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RALEIGH — Back when he was mayor of Charlotte, Gov. Pat McCrory used to complain that traveling at night on the citys freeways with all their burned-out and broken highway lights was like driving on the dark side of the moon.
He took it statewide in a speech last week when he asked his transportation secretary, Tony Tata, to please fix the highway lights throughout North Carolina. It was his second sweeping directive to Tata, already tasked with making good on McCrorys terse campaign pledge to fix DMV.
For years, this was a big deal in Charlotte. City leaders felt neglected by state government, and they added highway lights to their bill of resentments. A TV news crew drove to Raleigh about six years ago to test a theory that the Triangle was awash in nocturnal illumination.
Lyndo Tippett, then the state transportation secretary, chuckled in response. Highway lights in the Triangle? Like, where?
The Road Worrier used to hear frequently from Triangle drivers who had a hard time finding their way at night. They cited reflective lane markers shaved off the pavement by snow plows and never replaced; signs, stripes and edge lines whose reflectivity has faded; and, especially, a dearth of highway lights.
We still have long, harrowing stretches of unlit highways across the Triangle, from two-lane country roads to eight-lane interstates. But the state Department of Transportation is making inroads in the darkness, sometimes with financial help from cities and towns.
In the last eight years, lighting has been incorporated into big road upgrades in Cary (U.S. 1), Wake Forest (N.C. 98) and Durham (Interstate 85). Sometimes a scary safety issue vandals throwing stuff off the Alston Avenue bridge in Durham, for example, and a man killed while walking across Chapel Hills N.C. 54 bypass has provided the impetus for a few hundred yards of highway lights.
DOT has begun hoisting thousand-watt bulbs on hundred-foot poles over major Triangle freeway interchanges. Its easier now to find your exit off the newly widened I-40 in West Raleigh. Fayetteville Street is no longer the only bright spot on I-40 in Durham.
Raleigh and DOT balked at illuminating the Beltline in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. But lights have been added during the past decade to interchanges along the northern 540 Outer Loop. The upcoming I-40 and I-440 rebuild across South Raleigh will include lots of lights, too.
Charlottes dark-road problem is different from the Triangles not so much a lack of new lights as a failure by DOT to take care of the old ones.
It makes for a very dangerous situation, McCrory told News & Observer reporter Rob Christensen last week. It was a big issue when I was mayor. I could never get them fixed.
DOT engineers say things have improved in Charlotte. Lights at the interchange McCrory mentioned in his State of the State speech I-85 at I-77 have been switched on again.
There were some lights in the vicinity that were out temporarily, and that was due to a burned-out circuit, said Louis Mitchell, DOT division engineer for the Charlotte area. There were issues in years past when he was mayor. We had sections of freeway lighting that were out. But thats not the case now.
Jon Nance, DOTs deputy chief engineer, said the department is looking at a more comprehensive approach to maintaining our light systems across the state so those highway lights wont burn out again.
Meanwhile, back in the Triangle, the highway with the best illumination is the one that needs it the least.
The N.C. Turnpike Authority ignored DOT recommendations when it splurged on lights for all 18.8 miles of North Carolinas first modern toll road, the Triangle Expressway. TriEx is sometimes busy at rush hour, but it is six lanes of stillness at night: a clean, well-lighted place.
You can spread your newspaper on the TriEx pavement, and no one will bother you. Take a picnic. Its a good place to catch up your reading at night, if you dont mind paying the toll.
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Master of Science in Teaching (MST) Program - FAQs for Prospective Students
On this page you will find information and various links to help guide your application process and answer any questions you may have.
Various Links/Forms:
UMaine Graduate School Homepage
Graduate School Application 2014
Graduate School Application Instructions
UMaine Virtual Tour
Campus Map
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
- What forms do I need to fill out in order to apply to the MST program?
- Do I need to take the Graduate Requisite Exam (GRE) in order to get into the program?
- What is a thesis-based program?
- What is a thesis?
- Do I have to take the Praxis exams? If so, which ones?
- How much is the stipend?
- Will I have to student teach in order to graduate from the program?
- What is involved in student teaching?
- Do I need to have a Bachelor's degree in a Math or Science related field to apply to the program?
- What pre-requisites do I need to be accepted into the program?
- What is involved in a Teaching Assistantship (TA) position?
- Can I be a part-time MST student?
- Do I pay tuition?
What forms do I need to fill out in order to apply to the MST program
Below is a link to application instructions from the University of Maine Graduate School: Application Instructions.
In addition, click on Current Graduate School Application for a link to the Graduate School application for the current year.
In your application essay, please indicate whether or not you are planning to work toward certification, and let us know the area in which you are most interested in concentrating. Include a description of any related teaching experiences, as well as any other information that will help us get to know your qualifications and interests better.
To expedite handling of your application, and avoid paying the application fee, send all application materials to Leisa Preble, Maine RiSE Center, 5727 Estabrooke Hall, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469-5784. Please instruct your references to send their letters to this address as well, and have your transcripts sent there. Application fees will be paid by the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) for students accepted into the program.
Please make sure to indicate on your application whether or not you are interested in studying full time, and if you would like to be considered for an assistantship or a tuition scholarship.
If courses offered in a location other than the Orono campus would be helpful for you, please indicate this preference on your application.
Both full-time and part-time students are encouraged to apply.
Do I need to take the Graduate Requisite Exam (GRE) in order to get into the program?
Yes. GRE scores are required for all applicants, but no subject test is required.
What is a thesis-based program?
A thesis-based program is one where a completed thesis (including an Oral Defense) is required to graduate.
What is a thesis?
A thesis is an original research project. Within the MST program your thesis topic needs to be based upon original research related to science or mathematics education. Your thesis committee can help you come up with some ideas, but in the end you need to ask yourself…"What am I interested in?"
Do I have to take the Praxis exams? If so, which ones?
If you wish to become a certified teacher through student teaching, you need to take the Praxis I exam, and the Praxis II (content specific) exam. You are not required to take the Praxis Methods exam. Completing SMT 501-502, 503-504, or 505-506 classes satisfies this methods requirement for the state.
How much is the stipend?
Assistantships range from $16,000 – $21,500 per year and include a tuition waiver.
Will I have to student teach in order to graduate from the program?
This depends on your intentions after graduating from the program. If you plan on teaching, and are not already a certified teacher, then you will have to student teach. If you decide that you do not want to teach after graduation then you do not have to student teach.
What is involved in student teaching?
Don't be scared, this is a milestone in every teacher's life. You will be placed into a Middle or High School and serve 15 weeks as a student teacher in either a science or mathematics classroom. You will be placed with an experienced teacher to supervise your instruction. In the beginning you will observe. Over time your role will become more active as you eventually take the lead in instructing the majority, if not all, of your supervisors' classes.
Do I need to have a Bachelor's degree in a Math or Science related field in order to apply to the program?
A Bachelor degree in a Math or Science related field may be helpful to you as a student, but is not required for application to the program. You only need to be sure that you have the proper prerequisites completed.
What pre-requisites do I need to be accepted into the program?
The link below will take you to the MST Prerequisites Page:
What is involved in a Teaching Assistantship (TA) position?
As a Teaching Assistant you may teach, or assist in teaching, a general discipline course or lab, or may be involved in some other work for the Center for Science and Education Research
Can I be a part-time MST student?
Absolutely! Courses are offered late in the day, and rotated through the summer sessions, so part-time students may tailor their study to their individual schedules. Practicing teachers are encouraged to develop thesis projects that take advantage of the teaching and learning in their own classrooms. Because full-time students generally receive teaching or research assistantships, some teachers might find it beneficial to take a year's sabbatical and spend it on campus completing part of the requirements for the MST, while being supported by a graduate assistantship.
Do I pay tuition?
Full-time students who are granted assistantships are also granted tuition waivers (up to 9 credits per semester). Part-time students are expected to pay for tuition, which may be covered by a teacher's local school district or education grant.

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MANKATO — A 19-year-old St. Paul man was arrested for making terroristic threats and fifth-degree assault after allegedly getting into a scuffle with three apartment complex security guards.
