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Warren Gatland's searching for his Lionheart
WARREN GATLAND will take charge of Wales for the last time for almost a year when they face Australia on Saturday.
After the autumn they have endured, it would be logical to assume he was locked away yesterday working on the master plan with which to end Wales' losing run.
Instead, Gatland's dual identity as Lions coach threw up an awkward juxtaposition as the launch of the team's adidas tour jersey dragged him away to Cardiff Castle.
The travails of the British and the Irish as a whole against the southern hemisphere visitors this autumn has crystallised the task he faces on the end-of-season tour Down Under.
It has, he admitted, also blurred the identity of the Lions captain as a leadership vacuum has been exposed across the Home Unions during the November Tests.
While Wales' Sam Warburton was the early favourite, his dip in form opened the door to potential rivals. No one has come forward.
Ideally you want someone who is guaranteed their place in the side
Ireland's war horses Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell have not played a game, Scotland's novice leader Kelly Brown has presided over three defeats and the exit of a coach, and England's Chris Robshaw has spent the autumn dodging bullets over his decision-making and is unlikely to be in charge come the Six Nations.
"The captaincy issue is the tough one at the moment," said Gatland. "It is one of the things I haven't fully got my head around and I just hope that as time goes by someone puts their hand up.
"Ideally you want someone who is guaranteed their place in the side. We're well aware there have been tour captains who, in the past, weren't good enough to be in the Test side. It's a professional game and we've got to represent the Lions in the best way we can.
"Paul O'Connell was captain in 2009 but Brian could have done the job. But some of those players are picking up injuries and are not as hardy as they were.
"I was pleased with Sam Warburton last week. He has been under a bit of criticism and was outstanding against the All Blacks. But Jamie Heaslip has captained Ireland in the last couple of games. That puts him in the frame, too."
Robshaw is a non-starter as a Lions captain, not least because Gatland is convinced of the need to play a specialist open-side flanker like Warburton in the three-Test series to combat Australia's strengths in this area.
The English cupboard is bare, he believes, because of a faulty supply line from the Aviva Premiership. "You need genuine No7s going to Australia," said Gatland. "You need sevens who are competing hard on the ball and being effective. It's not just David Pocock, it's Michael Hooper and Liam Gill as well. They are all three quality sevens. They're different.
"The English thing is interesting. I feel sometimes they struggle for a genuine seven. I know Chris has been doing that role and people speak really strongly of his leadership qualities but the English game at the moment is very dominantly refereed towards the attacking side.
"If they just allowed the sevens to be more aggressive and compete legitimately on the ball that would help develop more of them."
Toulon's Englishman abroad, Steffon Armitage, may come into the Lions equation as a specialist No7 but he will have to convince Gatland he is in the right shape given the decline the coach has seen in the fitness of Wales' exiles.
"At the weekend, Mike Phillips was blowing after 52 minutes – we had to get him off," he said. "They've got quality players in France but their preparation and approach is different.
"That's something we have to look at with the Lions. Are they physically in the best shape to compete at the highest level even though they might be playing quite well in France?"
Gatland unveils his management team on December 12 and will sit down with them to draw up a ghost tour squad. They will do the same before, during and after the Six Nations ahead of deciding on the real squad.
The process is meticulous but, after the evidence of the autumn, the question is whether they can find 35 good enough players – and a captain worthy of the name.


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Indian mobile device company Olive Telecom has announced its own Android 2.3 Gingerbread handset, the OliveSmart V-S300, an HSPA+ smartphone with a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen. OEM is unclear, but the V-S300 has a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with 720p HD video support, 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 processor, 512MB of ROM and WiFi b/g.
There's also a front-facing webcam, WVGA display, GPS and Bluetooth 2.1, along with HDMI and a digital compass. The whole thing is expected to measure 122 x 66 x 9.9 mm.
Release date isn't clear, and the fact that Olive has used a screenshot of an earlier Android version than Gingerbread doesn't exactly fill us with confidence, but we'll hold judgement until the smartphone emerges into the wild. Olive had previous promised an Android 2.2 device in the first week of March.
[Thanks Fransiscus!]


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Adafruit Perma-Proto Half-sized Breadboard PCB – 3 Pack! Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: its always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype – usually starting with a solderless breadboard and then transferring the parts to a more permanent PCB. That's when we realized what people would really like is a proto board that makes it easy!
This proto-board is the PCB you always wish you had, but never realized it! We took the basic layout of a half-sized breadboard and turned that into a beautiful PCB. The top side has a while silkscreen, and the same markings you're familiar with, to make transferring components easy. The bottom has the 5-hole pad design that matches a classic breadboard, with 4 power bus lines on the sides, and no mask so you can easily cut traces when necessary. All holes are thru-plated for strength – these wont peel off with rework. The finish is a gold plate so it wont oxidize like bare copper! There are also two mounting holes so you can attach the PCB to your project box
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Good idea! And it looks good too.
You are right – this proto-board is the PCB I always wish I had! Note to self to include w/next order!
Oh sure, you come out with this a couple hours after I place my order. *sigh*
These look nice and I'll have to add them to a future order.
Really nice. I'll have to get a couple. Does anybody know if the pins on wirewrap IC sockets will fit in a breadboard hole? If so you could lay this over your breadboard and once its working carefully lift and solder.
What an incredible idea!
Ordered one immediately. Very impressive. It's one of those why didn't I think of that ideas that Adafruit turns in to a reality. Just like Adafruit's RGB LCD which I use daily 🙂
If you ever do a revised version it would be nice to have 4 mounting holes, spaced far enough from the pads so that metal screws don't cause a short.
Very nice, fancy three color screening. Really like the half size, Radio Shack had one that matched full size boards, but that's too much for a lot of small circuits.
Karl, while not as stable as 4 mounting points, remember it's easy to break the traces on those end rows so they can still be used for devices not in the center if your mounting hardware interferes with the last couple rows.
I too would rather compromise the exact look for good mounting points, perhaps at the expense of a couple points on the power buses. Still better than the old Radio Shack breadboards that group the power bus in 5s and not aligned to the field.
Certainly going to add a couple sets to my next order though.
Great suggestions, thanks! Now where did I put the Dremel …
I've been waiting for something like this!
So simple, yet so good! I have longed for this exact thing several times on past projects. I'll definitely pick some up with my next order.
For a very similar (possibly less refined) version of this idea, see http://shop.moderndevice.com/products/wired-breadboard
It has 4 holes, but they are so close to the buses you can only use nylon standoffs, unless you want to laboriously cut the traces. It also has traces sneaking around the edge to close pads so a simple solder blob will short together the top and bottom +V rails for example. I built a project on it and it looks pretty good. Had to search for the nylon standoffs though.
I thought the same thing (lay this over the breadboard while working, then lift & solder). Now just make better jumper cables and all headers should be extra long!
I thought the same thing (lay this over the breadboard while working, then lift & solder). Now just make better jumper cables and all headers should be extra long!
Awesome! I put these right on my Christmas List!!
When can we expect the next favorite clear breadboard… lol These look great and I too plan to add to my next order I think all the great stuff coming out of Adafruit is amazing. Thanks LadaAda for helping me know that I want to be an EE.
