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Whilst at the New Zealand Family History Fair I had the pleasure to interview Cassie Mercer, the Editor & Publisher of Inside History. The magazine was established in November 2010 so is a fairly new addition to the news-stand, but with a print circulation of 7,000 and 10,000 registered digital users it has made it's presence felt in the genealogy/history publication world.
Cassie told me that she couldn't help but be involved in family history as her mother, Barbara Hall, is a keen genealogist and is the author of five books about Irish Convicts sent to Australia prior to 1800. Barbara's website is the well known Irish Wattle. On her maternal side Cassie has what she described as rogues and criminals from Ireland, England and Scotland to balance this out her paternal side is all from England and they are generally law-abiding!
A favourite ancestor is Edward Turley a Dubliner who came to Australia in 1796 definitely Aussie Royalty ! Edward was found guilty of being a highwayman.
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For years, Pamela Anderson has been a staple at Richie Rich's Fashion Week runway shows where she brought a certain level of class and sophistication liken the world has never seen. However, this year, Richie has found a new muse in Jersey Shore's JWoww which is really, just an inspired choice. Who better to carry the fake-breasted torch of shameless whorebaggery, only to be cast aside and die from hepatitis, penniless and alone? She was practically built for this.
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The Comprehensive Plan is a guide used by the community, the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors to make decisions about the county's built and natural environment. For each nomination, the staff report contains background information, analysis and a recommendation. These reports are available to the public and are provided to the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors for use in the public hearings process. Based on the actions of the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors, the recommendations may result in Comprehensive Plan amendments.
The staff reports have been posted on the Area Plans Review section of the Department of Planning and Zoning Web page at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/apr. In addition, the Web page includes a variety of information such as a summary of the nomination process. Also on the Web page are supervisor district maps that show the general location of the nominations, as well as the schedules for the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors public hearings and mark-up meetings.
In addition to the information available on the Web, copies of the staff report are also available at the Department of Planning and Zoning Planning Division office at the Herrity Building, 12055 Government Center Parkway, Suite 730, Fairfax. Office hours are Monday thru Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Additional copies are available at the Dranesville District office, 1437 Balls Hill Road, Mclean; Hunter Mill District office, 12000 Bowman Towne Drive, Reston; Providence District office, 8739 Lee Highway, Fairfax; and Sully District office, 4900 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly.
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Pictures of a man wanted in connection with stealing a spaniel outside a Friern Barnet supermarket have been released.
Philomena Hynes of North Finchley tied Ted, her Cavalier King Charles spaniel, to a railing outside Tesco Express in Friern Barnet Lane, New Southgate, at 4.25pm on Saturday, December 8.
The 75-year-old, who is partially deaf, returned from the shop minutes later to discover her beloved pet was missing.
A staggering 52,820 people followed the bid to find Ted on social networking site Twitter.
Last Wednesday Mrs Hynes' family received a phone call from a young girl who said she found the four-year-old dog tied to a gate in Friary Park, Friern Barnet.
Mrs Hynes told the Times Series: "I couldn't believe it. It's absolutely fantastic and I'm so elated. I'm thrilled to bits to have Ted back."
Acting detective sergeant Louise Smith, from Barnet police, said: "Officers attended their address to see him fast asleep on the sofa and looking forward to a hearty chicken dinner that evening after his ordeal.
"This case really does show the part social media can play in fighting crime - we think there was so much publicity about Ted that he was too hot to hold."
Police want to speak with a man captured on CCTV footage. He is described as white, of medium build and in his 20s with short cropped light-brown/ginger hair. He has a tattoo on the left side of his neck and was wearing a dark top, white T-shirt, jeans and white trainers.
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Australia's wholesale electricity prices are likely to stabilise in coming years, and east coast states – with the exception of Queensland – should have ample generating capacity to cope with peak demand, according to a report by private analysts at ROAM Consulting.
Wholesale prices in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT are now averaging about $50 to $60 per megawatt-hour and "we expect to see much the same price for the next six years except for Queensland", said Andrew Turley, principal market modeller for ROAM.
Queensland can expect prices of $80 or more per MW-hour, because the ramping up of production of another energy source – liquefied natural gas – will add a "significant load" to power demand, sending prices higher, Mr Turley said.
The ROAM Insight report comes as the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) warned in a separate study that eastern Australian states may face gas shortages over the next few years as a surge in LNG exports threatens to "create challenges for domestic supply".
Energy prices are likely to remain a hot political topic heading into a federal election year in 2013. Household power bills are up as much as 50 per cent over the past three years and gas prices are likely to surge in coming years as the gap between domestic and international LNG prices narrow.
Higher retail electricity prices, though, are forecast to keep demand in check even as wholesale prices trend sideways. Provided there is no return to the severe drought conditions of 2006-09, the higher power bills should preclude the need to build more generating capacity, including new gas peaker plants, for years to come, ROAM's Mr Turley said.
"We see demand remaining mild with the existing generation portfolio sufficient to supply peak demand for the next 10 years," Mr Turley said, echoing AEMO's findings.
ROAM expects the demand for roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) installations to trail off as states reduce incentives faster than prices fall. The growth in PV should resume, though, by 2018, assuming PV prices continue their decline.
So-called "demand response", in which consumers react to higher power prices during peak times by cutting their usage, will have only a limited role until meters and time-of-use prices are more prevalent across the National Electric Market.
"We're not expecting that to significantly change over the near term," Mr Turley said.


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Black Sabbath rocker Tony Iommi has received an honorary degree from a U.K. university. The guitarist was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by officials at Coventry University during a graduation ceremony at Coventry Cathedral in England on Tuesday (19Nov13).
Iommi was handed the degree "in recognition of his contribution to the world of popular music".
The musician says, "It's a great honour to receive the doctorate, which comes towards the end of a challenging but amazingly successful year for me."
Iommi bounced back from a battle with blood cancer to hit the road with Black Sabbath for a reunion tour. The rockers also released a new album, 13 – their first record in 18 years.
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One of the principles that Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) instills in its graduates is the commitment to service. Students are encouraged to volunteer their time to others in the spirit of giving in many ways at The Woods. This conviction develops in our students and stays with them long after they graduate. Vicki Barrett, 2001 graduate of SMWC, who embodies this value, recently received the Female Volunteer of the Year award from Junior Achievement of the Wabash Valley, Inc. at their annual dinner.
As a volunteer for Junior Achievement and United Way, as well as a Sunday school teacher, Barrett enjoys working with children and nurturing how receptive they are to learning.
"It is very rewarding," Barrett said of her volunteer work, stating that the benefits that volunteering has for her personal and professional life are always much greater than the cost or time given.
Barrett is a controller at Terre Haute Savings Bank and has been there since graduating with an associate's degree from Ivy Tech in 1998. She received her bachelor's degree in accounting from SMWC only three short years later. Her biggest supporter was her father, who purchased her Woods Ring for her and attended Ring Day but did not live to see her graduate.
Vicki Barrett and her husband, Gary, have two sons: Jarrod and his wife Kelsey with daughter Brookelee Kay; and Darrek.
