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NVIDIA's Rumored GP102
- - GP100's ideal 1 : 2 : 4 FP64 : FP32 : FP16 ratio is inefficient for gaming
- - GP102 either extends GP104's gaming lead or bridges GP104 and GP100
- - If GP102 is a bigger GP104, the future is unclear for smaller GPGPU devs
- This is, unless GP100 can be significantly up-clocked for gaming.
- - If GP102 matches (or outperforms) GP100 in gaming, and has better than 1 : 32 double-precision performance, then GP100 would be the first time that NVIDIA designed an enterprise-only, high-end GPU.
When GP100 was announced, Josh and I were discussing, internally, how it would make sense in the gaming industry. Recently, an article on WCCFTech cited anonymous sources, which should always be taken with a dash of salt, that claimed NVIDIA was planning a second architecture, GP102, between GP104 and GP100. As I was writing this editorial about it, relating it to our own speculation about the physics of Pascal, VideoCardz claims to have been contacted by the developers of AIDA64, seemingly on-the-record, also citing a GP102 design.
I will retell chunks of the rumor, but also add my opinion to it.
In the last few generations, each architecture had a flagship chip that was released in both gaming and professional SKUs. Neither audience had access to a chip that was larger than the other's largest of that generation. Clock rates and disabled portions varied by specific product, with gaming usually getting the more aggressive performance for slightly better benchmarks. Fermi had GF100/GF110, Kepler had GK110/GK210, and Maxwell had GM200. Each of these were available in Tesla, Quadro, and GeForce cards, especially Titans.
Maxwell was interesting, though. NVIDIA was unable to leave 28nm, which Kepler launched on, so they created a second architecture at that node. To increase performance without having access to more feature density, you need to make your designs bigger, more optimized, or more simple. GM200 was giant and optimized, but, to get the performance levels it achieved, also needed to be more simple. Something needed to go, and double-precision (FP64) performance was the big omission. NVIDIA was upfront about it at the Titan X launch, and told their GPU compute customers to keep purchasing Kepler if they valued FP64.
Podcast #400 - Talking GTX 1080 Performance, GTX 1070 specs, AMD Polaris leaks and more!
Subject: General Tech | May 19, 2016 - 12:08 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, radeon, polaris 11, polaris 10, Polaris, podcast, pascal, nvidia, GTX 1080, gtx 1070, gtx, geforce, arm, amd, 10nm
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The 1080 roundup, Pascal in all its glory
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 17, 2016 - 06:22 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: nvidia, pascal, video, GTX 1080, gtx, GP104, geforce, founders edition
Yes that's right, if you felt Ryan and Al somehow missed something in our review of the new GTX 1080 or you felt the obvious pro-Matrox bios was showing here are the other reviews you can pick and choose from. Start off with [H]ard|OCP who also tested Ashes of the Singularity and Doom as well as the old favourite Battlefield 4. Doom really showed itself off as a next generation game, its Nightmare mode scoffing at any GPU with less than 5GB of VRAM available and pushing the single 1080 hard. Read on to see how the competition stacked up ... or wait for the 1440 to come out some time in the future.
"NVIDIA's next generation video card is here, the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition video card based on the new Pascal architecture will be explored. We will compare it against the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Radeon R9 Fury X in many games to find out what it is capable of."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- In the lab: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card @ The Tech Report
- FCAT GeForce GTX 1080 Framepacing @ Guru of 3D
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Review: A Look At 4K & Ultra-wide Gaming @ Techgage
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Review - The Advent of Pascal @HiTech Legion
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition Review @ OCC
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition Review @ Neoseeker
- Nvidia GTX 1080 @ Kitguru
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB @ techPowerUp
- The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Review @ Hardware Canucks
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Table of Contents
- Asynchronous compute discussion
- Is only 2-Way SLI supported?
- Overclocking over 2.0 GHz
- Dissecting the Founders Edition
- Benchmarks begin
- VR Testing
- Impressive power efficiency
- Performance per dollar discussion
- Ansel screenshot tool
The summer of change for GPUs has begun with today's review of the GeForce GTX 1080. NVIDIA has endured leaks, speculation and criticism for months now, with enthusiasts calling out NVIDIA for not including HBM technology or for not having asynchronous compute capability. Last week NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang went on stage and officially announced the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards with a healthy amount of information about their supposed performance and price points. Issues around cost and what exactly a Founders Edition is aside, the event was well received and clearly showed a performance and efficiency improvement that we were not expecting.
The question is, does the actual product live up to the hype? Can NVIDIA overcome some users' negative view of the Founders Edition to create a product message that will get the wide range of PC gamers looking for an upgrade path an option they'll take?
I'll let you know through the course of this review, but what I can tell you definitively is that the GeForce GTX 1080 clearly sits alone at the top of the GPU world.
Continue reading our review of the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition!!
PCPer Live! GeForce GTX 1080 Live Stream with Tom Petersen (Now with free cards!)
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | May 16, 2016 - 03:19 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, tom petersen, pascal, nvidia, live, GTX 1080, gtx, GP104, geforce
Our review of the GeForce GTX 1080 is LIVE NOW, so be sure you check that out before today's live stream!!
Get yourself ready, it's time for another GeForce GTX live stream hosted by PC Perspective's Ryan Shrout and NVIDIA's Tom Petersen. The general details about consumer Pascal and the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card are already official and based on the traffic to our stories and the response on Twitter and YouTube, there is more than a little pent-up excitement. .
On hand to talk about the new graphics card, answer questions about technologies in the GeForce family including Pascal, SLI, VR, Simultaneous Multi-Projection and more will be Tom Petersen, well known in our community. We have done quite a few awesome live steams with Tom in the past, check them out if you haven't already.
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Here Comes the Maxwell Rebates
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 10, 2016 - 07:50 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: nvidia, maxwell, GTX 980 Ti, GTX 970, GTX 1080, geforce
The GTX 1080 announcement is starting to ripple into retailers, leading to price cuts on the previous generation, Maxwell-based SKUs. If you were interested in the GTX 1080, or an AMD graphics card of course, then you probably want to keep waiting. That said, you can take advantage of the discounts to get a VR-ready GPU or if you already have a Maxwell card that could use a cheap SLI buddy.
This tip comes from a NeoGAF thread. Microcenter has several cards on sale, but EVGA seems to have the biggest price cuts. This 980 Ti has dropped from $750 USD down to $499.99 (or $474.99 if you'll promise yourself to do that mail-in rebate). That's a whole third of its price slashed, and puts it about a hundred dollars under GTX 1080. Granted, it will also be slower than the GTX 1080, with 2GB less video RAM, but $100 might be worth that for you.
