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Read my edit above... I wouldn't wait for a $130 price... AMD and AIB will just let 7850 1Gb slip from the channel over the next couple of weeks. I'd will-call them from Egg now, and get on the 57Frwy... and start the fun tonight!
I see them getting rid of the 7850 1gb and sliding in the Bonaire into the 650 Ti price, maybe slightly cheaper, and then the 7850 2gb can slide down in price a little as the next round of price cuts take effect. I also don't think the 7790 will have 896 units, it most likely would have 768 shader units. Shades of what AMD did between the 5000 series and the 6000 series (5670 had 400 shaders, 6670 had 480, etc) - just add another increment of shaders as the process technology at 28nm gets better. I remember seeing rumors of a 768 shader radeon 8770, with 128 bit, maybe 192 bit memory, and suspect that the 7790 is the new name. This way they can just test out the drivers for GCN 2.0's without too much bad press as to their halo product having bad fps, and then when the GCN 2.0 drivers are optimized bring out the 8000 series in late 2013/early 2014.
Rumors Bonaire Pro = 640 VS / 40 TC / 16 ROPs / 128-bit / ?GB Bonaire XT = 768 VS / 48 TC / 16 ROPs / 128-bit / ?GB Hainan LE = 1024 VS / 64 TC / 32 ROPs / 256-bit / ?GB Hainan Pro = 1536 VS / 96 TC / 32 ROPs / 256-bit / ?GB Hainan XT = 1792 VS / 112 TC / 32 ROPs / 256-bit / ?GB Venus LE = 2048 VS / 128 TC / 32 ROPs / 384-bit / ?GB Venus Pro = 2304 VS / 144 TC / 48 ROPs / 384-bit / 3GB Venus XT = 2560 VS / 160 TC / 48 ROPs / 384-bit / 3GB Venus XTX = 2560 VS / 160 TC / 48 ROPs / 384-bit (x2) / 6GB
Just put those up since they been floating around for a few months. If it ends up being Bonaire. The other two names are mostly likely to be Aruba & Curacao. Named after the Dutch Caribbean ABC Islands or Caribbean Netherlands BES Islands Bonaire, Sin Eustatius, Saba
A) The 6790 was on a gleded "Barts", so is why it had 256-Bit. B) Show me another AMD/ATI that has used 192-Bit? C) 768Sp is 20% over the 640 of Cape Verde, 896Sp would 40%; while 896Sp part would be ~12% less the 7850 1024Sp of the 7850 Pitcairn. Consider there's about a 50% difference in perfromance from 640/1024 (plus over 100% memory bandwidth) I'm leaning to the 896Sp part while holding to a ~90 Gb/s memory bandwidth on 128-Bit. That might be what they need to be as they said close to a 7850, along with the 7770 more than 25% behind a GTX650Ti I think a 896Sp part will be. Unless the GNC2 has more bang in each shader.
From Tom's a few mins ago: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-Radeon-7790-Saturn-GPU,21447.html from the article "The HD 7790 will feature 786 shader processors instead of the previously indicated 896, a clock rate of 1075 MHz and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 128-bit interface and support DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 4.3." also "According to a now redacted result posted on CL benchmark's website, the HD 7790 can be expected to provide 10 percent lower performance than a HD 7850." Finally "The Radeon HD 7790 has a recommended price of £118 and will be available in April 2013."
"Interestingly, the HD 7790 is actually based on the 22 nm Bonnaire XT chip and uses the GNC 2.0 " Awesome if it's true.
If infact its a 22nm I think you can expect a 20-25% performance increase. Hmm.. New Tahiti and GK104 will be nipping at TITAN for less then half the price.
AMD has no means of building chips on 22 nm, 786 stream processors is impossible, GNC 2.0 architecture doesn't exist. Besides, that Tom's article cites the same HWI source as me. So Tom's just got things wrong.
I paid $154 AUS Dollars, and when buying this card you don't realy expect it to be for high res monitors. My GTX 650 Ti will be run on a monitor of 1680*1050 at the most. I was going to go with a 7770 but the card was to long for a mini PC build, when the 650 Ti came out it was more powerful, shorter but a little more expensive but worth it. I cant se this new 7790 to be any shorter then the 7770? and performance i have no idea, so over all the 650 Ti still wins in my eyes for people building a PC with very limited space.
Intel / Global Foundries / Samsung are all producing 22nm. TSMC was skipping 22nm to go 20nm then it realized it was an expensive move (loosing business while transitioning) and started doing 22nm runs in H2 2012 So all the major players are at 22nm and below.
If R7790 is OpenGL 4.3-compliant, that that pretty much makes it confirmed that this is a different architecture than Southern Islands. Also that Anand articles someone posted is as old as the one I read from another place... that corrected itself in the meanwhile saying it's 896 actually, again.
TSMC isn't making 22 nm, its foundry processes below 28 nm won't enter mass production before Q4 2013, likewise with Samsung. AMD won't give its precious GPU designs to Intel.
(GP)IBM, Samsung, Global Foundries & TSMC, UMC are all doing Low volume production runs of 20nm process. Mass production is slated for 2H 2013 AMD was first to 28nm so might beat Nvidia to 20nm aswell
And how does low-volume production help HD 7790, given that HD 7790 is being designed for a highly competitive (high-volume) market segment?
