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Juneau Announces $4 Million Grant to Connect K-12 and Higher Education Data
Monday, June 18, 2012
By Allyson Hagen
June 18, 2012
Contact: Allyson Hagen, firstname.lastname@example.com, 406.444.3160
Juneau Announces $4 Million Grant to Connect K-12 and Higher Education Data
OPI Remains Focused on Using Data to Improve Student Achievement
HELENA, MT –Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau announced that the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) has been awarded a three-year, $4 million grant to link postsecondary data with Montana's K-12 data system. This grant is the latest in Juneau's efforts to make education data readily-available to educators, parents and communities to improve student learning.
Superintendent Denise Juneau said, "Improving transparency and using data to improve student achievement and set policy priorities has been a focus at OPI over the past three years." She continued, "Our ability to identify which programs are effective at improving learning and then being able to see how prepared our students are for life after high school is going to help us make our great public education system even better."
Linking the K-12 education data with data from the Montana University System (MUS) will allow schools to get a complete picture of whether or not students graduating from their high schools are ready for college. They will be able to analyze which coursework led to successful transitions from high school to higher education as well as which students were not prepared for the rigors of college to focus in on solutions to help ensure student success.
Commissioner of Higher Education Clay Christian stated, "In order to better align outcomes and expectations between Montana's K-12 and higher education systems, it is vital that we develop the data necessary to measure and identify those elements in students' educational experiences that are driving factors in producing successful students, both in high school and college. This grant gives us that opportunity."
"This is exciting news for parents and educators," said Superintendent Juneau. "Data allows us to focus on accountability, effectiveness and achievement. Achieving a high school diploma must mean that a student has the preparation necessary to take the next steps in their lives, including being successful in college. Our continued partnership with higher education is critical to meet the needs of the 21st century workforce and move our state forward."
OPI has been working over the past 15 months to develop and roll out a new public website and warehouse for education data called "GEMS." This new data warehouse allows education data to be combined and searched in ways that are currently labor intensive and inaccessible to the public. The new system will by fully complete by December 2012. Student achievement data such as state and national test scores and AYP status is currently available to the public on the GEMS website. The linkage of K-12 and MUS data is expected to be completed by June 2015.
To view the GEMS website, go to: http://gems.opi.mt.gov.


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Intel Atom powered Lenovo IdeaPhone K900 benchmarks are astronomical
0. phoneArena 11 Jan 2013, 02:31 posted on
Whoa! That Lenovo IdeaPhone K900 smartphone might be a lot more capable that we originally thought. Announced and displayed during CES 2013, it comes with a 2GHz dual-core Atom chip by Intel, which, according to benchmark results, packs some serious processing punch...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
NOOO WAY!! LOL that is crazy.....but also, does this mean the everyday usage will be smooth as butter in everything you throw at it? or is it "just" benchmark scores?
12. Retro-touch (Posts: 273; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
Its just benchmark scores, it will just be as smooth as Nexus 4 (virtually no lag), beyond that Android itself will have to optimized further to eliminate lag completely and apps will then have to follow, Facebook still sucks till now even though its faster, for example
Benchmarks at this point are worthless, most of the high end phones even the octo core when it comes outs will perform similarly, with slight differences, seconds faster aren't really significant
25. hung2900 (Posts: 956; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
About the score, the writer had a mistake "Snapdragon S4 Pro inside the HTC DROID DNA gets 14,000 points on average when benchmarked using AnTuTu, which is about as much as we get with the 1.6GHz Exynos 4412 inside the Samsung Galaxy Note II."
Actually these scores are Antutu 2.x.x, with Antutu 3.x.x, S4 Pro's score is about 19,500 - 21,000 and Note 2's score is about 17,500 - 19,000
37. k1ng617 (Posts: 264; Member since: 13 Oct 2009)
Yea my Note 2 stock ran 18000's all day
39. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
can you provide proof of that?
61. Phullofphil (Posts: 801; Member since: 10 Feb 2009)
I just ran my Verizon note 2 once and got about 17500 wich is on par with other note 2's I took screen shots but I dont know how to post thise in my coments.
43. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4839; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Yeah I al totally with you on that one. I have no idea who has a HTC Droid DNA that gets below 19,500 on Antutu.
I hit 20,000 to 21,000 everytime on my HTC Droid DNA & that is at the STOCK clock of 1.5GHz.
47. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
And this is where I call shenanigans.... not on you, on manufacturers and their fluffing of things for higher benchmarks. My Nexus4 which has a near identical hardware setup (krait quad pro @1500mhz, 2gig ram) and a lower resolution screen (720p vs 1080p) only gets about 16800 on Antutu.. I just ran it 3 times. All things being equal, I should have a higher score not a lower one since it takes a lot less power to push a 720p screen than it does a 1080p screen.
What do you get on Velamo? I'm running it right now.
51. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Well, the Adreno 320 in Nexus 4 is proved to perform lower than the one in Optimus G due to some thermal throttling going on.
Maybe the whole SoC has the same issue.
It would explain the difference in Antutu compared to the Optimus.
My stock S3 hits over 16000, btw
59. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
you have to break it down by category to see the differences. Normally the integer or I/O is fluffed by the manufacturer to boost the score. This being a nexus means its unaltered by manufacturer fluffing and should be as true a score as you can get.
Are you using a US SGS3 with a dual core krait?
here's the breakdown for my Nexus4
CPU integer - 3791
Ram - 2127
cpu float 1822
2d 1618
3d 6484
database IO 395
SD write 111
SD read 200
CPU frequency - 1296 x 4 cores
The fun thing is that I set the cpu to run at 1500mhz for high and low, so its still being overridden by something. i keep getting results saying that the test was performed at everything from 1100 to 1296... but no higher.
Looking at the score ranks, the highest nexus at stock frequency's score is 20500. dont know if its a stock kernel though.
Anyways, compare your scores.
62. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Here, from a test I did today.
It's the Exynos version
A fluffed integer?
I'm running the latest firmware with the multi window and stuff
15. 4.hour.uptime (Posts: 3; Member since: 11 Jan 2013)
but with 1 hour talk time
and 4 hour stand by time
30. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
Look at this link.. Razr M (28nm S4 dual) vs Razr i (32nm Atom)
(Note all the hardware are same except the SoC(CPU).