They highlight two other EVGA cards as well. Both deals are slight variations on the GTX 970 line, and they are available for $250 and $255 ($225 and $230 after mail-in rebate).
Video Perspective: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Preview
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 10, 2016 - 07:29 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, pascal, nvidia, GTX 1080, gtx 1070, geforce
After the live streamed event announcing the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, Allyn and I spent a few minutes this afternoon going over the information as it was provided, discussing our excitement about the product and coming to grips with what in the world a "Founder's Edition" even is.
If you haven't yet done so, check out Scott's summary post on the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 specs right here.
What Are NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition Cards?
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 9, 2016 - 05:00 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: pascal, nvidia, GTX 1080, geforce
During the GeForce GTX 1080 launch event, NVIDIA announced two prices for the card. The new GPU has an MSRP of $599 USD, while a Founders Edition will be available for $699 USD. They did not really elaborate on the difference at the keynote, but they apparently clarified the product structure for the attending press.
According to GamersNexus, the "Founders Edition" is NVIDIA's new branding for their reference design, which has been updated with the GeForce GTX 1080. That is it. Normally, a reference design is pretty much bottom-tier in a product stack. Apart from AMD's water-cooling experiments, reference designs are relatively simple, single-fan blower coolers. NVIDIA's reference cooler though, at least on their top-three-or-so models of any given generation, are pretty good. They are fairly quiet, effective, and aesthetically pleasing. When searching for a specific GPU online, you will often see a half-dozen entries based on this, from various AIB partners, and another half-dozen other offerings from those same companies, which is very different. MSI does their Twin Frozr thing, while ASUS has their Direct CU and Poseidon coolers.
If you want the $599 model, then, counter to what we've been conditioned to expect, you will not be buying NVIDIA's reference cooler. These will come from AIB partners, which means that NVIDIA is (at least somewhat) allowing them to set a minimum product this time around. They expect reference cards to be intrinsically valuable, not just purchased because they rank highest on a "sort by lowest price" metric.
This is interesting for a number of reasons. It wasn't too long ago that NVIDIA finally allowed AIB vendors to customize Titan-level graphics cards. Before that, NVIDIA's reference cooler was the only option. When they released control to their partners, we started to see water cooled Titan Xs. There is two ways to look at it: either NVIDIA is relaxing their policy of controlling user experience, or they want their personal brand to be more than the cheapest offering of their part. Granted, the GTX 1080 is supposed to be their high-end, but still mainstream offering.
It's just interesting to see this decision and rationalize it both as a release of control over user experience, and, simultaneously, as an increase of it.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Announced
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 6, 2016 - 10:38 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: pascal, nvidia, GTX 1080, gtx 1070, GP104, geforce
So NVIDIA has announced their next generation of graphics processors, based on the Pascal architecture. They introduced it as "a new king," because they claim that it is faster than the Titan X, even at a lower power. It will be available "around the world" on May 27th for $599 USD (MSRP). The GTX 1070 was also announced, with slightly reduced specifications, and it will be available on June 10th for $379 USD (MSRP).
Pascal is created on the 16nm process at TSMC, which gives them a lot of headroom. They have fewer shaders than the Titan X, but with a significantly higher clock rate. It also uses GDDR5X, which is an incremental improvement over GDDR5. We knew it wasn't going to use HBM2.0, like Big Pascal does, but it's interesting that they did not stick with old, reliable GDDR5.
The full specifications of the GTX 1080 are as follows:
- 2560 CUDA Cores
- 1607 MHz Base Clock (8.2 TFLOPs)
- 1733 MHz Boost Clock (8.9 TFLOPs)
- 8GB GDDR5X Memory at 320 GB/s (256-bit)
- 180W Listed Power (Update: uses 1x 8-pin power)
We do not currently have the specifications of the GTX 1070, apart from it being 6.5 TFLOPs.
It also looks like it has five display outputs: 3x DisplayPort 1.2, which are "ready" for 1.3 and 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0b, and 1x DL-DVI. They do not explicitly state that all three DisplayPorts will run on the same standard, even though that seems likely. They also do not state whether all five outputs can be used simultaneously, but I hope that they can be.
They also have a new SLI bridge, called SLI HB Bridge, that is supposed to have double the bandwidth of Maxwell. I'm not sure what that will mean for multi-gpu systems, but it will probably be something we'll find out about soon.
NVIDIA GeForce "GTX 1080" Benchmark Leaked
Subject: Graphics Cards | May 5, 2016 - 02:38 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: nvidia, pascal, geforce
We're expecting a major announcement tomorrow... at some point. NVIDIA create a teaser website, called "Order of 10," that is counting down to a 1PM EDT. On the same day, at 9PM EDT, they will have a live stream on their Twitch channel. This wasn't planned as long-term as their Game24 event, which turned out to be a GTX 970 and GTX 980 launch party, but it wouldn't surprise me if it ended up being a similar format. I don't know for sure whether one or both events will be about the new mainstream Pascal, but it would be surprising if Friday ends (for North America) without a GPU launch of some sort.
VideoCardz got a hold of 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme benchmarks, though. It is registered as an 8GB card with a GPU clock of 1860 MHz. While synthetic benchmarks, let alone a single benchmark of anything, isn't necessarily representative of overall performance, it scores slightly higher than a reasonably overclocked GTX 980 Ti (and way above a stock one). Specifically, this card yields a graphics score of 10102 on Fire Strike Extreme 1.1, while the 980 Ti achieved 7781 for us without an overclock.
We expected a substantial bump in clock rate, especially after GP100 was announced at GTC. This "full" Pascal chip was listed at a 1328 MHz clock, with a 1480 MHz boost. Enterprise GPUs are often underclocked compared to consumer parts, stock to stock. As stated a few times, overclocking could be a huge gap, too. The GTX 980 Ti was able to go from 1190 MHz to 1465 MHz. On the other hand, consumer Pascal's recorded 1860 MHz could itself be an overclock. We won't know until NVIDIA makes an official release. If not, maybe we could see these new parts break 2 GHz in general use?
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But according to a joint-report by the Greek Refugee Council and the German-based Pro Asyl earlier this month, Italy is returning undocumented migrants and asylum seekers to Greece without any proper checks.
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Dr. Richard Marchase, Ph.D., president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, praised the stimulus funding but hopes it is only "the first step forward towards a long-term, sustainable investment in both biomedical and other scientific research."
In addition to the NIH boost, the stimulus package's R&D provisions also include $3 billion for the NSF, $4.5 billion for renewable energy research including bioethanol and other biotech solutions, $1.1 billion for grants for disease prevention, $1 billion for NASA, $830 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research.
