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How Louisiana prepares teachers for the classroom got a C letter grade Wednesday in a national report, the same rating as last year.
The national average is D-plus, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality, a group in Washington D.C. that calls itself a nonpartisan research organization.
The state was criticized for what the report called:
- Lax admission rules to enter teacher training programs.
- Inadequate preparation for elementary school teachers to give instruction in more rigorous courses starting in 2014.
- Student teaching programs that fail to ensure a quality experience.
On the plus side, the report cited Louisiana as one of just two states that has top-flight ways of rating teacher preparation programs.
The report said that no state earned a grade higher than a B-minus.
Texas got a C-plus and Arkansas and Mississippi each got a C.
The study did not focus on teacher evaluations, which the state is starting to overhaul in the current school year.
"With so much attention on the issue of teacher effectiveness, the relative lack of attention to how candidates for teaching are prepared for the job in the first place is puzzling," NCTQ president Kate Walsh said in a prepared statement that accompanied the study.
State Superintendent of Education John White said teacher preparation is a shared responsibility, with varying roles for the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state Board of Regents.
"I think that BESE and the Board of Regents and the higher education systems have made progress, but have a ways to go and would be well advised to revisit the way that we prepare our teachers," White said.
Under current rules, undergraduate teacher candidates who apply for teacher training programs have to pass a skills test called Praxis and achieve a minimum score that is compared with other future teachers.
The report said the state should instead require prospective teachers to pass a common test and finish in the 50th percentile of all students.
In another area, the review said the state has failed to ensure that upcoming elementary school teachers will be prepared for increasingly rigorous courses, which start next year.
The new standards, which educators call common core, have been adopted by nearly every state in a bid to give students more depth on key subjects, and help make students more competitive with their peers worldwide.
"The state does not require a subject matter test that reports subscores in all areas, and its coursework requirements lack the specificity to guarantee relevancy to the elementary classroom," according to the report.
On student teaching, the state requires at least 270 hours, including 180 hours of actual teaching.
State officials should require at least 10 weeks of student teaching, the review says.
"Student teaching should be a full-time commitment, as requiring coursework and student teaching simultaneously does a disservice to both," authors of the report wrote.
The study also said the state needs to strengthen academic admission rules and other areas for teachers who enter the field through alternative certification, which is a growing route to the classroom.


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Every year at the county fair there are a ton of entries in the exhibit hall, from crafts, to produce, to photography, paintings, and drawings.
There is a whole section of the exhibit hall dedicated to 4-H with tons of great entries. Judges from the surrounding area come to review the entries and give ribbons based on quality, as well as a grand champion for each class.
Aquaculture will be the theme for the July Third Thursday Thing. Held at the KSU Mills Lane farm just south of Frankfort, beginning at 10 a.m. this Thursday, the 17th, participants will be able to learn about many different aspects and enterprises relating to fish production.
Topics will include Catfish production, Marketing all Aquaculture Products, Largemouth Bass Production, Aquaponics, Pondside Water Quality Testing Demonstration, Koi and Koi/Goldfish Hybrids, and Pond Weed Control and Disease Management.
7th Annual Biggest Loser to Begin July 20-21
Be getting your teams together for the Biggest Loser Contest which will be running from July 20th through September 22.
Teams should be at least three people and there is a $20 entry fee per person which will be payable at the initial weigh-in and $5 weight management fees for not showing up for a weigh in or for gaining weight.
If you didn't take the opportunity to see the exhibits at the Henry County Fair Exhibit Hall, there were hundreds of top quality arts, crafts, home baked goodies and produce entered by over 100 different individuals.
If you did miss the Fair be sure to plan to attend the Henry County Harvest Showcase scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, at the Henry County Fairgrounds.
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Not surprisingly, the hot dry conditions we have been experiencing across the Corn Belt have many farmers and the grain industry concerned about aflatoxin, a potent mycotoxin that is produced by the fungal pathogen, Aspergillus flavus, which causes Aspergillus ear rot.
This article will briefly summarize the biology of Aspergillus ear rot, aflatoxin production and management recommendations for the next few weeks of this growing season.
How do I recognize Aspergillus ear rot?
Aspergillus ear rot is an olive-green powdery mold (Figure 1), not to be confused with Penecillium ear rot, a powdery denim-blue mold. Higher aflatoxin levels are associated with discolored, shriveled kernels that are often found near the tip of the ear.
What conditions favor infection of corn by A. flavus?
Infection of corn by A. flavus and consequent disease development is favored by hot (>86F) dry conditions at pollination and during grain fill. Yellow brown silks are most susceptible to infection. Spores landing on the silks germinate, rapidly grow down the silk and colonize the surface of the developing kernels. Around physiological maturity, when moisture content (MC) drops to around 32 percent, the fungus starts to colonize the internal tissues of the kernels, and it continues to grow until MC is around 15 percent.
What conditions favor aflatoxin production?
Aflatoxin is a secondary metabolite that is produced by A. flavus under certain conditions. Drought and high temperatures (80 to 105F) during grain fill are the most common factors associated with pre-harvest aflatoxin production. Warm nights (>70F) may can also increase risk of aflatoxin contamination.
Toxin production depends on kernel moisture and temperature. As kernel moisture decreases, aflatoxin production increases. Toxin production is highest at 20 to 18 percent kernel moisture and stops at around 15 percent moisture. Aflatoxin production occurs between 52 and 104F with the optimum temperature range being 77 to 95F.
Can I determine if my corn is at risk for aflatoxin?
Because aflatoxins are associated with Aspergillus ear rot, farmers can scout for the ear rot. From dent through to harvest, several (five to 10) locations in a field should be assessed. Target areas of the field with plants that appear most stressed. At each location, peel back the husks of 10 ears and inspect them for olive-green powdery mold (Figure 1) that is characteristic of the ear rot. If greater than 10 percent of the ears show signs of Aspergillus ear rot, schedule the field for an early harvest.
Harvesting fields with Aspergillus ear rot
Notify your insurance adjuster immediately if you have fields with Aspergillus ear rot. Infested fields need to be inspected before harvest or strips left in the field for a claim to be made.
Harvest grain at approximately 20 to 25 percent moisture. Adjust combine settings to ensure minimal damage to the grain. Damaged grain is at risk to infection by A. flavus in storage.
Cool and dry grain to 16 percent moisture or less immediately. One study showed that if corn grain at 21 percent MC was put in bin at 86F and cooled with air immediately, little fungal growth was detected and no aflatoxin was produced. If cooling was delayed 20 to 40 h, the fungus grew and aflatoxin was detected.
Thanks to Tom Isakeit at Texas A & M for reviewing an earlier draft of this article and sharing his experiences with aflatoxin.


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Ulcerative colitis can be classified as mild, moderate, severe, or fulminant (very severe), which may
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Flare-ups can be so severe that they require hospitalization.
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Our brothers must note that those who deny the invalidity of Darwinism are people with a very low level of culture; they are very ill-informed people. They have a courage that comes from ignorance. Theirs is not a movement that well-mannered, well-informed and high-class people could engage in. You need ignorance for that, by which I mean limited information, a lack of knowledge and background. There is this thing known as the courage of the ignorant. They speak as if they actually knew something. They have no knowledge concerning Darwinism, and no general culture. They know nothing about molecular biology. They have received a narrow and one-sided education. Darwinist propaganda goes on in books in primary, middle and high schools. Everything they have learned comes from that, but those books are totally one-sided. Middle and high school and university biology text books are biased; they directly talk about Darwinism yet there is no reply from the other side. But since these people are educated in a biased way, they think, "We must do whatever it takes to preserve this."
