. And with this marijuana nonsense, nothing will happen either. All that will happen is that yet another mayor gets to sign an ordinance to add to their list of accomplishments when their obituary is published.
David Holroyd,
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Reddit Cofounder Calls on Google's Larry Page to Oppose CISPA
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The cofounder of the popular social news site Reddit has called on the leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter to help defeat a controversial cybersecurity bill that would compromise the privacy of their users if passed by lawmakers.
"I'm hoping that all of these tech companies take the stand that their privacy policies matter, their users' privacy matters, and no legislation like CISPA should take that away," Alexis Ohanian, former owner of Reddit (Wired's parent company Conde Nast currently owns Reddit), said in a video posted yesterday. "If someone wants access to our private home or to our mail we would say, Well go get a warrant. Right? CISPA basically says, uh, not necessary. Your digital privacy is irrelevant."


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Spruce Knob, highest point in West Virginia, U.S., located in the Allegheny Mountains in the eastern part of the state, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Elkins. Spruce Knob lies at an elevation of 4,863 feet (1,482 metres) at the southern end of Spruce Mountain, a ridge extending northeast-southwest along the western edge of Pendleton county. The peak, accessible by road from nearby Judy Gap, is within Monongahela National Forest and is one of the focal points of Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area within the national forest. The recreation area, established in 1965, has an area of about 156 square miles (405 square km) and is a noted destination for rock climbing.
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"We're like the Knights of the Round Table: Everyone puts their two cents in, and the decisions are based on what the majority wants," says Jeff Nguyen, the Jabbawockeez member known as "Phi" (pronounced "fee"). "The name comes from my Vietnamese grandmother, who had trouble pronouncing my name, Jeffrey, when I was little," he says. "She said 'Jeff-fee.' So when I started dancing and my friends said I needed to have a cool b-boy name, I picked Phi."
Nguyen was born and raised in Arizona, and after establishing himself as a hip-hop dancer in Phoenix, he moved to Los Angeles when he was 19 to pursue professional dance work. "The Jabbawockeez had formed as a dance crew in 2003, and I met them at a choreographers' carnival in L.A. They asked me to join them, but in order to do so I had to 'battle' one of the members." Nguyen was successful in his freestyle battle against company member Kevin Brewer and joined the crew in 2004.
After winning the MTV hip-hop dance reality series "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew" in March 2008, Jabbawockeez went from being a street dance crew to a professional dance company. "We upped it a notch in terms of the business side of what we were doing," says Nguyen. "We started to become businessmen, as opposed to just kids who got together and spun on our heads in a garage." The national television exposure and acclaim from winning the competition immediately boosted the company's fame and bookings. Since then, Jabbawockeez has toured with pop-music sensations New Kids on the Block and Jesse McCartney, opened for the NBA All-Star Game, and been featured in a Gatorade commercial that premiered during the Super Bowl.
Leaderless and Loving It
Nguyen attributes much of the group's success to its lack of a single director: "There's not one guy who makes all the calls." However, he emphasizes that such a collaborative enterprise works only if the people involved are open-minded, not egotistical, and committed to a similar artistic vision. "Yeah, we bump heads sometimes," he says, "but at the end of the day we're all brothers, we're all headed in the same direction, and we're all interested in making the best decisions for the group."
While the troupe has brought in directors to advise and to help put together its big productions, all of its musical and design choices are made as a group, and all of its choreography is created jointly by its members. "There's a beat that's laid out, and then one guy will bring in his eight bars, and then another guy will do the next eight bars, and it continues like that until we have the whole song done," Nguyen explains. "And that's for the group sections. When we do solos, they're usually not even choreographed; they're just freestyle."
The aesthetic elements that have come to characterize the company also reflect its commitment to a group sensibility. For example, the reason they cover their faces with masks when they perform is that they originally did not want people to know who they were as individuals.