Expect that last item to generate controversy going forward. Comparative effectiveness research pits established therapies against one another to provide guidance to physicians and patients. The biotech and pharmaceutical industry has supported comparative effectiveness research that focuses on clinical outcomes but has consistently opposed cost- or value-oriented research, which will be the focus under the stimulus package.
The stimulus package also provides $17.2 billion in incentives to promote the adoption of improved healthcare information technology systems in clinics and hospitals receiving Medicare and Medicaid. In addition, tens of billions have been provided to shore up Medicaid and help unemployed workers pay for extensions of their health insurance coverage under federal COBRA rules.
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Probably the highlight of the tour so far is the four days on the Gulet. Sailing through the Mediterranean has been amazing. The thing that is most amazing is the colour of the water. It ranges from deep navy blue to bright turquoise and everything in between. it is so clear it is like a magnifying glass.
We swam twice a day, lounged on the daybeds, sunbaked on the sunbeds, photographed the scenery and ate and drank. Just fabulous.
Our crazy drive to Iznik
... on the map, and every one of these tiny roads was lined in green, indicating that the route is particularly scenic, and we've driven everything else so far with no troubles, so how bad could it be?
... Well, it took us five and a half hours to reach Iznik from Ankara - at least one extra hour that we wouldn't have spent if we'd gone by the big road - and most of that was on tiny, poorly paved, winding, guard-rail-less mountain paths. Don't get me wrong, it ...
Agva - Sand and camping between the two rivers
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... across the street from the enclosed Hagia Sophia at a restaurant for some, finally, late afternoon food. One last thing as I was trying to leave town gave me a chuckle. At the Bursa Gate of the wall it looked like a good place to wait the dolmuş, rather than walking back in to the otogar. There was on the sidewalk a large, well padded easy chair, albeit with no seat cushion. I thought someone had just put it out there as a "bus stop" seat. There was a man ...
... bloody WW1 battle. Turkey has done a fantastic job of creating a park dedicated to WW1. Then we were off via ferry crossing to Asia Minor - the remainder and biggest part of Turkey. Called Anatolia, the remainder of Turkey is beautiful and diverse. It changes from fertile hills growing grains to rocky plateaus and Star Wars like and Mars like terrain. It is compelling. Our tour will take us around Anatolia - the Turkish ...


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My Mother and Father are typical parents of the 90's too sensitive, Roles reversed, and a little bit creepy with their new age lifestyle, Loving as can be, but I needed parents not, self help conference and Family meeting counseling sessions that usually ended with my father asking, "what can he do to meet my needs". I practically had been raising myself, well actually Coffee, Cigarettes and anything brash and countercultural raised me. I am a 15 year old scared kid living out of a choose your own adventure Novel.
This might better explain things, a couple of months ago, I left for 3 days to go back home, homesick, and not afraid of the conflicts I created, I left, When I went home I saw a couple of friends, who somehow mysteriously had changed in 6 months, almost childish. Went to a couple of local band shows, Mostly people I had supported, felt musically inspired and drank a bottle of Wild Irish rose that I had a bum buy after I bought him a meal from McDonalds. Drunkenly I made my way home by bus. When I got home, my parents didn't even know I left. They were used to me ditching school, but they didn't check any more, all they interrogated me about was the smell of hobo liquor on my breath, and how hung over I looked, The funny thing about it after the fact apologetically they asked me what they had done to make me "act out" like I did my dad was crying, what a joke. What a joke.
My Father was at one point a very influential architect in Greater Chicago in the 80's. He wouldn't take a breath, he would work 14 hours a day come home in silence, and creep out the door at four in the morning just so we couldn't see the anguish and defeat in his face. One time I saw him right before he was going to leave in the morning drinking coffee at our dining room table mutely sobbing just so we couldn't hear him and worry. So early on, I grew a thick skin for my father, to the point, to where over the years I became cold to how he reacted to things, and finally when he cracked and committed himself to a psych ward, I became hardened. I blamed him for how he let his life take control of him as a person.
My Mother was not all that bad, her only fault was introducing my dad to the combination of medications and self-help seminars, and in the late 80's most of the material that had been disseminated by these things, was utter bullshit, and gave my father a crutch to rest on. Instead of being the provider, stern but loving father, he should have been he became a Life by so-in-so" junkie, leaving my mother to provide most of the support and income. My Mother had to become mom and Dad to a vastly fading son.
I woke up the next day, hungover by the excitement that I had felt the night before, Corrine Channowith, the first girl I could see my self with, the first person in this godforsaken town that actually made a bit of sense. It was a Saturday so I mulled through my normal weekend routine, but today instead of waking at my usual 11:30 I was out the door to Ezra's by 0830. My parents were watching a "Find your inner lion or whatever" seminar so they didn't see me leave at all. Ezra's laid in the "business district" if you would call it that. Ezra owned by a Jasper Ezra was a makeshift diner infused with a local dance hall that over the years in the lost of translation forgot all about dancing and now held venue for local music of all types. On top of that, they had the best coffie in town, black, sludge like and cold most of the time, would raise a hair on a corpse on a good day.
Ever since I came to Foal Run Mr. Ezra had looked out for me, telling me who to look out for, giving me advice and generally just encouraging me and letting me know that living here was temporary and that he had confidence that be cause I was "such a little bastard", I would do great things in life.
Ezra's or Ezra Pound as I liked to call it, was located on the West end of Stanglind Rd the main avenue that ran through Foal Run, at one time Ezra's was a Speakeasy that had been full of debauchery, illegal rum running and a moonshine distillery, but after Prohibition ended Mr. Ezra's father Dalan, bought it in rubble condition and started the family legacy.
Walking up to the Pound, I started to smell the bitter but welcoming smell of Burnt coffie and grits, walking up the cobblestone alleyway, I could see that Ezra was slammed it was his Saturday morning farmers and most of the Senior Silver club from the Church Griping and complaining about Ezra's service, even though you could never make them happy. Yes this hole in the wall was my haven away from the drawn lifeless world of Foal Run, Mr Ezra was a mentor of sorts, He honed my insanity and saved it for the right time and the right place.


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language of German romance, is described as "scathed by the ineradicable
traces of the thunderbolts of Heaven;" so that, contemplating their relative
geological positions, the poor deserted damsel was flourishing on slate, while her
rich and false young knight was pining on chalk.