They are very, very ignorant, and hugely lacking in background. They just look to people like Deniz Gezmiş and Mahir Çayan of old. They want to dress like them. They wear those parka jackets, as if they were ready to go off to the mountains and become terrorists at any moment, as if they were popular heroes liberating the people, heroes from the old legends.
Lack of culture and knowledge is a huge deficiency, a huge problem. That is what lies behind aggression and insulting talk. They never think of the consequences. That is very wrong. There are people who help and support the killers of the Alleged Terror Organization Ergenekon and the PKK and their actions out of ignorance, not really understanding why. They are making a terrible mistake.
The PKK wishes to take Turkey over in cultural terms. That is why the PKK needs Darwinism and materialism because one cannot be a communist without being a Darwinist and materialist. One first has to be a Darwinist and materialist, then one can be a communist and a Stalinist on top of that. But the PKK has literally gone crazy because we have demolished its ideology. That is why they are engaging in activities along those lines.
If people are patriots, they must not become tools of the PKK and the Alleged Terror Organization Ergenekon. They must research and reflect before acting. They would never do this knowingly, but they are obviously doing it unknowingly, and that is very ugly and wrong. (Adnan Oktar, January 2nd, 2013, A9 TV)2013-03-16 21:20:36


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Cycling is healthy
Cycling regularly gives you a level of fitness equivalent to being 10 years younger [1] and a life expectancy 2 years above the average. In terms of life-years gained and lost, the Government acknowledges that the health benefits of cycling far outweigh any risks involved – by a factor of 20:1 according to one estimate, and even higher according to a recent study from Spain [2].
Tens of thousands of people die annually from diseases attributed to physical inactivity [3], whereas only a relatively small number die in crashes on bicycles each year.
Cycling is also a very popular form of exercise, ranking only behind swimming and athletics in popularity. Furthermore, when asked which activity people wish to do more of, cycling is second only to swimming.
Cycling is safer in places where cycling levels are higher
Evidence from Britain and elsewhere [4] shows that cyclists really do benefit from 'safety in numbers [5]'. A doubling in cycle use was found to be associated with only a
By contrast, helmet wearing rates are, if anything, inversely related to cyclists' safety. In countries where cycle use is highest - such as the Netherlands and Denmark - cycle helmet use tends to be much lower than in countries with a higher risk of cycling, such as Britain and the US.
Imposing helmet-wearing stops people cycling
International evidence also shows that making cyclists wear helmets leads to reduced cycle use - particularly among teenagers - thereby undermining efforts to maximise its health and other benefits.
Following laws implemented and enforced in Australia in the early 1990s, cycle levels fell by over a third [6].


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) --The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is raising its scrutiny on overdraft fees on consumer checking accounts, a major source of fee income for banks. In a report released Tuesday, the CFPB highlighted the varying differences in the overdraft practices across banks and raised concerns about the ability of consumers to anticipate and avoid overdraft costs. In 2010, a new rule went into effect that prohibited banks from charging an overdraft fee for ATM withdrawals and debit-card transactions unless consumers "opt-in" for the service. The rule was meant to prevent consumers from automatically being charged an overdraft fee whenever a customer makes a payment or withdrawal with insufficient funds in his or her account. However, consumers continue to struggle with complicated fee structures levied by banks, according to the CFPB's findings. The report found that customers who opted-in for the service were more vulnerable to increased costs and involuntary account closures. For instance, the study looked at consumers who had been heavy overdraft users before the 2010 federal opt-in regulation took effect and found that they saved, on average, $450 during the first half of 2010 by choosing not to opt in for overdraft coverage. The CFPB report found that involuntary closure rates at some banks in the study were more than 2.5 times higher for accountholders who had opted in to debit and ATM overdraft coverage. Banks continue to have very different policies and procedures on how overdraft fees are charged. Some for example limit the number of overdraft charges per day, while others allow as many as 12 overdraft fee charges a day. Some do not charge a fee if the transaction is below $5, while others charge a fee for every transaction. Banks also vary in how they process transactions which also has an influence on the way fees are charged. Some banks debit transactions at periodic intervals while others do it at nightly batches. In some cases, banks process large transactions first. Depending on how the transactions are processed, a consumer can be hit with one fee or a series of fees, which he has no control over.


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I LOVE LUCY: LIVE ON STAGE Adds Two Weeks to Chicago Run
Broadway In Chicago has announced that I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE, the brand new hit musical stage show adapted from the longest-running and most beloved television program in history, starring Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel: America's favorite foursome, is extending two weeks by popular demand at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 East Chestnut St.). Tickets for performances through March 17, 2013 are on-sale now.
The Chicago Tribune says I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE is "A big variety show for your money! A risk-free evening of music & familiar comedy!" The Chicago Sun-Times exclaims the show is "A sweet 95-minute musical comedy! Those nostalgic for 1950s America will have their internal time clocks rewound!"
Imagine stepping back in time and into the Desilu Playhouse soundstage! It's 1952 and you are a member of the studio audience awaiting the filming of two hilarious and oh so familiar "I Love Lucy" episodes. A charming host entertains and enlightens you to the behind-the-scenes filming process, the 1950's hi-fidelity technology, and this brand new thing called 'television'. The episodes begin and you witness, firsthand, the side-splitting antics of that crazy redhead in the Ricardo's New York apartment and thrill to the Cuban sounds of "The Ricky Ricardo Orchestra" at the famed Tropicana Nightclub. In between scenes? The Crystaltone Singers perform live advertising jingles of the show's newest sponsors in perfect 50s style harmony. Can you say 'Brylcreem'?!
The iconic television hit sitcom "I Love Lucy" was most recently honored in September 2012 as the "Best TV Show Of All Time" and the "Greatest TV Comedy" by People Magazine and ABC's "20/20" special "Best in TV: The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time." I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE is produced under license from CBS Consumer Products.
The Chicago cast will continue to star BroadwayWorld Chicago Award Winner (Best Actress in a Touring Production) Sirena Irwin (SpongebobSquarepants; San Francisco's Love's Labours Lost) and BroadwayWorld Award Winner Bill Mendieta (Smash; The Hunchback of Notre Dame) as the infamous Ricardo couple. Local Chicagoans Curtis Pettyjohn (Chicago production of Shear Madness; My Fair Lady) and JoAnna Daniels (LADCC's Becky's New Car) continue to star as neighbors Fred and Ethel Mertz.
Ashley Braxton (Pinkalicious: The Musical), Lauren Creel (Romeo and Juliet), Joe Dempsey (44 Play for 44 Presidents), Jeff Diebold (Mamma Mia!), Gregory Franklin (Divorce! The Musical), Karl Hamilton (The Three Musketeers), George Keating (Off-Broadway's Schoolhouse Rock Live!), Peter Kevoian (TATC's Little Shop of Horrors), Ed Kross (Animal Crackers at The Goodman Theatre), Debbie Laumand-Blanc (Drury Theatre's Oklahoma), Doug Pawlik (Eastland: A New Musical at Lookingglass Theatre Company), Rebecca Prescott (Dr. Seuss'How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical National Tour), Sara Sevigny (Assassins), Holly Stauder (Annie at Paramount Theatre), Richard Strimer (West Side Story) and FrEd Zimmerman (Show Boat) complete the cast.
