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U-15 Boys' Return from Argentina Trip
CHICAGO (May 7, 2007) - The U.S. Under-15 Boys' National Team traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for an international training camp, led by head coach Jim Barlow. The 20-player training camp kicked off on April 27, and included four matches.
The U.S. first took on the Boca Juniors on April 30. Dominic Henry opened the scoring in the 21st minute when he one-timed a volley from a George Pantelic cross to beat the Boca goalkeeper. Charles Renken converted a penalty kick in the 55th minute, and Ross Tomaselli finished a ball slotted by Edson Lemus to make the final score 3-0.
Two days later the U-15s were back on the field against Argentina. After a scoreless first half, Argentina came out of the locker room and put one away quickly on a breakaway that beat goalkeeper Earl Edwards. The U.S. answered quickly when Jared Watts played a through ball that sent Andrew Craven on a breakaway of his own, which he put away to tie the score in the 50th minute. Less than a minute later, the U.S. took the lead when Lemus beat the Argentinean 'keeper on the dribble and slotted the ball to Renken to make it 2-1. Argentina found the equalizer in the 60th minute after a scramble in the box was put away, and the game ended in a 2-2 tie.
Next up for the United States was a match up against Uruguay. The U.S. found themselves down 1-0 after a 21st minute goal. In the 55th minute, Renken took the ball end line and slotted it to Pantelic who took a one-timer that found the back of the net to even the score. But in the 78th minute, Uruguay hit a 35-yard rocket that sailed perfectly into the upper corner to make it 2-1, and would hold off the Americans for the win.
The final game of the camp pitted the U.S. against local club Gimnasia on May 6. Gimnasia came out on the attack, and in the 10th minute fired home a rebound to take a 1-0 lead. In the 31st minute, the tandem of Pantelic and Renken hooked up again, this time with Pantelic dribbling along the end line and hitting a low cross to find Renken, who hit a one-timer that tied the score. In the 80th minute, a foul just outside the box led to a Tomaselli free-kick, which he converted to give the Americans a come-from-behind 2-1 victory.
The U.S. closed out camp with a 2-1-1 record, and averaged two goals per game. Renken tallied three goals and added an assist, Tomaselli, who had two goals, and Pantelic who added a goal and two assists.
U.S. Under-15 Boy's National Team Game Report
Participants: USA vs. Boca Juniors
Date: April 30, 2007
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Weather: Sunny
Scoring Summary
Boca Juniors 0 0 0
USA – Donovan Henry (Pantelic) 21st minute
USA - Charles Renken 55.
USA – Ross Tomaselli (Edson Lemus) 78.
USA: 3-Estanilao Arevalo (4-Joshua Sylva, 47), 5-Donovan Henry (9-Jack McInerney), 6-Perry Kitchen (19-Carlos Martinez, 47), 7-Charles Renken (12-Tomaselli, 47), 8-Sebastian Lletget (14-Edson Lemus, 55), 10-Zachary Herold, 12-Ross Tomaselli, 13-Bryan Duran (20-Jared Watts, 62), 15-Polak (2-Alex Bramall, 62), 16-Chase Miller, 17-George Pantelic (11-Andrew Craven, 28), 18-Samir Badr
Head Coach: Jim Barlow
Uruguay: n/a
Statistical Summary
Shots 6 7
Saves 4 2
Corner Kicks 2 3
Fouls 12 9
Offside 2 2
Misconduct Summary:
U.S. Under-15 Boy's National Team Game Report
Participants: USA vs. Argentina AFA
Date: May 2, 2007
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Weather: Sunny
Scoring Summary:
Boca Juniors 0 2 2
AFA – Rotondi 46th minute
USA – Andrew Craven (Jared Watts) 50.
USA - Charles Renken (Edson Lemus) 51.
AFA – Gonzales 62.
USA: 1- Earl Edwards; 4-Joshua Sylva (3-Estanilao Arevalo, 63), 5-Donovan Henry (12-Ross Tomaselli, 63), 6-Perry Kitchen (20-Jared Watts, 46), 7-Charles Renken, 8-Sebastian Lletget (14-Edson Lemus, 29), 10-Zachary Herold, 11-Andrew Craven (9-Jack McInerney, 70) 13-Bryan Duran (19-Carlos Martinez, 63), 15-Tyler Polak (2-Alex Bramall, 46), 16-Chase Miller
Head Coach: Jim Barlow
Boca: n/a
Statistical Summary:
Shots 10 9
Saves 6 4
Corner Kicks 7 5
Fouls 6 4
Offside 5 5
Misconduct Summary:
U.S. Under-15 Boy's National Team Game Report
Participants: USA vs. Uruguay
Date: May 4, 2007
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Weather: Rain
Scoring Summary
URG - #9 21st minute
USA - Pantelic (Renken) 55th minute
URG – #20 78th minute
USA: 2-Alex Bramall, 3-Estanilao Arevalo, 5-Donovan Henry (11-Andrew Craven, 46), 9-Jack McInerney (7-Charles Renken, 49), 10-Zachary Herold, 12-Ross Tomaselli (17-George Pantelic, 46), 14-Lemus (6-Perry Kitchen, 59), 16-Chase Miller (4-Joshua Sylva, 46), 18-Samir Badr, 19-Carlos Martinez, 20-Jared Watts (8-Lletget)
Head Coach: Jim Barlow
Uruguay: n/a
Statistical Summary
Shots 10 7
Saves 3 4
Corner Kicks 5 4
Fouls 14 5
Offside 0 1
Misconduct Summary
USA – Alex Bramall caution 34th minute
URG - #10 caution 40.
USA – Charles Renken caution 63.
U.S. Under-15 Boy's National Team Game Report
Participants: USA vs. Gimnasia
Date: May 6, 2007
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Weather: Sunny
Scoring Summary
Gimnasia 1 0 1
Gimnasia - #10 10th minute
USA – Renken (Pantelic) 31st minute
USA – Tomaselli 80th minute
USA: 1-Earl Edwards, 3-Estanilao Arevalo (10-Zachary Herold, 69), 4-Joshua Sylva, 6-Perry Kitchen (14-Lemus, 46), 7-Charles Renken (20-Jared Watts, 60), 8-Sebastian Lletget (8-Ross Tomaselli, 46), 9-Jack McInerney (11-Andrew Craven, 46), 13-Bryan Duran (19-Carlos Martinez, 70), 15-Tyler Polak (2-Alex Bramall, 46), 16-Chase Miller, 17-George Pantelic (5-Donovan Henry, 49)
Head Coach: Jim Barlow
Gimnasia: n/a
Statistical Summary
Shots 7 3
Saves 2 5
Corner Kicks 1 2
Fouls 10 11
Offside 1 2
Misconduct Summary


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Australian bond futures prices have continued to rally on weaker local jobs figures following a firm bid overnight.
ANZ interest rate strategist Zoe McHugh said local bonds began the day strongly after the US Federal Reserve's policy committee said it would not begin raising interest rates for "a considerable time".
"We saw a similar performance in Australia, with the Australian 10 year market slightly outperforming the US market so we came into the day slightly up and proceeded to break through a key technical level," Ms McHugh said.
"Then with the weaker data today we have pushed through that and traded higher."
Ms McHugh said a continuation of the rally could result in the the lowest bond yield in longer dated 10 year bonds since August last year.
The local unemployment rate rose in June from a revised 5.9 per cent for May, largely because of an increase in the number of people looking for work.
Minutes the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said it planned to stop buying bonds in October, setting an exit date to its stimulus program for the US economy.
At 1630 AEST on Thursday, the September 2014 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.525 (implying a yield of 3.475 per cent), up from 96.470 (3.530 per cent) on Wednesday.
The September 2014 three-year bond futures contract was at 97.400 (2.600 per cent), up from 97.340 (2.660 per cent).

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garlicky green bean and potato salad photo by vsimon
You know when you have an ah-ha moment and everything works perfectly? This recipe is quick, simple, and successful. Three minutes to cook, can you imagine? In a pressure cooker of course. The stovetop works, but it will take longer, more like 10-15 minutes.
We are a household of 6 pressure cookers. Different sizes, most are stovetop models, one electric. I use pressure cookers all the time, for soups, dried beans, beets, whole grains, bone-in chicken breast, brisket, stews. A pressure is an obvious choice for things that normally take a long time to cook. You can often reduce the total cooking time to one-third the original time.
But I had never thought of cooking diced potatoes and beans in the pressure cooker. It works like a charm. The veggies are tender but not mushy, perfectly done. We enjoyed the salad warm for lunch on a brilliant sunny day on our deck. We saved the leftovers and had them chilled another day.
We loved the garlic and mustard tang of the dressing. I added some chives since they are growing on the deck, and walnuts because I think the world should be a little bit nuttier.
This recipe is from my friend and colleague Jill Nussinow, The Veggie Queen. It appears in her cookbook Vegetables Get the Royal Treatment. Jill also creates vegetable enthusiasm with her blog and a pressure cooking DVD.