Its all speculation on what 7790 is at the moment . It just seams silly to me that Your speculation on his speculation and citing same source and saying my ediotrial is better than his. Why not just site the real source instead of linking to a source that links to the source SOURCE for both of yours. Heise (German) English Translated Information is there from the real source your both getting it at. Not to mention the source your linking was a day old linking to a 7 day old article. More real source linking. Less editorial butchering.
Didn't intend that to slight you personally, sorry! What Mini chassis where you constructing in? With the explanation above you've taken into account several of the GTX650Ti good points, while understand it's limitation. A GTX650Ti are nice cards, low power/heat in a small package, and if like in your case, one of a small group offer several with rear exhaust. All that said Nvidias' pricing is still wacked... and shouldn't have anyone anteing-up $160 USD especially at this point. But when in the particular circumstances (like your own), its' fitting and with performance to suite, even if it costs in the wallet... you have to go that direction.
Because TechPowerUp's and HWI's articles are closer to Heise's than Tom's. Unless you're dumb enough to find merit in "786 stream processors, GNC 2.0, and 22 nm" (Tom's editorial butchering). More commenting on the message, less menstruating on the messenger.


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If you're dyslexic, or even if you're not, you'd probably swear a pawn shop is about to open where a produce and craft store is supposed to be.
But regardless of whether "Summit City N.W.A. P." is a pawn shop or not – and owner Tim Bryant insists it's not – the business slated to open next month in a former veterinary clinic at 3030 N. Clinton St. is likely to be scrutinized very closely by city planners and officials whose support for the previous marketplace does not necessarily transfer to a business that may or may not have received all the approvals it needs to operate.
City Councilman Marty Bender and former Mayor Graham Richard had no reason to expect controversy last year when they wrote the city's Board of Zoning Appeals in support of Dr. Jay and Patrice Kumaran's request to open an outdoor produce, food and crafts business where Kumaran's Allpet Animal Hospital had been. "We were studying the need for more markets at the time," explained Bender, R-at large, who wrote that the market would boost the economy.
But the Kumarans' idea never really caught on, which explains their desire to find another use for the property. Whether the use they found passes legal muster remains to be seen and is likely to be addressed when the city's zoning hearing officer reviews the case next week.
Last year the BZA granted the Kumarans a "variance," which is bureaucratic jargon for permission to use a property for a purpose not normally allowed under zoning laws. In this case, the variance was required because the market would not have been permitted under the property's CM2 "limited retail and commercial" zoning.
But a variance allows only the use for which it was approved unless that use is consistent with the property's zoning, and city planner Rachel Black said a pawn shop would not be allowed in a CM2 district.
Not to worry, said Summit City N.W.A. P. owner Tim Bryant, who added that his business won't really be a pawn shop at all.
"We're going to open in two weeks. I don't have a pawn license," Bryant said, noting that the shop's name is just an acronym for "North West All Products." Instead of a pawn shop, which loan money and accept goods on consignment that can be reclaimed later, Bryant's business will be a straightforward buy-and-sell operation.
And, as another sign in front says, he'll buy "all pawn shop items", including coins, musical instruments, tools, etc.
"I'll pretty much buy and sell anything of value," said Bryant, who previously owned a similar store in Bluffton and said he'll have no problem complying with a zoning category that allows coin shops and music, book and variety stores.
Just one problem with that: Black said zoning officials will have to make that determination before the store can operate, and Bryant has not yet filed an application to do so. Even if he filed tomorrow, Black said, the approval probably couldn't come within two weeks.
"It appears to be a violation," she said.
As a result, the only permitted use on the books for that property is a market place that no longer exists. BZA officials had asked the Kumarans for an update last month, but nobody showed up at the hearing.
"We no longer own the property. We're selling it on contract (to Bryant), Patrice Kumaran said, adding that she will send a letter to the city explaining the situation. "I didn't know there was a debate (about the proposed new use).
"As near as I can tell, they'd be operating illegally," said Bender, who is also a city police officer. "I'm not big on another pawn shop, but if you want to do it, let's do it the right way."
With the popularity of "Pawn Stars" and similar TV programs, the industry's image has been on the upswing. And even though Bryant's business is technically not a pawn shop, there's an undeniable similarity – something his signs implicitly acknowledge and even encourage.
Zoning laws exist to protect property owners from uses that might devalue values by allowing incompatible use. From what I could see of Bryant's operation, it will be clean and professionally run, will create jobs and pay taxes. That's all to the good.
But I have seen too many examples lately of property owners who did something first, then asked permission later – a practice that unfairly cuts the public out of the process until after the fact.
Government officials make their share of mistakes. But so do business owners, who are no less human. That's why it's important they work together to follow regulations or change them as necessary. If that hasn't happened here, it should.
If not, "pawn" won't be the only thing that's backwards here.

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Things are getting pretty blustery over here in New York. Evening chills harbinger the long gloomy nights to come in January, scarves and hats are drawn over faces, friends have started hunkering down for winter hibernation. But there are a few silver linings to the bleakest months, like hot toddies, blazing fires, and cozy pajamas.
At this time of year I always find myself drawn back into a particular seasonal hobby: shopping online for onesie pajamas. It's my guilty secret that I perpetually hope that a fuzzy one-piece pajama will fall from the sky into my life for Christmas, but I've never gone so far as to make this wish known to anyone who, with 5 minutes, a credit card, and an obligation to give me a present, might actually make it come true.
