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Last month we got a look at some leaked benchmark scores and determined the HTC G2 was going to offer about the same performance as the Samsung Galaxy S. Now we finally got a G2 in-house so I thought it was time to put both devices head to head and see which is faster.
The G2 features the new Adreno 205 GPU from Qualcomm. This GPU is found in the second-gen Snapdragon chips including the MSM7x30, MSM8x55, and QSD8x50A. HTC is the main handset maker using these new Snapdragons and you will find them in their upcoming phones including the Desire Z, Desire HD, G2, and Merge.
The Samsung Galaxy S features the PowerVR SGX540 GPU from Imagination Technologies. You will find PowerVR GPUs in both Samsung and Texas Instruments processors. They are also found in the iPhone and all of Intel's processors (CE4100) for Google TV devices.
For this first round of benchmarks I will be using 3DMarkMobile produced by Rightware. If the name sounds familiar that is because 3DMarkMobile was formerly owned by Futuremark who makes the popular PC benchmarks.
The Test Devices
I have a lot of phones that I could have benchmarked, but I kept it to three to keep it simple. I chose the G2 since it is the only device shipping in the U.S. with the Adreno 205 GPU, the Nexus One since it is a 1st-gen Snapdragon, and the Galaxy S because it has the fastest GPU we have benchmarked.
- HTC Nexus One: 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250, Adreno 200 GPU, 512 MB RAM, Android 2.2
- Samsung Galaxy S (Epic 4G): 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird S5PC110, PowerVR SGX540 GPU, 512 MB RAM, Android 2.1
- HTC G2: 800 MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7230, Adreno 205 GPU, 512 MB RAM, Android 2.2
Both the Nexus One and G2 are running stock Android 2.2, while the Galaxy S (Epic 4G) is running Android 2.1 with Samsung's TouchWiz UI. All devices run at the same 800x480 resolution. Each phone was rebooted before testing and I left the radios on to simulate normal every day usage.
The Video
3DMarkMobile ES 2.0 V1 - Hoverjet and Taiji
Taiji: The Taiji Girl test represents a game with human-like characters. The girl in the scene is skinned using 29 bones. The total amount of polygons in the scene is 70,000 of which approximately 50,000 are visible per frame on average. This test is designed to provide a heavy fragment load. The scene is set in a serene courtyard garden enclosed on all sides by stone walls. A larger context is implied to the viewer using a skydome texture and trees implemented as alpha-blended quads visible beyond the courtyard wall. All of the fragment operation intensive elements are located inside the courtyard in a small radius around the main character. We believe closed environments, such as the courtyard in this test, are a viable solution for real-world game design. Limited environments will enable the developer to concentrate on the important elements of the set (those that are visible) and avoid the need to generate large amounts of unseen graphical elements which do not add value to the story nor to the game play. As shadow mapping is used in this test, the depth texture extension is required in the hardware in order to get approved results.
Hover: The second graphic's test represents a racing game including five racers and a racing track in a desert environment. The graphics load presented is balanced more towards polygons than pixel processing. The total amount of polygons in the scene is 300,000 of which on average 100,000 are visible per frame.
The difference between the two tests is that the Taiji test has about 70k polygons and has a heavy pixel shader load while the hover test has 300k vertices (of which around 100k is visible per frame) and light pixel shader load. Thus, the two tests stress different sections of the graphics processing pipeline. The key point about benchmarking is that a score in a single device without comparison scores from other similar devices has very little meaning. You can use our benchmarks to compare similar devices to each other, but on a single device the relative scores between tests are not very informative. So, if a single device has better scores at Taiji than at Hoverjet it will give you very little valuable information. However, if you compare scores from at least two devices the differences in scores between individual tests are immediately quite telling. So, if device A beats device B in all tests then clearly A is the performance winner. On the other hand, if device A beats B in taiji but loses in hover it tells you that A has a better performance at evaluating pixel shaders but does not handle high geometry loads as well as B. In that case, you need to analyze the application portfolio you wish to run on the device to decide whether you value a higher geometry load than pixel load or vice versa.
Taylor's comments: To my surprise the G2 came out on top in the pixel shader and geometry tests. I ran them several times to make sure everything was correct and the G2 always scored better. This could be caused by some optimizations in Android 2.2 (like the JIT compiler) so we will have to run this benchmark again when Sammy releases Android 2.2 for the Galaxy S.
3DMarkMobile ES 2.0 V2 - User Interface and Navigation
User Interface: The User Interface test represents a realistic user interface including eight main icons and their sub-icons in a futuristic environment. Main and sub icon shells use Cook Torrance shading with cube map reflections to achieve a realistic metal effect. The center of the icon features a texture distorted fragment shader. Environment uses per pixel Blinn-Phong shading with diffuse and specular maps. Fake ambient occlusion is achieved by baking it in the colors of the vertices.
Bloom and Depth-Of-Field post processing effects are used in the entire scene. The blurring of the scene is done only once, and it is used by both of the post processing effects; this conserves system's computing resources.
Taylor's comments: Once again the G2 comes out on top. This could be caused by Android 2.2 like I mentioned above. Notice the large performance gap between the first-gen Snapdragon (Adreno 200) and the second-gen Snapdragon (205).
Navigation: The Navigation test represents a realistic workload of a Navigation application. Buildings and roads are modeled to look like generated map objects based on real data. Lighting is created by using one point and one directional light to achieve dynamic daytime lighting. The road shader is dynamic. It draws the path of route while the position indicator moves. The Indicator shader uses backlighting to highlight the indicator from the background. The Water shader uses normal and cube mapping to strengthen the effect of the water area. Basic blur post-processing effect is used to blur the route, which is seen behind the buildings, to avoid the path from disappearing out of view.
