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It might be summertime, but few of us actually get the chance to pack up and travel the world. Fortunately, you don't have to leave Pittsburgh to experience international cultures. Here are some activities that will make you forget — if only for a couple of hours — that you haven't left the country.
Catch a Bollywood picture at AMC Loews
Nothing beats whiling away the hours in an air-conditioned movie theater on a hot summer day. In addition to the usual movie picks, AMC Loews at the Waterfront also screens the latest Bollywood films. Bollywood movies are highly popular Hindi language films (subtitles are included). Lose yourself in a dramatic tale of love, friendship and/or heartbreak that takes place in some colorful locale of India, the U.K. or sometimes even the U.S. If you love musicals, then you'll probably love the random scenes of song and dance that Bollywood films are known for.
Let your hair down at Sphinx Café
Stepping into Sphinx Café from the streets of South Oakland is an experience in itself. Sphinx Café is a large Egyptian style hookah bar complete with colorful Egyptian decor, comfy cushions and a muted television screening Egyptian soaps. Music of various genres plays in the background, but even that can't break the peaceful atmosphere this hookah bar has managed to create. There is a full menu of shisha flavors, and customers can also order Middle Eastern food, fruit juices or teas. Go with a good group of friends because Hookah is best enjoyed with good company and conversation — but don't make it a regular habit because according to the CDC, hookah isn't a healthy alternative to smoking cigarettes.
Browse through the goodies at Kawaii Gifts
Buried within the clothing retailers and restaurants on Walnut Street is this small gem of a shop. Kawaii means cute in Japanese, and as the name suggests, Kawaii Gifts is stocked to the brim with cute items — most of which are imported from Japan where Kawaii culture is huge. The store sells a variety of goods from stationary to miniatures. They also feature brands and characters that are popular in Japan such as Hello Kitty, Rilakkuma and Sentimental Circus.
Exercise your pipes at Kbox
If shopping isn't really your thing, but you still want to get a taste of Japan and other Asian countries, Kbox Karaoke House has you covered. Kbox is an Asian Style Karaoke bar that was founded by a group of Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh students and alumnus. Karaoke originated in Japan, and is still a highly popular pastime in Asian countries. Don't worry about getting stage fright, because at K-box, it's just you and your friends in your own private room. Make it an intimate gathering in a mini room with up to four people or go wild with up to 16 in a VIP room. With a database containing over 100,000 tunes, you can choose from popular English, Chinese, Japanese or Korean songs.
Eat an authentic French meal at Paris 66
If you're wondering what's for dinner, Paris 66 is ready to fill your belly with an appetizing French meal. Upon entering this cozy French bistro, you might think you've stumbled into Paris. The owners and chefs are French, the meals are French, the menu items are in French and the postcards imbedded in the tabletops are of Paris. Forget the hamburgers; feast on a croque monsieur or a filet Mignon instead! There is also an extensive wine and cocktail menu, and you can finish off your meal with a tasty dessert or coffee.
Go salsa dancing at Los Sabrosos
Skip the club this Saturday and go Salsa Dancing at Los Sabroso dance studio. For $7, you can salsa from 9:30 p.m. way into the early morning. The DJ switches up the music pretty often, so you can practice all of your Latin dance moves from merengue to bachata. No partner necessary, as you can find one when you get there. There is salsa somewhere in Pittsburgh every day of the week. If you can't make it to Los Sabrosos, check out Salsa Pittsburgh for more times and venues. Hint: Cabaret at Theater Square has salsa dancing on Fridays (pictured below).
Take up a new hobby with Timbeleza
Timbeleza is a percussion band that plays a form of Brazilian music called batucada. Batucada can accompany samba dancers or capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. Timbeleza holds weekly practices, and on certain summer days, you can hear the sounds of their percussive instruments cranking out cool beats at Flagstaff Hill in Oakland. Timbeleza also holds performances around the city and at events where they sometimes collaborate with samba dancers, break dancers or capoeiristas. For those interested in joining Timbeleza, email Kevin Seklecki or Siamak Malek at email@example.com. Musical experience is preferred, but an instrument will be provided. If you're not musically inclined, but would still like to experience batucada, Timbeleza will be playing at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater on Aug. 2.
Photo Credits: Stephanie Strasburg, Kitoko Chargois, Jasmine Goldband, Timbeleza


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For people like me who work on the actual Flash Runtime it is sometimes easy to forget how our product is being used. I came across an introduction to Flash Game programming on YouTube today that made me stop and think for a moment. Believe it or not, I suddenly realized how easy it is to get a basic game up and running in Flash. Crazy, right? Here's the video:
I thought this was a neat little game that demonstrated the basics of game programming in Flash quite well. Knowing that there are very advanced games in Flash too, it sure seems like Flash allows everybody to develop games that match their skill set. One of my favorite games is Zombie Tycoon:
Have you coded your own game in Flash yet?

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Some say this is the year of the pie. While I'm all for the advancement of my all-time favorite dessert (yes, I love it more than all things chocolate), I'm with Brooklyn's Baked bakery co-owner Matt Lewis, who summed it up like this: Let's talk about pie less and eat it more.
What To Eat Now: Shaker Lemon Pie
I decided to lead the charge for the rest of you by making an old-fashioned, super-lemony custard pie with sweet-and-sour Meyer lemons. Sure, it's perfect for Valentine's Day, but you really don't need an excuse to eat a pie this delicious. Start making it now.
Why "Shaker Lemon Pie"?
The idea for this amazing pie originated in the now-defunct Shaker settlements. Shakers were industrious folks, inventing not only the circular saw, a machine to core and cut apples and a revolving oven, but also this custard pie that includes whole lemon slices, including the rind.
Also a thrifty bunch, they couldn't bear the thought of throwing away lemon rinds, so they sliced lemons ever-so-thinly and macerated them overnight with sugar, creating what's akin to lemon marmalade. Then you mix that into a custard for a mellow, complex finished product. Using Meyer lemons (a cross between a Mandarin orange and a lemon) makes it much less sour than the original version. My dad (a fellow pie aficionado) visited Ohio's Shaker village many years ago, and has been extolling on the virtues of this pie ever since. So when I came across Meyer lemons at the store and this recipe from Saveur by way of Smitten Kitchen all in the same week, I knew it was time to start baking.
The pie requires a little planning, but it's really pretty easy to put together. There are really just three steps: Macerate the lemons, mix the custard and make the crust.
Zest 2 Meyer lemons, then slice them super-thin and toss with sugar (I used 1 1/2 cups versus the 2 in the recipe) and salt. Cover and set aside at room temperature for 24 hours.
The next day, make the filling, which is simply eggs, butter, a little flour, and your lemon mixture. Tuck it between two sheets of your favorite pie crust, and in about an hour, you have this:
It will smell amazing. You will want to dig in straight from the oven, but don't do it! Wait at least 30 minutes to let the custard fully gel. No one will know if it's, in fact, 29 minutes. You can serve with ice cream (or a berry sorbet would be good), but you really, really don't need it.