So let this blog post be a coming out and a wish list.
Why are all-in-one pajamas so great? Because they feel cozily and perfectly like the past. There's a wonderfully rich air of classic Americana about them. They're an evolution of the American union suit, a one piece item of underwear commonly worn by working men in the 19th century. Though one-piece loungewear has long since gone out of everyday use, it has been revived more recently as a style piece by retail behemoths of classic American apparel like L.L. Bean, Jockey, and J. Crew.
I won't get so deep into any Freudian perspectives on how else a onesie transports its wearer into the past, but isn't there also something so familiar and infantilizing about being swaddled in one continuous garment?
And at the same time, onesie pajamas are kind of sexy. They're the opposite of corsets; they don't give or define shape, but instead take shape from the wearer. They both can obscure the body under their tent, and they take their form from the body's protrusions and curves, and so tend to highlight them. They make the statement that the wearer is either effortlessly casual…or is trying rather hard to make a statement–and both attitudes can be appealing.
Luckily for us, there seems to be a giant onslaught of onesies for sale this season, as, especially in the UK it seems, they've become a genuinely modern expression of casual lounge and a more mainstream retail category.
I've mentally divided modern one-piece pajamas into three categories. First is the traditional, classic union suit, usually in a thin cotton knit, in white or red.
Second is the silly, cozy printed onesie, which is usually inexpensive and bought in the spirit of Holiday fun.
Third, and newest, is the trendy onesie, which may be sold in a better boutique to women who appreciate a carefully cut garment, pay attention to the ready-to-wear trend toward rompers and overalls, and who are not trying to oversell their pajama with a loud print or bright color. These consumers are wearing onesies unironically, as a natural carryover of silhouette from the runways of a few years ago, to the streets of last summer, to the bedrooms of this winter.
This is all a very exciting turn of events for me, and hopefully for some of you too. Whereas a couple years ago, the memory of opening a box on Christmas 1989 and pulling out a fuzzy reindeer pajama may have had you groaning, now the fashion cadence has injected freshness and excitement into the holiday onesie. There is, no doubt, a new updated reindeer onesie just for you, and this year, it'll make you squeal with delight.
Here is my roundup of some all-in-ones to suit every fancy:
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Two words: Cupcakes and Burlap. That's all the really needs to be said, although the entire lovely backyard bridal shower on The Sweetest Occasion is just as delightful.
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Two words: Cupcakes and Burlap. That's all the really needs to be said, although the entire lovely backyard bridal shower on The Sweetest Occasion is just as delightful.
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- Claire Gallam said...
I LOVE! The lace is gorgeous and I love the little cupcake :)
- October 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Katherine said...
that blue bedroom is b-e-a-uuutiful! :) have a great weekend!
- October 15, 2010 at 1:34 PM
- postcards and pretties said...
amazing roundup abby...how fab is that fall feast menu? love it!!
have a wonderfule wkd!! - October 15, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- The Demoiselle said...
That tiffany blue bedroom is like a dream....a lovely dream...
- October 15, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- Erin*Sparkle&Hay said...
OMG - stop the bus! How did I miss that AHdorable burlap wrapped cupcake?! ::swoon::
- October 15, 2010 at 9:38 PM
- Erin ever after said...
you're in luck little Mrs. C. SMP is going to be posting all of the fab recipes from that yummy fall menu on facebook very, very soon. Gorgeous roundup by the by.
xoxo Erin a.k.a Mrs. L - October 16, 2010 at 12:03 AM
This roundup (which I missed last week) is incredible, Abby! I LOVE the cupcake but the script on the fall feast "menu" is simply gorgeous...makes me want to have a cup of hot apple cider. I miss the east for that. xo
- October 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Rhiannon Nicole said...
Oh my goodness!! That's my seating chart from my own wedding!! Well that's the before photo and we were married last September but how exciting :) I love your blog and loved your wedding and we should be friends :) XOXO
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To help with the face projection, Fincher enlisted Lola Visual Effects (under the supervision of Edson Williams), which worked on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [3]. They first thought of utilizing Paul Debevec's [4] Lightstage method, but it proved unworkable with the Red camera.
"So we developed a similar system using traditional lighting (12 kinoflo 400s and 8 bi-color litepanels) and DMX stage lighting software," Williams explains. "We wanted to use the Red because the movie was shot on Red and it also gave us a higher res and better dynamic range. We're able to shoot realtime, 24-frames-per-second, with four Red MX cameras running, using a stand-in to match the lighting of the offline.
This method was used for 20 shots, with nearly 100 additional shots required for other split-screen work involving Hammer since they were unable to shoot at Harvard. Michael Watson, a camera operator on several Fincher projects, helped with technical aspects of the Red and the lighting as the internal DP. Since the flesh tones of Hammer and Pence are different, this required some additional tweaking. The process worked really well, according to Williams, allowing Fincher to get a very controlled performance in a very efficient manner.
Not only that, but given the brightly lit, expansive location and the narrow depth of field during the actual race, the regatta seems very Old World, so the twins become fish out of water temporally as well as spatially.
