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YSS - Stuart necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Yarra Star Sourcing
We're a group of Australian entrepreneurial types that have got together to start-up a trading company that imports manufactured products from (mainly) Asia into Australia.
We're looking to position ourselves to be a customers international buying office, whereby we can source the products they want, select the best manufacturer of those product and then supply them directly to the customers warehouse.
We've got a related business, based in China, that visits and accredits suppliers through the Asian region to ensure that product quality standards are met and we present these to the customer as part of their purchase.
The personality we're trying to get across through our branding is that we are trustworthy, reliable, have high levels of integrity and experience. The logo should reflect a level of creative intelligence but still be conservative. A number of our intended competitors are a bit dubious!
The products we're looking to import are mainly industrial items used by 'heavy' industries such as agriculture, mining, chemicals, manufacturing etc. As such products will generally be commoditised and non-fashionable such as being made from steel or plastic. I would imagine that the majority of our customers will be middle aged men! They will be cost focussed but heavily reliant on meeting specific quality standards.
Generally these industries are fairly conservative and risk averse, due to the high capital nature of their companies and the high cost if things don't work out the way they are supposed to!
We are looking for a logo to represent our company: Yarra Star Sourcing.
I'd like to see a logo that incorporates a 'star' or 'stars', but I'm open to alternate suggestions. I think the trick here is going to be to design something that's intelligent and interesting without being too confronting for our potentially conservative customers!
I'm also open to the logo focussing on the 'Yarra Star' part of the company name as I think customers may abbreviate it to this over time.
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Marketers particular those involved with anything resembling Solid State Devices (SSD) will tell you SSD is the future as will some researchers along with their fans and pundits. Some will tell you that the future only has room for SSD with the current flavor de jour being nand flash (both Single Level Cell aka SLC and Multi Level Cell aka MLC) with any other form of storage medium (e.g. Hard Disk Drives or HDD and tape) being dead and to avoid wasting your money on them.
Of course others and their fans or supporters who do not have an SSD play or product will tell forget about them, they are not ready yet.
Then there are those who take no sides per say, simply providing comments and perspectives along with things to be considered that also get used to spin stories for or against by others.
For the record, I have been a fan and user of various forms of SSD along with other variations of tiered storage mediums using them for where they fit best for several decades as a customer in IT, as a vendor, analyst and advisory consultant. Thus my perspective and opinion is that SSDs do in fact have a very bright future. However I also believe that other storage mediums are not dead yet although their roles are evolving while their technologies continue be developed. In other words, use the right technology and tool, packaged and deployed in the best most effective way for the task at hand.
Memory and tiered storage hierarchy
Consequently while some SSD vendors, their fans, supporters, pundits and others might be put off by some recent UCSD research that does not paint SSD and particular nand flash in the best long-term light, it caught my attention and here is why. First I have already seen in different venues where some are using the research as a tool, club or weapon against SSD and in particular nand flash which should be no surprise. Secondly I have also seen those who don't agree with the research at best dismiss the findings. Others are using it as a conversation or topic piece for their columns or other venues such as here.
The reason the UCSD research caught my eye was that it appeared to be looking at how will nand SSD technology evolve from where it is today to where it will be in ten years or so.
While ten years may seem like a long time, just look back at how fast things evolved over the past decade. Granted the UCSD research is open to discussion, debate and dismissal as clear in the comments of this article here. However the research does give a counter point or perspective to some of the hype which can mean somewhere between the two extremes, exists reality and where things are headed or need to be discussed. While I do not agree with all the observations or opinions of the research, it does give stimulus for discussing things including best practices around deployment vs. simply talking about adoption.
It has taken many decades for people to become comfortable or familiar with the pros and cons of HDD or tape for that matter.
Likewise some are familiar with (good or bad) with DRAM based SSD of earlier generations. On the other hand, while many people use various forms of nand flash SSD ranging from what is inside their cell phone or SD cards for cameras to USB thumb drives to SSD on drives, on PCIe cards or in storage systems and appliances, there is still an evolving comfort and confidence level for business and enterprise storage use. Some have embraced, some have dismissed, many if not most are intrigued wanting to know more, are using nand flash SSD in some shape or form, while gaining confidence.
Part of gaining confidence is moving beyond the industry hype looking at and understanding what are the pros, cons and how to leverage or work around the constraints. A long time ago a wise person told me that it is better to know the good, bad and ugly about a product, service or technology so that you could leverage the best, configure, plan and manage around the bad to avoid or minimized the ugly. Based on that philosophy I find many IT customers and even some VARs and vendors wanting to know the good, the bad and they ugly not for hanging out a vendor or their technology and products, rather so that they can be comfortable in knowing when, where, why and how to use to be most effective.
Granted to get some of the not so good information may need NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) or other confidentially discussions as after all, what vendor or solution provider wants to show or let anything less than favorable out into the blogosphere, twittersphere, googleplus, tabloids, news sphere or other competitive landscapes venues.
Ok, lets bring this back to the UCSD research report titled The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory
Click here or on the above image to read the UCSD research report
I'm not concerned that the UCSD research was less than favorable as some others might be, after all, it is looking out into the future and if a concern, provides a glimpse of what to keep an eye on.
Likewise, looking back, the research report could be taken as simply a barometer of what could happen if no improvements or new technologies evolve.
For example, the HDD would have hit the proverbial brick wall also known as the super parametric barrier many years ago if new recording methods and materials had not been deployed including a shift to perpendicular recording, something that was recently added to tape.
Tomorrows SSDs and storage mediums will still be based on nand flash including SLC, MLC, eMLC along with other variants not to mention phased change memory (PCM) and other possible contenders.
Todays SSDs have shifted from being DRAM based with HDD or even flash-based persistent backing storage to nand flash-based, both SLC and MLC with enhanced or enterprise MLC appearing. Likewise the density of SSDs continue to increase meaning more data packed into the same die or footprint, more dies stacked in a chip package to boost capacity while decreasing cost. However what is also happening is behind the scenes which is a big differentiator with SSDs and that is the quality of some firmware and low-level page management at the flash translation layer (FTL). Hence they saying that anybody with a soldering iron and ability to pull together off the shelves FTLs and packaging can create some form of an SSD. How effective a product will be is based on the intelligence and robustness of the combination of the dies, FTL, controller and associated firmware and device drivers along with other packaging options plus the testing, validation and verification they undergo.
Various SSD locations, types, packaging and usage scenario options
Good SSD vendors and solution providers I believe will be able to discuss your concerns around endurance, duty cycles, data integrity and other related topics to set up confidence with current and future issues, granted you may have to go under NDA to gain that insight. On the other hand, those who feel threatened or not able or interested in addressing or demonstrating confidence for the long haul will be more likely to dismiss studies, research, reports, opinions or discussions that dig deeper into creating confidence via understanding of how things work so that customers can more fully leverage those technologies.
Some will view and use reports such as the one from UCSD as a club or weapon against SSD and in particular against nand flash to help their cause or campaign while others will use it to stimulate controversy and page hit views. My reason for bringing up the topic and discussion it to stimulate thinking and help increase awareness and confidence in technologies such as SSD near and long-term. Regardless of if your view is that SSD will replace HDD, or that they will continue to coexist as tiered storage mediums into the future, gaining confidence in the technologies along with when, where and how to use them are important steps in shifting from industry adoption to customer deployment.
What say you?
Is SSD the best thing and you are dumb or foolish if you do not embrace it totally or a fan, pundit cheerleader view?
Or is SSD great when and where used in the right place so embrace it?
How will SSD continue to evolve including nand and other types of memories?
Are you comfortable with SSD as a long term data storage medium, or for today, its simply a good way to discuss performance bottlenecks?
On the other hand, is SSD interesting, however you are not comfortable or have confidence with the technology, yet you want to learn more, in other words a skeptics view?
Or perhaps the true cynic view which is that SSD are nothing but the latest buzzword bandwagon fad technology?
Ok, nuff said for now, other than here is some extra related SSD material:
SSD options for Virtual (and Physical) Environments: Part I Spinning up to speed on SSD
SSD options for Virtual (and Physical) Environments, Part II: The call to duty, SSD endurance
Part I: EMC VFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching
Part II: EMC VFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching
IT and storage economics 101, supply and demand
2012 industry trends perspectives and commentary (predictions)
Speaking of speeding up business with SSD storage
New Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive (SSD and HDD)
Are Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) getting too big?
Industry adoption vs. industry deployment, is there a difference?
Data Center I/O Bottlenecks Performance Issues and Impacts
EMC VPLEX: Virtual Storage Redefined or Respun?
EMC interoperability support matrix