Any plans to do v-scores to be able to detach the power busses like you can for usual breadboards?
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I recall playing the very first "Alien" game many, many years ago. In that one, you played a Marine fighting the acid-spewing alien menace in some tight, dark, and twisty corridors. There have been plenty of sequels since, but I haven't picked up the franchise after that first one. This latest entry from Sega "Aliens: Colonial Marines" looks like it goes back and picks up where the "Aliens" movie by James Cameron left off. Teaser trailer for the game, due out sometime in 2012, and first image above.
Aliens: Colonial Marines begins with an ostensibly abandoned ship, the U.S.S. Sulaco, recovered in orbit around LV-426. Players lead a group of highly trained United States Colonial Marines as they board the deserted craft to uncover the fate of the crew. They will have to fight to survive unspeakable horrors and their own anxieties as they chase down the truth behind a galaxy-spanning deception that places humanity at the mercy of the most murderous and deadly species in the universe. Aliens: Colonial Marines features authentic environments, such as the surface of LV-426 and Hadley's Hope, weapons inspired by the film series and is designed to provide an exhilarating and engaging new chapter in the Aliens universe.
Dodge the acid in 2012.
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While the departure of several of Stanford's defensive stars will garner many of the headlines, Stanford will face a stiff task in replacing several departed offensive players as well in 2014. Specifically, many of the key cogs in Stanford's massively productive run game have moved on to the NFL; as a result, major questions remain about which current Cardinal players will fill the void left by those players' departures.
Stanford will have three open practices (four, including the Spring Game). Here's a look at what to keep an eye on during those sessions and throughout the entirety of spring ball.
Open Practices
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Saturday, March 1: 9:30 A.M. - 11:35 A.M.
Saturday, March 8: 12:30 P.M. - 3:10 P.M.
Saturday, April 5 (TBD)
Saturday, April 12: Stanford Spring Game
Offensive Line: Tasked with replacing four of five starters from last season's team, Stanford's 2014 offensive line will be one of the most inexperienced in the David Shaw/Jim Harbaugh era. But it could also be one of the most talented. Stanford's vaunted 2012 offensive line recruiting class - considered by some to be the top line class in the last decade (or longer) - will finally have its time to shine.
Andrus Peat, a top NFL Draft pick whenever he chooses to leave school, is an anchor at left tackle. Josh Garnett, the only current Stanford offensive lineman other than Peat to have started a game along the offensive line (he started in David Yankey's absence against Washington State), is the frontrunner for Yankey's vacant left guard job.
Graham Shuler, who contributed in some of Stanford's Jumbo packages last year, should be considered the frontrunner in the center competition. He'll compete with veteran Kevin Reihner, freshman Thomas Oser, and walk-on freshman Jim Grace for the job. (We have heard that Oser impressed last year on Scout team, but he'll need to add more mass to have a legitimate shot at winning the competition).
Johnny Caspers could have the upper hand at Kevin Danser's old right guard spot and Kyle Murphy will be the favorite to win the right tackle position. Redshirt junior Brendon Austin will likely compete with Murphy at right tackle; it also wouldn't be a complete shot if he received reps at guard and pushed Caspers. Nick Davidson will also be in the mix at tackle, but he's a longshot to earn the starting nod. True freshman Dave Bright also worked at right tackle last season, but he, too, faces an uphill climb in the right tackle competition.
Stanford will also begin the process of sorting out its Jumbo package personnel this spring - many of the linemen who played major roles in the Jumbo personnel last season are slated to move into starting spots in 2014. Austin (if he doesn't earn a starting spot), Davidson, Reihner, Bright and Oser will be in the mix to earn time in the Jumbo sets. They aren't on campus yet, but when Stanford's five incoming freshmen arrive - Brandon Fanaika, Casey Tucker, Reilly Gibbons, Austin Hall and Jesse Burkett - they, too, could insert themselves into the conversation for one of the Jumbo spots. Out of that group, Tucker probably has the best chance to play early.
Running Back: With Tyler Gaffney and Anthony Wilkerson gone, Stanford's running back corps is as unproven and inexperienced as it has been in many years. Remound Wright, the team's most experienced back, has only 43 career rushes. The other backs on Stanford's roster have a combined 63.
Still, there is talent for new Cardinal running backs coach Lance Taylor, who came to The Farm from the Carolina Panthers, to work with. Wright and Seale had immensely productive high school careers and have showed flashes in limited playing time. Young, who played his redshirt freshman and sophomore seasons as a WR/RB, will spend spring as a pure running back. Barry J. Sanders made several impressive plays in limited opportunities last season. And incoming freshman Christian McCaffrey is a dynamic and elusive athlete who could earn a role early in his Stanford career. Freshman walk-on Pac McFadden rounds out the running back group.
All five of Stanford's scholarship running backs (including McCaffrey) were four-star recruits out of high school.
Spring ball could shed light on which and any new wrinkles Stanford might decide to introduce to the running game to fit its personnel - there won't be as many between-the-tackles power backs on the 2014 Cardinal as there have been in years past - and which, if any of the backs, starts to separate himself from the pack.
Wide Receiver: Unlike several of the other offensive positions, the wide receiver spot is quite settled entering the 2014 campaign. In fact, one of few the major changes from 2013 isn't even related to the on-field personnel; while the unit was coached by Mike Sanford last season, Tavita Pritchard will oversee the receivers and quarterbacks in 2013. (The other major change involves the move of Kodi Whitfield, who caught 16 passes for 170 yards and one touchdown last year, to safety.)
Senior Ty Montgomery and redshirt junior Devon Cajuste will lead the receivers again in 2014. Together, they comprise one of the best starting receiver tandems in the conference. Speedster Michael Rector, talented freshman Francis Owusu (the only member of Stanford's 2013 recruiting class to actually play last season), former walk-on Jeff Trojan and elder statesman Jordan Pratt will provide depth and be featured in various packages.
Perhaps the most intriguing part of spring will pertain to the development of two of the team's younger receivers, Rector and Owusu. One of the team's top deep threats all year, Rector was utilized more in the intermediate passing game in the second half of the season. He showed the ability to be far more than just a deep threat in those situations. Owusu, meanwhile, was one of the top receivers in the country as a recruit and has the size/speed combination to be a special player.
Quarterback: Kevin Hogan will enter spring as Stanford's starting quarterback and he will in all likelihood exit it in that same spot. But at some point, whether it be during fall camp, sometime next season, or even next spring, Hogan could be pushed by one of Stanford's two young quarterbacks - Ryan Burns and Keller Chryst. Chryst won't arrive on campus until this summer, but Burns will have an opportunity to elevate his stock this spring.
At 6-foot-5, 219-pounds, Burns has the physical presence Stanford looks for at the quarterback position. He's also a very good runner, and has a cannon for an arm. In short, he's the most physically gifted quarterback Stanford has had since Andrew Luck. Spring ball should provide some sort of indication about whether Burns will push Evan Crower for the backup job, and how close he is to being ready to be in the conversation for the starting position. With only three signal callers on the roster this spring (Dallas Lloyd will be working primarily at safety, and David Olson's Stanford career is over), there will be plenty of reps to go around the quarterback room.