I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE is produced by Stephen Kahn (Executive Producer), David George (Executive Producer) and Hyra George (Producer), Kim Flagg (Co-Adaptor/Producer), Allan Williams (Executive Producer), Dede Harris (Producer), Sharon Karmazin (Producer), and David Carpenter (Associate Producer).Staged, directed and co-adapted for the stage by Rick Sparks, the creative team also includes Aaron Henderson (Set Designer), Wayne Moore (Musical Supervision, Arrangements and Special Lyrics), Peitor Angell (Original Music Composer), Noah Mitz (Lighting Designer), Shon LeBlanc (Costume Designer), Cricket S. Myers (Sound Designer), Diane Martinous (Hair /Wig Designer), and Alan Bukowiecki (Music Director).


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Cano comes alive in Classic after playoff woes
SAN FRANCISCO -- No hitter in the World Baseball Classic has been hotter than Dominican Republic superstar Robinson Cano, who carried a .519 batting average and slugging percentage of .889 into Monday night's Championship Round semifinal against the Netherlands at AT&T Park.
A victory would create an all-Caribbean final on Tuesday night matching the Dominican Republic against Puerto Rico, which eliminated two-time defending champion Japan on Sunday night.
Cano, who struggled mightily with the bat as the Bronx Bombers were swept by the Tigers in the American League Championship Series after subduing the Orioles in the AL Division Series, doesn't necessarily believe the freedom and camaraderie he feels with his countrymen from the Dominican Republic is a major factor in his offensive eruption five months later.
"I play the same way here or with the Yankees," Cano said. "I would say that's how you play Caribbean baseball. You go out and celebrate. That's how we play back home. I won't say I feel more relaxed. I feel the same in New York. The difference is it's a longer season in New York."
Cano would agree with Yankees faithful that it wasn't quite long enough in 2012.
While the Yankees had time to turn it around against the Tigers but were unable to generate enough offense, the Dominican athletes were facing a win-or-go-back-to-Spring Training situation against the Dutch. Nobody had to remind Cano and his teammates that it was the Netherlands that knocked the Dominican Republic out of the 2009 Classic in a stunning upset.
"We're not looking for revenge," Cano said. "We realize that to get to the final we have to win. We don't know about being the favorite. If we make it [to the title game], both teams are great teams. We are here because we've both got talent.
"So we've got to go out there and perform. You don't win on paper. You have to go out there and give it everything you've got and do the job, the little things, to win the game."
Tony Pena, the Dominican Republic manager, has seen Cano grow as a leader during the Classic. In New York, those roles have been assumed by accomplished veterans Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Mariano Rivera as Cano has matured into one of the game's premier players.
"I haven't thought about that," Cano said, "but I was trying to be the same guy. If there's a guy that I can help, I'll always be there. If I can say anything to help the team, I'm always going to be there. [In New York] you've got Jeter, A-Rod, Mariano. All those guys have been there before. What I'm trying to do right now is just go be with the team, be there for them and take the good and the bad.
"I would say one day [in New York] my time is going to come."
Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Feast of St. Patrick, marked annually on March 17, is both a cultural and religious holiday honoring the patron saint of Ireland. Remember, he banished the snakes?
For one day a year, it seems anyone with a drop of Irish blood, and many with no hereditary claim, celebrate the contributions of the Irish to American culture.
But it's not all green beer, corned beef and cabbage.
My claim of Irish blood comes via my maternal grandmother, the daughter of a mixed marriage between an Englishman and an O'Byrne, which makes me 1/16th blessed with blarney.
That may be where I got my taste for Guinness, said to be the national drink of the Emerald Isle. More likely, it's due to the several weeks I spent touring Ireland with my mother, brother and sister the year I turned 18.
Would you believe I've never once tasted green beer?
As you probably learned in school, many Irish emigrated to the United States in the wake of the great famine of the mid-1800s, when a fungus decimated potato crops. In the five-year catastrophe, a million Irish died of starvation and 500,000 arrived in America, according to a history of Irish heritage by the Library of Congress.
My mother and her parents -- culturally more English than Irish -- were immigrants from southeast England after World War II, when their tiny island was a wreck and this country began to boom.
According to the Library of Congress history, the migration of Irish to America started in colonial times, but began growing around 1820 -- about the same time Ohio was being settled -- and continued until an estimated 4.5 million had arrived by 1930.
During that time, the population of Ireland went from more than 8 million in 1841 to 4.7 million in 1891.
I find it kind of chilling, knowing the often violent history of Irish settlement in the United States, to hear some of the anti-immigrant comments in our current political debate. It seems the fear of immigrants is as American as apple pie.
According to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, established in Pennsylvania in the 1830s, prejudice against Irish Catholics ranged from the annual March 17 "Pope Day" burning of straw effigies of St. Patrick during the late 1700s, to outright violence: A mob razed St. Mary's Church in New York in 1831; a convent in Massachusetts was burned in 1834.
The 2002 motion picture "Gangs of New York" depicts riots pitting "native" Americans against Irish immigrants in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City.
One of the most successful anti-immigrant movements gained power during the 1850s. The so-called American Party came to be known as the "Know Nothings," as members would claim to "know nothing" about the organization's activities.
A document at the Library of Congress outlines an "obligation" assumed by prospective members, who would "pledge to elect only native-born citizens to office, to the exclusion of all foreigners and Roman Catholics," according to a library summary. The "obligation" was reminiscent of the late 1700s, when Irishmen seeking public office were forced to take an oath renouncing the Pope's authority.
The American Party was powerful: It nominated Millard Filmore for president in 1856. Vice President Filmore had served the remainder of Zachary Taylor's term as 13th president after Taylor died and was seeking election to a second, non-consecutive term. He lost to President James Buchanan, but earned 21 percent of the popular vote.
Fortunately, the Know Nothings faded into history, while the Irish continued to contribute.
As workers on the great canals that opened the Midwest, as miners in Appalachia and workers in the North's great industries, as American soldiers on battlefields across the globe and in innumerable occupations and professions, the Irish have had as much a part of building the United States as any other group of people.
In recognition of their contributions, the month of March is traditionally proclaimed "Irish-American Heritage Month," by U.S. presidents.
Here's an excerpt from President Barack Obama's Feb. 28 proclamation:
"Irish Americans have defended our country through times of war, strengthened communities from coast to coast, and poured sweat and blood into building our infrastructure and raising our skyscrapers.
"Some endured hunger, hardship, and prejudice; many rose to be leaders of government, industry, or culture. Their journey is a testament to the resilience of the Irish character, a people who never stopped dreaming of a brighter future and never stopped striving to make that dream a reality."
As the saying goes: There are only two kinds of people in the world -- the Irish and those who wish they were.
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Placed in the heart od the medina, on a quiet street, our hotel is an old building that was rebuilt, renew and transformed into a lovely Riad offering 6 rooms and 3 suites. All super cossy decorated in local traditional style
During your stay in Essaouira Morocco, our team will guide you in the organisation of all kind of activities in the area, kitesurfing, windsurfing, horse riding, camel riding, shopping, etc...
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Just a silly pie chart I created for "Designing conference posters" to argue that graphs with illustrations can help viewers absorb results a bit faster than those with just labels and legends. (Please note that although the graphic is a tad silly, the data are real: less than 10% of Americans accept that humans evolved without supernatural help.)