"In one of the first shows we did, we wore ninja masks," says Nguyen. "And then we changed to silver, futuristic, robotic-looking masks. We finally ended up with the plain white ones simply because they fit better on our faces. They're just basic plastic masks that you can buy in any Halloween shop. It was less about the look than about the idea of covering our faces. We want you to experience Jabbawockeez as a group and not just follow or be fans of one individual person. There's no lead dancer in our crew. Our philosophy is that when you watch us perform, you have to watch us as a whole."
Jabbawockeez includes dancers of various ethnic backgrounds, including Vietnamese, Filipino, Korean, and African-American. "But that's the beauty of the mask," Nguyen says. "When we put it on, it's not about who we are or where we came from. We're all one."
Jabbawockeez will be performing in mid-August at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. For further information, visit www.jbwkz.com.


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"It's really abnormal to be there under these kinds of winter conditions. The hope is it's just fine."
"If I flew in a straight line, we'd probably be in Kansas by end of day, when all I do is cover 50 miles."
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American Greetings Corp. is the focus of this Wall Street Journal Moneybeat blog post about the challenges of taking a company private when the executives proposing the deal also have voting control of the shares through a dual-class share structure. In April, American Greetings formally agreed to an $878 million buyout by its top executives, who are members of the Weiss family that controls the company. "When the company first learned of the Weiss family's interest, its directors did what they were supposed to: They formed a special committee of independent directors to weigh the offer and negotiate on behalf of all shareholders to get the fairest deal," the blog post says. "The Weiss family bumped the price three times before American Greetings' independent directors agreed to a deal." The Weiss family owns only about 10% of the company's equity, according to the post. "But because there are two classes of stock, with each B share representing 10 times the vote of an A share, the Weiss family has roughly 51% voting control," Moneybeat says. Companies with dual-class share structures are in the minority in the United States, "but they are overwhelmingly family or founder-controlled, according to deal lawyers," according to the post. The post says advisers to American Greetings' special committee "also recommended that the deal require approval from a majority of shareholders not affiliated with the Weiss family. A person familiar with the process said directors were extremely heedful of the appearance of any conflict, and drove a hard bargain." But those efforts "weren't enough for at least one shareholder," the post notes, as TowerView LLC, an investment fund run by Daniel Tisch of the billionaire Tisch family, said it would vote against the deal. TowerView owns 6.1% of the common shares. The post concludes this way: TowerView is in for a challenge, but the fund may have other shareholders on its side. American Greetings shares closed Monday at $18.46 apiece, 26 cents higher than the Weiss family's $18.20-per-share offer. That indicates shareholders maybe expecting more. And since the closing of the deal depends on securing approval from a majority of shares not held by the family or affiliates, this cake is still baking.
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Character study: The marketing gurus at Progressive Corp. are at it again. The company today launched a marketing partnership with Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment related to the pending release of "Despicable Me 2." Progressive said its integrated campaign "will include a microsite that features an exclusive scene from the new film, a co-branded online game and an 'Evil Laugh' contest." Consumers also will see the "Minions" — the best-known "Despicable Me" characters — in a new Progressive commercial and in custom print and digital advertisements. "This partnership works for us from a business and branding perspective," said Jeff Charney, chief marketing officer at Progressive, in a statement. "Flo and the Minions are such a natural fit, both bringing a fun and refreshing sense of humor together." To view Progressive's new commercial featuring the Minions, play Progressive's "Despicable Me 2" game and check out a variety of additional "Despicable Me 2" content, go here. Buy the way: Bloomberg profiles junior trader-turned-author Turney Duff, a Cleveland native who has written a buzzed-about new memoir called "The Buy Side." Mr. Duff's 308-page account