A true Woods woman, Barrett inspires others to volunteer and give back, relating the impactful rewards of seeing how the children react and interface with the Junior Achievement program. Knowing that helping people will make a difference is what inspires her and drives her to volunteer.
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A large number of language assessment measures have been developed to measure various aspects of language ability and language proficiency. These include:-
Individual Speech and Language measuresEdit
- Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale
- Assessing Semantic Skill through Everyday Themes
- Assessment of Literacy and Language
- Auditory Processing Abilities Test
- Bankson Language Test
- Bankson-Bernthal Test of Phonology
- Boehm Test of Basic Concepts
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale
- California Verbal Learning Test
- Carolina Picture Vocabulary Test for Deaf and Hearing Impaired
- Children's Communication Checklist
- Clinical Assessment of Articulation and Phonology
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals
- Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language
- Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing
- Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation
- Evaluation of Acquired Skills in Communication
- Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test
- Expressive Vocabulary Test
- Fisher-Logemann Test of Articulation
- Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation
- Hodson Assessment of Phonological Patterns
- Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities
- Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children
- Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis
- Language Processing Test
- Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test
- Modern Language Aptitude Test
- Oral and Written Language Scales
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
- Photo Articulation Test
- Pragmatic Language Skills Inventory
- Preschool Language Assessment Instrument
- Preschool Language Scale
- Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia- PALPA
- Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test
- Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test
- Reynell Developmental Language Scales - RDLS
- Rosner's Test of Auditory Analysis Skills
- SCAN-A: A Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Adolescents and Adults
- SCAN-C: A Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Children
- Screening Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language
- Secord Contextual Articulation Tests
- Structured Photographic Articulation Test
- Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test
- Stuttering Severity Instrument for Children and Adults
- Systematic Assessment of Voice
- Test of Pragmatic Language
- Test of Phonological Awareness
- Test of Narrative Language
- Test of Minimal Articulation Competence Pearson Assessments Speech and Language
- Test of Language Development
- Test of Early Language Development
- Test of Auditory-Perceptual Skills
- Test of Auditory Processing Skills
- Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language
- Test of Aided-Communication Symbol Performance
- Test of Adolescent/Adult Word Finding
- Test of Adolescent and Adult Language
- Test for Examining Expressive Morphology
- Test of Semantic Skills
- Test of Word Finding
- Test of Word Knowledge
- The Expressive Language Test
- The Fullerton Language Test for Adolescents
- The HELP Test
- The Listening Comprehension Test
- The Listening Test
- The Nonspeech Test
- The Phonological Awareness Test
- The Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale
- The WORD Test
- Token Test for Children
- Utah Test of Language Development
- Verbal Motor Production Assessment for Children
- Weiss Comprehensive Articulation Test
- Wepman's Auditory Discrimination Test
- Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery
- Woodcock-Muoz Language Survey
For childrenEdit
Many assessments exist for investigating children's language. Here is a selection of commonly used assessments by speech and language therapy services in the UK:
- BPVS - a receptive assessment of vocabulary
- TROG - understanding of language (grammar)
- PVCS - preverbal communication checklist
- Derbyshire picture test - simple understanding
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-4): Assesses receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language.
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals: Pre-School (CELF-P): Assesses receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language skills in Pre-School aged children.
- ACE 6-11 - a battery of receptive, expressive and pragmatic language tests
- RAPT - picture naming and grammar/content analysis
- RWFVS - Picture naming/vocabulary test
- STASS - expressive grammar
- The Bus Story Test - early narrative assessment
- CLEAR - phonology screening assessment
- STAP - expressive phonology
- DEAP - expressive phonology
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
- Language for Thinking assessment - inferential thinking and understanding
See alsoEdit
- Language disorder
- Language proficiency measures
- List of voice disorders
- Neuropsychological assessment of aphasia
- Speech disorder
- Speech and language pathology


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The Dark Knight: Intel's Core i7by Anand Lal Shimpi & Gary Key on 11/3/2008 12:00 AM EST
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anand4happy - Sunday, February 08, 2009 - linksaw many thing but this is the thing something dfferent
sd4us.blogspot.com/2009/01/intel-viivintel-975x-express-955x.html Reply
nidhoggr - Monday, November 10, 2008 - linkI cant find that information on the test setup page. Reply
nidhoggr - Monday, November 10, 2008 - linktest not text :) Reply
puffpio - Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - linkwould you guys consider rebenchmarking?
from the x264 changelog since the nehalem specific optimizations:
"Overall speed improvement with Nehalem vs Penryn at the same clock speed is around 40%."
anartik - Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - linkGood review and better than Tom's overall. However Tom's stumbled on something that changed my mind about gaming with Nehalem. While Anand's testing shows minimal performance gains (and came to the not good for games conclusion) Tom's approached it with 1-4 GPU's SLI or Crossfire. All I can say is the performance gains with Nvidia cards in SLI was stunning. Maybe the platform favors SLI or Nvidia had a driver advantage in licensing SLI to Intel. Either way Nehalem and SLI smoked ATI and the current 3.2 extreme quad across the board. Reply
dani31 - Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - linkI know it would't change any conclusion, but since we discuss bleeding edge Intel hardware it would have been nice to see the same in the AMD testbed.
Using a SB600 mobo (instead of the acclaimed SB750) and an old set of drivers makes it look like the AMD numbers were simply pasted from an old article. Reply
Casper42 - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkSomething I think you guys missed in your article/conslusion is the fact that we're now able to pair a great CPU with a pretty damn good North/South Bridge AND SLI.
I found that the 680/780/790 featureset is plainly lacking and that the Intel ICH9R/10R seems to always perform better and has more features. If any doubt, look at Matrix RAID vs nVidia's RAID. Night and day difference, especially with RAID5.
The problem with the X38/X48 was you got a great board but were effectively locked into ATI for high end Gaming.
Now we have the best of both worlds. You get ICH10R, a very well performing CPU (even the 920 beats most of the Intel Quad Core lineup) AND you can run 1/2/3 nVidia GPUs on the machine. In my opinion, this is a winning combination.
The only downside I see is board designs seem to suck more and more.
With socket 1366 being so massive and 6 DIMM slots on the Enthusiast/Gamer boards, we're seeing not only 6 expansion slots (down from the standard of 7) but in most boards I have seen pics of, the top slot is an x1 so they can wedge it next to the x58 IOH which means your left with only 5 slots for other cards. Using 3 dual slot cards is out of the question without a massive 10 slot case (of which there are only like 3-5 on the market) and even if you can wedge 2 or 3 dual slot cards into the machine, you have almost zero expansion card slots should you ever need them.
Then we get to all the cooling crap surrounding the CPU. ALL these designs rely on a top down traditional cooler and if you decide to use a highly effective tower cooling solution, all the little heatsink fins on the Northbridge and pwer regulators around the CPU get very little or no airflow. Now your in there adding puny little 40/60mm fans that produce more noise than airflow, not to mention that the DIMMs are hardly ever cooled in today's board designs.