01) Intel Atom entry offered a marginally faster response to most actions.
02) RAZR i booted in to Home Screen around 12 seconds ahead of the Snapdragon sibling.
03) On our battery rundown -- video playback, 50 percent brightness, WiFi and 3G on, social networks and email on sync -- Intel's iteration lasted nine hours, compared with eight hours for the RAZR M.
35. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
That's pretty much what I would expect, as the single thread performance of an Atom Z2460 should be a lot higher than the Dual krait, more taking into account the high CPU clock.
2. alterecho (Posts: 1098; Member since: 23 Feb 2012)
Whoa! Performance per core is astronomical indeed! Even if the Exynos Octa is more powerful, it will have a tough fight in single core tests.
16. 4.hour.uptime (Posts: 3; Member since: 11 Jan 2013)
there's a reason why there hasn't been any intel smartphone although intel already crying for 3 years.... performance over power requirement.
it's useless to have that fast CPU, if your phone only have 1 hour talk time and 4 hour stand by time.
23. linneti15 (Posts: 49; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
intel has pretty much fixed the power consumption problem with the newest atoms... they are more power efficient than tegra 3 and exynos 5250 and just slightly better than snapdragon s4 but they are quicker!!! source --> anandtech.com/show/6536/arm-vs-x86-the-real-showdown. Sorry cant put the link in, i have done less than 30 comments :/ so just put: h ttp://ww w. without the spacs in from of it
34. linneti15 (Posts: 49; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
in front of it*
36. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
A15 cores are more powerful (single cored) than the (current) Atom, so actually it won't be really any competition between the dual core Atom and and quad cores A15 like the Exynos Octa or Tegra 4.
The competitor for those will be "Bay Trail" (Atom quad core) and not "Clover Trail" (Atom Dual core), but it won't be out till the second half of this year.
3. noim1 (Posts: 297; Member since: 15 May 2012)
I always Knew Intel had the Raw Power ...they just have to utilize it for mobile devices !!!! Go Intel !! Bring in some Competition in the Processor Game...
8. MeoCao (unregistered)
if Intel somehow could use i7 for phones the benchmark would be through the roof.
The question for Intel is how about battery life?
13. eisenbricher (Posts: 973; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
Agree. I am also waiting for AMD's specialization in low power graphics. I heard that they are working on graphics solution for smartphones!!
40. desijatt (Posts: 58; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
I think Intel will get even more success in mobiles and tablets market than PC market....I'll wait for Bay Trail Processor in a android or windows tablet but still don't know how good will be the GPU with it....
4. mariosraptor (Posts: 125; Member since: 15 Mar 2012)
that is why it does not matter how many cores you have if they are not utilized prperly.
i didn't expect less from Intel, i expect more.
after so many years in PC CPU game they definitely know how to make chipsets.
now i want to see it's power efficiency and real life smoothness.
Good job Intel.
5. BadAssAbe (Posts: 456; Member since: 22 Apr 2011)
This sound too good to be true, If it was even remotely close to 25,000 Intel would have officially confirmed it while saying it could get better
6. Izzy_V (Posts: 216; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
Kudos for giving the finger to all the skeptics that didn't think Intel would be serious competition from the Razr i's scores.
9. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
No doubt that this is a powerful chip:
..but I still think there could be something fishy about these results.
So far Atoms have been nowhere near those numbers in Antutu.
And Antutu itself has been proved as prone to faking results by manufacturers.
The GPU on this thing for example is only half the power of iPad 4' GPU.
Anandtech also compared the older dual core 2GHz Atom with Exynos dual, and the latter was way superior. Something just doesn't look right here.
20. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
Same as below... Old Z2460 is single core, that's how the Exynos dual was superior to it (actually depends for what task).
27. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
No, it was dual core, but clocked at 1.6, not 2ghz(my bad again)
29. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
I hope you were not the one that thumbed me down for correcting you, and if you are please have the decency to change it to positive.
The link you are posting is for a Atom N570 not Atom Z2460. So it's irrelevant.
49. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Yeah I thumbed you down accidentally.. replying over the phone, hit the wrong field. Sorry about that.
Anyway, care to explain how it's irrelevant?
It's the same basic architecture I believe:
"Since 2008, Atom hasn't had any core architecture changes. Sure Intel integrated the GPU and memory controller, however the CPU still communicates with both of them over an aging FSB. The CPU itself remains mostly unchanged from what we first saw in 2008. Even Intel's 32nm Atom due out by the end of this year doesn't change its architecture, this is the same dual-issue in-order core that we've been covering since day 1. The 32nm version just runs a bit quicker and is paired with a beefier GPU. "
52. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
I find it irrelevant cause one of the differences is precisely the clock speed, that differs between the Atom Chipsets. So that the N570 is single core or runs at 1.6 MHz doesn´t bring anything to the discussion about if the Z2460 is single or dual core or what is it´s clock speed.
That´s all I meant with it.
10. RobotMan (Posts: 145; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Have to remember that some app cannot run using this cpu .
11. Techsplash (Posts: 41; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
That is really insane.It is almost double of the performance of the note 2 and droid dna.
14. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Again, I don't know.. take a look at these 2Ghz dual core Atom Z2460 benchmarks:
Note that it got destroyed even by dual core 1.5GHz Krait in the Razr M.
It's as clear comparison as you could get.
Now what so magically happened in this chip to warrant such performance jump??
21. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
Are you an ignorant?
Z2460 is a SINGLE core atom.
get your facts correct before post anything.
17. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
..The only difference between Z2460 and this Z2580 is in the GPU.
So yeah, the results don't make sense at all
18. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
Darac, don't post nosense please.
Z2460 is a SINGLE CORE chip, while Z2580 is a DUAL CORE.
Atom cores are somewhere in the middle between Krait and A15 clocked at the same speed. So the results make all of the sense of the world.
It's normal that Atom at 2 GHz get insane results, but at that clock speed I would worry about the battery life.
Also the GPUs intel use are always underperformers, Z2580 not being an exception.
24. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Oh s**t x )
26. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
"Also the GPUs intel use are always underperformers, Z2580 not being an exception"
I don't know where you get than. But according to this link
Z2580's GPU is better than iPhone 5(PowerVR 543 MP3), Nexus 4(Adreno 320) and Nexus 10(Mali 604).