of the highs and lows of life on Wall Street "provides a timely window into practices that have been a focus of federal prosecutors," Bloomberg says. "His spectacular fall is also perplexing, as he initially comes off as smart, albeit green." On his website, Mr. Duff notes that he was born in Cleveland in 1969 , "which explains the tattoo of Chief Wahoo, the Indian's mascot, on my ankle." He graduated from Ohio University with a degree in journalism but pursued finance after failing to land an interview at newspapers or magazines. This piece in Buzzfeed is not impressed with the book, calling it "every Wall Street and every addiction memoir in one." Among its clichés: The author stumbles into a career in finance, encounters a scary colleague who throws stuff, determined that "screwing clients is appalling," is obsessed by bonuses, travels to Las Vegas and then turns to writing about it. The age-old question: Dr. Cynthia Austin, medical director of in vitro fertilization at the Cleveland Clinic, is quoted in this Wall Street Journal story about the touchiest of topics: broaching the issue of having children. "OB-GYNs say they are increasingly making it as routine as asking about contraception during annual visits," The Journal says. "They are educating patients about fertility rates, which gradually begin to decline around age 32 and then rapidly decline after age 37. And they are discussing the risks of miscarriage and chromosomal abnormalities, which increase at age 35 and above." Doctors say advances in fertility treatments and media coverage of women conceiving in their 40s and even 50s "have led some people to believe they can beat the biological clock," according to the story. But most people can't. "I hear many people say 40 is the new 30. But not reproductively, it's not the new 30," Dr. Austin tells the newspaper. "Our ovaries are aging at the same rate they did 50 years ago." You also can follow me on Twitter for more news about business and Northeast Ohio.


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Computex 2013: ASUS PQ321 is a 31.5" 4K monitor
Subject: General Tech, Displays, Shows and Expos | May 31, 2013 - 02:12 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: PQ321, computex, asus, 4k
Computex, the second largest expo for computer hardware, is less than a week away but its influence tends to bleed over a little bit. And, since we know our readers love 4K displays, we thought we might pass along a leak we found for a new ASUS monitor.
Image source, ASUS via TechPowerUP
And yes, that is a 32"
The Asus PQ321 is both a relatively easy-to-remember model number and a 31.5" computer monitor with 4K2K resolution. Connect it to your computer with DisplayPort or, for at least some US models, dual HDMI to have the same resolution as IMAX Digital as well as have a legitimate reason to pick up multiple GeForce Titan graphics cards.
The raw specifications are:
- 31.5 inch display size (16:9 aspect ratio)
- Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) panel, LED backlit
- 3840x2160 resolution (140ppi)
- 1.07 billion colors (10-bit RGB)
- 176 / 176 (H / V) degree viewing angle
- 350 cd/m2 brightness
- 8ms (gtg) response time
- Color temperature and gamma adjustments
- I/O: DisplayPort, 2x HDMI ("optional"), RS-232C, 3.5mm audio in and out
- 2W stereo speakers
- Tilt, swivel, height adjustments; VESA mount (no landscape/portrait pivot)
- 750mm x 489mm x 256mm with stand, 13kg net weight
- Comes with DisplayPort 1.2 cable and an RS-232C conversion cable (???)
Looking at these specifications, it certainly feels like an IPS-equivalent technology with some very telltale characteristics: the relatively slow response time for seemingly no reason, the 1.07 billion colors, the very wide viewing angle, and the relatively high pixel density per inch. This prompted me to look over at the ASUS website for some tea leaf reading. It looks as though all P- or M-series monitors utilize some form of IPS technology, the M-series referring to thin-bezel options and the P-series to relatively image quality-focused products.
So as best as I can tell, the PQ321 is a 31.5" 4K IPS monitor.
ASUS is expected to display this at Computex 2013 in Taipei along with a 39" 4K monitor. No word on pricing or availability, at least not yet.
GDC 13: Intel announces PixelSync and InstantAccess
Subject: General Tech, Shows and Expos | March 27, 2013 - 08:51 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, GDC 13, GDC
GDC 2013 is where the industry comes together to talk about the technology itself. Intel was there, and of course the big blue just had to unveil developments to help them in the PC gaming space. Two new major rendering extensions and updated developer tools debut. And, if you are not a developer, encode your movies with handbrake quicker!