Tight End: Perhaps more than any position on the team, tight end should be much better in 2014 than it was in 2013. That's not saying much, of course, given the lack of production from the tight end position in 2013, but there's genuine optimism that each of Stanford's freshmen trio will develop into productive players. If that happens, the intermediate passing game, so long a staple of Stanford's offensive success, could return to The Farm in 2014.
Spring ball could provide a glimpse of how Stanford plans to use the three freshmen in its offense, and how far along each is in his development.
Fullback: Ryan Hewitt is off to the professional ranks, but Stanford still has several solid fullbacks on its roster, and will get even more help this summer with the arrival of Daniel Marx. As things currently stand, fifth-year senior Lee Ward, a devastating run blocker, figures to have the edge at earning the starting job. Ward will compete with redshirt junior Patrick Skov, who's probably the superior athlete of the two, for playing time at the position.
Five Spring Ball Questions: Offense
How do the three freshmen tight ends fit into the offense and the offensive depth chart?
How far along is Ryan Burns in his development?
How do the offensive line dominoes start to fall - from replacing four starters to identifying Jumbo formation personnel, there's a lot to be determined - and how do the youngsters hold up against Stanford's solid front-seven?
How are Michael Rector and Francis Owusu utilized in the passing game?
Will any of the running backs start to separate from the pack and demand more carries than the rest of the running back committee? And how, if at all, will Stanford tweak its run game to cater to the different personnel it has this season (and will have for several years moving forward)?


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Coinciding with The National Week of Deaf People, Deaf Services Queensland today launched SignIQ, a smartphone application developed in partnership with Optus Business that assists in teaching Australian Sign Language (Auslan).
Brett Casey, Chief Executive Officer of Deaf Services Queensland, says the SignIQ app is a significant step for Deaf Services Queensland, as users can search more than 125 common words or phrases; access the equivalent Auslan signs in a visual format; learn about the context in which signs can be used; and test their newly acquired skills with a memory recall game.
"Many of the applications in the market are based on American Sign Language, as opposed to Australian. Learning a new language can be really difficult, too – so we wanted to help Auslan learners by providing them with the means to do so in an engaging and interactive way," Brett Casey said.
Deaf Services Queensland's proposal for the SignIQ app was a runner-up in the 2011 Optus Mobile Apps Challenge, which encouraged businesses to submit their app concepts to be considered for joint design and development by Optus Business and its mobility partners. Optus Business recognised the educational benefit of the SignIQ app concept and worked with its mobility partner Philology to make the application a reality.
"Working with our mobility partner Philology, Deaf Services Queensland and Optus have developed an app that is more relevant and accessible for Auslan learners. Using animations to teach Auslan, the app also educates users on how particular signs are used in context, while providing important information on the etiquette of communicating with the deaf, too," Phil Offer said.
The National Week of Deaf People runs from Saturday 20th until Friday 26th October, 2012.
The SignIQ app is available on the iTunes App store for $1.99, or for more info check out this video.


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Larry Parroco, Quezon City: It makes me angry. Because of what the government prosecutors have done, parang binaboy nila ang ating justice system. That plea deal is hurting us.
Rey Ibalan, Antipolo City: The government could lose the case. Sen. Enrile and Atty. Frank Chavez said evidence submitted were weak and the case against Gen. Garcia could fail.
Breach of public trust
Louella Brown, Baguio City: As an ordinary citizen, I feel betrayed, duped and demoralized about the plea deal entered into by government prosecutors with accused plunderer Gen. Carlos Garcia.
Janet Lopez, Manila: What a breach of public trust. Bantay salakay!
Cris Rivera, Rizal: I feel bad. It's as if my most trusted friend, at the most crucial time and place, abandoned me where only the fittest survive. The prosecutors seemingly worked hand in hand to trash the trust and confidence accorded them by the Filipino.
Diony Yap, Bacolod City: Nakakahiya. Our government prosecutors entered a deal to release the accused plunderer Gen. Carlos Garcia.
Jun Montebon, Parañaque City: I feel that I was taken for a ride by the Ombudsman and her cohort prosecutors. What happened to more than 50 per cent of the unrecovered loot?
Pitts Hizon, Pampanga: Apparently, there was a betrayal of public trust through breach of official duty. They did not fight for the full restitution of the P303 million while it was within their power to do so. I wonder how much went into their pockets?
Elmo Cruz, Manila: I pitied Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez and the government prosecutors when they could hardly answer convincingly the questions directed to them by Sen. Pres. Enrile and Sen. Drilon during the Senate Blue Ribbon committee investigation of the plea bargaining agreement they entered into with the accused plunderer, but I pity more our nation for being victimized by those who are supposed to protect our interest and welfare.
Germi Sison, Cabanatuan City: Common sense dictates that the plea bargaining agreement entered into by government prosecutors with the accused plunderer was questionable, as their alleged weak evidence belies the findings of former state auditor Heidi Mendoza, which served as the basis of the charges. With hundreds of millions of pesos involved and the perceived blessing of the past administration, anyone with an analytical mind can conclude that the prosecutors sold the interest of the government for a few millions. It is sickening that people who are entrusted with protecting government welfare are the ones plundering the people's money. President Noynoy Aquino was correct that there would be no need for additional taxes to fund government programs and projects if corruption would be eliminated.
Rushed decision
John Angelo Blasquino, Metro Manila: I believe they did not think this one through.
Manuel Abejero, Pangasinan: Those prosecutors acted like Chinese cooks and they did it lutong macao.
It was the logical thing to do
Ruben Viray, Antipolo City: The plea deal entered into by our government prosecutors with Gen. Carlos Garcia, I believe, is in order if indeed evidence was really weak. If the government loses the case against Gen. Carlos Garcia due to lack of evidence, then the plea bargain will at least make the government recover part, if not most, of the money plundered by the said general. I think this will again entail a long deliberation in our court of justice and can still be appealed. Democracy is working in our country.
Rodolfo Talledo, Angeles City: Apparently, the chances of conviction due to inferior evidence are small. To obtain a conviction solid proof of guilt, beyond reasonable doubt, and not based on mere speculation and presumption, must be established. Losing the case will generate ridicule and charges of incompetence.
Is something afoot?
Leonard Villa, Batac City: Even a layman like me could sense that the deal is tainted with irregularity and the Ombudsman and Sandiganbayan have become a laughingstock.
Dennis Montealto, Mandaluyong City: There must be something there that we still don't know about.
J.R. Mondonedo Jr., Parañaque City: Plea deal and what, he goes scot-free? I really don't know how it works, but if it's supposed to be like this, then it only shows that there is something fishy going on, like some of these prosecutors will get a cut somewhere along the line to maintain their lifestyle, mistresses, families and relatives getting a piece of the pie, etc. Why can't it be as simple as getting what he stole and putting him behind bars? I don't know. I am not a lawyer.
Elizabeth Oximer, Negros Occidental: It is so obscene. Magkano kaya ang laman ng envelopes?
Rene Poder, Manila: They allowed Gen Garcia to have his cake and eat it, too. Indeed, a "flee bargain".