Taylor's comments: Finally we see the Galaxy S (Epic 4G) take the lead on something. I will be honest and say I'm not the smartest when it comes to all these shaders and blurring techniques so I can't explain why this benchmark is the opposite of the others. The Galaxy S has a faster clocked CPU than the G2 (1000 MHz vs 800 MHz) so maybe this test is CPU limited.
This debate is far from settled. We can clearly see Qualcomm has come a long way from their first Snapdragons and made great progress with the Adreno 205 GPU. I was starting to worry that Qualcomm was in trouble with their Adreno GPU family, but it holds its own against PowerVR and now I'm pretty excited about the Adreno 220 GPU coming in future dual-core Snapdragons.
Right now I'm not sure if the PowerVR SGX540 is still the fastest GPU available in an Android phone. This 3DMarkMobile benchmark is still new so I'm going to run the latest GLBenchmark 2.0 suite on it tomorrow and see how that turns out.
For all we know, the G2 could be scoring better since it has Android 2.2 and the Galaxy S is limited by Android 2.1. It really is unfair to compare different firmware versions, but that is all I have to work with. Hopefully Samsung rolls out Android 2.2 to the carriers this year and we can benchmark these phones on an even level.
If anything, I think this demonstrates how up-to-date firmware can sometimes be more beneficial than whatever the latest hardware is. (Yeah I'm looking at you Samsung. Why are you slacking with Android 2.2?)
I'm sure quite a few people that are smarter than me will read this post , so please post your educated feedback in the comments.


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Oh wow - it really sounds like there's alot going on in your life. These are really hard years to get through with so much change (having a baby and rearranging your whole life to accommodate a new person!), and to add on top of that the other stresses you must be having sounds really, extraordinarily tough. I just want to offer some love for how difficult your situation is.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if baby is responding to your stress levels - which is not to say there's anything you're doing wrong! Stress happens, and babies know.
Good luck, mama!

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As for a 1 vs. 2 month project, I get the feeling most people want to make it a 2-month deal. That's fine with me, but I will most likely make two projects then, one for each month. How about this - make it a 2 month project, with an intermission at the middle - you should show at the end of January what you have done. If you are complete by then and you are up for it, make something else for February and you can be twice as cool.
I'm thinking about building a small backdrop diorama set-up using form core. However, I don't already own a glue gun and I'm not sure I want to invest. Do you guys have any luck with regular superglue or elmers glue? What else would you recommend?
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Sound Off for Nov. 9, 2012
Keep a file with your Medicare and secondary explanation of benefits. Whenever the bill shows a balance, although you have Medicare and secondary insurance, and your explanation of benefits shows you owe nothing, call your secondary provider and ask if you do owe the hospital anything. as a double check. Then call the number on the bill and let them know that you just spoke to your insurance company and you have a zero balance. I recently received a bill showing a balance of $48 which stated it was either my co-payment or deductible. Since I had the EOB showing zero balance and have no co-pay I called the insurance company, then the hospital billing department. I was told they didn't know why I received that bill. What if I had paid that "bill"? Would I have gotten a refund? Would anybody in the billing department have caught their error? How many senior citizens (and others) pay these sorts of bills because they trust the hospital, the medical provider? How many seniors (and others) are able to make the phone calls needed? Incorrect billing happens more than we are aware. I think there should be a penalty on the hospital when this occurs.
Wake up, people. We are evolving into a Hispanic nation with generations of Americans becoming the minority in their country thanks to the influx of illegal aliens over decades and fueled by Obama's executive order regarding the status of illegals in this country. If you have any doubts about this, I hope you saw after the election the recap of Obama's campaign. Specifically his campaign ads, which did not air in the Northeast, to my knowledge, but did in states with heavy Hispanic voters. Obama did not speak English in his ads but Spanish as he made his plea to be re-elected. If you understood Spanish you would have heard him make promises to the Hispanics. These Hispanic voters were the voting bloc that elected Obama. Obama did not campaign addressing any other ethnic group in their native language. And this is acceptable?
Hang onto your wallets, Connecticut, you just elected more spend-and-tax Obamabots that will drive this country into recession. In order to stay in power the Democrats must continue to give welfare, handouts, food stamps, free phones, public housing, etc, etc to the dependent class. All the free stuff will end when the country goes bankrupt under the Obama Democrats.
The good to come for both sides of the election: Our sons and daughters will no longer be in jeopardy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Our elderly fathers and mothers will have better health support when they most need it, Our mothers and daughters will have greater support with their health concerns, the President and John Boehner will both have to compromise to improve our economy on behalf of the American people, Hopefully, corporations will start hiring, now the election is past and apply their profits to employment. The world sees, once again , that America can be open to all races, religions, and personal preferences ....The USA remains a Beacon!
While I'm no great fan of Linda McMahon as a candidate, I don't understand why people criticize her for self-financing her campaign. Why is it percieved to be both more virtuous and more advantageous to the voter for Senator-Elect Murphy to finance his campaign with large donations from financial institutions, real estate firms, and insurance companies than for Mrs. McMahon to pay for her campaign from her personal wealth?


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Hiho Would it be possible to allow the HowTos to be written in Markdown (or Textile). Both are some kind of preprocessors, allowing you to write texts in a nice syntax. There are also a lot of GUI applications like Mou for OSX that allow you to export to HTML or PDF -> so using common HTML elements would be enough as well E.g.