First up is PixelSync, a DirectX extension for Intel HD Graphics. PixelSync is designed to be used with smoke, hair, and other effects which require blending translucent geometry. With this extension, objects do not need to be sorted before compositing.
Next up is InstantAccess. This DirectX extension allows CPU and integrated GPUs to access the same physical memory. What interests me most about InstantAccess is the ability for developers to write GPU-based applications which can quickly access the same memory as its CPU counterpart. Should the integrated GPU be visible alongside discrete GPUs, this could allow the integrated graphics to help offload GPGPU tasks such as physics while the CPU and discrete GPU handle the more important tasks.
Also updated is their Graphics Performance Analyzers toolset. If you are interested in performance optimization on your software, be sure to check those out.
And for the more general public... Handbrake is now set up to take advantage of Quick Sync Video. Given the popularity of Handbrake, this is quite a big deal for anyone wishing to transcode video using popular and free encoders.
GDC 13: 17 Minute Battlefield 4 Trailer Released
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Shows and Expos | March 27, 2013 - 03:25 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: battlefield, battlefield 4, GDC, GDC 13
Battlefield 4 is coming, that has been known with Medal of Honor: Warfighter's release and its promise of beta access, but the gameplay trailer is already here. Clocking in at just over 17 minutes, "Fishing in Baku" looks amazing from a technical standpoint.
The video has been embed below. A little not safe for work due to language and amputation.
Now that you finished gawking, we have gameplay to discuss. I cannot help but be disappointed with the campaign direction. Surely, the story was in planning prior to the release of Battlefield 3. Still, it seems to face the same generic-character problem which struck the last campaign.
In Battlefield 3, I really could not recognize many characters apart from the lead which made their deaths more confusing than upsetting. Normally when we claim a character is identifiable, we mean that we can relate to them. In this case, when I say the characters were not identifiable, I seriously mean that I probably could not pick them out in a police lineup.
Then again, the leaked promotional image for Battlefield 4 seems to show Blackburn at the helm. I guess there is some hope. Slim hope, which the trailer does not contribute to. I mean even the end narration capped how pointless the character interactions were. All this in spite of EA's proclaiming YouTube description of this being human, dramatic, and believable.
Oh well, it went boom good.
At the G Institute, PC Gaming is Logitech's Pursuit
Subject: General Tech, Cases and Cooling, Shows and Expos | March 21, 2013 - 03:23 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: PAX East 2013, PAX East, PAX, logitech
Despite recent incidents with a genetic lifeform and disk operating system, we PC gamers love our science. Yesterday, Logitech claims they renewed their commitment to both PC gaming and science just in time for PAX East 2013.
Let us just hope the pi's not a lie. Hehehe, that rhymes.
While the commercial looks and sounds like the "G" stands for "Gatorade", it really beckons the launch of eight new accessory products: four new mice, two new keyboards, and two new headsets.
Logitech G700s Rechargeable Gaming Mouse
13 programmable controls
Logitech G500s Laser Gaming Mouse
Weight/balance adjustments
Dual-mode scroll wheel
Logitech G400s Optical Gaming Mouse
"Delta Zero" sensor technology
8 programmable controls
Logitech G100s Optical Gaming Mouse
"Delta Zero" sensor technology
Logitech G19s Gaming Keyboard
Full-Color LCD
Custom backlighting
12 programmable "G-keys"
Logitech G510s Gaming Keyboard
Standard LCD
Custom backlighting
18 programmable "G-keys"
Logitech G430 Surround Sound Gaming Headset
7.1 surround sound
Logitech G230 Stereo Gaming Headset
40mm drivers
3.5mm stereo audio and mic
Check in after the break for the official press blast.
CEO Jen-Hsun Huang Sells Windows RT... A Little Bit.