I will print the recipe as it is written below. But I did make some substitutions, to use what I had on hand.
We used red potatoes and wide Roma green beans, straight out of our garden. Since we dug up a hill early in the season, we only had about a pound of potatoes. I did not weigh the beans.
This may be heresy, but I used generous dollops of jarred garlic in the dressing, rather than fresh garlic cooked with the potatoes. I also omitted the fresh garlic in the dressing. Cooking the garlic will mellow it, and using fresh in the dressing will give it a bite. I hoped the jarred stuff met in the middle.
If you do not have homemade vegetable broth on hand, Better than Bouillon has a gluten free vegetable base. Just mix about ½ teaspoon with water. Or use plain water and a bit of salt.
Rather than measure the dressing ingredients, I estimated and likely used proportionally more mustard.
It was the kind of dish you eat quietly, because you are enjoying it too much to talk. And it has inspired me to make more potato salads in the pressure cooker.
Garlicky Green Bean Potato Salad
Printed with permission from Jill Nussinow, The Veggie Queen
Makes 8 cups
Jill's notes: You can substitute wax or purple beans for the green beans in this recipe. The key to having it turn out is to be sure that the potatoes are cooked and the green beans are not overcooked, which is why you put the beans on top of the potatoes. This may be my favorite summer potato salad, and I have many.
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|1 1/2 pounds potatoes, like
Yellow Finn or Yukon Gold
|725 grams
|1/2 pound green beans
|240 grams
|8-10 cloves garlic
|3/4 cup vegetable broth
|180 ml
|2 tablespoons rice vinegar
|30 ml
|2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
|30 ml
|2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
|10 ml
|2 tablespoons vegetable broth
|30 ml
|1 clove garlic, crushed (optional)
Salt and pepper, to taste
Cut potatoes in half lengthwise, and again in half so you have quarters. Then slice into ½-inch thick pieces. Snap stems of beans, and cut into 2-inch segments.
Add vegetable broth to cooker. Lay potato pieces on the bottom. Insert garlic cloves between the potato slices. Place green beans on top. Lock the lid in place. Turn the heat to high. Once the cooker comes to high pressure, reduce heat to low.
Maintain high pressure for 3 minutes. Release pressure with the quick release method. (Note: I run it under cold water and the pressure dissipates within a minute). Remove potatoes and green beans to a large bowl to cool slightly.
Put cooked garlic into a blender with the remaining ingredients. Process until the dressing is creamy. Pour over the potato-green bean mixture. Taste, adding salt and pepper, if necessary. Serve warm or chilled, stir before serving.
"Go ahead honey, it is gluten free!"
I am submitting this to this month's "Go ahead honey, it is gluten free!" Hosted by Shirley Braden of Gluten Free Easily, thanks Shirley. The theme is Make Me a Happy Camper. The trouble is, I hate camping. Growing up, my family camped across this country. I always got welts from swarms of mosquitoes and pined (and whined) for a comfortable chair to sit in.
And really, where is the fun in bringing your pots and pans with you and washing dishes outside? A bit of dirt in the peanut butter, yeah, that is fun. Can you tell I do not camp anymore?
But a recipe you can do simply at home and enjoy at the picnic table could make it better. So I submit Jill's Garlicky Green Bean Potato Salad, and will toddle off to the walking path, slathered in mosquito juice.
update 11/4/09 Real Food Wednesday
I have just discovered this blog carnival, and it is easy to support. I choose real food over processed every time. Hosted by Cheeseslave and Kelly the Kitchen Kop on alternating Wednesdays. This recipe seemed like a good fit for the carnival, so I happily shared it.


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The Houston Marathon Committee has increased its participant cap to 25,000 for the 2013 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon scheduled for January 13. The Committee will again offer early race registration beginning May 8 through May 31, 2012 (11:59 p.m. CT) for eligible runners to receive a guaranteed race entry.
The raised cap represents a 1,000-participant increase over the 2012 cap and will be applied to the half marathon field with 12,000 entries reserved for the half marathon and 13,000 for the marathon.
"Following race weekend each year, we collectively evaluate all aspects of our event operations and review the feedback from literally thousands of runners," said Wade Morehead, executive director of Houston Marathon Committee. "Past and future operational improvements have allowed us to increase the cap modestly each year, and we most certainly want to create more opportunities but never at the expense of the participant experience."
New to 2013, the Houston Marathon Committee has implemented a "third time's a charm" rule, allowing runners who entered and were not selected in the lottery for two consecutive years the opportunity to register for a guaranteed entry into the 2013 marathon or half marathon races during early registration. Eligible runners will be notified via email with details about how to register for the 2013 races.
Runners who meet a 4:00:00 (marathon), 1:52:55 (half marathon) and 51:08 (10K) time qualification standard are eligible to receive a guaranteed race entries available during early registration. Finisher times dating back to January 1, 2011 may be used to qualify for early registration. Eligible qualifying races must be a USA Track & Field (USATF) or AIMS certified course and provide online race results.
Time qualification entries will be limited to the first 3,000 marathon and 2,500 half marathoners who meet these standards and are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. If the time qualification fields are not fulfilled during early registration, the remaining race entries will be added to the open lottery pool.
In addition to "third time's a charm" registrants and time qualifiers, runners who have completed five or more Houston Marathons; deferred 2012 race registrants; and members designated by the Houston Area Road Runner Association (HARRA) are eligible to sign up during early registration and receive a guaranteed race entry.
Race registration for the general public will open on June 6, 2012 and extend through June 21, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. CT. Runners must register online at ChevronHoustonMarathon.com during the 16-day period. All registrants will be notified of their selection status no later than June 25, 2012.
Registration fees will remain the same for the marathon and half marathon races at $125 and $105, respectively.
Additional details about the 2013 race registration process can be found at ChevronHoustonMarathon.com.
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Firefighters were called to a bungalow fire after a schoolboy raised the alarm.
The youngster was walking past the home in Kingsbury Close, Marks Tey, at about 4pm today, when he saw smoke pouring out of the property.
Watch manager Ian Ryder, from Colchester fire station, said: "He ran home to tell his mum and she raised the alarm.
"Today at school the young lad had been learning about fire safety and he put all that he had learnt today into practice, he did exactly the right thing by alerting his mum to the fire so she could call the fire service."
Fire crews discovered a pan had been left on the oven unattended, creating a large amount of smoke.
Mr Ryder said: "Without the quick thinking and actions of this young boy, raising the alarm so quickly, the fire could have easily spread throughtout the bungalow and next door."
The fire had been extinguished by 4.20pm.


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LAKELAND, Fla. – In probably the most dramatic game of the season, the Saint Leo men's basketball team held on for a 75-72 win over Florida Southern in a Sunshine State Conference matchup that gave the 647 people at the Jenkins Field House everything they bargained for, and more.
"I thought out guys just battled," a thrilled Coach Lance Randall said of the night's signature win. "They battled back and pressed us but I really liked the way in the second half every time they had something we answered back. I thought we wore them down and got a big stop at the end. It's a tough place to play, they're well coached (and) they've got a lot of talented players. It really was a great game."
Quickly out to a double-digit advantage in the first five minutes of play, Saint Leo (13-10, 7-6 SSC) was holding a 34-22 advantage at the break after shooting 43 percent from the field and hitting 9-of-10 free throws.
The second half would be different story as the host Moccasins (14-9, 7-7 SSC) slowly cut into the Lions' advantage. A 10 point lead at 15:34 was suddenly trimmed to just a single point four minutes later. From that point until the final buzzer the margin would grow no greater than two possessions for either team.
Those watching in the stands saw Saint Leo respond to heavy adversity, and a rowdy pro-Moccasin crowd, multiple times. With Florida Southern cutting the Lions' lead down to just a single point and drawing even twice, first with 5:26 left and again with 4:37 remaining, Saint Leo would answer with a dominating bucket each time. Despite everything going against the Lions, the Mocs never managed to take the lead.
Once time ticked under a minute, the Moccasins resorted to fouling the Lions, hoping missed free throws would give them an opportunity for last-minute drama. The Lions made the first four high-pressure shots, the first set by Cale Girten and the other by Marcus Ruh, to keep the game at two possessions. With just seven seconds left, the Mocs finally got the Lions to miss the front-end of a two-shot chance. With a three-point margin, the Mocs dribbled the length of the court but never managed a good look at a three pointer, launching an off-balance shot that ricocheted off the basket as time expired.
The win marked the first time in the series' history, since their first meeting on January 16, 1967, that Saint Leo has swept the regular season contests after Dominick Robinson hit a three-pointer with time winding down to win the first meeting 60-57 back on January 11.
After having only two points at halftime, Ruh's clutch shooting performance in the second half saw him finish with a team-leading 19 points. Robinson added 15 on 5-of-10 shooting, going 5-for-6 from the free throw line. Tom Neary added 14 points and Trent Thomas battled through foul troubles to reach double-digits with 10 points.