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Forbes.com claimed Palin "oppos[es]" earmarks -- but her administration said it requested them this year
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Forbes.com's Brian Wingfield asserted that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "shares [Sen. John] McCain's opposition to earmarks." However, in a Juneau Empire op-ed, John Katz -- Alaska's director of state-federal relations and special counsel to Palin -- wrote that in 2008, the Palin administration "request[ed] 31 earmarks, down from 54 last year."
In an August 29 article, Forbes.com Washington bureau chief Brian Wingfield asserted that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "shares [Sen. John] McCain's opposition to earmarks." However, in a March 18 Juneau Empire op-ed, John Katz -- Alaska's director of state-federal relations and special counsel to Palin -- wrote that in 2008, the Palin administration "request[ed] 31 earmarks, down from 54 last year."
From Katz's op-ed, which was highlighted by Bradford Plumer in an August 29 blog post on The New Republic's The Plank:
In my opinion, earmarks are not bad in themselves. In fact, they represent a legitimate exercise of Congress' constitutional power to amend the budget proposed by the president.
Recognizing there have been instances of earmark abuse, Congress has instituted reforms to bring greater transparency and accountability to the process. These include the identification of each earmark's sponsor and a prohibition against earmarks inserted into the budget without public discussion.
Recently, members of the Alaska congressional delegation announced they would post on their Web sites the earmark requests it receives. Gov. Sarah Palin has applauded this decision.
Earlier this year, President Bush and the congressional leadership announced that the total number and dollar amount of earmarks must be reduced significantly.
The Palin administration has responded to this message by requesting 31 earmarks, down from 54 last year. Of these, 27 involve continuing or previous appropriations and four are new. The total dollar amount of these requests has been reduced from about $550 million in the previous year to just less than $200 million.
Further, the governor has insisted that each Alaska request must demonstrate an important federal purpose and strong public support.
We also have heard that, wherever possible, a state or local match should be provided. The state's budget requests incorporate this principle.
So, it is important to note there is no longer a "free lunch" at the federal level. Most federal requests have state or local budget consequences as well.
The governor is very much aware of the importance of the federal budget to virtually every Alaskan. In responding to the new realities, we are not abandoning earmarks altogether but are seeking to constrain and document them in the ways discussed here.
Wingfield also wrote that Palin "oppos[ed] the infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere.' " However, Media Matters for America has noted that while Palin canceled the project for a proposed bridge between Ketchikan, Alaska, and Gravina Island in September 2007, Palin reportedly supported it during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and suggested that Alaska's congressional delegation should continue to try to procure funding -- which was authorized by the federal government in 2005, but never appropriated -- for the project.
From Wingfield's August 29 Forbes.com article:
Palin also shares McCain's opposition to earmarks, opposing the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," a pet project of two titans of Alaska politics, Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens.
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Election candidates have hit out after a campaign banner was stolen and a sign on private land knocked down.
Police are asking anyone with information on the missing banner in Menston to come forward. Bradford Council electoral officers have been informed.
Wharfedale ward Independent candidate Steve Ellams put up the campaign banner on private land in Bradford Road on Saturday morning but says it was missing by noon.
Dr Ellams said: "I am standing as an independent councillor who is a resident of Menston fighting local issues and whoever has stolen this banner certainly has not got the welfare of our community or democracy at heart."
And Ilkley UKIP candidate Paul Latham raised concerns after an 8ft by 4ft campaign sign on farmland near the A65 in Addingham was knocked down.
He told police of the incident and asked for officers to keep an eye out for further incidents while patrolling the area.
Mr Latham said such behaviour did not reflect well on democracy.
He said: "I do hope that some sense prevails."
Keighley area Inspector Sue Sanderson said: "We can confirm that we have received a report of an election banner being stolen from Bradford Road, Menston, between 9am and 12pm on Saturday, May 10.
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H1N1 Swine Flu No Worse Than Seasonal Flu
Study Shows H1N1 Swine Flu Symptoms, Risk of Serious Illness No Worse Than Seasonal Flu
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Sept. 7, 2010 -- In adults and children over age 6 months, the H1N1 swine flu was no more severe -- and posed no greater risk of serious disease -- than recent seasonal flu bugs.
The findings come from Edward A. Belongia, MD, and colleagues at Wisconsin's Marshfield Clinic, who have been tracking flu cases since 2007.
Because nearly everyone in the surrounding community gets their health care through Marshfield Clinic -- and because Belongia's team has been carefully testing everyone who comes in with flu symptoms -- the researchers have an extraordinarily detailed record of how flu behaves each year.
When the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic swept through their community, Belongia and colleagues kept on collecting data. This allowed them to compare the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic to the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 flu seasons.
The researchers identified 545 people who had the 2009 H1N1 swine flu, 221 people who had a different seasonal H1N1 flu bug during the 2008-2009 season, and 632 people who had the H3N2 flu during the 2007-2008 season.
Belongia and colleagues find that H1N1 swine flu wasn't unusually bad:
And people who got the H1N1 swine flu didn't feel any worse than people who got seasonal flu. When patients ranked the severity of their flu symptoms, those who had the H1N1 swine flu reported less severe illness than those who had either of the recent seasonal flu bugs.
None of the Belongia findings apply to children under age 6 months. That's because their study originally was designed to measure the effectiveness of seasonal flu vaccine, and kids under 6 months are too young to get this vaccine.
"We found that children were disproportionately affected by 2009 H1N1 [swine flu] infection, but the perceived severity of symptoms and risk of serious outcomes ... were not increased in children with 2009 H1N1 relative to seasonal influenza A viruses," Belongia and colleagues conclude.
The findings appear in the Sept. 8 issue of TheJournal of the American Medical Association.
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58 — By Richard Thiel
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Thunder from Down Under
|All the commotion is outside on Riviera's 40-plus-knot 58-footer.
The first Riviera 58 I rode was Hull No. 1, last May at the Sanctuary Cove Boat Show in Australia. It caused quite a stir among the locals, there not being a lot of 58-foot enclosed-bridge convertibles that can do 40 knots in the Antipodes. Truth be told, the 58 impressed me as well, not so much because of her size or speed, but more because of the eerie quiet in her enclosed bridge.
Eight months later I was aboard Hull No. 2—courtesy of Florida Yachts International, the Riviera dealer out of Miami —and this time not just for a ride but also to conduct a full test. The boat threaded her way through the dilapidated houses of Stiltsville, just south of the Cape Florida light, and I found myself revisiting my earlier impression, only now I had a decibel meter to quantify it. As the twin 1,400-hp Caterpillar 3412s neared their peak rpm of 2350, my sound meter struggled to reach 76 dB-A, and had it not been for an annoying gurgle emanating from the sink in the nearby wet bar, I doubt it would have broken 72 (65 is normal conversation).
Combine such quiet with air conditioning, a big leather L-shape lounge, and a pair of optional, electrically adjustable Besenzoni leather pedestal seats that offer superb sightlines forward, and the feeling on the 58's bridge can devolve into the soporific. It not only becomes a challenge to stay alert, it's hard to convince yourself you're doing more than 45 mph, even when you're heading into a nasty two- to four-foot chop. With the Cats a distant purr, the sensation is more Town Car than tournament sportfisherman.