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Soft Case depicts the investigation of the apparent suicide of Ronald Mullins, a software exectutive and Senate hopeful. There are a lot of twists and turns, but it is the first person's character that really drives this book. I was entertained, enraged, and humored all at the same time....
Time Stand Still
Barclay, 2002, 15.95, 320 pp. ISBN 1931402183 Ohio private investigator Mike Holmes offers his New York City friend and colleague Darren Camponi some easy work. A university hired Mike who subcontracted to Darren to locate a former employee Jason Caufield who the school claims stole intellectual property. Darren knows the mark as he went to Merrick High School with him. Though wary of cases that seem too easy like this one in which he only ...


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The 109.5MW Shady Oaks project in Illinois, the first US utility-scale project to use Chinese turbines, has been bought for $148.9 million by Canada's Algonquin Power and Utilities, the two companies announced last month.
"These are basically unproven turbines, so (this sale) is a huge win for Goldwind," said Amy Grace, lead US wind analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "Here's a legitimate company coming in and buying (the turbines) as a long-term producing asset."
Even so, Goldwind is not currently bankable in America. "They still don't have the operating track record," cautioned Matt DaPrato, a wind analyst at IHS Emerging Energy Research. "But they are definitely trying to be considered a major US player."
A turbine must have at least 100 operating years in US conditions before financiers and engineering certifiers consider it proven for American application. Goldwind, which also has turbines in several smaller projects in the US, expects to cross that threshold in the third quarter of 2013, said a spokesman.
Shady Oaks consists of 68 Goldwind GW82 1.5MW direct-drive turbines and three GW100 2.5MW turbines. The project was commissioned in 2012. Power is being sold under a power purchase agreement with utility Commonwealth Edison.
Both analysts described the $148.9-million price tag as relatively low. DaPrato stressed that Goldwind has assumed all operations, maintenance and capital repair responsibilities for the project under a 20-year fixed price agreement, which must be factored in when judging the sale price. "It's on the cheap side, but a lot of the risk is now gone," he said.
Quick sale
"This is a faster sale than most people were expecting, basically because the turbines are unproven," said Grace.
All newcomers to the US market have to prove their turbines, she noted. She also pointed out that Goldwind took a 30% cash grant - instead of the production tax credit - meaning that Algonquin was clearly confident enough to buy a "stream of future payments" under the negotiated power purchase agreement. The grant in question was for $56 million, said Goldwind.


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Lisa Whelchel, who rose to fame with her role on the hit NBC series "The Facts of Life", has revealed to her Twitter followers that she's battling West Nile Virus.
"Dr. just called with blood test results," the 49-year-old wrote. "Have West Nile. Ugh. I'm fine, just tired. Takes a year to recover."
Whelchel recently finished competing in the reality series Survivor: Philippines, though it's unclear if she may have contracted the mosquito-borne disease there. West Nile Virus, once considered a minor threat to humans, is now now endemic in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and in the United States. In 2012, there were over 5,000 cases in the U.S alone.
"I just progressively worsened -- couldn't eat, couldn't drink," Mike Clark, a North Texas doctor, recently told NBC News regarding his experiences with the virus. "I got nauseated and finally had lost 26 pounds. It was, it was definitely scary. I mean, I didn't know if I was going to get better or worse."
According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms of West Nile can include fever, headache, body aches, fatigue, skin rash, swollen lymph glands, and eye pain. There is no vaccine and no specific treatment.
"I've been very touched by all the sweet tweets," Whelchel added. "Other than tired, I'm feeling fine & expecting a full recovery. So grateful for you. Thanks!"