Police officers were called to an apartment at 36 Cottage Path, which is inside a gated complex, at about 1:25 a.m. Sunday. Security guards reported they were threatened and assaulted by Wayne Phillip Green while responding to a loud party complaint.
Green was pepper sprayed by the guards before officers arrived. He was taken to jail. A third charge of disruptive intoxication also was requested.


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With the CW's breakout drama Arrow receiving a full-season order today, there was also something for the network's other freshman series, Beauty And The Beast and Emily Owens, MD. I've learned that each has received an order for three additional scripts. Beauty And The Beast has been the stronger of the two out of the gate as it has a big lead-in from The Vampire Diaries. After a solid premiere, it dropped in Week 2. Meanwhile, Emily Owens, MD got off to a slow start in its debut last week.
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The Statewide Organization for Community Empowerment - formerly Save Our Cumberland Mountains - is moving its 16-year headquarters from Lake City to Knoxville.
SOCM has spent much of its history fighting mountain top removal in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains. According to the press release, the nonprofit is putting more emphasis on social justice advocacy work, and believe Knoxville is a better base for its expanded endeavors.
The move also is expected to strengthen SOCM's ties with other Knoxville-based nonprofits such as the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Jobs With Justice of East Tennessee, and Community Shares.
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Valpo Wins Third-Straight Mid-Con Title
Sunday, November 13, 2005Senior Katie Bova (Milwaukee, Wis./Divine Savior Holy Angels) fueled a match-changing 9-0 run midway through the third game to lead Valparaiso to a 30-26, 22-30, 30-22, 30-13 win over Oral Roberts, clinching the Crusaders' third-straight Mid-Continent Conference Regular Season Championship.
With the Golden Eagles up 16-15 in the third game, sophomore Heidi Hammond (Crown Point, Ind./Merrillville) stepped to the service line and saw the Crusaders rattle off nine straight points, three coming on Bova kills. Bova finished the match with 12 kills, 48 assists and 13 digs, the fifth triple-double of her career and fourth of this season. The senior, honored before the match with three of her teammates in a special Senior Day ceremony, hit .500 for the match to lead a Valpo attack that hit .325 overall, and a sensational .625 in the fourth game.
The entire senior class had strong performances in their final regular season match at the ARC, including Liz Mikos (Dundee, Ill./Jacobs). Mikos put down 12 kills, hitting .476, and had a match-high five blocks. The senior, who was named earlier this week to the District V All-Academic First Team, is now 10th all-time in career kills, in addition to being the school's all-time blocking leader.
Seniors Lauren Moulton (Elgin, Ill./Larkin), the 2004 Mid-Con Player of the Year, and Jessi Novak (Antigo, Wis.) also hit very well in the match. Moulton had 12 kills and three blocks, hitting .385, and Novak chipped in nine kills, 13 digs and a career-high four blocks.
The statistical leader on the afternoon for Valpo, however, was a sophomore, Amy Palash (Winfield, Ill./Saint Francis). Palash had a match-high 17 kills, hitting .304, to go along with 18 digs, her 15th double-double of the season.
The Golden Eagles (21-10, 12-2 Mid-Con) out-blocked the Brown and Gold 9.5-9.0, but were held to a .155 hitting percentage, hitting .059 and .061 in the third and fourth games respectively. Ori Zuzic led the Oral Roberts attack with 17 kills.
The Crusaders will now wait until next weekend to make a run at a third-straight Mid-Con Tournament title and berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Mid-Con's premier event will kick off Saturday night at the Athletics-Recreation Center at 5:00 p.m. with second-seeded Oral Roberts taking on Western Illinois. At 7:30 p.m., top-seeded Valpo will open their draw against IUPUI. The two winners will meet Sunday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m. to decide the conference title. All of the Crusaders' Mid-Continent Conference Tournament matches can be heard live on 95.1 FM, WVUR, and online at www.valpo.edu/athletics.
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Video games are replete with gangsters, zombies and other evil characters. But for the industry that makes those games, its scariest foe is Jim Steyer.
A longtime children's advocate, Steyer has taken up the flag against the game industry and lobbied zealously on behalf of a California law that bans the sale of violent games to minors. The law, which was struck down by lower federal courts as unconstitutional, is scheduled for a hearing Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court.


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Barbara Parmenter teaches the GIS courses in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, as well as a course on the history of US urban policy. As a member of Tufts¹ Geospatial Technology Services group, she also provides guidance in spatial analysis for researchers across the Tufts system, and develops university-wide GIS. She earned a Ph.D. in Geography from The University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Arabic from the University of Chicago. Her interests focus on the evolution of cities and metropolitan regions. Recent research collaborations include a National Institute of Health grant to study the influence of neighborhood factors on the maintenance of physical activity in minority women in Texas, and two EPA grants examining the impacts of urbanization on regional climate change. She is the author of Giving Voice to Stones: Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature (The University of Texas Press, 1994), and has translated two books of short stories by Arab women writers (On the Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales of Alienation, by Daisy al-Amir, 1995; and Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence, by Leila Abuzeid, 1989, both published by the University of Texas at Austin).
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Veteran TV producer Bruce Miller has written for "ER," "Medium" and most recently served as the co-show runner for the SyFy series "Eureka." He's now the sole show runner for SyFy's "Alphas" about a group of people with superhuman abilities. The second season premieres Monday.
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The Brooklyn Museum hosts the first Target First Saturday of 2013 on Jan. 5.
Here's the line-up:
"Outside the Frame"
5 p.m.
Ljova and the Kontraband fuses Eastern European and Roma melodies with Latin rhythms. Part of Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concert Series.Pop-up Talks
5:30–8:30 p.m.
Museum Guides lead lively discussions on some of the Museum's most intriguing works.Curator Talk
6 p.m.
Catherine Morris talks about the exhibitionMaterializing "Six Years."Dance Performance
6 p.m.
Company Stefanie Batten Bland performs A Place of Sun. The piece is inspired by the BP oil spill and marries visual and performing arts.Hands-on Art
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Everyone's used a frame to embellish a picture, but what about embellishing the frame itself? Design an unconventional frame to show your world in a new way.Artist Talk
7 p.m.
Taraka and Nimai Larson, the sisters behind the Brooklyn-based psychedelic rock band Prince Rama, give a performance presentation of their project The Now Age.Interactive Space
7–10 p.m.
Brooklyn-based collective Art House Co-op leads an activity exploring memory; Trade School builds a series of micro-learning stations, allowing visitors to learn new skills; and The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory leads a community class.Music
7:30 p.m.
New York City–based all-girl band Lez Zeppelin performs their take on the music of Led Zeppelin.
In Conversation
8:30 p.m.
Artists Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems talk with curator Eugenie Tsai about using their work to challenge conventional ideas of beauty, race, and gender.
Book Club
9 p.m.
Join the Writers for the 99% as they discuss their book Occupying Wall Street and the Occupy movement.Music
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Heems (aka Himanshu Suri) from Das Racist performs music from his new mix tape, Wild Water Kingdom, and his solo debut, Nehru Jackets, named one of SPIN's top 50 albums of 2012.


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The NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons has created at least one divided house in metro Atlanta.
I have lived in Atlanta for more than half of my life (we won't go into how many years that is).
I am an Atlanta Falcons fan, with one exception:
When the Dirty Birds play the Green Bay Packers — like they do this Sunday night — I see only green-and-gold. Yep, I'm a Cheesehead.
That's not a big deal, with one exception:
My 14-year-old son is partial to the red-and-black of the Falcons. He's a big fan, with more Falcons gear than most of his friends. Yep, I failed miserably as a football father.
You can probably guess that the house will hear a little bit of trash-talking this weekend.
Of how Matt Ryan, Tony Gonzalez and Julio Jones will dominate the Packers defense. Or, better, how Aaron Rodgers cannot be stopped in the Georgia Dome, like in last year's playoff game.
My son predicts the Falcons will win 28-21.
I predict the Packers will win 35-14.
We're both pretty adamant about those predictions, enough to put a much-needed chore on the line.
If the Pack wins, my son cleans his room to my satisfaction.
If the Falcons win, I clean his room to his satisfaction.
I like my chances.