Squire Crotchet had also one daughter, whom he had christened Lemma, and
who, as likely to be endowed with a very ample fortune was, of course, an object
very tempting to many young soldiers of fortune, who were marching with the
march of mind, in a good condition for taking castles, as far as not having a groat
is a qualification for such exploits. She was also a glittering bait to divers young
squires expectant (whose fathers were too well acquainted with the occult
signification of mortgage), and even to one or two sprigs of nobility, who thought
that the lining of a civic purse would superinduce a very passable factitious nap
upon a thread-bare title. The young lady had received an expensive and
complicated education, complete in all the elements of superficial display. She
was thus eminently qualified to be the companion of any masculine luminary who
had kept due pace with the "astounding progress" of intelligence. It must be
confessed, that a man who has not kept due pace with it, is not very easily found:
this march being one of that "astounding" character in which it seems impossible
that the rear can be behind the van. The young lady was also tolerably good
looking: north of Tweed, or in Palestine, she would probable have been a beauty;
but for the valleys of the Thames she was perhaps a little too much to the taste of
Solomon, and had a nose which rather too prominently suggested the idea of the
tower of Lebanon, which looked towards Damascus.
In a village in the vicinity of the Castle was the vicarage of the Reverend Doctor
Folliott, a gentleman endowed with a tolerable stock of learning, an interminable
swallow, and an indefatigable pair of lungs. His pre-eminence in the latter faculty
gave occasion to some etymologists to ring changes on his name, and to decide
that it was derived from Follis Optimus, softened through an Italian medium into
Folle Ottimo, contracted poetically into Folleotto, and elided Anglice into Folliott,
signifying a first-rate pair of bellows. He claimed to be descended lineally from
the illustrious Gilbert Folliott, the eminent theologian, who was a Bishop of
London in the twelfth century, whose studies were interrupted in the dead of night
by the Devil, when a couple of epigrams passed between them, and the Devil, of
course, proved the smaller wit of the two.
This reverend gentleman, being both learned and jolly, became by degrees an
indispensable ornament to the new squire's table. Mr. Crotchet himself was
eminently jolly, though by no means eminently learned. In the latter respect he
took after the great majority of the sons of his father's land; had a smattering of
many things, and a knowledge of none; but possessed the true northern art of
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Animal lover and tree-hugger. Cheerful and outgoing; loves sports, kittens and strolls in the park. Hates her older sister, Amy, and her whole 'clique' apart from Roman.
AGE: 16 years old, Junior.
Relationship status: Deeply in love with Roman Hugh and happily in a relationship with him.
SOCIAL STATUS: now popular
Roman Matteo Hugh
Close friend of Julie (and he secretly loves her). Loves music, sports and art. Plays the guitar and sings. Major romantic. Sweet, understanding and hysterical. Hates Caleb and Amy for the way they treat his friends.
AGE: 17 years old, Senior.
Relationship Status: Now dating Julie after loving her for so long but being too scared to tell her.
SOCIAL STATUS: popular before and even more so now. Took Caleb's place on the football team.
Brooke Noël
Julie's best friend. Total bookworm and computer geek. Enjoys going to the library and writing short stories. Also a math nerd! Hates sad endings and P.E.
AGE: 16 years old, Junior.
Relationship Status: Happily in a relationship with Elliott Moore since sophomore year.
SOCIAL STATUS: was always popular among the nerds and geeks, now popular amongst everyone.
Rayne Lee Carlisle
Julie's best friend. Gothic - loves wearing black, dark poetry and horror movies (secretly a sucker for a little romance). Although a goth, very outgoing and bubbly. Hates cheerleaders and shortcake.
AGE: 16 years old, Junior.
Relationship Status: a lesbian. Dating Kitty Jose.
SOCIAL STATUS: now popular
Amy June Forbes
Julie's older sister and arch-enermy. A bitchy cheerleader who loves herself and shopping. Hates her younger sister - she sees her as competition and harmful to her reputation. She doesn't take notice and/or teases anyone who isn't part of the "Populars".
AGE: 17 years old, Senior.
Relationship Status: Single. Ex of Caleb Summers
SOCIAL STATUS: now unpopular
Caleb Summers
Julie's love interest. Major athlete and most popular guy in Lagoon High. Shows little to no interest in Julie and taunts her. Vain, selfish and a cheater.
AGE: 17 years old, Senior.
Relationship Status: ex of Amy June Forbes
SOCIAL STATUS: now unpopular. lost his place in the football team to Roman.
Katherine "Kitty" Jose
Name pronounce "Hoe-Zay".
Amy's bestfriend. Secretly a computer geek, loves music and dark poetry. A cheerlead but pretends to be bitchy in order to obtain her image. secretly bisexual and has a thing for Rayne. Dating Mitch Graeme.
AGE: 17 years old, Senior.
Relationship Status: Dumped Mitch Graeme in order to be with Rayne Carlisle.
SOCIAL STATUS: still popular but more so now because she's being her true self.
Elliott Moore and Brooke Noël
Caleb Summers and Amy June forbes when they were together
Roman Matteo hugh and Julie Lorant Forbes
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The high cost of summer stresses us out.
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My name is Sein, I belong to the Karen minority group in Myanmar. I grew up in a rural Karen village along the border with Thailand. I later came to America as a refugee.
For years I worked as a handyman, taking on construction and installation projects for restaurants and businesses in the Southeast Asian community in San Francisco. It is a wonderful community, with a lot of friendship and support within network.
In the last year, I decided to take my 8-month Buddhist sabbatical. Buddhist men in Myanmar go through this rite-of-passage, dedicating time to meditation and prayer. I shaved my head and became a vegetarian for that period of time.
Coming out of my Sabbatical, I was given the opportunity to co-own Tender Loving Food in the Tenderloin. I see it as a wonderful beginning to the next phase of my life.
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Tender Loving Food is a little place in the Tenderloin serving up a small, authentic Burmese menu. Under the mentorship of fellow Burmese restauranteur, William Lue, I am working hard with my other business partner to expand the menu to include traditional Karen dishes.
What is the purpose of this loan?
Our space still needs a lot of work! We'd like to give the storefront a new face lift, putting in a new awning. I'd also like to redo the circuitry and piping in the shop, much of it I can take on by myself.
To expand the menu to include Karen dishes, I need bring in a charcoal stove for roasting the skewers, and also additional fryers, one for veggies, one for meat, and one for seafood. We're working with an electric stove for now, but we'd like to put in a gas stove for greater efficiency.