Call me a cooling purist if you will, but I much prefer traditional front to back airflow and all this side intake top exhaust stuff just makes me cringe. I personally run a Tyan Thunder K8WE with 2 Hyper6+ coolers and the procs and RAM are all cooled front to back. Intake and exhaust are 120mm and I have a bit of an air channel in which that airflow never goes near the expansion card slots below, which by the way have a 92mm fan up front pushing air in across the drives and another 92mm fan clipped onto the expansion slots in the back pulling it back out.
I dont know how to resolve these issues, but I think someone surely needs to because IMHO its getting out of control. Reply
lemonadesoda - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - link"Looking at POV-Ray we see a 30% increase in performance for a 12% increase in total system power consumption, that more than exceeds Intel's 2:1 rule for performance improvement vs. increase in power consumption."
You cant use "total system power", but must make the best estimate of CPU power draw. Why? Because imagine if you had a system with 6 sticks of RAM, 4 HDDs, etc. you would have ever increasing power figures that would make the ratio of increased power consumption (a/b) smaller and smaller!
If you take your figures and subtract (a guestimate of) 100W for non CPU power draw, then you DONT get the Intel 2:1 ratio at all!
The figures need revisiting. Reply
AnnonymousCoward - Thursday, November 06, 2008 - linkPerformance vs power appears to linearly increase with HT. Using the 100W figure for non-CPU draw means a 25% power increase, which is close to the 30% performance.
Unless we're talking about servers, I think looking at power draw per application is silly. Just do idle power, load power, and maybe some kind of flops/watt benchmark just for fun. Reply
silversound - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkgreat article, tomsharware reviews always pro intel and nvidia, not sure if they got pay $ to suppot them. anandtech is always neutral, thx! Reply
npp - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkWell, the funny thing is THG got it all messed up, again - they posted a large "CRIPPLED OVERCKLOCKING" article yesterday, and today I saw a kind of apology from them - they seem to have overlooked a simple BIOS switch that prevents the load through the CPU from rising above 100A. Having a month to prepare the launch article, they didn't even bother to tweak the BIOS a bit. That's why I'm not taking their articles seriously, not because they are biased towards Intel ot AMD - they are simply not up to the standars (especially those here @anandtech). Reply
gvaley - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkNow give us those 64-bit benchmarks. We already knew that Core i7 will be faster than Core 2, we even knew how much faster.
Now, it was expected that 64-bit performance will be better on Core i7 that on Core 2. Is that true? Draw a parallel between the following:
Performance jump from 32- to 64-bit on Core 2
Performance jump from 32- to 64-bit on Core i7
Performance jump from 32- to 64-bit on Phenom Reply
badboy4dee - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkand what's those numbers on the charts there? Are they frames per second? high is better then if thats what they are. Charts need more detail or explanation to them dude!
TSM Reply
MarchTheMonth - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkI don't believe I saw this anywhere else, but the spots for the cooler on the Mobo, they the same as like the LGA 775, i.e. can we use (non-Intel) coolers that exist now for the new socket? Reply
marc1000 - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkno, the new socket is different. the holes are 80mm far from each other, on socket 775 it was 72mm away. Reply
Agitated - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkAny info on whether these parts provide an improvement on virtualized workloads or maybe what the various vm companies have planned for optimizing their current software for nehalem? Reply
yyrkoon - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkEither I am not reading things correctly, or the 130W TDP does not look promising for the end user such as myself that requires/wants a low powered high performance CPU.
The future in my book is using less power, not more, and Intel does not right now seem to be going in this direction. To top things off, the performance increase does not seem to be enough to justify this power increase.
Being completely off grid(100% solar / wind power), there seem to be very few options . . . I would like to see this change. Right now as it stands, sticking with the older architecture seems to make more sense. Reply
3DoubleD - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - link130W TDP isn't much worse for previous generations of quad core processors which were ~100W TDP. Also, TDP isn't a measure of power usage, but of the required thermal dissipation of a system to maintain an operating temperature below an set value (eg. Tjmax). So if Tjmax is lower for i7 processors than it is for past quad cores, it may use the same amount of power, but have a higher TDP requirement. The article indicates that power draw has increased, but usually with a large increase in performance. Page 9 of the article has determined that this chip has a greater performance/watt than its predecessors by a significant margin.
If you are looking for something that is extremely low power, you shouldn't be looking at a quad core processor. Go buy a laptop (or an EeePC-type laptop with an Atom processor). Intel has kept true to its promise of 2% performance increase for every 1% power increase (eg. a higher performance per watt value).
Also, you would probably save more power overall if you just hibernate your computer when you aren't using it. Reply
Comdrpopnfresh - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkDo differing cores have access to another's L2? Is it directly, through QPI, or through L3?
Also, is the L2 inclusive in the L3; does the L3 contain the L2 data? Reply
xipo - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkI know games are not the strong area of nehalem, but there are 2 games i'd like to see tested. Unreal T. 3 and Half Life 2 E2.. just to know how does nehalem handles those 2 engines ;D Reply
Jingato - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkIf the 920 can easily be overclocked to 3.8Ghz on air, what intensive is there to purchase the 965 for more that triple the price? Reply
TantrumusMaximus - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkI don't understand why the tests were on such low resolutions... most gamers are running higher res than 1280x1024 etc etc....
What gives? Reply
daniyarm - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkBecause if they ran gaming benchmarks at higher res, the difference in FPS would be hardly visible and you wouldn't go out and buy a new CPU.
If they are going to show differences between Intel and AMD CPUs, show Nehalem at 3.2 GHz vs 9950 OC to 3.2 GHz so we can see clock for clock differences in performance and power. Reply
npp - Monday, November 03, 2008 - link9950 consumes about 30W more at idle than the 965XE, and 30W less under load. I guess that OC'ing it to 3,2Ghz will need more than 30W... Given that the 965 can process 4 more threads, I think the result should be more or less clear. Reply
tim851 - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkHigher resolutions stress the GPU more and it will become a bottleneck. Since the article was focussing on CPU power and not GPU power they were lowering the resolution enough to effectively take the GPU out of the picture. Reply
Caveman - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkIt would be nice to see these CPU reviews use relevant "gaming" benchmarks. It would be good to see the results with something like MS flight simulator FSX or DCS Black Shark, etc... The flight simulators these days are BOTH graphically and calculation intensive, but really stress the CPU. Reply
AssBall - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkNo, they don't, actually. Reply
philosofool - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkIt would have been nice to see a proper comparison of power consumption. Given all of Intel's boast about being able to shut off cores to save power, I'd like to see some figures about exact savings. Reply
nowayout99 - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkDitto, I was wondering about power too. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkSoon, soon my friend :)
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Kaleid - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkhttp://www.guru3d.com/news/intel-core-i7-multigpu-...">http://www.guru3d.com/news/intel-core-i...and-cros... Reply
bill3 - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkUmm, seems the guru3d gains are probably explained by them using a dual core core2dou versus quad core i7...Quad core's run multi-gpu quiet a bit better I believe.
tynopik - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkwhat about those multi-threading tests you used to run with 20 tabs open in firefox while running av scan while compressing some files while converting something else while etc etc?
this might be more important for daily performance than the standard desktop benchmarks Reply
D3SI - Monday, November 03, 2008 - link
So the low end i7s are OC'able?
what the hell is toms hardware talking about lol
conquerist - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkConcerning x264, Nehalem-specific improvements are coming as soon as the developers are free from their NDA.