Craving more pie recipes? Try these out-of-this world options from Cooking Channel chefs:
- Nadia G's Pink Grapefruit Meringue Pies
- Kelsey's Cherry Pie in a Jar
- Chuck's Maple-Pecan Pie
- Salted Caramel Apple Pie
- Kelsey's Banana Cream Pie
- Ice-Cream S'Mores Pie
- Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Pie
For more Valentine's Day dessert and meal ideas, check our our Best Valentine's Day Ideas.


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Topic: Taxonomy of patient users-cancer pt,internet info.&clinical encounter
I find something interesting in ASCO2012 ebook that is related to our site.
It is written by Paul R. Helft MD.
From this article by a practice doctor;you know knowledge is useful in requiring the doctor to keep current to answer your evdence-base questions getting from Internet resources,like our message board .But as a patient ,you also should know the most efficient way to get your answer and execute them thru of your doctors.ie: send them email in advance about your concern before appt.
I think in this way,Internet usage will be of benefit to both the patient and doctor
The Seeker
Mr. B is a 63-year-old man with newly diagnosed intrahepatic
cholangiocarcinoma. When he was first seen, he had a
palpable mass; he was subsequently found to have a large
adenocarcinoma replacing much of his atrophied left lobe of
the liver, with extension into the right lobe. As time passes
during his treatment, to which he has a major partial
response, he raises issues he has encountered on the Internet,
mostly after prompts from fellow patients he communicates
with on the Cholangiocarcinoma.org message boards.
One of the potential advantages of access to the Internet
in the context of illness is that patients with uncommon
cancers can form relationships online with other patients
despite geographical and other barriers. For many patients,
this ability to share experiences with other patients with the
same disease is valuable and can provide an important
source of emotional support. That said, I have found such
Internet sources frequently lead to questions from patients
that suggest they have difficulty sorting out what applies to
them and what does not, having heard suggestions from
other patients with the same diagnosis but whose circumstances
may be radically different. Mr. B thus asks questions
at each clinic encounter such as, "One of the patients
from my message board had a liver transplant for his
cholangiocarcinoma. Can I have a liver transplant?" At other
times, he raises questions about clinical trials, hepatic
intra-arterial infusion therapy, and surgical resection, all
stimulated by comments from other patients. Each time he
considers new information, such comments lead him to seek
further information from other Internet sources and he asks
clarification of his oncologist.
Suggestions for management of Mr. B's continued questions
include focusing on the treatment options he raises and
how they apply to patients in different circumstances, and
explaining how these options have already been considered
and why they do or do not specifically apply to him. The
important message from both of these communicative suggestions
is that the physician recognizes and validates the
importance of the issues to him (and thus the discussion of
them validates the sense that the physician is willing to
explore other options with him). This discussion can be an
opportunity to subtly reinforce the physician's competence,
as such questions enable the physician to show that he or
she has already carefully considered the options raised.
Finally, recognizing the importance of such online experiences
for the patient can represent a meaningful occasion for
validating the patient's efforts to continue to investigate and
understand his disease and options fully.
God bless.


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The Conservatives came out on top in Wiltshire when the results of European Elections were announced tonight.
The Wiltshire results was announced at Christie Miller Sports Centre and will go towards the overall total for the six available South West seats.
Turnout in the county was 36.9 per cent with the Conservatives receiving 46,306 votes and UKIP coming second gaining 40,951 votes.
The Liberal Democrats received 13,260, Labour got 12, 961, Green 12,769, An Independence from Europe 2,005, English Democrats 1,336 and BNP 869.
202 votes were spoilt. Lead returning officer at the Melksham count Carlton Brand said: "I was expecting a lower turnout so I am pleased. For the last European election there was a 40 per cent turnout but that was combined with unitary elections which always pushes the figures up.
"If you compare it with general elections there is usually a 60 to 65 per cent turnout so its not fantastic from that point.
"I think the biggest surprise is UKIP coming second because nationally they were expecting to win and in Wiltshire they haven't but if you look at the results they're not a million miles away from the Conservatives."
The South West votes are now being collated and the six seats will be announced later this evening.


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Anne Hathaway + More Saucy, Sexy Ladies: SAG Awards Best Dressed Celebs
Amanda Seyfried killed in it navy, Marion Cotillard rocked Dior, and more on the SAG Awards red carpet!
-Courtney Leiva
Guess who's doing the Screen Actors Guild Awards fashion roundup? Yep, that's right! I'm looking back at the most DUH-MAZING celebs who totally rocked my slipper socks off last night at the SAG Awards. Check out the full list of winners here—and from JLaw in Dior Haute Couture to Kerry Washington in Marchesa, get ready for some serious fashion porn, Bettys!
PS. Don't miss our worst dressed list here!


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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 P3100 (7.0) was released in April of 2012. The device was released as a low-mid segment device by the company.
Software & Hardware
The device was released with the Android Ice Cream Sandwich v4.0.3, further upgradeable to Jellybean v4.2.2. The device is backed with a Dual-core 1.0 GHz processor, while the chipset used in the device is TI OMAP 4430. The graphics are being powered by the PowerVR SGX540chipset. TheSamsung Galaxy Tab 2 P3100 (7.0) features 1 GB of RAM, which is used for running apps and multi-tasking between them. The unlocked cellphone features an internal storage of 8/16/32 GB for installing applications. The memory of the device can be expanded up to 32 GB via the use of an external SD card for storing media, such as music, video etc. The phone is operated by a Li-ion 4000 mAh battery for prolonged battery life.
Design & Display
The screen size of the unlocked cellphone 7.0Inches, and it is a TFT display panel with a resolution of 600 x 1024 pixels, with a pixel per inch density of 170. The dimensions of the unlocked cellphone are 193.7 x 122.4 x 10.5 mm, with a weight of 345 grams.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 P3100 (7.0)features a 3.15MP rear cameracapable of clicking photographs. The camera quality is decent, and it capture fine amount of details. It can also record videos of 720p at 30 fps. There is a secondary VGA front-facing camera, available in the unlocked cellphone for clicking selfies and recording videos.


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TUESDAY night's Trowbridge & District League Knockout Cup final between Lacock and Westbury United Reserves has been postponed.
Heavy overnight rain has left Melksham Town's Conigre pitch, which was due to host the showpiece, waterlogged, forcing the postponement of a second league final in four days.
Last Friday's Spring Cup final between Division Two champions Lacock and Trowbridge Town Reserves at Westbury United's Mead Lane ground was also postponed because of heavy rain.
That games has now be rearranged for next Friday, May 9 at the same venue, but an alternative date for the Chantry Digital-sponsored Knockout Cup final has yet to be found.
Lacock and Westbury United Reserves are due to meet each other in the final of the A&B Cup, sponsored by Briken Motors & AM Print and Copy, at Warminster Town's Weymouth Street ground on Saturday (3pm).
Lacock are chasing a league and cup quadruple.