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Processors, Shows and Expos | March 20, 2013 - 06:26 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: windows rt, nvidia, GTC 2013
NVIDIA develops processors, but without an x86 license they are only able to power ARM-based operating systems. When it comes to Windows, that means Windows Phone or Windows RT. The latter segment of the market has disappointing sales according to multiple OEMs, which Microsoft blames them for, but the jolly green GPU company is not crying doomsday.
NVIDIA just skimming the Surface RT, they hope.
As reported by The Verge, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was optimistic that Microsoft would eventually let Windows RT blossom. He noted how Microsoft very often "gets it right" at some point when they push an initiative. And it is true, Microsoft has a history of turning around perceived disasters across a variety of devices.
They also have a history of, as they call it, "knifing the baby."
I think there is a very real fear for some that Microsoft could consider Intel's latest offerings as good enough to stop pursuing ARM. Of course, the more the pursue ARM, the more their business model will rely upon the-interface-formerly-known-as-Metro and likely all of its certification politics. As such, I think it is safe to say that I am watching the industry teeter on a fence with a bear on one side and a pack of rabid dogs on the other. On the one hand, Microsoft jumping back to Intel would allow them to perpetuate the desktop and all of the openness it provides. On the other hand, even if they stick with Intel they likely will just kill the desktop anyway, for the sake of user confusion and the security benefits of cert. We might just have less processor manufacturers when they do that.
So it could be that NVIDIA is confident that Microsoft will push Windows RT, or it could be that NVIDIA is pushing Microsoft to continue to develop Windows RT. Frankly, I do not know which would be better... or more accurately, worse.
GTC 2013: Prepare for Graphics Overload
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Mobile, Shows and Expos | March 18, 2013 - 09:10 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: GTC 2013, nvidia
We just received word from Tim Verry, our GTC correspondent and news troll, about his first kick at the conference. This... is his story.
Graphics card manufacturer, NVIDIA, is hosting its annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2013) in San Jose, California this week. PC Perspective will be roaming the exhibit floor and covering sessions as NVIDIA and its partners discuss upcoming graphics technologies, GPGPU, programming, and a number of other low level computing topics.
The future... is tomorrow!
A number of tech companies will be on site and delivering presentations to show off their latest Kepler-based systems. NVIDIA will deliver its keynote presentation tomorrow for the press, financial and industry analysts, and business partners to provide a glimpse at the green team's roadmap throughout 2013 - and maybe beyond.
We cannot say for certain what NVIDIA will reveal during its keynote; but, since we have not been briefed ahead of time, we are completely free to speculate! I think one certainty is the official launch of the Kepler-based K6000 workstation card; for example. While I do not expect to see Maxwell, we could possibly see a planned refresh of the Kepler-based components with some incremental improvements: I predict power efficiency over performance. Perhaps we will receive a cheaper Titan-like consumer card towards the end of 2013? Wishful thinking on my part? A refresh of its GK104 architecture would be nice to see as well, even if actual hardware will not show up until next year. I expect that NVIDIA will react to whatever plans AMD has to decide whether it is in their interest to match them or not.
I do expect to see more information on GRID and Project SHIELD, however. NVIDIA has reportedly broadened the scope of this year's conference to include mobile sessions: expect Tegra programming and mobile GPGPU goodness to be on tap.
It should be an interesting week of GPU news. Stay tuned to PC Perspective for more coverage as the conference gets underway.
What are you hoping to see from NVIDIA at GTC 2013?
ASUS PadFone Infinity Bows at MWC 2013
Subject: Mobile, Shows and Expos | March 1, 2013 - 04:35 PM | Matt Raymond
Tagged: snapdragon 600, qualcomm, padfone infinity, padfone, MWC 13, MWC, asus
Mobile World Congress 2013 pulled up stakes yesterday in Barcelona, but the buzz will echo worldwide for quite a while. While fewer companies are unveiling flagship devices at the big industry shows, one new entrant into the mobile sphere definitely caught our eye: the ASUS PadFone Infinity.