It matches the graphical power of ipad 3. So only Tegra 4/Mali 658/ Adreno 330 can surpass the power of that GPU.
But according to XDA-Developers. Tegra 4 will only match Mali 604. So z2580's PowerVR 544 MP2 @ 533 MHz will be a top performing GPU for quite a while, until Mali 658 or Adreno 330 make it to any smartphones.
28. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
If it matches the iPad 3' GPU, then it's only half the power of the SGX 554MP4 found in the iPad 4.
And it's NOT more powerful than Mali 604..or even Adreno 320
31. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
Go to this link and see it yourself
iPad 3's GPU destroys both Mali 604 found in Nexus 10 and Adreno 320 found in Nexus 4.
iPad 3's GPU A5X is more than TWICE FAST of Adreno 320 and more than 50% fast of Mali 604.
I know you are a blind fanboy to accept the facts. That's why I mentioned the source links in the previous comment, yet to come again and say Adreno 320 and Mali 604 beats A5X like a blindfolded person.
Seriously you have to come back to the real world from whatever delusional world you are in right now.
33. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
He may not be the blind one, for GPUs the test that counts more is the GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt HD. In that test BOTH the Mali 604 and the Adreno 320 fare better, showing they are more powerful than the GPU in the iPad 3 (PowerVR 543 MP4 @ 250 MHz). That's in your own post.
If you don't get something as basic as that, I guess it's not worth to discuss further.
Just to make a stronger case, check the glbenchmark website yourself:
38. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
Man, it's Egypt HD. That benchmark totally depend on screen resolution. We all know that.
to confirm you,
just compare the iPhone 5 score vs iPad 3 in Egypt HD.
Where iPhone 5 will surely beat ipad 3.
But you know that iPad 3 has a better GPU (SGX 543 MP4 38.4 GFLOPS @300MHz) than iPhone 5 (SGX 543 MP3 28.8 GPLOPS @300MHz)
Moreover all the rest results on that page is all about GPU. CPU benchmarks are on the other page.
GPU => anandtech.com/show/6472/ipad-4-late-2012-review/4
CPU => anandtech.com/show/6472/ipad-4-late-2012-review/3
42. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
You just demonstrated how little you know about GPUs...
The iPhone 5 beats the IPad 3 int GPU any time for one reason: higher clocking. The SGX 543 MP3 in the iphone 5 is clocked at 266 MHz, while the SGX 543 MP4 in the iPad is clocked at 200 MHz (both estimated by Anand, not me), therefore the advantage of the iphone 5.
So yes, the graph for GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt HD offscreen is correct, and yes, the Mali 604 and Adreno 320 are more powerful than SGX 543 MP4 @200MHz.
Please check the facts and learn how to interpret graphs and benchmarkt tests before posting again. It will save me some time and I'll be grateful for that.
53. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
I could understand how desperate you are to prove you are right and seal you are a fanboy.
It clearly shows how little you know about GPUs..
GPU power is not only about higher clocks. It's more than that. It's about the architecture, how many GPU cores, how many supporting CPU cores and of cource clock speeds.
You have to understand iPad 3's SGX 543 MP4 is a quad core GPU, while iPhone 5's SGX 543 MP3 is a Triple core GPU.
You have to understand that,
Quad core SGX 543 MP4 running @ 200 Mhz is better than Triple core SGX 543 MP3 running @ 266 MHz.
For example,
iPhone 5 SGX 543 MP3 @ 266 MHz = 28.8 GFLOPS @ 300 MHz (if calculated)
iPad 3 SGX 543 MP4 @ 200 MHz = 38.4 GFLOPS @ 300 MHz (if calculated)
That's why iPad 3's GPU is powerful than iPhone 5.
You first go and study about hardware architectures before lecture others.
If you are still in doubt, go and ask some experts.
50. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
I understand why you got the impression of me being a fanboy. But anyway, I'm not..
I was referring to the 1080p offscreen test in Egypt 2.5HD, which is really the only fair comparison of raw performance, taking out the screen resolutions difference.
The results:
1. Mali 604 -33fps
2. Adreno 320 -29fps
3. SGX543MP3(iPhone 5) -27fps
4. SGX543MP4(iPad 3) -25ps
54. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
And here's as clear as can be;
..in conclusion, neither variation of SGX 543 is more powerful than Mali t-604 and Adreno 320
56. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
Fool, look at the galaxy S3's score, HTC One X's Score and Crappy Razr i's score at your graph.
All three are same. So you accept that?
SGX 540 matches Mali 400 and Tegra 3?
More than 4 years old GPU matches the performance of 2011's GPU?
You ignorant, that benchmark is too screen resolution dependent.
55. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
Man I told this already and told you again. But you fanboys won't accept it. I know that.
Egypt 2.5 HD scores are totally depend on the screen resolution.
If you are not sure, just look at Razr i 's score.
We all know that phone has one of the most out dated and crappy GPU at the moment. That is SGX 540.
We all know that will not match the (HTC One X) tegra 3 or (Galaxy S3) Mali 400 in performance.
But look at the Egypt 2.5 HD score.
It performs same as Galaxy S3 and HTC One X.
You people are delusional. More than that everyone trying to be experts, even though they are not in reality.
57. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
That's exactly why I posted BOTH the on-screen and off screen Egypt HD tests!!
In the on screen test you can see how much role the resolution plays.
In the off screen test you get a clear raw performance picture.
And you can clearly see that SGX540 is the weakest of all.
63. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
Thanks Darac, you saved me one post.
But I would no bother any more, the guy seems not to be smart enogh to understand the difference berween the onscreen and the offscreen tests. So trying to explain it´s a lost battle. :(
64. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
He was referring to the OFFSCREEN tests, in which the results are completely *independent* from resolutions. And in this test which resolution is a constant (constant meaning invariable), the Mali-T604 and Adreno 320 (Mali being on top of Adreno) gets put above everything except the PowerVR SGX554MP4 of the iPad 4, which is expected.
Offscreen tests are the only tests in which resolution is completely IRRELEVANT in order to see the raw performance of devices, and it is in those tests that you can see that the Adreno 320 and Mali-T604 can ONLY be outclassed by the PowerVR SGX554MP4. The iPad 3 and iPhone 5 GPUs get left behind by the both of them.
Get your head straight.
32. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1522; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)
Sorry, I must admit was thinking of Atom Z2760, not Z2580 as they didn't mention which one was used.
Still when the Atom Z2580 goes to market (intel anounces chips way in advance) is going to face off the iPad 4, Mali-624, Tegra 4 and Adreno 330, while it's perfomance is on the range of the iPad 3, Mali 604 and Adreno 320.
19. _Bone_ (Posts: 2154; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
That's probably the new AnTuTu under which devices score 50% higher.
22. RapidCat (Posts: 351; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
all about battery life
41. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
looking at the scores, their biggest leap comes in RAM and SD access. Gotta figure out what they are using on the internal set up.
That said.. its still a blah. Until they can prove 100% compatibility with all android apps and android OS out of the gate, I'm not interested. Otherwise, its just another fork in the android road we dont need.
44. Jonathan41 (Posts: 532; Member since: 22 Mar 2012)
Well damn. The high-end Android market might have a new candidate.
45. Shubham412302 (Posts: 431; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
The main benebit of intels processors hyperthreading is that an extra core is only formed when its needes.
Uptill that single core can run at 1ghz


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Like all of you I have a blueprint of what I think the Phillies should do in an effort to return to the top of their division and become a World Series contender again in 2013.
The Phillies' greatest needs are known to all. As general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said last week, "I've been thinking about next season since September."
Let's start with some contract information. For luxury-tax purposes, the Phillies have a little more than $138 million tied to 10 players. Given that Domonic Brown will likely occupy one of the corner outfield positions and at least three or four young relievers figure to make the squad, the Phillies should be paying only around $2.5 million for those five roster spots. Add Freddy Galvis, Erik Kratz, Kevin Frandsen, and Vance Worley to the roster at about $2.5 million total and you have a little more than $143 million invested in 19 players.


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Critical Spirit In Software Development
something to be desired in
There are several levels where critical spirit might help in software development:
at a personal level. One should have a critical spirit towards his own code, towards his own values (preferred languages, technologies, and so on) and towards himself as a person.
at a project level. The generalization from one person to the entire team.
at a industry level. We are being sold crappy technologies. Many individuals have a problem with this, but nor the industry neither the software development community (or communities of interest) seem to favor a critical spirit approach towards this de facto state of affairs.
I thought it was self understood that
is beneficial at all these levels, but apparently the jury is out on this one, so I'm eagerly waiting for other's arguments. --
Here's the original raw discussion (not all might be relevant to this page), that went from criticize bluntly as a possible manifestation of critical spirit to questioning whether critical spirit at all is good in
You can add
on the list of unforgiving domains. It is very unforgiving to make mistakes, with all the XP and refactoring , mistakes in
cost a lot, sometimes the whole project. And UNLIKE in maths and in chess, there's tons of bad advice floating around in every imaginable shape and form (magazines, vendor marketing, vendor documentation, published books, online forums, blue prints, sample applications, you name what here). And also UNLIKE in maths and in chess (and other domains)
is not quite encouraged.
I wouldn't think it is good to place too much emphasis on the security of the person being criticized, (
let the other save face
kind of thing), a much more important thing to consider is the disastrous effects his bad advice might have on others. This is a lot more important than anyone's ego. --
I disagree. There are a lot of cost-benefit trade-offs in
that make distinctions about the right and wrong thing difficult. Microsoft and others are notorious for delivering imperfect code on time because of considerations irrelevant to programming.
With what exactly do you disagree ? Is critical spirit encouraged by the industry, is critical spirit not needed in the industry, is anyone person's ego more important than the disastrous effects his bad advice (sometime advice means books/standards/product docs/official recommendation or guidelines) might have on others, or is it just that
is not recommended in discussing
issues ?
is not necessarily about right and wrong, on the other hand there are things that are clearly on the wrong side.
How about this: If you can show me the economic advantage that "encouraging
" gives one company over another, I'll agree that we should do it.
[editor's style change]
Specifically, in
, you might come across this situation: Programmer P is working on fixing feature F. Manager M has to meet deadline D. M says to P, "I know you're working on fixing F, but the bug isn't big enough to hold back the release." P, knowing the 'right' way to program says, "It would be a mistake to deliver without fixing F." M, knowing the 'right' way to deliver software says, "No, you're wrong." P replies, "No,
wrong." What's the economic advantage of having this argument?
Who's right? Who's wrong? Does it matter? Perhaps they deliver the broken software, and somebody dies (in a fluke accident). Was the manager wrong? Suppose it's the exact same software and nobody dies. Was the programmer wrong? It's impossible to be certain one way or the other. Criticizing bluntly in this case will only spark a useless argument. In the end, someone has to make a final decision that may be 'wrong' or 'right'.
The futility of the imagined argument above doesn't come from its bluntness; it comes from the lack of useful information being offered. Blunt means direct, not rude or irrelevant.
There is a
lack of information inherent in
. The problem is not that it's blunt, but that it assumes there is an easy answer to 'right or wrong'. Otherwise, how can you be blunt?
: "Blah, blah, blah..."
: "You're wrong, and here's why: This, that, the other."
This is
. It is not usually possible in
, because both sides have different values and understandings. The appropriate
in such a circumstance should be to explore the underlying values and assumptions, not
one person's values on the other.
might work if the domain is well-defined, such as in chess or math, but not in something ill-defined like
. As soon as
butts its nose in,
becomes merely argumentative.
Now can ALL the aspects of
be covered under shades of gray ? Are there not certain things that are clearly good or clearly bad? --
Sure, but your original claim applied to all of software development
"You can add
on the list of unforgiving domains."
You could make a less universal claim. It would be a lot easier to make a case for a more restricted domain.
Here are some ideas of where
may apply to
at the levels you mention at the top of the page:
Personal level. Write
s and make sure all the
s pass before you integrate. If everyone does this, you'll always have a working system. If you integrate and the tests fail, it must have been something you did or failed to do. It is your responsibility to fix it. Be critical of your own code. Don't go trying to blame someone else.
Project level. As a team, do not accept a person's word that a
is complete. It's not complete unless it passes the
s. If it doesn't pass, that person does not get credit for completing the
, and that person's velocity on the next iteration is lower. Don't accept the "It's 90% done," excuse.
Industry level. Industry publications should evaluate software products impartially, thoroughly, and strictly. None of this bandwagoneering we see going on so often.