TROWBRIDGE & DISTRICT LEAGUE ROUNDUP, STATS AND PICTURES IN THURSDAY'S GAZETTE & HERALD AND FRIDAY'S WILTSHIRE TIMES AND FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @gazsport and @WTSport


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I was in a large hospital that, actually, looked more like a hotel. I was there with my brother to visit my grandmother (who is actually dead now). We were in the elevator and went to the 5th floor. The hallway was dark and maze-like. We went to a dead end passed an other set of elevators and I found a door to my right. I went inside to find a large room with rows of seats facing a huge TV screen like it was a movie theatre. There was a large window taking up an entire wall across from me and I walked toward it. I looked through and stared at the ground below me, I though of how that fall would surely kill me. I looked to my left and saw my grandmother sitting in one of the seats in the very front row, fumbling with the remote. I walked over to her and asked her what she was doing.
"I don't know," she said, "can you help me find the Alzheimer's channel?"
I looked up at the large screen that I now blaring out a cartoon that I was unfamiliar with. "I don't know," I said, unsure if that even existed, "Let me see the remote."
I took the remote from her and began looking for a weather channel.
When I finally found one, an old man who I didn't recognize came into the room and sat next to us and didn't say a word until thunder struck. He looked out the large window and said, "It's going to be like this for the next couple of days." I looked at the window, amazed by the fact that a beautiful day could turn so awful within seconds. I got up and left my grandmother. When I was out of the room, they began talking together about whether or not the hospital feeds them. I walked down the long hallway with my brother by my side again. We found an elevator and went down. I tried holding the door close button to keep it from opening for other people but it did anyway. A black guy in baggy clothes and and a snap back walked in and stood abnormally close to me without saying a word or even looking at me. Then the elevator stopped again and a group of maybe four Asian looking girls in strange anime type clothing entered. One girl had blue, one had pink, one had white, and the other had black. All where bobbed really short.
We finally got to the lobby and walked out as quickly as possible. The people in the elevator, however, stayed. I stopped in my tracks, my brother behind me, remembering something I forgot to tell my grandmother. I sighed and told my brother to wait there while I went to tell her. I ran back to the elevator, choosing a different one than all the other people were in and pressed to go to floor 4, thinking that was the right floor. The door opened and I ran out. The floor looked exactly the same, dark and maze like. A glowing 'exit' sigh was my only guidance so I followed it. At the end of the hallway, the door on the left was open and I walked in. The room was the same but my grandmother was not there.
I turn around, hearing a gunshot and notice a tall faceless man behind me with a gun pointed right to my chest. I don't gasp, I'm not even surprised. Suddenly two of the Asian girls from the elevator show up behind him, cracking their knuckles and then I begin to get frightened. The run toward me we begin to fight. The fight was a blur but when it was over, the girls laid knocked out around me. I looked at the man who's gun had now turned into a pink screwdriver/taser thing. "Ever been shocked before?" He asked. I picked up the one of the girls with each hand, holding them both by their feet and then began swinging them around like nun-chucks, "That's right, I'm going to fight you with human bodies! Come on!" I yelled, slightly laughing to myself.
He ran toward me and tried tasing me but I'd just slap him with one of the girls before he could get close. They were surprisingly light.
In the middle of the fight, I (for some reason) dropped the girls and began to run. I ran for the exit sign and behind that door was a coil of stairs. I looked down and though to myself how that fall would surely kill me and proceeded descending down them.
I woke up.
Additional Comments:
Accourding to DreaForth.com:
Grandmother - To dream about your grandmother indicates safety, comfort, and unwavering love. Think about the attributes that your own grandmother exemplifies.
Hospital - To dream of a hospital implies a need to be taken care of physically and/or mentally. It indicates a need to restore order in your life.
Fighting - To dream that you are in a fight suggests that you have upheaval within yourself. You are dealing with some issues that are causing you guilt or conflict. You may have been trying to bury some part of you that is fighting to be heard. This dream could also represent a real life altercation you are enduring.
Faceless - To dream about a faceless person suggests that you are seeking who you really are inside. You may not know how to understand the people around you or what they are feeling. You wish to know the person at their core.
Gun - To dream of a gun represents hostility, wrath, and possible hazards. Perhaps you are having difficulties expressing your positive and negative emotions. A gun can also be a symbol of male genitalia and masculine intensity. Therefore, it can represent intensity or incapacity.


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MARLBOROUGH College student Alessandro Latif heads for his Blancpain Sprint Series home races at the wheel of a Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra sportscar this weekend.
Latif, who turned 18 only last month, drives for reigning DTM champions Phoenix Racing in the seven-race Sprint series, which includes Brands Hatch on Sunday.
"I have never raced a car in the UK so I am really looking forward to it, especially at an iconic track like Brands," said Latif.
"Throughout history, the world's greatest drivers have acclaimed it as one of the most exciting circuits worldwide and the elevation changes look thrilling."
Latif shares the Phoenix Audi with German Marc Basseng, the 2012 FIA GT1 World Champion, in his maiden Blancpain campaign, which got off to a solid start with two top-10 results at Nogaro in France last month.
"I knew the competition was going to be tough and at Nogaro the field was very close – any slight mistake was costly," he said.
"The toughest element in many ways was getting that first race weekend under my belt and to understand the pressures involved."
Latif, who began karting seven years ago, has never raced until now in the UK. He's not even visited the Kent venue located just 25 miles from his Kensington home and has been attempting to learn the layout of the 2.3-mile track.
"I have never been to Brands but it's as close to my home as it gets. I've been studying onboard footage from previous Brands races and working in the simulator which gives a driver's eye view of the circuit," he said.
The Blancpain Sprint Series is a seven-event series that began at Nogaro last month and concludes in Azerbaijan in November. It features qualification and feature races, both lasting 60mins.
Around 20 cars will contest the two races on Sunday.
"My aim is to leave Brands having scored some solid points," said Latif. "Nogaro was my first experience of driving the Audi in the rain – so I'm prepared for anything the weather will throw at me at Brands."


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The Sturmabteilung (German: "Assault Division"; abbreviated as SA), were a paramilitary organization within the Nazi Party in interwar Germany, originally founded to protect Nazi meetings from disruption, they were the tool used to intimidate, threaten, and commit acts of violence against political opponents as well as Jews and other individuals opposed by party doctrines. Commonly referred to as the "Brownshirts" or "Storm troopers", the SA at its height numbered greater than twenty times that of the German Army.
The origins of the SA naturally followed the beginnings of the Nazi Party. At the end of the First World War the party was a small group founded by a locksmith named Anton Drexler in 1918, merging with another group in 1919 under the name "German Workers' Party" (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or DAP).[1][2] An obscure former corporal in the regular army, Adolf Hitler, joined the DAP in September 1919, and through his fiery oratory would transform the small party into the "National Socialist German Workers Party" (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP).[3] When the party expanded, a force was needed to protect meetings, and the SA was created in Munich in 1921, organized first to kick out hecklers at Nazi meetings, then to break up the meetings of other parties. The fascists of Italy under Benito Mussolini would inspire a uniform choice: brown shirts worn by all members, emblazoned with a red band bearing a swastika on the left arm. The SA was a group consisting largely of ex-soldiers, Freikorps (Free Corps) members, and common thugs who believed in the Nazi cause; they would march in Nazi rallies, assault political opponents, and intimidate voters during elections. Hitler used them unsuccessfully during the failed Beer Hall Putch in Munich, 1923, which resulted in a temporary disarray.