Industry: Food
Years in operation: 6 months – 1 year
Website: tenderlovingfood.com
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Just one day after announcing that Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen would portray the villain in Casino Royale, the next James Bond flick, the film's producers said that French actress Eva Green had been cast as the next "Bond girl." Green, who starred opposite Orlando Green in Kingdom of Heaven (and was later linked to him romantically), will play the role of Vesper Lynd, a role played by Swiss actress Ursula Andress in the original 1967 Casino Royale spoof. In a statement, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, said: "After an extensive search we have found the perfect actress. ... She brings to the complex role of Vesper an exciting combination of enigmatic and seductive beauty." Columbia Pictures Chairman Amy Pascal added that while Bond stories are first about action, "you need to have palpable sexual tension in the movie and in casting Vesper, we really needed to up the ante, because this character is very much an equal to Bond and central to our story."
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This was the perfect time for some road tunes. Renee had something tougher and testrone filled in mind. But the station that came on was a " soft rock" station. What in god's name was soft rock anywa? Renee gagged as Josh Groban came on. She turned it up anyway. This was not the time for channel surfing, so Renee rocked out.
" You raise me up...la...la...whatever. You raise me up...Jesus...whatever...la...la " Renee sang
She ignored the litpol infront of her. They would either move or end up like the cones in her first driving test...Renee honked her horn. It was their only warning... Renee hit the gas. They didn't think she had the balls...even in the dark Renee could tell. Their guns were raised but their body stance was too relaxed.Their knees were bent and they were slightly slouched.Renee slowed down the truck and inch by inch she moved until she ran over the First guy's feet. Then she backed up and did it again.
She didn't hear him scream. Josh Groban was already screaming in her ears. Renee saw that he got the point and backed up. His gun was pointed to closely at her driver side window but he didn't fire at her. Actually they all had good shots at her...They must want her alive. Why did they all think she knew some deep dark secert?Nobody told the mouthy one secerts.
Renee reached the litpol station. Renee wondered how she was ever going to lift off the roof? She could barely drive a shopping cart, yet here she was driving a toe truck. She started playing with the crane just to see how it moved. She needed to know if she could even do this...But then the hooked hand of the crane got stuck underneath a drain or something...Renee sighed. This was not how she wanted to do this. But she hit the gas anyway. The noise was painful...The noise of metal bending...not Josh Groban...And then crash! The eavestrough fell into the truck's trunk.
What a fruitless effort...Renee made a tisk of disguss. She didn't have time for round two. She was surrounded by the litpol...this time in tanks. It was only two tanks but still it was tanks plural. Renee was more irrated the scarred, where was her tank? That was so unfair.
Renee raised up the arm of the crane. She threw open her car door and started climbing up the crane. It was way easier than climbing up a strippers pole.Ofcouse they couldn't shoot...Well they couldn't shoot to kill anyway. Renee got winged a bit.But it was all scare tatics. Why did they automatically assume every girl was a tender little lamb?Once Renee flopped on the roof ,she exhaled in relief. Then quickly picked herself up and Renee started running out of sight. There was no rest for the wicked...


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"Nagami zooms in like a microscope on infections. She presents them, with all their drama, in the context of how they alter patients' and doctors' lives. Along the way, she conveys an amazing amount of medical information that's easy to absorb. Using her sharp storytelling skills, she illustrates for us how vulnerable we all are to microscopic intruders and how having the right doctor on our side can mean the difference between living and becoming another statistic in the morbidity reports." Jane E. Allen, Los Angeles Times
"In the tradition of Microbe Hunters, The Woman with a Worm in Her Head is a fascinating account of a physician's struggles on behalf of her patients against the terrifying underworld of infectious diseases. Dr. Nagami is a compelling writer whose insatiable curiosity about bacteria and viruses never comes at the expense of those who suffer from them." Frank Huyler, M.D., author of The Blood of Strangers
"The Woman with a Worm in Her Head brings us the excitement of the fight against infections, the human drama that surrounds their impact, and helps us understand how to avoid them. The reader will be swept up in the detective story behind finding the culprits and the human story that surrounds each case. This book successfully explores the interface between the sick patient and the all-too-human physician who comes with implacable weapons of modern medical technology, but more important, her own feelings, strengths, and weaknesses." C.J. Peters, M.D., author of Virus Hunter
"A physician of great medical skills and writing talent . . . Nagami, in her fine book, conveys her humanness, warmth, and caring concern as a physician, and as a person. She helps reestablish our faith in medical practice. After reading The Woman with a Worm in Her Head, at the first sign of microbial invasion you would want to call her to take care of you. I know I would." Robert S. Desowitz, Ph.D., author of The Malaria Capers
"[In The Woman with a Worm in Her Head] the vigor of hope is preserved, even in the face of the final incapacity. The depth of a humane vision is maintained to the end. The physician's own failings and shortcomings (for there is a limit to medical skills, despite the much-vaunted progress) are made into a route of escape from a ruinous sense of superiority . . . We all enjoy the physician's chronicle of the mighty struggle. It is a war that concerns us all, whose episodes are always fascinating. All the more so when told, as in these pages directly, truthfully, and clearly, by a front-line veteran." F. Gonzalez-Crussi, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Pathology (from the foreword to Maneater)
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Volunteers with the Wildlife Rescue Association had their hands full after more than a dozen ducks were contaminated in a Surrey pond.
Karen Becker says 15 mallards were covered with a mysterious oily and gooey substance.
"We don't know what the substance is or where it came from."
The ducks were pulled from a pond at the Hazelmere R-V Park.
"It's compromising their water proofing, and causing them not to be able to keep their temperature, and possibly ingest potentially poisonous items, so they're in danger."
Becker says the rehabilitation has cost about seven thousand dollars, along with a huge volunteer effort.
She says until the pond is cleaned and the mystery substance is solved, they will be checking the pond regularly to see if other ducks have been affected.
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The Accomplices and Southbound Brewing Co. have come together for what might be the coolest album release party ever.
The Savannah-based Lowcountry string band will debut its sophomore album, "a truck, a train, an old dump pile," to fans at the Savannah brewery on May 24.
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For The Accomplices, this unlikely pairing of brewery and band fits right into its overall aesthetic. After all, they are a rare blend of jazz, funk, rock, folk and Americana in a brew of tonal beauty, while Southbound has its own blends that yield different, yet equally fantastic sensory pleasures.
"Southbound, all their brews and the name of the brewery all have music references," fiddle player Colleen Heine said. "As far as that partnership, their interest, philosophy and everything about them really aligns with us as a band."
This distinct blend can be blamed on Accomplices' bass player Zachary Smith and his own love of the suds. As an occasional home brewer, Smith became interested in the local company more than a year ago, before Southbound even opened its doors.
After a gig in Savannah, Smith met founder and brewmaster of Southbound, Smith Mathews, and eventually the band and brewery struck a deal. In exchange for using the brewery for an event, The Accomplices played the Second Harvest benefit show in February of this year.