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Biotech post-doc researcher April Bright has just been invited to present her research at her first conference. But something hinky is going on with her polymerase chain reaction, and she needs to figure it out before conference time. And how does she set about doing it? In song, of course.
This music video, Ph.Diva and the Mystery Band is actually a clever (and catchy) bit of advertising from the biotech company Life Technologies. There's also a prequel video, featuring Ph.Diddy:
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Selecting the Right Encryption Approach
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At the board-room level, data encryption may easily be viewed as a binary matter: data encryption is employed and the company's assets are secure, or they're not encrypted and it's time to panic. However, for the security teams chartered with securing sensitive assets, the realities are not so simple.
When determining which data encryption solution type will best meet your requirements, there are several considerations. At a high level, data encryption types can be broken out by where they're employed in the technology stack. There are four levels in the technology stack in which data encryption is typically employed: full-disk or media, file system, database, and application.
In general, the lower in the stack that encryption is employed, the simpler and less intrusive the implementation will be. However, the number and types of threats these data encryption approaches can address are also reduced. On the other hand, by employing encryption higher in the stack, organizations can typically realize higher levels of security and mitigate more threats.
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Specifically Christian newcomers to the study of Judaism frequently puzzle over why — as they themselves often put it — Jews "don't believe in Jesus." The reality is simply that the entire Jewish concept of who and what a Messiah actually is (or does) is just nothing like what Christians themselves have in mind, when […]
It has occurred to me that, over the course of some 113 blog entries and counting (this one marking number 114, since starting this little blog back in July of last year), that I have not yet attempted to precisely define the specific subject matter of this "Religion 101" blog.
What is religion, anyway?
I mean, can we define it, in a way that really works for everyone who uses the term?
The task is perhaps not as simple as it may seem. Some definitions of "religion" may be too narrow, while other definitions may be too broad.
For instance, many people might tend to define "religion" in terms of being about belief in God (or gods), and perhaps worship of that God (or gods).
But then you run into religions such as Buddhism, or some forms of Hinduism or Taoism, within which "God" per se simply does not figure. (And neither, for that matter, does "worship.") In light of this, defining "religion" in terms of belief in (and worship of) God or gods would seem to fall somewhat short.
On the other hand, sometimes people define "religion" in terms so broad as to end up simply being too vague to be genuinely helpful. Religion might be thought about in terms of what one "worships," but in a way which stretches the meaning of the term "worship." Sometimes one hears language to the effect of, "Oh, that guy just worships sports," or "Football is that guy's religion."
Alternatively, sometimes one hears that "Politics is that person's religion," along with the suggestion that some sort of political or even philosophical "-ism" constitutes this or that person's "religion." But surely we do not mean that literally. (Or do we?)
Defining "religion" might turn out to be a slipperier enterprise than it might at first seem. As one religious studies wag once put it (unfortunately, I cannot now remember who put it this way), when it comes to religion, "I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it."
In this blog entry, I'd like to attempt something a little more "interactive" than has been done in past blog entries. I'd like to invite each and every reader of this little blog to take advantage of the "Comments" feature available here, and to post a comment in which a stab is made at defining "religion."
In other words, dear reader, how do you define religion? Are some definitions perhaps too narrow and restrictive, or alternately too broad and loose? What definition of "religion" best works for you — and why?


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December 15, 2011 by hazemtagiuri
Material Conditions is a new series of eBooks created with bookleteer, asking professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public sector cuts.
It aims to explore what it means and takes to be a professional creative practitioner – from the personal to the social and political. How and why do people persist in pursuing such careers? How do they organise their everyday lives to support their practice? What kind of social, political, economic and cultural conditions are necessary to keep being creative? What are the bedrocks of inspiration that enable people to continue piloting their meandering courses through contemporary society and culture?
The first set of 8 commissioned eBooks, in a limited edition run of 50 copies printed via our Short Run Printing Service and bound with handmade wrappers, are as follows:
A Conversation Between Trees by Active Ingredient
The Show by Desperate Optimists
Making Do by Jane Prophet
Something More Than Just Survival by Janet Owen Driggs & Jules Rochielle
Remix Reconvex Reconvexo by Karla Brunet
He Who Sleeps Dines by London Fieldworks
Reflections on the city from a post-flaneur by Ruth Maclennan
Knowing Where You Are by Sarah Butler
Copies are available to order below.
The books are also available online as bookreader versions, as well as downloadable PDFs for readers to assemble into handmade booklets themselves, hosted on our archive of publications Diffusion – view and download the series here.
Material Conditions is part of Proboscis' Public Goods programme – seeking to create a library of responses to these urgent questions that can inspire others in the process of developing their own everyday practices of creativity; that can guide those seeking meaning for their choices; that can set out positions for action around which people can rally.


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2011-12: Reached doubles figures in wins for a second straight season in both singles and doubles … second team All-NEWMAC at No. 1 doubles … NEWMAC Singles Player of the Week (10/3) … NEWMAC Doubles Team of the Week (10/3) with Julia Hsu … finished 10-6 in singles splitting her time between No. 1 and No. 2 … went 11-7 in doubles … started the season with a 6-0, 6-1 win at Smith (9/10) … won three straight matches in the fall against opponents from Babson (9/27), Colby (10/1) and Brandeis (10/1) … finished the fall with another three-match win streak against Springfield (10/8), at Wheaton (10/11) and at Babson (10/22) … dropped a total of three games in those matches … started her doubles season with an 8-1 win at Smith … season best three-match doubles win streak in the fall … included in that stretch was an 8-2 win over Springfield … including that match played with Hsu the rest of the season … duo finished 8-5 … final win of the season for the pair was a solid 8-2 decision at Vassar (4/21).
2010-11: Outstanding freshman season … selected as the NEWMAC Athlete of the Year and Rookie of the Year … first team All-MEWMAC in No. 1 singles … second team All-NEWMAC in No. 2 doubles … became fourth MIT player selected to play in the NCAA Singles Championship … perfect 20-0 mark at the No. 1 singles position … 20-2 overall for the season … after losing the second match of the season she rolled off a 19-match win streak that stretched from Sept. 25 until May 27 … streak was broken by a close 5-7, 6-7 loss to Ellen Yeatman from Washington & Lee (5/27) in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championship.
Off The Court at MIT: Majoring in brain and cognitive sciences … minor in mathematics.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Gregory-Portland High School … Texas 4A state high school champion in singles … two-time district MVP … W.C. Andrews outstanding overall athlete award … three-time national Sportsmanship Awards … South Texas Distinguished Scholar … American Math Contest school winner … National Honor Society … Math Club … treasurer of both organizations.