Still believing in Hitler's cause, the SA reorganized by 1925. In 1931, they were led by a radical who had grandiose dreams of his own: Ernst Röhm. An anti-capitalist who believed in a permanent, continuing revolution (in a manner similar to what Leon Trotsky advocated), Röhm would use the SA to propel Hitler to the chancellery as well as increase the size of the organization to such an extent that it would threaten to replace the much smaller 100,000 man army as Germany's main fighting force, with himself at its head. To that extent the charismatic Röhm swelled the SA from approximately 200,000 in 1931 to close to 2 million men by 1933.
To consolidate power, Hitler needed the backing of two groups considered fundamental to Germany's well-being: the big-business industrialists - such as I.G. Farben and Krupp - and the army. Both eyed the SA as an uncontrolled mob, and Röhm as a power-seeker; indeed, evidence that he was an avid homosexual only added fuel to the fire. The powerful men in the Nazi hierarchy - Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, and Joseph Goebbels - saw Röhm and the SA as a threat to their recently-won acquisition of power and decided on a plan to eliminate him.
Beginning on June 30, 1934, the Night of the Long Knives (die Nacht der langen Messer) took place near Munich at the Hanselbauer Hotel in Bad Wiessee where it was known that SA leadership were on holiday; the plan for execution was conceived by Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich.[4] Röhm - caught in bed with a male SA lover by Hitler himself - was summarily executed, as well as many SA leaders over the next two days.[5] Himmler gained enormously from the killings; his Schutzstaffel (SS) became its own separate branch and would later grow from Hitler's personal bodyguard to become a terrifying force in World War II.[6] Its leadership decimated, the SA became a shadow of its former self. Thereafter, its only military use was that of training units for the German armed forces and later acting as the Home Guard during World War II.
The term is sometimes erroneously broadened to include all Nazis and even all fascists, although strictly speaking Italian fascists were Blackshirts, for similar reasons of their uniform.[7] The term "Stormtrooper" was used earlier by the German Army to denote special trench assault units during World War I.
- ↑ Shoah Resource Center, http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205946.pdf
- ↑ Germanculture.com, http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa012400b.htm
- ↑ McNab, Chris (2009). The Third Reich.
- ↑ Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: A Biography (2008).
- ↑ Lively, Scott & Abrams, Kevin. The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party, 4th Edition.
- ↑ Weale, Adrian. The SS: A New History (2010).
- ↑ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERsa.htm


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Editorial: Fast-food faculty
Published: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 2:37 p.m.
Colleges and universities have been treating some of their adjunct professors like fast-food workers for years.
It took the story of an adjunct who died sick, alone and penniless to bring national attention to the issue.
A recent column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette told the story of Margaret Mary Vojtko, an adjunct professor who taught French at Duquesne University for 25 years before she died Sept. 1 at the age of 83.
She had worked on a contract basis from semester to semester, made between about $3,000 and $3,500 per course and lacked benefits. Bills for cancer treatment left her unable to afford electricity and sleeping in her campus office in the winter, according to the column.
While Vojtko's story might be extreme, the lack of job security and a living wage for adjuncts is not unique. And with adjunct instructors now accounting for 75 percent of all faculty, according to a federal survey, it's an issue that deserves closer scrutiny.
Adjuncts have long had an important role in academia. They've traditionally included working professionals who teach classes on the side and bring real-world experience to teaching.
As universities dedicate more resources to research and cope with budget cuts, adjunct faculty are handling much of the teaching load. The University of Florida cut full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty by 9.4 percent and increased adjunct and other non-tenure faculty by 9.8 percent over five years of budget cuts, The Sun reported this summer.
Santa Fe College relies so much on adjuncts that it held its first job fair for them in June. That same month, the college's board of trustees approved a cap on the hours of part-time workers and teaching load of adjunct faculty — keeping them under the 30 hours a week at which health insurance coverage is required under the Affordable Care Act.
Some adjunct professors have other full-time jobs. But three quarters of adjuncts responding to a Coalition of the Academic Workforce survey said they'd accept a full-time position, suggesting that universities are now employing many would-be tenure-track faculty in those positions.
While concerns have been raised about the quality of instruction by adjuncts, a recent Northwestern University study found that non-tenure track faculty are actually more effective than their tenured peers. That's a reason to work to improve the teaching of tenured faculty, rather than turning even more to adjuncts.
Adjuncts who teach as a second-job or a way to stay busy during retirement offer a good way to supplement full-time faculty. But at a time when administrators make hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, people who want to teach for a living should have an opportunity to earn a living wage and benefits.
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Eye To Eyebeam: A Conversation With Mark Shepard
Security cameras, RFID scanners, and GPS tracking have become ubiquitous to the point that privacy can be an imagined concept. According to one popular statistic, the average New York City resident is caught on surveillance camera 75 times a day. Eyebeam Fellow Mark Shepard has created the Sentient City Survival Kit, a toolkit of apps, gadgets, and tactics that anticipate and creatively counter-act urban environments that will soon be capable of predicting not only one's location, but possibly actions or even thoughts. The smartphone application Serendipitor, playfully challenges the efficiency of GPS directions by deliberately guiding the user in a circuitous path. As a member of Eyebeam's Urban Research group, Mark aims to explore the use of control technologies - not only security cameras and RFID scanners, but also concrete architecture - as an influence on the psyche of city and civilian. Eyebeam intern Katherine DiPierro interviewed Mark through the not-so-secure medium of email and discussed the implications of security and control technology.
Katherine DiPierro: Recently, you presented at XLab 2011: Design of Location, which was held at Eyebeam this past November. What research and projects did you present?
Mark Shepard: At XLab 2011 I presented two projects related to my research in urban computing and locative media: the Tactical Sound Garden, an open source software platform for cultivating virtual sound gardens in urban public space, and Serendipitor, an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else. Both examine the implications of mobile technologies for urban experience, and address how we locate ourselves within hybrid material and immaterial contexts that constitute the urban experience today.
KD: You began your career as an architect, and the majority of your projects, particularly those related to the "Sentient City," relate to past, present, and future digital architecture. In a recent meeting of Eyebeam's Urban Research group, you mentioned a focus on control technologies, not just near-invisible security cameras and RFID readers, but also very visible road barriers such as the ones around Wall Street. How do you think control technologies, like other forms of architecture, influence every-day life?
MS: Contemporary technologies for the control and management of urban infrastructures influence how we move through the city and the choices we make there in at least two ways. The first is more direct and evident: physical barriers that block access to streets or prevent access to buildings, subway systems and the like. The second is perhaps less obvious and harder to identify. Walter Benjamin has described architecture as an art appropriated collectively in a state of distraction - something that we experience habitually over time, at the periphery of our awareness, throughout the course of our daily lives. This repetitive conditioning - be it the constant rise-to-run ratio of a stairwell or the pacing of swiping a metrocard to gain access to a subway platform - is something that influences us on a deeper level, one where we become attuned to different rhythms and intervals without conscious awareness that it is happening.