See http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=40">http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=40. Reply
Spectator - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkcan they do some CUDA optimizations?. im guessing that video hardware has more processors than quad core intel :P
If all this i7 is new news and does stuff xx faster with 4 core's. how does 100+ core video hardware compare?.
Yes im messing but giant Intel want $1k for best i7 cpu. when likes of nvid make bigger transistor count silicon using a lesser process and others manufacture rest of vid card for $400-500 ?
Where is the Value for money in that. Chukkle. Reply
gramboh - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkThe x264 team has specifically said they will not be working on CUDA development as it is too time intensive to basically start over from scratch in a more complex development environment. Reply
npp - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkCUDA Optimizations? I bet you don't understand completely what you're talking about. You can't just optimize a piece of software for CUDA, you MUST write it from scratch for CUDA. That's the reason why you don't see too much software for nVidia GPUs, even though the CUDA concept was introduced at least two years ago. You have the BadaBOOM stuff, but it's far for mature, and the reason is that writing a sensible application for CUDA isn't exactly an easy task. Take your time to look at how it works and you'll understand why.
You can't compare the 100+ cores of your typical GPU with a quad core directly, they are fundamentaly different in nature, with your GPU "cores" being rather limited in functionality. GPGPU is a nice hype, but you simply can't offload everything on a GPU.
As a side note, top-notch hardware always carries price premium, and Intel has had this tradition with high-end CPUs for quite a while now. There are plenty of people who need absolutely the fastest harware around and won't hesitate paying it. Reply
Spectator - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkSome of us want more info.
A) How does the integrated Thermal sensor work with -50+c temps.
B) Can you Circumvent the 130W max load sensor
C) what are all those connection points on the top of the processor for?.
lol. Where do i put the 2B pencil to. to join that sht up so i dont have to worry about multiply settings or temp sensors or wattage sensors.
Hey dont shoot the messenger. but those top side chip contacts seem very curious and obviously must serve a purpose :P
Spectator - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkWait NO. i have thought about it..
The contacts on top side could be for programming the chips default settings.
You know it makes sence.Perhaps its adjustable sram style, rather than burning connections.
yes some technical peeps can look at that. but still I want the fame for suggesting it first. lmao.
Have fun. but that does seem logical to build in some scope for alteration. alot easier to manufacture 1 solid item then mod your stock to suit market when you feel its neccessary.
Spectator. Reply
Spectator - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkthat sht is totally logical.
And Im proper impressed. I would do that.
you can re-process your entire stock at whim to satisfy the current market. that sht deserves some praise, even more so when die shrinks happen. Its an apparently seemless transition. Unless world works it out and learns how to mod existing chips?
Chukkle. but hey im drunk; and I dont care. I just thought that would be a logical step. Im still waiting for cheap SSD's :P
Spectator. Reply
tential - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkWe already knew nehalem wasn't going to be that much of a game changer. The blog posts you guys had up weeks ago said that because of the cache sizes and stuff not to expect huge gains in performance of games if any. However because of hyperthreading I think there also needs to be some tests to see how multi tasking goes. No doubt those gains will be huge. Virus scanning while playing games and other things should have extremely nice benefits you would think. Those tests would be most interesting although when I buy my PC nehalem will be mainstream. Reply
npp - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkI'm very curious to see some scientific results from the new CPUs, MATLAB and Mathematica benchmarks, and maybe some more. It's interesting to see if Core i7 can deliver something on these fronts, too. Reply
pervisanathema - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkI was afraid Nehalem was going to be a game changer. My wallet is grateful that its overall performance gains do not even come close to justifying dumping my entire platform. My x3350 @ 3.6GHz will be just fine for quite some time yet. :)
Additionally, its relatively high price means that AMD can still be competitive in the budget to low mid range market which is good for my wallet as well. Intel needs competition. Reply
iwodo - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkSince there are virtually no performance lost when using Dual Channel. Hopefully we will see some high performance DDR3 with low Latency next year?
And which means apart from having half the core, Desktop version doesn't look so bad.
And since you state the Socket 1366 will be able to sit a Eight Core inside, i expect the 11xx socket will be able to suit a Quad Core as well?
So why we dont just have 13xx Socket to fit it all? Is the cost really that high? Reply
QChronoD - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkHow long are they going to utilize this new socket??
$284 for the i7-920 isn't bad, but will it be worth the extra to buy a top end board that will appreciate a CPU upgrade 1-2 years later? Or is this going to be useless once Intel Ticks in '10? Reply
steveyballme - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkWe worked side by side with Intel to be sure that Vista was optimised for running on this thing!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com">http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com Reply
Strid - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkGreat article. I enjoyed reading it. One thing I stumbled upon though.
"The PS/2 keyboard port is a nod to the overclocking crowd as is the clear CMOS switch."
What makes a PS/2 port good for overclockers? I see the use for the clear CMOS switch, but ...
3DoubleD - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkIn my experience USB keyboards do not consistently allow input during the POST screen. If you are overclocking and want to enter the BIOS or cancel an overclock you need a keyboard that works immediately once the POST screen appears. I've been caught with only a USB keyboard and I got stuck with a bad overclock and had to reset the CMOS to gain control back because I couldn't cancel the overclock. Reply
Clauzii - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkI thought the "USB Legacy support" mode was for exactly that? So legacy mode is for when the PC are booted in DOS, but not during pre? Reply
sprockkets - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkNo, USB legacy support is for support during boot up and for the time you need input before an OS takes control of the system. However, as already mentioned, sometimes USB keyboards just don't work in a BIOS at startup for one reason or another, and in my opinion, this means they should NEVER get rid of the old PS/2 port.
I ran into this problem with a Shuttle XPC with the G33 chipset, which had no ps/2 ports on it. There was a 50/50 chance it would not work. Reply
Clauzii - Thursday, November 06, 2008 - linkI still use PS/2. None of the USB keyboards I've borrowed or tried out would work in 'boot'. Also I think a PS/2 keyboard/mouse don't lag so much, maybe because it has it's own non-shared interrupt line.
But I can see a problem with PS/2 in the future, with keyboards like the Art Lebedev ones. When that technology gets more pocket friendly I'd gladly like to see upgraded but still dedicated keyboard/mouse connectors. Reply
The0ne - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkYes. I have the PS2 keyboard on-hand in case my USB keyboard can't get in :) Reply
Strid - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkAhh, makes sense. Thanks for clarifying! Reply
Genx87 - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkAfter living through the hell that were ATI drivers back in 2003-2004 on a 9600 Pro AIW. I didnt learn and I plopped money down on a 4850 and have had terrible driver quality since. More BSOD from the ati driver than I have had in windows in the past 5 years combined from anything. Back to Nvidia for me when I get a chance.