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An examination of the city's outstanding obligation report reveals an apparent imbalance. Sewers accounted for 80 percent of the city of Clinton's outstanding debt at the end of last fiscal year. Of the $89 million in sewer revenue bonds and general obligation bonds combined, $70.9 million paid for sewer projects.
This borrowing is reflected in customer's sewer rates, which are obligated to pay what the city borrows in sewer revenue bonds. While city officials say they are working to deflect any future rate increases as a result of mandated sewer projects, more borrowing for these types of projects will occur in order to comply with the long-term control plan laid out by the Iowa DNR and EPA for keeping pollutants out of the Mississippi River.
"It's the circumstances we're in," City Finance Director Jessica Kinser said. "It is a big number, but the city has signed a consent decree saying we will do these things. That's the circumstance of our time."
Under threat of fines or court action, the city is required to complete a number of expensive projects. The plan requires the city to spend an estimated $95 to $105 million over the next 25 years on various projects to reduce the amount of combined sewer overflow events that end in waste, debris and other material being deposited into the river.
"You can kind of tell who has had to do some improvements to their system and who hasn't. Unless somebody's kept up and made improvements every 30 or 50 years...you have to pay for it at sometime," Kinser said.
Work on the projects listed in the plan began on June 1 and will conclude in December 2037. Work includes sewer lining, slough repairs and cleaning, completing new pump stations, sewer separation and other expensive projects.
The bonds also have paid for the wastewater treatment plant, the most expensive capital project in the city's history.
"When you just built a new treatment plant, as we have, that number is going to be high as we've borrowed all the money and now we're going to pay it back," Kinser said. "That number is going to get smaller every time, but that asset still exists."
The city plans to add one more sewer revenue bond to pay for the 25th Avenue North pumping station. The city has tentatively agreed to use local option sales tax to issue a general obligation bond for $20 million over the course of two years.
"We have a lot of work to complete within the system and we're not going to ask the ratepayers to pay it," Kinser said.
In order to improve the situation, Kinser has proposed restructuring a $62 million sewer revenue bond from a 20-year payment schedule to a 30-year payment schedule.
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School bond focus of Feb. 4 Rotary meeting
LAKE WYLIE Clover School District Superintendent Marc Sosne and Public Information Officer Mychal Frost will present information about the school district's March 22 bond referendum during the Feb. 4 Lake Wylie Rotary Club meeting at Good Samaritan United Methodist Church, 5220 Crowders Cove Road.
The presentation will feature a multimedia overview of the five projects included on the $67 million bond package.
Sosne has served as Clover superintendent since July 1, 2007. Prior to coming to Clover, he was superintendent in residence at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. From 1996-2004, he served as superintendent of Pender County Schools in North Carolina; from 1995-1996, he was superintendent at Washington County Schools in Plymouth, N.C., and from 1990-1995, he served as interim superintendent and as assistant superintendent for New Hanover County Schools in Wilmington, N.C. He has also been an elementary and middle school principal and classroom teacher in North Carolina and Rochester, N.Y.
He has a bachelor's degree in American history from State University of New York at Albany; a master's in educational administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In addition to his responsibilities with the Clover School District, he is a member of the Clover Rotary Club, Lake Wylie Chamber of Commerce board member, and participates in the district's lunch buddy program. He and his wife, Ann, have two adult children.
Lunch costs $9, catered by Christopher's. For more information, visit lwrotary.org.
Troop 333 BBQ sale Feb. 9
LAKE WYLIE Tickets are on sale for Boy Scout Troop 333 Scout Sunday BBQ Fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 9 at River Hills Community Church.
Barbecue ribs and chicken by the pound, and plates (meat, buns, coleslaw and chips) will be sold. Whole pork butts are sold in pre-orders only.
Money raised goes to High Adventure trips and camping supplies.
Email email@example.com to place an order.
GOP group invites new members to Feb. 28 meeting
LAKE WYLIE The Clover-Lake Wylie Republican Women's Club welcomes newcomers, visitors and members to its Feb. 28 membership luncheon at River Hills Country Club.
Learn about the club's 2014 goals and planned activities. Membership is open to women and men. At the luncheon, a gift will be awarded to a current club member who signs-up the most new members.
Featured speaker is Kim Wellman, newly-elected president of the S.C. Federation of Republican Women. Past president and member of the West Metro Republican Women in Lexington, Wellman is the assistant vice president of Corporate Marketing Communications for BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. She has served in leadership positions for organizations including the Palmetto Place Children's Emergency Shelter, Junior Woman's Club of Columbia and the United Way of the Midlands. She currently serves on the development committee for The Children's Trust of South Carolina.
The meeting will begin with an 11:30 a.m. social, followed by lunch and speaker at noon. Cost of the luncheon is $18 per person.
To become a member of the Clover Lake Wylie Republican Women's Club, email email@example.com. Annual membership dues are $25; dues for associate members (men) are $10. CLWRW membership includes an automatic membership in the SC Federation of Republican Women and the National Federation of Republican Women.
Sweet Repeat seeks members, store volunteers
LAKE WYLIE Sweet Repeat Charitable Foundation needs volunteers and new members at its thrift shop in Lake Wylie.
Volunteers are asked to volunteer two to six hours a month. Proceeds from the thrift shop go to local charities. Membership applications are available at the store.
For more information, call 803-831-0225.
Lions telephone directory project underway
LAKE WYLIE Volunteer members the River Hills Lions Club are seeking advertising from local businesses for the community's 2014 telephone directory.
Ads reach 1,100 River Hills residents. Proceeds help local charities, including River Hills/Lake Wylie EMS. In 2013, more than $50,000 in yellow page sales were donated. Organizations interested in placing an ad should email email@example.com.
Join MOMS Club in Lake Wylie
LAKE WYLIE MOMS Club, a social group serving ZIP codes 29710 and 29745, offers opportunities for moms and children to get together for fun activities.
For more information, email email@example.com or visit Meetup.com.
Send club news and photos to firstname.lastname@example.com. Submission deadline is 5 p.m. Wednesday prior to intended Tuesday publication date.


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---- — DANVILLE — Think: Spring Cleaning + Earth Day: April 22 = Month of April's Book Drive.
The Danville Elementary PTA Month of April's Book Drive has begun! The location of the book drop off: GotBooks (grey bin) at Danville Elementary School, 23 School Street, Danville, at the bus turn around area near the back parking lot.
What kinds of books are accepted? Hardcover, paperback, new and old textbooks, children's books, fiction and non-fiction books as well as CDs, DVDs, and Audio Books.
Encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers, and catalogs are not accepted.
The Danville PTA will receive $.03 per pound of qualified items collected from the "Got Books" container. One ton of books = 17 trees = 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space. For more information, visit www.danvillepta.org.


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Passenger in Columbus Plane Crash Tells His Story
As the investigation into Thursday's plane crash on Broadmoor Lane in Columbus continues, investigators have been able to talk to the passenger, 60-year-old Dennis King of Columbus, to learn more about what happened.
Columbus Public Safety spokesman Lt. Matt Myers said Saturday afternoon King's story pretty much matched up with what they were able to learn from witnesses on the ground.
King told investigators that the single engine plane was losing power and went down very quickly. King says he and the pilot, 81-year-old Gerald H. Clayton of Columbus, were both conscious the whole time and realized they were okay.
He says they were both having trouble getting their seatbelts off and fuel was spilling all over them. Once they got their seatbelts off, King says fuel was all over him and Clayton and it ignited. They both suffered severe burns and were taken to Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis.
King believes the house helped to cushion the crash. He says they probably wouldn't have made it out alive if they had crashed into the ground.
King is still listed in fair condition at Wishard. As for Clayton, family members have told Myers that he is not doing well and is in a medically induced coma at Wishard.
Myers says the plane wreckage was moved Sunday afternoon to a hanger for further investigation.
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Described as an American street fighter, Eric Buell introduced his Lightning S1 in 1996; this motorcycle provided the inspiration for the Lightning XB series that debuted eight years later. For 2008, the Lightning comes in five models: XB12S, TT XB12STT, XB12Scg, XB12Ss, and CITYX XB9SX, all with 1203cc Thunderstorm engines. Classified as a naked bike, the Lightning is not the prettiest motorcycle around; in fact, some have called it ""strange looking."" However, the Lightning is powerful, agile, and works like a freight train as soon as it goes off idle, reaching speeds as high as 140 mph in fifth gear.