"The first challenge was to create a process that we could use from shot to shot because the entire sequence runs about a minute-and-a-half, but there are 57 shots and each one was affected," Khan continues. "The first thing was to pull reference, some of which came from actual tilt-shift photography, while a lot of it came from sports photography. They shot during an actual Henley Regatta but not the race. It was important to make it feel like an action sequence because it's the only one in the film. It was also important to maintain the aesthetic, so we added a lot of grain to the footage because the Red provides a crisp and clean look.
"Each shot was tracked in 3D. Using this camera information allowed us to replace the backgrounds via camera projection and also create detailed depth maps. These maps were used to simulate the lens effect. We also created a custom kernel on which the blur was based.Noise displacement textures were also generated to add movement to the still backdrops, creating subtle movements and oscillations."
"Typically, tilt shift is a technique most commonly used on wide shots or birds eye photography," she explains. "It is most effective in these circumstances, because it simulates a shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses, making a large scene seem much smaller than it really is. This proved challenging in a sequence of 57 shots, the edit accelerates as the race closes in, cutting from a variety of wide, medium and close-up shots. Initially, we needed to define the lens effect across the diversity of these shots, creating an effective aesthetic that was both true to the idea and achieved the intentional plane of focus, without jarring the viewer."
Bill Desowitz is senior editor of AWN & VFXWorld.
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Star Wars Episode VII: The H Stern Screener.
Personally I was hoping for Guillermo Del Torro because the creatures he has come up with for his movies were an amazing hybrid of practical effects and cgi and would work perfectly in the star wars universe.
That being said JJ Abrams is a great choice. He brought back Star Trek and I'm sure he will do a great job in redeeming star wars after the prequals. Combine that with the fact that the screenwriter is the guy who wrote Toy story 3 and I am really impressed with the steps disney has taken so far
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Bad choice in my opinion. I enjoy Abrams' films, but let's be honest...his movies are extremely action oriented which is cool if that's all you want out of a movie.
The original Star Wars trilogy was something different. It dealt in archetypes, myth, spirituality, and action. Granted, you could enjoy the movies merely on their "action" level, but what made those movies really special--classic--was that there was more substance underneath the duals, chases, etc. There's a finite number of times you can go back to that well. Unfortunately, Hollywood is risk-averse and invests disproportionately in remakes, sequels, reboots, and rip-offs; I expect Disney will hue close to the original formula.
I hope for the best, but I'm pretty skeptical. Even continuing the franchise seems as ill-conceived as making more movies in The Godfather saga. And there shouldn't be any doubt that Disney has it's eyes on the merchandising and myriad spin-offs (most likely airing on the Disney Channel)...which suggests that their target demographic will be between 10-15 years old. The funny thing is, even if I'm correct there are enough Star Wars fan-boys who will ejaculate at anything thrown up on the screen--much like they did for Lucas' shitty prequels. As a big fan of E.R. Burroughs' "Barsoom" books, I was sorely disappointed how Disney handled that potential gold-mine of a franchise. I doubt future Star Wars films will ever achieve "classic" status. But when you hire a big name, flashy director it says you're more interested in cashing in.
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Good Director.. gives me hope because the last few Star Wars were fucking dreadful. Nice to look at but dreadful. And fuck off with any comedic sidekick please? We don't need "a goofy Jar Jar" or "a wacky C3PO" character.. Just do what ya did with Star Trek. That's all I ask.
Eps 1-3 and Lucas' meddling with the originals really killed the franchise for me, but this is really good news.
I've never been a Star Trek fan at all and yet Abrams' Star Trek movie was so great that I watched it twice in one weekend. And although many disagree, I thought Super 8 was mostly fun up until the end. Also, I finally watched Toy Story 3 about two weeks ago and I thought it was flawless. So this could really be a winning combination of writer, directer and franchise.
Thankfully that Zack Snyder samurai Star Wars project was just a rumor. Sorry, but Zack Snyder is incredibly overrated.
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I will care when they make a Deep Space 9 movie.
I heard a rumor they were also looking at Ben Affleck as well.
Pssst!....."Episode 8".....Spike Jonze.
You didn't hear that..from me.
The only problem with TOS is that it is dated--and it's no wonder since it is almost 50 fucking years old. However, for the better part of 25 years, TOS was compelling and revolutionary. The only other Sci-Fi show even close was TNG. After Gene Roddenberry gave up the ghost and that hack motherfucker Rick Berman took over the franchise everything went to shit. I'm not saying that DS9 or any of those other fugazi shows couldn't be entertaining...but let's be honest--none of those shows deserves to smell TOS's shit!
I'm not going to badmouth JJ's film "reboot" at all...I like the characters, and it's nice to have them around. But the new Trek film was an action flik; TOS was great because it dealt with a lot of social issues and was cerebral (compared to other Sci-Fi of that era). Exploring social issues does not seem to lend itself to lens flare.


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A huge lobbying push netted Democrats a giant victory in the House on global warming legislation, as the House approved a cap and trade by 219-212.
In the end, the margin was provided by eight Republicans who broke ranks and voted for the bill.
They were Bono Mack (CA), Castle (DE), Kirk (IL), Lance (NJ), LoBiondo (NJ), McHugh (NY), Reichert (WA) and Smith (NJ.)