That said this review is pretty much what I expected after reading the preview article in August. They are really trying to recapture market in the 4 socket space. A place where AMD has been able to do well. This chip is designed for server work. Ill pick one up after my E8400 runs out of steam. Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkYou're just not clever enough to setup your system properly. I have two indentical systems sitting here side by side with the only difference being the video card (HD3870 in one and a 8800GT in the other) and the box with the nvidia cards gives me order of magnitude more headaches due to crashing driver. While that also happens on the 3870 machine now and then, its nowehere nearly as often. But the best part: none of the produces a BSOD. That is why I know you're most likely the culprit (the alternative is faulty hardware or a pathetic overclock). Reply
Lord 666 - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkThe stock speed of a Q9550 is 2.83ghz, not 2.66qhz.
Why the handicap? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkMy mistake, it was a Q9450 that was used. The Q9550 label was from an earlier version of the spreadsheet that got canned due to time constraints. I wanted a clock-for-clock comparison with the i7-920 which runs at 2.66GHz.
Take care,
Anand Reply
faxon - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linktoms hardware published an article detailing that there would be a cap on how high you are allowed to clock your part before it would downclock it back to stock. since this is an integrated par of the core, you can only turn it off/up/down if they unlock it. the limit was supposedly a 130watt thermal dissipation mark. what effect did this have in your tests on overclocking the 920? Reply
Gary Key - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkWe have not had any problems clocking our 920 to the 3.6GHz~3.8GHz level with proper cooling. The 920, 940, and 965 will all clock down as core temps increase above the 80C level. We noticed half step decreases above 80C or so and watched our core multipliers throttle down to as low as 5.5 when core temps exceeded 90C and then increase back to normal as temperatures were lowered.
This occurred with stock voltages or with the VCore set to 1.5V, it was dependent on thermals, not voltages or clock speeds in our tests. That said, I am still running a battery of tests on the 920 right now, but I have not seen an artificial cap yet. That does not mean it might not exist, just that we have not triggered it yet.
I will try the 920 on the Intel board that Toms used this morning to see if it operates any differently than the ASUS and MSI boards. Reply
Th3Eagle - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkI wonder how close you came to those temperatures while overclocking these processors.
The 920 to 3.6/3.8 is a nice overclock but I wonder what you mean by proper cooling and how close you came to crossing the 80C "boundary"? Reply
Gary Key - Monday, November 03, 2008 - link"The 920 to 3.6/3.8 is a nice overclock but I wonder what you mean by proper cooling and how close you came to crossing the 80C "boundary"?"
It was actually quite easy to do with the retail cooler, in fact in our multi-task test playing back a BD title while encoding a BD title, the core temps hit 98C. Cinebench multi-core test and OCCT both had the core temps hit 100C at various points. Our tests were in a closed case loaded out with a couple of HD4870 cards, two optical drives, three hard drives, and two case fans.
Proper cooling (something we will cover shortly) consisted of the Thermalright Xtreme120, Vigor Monsoon II, and Cooler Master V8 along with the Freezone Elite. We were able to keep temps under 70C with a full load on air and around 45C with the Freezone unit. Reply
Th3Eagle - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkWow, thats interesting. Can't wait to see the new article. Always nice to see an article about coolers.
Thanks for the reply. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkGary did the i7-920 tests so I'll let him chime in there, we're also working on an overclocking guide that should help address some of these concerns.
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whatthehey - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkTom's? You might as well reference HardOCP....
Okay, THG sometimes gets things right, but I've seen far too many "expose" articles where they talk about the end of the world to take them seriously. Ever since the i820 chipset fiasco, they seem to think everything is a big deal that needs a whistle blower.
Anandtech got 3.8GHz with an i7-920, and I would assume due diligence in performance testing (i.e. it's not just POSTing, but actually running benchmarks and showing a performance improvement). I'm still running an overclocked Q6600, though, and the 3.6GHz I've hit is really far more than I need most of the time. I should probalby run at 3.0GHz and shave 50-100W from my power use instead. But it's winter now, and with snow outside it's nice to have a little space heater by my feet! Reply
The0ne - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkTomHardware and Anandtech were the one websites I visited 13 years ago during my college years. Tom's has since been pushed far down the list of "to visit sites" mainly due to their poor articles and their ad littered, poorly designed website. If you have any type of no-script enable there's quite a bit to enable to have the website working. The video commentary is a joke as they're not professionals to get the job done professionally...visually anyhow.
Anandtech has stayed true to it's root and although I find some articles a bit confusing I don't mind them at all. Example of this are camera reviews :) Reply
GaryJohnson - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkGeez, calling a core 2 a space heater. How soon we forget prescott... Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkI think overclocked Core 2 Quad is still very capable of rating as a space heater. The chips can easily use upwards of 150W when overclocked, which if memory serves is far more than any of the Prescott chips did. After all, we didn't see 1000W PSUs back in the Prescott era, and in fact I had a 350W PSU running a Pentium D 920 at 3.4 GHz without any trouble. :-) Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkFunny comparison. If it was just for the space heater arguments sake (well, 150W is by far not enough to qualify as a real space heater to be honest), I could follow you but saying the 150W of a 4 core, more-IPC-than-any-P4-can-ever-dream-of, processor should or could be compared to the wattage of the infamous thermonuclear furnace AKA prescott, is a bit of a long stretch, dont you think? :p Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkIntel can call it supercalifragilisticexpialidocious until they're blue in the face, but take it from a local, it's Neh-Hay-Lem. Just see how it's pronounced in this news segment:
http://www.katu.com/outdoors/3902731.html?video=YH...">http://www.katu.com/outdoors/3902731.html?video=YH... Reply
mjrpes3 - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkAny chance we'll see some database/apache benchmarks based on Nehalem soon? Reply
fzkl - Monday, November 03, 2008 - link"Where Nehalem really succeeds however is in anything involving video encoding or 3D rendering"
We have new CPU that does Video encoding and 3D Rendering really well while at the same time the GPU manufacturers are offloading these applications to the GPU.
The CPU Vs GPU debate heats up more.
www.topicbean.com Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - linkWheres the product that offloads encoding to GPUs - all of them, from both makers - as a publicly available product? I havent seen that yet. Of course, we havent seen Core i7 in the wild yet either, but I bet it will be many moons before there is that single encoding suite that is ready for primetime regardless of the card that is sitting in your machine. On the other hand, I can encode my stuff right now with my current Intel or AMD products and will just move them over to the upcoming products without having to think about it.
Huge difference. The debate isnt really a debate yet, if you're doing more than just talking about it. Reply
haukionkannel - Monday, November 03, 2008 - linkWell if both CPU and GPU are better for video encoding, the better! Even now the rendering takes forever.
So there is not any problem if GPU helps allready good 3d render CPU. Everything that gives more speed is just bonus!


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A pedestrian crossing could be installed outside a Hendon primary school that sits on a "dangerously busy" road.
Highways officers were last night instructed to look into the feasibility of a crossing in Park Road, outside Parkfield Primary School.
But members of the Hendon Area Environment Sub-Committee were told that cost could be a factor standing in the way of the proposed safety measures.
West Hendon Councillor Julie Johnson tabled the request because of long-standing calls from parents following the removal of a lollipop lady at the school two years ago.
Cllr Johnson said: "I'm pleased they are looking into it but the problem is financial. Some schools can contribute to these sorts of things but we're not in a position to do that.
"The fact remains, they have to look at it - it is a very dangerous road. The parents support it and they shouldn't have to gather a petition to get this done.
