Toshiba Thrive 7

There are a lot of similar 7-inch Android?tablets?out there. Toshiba's Thrive 7 ($379.99 direct) ramps up the screen resolution from competing models, but ultimately doesn't provide a richer experience. The Thrive 7 is a fine tablet, it's just not the most of anything: neither the slimmest, lightest, fastest, or cheapest, and its short battery life is a real bummer.?

Design, Screen, and Connectivity
The Thrive 7 tablet is, for the most part, a scale model of the original 10-inch Thrive?($429.99, 3.5 stars), with the same ridged-texture backing, camera placement, and black plastic frame. Toshiba did a nice job slimming down its new smaller tablet. At 7.44 by 5.04 by 0.48 inches and?13.3 ounces, the Thrive 7 is on par with the T-Mobile Springboard 4G?($429.99, 3.5 stars) and slightly thicker than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7?($399, 3.5 stars). The plastic frame feels cheaper than that of the Galaxy Tab 7, and downright chintzy next to the Springboard's aluminum body.

The original Thrive had some great features not found on other tablets, including its full-sized ports and removable battery. Those are missing here. The Thrive 7 has a familiar port flap, but behind it are a micro HDMI port, mini USB port, and a micro SD slot, all of which are pretty common on a lot of tablets these days. Along the left side you will find a Power button, volume rocker, orientation-lock switch, and the aforementioned plastic flap. On the top of the tablet there's a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, as well as the 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera on the reverse side. The rear camera is too easy to cover with your hand in landscape mode. The bottom houses a comically-large charging port. Two speaker grilles flank the oversized port and, in casual listening, go very loud for such a small tablet.

The display on the Thrive 7 is truly a beauty. It features the same resolution, 1280-by-800 pixels, as its larger 10-inch sibling, but packed more densely into a 7-inch TFT LCD, making for really sharp images and text. Both the brightness and viewing angle are also very good.

That high-res screen comes with one caveat, though: it makes many links and buttons small and hard to press accurately. But it wasn't just that links were small?sometimes I would press one area and the touch would register relatively far off. This was particularly inconvenient while browsing full websites, as the inaccuracy made for frustrating mistaken clicks. I also noticed occasional dead spots on the screen, where no touches would register until I closed out of an app or, in some cases, rebooted the tablet.

The Thrive 7 is a Wi-Fi-only tablet, connecting to 802.11b/g/n networks. There is also Bluetooth, which made it easy to pair with headphones without any noticeable lag in audio while watching movies.

The 7-inch device comes in two models, a 16GB for $379.99 and a 32GB for $429.99. It's less expensive than the Galaxy Tab 7, but still far more expensive than the stripped-down Amazon Kindle Fire?($199, 4 stars) and Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet?($249, 4 stars). I was able to easily expand the memory using a 32GB microSD card.

Performance, OS and Apps
Toshiba went with the same dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and Android Honeycomb 3.2 found on most other Android tablets. Benchmark performance was pretty much the same as every other Nvidia Tegra 2 based tablet we've tested thus far.

This tablet runs stock Android. Most Android geeks prefer this basic version of the OS, but personally, I prefer Samsung's TouchWiz extensions and skinning. There are a few preloaded apps and widgets, all of which can be easily removed. One link takes you to Toshiba's App Place in the browser, a pretty useless collection of Web services. For apps, it's back to the Android Market; as on all Honeycomb tablets, it's still sorely lacking a proper collection of easy to find, tablet-optimized apps. The included apps were far more useful, with Quickoffice HD, PrinterShare, and Toshiba's File Manager, which made file management quick, easy and convenient.

Toshiba curiously hides the stock music and video player,?opting?instead for a Toshiba branded media player. The Thrive 7 was able to play 3GP,?DivX,?H.264,?M4V, MP4, and WMV video at?resolutions?up to 1080p. Tablet-optimized apps work well and, like on most 7 inchers, phone apps look pretty good too.

Camera performance on the Thrive 7 was decent, as far as tablets go, with sharp images and relatively low noise, though I could only take pictures and video using the rear-facing camera. The front-facing camera works with video chat, but the results are less than stellar and video chatting via tablets still has a long way to go. The Thrive 7 is capable of recording 720p30 video, but recorded video was extremely jittery and even the slightest movement caused a lot of blur.