What this space does not provide is much visibility aft, but that's no real problem. A five-foot-deep observation deck handily covers that task, and its port-side control station (complete with wheel, engine/gear controls, Cat Vision monitors, bow thruster joystick, and VHF) ensures that the wheelman can position the 58 quickly for a fight or a docking. If you can't bear to leave the comfort of the enclosed bridge, you can always rely on the nifty standard Clarion AM/FM stereo/CD player/CCTV, which provides live views of the cockpit, as well as the saloon and engine room, on its 6 1/2-inch pop-up monitor.
But sooner or later, you will have to leave, and when you do, you'll do so by an athwartships ladder that leads from the observation deck to the cockpit; a hatch up top is a good safety feature, although the clip that holds it open let loose when we hit some chop, allowing it to slam shut, which could create quite a headache for anyone unfortunate enough to be in the way. At the base of the ladder, under the step leading into the saloon, is a refrigerated drink box, and to starboard of it, a small console with insulated stowage on top and three tackle drawers on the bottom, not the most convenient placement. To port of the saloon door, a console hides the door to the engine room, a sink, and a deep bait freezer. Behind a wide hatch above this console, shelves provide room for miscellany like artificials.
There's more stowage in this cockpit than any similarly sized convertible I've been on, mainly because the fuel tanks are forward of the engines. That leaves space for a big lazarette immediately abaft the console, fishboxes to port and starboard of the fighting chair, and yet another lazarette immediately abaft the chair. There's also plenty of under-coaming stowage in a variety of compartments, and the two-piece transom door-gate sits just to starboard of centerline, next to a deep in-transom livewell.
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Nvidia and Epic Games Showcase the Power of Tegra K1 With Unreal Engine 4 "Rivalry" Demoby Brandon Chester on 6/25/2014 8:41 PM EST
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RMSe17 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkThat looks amazing!!! Reply
designerfx - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkNot to rain on anyone's parade, but they showed almost no special effects in the demo video. It was all just textures, mostly. Reply
fivefeet8 - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkThe video showed HDR, Geometry Shaders, and Tessellation effects. At least that's what the Epic voice over detailed about what effects were on display. It's probably not as flashy if most other demos, but I find it more of a technical demo than anything else. Reply
mattbe - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkCongrats.
You just made yourself look like an idiot with your ignorant spew. Reply
wuzelwazel - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkOut of curiosity, what would you qualify as a "special effect"? Reply
evolucion8 - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkI think I know what he means. The demo looks great for a mobile device, but looks canned, like it doesn't have lots of light reflections, shader particles, like a hybrid between PS2 and PS3. Still good for a mobile chip. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkIt looking good isn't unexpected given it's mostly a static scene set in a small corridor. The two characters basically walk and stand in front of the cabinet and occasionally the camera pans to show some sparks fly. Reply
CiccioB - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkYes, and light effects, reflections, volumetric smoke together with high geometric models of the two characters have not importance.
The "special effect" are only the sparks.
This demo runs on a mobile SoC that includes a GPU that few years ago could be considered high end and could have difficulties at playing that. But yes, no special effects but those sparkles. Reply
jjj - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - linkTegra K1 should hit retail next week (The Xiaomi Mipad) so hopefully we'll see how it really performs soon.Guess we don't know if this was on the quad A15 or the dual Denver and i haven't seen any updates on the Denver version release date. Reply
Morawka - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkThe Denver version (x64) has shown to be a bit slower in all benchmarks (2%-3%). But it's using much much less power Reply
drewmsmith - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkarm64? Reply
tuxRoller - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkLink? Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkWhat benchmarks are those? Benchmarks like Antutu can be misleading, because they give too much weight to every core, so even if a quad-core A15 gets higher score than a dual-core Denver, it doesn't mean the A15 one is faster. In fact, Denver is likely to feel MUCH faster (some rumors were saying Sandy Bridge level). Reply
StevoLincolnite - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkSandy Bridge? Hardly.
These SoC's aren't packing the TDP, transistor counts to get that kind of performance. Reply
fivefeet8 - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkI'm pretty excited about getting a Tegra K1 device if only because of this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Sonicadvance1/videos Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkWhat's this new obsession with chromatic aberration? It just looks blurry. Reply
nathanddrews - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkMuch like the recent Watch Dogs "scandal", there are many effects that are useful only when taking screenshots or making gameplay videos, but are utterly useless for actual gameplay. SOME effects can make the game look better while playing (lighting, shadows, particles), but others just detract from the experience (DOF and some HDR) by artificially replicating the human eye's natural functions. It's redundant and cumbersome. Reply
Keisari - Tuesday, July 08, 2014 - linkExactly. The instagram of demoes. I literally had to check the quality of the video, which was already set to the max. Reply
lucam - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkI don't see anything special considering the Apple A7 was running Unreal Engine 4 with the new API Metal. Reply
UpSpin - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkIs it really so difficult to listen to the commentator in the video?
"We build this demo in collaboration with nVidia and it's running our FULL DESKTOP renderer on nVidias K1 mobile GPU."
I hope you can spot the special thing about K1 now. Reply
hahmed330 - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkOpengl 4.3 support is much more important then closer to metal support... Also if maxwell doubles gflop per watt then easily at 20nm you can have more then 1 teraflop at 5W TDP... Ironically that's not going to happen at desktop as tegra 1, 2, 3, 4, K1 are all unscalable very custom designs... thats why it takes a lot of time for each of them to appear... Also the fact that Nvidia got rid of all subsidies after tegra 3.. While intel subsidized the hell out of their mobile processors.. I Reply
tuxRoller - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkAte you sure about that?
At 850MHz the tk1 manages about 350gflops. Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkMaxwell will likely arrive at 16nm FinFET (that's what Nvidia has been saying at least), which means it could be 3-4x the performance of K1 at 28nm. So yeah, 1 Tflops is very likely.
If I were them I'd even push it to 1.3 Tflops, just to say "Tegra K1 was faster than Xbox 360 - and one year later, Tegra M1 is faster than Xbox One". That would be hilarious. Reply
tuxRoller - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkThe power differences aren't likely going to be that great just by going to 16nm finfet. The changes have been getting smaller as feature size has shrunk, starting around 32nm, iirc.
Yeah, Nvidia could produce a chip like you describe above but not likely within the power budget of even a tablet.
Now, two-three years from now is a different story. Reply
tuxRoller - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkThere's also the problem that we may not even get 20nm THIS year, so expecting another shrink next year did optimistic. Reply
lucam - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkI am saying there is already another soc capable doing similar things:
check out the video of Metal, is based on same engine. It is equally amazing. Reply
UpSpin - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkNope.
The keyword is: "Metal-enhanced Unreal Engine 4".
One time they have to recode their desktop engine to replace OpenGL 4 API with a propietary API only a small fraction of people will use in mobile products. The other time they can use their OpenGL based 'desktop' engine which a lot of gamers already use, to drive future mobile products. So with an identical engine they can release a game for Android, Linux, Windows, Mac OSX.
With Mantel not. Reply
tuxRoller - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkToo bad opengl isn't supported on android Reply
TheJian - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkhttp://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/06/dev...
"New features for game developers — Support for OpenGL ES 3.1, gives you capabilities such as compute shaders, stencil textures, and texture gather for your games. Android Extension Pack (AEP) is a new set of extensions to OpenGL ES that bring desktop-class graphics to Android. Games will be able to take advantage of tessellation and geometry shaders, and use ASTC texture compression across multiple GPU technolgies."