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Hello everyone! I apologize for a week of hiatus. Things has been so crazy here lately with my mom and dad being on vacation here last week, the unexpected moved, and all. It was a pretty tough week, but I thank God that everything went smoothly, everybody is okay, just a little odds here and there, but all in all everything is fine and dandy.
Anyhow, as of these week Tuesday Travels, my share is when my family and I attended the Filipino Festival at Towson, Maryland. This celebration takes place every year to commemorate Philippine Independence Day, and also remembering our culture and traditions in spite that we are in a foreign land. There were lots of programs being held like Filipino folk dances, Filipino songs, and other cultural shows presented. But before the programs started, there was a parade of SantaCruzan, and the Reyna Elena. It sure was so cool to see! To make it more fun, there were lots of vendors selling Filipino goodies, such as, Lechon(roast pig), Halo-Halo(mixed mixed), Sticky Rice, and a lot more! It was a feast I tell ya, and that day I gained extra pounds. lol! There were also native products of course like Fans and Hats that are made from bamboo, native bags, beads, and other cool stuff that are on sale. It sure was pretty cool, this event makes me feel closer to home and made me feel homesick as well.
I was glad though that I brought my mom and dad with me in this event, they had fun chatting with other Filipinos, and watching the show. I was gonna share a lot of photos from this event but sad to say, after I transfer all my photos in the computer.. the computer crashed on me and was not able to retrieved all my files. Only these 2 photos below that was saved that I uploaded in Photobucket. Oh well, bad things happens sometimes. lol. At least I was able to save one of my pretties photos of the event. hehehe
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We think exposing the GA proceedings/process to the widest possible audience is a critical strategic objective: demonstrating the possibility of direct mass democracy is one of this movement's unique accomplishments.
We note with concern that most of the discussion about enabling this focuses on Web streaming, which we believe has some distinct disadvantages.
Therefore we have been investigating the use of _TELECONFERENCE SYSTEMS_ as alternatives for wide live access to GA proceedings, for three reasons:
1) ACCESS/ "99% REACH": quite simply: how many more of the underrepresented 99% have access to & can afford voice minutes on the public switched telephone network, vs. a reliable quality Internet audio stream?
2) COST: quality streaming requires more hardware, power, and hogs bandwidth compared to placing a conference call over the PSTN. While we haven't done full up costing analysis, we suspect the cost per minute of teleconference could be a fraction of reasonable quality streaming.
3) FEATURES: recording; attendee counts; participant feedback: these are all valuable features many teleconferences have, some of which solve bigger problems. such as recorded proceedings // archival audio.
We have just started this investigation and had intended to publish an advisory or recommendation to the GAs once we could establish a workable scenario. For now we simply wished to plant a seed, as we see many and varied efforts forming to utilize some version of streaming or VoIP.
We just want you all to consider what some of those technology choices do to overall resource utilization and to what extent they truly advance principles (openness, accessibility) and tactical goals (better real-time documentation.)
We could see this applied by issuing dial-in numbers particular to each GA. On one side, a facilitator is assigned mobile terminal on the ground, functioning as a "relay" point for the Peoples' Mic into the con call. On the other side, you open up as many 'listen only' ports as you can afford, and let people dial in via 1-800 number.
Then, anyone with voice minutes & a basic phone can dial in & hear direct democracy in action: no smartphones or good WiFi connections required.
On the ground, you wouldn't need more than to task two facilitators/participants with relaying the people's mic directly into the terminal (one live, one muted for redundancy.)
You could also distribute some of the monitoring and capture tasks this way: remote translators, transcribers, and other documenters can follow & update in real-time: increasing accessibility & transparency overall.
- Resource utilization: the terminal & service plan used for this can double as an emergency phone // hotspot where capable outside GA time. We have been field testing some devices and prepaid operator plans for this purpose.
- Quality: mobile devices over the operator network directly have better noise cancellation & signal path optimization than raw VoIP - fundamentally more efficient & reliable.
Short-term, a commercial (optimally independent) teleconferencing service provider should suffice. Free options exist, if you are willing to forgo advance booking & low limits on participants.
In the medium-to-long term, free open source options do exist (Asterisk implementations of various kinds): but for a "People's PBX" to have the benefit of the PSTN, it will have to get a physical interface or hire a gateway provider at some point.
We are reviewing sourcing and implementation options for a small trial and will propose a plan to some of the GAs. We might be willing to arrange and fund some such trials, depending on outcome of research. Feedback on field constraints and prior experiences would be extremely helpful.
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What is the best way to display an execution plan from SQL Server on SO?
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It's not trampling the Constitution to limit access to certain weapons or magazines.
It may not be feasible or effective, but it's certainly not unconstitutional.
But is it unfeasible? People say "it's too late" to create gun control, just because there are so many of these weapons available now.
Opium used to be widely available to consumers, and of course wonderfully popular. Now it's not. Heroin use has declined sharply.
I know it's silly-sounding, but people drove many species of birds to near-extinction for there feathers. Now they can't. Buying and selling wild bird feathers is absolutely prohibited. After a few generations, heroin and bird feathers were passe.
The reality is that young people support gun control by a big margin. And if you think a whole new generation of terrorized kids with vivid images of out of control shooters are interested in what the NRA has to say about gun control, think again. Membership in the NRA is declining, especially among the young.
I come from a family of avid hunters and fishers, but an informal poll of my neices and nephews (many who shoot and fish) shows that they all support tightening controls.