Florida Southern was led by Seth Evans' 25 points in the loss.
With the win, the Lions leap-frog Florida Southern and now sit in fourth place in the SSC with just 10 days left in the regular season.
Riding a four-game win streak, the Lions return home to face Nova Southeastern in conference action on Saturday afternoon. Tip-off is scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Bowman Center. For the latest news, information, and updates on Lions Basketball and all other Saint Leo Athletics, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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When should you add a "Cancel" button to a Form?
What exactly is the purpose of having one? :-/
I mean a website won't close the web page if you hit "Cancel" - on non Pop-Up Forms - like in a real application, so what is the benefit of having such a button?
In most cases, the 'Cancel' button is largely a placebo. It allows people to cancel a transaction or process and be sure that it has been stopped. Sometimes people like that reassurance that all their data isn't sitting in limbo, waiting for them to come back and finish the transaction. That's particularly important where you've put in details like credit card number or any other sensitive data, and if you want to continue using the site and maybe start a new transaction – you want to be absolutely sure that the process has been aborted, and the 'Cancel' button provides that reassurance.
They're also good when you need a reset button (though it should be called Reset).
For example, at a vehicle insurance site I wanted to see quotes for different things: a brand new scooter, one a few years old and a rusted beater, for two different drivers (so different postal codes, different damage-free years).
Unfortunately the site did not have a Reset button, and it stubbornly kept license plate info of the first vehicle (which was greyed out and unchangeable, as well as related buttons who don't get filled in if a license plate number is). I ended up opening another browser to look up the others. I also could have cleared my browser cache, but was in the middle of something on Github and did not want to clear my cache right then.
Sometimes one computer may be inputting for multiple people, so while you usually want to preserve inputted data when users go back to a form or hit the back button, if it really is a whole new user then offer a manual method of clearing that data if that makes sense for the form.
Usually the purpose of cancel button on websites takesplace as to change in decision. When people suddenly change their mind about that particular thing. It can be an application form, any transaction etc. You can use alternative words too.
"abort" sounds better.
Or "kill" or "destroy", for some nice applications instead of "delete".
Or change just one letter: "cancer", would someone notice?
People don't like scary buttons.
This is usually what they're for, but usually begs the question: do users prefer a button that does this, rather than just leaving the site or closing the application? Like, if I'm halfway through ordering something, if I decide I don't really want to buy that thing, I just leave. If it's somewhere I'm logged in, I log out first, then leave. But I may be unusual.
You have to remember that a lot of people aren't as technically literate as you, and in particular don't understand the process of online transactions as well. I know of people who think that once you have started to buy something, you are committed to the purchase unless you cancel, and that the website could then send you a bill for unpaid charges if you just abort and close the website down mid way through the process. Sure, people like that are in the minority, but it doesn't hurt to cater for them as well. At least, as long as you don't make it too easy for people to inadvertently click Cancel and lose everything by mistake!
SteveD: good advice, that's exactly what I was wondering. I assumed it might be the other way around: that people think closing the window, tab or browser may cancel everything (even though actually it may not log you out, which explains the warnings you sometimes see on computers in Internet cafés ).


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The law got passed. But the details have yet to be ironed out.
Following Gov. Jerry Brown's signing Thursday of a driver's license law for undocumented immigrants, the Department of Motor Vehicles is looking to draft new regulations and prepare field offices before an onslaught of new applications for the permits.
The bill is expected to draw 1.4 million Californians living in the country illegally to apply for driver's licenses during the first three years after the law is implemented.
The law is to take effect by Jan. 1, 2015.
"This law will improve public safety for all Californians by helping ensure that undocumented persons pass a written and driving test and obtain proof of insurance and a license before driving their vehicles in California," DMV Chief Deputy Director Jean Shiomoto said in a news release. "Thanks to AB 60, we believe more drivers will be safer on California roads."
The cost of the program is estimated to run $140 million to $220 million for the first three years. But the new licenses are expected to raise about $50 million over three years, according to a legislative analysis. AB 60 did not allocate any additional money to pay for the program.
"There is no appropriation in AB 60 as there was no additional funding needed for the 2013-14 fiscal year," DMV spokeswoman Jan Mendoza wrote in an email Friday.
To pay for the program, the fees on the new licenses could increase, according to Marva Diaz, spokeswoman for Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, who sponsored the bill.
The fee now for a driver's license is $32. Diaz estimated the new license fees could be increased to as much as $100 but she said that was only a guess based on the estimated cost to implement the program and the number of applicants. Mendoza, meanwhile, wrote that officials have not determined any additional fees.
The DMV could not say how many new employees it will need to hire or whether the wait times and processing are expected to increase for everyone.
"There will likely be additional workload to process all transactions. However, it's premature to comment on whether this will have any impact on wait times in the field offices," Mendoza wrote.
DMV officials will consider opening temporary, additional locations and adding extra operating hours at current locations, Mendoza said.
What's next for the DMV is setting up a schedule that will include a public notice of draft regulations and a public comment period.
The DMV plans to adopt regulations that will detail how applicants can provide their identity and California residency. One of the concerns expressed by critics is that people may be able to present false paperwork and obtain a driver's license in someone else's name.
DMV officials also will propose a design for the license, which will be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for compliance with federal law, according to a news release.
The license for people living here illegally will carry a recognizable feature, and the bill suggests "DP" for driving privilege, versus a "DL" for driver license.
Some opponents complained that a different-looking license would have a "scarlet-letter" effect against immigrants. The new law explicitly prohibits discrimination based on this license. It also prohibits using the license for criminal investigation, arrest or detention based on immigration status.
DMV currently processes approximately 27 million transactions per year in its offices, including about 10 million transactions related to driver licenses, and another 12 million online transactions a year, such as renewing vehicle registrations and driver licenses, change of address, and notice of release of liability.
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Vera Wang Spring 2012
Vera Wang is with Alexander Wang this season—they're both thinking of sport, though the way they've executed it (the former uptown and the latter downtown) diverges right from first look. Where Alexander Wang has been dealing in biker-wear with perforated, synthetic-looking materials, Vera Wang's world of sport is only about pristine eyelets and parkas in couture-grade cotton piqué. She's also not content to concern herself with anything literal: her versions of utility-wear abandoned whatever practical sources they began with and crossed into exercises in conceptualism and romance.
She's on the same general wavelength as so many designers in New York Fashion Week. Tucked in amongst the complexities of the peplums, vests, hoods, and many sheer layers she cut, the collection picked up on shorts, trailing short-in-the-front skirts, and print—all the emerging New York trends. The fact that she stepped into color was a personal breakthrough for Wang, not to mention the print, which she described as a "trippy" distortion of Marie Antoinette's wallpaper.
Ultimately, though, for all its finesse in the materials and finish, it was the simpler looks that have a more direct appeal to wearability, like her beautiful white eyelet tunic over tulle leggings. Considering all the pre-eminent skills and precious fabric Vera Wang has at her fingertips, you just sometimes wish she'd allow herself to show us something a little simpler to put on.


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The commissioner is the liaison between the local council and Scouting units. The commissioner's mission is to keep units operating at maximum efficiency, maintain regular contact with unit leaders, coach leaders on where to find assistance, note weaknesses in programs, and suggest remedies. The commissioner is successful when units effectively deliver the ideals of Scouting to their members.
At all levels of the organization, there are commissioners available to support the delivery of a quality program experience through units to the youth they serve. The role of the national, regional, and area commissioners is to provide direct support to councils in their understanding and delivery of service to units.
Administrative commissioners give all commissioners a vision of what it means to provide exceptional commissioner service to Scout units throughout the council. Administrative commissionersinclude the council commisioner, assistant council commisioners, districrt commisioners, and assistant district commisioner. Theri primary responsibilities are recruiting, training, guiding, and evaluating the commisioner staff.
Unit commissioners help units succeed with a good program that attracts and retains youth members. Unit commissioners are assigned to one or more units, which they coach and mentor to ensure unit success.
Roundtable commisioners are an invaluable arm of the unit service team. They create action events called roundtables or "program forums for Venturing"to present methods, skills, and ideas to help unit leaders provide interesting, fun-filled, and purposeful programs. Roundtable commissioners provide resources such as program skills and other help for unit personnel at regularly scheduled roundtables or program forums.


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Dumb Friends League CatFest 2013 VOLUNTEER SIGN UP - July 13th, 2013
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Work is under way at the Oceanside Municipal Pier that will give the 26-year-old structure a smoother surface and greater stability.
A crew of seven workers started this week removing worn and uneven planks in the midsection of the pier that make it difficult for people in wheelchairs or strollers to roll over them.
Harbour Constructors Co. of Garden Grove is handling the work, which is taking place at night to minimize disruptions to visitors.