Not for us to say
Ferdinand Rafer, Cavite: Better leave that decision to the Sandiganbayan justices who handle the case. They are the ones to rule on that case, not us, not the Senate/Congress.
Bing Limson-Salvador, Metro Manila: Totally disgusted.
Ishmael Calata, Parañaque City: The plea deal is revolting to the highest degree. While this deal was being processed, why was the remaining money in the hands of the plunderer allowed to be used by his family? Should it not have been frozen first before the finality of the deal was to be reached? This is a clear example of why corruption of this magnitude continues in our country, where those who are supposed to guard the welfare of the nation are in cahoots with big-time corrupt officials in our government. Now let us see the closure of this investigation and let's see to it that, for once, a big fish is prosecuted in court and punished with the highest form of punishment found in the penal code.
William Gonzaga, Marikina City: It's disgusting to realize that those government prosecutors succumbed to the devil's blandishment of sharing in the plunderer's ill-gotten wealth!
June Deoferio, Cavite: I feel disappointed and angry over the plea deal because hundreds of millions are involved for our soldiers that Gen. Garcia allegedly pocketed.
Robert Young Jr., San Juan: Gen. Carlos Garcia's plea deal with government prosecutors was done with effrontery, arrogance, self-assurance, audacity, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, crust, disrespect, gall, guff, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, presumption, rudeness, sass, self-assurance, self-confidence, shamelessness, temerity. It's so sickening it can make a person puke. The plea bargain deal entered into by prosecutors with Gen. Garcia is typical of wheeling and dealing in most government offices. Take tax deficiency, for instance. An examiner asks businessmen to pay 10 per cent to the government, he gets 40 per cent for himself and the businessman is only too happy to save 50 per cent. The Marcoses are said to have entered into secret deals with the PCGG, that's why they got away with hundreds of cases filed against them. Wheeling and dealing is so common that one Chinese friend remarked, "I don't how to do business once officials stop receiving bribe."
Junk it
Alexander Raquepo, Ilocos Sur: It's unfair. Just junk it.
Erwin Espinoza, Pangasinan: Trash.
What a letdown
Joel Caluag, Bulacan: If I can make the lives of those prosecutors miserable for what they did, they will be living miserably for the rest of their lives.
Joe Nacilla, Las Piñas City: It is safe to conclude that the majority of Filipinos feel that what Gen. Garcia did was an extraordinary evil. He cheated for money so he and his wife could live a life of luxury. In the same manner, those government prosecutors who entered into a plea deal should be imprisoned for a long sentence the same way they imprisoned us.
C.B. Manalastas, Manila: The prosecutors showed lack of initiative in gathering and evaluating enough evidence against Gen. Garcia at the expense of the government.
Pedro Alagano Sr., Vigan City: Plea bargain deal, if done in good faith, is advantageous to the government, but in the case against Gen. Garcia, where there is a tsunami of evidence to pin him down, said prosecutors acted in bad faith when they entered the said deal, as it obviously frees the culprit to enjoy his loot rather than to suffer the consequences of life imprisonment for plunder; therefore disadvantageous to the state. Said situation also qualifies the prevailing joke: "Only in the Philippines where you can buy your freedom."
Jose Fabello Jr., Cagayan de Oro City: I feel sad that our prosecutors did not measure up to the task given them. The deal must have been so sweetly tempting.
Rose Leobrera, Manila: Let him rot in jail who is guilty. Aksyunan na yan. These are just delaying tactics.
Jayson Biadog, Mandaluyong City: It's very slow. It must be resolved as soon as possible.
Plunder is a serious case
Dino Monzon, Caloocan City: The government should never enter into deals with Gen. Garcia and his ilk. They should prosecute him and his misbegotten family to the full extent of the law.
Lucas Banzon Madamba, Laguna: Although he is entitled to making a plea and, of course, to due process of law, a person riddled with a bundle of cases should be held liable to the consequences of his actions. Plunder is a serious case and should be dealt with accordingly and in accordance with the full extent of the law.
Raymar Gurrea, Bacolod City: Delikado tayo 'pag ganitong klase ng mga prosecutors ang hahawak ng kaso. It's that easy for them to enter a plea deal with somebody charged with plunder.
We're going to the dogs
Deo Durante, Camarines Sur: We are just encouraging other government officials to follow suit as Gen. Garcia and cohorts did, as if the government or the law is protecting plunderers and grafters. Besides, this is a big insult to our justice system. If the government will favor the plea deal this country is going to the dogs!
Delfin Todcor, Quezon City: It's a kid glove deal purposely to exonerate the plunderers and corrupt officials involved with the AFP fund divestment. Again, this demonstrates the weak character of our officials and our weak judicial system. If this is the way our prosecutors and justice administrators and officials at Ombudsman, SC, CA and SB deal with these grave crimes, it is obvious that they are not looking for ways to stop corruption in all the government institutions. Therefore, this will perpetuate tax extortions and corrupt practices.
Desuel Pardo, Mandaluyong City: Military people and government prosecutors who are supposed to run after enemies of the state and wrongdoers are being investigated and accused of committing anomalies by lawmakers who themselves are perceived to have their hands wetted by the dirty oil of corruption. I wonder if Diogenes, who is walking along our streets with lantern during daytime, has already found an honest man in our misguided society.
Money talks
Smiley Olalia, Metro Manila: Money talks. Justice/judge/prosecutor "kuno" lawyers listen. God bless Pilipinas.
Dr. Jose Balcanao, Benguet: Such scenario implies that big fish in the ring of corruption are being protected because they can buy everything and can even redefine the meaning of justice.
That's entertainment
Arthur Gimena, Metro Manila: This is Pinoy sarswela at its best.
Billy Valero, Metro Manila: The Garcia plea bargain is a farce. The prosecutors, instead of prosecuting, are lawyering, acting as defense lawyers for the general.
Resort to impeachment proceedings
Miguelito Herrera, Cabanatuan City: It's another shameless act and a big blow to the justice system in this country. The prosecutors, along with the Ombudsman, had been assailed over its plea bargain agreement, a bad precedent and an insult to those who want to institute reforms in our democratic institutions. I believe that only the impeachment proceedings are the best way to remove them from office.
There goes P-Noy's dream
Felix Ramento, USA: It is an open display of effrontery on the part of the vestiges of the previous government against P-Noy's avowal to fight organized corruption in government.
Better than nothing
Ruben Viray, Antipolo City: Well, at least it's better than nothing.
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Original Dano Bars
1.) Process until the texture of coarse sand: 2 cups raw cashews and 1 cup shredded, unsweetened coconut.2.) Add 2 cups pitted dates, and process until well-blended with the cashew/coconut mixture.
3.) Add 1/4-1/2 cup melted coconut oil., and process until mixture is wet.
4.) Dump mixture into a 9x13 pan, press into pan and freeze for 10-15min.
5.) Cut into bars and enjoy, or re-freeze bars for later in an air-tight bag. You can also shape the bars into balls, and re-freeze.
When I am not able to keep the bars cold, I shape them into balls, as they keep their shape much better. My food processor holds 14 cups, so if yours is smaller, adjust the proportions to fit your machine.