From what I can tell, the younger generation is rejecting the radicalism of their parents and grandparents. And this includes the gun nuts. They aren't interested in simplistic black and white solutions. It's ironic, but the new generation is actually genuinely more conservative than older folks.
The GOP is fatally stupid to lose these future voters because of short-term extremism. Young people grew up playing video games and they KNOW that video games aren't the problem, anymore than playing cowboys and indians with cap guns.
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We open June 15th -ish this Summer! Be ready, folks. Be ready.
We are about to fire up the store again! Up next is a lot of new stuff but we are most exited about the new colab hoody with our friends over at Spedelli's Pizza in Salt Lake City! More soon. The store will be bigger and better than ever. Thanks for waiting and I promise you won't be disappointed.
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A great night of poetry will take place once again on Friday, April 27, at Dog Ears Bookstore, a nonprofit bookstore located at 688 Abbott Road in South Buffalo.
The 4th Friday Poetry Series will host local poets Sara Ries and Janna Willoughby-Lohr beginning at 7 p.m. A $2 donation will benefit educational programs provided by the bookstore. Open reading slots will also be available.
Ries was born in Buffalo, where her parents have owned a diner since she was just 2 years old. She holds an MFA from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, where she received the Best Thesis in Poetry Award. Her first book, "Come In, We're Open," won the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition and was published in June 2010 by the NFSPS Press. Her poem, "Fish Fry Daughter," was selected by Ted Kooser for his American Life in Poetry column. Her poems have appeared in Earth's Daughters, Artvoice, Blast Furnace and The Buffalo News. She currently hosts the Poetry & Dinner Night Reading Series at the Woodlawn Diner and teaches at Erie Community College.
Willoughby-Lohr has been writing poetry since she was 5 and performing since age 12. She graduated from Warren Wilson College in 2004 with a BA in Integrative Studies. Since graduation, she has been performing poetry and music steadily as her alter-ego, MC Vendetta, and as her singer/songwriter self, Janna-Ruth. A Grand Slam finalist from 2005-2008 in the Nickel City Poetry Slam and a member of the 2006 Nickel City Slam team at the National Poetry Slam, she is also an editor and layout artist for Earth's Daughters literary magazine. Since 2008 she has been performing with her band, The Blood Thirsty Vegans, a lively mix of energetic hip-hop, rock, funk, ska and blues, topped off with socially-conscious, positive lyrics. She was awarded the Best Spoken-Word Artist in the 2011 Artvoice Best of Buffalo Awards.
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How to Roll Out a 1:1 iPad Program
August 15, 2012 | Jac de HaanWhen The Westside School decided to grow its established primary school into a leading middle school program, parents, teachers, students and administrators mapped out an integrated project-based learning environment designed to engage and challenge all participants. The planning team made a list of skills and tools that would support learning, and decided on a 1:1 iPad program to support their vision. I was brought on as technology coordinator to plan and support the curricular and technical deployment for the start of the 2011-12 school year.
After a year or two of early adopter experimentation with education-based iPad deployments, a collaboration of IT departments, edTech consultants and third party vendors pieced together a best practice scenario for iOS management.
Equally as important to successfully implementing a 1:1 program is the social and curricular roll-out to your school community. Our middle school faculty spent two full months intentionally phasing iPads into regular classroom use. Scaffolding student success with iPads went a long way toward building our positive learning community.
Outline of a Phase-In
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Provide the opportunity for students to be academically empowered, respectful and responsible with technology, and incrementally successful.
Week 1-2: Personal Academic and Social Success
Classroom lessons didn't involve computers. We focused instead on solid academic habits, community-building, aligning attention, and thinking about intentionality when consulting a tool to assist with learning. Students were asked to consider:
- What is technology?
- How does technology change our world for better and/or worse?
- Is tech good or bad?
Students came to the decision that it is how you use technology that is important, and that the goal of technology is to make life more efficient, productive and rewarding.
Week 2: Families Join In on the Learning
Families were introduced to the devices. Each student, with a guardian, was required to attend a session that covered the school's acceptable use policy, care of devices, warranty/insurance information, etc. Guardians and students were asked to sign a document to confirm their understanding of the opportunities and responsibilities of a one-to-one iPad program.
Week 3: Expose the Potential for Technology
Lessons across disciplines had an element of, "Aw, geez, if only we had a _______ (video camera, web browser, microphone, etc), this would be way easier/better/quicker." Assignments were completed without access to the desired technology, highlighting our dependence on technology.
Students began using iPads in technology class, where they covered the basics of operation, expectations for privacy, and skits or conversations exemplifying main concepts in the acceptable use policy.
Week 4-5: Directed Device Use
Devices were handed out and returned at the beginning and end of each class in which they were to be used. Teachers coordinated to provide lessons that played to iPad features in a variety of contexts. Devices were used as digital books, as calculators, for photography, as a reference, and as a word processor.
Week 6-7: Adapting to Access
After three weeks of demonstrating respect and responsibility with iPads, students started taking the devices with them from class to class. Each student received his or her iPad at morning homeroom and was expected to return it prior to lunch (our afternoons are specialists, PE and arts). Projects and assignments reinforced basic use of the device and introduced some intermediate concepts (exporting files, embedding photos, editing video, etc).