The Smiths, however, have gone beyond the mutually beneficial business arrangement. For the album release party, patrons will not only get their hands on the new album, but also a taste of some new beer, along with a souvenir pint glass.
Smith and Heine joined Mathews at the brewery to put together a new kind of beer to be debuted at the release party. The "Into the Sun Saison," named after the fourth track from the new album, will be available for tastings, along with the rest of Southbound's hoppy treats.
"I told them I thought I wanted to do a saison, because it's a summery beer ..." Smith said. "You can drink a few of them before you're loopy! I hope the beer is good enough that people will start to ask for it at bars and stuff. So it will be something they have to keep on tap, and it will be The Accomplices signature brew!"
Just like The Accomplices' music, you can't compartmentalize the members. Although Smith is a musician, his love for and knowledge of beer is nothing to dismiss, and with the help of Mathews' degrees in brewing, the saison might be the toast of the night.
"Smith kind of directed me in some flavor characteristics," Smith said. "I was interested in a ginger. He suggested a paring of rose hips. It's got ginger, candy ginger, rose hips and two different kinds of hops. It's a kind of pilsner malt. We've got 25 gallons. (Does some math in his head.) That's 400 pours, so get there early!"
The Accomplices' follow-up to 2011's "Canned Beans" was a year in the making, and resembles the polished workings of a unique blend of individual styles. Of the 10 tracks, eight are original tunes with two new arrangements of traditional songs.
Opening with "Blue," a more traditional string band number, the album traces through each members' individual musical influences, while harnessing the aptitude of the quartet's musical prowess.
"At one time, we kind of joked that we should call our band The Spectrum," Smith said. "It's like Matt Eckstine (guitar, vocals) is on one end of the spectrum, Colleen Heine (fiddle, vocals) is on the other end. Stan Ray (drums and vocals) kind of falls somewhere behind Matt, and I am over here."
Each member might bring his or her own taste into the group and the performance, but what is filtered through and eventually produced is a particular blend of charming, seemingly effortless music.
"For the past two years, we've just been gigging hard," Heine said. "Matt particularly is of the ilk that to develop a song, you just play it out, even if it doesn't feel like it's ready to play out. So a lot of songs, and our style, and the ability to make it work together, came form hard gigging."
The second track, The Accomplices' own funky arrangement of "Darlin' Cory," is a good example of the band's ability to capture their own unique sound, while doting on traditional Americana.
"There's a lot bands, in that genre of Americana now, where you don't have to be just this," Smith said. "There's a lot of gray area. You can blend a lot of different styles. I think that it's kind of nice that we have all of those influences, and bring them together, and create a lot of unique sounds."
Recorded at a beach house in Fripp Island, S.C., and later mastered at Elevated Basement Studios in Savannah, The Accomplices found the right mixture of ingredients for the second album.
"This album was more of the band coming together as a unit," Smith said. "Our first album was kind of like all the individuals coming together and bringing things that they had worked on in the past. This time, we kind of found our sound as a band."
"We sound like this album," Heine added.
What: The Accomplices album release party with Soap
When: 9 p.m. May 24
Where: Southbound Brewing Co., 107 E. Lathrop Ave.
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Today's post will provide a basic introduction to the Windows Embedded CE Platform Builder Catalog. If you don't know what that is, consider yourself lucky. If you do have to deal with the catalog data, today's post might be helpful. We'll write a quick C# utility that demonstrates the catalog object model and also provides some useful diagnostic information that might be helpful to catalog file authors. The tool will display any errors or warnings that PB encounters while loading the catalog. It will also list all of the catalog files that it was able to load.
I don't really know how it happened, but somehow about 5 years ago, through no fault of my own, I ended up owning the PB "catalog". For those who don't know, the catalog is a repository for information about the CE operating system, and PB uses this information to help developers customize their CE builds. For example, if you have the environment variable "SYSGEN_AUDIO" set when you build a CE operating system, your operating system will include sound system support. The catalog has a list of these "features", along with a friendly title, description, and some metadata that helps PB ensure that the environment variable is properly exposed to the developer.
There were some significant issues with the catalog's design, and maintaining the catalog data was not a fun experience. CEC files were not Maintaining the code that worked with the catalog was also problematic. For PB 6.0, I finally had the opportunity to start from scratch with a new catalog format. While a certain amount of backwards compatibility was required (the new catalog needed to essentially provide the same data as the old one, and there would need to be an upgrade path). So I designed a new catalog system, written in C# and based on XML files. While it isn't perfect, I think it is an improvement.
From a development perspective, one thing that is nice about the new catalog is that it has a pretty clean object model (an interface for developers who want to use the catalog). While we've never published the interface for the object model, we don't support it for external use, and everything I say here comes without warrantee or guarrantee of future compatibility, it isn't too hard to get started with basic tasks using the catalog object model. The reflection and metadata included in every managed assembly make this possible.
Before I go too far, I want to be clear that the design for the catalog object model emphasized the most common use of the catalog as a read-only repository. Loading and reading data from the catalog is (hopefully) reasonably simple and efficient. Using the object model to create or edit catalog files is a bit more of a challenge and not quite as efficient.
Loading a catalog means parsing about 2 megabytes of XML and loading the data into memory. While this happens in less than 1/10 of a second, we don't want to do this too often. In addition, we don't usually need (or want) multiple copies of the catalog in memory. To help with this, the catalog object model provides a cache of read-only loaded catalogs. When loading a catalog via the object model, you can choose to get your own copy of the catalog or you can ask for a read-only copy, which may come from the cache. (The cache is based on the .NET garbage collector via weak references. As long as anybody is using a catalog, it won't be evicted from the cache. As soon as nobody is using it, it becomes eligible for garbage collection. If it re-enters use before it is collected, it is no longer eligible for collection.)
The first step in using the catalog from your own code is to reference the catalog library. This code is in the Microsoft.PlatformBuilder.Catalog assembly, which (assuming you've installed Platform Builder 6 into C:\Program Files) can be found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform Builder\6.00\cepb\idevs\Microsoft.PlatformBuilder.Catalog.dll. In Visual Studio, add a reference to this file. For convenience, you can add a "using" declaration to the top of your code to import the Catalog's namespace:
Next, to load a catalog, you use the CatalogManager class. The CatalogManager is a collection of catalog files. It handles searching through a winceroot for catalog files to load, loading all of the catalog files into memory, and maintaining the organization of the data in the catalog. It "flattens" the contents of the files, merging the data from all of the catalog files into a single collection of catalog elements. It also groups the data by type (so I can get a list of BSPs without going through all elements in the whole catalog), and generates indexes (so I can quickly look up a BSP by name).