The same firm was hired by the city three years ago to replace planks near the Ruby's Restaurant section of the pier, said company owner Greg Buchanan, who was on site this week supervising the construction.
"It's like clockwork when you already know what you're doing," he said.
Buchanan said it will take the crew about two weeks to replace about 130 rows of boards spanning about 190 feet of the pier. Each board is placed at a 45 degree angle across the 22-food wide deck.
About half of the pier will be closed on the west end from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., Monday through Thursday, until the work is complete.
Pier regulars are happy to see the improvements.
"If it needs to be done, I'm glad it's being done," said Andy Boswell, 29, who was fishing off the pier for crab and lobster with a hoop net Monday night. "It will make the pier look a little nicer and smoother, which is good because sometimes I need to wheel stuff in."
The 1942-foot pier is one of the city's main attractions, drawing hundreds of visitors and fishermen each week. But residents have complained for years about its stretches of worn and uneven decking, broken steel braces and outdated restrooms.
A 2007 student on the pier's condition — conducted by Blaylock Marine Engineering Services — found it was structurally sound, but needed attention. The report said nearly 200 of the pier's 1,089 metal braces needed to be replaced, along with most of the wooden planks on the deck.
The city has been steadily tackling those projects, said Frank Quan, Oceanside's harbor and beaches director.
"We are continuously working on the pier," Quan said.
Most of the old and uneven planks have been replaced, except for two areas: a stretch of the pier's midsection, where crews are working now, and the "hammerhead" area at the western end of the pier near Ruby's Restaurant.
When the current decking work is finished, another company will begin replacing some of the broken and rusted braces, Quan said.
Earlier this year, the City Council voted to spend $90,000 to replace the 190-foot section of decking on the pier. The council also voted to spend $125,000 to replace 31 of the broken steel pipe braces.
Those funds do not include the $238,000 the city earmarked on its budget for routine pier maintenance, such as cleaning the restrooms and replacing the broken wood rails.
In June, the City Council set aside about $3 million to spruce up and replace several aging restrooms at Oceanside beaches, including those on the pier. That money came from the $5.6 million the city netted when it sold its lease for the Laguna Vista Mobile Estates.
Other piers in the county have had similar maintenance work done in recent years.
The Imperial Beach Pier built in 1963 is undergoing a $420,000 restoration project. The Unified Port District of San Diego is replacing about 70 percent of the pier's planks.
In Pacific Beach, the Crystal Pier was closed for several months for repairs after a storm in late 2008 caused severe damage.
Oceanside's first pier was built in 1888 at Wisconsin Street, according to the city's website. A severe winter storm destroyed the pier a few years later.
Subsequent piers were built at the current location on Pier View Way in 1894, 1903 and 1927, according to the Oceanside Historical Society. The current and sixth pier cost $5 million to build and was opened to the public on September 29, 1987.
Councilman Jerry Kern said the Oceanside Pier is a tourist attraction and its maintenance is a priority for the city.
"Do I wish it was better? Yes," Kern said. "But I think we've done what we can."


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Conroe Performance Preview Follow-Upby Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/9/2006 9:30 AM EST
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BlackLotus2 - Saturday, April 15, 2006 - linkI actually dont think the Intel results are too impressive :
- they compare a CPU that is out in 6 months with a current CPU, this does not show a real comparison of products that will compete against each other. who knows what AMD is going to have then
- the 25 % performance leap is just very relative. if you compare gaming benchmarks with AMD cpus, you can see that for every 0,2 ghz more clockspeed you get 3 to 10 % more gaming performance (3 % on quake, 10 % on farcry), just see here:
The test was testing with a dual core 2.8 ghz product, but AMD is already shipping out 3 ghz opterons for a week now, which will already lower intels performance leap as the quake3 benchmarks would be around 3 % better. In 6 months, there will surely be 1 or 2 more new speeds, lowering the gap a lot, giving a total of 10 % more performance than in the _current_ benchmarks.
- the intel cpu had 2 x 2 mb cache, the amd cpu only 2 x 1 mb cache. 1 mb extra cache gives you something like a 5 to 10 % performance. AMD doesnt need to design a new core to increase the cache size, they still can increase the cache size anytime and still maintain socket compatibility. they can easily catch up here
- socket AM2 will give AMD an extra 3 % performance
- intel only ships out less than 10 % in 65nm chips right now, most of their production is still 90 nm. so their advantage to AMD is not that big, AMD will also ship the 65nm chips this year. with 65 nm chips, AMD speaks of a 40 % transistor speed advantage, with such a CPU using less power they can archieve higher clockspeeds. in this test, they compare a 65nm conroe with a 90nm fx62. A 65nm fx62 with 400 or 800 mhz more clockspeed can easily catch up with the conroe. In addition to that, AMD will already ship 65nm chips this year, they ordered semiconductor manufacturer Chartered with the production, so expect the chips already this year.
- there are already some details around for the new K8L core, which is going to be a real FP monster .. it is said to give a whopping 50 % floating point performance increase to the K8-Core, http://techreport.com/ja.zz?id=118136">http://techreport.com/ja.zz?id=118136 , and it´s only a few month after the release of the conroe. I assume this machine is going to beat the shit out of conroe. I also expect it to come with 2 x 2 mb cache, if intel is producing all their desktop parts with 2 x 2 mb the AMD chips will also, and due to the better scalability because of the on-die memory controller the server market will rather prefer this one (just imagine a dual xeon dual core machine with a memory bus bottleneck). First pictures of the 65nm core for this year also show some interesting details, instead of 3 execution units they show 4 execution units on the die, which might already be a part of a K8L-core. In addition to that, the photo of the die shows something which looks like a new cache area, which might be the new ZRAM L3 cache.
Personally, I wouldnt wait for a Conroe, I would rather wait for this one (if at all). Also, Conroe is quite half a year away, and the new AM2 boards are out in mid of May. The K8L monster will be socket compatible with the AM2 sockets, so it is no problem to just insert a new K8L-CPU into that socket later, and therefore the chances for upgrades are great, I wouldnt say that for Conroe.
Intel will try to make most of the money out of it, so I dont expect the chips to sell cheap in the first 3 months. It´s rather price efficient to build and AM2-system right now with the cheaper AMD-cpus, and then next year just put a K8L-cpu into the socket.
If we sum it up
- we already have 3 ghz AMD chips, 3-10 % more performance NOW. 1-2 steps coming in the next 6 months, which will lead to 10 to 20 % better performance than the FX62 now
- 3 % extra performance because of DDR2
- 10 % extra performance from larger caches if they are introduced yet
- shrink to 65nm allows higher clockspeeds, gives at least 15-20 % and scales up.
The same way Intel can increase the Mhz on the Conroe to get more performance, the
same way AMD can increase the Mhz on their 65nm chips to even out.
- new K8L core ahead, with 50 % more FP performance (other specs yet unknown, but
I expect AMD to prepare a beast, they had time enough to design a new core and they
certainly not only improve the FP performance, I assume the rest of the new core
to offer a similar performance jump). Reply
Rendition - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - linkWith a 4MB L2 cache, won't that increase the price of the Conroe part and lower yields?
Isn't it likely that we won't see volume production of the Conroe part for desktops in late 2006 due to the large cache and 65nm process?
If that happens, won't this be like the many paper launches of a high performance product (ATI Crossfire, Nvidia in the past) that doesn't mean much because the vast majority of us can't even buy the CPU?
I mean we aren't exactly swimming in Core Duo parts (65nm) right now, other than Apple.
20% advantage from a pre-production processor sample with a HUGE 4MB cache that won't be out for 6 months, isn't that impressive.
Can Intel actually produce it in volume at a competitive price (with the large cache) in 6 months, is the key question?
You have put your reputation on the line by proclaiming Intel has taken the performance lead, when you are not even sure if Intel can produce it in volume in the 2H, with enough yields of a super large cache, and along with the fact AMD won't be standing still in the next 6 months.
I hope for your sake Intel isn't pulling your chain.
People also have been a little too forgiving on your mistake on the FEAR benchmark. You played right into Intel's hands by posting the bogus 40% performance increase number. It was totally irresponsible and unacceptable to be wrong like that on such an important claim. Reply
Conroe - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - linkno, no, no, and yes. Reply
overclock2050 - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - linkThese results are a little strange, too big the advantage of Conroe especially in games.
I readed also that intel havent permit to control what's was inside the two sistems, this is a little suspect.
Maybe there's an explanation for these result, "Dynamic overclocking".....so what everyone considers the results of a 2.66Ghz conroe, may be the results of Conroe running at an hygher clock.