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|2012-02-15, 00:03
|Link #2181
The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
Not often enough. I had to spend too much time trying to find a way to keep my foolish players from killing themselves before I could tall a story. (remind them never to shootout the airlock with laser cannons before you try to just fix the jammed door).
|2012-02-15, 00:09
|Link #2182
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Sounds like they'd been better off with "Kobolds Ate My Baby" .... PC lifespans are measured in minutes.
|2012-02-15, 08:26
|Link #2183
Moderate Haruhiist
Has anyone tried messing around with the Creation Kit? I just got it off Steam the other day, and was trying to experiment with toughening up Alduin and some of the latter dragons (ancient and elders in particular). For Alduin himself, I gave him 80 damage resistance (not really sure if it's a percentile, or a flat damage reduction), plus 50 fire/frost/lightning/poison resists, increased his melee damage (crUnarmedDamage 05 gives a +175 bump to damage, but I made it +300 instead) and added a few Shouts (Dragon Disarm, Dragon Unrelenting, and a modified Dragon Stormcall). Then I bumped his HP to 13500, and increased his Stamina and Magicka accordingly. To test things out, I spawned him in Riften, since the town for some reason has a LOT of guards.
The end result? While the fight certainly lasted longer, throw enough arrows at Alduin, and he eventually has to land, where he's eventually done in by scratch damage by 15+ town guards (yeah, Riften is weird).
So, I wondered what else could be done. Then I noticed that Shadowmere had a specific enchant to him (Fortify Heal Rate 4 and Fortify Heal Rate Combat 4), so I figured I'd try it out. The end result pretty much made ANY dragon invulnerable in combat, as because of Fortify Heal Rate Combat 4, they outheal any damage dealt to them. Even my level 81 Dovahkin with 100 One-Handed and associated perks, plus a 300+ damage sword, could barely scratch the darned things.
After that experiment, I tried adjusting the Combat Heal Rate values, and found that even at level 1, it made dragon encounters hilariously difficult. My guess is that it heals a specific percent PER HIT based on the max HP of the dragon in question. In Alduin's case, since the end HP he ended up with in my little test was around 13500, even setting the Heal Rate at .15 (yes, not a whole number anymore) STILL had Alduin out-healing my damage.
For Elders, giving them a .50 Combat Heal Rate pretty much means that, barring Dragonrend, you'll NEVER do enough damage to get a dragon to land.
|2012-02-15, 11:10
|Link #2184
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: who knows?
if arthas is the Evil Arthur, so Saber will her role as the good Good Arthur, trying to redeem him during his journey(maybe she played a Dimensional version of WC3FT or read the Arthas book during her time in shiro's house), and at the same know why they are in Nirn instead of their own worlds.
|2012-02-15, 11:44
|Link #2186
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
Alright need help. How do I create a mod that allows :
1. Stacking of objects in inventory
2. Embedding of objects on surfaces
3. The objects equipped to be thrown?
I am thinking of making a throwing knife mod.
|2012-02-15, 12:24
|Link #2187
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: who knows?
|2012-02-15, 20:45
|Link #2188
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I really haven't had a specific use for the creation kit yet, though I may automate some of my follower mods "hey you! come with me on adventure and sticky death!"
My dark elf assassin lass decided to grab Olfina Battle-born "we're just as good as men, r-e-s-p-e-c-t" and take her on a joy ride into dark places. I toned down her marksman so she'd prefer knife work and an off-hand heal spell (haven't researched out how to get her to heal *me* yet though). She's actually working out better than Camilla (with my Nord warrior) who tends to drag her feet when we're hiking and fall behind or get distracted.
It will be interesting to see where she goes when I "part ways" with her (house in Whiterun?, back to roaming Whiterun?, back to Solitude home where housemate Ysolda and the Lydia/Jordis comedy team hang out?)
Somewhere there's a Khajit rogue male, that might be a fun change of pace for a field partner.
|2012-02-15, 22:04
|Link #2189
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
Really, all I am waiting for is a mod that gives me greater control over my follower. It still confuses me that even though Lydia would do anything I told her to according to the lore, I couldn't control her equipment. I mean, I understand that temp Mercs and friend characters might be unwilling to have someone dictate what they wear, but a Housecarl really should not have that kind of disobedient streak.
Sometime I wonder if too much AI is a bad thing. I am still shopping around the Nexus for a mod I like. I know there are several, I am just not ready to commit yet.
|2012-02-15, 22:17
|Link #2190
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I probably have too many mods at the moment, I need to do an inventory and get rid of the overlapping ones.
|2012-02-15, 23:01
|Link #2191
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
I mean, I haven't even committed to a body replacer yet. I don't actually want to play my character nude, I just need to know they are nude under the clothes.
But the biggest deal with body replacers is compatible equipment. I need mods to be matching each other, no clipping or anything.
|2012-02-15, 23:22
|Link #2192
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
You can get some eyeburning results with mismatched armor and body types.
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edit: on a separate note.. my femme dark elf assassin is now an "Agent of Dibella" (reward for a questline serving the goddess of sexy fun). I figured it would be a bump to Speechcraft but no... she now gets a significant bump in "combat against the opposite sex". I wonder if that includes animals, supernaturals, and dragons? (rofl)
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|2012-02-16, 18:23
|Link #2193
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: who knows?
Well here's my Arthas and Arturia(lvl 30)
Arthas based on FT artwork, and saber from a old 3d image what i've saw on deviantart(it sucks that there's no saber's armor yet, just the texture replacement + crafting using the Ebony Armor)
idk what chain quest is better for the Crown of Damnation and Frostmoune(arthas), and for Excalibur and Caliburn
|2012-02-16, 18:39
|Link #2194
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
|2012-02-17, 03:33
|Link #2195
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
|2012-02-18, 19:24
|Link #2200
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Here's one: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=7135
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Lets G.O.! (Get Outside)
In my eight years as a volunteer with the Sierra Club, I have gained tremendous leadership skills, met heroes, and made life-long friendships. I have moderated and sat on panels, organized youth leadership trainings, and developed strategic plans to make communities stronger. So why do this? You see, I believe that it is through nature that we find we are most connected to each other and our communities. The power of nature as a facilitator for empowerment can not be underestimated. It is out there where trees don't care what race you are but still they share their shade, the river will not check your FICO score before quenching your thirst. And believe me that the mosquitoes won't look at your skin color; they will happily suck you dry.