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Support for Tropical Initiatives in Poverty Alleviation (STIPA) is a national organization registered under section 10 of the NGO Co-ordination Act of Kenya in September 1997 under registration number OP.218/051/975/809. It has a Consultancy Wing registered under section 14 of the Companies Act Cap 499 on 13th April 2012 (registration number BN/2012/164045). The organization's headquarters is based in Kisumu City with a Satellite Office in Transmara in Narok County.
Empowered communities and organizations who are in control of their lives.
Working with communities and organizations to alleviate poverty through capacity building, advocacy and promotion of community development initiatives.
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There are moments when a person says something that should have been obvious but which has been left unsaid-and we wonder why the rest of us have failed to see or say it. That, at least in part, is my reaction to a thesis put forward by Jonathan Mills in a little book titled Love, Covenant & Meaning (published by Regent College Publishing, where Mills teaches). The subtitle of the book-Why are Liberals and Conservatives Conspiring to Prevent Homosexual Men from Marrying?-may seem more intriguing. The book is straightforwardly written though not especially well written, is aimed principally at pastors, and deals almost exclusively with gay men rather than lesbians.
The basic thing I want to say, Mills writes, is that the presence of homosexual desires in a man does not make him incapable of marrying and raising a family. That is why I write here of gays marrying and not of gay marriage. Mills claim is that both liberal and conservative Christians turn out to share an attitude that burdens and harms homosexual men. Beginning from the premise that marriage is an expression of our sexuality, both sides unwittingly cooperate in keeping men who experience sexual attraction for other men from marrying and raising a family. The one side does this by suggesting that such men have no capacity for marriage and that their sexuality must be expressed genitally with other men. The other side agrees that such men, as they are, have no capacity for marriage and claims that their sexuality must be altered-so that, as Mills likes to put it, their adulterous sexual desires toward men [are transformed] into adulterous sexual desires toward women, at which point they will be deemed to have the capacity for marriage!
Mills argues, in fact, that neither research nor common sense suggests that homosexual men lack what is necessary to choose to be good husbands and to raise their families well. Most men have the capacity for sexual relations both with men and with women. Men are for Mills the chaos gender; their sexual desires (after the Fall) are anarchic, to say the least.
Take those men whom we call heterosexual. Out of their (hetero)sexual appetites we cannot, Mills argues, construct faithful, monogamous marriage. If they manage such marriage it is because they have restrained and transcended their appetites. For heterosexualness in a man is much more likely to dissolve his marriage than to bind him to his wife. Hence, homosexual and heterosexual men stand in pretty much the same position in relation to marriage. The appetites of neither draw them solely in that direction. Each needs what marriage and family paradigmatically provide: a higher purposiveness that can elevate his life from aimless individualism.
Shouldnt we, Mills writes, at least be asking whether the transcending of venereal desire that marriage requires of a mostly or entirely heterosexual man who marries for the sake of love, friendship, and raising a family isnt more or less the same as the transcendence required of a man whose venereal desire is oriented mostly or entirely toward men but who restrains these drives, and who marries for the sake of love, friendship, and raising a family?
This is a question worthy of our attention and reflection. It will not suffice in response to say that some men with strong homosexual desires would be unhappy in marriage, for so are many heterosexual men. Nor, as Mills notes, can the successful marriages of homosexual men be studied, because they will be defined as heterosexual.
There are, however, some complicated problems raised by Mills thesis, and, helpful and provocative as his argument is, we need to put some questions to it. Central to his argument is that we need to break free of our tendency to regard marriage as the expression and fulfillment of our sexual nature. Indeed, he contends that such an understanding of marriage is as foreign to the Bible as to other ancient cultures. In our culture it is largely an inheritance from the enormous influence of Rousseau, for whom the sexual drive was the only force that could bring human beings out of individualistic isolation into society.
Certainly Mills is right that in most societies marriage has been understood not chiefly as a community of romantic love but as an institution for the begetting and rearing of children. And I, at least, would grant that much of the fragility of marriage in our culture is due to the fact that we have lost that deep sense of its biological ground and necessity. When it becomes simply a project of two people, a project aimed primarily at their fulfillment and satisfaction, marriage loses much of its high seriousness and purpose. All that is true. But that does not mean that our creation as male and female-with marriage as the typical though not necessary expression of that creation-is unimportant to human identity. Mills is forced to argue that marriage is an identity in covenant and intentional purposes (belonging, friendship, raising a family) and not an erotic identity. It would on his view be better if all marriages developed from friendship rather than from erotic attraction.
I am not persuaded. That marriage is a covenant in which we vow faithfulness is surely right. That the vow is the most important thing about marriage is also right. But that does not mean it is right to argue that in light of the Scriptures, the human being is not a sexual being but a choosing being. Human beings are more than their rational wills; they are also passionate beings and are personally present not only in their rational choices but in their passions. Mills is, essentially, returning to Augustines view of what (unfallen) sexual experience would be like, when Adam and Eve would have engaged in sexual relations when their rational wills told them to set to work to make a child. I always take Augustine seriously enough not simply to dismiss what he says, but here, I think, he is wrong. Not wrong to connect our sexuality with what he understands the human person to be. But wrong to think that the person is present only in the rational will and not also in the passions. Indeed, it is because in their sexual embrace a man and woman must set aside their chosen projects, step out of themselves, and give themselves to each other, that the child is not their product but a gift.
This inability to see anything positive in the passions is related to Mills tendency to equate sexual appetite (or lust) with erotic love. He argues-wrongly, I think, though I do not know exactly how to test the hypothesis-that sexual relations with the same woman soon becomes unexciting, though it may remain delightfully affectionate even for heterosexual men. He does not, so far as I can tell, distinguish between appetite, which simply lusts after all attractive women, and eros, which desires a particular beloved. His only categories are appetite (which desires any appealing woman) and will (which makes covenant possible). But between the two, eros intervenes. It personalizes and humanizes our animal appetites in such a mysterious way that a man now desires not just any woman but one. That desire, of course, is not always faithful. The chaos to which Mills points remains. And hence, as appetite is personalized by eros, so eros in turn must be made steadfast by covenant. But, however important covenant is-and I have granted that it is central and primary-we should not emphasize it in a manner that denies the importance of erotic attraction.
What this means for Mills thesis I am not sure. It need not, however, undercut the fundamental sanity of Mills argument and its power as cultural critique. The central place given to the language of orientation in discussions of sexuality has probably been mistaken, and we ought to be grateful to Mills for reminding us of much that we should not have left unsaid.
Gilbert Meilaender holds the Board of Directors Chair in Theological Ethics at Valparaiso University.
There are moments when a person says something that should have been obvious but which has been left unsaid-and we wonder why the rest of us have failed to see or say it. That, at least in part, is my reaction to a thesis put forward by Jonathan Mills in a little book titled Love, Covenant & Meaning (published by Regent College Publishing, where Mills teaches). The subtitle of the book-Why are Liberals and Conservatives Conspiring to Prevent Homosexual Men from Marrying?-may seem more intriguing. The book is straightforwardly written though not especially well written, is aimed principally at pastors, and deals almost exclusively with gay men rather than lesbians.