The Lightning's street fighter look is enhanced by two round headlights underneath a small fairing. Riders say it is the Lightning's Thunderstorm engine that makes it such a great bike; without the powerful V-twin, the Lightning would not be worth anything. Riders note the Harley-Davidson (the Buell line is owned by Harley) motor does vibrate a lot. Riders say the Lightning makes a great commuting bike during the week and a nice touring bike for leisure time. Since a detachable trunk bag is available as an option, weekend trips are a definite possibility, especially since other storage accessories include tank and seat tail bags. Underseat storage is available as well. The XB12S also comes with the standard instruments: a speedometer, odometer, tachometer, and fuel warning light. Available colors are cherry, orange, and black. The XB12S weighs 395 pounds and can carry a driver and passenger with a combined weight of 391 pounds.


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By GREG MENGELT
Louisville overcame a gruesome injury to sophomore Kevin Ware to earn the 10th Final Foul berth in the program's history and its second straight with an 85-63 victory over second-seeded Duke on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The top-seeded Cardinals will face Wichita State at 6:09 p.m. on Saturday in the first national semifinal at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. With a win, Louisville would face either Michigan or Syracuse on Monday in search of its third national championship in school history.
"To go to back-to-back Finals Four is special," Louisville coach Rick Pitino said. "To win one would be really special."
Ware — a native of Conyers, Ga., just outside of Atlanta — broke his leg with 6:33 left in the first half with Louisville leading 21-20. He was transported to Methodist Hospital, where he was to have surgery Sunday night, via ambulance after a 12-minute delay in the game.
"I seen Kevin go out there and challenge it," junior Russ Smith said. "And then I see what happened and I immediately just fell. I almost didn't feel nothing, because I didn't think in a million years I would see something like that. And when that happened, especially to a guy like Kevin Ware, I was completely devastated."
"We had to do this for Kevin," senior guard Peyton Siva added. "We just tried to stay together as a team. That's all we could do."
"I was going to help him up and all of the sudden I saw what it was, and I literally almost threw up," Pitino said. "I don't think we could have [pulled it together] if Kevin hadn't said over and over, 'Just win the game.' It was terrible to watch, but we had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't.
"He's a brave young man and we're real disappointed for Kevin, but we're getting him back home to Atlanta. That will be a consolation for him, certainly."
The Cardinals were clearly shaken at the sight of Ware's bad break, but they responded by outscoring the Blue Devils 64-43 the rest of the way for their 14th straight victory.
"We tried to match them, and we couldn't match them," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski admitted.
Russ Smith led the Cardinals with 23 points and now has 104 points in four games during the NCAA Tournament. Peyton Siva added 16 with four assists and no turnovers. Junior 6-foot-11 center Gorgui Dieng added 14 points and 11 boards.
Smith, Siva and Dieng were all named to the Midwest Regional All-Tournament team. Smith was named Most Outstanding Player.
"Their two guards set an amazing pace," Krzyzewski said of Smith and Siva. "Siva, he didn't look like he was even sweating today."
Mason Plumlee had team highs with 17 points and 12 boards for the Blue Devils. Two nights after scoring 29 points in a win over Michigan State, Seth Curry went scoreless in the first half Sunday before finishing with 12. The Cardinals held Duke senior Ryan Kelly to just seven points.
"We felt if we could take away their 3 and keep them out of transition, we had a great chance of winning," Pitino said. "If you let Duke shoot or get in transition, you're going to lose. We took those things away."
"They were throwing two bodies at me," Curry said. "I was trying not to force it. Credit them."
Louisville is now 33-5 and has tied a school record for victories. The Cardinals have shot at least 52.7 percent in each of their tournament games. They are shooting 55.1 percent for the tourney.
A Curry 3 started a Duke 5-0 run that had the Devils even at 42-42, then Louisville broke open the game with a game-deciding 17-2 run that gave it a 59-44 lead with 9:39 remaining.
Smith, Siva and Dieng scored all 17 during the stretch and Luke Hancock added an exclamation point with a 3 to give Louisville a 62-46 advantage with 8:49 remaining.
The closest Duke would get the rest of the way was 14.
Louisville avenged its first loss of the season when it fell to the Blue Devils 76-71 in the Bahamas on Nov. 24.
It was a classic first half. After Louisville took an early 6-2 lead when Chane Behanan scored the Cardinals' first six points, neither team led by more than three for the next 10-plus minutes.
Then after a Dieng 10-footer put the Cards on top 21-17 with 7:03 left, a Tyler Thornton 3 got Duke within a point and neither team led by more than three the rest of the half.
There were 10 lead changes and nine ties in the opening half. Two Quinn Cook free throws gave Duke a 32-31 lead with 50.8 seconds left, but Louisville scored the final four points of the half on free throws by Wayne Blackshear and Smith, who finished the opening stanza with 12 points.
Louisville had 30 deflections and eight steals in the first half, but the Devils out-rebounded the Cardinals 18-12.
The Cardinals came out in the second half and immediately pushed their lead to 38-32 when Smith made three free throws after being fouled behind the 3-point line.
Curry caught fire early in the second half. He hit two 3-pointers and scored eight points in the first three minutes of the half to get Duke within 42-40. A Plumlee dunk then got Duke even at 42-apiece and forced Pitino to call a timeout with 16:18 to go before Louisville went on its run.


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CHARLOTTE — For the first time, North Carolina coach Roy Williams on Wednesday acknowledged that the NCAA will play a role in determining the length of P.J. Hairstons suspension to start the season.
Oh, yeah, Williams said at the ACCs annual basketball media day when asked whether the NCAA would have a say in how many games Hairston would miss. Williams went on to explain his hesitation in detailing the process that will decide the length of Hairstons suspension.
I dont want to share everything with you, and in your life you dont want to share everything with me, Williams said to a group of reporters. Its a team, and we keep things in the locker room.
Hairston, the junior guard, has been practicing with the Tar Heels. It remains unclear, though, how many games hell miss as a result of a summer of transgressions. Williams suspended Hairston indefinitely in late July, after Hairston was charged with reckless driving and speeding.
In June, he was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession and driving without a license two charges that were later dropped. At the time of his arrest, Hairston was driving a rental car connected to a convicted felon. Hairston also received a speeding ticket in May while driving another rental tied to the same man.
It had been widely assumed that the use of the rental cars could have constituted an impermissible benefit, in which case the NCAA would play a role in deciding Hairstons punishment. Williams said on Wednesday that Hairstons status hasnt changed, but that the length of his suspension would be decided before UNC starts the season on Nov. 8 against Oakland.
Its a little unknown because I havent gone completely through the process yet, Williams said.
Asked when Hairstons suspension would be announced, Williams again said he wasnt sure of the timetable, but that the uncertainty wouldnt stretch into the season.
Well, crap, the NCAA made a decision on Johnny Manziel is freaking two days, Williams said, referring to the Texas A&M quarterback who received a half-game suspension after being accused of accepting payments for signing memorabilia. So its not all my choice kind of thing.
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Bacterial canker is a disease of the stems and leaves of Prunus, especially plums and cherries, but also apricots, peaches and ornamental Prunus species. It causes sunken patches of dead bark and small holes in leaves, called 'shothole'.
Bacterial canker is a disease caused by two closely related species of bacteria that infect the stems and leaves of plums, cherries and related Prunus species. It is one of the few important plant diseases caused by bacteria in the UK.
Cankers begin to form in mid-spring and soon afterwards shoots may die back. Shotholes appear on foliage from early summer.
You may see the following symptoms:
Where possible, carry out all pruning in July or August when tissues are most resistant. This is also the best time to prune in order to minimise the risk of infection by spores of the fungus causing silver leaf disease. Cut out all cankered areas, pruning back to healthy wood and paint promptly with a wound paint to protect the wound from re-infection. Burn or landfill the prunings.
The cherries 'Merton Glory', 'Merton Premier', 'Merla' and 'Merpet' and the plums 'Marjorie's Seedling' and 'Warwickshire Drooper' have some resistance.