Image via ASUS.com
Not to be confused with ASUS's 7" phablet Fonepad, the PadFone Infinity is the company's third version of its two-in-one phone/tablet, and it has taken major strides beyond its predecessors, the PadFone and the PadFone 2.
On its own, the handset is a 5" LTE phone, powered by Qualcomm's 1.7 GHz Snapdragon 600 Quad-core CPU, with 2 GB of RAM and the integrated Andreno 320 GPU that can crank out 1080p video sweetness (improving on the PadFone 2's 720p), and with 64 GB of onboard storage. Also included is 50 GB of free ASUS Webstorage for two years.
The PadFone Infinity ships with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean (although the demo video embedded below says 4.1) and is the first in its family to sport an anodized aluminum unibody with a brushed-metal back case.
Image via ASUS.com
But slide it into the PadFone Station, and suddenly you're holding a full-HD, 10.1" tablet. Basically, it's like getting two devices on a single carrier contract.
The devices' battery performance is fairly impressive, at least when taken in tandem. The phone lists 19 hours of 3G talk time, which can triple when connected to the Station. The phone's battery claims 6.5 hours of browsing and nine hours of video playback, to each of which you can add 7.5 hours when connected to the Station.
The phone's 5" display--up from 4.3" and 4.7" in the first two generations respectively--features 1920x1080 pixels (the same as the pad's 10.1" screen) with a resolution of 441 PPI. (Compare at 326 PPI on the iPhone 5's Retina Display.)
Image via ASUS.com
The dimensions of each device are relatively svelte. The phone is 8.9 mm thick, tapering sharply to 6.3 mm at the edges, and weighing in at 141 grams (roughly 5 ounces, for the metrically challenged). The pad is 10.6 mm thick and adds 530 grams (nearly 19 ounces) to the overall weight.
On the chassis you'll find a MyDP port, which supports Micro-USB 2.0 and 1080p video-out, 3.5 mm audio, and a Nano SIM slot. The front camera shoots 2 megapixels, while on the rear is an almost obscene 13MP, f/2.0 camera that features a burst mode of 8 frames per second. It shoots 1080p MPEG4 video at 30fps or 720p at 60fps.
ASUS says the PadFone Infinity will be available in April in Taiwan and in "selected other countries from early Q2 2013" at the hefty price of 999 euros (roughly US $1,300). Sadly, there is no word of a U.S. release.
Check out ASUS's demo video:
Happy 0th Birthday Firefox OS
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Systems, Mobile, Shows and Expos | February 26, 2013 - 04:19 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Firefox OS, mozilla, firefox, MWC, MWC 13
Mobile World Congress is going on at Barcelona and this year sees the official entry of a new contender: Firefox OS.
Mozilla held their keynote speech the day before the official start to the trade show. If there is anything to be learned from CES, it would be that there is an arms race to announce your product before everyone else steals media attention while still being considered a part of the trade show. By the time the trade show starts, most of the big players have already said all that they need to say.
If you have an hour to spare, you should check it out for yourself. The whole session was broadcast and recorded on Air Mozilla.
The whole concept of Firefox OS as I understand it is to open up web standards such that it is possible to create a completely functional mobile operating system from it. Specific platforms do not matter, the content will all conform to a platform of standards which anyone would be able to adopt.
I grin for a different reason: should some content exist in the future that is intrinsically valuable to society, its reliance on an open-based platform will allow future platforms to carry it.
Not a lot of people realize that iOS and Windows RT disallow alternative web browsers. Sure, Google Chrome the app exists for iOS, but it is really a re-skinned Safari. Any web browser in the Windows Store will use Trident as its rendering engine by mandate of their certification rules. This allows the platform developer to be choosey with whichever standards they wish to support. Microsoft has been very vocally against any web standard backed by Khronos. You cannot install another browser if you run across a web application requiring one of those packages.