In our battery test, which loops a video on max brightness with Wi-Fi on, the Thrive 7 lasted just 3 hours, 50 minutes. This was pretty disappointing compared with the thinner and lighter Galaxy Tab 7, which delivered 6 hours, 33 minutes in the same test.

Conclusions
Although the Toshiba Thrive 7 eliminates a lot of its bigger sibling's bulk, it also eliminates some features that made the original Thrive stand out, like the full-sized ports and removable battery. The screen on the Thrive 7 is superb and most things work smoothly, but the difficulty navigating full-sized websites and the poor battery life are disappointing. If a high-resolution screen is a must, the Springboard has longer battery life, a more accurate touch screen, a cellular data option, and also sports a far superior all-aluminum construction, but all that comes at a higher price tag. This is a good tablet at a decent price, but it just doesn't do enough to beat some of its more-polished competitors like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7, or more budget-friendly tablets like the Kindle Fire.

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Rancho Cordova Swears in New Mayor and Vice Mayor

Dr. David Sander and Linda Budge were sworn in as Mayor and Vice Mayor, respectively, at the Rancho Cordova City Council meeting on Monday, December 19. Both have been members of the City Council since Rancho Cordova incorporated in 2003.

Mayor Sander was sworn in by his wife, Dr. Margaret Parsons, with their six-year-old son, Charles, holding the family Bible. Vice Mayor Budge?s special guests were her husband, Lee Garrison, and her 90-year-old mother, Norma Niblett from Tucson, AZ.

Serving his second term as Mayor, Sander said that he wants to keep moving forward on Growing Strong Neighborhood goals with a special focus on economic development efforts and citizen engagement with community meetings, projects, walks, and other activities.

?We?ve made great progress in reinventing Rancho Cordova and changing it from a suburb facing decline to a city with a bright future, but there is much more remaining to be done,? he commented. ?We will continue our efforts to bolster the health of our neighborhoods, raise our residents? quality of life, and provide every opportunity for future growth and economic development.?

Mayor Sander served as Rancho Cordova Mayor in 2007 and as Vice Mayor in 2006 and 2011. He is the Principal and Founder of Sander and Associates, a public affairs and internet consulting/development firm that specializes in medical and scientific projects.

He is a member of the National Civic League board of directors and represents the City on several other national, state, and area committees and boards. Vice Mayor Budge is an American Institute Certified Planner and the owner of Geometra Planning & Permitting.

She is a 2011 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education program. She served as Mayor in 2004 and 2008 and as Vice Mayor in 2007 and Mayor Pro Tempore in 2003. Other members of the Rancho Cordova City Council are Robert McGarvey who just completed his second term as Mayor; Ken Cooley, and Dan Skoglund.

City Council meetings are held the first and third Mondays of the month (except on Monday holidays) at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, located at 2729 Prospect Park Drive. For more information about the Council meetings, please contact the City Clerk?s office at (916) 851-8720.

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Elderly can be as fast as young in some brain tasks, study shows

ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2011) ? Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some settings. But recent research suggests that much of that slower response is a conscious choice to emphasize accuracy over speed.

In fact, healthy older people can be trained to respond faster in some decision-making tasks without hurting their accuracy -- meaning their cognitive skills in this area aren't so different from younger adults.

"Many people think that it is just natural for older people's brains to slow down as they age, but we're finding that isn't always true," said Roger Ratcliff, professor of psychology at Ohio State University and co-author of the studies.

"At least in some situations, 70-year-olds may have response times similar to those of 25-year olds."

Ratcliff and his colleagues have been studying cognitive processes and aging in their lab for about a decade. In a new study published online this month in the journal Child Development, they extended their work to children.

Ratcliff said their results in children are what most scientists would have expected: very young children have slower response times and poorer accuracy compared to adults, and these improve as the children mature.

But the more interesting finding is that older adults don't necessarily have slower brain processing than younger people, said Gail McKoon, professor of psychology at Ohio State and co-author of the studies.

"Older people don't want to make any errors at all, and that causes them to slow down. We found that it is difficult to get them out of the habit, but they can with practice," McKoon said.