Copper-based fungicides (Fruit and Vegetable Disease Control and Bordeaux Mixture) are effective against bacterial disease and are permitted for bacterial canker control on plums and cherries. Make three applications from late summer into mid autumn. These products are not approved for use against bacterial canker on peaches, but the use of these products to control leaf curl disease on peach will give some incidental protection.
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The bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. morsprunorum and P. s. pv. syringae are members of a large genus of plant-pathogenic bacteria. Several others occur in the UK but are relatively unimportant and, generally speaking, bacterial diseases of plants are more important in warmer climates. However, bacterial canker of Prunus is a serious disease and although more often confined to smaller branches, can sometimes kill larger branches or whole trees.
The species P. syringae exists as a large number of pathovars, (abbreviated to pv.), so-called because although all look the same, they have different, specific hosts. The pathovar morsprunorum is restricted to Prunus species, pv. syringae has a much wider host range, but both cause similar symptoms on Prunus.
The bacteria exist as surface dwellers (epiphytes) on leaves, and during wet weather in spring or early summer, and can enter through the leaf pores (stomata), causing infections to develop in the young leaves. As the leaf matures these infections cease to expand and are revealed as small patches of dead tissue. As the leaf expands fully, the live tissues pull away from the dead patch, which drops out, leaving a 'shothole'.
Cankers develop when the bacterial cells gain entry through wounds or leaf scars at the time of leaf fall. Cankers remain more or less dormant through summer, when tissues are resistant, and during autumn and winter when temperatures are low. In spring, the infections spread rapidly, killing the bark.
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PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A work release inmate from the Pike County Detention Center remained on the run Friday night, Kentucky State Police say.
Jeremiah Young, 24, walked away Thursday during his scheduled work release. Officials with the center said Young had served time for organized crime, theft and criminal mischief.
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School is in, the weather is turning cooler, the football season is underway, and the apple cider donuts are making my mouth water. It's my favorite time of year! I love the Fall Season because there are so many fun ways to spend time with the kids making memories.
However, the Fall season is short. You only have a few weekends before Halloween and the Holiday Season take over. Don't let the family's busy schedule get away from you. Plan for some fun activities and pencil them into the family calendar. To inspire you to plan some fun with the kids this Fall, here is a list of my family's favorite activities. Most of these ideas are inexpensive and get you outside enjoying the crisp Autumn air.
Top 10 Ideas for Fall Family Fun
- 1. Apple Orchard/ Making Caramel Apples
2. Fall Foliage Drive - Here's a list from USA Today with the Top 10 Fall Foliage Drives in the U.S.
3. Visit a Pumpkin Farm - Take your camera and get some great photos of your toddlers in the pumpkin patch.
4. Leaf Piles - Have the kids help you rake and then build some leaf forts and mazes.
5. Family Bike Ride/ Photo Scavenger Hunt in your local Forest Preserve
6. Creating & Decorating for Halloween
7. Throw a Family Friendly Halloween Party – fun for kids and/or adults
8. Organize a Neighborhood Trick or Treat Procession - get a few families to trick or treat together for even more fun.
9. Neighborhood Flag Football Party
10. Flashlight Corn Maze Adventures
What do you look forward to most in the Fall? What is your family's favorite Fall activity?
For more fall family fun ideas, check out my blog ChocolateCakeMoments.com or my Fall Family Fun Board on Pinterest.
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When the conversation turns to the Brown Bridge Dam removal project, Grand Traverse-area residents might feel they've been there and done that. The parallels between the collapse of a "dewatering" structure on the Boardman River and the failure of the county's ill-fated septage treatment plant are all too real.
Taxpayers won't tolerate a repeat of the blame game surrounding the failed septage plant to this day.
So recent news that the senior engineer supervising the dam removal project doesn't have a professional engineering license through the state of Michigan probably sent the region's collective blood pressure up a few points.
It turns out that Sandra Sroonian, who is heading up the project for AMEC, has an engineering degree but is not required to hold a professional engineering license. She was not responsible for the engineering design for the removal of Brown Bridge Dam; the dewatering structure was proposed by Molon Excavating, and AMEC accepted it. AMEC has three other licensed professional engineers on the project who handle design and engineering tasks, she said.
That's reassuring; though having a license doesn't mean someone knows how to engineer a project of this size, it's an indication she has proven to the state's satisfaction she knows her business.
Gourdie-Fraser Inc., the engineering firm that designed and then helped build the septage treatment plant, had never done a similar project and, as it turned out, wasn't aware of some construction standards for buildings of that kind.
County residents are likely less concerned about history than they are the immediate future: That the larger Boardman dam removal project will continue (there are two more dams to go after Brown Bridge) with no further disasters; that a clear-cut cause for the failure of the dewatering structure is found and agreed on; that someone other than county taxpayers pays for the damage done when the water pent up behind the dam roared downstream; and that we won't still be arguing about this five years from now.
That's not a lot to ask.
Sandra Sroonian's lack of a license is not the main issue here but it is important. In an undertaking of this size and complexity, details count, as does the public's perception of those in charge and the level of trust taxpayers are expected to extend.
Shortly after all that water gushed down the Boardman, flooding dozens of properties, an official said we "may never know" what happened. That's as unacceptable today as it was then; but more than two months down the road we don't appear to be any closer to an answer.
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LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
As spring fast approaches, a "winterized" notice, taped to a front door, will be a tell-tell sign of a vacant and foreclosed property. Since the beginning of the recession in 2007, City Building Inspector Doug Gilbert said the number of vacant and foreclosed properties in the City of London has grown exponentially. Currently, there are 95 under review.
"You can't determine if these properties are vacant in the winter, but you notice it in the spring. In the spring, it hits me full-force," Gilbert said.
Visitors who drive through the city may immediately notice the high volume of vacant businesses. But that's only because Main Street is where 70 percent of them unfortunately are located, Gilbert said.
The City of London has an ordinance that authorizes the acquisition by eminent domain and establishes a vacant property to be reviewed by the London-Laurel County Joint Planning Commission. A property is determined as blighted or deteriorated if it constitutes a danger to public health, safety and the general welfare of the residents of the city.
London is one of few cities in the state that is making visual progress with vacant or blighted properties. Gilbert attributes the city's progress to modern technology.
When someone calls in a complaint, rather than drive around to look for it, Gilbert utilizes a sophisticated computer program and the state-required Geographic Information Systems to pin-point the exact location of a vacant property on his computer screen.
"We're up on stuff like Lexington and Louisville," Gilbert said.
He said approximately 90 percent of the vacant and deteriorated properties in London are in the process of being brought up to code, while one-third of the property owners live out of town and dozens of non-compliant properties have been removed since 2008. The eminent domain process can take about a year before property owners face litigation. And, everybody has a right to file an appeal, he said.
"We'd rather have it resolved rather than purchase it through the court system. We'd have to buy it, and the city can't afford it," he added.
Sometimes, a property owner will bring the building up to code on their own.
"The interior has to be structurally sound and electrical, plumbing and heat need to be kept up," he said. "If it can't keep a temperature of 68 degrees — then you can't live in it."
London Realtor Terry Binder said vacant or neglected properties are not only a sight for sore eyes, but they can bring down the value of nearby housing.
"Vacant houses are more susceptible to being vandalized, especially those with heat and air units," he said. "Vacant houses deteriorate quicker too. People don't want to look out their door and see that."
Binder added vacant houses are not only susceptible to vandalism, but can also become hideouts for drug activity.
"We have a drug issue in this county, a major drug issue. I have actually walked up to a house and noticed a foul odor. The vacant house obviously wasn't vacant. I called the police," he said.
While house hunters may see vacant properties as a neighborhood nuisance, Deanna Herrmann, executive director for the London-Laurel County Chamber of Commerce, said incoming businesses may be see them as opportunities.
"I get compliments on downtown London and London itself, how 'clean' it is and all the different establishments that are here that people can enjoy," she said.
Currently in Laurel County, there are only two foreclosed properties in the city limits. Statewide, there are 6,648. The average foreclosure sales price is $91,450.
To contact the City of London about a vacant or blighted property in your neighborhood, call Doug Gilbert at 606-864-8401.