Recipe Variations
- Zest and juice a whole lemon, lime or orange into the mixture when you add the coconut oil.
- Add 1/4 cup of nut butter with the coconut oil.
- Add 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa to the cashews and coconut.
- Add chocolate chips or carob chips before adding the dates.
- Melt chocolate and drizzle onto the bars before freezing.
- Add 1 cup of another type of nuts in place of 1 cup of the cashews.
- Stir in 1/2 cup pumpkin or sunflower seeds just before dumping into the pan.
- Add a few tbsp. of honey with the coconut oil.
- Add a few drops of stevia with the coconut oil.
- Add 3/4 cup pumpkin puree, 2tbsp. of pumpkin pie spices, and a little honey or molasses.
- Add 1tbsp. or more ground ginger and 2tbsp. molasses.
- Stir in small bits of dried fruit before dumping into the pan, or process larger dried fruits after the dates.
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Everquest Next - News Roundup
Pc Gamer has a new post about a few more landmark videos. I'll just post one here so click the link for the rest of them.
Next EQNexus shares info about some of the classes you can play based on the X-mas issue of PC Gamer.
Cleric - Wields either a two-handed hammer or a hammer and shield. Buffing and protecting allies is the typical Clerical duty, but these magic men and women do it with the power of fire, which gives them some killing power, too.
Necromancer - Wielding a tome or a dagger and focus object, the Necromancer summons destructive chaotic energies and comes with a companion: a Monstrosity that grows in power with its master.
Beast Lord - If you're a fan of 'trampling' and 'savaging,' the Beast Lord's furry friends make excellent companions. You can do your own savagin, too, with a flail and shield combination, or a spear for medium range attacks.
Tempest - With two blades or one two-handed blade, the Tempest 'dances across the battlefield' and unleashes powerful winds and blasts of lightning. Ought to appeal to fans of action RPGs.
Information aboutEverquest Next
SP/MP: Massive
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: MMORPG
Platform: PC
Release: In development


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Tuesday marked the second exciting day of training. As the weather changed, so did the spirits of the staff. After being introduced to our roles, the AOP Summer Program became a reality. I personally am stoked! It was only last year that a majority of the AOP student staff were pre-freshmen students, nervous about what was to come in the four weeks ahead.
Now, the roles have changed, and we are more than happy to assist in helping students grow and transition into college like our peer mentors did for us. AOP is a family and it's about to get that much bigger. Preparations have started now. We are racing the clock to ensure that the accommodations provided will not only feel like home but will incorporate our mission statement while we strive for our goals. :)


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About Us
Association for the Prevention and Control of Rabies in India (APCRI) is the pioneer organisation established to serve as a glimmer of hope for the control of the Rabies situation in India. APCRI was founded on Friday the 17th of April, 1998 by a group of 17 committed and dedicated rabies professionals at a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. Since then APCRI has evolved? in to a national establishment that is leading the war against Rabies in the country.
Comprised of Medical Professionals, Veterinary Doctors and Public Health Persons, APCRI serves as a platform that brings together the best minds in the country for Advocacy, Research and Information dissemination in the field of Rabies.
Founders of APCRI
The Association for Prevention and Control of Rabies in India (APCRI) was founded on Friday 17th April 1998 by this group of 17 committed and dedicated rabies professionals at a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Dr. P. K. Das, Agartala , Tripura
- Dr. M . K . Sudarshan, Bangalore
- Dr. Amlan Goswami, Calcutta
- Dr . Tapan Kumar Ghosh, Calcutta
- Dr. B.B. Patnaik, Cuttack
- Dr. P. Sangram, Hyderabad
- Dr. A .K . Chakraborty, New Delhi
- Dr. S. Kukreja, New Delhi
- Dr. G, P. Shahi, Gorakpur
- Dr.M. N.Siddiqui, Lucknow
- Dr. Hariom Agarwa, Agra
- Dr. M. C. Dutt,a Guwahati
- Dr. K. N. Patni, Aligarh
- Dr. S. P. Marfatia, Mumbai
- Dr. G, Sampath, Hyderabad
- Dr. A. K. Dutta, Delhi
- Dr. N.B.Saxsena, Agra


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Molly Gunther is a Plumber who works in the Plumber Headquarters in Bellwood. She became a member of the Alpha Squad during the Incursean invasion.
She has light brown hair and blue eyes and wears the Alpha Squad uniform. In the future, she has an eyepatch and wears a slightly different Alpha Squad Uniform.
In the future, she has a red version of the Plumber suit of the time. Her hair is longer, and she wears an eye patch on her right eye.
Ben 10: Omniverse
- The More Things Change: Part 1 (first appearance; cameo)
- The More Things Change: Part 2 (cameo)
- A Jolt from the Past (cameo)
- Outbreak
- Malefactor (flashback)
- Ben Again (cameo)
- Tummy Trouble
- Vilgax Must Croak
- The Frogs of War: Part 1 (cameo)
- The Frogs of War: Part 2 (cameo)
- Rad (cameo)
- For a Few Brains More
- Bengeance Is Mine (cameo)
- Animo Crackers (cameo)
- Catfight
- The Rooters of All Evil
- Universe vs. Tennyson (cameo)
- Clyde Five (cameo)
- The Color of Monkey (cameo)
- Vreedlemania (cameo)
- The Final Countdown (cameo)
- The Most Dangerous Game Show (cameo)
- The End of an Era (future; cameo)
Her name is based on Holly Hunter.[1]
- Her Plumber Badge formerly belonged to Kevin Levin.


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How Tel Aviv's Darom Station Went Off the Rails
The architect of the city's disused railway station looks back on a project that was set up to fail. Now he wants to turn it into a farmers' market.
On the day it opened, Tel Aviv's Darom (South ) train station was thronged with people. On one wall read the inscription: "Gateway to the capital, the Negev and the Arava." At the opening ceremony on a chilly November day in 1970, Transportation Minister Shimon Peres cut the ribbon at the station that was supposed to connect the country's south to the center.
The station was intended to eliminate a major traffic nuisance: The tracks leading to the old platform near the Beit Hadar office building snarled vehicular traffic. The Transportation Ministry wanted to make the tracks a main artery for cars and develop freed-up land.
The new station, a safe distance from the city center at the end of Kibbutz Galuyot Street, was supposed to integrate into the future Netivei Ayalon highway system and create a transportation network for Tel Aviv, Holon and the environs. The building and platforms were designed by prizewinning architect Nahum Zolotov, and the work was carried out by the companies Solel Boneh and Ashtrom. It took about three years.
But moving the station out of the city center had unintended consequences. "It was a stupid idea even then," says Zolotov 42 years later. "I think that even when the construction was under way the railroad people knew there was no need for it there. Some people thought it made more sense to build where there was an empty lot, but everywhere around the world where they tried that they failed."
The Darom station was closed at the beginning of the 1990s; since then it has been used as a school for training railroad employees. But the school is slated to move, and the station's future isn't clear.
A great idea scrapped
In fact, about 10 years before the station opened, the young Zolotov approached the municipality with a different idea. He noted that an empty lot sat between the (old ) central bus station and the train station next to Beit Hadar. Zolotov proposed an obvious move - creating a commercial center that would link the two stations and become a main transportation hub, with a hotel and an office building above it.