3.3Ghz or more??? It's only a possible solution, until we will see a real indipendent test Reply
JoKeRr - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - linkwow!!! just wow!! previously we didn't have bios screenshot of FX60-->therefore conroe wasn't running against an FX60--->not fair.
now it's proven conroe is running against firstname.lastname@example.com, so "well we don't have a screenshot of conroe actually running at 2.66ghz" therefore it must be running at 3.3ghz or more!!! Oh man I'm laughing my ass off. I guess some ppl just can't accept the fact that unleashed conroe is faster than AMD's best. Intel definitely needs an excuse just to cheat to win, right?? Give me a break plz.
as for quantity production of chips on time, AFAIK no one can make chips as fast and many as Intel. Intel was always the first to release and they never had much of a yield problem. (from 180nm->130nm->90nm->now 65nm) Reply
theteamaqua - Saturday, March 11, 2006 - linkits funny to see how Intel beats AMD in 32 bit application, AMD fan boys starting to trash talk about how Conroe's lack of 64-bit support, sure its only memory with bigger register, but it gets the job done
i doubt the we're gonna move to 64-bit platform within 3 years(i meant every apps, games u see in the store are 64 bit, not just couple of em, but all), there are too many applications written in 32 bit, not to mention games, and the only game i know is Farcry 64 bit, thats it, i think both Intel, AMD , M$ are devising some strategy right now on how to make everyone use 64-bit as we are speaking, but if the software developers don't work with them, they're gonna move very slowly.
I think every bit generation can maybe survive around 8 to 10 years (thats just my guess based on the old Windows) Reply
theteamaqua - Saturday, March 11, 2006 - linkits funny to see how people react when they knew this was coming, Anand, Inquirer.net has been talking about Conroe since like 3rd quarter of last year, and in Tom's Hardware, they did benchmark Pentium M overclocked 2.133 GHz compare to FX 55, it actually beats the FX 55 in some games, the news doesn't suprise me, but again both system were setup by Intel, and until Anand + other review site get their hands on it , I guess this is perhapse the maximum potential the Conroe has, scèrw that , im getting Conroe anyway Reply
cornfedone - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkEven Supermicro know the truth about Intel.
http://www.theregister.com/2006/03/11/supermicro_s...">http://www.theregister.com/2006/03/11/supermicro_s... Reply
dev0lution - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkI'd be interested to see how a Nvidia-based Intel and AMD platform with the same chips stacked up, as SLI is a more mature platform and in some respects matches up better.
It's interesting that Intel chose to go the crossfire route, as ATI has been their 3rd party chipset supplier as of late.
I'll reserve judgement until Conroe is in retail, AM2 is out and I can see benches on multiple board partners, with DDR2 800 and on Nvidia as well ;)
Love to see thermal and power benches too.... Reply
theteamaqua - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkfinally AMD fan boy can shut up about "unknown Processor" issue regarding to the AMD FX 55 BIOS. I think its stupid when they make that comment. However, both the system was setup by Intel, and they didn't let people to do an open box check. There can still be something fishy going on, but I hope not, cause I am gonna get Conroe and if thats the performance i can get it will be awesome Reply
theteamaqua - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkactually its FX 60, sorry Reply
Beenthere - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkWell the Intel Desperation Forum is just about complete and as usual it's just another Dog and Phony show where the naive get manipulated by Intel. And the media will be hyping the Intel gospel now with FUD beyond compare until the next Intel Desperation Forum. It's pretty amazing the FUD Intel can produce but they can't produce quality CPUs. Shows where their interest is focused. Reply
stopkidding - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkOk, I have always been a passive reader to these forums. I read more out of curiosity about user perceptions to technology than to engage in some mindless ranting with arrogant arm chair scientists and geeks who have no better use of their time than to seek validation from fellow lifeless nerds! having said that, here is my message to AMD fanboys.
I value competition, and admire what AMD have done with their limited resources and creative use of new technology. So they have had their fair share of the spotlight. A pat on AMD's back. Good job. Having said that, it really pisses me off when people take this to be a free for all Intel bashing event. Most people have no idea, how great the contributions of Intel have been to advance the state of art in the world of computing. While the nerds are busy talking about giga this and mega that, Intel is quietly investing billions of dollars into research that is fundamental to the core of all forms of computing, be it hardware, software or the cutting edge manufacturing processes. Intel invented the whole performance game, took it to the next level and AMD has always had a free ride on countless technologies that Intel gives away for free to the computing world. Be it investing money into standards are USB, PCI, Wifi, Wimax, the open source community, compiler research, etc to advancing the lives people around the world my investing tons of money in technology education programs around the world (Intel has trained 3 million teachers world wide and plans to train another 10 million). The list and contributions are endless.
So the point its, which i hope your turd filled brains will get it at some point, Intel is why we have what we have today. While a fair and balanced critisism of products and technology misteps is required, it is ultimately competetion and the market that decides the victor, and trust me kiddos, most of you here haven't got a clue about what you are talking about.....geez people grow up!!
PS: Neither AMD64 nor EM64T technologies are true 64 bit processors, there are merely extensions to 32 bit processors that allow them access 64 bit memory! ARGGHH!!! Reply
dysonlu - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - linkWhile I agree that huge corporations such as Intel do contribute to the world with technology advancements. Please don't make it sound like they are doing it out of pure love ("give away for free")! Big companies develop stuff to create new markets with which they can grow their overall business and make more money. Intel had no other choice than to co-operate with others and share technologies for a given new market to be viable. Reply
stopkidding - Monday, March 13, 2006 - linkI totally agree with you, Intel invests in the ecosystem to grow the market, no charity here. My point was the relentless, meritless bashing of Intel, making it seem like a company that is upto no good. I was merely listing the accomplishments that matter to the industry. what forums like this do is reduce all of that to a few fps on a game to decide who is great and who is not. as the saying goes, "the 0.1 % of the market makes 99.9% of the thrashy noise". the gamers are self aborbed pretentios hacks who know nothing...... Reply
Cerb - Saturday, March 11, 2006 - linkPS: Neither AMD64 nor EM64T technologies are true 64 bit processors, there are merely extensions to 32 bit processors that allow them access 64 bit memory! ARGGHH!!!
How are they not? 64-bit registers makes...64-bit CPU.
The extensions make mostly wider and longer sets of registers. AFAIK, they are at 40/48-bit memory access. They are as much 64-bit processors as any others; they're just not compeltely redesigned from the ground up, because consumers and businesses that are used to using binary apps hate that. Reply
stopkidding - Monday, March 13, 2006 - linkmodern 32 bit processors for a long time have had 128 bit registers for floating point operations. the conroe as 128 bit instruction sets and registers for SSE instructions and 128 bit for fp. does that make it a 128 bit processor? Reply
Cerb - Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - linkFor marketting weenies, it does :). Like many other things, being x-bit is not any great and useful metric, except to differentiate it from its past (IA32, now x86-64). Reply
smut - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkGet with reality! People are always going to live by the mindset "What have you done for me lately" or "Your only as good as your last hit" Who cares what they did many years ago? This is not my point of view, just saying why you had to make that point, because no one cares about that stuff these days and thats the way fanbois will continue to think. Reply
Nighteye2 - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkEM64T is an extension, yes, but AMD64? What is your source on that? From what I recall the AMD64 instruction are real 64-bit instructions, rather than 32-bit instructions with bigger memory adressing capabilities...
Questar - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkNice to see you joining in. Great post. Reply
fikimiki - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkI'm AMD fan, but I'm also a computer user which wants to buy something with best/price performance. That's why I have bought ATI instead of nVidia (after 10 years sticking with nV products). There is one conclusion which is based on my observations for 10 years.
Intel and AMD will never give you a chip which is 30% faster than competitor or your own product. They will give you 5, 7% but not 30% (FX is overclocked remember?).
How about Conroe running 3.33 with 1333MHz bus? Does it squize X2 performance to match only one Conroe core??? Have you ever seen performance speed upgrade like this?
Maybe in historical 286/386 times...
Intel and AMD does business. There was a REASON, marketing reason for preview like this. And this behaviour is not reasonable. Showing 2.4GHz Conroe as EE Edition, comparing with FX60 and miserable 7% makes sense.
And than make 100MHz upgrade, upgrade upgrade....
This is business I observe for many years, because money is important, technology longevity also. Intel wanted to speed up P4/Netburst to 10GHz - just shrink die as long as possible, 64-bit in 2010...And this is let's say "normal" business behaviour!
So I expect Conroe XE running as Intel mantra: Leap Ahead...10% faster than FX62 or whatever AMD will give to us in July...
dysonlu - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - linkBRAVO! THUMBS UP!!!
That's the most intelligent, insightful and down-to-earth comment I've read so far! 98% of the other comments I've read gave me the impression that they were written by naive fools getting caught in the hype and clever marketing -- C'mon kids, do you really expect that, when everything's said and done, you would be able to order on newegg.com an Intel CPU that costs half the price and performs 30% better than its closest AMD competitor?! Reply
Rendition - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - link1) Is Conroe a true 64-bit chip like the AMD chips are? If so, how do you think it will perform with 64-bit Vista and the new 64-bit capable games coming out next year?