"The issue has been raised at the council before but because of the lollipop lady it was dismissed. Now they have to look at it again."
A pelican crossing would cost the council between £50,000 and £60,000, while zebra crossings are far cheaper at closer to £10,000.
Highways manager Neil Richardson told the commitee that cost was the only thing preventing the crossing being installed.
Headteacher Alison Holding, who joined the school in September, said she was well aware of the issue and welcomed the assessment by highways officers.
The school is in the process of developing its own travel plan and Mrs Holding said she was expecting the road to be raised as a safety issue.
She said: "It is a very busy road and it is a concern for a lot of parents - the traffic does come down it quite quickly.
"We'd obviously welcome a crossing and, provided the research was done to ensure it is put in an appropriate place, it would be a very good thing."


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Northwestern Middle School teacher Apryl Schackelford was chosen Thursday night to represent Duval County in a statewide competition.
Shackleford was named Teacher of the Year Thursday night at the 22nd Annual Eddy Awards. Schackelford is the lead reading teacher at Northwestern Middle School.
"What I value most, just getting to teach, building a relationship. Then getting them to do to be successful in life," said Shackelford.
Shackelford was a high school dropout herself who overcame her circumstances to earn bachelors and masters degrees and now works primarily with students who struggle in reading. While she uses her personal life experiences to inspire her students, Shackelford relies on data-driven instruction so that students know when they have reached benchmarks and when they need to review in order to reach a target.
Five finalists
She was one of five finalists for the award that Superintendent Nikolai Vitti surprised in their classrooms last month with the news they were up for the Eddy Award.
First up was Scott Cason, a teacher at Mandarin High School.
Cason teaches advanced placement world history and got the surprising news in front of his students.
But he wasn't the only one.
Vitti visited Ramona Boulevard Elementary School, where reading intervention specialist Cameron Foley was told she was also in the running for Duval County Teacher of the Year.
Vitti said these teachers rise above their vocation.
"I often say that teachers are the soldiers of democracy because I think democracy is tied to public education," Vitti said. "We just saw a glimpse today of what these soldiers do every day on behalf of our children."
The three other contenders are Blair Nolan, Teacher of the Year for First Coast High School, who teaches ninth grade English and language arts; Robyn White, Teacher of the Year at West Jacksonville Elementary School, who is a reading coach; and Apryl Shackelford, who was teaching class when Vitti walked in.
"Do you know why we're here?" Vitti asked her.
"I do now," Shackelford said.
"Why don't you tell the students why we're here," Vitti said.
"Students, we're in the top five!" Shackelford said.
She's a sixth-grade intensive reading coach at Northwestern Middle School.
Out of her own pocket, she pays for eReaders and other electronic devices she gives students as an incentive to read.
"Oh my gosh, my students are simply the best," Shackelford said. "Every last one of them. I tell them every day that they can do it, that failure is not an option. And they take that around with them."
All the teachers say this isn't a job to them, it's a calling.
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SAN BERNARDINO - After 80 years, Bird Refrigeration has gotten pretty good at attracting customers and handling air conditioning, heating and refrigeration.
But Bill Bird - who was born the same year as the business and took over when his father died in 1963 - had more trouble closing his doors for the last time, which he did Friday.
"It's easier to start a business than end one," Bird said. "We care about these people. "
Walking away might have been easier, but he first wanted to make sure his eight remaining employees had other jobs lined up and that customers wouldn't be left stranded.For the next month, one employee will remain to answer questions and direct customers to what Bird considers the next-best alternative to his business, Russel's Heating and Air Conditioning. "It's (run by) my niece's husband. I taught him everything he knows," Bird said, although with a smile he showed professional pride still edged out family pride. "We're in friendly competition. I can still outsell anyone, but they're good. "
Calls to 909-889-0618 will be forwarding to Russel's.
Bird Refrigeration started out of a rented 300-square-foot building, before moving in the early '50s to its present location, the first commercial structure built by Neal Baker, who before that had built homes and afterward started the Baker's Drive-Thru restaurant chain. Bird, in his mid-teens at the time, worked for Baker.
The current building, which Bird now has up for sale, is 15,000 square feet.
Among the 6,000 names he has in his database, Bird thinks his most prominent likely include 280 tons of product installed at San Manuel Casino, 100 tons installed at Carousel Mall and work for the Arrowhead Elks Lodge. He's also worked with companies owned by former mayors Bob Holcombe and Al Ballard, he said.
But it's the people that they'll remember, said his wife, Beverly, 79.
"We loved working with them, and we loved the trust we got from them over so many years," she said.
Not that they aren't looking forward to retirement.
"Every day's going to be fun day, and thank God for the next day," Beverly said.
Trust is the key term, said Guenther Griebau, who said he's worked with Bird for 25 years on multiple projects and taken it upon himself to be the company's booster.
"I only associate myself with the best, and that's Bird Refrigeration," Griebau said. "You can always count on them. "
To Judi Penman, executive director of the San Bernardino Area Chamber of Commerce, it was clear that came from a deep commitment to the area. "I'm heartbroken, because they were both so involved in the community," she said.
"They gave their heart and soul for the community in everything they did. There aren't so many businesses like that anymore. "


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LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. The sole winning ticket sold for Saturday's $338.3 million Powerball drawing was purchased at a liquor store in northern New Jersey.
However, the winner has not yet come forward to claim the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history.
"Most people take their time, seek professional advice, and wait to know exactly what they're doing before they come in," said New Jersey Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger, adding that the winners have one year to come forward to claim their prize.
The New Jersey Lottery does not provide total anonymity to winners, Hedinger said, although they only reveal the winner's name and hometown, but not their street address.
State lottery officials announced the ticket was bought at Eagle Liquors in Passaic.
The numbers drawn were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31. A lump sum payout would be $221 million. With 25 percent in federal taxes and three percent in state taxes would have, that would result in an after-tax total of about $152 million in cash, Hedinger said.
Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million.
Hedinger said reports about the winning ticket being sold in Bordenton, N.J., were false, and that they have "already begun our security procedures to validate the selling of (the winning) ticket."
While officials are uncertain about whether or not an individual or group won, they are certain only one winning ticket was sold nationwide.
"Whoever they are, they should sign the back of that ticket immediately and put it in a safe place," said Hedinger. "I do hope they come forward very soon. Meanwhile, we'll continue to make millionaires."


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DETROIT - As you set clocks back one hour and "fall back" to daylight saving time this weekend, the State Fire Marshal says to adopt the life-saving habit of also changing the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.
Eastern Standard Time officially begins on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2 a.m.
"The risk of dying from a fire in a home without working smoke alarms is twice as high as in a home that has working smoke alarms," said State Fire Marshal Rich Miller. "Be sure to have working smoke alarms on every level of the home, in every bedroom and in the basement. The early warning provided by smoke alarms gives extra time to escape, especially children and senior citizens who are most at risk and need extra seconds to get out safely."
A report "Smoke Alarms in U.S. Home Fires" issued by the National Fire Protection Association in Sept. 2011 indicates that from 2005 to 2009, approximately two-thirds of home fire deaths resulted from fires in properties without working smoke alarms.