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Medtronic, Inc. Lands New EU Indications for Complete SE Stent
In the United States, the Complete SE stent is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only for use in the iliac arteries, which supply blood to the pelvis and legs. Its use in lower-extremity arteries in the United States is under review by the FDA. Previously CE marked only for use in the iliac arteries, the Complete SE stent can now be used internationally in the lower extremities as well.
The new indication was obtained after clinical data from the Complete SE SFA study –– an independently adjudicated single-arm, multicenter trial that enrolled 196 patients at 28 sites in the United States and Europe –– showed a low clinically-driven target lesion revascularization (i.e. repeat procedure) rate of 8.4 percent at 12 months. Additionally, and unique among similar studies utilizing bare-metal stents in this vessel bed, there were no (0.0 percent) stent fractures at 12 months in the study.
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With risk factors including smoking, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, age (50 or older) and familial history, peripheral artery disease narrows the vessels that supply blood to the body, especially the limbs. Typically characterized by an excessive buildup of plaque in these vessels, the condition can progress without treatment to critical limb ischemia, which often leads to amputation and premature death.
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Boys Hoops: Elida dashes St. Marys' hopes of upset in 2nd half
ST. MARYS — Elida's Dakota Mathias — as good as he is — needed some help from his friends as the Bulldogs missed wide open 3-pointer after 3-pointer in the second quarter and found themselves trailing an underdog St. Marys at the half.
The Elida standout got the needed aide in the second half as the Bulldogs pulled away from the upset-minded Roughriders 63-44 at The Horseshoe on Friday night.
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Mathias shot 10-of-14 from the floor for a seemingly effortless game-high 25 points and pulled down nine rebounds in the Western Buckeye League win. The Elida junior drained back-to-back 3-pointers midway through the third quarter to begin Elida big second-half surge. Mathias went 5-of-7 from beyond the 3-point arc on the night.
But it was Mathias' teammates and a better defensive effort by the Bulldogs that made the difference in turning a three-point halftime deficit into a 19-point runaway victory.
"We had some other guys step up and make shots," Elida head coach Denny Thompson said. "And some of those guys who made shots in the second half, they had the exact same shots in the first half."
Austin Allemeier added 15 points for Elida. Louis Gray came off the bench and went 3-for-4 from the floor in the fourth quarter. Gray scored eight points.
Elida improved to 7-2 and 2-0 in the Western Buckeye League.
Jarrett Taylor led St. Marys with 12 points and six rebounds. Austin James added 11 points.
St. Marys fell to 2-6 and 0-2 in league play.
The Roughriders came out of the gate with confidence after winning two of their last three games in a nice run of basketball over the past two weeks that included the Riders' offensive 75-point outburst last Saturday in a win over Indian Lake in which Garet Fledderjohann scored 29 points, Austin James had 20 points and Quinn Zaerr had 17 points.
Fledderjohann was limited to five points in the game, but the senior guard helped hold down Mathias in the first half. Mathias had 10 points at the break as St. Marys forced the ball out of the hands of the highly-recruited 6-foot-4 junior and forced Elida's surrounding parts to knock down shots.
"In the first half, Garet defensively was great," Dan Hegemier said. "I don't care about how many points he scores. I care about the team winning and we were right there. He had a lot of assists and was finding the open man. Elida was putting a lot of pressure on him."
Fledderjohann picked up his third and fourth fouls in the third quarter, limiting the Roughriders' options at defensively stopping Mathias.
St. Marys came into the game just 2-5, but Thompson said his team had its eyes opened when it trailed by three at the half.
Elida's surrounding cast struggled to make open looks, and St. Marys led 28-25 at the half.
It was the same defense the Roughriders employed on Fort Recovery's Wade Gelhaus back in the season opener. Thompson said his team was prepared for it. "We had every shot in the world we wanted. We just had to make them," Thompson said.
Elida was in for a fight.
"My big emphasis before the game started was if we didn't bring the right mentality to the court, we were going to have a game on our hands," Thompson said. "I don't think we overlooked St. Marys, by any stretch. But still, you're working with 16, 17, 18 year old kids. You don't know what's inside their heads. We got a bit of a wake-up call at halftime there. We responded pretty well."
Shots started falling for Mathias and his cohorts in the second half.
After Quinn Zaerr hit a 3-pointer to extend St. Marys' lead to 31-25 early in the third quarter, Elida got things tied up at 34-34 on a Mathias 3-pointer. Elida's Max Strubaugh and St. Marys' Jarrett Taylor traded putbacks before Mathias put the game on his back. He hit back-to-back treys in transition with a low-lining shot that hit nothing but net both times. Elida went up 42-36 and never trailed again.
Elida shot 8-of-13 in the third quarter and 7-of-12 in the fourth quarter while baskets eluded the Roughrider in the second half.
St. Marys' Zaerr made a basket in the paint to get the Riders to within 44-40, but Elida scored the next eight points.
St. Marys went 1-for-12 from the floor in the fourth quarter as Elida began hounding shooters.
"We were really passive defensively in the first half," Thompson said. "We were going to switch their action. Even when we switched, we didn't do it with any intensity. We allowed them to get shots and we allowed them to be comfortable shooting those shots. In the second half we picked up our intensity and got to their shooters better."