2) Does Intel have a tradition of having yield and volume issues when they move to a new manufacturing process like 65nm with Conroe?
3) What has been the average cycle for an AMD new core to come out (4 years)? And how long as the current AMD core been out?
4) If the AMD chips had a huge 4MB cache like Conroe, would that improve performance? Reply
theteamaqua - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkno cache does not influence performance as much as u think, for ex: i read benchmarks of Pentium 4 660 vs 560, the 660 has 2 MB L2 cache while 560 has 1MB L2 cache, the performance increase is roughly 3 % if u average all the benchamrk from gaming, multimedia, multi tasking ... its like HT(hyper threading), u never know the difference Reply
IntelUser2000 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - link
1) 1) Is Conroe a true 64-bit chip like the AMD chips are? If so, how do you think it will perform with 64-bit Vista and the new 64-bit capable games coming out next year?
2) Does Intel have a tradition of having yield and volume issues when they move to a new manufacturing process like 65nm with Conroe?
3) What has been the average cycle for an AMD new core to come out (4 years)? And how long as the current AMD core been out?
4) If the AMD chips had a huge 4MB cache like Conroe, would that improve performance?
I can answer some of that.
1. Yes
2. I am not sure
3. Well, define new core, is K8 a new core enough or would it take a K7??
4. Umm: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2395&p...">http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2395&p...
Looks like it, however, there are some unanswered questions. Will the 4MB cache be high performing enough to have a performance advantage(ie not have high latency like Prescott)?
Doom 3=yes
UT2004=not much
WET=not much
There are rumors there will be versions with 4MB L3 cache, which is obviously an EE, but being a higher latency L3, the benefit will be less than quadrupling L2, plus these 2.667GHz Conroe's are not really competing with FX's, its the 3.33GHz 1333MHz FSB Conroe EE's that will come after Conroe. Reply
logeater - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkI think I speak for everyone on this board when I say Anand has proved beyond reasonable doubt that Intel has regained it's rightful place at the throne. A flawless examination if I may say so myself.
AMD, it's been fun, let me show you to the door... Reply
Bakwetu - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkThe malicious intent in this is naturally to make people thinking about buying a system now (the logical choice for a gamer rig would be an AMD one) to hold off until the new Intel processor come. We have seen this "delaying of opponents sucess" ever since AMD became competative when the original Athlon was released.
That aside, it is great to see the development in the cpumarket. Reply
PeteRoy - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkEAT IT AND LIKE IT Reply
MrKaz - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkShould Intel compare their future processor with their current offering and not with the competion?
I mean P4 sucks in performance, power, ...
Wouldnt those numbers look much better if it was some P4 vs Conroe? Reply
Zebo - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkNo! read about Osborne effect. Essentially this is why new product demos like this, months ahead of schedule, are so rare and NDAs for all products exist. Reply
archcommus - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkWell good for Intel for coming out with such a strong product, but I'll always have to go with the best bang for the buck, wonder if that'll still end up being AMD even if their parts are weaker across the board this time around.
Just hope AMD stays in the game, we can't afford to have the little guy fall behind too much. Reply
samuraiBX - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkI've been a diehard amd fan, but kudos to Intel for ramping up competitive products. I have only a couple of additions I'd like to see with the testing:
1. I noticed that anandtech used the 2-2-2-5 T1 timings for the RD480 chipset. I remembered from an anandtech review that the best timings for this chipset is 2-2-2-7; not sure how much of a performance difference that would make, but I'd like to see the difference, however slight.
2. I know that this website's impression of the RD480 chipset wasn't stellar, and while I can understand if Intel couldn't purchase the RD580 chipset two weeks ago, I'd imagine it would have been possible to obtain this week, or at least borrow an RD580 board from ASUS; isn't ASUS a participant at IDF this year?
2. I understand that there was limited time, but I would also like to see how the conroe chip would do with 3d studio max. I'm looking to build a high end 3d animation workstation, and I'm looking at the performance leader, whether AMD or Intel. Reply
Wesley Fink - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkWe did find 2-2-2-7 to provide the best bandwidth in our memory testing on the RD480 chipset, but the difference between 2-2-2-5 and 2-2-2-7 would be less than 1%, and certainly not significant. Reply
samuraiBX - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkAs an addendum:
I went to Bit-tech.net; the performance difference by Conroe is awesome! However, it was curious that on their F.E.A.R. benchmarks, the Intel overclocked FX-60 did worse than the reference FX-60. Reply
Accord99 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkDifferent platform (NF4), different video card (single OC 7800GT). The bit-tech system may have been mored tweaked and perhaps there's some additional overhead in multi-GPU setups like Crossfire which causes reduced performance at extremely low resolutions. Reply
HurleyBird - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkDid anyone else notice that on the Intel Quake 4 timedemo performance *increased* for both processors but with Anand's timedemo performance *decreased*
I wonder why that is? Reply
IntelUser2000 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - link
Did anyone else notice that on the Intel Quake 4 timedemo performance *increased* for both processors but with Anand's timedemo performance *decreased*
You mean on the SMP enabled and disabled benchmarks?? That's because on the page, while SMP disabled(SMP=0) is first on IDF Quake 4, SMP enabled(SMP=1) is next one while on Anand's Quake 4, SMP enabled is first, while SMP disabled is second(skeptics...).
THANKS FOR CONFUSING PEOPLE ANAND, otherwise great article. Reply
MrKaz - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkWhy Ati drivers where modified to recognize the Conroe processor?
What was the problem if the processor didn't get recognized?
I mean if the FX60 could say Unknown Processor and have no problems, (my mobile 2600+ says the same and runs OK).
What problem would have come from the drivers by not recognizing the processor?
Some drivers optimizations there? Like NVIDIA/ATI? Reply
amano - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkJust wondering.. did they use fear.exe, or a renamed fear.exe?
Because there seem to be some issues with the fear benchmarking that cripple the AMD:
Questar - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkI think you have confused AMD for ATI. Reply
amano - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkNot really: "Why Ati drivers where modified to recognize the Conroe processor?"
Indeed, why ? Perhaps to fix the disadvantage that the FEAR benchmark gives to ATI?
If this disadvantage was fixed for the INTEL-setup, and not for the AMD-setup, then the 2 setups can not be compared and the benchmark-results are flawed.
(sorry, my first post was a bit confusing..) Reply
Accord99 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkThat was fixed several driver revisions ago. All it was was a mistake in one If statement. Reply
DSaum - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkSo the 41% Conroe advantage over AMD has suddenly become 20%? After this sorry episode I have serious doubts as to Anandtech's objectivity as an unbiased reviewer.
"Believe it or not, Intel doesn't seem malicious in their intent." LOL Reply
clnee55 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkAfter a great review and re-test by Anand, I hope i don't see fanboism comment again. Unfortunately, there are still kids around, who cannot understand a simple review. Reply
Bladen - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - link^And the AMD fanboy of the year award goes too...
BTW for thoes wondering if Conroe and the others are 64 bit, the answer is yes.
I highly doubt Intel will release a processor that is not 64 bit in the future. Well for any processor designed for laptop, desktop or server anyway... Reply
Bladen - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkOhh crap, I failed to realise my post would not be directly below DSaum... Reply
matthewfoley - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkUm, would they have released a follow up article telling you about it if they were trying to hide something? Reply
Sunrise089 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkIt was a 41% advantage in one game during one total hour of testing. In addition, not only did Anand explain how they messed up, but also provided new graphs only 2 days later. What are you really thinking here, that Anand's mistake will increase Conroe's sales even though the corrected numbers are out and its 6 months away from launch? I'm pretty sure even Intel fanboys didn't just read the first story and then plan on not visitng another hardware site before launch. Reply
Aileur - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkWay to be able to read
on average we're still seeing a bit over a 20% increase in performance over an overclocked Athlon 64 FX-60.
Especially looking at titles like F.E.A.R. where Conroe's performance advantage averages over 40%
Now, thats not the same as dropping from 40 to 20%, is it? Reply
Shintai - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkSo to summon up with updated benchies, bios etc.
Conroe 2.67Ghz beats the 2.8Ghz FX with:
Quake(intel demo) Single 22.4%
Quake(intel demo) SMP 24.8%
Quake(Anand demo) Single 28.7%
Quake(Anand demo) SMP 30.9%
FEAR - min 25.4%
FEAR - max 18.8%
FEAR - avg 19.6%
DiVX 6.1 29.5%
iTunes 184.108.40.206 9.7%
UT2004 and HL2 in the 20 - 30% faster range aswell on Conroe according to Anand. But if Intel was mean, they bench this FX with a 3.33Ghz Conroe XE or a 3.0Ghz Woodcrest.
And funny to see Intels dualcore implementation scales better than AMDs.
530$ to get that much more performance than a 1000$ FX chip.
Hell, even the 420$ and maybe 295$ chip is faster.