Smoke alarms usually fail due to missing, disconnected or dead batteries. Officials say people often remove or disconnect batteries because of nuisance activations, such as a chirping sound that warns of a low battery.
The State Fire Marshal, along with the NFPA, recommends the following:
- Choose a smoke alarm that bears the label of a recognized testing laboratory.
- Install smoke alarms inside every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on every level of the home, including the basement.
- Hardwired smoke alarms are more reliable than those powered solely by batteries.
- For the best protection, interconnect all smoke alarms so when one sounds they all sound.
- Use both photoelectric and ionization smoke alarms or combination ionization and photoelectric alarms, also known as dual sensor alarms. An ionization smoke alarm is generally more responsive to flaming fires and a photoelectric smoke alarm is generally more responsive to smoldering fires.
- Buy newer models of smoke alarms with lithium batteries that will last the life of the unit.
- Replace all smoke alarms every 10 years or sooner if they do not respond properly when tested.
- Test all smoke alarms at least once a month by using the test button.
- Replace batteries once a year.
According to Miller, the peak time for home fire fatalities is between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. when residents are typically sleeping.
An average of three children per day die in home fires and 80 percent of those occur in homes without working smoke alarms, Miller says. Children are at an increased risk of dying in a home fire because they can become scared and confused when a fire erupts.
"Practicing two ways out in a home fire escape plan is critical because fire is so unpredictable and moves fast," said Miller. "In as little than three minutes, a home can be totally engulfed in flames, so every family member should know how to react quickly and calmly."
Miller says to conduct a fire drill at night at least twice a year to make sure all family members, especially children, recognize the sound of the smoke alarm, can respond instinctively to its signal and follow an escape plan. Also know the lifesaving practice of crawling low -- below dangerously thick smoke and intense heat of a fire.
When a fire occurs, Miller says don't delay -- get out quickly and stay out. Escape by closing doors behind you if possible, or know how to open and escape through windows. Have a collapsible emergency escape ladder stored inside near upper floor windows and know how to use it. Quickly gather family members at a designated meeting place outside and then notify the fire department by calling 911 from a safe location.
Miller says to help firefighters by remaining together outside the home and directing them to any endangered family members.
For more information on smoke alarms and safety tips, visit the NFPA website.
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What Motivates Us ?
Great talk by Dan Pink, about what drives us, and how people are, and aren't, motivated. Some surprising tests. Some initially counter intuitive results actually come to seem pretty obvious in hindsight, and so highlight some overlooked points about peoples perceived reward and satisfaction at work ( and in life generally). He talks about the effectiveness of using different types of rewards – Money versus the combination of challenge, freedom and purpose. Shows how using creativity is particularly relevant no matter what you do. Anyway, tis interesting ;)
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You won't find these petite cakes behind the glass pastry case at Épicerie Boulud. Look for them towards the front of the shop, alongside packaged madeleines and jars of Christine Ferber jams. Four cakes come for $6, each dotted with a single brandied cherry pressed in deep; they're baked until the tops are just past golden. The cake tastes like a cross between a madeleine and financier, only with an exceptionally fine crumb and with more buttery flavor for a tiny, potent bite.
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Pronunciation: im-ê-grênt • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A person, plant or animal that moves by whatever means into a new territory, that migrates to a new locale.
Notes: Today's Good Word is the noun from the verb immigrate. Do not confuse this word with emigrate. The prefix im- is a variant of Latin in "in" while the e- on emigrate is a remnant of ex "away, out of". The same applies to emigrant, a person who migrates away from a place and immigrant, a person who migrates to a place. Remember today's word has a double M but emigrant does not. The neutral verb migrate and its noun, migrant, indicate movement from one place to another without a specific plan or direction, as migrant workers do. While all these nouns may also be used as adjectives, migrate has its own adjective: migratory, as in migratory birds.
In Play: Although the US is a nation built on immigration, the unusually large number of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America has become a political issue: "Will Doolittle says that he could not run his company today without the help of immigrants, documented or not." From 1892 to 1954 more than 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island, the major entry point for immigration over that period.
Word History: Today's word comes from Latin immigran(t)s "immigrating", the present participle of immigrare "immigrate". This verb came from in "in" + migrare "migrate", very straightforward. Where migrare comes from is another question. Latin had a verb meare "go, pass by", which probably comes from the same source as the mi- in migrate. Another stem in Latin was gregare "collect, gather together". The original root of this word is simply gre- and it might have gone into the making of migrare, though exactly how is unclear. (It is clear, however, that we must thank Evelyn Allen for suggesting today's often confused word. Thanks to Bobby and his teacher, Brooke Thompson, at Bear Mountain School in Bellevue, Washington, for finding the link to the Ellis Island Website.)


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Topic: Frequent visitor, first post
I have been a frequent visitor over the past 11 months. My husband, Ed (sandtdad), was diagnosed with cc in June 2011. Over that time he has had a number of posts and side communications with some of you. He had good success with the drug trial he was on, receiving 18 treatments of gem/ox plus pamitumamab. When the effectiveness of this was done he was ready to move to the radioembolization. He had a good mapping and the radioembolization was done on April 3. He was doing fine the first week with side effects that were as expected. A week and a half after the procedure we walked 2 miles to a local restaurant, had a bite, then walked back home. He seemed to be doing great. Two days after that walk, he was being admitted as his liver functions were tanking and he could not keep any food down. After two weeks in the hospital he came home to be with his family with the help of hospice. He passed away on May 7th, he had only been home for five days.
He was young-46 yrs, happy, loving, handsome and physically fit. We had been together 28 years, married for over 21, with 14 yr old twin boys who meant the world to him.
The day after he passed a doctor from Memorial Sloane Kettering whose team repeatedly over the 11 months reviewed his records to give Ed another opinion, said at the beginning, they did not expect him to survive three months (even on the trial). The fact that he got 11 is a testament to how hard he fought. The support, hope and information this website gave him helped carry us through this difficult time. Thank you all.
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A derivative of the "awkward turtle". It is when one assumes a squatting position and then proceeds to make sounds familiar to that of a pregnant walrus (sounds something like this: "urgh urgh urgh urgh urgh!"), whilst waving their arms by their wast. Unlike the turtle however, it is used to create socially awkward situations, rather than emphasize them.
When a person enters the room, everyone does the awkward dolphin to make the newcomer feel awkward for a few seconds. Then act like nothing had happened.
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Topic: The CC Foundation Tree
Thank you Rick, for keeping up with the seasons. The tree makes me feel, cozy, and warm and brings the spirit of Christmas right to our site.
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Thank you Rick, for keeping up with the seasons. The tree makes me feel, cozy, and warm and brings the spirit of Christmas right to our site.
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Agreed! Rick - you are pure creative genius!!! We bow in the presence of your greatness.
For those of you who cannot see the winterized tree, clear your cache and take a look. Happy Holidays!
I have to agree. It is great. I didn't see the sleigh at first. Great touch! Thanks for all of the great things you do for this site.
Thanks Darla...I did not even see the sleigh until reading your post. Just had to wait until it appeared. Thanks for pointing it out.