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A personalized Boss Day gift goes a long way to honor the top bosses for their leadership and dedication. Your special boss appreciation quotes, sayings or wording will highlight your thank you boss gifts. From many sites you will get the boss day quotes but here we have best collection of Boss Day Quotes 2011. Read these and write on your boss appreciation gifts.
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- "The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." – Theodore Roosevelt.
- "A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him." – H. S. M. Burns
- "Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't." – Peter Drucker
- "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence." – Dr. Lawrence Peter
- "If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire." – Cannon's Law
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- You are a good boss and I am a very lucky employee! Happy Boss's Day!


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Kirk Mitchell's new book: Murder in Denver, escape to Argentina
When I recently mentioned "Spin Doctor" by Kirk Mitchell to Denver friends, they remembered the newspaper headlines – about a man arrested for the murder of his wife, Nancy, in their Congress Parkhome — and were vaguely aware that Sonnenfeld moved to Argentina, but they still have no idea what happened after that, or where he is today.
 I didn't live in Denver at the time, so the whole tale was new to me. Kurt Sonnenfeld called police to say his wife, Nancy,  was dying with a bullet in her head. He says she was depressed, and shot herself. The police think otherwise, right from the start. Lots of things just didn't add up.
 From the outside, their marriage looked happy, even enviable. He was a handsome videographer, she was a hip advertising executive. They met at a Goth nightclub in downtown Denver, fell in love, and married in 1993. They bought a lovely home in Congress Park, and traveled the world.
 But police discovered the marriage had been troubled.Nancy's sister, Amy, said that Kurt began to spend a lot of money on drugs and alcohol, then lost money day trading, which let to fights over money, addiction and jealousies. Nancy had filed for separation.
 Kurt was arrested for murder, but was soon released because the prosecution didn't believe it had enough evidence to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt.
 The second half of the book enters a new world, from the streets of Denver to the life of Buenos Aires in Argentina, where politics are so different that Sonnenfeld was able to do the miraculous: transform himself from an alleged cold-blooded killer to a hero who holds secret proof of a 9/11 conspiracy.
 In Denver, he'd been hired to work in the public relations department for FEMA's office in Lakewood, and ended up shooting video of disasters. In 2001, a week after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Sonnenfeld was sent to Ground Zero to document the work of rescuers finding and recovering bodies. His footage was used around the world, and he soon became part of the news story.
 Less than four months later, he called the Denver police to say that his wife shot herself in the head in a suicide attempt.
 Mitchell, a Denver Post reporter who came across the story while working the crime beat, provides a detailed look at how Sonnenfeld has managed to elude prosecution for more than a decade.
 "It was only by coincidence that Kurt Sonnenfeld, a murder suspect, traveled to a country with a history of refusing to extradite the world's most infamous fugitives," writes Mitchell.
 That was his first lucky break. Some of his rich Aspen friends offered him a vacation at their condo there. Shortly after he arrived, Sonnefeld, 40, met a glamorous woman 16 years younger, and – just 40 days later – married her.
 Fighting extradition back to the U.S., Sonnenfeld began to position himself in the network of conspiracy theories about 9/11. "He claimed that his video footage contradicted the government's official version of what took place on September 11 and that was why the charges (against him) were refilled," writes Mitchell. He "also spoke of his footage of top-secret nuclear arms facilities and biological and chemical storage bunkers."
 Then he wrote a book, "El Perseguido," that portrayed him as a swashbuckling American hero and his first wife, Nancy, as a depressed and very crazy woman who killed herself. He said that FEMA was evolving into an international U.S.paramilitary force, and that he'd been framed for murder by the U.S.government because of what he knew about the terrorist attacks. Then he got an Argentinean investigative reporter to tell his story on TV, and instantly became a hot new celebrity in that country.
 Sonnenfeld's ability to craft an alternate narrative — and closely connect himself with an alleged conspiracy — is jaw-dropping in its brilliance and breadth. Sonnenfeld is still living his dreams in Argentina. Denver authorities have not given up hope for a trial. But for that, Sonnenfeld – who has fought extradition for years – would have to return to Denver. Â


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I know that the answer is no, yet I dont know how to prove it wrong. Finding a counterexample is not a good solution because it is a past written exam question with no calculators allowed. The first counterexample is about 30000... Is there a, simple preferred, solution to this problem? (This is asked in a CS discrete math exam)
The original problem is from Rosen Discrete Math, and as follows:
Prove or disprove that $p_1p_2 ... p_n+1$ is prime for every integer n, where $p_i$ is the ith smallest prime number.
Thanks in advance.


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3 buildings destroyed in Winona fire; more than 20 people displaced
2nd, 3rd, 4th Streets closed between Center and Lafayette Streets
WINONA, MN — More than 20 people, including several Winona State University students have been displaced after a large fire destroys three buildings and damages others.
The call came in at about 2 a.m. about a fire on the 100 block of Center Street. The Winona Fire Department says the fire quickly spread from roof-to-roof. Many of the buildings on that street have connecting walls, which helped the fire spread.
No one has been injured. Winona Fire Chief Curt Bittle says they're not sure where the fire started, but the Islamic Center appears to have been burning the longest. The cause of the fire is not known at this time. That building has been torn down so crews can knock down the fire.
The buildings that house Brosnahan Law Firm, Blooming Grounds Coffeehouse and Sole Sports are among the buildings that are damaged from the fire.
Crews were battling the fire from the ground and two ladder trucks.
Winona's fire chief was concerned the fire would be much more destructive than it already was. "Our major concern was losing the block, the fire was spreading and jumping from loft to loft, the 122 building we made our stand, opened up walls, and stopped the fire spreading east," said Chief Kurt Bittle.
The Red Cross was on scene to help firefighters and those who were forced to evacuate. More than 20 people had to find emergency shelter. Some were relocated to Winona State University; others to area hotels; and some evacuees are with family and friends.
A Winona State University student who lived in one of the buildings told News 8 when he realized there was a fire spreading, he went door-to-door to help alert and evacuate students.
Winona's mayor tells News 8 this is the worst fire he's seen, but the community pulling together is inspiring.
The Winona Fire Department was assisted by Winona police, as well as the Goodview, Wilson and Pickwick Fire Departments.
The State Fire Marshal's office as well as the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting in the investigation into the cause of the fire.
Officials say foul play is not suspected and they believe the fire started in the Islamic Center where it had been burning the longest.21928928