With the AEP you may as well say they're already there, or at worst fairly close. Either way, his point is they'll use the one EVERYONE can use more than direct attention to proprietary stuff in most cases. It's just smart and less work. Why code for metal if you can just do ES3.1 etc and port everywhere quickly? ES 3.1 is a subset of it's bigger OpenGL brother, so not sure what your point is. Portability is becoming king. At some point I think they will support full OpenGL in android, but to act as though they are completely different is not correct either. Why not support the full shebang if the chips can all do it at some point? I'm guessing 14nm versions of everyone's chips will do 4.4 etc. NV is there now, everyone will have to follow at some point. Would you rather brag you have 4.4 or DX 11_2 in a mobile world? I suspect Qcom's chips will add full OpenGL 4.4 sooner than later. You'll lose a discussion on DX vs. OpenGL in mobile unless winrt becomes 50% share or something vs. android/ios and I doubt that will happen ever. Everyone but MS is now pushing OpenGL and MS doesn't own squat in this arena so it would seem impossible to rectify that problem.
For anyone looking K1 was all over Google I/O.
""We wanted to close the gap between desktop DX11 class graphics and mobile," said Google's Burke. "Quite literally this is PC gaming graphics in your pocket."
"Through our close collaboration with NVIDIA, Epic's Unreal Engine 4 'Rivalry' project demonstrated at Google I/O shows what's possible when PC-class gaming technologies and performance are brought to mobile devices," said Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic. "In less than three weeks we were able to port content built for high-end PC and the DirectX 11 graphics API to Android and Google's AEP (Android Expansion Pack) extensions for ES 3.1. Developers can deliver incredible graphical complexity on a mobile chipset thanks to Tegra K1 and AEP."
Fairly impressive I'd say for K1 and android. 3 weeks...Hmmm.. Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkNice. Hope a lot of PC games will be arriving for Android tablets and consoles now. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkI don't see how that could be a good thing.
PC games are already held back by console technology, control and UI schemes, they don't need to be held back/dumbed down even more so.
Let PC games be PC games, console games be console games and mobile games be mobile games. Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkNice. Hope a lot of PC games will be arriving for Android tablets and consoles now. Reply
tuxRoller - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkThose extensions DON'T make it open gl. Whatever the sum of extensions and egles, and match that with the highest core gl profile and then you have your compatibility.
I'll say again that tesselation isn't a good fit for mobile. Geometry shaders, however, will be fantastic, as will bindless textures and multi dispatch... if they actually included the later two. Reply
lucam - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkAre you perhaps confusing Mantle with Metal? If so I can explain your mess around.
Point is there is already a chip capable to run same engine in a different tech demo. And it's an amazing demo too. Reply
UpSpin - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkI'm not confusing it. It's just a typo, sorry. What I said was related to Metal. Metal is a propietary Apple only API. Of course you can port a tech demo or engine to whatever you want. And of course it will run on iOS using their propietary API. Why shouldn't it be possible?
But you're completely missing the point. Reply
lucam - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkThe point is (bloody hell) that everybody acknowledge TK1 is faster than A7, but nevertheless the latter is capable running similar demos!! U got it?
So if you agree in this, u can realise this thing of Nvidia is not a miracle at all. Reply
eddman - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - link1. This is about hardware vs. hardware. It's pretty much known that K1's GPU is far more capable than A7's.
2. How do we know that the two demos are equal in complexity?
3. There is no point in bringing APIs into this. Windows is getting DX12 and android can easily get a low-level API too. It's all software. Reply
lucam - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkThe point is also A7 is capable to run similar things. Point is optimising the hardware you can do similar things Nvidia pretend to claim as unique. Point is I don't see the miracle rather than the usual Nvidia's claim every single year. Reply
eddman - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkThere is no magic involved in software optimization. A7's GPU is capable of 115 GFlops, K1's is capable of more than 300. No amount of optimization can close such a huge gap, unless the developers on android and windows sides are a bunch of incompetent buffoons, which I doubt is the case.
Yes, A7 is powerful and can run some good looking graphics, but it definitely wouldn't be able to run them faster than a K1, again, given the programmers do it right. Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkThe "miracle" is that PC games can be ported to Android IN WEEKS, without special low-level hardware optimizations that only work with some devices, and most likely working better, too, since Tegra K1 GPU is much faster than A7's GPU. Reply
lucam - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkIn weeks...I see. Than if they ask your collaboration even in hours...Yes TK1 is faster than A7, but the second is still running same demo. Given the fact that the are so many TK1 around that you indulge playing every hours. In less than few months will arrive devices with A8, meanwhile you will be dreaming the TK1. Question is where the TK1 is? I suggest you buying an Audi car and then run this demo developed for you in weeks. Reply
przemo_li - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkSo. Yes. Google did have some nice trick to counter Metal.
Now Android have more features, while Apple have nicer API.
Lets see who win ;) Reply
inighthawki - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkThis is not a counter to Metal, this is just exposing some extensions to OpenGL ES to support some stuff that's not supported by default. Metal, Mantle, D3D12, etc are all completely new to-the-metal APIs. Reply
przemo_li - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkIt is.
Google could say, OpenGL ES 3.1 + extra extensions.
"Android Extension Pack" IS marketing name. Reply
platinumjsi - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkSo can someone explain to me (Like I am 5) how a arm chip with 192 shaders can do this and my 290x struggles to get 60 FPS at 1440p in a number of modern titles?
If they can do this with 192 cores why are we not seeing photorealistic games on XBOne / PS4 / PC? Reply
przemo_li - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkSimple.
That is small cramped space (not much to show) with little dynamics (little to change), with small ammount of materials (little to shuffle around).
That is Introductory Tech Demo, for You ;) Reply
andrewaggb - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkMost games run pretty good when nobody is moving and nothing is happening.
They also tend to run really well indoors because there is much less to render. I'm sure you've seen many games with graphics options for draw distance and the like.
Pretty much guarantee that if you had 10 of these guys on screen, shooting at each other, with explosives and smoke grenades, on a city street.... with cars, lightposts, lots of buildings, and multiple city blocks visible... it would run awful. So you can either have a game that looks pretty but isn't any fun, or that is fun but looks ugly, or you need a 290x :-) Reply
TheJian - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkor 780ti ;) which wins almost everything in a res where we actually play (less than 2% above 1920x1200 and most have TWO or more cards above it). Above this you usually see the benchmarks at 30fps avg or less, and that is pointless to show. Mins are worse. It baffles me why anandtech keeps showing situations where you're already under 30fps avg and claiming a victor. No not baffling, the AMD portal explains it ;) Or rather a lack of an NV portal? Either way bad.
No way around that or the constant Nv digs even if it's insinuated or just said blatantly. IE how dumb is it to talk up Qcom's DX features when mobile is all about android/iOS which can't use it? Talking as if Qcom surpassed K1 with this junk? I don't see google or Epic using Qcom's chips for demos. Instead the talk was about how fast they got off of DX and into OpenGL...LOL. If you read anandtech's post you might actually think Qcom's dx comments are important. ROFL. Whatever. As the comment section on that post shows, just more anandtech bias BS whenever they can vs. NV. There are many T4 devices out, but you wouldn't know it if you only read anandtech. They claim they can't get anything for review when asked about this. Really? Can't be bothered to BUY a T4 device just to test then sell or something in their forums? Ebay etc? If you really wanted to benchmark NV stuff you'd find a way, or a place that would loan you one, just like with everything else hardware sites get on loan (memory, SSD, mboards, cards etc for testing). I'm sure if they listed some device they bought on Ebay or something as ANANDTECH, saying it was only used for testing, knock of 10-20%, it would get sold (if not to a forum user looking for one on discount). Anandtech isn't exactly poor and could easily absorb a $50-100 hit once to have something other than shield in their benchmarks (which they only show in SOME benchmarks anyway). Reply
ruthan - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkSorry, bad highly optimalized cutscene means almost nothing, port Unreal 3 or Bioshock on it and we can talk. Reply
Jumangi - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkOh look another massively curated and controlled tech demo that has nothing to do with what the chip could do in an actual game. Show a real world working 360/PS3 game running in real time at a decent framerate and I will be impressed. Otherwise its more smoke and mirrors. Reply
darkich - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - link2007 Bioshock???