Week 8: Demonstrating Integration
Students were responsible for their iPads all day, storing them in lockers when not in use and taking them home on weeknights. Students were expected to show up for school with the iPad fully charged. iPads stayed at school over the weekend and IT practiced applying updates and backing up the devices.
Week 9: Full Responsibility, Full Trust
Students used the iPads as they saw fit in any class. IT updated and backed up devices approximately once every six weeks during the school day.
Beyond Phase-In
To keep everyone in our community learning, we provided a number of events to support student-device engagement:
- Family support with evening events such as Growing Up Digital
- Periodic celebrations of student work through portfolio reviews and media arts celebrations
- Bi-weekly teacher check-ins during staff meetings
- Spring iPad Open House with local area school IT directors, technology teachers, classroom innovators, administration and curriculum designers
Opportunities to be successful went a long way to building confidence and internalizing care of the machines. For kids that were having a tough time at the class-based level or day-based level, there were opportunities to intervene early and provide additional support, before the machines disappeared into backpacks.
Some of the middle weeks were challenging, as teachers were drawn to the potential benefit of iPad access at home. That said, as a team we held firm and asked kids to demonstrate respect and responsibility -- to prove themselves every step of the way. As a result, we have had very few instances of misuse, a surprisingly low number of damaged devices, and an entire middle school, from administrators and students to parents and teachers, that can identify and verbalize the rewards of a 1-to-1 program.
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Interesting blog! It's nice
Interesting blog! It's nice to see so many students took care of the iPads. I also liked the idea of requiring every parent and student to attend a meeting before the iPads were handed out. I do wonder if this is a Title 1 school or not.
You're right. This is not the
You're right. This is not the correct forum for bringing up potential health issues and objections. I heard about this only a few days ago when my daughter brought the 1:1 paper home, and I'm still in shock. This was the first website I came upon. I thank you for your patience with me.
Julias Mom: Kudos to you for
Julias Mom:
Kudos to you for being concerned about the health affects of ipads.
Traditionally they are a poor learning vehicle unless incumbant pedagogy is changed and now they may have health risks
You might extend your discussion to more scientific, technology, specific forums that would be better equipped to share long term health impact research with you
Cell phones supposedly provide similar health issues, but they are so new to us that we have yet to experience long term health consequences, if they are there
Keep us posted on your quest for answers
Well, I see that the writing
Well, I see that the writing is on the wall (or in this case, the pad). The kids in our district will soon be looking down to screens rather than up to teachers. However, no one has answered my basic question about health: What are the long-range health effects of hours and hours touching these devices? One man posted a video on YouTube showing that when his iPad accessed the Internet, it emitted radiation that was 38,000 times background radiation. Multiply that by 20 kids in a classroom, and I challenge anyone to say that this is healthy. That man's study had flaws, but the first thing I'm going to do is measure my own daughter's iPad for radiation. I think any parent would be a fool not to be informed about this issue. Her teacher won't be there twenty years from now when the health consequences will be better known.
Keep in mind that unless the pedagogy changes from one to many (think lecture) to personalized learner centric (learning, transfer and application, individually reinforced over time), the instruction remains one to many (not 1:1) delivered to individuals over cool technology and will not advance individual learning outcomes
The learning research strongly suggests more personalization, interactipon and reinforcement and away from lecture based teaching.
Here is an example of a teacher that is willing and able to change teaching paradigms to be more student focused:
Thanks for your quick reply!
Thanks for your quick reply! I actually just found a video of young kids (6-7 year olds) wearing headphones while each interacted with their own personal iPad screen, seemingly oblivious of one another and the rest of the world. At one point, a teacher walked around showing a real flower to each kid, presumably to supplement the flower app. I guess I'm old fashioned, but it reminded me of Saul in SOYLENT GREEN introducing Thorne to a real apple (no pun intended). I also looked up the SAR rating of these devices--about the same as the worst cell phones, depending on which article you read. I wouldn't have a cell phone in my house with a SAR rating that high, but you're suggesting that kids spend from 30-100 minutes per day making physical contact with these devices? I know they aren't put up next to the head, but 100 minutes of radiation exposure is a lot for a developing child. I think the only answer is homeschooling next year.
Hi Julia's mom, You are
Hi Julia's mom,
You are asking all the right questions! Unfortunately, each school/district involved in a 1-to-1 program is making the decision for reasons specific to that community, learning needs, and teaching objectives.
Your questions fall into 3 broad categories:
- Curriculum-specific: what will device use LOOK like on a daily basis, teacher role, student responsibility, etc.
- Pedagogy/philosophy-specific: why this device, why 1-to-1, goals of the program, etc.
- Social/health/environmental impacts: how does increased screen-time affect development, how is the device perceived, dependency on electronics, etc.
I'd be happy to talk specifics, but can only speak to the implementation outlined in the above article.
The iPad is a tool, and should be used as such when appropriate. The user is in control, not the device. My students engage the device 30-100 minutes per day in a variety of capacities. We share this range with parents and ask that they consider it when setting screen-time limits as a family.
For some relevant studies on the impact of technology on our society and child development, take a look at the papers linked from this article titled, The 5 best digital identity resources.
No one talks about specifics!