When creating a CatalogManager, you can either create your own (writable) copy or you can load a read-only cached copy that might be shared by other components in the same process. To create a writable copy, just use the CatalogManager's constructor:
CatalogManager catalog = new CatalogManager();
The default constructor for the CatalogManager will load only the "Global" catalog files. These are the catalog files in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform Builder\6.00\Catalog, and need to be available to PB whether or not it is working with a CE OS tree. To load the catalog files from an OS tree as well as the global catalog files, just add the winceroot path to the constructor call:
If you don't need to make changes to the catalog manager's data and don't need precise control over the load sequence, you can use the CatalogManager factory method. This will return a cached catalog if one is available, so it is usually more efficient for repeated use than creating and loading a new catalog each time.
Next, we want to know if the catalog manager had any trouble while loading the catalog. For normal operation, developers generally don't want a defective catalog file to prevent PB from working correctly, so the catalog manager will silently catch catalog load errors. However, when working on catalog files, it is helpful to know what PB really thinks about your catalog. The catalog manager keeps track of warnings and errors generated during catalog load. You can access the errors via the catalog manager's Messages property, which is a read-only collection of CatalogMessage objects.
The catalog manager also provides a utility method to format the error or warning messages. It will then write the messages to any TextWriter (i.e. a StreamWriter or StringWriter). For example, to print all error or warning messages to stdout, you could do this:
Finally, we want to access some of the data in the catalog. Let's print out a list of all of the catalog files that were successfully loaded:
Console.WriteLine("CatalogFile: {0} – \"{0}\"",
file.FileInformation.Title, file.FullName);
Similar collections exist for the BSPs, CPUs, and "Items" in the catalog.
Here is a simple command-line program that pulls this all together. You can build this via a Visual Studio C# command-line app project, or you can compile this at the command line with the csc.exe C# compiler. The only trick is to add a reference to the Microsoft.PlatformBuilder.Catalog.dll assembly (from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform Builder\6.00\cepb\idevs).
Have fun!
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Win32;
using Microsoft.PlatformBuilder.Catalog;
namespace CatalogErrors
public class Program
public static void Main(string[] args)
string winceroot = null;
if (args.Length > 0)
string arg0 = args[0].ToLowerInvariant();
if (arg0 != "/?" &&
arg0 != "-?" &&
arg0 != "/h" &&
arg0 != "-h" &&
arg0 != "–help")
winceroot = args[0];
winceroot = GetDefaultWinceroot();
if (winceroot != null &&
"ERROR: Winceroot \"{0}\" not found.",
winceroot = null;
if (winceroot == null)
"Usage: CatalogErrors [winceroot]");
"Displays any CE catalog load warnings and errors.");
"If winceroot is not specified, uses default from registry.");
catch (Exception ex)
ex = ex.InnerException;
while (ex != null)
" : {0}: {1}{2}",
private static string GetDefaultWinceroot()
string winceroot = null;
using (RegistryKey localDir = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(
@"Software\Microsoft\Platform Builder\6.00\Directories"))
if (localDir != null)
winceroot = localDir.GetValue("OS Install Dir") as string;
if (winceroot == null)
using (RegistryKey globalDir = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(
@"Software\Microsoft\Platform Builder\6.00\Directories"))
if (globalDir != null)
winceroot = globalDir.GetValue("OS Install Dir") as string;
return winceroot;
private static void Run(string winceroot)
CatalogManager catalog =
CatalogManager.WriteCatalogMessages(catalog.Messages, Console.Out);
foreach (CatalogFile file in catalog.Files)
Console.WriteLine("CatalogFile: {0} – \"{0}\"",
file.FileInformation.Title, file.FullName);


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Chunky Beef Chili
Low Carbohydrate Recipe
Use chunks of beef in this hearty Chunky Beef Chili, not hamburger. Seasoned with chili powder, ground cumin, dried oregano and salt. This is a chili you can really sink your teeth into!
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 pounds beef, cut in 2-inch cubes
1 onion, chopped
6 stalks celery, sliced
1 can tomatoes, diced
1 cup beef stock
5 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons chili powder, to taste
1 teaspoon ground cumin, to taste
1 teaspoon dried oregano to taste
3/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1 sweet red bell pepper, chopped
Recipe Directions
Crockpot Method
In a large, nonstick skillet, heat the vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Brown meat in batches until browned on all sides. Transfer the meat to an 18 to 24-cup slow-cooker or crockpot.
Combine the remaining ingredients and pour them over the meat. Cover and cook on low for eight to ten hours, or until the meat and vegetables are tender.
Stovetop Method
Brown the meat in the vegetable oil in a Dutch oven until it is browned on all sides. Add the remaining ingredients and stir to combine and blend. Cover and simmer over medium-low heat for 1 to 1-1/2 hours, or until the meat is tender. Increase heat to medium and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
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Recipe makes 4 servings
Calories: 324; Protein: 34g; Total Fat: 16g; Sodium: 881mg; Cholesterol: 83mg; Carbohydrates: 10g; Fiber: 3g
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We take social network sites at face value - and no more. A closer analysis suggests that the time has come for a radical reappraisal of social networking. It's time, in fact, to think about "hardwiring" the law into social networking websites, lest our right to privacy is irreparably devalued. At present, data protection law in Europe allows search engines and website operators to collect, use and share personal information, provided they do so in accordance with a number of principles.
The core principle is that the user is told about how their information will be used (for example, in a privacy policy) and that the website operator meets one of several conditions. The one on which website operators most often rely is users' consent. Although you'll see "opt in" boxes for email marketing, operators will often rely on "opt-out". You are deemed to consent unless you opt-out.
If you're a Facebook user and go to your privacy settings, you will see that the default position with your minifeed is that Facebook will publish details to your "friends" whenever you change your profile, make a comment on a photo or video, or interact with the site in a number of other ways. You can "opt-out" by unticking all the boxes but, for most users, taking the time to check website privacy settings and preferences is the last thing on their minds.
But if you don't change these settings, have you really consented? The European Commission's Working Party on Data Protection doesn't think so. "Using pre-ticked boxes fails to fulfill the condition that consent must be a clear and unambiguous indication of wishes," it says. Perhaps, indeed, we have arrived at a tipping point.
Take Beacon, an integral part of Facebook's new Social Ads platform. This is a piece of software code which a Facebook partner embeds into its web page - say an online video rental store. If the user rents a video from the partner site, this fact will appear in the user's news feed on Facebook. When Beacon was launched, it let you opt out of this and, in theory, the partner website should let you opt-out as well.