KD: The items in the Sentient City Survival Kit, from the smartphone app Serendipitor to the wearable RFID detectors cleverly termed Under(a)ware, subvert the presence or efficiency of mobile and GPS technologies. Given how difficult it has become to live off the proverbial grid, do you think awareness is the next best step?
MS: With the Sentient City Survival Kit, my interest is less to subvert or resist these technologies, but to offer more subtle and nuanced trajectories for their development. To the extent that business interests and government agencies drive technological innovation, we can expect to see new forms of consumption and control emerge. Raising awareness of the transformations taking place around us is a critical step, but I think we need to go further. I'm interested in how artists, designers and technologists might occupy the imaginary of urban systems and infrastructures and redirect their transductive capacities toward entirely different ends.
KD: Many of your past projects (Tactical Sound Garden, Hertzian Rain) allow participants to manipulate broadcast material, either through virtually "planting" sounds or simply directing them. Within the next five to ten years, do you think there will be the same degree of freedom in the kind signal broadcasts individual civilians are allowed to broadcast?
MS: Both projects operate within what is known as the ISM bands of the radio spectrum. ISM bands were originally allocated by the International Telecommunications Union for Industrial, Scientific and Medical devices designed to tolerate interference from other devices broadcasting within the same frequencies. Today technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and cordless phones operate over these frequencies, which do not require a license to use and are largely unregulated. As such ISM bands are "quasi-public" zones within the RF spectrum. As with other aspects of the physical world such as land, water and air, the RF spectrum is a limited resource. Garret Hardin's essay "Tragedy of the Commons" illustrates the dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in her/his own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared resource even when everyone knows this is in no one's long-term interest. So as we become more dependent of wireless communications between networked things, for instance, changes in the way the radio spectrum is allocated may become necessary to maintain the freedoms we enjoy today.
Thanks so much for the interview, Mark! For the latest on Mark Shepard's current and future projects, be sure to visit his Eyebeam profile, personal site, and the official page for the Sentient City Survival Kit.
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Denis Miller Bunker, American, 1861-1890
Oil on canvas, 90 x 121 cm
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Signed lower right: DENIS BUNKER / 1888
Bunker made this picture after returning to Boston from a summer spent in England painting with John Singer Sargent. Sargent and Bunker had been experimenting with Impressionism, and under the influence of Claude Monet, they worked outdoors and used a bright palette applied in broken brushstrokes. Bunker struggled at first and complained to Mrs. Gardner that he had "ruins of numerous works, for I've not been idle," but he continued with the style. Bunker adopted elements of Impressionism in this painting of blooming flowers in the greenhouse at Green Hill, the Gardners' summer residence in Brookline.
Despite the painting's importance as one of the earliest examples of American Impressionism, Mrs. Gardner was not much interested in Impressionist landscapes. In the early 1890s, John Singer Sargent alerted her to the upcoming sale of a famous Monet painting, but she never pursued it. She acquired portraits by Degas and Manet, and in 1906 visited Claude Monet at Giverny, an event she found "perfect in every way." She was aware of contemporary art movements: she lent pictures to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and even served on the organizing committee of the 1913 Armory Show. One must conclude that Bunker's work appealed to her more for its subject and personal associations than for its style.
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RPS mentioned in Brazil's largest newspaper
Seeing RPS in Brazilian mainstream media was a nice surprise. RPS got a very positive mention in Folha de São Paulo, in their weekly tech section.
Link to the article (in Portuguese): http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/tec...de-jogos.shtml
Rough translation by yours truly:
Game Criticism by André Conti
Last month, Nintendo Power magazine published its last edition, after 222 numbers. Since at least 10 years ago, videogame magazines completely lost their importance, but that is still a landmark of sorts. Before the internet, they were the only source of information regarding new releases and rumors, and a treasure trove of tips, tricks and guides. Those of you that remember the good old Ação Games [an extinct Brazilian magazine] know what I'm talking about.
After specialized websites started to cover news with unmatched speed, some magazines placed their bets on longer analyses in order to survive. Because of that, it was still worthwhile to subscribe, for instance, to PC Gamer UK, which dedicated many pages to a single game in their in-depth reviews.
In the end, some niche publications survived (such as the excellent Retro Gamer), but most of the criticism migrated to websites and blogs.
"Criticism" is a way of speaking. What we find is a lot of incoherent opinion, badly disguised press releases and a strong dose of teenage hysteria. No one accepts and reproduces so well a marketing campaign like the big gaming websites, like Gamespot and IGN.
The problem is that game criticism, in the classic sense, is relatively recent (for instance, the great book Extra Lives, by Tom Bissell, is from 2010). There are few criteria, only hordes of gamers with a degree in journalism and plenty of opinions to offer.
The thing is, unlike literary criticism, for instance, game criticism is still a determining factor for a publisher's sales. Blogs and websites created by friends 10 years ago today have huge sway over the market. Only very rarely did this increase in importance mean an increase in quality.
Game reviews became a specialist job, always under a technical veneer. IGN, for instance, until recently rated their games based on average between sound quality, graphics, gameplay, etc.
The fact that games are rated already tells us much about the quality of reviews. To divide them in technical aspects is the same thing as evaluating a movie based on its camera movements and sound engineering, as if there was some scientific knowledge that was better than "lay" analysis, in general terms.
Of course, games aren't movies. The reader must be told not only what the game is about, but also how it is played. Unlike movies, each genre has specific mechanics that will also vary from game to game in the same genre.
Perhaps the website that got the closest to reviews free of the technical stuffiness is Rock Paper Shotgun, a blog that specializes in computer games. RPS' critics treat games like a single thing: graphics, mechanics, formal issues and technological pomp have little interest by themselves and are mentioned only in the context of the gaming experience.
But the perspective isn't that terrible. The indie invasion of recent years has forced reviewers to face games with rudimentary graphics and short duration (one of the great crimes in the cost/benefit mentality). As the scene gets less homogeneous, criticism should improve. Or, at least, stop rating games.


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Texas governor [Rick Perry] is under attack for telling the unpleasant truth. At the GOP debate in Florida on Monday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked presidential contender Rick Perry whether he was changing his tune after other Republicans and pundits slammed him for saying Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme." The Lone Star State chief executive stood his ground: "It has been called a Ponzi scheme by many people long before me."
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3DMark for Android: Performance Previewby Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 4/2/2013 7:00 AM EST
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g00ey - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThe Google Nexus 10 has a considerably higher screen resolution (2560x1600) than the Nexus 4 (768x1280) or the HTC One (1080p). This might explain why the Mali T604 doesn't look so good on these benchmarks. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkIf I understand the article right' resolution doesn't matter. Scenes are drawn at a set res and then scaled to native. The only overhead will be from the scaling. Reply
bearxor - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkUhhh... Yeah.