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When Brad Thor arrived on the scene with his hard-hitting debut novel, The Lions of Lucerne, he was greeted with an enthusiasm rarely seen since John le Carré's heyday. "A roller-coaster of a debut," pronounced Kyle Mills. And Nelson DeMille, the master of the genre himself, welcomed Thor as "a savvy new novelist" with a knack for action scenes that "will give the reader a case of vertigo." Now, Thor and his indomitable hero Scot Harvath are back, raising the stakes and taking on one of the world's most deadly terrorist organizations bent on stoking a global holy war of apocalyptic proportions.
After rescuing the President from kidnappers, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service agent Scot Harvath shifts his attentions to rooting out and capturing or killing all those responsible for the plot. As he prepares to close out his list, a bloody and twisted trail of clues points toward one man -- the world's most feared, most ruthless terrorist, Hashim Nidal, who has assembled an international league of Islamic terrorist networks in an ingenious plot to topple both Israel and America. Harvath and his CIA-led team must reach Nidal before it's too late. One problem remains -- they have no idea what the man looks like.
Only one person can positively identify Harvath's quarry -- Meg Cassidy, a beautiful hijacking survivor. Together, Scot and Meg must untangle a maddening web of global intrigue stretching across four continents. From Macau, Jerusalem, and Chicago to Libya, Capri, and Rome, Harvath and Cassidy find themselves locked in a desperate race against time to sort the pieces of a deadly puzzle that will test not only their physical and mental limits, but also the growing bond they feel for each other.


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Mike Johnson is live at this evening's WWE Hall Of Fame ceremony, and will be sending in live reports throughout the evening, so check back often for updates.
We are live at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremonies. WWE had signs posted warning fans not to catcall and also announcing video streaming was prohibited. Todd Grisham welcomed everyone to the event, at which point the WWE talents began to take their seats.
Among those here are Gene Okerlund, Blackjack Lanza, Dusty Rhodes, Tony Garea, Nick Bockwinkel, Steve Keirn and Billy Kidman.
As Batista entered he passed, and then stared down, John Cena.
Gorgeous George, Ted DIBiase and Bob Uecker will be inducted on the USA
Network special.
Jerry Lawler was introduced as the host. He said it is his favorite night of the year and he's honored to be hosting. He introduced the "future Hall of Famers", the current WWE Superstars.
The first inductee is Mad Dog Vachon.
WWE is giving the inductees a five minute time limit for their speeches.
They aired a video feature on Mad Dog Vachon.
Lawler said that Vachon even struck fear into the hearts of his tag team partners and introduced the only man who has "jokes older than his", Pat Patterson.
Patterson said he was happy to be here but it was strange because tonight he's inducting a "mad dog" and two years ago he inducted an "old bag", Mae Young.
Patterson said when he broke into the business in Montreal, he was scared to death of Vachon. Years later, he was making no money in Boston and got a letter from Vachon booking him in Portland and that's what set his career off.
He said Vachon always tried to help the careers of French Canadians. Patterson made some jokes because he forgot what he was going to say. He said he's excited for tomorrow and is pulling for Shawn Michaels, who in his book is the best he's ever seen. He then said he was looking forward to seeing Vince McMahon get his ass kicked because "Bret got screwed."
Patterson said when he had his first Portland payday, he received $300 and thought it was too much. Vachon told him that was his pay and the promoter probably screwed him anyway.
He told stories of Vachon coming to his house when Vachon got into domestic troubles and Patterson told Vachon he was going to "ruin my reputation" (by staying in his house). Everyone laughed.
He said he was proud to induct Vachon and introduced him.
Mad Dog Vachon came out in his wheelchair. He started doing one of his old promos and finished with "I'm Mad Dog Vachon and I approve of this message."
Vachon said he believes he had 13,000 matches and became a wrestler because of his name. He said growing up his nickname was 'Vachon the Pig.' He said when he got into fights as a child, his dad told him it was okay, as long as he won.
Vachon told the story of getting the Mad Dog name, and he told the story of working for Don Owen in Portland Wrestling. He was told to be wild because he would be feuding with Curtis Iaukea. He said he attacked his first opponent, then attacked his referee. A policeman tried to hit him with a stick and he threw him into the third row. When he returned, Owen told him he 'looked like a Mad Dog' and it fit him perfect.
Patterson asked him to tell the story of the night he opened a plane in mid-air. He had too many drinks while flying back to Minnesota and opened the door. He could be feel himself being pulled out and said "Its a good night to die." He was charged $500 for opening the door, so he never did it again.
Vachon told some stories of starring in commercials in Montreal. WWE cut his speech as he was going long and rambling a bit.
Jerry Lawler said that if had a dollar for every time he was asked where Jim
Ross was, he's be a Million Dollar Man. He then introduced Ross, who got a
huge reaction.
The second inductee is Wendi Richter.
They showed a video feature on Wendi Richter.
Jerry Lawler noted that the Rock and Wrestling Connection began on a segment of Piper's Pit and introduced Roddy Piper.
Piper asked if anyone can believe tomorrow is Wrestlemania and quipped he was there when it 'didn't have a number.'
Piper said he lived with Mad Dog Vachon for two years. "There's a reason I act like this."
Piper said the early 80s was a time of feminism, which he didn't appreciate until he had his daughters. He said you had to do tough things back then, 'like date Moolah and live.'
Piper said it was an exciting time and he got to knock out Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. He then saw something come under the ropes and he kicked it. He said he ended up "kicking a girl who only wanted to have fun."
He told lots of 80s stories about celebrities being involved in the Rock and Wrestling era. He said Wendi Richter came along and he always had a crush on her. He said Wendi had a way to bring class to the NWA, where he first met her, and the WWF.
Piper mentioned he hated the Rock and Wrestling cartoon and said they once had a cartoon where Wendi Richter beat him in a knighting contest. He said she was a fierce competitor who gave everything for the fans and was a classy lady outside of it.
Piper called Richter 'the Sandra Bullock of wrestling' and introduced her.
Wendi immediately joked that Piper had to repeat his introduction after the show and said he was 'the best mouth in the business.'
Richter said this was her dream and she was humbled to be here, but it "Was about damn time!"
She told the story of seeing wrestling for the first time live because her friend wanted to see it. It was in Shreveport, Louisiana and the night was destiny as she saw The Fabulous Moolah and was mesmerized. She told her friend 'I think I can do that' and beat Moolah and four years later, which she did in New York City.
Richter said she approached Sputnik Monroe about getting into wrestling and
he tried to discourage her but she had to follow her dreams. She talked
about her best opponents, naming Velvet McIntyre, Joyce Grable, Leilani Kai,
Princess Victoria and Judy Martin. She said they were wonderful people and
great wrestlers.
Wendi told a story of touring Japan and using what she learned there in the United States to become what was then described as a 'rough babyface.'
Richter thanked her fans for standing behind her for 25 years and thanked Cyndi Lauper for skyrocketing her career overnight.
Richter said that all she ever wanted was respect and feels that she has that tonight. She said a female wrestler has to work 'twice as hard for half the pay' and is honored to have paved the way for the stars of today.
Richter said 'there's a place where you can touch a woman and drive her crazy... her heart'... and everyone did tonight. She finished off saying 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun.'
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May 26, 2011NJT-11-024
NEWARK, NJ — NJ TRANSIT will offer "early getaway" rail and bus service on Friday, May 27, for the benefit of customers leaving work early for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
On Friday, May 27, extra outbound trains will operate on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast, Raritan Valley, Morris & Essex, Pascack Valley and Port Jervis lines starting at approximately 1 p.m. Extra buses will operate from the Port Authority Bus Terminal on more than two dozen bus routes starting around noon. Visit njtransit.com for details.
On Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, trains will operate on a weekend/major holiday schedule on all lines. Hudson-Bergen Light Rail will operate on a weekend schedule. Newark Light Rail will operate on a Saturday schedule. River Line will operate on a Sunday schedule. Bus schedules vary by route—customers are advised to check their timetables or visit njtransit.com for schedule information.
Summer Savings
With Memorial Day marking the "unofficial" start of summer, this weekend is a great time for customers to take advantage of NJ TRANSIT's discounted travel packages to destinations including the Jersey Shore, Six Flags Great Adventure and Monmouth Park:
For details on NJ TRANSIT's Summer Services and customer discounts, visit njtransit.com/summer.
On weekends, kids ride free on NJT
Every weekend, families riding NJ TRANSIT can save with the Family Super Saver Fare, which allows two children 11 and younger to travel free with each fare-paying adult. For the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the program will be in effect from 7 p.m. Friday, May 27 until 6 a.m. Tuesday, May 31.
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NJ TRANSIT is the nation's largest statewide public transportation system providing more than 895,000 weekday trips on 240 bus routes, three light rail lines and 12 commuter rail lines. It is the third largest transit system in the country with 165 rail stations, 60 light rail stations and more than 18,000 bus stops linking major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia.