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By GARY POPP
No one was injured as a Jeffersonville duplex burned to the ground early Wednesday morning.
The blaze began after a vehicle struck the building and its gas meter on the side of the structure, located in the 800 block of Watt Street at the corner of Ninth Street.
Jeffersonville firefighters responded at 2:26 a.m., within three minutes of receiving the call, Jeffersonville Fire Department Maj. Mike McCutcheon said. Despite the quick response, the ruptured gas line continued to feed the blaze for more than 45 minutes before officials with the gas company responded and shut off the gas.
McCutcheon said the vehicle that side-swiped the duplex struck the gas meter, an air-conditioner compressor and an electrical utility box. The fire is believed to have started after the leaking gas was ignited from a spark released by the damaged electrical box, he said.
McCutcheon said flames had engulfed half the building before firefighters' arrival, and that their efforts were no match for the fire nourished by the open gas line. McCutcheon said the loss of the home was a bitter experience for the firefighters.
"It was tough for us to see the structure lost as much as it was," he said. "But, the gas created quite a difficulty for us."
He said firefighters were not able to complete standard operational tasks as the gas line fueled the fire and caused it to burn more rapidly.
"It is an unfortunate circumstance," McCutcheon said. "It's a structure that's totally destroyed and people lost belongings and everything in the homes, but the best thing is that no one lost their life or was injured."
He said one of the duplex's homes was vacant at the time of the fire. In the other home, a woman, a man and their two dogs were able to exit the home unharmed, except for heat damage to the paws of one of the dogs that also suffered slight smoke inhalation, McCutcheon said.
He said there were no visible signs of damage to surrounding homes, and fire crews cleared the scene shortly before 9 a.m.
The blue Volkswagen Jetta that crashed into the home was still on the scene when firefighters responded, McCutcheon said, adding that it appeared the driver had abandoned the vehicle.
Jeffersonville police reported late Wednesday afternoon that officers are actively investigating the whereabouts of the motorist who fled from the Volkswagen. No suspects had been identified as about 5 p.m., police reported.
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It happened at the store on North Graham Street around 7:30.
Police say the suspects pointed a gun at people, demanded money and ran off.
No one was hurt.
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NEW YORK — Americans will pay more to heat their homes this winter as they feel something they didn't feel much of last year: cold.
Prices for natural gas, heating oil and other fuels will be relatively stable. But customers will have to use more energy to keep warm than they did a year ago, according to the annual Winter Fuels Outlook from the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration.
Last winter was the warmest on record. This year temperatures are expected to be close to normal.
Heating bills will rise 20 percent for heating oil customers, 15 percent for natural gas customers, 13 percent for propane customers and 5 percent for electricity customers, the EIA announced Wednesday.
Heating oil customers are expected to pay an average of $3.80 per gallon, the highest price ever. That will result in record heating bills, at an average of $2,494. That's nearly $200 more than the previous high, set in the winter of 2010-2011.
Rising heating oil costs come at a time when funding for low-income heating assistance is falling. Over the last two years, federal heating assistance funding has been cut to $3.5 billion from $5.1 billion. The number of households receiving assistance has dropped by 1.1 million over the period, according to Mark Wolfe, the executive director of the National Energy Assistance Director's Association.
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OpenCL Support in a Meaningful Way
Adobe had OpenCL support since last year. You would never benefit from its inclusion unless you ran one of two AMD mobility chips under Mac OSX Lion, but it was there. Creative Cloud, predictably, furthers this trend with additional GPGPU support for applications like Photoshop and Premiere Pro.
This leads to some interesting points:
- How OpenCL is changing the landscape between Intel and AMD
- What GPU support is curiously absent from Adobe CC for one reason or another
- Which GPUs are supported despite not... existing, officially.
This should be very big news for our readers who do production work whether professional or for a hobby. If not, how about a little information about certain GPUs that are designed to compete with the GeForce 700-series?
Second Opinion: Intel i7 4770K Desktop CPU (Haswell)
Subject: General Tech, Processors | June 17, 2013 - 08:11 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: haswell, Intel, Second Opinion
Ryan reviewed the Core i7 4770K earlier in the month and found it an impressive product. He was not able to properly test the CPU paired with a discrete GPU because of time restraints; we value results measured from direct monitor output, which takes longer than FRAPS and other software results. Still, Ryan believes that the boost in raw CPU performance justifies its existence in desktops without a funky "-E" tagged along for good luck.
For a second opinion, you could check NitroWare to see what a cynical Aussie thinks of Intel's latest offering. Of note, they compare software-measured frame rates between the on-chip GPU and those measured from a GTX 460 on Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and Haswell. He is nothing if not thorough, collecting his findings over 20 pages.
Ultimately he finds that if you are running Ivy Bridge, you will not benefit too much from the upgrade; Sandy Bridge users and earlier, on the other hand, might want to consider this platform... unless they are wanting to jump into the enthusiast-slot offerings coming up late this year and Haswell-E late the following year.
Also be sure to check back when we have our frametime measurements complete!
Intel is not slowing down, exclamation exclamation. Haswell-E for Holiday 2014 question mark.
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Processors | June 15, 2013 - 07:02 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, Ivy Bridge-E, Haswell-E
In my analysis of the recent Intel Computex keynote, I noted that the displayed confidence came across more as repressing self-doubt. It did not seem, to me, like Intel wants to abandon the high-end enthusiast but rather catch up with their low performance and high efficiency competitors; they just know they are secure in that market. Of course, we could see mid-range choices dwindle and prices stagnate, but I cast doubt that Intel wants to exit the enthusiast market despite their silence about Ivy Bridge-E.
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And Intel, now, wants to return some confidence to their high-end consumers comma they are not slowing down exclamation point exclamation point.
VR-Zone, the site which published Ivy Bridge-E's lazy release roadmap, are also the ones to suggest Haswell-E will come before mainstream Broadwell offerings. Once again, all is right with the world. Slated for release around holiday 2014, just a year after Ivy Bridge-E, Haswell-E will come alongside the X99 chipset. Instead of Broadwell, the back to school window of 2014 will by filled by a refresh of 22nm Haswell products with a new 9-series chipset.
Seriously, it's like watching the face of Intel's Tick-Tock while a repairman is tweaking the gears.
In terms of specifications, Haswell-E will come in 8 and 6-core offerings with up to 20MB of cache. Apart from the inclusion of DDR4 support, the main advantage of Haswell-E over the upcoming Ivy Bridge-E is supposed to be raw performance; VR-Zone estimates up to 33-50% better computational strength. A depressingly novel area of improvement as of recent...
Lastly, with recent discussion of the awkwardly hobbled K-series parts, our readers might be happy to know that all Haswell-E parts will be unlocked to overclocking. This, again, leads me to believe that Intel is not hoping to suffocate the enthusiast market but rather sort their users: mid-range consumers will take what they are given and, if they object, send them on the bus to Funk-E town.
Note, while the headlining slide definitively says "All Processors Unlocked"...
... this slide says "For K and Extreme series products." I will assume the latter is out of date?
Which begs the question: what does our readers think about that potential strategy? It could lead to mainstream performance products being pushed down into BGA-territory, but cements the existence of an enthusiast platform.
Intel Prevents Overclocking of non-K Haswell Processors, and Strips Virtualization and TSX Features From K Parts
Subject: Processors | June 13, 2013 - 09:59 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tsx, overclocking, Intel, i7-4770k, haswell
First revealed at IDF Beijing, Intel's latest generation 4th Generation Core "Haswell" processors enjoy a refined architecture, improved processor graphics, an integrated voltage regulator (FIVR), and for the enthusiast crowd, new methods for overclocking.
In truth, the methods for overclocking Haswell are very similar to those used to overclock Intel's Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors. However, Intel has further unlocked the new Haswell CPUs. Enthusiasts can set an overclocked Turbo clockspeed, use additional base clock (BCLK) values (100 MHz, 125 MHz, and 167 MHz), and overclock the unlocked processor graphics core clockspeed and memory clockspeed (memory in 200 MHz or 266 MHz steps). The additional BCLK values allow for easy overclocks without putting the other subsystems (such as the PCI-E bus, GPU, and memory) out of spec, which is important for the PCI-E bus which needs to be close to 100 MHz for a stable system.