"We needed a shot to fall there in the fourth quarter," Hegemier said. "Sometimes a one or two passes and a shot is not good. We need to run half court and we need to show more patience."
St. Marys will host New Bremen tonight in a make-up game that was snowed out on Jan. 21. The junior varsity game against the Cardinals will tip off at 6 p.m.


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Those who appreciate Sam Harris' book will also want to look at "Created From Animals - The Moral Implications of Darwinism" by James Rachels; Oxford Univ. Press, 1990; available in paper. I've found this to be an absolutely absorbing book, having read it now numerous times (as I have Harris' book). It's beautifully written, very "accessible" and has a lot to tell us. The chapter titles—after the first one, being a brief biography of Darwin himself—will give you a feeling: How Evolution and Ethics Might be Related, Must a Darwinian be Sceptical About Religion?, How Different are Humans from Other Animals? and Morality without the Idea that Humans are Special. I very strongly recommend it for being on your shelf right next to The End of Faith.
Sadly, Rachels, a philosopher and medical ethicist, died in 2003. But long-live Sam!
(Also sadly, I'm afraid faith in unverifiable propositions will always be with us, the most disastrous of such being, of course, the faith in an afterlife. All others, humankind could put up with but that one is the killer, literally, since it's what allows, "He who dies killing others will live forever in paradise". ...and its corollary, "The more you kill, the sooner you will get there.")
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Northeast Florida Minorcans trace their occupation of rural communities of St. Johns County as far back as the 1800s. It was then that families migrated from St. Augustine to the rich farmlands at Bakerville and Moccasin Branch where potatoes, cabbage and other produce would grow abundantly and where hunting for wild boar, turkeys, deer and other wildlife sustained their food requirements.
In 1763 Scottish physician Dr. Andrew Turnbull, accepted a land grant for an area in Florida from the British with the stipulation that he establish a settlement in the area near the Ponce de Leon Inlet. He started gathering up Greek recruits whom he stationed at the port of Mahon in Minorca while he sought additional recruits. He found Italian males, mainly from Leghorn, Italy, who were willing to join his adventure. They were also brought to Minorca. Greeks from the Island of Corsica also signed with Turnbull. When he returned to Mahon he found that many of the Italians had married Minorcan women. An additional group of about 1,000 Minorcans persuaded Turnbull to accept them as colonists. A total of 1,403 left on the voyage, but 148 died enroute. After a brief stop in St. Augustine, the settlers continued south to the area that was named New Smyrna where they proceeded to establish an indigo plantation.
The Minorcans revolted after 10 years of harsh treatment. The surviving 300-plus pilgrims fled to St. Augustine on foot seeking justice and refuge.
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The first Open Championship was played over three rounds of Prestwick's 12-hole course on October 17, 1860. The event was inspired by the Earl of Eglinton and Colonel James Fairlie and at their instigation the members of Prestwick contributed funds for an extravagant belt of red leather adorned with silver buckle and decorations.
It was only at the beginning of October that letters were sent to leading clubs inviting them to send up to three of their best caddies, who were the first professionals, to take part in the event. Just eight men played in that first challenge and Willie Park of Musselburgh beat Tom Morris by two strokes with a score of 174. No prizes were awarded until 1873 when Park again triumphed and received £10.
Although the following year's championship was declared "open to the whole world" the number of contestants rose to only 12, and this time Morris took the honours. He and his son, Young Tom, were to dominate the event, winning four times each by 1872.
Young Tom was awarded the belt outright after winning three in a row from 1868, achieved with ever decreasing scores. His 36-hole total in 1870 was 149 - 13 strokes better than any other champion's winning score. The event had always been played at Prestwick until this point, but in raising funds for a new trophy the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers were invited to contribute and to stage the championship in turn. It was at this point that the famous silver claret jug replaced the belt as the Open trophy.
It was not until 1894 that other venues were added to the rota and Royal St George's, at Sandwich in Kent, became the first non-Scottish club to enter the history of the Open, followed in 1897 by the Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake in Cheshire.
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By Meg Carter, ChildFund Sponsorship Communication Specialist
In our age of email, blogs, instant messaging, Facebook and Twitter, letter writing is mostly a lost art. Yet for generations, people have corresponded with each other. Scholars now study the many letters written by ordinary people to formulate their social and cultural histories.
When did you last take up pen and paper to write a letter? Remember how you paused a moment to hold your loved one in your heart before your words took shape on paper? Letters are gifts. And that's the point of National Letter Writing Day, celebrated each Dec. 7.
For the children we sponsor, letters are an extra-special gift. They're tangible symbols of our care and concern, so treasured that, if you visit a sponsored child's home, you're likely to find it displayed. You might see the wall of a mud hut completely covered with a sponsor's cards and letters, or discover years of correspondence bound up in precious silk or leather for safekeeping. Often our words transform these children's worlds, filling young hearts with hopes and dreams. Their lives will never be the same.
Whether this is your first or 50th time corresponding with your sponsored child, consider sending a letter or postcard today. Overseas postage is $1.05, for either a postcard or a standard-sized envelope of 1 ounce or less. You can order your stamps online in blocks of four, 10 or 20.
What to write? If you're getting ready for Christmas, describe your own traditions. In most cultures, holidays are primarily about time spent with family and friends. So if your child happens to be Christian, ask about their own celebration. (In Belarus and Ethiopia, where Christians follow the Orthodox calendar, the date for Christmas is Jan. 7.)
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In Cambodia, Meak Bochea Day, the day of spirituality, occurs around Feb. 25, while Thailand recognizes the Buddha's teachings on Makha Bucha Day, which falls on March 11.