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sonny brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 197 Designs von 59 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are looking for a clean looking design for a prestigous jewellery retailer to be based in Glasgow, UK. The logo will be used on the website, shopfront, business cards, literature etc. The logo is to include 2 or 2 colours, though other entries will be allowed.
VVS1 Glasgow
The logo design should include preferably 2 colours though 3 or more are accepted. The logo should read VVS1 with Glasgow shown below or not at all (preferably in capitals aswell). VVS1 can be written in a roman numeral style though the 1 should be clearly 1 and not capital 'I'. Colours that we have in mind are Black, dark/royal blue and possibly dark/royal red.
An example of a logo i have in my head is VVS1 in roman numerals (except the 1), which is underlined and also is overlined at the top. all in black on a white background with the '1' of VVS1 in royal blue. and then GLASGOW written alot smaller underneath. This is just one idea in my head and i am open to ideas.
Another idea is VVS and the subscript 1, though i am not that keen on this idea at the moment as i beleive it may look too contemporary, rather than strong, reputable and prestigious.
The company will be selling high quality and bespoke jewellery and the logo should reflect a strong, prestigous and reputable company.
The logo may also include icon/symbol of a diamond, ring, necklace etc, though i do not have any ideas like this in mind.
All of the above said i am very open to new ideas and please feel free to post your designs that don't neccessarily meet the requirement of the brief. If it looks good and i like it then i will use it.
Also, the logo needs to be provided in vector format. I will try to leave as much feedback as i can. Good luck!
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Getting Squeezeslave to run on the RPi is very easy - here is a revised version of the instructions that I posted on the Raspberry PI forum.
NOTE: This has been tested on Debian Squeeze (and I think it also works on Wheezy) -
Version numbers shown here were correct when this blog was written but it is possible that newer versions have been released since then ... and they might work better (or worse) so check on Sourceforge (for official release) and GoogleCode (for latest test versions).
Most of what is shown below could be copied to a script and run - but there is no error checking so it is best to run as individual commands - e.g. copy / paste into SSH session
NOTE: Some of the lines below are very long and get wrapped when presented in the blog.
I have left a blank line after those long lines to make it clearer. If you are using copy/paste to replay the commands then make sure that you take the full line and unwrap it if needed.
Start an interactive login to the Raspberry Pi then ...
# If on Debian (not Raspbian) then perform the next 2 commands
mv squeezeslave-1.2-367 squeezeslave
# at this point you have the various binaries for ARM/Linux so no need to build from source
# If it acts like it is playing something but you cannot hear it then it might be that the sound on the Raspberry PI is set too low (in ALSA).
# In that case - quit (q) Squeezeslave and run
sudo alsamixer
then boost the sound by pressing the up arrow key (and the "esc" key to exit and then try running Squeezeslave again
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Help with MySQLi needed
Help with MySQLi needed
Feb 9 2018, 08:07 AM
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I am trying to learn Mysqli and have got as far as the following, but even though I've ironed out the connection issues it is not actually inserting the data into the relevent table.
Any help most appreciated.
In checklogin file:
// Insert the values into the database
$result = db_query("INSERT INTO `logs` (`email`,`logged`,`ip`) VALUES ('" . $user . "','" . $logged . "','" . $IP . "')");
if($result == false) {
echo "fault here";
// Handle failure - log the error, notify administrator, etc.
} else {
// We successfully inserted a row into the database
echo "log added";
In dbfuncs file:
function db_connect() {
// Try and connect to the database, if a connection has not been established yet
$config = parse_ini_file('../config.ini');
$con = new mysqli('localhost',$config['username'],$config['password'],$config['database']);
// If connection was not successful, handle the error
if($con == false) {
// Handle error - notify administrator, log to a file, show an error screen, etc.
return mysqli_connect_error();
function db_query($query) {
echo $query; //temp check for info sent
// Connect to the database
$con = db_connect();
// Query the database
return $con ? mysqli_query($con, $query) : mysqli_connect_error();
Output on screen:
INSERT INTO `logs` (`email`,`logged`,`ip`) VALUES ('xxx','2018-2-9 10:27:1','xxx')log added
However, no entry added to the actual dabatase.
This post has been edited by CHerbert: Feb 9 2018, 08:08 AM
Feb 9 2018, 03:12 PM
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In the 'db_query' function this line '$con = db_connect();' is never what you think it should be. Look at the 'db_connect' function and you see that it never returns a mysqli object. It only returns a mysqli error, it should return $con if no error.
Also, you need to study how PHP scope works. $con defined in a function will not be global. It will not be available in other functions unless you pass $con as a parameter in the function call.
If you are just learning I suggest you forget this approach. Instead study about mysqli parameterized queries and data binding (or PDO) to help fight SQL injection attacks.
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The Samsung Galaxy S5 is set to be one of the biggest smartphone launches of 2014.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 has been unveiled at Mobile World Congress. It's time for the Samsung Galaxy S4 to move over as all eyes focus on Samsung's new flagship Android smartphone.