The following PC Perspective articles have further information on overclocking unlocked "K" edition Haswell processors:
- Integrated Voltage Regulator and Overclocking Haswell - Ryan pushes a Core i7-4770K to 4.6GHz
- Intel Talks Haswell Overclocking at IDF Beijing - Intel outlines overclocking features of Haswell at IDF
Although Intel's overclocking reveal at IDF was fairly detailed, the company did not get into specifics on how overclocking would work on non-K chips.
On that note, the crew over at the Tech Report uncovered some rather disheartening facts such that the non-K edition Haswell processors will, essentially, be locked at stock speeds and not overclockable (they are slightly more locked down than previous generations).
While the K edition Haswell processors, such as the Core i7-4770K, will enjoy unlocked multipliers, unlocked GPU and memory clockspeeds, and additional BCLK options, the standard non-K chips (ie Core i7-4770, Core i5-4670, et al) will have locked multipliers, no Turbo Boost clockspeed overclocking, and will not be allowed to use the additional 125 MHz and 167 MHz BLCK options, which effectively makes overclocking these standard chips impossible. It may still be possible to push the BLCK up a few MHz, but without the extra
stepping and gearing ratio options, the other component clockspeeds based off that same base clock are going to go out of spec and will become unstable fairly quickly as you try to push that BLCK up.
There is one saving grace for enthusiasts considering a non-K part, however. The standard non-K CPUs will have Intel's latest TSX extensions and enterprise virtualization technologies enabled.
Although quite the head scratcher, Intel has decided to disable TSX, vPro, and VT-d on the unlocked K edition chips. The TSX extensions are not widely used yet, but will provide a noticeable performance boost to future programs that do take advantage of them by allowing developers to essentially mark off sections of code that can be run independently, and thus increase the multi-threaded-ness of the application by running as much code in parallel across multiple cores as possible. Further, the vPro and VT-d features are used by virtual machine applications (with VT-d being more relevant to the consumer side of things).
In short, Intel has continued to lock down and artificially limit its chips, as many enthusiasts suspected would happen. Standard non-K Haswell processors are more locked down than ever, and even the premium unlocked K CPUs suffer with the (odd) removal of TSX and virtualization support. As Mr. Gasior points out, enthusiasts are going to be faced with an odd choice where they can either spend extra money on a premium K part that will overclock but is limited in other ways, or go with the lower cost part that has all of the ISA extensions and virtualization support turned on... but is not overclockable.
In my opinion, locking down the standard chips is one thing-- Intel needs to incentivize enthusiasts to go with the more expensive (~$25 premium) unlocked K processors some how -- but if those same enthusiasts are spending extra money for a premium chip, they should get all the features the accompanying non-K SKU has as well as overclocking.
What do you think about the artificial limitations placed on the various Haswell SKUs?
E3 2013: AMD tells the press their gaming initiatives
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors, Shows and Expos | June 13, 2013 - 02:26 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: E3, E3 13, amd
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is the biggest event of the year for millions of gamers. The majority of coverage ends up gawking over the latest news out of Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo, and we certainly will provide our insights in those places if we believe they have been insufficiently explained, but E3 is also a big time for PC gamers too.
5 GHz and unlocked to go from there.
AMD, specifically, has a lot to say this year. In the year of the next-gen console reveals, AMD provides the CPU architecture for two of the three devices and have also designed each of the three GPUs. This just leaves a slight win for IBM, who is responsible for the WiiU main processor, for whatever that is worth. Unless the Steam Box comes to light and without ties to AMD, it is about as close to a clean sweep as any hardware manufacturer could get.
But for the PCs among us...
For those who have seen the EA press conference, you have probably seen lots of sports. If you stuck around after the sports, you probably saw Battlefield 4 being played by 64 players on stage. AMD has been pushing, very strongly, for developer relations over the last year. DICE, formerly known for being an NVIDIA-friendly developer, did not exhibit Battlefield 4 "The Way It's Meant to be Played" at the EA conference. According to one of AMD's Twitter accounts:
@overlordkai #BF4 at #E3 is being powered by dual AMD Radeon HD 7970s and AMD FX-8350. ^SL #AMDE3
— AMD Radeon Graphics (@AMDRadeon) June 12, 2013
On the topic of "Gaming Evolved" titles, AMD is partnering with Square Enix to optimize Thief for GCN and A-Series APUs. The Press Release specifically mentioned Eyefinity and Crossfire support along with a DirectX 11 rendering engine; of course, the enhancements with real, interesting effects are the seemingly boring ones they do not mention.
The last major point from their E3 event was the launch of their 5 GHz FX processors. For more information on that part, check out Josh's thoughts from a couple of days ago.
AMD Releases First 5 GHz Processor for Consumers, FX-9590 and FX-9370
Subject: Processors | June 11, 2013 - 11:13 AM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: vishera, TWKR, piledriver, FX-9590, FX-9370, Centurion, amd
We have all heard the rumors, but it appears to be true. We had originally heard about a "Centurion" product which would be for extreme overclockers on the AMD side, running at 5 GHz with a 220 watt TDP. Now we finally get to see what all the fuss is about. AMD is releasing two new Vishera based processors that, for the time being, will be limited to system integrators and will be available later this summer.
The top end product is the FX-9590 which has a top turbo speed of 5 GHz. This will be a full four module implementation with the 8 MB of L3 cache. AMD did not give any other details for this particular part. We do not know what the base clock is, we do not know what the TDP is, and we can only assume that the northbridge/L3 cache will be clocked at the standard 2.2 GHz that we have seen on previous Vishera parts.
The second product is the FX-9370 which is again a four module part that has a top turbo speed of 4.7 GHz. Remember that the four modules each have two "cores", so it is still considered an eight core part. These processors are unlocked, so they can be further overclocked if one so desires. TDP and other details were again skipped for this particular part.
These parts will be going to system integrators first, and I am not entirely sure that AMD will sell them on the market direct to consumers. If AMD does in fact sell to consumers (not implied at all in the press release) then they likely will have to bundle it with a very robust cooler. Probably something along the lines of what we saw with the original FX-8150 LCS bundle.
Consider that the FX-8350 is a 4 GHz base clock product with a max turbo of 4.2 GHz and having a TDP of 125 watts, we probably have to assume that the 220 watt number bandied about is accurate. A pretty beefy air cooler would be required, or the aforementioned liquid cooling system. AMD also likely had GLOBALFOUNDRIES change the "mix" when fabricating these parts. These batches probably feature more leaky transistors that can achieve higher speeds without an extreme amount of voltage.
This is an interesting move by AMD. Remember those TWKR chips that they released that were designed for LN2 use? There were a very limited number of those units, and we can imagine that while the FX-9000 series will be in greater numbers they still will not be commonplace on the retail market. SI's like Maingear will be introducing systems this summer featuring these chips. Performance will be good with these solutions, but the tradeoff is of course power consumption and heat production as compared to similarly performing (and stock clocked) Intel i7 3770K and 4770K parts.
AMD is doing their best to address the enthusiast market, but until Kaveri hits the streets we will not see any major upgrades beyond these parts.
We received some further info about this chip. The TDP is up in the 220 watt region. It utilizes Turbo Core 3.0 to help achieve those speeds, so it seems that some of the work that went into Richland has made it into these latest FX processors. BIOS updates are probably a must. These chips will only be going to system integrators (SIs) and will be bundled with a liquid cooling system. We have no idea what the price will be since these will only be sold to SIs. Systems should be available after July 16.
Win an AMD A10-6800K Richland APU + SimCity!!
Subject: Editorial, Processors | June 10, 2013 - 10:53 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: SimCity, Richland, giveaway, contest, APU, amd, a10-6800k
Odd, turns out I found two brand new AMD A10-6800K Richland APUs sitting on my desk this morning. I called AMD to ask what this was all about and they said that if I didn't need them, I might as well give them away to our readers.
"Oh, and throw in a free copy of the new SimCity while you're at it," they told me.
Who am I to argue?
So let's have a giveaway!