Ok, I admit I was rather inexact. Let's try these:
is a rather
domain (can we take this for granted? at least some books on software engineering tell us that the rate of failed projects is rather alarming)
we need to make sure that
feels at home in any software development endeavour
not in all situations
is the best expression of critical spirit in a software development activity
Maybe the next step is to distinguish where exactly we do have shades of gray and where should we strive for true/false, right/wrong approach. --
This page has a great quote:
] is not usually possible in
, because both sides have different values and understandings.
There's a lot of wisdom in this statement. For every person who says that an agile approach is correct, another will say that a big process approach is correct. I think comments are overused; someone else thinks comments are underused. I argue for lots of short, simple methods; my co-worker argues for a few long, standalone methods.
I can only think of a few inarguable facts in software development: the code either compiles, or not, and it either passes tests, or not. Everything else is arguable. Including whether or not to have tests, and whether or not to even compile everything.
So my answer: Striving for a true/false, right/wrong approach on any issue more complex than "did it compile" or "did you get a
" is a bad idea. It will provoke religious arguments, engender bad feelings, and generally waste time. Instead, look for simpler answers. Better for this project, or worse for this project? Every project is different, so try things and see what works. Come to consensus. Don't fight. --
is a rather
domain (can we take this for granted? at least some books on software engineering tell us that the rate of failed projects is rather alarming)
And yet those companies whose projects often fail are still around, and some of them are doing very well. So no, I don't think
is unforgiving; it seems to me to be a very
industry. The big successes can counteract lots of small failures. In math, for example, if you have one error in your proof, it's unlikely you'll still arrive at the right answer.
I thought it was self understood that
is beneficial at all these levels, but apparently the jury is out on this one, so I'm eagerly waiting for other's arguments.
Anyone care to provide an example of where a
was beneficial? --
It all depends on how you define
. I have two definitions, and two stories.
My first definition:
"A person who looks for problems and points them out to others."
Long ago, I was hired to work on a team. I sold myself as an OOP mentor and Java programmer. (Okay, so it wasn't
long ago. I've come a long way since then.) Nobody else on the team had prior OO experience or Java experience. In the interview, I caught several
s, including, "How do you feel about working overtime?" So I came in expecting problems.
Sure enough, I found them. Design documents were out of date, the code hadn't ever been integrated, morale was low, tensions were high, people were leaving. I dutifully dived in with my
, looked at the design, made lots of little critical notes. I ignored the signals that no one else thought of me as a mentor.
Six months later, the project was dead and I was universally reviled. Word about me spread around, and I had a lucrative job offer retracted due to the rumors. I was lucky to find another job. All because I had come in with the
and a high and mighty attitude. None of my criticisms worked, the project failed, and I made a lot of enemies.
Second definition.
"A desire, on the part of a person or a group, to see and correct personal problems."
Not so long ago, I was hired to work on a team. I had proven myself as a capable project lead and Java programmer. Nobody else on the team had prior OO experience or Java experience. The project manager was seeing high-level problems, and I was specifically hired to solve those problems.
The team was pretty sceptical of my suggestions. I explained the reasons I saw for the team's problems: process problems, not personal problems. They agreed enthusiastically. I offered some XP-based solutions, and they balked. "These individual practices have worked for me before," I said, "but I've never tried them all together. But people I respect and trust have had a lot of success." The team agreed to try it out for a little while. We would have regular
reviews and tweak the process as we went along.
Eight months later, the project was a huge success and I was off on a lucrative follow-up contract. We tried a huge number of ideas. Some of them worked, some didn't. The team was always willing to at least consider an idea - even the really stupid ones - and although they would argue passionately, they were always willing to listen to other points of view. In the worse case, they'd be willing to at least try it for a little while, and they were honest in their evaluation. Many practices that were originally resisted ended up being adopted.
Without the
present in that team, the project never would have succeeded. If I had
, as first defined, it surely would have failed. --
Jim, your first definition was not good anyway because
is not a subtype of Person, it never will be. A person might have it or might whine about it. Those who whine about critical spirit are the amateurs. In the first project you exemplified you were involved with a bunch of whinies and amateurs. Nothing and nobody could have helped them, unless they accepted critical spirit in the first place.
The second definition is much better, however the example is about the social engineering of
. That's a whole new game. --
Where is being critical applied in the second example? It appears to be about avoiding being critical.
I just bought the book
(cheap and only 100 pages), and thought the contributors on this page might be interested in it. It talks about OneMinutePraisings
and OneMinuteReprimands
. I think this is related to
, but I don't think it's exactly like Costin's original definition of it.
How about these:
No progress in knowledge has ever been done in the absence of
. In the absence of
you can only have the illusion of progress.
We should all strive for performance at our individual level and at the team level. We shouldn' strive that much for accommodating mistakes, but put the good accent on avoiding mistakes (I very much praise the author of
for criticizing
in this regard).
is the ONLY way that you are going to minimize the number of mistakes, especially if you cultivate it as a team.
is crucially important at a "industry" level, if we ever want to take pride in software development as craftmanship. Otherwise we can all tell we are sold a lot of crap (they call it technologies), we put more crap into it, and sell it to the end user. That's not craftmanship.
Leaving egos aside is a
sine qua non
condition for any performance endeavour. You can easily see that in any team sports . See Lakers this year (2001) for the most recent example.
If you want to accommodate egos you can pretend to do anything BUT performance. A bunch of whinies will never make a team.
The only style that really cultivates
. If this style hurts some egos in the process, those egos were not going to help the team anyway.
Can you provide any justification to these assertions? Isn't being critical the rejection of ideas? How could this possibly lead to increased knowledge or improvement?
Being critical IS NOT the rejection of ideas, critical spirit is the rejection of bad ideas and an essential part for the validation of good ones. Outside
you have no ideas at all.
Who is doing the rejection and whose ideas are being rejected? How is the "goodness" and "badness" of ideas determined?
The question is way too general. It depends. In science the scientific (academic) community is responsible for rejecting bad ideas and promoting good ones. The process is very fuzzy and mistakes can happen (the ideas of
were first rejected , to be accepted 30 years later), however the process
cannot happen at all
in the absence of critical spirit.
What are the criteria ? Well, the criteria vary from one domain to another, but you'll always have some.