Someone didn't read the article and instead decided to skim the charts. Reply
theduckofdeath - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThe GPU and processor still has to work harder to actually output the extra pixels, even though the rendering is done at a specific resolution. With a bit of reverse calculations, someone with a bit of extra time should be able to calculate how much of an impact actual output resolution has on a benchmark like this. though, maybe it's not that easy, as different devices with "the same internals" but different resolution displays might have memory with different performance, for instance. Reply
Exophase - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkMobile SoCs often have support hardware for scaling a screen overlay to native resolution. This is often built into the display controller so there's no performance impact even to available memory bandwidth.
No idea if such a thing is actually used here though. Reply
ellis2323 - Friday, May 03, 2013 - linkI'm a gamedev (DX, GL, OGLES...).This a OpenGL ES 2.x scene. Rendering is done on a FBO and your draw it on screen with 2 triangles. So the resolution impacts the memory bandwidth. The hardware scaling (if available) is available for compositing but for Android UI, not applications. Reply
blackmagnum - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkVery interesting. Will people pick their mobile devices only based on performance, or they are more concerned about looks. What is the optimum balance? Reply
xTRICKYxx - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI think everyone wants a fast device; but as we all know, benchmarks don't mean everything. I would prefer the Nexus 10's dual A15 over the quad krait cores. Reply
alexvoda - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkPerformance is not the only important factor.
In addition to performance (CPU & GPU) features are very important (screen resolution, microSD, battery size&removability, radios).
Also basic characteristics (device size) are probably the most important.
And almost forgot, the software.
Add to this the price and performance isn't such a major criteria any more.
For example: I want a device that I can use single handedly so all 1080p 5" devices are way too big for me. As such I prefer a 4.2"-4.3" screen size. I don't really care about 1080p but I really want no less than 720p. I find MicroSD to be a must. I accept built-in batteries but I prefer removable ones.
For my use case no phone available (at the time of purchase - December) is good enough so top performance is not as important since it isn't available. (I watch anime encoded in h264 Hi10P which can not be hardware decoded and must be software decoded. Not even the Exynos A15 Dual and the Snapdragon S4 Pro can handle it. Maybe just the new maybe just the Exynos Octa and Snapdragon 600).
I currently have a Sony Xperia T which was very cheap when I bought it. It kinda satisfies those criteria but not perfectly. At 4.6" it is still too big, and the battery drains very fast.
Right now the ideal device for me would probably be the Xiaomi M2S (http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/03/xiaomi-m2s-with... but I'm not so sure about the software and I doubt I could easily get service in case it breaks. I will probably wait for this years nexus and decide if it is worth sacrificing the microSD slot. Reply
alexvoda - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linklink didn't work because of extra ")".
Xiaomi M2S http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/03/xiaomi-m2s-with... Reply
UpSpin - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkWell written article. You tried to explain each anomalitiy in those charts this time, and give those charts much more descriptive text, much better than the T-Rex article.
And as you said, it's really odd that the same hardware (Nexus 4 vs. Optimus G) on different Android versions scores so differently on this benchmark, so let's hope that all get an update to 4.2 soon or Futuremark fixes this glitch. Reply
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkIt could be something to do with the graphics drivers as well as the Android version. Reply
jonup - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkWell there has to be something on the software level. N4 and OG have virtually the same hardware and 6 months down the road Quadrant still scores completely different on the two devices. We kept hearing that Quadrant is not optimized for 4.2. how long does it take them to fix the app. I am starting to doubt that hypothesis.
p.s. I wonder how high my N4 would score in 3DMark. It is capable of high 23K in Antatu with some extra juice. :banghead I left the phone home. Any speculations? Reply
psychobriggsy - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI guess here we can see a progression of the capability of ARM SoC GPUs over time too. The Mali-400 MP4 was available over two years ago in the Samsung Galaxy S2 for example. Might be interesting to see a graph of this progression over time to get an idea of how fast mobile graphics are improving. Reply
StormyParis - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI just hope that more gaming performance tests will not distract the reviewers from the fact that games, thus graphics performance, are a very minor concern, as opposed to ... everything else.
I'd hate finding myself in the same situation as for PCs, with realms and realms of graphics performance data, at the cost of more relevant stuff (reliability, sound quality, ...) Reply
LetsGo - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkIts going to be very interesting to see how well the IOS machines do in the multithreaded physic tests.
Should shut up many a Apple Fanbois. Reply
Diagrafeas - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkAs far as i can calculate Krait 300 @ 1.7GHz has the same performance in physics as my 8 year old Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @2.2GHz.
It would be interesting to see how it does against NVidia 7800GTX of that era...
I have one sitting around and if i find some time i will try to run a test... Reply
JPForums - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkDo you have some scores you can post?
Given the multithreaded nature of this benchmark, they may be able to pull off an upset due to higher core count. I would love to get confirmation on it. The highend 7800/X1900 series graphics cards would be an excellent point of comparison as well given their console brethren. Perhaps the Anandtech crew would be so kind as to run 3DMark on a 2003, 2006, and 2009 era gaming rig as points of comparison to current SoC technology. The venerable Radeon 9700 Pro is just asking for one more round.
I'm admittedly skeptical, though, given the massive difference between my system's score in ice storm vs the SoCs in the article (we're talking an order of magnitude or more). I'm not entirely convinced ARM SoCs have progressed quite as far as people tend to say. I see benchmarks here and there that are supposed to demonstrate the ARM SoCs prowess relative to the x86 PC realm. Then I see benchmarks that leave the two in different ballparks. I tend to fall back on the fact that the 5 year old Atom architecture is competitive with most SoCs out there (CPU performance), yet was relative trash compared to mainstream x86 processors even when it was released. I can see the progress ARM has made and would love to see them put more pressure on Intel outside of the mobile industry, but I think their single threaded performance holds them back at the moment. Reply
theduckofdeath - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkWell, the score comparison between the Razer Edge and the ARM's shows that it is a bit pointless to compare x86 with a GPU with ARM. The margin of error on the Razer Edge is probably somewhere around the total score on an ARM device. :) Reply
Diagrafeas - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI can tell you the physics score of my Athlon 64 X2 4400+ overclocked @2.5GHz.
It's 12600-13000 and 40-42 fps.
Currently i have a ATI Radeon 4890. By old card 7800GTX is in a box at the basement...
I was thinking about consoles too. Reply
jenesuispasbavard - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkPlease do! I'm curious how today's phones hold up to yesterday's PCs. Especially something about on par with the Playstation 3 GPU. Reply
Diagrafeas - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkOK let me first say that there is something wrong with the drivers because of the GT1 low score.
I think that the GPU is not used. Here it goes.
3DMark Score:6104
Graphics Score: Reply
Diagrafeas - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkOoops accident press...
Graphics Score: 5313
Physics Score: 12763
GT1 Score: 12.7 fps
GT2 Score: 124.5 fps
PT Score: 40.5 fps
The card was overclocked to 486MHz from 432MHz...256MB GDDR3...