What can you enclose with your letter? Keep "flat and light" in mind. For younger children, stickers, origami paper or balloons are fine gifts. Older ones might enjoy a short poem or story about your culture or holiday traditions. This gives them an opportunity to respond in kind. You may find some stories in common. The B'rer Rabbit tales, for example, are based on West African folklore about a trickster hare called Leuk – Leuk, le lièvre, in French.
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My friend Nikhil was nice enough to take this picture for me with Tim. I got Tim's tennis card autographed the following year.
May 2009 (Wimbledon): they still speak very highly of Tim and his accomplishments; his cousin Jenny played in Arlington a few times - very pleasant people =)
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He autographed his player's card on the last year of his tour (before he retired):
A wiki admin, Bryan Tong Minh, about 4 years ago posted it up as his official photo:
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Tim as he was leaving his practice session with his coach at the time, Paul Annacone (now Federer's coach) stopped so that he could take a picture with me. Here's a picture of Nikhil and Marat Safin (which also became his official Wiki picture too!)
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1991: Julie L. Conley served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali in Nampossela beginning in 1991
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Julie L. Conley can be contacted at jconley816agmaildcom
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Cities you served in: Nampossela
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House Republicans want to know how and why President
Obama's Labor Department decided that businesses do not need to give federal
contractors 60 days' notice of the mass layoffs that are set to happen on Jan.
2 -- unless Congress does something to stop the automatic budget cuts
(sequestration) that will take effect on that date.
On Thursday, Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), chairman of the
House Education and Workforce Committee, along with Reps. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.)
and Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) sent a letter to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, requesting
information "related to the development of controversial guidance" concerning
sequestration and advance notice of impending layoffs.
Federal law -- the WARN Act -- requires businesses with
more than 100 employees to give employees 60 days' notice of mass layoffs or
plant closings. That means notices for mass layoffs on Jan. 2 would have to go
out no later than Nov. 2 -- which is just four days before the Nov. 6
presidential election.
On July 30, the Labor Department issued "guidance,"
stating that federal contractors affected by sequestration do not need to
provide 60 days' advance notice of mass layoffs. Doing so "would be
inconsistent with the purpose of the WARN Act," the guidance said.
In their letter to Solis, Reps. Kline, Walberg and Roe called the guidance "misleading
and incomplete."
"In short, the department creates the false
impression that the guidance confers blanket immunity from the WARN Act, when
in reality a contractor's failure to issue 60-day notices regarding
sequestration-caused layoffs could result in costly private litigation."
The lawmakers called it "disconcerting" that the
Labor Department's guidance fails to note that the federal government
"plays no role in the WARN Act's enforcement." The Republicans noted
that enforcement of the WARN Act is the sole responsibility of the federal
courts. So businesses could still be sued and penalized, regardless of the
advice dispensed by the Labor Department.
The lawmakers "respectfully" requested
"information, documents and communications related to the guidance."
Rep. Kline described the Labor Department's guidance as
"a political document" that creates uncertainty for employers -- and
"leaves countless workers in the dark about whether they will lose their
In its guidance, the Labor Department said that
"efforts are being made to avoid sequestration," making its
occurrence "not necessarily foreseeable."
But as "The Hill" newspaper reported
on Friday, there are "increased fears in Washington that Congress might decide
not to act to prevent the nation from going over the so-called fiscal cliff."
Some Republicans have complained that President Obama,
frequently on the campaign trail, is providing no leadership on efforts
to avert sequestration.
Said Kline: "The president can end the debate over
the WARN Act right now by providing real transparency to the sequestration
process and working with Congress on responsible reforms that will help fix the
nation's debt crisis. Until that time, the committee will conduct oversight of
the administration's attempt to hide from workers the devastating consequences
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Passionate about freedom
In preparation for an upcoming get-together with my sister and brother, I've been organizing and printing some family tree information that I think might be particularly interesting to them.
On my father's side of the family, there are several lines that go back to early colonial days in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina. And on my mom's side of the family, some of her maternal grandmother's people were here during the same time period, in Maryland, Delaware and North Carolina. Almost all of these folks were from England originally, and several of them participated in the American Revolution.
Tonight, I made a list of our Revolutionary ancestors with a brief description of their service. I'm going to include it in the family info I'm assembling for my siblings. It's not a proper genealogical document yet because I didn't list out the sources, but I will improve it in the future.
When I counted the names on my list, I saw that we have at least ten Revolutionary patriots and/or soldiers in our family tree. I am immensely proud to be their descendant, but I am also humbled as I think of their willingness to risk their lives for the cause of freedom and independence.
I've read several of their applications for war pensions, in which they described their service, and I've decided that we have far too little respect for the American colonists who fought for freedom and independence. We say the word "sacrifice" so glibly when we talk about them, and we don't even think about what their sacrifices really were or what hardships they endured. (And that's true for all soldiers in every war, not just for my ancestors.)
I wonder if my Revolutionary ancestors would be as proud of me as I am of them. And what would they think of the nation now? The preservation of hard-won, blood-bought freedom is such an important responsibility -- am I doing my part?
Here are their names:
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Ezra Caswell
Private for 3 years in Capt. Thomas Converse's Connecticut line, discharged at Fishkill, NY.
Smith Mapes and
Samuel Mapes
Smith Mapes and his father Samuel Mapes were signers of the Revolutionary Pledge and both served in the Second ("South-end") Regiment, Ulster County, New York Militia, under Colonel James McGlaghry.
Jeremiah Cory
Private in the Morris County Militia (New Jersey). The Indiana DAR* notes that he was taken prisoner during his service.
Isaac Messenger
Isaac served in Capt. Amassa Mill's Company, Connecticut Regiment, 5th Regiment of Light Horse. Seven Messenger brothers served, and all survived the war. Only one was wounded.