How are these criteria known? Who is responsible for applying the criteria? How does this lead to an increase in knowledge? How does any of this justify your assertions concerning being critical? Would it help the generality of my questions if we limited them to the area of software development?
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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
Feb. 5, 2013
Ben Schachter, associate professor of fine arts at Saint Vincent College, has an exhibit of his work, Jewish Geography, that focuses on the Jewish Sabbath, on display at the Les Idees Gallery in the Union at Duquesne University. Schachter, who has previously exhibited his work at Yale University and the Westmoreland County Museum of American Art, brings together Jewish rule, community and art in this exhibit. Schachter's artwork, abstractions of physical spaces, focuses on the idea of the "eruv," a symbolic enclosure that surrounds Jewish homes. He represents this idea through maps of Jewish eruvs from around the world. In the Jewish tradition, practicing Orthodox Jews cannot carry anything outside the eruv of their community on the Sabbath. For instance, carrying food or pushing a stroller from one house to another is forbidden on the Sabbath. Yet, Schachter sees this process as building community space. "Fostering community is important in both the Catholic and Jewish traditions," Schachter said. "And yet, there are some laws that limit communal activities. I see an eruv as a highly regulated line running through space. For Orthodox Jewish communities, it blends individual houses into one communal home. At the same time, it is a collaged line winding its way through the city. More importantly, this set of rules is followed all over the world and to apply them in different places requires creativity." "Ideas, such as paths and boundaries, are as much a part of modern and contemporary art as expression is," said Schachter. "I make a comparison between the rules conceptual artists set up for themselves that limited and guided their work and Jewish law that guides and illuminates behavior." The exhibit, free and open to the public, runs through March 1. Further information is available at: http://applications.duq.edu/times/2013/01/abstract-art-of-jewish-sabbath-to-open-at-les-idees-gallery/
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Deaf Kids Drama Festival
The Deaf Youth Drama Program (DYDP) at Seattle Children's Theatre (SCT) will present its Deaf Kids Drama Festival on Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Broadway Performance Hall.
Performances are 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. and are open to the public.
Tickets are $9 for adults and $6 for children under 12. Advance tickets are available at SCT's box office at (206) 441-3322, voice, or (206) 443-6938, tty.
Day-of-show tickets may be purchased at Broadway Performance Hall, located at 1625 Broadway on the Seattle Central Community College Campus.


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Rajasthan woman seeks annulment of her child marriage
The woman also sought protection from the members of a village community council who are threatening her.
Jaipur: A 20-year-old woman in Rajasthan's Barmer district has requested the authorities to annul her marriage which was solemnised when she was only two years old, police said on Saturday.
She also sought protection from the members of a village community council who, she says, are threatening her with serious consequences if she did not accept her childhood marriage, they added.
According to police, the woman, Sonia Kumari is a resident of Ratanpura village near Balotara town in Barmer, some 500 km from Jaipur.
"She filed an application before the district superintendent of police Saturday, requesting security from a village community council or panchayat. She says that they were threatening to expel her from the locality, which means she and her family members would not be able to mingle with other villagers. It also warned of slapping huge cash fines on her and her family members if she did not accept the marriage," a senior police officer told IANS.
The officer said that Sonia is doing graduation from a college in Bikaner along with her brother. She was married to Heeraram from the same village when she was only two years old.
"Sania was staying with her family members in keeping with the tradition as her 'gauna' - move from the paternal house to the in-laws' - had not been performed. Her so-called in-laws started pressuring the girl to start living with them recently which she refused," said the officer.
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Helm to visit Lanai
Kanohowailuku Helm, a candidate for the East Maui, Molokai and Lanai District 7 state Senate seat, will be on Lanai on Monday and Tuesday.
His schedule Monday includes a gathering at Richard's Market and Pine Isle Market from 10:30 a.m. to noon; lunch at Poke Shop, noon to 1:30 p.m.; visit to Dole Park, 2 to 3:30 p.m.; and dinner and talk story at Hale Kupuna, 6 to 8 p.m.
On Tuesday, Helm will hold a coffee and talk story at Coffee Works, Blue Ginger Cafe and Canoes Lanai Restaurant from 7 to 9 p.m.
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KAHULUI - Don Guzman, who is seeking the County Council's Kahului residency seat, will hold a West Maui Talk Story session from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Lahaina Civic Center Social Hall.
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The Niles Times
The school board is supporting the recommendation to tear down the visitor side of the high school football stadium to accommodate the new McKinley High School, but there are other concerns for the district.
"The Ohio School Facilities Commission has decided that we are going to lose 300 students over the next 10 years based on enrollment projections," Superintendent Rocco Adduci said Thursday at the regular meeting of the Niles Board of Education.
The school district disagrees.
"Our enrollment has remained stable at 210, 220 per class," he said. However, the third-grade class is large, with 245 students, and the kindergarten coming in already has 227 students enrolled.
The total student population has remained stable at 2,800 pupils for years, and Adduci said he doubts the state's projected decrease will come to pass.
As it is, the state is considering withdrawing about $3 million in support from the 5.3 mill, $68 million building project voters approved last fall.
Adduci said he met with state officials Thursday to debate the enrollment figures, taking in his own historical data. If the state decision stands, the project may have to be scaled back.
The school board expressed support for the plan to tear down the visitor stands and build new ones to make more room for the high school. That will allow a more logical layout for the building, building project officials have said.
Board president Marlene Rhodes said she was comfortable with the plan during Thursday's board of education meeting.
"The architects have assured us there will be no disruption of home events, she said, and the finished visitor stands will blend in with the new school building."
In other business, the board approved Richard Havrilla's resignation as the Junior Varsity Baseball Coach. They also granted a one year contract with Laura Revetti as a Teacher of Exceptional Children at Jackson Elementary School and approved supplemental positions to Michael Calderone, assistant varsity football; Zachary Connell, volunteer football; Kyle Leonard, assistant varsity football; and Vincent Melillo, volunteer football. The personal service contracts are for one year each.


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Third Party iOS Libraries
Since we write a lot of iOS apps here at Uncorked Studios, we inevitably use third party libraries to help us out. For today's post, I thought that I'd share some of our favorites.