So today smartphones have half the power of an 8 year old PC.
4 cores help equal physics score against 2 cores but in general day to day use HALF the power. Reply
arthur449 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThe LG Optimus G you have on hand is either still running ICS or has Eco Mode enabled. The one I have here with Android 4.1.2 pulls the following scores for Ice Storm (Normal) benchies: Graphics Test 1: 52.6 FPS. Graphics Test 2: 49.1 FPS. Physics: 8397 / 26.7 FPS. Ice Storm Score: 10746. Demo: 54.0 FPS.
This lines up much closer to its sister the Nexus 4, which shares the same CPU/GPU. Reply
arthur449 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI suppose I should admit that this this Optimus G (LS-970) is running a trimmed down custom ROM (Imperium Initiative 2.0.1), and the ambient room temperature was 72ºF at the time of testing. I kept the phone in its rather insular Otterbox Commuter for the duration of the test, but it didn't get particularly warm, so I don't suspect any significant throttling occurred.
Extreme Test results (in the same order as above): 30.3 / 23.0 / 8368 / 26.6 / 6413 / 25.8 Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThermal throttling? Keep a can of "air" ready, invert that can and spray on the back. Mhmm.. chilled phone. Reply
xTRICKYxx - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI'm patenting this idea first! Reply
RandomUsername3245 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkAll these new graphics benchmarks are very pretty and provide interesting statistics, but what's the point? Unless you carry around a bluetooth controller with your mobile device, is it possible to play a real 3d game? Most mobile games I see people play use very limited, single finger user interaction which would never allow you to play a serious FPS or driving / flying game. Maybe I'm finally getting too old and mobile gaming has passed me by... Reply
UpSpin - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkCar racing games like Need for speed, Asphalt ..., Real Racing, ... have high quality 3D graphics. You can control the cars with the accelerometer or touchscreen, works fine on a smartphone and makes fun.
There are also many 3D jump and run games which are a joy on a smartphone.
And even simpler 2D looking games can have stunning graphics with lots of lightning and particle effects, more realistic physics and 3D objects.
With Miracast etc. you connect your smartphone to your HD TV and play on it, wireless. No need for a console any longer.
Finally, it shows us that soon your smartphone will be as powerful as your desktop. So you might not need a desktop any longer, just a smartphone which docks, wirelessly, to keyboard, mouse, display, hard drive, ... The margin between smartphone/tablet and laptop/desktop gets smaller and smaller. Reply
pakotlar - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkAs a datapoint:
Note 2 @ 1800mhz CPU / 800mhz GPU, running Clean Rom ACE 4.5 (4.1.2), "AOSP" launcher
Overall: 4391
Physics: 11505
Graphics: ~3770
Graphics Test 1: 12fps
Graphics Test 2: 25fps
Graphics Demo: 25.2fps
So this puts it ~ One X+ overall, and above Adreno 225/S3 AT&T on pixel shader heavy loads Reply
Mugur - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkWell... all I want to say is that I regret that OUYA don't have an Adreno 320 GPU instead of a Tegra 3... :-) Reply
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkWhat's interesting about this benchmark is that it agrees with benchmarks like Basemark's Taiji test or Epic's Unreal Citadel test in that Adreno does a lot better than traditionally given credit for in GLbenchmark.
I'm glad there'll be another tool in the stable to provide a more balanced view of GPUs. Reply
Infy2 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThe fastest physics score is around 11,000 while my Core7-3770K at 3.9GHz (4 cores+HT) scored only 52,000. That can't be right can it? If it is it would mean a mobile CPU at TDP of few watts scores 22% performance of a 77W TDP desktop CPU!
The mobile GPU graphics score seems more plausible at 11,400 to my Radeon 7970 GE's score of 320,000, which makes it some 28 times faster. Reply
thecoldanddarkone - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkOn my surface pro it got 24.5k and used 100 percent of the cpu. On my firstname.lastname@example.com it never reached above 50% thread load. Reply
thecoldanddarkone - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkLook at that I had 55k with hyperthreading and 65k without. Yea... (all 4 cores were pegged) Reply
mwildtech - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThey must have a crappy Droid DNA? Mine scored much higher @ Total score of 8800 in standard Reply
Pentius_5123 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkPretty much the same here, I posted my stats and they seem to be 10 FPS under on everything... Reply
KompuKare - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkCan we have the SOC or better the vendor, corec count, GPU and speeds listed in the graphs please?
Not everyone follows phone / tablet SOCs in so much detail that they can remember which is which; I know it would make the graphs a bit wide - or maybe have the device take up two lines? Reply
Gambit2K - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI got 11502 on the Ice Storm with my Lg Optimus G E975 @ stock settings. Nothing tweaked in anyway oter than it's rooted and the bootloader is unlocked. Android 4.1.2. The scores on the the for the OG seems a bit on the low side. Reply
Pentius_5123 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkGoing to Cross-Post my stats from a similar Cnet article to provide a bit of insight to the HTC DNA (Internationally, Butterfly 'American Version')
Ice Storm Score: 8768
Graphics Score: 10262
Physics Score: 5809
Graphics Test1: 46.1 FPS
Graphics Test 2: 43.2 FPS
Physics Test: 18.4 FPS
Demo: 49.8 FPS
OS Version: 4.1.1
1.5GHz Quad Core Krait
Adreno 320 GPU
2GB Ram Reply
Pentius_5123 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkMy phone is stock, I got it Saturday, so no junk running in the background, I'll have to get some averaged scores. Reply
XenIneX - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkHTC Droid DNA
Purchased 3/26/2013
Stock firmware (ver. 2.04.605.2 710RD); unrooted
Ambient temp.: 68F
Ice Storm score: 10341
Graphics score: 10558
Physics score: 9646
Graphics test 1: 46.5 FPS
Graphics test 2: 45.4 FPS
Physics test: 30.6 FPS
Demo: 49.7 FPS
Ice Storm score: 5609
Graphics score: 5490
Physics score: 6069
Graphics test 1: 28.1 FPS
Graphics test 2: 20.8 FPS
Physics test: 19.3 FPS
Demo: 23.4 FPS Reply
Pentius_5123 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkJeeze, 2k points, I must be doing something wrong, lol. Reply
XenIneX - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI think the physics test is prone to significant thermal throttling. If I really heat it up, I can drive that score down by about a third. Also, there may be something odd occurring with device orientation; it seems to post lower physics scores when it's in landscape than in portrait. Reply
Pentius_5123 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkThermal throttling, but it isn't too toasty here in the office, and the portrait Vs Landscape makes sense. Reply
ChronoReverse - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI got it to run on my HTC One X (ATT version) on stock clocks. But the score results seem really different from the GS3 (ATT) results:
Ice Storm: 5874
Graphics: 5911
Physics: 5750
Physics: 18.3
Demo: 28.5
Ice Storm Extreme: 3358
Graphics: 2999
Physics: 5779
Physics: 18.3
Demo: 13 Reply
JMC2000 - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkI wanted to run this in my 7" Galaxy Tab 2, but the Play Store says it's incompatible, though, oddly enough, I can install it on my T-Mobile Galaxy Exhibit, which I think has a MSM8255/Adreno 205... Reply
SetiroN - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkIt's pretty obvious that Android 4.2.2 includes the latest blobs from Qualcomm, that HTC built into their version of 4.1.2. It's not really an OS version related difference, although 4.2 for the DNA/Optimus G will incidentally include the new blobs as well. Reply
Rontalk - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkHow is Tegra 4 vs. Galaxy S4 vs. Iphone 5? Reply
kascollet - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkIt's not available yet ! Reply
mitcoes - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkI miss a ·3dmark test for Ubuntu phone and even Ubuntu desktop. With Steam for GNU/Linux it would be great to have benchmarks even at the same machines with Ubuntu vs MS WOS 32 and 64 bits and Android vs Ubuntu phone. Benchmarking not only devices but OSs and drivers. Reply
Arbie - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkOK OK... but will they run Crysis? Reply
slatanek - Friday, April 05, 2013 - linkHappy to see my HTC One SV going head-to-head with the One X!