Researchers uncovered this surprising finding by using a model developed by Ratcliff that considers both the reaction time and the accuracy shown by participants in speeded tasks. Most models only consider one of these variables.

"If you look at aging research, you find some studies that show older people are not impaired in accuracy, but other studies that show that older people do suffer when it comes to speed. What this model does is look at both together to reconcile the results," Ratcliff said.

Ratcliff, McKoon and their colleagues have used several of the same experiments in children, young adults and the elderly.

In one experiment, participants are seated in front of a computer screen. Asterisks appear on the screen and the participants have to decide as quickly as possible whether there is a "small" number (31-50) or a "large" number (51-70) of asterisks. They press one of two keys on the keyboard, depending on their answer.

In another experiment, participants are again seated in front of a computer screen and are shown a string of letters. They have to decide whether those letters are a word in English or not. Some strings are easy (the nonwords are a random string of letters) and some are hard (the nonwords are pronounceable, such as "nerse").

In the Child Development study, the researchers used the asterisk test on second and third graders, fourth and fifth graders, ninth and tenth graders, and college-aged adults. Third graders and college-aged adults participated in the word/nonword test.

The results showed that there was a rise in accuracy and decrease in response time on both tasks from the second and third-graders to the college-age adults.

The younger children took longer than older children and adults to respond in the experiment, Ratcliff said. They, like the elderly, were taking longer to make up their mind. But the younger children were also less accurate than younger adults in this study.

"Younger children are not able to make as good of use of the information they are presented, so they are less accurate," Ratcliff said. "That improves as they mature."

Older adults show a different pattern. In a study published in the journal Cognitive Psychology, Ratcliff and colleagues compared college-age subjects, older adults aged 60-74, and older adults aged 75-90. They used the same asterisk and word/nonword tests that were in the Child Development study. They found that there was little difference in accuracy among the groups, even the oldest of participants.

However, the college students had faster response times than did the 60-74 year olds, who were faster than the 75-90 year olds.

But the slower response times are not all the result of a decline in skills among older adults. In a previous study, the researchers encouraged older adults to go faster on these same tests. When they did, the difference in their response times compared to college-age students decreased significantly.

"For these simple tasks, decision-making speed and accuracy is intact even up to 85 and 90 years old," McKoon said.

That doesn't mean there are no effects of aging on decision-making speed and accuracy, Ratcliff said. In a study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Ratcliff, McKoon and another colleague found (like in studies from other laboratories) that accuracy for "associative memory" does decline as people age. For example, older people were much less likely to remember if they had studied a pair of words together than did younger adults.

But Ratcliff said that, overall, their research suggests there should be greater optimism about the cognitive skills of seniors.

"The older view was that all cognitive processes decline at the same rate as people age," Ratcliff said.

"We're finding that there isn't such a uniform decline. There are some things that older people do nearly as well as young people."

Ratcliff co-authored the Child Development paper with Jessica Love and John Opfer of Ohio State and Clarissa Thompson of the University of Oklahoma. Ratcliff and McKoon co-authored the Cognitive Psychology and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General papers with Anjali Thapar of Bryn Mawr College.

Some of the research was supported with grants from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Mental Health.

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Air Jordan 2012 ?University Blue?

Since photos of the Air Jordan 2012 surfaced in the Black/White and ?YOTD? colorway, it got most people wanting to see this Air Jordan model with more colorways. Here is a Tar Heels-inspired colorway in a University Blue and grey. The upper will be a blend of Flywire and a soft nubuck accented throughout the upper. The grey hints can be found on the mesh tongue and outsole complementing the tonal University Blue upper. Expect the Air Jordan 2012 ?University Blue? to release in the first quarter of 2012. The retail price will be set at $180. via AaronKnows

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Oscar Ballots 2012 Mailed Out

LOS ANGELES ? Academy Awards season is officially on. Nominations ballots for the 84th Oscar show have just gone in the mail.

Oscar organizers mailed ballots Tuesday to 5,783 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Ballots are due back Jan. 13, and Oscar nominations will be announced Jan. 24.

The Oscar ceremony is set for Feb. 26, with Billy Crystal returning as host for the first time in eight years.