When you have alternatives, such as Firefox OS, developers are promoted to try new things. The alternative platforms promote standards which generate these new applications and push the leaders to implement those standards too.
And so we creep ever-closer to total content separation from platform.
OCZ Technology to Showcase Next-Generation Enterprise Storage Solutions at CeBIT 2013
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | February 25, 2013 - 02:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ocz, ssd, PCIe SSD, CeBIT 2013, ZD-XL Accelerator
SAN JOSE, CA—February 25, 2013—OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that it will preview a variety of enterprise storage solutions at next week's CeBIT 2013 conference in Hannover, Germany. As a renowned global forum, CeBIT represents a great opportunity for attendees to be the first to see and experience the latest innovations in solid-state storage from an industry leader in enterprise SSDs, virtualization, and caching software. OCZ offers a complete suite of storage solutions that address VMware, Linux, and SQL Server platforms, and invites IT decision-makers who are evaluating or implementing solid-state storage in the data center to visit the Company's exhibit in Hall 2, Stand E43, from March 5th through 9th.
OCZ will unveil the next-generation ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a culmination of enterprise hardware and software converging as one tightly integrated and optimized solution. The ZD-XL Accelerator addresses SQL Server database applications to not only ensure that the data for this implementation is right, relevant, and readily available on SSD flash when the SQL Server needs it, but also that the data is accessed with the highest possible I/O performance. For simple deployment and ease of use, this tightly integrated, optimized solution features 'implementation wizards' to guide DBAs so they can optimally manage data cached to the flash. While showcasing the ZD-XL solution OCZ will invite enterprise customers to become beta testers for this exciting solution.
Also included in OCZ's exhibition at CeBIT will be demonstrations to preview the upcoming VXL 1.3 Virtualization Software and LXL Acceleration Software with OCZ's innovative Direct Pass Caching Technology, which not only addresses VMware but is also optimized for Linux applications. OCZ is one of the few SSD providers with a robust portfolio of virtualization and caching software that combine the power of flash acceleration with the power of storage virtualization. This enables multiple virtual server loads to run concurrently on a single physical host, not only increasing CPU and memory resource utilization, but also simplifying deployment, high availability (HA), and maintenance of the server loads.
The next-generation of workstation PCI Express (PCIe)-based SSDs will also be available soon as part of the Company's award-winning Vector Series. These drives reside directly on the PCIe bus and will support four PCIe Gen2 lanes providing lower latency to data, faster file transfers and system boot-ups, expanded storage capacities, and an even quicker, more responsive experience over the already blazingly fast SATA 3.0-based Vector Series. The Vector PCIe Series will feature an advanced suite of flash management tools that deliver enhanced drive endurance and data, making it ideally suited for power computing, content creation, and workstation applications.
Hardware is still key
The show is over, but CES 2013 is still taking its affect on our feet and our minds. While the feet are healing I asked our team to give me a few stories that would summarize this year's show. What stood out and surprised us and really made an impact? Below are a handful of quick selections with links to the full stories, but if you really want the full CES 2013 experience, you should check out our stream of CES news at http://pcper.com/ces.
NVIDIA Tegra 4 / Shield
CES really kicked off with the announcement of Tegra 4 and Shield, an Android-powered mobile gaming system built off the company's newest SoC. Shield combines a 5-in touch screen, Tegra 4 processor, console-quality game controller, speakers, display output support and more in a small, battery powered package. They are promising the best Android gaming experience as well as the ability to stream PC games on your home network to Shield.
Check out our hands-on video with the device as well as some other information on the Tegra 4.
AMD APU Relevance
To be honest, not much was expected from AMD at the show this year but they surprised many of us by talking about new APUs that looked to be much more relevant in the market than we thought they would be. Kaveri will be shipping before the end of the year and will be the first full HSA ready part, Kabini will be a high performance quad-core SoC for ultrathin notebooks and Temash could be a beast in the tablet and hybrid space.
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