Here is some eye opening for you- a now lower midrange-grade Samsung Galaxy S3(12GFLOPS) can run remastered GTA San Andreas on maximum settings.
This chip would not break a sweat running the original Bishock Reply
inighthawki - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkYour post makes no sense. San andreas is a significantly older game than Bioshock, and even remastered will look nothing like it. You might as well have replaced "San Andreas" with "Doom 95" in your example. Reply
darkich - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkIt makes sense with a bit of perspective..That San Andreas on maximum settings would require a beefy 2005 PC, yet it runs on a freaking Galaxy S3.
Now, compare the K1 with the chip in the Galaxy S3 Reply
inighthawki - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkSan Andreas by no means required a "Beefy 2005 PC." I was able to trivially max that games settings when it launched in 2004 and I didn't even have a top of the line PC back then. The graphics are actually really terrible. Go watch some videos of it then go look at Bioshock, it's night and day. Unreal 3 in its infancy is like 10x more capable than what San Andreas puts out.
Actually let me do the work for you. First 1080p images of both games i found. Man, what a difference.
http://oxyarg.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/2013-02-... Reply
darkich - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkAgain you are missing on the context and lacking perspective.
First, the Android San Andreas is much better looking than the pc version..higher resolution, improved draw distance, more detailed character and vehicle models, real time dynamic shadows and reflections.
Second, and I repeat, Tegra K1 GPU is roughly 20-30 times more capable than Mali 400MP4 in the S3.
And speaking of Unreal 3, there are many Android games running it, for years now Reply
inighthawki - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkNo I am not lacking perspective, I'm being realistic. I've watched videos of the new San Andreas, it's still garbage compared to 2007 Bioshock. And yes, Unreal 3 has been available, but not until recently have the games looked anything close to even UT3 or Bioshock quality.
I'm also not arguing about the capabilities of a K1, I'm just still asserting that your initial comparison is absolute garbage, because San Andreas decked out on Android doesn't even scratch the surface of what Bioshock looked like 7 years ago.
Don't jump the gun. Mobile has made impressive leaps and bounds, but don't overestimate the capabilities. Reply
TheJian - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkTrine2, Serious Sam3 on K1, Portal and Half-life2 both run fine on T4. So how well do you think K1 does? We'll know when we see all the ports aimed at K1 soon for shield 2 which is only a month away today. Certainly the Ssam 3 playing pretty ok on beta crap is impressive.
Dev speaking about K1 & Ssam3 port. I'm fairly sure fps dips at verge were due to the nature of the beta hardware/software. This news was Jan2014, they've had another 6 months to tweak shield 2.
"AlenL [developer] Jan 6 @ 1:08pm
Yes. We were even more amazed than you are. That's the first version of SS3 for Android. And it would not have been possible without this Tegra miracle. :) This chip looks like something that will knock everyone's socks off. We couldn't believe how good it is. It supports full OpenGL4, and we practically directly ported the entire PC game to it, along with PC content. It was not cut down like e.g. for Xbox 360.
As an additional point, when we compiled the code without errors and ironed the glitches in initialization code, as soon as it started the graphics correctly for the first time, it went right through the intro sequence, and into the game. Without any noticeable visual errors. I think I can safely say this is the first time ever. Normally, we'd have a few weeks of unexplainable black screens, inverted colors, garbage in textures, broken shaders, etc, until it looks ok visually. With K1, this just worked."
The dev seems fairly clear about how potent it is and how easy it was to work with correct? Is serious sam 3 "doom95" to you? 2011 game right? Trine2 isn't exactly ugly either ;) Reply
inighthawki - Friday, June 27, 2014 - link"Is serious sam 3 "doom95" to you? 2011 game right? Trine2 isn't exactly ugly either ;)"
Please don't take my post out of context. I was pointing out that his statement had no meaning. He made the assertion that
"An older GPU (S3) is capable of running a game with worse graphics (San Andreas), therefore the new GPU (K1) will run the better game (Bioshock) without a sweat."
This is an illogical statement without benchmarks backing the numbers because there is no overlap. i.e.
Assume the following statements:
-We have two variables, 's3' and k1', which are GPU performance
-We have two variables, 'gta' and 'bs', which are the performance requirements for both games
-Given: 'k1' > 's3' (The K1 is more impressive than the performance of what's in the S3)
-Given: 'bs' > 'gta' (Bioshock is more demanding than GTA)
-Assume: 's3' > 'gta' (The S3 can handle GTA)
-Conclusion: 'K1' > 'gta' (by transitive property), but there is no logical conclusion that 'k1' > 'bs' Reply
TheJian - Saturday, June 28, 2014 - linkBioshock's minimum system requirements are less than serious sam 3 BFE, yet SSam3 is running on shield 2 (k1). Ssam3's req's min look like the recommended ones for bioshock. You're not seeing the point here? He picked the wrong game maybe to compare to, but it should run.
Bioshock min req:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz Single Core processor
System RAM: 1GB
Video Card: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550).
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
System RAM: 2GB
Video card: DX9: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT or better) DX10: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better.
Ssam3 min req:
Processor:Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.0 GHz
Video: nVidia GeForce 7800/7900/8600 series, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 or 1800/X1900 series
Recommended req:
Processor:Quad-core from Intel (i5/i7-series) or AMD (Phenom II) at 3.0 GHz
Video Memory:nVidia GeForce 480/580 GTX, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5870/6970
I'd say Ssam3 is more taxing, judging the vid/cpu requirements here and ram also. If K1 could run SeriousSam3 6 months ago ALMOST (again surely tweaked more 6 months later), then bioshock should be doable. Even if a few things get turned down, it would run. This is a 2007 game vs. 2011 game here, so if they can do that already you should get the point vs. a 2007 game and NV is VERY good at running unreal engine. I have no doubt they know what to tell a dev to turn down in order to massively improve perf on any unreal game.
The Ssam3 dev even says directly it wasn't cut down like xbox360. That says quite a lot to me especially being a post from 6 months ago. I'm thinking it will run smooth at launch 6 months later. From the devs comment NV wasn't far off saying their K1 is ~xbox360/ps3 level. Tricks Kepler can do that those really old units couldn't probably make it above them most of the time. Time will tell, but the dev's comments are at least showing it's in the same league. Reply
inighthawki - Sunday, June 29, 2014 - linkThat's great, and I accept that that is likely true. I'm not trying to claim otherwise. But my MAIN point of this entire string of comments was about San Andreas being a really low end game, so being able to run that doesn't prove anything. I'm not trying to make any assertions at all about the power of the K1. Reply
TheJian - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link"Don't jump the gun. Mobile has made impressive leaps and bounds, but don't overestimate the capabilities."