Among this season's best-picture prospects are the black-and-white silent film "The Artist," the Deep South drama "The Help," George Clooney's family tale "The Descendants" and Steven Spielberg's World War I epic "War Horse."

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The Best Rants of the Year [Best Of 2011]

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Florida Has Yet To Pay Brain Injury Victim

Suffering a traumatic brain injury at birth through medical negligence often leads to a life of challenges. Not getting paid the $30.8 million awarded to you by a jury for your injury makes a challenging life even harder. This is just what has happened to a 14-year-old teenager thanks to the reticence of Florida legislatures, according to the teen?s attorneys.

Aaron Edwards was born at the Lee Memorial Health System in Florida in 1997. A jury determined in 2007 that Lee Memorial was negligent and failed to follow standard hospital rules and regulations, awarding the young victim $30.8 million.

Four years later, the family has been unable to collect the money.

The medical institution, a governmental entity, must have its claims reviewed by the Florida legislature before payments are made.

?It has become common practice with this Florida legislature to just sit on these claims bills so that they are rarely concluded,? said Edwards? attorneys.

?My Christmas wish this year is for the state of Florida to give me a fair hearing so that we can have the money for my? injuries that the court said we should have,? Edwards wrote, using a rudimentary communications board over a three week period.

We hope he gets his wish.

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Kudrin's 2 cents: Ex finance minister urges opposition-government ...

Former Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin addresses an authorized opposition rally "For Fair Election" on Sakharov Avenue, Moscow (AFP Photo / Alexander Vilf)

Erstwhile Russian finance minister Aleksey Kudrin has come up with his own program for overcoming the current political standoff and is ready to become a mediator between the protesters and the authorities.

Kudrin believes dialogue between the protesters and the power base is possible, he said in an interview with Vedomosti daily.

On Saturday, Kudrin made a surprise appearance at the biggest protest rally in Moscow in about 20 years. Tens of thousands of participants demanded fair elections, jeered the Kremlin, and chanted slogans against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Along with opposition leaders and other critics of the government, Kudrin addressed the crowd with a speech. He stressed that a broad political reform and amendments to the law on elections and registration of parties recently suggested by President Dmitry Medvedev should first be discussed with the opposition. Then, new parties should be created and an early State Duma vote should be held next year.

Kudrin agreed with protesters over the violations during the December 4 vote and that the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov should be dismissed. The protesters, however, were not terribly excited by the appeal and booed the former minister, who Putin recently called ?my long-standing friend.?

Explaining the reason behind his decision to turn up at the December 24 demonstration, Kudrin told Vedomosti that he is worried about the events in the country.

?I?ve analyzed them: everything that took place before and after the rally on Bolotnaya [Square], Putin?s live Q&A, Medvedev?s address [to the Federal Assembly,? he said.

?I realized that both sides ? the protesters? demands and Medvedev?s political initiatives ? have shortcomings. The rally demands the annulling of election results, but doesn?t consider how the country would live without a parliament. Medvedev, for his part, submitted his proposals without any public debate,? Kudrin pointed out.

The ex-minister stressed that instability must be prevented and ideas proposed by both sides should be discussed and adjusted.

Kudrin observed that completely different people ? from students and teachers to clerks and businessmen ? came to last Saturday?s meeting on Akademika Sakharova Boulevard. He noted that the members of rally?s organizing committee said that a dialogue with the authorities is possible. Kudrin urged the creation of a group of negotiators and drafting a list of demands to be put on the negotiating table.

Explaining his confidence over the leadership?s readiness to listen to protesters, Kudrin said he drew such conclusions after discussing the matter with Putin prior to the demonstration.

The ex finance chief stressed though that he himself made the decision to come to the rally and make an appeal, and underlined that Putin did not authorize him to become a negotiator. Kudrin noted that he is happy with his current independent position, would not want to lose it and if the sides manage to iron out differences without his help, he would only be glad.

Aleksey Kudrin noted that the main point of the rally was a demand for fair elections and even the protesters agree that whoever wins in a fair battle should rule the country.

?As I understood from the conversation with Putin, he is not afraid of the March 4 [presidential] vote and is ready to take all necessary measures in order to hold the elections fairly. I think this should be used in order to hold a model poll on March 4,? Kudrin concluded.

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