Reuben Martin
According to his Revolutionary War pension application, he served in Sussex County, New Jersey, militia in the company of his brother, Captain John Martin, commanded by another brother, Colonel Edmond Martin; was under Colonel Edmond Martin in the battle of the Brandywine, where he was wounded and at Germantown, and was at Middle Brook May 10, 1778, under the same brother.
Nathan Slaughter
02 Mar 1778, Subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity (made his "A" mark) before the Hon. Richard Mason, Caroline County, Maryland. (This doesn't seems quite as illustrious an act of service as some of the others, but signing an oath of allegiance is considered an act of patriotism by the DAR* and SAR**.)
Basil Israel
Maryland Militia. Commissioned as Ensign, August 28, 1777, and served for the duration of the war in various capacities, according to SAR and family records.
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Islay, "Queen of the Hebrides" is around 20 miles by 20 miles. With its nine distilleries - Bunnahabhain, Bruichladdich, Bowmore, Caol Ila, Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Lagavulin ,Kilchoman and the reopened Port Charlotte distillery - it is easy to see why Islay is probably most famous for its whisky. Port Ellen closed it's doors in 1983. And in 2004 a ale brewery opened, Islay Ale Brewery. Which's been awarded with 'The Best Real Ale' award.
Other destinations
The Isle of Jura, five minutes ferry ride from Port Askaig. (Note that the ferry terminal on Jura is 8 miles from the main village and that public transport only meets certain ferries).
CalMac ferries run to the Isle of Colonsay on a Wednesday (summer only) and this is an enjoyable day trip.
Getting there
The Islay has two ferry ports Port Ellen and Port Askaig, the ferry journey is a 2 hour 20 mins trip from the mainland, it leaves from Kennacraig, near Tarbert (Loch Fyne) on the Mull of Kintyre, which is about 2 and half hours from Glasgow by car. Caledonian MacBrayne operate the ferries and Citylink coaches connect with some ferries at Kennacraig. There are two or more trips per day, with more ferries going to Port Ellen than Port Askaig.
Be aware that no ferries are running to Port Ellen until further notice. This is due to the fact that a new ferry, the MV Finlaggan, will enter service from May 2011, and the ferry terminal in Port Ellen will be undergoing a major overhaul to allow the Finlaggan to berth.
British Airways also runs two return flights per day between Glasgow international airport and Islay airport.
Get around
Islay Coaches runs buses which serve the main towns and villages.
Hitchhiking is easy and relatively safe on Islay.
Bicycle hire is available in Bowmore (next to the Post Office) and two companies on the island offer car hire - Islay Car Hire and MacKenzies
Take a distillery tour. Even if you don't like whisky it's really interesting to learn about the distilling process and see how the distilleries have shaped island life. If you do like whisky you generally get a free taster. The main tours are available at Bowmore and Ardbeg distilleries where there are visitors centres and dedicate tour guides, though it may be possible to tour other distilleries by appointment.
Use the swimming pool, sauna and gym at the McTaggart leisure centre in Bowmore.
You can sit on the beach at The Oa, and watch as Highland cow stroll past
The cafe at Ardbeg distillery is wonderfully rustic with some great menu choices including good soups and home baking.
There is a good Indian restaurant in the centre of Bowmore.
Port Ellen has limited options in the evening - the White Hart serves bar meals and there is an Indian restaurant in the main street. The Machrie Golf Club, approx 3 miles away (near the airport) is a better option.
An Taigh Osda in Bruichladdich offers fine dining but its small dining room (it also has B&B) means that booking is essential at weekends and during the summer months.
The Port Charlotte Hotel does good bar meals and often has live music. The Port Mor Centre, on the road out of Port Charlotte towards Portnahaven, serves lunches and snacks, with a family-friendly play area outside.
The Ballygrant Inn does good home baking and evening meals.
The Port Askaig Hotel is a pleasant pub which does average bar meals.
The Port Charlotte Hotel is a lively venue which does meals and often has live traditional music. There is a beer garden at the back. Even if you are not a whisky drinker, ask to see their whisky menu - a remarkable list of different bottlings from the island's distilleries. If you want to try - beware, as some of the rarer ones are as much as £50 a dram!
In Port Ellen, the White Hart Hotel has a bar and pool table - you can also take your drinks outside to the grassy area across the road.
The Port Askaig Hotel is one of the island's oldest inns and has picnic tables at the front.
Stay safe
Islay is a pretty safe place and any crime here is likely to be big news.
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It's the only programming language I was ever somewhat proficient in (when I was about six years old). I never moved beyond it, and now, I know nothing about programming. BASIC has played a huge role in the history of computing, and its birthday deserves to be a thing.
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I get the impression that, with the increasing use of technology (scanners, genetics,etc) psychology is beginning to be seen as hard science and that more men are getting involved. Anybody else think so?
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Haven't men always dominated the field? My husband was a psychologist.
At the top, perhaps.The professorships tend to be a male preserve.
In my "career", I've seen (as far as I can remember) 2 psychiatrists (male) 3 consultant/senior psychiatrists (female) and 4 psychologists (female). One of the consultants once blurted out, in a group therapy sessiom, "of course men are superior to women", blushed a deep red and tried to save herself by adding "in some areas" rather too late to be credible.
So how much do you see it changing then?
Mostly in research fields, where the big toys are. A number of men also become consultants for large organisations. Most "front-line" therapists are women. Most men who become psychiatrists are those medical students who just scraped through their final exams and needed to be diverted into a specialty where they "couldn't do any harm".
I don't mean that as a blanket condemnation of the whole bunch. It's just my years of experience as a very jaded patient coming out.