Thanks Darla too...hadn't seen the sleigh. Just took a little watching! Thanks Rick for such a fine job that is a joy to see!
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If you look closely you can see the red nose of "you know who".
Rick, Rick, Rick!
We're not worthy.....we're not worthy....
This brought such a smile to my face when I logged on this morning! What a lovely way to start the day!
Now I have to thank you, Marion, as I did not see Rudolph's nose until you pointed it out. Rick did an amazing job & if there is a contest, we win!
Love the tree! How festive!
Finally, I can see it! Never heard of clearing my cache, but it sure felt good to do it and it worked!! So pretty.
I couldn't get it at all then all of a sudden it must have made it to my block!
This is fabulous, Rick!!! What a wonderful way to lift the spirit! You are a design God! Thank you.
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From the rainforests of the Amazon to the remotes of the Andes, an eminent seeker describes the path that brought him to discover the traditions of Huachuma shamanism. Based on the clear laws of nature in both the material and energetic dimensions, the shaman's world reflects 5,000 years of Huachuma philosophies of harmony and oneness—as shown through totem animals, elements of nature, physical archetypes, and energy postures. His experiences offers possibilities for deep healing in all aspects of life, including wellbeing, relationships, and child rearing, and his ideas are presented as simple, profound wisdoms that are palatable and beneficial to other seekers without requiring additional shamanic experience.
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Managing soil pH in the optimal range is essential to producing high-yielding and profitable soybeans. The first step to managing soil pH is a good soil testing program. A representative soil sample measures the soil pH and the buffer pH or lime index. The soil pH identifies the need for lime and the buffer pH or lime index is used to determine how much lime to apply.
Soybeans will generally perform well at soil pH levels between 6.0 and 7.0. However, the optimal range is between 6.3 and 6.5 as this range maximizes nutrient availability and biological nitrogen fixation while minimizing soybean cyst nematode (SCN) population growth. When soil pH levels exceed 6.5, manganese deficiency symptoms can occur in lakebed and outwash soils and SCN populations have been shown to increase (Table 1).
When selecting a liming product, consider the magnesium soil test level. Dolomitic lime supplies magnesium to the soil and should be applied whenever any one of the following is true.
- Magnesium soil test level is below 35 ppm on coarse-textured soils and below 50 ppm on fine-textured soils.
- Magnesium is less than 3 percent of the exchangeable bases on an equivalence basis.
- Potassium exceeds magnesium as a percent of the exchangeable bases on an equivalence basis.
The lime recommendation on the soil test report should be adjusted whenever the lime material has a neutralizing value much different than 90 (less than 80 or more than 100). Use the following formula to make this adjustment:
(90 ÷ neutralizing value of your liming material) x lime recommendation listed on the soil test report = adjusted lime recommendation
The performance of all liming materials is improved when they are incorporated into the soil. Incorporation increases the distribution and soil contact of the lime particles. Surface applications should be limited to long-term, no-till sites as lime moves slowly through the soil (less than 1 inch per year).
The lime recommendation should also be adjusted for the effective tillage depth using the following formula and the information in Table 2.
Lime recommendation x the effective tillage depth ÷ 9 = adjusted lime recommendation
Variable rate lime application based on grid sampling is an effective way to apply lime. This technology ensures that the lime is applied to only the areas where it is needed. This will help prevent over-liming, which can cause manganese deficiency symptoms to show up in soybeans.


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The Muslim population in New Zealand is young, energetic and growing. It is estimated that there are approximately 17,000 Muslims in New Zealand. The largest proportion of New Zealand's Muslims originally come from Fiji and is ethnically Fijian Indian. There are also a growing number of local New Zealanders who are converting to Islam.
According to official census figures, the Muslim population has doubled almost every 5 years for the past 25 years.
An estimated 63% of New Zealand"s Muslims live in Auckland, but there are also large communities in Wellington, Hamilton, Christchurch and Dunedin. There are currently 9 mosques and Islamic centers, 5 of which are in Auckland.


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That's a rather non specific and vague question. But you asked to be steered in the right direction...so I'll tell you not to try and run before you can walk. Try some tutorials first, and once you get to grips with the basics read some of the penetration testing frameworks that are around so you get an understanding of the entire Penetration testing process. Id also recommend you read the latest edition of Hacking Exposed - it has a good overview of the steps required to access a system via "hacking".
I should probably inform you that regardless of the fact that you apparently have "ethical approval" to hack your home network systems, your ISP might not like you sending attack traffic over their network to your systems. In addition, whatever network you launch your attacks from (since you wont be able to launch external attacks from your own network) may not like it either. Be prepared to face the consequences of your actions if you decide to go ahead with this.
Personally Id suggest confining your attack traffic within a test network, and NOT sending it via the Internet.
Anyway, what do you expect to prove by this? That home networks can be hacked? I think that everyone already knows this by now. Did your college actually assign you a project to hack into a network, because that seems like a recipe for disaster?


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AUTHORITIES are assessing the asylum bid of a man who tried to get to Australia on a one-metre-square raft of branches, sticks and string in 40-knot winds in the wake of Cyclone Oswald.
The Turkmenistan man, now in the custody of Department of Immigration officials on Thursday Island, set out to cross the Torres Strait on Wednesday morning from Papua New Guinea. He reportedly left the village of Sigabadura and was found by locals in mangroves on Saibai Island, a few kilometres off the Papua New Guinea coastline.
Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Jo Meehan told ABC radio the man was in good health, considering his plight. ''I am genuinely surprised that he got there. This is certainly a first for me. It's not something we would recommend people do,'' she said.
The weather in the area was severe at the time, Ms Meehan said, with a 1.5-metre swell and strong winds.


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December 1, 2009
Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has created a website that sifts through the fluff and delivers only educational videos. Dr. Sanger says, " think of it as YouTube meets Wikipedia, filtering out everything but quality educational videos."
All the videos on WatchKnow are hosted by external websites (National Geographic, YouTube, etc.) which may cause issues with filtering software, but so far, I've found it easy to use and loaded with lots of great content.
Visit www.watchknow.org
WolframAlpha is a "computational knowledge engine." A normal search engine returns links based on search parameters. WolframAlpha returns answers.
For example, I typed in "December 25" and Wolfram returned:
- Christmas Day
- Birth of Hal Scardino (actor)
- Gorbachev resigns as president of Soviet Union
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
One technique for becoming lucid in a dream is to ask yourself if you are dreaming. If you are awake, the answer will clearly be "no". But if you are sleeping, the answer is not so certain. There is a high likelihood that this question will cause you to realize that you are dreaming.
To take advantage of this you should get into the habit of asking yourself on a regular basis if you are dreaming. If it becomes habit, then it is likely that you will ask yourself when you are actually asleep. We have already discussed how you should ask this question whenever you see a dreamsign. Unfortunately, dreams don't always have easily identifiable dreamsigns, so you should try to ask yourself this question at other times of the day. It's difficult to remember to ask yourself this question without any sort of cue, so pick something that you encounter on a regular basis and ask the question whenever you see it. For example, you may ask yourself if you are dreaming every time you walk through a door.
The more you ask yourself this question during the day, the more likely it will be that you do it while asleep.
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