The Galaxy S5 was launched to a packed audience all waiting to find out what Samsung had up its sleeves.
As it turned out, its a smartphone that is a lot more refined that the Galaxy S4, shedding a lot of the gimmicks, instead focusing on what made Samsung's smartphone the most popular handset on the planet.
This is an article about the Samsung Galaxy S5. We'll be rounding up all the latest news and rumours about the handset in the run up to its unveiling next year.
For other Samsung news, check out our Samsung News Hub.
Samsung Galaxy S5 release date
Samsung looks set to hold the first of its annual keynote events Samsung Unpacked at Mobile World Congress. The company is unlikely to hold another major event in March, so it looks increasingly like that Samsung will show off the Galaxy S5 for the first time at the show.
It looks as though our prediction could well be correct with the Samsung Galaxy S5 release date being set for April after a Samsung executive confirmed that the S5 would launch alongside the Galaxy Gear 2 at the same time it launched the S4 last year.
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Relatively little is known about the Samsung Galaxy S5's specs. Speaking to Korea Times, Samsung's co-CEO Shin Jong-Kyun has promised the company will match the processor found in Apple's new iPhone 5s.
Despite that promise, it appears that Samsung may not be matching it when it comes to it being 64-bit. According to KGI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo, the Samsung Galaxy S5 will come in two varieties, but neither will have a 64-bit processor. The Prime is said to be coming with a Samsung octa-core Exynos 5430 processor, while the Standard model is said to be coming with a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor.
While it may not match it in terms of the amount of bits, if it turns out the Prime model does come with a octa-core processor, Samsung could out do Apple in sheer brute force. The lack of 64-bit support could also have something to do with both models only coming with 3GB RAM, according to Ming-Chi. The main reason for moving up from 32-bit chips is to break through the 4GB limitiation.
If Samsung is planning on sticking with 3GB of RAM, it makes more sense for it to opt for raw power, rather than add a feature which isn't really going to be used.
Samsung had confirmed that it is working on 64-bit processors for its 2014 handsets - although the company stopped short of actually announcing which handsets they were. If it turns out that Ming-Chi is right – and he has a history of being right – it may mean we have to wait until the Galaxy Note 4 before we see it.
To be honest, it would make more sense for the time being for the Galaxy Note 4 to debut 64-bit chips. Along with giving the company more time to perfect the technology (see below), it would also make more sense to pack its powerhorse phablet with more RAM – and so benefit from a 64-bit chip.
Stephen Woo, president of Systems SI at Samsung electronics told CNET that the company is taking a "two-step approach" to developing 64-bit chips.
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Indeed, Samsung co-CEO Boo-Keun Yoon revealed that Samsung plans to connect all of its devices together with the new operating system. That includes its mobile phones.
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Today on The Corner, the folks over at National Review are unhappy with Jeremiah's Wright's speech on race at the NAACP convention in Detroit, Michigan. Wright, of course, is Barack Obama's pastor, the man who converted Obama to Christianity, and thus indirectly led to Obama's hooker-in-the-trunk moment as well as Senator Obama's disasterous speech on race.
Hiphopmusic.com has posted the complete video of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's speech to the NAACP, and I encourage you to view the whole thing. The most interesting part begins four minutes into the second ten minutes:
As of this morning I could not find a full-text transcript of it, though criticisms by Byron York:
… I too was struck by Rev. Wright's discussion of education in the Detroit speech last night. He drew some rather stereotyped distinctions in the way white and black children learn — white children learn diagrams and numbers, while black children memorize reams of hip-hop lyrics. He was dead serious about it.
And Victor Davis Hanson:
One of the strangest things about the NAACP Wright pseudo-scientific speech on learning, and its enthusiastic CNN coverage and analysis, was the abject racialism of Wright. It was sort of an inverse Bell-Curve presentation, based on assumed DNA differences.
His convoluted explanation of African-American right-brain 'oral' culture as more creative, musical, and spontaneous versus European left-brain traditional analysis could never have been given by someone white to that audience without justifiably earning booing and catcalls.
Three comments: this was just the sort of racist 'genetic' difference that most Americans learned to shun, now apparently quite acceptable again, and part of the mainstream.
Made me curious.
All in all, I came away impressed by Wright's intelligence, humor, and intellectual ruggedness. Wright's speech also made me more alarmed about him. Wright is a black nationalist, skeptical of international nationbuilding (it's not deficient… just different), emphatic that American blacks speak a language other than English (not a dialect, a language), and aggressive in defending black "learning styles," that involve jumping up on desks and eschew "meaningless solutions" like "reading, writing, and ritalin."
Wright's speech to the NAACP made me more nervous about an Obama administration. Obama is clearly comfortable enough with racist-progressives like Wright, in spite of the political costs they inflict. Where does this end? Nominations to Department of Education? Justice? State?


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