"A city needs a main transportation hub, not a bus station here, a train station there," says Zolotov. "Everything was scattered then. A person arriving shouldn't have to drag suitcases or take a cab to the bus."
Zolotov proposed connecting the main transportation hub to a ring road. The road would begin at Rothschild Boulevard, continue below the Center for the Performing Arts to Sderot Chen, extend to Ben-Gurion Boulevard and then along the promenade until the loop closed at Manshiya.
Such a road had precedents elsewhere in the world, and today the London Ring, Paris Peripherique and Barcelona Quart Cinturo are successes. A road like this would have made it easier to get from place to place while linking interesting parts of the city.
But the great idea fell by the wayside and the railway was moved to the city's edges. Zolotov was offered the chance to plan the new station, far from the hub he believed in. To this day he believes that commissioning him was a kind of joke - a job for the architect who proposed leaving the train inside the city. Still, he accepted the job. "I'm an architect," he says. "If they had commissioned me to build on the moon I would have built on the moon."
Zolotov's career was at its peak at the time; he was awarded for planning an apartment building on Tel Aviv's Ben Yehuda Street. (He later won the same prize for planning the Shin Bet security service's headquarters in 1967. ) He planned scores of large and small Brutalist buildings, like the culture and memorial hall at Kibbutz Nitzanim.
In the end, the train station included shops, toilets, a shelter and a large parking lot. The building, which was intended to be efficient and convenient, required a clean and simple design. It was based on columns bearing rectangular concrete roofs, each separated from the next. This allowed for a measured amount of light to enter the platforms and passenger hall, but it also provided shelter. Rainwater was diverted though a drainage system inside every column.
The minimalist design increased the sense of movement, allowing the free flow of people. The offices, passenger hall, ticket windows and cafe were integrated.
From north to south another row of columns stretched between the tracks. The station was not intended to be monumental like the great railroad stations abroad, it was to be a simple building - a task more complicated than it seems. "This wasn't great architecture," Zolotov says modestly. "There's a public that arrives and a public that departs, that's all."
Fading away
Upon the construction of the new train station, the old station and the tracks leading to it were demolished. But even at the best of times the Darom station served only about 16 trains daily. And it operated for only a few years. From the 1980s it served only one line to Jerusalem.
June 2002 saw the opening of the Haganah train station, now Tel Aviv's southernmost station. The school for railway workers at the Darom station will soon move to the railway complex near Lod, where railway offices that are currently scattered around the country will be concentrated. "No final decision has been taken on the building's future, and the issue is still under examination," says the Israel Railways spokesman's office.
Zolotov has a good idea: The long platforms, convenient roofing and location at the city's edge would be ideal for a farmers' market. They could sell their produce directly from their trucks.
Zolotov thinks some of his works have been so ill-treated that he prefers they be demolished, for example the guest house at Ein Avdat, for which he won the Rechter Prize. But Zolotov isn't upset. "I still think a building belongs to its owner, not the architect. And the owner is entitled to do with it whatever he wants."
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Jan. 4, 2009
Sunday Morning
Come down and do your crossword. I worry
when you stay in bed. Last night's early frost
killed the sweet peas but not our patch of berries.
Seven across just might be Limberlost.
The morning paper says a man with Alzheimer's
has wandered off to find his long dead wife.
He told an aide he knows just where to find her.
All he has with him is a butter knife.
Hurry down. I want to see you grimace
when you might be stumped. Five down is breath.
The day is quickly turning cold and grim.
Do you remember a Mary Elizabeth?
The raspberries in your white bowl
are bright and firm and very, very cold.
It's the birthday of the ornithologist James Bond, (books by this author) born on this day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1900). He was the leading expert on birds of the Caribbean, and his book Birds of the West Indies (1936) is still in print today.
The novelist Ian Fleming was an enthusiastic bird-watcher, and he was living in Jamaica and came across a copy of Birds of the West Indies. Fleming was writing a thriller and decided to use the name James Bond for the protagonist, agent 007. That thriller was Casino Royale (1953), the first of Fleming's 12 James Bond novels.
It's the birthday of Louis Braille, born in Coupvray, France (1809). When he was three years old, he was blinded in an accident. He invented a system of six raised dots that could be read by fingers, so that blind people could read easily. His idea didn't catch on during his lifetime, but it eventually became a worldwide phenomenon.
It's the birthday of Jacob Grimm, born in Hanau, Germany (1785), one of the men responsible for collecting fairy tales like "Little Red Riding Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Snow White," "Rapunzel," and "Hansel and Grethel." He and his younger brother, Wilhelm, collected more than 200 German folk tales and published Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812.
Lots of people thought the stories weren't appropriate for children. There was violence, grief, an old woman who ate kids, abandoned children, and young women chopping off pieces of their feet to fit in slippers. But the book was still a big success, and it changed the way scholars collected folklore trying to present straightforward narratives as people told them, instead of taking the basic story and turning it into a sophisticated literary piece.
In "Hansel and Grethel," Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote: "The old woman had only pretended to be so kind; she was in reality a wicked witch, who lay in wait for children, and had only built the little house of bread in order to entice them there. When a child fell into her power, she killed it, cooked and ate it, and that was a feast day with her."
It's the birthday of artist, writer, and diplomat Dominique Vivant-Denon, (books by this author) born in the Alsace, France (1747). He traveled in Egypt with Napoleon's expedition against the British, and he wrote a book about it, Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt (1802). It went through 40 editions, and was translated into all the European languages. He was the first modern European who had really traveled all around Egypt, through the deserts and mountains, and he drew everything and wrote about it all.
"It is hard to decide what is more astonishing," he wrote about the Pyramids, "the tyrannical dementia that dared order their building, or the stupid obedience of the people who agreed to help build such things."
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®


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Egypt prepares to protest. President Mohamed Morsi's supporters have begun massing in Cairo in preparation for "open-ended" rallies in support of his government. It's a gauntlet thrown in the direction of Morsi's detractors, who are planning protests of their own this Sunday to demand that the president resign, one year to the day since he was sworn in.
As Egypt counts down to the scheduled "Tamarod" (Rebellion), Morsi is rallying his Islamist base, hoping that they will act as a counterweight to the secular and liberal opponents gearing up for his ouster. It may be the weekend but in Egypt, the showdown's just beginning.
The general who said too much. The US government has a new leaker to worry about, if reports are to be believed, and it's not some "29-year-old hacker": it's one of the Pentagon's own.
According to unnamed sources, Marine General James "Hoss" Cartwright — now retired, but between 2007-11 vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — is suspected by the Department of Justice as the source of classified information about the infamous Stuxnet worm, which targeted Iran's nuclear systems in 2010. Suspiciously detailed accounts of the cyber attack appeared in the US media last year, and the DoJ's probing has reportedly identified Cartwright as a target of its investigation. The general, formerly one of President Barack Obama's "inner circle," has yet to comment.