I took that, along with your other comments to mean you aren't that impressed ;) So I attempted to correct it with a more meaningful comparison. SSam3 BFE is NOT san andreas so proves MORE right? You can say that quote wasn't directed at K1, but that's what the whole page here is about, and the comments too. If you weren't saying it about K1 then I'd think you meant all of mobile which would include K1 etc. You're saying it proves nothing, so I gave something that DOES prove something since it seems you're casting doubts here. I'm saying the gun "hasn't been jumped" so to speak ;)
It's a desktop based gpu, we shouldn't be surprised it's quite a leap in visuals etc. We'll see what the rest come up with to combat it (and all future NV socs now that they are desktop based), but K1 is the gaming gpu bar now for at least tablets, if not some high-end phones which NV is still interested in (they're only giving up on the low-end which isn't where the massive profits are anyway). If power is low they can pair it with any number of modems since they don't seem to want to integrate one at this time. Considering krait is no longer in house (off the shelf IP) it should be anybody's race even without the modem integrated. Off the shelf IP won't have krait like power/perf advantages until they go back in house a year later. Reply
FITCamaro - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkShowing a scripted scene is one thing. Showing that level of detail during gameplay is another. Reply
Willhouse - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkSo when do tablets with this chip hit the states? Reply
Jumangi - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkProbably never. Nvidia despite all their hype has been pretty much shut out of the mobile world the last couple of years, at least in the west. The Tegra 4 was never used by anyone and this chip has one Chinese tablet to show. Reply
TheJian - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkNvidia Shield, Tegra Note 7, Microsoft Surface 2, HP SlateBook x2, ZTE N988S, Nuvola NP-1, Project Mojo, Asus Transformer Pad Infinity (2013 model), Toshiba AT10-LE-A (Excite Pro), Vizio 10" tablet, Wexler.Terra 7, Wexler.Terra 10, Acer TA272HUL AIO, HP Slate 21 AIO, Xiaomi Phone 3, Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid, Coolpad 4
I'm not sure that's all but you should get the point. Also, how can anyone use something that is NOT SHIPPING to oems yet? There is a reason shield comes first. It allows them to showcase the product in something that is lower volume until they can fully ramp a quarter later. Do you see any S810 products available? NO. Because you can buy what isn't shipping yet. See the point. You're not making sense. You're either ignoring the facts (well not like Anandtech would tell you all the T4 products, they hate NV, hence the AMD portal while NOT having an NV one...LOL), or you just hate NV so blatantly lie. Which is it? Or just plain ignorant? K1 has one tablet that will likely not be a HUGE volume seller so NV can accommodate them. You can't supply someone like HP/Toshiba/Dell/Google/Asus until you've ramped up. But note also, K1 was all over the show floor at Google I/O (it's in their AndroidTV, Automotive stuff, 9in Nexus etc).
And other devices are coming, here's the list from wikipedia already on the way or here:
Jetson TK1 development board,Lenovo ThinkVision 28, XiaoMi MiPad, HTC Nexus 9,Google Project Tango Tablet, Acer Chromebook CB5, nVidia Shield 2. Not a bad start for a device barely shipping. Start reading more than anandtech, you'll get more NV news ;) Reply
TheJian - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkOne more comment on S805:
Where are all the S805 devices? :)
Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A (Korea)
Wikipedia only lists one.
Anything past ref devices besides the listed one? Seems K1 has a lead and both are shipping if only barely I guess (to OEM's anyway). But you can BUY some K1 stuff now. Jetson, Tango not sure about mipad yet (I'm not in china...thank god). Note 4 is rumored to have S805, but not confirmed AFAIK. So you should get the point, things that aren't shipping massively (ramped yet) don't show up much, but K1 appears to have the lead vs. a SOC that was supposed to ship in May according to Qcom.
T4 was also in BungBunggame's Kalos. Not sure if wikipedia is missing more. Oh one more was Toshiba Excite Write (wikipedia only lists the PRO). The note7 is made by PNY, EVGA, ZOTAC, Gigabyte, and Xolo (so you can count those as one or five devices I guess). Few more, HP Slate 8, and Slate 7. Tegra 4 used by nobody? FALSE. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - linkIt looks great.
However, it's hard to be very excited when Google can't even get Epic to port any Infinity Blade to Android and when they are asked why, they routinely say because the performance isn't there despite multiple demos running the Unreal Engine showing the hardware exists.
Other games seem to make money off Android, so why can't Epic? This tempers my enthusiasm whenever an Unreal demo is used even though I know other games on Android do use the Unreal engine... Reply
TheJian - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkIt's not that it can't be done, it's apple cash that stops this. Infinity Blade is apple only. They paid for Infinity Blade 1, 2 and 3 to be APPLE only. And yes the power is there, but what do you expect Epic to say? They can't exactly force Apple to let them port to anything else if they paid for a forever exclusive deal. They may have even paid enough to get them to blame perf, which clearly isn't the problem. With $140B in cash this should be no surprise when it happens. Apple can buy whatever they want pretty much, whether it's lies, preferential treatment, exclusive crap etc.
removed the last link to infinity blade LIKE games since being called spam for some reason.
But yeah, there are many unreal3 engine games out already on android and also some great looking ones NOT on unreal.
Serious sam HD 1st & 2nd encounters coming soon too says croteam. I've played most of the stuff they're all porting, but it won't be long after they re-collect on these old games that they make new stuff aimed directly at the top shelf hardware on android (knowing even the junk from the next gen will have top end power a year later anyway so not long before all can play your game).
I can't wait for their new stuff. Clearly devs are interested in android if looking at GDC 2013 & 2014 surveys. HUGE interest. When 20nm versions hit we should start to get out of the ports and into great new content. I expect mostly ports of great games for the next year. Sure there will be some great new content too, but more economical to port and collect on old stuff first since most never sold more than 10mil copies and there are a billion active android devices who clearly haven't played all the old PC/console great games etc. The ports will pay for the new stuff at some point so I'm all for anything they think is worth porting. I thought I'd wait out 20nm shield (r3?) but I'm starting to re-think that. If it's even more feature laden than shield r1 I might just have to buy depending on price. But I can easily wait out a drop or special if needed ;) Android gaming is moving up, no doubt about that with K1 and every soc on 20nm after it. They should all be K1 level by then even on the low end, so more reason to aim higher with graphics etc.
Jeez, one link and called spam? For what? Anandtech get tired of my posts? LOL. Reply
Hrel - Friday, June 27, 2014 - linkAn Nvidia Shield with this GPU, a 1080p screen and some minor revisions to design would mean I can finally get back into hand held gaming! I'm pretty excited. Streaming a game from my desktop is a pretty niche use case scenario, but I could see using it a little. More importantly, having something that would last more than 2 hours while gaming on it would be awesome. Especially if they get some "real" video games on it. Like Civ and Total War. I could see playing chivalry on it; so hopefully it'll have tri-band 802.11ac.
Technology is so cool. Reply
iAPX - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - link720p is 1280x720, a quarter of what's actual Android smartphone and tablets are offering as resolution. It's interesting to see a demo for 2 years old-devices, or for low-end devices that WON'T use the K1.
Is it a joke? Reply
JlHADJOE - Monday, July 07, 2014 - linkAwesome how the developers KNOW that this new tech will just end up being used to render "Tappy Chicken". Reply