My daughter's school just announced that iPads are now going to be a regular part of the fifth grade curriculum and that kids would be using them frequently throughout the day. I have read and read about this l:l program, but no one goes into the specifics! What's going to happen in the classroom? When the kids are learning math, will the teacher say, "Now turn to your iPad..." Or when it's time to write, will my daughter have to hit keys on the screen rather than pick up a pen? Will she be reading on a screen rather than opening a book? Will she be completing her homework on a screen rather than a piece of paper? What will be the role of the teacher--if any? Perhaps this is just a prelude to firing all the human beings and just having kids walk around with their iPads. Maybe our taxes would go down? The thing that impresses me is the awe with which people write about this over-hyped device, how we have to attend a meeting during which we will learn the proper behavior and respect needed when in the presence of the iPad. Is this some sacred religious object that's about to be coming home? Is it an icon rather than an iPad? And has anybody studied the health effects of yet another electronic device on the developing brain? I watch in horror as kindergartners pull out their cell phones on their way home. Has anybody studied the amount of radiation that the kids will be exposed to as they take their sacred iPads from class to class? Would someone who has had actual experience with this program give me some specifics of what's in store in the classroom?
I am very impressed with the
I am very impressed with the "phasing in" implementation strategy used with your iPad deployment. We are a 1:1 school this year and had no type of phasing. The students received their iPads and the teachers were expected to start using them. It's been an exciting but stressful transition. I especially feel for some of the teachers who are not tech all stars. Having the iPads is wonderful but I do envy the organization and thought that went into your iPad roll out.
I am new to a school with
I am new to a school with iPads and I'm excited to try them out with my students. I love the advice in this article. It can really help technology specialists see how to create buy-in with the new devices.


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Also, so far, 63% of my calories are from fat... Thanks to the coconut oil on my salad... Too much?
I started using paleotrack.com to see how I'm doing nutritionally. I am strict paleo, and I also don't eat nuts, seeds, eggs, etc for autoimmune protocal. But my omega ratio isn't where I want it to be. I can balance it with a couple teaspoons a day of fish oil, but I'd like to try to do it with food. Seems that chicken reall throws it off. Do I need to worry so much if my omega 6 is coming from free range chickens and not nuts and oils?
Also, so far, 63% of my calories are from fat... Thanks to the coconut oil on my salad... Too much?
No, that's fine. Eat whatever macros you like. Just make sure to get ample protein and you can use whatever macros work best for you.
Chris Kresser did an excellent series of posts on omega fatty acids. He recommends getting omega-3 from actual fish instead of fish oil in most cases and also goes into how absolute amounts of omega-6 and omega-3 must be considered, not just the ratio:
The fish vs. fish oil smackdown
How much omega-3 is enough? That depends on omega-6.
How too much omega-6 and not enough omega-3 is making us sick
Sounds like you are doing pretty well. I would not worry too much.
I just sorted my list by omega 6 content... Turns out most of it is coming from the avocado I ate, not the chicken. I thought those guys were healthy. No? Eat just a bit notnthe whole? Eat 3 and die happy?
I think if you get a good quality, liquid fish oil to take every day, you don't need to worry about it being technically supplementation. It's still food, it's from a very primal food, and it shouldn't contain additives that could do harm to you. Honestly, if that's the only supplement that you take, you are way ahead of the curve. Way back in caveman times, all of our meat would have been free-range, grass-fed, etc. The higher levels of omega 3 in them were enough then. Nowadays unless you want to eat exclusively fish and grass-fed ruminants (cows, bison, etc.), taking a fish oil supplement really just "makes up" for what is missing from the meat we can get our hands on. As long as you aren't partaking of the high omega 6 foods (and that seems to be the case), you shouldn't have any problem!
If you feel good at the fat %age that you are currently hitting, no need to change anything.
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beyond the ratio, you have to consider the overall amount of PUFA in your diet. if the overall amount is really low, and if you're eating primally, and avoiding the foods that you are, it is, the ratio becomes less and less important.
skip the fish oil, imho. it's never once been shown to even correlate with any health benefits, as opposed to eating fish.
"dean ornish and dr. davis think the palmitic acid our bodies use for fuel while we sleep is poison if we eat it. zero-carbers like charles washington think the oldest fuel in our evolutionary history glucose - used by organisms a billion years ago and without which the brains of modern mammals cannot survive for more than a few minutes is an unnatural toxin if you eat it. both views ignore basic facts of medical physiology and defy evolutionary history." - kurt harris
I went through this, too. I will parrot what others have been saying around here. Rancid, industrial fried omega-6 oils are not the same thing as natural, fresh chicken fat. The kinds of oil that are killing America are soybean oil, canola oil and other seed oils. Avocados and poultry are real food, it does not make sense to avoid them.
Shocked and slightly embarrassed at the sight of Larry in a towelTurquoisepassion:
Knifegill is christened to be high carb now!
My pony picture thread http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread82786.html
I'm curious how you find paleotrack.com compared to other sites such as Fitday and Cron-o-meter. I'm not a very happy user of the free version of Cron-o-meter: too hard to enter own recipes and too little cooked food nutrition info (vs. raw ingredients). Does Fitday and Paleotrack.com allow you to track Omega 6 vs. Omega 3? Reliably?
I just want to do it perfectly ya know?
Last edited by GeorgiaPeach; 05-30-2012 at 12:38 PM.