We are handing out two AMD A10-6800K "Richland" APUs for you to build a brand new PC around and including a key for SimCity with each of them. If you haven't read Josh's review of the A10-6800K APU you should definitely do so; it will help educate you on exactly what you are getting - for FREE.
To enter, I need you to leave a comment on this very news post below telling us what you would build with a brand new A10 APU - you don't have to be registered to do so but we'd sure like it if you were. (Make sure you leave your correct email address so I can get in touch with you if you win.) Also, feel free to stop by the PC Perspective YouTube channel and either give our videos a gander or subscribe. I think we put out some great content there and we'd like more of you to see it.
I will pick one winner on June 17th and another on June 24th so you have two separate weeks to potentially win!
A big thanks goes out to AMD for supplying the APUs and copies of SimCity for this giveaway. Good luck!!
Computex 2013: Intel Demos Baytrail Tablet, Haswell Ultrabook, Ivy Bridge Passive Tablet
Subject: Processors, Mobile | June 6, 2013 - 04:01 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: computex, computex 2013, Intel, haswell, Ivy Bridge, k900, Lenovo, baytrail, silvermont, ultrabook, acer, aspire s7
Intel had a host of new technologies to show off at Computex this year, starting of course with the Haswell processor launch. Hopefully you have read our review of the Core i7-4770K LGA1150 CPU already but thanks to some video sent our way, we have other interesting bits to share.
Below you will see Intel demonstrating four new products. First is the Acer Aspire S7 using a Haswell dual-core platform playing back 4K content. Next up is an Ivy Bridge tablet that is running completely fanless (passive) thus generating no noise at all while still offering impressive CPU and graphics performance. Intel then pulls a Lenovo K900 Android smartphone out of its pocket powered by the Clovertrail+ enabled Atom Z2580 SoC. Finally, we get a sneak peak at the next-generation of SoC designs with a look at a Silvermont-based Baytrail tablet running at 2560x1440.
Just when you thought it was going to calm down AMD drops Richland on your lap
Subject: Processors | June 5, 2013 - 04:25 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: VLIW4, trinity, Richland, piledriver, fm2, APU, amd, a10, 6800K, 6700
Richland is here, in the form of the A10-6800K with a 4.1GHz base clock and 4.4GHz Turbo clock, support for DDR3-2133 and an improved GPU called the 8670D with 384 shaders and a 844MHz clock speed ... all for $142! Computationally you can compare it to a Core i3 or a slower Core i5 but graphically this CPU is head and shoulders above the competition as you can see in X-Bit Labs' testing. You really need to keep the price in mind, as it may not provide as much power as a Core-i5 it costs about half as much which can mean a lot to someone on a tight budget, especially when they can skip purchasing a discrete GPU altogether.
Make sure to check out Josh's reivew where he contrasts the last few generations of AMD chips.
"AMD decided to refresh their Socket FM2 platform and release a new generation of hybrid processors for it based on Richland design. This is exactly the one that earned the "Elite Performance APU Platform" title in the mobile segment."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD Elite A-Series A10-6800K APU (Socket FM2) @ techPowerUp
- AMD A10-6800K & A10-6700 APU Review @ Neoseeker
- AMD A10-6800K and A10-6700 Richland APU Reviews @ Legit Reviews
- AMD A10-6800K & A10-6700 Richland APU Review @ OCC
- AMD A10-6800K / A10-6700 @ Hardware.info
- AMD A10-6800K and 6700 A-Series "Richland" Processor Review @ HiTech Legion
- AMD A10-6800K APU Richland Processor @ Benchmark Reviews
- AMD Richland APU - Release Day Coverage @ Overclockers.com
- AMD Richland Desktop Review; A10-6800K & A10-6700 Benchmarked @ Hardware Canucks
- AMD A10-6800K and A4-4000 Richland APU @ TechSpot
- Intel Core i7-4770K @ Legion Hardware
- Choosing a Gaming CPU at 1440p: Adding in Haswell @ AnandTech
- Intel Core i7-4770K CPU Review. Intel Haswell for Desktops: Ruin of Our Hopes? @ X-bit Labs
JJ pays PC Perspective a visit!
In case you hadn't heard, on June the 4th, (world famous) JJ Guerrero from ASUS stopped by the PC Perspective offices to help host a live stream focused on Z87 platforms and the Intel Haswell processor. Since Intel decided to launch on a Saturday morning, you might have missed the boat: the Core i7-4770K was reviewed right here on PC Perspective and the results are pretty good.
Motherboards, we got motherboards here!!
Along with Haswell though is the release of the new Z87 chipset and with THAT, about 100 different ASUS motherboards. I exaggerate, but only a little. In our live stream that aired for about 4.5 hours, JJ and I discussed about 20 different motherboard ranging from Mini-ITX options to the budget-minded Z87-A and even the ROG Maximus VI Extreme!
Below you will find an on-demand version of the stream, broken up into five segments.
ASUS Z87 Motherboard Segmentation
This first segment details the mindset ASUS had when creating the four different motherboard product lines: Mainstream, Workstation, TUF and ROG. Why do they need all of these options and what features and quality points are common across the entire families?
ASUS Mainstream Z87 Motherboard Lineup
ASUS' new mainstream line of motherboards with the z87 chipset range from the Z87-A to the Z87-Deluxe/Dual. JJ talks about the features that are added as you move up the product stack so that you can find the option that fits your platform needs and budget.
Continue rearding our recap of the ASUS/PC Perspective Z87 live stream for more videos!!
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In 2007, international food prices began to soar, and by mid-2008, they had reached their highest level in 30 years. Some governments responded to the food price crisis in haste, putting in place measures such as export bans, which often made the situation worse.
Food prices rose sharply in recent months. In January 2011, the FAO Food Price Index averaged 231 points – up 3.4 percent from December 2010 and the highest level (both in real and nominal terms) since FAO started measuring food prices in 1990.
In March, FAO kicked off a series of seminars designed to bring together interested development partners and to help governments make informed policy decisions to respond to the current rise in food prices. The two-day seminars are being rolled out at regional and subregional level, starting in Asia and Africa.
These seminars provide policy decision-makers from relevant government ministries (agriculture, trade and finance) with the opportunity to exchange experiences from the 2008 food price crisis and to become better acquainted with the pros and cons of the various policy measures mapped out in FAO's newly updated Guide for policy and programmatic actions at country level to address high food prices.
The seminars are being implemented in the context of the Impact Focus Area that addresses actions towards global food security and in coherence with the Comprehensive Framework for Action (CFA) prepared by the High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis. The CFA, which was updated in September 2010, is designed to encourage concerted responses to the food price crisis with actions that respond to the immediate needs of vulnerable populations and contribute to longer-term resilience (the twin track approach).Representatives from producer organizations, the private sector, regional integration organizations and development partners, including IFAD and WFP, are also invited to the seminars.
Other partners such as the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank will have the chance to share their experiences and to explain the type of immediate support they can provide.
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Asia Asia region: 9 -10 March 2011, Bangkok, Thailand (read reports) Pacific Islands subregion: 14-15 April 2011, Nadi, Fiji (read report)Africa Eastern Africa subregion: 16-18 March 2011, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (read report) Central Africa subregion: 30-31 May 2011, Libreville, Gabon (read report in French) West Africa subregion: 6-7 October 2011, Dakar, SenegalSouthern Africa subregion: 6-8 June 2011, Lilongwe, Malawi (read report) Europe and Central Asia Europe and Central Asia region: 20-22 June 2011, Istanbul, Turkey (read report) Latin America and the CaribbeanCentral America subregion: 15-16 June 2011, San Salvador, El Salvador (read report in Spanish)South America subregion: 7-8 June 2011, Santiago, Chile (read report) Caribbean subregion: 13-14 June, Trinidad and Tobago (read report) North Africa and the Middle EastNorth Africa subregion: 2-4 May 2011, Tunis, Tunisia (read report in French)Oriental Near East and Gulf Countries: 9-10 May 2011, Amman, Jordan (read report)Background Documents'High food prices: the food security crisis of 2007-2008 and recent food price increases''High food prices: improving the performance of the agricultural sector''Productive safety nets''Social safety nets and high food prices'
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