GMGridView - we needed to build a large scale grid view with dequeueable cells, so we gave GMGridView a try. Wow. It feels like something that Apple should have built. Well defined delegates, great gestures (including drag and drop reordering of cells, and pinch and zoom cells to transition to a more detailed view), different layout strategies, and much more.
SVProgressHUD- this is our standard pop-up notification in place of UIAlertView. Simple status, error, and dismiss methods make this dead simple.
SORelativeDateTransformer - no one wants to see dates these days. Everyone wants relative dates like '2 minutes ago' or '1 week ago.' This single class library provides the desired functionality. As a bonus, it is in English, French, Spanish, and German.
RLQueue - this is an NSOperationQueue replacement that has processing, success, and error blocks, as well as setting priority and allowing the cancelling of an operation.
GTMNSString+HTML - this is just a single class out of the Google Toolbox for Mac. It converts HTML encoded characters to their actual character. For example, it will convert " to ".
SCYahooWeather - we needed a simple weather API to convert lat/long to current weather conditions. I prefer to use a documented API rather than an undocumented one (e.g., Google Weather). This library simplifies the Yahoo Weather API, although you do need to make two API calls, the first to convert lat/long to woeid and the second to use the woeid to retrieve the current weather. A little roundabout, but it was sufficient for our use case.
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The New Providence Education Foundation announces the launch of its new website, NPEdFoundation.org. Hugo Barth, president of the foundation, sees the new website as a major step towards fulfilling the foundation's longer-term vision of "…expanding on the breadth of what we do."
"The new website is exciting, easy to navigate and informative," Barth said. "It provides transparency into our grant process; allowing the community to see exactly where their generous donations are going and gives the NPEF a way to show our appreciation for doing so. It will help take NPEF to the next level of developing more significant corporate donations. To enable that, we needed a website that is professional and one we could take pride in. We needed a website that effectively represents who we are, explains our mission and lists our accomplishments. Lastly, it will help us connect with old friends such as the alumni of NP High School who may wish to contribute financially. This is why we are extremely excited about the new website!"
Construction of the new website began last spring under the supervision of board member Cecile Seth and web designer Julian Gaviria. Along with input from the entire board, NPHS Graphic Design students and countless hours of diligent work, the website is ready for visitors.
Information now available on the new website includes:
• Comprehensive listing of all grants and scholarships given out to New Providence Schools since 2004
• NPEF upcoming event information
• Volunteer opportunities and donation information
• Teacher Tributes information and forms
The timing of this launch coincides with the popular Teacher Tributes, where donations are made in the teachers' names. New Providence School District families are invited to celebrate the new website by celebrating their teachers through Teacher Tributes.
Families can thank and honor not only their teachers but also their principal, guidance counselor, coaches, cafeteria workers, media specialist, teacher assistants, or custodians with a meaningful gift of a personalized message. These messages of gratitude will be posted on the NPEF website's Wall of Fame. Teacher Tribute information and forms can be found on the new website.
Teacher Tribute and other donations go directly towards funding grants to enhance educational programs within the New Providence school system.
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Welcome to today's Surrey Live - bringing you breaking news, all the latest headlines from around the county and regular traffic & travel updates.
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GOOD MORNING SURREY: Welcome to the Surrey Live blog, I am Mark Edwards and I will be bringing you all the latest news, travel and weather throughout the county this morning.
To all my fellow early birds, thank you for being with me, and if you want to get in touch about what is going on with you today, feel free to email me at email@example.com or tweet me @SurreyAdMark.
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FATAL COLLISION IN WINDLESHAM: My colleague Jenny Stanton brought you news last night of a serious accident in Windlesham. We have had some very sad news in overnight.
A driver, believed to be in his sixties, was declared dead after being involved in a collision in Hatton Hill at around 4.40pm yesterday. Police attended the scene following reports that a vehicle had left the road and collided with the garden fence of a residential property.
Police, Surrey Fire and Rescue Service and the South East Coast Ambulance Service all attended the location and found a grey coloured convertible at the side of the road.
Following the incident police closed Hatton Hill at the junctions with Kennel Lane and Snows Ride and the road was fully reopened at around 7.47pm.
Anyone who witnessed the collision or with any information on the manner of the driver of the vehicle prior to the incident is asked to call Surrey Police on 101 or the Collision Investigation Unit on 01483 639922, quoting reference P14196127.
THAMES RESCUE: Great exclusive story here from Get Surrey-three selfless strangers who saved a man from drowning in the River Thames over the weekend have spoken of their "shock" as the reality of their instinctive bravery sank in.
Get Surrey reported on Saturday that three people helped in the dramatic river rescue of an unconscious man, who was spotted floating in the River Thames at Staines by jogger Gary Lewis, 44.
Mr Lewis was helped by Hannah Sentance and rower Nick Pollen to rescue the man.
Read the full account of these heroes right here.
TRAFFIC: Reports coming in of an accident on the A324 Aldershot Road around B3032 Guildford Road- no delays being reported yet though.
Traffic moving well on A3 northbound at A309 Kingston bypass.
Traffic also moving steadily on A245 Leatherhead Bypass Road between A243/M25 junction 9 and B2430 Kingston Road.
The A31 Farnham bypass is moving well.
The M3 is experiencing heavy traffic around junction 3 A322 near Bagshot/Lightwater.
Traffic moving well on the A320 Victoria Way around the Peacock Centre.
GOOD MORNING WORLD: My fellow early riser and colleague Debby Thompson had a morning stroll around Guildford before coming into Get Surrey HQ today. Here is one of the sites she saw.
Took a stroll round Guildford High St on my way in to @getsurrey. Nice at this time of day. Morning world pic.twitter.com/O0gG9uvczp— Debby Thompson (@debby15) July 8, 2014
TRAFFIC: Surrey's roads are really starting to get busy now.
Reports coming in of plastic sheeting on the road on A331 Blackwater Valley northbound between A31 Tongham Road and A323 Ash Road.
We have one lane blocked on the M25 clockwise due to a lorry tyre on the road between junction 9 at Leatherhead and junction 10. Police are reporting that the tyre is sitting in lane one.
EWELL CRASH: Tributes have been paid to the boy who was killed along with his mother in a car crash in Ewell over the weekend.
The mother and son have been named as Nikki Morris, 29 and Kai Arnold, 11, who died in a two-car collision in Banstead Road on Saturday.