Both Conroe and AM2 gets DDR-2 800 at retail. Reply
dysonlu - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - link"530$ to get that much more performance than a 1000$ FX chip.
Hell, even the 420$ and maybe 295$ chip is faster."
So, where can I order this amazing 530$ CPU?
It gets on my nerve to see people comparing prices between a computer part that's 6 months away from shipment and one that's shipping now.
Chadder007 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkThanks for the update....just shows us that Intel wasn't fooling around.
Even after the BIOS update, the Conroe pounds the fool out of the FX-60. Also I doubt any other changes can help with the AMD performance either, even a chipset upgrade. Reply
plus - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkSo the Conroe is 20% faster. Decent result. Of course, the FX60 is on the 90NM process... will be interesting to see what 65NM process brings to the FX series... AMD is due to have that out about the time Conroe is released.
Intel always seems to compare best to AMD when they are one shrink ahead. Tells a lot about the strength of the Athlon core.
I didn't see in the article if the Conroe is 64 bit. I've been running winXP64pro since Steam began auto-detecting 64bit capacity... It does seem to run smoother.
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Eris23007 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - link
Furthermore, to add on to the last post in this reply chain, Intel has already announced a transition to 45nm in 2007 - not long after AMD will have their first 65nm chips.
I've been predicting this for a while: AMD has been doing some excellent architectural work, but a good CPU is more than just architecture: the CMOS manufacturing process guys are of equal, if not greater importance. This is also where Intel has their biggest advantage: their CMOS manufacturing excellence is simply unparalleled both in quality and quantity. Say what you will about their architectural choices, but when is the last time you remember Intel failing to pull of a process shrink transition? Reply
coldpower27 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkAMD 65nm products isn't due till 1st Half of 2007. It's also AMD own fault that they are 3-4 Quarters behind Intel typically on process transistions. So hence Intel has 65nm products to show sooner then AMD can. Hence comparisons to AMD's 90nm products are legitimate.
Intel's Core Micro-architecture have EM64T by default. This is obvious, you actually think Intel won't include such a thing when basically the bulk of shipping Pentium 4's and Celeron D have it now.
You have to remember the FX 60 was overclocked to 2.8GHZ and the Conroe @ 2.66GHZ beat it by 20% on average, what happens when you use the Conroe XE 3.0GHZ+/1333FSB edition agains the Athlon FX. Reply
spinportal - Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - linkActually the Pentium D and Xeon lines have EMT64, the Yonah - DuoCore processors do not.
So we need real price points, with a comparable 939 NF4 AMD rig on XP64 or Vista-64 Beta2.
But where is the 64-bit push? All hoopla and not worth the aggravation of adoption? Reply
anandtechrocks - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - link20% from a CPU alone is a decent result? When is the last time you have gotten 20% performance increase from a new processor? I think the results are amazing, expecially this early in the game. Reply
porkster - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkHow well does the amazing Conroe overclock? Were you allow to test that? Reply
Nighteye2 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkThe EE conroe will of course perform a bit better with higher clock speeds, but with the bus limiting it and only so much cache to try to circumvent that I don't expect conroe to scale very well. I'd also like to see 64-bit performance, as the bigger instructions will reduce the advantage of the large cache.
fitten - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkRight conclusion, wrong cause. What really "halves the cache" is pointers (which have to be 64-bit now instead of 32-bit). Programs that use few pointers will show little difference in cache usage. Programs that use lots of pointers (read: written in Java, C#, and those type languages) will show increase cache usage from all the larger pointers. 64-bit and 64-bit instruction set does not imply that the instructions are actually 64-bits long, in fact, it rarely implies that (64-bit RISC processors, for example, tend to have all/mostly/many 32-bit instructions, just like their 32-bit processor counterparts, for example). Reply
Nighteye2 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkI'm not saying it halves the cache. Just that the instructions are longer, not necessarily 64 bits long. I expect the difference to be more like a quarter, rather than half, if I'd have to make a guess at it.
AlexWade - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkAMD forced Intel to make a first-rate CPU. And the good news is we win. I knew Intel couldn't stay down forever. Neither will AMD. I think it still bothers Intel, however, that they have to use AMD's 64-bit code.
Am I reading this correctly that Conroe is a single-core CPU? I would like to know more about dual-core CPU's, that is the future. Reply
fitten - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkFrom what I've heard in the rumor mill (nothing that anyone else can't hear), there will be no single-core Conroe chips. I'm sure marketing pressure might lead to them, though. The test system definitely had a dual-core Conroe, though. Reply
Von Matrices - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkNo single core Celeron Conroes? Reply
pnyffeler - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkI have to agree. I've been building AMD rigs for many years and have always pulled for the underdog, but I have to tip my hat to the Intel man on this one. They have raised the bar after getting smacked in the forehead with it for too long.
Intel had become pretty lazy over the past few years, and I think it took way too long to realize that they were peddling 2nd rate products that wasted enough heat to qualify as a space heater.
AMD also has done well in this, too. By building a no-question better product, they were able to steal a good chunk of the market share, and their momentum right now will be hard to beat. Now I'm waiting for AMD's counter punch, and from what I've seen so far, if they think it's the AM2 with DDR2, they're gonna get steam-rolled. Reply
cscpianoman - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkThis is Intel!
Sorry, had to be an ostrich fan-boy for the moment. I think it interesting that Intel really upped the ante on this one. They didn't want to match AMD's next stuff, they wanted to clobber it. Unless AMD pulls a rabbit out of their hat, I see Intel holding onto this performance crown. I'm interested to see what AMD has to counter this. Reply
psychobriggsy - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkEven I, as an AMD supporter, hope that this will shut up the extremist ostrich-like fanboys on the AMD side who can't see that Intel has finally done well.
It will be interesting to see a comparison between Conroe at $x and a Pentium D at $x when they're released too.
And well done for admitting a fault with the FEAR test. Reply
mongster - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkAgree with you. Been an Intel supporter for many years and when it was time to upgrade my flailing Willamette system, I decided to wait for Prescott, thinking that I don't want to jump onto the AMD bandwagon. When AMD trounced Intel Prescott, I decided to wait for dual core. But when AnandTech and other sites put out convincing data on why AMD continues to be the better buy for CPU's, I decided it was high time to switch over to the other camp. That was what I did last year when I finally assembled my first AMD system (have assembled AMD systems for my friends but never for myself). Now, I am thinking, should I have waited? Conroe's numbers sure are impressive but I will wait for the architecture to mature first (and the prices to stabilize haha) and see if AMD has anything up their sleeves to counter Conroe.
Just my 2 cents. Reply
Calin - Monday, March 13, 2006 - linkYes, if your old computer's performance was enough, you should have waited another 6 or more months for Conroe. If you were concerned about price, maybe you should have waited until early next year.
When you choose to upgrade, Intel wasn't the clear cut best option, like it seems to become in half a year Reply
RichUK - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkGood read good read. Thanks for the honesty and accuracy on the updates. Reply
MrKaz - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkIntel road map says Q4. Not Q3.
And 6 months from now is Q4 not Q3.
AMD new K8 will boast performance by 10%. If .65nm boost the frequency of new K8 since .13 » .09 doesn't seem to do pretty much on that aspect.
Then we will have some good war.
Don't forget that this processor when working in single core have a huge L2 (4MB) vs the only 1MB from AMD. That boost the performance a lot in many applications. So the difference in Quake4, ... is amazing but not that much. Reply
MrKaz - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkSorry i mean that 6 months from now is still Q3, but intel road map says Q4. Reply
Von Matrices - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkDidn't that CPU have 2MB L2 and not 4MB L2? Reply
Anemone - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkIf 20% improvement on Athlon the P4 is officially last, last, last years news, and a dog.
/bye P4 Reply
Anemone - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkYou are really top rate reviewers. Check and recheck, and always forthright about things that needed correcting. Kudos!
PrinceGaz - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkThanks for this follow-up article, it covers pretty much every question that was raised except one. In the original article you mention "the ATI graphics driver was modified to recognize the Conroe CPU but that driver was loaded on both AMD and Intel systems". Have you any information on why it needed modifying and what was changed, and whether the changes would have any effect on the AMD system (either positive or negative). Reply
Chadder007 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkI think its because they needed to change the drivers to recognize the dual core capabilities of the Conroe, since they are multithreaded capable now from ATI. Reply
redbone75 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkOne thing I haven't really noticed many people talking about in all of this Conroe stuff is the price to performance ratio Conroe brings. If it were released now, Conroe would offer a significant increase in performance over AMD's top offering at half the price ($540? for Conroe 2.66 and $1000+ for an FX60 right now). Sure, AMD will reduce the prices of it's processors once Intel launches the Core line and AM2 is ramping up, but I doubt it will be significant enough to entice unbiased buyers away from Conroe if it is the superior performing chip. I personally have favored Intel's chips over AMD's simply because I'm not a heavy gamer and didn't need the insane frame rates, and before dual core chips arrived I've always found my computing experience to be a little smoother b/c of hyperthreading (I've built several AMD systems for clients and friends). With the advent of dual core chips, I was eventually going to build a new system around an X2, but then when looking at the great overclockability of the Presler core and the lower price I kinda balked at that switch. Maybe others will do the same with AMD vs. Conroe: AMD might lower their prices such that buyers will go for it and simply overclock to close the performance deficit. But, then again we did just see an overclocked FX60 get bested by Conroe, at least according to current data (had to throw that in there lest the might of the fanboys smote me where I sit). Oh, well, I could be wrong, but that's my human right:-) Reply
dysonlu - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - linkIntel will charge a premium for it. You can mark my word. It's simply naive to expect the new chip to offer both the best performance AND the best value.