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. . . "The machines now in use are so radically different from those of fifty years ago, so perfect in propelling power, so easy to ride, so swift of motion, so useful as a means of conveyance, that it seems impossible for history to repeat itself with regard to the present mania" (20).
Pratt comments: "we can pity the man with the poor thing" that he was describing.
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Think of it as a Hitchcock-a-palooza.
It may be the summer of such blockbuster spectacles as "Man of Steel," "The Lone Ranger" and "World War Z," but it's also the summer of movies by a real-life legend: Alfred Hitchcock.
His films are screening at several venues around L.A. in the coming weeks. Some of them will be familiar to audiences, others not.
On Tuesday at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is showing both the sound and silent versions of his 1929 thriller "Blackmail." The latter is part of the Hitchcock 9 project, the British Film Institute's restoration of all nine surviving Hitchcock silent films.
Then Wednesday at the Goldwyn the academy will screen the recently restored 1954 thriller "Dial M for Murder," which Hitchcock shot in 3-D. The following evening at Oscars Outdoors in Hollywood, the academy and Film Independent are offering a symposium on iconic moments in costume design followed by a screening of 1958's "Vertigo," which last year was named the best movie ever made in a poll of 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors by Sight & Sound magazine.
The academy and Los Angeles County Museum of Art are also collaborating on the Hitchcock 9 screening series, which opens June 27 with Hitchcock's 1929 romantic melodrama "The Manxman" at the Bing Theater. British composer Stephen Horne will be providing live accompaniment of his new score.
Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre is also drinking from the Hitchcock well this month, screening several of his sound films, including 1964's "Marnie" and 1972's "Frenzy."
Randy Haberkamp, the academy's managing director for programming, education and preservation, said that this expansive celebration of all things Hitchcock began after the British Film Institute finished its mammoth restoration of the nine silent movies.
"We contacted the BFI immediately and said, 'We want to do something with those films in Los Angeles,'" he said.
Last November the academy screened the restored 1927 romantic melodrama "The Ring" as "kind of a kick-off," he said. "These nine films are playing San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles within a few weeks of each other and we thought it would be a great way to kick off a larger celebration. We got lucky that Warner Bros had [restored] 'Dial M for Murder,' and Film Independent came to us with the costume design idea. So we thought, 'Let's do it up big and celebrate.'"
Haberkamp has wanted to screen both versions of "Blackmail" since he saw the silent one some 25 years ago. "Blackmail" is considered the first British talkie, but Hitchcock also shot a silent version for theaters that were not then equipped to screen sound films.
"I was blown away by how different the silent version was and how good it was," Haberkamp said. "For me it was the textbook-case scenario of somebody who was a complete master of silent film and taking that and turning the same movie into a really truly groundbreaking use of sound. It's not that one is better than the other, but they are both fascinating examples of a master at the top of his game."
The silent "Blackmail" will also screen again at LACMA on July 13.
It took the BFI "three years, lots of people and lots of money" to restore and preserve these early Hitchcock films, said Bryony Dixon, curator of silent film at the BFI National Archive in London.
In the case of Hitchcock's first film, 1925's "The Pleasure Garden," the BFI was able to restore 20 minutes of footage that had been cut out of the British version of the film. But in the case of 1927's "Easy Virtue," the only print known to exist was 16 mm and in terrible condition.
"All we were able to do was copy it, clean it up and redo some of the intertitles," Dixon said. "Then blow it up to 35 mm. I am hoping one day someone will find another print."
The nine films in the series thrillers such as 1926's "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog," which the director himself described as "the first true Hitchcock picture," 1927's "Downhill" and "Easy Virtue," which both explore the "wrong man" themes he would return to time and again, and two comedies from 1928, "The Farmer's Wife" and "Champagne."
So why does Hitchcock still capture the imagination of modern audiences and filmmakers alike?
"I think there is something quite modern about his aesthetic, something contemporary in his cinematic style," Horne said. "He understood you don't need to give the audience too much information. I think he respected the audience. He knew that they would get things without it all being spelled out."
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With her blonde and bubbly personality, you would never suspect Julianne Hough has a dark, tragic past. But in the February issue of Cosmopolitan she reveals a horrifying history of abuse that started when she was 10 years old.
She told the magazine that while her parents were back home in Utah, she went away to London to study dance at the prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Arts, and that's where it started. "I was abused, mentally, physically, everything," she said.
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I was 10 years old looking like I was 28, being a very sensual dancer. I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy façade because that was my job and my life. But my heart was the same, and I was this innocent little girl. I wanted so much love.
It's heartbreaking and terrifying to me as the mother of a young girl to hear her story. I can't imagine letting my daughter go to London alone when she's 10, but the fact is it can happen anywhere. It also reaffirms every gut reaction I have when I watch shows like Toddlers& Tiaras in which young girls are sexualized way too young.
And, of course, Hough isn't the first star to drop such a bombshell. From AnnaLynne McCord, who in September revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse, to Ashley Judd and Maria Menounos, there are have been a number of celebrities who have stepped forward to tell their stories. It happens too often.
Hough made the revelation as her film Safe Haven in which she plays a domestic abuse survivor is set to open February 14. She said while it was painful to relive some of the emotions she experienced as a child, it also helped her in a way. Of one scene she said, "I went from bawling to containing to laughing to crying again. Josh was crying. I think it was the most therapeutic moment of my life."
Overall, I think she's brave for coming forward like this, and I'm impressed that she's been able to thrive in life as she has despite what happened. But I also can't help but feeling a little disappointed that she never went after the person or persons that did this to her too.
Instead she said: "I'm a very forgiving person, and I don't want to hurt anybody. What's past is past." Which is great on one hand, but I also worry about the message it sends to children who may be being abused now.
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