The headteacher of Kai, who went to Woodmansterne Primary School, spoke to Get Surrey and told of a "bright and cheery boy" who would be greatly missed.
To read the full story click here.
FRANCES ANDRADE INQUEST: My colleague Paul Harper has been covering the inquest into the tragic death of Frances Andrade from Guildford- who was found dead just a week after giving evidence in the trial of a man who sexually abused her.
The inquest into the violinist's death began in Woking on Monday July 7.
Levine Andrade gave evidence to the coroner about the severe depression his wife felt after giving evidence, saying that she felt she had been on trial.
To read Paul's full report on the first day of the inquest click here.
TRAFFIC: Reports of an accident on M25 anticlockwise- will bring you more when I have it.
#M25 two lanes closed anti clock 21-20 due to an accident (07:11)— Total Travel South (@Traffic_SouthE) July 8, 2014
TRAFFIC: All lanes are now re-opened on M25 clockwise after Police removed a lorry tyre from lane 1 between junction 9 at Leatherhead and junction 10 at the A3.
Traffic really slow now on M25 clockwise between junction 13 A30 Staines and junction 12 M3- due to two lanes being closed at junctions 21-20. Still trying to get details of a reported accident here.
GUILDFORD HIGH STREET FIRE: Workers refurbishing the Tudor Lounge building had to douse some flames out after a piece of old newspaper caught fire during paint stripping- causing Firefighters to descend on the building yesterday afternoon.
Reporter Stephen Lloyd made his way to the scene and spoke to the owner of the Tudor Lounge Jon Croxford.
Read Stephen's report here.
TRAFFIC: We have heavy traffic on the A3 Northbound between Ockham Road North and M25 junction 10 Wisley Interchange.
There is also congestion on the A3 Northbound between B3000 Puttenham and A31 Farnham Road.
Slow traffic on B3000 Southbound between A31 Puttenham and A3 Puttenham Compton.
Delays due to slow traffic on M25 clockwise between junction 7 M23 and junction 8 A217 Reigate.
Slow traffic on M25 clockwise around Clacket Lane Services.
A30 London Road busy but moving between Park Street and Knoll Road / King's Ride.
Traffic moving well on A320 Victoria Way at Church Street West.
Traffic moving well nicely on The Broadway around Duke Street / Maybury Road.
HAMPTON COURT FLOWER SHOW: We had reporters and photographers down at the Hampton Court Flower Show yesterday which was a hive of activity as horticulturists put the finishing touches to their gardens.
Read our report and have a look at our picture gallery here.
GUILFEST: Think you know your GuilFest 2014 acts? The Get Surrey team has put together a some questions to test your knowledge of the artists back catalogues.
If you have five minutes during a coffee break at work- why not give it a shot.
REGENERATION PLAN FOR CAMBERLEY: Plans have been set out by Surrey Heath Borough Council to transform Camberley's town centre through a £310 regeneration scheme.
At the council's executive committee meeting on Tuesday July 1, chief executive Karen Whelan set out SHBC's vision for the town's future.
The vision includes plans to improve the infrastructure and town centre to compete with regional rivals such as Ascot, Guildford, Farnham, Bracknell and Woking.
To read the plans in detail click here.
BRIAN BLESSED COMES TO CATERHAM: Larger than life actor Brian Blessed spoke to 2,000 pupils, parents and teachers at Caterham School on Saturday July 5.
The popular star visited the school to present prizes and speaks to pupils during a speech day.
To read our full report and see our picture gallery of the day click here.
STEALTH HOLE: A bump on the B2126 Horsham Road at Holmbury St Mary has injured two cyclists, with one of the men calling for Surrey County Council to fix the defect as a matter of urgency.
A 50-year-old man came off his bike at 10am last Sunday after hitting the 'innocuous' bump.
Just two hours later a 45-year-old man followed suit with both being taken to the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford with a suspected broken shoulder and back and shoulder injuries.
A Surrey County Council spokesman has said "We are looking into this as a matter of urgency and will take whatever action is appropriate."
WINDLESHAM CRASH: Just in case you missed my post earlier- Police are appealing for information after a driver died following a collision with a garden fence in Windlesham yesterday afternoon.
The driver, who was in his 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene after crashing on Hatton Hill at around 4.40pm.
To read the full report click here.
TRAFFIC: B3001 Station Hill westbound is partially blocked- slow traffic due to accident between The Fairfield/Approach Road and A31 Farnham bypass.
Stop-start traffic on M25 clockwise between junction 8 A217 Reigate and junction 11 A317 Chertsey.
We have very slow traffic on M25 anticlockwise between junction 14 and junction 10 at the Wisley Interchange.
ESHER WAITROSE: Business leaders have welcomed expansion plans for the Esher branch of Waitrose.
A planning application is to be submitted this month to Elmbridge Borough Council to refurbish and expand the current store.
If given the go ahead the work is expected to be completed by October 2015.
The current store has been in Esher has been on the High Street for 30 years and wants to follow in the footsteps of other larger local stores.
Read the full story here.


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Jennifer Hudson's Ex-Brother-in-Law Found Guilty of Family Murders
Guilty. That's the verdict handed down in the Jennifer Hudson family murders case. The singer's former brother-in-law William Balfour was found guilty today (May 11) of three counts of first-degree murder and four other counts in relation to the 2008 murders of Hudson's mother, brother and her nephew, who was just 7 and the youngest victim of the tragedy.


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Fiscal Year 2013-2014 (July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014)
Click here or call (602) 242-FOOD (3663) to make a donation.
We invite you to personally review our annual report and our Internal Revenue Service form 990 tax return. For a copy of our audited financials for fiscal year 2013-2014, please click here.
St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance, a nonprofit corporation, utilizes 96% of every donation to support its mission-driven services. A true community-supported organization, the Food Bank receives the majority of its funding from individual and corporate donors, as well as private grants.
Note: This statement of revenue, allocations and expenses is the responsibility of the management of St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance.
The Food Bank maintains a system of internal accounting controls designed to provide reasonable assurance that transactions are properly executed and recorded in all material aspects. Assets are safeguarded and established policies and procedures are carefully followed.
A copy of the complete certified public audit report is available from the Food Bank. Contact Sarah Stuckey at (602) 242-FOOD or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com with your name and mailing address.
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