Boy, people can so easily get carried away, being too optimistic and enthusiastic. Reply
PhoenixOrion - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkI've never bought an intel chip for over the $200 mark. But with this Conroe initial showing of performance I just might save up an additional $50 and spring one for my own personal build. Reply
yacoub - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkAside from the fanboyisms from one side or the other, let's just state the obvious:
It's great to see Intel being truly competitive once again, taking the performance lead (once these chips come out to market).
In the meantime, AMD better have something on the AM2 platform that will bring them back within 5-10% of the Conroe performance if they hope to compete. It has been ABnormal that AMD has held BOTH the price and performance crowns in recent months considering that generally one item will have better price and the other better performance. After AM2's release it will likely return it to how it was a couple years ago where Intel held the performance crown by 5-10% and AMD had the better price. In that situation we will see a return to Intel by the money-no-object folks and AMD still championed by the poor and destitute (though I would include myself in that category for now). :) Reply
Googer - Friday, March 10, 2006 - linkAccording to tomshardware.com socket AM2 suffers from a performance loss when compaired to a similarly configured socket 939 system.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/20/toms_hardware_am...">http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/20/toms_hardware_am... Reply
bob661 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkNice job Anand!! I'm still going to wait till the product arrives and is tested but at least you eliminated as many variables as you could with the Intel systems. It would seem that Intel didn't try anything underhanded but like you said, "...grain of salt." Reply
porkster - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkSome have been saying AMD are considering releasing socket 775 AMD CPU's besides their AM2 socket line, as a means to expand their market. If this is true AMD is targeting the $$$$ again rather than trying to get a whole community by centring on performace.
You'd think there would be some form of Intel ownership on the Socket's use, but AMD are releasing also their server socket which is much like Socket T. Reply
Calin - Monday, March 13, 2006 - linkThere are lots of possible problems for AMD processors running on the Intel's socket 775:
-memory controller would have no way to access memory (outside of using the FSB)
-AMD processors have no FSB, they use AMD HyperTransport (which is a bit slow to allow access to memory)
-the Socket 775 has no support for HyperTransport from chipset to processor
So, AMD would have to compete against Intel without having any of K8 advantages. Not likely.
However, the transition to a "pins on mainboard" socket (unlike the "pins on processrs" in use at the moment) might make sense, especially after Intel proved the idea good. Reply
psychobriggsy - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkAh, driven of Tech Report eh? People have been commenting about the lack of bacon over there recently.
AMD will never release a processor on S775.
S1207 uses LGA like S775, but that's it. Reply
Spoelie - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkI just hope this lays to rest the extremely dumb comments I have been reading the past few days regarding this topic.
One thing tho I would have preferred to see Intel do, is use the exact same chipset on their mobo, as it is available for Intel systems as well, is it not? Would have taken away any last shred of doubt but I doubt it would have impacted the scores. Reply
Furen - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkLooks like Intel's "20% more performance than AMD" claims are true... right now. I wonder how many speed grades AMD can get out of its 90nm K8 in order to battle Conroe when it actually comes out. I'd guess two more speed grades is the most we'll see this year (so a 3.0GHz X2) which certainly wont make up for the ~20% (overall) performance deficit... so it looks like Intel will be spanking AMD at least until the 65nm shrink and maybe until the K8L comes out. Reply
chilled - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkThat's unlikely given Intel want to be promoting their own chipsets which run XFire fine. Reply
Larso - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkThis conroe thing is truly interesting news. At last Intel has dropped the netburst mishap and developed a useable cpu. Reply
Furen - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkMan, we didnt see so many people complaining about netburst when it was whoring the Athlon XP... I agree that it needed to be replaced but it wasn't all bad... Reply
Darth Farter - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linklooks like this round is going to Intel as it did with the northwood.
Let's see what the underdog will have in store for us.
I myself suspect AMD having much more focused on the quad core server arena where it's likely going to whoop ass the way conroe is doing now in regards with FP performance Reply
stelleg151 - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkGreat work, and Im glad you got that FEAR anomoly worked out. It is definately exciting seeing such a leap in performance.
That being said, I personally would have put a little bit more emphasis on the fact that these processors are still scheduled to be 3-6 months away, as this is in the most extreme sense a PREview and not a REview. Reply
IHYLN - Thursday, March 09, 2006 - linkgood job clearing the air Anand. And whoever was that person was who called me an idiot for saying the crossfire 1900xt setup was GPU limited, I snub my nose at thee.
Great job on intel's part for actually making a desirable CPU and I hope AMD can match or exceed. Reply
Calin - Monday, March 13, 2006 - linkAt least a lower price will benefit everyone. As long as processor performance is concerned, AMD won't gain the crown easily. Looks like Intel will be on top again.
I say this is good, as prices for AMD processors were a bit static. I hope for a price war :D Reply


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Arrange 25 five-letter words in a 5-by-5 grid. The five words in each row share a common letter. The five words in each column share a common letter. The five words in each diagonal share a common letter. There are 12 different common letters.
The words are: align, blind, chase, choir, climb, close, covet, death, depot, dowel, drake, drive, flame, giant, infer, knave, mauve, murky, prank, remit, renal, score, token, vault, waist.
The grid cells are identified by row (1 to 5, top to bottom) and column (1 to 5, left to right). Example: Cell 3.2 identifies Row 3 Column 2.
One letter of each word is provided in the grid.
Row 1: u h w d p
Row 2: f m b i y
Row 3: i o v e r
Row 4: c s h o t
Row 5: a n l g e
Answervault chase waist death prank
flame mauve climb remit murky
blind dowel drive depot drake
close score choir covet token
renal infer align giant knave
Common Letters
Rows 1 to 5: a, m, d, o, n
Columns 1 to 5: l, e, i, t, k
Diagonals 1 and 2: v, r
1) Cell 2.5 contains "y". There is only one word that has a "y". Cell 2.5 must be "murky". Cell 1.5 contains "p" and must share a letter with "murky". Cell 1.5 must be "prank". Cell 1.3 contains "w" and must share a letter with "prank". Cell 1.3 must be "waist". The words in Row 1 must share "a".
2) Cell 2.1 contains "f". There are only two words that have a "f". If it is "infer", then the word in Row 2 would have to share "r". However, Cell 2.3 contains "b". There is no word that has both "r" and "b". Cell 2.1 must be "flame". The words in Row 2 must share "m". Cell 2.3 must be "climb". Cell 2.4 contains "i" and must be "remit". Cell 2.2 must be "mauve".
3) The words in Column 3 must share "i". Cell 3.3 contains "v", so it is "drive". Cell 3.4 contains "h", so it is "choir".
4) Cell 1.1 contains "u", so it is "vault". The words in Diagonal 1 share "v". Cell 4.4 contains "o", so it is "covet". Cell 5.5 must be "knave".
5) The words in Diagonal 2 must share "r". Cell 4.2 contains "s", so it is "score".
6) The words in Column 5 must share "k". Cell 3.5 contains "r", so it is "drake". Cell 4.5 contains "t", so it is "token".
7) The words in Column 1 must share either "a" or "l". Since "a" is already used, then the words in Column 1 must share "l". The words in Column 2 must share "e". The words in Column 4 must share "t".
8) The words in Row 3 must share "d", "e", or "r". Since "e" and "r" are already used, then the words in Row 3 must share "d". The words in Row 4 must share "o". The words in Row 5 must share "n".
9) Cell 3.1 is "blind". Cell 4.1 is "close". Cell 5.1 is "renal".
10) Cell 5.2 is "infer". Cell 5.3 is "align". Cell 5.4 is "giant".
11) Cell 1.4 is "death". Cell 3.4 is "depot".
12) Cell 1.2 is "chase". Cell 3.2 is "dowel".
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A Chase?Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
There ran Patrick, on Independence Avenue, at 10:00 A.M. There were 2 men behind him, trying to maintain a pace, and at the same time, trying to close in on him. There were people nearby, but the people just stood there and watched. Patrick could see several people and a long white flag ahead, about 200 yards away.
What is Patrick doing?
AnswerPatrick was in a marathon. The big white flag indicated the finish line. The 2 men behind him were trying to win the race.
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