Whether that happens in practice is another matter, and you might well sign up to some services which you'd rather your friends, networks or any other third parties (who've signed up to receiving news feeds about you) didn't know about. Following complaints, Facebook changed Beacon to allow users to opt-in. The key issue, then, is how far are you willing to allow service providers to go?
Facebook is emblamatic of current trends in data sharing online, but the same technologies are being used by search engines and other social network sites. I am far from saying that we're confronted by a straightforward "good guy, bad guy" scenario: the tailored information and social connectivity the likes of Facebook provide their users for free is great. But that we have a decision to make about privacy is undeniable.
How, then, should data protection law strike the right balance between sharing personal information and safeguarding an individual's private rights to that data in the web 2.0 world? Two things need to happen. First, we must develop the notion of the "digital citizen". The Information Commissioner published research in November which revealed that people now consider protecting their personal information as more socially important than the NHS, national security and the environment. If that's true, the scene is set for the arrival of the digital citizen - the person who accepts responsibility for their online personal information as part of managing his or her digital identity.
Secondly, we need to look to the heart of the matter - privacy and consent. We need to be sure that users really understand how their personal information is being used and shared, that they've really consented to it or that its use is essential. To achieve this, the act of giving consent should be coded - hardwired - into websites through ticking the relevant boxes or some equivalent.
Hardwiring the law into the web may sound scary, but it's a lot less scary than leaving things as they are.
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E.J. is trying his hardest to get a new job so he doesn't have to live with his roommate, Jessie. So read about E.J's exciting adventure, and see if he actually gets a new job.
"Man, E.J your rent has to go up.. you can't keep staying here."
"Please, I can't. I am looking!"
"Well not hard enough. You know my mom is coming soon. She'll think I'm your girlfriend."
"Well, we can make th-"
"No. Sorry. "Said Jess cutting off my sentence.
I was only joking.
E.J. I was looking in the newspaper and there was a photography session for three months and you would get paid $150 mo/
You're really going to do this to me Jess?"
"I have to..."
I heard Devin was looking for someone to talk to Jess.
Don't bring up that cursed name ever again. You hear?
I'm sorry Jess, but you need to open up and stop so paranoid.
Me? Ph... Paranoid? No way! I can open up. I'll go out tonight.
Ha, I'd like to see that happen.
Oh shut up E.J. just cause all the girls are over you, don't mean the boys be all over me.
You're gorgeous! What are you talking about? I'm taking you out to have fun. You'll see.
8:00 p.m.
Jess? Are you ready? You better dress good!
comes out.
Um... Whoa, Jess you really cleaned up. Hu, hu, how?
Are you kidding me? You thought I would set the bar really low? For you? Never.
I almost dropped my jaw... Jess, you're gorgeous.
Oh Edward James, shut up! You know I don't like sarcasm.
I'm not lying Jessica, I mean it. I mean it.
Oh Edward... I'm not that mushy.
Sorry I just can't get over it, you're like a pretty, pink lollipop. All the boys are going to be on you.
Shut up! Let's go... I'm ready to drink it up.
We arrive around 8:45. Loud music ringing in our ears, we walk over to the waiting area.
Oh my god! E.J. you really know how to live it up!
You're lying. This is the cheapest place I could find... I was wondering if this could be apart of the rent.
I'm not lying. I love it! And in your dreams Edward James Cartenson, you pay for your mess.
There's my Jess.
[I look at Jess. Her hair, golden brown, down to her mid- back. Eyes glimmering like jewels. Her smile, so beautiful, words can't explain.]
Ha ha, I've been here the whole time E.J
Jessica is that you?" A voice comes up behind Jess.
Oh my god! Lupe Garzia! Is that you?
Yep! You got it. In the flesh. Do you want to dance? I haven't seen you in forever!
E.J. Do you care if I uh... Dance?
What? No way! Go enjoy yourself kid. I'll get us some drinks.
[Jess and Lupe's conversation]
Well, Jess I must say you are beautiful. Still.
Ha ha! Thank you. My friend is actually the one who told me to do this.
Well I'm going to thank your friend.
Lupe I want you to know what happened in high school was really bad.
I know Jess I just thought maybe we could, you know start over?
No, no. I have to go Lupe. I can't do this. I was supposed to have fun tonight.
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3: ChocolateMature
It was four months ago that I died. I now live in a tiny flat with a zombie, two mini demons and a vampire.
'Mii! Mii!' One of the Mii's squaked, it swooped around my head, making me dizzy.
It's surprising that I live with the two people that killed me. I know it's odd, but I think were okay friends now. . .
'KATHERINE! DID YOU EAT MY CHOCOLATE!'Yelled a very angry Jack.
'Um. . .no?'
'Liar! Chocolate is currently the only food, you, the ghost of this flat, can eat! Apart from McDonald's happy meals, but still ,that was from France!'Jack ranted.
'OK, I did eat it, but I was bored. And it was just here crying 'eat me, eat me!' I couldn't help my poor, dead self.' I pouted, pulling the puppy eyes.
'Whatever. And chocolate does not talk, I lived long enough to know!'He huffed. He sat next to me and patted around.
'What'chya looking for?'I asked.
'The remote.'
'I threw it out of the window.'
'I wanted to see if I could move things with my mind.'
'So you used the remote?!' He yelled.
'Yeah. Not on purpose, though. Go ask Lucy to go but a new one.'
'She's out already! Busy.' He said grumpily.
'What's she doing?'
'Oh.'I mumbled, feeling a little bad. I was kind of imposing on their house and kept on eating their chocolate, 'sorry.'
'It's not your fault, Katherine. You'll be all good once you've done your business and unlocked your door.'
I pursed my lips thoughtfully and sank deeper into their comfy leather sofa.
'Do you don't what really sucks about being dead?'I asked him.
'What?'He replied tiredly, staring at the blank TV screen.
'I never had sex.'
'What an inapropriate thing to say!' He splutterd.
'But it's true. I died never having sex and that sucks ass.' I groaned, 'it's not fair! I didn't even ask out the guy I like!'
'Well, I could kill him for you and then you could, y'know, bang as gh--'
'Out of the question! No way! You can't kill someone so I wont be a virgin anymore!'I cried, at that moment Lucy came in; looking at us both suspisiously.
'What're you guys on about?'
'Being a ghost-virgin.' 'Nothing.'
'Well. . . thats nice. I had a nice meal also. Do we have any beer in the fridge?'She grunted.
'Sorry, only red wine.' Jack said pompously.
'You and your wine. . .'She hissed, stomping to her room.
'This sucks.'I mumbled, 'I want more chocolate. . .'