I wonder whats the reason for that? Is Tegra 3 such a weak performer overall or is there anything specific about these benchmarks which makes it underperform? Or is Qualcomms 8960 such an efficient chip? Reply
yvanize - Monday, April 08, 2013 - linkI scored 11646 with my optimus g E973! Reply
DrChemist - Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - linkMost remarkable thing is still the fact that the integrated intel HD4000 beats everyone of these hands down by huge margins. I await when they at least place the Gen7s to the intel atom mobile devices and decimate the competition. They just need to speed up the timeline for getting it out. Reply
kennet2000 - Sunday, October 27, 2013 - linkGreat article.
Of course the scale up will matter, the devices with higher will have a disadvantage.
The upscaling program probably requires 1-2 cycles for each pixel on the screen. So your GPU will spend time doing the upscale as well running the benchmark.
The devices with higher resolutions has more pixels that needs to be upscaled, they will therefor spend more cycles on upscaling than the devices with lower resolutions. These cycles could be used for the benchmark but instead they are used for upscaling.
On a big PC GPU this is probably neglectable since they have so much processing power.
But remember that a mobile GPU often only have a few cores with a few execution units in them.
So maybe this could make a difference.
However it would probably not change the results that much but maybe a few percents. Reply


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To break in my new Weber Silver Genesis, my wife and I decided to go all the way. . . .for lunch!
We tried a couple of porter house steaks using Steve's Bistecca alla Fiorentina. Simply superb! Unfortunately we did not have oak to cook with, but the combination of fine cold-pressed olive oil with fresh herbs and spices just put us over the edge! I can't imagine what the oak would do for the taste.
Can't keep the propane tank filled!
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Discussion in 'Off-topic Zone' started by kristie, Sep 12, 2012.
Dez was at the bottom tonight after that I have no clue because they did a great job tonight
I agree and I think Cody should be the other cut....he's a cruise ship singer
same here. i hated his version of "somebody to love".
Cassadee is #5 and Melanie is #7
That means they get 10 Votes per download.
So we will see what happens tonight
Down goes team xtina down goes team xtina
While my favorite 5 made it to the next round so next week at least one will go home.
And Cody went home too! America got it right!
The last 6 are real good and it is going to be crazy
At one point I thought Trevin was going to win but he has been towards the bottom the last few weeks I am not sure he makes it in the top 4
Pope has went from borderline to the favorite to win at this point in my eyes due to fan voting trends so far. Her and Melanie have the most itunes songs the last two weeks which is a clear advantage for both them.
Anyways I hope the top 6 bring it next week and make it hard on us fans.
Ok Terry Killed it tonight he had the best two performances in my eyes
I thought Pope was mediocre tonight but the fans seem to like her a lot. She was better last week.
Melanie was good and one of my Favorites. I think she needs to do Suzie and the Banshee Peek Boo
Trevin did a great job on the Kate Hudson song
Nick was good and I Liked his under the Rainbow we need to hear him do a ZZ Top song if he makes it to the next round
That is me
my favorites from tonight:
I don't know where to start. First off, Melanie is prob my favorite besides Nick and Cassadee. I think Adam hurt Melanie on that last song, was a bad choice. Aguilera actually had a good suggestion, Fiona Apple for her.
Those who I think are safe for sure--Nick, Cassadee, Amanda and Trevin (thanks to that last song).
That leaves Terry and Melanie as the odd ones out IMO. Terry is a great singer, but is he a solo act? I think he needs a band.
I love Mel's dark and raspy voice but I think that 2nd song is going to be her downfall and blame is on Adam.
It really is a shame two have to go this week, it should go down from 6 to 5, not 6 to 4 when they are this close and talented.
Unfortunately, Melanie and Terry will go home, but hopefully Trevin is in one of their spots.
In the apple top downloads which the #'s suggest who tends to win by the most downloads.
Terry is #2
Pope #4
Nick #5
Pope #7
Trevin #13
Melanie #14
Melanine #18
Amanda #23
Terry # 30
Amanda #31
Nick #40
That is from last night and the downloads are a huge bonus and I am guessing the total of each song counts.
The download #'s are suggesting Trevin & Amanda are going home.
That Pope is probably going to win in the end with Melanie and Nick fighting for 2nd and third
Terry may have saved him self for another week with his best performances but yes he should be in a rock band .
So there you have it the itunes prediction
Terry is clearly the best out of this bunch IMO.
Pope is good, but not my cup of tea.
Trevin's voice was one of my favorites a few weeks ago, now it's played out. I think he needs to go ASAP.
Brown is a hell of a singer.
Nick is good...but I can't see him winning.
I think Melanie had her worst night last night....I like her style, but I'd send her home after last night's performance.
Terry is the only one on the show that has been rock solid from day one. He deserves it IMO.
I know if a contestant gets their song in the top 10 of iTunes then they get 10x the votes and as of right now at 10:42 am Terry, Cassadee, Nicholas, and Trevin who is now #9 would all get 10x the votes. Not sure when the cutoff is though?
If I am voting Cassadee and Melanie go home.
I don't get the love for Cassadee, she is an Avril Lavigne clone.
That last song for Melanie was awful...creepy Sesame street.
And Celo did Trevin no favors with Walking on Sunshine...really?
Terry and Amanda killed it last night.
Nick was solid as always.
Cutoff was 10pm et I think was going by the numbers at the time
The change in song downloads since I posted going to make it interesting
Amanda Looks to be out for sure with Trevin moving up in the top 9 and Melanie having two songs at 12 & 17.
The top 3 are for sure Terry, Nick & Pope. Trevin & Melanie are going to be tight now since he moved to the top 9 with his one song the other is not even register in the top 100.
I am no longer sure on the 4th spot it is up for Grabs between Trevin and Melanie
Yeah the major love for Cassadee is somewhat puzzling. I agree on the first song for Trevin :bang2:
Yeah I agree that the 4th spot will be close between Trevin and Melanie. Trevin's other song "Walking On Sunshine" is actually #56
Thanks I missed it some how


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