Speaking of 29-year-old hackers. They may not be worth the presidential jets, but they have a knack for causing trouble. Edward Snowden, Washington's least favorite fugitive right now, has already caused a spat between the US and Ecuador, the country he's asked for asylum: threatened with the withdrawal of trade privileges if it took him in, the Ecuadorean government has called America's bluff and canceled their export pact in defiance of US "blackmail."
And this is before Ecuador has even decided whether to put Snowden up. It's not the only Latin American country considering receiving him and thumbing its proverbial nose at the US. Here's our rundown of the tropical getaways Snowden could get his pick of
Bishops, brokers and billions. A Vatican accountant was arrested today, accused of trying to sneak some $26 million in cash into Italy. (No one needs that much change.) Nunzio Scarano, the bishop of Salerno, has been detained along with two alleged accomplices — a broker and a member of Italy's secret services.
The swoop comes just two days the Pope ordered an unprecedented inquiry into the Vatican's financial dealings, which it must be said are far from holy. Francis said the probe was designed to "learn more about the legal position and activities" of the Vatican bank; on this evidence, he may not like what he finds.
Move over, Bitcoin: there's a new new currency in town. Space travel is fun, but all those freeze-dried ice creams, moon buggy rides and anti-radiation fashion gear don't come cheap. If the Moon and Mars become tourist destinations as space entrepreneurs are hoping they will, travelers will need to be able to pay for stuff there. But bank transfers won't work in space and fumbling for coins in zero gravity isn't so funny after the first few times. So what's a spendthrift astronaut to do?
Luckily for us, PayPal is on it. The internet payment company has announced that it's funding an initiative called PayPal Galactic to figure out what currency can be used and how commerce should be regulated off Earth. Let the good times roll, or rather float weightlessly into the eternal void.


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A fourth day of jury deliberations is planned today in the trial of a La Jolla man charged with second-degree murder for throwing a punch that resulted in the death of a professional surfer last year.
Seth Cravens, 22, faces 15 years to life in prison if convicted in the May 2007 death of 24-year-old Emery Kauanui.
Jurors have passed three notes to Judge John Einhorn asking for readback of testimony.
Defense attorney Mary Ellen Attridge told the jury in her closing argument that Cravens acted in self-defense. She said her client wasn't guilty of voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter either.
Attridge said Kauanui and House had been kicked out of the nearby La Jolla Brew House bar following a drink-spilling incident, after which Kauanui had threatened to kick House's "ass."
The attorney suggested Kauanui was in a "homicidal state of mind," and therefore Cravens' actions were reasonable under the circumstances.
She said the prosecution failed to show that Cravens acted with a conscious disregard for human life and that he had the right to use the amount of force necessary to help House, who just had the "tar" beaten out of him by Kauanui.
The attorney said prosecutor Sophia Roach failed to prove that the fight was a group beating on Kauanui by House, Cravens, Hank Hendricks, Orlando Osuna and Matthew Yanke.
But Roach, in her closing rebuttal argument, said Cravens did not react reasonably when Kauanui confronted him after being beaten in front of his own house.
The prosecutor said Kauanui was in the middle of a "moving scrum" when the defendants attacked him, saying he had the right to defend himself.
The question for the jury, Roach said, is whether it would excuse or justify Cravens' conduct, saying the defendant had no claim to self-defense.
Prosecutors also charged Cravens with assault, battery and making a criminal threat in connection with a number of prior violent incidents dating back to 2005.


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Sarah Pearson Appointed Director of Marketing For The Hess Collection Winery
Sarah Pearson has been appointed director of marketing for The Hess Collection winery, reporting to chief marketing officer Derek Bromley.
Pearson will primarily focus on The Hess Collection Winery and Hess Family Wine Estates wineries Artezin, MacPhail and Sequana, and will also contribute to domestic marketing efforts for Hess Family wineries Glen Carlou, Peter Lehmann, Colomé and Amalaya.
Most recently she served as a brand manager of innovation at Constellation Brands where she launched a successful celebrity wine that quickly grew to 200,000 annual cases.
Earlier, she held key marketing positions with Freixenet USA and Treasury Wine Estates leading cross-functional teams in consumer and brand marketing efforts, including the development of new products, the revitalization of existing brands with new packaging and focused channel marketing efforts.
A graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, Pearson is multi-lingual in Spanish, French and Hebrew, and is a certified Spanish Wine Educator, granted by the Spanish Wine Academy in San Francisco. She holds the WSET Level 2 from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust, and the Basic Certificate from the Court of Master Sommeliers. She studied French at La Sorbonne in Paris.


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Nokia clarifies why it chose to trail Android OEMs in adopting larger screens, higher core count SoCs
This week Nokia devices -- the former Nokia Oyj. (
) that's now under Microsoft Corp.'s (
) umbrella -- announced its first major device launch since
Microsoft purchased it
for $7.2B USD
in September. The results have thus far impressed, with the announcement of the
10.1-inch Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet
and the
6-inch Lumia 1520/1320 phablets
, plus some
slick accessories
like the "Treasure Tag".
I. Windows Phone Trims Hardware Gap With Android to About 6 Months
But the release of Lumia 1520 -- which packs a 1080p screen and quad-core Snapdragon 800 system-on-a-chip (SoC) from Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) -- raised some eyebrows given Nokia's past comments about
HD screens and multi-core CPUs hurting more than they help
a new interview
, Samuli Hanninen, Nokia Devices' VP of software program management, clarifies why Nokia trailed Android phonemakers in making the leap to 1080p and quad-core.
First he takes issue with the notion that it took "a long time", while acknowledging that Nokia's Windows Phone line has trailed Android on the path towards higher resolutions displays, first at the 720p node and then at the 1080p node. He comments, "I don't think it took us a long time [to bring a Full HD display to a Nokia phone]."
From a pure numbers perspective, he has some grounds to make that argument. Historically, Windows Phone has trailed Android and iOS by up to a year or two in key features. But of late that gap has shrunk substantially.
The first 1080p Android smartphones weren't announced until early this year when HTC Corp. (
unveiled the One
(February) and Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
) announced
the Galaxy S4
(March). Both products did not start shipping at volume
until May
There's no official ship date for the Lumia 1520 in the U.S. -- yet -- but it's expected to ship within a few weeks. So Nokia is trailing Android in 1080p adoption by about six months.
This is similar to the case with 720p; the 720p (1280x720 pixel) Galaxy S3 was
announced in May 2012
, while the similar resolution Lumia 920 (1280x768 pixel) was
announced in September
II. Necessity and Design Dictate Hardware Timing, Says Nokia
And Nokia says that the extra time for 1080p was necessary as the higher resolution required a jump in device size to be useful. Mr. Hanninen comments, "You only see the benefits when using a 5-inch screen and larger, anything below that the eye can't see the difference."
Again there's a lot of truth to this comment. At a certain use distance for any device there's
a certain maximum resolution
that is useful to individuals with average eyesight -- for 4-inch devices that resolution is (roughly) 720p; for 6-inch devices it's roughly 1080p. Of course 1080p resolutions on 4- or 5-inch devices may make certain specialized applications (e.g. making rendered text look "smooth") less expensive and may provide some crispness/clarity gains for the minority of people who have above average eyesight.
Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop criticized previous generations of multicore smartphone SoCs. [Image Source: Reuters]
Likewise Mr. Hanninen clarifies that Microsoft SVP (and former Nokia Oyj. CEO) Stephen Elop
wasn't attacking multicore smartphone SoCs
, just pointing out that they were only hype without proper device design and application.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 only became available in August. [Image Source: Liliputing]
He comments:
If I had the possibility of having a quad core CPU last year, I'd have said that I don't want it. You have to get the best from a quad core chip. If you do it badly then the phones get very hot.
In other words, with older processor generations (i.e. the Snapdragon S4), Nokia didn't feel like it could design a quad-core smartphone that wouldn't be hot and inefficient.
The Snapdragon 800
(quad-core) only recently became available, so that explains Nokia's launch timing in a bit more depth. (The first Snapdragon 800 equipped Android was LG Electronics, Inc.'s (
) G2, which was
announced in August
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The Demise of Radical Political Economics? An Essay on the Evolution of a Theory of Capitalist Production
The paper traces the historical development of American radical economics. The focus is on the work of Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. The central aim is to examine the implications of their recent move towards neoclassical economics for the study of capitalist production in particular, and the future of American radical economics more generally. By embracing neoclassical concepts and methodology, radical economists have denied themselves the opportunity to elucidate both the bases of capitalist class conflict, and the nature of more complex social interactions at the point of production. American radical economics once provided a powerful critique of capitalism and its system of production, but it now struggles to provide more than a policy prescription for reduced levels of opportunism among individual workers. American radical economics cannot remain a distinctive voice in economics while it retains such close associations with neoclassicism. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.
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In case you missed this. Cristiano Ronaldo decided to leave a mark on the Clasico after failing to do it with his feet. Or maybe he was doing so on instructions from the Special One. Just poor sportsmanship all around.
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I have two pc's running Windows 7 Home premium. I want to share xp style with the other one. I have a modem connected to router, then both pcs plugged into ports on back of router. I look at the Network map, it shows the two pcs, switch, gateway, internet. What is this switch? Is there a way to remove it. It hoses my internet connection everytime I reboot, it has to identify the network. I am baffled by this switch. I never had such issues with xp.
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I have two pc's running Windows 7 Home premium. I want to share xp style with the other one. I have a modem connected to router, then both pcs plugged into ports on back of router. I look at the Network map, it shows the two pcs, switch, gateway, internet. What is this switch? Is there a way to remove it. It hoses my internet connection everytime I reboot, it has to identify the network. I am baffled by this switch. I never had such issues with xp.
I also think you are using homegroup. Workgroup is easier to work with
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The switch is the hub portion of your router.
Follow zigzag's lead.
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Windows 7 Ulti. x64
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The Switch is the Router. Consumer Routers are a combination of a Switch and Router. But they are treated independently.
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There is no tcp/ipv6 nor homegroup. Is it normal to isdentify network for several minutes? It gets the little circle, then it gets an exclamation mark before conncting. Xp seemed to connect almost immediately. I still can't get sharing working either. Very frustrating. This has been monopolizing all of my days for the past three days.
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Is UPnP enabled on your router? Disabling that may make it stop showing up in windows.
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Deep sea sharks get less attention than their surface-loving counterparts. Take for example the bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus). At 16 feet in length, this shark is almost large as a white shark or a tiger shark, and the species has a wide global distribution. H. griseus might be a top predator, but because he tends to be found up to a mile below the surface, you don't really hear much about him.
He's also really, really slow.
H. griseus' sluggish and deliberate nature has earned him his common name – the cow shark. He is known to be a scavenger that feeds opportunistically on carrion.
UH Mānoa undergraduate researcher Danielle Garcia focused her Honors project on metabolic rate of H. griseus.
"A species' metabolic rate can be used to elucidate life history characteristics, such as locomotion, growth rate, sexual maturity, and ecological role," said Garcia, a southern California native who graduated in December 2013.
Garcia used a non-lethal sampling technique to collect pieces of the shark's white muscle tissue – the tissues responsible for burst locomotion in high-speed hunting. The tissue samples were collected from sharks caught on deep-set fishing lines off the coast of O'ahu. She used these samples to conduct assays of four key metabolic enzymes considered as proxies for metabolic rate.
"We found that these sharks have some of the lowest enzyme activity levels that we've ever discovered in sharks. This indicates a low metabolism or metabolic rate" Garcia said.
"These animals are not exceptionally athletic," she said. "They're not running down their prey."
Garcia's metabolism results suggest that H. griseus may perhaps be most comparable to the Pacific sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus. Future tests with red muscle tissues – those used for routine swimming – would give a more inclusive whole metabolic picture of the bluntnose sixgill shark, Garcia said.
Garcia conducted her research with mentors Kevin Weng and Jeff Drazen in the Department of Oceanography.
"In our laboratory, we're using satellite and acoustic telemetry, as well as biochemical and stable isotope techniques, to understand biology of these poorly understood species," said Weng, who is the manager of the Pelagic Fisheries Research Program at UH Mānoa.
"Danielle's work fits into a larger effort to understand how these unusual animals are adapted to the deep ocean environment," Weng said. "The low oxygen levels where sixgill sharks live are a harbinger of things to come with global climate change. If we can understand how the sixgill shark is adapted to low oxygen, we may have a better idea of how other species may react to the coming decrease in oxygen in the world's oceans."
Garcia credits her positive experience in the UH Mānoa Honors program with helping her to focus her career aspirations in marine biology.
"Kevin had me build all of the gear that we used for the study," said Garcia. "I got more and more comfortable in the field over the course of the project." She plans to use the coming year after graduation to volunteer or intern at a marine biology research center before applying to graduate programs.
In November 2013, Garcia presented her metabolic rate results at her first-ever professional conference, The Western Society of Naturalists' Annual Meeting in Oxnard, CA. It was an opportunity to help educate people about the little-known H. griseus species that has come to fascinate her.
"They are sharks, and they do deserve respect," Garcia said. "But they're so slow moving that they're kind of adorable."
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If you operate a business, own a business, provide a service or distribute a product and want to expand your customer base, it is a good idea to look into cultivating a reputation on eBay. EBay serves over 250 million shoppers, making it a prime marketplace in which to advertise your business, product or service. Follow these steps on how to capture the eBay segment of the online consumer market.
1Establish a presence on eBay. Setting up shop on the web's leading sales market is the first step to winning over eBay shoppers. EBay's automated listing and selling interface is straight-forward and user-friendly.
- Use either the basic store layout or the advanced store layout template to build your store.
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6Promote your eBay store. EBay provides its sellers with individual web addresses that they can use to drive business to their stores. Include this web address on all of your marketing materials, as well as in emails and on your business website.
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OCEANSIDE -- A woman was punched and robbed at an automated teller machine Monday night, a police spokeswoman said.
The robbery happened at 7:40 p.m. at the Navy Federal Credit Union, 4180 Avenida de la Plata, spokeswoman Karen McDonough said.
The victim was approached by a woman who punched her in the face and took her cash and a gold ring and checkbook, she said.
The suspect was described as a Latino woman between 25 and 30 years old, about 5-feet, 5-inches tall with a thin build and shoulder-length dark hair, McDonough said.